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Gold Market Update
Originally published August 9th, 2009.
Gold's technicals have been looking very promising in the recent past, but there have been two worrying developments over the past couple of weeks which suggest that we may be about to see a vicious shakeout rather than the breakout to new highs that so many are anticipating. One of these developments has been the very high number of advisors calling for an upside breakout on public websites, as many of you will be aware, and the other is the trend of COT data, with the latest figures being at levels that have in the past almost always signalled a reversal to the downside.
On the 3-year chart for gold we can see that the giant pattern which has developed in gold following the highs in March of last year can be interpreted as a bullish cone-shaped Cup & Handle consolidation pattern, or as a Head-and-Shoulders consolidation, or both at the same time, either or both of which imply an upside breakout soon. Negatively, the entire pattern can be interpreted as a Double Top. On the basis of this chart alone we would come down on the bullish side of the fence, favoring the Cup & Handle or the Head-and-Shoulders interpretation, especially as moving averages are in bullish alignment and as we are closing in on the most seasonally bullish month of the year for gold, September. However, there are other important factors that give grounds for caution at this point.
One factor giving grounds for concern is the dollar, which looked like it was breaking down last week, but then suddenly rallied strongly on Friday, which MAY mark an intermediate reversal. As we can see on the 3-year chart for the dollar index, despite the strength of Friday's rally, the dollar will remain under pressure whilst it is below its falling 50-day moving average and within the downtrend channel shown. However, a breakout above these constraining factors could lead to a sizeable rally, which would fit with the picture for Treasuries, where both short dated bills and long dated bonds are in position to rally off support.
Although many were writing off the dollar again last week, because of its marginal breach of support, it is interesting to observe that the Euro DID NOT break above the resistance shown on our 3-year chart, and although the uptrend in force from March has not yet failed it can be seen that this would be a good point for the Euro to go into reverse.
More ominous still for gold is the number of advisors calling for an upside breakout very soon and the latest COT data. The number of writers calling for an upside breakout has risen to a very high level, and this has been found in the past to be a contrary indicator. Meanwhile the COT chart shows that Large Spec long positions and Commercial short positions have risen to an extreme that has in the past correlated with a reversal to the downside.
So how do we reconcile the seemingly very bullish chart pattern for gold with the seemingly bearish COT data? Whilst recognising that gold could climb in the face of Large Spec long and Commercial short positions rising to even greater extremes, a more likely scenario is that Big Money is preparing an ambush - a sharp reversal to the downside to shake the little guy out and scoop up his gold and PM stocks at knockdown prices before prices reverse again to the upside and then the breakout to new highs occurs. This scenario is described in more detail in the article BIG MONEY'S game plan to FLEECE GOLDBUGS ahead of THE BIG ONE.
A complicating factor that could exacerbate the downside in PM stocks should gold and silver break lower will be if the broad stockmarket goes into correction mode at the same time. This looks likely as Abbey Joseph Cohen appeared on CNBC last week proclaiming a new bullmarket, which has been found to be one of the most reliable indicators that we are close to an intermediate top in the market at least.
The state of indecision in the gold market at this time is amply illustrated by the development of a Symmetrical Triangle on shown on our 3-year gold chart, and as the price must soon break out one way or the other from this pattern, the standoff should soon resolve itself.


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Lea Michele: Listening to Monteith Ballad is 'Therapeutic and Difficult'
In an interview with Billboard today, Glee star Lea Michele shared that listening to the ballad 'If You Say So,' a tribute to her TV co-star and boyfriend Cory Monteith is both 'theapeutic and difficult'.
"I have to acknowledge what I've been through this year," Michele told Billboard of the playlist to her debut album 'Louder'. "It was really difficult, which I think is represented in 'If You Say So' and a song like 'Cannonball' represents finding strength and hope. These are the two sides of my life right now. The grief, but also the search for strength and hope. I really wanted those two songs to bookend the album. Really let everyone know where I'm at."
Speaking on the LP's final track, 'If You Say So,' Michele commented, "Listening to it, it's therapeutic and difficult. It will always represent the most devastating thing that's every happened to me in my whole life."
Read the interview in full here.
Michele made her Broadway debut in 1995 as a replacement for the role of Young Cosette in the original New York production of LES MISERABLES. Following her theatrical debut in LES MISERABLES, Michele was cast in the role of Tateh's daughter, the Little Girl, in the 1998 original Broadway cast of Ragtime and in 2004, Michele portrayed "Shprintze" and "Chava" in the Broadway revival of the musical Fiddler on the Roof.
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Advice That Changed Your Life
When it comes to developing our talents, we all hear a lot of good advice. In fact, there's never been a moment in the history of the world when we've had such an incredible bounty of good advice – a teeming ocean of it, provided by teachers, coaches, parents, the Internet.
For example, pick up a golf magazine. Each page brims with dozens of perfectly sound, smart tips; it's a cornucopia of good advice. But does all that good advice actually make you better? (Judging by the historical average of golf scores, the answer is a resounding no.) It's the same with other sports, music, art, math, business, you name it.
This surplus creates a uniquely modern problem: with good advice so plentiful, how do you know when you've located truly great advice – the rare, powerful ideas that really matter? How do you know when you've found advice that might change your life?
For instance, here's one of the the greatest pieces of advice I've heard. It's from the late John Wooden, and it goes like this: You haven't taught until they've learned.
That's it.
You haven't taught…until they've learned.
I know what you're thinking. Because I thought it when I read it for the first time a few years back. My thought was, no kidding, dude.
But then one day shortly afterward I was coaching my Little League team, trying to teach them to field grounders. I was, as usual, putting my attention into my coaching – saying the correct words, showing them the correct form – and presuming if they picked it up, that was their responsibility.
Wooden's words hit me like an avalanche. I wasn't really coaching, because they hadn't learned it yet. I wasn't teaching, I was just talking. And no matter how wisely I talked, no matter how brilliantly the drills were designed, it didn't matter until they actually learned it. That was the only yardstick.
His advice showed me that it really wasn't about me at all—it was 100 percent about them, about doing whatever it takes to create a situation where they learned. It seems strange to say now, but that was a titanic realization, and I still find myself thinking about it a lot.
