Beckham will pocket a weekly salary of about $213,000 and earn $10 million a year, plus bonuses.<|endoftext|> a hotel downtown, about 8 blocks from here.

MARTY (FEMALE): It was always forbidden, but after the first time I couldn't help myself. Touching a human man, or a woman, is as powerful for me as it was for you.

(Mulder and Scully are entering the hotel.)

SCULLY: This is Agent Scully requesting police backup and additional agents at 771 Catherine Street. It's the Hotel Catherine.

(Back in the hotel room, as Marty continues to talk, we see that she is talking to an apparently lifeless man lying in the bed.)

MARTY (FEMALE): Your world offers pleasures - pleasures we don't know because we're different. But you know that now. The others will punish me for what I've done. They'll find me, because the day is coming and they won't leave without me.

(Mulder and Scully have arrived on the floor and run down the hallway. Scully finds the room first.)

SCULLY: Mulder!

(Mulder runs to the door and they draw their weapons and take positions. Mulder knocks on the door.)

MULDER: Delivery!

(There is no answer. Mulder signals that he's going to break in and Scully steps in front of the door.)

MULDER: (breaking in door) FBI! FBI! Clear! Stay down!

(They don't see anyone inside. Scully goes into the adjoining room and finds the man on the bed.)

SCULLY: Dead body!

(Marty, who was hiding behind a curtain, emerges and hits Scully on the head from behind. She groans and falls to the floor. Marty runs back out into the hall.)

MULDER: Scully?

SCULLY: (from the floor, weakly) I'm OK.

(Mulder runs out into the hall. He finds the next door open and starts to enter. From inside, Marty strikes him in the face, knocking him to the floor in the hall. As Mulder watches, the female Marty morphs into a male. Mulder reaches for his gun, but the male Marty kicks him in the face, kicks the gun down the hall and runs away, wearing only socks, a sweatshirt and underwear.)

(Back in the first room, Scully gets up and runs into the hall, seeing Mulder lying there, dazed.)

MULDER: (groggily) Scully. Down the stairs ...

(She jumps over him and down the stairs at the end of the hall. She bursts out into the alley below but doesn't see anyone. As she moves through the alley, she hears a noise and sees shadows appear on the side of one of the buildings. Suddenly, the male Marty runs toward her.)

SCULLY: Federal agent, I'm armed! (Marty stops) Back away!

(Suddenly, Marty is tackled by a figure dressed in black. He is surrounded by the Kindred, including Brother Andrew. They get him to his feet.)

SCULLY: Step away! Step away!

(Andrew turns to Scully and walks toward her, while the others hold Marty behind him.)

BROTHER ANDREW: Please. Don't hurt him.

SCULLY: No. Step away. (Andrew continues to approach her) I'm armed.

(Andrew continues to block the others from Scully's line of fire. As he gets close, she starts to lower her gun. Mulder comes out of the hotel and into the alley.)

MULDER: Scully!

(Scully turns to him, and Andrew knocks her gun out of her hand, then strikes her in the face. She falls. As Mulder runs to her aid, shadows on the building wall move away and the Kindred disappear as mysteriously as they appeared.)

(Later, there are police cars in the alley and an agent approaches Scully and Mulder.)

AGENT #2:MULDER: What if they did get through? There's only place they'd hide.

(The next morning, several 4-wheel drive police vehicles approach. Mulder, Scully, the agent and others emerge and start to search the area. Scully heads to the house and finds no one in the dining area.)

SCULLY: They're gone.

(Mulder has run to the barn and opens the door to the cellar. He finds a solid clay wall behind it. The agent approaches from behind.)

AGENT #2: We found something in the hayfield.

(Mulder and Scully are walking through the hayfield.)

SCULLY: I don't understand. How can they just disappear? They have no means of transportation.

MULDER: No earthly means of transportation.

(They come to a large "crop circle" in the field.)

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Wednesday, 04 January 2017

I'm with you. I am a late converter to Apple. When my last PC died a few years ago, my computer expert said, "It's time to switch to a Mac. After all you have an iPhone and an iPad." So i got, on his recommendation a higher end Mac-mini and he put in as much RAM as it would hold. It has an SD reader, inconveniently placed on the back and on;y a few USB ports. I got a powered bus and gained 9 slots and added one more by getting an Apple keyboard with two USB ports. And it is all he promised. I love the Apple eco-system and it is a robust little silver hockey puck. But.....now I worry about my future with Apple. The new Minis have been emasculated and the twelve core monster has no appeal. I don't want a laptop in my office. With no more Apple monitors I am beginning to think that Apple is slowly, one little piece at a time, getting out of the computer business. Sad, I don't like PCs.

They should either do what you suggest, put me down for a medium, or, once more, let other people, who care about computers, build desktops for them.

And I say, Amen to that. My feelings exactly. And maybe a pro version of OS X that does not keep changing what already works well

Are you orthodox Apple OS, or is building your own PC off the table? It's pretty easy and satisfying to do.

Apple seems to have neglected the high-end enthusiast desktop for a few cycles. Meanwhile, PC desktops are holding their own marketwise due to more gamers using as primary platform, and WIN 10 has improved.

I built this Lightroom-targeted rig in a few hours: http://pcpartpicker.com/user/abearman/saved/#view=L8ZBD3

Yeah, I went through this a few months ago and settled on the iMac 27, the only one that has a port on the back to upgrade the RAM myself. I went for minimum RAM, 250 SSD and the upgraded video card. I ordered 32GB RAM from Crucial at a YOUGE savings.

It seems the iMac is the only option out there for working stiffs right now. I don't know what I'll do the next time around if they continue to lock out the users.

So, you can hook up your favorite monitor to the iMac and have as much visual real estate as you can handle. Me, I'm muddling through with an old 17 inch studio monitor hooked up to it. It works well, renders video faster than real time and handles as many raw files as I can throw at it.

Good luck!

Another Mike

You either need to come to the darkside of Windows are build a Hackintosh http://www.hackintosh.com/

Well what do you expect? Buying a computer from what has become a phone company. Computers, especially desktop computers, are not what they are about.

You sound like such a candidate for a new Windows PC. Or, even better, Linux....

I think it is obvious that Apple ceased to be computer manufacturer a few years ago choosing to focus on phones and tablets. I'm in need of a new laptop and desktop and for the first time I'm seriously contemplating buying Wintel. I don't want to spend mega bucks on mediocre performing machines crippled by a design aesthetic that prevents you using them for real work.

You realize, of course, that you are describing the PC universe when you ask for a reasonable computer?
BTW, can you explain why I can comment from Internet Explorer and not Thunderbird?

Good lord, Mike, you've lost it! Here's poor Timmy slaving away for your good and you reject his beautiful offer? Just because it is useless??? Can't you be reasonable?

Talk about ungrateful.

I'm an MBP user. Now he brings out an MBP that demands a dongle so I could use the USB stuff I used to plug straight into the computer. I want a super sleek MBP and a bagful of dongles?

I have to say, though, the USB ports on my 2010 15"

 a hotel downtown, about 8 blocks from here.

MARTY (FEMALE): It was always forbidden, but after the first time I couldn't help myself. Touching a human man, or a woman, is as powerful for me as it was for you.

(Mulder and Scully are entering the hotel.)

SCULLY: This is Agent Scully requesting police backup and additional agents at 771 Catherine Street. It's the Hotel Catherine.

(Back in the hotel room, as Marty continues to talk, we see that she is talking to an apparently lifeless man lying in the bed.)

MARTY (FEMALE): Your world offers pleasures - pleasures we don't know because we're different. But you know that now. The others will punish me for what I've done. They'll find me, because the day is coming and they won't leave without me.

(Mulder and Scully have arrived on the floor and run down the hallway. Scully finds the room first.)

SCULLY: Mulder!

(Mulder runs to the door and they draw their weapons and take positions. Mulder knocks on the door.)

MULDER: Delivery!

(There is no answer. Mulder signals that he's going to break in and Scully steps in front of the door.)

MULDER: (breaking in door) FBI! FBI! Clear! Stay down!

(They don't see anyone inside. Scully goes into the adjoining room and finds the man on the bed.)

SCULLY: Dead body!

(Marty, who was hiding behind a curtain, emerges and hits Scully on the head from behind. She groans and falls to the floor. Marty runs back out into the hall.)

MULDER: Scully?

SCULLY: (from the floor, weakly) I'm OK.

(Mulder runs out into the hall. He finds the next door open and starts to enter. From inside, Marty strikes him in the face, knocking him to the floor in the hall. As Mulder watches, the female Marty morphs into a male. Mulder reaches for his gun, but the male Marty kicks him in the face, kicks the gun down the hall and runs away, wearing only socks, a sweatshirt and underwear.)

(Back in the first room, Scully gets up and runs into the hall, seeing Mulder lying there, dazed.)

MULDER: (groggily) Scully. Down the stairs ...

(She jumps over him and down the stairs at the end of the hall. She bursts out into the alley below but doesn't see anyone. As she moves through the alley, she hears a noise and sees shadows appear on the side of one of the buildings. Suddenly, the male Marty runs toward her.)

SCULLY: Federal agent, I'm armed! (Marty stops) Back away!

