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You've already read the review of the Jeep Compass (or at least you looked at the pictures). Well, the Dodge Caliber is a Jeep Compass with a Dodge grille grafted on. Actually it's the other way around. I'll just say the Dodge is the car DCX was supposed to build, while the Jeep is the botched-nose-job twin that made it to production because it "did well in the clinics."
But enough about the Compass, we're here with the Caliber, and trying our best to avoid any Dr. Evil Fembot-like puns. The Caliber follows up the Dodge Neon, which was launched under the oh-so-cute tagline of "Hi." That probably explains the "Anything But Cute" advertising message of the Caliber. But we didn't need an ad to tell us the Caliber is ugly, we can see it with our own eyes. Although it's a more awkward, Citroen CX kind of ugly rather than a what-were-they-thinking, Studebaker Avanti kind of ugly. [How dare you — ed.]
On a positive note, the Caliber is definitely not bland. And the exterior shape results in a spacious interior. The inside feels huge, although a large dashboard top is a shade too minivanlike for our tastes. The plastics, which reviewers have universally maligned, are not quite as bad as you'd think. They look great until you touch them and realize how horribly cheap they seem. But such is the compromise of a budget car (though the Caliber R/T we tested starts at $19,985). You could have nicer plastics, like a VW Rabbit or a Honda Civic, or you could have cool shit like body-color inserts in the seating and on the dash, a semi-refrigerated drink compartment, lighted cupholders, AC power, and flip-down rear speakers. It really depends on what you like, and if you like features, the Caliber has a ton of them.
Unfortunately, if you like driving, there are better choices than the Caliber. The Caliber goes about its transportation duties with a can-do approach. The 172-hp four-cylinder gets things moving quietly, but not exactly quickly, and it's likely either of the less-powerful engine choices struggle in this area. Part of the sluggish response — also somewhat evident in the steering — has to be due to the all-wheel-drive system. The continuously variable transmission also hides some driving sensations with its smoothness. Like the interior plastics, though, enthusiastic driving spotlights the budgetary trade-offs. From a market standpoint, that's probably a good idea. Budget-car consumers tend to focus on safety, features, and space, and the Caliber succeeds on all of those fronts.
Let's just say, if the wizards who built the Neon SRT-4 can make a similar transformation with the Caliber SRT-4, that car will be awesome. In the meantime, the Caliber presents itself as a solid entry in the compact-car market. [Mike Austin]
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Why aren't more people talking about Yatai, wonders Dave and Stuff after two knockout meals there. The "Asian tapas bar" certainly has an eclectic menu, with gado gado, "monsoon ceviche," sushi rolls, and Korean tuna sashimi.
But oysters on the half shell are simple–just a dash of soy and citrus–and perfect. Shiitake mushroom, stuffed with spicy tuna and topped with pickled onions, is excellent. Albacore sashimi is fresh and delicious, a great match for the crispy onions that come with it. DIY charcoal-grilled ribeye is the most expensive thing on the menu at $17, and worth it.
Desserts are made in-house, and include a fine pumpkin flan.
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I keep seeing these articles that talk about loving a girl, a woman, who doesn't know how to be loved. Right away a feeling of "savior" mentality washes over. Well FUCK THAT!
What if you loved a woman who DOES know how to be loved? What if she knows how to love you? What if you changed you're whole entire pattern of choice by choosing the one who scares the shit out of you because they would stay? Because they will receive your love? What if, What if you were appreciated not on your savior skills but for who you genuinely are?
First off, women who know how to love, and be loved, are out there! Knowing how to receive love is so important because when you receive your partners love, you are telling them, I trust you. I trust us.
A woman who knows how to love and be loved, knows the importance of communication and that sometimes communication mishaps happen. It's not something to freak out over, it's something to allow you the opportunity to hear one another the way the other needs to be heard in addition to getting to know your partners sensitivities so you may work together instead of against one another. Communication mishaps teach you about yourself.
A women who knows how to love and to be loved understands that there are peaks and valleys and relationships grow in spurts and sometimes slowly and no matter this will require nurturing. This doesn't mean she is perfect or will always say the right thing, or that she won't have her moments, or feel sad, blah, blah, blah. What this means is that she believes in you and she knows your heart and adores you and there's no one else she'd rather spend her time with at the end of her day.
A woman who knows how to love and be loved, will speak clearly on her behalf. She won't speak belittling to you and she will do her best to use tenderness and direct words to let you know what she needs. She will fight for the two of you. She views she, as a we. She will appreciate when you forgive her and read between the lines from time to time and that only makes her love you more.
A woman who knows how to love and be loved will want to love you how you need to be loved. She will learn if she doesn't quite have it down. She will hear you and do her best to give you exactly what you need. This can be very scary for some men because that means all the old bullshit habits of defending yourself, of being heard, being right, being validated and appreciated just may be fulfilled. This tends to create a feeling of resistance because it's too good to be true and perhaps they've been conditioned to be in fight mode vs. delight mode. Sometimes this can feel boring at first, but the truth is, this is the person that will stick by you in the fox hole.
A woman who knows how to love and be loved is whole without you, but loves her life and herself with you. She wants to make the nest cozy for the two of you, not just for her. She knows you add something magical and deeply meaningful to her life and would never undervalue your amazing gifts as they are a part of her soul.
A woman who knows how to be loved and to love, knows that when shit gets a little thick, she's not going to threaten leaving, she not going to bolt at the first signs of clashing and she knows the value of working through a relationship when there is love, deep down to the core everlasting, love. She will forgive, not hold grudges and move forward so you may do the same. So don't be nervous by a little feist and fire from the belly for that is what keeps things real, passionate and strong like the root of a tree spiraling down into the earth to be seeded.
