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Tonnetta Graham loves Strawberry Mansion's big historic houses, but sees residents struggling to maintain and stay in their homes.
As a lifelong resident and President of Strawberry Mansion CDC (SMCDC), Tonnetta has helped address the issue in multiple ways: by getting residents to sign up for utility assistance and property tax reductions, organizing tangled title workshops with her Councilman's office, and hosting block pride contests which award residents for the upkeep of their properties.
A unique opportunity presented itself when the Councilman introduced Tonnetta to Proud Neighbor, a community life magazine based in Philadelphia. In 2014, SMCDC participated in Proud Neighbor's annual Help A Neighbor Day for the first time by organizing an event where neighbors volunteer to do small exterior repairs on the houses of three longtime Strawberry Mansion residents. This could mean fixing a loose railing, painting a porch or cleaning up the yard.
Neighborhood volunteers spruce up a neighbor's porch
Neighborhood volunteers spruce up a neighbor's porch
Neighborhood volunteers spruce up a neighbor's porch
SMCDC raised about $1,000 in funds for materials, sought donations of labor and paint from local contractors and City departments, and pulled together a team of volunteers. While Proud Neighbor didn't finance the event, if featured SMCDC in a large spread in its quarterly magazine. Being featured in a high-quality publication has helped SMCDC promote themselves to potential funders.
To find the homeowners with the greatest need, SMCDC reached out to area Block Captains to nominate residents. Tonnetta also did some neighborhood walks, looking for homes that might be good candidates.
She focused on blocks close to commercial corridors where redevelopment was already underway in Strawberry Mansion. This was a strategic step Tonnetta said, to "attend to the needs of long-time homeowners and show that money doesn't just go to new developments in the neighborhood."
Her deep knowledge of the neighborhood helped her know how to involve her neighbors, telling them, for example. "look at how just two gallons of paint can help you." She recounted:
Some neighbors weren't interested, believe it or not, but others said, 'You sure this is free?!?'
Six homes have been completed in the two years SMCDC has sponsored Help Your Neighbor Day. For Tonnetta, the repairs are just one measure of success. The other is when Strawberry Mansion residents came outside, saw the work being done by their neighbors, and joined in. Tonnetta described how:
Many neighbors came out and started cleaning up their own house as a result. We left the paint and materials behind, which helped other neighbors hit some extra homes.
Finally, it's informal policy of SMCDC is to encourage residents to invest some of the savings they get by signing up for property tax reduction programs into the maintenance of their homes.
This policy works its way into workshops and bi-monthly community meetings where Tonnetta and staff host City of Philadelphia staffers to explain how residents can take advantage of tax discount programs available to residents like the Long Time Owner Occupant Program, the Homestead Exemption, or the Low Income Senior Citizen Real Estate Tax Freeze.
SMCDC reinforces the suggestion to take the savings from these programs and put them towards home repairs by referring residents to the Philadelphia Rowhouse Manual available from the Philadelphia City Planning Commission. The Rowhouse Manual provides information on maintenance and improvements owners can make to their rowhome.
"Since there are no classes offered on how to maintain a house when you get a mortgage - such as the basics like repairing a faucet - the Rowhouse Manual is a great go-to guide" says Tonnetta.
Give people a reason to help out: organize an event that makes it easy (and fun!) to pitch in.
Get to know your neighbors and earn their trust
Reach out to your Block Captain to reach more neighbors and receive guidance
Work with partners: find out who can help you and has strengths in areas you don't. Proud Neighbor provided free publicity for SMCDC's event.
Contact your elected officials when appropriate and have a clear idea of what you're asking for--they may share opportunities with you as they encounter them. Tonnetta's Councilperson knew home repair was a need, so he connected her with Proud Neighbor and Help a Neighbor Day.
Don't be afraid to start with small steps.
Ask local businesses to support your cause by donating supplies or labor.
Document your accomplishments: show funders and partners you can get work done.


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Merry Christmas! – Fröhliche Weihnachten! – Joyeux Noël! – Geseënde Kersfees! – God Jul! – Feliz Navidad!
While I won't be around the blog world today – Christmas Eve is our main celebration over here – I wanted to wish all of you a happy holiday. No matter where you are, if the temperatures call for fleece shirts or flip-flops: I hope you'll have a wonderful time with your loved ones.
P.S.: I'd appreciate you keeping your fingers crossed for me faring well in our board game night today ;).
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Strong Authentication's Old Reliable, the Hardware Token Still Going Strong
It has been clear for years that passwords alone are not enough to protect your company's assets, networks, applications and data. In fact, Verizon did an analysis in 2017 that determined 81% of data breaches globally involved the misuse or stolen or weak passwords. With the number of breaches increasing every year, and the cost and consequences of those breaches also on the rise, the time to act is now.
Multi-factor authentication is essential in today's environment. It increases security by combining one or more "factors" to verify that the person who is asking for access is who they say they are. These factors include something you have (a smart card or a mobile credential carried on a smartphone or other mobile device); something you know (such as a PIN), and something you are (biometrics).
More and more companies are subject to compliance regulations, and strong authentication with the corresponding audit trails are popular requirements. The European Union's PSD2 regulations for financial institutions and GDPR privacy requirements for citizens are two examples. But other parts of the world are not immune. Most companies will be affected by GDPR, and their own government initiatives, such as HIPAA for Healthcare in the US.
One steadfast method of deploying multi-factor authentication for employees is the hardware token. For the employee, this is often a small, handheld hardware device that calculates a time-bound string of numbers that can be used as a one-time password (OTP). The user then enters this passcode (something they have) plus a PIN (something they know) to prove their identity to the asset they want to access. Behind the scenes, this value is compared to the value calculated on a back-end authentication platform using the same techniques and inputs, including clock and event counters, authentication keys, and algorithms. If the OTPs match, the user gains access, and that event is logged in the platform's audit trail.
Hardware tokens have been around for over a decade, and they are still a popular choice for many organizations. It's a familiar user experience for the workforce, and the tokens themselves last a long time. Tokens have also evolved beyond the standard keyfob form factor. There are also options that can fit in a wallet, are robust enough for field operations, and can accommodate and assist the visually impaired. But there is more to it than that.
Want to learn more? We recently released an infographic that outlines some of the reasons why tokens are still a popular choice in 2018. Download that here. For more information about our token portfolio, visit: our product page.


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Enter to Win BOSS Pedals Autographed by Steve Vai, John 5, and More
Los Angeles, CA, August 29, 2013 — BOSS has gone berserk again with another round of The Big BOSS Giveaway. The biweekly contest gives tone freaks everywhere a chance to win BOSS pedals autographed by top guitar heroes and $1,000 in BOSS gear.
Every two weeks between August 5, 2013, and September 30, 2013, a different signed BOSS pedal from a famous guitar hero will be given away, as well as $1,000 in BOSS gear. Contestants can enter once every two-week period, giving them up to five chances to win. Contestants should enter at the BOSS U.S. Facebook Giveaway tab.
The Big BOSS Giveaway Prize Lineup:
|8/5/13 – 8/18/13
|CH-1 pedal signed by Dave Navarro
|8/19/13 – 9/1/13
|DD-7 pedal signed by Steve Vai
|9/2/13 – 9/15/13
|DS-1 pedal signed by Jeff Loomis
|9/16/13 – 9/30/13
|DD-3 pedal signed by Steve Stevens, John 5, Billy Duffy, Herman Li, and Darryl Jones
|8/5/13 – 9/30/13
|Grand Prize: $1,000 (suggested retail price) in BOSS gear
Contest eligibility is for U.S. residents only. Visit the Big BOSS Giveaway contest rules page for information and official rules.
About BOSS
BOSS, a division of Roland Corporation, has achieved legendary status among guitarists by offering a diverse, world-leading product lineup that includes compact effects processors, multi-effects processors, digital recorders, rhythm machines, metronomes, tuners, and more. For more information, visit http://www.BOSSUS.com.