(Suddenly, Marty is tackled by a figure dressed in black. He is surrounded by the Kindred, including Brother Andrew. They get him to his feet.)

SCULLY: Step away! Step away!

(Andrew turns to Scully and walks toward her, while the others hold Marty behind him.)

BROTHER ANDREW: Please. Don't hurt him.

SCULLY: No. Step away. (Andrew continues to approach her) I'm armed.

(Andrew continues to block the others from Scully's line of fire. As he gets close, she starts to lower her gun. Mulder comes out of the hotel and into the alley.)

MULDER: Scully!

(Scully turns to him, and Andrew knocks her gun out of her hand, then strikes her in the face. She falls. As Mulder runs to her aid, shadows on the building wall move away and the Kindred disappear as mysteriously as they appeared.)

(Later, there are police cars in the alley and an agent approaches Scully and Mulder.)

AGENT #2:MULDER: What if they did get through? There's only place they'd hide.

(The next morning, several 4-wheel drive police vehicles approach. Mulder, Scully, the agent and others emerge and start to search the area. Scully heads to the house and finds no one in the dining area.)

SCULLY: They're gone.

(Mulder has run to the barn and opens the door to the cellar. He finds a solid clay wall behind it. The agent approaches from behind.)

AGENT #2: We found something in the hayfield.

(Mulder and Scully are walking through the hayfield.)

SCULLY: I don't understand. How can they just disappear? They have no means of transportation.

MULDER: No earthly means of transportation.

(They come to a large "crop circle" in the field.)

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Wednesday, 04 January 2017

I'm with you. I am a late converter to Apple. When my last PC died a few years ago, my computer expert said, "It's time to switch to a Mac. After all you have an iPhone and an iPad." So i got, on his recommendation a higher end Mac-mini and he put in as much RAM as it would hold. It has an SD reader, inconveniently placed on the back and on;y a few USB ports. I got a powered bus and gained 9 slots and added one more by getting an Apple keyboard with two USB ports. And it is all he promised. I love the Apple eco-system and it is a robust little silver hockey puck. But.....now I worry about my future with Apple. The new Minis have been emasculated and the twelve core monster has no appeal. I don't want a laptop in my office. With no more Apple monitors I am beginning to think that Apple is slowly, one little piece at a time, getting out of the computer business. Sad, I don't like PCs.

They should either do what you suggest, put me down for a medium, or, once more, let other people, who care about computers, build desktops for them.

And I say, Amen to that. My feelings exactly. And maybe a pro version of OS X that does not keep changing what already works well

Are you orthodox Apple OS, or is building your own PC off the table? It's pretty easy and satisfying to do.

Apple seems to have neglected the high-end enthusiast desktop for a few cycles. Meanwhile, PC desktops are holding their own marketwise due to more gamers using as primary platform, and WIN 10 has improved.

I built this Lightroom-targeted rig in a few hours: http://pcpartpicker.com/user/abearman/saved/#view=L8ZBD3

Yeah, I went through this a few months ago and settled on the iMac 27, the only one that has a port on the back to upgrade the RAM myself. I went for minimum RAM, 250 SSD and the upgraded video card. I ordered 32GB RAM from Crucial at a YOUGE savings.

It seems the iMac is the only option out there for working stiffs right now. I don't know what I'll do the next time around if they continue to lock out the users.

So, you can hook up your favorite monitor to the iMac and have as much visual real estate as you can handle. Me, I'm muddling through with an old 17 inch studio monitor hooked up to it. It works well, renders video faster than real time and handles as many raw files as I can throw at it.

Good luck!

Another Mike

You either need to come to the darkside of Windows are build a Hackintosh http://www.hackintosh.com/

Well what do you expect? Buying a computer from what has become a phone company. Computers, especially desktop computers, are not what they are about.

You sound like such a candidate for a new Windows PC. Or, even better, Linux....

I think it is obvious that Apple ceased to be computer manufacturer a few years ago choosing to focus on phones and tablets. I'm in need of a new laptop and desktop and for the first time I'm seriously contemplating buying Wintel. I don't want to spend mega bucks on mediocre performing machines crippled by a design aesthetic that prevents you using them for real work.

You realize, of course, that you are describing the PC universe when you ask for a reasonable computer?
BTW, can you explain why I can comment from Internet Explorer and not Thunderbird?

Good lord, Mike, you've lost it! Here's poor Timmy slaving away for your good and you reject his beautiful offer? Just because it is useless??? Can't you be reasonable?

Talk about ungrateful.

I'm an MBP user. Now he brings out an MBP that demands a dongle so I could use the USB stuff I used to plug straight into the computer. I want a super sleek MBP and a bagful of dongles?

I have to say, though, the USB ports on my 2010 15" with the superb hi-rez matte screen are becoming unreliable, and the built-in SD card reader had pretty much died


 therefore, I average my kids to be of an average build. The country is corrupt, the Narco rules Mexico, and we have the top 5 most violent cities in Mexico.

zerge in reply to Carlos Tremblay

The average being 91.5, with Mexico at 100, it IS quite average and unremarkable.

The world is a corrupt place my friend. Mexico´s level of corruption is not really noteworthy, despite what you may believe.

Haha suddenly Zerge does not "have the time" to reply to anymore comments.

I have seen the EPN campaign offer to give Mexican people a 500 Peso prepaid debit card ($50 USD) after they show them a cell phone picture of themselves voting for EPN and PRI.

Contrary to the propaganda that Zerge spreads on the, the Mexican people have not been willfully enduring corruption for centuries. We've had more cival wars, revolutions, and less political stability than any other country in North America. Eech time we still get screwd!

Sadley for Mexico, Alexander von Humboldt's prediction in 1800 that Mexico (New Spain then) would be the major super power of N. America was dead wrong in spite of Mexico initially having much much greater natural resources than the USA.

Mexican Politicians have sqaundered the countries wealth, natural resources, and the Mexico's future through nepotism, ineptitude, greed, and CORRUPTION.

If EPN wins the election, I advise any Mexican Citizen capable of leaving the country to do so. There is NO future for Mexico when the Dinosaurs are back in power.

MarcoT. in reply to zerge

You remind me of the Republicans in the United States. You dont love your people. Most importantly you want to keep the same image of Mexico abroad. Whomever you support EPN is the face of corruption and crime, did you read this article? JVM is not as bad, except that her resume is hollow and she has in the past misused funds for the indigenous communities, not really present in congress, hasn't really done anything real for the Mexican people. Obrador, turned around the city of Mexico into one of the Best. Don't you love your country? All it takes is good leadership and honesty! We need in the US a good role model for once. All this crap that we keep getting. Now you may try trick people with the 8yr old Bejarano story that was manufactured by the corrupt and the dirty media wars, but Obrador's legacy of goodwill and love of Mexico follows him wherever he goes. Do something for your country and defend, what we in the US see as our Mexcian Martin Luther King. You're in the wrong side of history, buddy.

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<|endoftext|>Researchers have identified roughly 130 genes on chromosome six that may predispose humans to certain diseases.<|endoftext|>Disclaimer: I do not own Harry Potter or any of its marvelous characters.

A/N: This is complete crack, based on the first Harry Potter. Certain ideas just pop into my head and it looks like you lovely readers will suffer for it! Please read and review.

Harry Potter looked at the giant of a man before him. This stranger who had forced his way into the small shack, a man of enormous size and gait, a man who looked fit to knock over small buildings- this man had just presented Harry with a birthday cake and exclaimed that the Dursleys had been keeping the truth of his parents' deaths from him. At this point, he was a little unsure what to think.

"Yer a horocrux, Harry."

"I'm a what?" The boy replied, looking blankly at the giant known as Hagrid.

"You're a horocrux, Harry." There was a beat, then the man's eyes widened as he realized his mistake. He shouted, "I mean a wizard! Yer a wizard, Harry, yer a wizard."

"Well, what was that other thing? A horo…horocr-"

"Nothing! Nothing at all!" Hagrid yelled, spittle flying out into his beard. "Nothin' ter worry about, nothing' happened, yer not in any danger!"

"Yes, there's no worry…Just be careful of Lord Voldemort."

"Who?" Hagrid's eyes bugged out again.

'No one! There's no prophecy about you two! Damn, wait, that's not what I meant. I should not have said that."

"Wait, who's Lord Voldemort? What prophecy are you talking about?"

"Nothin'! Forget I ever said anything! You know what? Maybe I should just stop talkin' fer awhile."<|endoftext|>10 Fantastic Uses for White Vinegar

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We love distilled white vinegar. We don't necessarily love the way it smells, but we put up with it because it is useful for (literally) thousands of things in your home. Plus it's cheap, non-toxic, and environmentally friendly. What more could you ask for in a cleaning product?

Seriously, vinegar is useful for cleaning (it disinfects surfaces), laundry (it softens towels), gardening (it's a great weed killer), and is even healthy for your pets and children.

Below we've listed some of our favorite uses, but there are so many that you could write a book on it. No, wait, they already have. However, to get you started, here are 10 great ways you can add white vinegar into your home.

1. Wash produce

Vinegar is known for its household disinfectant properties, so why should it be any different for your food? Use vinegar to help wash away pesticides and bacteria from your produce and make sure that your health food is actually healthy.