I think this kind of advice–truly great advice–tends to follow a distinctive pattern.
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- It expresses a basic scientific truth about learning.
- It jolts your perspective and leaves you somewhere new.
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What's the single greatest piece of advice you've ever heard? What's the one that changed your life? It could be anything – something you heard or read or saw – all that matters is that it works for you.
You can write them in the comments section below, or email them to me at email@example.com and I'll start a master list to use and share.
To get things going, here are a few gathered from a peanut gallery of friends:
–Practice on the days that you eat
–If you want to get better, double your failure rate
–Do one thing every day that scares you
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NIPS 2012 is the first conference in Machine Learning [1] that I've attended and it was well worth the time and money invested. Here are my brief-but-not-so highlights of the academic contents of the conference and workshops [3, 4].
- The workshop sessions were amazing with many interesting topics and talks. They offer both breath (variety of the workshops) and depth, with plenty of time for interactive discussion.
- Deep Neural Networks (DNNs), not surprisingly, received a lot of buzz and attention [5]
- Besides DNNs, here are some major topics at NIPS this year.
- Latent Variable Models. The truth is: this is not a topic that I'm yet familiar with. The good thing is: after this conference, I know that there is quite a lot of interest in this topic. Another good thing: there seems to be a lot of numerical mathematics in this research that I am actually familiar with. Anyway, this is a topic that I'll definitely investigate soon.
- Kernel methods: this and this workshop
- Graphical Models and Probabilistic Programming
- ... and perhaps some other cool topics which I have missed.
Deep Neural Nets
(aka. Deep Learning, to a bunch)
- Mathematical Foundation. There are plenty of reasons for the hype in deep networks, which I won't describe here. One of the major academic interests in DNNs at the conference is about its theoretical foundation. Deep networks work so well against many benchmarks but no one can give a solid explanation why. This lack of a mathematical/statistical foundation for deep networks (or neural networks in general) was questioned many times during the conference and the workshop. Fortunately for the field, as Yann Lecun mentioned in the panel discussion, it has recently attracted the attention of some well-known applied mathematicians (such as Stan Osher and Stephane Mallat).
- Why it works well. To me, the fact that neural networks with many layers perform well can simply be explained by its ability to use many parameters. Basically, deep networks allow you to fit a training set, in a nonlinear way, with a bunch of parameters. Loosely speaking, the more parameters you use, the better you can fit the data.
- Overfitting issue. Of course, when you use so many parameters, overfitting will be a concern and it is true that deep networks are prone to overfitting. That's why there was a talk by G Hinton, the master of the art, about dropout technique in neural networks, which targets the overfitting problem.
- Fine tuning. It makes sense from the above that there is a lot of engineering (e.g. fine tuning) in designing a deep network. If we connect all the dots, there seems nothing particularly new or interesting about DNNs. The basic idea is: use a lot of parameters, if you have the computational resource to do so, and engineer the network so that overfitting can be reduced.
- Distributed DNNs. Another hype about DNNs is the distributed work by Google. Along with the mathematical foundation research, distributed DNNs will be a major research direction.
- Here is my fun hypothesis: if your method performs (slightly) better than the benchmarks, its hype will ironically be an increasing function with respect to its complexity and the required computational resource (e.g. 16000 cores and a new parallelism architecture will generate a great deal of hype).
Kernel Methods
Despite the hype about DNNs, kernel methods is still a relevant and is a powerful class of methods (and with strong mathematical foundation). The major focus of kernel methods research is now on low-rank approximation of the kernel matrix, which I'm also pursuing.
- The fact that Leslie Greengard, a computational physicist well known for his co-invention of the Fast Multipole Method and who hasn't worked at all in machine learning, was invited to give a talk at NIPS 2012 is an indication of its importance.
- Unfortunately, he couldn't come at the last minute due to injury, and his talk was replaced by ... well, a deep learning talk (by G Hinton's).
- Even with the absence of Leslie Greengard, there were still more than one talk (one by Francis Bach and one by Alex Smola) about low-rank approximation methods.
Graphical Models and Probabilistic Programming
Disclaimer: I've recently learned about graphical models and here are my takes about this approach.
- Strength: it is the most natural and most accurate way to infer the distribution of an unknown from the observed data, if you can construct the graph that represents the probabilistic relationship of the variables.
- Weakness: this condition is the main weakness of the graphical model. You cannot just throw in features and data and hopefully get a model back. You have to construct a features graph. In many problems where there are a lot of features (or variables), it's hard or even impossible to construct such a graph. In those problems, we don't even know how variables correlate.
Unsupervised vs. Supervised Learning
- Unsupervised feature learning. In his talk, Andrew Ng said that Deep Learning is sort of a misnomer. What people should care about is unsupervised feature learning, not deep this or deep that. I agree with him on this. I further think that unsupervised feature learning should be decoupled from deep networks (aka deep learning).
- It may be possible that deep networks is the current best technique for unsupervised feature learning. However, it is not the only technique or even the first technique. For example, people have used PCA (or Kernel PCA for nonlinear analysis).
- Unsupervised feature learning is not the only application of deep networks. Some recent successes in deep networks are just straight supervised learning from the data (without the pre-training, i.e. unsupervised feature learning).
- Unsupervised vs. Supervised Learning. This is a topic of frequent debate at the conference.
- Arguments for supervised learning: you can get much more information from labeled data
- Arguments for unsupervised feature learning: you can learn more from more data and the amount of unlabeled data is huge compared to labeled data
- Semi-supervised learning. Both sides are valid and here's my take: we should do both unsupervised and supervised feature learning simultaneously, or so-called semi-supervised learning.
[1] For those who haven't heard of NIPS, it's one of the main annual conferences (if not the main conference) in Machine Learning.
[3] Disclaimer: this analysis is through the lenses of a computational-mathematician-convert, who has recently been very interested in machine learning.
[4] Not to mention that the whole conference was very well organized. Kudos to the organizers.


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Highlands wrestlers making best of shorthanded roster
Undermanned Highlands has competed in just one wrestling tournament this season, so the team has spent most of its time in the practice room.
It should come as no surprise, then, that boredom set in for this small group, which had to cancel its dual-match schedule because it had only five varsity wrestlers.
