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We love providing free resources for our readers – just take a look at the 'FREE' tab above, on our main menu bar! 🙂 And so, in the spirit of offering free help, we have designed this checklist, to help you understand why your baby is waking at night.
Is it hunger? Discomfort? Something else? Use our checklist to figure it out!
Top 15 Reasons Why Your Baby Wakes At Night
- Hunger: Newborns need to eat around the clock, but even older babies need one (or possibly two) feedings at night. We generally recommend an attempt to night wean around 9 months, although we consider it normal for a baby to need one night feeding up to 12 months of age in some cases.
- Wet/Leaky/Dirty Diaper: There's really no way to prevent wet or dirty diapers from waking your baby. But you can do something about leaky diapers that disturb your baby or toddler's sleep – read this article for details.
- Sleep Associations: Rocking or feeding your baby to sleep isn't necessarily a problem – that is, until your baby needs you to re-create her sleep associations in order to fall asleep when she wakes between sleep cycles. For details about what sleep associations are, and how they form, browse through this article.
- Too hot/too cold: Your baby will obviously be uncomfortable if she's too cold. But avoid the impulse to overdress your little one, too; babies and toddlers (and adults!) tend to sleep restlessly when too warm. It's best to keep your baby's room at an optimum temperature for sleep. Want to know what babies and toddlers wear to bed? Read through this article.
- Sleep regression: Your child will go through about 4 or 5 sleep regressions in the first 2 years of life. Want to know when the regressions happen and how they affect sleep? Check out this page.
- Teething: Growing a mouthful of teeth is hard (and sometimes painful!) work for a baby. Read this article for tips about how to handle teething and its effects on sleep.
- Illness: Despite your best preventative measures, your baby or toddler will sometimes get sick. During an illness, be prepared for your baby or toddler to wake often, and provide all the comfort you can.
- Napping too much: Long daytime naps are a good thing – until they interfere with night sleep. That's when you know your baby is napping too much. Remember, your baby or toddler's overall daily sleep amounts tend to stay the same, but your little one will shift sleep from nighttime to daytime. So consistent long naps will mean less sleep at night. Check out this article for details on how many naps your baby or toddler needs, and how long they should be.
- Overtiredness at bedtime: While it may seem sensible to keep your baby up later at bedtime, in the hopes that she'll sleep all night, the reverse is actually true. Babies who go to bed late tend to be overtired at bedtime, and sleep worse than babies who go to bed early. Try shifting bedtime a bit earlier, to help with night waking that stems from overtiredness.
- Discomfort: Big things, like vaccinations, can cause discomfort; so can small things, like an itchy shirt tag. If your baby seems to be in pain, or highly agitated, see if you can pinpoint a source of discomfort.
- Digestive issues (like gas or reflux): Gas and reflux can be very painful for a baby, and will obviously disrupt sleep. Food allergies may be to blame; if that's the case, try a change in diet. For more help with digestive problems, see your baby's healthcare provider.
- Food allergies or sensitivities: Food allergies and sensitivities cause a whole host of problems for your baby or toddler – including sleep issues. For details, read this past article. For more information about starting your baby on solid foods, check out our sister site, Your Baby's Start to Solid Food.
- Nightmares or Night terrors (12+ months): This won't apply to younger babies, but if your little one is 12 months or older, nightmares (or night terrors) may begin to disrupt nighttime sleep.
- Room is too bright: Our brains associate light with being awake; that's why it can be a good idea to let your newborn nap in a bright room, in order to sort out day/night confusion. But once your newborn has days and nights sorted out, it's best to keep your baby or toddler's room dark during sleep.
- Room is too noisy: Despite conventional wisdom, you can't teach a baby to sleep through noise. Some babies and toddlers are just light sleepers – every little sound wakes them up! For these little ones, white noise machines and apps are crucial for good sleep.
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Monday, November 12, 2012
Devils G Johan Hedberg: Players trying to protect their rights after already giving up a lot
Devils backup goaltender Johan Hedberg had the opportunity to sit in on two of the lengthy negotiating sessions the players and the NHL held last week in New York.
As the hours and days passed and the sides continued to talk, hope began to build that they were finally on the path toward hammering out a new collective bargaining agreement and ending the owners' lockout. Talks broke down on Friday, however, and an attempt to restart them Sunday with a discussion of the player contracting issues quickly fizzled.
At this time, there are no future negotiating sessions scheduled, but the sides are supposed to touch base while at the Hockey Hall of Fame inductions today in Toronto.
Hedberg has repeatedly said he is optimistic that talks will eventually lead to a deal and a season. Sitting in on the meetings last week didn't change that feeling.
"To me, there's so many things that could be done and I don't see a reason why they won't get done eventually," he said today. "We'll see. But, they can't take that away from me (being optimistic)."
Hedberg was one of 13 players to attend last Tuesday's meeting, which lasted more than eight hours. He returned for Thursday's meeting, which lasted nearly five and half hours.
"You try to understand where everybody comes from and try to understand why they're doing certain things that you really don't understand," he said. "All we want is to create a healthy league where everybody can be successful – from teams to players to individuals to everybody. It's not impossible. It's right there. The league has been doing pretty good for the last seven years. They even say that, too. But they not only want to take our money away, they also want to take our rights away. I don't see why you have to change everything when we agree it's been working pretty good."
Hedberg attended two meetings with the league in October, but those focused on peripheral issues and not on core economics, revenue sharing or player contracting, which were the big topics last week.
"It's a process and I guess everybody that's been involved in it has seen their fair share of proposals going back and forth and folks getting ready that they're going to get something done and the next time you're shut down again," Hedberg said. "I think we as players when you sit there you truly believe that you are doing the right thing. We're trying everything we can to compromise. I've said before that both parties have got to be willing to give and take and so far we're the only ones giving and they're the only ones taking.
