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Washington, D.C. – Today at a White House ceremony, President Obama will honor the newest recipients of the National Medal of Science and the National Medal of Technology and Innovation. These awards are the highest honors bestowed by the United States Government for achievements in science, technology, and innovation.
The President will also announce new commitments and progress updates onEducate to Innovate, his all-hands-on-deck campaign to help more girls and boys be inspired to excel in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) subjects.
Five years ago, President Obama launched Educate to Innovate, an all-hands-on-deck campaign to help more girls and boys be inspired to excel in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) subjects. The campaign reflects the President’s core conviction that far more needs to be done in giving students the critical skills needed to succeed in STEM fields, and that success required action not just from the Federal government, but the broader community of educational leaders, foundations, companies, non-profits, and science and technology professionals that have unique contributions they can make.
100kin10, a network of more than 200 partners, is announcing that it has raised another $28 million in support of the goal of preparing 100,000 excellent STEM teachers over a decade.
Change the Equation, a coalition of leading CEOs, is committing to expanding high-quality STEM programs to more than 1 million students by 2016.
Continued growth in students reached by range of companies, non-profits, Federal agencies and others participating in the President’s campaign, including National Math and Science Initiative, US2020, Time Warner Cable, Maker Education Initiative, Institute of Museum and Libraries Services, Corporation for National and Community Service,Underwater Dreams and others.
Read the full fact sheet of announcements and progress updates here.
The National Medal of Scientists honors individuals for their outstanding contributions in fields such as biology, physics, and math. The National Medal of Technology and Innovation honors the Nation’s visionary thinkers whose creativity and intellect have made a lasting impact on the United States and its workforce.
For intellectual leadership and experimental innovation in the field of DNA replication, and for unparalleled dedication to improving science education and promoting science-based public policy.
For interdisciplinary work on the evolution of cooperation, complexity theory, and international security, and for the exploration of how social science models can be used to explain biological phenomena.
For pioneering studies on chemical coevolution and the genetic basis of insect-plant interactions, and for enthusiastic commitment to public engagement that inspires others about the wonders of science.
For fundamental contributions to probability theory, mathematical statistics, information theory, mathematical logic, and Blackwell games, which have had a lasting impact on critical endeavors such as drug testing, computer communications, and manufacturing.
For the development of revolutionary methods for realistic fluid-flow simulation, now ubiquitous in the modeling and design of engines, aircraft wings, and heart valves, and in the analysis of natural flows.
For transformative contributions to the fields of information and system science, for distinctive and sustained mentoring of young scholars, and for translation of scientific ideas into entrepreneurial ventures that have had a significant impact on industry.
For her discoveries of fundamental chemical and physical principles underlying enzyme catalysis and her leadership in the community of scientists.
For applying chemical principles and techniques to studies of plant and insect defense and communication, and for his seminal role in establishing chemical ecology as a core discipline important to agriculture, forestry, medicine, and environmental science.
For pioneering contributions to the development of electron accelerators, including circular and linear colliders, synchrotron light sources, and for discoveries in elementary particle physics and contributions to energy policy.
For creative approaches and outstanding contributions to understanding the internal structure and evolution of the Earth, the Moon, and other terrestrial planets, and for his leadership and inspiration of new generations of scientists.
For fundamental inventions in database management, transaction processing, and software engineering.
For innovations in the fields of silicate chemistry, the chemistry of zeolites, and molecular sieve materials.
For invention and commercialization of Flash storage technology to enable ubiquitous data in consumer electronics, mobile computing, and enterprise storage.
For innovations in minimally invasive medical devices.
For pioneering contributions to the fields of biotechnology and personalized medicine, leading to the discovery and development of novel therapeutics for the treatment of cancer and other life-threatening diseases.
For contributions to the advancement of devices for telecommunications, the use of light for studying matter, and for leadership in the development of the Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) workforce in the United States.
For pioneering leadership in the development of innovative curricula in Computer Science.
For developing the virus-like particles and related technologies that led to the generation of effective vaccines that specifically targeted HPV and related cancers.


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Nokero (short for No Kerosene) was formed in June 2010 by inventor Steve Katsaros to develop safe and environmentally-friendly solar products that eliminate the need for harmful and polluting fuels used for light and heat around the world, and most importantly, are affordable to the communities that need them.
Nokero bulbs are an all-in-one solar system that is already completely and successfully replace kerosene lamps and paraffin candles in places all around the world. Best of all, our lighting products are more economical than any other lights of their kind.
A Nokero light charges by day and brings hours of light each night. Nokero products original designs utilize the best technology available.

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QUEENSLAND Premier Campbell Newman has called for an emergency meeting of state leaders to discuss drastic cuts to health and education funding outlined in the Federal Budget.
He said he had spoken with his state and territory counterparts who all agree the cuts are unacceptable.
Federal Treasurer Joe Hockey used his budget speech on Tuesday to reveal an unprecedented $80 billion would be slashed from health and education spending over the next decade.
The announcement sparked concerns the Federal Government was attempting to put pressure on the states to agree to a GST increase.
Mr Newman said on Wednesday (May 14) he had some real concerns about the cuts to health and education.
"Well, the states are doing the very heavy lifting on this and the Commonwealth is not putting its shoulder to the wheel in this area," he said.
"You cannot just throw the health and educations issue on the states and not give them the money to deal with the problem.
"This will not go away.
"It is not going to be taken lying down and the states and territories will be pursuing this matter."
Mr Newman said he believed there was more politics at play surrounding the decision.
"Well, this whole thing seems like a wedge to get the states to ask for the GST to be raised," he said.
"Well, that is not the issue.
"The issue is that a fair share of the income tax that Queensland families pay should come back to pay for their hospitals and schools.
"The Federal Government is making the states do the heavy lifting, make the tough decisions in relation to health and education, and their doing it in a non-transparent and non-upfront way."
Opposition Leader Annastacia Palaszczuk said she was also concerned with the planned cuts to health and education announced in the budget.
"What we are going to see is a generation of young people who will not go on to further education and a generation of people who will suffer because they cannot afford to go and see a doctor," she said.
"We have seen the massive cuts here in Queensland and now we are seeing it at a federal level.
"I think everyone should be concerned, if not alarmed, at what is happening at a federal level."

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This week the world was exposed to Salesforce’s M&A shopping list after an email from the company’s board member Colin Powell was leaked by “hacktivist” group DCLeaks. The list, which was part of an internal presentation, revealed the names of 14 public companies that Salesforce allegedly had their eye on back in May this year.
Featuring mammoths in business such as Adobe, LinkedIn and Workday along with those on the smaller side like Hubspot and Zendesk, the presentation is now more than six months old and the landscape, as well as the status of some of the targets, has changed considerably. We take a look at these targets now and whether they are still viable options for Salesforce to acquire.
Starting with the company that Salesforce did successfully acquire back in June, Demandware which opened up e-commerce opportunities to Salesforce. The deal, worth $2.8 billion, has seen Demandware rebrand as Salesforce Commerce Cloud.
One of the stranger inclusions in the list, Adobe is reported to be larger than Salesforce, making an acquisition unlikely. CNBC’s Jim Cramer stated in a report that he was perplexed by the appearance of Adobe in the presentation. Speaking on CNBC’s “Squawk on the Street”, Cramer said: “I was surprised to see that in there, because I know they aren’t looking at Adobe. Adobe isn’t looking at Salesforce either.” The Salesforce spokeswoman said that Adobe appeared only as a “benchmark” to provide context for possible targets.
Back in June, Microsoft announced it was to acquire LinkedIn in a deal worth a reported $26.2 billion. All went quiet on the deal, so much so that Microsoft chose to put out an update on the purchase into its recent earnings report. The report detailed that the acquisition is set to be complete in the next quarter, firmly removing LinkedIn from the Salesforce M&A table.
Salesforce missed out on marketing automation software company Marketo, with Vista Equity Partners agreeing to buy it for £1.79 billion soon after the Salesforce presentation was put together.
The entry for Netsuite was interesting as it came with a cautionary note that chief executive of Oracle Larry Ellison owned 47 per cent of the company. And, indeed, July saw Oracle announce plans to buy Netsuite for $9.3 billion. What draws attention to this particular mention is that Oracle and Salesforce were once tight allies, however in recent years the companies have become much more competitive with one another. Certainly two businesses we will be keeping a close eye on in the future.
The media attention surrounding the leaked Salesforce email worked to benefit some of the businesses on the list, one of which being software company Tableau whose shares rose as much as 7.3 per cent after the list was published. With a market capitalisation of $3.8 billion, Tableau reportedly worked with investment bank Qatalyst Partners earlier this year to discuss a potential deal with interested businesses and private equity firms. However, the unnamed sources stated that these negotiations ended in the summer without a deal.
In the presentation, the status under HubSpot was left blank, which does not give much away. However, it does question how serious Salesforce is about acquiring the company. When journalists reached out to HubSpot, a spokesperson declined to comment.
Similar to Box and Zendesk, the comment attached to Workday in the presentation said “less interested”. What is more difficult to fathom is whether it is Workday or Salesforce who lacks interest in an acquisition.
Perhaps one of the most interesting aspects of the leaked report was that Twitter, the social media company Salesforce was reported to be interested in buying last month, was not one of the 14 companies on the list.
It has been a busy year for Salesforce with the company buying businesses at a record pace and spending more than $4 billion on acquisitions including the afore mentioned Demandware and the $750 million purchase of Quip.

