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Put an end to the practice of hydraulic fracturing ("fracking") in Pennsylvania
To Whom It May Concern: We, the undersigned demand a moratorium on the practice of Hydraulic Fracturing or "Fracking" in the State of Pennsylvania until safety and contamination concerns have been appropriately addressed. Numerous cases of drinking water contamination, poisonous fumes, flammable water and more have been documented with indisputable direct evidence by investigative journalists, perhaps most notably in the documentary film "Gasland." The large energy companies responsible for this drilling have provided no reasonable evidence demonstrating that the numerous cases of contamination are not caused by natural gas drilling. All that has been provided are groundless denials and weak arguments based upon nothing more than semantics through the industry funded organization, "Energy in Depth." We are asking you, our state and federal congressmen and senators, to put a stop to this madness and immediately enact legislation to prevent further poisoning of our environment and drinking water. Best Regards, Concerned Citizens of Pennsylvania


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Laconia police use Taser, pepper spray against man
July 23. 2013 11:12AM
LACONIA — Police used a Taser and pepper spray to subdue a city man who they say burned items belonging to his estranged wife and then scuffled with police Monday.
John W. Swett, 53, of 53 Gale Ave., was charged with criminal mischief (domestic violence-related), disorderly conduct, obstructing government administration, resisting arrest/detention and two counts of simple assault.
Police were called for a domestic dispute at Swett's residence and found Swett burning items in a fire pit just before 4 p.m. Several boxes of what appeared to be items belonging to his wife also were seen near the firepit. The couple is separated, police said.
When an officer confronted Swett, the situation escalated and Swett went into his house. "Swett returned to the fire scene enraged," a police news release said. He ignored warnings to not interfere, continuing to be verbally combative, then went over and turned off the water being used by a police sergeant to extinguish the smoldering fire before returning to the house.
The sergeant went over to turn the water back on, and Swett rushed outside toward the sergeant, according to police.
An officer attempted to stop Swett, who responded by grabbing the officer's arm and body. The sergeant deployed his Taser, neutralizing the threat from Swett.
Swett was handcuffed and then "became combative" and slipped the right cuff from his wrist and "engaged in a physical fight" with one of the officers.
A sergeant used pepper spray and officers got him in handcuffs. He was treated at the police station for what police said were very minor injuries.
Swett, who refused the services of a bail commissioner, was taken to the Belknap County jail and will be arraigned Tuesday in the 4th Circuit Court, Laconia District Division.

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It's another huge update as many highly anticipated titles, content and classics make their way to the PlayStation Store from today. The beautiful and epic adventure of Ni No Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch, which is available in stores nationwide from today, will be available to download digitally from the PlayStation Store tomorrow along with the Hitman Trilogy HD to bring players back to where the legend of Agent 47 all began. Meanwhile, today sees the release of the very exciting new Crysis 3 Open Beta, available for everyone to download for free, as well as the classics such as the mysterious heroine action title, Bayonetta, from the creative minds that brought you Devil May Cry.
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Gold (COMEX:GCV13) has turn bearish last week and made a sharp decline toward $1,300 with a look of an impulsive price action; strong and large move in the short period of time. As such, we believe the metal is in a new bearish period that could bring price even back to June lows. We will be looking lower. With that said, to take advantage of the current down move it's important to keep an eye on intra-day wave patterns and any evidences of a corrective or contra-trend patterns that will give you an opportunity to join the trend.
On the hourly chart, we see a sideways movement in tight range, which is a very important guideline for a correction, or temporary pause within downtrend. From an Elliott Wave perspective we see current pause as a triangle, which is a continuation pattern most likely placed in wave four. As such, we anticipate a thrust out of a triangle into wave (v) that could reach levels around $1,280 in the next 24-48 hours once $1,300 support is taken out.
Gold 1h Elliott Wave Analysis
A Triangle is a common 5 wave pattern labeled A-B-C-D-E that moves counter-trend and is corrective in nature. Triangles move within two channel lines drawn from waves A to C, and from waves B to D. A Triangle is either contracting or expanding depending on whether the channel lines are converging or expanding. Triangles are overlapping five wave affairs that subdivide 3-3-3-3-3.
• structure is 3-3-3-3-3
• each subwave of a triangle is ussaly a zig-zag
• wave E must end in the price territory of wave A
• one subwave of a triangle usually has a much more complex structure than others subwaves
• appears in wave four in an impulse, wave B in an A-B-C, wave X or wave Y in a double threes, wave X or wave Z in a triple threes


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Andy Serkis Improvises a Conversation Between Gollum and Caesar the Ape on Conan
On last night's 'Conan,' host Conan O'Brien and Andy Serkis talked quite a bit about some of his best roles, which Serkis then gleefully imitated for the entire crowd. Ever wonder what it would sound like if Gollum and Caesar the ape had a chat? Wonder no more.


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The London Metal Exchange's $2.2 billion takeover by Hong Kong Exchanges & Clearing Ltd. won approval by the Financial Services Authority, the U.K.'s regulator.
The acquisition still needs approval of the High Court of England and Wales, with a hearing set Dec. 5, Hong Kong Exchanges said in a statement on its website yesterday. The transaction will take effect on or about Dec. 6, the LME said in a separate statement.
The LME backed Hong Kong Exchanges' offer on June 15 over bids from rivals CME Group Inc., Intercontinental Exchange Inc. and NYSE Euronext. Shareholders of the LME approved the takeover a month later. The LME handles more than 80 percent of metals trading, and Hong Kong Exchanges may be able to help the exchange gain access in China, the biggest metals buyer.
"This is what we've been waiting on," Thomas Monaco, an analyst at Mizuho Securities Asia Ltd. in Hong Kong, said in a telephone interview. "It's a little later than we would have thought, probably about a month or so."
Hong Kong Exchanges plans to sell about $800 million of shares at HK$116.10 to HK$119 each, according to a term sheet obtained by Bloomberg News. The share sale will help fund the LME takeover. They closed at HK$124.80 yesterday. The exchange also sold $500 million in convertible bonds in September for the deal. They have an initial conversion price of HK$160 a share.
Offering Price
The offer was priced at 181 times LME's 2011 net income, making it the most expensive bourse merger over $1 billion. The deal doesn't need approval from Hong Kong Exchanges' shareholders. It is the first overseas acquisition for the Asian bourse, the world's second-biggest exchange by market value, and will add its first contracts in commodities.
Shareholders of the Tokyo and Osaka stock exchanges on Nov. 20 approved the merger of Japan's two largest bourses. Japan's government wants to create a national exchange handling equities, commodities and other securities to help balance the rise of the Chinese markets. Singapore Exchange Ltd.'s $8.3 billion bid for Sydney-based ASX Ltd. was blocked in April 2011 by Australia's government on national interest grounds.
Shares of Hong Kong Exchanges have dropped 14 percent since its offer for the LME was reported in February. The benchmark Bloomberg World Exchanges Index of global bourse operators has fallen about 9 percent in the same period. The stock hit this year's low of HK$100 on July 26 after LME shareholders approved the merger.
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text: Colorado Posted November 9, 2010 I've been at a club for just over 2 months now and have around seven players available for transfer. I've offered them around several times and lowered their asking fee quite alot but I have not received a single offer. All these players have at least two or three clubs interested in them, some have alot more. Just wondering if I've stumbled across an unfortunate bug. Anyone??? 0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites


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IPM1003, New November 2000
Integrated pest management (IPM) has different meanings to everyone who works in the agricultural environment. It can be thought of as a systematic approach to solving pest problems by applying our knowledge about pests to prevent them from damaging crops. Beginning in 1972, the U.S. Department of Agriculture made funding available to the states to develop an IPM network through the extension system. MU's IPM program has been in place since the mid-1970s. IPM programs originally focused mainly on insects and their control but today consider all categories of pests.
