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1. Already Taken – Already Taken is a song by American R&B singer Trey Songz. It was released as a download on iTunes on June 30,2010 as a single from the Step Up 3D soundtrack album and is also a bonus track on Trey Songz fourth album, Passion. A music video was shot and released on July 27,2010, Trey Songz started working on the song with mentor Shaliek Powell in 2010. The producer of Step Up 3D wanted Trey to contribute to the new soundtrack, Trey can be seen working on the song in an episode of his documentary series on BET entitled Trey Songz, My Moment. The song received airplay and the video was played heavily on TV. It peaked at number 39 on the R&B/Hip Hop charts, Trey Songz performed Already Taken live on the Jimmy Fallon show August 2,2010. A music video was shot and was directed by Philip Andelman, the video premiered via www. treysongz. com on July 27,2010. It also reached number #1 on the BETs 106 & Park countdown
2. Anaconda (Nicki Minaj song) – Anaconda is a song by Trinidadian-born American rapper Nicki Minaj, from her third studio album, The Pinkprint. It was released on August 4,2014 by Young Money Entertainment, Cash Money Records, the song was produced by Polow da Don, Anonymous, and Da Internz. The song heavily samples Baby Got Back by Sir Mix-a-Lot, the song peaked at number two on the US Billboard Hot 100, consequently becoming Minajs highest charting single in the United States to date. It went on to spend eight weeks in the top ten of the Hot 100 chart, the song also peaked within the top ten in Australia, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand and the United Kingdom. An accompanying video for the song was directed by Colin Tilley, following the videos release, it broke the 24-hour streaming record on Vevo by accumulating 19.6 million views in its first day of release, being surpassed by Taylor Swifts Bad Blood in 2015. To further promote the song, Minaj performed it live at the 2014 MTV Video Music Awards and also performed it at Fashion Rocks, Anaconda was nominated for Best Rap Song at the 2015 Grammy Awards. The song was nominated for two categories at the 2015 MTV Video Music Awards, Best Female Video and Best Hip-Hop Video. On August 5,2014, producer Polow da Don claimed the Anaconda instrumental was originally intended for fellow rapper and musician Missy Elliott. The cover art for the single went viral on the web after being revealed, on various digital music stores, the cover art is censored with the Parental Advisory label over Minajs buttocks. The song heavily samples Baby Got Back by Sir Mix-a-Lot, who also has vocals in the chorus of the song, musically, the song is a hip hop and pop-rap song. The song is written in the key of C♯ minor with a tempo of 130 beats per minute, kory Grow from Rolling Stone praised the use of the Baby Got Back sample and said the song stayed true to the theme of the original. Kevin Goddard from HotNewHipHop said Nickis raunchy new version may be the big thing to hit the industry. Dan Reilly from Spin said Minaj takes the good Sirs 92 ode to protruding posteriors, amy Davidson from Digital Spy gave the song three stars out of five and said that Nickis breaking down barriers. Sir Mix-a-Lot said he had a new level of respect for Minaj after hearing the record. The song made Spins end of year The 101 Best Songs of 2014 list and it ranked #3 on the list of 101 entries and Spin herald it much more than just a song but a cultural movement. She was the rapper to make the top ten of the list as a lead artist. Anaconda was also placed at two on MTVs Best Songs of 2014. However, despite the reviews the song received negative reactions
3. Back to the Crib – Back to the Crib was the second single by American rapper Juelz Santana for his third album Born to Lose, Built to Win. It features American singer-songwriter Chris Brown in their second collaboration since Chris Browns Run It. in 2005, the song was produced by Polow Da Don. The music video directed by Clifton Bell was released December 14,2009, trav, Red Cafe, Tony Yayo, Lloyd Banks, DJ Envy, and Jim Jones appeared in the video. Popular models Kimbella and Rosa Acosta also made appearances in the video
4. Bad Girl (Rihanna song) – Bad Girl is a song initially recorded by Barbadian recording artist Rihanna and American recording artist Chris Brown for the soundtrack of the film Confessions of a Shopaholic. Their version of the song was excluded from the soundtrack, in favor of a performed by the American girl group The Pussycat Dolls. Rihanna and Browns version of the song was leaked on the internet on January 6,2009, the song is about an addiction to shopping, and more specifically, buying shoes and handbags. Rihanna and Browns version charted at number 55 on the US Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs, Bad Girl was written by Chris Brown, Darnell Dalton, Eric Florence, Ester Dean, Jamal Jones and Lamar Raynard Taylor. Production of the song was helmed by Jones under his production name and it was recorded by Rihanna and Brown for inclusion on the soundtrack album for the film Confessions of a Shopaholic. So that night I went to the studio and I was telling Chris about, and he was like, Lets get on it. It was crazy, because Jerry Bruckheimers dream was to have a song from Rihanna, so they were like, Wow, thats crazy. He continued to explain how he, Rihanna and Brown developed the song in the studio, saying When her, Chris and myself were in the room. Thats when the music isnt work at all, Chris comes up with an idea, I come up with one. The song leaked on January 6,2009 and their version of the song was excluded from the soundtrack, in favor of a version performed by the American girl group The Pussycat Dolls. The lyrics of Bad Girl revolve around the protagonists addiction to shopping, particularly for shoes, ryan Brockington for the New York Post described Browns bridge as bouncy, and wrote that Rihannas vocals meshed perfectly with the lyrics. Brockington continued to express his distaste, writing Now I have to listen to some overproduced vocals by a pack of hyenas, michael Quinn for BBC Music was complimentary of The Pussycat Dolls cover, writing that their version managed to be sultry and raucous at the same time. Songwriting – Chris Brown, Darnell Dalton, Eric Florence, Ester Dean, Jamal Jones, Lamar Raynard Taylor. Production – Polow da Don Source, Following the leak of Rihanna and Chris Browns version of Bad Girl, it debuted at number 55 on the US Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart on the week of February 28,2009
5. Battle Cry (Shontelle song) – Battle Cry is the third and final single released by Barbadian singer Shontelle from her album Shontelligence. It was the single taken from the album following T-Shirt. The song was sent to radio as the single in the US on June 9,2009 and was released in the UK as a digital single bundle on August 10,2009. Shontelle has since announced on her official Twitter page that Battle Cry will still be released as the third single. The song was released as a single in the U. S. on October 21,2008. The song was accompanied with a video featuring Shontelle and various clips in tribute to President Obama. The song failed to chart in the United States and you know, as soon as they told me that, I was like You dont even have to ASK. You can use ANY of my songs for ANYTHING to do with Barack Obama, in October 2008 Shontelle released a Battle Cry tribute video for Barack Obama on YouTube as it was featured on the compilation album Yes We Can, Voices of Grass Roots Movement. In May 2009, she shot the music video for the single release in Los Angeles. On June 26, Shontelles official music video for Battle Cry premiered on her official fansite, UK Digital Single Battle Cry Battle Cry UK Digital Single EP Battle Cry Battle Cry Battle Cry Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics
6. Blindfold Me – Blindfold Me is a song by American singer Kelis from her fourth studio album, Kelis Was Here. An alternative version of the song featuring American rapper Nas was released on October 3,2006 as the second single in the United States. Lyrically, the song is about blindfolded sex, Kelis talks about how her lover experiments with her body, unaware of what to do, while Nas raps about the male experience and dominance of the act. Blindfold Me peaked at number 91 on Billboards Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart, the music video for Blindfold Me was directed by Marc Klasfeld and filmed in September 2006 in Los Angeles. It premiered on BETs Access Granted on September 6,2006, the video opens with Kelis walking hesitantly into a parking lot at night, before a hooded man comes up behind her and covers her eyes with his hand, at which point she says, blindfold me. In the next shot, Kelis is tied to a chair in a space such as an empty warehouse or parking lot. The hooded figure reappears and moves Kelis hood so that her face is revealed blindfolded, the video is intercut with scenes of Kelis in several settings, including a beach, an ice cave, and a jungle, as well as lying down on a piece of black velvet. The hooded man is revealed to be Nas, who unties Kelis hands, has her stand and proceeds to perform his rap segment while she, still blindfolded. At the end of the video, Nas takes Kelis back to the parking lot as in the beginning. She takes the blindfold off and, smiling to herself, walks away, Blindfold Me –3,54 Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics
7. Boy Looka Here – Boy Looka Here is the second single from the self-titled debut album by rap artist Rich Boy. The single was produced by Polow da Don, the video was recently released and features the Omega Psi Phi, Tuskegee University and Alabama A&M University marching band. This song was used in an Extreme Exposé segment at World Wrestling Entertainments pay-per-view No Way Out in February 2007, the song was also featured in the film Rocky Balboa. The video for the song was released in February 2007, Remix featuring Ja Rule and Harry-O Remix featuring Rasheeda Freestyle by Joe Budden Freestyle by Crooked I and The Horshoe Gang Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics
8. Buttons (The Pussycat Dolls song) – Buttons is a song by American girl group the Pussycat Dolls from their debut studio album PCD. It was written by Sean Garrett, Jamal Jones, Jason Perry and Nicole Scherzinger and it was remixed with additional vocals from American rapper Snoop Dogg and was released as a digital download on April 11,2006 as the albums fourth single. Buttons contains elements of Middle Eastern music, while the songs lyrics speaks of a desire to be undressed. Critics were divided on Buttons with some complimenting the production, however. The song reached the top-five in countries such as Australia, Germany, the song reached number one in Austria and in New Zealand, where it became their fourth consecutive number one single on the chart. The sepia-toned music video directed by Francis Lawrence features The Pussycat Dolls in various dance sequences, other scenes include Scherzinger by herself singing the verses. Since its release, Buttons has become a staple in Scherzingers live performances and it was part of the set lists of the groups two major tours, PCD World Tour, Doll Domination Tour and Scherzingers own Killer Love Tour. It was nominated for two awards at the 2006 MTV Video Music Awards for Best Dance Video and Best Choreography, it won the former award. On December 19,2005, the Pussycat Dolls performed at the 2005 Radio Music Awards a racy rendition of Santa Baby were Snoop Dogg joined them dressed up as Santa Claus, following their performance, Interscope Records asked Snoop Dogg to be part of the song adding two verses. In February 2006 at the Grammy Style Studio event, Scherzinger announced that Snoop Dogg would be a guest in the remix exclaiming, Its the D-O-double-G, baby. Buttons was written by Sean Garrett, Jamal Jones, Jason Perry and Nicole Scherzinger, the vocal production of Buttons was completed by Fair while engineering was handled by J. D. Andrew, Mike Angry Eleopoulos and Pro Tools by Tal Herzberg and Young Smoke. It was mixed by Dave Pensado at Larabee Studios in Burbank, Buttons lasts three minutes and fifty-two seconds. It was written in the key of D minor with a signature in common time. The groups vocal range spans from the low note of G3 to the note of A4. The group takes a submissive stance towards Snoop Dogg who seems to be as the object of affection for the girls, spence D. of IGN wrote that its familiar and funky, but it doesnt present anything new to the realm of female soul pop. Sputnikmusics Nick Butler in a review for PCD wrote that Buttons along with Bite the Dust, however he did later write that theyre enjoyable enough. Sal Cinquemani of Slant Magazine described Buttons and Beep as degrading material while noted that are a bit easier to swallow thanks, in part, miriam Zendle of Digital Spy described the song as horrible and horrible as Dont Cha awarding it 1 out 5 stars. Vibe magazine listed it as the 28th best song of the year, rolling Stone ranked Buttons at number 91 on their 100 Best Songs of the Year list for its snaky synths, hot chorus, Snoop cameo, from a horny-girl-group
9. Calling All Lovers – Calling All Lovers is the fourth studio album by American R&B singer Tamar Braxton. It was released on October 2,2015, by Epic Records, on October 7,2014, Braxtons single, Let Me Know featuring Future, was released. The song peaked at number 2 on the Billboards Trending 140 Chart, less than an hour, after its premiere on Braxtons official SoundCloud account and it eventually reached at number one by 12,00 AM. Billboard. com gave the song 4 out of 5 stars in its review of The Best and Worst Singles of the Week for the week of October 2014. On September 6,2015, Target confirmed that Calling All Lovers would miss its scheduled date of September 11,2015 due to a street date change. On September 11,2015, the version of the album became available for pre-order on iTunes with a track listing of 16 items. Let Me Know was released on October 7,2014 as the lead single. The song samples late R&B singer Aaliyah 1994 hit single At Your Best, If I Dont Have You was released as the albums second single on May 27,2015. The music video for If I Dont Have You was released on VEVO on July 9,2015, the song peaked at number 19 on the US Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Airplay charts on the week of August 15,2015. Catfish was released as the first promotional single on September 12,2015, Angels & Demons, was released as the second promotional single on September 18,2015. The music video for Angels & Demons was released on VEVO on September 17,2015, Circles was released as the final promotional single from Calling All Lovers on September 25,2015. The album debuted at number 5 on the US Billboard 200, the album also peaked at number 2 on the US Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums and number 16 on the UK R&B Albums charts. Its second single If I Dont Have You was nominated for Best R&B Performance at the 58th Annual Grammy Awards, Calling All Lovers was met with generally positive reviews from music critics. After those three songs, the album stabilizes, sliding between a number of ballads and sophisticated but bumping slow jams. Heartache prevails during the first half and crests with Never, an authoritative, the latter half is mostly about devotion and awe, while the back-to-back Love It and Must Be Good to You turn it up several degrees with Braxton offering firm declarations of her sexual power. Braxton performed If I Dont Have You at the BETs 15th Annual Awards 2015 on June 28,2015, Braxton performed King on the daytime show, The Real on September 14,2015. Braxton performed Circles on The Wendy Williams Show on October 1,2015, I Love You contains a portion of the composition If Only for One Night, written by Brenda Gordon Russell. Let Me Know samples You Are Love performed by Aaliyah, written by Ronald Isley, Ernie Isley, Rudolph Isley, OKelly Isley, Jr. and Chris Jasper


