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It is a thought provoking film and it means so much especially when you know it is a based on a true story. The acting was well done.
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Based off of the life experiences of Gianna Jessen (an abortion survivor), the film is well intended with its message but struggles with pacing and unsympathetic characters that do the film a disservice.
The climax is absolutely stunning and the story brings to life the power of forgiveness and the power of loving the person but hating the behavior and that as humans , we all have mistakes as well as intentional deceitfulness that we need to recognize will be forgiven if we truly seek it.
"No, Gianna Jessen, Part II: Stop Lying About Planned Parenthood!"
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"Are you an abortion survivor? If you know a woman who ended a pregnancy then yes, says right-wing propaganda. The myths of "October Baby""
by Irin Carmon, posted 04/05/2012, at Salon
It's well-understood that the words "Based On a True Story" slapped on a movie usually mean "connected to truth, or reality as we know it, only in passing", and October Baby is no exception. International fetal rights crusader Gianna Jessen, the person on whom this film is loosely based, survived an attempt to abort her, and is a woman. That's it for similarities. Well, how is the movie? The acting and TV-level production are nothing special, so let's look at the writing (warning: SPOILERS for the entire plot; but TL; DR -- it's not good.) Not that you'd ever know, but beautiful, perfect coed Hannah suffers from several physical and mental problems. When she collapses onstage at the school play, no less, doctors determine all her issues are caused by being a survivor of a late-term abortion. How, I don't know. Shocked, she and her (platonic, natch) friend Jason go on a sleuthing expedition to confront her birth mother. A police officer catches them breaking into the now vacant hospital where she was born, because that's how medical records are stored. When he hears of her mission, he gives her the home address of the nurse who signed her birth certificate, because that's how policing professionals work. The nurse remembers Hannah's case two decades later, and also that her mother "had to go to school, she had to have a career." She gives Hannah her mother's address, because medical confidentiality is not a thing. Her mother is now a striving lawyer who seems to have nearly forgotten she ever attempted an abortion. She brusquely denies Hannah's existence and hops into her Mercedes. Meanwhile, Hannah's adoptive parents are shocked, shocked! that their adult daughter was travelling alone with a man; however, Jason makes a man-to-man apology to her father and it's cool. Hannah seeks guidance at a Catholic church, has an epiphany, and forgives her mother. The film ends with Hannah returning to college, but it is heavily hinted that she and Jason will eventually be married. SHE will never become a career woman, or neglect her family by becoming an international crusader. The End.
It is a thought provoking film and it means so much especially when you know it is a based on a true story. The acting was well done.
Wow. I have just been absolutely floored by the best movie I ever watched. This story is so, so important for people to hear, even if the subject isn't very popular for discussion. A couple parts that weren't quite as good: There were a couple parts that were too perfectly coincidental, and the parents were a little distant at first. However, both of these were resolved before the end. Other than that, the movie could not have been better. Truman and Bmac were perfect to lighten it up somewhat, but the theme still carried the movie through to the end. I really don't know what to say, besides the fact that this is a truly inspiring story that brings up SUCH an important topic that people often want to push under the rug or legitimize. That should never happen. Also, the main actor who played Hannah, WOW! She was perfect in that role! Every little expression and movement added to the scene. Overall, an emotionally touching, somewhat heavy, but EXTREMELY important movie. This movie is not a tool to make people feel guilty, it's a story about the power of forgiveness.
I`m glad their speaking out.
It was a very moving movie.
Great watch for adults and teens. :)
People need to hear this.
I don't know what to say. It was a marvelous movie. This is what abortion is: the murder(or slaughter) of helpless, children who can't protect themselves. Pray to GOD to end abortion and to stop letting murder be legal!!! Watch this movie!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This is a film inspired by the true story of a young girl who survives an abortion and then searches for her mother.
Hannah, a 19-year-old beautiful girl, learns that she is adopted and never told because she is the survivor of an abortion.
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After learning that she was adopted, Hannah decides to spend her Spring Break searching for her birth mom in Mobile, Alabama. She finally finds her birth mother's law firm, and goes there to talk to her mother, only to be avoided and picked up by her dad, who had been looking for her. Eventually, after much soul-searching, town searching, learning, and emotional turmoil, Hannah ends up at a church where a kind priest helps her decide to forgive her parents, both adoptive and by birth, and to continue on with her life, despite her feelings of being unwanted and rejected.
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Next Thursday, Peter Shumlin will leave Montpelier after six years as governor, and before that, 17 years as a legislator. How should Shumlin's political career be assessed?