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The scientific viewpoint, in which the observer can still objectively make unbiased and non-culturally embedded observations about nature.
That’s a distinctly 1990s and 2000s perspective.
Snow’s original idea bears only scant resemblance to the scientism vs. constructivism meaning. As he explained, literary intellectuals (not entirely the same thing as humanities scholars) didn’t understand basic science or the technology-based socioeconomic foundations of modern life, and they didn’t care to. Novelists, poets and playwrights, he complained, didn’t know the second law of thermodynamics or what a machine-tool was, and the few that did certainly couldn’t expect their readers to know.
Humanistic studies of science (constructivist worldview and all) would have undermined Snow’s argument, but humanists were only just beginning to turn to science as a subject for analysis. (Kuhn’s Structure of Scientific Revolutions was not until 1962. Structure did mark the acceleration of sociological and humanistic studies of science, but was actually taken up more enthusiastically by scientists than humanists. Widespread constructivism in the humanities only became common by the 1980s, I’d guess, and the main thrust of constructivism, when described without jargon, is actually broadly consistent with the way most scientists today understand the nature of science. It’s not nearly so radical as the popular caricature presented in Higher Superstition and similar polemics.) Rather than humanists understanding the scientific method or scientists viewing their work through a sociological or anthropological lens, Snow’s main complaint was that scientific progress had left the slow-changing world of literature and its Luddite inhabitants behind (and hence, scientists found little use for modern literature).
Snow wrote that “naturally [scientists] had the future in their bones.” That was the core of the scientific culture, and the great failing of literary culture.
Looking back from 2009, I think history–and the point in it when Snow was making his argument–seems very different than it did to Snow. Who, besides scientists, had the future in their bones in 1959? In the 1950s academic world, literature was the pinnacle of ivory tower high culture. Not film, not television, certainly not paraliterary genres like science fiction or comic books. History of science was a minor field that had closer connections to science than to mainstream history.
Today, in addition to scientists, a whole range of others are seen as having “the future in their bones”: purveyors of speculative fiction in every medium; web entrepreneurs and social media gurus; geeks of all sorts; venture capitalists; kids who increasingly demand a role in constructing their (our) own cultural world. The modern humanities are turning their attention to these groups and their historical predecessors. As Shakespeare (we are now quick to note) was the popular entertainment of his day, we now look beyond traditional “literary fiction” to find the important cultural works of more recent decades. And in the popular culture of 1950s through to today, we can see, perhaps, that science was already seeping out much further from the social world of scientsts themselves than Snow and other promoters of the two cultures thesis could recognize–blinded, as they were, by the strict focus on what passed for high literature.
Science permeated much of anglophone culture, but rather than spreading from high culture outward (as Snow hoped it might), it first took hold in culturally marginal niches and only gradually filtered to insulated spheres of high culture. Science fiction historians point to the 1950s as the height of the so-called “Golden Age of [hard] Science Fiction”, and SF authors could count on their audience to understand basic science. Modern geek culture–and its significance across modern entertainment–we now recognize, draws in part from the hacker culture of 1960s computer research. Feminists and the development of the pill; environmentalists; the list of possible examples of science-related futuremaking goes on and on, but Snow had us looking in the wrong places.
Certainly, cultural gaps remain between the sciences and the humanities (although, in terms of scholarly literature, there is a remarkable degree of overlap and interchange, forming one big network with a number of fuzzy division). But C. P. Snow’s The Two Cultures seems less and less relevant for modern society; looking back, it even seems less relevant to its original context.
This is a widely-acknowledged Golden Age of American television drama (led, of course, by cable shows, but with network fare that also has its high points). (I’m two discs in to Deadwood right now, which is the one show that is usually mentioned in the same sentence as The Wire in terms of really great shows.) One remarkable thing that’s happened recently, especially this season, is the flood of scientists as main characters. Several established shows have main characters who derive much of their identity, and personality, from being scientists: House, Bones, and (to some extent) Mohinder Suresh from Heroes. More than earlier shows in the same genres (medical dramas, forensic science dramas, superhero dramas), these shows and their characters explore the meanings of what it is to be a scientist in modern society.
But two new shows this season, Fringe and Eleventh Hour, are about science to an unprecedented extent (even including The X-Files and Star Trek: The Next Generation, but excluding CBC’s ReGenesis and the four-episode British version of Eleventh Hour, neither of which I’ve yet seen).
Fringe, and its main scientist character, showcase science-as-threat; Walter Bishop is Dr. Frankenstein for the era of Big Science. In his previous scientific life, Bishop had worked for the government and others on an endless array of “fringe science” research projects, mostly aimed in various ways at controlling the minds and bodies of people living and dead. Institutionalized for years, Bishop is now out and, working out of his old lab at Harvard, is helping the FBI investigate “The Pattern”, a big-business-linked series of weird and deadly happenings that are often the scientific monsters Bishop had helped to create. In Fringe, science is not just a threat to society, it is (inherently?) a threat to the moral fiber and mental health of the scientist. Bishop is an otherwise kindly old man whose broken personality is centered on a self-centeredness that is presented as, at least partly, a mental health issue, and alternately child-like naivety and (in the course of performing science) shocking callousness. Fringe is by no means a serious show, but it does articulate an interesting, and I think significant, interpretation of what it means in American culture to be a scientist.
If Fringe is in part inspired by the works of Michael Crichton, as creator J. J. Abrams claims, then Eleventh Hour is inspired by the other part of Michael Crichton’s works–that is, the part that deals with the moral and ethical dimensions of science as it is actually practiced, rather than the outlandish threats of science gone wild. The compelling main character, biophysicist Jacob Hood, also works for the FBI investigating science-related crimes and mysteries. But where Walter Bishop is pulled, out of dire necessity, from an asylum, Hood was recruited because (in addition to his brilliance) he was friends with someone who ended up in a position of power in the FBI. Most of the crimes involve acute threats to one or a few people, but there is no overarching conspiracy, no Pattern of misused science. Rather, the criminals are usually scientists doing realistic but scientifically/ethically/morally questionable research (often in commercial contexts), or the people who oppose what they do. Hood treads the line of genuine scientific enthusiasm (often accompanied by patronizing bemusement at his female FBI handler’s scientific ignorance), and ironic detachment and quiet disapproval of less-than-pure but not egregiously bad ways of doing science.
What does recent prominence of science and scientists tell us about American culture and the place of science in society? I don’t know, but I feel that it’s my scholarly responsibility to keep watching until I figure it out.
Recently, the film Flock of Dodos was screened at Yale, followed by a discussion with the director Randy Olson, science writer Carl Zimmer, and others. As you might infer from the title, a poke at March of the Penguins, the movie is a humorous take on the public controversy over intelligent design. Unfortunately, I didn’t even find out about this until after it had come and gone. But the discussion afterwards focused on how evolutionists should deal with ID, and from the report of one of the students in Lloyd’s class, Olson recommended an excellent approach (with Zimmer providing an opposing perspective more in line with the approach of Panda’s Thumb, NCSE, etc.). Fortunately, Zimmer has provided some of the material, Olson’s 10 suggestions for “improving communication,” and I think he pretty much nails it.
Effective storytelling is something that the scientific community as a whole simply fails at. But, ironically, the humanist disciplines (e.g., history) are nearly as bad. Scholars of all persuasions can continue, as PZ Myers suggests and John Lynch seems to support as well, to emphasize their strengths of “depth, intelligence, evidence, history, the whole damn natural world, and just plain having the best and most powerful explanation for its existence.” But that just serves to further insulate an already insular group; putting more priority on effective mass communication does not mean abandoning good explanations, it just means making them available to non-scholars.
While the more practical branches of science might be able to justify their work in terms of the tangible technical payoffs that society gets from it, evolutionary biologists, historians, and most types of scholars simply don’t have any other reason to exist except for the general enrichment of society. Technical monographs and detailed case histories are a proximate goal to enhance the collective knowledge of a specialist community and body of literature, but we ought always to keep an eye on the larger goal of distilling the broad and deep scope of that literature into stories for the rest of society.
This is, of course, the same broad issue that draws me to Wikipedia, one of the easiest and most effective means of actually applying specialist knowledge to reshape public understanding. The way things are now, the extent of historical outreach is the occasional late-career book that aims at a (very limited) popular audience along with the requisite scholarly one. The only historical work that really makes it into public consciousness is what the media industries ask for from historians; Wikipedia (perhaps among other venues) is a chance for disciplines to shape their own public destinies and forge their own places in mass culture.
Check out this Colbert Report segment as a followup to my previous science funding post.
Edit: Those of you searching for “Colbert Bush” or some variation are probably looking for something on the White House press correspondents’ dinner at which Colbert recently lampooned the President. Try www.thankyoustephencolbert.org for links to the video.

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Me: How was your new year's?
K-girl: Same last years. I'll have to new.

