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The Benefits of Home Births
For ages, mothers have been giving birth to their children in their own homes surrounded by those closest to them. It wasn't until the 20th century that mothers sought out hospitals to give birth in due to advances in medicine and safety measures. Recently however, mothers have been discovering the benefits of bringing the birthing process back home, of course along with modern day medical knowledge and safety precautions.
This prospect may seem terrifying to mothers who wish to rely on the environment of a hospital to make sure the labor and delivery goes smoothly, but after considering all the facts about home births and water births, you may want to reconsider.
Drawbacks to Hospital Births
Women often turn to hospitals for giving birth due to the controlled environment, and access to emergency medical personnel in case something goes wrong. It turns out however, that the controlled nature of a hospital can end up being part of the problem.
Mothers in hospitals are usually confined to one position, aren't allowed much rest, and can sometimes be subject to unnecessary interventions that can further complicate things. The confinement to one position often causes more pain than if the mother were to be allowed to change positions during labor. Some studies have shown that hospital births are no safer than home births (for mothers with no special complications) and were more likely to intervene when unnecessary.
These studies also show that infections and complications are more likely to occur at hospitals. Hospital settings often have limited privacy and often limit the involvement of the mother's partner.They also often have nurses and doctors on set schedules, meaning that people will often be switched out during the labor and delivery process. Hospitals births are also incredibly expensive if the parents are uninsured, costing around $10,000 in most cases.
What to Expect With a Home Birth
Home births do occur in a less controlled environment as hospitals, however, it is far from a lonely process. With home births, mothers have the care of trained midwives to help with the labor and delivery process, provide medical relief, and support the mother with any need that comes up.
Ideally close friends and family members should be present to support the mother as well. The mother will also have medical resources on-hand as well. The midwives will come with oxygen for the baby if needed, IV's for the mother to provide hydration or nutrients, sterile gloves, gauze pads, covers for the bed, a thermometer, ultrasonic stethoscopes, medications for hemorrhaging, and supplies for fixing any tearing that occurs.
The setting of the home itself tends to be one of the major factors in reducing stress and pain for the mother. Increased anxiety and fear are actually some of the main inhibitors to the body's natural ability to fight pain. When the mother is relaxed in her own home environment, she is better able to produce the endorphins needed to fight pain.
The mother's partner will be allowed to be present and involved for the delivery process, along with anyone the mother chooses to be allowed present. The midwives are hired on to be present for the entire labor and delivery process meaning that, unlike a hospital where random medical staff may be switched out due their schedules, the same people will be involved from start to finish. You will also be allowed lots of liberty with what you do during labor.
The midwives don't use any invasive items in the uterus during the process or separate the mother from the child right away. This helps to put both the mother and child at ease, and allows for proper skin to skin bonding with the mother and child right away. You can switch positions at any time to reduce pain, take a shower to ease stress, and have more access to the food you want and need.
In this environment, the mother has control of what interventions are implemented, unless unforeseen emergencies arise that require a trip to a nearby hospital for a cesarean section. In addition to the added ease home births offer, the financial ease is very significant. Hiring midwives for home births typically costs in between $1,500 and $3,000 and can be covered by insurance.
The Option of Water Births
Water births are a type of birth that is becoming increasingly popular. Water births are also typically done at home and involve all the elements of a typical home birth. The difference is that the mother sits in a small pool of warm water throughout the labor process. Some mothers choose to fully deliver their baby into the water itself before the baby takes his or her first breath. The water birth option is favorable for many reasons. The buoyancy of the water creates an environment that allows for the mother to change positions quickly and easily to achieve the most comfort possible.
This results in less pain for the mother and more oxygenation for the baby. The warm water is soothing to the mother, easing the stress of the process overall. The risk of tearing lessens, too, as the warm water relaxes the perineum. All of this physical and mental relaxation allows the mother to better concentrate on the birthing process. If the mother chooses to deliver the baby in the water it is a great way to provide a smooth transition from the amniotic sac and into the world.
For those who are worried about the implications of their newborn being submerged under water, the actual risks of this form of delivery are actually quite low. The midwives would have to be very careless for anything to actually go wrong at this point. Since the warm water environment is so similar to the amniotic sac, the baby won't start inhaling until raised up from the water, or the umbilical cord is cut.
How to Decide if a Home or Water Birth is Right for You
If you are thinking about doing a home birth or a water birth, it is important to take a few factors into consideration. These sorts of births are perfectly safe with low to moderate risk mothers. However, if certain medical conditions are present, such as diabetes, herpes (for water births), preeclampsia, or premature delivery, you will need a hospital to ensure optimal safety. Twin births have been successfully done at home or in water, but do add a level of risk. Be sure to consult your doctor and be aware of any medical issues before looking into an in-home or water birth.
If you still have reservations about the idea of birthing outside of the hospital setting, be sure to ask around if you have any friends who have opted for the in-home or water birthing method to hear their experience. This will help to give you a better idea of what to expect, and put your mind at ease about the idea. Be prepared to have some friends or family members be skeptical about the idea if you decide on a home or water birth. If you've consulted a doctor and are all clear to decide on the options, trust your gut and remember that the decision is all yours to do what you believe is best for you and your baby.


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"I see you. I'll get your water when I have a minute. Jesus Christ."
Um, did… that… really just happen?
Strike three for Delta Airlines. More like strike 37. The bad service had reached the "Orbitz threshold", where I would no longer purchase tickets from Delta, even if cheaper than the competition.
Life is too short to deal with surly nonsense, and — upon landing back in SF — I decided to poll Twitter to find out which airlines create the most collective misery. This would serve as my must-avoid list.
I also learned that two start-ups called PeopleBrowsr and Dolores Labs were simultaneously figuring out the same thing with really cool social search analysis.
Here are the results: the 10 worst airlines in the US according to customers…
Twitter + Slinkset
I used Twitter to drive people to a customized Digg-like page for the worst airlines, where companies were submitted and then voted up and down. Cast your vote here.
#1 – The Worst – Delta
Also submitted as "Delta Blows", Delta get the ultimate F- for customer service, especially when you include the votes for Northwest Airlines (NWA) below, which they've absorbed into twin forces of suckiness. Bad customer service earned the Delta empire more than 30% of the total votes.
#2 – US Airways
#3 – United
#4 – American
#5 – AirTran
#6 – Northwest
#7 – Southwest
#8 – Frontier
#9 – Continental
#10 – Air France (?)
See the exact percentages here.
Of course, there are limits and weaknesses to this data-gathering approach: the availability heuristic. In other words, as commenter John Fawkes observed: are the "worst" airlines just the most commonly flown? Would we also find them at the top of the "best" list?
To make this methodology work, it seems you would have to also run a "best airlines" poll using the same method, and compare the two lists. If an airline is on the worst list and not the best list, then and only then should you declare that popular opinion has voted it down.
The data published below via Dolores Labs accounts for size differences, and their full post includes observations on the best airlines based on sentiment in tweets.
Dolores Labs
Dolores Labs — think Amazon Mechanical Turk on steroids — published the PeopleBrowsr results in beautiful graphic form. The best and worst airlines were determined through frequency analysis of positive and negative sentiment words in tweets mentioning the airlines.
Here are the worst, in descending order of Hulk-smash feelings:
#1 – The Worst – Northwest (= Delta)
#2 – US Airways
#3 – Delta
#4 – American
#5 – United
[Note that the top 5 are the same as the top 4 in the comparable Twitter poll]
#6 – Continental
#7 – Frontier
#8 – JetBlue
#9 – Alaska
#10 – Southwest (by far the best large airline, based on this analysis)
So what are 'negative sentiment' words? Here are a few you might have muttered yourself:
See the full Dolores Labs results and insight here. Damn, them boys have some skills with making data sexy. Check out their Fleshmap from crowdsourced sex input. But I digress…
The moral of the story? Drop the extra $30 on tickets so you don't feel like doing this to fools:
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HOUSTON - They're supposed to give a vibrant complexion and help with anti-aging but the so-called "microbeads" are getting banned from products.