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In last week's State of the Union speech, President Obama took credit for "the lowest unemployment rate in over five years." On the surface this claim is correct. By the Labor Department's commonly used measure, 6.7 percent of Americans were unemployed in December 2013, the lowest since October 2008.
Many economists have analyzed data on employment and unemployment over time. This work shows that, for many Americans, the job market is still far from full recovery mode.
Gov. Shumlin's 2014-15 budget is a political masterstroke in an election year. By relying on one-time funds such as a tobacco settlement and payments by Entergy associated with the shutdown of Vermont Yankee, the governor was able to close almost all of a projected $70 million budget gap without having either to cut programs or to raise broad-based taxes.
Last week the Gallup Poll released a study claiming that Vermont was the "least religious" state in the nation. Gallup ranked all the states on a religion index, based on the answers to two yes-or-no questions included with the firm's regular presidential election tracking polls in 2012. The first question was "Is religion an important part of your daily life?" The second question was "Do you attend religious services every week or almost every week?"
The most enduring inaugural addresses in American history — Thomas Jefferson, Franklin Roosevelt, John Kennedy — have all been first inaugurals that marked a change in the political direction of the nation. Only Abraham Lincoln's second inaugural, delivered in March 1865, just a few weeks before the end of the Civil War and the re-elected president's own assassination, is counted among the great speeches in American history.
Funding the state's transportation program is a major issue on the agenda of this year's legislative session. Since 2000, miles traveled on Vermont's roads have increased by 13 percent, but annual gasoline and diesel fuel tax revenues are the same today as they were 12 years ago. As Vermonters have replaced gas-guzzlers with more fuel efficient vehicles, the new vehicles use less fuel per mile. Thus, gas and diesel taxes, which are the principal sources of revenue for the state's Transportation Fund, are not keeping up with the wear and tear on the roads.
The U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments in the spring in two same-sex marriage cases. The first involves the constitutionality of California's Proposition 8, the referendum that overturned a California Supreme Court decision making same-sex marriages legal in that state. The second, which could have significant implications for Vermont, involves the constitutionality of the Defense of Marriage Act, or DOMA, the 1996 federal statute that defines marriage in terms of federal law as the legal union of one man and one woman.
Election results released by the Secretary of State's office show that President Obama won eight communities in Vermont with more than 80 percent of the vote. His best town was Norwich, with 85 percent. The other places on the list are Marlboro, Putney, Brattleboro, Burlington, Montpelier, Strafford and Granville. Middlebury and Ripton, with 78 and 79 percent for Obama, came close to being on the list, but did not quite make the elite league.
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The Price We Pay For The FDA
by Dr. Mary J. Ruwart
A Matter of Life and Death
Have you lost a loved one to breast cancer recently? If so, you probably wished with all your heart that your sister, mother, or wife had detected it earlier. Perhaps they would have - if the device that clinicians are calling "one of the most effective weapons against breast cancer" hadn't been banned from the US market by the FDA.
The Sensor Pad, developed in Decatur, Illinois, is simply two sealed plastic sheets with lubricant in between. When a woman or her doctor places the pad over her breast, friction is reduced, making lump detection easier. The FDA has refused to approve this simple medical device for over a decade, even though the product is sold in Japan, Singapore, Korea, and most West European countries. The reason? The FDA wants this $7 device to go through the same testing procedures that it demands for expensive pharmaceuticals. After such testing, the FDA will take up to six years to decide whether or not the device should be approved. Because drug manufacturers are required to spend much more time and money getting US approvals than offshore ones, Americans get new, life-saving drugs and devices years later than citizens of other countries - if they get them at all.
Sometimes this delay protects us from side effects not readily detected in animal studies. The sedative thalidomide, for example, was marketed in Europe for several years while awaiting FDA approval. In the early 1960's, the sensitivity of an unborn child to the deforming effects of drugs was not widely appreciated, so doctors began prescribing thalidomide to pregnant women. Consequently, approximately 12,000 European children were born with deformed limbs. Few American babies were affected because only a few test samples had been distributed in this country. The FDA physician who had delayed its approval was given a Presidential Award.
Paying With Our Lives
Encouraged by this feedback, the FDA began to require even more studies. Testing and approval took even longer, especially when compared with countries like Great Britain where there were no immediate changes in the way new drugs were processed. While the British continued to enjoy many new drugs to treat their illnesses, only half of these were available to Americans, and only after many more years of waiting. One of these new drugs denied to Americans was propranolol, the first Beta-blocker to be used extensively to treat angina and hypertension.