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Disney-owned Lucasfilm is letting the team behind HBO's Game of Thrones write a new Star Wars trilogy.
Lucasfilm has announced on Tuesday via the Star Wars website that David Benioff and DB Weiss, the showrunners from HBO’s adaptation of George RR Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire, will be creating their own series of Star Wars films. This film series will be different from the original saga films as well as the trilogy that Rian Johnson, The Last Jedi's writer and director, is currently developing.
The duo will write and produce the films, according to Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy, who said in a statement that they are "some of the best storytellers working today". She added: “Their command of complex characters, depth of story and richness of mythology will break new ground and boldly push Star Wars in ways I find incredibly exciting.” Unfortunately, that's all Kennedy really said.
Apart from the announcement on the trilogy itself, there are few details. While it's not surprising to hear that Disney-Lucasfilm has more Star Wars films in the works, as it's already making the final three installments in the Skywalker saga, as well standalone films like the forthcoming Solo and Johnson's trilogy, the news that Benioff and Weiss are involved will certainly please sci-fi fans and GoT fans.
Keep in mind HBO had previously said they were developing and writing a new HBO series, called Confederate. But that project immediately faced backlash, and since then, HBO has stayed mum about whether Confederate is still getting a full green light. However, now that we know Benioff and Weiss are doing Star Wars, we're skeptical that they'll have the time to do Confederate, too.

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18 inch Clothes Hangers: Large Hanger for Shirts, Pants, Jackets, & More!
Hanger Store provides premium 18 inch clothing hangers with a locking drop pant bar that are great for holding anything from complete suits with a jacket, to shirts, pants, and skirts. These wooden closet hangers are 18" in size, made from 1/2 inch thick Natural Hardwood, Bamboo, or Maple and have a contour design. They fit most mens and womens sized suits, coats, jackets and dress shirts. Currently available in a stained brown, or a blonde finish. We also offer Custom 18 inch Hangers.

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu revealed on Sunday morning that Israel has carried out hundreds of attacks against Iranian and Hezbollah targets, confirming reports of an Israeli airstrike in Damascus on Friday night.
Speaking at the weekly cabinet meeting, Netanyahu said the IAF attacked Iranian arms depots at the Damascus International Airport in Syria over the weekend.
“Just in the last 36 hours, the air force attacked Iranian warehouses containing Iranian weapons at the Damascus international airport. The accumulation of recent attacks proves that we are determined more than ever to take action against,” the prime minister said.
In an interview to the New York Times, outgoing IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Gadi Eizenkot confirmed for the first time that Israel carried out “thousands” of attacks against Iranian targets in Syria.
The Syrian state news agency (SANA) said on Friday that Israeli warplanes fired a number of missiles toward the Damascus area on Friday, triggering Syrian air defenses that shot most of them down.
“The results of the aggression so far were limited to a strike on one of the warehouses at Damascus airport,” SANA cited a military source as saying. The attack took place at 11:15 pm, it said, adding that the jets attacked from the Galilee in northern Israel. It caused damage but no casualties, the report said.
The UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said airstrikes targeted an area near the airport while others hit the area of Kiswa, which is home to positions and storage sites for Iranian and Hezbollah forces allied with Syria's government.

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The pop-up takes place in Los Angeles on December 14th.
(AllHipHop News) J Dilla’s mother, Maureen “Ma Dukes” Yancey continues to make sure the legacy of her son will live on forever.
She has teamed up with Vintage Vibe Music Group and Delicious Vinyl, and they are excited to announce the launch of a new J Dilla apparel collection.
On December 14, 2018, friends and family will celebrate the new merch at the Delicious Pizza Cafe on Sunset Blvd. in Los Angeles.
During the event, four new exclusive items with limited edition designs will be available for purchase, then and there only.
Ma Dukes states, "Delicious Vinyl has always been part of the 'Yancey Boys' legacy since the beginning, and it is with the love and respect that my sons share with the Delicious Vinyl family, that makes my heart glad."


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Western Sea Kayakers is a Paddle America Club member of the American Canoe Association (ACA). All members of the Western Sea Kayakers must also be members of the American Canoe Association.
Membership in Western Sea Kayakers is for one year and runs concurrently with your ACA membership.
Consistent with ACA membership policy, only individual memberships are offered. All memberships have the same dues: no senior discounts.
The opportunity to participate in club paddles and events.
Membership in the American Canoe Association.
Liability insurance provided by the ACA for club and ACA events.
Access to the members' only section of the club website and access to the club message board and membership roster.
Print and complete a membership application, including both WSK and ACA waivers.
Send the completed application, signed waivers, and a check for the appropriate amount to the address shown on the application. Make the check out to Western Sea Kayakers.
Within a week or two of receiving your application, the WSK Secretary will send you a Welcome Letter. Please check the spam folder of your e-mail if you don't see this in your inbox. It will include your log in credentials for access to the WSK Forum.
Please note that memberships and renewals cannot be processed unless signed waivers are submitted. This is an ACA requirement. We must have fresh waivers every year for renewals as well as for each new applicant. Thank you for your help on this!
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The members said the special awareness programs would be conducted till World Day for Prevention of Child Abuse.
Chennai: The news on recent child sexual abuse cases across the globe rang an alarm for the need of child safety education in primary stages. In a move to address the issue, Aware (Awareness for Wo+Men to Advocate their Rights and Equality), a Chennai-based NGO is reaching out to the government schools in the city to conduct awareness camps.
“It is a three-module program. The first stage involves teachers where they are taught on understanding, preventing and healing the victims of child sexual abuse. Second stage includes student workshops and lastly, a follow up would be done to ensure if the message reached everyone,” said Sandhiyan Thilagavathy, founder, Aware.
Also, similar awareness programs would be held in public spaces to breakdown the stigmatisation around the topic. The members said the special awareness programs would be conducted till World Day for Prevention of Child Abuse (Nov 19).


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Ever since sites like Silk Road showed the dark side of anonymous Bitcoin transactions, governments have been trying to regulate the crypto-currency. But a group of coders -- headed by 3D-printed gun creator Cody Wilson and Amir Taaki (above) -- want to keep that genie out of the bottle with a new app called Dark Wallet. It was first launched on Indiegogo, where it met its $50,000 funding goal, thanks in part to Bitcoin donations. The software could make it nearly impossible to trace the currency's flow, thanks to a one-two punch of encryption and "CoinJoin" technology. In brief, the latter code registers multiple transactions as a single movement of funds, masking transfers.
Though such software is questionably legal, the group flat-out admitted that the app's main purpose is for illicit transactions, like those on the now-defunct Silk Road. But according to Wired, authorities like the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network are "well aware" of the software, and plan to be "vigilant" about activities around it. As for whether it could be used in murder-for-hire or other abhorrent crimes? "Liberty is a dangerous thing," Wilson said. Whether you agree with that or not, the app is set to arrive tomorrow.

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Malta and Slovakia have signed a memorandum of understanding setting the framework within which authorities from the two countries will identify, screen and facilitate the process of adoption of Slovak children by couples in Malta.
The MoU was signed yesterday by Social Policy Minister and Slovak Social Affairs Minister Viera Tomanova in Slovakia.
Both ministers emphasised that the priority would be the welfare of the children, who would be assisted to integrate into their adoptive Maltese families whilst retaining ties with Slovakia, their country of birth.
They agreed that this process of integration would actually be facilitated by the fact that the two countries share similar values and traditions.
The two ministers also discussed the sustainability of pensions, gender equality, protection of children as well as challenges facing the labour market in these particularly difficult times for small countries with open economies such as Malta and Slovakia.


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While testing my app with valgrind, i found one leak that is reproduced with ffprobe.
Read errors valgrind mentions are irrelevant on the subject.
See ffmpeg version and configuration in the listing. It's today's git master HEAD.
==20267== Copyright (C) 2002-2010, and GNU GPL'd, by Julian Seward et al.
leak.ts (1.0 MB) - added by Krieger 7 years ago.
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For a professional stylist, Rachel Zoe has been putting up with a barrage of criticism about a surprising issue: her son’s hair.
The fashion designer and stylist, who has dressed Lindsay Lohan and Jennifer Lawrence and starred in the Bravo reality show “The Rachel Zoe Project,” has two sons with her husband, Roger Berman. Skylar and Kaius are six and three, respectively, and up until both boys’ third birthdays, Zoe’s frequent Instagram posts of her sons received consistent, curious criticism.
What the friendly and warm Instagram commenters likely did not know is that Zoe chose to wait until each of her children turned three to perform an upsherin, a ritual Jewish practice that scholars believe dates back several centuries, in which a boy’s hair is not touched until his third birthday at a communal ceremony.
A blonde Jewish woman who runs an enormously successful business that boils down to telling other people what to wear challenged societal conventions about the way gender is expressed by embracing a somewhat obscure Jewish custom that involved a Syrian-Lebanese man giving her son a ritualistic haircut.
With liberty and nachas for all.
This story "Rachel Zoe Jewish Son Haircut" was written by Jenny Singer.


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Calendars: allparticipants prepay for the calendar fundraiser at registration.
Every participant (including all siblings) will recieve five (5) calendars.
They are sold for $5.00 each.
The bottom half is filled out (and be sure your childs name and team color are on each stub).
They are then turned in to your Team Mom before deadline so that every particpant is accounted for.
Any money you collect for these calendars is your refund for purchasing them up front.
Please understand that the reason the calendar sale is done this way is so that everyone participates.
stubs must be turned in by the team mom no later than October 19th to be entered in the drawing.
Each particiapant is asked to donate one twelve (12) pack of a Coke Product soda.
The brand names are listed below. The Coca Cola Co. donated our soda coolers so in turn we are expected to sell their products.
Football Teams on Wednesday August 20th and Thursday August 21st.
Coaches or Team Moms should track players progress.
Both football players and cheerleaders bring the same flavor assigned to their team.
For parents with one child in football and one child in cheering, they may be asked to cover more than one time. Please remember Mom, Dad, Aunts, Uncles, friends....anyone can help as long as they are 16 years old or over. Ask them to help if you can;t or choose not to.
The concession schedule is planned well in advance. Your Team Moms will be filling out the schedules so please be kind....Please come in and help. We actually have a fun time and it involves only 2 - 3 hours.
Remember...the Play Off Games, Championship Game and Pro Bowl Game need coverage too! So we may all have to give extra volunteer time other than the scheduled week.


text: Lila Downs will be touring! Buy your tickets for Lila Downs at StubHub and enjoy a show you'll never forget. StubHub offers the opportunity to buy and sell the best tickets for the best concerts and music shows in UK, so you can even find tickets to sold out events!