To do this, mix three parts water to one part white vinegar and spray your fruit liberally. Don't forget to rise it off though! Vinegar-flavored tomatoes might not be all that nice to eat.

2. Sanitize surfaces

While you're washing your produce, you may as well make sure that the surfaces you're setting them on are just as clean.

Therefore, have a spray bottle ready and filled with one part vinegar and one part water so that you can wipe down all your kitchen surfaces before you begin your next culinary masterpiece.

3. Tough towels

If you towels are more scratchy than fluffy when they come out of the wash, next time try washing them in a cup of white vinegar.

Not only will you save on detergent expenses, but it will also help save the environment.

4. Unclog drains

It's not something that anyone wishes to deal with, but sometimes you have to clear a clogged drain. However, instead of relying on those expensive, toxic cleaners that promise miracles, try a simple solution of baking soda, salt, boiling water, and white vinegar.

It works just as well, and you know you will always have these ingredients at home should an emergency situation arise.

5. Carpet care

We all spill things on the carpet. However, thankfully there is a great way to remove those stains before they set in - with products that you almost always have lying around the house.

Mix ½ cup of baking soda with a tablespoon of salt, and a splash of white vinegar. Apply this paste to the stubborn stain and allow it to dry fully. When it's dry, vacuum it up and the stain should disappear.

6. Crystal clear windows

Now you too can reenact those Windex commercials in your very own home. By wiping off your windows with a mixture of one part white vinegar and 10 parts warm water, you will have the cleanest, clearest windows you have ever imagined.

7. Dissolve sticky residue

Can't get that sticky label off your gift? Accidentally glue your fingers together? Did you dribble honey on the counter? Vinegar is a great multi-purpose solvent. From grease to glue it's there for you.

8. Fight hiccups

The hiccups are one of the hardest ailments to cure. There are hundreds of remedies, and none of them seem to work. However, it is said that swallowing a teaspoon of vinegar can get rid of them as quickly as they come on.

So if you've tried everything in the book and are looking for new solution to an age old problem, give vinegar a try.

9. Deter cats

We aren't going to take a stance on whether or not dogs or cats are better here. Instead, we are just going to hypothesize that unless they are invited into your house or are in an adorable cat video, you don't want them hanging around and doing their business in your children's sandbox or your flower beds.

If that is the case, then a quick and easy solution is to pour undiluted vinegar around the edges of the areas you want to keep off limits.

10. Prevent dandruff

No one wants dandruff. It's not cute. However, sometimes the remedies to banish it are cost prohibitive. Vinegar, on the other hand, is economically ideal and naturally contains acetic acid and water, which works exceptionally well to cure and prevent dandruff.

Can't get enough of white vinegar's magical properties? For even more ideas on how

 have three kids, one fat one, one skinny one, and one with an average build, therefore, I average my kids to be of an average build. The country is corrupt, the Narco rules Mexico, and we have the top 5 most violent cities in Mexico.

zerge in reply to Carlos Tremblay

The average being 91.5, with Mexico at 100, it IS quite average and unremarkable.

The world is a corrupt place my friend. Mexico´s level of corruption is not really noteworthy, despite what you may believe.

Haha suddenly Zerge does not "have the time" to reply to anymore comments.

I have seen the EPN campaign offer to give Mexican people a 500 Peso prepaid debit card ($50 USD) after they show them a cell phone picture of themselves voting for EPN and PRI.

Contrary to the propaganda that Zerge spreads on the, the Mexican people have not been willfully enduring corruption for centuries. We've had more cival wars, revolutions, and less political stability than any other country in North America. Eech time we still get screwd!

Sadley for Mexico, Alexander von Humboldt's prediction in 1800 that Mexico (New Spain then) would be the major super power of N. America was dead wrong in spite of Mexico initially having much much greater natural resources than the USA.

Mexican Politicians have sqaundered the countries wealth, natural resources, and the Mexico's future through nepotism, ineptitude, greed, and CORRUPTION.

If EPN wins the election, I advise any Mexican Citizen capable of leaving the country to do so. There is NO future for Mexico when the Dinosaurs are back in power.

MarcoT. in reply to zerge

You remind me of the Republicans in the United States. You dont love your people. Most importantly you want to keep the same image of Mexico abroad. Whomever you support EPN is the face of corruption and crime, did you read this article? JVM is not as bad, except that her resume is hollow and she has in the past misused funds for the indigenous communities, not really present in congress, hasn't really done anything real for the Mexican people. Obrador, turned around the city of Mexico into one of the Best. Don't you love your country? All it takes is good leadership and honesty! We need in the US a good role model for once. All this crap that we keep getting. Now you may try trick people with the 8yr old Bejarano story that was manufactured by the corrupt and the dirty media wars, but Obrador's legacy of goodwill and love of Mexico follows him wherever he goes. Do something for your country and defend, what we in the US see as our Mexcian Martin Luther King. You're in the wrong side of history, buddy.

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<|endoftext|>Disclaimer: I do not own Harry Potter or any of its marvelous characters.

A/N: This is complete crack, based on the first Harry Potter. Certain ideas just pop into my head and it looks like you lovely readers will suffer for it! Please read and review.

Harry Potter looked at the giant of a man before him. This stranger who had forced his way into the small shack, a man of enormous size and gait, a man who looked fit to knock over small buildings- this man had just presented Harry with a birthday cake and exclaimed that the Dursleys had been keeping the truth of his parents' deaths from him. At this point, he was a little unsure what to think.

"Yer a horocrux, Harry."

"I'm a what?" The boy replied, looking blankly at the giant known as Hagrid.

"You're a horocrux, Harry." There was a beat, then the man's eyes widened as he realized his mistake. He shouted, "I mean a wizard! Yer a wizard, Harry, yer a wizard."

"Well, what was that other thing? A horo…horocr-"

"Nothing! Nothing at all!" Hagrid yelled, spittle flying out into his beard. "Nothin' ter worry about, nothing' happened, yer not in any danger!"

"Yes, there's no worry…Just be careful of Lord Voldemort."

"Who?" Hagrid's eyes bugged out again.

'No one! There's no prophecy about you two! Damn, wait, that's not what I meant. I should not have said that."

"Wait, who's Lord Voldemort? What prophecy are you talking about?"

"Nothin'! Forget I ever said anything! You know what? Maybe I should just stop talkin' fer awhile."<|endoftext|>10 Fantastic Uses for White Vinegar

oembed rumble video here

We love distilled white vinegar. We don't necessarily love the way it smells, but we put up with it because it is useful for (literally) thousands of things in your home. Plus it's cheap, non-toxic, and environmentally friendly. What more could you ask for in a cleaning product?

Seriously, vinegar is useful for cleaning (it disinfects surfaces), laundry (it softens towels), gardening (it's a great weed killer), and is even healthy for your pets and children.

Below we've listed some of our favorite uses, but there are so many that you could write a book on it. No, wait, they already have. However, to get you started, here are 10 great ways you can add white vinegar into your home.

1. Wash produce

Vinegar is known for its household disinfectant properties, so why should it be any different for your food? Use vinegar to help wash away pesticides and bacteria from your produce and make sure that your health food is actually healthy.

To do this, mix three parts water to one part white vinegar and spray your fruit liberally. Don't forget to rise it off though! Vinegar-flavored tomatoes might not be all that nice to eat.

2. Sanitize surfaces

While you're washing your produce, you may as well make sure that the surfaces you're setting them on are just as clean.

Therefore, have a spray bottle ready and filled with one part vinegar and one part water so that you can wipe down all your kitchen surfaces before you begin your next culinary masterpiece.

3. Tough towels

If you towels are more scratchy than fluffy when they come out of the wash, next time try washing them in a cup of white vinegar.

Not only will you save on detergent expenses, but it will also help save the environment.

4. Unclog drains

It's not something that anyone wishes to deal with, but sometimes you have to clear a clogged drain. However, instead of relying on those expensive, toxic cleaners that promise miracles, try a simple solution of baking soda, salt, boiling water, and white vinegar.

It works just as well, and you know you will always have these ingredients at home should an emergency situation arise.

5. Carpet care

We all spill things on the carpet. However, thankfully there is a great way to remove those stains before they set in - with products that you almost always have lying around the house.

Mix ½ cup of baking soda with a tablespoon of salt, and a splash of white vinegar. Apply this paste to the stubborn stain and allow it to dry fully. When it's dry, vacuum it up and the stain should disappear.

6. Crystal clear windows

Now you too can reenact those Windex commercials in your very own home. By wiping off your windows with a mixture of one part white vinegar and 10 parts warm water, you will have the cleanest, clearest windows you have ever imagined.

7. Dissolve sticky residue

Can't get that sticky label off your gift? Accidentally glue your fingers together? Did you dribble honey on the counter? Vinegar is a great multi-purpose solvent. From grease to glue it's there for you.

8. Fight hiccups

The hiccups are one of the hardest ailments to cure. There are hundreds of remedies, and none of them seem to work. However, it is said that swallowing a teaspoon of vinegar can get rid of them as quickly as they come on.

So if you've tried everything in the book and are looking for new solution to an age old problem, give vinegar a try.

9. Deter cats

We aren't going to take a stance on whether or not dogs or cats are better here. Instead, we are just going to hypothesize that unless they are invited into your house or are in an adorable cat video, you don't want them hanging around and doing their business in your children's sandbox or your flower beds.

