Whether you're visiting over a long weekend or in town for an extended trip, everyone wants to know where to shop and what to buy when in Dublin. There are options for every price range, but here are a few places to get you started when shopping in the city.
This is Dublin's famous shopping street, where you'll find everything from the glamorous Brown Thomas to the bright and loud Irish themed gift shops. Whether you're looking for a unique item to remind you of your trip, a birthday gift, or just a few good photos and a couple souvenirs, Grafton Street can easily be your one-stop-shopping experience in Dublin.
This is my favourite department store in Dublin. It has a great mix of high street fashion, designer items, beauty, shoes, electronics, and appliances. You can get yourself a makeover and a new mixer all in the same visit. If you're looking to purchase something a bit more traditional you can browse clothes from Irish designers or pick up some ornaments from Newbridge Silverware.
Go in for the shopping, stay for the cafe and beautiful view! This shopping centre is set in a renovated Georgian House along trendy South William Street. It's full of design and antique jewellery shops, as well as cafes and a few clothing stores. My personal favourite is Article, a nicely curated shop of homewares and stationery. If you want a few good shots for your Instagram, climb to the top floor (or ride up in the glass lift) to get a few of the cafe that sits in the middle.
If you're local and rolling your eyes reading this item, I'm sorry. But visitors have a right to know the secrets too! Penney's (elsewhere known as Primark) is responsible for dressing most of the female population of Ireland most of the time. It's a very busy place, and can be overwhelming, but when you find a few blouses similar to your favourite from & Other Stories that you just couldn't justify spending money on, you'll thank me. Go early if you're going at all.
If you're in to vintage or designer items, then Siopaella is your shop! I've not yet made a purchase, but I'm constantly browsing and wondering how they are always finding such gorgeous, secondhand items. They now have several shops in Dublin and have quickly grown to become one of the most successful designer exchange shop in town.
This place has expanded from a small home shop to a gorgeous lifestyle brand with an adorable cafe! Head to Industry & Co for a wide range of gifts and homewares from Ireland and beyond, plus great coffee! Be careful though, this shop will make you want to start nesting.
This shop went from pop-up to staple very quickly. It has a back room filled with gorgeous dresses and bridal wear. The front room is full of beaded tops, capes, and jewellery. If you're looking for something glam but different, this place is a must-see!
And of course, every city has a shopping mall. While I'd recommend shopping on the high street to get that Dublin feeling, if you're looking for big box stores and everything in one place, you could spend the whole day and night at Dundrum Town Centre.
Looking to bring gifts back home from a visit to Ireland? Popular items include Claddagh Rings, anything wool from Avoca, something with a goofy sheep on it, Butlers chocolates, and anything Guinness or Jameson related.
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LOVE this! whenever I travel I always seek out the best places to go shopping!


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El Computer History Museum és un museu nord -americà fundat el 1996 a Mountain View, Califòrnia, quan el Computer Museum of Boston va traslladar la seva col·lecció d'ordinadors mainframe i articles històrics a Moffett Field, preferint centrar-se en exposicions d'ordinadors dirigides als nens.

Originalment, la divisió de l'ala oest del Museu de la Computació, anomenada "The Computer Museum History Center", després rebatejada com "The Computer History Museum" l'any 2001, explora la revolució informàtica i el seu impacte en la vida quotidiana.

Històric
Quan el Museu de Boston va tancar el 1999, les restes de les seves col·leccions històriques van ser enviades al Centre d'Història del Museu d'Informàtica a Mountain View, Califòrnia, mentre que les seves exposicions d'ordinadors van ser absorbides pel Museu de la Ciència de Boston.

El museu es va ubicar primer al Moffett Field en un edifici antic que originalment era la botiga de mobles de la base naval, després es va adquirir l'octubre de 2002 l'edifici que ocupa actualment, que antigament estava ocupat per l'empresa Silicon Graphics, al 1401 North Shoreline Boulevard, Mountain View . S'obre el juny de 2003 .

Exposicions

El museu presenta exposicions que destaquen dates importants en la història de la informàtica, la història dels escacs electrònics i l'ordinador, i els invents de les empreses i personalitats de Silicon Valley.

 L'any 2009, el museu va oferir una exposició titulada " Cronologia de la història de la informàtica ( Timeline of Computing History ), que cobreix la història des de les tauletes d'argila sumeries fins a l' iPod .
 El museu també va oferir una exposició titulada "Revolució : els primers 200 anys d'informàtica"  i un altre titulat "On vas ? Una història dels vehicles autònoms". En el passat, ha ofert exposicions sobre "Computer Chess" i el motor analític de Charles Babbage .

La institució també acull la col·lecció d'objectes informàtics més gran del món. Inclou moltes peces rares, com ara un superordinador Cray-1, una màquina Enigma, l'ordinador de cuina Neiman Marcus fabricat per Honeywell el 1969, un ordinador totalment magnètic de Hewitt Crane . , un Apple I i un exemple de la primera generació de bastidors de servidors d'ordinadors personalitzats per Google .

El museu, finançat principalment amb el patrocini i les donacions d'empreses i personalitats de Silicon Valley, també acull conferències sobre el tema de la tecnologia d'avantguarda .

Col·lecció de programes i codi font
El CHM també acull una àmplia col·lecció de programes, comissionada per Al Kossow, un antic alumne d'Apple, contractat el 2006. Kossow és responsable de l'adquisició i conservació de programes, així com del desenvolupament de les exposicions de CHM sobre aquest tema. Abans de ser contractat, Kossow ja contribuïa al museu. És propietari de Bitsavers, un gran dipòsit en línia de manuals d'ordinador, programes i microprogrames arxivat, adquirit de la seva pròpia col·lecció i a través de donacions dels seus companys.

L'any 2010 el museu va començar una col·lecció de codis font de programes importants des de l'era informàtica primitiva, començant amb el MacPaint 1.3 d'Apple, escrit en una combinació de llenguatge ensamblador i Pascal i disponible per a la seva descàrrega al públic.

El 2012, segueix el llenguatge de programació APL.

El 2013, Adobe Systems va donar el codi font de Photoshop 1.0.1 a la col·lecció,.

El 2014 Microsoft va seguir, donant el codi font de SCP MS-DOS 1.25 i una barreja d' Altos MS-DOS 2.11 i TeleVideo PC DOS 2.11 i també Word per a Windows 1.1a sota la seva pròpia llicència,.

Membres d'honor
Són homes i dones excepcionals "les idees dels quals van canviar el món i van influir "gairebé" en tots els éssers humans vius d'avui". El 2019, aquest tauler d'honor compta amb 84 membres.

 1987 : Grace Hopper
 1995 : Jay Wright Forrester
 1996 : Mitch Kapor, Ken Olsen
 1997 : Dennis Ritchie, Ken Thompson, John Backus, Steve Wozniak
 1998 : Gene Amdahl, Donald Knuth, Gordon Moore
 1999 : Alan Kay, John McCarthy, Konrad Zuse
 2000 : Frances E. Allen, Vint Cerf, Tom Kilburn
 2001 : Fred Brooks, Jean E. Sammet, Maurice Wilkes
 2002 : Charles Geschke, John Warnock, John Cocke, Carver Mead
 2003 : Tim Berners-Lee, David Wheeler, Gordon Bell
 2004 : Erich Bloch, Dan Bricklin, Bob O. Evans, Bob Frankston, Niklaus Wirth
 2005 : Paul Baran, Douglas Engelbart, Alan Shugart, Ivan Sutherland
 2006 : Tony Hoare, Bob Kahn, Butler Lampson, Marvin Minsky
 2007 : John L. Hennessy, David Patterson, Morris Chang, Charles P. Thacker
 2008 : Jean Bartik, Robert Metcalfe, Linus Torvalds
 2009 : Federico Faggin, Marcian Hoff, Stanley Mazor, Masatoshi Shima, Donald D. Chamberlin, Robert Everett
 2011 : Whitfield Diffie, Martin Hellman, Ralph Merkle, Bill Joy
 2012 : Fernando J. Corbató, Edward Feigenbaum, Steve Furber, Sophie Wilson
 2013 : Edwin Catmull, Harry Huskey, Robert Taylor
 2014 : Lynn Conway, John Crawford, Irwin M. Jacobs
 2015 : Bjarne Stroustrup, Charles Bachman, Evelyn Berezin
 2016 : Dave Cutler, Lee Felsenstein, Phil Moorby
 2017 : Alan Cooper, Margaret Hamilton, Larry Roberts, Cleve Moler
 2018 : Dov Frohman-Bentchkowsky, Dame Stephanie Shirley, Guido van Rossum
 2019 : James Gosling, Katherine Johnson, Leslie Lamport, Louis Pouzin

Galeria

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Enllaços externs

Entitats de Califòrnia
Museus dels Estats Units

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One of the many uses of variable highlighting in the MATLAB editor is to help with moving code around. When you select variables, it shows you where they are used in the rest of the code, and therefore where it is safe for you to move those lines to.
You can't use isempty to detect empty strings, as you would for character arrays. Instead you should check for strlength being equal to zero or compare with an empty character vector. See the documentation for more information.
Each time I install a new release of MATLAB, such as 2016b recently, I turn on the editor preference "Enable data tips in edit mode". Its not on by default. Here's why its very useful.
I have a spreadsheet with a list of filenames in one column whose absolute location is defined relative to a file in another column. I want to be able to construct the absolute path for all of them so I can compare them with another list of absolute path filenames.
In Which Year Did I Make the Most Posts to the MATLAB Newsgroup?
Its the 15th anniversary of MATLAB Central and it made me think about my contributions to the MATLAB community.
Today I'm just making a small modification to an existing script to store a variable with the saveValue function I developed a while ago. The variable is of type duration, part of the recently added set of datetime functions.