Make that six with the return of Allan Cratsenberg, who spent a short hiatus from the mat playing on the basketball team.
Highlands is proof that practice doesn't have to be all work and no play. These half-dozen juniors and their virtual one-man coaching staff — former Valley standout Logan Downes — are as serious as a top-tier program with high numbers. But they can't be intense every minute of every practice.
"To keep it interesting, we play games," said 170-pounder Zach Mazur. "We play knee football, where you run around on your knees and try to tackle people. And there's T-shirt tag, where one person's it and everybody chases them around. It's fun."
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The team's other wrestlers are Kendrick Moore (120), Nolan Wise (138), Derrick Mazur (160) and Tommy Grates (195).
All are short on mat experience but eager to improve. The Rams hope to put together a full team next season, but until then, they'll continue to work together — a six-pack of rogue dedication.
"The guys come to the practice room really excited," Downes said. "We vary it a little. Sometimes we'll condition first before we work out, or we'll condition in the middle or end. It's not all technique work. Some days we go for an hour, some days more."
Downes, who gets spotty help from volunteer coaches, often grapples with his wrestlers, but that leaves one man out.
"It can be tough; we're doing the best possible job we can," he said.
Cratsenberg received a warm welcome upon returning. He reached the PIAA tournament as a sophomore at 195 pounds. He'll start out at 220 this season.
"We're excited to get our state qualifier back," Downes said. "He needs to get some rust off. The kid is stronger this year than he was last year."
Cratsenberg missed competing, even with the program lacking participation.
"I was cleaning out my closet and saw my wrestling shoes," Cratsenberg said. "I put them on and realized I wanted to come back."
Bill Beckner Jr. is a staff writer for Trib Total Media. He can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Telugu Megastar Chiranjeevi debuted in Bollywood with Pratibandh. Besides winning lot of accolades from film critics for him, the movie was big hit at the Box Office. Its success bought him a few other big offers like Aaj Ka Goonda Raj and The Gentleman. Now, his son Ram Charan Teja has debuted in Hindi with Zanjeer, which has been creating positive buzz ever since director Apoorva Lakhia announced it. But unlike his dad, the young Telugu actor fails to recreate his father's magic on screen and impress the critics. That is due to his comparison with Amitabh Bachchan.
Zanjeer is an ordinary action drama, which does not boast about any great story or theme. However, it was a classic in B-Town because of Amitabh Bachchan's role. When Big B's career was on the verge of sinking, this film hit the screens and became big hit at the Box Office. That's not all the movie coined the tag - 'Angry Young Man' for Bachchan. Since then several films were made on a brooding cop, but movie aficionados and enthusiasts revered Zanjeer as an iconic film and feel none of them is equal to it.
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We bring you the film critics' opinions about Ram Charan's acting in Zanjeer remake. Continue to see them in the slideshow.
Raja Sen - Rediff
And then there's Ram Charan, a cop so tough he wears only two inscrutable expressions. He struts around trying to look hardcore, but clearly there is a reason why it takes someone like Salman Khan to make a stupid actioner work. This new boy has zero screen presence, possibly worsened by the Hindi dubbing, and taking on one of Bachchan's Vijays is particularly suicidal. When the film mercifully ends, some remixed song has the gall to play Bachchan's voice saying that "yeh police station hai" line, which seems particularly cruel to young, unimpressive Ram.
Rajeev Masand, CNN-IBN
Ram Charan, in fact, a successful and popular star in Telugu films, comes off as stiff as a wax statue in his Bollywood debut, with barely any emotion, forget brooding anger. His biceps pop out of his uniform, but he barely flexes his facial muscles. Ram Charan never gets under the skin of Vijay Khanna, making it hard to look beyond his kohl-lined eyes and his neatly styled hair.
Martin D'Souza - Glamsham
Amitabh Bachchan shook off the ashes of his flops with this film to create the 'angry young man' persona. The new lad, Ram Charan tries very, very, very hard. He will first have to loosen up to set himself free from the chains that are restricting his movements.
Shubha Shetty-Saha - Mid Day
Ram Charan has a great body and walks around like a cat with hangers for shoulders. But alas, that obviously is not enough. Only if he had watched the 'Zanjeer' DVD again and again and even tried to emulate the body language of the original Inspector Vijay (with a reed-thin body), things could have been far different.
Mihir Fadnavis - First Post
Ram Charan, a superstar in the South, achieves the impossible feat of being even more wooden than John Abraham. The guy's facial muscles are so tightly attached, his eyelids would close if he scratched his cheek.
Saurabh Dwivedi - India Today
It is common knowledge by now that the film's hero Ram Charan Teja is a superstar down south. So it's only understandable (and since the Indian audience expects no better from a 'star') that he act less, and focus more on showing off his biceps, shouting (since someone apparently told them that screaming is the same as being angry), and dancing. Suffice it to say, in no way does Ram Charan Teja do justice to the role of angry cop Vijay Khanna.
Sneha May Francis - Emirates 24/7
Telugu star-kid Ram Charan bursts on the screen as the macho cop, flaunting his ribbed abs and muscles with immense flamboyance. The staple aviators, gruff voice and broody expressions complete the look. But, it remains constant, never allowing us to experience Ram's versatility. That aside, his Hindi diction, chiseled body and action drills are top-notch, but just not enough to match Bachchan's iconic screen image. Expecting a debutant to fit into Bachchan's shoes is way too ambitious, and any slip-up is easily forgiven.
Meena Iyer – Times Of India
Ram Charan, as the brooding policeman, excels in action. His dark eyes with long lashes adeptly convey anger.
Aparna Mudi – Zee News India
To compare Ram to Amitabh Bachchan might be a little unfair to the young actor, but one cannot forget what Vijay of the 1973 classic stands for. It is not for the lack of trying, but Ram Charan Teja seems to have just remembered to sulk for the most part of the 'angry young man' he is supposed to portray. If Amitabh Bachchan defined his 70's image of an action hero with 'Zanjeer' in 1973, Teja in his debut Hindi film has failed in that aspect. His depiction of ACP Vijay Khanna is wooden, even though he tries to be broody and dramatic.
