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Leather Key Case - Black
A case for all of your keys. The single ring is oversized for vehicle or high security keys and detaches via a snap for ease of use with a valet. Opposite key hook hold up to four additional keys. Side pockets hold other keys or additional items. Case closes with magnetic snaps. Dimensions: 4.0 x 2.25 x 1.0 inches.$65.00 -
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Microfiber Zipper Wallet
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Christmas Hat Cardinals - Set of 3
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Ivory Canisters - Set of 3
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Leather Card Sleeve - Black
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Aramis Mosaic Glass Bottle
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Alastor Key and Mail Boxes - Set of 2
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McDermott Large Jar with Lid
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Alvarez Short Lidded Vase
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Leather Bi-Fold Wallet - Black
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Tiago Wide Vase
A wonderful accent for any end table, bookcase, or even on the floor in an unused corner of your home, the Wide Tiago Vase features a lovely, rounded design with a vintage, antique appearance that will accentuate the look of any style of home decor. For a coordinated look, purchase all five distinct Tiago pieces and place them together on a bookshelf or console. Whether for your home office, living room or any other space, you'll love the way this home accent updates the look of your home decor.$59.49 -
Double Zip Wallet
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Tressa Framed Wall Decor - Set of 4
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Antego Wall Decor - Set of 2
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CK Oversized Barron Rabbit
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Red Ceramic Canisters - Set of 3
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Microfiber Card Case with Tab
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Cadell Large Green Bubble Glass Jar
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Prism Hammered Jars with Lids
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Leonato Playing Card Wall Decor - Set of 4
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Zula Large Glass Bottle With Stopper
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Microfiber Card Case with Tab
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text: On 1/17/2012 4:04 PM, Alexander Motin wrote: > On 17.01.2012 19:03, Vinny Abello wrote: >> I had something similar on a software based RAID controller on my Intel S5000PSL motherboard when I just went from 8.2-RELEASE to 9.0-RELEASE. After adding geom_raid_load="YES" to my /boot/loader.conf, it still didn't create the device on bootup. I had to manually create the label with graid. After that it created /dev/raid/ar0 for me and I could mount the volume. Only thing which I've trying to understand is the last message below about the integrity check failed. I've found other posts on this but when I dig into my setup, I don't see the same problems that are illustrated in the post and am at a loss for why that is being stated. Also, on other posts I think it was (raid/r0, MBR) that people were getting and trying to fix. Mine is (raid/r0, BSD) which I cannot find reference to. I have a feeling it has to do with the geometry of the disk or something. Everything else seems fine... I admittedly only use this volume for scratch space and didn't have anything important st or > ed >> on it so I wasn't worried about experimenting or losing data. >> >> ada0 at ahcich0 bus 0 scbus2 target 0 lun 0 >> ada0:<WDC WD4000YR-01PLB0 01.06A01> ATA-7 SATA 1.x device >> ada0: 150.000MB/s transfers (SATA 1.x, UDMA6, PIO 8192bytes) >> ada0: Command Queueing enabled >> ada0: 381554MB (781422768 512 byte sectors: 16H 63S/T 16383C) >> ada0: Previously was known as ad4 >> ada1 at ahcich1 bus 0 scbus3 target 0 lun 0 >> ada1:<WDC WD4000YR-01PLB0 01.06A01> ATA-7 SATA 1.x device >> ada1: 150.000MB/s transfers (SATA 1.x, UDMA6, PIO 8192bytes) >> ada1: Command Queueing enabled >> ada1: 381554MB (781422768 512 byte sectors: 16H 63S/T 16383C) >> ada1: Previously was known as ad6 >> >> GEOM_RAID: Intel-8c840681: Array Intel-8c840681 created. >> GEOM_RAID: Intel-8c840681: Disk ada0s1 state changed from NONE to ACTIVE. >> GEOM_RAID: Intel-8c840681: Subdisk ar0:0-ada0s1 state changed from NONE to ACTIVE. >> GEOM_RAID: Intel-8c840681: Disk ada1s1 state changed from NONE to ACTIVE. >> GEOM_RAID: Intel-8c840681: Subdisk ar0:1-ada1s1 state changed from NONE to ACTIVE. >> GEOM_RAID: Intel-8c840681: Array started. >> GEOM_RAID: Intel-8c840681: Volume ar0 state changed from STARTING to OPTIMAL. >> GEOM_RAID: Intel-8c840681: Provider raid/r0 for volume ar0 created. >> GEOM_PART: integrity check failed (raid/r0, BSD) >> >> Any ideas on the integrity check anyone? > > It is not related to geom_raid, but to geom_part. There is something wrong with your label. You may set kern.geom.part.check_integrity sysctl to zero do disable these checks. AFAIR it was mentioned in 9.0 release notes. Thanks for responding, Alexander. I also found that information about that sysctl variable, however I was trying to determine if something is actually wrong, how to determine what it is and ultimately how to fix it so it passes the check. I'd rather not ignore errors/warnings unless it's a bug. Again, I have no data of value on this partition, so I can do anything to fix it. Just not sure what to do or look at specifically. Thanks! -Vinny


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Rinko Kikuchi
has been bewitching the camera with her enigmatic presence since she was a teenager, working as a model and appearing in commercials in her native Japan. Despite the demands of her education and blossoming career,
developed tremendous skills in the arts of traditional Japanese dance and archery, as well as horseback riding and motorcycling. The well-roundedness of her life seemed to imbue her with a realness and believability, and she landed her first film role in 1999's
. Directed by veteran filmmaker
Kaneto Shindo
, the film followed two Japanese families along different timelines, exploring the way Japan's changing traditional values have effected family life.
