Ever wondered how to pick the fittest mate? If you?re a rhino beetle, choose the male with the biggest horns.
Douglas Emlen from the University of Montana in Missoula and colleagues have shown that the size of the animals? antler-like ornamentation reflects their nutrition and physical health. By conducting gene-silencing experiments, they found that insulin levels, which depend on factors such as diet, stress and infection, affect the growth of a male?s horns.
Whereas the size of other structures, like genitals and wings, are relatively constant across male beetles, the size of their horns varies greatly. Some males have tiny bumps whereas others have sprawling ornamentation, which can be an advantage when competing for females, as shown in the video above. Males are seen using their horns to get closer to a potential mate by flicking their rivals off a tree. They?re also used as a weapon when males battle for a prized female.
If you enjoyed this clip, watch how water striders pin down females for sex or see what worm sexual foreplay looks like.
ScienceDaily (July 27, 2012) ? Policymakers in the fight against HIV/AIDS may have to wait years, even decades, to know whether strategic choices among possible interventions are effective. How can they make informed choices in an age of limited funding? A reliable, well-calibrated, predictive computer simulation would be a great help.
Policymakers struggling to stop the spread of HIV grapple with "what if" questions on the scale of millions of people and decades of time. They need a way to predict the impact of many potential interventions, alone or in combination. In two papers to be presented at the 2012 International AIDS Society Conference in Washington, D.C., Brandon Marshall, assistant professor of epidemiology at Brown University, will unveil a computer program calibrated to model accurately the spread of HIV in New York City over a decade and to make specific predictions about the future of the epidemic under various intervention scenarios.
"It reflects what's seen in the real world," said Marshall. "What we're trying to do is identify the ideal combination of interventions to reduce HIV most dramatically in injection drug users."
In an analysis that he'll present on July 27, Marshall projects that with no change in New York City's current programs, the infection rate among injection drug users will be 2.1 per 1,000 in 2040. Expanding HIV testing would drop the rate only 12 percent to 1.9 per 1,000; increasing drug treatment would reduce the rate 26 percent to 1.6 per 1,000; providing earlier delivery of antiretroviral therapy and better adherence would drop the rate 45 percent to 1.2 per 1,000; and expanding needle exchange programs would reduce the rate 34 percent to 1.4 per 1,000. Most importantly, doing all four of those things would cut the rate by more than 60 percent, to 0.8 per 1,000.
Virtual reality, real choices
The model is unique in that it creates a virtual reality of 150,000 "agents," a programming term for simulated individuals, who in the case of the model, engage in drug use and sexual activity like real people.
Like characters in an all-too-serious video game, the agents behave in a world governed by biological rules, such as how often the virus can be transmitted through encounters such as unprotected gay sex or needle sharing.
With each run of the model, agents accumulate a detailed life history. For example, in one run, agent 89,425, who is male and has sex with men, could end up injecting drugs. He participates in needle exchanges, but according to the built-in probabilities, in year three he shares needles multiple times with another injection drug user with whom he is also having unprotected sex. In the last of those encounters, agent 89,425 becomes infected with HIV. In year four he starts participating in drug treatment and in year five he gets tested for HIV, starts antiretroviral treatment, and reduces the frequency with which he has unprotected sex. Because he always takes his HIV medications, he never transmits the virus further.
That level of individual detail allows for a detailed examination of transmission networks and how interventions affect them.
"With this model you can really look at the microconnections between people," said Marshall, who began working on the model as a postdoctoral fellow at Columbia University and has continued to develop it since coming to Brown in January. "That's something that we're really excited about."
To calibrate the model, Marshall and his colleagues found the best New York City data they could about how many people use drugs, what percentage of people were gay or lesbian, the probabilities of engaging in unprotected sex and needle sharing, viral transmission, access to treatment, treatment effectiveness, participation in drug treatment, progression from HIV infection to AIDS, and many more behavioral, social and medical factors. They also continuously calibrated it until the model could faithfully reproduce the infection rates among injection drug users that were known to occur in New York between 1992 and 2002.
And they don't just run the simulation once. They run it thousands of times on a supercomputer at Brown to be sure the results they see are reliable.
Future applications
At Brown, Marshall is continuing to work on other aspects of the model, including an analysis of the cost effectiveness of each intervention and their combinations. Cost is, after all, another fact of life that policymakers and public health officials must weigh.
And then there's the frustrating insight that the infection rate, even with four strengthened interventions underway, didn't reduce the projected epidemic by much more than half.
"I actually expected something larger," Marshall said. "That speaks to how hard we have to work to make sure that drug users can access and benefit from proven interventions to reduce the spread of HIV."
Marshall's collaborators on the model include Magdalena Paczkowski, Lars Seemann, Barbara Tempalski, Enrique Pouget, Sandro Galea, and Samuel Friedman.
The National Institutes of Health and the Lifespan/Tufts/Brown Center for AIDS Research provide financial support for the model's continued development.
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Chinook?s Total Connect for Office 365 bundle enables small and medium-sized businesses to integrate cloud-based phone service across all Microsoft Office 365 Unified Messaging applications
SEATTLE, July 9, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ ? Chinook Communications has announced the introduction of a new service offering that enables small and medium-sized businesses to easily integrate enterprise voice and other hosted Lync services with Exchange Online Unified Messaging hosted by Microsoft Office 365. The new service, Total Connect for Office 365, is designed for businesses seeking to maximize the productivity and cost benefits of hosted unified messaging with integrated, cloud-based phone service.