The government accuses these beads of polluting the environment and threatening users' health.
Right now, companies should be making moves to get rid of the plastic beads in body and face washes. Manufacturers have until next January before the ban will take full effect.
Baylor College of Medicine medical aesthetician, Kim Chang says exfoliation is an important step in your beauty routine.
"Two to three times a week is typically a good time to exfoliate," Chang said.
However, the beads made of polyethylene, polypropylene, poly methacrylate or nylon are accused of harming the environment and ultimately us.
"It's going into the ocean and the fish are actually eating these microbeads, which are plastic beads," Chang said. "Eventually it will turn up on your table to eat."
She says that's dangerous because the plastic is porous and absorbs other harmful chemicals.
That's why President Barack Obama signed a bill to ban plastic microbeads due to suspicion of the ingredient threatening sea life.
Last year, Crest removed the plastic beads from toothpaste. Some dentists complained of infections when the beads got lodged into the gum line.
Instead, Chang recommends organic beads made of jojoba, silt or diatomaceous earth.
"It's a natural, sedimentary occurring rock that is really good for your skin," she said about diatomaceous earth. "You still need a type of bead, remember? Either a bead or a chemical to exfoliate. So, that bead actually will slough off the dead skin on your skin to help the skin renew again."
The ones Chang recommends are found at spas or organic retailers, although jojoba beads can be found easier in some drug store products.
She also recommends an easy, inexpensive exfoliate is salt or sugar on arms and legs, but she does not recommend those ingredients on your face.
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Lisa is a frequent speaker on college topics and has been interviewed by The New York Times, Newsweek, CBS's "Up to the Minute," US News & World Report, The Daily Beast.com, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The Chicago Tribune, Good Housekeeping, American Airlines' in-flight magazine, Bloomberg.com, Education.com, Businessweek.com and many other publications.
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My dad moved into the memory care of Inver Glen Assisted Living last October. It's phenomenal, excellent, amazing, and we're happy with it. The staff is really great, and we feel very safe there. They have preschool in the building, and my dad is even singing with the preschoolers. They offer praise, they color together, and they recently decorated the Christmas tree. This facility is joining young minds with old minds and it's really working. It's located close to my family.
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December 19, 2017
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February 12, 2017
I am a friend or relative of a current/past resident
My mother lived at Inver Glen for three years. During that time she was in independent living first, then moved seamlessly to assisted living and finally into memory care. We found the staff to be extremely caring and helpful. The food, which was very important to my mother was fabulous. there were many social events...Parties for every occasion and residents were taken in wheel chairs to assure that they didn't just sit in their rooms. There is very low staff turnover and all residents are greeted by staff using their names any time they are out of their rooms. We had non of the aforementioned problems in memory care. There is a different facility for skilled nursing care that is part of this group. Some people may need that kind of care. As a family we felt this ended up being the best choice we could have made. My mother blossomed with all the attention and activities after sitting alone in her condo. The seamlessness of moving her from independent to assisted living was another big plus...Same staff,same dining room, same activities. In short we would highly recommend this facility.
November 14, 2016
I visited this facility
Inver Glen Assisted Living was the place we liked the most. Everything was great about this place. The management and the staff knew every resident that they run into by name and knew something personable about that individual. They were very attentive to everyone. The place was very clean. It was a new place, so everything was up-to-date. They have outings where they take the residents shopping for the day, some residents were playing cards when we were there, and they have different crafts. They have a community room where they could watch a big football game. We tried the food, and it was very good.
September 14, 2016
I visited this facility
I know somebody in assisted living at Inver Glen, and I visit. The people are really nice and caring. The food is pretty good, the rooms are very well-kept, and the place is very welcoming.
August 10, 2015
I visited this facility
This chain of assisted living facilities does not deserve one star. The aids in the memory care unit are not certified nurses assistances. They are home health aids. Most of them are kind and really try to do a good job regardless of the lack of training that is provided to them. Had our family known about the lack of training provided and that they were not CNA's we would have never placed my mother in their memory care unit. They are extremely understaffed. 2 aids to dress, bathe, feed, give meds, and care for 14-16 residents in one wing of the memory care unit. Our family spent the last 12 days of my mothers life, 24/7, by her bedside and were horrified about what went on and what didn't. Dozens of issues have been reported to the MN Adult/Elder Abuse and the MN Health Department. The issues include errors in medication dispensed, morphine scheduled every two hours not given for six hours because the aids said they were "busy"; this happened for three days in a row in the morning. So our mother had no pain management. My mother was unable to speak for the past 2 years due to her Alzheimer's. She did not have a voice and I shutter ever time I think of what she has endured. The director and the Director of Nursing nor the LPN nurse did not check on my mother one time in the 12 days we were there or even ask about her. Thank God we had hospice for my mother and they would stop in every day. After our mothers passing, not one person in management offered their condolences. Our mother has been gone now for 20 days and I received the final bill on the mail with a sympathy card (no envelope) tucked inside. I guess they saved a stamp. Please do your research before placing your parents. Then spend lots of time with them. Including overnights.
July 31, 2014
I am a friend or relative of a resident
The staff of Inver Glen Senior Living are very friendly and very outgoing. I perceive them to be very caring. They seem to always have smiles on their faces and they call the residents by their first names. They are very talkative and engage in conversation. A lot of their services are à la carte pieces, which was very appealing to my mother. The monthly rent was very reasonable. It was in a location that she wanted to be in and they had a unit that was available for her to move into right away -- that was of particular importance to her. They have a wide variety of card and board games as well as Bingo. Additionally, they go grocery shopping on a regular basis.
March 30, 2012
I am a friend or relative of a resident
A beautiful, clean, well-run facility with a sincere, caring staff! After caring for my Dad (who subsequently died of cancer) and my mother (with dementia) for a long time, knew it was time to move her. The Director, Julie, has been so helpful, always gives guidance, returns calls quickly and seems to know mom really well. I am not sure how she does it with numerous residents! She was especially helpful as we muddled our way through transitioning mom into assisted living, then into memory care. The staff treats our mother with respect and appreciates her sense of humor. We always feel welcomed to visit or stay for supper! The programs and events they offer are interesting and appropriate.
Services and Amenities of Inver Glen Senior Living
- All Inclusive Rent
- Rent Plus Care Fees
- Entry Fee
Room and housing options
- 1-bedroom apartments
- 2-bedroom apartments
- 3-bedroom apartments
- Studio Apartments
- Condos Townhomes
- Detached Homes
- Beauty Barber Shop
- Party Space
- Garden And Patio
- Resident Parking
- Spa
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- Private Cleaning Services
- Housekeeping
- Laundry For Clothing
Health services
- Skilled Nursing
- Hospice Care
- Medication Management
- Nurse On Staff: Yes
- Pharma
- Games
- Religious Services
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- Fitness Room
- Cooking
- Arts And Crafts
Financial guidance
- Home Sale Assistance
- Va Benefits Consultation
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- Guest Parking
- Guests At Mealtime
- Special Diets
- Low Salt
- Diet Extra: Daily Afternoon Coffee And Cookies
- English
- Respite Care
- Pets: Yes
Types of care
- Exercise
- Meal Preparation
Training Areas
- Patient Transfers
- Family Communication
Payment options
- Credit Card
- Check
- Payment Options Extra: Private Pay
- State Licenses: 387072
About Inver Glen Senior Living
Inver Glen Senior Living is a senior living provider in Inver Grove Heights, Minnesota that offers residents Assisted Living. Contact Inver Glen Senior Living for more details on services and rates.