was just 18, but
was so pleased with her performance that he had her return for the next year's
Sanmon Yakusha
, a biopic about character actor
Taiji Tonoyama
. The exposure was dynamite for
, who next found a starring role in 2001's romantic drama
Sora no Ana
, playing a street-smart waif who unexpectedly falls in star-crossed love with a fast-food worker. Set against the backdrop of the Japanese countryside, the poignant film was a hit, garnering her a slew of supporting roles in films like 2004's
Cha no Aji
and 2005's
Taga Tameni
In 2004,
found herself faced with a serious challenge as a performer. Her agent told her about the role of Chieko, a deaf, mute, and emotionally disturbed character in
Alejandro González Iñárritu
's upcoming film
. As the star of one of the film's three interconnected storylines,
would be tackling teenage Chieko's emotional turmoil over her mother's recent suicide, her emerging sexuality, and her place in the film's overall message -- all without the use of her voice.
was determined to win the role, and so she enrolled in a sign-language school. A year-long audition process followed, and though the film's casting agents had planned to cast an actual deaf actress, she was given the part. The young actress was placed on the Hollywood radar as soon as the film hit theaters, and she was praised for delivering compellingly raw emotions through a subtle performance, and for submerging herself completely into the role. She was nominated for an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress, but despite the free pass this bought her into American film,
remained interested in both American and Japanese film, considering projects from both nations.In 2008 she joined the cast of The Brothers Bloom to play the character of Bang Bang, and starred in Norwegian Wood (2010), celebrated Vietnamese director Tran Anh Hung's critically acclaimed adaptation of Haruki Murakami's nostalgic 1987 novel following a new relationship plagued by memories of a death from years before. ~ Cammila Collar, Rovi
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Norwegian Wood
Celebrated Vietnamese director Tran Anh Hung (The Scent of Green Papaya) mounted and helms this ambitious adaptation of Haruki Murakami's nostalgic 1987 novel. The story unfolds in 1967 Tokyo and concerns Watanabe, a devoted college student with a marked degree of uncertainty about how he should approach relationships. He falls into reciprocal love with Naoko, a stunning and intelligent young woman from his high-school years, but their relationship is perpetually haunted by a tragic event from the past -- the death of best friend Kizuki years prior. Watanabe cannot shake the influence of death, while Naoko senses that some vital part of her is now permanently lost and irretrievable. On the night that Naoko turns 20, she and Watanabe make love, but she soon drops out of college and inexplicably disappears from the young man's life. At about the same time, he meets Midori, an incredible young woman who seems to possess everything that Naoko lacked. ~ Nathan Southern, Rovi
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A hired killer makes the mistake of falling for her quarry in this stylish thriller from Spanish writer and director Isabel Coixet. Ryu (Rinko Kikuchi) is a beautiful woman who works in a fish market in Tokyo, but she also leads a secret life as a professional assassin who performs hits for high-paying clients. Ryu is approached by Ishida, an assistant to powerful businessman Mr. Nagara (Takeo Nakahara). Nagara's daughter Midori took her own life after a bad breakup with David (Sergi Lopez), a wine dealer from Spain, and Nagara believes David is responsible; Ishida, who loved Midori from afar, wants David to pay with his life. Ryu approaches David at his shop prepared to kill him, but she's immediately taken with his good looks and charm, and the two spend the night together. Ryu doesn't think she can murder David and tries to call off her assignment, but this turns out to be more difficult than she imagined. Map Of The Sounds Of Tokyo was an official selection at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi
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When the younger of two notorious sibling con artists announces a plan to go legit, his brother implores him to carry out one last swindle in the eagerly anticipated sophomore feature from Brick writer/director Rian Johnson. Tired of a life on the run, a confidence man who has dedicated his life to the art of the grift decides to call it quits. Despite his plans to leave his criminal past behind, however, the reluctant scammer finds that his brother has masterminded one last scheme to claim the wealth of an eccentric millionaire (Rachel Weisz). With the opportunity to make enough money so that he would be able to live comfortably even if his legitimate endeavors fail, the heretofore unrepentant con man finds it increasingly difficult to refuse his sibling's potentially profitable endeavor. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi
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This sci-fi tinged, full-length anime feature opens on a peaceful future, where Earth has left the violent conflicts of war in the past. Human nature still craves the clash of battle, however, so private companies now stage "war as entertainment," creating fictional wars for ordinary people to read about in the paper. These companies call exclusively on the services of young people known as Kildren. One such Kildren - a young man named Yuichi - has been newly assigned to a base in the fictional war, but with no memory of his past and a mysterious woman named Suito watching his every move, Yuichi is about to find that this made-up war isn't as harmless as it seems. ~ Cammila Collar, Rovi
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Naisu no Mori: The First Contact
Taste of Tea director Katsuhito Ishii collaborates with filmmakers Shinichiro Miki and Hajime Ishimine) for this outrageous collection of surreal, short attention span non-sequiturs largely revolving around Guitar Brother (Tadanobu Asano), his randy older sibling, and the pair's portly Caucasian brother. Dance numbers, pillow fights, animation, comedy, and science fiction all combine to create a unique and disorienting viewing experience featuring such highlights as an absurdist tribute to David Cronenberg, an ass-television, and a girl who fires lasers from her forehead in order to battle a floating space blob which emits spinning, spherical projectiles. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi