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Interview with David Mura
By Ross Nervig
Of Mura’s first novel, Famous Suicides of the Japanese Empire, Junot Diaz wrote: “There is no writer that dives deeper (or more bravely) into the chasm that is the human heart.” The author of nine books, Mura moves nimbly amongst genres: fiction, poetry, essay, performance art, and Diaz’s sentiment is apt at every turn. In each creative outing there is evidence of Mura’s bravery.
Forthcoming is a collection of Mura’s essays entitled, A Stranger’s Journey: Race, Identity, and Narrative Craft in Writing, published by University of Georgia Press. In it, he addresses the increasing need for diverse American literature. Mura focuses his lens on a more inclusive and expansive definition of craft, particularly in relationship to race as he elucidates general rules of narrative construction in fiction and memoir.
Mura also devotes time to teaching at Voices of Our Nations Arts Foundation (VONA), the only writers’ conference in the country with a multi-genre focus on writers of color as students and teachers. Additionally, he has taught at the University of Minnesota, St. Olaf College and the University of Oregon.
We were very lucky to catch up with Mura to talk about his new book.
In your essay, “Race & Craft: Tradition and the Individual Talent Revisited,” you write, “If I am a writer of color, why do you the white writer get to determine what ‘equipment for living’–what literature—I need?” What, in your opinion, is essential equipment for a writer of color?
I’m going to turn your question around from its focus on writers of color and put it on white writers. In my upcoming book, A Stranger’s Journey: Race, Identity & Narrative Craft in Writing, I argue that both writers of color and white writers should work towards deepening their understanding of how race has shaped both our history and our present. The difference has been that white writers have generally considered race an optional, marginal or inessential area of investigation. Similarly, white writers have often considered the work of writers of color optional, marginal or inessential. The implicit reason for this negligence of writers of color has been a judgment in quality—the work of writers of color was inferior to that of white writers.
Such literary judgments embodied the same prejudices and biases that formed the basis of other exclusions of people of color in other areas of culture and society. If you as a white reader or critic are ignorant of the critiques of white racial bias and the ways that bias has functioned in our history, how can you judge the literature of people of color? If you as a white reader or critic are ignorant of the traditions of writers of color, how can you presume to judge that literature properly? As Richard Wright once remarked, black and white America are engaged in a struggle over the description of reality. Obviously, literature, which describes our reality, is part of this struggle. Yes, Martin Luther King stated that a person should be judged by the content of their character and not the color of their skin, but what many people miss is the very real possibility that white people, even well-meaning liberals, are not able to judge the character of people of color because white people are unaware of their own racial biases (c.f., implicit or unconscious bias) and are unaware of how racial experiences have shaped the character of people of color. The same goes for our literature.
In Playing in the Dark, Toni Morrison demonstrates how canonical white writers—Twain, Cather, Faulkner, Hemingway—fail aesthetically in their portrayal of black characters. She links these failures to the refusal of white writers to examine not just their racial biases and prejudices, but the whole basis of white identity. She argues that a failure to understand how race has functioned in our history leads these canonical white writers to a failure to see black people as they truly are, and that in turns leads these white writers to failures in craft.
In one of the essays in my book, I examine the convention which implicitly states if the race or ethnicity of the character is not indicated, the character is white. This establishes whiteness as universal default. Presumably this is in part because white people are in the majority. But what will happen when white people are no longer the majority? Moreover, this practice presumes that being white isn’t important to the character’s identity, nor is it important to what their experiences have been. Now, this is one way of looking at a white character, but it is not the only way of looking at a white character; certainly, it is not the way many readers and writers of color look at white characters. Moreover, this literary practice is implicitly a political position: the character’s whiteness doesn’t have anything to do about their life—which, to me, is nonsense. This white character doesn’t have a racial identity but I do? In contrast, both explicitly and implicitly, writers of color examine how the race and ethnicity of their characters affect the character’s sense of identity and life experiences and family history. That is an entirely different viewpoint of how race functions in our society and not just in our present, but in our history.
In the workshop, “Writing on Race,” that I co-taught in the Stonecoast MFA program, we found that a study and investigation of race in literature not only improved the work of writers of color but also of the white writers. The white writers became more fearless, more willing to explore difficult or painful issues, expanded their understanding of their lives and history, discovered gaps in the ways they understood themselves and their identity, their families, as well as society and history in general. The realities and narratives they explored in their work became more complex, more expansive, more inclusive and more ambitious. They also became more literate and better read, and discovered not just one or two new works, but sometimes a whole tradition of new literary works and thought.
You write that we live in “an era when strangers are encountering strangers daily, making each of us stranger ourselves.” Do we accrue strangeness via our encounters with the non-familiar? Do we become strangers to ourselves? Could you discuss how writing has helped you on your stranger’s journey?
In The Devil Finds Work, Baldwin writes:
“The question of identity is a question involving the most profound panic–a terror as primary as the nightmare of the mortal fall. This question can scarcely be said to exist among the wretched, who know, merely, that they are wretched and who bear it day by day–it is a mistake to suppose that the wretched do not know that they are wretched; nor does this question exist among the splendid, who know, merely, that they are splendid, and who flaunt it, day by day: it is a mistake to suppose that the splendid have any intention of surrendering their splendor. An identity is questioned only when it is menaced, as when the mighty begin to fall, or when the wretched begin to rise, or when the stranger enters the gates, never, thereafter, to be a stranger: the stranger’s presence making you the stranger, less to the stranger than to yourself. Identity would seem to be the garment with which one covers the nakedness of the self; in which case, it is best that the garment be loose, a little like the robes of the desert, through which robes one’s nakedness can always be felt, and sometimes, discerned. This trust in one’s nakedness is all that gives one the power to change one’s robes.”
As a writer I’ve taken this as my credo. I must constantly be prepared to question my own conception of my identity. In 2017, my fellow writers and students now come from backgrounds that are multi-racial and whose origins stem from all over the globe. And as I get to know them, I must begin revising my knowledge of the world and my perspective on my place within it. But of course, it’s not just writers; it’s my whole community. There are 150 first languages in the Minneapolis school system; my kids went to a school that was twenty percent Native American, twenty percent Latino, twenty percent black and East African, ten percent Asian and thirty percent white.
I’ve also challenged myself to be in places where I may be the only Japanese American—not very hard—or the only Asian American, to enter other villages and communities, settings where I am the stranger. These include cultural experiences—art events, readings, nightclubs— and community events, as well as work I do with schools, and of course travel. I became a writer in part because I hate to be bored, and my curiosity about the world and others has informed both my writing and the way I live my life.
Poetry, fiction, essay, performance, journalism… How do you make this juggling act of genres work for you?
Early on, I chose as models writers like Yukio Mishima, Brecht, Marguerite Duras, Pasolini, Jon Berger, writers who wrote in many different forms. They gave me a greater sense of the possibilities of what I could do. Moreover, part of the reason some of these writers wrote in different forms was that they saw a relationship between literature and politics, and that was a conjunction I was vitally interested in.
Beyond that, I subscribe to the Jungian model of the psyche, which is polytheistic. That is, we all contain many different gods, many different voices. I tell my poetry students—don’t just write one type of poem; try as many different forms and ways of writing as possible. You don’t know what form or way of writing you might be good at until you try it. You don’t know if a new approach—form or type of language—might provide new insights to the subject you’re obsessed with.
I started out as a poet. But when I was in Japan for a year on a fellowship, I realized that if I waited until my experiences distilled into poetry, I would miss writing about a lot of what I was experiencing, thinking and feeling. Moreover, outside the pressure to high-power the language into poetry, writing prose allowed me to explore my own psyche in a deeper way and, even more importantly, to explore how my being Japanese American affected not just who I was, but who my parents and my grandparents were.
When I wrote my first memoir, Turning Japanese, Garrett Hongo was writing his memoir, Volcano, and Li-Young Lee was writing his, The Winged Seed. Garrett remarked to me that we were all trying to provide the cultural, historical and in my case, political context to our poems. The mainstream culture didn’t include that; we had to create it on our own.
Incidentally, I ended up writing a play based on The Winged Seed, and when it was performed, I played Li-Young Lee’s father. After the premier, Li-Young said to me about my portrayal, “David, you were scary” [as my father]. Acting can be a way of understanding material; I never quite understood Chekov’s genius until I acted in a Chekov play. And of course, doing performance work and acting has helped me as a reader of my own work.
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Beware Of Banks.
Us & Henney
For The Record.
For those of you who don't understand the concept of this song, it's a tribute to Richie Haven's performance of his song "Freedom" when he opened up at Woodstock in 1969. Tech N9ne modified it to Speedom (aka having the freedom to speed lyrically). He did this because it matches the concept of the Choppers series. The beat and hook draw parallels to Haven's original song.
Em has fell off? lol this guy has lyrics and rhyme schemes for days! My only issue with him is the yelling every verse
BITCH IM FROM CLEVELAND