Approximately 10,000 Americans died needlessly every year for the three years it was against the law for their doctors to treat them with propranolol. Propranolol was finally approved in the US for minor uses in 1968, but was only approved in 1973 and 1976 for angina and hyper-tension respectively. The regulatory delay of this single drug may have been responsible for the death of more Americans than all other deaths from drugs in this century. Even so, the FDA came under severe criticism by Congress for "premature" approval of this valuable drug! Former FDA Commissioner Alexander Schmidt noted that ". . . rarely, if ever, has Congress held a hearing to look into the failure of FDA to approve a new entity; but it has held hundreds of hearings alleging that the FDA. has done something wrong by approving a drug . . . ." The "drug lag," he claimed, could only "be remedied by Congressional and public recognition that the failure to approve an important new drug can be as detrimental to the public health as the approval of a potentially bad drug."
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Just how detrimental is the drug lag to public health? Conservative estimates of needless deaths to the "drug lag" are tens, perhaps hundreds of thousands of innocent Americans every year. Many more people die from the FDA's delay than are saved by waiting to see if people from other countries experience side effects from new drugs.
Perhaps a loved one you've lost is among them.
While any harm from drugs is undesirable, we must recognize that no drug is safe for everyone. People die every year from drug allergies or idiosyncratic reactions which cannot be predicted with state-of-the-art expertise. Whenever we take drugs, we must weigh the risks and the potential benefits, just as we weigh the substantial risks and benefits of driving an automobile. By demanding that the FDA protect us from drugs that have any side effects, we deprive ourselves of drugs that save hundreds of thousands of lives.
Ironically, FDA regulations sometimes force people to choose between legal, but toxic, drugs and safer ones from the black market. One San Francisco physician actually encouraged his patients to take the unapproved AIDS therapy DDI, instead of the FDA-approved DDC. The less toxic DDI was developed to replace DDC, but the delays caused by FDA regulations made it unavailable for many years. In desperation, AIDS patients began purchasing the safer substance from illegal buyers' clubs, which provide unapproved medications for the terminally ill. Many people are still forced to get their medicine on the black market because of the drug lag caused by the FDA.
In 1988, AIDS patients convinced FDA commissioner Frank Young to let them import drugs marketed overseas for their own personal use. Theoretically, any US citizen can now order personal supplies this way. However, current FDA administrators are attempting to close this life-saving loophole.
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The clearance follows completion of the US Air Force's (USAF) Seek Eagle process for aircraft stores certification, which included a series of compatibility flight profile (CFP) missions designed to clear the pod to the F-16's basic limits.
Working in collaboration with the USAF and Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Company, the Exelis team evaluated two stores configurations at Eglin Air Force Base, Florida, to capture current and future pod configuration requirements without the need for additional CFP missions.
Exelis integrated electronic warfare systems business vice-president and general manager Joe Rambala said: "The AIDEWS pod provides the US and its allies with a modular, highly capable and cost-effective survivability system for a range of fighter aircraft.
"Achieving this certification will give more pilots access to the system's advanced RF protection and the flexibility to meet the evolving RF threat."
Currently limited to F-16A/B Block 15 aircraft procured by PAF through the Peace Drive 2 foreign military sales programme, the certification can be readily extended to both domestic and foreign F-16 Blocks 25 to 52 fighters.
An external pod variant of the Exelis ALQ-211 family of electronic self-protection systems, AN/ALQ-211(V)9 is a self-contained integrated electronic countermeasures and radar warning receiver system designed to protect the F-16 fighter from radio frequency threats.
Offering the flexibility to be installed or removed based on mission requirements, the pod provides digital radar warning, high-power jamming, threat geo-location and situational awareness using line replaceable units interchangeable with internal AIDEWS systems.
The AN/ALQ-211(V)9 is claimed to be the only digital radio frequency memory-based electronic warfare pod certified to F-16 basic aircraft limits, including requirements for lightning protection.
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Vampire: The Masquerade-Bloodlines delivers a new type of RPG experience-one that blends all the core elements of a traditional RPG with the graphical richness, immediacy and brutal combat of a first-person action game. The game plunges players into the dark and gritty vampire underworld of modern-day L.A. as a creature of the night. Players will develop their character's powers, interact with other characters and embark on story-driven quests as they battle mortals and other vampires with an incredible array of vampire powers and weapons. Powered by Valve's Source Technology, the game is based on White Wolf's popular Vampire: The Masquerade pen-and-paper RPG series and its official clans.
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The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) region's economy will grow near 2.5 percent in 2018, according to new forecasts from Moody's Analytics, a leading provider of economic forecasts and data. Stable energy prices will underpin this growth, with the price for Brent crude oil fluctuating in a tight range of $50-60 per barrel.