A woman who knows how to love and be loved will be strong for her and strong for you when life gets tough or you are down. She will support you, encourage you, be real with you and never withhold her love because she knows that is part of the steady foundation for building continuous trust between the two of you. She will never allow you to feel like you're standing alone. She may let you figure you out things for yourself, but you will never be abandoned because it's too much for her.
A woman who knows how to love and be loved, receives who you are, and lets' you be that person, because she believes in the two of you and believes in you. She knows how she feels being loved by you and that this doesn't always come easy for you but that you are her rock, you are her support, you are her sounding board, you are her strength as well, you are her fun, you are her passion, you are a part of each other. It just is… She is a warrior of love, she is a defender, she is a gatherer, she is a pillar of strength, she holds the womb of comfort and sacredness just for you. She is love and will be loved. She will go down into the depths of muddy painful waters with you and rise to the top holding your hand.
So really, fuck these titled articles of how to love a girl who doesn't know how to be loved. I know how to be loved and I know how to love. It's time we stop labeling men and women like they are broken. We are healing, healers, feeling, feelers and require patience. We are not broken. We just are… Let's love our men. Let's love our women. Let's love one another because it's the most potent and magical feeling there is. [mks_icon icon="fa-heart" color="#dd3333″ type="fa"]


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You may have heard defenders of Republicans, who are claiming the right to rape women with the authority of the state via their many ultrasound laws currently sweeping the nation via the state level, explain that some of these laws do not mandate a vaginal probe, and therefore are not rape.
After all, it would be politically costly, even for rape-denying Republicans, to not only legalize rape, but to mandate it. They found this out when they tried to mandate vaginal ultrasounds in Virginia.
You see, rape is defined by the Justice Department and FBI (for reporting/statistical purposes – note that state by state definitions of rape vary) as, "Penetration, no matter how slight, of the vagina or anus with any body part or object, or oral penetration by a sex organ of another person, without the consent of the victim."
So Republicans took out the word vaginal and replaced it with language that mostly only women who have had vaginal ultrasounds understand to mean vaginal ultrasound, and we all know Republicans aren't interested in listening to women's experiences ("mob rule") as they pass these unprecedented invasions against women across the country. Republican Governor Rick Perry (R-TX) can't stop trying to shame and hush state Senator Wendy Davis (D-Fort Worth) on the issue of women's healthcare.
The language of Wisconsin Senate bill is an example of how they imbed the transvaginal probe while claiming you have a choice, "An ultrasound on the pregnant woman using whichever transducer the woman chooses; provide a simultaneous oral explanation during the ultrasound including the number of unborn children and presence and location of the unborn child; display the ultrasound images so that the pregnant woman may view them; provide a medical description of the ultrasound images including the dimensions of the unborn child and a description of any viewable external features and internal organs of the unborn child; and provide a means for the pregnant woman to visualize any fetal heartbeat, in a quality consistent with current medical practice, and a simultaneous oral explanation of the visual display of the heartbeat in a manner understandable to a layperson (ultrasound requirements)."
Hint: In order to achieve most of that with the "quality consistent with current medical practice", a transvaginal ultrasound must be used. Oh, but they didn't SAY vaginal probe. Republicans learned after the Virginia debacle. They found a new way to mandate vaginal ultrasounds without saying it.
There are two main types of fetal ultrasound exams, per the Mayo Clinic. The vaginal ultrasound is used in early pregnancies because the uterus and fallopian tubes are closer to the vagina than to the abdominal wall at that time. To wit:
- Transvaginal ultrasound. With this type of fetal ultrasound, a wand-like transducer is placed in your vagina to send out sound waves and gather the reflections. Transvaginal ultrasounds are used most often during early pregnancy, when the uterus and fallopian tubes are closer to the vagina than to the abdominal surface.
- Transabdominal ultrasound. A transabdominal fetal ultrasound is done by moving a transducer — a small plastic device that sends and receives sound waves — over your abdomen. This type of fetal ultrasound helps your health care provider determine your baby's gestational age and evaluate your baby's growth and development. The exam usually takes about 20 minutes.
As Think Progress explained in February, many of the laws mandate that the women must see the fetus, and therefore, since most abortions happen at an early stage, it mandates a vaginal probe. Others mandate hearing the fetal heartbeat, and the transvaginal probe is the medically preferred ultrasound to hear the fetal heartbeat.
Hike your feet up into some stirrups so you can get a transducer so large it requires lubricant shoved up your vagina until it hits and applies enough pressure against your cervix to read the uterus, ovaries, etc. This version of rape is now mandated by many states, courtesy of "small government" Republicans, only they're not calling it rape. They're calling it an option that's "beneficial" to your health.
In Romeo and Juliet, Juliet knew that the names of things do not change what they are:
O, be some other name!
What's in a name? that which we call a rose
By any other name would smell as sweet.
So, too, a state mandated and unnecessary transvaginal probe by any other name is as invasive as a rape as defined by the DOJ, because it is what it is no matter what they call it.
We will refer to Republican ultrasound laws as mandated vaginal ultrasounds, because that is what they are. And Republican mandated ultrasound laws are state authorized rape. No sweet smelling lies can make this outrageous assault upon the bodies of women any less egregious, no matter what they call it.
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The U.S. Department of Transportation could clear the way for work to start on a new Milwaukee-to-Madison high-speed rail line within the next two weeks, Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood said Thursday.
LaHood spoke at a Senate subcommittee hearing in Washington, D.C., in response to questions from Sen. Herb Kohl (D-Wis.) about the $822 million in stimulus money that the federal government recently awarded to Wisconsin for high-speed rail projects, including $810 million for the Milwaukee-to-Madison line and $12 million for upgrades on the existing Milwaukee-to-Chicago route.
Kohl was pressing LaHood to ensure that the money would be released quickly, allowing construction to start this fall. According to remarks released by the senator's office, Kohl said, "In the short-term, the projects will create thousands of jobs and Wisconsin is anxious to get started. If our goal is quickly creating jobs, getting this money out the door seems to be the most important thing we can do."