Total Connect for Office 365 includes the full support of Exchange Online Unified Messaging, including voice mail, voice to text translation, and Outlook voice access. In addition to extensive voice capabilities (including PSTN inbound and outbound calling, response groups, call hold, forward and transfer, and simultaneous ring), Lync will provide secure instant messaging, presence, audio conferencing, online conferencing, video conferencing, desktop sharing, white boarding. Customers on E3 or E4 plans can be up and running with a complete enterprise voice and unified communications solution in less than four hours.
?We are very excited about the introduction of this new product,? said David Sommerville, vice president of sales and marketing. ?Microsoft?s Office 365 team has done an incredible job introducing people to the benefits of Unified Communications. Chinook?s new service completes the experience by integrating our cloud based phone service, which includes all the features a business demands, with their existing Office 365 subscription. Office 365 customers can now replace all of their communication services, and significantly reduce their overhead burden, with a complete communications offering in the cloud.?
The Total Connect for Office 365 announcement follows on the heels of Chinook Communications? release of Total Connect, the first ever production release worldwide of the Microsoft-supported Lync Server 2010 Multitenant Pack for Partner Hosting.
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WASHINGTON (AP) ? Relentless GOP criticism of a 12-day-old remark about business owners has taken a campaign toll on President Barack Obama, forcing him to defend himself and giving Republican Mitt Romney a break from steady attacks.
The development has delighted Republicans, who were eager to shift the campaign focus from Romney's tax returns, overseas assets and Bain Capital record.
Acknowledging that the Republican's criticisms were hitting a mark, Obama's team rolled out two new TV ads this week in which he employed for the first time what many Democrats consider a powerful tool: the president talking directly into the camera and countering GOP claims.
"Those ads taking my words about small business out of context ? they're flat-out wrong," Obama says in the newest ad.
Democrats say the "direct-to-camera" format plays to the president's strength, and they don't think Romney can match it. But like any strategy deployed 15 weeks before Election Day, it might lose some of its impact over time.
In the immediate future, Democrats hope Obama's response will help him move past the flap about business owners. But Romney aides kept up the pressure Wednesday, sponsoring 24 events on the topic while Romney was overseas.
Democratic strategists acknowledged Wednesday that Obama was being hurt, at least a little, by Romney's repeated jabs at comments the president made in Virginia on July 13, which originally drew little notice.
"If you've got a business, you didn't build that," Obama said, in part. "Somebody else made that happen."
Most GOP attacks ignored the broader context of the speech. In it, Obama discussed a favorite theme: the claim that government-assisted infrastructure including roads, research and schools help sustain American society, including private enterprise.
Romney and his allies have used the quote in countless ads, videos, statements and conference calls, painting Obama as contemptuous of hard-working entrepreneurs and business owners.
It's a presidential topic so familiar that few reporters or Obama critics took note of the specific remarks for a few days.
"If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help," Obama said in the July 13 speech. He cited teachers and mentors who helped "create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges."
"When we succeed, we succeed because of our individual initiative, but also because we do things together," he said.
Late on July 16, the Romney campaign began a drumbeat of attacks quoting only the line, "If you've got a business, you didn't build that."
Democrats responded cautiously at first. Eventually, aides began saying Obama's "that" referred to the infrastructure he cited elsewhere in the Virginia speech.
In an interview with a Florida TV station that aired Friday ? a full week after the original remarks ? Obama said: "What I said was, together we build roads and we build bridges...Anybody who actually watched the tape knows that was what I was referring to."
Obama had planned to address the matter more fully on Friday, aides say. But that day's mass shooting at a Colorado movie theater sidelined both campaigns for several days.
Still, Obama and his advisers realized the attacks were starting to hurt, and they filmed the 30-second response ad in the White House chief of staff's office on Saturday. In the ad, first aired Tuesday, Obama says: "Those ads taking my words about small business out of context ? they're flat-out wrong. Of course Americans build their own businesses."
Obama also began to push back in his stump speech.
"Over the next four months, you are going to hear a lot of stuff," he said at a New Orleans fundraiser Wednesday evening. "Sometimes they will play around with things I say. They'll take out whole sentences. They've got an ad right now where they just spliced it and diced it and make it seem like I don't appreciate the incredible work of small businesspeople."
Romney and the Republican National Committee have since urged voters to review the entire speech. Their criticisms of Obama are fair and in context, they say.
Obama campaign adviser David Axelrod, referring to the first Romney ads about the "you didn't build that" quote, told MSNBC on Wednesday: "I was concerned when I saw the initial ad that it might be impactful. I've concluded that it's not all that impactful. But the ad that we did in response got a very good response in the testing that we did, because it pushes our message forward."
A Democratic strategist with ties to the campaign said Obama's team used focus groups, Web studies and other techniques to gauge the likely impact of Romney's attacks. No Obama campaign ads are aired without undergoing intense study, said the strategist, who would speak only on background in order to discuss private meetings.
Campaigns often use an opponent's remarks selectively, and then weather charges of taking the comments out of context. In January, some Democrats pounced when Romney told an audience, "I like being able to fire people." GOP aides said it was clear that Romney was referring to the right to seek the best providers of services such as insurance.
Romney campaign spokesman Kevin Madden said Wednesday that Obama's July 13 speech "crystalizes the differences" between the two candidates on how large and active the federal government should be. The lesson of the Republicans' 2010 election victories, he said, is that "Washington has to stop growing the size of government."
Obama aides said it's largely coincidental that his new 30-second ad looks much like a 60-second ad that was recorded some time ago but first aired Monday. Both were filmed in the White House chief of staff's office, and consist of the president speaking directly to viewers.