"OPEC's likely extension of production cuts, coupled with growing oil demand from emerging markets, will lead to a decline in global oil inventories, supporting oil prices in 2018," said Chris Lafakis, Moody's Analytics Energy Economist. "Oil prices will be capped; however, OPEC countries may not adhere to production cuts. U.S. shale oil producers will in turn ramp up oil exploration, ensuring that oil trades within a range."
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I met with Mark Roush recently at the Technology & Maintenance Council (TMC) annual meeting a week back to talk about advances in trailer engineering. He's a favorite contact of mine - an engineer always thinking outside the box, aiming for new and different ways to build the products the trucking industry relies on day in and day out to deliver freight for customers.
Three years ago, Roush - director of engineering for Vanguard National Trailer Corp., Monon, IN - and I sat down to talk about future concepts for trailers: how could they be built differently to reduce weight, improve longevity, reduce use of wood, etc. One of the more innovative things turning over in his mind back then revolved around gluing trailers together with "super adhesives."
Today, that concept is a reality - he showed off two 28-foot "pup" trailers to me at TMC with sidewalls literally glued together, with rivets only used along the top and bottom. It took three guys just 15 or so minutes to put a sidewall together using adhesives, he told me - something that took three times the amount of workers to achieve in the same time frame using rivets.
(To watch a video report on Vanguard's 'glue trailer,' just click on the link below)
Roush reminded me, though, that this is only the start of the process: after TMC, those two trailers are set to undergo some serious durability test track trails to see if they'll hold up under real-world stresses. In the meantime, he's got a 53-foot trailer model with glued-together sidewalls being prepped for the Mid America Trucking Show.
"Glue doesn't rust and it holds just as well on brackets as rivets do -- even better in some cases," he told me. "What people don't realize is that the glue we're talking about has a sheer strength of 2,000 psi [pounds per square inch], whereas your average rivet has a maximum sheer strength of 1,200 psi. So you're using something that theoretically has a much stronger bonding force between the sidewalls of a trailer and its structure, not less."
(Vanguard's 28-foot pup glue trailer on display at TMC)
And again, by using glue, trailers can be manufactured faster and cheaper, without compromising strength and durability. "One of the most costly parts of manufacturing a trailer is the man-hours it takes to rivet the sidewall to the frame, and every rivet represents a metal-on-metal contact point where rust and corrosion can develop over time," Roush says. "With glue, you're using one single sheet of aluminum sidewall without rivets. You're taking a tremendous amount of hours out of the production process, yet giving the trailer more durability in terms of corrosion prevention."
Reducing the number of weld points on a trailer is another benefit to using adhesives, he explained to me. "Welds create a weak point where corrosion can gain a foothold," Roush said, "We pre-assemble as many components as possible and try to maximize corrosion protection by taking the pieces of the trailer with the most weld points and galvanizing the entire section. But if you can go to adhesives, you totally eliminate that problem."
Roush is no stranger to this kind of innovation, as over his engineering career he's designed and tweaked a wide variety of trailer models, from flatbeds at Dorsey Trailer to refrigerated and insulated units for Kidron.
Finding ways to make trailers less expensive yet more durable has been a challenge wherever he's worked. And Vanguard is no exception, where the focus is now on finding ways to better protect cargo and minimize corrosion while reducing weight and maintaining durability.
That's not all he's cooking up in his research lab, either. Right now he's working on a trailer floor made with a "pultruded" composite material - lightweight yet durable resins "pulled" into specific shapes with specialized machines before they harden. The benefit here is that Roush could slice 700 pounds out of a standard 53-foot dry van using a composite floor, while also improving traction and longevity.
The perennial problem with wooden floors is that over time, they get wet and start to rot. While Oak is the best in terms of resistance to rot, it's also one of the most expensive woods on the market. Roush is already addressing that by using metal flooring at the trailer door end, with less-costly Maple wood flooring for the rest of the interior.
He's even starting to visualize making an entire trailer via pultruded-style materials, with sidewalls, floors, and doors built separately and then combined mainly with adhesives, with bolts and rivets at major connection points. That would really save on trailer unit weight, he believes.
But Roush also cautions that there is a limit to how far you go in reducing trailer weight. "When you are trying to save weight, you usually have to give up something -- either take something out of the structure, which can compromise the integrity of the unit, or change the design," he explains.
Still, it's great to see all these innovative ideas being applied to what truckers have long considered just plain old boxes on wheels. Whether they work out or not in the long run, one thing is for certain - it's a sign that trailer engineering isn't playing second fiddle anymore to anything in trucking these days.