Wisconsin's plans call for completing final design and engineering work this year, and possibly starting construction. But even if construction is under way, the two leading Republican gubernatorial candidates, Milwaukee County Executive Scott Walker and former U.S. Rep. Mark Neumann, have said they could halt the work if taxpayers would cover operating costs. Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett, the likely Democratic nominee, has accused his rivals of putting ideology ahead of economic development.
Quick federal action also would help in procuring trains and locomotives, said Chris Klein, executive assistant to state Transportation Secretary Frank Busalacchi. The state already has a no-bid contract with Spanish train manufacturer Talgo to build two 14-car trains for the Milwaukee-to-Chicago route, and a joint purchasing deal with Oregon will cut the combined price of those trains from $47.1 million to $43.6 million, Klein said. But the state Department of Transportation has not yet exercised its option to buy two more trains from Talgo for the Milwaukee-to-Madison route, he said.
Because the state will be spending stimulus money to buy those two trains, along with the eight locomotives that will be used with all four trains, state officials want to talk with the Federal Railroad Administration to be sure they're following proper procedures, Klein said. The department will use a competitive process to pick the locomotive vendor, he said.


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George Takei and other Star Trek Gems
I am a huge fan of George Takei and absolutely love the way he has used his fame to speak out for equality for the LGBT community as well as to shine light on what happened to the Japanese Americans during WWII.
Fans of the original Star Trek know that this is nothing new for the cast and writers of the long-loved sci-fi. Star Trek has been the model of equality since its first airing, uniting all races of humans and aliens in a single star-ship and a common goal. Most notably, they cast a black woman to play the part of communications officer Lieutenant Uhura during a time when blacks were still fighting to end segregation in the south.
Years after the fact, we are all still talking about the first interracial kiss on television. Simply ground-breaking.
Those of us who want to raise children who are accepting and loving to all- regardless of race or sexual orientation- need to be mindful that we expose our children to television like Star Trek, shows where equality is valued.
Beyond exposure, role play can also be an invaluable tool in raising healthy, loving children. For this particular activity we used wooden clothes pegs and colored them to look like our favorite Star Trek characters.
The kids helped make a couple dolls and then we got to work. Or shall I say play.
While we played with the dolls, we discussed how every doll was just as wonderful and fun as every other. Whether they were blue or red, whether they liked vanilla ice cream or chocolate, all the dolls were equal in our play.
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While the rest of the world is anxiously preparing for the arrival of the "big man in red" soon, birders from all over the country are just as excited about the appearance of a "little bird in green." The Green-breasted Mango hummingbird has been making a rare appearance in Texas at Quinta Mazatlan World Birding Center in McAllen. Not seen in Texas since 2009, this tropical bird is attracting birders from as far away as Alaska.
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According to the Audubon Society, Mangos are rather large hummingbirds with slightly curved bills, living around forest edges and clearings in tropical lowlands. This species is widespread in the American tropics and ranges as far north as northeastern Mexico. It has strayed north into Texas at least 20 times, with scattered records elsewhere, as far east as Georgia and as far north as Wisconsin.
Male Mangos sing from high perches, repeating a twangy song three or four times in a row. When feeding on insects or nectar, these Mangos frequently fan out their tails. The female Green-breasted Mango also has green upper parts, but the stripe down the throat and breast is narrower and is blackish green; it also is bordered laterally with a long white stripe (so the female lacks the glittering blue of the male). The tips of the tail feathers of the female are white.
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The Quinta Mazatlan World Birding Center is a premier birding destination in south Texas. Leisurely walking the quiet trails through Quinta Mazatlan, you will find yourself insulated from the rush and noise of the surrounding city. As you relax and become attuned to your surroundings, you will discover a magical world of birds and other wildlife flourishing at this remarkable urban oasis. Over 250 different species of birds have been documented on the property,
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Lowcost Travel Group has ceased trading.
The online travel agent (OTA), which has its head office in Palma, Majorca, closed its office and sent staff home today at 3pm. It has 27,000 customers overseas and 110,000 forward bookings.
Administrators have been appointed and a notice has been posted on the company's website. A total of 451 staff are being made redundant, including 264 in Krakow, 120 in Gatwick, 60 in Majorca and seven in Switzerland.
In 2013 the CAA issued a statement warning holidaymakers to be cautious about booking with the company. It came after the OTA announced it was moving its base to Majorca and would therefore no longer be required to offer consumer protection under the UK system.
In September last year Lowcost confirmed redundancies would be made as it centralised core functions to new offices in Poland to drive cost efficiencies and maximise profits. It moved its marketing, IT, sales, aviation and customer services divisions to Krakow.
The company was set-up in 2004 and claimed to carry around two million passengers a year. Sources told Travel Weekly last week that Lowcost had been due to receive extra funding towards the end of last year however it didn't materialise and as a result a string of senior redundancies were made.
The CAA said it was aware of the failure, but confirmed Lowcost has no Atol licence.
Abta confirmed that Lowcost was no longer a member, and its Spanish base meant it was not covered by UK financial protection schemes.
It also warned those with forward bookings to check on all elements of their travel plans before departure.
A statement said: "We would strongly advise you to check with your travel provider if you booked through one or with your airline to determine if your flight seats remain available and to separately check with any accommodation to determine if your booking is secure.
"If in any doubt, we recommend that you contact your local Citizens Advice or Trading Standards Department (see your local telephone directory).
"Most standard travel insurance policies do not include travel organiser failure however we would recommend you check your insurance policy along with contacting your credit or debit card company, if that is how you paid.
"We strongly recommend that you satisfy yourself in relation to any travel arrangements before departing."
Steve Endacott, chairman of Teletext Holidays, said: "With the exchange rate being so low OTAs are really exposed as their pricing strategy is out of line with the major tour operators who have hedged.