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This content is provided by Steven Reed.
Steve Reed helps major US oil pipeline companies resolve their most difficult regulatory problems. Due to his exceptional experience with complex pipeline issues and his deep understanding of the industry, he is consistently sought out to shepherd new pipeline projects through the regulatory process, and to help resolve challenging disputes arising before the FERC, state regulatory agencies, and appellate courts. For more than three decades, Steve has played a key role in landmark cases that have laid the foundation for FERC’s current regulation of oil pipelines. Steve also serves as the co-head of Steptoe’s Regulatory and Legislative Department.

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text: Christopher C. French, The Role of the Profit Imperative in Risk Management, 17 J. Bus. L. 1081 (2015).


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21-Dec-2007 -- I've been reading the descriptions of this confluence, and most of them talk about beating through the brush to get near. After the fires in October, we thought that this problem would be abated. Boy, were we right. There was nothing left on the hillside.
We drove up into high valley, parked on a side road, and hiked southeast to the confluence. Total distance from the car was about 350 yards, across a slope.
While we were there, one of the homeowners came out, and apparently confusing us with geocachers, explained that the confluence "had been removed". He also said that he was having a lot of problems with mudslides, and asked that we not come back, and tell other people that the confluence was on private property.
I am a property owner adjacent to the 117 W 33 N confluence in Poway, CA. My house is visible in some of the panoramic photos on the website. In order to access the confluence you must use my road and driveway. I welcome people participating in this Project and will allow access if permission is requested. Unfortunately, I can only get you to about 50 meters. To get any closer would be on my neighbor's property. He has an easement through my land. I can help coordinate a visit with him as he has allowed access in the past. We have enjoyed most of the geocachers who have been respectful of the area. It is kind of interesting to live next to the only degree confluence in San Diego County. I have wondered if there was at cold war no decimal targeting missile aimed at us.
Any requests can be sent to the Western USA coordinator, and they will be forwarded to Tom.


text: “Blue-eyed Spirit Wolf” necklace. Wolf cubs are born with blue eyes, but do not stay that color. Mature wolves have amber, brown, gray, yellow or green eyes. This wolf cub spirit necklace has a Sonoran Gold Turquoise bezel set in serrated fine silver, some blue Turquoise chips wired to the chain and sitting among the hand sawn moon and stars are two 4mm faceted Blue Topaz Stones representing the eyes. A sterling silver wolf head sits proudly at the bottom of the pendant. Pendant is 2-1/2” long and necklace is 21” (can be shortened, just send me a convo. Closes with my hand formed hook clasp. Pendant is stamped with “sterling” and my makers mark. All silver has been given a dark patina to highlight the depth and color of the textures and stones. This is definitely one of my favorite pieces as my love for wolves runs deep. They are magnificent creatures and this necklace is a tribute to them. May I some day come back to run in the forest wild and free forever. Handmade by me with love.


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Yesterday, during my morning workout, something the instructor said compelled me to freeze to the mat with my arms resting at my waist and my right leg poised to cross over my left.
Wow, I thought. It’s really true. Feeling rooted and grounded to my center helped my body to find its own rhythm and to get into the flow of the routine, and before I knew it, I was enjoying myself. But that’s not why I stopped.
I stopped because at that moment I thought of our Options clients.
It occurred to me that most of the clients who come to us in crisis can’t find their center. Depending on the severity of their circumstances, they no longer feel connected to the core of their personal beliefs and values. Everything is out of balance. The crisis takes over. At this point, a woman in crisis will seek any means of stopping her life from spinning out of control, including abortion.
Celia was a client who considered abortion when her pregnancy test came back positive. She groaned at first as if she were in physical pain when she saw the results.
Instead of moving from her center, Celia felt as if she were being pulled into several different directions at once. She was filled with anxiety about her future, plus feeling embarrassed and ashamed, like she should have known better. She fretted about the age differences between a baby and her two older children. She worried her network of friends would dissolve because she would be isolated at home with caring for an infant, and then there were the physical limitations associated with her disability. Mostly she feared the financial strain that another baby would put on her husband and how their future would be altered.
Celia’s thoughts were like the outter bands of a hurricane powered by her irrespressible anxiety.
Instead of moving from the center of what really mattered to her, Celia absorbed the energy of what she imagined everyone else would say she should do.
Celia then and Celia now were two different people.
In the early days of her pregnancy, Celia had forgotten who she was because she had temporarily lost her center. When Celia saw her baby’s sonogram image at twelve weeks and heard his heartbeat, she began to find her way back to herself to where she could access the core of what really mattered to her: her faith, her family, her love for her children, and her hope for the future.
She was able to relax [into her decision] when she moved from her center.
How many of us lose our balance from time to time, when we let our runaway thoughts and feelings take control instead of being rooted in our faith and grounded in our convictions? At such times, it is good to just stop and remember what really matters to us, to pray, and to wait for guidance. Options gives pregnant women who are in crisis a chance to do just that.
Celia will tell you that it is the chance of a lifetime.
* Client’s real name not used.

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We have just released rsyslog 5.5.6, a member of the devel branch.
The new release provides exciting performance enhancements: on multicore-machines it can be many times faster than version 5.5.5 (which already was quite fast). Most importantly, the enhancement provides much better scalability, so adding many additional core gains much more speedup than with any previous version.
A new concept of “strgen” modules has been implemented, which permit to use high speed C code as templates. Also, support for malformed “last message repated n times” messages, as emited by some syslogds, has been added in form of a custom message parser.
There are also a couple of bugfixes and minor improvements.


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Some of our creative guys attended the third annual conference organised and run by the Northern User Experience (NUX) in partnership with Manchester Digital. NUX is an informal community for people interested in usability, information design and all aspects of the user experience in the North of England – so we’re especially looking forward to it.
Our very own Head of UX Adam Brock, Lead Designer Steve Arnold and Director Gez Daring were among the 500 delegates who went to the all-day event at the Royal Northern Collage of Music in Manchester.
They heard some extremely interesting talks by a variety of speakers.
The day was a great success from the very first presentation by Ben Holliday who talked about his experience as the Head of UX for the government’s department for work and pensions to the keynote speaker Peter Morville President of Semantic Studios who’s inspiring and insightful talk on ‘The Architecture of Understanding’ transcended the world of web usability and delved into the philosophy and science of human nature and behaviour.


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Southwest Greens Seattle has installed practice golf greens for countless pro golfers. These professionals need to practice on a putting green that will provide them with the look and feel of courses they will be playing on throughout the year. Because of these strict requirements for improving their short game, golf pros cannot simply rely on just any putting green installation company.
The pros trust us to install the finest synthetic golf greens for them and so should you. Experience the Southwest Greens golf green difference today! Contact us for a free consultation.


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The Maria Montessori Institute employs people in a variety of jobs; working in the School, on the Training Courses and in administration.
This is an exciting opportunity to become a key member of a historic organisation that is a focal point and resource centre for Montessori education in the UK through schools, training, parental and other forms of outreach.
Children’s House Teacher: AMI 3-6 Diploma is required.
Children’s House Assistant: This post would ideally suit an AMI 3-6 student currently in training or a 3-6 Assistants Certificate holder.
We require Montessori teachers 0-3 and 3-6 to lead the set up and organisation of either 0-3 or 3-6 environments; to work in unity with others and mentor teachers in training; to provide a high standard of care to children and communication with families. Short term accommodation may be available for the right candidate to help them settle in Edinburgh.
Montessori Des Sourires requires a Montessori Teacher. This is an exciting role as a Qualified Nursery Nurse/Nursery Practitioner in a family friendly Montessori nursery.
As the nursery is growing, they would like to add one dedicated and passionate colleague to their strong team. The key duties include developing the children using the Montessori practices and ensuring a smooth day-to-day routine in the nursery through effective planning, preparation and collaborative teamwork with other colleagues.
The Gower School requires qualified and enthusiastic Montessori teachers for their expanding accredited nursery and primary school. They have both term time and full time positions available. Candidates need to be highly motivated, sensitive, flexible, enthusiastic, reliable, dedicated and passionate with a good team spirit and able to contribute to a strong team. They offer an excellent staff training package and you are guaranteed a minimum of 5 full days’ training per year, plus the opportunity to access long term courses. The Gower School offers good working conditions and will provide you with all your meals. They would welcome any students who would like to do their placement with them in the nursery and the primary school. They would also like to be able to offer teaching practice placements for students who are doing their diploma.
The Gower School requires Nursery Practitioners (NVQ 3 or NVQ 2 in Childcare) to work within our expanding nursery. You will be a key person to a specific group of children and be responsible for liaising with parents on all aspects of their child’s care and development. This position involves monitoring children’s development, progression and planning their next steps. They offer an excellent working environment in a well-resourced accredited Montessori nursery. The nursery is open from 8am to 6pm, 48 weeks of the year and staff work within a shift system. Salary will be discussed at the interview.
The Gower School is committed to bringing out the best in our employees, actively promotes professional development and, as an expanding nursery, offers the potential for people to progress within the organisation. We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. DBS checks will be required.
The Bridge Park Montessori Nursery is looking for a Montessori Directress. The key duties include developing the children using the Montessori practices and ensuring a smooth day-to-day routine in the nursery through effective planning, preparation and collaborative teamwork with other colleagues.
Development/Youth Worker required to deliver L & D activities to support individual goals and take a conscientious and dedicated approach to the health and personal care of 22 adults in Cabrini House Orpington with a range of complex needs and disabilities. You will lead by example to help them fully participate in all day to day activities including meal times and household tasks.