The 60-second ad, titled "The Choice," contains none of the defensiveness of the shorter one. It pursues the Obama campaign's oft-stated goal of framing the election as a choice between two visions of America more than as referendum on Obama's first term, which has been dogged by high unemployment.
"Over the next four months, you have a choice to make," Obama says in the ad. "Gov. Romney's plan would cut taxes for the folks at the very top. Roll back regulations on big banks. And he says that if we do that, our economy will grow and everyone will benefit." That approach has failed in the past, Obama says.
Romney's campaign shows no sign of letting up on the "you didn't build that" attacks. The president's comments made Florida business owner Lou Ramos "almost throw up," the campaign said Wednesday in announcing an event in Tampa featuring Ramos.
The Democratic National Committee responded with conference calls in which elected officials and small business owners denounced the "out-of-context attacks on the president."
The Black Hat Conference takes place in Las Vegas this week, where hackers, security experts and representatives from major companies meet to discuss all things relating to information security. If you're following the news out of the conference today, you may have come across reports of a new security vulnerability in Android (and NFC-enabled Meego phones) that could allow a malicious NFC (near-field communication) tag to beam malware directly onto your phone. Sounds terrifying, right? Now hackers can take over your smartphone without you even doing anything. But as is always the case with these kinds of security issues, it's not as simple as it seems, and this NFC 'hack,' sexy and technically impressive as it is, isn't really anything particularly scary to regular smartphone users.
What Do You'll need To know About Coffee Percolators?
If you need to roast coffee beans at dwelling, then you will need a percolator. At one time coffee percolators had been the key way consumers brewed coffee. But in the 1970s, automatic drip machines marched onto the scene and largely took over.
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Many people prefer other approaches because they feel the lack of flavor right after brewing in coffee percolators is often a large issue. Other consumers believe percolators develop a robust cup of coffee.
Like most things in the planet of drinking coffee, this comes down to personal preference. Coffee percolators do develop coffee that is certainly stronger and darker than the coffee created by an automatic drip machine.
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The purpose coffee percolators develop coffee that is certainly a lot darker and stronger is because of the procedure it uses to brew. For one issue, the coffee is at times put by means of more than one cycle of brewing and boiling hot water is utilized. To make use of coffee percolators, you need coffee that has been coarsely ground.
Percolators are reasonably economical. They are also incredibly durable. This can be due in portion for the supplies utilized to construct the machine itself. Although you will discover electric percolators, you will discover nevertheless stovetop versions of this appliance, that are the hardest of all to use. However the way more common is definitely the countertop version.
Coffee percolators refer to a type of appliance for coffee brewing where the piece that holds the water is heat resistant. Then a basket that holds the coffee grounds sits at the leading where it truly is supported by a tube. This tube functions like a straw to evenly distribute the water over the coffee grounds. The basket at the leading functions as a filter. It truly is produced from metal and has holes to ensure that the coffee can drain out while leaving the grounds behind. Water heats from the bottom in the pot and then it truly is drawn up the center tube. The water is distributed over the coffee grounds and then dribbles back in to the pot itself. This procedure usually repeats itself, which can be what gives the coffee its strong taste and flavor.
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Some Vital Things To Note About Coffee Percolators:
Many in the automatic or electric models do not have a body that can be immersed in water. Make sure that you know what type you could have just before dipping it in to the sink.
To clean percolators, you need a couple teaspoons of baking soda and eight ounces of water. Run that by means of the percolator for one cycle. You're able to also buy cleaning products commercially developed for percolators. If you have hard water, use white vinegar and water at a 1:1 ratio.
After you could have poured out each of the coffee, unplug the percolator. Heating an empty percolator pot will render it damaged.
Normally use the correct grounds for coffee percolators or else you are likely to get grounds within your cup.
Should you be wondering which percolator it is advisable to decide, you will discover numerous nice coffee percolators in the marketplace at the moment. Farberware, Dualit, Delonghi, Metro, Presto, and Cuisinart are among leading names manufacturing coffee percolators. Hamilton Beach carries an extremely reasonably priced model at the same time. Metro, Cuisinart, and Presto all carry budget friendly models too. Farberware, Dualit, and Delonghi have some higher finish percolators.
Coffee percolators are the only to method to make high-quality coffee for lots of individuals. In the event you like strong, dark, bitter coffee, then a percolator could possibly be just what that you are in search of.
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A woman who said she was sexually assaulted while on a two-month row around Lake Michigan to raise cancer awareness says she remains frightened but plans to resume her trip Wednesday.
Jenn Gibbons is trying to become the first person to solo-row the entire 1,500-mile perimeter of Lake Michigan in an effort to show the role exercise plays in the fight against breast cancer. She set out on her two-month mission from Chicago on June 15, NBCChicago.com reported.
About five weeks into her journey, she said, she awoke in the early morning hours on Sunday to the sound of someone boarding the boat, which she had docked for the night near a lighthouse on a stretch of a remote shoreline of Lake Michigan. Gibbons told police she rushed to lock the cabin door, but the stranger forced his way inside and sexually assaulted her.
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?I was out in the middle of nowhere,? Gibbons told the Chicago Sun-Times. ?It was terrifying. And he told me he knew where to find me.?
Police believe Gibbons? attacker traveled a significant distance to find her, they said in a statement, perhaps following her on the Internet as she documented her mission through her Facebook page and personal blog.
Gibbons said she punched the man in the chest and ran. She tried to lock herself in a wooden outhouse, but her attacker forced his way inside. She said she fought him off until he fled in a yellow Jeep Wrangler.
Gibbons said she ran to the boat, locked herself in the cabin and called 911, police said.