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Changes of Email address. A gentle reminder to anyone planning to change their Email address to notify the J&P Commission Administrator please in advance, and particularly those of you currently served by EE/Orange whose service will stop at the end of May this year.
Sunday 21st May: Ahmadiyya Muslim community West Midlands annual Peace Conference at 4pm at Bait ul Ghafoor Mosque, 224 Long Lane, Halesowen, B62 9JT. Local MP, Councillors, neighbours and people from all walks of life have been invited as has been Imam Atta Ul Mujeeb Rashid of The London Mosque, the oldest mosque in London (1924). Further details contact Baitul Ghafoor by Email on baitulghafoor@gmail.com
Tuesday 6th June: " Life as a Palestinian Christian in 2017. Organised jointly by the National and West Midlands Sabeel Organisation. An Invitation to Learn What it is to be like a Palestinian Christian in 2017. Have you any idea what it is like to live as a Christian or Muslim in Palestine in 2017? Please come to hear first hand from a Palestinian Christian, Omar Haramy, an Orthodox Christian, whose family ancestors have lived in Jerusalem before Jesus' time on earth and ever since Jesus' life.
At The Cafe at Saint Martin in The Bull Ring, Edgbaston Street, Birmingham, B5 5BB, 6.30pm for a 7pm start. Finish 9pm.
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Regardless of your target market, there is one constant that will determine your success.
A successful professional once confided that she enjoys the prospecting process as much as actually doing the work. I saw her point. New business acquisition requires strong interpersonal skills, an excellent service or product and just plain good timing – sometimes seasoned with a pinch of luck. I love prospecting, as well. It is easier for some professionals than for others but everyone loves welcoming a new client.
It may be the culmination of months of building a prospect's trust, or having your proposal chosen over many others by a large committee whose members you have never met. Sometimes it can simply be a referral that gets you the business after just one phone call or meeting.
However you get there, the stakes are high over the life of a lengthy and potentially lucrative contract, or what I call 'tester' assignments that grow to become big ones.
Whether your new client is a sole proprietor with 10 employees or a large enterprise with 10,000 employees, there is one constant that will determine your success. It rests on your ability to remain the person they thought you were when they entrusted you in the beginning with their business success. Your business relationship will grow on a good foundation as long as you consistently deliver on the promises you made to win the business.
In spite of occurrences you cannot control, such as economic ups and downs and legislative changes that affect your clients' industry and business model, there are things you can do to make sure things remain steady.
Here are seven tips aimed at creating value for clients as well as for your business.
1. Spend sufficient time with the client to understand their top business goals. Be clear about how you can tailor your services to help meet and exceed the client's unique goals. This will build confidence from the start.
2. Set out the terms of your relationship and review contracts up front. Leave nothing to interpretation — especially payment terms and related charges. Try to avoid using jargon in contracts or conversations that could be confusing or misinterpreted.
3. Find out how often and by what means your client wants to hear from you. Do they prefer email, telephone or face-to-face meetings? Do they need a detailed report for their team to report back monthly? Quarterly? The interest in their needs will spark trust in how you intend to deal with their business on an ongoing basis.
4. Develop a client "welcome document" to answer questions in advance and communicate a professional and empathetic presence. This showcases your attention to detail and confirms your appreciation of the client's business. It also indicates that you have the experience to back up your promises because it shows you have been here before with other clients.
5. Incorporate personal touches as your business relationship grows over time. However, avoid becoming too familiar, as your judgment may become clouded in certain difficult situations. Focus conversations on the client's interests and topics related to their business and relevant industry news.
6. Let the client meet your team members up front — in your first working meeting. When you wish to win a prospect's confidence, it is tempting to want to make them feel that they are one of very few clients and will have full access to you. This is a hard promise to keep. You can win a prospect's confidence by being honest about your commitment to delegating to your team, which you have assembled carefully and trust implicitly. You will be amazed at how well this will be received as the client sees you as an organized, focused professional who is not overly controlling while serving an impressive stable of clients.
Explain the role of your team member(s) and how they will work with you to ensure things run smoothly. Sing their praises and demonstrate your confidence in them. Be clear about whom the client should contact and when, while you remain accessible and ensure the relationship gets off on the right foot.
7. You need not be on call 24/7. Most clients don't expect you to be on call for them 24/7, unless they are facing an urgent situation where you need to step in as their trusted advisor. At other times, you may need to call on your diplomatic and leadership skills to gently discourage a client who simply enjoys chatting or calls too frequently. Consider suggesting that you meet at pre-arranged times (for example, monthly or weekly) when you can both prepare and focus on the business at hand versus meeting on an ad hoc basis.


Two subcontractors doing work for the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority, and the transit agency itself, have been named as defendants in a slip-and-fall suit initiated by a Delaware County woman who claims she injured her leg after tripping on a piece of sidewalk that was under repair.
Media, Pa. lawyer Jeffrey P. Hoyle filed the premises liability complaint Aug. 31 at the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas on behalf of Lansdowne, Pa. resident Christina D'Annibale.
The defendants listed are SEPTA, Upper Darby, Pa.-based Carr & Duff Inc. and Jackson, N.J.-based OTS of New Jersey LLC.
The complaint states that on Sept. 4, 2010, D'Annibale was walking along a stretch of sidewalk at Garrett Road and Shadeland Avenue in Upper Darby, property that is owned and controlled by SEPTA, when she was caused to twist her ankle and fall as a result of stepping and stumbling on an uneven surface of the sidewalk that the defendant subcontractors were working to repair at the time.
As a result of the incident, D'Annibale sustained a severely twisted left ankle, torn and sprained ligaments and a transverse left lateral malleolus fractures which, despite treatment, has failed to heal, the lawsuit claims.
The plaintiff also suffered hip and back strain and other injuries.
The lawsuit accuses the defendants of allowing the sidewalk to remain in a condition that was dangerous to passersby, and failing to erect any barriers or caution signs or tape warning pedestrians of the hazardous condition that existed on the premises.
Because of her injuries, D'Annibale has been forced to expend large sums of money on medical attention, she has suffered both mental and physical pain, she has experienced lost wages due to her inability to work, and she has experienced a loss of life's pleasures, the complaint alleges.
A chart contained within the complaint shows that D'Annibale's medical bills have totaled $52,891.75.
D'Annibale seeks compensatory damages in excess of $50,000 as well as other legal and equitable relief.
The plaintiff seeks a jury trial.
The case ID number is 120900021.


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"Paid over the odds for him, never lived up to the price tag.
"Sheff Utd are in/famous for bringing through jewels and selling them off (Jones, and too many others to mention) before then reclaiming discarded former rising stars who never quite made it and were cast into the waste bin, to replace the gold they've sold.
"Seen little-to-nothing to suggest he's good enough for the Premier League and Silva hasn't used him since he stunk the gaff out in the League Cup.
"Good move. If he impresses there, he might have the confidence to trouble our first team next year. Alternatively, if he does well and they get promoted, they can loan him for next year too and he gets a year of PL experience.
"To be fair to the lad, he slotted 10 in 43 for Nottingham Forest.
Carruthers and Holmes are injured whilst Semple has strangely been dropped completely from the Queen Of The South side despite rave reviews. Sam Graham has also lost his place in the Oldham side.
Our players didn't get too many minutes over the international period but there was still a bit of interesting chat from fans of the Home Nations.
"What was worse, the refs performance, jack collisons commentary or Ben woodburn?