"And when the taking doesn't want to stop it's hard to make a deal that makes sense for both parties. I believe there's definitely a deal to be done, but it has to be a two-way street."
There was some movement in some areas last week. The sides appear to be getting closer to an agreement on revenue sharing among the teams and there was a little progress on the split of hockey-related revenue and guaranteeing payment of the players' existing contracts, but not nearly enough to get a deal done.
And, as Sunday's meeting showed, the sides are still far apart on the contracting issues – entry-level contracts, free agency age, length of contracts, the variation in salary from year to year within contracts, and having the contracts of some players in the AHL count against the NHL salary cap. Both sides are apparently unwilling to budge in these areas.
"The positive thing is there's discussions and as long as we're talking I think it's a positive sign," Hedberg said. "There's things that we feel strongly about and we already conceded on other things that they came and said they 'have to have' to run their business. We feel like we have a lot rights we need to protect too or soon we won't have any rights left. But the few rights we have still are important to us and I think in any business or any part of life you would like to have the opportunity to make your own decisions and we don't want to be owned by others or locked into things for a certain amount of time that we have no say over.
"The freedom of choice at times is important to us and I think for them. That's maybe the most surprising thing for me is to see why they did not want to give themselves the best opportunity to run the business in a professional way. A lot of things we want to do would help the teams and they don't want to do it. That's the really surprising part."
Sitting in a meeting room for eight hours might seem like a long day, but Hedberg doesn't view it that way.
"It's not a burden," he said. "I think the guys that are in there have a responsibility towards the rest of the guys that whoever needs information we can educate them. There need to be guys that can provide them with that and give updates about what's going on and educate each other. It's important that the guys who are in there are staying involved in the process. I don't think (NHLPA executive director) Don (Fehr) can make 700 phone calls a day to get everybody (up to date). So, you sit there and talk over things and you try to find things to make things work. That's all we can do, just keep working."
Part of the responsibility of attending the meetings is helping to keep the players who didn't attend informed. Hedberg has doing that with his Devils' teammates and any NHL players from other teams who have contacted him.
"The guys know who's there," Hedberg said. "You get text messages and phone calls from guys when they want to get a little update on 'How's it looking?' and 'What's the feeling in there?' and 'What do you see?' Stuff like that. So, that's part of the job if you're there. You try to educate the rest of the guys that need information too to stay on top of things and kind of plan for what their plans are."
There were suggestions after talks broke off on Friday that the league was concerned that Fehr wasn't keeping the players' fully informed on the proposals that were presented. Hedberg said the information is available to every player that wants it.
"There's tons of information out to all the players every day to be able to see what's going on and there's always people ready to take your phone call to educate whoever wants more information," he said. "So, I don't think there's any problem like that whatsoever. It was probably fabricated by somebody who thinks it's going to help. I don't read too much into that. I know the guys who are interested and the guys I speak to and the guys who reach out to the people in the room, everybody is on the same page and everybody is strong more than anything. We feel really strong about where we stand and that's the way we have to stay. We've just got to keep plugging away and do everything we can to get hockey back on the ice."
If there are more meetings in New York, Hedberg might attend some of those as well or he might give someone else a turn,
"I think more and more guys are feeling that they want to be part of it for different reasons," he said. "Some people can't be there at a certain time or another, but everybody is interested and everybody that's around me says, 'I'm going to get in there too.' The more people are involved and the more educated we are, the better it is. Then, you'll truly understand that what we are fighting for is very, very important to us and it's important for the future of the league and the future of guys coming after us."


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I live in the middle of nowhere. We don't have take out or delivery service except pizza and it's chain pizza at that. I always wanted to live somewhere with Chinese takeout in little paper cartons but by the time that part of my life rolls around those paper cartons may be obsolete. Oh well.
I do enjoy not having to cook every once in a while and when I was given the chance to try Wanchai Ferry frozen meals from My Blog Spark, I said bring it on. Free food, hell yeah. I received one frozen meal and a coupon for another so we had two to try. I put them away in the freezer and forgot about them, life is like that.
Of course then I had the 4:30 freak out, what's for dinner?!?! And it was nice to walk to the freezer and pull out 2 bags of dinner, pre-made dinner, that I only had to heat up. Last time we had pre-made dinner was in February for Hero's 16th birthday dinner. You know, they get to choose what they want and he wanted Totino's crisp n tasty pizzas and hot wing chicken strips, so yeah 6 months ago is the last time we had a pre-made dinner. I liked having the 4:30 freak out easily solved with time to spare. I even had time to figure out what to do with microwavable rice. You know the whole microwave free thing.
The results? Good. Very good. We tried Sweet and Spicy Shrimp and Orange Chicken both over basmati rice. My husband and I liked the Sweet and Spicy Shrimp, we didn't even give it to the kids. Not that it was too spicy but they can't take any heat. I like a bit of heat and my husband is the "quiene mas macho?" drink straight Tabasco kinda guy so it was barely spicy. But we both enjoyed it and the spice, tang and thickness of the sauce was great. The Orange Chicken was also good but not as good as the shrimp. My kids don't like meat very much and they each ate a bit but they really liked the sauce over rice best of all.
Overall I'd say they are a nice way to feed your family fast. Not something I will buy weekly but I might keep them in the freezer for those days when 4:30 just leaps out and screams "Hey what's for dinner Mom?" and I don't have an answer.
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There are different origins of edible liver, such as goose, pork, beef, lamb or fish. In general, liver is a good source of vitamin A, iron, zinc, copper and manganese, and a very good source of protein, vitamin D, vitamin C, riboflavin, thiamine, niacin, vitamin B6, folate, vitamin B12, pantothenic acid, phosphorus and selenium.