IPM programs take actions to manage pests when their numbers are likely to exceed acceptable levels; that is, a management measure is taken in consideration of the level of pest damage, revenue losses resulting from the damage, and the cost of treatment. This concept is known as the economic threshold — a cornerstone of the IPM process. Economic thresholds have been determined for many of the agricultural pests that occur regularly in Missouri. These actions are designed to reduce economic damage caused by pests, yet limit the negative effects on beneficial organisms and the environment. Strictly applying pesticides to crops is not IPM; however, pesticide use is recognized as a legitimate management tactic of IPM.
Agriculture plays a key role in Missouri's economy with over $4.6 billion in annual farm cash receipts. The state ranks second nationally with approximately 110,000 farms producing a diverse range of crop and livestock commodities. Missouri also produces significant minor crops such as apples, peaches, grapes, tobacco and cucurbits. According to the Missouri Agricultural Statistics Service, the state ranks in the nation's top ten in the production of hay, sorghum, soybeans, rice, grapes, watermelon, corn, cattle, turkeys, swine and broilers. Because of the state's geographical location and climate, agricultural production occurs in a diverse range of ecosystems. Management of weeds, insects and diseases is necessary for profitable production. Missouri agricultural producers report a heavy reliance on pesticides for managing major pests. Cotton producers in southeast Missouri indicate that 82 percent of their pest management decisions are based on actual field surveys. The surveyed fields showed a gain of 50 pounds per acre in cotton lint yield when compared with acreage that was not surveyed, resulting in a net benefit of $12.2 million for the state. With such economic incentives, Missouri's growers are encouraged to practice sound IPM measures.
Environmental and social
Missouri's citizens are concerned about pesticide and nutrient movement into surface water and groundwater, food safety, and effects on nontarget organisms and on the health of farm workers. A healthy environment sustains agricultural production and the livestock and humans living there. A degraded environment with depleted soil resources, poor water and air quality and destroyed wildlife habitat does not. IPM can help to resolve many of the issues associated with the interaction between Missouri's rural and urban populations and promises definite benefits for both.
Four national objectives have been identified for the IPM program:
MU's IPM program has specific objectives related to local agricultural interests:
Ultimately, meeting these objectives will be instrumental in increasing agricultural profitability while minimizing negative environmental effects.
Putting a successful IPM program into action in the agricultural industries involves the following five steps:
Proper identification of a pest is important for several reasons. It may not be an economically detrimental pest after all and no control measures will be necessary. Not all insects are pests; some are natural predators or parasites that help to control pest species. The proper selection of a pesticide depends on correct identification of the pest and in some cases its life stage.
Rather than calendar-based treatments, IPM stresses scouting practices to detect pests and determine if action is necessary. Time constraints and the lack of trained, competent personnel can be a major challenge to carry out a scouting program. If damage can be detected before a serious pest population becomes established, then several problems can be prevented. For example, research has shown that pesticide treatment of a soybean field is justified economically when an average of one soybean podworm per foot of row can be detected. Before pesticides are applied, scouting may show that lower than maximum registered rates can be applied to achieve acceptable levels of control of small insects.
Several practical considerations can save time in a scouting program. Knowing a pest's habits and habitat can save time in the monitoring program. For example, grain sorghum is most susceptible to corn earworm attack during the two-week period following pollination. Therefore scouting for this pest should begin about one week after pollination. Wheat planted adjacent to tall fescue pastures may be especially attractive to true armyworm infestation. Such areas can be watched more frequently and closely. The anticipated time of pest development can alert a pest manager to the most opportune times for scouting. Degree-day modeling is based on the number of days when average temperatures exceed the threshold for development and activity by a particular pest. By tracking degree-days, pest managers can predict when the pest will appear and damage will occur.
In the original IPM models that were developed in agricultural environments, control measures were based on an economic threshold. To justify treatment, pest populations or pest damage had to exceed this threshold. For many of Missouri's common agronomic insect pests, thresholds have been developed as a result of many years of research. These thresholds are dynamic and often depend on crop and pest growth stage. For example, treatment of first-generation European corn borer is justified when 50 percent of corn plants show leaf feeding and larvae are present. For the second generation, treatment is justified when 50 percent of plants have larvae on the first leaf above and below the ear.
If there are health and safety threats or legal concerns associated with a certain pest, then thresholds are more clearly defined. For example, even in low numbers the striped blister beetle is lethal to horses. Therefore, its presence in alfalfa hay for horses is not tolerated. In some instances, pest acceptance levels may be greater because of social or cultural factors or because of concerns about the costs or hazards of pest management methods used.
A variety of integrated pest management tactics are available:
The success of an integrated pest management program depends on evaluation of its results. What worked well, which aspects need improvement, and which should be eliminated? What are the benefits of the program in financial return and in environmental or social value?
Black cutworm forecasting
In Missouri, the black cutworm is a migratory pest that can potentially cause economic damage to corn. Rather than apply preventive preplant insecticides to all corn fields, rescue treatments can be applied to fields that have active and damaging infestations. Using trap count data to determine the arrival of black cutworm moths in Missouri and degree-day modeling to calculate the predicted date of the damaging larval stage of this pest, corn producers and crop professionals are notified to scout fields. Using this timely scouting information and current economic thresholds, informed decisions can be made to treat or not to treat. The program avoids needless insecticide applications, producing both economical and environmental benefits.
Musk thistle, Carduus nutans L., in bloom.
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Musk thistle is a noxious weed in Missouri pastures and forage crops.
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MU researchers are studying the release of the musk thistle weevil as a natural means of controlling the thistle.
Release of beneficial weevils to control musk thistle
Musk thistle is an introduced noxious weed infesting Missouri's pastures and forage crops (Figures 1 and 2). Moderate infestations of this weed pest are estimated to cause yield losses of nearly 25 percent. Specific natural enemies can aid in regulating the spread of musk thistle. The musk thistle weevil is one such natural enemy. The larvae feed in the receptacle of the developing flower, disrupting seed formation. A native of Europe, like musk thistle, the musk thistle weevil was studied extensively to ensure that it would not damage economic plants.
In 1975 entomologists with the USDA-ARS Biological Control of Insects Research Laboratory in Columbia, Missouri, released 490 musk thistle weevils near Marshfield in Webster County. Since then, the weevils have been found as far as 22 miles from the five-acre pasture where the original release was made (Figure 3). Extensive research at the release site shows the weevil can contribute to a 50 to 95 percent reduction in numbers of thistles. Thus, the importation and release of natural enemies offers another way to reduce infestations of musk thistles. The advantages of this biological control program are:
Parasitic wasps for control of cereal leaf beetle. The cereal leaf beetle is an imported pest that arrived in Missouri in 1972. Two of the beetle's natural enemies were found in the mid-1990s: tiny parasitic wasps that attack the beetle's eggs and larvae. To promote the spread of these two beneficial organisms, populations have been reared in two field insectaries located on the property of the MU Agricultural Experiment Station. In recent years, parasitized host beetles have been relocated to several oat and wheat fields for release. It is estimated that cereal leaf beetle could potentially cause yield losses of 40 percent in wheat and 60 percent in oats if left unchecked.