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The tragic aftermath of human carelessness travels around the world in this multi-narrative drama from filmmaker Alejandro González Iñárritu. Richard (Brad Pitt) and Susan (Cate Blanchett) are a couple from the United States who have traveled to Morocco in Northern Africa on a vacation after the death of one of their children has sent Susan into a deep depression. Richard and Susan's other two children have been left in the care of Amelia (Adriana Barraza), their housekeeper. Amelia is originally from Mexico, and her oldest son is getting married in Tijuana. Unable to find someone who can watch the kids, or to obtain permission to take the day off, Amelia takes the children with her as she travels across the border for the celebration. Around the same time, in Morocco a poor farmer buys a hunting rifle, and he gives it to his sons to scare off the predatory animals that have been thinning out their goat herd. The boys decide to test the weapon's range by shooting at a bus far away; the shot hits Susan in the shoulder, and soon she's bleeding severely, while police are convinced the attack is the work of terrorists. In Japan, Chieko (Rinko Kikuchi) is a teenage deaf-mute whose mother recently committed suicide. This despairing, confused girl experiences such rage and frustration that she causes her volleyball team to lose a match, and later yanks her underwear off and begins exposing herself to boys in a crowded restaurant. Chieko's father then struggles to reach past the emotional distance which separates him and his daughter. Babel earned Alejandro González Iñárritu the prize for Best Director at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi
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The Taste of Tea
Filmmaker Katsuhito Ishii takes a break from the post-Tarantino excess of such highly-stylized outings as Shark Skin Man and Peach Hip Girl for this low-key look at an eccentric family residing in a quiet countryside town just north of Tokyo. The Haruno family is a five-piece clan living the simple life in Japan. The summer sun shining gently down, this quiet quintet is transformed into a six-piece when urban-dwelling uncle Ayano (Tadanobu Asano), a successful music producer, arrives to visit his family and confront his feelings for the ex-girlfriend who married another man after Ayano moved to the city. As the lazy days pass by, each member of the family is followed in a series of episodic vignettes. Eccentric grandfather Akira (Tatsuya Gashuin) seems to reside in a wondrous universe of his own making, while imaginative mother Yoshiko (Satomi Tezuka) is attempting to re-establish herself as an anime artist and hypno-therapist father Nobou (Tomokazu Miura) practices his trade on willing family members. Meanwhile, on the youthful side of the clan, son Hajime (Takahiro Sato) attempts to get his hormones in check following the arrival of a pretty new classmate, while haunted daughter Sachiko (Maya Banno) stealthily attempts to avoid her massive doppelganger - a mysterious figure who seems to be tracing the girl's every move. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi
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Survive Style 5+
Director Gen Sekiguchi and screenwriter Taku Tada, phenomenally successful award winners in Japan's advertising industry, make their feature-film debut with the fast-paced omnibus film, Survive Style 5+, which incorporates five strange tales that occasionally intersect. The ubiquitous Tadanobu Asano introduces the film, playing a man who has apparently just murdered his lovely wife (Reika Hashimoto). He drives out to the woods, buries the body, and returns home to find her waiting for him, and not in a particularly good mood. In the second story, Yoko (Kyôko Koizumi), a driven copywriter who constantly spews ad ideas into her handy minicassette recorder, has just had quick, unfulfilling sex with Aoyama (Hiroshi Abe), a sleazy, conceited TV hypnotist who proceeds to insult her work and her personal hygiene. Yoko takes it well, but she's got plans for the jerk. In the third story, Kobayashi (Ittoku Kishibe), a good-natured salaryman, is hypnotized by Aoyama into believing he's a bird. His family has a whole new set of problems when Aoyama is incapacitated before he can break the trance. The fourth thread follows three dimwitted burglars (Yoshiyuki Morishita, Jai West, and Kanji Tsuda) as they grapple with both professional and sexual confusion. The final plotline concerns a hot-tempered English hitman (Vinnie Jones) and his goofy employer (Yoshiyoshi Arakawa), who also serves as his translator as the hitman asks nearly everyone he meets, "What is your function on this planet?" Sonny Chiba has a cameo as the hen-pecked president of a drug company. Survive Style 5+ was shown at Subway Cinema's New York Asian Film Festival in 2005. ~ Josh Ralske, Rovi
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Sora No Ana
Following up on his acclaimed debut feature, Kichiku Dai Enkai -- an intense portrait of a band of 1970s radicals who descend into morass of fratricidal blood lust -- Kazuyoshi Kumakiri shifts gears completely by offering this understated romantic drama. Ichio (Takeshi Kitano regular Susumu Terajima) runs a rundown eatery on a Hokkaido highway. One day, a couple gets into a spat resulting in the guy -- an overly tanned self-satisfied clod -- hopping in his red sports car and driving off without her. The woman, Taeko (Rinko Kikuchi), returns to order a meal. When she tries to dash without paying, Ichio nabs her but lets her off with a warning. Ichio soon finds himself similarly stranded when his horseracing-mad father -- and owner of the restaurant -- swipes Ichio's car for a crazed gambling road trip with his buddies. Later that night while camping out, Taeko inadvertently burns down one of the restaurant's sheds. This time around, Ichio puts Taeko to work. Soon, in spite of themselves, a relationship is born. ~ Jonathan Crow, Rovi
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Seriously - just how out of touch is that rep from the teacher's union when he doesn't even bat an eyelash over the misconduct recorded on that tape? |
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2 years ago :: Apr 26, 2012 - 8:32PM #2 | |
Smart dad.
I know you believe you understand what you think I said, but I am not sure you realize what you heard was not what I meant...