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Colliers International Memphis Benefits St. Jude Via Social Media
Colliers International Memphis recently participated in its parent company's "Everyone Gives" social media giving campaign, benefiting several locally-based charities, including St. Jude Children's Research Hospital.
In addition to raising $4,000 in pledges through the Everyone Gives website, St Jude won special recognition and a $2,500 award from Colliers International for being one of the top three charities in attracting the most cities across the world to make pledges.
Gene Woods, president of Colliers Memphis, said it was especially meaningful to have Gina Dalrymple present the $2,500 bonus award to St. Jude along with her daughter, Kendal.
"At our local kick-off for the campaign, Gina, a marketing and leasing assistant in our asset services office, made the St. Jude story very real for all of us by sharing her personal experience," Woods said.
"Two years ago on this exact day, I took my youngest daughter Kendal to the doctor with what we thought might be the flu," Dalrymple shared at the kick-off. "It turned out that Kendal had a very rare form of leukemia called APL, so rare in fact that St. Jude sees an average of only three patients a year with it. In 1962 when St. Jude opened, APL had virtually no chance of survival. Now the survival rate for patients with APL is greater than 80 percent. My hope is that generous donations to St. Jude Children's Research Hospital through campaigns like Everyone Gives will not only allow families like ours to continue to receive free treatment, but to hear that their research has made the survival rate 100 percent."
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Sony is promoting the fourth film in the franchise hard this year. Look for more coverage soon!
Kate Beckinsale, star of the first two films, returns in her lead role as the vampire warrioress Selene, who escapes imprisonment to find herself in a world where humans have discovered the existence of both Vampire and Lycan clans, and are conducting an all-out war to eradicate both immortal species.
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Get On Down Records/Traffic Entertainment's Joe Mansfield has announced that he's at work on a book, Beat Box: A Drum Machine Obsession. The longtime producer for Edo G. and member of Vinyl Reanimators is honoring the Roland TR-909 drum machine and others with his summer 2013 book, which includes tech specs, advertisements and photos. The Boston, Massachusetts-based music veteran owns over 75 rare drum machines.
As a promotional item for the book, Get On Down is releasing a dual-flexi disc (both 7", one orange, one clear) limited edition preview of the book, narrated by Schoolly D, who provides instruction and explanation to the TR-909 unit. The Record Store Day item will be made available on April 20, and features a 20-page preview of Mansfield's book. Moreover, Schoolly is joined by DJ 7L (of 7L & Esoteric/CZARFACE) who provides cuts. With Mansfield's 909, they remake instruments two of Schoolly's hits, "P.S.K. (What Does It Mean?)" and "Gucci Time." Schoolly also contributed an interview to the full-length release of Joe's book.
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THREE FORKS, Mont. (AP) — Bill Goold vividly recalls his first trip to Madison Buffalo Jump State Park. He drove the gravel road south of Logan to the park's entrance and hiked to the top of the limestone bluff that rises over the Madison River valley.
Salmon returns at Bonneville break modern-day records
BONNEVILLE DAM —Northwest salmon fishery managers have plenty to celebrate this fall: The region's salmon runs shattered modern-day records this year, returning to the Columbia River Basin in the highest numbers since fish counting began at Bonneville Dam more than 75 years ago.
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The eighth annual Wasco Salmon/Steelhead Tournament will be held on Saturday, Sept. 27, 2014. Nichols Art Glass will provide grand prize.
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ROSEBURG, Ore. – Tests have confirmed that deer in the Roseburg area are dying from Epizootic Hemorrhagic Disease (EHD), a disease that has not been seen in deer in this area of Oregon before and is transmitted by gnats, which are abundant this year due to low water levels.
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Lorde sang "Team" on David Letterman last night.
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Pure Heroine is the debut album from New Zealander Ella Yelich-O'Connor, who is better known as Lorde. She was spotted at the young age of 12 singing at a talent show in her hometown near Auckland and subsequently signed to Universal. She shot to prominence in early 2013 with a hugely popular EP, The Love Club, which produced single "Royals."
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Chat with David Willis at Gartner
Just came off an interesting discussion with David Willis from the Gartner Group. David is an analyst who covers networking and communications equipment for Gartner. He has written a number of intriguing papers including "Key Issues for Communications Enterprise Strategies, 2011″ which he published in March. We discussed the impact to the enterprise network of …
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MOVE…as in move out of the way
If you like buying hardware, you are going to love Aruba's new MOVE architecture. Surprisingly, the "V" stands for virtual but there is nothing virtual about this monstrosity. Aruba boldly takes on the challenge of supporting wired users by introducing a wired switch, the S3500. What? Wait a minute. The last time I checked, there …
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Is WLAN now a Product or a Service? – by Thomas F. Guevin
The traditional WLAN model is product-centric – a customer buys access points, controllers and a management appliance, deploys them and runs them until the next generation of WLAN technology emerges (i.e. 802.11n), at which point all the products are fork-lifted and replaced with new products. WLAN is changing, and the majority of Bluesocket's business has …
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Good to Great
I was sitting in my office looking at a book in my book shelf, Good to Great, by Jim Collins and it reminded me of a discussion I had recently with a long-term healthcare customer and was asking about their network and their plans to upgrade to 11n. This particular customer initially had issues with …
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James Howe welcomes invitations to speak to groups and conferences or to be a member of a panel on a variety of topics involving communications and social media. He especially loves talking about how charities and nonprofits can enhance their communications efforts.
James is a recognized expert in nonprofit use of digital and social media. In addition to blogging advice on these topics, I wrote the chapter on social fundraising in a newly published book Excellence in Fundraising in Canada: Volume Two.