Michigan State Police
This sketch shows the suspect wanted in connection with the reported sexual assault of Jenn Gibbons on Sunday, July 22, 2012.
Police released a sketch of the man Tuesday and continued their investigation. The suspect is described as a white male in his 30s, approximately 5 feet 8 to 6 feet tall, with a fair amount of facial stubble hair, but not a full beard or mustache. The man has light eyes, an average to athletic build and shorter well-kept hair. He was wearing a grayish green T-shirt, jean shorts and tennis shoes.
?I know that I had a choice in telling people about the details of my attack, particularly that it was a sexual assault,? Gibbons posted in a note to her Facebook page. ?To go through this at all, let alone publicly, is extremely difficult. I chose to talk about it in the hope that someone might be able to provide more information about the person who did this to me.?
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?Regarding the trip, one thing hasn?t changed: I?ve still got this,? Gibbons wrote. ?But the trip plan will change in a few ways to ensure my safety. Most importantly, I will no longer be alone.?
Gibbons is a customer service agent for the deal-of-the-day website Groupon and the head coach for the Recovery on Water charity, a rowing team composed of breast cancer survivors.
Gibbons said she hoped her mission circumnavigating Lake Michigan would raise $150,000 for her charity. She has already raised $80,000, the Chicago Sun-Times reported.
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Of the handful of personal finance blogs that I follow daily, a few are written by men ? this one included. They are well-written, insightful and generally thought-provoking, which is why I keep reading them. There is just one problem in our virtual relationship: I am a woman (like the majority of personal finance blogs? readers). If one were to take seriously the comments of bloggers and male visitors alike on some of these sites ? this one excluded ? womanhood is a mode of existence irreconcilable with good money management skills. If I had a nickel for every time I?ve read a comment about the terrible financial choices made by a man at the instigation of his partner ? I would be at least a few hundred dollars closer to retirement.
And my only response to all those laments of financial woe is, simply put: Shut it!
Here?s why.
Financially responsible, high net worth women exist. They are not a figment of feminist propaganda or neutered personal finance blogs. They walk the earth among you. If you, as a financially responsible guy, end up marrying, shacking up, or making babies with anyone who does not fit that description ? and wish you had ? you have no one to blame but yourself. If you then let that person influence your financial decisions, or worse yet, abdicate your personal responsibility and place the decisions entirely in her hands, you have no one to blame for the result but yourself. Sounds harsh? Let?s explore.
First, I don?t know of any studies that have ever conclusively proven that women, as a group and solely on the basis of gender, are more financially irresponsible than men. If such a study exists, I hope that Joe will bring it to my attention. Absent proof of this beyond the purely anecdotal, I will wager that, generally speaking, men are not facing insurmountable statistical odds in the quest for a financially responsible partner. The question is: what premium do men put on a woman?s fiscal responsibility? Where, on the list of necessary attributes in a life partner and/or co-parent, do money management skills land? Near the top? Near the bottom? Nowhere? What other desired attributes are they willing to forgo in the interests of securing their prospective families? financial security? Is it more important that your girlfriend or wife look like Kate Upton, or that she can balance a budget? Is it more important that she allows you to feel like a swell guy, or that she can bring in a great pay-cheque (bigger, perhaps, than yours)? These are not either/or questions necessarily; plenty of women with enviable assets (financial and physical) look ? if I may be prurient for a moment ? great in a bikini, and they are not all harpies intent on emasculating their partners. But if in love, as in life, there have to be compromises. Every man must make his choice ? and live with it ? or her, in this case. And then man up, and not go whining about it later in the comment sections of various sympathetic personal finance blogs.
Second, apart from those who might legitimately deserve the label of ?sociopath?, most people do not and cannot disguise their real selves for long. You might not be able to tell immediately whether the wonderful girl you just started dating has a ton of disposable income, or 5-figure credit card debt instead; after all, it?s not something generally disclosed in the preliminary movements of the dating game. But, barring whirlwind romances or arranged marriages, by the time the game has progressed far enough to require a decision as to your joint long-term future, you should have a pretty good idea about not only the contents of her bank accounts, but also her entire fiscal philosophy ? and if either or both of those pieces of information make you feel queasy, then run for the hills ? or not. And if you don?t, then man up and don?t whine about it later on the?personal finance blogs of yours and others. Wait, did I already say that?
If, against all better judgment, you married or otherwise yoked yourself to a woman you know to be incapable of living within her means or completely divorced from the reality of a hard-earned dollar, prepare yourself. Be ready to spend the rest of your life standing your ground on decisions that are likely to be very unpopular with your partner. Hey, she must have qualities that make up for that inconvenience, or else you wouldn?t have married her, right? But if it happens that, for any reason ? be it exhaustion or apathy ? you acquiesce in the choices she makes, or leave the whole decision-making process in her hands, accept that it is as much your responsibility as if you had made that decision alone. Short of actual coercion, no person can force another into a bad decision ? be it an unwise purchase, an adulterous liaison, or a bank robbery. Anyone who tells you otherwise is evidently unfamiliar with the concept of personal responsibility. A moribund idea in our society for sure, but one we should not be so ready to pull off life support just yet.
In summary, dear male blog writers and their fanboys: please don?t assume that, my bikini-worthiness notwithstanding, my gender dooms me to a life spent enriching the pockets of my credit card provider. In return, I promise not to make assumptions about your love life, or the acute bitterness engendered by the lack thereof. Let each of us continue to enjoy what the other has to offer ? me, your witty insights on financial topics; you, my devoted page views ? without unnecessary feelings of shame ? on my part, for acquiescing in misogyny; on yours, for the fact that, like the majority of your readers, I am a woman. There are more important things in life ? like index funds.
