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The Parents' Review
A Monthly Magazine of Home-Training and Culture
"Education is an atmosphere, a discipline, a life."
Christmas Angels
by Violet Picton-Warlow
A Story for Children
Two children were waiting alone in a large nursery one Christmas Eve, a good many years ago. The walls of the rooms were almost covered with brightly-coloured pictures, and round the frames of these pictures were twisted wreaths of holly and evergreens. Over the mantel-piece hung a print, representing an angel standing upon a snowy plain; in his hands he held a branch of mistletoe, Christmas roses were blossoming at his feet, and on the ground around him lay quantities of toys, picture-books, dogs, every possible thing that any child could wish to possess. Underneath this engraving were printed the words--"The Children's Christmas Angel."
Tea-things were laid out upon the nursery table, but the tea itself had not yet been brought up, and Mab and Jack were waiting in the dusk, by the blazing fire, the light of which fell full upon their faces, until the nurse should re-appear with the tea-pot and lamp. The little boy and girl were twins of six years old; their birthday had passed just a month ago. They thought it a great pity that they only had one birthday between them, for that meant only one extra holiday in the year instead of two. Jack was a little taller than Mab; he had curly dark hair, brown eyes, and a brown skin; Mab's hair was also dark and curly, but her eyes were blue, and her complexion very fair. Considering that the children were twins, they were not very much alike. Jack was lying on the hearthrug, with his head on his hands, doing nothing at all. Mab was sitting on a little stool at his feet, by the side of the fire; she had been looking at a picture-book by the light of the flames, but it had now slipped unheeded from her lap to the floor; her arms were clasped round her knees, and she was gazing into the glowing coals, evidently thinking deeply. Suddenly Jack sat up and began to whistle, or rather, began trying to whistle, for he could not manage it at all; one heard much puffing and blowing out of breath, but very little sound else, and although he thought the performance quite lovely, what other sounds he did produce were most unmusical. He was very proud of this accomplishment, and had been practising it hard for weeks, under the tuition of Jim, a little next-door neighbour. Jim was eight years old, and went every day to a real boy's school where they had masters, so Jack, who went to a Kindergarten with Mab, looked upon him as a very grand person indeed. The tune he was now puffing out with a great deal of trouble was "Good King Winsilas." This noise aroused Mab from her day-dream, she slipped off her stool on to the hearthrug near her brother, and said--
"What do you think the Christmas Angel will bring us to-night, Dzaak?"--"Jack" was a word Mab had not yet learnt to say properly; her "a's" were always very broad and "j" she looked upon as an impossible letter to pronounce.
Jack's puckered lips resumed their usual shape, and he answered her question by another.
"What do you want most, Mab? I want a ball, and some marbles, and a paint-box, and a cricket-bat, and lots of oranges and apples."
Mab looked at him in surprise.
"Who's going to play cricket with you, Dzaak?" she asked.
"Jim, of course."
"Where are you going to play? You can't in the streets, Mummy won't let you."
"Don't want to play in the streets. We'll do it in our own back-yard."
"Then I can come to," said Mab. She was not very fond of Jim, because she was afraid Jack liked running about with him, better than playing with her. She almost expected now to hear her brother say she could not play cricket with them, but he said nothing of the sort.
"Of course you can," he replied. "We'll have awful fun; one to bat, one to bowl, and one to run after the ball. You didn't tell me what you wanted, Mab." "I want a big book of fairy-tales, and I want a lovely dolly that can open and shut its eyes, like the one we saw in the shop, do you remember, Dzaak?" For when Jim was not there, Jack sometimes joined his little sister in her games with her dolls, and was most clever in mending broken legs and arms, and in patching up dollies' chairs and tables, but not for worlds would he have allowed his boy-friends to know this.
"Only I don't think the Angel could possibly put that doll in my stocking," went on Mab. "Do you think I'd better ask Father to let me hang up one of his? I don't think even that would large 'nough! And if the Angel couldn't find anywhere to put my dolly, he might take it away again."
"Oh, that'll be all right," said Jack cheerfully. "He wouldn't take it away 'cos of that, he'd stick it on the table or somewhere. Besides, Jim says there's no such things as Christmas Angels. I 'blieve it's just Mummy brings our toys."
"Dzim's a bad boy, and he doesn't know anything 'bout it," sad Mab with decision. "Mummy said to me to-day, 'I wonder if the Angel will bring you a dolly, Mab?' And she knows better'n Dzim," the little girl added, scornfully. "The man who painted that picture," she looked over the mantel-piece as she spoke, "must have seen one, else how did he know what they were like?"
Jack said no more. It was very strange that Jim could be wrong, but Mab's argument seemed to him unanswerable. "How could a man make a picture of anything he had never seen?" Besides, nurse now appeared with a tray, and no more talk about Christmas Angels was possible; for children seldom speak before "grown-ups" in the way that they do when they are alone.
After tea the twins always went to the drawing-room for an hour, and Mummy generally told them fairy-tales, or Father romped with them; but this evening they all talked together about many things, and afterwards Mummy told them once again the story of the Christ-child that they already knew so well, but were never tired of hearing. At half-past seven, after having said their prayers, which they always did downstairs, they went up again to the nursery. As Mab said good-night to her mother, she whispered, "Mummy, do you really think the Christmas Angel will bring me a dolly?"
"I'm quite sure he will," answered Mummy, smiling as she thought of her little daughter's longed-for treasure, which could open and shut its eyes, lying in a box in her room, wrapped in many folds of silver paper. So Mab went to bed perfectly happy. She slept in a room with Nurse, and Jack had a little room that opened into hers; the door between the two was always left open at night, because Mab said that when it was open, Jack didn't seem so far away as when it was shut. Both the children had made up their minds to stay awake "all night," in hopes of seeing the Angel, but, strange to say, they had scarcely been in bed half an hour before they both fell fast asleep. Suddenly Mab awoke; she thought she must have been asleep for hours, and that it was now the middle of the night; but it really was not yet ten o'clock. To her surprise, the room was quite light, not with daylight, but as if there were a lamp or candle burning on the other side of her bed-curtains. She saw no one in the room, and was very much puzzled. "I wonder who it can be," she thought. "It was quite dark when I went to sleep. And why isn't Nursie here?" She sat up and peeped round the curtain; a small lamp had been placed on a table near the bed. Then the thought flashed across her mind that the Christmas Angel would soon appear. "Of course, Mummy must have left the lamp here so that he could see where to put our presents. I hope he'll come soon." Just at that moment she heard footsteps outside, and she lay back again, scarcely able to breathe with excitement. She watched the door as it opened, and saw--was it possible?--Mummy, carrying a large wax doll in her hands and various parcels under her arms. "Oh, what a lovely doll," thought Mab; "but why has Mummy got it?" From beneath her half-closed eyelids she watched her mother as she placed the doll on the table, filled the little stocking that lay there ready with odds and ends of the kind that children love, and then, taking up the lamp, left the room as quietly as possible. Only after she had gone did Mab realise that no Christmas Angel would she see to-night, and that Mummy had done what she had looked upon as his work. Could it be that Jim was right, after all, in what he had told Jack? And if so, what about Mummy? One of them must be wrong. Poor little Mab was so troubled that she could not go to sleep again; she jumped out of bed, and ran into her brother's room to tell him all about it. In her anxiety to awaken him without loss of time she twisted her fingers in his curly locks and gave them a good pull.
"Dzaak, Dzaak," she said half crying; "do wake up, oh, do wake up quick!" "Ou," growled Jack sleepily, "is it you, Mab? Just leave my hair alone. And what do you want? 'Tisn't time to get up, I don't b'lieve. I'm 'sleep." "No, you're not 'sleep, 'cos I've just waked you. And it was Mummy put the toys in our rooms; I saw her. Come downstairs with me, and let's ask her. I'm 'fraid to go alone. Do come, dear Dzaak!"
Poor Jack got out of his nice warm bed, and hand-in-hand the two little white-robed figures crept through the dark rooms into the lighted passage. Then they ran down the stairs to the drawing-room, and opening the door saw mother and father talking by the fire. Dropping Jack's hand, Mab rushed across the room to Mummy, and clinging round her neck, began to sob bitterly. Jack followed more slowly, and stood gravely watching his little sister.
"Why, Mab, my darling, whatever is the matter?" cried the startled mother, lifting the shivering child into her lap and trying to soothe her. But Mab could not speak for tears.
"Jack, what is it? Tell me at once," said Mummy, who was quite frightened. Father had said nothing; but fetching his own coat from the hall he wrapped Jack warmly up in it and took him on his knee, having first given his wife the sofa-rug with which to cover the little girl.
"Now, my little man, let us hear all about it," he said. "Did Mab have a bad dream?"
"I don't know," said Jack. "But she saw Mummy fill our stockings, and she thought the Angel would do it. And Jim said there wasn't a Christmas Angel; and she didn't b'lieve him. And now she's 'fraid there really isn't one, and she's sorry. And so 'm I. It's such a pretty picture. And if the man never saw one, how did he paint it? So she's crying." Father looked hopelessly bewildered over this explanation; but Mummy understood at once. Mummy always did understand.
"Say that there is a Christmas Angel, Mummy," sobbed Mab. "Say Dzim was wrong. There is one, really, isn't there?"
Poor Mummy at first did not quite know what to answer; she reflected that perhaps she had been a little to blame for having allowed Mab to believe that the pretty stories she had heard of Christmas Angels and their gifts were all perfectly true, word for word. She thought it over for a few moments, and then:
"My darlings," she said, "there is certainly a Christmas Angel, but he doesn't give us such thing as you had asked for; the gifts he brings are far better."
Mab began to feel interested, and her sobs ceased.
"What does he bring us, Mummy?" asked Jack.
"He brings us gifts from Heaven, dear; gifts of peace and good-will, far more precious than any earthly things we may wish to have. He comes from God, because he is the Spirit of Love that was in the Christ-child Himself. You cannot see him, neither can I, nor anyone else, but some day you will see the Christ-child in Heaven if you try to be like Him. Do you understand, darlings?"
"I don't know--I think so--a little," said Mab. She was very small, but she understood quite enough to comfort her greatly. Mummy always knew everything, and if she said there was a Christmas Angel, a Christmas Angel there must be, whether one could see him or not. That was the reasoning of Mummy's little daughter, and very good reasoning it was. Then Father carried her upstairs again, and Mummy carried Jack. By this time they were very sleepy; indeed, Mab fell asleep almost before she was put into bed again, but she woke up enough to murmur, as Mummy stooped down to kiss her, "And Dzim was wrong."
Jack next day explained the matter to Jim in this way: "Mummy says the Christmas Angel is the kind of feeling that makes you want to be nice to everyone at Christmas." I think he had understood his mother's meaning very well, don't you?
But it was a long time before he understood how "a man could make a picture of anything he had never seen!" He understands it now though, for last year he painted a beautiful picture of himself and Mab by the fire in their old nursery, with the light of the flames upon their faces; he is lying with his head upon his hands, and Mab is sitting on a little stool at the side of the hearth; a picture-book is lying on the floor beside her; she has her hands clasped over her knees, and is gazing at the glowing coals. He signs his pictures "Dzaak," and strangers seeing them always think he must be a foreigner.
"For Dzaak," they say, "is most certainly not an English name." Nobody but himself and Mab knows why he calls himself so, for it never occurs to anyone that it is simply a little child's way of pronouncing that very English name, "Jack."
The painting of himself and his little sister is called "One Christmas Eve." I asked Mab what the name meant, and she told me this story of the Christmas Angel.
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Tribute – The Moon Landing 1969 – Duck Tales MOON ThemeAugust 26, 2012
Never give up. Trust your instincts.March 2, 2011
I got some mail today. A small package that was shipped from the other side of this planet. It contained a superb english version of the unreleased game, Star Fox 2, for the SNES (Super Nintendo Entertainment System).
Ive only tried the game a little so far, but it feels like a really good game. Too bad Nintendo never officially released it. Its a nice sequel to the excellent Star Fox (or Star Wing as we call it here in Europe) -saga.
Im glad though, that this version of the game exist, even though its not an official release. I got the goosebumps when inserting that Star Fox 2 cartridge into the SNES console, and powering it up. lol Nostalgia, and yet, something New, at the same time.
If you get hold of this game, try it out. (And if you dont want to bother with actually finding a real snes cartridge version of the game, the game is available for any snes emulator)
I shot some video footage of the game. Have a look if you like 😉
-Never give up. Trust your instincts! – James McCloud
Camera: HTC Desire – Android.
Console: SNES (Super Nintendo Entertainment System) (PAL region)
Game: Star Fox 2 (NTSC region) – (unofficial)
Adaptor: UA Universal Adaptor Expert Version
Game used as adaptor: Star Wing (PAL version)