Contact James about being your speaker.
Upcoming speaking engagements:
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Past speaking engagements:
- Social Media – Increasing Program Reach, October 2, York Region Administrative Centre, 8 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. for NFP executive directors, board members, agency staff and volunteers
- Two Panels at 2014 Nonprofit Technology Conference (#14NTC), Washington D.C.
- Putting the Power of Social Media to Work – Nov. 12: International Association of Administrative Professionals – Grand River Chapter / Nov. 20 – Credit Institute of Canada – Conestoga Chapter
- July 10, 2013 – Getting Started on Social Media for Small Nonprofits – Family Centre Community Hub Workshop Series
- James spoke on June 10 at Social Media inspirations! that also featured John Haydon, Ryan Davis, Paul Nazareth & Lisa Middleton.
- Social Media Capital in Ottawa on June 1 – Integrating video into your social media content strategy
- February 25, 2013, I lead two sessions at SOCIAL MEDIA SUMMIT including one on how to use Twitter to build relationships
- On January 7, 2013, I lead a session on Twitter: the greatest relationship building tool that exists at the Kitchener Public Library
- On October 12, 2012, I lead a session on Twitter: The greatest relationship building tool that exists at Netsquared Camp Toronto.
- I presented a session on the fundamentals of social media at Podcamp Toronto on February 25, 2012. See my post on this presentation to learn more.
- Avonova Meeting, January 10, 2012, Stratford, Ontario – I participated on a panel that discussed how to use social media from both a personal and business perspective. Here is the Stratford Beacon Herald's coverage of the event including quotes from me.
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Won for: Idi Amin, The Last King of Scotland (2006)
Looks like the Academy got it right on this one, as there were few complaints about Whitaker's Best Actor win. With Will Smith nominated alongside him for The Pursuit of Happyness, Whitaker was still the favorite to win for his portrayal of brutal Ugandan dictator Idi Amin, for which he also won the Golden Globe and the BAFTA.
If there were another role Whitaker should have won for, it might be in Clint Eastwood's Charlie Parker biopic Bird (1988), for which he won a Golden Globe instead.
Best Actress
Won for: Leticia Musgrove, Monster's Ball (2001)
I'd argue that Berry's strongest and most memorable work has actually been in television instead of film. Starring roles in biopic Introducing Dorothy Dandridge (1999) and Alex Haley's Queen (1993) have been some of her most solid dramatic performances to date. For Dandridge, Berry walked away with a Golden Globe, Emmy and an NAACP Image Award.
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Louis Gossett, Jr.
Won for: Sgt. Foley, An Officer and a Gentleman (1982)
In his seven decade-long career, Sgt. Foley is still perhaps Gossett's best known feature film role. But with at least 11 upcoming projects listed on his slate between now and 2016, including Clement Virgo's Book of Negroes adaptation and Vondie Curtis Hall's Robeson biopic, the veteran actor's next iconic role could be yet to come.


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Transportation and logistics M&A activity in second quarter up slightly, says PwC
August 02, 2013
Merger and acquisition (M&A) activity in the transportation and logistics sectors in the second quarter was up slightly on an annual basis, according to data released this week by Pricewaterhouse Coopers.
Deals cited by PwC represent all announced deals for the quarter-as opposed to completed deals only-and the report does not parse out deals that are withdrawn, intended, or pending.
Second quarter deal value—for deals valued at $50 million or more—was $15.2 billion and represents 31 announced deals compared to the second quarter of 2012, which had 51 deals totaling $14.3 billion. And the average deal size for the quarter at $490 million topped last year's $281 million. PwC attributed the annual gain to three "infrastructure mega deals" worth more than $1 billion.
In the report, PwC noted that infrastructure-related deals should lead the way for M&A transactions in the transportation and logistics sector, especially in South America and Europe.
"What we are seeing is not a bad environment for deal making but not a great environment for it either," said Jonathan Kletzel, U.S. transportation and logistics advisory leader for PwC, in an interview. "There are some signs of improvement from a global economy and geopolitical perspective over the last decade but things are largely flat."
The report observed that in the second quarter strategic investors accounted for 61 percent of deals, while financial investors are showing an increased appetite for shipping and port-related deals that could likely be due to prolonged overcapacity in the ocean shipping sector.
Kletzel said there is a feeling among investors that as various modes have recovered, ocean shipping could be next, leading to more opportunities for better margins in that sector.
Deal making activity in the United States and Europe is somewhat tempered compared to other parts of the world, according to PwC. The firm explained that the slower pace of deal making activity in these region is due in large part—especially in Europe—to companies largely remaining idle, or on the sidelines. What's more, it pointed out that the respective economic challenges in each region are impacting activity, too, but that the near-term outlook for the U.S. is likely brighter due to the emergence of shale gas-related activity and the recent upswing in manufacturing activity, too.
"Those two trends are going to have a significant impact on the transportation industry over the next five-to-ten years in the U.S., especially in the upper-midwest area of the country," he said.
As for the remainder of 2013, PwC expects infrastructure-related deals to lead deal-making activity, although certain regions could be sources of what PwC called headlining deals, but cautioned that economic activity is likely to remain muted due to economic concerns acquisition acquirers may have.
The breakdown by mode for deals valued at $50 million or more in the second quarter was as follows: 32 percent shipping, 32 percent passenger ground, 13 percent logistics, 3 percent trucking, and 10 percent rail.
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I have an opportunity to build two 12.5" iDK telescopes with ultra low expansion (ULE) optics. The primary mirror will be Zerodur and the secondary mirror will be quartz. ULE optics maintain a stable optical figure across a wide range of temperatures making your scope ready as soon as the skies get dark. Get yours while they last at an incredible price that is only $1000 above normal list price....$11,695.