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My kids are weird.? Having my husband and I for parents really leaves them with no other option.
Odd is hard-wired in their DNA.
If you follow me on Twitter you?ve seen some of the stuff they say because I can?t keep it to myself.? The world has to know.? Like:
Daughter: ?What?s a catheter?? I explain? ?OH NO!? I am never asking you anything again!?
or
Me: ?Son, you?re putting your pants on backwards.? Him: ?Don?t judge me.?
Matter-of-Fact?Belligerence
Probably my best/worst parenting moment ever was when my daughter was 4 1/2.? She?s a pretty good kid most of the time, but this day?she had been a monster.
I may have even taken out a Craig?s List ad and offered her as ?free to a good home.? ?The final straw was when she took a pair of scissors to her brand new school pants.? I was speechless I was so angry and just?done.? I knew if I put my hands on her I?d snap her neck, so I just stood there.? Staring at her.? Totally matter-of-fact she says, ?Spankings don?t work and time-outs don?t work, so what are you going to do now, Mom??
4 1/2.? She was 4 1/2.
P.S.? After going through the implications in my head of having to explain to her father why he was down a kid when he got home, I made her stay in her room for the rest of the day and tried to figure out how to answer her question.? I still don?t have an answer.? I always have to come up with new and inventive ways to punish her.? I think she secretly enjoys it.
Nature or nurture?
No one can convince me it?s not absolutely both.
My son is just about the kindest kid I?ve ever know.? He was born that way.? He certainly didn?t learn from me.? My daughter can not learn things fast enough to suit her.? Been that way since she was a baby.? I didn?t listen to Mozart while I was pregnant or whatever else it is you?re suppose to do to make super babies.? It?s just her.
Bottom Line Parenting
My husband and I decided long ago that all we can do as their parents is help them to figure out how to use who they are to it?s best advantage and make good decisions along the way.
That?s it.? That?s our whole job.? We figure we have until they?re about 16 (when cars happen) to teach them everything we can about being decent and productive, then we have to let go and hope they still come to us when they need to.
Terrifying Joy
We have about another year and a half with our daughter, then she goes mobile.? Our son is 12, so there?s a little more time.? He actually claims he?s never leaving home because he just wants to be with us forever.? To which his dad and I respond, ?Don?t you threaten us!?
Sometimes it feels like a crap shoot when it comes to making decisions about how to handle the various things that pop up with our kids.? Second guessing has become second nature.? I guess I just hope for the best because there really is no formula, right?
I feel like I?m rambling, but that?s parenting, isn?t it?? Controlled chaos.? Terrifying joy.
Enjoy your kids.? Let every phase be your favorite.? Revel in the weird and the unique.? It?s their birthright.
Question: What are some crazy things your kids have said/done?
EdiTOR?s Note: Our family recently delivered our third child. As such, some blogging buddies of mine have graciously offered to write a series of guest posts to allow my family to spend a little time together ? away from this blog. I?m deeply grateful for such friends, and I hope you enjoy their writing!
Today?s guest post is from Sharideth Smith who claims to ??write stuff sometimes.? ?She?s managed to keep two children alive so far, has been married to the same person for almost 20 years and still likes the guy, mostly because he has a really great beard.? She enjoys short walks on the beach and shooting pool because she?s innately lazy and doesn?t really like to move much at all.
Do yourself a favor and check out more of her edgey, comedic writing at her blog listed below or follow her gut-busting tweets on Twitter.
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Just over a month ago, Apple launched its svelte new MacBook Pro with Retina display. Powerful and beautiful, we all fell in love with the new device, jammed up Apple's ordering process, and prepared to queue up for a hot new Mac all over again.
Then we woke a day later to a slew of realizations: the unit is hard to upgrade, software isn't optimized for the new display, and repairs will be expensive, if not impossible. Then we heard that some Retina screens were having color issues. So we rioted. We hated it for being limited, for not being the sexy woman she promised she was the night before.
Home Improvement Ideas can be really helpful for beautifying a home, but it?s very simple to get overwhelmed and not even get started with the procedure. It?s correct that those of us who have an authentic passion for interior design and doing it yourself get it much easier than those who don?t charge that passion. I?ve outlined some diy ideas below to obtain started with the method. Let?s have a look at those ideas..
- Incorporating a leather lounge set might be the most effective things you can do when it comes to adding more comfort for an entire room as well as house. Guests and possibly also yourself love to have it comfortable throughout the hours in your home. Leather sofa sets produce an environment that adds more appeal to a community and will help your guests to feel like in their own homes. Buying a leather couch set should depend on the complete style and design of your area. Be smart as well as consider sofa models that are congruent with your place.
- Improving your own current windows may be another great idea for your residence. That is especially correct when you do have a home with windows that need improvement along with renovation. Vinyl glass windows perfectly match with just about any room design and so are the new preferred fashion.
- Creating a sport room is a fantastic concept if you need more pleasure at home. In fact, if there is kids they will certainly love to have a special put in place which they can play their best games or pursuits when they get back house from school. Designing a sport room is something that may happen at any given time. Here it is important to consider how old your kids are along with what types of games they would like to play. Logically, the games you should totally place mostly depend on the capability of your children. Board games or challenge games tend to be suitable for babies to children. On the other hand, PlayStation game titles, billiards or shuffleboard is going to be ideal for kids between your age of 6 to be able to 16.