"This is not a problem if you have a strong balance sheet, but if you have a weak balance sheet then this will push you over the edge."
Endacott added: "This is the first time that there has been a major collapse that will really hurt the UK customer because there is no UK bonding in place.
"A lot of people are completely financially exposed. This will naturally make people revert to the traditional tour operators who have Atol licences and I wouldn't be surprised if the Atol logo will now become even more prominent than it's ever been before."
Manchester-based website Low Cost Deals, which specialises in Club Med, Mark Warner, Kuoni and Titan, has tweeted to clarify that it is a completely separate company from Low Cost Travel Group.
The tweet said: "Low Cost Deals would like to clarify that in no way are we associated with Low Cost Travel Group. Your Holidays are fully bonded protected under both the Atol and Abta protection scheme."
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Chef Andrew Gruel is the founder of Slapfish, a food truck-turned-mini-chain of fish shacks in Orange County, California. Gruel's passion is supporting sustainable fisheries, and the chef is one of a handful of restaurants to partner with Seafood for the Future, a non-profit program from the Aquarium of the Pacific. Their mutual goal is to support the vast eco-system of the ocean's bounty by supporting small-scale fisheries and creating a cuisine centered around wild, seasonal seafood.
Gruel, a New Jersey native, is heading back to Brooklyn for a pop-up dinner in collaboration with Loosie's Kitchen (91 South 6th Street; no phone) on October 13. "New Jersey and New York are my heart," Gruel writes via email; "I went to California temporarily and fell in love with the weather and the community's love of progressive eco-friendly food. I am now trying to bring that awareness back home."
The team is planning to serve a five-course prix-fixe menu, which will feature locally-sourced seafood in dishes like Gruel's signature lobster burger and an "ultimate" fish taco with Montauk tilefish.
Tickets (available here) to the event are $70 per person, with seatings at 6, 7:30 and 9 p.m.
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Prevent Drowning
The importance of choosing the proper swim gear for children cannot be over -emphasized. Most children love to swim and play in the water, and they like the brightly covered colored swimsuits, swim goggles, and swimming fins.
However, drowning kills more than 1000 children a year under the age of 14 and at least another 20 are admitted to the emergency room because of near-drowning.
I Almost Lost my Son to Drowning
I almost lost my youngest son to drowning when he was approximately 18 months old. I was working parttime selling real estate at that time, and I had a 22-year-old babysitter who came with good references. We had a fenced-in-pool- in our backyard and one afternoon my youngest son was napping.
The babysitter decided to wash her car after she had done some sunbathing by the pool, and I was paying her for this!! My baby son had no fear of the water, and we kept door latched at all times.
Apparently, he woke up and went out the unlatched door and jumped in the pool. My oldest son was about 10 and found his brother at the bottom of the pool. He yelled for the babysitter who came running and jumped in the pool and pulled my son out, while my oldest son called 911. And then he called me. My baby regained consciousness fairly quickly and vomited, which was a great sign.
Of course, I just jumped in my car and drove as fast as I could to the hospital. While driving those 22 miles I was terrified that maybe my son had died and they didn't want to tell me on the phone. I arrived at the hospital and as I walked back into the ER I recognized his cry, which was music to my ears.
They kept him overnight to make sure he didn't get pneumonia or have any other problems, and I spent the night holding him sitting in a rocking chair. In fact, I held him wrapped so tightly in a blanket that he developed a temperature of 101° that returned to normal after the blanket was removed.
I knew how close I came to losing him that day, but by the grace of God not only was his life spared, he had no ill effects from the experience at all. He still wasn't afraid of the water! It is certainly one of the scariest events that ever happened in my life, and I was so proud of my 10-year-old son for reacting so competently in the face of this crisis.
Swimming Pool Safety Tips
Personal Home Swimming Pools
It is essential to have a fenced-in yard to prevent a neighborhood child from getting into your pool. Also, also have a responsible adult present when any children are swimming.
Watch all children carefully, and younger children certainly need safety gear when they are in the water. There are numerous types of items to keep children safe when they are in the pool.
The children must understand your rules when they are swimming for safety.
CDC Guide
The CDC lists specific guidelines on their website to help prevent drowning:
- Supervision: Always have a responsible adult to watch children when they're swimming or playing around water or even in the bathtub. The adults should not be reading a book, talking on the phone or playing cards as they need to keep their full attention on the children.
- Buddy System: Always swim with a buddy and choose swimming sites that have a lifeguard whenever possible.
- Avoid Alcohol: Do not drink alcohol before or during swimming, while boating or water skiing or while supervising children.
- Learn to Swim: Formal swimming lessons can help protect children from drowning. Pool fencing is still necessary even when children know how to swim because they need the supervision of an adult.
- Learn Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR): During the time it takes paramedics to arrive at the scene you can save a life by starting CPR on an unconscious person. CPR performed by bystanders has been shown to improve the outcomes in drowning victims. With the new CPR guidelines this is not difficult to do. Please check my CPR hub that explains the guidelines in detail.
- Do Not Use Air Filled or Foam Toys: The air-filled or foam toys, such as "water wings", "noodles", or inner tubes in place of life jackets are not designed to keep simple swimmers safe
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Have fun with your children and make it a safe summer!
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The article is informative. As wearing jacket while swimming is one of the important things before going for swimming. But, along with the jacket, some safety measures like glass pool fencing, pool alarms, pool covers, etc must also be installed near the swimming pool area to avoid accidents. Now, a number of different sites like http://www.sloaneaccessories.com.au/product-range , Glasswithclass, etc are available on the Internet, providing the installation services of these safety measures.
sure educate more people to avoid 1000 deaths of children in pool area
Excellent article with some great information. Rated up.
1000 swimming fatalities a yr?! Wow.