Growers and consultants are increasingly aware that their ability to continue producing depends on favorable public perception of their practices. Part of the solution is to adopt IPM. It is important to consider that as knowledge and technology evolve, so will IPM programs.
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In the last little while I have been receiving a several different emails for two different targets. These emails seem to be very suspicious because they are from people who I don't know, but have legitimate email addresses, and always contain strange attachments (either .scr, .exe, .html, etc.).
This is really starting to annoy me beacsue all of these emails are over 100k and are filling up my hotmail account. I know you can block a single email address with hotmail, but is it not the resposibility of the network admin to block obvious virus related attachments such as .scr and .exe? Am I completely helpless against these attacks or can you take further action to ensure that these types of email attachments are blocked at their source?
Also, I know that in some cases the email addresses are spoofed, and I have checked the headers and they are coming from this server. Can they be held accountable if someone is spoofing email on their server (I know its not easy to stop)?
Thanks for any info!


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If performing apes had a union, a picture of Andy Serkis would be pinned to the office dartboard.
The 47-year-old British actor has stolen two of the greatest simian roles of the 21st century right out of their hairy, prehensile hands: first, the title primate in Peter Jackson's remake of "King Kong" and now Caesar, a sentient, wordless chimpanzee who becomes a Che Guevara-like revolutionary in "Rise of the Planet of the Apes."
Opening Friday, "Rise of the Planet of the Apes" is a reboot of the science fiction film franchise inspired by French author Pierre Boulle's 1963 novel about a planet where hyper-intelligent apes rule over mute human slaves. The new movie, from British director Rupert Wyatt, is the origin tale of the young ape who sparked that subversion of power.
The story begins in present-day San Francisco, where a young scientist named Will (James Franco) is seeking a cure for the Alzheimer's disease that is crippling his father (John Lithgow). It's through a lab experiment on apes that Will inadvertently creates an exceptional baby chimp he names Caesar.
"Regardless of the fact that he's an ape, Caesar is an extraordinary character," said Serkis, who has become Hollywood's go-to performer when it comes to pivotal but largely anonymous motion capture roles, first as the villain Gollum in the "Lord of the Rings" movies, then "Kong" and this coming Christmas as Tintin's seaman sidekick Captain Haddock in Steven Spielberg's "The Adventures of Tintin."
"It's a great journey of this innocent who has a profound moment of self-recognition that he's not part of the species he's been brought up and loved by, and so he's this outsider, this freak who has yet to really find out who he is," Serkis added, in an interview during San Diego's Comic-Con International last month. "The second act of the film is really like 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.' All these damaged apes are just fighting for survival. Does he reject the humanity he's been brought up with in order to galvanize these apes and lead them to freedom?"
That question is central to the new film, which was shot in Vancouver last year with Wyatt at the helm. The relative newcomer won the job thanks largely to his 2008 prison break movie "The Escapist," which won some acclaim when it debuted at the Sundance Film Festival.
Early on, Wyatt ruled out shooting the film using any real apes, both for practical and moral reasons. "It would have been a bitter irony to tell a story of the subjugation of apes and do it at the same time," he said.
Instead, "Rise of the Planet of the Apes" utilized advanced motion-capture technology that was unavailable to either the 1968-73 series of "Planet of the Apes" movies starring Charlton Heston or the 2001 remake directed by Tim Burton, both of which had relied on prosthetic makeup to enable humans to play apes.
For his film, Wyatt had actors including Serkis breathe life into Caesar and the movie's other simian stars wearing motion-capture suits and head rigs. About 450 visual effects artists at Weta Digital in New Zealand, the company that also worked on "King Kong," crafted the bodies of photo-real chimpanzees onto those performances.
Still, the film has fewer visual effects shots than other recent science fiction films — fewer than 1,000 compared with the more than 1,300 for "Green Lantern" or 2,000-plus for "Avatar." The movie's $93-million budget, too, was slimmer than that of many other comparable summer popcorn pictures.
Serkis said the technology was hardly a hindrance to his performance; by now he's become quite comfortable in the marker-covered bodysuits that motion-capture actors must wear. "If you'd done this in an ape suit you'd be so encumbered, but I was able to really experiment with taking it to the edges of being very human," Serkis said. "Facially you can be quite subtle. I was watching footage of [the 1960s "Planet of the Apes" actors] in makeup. They had to work to get the emotions through those layers of rubber."
Serkis and the other actors who played apes, including former Cirque du Soleil performer Terry Notary as Caesar's thuggish co-conspirator, Rocket, began by studying videos of apes and consulting with a primatologist about how apes sleep, eat and interact with each other. Notary even designed customized crutches to serve as arm extensions that enabled the actors playing apes to glide as they walked.
Serkis focused in particular on documentary footage of a chimp named Oliver who walked upright and had a human-like face, causing his handlers to wonder if he was a chimp-human hybrid and earning him the nickname "the humanzee." (Genetic testing on Oliver in the 1990s disproved the theory).
"People say it's all about doing monkey movements but that's the least of it really for this character," said Serkis. "With Kong I was hellbent on playing him as 100% gorilla, whereas with Caesar it was, how to communicate that super-intelligence? I thought about gifted children who can play concertos when they're 4 or are brilliant at maths when they're 8, and what that must be like."
As Serkis bounded through his scenes, he and the other actors and crew could see only rough approximations of what the ape performances would look like, as it would take several months before the artists at Weta had finished shots to show them.
It helped that Serkis, who studied visual arts at Lancaster University in England and transitioned to acting after a stint designing posters for school productions, found his love of acting in the imagination-dependent world of the theater.
"Andy is a very accomplished theater actor and he's a great mime," Lithgow said. "He's got incredible physical abilities. He's as much a dancer as an actor."
When motion capture doesn't work, it's usually because the characters look dead-eyed, as they did in early films that relied on the technique. For Caesar, Weta built an infinitely detailed digital model of an eye, accounting for how pupils dilate, how light refracts, how moisture forms. While filming, they tracked Serkis' pupils and relied on markers placed on his face to chart the movement of his eye muscles.
"If you can track all the muscles of the face then you can figure out what the eyelids are doing, and then you can figure out what the eyes are doing," said Joe Letteri, senior visual effects supervisor at Weta. "Then there's the visual side, which is more what makes the eye look believable. How does it respond to light? How does it tear up? You have to combine everything. If the motion's perfect but it doesn't look right, it doesn't matter. If it looks great, but it's not moving in a lively fashion, it looks dead."
The rendering of those 1s and 0s into a character with whom audiences can empathize was the filmmakers' ultimate goal.
"In an ideal world, I'd like people to be so taken by the story, they don't focus on how the apes were created," Wyatt said. "The heart of this movie is Andy."
— Rebecca Keegan
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One Direction Tweet 'Take Me Home' Thanks
One Direction head out of the BBC Radio 1 studios in London on Sunday night (November 18).
The guys — Harry Styles, Louis Tomlinson, Liam Payne, Zayn Malik, and Niall Horan — performed on ITV's Surprise show.
"Hello …Thank you so much for all your support with this album. We can't believe the number ones today! Thank you thank you. Huge Love .xx," Harry tweeted out, thanking fans for Take Me Home's album sales.
Niall added, "Wow ! Thank you guys so much ! #1 album and single in first week! U guys are incredible! Big love."
Louis also got in on the thanks: "The biggest thank you possible in 140 characters to everyone worldwide who has bought our album and single. You inspire us!"