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Dana Milbank: New leader of GOP is in a right-left vise
After Mitt Romney's defeat on Tuesday, John Boehner is the undisputed leader of the Republican Party.
Pity him.
President Obama's re-election and the Democrats' successful defense of their Senate majority have put the House speaker in a vise. Squeezing him on one side are the tea party conservatives and their ilk, dominant in the House Republican majority, who say Romney lost because he was too accommodating and moderate. Squeezing him on the other side is a Democratic president who campaigned for the rich to pay a higher share of taxes.
Boehner's first instinct on Tuesday night was to side with his House firebrands. "While others chose inaction," he said at a Republican National Committee event, "we offered solutions." Americans, he said, "responded by renewing our House Republican majority. With this vote, the American people have also made clear that there's no mandate for raising tax rates."
After sleeping on it, Boehner appeared at the Capitol on Wednesday and offered a dramatically different message: He proposed, albeit in a noncommittal way, putting tax increases on the table.
"Mr. President, this is your moment," he said into the cameras, reading, sometimes with difficulty, from a teleprompter. "We're ready to be led, not as Democrats or Republicans, but as Americans. … We want you to succeed. Let's challenge ourselves to find the common ground that has eluded us."
Boehner left himself sufficient wiggle room, saying, "We're willing to accept new revenue under the right conditions" – which keeps alive the possibility that the revenue would come only from economic growth (the old Republican position) and not from a higher tax burden.
Still, Boehner's new tone was starkly different from the one set two years ago by Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., who declared that "the single most important thing we want to achieve is for President Obama to be a one-term president." McConnell continued that approach after Tuesday's election, saying, "The voters have not endorsed the failures or excesses of the president's first term."
But the voters denied McConnell his top priority. And exit polls Tuesday showed that a majority of them favored higher taxes on income over $250,000, as Obama has proposed – something Boehner's Democratic counterpart in the Senate, Majority Leader Harry Reid (Nev.), made sure to point out in a news conference before the speaker's appearance. The voters, Reid said, "want a balanced approach … and taxes are a part of that."
But Boehner's talk of common ground is likely to enrage the no-compromise wing of his House Republicans, who live in fear of the tea party, Grover Norquist, the Club for Growth and other enforcers of conservative orthodoxy. And tea party leaders have convinced themselves that Romney lost because he wasn't conservative enough. The Tea Party Patriots, for example, attributed Romney's defeat to his being a "weak moderate candidate, hand-picked by the Beltway elites and country-club establishment."
More likely, the tea party itself bears the blame for Romney's loss – just as losses by far-right candidates kept Republicans from taking over the Senate.
To survive conservative primary challenges from Newt Gingrich, Rick Santorum, Rick Perry and others, Romney had to take positions that ultimately doomed him in the general election. His tough-on-immigration stance, in particular, helps explain his loss of more than 70 percent of the Latino vote, which sealed his defeat.
Boehner knows this, of course, and that is why he was so careful when he made his remarks Wednesday afternoon, taking the rare precaution of using a teleprompter. He left without answering questions, and when reporters shouted queries at him, he only smiled.
"The American people have spoken," Boehner said somberly, his eyes glistening. "If there's a mandate in yesterday's results, it's a mandate for us to find a way to work together."


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My friend Muriel passed away in late September. She taught me many things, among them the fact that the elderly can get away with cursing in public and eating produce in the market. We shared hours of lively conversation and my love of Yiddish is almost entirely her fault.
I was reminded yesterday of her 80th birthday party, which Ash and I attended eight years ago. I've dug the blog post from that day out of the archives and have re-posted it below as a tribute to an unforgettable woman. The world was a better place with her in it and she is greatly missed.
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It was my beautiful friend's birthday this weekend! (The crown clad princess below)
The party was masquerade themed, so all off the girls wore glittery, feathery masks, so fun!
I made jewelry for her gift, the Pink Sparkle Bow Necklace and Bisou Bisou Heart Ring which she LOVED and looked fabulous in <3
Such a great night filled with lots of dancing, cocktails and glitter ;)
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What a joke! Not because Rapp is 40 years-old as Bird said and because he was surprisingly fast. It's funny because he held up Lorenzo for one whole lap and Lorenzo lost 2,5 seconds. And his team is the one who protesting. Ok, the blue flags weren't shown or they were too far, I don't know how noisy the Attack Performance Kawasaki is, but he should have heard Lorenzo coming, when he was one metre behind him.


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Watch The Trailer For Venice Special Jury Prize Winner RUIN
When the hardware was handed out at the Venice International Film Festival just the other week the jury members behind the Orizzonti Special Jury Prize, headed by Paul Schrader (writer of such films as Taxi Driver, Raging Bull and The Mosquito Coast), saw fit to award the film Ruin and its filmmakers Michael Cody and Amiel Courtin-Wilson. And now we have a trailer to share with you. It features some tremendous imagery and a dreamlike quality to it. Take a look below!
RUIN is an impressionistic fable- the story of Phirun (Rous Mony) and Sovanna (Melang) - two lovers inexplicably drawn together who escape a brutal and exploitative world of crime and violence in modern day Cambodia. Fleeing Phnom Penh after a murder, they travel deeper into the jungle. As their vulnerable love ebbs and flows along their journey, they wake from the trauma of their former lives and unleash a violent rage upon the world. Love and death intermingle as they travel deeper into the abyss- their world strangely transforming around the two young lovers on the run.In the interest of full disclosure, XYZ Films, who is an employer of a couple of Twitchers including our lord and master Todd Brown, is handling domestic sales for this film.