- Developing a great working surroundings is another important factor of your entire home surroundings. Think about your current doing work conditions of home and if you do have an office what could you increase? Also, if your little ones need a quite room to do their homework it is advisable to add a cozy office chair as well as an appropriate desk for your room. Make certain to have all other components including table lamp, pencils, maps etc.
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Many people adore ingesting the actual beef coming from poultry. It is a foods considered to be section of dishes of people all around the world. For a few, the pieces are really listed on the particular special treats supported to individuals who have a fantastic deal of riches to buy foods. It could be offered using nearly all piquancy on it or be supported because basic while cooking the thought as well as cooking food that along with drinking water, pepper and salt.
But, it?s simple to learn meals that are produced making use of hen meat. About to catch genuinely mindful of in which referring through. You only find it with the seasoning about it and not really about the cages wherever these were raised. This document will let you seem on it and know concerning how to expand them right for your individual patio.
There are many forgotten fowl cages along roads of many countries, especially in countries along with sultry weathers. Entrepreneurs keep these unclean with chicken dirt all over. The dust will likely then consume the major development in the hen crate and in occasion, it?ll be when combined the bottom and be consumed through various other organisms. These kinds of just prove two things. One is that will for many stretch of time, citizens were capable to increase this dog coming from a not-so-large number. Proprietors remained capable to grow these and could tackle the small niche for fowl through days gone by. Another thing is that people who were not able to develop their particular hen chickens well simply eliminate their particular rubbish about wherever they will started that. They cannot head the actual air pollution these may bring towards the community. The particular remnant merely goes to show how the fowl parrot cages are not appropriately disposed and may even be damaging to the fitness of those who stay in close proximity to that. Even so, the second problem could possibly be prevented. You can boost sterilization inside hen houses. The truth is, you?ll find recommendations on the way to build your backyard a much better location for hens to be. They could be dealt with such that they can tend not to pollute environmental surroundings but they can be helpful throughout enhancing the provide for hens. In line with this kind of, you must check a number of things to consider you have to take before beginning.
A very vital factor that you could contemplate is the size the yard. Do not concern yourself because it will not genuinely matter regardless of whether there is a minor space. Eliminating this issue is not really a hard process. Resolving this might only need you to certainly make pens which can be higher. This way, you may deploy many floors for the hen parrot cage. Make sure to usually view his or her measurement since it will not be excellent for these to live in this type of small area because of so many additional chickens.
Do not forget that you have to clear the actual hen crates at least 4 times per week. This can help your chickens to eliminate diseases a result of very poor health. Just like humans, they may be vulnerable to ailments in the event the temperature is very hot then when they are not capable to bathe often. It?s very vital to take into consideration their particular wire crate the moment this becomes filthy or annoying to the sensory faculties. Cleanup it regularly will likely remove some other organisms dwelling as part of your chickens. Jigs, for example, will be the primary opponents in this type of activity. They irritate about the injuries regarding chickens so that as quickly since that happens, the particular hen may well additional inflame the actual injury. Also, the actual hens have to be given with the proper foods and also the right amount of it. Some other pellets may not be ideal for a specific strain of these animals. It will always be to certainly check up on the closest vet to the foodstuff that your particular flock ingest to their entire body. Developing a deceased hen inside your garden isn?t a excellent indication. A new corpse appeals to a fantastic deal of some other diseases that the various other chickens is certain to get. It really generates a domino influence. Usually do not waste more time and effort when you buy nourishes which are low-cost and certainly will simply result in your current flock in order to perish.
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Benefits of HIV drugs rise -- but less than previously believed, Penn study showsPublic release date: 22-Jul-2012 [ | E-mail | Share ]
Contact: Holly Auer holly.auer@uphs.upenn.edu 215-200-2313 University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
HIV patients whose infections are tightly controlled increased by 60 percent over past decade
PHILADELPHIA The percentage of HIV patients taking antiretroviral drugs who experienced the full benefit of the drugs jumped from 45 percent of 72 percent during the past decade, a figure that is lower than previous estimates. The findings, considered important for HIV prevention efforts, since patients whose virus is in tight control are less likely to transmit the infection to others, are published this week in JAMA by a team of researchers led by the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. The issue's publication coincides with AIDS 2012, the annual international AIDS conference, being held in the United States for the first in over 20 years this week in Washington, D.C.
The researchers analyzed 32,483 HIV-infected patients cared for in 12 clinics across the United States between 2001 and 2010. patients in the U.S. During that time, the percentage of patients taking antiretroviral drugs who exhibited sustained viral suppression having no detectable HIV virus in the blood every time the virus is measured -- increased from 45 percent to 72 percent. The authors point to new drugs and fixed dose combination tablets as factors in improving the efficacy and safety of antiretroviral drug regimens, as well as decreased side effects that make patients more likely to adhere to their treatment. Better access to care during this time period may also be a contributor to the improved viral suppression rates observed in the study.
Despite this increase, the number of patients with tightly controlled HIV infection was significantly less than the 77 percent to 87 percent figures reported in prior studies, which were based on one-time only measures of HIV virus in the blood, rather than considering every time the virus was measured. According to the study's lead investigator, Baligh Yehia, MD, MSHP, MPP, a fellow in the division of Infectious Diseases at Penn Medicine and HIV specialist, "if the HIV virus is not fully suppressed, individuals are at risk of transmitting HIV to others in the community." Yehia says that while significant advances in HIV therapy have occurred over the past decade, consistent adherence to medicines and outpatient care remains a major hurdle for many people living with HIV. The findings come on the heels of the Food and Drug Administration's approval this month of the first drug to prevent HIV infection. Similar to people living with HIV, healthy individuals without HIV infection who chose to take this preventative medication need to have strict drug adherence and frequent HIV testing in order to achieve benefit.