If that is the case, then a quick and easy solution is to pour undiluted vinegar around the edges of the areas you want to keep off limits.

10. Prevent dandruff

No one wants dandruff. It's not cute. However, sometimes the remedies to banish it are cost prohibitive. Vinegar, on the other hand, is economically ideal and naturally contains acetic acid and water, which works exceptionally well to cure and prevent dandruff.

Can't get enough of white vinegar's magical properties? For even more ideas on how to


 data about operations and finances, marketing and sales or anything in between, companies are sitting on a considerable amount of information. Part of the challenge this provides, however, is that it can become too much for even a large team of humans to pore over, analyze and give recommendations on. This is where AI and ML can play a huge and vital role.

AI can comb through your data and give you detailed information about your customers’ behaviors and find trends that human analysis would likely be unable to uncover. This allows you to create more actionable user segments because consumers’ behavior doesn’t always fit neatly into predetermined demographics. Instead of assuming that everyone of a certain age, gender or economic status will make similar decisions or have the same needs, you’re able to see on a much more granular basis what each individual actually wants and how they behave. This means that AI and ML also support the personalization that customers have come to expect. They want information and actions tailored to their exact needs and desires, not assumptions based on people that might seem similar to them.

2. Providing More Relevant Communications

With customers’ demands for a personalized experience comes an exponential challenge that often requires a solution that can create a vast number of combinations of messaging, offers, timing and sequencing for each individual. The more current and potential customers you have, the greater the challenge.

AI can improve the delivery of your messages by tailoring your approach. It helps narrow down the right audience for a message and predict where that audience is looking, and when they’re looking, so that messages are more effective.

For instance, utilizing exponential technologies such as personalization and marketing automation requires understanding an individual customer’s information and their intent and place within the buyer’s journey. Using AI can help you go beyond sending your audience a limited set of customized messages. It can allow you to go beyond simple personas and start customizing messaging, creative and offers on an individual basis.

3. Improving Performance Over Time

With AI and ML, you can use insights from customer data to build better ML models, which improve as more data is added to the system. This means that the more customers the AI reaches, and the more information it gathers about each of them, the better the system performance (the more accurately the system caters to its specified audience). This becomes a continuous cycle of improvement.

In addition to creating better targeting and personalization, you also can use AI to optimize results. By learning about customer behaviors and applying algorithms or ML, you can use AI to optimize steps within the customer journey. That could be anything from tailoring messages to adjusting the sequence of communications to show customers products, offers or incentives that will cause them to act. This improves the performance of your marketing and customer experience channels over time as you learn what individuals are reacting to, and your ML models will adapt your marketing to favor the higher-performing messages, offers and incentives.

In order to more effectively reach audiences and increase marketing performance over time, companies are increasingly augmenting their customer experience with AI. From initial marketing communications through the entire customer life cycle, AI allows you to offer the personalized experience that customers have grown to expect.

Publicación más antigua Publicación más reciente<|endoftext|>March 31, 2008

Support Homeschooling: Write to Your Local Newspaper

The recent events in California have raised the profile of homeschooling and given us an unprecedented opportunity to educate more people about the benefits of homeschooling.

Hundreds of media outlets have already covered the story fairly, but there are many thousands more who could write a positive homeschool related article. All media outlets need a hook on which to hang their story. The California ruling, and subsequent outrage, is the perfect hook.

In order to gain greater attention for the education success story of homeschooling, we suggest that you contact your local newspaper and encourage them to cover your local homeschool community.

Below are some of the points we suggest you make. Please use your own words so reporters do not receive the same letter. Click here for more information.

1. The ruling made California the only state that requires parents to be certified teachers.

2. HSLDA gathered over 250,000 signatures in just 10 days, which shows just how much outrage exists against the decision.

3. The story has received significant media coverage, including national venues such as ABC World News Tonight and the Wall Street Journal. California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has also condemned the decision.

4. Homeschooling is growing at an estimated 7-15% per year and homeschool students score significantly above average on standardized achievement tests. Click here for research on homeschooling achievement.

5. Offer a local example of homeschooling success from your family or local support group. This could be an award, success in a competition, family that used to struggle in public school but is now flourishing in a homeschool environment etc.

Alternatively, you could simply write a 500-word opinion article outlining your reason for homeschooling and the positive experience it has been.

It is my hope that thousands of reporters across the country, once they receive compelling letters from homeschool families, will either cover the story themselves, or simply print your letter.

We have an educational success story to tell. Let’s put it in front of the media.<|endoftext|>The TAAD and SAR-x chips are priced from $125 to $300 in quantities of 10,000.<|endoftext|>Weathering a winter pregnancy

Story highlights

  • Winter's cooler weather could be a boon for pregnant women's warmer body temperatures
  • An expectant mother's itchy skin can get positively sandpapery in winter
  • Thinking about shoveling the driveway after an overnight snowfall? Think again

One advantage of being pregnant in the winter is that the cooler temperatures may balance out your blazing internal thermostat. But there are precautions you'll need to take to stay healthy and comfortable.

Parenting: Kid-friendly Christmas snacks

Soothe sandpaper skin
Dry skin plagues nearly everyone in winter due to low humidity and frosty air. Moms-to-be may be doubly distressed, however, since stretched skin tends to be itchy.

For relief, opt for a mild soap, such as Dove, or a cleanser like Cetaphil. Soaking in lukewarm water and an oatmeal bath (Aveeno is good) can also help. Use a fragrance--and dye-free moisturizer--all over after bathing, while skin is still damp.

Parenting: Could you be pregnant?

Combat the flu
Research has found that expectant women are at an increased risk of hospitalization for flu-related conditions like pneumonia. So the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends that all women who will be pregnant during flu season receive a flu shot. The injection is safe to get at any point in pregnancy, according to the CDC and the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists.

Parenting: Boy or girl? Fun ways to tell

Bundle upYour body heat is running high these days, so you may not be dressing appropriately for the elements, says Edward Maeder, M.D., an adjunct professor of obstetrics at the University of Minnesota. You don't need to dress so you're sweating, but be sure to cover extremities prone to frostbite: ears, nose, chin, fingers, and toes.

Shun the shovel
Shoveling snow involves heavy lifting and twisting the torso -- no mean feat when your belly's in the way.

If you're in your third trimester, hire someone to clear your walkway. Otherwise, "even if you're physically fit, there's potential for back and other musculoskeletal injury," says Joseph Apuzzio, M.D., director of maternal fetal medicine at New Jersey Medical School.

Parenting: The hottest toys of 2012

Play safely
Downhill skiing, snowboarding, and ice skating are out, particularly in your final trimester. However, you can enjoy cross-country skiing and snowshoeing, as long as your doctor approves.

      Find yourself at CNN Living

<|endoftext|>Hypersensitivity to house dust mites is a common problem for dogs, cats as well as people.  House dust mites are microscopic and ubiquitous.  They feed on human and animal dander, skin scales and hair.  They are frequently found in beds, mattresses, carpets, sofas and pet bedding.  Mites can flourish in the home environment, because the temperature and humidity are optimum (50-70% relative humidity).

It is difficult and even impossible to eliminate mites from the environment of an allergic patient.  An effective environmental control regimen can help to decrease the numbers of mites and therefore minimize the patient’s discomfort.  Also, hyposensitization therapy (allergy vaccines) can be effective in controlling or reducing clinical symptoms associated with mite allergy.

The following steps may help control mite populations (special attention should be given to the sleeping areas of the allergic dog or cat):

  1. Bare floors, such as hardwood, vinyl or tile are best; if carpet is used, low pile is preferable. The mites survive well in carpeting.
  1. Use only synthetic material in the pet’s bedding. Feathers, wool or horsehair stuffing should be avoided.  Remember, cedar shavings may be a source of allergic dermatitis in the dog.
  1. Wash all pet bedding frequently in hot water (whole bed, not just cover).
  1. If your pet sleeps in your bed, encase mattresses and box springs in airtight

 wealth of data. Whether it’s data about operations and finances, marketing and sales or anything in between, companies are sitting on a considerable amount of information. Part of the challenge this provides, however, is that it can become too much for even a large team of humans to pore over, analyze and give recommendations on. This is where AI and ML can play a huge and vital role.

AI can comb through your data and give you detailed information about your customers’ behaviors and find trends that human analysis would likely be unable to uncover. This allows you to create more actionable user segments because consumers’ behavior doesn’t always fit neatly into predetermined demographics. Instead of assuming that everyone of a certain age, gender or economic status will make similar decisions or have the same needs, you’re able to see on a much more granular basis what each individual actually wants and how they behave. This means that AI and ML also support the personalization that customers have come to expect. They want information and actions tailored to their exact needs and desires, not assumptions based on people that might seem similar to them.

2. Providing More Relevant Communications

With customers’ demands for a personalized experience comes an exponential challenge that often requires a solution that can create a vast number of combinations of messaging, offers, timing and sequencing for each individual. The more current and potential customers you have, the greater the challenge.

AI can improve the delivery of your messages by tailoring your approach. It helps narrow down the right audience for a message and predict where that audience is looking, and when they’re looking, so that messages are more effective.