Karan Anshuman - Mumbai Mirror
Ther acting is dismal. Priyanka Chopra hams her way through her scenes in complete denial and Ram Charan puts all his intensity into his scowl, leaving no room for other expressions or, indeed, acting.
Nandini Ramnath - Live Mint
Ram Charan, a hunk of epilated flesh with scant acting skills, steps into Bachchan's boots as the police officer who is plagued by dreams of the murder of his parents at the hands of a man with a horse tattooed on his wrist. Ram Charan's Vijay is not so much an angry young man as a grumpy young man who is forever in trouble with his bosses because he prefers to slap first and ask questions later.
Sonia Chopra - Sify
The Vijay of this film is not a patch on the original. There's a difference between being the restless 'Angry Young Man' and a fight-happy ACP who could do with anger-management classes. As for Ram Charan, you wish his striking eyes held more expressions than the consistent vacant one. Having proved his mettle in several films in the South, one wonders what went wrong here.
Faisal Saif – Santa Banta
If i speak about performances, Ram Charan Teja is really misfit as ACP, Especially after we have seen all the Singham's and Rowdy's and Rathore's. Ram Charan might be a brilliant actor back home in Andhra, But here he stand very weak chances of making big.
Tushar Joshi - DNA India
Ram Charan is earnest in his approach and oozes the right amount of confidence especially when he's standing next to senior actors.
Mohar Basu - Koimoi
Ram Charan Teja with his robotic expressions does well in flaunting his penchant at robust action. He doesn't romance too well and that's fine. In times when gravity defying stunt based films are dominating, Teja can smoothly fit into the likes of Dabanggs and more.
Shubhra Gupta - Financial Express
Ram Charan, who plays the new Vijay, has the physique for it. He's tall and hunky and buffed (though that puffed-up hair is straight out of a styling salon) and has the most delicious come-hither heavy lashed eyes. I saw him first in his Telugu superhit Magadheera, a back-to-the-future revenge piece which I loved: he was doing in Telugu what all superstars around the country do in all languages. He was jokey, danced as well as his leading lady, and landed a mean punch. All of which Ram Charan tries to bring to the table here, but he is more fumble than finesse. Bollywood is a different terrain, and you can see him shifting constantly for a better fit, but except for some action sequences, it doesn't happen.


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Anesthesia and Childbirth
I am preparing to have my second child and am concerned about a possible problem with my reaction to anesthesia. When delivering my first child, the 2 epidurals I had did not work. When I was finally sent in for the cesarean and given multiple anesthetics that also did not work, they used gas to knock me out. I have never had a problem with gas to knock me out. I have had 3 surgeries in those cases and all went well. The doctor couldn`t understand why I couldn`t feel her pinching me but I could feel the knife. I tried explaining to her that my skin was numb but beyond that was not. I have also had similar experiences at the dentist when getting a filling. The original injection was not felt and my outer gums were numb, but when the dentist started drilling deep in the tooth, I could feel everything. He attempted over 6 injections before I finally decided to just deal with the pain. My question is whether I do have a resistance to certain anesthesia and what my options would be for my next delivery? I am concerned with the effects on the baby. I have heard that the gas may slow the breathing when the child is delivered. My doctor has told me that a cesarean is very highly recommended in my case. Thank you for any advice.
Thanks for your question and for the carefully described account of your problems with anesthesia. There are several technical and pharmacological reasons why a local anesthetic injection, such as an epidural, or a nerve block for dental procedures, might not work. It is hard to explain however why multiple procedures, probably with at least two different local anesthetics, and presumably administered by several different practitioners, failed to take full effect. Medical science is beginning to explore in some detail the genetic variants of receptors and other vital proteins in the body and how they relate to the way anesthetics work. Local anesthetic agents are thought to attach to receptors called sodium channels which exist in different forms on nerve and muscle cells.
I am tempted to speculate that you may have some sort of genetic variant that reduces your sensitivity to local anesthetic effects. Unfortunately, clarifying whether you do have some sort of condition along these lines would involve very specialized investigation available in only a few centres in the world, and is unlikely to solve your immediate problem. You should try to get as much documentation of the various anesthetics you have had, particularly what was given, and in what dosages. This may provide your next anesthesiologist with some ideas about alternative agents and/or doses to try.
Spinal anesthesia usually achieves a more "dense" form of anesthesia than epidural, so for your next cesarean section this might be a good option instead of the epidural. In view of your past history however, your anesthesiologist would need to be prepared to administer general anesthesia if the spinal fails to "take". There is no need for an elective cesarean section to begin before the anesthesia has been tested and you are assessed to be pain-free in response to a surgery. Although spinal and epidural anesthesia are the preferred forms of anesthesia for cesarean section today, general anesthesia continues to be administered where necessary, and with minimal adverse effects on mother and baby.
You should feel confident that if your anesthesia and surgical team recommend general anesthesia that you and your baby are very unlikely to be harmed. If your baby is a little slower to breathe immediately after delivery this should not be a big concern because treatment is simple and highly effective. I will ask a colleague with expertise in this area for any additional suggestions, so please watch this space.
Gareth S Kantor, MD
Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology
School of Medicine
Case Western Reserve University


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I always have ideas of things I want to do or places I want to go. I still have somewhere a list of things I wanted to do while living in Paris and having lived there for 8 years you would think I made a dent. Not really…
I make plans and lists and then I let life get in the way. Or I get lazy but that's a whole other conversation. Anyway….I've been wanting to see the Cherry Blossoms at the Branch Brook Park for 3 years now and today I made it. I just had to ignore three grumpy kids and a half asleep husband, got everyone in the car and drove there.
My idea was to take pictures of the flowers (check) and some of the kids but my definition of fun was not shared by all.
Fun is running after your brothers. Fun is climbing trees.
Fun is jumping on your father's tummy until he begs for mercy.
I did manage to get this one of Layla. And no she's not my favorite it's just that she's still the only willing model around here.
So it's safe to say we all had fun and in case you're wondering the Mr. has recovered from his ill treatment.
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A 61-year-old hoon has had his car impounded after allegedly speeding away from police in Melbourne's north-east, police say.
The unlicensed motorist was driving along York Road in Mount Evelyn, where police were monitoring vehicles using automatic number-plate recognition technology about 2.30pm on Tuesday.
