College of Nursing named Center of Excellence

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At a recent ceremony in Washington D.C., the National League of Nursing named Kent State University?s College of Nursing a Center of Excellence.

The college was honored in the category ?Creating Environments that Advance the Science of Nursing Education? at the NLN?s Annual Education Summit. The title is a four-year designation.

?It?s an honor for the College of Nursing to receive this designation,? said Susan Stocker, interim dean of the College of Nursing. ?It?s a testament to the hard work and dedication of the faculty and staff of the College of Nursing.?

Eleven administration and faculty members attended the event, including Stocker and Tracey Motter, senior undergraduate program director for the College of Nursing.

The college was recognized for its accomplishments in furthering nursing education because it focuses heavily on evidence-based research, Motter said. This helps quantify research the college does so there is a balance between the science of nursing and the art of taking care of other people.

?In the past, nursing has made decisions about care or interventions based on what we?d always done or what we thought worked,? Motter said. ?Evidence-based decisions take research pieces and look at what the results and patient outcomes are.?

She said this hard evidence when it comes to nursing helps health care workers be viewed as true professionals, not just people who care for others.

?Evidence-based practice is what you believe to be true backed up by objective research, which helps nursing be viewed as a profession, not a technical skill,? Motter said.

Faculty and administrators decided to apply to become a Center of Excellence about a year ago at their winter retreat, Motter said.

They filled out questionnaires about their teaching methods. These methods had to meet certain criteria set out by the NLN.

Former dean of the College of Nursing Laura Dzurec headed a committee that met several times during the spring semester to organize the information received from the faculty and write the official application, Motter said.

The application was submitted April 1 and was reviewed by a panel of leaders from the NLN who are leaders in nursing education.

The College of Nursing received the news they had been named a Center of Excellence in late June or early July.

?It makes us very proud. We work very hard and have made a lot of accomplishments, and it?s nice to be recognized for all we?ve accomplished,? Motter said.

Stocker said the designation is an honor for both students and faculty and staff that will lead to better educational opportunities for students.

?It will result in a quality education for the students of the College of Nursing,? Stocker said.

Similarly, Motter said the title will lead to better job opportunities for nursing students after they graduate.

?Our graduates are sought after in Northeast Ohio. We provide 40 percent of the workforce for nursing (in Northeast Ohio),? Motter said.

Kent State was one of nine schools in the nation to be named Centers of Excellence by the NLN?s Board of Governors. The other schools include Ball State University, Johns Hopkins University, Northeastern University, Saint Xavier University, the University of Kansas, Duke University, Villanova University and Widener University.

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US shutdown likely as House Republicans amend budget bill

Washington (AFP) - Setting up a high-stakes political showdown, the US House votes Saturday on a Republican plan that keeps government open through mid-December while delaying implementation of President Barack Obama's health care law.

The move prompted a sharp rebuke from the White House, which warned it was a step toward shutting down the government once the fiscal year ends Monday night, and vowed to veto any such bill.

House Speaker John Boehner convened a rare Saturday session as Congress struggles to break a funding impasse that, if unresolved, would require hundreds of thousands of federal workers to stay home.

In addition, more than a million US military personnel would remain on duty -- but with no pay.

Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel Saturday slammed Republican lawmakers as "astoundingly irresponsible."

"When you look at the greatest democracy in the world, the largest economy in the world putting our people through this, that's not leadership, that's abdication of responsibilities," Hagel told reporters on his plane as he headed to South Korea.

"This is an astoundingly irresponsible way to govern."

Under pressure from his party's far-right conservative wing, Boehner doubled down on his caucus's bid to stop Obama's signature domestic achievement, the health care law, vowing to send a bill back to the Senate but with little time for legislative action to avoid a shutdown.

If Republicans vote in unison as expected, the House will approve a measure "that will keep the government open and stop as much of the president's health care law as possible," Boehner said in a statement.

"We will do our job and send this bill over, and then it's up to the Senate to pass it and stop a government shutdown."

The House had earlier passed a temporary budget bill known as a continuing resolution that included a provision defunding so-called Obamacare altogether.

The Democratic-led Senate stripped that part out and sent a clean stopgap measure back to the House.

But instead of passing it, the House plans to amend the bill with a one-year delay of the health care law and repeal of an unpopular medical device tax.

While conservative lawmakers hailed the move, the White House slammed it.

"Today, Republicans in the House of Representatives moved to shut down the government," spokesman Jay Carney said in a statement just hours before the vote.

"Any member of the Republican Party who votes for this bill is voting for a shutdown. "

In a separate statement, the White House Office of Management and Budget warned that "if the President was presented with H.J. Res 59, as amended by these amendments, he would veto the bill."

A furious Democratic Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, meanwhile, attacked the move as "pointless" brinkmanship that could end in economic crisis.

"To be absolutely clear, the Senate will reject both the one-year delay of the Affordable Care Act and the repeal of the medical device tax," Reid said.

"The American people will not be extorted by Tea Party anarchists."

Driving the point home, a Senate Democratic aide said it was highly unlikely the chamber would be in session before Monday.

"We are not playing games," he told AFP.

House Democrats, largely powerless to prevent passage of Republican-backed legislation in the lower chamber, expressed worry that the US government would suffer the same fate as a Washington deadlock in late 1995 that resulted in a 21-day work stop.

"I think we are on our way" to a shutdown, said Congressman John Lewis, a 27-year House veteran. "We're closer now than ever before."

Despite obvious recent divisions among Republicans over the path forward, lawmakers exited Boehner's meeting insisting they were of one mind in pegging an Obamacare delay to the temporary spending bill.

And they charged that Democrats would be on the hook for any government closure, not Republicans.

Boehner and fellow House leaders had struggled to stake out a position palatable to their divided members.

A chorus of criticism -- including from Obama as well as some centrist Republicans in the Senate -- accused Tea Party-backed lawmakers of unwisely threatening a shutdown if they did not get their way.

"How dare you presume a failure?" Congressman Darrell Issa barked at a reporter who asked what would happen when the Senate rejects the House measure.

"We continue to anticipate that there's an opportunity for sensible compromise."

Congress has less than 60 hours to strike a deal that keeps government open, but the ping-ponging of legislation is making that unlikely.

