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REPORT: Zuckerberg, Mayer are Softening the Image of the Corporate CEO

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This weekend, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg shared a photo of himself changing the diaper of his newborn daughter, Max. It was so cute.

This is a new way at looking at CEOs of big companies.

For a couple of years, there has been much chatter over the family planning efforts  Yahoo! CEO Marissa Mayer, who gave birth to twins last week, and whose two pregnancies and previous birth experiences were the focus of a lot of articles, columns and conversations nation and worldwide.

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Writer Jean McGregor of the Washington Post suggests that these two are part of a new era of corporate CEOs who share more and more about their personal lives than before, and perhaps it has to do with the fact they head tech companies which do things differently than traditional companies in the past.

But McGregor also hypothesizes that this new shift should be expected of  Zuckerberg and Mayer given their relatively young ages, 31 and 40, respectively, and both are at the stage in life when many are starting or growing their families.

Historically, CEOs are in their 50s with parenting being less a focus of their lives. But older CEOs too are being more open about intimate aspects of their lives, McGregor notes.

Last year, Tim Cook,who is 55,  penned a letter to the public announcing he was gay and Aetna CEO Mark Bertolini, 58,  shared openly about a near death accident, yoga and meditation, and wanting to spend more time with his wife and less at the beck and call of his employers.

“We program C.E.O.s to be certain kinds of people. We expect C.E.O.s to be on message all the time,” Bertolini told a New York Times reporter. “The grand experiment here has been how much of that do you really need to do?”

These could all be nothing more than examples of people who-whether in an attempt to inspire others, thank a family member or highlight their personal brand-chose to open up more than we’re accustomed to hearing from powerful people in the corporate suite, McGregor writes.

She notes, “and for every CEO who speaks freely, there’s one who chooses to keep an illness private. Mayer, for one, may be sharing the good news and basic details about her maternity leave (as she did with her first child in 2012), but it’s hardly a topic she’s dwelling on beyond that.”

Interesting.

REPORT: US Pregnancy & Abortion Rate Hit Record Low



The U.S. pregnancy rate and abortions have hit a record low, according to a new research by the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) and the Guttmacher Institute released Friday, NBC News reported.

“The pregnancy rate for women in the United States continued to decline in 2010, to 98.7 per 1,000 women aged 15-44, a record low for the 1976-2010 period. This level was 15 percent below the 1990 peak,” wrote researchers Sally Curtin and Joyce Abma of the NCHS and Kathryn Kost of the Guttmacher Institute.

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From Examsnap to VMware: Hoarding the Right Practice Test Materials to Earn your VCP6-DCV Certification

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In the world of virtualization, VMware basically stands out. This goes out for its number of certifications, which have been highly regarded by both experts and new bies in IT.

Thus, VMware offers certifications of the associate (VCA), professional (VCP), advanced professional (VCAP), and design expert (VCDX) levels. One of the most recognized credential in virtualization and in IT, in general, which lies on the professional level is VMware Certified Professional 6 – Data Center Virtualization (VCP6-DCV).

To obtain this VCP6-DCV certification, you must pass one of its foundation tests which include exams: vSphere 6 Foundations (2V0-620) and vSphere 6.5 Foundations (2V0-602). The second step that leads you to this credential is passing 2V0-621 test.

This article covers all you need to know about passing the VMware Certified Professional 6 – Data Center Virtualization Exam simply known by code 2V0-602.

This exam tests your fundamental skills to manage vSphere 6.5 environments. To pass 2V0-602 exam you need to complete 70 questions of single and multiple choice within 105 minutes and to score 300 points. This test will cost you $125. So, if you have knowledge on how to administer a virtualized infrastructure using the latest technological practices, then that means you’re one step ready to take this exam.

Yet, best remember that no certification exam can be fully understood in one sitting. Likewise, no single material no matter how inclusive and informative it may be can give you everything you need to learn on a given exam. You always need other training materials so as to assess whether you are given the right information on the certification exam and its corresponding topics. The effort to scheme a preparation guide can be put in vain if you are not yet introduced to the right materials, to begin with. But having these on your lap doesn’t have to be a personal struggle. In order to lighten your work, we’ve collected a number of practice tests from different study resources that will assist you in preparing for and finally claiming your VPC6-DCV certification.