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Entertainers > Reality TV Stars
Yolanda Hadid Foster sells to Robert & Hope Smith for nearly $20 million
By James McClain May 12, 2016
We can see the eyerolls from way across the internets already with this one. Yes, yes, we know. We're perfectly aware that every publication in existence has already discussed how lemon-loving and perpetually bedridden Real Housewives of Beverly Hills stalwart Yolanda Hadid (previously known as Yolanda Foster) sold her mammoth Malibu mansion for a blistering $19,495,000. The sale happened way, way back in October (2015).
And we're also completely aware that we're not the first to unmask the mysterious buyers. That prize goes to our BFF Your Mama over at Variety.
But give Yolanda a damn break. We can add a few new interesting tidbits here and there regarding this transaction. And the house isn't just your typical mock-med architectural tragedy, it's actually quite photogenic. (Mostly.) Certainly it won't hurt you to take a gander at the pics one last time. And plus, Ms. Hadid is Yolanda's namesake! Come on now. At least have the courtesy to listen while Sister Yakketyyak schools you, even if you already know all the equations.
In June 2007, our Ms. Hadid – a former model and the ex-wife of wildly wealthy real estate developer and Bel Air troublemaker Mohamed Hadid – paid $4,500,000 for a 3.25 acre vacant parcel that towers directly above Carbon Beach and the endlessly-trafficky parking lot that is Pacific Coast Highway.
Ms. Hadid – in a relationship with multi-Grammy award winner David Foster since 2006 – quickly commenced construction of a hilltop villa that property records show clocks in at 11,622 square feet of interior space with 6 bedrooms and 9 bathrooms. Yolanda has no idea exactly how much this 2009-completed mansion cost to build, but doubtless it was a very considerable sum of money.
We discovered documentation which reveals that Mr. Foster – the sly scoundrel – somehow managed to get his name attached to the property, though we don't believe he had a financial hand in the original land purchase or house construction. For what it's worth, Mr. Foster and Ms. Hadid were married in an over-the-top and celeb-infested 2011 ceremony.
In September 2013, whispers began to seep out of everyone's favorite scenic beach town that the then-still-coupled couple wanted to sell and had even put the palace up as a pocket listing with a stupefying $27,500,000 pricetag. A few months later, with no luck off-market, the property officially hit the MLS with the same $27.5 million ask. The price eventually fell to $23,500,000 before the property was rather rudely yanked off the MLS in 2015.
However, as you know, property records show the house indeed transferred last October (2015) for $19,495,000. The buyer is listed as an unimaginatively-named shell company that links to a Washington (D.C.) law firm. But of course, Your Mama at Variety and your gurl Yolanda are both keenly aware that the new owners are 53-year-old multi-billionaire Robert F. Smith and his wife, 31-year-old former Playboy playmate Hope Dworacyzk. That's a fact.
Mr. Smith is, with a net worth of $2.5 billion, the second-richest African-American in the whole wham-bang universe (according to Forbes he's closing in on Oprah). This guy has major dough. He could probably afford any house in LA his (or his wife's) heart desired. So without further blabbing, let's check out Ms. Hadid's house to see what enticed this jet-setting couple to throw down the big bucks.
The property is accessed by passing through through an ornate front gate and guiding one's luxury automobile up a dramatically long and wide driveway that plateaus at the front door of the hilltop residence. There's a three-car garage and a sizable motor court.
Honestly, y'all, we think the front area might be our least-favorite aspect of the residence. The boring row of garages and the lackluster facade just bores your gurl to death. Good thing stuff improves once you move indoors – and out the back.
The sumptuous kitchen has an eye-pleasing if somewhat stark color palette of whites, blacks, and stainless greys. There are extra-wide plank recycled Bavarian floors, marble countertops, and all the ultra-high-end appliances money can buy. And let's not forget that world-famous fridge. We'll expound on that sexy beast in a moment.
The master bedroom sports a portrait of a naked Ms. Hadid squatting down with her booty cheeks to the camera. We wonder if that was thrown in with the house as part of the sale? Hmmm!
Yolanda H.'s closet makes Yolanda Y. swooooooon with its endless shelf and glass-fronted wardrobe space. We count at least 8 Birkin bags (starting price: $12,000) on the shelves. That's approximately $100,000 (minimum) just with those handful of bags alone. We wonder if the value of Ms. Hadid's entire clothing and accessory collection as seen above tops $1,000,000. No, we wouldn't be the least bit surprised.
There's also a manly-man's walk-in closet, a big ol' library with a big ol' fireplace, a massive sports bar/recreation room with Mr. Foster's 16 Grammys adorning the wall (definitely not included with sale), and a light-flooded gym.
Let's not forget that acre+ of the cleanse-crazed Ms. Hadid's lemon and other assorted fruit trees. But the main selling point of this estate is, of course, the dynamite view.
So we can certainly see why Mr. & Mrs. Smith fell in love with this place – but there are just a couple drawbacks we'd like to point out. First of all, this house has no direct beach access. To get to the sand, you've got to dash across Pacific Coast Highway, and good luck with that. And even if you somehow make it across in one piece, the nearest public access point is something like a punishing half-mile away. So really, what you're gonna end up doing every time you want to actually play in the sand is hop in your hoopdie and drive to some congested pay-for-parking lot somewhere amidst the throngs of poors.
The other (possible) drawback is that this house is fire station-adjacent. That's right, kids, there's a damn fire station right across from this house. That may be a plus in this occasionally brushfire-prone beach town, but it also means lots of sirens. Major noise pollution! Say it ain't so.
Does all that matter? Your call. Yolanda would hope that a $20 million house in Malibu would at least have some sort of easy access to the surf, but she's not a big fan of Malibu beaches anyway so the pool and view are fine with her. And we don't mind the fire station so much – the sirens could get annoying but looking at all the cute young fellas in their tight uniforms sure wouldn't. Oh dear! Teehee.
Mr. Smith, who manages one of the world's best-performing hedge funds (Vista Equity Partners), recently made news when he donated $50 million to Cornell University (his alma mater).
Mrs. Smith (she took her husband's last name upon their marriage) is a former runway model turned Playboy's Playmate of the Year 2010. In 2011, Mrs. Smith also proved she's got brains to go with her sick bod when she won over $200,000 for charity on Donald Trump's Celebrity Apprentice.
Prior to her marriage, Mrs. Smith was romantically involved with NBA bigwig Jason Kidd and later, comic Bob Saget. Then she met Mr. Smith, popped a couple babies, and, well, the rest is history. We're not sure how one goes from a rough-and-tumble domestic abuser like Mr. Kidd to funnyman Mr. Saget to a straight-laced MBA-carrying billionaire banker like Mr. Smith, but apparently Mrs. Smith has eclectic taste in men. Fair enough. Your chick Yolanda Y. feels you on that, gurl.
Mr. & Mrs. Smith were married last July (2015) in a baller-style ceremony held on Italy's Amalfi Coast. Wedding singers included John Legend and Seal. Mrs. Smith wore not one but three different wedding gowns throughout the night. Ain't that just peachy? When you're as sick-rich as Mrs. Smith is, you don't even have to choose between your favorite gowns. Love all three? Buy all three. Hell yes.
Yolanda Y. has heard the couple want their kids (they've got two small children) to grow up in LA, so they've already moved into and are living essentially full-time at Ms. Hadid's old house.
Let's move on. Yolanda confesses she's not quite sure where Mr. Foster has decamped (she also confesses she doesn't much care, oopsie), but Ms. Hadid has already purchased an attractive bachelorette crib on the 16th floor of a fancy-pants Wilshire Corridor 24-story high-rise known as The Carlyle Residences.
Luxury features include automatically retractable window shades, floor-to-ceiling windows guaranteed to wow even the most bitterly jaded Munchausen-mentioning broads, marble-slathered bathrooms, and a couple scary-looking wraparound terraces that provide glorious if vertigo-inducing views of the entirety of Los Angeles, more or less.
Property records reveal Ms. Hadid forked over $4,590,000 for the 3-bedroom, 3.5-bath high-floor pad. She's also saddled with $3,070 in monthly HOA fees that go toward the swanky building's many sumptuous features. These include valet parking for the condo's three deeded parking spaces, 24/7 security and concierge, pool, gym, lounge, and even a wine cellar. Mazel tov on your new house in the sky, Ms. Hadid.
We can't close this chapter without bidding a fond (and hopefully temporary) farewell to the world's most famous refrigerator. What other kitchen appliance do you know that has over 26,000 followers on Twitter and Instagram combined? If the marble-lined walk-in chill box isn't front and center on your dream kitchen wish list, we probably wouldn't like you in real life. So there!
Mr. & Mrs. Smith have a dream…
And finally, before we go (for real this time), we've got a message for Mrs. Smith. Honey, you won life. You got the man, the money, and the Malibu mansion. Good on you. You killed that ol' bullshit. Now how about you do one small favor for your homegurl Yolanda Yakketyyak? It's really not much. All we want is for you to join the Real Housewives of Beverly Hills. You're damn perfect for the show. Andy, baby, are you listening? We'll even waive our finders' fee on this. Seeing our beloved fridge again? That's reward enough.
We're serious 'bout this, Mrs. Smith. Pick up the phone. Start practicing your shade-throwing skills. Don't make Yolanda Y. march on over and show you what's what. We want our Mr. Fridge back and we won't stop 'til he's within us – er, within our TV screens – once more. Return, sweet fridge. Won't you return our love…
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no way is that woman 31, 41 if shes a day and the old dude isn't going to be a billionaire anymore once the divorce comes…..and it will
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We always knew there was more learning that could be achieved with Rotagrams than estimation of angles, which is the main focus of Task 214, Angle Estimation. We knew because decades ago we were using resource booklets in our classrooms that were written by Geoff Giles. Geoff, who passed away in 2005, was a remarkable educator - inspiring, creative, loved mathematics, understood it in depth and a pedagogical leader. His only aim was to help all kids learn mathematics with as much independence and self-confidence as possible.
A discussion earlier in the month with Sue Lemmer, Mawson Lakes School, has led to Mathematics Centre being granted permission to reproduce Geoff's original DIME Rotagram Booklets and related worksheets as PDF files and to freely distribute them through the site. We are extremely grateful to Geoff's wife for making this happen.
So if you have Rotagrams, you can now do much more with them. The three 16 page booklets are, in effect, three units of work - Equal Angles, Rotation, Directions. If you don't have Rotagrams, then look through the DIME material and consider whether you need to get some. See Link List below.
Photo: Craig Watson March 15th was the 50th birthday of the Moke Owners' Association of Victoria, the first club in the world for that marque. That's as good a reason as any to use Maths300 Lesson 126, Make A Moke. It's an investigation into the question What is the most likely roll on which a six will appear?. There are games where you have to roll a six to start and Make A Moke is one of them. In what appears to be a paradox, the answer is the first roll.
See the Maths300 lesson plan or the Link List below for the rules. The game was also published pre-Maths300 as Six To Start in 'Mathematics Learning for Life 3', Oxford University Press, p.78. Check your library. Suits Years 4 - 12.
The 'birthday' article below provides information which could generate the start of the lesson. It includes a video link.
If you love to generate a bit of mathematical discussion in the classroom this is an investigation likely to do it. It kept amateur and professional mathematicians busy in the press for months when it was first explored publicly. Three cups, one object under one of them. The host knows which one. The guest points to the cup they think has the object. If they are correct, success! If not, the host reveals what is under a cup they know doesn't have the object. The guest is allowed one more guess. Should they change their mind and choose a different cup?
In the eTask Package this task is in the 'easy to make' set. All you need is three plastic cups and a block or similar object. Just make sure your plastic cups are opaque.
The children have been playing with their tiny bears. There are six bears and its time to pack them up. There are three packing up trays and the most each tray can hold is 6 bears. How many ways can the bears be packed up? How do you record each way? These are the starting point questions. Mathematically we are exploring sets of three numbers that sum to six. The What happens if...? questions are extensive and take the task from Year 2 to something that can be used in Year 7.
In the eTask Package this task is in the 'special equipment' set because it really is motivating to use little bears and there is an extra board to copy and laminate. But if your school has the counting bears the task suddenly becomes easy to make.
You can create your own Task Library in a professional learning context with the eTask Package.
Excel version provided by Pymble Ladies' College also links each Task to its Maths With Attitude content strand.


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Baron Augustin Édouard Michel du Faing d'Aigremont, born Augustin Édouard Michel (14 May 1855 – 15 June 1931) was a Belgian army officer and general who served during World War I.