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Exhaust fumes/C02 problems with top down - better exhaust?
Anybody running a V8 put some fenderwell headers on your JK?
Exhaust resonator to quiet noisy exhaust?
What to do with OEM exhaust after getting new exhaust?
AFE Cat-Back Exhaust, I think I'm going to Order..
3.8L RIPP Long Tube Headers.
Terraflex Exhaust Spacer -- strange noise?
Cat back exhaust with exhaust spacer kit installed?
Extremely high idle after exhaust manifold change. Another possible reason!
Headers better investment than a CAI?
Whats your favorite exhaust system!?
My JK is too quiet - Magnaflow exhaust system? Or??
Are all TJ 4.0 headers created equal?
Which exhaust do you recommend?
On the fence...to exhaust or not to exhaust?
Is exhaust extension still needed on 2013 JKU for 2.5" lift?
After market Headers - are they worth it?
Headers for A 4 cyl?

industry_corpus2: Automobiles


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The departing “SNL” star made Joe Biden aggressive, Mitt Romney benignly out-of-touch and always maintained he was “just friends” with Andy Samberg.
Sorry Saturday Night Live fans, but it’s time to say goodbye to Jason Sudeikis, who has officially announced he won’t be returning to the NBC show this fall.
That means it’s time for us to remember the star’s best characters -- from the jolly (but borderline senile) Vice President Joe Biden to the inexplicably Southern-sounding judge on "Maine Justice."
Sudeikis’ aggressive turn as the vice president reached a fever pitch during the 2012 vice presidential debate, when Biden threatened poor Rep. Paul Ryan (Taran Killam) with physical harm.
With “Maine Justice,” first Jamie Foxx and then Justin Timberlake played bailiff to Sudeikis’ backwoods judge, presiding over a Bangor, Maine, court with folksy wisdom and fiery words. Yep, it was weird. But it worked, and Sudeikis considered getting it on air a high point for him on the show.
Sudeikis’ Gov. Mitt Romney was tall, handsome and comically out of touch. During campaign season, he attempted to show he was a regular guy by eating McDonalds, but immediately spat it out, not used to eating such cheap food (“I’d complain to the chef, but let me guess: No hablas ingles, am I right?”).
After the real-life Romney lost to President Barack Obama, Sudeikis made his final appearance as Romney, where the wholesome candidate drowned his sorrows in milk instead of beer.
Andy Samberg and Sudeikis have always been “just friends.” Seriously, the shorts prove it.
As a bonus, below find the final sketch of season 38, which acted as a sendoff to Sudeikis and fellow departing castmembers Bill Hader and Fred Armisen.
What were your favorite Sudeikis sketches? Sound off in the comments.


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Jewellery stores are selective – so shine through the industry with a point-of-sale that has it all.
Simply sell and manage your products with a beautifully designed tablet-based interface. Give your customers the best experience with quick payment procedures, quality goods and an active loyalty program.
Automatically update and organize both your physical and in-store inventory to never lose out on your top most selling items and assure your customers and orders are on the same page.
Operate your business, manage your entire stock from a single place. Process orders with multiple suppliers in one master order or view sales reports. Schedule repairs and track their status with an all in one POS System.
Provide superior customer service to get repeat business and drive more customers. Oscar POS will drastically change how you interact with customers and generate consistent sales.


text: Salt Lake City Kitchen & Bath Showroom is proud to present this burnished brass finished diverter valves and trim shower part, by California Faucets. The TO-TH2L-34-BBU is made from premium materials, this Diverter Valves and Trim Shower Part offers great function and value for your home. This fixture is part of California Faucets's decorative Montecito Collection, so make sure to check out other styles of fixtures to accessorize your room.


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Some of their patients worry about starting over at new practices that can’t get their previous records.
The partners decided not to pay because they had no guarantee that the hackers would restore their data or that they wouldn’t extort them further afterward. They also didn’t want to rebuild their practice from scratch.
The doctors apparently practiced within Swedish American’s Brookside Specialty Center. They declined a TV interview, saying the FBI is now involved.
From Cyrus of Persia: “Re: [vendor name omitted]. Rumor is they’re for sale after raising $80 million but failing to keep up with their valuation. The co-founder left in December for VC-land, a high-profile client ripped and replaced because the product didn’t work, and none of the company’s sales have gone live.” Unverified, so I’ve omitted their name for now, but I welcome readers to comment.
From Mawkish: “Re: [vendor name omitted]. I heard they have abandoned their development efforts to create an enterprise behavioral health EHR/PM system for the community mental health center and larger mental health / substance abuse agency marketplace after three years of signing up customers who paid deposits with promises that they would be involved in product design, with the remainder not due until go-live. This removed those customers from the marketplace for legitimate solutions. At least the company is refunding the deposits after laying off 40 developers and returning to their roots of selling EHR/PM to the small practice marketplace.” Unverified, so again I’ve left the name out until I can ask for a company response. I’m not a big fan of pre-announcing software since the only possible reason is to convince prospects to hold off buying an immediately available competing product, but then again, customers who fall for that rather obvious ploy probably would have found a way to screw up their selection and implementation anyway. Still, it’s good news that the company is providing refunds, which isn’t a given in the rough-and-tumble world of health IT.
From Irritable Cereal Bowl: “Re: opioid lawsuits. Good for the states that are suing McKesson and other drug distributors who shipped enormous quantities of opiates that they had to know were being misused.” I disagree – every dose that was sent to those states was dispensed by a state-licensed pharmacy, on the order of a state-licensed prescriber, and under the jurisdiction of the DEA, which tracks every dose of opiates that is shipped to a pharmacy. Clearly those states were asleep at the wheel in expecting the deep-pockets drug wholesalers to provide oversight of legal but inappropriate drug use. If I were McKesson, I would sue the boards of pharmacy and medicine in those states, and perhaps their attorneys general and law enforcement agencies, for failing to do their jobs in protecting the public. Maybe individual prescribers and pharmacies as well since every single transaction is readily available. Drug distributors are required to report unusual usage patterns to the DEA and they failed to do that (not that the DEA isn’t already inspecting pharmacies and prescribers), but blaming them for the immoral and probably illegal behavior of prescribers and dispensers is clearly deflecting blame long after the fact. You can’t tell me that a tiny town from which flowed millions of doses of opiates that were being dispensed to patients who lined up around the pharmacy’s block every single day was too subtle of a problem for their police departments to detect.
Most poll respondents say EHR design is not a major cause of physician burnout.
New poll to your right or here: How much impact will AI have on patient satisfaction, outcomes, and cost in the next five years? Click the poll’s “comments” link after voting to explain, especially if you punt with the safe “some” option.
Medical imaging software vendor Novarad names Paul Jensen (Microsoft) as president.
Julie Flaschenreim (Fairview Health Services) joins Hennepin Healthcare as CIO.
I really dislike the headline of this article from HIMSS, and not just because they misspelled “ZIP” as “Zip,” used unrelated stock photography, and pitched their recent acquisition Healthbox. ZIP codes do not “define” health outcomes, although situations that are common in the economic demographics of those who reside in a given location certainly do. As the headline fails to indicate, people who live in South St. Louis would not get instantly healthier by moving to Palo Alto since there’s no guarantee their social determinants of health would change along with the relocation to an area with a closer Whole Foods, or that their healthcare journey isn’t already set in stone to some degree. There’s also the meme-bursting phenomenon of a single ZIP code covering wildly disparate income ranges, such as parts of San Francisco and Atlanta in which multi-million dollar apartments are flanked by the homeless and working poor (if you like digging deeper, check out census department’s Gini Index measure of income concentration.) I agree with the remainder of the article, just not the simplistic concept that knowing someone’s address is all you need to understand their health.
Former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer gauges return on investment in healthcare by looking at the average age of death, which he says has increased only 0.6 years in the past 20 even as healthcare spending rose dramatically. He says employers should look at their prices and costs, such as whether end-of-life spending really increases overall value, but adds that a non-transparent system of healthcare management and delivery makes such analysis nearly impossible.
Mobile Heartbeat and Clinical Computer Systems, developer of the Obix perinatal data system, will exhibit at the BGHIMSS & INHIMSS Annual Spring Conference April 4-5 in Florence, IN.
NextGate will exhibit at the CCI Symposium April 4-6 in Greenville, SC.
Netsmart will exhibit at the LeadingAge IL Annual Meeting April 2-4 in Schaumburg, IL.
Medhost congratulates its 19 hospital customers that earned CMS’s five-star quality rating.
Practice Velocity, T-System, Wellsoft will exhibit at the 2019 UCA Urgent Care Convention & Expo April 7-10 in West Palm Beach, FL.
Cooper University Health Care (NJ) expands its use of Access Passport’s electronic forms solution to oncology and surgical services.
The Oliver Wyman Health Podcast features Qventus CEO Mudit Garg.
SymphonyRM will sponsor the Women in Data Science Pittsburgh @CMU event April 4.
Visage Imaging will exhibit at the 2019 SBI/ACR Breast Imaging Symposium April 4-6 in Hollywood, FL.
Vocera will exhibit at the Beryl Institute Patient Experience Conference April 3 in Dallas.
Don’t forget Epic’s homepage update tomorrow.
Why do you not have a category for vendors under cyber security when you look at the vendor directory? Also, who are security companies sponsoring HIStalk?
True, Epic may wipe their homepage clean of jocularity on April 2nd, but all things webbish persist and Epic (at least for now) does maintain an archival record of Ghosts of April Fool’s Past at https://www.epic.com/epic/archive/april-fools. Might be worth a future poll to ask about favorites. I’m partial to the “I’m with EHR” autocorrect from the “I’m with HER” Clinton campaign and the Meaningful Use requirement that Eligible Providers wear bowties. But the “Going Public” announcement in 2010 probably made the Earth actually shake a bit.
I’m a fan of Weekender, especially reading about the good work (for a change) of contributors to DonorsChoose.