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Getting high marks in every exam can be challenging for most people. This indeed is a common outcry for those who have already taken the exam. Nonetheless, this should not discourage you. In case you don’t know, Examsnap is only a click away to encourage you with their variety of study materials. This ranges from exam training courses, study guide and a set of practice questions with answers. The files offered by this great platform are in ete format and can be opened with the used of the ETE Exam Simulator. This modern tool mirrors the real exam environment and helps you to get the insight of what is waiting for you at the exam. The more you practice answering Examsnap’s exam questions, the more you’ll gain familiarization and understanding of the certification exam. Among many individuals who take good advantage of these innovative, IT-verified materials are the test-takers of VMware 2V0-602 with the high hopes of securing the VCP6-DCV certification. The people who have already tried Examsnap know exactly which path leads to a more flexible and beneficial preparation route, and unsurprisingly, it all goes back to Examsnap.com.

VMware vSphere 6.5 Foundations Practice Test

You can’t say that you have fully prepared for the exam if you haven’t grabbed the chance to take VMware’s very own Official practice test for 2V0-602. Since this test sprung from VMware itself, you might as well try the practice test it has prepared. If other resources worry you out, VMware is the right path to place your trust. You can trust its credibility, its structure, and its very content. In addition, VMware professors have sprinkled their brilliance in the practice test. The knowledge engraved is monitored to be exactly connected to the exam objectives. Other study information that can be of use to you is also provided. This includes tips on preventing the most common mistakes many test-takers tend to commit.

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With the number of materials coming in and out of the market, there’s probably no individual that can escape from an outdated and unreliable practice test. Just consider the hassle you have to endure in purchasing materials and later finding out its irregularities later on. For a future test-taker like you, no time should be squandered in settling for low-quality study materials. ExamCollection’s premium bundle for 2V0-602 exam lets you cut some slack. With its training course, its questions & answers, as well as its study guide, you can train more frequently until you attain mastery over the topics.

ExamSnap’s Practice Test

ExamSnap claims to give you a sure-fire way to pass 2V0-602 exam. Through its technically precise materials that are checked by certified experts, you’ll have even better chances in understanding the exam topics sooner than you have lingered. They’ve created a set of practice exams available in VCE format that convey real-life scenarios for the VMware vSphere 6.5 Foundations Exam. The files can be opened on the VCE Software and help you gain foundational skills that will be relevant to the actual exam and even after you get hired to your desired IT position. Moreover, ExamSnap regularly updates and tests their materials to keep its customers always in the loop.  

Exam-Labs’ Practice Testand dumps

Another common resource for practice questions and answers is Exam-Lab. This makes sure that the content provided in the practice tests covers the exact topics of the actual exam. Like the rest of the VMware 2V0-602 practice tests mentioned earlier, these are also checked by specialists in IT. To provide you more convenience, the practice test questions are also accessible in VCE file format.

Conclusion

Getting your own VCP6-DCV certification as well as passing 2V0-602 exam require from your efficient preparation. For that along with VMware official website visit Examsnap, ExamCollection, ExamSnap, and Exam-Labs. In choosing your training materials, having less or more can jeopardize you. Only pick in moderation but make sure to practice the materials as frequent as possible. This way, you’ll be able to concentrate on the materials that will surely help you become VMware certified professional.

Calm down KimYe Haters, the baby name ‘Saint’ Isn’t New

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Here is something for all the people hatin’ on Kim Kardashian –West and Kanye West’s son’s name, Saint. It isn’t unheard of or new even.

According to U.S. Social Security Administration statistics, in 2014, there were 32 baby boys born with the name “Saint”. Now that is out of 2 million babies born last year, making it rank 3, 413, but still.

And of all the states, Texas is way ahead of the curve because most of the children born last year named Saint were born in that state. Go Texas!

 

And there are and have been a few celebrities in history named Saint over time, as well.



We will be interested to see if there is an uptick in the name after this year! After all, Kim and Ye are trendsetters, whether you like them or not.