A Victoria Police spokeswoman said officers discovered that the man did not hold a driver's licence and attempted to pull him over.
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Hi guys,
Can you provide complete codes/instructions for jQuery AJAX samples?
A link or url to a tutorial or samples regarding jQuery AJAX is much appreciated.
The jQuery site itself on the AJAX category, some samples codes are not really complete.Sorry I'm noob to jQuery AJAX so I need your guidance.
Thanks in advanced.
Hi solidcodes,
First, a word about AJAX.
AJAX stands for Asynchronous JavaScript + XML. It is not a technology in its own right, rather a term coined in 2005 by Jesse James Garrett, that describes a "new" approach to using a number of existing technologies together.These technologies include: HTML or XHTML, CSS, JavaScript, The DOM, and most importantly the XMLHttpRequest object.
When these technologies are combined, web applications are able to make quick, incremental updates to the user interface without reloading the entire browser page. This makes web applications faster and more responsive to user actions.
Although the 'X' in AJAX stands for XML, JSON is used more than XML nowadays because of its many advantages such as being lighter and a part of JavaScript. However, both JSON and XML are still used for packaging information in AJAX model.
Source: https://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/AJAX
So, what does an AJAX call look like?Traditional Ajax calls usually take on the following form:
function httpRequest(id) {
if (window.XMLHttpRequest) { // code for IE7+, FF, Chrome, Opera, Safari
http=new XMLHttpRequest();
else { // code for IE6, IE5
http=new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP");
http.onreadystatechange=function() {
if (http.readyState==4 && http.status==200) {
response = http.responseText;
// do something with response
dest="servlet.php?id=" + id;
http.open("GET", dest);
If your web application only uses one Ajax call, it's not that big of a deal to implement. The problem occurs, however, when your web application leverages lots of Ajax calls and you try to break the code apart to make it reusable.
Compare this with an AJAX call in jQuery:
type: "POST",
url: "some.php",
data: "name=John&location=Boston",
success: function(msg){
alert( "Data Saved: " + msg );
jQuery has put all of the properties of Ajax into one simple API. You can control everything including the url, cache, success function, data type, and even synchronization, all from one neat declaration.
Source: http://sixrevisions.com/javascript/the-power-of-jquery-with-ajax/
As further reading I would recommend the following:
I hope that helps.
thanks dude.


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Johannesburg - It was the coldest August in many years with freezing night temperatures, biting winds and even an historic blast of snow
If your Gauteng garden has any cold damage, it will be on account of the freezing night temperatures rather than the snow, which was short-lived and followed by patches of sunshine.
Warmer weather is just around the corner and now is the time to take a good look at your lawns.
Evergreen tufted lawns will be looking fabulous this month as they thrive in the cool weather and come from areas where snow is common. Keep mowing evergreen lawns at a height of 5cm, spread lawn fertiliser across them at a handful (60g) per square meter and make sure that they never dry out.
August is a great time to sow an evergreen lawn, but appreciate that evergreen lawns do best in a garden with an automatic sprinkler as they will never survive an extended dry patch in our summer heat.
Kikuyu or indigenous cynoden lawns that are younger than two year's old will also not need more than a sprinkling of lawn fertiliser (a handful or 60g per square metre) and a good watering twice a week until the rain starts.
The big action in August is to spring clean frosted kikuyu and indigenous cynoden lawns that are established and have built up dead thatch.
If you have an old kikuyu lawn, follow these simple steps to ensure that you have a lush green carpet in your garden this summer.
Thatch is a layer of dead stems and roots that can build up on the surface of the soil. A lawn with a thick layer of thatch requires more fertiliser and more frequent watering. If the thatch is more than 2cm thick, disease problems are almost a certainty.
To remove the thatch, scarify the lawn by mowing it as short as possible. Rake off the thatch and throw it away. Thatching often leaves the grass thin so it is a good time to top seed the lawn.
Soils that get walked on or trampled will pack down until air can't penetrate into the soil to keep the roots healthy. If a lawn has patches where grass won't grow in spite of fertilising and watering, it needs to be aerated.
An aerator punches holes in the lawn every few inches to allow air and water to penetrate into the soil faster and deeper. Alternatively use a garden fork, although this is much harder work.
Choose either chemical or organic lawn fertilisers, both of which are available in granules or pelletised versions. Sprinkle the fertiliser at a rate of a handful (60g) per square metre across the lawn. A fertilised lawn will ensure rapid recovery from the scarifying process. Lawn fertilisers encourage root and leaf growth, which makes for a healthy lawn in summer. Remember to water well directly after the application of the fertiliser to prevent burning.
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Top dressing is the last step in your spring cleaning regime and is best done after you have scarified, aerated and fertilised your lawn. Soak the ground well before applying the top dressing to ensure that the roots do not dry out.
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Reflections on the APS and the Evolution of Physics
By John J. Hopfield
I attributed this difference to the breadth of physicists. My chemist friend utterly disagreed. The difference, he maintained, was that physics was a young and a narrow science, a science so narrow that the intellect of one person could span it. Chemistry had developed more fully, was a more mature science, and was now so rich and broad that it could no longer be meaningfully spanned by a single individual.
As a field of knowledge expands, and its number of practitioners increases, a point of instability is reached at which the enterprise splits into multiple components. The split may be complete, or leave some connective bridge, but either way the knowledge and the scientists become isolated to sub-compartments to better pursue the subject.
I have watched this going on since the first APS meeting I attended in January 1958, in New York. There were talks from all corners of physics. And prior to 1953, the APS apparently felt no use was to be served by singling out one researcher or accomplishment with a prize. There were invited talks given by the luminaries of the various corners of physics, but no prizes.
As physics began to be larger than the span of single individuals, and as the number of physicists working in an area became so large that no one personally knew all the major contributors even to his/her own field, let alone to physics as a whole, this was no longer the case. My theory of scholarly prizes and awards is that they serve a social function within a science, by pointing to role models and particularly valuable contributions within a group that has become so large and fractionated that it is no longer completely obvious to any one individual who the major players are, and why. This function does not exist when the enterprise is small and unfractionated. The first APS Prize, the Oliver E. Buckley Prize in Solid State Physics, was created in 1953.