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Special Education provides programs and support through multiple approaches. This may be through regular classrooms, with support of modified curriculum or additional personnel, placement in special classes within regular schools (which may be smaller in size with more individual focus), or placement in special schools, again with smaller class groups and other modifications.
For a comprehensive listing of Australia-wide and even international special education resources, please see the Aussie Educator portal: http://www.aussieeducator.org.au/resources/teaching/specialeducationresources.html.
Below, please find more state-specific special education information and resources.
The School Locator helps families to identify potentially suitable schools. You can filter by school type (e.g. “Special Schools” or “Support Classes in Regular and Special Schools”) and you can even focus in on a specific support area (e.g. Behaviour Disorder), if applicable: https://online.det.nsw.edu.au/schoolfind/locator/. Alternatively, access Catholic special schools and programs, using this page: http://stage.cecnsw.catholic.edu.au/2009//lisa.asp.
TAFE NSW enrols a large number of students with a disability and provides specialist support to assist students in successfully completing their course.
The Catholic Education Commission NSW (CECNSW) and the NSW Catholic Block Grant Authority administer a number of funded programs on behalf of the Australian and NSW Governments. Select “Special Learning Needs” options from the left menu: http://www.cecnsw.catholic.edu.au/dbpage.php?pg=programs&_navlink=6.
Catholic Education inclusion support services provide educational programs of quality that are adjusted for students with disabilities: http://www.ceont.catholic.edu.au/learning-teaching/inclusion-support-services.
Students with disability are encouraged and supported to attend their local government school. Schools can assist students with a range of specialist services and resources. Each Learning Service in the state has a team of specialist staff such as social workers, school psychologists, speech and language pathologists and autism consultants: http://www.education.tas.gov.au/parents_carers/schools-colleges/Programs-Initiatives/Pages/Students-with-Disabilities.aspx.
As well as the standard Year 7 to 10 secondary school, there are Prep to Year 12 (P-12) schools, special schools that cater for children with disabilities. These schools cater to varying levels of disability and some specialise in specific diagnosis areas (e.g. Autism). For a listing of Victorian Specialist Schools, please see this listing published in 2011: http://www.education.vic.gov.au/Documents/about/programs/needs/vicspecialsistschls2011.pdf.


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Cut cake into wedges. If desired, arrange wedges on baking sheet and rewarm in 350°F oven 10 minutes. Rewarm caramel sauce over medium-low heat, stirring often. Place 1 cake wedge on each plate. Drizzle with warm caramel sauce.
I cut out letters to put on the cake before adding the powdered sugar.
This is how Vesper's name turned out, outlined in powdered sugar on her cake.
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This gentle peel is like a green smoothie for your face! With sugar cane and apple cider for non-abrasive exfoliation and kale, spinach, and chlorella to provide a vitamin dense hydration boost. Get glowing!
Apply thin layer to face, neck and decollete for 5-8 minutes, 1-2 times per week. Rinse with water to remove. 3-5 minutes tops for a more sensitive skin type.
Water, tapioca starch, maltodextrin, vegetable glycerin, papain, bromelain, camellia sinesis leaf extract, red wine extract, hamamelis virginiana (witch hazel) leaf extract, punica granatum bark extract, agave tequilana stem extract, acetic acid (apple cider vinegar), vaccinium myrtillus (bilberry) extract, citrus aurantium dulcis (orange) extract, salix nigra (willow) bark extract, lipase, saccharum officinarum (sugar cane) extract, acer saccharum (sugar maple) extract citrus aurantium dulcis (orange) fruit extract, citrus limon (lemon) fruit extract, mangifera indica (mango) fruit extract, daucus carota (carrot) seed extract, brassica oleracea acephala (kale) leaf extract, spinacia oleracea (spinach) leaf extract, brassica rapa (turnip) leaf extract, macrocystis pyrifera (kelp) extract, lactic acid benzyl alcohol, citrus paradisi seed oil, vaccinium macrocarpon (cranberry) seed oil, chlorella vulgaris extract, tocopherol, sodium hydroxide, natural fragrance, arthrospira platensis (spirulina) extract, medicago sativa fruit extract.


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Yves Rocher Nutri-silky hair mask for dry hair which is silicon free, paraban free and colorant free was not something that I knew existed until I explored the awesome online shopping portal of Shoppers Stop. Yes shoppers stop has a website which has many products which are suitable for curly and wavy haired people!
Shoppers Stop site is easy to explore and finding products based on your requirement is fairly quick. Finding products, browsing through, adding to card and checking out is pretty simple. The site has a wide range of products – fashion accessories, clothings, hair care, skin care, make up etc.
Once I had decided on what I wanted to buy, from creating account to checking out the product took 5 mins flat! The follow up mails, shipping status and the delivery was quick as well. I received the product within 3 days. Being a very impatient person, this was a huge plus for me!!! 🙂 No surprise that I has ordered a hair care product! The product reached me well packed too. No damage, no leakage, and a fresh and neatly packed product was delivered. I am usually very skeptical about deviating from the usual, tested and tried online shopping sites. But after shopping from this website I am more confident about explore this very site and even other websites too.
I spent major time in exploring the hair care range on their website and that’s when I came across this brand called Yves Rocher. Shoppers stop site also seems to have many hair products that are not that easily available at other websites. I was also introduced to few products which are mainly good for us curlies and fits perfectly into the Sulfate and Silicone free hair care. I was amazed to find many such products at one place. I already have many more products on my wishlist from the Shoppers Stop website.
Overall I am very happy with my shopping experience at the Shoppers stop site and would surely recommend you curlies to find your perfect product and order it soon since there is a holiday season sale and offers up on the site. On the very first purchase, there is an off on order above 1500!! Hurry up guys and fill your cards from anything from clothing to accessories to hair care product!!
Out of the two varients: Yves Rocher Nutri-Silky Nutrition Hair mask and Yves Rocher Radiance Hair Mask, I chose to get this Nutri-silky one.
Online shopping sites such as: Shoppers Stop website, Nykaa etc.
I have not seen this product in shops yet. Let me know if you have seen it anywhere.
Since it is a jar packaging, it might be a hygiene issue to dip fingers again and again to take product out. I find it travel friendly since the jar is very sleek and doesn’t leak. When we open the lid, it is covered with a foil. it does stop from leaking or spilling, but another layer of a plastic lid would have been better.
The consistency of the product is very thick. It is almost like butter. It is smooth yet solid and stays in soft lumps on rubbing. It doesn’t have much slip. The hair mask doesn’t spread that easily. When applied on very wet hair, the product spreads better. The directions are to apply the product on freshly shampooed wet hair and believe me, that is the best way to apply it. If you try applying the product on damp hair, you might end up using aloooott of product unnecessarily and it would not even spread that evenly. Since it does not have much slip, it is not meant for detangling. If your hair is all knotty and not been detangled for long, then make sure that u detangle first and then apply this mask.
Based on the consistency of the product, I had expected it to feel heavy on hair. However, after applying, I felt that the product quickly soaked into the hair. It did not disappear but felt as if it got soaked into hair plus coated each strand. I applied it on shampooed hair which was very wet, left it on for 20 minutes and then rinsed off. While rinsing off I felt that there was a coat on my hair. The product didn’t give the feel of being rinsed away completely. Hair felt soft yet coated. It was the exact feel that we get while deep conditioning with Shea Butter and Oils. I made a mental note to check out where on the list was Shea mentioned.To my surprise it was 6th on the list! And I was impressed that the shea in the product actually seemed to give exact results that my raw unrefined shea butter gives!! MASSIVE plus for me right there!! Usually when a product claims to have any natural ingredient, it is in such minute quantity that the effect it almost nil. This was impressive!! Now the thickness of the product is also explained…coz shea butter was probably in more amount.
After rinsing off, I did not apply conditioner and styled with Set Wet (Green) Hair gel that I have been using for last many washes. It was easy to apply the gel and there was no sticky or clingy feel. I scrunched with a t shirt and air dried my hair. The time taken for drying was same as always.
On drying, my hair felt soft, moisturized, frizz-free (even though I skipped the leave-in conditioner) and bouncy. The hair mask gave some volume and extra softness to hair..probably due to the shea butter effect. Curlies with fine hair might love this factor. There was no extra shine, rather hair had muted moisturized look (milllld shine that probably only you can notice!) and definition was good. This Mask anyway claims nutrition and not radiance and it does meet it’s claim.
Day 2 as well as 3 hair were also good. Hair still felt soft by day 3. Both days hair needed a little bit of refreshing with a gel to control the frizz. I did not apply conditioner on both days and hair retained definition. There was no greasiness or stickiness. Hair was not weighed down. The post hair mask effect gets a thumbs up from me.
Two major cons that I felt was that 150ml for 800 is expensive. Also since the product is thick, more than usual amount of product is required. If we apply the mask on damp hair, there is a lot of product waste as it doesn’t spread properly and we end up applying too much which is a waste given that the quantity is less to start with!
Day 2/3 hair too feels soft and defined even without conditioner. Also doesn’t feel greasy on drying though it gives a coat on hair while rinsing.
More than usual quantity of product is required to cover hair. So will get over very quickly.
If you are not on a budget and do not mind some added volume then yes! This gives good results – softness, volume, moisture, mild pleasant fragrance. If you are on a budget and would rather use raw unrefined shea butter to make your hair packs, then you can skip this.
Have you tried this hair mask? Share your views!! Or have you tried other silicone free conditioners from Yves Rocher? I found few more CG friendly conditioners from this brand. Will soon update this List of Silicone-free Conditioners in India. I will surely get my hands on the conditioners after emptying some from my current stash!!
Thats a lovely review Divya.
Such a good review. Thanks for the review.