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Split Screen Management has a huge pleasure to announce the signing of Italian melodic death metallers LUNARSEA! Elements such as growling, screaming, clean vocals, blast beat, synths and tipically power-prog riffs are the core and the peculiarity of Lunarsea style and soul.
Guitarist Fabiano Romagnoli stated: “Time has come! We’re back and ready to promote live our latest and hyped album called “Earthling/Terrestre” released in January 2020.
“Earthling/Terrestre” is considered by most media/reviewer as our best album so far, but we were so unluckly to release it 2 months before covid pandemic comes out unfortunately. After 12 months of studio and promotion activity, by releasing 4 lyric video, a collaboration with Bjorn “Speed” Strid from Soilwork and dozen of rehearsal, we get in touch again with Tarja and Roberto from the brand new SPLIT SCREEN MANAGEMENT agency for a new collaboration, and we’re very proud of them for all the works they did for us already in the past. See you back on the road. Stay Lunar!”
Alessandro Iacobellis – Vocals
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According to the most recent statistics, about 500,000 children in the United States have cerebral palsy. This non-progressive neurological disorder is usually the result of a loss of oxygen to the brain either before, during, or shortly after birth. Babies born prematurely are especially susceptible to having cerebral palsy. There are many different forms of cerebral palsy, and some are much more severe than others. For children who have monoplegia, only one of their limbs is affected.
23 July 2019
Lip injections, or lip fillers, are a safe, convenient way to achieve the plump, natural-looking lips and smile you've always wanted. Dermal fillers are injected into the lips in a matter of minutes in the comfort of your doctor's office. The chance of side effects is minimal, especially when you care for your lips properly after your appointment. Here are a few simple tips to help you properly care for your lips after your appointment.
18 June 2019
You and millions of other people look forward to warm weather when you can engage in various types of outdoor activities. Unfortunately, stinging insects look forward to the warm weather too, and those stings can be painful, especially when they cause an allergic reaction. Most insect stings do not cause a reaction, but you could suffer a serious reaction. An allergic reaction to stinging insects causes a remarkable number of deaths each year in America.
10 May 2019
If you're beginning to notice your hairline receding, you aren't seeing things - your hairline is probably receding. A receding hairline or thinning hair at the crown can be something you may be self-conscious about. To help prevent losing more of your hair there are things you can do. Read on for tips that can help prevent hair further hair loss. Skip Hats Wearing hats may make you feel better about your hairline, but all you're doing is covering up your thinning hair, but could also be losing more due to the hats.
9 April 2019
Plantar fasciitis might be the cause of your heel pain. This condition is often caused by overuse or repetitive motion. It's common in runners, but you can also get it by walking or standing for many hours a day at your job. Here are some more symptoms of plantar fasciitis and some treatments a podiatrist might suggest to speed healing. Signs You Could Have Plantar Fasciitis One common sign of plantar fasciitis is when you experience heel pain when you first start moving after resting a while and then the pain is relieved as you stay active.
12 February 2019
If your teenager's doctor has just informed you that they have asthma, feelings may be swirling in your mind. You may feel profound relief because you understand what's been troubling your teenager, but become scared about their ability to manage it. How can you support your teenager as they adjust to their asthma? Tell People Most teenagers like to remain private about their personal health issues. Your own teenager might be adamant that no one find out and that everyone treat them "
7 January 2019
You are ready to take your MCAT and start your medical career but are feeling very concerned about your ability to study because of your dyslexia. Thankfully, getting an MCAT tutor can help you get through your studying and succeed on this vital test. Dyslexia Can Challenge Your MCAT Success Individuals with dyslexia struggle to read properly and may even have difficulty retaining written information. However, you've found ways to study that work for you and have become a brilliant student with a promising career in any field you choose.
4 December 2018

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My La Femme freebies are featured on Poser Pulse on October 6th at Renderosity! That is an article of a cute witch’s large banner image 😀
Simple gift for Halloween.
Once again, I have made a worthless object.
This is a trashy work. But, I am lacking drive to adjust this work now.
I tried to make a 3d-model after a long time.I had almost forgotten the making of the Poser figures.
It is a small item. And this has no textures, has no UV map. But it is a high polygonal model to be contrary to the looks.
I was wavering in the naming. But a good name was not found after all. Well, I think that I have to make his debut as a new…
Ghost Pippin attacks you! Are you ready to hand in a candy to Pippin?Also give me the one of grapefruit flavor 😛
Must hurry because Halloween is close.
This is a gift of Halloween from me.