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Many doctors delay prescribing an effective treatment for Parkinson's disease out of fear that the drug will cause side effects if given too early. That fear may be unfounded, a new study suggests.
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Book Review: One Cowrie Shellpublished on Tuesday, October 18, 2016
While the story is historic with a focus on slavery some of the themes in the book are just as relevant today as they were during the time of slavery. In "One Cowrie Shell" two African tribes the Youruba and Dahomey are constantly battling each other, capturing prisoners and selling the prisoners to slave traders in return for cowrie shell's and tools. While both tribes keep on fighting neither one has any idea when and why the fighting started and why it continues.
Unfortunately this theme is still very much relevant in today's world where we see sects within countries destroying each other without gaining anything from the destruction, and various countries especially in the Middle East and Africa waging war against each other while those who are responsible for creating and selling weaponry benefit and profit from the destruction.
While I really enjoyed the story and the different themes in this book I found the writing itself can be improved, as there was a lot of repetition throughout the entire book. The constant repetition gave the book a simplistic style making it more appropriate for a younger audience. I would love to see a more polished and well edited version of this book, as the story itself is captivating and well worth the read.
I was provided with a review copy of this book for review purposes.
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I'm trying to dig out my creative self again. My TRUE creative self that once was when I was much younger. I was a fount of creativity back then and now this dried up well only trickles the occassional original idea. sigh. What happened? How does one fight the daily doldrums? How do we stay positive and optimistic in a world that sometimes seems to do nothing but spiral into a dark abyss of.... wow ok that's definitely NOT how to stay happy. hahah Let's get away from that line of thought.
So I've been doing some doodling. I figured that should help at least a little bit. These came out of my pens throughout last week. Here are some happy dreaming little flowers. A girl and a... dog? Looks more like a weird baby kangaroo or something at her feet. Some owls, love birds... and fish that could be hot air balloons maybe if you looked at it with squinty eyes.


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Innovation in how we measure mirrors a continuously evolving media landscape. And for the first time in a Cross-Platform Report, Nielsen has migrated the reporting of mobile use and mobile video use from survey-based insights to metered data through electronic mobile measurement.
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From Beck previewing his Morning Phase album for in-flight air travelers to hear via Gogo Inflight Internet before its formal release date to Bruce Springsteen streaming his recent Higher Hopes album more than a week before its release as a promotion for the TV show The Good Wife, there's more to release dates than a specific date.
Despite e-commerce's momentous effect on shopping behavior, it's far from revolutionary; it's simply an evolution. While many have recognized the opportunities created by new technology, some categories—like consumer packaged goods (CPG)—haven't capitalized on e-commerce. Nevertheless, CPG manufacturers and retailers can boost sales by engaging with shoppers in new ways and providing unique shopping benefits through their online models.
Hispanic consumers are not only the fastest-growing demographic in the U.S., they're also trendsetters in digital, leading the growth in device ownership and online usage.
Smartphone ownership grew to 68 percent between November and January 2014, up 9 percent from the start of 2013. And among those who bought their mobile phone within the last three months, a whopping 84 percent chose smartphones for their new handsets.
Millennials are the social generation, both online and in-person. As the founders of the social media movement, they're never more than a few clicks away from friends and family. And offline, they prefer to live in dense, diverse urban villages where social interaction is just outside their front doors.
There's something interesting happening with men and women and shopping. Women's incomes are rising around the world, making them a force to be reckoned with. And they're using their newfound clout to influence purchasing decisions in categories once dominated by men.
The video landscape is in a time of major flux, with digital viewing on the rise, advertisers seeking integrated campaigns and yet TV networks still holding most of the cards. But with the emergence of new technologies—and new measurement capabilities—video advertising is poised for change.
From TVs to tablets and digital to smartphones, technology is reshaping the way consumers engage with video and, in turn, how media and advertising companies do business. While the online and TV video ad markets will remain separate for the time being, the movement toward integration is real and accelerating.
Around the globe, aging consumers' needs are not being fully met. One in five people will be 60 years or older by 2050, and there are regional differences that are important to consider when reaching this valuable consumer segment.
Linking radio station tuning data to consumer purchase information is the best way to ensure that radio advertising is being heard by consumers who are eager to listen.
A new Nielsen analysis looked at news consumption among African-American consumers and found that this is group is one of the most highly engaged with news content, across multiple screens.
Based on 70 years of watching what consumers experience, and how they buy, how they act and what they do based on their consumption of content, we see a seismic shift coming in the next five years. Nowhere is this more acute than when it comes to television and video consumption.
