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Thursday, November 22, 2012
Artmu 11? MacBook Air Stand Pouch review
A few months ago, I wrote a news post about some MacBook Air cases that incorporated a stand into the design. ?I ordered one of the cases, the Artmu?11″ MacBook Air Stand Pouch, from eBay. ?Julie was able to request a review sample of the other style, the Opt MagicQ MacBook Air Case, that I’ve [...]
Woman Stopped For Speeding And Gives Birth. So Much For A Birth ...
New mom and baby Dakota are doing just fine and now resting at home.
I guess she didn't end up using her birth plan. I wonder if she tossed it or framed it.
Birth plans are a favourite piece of advice promoted by birth educators everywhere. They are also the least-used labour tool ever.?
Don't get me wrong, I think it is a good idea to consider the kinds of things that you will make you feel more comfortable during labour. Does music help you? Do pictures of your pets or cottage make you feel soothed? Are you okay with drugs or totally adamantly against them??
I think you should absolutely educate yourself about the stages of labour and what happens with the baby immediately after birth.
But the idea that labour can be controlled is totally false. Very few people have a labour according to their birth plan, mostly because there are so many variables -- how you will perceive pain, how busy the hospital is, if your partner is awake.
My first child was born by C-section, my second labour was a reasonable, 15-hour process aided by drugs. And my third was a surprising, mad cap dash to the hospital complete with wheelchair and the baby crowning in the elevator.
An epidural was part of my birth plan for my third child as well, but she decided differently and wanted to check out what the elevator was all about.
I think that employing a labour doula is a much better idea than trying to stick to a birth plan. She is like a walking, thinking, adaptable birth plan.
Even though my doula didn't do as much as work the third time around, I absolutely felt that it was worth the money. Someone had to push the 10th floor button and tell me that my epidural was on it's way (she lied, I forgave her).
But at least I didn't give birth in my car with a police officer at my side. I'm not sure my husband could have dealt with the cleaning bill.
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Wednesday, November 21, 2012
Twinkies aren't dead yet: Hostess, union agree to mediation
WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. (AP) -- Twinkies won't die that easily after all.
Hostess Brands Inc. and its second largest union will go into mediation to try and resolve their differences, meaning the company won't go out of business just yet. The news came Monday after Hostess moved to liquidate and sell off its assets in bankruptcy court citing a crippling strike last week.
The bankruptcy judge hearing the case said Monday that the parties haven't gone through the critical step of mediation and asked the lawyer for the Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers International Union, which has been on strike since Nov. 9, to ask his client, who wasn't present, if the union would agree to participate. The judge noted that the bakery union, which represents about 30 percent of Hostess workers, went on strike after rejecting the company's latest contract offer, even though it never filed an objection to it.
"Many people, myself included, have serious questions as to the logic behind this strike," said Judge Robert Drain, who heard the case in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in the Southern District of New York in White Plains, N.Y. "Not to have gone through that step leaves a huge question mark in this case."
Hostess and the union agreed to mediation talks, which are expected to begin the process on Tuesday.
In an interview after the hearing on Monday, CEO Gregory Rayburn said that the two parties will have to agree to contract terms within 24 hours of the Tuesday since it is costing $1 million a day in overhead costs to wind down operations. But even if a contract agreement is reached, it is not clear if all 33 Hostess plants will go back to being operational.
"We didn't think we had a runway, but the judge just created a 24-hour runway," for the two parties to come to an agreement, Rayburn said.
Hostess, weighed down by debt, management turmoil, rising labor costs and the changing tastes of America, decided on Friday that it no longer could make it through a conventional Chapter 11 bankruptcy restructuring. Instead, the company, which is based in Irving, Texas, asked the court for permission to sell assets and go out of business.
It's not the sequence of events that the maker of Twinkies, Ding Dongs and Ho Ho's envisioned when it filed for bankruptcy in January, its second Chapter 11 filing in less than a decade. The company, who said that it was saddled with costs related to its unionized workforce, had hoped to emerge with stronger financials. It brought on Rayburn as a restructuring expert and was working to renegotiate its contract with labor unions.
But Rayburn wasn't able to reach a deal with the bakery union. The company, which had been contributing $100 million a year in pension costs for workers, offered workers a new contract that would've slashed that to $25 million a year, in addition to wage cuts and a 17 percent reduction in health benefits. But the bakery union decided to strike.
By that time, the company had reached a contract agreement with its largest union, the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, which urged the bakery union to hold a secret ballot on whether to continue striking. Although many bakery workers decided to cross picket lines this week, Hostess said it wasn't enough to keep operations at normal levels.
Rayburn said that Hostess was already operating on razor thin margins and that the strike was the final blow. The company's announcement on Friday that it would move to liquidate prompted people across the country to rush to stores and stock up on their favorite Hostess treats. Many businesses reported selling out of Twinkies within hours and the spongy yellow cakes turned up for sale online for hundreds of dollars.