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Gorsuch, Neil McGill
Gorsuch, Neil McGill,1967–, associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (2017–), b. Denver. A graduate of Harvard Law School (1991), he clerked for Supreme Court Justice Kennedy and then studied at Oxford before he entered private practice (1995–2005). From 2005 to 2006 he was the principal deputy to the U.S. associate attorney general. In 2006 he was appointed by President George W. Bush to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit. Regarded as a conservative in the mold of Antonin ScaliaScalia, Antonin,
1936–2016, associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1986–2016), b. Trenton, N.J. He graduated from Harvard Law School (1960) and subsequently taught law at the Univ. of Virginia (1967–71) and the Univ. of Chicago (1977–82).
..... Click the link for more information. (whom Gorsuch succeeded as justice), he was appointed to the Supreme Court in 2017 by President Trump. (Merrick GarlandGarland, Merrick Brian,
1952–, American government official and judge, b. Chicago, grad. Harvard (A.B. 1974, J.D. 1977). He was special assistant to the U.S. attorney general (1979–81), a lawyer in private practice (1981–89, 1992–93), and assistant U.S.
..... Click the link for more information. had been nomimated by President Obama a year before to the vacancy created by the death of Scalia but Republicans in the Senate refused to consider the nomination.)
See his memoir (2019).
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I knew of Kroetsch, had heard references to him all the time, which is no surprise given his status as an influential and well-known Canadian writer, but I'd never read his work. In the winter of 2008, I stumbled upon "Completed Field Notes, The Long Poems of Robert Kroetsch" (the University of Alberta Press, 2000).
I don't know about you, but for me there are so many writers I hear about who I mean to get around reading some day. Robert Kroetsch was like that for me, and when I finally did get around to him, I was blown away.
I love his wit, his double entendres, his easygoing style. I felt, in part, like I was home, like I'd found an influence. Before Kroetsch I'd also been galvanized by the writing of Lisa Robertson and Dennis Cooley in much the same way and had to explore such things as the long line and the sentence based on their work.
In this case, I couldn't help but write a poem of my own, inspired by "The Sad Phoenician" (first published in its entirety by Coach House Press in 1979). I read Kroetsch in a fever (literally, due to a flu, I had a 100 degree temperature) and I wrote "The Sad Phoenician's Other Woman" (above/ground press, 2008) in a fever too…in just over three days and three nights. I really did feel a quickening and a shiver as I read
This stone
becomes a hammer
of stone, this maul
is the colour
of bone (no,
bone is the colour
of this stone maul).
The rawhide loops
are gone, the
hand is gone, the
buffalo's skull
is gone;
the stone is
shaped like the skull
of a child.
[I from Stone Hammer Poem, Prologue and reprinted as part of the Stone Hammer Poems in 1975 by Oolichan Books and included in the "Completed Field Notes"]
That was the first poem of Kroetsch's I ever read, and I had to read more; I've never been so glad that I had a whole thick book of long poems to discover. We were in the middle of that crazy snow storm last year where the snow kept falling and falling and falling, I was sick and couldn't go anywhere. And I didn't want to.
In his author's note at the back of the book, Kroetsch explains that the "Completed Field Notes" represents a body of work which appeared over a period of fifteen years, each long poem published individually over the years and later together as "Field Notes" (General Store Publishing, 1981), then by McClelland and Stewart as "Completed Field Notes" in 1989 and when that was almost out of print, reprinted by the University of Alberta Press in 2000 with an introduction by Kroetsch's long time friend and another renowned Canadian writer, Fred Wah.
In the author's note, Kroetsch writes "Since the eloquence of failure may be the only eloquence remaining in this our time, I let these poems stand as the enunciation of how I came to a poet's silence. And I like to believe that the sequence of poems, announced in media res as continuing, is, in its acceptance of its own impossibilities, completed."
I think this idea of failure, the poetics of failure is what draws me to Robert Kroetsch's writing. I have always been intimidated by writing that seems to come from a voice on high from writers who, deliberately or not, portray themselves as having the answers. Writers like Kroetsch (and there is really no one like him) don't promise answers or some kind of heightened and sensitive insight based on their role as Poet with a capital P. I don't believe anyone has that kind of role. I don't like the way it distances the reader and the writer. Kroetsch's writing didn't make me feel distant from him or his work, but rather kindred.
In his introduction, Fred Wah talks about how Kroetsch's poem "Mile Zero" "attempts to avoid design, to occupy an unresolved transition. The poem as field becomes a translucent white surface of trajectory, a field of particles that, above all else, seeks constant motion and resists rest." And later…
"Think of 'field notes' as temporary, as momentary gestures that interpolate possibility. Perhaps even as investigations into the potential for narrative. Or at least the poem's capacity for narrative. Then think of narrative not as a predictable line of action and consequence but as a maze of sudden twists, obstacles, impossibilities, possibilities.
Kroetsch's Field notes are not only lessons in the naïveté of completion, lessons, in fact, on being lost, there are also a manual of field note technique."
This notion of a long poem as a maze of "twists, obstacles, impossibilities and possibilities" excites me and makes me want to write more long poems. I think the long poem gives one space to set up and shape these twists and gives the reader space, time and rhythm to become compelled by them.
I particularly like the idea of "in media res" or starting in the middle or as I like to think of it, depicting moments as they occur rather than seeing them in hindsight. I was trying to do this with "The Sad Phoenician's Other Woman," a long poem about a woman who, to quote "The Sad Phoenician," "now loves adverbs." I wrote the poem in the spirit of the Kroetsch poem and worked some of his lines from the poem in my own, playing with his ideas of working with other sources to create a poem. Like Kroetsch, I had fun disrupting systems, particularly grammar. I used grammar as a means to mislead and create ambiguity in the poem.
Some readers have described my poem as a poem of conquest since it engages with the sexual exploits a woman initiates with various male accomplices. The tone is a repetition of the tongue-in-cheek bravado from the Kroetsch poem.
In their interview with Robert Kroetsch, in Poets Talk, The University of Alberta Press, 2005, Pauline Butling and Susan Rudy bring up the role of gender and domesticity in The Sad Phoenician. Rudy says "…once a woman tries to articulate the banal, the everyday, and the ordinary, what she's articulating in the first instance is its oppressiveness. What she might need to do first is to critique, not celebrate it."
I didn't read this interview until long after I'd written the poem, but what I was trying to do with The Sad Phoenician's Other Woman with the female character in the poem was certainly to celebrate a woman's freedom to choose her own sexuality but also to poke fun at and play with the dynamic and insanity of sexual relationships between people.
In "Jack Spicer to Frederico Garcia Lorca" in "Poetics of the New American Poetry,"Grove Press, New York, 1973, Jack Spicer said "There's plenty of fudging that's allowed in this kind of thing. But the old thing that René Char said, he said that the poet should have a sign on his wall saying, 'CHEAT AT THIS GAME.'
What I like about writing poetry is trying to get away with things. I enjoy rebelling against convention and constraints, whether they be grammatical or societal. "The Sad Phoenician's Other Woman" is one of my attempts at such.
One of the things that I enjoy playing with in the long poem form is the notion of delay.
rob mclennan (& perhaps others) has talked about the long poem as a poetics of delay, which is one of the techniques apparent in Kroetsch's poems, especially "the Sad Phoenician." I loved the way Kroetsch used the conjunctions "and" & "but" to cause a disjunction in the narrative and at times to misdirect the flow of the narrative, putting a rock in the river to change the tempo and movement of the water.
What other pieces in the book did I enjoy? All of them, all of them. I can't give highlights or tell you about what fun i had in "The Winnipeg Zoo" or talk more about the contrasts in tone from one long poem to another. The whole book was one of the most joyful and mind opening experiences with poetry that I have experienced since I began to study contemporary poetry in earnest only five short years ago.
And just when I thought I couldn't be more excited by Kroetsch's poetry, when, after my fever broke, I continued to read his works, I discovered "the Hornbooks of Rita K." (the University of Alberta Press, 2001). The book is written in the voice of Raymond, the intimate friend of the aptly initialled poet Rita Kleinhart, who disappeared from the Museum of Modern Art in Frankfurt, or so Raymond tells us. I loved the way Kroetsch plays with reality here, and the sense of play all the way through.
This is evocative too of Rob Winger's "Muybridge's Horse" (Nightwood Editions, 2007), another poem I read before I embarked upon "The Sad Phoencian's Other Woman". In his book, Winger also plays with the notion of reality, specifically what is known and documented publically and what may have occurred behind the scenes. This is also what I get from Kroetsch's work and what I tried to achieve in "The Sad Phoenician's Other Woman," to create a world which questions and plays with fact and extrapolation, the effect of opinion and distortion of reality.
As a rank beginner to poetry, I learn by example (actually I'll always be a beginner and I always hope to learn by reading). I'm only just understanding, thanks to writers like Kroetsch, that it's possible to write in a voice other than one's own. The voice(s) in this book open up all kinds of possibilities for what can be done in a poem. Same thing with "the Snowbird Poems" (the University of Alberta Press, 2004). These voices allow the writer to get away with things, he might not otherwise be able to, such as parodies in rhyme form.
What Robert Kroetsch has done for me is that he has given me a gift:
he has opened up my writing to endless possibility of play;
he has made me rethink my recalcitrant perspective on narrative poetry, something I used to avoid at all costs, and find a way to write poetry using devices that I previously thought were only acceptable for fiction;
he has made me want to read other long poems, mentioned and discussed in his brilliant essay "For Play and Entrance: the Canadian Contemporary Long Poem in "The Lovely Treachery of Words, Essays Selected and New (Oxford University Press, 1989);
he has made me want to read and write more.
Originally published in the AngelHousePress essay series, 2009.