For instance, utilizing exponential technologies such as personalization and marketing automation requires understanding an individual customer’s information and their intent and place within the buyer’s journey. Using AI can help you go beyond sending your audience a limited set of customized messages. It can allow you to go beyond simple personas and start customizing messaging, creative and offers on an individual basis.

3. Improving Performance Over Time

With AI and ML, you can use insights from customer data to build better ML models, which improve as more data is added to the system. This means that the more customers the AI reaches, and the more information it gathers about each of them, the better the system performance (the more accurately the system caters to its specified audience). This becomes a continuous cycle of improvement.

In addition to creating better targeting and personalization, you also can use AI to optimize results. By learning about customer behaviors and applying algorithms or ML, you can use AI to optimize steps within the customer journey. That could be anything from tailoring messages to adjusting the sequence of communications to show customers products, offers or incentives that will cause them to act. This improves the performance of your marketing and customer experience channels over time as you learn what individuals are reacting to, and your ML models will adapt your marketing to favor the higher-performing messages, offers and incentives.

In order to more effectively reach audiences and increase marketing performance over time, companies are increasingly augmenting their customer experience with AI. From initial marketing communications through the entire customer life cycle, AI allows you to offer the personalized experience that customers have grown to expect.

Publicación más antigua Publicación más reciente<|endoftext|>March 31, 2008

Support Homeschooling: Write to Your Local Newspaper

The recent events in California have raised the profile of homeschooling and given us an unprecedented opportunity to educate more people about the benefits of homeschooling.

Hundreds of media outlets have already covered the story fairly, but there are many thousands more who could write a positive homeschool related article. All media outlets need a hook on which to hang their story. The California ruling, and subsequent outrage, is the perfect hook.

In order to gain greater attention for the education success story of homeschooling, we suggest that you contact your local newspaper and encourage them to cover your local homeschool community.

Below are some of the points we suggest you make. Please use your own words so reporters do not receive the same letter. Click here for more information.

1. The ruling made California the only state that requires parents to be certified teachers.

2. HSLDA gathered over 250,000 signatures in just 10 days, which shows just how much outrage exists against the decision.

3. The story has received significant media coverage, including national venues such as ABC World News Tonight and the Wall Street Journal. California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has also condemned the decision.

4. Homeschooling is growing at an estimated 7-15% per year and homeschool students score significantly above average on standardized achievement tests. Click here for research on homeschooling achievement.

5. Offer a local example of homeschooling success from your family or local support group. This could be an award, success in a competition, family that used to struggle in public school but is now flourishing in a homeschool environment etc.

Alternatively, you could simply write a 500-word opinion article outlining your reason for homeschooling and the positive experience it has been.

It is my hope that thousands of reporters across the country, once they receive compelling letters from homeschool families, will either cover the story themselves, or simply print your letter.

We have an educational success story to tell. Let’s put it in front of the media.<|endoftext|>Weathering a winter pregnancy

Story highlights

  • Winter's cooler weather could be a boon for pregnant women's warmer body temperatures
  • An expectant mother's itchy skin can get positively sandpapery in winter
  • Thinking about shoveling the driveway after an overnight snowfall? Think again

One advantage of being pregnant in the winter is that the cooler temperatures may balance out your blazing internal thermostat. But there are precautions you'll need to take to stay healthy and comfortable.

Parenting: Kid-friendly Christmas snacks

Soothe sandpaper skin
Dry skin plagues nearly everyone in winter due to low humidity and frosty air. Moms-to-be may be doubly distressed, however, since stretched skin tends to be itchy.

For relief, opt for a mild soap, such as Dove, or a cleanser like Cetaphil. Soaking in lukewarm water and an oatmeal bath (Aveeno is good) can also help. Use a fragrance--and dye-free moisturizer--all over after bathing, while skin is still damp.

Parenting: Could you be pregnant?

Combat the flu
Research has found that expectant women are at an increased risk of hospitalization for flu-related conditions like pneumonia. So the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends that all women who will be pregnant during flu season receive a flu shot. The injection is safe to get at any point in pregnancy, according to the CDC and the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists.

Parenting: Boy or girl? Fun ways to tell

Bundle upYour body heat is running high these days, so you may not be dressing appropriately for the elements, says Edward Maeder, M.D., an adjunct professor of obstetrics at the University of Minnesota. You don't need to dress so you're sweating, but be sure to cover extremities prone to frostbite: ears, nose, chin, fingers, and toes.

Shun the shovel
Shoveling snow involves heavy lifting and twisting the torso -- no mean feat when your belly's in the way.

If you're in your third trimester, hire someone to clear your walkway. Otherwise, "even if you're physically fit, there's potential for back and other musculoskeletal injury," says Joseph Apuzzio, M.D., director of maternal fetal medicine at New Jersey Medical School.

Parenting: The hottest toys of 2012

Play safely
Downhill skiing, snowboarding, and ice skating are out, particularly in your final trimester. However, you can enjoy cross-country skiing and snowshoeing, as long as your doctor approves.

      Find yourself at CNN Living

<|endoftext|>Hypersensitivity to house dust mites is a common problem for dogs, cats as well as people.  House dust mites are microscopic and ubiquitous.  They feed on human and animal dander, skin scales and hair.  They are frequently found in beds, mattresses, carpets, sofas and pet bedding.  Mites can flourish in the home environment, because the temperature and humidity are optimum (50-70% relative humidity).

It is difficult and even impossible to eliminate mites from the environment of an allergic patient.  An effective environmental control regimen can help to decrease the numbers of mites and therefore minimize the patient’s discomfort.  Also, hyposensitization therapy (allergy vaccines) can be effective in controlling or reducing clinical symptoms associated with mite allergy.

The following steps may help control mite populations (special attention should be given to the sleeping areas of the allergic dog or cat):

  1. Bare floors, such as hardwood, vinyl or tile are best; if carpet is used, low pile is preferable. The mites survive well in carpeting.
  1. Use only synthetic material in the pet’s bedding. Feathers, wool or horsehair stuffing should be avoided.  Remember, cedar shavings may be a source of allergic dermatitis in the dog.
  1. Wash all pet bedding frequently in hot water (whole bed, not just cover).
  1. If your pet sleeps in your bed, encase mattresses and box springs in airtight plastic and seal zippers on these casings with tape. Use washable


"We have found the smoking gun," investigating board member Scott Hubbard said.<|endoftext|> trained to handle fears and anxiety, and our staff is experienced at putting children at ease during treatment.

How often should my child visit the dentist?
In order to prevent cavities and other dental problems, we generally recommend scheduling checkups every six months. Depending on the circumstances of your child's oral health, we may recommend more frequent visits.

Baby teeth fall out anyway, so why do they need special care?
Primary, or "baby," teeth are important for many reasons. Not only do they help your child speak clearly, smile beautifully and chew naturally, they also hold space in the jaw for the permanent teeth, forming a path for them to follow when they are ready to erupt. If a child loses a tooth too early (due to trauma or decay) the other teeth around them may shift, resulting in crooked or misplaced permanent teeth. Also, your child's general health is affected by the oral health of the teeth and gums.

What's the best way to clean my baby's teeth?
Even before your baby's first tooth appears, we recommend you clean his gums after feedings with a damp, soft washcloth. As soon as his first tooth appears, you can start using a toothbrush. Be sure to choose a toothbrush with soft bristles and a small head, preferably one designed specifically for infants. A toothbrush will remove plaque bacteria that can lead to decay and should be used at least once a day at bedtime.

Once your child has a few teeth, you can start using toothpaste on the brush. Use only a tiny amount, and be sure to choose toothpaste without fluoride for children under two, because too much fluoride can be dangerous for very young children. Teach your child to rinse and spit out toothpaste after brushing, which will help form a lifelong habit he'll need when he graduates to fluoride toothpaste. Children naturally want to swallow toothpaste after brushing, and swallowing too much fluoride toothpaste can cause teeth to stain. Fluoridated toothpaste should be introduced when a child is 2-3 years of age. Parents should supervise brushing and make sure the child uses no more than a pea-sized amount on the brush.

How do I know if my child is getting enough fluoride?

Have your pediatric dentist evaluate the fluoride level of your child's primary source of drinking water. If your child is not getting enough fluoride internally, then your pediatric dentist may prescribe fluoride supplements.

What causes cavities?
Certain types of bacteria naturally live in our mouths. When these bacteria come into contact with sugary foods left behind on our teeth, they produce acids. These acids attack the tooth enamel (outer, protective layer) and eventually eat through the enamel, creating holes in the teeth, which we call cavities.

How can I help my child avoid cavities?
Be sure that your child brushes his teeth at least twice a day with fluoride toothpaste. Flossing daily is also important, because flossing can remove food debris between the teeth that the bristles of a toothbrush cannot reach. Check with your pediatric dentist about a fluoride supplement which helps harden the tooth enamel, making it more resistant to decay. Avoid sugary foods and drinks, limit snacking, and eat a healthy diet. The final key to preventing cavities is maintaining regular check-up appointments so that we can monitor the health of your child's teeth and provide professional cleanings.

How can I prevent decay caused by nursing?