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The Summer SlumpLeadership
Most churches experience a summer slump. This can mean attendance drops, giving slows down, and volunteers don't show up.
As leaders, what should we do during down times? Although I can't answer the question for you specifically, I would say, "Do something intentional!"
Here are some ideas to get you thinking:
- Challenge the church to host summer neighborhood block parties.
- Ask your small groups to take the summer off and challenge them to devote one weekend a month to an inner city mission project instead.
- Write devotionals geared for people traveling on vacation.
- Do a summer-long overview of the Old Testament.
- Experiment with a different style of worship.
- Take some extended time off.
- Challenge people to devote part of their vacation to minister on an international mission trip.
Open Idea:
Whatever you do, don't let the summer slump sap your enthusiasm. Don't miss this great opportunity to pray, seek God, and do something intentional! Even though many are distracted by the long days and warm nights, God wants to do something powerful through your ministry—and the summer slump may just allow you to find the unique niche you're called to fill.
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HOUSTON, TEXAS - Cal baseball's offense finally exploded, scoring 13 runs on 20 hits in a 13-2 win over Houston (8-3) Sunday (March 3) at the Astros Foundation College Classic. The Golden Bears (5-6) were led by junior catcher Andrew Knapp's 4-for-5 day with a double, home run and three RBI. Freshman right-hander Collin Monsour picked up his first collegiate win.
Cal, which only had 18 hits and scored six runs in the prior three games, had a season-high 20 hits against the Cougars, which entered the game 8-2, including recent victories over Texas A&M and Baylor. The Bears were led offensively not only by Knapp, a first-team Preseason All-American, but sophomore first baseman Brenden Farney went a career-high 4-for-5 with a double and two RBI. Junior right fielder Jacob Wark (3-for-4, double) and sophomore third baseman Chris Paul (3-for-4, three RBI) both had three-hit days; while junior second baseman Derek Campbell and freshman center fielder Devin Pearson had two hits apiece including recording doubles.
On the mound, freshman Monsour (1-0) was outstanding in his first collegiate start, throwing 5.1 innings with five hits, one run, one walk and four strikeouts. Senior right-hander Logan Scott finished the game, pitching the final 2.2 innings with three hits, one run, one walk and two strikeouts.
"We did a good job of getting our lead-off guy on base and getting the big hit today," said Cal coach David Esquer. "Andrew Knapp and Devin Pearson were keys for us offensively. Collin Monsour was solid and gave us our longest start of the year. He threw strikes and only walked one batter."
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Touché Hombre
233 Lonsdale Street
Melbourne VIC 3000
+61 3 9663 0811
Another week, another bloody opening of a new taquería. It's a craze that's sweeping through Melbourne like a Mexican wave gone while at the 'G and quite frankly, I'm starting to get sick of it. A few years ago, good taco hard to find in Melbourne (no, Taco Bill does NOT count). These days? There are Mexican restaurants everywhere, and as of late most of the new ones happen to be taquerías. Pretty soon, there will probably be more Mexican restaurants than there are actual Mexicans living in Melbourne. Now, if all taquerías were like the much-lauded Mamasita or the new baby in Gold Coast's food scene, Guzman Y Gomez, then this would be a good thing.
However, my friends and I have found that most taquerías in Melbourne fail to meet our admittedly probably too-high expectations. So when Dave and I went to Touché Hombre last Thursday, we weren't expecting much. Surprisingly, we actually enjoyed ourselves and if anything, our meal there restored our faith in this so-called Mexican wave. Occupying the space that used to be J-Pub Shogun, Touché Hombre opened rather tentatively just under two weeks ago. In order to gauge initial public reaction, they only opened from 5pm Wednesdays to Sundays to begin with. But now that things have settled, they're now extending their opening hours, opening their doors at midday, seven days a week.
Dave and I both arrived at Touché Hombre just after 5pm, like the punctual lame-os we are. We were told by the guy at the door that they had not yet opened for the night (they needed to debrief their staff), but would let us in as soon as they were done. It was a windy evening so I was annoyed at having to stand outside in the cold, while the staff did their debriefing in a corner far, far away from the front waiting area (so it wasn't like we could eavesdrop anyway). Thankfully, though, we were let in shortly after and shown to a seat by the window.
Unlike the soft-spoken and casually funky J-Pub Shogun, Touché Hombre is all about 1980s Los Angeles taco culture: loud, cheeky and full of attitude. Sitting inside the taquería, you'd think that you're in The Valley as opposed to the Melbourne CBD. Heck, I almost expected Nicolas Cage's 'Randy' to strut right in, leather jacket and all. This place ticked all the right boxes: a bar using recycled wood from the old Princes Pier to inject a little bit of history into the place, and a DJ that spun tunes when the sun went down for a lively atmosphere. I also loved the little touches that made Touché Hombre cool – the neon signage, the arcade game machines; even its motto 'Heroes de Medio Caparazon' was totes awesome (that's 'heroes in a half-shell' in Spanish, how clever is THAT?). I wasn't sure about the bouncer-looking-dude who stood outside the door, though. Please, this ain't The Roxy, bitch!
It was too early in the evening for shots of tequila, we so decided to go light on the drink. As Dave ordered a beer (a bottle of Rosita Artesanal pale ale, $11), I went straight to the cocktail list. The list may not be extensive but the ones that appear on the menu look good – and come with witty names. While I liked the sound of the La Paloma (pink grapefruit, blood orange and orange Colombo liqueur with vanilla sugar drops and scented straws, anyone?), I decided to get the Mexican beer cocktail. Called the 'Michelada Bitchin', it contained Tecate (Mexican lager), salsa, and chipotle puree ($9). Served in a salt-lined chilled jar and finished with a fresh lime and ice, it was a neat little package. If you've been to Mamasita, you ought to have some idea what this drink is like (it can be an acquired taste) but for others, don't expect it to be a sweet and syrupy cocktail. It's salty and it's HOT.