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Being authentic and consistent with your business model is vital.
Very often for my job, I work with fashion companies that tell me about their business, their doubts and their problems. In 100% of the cases, it is an issue of consistency between what they want to be and what they are, and between where they think they are and where they really are. Between what they were when their founders created their companies and what they really are today.
In a fashion company, everything has to run like clockwork, where each piece has a specific function and where everything is designed for a unique purpose: to display the time without delays.
Following this simile of a clock, each piece is connected to another, everything is integrated as a single mechanism, without dead spaces, with order and synchronisation, and above all with a clear objective towards an established purpose.
Unfortunately, in most cases I find companies with business models that do not coincide with their financial strategies, product strategies that are not discussed with the store, or what is even worse, organisations that forget that companies are primarily people and that everything starts and ends with them.
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Three Benefits of Outsourcing SEO Services
Search engine optimization is an absolute must-have marketing service nowadays. In order to properly compete in the business world, a site needs to have high online visibility, which SEO builds. However, many marketing companies don't have the resources necessary to offer such services. Instead, they can outsource SEO services through SEO reseller plans.
To help you understand why should choose SEO outsourcing, here are some of its benefits.
It's Incredibly Affordable.
While many may balk at its cost, SEO outsourcing is actually quite affordable in the long run. True, it might be cheaper to hire a team of in-house professionals, but over time, their salaries and benefits will cost more than SEO outsourcing. You also save your HR the time it'd take to interview, to hire, and to train these new employees. This means the business keeps moving forward, without getting distracted from their current tasks and projects, while being able to immediately offer these service
The Perks of Outsourcing Web Design
It was estimated that over 88 percent of people on the internet who were older than fourteen researched or browsed online products in 2012. Billions of people are looking online for information that will lead them to a purchase. In order to be successful, most business have to market online.
Many businesses are going to web design resellers for online marketing. By going to web design resellers, businesses can work on their products, and the web design resellers can work on the advertising. Small businesses that are not big enough to have major marketing campaigns find it especially useful to outsource their web design.
In order to be effective on the internet, websites must be effective on search engines. 93 percent of people who use the internet begin their internet usage with a visit to a search engine. Of all the people on those search engines, 75 percent of them avoid the paid advertisements, and 75 percent of them also do not go past the first page of a search.
If a company is to be effective marketing on search engines, it needs to use the best SEO content. SEO stands for search engine optimization. The point of it is to use custom content to make websites come up on internet searches. Web design resellers often resell SEO content as well because, for online services and retailers, more than 39 percent of customers come from search engines.
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This morning I burned approximately 750 calories at the gym. Woohoo! I completed the water aerobics class, but I left the Zumba class 20 minutes early. I went to the gym on an empty stomach so I stopped in the cafe to have breakfast. I had a smoothie before water aerobics, and I bought a protein bar for between classes. Well, I ate the protein bar before I went to Zumba and I don't think it agreed with me. My stomach was all sorts of swishy during class and there were a few times I had to pause and linger over my water to let my stomach settle back down. I was also developing a massive headache, which didn't help. I tried to stick it out but Zumba was getting too jumpy for me. So I used the time at the Member Services desk to finish adding Hubs to my account. Then I went to Caribou to pick up some real food (since I don't really have any at home) and coffee to help both my head and my stomach. Even though I left Zumba early, I am proud of myself for making it to the class in the first place. During water aerobics I just wanted to leave, but I kept thinking to myself that I HAD to go otherwise I would be disappointed with myself.
I also had a successful weigh in, down 1.2 pounds from October 20th. I am annoyed that I forgot to weigh myself last week to get an actual number of pounds lost in one week. But ... I guess down is down, right? So, woohoo for me again.
I did feel good about being at the gym on a Saturday morning and burning calories during a time I would usually be lying in bed or just lounging in my house. Maybe I'll add Saturdays to my routine too, but let's take it one at a time, shall we?
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Temperature for December 1999
In December 1999 the average high temperature in Bettles, AK was -5.8°F, and this was 6.5°F cooler than the average of 0.7°F. The hottest day in December 1999 was 23 December when the temperature reached 19.9°F. Overnight the average temperature in December is -15.7°F and in 1999 the average overnight temperature was 9.9°F cooler at -25.5°F.


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Man nearly stabbed to death during attack
A jealousy-fuelled argument left a man hospitalised after he was stabbed in Svay Rieng province's Svay Chrum district on Saturday. The 18-year-old victim was accused of touching a man's girlfriend while he was drinking and dancing with a group of friends. The group attacked the victim with rocks, knives and wooden sticks, seriously injuring him. All the aggressors fled the scene, but police said they are searching for suspects. Rasmei Kampuchea
Suspect arrested after moto theft at a school
Police in Kep town arrested a 33-year-old man who allegedly stole a motorbike from outside a high school on Saturday. Police said that the man dumped his bicycle when he saw the opportunity to upgrade by stealing an unchained motorbike outside the school. He was witnessed riding his new vehicle by police, who gave chase and arrested him. Police said the suspect confessed to the crime. Koh Santepheap
Woman reports her own son for drug use
A mother in Battambang town reported her own son to the authorities on Sunday, claiming that he was addicted to drugs. Police said that the woman wanted officials to arrest her 23-year-old son, so that he would get drug rehabilitation treatment. She said that he has been an addict for six years and that he had become violent in their home and stolen family property when he needed money to buy drugs. Kampuchea Thmey
Duo arrested after bag snatching in Kandal
Two alleged bag snatchers were arrested by police in Kandal's Kean Svay district on Saturday. Police said that the pair of suspects, who are students, grabbed the bags of two local factory workers. Local residents saw the commotion and managed to detain the thieves. Police have sent both suspects to court. Rasmei Kampuchea
Pickpocket nabbed at market in Siem Reap
A 49-year-old woman was arrested after she stole a mobile phone in Siem Reap market on Friday. Police said that she snatched the phone out of the pocket of her victim while they were in a busy crowd. She was caught in the act by her target, who called for help. The suspect was detained by security guards in the area. Police said she later confessed that she regularly pickpocketed. Koh Santepheap
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John B. Roney, Ph.D.
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John Roney is a historian of modern Europe with particular interests in Ireland, the Low Countries (the Netherlands, Belgium, and Luxembourg), France, and Switzerland. This collection of states includes French, Dutch, Irish, and English-speaking regions of Europe, and also highlights some of the smaller states of Europe that were not incorporated into lager hegemonies as many pre-existing states fell pretty to more powerful overlords. These regions also are home to a mixture of religious institutions, primary Roman Catholic and Reformed churches, which create a great opportunity to compare and contrast their development over several centuries.
While many of his publications are on intellectual and religious history, in the last decade Roney has also turned to maritime environmental history, with a study of the history of commercial fishing and fisheries in the North Atlantic Ocean. This study incorporates an interest in the political-economy in this region as well as an attention to the historical ecology and oceanography within which the fishing industry developed.
Degrees and Certifications
- B.A. The King's College, Economics, 1975. M.A. Wheaton College, History, 1980. Thesis: "Wessel Gansfort: Precursor to the Reformation." Advisor: Mark Noll.