My goodness, what a frightening incident. Great article on the seriousness of water safety...there are too many stories in Nevada each summer, where the outcomes aren't good.
Hiya Pam, this is awesome. You covered a lot of topics on children's swimming and swimwear. Voted up and awesome.
Have a nice day,
Nice hub.Really enjoyed your tips to swimming safety.
There is nothing like a first hand experience for a good teacher. So glad you shared this. Very timely with spring upon us. I hope it is highlighted many times over with comments. Voted up.
I always have had a very healthy respect for water....great points to make and I'm glad your boy was okay, too!
Great info Pam. You were lucky with your son.
Awesome and useful swimming children's swim gear as the swimming season is upon us. Great products and tips on swimming. :) Katie
And I echo what drbj just said. You and your son are both fortunate and your older son who was so young at the time, a real hero! Voted up and very useful.
I can't echo enough every comment you made, Pamela, about the importance of teaching our children to swim. I'm so happy for you that your son survived with no ill effects.
Thanks pamela for your great hub.
Pamela, What a heart-stopping experience. With spring coming on and summer right behind, the pools will be crowed. Up!
Pamela -
Your story sent chills down my spine. I couldn't even imagine what that must have been like. I am so happy that your son was spared and is fine today.
Great hub and reminder to all on water safety. I just took my six month old foster daughter swimming for the first time last week in the indoor town pool and have just purchased an infant swim jacket for her.
Great job on this hub.
OMG- Pamela that is crazy scary, I couldn't ever imagine getting that phone call, praise God your son was spared. Great hub, excellent tips on how to prevent drowning, thanks so much for sharing this.
Oh my gosh, Pam, that is so scary.
I almost drowned in the ocean when I was a baby and have always been afraid of the water so good to know he is still brave.


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WASHINGTON--The first phase of a study on children in licensed private child-care centers shows that they are faring "exceedingly well in educational and social development," a report released here last week concludes.
The study, which the researchers say is the most comprehensive of its kind, looked primarily at for-profit centers, which some previous studies had suggested do not rank as highly as nonprofits in the quality of care they provide.
The research project was launched last year by the Foundation for Child Care Research and Education, an organization rounded by leaders in the proprietary child-care industry.
It was led by two University of Arizona educators with the Tucson-based research firm Assessment Technology Inc. who have conducted extensive research on children's cognitive and social development.
The researchers, John R. Bergan and Jason K. Feld, gathered data on 1,480 4-year-olds in 122 child-care centers in 15 states as part of an ongoing study on the effects of center-based care on children's development. On average, the children spent nine hours a day, five days a week, 49 weeks a year in a center.
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The researchers also found that many of the programs have established networks with community agencies, schools, and professional groups. Ninety-eight percent provide workshops for teachers; about half offer workshops for parents.
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AQA GCSE Biology Unit 1b, Evolution and Environment
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Adaptation in Animals and Plants
- If animals and plants were not adapted to survive in the areas they live in, they would die.
- Animals in cold environments, eg polar bears, have thick fur and fat under the skin to stay warm. They also have white fur for camouflage, but underneath that they have black skin to trap heat energy from the sun. Their feet are large to allow them to walk on the snow, and a small surface area (small ears) to minimise heat loss.
- Animals in hot environments, eg elephants, have larger surface areas, ie large ears. These large areas of skin allow the animals to lose heat efficiently.
- Plants must be adapted to live in hot climates, eg the desert, and to avoid being eaten by other animals. Their adaptations include long roots (to absorb lots of water), small leaves and spikes (eg a cactus) to discourage animals from eating them.
Competition in Animals and Plants
Animals and plants compete with each other for many things. The most successful ones survive and pass their genes on to the next generation.
- Animals compete for water, food, space, mates and breeding sites
Eg; Cheetahs have adapted to run very fast to catch the best prey, and therefore the fastest ones survive. Some animals, eg caterpillars may be poisonous, and have warning colours so that other animals will not eat them!
- Plants compete for water, nutrients, light and space
Eg; snowdrops in a woodland have learned to flower early in the year while there are fewer leaves on the trees, so that they get enough light. Other plants spread their seeds over a large area so they do not compete with themselves.
Inheritance and Types of Reproduction
Information from parents is passed to the offspring in the genes. These genes are part of the chromosomes, which make up the nucleus of the cell.
The male and female sex cells (gametes; also called egg and sperm) contain the genes so the genetic information is passed on to the offspring.
Genes control the development of the characteristics of the offspring.
There are 2 types of reproduction, sexual (animals) and asexual (plants and bacteria)
- Sexual reproduction involves the fusion of gametes (sex cells) from 2 parents. There is a mixing of genetic information, so the offspring show variation.
- Asexual reproduction only uses one parent, so all the offspring are genetically identical to the parent and to each other - they are called clones.
Cloning in Plants (Cuttings or Tissue Culture) and
Individuals identical to their parents are known as clones. It is easy to clone plants, but very hard to clone animals.
- In plants, we can clone either by taking a cutting, or by taking groups of cells and growing them in a lab under special conditions (tissue culture).
Scientists can clone animals using fusion cell (embryo) cloning and adult cell cloning. This is a very expensive and quite new process, and we don't know how well it works in the long term!
- In embryo transplants, fertilised embryos are split into smaller groups of cells, which are each allowed to develop into a new animal.
- In adult cell cloning (eg Dolly the Sheep), the nucleus of the the animal you want is placed in an empty egg cell. This cell is then grown in a different animal.
Genetic Engineering - Messing about with DNA!
Genetic engineering is used to ensure that organisms have 'desired characteristics', ie cows with good milk yields.
New or alternative genes are added to the chromosomes. It is a controversial idea.
Basically, if you place a gene in a new organism, the new organism will have the characteristic that the gene is responsible for. Eg; Potatoes which are resistant to 'blight', a disease which kills them!