"Thank you to everyone of you who helped get little things and take me home to number1! I love you all! You really are the best fans everrrr," Liam chimed in.
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Memories of JFK: 'It seems like yesterday'By JOHN DiSTASO
Senior Political Reporter
November 22. 2013 12:45AM
Cynthia Jeanne Bowers was in a high school health class. Lou D'Allesandro was teaching high school history.
Tom Rath was walking across the Dartmouth College Green.
John Broderick was in high school in Massachusetts, not far from where John F. Kennedy had served as a congressman. John H. Sununu was delivering a technical presentation, and Carol Shea was in elementary school.
All Granite Staters now, each went on to prominent careers in politics or the law, but their stories of where they were and how they felt when President Kennedy was assassinated 50 years ago today are not unlike those of millions of Americans.
"It seems like yesterday and, frankly, it always has seemed like yesterday," said Hampton attorney Wilfred "Jack" Sanders.
Sanders, whose mentor was long-time Kennedy adviser William "Bill" Dunfey, was practicing law with Richard Dunfey in 1963.
"I was sitting in my office when I received a telephone call from someone I had planned to go to Boston with that evening," he remembered.
"We all spent several days in front of the television, grieving," Sanders said.
Sanders would be a key player in Robert F. Kennedy's 1968 presidential campaign, which also ended in tragedy, and later co-chaired Ted Kennedy's 1980 presidential campaign in New Hampshire.
Sanders said JFK "was the first candidate to fully employ the primary system in New Hampshire and across the country. Folks running for President, the successful ones at least, still follow the JFK playbook of 1960."
"There is a certain sadness this week," Sanders said, "but I don't like to spend too much time on 'what ifs.' You've got to take things as they were and as they are today."
Broderick, dean of the UNH School of Law and former chief justice of the New Hampshire Supreme Court, is a friend of former President Bill Clinton.
In the summer of 1963, Clinton, then 15, famously met President Kennedy in the Rose Garden during a Boys Nation convention.
Broderick once talked with President Clinton in that Rose Garden and told him that Broderick, too, had met Kennedy and shaken his hand in the same garden.
Accompanying his sister's high school class, the 13-year-old Broderick remembered Kennedy emerging from the White House, tanned and looking very relaxed.
His mother told Broderick not to expect to see Kennedy that day in 1961 because it was the middle of the Bay of Pigs disaster in which U.S.-backed Cuban rebels were captured by Fidel Castro.
"But the French doors opened, and there he was," Broderick said. "He eventually came over to me and said, 'How are you, young man?' and I said to my mother, 'Did I speak?' I almost blacked out.
"It was probably the worst day of his presidency, but you would have thought that we were the most important event of his whole day," Broderick said.
Two years later, freshman Broderick was in history class when his teacher "became distraught" and the class was taken to a room with a television, where they watched news anchor Walter Cronkite report the President had died.
Broderick played basketball that night as a diversion but he also recalled "crying all the way home."
"I think for a lot of people my age, he was the first political figure they remember well," he said. "I was totally inspired by his life, more so than by his death."
U.S. Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (then Cynthia Jeanne Bowers) was a 16-year-old attending a health class in Pennsylvania when the news came. "My classmates and I were shocked and heartbroken.
"It was a tremendous loss for our country and the world. But President Kennedy changed the country for the better and the generation he inspired continues to carry out his ideals," she said.
"His call to service appealed to my generation and encouraged my interest in public service," Shaheen said.
State Sen. D'Allesandro was 25 and teaching history at then-Bishop Bradley High School, when "Brother Brendan's voice came over the loud speaker... The world stood still."
As coach of the football team, "we cancelled practice and I went home and my wife and I sat in front of the television for the next four days. It was awful."
D'Allesandro had met Kennedy at UNH and keeps a photo of that day in his State House office.
"He was on the verge of greatness," he said. "His life, more than his death, made me determined to do something to make a difference."
U.S. Rep. Annie Kuster was in second grade, "but I remember the funeral as if it was yesterday.
"My whole family watched television for days. I was mesmerized watching Caroline and John-John, especially when he saluted his father," she said.
Manchester Mayor Ted Gatsas was at Smyth Road School in Manchester when he and classmates were called inside from a gym class, "and we watched it on television, and it was a very, very trying day, even at 13 years of age."
"We went home and it was difficult for anyone to leave the house for the next couple of days," he said.
Gatsas admired Kennedy not only as President but as the skipper of PT 109 in World War II.
Tom Rath, a former state Attorney General and longtime Republican activist prominent lawyer, was at Dartmouth when someone told him, "the President has been shot."
"I thought he meant the president of the college. But he told me it was the President of the United States."
"The campus shut down. It was stunning, absolutely stunning," Rath said.
John H. Sununu, then 22, was nearly 20 years away from becoming governor and more than 25 years away from becoming White House chief of staff.
He had recently graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and was working at the Hamilton Standard aeronautics firm in Windsor Locks, Conn.
"I was making a presentation on a redesign we had done on a noxygen circulating fan and a pump for the astronauts' backpacks," he said. "The announcement came over the speaker," he said.
"Everybody waited about a minute, and without saying a word, everybody just folded up their materials and we literally walked in silence to our cars, and all the way home I listened to the radio," Sununu said.
"It was a realization to me that Presidents, who you think are not vulnerable, are truly vulnerable and it made me think the whole system was a little less invincible than I thought it was," he said.
U.S. Rep Carol Shea-Porter was sent home early from elementary school. "The nuns told us to ask our parents why. I was walking by a candy store on the way home and walked inside. Everyone was quiet or crying, and I asked what happened to the grown-ups. That's how I found out President Kennedy had been killed.
"Even though I was 10 years old, I watched television over the next few days, and I saw Lee Harvey Oswald shot, and I watched the President's funeral. I'll never forget the riderless horse and my dad explaining its meaning," Shea-Porter remembered.
She said that while Kennedy "never saw us go to the moon, or the fall of the Berlin Wall, or the enactment of his social programs to fight poverty, he gave this country the spirit of confidence and optimism that we could, together, do great things."


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A couple of areas of Harford County particularly hard hit by power outages from Storm Sandy were Fallston and Fountain Green, where many businesses and homes were still dark Tuesday night.
Wednesday morning, however, power had restored to much of Fallston and to Fountain Green, and life appeared to be getting back to normal.
It was a far different story Tuesday, night, however.
The entire Route 1 commercial strip in Fallston from the Bel Air Bypass to the Baltimore County line did not have power around 7:30 p.m. Tuesday.
Traffic signals were out at major intersections, including at Routes 1 and 147 and the Bypass, where a Maryland State Police trooper was directing traffic. The State Police Bel Air Barrack is at the intersection.
The sight at the intersection was eerie, especially with the sprawling Jones Junction car dealership complex dark and silent.
Route 147, Harford Road, was still blocked off at Route 152 by a State Highway Administration dump truck, as it had been since early morning, because of trees down on wires, according to the State Highway Administration.
Other side roads leading to the Little Gunpowder Falls, like Laurel Brook Road, had high water warning signs on them. Connolly Road, which crosses a flood prone creek near the Humane Society of Harford County, was closed between Harford and Mountain Roads Tuesday and Wednesday because of problem with downed electric wires.
In old Fallston, the hum of home generators could be heard late Tuesday night, and a utility repair truck was observed driving in the area; however, most homes were completely dark.
The situation in Fallston had improved noticeably by Wednesday morning.