Overall, sustained viral suppression was lower for black patients and injection drug users, while older patients and those with private insurance were the most likely to have sustained viral suppression. "Our analysis showed that HIV care providers need to closely monitor younger patients, African-Americans, injection drug users, and individuals without health insurance to ensure that they have access to HIV drugs and adhere to therapy, since those patients appeared to be least likely to have their infection in tight control," said the study's senior author Kelly Gebo, MD, MPH, an associate professor of medicine at the Johns Hopkins University.
"There is no denying the progress we have made over the past decade," says Yehia, "but, more resources and new technology are needed to ensure that more patients have access to HIV therapy and obtain the full benefits of these drugs."
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Funding for the study came from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) (290-01-0012), and the National Institutes of Health (K24 AI073957, K24 DA 00432, R01DA11602, and R01 AA 16893).
Penn Medicine is one of the world's leading academic medical centers, dedicated to the related missions of medical education, biomedical research, and excellence in patient care. Penn Medicine consists of the Raymond and Ruth Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania (founded in 1765 as the nation's first medical school) and the University of Pennsylvania Health System, which together form a $4.3 billion enterprise.
The Perelman School of Medicine is currently ranked #2 in U.S. News & World Report's survey of research-oriented medical schools. The School is consistently among the nation's top recipients of funding from the National Institutes of Health, with $479.3 million awarded in the 2011 fiscal year.
The University of Pennsylvania Health System's patient care facilities include: The Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania -- recognized as one of the nation's top 10 hospitals by U.S. News & World Report; Penn Presbyterian Medical Center; and Pennsylvania Hospital the nation's first hospital, founded in 1751. Penn Medicine also includes additional patient care facilities and services throughout the Philadelphia region.
Penn Medicine is committed to improving lives and health through a variety of community-based programs and activities. In fiscal year 2011, Penn Medicine provided $854 million to benefit our community.
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Benefits of HIV drugs rise -- but less than previously believed, Penn study showsPublic release date: 22-Jul-2012 [ | E-mail | Share ]
Contact: Holly Auer holly.auer@uphs.upenn.edu 215-200-2313 University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
HIV patients whose infections are tightly controlled increased by 60 percent over past decade
PHILADELPHIA The percentage of HIV patients taking antiretroviral drugs who experienced the full benefit of the drugs jumped from 45 percent of 72 percent during the past decade, a figure that is lower than previous estimates. The findings, considered important for HIV prevention efforts, since patients whose virus is in tight control are less likely to transmit the infection to others, are published this week in JAMA by a team of researchers led by the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. The issue's publication coincides with AIDS 2012, the annual international AIDS conference, being held in the United States for the first in over 20 years this week in Washington, D.C.
The researchers analyzed 32,483 HIV-infected patients cared for in 12 clinics across the United States between 2001 and 2010. patients in the U.S. During that time, the percentage of patients taking antiretroviral drugs who exhibited sustained viral suppression having no detectable HIV virus in the blood every time the virus is measured -- increased from 45 percent to 72 percent. The authors point to new drugs and fixed dose combination tablets as factors in improving the efficacy and safety of antiretroviral drug regimens, as well as decreased side effects that make patients more likely to adhere to their treatment. Better access to care during this time period may also be a contributor to the improved viral suppression rates observed in the study.
Despite this increase, the number of patients with tightly controlled HIV infection was significantly less than the 77 percent to 87 percent figures reported in prior studies, which were based on one-time only measures of HIV virus in the blood, rather than considering every time the virus was measured. According to the study's lead investigator, Baligh Yehia, MD, MSHP, MPP, a fellow in the division of Infectious Diseases at Penn Medicine and HIV specialist, "if the HIV virus is not fully suppressed, individuals are at risk of transmitting HIV to others in the community." Yehia says that while significant advances in HIV therapy have occurred over the past decade, consistent adherence to medicines and outpatient care remains a major hurdle for many people living with HIV. The findings come on the heels of the Food and Drug Administration's approval this month of the first drug to prevent HIV infection. Similar to people living with HIV, healthy individuals without HIV infection who chose to take this preventative medication need to have strict drug adherence and frequent HIV testing in order to achieve benefit.
Overall, sustained viral suppression was lower for black patients and injection drug users, while older patients and those with private insurance were the most likely to have sustained viral suppression. "Our analysis showed that HIV care providers need to closely monitor younger patients, African-Americans, injection drug users, and individuals without health insurance to ensure that they have access to HIV drugs and adhere to therapy, since those patients appeared to be least likely to have their infection in tight control," said the study's senior author Kelly Gebo, MD, MPH, an associate professor of medicine at the Johns Hopkins University.
"There is no denying the progress we have made over the past decade," says Yehia, "but, more resources and new technology are needed to ensure that more patients have access to HIV therapy and obtain the full benefits of these drugs."
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Funding for the study came from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) (290-01-0012), and the National Institutes of Health (K24 AI073957, K24 DA 00432, R01DA11602, and R01 AA 16893).
Penn Medicine is one of the world's leading academic medical centers, dedicated to the related missions of medical education, biomedical research, and excellence in patient care. Penn Medicine consists of the Raymond and Ruth Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania (founded in 1765 as the nation's first medical school) and the University of Pennsylvania Health System, which together form a $4.3 billion enterprise.
The Perelman School of Medicine is currently ranked #2 in U.S. News & World Report's survey of research-oriented medical schools. The School is consistently among the nation's top recipients of funding from the National Institutes of Health, with $479.3 million awarded in the 2011 fiscal year.
