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So what are your thoughts on pregnant people who don't want to be parents but don't want to abort? Not people who are pressured/told they "can't be parents" and not people who are told "abortion is evil" or kept away from it - obvs that's different. But not every pregnant person wants to be a parent, or not a parent at that time. How do you feel about adoption when the bioparents just don't want to be parents?
Sure, I'll generously share your loaded query conveniently isolated in a post-racial fantasy snowglobe that's sans capitalism, sans oppression, and one where single mothers aren't shamed via myriad channels & legion microaggressions for "transgressions" out of wedlock, why not?
Oh, and apparently yours is also a world where consenting birth mothers never change their mind last minute— you do realize that happens more times than not, right? The saint-like progressive aura of the "savior" gets a wee mussed when initial attempts to get a kid are consistently thwarted :) Factor in the harsh reality that for any one baby or "orphan" there are 36578327502945283438 privileged adopters competing for it
^helps explain why adopters go from "helping a poor young woman out" to "I DESERVE YOUR OFFSPRING MORE THAN YOU YOU INFERIOR SLUT!!11" in 10 seconds.
Happy to shed light on your little snowglobe:
aside from the entitled First World assholes laboring under the misapprehension that I actually run an adoption agency for Carefree White Girls &/ Well-Intentioned White Folks(tm) in general
I actually don't mind it when white people POLITELY and thoughtfully ask me genuine, unloaded questions on adoption and foster care.
probably shouldn't admit this, but more often than not I'm actually willing to answer these queries in depth — unlike questions on racism, which have all been answered time and time again by generations past who've articulated it far better than I can and at this point especially in this freaking Information Age white ppl should just refrain from asking POC question on racism EVER just google FFS and stop expecting us to constantly repeat ourselves.
partly of my willingness stems from the fact that adoption as it's practiced in the last few decades is in many ways unprecedented — yes, there are past cases of children similarly "rescued", i.e., 18th-century Austria with nearly 20,000 Roma children kidnapped and placed in Catholic homes to dilute Romani bloodlines — but it's only been very recently that children of oppressed groups have been kidnapped and abused via methods that literally comprise a transnational industrial complex. Profit changes everything.
naturally there's a lot less information available. the bare minimum of images and words necessary to our survival have yet to be created or heard. we've barely just grown up and the first generations who went through this shit are still far from the grave.
anyway, there are a lot of nice, thoughtful people sending me Asks that I'll definitely get around to. I'm not ignoring you, I probably even really like you, I'm just operating on my own time, which I can't apologize for.
(In the meantime, please don't blanketly apply my willingness to answer stuff to other transracial/national adoptes, who may very well and rightfully tell you to bugger off.)
Must be an odd phase, cuz for some reason juggling a full work schedule and the logistics of living in yet another country all the while confronting a potentially life-threatening medical condition (always super duper fun when one is an orphan with no available family/medical history whatsoever, right?!) is actually giving me increased bursts of energy and I've found the time and inclination to
I see no conflict of interest between these whatsoever and neither should you. X
There are certain individuals who know as much about this ish as I do, but there is literally no one on the planet who knows more. I am a transracial, international adoptee from a "Third World" country torn apart by war. I am a second generation adoptee, as in my adoptive parent and ALL siblings were adopted, albeit domestically. I'm a "disrupted" adoptee, meaning that after my "rescue" by White Saviors(tm), I survived criminal abuse and was subsequently abandoned into foster care, where I also survived human trafficking (my handler was one of the rare few prosecuted and shut down for warehousing children via transnational pipeline) and the federally subsidized junk "therapies" that make Gitmo look like a midnight stroll. I'm the go-to primary source for more international child advocacy groups and NGOs than you ignorant nobodies can imagine, every word I type and virtual gesture I make is a veritable gift to yall:
but seriously go FUCK yourselves.
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I am never remotely inclined or obligated to explain myself, I just enjoy seeing yalls reactions when you hear that
And the grande dames of all truth bombs:
But First World(tm) spawn are so busy spewing bile at the notion that anyone you sanctimoniously pretend to 'save' might dare question your entitlement, a class Bastard just isn't left with enough hours in the day to ward off your bullshit AND lay out positions in full.
Fuck all o' yous. ^_^
Most of the Westerners involved with foreign adoption agencies — like business people importing foreign sneakers — can plausibly deny knowledge of unethical or unseemly practices overseas. They don't have to know.
