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My Baby weighs about 5 pounds and is close to 20 inches tall.

He is all baby in me and I can feel his little parts moving and squishing my upper rib cage all the time.

I've been getting those Braxton Hicks Contractions which aren't really pleasant.

I'm still in Maui on my third week here but we will be back home to Portland on Thursday.

I honestly don't want to go home and would stay here all summer and have this baby here in Maui.

?But I kinda have no choice and need to?fly back soon! The most important thing I am anxious and excited is nesting up my baby room, getting my baby?bag ready and just waiting patiently for this boy to come out!?Oh?and hitting up a few more of my girlfriends baby showers. Those are always fun!

I do miss my family and friends back home and I guess just getting back into REALITY.

Enough of this laziness, lying, eating, sun bathing around.

hehe ;)

Happy Monday!

More Baby Bump Posts this week!

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French far right to sue Madonna over gig swastika

PARIS - France's far right National Front will sue Madonna after she screened footage of party leader Marine Le Pen with a swastika superimposed on her face at a concert in Paris on Saturday, a party official said.

The video shown on a huge screen has already been used on other legs of the U.S. singer's tour and shows the singer's face merging with other public figures, such as Pope Benedict and former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, who was toppled by popular protests last year.

The face of the National Front leader appears for a few seconds, with the Fascist symbol briefly imposed on it, and is followed by the features of a man resembling Adolf Hitler.

"A private plaintiff's case for insult will be presented next week," Florian Philippot, vice-president of the National Front, told Reuters.

He called the images an "unacceptable" provocation for attempting to associate Le Pen, who won 18 percent of the vote in April's first-round presidential election in France, with fascism.

Since taking the reins of the National Front last year from her ex-paratrooper father Jean-Marie, Le Pen has tried to widen her party's appeal by expelling extremists and cracking down on racist talk and anti-Semitism.

"It is our duty to bring a complaint to defend our voters and our supporters," Philippot said.

Although Le Pen's calls for protectionism and for France's to exit the euro currency have won sympathy with some parts of the electorate, the party won only two seats in the 577-member National Assembly in last month's legislative elections, partly due to France's first-past-the-post electoral system.

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Wiggins holds Tour lead as tacks, nails mar road

Bradley Wiggins of Britain, wearing the overall leader's yellow jersey, eats as he rides with teammate Edvald Boasson Hagen of Norway, right, during the 13th stage of the Tour de France cycling race over 217 kilometers (134.8 miles) with start in Saint-Paul-Trois-Chateaux and finish in Le Cap D'Agde, France, Saturday July 14, 2012. (AP Photo/Laurent Cipriani)

Bradley Wiggins of Britain, wearing the overall leader's yellow jersey, eats as he rides with teammate Edvald Boasson Hagen of Norway, right, during the 13th stage of the Tour de France cycling race over 217 kilometers (134.8 miles) with start in Saint-Paul-Trois-Chateaux and finish in Le Cap D'Agde, France, Saturday July 14, 2012. (AP Photo/Laurent Cipriani)

Bradley Wiggins of Britain, wearing the overall leader's yellow jersey, rides in the pack during the 13th stage of the Tour de France cycling race over 217 kilometers (134.8 miles) with start in Saint-Paul-Trois-Chateaux and finish in Le Cap D'Agde, France, Saturday July 14, 2012. (AP PhotoLaurent Cipriani)

Luis-Leon Sanchez of Spain crosses the finish line to win the 14th stage of the Tour de France cycling race over 191 kilometers (118.7 miles) with start in Limoux and finish in Foix, France, Sunday July 15, 2012. (AP Photo/Laurent Cipriani)

Stage winner Luis-Leon Sanchez of Spain, center, rides in the breakaway group during the 14th stage of the Tour de France cycling race over 191 kilometers (118.7 miles) with start in Limoux and finish in Foix, France, Sunday July 15, 2012. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)

Stage winner Luis-Leon Sanchez of Spain celebrates on the podium of the 14th stage of the Tour de France cycling race over 191 kilometers (118.7 miles) with start in Limoux and finish in Foix, France, Sunday July 15, 2012. (AP Photo/Laurent Rebours)

(AP) ? Crashes, falls, fractures ? Bradley Wiggins has seen it all. Now add tacks and nails to list. Still, nothing can break his stranglehold on the Tour de France.