Power was finally restored to the Old Fallston neighborhood around 1 a.m. Wednesday. Power was also back Wednesday morning along the Route 1 commercial strip, where southbound traffic was noticeably heavy shortly before 8 a.m. The traffic signals at Route 1 and the Bel Air Bypass and at Route 1 and Route 152 were fully functioning.
High water signs were gone along local roads in the area; however, a State Highway Administration dump truck continued to block Route 147 at Route 152, and a state trooper was directing traffic at the intersection. Signals were also out at the Bel Air Bypass and Route 24 just outside Bel Air, as had been the case Tuesday night.
The Route 147 (Harford Road) closure still extended from Route 152 in Fallston to Fork Road in Baltimore County. A large tree fell over wires and was blocking the roadway, SHA spokesperson David Buck said at 8:45 a.m. Wednesday.
The wires had to be deactivated by BGE crews before the trees can be removed by road crews, and then the utility needs to do restoration work, Buck said.
"This situation is driven by BGE," Buck said. "Once they are done, we should be able to get it open pretty quickly, but at this time I don't have an estimate when that will be."
The road was reopened sometime Wednesday afternoon.
Harford County had announced Tuesday that the Fallston Library would be closed again Wednesday because the building was still without power. Because county government is also closed again Wednesday, the Roni Chenowith Activities Center in Fallston was also be closed.
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Fountain Green was also very dark Tuesday night.
Typically, one of the busier intersections in Harford County, the crossroads of Routes 22 and 543 was equally eerie. The only activity was that of Maryland State Police troopers keeping drivers from crossing Route 22 on 543.
The usually busy Wawa and Royal Farms were dark, as was the entire Amyclae shopping center. Unlike the fast food joints that did have electricity, Burger King wasn't serving any burgers to the thousands still in the dark.
Neighborhoods surrounding the intersection were most dark, with a few homes being lit by generator power.
The Tuesday night darkness stretched along most of Route 543 from Fountain Green to Hickory just north of Bel Air, where police were also stationed at numerous intersections to keep them safe.
Outages in Hickory were a little more sporadic - Waffle House and 7-Eleven were all lit up and serving customers, but the new McDonald's in the same shopping center and Wawa across the street were silent.
By Wednesday morning, however, the traffic signal at the busy Route 22/543 intersection was working again, the SHA's Buck said, as was the signal at 543 and the Hickory Bypass.
Many homes and businesses in the Fountain Green area got their power back early Wednesday morning. Area convenience stores, fast food restaurants and other businesses were open Wednesday morning.
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Marion County's unemployment rate for October fell to 7.3 percent, down from 9.1 percent a year ago and the lowest since May 2008.
Marion County's unemployment rate for October fell to 7.3 percent, down from 9.1 percent a year ago and the lowest since May 2008. The rate was 7.6 percent in September.
The county's labor force during October was 134,243, about the same as last year.
Florida saw similar improvement during October. The state's seasonally adjusted unemployment rate was 6.7 percent in October, down 1.5 percentage points from a year ago and the lowest since August 2008, according to the Florida Department of Economic Opportunity.
Rusty Skinner, CEO for Workforce Connection, which serves Marion, Levy and Citrus counties, said that while unemployment has improved in Marion County, there are still problems.
The problems with the Affordable Care Act rollout and the federal government shutdown earlier this fall made employers wary about the future and whether they should hire more people, he said.
Another concern is that the labor force is not growing at a faster pace, Skinner said.
Skinner said that after the commercial sector downsized much of its workforce during the recession, many unemployed people stopped looking for work again and dropped out of the labor force.
Bob Walther, president of Wal-Staf Personnel Services, with offices in Ocala, Gainesville and Lake City, said there are other issues the Florida Department of Economic Opportunity report does not reveal.
"People haven't gotten raises and salaries are not near what they used to be," he said.
The report also does not elaborate on how many hours per week people are working, and suspects many only have part-time jobs.
Ten years ago only about one in 10 requests from employers for workers was for a part-time position, he said. Now it is about four out of every 10.
"I don't take any joy in these (latest reported) numbers," Walther said. "It's like treading water. Most employees haven't seen a significant raise in five years."
The number of Marion County residents enrolled in Medicaid, which is health care provided to poor adults and children of poor families, is increasing. Walther said the increase reflects stagnant and low wages as the cost of living continues to rise.
During September there were 66,117 Medicaid recipients (or people qualified for Medicaid) in Marion County, up from 65,173 during October 2012. About 325,000 people live in Marion County, meaning that about one in five has Medicaid-qualifying financial circumstances.
Walther does not predict the wage and labor force issue turning around soon.
"It's just a new way of life," he said. "It's the new normal."
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Teavana Issues Statement on Short Seller Allegations
Teavana Issues Statement on Short Seller Allegations
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ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Teavana Holdings, Inc. (NYS: TEA) today issued the following statement in response to allegations made by certain short sellers:
Teavana's teas undergo rigorous third-party testing on each batch of teas based on international food safety standards including European Union regulations, which are widely considered to be the most stringent in the world.
Consistent with that, the Company has established internal procedures and comprehensive third party testing to ensure all tea is safe and within those guidelines.
Teavana refutes the report's conclusions. The group that published the report is a short-seller and may benefit financially from the allegations in the report.
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Teavana is a specialty retailer offering more than 100 varieties of premium loose-leaf teas, authentic artisanal teawares and other tea-related merchandise through 300 company-owned stores and on its website. Founded in 1997, the company offers new tea enthusiasts and tea connoisseurs alike its "Heaven of Tea" retail experience where passionate and knowledgeable "Teaologists" engage and educate them about the ritual and enjoyment of tea. The company's mission is to establish Teavana as the most recognized and respected brand in the tea industry by expanding the culture of tea across the world. To support the tea culture globally, Teavana donates approximately 1% of annual net profits to the Cooperative for Assistance and Relief Everywhere, Inc., or "CARE," through its Teavana Equatrade program. For more information, visit http://www.teavana.com.
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This fall take some time to update your spaces. Trends are gravitating back to old charm.
Fall is a popular time for home improvement as people think about impressing their guests during the holidays. It is also a time for change, which makes the current trends in home décor so unique.
Warm up your home with this season's trendiest looks. Put your personal touch on your home's decor with crafting projects that highlight the best of fall: copper detail, animal icons and pumpkins of every color, including white.
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Subtle changes, such as a coat of paint or new hardware, can give your kitchen a fresh, new look and feel. (Getty Images)
If you're looking for ways to improve your home but don't have the budget for a full-scale renovation, look at upgrades that add instant value with a smaller investment.
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A beautiful lawn can be the foundation to a happy, healthier life and lead to spending more time outdoors.
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Not every home renovation is a complete do-over. In fact, some projects are more about preserving the character and charm of the original structure than making everything shiny and new.
A self-taught home rehabber, licensed real estate agent and designer, Nicole Curtis of Minneapolis, star of HGTV's "Rehab Addict," has made an art of introducing the comforts and conveniences of modern living while restoring homes to their former glory.
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Diane Schuur was off and running – make that off and chatting, about her two gigs at Scullers - tonight and tomorrow - about her newest album "The Gathering," about discovering her own voice, choosing songs for her shows, future album plans, and lots more.
Interviews don't get much cheerier than the ones done with jazz singer Diane Schuur.
"Hello, Ed. It's Deedles!" she said with a great deal of bubbly exuberance, by phone from her home in Cathedral City, Calif.