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I mean this in the nicest way possible when I say you need to take a good hard look at your communications team. You could have the best product on the planet but if the message sucks, it isn't going to do well.
If you are doing it all in house (which I really hope you aren't) please consider hiring a real PR firm.
CHAMMOND1992 wrote: »I don't really get this. Nothing in this photo says anything about how DICE is managing their priorities. When it's time to fix bugs, they do that. When it's time for a launch party, they do that too. In terms of "friction", battle lines have been drawn between DICE and a certain demographic of the BF community. Not ALL of the BF community. If DICE wants to mock the complaints from that portion then so be it. I'm not going to baby sit them and tell them what they're doing isn't typical of what companies do when it comes to appeasing those who they offended.
DonSharkito wrote: »
When you have devs openly writing the above in some kind of forums, no one can be really surprised by OP's picture.
It is very respectable of being inclusive, but since when people play videogames to experience/see social issues progress (especially in a WW2 setting)?
Quick answer: no one.
So instead of focusing on inclusiveness or other social issues in your video games, first and foremost make sure that your game is fun to play, not broken and not experiencing countless delays.
eypmvho6tm49 wrote: »Is this about being able to play as a woman?
or maps or what?
Do you really think the game sells badly because of Historical inaccuracies?
The game has other issues mostly it being like Hardline in more than one comparison.
Its the game type its self that the community mostly does not like in combination with bugs
only Timon and Pumbaa would love.
Then the problem with the balancing, bombers bombing squad 1.5 sec in the game...
Communication, I don't even know where to start.
But you really think its because of Historical inaccuracies that this game sells bad?