Career

Son of a mining engineer, he studied at the Athénée de Charleroi, and in 1871 at the Royal Military Academy in Brussels. He qualified in 1873 as an artillery officer, and rose through the ranks to become Inspector General of the Artillery in 1906.

In 1912, he was promoted to Lieutenant-General and received the command of the 4th Army Division based on in the Fortified Position of Namur. In August 1914, he commanded the division during the Siege of Namur, retreating towards Antwerp. He took part in the Battle of the Yser, where the 4th Division occupied the front between Kaaskerke and Tervate along the Nieuwpoort-Diksmuide railway line until its relief on 26 October 1914. From December 1914 to January 1917, the 4th Division remained in Wulpen. It participated on the general allied offensive in 1918 and crossed the Scheldt river on 8 November 1918, reaching the city of Ghent. After the war, Michel commanded the Belgian forces during the Occupation of the Rhineland. He retired in 1920 in order to work with the Royal Museum of the Armed Forces and Military History in Brussels.

In 1921, he was made Baron du Faing d'Aigremont. The barracks of the 17th Regiment of the Line in Mechelen was named after him, and numerous streets in different towns across the country are named in his honour.

Honours
 :  1919 : Grand Cordon in the Order of Leopold.

References

External links
Michel du Faing d'Aigremont memorial in Namur at Traces of World War I

1855 births
1931 deaths
Barons of Belgium
People from Charleroi
Belgian Army generals of World War I
Royal Military Academy (Belgium) alumni


I hope you like these Elizabeth Fry quotes from my collection of quotes about life.
there is also the success of others.
which awaited the children of sin in Hell.
Love or not, I wouldn't subject a wife to the road.
And then ESPN fired me.
I did not think that was a fitting punishment.
not to sin offers only punishment.
guarantee that innocent people won't be put to death.
I think capital punishment works great.
Every killer you kill never kills again.
so I had to take my punishment.
punishment of the damned in hell.
is a sin that carries its own punishment with it.
Happiness is not a reward - it is a consequence.
Suffering is not a punishment - it is a result.
they kill; or at least they encourage killers with approving smiles.
over and over again the tasks left unfinished in your lifetime.
is a strictly defensive act, - at least in theory.
This country is becoming increasingly authoritarian.
It's based on capital punishment.
and use it on the teachers.
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Q: Classic ASP - Can I lose my nested loop in exchange for a join? I'm trying to optimise one of scripts. It's for a stock photo website and shows a large grid of images using a WHILE WEND loop, looping through my DB (MySQL) table of photos.
Inside this loop, I have another WHILE END loop that gets the names of the people inside each photo from my table of people.
My question is, can I lose this second WHILE WEND loop by adding a JOIN to my primary query?
My confusion comes from returning more than one person. I can't work out how to get the one or more names separated by commas, I just don't know. Maybe my script is fine as it is, but I'm sure it could be quicker without the nested loop, because at some point, I'm thinking about adding another query, that returns the first 5 keywords for each photo, and don't want to add another loop!
SCREEN SHOT

MY PSUEDO CODE
Set rsPhotos = Conn.Execute(" " _
& "SELECT photoID, setID, caption, dateCreated, dateUploaded " _
& "FROM photos ORDER BY dateCreated DESC;)"

While NOT rsPhotos.EOF
    Response.Write "
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        Response.Write ""
        Response.Write "
"
            people_str = ""
            Set rsPeople = Conn.Execute("SELECT p.person FROM photoPeople AS pp " _
            & "LEFT JOIN people AS p USING (personID) " _
            & "WHERE pp.photoID = "&rsPhotos.Fields("photoID")&" " _
            & "ORDER BY p.person ASC;")
            While NOT rsPeople.EOF
                people_str = people_str & ", " & rsPeople.Fields("person")
            rsPeople.MoveNext
            Wend
            rsPeople.Close
            Response.Write Mid(people_str,3)
        Response.Write "
"
    Response.Write "
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rsPhotos.MoveNext
Wend

rsPhotos.Close

DB SCHEMA
PHOTOS tbl
photoID        |   INT 9
setID          |   INT 9
caption        |   VARCHAR2000
dateCreated    |   DATETIME
dateUploaded   |   DATETIME

PHOTOPEOPLE tbl
photoID        |   INT 9
personID       |   INT 7

PEOPLE tbl
personID       |   INT 7
person         |   VARCHAR 100

A: This should do it -
SELECT photos.photoID, photos.setID, photos.caption, photos.dateCreated, photos.dateUploaded, GROUP_CONCAT(p.person ORDER BY p.person ASC SEPARATOR ', ')
FROM photos
LEFT JOIN photoPeople AS pp
    ON photos.photoID = pp.photoID
LEFT JOIN people AS p
    ON pp.personID = p.personID
GROUP BY photos.photoID
ORDER BY dateCreated DESC

GROUP_CONCAT()

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The goal of worship is to "glorify God and enjoy Him forever." Worship at HRBC involves the recognition of God's worth and includes offering God honor, praise, and adoration. The focus of worship is on God, with an emphasis on the relationship of participants, individually and collectively, with God. During our times of worship, we confess our need for Christ, express worship to God with our hearts and lips, receive instruction from the scriptures, give our material possessions to God, and celebrate the ordinances of the Lord's Supper and believer's baptism. In all of these things, we worship together, with an openness to the leadership of the Holy Spirit.
This ensemble leads the Awakening 8:30 am contemporary worship service in the Family Life Center. The band is ever changing but is primarily made up of singers, and accompanied by piano, horns, drums, percussion, guitar and bass. Audition is required for this ensemble. Auditions can take place anytime during the year. To inquire about an audition, contact Phillip Brown, Associate Pastor for Worship and Music.
This ensemble leads our 11:00 am Traditional Worship service in the sanctuary. The choir is made up of singers 18 years old and up. In addition to leading our congregation in hymn singing, the Chancel Choir offers an anthem each Sunday. The choir is also the backbone for special services and seasonal programs. No audition is required.
This ensemble joins with the Chancel Choir to lead in seasonal worship services and to learn and present special music programs. This choir is open to everyone age 18 and up. Occasionally this special choir will join forces with the orchestra and younger age-graded choirs. This choir is volunteer and requires no auditions.
This ensemble specializes in bluegrass/country southern gospel music. No audition required. This group features singers, guitars, bass, tambourine and washboard (to name a few).
This ensemble is a mentoring ensemble. Seasoned players in each section engage younger/newer players in mentoring conversation during rehearsal. That way, learning is taking place on many levels. This ensemble ebbs and flows through time as musicians come and go. We require at least one year of supervised study on your instrument. The orchestra is scheduled to play for worship five to eight times per season with the addition of the four services of Advent, seasonal services and special programs such as the annual Christmas program. This ensemble has toured, done "Symfastic!" concerts for preschoolers and even played for a wedding. No audition required.
This ensemble leads in worship five to eight times per year and participates in seasonal programs and presents a musical in May. In this choir we learn about musical concepts and theory, meaning of sung texts, and worship leadership. Our rehearsal is an action-packed 45 minutes of music and fun!
This is ensemble is designed more for the experience of learning about God through music, rather than presentation of music in worship or concert venue. These are our little ones who sing "sitting" on the floor usually with a guitar accompaniment.
This ensemble is for 6th-12th grade students and an adult section leader in each of the SATB sections. Our music is 90% acapella and most of it is written and arranged for this choir. United Praise sings for worship five to eight times per season, plus seasonal and special programs. They annually sing and serve for the homeless in the Caritas ministry. This group has toured extensively up and down the east coast from New York City to Orlando, Florida, from Myrtle Beach, SC to Louisville, KY. We have sung acapella concerts in great cathedrals to front yards; from State Capitol buildings to prisons; in every imaginable mode of transportation and nook and cranny on land; for individuals on a sidewalk to great crowds at the National Christmas Tree. We tour, go to a festival or camp or mission on odd (ex. 2017) calendar year summers.


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Barbara Aiello has uncovered many Italians' secret histories. But her methods and theories have won her many detractors.
The Israeli scholar, and the prime minister's father, died today in his Jerusalem home. He was my political opposite, but also my teacher and friend.


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Volunteer Story - Jean Bourgault
Mundaring resident Jean Bourgault (nee Macgregor) has devoted her life to sharing her love of musical performance, with children and adults alike.
The multi-talented 80-year-old is energetic and enthusiastic about everything she does, and simply lives for music.
Jean joined the Hills Choir in 1997 where she volunteered her expertise as a conductor and musical director for 12 years (2001-2013).
In 2015 she was coaxed out of retirement to conduct two concerts in celebration of the choir's 30th anniversary in 2016.
Early years and career
From her earliest years Jean was fascinated by musical performance and the stage.
With a mother who was an amateur actress and singer, and a father who loved and performed music, it is not surprising she was encouraged to take piano lessons from the age of seven, or that by age nine, she organised her friends to give a concert for the Red Cross.
During her schooling at Perth College Jean gained distinctions in music in her Junior and Leaving Certificates. She then attended the University of Western Australia and studied Music and Music Education. Then, while completing her country practice at Bridgetown District High School, it was suggested she conduct the school choir in front of the visiting Superintendent of Music, Edgar Nottage.
Clearly very impressed with Jean's skills, Mr Nottage asked if she would accept a position as Musical Specialist at a high school the following year. Of course this was 'music to her ears'!
Jean taught at Governor Stirling High School for two years, before marrying Henry Bourgault. The pair went to teach in Geraldton and Jean was once again involved in musical performance, producing the operetta, Papageno, an adaptation of the Magic Flute by Mozart, with great musical and theatrical success.
Jean and Henry moved to Mt Helena in 1961 where they raised their four sons.
She returned to teaching part-time at Mt Helena Primary School in 1972, then went on to Eastern Hills Senior High School in 1973 and commenced her long association with Eastern Hills Senior High School, teaching music and being involved with musicals. Jean had a spell of teaching at Chidlow Primary School for five years, while still teaching part-time at Eastern Hills, and during these years, both schools' choirs performed regularly at music festivals and at the "Schools Make Music" concert at the Perth Concert Hall.
Upon retiring from classroom teaching in December 1996 Jean immediately immersed herself in the Hills Choir and joined the University of Western Australia Choral Society (UWACS). This was her first taste of singing with an adult choir and she relished the wider repertoire it offered.
In 1998 she became involved with the Mundaring Performing Arts Society as programme organiser. The Society was formed to highlight the need for a dedicated performance venue in the shire.
At the time, the Weir Hotel offered the only grand piano in a public space and so over eight years' monthly concerts were held where both local and metropolitan musicians provided the community with live entertainment. These concerts helped to launch a number of emerging artists. The Mundaring Performing Arts Society was responsible for organising choral festivals for adults and school choirs which proved to be very worthwhile for the community.
Members of the Hills Choir say they are very grateful for all the years Jean has volunteered her expertise both as a conductor and musical director. She and Henry have passed on their love of music to their sons and grandchildren and Jean, who has touched many people during her years of enthusiastic teaching, conducting and performing, continues to inspire others with her love of music today.
Below are links to past Inspiration Zone stories:
Pat McIntyre
Joan Crawford Wally Winfield Ted Barbour
Kath Longley Simone Hicks Duncan Cornwallis
John Coultham Trish Macey Les and Shirley Stratton