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What a gift!
This stunning globe light is an addition to our amazing collection of globes. The stylish and contemporary feel of this globe is just on point. The sleek silver detailing looks amazing. But the globe itself it just beautiful. The swedish green colour works extremely well and really adds a classic feel to this globe.
A perfect addition to the home and a great gift for that special occasion. You can plan your next adventure with the help of this contemporary globe. Now not only does this globe look ace, but it also actually lights up. Complete with LED bulb, this globe uses 90% less energy than traditional bulbs and is the perfect addition to the office for sure. A sure way to up your inner game!
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Atlanta Retreat Brings Country to the City
This five-bedroom home in Atlanta has walls of glass overlooking two private lakes on the six-acre property. Furnishings include a tiger rug that the owner bought in India in the 1960s.
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List of All Banks in India with total number of Digit in their Account number. Many of time while updating the account number or remembering the bank's account number we confuse with the total number of digits in Bank account number. Different Bank's in India are using different Banking Core Banking solution of different software companies. Hence the total number of digit are varies as per different type of banks.
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Here are list of all the bank's working in India with their account number digit details. Check out the details of account number for your references.


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An ideal pack for daily commutes or distant travels with an externally accessible padded sleeve that fits up to a 15" laptop.
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Course summary
TEF Silver
University of Bradford has opted into the TEF and received a Silver award.
Entry onto the Clinical Sciences course, either directly or via our foundation year, allows students a unique and exciting opportunity to study science and health. The course has a clinical focus and a strong emphasis on anatomy, physiology and employability skills. The course is informed by research, clinical expertise, and multiprofessional teaching. With an integrated knowledge and understanding of science and health-related issues, you will be in an excellent position to pursue a variety of careers within the health sector or pharmaceutical industries. Clinical Sciences graduates have progressed to postgraduate study, leading to careers in medicine, the healthcare sciences and other healthcare roles such as: *Physician Associate *Dentist *Healthcare Manager It also gives you the transferable skills you need to launch a career in areas such as teaching or research. Our focus is to widen participation in medical and healthcare education from students from underrepresented groups. The course provides an opportunity for eligible widening participation students to enter Year 1 of the MBChB programme at Sheffield Medical School.
Course details
Foundation Year: Biology for Clinical Sciences (core), Chemistry for Clinical Sciences (core), Health and Society (core), Laboratory and Study Skills for Clinical Sciences/Medicine (core), Personal and Professional Development (Foundation) (core), Special Studies (Foundation) (core)
Assessment method
The learning, teaching and assessment strategies recognise the wide diversity of educational backgrounds with which students may enter the programme and the different exit points of students and graduates. Consequently, a variety of teaching and learning opportunities and assessment methods are used to reflect the differences in learning styles between students and to address the various learning outcomes for the programme. You are expected to demonstrate greater autonomy in your learning as you progress through the programme. Formative assessments are embedded throughout the programme to monitor your progress . Your knowledge and understanding and discipline skills are developed through lectures, practicals, groupwork, seminars, tutorials and computer-assisted and self-directed learning. Case studies, groupwork, individual assignments, verbal presentations, problem-based learning and a reflective portfolio will be used to develop your personal transferable skills in self-directed learning and reflective practice in preparation for lifelong learning.
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Applications will be screened for evidence of your academic potential, motivation and interpersonal skills plus the experiences and qualities necessary for a future healthcare professional. All short-listed candidates will be invited to a selection day. Applicants interested in using Foundation Clinical Sciences to apply to Medicine should contact the University for further information. The University welcomes applications from students with a wide range of qualifications from the UK and overseas, including combinations of qualifications. To check whether your qualifications meet the entry requirements for this course, please contact the University. English Language requirements for International and EU applicants: IELTS test with an overall score of 6.5 with no sub-test less than 6.0 (or equivalent). For international applicants who require a Tier 4 (student) visa to study, this needs to be a UKVI approved IELTS test.
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Back-to-back Westfield W-League victories will be the target for Brisbane Roar Women when they clash with Newcastle Jets on Sunday afternoon.
Following a dominant 3-0 victory over Western Sydney Wanderers, the Roar Women travel to McDonald Jones Stadium searching for another three points as the end of the season nears.
The Roar currently sit in fifth position, one point off a finals spot. Two spots have already been sown up by opposition sides meaning the three points up for grabs this weekend is vital.
Experienced midfielder Tameka Butt knows all to well what the game against Newcastle means.
"I think this part of the season is pretty critical for us," Butt said.
"We need nothing less than three points and I think that's the same for Newcastle so it's going to be a pretty big battle between the two of us."
This will be the first time the two teams have met this Westfield W-league season. Click HERE for a live ladder!
The last encounter between the Roar Women and Jets was in Round 14 last season where it ended in a scoreless draw, a result which secured a finals berth for Brisbane.
The Jets currently sit in seventh and despite going without a win since Round Three, still hold a slight chance of playing in the post-season.
"I think we need to watch their internationals. They're fighting for the same points we are," Butt said.
"We definitely take them as a top-of-the-ladder team just like anyone else."
The clash before Hyundai A-League action in Newcastle is the fourth double header for the Brisbane Roar this season.
"I think every double header is exciting. To play before the men and get that same atmosphere is a great feeling," Butt said.
Following Sunday's away clash against the Jets, Brisbane Roar Women will face Melbourne City at C.B. Smith Reserve on Sunday, 22 January in their last match of the Westfield W-League regular season.
Match Details
Newcastle Jets v Brisbane Roar FC. Sunday, 15 January 2017.
Kick-Off: 1:30PM (QLD Time) (2:30PM (AEDT)).
Venue: McDonald Jones Stadium, Newcastle.
Newcastle Jets squad: 1.Katelyn ROWLAND (gk), 2.Sophie NENADOVIC, 4.Megan OYSTER, 5. Arin GILLILAND, 6.Cassidy DAVIS, 7.Gema SIMON (c), 9.Jennifer HOY, 10.Rhali DOBSON, 11.Tara PENDER, 13.Grace MACINTYRE, 14.Brooke MILLER, 15.Elizabeth COPUS-BROWN, 16.Liana DANASKOS, 17.Jenna KINGSLEY, 18.Clare WHEELER, 19.Ashlee BRODIGAN, 20.Claire COELHO (gk) **two to be omitted**
Ins: 5.Arin GILLILAND (returns from injury), 15.Elizabeth COPUS-BROWN (returns from injury)
Outs: Nil
Unavailable: 3.Elizabeth O'REILLY (ankle – 3 weeks), 12.Chloe LOGARZO (ankle – 2 weeks)
Brisbane Roar FC squad: 1.Mackenzie ARNOLD (gk), 2.Nina FRAUSING-PEDERSEN, 3.Amy CHAPMAN, 4.Clare POLKINGHORNE (c), 5.Brooke SPENCE, 6.Angela BEARD, 7.Sunny FRANCO, 8.Kaitlyn TORPEY, 9.Cortnee VINE, 10.Katrina GORRY, 12.Allira TOBY, 13.Tameka BUTT, 14.Summer O'BRIEN, 15.Abbey LLOYD, 17.Emily GIELNIK, 18.Maddy EVANS, 20.Georgina WORTH (gk) **two to be omitted**
Ins: 12.Allira TOBY (promoted), 15.Abbey LLOYD (promoted)
Outs: Nil
Unavailable: Nil
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The global shift into utilizing automated processes in business is well underway; optimizing procedures for every department of your business is a highly critical factor of success. Streamlining business processes in a way that can reduce steps, lessen mistakes, and help guide employees on the correct path every single time is an investment that's well worth it – this is exactly why we created our own Task Manager tool to help enhance these daily, repetitive business processes.
Human Resources is one such department within organizations that should always be included in the shift to greater, more involved automation. Because these roles so heavily rely on following strict procedures, enacting the correct protocols, and ensuring that every detail is in place, HR is the perfect candidate for benefitting from a more streamlined way of doing things. In this article from Forbes, the author dives into how automation and streamlining of business processes can solve some of HR's biggest challenges today.
Attracting and retaining top-notch talent is one of the top factors influencing success for organizations in the 21st century. As a result, HR has become your most important departments, and it's crucial to ensure that it's properly resourced. Unfortunately, most business can neither afford nor find a well-staffed HR department.
The fact is that most HR processes are still very manual and document-driven, and HR specialists waste too much time on administrative paperwork. By automating these processes, streamlining operations, optimizing workflows and cutting out waste, your HR employees can spend more time focusing on what they're passionate about: people.
The good news is that with its administrative processes like employee onboarding and time tracking, HR is particularly ripe for automation.
The main idea we're trying to emphasize here, with help from this piece, is that HR is a perfect department to be optimized through more automated and streamlined processes via interactive decision trees. With repeated tasks like onboarding new hires, time-tracking, approvals, and more, almost every facet of the job can be improved.
There are several main benefits of automating these business processes for HR, as explained in the article, such as:
- Driving better employee engagement
- Reducing paper
- Closing communication gaps
- Collaborating to enhance productivity
- Reducing manual work
- Reducing email for speedier approvals
- Increasing focus on what matters — people
Attracting and retaining top-notch talent is a critical HR challenge in today's workplace. HR automation has a lot to offer, yet many organizations have been too slow to adopt it. Will your HR department in 2020 still be mired in paper-intensive, error-prone and time-consuming manual processes? Or, will you use modern, low-cost platforms to automate and free the HR department to focus on what's important: talent?
Read the rest of the article on Forbes.
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Individual Writing
Think about how Dickens' story applies to the present-day
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This stave contains one of the most memorable sections of the chapter, where Dickens' Ghost of Christmas Present has two children emerge from his robes, Ignorance and Want. Have students write a short non-fiction investigative essay about the manifestations of Ignorance and Want in their community. Where would these children live today? Students may consult http://www.povertyusa.org/the-state-of-poverty/poverty-map-state/, a poverty map of the United States, or...
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While Bechtel has deployed practices to protect the environment, start small businesses, and empower local communities for decades, we wanted to create specific goals that we could measure, and to which we could contribute. The following goals transition Bechtel from a two and half year strategy to integrate sustainability more comprehensively within the company. They were established around four areas where the company's experience, technologies, relationships, and core competencies can make a sizable impact: support global goals around energy, infrastructure, water, and worker welfare; advance sustainability in project development and delivery; strengthen the resilience of communities; and leverage supplier engagements to further catalyze sustainable opportunities.
Contribute 100 ideas to help achieve the United Nations Global Sustainable Development Goals.
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December 15, 2011 9:52 pm ET filed under Video
Gov. Perry: "I Hope I Am The Tim Tebow Of The Iowa Caucuses"
From the December 15, 2011, Fox News GOP debate in Sioux City, Iowa:
July 13, 2011 2:33 pm ET filed under Blog
Latest Issa Investigation Rejected by Fox
June 27, 2011 11:28 am ET filed under Fact Check
Seriously Extreme: Rep. Bachmann's Journey To GOP Presidential Candidate
Today, Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) formally announced that she is seeking the Republican presidential nomination at an event in Iowa. In a field of lackluster candidates, Bachmann is an unabashedly polarizing figure whose statements, agenda, and policy positions are not only often factually inaccurate but are also frequently imbued with extreme, hateful, homophobic and even violent rhetoric. The fact that she is considered a viable representation of the Republican party sends a stark message about the toxicity of the GOP in 2012. Often the Affordable Care Act's most apoplectic opponent, Bachmann has suggested that health care reform will result in "death panels" as well as "school-based sex clinics," and that it could allow a 13-year-old girl can be taken to an abortion clinic during a school day to "have their abortion, be back and go home on the school bus that night...mom and dad are never the wiser." She has rallied those against the Affordable Care Act to stand together, saying, "What we have to do today is make a covenant, to slit our wrists, be blood brothers on this thing." She has used such extreme rhetoric to oppose other policies as well, calling the federal tax code a "weapon of mass destruction" and referring to Wall Street reform as "thuggish." Additionally, Bachmann has proposed eliminating the minimum wage and cutting billions from veterans' benefits. She also voted against a bill providing for 9/11 first responders' health care and then bragged about it, calling it "new spending." Michele Bachmann's increasing legitimacy as a presidential contender speaks volumes about the atmosphere within the Republican party today.
March 08, 2011 5:52 pm ET filed under Blog
Rep. Peter King: Everyone Who Disagrees With Me Is "Insane"
July 28, 2010 3:04 pm ET filed under Blog
Sen. Gregg Calls Americans For Tax Reform Estimate "Absurd"
October 23, 2009 12:16 pm ET filed under Blog
Rep. Cantor Admits Fox News Acted As Obama's "Adversary"
October 23, 2009 12:14 pm ET filed under Video
Rep. Cantor Admits Fox News Acted As Obama's "Adversary"
During an October 22nd interview with Fox News' On the Record with Greta Van Susteren, Rep. Eric Cantor effectively admitted that the network had acted as the White House's "adversary."
October 01, 2009 11:51 am ET filed under Blog
Why The Right Is Really Going After Kevin Jennings
"I would much prefer to export homosexuals from the United States than to import them into the United States because we believe homosexuality is destructive to society."
-- Peter Sprigg, author of Family Research Council's anti-Jennings talking points