As if anticipating a possible shutdown, Boehner said the House would vote on a separate measure "that ensures our troops get paid, no matter what."

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/republicans-plot-unified-position-shutdown-crisis-171104310.html

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3D Map of Milky Way Galaxy Reveals Peanut-Shaped Core (Video)

The best 3D map yet of the center of the Milky Way galaxy has revealed a tasty surprise: the heart of our galaxy looks like a cosmic peanut.

Two international teams of astronomers discovered the nut-shaped nature of the Milky Way's core, which is known as the galactic bulge and packed with 10,000 million stars, using telescopes operated by the European Southern Observatory. The scientists released a video animation of the Milky Way galaxy's peanut-like core to highlight the new galactic map.

"We find that the inner region of our galaxy has the shape of a peanut in its shell from the side, and of a highly elongated bar from above," study co-author Ortwin Gerhard, of the Max-Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics in Germany, said in a Sept. 12 statement. [Photos: The Milky Way Galaxy's Core Revealed]

"It is the first time we can see this clearly in our own Milky Way."

Spying red giants

Only 27,000 light-years away ? relatively close from an astronomical perspective ? the center of the galaxy is shrouded by clouds of gas and dust. The dense clouds block shorter-wavelength observations, such as those made in the visible spectrum, allowing only longer-wavelength measurements, such as near-infrared wavelengths, to penetrate its depths.

Gerhard and principal investigator Christopher Wegg, also of the Max Planck Institute, used the Vista Variables in the Via Lactea Survey ?(VVV) in the near-infrared taken by the European Southern Observatory's VISTA telescope in Chile to identify 22 million red giant stars, which are dying stars at the final stages of stellar evolution, at the center of the Milky Way galaxy. Stars 30 times fainter than those recorded on previous surveys were visible. Their research will appear in an upcoming issue of the journal the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.

"The depth of the VISTA star catalog far exceeds previous work," Wegg said in the statement. "We can detect the entire population of these stars in all but the most highly obscured regions."

Wegg and Gerhard relied on the well-known properties of this particular class of red giants to calculate their distances, using their distributions to map the galactic bulge.

"This is the first time that such a map has been made without assuming a model for the bulge's shape," Wegg said.

3D map of bulge stars

In a second study, published in the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics, astronomers reviewed images taken over more than a decade by the MPG/ESO 2.2 meter telescope in La Silla, Chile. By measuring tiny shifts in the stars that make up the galactic bulge, the international team was able to map out more than 400 stars in three dimensions.

"This is the first time that a large number of velocities in three dimensions for individual stars from both sides of the bulge has been obtained," principal investigator Sergio V?squez, of Pontificia Universidad Cat?lica de Chile, said in a statement.

"The stars we have observed seem to be streaming along the arms of the X-shaped bulge as their orbits take them up and down and out of the plane of the Milky Way."

The peanut-shaped bulge puts the Milky Way well within normal galactic expectations for a barred spiral galaxy.

"Simulations in our group and by others show that this shape is characteristic of a barred galaxy that started out as a disc of pure stars," Gerhard said.

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Radio problems cited in deaths of 19 firefighters

PRESCOTT, Ariz. (AP) ? A three-month investigation into the June deaths of 19 firefighters killed while battling an Arizona blaze cites poor communication between the men and support staff, and reveals that an airtanker carrying flame retardant was hovering overhead as the men died.

The 120-page report released Saturday found that all procedures were followed and assigned little of blame for the worst firefighting tragedy since Sept. 11, 2001.

All but one member of the Granite Mountain Hotshots crew died June 30 while protecting the small former gold rush town of Yarnell, about 80 miles northwest of Phoenix, from an erratic lightning-sparked wildfire.

While maintaining that all guidelines were followed, the investigation found improperly programmed radios, vague updates, and a 30-minute communication blackout just before the flames engulfed the men.

The report provides the first minute-to-minute account of the fatal afternoon. The day went according to routine until the wind shifted, pushing a wall of fire that had been receding from the hotshots all day back toward them.

After that, hotshots failed to communicate their intentions to the command center outside the burn zone. Their colleagues thought the hotshots had decided to wait out the weather change in the safety of an already blackened area.

They were not heard from again until five minutes before they deployed their emergency shelters, which was more than a half hour after the weather warning was issued. They had left the black zone, though they had no reason to doubt its safety, and dropped into a densely vegetated area, heading toward a ranch, according to the report. The report states that they failed to perceive the "excessive risk" of repositioning to this stop to continue fighting the fire.

"Nobody will ever know how the crew actually saw their situation, the options they considered or what motivated their actions," the report said.

The Arizona State Forestry Division presented the roughly 120-page report to the men's families ahead of a news conference Saturday morning in Prescott.

The fire caused little immediate concern because of its remote location and small size when it began June 28. But the blaze quickly grew into an inferno, burning swiftly across pine, juniper and scrub oak and through an area that hadn't experienced a significant wildfire in nearly 50 years.

The 20-member Granite Mountain Hotshots team arrived early on the morning of June 30 and headed into the boulder-strewn mountains. About nine hours later, the crew radioed that they were trapped by flames and deploying emergency shelters. Only one crew member who was assigned as the lookout survived.

The fire ended up destroying more than 100 homes and burned 13 square miles before it was fully contained on July 10.

No other wildfire had claimed the lives of more firefighters in 80 years, and it was the deadliest single day for fire crews since the terror attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. The Granite Mountain team was unique among the nation's roughly 110 Hotshot crews as the first and only such unit attached to a municipal fire department.

The report said the firefighters didn't anticipate danger when they left the relative safety of a ridge top and dropped down into a bowl surrounded by mountains on three sides, despite warnings of the erratically changing weather that whipped the blaze into an unpredictable inferno.

At one point, officials asked for half of the available western U.S. heavy air tanker fleet ? six planes ? to try to control the blaze. Five weren't deployed because of the limited number in the nation's aerial firefighting fleet and the dangerous weather conditions at the time. One plane was heading to Arizona from California but engine problems forced it to turn back.

Forestry officials have said that even if the planes had been available, winds were so strong they couldn't have been used to save the firefighters' lives.

Some family members hope the investigation will bring closure. Others say it will do nothing to ease their pain.

