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Creme de la Creme of 2013
For the eighth year running, the ALI community kicks off the new year by celebrating our best posts of the last year.
So what is the Creme de la Creme list if this is your first time here? It was started as a response to the many blogging awards that are given out each winter. I expanded the idea of presenting "the best" to include a post from every blog in the ALI (adoption/loss/infertility) world*. Every blogger has a personal best that deserves recognition. As editor of the list, I create the small blurbs after the title which serve as a doorway to the post. I hope they will help you find what you are seeking to read as well as show definitively the diversity of experience and emotion within the ALI community.
In the past, the list has been open for a bit after January 1st, but this year, submissions were only accepted from October 15 — December 15th. If you would like to be on the 2014 list, make sure you look for the opening post in October 2014.
Listed below are the best posts of 2013. As always, happy reading! And leaving a comment on these older posts is not a "may I?" but a "please do." Comments are how an author knows their words are appreciated. Comments about the Creme de la Creme in general can be left on this post.
The Creme de la Creme of 2013
- The End of the End (from Stirrup Queens): The author explains that "it doesn't matter how small you are; you can still be deeply loved." A story of loss and processing infertility through Cozy the hamster.
- Adding a Dimension to the Open Adoption Spectrum (from LavenderLuz.com): Proving that contact is not the same things as openness within open adoption, the author explains with a four-part grid how to always be striving towards the concept of openness.
- Jealousy Sucks (from Me… Plus One): In a deeply honest post, the author lays bare the jealousy she feels for other parents who have more than one child while having gratitude for her daughter.
- Today I Woke Up Crying (from Something Beautiful): A beautiful post about waking from a dream and feeling the crushing weight of realizing that it's not a reality.
- NICU Delivery (from Emma in Mommyland): Rather than collect more toys, the author asks people for donations that she bring to the hospital for her child's birthday. But the trip to the NICU for the drop off affects her deeply.
- CD19: Dosing Up on Clomid and Hope (from Donating Hope): The author deals with the absurdity that she has gone from being an egg donor to using Clomid since she doesn't ovulate on her own, though a good session with the punching bag clears her head to bring her the clarity she needs.
- Kindergarten Past, Present & Future (from Bereaved and Blessed): A moving post, written to her three children — two of whom are living and a daughter who died — to mark their experience with kindergarten: past, present, and future.
- Trials and Trails (from A+ Effort): Revisiting a restaurant that was the site of a miscarriage, the author reflects on walking through it now with her daughter and wishing she had known then what her future held.
- It's Okay (from Here We Go Again): A wonderful post from a baby loss mother about how there isn't a single way to process terrible events but instead giving people permission to mourn as they need.
- Growing Pains (from Adventures for Four): The author puts away clothes that her daughter outgrows, wondering what to do with the "what if" pile and whether there will be a child in the future to wear it.
- Never Going Back Again (from Arch Mama): After the author bathes her child for the first time, washing away the last remnants of her daughter's time inside her body, she reflects on the healing from infertility that has taken place though it will always remain part of her story.
- I Refuse to be Grateful for My Infertility (from Inconceivable!): The author writes, "Infertility is many things in my life, but it is not a blessing." A post about how we don't have to feel gratitude or positivity toward the obstacles life places in our path.
- A Letter To MRKH (from MRKH Musings): In an open letter to her uterine anomaly, the author tells her body all the ways she hates it until she comes to a place of love, realizing what has come into her life as the silver lining to that dark cloud.
- Painting Rocks (from Bio Girl): The author talks about how her son tells his aunt over and over again how he loves her and misses her in the unique way a child grieves after a death: by bringing her colours.
- Where'd My Baby Go? (from Family Building with a Twist): A sweet, wistful post about a babyhood gone and with it, the giving away of items no longer needed.
- A Letter to Me (from From IF to When): Now knowing the end of her infertility story, the author goes backwards and writes a letter to herself, four years younger and about to embark on the journey that will bring her through many setbacks but ultimately to her daughter.
- A Mother's Story (from Inklings): Telling the story of the death and birth of her son, Rowan, the author recounts the events in December when she learned that her child had no heartbeat to cradling her son after delivery.
- Redirecting Your Thoughts (from In Due Time): A rallying cry for positivity even in the face of enormous obstacles such as infertility.
- The Bracelet – the One She Never Got to Meet (from We Say IVF They Say FIV): A moving post from the author about losing her mother and gaining a son.
- The Very Bad Time (from Little Chicken Nuggets): A helpful post that every pregnant woman should bookmark in case they need it in the future. The author discusses her personal experience with postpartum depression.
- The Meaning of Hope Part II (from A Single Journey): A beautful tribute to Hope, the author's grandmother. Her name takes on new meaning as the author explains how much this woman meant to her, and how much she will miss her now that she's gone.
- Mind Over What Matters (from Will CarryOn): A frank post about going on medication after the loss of her twins. The author writes, "I should be able to get through this on my own will and determination, right? Wrong."
- The Reason (from Genuine Greavu): Exploring the topic of faith in regards to infertility, the author explains that while she doesn't understand why she is infertile, she believes that she will see G-d's work in dealing with her diagnosis.
- Not Really Alone (from Bébé Suisse): A wonderful post about how it's never too late in a pregnancy to take that step back from anxiety and just enjoy the moments you do have together, realizing the connection and what you always carry with you.
- The Un-Anniversary (from The Brooding Woman): On an unfulfilled wedding anniversary, the author reflects on how she is better off without her ex-husband, and the small silver linings to their situation.
- It's Okay to Not be Okay (from Stupid Broken Eggs ): In a world where no one will admit to their foibles, the author muses on what it means to say she's not okay after the death of a friend, and how different the world would be if we all said aloud that we're not okay.
- Note to My Mom (from BattleFish): On Mother's Day, a daughter writes the mother she lost all the things she was supposed to be here to do, see, and say.
- This Is… (from Kmina's Blog): Capturing a time period of pure happiness to keep in an Internet jar and peek at in years to come so the heart never forgets.
- A Breath of Fresh Air (from My Cheap Version of Therapy): A post about why embracing the happiness of parenting was an important part of the author's healing after infertility.
- Is the Unlived Life Worth Examining? (from The Road Less Travelled): Living childfree after infertility in a world full of children is a constant reminder of the road not taken, but the author reminds us that the road she's on contains wonderful things too.
- My Rose Bush (from Lessons from an Infertile Social Worker): After she literally sets down roots into motherhood, she figuratively sets down roots with a rose bush, a plant that has always symbolized parenting, to mark her first Mother's Day.
- Survivors' Guilt (from Somewhere in the Middle): The author recounts her first Mother's Day as a parent after dreading the day for nine straight years. Surrealness marks this moment of change, from waiting to mothering.
- What's Passed On (from My Path To Mommyhood): Standing in the gluten-free aisle kicks off the author's musings on what we inherit and what she won't get to pass along — good or otherwise. And how the people who carry us and surround us influence us much in the same way as DNA.
- In My Shoes (from Who Shot Down My Stork?): A day in the life of an infertile woman, hour by hour, with a gorgeous ending that captures those moments that you carve out together, holding each other.
- A Rebuttal (from MoJo Working): A rebuttal, point for point, to a hurtful comment that was left on a post explaining why the author doesn't like Mother's Day that goes on to suggest that there is a lot of mothering that is done by non-mothers, and all of that love should be recognized and honoured.
- National Infertility Awareness Week: For Good, Not Griping (from Wee Hermione): A wonderful post for Infertility Awareness Week asking, "Why do healthcare lemonade stands not fill everyone with rage?"