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What Is Internal Revenue Code Conformity?
The Internal Revenue Code (IRC) conformity refers to the degree to which state tax codes conform to the federal tax code. Most states conform in some respects, but they "decouple" from other federal provisions, leaving them out of their own tax codes.
The most commonly omitted federal tax laws include those addressing bonus depreciation, expensing of depreciable business assets (IRC Section 179), and the domestic production activities deduction (IRC section 199).
In theory, IRC conformity simplifies a state's implementation of its own tax policy—and tax preparation for individuals—by using federal taxable income as a base point. Modifications are made from there to adapt to state policies and revenue needs.
How States Conform to the Federal Tax Code
States conform to the federal tax code in one of two ways:
Moving Date Conformity
Changes in federal tax law automatically apply to the state tax code as they occur. If the state does not want to conform to a new federal law, it must pass specific legislation to decouple from it. New York is an example of a "moving date" conformity state.
Fixed Date or Static Conformity
A state conforms to the federal tax code as it existed on a certain date. If a state's conformity date was January 1, 2016, the state does not automatically incorporate changes to federal tax law that occur after that date. California is an example of a "fixed date" conformity state.
What Does This Mean for Me?
The degree to which a given state conforms to federal tax rules impacts state tax compliance for both businesses and individuals. Whenever a new federal tax law goes into effect, it can affect your state tax return depending on whether your state conforms to that particular law. Your tax liability on both your federal return and your state return could be affected if your state conforms to the new law. Your state income tax return will likely include more calculations to reconcile the differences between your federal taxable income and your state taxable income if your state does not conform.
An Example
The Arizona Department of Revenue publishes a yearly update on its website as to the state legislature's decisions regarding IRC conformity. Here's an example from 2014:
Each year the Arizona legislature considers whether to amend Arizona Revised Statutes § 43-105 to conform to changes made to the Internal Revenue Code during the prior year. On April 09, 2015, the Governor signed Senate Bill 1188 which conformed to the definition of federal adjusted gross income (federal taxable income for corporations) including federal changes made during 2014 and did not add any new non-conformity additions or subtractions. However, additions and subtractions created for prior non-conformity adjustments for issues such as bonus depreciation are still in place. The instructions issued with the 2014 Arizona tax returns are correct. For a complete list of the additions and subtractions that apply to 2014 see the 2014 instructions for Arizona Form 140 (individuals) or Arizona Form 120 (corporations). The statutory additions are in A.R.S. § 43-1021 (A.R.S. § 43-1121 for corporations) and the subtractions are in A.R.S. § 43-1022 (A.R.S. § 43-1122 for corporations).
Armed with this information, a taxpayer can seek professional help in preparing his return, or at the very least get up-to-date advice from a professional before attempting to prepare his own return. Most states provide similar updates.
The information contained in this article is not tax or legal advice and is not a substitute for such advice. State and federal laws change frequently, and the information in this article may not reflect your own state's laws or the most recent changes to the law. For current tax or legal advice, please consult with an accountant or an attorney.


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UNDATED, - Almost 30,000 comments have poured into the U.S. Food and Drug Administration about Canadian genetically modified salmon since the agency announced preliminary assessments found the altered fish pose no significant environmental impact.
The response has been so strong in the past two months that the FDA was asked to extend the public comment period, and it issued a statement Wednesday to say comments will remain open an additional 60 days, until April 26.
Morgan Liscinsky, spokesperson for the FDA, said the agency will review the comments after that and decide how to proceed.
"FDA will complete the review of the AquAdvantage Salmon application and will reach a decision on approval," Liscinsky said in an email.
"At this point it is not possible to predict a timeline for when these decisions will be made."
Developed at Memorial University in Newfoundland and the University of Toronto, the eggs are produced at AquaBounty Farms in Prince Edward Island and the fish are reared in Panama.
The Atlantic salmon egg is modified with genes from chinook salmon and an eel-like fish called the ocean pout, which makes the fish grow twice as fast as conventional fish, cutting in half the time it takes to reach market size.
Calls to Massachusetts-based AquaBounty Technologies, the company that wants to produce AquAdvantage commercially, were not immediately returned.
While genetically modified plant crops were approved for human consumption almost two decades ago, the altered salmon would be the first transgenic animal to make it onto a menu. The product has been making its way through the American regulatory process for 17 years.
Two reports issued by the FDA in December found the fish posed no significant impact on the environment south of the border, but the agency does not weigh ethics or policy around biotech foods as part of the regulatory process.
Alaska state lawmakers have vowed to fight approval of the so-called "frankenfish," alongside opponents like Lucy Sharratt, of the Canadian Biotechnology Action Network.
"The FDA has extended the comment period because this (genetically engineered) salmon is politically important and highly controversial inside the US. ... The extension signals heightened tensions," Sharratt said in an email.
She said the public concerns expressed in thousands of comments were not taken into account in the preliminary reports issued in December.
"Groups are hoping that the FDA will now take this chance to decide to publish a ... much more comprehensive review," Sharratt said.


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A mum whose son has autism was moved to tears by a wonderful letter from his teacher.
Gail Twist, from Merseyside, uploaded a photo of the letter 11-year-old Ben received after his exam results had been sent to his parents.
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"In tears," the mother wrote on Twitter.
"A letter to my 11-year-old autistic son from his school: 'These tests only measure a little bit of you'."
The letter stated that although the test is important there are also other important skills the school measures.
"A very important piece of information I want you to understand is that these tests only measure a little bit of your abilities.
"They are important and you have done so well, but Ben Twist is made up of many other skills and talents that we at Lansbury Bridge see and measure in other ways."
The teacher, Mrs Clarkson listed all of Ben's other qualities, including his artistic talents, kindness, independence, abilities in sports and music and ability to make friends.
She explained she had written to his parents to tell them the results of his tests.
He attends Lansbury Bridge School and Sports College, a school for students with special needs in St. Helens, Merseyside.
The mother's tweet was liked nearly 5,000 times as people praise the school and the fabulous teacher Mrs. Clarkson.
In tears. A letter to my 11 yr old autistic son from his school. "These tests only measure a little bit of you" pic.twitter.com/e9OPECidxX— Gail Twist (@gailtwist) July 9, 2016