Then she was off and running – make that off and chatting, in between sips of "my Deedle caf from Peter Peculator," about her two gigs at Scullers on June 28 and 29, about her newest album "The Gathering," about discovering her own voice, choosing songs for her shows, future album plans, and lots more.
But first there was that Deedles business. It's the title of her 1984 debut album. ("The Gathering" is her 23rd.) And it's been her nickname, one that she asks everyone to call her, for about as long as she can remember.
"My mom used to call me Deedle Babe when I was a kid," she said. "From Deedle Babe, Deedles sprung up, and then Deeds, and all sorts of other cute little nicknames."
Schuur, 59, and blind from birth, was a precocious child, and a natural entertainer, for whom words were everything. She started playing piano when she was 3, but recalls talking "as an adult, not using any of the baby colloquialisms" even earlier.
"I listened to the radio a lot," she said. "And I can actually remember sitting in my high chair at the age of 2, prattling off to my parents that Dwight D. Eisenhower was suffering a slight cold, because I had just heard that on the radio."
But it wasn't just the news that she repeated. She was also singing when she was 2.
"Dinah Washington's voice was the one that I tried to emulate the most at that young age," she said of the jazz singer and pianist, probably best known for her recording of "What a Difference a Day Makes."
"Music was a no-brainer," added Schuur. "I always knew this was going to be my craft, and that it was what I always wanted to do."
Besides giving her that nickname, Schuur's mom was also a big supporter of her dream.
"She would curl my long hair and help me get ready for the gig that I did starting when I was 10," she said. She was referring to some ongoing work she landed at a Holiday Inn in Tacoma, Wash., close to her home in Auburn. One of her now-fondest memories at that venue all those years ago wasn't all that much fun when it happened.
"I had just turned 10," she said. "I remember thinking, 'I hope I don't forget any of the lyrics to these tunes.' Of course, on 'Unforgettable,' I did."
Schuur was a hit when she was a kid, and she kept moving forward in that career, working, over the years, with, among others, Stevie Wonder, the Count Basie Orchestra, Maynard Ferguson, B.B. King, and Stan Getz. The variety of players has also led to a wide range of music for Schuur to perform. She listened to the pop of Beatles and Elvis Presley, along with the jazz of Dinah Washington and Nat King Cole, as well as everything Frank Sinatra did. And her albums have ranged from the Great American Song Book to more pop-oriented tunes, then back to some jazz basics and, on "The Gathering," a taste of country.
"Country represents, as much as jazz does, only on a different realm, life experience," she said of her choice to try that direction for the new record. "I kind of wanted to go there, being able to talk about life experience and different things that, universally, a lot of people go through."
As far as concert set lists, she said that she picks the songs very selectively.
"Sometimes it'll depend on the venue," she explained. "Sometimes in a real intimate club setting, I can come out with something a little bit more mellow than what I would do a in a big hall. I've got such a plethora – I love that word – a plethora of work, I have so much to choose from, from the 23 albums I've done. And as soon as I get a new home, as far as a recording label, hopefully it'll be 24."
Actually, album number 24 is already planned, and Schuur will be presenting material from it at the Scullers gigs.
"The shows in Boston are about two legacies: Frank Sinatra and Stan Getz," she said. "I knew both men very well. So the set list will include 'I've Got You Under My Skin,' 'How Insensitive,' 'Change Partners.' These songs were all done by these men."
The fine stable of musicians accompanying her include pianist Alan Broadbent, who also arranged the songs; Ben Wolfe on bass; Don Braden on sax; and Ulysses Owens on drums.
Schuur is also quite excited about returning to Scullers, a club she's played at many times.
"It's a wonderful room. The intimacy is great, and it's wonderful to be able to stay at the same hotel and try out their chocolate chip cookies," she said, laughing.
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WHEN: June 28-29, 8 and 10 p.m.
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The next school year will have a linoleum budget for Hood River County School District. Basic carpeting might be available later.
"You are looking at a budget that is the floor," Supt. Charlie Beck told the district budget committee Monday in its meeting at Hood River Valley High School.
The committee, which is comprised of board members and citizens, will meet again at 6:30 p.m. May 28 at HRVHS library. Public comment will be taken. The committee reviews the budget and makes a recommendation for the board to adopt, by June 26 at the latest.
Beck said the district budget is based on the state Department of Revenue forecast of $6.55 billion for schools statewide, and that if the Legislature accepts the $6.75 billion revenue forecast, as favored by Oregon School Boards Association and other education groups, the district stands to receive about $200,000 more in 2013-14.
The $39.95 million district budget for 2013-14 includes $655,950 in cuts — including a total of four teaching and classified staff positions spread over K-12, and a total of four Special Education positions.
The cuts are about half what were proposed last month, but the district administration spent the past week retooling the budget after getting word on May 11 from the state Department of Education that it would receive another $2.07 million over the next two years. The proposed budget is based on levying the full $1.25 per $1,000 allowed under the Local Option; it is up to the budget committee to decide the exact Local Option amount it will seek within that limit.
The budget reduction receiving the most comment Monday was the proposed removal of $80,000 in general fund money from Community Education.
School board and committee members expressed concerns over the impact on the program, as did a number of local residents. No other subject was addressed in the public comment period.
"In the end analysis it's imperative that you keep Community Education alive," said Fred Duckwall, a former school board member, who presented a 250-signature petition in favor of funding the program.
In addition, former superintendent Chuck Bugge presented a letter he wrote along with former superintendent Pat Evenson-Brady, founding Community Ed director Mike Schend and Duckwall, advocating for the program.
"We propose that a realistic full-year budget be developed which will sustain the program," the letter stated. "With board and administrative support, dedicated leadership and quality programs, this important community program will be successful in the future.
"It is our belief that retaining a healthy Community Education program is a valuable asset to the school district and especially the community," the letter stated. It suggested eight ways the district can fund the program for the long-term, including annual financial review, developing business partnerships and establishment of an advisory board "to advocate for the program and provide both community and district support."
(Full text of the letter will be published in the May 25 edition.)
On the subject of overall state revenue forecasts as it affects the local budget, committee member Chip Dickenson asked, "What could happen that could lead the revenue to go the other way?"
Beck replied, "All the indicators say the revenue will go up. Right now there isn't anything on the horizon that would cause a deep downturn in revenue. The minimum PERS reform in place doesn't give us a huge bump but one we have taken into consideration here.
"The potential is that we will add to this budget; but we are not comfortable budgeting to a higher level until we see what happens. This is a practical budget that gets us to sustainability with the revenue we have, with the understanding that in all probability not only will we save more this year but in the next year revenue will look better."
The proposed budget is based on the $6.55 billion forecast, Beck said, because "there are enough unknowns out there that they are uncomfortable to us for budgeting."
Finance Director Nick Hogan said, "This is probably different than it was a week ago. It is less cuts than in the package, but it is still some significant cuts by the time we're done, in personnel." (Hogan's resignation was announced in the school board meeting that followed.)
Beck said state legislative leaders are characterizing the revenue forecasts as "the most positive we have seen," but the district budget is "at worst-case scenario; it should be positive from here."
Committee member Mikka Irusta, a kindergarten teacher at Mid Valley, questioned elementary schools taking what she viewed as "a larger hit," with 2.7 positions (1.5 licensed and 1.2 classified) proposed for cutting out of the eight classroom positions (not including first Special Education).
Beck had said in his introduction that "the first thing we do is look at school district goals; number one is accountability around professional learning communities and make sure every child is prepared for post-secondary and career readiness."