- Forty Eight Hours (from Baking & Babies): The birth story of Kennedy summed up by this line: "After two years of trying, nine months of waiting, and a very long two days of labouring, I was holding my little girl. Nothing else mattered."
- Blessing this Day (from PoemFish: Thoughts from an adoptive lesbian poet mom): A very moving post (be prepared with tissues) about sisterhood and anticipation and loss and blessings. A loving tribute to the author's niece, Gwendolyn, and what this girl who was lost awakened in the author.
- Jimmy Fallon's "Coming Out": Celebrations and Concerns (from Ready To Be a Mom): A thank you to Jimmy Fallon (with a few concerns) for speaking about infertility because as the author states, every time a celebrity uses their platform to talk about it, it brings understanding to the general public.
- What Kindness Looks Like (from My Lady of the Lantern): A post about treating others and herself with kindness, choosing the more gracious road than the otherwise.
- What I Can't Forget (from Kate; Uncensored): While the author believed at one time that certain dates no longer held power, she learned otherwise as they passed. A post about remembering.
- #EMOTIONS (from Mommyhood after Fertility Frustration): After a good birthing experience, the author is blindsided by her trouble with breastfeeding and talks about how she processes that experience.
- Tik Tok Tik Tok 1-1-1 (from While We Were Waiting): A post marking the one year anniversary of starting the adoption process; the hope and the waiting and the dreaming.
- On Acceptance (from Two Adults, One Child): In the peace of an early morning drive, the author remembers her child on her unfulfilled due date with quiet acceptance.
- My Dance Partners (from Can I Get Some Sugar with These Lemons?): Moving from strangers to family, a mother and son figure each other out, and she takes those lessons learned to her next child.
- This Chapter is Closed (from BagMomma): Closing the chapter of her life on infertility, the author beautifully summarizes it with this: "And all those things I gained? I may have lived a lifetime and never found those gifts."
- A Sales Pitch to Our Day 3 Embryos (from It Only Takes One): A note to her embryos, enticing them to keep growing and return to her body in exchange for "total devotion and boundless love."
- Hopeful Mornings (from Waiting to Expand): Every so often, the author lets down her guard and allows herself to hold baby clothes, dreaming.
- Infertile? Don't Work at an Art Gallery (from Baby Makin' ): The author's artistic job brings her close to children, and she wonders if she will ever have a paint-covered child of her own.
- Georgia's Birth – Part IV {Our Baby is Born} (from Breathe Gently): The final installment of her daughter Georgia's birth story, with pictures to boot.
- Nothing (from In Quest of a Binky Moongee): The author finds peace after mourning an arrested cycle that ends without transfer.
- Second Birthday (from Non Sequitur Chica): A post about the two dogs that fill her heart with love, along with really really really cute pictures.
- Taking It Day By Day (from By Lisa, With Love x): Two separate losses invoke two different emotional reactions, and the author catalogues how she is finding herself again.
- Why, Yes, I Would Like to Host a Parasite (from And the Vial Makes Three): Two mothers-to-be-one-day recount how they came to the decision over which one would carry their child.
- Join the Movement: Second Class Infertile (from My Preconceived Notion): For Infertility Awareness Week, the author discusses how age creates a divide (that doesn't need to be there) in the infertility community.
- Family is Everything (from Pail Bloggers): The author talks about her relationship with her child's birth family, explaining why she chooses open adoption.
- When Does TTC Become an Obsession? (from Amateur Nester): At the heart of this post is a question: "At what point do all the treatments, tears, money, and anguish turn into something unhealthy?"
- The Most Important Lesson I Ever Learned (from A Good Mother): Advice that came during one of the worst moments of her life continues to serve the author through some of the best ones.
- Not Just Baby (from Life as Two): An explanation of the far-reaching reality of what it means to live childfree after infertility; both what it is and what it is not.
- Eye of the Storm (from Chossing Grace Today): The author compares grief to the life of a storm: the pounding rain, the moment of calm, and then the emotions spinning around again like heavy winds.
- Our Miracles (from Our Griswold): Though it didn't feel like a short time while she was living it, the author reflects on how lucky she is to now have her twin daughters.
- Journeys: Buddha and Ammo Boxes (from I Can't Whistle): Grief is a life partner in this post about a road trip to bury the past, literally and figuratively.
- Knowing Our Limits; Even When It Hurts (from Where the *Bleep* is Our Stork?): In researching adoption, the author explains that adoption isn't easy and it may not be the right fit for all families.
- My Adoption Backstory and the Epiphany (from An Engineer Becomes a Mom): The author discusses her own past in regards to adoption, and it becomes an explanation for why she chose open adoption for her child.
- This Mother's Day (from A Woman My Age): On Mother's Day, the author reflects on how other women are experiencing this day, from those who are not parents to her child's birth mother.
- My Middle Man (from Parenthood for Me): Capturing a moment of her child's babyhood before he grows into the man the author knows he'll become.
- Waiting Room (from Teach Me to Braid): A post about how the fertility clinic waiting room differs from the regular doctor's office as the author wonders about everyone else's story.
- Surviving Hospital Bed Rest (from Home Grown Love): A helpful post that you may want to bookmark just in case you need it in the future on how to survive hospital bed rest.
- 4 Week Reflections (from Constant in the Darkness): A beautiful post making sense of open adoption where the author admits, "I will always recognize that Moonbeam is also Aurora's daughter, and that this doesn't compromise my position."
- I Can't Help but Wonder Where I'm Bound (from Mine to Command ): A father-daughter dance at a wedding kicks off the author's musings on how life will change when they have a child.
- 3 Weeks and Hot Air Balloons (from Dear Noah): Trying to make sense of losing her son on the one month anniversary after his death and birth.
- My Family and the 21st Chromosome (from Roccie Road): Deciding not to move forward with a CVS, the author explains that they will come to a place of peace if they do face Down syndrome.
- The Exhilarating Tension Between Being and Becoming (from Baby Smiling in Back Seat): The cool, flowing movement of the moon salutation becomes the balance to the author's usual state of pushing herself toward the sun.
- Unsafe (from Desire to Mother): Losing the safety of childfree friends who start to procreate and having a job working with children places the author in a precarious position.
- Over 40 and Few Eggs Left: Case of My Friend Elena.B. (from Get Pregnant After 35: Improving Egg Quality): A post detailing the author's opinion that women should try to improve their own egg quality for six months before turning to donor eggs.
- Never Regret Love (from Catching Our Rainbow): After a loss, a person is going to hurt regardless of what they do to protect themselves. So choose love.
- On Perfectionism (from Em-i-lis): Coming into the knowledge that she is real person, and real people aren't perfect. She writes, "So I am trying to find comfort in being the imperfect self that I truly am, recognizing that though some won't like it, others will."
- A Yellow Jacket (from Hope Floats Among the Cherry Blossoms): The author recounts the emotions she felt seeing her goddaughter in a jacket that she thought her own child might wear one day.
- Casting off the Chains of Infertility: Fertility Diary, The Life of Pi and the Search for Peace (from Silent Sorority): The author speaks about kicking her addiction to fertility treatments and how there needs to be a counterpoint out there to all the hope given by the media.
- On Babies and a Change of Heart (from Princess Burlap): Though her husband once upon a time didn't want children, he has since had a change of heart that fills the author with both hope and questions.
- The Words We Feed Ourselves (from Don't Count Your Eggs): The author points out that while we're extra mindful of the foods we put into our bodies, we're not as mindful of the words we put into our minds in regards to infertility.
- The Dirty Word: A Hobbit-ish Paradigm Shift (from Hobbit-ish Thoughts & Ramblings): A wonderful post about how the limiting viewpoint she was given as a child was discarded when infertility opened her eyes to the world of feminism.