"No matter what the report says, it won't bring him back," Colleen Turbyfill said of her son, Travis. "I miss him, and it's unbearable pain. It doesn't go away. Sometimes I can't breathe, but this report isn't going to help that one way or another."

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Mike Blood in Los Angeles and Michelle Price in Salt Lake City contributed to this report

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/radio-problems-cited-deaths-19-firefighters-170704851.html

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The CEO Of Datalogix Just Gave Us A Glimpse Into Facebook's 'Big Data' Strategy (FB)

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One of the least understood aspects of Facebook's advertising business is its move into "Big Data."

Back in Q1 2013, Facebook signed deals with Datalogix, Acxiom, BlueKai, and Epsilon. They are all companies that either hold or process vast troves of consumer marketing and purchase information.

The problem for many advertisers ? particularly grocery companies ? is that the vast majority of consumer purchases take place offline, in a grocery store or on a car dealer's lot, for instance. So the question becomes: "If I buy advertising on Facebook, how do I know that someone bought a can of beans in the supermarket because of it?"

Eric Roza, the CEO of Datalogix, believes he has the answer to that question, now that his partnership with Facebook is rolling. Datalogix's clients include Pepsico, Dr. Pepper Snapple Group, Mondelez and Ford.

Basically, advertisers use their own offline data, via Datalogix, to target potential consumers with ads on Facebook. They then compare the sales results from that campaign with a control group who saw none of the advertising. The statistically significant difference can be attributed to the Facebook advertising, he says. Datalogix has run 50-plus campaigns on Facebook, Roza told Business Insider recently.

For consumer packaged goods advertisers (CPGs), "It's a large, highly targetable audience, and it's reasonably priced media."

Until Facebook's partnership with Datalogix and the other consumer database companies, Facebook had a bit of a problem with CPGs. They have huge advertising budgets ? Procter & Gamble is the largest advertiser on the planet ? but there's nothing particularly digital or social about soap and toilet paper.

Two years ago, Facebook made moves to get more advice from big advertisers, and created a "client council" to advise vp/global marketing solutions Carolyn Everson and her staff about what they wanted from Facebook. The council is "dominated" by CPGs, Roza says, and they were?saying, "you need to prove to us these products work," says Roza. "CPGs have always been uneasy about lack of measurability."

Worse, "clicks have virtually no signal about who is going to buy," Roza says, referring to a truism in marketing that it takes several different interactions with a brand before a consumer gets all the way through the marketing "funnel" and actually buys something. "People who click on car ads are actually less likely to buy cars ? that's my favorite stat of all time."

But the Datalogix partnership has borne fruit, Riza says. "A 3X return on adspend, or greater, is pretty typical [on Facebook]" Roza says. "It compares very favorably" to the traditional media buys, like TV, that grocery brands are comfortable with.

Disclosure: The author owns Facebook stock.

Source: http://www.businessinsider.com/datalogix-and-facebook-2013-9

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Instapaper creator sets out to build Overcast, a better iOS podcast app

If you're wondering what Marco Arment, creator of Instapaper, has been up to since he sold the read-it-later service to Betaworks, wonder no more. At the XOXO festival in Portland, OR, Arment announced that he's been working on a new podcasting app for iOS called Overcast. Why? The tl;dr reason is because "podcasts are awesome" (We can't say we disagree). The long of it, however, is because as a lover of podcasts, Arment was frustrated at the quality of the podcast apps that are out there, stating that Apple has been asleep at the podcast wheel for years and third-party solutions aren't that much better. So he's taken matters into his own hands with Overcast. He's currently about half-way done with the app and hopes to release it later this year. We don't really know that much more about it, but if Arment's previous work is any indication, we have high hopes for this one. In the meantime, you can head on over to Overcast.fm to sign up for updates.

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Fantasy Football Link Parade: Daily Fantasy Bargains, Updated Injury Report

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IAEA narrowly rejects Arab resolution singling out Israel

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Move sought to see Jewish state join anti-nuclear weapons treaty and open its facilities to UN monitors

Participants in the International Atomic Energy Agency's general conference in Vienna on Friday narrowly voted against an Arab state sponsored resolution seeking to single Israel out for its alleged nuclear weapons program.

While 43 states voted in favor of non-binding resolution that would express concern about "Israeli nuclear capabilities," 51 voted against it.

The resolution aimed to call on Israel to join a global anti-nuclear weapons treaty and place its nuclear facilities under IAEA monitoring. Diplomats told Reuters ahead of the vote that they expected it to be close.

Ramzy Ezzeldin Ramzy, head of the Arab League group at the IAEA, said that unlike a similar plan last year, the text would not be withdrawn, despite stark American opposition.

"The world has to know that Israel is not playing a constructive role, that Israel has a (nuclear) capability," Ramzy said.

"We have engaged seriously and constructively in the preparations (for the conference). The Israelis have been playing for time, delaying, we have never seen enough seriousness on their part," Ramzy said.

On Thursday, Russian President Vladimir Putin said that Assad?s decision to amass chemical weapons was ?in response to Israel?s nuclear capabilities? and that ?Israel has technological superiority and doesn?t need nuclear weapons.?

Iran this week said Israel's nuclear activities "seriously threaten regional peace and security."

Israel's atomic energy chief, Shaul Chorev, told this week's IAEA meeting that Arab states were using it as a platform for "repeatedly bashing" his country. The Arab move only deepens "existing distrust" among the region's countries, he said.

The US has said that such a move would hurt broader diplomatic efforts towards creating a Middle East zone free of weapons of mass destruction and that any progress depended on Iran curbing its covert nuclear program. Israel threatened to quit peace talks with the Palestinians if such a motion is carried.

A recent report in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists claimed Israel has 80 nuclear warheads and enough fissile material sufficient for anywhere between 115 to 190 warheads.

Israel has always pursued a policy of nuclear ambiguity, neither denying nor confirming the possession of atomic weapons.

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3 U.S. troops killed in attack in Afghanistan

WASHINGTON (AP) ? The Defense Department says the three troops killed Saturday in eastern Afghanistan by an Afghan wearing a security forces uniform are Americans.

It appears to be the seventh such attack by a member of the Afghan forces against their international allies.

A Defense Department official says no details will be released about the three American troops killed in the attack until after notification of relatives.