Board member Liz Whitmore asked, "What was the overall strategic thinking?" on the proposed budget.
Beck said, "We asked each representative in expanded cabinet to go back and talk with their groups, and gave them approximately what we were going to have to look at in reductions, and come back to us with their best thinking on what they thought we were looking at.
"And so the initial reductions were kind of the best thinking of all of the administrators, funneled through the smaller group into us. We did a modified a version of that when the $2 million came in, and said, based on that, 'What should our add-backs be?'
"The unfortunate piece is we did not have a lot of time to process that out," he said, "so I'm not real comfortable that we've put back exactly what we thought each of the administrators would have ... but we sat down and thought of what would make the most sense. We tried to take into consideration as much of their feedback as we could.
"We have the best thinking of the group that we could, but I am sure there are all kinds of folks in the group who would say, 'My position isn't accurately reflected here,' he said. "We tried to reflect at least what we heard from everyone there. No one is happy. Everyone is ... okay."
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Looking back two years ago to the time when my husband and I brought our first-born home from the hospital, I remember my first-time mother feelings of inadequacy and nervousness when I attempted to burp my little boy. No matter what I did, or the way I tried it, my infant son would never produce a burp for me. Yet much to my dismay, when my husband took his turn during a nightly feeding session, our little bundle freely produced sounds of relief.
Feeding a newborn can be an exciting, challenging, yet intimidating experience for any parent, whether it's your first or third baby. Getting your degree in the "art of burping" will take you on a journey filled with bumps, spittle and yes, extra loads of laundry.
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There are three common positions to use when you begin to burp your newborn: over the shoulder, face down on your lap, and sitting up. It is important to remember that if you are not getting the desired results from one position, you need to try another, since most babies burp better in one position rather than another.
Over the shoulder position requires you to hold your newborn firmly against your shoulder, and apply a patting or rubbing motion with your hand on your little one's back. Support your baby's lower back and bottom with your other arm. "A baby can be burped in several ways, but parents should always remember the position of the stomach. The most common way is over the shoulder, with Mom or Dad in an upright position and the child slightly over the shoulder, giving slight pressure on the abdomen and patting their back," advises Rosemary Shy, MD, FAAP, and Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at the Children's Hospital of Michigan.
The face down, on your lap position requires you to place your newborn on your lap with their head resting on one leg and their stomach over the other leg. You must support the baby with one hand, while you apply a patting or rubbing motion, or gentle pressure on their back with the other hand.
If you should decide to try the sitting up position, position your baby in your lap with his/her body leaning forward. Support the chest and head with one hand while you pat your baby's back with your other hand.
"These three are the most popular methods," states Mary Margaret Gottesman, PhD, RN, CPNP, and Pediatric Nurse Practitioner Specialty Program Director of the Ohio State University College of Nursing. She recommends, "Parents must take care to support the baby's head and neck safely during positioning for burping, and move the baby in a gentle, slow manner so as not to startle and scare the infant. Babies usually do not like rapid movements."
When Should Baby Take a Burp Break?
If you are planning to breastfeed your newborn, many healthcare providers and specialists agree about timing burps. "A good rule of thumb is to burp the baby each time he/she switches breasts," says Karen S. Rance, RN, MSN, CPNP of Tidewater Pediatric Consultants in Virginia Beach, Virginia. "Babies tend to swallow air during their feedings and therefore can become fussy or spit up if they are not burped frequently. If a baby swallows too much air, they can become cranky and exhibit colicky behavior. Burping helps to slow down and interrupt the baby's eating cycle, and decreases the amount of air that the baby will swallow during a feeding."
Bottlefed newborns tend to experience more trapped gas or air bubbles than those who are exclusively breastfed. "Most bottlefed babies need to burp more frequently than those who are breastfed. It may depend on the type of formula, type of bottle, size of the baby and individual stomach, and fussiness," says Dr. Shy. She cautions parents-to-be, "Remember that an infant's stomach is only the size of a golf ball at birth, and so it is not so large as to easily have air and food at the same time."
Gottesman says that whether feeding by breast or bottle, moms should observe the changes in their babies' feeding behavior. "When their baby markedly slows down or stops feeding, gently remove the bottle and burp the baby. Also, at the end of a feeding, they should attempt to burp the baby again. Parents should be helped to identify the baby's cues of fullness: a relaxed body, drifting off to sleep, cessation of active sucking and swallowing, and accepting these signs of fullness to stop feeding. Babies should not be forced to finish their bottles once they are clearly indicating their fullness."
What If My Baby Still Won't Burp?
"A mother need not feel a sense of failure if her baby doesn't burp at every attempt," says Rance. "When babies feed in a more upright position, they naturally will have less trapped air than if they are fed lying flat." Every baby is different, and more often, breastfed babies may not need to produce a burp during feedings.
"If a decent attempt at burping has been made, especially for breastfeeding babies, parents do not need to obsess," says Gottesman.
If Your Newborn Spits up During a Burp
One thing that I learned and experienced when I became a mother is that all babies will spit up. Spitting up is a common occurrence during a burp and does not necessarily mean that your baby is vomiting. "It is very common for infants to spit up a mouthful or two of formula or breastmilk when they burp because it is sitting on top of the gas bubble," states Gottesman. "As the gas bubble breaks, it pushes up those small amounts of milk. Also, the muscle at the entrance of the stomach that holds the feeding in the stomach is weaker than it will be in later life, making it easier for infants to regurgitate portions of their feedings."
Rance agrees. "Most often the spitting up will stop by the time the baby begins to sit upright or when they reach six months of age. Often, a healthy baby can spit up a tablespoon or two with each feeding. To decrease the amount of spitting up, try placing the baby in an upright position for 20 to 30 minutes after the feeding."
If your newborn tends to be spitting up more frequently during each feeding session, seek consultation with your child's pediatrician or professional caregiver. Gottesman also suggests taking a sample of the spit-up with you during your appointment. "If parents are concerned about whether the amount their baby spits up is normal, they should place a burp cloth from a recent feeding in a Ziploc baggie and take it with them to their health visit so that the health professional can see exactly the amount about which they are concerned."
Sit Back, Relax, Enjoy, and Observe Your Newborn
"Most infants tell you that they need to burp, and mothers usually learn to recognize these signs very quickly," says Dr. Shy. "A small frown, wiggling, faster eating are a few common ones."
"Enjoy your newborn, since there is no 'one right way' to go about burping a baby. New parents need to feel the liberty to try multiple combinations of feeding and burping positions," says Rance. "Newborn babies will communicate their needs to you through the type of cries they make, so keen observation and trusting your instincts are the key."


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It's a tried and true tale that sometimes happens when boy meets girl, boy and girl fall in love and, unfortunately, boy already has a wife. Throw in two kids, media spotlight, and the modern age of Twitter, and readers are treated to a swirling vortex of love triangle drama fit for a high school farce.
If this all sounds a bit ridiculous, you may be right, but that does not make the craziness unfolding between the currently married Eddie Cibrian and LeAnn Rimes and Cibrian's ex-wife, baby mama, and Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star Brandi Glanville any less real. With all of the recent drama, we thought it seemed like the right time to take a look back and see how all of the madness began.
1. Eddie/Brandi/LeAnn Feud: Book
Brandi Glanville isn't holding back intimate details of her marriage to Eddie Cibrian in her new memoir, Drinking and Tweeting and Other Brandi Blunders. The 40-year-old reality television star admits that the former couple would have "the most passionate sex" after getting into heated arguments. After she had kids, Brandi revealed, "I would ask Eddie from time to time if my vagina was the same after childbirth. He always said yes, except once." She confessed, "He was actually quite vulgar."