Interested in buying a house but a little intimidated by how much to save up and how much you can afford? It's easier than you think, so I'll demystify the steps. Plan ahead and you won't be caught off guard after falling in love with that dream house!
Down Payment + Closing Costs + Moving Costs + Padding = Yay! New house!
a. Calculate how much you need - how much do I need as a down payment?
While you can buy a home with as little as 5% down, many popular areas are experiencing multiple bid situations. Sellers want to ensure that the sale closes and doesn't run into any issues.
With 5% down and multiple bidders, the price of the home could be bid up to a point where the appraisal is too low for the loan to close. I recommend speaking to your mortgage lender about your various mortgage options to ensure that you know how much the lender will extend to you. See more on my article about why appraisals are so important.
Budget about 1.5 - 2% of the purchase price for closing costs. Even if the seller pays your closing costs, there are a number of other costs you will have to account for. Don't be surprised like I was! Learn more about how much you'll need here.
In addition to all these fees, remember that you'll need some reserves to pay for moving, upgrading your new home, preparing to leave your currently home (painting, etc) and for any unexpected repairs that may come up in the first few months. Also make sure you have that emergency fund in case one of you loses their job. Many lenders want to see that you have enough in reserve to pay 2-6 months of mortgage payments. It's just as important to keep your house as it is to buy that house!
The best way to get exactly how much you will need to save up is to work closely with your preferred lender. Ask your friends and family for lenders that provided outstanding service. I'm happy to recommend a couple of lenders that we love to work with. Don't worry, real estate agents legally cannot accept referral fees from lenders so our recommendation is only because they are truly awesome.
When I was saving up for a house, I auto-deposited a chunk of my paycheck into a savings account at a different bank. With that chunk gone, I had to budget the rest into my living expenses. Forgoing some vacations was definitely worth it when I look around my very own house!
This monthly payment should still allow you to save for retirement and for your emergency fund. Keep in mind that you will likely still save a little more, as your overall taxable income decreases by the amount of mortgage interest you pay. A great way to save is to budget in this amount each month prior to purchasing a home. Put the difference between your current rent and this amount into your savings account.
a. What are taxes : in Los Angeles, annual property taxes are approximately 1.25% of the purchase price. You may half this amount twice a year. Usually your lender will divide this amount by 12 months and add that to your monthly payment.
b. what is P&I : Principal and Interest. Principal is what you paid for the house and Interest is your amortized cost of the loan.
c. what is insurance? : Insurance refers to your homeowners insurance, which generally includes fire insurance. Your lender usually divides your total payment by 12 months and adds this to your monthly payment. This does not include earthquake insurance, so make sure you contact your insurance agent to add it. You may find it's much cheaper than you anticipated.
d. what is PMI? : PMI is private mortgage insurance. If you paid less than 20% down on your mortgage, your lender has insured their investment in case you default on your loan. This covers the difference between what the lender could sell your home for and the total amount you still own on the loan.


I've got Waitrose at 15% atm must be because it's so far away! The others I have are Hilton and Conrad/Waldorf at 10%. I only get hotels and holiday ones usually, oh and car rental. Thinking about it, it's probably because I use the account to pay for holidays but not everyday shopping.
Anyone have the Lloyds Everyday offers cashback account?
How long do offers take to appear once you open a current account?
The frequency with Lloyds is similar to Halifax, i.e. offers are quite few and far between in my experience.
Just logged into my Lloyds account and got excited to see that the Everyday offers were active. But I only had the one where you might win a transaction back in a prize draw. Not get x% off at any retailers.
I have been regularly offered Waitrose - 5% or 10% - and the one I decided to go for was Morrisons (15%) - I only did a top up shop - ?30 - but I did actually need to get cashback at the till - so ?80 incl the ?50 cashback - and I got the 15% from Halifax on the full amount - so obviously when I decided to go for the Waitrose offer (10%) because I was also sent one of those promo 10% off cards for My Waitrose, I also got ?50 cashback to boost that as well - as it was, as I only bought items on special offer at Waitrose, my shop only came to about ?65 incl the cashback!!
A lot of my recent offers have only been 5% - hardly worth it unless you actually want to buy something in that retailer - sometimes buying it online thru TCB or Quidco is higher cashback - I think the cashback with Halifax is only "in store"
I had realised by accident I could get cashback in Morrisons and get the cashback on that so always use that one when I get it in my offers and add ?50 cashback. I think last time I got ?5 when I spent ?50 rather than a percentage and I spent around ?5 + ?50 cashback. I never thought to buy giftcards there, but I have never taken advantage of any of the giftcard offers anywhere. I have currently got the waitrose 15% one in my offers does this also give you the cashback on cashback like the Morrisons? I dont think these offers are geared towards your shopping as most of them are totally irrelevant to my spending. Most of mine are restaurants at the moment, something I rarely use so they wll go unused even though they are offering 15%.
Re the buying online I bought some clothing from New Look online before Christmas using TCB and my Halifax card and received the cashback for the spend (even though I returned the items) still waiting for the TCB money though, but not that bothered if declined.
With Halifax the offers are triggered if you spend via merchant codes. I don't know for sure how they work but they are used like how 3V block transactions with merchants in certain categories, or how Santander categorise purchases on their 1-2-3 card.
So a spend at any supermarket may trigger offers (I have triggered Morrisons and Waitrose before by spending in Mr T), also I did an online shop at Amazon for a piece of electrical equipment and shortly after this triggered Halifax to offer Maplin, and a small bill in a hotel a few months back has triggered about 8 different hotel room/travel offers.
The value of the offers has been reducing, at one stage I had 15% at Waitrose, now down to 5%, similar for Morrisons.


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Willow Glen runner looks strong at Stanford
By David Kiefer | Mercury News, Bay Area News Group
Willow Glen's Mohamed Abdalla finished second in the seeded race of the Stanford Invitational cross-country meet Saturday and provided a glimpse of his potential. Abdalla, the defending state champion in Division III, might be even faster this year, Coach Victor Santamaria said.
"He's in the best shape," Santamaria said. "The race today really wasn't indicative of what he can do."
Abdalla was tucked in a pack at three-quarters of a mile, when Riverbank's German Fernandez surged and Abdalla didn't answer. Abdalla planned on making a charge over the second half of the 3.1-mile race at Stanford Golf Course, but Fernandez had bolted to such a large early lead that Abdalla was left running by himself.
"He was ready to run a strong race," Santamaria said. "But he was a little too patient and let him get away."
Still, Abdalla's time of 15 minutes, 22 seconds (about a 4:57 mile) was second among 1,320 runners in six boys races. Fernandez, the state runner-up in Division IV last year, ran 14:42.
Palo Alto sophomore Philip MacQuitty was second in Division II. His 15:41 was the 16th-fastest of the day and seven seconds off winner Bryan Tibaduiza of Reno's Galena High. Los Gatos was third as a team.
Among the girls, Leland junior Stephanie Barnett was eighth in the seeded race and ninth overall with a time of 18:16. She was the fastest of the day from the Central Coast Section.
Valley Christian junior Jennifer Bergman was second in Division IV, running 18:35 for 24th overall and fifth from the CCS. And Shelby Golan of St. Francis was third in Division II (18:58), with Mountain View third as a team.
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Heckler implores Giants, Mets to end 16-inning marathon
Donald Trump Jr. and Kimberly Guilfoyle snag secluded Hamptons estate
Rescue teams recovered the body of a Palo Alto woman from Rock Creek on Highway 70.
Review: Powerful 'Kill Move Paradise' haunts Berkeley stage
Shotgun Players in Berkeley presents 'Kill Move Paradise' by James Ijames, in which black lives cut short by racism grapple with the afterlife.
5 things to know before hiring a contractor to do home repairs
Despite a wealth of online screening services, homeowners can't cut corners before signing a contract for work.
California man who drove his wife and 2 autistic sons off a pier is charged with murder
The defendant escaped the submerged car through his open window. His wife could not swim but survived when a nearby fisherman threw her a life preserver. The couple's sons .drowned