Avoid nursing children to sleep or putting anything other than water in their bed-time bottle. Also, learn the proper way to brush and floss your child's teeth. Beginning around their first birthday, take your child to a pediatric dentist regularly to have their teeth and gums checked.

Does my child need dental sealants?
Sealants work by filling in the deep crevasses on the chewing surfaces of the teeth. This blocks food particles from getting caught in the teeth and causing cavities. The application is fast and comfortable and can effectively protect teeth for many years. We recommend sealants as a safe and simple way to help prevent cavities.

My child plays sports. How can I protect his teeth?
We recommend mouthguards for children active in sports. If your little one plays basketball, soccer, hockey or other sports, ask us about having a custom-fitted mouthguard made to protect his teeth, lips, cheeks, and gums. Also, please always make sure your child wears a helmet when riding a bicycle, as it can help prevent severe injuries to the head, face and oral structures.

What should I do if my child sucks his thumb or uses a pacifier?

When should my child have dental X-rays taken?
This decision is extremely variable and will depend on the doctor’s clinical examination or your child’s mouth. Typically speaking, we recommend taking an initial set of x-rays around the age of three. The first set consists of simple pictures of the front upper and lower teeth, which familiarizes your child with the process. Once the baby teeth in back are touching one another, regular x-rays are recommended to detect cavities between the teeth that may not be visible in the mouth. Permanent teeth start coming in around age six, and x-rays help us make sure your child's teeth and jaw are healthy and properly aligned. If your child is at a high risk of dental problems, we may suggest having x-rays taken at an earlier age or more frequently, but the decision is always based on a thorough examination of your child’s specific condition.

How safe are dental X-rays?

There is very little risk in dental X-rays. Pediatric dentists are especially careful to limit the amount of radiation to which children are exposed. Lead aprons and digital radiography (lower radiation) are used in our office to ensure safety and minimize the amount of radiation.

The most important thing to do is to remain calm. Find the tooth and do your best to hold it by the crown rather than the root. You may gently rinse the tooth with saline or milk to remove any debris, being careful to only touch the crown with your fingers. If the entire root is still intact, try to reinsert it in the socket. If that is not possible, put the tooth in a glass of milk and take your child and the glass immediately to your pediatric dentist. Please note that baby teeth are generally not reinserted in the socket due to the risk of damage to the developing permanent tooth beneath it, however your child should still be seen by your pediatric dentist promptly.

What should I do if my child has a toothache?

First, rinse the irritated area with warm water and use floss to dislodge any food that might be stuck in the tooth or gums. Give the child acetaminophen (tylenol) for any pain, according to the weight/dosage chart on the bottle. Do NOT place an aspirin directly on the teeth or gums. If the face is swollen, place a cold compress on the area and call our office immediately. A swollen face is a sign of a very serious infection requiring prompt attention.

What if a child is unable to cooperate for treatment?

We try to help your child feel good about visiting the dentist. Our main concern is what is best for your child. If a child is especially fearful, nitrous oxide, sedation, or general anesthesia may be recommended.

Disclaimer: Dr. Natasha Larson makes no warranties, express or implied, as to results to be obtained from use of the above information. We cannot diagnose or treat patients over the Internet. Information on this site is for educational purposes only. You should not rely on this information as a substitute for personal, medical and/or dental attention or diagnosis. Without all available information about a patient, it is impossible to make a diagnosis. Help and answers are in the form of general ideas. Only you, your dentist and health care provider can make an appropriate treatment decision in an emergency or for everyday care and dental treatment.<|endoftext|>

Engine House in Cornwall in the mist

Fret – but not to worry

Engine House in Cornwall in the mist

Today we undertook another little linguistic research jaunt as a result of the Cornish weather and its sea mists.

An old friend from Yorkshire, (sadly no longer with us), always used the term sea fret when he was talking about the rather eerie and somewhat depressing sea mist on the north coast of Cornwall.

We assumed it to be a northern term, which indeed seems to be the case, with Oxford dictionaries giving the noun fret’s fourth definition as a Northern English term for a “mist coming in off the sea; a sea fog”, mid-19th century of unknown origin.

There also seems to be a connection with the Scottish term haar, whose definition, again from Oxford dictionaries, is a “cold sea fog on the east coast of England or Scotland”, this time with a late 17th century original use, perhaps from Old Norse hárr ‘hoar, hoary.

Although there are some links with Middle Dutch “hare”, a biting wind or Frisian harig, damp, there are also opinions of Norse/Dansk origins too.

Interestingly the Cornish dialect for the thick sea mists is haag (or hag) – so not that dissimilar to the above.

Both Wikipedia and the concise dictionary of Scottish words and phrases describe haar or sea fret as “a cold sea mist / fog which drifts in along the east coast, occurring between April and September when warm air passes over the cold North Sea, with its origin probably being Low German”.

Another dictionary, (which fails to

 trained to handle fears and anxiety, and our staff is experienced at putting children at ease during treatment.

How often should my child visit the dentist?
In order to prevent cavities and other dental problems, we generally recommend scheduling checkups every six months. Depending on the circumstances of your child's oral health, we may recommend more frequent visits.

Baby teeth fall out anyway, so why do they need special care?
Primary, or "baby," teeth are important for many reasons. Not only do they help your child speak clearly, smile beautifully and chew naturally, they also hold space in the jaw for the permanent teeth, forming a path for them to follow when they are ready to erupt. If a child loses a tooth too early (due to trauma or decay) the other teeth around them may shift, resulting in crooked or misplaced permanent teeth. Also, your child's general health is affected by the oral health of the teeth and gums.

What's the best way to clean my baby's teeth?
Even before your baby's first tooth appears, we recommend you clean his gums after feedings with a damp, soft washcloth. As soon as his first tooth appears, you can start using a toothbrush. Be sure to choose a toothbrush with soft bristles and a small head, preferably one designed specifically for infants. A toothbrush will remove plaque bacteria that can lead to decay and should be used at least once a day at bedtime.

Once your child has a few teeth, you can start using toothpaste on the brush. Use only a tiny amount, and be sure to choose toothpaste without fluoride for children under two, because too much fluoride can be dangerous for very young children. Teach your child to rinse and spit out toothpaste after brushing, which will help form a lifelong habit he'll need when he graduates to fluoride toothpaste. Children naturally want to swallow toothpaste after brushing, and swallowing too much fluoride toothpaste can cause teeth to stain. Fluoridated toothpaste should be introduced when a child is 2-3 years of age. Parents should supervise brushing and make sure the child uses no more than a pea-sized amount on the brush.

How do I know if my child is getting enough fluoride?

Have your pediatric dentist evaluate the fluoride level of your child's primary source of drinking water. If your child is not getting enough fluoride internally, then your pediatric dentist may prescribe fluoride supplements.

What causes cavities?
Certain types of bacteria naturally live in our mouths. When these bacteria come into contact with sugary foods left behind on our teeth, they produce acids. These acids attack the tooth enamel (outer, protective layer) and eventually eat through the enamel, creating holes in the teeth, which we call cavities.

How can I help my child avoid cavities?
Be sure that your child brushes his teeth at least twice a day with fluoride toothpaste. Flossing daily is also important, because flossing can remove food debris between the teeth that the bristles of a toothbrush cannot reach. Check with your pediatric dentist about a fluoride supplement which helps harden the tooth enamel, making it more resistant to decay. Avoid sugary foods and drinks, limit snacking, and eat a healthy diet. The final key to preventing cavities is maintaining regular check-up appointments so that we can monitor the health of your child's teeth and provide professional cleanings.

How can I prevent decay caused by nursing?

Avoid nursing children to sleep or putting anything other than water in their bed-time bottle. Also, learn the proper way to brush and floss your child's teeth. Beginning around their first birthday, take your child to a pediatric dentist regularly to have their teeth and gums checked.

Does my child need dental sealants?
Sealants work by filling in the deep crevasses on the chewing surfaces of the teeth. This blocks food particles from getting caught in the teeth and causing cavities. The application is fast and comfortable and can effectively protect teeth for many years. We recommend sealants as a safe and simple way to help prevent cavities.

My child plays sports. How can I protect his teeth?
We recommend mouthguards for children active in sports. If your little one plays basketball, soccer, hockey or other sports, ask us about having a custom-fitted mouthguard made to protect his teeth, lips, cheeks, and gums. Also, please always make sure your child wears a helmet when riding a bicycle, as it can help prevent severe injuries to the head, face and oral structures.

What should I do if my child sucks his thumb or uses a pacifier?

When should my child have dental X-rays taken?
This decision is extremely variable and will depend on the doctor’s clinical examination or your child’s mouth. Typically speaking, we recommend taking an initial set of x-rays around the age of three. The first set consists of simple pictures of the front upper and lower teeth, which familiarizes your child with the process. Once the baby teeth in back are touching one another, regular x-rays are recommended to detect cavities between the teeth that may not be visible in the mouth. Permanent teeth start coming in around age six, and x-rays help us make sure your child's teeth and jaw are healthy and properly aligned. If your child is at a high risk of dental problems, we may suggest having x-rays taken at an earlier age or more frequently, but the decision is always based on a thorough examination of your child’s specific condition.

How safe are dental X-rays?

There is very little risk in dental X-rays. Pediatric dentists are especially careful to limit the amount of radiation to which children are exposed. Lead aprons and digital radiography (lower radiation) are used in our office to ensure safety and minimize the amount of radiation.