The fatty lamb ribs (five for $8) was the first dish to arrive. Although fitness junkie-Dave eyed this dish on the menu with a bit of apprehension, he agreed to share this with me. Each rib was fatty, as its name suggested, and coated with a sticky blend of merquén, cilantro (um, excuse me? We're in Australia, we say coriander, mate!) and honey. We initially thought the ribs were too sweet but a generous squeeze of lemon fixed that and pretty sure, we were munching on our ribs, glorious fats and all.
Next, we had the ceviche ($12), a vibrant mixture of diced fish and mussels mixed in with
cilantro coriander, chilli, red onion, tomato and guacamole. On the side were some tortilla chips for dipping. It was delicious. The ceviche was fresh and amazingly zesty, while the chips were not your standard supermarket variety, but a thicker version which prevented them from getting too soggy. Even Dave, ever the sceptic, had to concede that Touché Hombre's version was better than Mamasita's.
Like all good things, our chicken tostaditos came in threes ($12). Each round tortilla chip was topped with a lovely mixture of spiced chicken, mango jam, toasted sesame and chipotle mayo. Each mouthful was piquant, sweet, salty and spicy – absolutely delicious. At this point in time, I was talking away, neglecting my food, and didn't touch my first tostadito until much later. Amazingly, the tortilla chip remained hard, despite the density of all the ingredients piled on top. Nice.
We then went for one taco each. Priced between $6 to $7, each taco comes with interesting flavour combination, mixing both old world and modern ingredients together. I was bemused to see the absence of any plain beef options (the only beef option on the menu was the meatball one… yes, meatballs in addition to the fried tofu filling. In saying that, I did like the sound of the breakfast taco which had omelette, Eggmont cheese, beans, avocado and salsa in it.
I settled with the de pascado (fish) taco ($7). After eating fish tacos for the first time at Wahoo's in Surfers Paradise – THE single worst thing I've ever had in my life – I wasn't expecting much from this taco. However, I was impressed with Touché Hombre's version. Gone were the frozen basa fillets and hello to crispy battered fresh whiting with pickled cucumbers, capers and shallots. As I did with my tostaditos, it did take me a while before I got around to eating it (I should either stop talking or eat faster, or both). However, the fish still remained beautifully crispy and the soft taco shell did not get soggy at all. Loved it.
Dave went for the de morcilla, an ambitious combination of blood pudding sausage, piquillo peppers, pico de gallo and soft egg aioli ($6.50). I was worried that the flavour dynamics would be way off, but Dave assured me that his taco was just fine. It was flavoursome and verging on rich, but thankfully the light pico de gallo (salsa) defused a bit of the richness coming from the sausage and the aioli. In fact, he said, it was better than anything Paco's Tacos have made. So there.
Earlier on, Dave had been thinking of ordering a second taco but surprisingly it wasn't necessary. Instead, we decided to order some ice cream 'sangas' which is pretty much all they have for dessert. That was fine with us, but what flavours to get? We couldn't decide between the three that was available, so we chose a tasting plate that gave us all three for $18. We reckon that was pretty good value, given that each ice cream sandwich is $7.
From L-R: rice pudding & cinnamon, chocolate & chilli peanut cookie, and dulce de leche.
On paper, the chocolate and chilli peanut cookie sounded the most appealing and indeed it was delicious, without being overly rich. However, the one that actually stood out for me was the rice pudding and cinnamon one (below), the sanga that I would not have chosen if I could only select one.
The 'bread' was a biscuit (think chocolate ripple cakes) and the filling, a caramel parfait mixed with rice pudding and cinnamon sugar. It was beautiful. The parfait had a slight salty edge while the rice pudding created an interesting texture which made the whole thing a delight to eat.
Meanwhile, Dave loved the dulce de leche sanga, which was filled with strawberry parfait, pistachio and dulce de leche. I would have liked this one just as much as the rice pudding one, but for the way the strawberry parfait a lot like those strawberry wafers you get at Asian grocery stores – and I'm not a fan of that artificial strawberry taste.
What originally started off as a post-work nibbles and drinks session ended up being a dinner for we ended up getting ridiculously full. I guess you'd want to be if you were paying around $40 per head for little snacks and drinks. While that would be considered highway robbery in California and Texas, this is MELBOURNE (ah bloody Melbourne) and $40 is, unfortunately, pretty standard. Hell, given how crappy some of the other (similarly-priced) taquerías are, I think Touché Hombre are doing something right. While I won't be quick to recommend this place for a cheap dinner, I can can certainly see myself coming back for nibbles and drinks after work or even a post-dinner dessert. I can see the Mexican wave dying down in the next year or so, but I can't see Touché Hombre shutting down any time soon. Now that's a reason for all of us to shout, 'Cowabunga!'
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I really have been away from the Melbourne food scene for too long hahaha 😛 I haven't noticed the Mexican restaurants that have opened ~ I'm glad the fish taco was much better than your first one! I've had a really smelly fish taco once too they are the WORSE EWWWW my taco was soggy too
Ohhh these are really interesting desserts that I've never had ~ especially the dulce de leche hehe YUM YUM YUM!