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Manu Tuilagi Will Miss Rugby World Cup After Assault Conviction
Home|International|Rugby World Cup|Manu Tuilagi Will Miss Rugby World Cup After Assault Conviction
England Rugby and Leicester Tigers have taken action against Manu Tuilagi following his conviction on three charges of assault and one of criminal damage.
Tuilagi pleaded guilty at Leicester Magistrates this week and was ordered to pay the court a total of £6,205 in fines, compensation, charges and costs.
England Head Coach Stuart Lancaster has spoken to Tuilagi and informed him that, in the light of his conduct and subsequent conviction, he will not be considered for selection for England's Elite Playing Squads until January 2016.
"As role models and ambassadors for the game, the highest standards of behaviour are expected from every England player both on and off the field," said Lancster.
"Having spoken to Manu, he understands and accepts both the seriousness of the offences to which he has pleaded guilty and the consequences of his behaviour to his club, country and the game as a whole.
"England will continue to liaise with Leicester Tigers and have every confidence that the club will continue to support Manu in the right way."
Leicester Tigers Director of Rugby Richard Cockerill said: "Manu knows and accepts his responsibilities and has received a significant punishment in being excluded from the England squad and the club will also take internal disciplinary action.
"While we do not in any way condone his actions in this case, Manu is a young man who has grown up in the public eye and he is a good professional in a top-level environment.
"He always gives his time very generously to supporters, particularly young ones, wherever he goes, and fully understands the role that the fans have played in his career.
"We will continue to work closely with him on his return to full fitness and look forward to his return to the field in due course."
Manu Tuilagi said: "I take full responsibility for my actions and unreservedly apologise to all those involved in the incident, Leicester Tigers and England.
"It is something I deeply regret and I totally accept the sentence given by the court. The club and Stuart have been very supportive and I understand their sanctions too.
"I know, as an England player, the need to conduct myself as a good role model for the game. I am very disappointed because my actions have let so many people down and I can only hope for a future chance to prove myself again."
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Poor Raj: Hedge-Fund Titan Says Penalty Too Big
By Sital PatelFOXBusiness
Convicted hedge-fund titan Raj Rajaratnam will likely appeal the record penalty handed down by the Securities and Exchange Commission last week on civil insider trading charges, FOX Business Network has learned.
The penalty, imposed by Federal Judge Jed S. Rakoff, ordered Rajaratnam to pay the SEC a $92.8 million penalty, the largest ever levied in an insider trading case brought by the commission.
The Rajaratnam defense team will likely argue the amount is onerous based on its client's actual net worth, which is far lower than the billionaire status reported in various media reports.
"Raj is worth nowhere close to $1 billion," said one person with direct knowledge of the matter. "This will significantly impact him."
According to people close to Rajaratnam, much of his net worth was tied up in the now defunct Galleon Group hedge fund, which was disbanded in October 2009. That's when Rajaratnam was arrested on criminal insider trading charges by the US Attorney's office and the SEC filed civil charges against he and the firm.
Rajaratnam was eventually convicted on 14 counts of securities fraud and will soon begin serving an 11-year sentence.
Before its downfall, Galleon Group was one of the largest hedge funds on Wall Street, reportedly managing more than $7 billion.
To date, Rajaratnam has paid fines and forfeitures to the government that total more than $150 million -- among the largest ever paid by a white-collar criminal.
Judge Richard J. Howell, who presided in the federal criminal case, said Rajaratnam made more than $50 million from his illegal trades, a figure his defense team has refuted, arguing the number is closer to $10 million to $15 million.
Moreover, people close to Rajaratnam complain the government based the fines on inaccurate media accounts of his wealth.
An SEC spokesman had no immediate comment.
Legal experts are dubious that Rajaratnam will be able to reduce the SEC penalty.
"There's a slim chance of winning an appeal to lower that amount," said one attorney who asked not to be named.