Even if Hostess goes out of business, its popular brands will likely find a second life after being snapped up by buyers. The company says several potential buyers have expressed interest in the brands. Although Hostess' sales have been declining in recent years, the company still does about $2.5 billion in business each year. Twinkies along brought in $68 million so far this year.
Source: http://finance.yahoo.com/news/judge-asks-hostess-mediate-union-203749038.html
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Tuesday, November 20, 2012
Obama to people of Myanmar: America 'is with you'
U.S. President Barack Obama, right, walks out with Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi after addressing members of the media at Suu Kyi's residence in Yangon, Myanmar, Monday, Nov. 19, 2012. Obama who touched down Monday morning, becoming the first U.S. president to visit the Asian nation also known as Burma, said his historic visit to Myanmar marks the next step in a new chapter between the two countries. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
U.S. President Barack Obama, right, walks out with Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi after addressing members of the media at Suu Kyi's residence in Yangon, Myanmar, Monday, Nov. 19, 2012. Obama who touched down Monday morning, becoming the first U.S. president to visit the Asian nation also known as Burma, said his historic visit to Myanmar marks the next step in a new chapter between the two countries. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
Myanmar students hold Myanmar and U.S. flags as they wait to welcome the arrival of U.S. President Barack Obama at Yangon International Airport Monday, Nov. 19, 2012, in Yangon, Myanmar. (AP Photo/Khin Maung Win)
A crowd gathers across the street from the residence of Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi during a visit by U.S. President Barack Obama in Yangon, Myanmar, Monday, Nov. 19, 2012. Obama who touched down Monday morning, becoming the first U.S. president to visit the Asian nation also known as Burma, said his historic visit to Myanmar marks the next step in a new chapter between the two countries. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
Myanmar students wave miniature Myanmar and American flags as they wait to welcome the arrival of U.S. President Barack Obama at Yangon International Airport on Monday, Nov. 19, 2012, in Yangon, Myanmar. (AP Photo/Khin Maung Win)
U.S. President Barack Obama, right, accompanied by Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, addresses members of the media at Suu Kyi's residence in Yangon, Myanmar, Monday, Nov. 19, 2012. Obama who touched down Monday morning, becoming the first U.S. president to visit the Asian nation also known as Burma, said his historic visit to Myanmar marks the next step in a new chapter between the two countries. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
YANGON, Myanmar (AP) ? In a historic breakthrough, President Barack Obama on Monday stepped onto the soil of long-shunned Myanmar and into the flag-waving embrace of its once repressed people. "You gave us hope," he declared, the first U.S. president to visit what not long ago had been an international outcast.
Tens of thousands of people poured into the streets to welcome Obama to a place still learning its basic freedoms.
Speaking to a national audience from the University of Yangon, Obama offered a "hand of friendship" and a lasting U.S. commitment, yet a warning as well. He said the new civilian government must nurture democracy or watch it, and U.S. support, disappear.
The visit to Myanmar was the centerpiece of a four-day trip to Southeast Asia that began in Bangkok and will end Tuesday in Phnom Pehn, Cambodia, where Obama will attend an East Asia Summit.
Obama seemed to revel in the history of what he was witnessing in Myanmar ? a nation shedding years of military rule, and a relationship between two nations changing fast.
"This remarkable journey has just begun," he said.
In a notable detour from U.S. government policy, the president referred to the nation as Myanmar, the preferred name of the former military regime and the new government, rather than Burma, the old name and one favored by democracy advocates and one commonly used by U.S. officials.
On his first post-election trip abroad, Obama got a warm welcome in Myanmar, hugging long-time opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi as a personal inspiration to him. Crowds swelled at every intersection, yelling affectionately for Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton. "You are the legend hero of our world," one banner read.
In his speech, Obama acknowledged Myanmar's many democratic shortcomings but said: "The United States of America is with you."
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GrexIt?s InboxWhiz Keeps You From Obsessively Checking Your Gmail (By Hiding It From You)
GrexIt, the company behind the email collaboration tools for Google Apps users, is out with a new product today designed to address our collective email addiction (or OCD, as the company puts it.) The startup is launching an email add-on for Gmail and Google Apps users called InboxWhiz which allows you to schedule when your email arrives in your inbox, thereby quelling your Pavlovian response to the "ding" and alerts that accompany the arrival of new messages.Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/MfuL5v_anTo/
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Galaxy get the?job done
It was something less than convincing ? and that?s being kind ? but the Galaxy came into Seattle and left with just enough.
It will be difficult for Bruce Arena?s Galaxy to feel warm and wonderful about a 2-1 loss, but they can sure like the opportunity that results from Sunday?s, er, ?achievement? at CenturyLink Field: a chance to defend their MLS Cup inside their very own building.