The University of Pennsylvania Health System's patient care facilities include: The Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania -- recognized as one of the nation's top 10 hospitals by U.S. News & World Report; Penn Presbyterian Medical Center; and Pennsylvania Hospital the nation's first hospital, founded in 1751. Penn Medicine also includes additional patient care facilities and services throughout the Philadelphia region.
Penn Medicine is committed to improving lives and health through a variety of community-based programs and activities. In fiscal year 2011, Penn Medicine provided $854 million to benefit our community.
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Not everyone can publish as fast as Stephen King or even Dean Koontz but there are techniques that can help give the wriitng speed a boost. But first, I need to explain several things before we can arrive at that point.
First of all, you should spend some time on the means of writing itself. To put it differently, you need to know the basics because a lot of writers use whatever strategy which is comfortable for them. If they figured it out along with worked on this strategy, they?re able to take this knowledge as well as run with it. They shortly begin to write like their lives depend on this. For some it, really does.
Most writers use a deadline and it is a necessity for them to keep it if they want to geth their money promptly and be able to keep their own jobs. For others, they have to write a certain quantity of articles for that month because if their commitment states they need to have a certain number of posts submitted on a selected date then that maybe what they?re getting paid for.
As you can see, these authors have no choice however to write fast.
So if you want to learn how to write quickly, I will show you a number of techniques I think will let you. Some of these techniques We have used myself and are beneficial to maintaining your goal.
One technique I take advantage of is cursive writing with a smooth flowing pencil and I happen to just like two types of pens. The particular Pilot G-2 and the world?s first sharpie pens. I like precisely how these pens really feel when I?m producing and the ink can be fast and they do not skip like standard ballpoint pens do. I do not use anything else. If you get a chance and have a few extra bucks to be able to spare give them a try sometime. You might see why I love them. Or better yet, try different pencils and pick out the people you like best.
Using cursive writing, and of course, the best pen, I can take flight right along the site. It seems my hand is aware what my mind would like to say even before I do. I know that may seem unusual but it seems to us my hand does every one of the thinking.
Before My spouse and i start writing, although, I close my eyes and loosen up. Then I let our pen do all the work. If I like precisely what I?ve written, the idea stays. If I don?t, it goes. Simple while that. I go back again later and make every one of the necessary changes.
As long as you?re doing this, you want to retain writing and try never to stop for anything. Don?t think and don?t modify your work until your own piece is done. Editing comes later.
An additional technique is dictation. You use a dictating device or a words recorder and document your written substance. You then go back, available your favorite word model than play it back again so you can type everything out. I merely tried this one simply because I like handwriting far better. It?s more efficient to me I think. Besides, We worry too much concerning having to rewind only to get the parts My spouse and i missed.
I haven?t learned about this until a pal of mine mentioned it to me while I was discussing the number of choices that someday organic beef be able to plug our minds into the personal computer so when the computer senses what we?re pondering the words will pick up on the screen. I?m not sure if this will ever come about or if it has occurred but it sounded decent to me. Anyway, the lady said there are some pcs that have a words recognition software program built into the computer and all you are doing is record your current written material into the built in microphone. As it plays your voice back you can sort everything into your expression processor. I have this specific on my Presario but I didn?t had time to mess around with it.
So the final point here is this. Give all these techniques a try and if you happen to fall in love with one of them, stick with it, along with a little practice, your current writing speed will increase in no time at all.
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People today are growing more concerned with the environment. That's why you may have observed various products made of eco-friendly materials and produced in an environment-friendly process. The roof is no exception to this green revolution.
The roof is one of the most important features of your home. Therefore, you need to choose the right material so that your roof can last for many years. Asphalt shingles are the most common roof materials. However, they are considered very harmful to the environment. If you're looking to have your roof replaced, consider these eco-friendly roof alternatives.
Slate and Clay Tiles
Slate and clay are natural materials, and they make for an extremely durable roof tile. In fact, slate tiles are known to last for hundreds of years. Some roofing companies are willing to back this claim, offering 50-year warranties or more for their slate tiles. On the other hand, clay tiles are also highly durable, but they are not known to last as long as slate.
Wood Shingles from Reclaimed Lumber
If you prefer the look of wood shingles, consider wood shingles made of reclaimed lumber. These reclaimed lumbers are sourced from old water and wine tanks, mills, and bridges, to name a few. Connecticut has few roofing manufacturers that produce wood shingles from reclaimed lumber. If you buy these locally-made wood shingles, you can save on costs.
Metal Roofing
Metal roofing offers two huge eco-friendly advantages. First, it can last as long as slate tiles. Because of the durability of metal roofing Stamford CT residents use, you'll only have to replace it after 50 years or so, which means less waste in the long run. Second, metal roofing can be recycled once it is at the end of its life. Metal roofs are commonly made of aluminum, steel, and copper.
Recycled Shingles
One of the more popular materials for roofing Stamford CT residents use -- and perhaps the most eco-friendly -- is the recycled shingle made of waste materials, including rubber, plastic, or wood fiber. Recycled shingles are amazingly durable and aesthetically pleasing as well. You cannot tell they were made of waste materials.
Eco-friendly roofing materials generally cost more than your traditional asphalt shingles. In fact, they can be three to four times more expensive. However, you will be getting a product that will greatly outlast asphalt shingles. By the time you replace these eco-friendly options, you may have replaced your asphalt shingles two to three times. Talk to roofing contractors CT residents rely on and learn which eco-friendly roofing material is perfect for your home. Learn more about eco-friendly roofs from greenlivingtips.com/articles/26/1/Environmentally-friendly-roof-insulation.html.
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