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May 27, 2016 (LBO) – Sri Lanka's state-owned Ceylon Electricity Board has failed to recognize the changing dynamics of the energy world when preparing their long term generation plan, an energy analyst charged.
Chairman of the Strategic Enterprise Management Agency (SEMA), Asoka Abeygunawardane, told a public lecture on Thursday that the CEB has even failed to identify the government policy on energy.
"Things were happening during the last five years, and the CEB has failed to recognize that," Abeygunawardane said.
"So they are coming up with their very old plan which was originally presented in 1990s, just after the completion of Mahaweli."
Five years back, Abeygunawardane says the situation was different. The solar prices were about 80 percent higher and wind prices were about 50 percent higher.
"I can understand they have failed to understand it in 1990s. That's ok. But today despite having the government policy clearly defined, they have failed to understand that."
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Kimono – is a traditional Japanese dress, worn by men, women and kids. The literal translation of the word is "something to wear" (Ki = wear; mono = thing). It is a T-shaped, straight line robe, which comes in all types of designs and quality, some of which are extremely rich and expensive.
Unlike India, where the "Saree" (traditional dress of India) is worn on daily basis by many, Kimono is usually reserved for special occasions like weddings, tea ceremonies, burials, etc, one of the reasons being that it is extremely difficult to wear a kimono. The picture above will give you a fair idea of the complexity of the garment. Not shown in the picture are a lot of other accessories that go with it – inner linings, ropes & ties, obi (belt), a bow (for the back), tabi (special white socks), Geta (special wooden sandals), etc.
Brides usually wear a "pure white" kimono (Shiromuku)on the day of the wedding with an elaborate hairpiece (Wataboshi – equivalent of a bridal veil). Wearing white by the brides has a special significance. As the bride leaves one family and enters a new one, she wears white so that "she can take on the colors of the groom's family".
The groom wears a black kimono carrying the family crest, a pleated skirt (hakama ) and a half-length black coat (haori)
(Along with the headgear, the bride also wears a traditional hair piece wig (Tsunokakushi) – it literally means "hiding horns". Hiding the horns signifies that the women will be obedient to their husbands. The idea comes from a folklore which says that when women are jealous, they grow horns – reminds me of the devil from the Onida color TV ad.)
My first experience of wearing a kimono was at a family friend's house in Osaka. The lady of the house had a lot of extremely beautiful Kimonos and wanted me to try one…and believe me, it was a huge task. Not that I wore it myself, of course she helped me with it, but it took almost 40 minutes to get the whole thing in place. But once done it looked absolutely gorgeous – worth every bit of the effort that went into it. Oh.but that was not all..I could hardly walk. and what's more..my friend taught us the traditional "tea ceremony" that day …with the Kimono on, which was fun and a good learning experience….but phew!! extremely tiring…all in all, it was a wonderful experience but at the end of it, I was happy to be out of the Kimono and back into my denims.
I got to wear the dress once more and that was at Hotel Higashi Nihon in Utsunomiya. The hotel has a professional studio where I was dressed up in a beautiful and rich Kimono by the studio employees. I remember it took almost 2 hours for us to dress-up (with all the accessories and the make-up). Once ready, they took proper professional photographs of me in Kimono in a variety of poses and gifted them to us. (was arranged as a gift by my school) Those photographs are one of the best souvenirs that I have from the country.
One very important thing to remember when wearing a kimono is when wrapping it around the body, it should always be the 'left side over the right side'…..it is only when dressing the dead for the burial, the kimono is wrapped the other way round, that is 'right side over the left side. I am not sure about the significance.) I will have to check and get back.)


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Rent in Hamilton is generally quite reasonable, with graduate students typically paying $300 – $600 per month.
It is always a good idea to start looking for accommodation early and many of our new students visit Hamilton for a few days during the summer to look for housing.
The Off-Campus Housing Office at McMaster (MUSC B112, Tel. (905) 525-9140, Ext. 24086) provides listings to assist you in your quest. Suitable places for students to live may be found in the residential area called Westdale which surrounds the University. Westdale Village also contains many amenities, including stores, banks, restaurants and a movie theatre. A short bus or bicycle ride away are numerous apartment buildings in the central part of Hamilton and in the neighbouring town of Dundas.
For more information, please consult the McMaster Off-Campus Housing Office web site.
Unmarried graduate student housing is available in Bates Residence.
Before receiving a residence application, you must have been offered admission to the graduate programme.
The number of rooms available for the normal school year is limited, so you should apply early. Rooms in residence are plentiful during the summer months and are available at daily, weekly, or monthly rates. Applications are not required during the summer. There are no accommodations on campus for married graduate students. All enquiries concerning residences should be directed to: Director of Residence Life, Commons Building 101E, Tel. (905) 525-9140, Ext. 24223.
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Tenant scrutiny is more than just another tenant engagement activity
It is a way of giving tenants greater influence, the ability to assess the impact of business decisions, and to examine the performance of their landlord. It enables staff and customers to work in partnership to achieve better performance and improved services for customers.
What does a Tenant Scrutineer do?
Typically our scrutiny groups work on 3 projects a year and the activities they undertake varies widely depending on the scrutiny project. All projects will involve gathering the customer's view of the service, this may involve carrying out surveys, organising focus groups and workshops or chatting to customers individually to understand their story. Often the project will involve comparing Together Housing services to that of other landlords, looking at policies and processes so we can learn from others. This may involve going to visit other landlords, meeting other scrutiny groups or hosting visits to Together Housing.
Then we get the evidence, inspecting properties and grounds to ensure Together Housing are doing what the say they will do in their published service standards. The scrutiny group reaches its conclusions and makes recommendations in a report to Together Housing's Operations Committee. Being involved is quite a commitment; the groups tend to meet every fortnight while carrying out a scrutiny review.
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We have a core group of people involved and we are currently looking for more customers who would be interested in being part of the scrutiny process. It is a great chance to work with other customers & staff, talk about the things that matter to you and about how Together Housing provide our services.
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CINICO boss confirms AIS no longer processing claims
(CNS): The CEO of the government-owned insurance company, CINICO, confirmed that it is no longer using AIS Cayman Ltd or its Jamaican parent company, AIS, to verify and clear payments for its clients at the Cayman Islands Hospital. Lonny Tibbetts told CNS that, following a request for proposals in 2013, the payment systems are now being handled by a Michigan-based company, ABS-Automated Benefit Solutions, which is the network access provider to UnitedHealthcare, which operates out of Minnesota.
The former chair of the Health Services Authority, Canover Watson, was convicted last month for corruption and sentenced to seven years in jail. During the trial it was revealed that he and his friend, Jeffrey Webb, a convicted fraudster in the FIFA scandal, were the beneficial owners of AIS Cayman Ltd, which won the HSA payment system contract.
The AIS contract cost the Cayman Islands treasury millions of dollars, but as well as becoming the centre of the HSA corruption scandal, the system itself never worked properly.
Tibbetts said that on 1 January 2014, ABS began amalgamating the processed HSA claims from AIS Cayman, as well as processing the non-AIS claims that CINICO deals with, such as other providers in the private sector, claims for treatment in Jamaica and the US, plus claims that need to be reimbursed where CINICO clients have paid upfront for medical care.
"In the middle to late part of 2014, the Cayman Islands Health Services Authority and CINICO informed AIS that we would be reducing the use of their services and limiting the groups processed to the SHIC (Standard Health Insurance Contract) Group only. In response to this, AIS ceased the processing of all claims for CINICO and the CIHSA on 5 December 2014," he said. "ABS, per the original contract executed in December 2013 with CINICO assumed the processing of the CIHSA claims for no extra cost to CINICO or the CIHSA. This produced an approximate savings of CI$ 2.1M per year for both entities," he added, confirming that CINICO has not used AIS for any claims processing or any other services since 4 December 2014.
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Every Home for Christ is an international missions organization dedicated to the Great Commission. We believe that Jesus tasked us—His Church—to reach all people in every nation with the Gospel and to disciple them in His ways. Since 1946, Every Home for Christ has remained on a steady committed course toward this vision. In over 130 nations, we are actively equipping the local church to reach the lost with the Gospel and make disciples. The strategy is simple: Everybody lives somewhere, so just go where people live and systematically share the Gospel home to home. The results are incredible. In the last 5 years alone, we have reached over 400 million homes and followed-up to disciple over 70 million people who have responded to the Gospel.
We believe prayer is essential to reaching every home on earth with the Gospel. We have seen time and again that the degree to which we mobilize prayer is the degree to which our evangelism efforts grow and are fruitful. Thus, before a single Gospel message is put into the hands of any individual—before evangelism teams approach a single home—the work begins and continues with a commitment to prayer. Read more
Concerted prayer covers every step, from training to outreach to discipleship. Some hold targeted prayer meetings while others prayer walk strategic locations, always praying that barriers to the Gospel will be removed, hearts will be prepared and many will respond to the gospel message.
This commitment to prayer crosses international boundaries. At Every Home for Christ's international headquarters, the staff gathers to pray over these global initiatives each day, asking God to open doors in countries that are closed to His Word, to open minds to receive the Gospel and to protect Every Home for Christ workers around the world.
In the past decade, as Every Home for Christ has committed to continual prayer at the Jericho Center, there has been an incredible increase in the number of homes reached, responses to the Gospel and the number of Christ Groups planted.
The heartbeat of Every Home for Christ is to reach the world for Christ. We have found the most effective way to reach entire nations is to map out and visit every home, so that everyone has the opportunity to receive the Gospel. This systematic approach not only allows us to measure how much of a nation has been covered, but more importantly we are able to minister the Gospel personally, face to face. Read more
This method of sharing the Gospel is highly effective and non-threatening. It allows for dialogue with those who are genuinely seeking God and the opportunity to pray for the needs of each household. By leaving gospel literature at each home, the Holy Spirit can minister in His timing as the messages are read and re-read and even passed along to others.
Historically, we have worked in around 200 nations, but never alone. Every Home for Christ always partners with the local church to do the work of evangelism and discipleship. Each month, we train and equip thousands of churches to systematically reach their communities for Christ. An average of 30,000 trained volunteers from local churches go home to home each month ministering the Gospel. In areas where there is no local church, we send trained "pioneer missionaries" to minister the Gospel. These local volunteers and pioneer missionaries have a heart for their nation, understand the local culture and speak the local language making them very effective ministers of the Gospel.
Making disciples of all nations requires commitment. That commitment is core to the ministry of Every Home for Christ and begins as soon a person responds to the Gospel. Just as we partner with the local church to evangelize communities, we also train the local church to disciple new believers. We believe the local church is God's chosen instrument to both minister the Gospel and raise up strong disciples. Read more
In areas where there is no local church—such as closed countries, remote locations or amongst unreached people groups—Every Home for Christ plants Christ Groups to carry out the work of discipleship. We believe so strongly in the local church that, where there is not a local expression of Christ's body, we invest time, energy and resources to plant Christ Groups and raise up leaders. These groups worship, take communion, learn about the Bible, and fellowship together as they strengthen and encourage each other in their faith. Many times, Christ Groups will grow into larger churches, multiplying many times over.