- Ph.D. University of Toronto, History. Dissertation: "Jean Henri Merle d'Aubigné: Historian of Christianity in an Age of Revolution." Advisor: C.T. McIntire
Teaching Responsibilities
- Modern France
- Celtic and Irish History
- History of Coastal Communities in the North Atlantic
- History of Western Civilization since 1500
Research Interests and Grants
- Modern Ireland
- Maritime Environmental History
- Modern France
- Modern Netherlands
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The Inside of History: Jean Henri Merle d'Aubigné and Romantic Historiography. Studies in Historiography Series, edited by John David Smith. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1996.


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He has a little red birthmark between his eyes, slightly to the right.
He has a clogged tear duct in his right eye. It's always gunky and usually half closed when the other eye is fully open.
He can usually be found like this:
within inches of my...his source of food, whether asleep or awake.
He's been smiling now for a week or two:
He may be cooing, too, but it's hard to tell since he doesn't spend a lot of time being happy and all vocalizations lead to crying.
He is very strong! He has been known to try to stand up on my lap. Every time he's being snuggled with on one's chest, he picks his head up and throws himself to the side. Sometimes I worry that he's going to jump right out of my arms!
He enjoys stroller rides, just like his older brother (thank goodness):
He wasn't gaining very much weight to begin with. He was 8 lbs 5 oz at birth, 7 lbs 12 oz at four days old, 8 lbs 1 oz at 2.5 weeks old, and 8 lbs 6.5 oz at 3.5 weeks old. Babies are supposed to be at their birth weight at 2 weeks old and then gain 5-7 oz each week after that. It has been determined that I have an awful milk supply, which isn't helped by Russell's possible tongue-tie and his extreme sleepiness while eating.
At 5.5 weeks old he weighed 9 lbs 10 oz...so it seems that his weight gain is back on track. Either that or the scale was off, because he has been getting sleepier and sleepier and Caleb's feeding therapist is quite concerned. I don't know what's going on. But I've decided not to start worrying until a medical professional tells me to. I don't have the energy to worry.
When I say he's a sleepy eater, I mean it! He falls asleep within a few minutes at the breast and between nursing, burping, diaper changes, and bottle feeding I'm lucky if I can get through a feeding in less than 50 minutes.
He still eats every 2.5-3 hours during the day.
He is pretty good at sleeping in his bassinet at night, swaddled very tightly in a crocheted blanket with his hands by his face. But he still goes 2.5-3 hours between night feedings. A few times he's gone 4 hours. Last night I actually got 4.5 hours of sleep in a row! NICE!
He usually has one happy moment about every other day for maybe 10 minutes where I'm able to set him down without him crying. In fact, we're lucky if he has any awake time, whether in our arms or not, where he isn't crying. And we're extremely fortunate if we can get him to sleep somewhere other than our arms during the day.
He seems to be happiest (aka, not entirely unhappy) when there are new things to look at and hear. He was once in a crowded room with a lot of new people, and he was very happy! It was like he was a different baby. I wish we could achieve the desired behavior with the stimulation of toys and music...but alas, that has never worked.
He's very gassy and poops a LOT! He had a terrible diaper rash for a few weeks that wouldn't go away with any diaper rash ointment that I could find. BUT! It went away almost completely after 24 hours of using paper towels and water in place of baby wipes. Thanks to all you mommas who suggested that!
He is just barely starting to outgrow newborn clothes. They are starting to get a little tight around the tummy, but most of them still fit length-wise. But his feet are really filling out the designated foot space. He must have gotten his long feet from me. Nate's feet are the same size as mine. :/ (But for the record, I have very average-sized feet. Nate is the one with small feet.)
And that's my baby. He can be difficult at times, but we love him. Yes, I have to remind myself that I love him when he won't stop crying and I just want to set him down to get a drink of juice, or go to the bathroom, or put the dirty dishes in the dishwasher, or feed Caleb. I have been tempted to give him (permanently) to the neighbors, but it's not his fault! He's just a baby. I need to be more patient. We find ways to make it all work, but I'm sure looking forward to the day when he can communicate with us through ways other than crying. And when he can be entertained by things, like toys. And when he can stay awake long enough to eat without me having to use every trick in the book to get him to eat the bare minimum.
Whew. Yes. I love him. And now I'm going to bed.


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The Donegal Rose is among the 32 Roses chosen to go through to the grand finalé of the Rose of Tralee.
Amy Callaghan, 22, is one among thirty two Roses to make it through to the TV show.
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Net sales for video games totaled $9.6 billion though.
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The PlayStation 4 has been a success for Sony, it came at a rather hefty price. In the company's recent financial report for the fiscal year ending March 31st 2014, Sony reported ¥128.4 billion ($1.25 billion) in losses. Net sales were ¥7,767.3 billion ($75.4 million) which indicated a 4.3 percent increase.
Total operating loss was ¥8.1 billion, with video games and the release of the PS4 contributing heavily to the same. Nonetheless, Sony reported a 38.5 percent year-on-year sales increase for games, with total sales at ¥979.2 billion ($9.6 billion).
The PS Vita continues to be a cash-drain from Sony as it reported a total of 700,000 units sold in the fourth quarter, down from 1.3 million units in the previous year's quarter. This includes sales of the recently released PS Vita TV. Portable hardware sales for the company decreased from 7 million units to 4.1 million units in the total year. What does that say about the Vita's continued future? We'll find out in the coming months.
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Airbnb will automatically collect and remit tourist tax in Florence as a reservation is made from January 1st 2018. Tourist tax paid to the Florence City Council applies to all non-city residents visiting Florence and therefore applies to those who choose to experience the city on Airbnb.
Following a year long negotiation between Airbnb and the Budget and Mayor's office, Florence joins the likes of Genoa and Bologna to collect tourist tax via the Airbnb platform.
We are among the first Italian cities in Italy, and among the ones with the highest tourist tax revenue, to reach this agreement that not only simplifies the collection and remittance of tax for short-term rental property owners, but also represents a milestone in order to avoid tax evasion. The collaboration initiated with Airbnb is a key one that we would like to extend to other online platforms featuring short-term rentals: we encourage them to do likewise.
Dario Nardella, Mayor of Florence
We would like to thank the Florence Administration for keenly wanting this agreement and for its far-sighted approach in embracing the technology of the platform.
Matteo Stifanelli, Country Manager Airbnb Italia
The agreement represents a milestone in streamlining the process of tourist tax collection and contributes towards the transparency and the digitalization in how tax is collected in the city. The agreement ensures that the accommodation price shown on the platform is inclusive of the tourist tax (3 euros per guest, for no more than seven nights) and will be directly remitted to the city by the 15th of each month. Thanks to the agreement, the municipal offices predict they will collect up to 6.5 million euros that will go straight into city funds.
Florence joins the 340 administrations around the world that Airbnb partners with to collect and remit taxes. So far, these partnerships have collected and remitted over 510 million dollars.
Airbnb Florence's data from the last 12 months
- 5,300 Florence hosts welcomed travelers from all over the world
- 10,400 listings on Airbnb
- 690,000 guest arrivals, up +30% compared to last year / compared to previous period
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- The average length of a guest's stay was 3.1 nights per trip
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After confiding in Akua about my desire to find my femininity, we took action. Unreasonable action. She challenged me to come up with 26 actions I could take to get back in line with that part of me. In 9 minutes. Talk about unreasonable… I was sure that I wouldn't come up with the actions. Of course, that was craziness. I came up with 30 actions. Yeah… 30. In 9 minutes, written neatly by hand. Guess you never know what you have inside until you test it.
Anyhow, part two of the assignment was to go through my shoes. I thought the actions task was hard, but throwing away my shoes made me sweat. It wasn't the act of throwing them away, it was that I don't have a lot to start with to even consider throwing away! And now there would be even less. Sigh. Progress, D, progress.