An Afghan Defense Ministry spokesman says the shooting took place Saturday near the Pakistan border in the capital of eastern Paktia province, the city of Gardez. A security official there says the attack took place inside a base of the Afghan army in Gardez.

So far this year, 11 foreign soldiers have been killed in such attacks, including the attack Saturday.

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Girls golf: Iroquois West easily downs St. Thomas More

Iroquois West appears to be really hitting its stride.

The Raiders improved to 7-1 on the season with a solid 209-238 victory over host St. Thomas More on Thursday at the Urbana Country Club.

Kaleigh Wilken led the way with a 48, and Stephanie Orr (52) and Lindsey Luehrsen (53) were close behind.

Bradley-Bourbonnais 191, Beecher 194, Grant Park 220

Brooke Benoit shot a 46 as Bradley-Bourbonnais edged out Beecher to take first at Manteno Golf Club and Learning Center.

Maddie Pettet and Sydney White both shot 48s, and Darby L'Ecuyer was right behind with a 49.

Haleigh Kuhn and Maeve Leahy both shot 48s for Beecher. Hannah Clark's 50 led Grant Park.

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Microsoft OS chief: One API to rule them all

IDG News Service - Microsoft is pursuing the ideal of OS platforms: a unified code base that runs from smartphones to servers, giving users a consistent experience across devices at home and at work, and developers a common tool set for building applications.

"We really should have one silicon interface for all of our devices. We should have one set of developer APIs on all of our devices," said Terry Myerson, executive vice president of Microsoft's Operating Systems Engineering Group, during the company's meeting with financial analysts on Thursday.

"And all of the apps we bring to end users should be available on all of our devices," he added.

This is the ambitious goal Myerson's team has been chasing since the Operating Systems Engineering Group was formed two months ago as part of a broad reorganization of the company.

At the time, CEO Steve Ballmer said that group would be in charge of "all our OS work for console, to mobile device, to PC, to back-end systems," as well as of the OS "core cloud services."

Myerson's remarks on Thursday made it clear how challenging his group's mission is.

In addition to the single developer tool set and application parity across devices, his team is working on "one core [cloud] service which is enabling all of our devices," while at the same time providing a "tailored" experience for each device, from 3-inch phones to 60-inch TV sets.

"We want to facilitate the creation of a common, familiar experience across all of those devices, but fundamentally tailored and unique for each device," Myerson said.

His team's vision is "very clear" and they're pursuing it with a sense of urgency, he added.

While the potential benefits to customers and developers sound compelling, the undertaking is technologically daunting and, according to some critics, conceptually flawed.

For example, Apple has a dual-OS strategy that has worked very well for it so far: the Mac OS for desktops and laptops, and iOS for phones and tablets.

Google also has gone down this route with ChromeOS for the Chromebook laptops and desktops and Android for tablets and smartphones, although some question if the line between the two OSes will blur in the future.

In addition, Microsoft currently has a mess on its hands with Windows 8. The tile-based, touch-optimized OS was supposed to propel Microsoft into a competitive position against Apple and Android vendors in the tablet market. Instead it stumbled out of the gate, hobbled by a general dislike for some of its key features by many consumers and IT pros. An update that addresses the main complaints, Windows 8.1, is due in mid-October.

And as Myerson's team aims for the moon, down here on Earth Microsoft still has two main versions of Windows 8, a situation that has caused confusion among customers as well. There's Windows 8 for x86 devices, an OS that can run legacy Windows 7 applications, and then there's Windows RT, which can't run those apps because it's for devices that run on ARM chips.

Then there's Windows Phone 8, which has also suffered from low adoption primarily because, as in the tablet market, Microsoft has a small share in smartphones. Its acquisition of Nokia's smartphone business, which hasn't closed, is part of its effort to turn that tide.

The IDG News Service is a Network World affiliate.

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Chester Arthur becomes third president to serve in one year

On this day in 1881, Chester Arthur is inaugurated, becoming the third person to serve as president in that year.

The year 1881 began with Republican Rutherford B. Hayes in office. Hayes served out his first and only term and officially turned over the reins of government to James A. Garfield, who happened to be a close friend of his, in March 1881. Just four months into his term, on July 2, Garfield was shot by a crazed assassin named Charles Guiteau. Guiteau claimed to have killed Garfield because he refused to grant Guiteau a political appointment. Garfield sustained wounds to his back and abdomen and struggled to recover throughout the summer. Though it appeared he would pull through in early September, the autopsy report revealed that the internal bullet wound contributed to an aneurism that ultimately killed Garfield on September 19.

The next day, Vice President Chester Arthur was sworn in as president. Strangely, Garfield's assassin wrote to the new president from jail, taking credit for vaulting Arthur into the White House.?According to President Hayes, Arthur's administration was best known for "liquor, snobbery and worse."?He served only one term from 1881 to 1885.

This was the second time in American history that three men served as president in one year; a similar situation occured in 1841, when Martin Van Buren, William Henry Harrison and John Tyler all held the office.

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Former ?iCarly? Star Jennette McCurdy?s Mother Dies Of Breast Cancer

“Sam and Cat” and former “iCarly” star Jennette McCurdy?s mother has lost her battle with cancer. Debra McCurdy, who battled breast cancer for the past 17 years, died on Friday morning. McCurdy, 21, has spoken publicly about her mother’s cancer battle and even wrote an article about the return of Debra’s cancer in 2010. The ...

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STORY HIGHLIGHTS

• NEW: In Post op-ed, Iran's president says failing to engage "leads to everyone's loss"
• NEW: Iran's nuclear program is solely for energy, a matter of national pride, he says
• John Kerry praises Iranian president's comments on talks, nuclear program
• Yet the top U.S. diplomat adds: "Everything needs to be put to the test"

(CNN) -- Iranian President Hassan Rouhani made his case Thursday to the American people and the world for "a constructive approach" to contentious issues including his nation's nuclear program, arguing that failing to engage "leads to everyone's loss."

"We must work together to end the unhealthy rivalries and interferences that fuel violence and drive us apart," Rouhani said in an op-ed published Thursday evening on the Washington Post's website.