On a day of sabotage in the Pyrenees, Wiggins had luck on his side. He avoided the chaos and spent another trouble-free stage as his Sky team controlled his main rivals to protect his yellow jersey.

At least 30 riders were disrupted by tire punctures at the top of the final climb after tacks and small nails were tossed on the road. Tour officials asked police to investigate.

Defending champion Cadel Evans was caught in the havoc. He had to wait three times for assistance. He lost nearly two minutes at one point before teammates arrived and gave the former world champion a rear wheel.

But Wiggins honored cycling etiquette by not attempting to capitalize on Evans' misfortune. He urged the peloton to slow down to allow Evans to return to the pack. Wiggins and Evans finished in the same time ? 18 minutes, 15 seconds behind Luis Leon Sanchez of Spain, who won the 119-mile, 14th stage between Limoux and Foix.

This was the first day of racing in the Pyrenees, and Wiggins kept his overall lead of 2:05 over Sky teammate Christopher Froome. Vincenzo Nibali of Italy is third, 2:23 off the pace while Evans remains fourth, 3:19 behind.

After crashing out of the race with a broken collarbone last year, Wiggins has been enjoying the perfect Tour so far with the help of a team dedicated to his quest for cycling's most revered prize.

With only two big mountain stages remaining before the race ends in Paris next Sunday, and a long time trial where Wiggins is expected to blow his rivals apart, the former Olympic track champion looks all but guaranteed to become the first Brit to win the Tour. Yet, he is well aware of the dangers that can arise anywhere.

"What can you do? It's something we can't control," Wiggins said, referring to the sabotage that could have led to a reshuffle of the standings.

"There's nothing stopping more of that sort of stuff happening. It's sad. Those are the type of things we have to put up with as cyclists. I think people take that for granted sometimes, just how close they can get to us. If that happened in a football stadium, or wherever, you'd be arrested."

From time to time, stray dogs or photograph-snapping fans get hit by speeding riders. On Friday, Wiggins was hit on the arm and received minor burns from a flare waved by a spectator. Three years ago, Oscar Freire and Julien Dean were hit by pellets from an air rifle.

"We're out there, quite vulnerable at times, very close to the public on climbs," Wiggins said. "We're just the riders at the end of the day and we're there to be shot at, literally."

Speaking on French TV, race director Jean-Francois Pescheux commended Sky for encouraging the pack to not speed ahead. He said the search for the culprit would be difficult because thousands of fans were on the edge of the road.

"This could have had terrible consequences on a descent like that," Tour director Christian Prudhomme said. "This is dangerous and stupid behavior."

Astana rider Robert Kiserlovski dropped out of the race after breaking his collarbone in an accident related to the tacks. Wiggins escaped although he did change bikes in the final descent.

"We're really, really lucky, nobody punctured," Sky manager Dave Brailsford said. "Brad changed his bike but no panic. It was obvious something was wrong. So he decided to slow down a bit and not take advantage of it. It's pretty obvious that when something like that happens, it's not bike racing. I think fair play to Bradley. It was a very sportsmanlike gesture."

Evans, his chances of winning are all but gone, lost the Spanish Vuelta three years ago after being delayed by a wheel change during the 13th stage.

"That's the way things go in life. Karma hopefully comes around," Evans said. "I couldn't see (the tacks) on the road. It happened to me three times and at crucial moments. This has happened to me before, two times in Spain, that's why I don't race in Spain very often. Sorry for the good Spanish people and my Spanish friends and people in Spain who support me. But there's a few people that just take things too far."

Pierre Rolland of France was the only rider who attacked after Evans' puncture.

"I don't know whether he knew or not," Wiggins said. "I knew straight away something had happened. I just thought it was a little bit uncouth at that time. The stage was gone. ... It didn't seem the honorable thing to do."

Rolland, ninth overall and 8:31 behind Wiggins, said he was not aware of what happened.

"I'm someone who respects the peloton and its codes and I would never have attacked a rider who punctured," Rolland said. "It saddens me a bit."

Sanchez used his time trial experience for his solo victory. He was among a group of five riders who broke away on the Mur de Peguere, apparently before the tacks were thrown.