I came home and looked at my 25 pair of shoes and let go. Literally. I had to let go of my thoughts around having stuff I don't wear, the feelings that having less meant I wasn't as fly and of the idea that it was hard. I had to let go of being me and see this shoe collection from a detached perspective. I closed my eyes, took a deep breath and looked with fresh vision.
Immediately, I tossed the ugly moon shoes that didn't support my feet:
The irony about these shoes is when they arrived, The Hero said they were ugly. I defended said ugly shoes thinking that the support and 176 positive Amazon reviews would more than make up for the obviously pitiful design. No. After three wearings, they were relegated to the back of the shoe rack.
Next, the flesh tone wedges that literally fell apart while we were on vacation in D.C. Talk about annoying. Imagine walking like 15 blocks with a wedge and a flat. Ugh! I was DONE. I had to superglue the wedge back on to get back to the hotel. That was in July. And I just managed to throw them away two weeks ago. Shame on me.
Then I tossed the old L.A. Gear I bought because they were all-white and on sale for $20. The simple fact that they were L.A. Gear should have made me leave them on the shelf, but I was cheap and they served the purpose. I just never looked at my feet when I wore them. Toss.
After that, I had to toss the Fergalicious wedges from three years ago. I loved the shoes, but when the bottoms start flapping, it's time to get them repaired or toss them. I opted for tossing. If I'd paid $100 or more – like I did my Guess boots – I would have had them fixed, but I'm sure they were no more than $40. At $13/per year, I got my use out of them.
Ah… all flip-flops got tossed except for the ones I wear in the bathroom after The Hero showers. I realized these feet killers were causing me pain from my back down and it made no sense to continue wearing them outside the house. Not to mention, they give you what The Hero calls 'dirt foot'. Not sexy.
After that, the shoes were flying! Once I weeded out the shoes, I went through my hanging clothes. After my hanging clothes, purses. Then accessories. And today, I'm going through my intimates drawer. THAT'S going to be a travesty, but something that needs to be done and done now.
After clearing all these things out though, I realized I needed to clear space. Physically, I needed to make room for new things that clearly reflect who I am, but mentally, I needed to let go of the attachment to those things. None of them were serving me anymore, so why hold on? And that allowed me to see a lot of other things in my life from that perspective.
Yes, I'm down to 15 pair of shoes, but they are 15 pair that I love. I'm able to donate 8 purses and some accessories to charity and give a few clothing items and accessories to Dress for Success.
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I have a site that sells approximately 1500 widgets. We have spent considerable time writing unique descriptions for each of these items, so that in addition to the picture, price and certain specs, we also have a paragraph about 50-200 words long to go with each item that talks about how unique it is, how good it is, how it is best used and so on.
I have been approached by the owners of a website that is kinda like a mini-AOL that focus on my products general market. For example only, let say I sell outdoor equipment and this website that has approached me is a community site for outdoor activities. They have a forum area, where people can discuss many different kinds of outdoor activities, everything from freesbie tossing to camping. They also have columns each week, trip reports, articles about different activities etc, etc.
The owners of this site want to incorporate a store into their site and of course collect a commission. However, they don't want to have to be involved in running it or operating it, maintain inventory etc. Basically, they want to partner with us and have us completely run that portion of their website as well as handle all the adminstration, operation, ordering etc. Basically what they want is a special co-branded or branded situation.
One of the things they discussed is that they want the store to be spiderable so that it's pages will get picked up by the search engines and thus assist in not only providing a revenue stream, but also help add to their traffic.
Creating a store for them and integrating with the design of their existing site is not a problem. My real concern is that unless I write completely new descriptions for all 1500 products, then the product pages within their site are going to be duplicates of the product pages currently on our site. I am very concerned about this because our site is not as old as their's is and I'm not convinced that a the duplicate content penalty is based on page age rather than site age. Further, I'm not sure if this is worth doing if it is going to result in our site losing some of its serp results. I'm not sure what I can do to eliminate the possibility of a duplicate content penalty unless each products description is rewritten completely as this is the bulk of a product page's content.
Anybody have an thoughts or ideas on what we should or could do to avoid the possibility of a duplicate content penalty or what we should do in this situation ? Naturally the obvious idea would be to block it from googlebot, but that then makes the store pages unspiderable which is completely outside their desires.
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Answers to those Doggone Thermal Design Questions
By Tony Kordyban
Copyright by Tony Kordyban 2004
Mr. Everything You Know,
In the 18 months since finishing school, I have been responsible for designing sheet metal parts, running the vibration testing machine, and building assembly jigs for the manufacturing line. Now I am supposed to come up with a Quality Procedure for a high temperature Burn-In for all of our electronic products. As the only mechanical engineer, I guess I am the closest thing to a thermal expert around.
My question is: Which is better, to burn in the products at a steady 50°C for 24 hours, or to do temperature cycling, between -20° and 50°C? I have heard that temperature cycling is more effective, but the chamber to do that is much more expensive.
Too Much on My Plate Already in Fat City
Dear Too Much,
I am heartened that as the first step in your Quality Control Program, you took the time to consult a stranger on the Internet who specializes in humorous stories. It shows the same regard for your customers that was demonstrated by your management when they gave that assignment to you. So at least your policies are consistent.
I have to admit that Quality Control and Product Reliability are not my field of expertise. I know how to predict and measure and control the temperature of electronics. I don't know how temperature affects their functionality or expected life (other people think they do, but I'm not sure about that either). But you didn't ask for facts — you asked me what I think about burn-in. I don't have any trouble expressing an opinion.
There is a vague, generally accepted idea about Burn-In floating around. Somewhere out there, hidden away as a trade secret, or in some military test spec, is a magical test that we can run our finished products through, if we only knew exactly what it was. That test is something like the Obstacle Course in the military basic training. The recruits are run through this grueling test, and the weaklings are weeded out. That makes the surviving population stronger, on average.
Behind this Burn-In idea are three assumptions.
- There's the first assumption of the theory of Burn-In: that in every batch of products you manufacture, there are some weaklings that are liable to fail, causing problems for your customers, and eventually, for you. You don't want those weaklings to get into the customers' hands. You want them to have Good Quality, whatever that means.
- The second assumption is that running the products at elevated temperature, or maybe through some temperature cycles, is a grueling experience that will weed out the weaklings.
- The last assumption of the Burn-In enthusiast, is that after you start burning-in your products, you never have to prove the first two assumptions. Just keep doing Burn-In and call it your Quality Process for Reducing Infant Mortality.
Although, as I've already admitted, I'm not a Quality Engineer, I am under the impression that a Quality Process is supposed to have metrics and feedback. By that I mean, if you say you have weaklings in your product population, you should be able to measure how many there are, statistically. For example, you might classify five out of every hundred as "weak".
Then after your Burn-In process, whatever it is, the metrics should be able to tell you how many of the survivors are still "weak", or at least, how many units fail during Burn-In. That is a measure of how effective your Burn-In process is at weeding out the weaklings. If nothing ever fails in Burn-In, either you don't have any weaklings, and Burn-In is a waste of time, or the Burn-In process in ineffective at weeding out the weaklings, in which case it is still a waste of time.
So, Mr. Too Much, the first thing you should find out before you design a Burn-In process, is whether there is any data about the weaklings in your product population. Perhaps if you request this data, it will take many months to dig up, during which you can get some of your more useful work done.
But if the Burn-In project still goes on after that, you will need to look at the second assumption. Is running your product at 50°C for 24 hours really a grueling ordeal? Is the nature of the "weakness" of your weaklings something that will be accelerated by elevated temperature? For the products I am used to designing, 50°C is a normal operating temperature, not some horribly stressful condition. Granted, 50°C is a little bit stressful compared to 20°C. But it seems unlikely to me that it is enough stress to cause even "weakling" products to fail quickly. Instead of an obstacle course, I see 24 hours of 50°C operation as a walk in the park (perhaps on a sunny, summer day.)