It's not the first time a leader from a country often at odds with the United States has used its newspapers to convey his or her views. Just last week, for instance, Russian President Vladimir Putin argued against international military intervention in Syria and jabbed his U.S. counterpart for saying Americans should consider themselves "exceptional" -- a remark that quickly elicited derision from across the U.S. political spectrum.

But Rouhani's tone differed from Putin's, echoing the theme of "prudence and hope" and the promise of more positive engagement with the rest of the world that helped propel him to an election win in June.

"To move beyond impasses, ... we need to aim higher," he said. "Rather than focusing on how to prevent things from getting worse, we need to think -- and talk -- about how to make things better."

Contending "the age of blood feuds" and the idea of diplomacy as a "zero-sum game" no longer apply in a "changed" world, Rouhani said leaders should engage each other "on the basis of equal footing and mutual respect."

"My approach to foreign policy seeks to resolve ... issues by addressing their underlying causes," he said. "We must work together to end the unhealthy rivalries and interferences that fuel violence and drive us apart."

Chief among those issues, for Iran, is its nuclear program. Iranian officials have insisted its aim is peaceful and for energy purposes only, but skeptical U.S., Israeli and other officials accuse Tehran of working to develop nuclear weapons. Iran's lack of openness on the issue and its perceived lack of cooperation with international nuclear authorities, have led to stringent international sanctions and increased tensions in the region.

In his opinion column Thursday, Rouhani sought to frame the debate over what he called "our peaceful nuclear energy program." This program, he said, is tied into not only addressing Iran's energy needs but also into establishing its place in the world.

"To us, mastering the atomic fuel cycle and generating nuclear power is as much about diversifying our energy resources as it is about who Iranians are as a nation, our demand for dignity and respect, and our consequent place in the world," he said.

The Washington Post column appears to be part of a U.S.-targeted public relations initiative by Rouhani, coming a day after he talked with NBC News.

In that interview, Rouhani said, "We have never pursued or sought a nuclear bomb and we are not going to do so."

There's little dispute Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is Iran's most powerful figure. Still, Rouhani said Thursday that he and his delegation will head to New York with the "full power and has complete authority" to make a deal with others on nuclear matters.

The Iranian president also talked about trading letters with Obama this summer, an exchange he called "positive and constructive."

"It could be subtle and tiny steps for a very important future," Rouhani told NBC, according to video on the network's website. "I believe the leaders in all countries could think in their national interests and that they should not be under the influence of (interest) groups."

Rouhani's Washington Post op-ed published a few hours after U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry -- also speaking in Washington -- characterized some of the new Iranian president's remarks as "very positive."

Yet he offered his compliment with a caveat: "Everything needs to be put to the test, and we'll see where we go."

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Kerry punted on a question of whether Rouhani and U.S. President Barack Obama will next week when both attend the U.N. General Assembly in New York.

Asked the same question Wednesday, White House spokesman Jay Carney said "there are currently no plans" for such a face-to-face meeting though he also didn't rule it out.

And Carney did hint the United States is open to talks with Iran -- with whom it has feuded regarding Iran's nuclear program, a dispute that's led to harsh international sanctions and raised the specter of war in the region -- to "test" whether Tehran is sincere in its hope to improve its international standing.

"I think it's fair to say that (Obama) believes there is an opportunity for diplomacy when it comes to the issues that have presented challenges to the United States and our allies with regards to Iran," Carney said. "And we hope that the Iranian government takes advantage of this opportunity."

In fact, there were high-level talks Thursday -- involving Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif and U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.

Zarif called the meeting "constructive," saying it involved "satisfactory negotiations" on various issues such as Iran's nuclear program, according to the state-run Islamic Republic News Agency.

Ban's office also issued a positive statement on the meeting, saying the two "discussed Iran's growing cooperation with the international community on a host of issues, including the nuclear file, as well the role Iran could play in promoting a political solution to the conflict in Syria."

This cooperation has been spearheaded by Rouhani, himself a former nuclear negotiator who vowed during his campaign to try to reduce tensions between Iran and the outside world.

That includes expressing openness in talks on its nuclear program. The 64-year-old cleric, who is considered a moderate, said last month that as long as there are "negotiations without threats, the way for interaction is open."

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Source: http://www.cnn.com/2013/09/19/world/meast/iran-president-nuclear/index.html?eref=rss_topstories

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Government Shutdown 2013: Here's The Truth About What Will Happen

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WASHINGTON ? Here's the truth about a government "shutdown."

The government won't shut down if a dysfunctional Washington can't pass a funding bill before the new budget year begins Oct. 1.

Social Security payments will still go out on time. Troops will remain at their posts. Doctors and hospitals will get Medicare and Medicaid reimbursements. Virtually every essential government agency ? the FBI, the Border Patrol and the Coast Guard ? will remain open. Officers will remain in full force at airport checkpoints.

Around the corner is a far bigger danger: Sometime in late October or early November, the government could run out of cash and be unable to pay all its bills on time. That could delay Social Security payments and wages for troops in the field.

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FIFA's concern over Africa's ineligible players

Africa's problem with ineligible players will be addressed by FIFA after the world body opened nine cases during the continent's World Cup qualifiers and has punished seven countries so far by forcing them to forfeit games. An eighth country is under investigation.

FIFA director of competitions Mustapha Fahmy, an Egyptian and former secretary general of Africa's football body, said Friday that "possible solutions" will be discussed with member associations after Africa's qualifying competition for Brazil was littered with cases.

"FIFA will aim to provide means and ways to help so that we address something that obviously went wrong," Fahmy said in an interview on the Confederation of African Football website. "We work to make sure we deliver successful events."

Burkina Faso, Sudan, Gabon, Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia, Togo and Cape Verde Islands all forfeited games for fielding ineligible players, with Cape Verde losing its place in the final World Cup playoffs for fielding a player while he was meant to be suspended. Equatorial Guinea was punished for offending twice.

Liberia is the latest to be investigated after a case was opened against it by FIFA on Thursday and Fahmy said the problem appeared to be isolated to Africa.

"We have noted with some concern what has happened with a number of teams falling foul to the rules of the competition, which are clearly spelt out," Fahmy said. "This only happened with one continent, Africa, and others like Europe, Asia or South America did not experience the same problems where disciplinary action had to be taken. We have been saying we need to look into what happened."