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Pregnancy was good to me and overall pretty uneventful. I found out early (when I was 4 weeks and some days along) and decided to wait until the baby was born to find out the gender, which went against every Type A vein in my body, but turned out to be one of the best decisions I made.
I only had a week and a half of the dreaded morning sickness during my first trimester and never even threw up; I just felt awful and nauseous for a few hours each day. Even though in retrospect it was only a short while, it felt like an eternity while I was going through it. Other than that, I was suuuuper tired, which lasted well into the second trimester, even though everyone told me it would go away after the first. I kept waiting for that burst of energy everyone assured me was coming, but I'm not sure it ever arrived.
The only other less than fun part of pregnancy for me was the glucose test which I had at 26 weeks. For that, you drink a sugary drink and then get your blood sugar tested after an hour. A lot of people told me the drink was sickeningly sweet so I was a little worried, buttttt I actually liked it.
However, my test came back borderline with a result of 137, so my practice made me do the 3 hour test, which was much less fun. For that, I had to fast from midnight the night before, and then drink a sugary drink that was the same volume but twice the sugar as the one for the 1 hour test, which was in fact sickeningly sweet. With the 3 hour, they take your fasting blood sugar, and then take it again 1, 2, and 3 hours after the drink. I did the test on a Friday, which was apparently the day a student was working in the lab. I've had my fair share of blood work and never had an issue before, but that student definitely needed more practice. She did the fasting blood draw, and then the one hour blood draw, and after that my arm stung so bad I was afraid to go back in for the last two draws. I ended up speaking with the front desk and they had someone else do the last two blood draws which were less unpleasant. But, I started feeling sooo sick and shaky between the 2nd and 3rd hour of waiting and had to ask for a room to lay down in. I was only allowed to drink a limited amount of water and just felt so gross for the last stretch of the test. Fortunately, I passed all four of the blood draws and didn't have gestational diabetes, but the testing experience was not one of my favorite parts of the pregnancy.
As many of my longtime readers know, I had a tummy tuck back in 2013, so I wasn't quite sure how, or if, that would impact the pregnancy. I obviously spoke with my providers about it and was told that it shouldn't have an impact, besides showing less and/or later in the pregnancy, which definitely panned out to be true for me. I started taking photos at 16 weeks and barely had a bump until towards the end. While to some that might sound awesome, for me, I was really wanting to look pregnant when I was that far along in the pregnancy so it was kind of disappointing that I wasn't obviously pregnant until 7 to 8 months. The grass is always greener, right?
My goal for the birth was to have a low intervention, unmedicated vaginal birth and I did everything I could to make that dream a reality. In terms of birth prep and education, I did a tooooon of reading, listening to podcasts, went through training to be a doula so learned a lot about pain control methods and positions for labor, and also took the home study Hypnobabies course.
Physically, I stayed active throughout the pregnancy with lots of hilly walks around my neighborhood and going to prenatal yoga twice a week, which I loved. I also started seeing a chiropractor every week that specializes in the Webster Technique, which is a specific way of manipulating the pelvis to make positioning ideal for pregnancy and birth. I gained around 30 pounds total, which was more than I wanted to, but still in the range of normal, and I tried to be relatively healthy with my eating with the occasional (ok, more like regular) treat in the mix.
As I got into the home stretch at 34 weeks, my mom and sisters threw me a baby shower, which was awesome. They had it at Zaytinya which is one of my favorite restaurants in DC, and about 22 of my favorite ladies came and showered me and my baby with love.
It was such a fun way to celebrate my pregnancy and the baby to be. I got so spoiled and felt so good and excited to meet my baby just 6 short weeks later, which barely felt like enough time to get ready. Little did I know that things would change drastically over the next several days and that my baby would be making a surprise early entrance less than a week later.