Temperature cycling is more stressful than steady state operation. At least I can imagine one physical failure mechanism that is being exercised when the temperature is cycled — the stresses due to differential thermal expansion are run through with each reversal in temperature. It is like bending a paper clip back a forth. With enough bends, the paper clip will break.
The problem is, how many cycles can you achieve with a roomful of finished products in 24 hours? If you cycle the room temperature too quickly, the component temperatures will not change very much at all, because of their thermal mass. If you change the temperature slowly, so the components reach the extremes you have in mind, then you will have only a few cycles by the end of the test. It takes many cycles to trigger mechanical failures, so this "Burn-In" test is likely to be not very grueling, either.
My guess is that if you introduced either one of these Burn-In processes, you would not weed out any weaklings, even if you have any. There would be some random failures along the way, but they would not be triggered by the temperature process. I think you would get the same results by doing a functional test of your products, letting them run at room temperature for 24 hours, and then functionally testing them again. Just the stress of handling them and testing them twice will cause some failures — mainly due to ESD (Electrostatic Discharge. The more products are handled by hand in the factory, the more they suffer ESD damage.)
Chances are you will be commanded to chose one of the two Burn-In processes you described. Pick one that makes sense to you (as I said, I don't think either one will be effective anyway.) But write into the process a requirement for data to be collected before and after the Burn-In. If, after 6 months or a year of doing it, you can show that the product failure rate is no different after Burn-In than it is before Burn-In, then you have evidence that Burn-In is a waste of time.
But don't phrase it that way in your report. What you have to say is: "Our manufacturing quality is so good to start with that Burn-In is no longer an effective method of removing defects."
Dear Thermal Guy,
Aren't there some component failure mechanisms that actually slow down with higher temperature? Maybe we should do Freeze-Out instead of Burn-In to get rid of infant mortality.
Jack Frost from Bear Lake, Minnesota
Dear Jack,
There is at least one failure mechanism that slows down as the component gets hot. It is one that I can understand, because I see it every winter on the body of my automobile. It is called metallic corrosion. Some metals corrode in the presence of liquid dihydrogen oxide (water) and other impurities. It happens especially when there are two different metals in contact, which is quite common on the surface of a chip. There is gold welded to aluminum touching copper sitting next to solder.
Maybe it's hard to imagine, but plastic-encapsulated components are not watertight. Just the opposite — they suck water right out of the humid air. That water forms as liquid on the chip, and starts the metals turning into salts — even when the chip is turned off. That corrosion can even start to happen before the component gets assembled into a finished product.
The less water there is, the slower the chemical reaction. When the component is powered up, the water starts to bake out. If the chip is over 100°C, all the water is gone, and metallic corrosion comes to a halt. So it is possible that Burning-In products at 50°C ambient might actually slow down an important failure mechanism instead of accelerating it. Your Freeze-Out idea is maybe a more valid method of improving product quality than Burn-In at constant high temperature. At least it has some physics and chemistry on its side.
Are you planning on turning your ice fishing shack into a Freeze-Out Test Chamber?
Isn't Everything He Knows Wrong, Too?
The straight dope on Tony Kordyban
Tony Kordyban has been an engineer in the field of electronics cooling for different telecom and power supply companies (who can keep track when they change names so frequently?) for the last twenty years. Maybe that doesn't make him an expert in heat transfer theory, but it has certainly gained him a lot of experience in the ways NOT to cool electronics. He does have some book-learnin', with a BS in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Detroit (motto:Detroit— no place for wimps) and a Masters in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford (motto: shouldn't Nobels count more than Rose Bowls?)
In those twenty years Tony has come to the conclusion that a lot of the common practices of electronics cooling are full of baloney. He has run into so much nonsense in the field that he has found it easier to just assume "everything you know is wrong" (from the comedy album by Firesign Theatre), and to question everything against the basic principles of heat transfer theory.
Tony has been collecting case studies of the wrong way to cool electronics, using them to educate the cooling masses, applying humor as the sugar to help the medicine go down. These have been published recently by the ASME Press in a book called, "Hot Air Rises and Heat Sinks: Everything You Know About Cooling Electronics Is Wrong." It is available direct from ASME Press at 1-800-843-2763 or at their web site at http://www.asme.org/pubs/asmepress, Order Number 800741.


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Maroon - McDavid - Draisaitl
The Oilers are on the ice for morning skate at Rogers Place ahead of tonight's game against the Flames.
The forward lines are:
Maroon - McDavid - Draisaitl
Pouliot - Nugent-Hopkins - Eberle
Lucic - Caggiula - Slepyshev
Hendricks - Letestu - Kassian
Jujhar Khaira (illness) is out for tonight.
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Cam Talbot will get the start in goal.
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They let season ticket holders secure their seats up until a certain date then release them for general sale if they don't take them up. So initially it looks like there's a big crowd but once the unsold season ticket seats are put up for sale there will be a far better choice. Got caught out with that ourselves once and ended up in fairly shite seats where as if we'd waited we could have got far better ones.
Didn't beni go out on loan?
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This pleases me.Silva really likes him apparently. Impressed with his level in training. Evans and Williams too. Unsworth had some very good words for the young keeper last night.
Heard he likes Williams a while back, echo running with it today as well I noticed
What about Dowell, wheres my boy Dowell?
Yes ban counts here,. Get sent off in this game though will result in ban for the next round, if you win that is
Does the ban count here
No, ban is for three league games, according to the Echo
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This post wasn't the plan. I'm working on other posts about navigating the medical system and testing, but I fell down the rabbit hole again...
Four. Four times I have had to take a leave of absence from work over the last three years. Last week I had to take another leave of absence from work, leave for the rest of the year. This is the longest leave I have ever had to take (not counting the year I didn't work). A few years ago, I used to never call in sick to work. Despite working hard to keep up my energy and stamina this summer, I only made it through a week and a half this Fall semester before I started to hit The Point of No Return—the dreaded long period of being bed-ridden after having to push myself past my limits.
The semester didn't start well. My teaching schedule included 9 hour days with driving and teaching hours in a row without a break. Something has changed. This time last year, I had almost this exact same schedule. I struggled, but I could do it. The difference now is shocking to me. I decided to no longer stand or walk while teaching (something I should've been doing last year). So I would sit and try to teach, but it wasn't enough. I could barely move and the disabling, new symptoms I have been experiencing this last year—losing my mobility, intense weakness, difficulty breathing, etc—were getting worse. Driving has gotten much more difficult and a little scary, which makes commuting complicated.
I had been mentally preparing for having to take a leave of absence all summer. After the sheer brutality of last semester (including hitting The Point of No Return twice during it), I knew it was a definite possibility. I just didn't expect to only make it a week and a half.
My health has gone downhill this year, and I'm in disbelief with how much less I am able to do compared to just a year ago. But I am learning how to accept this and try to work around it. I feel incredibly guilty about having to go on leave but realistically I didn't have any other choice. I'm thankful for how supportive my work has been and that I can have this time to focus on my health.
So now I am trying to speed along the endless appointments and tests I have been doing this year. I believe they are getting closer, and I am currently being tested for Myasthenia Gravis, but nothing is for sure. I am trying to rest. I made myself a schedule to work on other projects like writing, painting, music, cooking (while sitting of course), hobbies and passions I haven't had any energy for the last few years. But I already miss work. I am a workaholic to the core. I told my husband I'd even take a stack of essays right now and he said, lovingly, "you have a problem." Yea, probably.