African-American consumers are more relevant than ever in today's ever-shifting entertainment market—and their choices are affecting the whole entertainment industry. To capture this influential demographic's attention, marketers must understand African Americans' specific tastes and habits to provide content that best suits their interests and needs.
Findings from the Nielsen Global Survey about Aging highlight consumer concerns about growing old and how product and service manufacturers and retailers are meeting the challenges that can arise with age. The findings highlight an array of needed improvements, and the most compelling are included herein.


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Breast and Cervical cancer screening for teens
Dear OncoLink "Ask The Experts,"
Is there a certain age that you should be worrying about breast cancer and cervical cancer or should I be worrying about it as a teenager too?
Christina S. Chu, MD, Assistant Professor of the Division of Gynecologic Oncology at the University of Pennsylvania Health System, responds:
While teenagers are at low risk for cervical and breast cancer, it is never too early to get into good habits for cancer screening.
In regards to cervical cancer, gynecologists recommend that you start having yearly pelvic exams and Pap tests as soon as you are sexually active, or when you turn 18, whichever comes first. After 3 negative yearly Pap tests, you can discuss with your doctor if you can have them less frequently, or if you should continue to have them yearly. Some personal advice: one of the best things you can do to prevent cervical cancer, aside from regular Pap tests, is to stop smoking or never start in the first place.
In regards to breast cancer, unless you have a family history of breast and/or ovarian cancer, the general recommendations are that you need your first mammogram as a "baseline" test around the age of 40. Until then, it is important that you perform monthly self-breast exams to check for lumps and cysts. While breast cancer in teens is very rare, if you notice anything that is abnormal for you, you should bring it to the attention of your doctor.


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BERLIN – Scientists are baffled over a group of bears who have lost their fur!
The bears live at a zoo in Leipzig, Germany. Dolores, and all the other female bears at the zoo, have seen almost all of their fur fall out!
Usually at this time in the season, the bears would be growing an even thicker coat for the winter. Some scientists believe that it is a genetic defect in the breed, which originates in South America.
The condition, which is causing rashes and inflammations on their skin, is also pulling in bigger crowds! Whatever is causing their fur loss does not appear to be affecting them in any other way.


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What a great name! Not a very common first name - the first that I have come by. The middle name of Strong also, interesting choice. I don't see the Strong surname in the lineage so I wonder if they just wanted little Seabury to grow up strong?
Seabury was the 10th child born to Odin Brown and Sally Stevens. I do want to note that other researchers have noted that Sally's last name is Leonard not Stevens. The only paper proof is a death record in Washington for one of the children that listed Stevens as the surname. The death of that child also took place in Stevens County, so it is possible that was the name of the county and not the surname. Anyway - if any readers out there have paper proof of the surname of Sally, please share! Seabury was born 3rd October, 1857 in Illinois. It's is most likely that he was born in Boone County, IL, as that is where we find the first record for him.
The first record being the 1860 Federal Census. This finds Seabury living at home with his parents and siblings. The record if very hard to read. The family is farming and living in Boone, Boone County, Illinois.
The following decade, Seabury's childhood, doesn't appear to have been a very pleasant one. Several of his siblings all die young, as well as his mother, Sally. In the 1870 Federal Census we find Seabury living still in Boone County, IL, with his father, Odin. There is only one sibling living at home, a younger brother named Perry, and a new step mother, Helen Chamberlain. His father's profession is listed as a shoemaker.
I'm unable to find Seabury in the 1880 Federal Census. His father, along with his father's new wife, have moved to Sterling, Nebraska. His eldest sibling, Hubbel Brown, is still living in Boone County. I've looked in both of those area's censuses with no luck - no Seabury. At some point after 1880 his eldest brother, Hubbel, moves his family to Sundance, Crook County, Wyoming. It's in this location that we find the next record for Seabury. So we can assume that Seabury either came with Hubbel or followed him there. The record we find is the marriage record for Seabury. On 22 April 1886 Seabury marries Stella Richardson in Crook County. This record can be found in the Western States Marriage Record Index, as shown below.
The family resides in Kettle Falls, Stevens County, Washington in the 1900 Federal Census. Seabury and Stella are the parents of four children at this time, all of which are living at home. Seabury's profession is listed as a farmer. A few farms down the road is Stella's younger brother, James Richardson, living with the parents of his wife, Jennie Gill.
The 1910 Federal Census finds the family in Green Acres, Spokane County, Washington. Seabury owns his farm/house, it is not mortgaged. Another child was born to family after 1900, Stella is noted as the mother of 5 children, all of which are still living. The eldest son, Milton, resides in the family home with his wife, Minnie Rose.