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Last December I was writing about the widening rift that had been measured in the Larsen C Ice Shelf in the Antarctic by NASA's #ICEBridge. I highlighted the inevitable – the breakup of the Larsen C ice shelf, and pointed out that this was part of the on-going process that had seen Larsen A disintegrate in 1995 and Larsen B go the same way in 2002.
The Larsen C mega-berg splintering has finally happened this week.
Details abound within major media outlets such as the Washington Post, The Guardian, CNN, and others. Even Rolling Stone is running with the news. I'll strive to not simply replicate all that with a "me to" article, but will instead dig into the source of where this news comes from and what the discoverers themselves have to say about this event.
How do we know it has actually happened?
On the 12th July project MIDAS, a UK-based Antarctic research project, were the first to announce that this had happened – This is the alpha source for all the media news on this.
Map of Larsen C, overlaid with NASA MODIS thermal image from July 12 2017, showing the iceberg has calved
The basis for their announcement was data captured by the moderate-resolution imaging spectroradiometer (MODIS) which is on the NASA Aqua satellite. This is an instrument that is designed to image the entire earth every 1-2 days and so it is ideal for tracking major events such as this. MODIS captures images in the thermal infrared at a resolution of 1km. This initial discovery was later confirmed by NASA's Suomi VIIRS instrument.
The MIDAS team have also been tracking the development of the rift over the last year using data from the European Space Agency Sentinel-1 satellites – part of the European Copernicus Space Component. Sentinel-1 is a radar imaging system capable of acquiring images regardless of cloud cover, and throughout the current winter period of Antarctic polar darkness.
Here is the separate ESA Sentinel-1 press release. There they explain a bit more of the backstory …
The fissure first appeared several years ago, but seemed relatively stable until January 2016, when it began to lengthen.
In January 2017 alone it travelled 20 km, reaching a total length of about 175 km.
After a few weeks of calm, the rift propagated a further 16 km at the end of May, and then extended further at the end of June.
More importantly, as the crack grew, it branched off towards the edge of the shelf, whereas before it had been running parallel to the Weddell Sea.
With just a few km between the end of the fissure and the ocean by early July, the fate of the shelf was sealed.
Impressive size
The iceberg weighs more than a trillion tonnes (1,000,000,000,000 metric tonnes).
This new iceberg is 5,800 square km
The calving of this iceberg leaves the Larsen C Ice Shelf reduced in area by more than 12%
MIDAS Team Commentary
Professor Adrian Luckman of Swansea University, lead investigator of the MIDAS project ….
"We have been anticipating this event for months, and have been surprised how long it took for the rift to break through the final few kilometres of ice. We will continue to monitor both the impact of this calving event on the Larsen C Ice Shelf, and the fate of this huge iceberg.
The iceberg is one of the largest recorded and its future progress is difficult to predict. It may remain in one piece but is more likely to break into fragments. Some of the ice may remain in the area for decades, while parts of the iceberg may drift north into warmer waters.
The recent development in satellite systems such as Sentinel-1 and MODIS have vastly improved our ability to monitor events such as this."
Dr Martin O'Leary, a Swansea University glaciologist and member of the MIDAS project team, said of the recent calving:
"Although this is a natural event, and we're not aware of any link to human-induced climate change, this puts the ice shelf in a very vulnerable position. This is the furthest back that the ice front has been in recorded history. We're going to be watching very carefully for signs that the rest of the shelf is becoming unstable."
Professor Adrian Luckman of Swansea University added:
"In the ensuing months and years, the ice shelf could either gradually regrow, or may suffer further calving events which may eventually lead to collapse – opinions in the scientific community are divided. Our models say it will be less stable, but any future collapse remains years or decades away."
Will sea level now rise?
Nope, it was already floating, so it will by itself not contribute directly to sea level rising.
What happens now is that the remaining ice shelf will continue naturally to regrow. However, the MIDAS research team have previously shown that this new ice shelf configuration is potentially less stable than it was prior to the rift. That means that there is now a risk that Larsen C will eventually follow the example of its neighbour, Larsen B, which disintegrated in 2002 following a similar rift-induced calving event in 1995.
Once the ice shelf has collapsed, that in turn removes a barrier that holds back the flow of glaciers that feed into it. The release of this non-floating ice will have an impact upon sea level, but only over a very long-term timescale.
Antarctica is melting faster than scientists expected. #sealevelrise https://t.co/IBu6tS2jc4
— Music for Relief (@MusicForRelief) July 12, 2017
Larsen C Ice Shelf was 4th largest ice shelf in the world (48,600 km²); having just lost 12% of its total area, it's now the 5th largest pic.twitter.com/YJjgrARFSa
— The Antarctic Report (@AntarcticReport) July 12, 2017
The Larsen C ice shelf has broken away from Antarctica, a jarring reminder of why we must solve the climate crisis. https://t.co/3ddOminhX3
— Al Gore (@algore) July 12, 2017
Breaking news! The iceberg has fully detached from Larsen C – more details to follow soon pic.twitter.com/pdSxDuAGjR
— Project MIDAS (@MIDASOnIce) July 12, 2017
The last piece of the #LarsenC breakup is nicely shown in high resolution in #Sentinel1. Farewell iceberg A68! @ESA_EO @MIDASOnIce pic.twitter.com/FUzZUlT4E8
— Stef Lhermitte (@StefLhermitte) July 12, 2017
To give a sense of the true dimensions of the Larsen C iceberg, here's an animation based on real data, with something familiar for scale pic.twitter.com/OdQA07qhBb
— Adrian Luckman (@adrian_luckman) July 12, 2017
An iceberg about the size of Delaware split off from Antarctica's Larsen C ice shelf sometime between July 10-12: https://t.co/zVs9hClbpK pic.twitter.com/gQVGsZ6APO
— NASA (@NASA) July 12, 2017
Categories Antarctic, Climate Change, environment, science Tags #antarctic, climate, Larsen C, MIDAS, MODIS
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Mozambique revolution, no. 50 (1972 Jan.-Mar.)
the former, Mozambican carvings bore
witness to the cultural vitality of the
fighting Mozambican people. These carvings, the product of a rebirth and reexamination of traditional cultural forms,
illustrated the Mozambican life of today
— combat and production - while also
recalling still fresh memories of exploitation and colonial repression - the
palmatoria and the mashila.
Agricultural produce from the liberated
areas was displayed on a special stand
at   the   Agricultural   Production   stand.
Samples of products from the liberated
regions — cashew nuts, sesame seeds,
groundnuts, tobacco, wax, castor oil seeds
of various types — together with statistics on the growth of the major exports
from the liberated areas, enabled the visitors to acquaint themselves with certain
aspects of the economic life of free
Mozambique.
However, the main feature of the FRELIMO display was the FRELIMO House.
Built out of materials brought from Mozambique arid using the type of construction used in the liberated areas, this
House, situated near the Liberation Movement stand attracted more than 50,000
visitors who, as they toured it were able
to see various aspects of the Mozambican
people's struggle. Aspects of oppression
and exploitation were shown through
cartoons, photographs and carvings. The
display, with its accompanying texts,
showed the development of the armed
forces for liberation and their equipment,
the participation of women and the involvement of the masses in the armed
struggle. Education, health, agricultural
production and handicrafts in the liberated
areas illustrated either by photographs
and statistical charts, or by examples of
the textbooks used in our schools and in
health education and production incentive campaigns.
FRELIMO militants showed all the groups
of visitors around, telling them the historical background of the various features
of the struggle and answering their questions. Two Mozambican sculptors worked
ebony and ivory outside the FRELIMO
House before a crowd of curious and
interested people who came back in the
evening to see the photographic slides
projected onto the central facade.
The FRELIMO house was honoured by
visits from illustrious guests. The President of Kenya, Mzee Jomo Kenyatta,
made a lengthy tour of our House, listening to the explanations of the head of
The FRELIMO House was a big attraction for visitors to the Fair.
the FRELIMO delegation, Joaquim Chissano, who presented him with a parting
gift of a souvenir album on the liberation
struggle and records of FRELIMO songs.
The encouraging words of that veteran
nationalist fighter, Mzee Jomo Kenyatta,
expressed Kenya's unreserved support for
the liberation struggle.
The Second Vice-President and Prime
Minister of the United Republic of Tanzania, His Excellency Rashidi Kawawa,
accompanied by the Minister of Foreign
Affairs, His Excellency John Malecela
made one of his first visits at the Fair
to the FRELIMO House, where he renewed the fighting greetings and profound solidarity which unite our two
peoples.
The OAU Secretary General, His Excellency Diallo Telli, came to express the
OAU General Secretariat's immense satisfaction at the great success of our display.
Among the other notable visitors were
His Excellency M. Koinange, Minister of
State in the Office of the President of the
Republic of Kenya, His Excellency A.
Jamal, Minister for Commerce and Industry of the United Republic of Tanzania, Robert Gardiner, Director of the
Economic Commission for Africa, the
Director of the Fair, the Vice-Minister for
Agriculture of the Republic of Kei. a,
the heads of the delegations from Algeria,
Cameroun, Madagascar...
The Kenyan people and other visitors
from Africa and other continents participated massively in this great festival of
solidarity by contributing materially to
the Mozambican people's struggle. A
large number of publications in English
and Swahili and also writing pads — sold
at support prices - were completely sold
Giving the most dynamic proof of the
emergence of a new unitary and revolutionary Mozambican culture, a group of
30 young people coming from the schools
the health centres, the liberation army,
the women's detachment, the co-operatives and the militia, these young nonprofessional artists presented a 35-minute
programme of dances from the various
regions of Mozambique and allegorical
sketches on the liberation struggle. The
group performed twice in the Grand
Arena. During the last days of the Fair,
the group performed on three more occasions outside the FRELIMO House,
amidst popular enthusiasm.
Mozambique's participation in all aspects
of the All Africa Fair was a great success
from the point of view of informing the
people. Above all, it showed the will of
FRELIMO and the people of Mozambique to be present and playing their full
part in the common endeavours of the
African masses for their advancement
and true independence.
Title Mozambique revolution, no. 50 (1972 Jan.-Mar.)
Description Contents: Editorial - Building up victory (p. 1); On the 3rd anniversary of the assassination of FRELIMO's first president - Nothing can stop what Mondlane began (p. 3); Tanzania's tribute to Mondlane (p. 4); War communique (p. 5); After the massacres of Mukumbura - A victim's relatives join the struggle - A priest describes Portuguese butchery (p. 9); Interview with a Portuguese prisioner (p.11); FRELIMO at the Security Council (p.13); What is the Mozambican culture? FRELIMO's first cultural seminar (p.15); Angola's National Day - Statement on the 4th february (p.16); Visitors in free Mozambique - Chinese guests praise FRELIMO's success; FRELIMO and the people are one (p.17); FRELIMO at the all Africa fair (p. 20); $435,000,000 - Nixon's investment in Portuguese colonialism (p. 22).
Creator Mozambique Liberation Front (FRELIMO)
Publisher (of the Original Version) Mozambique Liberation Front (FRELIMO). Department of Information
Date issued 1972-01/1972-03
Full text the former, Mozambican carvings bore witness to the cultural vitality of the fighting Mozambican people. These carvings, the product of a rebirth and reexamination of traditional cultural forms, illustrated the Mozambican life of today — combat and production - while also recalling still fresh memories of exploitation and colonial repression - the palmatoria and the mashila. Agricultural produce from the liberated areas was displayed on a special stand at the Agricultural Production stand. Samples of products from the liberated regions — cashew nuts, sesame seeds, groundnuts, tobacco, wax, castor oil seeds of various types — together with statistics on the growth of the major exports from the liberated areas, enabled the visitors to acquaint themselves with certain aspects of the economic life of free Mozambique. However, the main feature of the FRELIMO display was the FRELIMO House. Built out of materials brought from Mozambique arid using the type of construction used in the liberated areas, this House, situated near the Liberation Movement stand attracted more than 50,000 visitors who, as they toured it were able to see various aspects of the Mozambican people's struggle. Aspects of oppression and exploitation were shown through cartoons, photographs and carvings. The display, with its accompanying texts, showed the development of the armed forces for liberation and their equipment, the participation of women and the involvement of the masses in the armed struggle. Education, health, agricultural production and handicrafts in the liberated areas illustrated either by photographs and statistical charts, or by examples of the textbooks used in our schools and in health education and production incentive campaigns. FRELIMO militants showed all the groups of visitors around, telling them the historical background of the various features of the struggle and answering their questions. Two Mozambican sculptors worked ebony and ivory outside the FRELIMO House before a crowd of curious and interested people who came back in the evening to see the photographic slides projected onto the central facade. The FRELIMO house was honoured by visits from illustrious guests. The President of Kenya, Mzee Jomo Kenyatta, made a lengthy tour of our House, listening to the explanations of the head of The FRELIMO House was a big attraction for visitors to the Fair. the FRELIMO delegation, Joaquim Chissano, who presented him with a parting gift of a souvenir album on the liberation struggle and records of FRELIMO songs. The encouraging words of that veteran nationalist fighter, Mzee Jomo Kenyatta, expressed Kenya's unreserved support for the liberation struggle. The Second Vice-President and Prime Minister of the United Republic of Tanzania, His Excellency Rashidi Kawawa, accompanied by the Minister of Foreign Affairs, His Excellency John Malecela made one of his first visits at the Fair to the FRELIMO House, where he renewed the fighting greetings and profound solidarity which unite our two peoples. The OAU Secretary General, His Excellency Diallo Telli, came to express the OAU General Secretariat's immense satisfaction at the great success of our display. Among the other notable visitors were His Excellency M. Koinange, Minister of State in the Office of the President of the Republic of Kenya, His Excellency A. Jamal, Minister for Commerce and Industry of the United Republic of Tanzania, Robert Gardiner, Director of the Economic Commission for Africa, the Director of the Fair, the Vice-Minister for Agriculture of the Republic of Kei. a, the heads of the delegations from Algeria, Cameroun, Madagascar... The Kenyan people and other visitors from Africa and other continents participated massively in this great festival of solidarity by contributing materially to the Mozambican people's struggle. A large number of publications in English and Swahili and also writing pads — sold at support prices - were completely sold out. Giving the most dynamic proof of the emergence of a new unitary and revolutionary Mozambican culture, a group of 30 young people coming from the schools the health centres, the liberation army, the women's detachment, the co-operatives and the militia, these young nonprofessional artists presented a 35-minute programme of dances from the various regions of Mozambique and allegorical sketches on the liberation struggle. The group performed twice in the Grand Arena. During the last days of the Fair, the group performed on three more occasions outside the FRELIMO House, amidst popular enthusiasm. Mozambique's participation in all aspects of the All Africa Fair was a great success from the point of view of informing the people. Above all, it showed the will of FRELIMO and the people of Mozambique to be present and playing their full part in the common endeavours of the African masses for their advancement and true independence. 21


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By Yolanda Smith, B.Pharm.
Rabies is a viral disease that leads to the death of approximately 55,000 deaths worldwide each year. If individuals are exposed to the virus and prophylactic measures are not taken, the disease can be fatal.
The prevention of rabies is particularly important because it is usually too late to treat the virus by the time symptoms of the disease become recognizable. Instead, it is recommended that populations residing in or travelling to areas with a high-risk of rabies take appropriate precautions to avoid the fatal effects of the disease.
This includes avoiding contact with animals possibly affected by the virus, as well as the appropriate vaccinations to prevent the virus from taking hold and causing the clinical condition.
Vaccination of Domestic Pets
At the beginning on the 20th century, the vaccination of all domestic pets became customary in many developed nations. This made a significant difference on the prevalence of rabies in the animals in these regions and helped to reduce the number cases of humans with animal bites and suspected risk rabies.
The vaccination of the majority of animals has led to a dramatic improvement in number of rabies cases reported. This is evident when considering countries that have enforced this practice, such as in America and Europe, where the incidence of rabies has steadily declined over the past century. Contrary to Asia and Africa, for example, where the risk of contracting rabies is much higher and these programs have not been enforced as attentively.
Caution in High-Risk Areas
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Additionally, for people travelling to high-risk areas, it may be appropriate to be vaccinated against rabies before travelling. This depends on the activities the individual plans to undertake during their trip, but for many travellers it can be a justifiable precaution to ensure a safer trip.
Post-Exposure Prophylaxis Vaccination
If an animal that is suspected to have rabies bites an individual, a series of vaccinations for post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP) is recommended. As symptoms usually develop when it is too late to treat the condition effectively, it is important for all individuals at risk to be vaccinated after suspected exposure, regardless of symptoms present.
PEP involves injections of rabies immunoglobulin and vaccine shortly after exposure to the virus, with four successive vaccines injected over the next 14 days. This technique is known to be extremely effective and helps approximately 15 million people with possible cases of rabies each year worldwide. It is expected to prevent the disease and save the lives of hundreds of thousands of people annually.
If the appropriate precautions are taken, it is possible to prevent rabies from affecting the population. This involves a broad approach, including reducing the risk of rabies in an area by the vaccination of animals. For people in high-risk areas, close contact with stray animals should be avoided and, if bitten, PEP should be administered to prevent the virus from causing fatal results.
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Brightman began her HYMN world tour in South America in November 2018 and includes 125 shows across five continents throughout 2019. Sarah says fans should, "expect the unexpected!". On coming home to perform, she says, "It's been a long time since I performed in London and I'm so excited to bring this beautiful new show back home to you and perform new songs and of course many favourites. To me, HYMN suggests joy and a feeling of hope and light - something familiar and secure, like home".