Willful ignorance allowed Lauryn Galindo, a former hula dancer from the United States, to collect more than $9 million in adoption fees over several years for Cambodian infants and toddlers.
Between 1997 and 2001, Americans adopted 1,230 children from Cambodia; Galindo said she was involved in 800 of the adoptions. (Galindo reportedly delivered Angelina Jolie's Cambodian child to her movie set in Africa.)
But in a two-year probe beginning in 2002, U.S. investigators alleged that Galindo paid Cambodian child finders to purchase, defraud, coerce, or steal children from their families, and conspired to create false identity documents for the children. Galindo later served federal prison time on charges of visa fraud and money laundering, but not trafficking.
"You can get away with buying babies around the world as a United States citizen," says Richard Cross, a senior special agent with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement who investigated Galindo. "It's not a crime."
- E.J. Graff, The Lie We Love. Published in Foreign Policy, c. November 1, 2008.
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A 7.5% GDP growth rate at the world's second-largest economy may be the turning point.
What number would get China off the radar screen? At some point we should be saying, "OK, enough already. The commodity stocks are so low, and the producers are cutting back, so -- you know what? We can handle this level." At what number would we say that?
I think China may have hit it Sunday night. We got a number, the 7.5% gross domestic product growth number, and it was actually in line. That's right. It didn't disappoint. It didn't take the market down. It didn't cause people to talk wildly about the collapse of China.It was just there.
It didn't upset. It didn't thrill. Irony of ironies, it came when, at last, the lead story of The Wall Street Journal was, "China Slump Ripples Globally."
Why does this confluence of data and irony matter? Because I think it might be presenting an inflection point.
Go back to Europe. The market used to slump on European news pretty much every day of the week, didn't it? Remember when there were whole periods when every number had been worse than the previous one, and the market freaked out each time? Remember when we would worry about every little piece of data?
Then, one day, we got some data and said, "That's not so hot -- but not that much worse than expected." Then we got some "That's almost roughly in line," and then we got some, "Eh, I guess, not so bad." Then we got, "Yeah, it figures."
That progression brought stabilization to Europe and to the rest of the world. Go over that litany. At no point did data ever come in "better than expected." We've still only seen a smattering of data that is better than expected out of Europe, but look how high it has gone. It is now in "upside surprise" mode, not downside surprise.
That's quite a journey.
These days I am not hearing the big gasps out of the China data. On Monday, I actually saw data that initially drove up the Australian dollar, which is sensitive to China. I have watched the Baltic Freight Index go higher for many weeks now, and that was a fabulous leading indicator on the way down. Obviously, the world price of oil is being pulled up by financial buying as a hedge against inflation, but I believe it's also being buoyed by Chinese demand. Of course, that is pretty strong, with an economy growing at 7.5%, as we learned last night
To put it in a nutshell, for about a year now we have been hearing, "Sure, it's bad -- but, when compared with the rest of the world, well, they would kill for that growth." When we hear that, we quickly dismiss it because we know that China's supposed to grow in the double digits.
What happens if China doesn't go back to double digits? What happens if we just get, "That's not so hot, but not worse than expected," followed by, "That's roughly in line," and then, "Eh?"
We get Europe -- in China.
I'll take it!
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"The main difference between us and Europe is that there is still a remote possibility that we might possibly have a slim chance to grow our way out of at least half of our problems."
Not as long as the Federal Reserve isn't seized and shut. The only thing not happening that is there is- in Europe they are seizing assets directly from accounts and capping actual cash transactions.
- Watching Snowden cut his administration's balls off.
- Watching the Congress do nothing and freeze his agenda.
- Watching the DOJ be legally powerless to do succeed in prosecuting Zimmerman for neutralizing Obama's surrogate son.
I can safely say --- by voting for Obama, I feel like it counted.
I think I failed to communicate the facetiousness here. OBAMA IS APPROPRIATELY GETTING POLITICALLY TORTURED
You are missing me COMPLETELY. Liberal ? How about classical liberal ?
The so called liberal of today is nothing but a socialist control freak along with his clueless police state conservative counterpart. The more federal instruments of oppression are disabled by patriots like Snowden, the less means the utopia freaks will have for hegemony.
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Water as a source of peace
Since 2009, Switzerland has been involved in a new type of cooperation which combines peace promotion and the sustainable management of water resources in the Middle East. This region is
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I'm 19 weeks pregnant and worried about my weight gain. How do I know if I'm gaining just the right amount? Could I be gaining too much or too little weight?