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Explore This IssueJuly 2012
Bariatric surgery may seem like an extreme treatment for OSA, but there’s evidence to suggest that it may be helpful. Research studies that measured the presence and severity of OSA in obese teenagers both before and after weight-loss surgery suggest that weight-loss surgery typically resolves or greatly reduces the severity of OSA (Obesity. 2009;17(5):901-910, Obes Surg. 2003;13(1):58-61).
Evan Nadler, MD, director of the bariatric surgery program and co-director of the Obesity Institute at Children’s National Medical Center in Washington, D.C., said bariatric surgery should be considered as a possible treatment for OSA (and obesity) for morbidly obese teens. “Any adolescent who meets the adult standards for weight-loss surgery should at least be evaluated by an adolescent weight-loss surgeon, even if it’s just an information-gathering exercise,” he said. Teens who have a BMI of 35 with a significant comorbidity like sleep apnea qualify, as do teens with a BMI of 40 without a comorbidity.
“I actually had one patient who avoided an adenotonsillectomy by having weight-loss surgery,” said Dr. Nadler. “The patient had generous tonsils, but neither I nor the [otolaryngologist] felt that the tonsils were the main contributor toward the sleep apnea. So after discussing the case, he and I decided to proceed with weight-loss surgery first.” The morbidly obese teenager underwent bariatric surgery and so far has not needed any additional treatment for OSA.
Bariatric surgery requires significant commitment from the patient, so almost all obesity centers require prospective candidates to be actively involved in a weight management program before undergoing surgery. “A patient cannot be successful without a huge amount of behavior change. If they’re not in the right place mentally and showing success beforehand, then it’s likely that the surgery will not be successful in the long term,” said Dr. Pont.
Insurance companies are increasingly willing to pay for bariatric surgery. “If I have a 15- or 16-year-old with severe OSA and morbid obesity, it’s fairly easy for me to convince an insurance company why it’s in the child’s best interest to have surgery,” Dr. Nadler said.

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NORTH Shields Hockey Club left winger Billy Sowter became the club’s first county representative when playing for Northumbria in their opening County Championship match against Cumbria.
The match was one of four over the weekend, Sowter gaining increasing pitch time as the tournament progressed.
With wins against Cumbria (6-3), Lincolnshire (7-6) and the Army (7-5) and a 1-0 reverse to Durham, the weekend was a successful one for Northumberland, who now head to Sheffield on June 4 for the next round of matches.
Sowter will be hoping his performances justify further selection and there is also a place in the squad for Shields’ Jordan Bell, who was unavailable last weekend due to work commitments.
Meanwhile, Shields Veterans are faring well in the Summer League.
Twinning with Tynedale to make up an over-35s team, TNS have beaten Reivers, Gateshead, Tynemouth and Morpeth while drawing with Sunderland and Durham and losing to Northumbria St Georges.
The league is friendly while competitive and any over-35 player looking for a game should turn up at The Parks, Tynemouth at 7.15pm on Tuesdays or Wednesdays.


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Simple Ways To Make Your University Accommodation Feel More Homely
When you move into university accommodation, it often doesn’t feel very homely. So, we are here to give you some inspiration for non-permanent additions to your space to make it feel more comfortable and familiar! No matter what your room is like, you can transform it to make it feel like home. So, let’s get stuck in!
The first thing you can do to make your room feel more homely is to add some plants to your room. Houseplants are great to have in your space, as they can help with your focus, productivity as well as boost your mood and keep the air nice and fresh. Plus, they look beautiful and will add some life to your room!
Aloe vera, snake plants, and peace lilies are all great for university rooms, as they are very resilient, don’t need much light, and don’t need to be watered very often. Many universities have plant sales on campus, so you can buy your plants from there. Otherwise, head to a local gardening store and have a good browse for resilient plants that will add character to your room.
Now it’s time to add some life to your room with wall art! People often think that wall art is out of the picture when it comes to decorating your uni room as it is believed that wall art is difficult to hang, however you can get removable adhesive strips that mean you can hang some wonderful wall art around the room without there being any permanent damage from nails or hooks. All you need to do is follow the instructions on the removable adhesive strips carefully to make sure they are attached properly, and also to make sure you will be able to remove them without damage.
You can get really creative with your wall art, choosing a range of different ones to create a gallery wall or sticking with one or two to bring character to the wall. This could be a botanical theme, a 3D portrait of your family, or posters of your favorite film. Filling up some of the blank space on the wall will make such a big difference and you can easily take them from place to place if you move between uni years!
Next up, make sure that you bring lots of photos from home so you have a wall of wonderful memories that you can see every day. Before you leave for university, print off lots of photos of your friends and family, and then you can stick them all onto a pinboard, use blu tack to attach them to furniture like your wardrobes or you could attach them all together with string and drape them around the room.
If you are ever feeling a bit homesick, you can look at these beautiful photos and be reminded of your loved ones. You will feel so much more at home with these photos and you can gradually add more from your time at university!
Another wonderful way to make your accommodation feel more homely is to add a few homely smells. You could get the same hand soap that you used at home, use the same washing powder for your clothes or you could get a scent diffuser. This way, whenever you walk in the room, wash your hands or put a piece of clothing on, you will have that nice reminder of being home. This can be really comforting whilst you adjust to being at uni, but you will soon feel at home.
This one might sound a bit cliche, but adding fairy lights to your room can really make it feel more homely. If you’re not a big fan of fairy lights, a lamp will do the same job. Usually, when you move into university accommodation, you might find that the lighting is very bright and not very welcoming.
So, before you move, pick up a lamp or some fairy lights. This will add another dimension of light to the room so that you have the option of having slightly less bright lighting for when you want to really relax. This can make a big difference to your experience at uni, so it is definitely worth doing!
Moving to university can be a daunting process, so knowing you have plenty of things that you can utilize to make your room feel more homely is really important. It will take some time to adjust to your new lifestyle, but you will know that you have a cozy and comfortable room to come back to no matter what. When you need some time or if you feel stressed, you can relax in your room and feel happy there. So, investing in a few little things before you head to uni could make the transition to university a much easier process!