I'm still fighting. I'm still pushing forward. Despite these struggles, I have a good life and I'm working on being well enough to enjoy it more. Adversity, ain't no thing. As Maya Angelou said, "Still, I rise."


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Ship Class Hierarchy - So, you want to know what the biggest, baldest ship in Eve is. The short answer is "it depends". The purpose of this sell wow gold guide isn't to give you a clear path from start to finish becoming an all powerful pod pilot.
It is to help new players understand the differences between the ship types. Discussion of Tech2 ships is not in the scope of this guide as it would only make the hierarchy confusing and T2 ships aren't something that new players need to worry about for a while.
Frigates - The first ship you ever use is a Frigate. They don't have a lot of fitting slots. They don't have a lot of shields and armor either. But, they are the fastest and nimblest ship class. Frigates fit small sized weapons.
Destroyers - Not necessarily the next ship class you'll use, but the next in the list is the Destroyer. This sub-class of frigates has many more high slots for fitting more guns. Their drawback is that they have a bigger signature radius.
This makes them much easier to hit, although they don't have more armor and shields than a frigate. Their main function is frigate killing, and it is a bit of a specialized role. Destroyers fit small sized weapons.
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Mexican, Mexican, Mexican food! Mmmmmm! I just love it! One reason I really love it is you can eat really powerful, delicious foods without a lot of calories and fat, if you choose wisely. My husband used to always say this about me... "She can turn any restaurant into a Mexican place!" I used to always order a grilled chicken salad (veggies only) with a side of beans (I would put on my salad) then use salsa for my dressing. Most basic restaurants have those ingredients, which makes a 6 point salad and it is really good! At home, I am always playing with foods and spices that are considered "Mexican" cilantro, lime, cumin, etc, I just love those bold flavors.
One night last week I had one extra strip steak left over that I had not cooked, some corn tortillas, peppers and onions and this turned out great!! These ingredients fed my family of four (two adults and two kids, 3 & 5) you may need more steak and veggies if you are feeding more people.
1 steak (whatever you love/have)
1 bell pepper, sliced (whatever color you have on hand, I used red)
1 large onion, sliced
1 lime, juice and zest
1/2 cup of cheese (I used a shredded Monterrey Jack/Colby mixture)
1/2 cup of Charro beans
Salt and fresh cracked Pepper to taste
1 teaspoon olive oil
Season steak, use salt, pepper, fresh lime juice and zest and let sit for a few minutes until you finish cooking the veggies. Heat a non-stick skillet with 1/2 teaspoon olive oil or non-stick spray if you would prefer. Add your onion and bell pepper and cook for about 3 minutes, season with salt and pepper, gently toss and move them to a plate, you don't want them mushy and they will continue to carry-over cook. Just set them aside and try not to eat them all :)
Then add the other 1/2 teaspoon of oil to your pan, turn up the heat and add your steak cook about 3 minutes per side then move it to a cutting board and let it rest for about 5 minutes. Then slice on the diagonal, against the grain.
I use corn tortillas, I love their flavor, they are gluten free and have less calories and more fiber than flour but they do need to be heated before using, in my opinion. I warm them for about 45 seconds per side in a non-stick skillet then make your quesadilla however you like, this one is the one I made for my kids to share.
Weight Watcher Friends: The points for this one varies, depending on what you put on your quesdilla. Two corn tortillas have 2 points, you don't need much meat, I use about 2 oz, 2 points, then add tons of veggies, 0 points and then a few beans, 1 point and 1T of cheese, 1 point. The total is 6 points. Enjoy!


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Once A Warrior, Part VII
Rating: PG-13
It doesnt take long to skin a man alive.
It feels like years. Years in which you spend most of the time immersed in boiling oil, bathing in the fire of a Star Destroyers main heat exhaust, locked in the heart of a star wrapped in a pain so complete that you become a part of it, your thoughts themselves mere expressions of agony, flares from the surface of the flame.
Occasionally, almost by accident, your consciousness is borne back to the real world, to take a few lucid breaths of clear awareness. Your eyes are wide, and your prone body stretches away beneath the vantage-point of your perceptions to a distant horizon like a sea of fire. Every nerve burns with the white heat of an oxy-torch, while sparks of superheated awareness try to flee the pain in panic. From the wildfire of your body, thousand silent, screaming voices rage at you.
For a moment, perhaps, you touch the Force, and you remember the jungle on Yavin 4, burning.
You look down at the slope of your leg, seeing the red-blooded ham of your thigh pulsing and bloody, horribly alive; seeing the thick, fleshy rope of peeled skin hanging loose below it, loosely spun and slung between hip and knee. You see the shapers thump flick back your kneecap, and you see the knife slice sharply through the joint underneath, amputating your leg.
You dont feel a thing, though.
But then you realise how much everything else hurts. You realise that your body has become a molten crucible, that this physical working is merely the alchemy that smelts flawed humanity, burning off the useless slag, purifying and forging what remains into a blade of strong and perfect pain.
And then the red-gold currents drag you back down again.
Your last thought is that the thought-destroying pain itself has saved you from the horror of becoming truly pure.
And then, even that is lost.
When theyre finished, they rub salt into the wounds. Literally.
I roll my eyes back in their sockets, feeling tears welling up from under them. Stupid tears. Why do I have to cry. Why cant I be strong?
Why cant I be like ... like ...
My breath stalls, catching in my throat as the symbiotes bound to my lungs reach the end of the latest beat in their mechanical rhythm.
As I breathe out, I realise that I am Darth Vader.
I cry letting the tears fall, letting a long wail of despair whistle out around the thick, pulsing, choking vine that snakes and worms its way down in my throat and into me.
The ysalamir looks down at me from its branch, apparently quite indifferent to what is being done to me.
The only good thing I can think of is that I am inside the bubble. The ysalamir projects a Force-null bubble, hiding me, and my pain, from everyone else.
Here, my pain my shame belongs to me, and me alone. I remember Ben being born, how that nearly knocked me out. And that was just life, just perfect.
Mom, Dad, Uncle Luke, Aunt Mara, Jaya, Jace. Tahiri. They cant feel this.
They probably think Im dead.
Assuming any of them are still alive.
I roll my eyes to slough off the blurring tears I cant blink any more and I see Niia Phaath carrying a pink bundle across the damutek, depositing it into a clear tub full of some sort of liquid. I flinch, and focus, and watch the bundle unfold like a rose, staining the liquid red.
As I watch it, my mind finally catches up with the fact that its trapped in a physical cage of muscle and bone, wrapped only in pain.
As I sink beneath the surface of the molten fire, I remember green eyes, solemn and sympathetic, with a calm, self-aware knowledge in them.
I want to scream.
After another eternity.
Through the pain that scatters my thoughts, through tears I can no longer blink away, I realise that Im no longer the centre of attention in the damutek. Im no longer being skinned alive.
Ive been skinned. Psychologically, at least, the fact that its over makes the pain easier to bear. That puffy pink thing earlier was my skin maybe some other parts of me as well.
I look down, surprised that I can still move my neck. I see a shifting, gleaming sea of muscles, exposed bones like half-sunk spars of pale wreckage, things that squirm and pump and slide just beneath the surface like slick-backed creatures swimming through the depths, their smooth backs breaking the waves.
The neatly-wrapped package strapped against my loins stands out like a sore thumb a starchy, linen-coloured parcel of clyriz-impregnated silkskin, carefully packed and bandaged. For a moment, I feel a surge of gratitude, and the muscles of my cheek twitch in a movement that would have shaped a lazy grin onto my lips, when I still had lips to smile with.