I'm unable to locate Seabury in the 1920 Federal Census. His wife, Stella, is found living in Spokane, Spokane County, Washington. Her marital status is listed as divorced. Their youngest, Gerald, is only 13 years old, yet, he shows he works at the railroad and has not attended school since September the previous year. It appears Gerald is supporting his mother at this time. Sad.
In the 1930 Federal Census Seabury owns his own poultry farm in Aumsville, Marion County, Oregon. Less than two years later, in 1932, he is living with his granddaughter, Marjorie Bashaw Vorlicky, in Pendleton, Umatilla County, Oregon. He passes away in this home 12 April 1932. He is buried in the Milton Freewater IOOF Cemetary in Umatilla County, Oregon. I wish I would have asked Marjorie about Seabury before she passed away, I hadn't realized that Seabury had lived in her home.
The children of Seabury Strong Brown and Stella S. Richardson were:
1. Ruby Alberta Brown - born September 1887 in Wyoming. Married (1st) Fred Wallace Potter. Married (2nd) Albert Plank. Died 4 April 1946 in Vancouver, Clark County, Washington.
2. Florence G Brown - born October 1888 in Nebraska. Married Arthur Clarence Bashaw. Died 15 January 1966 in Stevens County, Washington.
3. Milton George Brown - born 18 July 1890 in Lincoln County, Nebraska. Married Minnie Rose. Died January 1974 in Coeur D'Alene, Kootenai County, Idaho.
4. Burton Strong Brown - born 10 December 1895 in Sundance, Crook County, Wyoming. Never married. Died 8 April 1934 in Spokane, Spokane County, Washington.
5. Gerald Wayne Brown - born 1 July 1906 in Spokane, Spokane County, Washington. Married Evelyn, surname unknown. Died 25 September 1993 in Ellensburg, Kittitas County, Washington.


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I recently blogged about the many benefits that I hope will come to America with the passage of the JOBS Act. Now that the US Senate has passed the JOBS Act, the bill has gone back to the House of Representatives for final approval before President Obama signs it into law. Despite my skepticism about the ability of Congress to pass any legislation in this toxic and partisan political climate, I am pleasantly surprised that it looks like the JOBS Act should go through with bipartisan support.
My general thesis is that if the "people" can now invest in new ventures, then they will be more apt to use products and services that cater to small groups/communities, and more likely to shun products, services, and information that comes from large corporations that are geared for the masses. Of course, it may take a couple of years to see these effects, but I am hopeful that fragmentation can create diversity in spheres of life where Americans now have too few choices.
While other commentators have focused on the overall benefits and drawbacks for investors, businesses, regulators, and consumers, I will list potential ways that the new crowdfunding legislation can influence and disrupt journalism. My theories on winners and losers from the JOBS Act:
1. Communities can rally around creating publications that they control, rather than leaving sub-par newspapers in the hands of publishers motivated by the bottom line rather than creating high quality community content. Watch out Patch and legacy publishers! The potential to revive local journalism in places that are currently without local news sources is the most promising development that I see. But legacy media organizations should be on guard, because disruption born out of frustration may be just around the corner.
2. Niche publications will be able to get off the ground more easily. If a fragmented community of 1,000 people — I'm thinking an online community for this example — who were spread throughout America, wanted to hire one person to work to create content, they could hypothetically each donate $30 to a venture that could create a niche publication with a professional or semi-professional journalist/curator at the helm.
3. Television networks and cable channels should be scared because YouTube is already slicing up the market. Enthusiasts of various types of content that don't achieve the critical masses needed for channels that cater to advertisers may now have their opportunity to band together to create more desirable programming…and make it profitable.
4. Television news should be a prime target for entrepreneurs at the local and national levels, as it has remained virtually unchanged for such a long time. I foresee new formats developing, and I believe the crowd will control how they develop.
5. Crowdfunded radio stations may destroy the traditional for-profit ones. Watch out ClearChannel. Look out for an indy radio explosion…most likely based on the Internet.
6. Lone bloggers and journalists with strong personal brands — or with the ability to build strong personal brands — will now be able to have investors rally behind them. This may create a major revolution for sole proprietors, ending the struggles that freelancers face in terms of tax burdens. Another advantage is that talented people may now be more willing to go off on their own rather than remain with corporations that underutilize talented journalists' skills and abilities.


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Full-time Milwaukee Bucks forward and part-time bar-fighter Larry Sanders has taken to Instagram to voice his unhappiness with the media's response to his recent night club antics. Going full-on Nation of Islam, he attributes the negativity to the timeless tale of The Man trying to keep the black man down:
If that old saying about the medium being the message is true, then this subversive use of a pictorial social media service to spread a textual story of oppression is revolutionary on multiple levels. To that, all we can say is as-salamu alaykum, my brother.