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1 pound dried navy beans, soaked overnight
1 ham bone
6 slices bacon, diced
12 cups chicken stock
1 bay leaf
1 tablespoon tamari soy sauce
1/2 teaspoon dried thyme
1/2 pound potatoes, cooked and cubed
1/4 cup milk
1 1/4 cups chopped celery
1 1/4 cups chopped onion
1 tablespoon minced garlic
1/4 cup chopped parsley
1/2 teaspoon oregano
Drain beans, place in pot and add 12 cups of stock, bay leaf, tamari and thyme, along with the ham bone. Bring to a boil and simmer 30 – 40 minutes, till beans are tender.
Mix potatoes with 1/2 cup milk and set aside.
Cook bacon, remove and set aside, then saute vegetables, garlic and parsley in three tablespoons of drippings. If there are not enough drippings, add a bit of oil or butter. After they’ve softened, add to beans, and simmer, one hour or so.
Remove about one cup of beans, mash and return to the pot, along with the mashed potato mixture.
Remove bone and any chunks of meat, shred and return meat to the pot.
Cook about 10 more minutes to thicken.
Garnish with the bacon.
bacon recipe courtesy of: Frugal Hausfrau's Blog
2.5 liters of home made vegetable or chicken stock
50 grams butter
1 large onion, finely chopped
2-3 garlic cloves, finely chopped
50 grams home cured smoked bacon, finely chopped
20 grams dried tomatoes
400 grams risotto rice
125ml dry white wine
salt & pepper
50 grams butter, cut into cubes and chilled
100 grams finely grated hard cheese such as parmesan or pecorino
a few nettle leaves for garnish, deep fried until crisp
Blanch the nettle tops in plenty of salted boiling water for 30 seconds to 1 minute. This will help soften them and preserve their glorious green colour.
Drain and refresh the nettles in cold water. Squeeze out excess water and place in a blender and puree.
Melt the first 50 grams of butter in a sauté pan and gently fry the bacon until the fat renders and it's slightly coloured.
Add the onions and garlic and cook gently until softened but not coloured (about 5 minutes). If you need to, add a little more butter or olive oil.
Add the rice and stir around so that it gets coated with the flavoured butter and heats through.
Add the wine, stir and allow to evaporate completely.
Add the warm stock, a ladleful at a time, stirring the mixture constantly over a medium heat. When the liquid is nearly all incorporated, add the next ladleful.
Do this for about 10 minutes, then bring your heat up and add your nettle puree and tomatoes. Mix in well and turn the heat back to medium. The nettle will make things moister so you may not need to add any more liquid from here. Keep stirring for 5 minutes or so until the rice is soft outside and 'al dente' in the middle. You want the risotto moist (not dry but not soupy) at this stage.
Turn off the heat and cover the pan with a lid. Allow to rest for up to 5 minutes.
Add your chilled butter cubes and hard cheese and beat it into the risotto. Check taste and season appropriately.
Serve garnished with the deep fried nettle leaves.
bacon recipe courtesy of: Carl Legge, Permaculture, The Sustainability Centre, Droxford Road, East Meon, Hampshire GU32 1HR, March 17, 2011
I’ve lived in Brownwood, Texas for almost 4 years now. It’s a pretty small town in the middle of nowhere. I miss the vast variety of food in Austin, and the lack of a decent grocery store makes it a bit worse. But today a great local business called the FlourPower Bakery just a few blocks from my house has made the last several months so much better. My first trip was to find something to eat on my wife’s birthday last August so I showed up suddenly and bought most everything they had left for the day. I got a half dozen chocolate covered strawberries and a bunch of push-up pops filled with pie/cake that were amazing! Best desserts we’ve had since we moved here. Since then we’ve had countless cupcakes too. I love the red velvet and the chocolate the most, but they do usually have many more to choose from.
A few months ago I mentioned on their Facebook page that I’d love to see a french toast cupcake with a maple bacon cream icing and they probably thought I was just being silly. But something must have gotten into them because today a friend of my wife’s called her and said we had to get to FlourPower ASAP and get their bacon cupcake!
This cupcake is beautiful. The first thing I did was eat the bacon. It was good! As I licked off a layer of maple frosting I really wished there was more bacon inside. If eaten together, the sweetness would have killed off any bacon flavor. MORE BACON would have fixed that right up! But, since they’re just getting started in the bacon arts, it’s OK. The buttermilk pancake cupcake was soooo good too. It was perfectly moist and had a bit more maple syrup in the middle! Overall I’d say the frosting was a bit too sweet. With the added maple syrup, it was pretty extreme. The bacon had a nice sweetness too! I hope they keep this up. I’m not sure if it’s possible to make a not-so-sweet frosting, but I hope they give it a shot!
So far there have only been about ten comments to their Facebook post and most people seem to have been excited to try it. I can’t wait to see what they come up with next!
It seems that the internet provides us with a plethora of information on the gloriousness of bacon. In fact, it’s such a congested, mind boggling highway of information it can leave a person completely overloaded. Which brings us to a more summarized version of bacon and its magnitude of uses. And when I mean shorter, I mean more like a picture book. Not because I’m lazy, (noooo, not at all!), but mainly because the majority of us bacon-lovin’ internet viewers have the attention span of a two year old… when we don’t have bacon in our hands.
First, take your bacon and wrap it around your food. What food you ask? Anything! Open your fridge, and pull out the first thing you see that’s not a liquid, and wrap the bacon around it. Scallops, asparagus, dates, tater tots, peppers… Most food is not safe from bacon’s wrapping abilities. Magically, bacon makes food tastes infinitely better. If you’re not sure about your recipe, just add bacon!
Food recipes are an obvious place to use bacon. There’s the bacon brownie, bacon cinnamon rolls, bacon pie, bacon balls, bacon bread, bacon jam, bacon soda… holy bacon fat, Batman! I think I just had a brain aneurysm.
But of course it doesn’t stop there. Let’s move on to the pictures! I know you’re excited.
1. Bacon flavored vodka. For those who love bacon so much they want to get drunk off of it. Or throw up so much they can’t stand the taste of bacon ever again. We’re not sure which.
2. The bacon gun (a.k.a. The BA-K 47): Everyone wants to shoot stuff with a gun made out of bacon, right? Makes perfect sense.
3. A bacon mug to drink your beer out of. Of course! One should not go to their local pub with out one.
4. The bacon bowl: Because who wants to do the dishes anyway?
5. Girls in bikinis= Awesome. Girls in BACON bikinis= Epic.
6. The bacon bazooka. Again, shooting things with a weapon of mass amounts of bacon. Just a bigger and badder version.
7. Because nothing says “I love you” more than bacon roses. Who wants to receive some dead plants anyway?
8. Just because. You can never have enough bacon, right?
9. Bacon Ice Cream. Chocolate is for wusses anyway.
10. Lastly, art. Because bacon is just so moving on its own. Beautiful. This brings a tear to our eye.
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
14 tablespoons unsalted butter
1/2 cup granulated sugar
3/4 cup packed dark brown sugar
1 teaspoon table salt
2 teaspoon vanilla
1 large egg
1 large egg yolk
4 oz semisweet chocolate bar, diced into 1/4? pieces
1/2 cup bittersweet chocolate chips
3 tablespoons milk chocolate, grated
1 cup bacon that’s been fried until crispy and diced into roughly 1/4? pieces
Put your oven rack in the middle and heat your oven to 375 degrees. Line a large baking sheet with parchment paper. Whisk 1 3/4 cups flour with 1/2 teaspoon baking soda. Set this aside.
Fry up a few pieces of bacon. You want the bacon to be as crisp as possible without being burnt. Cut the bacon into roughly (and this is very roughly) 1/4? pieces.
Heat 10 tablespoons of butter in a 10-inch skillet over medium heat until melted. Continue cooking until it turns a dark, golden brown and smells divine. Swirl this pan constantly and stir the bottom frequently for good measure. As soon as it’s done, take off the heat and pour immediately into a heatproof bowl. Stir in remaining 4 tablespoons of butter so that they melt.
Put the butter in a large mixing bowl and add 1/2 cup sugar, 3/4 cup packed dark brown sugar, 1 teaspoon salt and 2 teaspoon vanilla.
Add egg and egg yolk and mix until mixture is fully incorporated.
Let sugar/egg/butter mixture stand for a few minutes. Whisk again for 30 seconds. Do this several times–you want to make sure that the sugar has “melted” into the liquid. When ready, mixture will be smooth, thick and shiny.
Chop chocolate. Grate your milk chocolate
Using wooden spoon, stir in the flour mixture until just combined. Stir in grated chocolate, chocolate chunks and bacon pieces. Don’t over mix but make sure no flour pockets remain.
Using a teaspoon, place a heaping teaspoon of cookie dough on the baking sheet lined with parchment paper. I get about 14 cookies per baking sheet.
Bake for 10-14 minutes, until cookies are golden-brown and set along the edges but the middle is still soft. Remove from oven and set baking sheet on a wire rack and let cool for at least 10 minutes, keeping the cookies on the baking sheet.
bacon recipe courtesy of: Kristina, Mouth from the South, August 3, 2009 | adapted from Cook's Illustrated, America's Test Kitchen
8 ears corn
4 slices thick cut bacon
2 tablespoons ubsalted butter
1 medium onion, preferably sweet such as maui, vidalia or walla walla, diced
1 large shallot, diced
8 sprigs thyme
4 sprigs fresh flat-leaf parsley
2 sprigs sage
6 cups chicken stock
1 lb yukon gold potatoes, peeled and diced
1 teaspoon kosher salt, or to tatse
1 teaspoon white pepper, or to taste
1/2 cup heavy cream
3 butter poached lobster tails, coarsely chopped
6 tablespoons chive oil
Cut all the kernels from the cobs. Discard all but 2 of the cobs. Cut the remaining cobs in half crosswise.
Heat a large Dutch oven over medium heat. Add the bacon slices in a single layer and cook until they have rendered their fat, but not yet browned. Add the butter, onions and shallots to the pot, increasing the temperature to medium-high. Sweat the onions and shallots with the bacon, stirring occasionally until they are translucent, about 5 minutes.
Using kitchen twine tie the thyme, parsley and sage sprigs together in a bundle adding them to the pot. Add the chicken stock, potatoes, and the corn cob pieces. Season generously with salt and white pepper. Bring the mixture to a boil then lower the heat to a simmer and cook the mixture until the potatoes soften, about 20 minutes.
Add the cream and the corn kernels, stirring to combine. Simmer about 5 minutes. Remove the soup from the heat and discard the bacon, herb bundle and corncobs. Then, using an immersion blender, blend the soup until completely pureed. Taste and adjust seasoning if necessary.
Pass the soup through a fine meshed sieve into a sauce pan. It should be velvety, but not too thick. Adjust with a little water or more chicken stock if needed. Gently reheat the soup.
To serve: Divide the soup evenly between 6 soup bowls. Mound some of the butter poached lobster on top and drizzle each one with about 1 tablespoon chive oil. Serve warm.
bacon recipe courtesy of: Greg Henry, Sippity Sup, June 22, 2010

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Shay Lynn is a member of the famous 'Dinning Family' of Nashville, Tennessee. Her uncle Mark Dinning had the great HIT 'Teen Angel' which was written by her mother, Jean Dinning. The Dinning Sisters her mother and aunts recorded for Capitol Records in the late forties and had the number one album on the charts for two years running. Shay has two daughters and works with children everday at a pre-school facility. Fred Burch has written songs, (3) for Elvis Presley, Patsy Cline, Charlie Pride, Paul McCartney, Perry Como, Brenda Lee, Jery Lee Lewis, etc.. The songs in this album are primarily ment for children..(but Adults can get-into-them too) It has struck the artist and the writer that too many songs based on the Bible do not really tell the STORY of the Bible event...this is an attempt to tell the BIBLE STORY...beginning to end. Thanks!