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Medela Healthcare aims to improve the lives of patients, doctors, and hospital staff by providing pioneering solutions in medical technology. For more than 50 years Medela has grown to become a global manufacturer of the most techonogically advanced breastpumps and medical vacuum technology.


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I've spent the last couple of days at OpenDev. Here are some quick and dirty thoughts from the two days.
OpenDev is an annual event focused at the intersection of composable open infrastructure and modern applications. The 2017 gathering will focus on edge computing, bringing together practitioners along with the brightest minds in the industry to collaborate around use cases, reference architectures and gap analysis.
The gist of that is "get some people who may care about edge computing and edge cloud in the same room and see what happens".
As is often the case with this sort of thing: When talking about something relatively new there is very little agreement about what is even being talked about. People came to the event with their ideas on what "edge" means, ideas that didn't always match with everyone else. This can lead to a bit of friction but it is a productive friction; areas of commonality are revealed and presumed areas of overlap which are not are exposed.
Edge Cloud: A cloud (sometimes in single piece of hardware, sometimes not) that is closer (in terms of network latency or partitioning risk) to where the applications and/or data that could use that cloud is located. In this case a cloud is some compute, network, or storage infrastructure. VM or container agnostic. Orchestration of workloads on this thing happen on it.
Edge Compute: A piece or suite of hardware, often but not always small, which is closer to the consumer of the compute resources available on that hardware and where the applications on the hardware are managed in a composable fashion (for example a home networking device running its services as VMs). Orchestration of workloads on this thing happens from something else.
The locality of orchestration represents a sort of spectrum but there are also other dimensions. One example is the types of applications. One can imagine an edge service that is managing a bunch of virtualized network functions (VNF) for a customer of a large telco at the edge of the telco's network (between the customer and the telco). Or an edge service which does deep learning analysis of images with low latency for a mobile device doing augmented reality that does not have the compute capacity itself, but needs very low latency processing to provide a good experience.
The edge compute model is currently a poor match with Nova. High latency (or partitioning) between a nova-compute node and the rest of nova is not something that nova really does. It would be interesting to explore the idea of a remote-resilient (and maybe "mini") nova-compute.
In typical OpenStack fashion, the event resulted in a bunch of etherpads, a summary of which can be found.
My interest for the two days was to see to what extent the Placement service can help with these use cases or will need to be extended to cope with them. It's already quite well known that the NFV world is driving a lot of the work to make placement provide some of the pieces of the pie for what's called Enhanced Platform Awareness (aka give me NUMA, SR-IOV and huge pages). Until DPDK is able to provide a suitable alternative, VNFs at the edge will demand these sorts of things. Certain high performance edge applications (perhaps using GPUs) will have similar requirements.
Another concern for both styles of use case, but especially edge applications (cloudlets as Satya calls them) on limited hardware, may be scheduling needs related to the time dimension and to dynamic evaluation of the state of the hardware. Being able reserve capacity for a short time or use otherwise unreserved capacity during periods of intense activity will be important.
The Blazar project hopes to address some of the issues with time, something neither nova nor placement wish to address.
The nova scheduler has always had the capacity to represent dynamic aspects of host state ("Is my compute node on fire?") but it is perhaps not a consistently represented and available across deployments as it could be. Nor is it fully developed, so if it is something that people truly want there is an opportunity. The placement service made a design decision up front that it would not track data that may vary independent of individual workload requirements (e.g. temperature on a CPU) but scheduling has become a two step process: get some candidates from placement then further refine them in the nova-scheduler.
Edge looks like it is going to grow to become a major driver in the cloud environment. Hopefully continued events like OpenDev will ensure that people create interoperable implementations.


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You may be throwing away a potential reactive target every day. Save those plastic bottles.
Explosive targets that use chemical elements can cost you over $4 for every explosion. Big Blast Caps are reusable!
Big Blast Caps are the only cap of its kind to incorporate a lanyard ring so you won't lose the cap.
How much air should I pump into a bottle using a Big Blast Cap?
It's recommended that you use an air pump with a pressure gauge and that you not fill it past 80 psi (pounds per square inch). 60-80 psi is desirable depending on bottle type.
How far away should the bottle be placed down range?
It is best to place a pressurized bottle at least 20 yards (60 feet) down range, meaning at least 60 feet from any person.
Are there any safety precautions I should take when using a pressurized bottle with a Big Blast Cap?
Always put the bottle inside the provided mesh inflation bag when pressurizing it and always wear safety glasses and gloves when handling, inflating, or shooting.
Do I have to mix anything to use a Big Blast Cap?
No mixing of any reactive chemical(s) is required.
What happens if I shoot the cap instead?
Do not shoot the cap. Shooting the cap with any projectile will damage it beyond use.
Can I use a BB gun with Big Blast Caps?
Most bottles require a projectile traveling at 700 feet per second or better. Most BB guns shoot slower than that and will ricochet. Do not use a BB gun that shoots under 700 fps.


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Whence no one's yet returning.
Not to end in wrack.
I know you're ever caring.
But I feel not forsaken.
I'll make it one day.
In the starry night so clear.
When I cross the winter sky.
As ever fair and dear.
I'll see you once again.
Yours will start the story once again.
Then faintly heard - your calling.
Now I'm on my feet again.
Now, surely we'll meet again.
Soon will be the day.

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text: At this understated location of The Guild, you’ll be nestled into Radius in the heart of downtown Cincinnati. There, you’ll be footsteps from attractions like the National Underground Railroad Museum and Great American Ball Park (home of the Reds), not to mention the city’s up-and-coming arts scene. Take a day trip to the Kentucky Bourbon Trail, or explore the neighborhood, before returning to your building and its on-site gym and outdoor pool. Naturally, you’ll also enjoy the same personalized service, impeccable design and 24/7 concierge you’ll find at every location of The Guild.


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The Internal Revenue Service announced more than $10.72 million in matching grants for the development, expansion, or continuation of 129 Low Income Taxpayer Clinics (LITCs) for the 2016 grant year.
The IRS plans to award additional part-year matching grants pursuant to a supplemental application period open to qualifying organizations in certain identified underserved areas. Clinics selected under this special announcement need to start operating in July 2015.
The Low Income Taxpayer Clinic program is administered by the Taxpayer Advocate Service. LITCs represent low income individuals in disputes with the IRS, including audits, appeals, collection matters, and litigation. Some also provide education about taxpayer rights and responsibilities to low income taxpayers and those who speak English as a second language (ESL).