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If there's no shame in being beaten by the best, perhaps the Kings deserve a slight reprieve of late.
Last Wednesday, they fell to the league's reigning goalie of the year, Tampa Bay Lightning netminder Andrei Vasilevskiy, and its defending scoring champion and most valuable player, Tampa's Nikita Kucherov.
On Tuesday, they held a 2-1 lead in the third period against the NHL's top team, the Washington Capitals, until the league's leading goal-scorer, Alex Ovechkin, cranked out a natural hat trick. His three three-period goals in less than five minutes moved him to within two goals of 700 for his career, currently placing him eighth all-time.
"For Ovi, there's a reason why he's got 700. Give him a couple more years, he'll be at 800," Kings coach Todd McLellan said. "It's that type of night where maybe you don't see him a lot early, and then, bang-bang-bang. It's in the net and they've won"
In between, the Kings lost to the less-than-stellar Ducks, but there will be no breathing room for the weary Kings on Thursday when they visit the New York Islanders. The Isles are guided by last season's coach of the year, Barry Trotz, who also won the award in 2016 and a Stanley Cup in 2018.
The Islanders have been one of the league's top defensive teams, playing a tight, unyielding system that has propelled them to fifth in the NHL in goals-against per game. They've also excelled in one-goal games. They have won 16 games by a single goal, two behind league-leading Columbus, and have the fourth-best winning percentage in the NHL in one-goal games. The Kings have lacked the difference-makers in tight games, ranking 24th in one-goal-game winning percentage and second in one-goal losses.
One potential two-way impact player, defenseman Drew Doughty, returned to the lineup against Washington, playing for the first time since the All-Star break. His assist on forward Jeff Carter's second goal of the game put him in sole possession of first place in points by a defenseman on the franchise leaderboard. He climbed above Rob Blake, who is currently the Kings' general manager.
"Blakey was one of my favorite defensemen growing up. He's a Hall of Famer, he's our GM right now, and to pass him, I can't even put it into words. It's crazy. It's just such an honor," Doughty said. "I've obviously dedicated a lot to this organization to get where I am, but this organization has given just as much back to me."
Against the Islanders, the Kings will have to contend not only with a highly structured team that limits quality scoring chances, but with some offensive weapons as well. Center Mathew Barzal, who managed to unseat Edmonton's Connor McDavid from the fastest skater throne at All-Star weekend, leads the team in scoring with 44 points in 51 games. Center Brock Nelson tops the Islanders in goals with 21.
Kings at New York Islanders
When: 4 p.m. Thursday
Where: Barclays Center
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Fed Rate Hike to Cost Credit Card Holders This Much More in Interest
The Federal Reserve's third quarter-point increase in its short-term lending rate since the financial crisis should be of concern to U.S. credit consumers, who are racking up credit card debt at a record pace.
WalletHub recently reported that Americans added $60.4 billion in credit card debt by the end of the fourth quarter last year, bringing total outstanding card debt to $978.9 billion — that's the highest since the fourth quarter 2007, which saw the outstanding debt mark at $981.8 billion.
With the latest 25 basis-point increase in its target interest rate, the Fed policy makers are virtually ensuring that consumers will spend more on credit card interest. WalletHub says that the latest Fed move will cost U.S. consumers roughly $1.6 billion in extra credit card finance charges during 2017.
Paying more in finance charges adds to an already debt-ridden situation for credit card users, since WalletHub expects outstanding balances to break the all-time record (set in 2007) in 2017 — likely surpassing the $1 trillion mark.
Higher mortgage and auto loan rates are more challenging to predict because they are longer-term borrowing products with fixed rates. WalletHub says that if markets react to this month's Fed hike like they did to the Fed's December 2016 move, the following could happen:
• The APR on the average 30-year fixed rate mortgage rose from 3.48% in late June 2016 to 4.32% at the end of the year.
• The average APR on a 48-month new car loan rose from 4.25% in August 2016 to 4.45% in November (the most recent data available).


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My baby only woke up once last night. That was a first. And it came on the wake of the worst night EVER. Thank you. Also, keep it up please.
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This may sound strange, but I really feel like I've been coming into my own power lately. It has been amazing to watch and be in awe of myself. I'm sure that sounds narcissist to you right now, but I promise it's not. It's not that I am any more special or able than anyone… Read More »


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I'm So Fly!
Execute a Google search about greatest fears and up near the top you will find Fear of Flying and Fear of Public Speaking. I am well aware that when people filling out these surveys list flying as a fear that they are referring to airplanes and the anxiety that comes with being confined to a heap of metal and bolts that propels you above the clouds from Los Angeles to New York in the proverbial blink of an eye. To me, fear of flying represents the inability or perhaps the unwillingness to try new things because the possibility of failure is too great to take. So often people, myself included, look up to the heavens to ask what their purpose is or their true gift. We never tap into our greatness because failing publicly can leave scars that are emotional.


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The eastern lubber grasshopper can get up to 3 1/2 inches long and can be either mostly yellow, orange or black depending on where they are in their life cycle. These things are not afraid of people, at all and will try to back you down if they feel threatened. They also spit a nasty smelling foam if you really annoy them.
This picture was taken back in 2009 at the Buck Lake Conservation Area outside of Sanford, Fl with my Kodak P850. I edited this shot by dulling down the grass to make the lubber jump out more… no pun intended.