Comprised of current and former members of The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, Cold Beat, North Highlands, These Are Powers, and Beach Fossils, Los Angeles art-punk outfit Hit Bargain combine hardcore sensibilities with confrontational performance art and political aggression. Following their self-released EP in 2016, the band wrote Potential Maximizer separately, regrouping to record the album while singer Nora Singh was six months pregnant. Songs deal with gender and power dynamics, "taking you beyond the visceral thrills of punk while still indulging in them,” says Noisey. It's out on Buzz Records.Coverage on music sites Official website
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There is indeed a lot that a whiff of essential oils can do for your love life. From spiking up libidos to rekindling dormant passions, aromatherapy has been used across centuries and civilizations to nurture the inner romantic. The enchanting Cleopatra
probably knew what she was doing when she doused herself and the sails of her ship in Rose essence when she set out to seduce Mark Anthony
. Even ancient Romans and Egyptians counted on aromatic baths
to make lovemaking more erotic and enjoyable. Traditions have gradually given way to scientific research and today, we know that olfactory stimuli have a direct effect on the brain’s limbic system
, which controls our emotions, moods and sexual drive. This factual piece of information pretty much forms the basis of the billion-dollar perfume industry!
Aromatherapy for Self-Love
It is a well known fact that individuals who make for great lovers are ones who are brimming with positivity, passion and self-confidence. Essential oils work in multiple ways to affect your mood and heighten desire – they may stimulate, sedate or help with physical and emotional factors such as vaginal dryness, body image issues and stress that hamper
sexual desire. Wearing certain scents can help people feel more self-assured and cheerful, which reflects in their stance and draws people towards them. If you are the kind that needs a little push to shed inhibitions and express yourself, the sensuous and euphoric scent of Patchouli Essential Oil
can help you come out of your shell and release pent-up emotions. Ylang Ylang
, on the other hand, can help warm up your mood when you feel frigid or insecure. The oil also helps dispel negative emotions like jealousy and envy.
Aromatherapy for Relationships
If you feel that a lack of communication and clarity is coming in the way of your romance, the intoxicating scent of Clary Sage
can help relieve the buildup of tensions and foster a deeper connection between partners. The oil is also an effective tonic for the female reproductive system as it helps balance out feminine hormones
. Similarly, the warm and spicy nature of Cardamom
helps clear thoughts and stimulates sexual appetite.
Setting the Stage for Romance
When it comes to love and romance, it helps to invest a little effort in setting up a conducive ambience
. “Warming” scents such as Ginger
work perfectly when you want to make your space cozy and inviting. Ginger
is especially helpful during cold winter months when depression and lethargy are more likely to set in. The invigorating aroma of this oil works at a physiological level to improve circulation, relieve aches and boost energy levels. To introduce an element of fun and playfulness to your lovemaking, try out light, citrusy scents like Mandarin
– these are known to enhance emotional wellbeing and infuse positivity in relationships.
Aromatherapy as a Natural Aphrodisiac
Essential oils are believed to balance the body’s chakras (energy centers) and activate the sacral chakra, and is responsible for sexual function. Jasmine Essential Oil
is a rare and exotic oil that is also revered as a powerful aphrodisiac. The sharp flowery scent helps fight feelings of listlessness, frigidity and inadequacy while freeing the mind of anxiety and nervousness. Women often experience a significant dip in sexual drive during and after pregnancy. Jasmine is effective in reviving the lost confidence and helps new mothers feel better about themselves and their bodies. Any talk of love and romance is rather incomplete without a mention of Rose
, which has come to symbolize the emotion and everything associated with it. The gentle, comforting scent of Rose essential oil invokes feelings of sensuousness and makes women feel more self-assured about their feminine beauty.
How to Use Essential Oils?
There are several ways in which you can use aromatic oils to add spice to your romantic interludes:
- Use a traditional aromatherapy burner or plug in an electric diffuser for an instant pick-me-up.
- If you wish to take things a notch higher, spice up your evening by offering your partner a sensual aromatherapy massage with a blend of essential oils. The intimate body contact will not only facilitate the flow of sexual energy but will also relieve stress, boost circulation and induce a state of relaxation. Mix 1 drop of Patchouli essential oil, 3 drops of Ylang Ylang essential oil and 2 drops of Orange essential oil in any carrier oil to concoct your own love potion. Be sure to massage the ankles, feet and hands as these are sensitive areas that can heighten sexual arousal. If a massage sounds like too much work, slip into a warm aromatic bath infused with sea salts and a blend of essential oils with your partner.
- You may also sprinkle a few drops of your chosen essential oil on your bed linen and soak in the fragrance as you revel in your special moments.

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Take a breather.
Grab a little shut-eye.
What comes to your mind when you think of rest? This is a time in my life when rest = sleep. Sleep is something in short supply. So the question is, if I don't get sleep, can I still get rest?
The answer, I'm learning, is YES. Instead of just a thing to be had, rest can be found in a person. In life we are looking for things to relax us - whether that be food, Netflix, hobbies, vacations or sleep. How many times have you caught yourself saying (or even just THINKING to yourself) "I could be at rest and anxiety-free if I just..." My most recent fill in the blanks are "had 8 solid hours of sleep!" Or if we were fully supported and on to the next part of our adventure OR if we found just the right house. Then I would truly find rest.
And what happens when all those things happen? Once we've moved to the Carolinas, have a house, have sleeping kids? Then what? I be anxious about new things... if only this felt like home, if only my kids had friends, if only I had friends! If only we were back in Dallas doing what I was doing before 😳 Uh oh. If I cannot find rest in Jesus where I am, will I ever find rest?
This is something Jesus has been reminding me. My rest needs to be found in Him - not in 8 solid hours of sleep, my current situation or my comfort. He says to me: Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened and I will give you rest (Matt 11:28).
During this time of absolute exhaustion: physically, mentally and emotionally, He has stepped in and rejuvenated my soul through His Word - speaking words of truth to me when all I want to believe is the overwhelming, anxiety-filled lie.
As a mama of 2 smalls in the middle of one of the biggest changes of our lives, He has been so faithful to make my heart at rest, even if the world around me is spinning.


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It’s the video you’ve probably seen at least 47 times. Or you’ve at least listened to this on your iPod nearly that many…or more.
The super catchy, super classy Stepdad will be headlining tonight’s showcase at Midwest Fest 2011 at Rubble’s Bar in Mt. Pleasant.
They’ll be joined by Phantasmagoria, Lightning Love, State Bird and Yoke.
Music gets underway around 9pm. Those 18 and up are welcome.
Tickets are still available online at http://midwestfest2011.com/tickets as well as at the door tonight. See you there!
Phantasmagoria - “Empty Houses”
Come see them at Midwest Fest 2011 on Thursday, September 29th with Stepdad, Lightning Love, State Bird, and Yoke!
Tickets available at http://midwestfest2011.com/tickets
“The band, with its idiosyncratic answers and genre-defying songs, proves to be hard to pin down. Jarvis coolly describes Phantasmagoria’s music simply as “electronic pop,” and with Vanicelli’s beautiful vocal delivery and the duo’s penchant for synth-driven music, it’s a fair description. But the songs’ arty tendencies can’t be ignored, most of which are lush arrangements that pass the five-minute mark and tout any combination of clean, meticulously layered electronic beats, primitive, tribal-sounding live percussion, or samples of animal noises — oftentimes all in one song.” - MetroTimes Detroit
Have you heard Frontier Ruckus' new song “For Mona and Emmy” yet? It's fantastic (as is many of their songs). Here they are playing it in an alley in Omaha for the good folks at Love Drunk Studio, the people who also recorded Phantasmagoria playing on a street in suburban Detroit and Matt Jones playing in his Ypsilanti backyard. Cool stuff.
Check out Frontier Ruckus headlining the finale of Midwest Fest 2011 on Saturday, October 1st. Tickets for the whole fest are $20-$25 and tickets for that night are $10. Get them at http://midwestfest2011.com/tickets. The festival is open to those 18 and up, although tickets for those under 21 are limited. Get yours today!


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The manufacturer of clothing and sports equipment Adidas obtained an attributed net profit of 558 million euros in the first three months of 2021, compared to the profits of 31 million recorded in the same period of the previous year, as reported by the company, which has revised upwards their expectations for the year as a whole.
Adidas sales between January and March totaled 5,268 million euros, 20.2% more than a year earlier, including a growth of 3.8% in Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA), while in North America fell 0.8% to 1,157 million.
Sales in China reached 1,402 million euros, with an annual growth of 151%, while in Asia Pacific they totaled 603 million, 0.1% more, and in Latin America they fell 2.1%, to 297 million.
On the other hand, the company of the three bands highlighted that its digital sales during the first quarter of 2021 increased by 43%, compared to the increase of 35% in the previous three months and doubling in the course of the last two years.
Despite the adverse impact of prolonged shutdowns in Europe, industry-wide supply chain challenges and the geopolitical situation, Adidas has improved its outlook for the whole of 2021. Furthermore, the multinational is confident that hosting events Sports events such as the Eurocup and the America’s Cup will provide a unique setting to showcase products and brands to a global audience.
Thus, discounting the effect of the exchange rate, the company now expects its sales to increase at a rate of between 17% and 19% in 2021, including an acceleration of around 50% in the second quarter.
Likewise, Adidas is confident of reaching a net profit from current operations of between 1,250 and 1,450 million, compared to earnings of 461 million in 2020, with an expected adverse impact of about 200 million in relation to the sale of Reebok.
“Although external uncertainties remain high, 2021 will be a successful year for Adidas,” said Kasper Rorsted, CEO of the German company.