He then made his decisive move seven miles from the finish to win a Tour stage for the fourth time in his career. Slovakia's Peter Sagan, who has the green jersey as top sprinter, finished second, 47 seconds behind Sanchez. France's Sandy Casar was third in the same time.

"With Philippe Gilbert and Sagan in the breakaway, I knew that my only chance was to try my luck on my own from far away," Sanchez said.

Sanchez, hampered by a wrist injury during the first week, crossed himself and pointed his fingers toward the sky as he went over the finish line.

Sagan and two other riders escaped from the peloton after 22 miles during the descent after the first climb. Eight riders, including Gilbert, Casar and Sanchez, then broke away in pursuit of the trio and bridged the gap while the second peloton caught up with the yellow jersey's group. With none of the 11 escapees posing a threat in the overall standings, they were given the freedom to continue.

Despite rain and cooler weather, the ascent was uneventful. Wiggins' teammates set the tempo at the front of the pack while the Briton's rivals did not dare a move.

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Associated Press writers Greg Keller and Jamey Keaten contributed to this report.

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Be the content marketing gold medalist in your business : Blog ...

Published on July 14, 2012

With the summer Olympics in London just around the corner I thought marketers may find it useful to understand how they can ?take home the gold? for web marketing efforts by effectively championing the cause of content marketing for digital and brand marketing strategies within their organizations.

While ?content marketing? is a relatively new buzz word for many, ?content is king? is a phrase adopted and utilized by marketers since the emergence of Web 1.0. Every week Brafton?s business development team speaks in depth to dozens of marketers from businesses of all sizes and shapes about their current and future online marketing strategies, I?m always amazed that so many of the folks I speak to have little to no understanding around how a quality content strategy should be at the root of every single digital channel they are using to drive traffic and increase conversions on their websites (including SEO, social media, email marketing).

Common obstacles to content marketing investment

Just as amazing to me though are the Marketing Associates, Marketing Managers, V.P.?s, and CMO?s I speak to who fully understand how vital content is to their success yet still can?t find the resources to build the company blog that hasn?t been updated in several months, or get the time or support to write consistent, targeted industry articles and white papers, or find the time to create and share good relevant content on their Twitter, Facebook, and Linkedin accounts. When I pose the question, ?If you know it?s so important to create unique content why aren?t you doing it?? the answer invariably is some version of what we here at Brafton call The Content Marketing Challenge ? ?I don?t have the time to do it myself because I am too busy,? ?it?s impossible for me to wrangle up my engineers or sales reps to contribute a blog post,? ?I don?t know what to write about??

Another thing I hear consistently is that a marketer is bought into how important a content marketing strategy is to their success but they tell me, ?my boss doesn?t understand why original content is important or why we should allocate a portion of our budget in this direction.? Let?s think about this response for a second. Our marketing champion is most likely spending time and money on SEO, social media, and email marketing initiatives under the direction of this same skeptical boss. In the world we live in today, these channels are all fueled by original and quality content, but our would-be champion still can?t get that boss to buy into a content marketing strategy ? even if they all acknowledge the struggle they have in creating it frequently!

In a sense this is like buying a beautiful new sports car, putting the best tires on it, washing and waxing it, but not being willing to fill the tank with oil and fuel consistently so that it drives well.

Not investing in content marketing when you?re running SEO, email and social campaigns is like buying a beautiful new sports car, putting the best tires on it, washing and waxing it, but not being willing to fill the tank with oil and fuel so that it drives well.

In many cases though, this pushback our champion receives is directly attributable to the need for her to build up her toolbox to sell the concept and value of a content marketing strategy to superiors.

With Olympic season upon us, marketers have to be ready to flex their content industry acumen if they want to retain their business? competitive edge. More than two-thirds of respondents to Brafton?s content marketing poll said they are increasing their content creation and updates.

If you?re the marketing coordinator, content manager or marketing associate looking to get your company into the content marketing game, here is a helpful guide to take you all the way up to the gold medal in being a content marketing champion in your business.

The Bronze: Understand that content is vital to your success

In my experience marketing coordinators and associates serve as ?first line of defense,? if you will, in vetting potential strategies, vendors and services. These are also typically the individuals who would actually use any new products or services in order to:

  • Maintain the company blog
  • Manage social media
  • Manage PPC campaigns
  • Link build
  • Drive SEO

As such, the marketing manager/coordinator/associate usually feels the ?content marketing challenge? first-hand and, as a result, becomes the initial champion internally.