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…until "Fall To Climb" out of bed and submit your beetle-related post to An Inordinate Fondness #3. The Geek in Question at Fall To Climb will be hosting the next edition on April 18. Submission deadline is April 15 (Tax Day), so send your contributions (one is great, two is even better!) to TGIQ today. Use this handy blog carnival submission form, or contact TGIQ directly if you prefer.
Also, we are looking for volunteers to host future editions of AIF. May and June are already filled, but all months afterwards are available. Seriously, hosting a blog carnival is not only fun but a great way to introduce readers to your site and generate a little traffic. If you've never hosted before, why not give it a try? If you have, why not share your expertise with this fledgling blog carnival? Send me an email if you're interested and indicate the month of your choice.
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More videos on stretching with bands to improve your jumps and kicks! Enjoy!
Hope you are enjoying these videos using bands for jumps and kicks. They are very helpful!
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Skip to 0 minutes and 11 seconds Suppose now that two radicals are present in an inequality. How do we proceed to solve it? Well, you know, the overall strategy is similar to the case of equations. Specifically we're going to separate the radicals, put one on one side, one on the other. We're going to raise to a certain power to eliminate one radical. There will still be one left usually. We will isolate that one remaining radical on one side and raise again to the appropriate power, and we'll obtain after this a de-radicalized, so to speak, inequality, no radicals. And we'll solve that one, we hope.
Skip to 0 minutes and 54 seconds And the difference, though, as we've pointed out, is that you really must be careful to record along the way the domain and the various equivalence conditions that we obtain. Otherwise you won't be able to figure out the correct answer. Let's illustrate this in the case of this inequality, which we wish to solve. We begin by noting the natural domain. We want the square roots to be defined. So x plus 1 has to be positive and 3x plus 1. That amounts to saying that x has to lie in the interval minus 1/3 infinity, the natural domain. Now we separate the radicals.
Skip to 1 minute and 37 seconds One has gone over on the left and the other on the right, and you notice that I've kept the plus 2 on the left side. Why have I done that? Well, because if I do that, the left side is clearly a positive number, as is the right side. And so when we take the square of both sides, there will be no further restrictions on x to record. If the 2 were over on the other side as a minus 2, there would be further restrictions. We could still note them and proceed and get the right answer, but this seems a little simpler. Now, in the domain we can square both sides of our latest inequality and get something equivalent.
Skip to 2 minutes and 17 seconds And when the dust settles, we'll put the one remaining radical over on the left. And now we wish to square both sides again to get rid of the remaining square root. Now, however, there will be an equivalence condition when we do that. The condition that x has to be greater than 2 in order for the right side to be positive. So we note this carefully for later use. So squaring both sides in the previous inequality and letting the dust settle, we finally arrive at a completely de-radicalized inequality. It's a simple quadratic inequality. And we see that the solutions are the x's that lie left of 0 and right of 8.
Skip to 3 minutes and 3 seconds Now, we can't stop there because we can only keep the x's that we've just found that are compatible; that is, that lie in the domain and satisfy the equivalence conditions, whatever they were, that we got along the way. In this case, they have to be greater than 2. And we see, therefore, that the ones we keep are those in the interval 8 infinity, which is our solution set. Let me remark that if you are able to solve this kind of inequality, then you are among the elite of inequality solvers. And I congratulate you.
The case of two radicals
The case of two radicals
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Selma/Straight Outta Compton
Directed by Ava DuVernay; Starring David Oyelowo, Carmen Ejogo, Tom Wilkinson, Coman Domingo; 2014; PG-13 for disturbing thematic material including violence, a suggestive moment, and brief strong language. DVD released May, 2015.
Directed by F. Gary Gray; Starring O'Shea Jackson, Jr., Corey Hawkins, Jason Mitchell, Paul Giamatti; 2015; R for language throughout, strong sexuality/nudity, violence, and drug use. DVD released January, 2016.
Art is political. Period. Anyone who says it is not, does not know what they are talking about.
Gee, Drew, how do you really feel about it…
Of course, some art is more political than other art, though all good art is strongly political because the clearer, the more complex and important the themes and ideas promoted in that art are, the more political the piece of art is. Take film for instance. Frozen carries messages far more powerful and life-changing than does Kung-Fu Panda (1, 2, or 3), and it is greater art because of it. While the Kung Fu Panda movies do call for courage, promote education and speak to not judging a book by its cover, Frozen demands of us that we affirm the power of women, the importance of family, and the power of self-sacrificial love. Like the torso of Apollo in Rilke's poem, the movie demands: "You must change your life."
It is rare, however, when a piece of art—particularly a film—is straightforwardly political in the way that Selma is. Of course any biopic of a political figure is something of a different animal than other films, though the depth of controversy films of this genre engender is related not only to the actual story being told in the film but also the distance the viewer is from the actual events. Almost no one in the country would object to the teachings of Steven Spielberg's Lincoln (2012); much of that film dealt with Lincoln's relationship to his children and his wife, even in the midst of its exploration of the events surrounding the passage of the thirteenth amendment. Selma also deals with Martin Luther King's personal life, but almost all of even that subtheme is portrayed as another part of the civil rights movement and King's part in it. Additionally, all who were involved in opposing or supporting Lincoln have long been dead, while many still live who did, and still do today, oppose the actions portrayed in Selma.
It would be hard to object to the statement that Selma intends to promote political action in the mode of Martin Luther King's teachings and legacy. David Oyelowo, the movie's star and primary driving force not only on screen but off, has said as much in interview after interview. Growing up in awe of the young preacher and activist, Oyelowo always wanted to portray him and fought hard to get the movie made and to keep it very true to the events as they happened leading up to and including the march on Selma. He succeeded on both counts. It is a movie filled with (but not damaged by) the preaching and discussion of civil disobedience, even as it portrays the practical carrying out of that agenda. Well made in every way, the movie was nominated for Best Picture, though controversy swelled around the lack of nominations for Oyelowo and the film's director Ava DuVernay, both of whom did excellent jobs.
The important thing, though, is that King's principles of civil disobedience are accurately portrayed in Selma and as thoroughly vetted as a movie would allow. The political pressure exerted by King on President Johnson and on other lesser lawmakers and lawkeepers is explored thoroughly, and the Biblical foundation of the movement is emphasized over and over. From crucifixes on the wall to King's preaching and teaching, civil rights and civil disobedience both are at the center of the thought life of the picture.
Selma is self-consciously political, though. When one turns to Straight Outta Compton the picture is very different. I intend every bit of both meanings the word "picture". At a press conference at the center point of the movie, just after N.W.A. has had to shut down a concert in Detroit because of gunshots ringing out and the ensuing riot, the question is asked by a reporter, "How do you explain inciting a riot in Detroit? What do you have to say about that?" The responses to that question are interesting. First, Easy-E, the leader of the band at that point, says, "I have to say that we didn't incite that s–t." Then Dr. Dre adds, "Ya'll just got a snapshot of how Americans really feel." followed by MC Ren's "We gave the people a voice. We gave the people truth."
It is more than just a statement of grammar to say that much of the content of the song that provoked the gunshots, a song they had been requested by the police not to sing, entitled "F–k Tha Police" is not only inflammatory but literally made up of the imperative "F–k the police!", a refrain that is used over and over again in the song's narrative. Even the movie, hagiographic to the nth degree, seems to agree with the judgment that N.W.A.'s "art" incited the riot, but the film deflects that stigma at this point in the press conference by raising the notions of free speech and expression. Comment (in response to MC Ren's statement about truth): "Yeah, but your songs, they glamorize the lifestyle of gangs, guns, drugs" to which Ice Cube says, "Our art is a reflection of our reality. What you see when you go outside your door? I know what I see…You get AK's from Russia and cocaine from Columbia." Easy-E adds, "And none of us ain't got no passport. You might want to check the source." The clear implication? We, i.e. N.W.A., didn't do anything but exercise our first amendment right to free expression; what happens when we do that is someone else's problem.
The response by the band—really by the whole movie—to the questions fail in two ways. First, art is not just expression. It has political overtones, even demands, if accepted as true and embraced as relevant. Secondly, art that is as emotional and inflammatory to the situation in which it is exhibited as N.W.A.'s songs were (and are) clearly participates in the results even distantly related to it, and it is foolish and naïve to believe there is no responsibility for those results on the part of the artist(s). N.W.A. didn't need a passport to participate in the gangland violence, the drug addiction and the debauched sex that their songs engendered and continue to engender in our world.