The most important thing to do is to remain calm. Find the tooth and do your best to hold it by the crown rather than the root. You may gently rinse the tooth with saline or milk to remove any debris, being careful to only touch the crown with your fingers. If the entire root is still intact, try to reinsert it in the socket. If that is not possible, put the tooth in a glass of milk and take your child and the glass immediately to your pediatric dentist. Please note that baby teeth are generally not reinserted in the socket due to the risk of damage to the developing permanent tooth beneath it, however your child should still be seen by your pediatric dentist promptly.

What should I do if my child has a toothache?

First, rinse the irritated area with warm water and use floss to dislodge any food that might be stuck in the tooth or gums. Give the child acetaminophen (tylenol) for any pain, according to the weight/dosage chart on the bottle. Do NOT place an aspirin directly on the teeth or gums. If the face is swollen, place a cold compress on the area and call our office immediately. A swollen face is a sign of a very serious infection requiring prompt attention.

What if a child is unable to cooperate for treatment?

We try to help your child feel good about visiting the dentist. Our main concern is what is best for your child. If a child is especially fearful, nitrous oxide, sedation, or general anesthesia may be recommended.

Disclaimer: Dr. Natasha Larson makes no warranties, express or implied, as to results to be obtained from use of the above information. We cannot diagnose or treat patients over the Internet. Information on this site is for educational purposes only. You should not rely on this information as a substitute for personal, medical and/or dental attention or diagnosis. Without all available information about a patient, it is impossible to make a diagnosis. Help and answers are in the form of general ideas. Only you, your dentist and health care provider can make an appropriate treatment decision in an emergency or for everyday care and dental treatment.<|endoftext|>

Engine House in Cornwall in the mist

Fret – but not to worry

Engine House in Cornwall in the mist

Today we undertook another little linguistic research jaunt as a result of the Cornish weather and its sea mists.

An old friend from Yorkshire, (sadly no longer with us), always used the term sea fret when he was talking about the rather eerie and somewhat depressing sea mist on the north coast of Cornwall.

We assumed it to be a northern term, which indeed seems to be the case, with Oxford dictionaries giving the noun fret’s fourth definition as a Northern English term for a “mist coming in off the sea; a sea fog”, mid-19th century of unknown origin.

There also seems to be a connection with the Scottish term haar, whose definition, again from Oxford dictionaries, is a “cold sea fog on the east coast of England or Scotland”, this time with a late 17th century original use, perhaps from Old Norse hárr ‘hoar, hoary.

Although there are some links with Middle Dutch “hare”, a biting wind or Frisian harig, damp, there are also opinions of Norse/Dansk origins too.

Interestingly the Cornish dialect for the thick sea mists is haag (or hag) – so not that dissimilar to the above.

Both Wikipedia and the concise dictionary of Scottish words and phrases describe haar or sea fret as “a cold sea mist / fog which drifts in along the east coast, occurring between April and September when warm air passes over the cold North Sea, with its origin probably being Low German”.

Another dictionary, (which fails to include the fourth “misty” meaning of the noun fret), does, however


Eighty-six U.N. workers who were wounded in Tuesday's bombing were airlifted out for medical care.<|endoftext|> homeland, frantically rushing to the Kabul airport to catch a ride with the U.$. citizens and troops. During the frantic and chaotic evacuation, ISIS-Kabul (ISIS-K) committed a suicide-bomb attack, which killed 13 U.$. troops, leading Joe Biden in a press conference to state, “.. We won’t forget and we won’t forgive. We’ll hunt you (ISIS-K) down till the end of the earth…”. I had to laugh at the screen once I heard the words leave Joe Biden’s mouth, because of the contradictions that this U.$. government hands out to the world and her own citizens continuously.

The U.$. preaches of peace and unity to the world over, but terrorizes or keeps a sniper scope on territories of the world, where it wants control over in the disguise of “the spreading of democracy.” But the only democracy that needs to be spreading faster than the COVID-19 virus and all its variants, is the New Democracy controlled by the Joint Dictatorship of the Proletariat of the Oppressed Nations(JPDON). Under the JDPON all oppressed nations may dictate their own destiny and as a collective of oppressed nations keep imperialism in the cage where it rightfully deserves to be in.

The democracy that the imperialists want to implement and maintain will only bring death and destruction. Our FWL men, women, and children are being deemed as terrorists then are murdered and imprisoned by the U.$. piggy force. Just how our TW brothers and sisters, nieces and nephews are being murdered and imprisoned by these imperialist armies and drones. Just how the comrade O.G. Hawk poem in issue #74 stated: “… FBI, CIA, and all of America’s comrades have hurt more people than anybody on earth crying that democracy is what it’s worth!”

We can go back into history and see the shaded hand of the U.$. stirring the pot of confusion and destruction, while the other hand points an entirely different picture of the truth. From the “War on Drugs” to the recently ended “War in the Middle East”, both were supplied with the money, drugs and weapons by the U.$ government and counterparts. The U.$. piggy force are trained to be in a war zone when they hit the local streets; for to them our neighborhood blocks are their Iraq and Afghanistan. How many of We have been terrorized by the U.$. government? As this article was being written, Haitian migrants were being whipped by U.$. border control officers on horse back at the Southern border of this country; an Afghani man and a couple of Afghani children were bombed in a drone attack when mistaken as a convoy of ISIS-K members. The latter is one of many over this ended 20 year war, that the U.$. government won’t admit. Prisoners from the East coast to the West coast are still being tortured with inhumane treatment, as We the FW lumpen are being singled out and put under manipulation techniques to enchant the spell of defeatism; deferring both the leaders and comrades from continuing on with the fight to liberate oneself from a capitalist/imperialist power.

We won’t turn the other cheek, extend the hand of friendship and sing “kumbaya” or whatever make-me-feel-warm-&-fuzzy-inside bullshit that the imperialists use as a ploy to keep We in a docile state. Holding on to the hope for that perfect union that Martin Luther King Jr., his descendants and followers of the non-violent movement have yet to experience. Just as Biden said about ISIS-K, the FW lumpen and TW proletariat won’t forget nor forgive the capitalist/imperialist governments for the genocide of all indigenous peoples and folks around the world, for colonialism and neocolonialism, the destruction of the planet Earth for profitable gain for the few; while everyone else is fighting each other for the top or a closer to the top spots of this fucked up capitalist pyramid scheme.

As We liberate our minds and each other from the imperialist/capitalist doctrines, culture and power, We’ll come to see justice being served to the worlds most wanted terrorist group, and a new age will emerge. An age of Freedom, Justice, and Equality for the majority of the world.

Texas who is the real security threat group

Dear fellow prisoner,

We Look Forward to Hearing From, and Working With, YOU

Dare 2 Struggle Dare 2 Win

Tx TeamOne Allred Committee

Texas T.E.A.M. O.N.E. 12 Point Program

  7. We want an end to unpaid labor in TDCJ.
  8. We want parole requirements capped off at 35%.
  11. We want life terms capped off at 25 years.

[Civil Liberties] [Ionia Maximum Facility] [State Correctional Institution Frackville] [Calipatria State Prison] [Michigan] [Pennsylvania] [California] [ULK Issue 75]

Censorship and Repression of Black August/September 9th Commemorations

On 12 August 2021, staff member Karber at Ionia Correctional Facility in Michigan censored Under Lock & Key 74 for the reason: “Pages 8 & 9 calling for Prisoners to organize for uprising for an up coming date.” These pages featured our center spread on Black August and the September 9th Day of Peace and Solidarity. It is interesting that the oppressor sees prisoners coming together for peace and unity as an “uprising” and something that is deemed a threat to security (which would be necessary to lawfully censor any reading material in the United $tates).

On 7 September 2021, the staff in the mailroom at SCI Frackville in Pennsylvania disliked the same pages and censored ULK 74 for “Information on Page 8 Calls for Action (September 9).” In Amerikan prisons people do not enjoy the civil rights many Amerikans hold so dear. Their right to grieve or in this case to take an “action” is deemed illegal and punished. Banning peaceful protest and other such actions in prisons leads to violence.

Meanwhile a USW comrade in California reported,

“C.O. Solerio [a white female] emailed a Mental Health/Death Doctor a referral against me for displaying erratic behavior. I was exercising and calling cadence out loud ?? As is my custom, I commemorate Black August by demonstrating physical fitness and oratory skills, loud and proud, wherever I be. This year’s action continues to be opposed by C.O.s obsessed with social control.”

This comrade was in quarantine isolation, where ey could not organize eir normal group activities for Black August.

While the President offers up Juneteenth and Indigenous People’s Day as sanctioned celebrations, the imperialists simultaneously repress those trying to commemorate holidays that represent resistance to oppression. In case anyone was fooled into thinking that we’re all equal now.

Index of Articles<|endoftext|>Fallout Wiki
Fallout Wiki

This is nothing compared to what's waiting for you up in the penthouse.Mr. House

The Lucky 38 penthouse is a location in the Lucky 38 casino. It is where the Courier first meets Mr. House.