Genes are cut out of the chromosome using an enzyme, and the gene is then placed into the chromosome of a different organism; eg firefly genes into tobacco plants, which made the tobacco plants glow in the dark!
Bacteria have been genetically engineered to have the insulin production gene. Insulin is a hormone that people with diabetes need to inject. Bacteria can make insulin very quickly, to help people with diabetes.
The Earth and Evolution
The Earth is about 4500 million years old, and life appeared about 3500 million years ago. Fossils have helped us to find out when life began, but it is really hard to find good evidence, as most of the fossils are buried really deep in rocks under the Earth's crust.
Evolution is the process by which the first animals evolved into the animals we have on Earth today.
There are 2 main theories, those of Darwin and Lamarck.
Darwin - All organisms vary, and therefore some will survive better than others. (Natural Selection). Those that have the best adaptations will breed and pass on their characteristics.
Lamarck - If an organism uses a feature, eg rabbits using their ears a lot to hear predators, this feature will be passed on to their offspring.
It took a long time for people to realise that Darwin was right, because he had no evidence then, and people wanted to believe it was God who made animals the way they are.
Natural Selection and Extinction
Organisms of a species all vary from one another. Some organisms are more likely to survive and breed as they have 'better' characteristics. This is known as 'natural selection'.
Weaker members of the species may die from disease, lack of food, predators. The survival of organisms with the 'best characteristics' is known as 'survival of the fittest'. This was Darwin's idea, and explains evolution.
Extinction is where all of a species has become wiped out, eg the dinosaurs. It is triggered by a change in circumstances, ie a new disease, climate change, new predator or destruction of its habitat (where it lives).
Many species on Earth today are at risk of extinction, eg giant panda, white rhino etc.
The Effects of People on the Planet
The human population is increasing rapidly. This means we use up more resources and produce more waste and pollution.
We are using up raw materials eg fossil fuels (coal, oil and gas), and using more and more land, (building, quarrying, farming and waste dumping) which means animals lose their habitat, eg cutting down the rainforests.
Water - With sewage, fertiliser and toxic chemicals
Air - Greenhouse gases eg suphur dioxide, carbon dioxide and methane
Land - Pesticides and Herbicides (weed and pest killers) which can wash into the water supply.
Acid Rain and Global Warming
Acid rain is caused by Sulphur Dioxide gas, which dissolve in water to make acid. This makes rainwater acidic. This kills organisms, and can damage buildings. (The statues on the front of Exeter Cathedral are being eroded by acid rain)
Global warming is caused by 2 gases, carbon dioxide and methane.
Carbon dioxide comes from burning fossils fuels, and methane comes from rice production and cows farting!
As the population increases, we are burning more fossil fuels for cars, homes etc, and more rice and beef is needed to feed everyone.
These gases form a 'blanket' around the Earth, so it retains more heat from the sun, which makes the Earth warmer. This could cause ice caps to melt, sea levels to rise and low-lying countries (like us!) to be flooded!
Deforestation adds to global warming, as trees take in carbon dioxide and turn it into oxygen through photosynthesis. With fewer trees, less carbon dioxide can be absorbed.
Planning for the Future of Our Planet
If we continue to use up the Earth's resources, they will run out, IN OUR LIFETIME!
Sustainable development means finding ways of reducing our need for non renewable resources, eg coal, oil and gas.
This includes new fuel sources, eg wind and solar power, recycling and reclaiming land to avoid expanding the cities.
The world population is increasing, and needs housing. It is important not to build on green areas of the countryside, but use areas which have already been built on. This helps a lot in sustainable development.
Pollution indicators; (Common exam question in section 2!!)
Lichen (moss!) indicates the level of air pollution; the more species of lichen, the cleaner the air is.
Freshwater invertebrates (tiny creatures) indicate the level of pollution in rivers and streams; the more species there are, the cleaner the water is.
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Mesüt wrote:Missed the game as I was diving, sounded proper dogshit though, was just delighted when I saw 1-1.
Typical spineless performance v Jose/man Utd at OT?
Really poor performance, there was literally 15 minutes leading up to the goal where we didn't touch the ball.
Man u were shite as well.
Ox comes on, beats Rashford at right wing corner, puts in a purler and Giroud destroys Jones to thump it home off his head.
First shot on goal for the second half.
In the grand scheme of things, it's better than a loss, it puts them right back into midtable and another blow to their confidence, but for us it wasn't a promising performance at all.
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In the beginning of the doctoral programme, one is encouraged to write papers, as many as possible. Even if you end up publishing more than a dozen papers by the end of the first few years of your dissertation, till the time you haven't progressed with writing your thesis, you haven't moved closer to completion. That is for sure. Your supervisor would encourage you to write as many papers, but you need to be aware of how the academia works and start working on writing your thesis simultaneously.
There is one more concern that may creep in, if you use all your energy in writing the papers, it is a possibility that you may have a burn out before actually you even start writing your thesis. You may actually want to combine all your research papers into a dissertation but that actually is not a possibility. You would have to write it fresh and that would surely need energy, and capacity to produce the document.
At one point, while writing my own dissertation, I was so stressed and burnt out that it became difficult to even write one line for a few months. All the paper publication effort that I had put in for all the years, surprisingly did not help much, and rather did harm by exhausting my capacity to write further. I don't mean by saying this that one shouldn't write papers. It is important but not the only or the most important thing required for a Ph.D. That is the thesis and you shouldn't dilute or divert your focus from that. You must be cautious and learn from this mistake of other scholars, to not exhaust all your energy on tasks of second priority such as paper publications and teaching assignments, because if you also repeat the same, you would find yourself in an irreversible mess in your doctoral journey. Drained physically, emotionally, and even financially, when actually your dissertation would be still left to write.
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And rewrite from scratch. It cannot possibly become worse.