While Cape Verde paid the biggest price for playing defender Fernando Varela in a decisive 2-0 win over Tunisia, which it later forfeited to be thrown out the playoffs, Ethiopia also nearly didn't progress after mistakenly fielding suspended midfielder Minyahile Beyene, for which it was stripped of a win against Botswana.

The Ethiopian federation said officials "forgot" Minyahile was suspended and the country's football leadership promised not to stand for re-election later this year because of the error.

Like Ethiopia, Burkina Faso came through a forfeited game to make the decisive 10-team playoffs and have a chance at a first World Cup appearance and Fahmy still welcomed the progress of those two despite their earlier sanctions.

"It is interesting and l think the playoffs will provide some good matches," Fahmy said. "It is also good to have new sides like Ethiopia and Burkina Faso competing at this level."

Africa's final two-legged playoffs to decide its five teams at the World Cup begin next month.

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Microsoft Rolls Out Skype for Windows 8 Improvements ? Free Download

Skype is already available on Windows 8 and built-in to Windows 8.1, so Microsoft keeps improving it on a regular basis, in an attempt provide users of the Modern UI with the same experience as on the desktop.

A new version of the app was officially released this morning, bringing general fixes supposed to repair the bugs reported in older builds.

As usual, the new version is delivered via the Windows Store, but in case you?re running the new Windows 8.1, be it Preview or RTM, the update is automatically downloaded and installed without prior notifications unless you changed the default configuration of the OS.

Today?s improvements are aimed at all Modern versions of Skype, so the update should be available on desktops and tablets running Windows 8 or Windows RT alike.

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Consumers Hold Websites and Social Networks Most Accountable ...

LONDON, September 19, 2013 /PRNewswire/ --

Research shows EU Self-Regulatory Programme for OBA has growing awareness and positive impact on consumer attitudes to online tracking

With IAB Europe reporting an 11.5% growth in the European online advertising market, TRUSTe, the leading global data privacy management (DPM) company, today announced findings from its latest privacy research - examining consumer's opinions about online behavioural advertising (OBA) and who they consider responsible for their online privacy.

Conducted online by Harris Interactive on behalf of TRUSTe, the "2013 UK Consumer Data Privacy Study: Advertising Edition" surveyed 1,254 UK Internet users between 12-19 June 2013, just prior to the UK launch of a pan-European campaign by the European Interactive Digital Advertising Alliance (EDAA) to raise consumer awareness of the OBA Icon.

2013 UK Consumer Data Privacy Study: Advertising Edition - Key Findings

Although privacy concerns continue, to grow with 53% of UK internet users more concerned about their privacy than last year and 47% uncomfortable with Online Behavioural Advertising (OBA) the study showed that increased transparency and privacy controls can create more positive feelings about online advertising and willingness to click on ads.

There is a significant gap between who users hold accountable for privacy protection and who they trust. UK Internet users hold website owners and publishers (77%) as well as social networks (74%) most responsible for protecting their privacy. However,

• Internet users trust themselves most (43% down from 60% in 2012), Government (15% up from 11% in 2012) and self-regulatory organisations (8%) to protect their privacy

Even before the launch of the pan-European icon awareness campaign, familiarity with the EU Self-Regulatory Programme on OBA and the OBA Icon is growing and shown to have a positive impact.

• 53% of internet users would be inclined to do more business with an advertiser or publisher that gave them the option to opt out of OBA
• 49% would be more inclined to click on advertisement which gave them the option to opt out of OBA
• Familiarity with the OBA Icon is increasing in the UK (22% up from 13% in 2012) and nearly a third of consumers (30%) have now clicked on the OBA Icon in an ad.

However, there's still significant work that's needed to boost consumer confidence online and avoid losing business. While 65% of UK Internet users understand that most websites are able to offer free content and services by showing ads, only 24% are willing to let advertisers use online browsing information to show them targeted ads in exchange for free content and only 12% would be willing to pay to avoid seeing ads.

• 30% have stopped doing business with a company or website because of privacy concerns
• 79% of UK Internet users expect companies to comply with the Cookie Directive; 49% plan to only visit websites which comply

The release of TRUSTe's study coincides with the start of the "Powering Trust" Roadshow, addressing the biggest privacy challenges in online advertising and with events in San Francisco, New York and London. Speaking at the first launch event, Chris Babel, CEO for TRUSTe said:

"As demonstrated time and time again through numerous privacy firestorms, online companies that don't clearly explain what's happening with customer data or fully inform users of their choices contribute to a climate of fear and distrust. As our research shows, we think that by listening and responding to what users want, we can eliminate that fear and increase trust in the ever growing data economy"

Nick Stringer, Chair of the European Interactive Digital Advertising Alliance (EDAA) and Director of Regulatory Affairs at the Internet Advertising Bureau UK (IAB UK) commented on the findings:

Source: http://www.virtual-strategy.com/2013/09/19/consumers-hold-websites-and-social-networks-most-accountable-online-privacy-protection-tr

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Many financial analysts don't understand that they don't understand Apple, and that's dangerous

Last week Apple announced the iPhone 5s and iPhone 5c. They'll be shipping both starting tomorrow, and shipped iOS 7 just yesterday. Surrounding this enormous product roll out has been some of the worst Apple coverage I've ever seen. It's been clear for a number of years that many mainstream financial analysts and media outlets simply don't "get" Apple. This week made it painfully clear just how badly they don't get it, and how big of a problem that is.

One major argument many have made is in regards to Google, and how their continuing devaluation of hardware could negatively impact Apple. The argument centers around price of the new iPhones, especially the iPhone 5c, which many analysts "predicted" would be much, much lower than it turned out to be. Off contract, however, the iPhone 5c remains very expensive, especially for emerging markets. A Nexus 4, for example, is less than half the price of an iPhone 5c.

But Apple isn?t competing on price and never has. Price will never be the single most important feature for Apple. Yes, I was hoping Apple would launch a lower priced iPhone for the emerging markets this year. But as I already wrote, Apple will most likely do this at some point.

Apple has a history of reducing price only as and when needed. They wait for consumer pricing to fall at the low end, and they respond by shrinking their premium prices accordingly. They still wind up with premium prices in all cases, but they move down as the market moves down. Five years ago did you ever think a Macbook Air would start at $999? I certainly didn?t.