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The teacher's lawyer is now getting involved. The lawyer is trying to argue that because the teacher was absent for an hour, then none of the voices on the tape can possibly be hers. Never mind the fact that the recorder was going on all day long. And still caught her anyway. |
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If that kid was mine that teacher would have some rather serious problems having nothing o do with 'procedures'. If that teacher had worked in the high school science department I headed there would be a vacancy now. If that teacher worked in the school district in which I was a school committee member there would be a vacancy now. In my opinion this should be a slam, dunk case of a teacher being first fired, and then at the least hit with a big, civil suit. Ken
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It would be interesting to see how Rush would opine on this case. He sought to destroy Sandra Fluke's credibility based on her work as an activist, spun her testimony of a friend that suffered from pcos into an entirely different universe of sex tapes and paid service. This nutjob that wired up his kid is a freaking investigator for SHARK www.sharkonline.org/ some peta type organization. My children and I were accosted one time while attending a Barnum and Baily circus one time. I think PETA are leftists doctrinaires and commies. The father claims he only went viral because the school district was slow to act, and note the school district statement. We acted quickly once we viewed the tape. like I believe that, the viral part. everyone just wants to be viral these days. lefty investigator for shark. what a kook I mean just saying..............
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Amazingly, President Clinton left office in January 2001 with the federal budget in the black by $236 billion and with a projected 10-year budget surplus of $5.6 trillion. The budgetary trend lines were such that Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan began to fret about the challenges the Fed might face in influencing interest rates if the entire U.S. government debt were paid off, thus leaving no debt obligations to sell. Thus, Greenspan, an Ayn Rand acolyte who was first appointed by Ronald Reagan, threw his considerable prestige behind George W. Bush's plan for massive tax cuts that would primarily benefit the wealthy. In that way, Bush and the Republicans "solved" the "problem" of completely paying off the federal debt. |
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Q: What's a quid?
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Q: Gastropub or old-man boozer?
Kristen Stewart: Oh, old-man pub, definitely.
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Kristen Stewart: I love beans on toast.
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Q: Have you adopted any British swear words, like 'wanker'?
Kristen Stewart: I love that word, but in my accent, the funny thing about using British slang - 'fucking wanker' - just sounds so off.
Q: American jocks or British lads?
Kristen Stewart: [Looks momentarily ruffled, hides a small laugh, and does an 'aw, shucks' gesture] Well, I'm kind of repulsed by jocks from anywhere, so I have to go with the lads.
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Kristen Stewart: Laura Marling. Man, I'm such a huge fucking fan. Rob introduced me to her on Twilight because he thought that [her music] was right for the movie. I love her.
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Kristen Stewart: I've had some really good roast dinners... the Swan & Edgar in Marylebone.
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So...last year I shared my top 12 exercises when I did my "On the 12th Day of Christmas My Trainer Gave to Me...." It was a lot of fun and I met my own challenge of posting 12 days in a row-Whoo Hoo! Most of the exercises required no special equipment-mostly just your own body weight-which, personally speaking, during the holiday season that's plenty for me! You might want to revisit these and create your own "Holiday Workout" :)
This year I am "giving" you my top 12 Fitness Gifts. Now, let me just say up front that any fitness related gift must be given in the right spirit! If you are subtly (or maybe not so subtly) suggesting to a loved one that they need to get in shape, and maybe they don't agree...well....I'm just suggesting that a little sensitivity may be in order here. Only two times in all my years of training has some unsuspecting person become my client-much to their surprise, if you know what I mean... I usually try to talk the gift giver out of giving this type of "surprise" gift! Most likely if you are buying someone some type of fitness gift it is because they have already expressed a desire to become fit and healthy. There are lots and lots of fitness/health related gifts out there so I will just tell you about 12 that will make you look like the most awesome, thoughtful gift giver in the world!


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I'm not sure how Dave found my blog, but he was one of my early devoted readers. I could count on him to regularly chime in with something thought-provoking—something that made me look at what I was trying to say in a different way, whether it be about parenting, faith, or just the challenge of finding our way in the world.
In addition to his loves for writing and photography, Dave is an engineer and a dad of four kids, which means he's super busy and spends much of his time in the kitchen and at the elementary school. Dave also told me, though, that one of his favorite Love List items is "sitting on the early morning porch with a chill in the air, coffee in the mug, and an open journal." Considering how thoughtful he is, I'm not surprised he makes time to process his thoughts. Please welcome Dave to Halfway to Normal and be sure to check out his blog Orange Shirt Guy.
About four years ago, an engineering friend told me that she and her son journaled their "Top 5″ things each day. I think that may have been their whole journal's contents—gratitude for simple, normal things that each of us can find each day. A few months ago, I saw Kristin's Love List concept and immediately connected and saw the value of a love list. To me—the male engineer who had been doing Top 5 lists for years—I saw the value in objectifying those things that I really like, those things that give (good) chills. Simply, my love list makes it easier to know the things that are somewhere near the core of my being.
As an example, some of my non-tweeted love list items include listening to evening crickets, looking at photos and recalling their memories, reading a good book, and the huge communication that comes via non-verbal communication.
And so, as I reflect on even just this partial list, I hear it [God?] telling me, "Dave. Slow down. Everything doesn't need a solution right away. Things don't always require analysis. Aren't crickets amazing?"
For me, that is the beauty of my love list. It is not necessarily an item to keep score of how much love is present around me, it is a tool wielded by me to make my life better.
Here's an example—a reflection I wrote after making an addition to my love list.
I heard the siren—we all did.
I slowed and pulled to the side so that my right tires were now on the grass. As my younger three kids turned to find the firetruck, my eldest asked why I was pulling over.
It was then that I got that feeling—that stomach falling, mouth opening, air being forced from my lungs, eyes watering, and the tugging at my brain and my heart feeling.
Back about thirty years ago, I was watching M*A*S*H with my dad. The opening credits were playing and the nurses—the brunette with hips and the others just behind her—were running to the helicopter pad. The corpsmen were running up the stairs. The doctor was looking down at the soldier with the helicopter blades rotating overhead.
I looked at my dad—his eyes were watering and his brow was tightened a bit. I, the eleven year old, asked him why he was tearing up. What was wrong?