- My Due Date and What I Got Instead (from Aging Baby Maker): During a week when she should be welcoming her child, the author instead recounts the numerous ways her life has changed since her loss.
- I Have A Lot to Learn (from Life As I Know It): A simple conversation with her son about parking spaces sets off a larger bomb of ideas inside the author's head.
- Dear Pregnant Self (from No Good Eggs): A note to her pregnant self reminding her to enjoy this pregnancy and embrace it in its entirety.
- Out of the Closet (from Birds, Bees, and Medicine): After telling some co-workers and her boss about infertility, the author feels a sense of peace; there is no one else she needs to tell right now and nothing she needs to hide.
- It's Not Your Fault (from Persnickety Chickadee): "It's not your fault" is a statement that gets dissected and examined as the author recounts her losses.
- The Great Big Lie About Personhood Legislation (from The Infertility Voice): A rallying cry against personhood bills that limit a person's ability to create their family.
- Three Minutes (from #GoTeamZoll): The ritual of hand washing before entering the NICU becomes a metaphor for how the author's life has changed since the birth of her son.
- On Judgment (from Res Cogitatae): Understanding her priviledge and how we often judge others and fear that we are being judged as we go through the work of parenting.
- Two Years (from A Crack In Everything): A wonderful post on sobriety, why she chose it, and how we can live our lives differently even in the worst of times.
- How Many People Does It Take to Make a Baby? (from Laughing at the I-Word): Awkward moments in family building when the normal two-some to make a baby becomes… ten.
- "If You Don't Have Kids, You Don't Understand." (from No Kidding in NZ): Taking apart the statement "if you don't have kids, you don't understand," the author explains just how much those without children notice even as their own situation goes unprocessed by the other side.
- Breaking Up (from Where Love and Chaos Reign): The author formally says goodbye to infertility, leaving it as a closed chapter in her life that gave her two children but no longer gets to control her emotions.
- We Went for a Walk Last Night (from Something Out of Nothing): The repetition of the words "we went for a walk last night" creates a rhythm through which the author weaves a thread of hope.
- Charmed (from TheStorkDiaries): Choosing tangible reminders for the children she lost, the author would rather have her real babies here than carried around her wrist.
- Mama Is Lost (from Weathering Storms): The Creme de la Creme ends on a touching note, as a mother realizes her child's special needs, longing to hear him call her mama. It captures that feeling of lostness that comes when you realize how much of life is out of your hands.
Past Creme de la Creme Lists
Like what you read? Peruse an old Creme de la Creme list from the past
- The Creme de la Creme of 2012
- The Creme de la Creme of 2011
- The Creme de la Creme of 2010
- The Creme de la Creme of 2009
- The Creme de la Creme of 2008
- The Creme de la Creme of 2007
- The Creme de la Creme of 2006
*I aim for inclusivity, therefore, if you think you belong on this list, you probably do. From the newly-diagnosed to the treatment vets, from those still filling out paperwork to those with completed adoptions, from those who are trying to choose a donor and those parenting DI or DE kids; those who are completely confused on what to do and those who are peacefully–or not peacefully–living child-free. Biological infertility or situational infertility, being a single parent by choice, straight or gay, young or old — this list is about difficulties while family building, pure and simple.
15 comments
- 1 Emily { 01.01.14 at 9:53 am }
What a fantastic list of posts you've compiled, Mel! I can't wait to read through these, and many thanks for including my essay on Perfectionism! Happy New Year!
- 2 Eric Schwartzman { 01.01.14 at 10:06 am }
Mel – Am reading this amazing list. My eyes not being what they used to be are not that great reading on a smartphone. Do any of these Posts touch on donor conception that I can highlight on my DI Dad blog? My apologies. I will look again later when I get to a PC. Regards on this New Year's morning. Eric
- 3 Tiara { 01.01.14 at 11:26 am }
Thank you for compiling this list so meticulously. It is something I enjoy all year long.
- 4 Pamela { 01.01.14 at 1:52 pm }
Happy New Year and thanks, Mel, for compiling! Off to tweet this now…
- 5 Lori Lavender Luz { 01.01.14 at 3:43 pm }
Thank you so much for doing this, Mel. Can't wait to dig in!
I love that you deliver this present to me every New Year's Day.
- 6 Heather { 01.01.14 at 4:40 pm }
My favorite post of the year. It's like smuggling up with a perfect book. 🙂
- 7 Mrs. Gamgee { 01.01.14 at 4:52 pm }
Thanks for all the work you do putting this list together! It's a wonderful gift to all of us…
Happy New Year!
- 8 Mali { 01.01.14 at 5:36 pm }
Great job, AGAIN, Mel! I'm glad to see I managed to squeeze in at the end. (My late entry was due to procrastination – maybe that should be a New Year's resolution. I dunno. I'm gonna think about it!)
Happy New Year and all the best for 2014!
- 9 Erika B. { 01.01.14 at 7:33 pm }
Many thanks for compiling this list every year. I love seeing familiar faces and meeting new friends via this list– thank you for all of your hard work making it happen!!
- 10 Weylin { 01.02.14 at 1:26 am }
Thank you for this list. It helps to steady me on this journey.
- 11 Aerotropolitan Comitissa { 01.02.14 at 2:36 am }
Great list, Mel. I'm having a blog retrospective fest at the moment – a lot of people have spent the end of the year digging through their archives and it's a great idea to unearth these posts.
- 12 Katherine A { 01.02.14 at 10:50 am }
Thank you for the wonderful list…I am enjoying reading through it so much! I really appreciate all the work you have put into making this happen.
- 13 Katie { 01.02.14 at 12:35 pm }
Thank you so much for doing this every year for our community, Mel. xo
- 14 Turia { 01.03.14 at 7:59 am }
Thank you so much, Mel, for doing this. I've bookmarked the page and look forward to eventually reading all the posts.
- 15 sim { 01.03.14 at 4:46 pm }
Thank you for this list


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We need your costume ideas for World Book Day(135 Posts)
Yes, we need your hot tips for costumes for World Book Day. Have you put together an outfit for your child that went down a storm or do you struggle to find anything within your budget if you can't sew a stitch?
my dd is doing winnie the witch too. ds went as horrid henry one year (not v convincingly!)
DS - This Year - Tom from Tom's midnight Garden (so stripey Pj's and a dressing gown) last Year - The Golden Compass from the Golden Compass - he made it from a large cardboard box and we made shoulder straps - he really enjoyed making it and it was unique. He was 8 at the time.
my dd wanted to go as a unicorn - from some unicorn book she has, but I refused because we had only a few days notice from the school that they were to dress up, so she went as her favourite greek goddess from the Odyssey - Athena, it was pretty easy to alter an old night gown, and dh and I were close to divorce whilst constructing a helmet, from silver card I had purchased the day before the event, she had a broom shaft staff of wisdom and a cardboard shield dh and dd made with an owl painted on it - she won a prize, which was a book she,very ungratefully, pointed out that she already had at home
ds at nursery went as an owl, from the owl and the pussy cat one year, we used an old t-shirt and some old material for wings, he took a wee pea green boat and a ukelele as his small guitar.... and I was the pussy cat (because parents were asked to dress up too, I wish I had forgotten that)
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Charlotte's Web, black trousers, black tee long sleeved Tee shirt, with four extra arms sewn on (made out of rolled black felt, it was quite stiff and easy to shape into legs) these were linked by elastic to eachother and then around the wrists. I also made eight eyes on a head band, black pom poms with white felt circles and little wobbly eyes on top! This was more successful than any bought costume or more tricky leopard or tiger suits I've made!!