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Here it is, the third week of the great experiment. I'm back to reserves. The others did well with the higher starting prices. But I think that I'll give this a try for a couple of weeks just to say I gave it a fair shot. Hint ~ The reserve on both of them is $95.00.
Presently. I'm taking a break from felting to give my poor arm a rest and am working on a pattern for a sewn teddy friend. The mohair that I have is perfect for a little lion cub. I'm a bit ambicious because it's only my third sewn teddy ever. I'm trying to make him fully jointed and posable. eyes mouth and everything. I hope it's not a waste of mohair. I'm keeping my fingers crossed. I'm going to try it out on muslin first. I'll let you know how it progresses
So here's first, Glowie. She was designed after a little opossum baby who was found nesting in my Christmas ornaments in the basement. She and her brothers and sisters were always there begging for veggie dogs and watermelon whenever we would fire up the barbeque. I'm particu;arly proud of her needle felted watermelon slice. I love making felt food.
I even included some felt food with Ginger, the little mouse. She has a needle felted fortune cookie. Her fortune reads "On the waves of your dreams you glide forward towards the shores of your better life."
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text: This past winter, I had the pleasure to direct one of the toughest plays I’ve ever worked on, George Bernard Shaw’s Man & Superman, for one of my favorite theatre companies in Nashville, Blackbird Theatre Company. We had a brilliant run, great reviews, and a heck of a challenge tackling a play that literally takes the characters to hell and back again. Here are some production photos. Be sure to check out the reviews under the ‘Reviews’ tab. Photo credit John Gentry.


To end the stigma around pregnancy loss, we need to talk about it openly.
In a society that lays paramount importance on progeny, pregnancy loss is still a tabooed subject. Such topics are carefully brushed aside and more often than not, spoken in such a manner as if it does not exist. The social response to such an occurrence across class, caste and other strata is meted out on most occasions, solely on the woman.
Motherhood everywhere has been long glorified. Child-bearing and child-rearing have been historically seen as synonymous to that of an ‘ideal type’ of feminine identity. It is only recently that such a discourse has been contested and the scholarship on women’s voluntary choice and autonomy on their own bodies is gaining momentum.
While on the one hand there is a massive glorification of biological child-bearing, at the other end of the motherhood spectrum, is also a high percentage of women who experience pregnancy loss. This, however, continues to remain a topic that has garnered very little attention in mainstream discourses. A more common term in regular parlance is ‘miscarriage’, although this term is now challenged and replaced with the word ‘pregnancy loss’.
Disaggregated statistics in India on pregnancy loss is scarce, the reason being the silence and stigma associated with it. Although statistics indicate to a certain number, there still remain a high percentage of women who never talk about the loss they experienced. Of this, there are a considerable number of women who experience loss even before they know they are pregnant, or a pregnancy is clinically recognised.
Lack of information on sexual and reproductive health, lack of access to basic healthcare facilities and lack of autonomy and choice on their own bodies, deprive many women of the most fundamental reproductive rights even today. In a hyper-consumerist world where one is constantly fed with images from popular culture, little do silenced narratives of alternate family structures or those of loss and grief find space.
Pregnancy loss is a serious isolating episode in a woman’s life that affects her not just physically, but also psychologically. Furthermore, the social context and the strata that one belongs to also might have severe social repercussions as to how the woman is treated once her partner, family and those in the community know of the pregnancy loss.
In a society that lays paramount importance on progeny, pregnancy loss is still a tabooed subject. Such topics are carefully brushed aside and more often than not, spoken in such a manner as if it does not exist. The social response to such an occurrence across class, caste and other strata is meted out on most occasions, solely on the woman. Despite the fact that 15-25 per cent of pregnancies end in a pregnancy loss for reasons that are beyond one’s control, nonetheless, it is the woman who is often ridiculed for “miscarry-ing” (a term that largely connotes as if the pregnancy loss is self-generated) the child.
That women, who are childless/ childfree, are referred to as ‘barren’, ‘infertile’, etc., is not uncommon. At the same time, it is also interesting to note the range of responses that women who experience pregnancy loss often bear the brunt of. From the barrage of unsolicited advice that a woman is bombarded with, to those that go on to brutally trivialise the issue, women face it all.
Following a pregnancy loss, if not spontaneous, there is an additional ordeal of going through a medical termination of pregnancy which adds on to the trauma. Often the physical pain and trauma after a medical termination of pregnancy is so unbearable that a woman doesn’t even express her emotional distress. Although abortion is legal in India, research shows that more than 80 per cent women do not know about its legality.
Therefore, in order to ensure that women across backgrounds have access to immediate healthcare facilities, that the stigma around the issue is removed, we must open up discussions around pregnancy loss and reproductive health and rights. This Women’s Day, when popular culture bombards us with ‘unreal’ ideal types of women and womanhood, let’s shift the narrative to real issues of women. When we talk of grief, let’s also talk of grief amongst men/fathers too, for as long as we impose the progeny narrative solely on the woman, for as long as we keep saying ‘men do not cry/men do not have emotions’, we will continue to propagate problematic gendered norms and behaviour. It is about time we break the silence!


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Oligosaccharides are important components of milk, serving as substrates for the intestinal microbiota, acting as antimicrobials that prevent pathogen colonization, and supporting the developing gastrointestinal immune system of neonates. Nutrient composition of canine and feline milk samples has been described previously, but little is known about the oligosaccharide content. Therefore, the objective of this study was to characterize canine and feline milk samples using a high-throughput glycomics approach. 23 dogs (9 Labrador retriever and 14 Labrador retriever x golden retriever crossbreed) and 6 domestic shorthair cats were recruited to the study. Milk samples were collected by manual expression at time points after parturition. Samples were collected across 2 phases per species, differentiated by maternal diet. Following extraction, oligosaccharide content was determined by liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry (LC-MS). In canine milk samples, 3 structures accounted for over 90% of all oligosaccharides detected across two diet groups. These were 3’-sialyl-lactose, 6’-sialyllactose, and 2’-fucosyllactose. In feline samples, a more diverse range of oligosaccharides was detected, with up to 16 structures present at relative abundance >1% of the total. Difucosyllactose-N-hexaose b, 3’-sialyllactose and lacto-N-neohexaose were all detected at abundances >10% in feline milk samples. Statistically significant differences (p<0.05) in oligosaccharide abundances were observed between collection time points and between diet groups within species. These data explore the oligosaccharide content of canine and feline maternal milk, representing an opportunity to generate a fundamental understanding of the nutritional needs of new-born puppies and kittens.
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England captain Kevin Pietersen's stance to show solidarity with India after the Mumbai terror attacks is likely to earn him a lucrative offer from a seemingly impressed business tycoon Vijay Mallya for his IPL franchise Bangalore Royal Challengers.
Updated : December 12, 2008, 8:35 am
Six major organisations of agents on December 1 decided to stop selling tickets of India's leading private airline Jet Airways and its sister carrier JetLite. About 85 per cent of airline bookings in India are done through travel agents, including online agencies.
Updated : December 8, 2008, 5:06 pm
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Updated : November 29, 2008, 5:37 pm
A three-day entrepreneurial summit for industry leaders from different sectors will be opened by Wipro chairman Azim Premji in the city on December 16.
Updated : November 24, 2008, 8:17 pm
Kingfisher Airlines chairman Vijay Mallya says he has been approached by a foreign airline for 25% stake in his airline, but the deal could not develop since this was against government rules. He has now approached the government to relax these rules, reports Nivedita Mukherjee.
Updated : November 17, 2008, 6:14 pm
Although state elections focus on local governance, the performance of the Central Government will be a major factor.
Updated : November 13, 2008, 11:18 pm
Janata Party has put an advertisement inviting application from interested candidates to contest in the party's ticket. It calls for "all interested candidates" to contact state president Somnath Dabgotra. Shafi Rahman reports.
Updated : November 11, 2008, 12:19 pm
A Jet pokesperson said the sacked pilots include captains of Boeing 737 aircraft. Oct 15: Jet Airways cuts 1,900 jobsJet Airways reinstates all sacked employeesGovt hints at bailout package for airlines
Updated : November 8, 2008, 3:02 pm
A 20-member panel will study the "international standard" of the new Bangalore airport. It will probe shortcomings if any, do a comparative analysis with other foreign airports before submitting their report, writes Stephen David.
Updated : October 23, 2008, 10:06 pm
Indian carriers troubled by a financial crunch on Wednesday got time until March 2009 to clear their dues, estimated at about Rs 2,500-2,800 crore, to oil companies in equated monthly installments. 'ATF prices to be revised every 15 days'
Updated : October 22, 2008, 5:18 pm
Announcing the cut in the salaries of its 50 trainee co-pilots, Kingfisher official says every employee is aware of the situation in the industry and salary cut is now a reality. Kingfisher to cut salaries
Updated : October 19, 2008, 8:21 am
Labour Minister Oscar Fernandes has asked the chief labour commissioner to submit a report on Jet lay-off issue. Comment: Is India's aviation boom over? 'Cost cutting was essential' Jet faces red flag over pink slips
Updated : October 16, 2008, 5:08 pm
The airline says termination of the workers is a bid to save jobs of the remaining 11,100 in the recession phase.
Updated : October 16, 2008, 4:00 pm
Kingfisher Airlines chairman Vijay Mallya early on Thursday ruled out lay-offs among the carrier's cabin crew for the time being. 'Cost cutting was essential'
Updated : October 16, 2008, 9:00 am
Justifying the coming together of the two airlines, which account for about 60 per cent of the market share, Naresh Goyal says the break-even point for the aviation sector is at 90 per cent capacity utilisation.
Updated : October 15, 2008, 11:47 am