Physics is now far larger–the number of papers at the March Meeting has grown by a factor of 10–and there are now over 30 prizes and awards. The symptom that the field is maturing and fragmenting is seen in the rather specific nature of the prizes and awards, which are carefully allocated to subfields of physics. It is a posture now very similar to that of chemistry and the American Chemical Society.
The subspecialization has become so strong that instead of going to hear a set of diverse people talking about truly prizeworthy science, physics proles prefer to attend sessions devoted to their subspecialty. Physics is becoming more mature, becoming fragmented, becoming larger, with a more complex sociology that comes spontaneously with increased size. Prizes and awards are now an established and significant part of our culture. At a larger scale, the same fragmentation is seen in the creation of new divisions, fora, and topical groups of the APS.
If maturing means fragmentation and specialization, what (nontrivial) problems does this create for the APS and for physics? I tend to look at such issues by going back to first principles, asking what is the organization for. I take its major purpose as the facilitation and encouragement of physics research, with emphasis on the US scene. As such, it runs meetings, publishes journals, lobbies government, presents a variety of advice and services to its members. How will this maturation and fragmentation affect the APS?
Publishing. When I first joined the APS in 1956, I did so in order to subscribe to the Physical Review. Nowadays very few of our members subscribe. The maturation in publishing began with the realization that as physics fragmented, there was more scope for specialty journals to compete with our major flagship. So the Physical Review was split into multiple parts. That someone could subscribe to only a sub-part, was a direct reaction to specialization.
The digital world has enhanced this ability to specialize in what we are exposed to. In this day of electronics, hardly anyone has a volume of Phys Rev X in hand. Articles are read on the screen, or printed out, one at a time. The nominal paper publication with articles grouped together is no longer really relevant to the reader. It is thus no longer necessary to proliferate more and more specialty journals to compete. What is important is a refereeing system that can succeed in obtaining highly authoritative and useful referee reports for papers from any corner of physics. For this we rely on the fact that the excellent refereeing culture of physics has continued in spite of the maturation of the field, and we rely on the superb organization of the APS editorial office.
The same electronic technology that solves this problem of specialization creates Web competition such as arXiv. How and from whom we will get our scientific literature information 10 to 20 years from now is a rather open question for all fields of science, maturing or not.
Lobbying and the Government Support of Physical Science. Federal support of physics, at the time of my first APS meeting in 1958, was dominantly motivated by the past success of physics discoveries in the military sphere. The NSF was new and relatively small. GE, Westinghouse, ATT, Union Carbide, Ford, GM, and RCA had credible long-term research laboratories. They felt that a long-term investment was necessary to be able to find and develop ideas from physics into their future products. The highest corners of the executive branch were very concerned about physics and the national defense. There was no real problem in 1958 about getting good physics policy advice understood by the government, or in getting good physicists to give it.
In 2006, the NRC report, Rising Above the Gathering Storm, chaired by Norm Augustine, had as its major conclusion that the failure of the US to adequately support the physical sciences over the past 20 years is going to have a major negative effect on the economic situation of the US. This failure results from both the decreasing of the funding per university scientist available from the federal government and the near collapse of long-term industrial research in the physical sciences. The US economy rests very heavily on leadership in civilian technological innovation, and the report documents that this leadership is imperiled by the current support climate.
In 1958, the APS really did not need to lobby Congress or the administration. In contrast, the APS is now an organization that devotes a considerable effort to lobbying Congress and the executive branch. It took a huge lobbying effort to get the competitiveness initiative to even obtain a high level hearing in the executive branch, and more effort yet to get it included in the 2006 state of the union address. The APS can be proud of its contribution to getting the program put forward by the Augustine committee into legislation.
The recent basis for arguing for funding for physical science was in support of the US as an economic power, through the technological innovation that depends on advances in physical science. But our effort must go beyond those parts of physical science that are obviously and directly tied to economic impact. Our advocacy of support must also be for those areas and aspects that are less directly tied, those parts of physical science that are iffy and longer-term, and for the entire intellectual enterprise as being an inseparable whole.
Why should physics be supported by the average US citizen to the tune of many billion dollars a year? Why should it have more support than philosophy, art, music, or literature? It is the historical record of the contribution of advances in physics to human well-being, to the economy of the world, and to defense that explain this difference, and justify believing that this should continue to be the case.
If we are to continue to be funded at such a level, we owe it to the world that a significant fraction, the larger part, of our requests for federal funding be plausibly relatable to human well-being on the timescale of one to five decades. It is increasingly obvious that this well-being is conditioned on bringing the atmospheric greenhouse problem under control. Unfortunately, it has been relatively easy to do interesting physics involved with weaponry. It has been less easy, less sexy, to try to find good physics in areas such as energy conservation. In my more pessimistic moments, I recall the closing refrain of T. S. Eliot's "The Hollow Men:"
This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but a whimper.
The United States has legitimate worries about nuclear proliferation, nuclear deterrence, and terrorist attack. But I believe physics has been worrying too much about "bang" when "whimper" is steadily, stealthily approaching. The world would be better served if physics became more oriented toward issues in electricity generation, storage, conservation, CO2 and related problems.
While the chief reason for strong physical science funding in the 1950's may have been the potential weapons of military competition rather than the weapons of innovations and economic competition, there is a very important common feature to the way that we have asked for governmental support in the two eras. The rising tide must float all boats, and while the maturing of physics has somewhat loosened the ties between the boats, all boats are still somewhat rafted together. The preservation of physics as a single entity depends on these ties between sub-disciplines.
Meetings. The maturing of physics into sub-disciplines and the immense advances in communications technology have appreciably changed the structure and content of our meetings. In the late 1950s, the dominating purpose was to be able publish and communicate a new result. ArXiv or other equivalents now allow me to do this without going to a meeting, so general meetings no longer serve as a significant publication tool.
The number of more specialized divisional and special topics meetings has increased—physicists do still want to get together; we are not entirely antisocial animals. Some of the slack of the demise of national general APS meetings has been taken up by successful section meetings. However, the evolution of meetings, and the demise of significant general meetings, is a symptom of the maturing and fractionating of our science and indeed is a contributor to its fractionization.