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There are few places prettier than the Northern California Coast about 300 miles north of San Francisco. The Eureka/Arcata area has redwood trees, rocky coast, whales, sea lions and, for the last few decades, lots of cannabis. Humboldt County is the home of Humboldt Gold, long favored by marijuana connoisseurs and shipped all around the U.S. The problem is the evil weed grows slowly in the often foggy redwood forests. So, the local pot farmers have turned to a higher power, or at least a higher technology, to satisfy the growing demand – indoor grow lights. As a result, hundreds of residential accounts are using well over 6 times the average household energy.
That doesn't sit well with Arcata city management but not so much because of the moral outrage at being a high production, illicit purveyor of stoner treats to the world. It's just that the area has always been pretty green, not only in actual color, but in all levels of politics. Producing illegal cannabis crop with natural sunlight is one thing, but causing extra greenhouse gas to be released from a PG&E power plant is a whole other matter.
"It borders on embarrassing when the city has done everything it can to be a leader in energy conservation and forward thinking in terms of climate change efforts, yet in the community we see this dramatic increase of electricity usage, and that's not consistent throughout the state, and so clearly we've identified growhouses as being a part of that problem," Arcata City Councilman Mark Wheetley said. (reported in the Willits News)
In fact, according to PG&E over 4 percent of Humboldt County residents fall into that group. As Arcata's Environmental Services Director Mark Andre was quoted: "For us, it's all about our greenhouse gas reduction plan, and how we can be successful with it, and we're having a hard time being successful with it with (hundreds of) houses using over 600 percent of the baseline."
Well they certainly have a point there. Satisfying the cannabis craving of America with indoor farming consumes enough electricity to power 2 million homes, or about 1 percent of national power consumption, according to a Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory researcher. In California, marijuana cultivation accounts for 3 percent of all electricity use and 8 percent of household use.
So are Arcata officials just blowing smoke? Or can they really reduce their share of climate-spoiling power generation due to accelerated nurturing of the ever-so-popular cash crop? They think so. This fall Arcata will begin collecting a 45 percent excessive energy use tax on residences exceeding the 600 percent baseline. The tax is expected to provide additional city revenue as well as encourage growers to turn off the lights and return to nature's outdoor bounty of sunlight (limited as it is on the foggy coast). Or the other choice is to take their agricultural activities elsewhere. Maybe all three (call them joint outcomes).
But it's not all that easy to collect the tax. How do you know who's using how much? That's where the local utility comes in. Arcata is striking a deal with PG&E. The utility will identify the over-users and collect the tax, presumably through the billing system. PG&E is charging Arcata $650,000 to set the system up. "This is the first time that we've worked on a new system like this," PG&E spokeswoman Brittany McKannay said. "There really isn't a precedent yet to determine or to speculate what the changes would look like."
I don't think it's going to work as hoped because cannabis (or tobacco, alcohol or even chocolate) demand doesn't have much price elasticity. So growers can up their price a bit and continue business as usual. Also, meter tampering services may become a growing enterprise. Then there is just flat-out energy theft which would suddenly be more attractive. Britain already loses about $100 million of electric energy due to illegal pot farming.
But, however the outcome you have to admit this partnership between utility and community is quite an innovative. Maybe it'll light up our imagination with some other possibilities?


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The Ubuntu Phone is far from dead. In fact, we've been promised that we can still expect to see the Linux OS go big in our smartphones in 2014
Despite missing the funding goal to get its own handset out on the market, Canonical has kept busy to get manufacturers to build their own Ubuntu OS smartphones.
And speaking in a Google Hangout, Canonical community manager Juno Bacon confirmed that all signs are good.
"I'm confident that in 2014 you're going to see a number of Ubuntu phones hitting the market," he said. "I can't tell you [who it will be] right now but I can tell you that some awesome things are happening."
One OS to rule them all
Bacon also implied that we'll see some devices made exclusively for certain regions and carriers as well as some that will be sold unlocked online.
That's as concrete as Canonical is being right now, but it sounds like we can expect to see Ubuntu popping up all over the shop in the coming months.


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In this Road Block, Tyler must open a Japanese puzzle box which contains a password. Once the obtain the password, they must repeat it to the castle guards in order to receive the next clue on THE AMAZING RACE Friday, Feb. 27 (8:00-9:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network. Photo: Monty Brinton/CBS ©2014 CBS Broadcasting, Inc. All Rights Reserved


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