In most developed markets where phones are sold on contracts, the retail price of an iPhone is hardly any different than any other phone. The carriers are subsidizing the hardware. Why would they over-subsidize an iPhone? Because Apple products give them sticky customers more often than not. This is a generalization, but it?s a useful one. Apple makes awesome products that people flock to because of their style and simplicity. If you ask many of the non-geek crowd they will tell you Apple?s iPhone is super easy to use, whereas Android seems complicated. Heck, people are easily confused by the swipe gestures in BlackBerry 10. It doesn?t take much to confuse some people. Apple gets that.

The next big knock against Apple's new iPhones is screen size. Competing phones have both bigger screens - some upwards of 6-inches - and pixel resolution - some up to 1080p. The resolution matters less. Most phones have resolutions today so far beyond what the average person can make out with the naked eye that it?s irrelevant. It?s like comparing the top speed on a Tesla Model S to a Porsche 911 when you?re stuck driving on streets with fairly normal speed limits. I?m a tech geek and I don?t even care about the difference.

As far as screen size goes, customers vote with their wallets. Back in August iMore's Rene Ritchie outlined the North American market realities for a bigger screen iPhone. Just like with less expensive phones, I think Apple will address larger screen phones, they just don't have to do it this month.

The third argument is dismissal of one of the new, headline features of the iPhone 5s - the Touch ID fingerprint identity sensor. It's being compared to archaic implementations from old Dell laptops and Android and Windows Mobile phones.

There is a lot more to a fingerprint sensor than the five syllables we use to identify it in language. If we are going to over simplify things this way, why not laugh at the idea of an updated anything? Isn?t a smartphone built in 2013 pretty much the same as one from 2007? Aren't capacitive touch screens the same as resistive? LTE the same as EDGE? Obviously not. And with fingerprint sensors we have improvements in hardware and software. Apple masterful at making things simple, and I?m guessing most people?s experiences with fingerprint sensors on notebook computers in 2007 would be described as anything but simple.

It all comes down to user experience, folks. These are the things Apple nails. And I think it?s important for Apple to be leading the way on fingerprint sensors in mobile computers. This technology should be a big time saver and security booster in a world where we are constantly logging into services and paying for things online. I?d love to have fingerprint sensor technology to protect documents on my phone or tablet. But it has to just work the way Apple is known to do.

Fourth is dismissal of Apple's new iWork initiative, which sees the apps going free on iOS (perhaps on OS X next month as well?) and free HTML5 versions being made available online as well as part of iCloud. Google Docs has been free for years, the argument goes, so it's irrelevant that Apple's made iWork free now as well.

In many ways - important ways to mainstream consumers - the iWork suite is much better than Google Docs. I say this as an educated user and fan of both company?s products. I use Google Docs only when I need to share my docs with a non-Apple user. And I never use Google?s presentation software. Keynote is light years ahead of Google here.

Apple has always been an aggressive price leader on productivity software. They?ve always offered iWork at a much lower price than Microsoft Office. And on consumer software? Apple has been giving us incredible desktop apps like GarageBand and iMovie on OS X for nothing all along. Given this history, I have a hard time with any argument saying Apple is copying Google's software strategy, or that it's irrelevant in the face of it.

The fourth and last argument is that Apple's return to polycarbonate is somehow a giant step backwards in terms of quality and brand image, and that their addition of a first-party case is an admission it will be a poor quality product.

Here's what's being missed: Accessories are hugely profitable. HUGELY. The 5c cases cost insignificant amounts to manufacture and sell for $29. Do the math. When you think about selling to a consumer you have to understand the law of relative comparison. Ordering a big mac? Want fries with that for an extra buck? Spending $150 on a new pair of pants and dress shirt? How about a new belt to really make the outfit shine for an extra $30. People buy these things because they seem cheap in comparison to the stick price of the main item in the shopping cart. And on a gross margin level, these upgrades add huge profit for the seller.

Apple understands how to make money like most retailers do not. Cases have always been a part of the iPhone business, and it?s silly to suggest that a plastic iPhone case should suddenly cause Apple to shut down such a highly profitable product line.

I understand where the bad analysis is coming from. These are intelligent people. Insightful people. They simply don't understand Apple's business and, what's worse, don't understand that they don't understand it. Arguing that Google has incredible products, fair prices, and will continue to gain market share is all true. I?m a shareholder of both Apple and Google. I?m also quite bearish on Microsoft. I agree with many of these analysts when it comes to the big picture. I just don?t agree with the poorly reasoned anti-Apple arguments that have been spewing out over the internet lately, and especially over the last week.

Here's a pro tip: Apple doesn't run their business the same way Google or Dell any other company does. You can't apply the same preconceptions, assumptions, and logic to Apple as you do Amazon or HP any other company. You have to base analysis of Apple on Apple and on the markets Apple's in.

Spend less time preaching Apple is doomed, and more time thinking about how people buy based on emotion and later justify their actions with logic (even if they have to manufacture that logic)

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Vintage Backyard Wedding Reception | Heart Love Weddings

I was over the moon when Kylie Swanson, co-owner of Rekindled Vintage Rentals, reached out to me and submitted her oh-so-sweet-and-pretty ?home reception?!! Kylie and her hubby, John, had a destination wedding, and wanted a laid back, casual, relaxed reception when they came home with the people who couldn?t make it down to Mexico. Her love of all things vintage, eclectic, and ?at-home? came together beautifully thanks to Lindsay Gibson of Gibson Events and Kelly Long of Poppy Lane Design. They had an outstanding table of desserts (no, really, I want to hop into the pictures Mary Poppins style and partake in one of those delectable treats) thanks to Abbey Road Catering and Amy Cakes. And Holli B Photography was on hand for Kylie and John?s entire wedding week to capture every last, little, beautiful bit! I absolutely adore the idea of a destination wedding and ?at-home? reception as I?ve often thought I?ll do the same one day :). I also have to tell you that Kylie did such a sweet job in telling me about her and John?s love story that I couldn?t bear to rewrite it. I just can?t express her love and happiness for this man the way she can. So, there you go :).