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Dd going as puss in boots this year, Ds wants to go as dumbledore! so I'm searching for a white wig and beard.
Other years we've had white witch, peter from lion witch and the wardrobe. Harry potter. Cat in the hat.
God I'm so utterly useless at this sort of stuff. I was going to send my twins as two pirates from Pirate Dinosaurs, but where or where do I get a pirate outfit from now that Woolies has closed down!
You can have all of my ideas - DS's school are not dressing up - Head has too much empathy with hassled mothers - but I like making costumes (maybe not quite as much as Califrau but she has lots of random American excuses to do it) - give me a theme and I am away (all night, generally, since I have no time otherwise).
I made DS a fab Captain Patch (The Night Pirates) a couple of years ago - women's size 8 red cord jacket from jumble sale heavily 'customised', leggings with patches sewn on, crossed belts and a cowboy hat stapled to make a tricorn (with patches of course). And boots with turnover tops. It's available for hire .
I like this stuff. I am certifiable, I know, but would someone like to lend me a DC to dress up ?
Pirate costumes are simple; you don't need to buy one! Rolled up jeans, a stripey t-shirt, a bandana, draw on a beard, sorted. Can go further with a homemade sword, eye patch, parrot etc if you want.
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stealthsquiggle - stick an advert up a discreet distance from a school that is still in thrall to this event, and watch yourself get inundated with responses! You may have a business on your hands there...
There now, Califrau - how very dare your DS's opt for store-bought costumes ? Do you want to go into business or are you too busy making banners ?
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oooh I am soooo excited about WBD
We have the Mr Men and Little Miss theme to work from with our own interpretation of the character and I have to dress up too!!
DS1 is Mr Funny.
He is wearing a size 22 lime tshirt from Peacocks (£1) with lime green legwarmers (£1), yellow washing up gloves and DH has made him a big yellow hat with a flower sticking out of it. He is going to carry 2 joke books as well.
DS2 is Mr Tickle.
He is wearing a huge orange tshirt (Charity Shop £3!) and I found some long orangey feather thing from the market for his arms. I cut out 2 orange hands from cardboard and put it all together and a little blue hat which we made today.
I am going as Little Miss Contrary.
Black thermals. Huge red/orange pashmina pinned all over me, yellow curly wig and glasses.
LOL!! How sad that I cannot wait for next Friday!!
My DS went as Twoflower from Sir Terry Pratchett's 'Colour of Magic'.
Hawian -type shirt with chinese dragons on it, 'Howard' glasses free from the Halifax, an old exercise book with prases in Bes Palargic and english translations written in it and some large gold card discs that I had helped to decorate as coins. I think he was 10 at the time and it was all stuff we had in the house.
I couldn't even make a cardboard hat to be honest . Have just purchased pirate outfit on ebay I'm ashamed to say. Trouble is if I don't I will just procrastinate and then the evil day will arrive and guess what? No costume, tears and recriminations all round! Unbelievably feeble....
ds1 - in year two at the time and cool for school, went as 'The gingerbread man' (horrid henry and co had been banned ) in brown top and trousers, big black cardboard buttons stuck on and black face paint on his nose and around his eyes; also with a banner proclaiming "You can't catch me - I'm a gingerbread man!"
oh, and a box of mini gingerbread men in case anyone / fox did catch him!!!
Last year my oldest went as Tracey Beaker, and the youngest went as little miss muffet, this year all the children are going to be pirates, which hasn't gone down to well with my 2 girls !!!
What did you do for Tracey Beaker, please? [not that I think DD will be diverted from the impossible Toto]
my dd won a world book day competition when i dressed her as the illustrated mum
hippyish outfit and tattoos easy!
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DS1 is going to be Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III from the Cressida Cowl books.
I have bought a viking helmet from ebay, I am making him a 'fur' gilet, he can wear his roman tunic from last year and one of my leather belts round his middle. I might even lend him my large pewter celtic design brooch. (He will be wearing trousers too).
DS2 is going as fantastic Mr Fox as he was a fox for Percy the Park keeper Day last term and I knitted him a fox's tail with a bit of white fun fur at the end. I made him some ears by sticking the wool onto pieces of card. Having made that I intend to get some more use out of it!!
DS1 has been Charlie Bucket before now which is really easy - just get some old clothes, preferably too small, sew on some rough patches of fabric and make a golden ticket to cart around all day. I even typed the words out from the book to stick on it although it isn't necessary.
We live next to the school and looking out of the window on WBD all you can see are scores of little girls dressed up in Disney Cinderella dresses and boys in Harry Potter capes. Never send your child as either!!!
DS2's infant school have come up with a brilliant idea for the day.
They've come up with a "theme" of "Bedtime Stories" - and so all the children will be going to school in their PJ's - armed with favourite bedtime story and/or favourite teddy bear.
Witch outfit with hair plaited and a bow on end, carrying wand and broomstick with cut out pictures of a cat, dog, frog, green parrot.
Room on the Broom, Julia Donaldson.
Last year did mouse outfit (bought sadly) for the Gruffalo.
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I've got the same question as Sylvain asked: > Writing Modes > ------------- > : > sylvaing: I would like to see use cases that can be understood by me and > the rest of the group. > szilles: we are trying to define the default behavior. > sylvaing: I would like to see the requirements and use cases. They would > be helpful. > * ChrisL suggests sylvain express that in email > szilles: the original requirements came from Michel. I saw negative responses to the bidi-style resolution fantasai wrote[1], but from what I understood by reading the e-mail, she herself is against that too. She came up with the proposal because there was a request to improve the current 'text-orientation: upright'[2] behavior, correct? I'm not a fan of bidi-style resolution either, but before that, what I don't understand is why the current ED needs revised. John said that the Figure 7 of the spec[3] has both upright "2011" and sideways "2011". But as Steve said, this can be solved by the distinction of ASCII and full-width code points today. While I agree that it's nice if CSS can invent a new method to do this without relying on full-width code points, it's an advanced feature. What I want to writing-modes level 3 is just a good default behavior, and I'd like it be close to what Windows and MacOS X Lion[4] does today. That gives consistent behavior with other applications, and matches to what native East Asians have been used to. Within the proposals currently discussed -- the current ED, surrounding characters, bidi-style resolution, script markup -- I think the current ED is the closest to the goal. It is also the closest to the original requirements came from Michel if I understand that correctly. So, if we were going to discuss how to improve 'text-orientation: upright' behavior, I'd like to know what use cases we're trying to solve. If the use case is advanced enough to punt to level 4, I'd like to keep the one defined in the current ED. I appreciate discussions to make it clearer to readers and easier to read, but I don't want advanced features. We all know a lot of people are waiting for this spec to be done, right? [1] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2011Jul/0004.html [2] http://dev.w3.org/csswg/css3-writing-modes/#text-orientation [3] http://dev.w3.org/csswg/css3-writing-modes/#fig-mac [4] http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/11/04/08/inside_mac_os_x_10_7_lion_textedit_adds_vertical_layout_graphical_toolbar.html Regards, KojiReceived on Thursday, 14 July 2011 04:37:24 UTC
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Kelly's second-round score: Even-par 72.
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Position: Kelly (3-under 141) is tied for 51st – nine strokes behind leader Jason Dufner (132). Putnam (1-under 143) missed the cut by one shot.
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Havok: All Next-Gen Games Should Have Destructible Environments
Let me preface this story with a little walk down memory lane-
Those who are old enough will remember the original Red Faction, which launched on the PS2 back in 2001. The game boasted what was called "GeoMod Technology," in that any part of the environment could be blasted away with explosives. This often didn't lead anywhere, and not every wall could be blasted, but it was a really cool feature.