Data curated by PrettyFamous

STUDY: Pregnancy is the Most Traumatic Thing the Human Body Endures

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File this also in the category, “No, Sherlock”

Pregnancy is the most traumatic condition the human body endures, a new Michigan University report states.

It’s harder than running a marathon even, according to the study which compared a post partum body’s recovery to an injured athletes’s recovery.

The researchers used MRI equipment that is usually used for sports industries and examined the full scope of trauma that a woman’s body experiences during childbirth.

Those images from their observations showed that close to 25% of women had fluid in the public bone marrow or fractures similar to those athlete often suffer. The results revealed that 41% of women had pelvic muscle tears.

These tears explain why your body takes longer than the typical and traditional 6 weeks recognized as the average recovery period.

“We have this thing where we tell women, ‘Well, you’re six weeks postpartum and now we don’t need to see you—you’ll be fine.’ But not all women feel fine after six weeks nor are ready to go back to work, and they aren’t crazy,”  University of Michigan School of Nursing associate professor Janis Miller told Mom.me, “Women with pelvic injuries often feel like something isn’t right, but they don’t understand why and can’t get answers from physicians.”

Such injuries can lead to bladder issues and organ prolapse. And no amount of Kegel exercises can fix that.

There are lessons in these findings for doctors and women. Physicians should not use a cookie-cutter approach when accessing post partum recovery and giving women the all-clear to return to pre-pregnancy activities; and new moms too should be aware they need more time to heal and not beat themselves or rush it.

h/t Mom.me

Continue reading more about recovery in HuffPost Parents UK.

 

STUDY: Big-Bottom Women Give Birth to Smarter Kids



Great news for us big booty gals!

A study from the University of Oxford links an ample derrière to healthy and smart children due to the high amount of Omega 3 fatty acids (the good fatty acids) stored in the bum. These are the same fatty acids that are responsible for the normal development of the baby’s brain.

And this news isn’t necessarily new either. Back in 2007,  Chicago Tribune noted research by scientists which stated that women with fat-bottoms are actually smarter than women with flat-bottoms. Again, for the same reason: heightened Omega 3 fatty acids storage in the booty improves the brain’s functionality and development.

These studies combine with evidence which shows that the fat content in a mother’s breast milk comes from the lower half of the body, which includes her thighs, buttocks, etc.  Given that is where the Omega 3’s are stored, babies with big bottomed moms get a healthy dosage of Omega 3 in their diet.

Fab news, says this ample bum gal! ha!

Read more about the research here!

The Only Person Over 25 to Make Instagram’s Top 10 Most Liked Photo List

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Besides The Jenner Girls (Kendall and Kylie Jenner), Taylor Swift and Selena Gomez, the only other mega star to land in the 2015 list of most liked photo on Instagram was our very own “bumpwatch” alum, Beyonce Knowles .

Her sweet Throwback Thursday portrait, posted 3 months, in matching off white with her daughter Blue Ivy, then 11 months old garnered 2.3 million likes. Instagram released the list this week, Wednesday, December 2 and Bey and Blue landed on #5. See the entire list HERE!

The real cover girl ?? My delicious Blue Blue at 11 months.

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After 47 years, Oprah Winfrey finally Gives her Deceased Premature Son a Name

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It took 47 years, but yesterday Oprah Winfrey finally decided on a name for the premature baby she gave birth to at age 14: Canaan.

During a stop on the business mogul’s “An Evening with Oprah Winfrey” tour in Melbourne, Australia yesterday, December 2,  the former talk show host and business tycoon told an audience the name and how she came to decide on it.

“I did an interview with a reporter before I came to Australia and she said you should name the baby son who died,” Winfrey announced to attendees of the event. “So I have named him, I had a little boy named Canaan.”

The declaration looks like it represents growth towards the acceptance and release of the shame associated with her traumatic childhood.

“I did have a son and I named him Canaan because Canaan means new land, new life,” she said.

The media mogul also talked intimately about the circumstances that led to the pregnancy and the  feelings she had around the time she was forced to carry a baby to term at such a young age.

“I was raped at nine years old by a cousin, then again by another family member, and another family member,” news.com.au reports she said, before adding  that she tried to conceal her growing baby bump because of the “pain and shame” she felt.