Of course, a major stumbling block may come with the question: ?How do I convince my boss that we need content without looking like I am incapable of doing my job??

The first thing your boss and superiors need to understand is that creating content is not easy, and is in many cases a full-time job. To expect that one individual in marketing can effectively produce consistent, high-quality content while also managing the remainder of their job duties is simply unrealistic. (Read more in our related blog about knowing when it?s time to call in content marketing experts.)

Explaining how a good content marketing strategy will help every segment of the marketing strategy and website perform better, while not sacrificing one single employee?s bandwidth, is the first step to making the introduction. Consider the vitality of content to the various campaigns you manage:

From an SEO perspective, consider the need for quality websites to win rankings. ?Our site quality algorithms are aimed at ? reducing the rankings of low-quality content.? ? Amit Singhal, Google Fellow

Consider the proven effect of content on SEO, with more than 90 percent of marketers citing content creation as a top search optimization strategy. (See Brafton?s related infographic ? and show it to your boss!)

Recognize content will build organic traffic through gradual keyword progression and link building.Content marketing has helped B2C companies drive traffic and attract new prospects.

Remember that content is what powers social shares, with one in five social media messages including links to website content. Content builds social interactions and develops fan bases on Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook to turn them into lead nurturing tools and revenue streams.

Fresh content is necessary to maintain or turn around email marketing campaigns, with stale content being the No. 1 reason people unsubscribe.

With this in mind, you can remind yourself (and tell your boss), ?This is why we need really targeted, quality content at volume we can?t do ourselves!?

The Silver: Show the VP content marketing drives measurable web leads

So our fictional marketing manager/coordinator/associate has bought into the idea of why a content marketing strategy is vital to their success, and the viability of the digital marketing strategy as a whole, but how do they get their VP or CMO to buy in as well?

The most important thing to understand when selling any product or service up the chain of command is that what?s of importance and value to you may not necessarily be the same things that your superior cares about. Most VPs or CMOs don?t evaluate products on a ?feature function? basis, or make buying decisions because its going to make their marketing coordinator?s life easier, but rather on:

  • ?How much more revenue is this going to bring us??
  • ?How is this going to increase leads or conversions on the website??
  • ?How is a content marketing strategy going to supplement or support the things we are already investing in??

A good content marketing champion can answer each of these questions or concerns with tangible facts:

The Gold: Get CEO buy-in through content-driven market share and thought leadership

So all of the pertinent members of the marketing team are in agreement that a content marketing strategy will help in making their jobs easier while also allowing them to meet goals and revenue figures. How do you get the budget approved by your CEO/COO/CFO?

At the highest levels of any business, the goals and responsibilities of the chief executives who hold the purse strings are certainly going to be different than most of their employees, but almost universally all care about market share:

  • ?How is this service going to build brand??
  • ?How is this going to position us as leaders in the market??
  • ?How is this going to drive revenue??

The good news is that content marketing is highly effective for each of their points:

While selling content marketing to your boss or CEO may not get you a onto the medal stand in London this summer, the front of a Wheaties box or the cover of Sports Illustrated, it will most certainly deliver results and help maximize your current and future marketing strategies, so go out and get the gold!

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Source: http://www.brafton.com/blog/be-the-content-marketing-gold-medalist-in-your-business

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No new cholera deaths in Cuba

(AP) ? Cuba's Health Ministry on Saturday reported 158 cases of cholera, nearly three times as many as previously disclosed, but said there were no new deaths and the outbreak appears to have been contained and on the wane.

The ministry said Intensive efforts to quarantine those infected, hand out chlorine tablets and educate the population has meant a drop in cases transmitted by water, and there is no evidence of the disease spreading through the food supply.

Virtually all of the cases have come from the city of Manzanillo, in eastern Granma province some 430 miles (700 kilometers) east of the capital, or from people who recently traveled from the area.

"We have diagnosed isolated cases in other regions of people that were infected in Manzanillo, all of whom were treated and studied quickly," the ministry said. "There has been no spread of the outbreak."

Cuba announced July 3 that three elderly people had died from the tropical disease and 53 people sickened in the first incidence of cholera on the island in decades. Until Saturday's report, authorities had said little more, prompting rumors of more deaths and a wider problem. Still, even in the infected area, hotel workers and residents said there was no panic.