Now, perhaps we could look at Minecraft, where of course everything is destructible as that's essentially the point. However, there are still very few games were our surroundings include a lot of destructible objects, and the maker of Havok Physics says this will change in the new generation. It kinda has to.
In speaking to GamesIndustry International, Havok's Andrew Bowell said destruction will be a key element in games for the new consoles:
"The way that ragdolls became the last generation thing and everything had to be ragdolls, we reckon next generation, everything's going to have to be destructible. It will be no longer acceptable to walk into a room where you can't punch a hole in the wall or break a table and see it splinter."
You've seen Havok Physics on display in games like Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception, L.A. Noire, and the Halo games. Those games had virtually nothing in the way of destructible environments, by the way.
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Wednesday, May 01, 2013 @ 12:31:47 PM
It just helps with tension and immersion when environments can be broken down. It's just unreasonable that an explosion isn't going to cause any damage to a bookshelf etc.
Wednesday, May 01, 2013 @ 12:46:01 PM
Wednesday, May 01, 2013 @ 2:38:02 PM
Wednesday, May 01, 2013 @ 1:13:16 PM
1) at least *moves* when it is logical that they should. No more tables, chairs, pots and pans welded to the ground.
2) stays where it landed - no more "resets" to original locations.
That's really all I ask when it comes to better physics in games. And now, finally, this is all very doable. No more excuses.
Wednesday, May 01, 2013 @ 6:08:24 PM
This will do nothing but bring a more immersive experience to the gaming world, which developers will have new creative ways/tools to flesh out their stories. I am really looking forward to this.
Wednesday, May 01, 2013 @ 7:54:36 PM
Of course, would be great to see more destruction (and better physics), but only where it's appropriate :).
Wednesday, May 01, 2013 @ 8:26:41 PM
Back to your earlier point another genre that may stay away from destructible enviroments would be a lot of RPGs as many of them just simply won't need them, however some will still benefit from them greatly, one example would be the Fallout series.
Friday, May 03, 2013 @ 7:04:56 PM
Thursday, May 02, 2013 @ 5:40:04 AM
But in Crysis 2, I tried to write in the wall using bullet holes and it will suddenly disappeared in just a few moments.
And in Uncharted, I remember they used it pretty well like when you shoot the pillars it will collapse and will damaged things above it.
My point is it can already be done this gen if developers wishes to do so. So don't act like it can't be done in the PS3, the advantage of PS4 is that it can be done in a much more larger scale with all that RAM. What I hope for is that the developers should now create amazing water graphics with realistic physics because if they can achieved that then the rest is pretty easy. Cause if they can't top what Naughty Dog has done in the PS3 in terms of physics, what the hell are they doing with that easy to develop PS4 if only a few of them will push it to the limit.
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Thursday, May 02, 2013 @ 8:23:10 AM
some games need them, some dont so those resources would be better put towards things that are needed.
in shooters though destructible environments should of been standard years ago!
one thing that made me so sad red factions gone the way of the dodo, it really did have THE best destruction system ever put into a game!
DICE and FB2 really have no chance competing with geo mod, red faction armageddon was da bomb in the destruction department!
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ON THE GULF OF MEXICO — Even the people who make their living off the seafood-rich waters of Louisiana's St. Bernard Parish have a hard time swallowing the government's assurances that fish harvested in the shallow, muddy waters just offshore must be safe to eat because they don't smell too bad.
Fresh splotches of chocolate-colored crude, probably globules broken apart by toxic chemical dispersants sprayed by BP with government approval, still wash up almost daily on protective boom and in marshes in reopened fishing grounds east of the Mississippi River.
When shrimp season opens in a couple of weeks and Rusty Graybill drags his nets across the mucky bottom, he worries that he'll also collect traces of oil and dispersants – and that even if his catch doesn't smell, buyers and consumers will turn up their noses.
"If I put fish in a barrel of water and poured oil and Dove detergent over that, and mixed it up, would you eat that fish?" asked Graybill, a 28-year-old commercial oyster, blue crab and shrimp angler who grew up fishing the marshes of St. Bernard. "I wouldn't feed it to you or my family. I'm afraid someone's going to get sick."
Louisiana wildlife regulators on Friday reopened state-controlled waters east of the Mississippi to harvesting of shrimp and "fin fish" such as redfish, mullet and trout. Smell tests on dozens of specimens from the area revealed barely traceable amounts of toxins, the federal Food and Drug Administration said.
Experts say smell tests may sound silly but are a proven technique that saves time and money. The state has been testing fish tissue for oil since May but has not found it in amounts considered unsafe. Oil has compounds that have been linked to cancer, but experts say they break down in the body and are excreted, so there's little chance of getting cancer from tainted seafood even if people ate it years.
Smell tests are the only way to check fish for chemical dispersants, though FDA spokeswoman Meghan Scott said federal scientists are developing a tissue test. It's not clear when it will be ready.
The dispersants can kill incubating sea life, experts say, though its long-term effects are unknown. In humans, long-term exposure can cause central nervous system problems or damage blood, kidneys or livers, according to the Centers For Disease Control and Prevention. But the Environmental Protection Agency says the dispersants used in the Gulf have low toxicity in humans, meaning the public health risk is low.
Congressional investigators said over the weekend that the Coast Guard routinely approved BP requests to use thousands of gallons of dispersant a day despite a federal directive to cut its use.
BP chief operating officer Doug Suttles took reporters on a boat tour of beaches and marshes on Sunday and said "they wouldn't open these waters … if it wasn't safe to eat the fish." He said he would eat Gulf seafood and "would serve it to my family."
Like most fishermen in St. Bernard, the bulk of Graybill's income comes from oysters, blue crab and shrimp. The first two are still off limits, and the shrimp season doesn't start for two weeks. Graybill had been earning money from BP under the "Vessels of Opportunity" program allowing idled fishing vessels to help with cleanup work, but that program was scaled back Thursday.
Signs that anglers weren't jumping back into the waters abounded Saturday, especially at the annual Blessing of the Boats in Shell Beach, Hopedale and Delacroix, where the Rev. John Arnone of St. Bernard Catholic Church blessed far fewer than usual.
As Graybill maneuvered his light blue shrimp trawler Saturday near Comfort Island, which borders the open fishing grounds in Chandeleur Sound, fresh globs of oil glistened in the midday sun, staining the orange and yellow boom protecting the island. A dozen or so brown pelicans lazed on the oily boom.
Just the perception that he'll be pulling in oily shrimp, let alone that it might really happen, can greatly reduce the price he can get, he said.
"They capped the well, they stopped the oil, so now they're trying to hurry up and get us back working to where they can say everything's fine when it's not," he said. "It's not fine."
Giving the OK to reopen one closed fishery does not mean it couldn't be closed again if more oil shows up, FDA Commissioner Dr. Margaret Hamburg said Friday.
"At the moment this is good news," she said after the reopening announcement. "But we have to remain vigilant."
Across the street from where Graybill usually delivers his catch, Dawn Nunez's family has for 30 years operated a wholesale business that sells shrimp to restaurants and seafood processors. She worries no one will want to the local catch.
It's absurd that the government is reopening the fishery when so many doubts linger, she said.
"It's nothing but a PR move," she said. "It's going to take years to know what damage they've done. It's just killed us all."
And relying only on a smell test stinks, said Ryan Lambert, 52, a charter fishing captain who sometimes takes his clients out in the waters that just reopened. Fishing shouldn't resume, he said, until more data exist and better dispersant testing is devised.
"I have no confidence in their testing methods," Lambert said.
"But BP has just wanted to push, push, push to get us back fishing. You can't hurry it and then find something bad later," he said. "You can only cry wolf so many times before (customers) decide they aren't coming back."