Sighhh Mexican food really isn't cheap in Melbourne but for the desserts hehe I'm willing to go try ~Reply
Before I read the description I thought the photo of your cocktail was some sort of relish or chutney! LOL! Oops. Food looks good though!Reply
Oh my god, that dessert plate is looking so amazing still. Hopefully Touche Hombre doesn't fall into the bucket of hype that mamasita and Chin chin have…whilst I do appreciate and enjoy a good taco, I'm not down for waiting for hours for it…Reply
I'm sorry. It is never too early for tequila.Reply
You will be happy to hear that I am looking at Wahoo's Fish Tacos in Cavill Avenue right now and there is a giant For Lease sign on it!Reply
Mexican wave hasn't even bloody started here. I JUST WANT THOSE DESSERTS IS THAT SO MUCH TO ASK.Reply
I've been meaning to come here after walking past it opening week. Love the decor tooReply
I so did not see you as a TMNT fan 😛Reply
Lol another mexican place?! How do they rate with GYG? 😛
I'd go just for the desserts hahaReply
I went today at 1pm and they were closed!!Reply
oh man, what I wouldn't give for a taco right now!!Reply
Walked past this restaurant twice… once on the way to Kokoro and another when going to Camy's and both times it was full. Frank made a remark about the name (sounds a little gay), but now I'm kicking myself for not trying this place out!Reply
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She runs like a duck -- a University of Oregon Duck, that is. Goducks.com -- the official site of University of Oregon athletics -- introduces Laura Roesler like this:
One of the top middle distance recruits in the nation comes to Oregon after winning an astounding 22 state titles in her native North Dakota.
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"We kinda like staying out of the limelight," says Karen. Laura nods. But with Laura's record, it's tough. The 2010 Fargo South High School graduate became the most decorated track athlete in North Dakota history. Highlights include:
- Claiming her first state title in seventh grade in the 400 meter.
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Laura's response to all the accolades? "I don't really think about it," she says shyly. "To me they're all great experiences. I just think about the next meet."
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Laura got her start close to home. "When she was little, there weren't a lot of girls in the neighborhood so she played with boys," says Karen. "She had to keep up or get left in the dust."
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Microsoft claims it can make more money from each user in the cloud, but it's no lock.
Microsoft claims it earns more money per user from cloud-based Exchange email accounts than it does selling the legacy version of Exchange Server most businesses deploy today.
That's what Microsoft investor relations GM Bill Koefoed said at the Oppenheimer Annual Technology, Media & Telecommunications Conference Tuesday, according to a transcript on Microsoft's website. Customers who purchase Exchange as part of the Office 365 cloud service pay roughly $10 per month, less than they would in the back-end costs of running their own Exchange servers, but nearly all of of it goes directly to Microsoft, he said.
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"Within an enterprise, let's say it costs $15 per user per month today to run Exchange, and that's about $2 for Microsoft, and that's $13 in rent, power, the data base administrator that's running the thing, the hardware and all the kind of services that are associated with kind of running Exchange in your premise," Koefoed said.
"With Office 365, or with Exchange Online, the Exchange part of that, we charge $10 per user per month," he continued. "So, that ends up being a savings to the CIO of roughly 33%, and we make 5X more revenue and our profit ends up being somewhere, $3 or $4 per user per month. So, we make more revenue and we make more profit and we save our customers money."
The profit ends up being $3 or $4 per user per month because it costs Microsoft $6 or $7 per user to run the data centers powering the cloud service. "We can do that at scale," Koefoed noted. "Interestingly, one of the things that we've learned in our search business is how to run data centers at scale."
Koefoed gave the example in response to investors' questions about how Microsoft's revenue in the cloud compares to its traditional business model of selling software licenses. The popularity of Google Apps with small businesses is among the factors that forced Microsoft to expand its Web-based offerings, but investors are likely concerned these offerings will cannibalize Microsoft's existing revenue streams.
Koefoed's example leaves out the fact that Office 365 is appealing mostly to smaller businesses with few users. The small business version of Office 365, which includes Exchange, SharePoint, Lync and Office Web Apps, costs only $6 per user per month. An actual Exchange Server license, meanwhile, costs $700 for a standard edition and $4,000 for an enterprise edition, plus extra charges for client access licenses.
Enterprises can lessen the financial hit because of their scale, making the economics of running their own servers worthwhile for the customer, which is why Koefoed can say enterprises pay Microsoft only $2 per user per month to run Exchange. For small customers, the per-user cost of running Exchange Server without a cloud subscription would be higher, and therefore more profitable for Microsoft. Whether Microsoft actually makes more per-user profit from cloud services than packaged software is therefore questionable.
Beyond that, Koefoed's example does not mention the profitability of SharePoint, Lync and Office Web Apps. Office Web Apps in particular could cannibalize Microsoft's revenue, because it can be used for free by consumers, and comes with most Office 365 packages. To prevent revenue loss, Microsoft has limited the functionality of Office Web Apps compared to the pricier client versions of Office, and offers a higher-priced version of Office 365 that comes with the desktop client version of Office Professional Plus.
Google Apps for Business, which offers email, calendar and documents, costs $50 per user per year or $5 per user per month.
Microsoft is quickly growing revenue and profit in most of its businesses with the exception of the Bing search engine and mobile devices, but has not succeeded in convincing investors to pump up its stock price. Longtime rival Apple passed Microsoft in market cap last year, and this week briefly became the world's most valued company ahead of Exxon. In the eyes of investors, Microsoft's mobile phone and tablet failures have overshadowed sales of 400 million Windows 7 licenses and 100 million Office 2010 licenses.
"We had super good results ending the year," Koefoed said, referring to the end of Microsoft's fiscal year in July. "In addition to the fact that we're making the investments to move into the cloud, our revenue for the year was up 12%. Operating income was up 13%. So, we saw another year of year over year margin expansion. And then, earnings per share was up 28% as we rounded out the year."
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Going by the train of thought that Rossi is only benefitting beacause some riders are not there are missing the face that all the top three riders - Stoner, Lorenzo and Dovi - are all benefitting from Dani's absence too.
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