An important consideration when determining how much weight is appropriate for you is your pre pregnancy weight and your body mass index or BMI. BMI is a measurement of body fat based on your height and weight. There are some general guidelines to follow, and your healthcare provider should work with you to get you on the right track.
Most women will gain between four and six pounds during the first trimester. The weight gain in the second and third trimesters depends on what category you fall into based on your pre-pregnancy weight.
Don't try to lose weight during pregnancy or try to stay within the parameters for your pre-pregnancy weight. Too much weight gain puts you at risk for high blood pressure and diabetes. Also having a large baby can cause complications at delivery. Too little weight gain may put your baby at risk for being underweight. A woman who is underweight pre-pregnancy should gain between 28 and 40 pounds. Try to gain slightly over a pound a week in the second and third trimesters.
A woman with a normal pre-pregnant weight should gain between 25 and 35 pounds. Many women may not gain much weight during the first trimester due to nausea. But the average is four to six pounds for a healthy weight gain for your first 12 weeks of pregnancy. After the first trimester, you should gain about a pound a week. If you are overweight pre-pregnancy the recommended weight gain is 15 to 25 pounds. You should put on about one pound every two weeks in the second and third trimesters.
Don't ever try to lose weight during pregnancy.
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- Larger breasts: 1 to 3 pounds
- Larger uterus: 2 pounds
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- Increased blood volume: 3 to 4 pounds
- Increased fluid volume: 2 to 3 pounds
- Fat stores: 6 to 8 pounds pregnancy.
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In the New York City apartment shared by Tom Bezucha and Margaret Sam Hamilton, a lively red-and-white-striped shower curtain and striped terry towels make a brilliant statement in a bathroom.
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At either end of her dining table in Connecticut, designer Kristiina Ratia placed overscale chairs covered in wide black-and-white stripes that contrast with the linen-slipcovered side chairs.
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A vibrant red-and-white-stripe cotton (Fruit Punch by Lulu DK) enlivens a sunny breakfast nook in a Manhattan kitchen decorated by Brian J. McCarthy.
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Malene Waldron painted various shades of blue, yellow, and green onto a plank ceiling at the farmhouse in Columbia County, New York, she shares with her husband, photographer William Waldron, and their children.
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At her house on Long Island Sound, Susan Harris outfitted a guest room with two striped patterns that blend rather than fight. The bed skirt, coverlet, and pillowcases are made of SeaCloth's Boardwalk cotton-linen, while the yellow-and-white-striped carpet was made by Country Swedish.
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Cooking for One? Make a Big Pot of Rice
Cooking for One
Here's a trick when you need inspiration in your cooking-for-one routine — especially when you arrive home in the evenings and heating a pizza seems like the most expedient way to get some dinner into your belly. For about the same amount of time it would take for your oven to preheat and that frozen pizza to bake, you can put together a healthy, vegetable-intense dinner that tastes delicious and fills you up. What's the secret? Cook a pot of rice on Sunday night and use it throughout the week.
Of course, this works for dinner for two and families, too, but I find having some cooked rice in the refrigerator really helps me to eat a healthier meal when I'm cooking solo, especially if I'm alone for the whole work week. I eat brown rice because I love brown rice, but of course white rice is good, too.
Faith just put up a fantastic post on making rice so until you have it down, bookmark this page for quick reference. You can also use a rice cooker. Depending on what kind of rice you are making, one cup uncooked rice will yield about three to four cups of cooked rice. So for a work week's worth of single cooking, I start with three cups of uncooked rice. I knock it down to two if I know I will be eating several meals out that week.
This page from the USA Rice Federation offers lots of information about cooking rice. One helpful tip I got from them is that one pound of uncooked rice equals approximately two cups uncooked or six cups cooked. Since I often buy my rice in bulk, this equation comes in handy.
The trick with having a big pot of rice in your refrigerator is to not get too bored with it. ("Rice again?") If you grew up eating rice at every meal like many Asians do, this may not be a problem. But if you're not used to eating rice, then you want to be sure you're using it an a variety of ways. Here are some excellent dishes from The Kitchn archives that can be made with leftover rice.