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A strong legs and back demand a powerful core for support. Train all three with this exercise. You'll develop power and control, and you'll feel the results.
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Stand upright with legs more than shoulder-width apartyour legs should be slightly wider than they would be in a standard squat thrust, because you will need the wider stance to help you balance. Hold dumbbells in each hand; your arms should be at your sides and your palms facing inward, with your thumbs forward. Important note: If you haven't done this exercise before, try it first without using dumbbells to start, then add in very light dumbbells later and slowly work up in weight over time (see Photo 1).
- From the starting position, bend your knees and lower yourself into a fully squatted position, with the dumbbells in your hands resting on the floor between your feet. Keep your back flat, and do not change the inward-facing orientation of your palms from the starting position (see Photo 2).
- From the squatted position, immediately kick your feet back into the plank position in one fluid motion. Your shoulder blades should be flat; do not round your upper back (see Photos 3 and 4).
- In the plank position, contract your abs as you slowly and deliberately raise your right arm up so that it is parallel to your side, keeping your elbow straight. Lower the right arm and repeat with the left arm. It is crucial that you maintain total control throughout the movement. Focus on form throughout, and go as slowly as you need to (see Photos 5 and 6).
- After you have lowered the left arm and are back in plank position, lift up your feet and shoot them back towards your hands, landing them back at the squatted position (see Photo 7).
- Stand up from the squat, returning to the starting position (see Photo 8). Repeat this exercise 16 times for a full set.


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Assessing lead time of selected ovarian cancer biomarkers: a nested case-control study.. Journal of the National Cancer Institute. 102(1):26-38. Abstract. 2010.
Chromosome 15q24-25.1 variants, diet, and lung cancer susceptibility in cigarette smokers.. Cancer causes & control : CCC. 22(3):449-61. Abstract. 2011.
The collaboration readiness of transdisciplinary research teams and centers findings from the National Cancer Institute's TREC Year-One evaluation study.. American journal of preventive medicine. 35(2 Suppl):S161-72. Abstract. 2008.
DNA repair genotype and lung cancer risk in the beta-carotene and retinol efficacy trial.. International journal of molecular epidemiology and genetics. 4(1):11-34. Abstract. 2013.
Estimated intake of vitamin D and its interaction with vitamin A on lung cancer risk among smokers.. International journal of cancer. Journal international du cancer. 135(9):2135-45. Abstract. 2014.
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Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs and cancer incidence by sex in the VITamins And Lifestyle (VITAL) cohort.. Cancer causes & control : CCC. 23(3):431-444. Abstract. 2012.
Occurrence of autoantibodies to annexin I, 14-3-3 theta and LAMR1 in prediagnostic lung cancer sera.. Journal of clinical oncology : official journal of the American Society of Clinical Oncology. 26(31):5060-6. Abstract. 2008.
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RØROSIn 1980 Røros was listed by UNESCO as one of the 300 locations in the world most deserving of preservation. The town has a character of its own. History
still lives today in the fiction of Johan Falkberget who portrayed this mining community so well in his novels. Today Røros is a modern society based on
industry, agriculture and forestry, and employing a good number of service occpuations. Tourism is steadily increasing with a great deal of traffic in the
summer. Røros celebrated its 350-year anniversary in 1994.
The geology of Røros falls roughly into two types: the northwestern half of the area contains mainly schist from the Cambro-Silurian Period (570-395 million years ago). Røros schist disintgrates easily and provides a relatively nutritive soil for vegetation. The southeastern half of the district is dominated bi acidic, older rock types such as sparagmite, granite and gneiss. These rock types disintegrate slowly and provide poor soil.