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Don't be shy, he is very approachable. There's a good chance he'll approach you first, as he did me. "Hello, Friendly Biker!" he called out, gliding up next to me as I was locking up my trusty steed in front of Portland Cutlery.
Normally such a greeting would have activated my Weirdo-Repellant Forcefield, but though his degree of friendliness was a little alarming, his energy was wholesome and intriguing. He immediately pointed to the license plate of a parked car. "Do you see that license plate?" he asked me. "Yes," I replied. "Do you see that metal frame around it that is obscuring part of the state name?" Clearly he saw this as a serious problem, and I began to harbor serious doubts about him again. "I can still plainly make out the numbers," I argued. "But do you see what's written on the frame?" he asked. "You mean [bla-bla] Auto Dealers?" I asked, mystified about what he was getting at. "YES!!" he exclaimed. "And do you know how much that license plate weighs?" he further inquired. "Not off the top of my head," I admitted. And at that point a little bell began to ring.
Yes, I'd heard of this guy. He was in the paper a few years ago. He has done the math, literally the physics, and has figured out how much extra petroleum is being consumed to transport this extra pound of steel attached to most cars. His campaign is to convince every driver to remove the metal frame. But he goes further. What other extra weight are we carrying around? That pesky shirt-label tag poking you in the back of the neck? Three grams, right there. He convinced me to remove my helmet so that he could point out all the "Bell" logos attached and inform me that together they weighed three grams too, and I'd be doing the salmon a big favor to remove them all. The more weight we carry aound, the more oxygen we consume, and the less oxygen remains for the salmon.
He interrupted himself more than once to make a snakey hand motion to a passing cyclist and issue a friendly call-out. "That's the Salmon Wave," he explained to me. "Would you like to learn it?" he then asked, after a slight pause. I searched my mind for the courteous way to respond when asked if one wants to learn the salmon-wave, but turned up nothing. It's an area in which my mother was amiss in her training.
"Oh. Um....I guess so. Sure…"
After a little instruction he told me that I could become an official Salmon Wave Trainer by simply teaching it to two others that same day. Then, as a trainer, I should teach it to two people a day for the rest of my life.
I'm not finished, he had a lot more to offer – such as detailed instructions for how to fashion a cardboard salmon for your helmet out of a used worn-out manila file folder headed for the recycling bin. He has been wearing the same one since 2002. (I forgot to ask him how much it weighed.) He kindly allowed me to take his picture, which I will post later this evening. I said I'd like to resume our conversation at another time, maybe review the Salmon-Wave before committing myself for life, and go over his ideas again, take notes next time. He offered his email address, and took out half a pen to write it down for me, the refill protruding starkly from the barrel – no need to schlep around the weight of the top half of a pen and consume that much extra oxygen that the salmon could be using.
And he rode off into the morning sunlight, his backpack bulging with scrap metal and dead batteries and other trash he collects daily around the city and transports to its proper recycling facility. Goodbye Salmon Man – we shall meet again.


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Philips 47PFL6704D Review – Flat panel 1080p HDTV
Philips is one among the veteran brand in electronics gadget industry. Excellent and quick customer service is available at your own pace from anywhere in the world. The Philips 47PFL6704D 47" LCD HDTV delivers light blacks to avoid the screen reflection while displaying deep black colors. Matte screen makes it a better choice for brighter areas in your home. There is no pain in calibrating the display as most optimized automatic calibration settings are available. Out of the six different color settings, five are fully automatic. One personal color scheme and aspect settings with options for changing the picture scaling create more freedom from your part.
The Philips 47PFL6704D HDTV has capability to go well with wide 16:9 aspect ratio. Higher refresh rate of 120Hz makes it a good choice for watching sports movies. The sleek design creates visual impact from anywhere in your home and matches with wall mounting background. Lower value for viewing angle may repel some buyers as Philips try to hide it in general specifications. Dynamic contrast ratio of 50,000:1 matches all expectations providing deep contrast pictures with millions of color combinations. Inbuilt tuner provides quick and readymade signal reception from anywhere. Motion blur & judder are eliminated in 47PFL670D.
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AUGUSTA, Ga. - Mr. Leonard Price Sutton, 93, entered into rest on Saturday, September 20, 2003 at Doctors Hospital. Graveside services will be held on Tuesday, September 23, 2003 at 3 p.m. at Pinecrest Cemetery in Mobile, Ala. Mr. Sutton, a 36-year resident of Augusta, was the final surviving child of eight children born to Henry Elbert and Mary Price Sutton of Tuscaloosa County, Alabama. He grew up and worked on the family farm. In 1926, he began his long career in papermaking as a machine sixth hand at the EZ Opener Bag Co. in Braithwaite, La. Later he returned to Tuscaloosa and worked for Gulf States Paper Co. for several years. In 1936, he moved his family to Port St. Joe, Fla., and began a career of 15 years with the St. Joe Paper Co. at their new mill. Throughout WWII, he worked as a shift foreman and served as chairman for the Gulf County, Fla. War bond drive. After the war, he served multiple terms on the Gulf County School Board, and was an active booster of Port St. Joe High School. Over the years, he worked for several papermaking companies, including Scott Paper in Mobile, Ala. He was highly regarded for his technical and troubleshooting skills. In 1975, he ended his formal career as division production manager for Continental Can Co. After retirement, he remained active in business as a consultant for Patchen, Mingledorff and Assoc. Engineers in Augusta. Throughout his long career, he made many lifelong friends in the paper industry. He spent his final years as a devoted caretaker for his wife, Gertrude. He was affiliated with many organizations; the International Brotherhood of Papermakers, the Kiwanis Club, the Paper Industry Management Assoc., and T.A.P.P.I. He was an alumni of Western Michigan University and a Baptist. He is survived by a son, Dr. Elbert W. Sutton of Milton, Fla., seven grandchildren and many great- grandchildren. In Augusta, he is survived by a devoted grandson, Robert Young; and two great-granddaughters, Sarah Aileen Young and Heather Marie Young. He also leaves behind his caring and loving friends and neighbors, Ernestine and Frank Howard, Ethel Story; and his very dear friend, Virginia Beasley. He was preceded in death by his beloved wife of 70 years, Gertrude; his daughter, Barbara Merita Nicholas; and grandchildren, Stacey Sutton and Martin Nicholas. The family will receive friends at the funeral home on Sunday afternoon from 5:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. If so desired, memorials may be made to the Augusta Rescue Mission, 526 Walker Street, Augusta, GA 30901. Platts Funeral Home, 721 Crawford Avenue, 733-3636. Sign the guestbook at AugustaChronicle.com
The Augusta Chronicle September 21, 2003
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A single week can make a huge difference in the impact of an earnings announcement. How so? Well, Apple's first quarter earnings were slammed because, in large part, their earnings were close to flat on a year-to-year basis. However, as Philip Elmer-DeWitt points out, Apple's first quarter this fiscal year was one week shorter (12 weeks total) than last year's first quarter (13 weeks total). The additional week last year was due to the aggregate effect of leap days that Apple aggregates into the first quarter every few years.
A direct comparison quarter-to-quarter, ignoring the addition week in the prior quarter does in fact show relatively flat profitability. However if on compares each quarter on a weekly basis (that is, total numbers for the quarter divided by the number of weeks in each quarter) on can calculate weekly year-over-year growth.
And here is a chart that does so:
Thus, on a weekly basis, income was up nearly 8%, and the unit sales are much higher as well. For the quarter, average income of the S&P 500 was less than 4%.
Disclosure: I am long AAPL.


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The Plight of the Migrants
Western tanager. Courtesy USFWS.
