Archive for February, 2007
Tuesday, February 27th, 2007
Are you needing a cool new avatar? I know I am always wanting to change my avatars on the different forums I am on. A site that works great for this is Dress Up Games from the Doll Palace. You can create whatever you want on there. If you want celebrity, you got it. If you want goth, you got it. You can also pick guys, hippies, angels, pirates, mermaids, and I can just keep on going with all the catagories they have.
You can do whatever you want with the avatar. You can pick a background and props. You pick what body type. You pick the hair. You pick if you want a hat and what kind on hat. You get to choose pants, shirts, shorts, socks, shoes, skirts, etc. If you pick angels or fairies, you get to choose their wings. They have special holiday choices too. They even give you the HTML code for My Space or if you want to use your avatar on your Instant Messenger program.
Here is what I look like in real life (maybe):
You really can do whatever you want (within reason) to these. I suggest going to check it out when you have a couple of hours to spend. It is that addicting.
Tags: angels, avatar, avatars, celebrity, Chat, doll_palace, dress_up_games, Facebook, fairies, goth, hippies, HTML, Instant messaging, instant_messenger, mermaids, messenger_program, myspace, my_space, pirates, props, shoes, skirt, skirts, Social network, socks, wings
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Monday, February 26th, 2007
Taken from Babycenter.com:
Your baby is more than 11 inches long and weighs just over a pound. He may be able to feel your movements now, so put on some fun tunes and dance around the house. No matter what race your baby is, his skin is red and wrinkled at this stage and will likely look pink or reddish at birth. Blood vessels that show through your baby’s transparent skin cause this coloration. His true skin tone will develop over the course of his first year.Blood vessels in your baby’s lungs are developing to prepare him for breathing, but complete lung development will take many more months. The lungs are the last organ to fully develop in babies. That’s why premature babies (those born before 37 weeks) often have such a hard time breathing. Babies born this week have a chance of surviving with the help of intensive medical care, but their risk of serious complications is very high.
Tags: 2o, amp, babies, babycenter, btw, dd, eve, hose, ing, lungs, mp, risk, rv, spa, target, ter, time, vent, vet, wh
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Monday, February 26th, 2007
When I had Madison, the date we were shooting for (with all of my preterm labor issues) was 26 weeks. A baby could survive (with or without problems) at 26 weeks. Madison is now 3 years old. I ended up making it to term with no problems.
I was reading today and they have changed the viable date. Infants born on the cusp of the 23 week period are now considered viable. At 23 weeks, the skin, lungs, eyes, digestive system, and circulatory system are not ready for the outside world. Survivors face blindness, deafness, brain damage and possible neurological, physical, and developmental problems. Statistics show that infants born at 23 or 24 weeks have a 1 in 3 chance of being blind, deaf, or living with cerebal palsy. A quarter are mentally retarded. More than half have significant developmental problems.
Why is this important to me? I am 23 weeks pregnant this week. The ethical question to be asked here is when is to early? What criteria should be used to determine whether or not you continue care for these premature infants?
Let me know your thoughts.
Tags: adi, ady, ants, brain, ears, eta, eve, ing, livi, lungs, madison, mak, mp, ot, prob, rain, rv, stat, survivor, tally, ter, wh
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Monday, February 26th, 2007
I posted about this last week. Here’s what the NEW budget does to services:
Public Health:
12 of 26 clinics will be closed.
Dentistry will remain at Stroger Hospital
Law Enforcement:
144 jobs in the state’s attorney’s office including 43 prosecutors
61 court deputies and 35 sheriff’s police cut
Who is cutting?
Bureau of Health: 11%
State’s attorney: 5.5%
Sheriff: 2%
Clerk of the Court: 10%
Tags: clerk_of_the_court, dentistry, hospital_law, jobs, public_health, stroger_hospital
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Monday, February 26th, 2007
If you live in Illinois and feel that you have been a victim of a tow truck scam, you need to contact Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan’s consumer fraud hotline at (800) 386-5438 or file a complaint on the attorney general’s website: www.illinoisattorneygeneral.gov.
What has been happening in Chicago is atrocious. Tow trucks are showing up at accident scenes and are towing the cars to their lots regardless of where the owner of the vehicle told them to take the car. Later, the owner is then billed for excessive and undisclosed charges in excess of what most tow companies charge. Victims have been charged more than $1,000 to get their cars back. Of course, these towing companies only want cash also.
A lawsuit has been filed against some of the towing companied involved in this scam. Please contact Lisa Madigan’s office if you are also a victim. We must put a stop to this.
Tags: attorney_general_lisa_madigan, consumer_fraud, contact, fraud_hotline, illinois_attorney_general, tht, tow_truck, website_www
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