Certainly Straight Outta Compton is about a lot more than political action. The themes of money and its stranglehold of power among poorer people, when they become rich, of the music industry and its machinations, graft, and complexity, of the difficulty of relationships when the money gets to be so much—all of these and more trump the theme of political action in the movie. And just as certainly, Compton portrays N.W.A. as being comprised of five talented, ambitious young African-Americans who mostly just want to make their music and be left alone, though it portrays them just as much as wanting to get rich "by any means necessary." Politics and social change did not figure largely in their vision of their future.
But that doesn't mean that the movie doesn't have a political voice, and it is clear that that voice promotes confrontation, violence and radical measures as the means to the end of what? Racial tension? No; if anything the band's music promotes such tension. Co-existence? No; that doesn't seem to be a dream of the band members at all. Attaining the American dream? Here one seems closer to the film's vision of what N.W.A. sought. But it is true that N.W.A.'s audience seems to have seen more, and sees more today. The courtroom drama that makes up the verses of "F–k Tha Police" frames a notion of political action that more and more young blacks feel compelled to use. They see themselves as being oppressed by a racist and power-mongering police force and therefore being justified in their angry response with gangster style violence.
Race and its ugly repercussions in our society, especially as they relate to criminal activity, racial profiling and police action, is as important a topic as anything in American culture today except possibly terrorism. Christians need to affirm the truths laid down in the civil rights movement by Dr. King, but a discussion that takes into account both films would make comparisons between different sorts of leaders and between direct political action and indirect artistic action a fruitful way to talk about this crucial difficulty in America today.
A note to the reader: The extended, unrated version of Straight Outta Compton contains scenes of vulgar nudity and sex unimportant and gratuitous to the story. While several scenes in this version do fill in nicely some of the tensions in the character of Easy-E, which are deficient in the theatrical cut, the theatrical cut is still the better vehicle for the discussion. As I wrote in my review: "The movie is not for the faint of heart. Of course the lyrics of rap are filled with cursing of every kind, and guns, drugs and sex are everywhere in this movie. Unfortunately, that is the life of the characters portrayed in Straight Outta Compton, and we should not berate the filmmakers for portraying them that way. We should weep for them."
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I couldn't stay in the shower all night, but I kept wanting to cry even though I didn't know what I would be crying about. That Karen existed? That they were communicating? That she was still an obvious part of his life even including his parents? My Parents' Visit the subject line said, meaning that Madison had written to her about them coming.
"Sure," he replied nodding towards the bathroom. "It's on the counter."
"Paige," Madison called to me.
"Let me do it."
"Do what?" I asked.
But anything he wanted to do of course.
"The lotion," Madison said. "I want to rub it on you."
Our eyes met but I was quiet.
I smiled too. It had been a long time since I had heard anybody actually say boogie.
"Hey—don't scoff," chuckled Madison, gently working my calf muscles with his palms. "I could have been quite dashing in the nineteenth century."
My hands were shaky as I timidly loosened it and allowed it to drop into a bunch around my waist. I wasn't fashionably thin, but I was okay, hard-work-worthy I liked to think, as if I were more suitable for a farm. In any case, I seldom got physically tired on the Target sales floor. But alas as Bridget Jones had recorded in her diary, I did have my wobbly bits.
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Transformers Universe promises that beta is approaching
It's been a long wait for Transformers Universe hopefuls. The game has gone from MMO to MOBA to MOTA (which is still sort of a MOBA), its release date has been pushed back, and hopeful players could be forgiven for increasingly not expecting the game to ever come out. A new post on the official site confirms, however, that the game is approaching its next beta test in the very near future.
Players who hope to be taking part in the beta are asked to fill in their computer specifications, giving the development team valuable information about the game's performance on various machines. They should also keep a close eye on their email inboxes; beta invitations will be sent out based in part upon the specifications filled in on the official site. So keep the faith, and before long you too could be swapping forms and blowing up other Transformers all over the place.
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Anemia, Metabolic (Anemias With Spiculated Red Cells) in Cats
Anemia can occur in cats for number of reasons, and anemia can be categorized on the basis of cause(s). Metabolic anemia in cats occurs as the result of any disease related to the kidney, liver, or spleen by which the shape of red blood cells (RBCs) is changed. Normally, red blood cells (RBCs) in cats are of a biconcave discoid shape, but in metabolic anemia, this particular shape is lost and various abnormal projections come out of the surface of RBCs. These blood cells are usually elongated and blunt, with finger shaped projections called spicules rising from the surface – which can be viewed under a microscope. These abnormalities of the RBCs can affect their functions and left untreated, can lead to anemia in affected cats.
Symptoms and Types
There are no specific symptoms related to metabolic anemia. However, the symptoms related to diseases of the kidney, liver, or spleen responsible for metabolic anemia may be present.
- Any disease of the kidney, liver, or spleen
- Hemangiosarcoma (malignant cancer) of the liver is frequently seen as a common cause in cats with fatty liver syndrome
You will need to give a thorough history of your cat's health and onset of symptoms Your veterinarian will perform a thorough physical examination on your cat, including laboratory tests. A complete blood profile, biochemistry profile, complete blood count and urinalysis will be performed. The results of all these tests will provide valuable information for the diagnosis of this disease. These tests will also provide important clues for diagnosing the underlying disease of the kidney, liver, or spleen, which may be responsible for the metabolic anemia. X-ray imaging and ultrasound will expand your veterinarian's ability to evaluate the liver, kidney, and spleen structures.
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Frequently Asked Questions
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Sure you can! We welcome any new enquiries right up until the end of term 2. Coming in to meet us, see the studio and participating in class is the only way to be confident that BDC is the right place for you!
Do you have a uniform for your dance styles?
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What do we wear?
If you are coming in for a trial, any comfortable clothes that you can move in are best. Leggings and a t-shirt is my recommendation. Socks on your feet. Hair tied back off your face. Once you have enrolled then the uniform which is outlined on the uniform page here is available from Kathy at Pas de Deux in Klein Street, Ballarat.
Can I do dancing at BDC as well as other studios?
Generally the answer to this question is no. We work hard to create a well rounded approach and our staff are in constant communication to ensure you are getting the best product for your money. While we maintain a good working relationship with our neighbouring studios we do not generally team up to teach any students. If the other place you dance is in direct competition with us then you cannot pass between the two studios. However I will consider each request fully and some concessions have been made under special circumstances for studios which do not compete with ours.
How does my student become involved in competitive dancing?
Competitive dancing is by invitation only. I always appreciate you expressing interest but the decision to be involved in competitive coaching lies with the staff. If you want more information on the process of selection please read our information "What are competitions?" on the members page.
What are exams and are they compulsory?
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What are Funday Sundays?
Funday Sunday is part of a series of social days run by BDC to encourage the families in our community to get to know each other outside of the studio environment. New families can use the Funday as a forum to get to know some new faces and to ask questions of other parents or staff.
Students can use the Funday as a chance to play with their dance friends.
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During rainbow weeks we invite every student to wear a different coloured uniform to class. Bright colours, spots, stripes and glitter, find a fun and unique version of your usual uniform. Make your hair crazy!
Bust out of that bun and let your hair down to celebrate the end of the term. Rainbow week always falls on the last week of term. Whatever you choose to wear, you still need to be able to do your class to your very best ability, so it shouldn't limit you in any way.
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We just ask that your friend brings a gold coin to participate. Friends with dance experience or friends dancing for the first time are welcome to participate.
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Any property that is not claimed by the end of the year will be donated to the Salvation Army.