Her payback? Brandi decided to have vaginal rejuvenation surgery and had Eddie fork the $12,000 bill for it. She sure left us speechless...
2. Eddie/Brandi/LeAnn Feud: Brandi & LeAnn
LeAnn Rimes is setting the record straight about recent rumors claiming that she was crying in public over her drama with Brandi Glanville. "Boys and girls, I was not crying yesterday at lunch w/ Darrell Brown, Eddie Cibrian, my BFF Liz, and my little dog Toto," she wrote on the micro-blogging site, according to Us Weekly. "We ate and hugged goodbye." Yes, can we try to keep it as drama free as possible?
3. Eddie/LeAnn/Brandi Drama: Affair
An Affair Brandi Would Rather Forget
The whole controversy began in early 2009 when rumors started erupting about a potential romance between Northern Lights co-stars Cuban actor Eddie Cibrian and famed country singer LeAnn Rimes. What made the story extra juicy was that both parties were married at the time, Cibrian to Brandi Glanville and Rimes to Dean Shermet. The whisperings turned out to be true and by the end of that year both marriages had ended. After the divorces were finalized, 2010 ended with Cibrian down on one knee and Rimes saying yes!
4. Eddie/LeAnn/Brandi Drama: Peace
The War Was Over, Or So We Thought
Despite word that Rimes and Glanville were creating secret Twitter accounts aimed specifically at attacking one another, in 2011 the Twitter bickering between the two females seemed to fizzle out, if only for a brief moment. The ladies called a truce proclaiming that the public animosity would come to an end.
"As a collective unit, Brandi and I would like all negativity to cease toward one another," Rimes wrote via Twitter. "We have communicated and have a direct understanding that we are ONLY ourselves on Twitter and have no other accounts that try to destroy one another. Please for our families' sake stop the hate now and let us live OUR lives. We don't need opinions or outside help in order for that to happen."
Glanville retweeted the statement.
5. Eddie/LeAnn/Brandi Drama: Email
You've Got Threatening Mail
As genuine as the call for a ceasefire may have been at the time, did fans truly think the fight had ended? We certainly didn't! Late in 2011 Glanville directly brought ex-hubby Cibrian into the mix accusing him of sending her threatening emails.
"Any divorce lawyers wanna give me some advice on a threatening email? It's like he is punishing me cuz he lost his job!" Glanville tweeted to fans referring to the emails and the recent cancelation of Cibrian's new show The Playboy Club.
When asked to comment on the allegations, Rimes for once held her tongue replying with a short message that claimed public means are not proper ways to communicate private family matters and that fans should not jump to conclusions since they are not aware of the entire story.
6. Eddie/LeAnn/Brandi Drama: Rehab
Rimes Goes to Rehab, Is Brandi Her Disease?
Following legal issues surrounding Rimes, a third party, a secretly recorded conversation, and cyber bullying, the singer voluntarily checked herself into a treatment facility at the end of August 2012.
"LeAnn has voluntarily entered a 30 day in-patient treatment facility to cope with anxiety and stress," Rimes' rep, Marcel Pariseau, stated about her choice. "While there will be speculation regarding her treatment, she is simply there to learn and develop coping mechanisms. While privacy isn't expected, it's certainly appreciated."
Could this stress and anxiety also have something to do with her tumultuous relationship with Glanville? It certainly couldn't have helped.
7. Eddie/LeAnn/Brandi Drama: My Boys Tweet
Rimes Riles With "My Boys" Tweet
On November 30, 2012, Rimes sent a seemingly innocent blurb via her Twitter account stating, "Flying out with my boys in a few hrs. Love that it's a family tour weekend. It's always more fun when they are with me."
This would become the tweet heard around the world and the real fuel to reignite the Rimes and Glanville feuding fire.
8. Eddie/LeAnn/Brandi Drama: Sons
Brandi Tweets Concerning Stepmom Insincerity
On December 1 it became obvious via her own Twitter account that the Real Housewives star did not take too kindly to Rimes labeling the sons Glanville has with Cibrian, Mason and Jake, her boys, and she fired back with a few scathing remarks, "Someone is trying 2 get under my skin by calling MY children 'her boys' Sooo transparent! They R MY boys, Eddie Boys and ur step-sons... 4 now." Yikes!
9. Eddie/LeAnn/Brandi Drama: Laxatives
Brandi's Not Lax About Laxatives, Or LeAnn
Several days after making it clear that her sons are not Rimes' sons, Glanville, in her own no holds barred fashion, let the insults fly in a piece by Us Magazine. In the interview, Glanville claimed that she is forced to resort to reaching out to her ex publicly since he refuses to acknowledge her privately.
The Bravo star also attacked Rimes' parenting skills claiming that her sons are not safe with their unbalanced stepmom, "I, unfortunately, don't find her to be stable and I don't want her around my kids when Eddie's not there -- or at least the nanny, his parents, someone," Glanville says of Rimes. "Mason, my eldest, ate some of Le's candies and got extremely ill. And Le's candies are laxatives. It was a big f--king deal for me, and I lost my mind."
10. Eddie/LeAnn/Brandi Drama: Cibrian Mad
Cibrian Fights Fire With Fire
In the eyes of Cibrian it seems as though his ex-wife finally took it too far in her bashing of Cibrian's current wife. Following the publication of her Us Magazine interview, Radar Online released an email Cibrian sent to Glanville prior to her rant to the magazine.
Cibrian defends Rimes and finally fires off some insults of his own, "I know your life exists solely for the purpose of living and creating drama. It's a sad way to live. It's so obvious that you have to constantly mention my wife so people will care what comes out of your mouth." Later, Cibrian makes references to Glanville's narcissism and drinking and begs that she, "Grow up already and for once, PUT THE KIDS FIRST!"
11. Eddie/LeAnn/Brandi Drama: E! Interview
Brandi Dubs LeAnn's Interview Highly Hypocritical
After a special sit down on E! that Rimes did with interviewer Giuliana Rancic, Glanville was not happy – surprise, surprise. Considering the fact that Cibrian does not allow his two sons to appear even in the background of their mother's reality show, Glanville found the fact that boys Mason and Jake were featured in the interview hypocritical.
"My kids can be on [an] E news special apparently but not in the background of the show I am on?" Glanville took to Twitter letting off steam. "Amazing!"
12. Eddie/LeAnn/Brandi Drama: Mansion
New Year, Same Drama
Twitter junkies witnessed a brief hiatus in the feuding between the trio during the holiday season, but once the new year came and went all bets were off. Clearly sick of the many tweets from Rimes' account regarding her Cabo San Lucas trip with her husband and stepsons, Glanville, always larger than life, tweeted on January 3, "Ok I'm super excited my kids are moving into a mansion but I want to throw up in my mouth and swallow it – having to keep hearing about it."
We're not going to lie Glanville, we're a little sick of hearing about the whole dispute ourselves, but it's like a train wreck you can't look away from, and if the next few years are anything like the past few, there will be plenty more crashing and clashing to come!
13. Eddie/LeAnn/Brandi Drama: Wedding Dress
Brandi Donates Her Wedding Dress
So much for saying yes to the dress! Two years after her divorce to Eddie, Brandi decided to donate her wedding dress to a future army wife. "I still haven't heard about who received it. I hope it makes someone very happy," wrote the Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star, according to Us Weekly.