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- Genre: Music
- Released: 9 Nov, 2010
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DescriptionGaga fans: your wishes have been answered! Introducing the BRAND-NEW LADY GAGA REVENGE 2! From the makers of Tap Tap Revenge, the #1 music game for iPhone/iPod, this version includes the SMASH HITS Bad Romance and Alejandro plus 8 more never-before-tapped Gaga tracks! Not to mention FOUR BOSS TRACKS. Plus you can now share your love for Gaga on Facebook, Twitter AND email right from the game! Download it now to experience this Gagalicious wonderland...
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Blue Apple Catering has launched Pip & Bean Coffee, a bespoke blend of the finest Arabica beans, developed in-house with Bewley's Tea and Coffee
Contract caterers compete with high street brands on a daily basis and coffee is one of the most important offerings to get absolutely right. Previously, Blue Apple provided a range of different coffees, including high street brands, but knew the time was right to create a blend and brand that tasted great and captured their company values, hence the name Pip & Bean. Passion, Integrity, Pride (that's the Pip!) and Sustainability makes the bean. Design and Brand Manager Jo Billing said "we have created a coffee to call our own that embodies our core values and one with a story that we are truly passionate about."
Blue Apple worked in partnership with Bewley's – a company that shares many of Blue Apple's values in terms of sustainability, Fairtrade, respect for its people and passion for its product. Bewley's has been producing the finest blends of coffee and tea since 1840, and were steadfast in their promise that, together, a blend would be created that not one member of the team could imagine being any better. The Fairtrade and organic Pip & Bean blend is slow roasted to a medium colour and produces a coffee that is satisfyingly complex in flavour. Notes of dark chocolate, brown sugar and white grape are at the forefront of the profile, and the balance between sweetness and acidity has been perfectly judged. From a simple espresso, to a latte, a flat white and hopefully a frappe or two in the warmer months, it is a coffee that is as versatile as it is delicious.
Featuring beans sourced from Comisuyl, a progressive co-op of small coffee farmers in the village of Subirana in Honduras. It is Central America's first working dry mill and the world's first off grid coffee processing centre, powered 100% by renewable energy technology. This fits perfectly with Blue Apple's sustainability and CSR goals across the business and crucially, helps to support a vitally important industry that has given so much to the UK coffee market for so many years.
Brian Allanson, CEO at Blue Apple, commented: "We are incredibly proud of Pip & Bean as it has been created 100% in-house – from tasting and developing the blend with Bewley's to the branding you see today. A first-class coffee is one of the core pillars of our offering, and to get this absolutely right first time was critical. Having tasted a very good amount of it myself, I am convinced our customers will enjoy it as much as much as I do."
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No matter how prepared you think you are, you'll still have questions once your newborn arrives. One of the most common worries new parents have? Whether their little one is eating the right amount.
Every baby is unique, but there are some basic guidelines to keep in mind when it's time for a feeding.
How Much Do Babies Eat?
Newborn to 2 months: During their first month, babies need to eat 8-12 times each day. That's about once every 2-3 hours. Some who are breastfeeding, though, can eat every 1.5 hours, and up to 15 times a day. If your baby isn't waking up on his own for a feeding during the first few weeks, you should get him up to eat on schedule.
If you're breastfeeding, your little one will spend about 10 to 20 minutes on your breast. Some may nurse for longer, but make sure he's actually sucking and swallowing the whole time.
Giving formula? Plan on your baby drinking 1.5 to 3 ounces at each feeding.
After about a month, he'll start eating at least 4 ounces at each feeding. As breastfed babies get the hang of nursing, they'll get more milk from you, too. You may not notice, though, since they'll do it in less time.
Whether you're nursing or bottle feeding, as your baby keeps growing, so will his appetite.
At 2 months, he may drink 4-5 ounces at each feeding, 3-4 hours apart.
At 4 months, he may need up to 6 ounces every time. The pediatrician may encourage you to start to introduce solid foods - or advise you to wait if you are still exclusively breastfeeding.
By 6 months, some babies drink as much as 8 ounces of breastmilk or formula even as they go longer between feedings.
Remember: The exact amount your little one drinks will vary from day to day. For instance, he may want to eat more than normal when he's going through a growth spurt. Trust your baby to know how much food he needs.
You can watch for a few signs that he's full:
- He pulls away from your breast or his bottle
- He falls asleep during a feeding
- He shakes his head or keeps his mouth closed
Those signs can also help you know that you're not overfeeding your little one. And at regular checkups, your pediatrician will let you know if your baby's growth (height and weight) is on track.
Signs That Your Baby Is Eating Enough
When he's getting the right amount of food, you'll see:
Plenty of wet diapers. The first few days after birth, he may only wet one or two diapers each day. After that, he should need six to eight cloth (five or six disposable) diaper changes every 24 hours, plus have two to five poopy ones each day.
Steady weight gain. After the first 2 weeks, your baby should gain about 4-7 ounces per week until his sixth month, and 3-5 ounces from 6 to 18 months.
Your baby is active and happy. A child that's eating well will look alert and be active. He'll also seem content between feedings.
Signs That Your Baby Isn't Eating Enough
Reasons to call your doctor include:
- Dark pee or orange crystals in his diaper
- He would rather sleep than eat
- He won't latch onto your breast, or he pulls away from you
- He's fussy right after feedings
- He wets fewer diapers
As a new parent, it's key to learn to trust your instincts. If you have any concerns about your baby's eating, check in with his doctor.


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I can't complain about today. It felt pretty good. Rehearsal was productive. Our two pieces for Bloomington Belly Dances are falling into place. The ankle I twisted yesterday is feeling much better. I even got the book on making bead jewelry that I ordered from Amazon. It was delivered by USPS, on Sunday! I went to the Y with Dad. He walked, I did my full body strength workout and then stretched.
It was an ordinary Sunday, but I felt hopeful. I thought of more things I want to do, but don't have time to do, and it didn't fill me with angst and despair. Looking at the bead jewelry book made me think, "I can make jewelry, and even make pieces good enough to sell," eventually.


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Peanutty Chocolate Macaroons
2 c coconut flakes
3/4 c raw cacao powder
1/2 c wild jungle peanuts, ground into flour
1/2 c wild jungle peanuts, chopped
1/2 c + 2 T wild jungle peanut butter
1/2 c + 2 T raw honey
2 T lucuma powder
1/4 c melted coconut creme
1 tsp pink salt
1 tsp vanilla powder
First, grind 1/2 c
wild jungle peanuts to a flour in a food processor or coffee grinder. Chop the other 1/2 c wild jungle peanuts and set aside. Add the peanut flour to a bowl with the coconut flakes, cacao powder, lucuma powder, salt and vanilla powder. Mix to evenly incorporate. Next, add the wild jungle peanut butter and melted creme and mix together with a spoon or your hands. Add the honey and chopped peanuts
and continue incorporating. The mixture will be thick so it's best to
just get your hands dirty at this point to really get everything
combined. Once everything is combined, scoop batter onto a large plate
or cookie sheet covered with wax paper. You can use a small ice cream
scoop, a melon baller or just roll them into a ball with your hands and
press them onto the plate to flatten the bottom. Chill in the fridge for
an hour to set and enjoy! You can also dehydrate these if you prefer a
slightly chewier texture. Just set the dehydrator at 115 degrees and
dehydrate for 10-12 hours.
Note: You can also make these into bars by pressing them into a wax paper lined dish and cutting them into bars once chilled.
~Wishing you a beautiful holiday season filled with sweetness of every kind!~


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The Red River Valley Down Syndrome Society was created by parents of a child with Down syndrome in the Paris area in 2004. The purpose of the organization was to reach out to other parents of children with Down syndrome in the area. The first organized event of the organization was the 2004 Red River Valley Buddy Walk, held on October 8th, 2004. 235 walkers attended the event and helped to raise $7,000.
Since then, the organization has grown to service over twelve counties in northeast Texas, southeast Oklahoma and southwest Arkansas. In 2007, the 4th annual Buddy Walk was held in Paris with almost 500 walkers and raising $27,000. Also in 2007, the National Down Syndrome Congress recognized the Red River Valley Down Syndrome Society as its Parent Group of the Year. Since it's first "Buddy Walk", RRVDSS has developed a REACH (Raising Expectations and Creating Hope) Rally as it's yearly awareness walk. In 2014; the 11th annual walk was held raising $32,000.
In the summer of 2007, the organization opened its Down Syndrome Resource Center in Paris. This center served as a location for meetings, workshops and a learning/computer lab. The center also housed the organization's lending library available to members to use for personal use upon approval by the board.
In November of 2012, the organization purchased a 7300 sq. ft. building located at 505 Lamar Avenue. This building (known as the REACH Center) serves as the organizations educational resource facility. Individuals with Down syndrome and other intellectual disabilities receive free one-on-one tutoring. The REACH Center is also the location for meetings, workshops, the lending resource library, computer lab, and will soon open its doors for an after school recreation program.