He answered that he was always touched by the people that were racing to save lives, to help people they didn't know.
Skip forward thirty years.
"I love that people pull over for ambulances, fire trucks, and police cars." That was the love list tweet that started this whole post.
It is another objective tool in my love list tool box. This tool lets me know why I tear up when I explain to my daughter about people rescuing animals in New Orleans, when I see a guy (not a dad, just a guy) catching a kid from falling back on the escalator, or when we (yep each of us) pull over when we hear sirens. I tear up because . . .
It proves to me that people care about neighbors—known and unknown. It says to me that each and every time we pull over for flashing lights and sirens, we figuratively kneel on the shoulder of the road, and a part of us—even some little, tiny, insignificant part of us, says "Godspeed Paramedic. We care about that person. Do your best."
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It seems to be a common question: Why does MDT 2008 still use VBScript during OS deployments, rather than moving to something more "cutting edge" like PowerShell. So let's review a few reasons:
As time goes by, PowerShell will become more and more prevalent, so we'll revisit this periodically. At this point, it's safe to say that your VBScript knowledge will serve you well for quite some time.
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Heh...this seems remarkably similar to my question. Did you write this because of it?
Your question and the three other people that asked me the same thing on that day were enough to convince me to write it down :-)


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Killers of the Dawn is one of the novels in the Cirque de Freak series by author Darren Shan. The story follows the main character, narrator and author, Darren Shan, the Vampire Prince. Shan and his fellow vampires are on a hunt. The hunt is to find and kill the Lord of the Vampaneze, which is the vampire enemy in the War of Scars.
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And it ain´t gonna get a bit better for the next 4 years!!!!Art
The useful idiots are reading their paychecks.Reality slapping them upside the head.Four more years in mom´s basement.obama is awesome
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GROUP WALK: The members of Darlington CHA and HF will lead an 11 mile walk around Askrigg, in the Yorkshire Dales, on Sunday.
Walkers should meet at the former Darlington Arts Centre, in Vane Terrace, at 9.15am.
Call 01325-487968 for information.
CHURCH SERVICE: Sunday worship at the Northgate United Reform Church, in Darlington, will this week be led by Chris Eddowes, the commitment for life co-ordinator for the Northern Synod.
The service starts at 10.45am.
OPEN DAY: The Tees Cottage Water Pumping Station, the only site in Britain which houses steam, gas and electric pumps still capable of pumping water, will open to the public for free this weekend as part of a heritage event.
The site, on on Coniscliffe Road, will be open tomorrow and Sunday beween 11am and 4pm.
PARK BLUES: The new bandstand in North Lodge Park, Darlington, will host a series of local musicians, playing some of the world's great blues tunes, on Sunday between 1pm and 5pm.
HISTORY WALK: The Darlington Historical Society has arranged a guided walk through The Denes area of Darlington, led by Chris Lloyd, deputy editor of The Northern Echo.
Walkers should meet at the clock tower, in Tower Road, at 1.45pm on Sunday. The walk costs £2 per person.
POLICE CHARGES: Two women have been charged with shoplifting offences after two separate incidents in Darlington.
A 34-year-old woman was arrested and charged after taking a quantity of toiletries from a shop without paying for them.
On another occasion, a 24-year-old woman was caught on CCTV concealing meat, worth more than £70, in her bag.
She was stopped by security staff, who seized the bag, and the suspect ran off empty handed. The woman was later arrested and charged with the offence.
PACT MEETING: The next meeting of the Lascelles partners and communities together group will be held at Pilmoor Community Centre, on Westmoor Road, Darlington, on Wednesday between 10am and 11am.
WOOL TOWN: The Wool Town artwork created by local knitters has moved from Crown Street Library to Head of Steam - Darlington Railway Museum and will be available to view this weekend during the heritage open days.
Entry to the museum, on North Road, is free today and tomorrow, with guided tours from museum volunteers and members of the Friends of Darlington Railway Centre, taking place at 10.30am and 2pm tomorrow and Sunday.
The artwork will be on display at the museum until the end of March. For more details call 01325-734128.
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Jamie Green took his first victory of 2011 in the final DTM race of the season at Hockenheim.
From the front row, the British driver out-dragged polesitter Miguel Molina into the first corner, and was never challenged throughout the rest of the 38-lap race.
By lap five, the HWA Mercedes man was already 2.5sec clear, and he increased his lead to as much as 7sec before the end to take the seventh win of his DTM career and the first since last year's Norisring race.
New champion Martin Tomczyk made the best start of all from the second row, but failed in his attempts to squeeze between Green and Molina into the first corner. The Phoenix Audi driver did pass Molina's similar 2008-spec A4 for second into the Spitzkehre on the opening lap, but was unable to mount a challenge to Green and finished second.
Molina was the first of the Abt drivers home in third and became the first Spaniard to finish on a DTM podium in the process. Mike Rockenfeller had a slow first stint, prompting the Abt driver to be the first man to stop for fuel and tires when the pit window opened on lap 10. His strategy kept him ahead of his teammate Timo Scheider, who pitted a lap later.
Gary Paffett, who stopped at the same time as Rockenfeller, used his extra lap on fresh Hankook tires to get alongside Scheider as the German exited the pits, and, after going round the outside of his rival at Turn 2, used the inside line as they entered the long back straight, to pull ahead. Paffett closed his HWA Mercedes right onto Rockenfeller's tail, but could not relieve him of fourth spot.
Scheider was passed with eight laps to go by his teammate Mattias Ekstrom, the Swede having climbed up from 10th on the grid to take a sixth spot that helped him secure second place in the championship, ahead of Bruno Spengler.