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Shh! Hear that? It's the sound of people not searching and not doing things on the web while Barack Obama is giving his inauguration speech. This is a man who can stop traffic of all sorts - including web traffic.
Google has blogged about it:
the overall query volume of Google searches dropped in the U.S. from the time President Obama took the oath of office until the end of his inaugural speech, demonstrating that all eyes were on today's festivities.
Flickr too saw a dramatic fall in business on its servers as people stopped uploading photos (many busy taking them in the Mall, one guesses); Last.fm also saw people stopping to listen, not to music, but to one man talking to them. (I've only linked to the photos, as they're all rights and CC rights/no money.)
But as Google's blogpost points out, things have changed ever so much.
During the last nine years, the growth of the Internet has changed the way the world seeks information. From President Bush's first inaugural address in 2001 to his second in 2005, the number of inauguration-related searches increased by more than a factor of ten. From 2005 to today's address, the number grew even more. Few of the 2001 queries requested "video," and none requested streaming. By 2005, a few queries such as inauguration audio and streaming video of inauguration appeared. Today, technology has become so prevalant that queries such as YouTube live inauguration, live blogging inauguration, inaugural podcast, and Obama inaugural speech mp3 formed one-third of all inauguration-related queries.


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Publicly funded family planning programs help save taxpayers billions of dollars each year by averting costly medical expenses, according to a new analysis from the Guttmacher Institute. It's the latest data point in an overwhelming body of evidence illustrating the societal benefits of expanding access to affordable birth control.
It's not hard to understand why that's the case. Low-income women are at the highest risk of unintended pregnancy, largely because they don't always have access to medical resources like contraception. But, when publicly funded programs like Title X help those women get affordable birth control, it can make a big difference. Guttmacher researchers estimate that the care provided at publicly funded family planning clinics helped prevent 2.2 million unplanned pregnancies in 2010.
With so many fewer pregnancies among this population, appropriating funding for family planning works out to be very good deal for the government. It eliminates a significant amount of potential Medicaid spending, since states don't have to pay as much for abortions, for miscarriages, or for maternity and infant care. "This investment resulted in net government savings of $13.6 billion in 2010, or $7.09 for every public dollar spent," the researchers conclude.
And investing in women's health can influence more than pregnancies. Title X clinics also provide screening and treatment for sexually transmitted infections, something that helps prevent patients from transmitting those infections to their future sexual partners. Guttmacher estimates that helped reduce chlamydia, gonorrhea, and HIV infections by 99,100 cases, 16,240 cases, and 410 cases respectively. Plus, providing resources for low-income women to get tested for cervical cancer helped identify 3,600 cases early enough to prevent more than 2,000 deaths.
"This analysis quantifies, for the first time, many of the myriad benefits of publicly funded family planning services beyond enabling women to prevent unintended pregnancies," the lead author of the new report, Jennifer Frost, said in a statement. According to Frost, the research provides "the most comprehensive portrait to date of the value of taxpayers' investment in these services."
Despite the well-documented benefits of family planning programs, states continue to slash funding in this area as women's health issues have become a politicized issue. Title X has been cut by more than $23 million over the past two fiscal years, and back in 2011, Republicans in the House of Representatives voted along party lines to defund the program altogether. Plus, recent attempts to attack Planned Parenthood clinics have left some low-income women — particularly in Texas, where the family planning infrastructure has been devastated — without any access to these services at all. Indeed, according to previous research conducted by Guttmacher, publicly funded clinics can't keep up with the demand.
But GOP leaders do recognize the financial benefits of Title X. Earlier this year, House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-WI)'s audit of federal anti-poverty programs conceded that the program is "moderately effective," concluding that the low-income women who rely on those clinics "have significantly greater odds of receiving contraceptive services and/or care for sexually transmitted diseases" than the women who rely on private physicians.
Guttmacher researchers point out that their findings about Title X are relevant to the larger health policy debate, too, since Obamacare's contraceptive coverage requirement seeks to expand exactly these type of preventative services to privately insured women across the country. Although that policy has been under attack from conservatives who say it violates their religious liberty, as well as from anti-Obamacare politicians, reproductive rights advocates have firmly stood behind it.
"The positive impact of these services is undeniable, and it is our hope that these benefits will continue to grow as the ACA expands access to preventive health services for many more individuals," another one of the study's authors, Adam Sonfield, pointed out.


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For anyone who wants to learn about the archaeobotany (also referred to as paleoethnobotany) of the American Southwest, Crow Canyon is the place to do it. Finding academic training in the region is difficult, and former faculty members have retired.
Almost every summer, Dr. Karen R. Adams, one of Crow Canyon's longtime research associates, provides a rare opportunity for one or two Crow Canyon interns to get an intensive education in the discipline. Adams, who was cross-trained in both archaeology and plant biology, has worked in the field for 40 years, and she welcomes the opportunity to train the next generation of archaeobotanists.
The internship application process is highly competitive. This year, two applicants rose to the top: Heather Miljour and Jenna Battillo.
For both, the draw was Adams, who presents archaeobotany as both an art and a science. In a few short weeks every summer, she teaches interns to look at plant parts in the archaeological record and glean what ancient groups were thinking and doing about subsistence, fuels, construction elements, and other everyday needs that could be satisfied by the plant world.
But what, exactly, do archaeobotanists do?
"We study wood and reproductive parts of plants under the microscope to identify food and non-food plant resources important in the past and to understand the plant communities people were drawing resources from," Adams said.
"Archaeobotany reveals the subsistence base of ancient inhabitants of the region, and it's a long list. Meals were made from maize (corn), beans, and squash, and a wide variety of wild plants," said Adams. "The ancestral Pueblo people were very astute observers of the environment. They figured it out. Their foods provided a nice balance of vitamins and minerals, fats and proteins. The archaeological record suggests they were fairly healthy."
They also manipulated their environment by opening up agricultural fields, picking up fuelwood, and harvesting roof timbers. Long occupation of a location could sometimes result in a shift in wood choices through time or difficulty growing corn.
Adams teaches interns to balance lab time with time spent on the landscape learning current plant communities, gathering modern specimens for comparison to ancient plant parts, and burning these modern specimens so they look just like those in the archaeological record.
"You have to have what I call 'the marbles to play the game,'" she explained. "To have the best chance of identifying the prehistoric plant materials, you need extensive modern plant specimens for direct comparison to charred plant bits from archaeological site samples."
She quoted Crow Canyon board member Dr. Bill Lipe: "The half-life of good data is forever. If we do good work here, another archaeologist could use that data at any time in the future. Our interpretations of the data may have a short half-life. Produce good data and you've done your job."
Besides the opportunity to study with Adams, Crow Canyon offers other advantages.
"We have excellent plant preservation here," Adams said, "and the written records of historic native groups to provide a framework to think about what we're excavating and analyzing. Their perspective on plants brings richness to what we know."
"This is my first introduction [to archaeobotany]," Miljour said. "I've had a long interest in plants and ethnographic uses; then I met Karen."
This internship will give her a chance to find out whether the specialty is for her. Adams said that Miljour will spend 10 weeks looking into a microscope and wrestling with "What is this thing?"
After earning a bachelor's degree in dietetics, Miljour realized she didn't want to do clinical work. This summer, she's looking at diet from another angle.
"I did some soul-searching and came up with archaeology," she said. After working in cultural resource management, she has enrolled in a master's program in applied archaeology at the University of Arizona starting this fall. She hopes her thesis can focus on plant remains from the Pueblo site of Homol'ovi I at Homol'ovi State Park in Arizona.
"Without this internship, I don't think I could do that."
Jenna Battillo has a bachelor's degree in anthropology from the University of Florida and a master's degree from the New York University anthropology department's human skeletal biology program. She began a doctoral program at Washington State University and there got into coprolite (fossilized feces) studies, which involve plant work. Now finishing her Ph.D. at Southern Methodist University because her advisor also transferred there, she is planning a dissertation on coprolites from Turkey Pen Ruin in southeastern Utah, one of the earliest sites for turkey domestication.
"At that point they might have eaten eggs but not turkeys. It was the Basketmaker II period―they had corn and squash but no beans. How did they supplement the incomplete protein of maize?"
For that reason, she studies archaeobotanical materials in coprolites, which offer the most direct view of the human diet. Not all crops were eaten; cotton is an example of a nonfood crop which was grown for its seed fibers.
There are no recognizable coprolites from the Dillard site, but there's still plenty of botanical information to be gained from the excavation. Wood from willows and cottonwood trees, as well as cattails in the pollen record, suggest either that the climate at the time of habitation was damper, or perhaps that the inhabitants managed the landscape to control water.
Battillo, who has completed her time at Crow Canyon, said she wished her internship had provided more public interaction. But any group dropping by the archaeobotany lab space is always welcome to see what plant parts are under the microscope and to talk about the tales of plant use they tell.
"The more the public knows, the more people can appreciate the archaeological record and its nonrenewable nature."
Within the world of archaeology, though, knowledge of archaeobotany, and lab skills in general, opens many doors.
"Laboratory archaeologists get to participate in all kinds of projects," Battillo said. "With a suite of lab-based knowledge, you can make yourself useful to projects all over the world."
"As long as you have a passion ...," Miljour said.
"If you're good at what you do ...," Battillo added.
Adams concluded, "... the archaeological plant record can reveal a great deal about ancient human behavior."
This project is supported in part by the State Historical Fund (a program of History Colorado, the Colorado Historical Society).