?Thinking back to the first time John and I met just makes my heart explode with happiness! It was during our junior year of college at the University of Oklahoma and we?ve been inseparable ever since. While I was his first ?real? relationship, I had kissed my fair share of frogs and was ready to swear off relationships right as he decided to walk into my life. He?s truly every answer to my endless amounts of prayers and I wonder what I could have possibly done to deserve him on a daily basis!?

?I knew I loved John from the minute I first met him. He?s one of those people with a magnetic personality, someone that you just feel as though you have to get to know. Whether it was his infectious laugh or his undeniable charm, I?ll never know. Regardless, I was smitten from day one. Thankfully, he was too, and after nearly 10 months of dating, he popped the question.?

?Our proposal is almost as memorable as our wedding week was. I had mentioned (in more ways than one) that my dream proposal would be a complete and utter surprise. Quite a tough task when I can, on occasion, be a tad nosey. I?m sure everyone in our lives wondered how John would pull off a surprise engagement when I had to have known it was coming sooner or later. He somehow managed to sneak this one right under my nose and I will always remember it as one of the best days of my life.

It was Halloween and my mom had invited John and I to a family friend?s ranch for a casual get-together. She actually invited just me and I asked if John could attend. So in a way, I thought I was the one making plans for the evening. My mom came to pick us up and we drove up in what I now remember as awkward silence. I can only assume my mom threatened my two younger brothers with their lives if they opened their mouths about the real plans for the evening.

Once we arrived at the ranch, John asked me if I wanted to hop on a horse and ride down to the bottom pasture. Because I can sometimes be a pain, I said no and told him to ask my younger brother to go with him. He was persistent and finally got me to agree to accompany him. On our ride, he started telling me how much he loved me. Oblivious, I still didn?t catch on to what was happening.

Once we arrived at the pasture, he asked me if we could get off the horses and walk for a bit. Again, being stubborn, I declined the offer and insisted on staying on my horse. I?m sure at this point he was wondering why on earth he was about sign up to spend a lifetime with my hardheadedness!

After awhile, I finally agreed to get off. Before I knew it, he was down on one knee asking me to be his wife. I have truly never been happier or more surprised. We got back on our horses and saw my second surprise of the evening: the rest of my family and his were back at the house waiting for us. We spent the rest of the night grilling steaks, popping champagne, and eating scrumptious cupcakes that my mom had specially ordered with my new soon-to-be initials. It was by far the best Halloween I?ve ever had.?

?I don?t even know if I waited a week to hire my wedding planner (the fabulous Lindsay Gibson of Gibson Events?she is a shining star!) and drove straight into wedding plans. We had the date set, the venue picked out, the vendors chosen. Not more than four months before the big day, I started to unravel. I felt like we were truly a few clowns short of a circus. The guest list was out of control, the details were becoming bigger than what really mattered?our marriage!?and I pleaded with my fianc? to elope with me to Vegas. Thankfully he didn?t agree to that one!?

?We decided to change the plans a bit and have what we both had wanted from the beginning: a destination wedding. So, in between a full course load of classes, I planned our wedding (for the second time!) to a destination none of us had ever been to before. I?m not sure why I ended up choosing The Four Seasons Punta Mita, but I know it was one of the best decisions I?ve ever made. It was pure bliss.?

?A teeny road block popped up about a month before we had planned to leave and we learned that we would need to be legally married in the States unless we planned on being in Mexico a minimum of five days before we tied the knot there. What started as a plan for John and I to go to the court house by ourselves ended up turning into a beautiful ceremony on the campus of OU with only a pastor and our two witnesses (our wedding planner and photographer!). I wore my late grandmother?s wedding dress, my mother?s pearls, and carried the prettiest little bouquet made by Kelly Long of Poppy Lane Design. That evening we had dinner with both of our parents and prepared to leave for Mexico five short days later.?

?When we returned, we had the most amazing ?home? reception with almost 300 of our nearest and dearest. Everything was more perfect than I could have ever imagined. We shared our second ?first dance? to Ray Lamontagne?s ?You Are The Best Thing? and spent the evening under the stars with our favorite people in the world. One of the most important details of the day was to create an at-home feel outdoors. I wanted a lounge area, mix-matched seating, vintage farm tables, and other eclectic details that, at the time, were not real trendy yet. It wasn?t easy finding these pieces, but our wedding planner truly knocked our socks off. It was everything I had dreamt of plus so much more. And it sparked something inside of me that would later lead to my dream job, launching Rekindled Vintage Rentals.?

?It was truly such a fun evening, filled with endless amounts of desserts and lots of dancing. The evening was held at Cobblestone Creek Country Club and planned to perfection by Lindsay Gibson of Gibson Events. The flowers were my favorites, everything was so eclectic and came together perfectly! Kelly Long of Poppy Lane Design made my vision come to life. We had a live band to start the evening and it was too perfect for words. Clancy David, who happens to be Blake Shelton?s talented cousin, absolutely blew me away. Later, we had a DJ from Box Talent that kept guests grooving for hours on end. Since we wanted the reception to be fairly informal, we really went crazy with the desserts. Abbey Road Catering and Amy Cakes collaborated to bring together the prettiest little sweets station. I loved every detail! My only regret was that I didn?t have a second to enjoy any of the delectable desserts! None of these details would have mattered had it not been for our phenomenal photographer, Holli Brewer of Holli B Photography. She spent the entire week with us in Mexico and then met up with us the day after we returned to shoot this reception as well. She definitely became more of a friend than a photog! We simply adore her and are forever grateful for the memories she created for us.?

?One of my favorite wedding gifts was from one of my dad?s business friends who shot the majority of his advertising pieces. He sent over his talented people to video the entire evening and it remains to be one of my favorite things from our wedding week! It captured the night to a tee and I could not be more thankful!?

{Advice for Couples} My biggest piece of advice for couples getting ready to tie the knot would be to focus on what truly matters and forget the rest. Having a beautiful wedding is undoubtedly an amazing and memorable experience, but having a marriage that?s even more beautiful than your wedding is what you?ll look back on 50 years from now.

Thank you so much Kylie for sharing your love story, details of your wedding week, and at-home reception with us!! We wish you and John so much love and laughter in the many years you?ll share together!!?xoxo

Source: http://www.heartloveweddings.com/2013/09/vintage-backyard-wedding-reception/

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