A task force on the future of the April Meeting, chaired by Chris Quigg, reported to the APS Council in 2006. I had been afraid that their report might have led to the demise of this meeting. Instead, it reported on a meeting that was still vibrant and somewhat diverse, and described several mechanisms and experiments designed to keep it so. I look forward to the implementation of these ideas.
What is physics? To me–growing up with a father and mother both of whom were physicists–physics was not subject matter. The atom, the troposphere, the nucleus, a piece of glass, the washing machine, my bicycle, the phonograph, a magnet–these were all incidentally the subject matter. The central idea was that the world is understandable, that you should be able to take anything apart, understand the relationships between its constituents, do experiments, and on that basis be able to develop a quantitative understanding of its behavior. Physics was a point of view that the world around us is, with effort, ingenuity, and adequate resources, understandable in a predictive and reasonably quantitative fashion. Being a physicist is a dedication to a quest for this kind of understanding.
When my interests in such a science turned from crystalline solids to biological matter in 1970, most physicists took that as leaving physics. To me it was merely changing from the physics of crystalline matter to the physics of biological matter. Some 30 years later I was elected APS vice president. That is a testimonial to the idea that physics is a point of view about the world, that diverse kinds of subject matter will come and go, but that it is the quest for a physicist's kind of understanding about the world that unites us as physicists, and will continue to do so.
Physics has many times had to make a choice between striving to keep a new component, a teenage child as it were, within the fold, or to send it out into the wilderness as a separate discipline. I am gratified that many–perhaps most–physicists now view the physics of complex systems in general, and biological physics in particular, as members of the family.
John Hopfield is the Howard A. Prior Professor of Molecular Biology at Princeton University. He served as APS President in 2006.
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Contributing Editor: Jennifer Ouellette
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Caught this on Steam. Its like minecraft only more 8-bit and less fun.
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Jan 31, 2013 at 3:07 UTC
Looks rather unique and the trailer gave me the weirdest dream I've ever had about a videogame. Kinda creepy. ;-)
At any rate, I may just pick it up. Thanks for sharing!
Jan 31, 2013 at 4:17 UTC
Um, really? Just wondering how many people will hurry to buy this one. Doesn't seem to provide the "rush" that most gamers are searching for.
Jan 31, 2013 at 4:24 UTC
Looks interesting. I might have to check it out since the price is right.
Jan 31, 2013 at 5:31 UTC
"...the primary means of interaction is simply your presence in the world."
Jan 31, 2013 at 7:20 UTC
What do you even do? Just observe?
Jan 31, 2013 at 7:43 UTC
Seems to me rather like the concept behind Dear Esther, albeit much more colorful and cheerful. And of course, that game was one of the most engaging experiences I've ever had. I do not expect this to necessarily rival Dear Esther as it does not appear to even have a storyline and the graphics are most definitely sub-par, but I certainly think it has potential.
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Furman University Gets National Attention
Furman University is featured on a new nationwide list of 100 colleges that do an outstanding job of teaching sustainability and promoting it in their communities. Furman was included in Teaching Sustainability: 100 Colleges Doing "Green" Right, a list compiled by Best College Rankings.org. Furman was the only South Carolina school to make the list. Furman has a first-of-its kind major in sustainability science (and the only one of its type in the United States), which is offered through the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences and leads to a Bachelor of Science degree in sustainability science. Sustainability is defined as the efforts to minimize the use of resources, especially those that are polluting or non-renewable.


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When President Barack Obama addresses the United Nations Summit on Climate Change on Sept. 22, an environmental delegation led by Catholic bishops from Europe, Africa and Latin America will not be listening for his soaring rhetoric or refreshing good will. They want to hear numbers.
"We want to hear him say the United States is committed to a 40 percent reduction in emissions by 2020," says Bernd Nilles, secretary general of CIDSE, an international alliance of Catholic development agencies that coordinated the delegation along with Caritas Internationalis. "And an 80 percent decrease by 2050, which he has already stated as his goal. But a 40 percent reduction in the near term would protect human lives. We in the developed world have an obligation to do that."
Saving lives now, especially in poor southern climates, is the key message of the delegation, officially headed by Cardinal Keith O'Brien, archbishop of St. Andrews and Edibburgh. Bishops from Nigeria, Bangladesh and Guatemala have scheduled meetings with leaders from around the world. The delegation also includes climate experts from India, Boliva, Brazil and Kenya and is rounded out by members of CIDSE and Caritas Internationalis, the largest network of Catholic charities in the world.
"This is first a delegation bringing a message about moral responsibility," Nilles says, "and when they ask about science, we will respond with science. When they ask about economic issues, we will respond with those answers."
The pressure to do something on the international level is high – the deadline for a new climate change agreement amongst UN nations is this December when negotiators will be in Copenhagen, Denmark. This week's high-profile meeting in New York is the last major gathering before that deadline.
But U.N. deadlines are not the only cause for urgency.
"We are already clearly seeing the effects of climate change on the poorest people in India," says Nafisa D'Souza, a delegation member and southern climate expert from Visakapatnam, India. "It is affecting the sea levels, which is hurting fishing villages; it is affecting rain levels, which is hurting the country's food security and it's affecting the forests, which is an important part of habitation in India."
The obvious result is geopolitical turmoil, D'Souza says.
"All of the problems, droughts, storms, deforestation, rising sea leavels," D'Souza says, "these all lead to migration to the urban areas."
In the second most populous country in the world, the exodus of millions of people to already bursting cities will intensify abject poverty. When refugees begin to cross borders and disputes between nations over water supplies increase – regional wars loom.
"This will not be only a southern problem," D'Souza says. "It will affect everybody eventually."
D'Souza says she realizes much of the climate talk in the U.S. concentrates on the distant future. She also hears plenty about China and India's growing culpability, by virtue of more people gaining access to very basic energy sources. She says these deflections miss the larger point.
"The point is that lifestyles must be changed, both in the north as well as the south," she says, "sooner rather than later."
Humphrey is a free lance writer and frequent contributor to NCR, living in New York.
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NFL playoff overtime format may change
INDIANAPOLIS — An NFL spokesman said Saturday the league could change its overtime format for playoff games at a meeting next month.