The baby eventually died and remained a secret until 1990 when a family member made the news public.  Following that unauthorized leak, Winfrey said she was concerned the news would impact her career negatively.

“I took to my bed and cried for three days,” she wrote in a February 2007 issue of O! The Oprah Magazine. “I felt devastated. Wounded. Betrayed. How could this person do this to me?”

She added, “I imagined that every person on the street was going to point their finger at me and scream, ‘Pregnant at 14, you wicked girl … expelled!’ [But] I soon realized that having the secret out was liberating. What I learned for sure was that holding the shame was the greatest burden of all.”

So wonderful to learn that not only is she freed from the burden of that secret but she may have gotten some closure or at least greater acceptance of her past by coming up with a name at last.

How triumphant it is!

H/t: SFGate

San Bernardino Shooter was a Pharmacist and A New Mom of a 6-Month Old Baby

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San Bernardino shooters Tashfeen Malik and Syed Rizwan Farook – photo http://scallywagandvagabond.com/

It’s baffling to learn now that a 27-year old pharmacist and new mom to a 6-month old baby joined her husband on a shooting rampage at his office Holiday luncheon yesterday, Wednesday, December 2, killing 14 and critically injuring 17, CNN reports.

Police identified Tashfeen Malik as one of the shooters in yesterday’s deadly rampage shooting at a county office social event for the San Bernarndino County Health Department at the Inland Regional Center in San Bernardino, California.

According to relatives, Malik and her husband Syed Rizwan Farook,  a Chicago-born 5-year County employee, left their comfortable suburban home in Redlands, California, during the day, then dropped their baby girl off at her grandparents’ home early Wednesday morning, telling the grands they had a doctor’s appointment.

Nothing out of the ordinary.  Nothing tipped off the grandparents that anything sinister was being planned. It appeared to be any other ordinary sleepy day in suburbia.

Then the  young couple dressed in black masks and tactical gear, armed themselves with assault-style rifles and traveled with fake pipe bombs in their  black SUV to the office party where Farook has previously left after having an argument with co-workers there, FOX News reports.

The parents then opened fire, wreaking havoc while carrying out their deadly crime, BBC News notes. They then traveled to nearby relatives home before leading police in a high speed chase that ended with the two dead.

A third passenger in that vehicle ran. He is believed to be Farook’s brother.

Even if the events appear to have been precipitated by a fight at the holiday party, with all that gear, ammunition and bombs officials found in the couple’s vehicle and home, it looks more like this was a planned attack.

Farook traveled to Saudia Arabia recently, his co-workers confirm.  Many thought he was going to perform hajj, a pilgrimage that devout Muslims are required to do in their lifetime.  The Los Angeles Times reports that he may have gone to pick up  his wife that he met in an online dating site and then traveled to Saudi Arabia to bring her back to America after getting married.

Someone found his dating profile on a site for people with disabilities and second marriage that his parents created for him, and another one on MuslimDating.com.

Coworkers described Farook as “quiet and polite” with “no obvious grudges with anyone in the office.”   Griselda Reisinger, who worked with Farook before leaving the department in May, told the LA Times, “he never struck me as a fanatic, he never struck me as suspicious.”

Reisinger said she heard that the office recently threw a baby shower for Farook and that he had taken paternity leave.

He was well-liked, others said.  ABC News  reported about another co-worker who described Farook as “reserved, rarely starting a conversation on his own”  and  “appeared committed to his family, and never displayed any unusual behavior or discussed any radical political views.”

Co-workers told the Los Angeles Times Farook was a devout Muslim but didn’t talk about religion at work.

The Internet sleuths were busy, working overtime scraping Linked In profile pages and Faceook pages coming up with these images:

Farook’s LinkedIn and Facebook profiles have since been scrubbed from the Internet.

I hesitate including them here since they haven’t been verified but the photos left me haunted at how a seemingly loving and nurturing couple of new parents would abandon their baby to carry out such a murderous crime.

Baffling!

And now that poor baby will grow to learn about the horrible deeds her parents did and may be given grief for it by others or at least have to live with the awareness of their actions which left her parent-less at the same time.

That’s heavy and unfortunate and sad.

photo: Scallywag and Vagabond via Farook’s social media pages before they were scrubbed.

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