Spengler ran wide at the Mercedes Arena on the opening lap, dropping from seventh to ninth, and was unable to climb any higher during the race. Between Ekstrom and the Canadian were Scheider and Oliver Jarvis.
David Coulthard finished a lap down after sliding into his right-front tire man at his first pit stop, while Christian Vietoris retired his Persson Mercedes due to a problem with the right front of his car shortly after his first stop.
Results - 38 laps: Pos Driver Team/Car Time/Gap 1. Jamie Green HWA Mercedes 1h00m45.734s 2. Martin Tomczyk Phoenix Audi + 7.620s 3. Miguel Molina Abt Audi + 10.142s 4. Mike Rockenfeller Abt Audi + 22.486s 5. Gary Paffett HWA Mercedes + 23.985s 6. Mattias Ekstrom Abt Audi + 24.418s 7. Timo Scheider Abt Audi + 32.358s 8. Oliver Jarvis Abt Audi + 32.840s 9. Bruno Spengler HWA Mercedes + 33.201s 10. Filipe Albuquerque Rosberg Audi + 34.967s 11. Ralf Schumacher HWA Mercedes + 36.068s 12. Renger van der Zande Persson Mercedes + 42.319s 13. Edoardo Mortara Rosberg Audi + 46.307s 14. Maro Engel Mucke Mercedes + 46.772s 15. Susie Wolff Persson Mercedes + 54.523s 16. Rahel Frey Phoenix Audi + 1m02.122s 17. David Coulthard Mucke Mercedes + 1 lap Retirements: Christian Vietoris Persson Mercedes 10 laps
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The seal opening ceremony at the Tran temple in the northern province of Nam Dinh, took place on the 14th night of the first lunar month, which fell on February 5, attracting thousands of visitors.
The ceremony was an re-enactment of a custom dating back the Tran dynasty (1225-1400), when mandarins took out their seals after the Tet holiday, resuming administrative activities, including rewarding and conferring titles.
It has become a tradition for Vietnamese to come here to get a stamp in hope for gook luck and happiness.
The event opened with a procession to take the seal from Co Trach temple to Thien Truong temple, where 14 kings of the Tran dynasty are worshipped.
Following a short speech of a local official praising the great accomplishment of the Tran Dynasty, the seal opening ceremony was held in a simple and solemnly manner in line with the traditional rites.
Replicas of the Tran temple's seal were distributed to the public from 7am on the 15th day of the first lunar month till the end of the lunar month, helping ease the crowd of pilgrims.


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I wanted to update my previous review on this Baader focuser. Baader did get back to me about the fit on Meade products. Meade has some variations in it's large 3 1/4" SCT threads. This may or may not fit the larger Meade telescopes. JMI is also aware of this problem and does make a unit with a slightly smaller thread available to fit these odd sized Meade threads better. I am disappointed I can not use the Baader, but the JMI is also a quality product and I am going to test one of their units. Many thanks to Baader and JMI for their insight and help!
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This is a very nice product. However, I purchased this for a 12" Meade ACF and chose this over others because I wanted to use the big SCT thread and not the 2" SCT thread to minimize vignetting. This does not fit the big threads. It is 3.3", the Meade threads are 3.25" and this focuser is too large; it will not screw on. The 2"SCT threads fit fine, but the Zhumell focuser does a fine job on that, for far less money. I contacted Baader about the problem and received no response. It's too bad. I am disappointed this did not work with my Meade. I am going back to the Zhumell.
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After getting my new 12' Meade SCT, I was disappointed with how difficult it was to focus by moving the big slug of glass called the primary mirror. It usually took at least two or three passes in and out to get the mirror to settle in to the desired position. And it was especially difficult for beginners to get a good focus, not fully understanding exactly what is going on with the mirror. Since the discontinued Meade motorized focuser was no longer available, I decided to look for a feather touch focuser. The Baader Planetarium 2 inch SCT focuser looked very good in the ads but I was still very surprised at just how massive and well constructed it appeared after I actually received. it.
The focusing mechanism actually has significant flywheel inertia (like the old style mechanical FM tuners) if you spin it… not a problem in actual use; just a nice mass to smooth out the fine adjustments. I was a little concerned about the complexity of having the original mirror focuser and this new eyepiece focuser to deal with; but It's incredible easy to use. Just set the eyepiece focuser to the midpoint of it's adjustment range at the beginning of the evening. Then do a rough focus using the original mirror focus knob and dial in the final focus with the two speed adjustment knobs for the rest of the night. Actually, I don't recall needing to use anything but the inner fine focus wheel. I never had to touch the mirror rough focus knob again during an evening's viewing. I'm glad I couldn't get the motorized focuser; it's so much easier to just point others to the focus knob and tell them to adjust it to meet the requirements of their vision.
The only disadvantage I can see is that the installation precludes the use of threaded rear cell accessories such as focal reducers and rear cell filters.
I'd highly recommend this unit to anyone with a larger SCT and wouldn't hesitate to buy another in the future if needed.
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In reply to Re: Why not feel what you feel? » llrrrpp, posted by alexandra_k on September 13, 2006, at 8:46:11
1979. I was in NYC with my new boyfriend. We couldn't get into the restaraunt in the towers because we were in jeans, so we went to the observation deck instead.
On the way up the (crowded) elevator he said:
"I had a really good time last night. What did you say your name was again?"
We're still together.....