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Viewers in the region are about to embark upon a journey that will ultimately be the guide to wellness in their lives. The bouquet of diverse Western shows, subtitled in Arabic, is what shapes this niche channel that reaches out to the mass audience, creating the one-stop source of entertainment and inspiration. Zee Network, the largest Indian media broadcaster announced the launch of the vibrant channel which presents a cherry-picked selection of shows that centre around health and wellness. Veria is another addition to the evolving medley of channels by Zee, catering to its growing viewers. Launched on May 4th 2014, Veria is accessible to audiences in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region.
Veria is the first free-to-air channel of its kind to offer viewers with a healthier outlook to life. Providing a unique wellness and lifestyle platform, the channel centres around four primary pillars: wellbeing, nutrition, fitness, and lifestyle. The programs range from healthy recipes and cooking, prenatal health, exercise and fitness training to beauty, travel tips, thereby providing a medium to discuss a multitude of matters relevant to the Arab world.
There has been a noticeable prevalence of Diabetes across the GCC region; this is a result of people's preferences towards leading a more sedentary lifestyle. Over the last few years, the younger generation managed to develop an understanding of the importance of leading a healthy lifestyle; leading them to give up their old habits and take on a more active lifestyle. Statistics indicate that an estimate 85% of UAE residents and 75% of Saudi Arabian have become more interested in maintaining and improving their overall health and wellbeing.
Speaking at the launch of Veria for the Middle-East region, Subhash Chandra, Chairman, Essel Group said, “After a successful launch in USA and Indonesia, we bring Veria to the people of the Middle East. The essence of this channel reflects every individual's desire to enhance their outlook in life by augmenting the physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual facets in their beings. Veria will serve as a one-stop solution for all those seeking overall wellness and healthy living guidance right from the comfort of their homes."
“We take pride in our commitment to provide new and unique content for our viewers all around the world. Veria Living will without a doubt contribute to expanding our presence across the globe; allowing us to penetrate select markets and reach new audiences with its exclusive offerings”; Mr. Chandra further added.
“We are excited to launch Veria in the region. This channel provides our audience with a fresh, new perspective towards living a more holistic lifestyle” stated Mukund Cairae, CEO, (MENAPT) Zee Network. "The core idea behind the creation of such a unique product is to help people realize that wellness is a celebration of life itself". “At Zee, we constantly strive to provide our audiences with new, exclusive content and programs and we understand our audience's growing interest in maintaining an active and balanced lifestyle” he added.
With the spread of a more health - conscious audience across the region, Veria presents a dynamic bouquet of shows that shed light on a variety of topics. Programs such as 'The Art of Living Gallery' presents a docu-series that recounts true life experiences of people coping with health issues and discovered healing powers of their own. Other programs such as “Naturally Delicious” introduce a new approach to vegetarian-ism, providing viewers with the ultimate vegetarian gourmet experience. A “Workout from Within” shows viewers, ways to turn their very own living rooms into a home gym. It also presents easy routines that will help viewers get fit and enlighten their spiritual wellbeing; to name a few.
Veria is aired on Nilesat in English with Arabic subtitles across the Middle East and North Africa region and is owned by Zee Network.


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I went to pick up the gun at my FFL and which is also a gun range, so I decided to take for a test run. I bought a box of ammo and cleaned the gun first and got 19 rounds through it and the extractor BROKE! Soooooo thats not good! I sent it in to Taurus and they had it back to me fixed in a week. I have put about 500 rounds through it and have had no other problems at all. It seems as they had a faulty batch of extractors and that's why it broke...... Not sure but I love the gun now it is deadly accurate! I have to give it 3 stars because of the extractor!
One of the best 1911's I've ever fired. In my opinion, out performs Kimber, Springfield, etc. at half the price. Would recommend this gun to anyone.
First range trip: finish is very nice (not "glowing" like in the picture, but that's Photoshop for you) and it appeared to be tightly constructed. Grips are standard, entry-level plastic panels which is neither good nor bad, just what is expected. Shot number one fired dead center bullseye at 10yds - as did the second, as did the third - the nice Novak sights were zeroed perfectly right out of the box. Not a single failure of any kind in the first 100 rounds. One year and about 15 trips to the range later: I noticed that, after a few months, that the shots started "drifting." They now primarily go about 1-1.5" up and .75-1.0" to the right (at 10yds) and about 4" off at 25yd. I said "primarily" for a reason- there are "flyers"- maybe about one in four - that do something else. Don't get me wrong, the thing is still a decent "duty" gun and can out-shoot most of my friends but if you want this as a starting project-gun for competition then it is call for some concern. Before you say it, no, it is not user-error. I shoot competitively and in a bout of extreme thoroughness I tested it with a Ransom-Rest and came up with the same results. I'm sending in to Taurus to see what they can do with it to bring it back to the .5" groups it used to shoot. Seriously, out of the box it made sub-inch, full-mag ragged holes at 10-15yds consistently and now the groupings have expanded to 2.5" or so.
This is a great alternative to the major 1911 makers. Taurus pt1911 performed outstanding at the range. One or two stovepipes during the break in period (approx. 300 rounds). The finish of these 1911s is the only real negative but refinishing your blued frame and slide is not a huge expense. Great gun! Almost bought another.


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I'm feeling a little... blah.
I know I need to give myself a break. Tomorrow will be seven months since Gavin died. I'm also growing a baby that gets larger and larger and closer to being born every day. I have an active four year old that is also grieving and I'm trying to give him as much quality time as I can with my ever dropping energy levels. And physically it's getting tougher. I have severe reflux that makes me sick (literally sick) and forces me to sleep sitting up now. And I'm still struggling with sinus headaches and congestion - which hasn't changed since the second month.
But mostly, I'm starting to feel emotional as I get closer to delivering Hope.
Although I can't predict how things will go... and know that it will probably go just fine... I still have fears. I worry that this pregnancy has held me together like glue... and once she's born the dam will break and I'll fall apart. I worry about post partum depression, which I did have after Brian's birth (and likely had after Gavin's birth but was so busy with his care I didn't notice). I have Ed on high alert for any signs or symptoms after Hope arrives...and I will be keeping myself in check, too. I worry about getting back in the groove of caring for an infant. I'm sure it will all come back to me - but I'm worried. And I'm worried that something, somehow will go wrong. Basically - I'm having a temporary (hopefully) freak out. I'm sure I'll settle down soon.
It doesn't help that I had another Labor and Delivery trip which was quite scary. Monday morning I woke up swollen. My feet, my calves, my hands, my face...totally swollen. I spent the morning with my feet up, drinking a ton of water, while Brian was in school. But I started to feel worse - nauseous with an increasing headache. I got Brian from school...called Ed home from work...we took Brian to the neighbors for a playdate...and rushed to the hospital. They checked me (again) for preeclampsia and monitored my blood pressure (which was high) and I sat in the bed holding back tears until they gave me the "all clear." My OB increased my blood pressure medicine and sent us home. It was a good lesson for me, though. We left the house in a hurry and didn't think that this could possibly be the day. My camera, the cord blood kit... we left all of it at home. From now on, my packed bag will be ready to grab. She really could come at any time at this point. I will be 34 weeks on Saturday.
It's like this woman is inside my head - she completely understood my vision and I know we're going to love and treasure this angel for years. I'll reveal it here when it arrives!
Brian is doing great. He loves school (and we love his school!) and is learning so much! Every day he comes home and tells me something new that he learned - or pulls something out of his backpack that he created. It's such a treat to see him so happy - and to see him making friends.
And that's not all! There's even more good news!
Brian had his dental check up and was a total rock star.
He didn't flinch as the doctor poked around... and then as the hygienist cleaned his teeth. He had a perfect check up.
He came home with a huge bag filled with cheap toys. Er, I mean treasures. It's funny how the cheapie things are the coolest things EVER at this age. We'll enjoy this stage while it lasts!
Brian LOOKS like a rockstar!
And you-you need to cut yourself some slack! You rock in some major ways. I was a ball of nerves and anxiety toward the end of my pregnancy... and I had no prior "issues" to be concerned about!
One day at a time, but you already know that.
You are a rock and I don't see you breaking to pieces. You are allowed your moments. You give me courage and strength right now. I lost my husband of 40 years two weeks ago. It has been rough. My son and I are being strong for each other. Thanks for allowing us into your life.
Please consider encapsulating your placenta. You can do it with a c-section if you make arrangements first. I did it with my second baby, and I swear by it. She was a traumatic emergency c-section, and I felt so broken from the birth. I was depressed and overwhelmed. I took those placenta pills and felt so much better, plus my milk supply was awesome.
Yes, it might gross you out, and yes it might just be a placebo effect, but for a few hundred dollars, if it can (naturally) keep the depression away, I say it's worth it.
You are beautiful and amazing. I love reading your blog.
Love the picture of Brian. So cute. Hugs to you Kate. If positive vibes help at all, you are going to sail through this - we are all wishing just the very best for all of you. Tears, fears, anger, joy, sadness, happiness - there just isn't an emotion that isn't ok for you to feel right now. Great big giant hug. Be well.
I Always enjoy your posts!!
Kate- I agree with the previous comment that encapsulating your placenta is an awesome way to help with mommy hormones and stress after birth. I had serious postpartum trouble after my first child was born and was terrified of it happening again the second time. A friend recommended the placenta encapsulation and although I thought she was CRAZY... I was desperate not to have the same experience. A local mid-wife arranged it for me and it was 100% worth it. I felt totally different, much calmer and "even keeled" and my energy level was great. It was even greater of a blessing since my little boy was in the NICU for three weeks and he was born with dwarfism. Very emotional stuff- but I truly believe the placenta encapsulation was the biggest factor in me not coming un-glued. My milk supply was boosted as well. I did it again with my third child and had the same experience. Please look into it- it may be just what you need to give you a boost during this very emotional time.
I think of you every day and I cannot wait to see the happy pictures of Hope- what a precious gift!
YES YES YES!! Encapsulate your placenta!!!!!
Be nice to yourself! A temporary breakdown is expected of any pregnant woman - and you have far more you are coping with than most pregnant women. I am amazed and thrilled that you are soooo close to 34 weeks. My sister, a pediatrician, is thrilled to see a baby go as close to 40 weeks as possible, but says that 34 weeks is a huge milestone and she feels great about the health of a baby born any time after 34 weeks. Hope us doing as well at growing as Brian did at the dentist. All really will be well. Hope is taking care of that - just you wait and see.