Developers behind the widely used OpenSSL encryption library have warned that they will issue fixes for a mix of bugs next Tuesday (1 March). The patches will land right in the middle of the RSA Conference, infosec marketing's version of the Superbowl. It's understood the bugs are significant (as in, patch as soon as you can …
LibreSSL is still forced to use OpenSSL broken ass api for compatibility reasons. At least there is nss (among many others) and I do believe the LibreSSL folks did also release a library with a sane ssl api. Which is good for new apps but sadly the trojan like OpenSSL is in enough products you will more than likely at least be downstream patching for years to come.
It's already happening: LibreSSL.
LibreSSL was not "written from scratch". And it has problems of its own, including bugs (e.g. CVE-2015-5333), lack of FIPS 140 validation (which makes it useless for businesses that have to sell to the US Federal government), somewhat complicated licensing, and source code that suffers from the disease known as KNF.
OpenSSL remains by far the most complete open-source SSL/TLS implementation available. Many people can get by with an alternative; others cannot. These calls to "just replace OpenSSL" are ignorant grandstanding.
"lack of FIPS 140 validation"
The NIST website shows that the vast majority of OpenSSL installations in the wild are not validated either, the validation applies to a very small set of hardware + software configurations. Judging by the short list of valid configurations it looks like vendors paid NIST to validate specific configurations - is there something stopping Vendors from submitting LibreSSL for validation ?
>>Many eyes, all rubbish at spotting security vulnerabilities.
>.. is used by huge amounts of servers and is at the centre of many security systems, it is in the spotlight of all the researchers
Finally answering the question can a big enough hairball spaghetti code base from hell (which OpenSSL is) be patched sufficiently even with the whole internet trying. Perhaps but you are going to be seeing critical/severe OpenSSL CVEs for years to come and the vast majority won't be in code written in the last few years or going forward.
Do you believe most of these bugs are found looking at the code? Vulnerability researches have a plethora of other methods to find vulnerable code, even in non open source one (but there are people outside Microsoft who have access to Windows code - just you need to be eligible for that). The only real drawback is you have to wait for a fix - you can't fix it yourself (if you're able to do it properly).
And these bugs have been in OpenSSL for years and years, until Heartbleed opened the worms can...
"Many eyes, all rubbish at spotting security vulnerabilities."
Vulnerabilities were spotted only for the OpenSSL maintainers to ignore/reject them and the patches.
Now tell me, how long does it take for a multi-billion dollar company stop rendering fonts in ring 0 ?
Keep in mind this company has over 30 years of experience writing OSes and attracts the very best talent (according to the folks who work there), they were advised not to do this, and their font rendering code has yielded multiple drive-by priv escalation exploits.
"Many eyes, all rubbish at spotting security vulnerabilities."
Actually, as shown here, it works quite well, when someone does look.
Probably one of the happier fallouts of the whole NSA/Snowden affair, instead of just passively assuming that someone's looking, more are actually getting into the code looking.
(Now, what do you say about closed source software, where you can't look, and there's TLA pressure to put backdoors in?)
Really, why ?
Long after kingdom has come and all cows have returned home, will there be terrible bugs in this, affecting any platform, due to a memory allocator compatible with Win16, MPE 6, VMS 2 and probably ENIAC as well.
It needs to die, really, and be forgotten.
"due to a memory allocator compatible with Win16, MPE 6, VMS 2 and probably ENIAC as well."
The motivation for OpenSSL was to stop programmers form trying to roll their own crypto, then they go and write their own memory allocator. Seems like they really need a big ol' dose of self awareness...
... all these tards coming here moaning about how shit it is when it was written by a bunch of guys in their spare time as a hobby thing. It's not their fault the entire web decided to use it without checking they knew what they were doing.
You think it's shit, you do better, in your spare time, for no pay. Go on, I fucking dare you.
Fair enough. Don't blow your own trumpet when you're surrounded by Miles Davis.... on the other hand don't rely on something written by people who were likely drunk when they wrote it to secure your website.
Honestly.. people rely on this for security and nobody checked the code until now? It's written by people IN THEIR SPARE TIME for fuck's sake. Oh yeah, I just bought this amazing sports car. The guys who designed it did it in a shed in whitstable.. it hasn't actually got an MOT yet but I'm hopeful....
I write an open source application. My code is shit and I know it but nobody relies on it for security. What makes people think that open source is somehow good? Usually it's people like me who haven't a fucking clue what they're doing. We write stuff we want because we can't get paid for doing it.
@FatGerman - What makes you think the professionals are writing anything better? Sure, the sports car from the shed in whitstable doesn't have an MOT, but neither does the Ferrari because there aren't any MOTs.
Writing security software is hard, like consistently getting a hole-in-one every time you hit a golf ball, in a hurricane, with a large army on the course trying to stop you.
how the OpenSSL developers kept shouting about how great their software was
Citations, please. Prior to the massive cash infusion after Heartbleed, OpenSSL had one full-time developer: Steve Henson, who is not inclined to make public pronouncements, and generally restricted his comments on openssl-users and openssl-dev to technical matters.
As I recall, Eric Young sometimes debated broader questions on the lists (I remember his weighing in on an exchange about whether OpenSSL needed a gather-write API to help apps avoid Nagle / Delayed ACK interaction), but I can't think of any occasions where he claimed the OpenSSL source code was "great".
By that logic, if I complain about (say) the sausage I bought at my local butcher, he can say "You think it's shit, you do better!" (I certainly cannot).
Given the importance of SSL I do not find it unreasonable to ask for a new attempt. Have read the comments up to here, thanks for pointing at LibreSSL.
... all these tards coming here moaning about how shit it is when it was written by a bunch of guys in their spare time as a hobby thing.
Be that as it may – yes, it was a dismal state of affairs – the project has now had money thrown at it and it still sucks. Version names like 0.9.8zg FFS
Still poor design is poor design. LibreSSL wasn't forked for fun but after a thorough code review which determined that a new start of a less ambitious project would be better.
the project has now had money thrown at it and it still sucks.