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Witchy redo
So this week's color challenge was Russian Violet. I pulled this witch out from about a month ago and redid it with a new style background. There basically wasn't one before. It already had the correct color and was very Octoberish so I thought it would be a good match. I like how it came out. Here is the original-
Also I am very busy right now with Inktober drawings every day this month and also using that challenge as an opportunity to work on the Christmas Coloring book I have wanted to produce for a long time. I will post some of those pieces soon. Thanks for stopping by!
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Any social and non-profit cause can raise funds in Teaming. It includes individuals who want to raise funds to help other individuals with special problems or situations.
To evaluate if a cause can raise funds or not in Teaming, we consider:
- The management that the Teaming Manager makes of the Teaming Group and of raised funds.
- The nature of the cause.
In any case, we don't judge (and can't be a reason for deleting a Group) the following things:
- The ideology, race, religion, nationality or any other personal characteristic of the Teaming Manager. There's one exception: if there's some proven case of crime (fraud, scam, terrorism...).
- The ideology, race, religion, nationality or any other personal characteristic of the Teamers.
The management of the Teaming Manager has to follow every condition specified in the International Statement of Ethical Principle in Fundraising, published by the Spanish Fundrasing Asocitation and in the Behavior Code for Fundraising in Spain. If the Teaming Manager transgresses any of these conditions, the Teaming Group she/he leads, could be deleted or could be transferred to another Teaming Manager.
We consider the Teaming Manager as a fundraiser. Any change of the destination of the funds, has to be approved by the donors. If the donors don't agree with the new destination and they want to keep the current social cause, the Teaming Manager can't change the destination of the funds. It means that the Group belongs to the cause more than to the Teaming Manager.
The Teaming Group could be of several natures (social assistance, medical investigation, culture, animal defense...). The only essential requirement is to be a non-profit cause.
The cause has to be social and based on non-profit. That means that every euro raised has to be used to help others, except for the structural expenses of the organization. These structural expenses can't be superior to the 30% of the money raised, according to the law.
We can't accept this kind of Groups:
- Social Companies, that wants to improve the society but also want to make a profit.
- Teaming Groups that raise funds for illegal, criminal or illicit activities. Neither the ones who support them in a clear way (with opinions, acts or similar).
- Teaming Groups that raise funds for personal purposes, except from the basic needs or assistance. Some example: a wedding, a car, a travel...
- Business, no matter the stage of the company development.
- In any case, the Teaming Group can't say or do anything that contradicts The Universal Declaration of Human Rights
- In case that Teaming can't prove the truthfulness of the Group. Teaming makes social engineering to know if a Group is legitimate. In case we couldn't verify the Group by this way, we ask the Teaming Manager for further documentation. If the Teaming Manager can't send us the information, then we will block the Group.
- In case that someone reports the Group with strong arguments. Then, the Teaming Manager of the Group has to demonstrate that the accusation is false. During the process, the Group will be paused.
- In case that the Teaming Manager spreads the Group in a wrong way. It means, sending the Teamers of other Groups messages advertising his/her own Group, by using the email internal service or the forum of another Group. We consider doing that as especially serious when the Teaming Manager joins a Group just for that and immediately after spreading her/his own Group, leaves it. There's only one exception: if you are the Teaming Manger of several Groups, it's your decision to do that in your own Groups. The first time a Teaming Manager does that, Teaming contact her/him as a warning. The second time, the Group will be blocked immediately.
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No, it's not a requirement to be a NGO or a Foundation to raise funds with Teaming. Any individual or group can raise funds to support a social cause. For example, the employees of a company that join together to raise funds for helping a Red Cross project or for helping a coworker who needs a wheel chair.


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Pueblan Milk Snake
Snakes are among the most fascinating animals to keep as pets, and with a wide variety of species to choose from, snake lovers may have a tough time time keeping just one type. Though ferocious predators, most snakes can become docile and even friendly with enough handling and good care. Check out these top five favorite serpents, and learn what makes each one so fascinating.
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1. Corn Snake
By far the most popular snake in the American exotic pet industry, the corn snake is actually a commonly seen snake in the eastern states, from New Jersey to the Florida Keys. So what makes this species so popular? It is a docile and hardy animal that is easily cared for, yes, but its true appeal lies in its genetic variety. Many corns that carry genetic mutations such as albinoism and hypomelanism exhibit some of the most spectacular colors seen in any snake on earth. The Bloodred morph, for instance, lives up to its name with scales that rival ruby gems in color and intensity. Charcoal corn snakes, on the other hand, lack the red pigments all together and are gorgeous black and ashy colored snakes with pitch black eyes. The Tessera morph, a newly discovered mutation, alters the snakes's pattern rather than its colors, changing its normally banded saddles to one single stripe down its back. All these genetic mutations may be combined with one another to create new and entirely different colors and patterns, making it the most popular snake for hobbyists and breeders alike.
Image: Joe Novak
2. Ball Python
Ball Pythons are popular for similar reasons, with some of the rarer and more strikingly colored and patterned morphs selling for $50,000 or even more. This West African species is named for its defense strategy, in which it curls itself into a tight ball with its head protected by its muscular body. When feeding, it uses those massive muscles to constrict its prey, squeezing so hard that the blood flow ceases completely, and the animal dies in less than a minute. Despite its brutal power, the ball python is a very docile animal in captivity, and with a length of no more than 5 feet, makes a great pet for the first time snake owner.
Image: Chris Morrison
3. California King Snake
These impressive predators regularly devour rattlesnakes in the wild. With a strong, muscular body reaching 5 feet, and a fearless disposition, king snakes live up to their name and reputation as the most formidable serpent in the United States. Ironically, they also happen to be among the most popular snakes in captivity. If handled regularly, a king can become as sweet as a lamb. If you're thinking about getting your little brother a cali king for Christmas, don't worry, you wont have to buy rattlesnakes as feeders. A mouse a week will do.
Image: Nanci LeVake
4. Milk Snake
The milk snake is closely related to the king snake, and hybrids between the two are common in the pet trade. A pure milk snake, however, is superior in beauty to any fancy hybrid out there. Known for its tricolor bands, the red, black and white coat is a form of Batesian mimicry, in which a defenseless animal mimics another, more dangerous one, in this case the highly venomous coral snake. Milk snakes lack venom and are completely harmless to humans. However, to the untrained eye, a milk snake and a coral snake appear identical. If you ever encounter a tricolor snake in the wild, remember the saying, "Red on black, friend of Jack. Red on yellow, kill a fellow."
Image: Barbara Draakje
5. Boa Constrictor
Known to take down large prey such as ocelots, this South and Central American native is a highly effective predator. Like the ball python, the boa constrictor squeezes the life out of its prey before consuming it, and with razor sharp teeth and powerful jaw muscles, it slides its dinner down the hatch in no time. At lengths of up to 10 feet, the boa constrictor is not a snake for the beginner hobbyist, or for those with limited space. A large enclosure is required, and many hobbyists build there own, custom made display cages for their boas to climb around in. If you're looking for a relatively challenging reptile to add to your collection, and are prepared to make its enclosure the centerpiece of your living room, then the boa constrictor may be right for you. Imagine what mom and dad will say when you invite them over for Sunday dinner and show them your 6 foot tall jungle terrarium next to the dinner table!


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Brand new for this year's Outdoor Trade Show (OTS 2016) is the OTS Party (Sponsored by Vango, Celebrating 50 Years Outdoors) – and with over 200 tickets already purchased, it promises to be one of the networking highlights of the year!
Tickets available to buy online until Wednesday 24th August 2016 at www.outdoortradeshow.com/party, and they're great value with a nominal cost of just £5, which includes entry to the party, hog roast, side dishes and a drink, so make sure you come along and bring your colleagues and customers too!
Please note: Tickets WILL NOT be available to purchase at the show or at the door as catering numbers need to be provided in advance. The final deadline to purchase tickets for the OTS Party is Wednesday 24th August 2016.
Taking place at 7.30pm on Wednesday 7th September, on the first day of the show, visitors and exhibitors will make their way on site to Stareton Hall, Stoneleigh Park, for an evening of networking and socialising – complete with a hog roast, music and drinks!
A shuttle bus will be available from Leamington Spa and Kenilworth to the venue and back. Further details will be sent to ticket holders.
Selected by OTS visitors and an expert panel of judges, the finalists of the UK Outdoor Industry Awards will also be announced in a special presentation at the party, following the display of entries at the show during the day.
Taking place on Wednesday 7th and Thursday 8th September 2016 at Stoneleigh Park in Warwickshire, OTS brings buyers and sellers together under one roof and attracts the key players of the outdoor industry, making it a must for distributors and manufacturers who have products to showcase whilst offering an opportunity for retailers to see a wide variety of brands presenting clothing, footwear and accessory products in the exhibition halls, at the same time as allowing camping retailers to browse through the hundreds of tents and awnings on display outdoors. Online Visitor Registration is open now at www.outdoortradeshow.com/visitor-registration.
For further information about OTS 2016, please contact the show organisers, MCS, on 0161 437 4634 or visit www.outdoortradeshow.com.


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Twenty-ninth Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year C) • Plantar warts taught me three things: (1) Don't ignore the problem (2) Get the help you need (3) Don't give up. The same goes for our spiritual life. Life is a struggle, but with God's help we can overcome. Just stay faithful and persevere.
(16 Oct 2016)
Point to Ponder: What do you struggle with the most in your daily walk with the Lord?
Point to Discuss: Talk to a friend about fighting of the Kingdom of God against His enemies. Does your life look different when you expect a struggle?


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