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Biodiesel that is produced from renewable resources has been rising as a promising candidate to replace conventional energy. Vietnam, with a large amount of land used in agriculture or forestry, has advantaged conditions to produce and develop renewable energy from biomass resources. However, developing biodiesel from agricultural product may affect food security significantly. Therefore, Jatropha that is inedible and waste cooking oil (WCO) could be suitable to biodiesel production. One of the most important aims of using biodiesel to replace fossil diesel is to reduce environmental impacts, particularly impact on Climate Change. It is necessary to analyze the environmental performance of biodiesel through the entire life cycle. In this paper, life cycle assessment of biodiesel production and use was applied to measure the environmental performance of biodiesel produced from jatropha oil and WCO under Vietnam conditions. Some main emissions, such as CO2, NOx, PM, CH4, VOC and land use, were computed through a cradle-to-grave analysis. The result shows that when using Jatropha biodiesel to replace diesel, global warming potential (GWP) and photochemical oxidant formation potential (POFP) could be improved, but some other impacts, such as acidification potential (AP) and eutrophication potential (EP), could tend to increase. The environmental impacts of WCO biodiesel are all reduced in comparison with fossil diesel.
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Tsoutsos, T., Kouloumpis, V., Zafiris, T., & Foteinis, S. (2010). Life Cycle Assessment for biodiesel production under Greek climate conditions. Journal of Cleaner Production, 18(4), 328-335.
Kumar, S., Singh, J., Nanoti, S. M., & Garg, M. O. (2012). A comprehensive life cycle assessment (LCA) of Jatropha biodiesel production in India. Bioresource Technology, 110, 723-729.
Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development of Vietnam (2008). Approval of the scheme: Research, development and usage products of Jatropha Curcas L. in Vietnam in the period from 2008 to 2015 and a vision to 2025. Decision No.1842/2008/QD-BNN-LN of Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development of Vietnam 2008.
Prueksakorn, K., Gheewala, S. H., Malakul, P., & Bonnet, S. (2010). Energy analysis of Jatropha plantation systems for biodiesel production in Thailand. Energy for Sustainable Development, 14(1), 1-5.
Lam, M. K., Lee, K. T., & Mohamed, A. R. (2009). Life cycle assessment for the production of biodiesel: a case study in Malaysia for palm oil versus jatropha oil. Biofuels, Bioproducts and Biorefining, 3(6), 601-612.
Khang, D. S., Tan, R. R., Uy, O. M., Promentilla, M. A. B., Tuan, P. D., Abe, N., & Razon, L. F. (2017). Design of experiments for global sensitivity analysis in life cycle assessment: the case of biodiesel in Vietnam. Resources, Conservation and Recycling, 119, 12-23.
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In his dress and demeanour Gandhi almost belongs to the ascetic tradition of the East. Not only in his choice of such and image, but in the essential making of his philosophy and politics, he took recourse to an innovative set of words and symbols. In deed as a mass leader he had an uncanny knack for creating and using symbols and like most popular symbols, In deed as a mass leader he had an uncanny knack for creating and using symbols, Khadi has a complex and different appellation. Gandhi sought to convey multiple messages through Khadi, arguable the focal one among them was a critique of modernity. Khadi was apt symbol of long Indian tradition on the one hand and a critique of modern western Civilization on the other hand. In relation to three important concepts, which form the very core of modernity in India again Khadi, has been used as a critique. These three concepts are nationalism, industrialism and western education.
"Khadi and Indian Tradition," Indians have not only been weavers, but even exporters of cotton
fabric since time immemorial. Historians have found clear evidence of Harappans
supplying cotton textiles to Sumerians around four millennia back in the past.
In the more recent history, British themselves imported huge quantities of
clothes from India, before they introduced a colonial pattern of made. At the
time of arrival of the British in India, next to cultivation weaving was the
commonest economic exploitation by the British themselves imported huge
quantities of clothes form India, before they introduced a colonial pattern of
made. At the time of arrival of the British in India, next to cultivation
weaving was the activity in the Indian country side. The saga of the economic
exploitation British is replete with reference to the decline of cotton weavers.
That the theme of hand –woven fabric, that is, Khadi was brought up and invested
with new meaning by Gandhi was nothing but natural. In fact weaving has been a
common metaphor, even in the spiritual discourse of many saints and
philosophers, the most notable among than was Kabir, himself a weaver. His
poetry is replete with reference to warp and woof or the mechanism of weaving.
One of his many oft quoted songs is "Jheeni, Jheeni rebeenee chadria "Kabir
expresses the spiritual endeavour of man through the metaphor of weaving. While
not exactly forsaking the spiritual content, Gandhi reinvented the mundane human
endeavor, no less complex through. Innumerable songs were composed during the
years of freedom struggle or afterwards how Gandhi will or did drive out the
British with the help of his charka. It became symbol of freedom struggle.
"Livery of freedom" as Nehru described Khadi which was however also a means of
economic regeneration of the village and much more. Gandhi declared, "My
Swadeshi chiefly centers around the hand – spun Khadar and extends to every
thing that can be and is produced in India.


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Google is about to release its video game console, and the entire tech platform is supporting the idea. PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch and Xbox One are the major video players in the market recently, and each one of them is offering unique benefits to the entire player population. How Google's New Gaming Console will compete with XBOX ONE?
According to Jason Kotaku Schreiner, Google is working so hard on the new video game platform that will allow the organization to take over the Xbox One. There are few specific details about the plans of Google with its entry in the video game industry, but many reports claim that it will use three main approaches in trying to compete with Xbox One.
First, Google will look for several ways to attract video game creators into its form of an umbrella. Through aggressive recruitment, it will make it possible. It will do through campaigns and significant acquisitions of many video game studios. To compete with Xbox one, Google will buy the entire video game studios instead of licensing them.
Secondly, Google will be launching powerful hardware for the entire project. It will be looking to challenge the processing speed of the Xbox One. It will be a cheaper video game console. There are several claims that Google will link it to the third party plans.
Thirdly, and most importantly, the platform of Google will provide video gaming streaming service which is typically called the Yeti. So far Google has met with many video game companies during the Game Developers Conference. The objective of meeting with video game developers was to provide the game insight and interest in Yeti. Many sources also report that Google hold meeting at recently concludes E3 2018. Google is looking forward to inviting video game developers or buy video studios to work with streamline service.
Streamline service is an excellent innovation that is beating its counterpart, Xbox One. It is similar to GeForce, a service of NVidia. Streamline service will allow graphics to be offloaded to another computer elsewhere. This will offer the video players the ability to play games that need high-end processing on the cheapest devices thus removing the problems of hardware costs. Google strives to provide enough resources for the video game streamline to ensure that it works best. This will bring in the broader audience.
Rather than video players buying a physical copy and installing on their devices, they will simply log in to their account through their video game console and play the game via the cloud. The video developers call this imagine playing Witcher 3 within a tab on Google Chrome. When players are unable to solve the puzzle they are provided a way of opening up one personal computer or checking a mobile phone, press a button and activate an overlay lay in the screen that offers one cue in YouTube on how to play. Experts from market predict that the entire gaming industry will bring in an estimated cost of $180 billion by 2022 and become a favorite pastime for many people.