The post-Heartbleed OpenSSL releases have seen a wide range of less-severe issues corrected. The 1.1 branch has removed a ton of old code and greatly cleaned up the API, with extensive consultation with users (via openssl-users, and if you use OpenSSL and don't subscribe to that list, then you deserve what you get).
"still sucks" is, of course, a meaningless subjective evaluation. By various objective metrics, OpenSSL has gotten much, much better over the past two years.
Version names like 0.9.8zg FFS
That is the stupidest objection I've ever seen to a software project. And 0.9.8 is no longer being maintained, so it's also irrelevant.
How about borrowing the 'allele' from the biological sphere. As in you impliment multiple versions of the same functionality in differing languages and mix-and-match on the end system. That way a bug in one process on one particular machine won't lead to a potential global infestation.
If we continue your analogy, this is like one version not only not functioning correctly, but producing poison that seeps into the rest of the body. With software security, the more you have running, the bigger the chance of a serious failure happening.
As in you impliment multiple versions of the same functionality in differing languages and mix-and-match on the end system. That way a bug in one process on one particular machine won't lead to a potential global infestation.
Ironically, this was a key argument for us to stop using Windows everywhere (we call it the domino effect, and it was demonstrated during the I Love You virus attack). The only issue that we now have is that we have a backbone based on one type of tech because you better control one type of tech well than multiple types of tech halfway, but by using Open Standards it now doesn't matter what desktops we use. Thus, graphics people use Macs, most of operations and security use a mixture of OSX and Linux and the admin staff seems to be still most comfortable with Windows (that is W7, I think we may give them a W8.1 upgrade but that's as far as we dare to go because we really, really, really do not like W10, and neither do the lawyers who actually read the licenses we have to agree to).
It might work... if you've got time for a few million generations of evolution, and you don't mind a high failure rate. Remember, every individual that doesn't survive to reproduce is a failure, and in some species each individual produces millions of eggs with, on average, one surviving.
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Bruce Schnieer notes "Complexity is the enemy of security" He's right, as usual.
and HTTPS / SSL is a perfect example: the session key HAS to be generated by the CLIENT
when the session starts you have only half of a PGP secure link: client has the public key for
the server and the the sever holds the corresponding private key
what this means is: the client can authenticate a message from the server -- but the server
cannot authenticate the client except for the use of a user ID and password .
for this reason the session must start with the server sending an signed copy of its letterhead
to the client . the client can authenticate this -- using the X.509 certificate it thinks*
belongs to the server it is attempting to connect
if the letterhead authenticates then the CLIENT can generate a session key, encrypt it for the
SERVER and send it. it cannot be done in reverse because the server does not have a public key
for the client. end of story.
simplicity is the answer.
* x.509 certificates are printed and broadcast like losing lotto tickets. we must develop a
process wherein the CLIENT has a PGP key and is able to SIGN for TRUSTED x.509 certificates.
this will require the development and deployment of a KEK device: you cannot use smart phones
for this: you must use a single purpose device so that updates can be STRICTLY controlled .
"You can either make something so simple that there are obviously no bugs, or so complex that there are no obvious bugs"
OpenSSL falls into the later category, the biggest issue is that they don't deprecate, so SSLv2 code is still in there (this is where the most serious bugs are this time), what is changing is that the default installs are no longer including weak ciphers and old transport methods.
Really old bugs (like Heartbleed) are likely to be found eventually, and this isn't the end of it - when people complain "all those eyes and these things are not found", they are wrong - they have been found, this is the point - they have just been found, the problem is this code is released, it's out there, running so it seems to be a problem.
But closed source "appears" safer because a patch gets released and it silently fixes stuff where people don't have the source in front of them to go "Look, what an idiot... that's baaaaaaad code", do you think that every MS patch isn't patching *exactly* the same sort of mistakes, in fact it's only the reverse engineering crowd that are highlighting the overflows etc. (without the benefit of the source) and building exploits, the difference is, by then it's too late, it's patched.
More code will be patched, more bugs found, and the bigger it gets, the more eyes will find issues, there *is* a case for security by obscurity (which MS do well), but not as a substitute for testing and going through the code - which of course MS do, when code crashes or acts unpredictably, that's those bugs manifesting, the difference is, Joe Smoe doesn't have the code in front of them to work out why, MS do, and their motivation is to fix it, not to exploit it - get OpenSSL to do something unpredictable or crash, you have the code and it's more fun to find an exploit.
"Joe Smoe doesn't have the code in front of them to work out why, MS do, and their motivation is to fix it, not to exploit it - get OpenSSL to do something unpredictable or crash, you have the code and it's more fun to find an exploit."
At best the lack of source code deters skiddies looking for a quick hit. Folks who are skilled in the art of computing really don't need it, and modern disassemblers make life very easy for the folks who can be arsed to use them. It really isn't rocket science folks.
Witholding source code from customers just makes it harder for them to help the vendor.
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A measurement is presented of differential cross sections for Higgs boson (H) production in pp collisions at √s = 8TeV. The analysis exploits the H→γγ decay in data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 19.7fb-1 collected by the CMS experiment at the LHC. The cross section is measured as a function of the kinematic properties of the diphoton system and of the associated jets. Results corrected for detector effects are compared with predictions at next-to-leading order and next-to-next-to-leading order in perturbative quantum chromodynamics, as well as with predictions beyond the standard model. For isolated photons with pseudorapidities |η|<2.5, and with the photon of largest and next-to-largest transverse momentum (pT γ) divided by the diphoton mass mγγ satisfying the respective conditions of pT γ/mγγ>1/3 and >1/4, the total fiducial cross section is 32±10fb. © 2016, CERN for the benefit of the CMS collaboration.


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