Under the new format, both teams would get the ball at least once unless the first team to get the ball scores a touchdown, Greg Aiello said. If the first team to get the ball makes a field goal and the other team ties the game, action would continue until a team scores again.
Under the current rules, the first team to score wins.
"There have been various concepts that have been discussed in recent years, but this one has never been proposed," Aiello said.
The competition committee will discuss the new concept with teams and players at league meetings March 21-24 in Orlando, Fla., when it could come to a vote. At least two thirds of the teams would need to agree to the changes for new rules to be adopted.
Bills decline to offer contract to Owens
Terrell Owens is on the market after the Buffalo Bills announced Saturday they do not plan to offer him a contract.
The Bills also declined to offer contracts to defensive end Ryan Denney and wide receiver Josh Reed, allowing them to become unrestricted free agents at midnight on March 5.
"We wanted to inform all three players ahead of the start of the free agency period so they could begin making their plans," Bills general manager Buddy Nix said. "We just felt that was the right thing to do. All three have represented our organization with class and we thank them for their dedication and hard work."
Final draft order
Coin flips broke three ties and finalized the first-round draft order.
Jacksonville will get the 10th pick, while Denver will pick 11th after 7-9 seasons. Tennessee will select 16th and San Francisco 17th following 8-8 campaigns. Atlanta will choose 19th, and Houston 20th after 9-7 finishes.


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Lakeland, Fla. – Net earnings at Publix Super Markets slightly increased to $404.1 million in the second quarter of fiscal 2014 from $400.1 million in the year-ago period.
Net sales rose about 7% to $7.5 billion from $7 billion, aided by the shift of the Easter holiday to the second quarter of the current fiscal year from the first quarter of the previous fiscal year. Same-store sales rose 6.3%.
Effective Aug. 1, 2014, Publix's stock price increased from $32.50 per share to $33.85 per share. (Publix stock is not publicly traded and is made available for sale only to current Publix associates and members of its board of directors.)
"This is our eighth consecutive quarter with an increase in our stock price," stated Publix CEO Ed Crenshaw. "Our associate owners deserve the credit for continuing to make us a leader in our industry."


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What is the Pill?
The combination birth control pill, commonly known as the Pill, is an oral contraceptive that contains synthetic forms of two hormones, estrogen and progesterone. (Synthetic progesterone is known as progestin.)
With most brands, you take one pill every day for 21 days and then take nothing or a dummy pill that contains no hormones for the next seven. During this last week, your hormone levels drop off, causing you to get your period. When you've completed the 28-day cycle, you start a new pack of pills the very next day.
(Note: There's also a progestin-only birth control pill, known as the mini-pill. It's slightly less effective than the combination pill, but may be a good alternative for women who want to use an oral contraceptive but who are breastfeeding or can't take estrogen for some other reason.)
How does the Pill prevent pregnancy?
When the Pill is taken as directed, the estrogen and progestin work together to prevent pregnancy primarily by suppressing ovulation. This means they keep your ovaries from releasing any eggs.
The progestin in the Pill has other contraceptive effects, too. It thickens your cervical mucus, making it hard for sperm to get through your cervix and into your fallopian tubes to fertilize an egg, if one is released. The changes in your mucus may also make it harder for sperm to penetrate the tough outer coating of an egg. Finally, progestin thins the lining in your uterus, making it less likely that an egg would implant if it did get fertilized.
Can I use the Pill if I'm breastfeeding?
Maybe, but not right away. Whether or not you're breastfeeding, you'll want to wait 6 weeks after your baby arrives to start taking the Pill or any other estrogen-based contraception, such as the patch or the ring. That's because the risk of blood clots from these methods is highest right after birth.
After 6 weeks, if your breastfeeding is going well, it's okay for you to take the Pill. If you're not producing as much milk as you'd like, or if your baby is having any trouble nursing, though, the Pill may not be a good choice for you, because it may reduce the amount of milk you produce by a bit.
How effective is the Pill?
When taken correctly and consistently, the Pill is estimated to be about 97 percent effective in preventing pregnancy. This means that only three women out of 100 who take the Pill properly will get pregnant in the first year.
If you don't take the Pill exactly as prescribed — for example, if you start a new pack late or miss pills without using back-up contraception — the likelihood that you'll get pregnant is much higher. And the more mistakes you make, the higher the risk. (For the typical user, the Pill is about 92 percent effective, meaning 8 women out of 100 will get pregnant in the first year.)
So while the Pill is one of the most reliable methods of birth control available for women who follow instructions to the letter and never miss any pills, it's not the best method for everyone.
If you think you'll have trouble taking the Pill properly, consider using another method, such as the IUD, implant, patch, ring, or the birth control shot (Depo-Provera), all of which are very effective.
Although the Pill is an excellent contraceptive method, it doesn't offer any protection against sexually transmitted infections (STIs). So if you're at risk for STIs, you'll need to use condoms as well.
What will I need to do if I decide I want to get pregnant again?
All you have to do to reverse the effects of the Pill is to stop using it. You don't have to finish your pill pack unless you want to. Whether you finish your pills or not, you'll most likely get your period within a few days after you stop. For many women, fertility returns as soon as they stop taking the Pill, but some may take a month or so to start ovulating again.
Some practitioners recommend using a barrier method of contraception, such as condoms, and waiting until you have a couple of normal periods before trying to conceive because this can help you establish a more accurate due date. Others will give you the go-ahead to start trying right away if you want to. If you do get pregnant before your periods become regular again, don't worry — you can have an early sonogram to date your pregnancy.
(NOTE: You'll also need to start taking folic acid or a prenatal vitamin at least a month before you start trying to help prevent certain birth defects. That means beginning while you're still taking the mini-pill.)


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A CITY centre bar has been bought by the owners of Ilford celebrity night spot Faces.
The Bar, which sits opposite the Odeon cinema and next to the river near the Meadows Shopping Centre in Chelmsford, is now set for a major revamp.
Faces, is synonymous with professional footballers and reality TV stars. Its owners, Jon Clark and Tony Bee completed a deal for the Bar on Tuesday.
See the Weekly News on Thursday, July 10 for further details.


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