For Brown Rice:
• Five Ways to Eat Brown Rice
• Brown Rice Bowl with Lemongrass, Tofu and Cashews
• Massa Brown RIce Bowl
• Rice and Mixed Greens Salad with Dates, Cashews, and Chickpeas
• Make Rice and Seaweed Rolls
• Fried Brown Rice with Ginger and Scallions
For White Rice:
• Five Ideas for Leftover Rice
• Cheesy Tex-Mex Rice (serve with chicken or tofu as a main dish)
• Miso Soup with Rice and Poached Egg
• Filipino Style Rice'n'Eggs
Either White or Brown:
• Quick and Easy Fried Rice
• Lemony Spring Soup with Rice and Peas
• Na Lee's Light Fried Rice
Other ways to use leftover rice: Add it to soups, whip to into a frittata, make it into a salad by tossing it with finely chopped fresh vegetables and a vinaigrette. For a nice dessert, simmer rice in milk with some sugar and cinnamon until thick for a quick rice pudding.
The Basics:
• How to Cook Rice Like Pasta
• How to Reheat Rice
• Do you Wash Your Rice Before Cooking?
• How Do I Add Rice to Soup?
What are the ways you like to use leftover rice?
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I do this all the time for myself and my finance. But we don't just stop at rice ... I'll make millet, quinoa, couscous, barley, wheatberries, etc, in the pressure cooker on sunday. For lunches, we just toss whatever veggies/spices/sauces we feel like eating that day on top. It's super quick and healthy, since we try to stick to whole grains. And filling! We don't usually eat this for dinner, though--for lunch, it seems less annoying to have a similar thing every day.
I read recently that leftover rice is only good for a couple of days, even if refrigerated, due to spores present in the rice that could give you food poisoning. I've never had a problem using leftover rice, but does anyone know how true this is?
The fastest and most comforting dinner (and lunch) for me has always been cooked rice with a fried egg. Season with soy sauce. Takes about 5 minutes (if you already have the rice cooked).
How do you keep if from drying out? Whenever I refrigerate and reheat rice, it dries out and becomes awful little pellets.
Rice really doesn't take that long to make, especially with a rice cooker. I'd rather make it fresh than have to revive dried out rice. Quinoa, on the other hand . . .
If you don't want your leftover rice to be a big hard rock then you should probably use medium to short grain rice, which has less amylose (the thing that makes rice get hard when it's in the fridge).
HeatherHLR, I have the same problem. I made a whole rice-cooker of white rice the other day; it was fluffy and cooked to perfection on day 1, dry and horrid when reheated on day 2.
I'd be happy to eat rice every day - I lived in Indonesia for a while, and rice 3x a day, every day, was standard. They made it fresh each day (and usually each meal), though.
@TheRascalQueen: I live by myself, and my rice cooker (which was the smallest one I could find at the time), cooks a minimum 2 cups raw rice at a time (= 6 cups cooked rice). So I'm stuck eating it for a few days, unfortunately.
Maybe it needs to be reheated with a little water added, so it steams slightly?
The best thing to do with Japanese rice to preserve it through the week is to compress it into a ball or onigiri (triangular) shape, wrap it tightly in plastic wrap, and store it in the freezer. It microwaves nicely.
I'd never be able to keep rice in the refrigerator for a whole week without having it spoil or get moldy. One or two days is the limit.
I thought you weren't supposed to keep and reheat rice. I mean, I do .. looks like we all do. But isn't there some food safety issue involved?
Something I've done with leftover rice is to use it in tians, the recipe for which I got from Judith Jones' PLEASURES OF COOKING FOR ONE -- saute a couple handfuls of spinach, then dump a scant cup of cooked rice into the pan and mix it all up with a pat of butter. Then put all that into an earthenware dish, dot with more butter, and top with bread crumbs and parmaesan cheese; then bake for 15 minutes at 350. Fast, cheap, healthy, simple, and I've never had a problem with the rice being dry.
@fishhooks and @alice.radley
yes, Bacillus cereus, Staphylococcus aureusand other bacteria (or fungi) will be delighted to be kept in the refrigerator for such a ling time as a week or so in rice and other foodstuff.
I'm amazed that The Kitchen is suggesting that we should keep food at the refrigerator for so long, considering the number of cases (and public attention) of foodborne disease in the recent years in the media.
I'm a food engineer and I do keep cooked food in the refrigerator - for 2 days at most, only reheat it once, and just SOME foods. Any leftovers I have that won't be eaten in the next day are freezed.