Eddie Johnson?s early goal and another from Zach Scott kept hope afloat, but a controversial penalty kick for the visitors turned things in favor of the champs.
So the Galaxy prevailed in the two-leg, total goals series by a 4-2 margin and stands once again as Western Conference champion.
Man of the Match:
The midfield Sunday was no contest. At all. Seattle?s Osvaldo Alonso, assisted by central partner Brad Evans, crushed the Galaxy in the center of the park. The league?s top ball-winner did his usual bouncing around, and his distribution was sharp and precise. But his game had a better tactical discipline than we sometimes see. He remained central and kept himself out of tackles and tussles that might incur referee wrath. When Alonso did get a booking, it looked like a smart one to take.
Threesome of knowledge: What we learned
One decision can change everything:
The Galaxy didn?t have much going right in this one; they were beaten pretty well all over the field.
It looked so much different from the day?s earlier match, where Houston came into a hostile environment with a lead and a plan, and nursed home the mission a certain calm and cool.
The Galaxy looked surprisingly rattled and even a little overwhelmed. They were without Landon Donovan (sore hamstring) and didn?t have central midfielder Juninho until the second half. Still, there was plenty of experience out there.
And yet they were being run out of the stadium. Robbie Keane, so good for the last few months, never had much chance to be a factor; the Galaxy just never got enough possession. Even steady center back Omar Gonzales was having a bad match.
But then ?
Sounders right back Adam Johansson had his arms out, away from his body as Keane tried a tricky little chipped cross on one of the few Galaxy incursions. Referee Mark Geiger had a good look as the ball hit first Johansson?s left hand and then skimmed his right.
Sounders fans may not agree, but it was the correct call.
To that point, the Sounders were rolling downhill, on a rave green rampage, powered by on the momentum of the playoff record crowd of 44,575. Seattle had a 2-0 lead in the match, still trailing by one on aggregate but surely feeling that the equalizer was in them.
But what a buzz kill the PK was. Keane converted and you never really got the impression Seattle had enough left to overcome the two-goal margin that had just been re-created.
Steve Zakuani had a big impact on things:
Sounders? manager Sigi Schmid is never afraid of playing the hunch, gambling and trying something new, never mind the big circumstance. Sometimes things work out, sometimes not. Clearly, going with Steve Zakuani on a slick field, on a big occasion, was something of a gambler?s hunch. But this one paid off.
The Sounders went down Zakuani?s left side time and again in the first 45. He zipped by L.A. right back Sean Franklin early and that one seemed to power up the confidence. Fredy Montero, recognizing where Seattle was hurting the visitors, drifted left to create better connections.
It all had the added benefit of more or less shutting down L.A. right-sided attack; not only was right back Franklin utterly uninterested in roaming forward, right midfielder Christian Wilhemsson expended lots of energy in retreat, looking to give Franklin a defensive hand.
The Fredy Montero mystery deepens:
Did we just see the last of Fredy Montero?s turbulent four-year run at CenturyLink?
And wasn?t this the perfect microcosm of his up-and-down time in Seattle?
Montero looked like he could win it all by himself in the first 45 minutes, alive with ideas and energy, making those killer connections with Eddie Johnson and Zakuani, even winning aerial challenges with the towering Gonzalez.
And then came the second half, when Montero looked more like the broken and beaten shell we saw last week, when the Colombian striker was shockingly ineffective in Los Angeles.
So here?s the bottom line on Montero in the playoffs across four years: 10 games (829 minutes to be precise) and zero goals. And in the critical moments, season on the line, Montero was on the bench. Schmid removed Montero ? the man who has absolutely carried Seattle?s offense over stretches since 2009 ? after 73 minutes.
That cannot speak well of Montero?s chances of staying around.
Packaged for take-away:
- Good as Alonso was over 90 minutes, he made himself look bad after the final whistle, berating Geiger and earning a second yellow card. He will miss Seattle?s first match next year, at least.
- Johnson struck in the 11th minute. He was ruled offside, although replays showed otherwise.
- Goalkeeper Josh Saunders may have been the one and only Galaxy man to have a match worth remembering.
ProSoccerTalk will keep up the discussion of the chase for MLS Cup through the Dec. 1 final.
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How would you change the Samsung Galaxy S III?
When we reviewed Samsung's Galaxy S III in the simple, gentle days of May, our reviewer wasn't sure it would win out against HTC's One X. In the intervening six months, however, the Korean behemoth has battled to the top of the smartphone world and shipped 30 million of its 2012-era flagship to consumers worldwide. But what about the phone itself? You've had half a year to burrow deep into this device and find out what you love and what you don't. It's How Would You Change time, folks, you know what to do.
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