The player character enters on the top level of a two-level circular penthouse that occupies the top of the Lucky 38 tower. If Mr. House is still alive, Victor stands next to the elevator, and the player character will find Jane, a Securitron who will talk about Mr. House and offer to buy snow globes from the player character for 2,000 caps each.

Down the stairs, to the left on the lower level, is a terminal with a large display screen where the player character can communicate with Mr. House, if he is still alive, or Yes Man, if his personality has been installed into the mainframe during the quest Wild Card: Change in Management.

To the left of the large terminal and tucked behind a staircase is a terminal on the wall with a Hard lock. This terminal opens the secret door to Mr. House's control room, allowing access to an elevator leading to where the physical body of Mr. House can be found. The terminal can also be unlocked with the access codes, which the player character receives by obtaining either a Lucky 38 VIP keycard or the platinum chip. Opening the door via the terminal will immediately turn the Securitrons hostile and fail The House Always Wins if the quest is active. In addition, there are miscellaneous items and furniture, including safe storage containers and a bed the player character can sleep in.

  • If the player character kills Mr. House, Jane will disappear, removing the option of selling snow globes. The achievement can still be unlocked, as the player character just needs to collect all seven to get the achievement, but the snow globes will not leave the inventory and cannot be placed on the stand in the Lucky 38 presidential suite.
  • Almost everything in the Lucky 38 is marked "unowned" and can be taken with no Karma penalty.
  • Accessing the exterior penthouse via the console command tcl will reveal a door that can't be accessed. In the G.E.C.K., this door is referred to as "HouseInnerSecretDoor."
  • There are three Protectrons in a room in the penthouse. They are statues, and one of them is a Nuka-Cola security Protectron.
  •

 homeland, frantically rushing to the Kabul airport to catch a ride with the U.$. citizens and troops. During the frantic and chaotic evacuation, ISIS-Kabul (ISIS-K) committed a suicide-bomb attack, which killed 13 U.$. troops, leading Joe Biden in a press conference to state, “.. We won’t forget and we won’t forgive. We’ll hunt you (ISIS-K) down till the end of the earth…”. I had to laugh at the screen once I heard the words leave Joe Biden’s mouth, because of the contradictions that this U.$. government hands out to the world and her own citizens continuously.

The U.$. preaches of peace and unity to the world over, but terrorizes or keeps a sniper scope on territories of the world, where it wants control over in the disguise of “the spreading of democracy.” But the only democracy that needs to be spreading faster than the COVID-19 virus and all its variants, is the New Democracy controlled by the Joint Dictatorship of the Proletariat of the Oppressed Nations(JPDON). Under the JDPON all oppressed nations may dictate their own destiny and as a collective of oppressed nations keep imperialism in the cage where it rightfully deserves to be in.

The democracy that the imperialists want to implement and maintain will only bring death and destruction. Our FWL men, women, and children are being deemed as terrorists then are murdered and imprisoned by the U.$. piggy force. Just how our TW brothers and sisters, nieces and nephews are being murdered and imprisoned by these imperialist armies and drones. Just how the comrade O.G. Hawk poem in issue #74 stated: “… FBI, CIA, and all of America’s comrades have hurt more people than anybody on earth crying that democracy is what it’s worth!”

We can go back into history and see the shaded hand of the U.$. stirring the pot of confusion and destruction, while the other hand points an entirely different picture of the truth. From the “War on Drugs” to the recently ended “War in the Middle East”, both were supplied with the money, drugs and weapons by the U.$ government and counterparts. The U.$. piggy force are trained to be in a war zone when they hit the local streets; for to them our neighborhood blocks are their Iraq and Afghanistan. How many of We have been terrorized by the U.$. government? As this article was being written, Haitian migrants were being whipped by U.$. border control officers on horse back at the Southern border of this country; an Afghani man and a couple of Afghani children were bombed in a drone attack when mistaken as a convoy of ISIS-K members. The latter is one of many over this ended 20 year war, that the U.$. government won’t admit. Prisoners from the East coast to the West coast are still being tortured with inhumane treatment, as We the FW lumpen are being singled out and put under manipulation techniques to enchant the spell of defeatism; deferring both the leaders and comrades from continuing on with the fight to liberate oneself from a capitalist/imperialist power.

We won’t turn the other cheek, extend the hand of friendship and sing “kumbaya” or whatever make-me-feel-warm-&-fuzzy-inside bullshit that the imperialists use as a ploy to keep We in a docile state. Holding on to the hope for that perfect union that Martin Luther King Jr., his descendants and followers of the non-violent movement have yet to experience. Just as Biden said about ISIS-K, the FW lumpen and TW proletariat won’t forget nor forgive the capitalist/imperialist governments for the genocide of all indigenous peoples and folks around the world, for colonialism and neocolonialism, the destruction of the planet Earth for profitable gain for the few; while everyone else is fighting each other for the top or a closer to the top spots of this fucked up capitalist pyramid scheme.

As We liberate our minds and each other from the imperialist/capitalist doctrines, culture and power, We’ll come to see justice being served to the worlds most wanted terrorist group, and a new age will emerge. An age of Freedom, Justice, and Equality for the majority of the world.

Texas who is the real security threat group

Dear fellow prisoner,

We Look Forward to Hearing From, and Working With, YOU

Dare 2 Struggle Dare 2 Win

Tx TeamOne Allred Committee

Texas T.E.A.M. O.N.E. 12 Point Program

  7. We want an end to unpaid labor in TDCJ.
  8. We want parole requirements capped off at 35%.
  11. We want life terms capped off at 25 years.

[Civil Liberties] [Ionia Maximum Facility] [State Correctional Institution Frackville] [Calipatria State Prison] [Michigan] [Pennsylvania] [California] [ULK Issue 75]

Censorship and Repression of Black August/September 9th Commemorations

On 12 August 2021, staff member Karber at Ionia Correctional Facility in Michigan censored Under Lock & Key 74 for the reason: “Pages 8 & 9 calling for Prisoners to organize for uprising for an up coming date.” These pages featured our center spread on Black August and the September 9th Day of Peace and Solidarity. It is interesting that the oppressor sees prisoners coming together for peace and unity as an “uprising” and something that is deemed a threat to security (which would be necessary to lawfully censor any reading material in the United $tates).

On 7 September 2021, the staff in the mailroom at SCI Frackville in Pennsylvania disliked the same pages and censored ULK 74 for “Information on Page 8 Calls for Action (September 9).” In Amerikan prisons people do not enjoy the civil rights many Amerikans hold so dear. Their right to grieve or in this case to take an “action” is deemed illegal and punished. Banning peaceful protest and other such actions in prisons leads to violence.

Meanwhile a USW comrade in California reported,

“C.O. Solerio [a white female] emailed a Mental Health/Death Doctor a referral against me for displaying erratic behavior. I was exercising and calling cadence out loud ?? As is my custom, I commemorate Black August by demonstrating physical fitness and oratory skills, loud and proud, wherever I be. This year’s action continues to be opposed by C.O.s obsessed with social control.”

This comrade was in quarantine isolation, where ey could not organize eir normal group activities for Black August.

While the President offers up Juneteenth and Indigenous People’s Day as sanctioned celebrations, the imperialists simultaneously repress those trying to commemorate holidays that represent resistance to oppression. In case anyone was fooled into thinking that we’re all equal now.

Index of Articles<|endoftext|>Fallout Wiki
Fallout Wiki

This is nothing compared to what's waiting for you up in the penthouse.Mr. House

The Lucky 38 penthouse is a location in the Lucky 38 casino. It is where the Courier first meets Mr. House.

The player character enters on the top level of a two-level circular penthouse that occupies the top of the Lucky 38 tower. If Mr. House is still alive, Victor stands next to the elevator, and the player character will find Jane, a Securitron who will talk about Mr. House and offer to buy snow globes from the player character for 2,000 caps each.

Down the stairs, to the left on the lower level, is a terminal with a large display screen where the player character can communicate with Mr. House, if he is still alive, or Yes Man, if his personality has been installed into the mainframe during the quest Wild Card: Change in Management.

To the left of the large terminal and tucked behind a staircase is a terminal on the wall with a Hard lock. This terminal opens the secret door to Mr. House's control room, allowing access to an elevator leading to where the physical body of Mr. House can be found. The terminal can also be unlocked with the access codes, which the player character receives by obtaining either a Lucky 38 VIP keycard or the platinum chip. Opening the door via the terminal will immediately turn the Securitrons hostile and fail The House Always Wins if the quest is active. In addition, there are miscellaneous items and furniture, including safe storage containers and a bed the player character can sleep in.

  • If the player character kills Mr. House, Jane will disappear, removing the option of selling snow globes. The achievement can still be unlocked, as the player character just needs to collect all seven to get the achievement, but the snow globes will not leave the inventory and cannot be placed on the stand in the Lucky 38 presidential suite.
  • Almost everything in the Lucky 38 is marked "unowned" and can be taken with no Karma penalty.
  • Accessing the exterior penthouse via the console command tcl will reveal a door that can't be accessed. In the G.E.C.K., this door is referred to as "HouseInnerSecretDoor."
  • There are three Protectrons in a room in the penthouse. They are statues, and one of them is a Nuka-Cola security Protectron.
  • When demonstrating the Mark II software upgrade to the player character during the quest The House Always Wins, Mr. House states that the gren