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Rhini wrote: | ||
That is, unfortunately, the root cause of allll this fuss over girls toys vs boys toys etc. Parents don't want their kids to be gay. They're afraid if their girl plays with trucks or their boys with barbies that SOMEHOW that in any way is going to affect their sexuality later in life. |
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There's an entire book about this topic, called 'Cinderella Ate my Daughter', it talks about how toys perpetuate stereotypes in girls from a young age. If you're interested in the topic, it's a good read. |
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I read an excerpt and I really don't like where she is coming from. I hate when pink and "girly stuff" is dismissed as worthless and that girls should be more like boys to be equal. I think that both girls and boys can benefit from embracing ideas that are thought to be "feminine". If there is nothing wrong with girls learning how to be competitive and stronger what is wrong with children of any gender learning to be a little more caring, a little gentler, and a little nurturing and to learn that there is nothing wrong with looking your best? The question shouldn't be "why do girls have to buy Princesses?" but "why can't boys buy Princesses?" |
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I don't think there's anything wrong with following natural gender roles, you know, the more feminine girls and more masculne males. However, if a little boy likes ponies (like mine does) I'm not about to freak out at him and rip it out of his hands. Certain lines do need to be drawn though so that kids do understand the differences between the genders. I really do think that some gender confusion can come from not having gender roles clearly defined from a young age. |
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That's the thing though Bunny, genders are not natural, and what we regard to be masculine or feminine is arbitrary. There are no hard set rules that exist anywhere about what is masculine or what is feminine. In fact, contrary to what we believe about females, in nature often times the female is the larger, more dominant and more aggressive part of the species. What it is to be feminine or masculine is different for everyone, it's what you make it. |
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I don't think there's anything wrong with following natural gender roles, you know, the more feminine girls and more masculne males. However, if a little boy likes ponies (like mine does) I'm not about to freak out at him and rip it out of his hands. Certain lines do need to be drawn though so that kids do understand the differences between the genders. I really do think that some gender confusion can come from not having gender roles clearly defined from a young age. |
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What exactly do you mean by gender roles? Gender roles are a cultural thing. What may be a woman's "role" where you live is going to be different in another country. Genders have differences physically, yes. But when you assign your kid's lot or role in life based on the reproductive organs they are born with, that's what causes all this strife and unfairness. Also, I don't think something as simple has having a household without defined gender roles is going to cause gender confusion. I believe your gender identity and sexuality is determined at conception. I also feel the whole gender identity/confusion thing is brought up because people feel the need to push gender roles. If you have a boy who clearly likes feminine things and acts feminine, that's fine. Or vice versa. Criticizing this makes them feel confused about their own gender identity. I believe if we didn't push these gender roles on everyone then there would no longer be gender identity crises among people. I stated before my brother is gay. He was raised to be very masculine, hate gay people, and play with boy toys Now he has other 'boy toys' he likes better. But he says it wasn't his choice to be the way he is, and I believe him. |
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"Oh, you don't need to take agriculture; that's for boys," I was told in high school before getting stuck unwillingly in home economics every single year. (By the way, I hate how learning to cook and sew and keep house is still so often considered "women's work". Guys should be able to learn to care for themselves too! Luckily, by the time I was a senior in high school in 1996, the school started allowing boys in home ec as an elective, but girls were still required to take the class.) Or, another line I was given in driver's ed class when I was sixteen, "You don't need to learn to change a tire or check your car fluids; that's for men. If you have car trouble, you just need to wait patiently by your vehicle until someone stops to help you." I'm 32 now, and I *still* don't know how to change a tire. Luckily, a few years ago I was able to teach myself how to check the oil and transmission fluid with the aid of Google. But these are things I should have been taught as soon as I started driving, not things I should have had to teach myself because they weren't "for girls"! |
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WASHINGTON (August 26, 2004) -– A federal judge in the Southern District of New York found August 26 that partial-birth abortion "is a gruesome, brutal, barbaric, and uncivilized medical procedure," but said that the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act must be struck down under the dictates of Roe v. Wade.
"Today Roe v. Wade once again made the unthinkable constitutional," said Cathy Cleaver Ruse, Esq., spokesperson for the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops' Secretariat for Pro-Life Activities. "Because of Roe, killing a child in the process of being born is called a constitutional right rather than an act of barbarism."
New York Judge Richard Conway Casey ruled against the Act because it did not include a health exception as required by Roe. The government argued that the abortion method was never medically necessary, a conclusion shared by the American Medical Association.
"The crucial question of medical necessity was never answered in this trial," said Ruse. "At every turn where medical records were sought, the medical institutions refused to produce them. In essence, the abortion doctors said 'just trust us,' and no hard evidence was considered," Ruse said. "The 'health exception' is a farce," said Ruse. "As created by the Supreme Court in Doe v. Bolton, the health exception is 'all factors – physical, emotional, psychological, familial, and the woman's age.' It's the quintessential exception that swallows the rule – so broad that you could drive a truck, or a fully-formed unborn baby, right through it."
The case was brought by the American Civil Liberties Union on behalf of the National Abortion Federation and several individual abortion doctors. Earlier this month the Department of Justice appealed an adverse ruling in a similar case in California; a third case is still pending in a Nebraska federal court.
As partial-birth abortion was debated on the national stage over the last several years, many people refused to believe it existed. But testimony from the ACLU's team of abortion doctors about their methods for killing children in the fifth and sixth months of pregnancy revealed partial-birth abortion to be every bit as real and as horrible as the pro-life community claimed. Full transcripts of the trial are available at www.usccb.org/prolife.
Stephen Chasen, MD, an ACLU witness, testified that he didn't know whether partial-birth abortion hurts the baby. When Judge Casey asked him if he had "any care or concern for the fetus whose head you were crushing," Chasen answered, "No." A fetal neurobiology expert testified that such abortions would cause "severe and excruciating pain" to the child.
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Early reactions to the first draft of Zambia's new constitution have once more brought out the recurrent issue of the "excessive powers" of the president.