Its sore, though, cracking the stiff scabs forming on my face.
I raise my head, through the blur of hurt, I watch the Shapers working. Theres a familiar corpse on the slab over there.
Its me.
Or at least, someone that looks like me. Theyre wrapping him in my skin.
My skin.
Oh, kriff, it hurts ...
Ah! Ah! Ah!
Pain blurs my thoughts.
When I surface again, Master Shaper Yal Phaath is peering at me, the glow from his implants bleeding like sunrise around his narrowed eyes.
Beyond him, I can see my own corpse. I recognize my trashed Jedi jumpsuit, my battered old lightsaber, my limp hand flopped off the side of the table, my floppy, fairish hair.
I wonder how much of me is in that corpse, and how much is left in this thing that thinks its me, over here, observing.
I look up at Yal Phaath.
Come here, Niia, he says my hearing isnt much good any more, but the tizowyrm is still squirming inside my skull, translating the meaning, and the words dance along a clear path in my thoughts, like cool water. Contact. You have a deft touch.
Nuh, I say. Whatever that means. Nuh-huh. Uh. Uhh!
Yal Phaath smiles sympathetically, and tilts my head to the side. I feel the smart of his rough palm against my cheek see the tizowyrm wriggling in the palm of his hand.
Silence roars in my ears.
Tears flood my eyes.
I feel numb.
Niia the Shaper Adept steps over, gripping my raw cheek, tighter than Yal Phaath did, and pressing her thumb into the corner of my eye-socket, the tactile pad against the soft sphere of my eyeball.
My first coherent reaction is to realise that she must have slid her sharp-edged nail underneath the lid.
I remember what that thumb can do.
My eyes bulge.
No! Not my eyes!
Pain stabs along my optic nerve, like a nail driven into my skull. Like Force lightning in my mind.
For a moment, agony.
Numbness follows, and in the narrowed field of vision of my one remaining eye, edged with fireworks of pain, I watch as Niia Phaath steps away, my amputated eyeball held carefully in the crook of her claw, and drops it into a little sac of saline liquid. It sinks to the bottom, bobs happily up again, and settles just below the surface a cyclopean tadpole with a bloodied tail like a newborns cord, looking at me like some sort of Yuuzhan Vong sight-gag.
Niia smiles at me, the same sort of reassuring smile that Yal Phaath gave me back when I woke up and found myself here. I stare back, my one-eyed gaze rolling around her body. I try not to think of what my face must look like.
Face? What face?
Yal Phaath is attaching my face to the corpse on the table.
I watch Niia carry my eye over to the corpse that has been dressed in my skin, and hand it to him.
He nods, and lays the jar down on a desk, and she comes back for my other eye.
That one eye is all I have left one blue eye, swiveling in its socket. I look at my other eye, and my other eye looks back at me. I feel the surface of my eye stinging with dried tears.
At least my lack of eyelids wont be a problem now.
Then, there will only be pain.
I think Im going to laugh.
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by Michael Gilbert
January 14, 2007
What is so great about having a Gospel Meeting? After all, it takes up so much time and money, and they are not well attended like they used to be. Perhaps we should drop them altogether, or maybe even replace them with something that's actually interesting to people. Who wants to hear a man preach the Bible for an hour anyway?
Because Truth Is Preached
To those who love the truth, the Gospel Meeting is another opportunity to hear the Truth preached. Salvation comes only through the preaching of the Truth, for Paul wrote, "So, as much as in me is, I am ready to preach the gospel to you that are in Rome also. For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation…" (Rom. 1:16). Paul spoke of God's wisdom in using preaching when he wrote, "For after that in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom knew not God, it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe" (1 Cor. 1:21).
In a time when Satan attacks God's people with a ruthless vengeance, why shouldn't Christians desire to hear the simple Gospel preached? When the world is groping in darkness, is there a reason why Christians shouldn't cherish the opportunity to invite a lost friend to hear God's power of salvation proclaimed by faithful and able men?
To Strengthen The Church
To those who love the truth, Gospel Meeting time is an opportunity to build up the Lord's church. Who could deny that the Lord's people have been on decline since the 1960's or earlier? The reasons for this decline are many.
Brotherhood wide, our leaders have lost much of their biblical knowledge. When Israel and Judah were in decline, God, through the prophet Hosea offered the following reason, "My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children" (Hosea 4:6). Among many leaders, emotions and feelings have replaced knowledge and reason. Conviction and passion is now viewed as being mean-spirited and offensive.
Brotherhood wide, the spiritual interests of many members have been replaced with entertainment. Ours is the age of technology, and Satan surely smiles as we recreate ourselves to death with modern gadgets. Hollywood's use of movie theaters, VCR's and DVD players has certainly been a tool of Satan over the years. We have committed ourselves to giving our entertainers a large portion of our paycheck while the treasury of the Lord's church dwindles. Paul's warning grows more ominous by the day…"Be not decieved; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap" (Gal. 6:7). We are "sowing the wind" and soon we will "reap the whirlwind" (Hosea 8:7)
Brotherhood wide, too many parent's have not taught their children the way of God (Deut. 6:5-7). Rest assured, if parents aren't taking the opportunity to teach their children, then Satan will. And Satan's teachings lead down the path of doom and destruction. Our children are a gift from God, and they must be presented back to God just as He gave them to us – pure and free from sin (Eccl. 7:29). This can only be done through Jesus Christ's precious blood (1 Pet. 1:18-19).
Why not take this opportunity to not only attend the Gospel Meeting this week, but to also invite your friends and family? Brother Jones will do an excellent job this week in our Gospel Meeting, and he will also help us to enhance our worship through song. Why not be present at every assembly? You'll be glad you did!
Sermon Topics for our Gospel Meeting
Bible Class: Authority
AM Sermon: What In The World Are You Waiting For?
PM Sermon: Heaven
Monday: Tomorrow
Tuesday: Save The Children
Wed. & Thu.: Congregational Singing School


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Pepe will always be at your side whether you're questing, grinding, dailies or even erping! Even when switching between all of your characters!
He will sit wherever you perch him, he will watch over your corpse when someone camps you!
Need someone to talk to during raids? Pepe will be there ever vigilant, and he won't judge you, your raiding or your pvp skillz!
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Stampede Trail follows the route taken by miners to gold mines 90+ miles west at Kantishna. In more recent times the trail gained notoriety for the events documented in Jon Krakauer's 'Into the Wild' (1996) of how a young man lost his life camped in a bus. Stampede Road, extending eight miles west from Parks Highway MP 251 to Eight Mile Lake, is the only part of the trail that is vehicle accessible. This was the second weekend in a row that I drove to Eight Mile Lake - while the scenes that started and ended 09/10/05 prior to and along Stampede Road are in this album, intervening photos are in three other albums titled 'Eight Mile Lake', 'Migration', and 'Takeoffs and Landings'.Read More


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Australia concerned over illegal migration of Lankan refugees via Indian coasts
Colombo, Jan. 23(ANI): Australia has expressed concern over the use of Indian coast to illegally migrate to Australia following the arrest of six Sri Lankan refugees while attempting to take a boat to Australia from Velankanni in Nagappattinam district.
Australian official praised India's Q Branch of the state police which arrested the six Sri Lankan refugees from Tiruchy and Karur while they were illegally trying to sail to New Zealand, but later cleared it was Australia, reports Lanka Page.
The official said that in the last 18 months, three futile attempts were made my human traffickers to illegally ship Sri Lankans as well as Indians to Australia.
The Australian envoy added that Australia is only 3,000 nautical miles from India while New Zealand is 6,000 nautical miles,so they had planned to enter Australia.(ANI)


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