This feature was first published in the 2009 Wilderness Magazine. To receive the annual magazine and quarterly newsletters from The Wilderness Society, become a member today!
Writer David S. Wilcove is a professor of ecology, evolutionary biology, and public affairs at Princeton University and the author of No Way Home: The Decline of the World's Great Animal Migrations.
By David S. Wilcove
Sometime in early August, during one of the first chilly nights of the season in Yellowstone National Park, a western tanager will awaken, fly to the top of a lodgepole pine tree, and launch itself into the ink-black sky, thereby beginning the first leg of its annual migration to its winter quarters in western Mexico. In March, as snow piles up inside Yellowstone, herds of bison will leave the park in search of accessible forage.
Yellowstone National Park, like virtually all of our public lands, is filled with migratory animals, including birds, mammals, fish, and insects, a diverse array of creatures employing a diverse array of navigational tricks to reach destinations across the West and across the hemisphere. These animals are, for the most part, driven by opportunism. They take advantage of abundant food and other resources that are present in Yellowstone for only a portion of the year. For the western tanager, the park's coniferous forests offer a smorgasbord of insects during the spring and summer, more than enough to raise a family. But once the cold weather sets in and the insects disappear, tanagers and other birds must find somewhere else to spend the winter. Similarly, Yellowstone's lush meadows and grasslands can sustain thousands of bison and elk during the warm months, but heavy snow may eventually render that food inaccessible, forcing them to move to lower elevations inside and outside the park.
In addition to opportunism, one other characteristic unites Yellowstone's diverse migrants: vulnerability. Logging and farming are destroying the montane forests of Mexico and Central America where western tanagers (and many other birds from the western U.S. and Canada) seek refuge during the winter. The fragile riparian woodlands that serve as crucial rest and refueling stops for them as they pass through the deserts of the Southwest are being degraded by overgrazing and development, while obstacles and dangers of all sorts—from skyscrapers to feral cats—have made the entire route more dangerous.
For bison, the primary enemies are a tiny bacterium and a lot of intolerance. The bacterium Brucella abortus was brought into the U.S. via imported cattle from Europe, and it spread to Yellowstone's bison a century ago. Brucellosis (as the disease is called) has little effect on bison. Ranchers, however, detest it because it causes some of their cows to abort their fetuses and reduce their milk production. Fear of brucellosis has made Montana's politicians and agriculture officials determined to keep Yellowstone's bison away from Montana's cattle. Unfortunately, a small number of ranchers continue to graze livestock on public and private lands adjacent to the park. So when bison leave the park, as often happens during harsh winters, state and federal officials first try to chase them back, using helicopters, snowmobiles, off-road vehicles, and people on horseback. Those that refuse to return are killed.
Nor are bison the only big mammals in trouble in Yellowstone. Biologist Joel Berger has estimated that over half of the elk migratory routes and three-quarters of the pronghorn routes in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem have been destroyed by residential development, oil and gas exploration, and the building of fences and other barriers.
Across the country and across the world, migratory animals are declining as their journeys become increasingly treacherous. This loss is not only aesthetic but ecological. Birds, for example, help to keep populations of defoliating insects in check, thereby reducing damage to our forests and croplands. Bison increase the productivity of grasslands by consuming the older, rank forage and by redistributing nutrients via their dung, all of which benefits other plants and animals, including pronghorn, prairie dogs, and grassland birds. Migratory salmon sustain grizzly bears, bald eagles, and other animals. The list goes on.
"No man is an island, entire of itself," proclaimed the poet John Donne. The same holds true for our national parks, national forests, wildlife refuges, and other public lands. The well-being of many of the animals found on our public lands depends greatly on what happens on adjacent lands or even in distant countries. Saving these animals will require greater coordination among individuals, agencies, and nations, combined with a commitment to protecting them while they are still common. Migration is fundamentally a phenomenon of abundance. If we wait until these species are close to extinction, we will have lost both the glory and the ecological value of migration.
Western tanagers head south after a summer of feasting on insects in the Northern Rockies, some flying as far south as Mexico. Courtesy USFWS.
Evidence suggests that over half of the elk migratory routes and three-quarters of the pronghorn routes in the Greater Yellostone Ecosystem have been destroyed by residential development, oil and gas exploration, and the building of fences and other barriers. Courtesy BLM.


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Dickinson Dees has merged with York-based corporate boutique Philip Ashworth & Co, creating the North East giant's first base in Yorkshire.
The merged firm will be operational from February 1 next year.
The existing Ashworth & Co partners, Philip Ashworth and Christian Rogers, and their team of 10 assistants will form the nucleus of the new office.
Dickinson Dees' managing partner Neil Braithwaite explained: "Yorkshire is a big market and we have been developing our business there for some time. We wanted to continue growing in the way we have in the past and in a sustainable way, but not to endanger out identity in the way that some firms have when they have opened second or third offices."
Dickinson Dees' focus on York is an alternative approach to the Yorkshire market to that taken by local rivals such as Watson Burton, which have chosen to enter it via ultra-competitive Leeds.
Philip Ashworth managing partner Christina Rogers said in a statement: "Joining Dickinson Dees gives us the opportunity to develop a quality of legal service not previously experienced in Yorkshire outside of Leeds."
Dickinson Dees will initially be based in Philip Ashworth & Co's existing offices, but is already a lease of purpose-built office accommodation in York.


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Teenagers encouraged to make education a priority
CLACK: Inspire youth to raise academic standards
Published 12:00 am, Tuesday, February 1, 2011
Cupid was getting his groove on at the Alamo Convocation Center and teenagers were riding that groove well.
Toward the end of Saturday's first San Antonio's Rock Your Future Gen Tx Fest, The Cupid Shuffle exploded over the sound system and a few hundred of the estimated 3,000 ninth graders in attendance rushed to fill the basketball court and dance in spectacular harmony.
"New Cupid, time for a change
Cupid shuffle, Cupid Shuffle
Down, down, do your dance, do your dance
Down, down, do your dance, do your dance."
Sitting in the bleachers, Al Silva laughed and looked as if he was tempted to hit the floor and join the kids and the adults dancing along with them, including former city councilman and current president and CEO of the Greater San Antonio Chamber of Commerce Richard Perez.
"This is great!" said Silva, chief operating officer of Labatt Food Service and chairman of the Generation TX board. "But next year, we need to fill this place."
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This year wasn't bad. New Cupid, time for a change? New generation, time for a change, one in which going to college isn't a fantasy but a sure path for those who want it and who embrace the planning and work to navigate that path.
Generation TX is a statewide grass-roots crusade to inspire and challenge students and their families of not only the importance of going to college but also the accessibility of college. Every school district in San Antonio is targeted. The local Gen TX board, along with the P-16 Plus Council initiated under Mayor Phil Hardberger and headed by Bartell Zachry and Mayor Julián Castro's Café College, is a vigorous assault on complacency, low expectations, harnessed dreams and unfulfilled potential.
Saturday's launch of Gen TX was a pep rally for academics, a celebration of intellectual prowess and achievement. The music was hip-hop, Tejano, merengue, country and rock and was the soundtrack to a continuous message trumpeting the importance of education.
"If you're going to go to college, make some noise!" the emcee exhorted repeatedly and, repeatedly, the students would shout out with gusto. There was a drumline competition (won by Brackenridge High School) and a cheerleading contest (won by Holmes High School).
Up on the rafters hung banners heralding championships won by athletes generations ago. In the bleachers was a new generation who, if education is truly cherished, may one day see banners hanging that acclaim the championships won in math, sciences, forensics and writing; a generation in which decorated letter jackets won and worn by academic superstars and all-stars are as numerous as those won on fields, courts and diamonds.