The recently launched Alliance for Good Governance (AGG), a coalition of the church and civil society organisations, said in its reaction that the draft still placed too much power in the hands of the president, and that this was unlikely to promote accountability and good governance.
"In a democracy, power should never be concentrated in an individual as this leads to serious compromise and potential abuse of office. We are concerned about the excessive powers invested in the president in the current draft constitution," the alliance said.
It cited what it said were new powers given to the president in the draft constitution to appoint members of the Local Government Service Commission, the Judicial Service Commission, the Emoluments Commission, Electoral Commission of Zambia and top civil servants.
"In addition, the president has power to appoint the attorney-general, the director of public prosecutions (DPP), the solicitor-general and all the 10 parliamentary secretaries and the president of the constitutional court."
It said such provisions raised serious concerns on the separation of powers and the need to provide independence and autonomy to organs of government.
It pointed to a clause that gives the president power to appoint the heads and deputies of bodies including the Anti-Corruption Commission, the Anti-Drug Abuse Commission, Economic Crimes Commission and the Police and Prisons Service Commission.
The draft also provides for the governor of the central bank to be appointed by the president.
The alliance expressed further reservations about that and took issue with another provision that the governor of the bank shall also be the chairman of the Bank of Zambia board.
It said such a structure would not allow for accountability and checks and balances and could be a recipe for abuse of authority.
Most of the presidential appointments under the draft constitution will be subject to parliamentary ratification.
But the alliance doubted whether that provision would be of any help since, until last year's general elections, for instance, the president has always governed with a parliamentary majority.
"The process would be highly ineffective in times when the house is dominated by one political party. In such times, parliament would only be used to rubber stamp the decisions of the executive ... ratification by parliament is an inadequate provision to ensure balancing of the presidential powers," it said.
Earlier drafts had a provision for a "recall vote" for non-performing MPs and councilors. But this is not contained in the latest draft. The AGG said it should be included to boost confidence of the electorate.
But the alliance also praised some of the provisions of the draft saying they were "positive".
Among them "the recognition of the supremacy of God" and the retention of the declaration of Zambia as a Christian nation in the preamble, the provision for appointment of the cabinet from outside parliament, the 50% + 1 threshold for the election of the president and for a presidential running-mate for the position of vice-president, as it would ensure that a president was popularly elected.
It endorsed the pre-setting of the date of the election and for making it a public holiday.
"We endorse the progressive decision not to hold by-elections as this will save the nation a lot of money that would normally be spent on by-elections."
The governing Patriotic Front (PF) is apparently uncomfortable with the provision for an elected vice-president.
Secretary-general Wynter Kabimba told a media briefing in Livingstone that a running-mate as provided for in the draft constitution was not "conducive for Zambia". He said the Malawian experience, which led to estrangement of the top two, was instructive.
"We have to be very careful as what works for the US may not work here in Zambia," he warned.
Whether these will be the issues to emerge from the growing discussion of the draft constitution remains to be seen.


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For those of you reading on your cell phone or just don't want to squint that hard, it says "REMOVE BEFORE WEARING OR CLEANING" and there's a nice little dotted line with scissors on it to show exactly where to remove the tag.
I've owned these pants for months and have never noticed this tag before. It makes me wonder if I have other pants with the same or similar tag (some of those I've owned for years). But seeing as I'm someone who has been known on multiple occasions to spend an entire day with a dryer sheet in a shirt or pants leg, this is simply par for the course.


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Before Louis Armstrong arrived in New York in 1924, Johnny Dunn was considered the top cornetist in the city. His staccato style, double-time effects and utilization of wah-wah mutes gave him notoriety for a time. Dunn had attended Fisk University in Nashville and had a solo act in Memphis before being discovered by W.C. Handy. He joined Handy's band in 1917 and during the next three years became known for his feature on "Sergeant Dunn's Bugle Call Blues" (which later became the basis for "Bugle Call Rag"). A pioneer with plunger mutes, Dunn's double-time breaks, with their inflexible and jerky rhythms, had a direct link to military bands. He recorded with Mamie Smith in 1920-1921, leaving in the latter year to lead his own Original Jazz Hounds. From 1921-1923, the cornetist recorded frequently, both with his own group and backing singer Edith Wilson. He joined Will Vodery's Plantation Orchestra in 1922, visiting Europe with the revue Dover to Dixie the following year. However, the Chicago musicians were much farther advanced than Dunn and once Louis Armstrong began influencing brassmen with his swinging, legato solos for Fletcher Henderson, Dunn was instantly out of date. After visiting Europe again (this time with the Blackbirds of 1926 show), Dunn briefly led his own big band and then in 1928 made his finest recordings, four numbers with Jelly Roll Morton and two with both James P. Johnson and Fats Waller on pianos. Strangely enough, he never recorded again, moving permanently to Europe, where he played with Noble Sissle in Paris, worked with his own group (the New Yorkers) mostly in Holland, and was largely forgotten before his early death. All of Johnny Dunn's recordings, other than his Mamie Smith sides, are on two RST CDs. ~ Scott Yanow, Rovi
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Getting to Know Your New Baby
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After all the months of waiting and dreaming, it is exciting when your baby is finally born. But it takes time and effort for parents to get to know their newborn, and time for the newborn to adjust to the new world.
Getting to know your new baby is part of a fascinating but relatively simple process called bonding, in which you essentially "fall in love" with each other. Although bonding is a natural process, it takes effort. Some ways to help make this process easier include rooming-in at the hospital with your baby and techniques such as infant massage.
Some evidence shows that massage of premature infants may increase weight-gain and help with neurological development. Certified infant massage therapists often offer classes to teach techniques in infant massage. However, many parents find that spending time with their baby helps them learn how to stroke and cuddle in ways that baby and parents both prefer.
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