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NHL Picks & Betting News
St. Louis Blues Are Proof You Should Not Ignore Longshots
June 16th, 2019 By: Travis Pulver
Every gambler that has ever placed a wager wants to be Scott Berry. Who is Scott Berry? He is the fortunate St. Louis Blues fan that happened to put $400 down on the Blues back in January when they were terrible.
Back then, they didn't look like a team that had a prayer to make the playoffs let alone win the Stanley Cup. The odds on them to do it reflected this perceived reality, +25000. While odds like that would deter most fans from putting down more than $10, Berry went ahead with $400—which, with their win in Game Seven earned him a $100,000 payout.
Now, some have called him foolish for not selling his ticket or hedging in order to make sure he won something. But he had his reasons (via ESPN):
"I feel like I'm in this with the team, and I don't want to lay any of it off. I put the bet down in January for $400 to win $100,000. That was the bet. … I'm very superstitious and don't want to ruin any juju."
Most of the time, faith such as Berry's doesn't pay off. Most of the time, when teams are longshots like the Blues were in January, those teams continue to flounder and don't make the playoffs. There have been times when underdogs have made epic turnarounds like the Blues did. But those occurrences are rare.
However, the beauty in them is that it is extremely difficult to predict them. The Blues didn't look like they had it in them back in January so what's to say one longshot should be ignored over another? Are there any fans should be considering?
Odds to win next World Series
Arizona Diamondbacks, Oakland Athletics, San Diego Padres, and Texas Rangers +5000
Chicago White Sox, Cincinnati Reds, Los Angeles Angels, Pittsburgh Pirates +10000
Seattle Mariners +25000
Detroit Tigers, San Francisco Giants, and Toronto Blue Jays + 50000
Baltimore Orioles, Kansas City Royals, Miami Marlins +100000
Odds to win next Super Bowl LIV
Carolina Panthers, Denver Broncos, New York Giants, New York Jets, and Tennessee Titans +5000
Buffalo Bills, Detroit Lions, Tampa Bay Buccaneers +6600
Arizona Cardinals +8000
Cincinnati Bengals, Washington Redskins +10000
Miami Dolphins +12500
Odds to win next NCAAF National Championship
Auburn, Nebraska, Texas A&M, Washington, Wisconsin +5000
Miami, Mississippi State +6600
USC, Utah, Virginia Tech +10000
Iowa, Missouri, UCF +15000
Kentucky, Syracuse +25000
Odds to win next NBA Championship
Sacramento Kings +5000
Chicago Bulls, Orlando Magic +6600
Memphis Grizzlies +8000
Atlanta Hawks, Charlotte Hornets, Cleveland Cavaliers, Detroit Pistons, Miami Heat, Minnesota Timberwolves, Phoenix Suns, Washington Wizards +10000
Of course, picking out a legitimate longshot is like beauty—it is in the eye of the beholder. Every team with long odds has them for a reason. But, occasionally, the stars align for some of these teams and they do something great.
So—any good longshots?
Cases could be made for a few teams in each sport—but only if things go their way. The stars would have to align along with a few of the planets. Just ask a diehard fan and they'll tell you how it can happen.
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"What Is Post Pardum Depression and What to do About It?"
"What To Do If You're Suffering from 'Baby blues' or Post Pardum Depression?"
You may be experiencing 'baby blues' or post pardum depression if you've recently given birth to a baby and you've been feeling abnormally tired, hopeless and worthless. Your hormonal and physical changes as well as your new responsibility as a mother can lead to depression.
"Thank you so much for all the articles I receive in my e-mails. They have helped me alot."
You will get well again.
Here you will find some information to help you!
You don't need to feel embarrassed or keep silent about your dark feelings during this time with your new baby. Speak up and seek help. (You are already doing that by reading this website!) As you gain courage to understand and seek knowledge about post pardum depression, you can become healthy again.
Thousands of women experience the same feelings you are. If you find and treat your physical and emotional causes of your post pardum depression, you can find joy again!
What can you do to shake these blues?
Feed your mind! What you eat makes a huge impact on your mental health. This is so important to take seriously. Research has shown that what our mothers ate and their mothers ate and even their mothers ate affect our mental health. For so long we've been told that depression is hereditary or genetic when in fact, what we eat could break this cycle.
Scientists have learned that when certain amino acids are lacking in our diet, depression sets in. It may take several generations for offspring to deplete their brains of these essential amino acids. This is most likely why depression is on the rise in the United States and is severely low in places in other parts of the world. Read the full report below.
You need to take care of yourself and your family needs to give you emotional support during this time. Ask them to help you do household tasks like laundry, cleaning, making meals etc. Have food delivered by meals on wheels (This is nutritional and economical unlike most restaurant food).
If you are overwhelmed, it is important to seek out a support group of some kind whether it is from family, friends, your local church or a community group of mothers who have also suffered from post pardum depression in the past. Look in the yellow pages for such groups. Community is important for us all. No one can do this alone. Groups of mothers offer a place to share ideas, concerns, advice and even share baby stuff! If you cannot find such a group, please consider speaking with a counsellor. Look in the yellow pages for family counsellors or ask your doctor for a recommendation.
Enjoy your infant. Kiss her toes. Sing to her. Read to her. Enjoy her smile. You are now the most important thing in this world – a mother. I know you may not feel this way but you are special.
Get outside! Put your baby in a stroller and take a walk around the block. The fresh air, and sunshine will do you and your baby a world of good. "I forced myself to get outside for a walk for at least 15-30 min a day. Not only did I lose the weight, it relieved me of my post pardum depression." - one mother shares.
If going for a walk is just too much for you right now, then just go outside, take a deep breath, and sit in the sunshine for a few minutes. It will help.
Sleep when the baby sleeps. To fight fatigue and post pardum depression, you must get your rest! Who cares if the house is not immaculate.
"I'm crazy tired. I feel as stressed out by exhaustion as someone who spent time in Vietnam", writes Anne Lamott, author of Operating Instructions (her journal of the first year of her son's birth) as she describes the post pardum experience in her memoir. This is an excellent book by the way. It shows you that you are not alone in your postpartum experience. Give it a read. You'll laugh and cry (good tears).
"How can you fight your postpartum depression?"
Research reveals that there are 6 major ingredients that must be present in your life to combat post pardum depression. For example, one of them includes essential nutrients that must be present in your diet especially after pregnancy and are most likely missing due to our deficient modern diets and lifestyle. After suffering from post pardum depression ourselves, we took action, did some research ourselves and now we share this info for all to read. We hope you benefit like we did! Read the full report here.
How to Help a Friend Going Through Postpartum Depression (pdf download) - right click and save to your desktop.
Back to "Postpartum Depression Symptoms"
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One of the hottest summer trends is gingham. I've already posted about gingham…but I'm still super into the trend. Usually my outfits are very monochromatic, black or white, and gingham just so happens to be a perfect blend of the two! Another great summer piece to invest in are a pair of quality white denim jeans. I think it's a good idea to invest in a solid pair of white denim skinny jeans, but if you're on a budget there's plenty of great inexpensive white skinny jeans options! Below I'm featuring some of the most current gingham tops that you can currently purchase, followed by some snapshots of how I paired my gingham + white denim look!


The Defense Department hasn't developed a plan to reimburse soldiers for equipment they've bought to fight in Iraq and Afghanistan despite requirements in a law passed last year, a senator says.
In a letter sent Wednesday to Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, Sen. Christopher J. Dodd (news, bio, voting record), D-Conn., asked details on the Pentagon (news - web sites)'s progress setting up the reimbursement program and questioned why it was not in place yet.
"Very simply, this is either negligence on their part, because they were not happy with this when it passed, or it's incompetence," Dodd said. "It's pretty outrageous when you have all their rhetoric about how much we care about our people in uniform."
Pentagon spokeswoman Lt. Col. Ellen Krenke said Rumsfeld will respond to Dodd's letter after he has reviewed it. She had no comment on the progress of reimbursement regulations.
Soldiers serving in Iraq and their families have reported buying everything from higher-quality protective gear to armor for their Humvees, medical supplies and even global positioning devices. In response to the complaints, Congress last year passed Dodd's amendment requiring the Pentagon to reimburse members of the Armed Services for the cost of any safety or health equipment that they bought or someone else bought on their behalf.
Under the law, the Defense Department had until Feb. 25 to develop regulations on the reimbursement, which is limited to $1,100 per item.
Dodd asked that Rumsfeld provide details on the department's progress. But he also said it was unclear what recourse he has, other than public embarrassment, to force the Defense Department to act.
Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., who repeatedly decried the lack of equipment during his unsuccessful presidential campaign, said the Pentagon needs to move quickly to give the troops their reimbursement and armored Humvees. "They should be living up to the letter of the law," Kerry said.


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