Gen TX and Saturday's "Rock Your Future" are gaze-lifters. They encourage young people to look beyond the narrow realties and expectations of their lives now and to lift their gaze to the future they want to imagine, to lift their gaze beyond today and into tomorrow.
Every day in school, each night studying can't be a pep rally of dance music and cheers. But the only way this city will change a culture that deceives its young into not believing in their brains and their futures is for the young, their families, their schools, their community and their business and political leaders to not only supremely value education but to embrace its unlimited promise.
On Saturday, most of the students sat in sections A to F. For the rest of their school years we want them to move and remain in A and B territory. The Cupid Shuffle instructs:
"To the right, to the right, to the right, to the right,
To the left, to the left, to the left, to the left,
Now kick, now kick, now kick, now kick."
OK, a great dance song but not the most incisive lyrics. Still, if we inspire our youth to raise their academic game and kick it into another level once those college admission letters begin rolling in from the right, to the right and from the left, to the left, we'll all be dancing.
Cary Clack's column appears Sundays, Tuesdays and Thursdays. To leave him a message, call 210-250-3486 or e-mail him at email@example.com.


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Magners League, We Will Not Forget You This YearSeptember 4, 2008
Brian O'Driscoll, Shane Williams, Ryan Jones, Paul O'Connell, Chris Paterson: What do they all have in common?
1. They are all international rugby players.
2. They all play for Celtic Nations.
3. They all should be on the plane to South Africa for the Lions tour.
4. They all will be aiming to lift the Heineken Cup.
These are all good common traits, but the one that often gets lost in the post is that they all play their club rugby, their bread and butter so to speak, in the Magners League.
The Magners League does suffer slightly from the huge popularity of the Guinness Premiership and will begin the year in its shadow as the competition kicks off on Friday Sept. 5.
A Friday night. And why is that? Largely because of the huge viewing figures that the Guinness Premiership draws in and the hype that surrounds the season curtain raiser at Twickenham.
However, bearing in mind that all Irish, Scottish, and Welsh eyes are going to be on the proceedings that play out on Friday evenings, what does this much overlooked competition have to offer?
Much like the Guinness Premiership, the revolving doors at the clubs throughout the Magners League have seen players change hands in preparation for the new season.
The influx of Southern Hemisphere players such as CJ Van der Linde at reigning champions Leinster, BJ Botha at Ulster, and Kees Meeuws at the Llanelli Scarlets have complemented the continuing development of home-grown Celtic talent.
However, in addition to this influx of foreigners, the Magners League has also drawn its prodigal sons back to their homelands.
These include players such as Chris Paterson, whose versatility proved to be his undoing at Gloucester; Jim Hamilton, who has moved to Edinburgh Gunners from Leicester Tigers in order to boost his Scotland chances; and Ian Humphreys, who moves to his home province of Ulster from Leicester to take up the mantle that his brother David shouldered for many years at Ravenhill.
All eyes this season will be on the resurgent champions Leinster, who begin their defence against a dogged Cardiff at the famous Arms Park. Michael Cheika has bitten the bullet and freed the mercurial Brian O'Driscoll from the strains of captaining Leinster in an attempt to unleash his lethal midfield dynamo—all eyes will be on BOD.
If he recaptures that golden form, then the future looks rosy for Ireland.
Of the other Irish teams, Munster are the team to watch. The reigning Heineken Cup champions have seen limited player movement over the summer, although the key change at Thomond Park has been the departure of Declan Kidney to take over the reigns for the Irish national team.
Munster will be battling it out at the business end of the season, though traditionally they tend to become preoccupied with the closing stages of something called the Heineken Cup…?
Ulster, on the other hand, have had little to worry about in that area since their victory in 1998. The last few years have been hard to take for Ulster fans, as the "fortress Ravenhill" reputation has slipped.
However, with emerging Irish prospects such as Darren Cave and David Pollock stepping up, coupled with already established players such as Andrew Trimble and Paddy Wallace, the future looks bright for Matt Williams' side.
The loss of back-row tyros Neil McMillan, Neil Best, and Roger Wilson, coupled with the loss of players like Justin Harrison, David Humphreys, Simon Best, and Kevin Maggs has prompted a lot of recruitment during the summer at Ravenhill. If this new team clicks, Ulster could be the surprise package of the Magners League this season.
The final Irish contingent—Connacht—have long been seen as just the development side of Irish rugby. However, with a number of impressive victories last season, Connacht will be looking to finally hoist themselves off of the foot of the table, and challenge for that elusive third Irish Heineken Cup spot.
The Scottish provinces traditionally seem to suffer from a lack of strength in depth in the Magners League as so many players embark on international duty throughout the season. This situation has not changed.
Edinburgh are going through a revival under Andy Robinson, and it probably has the strongest squad out of the two Scottish provinces.
The bulk of Jim Hamilton will be added to an already impressive pack boasting names such as Ally Hogg and Ross Ford. Edinburgh will be hoping to improve on last season's league run, targeting an improvement at home in order to boost their chances.
Glasgow, on the other hand, will be looking to maintain the momentum that they gathered last season. Their play is dictated by the form of Dan Parks, but as all Scottish fans know all too well, he can be a touch inconsistent.
Where they do prosper, though, is in the back row where the impressive John Barclay, Johnnie Beattie, and Kelly Brown will be putting in a tireless performance week in and week out.
The Welsh sides offer the best chance of competition to the Irish giants of Leinster and Munster. The Ospreys are the strongest of the provinces. Still, despite a huge investment on players and an all-star cast including Shane Williams, Mike Phillips, Marty Holah, Ryan Jones, and Gavin Henson, the Ospreys have failed to make an impact on the Magners League—suffering terribly from international call-ups.
If they can solve the call-up blues, there is every chance that the Ospreys will be able to repeat their EDF Energy Cup winning form in the league.
Cardiff, on the other hand, have continued with their ongoing process of putting the onus on developing young players, and supplementing that with established Welsh players.
Dai Young's policy of having two world class players in each position has led to the acquisition of Ceri Sweeney to compete with Nicky Robinson for the fly-half berth. This season the Blues will be pushing even harder at the end of the season for that elusive silverware.
Llanelli Scarlets have a good mid-table record in the Magners League. Their task this year will be to try to upset the more established upper echelons of the league. This task has just been made harder by the sidelining of their best player Regan King through injury.
However, you can't knock their intent. Close season signings including Kees Meeuws and Wallaby David Lyons show an attempt to beef up a pack that typically struggles to dominate games, and the beginning of the construction of the new Parc y Scarlets shows that they are at least heading in the right direction. They may just raise some eyebrows this year.
One team that will also be pushing to improve on last season's performances are the Newport-Gwent Dragons. Perhaps the weakest of the Welsh regions, the Dragons have to up their game or risk competing in the dogfight at the bottom of the league yet again.
The Magners League may not have the glitz and the glamour that the Guinness Premiership has, but with Irish, Scottish, and Welsh pride on the line and Celtic bragging rights up for grabs, you know that the season is going to be a good one.
And my prediction for the title? Depending on what's happening in the Heineken Cup…Muster.


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99acres.com is India's leading online real estate portal to buy, sell or rent property.
It is dedicated to meet every aspect of the consumers needs in the real estate industry. It also provies a forum where buyers, sellers and brokers can exchange information, quickly, effectively and inexpensively. 99 acres.com is part of Info Edge parent company of Naukri.com. Info Edge company realized the potential of property market in India which had a total advertising budget of around Rs 650 – 700 crores at that time. 99acres.com was launched by Info Edge in September 2005.