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In the midst of COVID-19 crisis, a statue standing in front of the Korean Cultural Center in Sao Paulo, Brazil, displayed a four-minute-long video clip on Tuesday, conveying a message of hope to Brazilians.
Under the “Cheer-up!” theme, the statue, also known as the Greeting Man, presented the course of a journey that opens up with the departure from Korea and concludes with the arrival at Brazil, by using 2D and 3D digital technologies.
The Greeting Man features a visual mapping of heart and blood streams, while symbolic images of each country, like national flags, Mugunghwa flowers and the Statue of Christ Redeemer in Rio de Janeiro express the uplifting message.
The sculpture represents the significance of mutual understanding among communities with distinct cultural and racial backgrounds in overcoming the global pandemic stemming from COVID-19 and emphasizes their bond of sympathy.
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The monsoon session 2020 of Parliament is all set to commence on Monday and will continue till October 1st amid the coronavirus pandemic. The session will have a total of 18 sittings over a period of 18 days.
It will include 45 bills and 2 financial items. “The Session will provide a total of 18 sittings spread over a period of 18 days (all the days including Saturdays and Sundays of the ensuing session will be working days) and a total of 47 items, including 45 bills and 2 financial items, have been identified for being taken up during the Monsoon Session, 2020,” the Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs informed in an official statement.
This will be the first Parliament session to be held amid the Covid-19 pandemic and the guidelines for the same have also been issued. Four-hour sessions for each house will be conducted from 9 am to 1 pm for Rajya Sabha and 3 pm to 7 pm for Lok Sabha. However, tomorrow’s Lok sabha session will follow in the morning.
Proper social distancing norms will be followed and mobile apps for attendance of MPs are also expected to be introduced.

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Little Mix's Leigh-Anne and Perrie share pregnancy struggles like swollen ankles
Cheryl delights fans by sharing rare Girls Aloud photo after years of feud rumours
Kimberley Walsh shows postpartum body week after giving birth in cute baby snap
Liam Payne treats ex Cheryl to 'secret getaway' for her 38th birthday
Kimberley Walsh shares adorable new picture of one-month-old baby Nate
Inside Cheryl's uber-glam 38th birthday party with celeb pals and private chef
Victoria Beckham says WAGs are 'not a thing now' and insists her outfits were 'ironic'
Cheryl looks stunning as she celebrates birthday with a really tiny cake
Cheryl and ex Liam Payne seen together for first time in 3 years after his recent split
Sarah Harding sent flowers to Kimberley Walsh after newborn son's birth
Kimberley Walsh introduces new baby son Nate a month after secretly giving birth
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Speaking today at USC, a Russian engineer who helped oversee cleanup activities at the Chernobyl nuclear site likened an atomic energy disaster to that of a war, with one major distinction.
In war, the enemy is known immediately, Natalia Manzurova said. But with a nuclear accident, "We have an invisible enemy that can kill you many years later,'' she said, referring to the long-term health effects of radiation exposure.
Manzurova, speaking through an interpreter, made her remarks during a U.S. tour to raise awareness of nuclear safety issues 25 years after the explosion at Chernobyl, a part of the Ukraine. The tour comes at a time of increasing discussion about nuclear plant safety in the aftermath of this month's reactor breakdown and radiation leaks in Japan.
Manzurova said the people of Japan will feel the pain of the recent tsunami-spawned nuclear disaster in that country. The impact on the environment not only could affect peoples' health, but she said it could also impact the Japanese economy. Rice from Japan could be harder to sell because of the threat of radiation, she said.
Manzurova, who was working at a secret Russian nuclear facility before Chernobyl, spent more than four years studying the site and helping to clean up the mess left by the devastating 1986 nuclear disaster, considered the world's most serious.
The U.S. and the world should be careful about building up their reliance on nuclear power, she said after the session at USC. Manzurova said she knows the fallout of a radiation leak first hand.
During her time at Chernobyl, cleanup workers buried animals and everyday items that had been inundated with radiation. Entire homes were buried in the soil near the nuclear plant to minimize radiation risks.
When she and others arrived at the site in 1987, they found a nearby town intact, but without anyone living there. All had been evacuated.
"People who were evacuated had to leave everything in their houses, their pets -- everything,'' she said.
Today, the effects of radiation are still seen on the landscape surrounding Chernobyl, in the Ukraine.
Manzurova, 59, said she never was told by the government in Russia what amount of radiation she was exposed to but said doctors later determined radiation as the cause of thyroid problems she developed. She bears a scar today on her neck from a thyroid operation. Radiation sickness also made her weak after working at the site, she said.
Manzurova's talk Tuesday was to remember Chernobyl, but it also occurred on the 32nd anniversary of another major nuclear accident, the Three-Mile Island meltdown in Pennsylvania.


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Restricting youth access to tobacco is a central feature of US tobacco regulatory policy, but impact of local tobacco retail licensing (TRL) regulation on cigarette smoking rates remains uncertain. Effects of TRL on other tobacco product use and use as adolescents reach the age to legally purchase tobacco products has not been investigated.
Prevalences of ever and past 30-day cigarette, electronic cigarette (e-cigarette), cigar, and hookah use were assessed in a survey of a cohort of 1553 11th- and 12th-grade adolescents (mean age: 17.3 years); rates of initiation were evaluated 1.5 years later. An American Lung Association (2014) youth access grade was assigned to each of 14 political jurisdictions in which participants lived on the basis of the strength of the local TRL ordinance.
At baseline, participants living in 4 jurisdictions with “A” grades (ie, with most restrictive ordinances) had lower odds of ever cigarette use (odds ratio [OR] 0.61; 95% confidence interval [CI] 0.41–0.90) and of past 30-day use (OR 0.51; 95% CI 0.29–0.89) than participants in 10 D- to F-grade jurisdictions. At follow-up at legal age of purchase, lower odds of cigarette use initiation (OR 0.67; 95% CI 0.45–0.99) occurred in jurisdictions with stronger TRL policy. Lower odds of e-cigarette initiation at follow-up (OR 0.74; 95% CI 0.55–0.99) and of initiation with past 30-day use (OR 0.45; 95% CI 0.23–0.90) were also associated with better regulation.
Strong local TRL ordinance may lower rates of cigarette and e-cigarette use among youth and young adults.


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Charter amendment threat to public schools, reformers say
Georgia's elected leaders have drastically cut funding for public education over the past decade and are poised to take even more money away from public schools, said members of a new educational reform group at an Athens town hall meeting Thursday.
The biggest new threat is a proposed constitutional amendment that would create a politically appointed group that could approve state funding for charter schools, bypassing locally elected school boards, said Bertis Downs of Athens, a supporter of the new reform group EmpowerED Georgia.
About 100 people came to the group's town hall meeting at The Melting Point on Thursday evening, including several members of the Clarke County Board of Education and local elected officials.
Over the past decade, state government has cut funding for Georgia public schools by about 24 percent per pupil. But at the same time, legislators have piled on more unfunded mandates, said EmpowerED Georgia founder Matt Jones, a teacher from Toombs County.
This year, the cuts add up to about $1 billion, he said.
In his county, the cumulative funding cutbacks forced the county school superintendent to serve as the high school principal for half a year, and the school board was forced to cut 20 days off the school year, he said.
"What you have seen in the last decade is a shift," he said. A decade ago, the state provided more than half the money to pay for Georgia children's education; now it's about 38 percent, he said.
Most people think public education is important, but leaders in the Georgia Legislature aren't listening, said Elizabeth Hooper of Alpharetta, a member of EmpowerED.
"They have the power and the money not to listen, and to convince their colleagues that they don't need to listen," Hooper said.
A proposed constitutional amendment could wind up draining even more money from public schools, if voters approve the measure in November, said Downs and Jones.
The amendment question on the ballot will read "Shall the Constitution of Georgia be amended to allow state or local approval of public charter schools upon the request of local communities."
But it will really create a commission of people appointed by the governor, the Speaker of the House and others that can bypass both the local and state board of education to authorize new charter schools, which will get state funding but don't have to be accountable to local elected officials, said Jeanette Knazek of Alpharetta, another EmpowerED activist.
Both local boards of education and the state already have the authority to create charter schools.
But if voters approve the amendment, it seems likely that Georgia will see a flood of charter schools started by for-profit educational companies looking for profits, Downs said.
Backers of the amendment will say, "It's about the children," but it's not, Jones said.
"It's not about the children. It's about the money," he said.


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The precious longhair dachshund Sydney recently turned three, and we’re celebrating her all day long. A dog’s birthday is a great occasion to shower your four-legged companion with extra love and affection. It’s also a great opportunity to involve friends and family. Our pooches give us so much unconditional love all year long that it’s nice to take one day and make it all about them.
Here are few ways in which we have celebrated over the years:
Do you generally celebrate your dog’s birthday? We invite you to share your birthday celebration ideas here in the comment section, and encourage you to post a picture or two from your dog’s past birthday bashes.
Happy Wiener Dog Wednesday.

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