Cuba has a well-organized civil defense system capable of rapidly mobilizing government agencies and citizens groups, as it does for tropical storms and hurricanes. Brigades of workers go door to door, eliminating standing water where mosquitos bearing another tropical disease, dengue, could breed.

The country also has thousands of well-trained doctors and nurses, many of whom played a key role in fighting a much deadlier cholera outbreak in nearby Haiti after that country's devastating earthquake.

A rise in cases of diarrhea and tropical diseases are normal in Cuba in the summer, due to the intense heat and heavy rains. In its communique on Saturday, the Health Ministry urged people to wash their hands, boil water and pay better attention to their personal hygiene.

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Spain's external debt continues to grow

Despite the austerity measures introduced by Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy?s government over the last six months, the Spanish external debt has not decreased.?Instead, it continued to grow during the first quarter of this year, according to a new report published by the Bank of Spain.?

The external debt amounts to ?1.78trn, which is ?22.6bn more than the previous quarter. On an annual level, the debt grew by ?70bn, which shows the difficulties to clean up the balance of payments in the Spanish economy. Spain now owes an amount equivalent to?167 percent of its gross domestic product to foreign creditors.

When taking into account the international investment position of Spain, which is the most representative indicator, the result is adverse.

The net foreign debt (the balance between the amount owed to Spain by lenders abroad and the amount owed by Spanish entities to foreign creditors) remains at ?977.6bn, which is the same level as the year before.

External debt tripled in a decade

To realize how much this indicator of solvency has increased, one must bear in mind that the external debt in 2002 was only slightly above ?303bn, which means that it has tripled in only a decade.

At least close to 90 percent of the gross debt is denominated in euros, which tends to mitigate the exchange rate risk. It is a percentage that exceeds the Eurozone average, which is at about 70 percent, but while the gross debt of the Eurozone tends to decrease, that of Spain continues to rise.

Logically, this is linked to the financing of the Spanish economy, both in the public and private sectors. In its report, the Bank of Spain?s points out that in the current environment of financial tensions, it is particularly important to evaluate the short-term financial risks of the external debt, primarily that of the banking sector, which has had to get into extraordinary debt in order to finance the economy.

The statistics from the Spanish central bank show that the financial entities owe about ?655bn to foreign creditors, although there has been a considerable reduction of above ?60bn as a result of the deleveraging process. Despite this, they are still extremely dependent on financing by the central bank, which has had to make two massive injections of liquidity by a trillion of euros to compensate the closure of the interbank market. With this money, the banks tackle the maturity of their debt.

Financial tensions

This improvement, however, has been neutralized by the monetary authority that has had to take in more debt, by over ?101bn, to compensate the financial tensions.

The public administrations, on the contrary, have reduced their debt by close to ?20bn, but despite this, their liabilities to foreign creditors exceed ?255bn.

The external debt of a country, as defined by the International Monetary Fund, includes the balances of all liabilities to creditors that are not residents in the country that will be repaid by amortizations, by interests or by both concepts. That means it includes all financial instruments except for equity participation or derivatives, given that these instruments don?t necessarily require these payments.

Source: http://en.elconfidencial.com/economy-business/2012/07/02/spains-external-debt-continues-to-grow-178

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Charlie Sheen Quits Twitter: Warlock Peaces Out of Social Media With Inspirational Final Message


Making good on a promise he made not even 48 hours ago, Charlie Sheen has officially quit Twitter, leaving his 7.7 million followers emotionally reeling.

Fortunately, he departed with one final, inspiring Tweet:

"reach for the stars everyone. dogspeed cadre. c out."

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Sheen signed onto Twitter fairly recently in March 2011, after he was fired from Two and a Half Men and began lambasting his former bosses online.

He has been a regular tweeter ever since, offering sage-like pearls of wisdom to the general public and plugging his new show Anger Management.

It's unclear why he decided to close up Twitter shop now, but the 47-year-old actor reportedly felt like he's "not getting anything out of it" anymore.

Sheen told TMZ today, “Thank you all for your amazing support. Trust me when I say please ‘follow’ me to my next endeavor. It’s gonna be epic.”

As long as it's not judging American Idol, we have no doubt.

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