Information on that for the consumers are available:
Thanks @cristaleo
I like making ochazuke, a Japanese soup with salmon and a light broth, or arancine , delicious little rice balls you can stuff with anything.
Whenever I eat alone, I always cook 1 cup (using the cup that comes with my rice cooker) of uncooked rice. There's always enough rice for days when I'm particularly hungry and on days when I'm not, I have leftover rice for fried rice or chicken rice porridge (aka arroz caldo), which I usually eat for breakfast the next day.
Rice (all varieties) is OK for 48 in the fridge. Any longer, and it becomes hard and dry, not to mention issues of food safety. It takes about 20 minutes to make a pan of fresh rice on the hob.
48 *hours*
Here's a post with five clever ideas for using leftover rice. Including a (brown) rice pie crust for quiches.
At times when I rush I find that brown rice takes too long to muster up a meal with, and then I go for the quick cook white rice. Now I do cook my brown rice for the week and it works - it also cuts my meal prep time in half, which works for my life-style as well!
I was excited to find this with the heading "cooking for one," but the topic link comes up with only this one-year-old story.... :(


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Legalized marijuana advocates can breathe a little easier – the federal government will not attempt to block Washington's legal pot laws.
On Thursday, August 29, Attorney General Eric Holder told the governors of Washington and Colorado that the Department of Justice (DOJ) will not issue federal restrictions on states that have legalized marijuana for recreational use. The move sets an important precedent for states to determine their own laws regarding marijuana use.
Washington voters passed Initiative 502 in November 2012 becoming, along with Colorado, the first states in the U.S. to legalize the recreational use of marijuana. Since the initiative passed, however, there has been a great deal of uncertainty about how to implement the new policy, as marijuana remains illegal at the federal level. Concern arose that the Department of Justice would attempt to raid legal retailers found in violation of federal drug statutes. This decision from the DOJ removes this worry.
Washington congresswoman Suzan DelBene released a statement on August 29 in response to the decision.
"Today's announcement is good news for Washington residents, who overwhelmingly voted to approve I-502 last November," DelBene said. "I am pleased that Attorney General Holder has determined the Justice Department's enforcement policy and that implementation can now move forward."
Seven of Washington's federal representatives, including DelBene, issued a letter to Holder and the DOJ in June requesting that the federal government not pre-empt the desire of Washington voters.
The responsibility for regulating marijuana growers, distributers and retailers falls under the auspices of the Washington State Liquor Control Board (WSLCB). The board met on Wednesday, September 4 in Olympia to vote on proposed rules to implement I-502 and approved the measure.
"The board's primary rule-making focus has been to create a tightly regulated market with emphasis on public safety and restricting youth access," said Brian Smith, communications director for the WSLCB. "In his letter, Attorney General Holder expressed the same concerns."
In addition to preventing the distribution to minors, Holder outlined eight major concerns of the DOJ, including legal marijuana dispensaries acting as fronts for illegal cartels, marijuana being transported outside of the state and the use of marijuana while driving.
Federal banking laws may also need to be relaxed to accommodate the state laws. Currently, many legal marijuana dispensaries are required to deal in cash-only transactions to avoid federal penalties, which makes it difficult for the WSLCB to regulate the budding marijuana industry.
The new ruling is being questioned by some marijuana legalization advocates. The Cannabis Action Coalition released a statement shortly after the DOJ's announcement, warning citizens about potential limits to I-502's effectiveness.
"The criminal laws are still on the books, you are still subject to arrest and prosecution by state officials," the statement said. "Your license and business papers will be used as direct evidence of a federal crime."
Many counties in Washington state have accepted grants through the High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area (HIDTA) program, which obligates local police to hand over confiscated drugs to the DEA. The Cannabis Action Coalition says that I-502 cannot be fully implemented until HIDTA grants are dissolved.
Marijuana is currently legal in 20 states and the District of Columbia, mostly for medicinal purposes.
Legalization advocates in Alaska, California and Arizona are currently attempting to have the issue put on the ballots for 2014, and lawmakers may look to Washington and Colorado to establish precedent on how to regulate the drug.


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'You live around here?'' It sounds like an innocent question. But the exchange may have triggered the Jan. 11 shooting of a 13-year-old boy as he walked along Humboldt Avenue in Roxbury on his way to choir practice.
The victim, Gabriel Clarke, is about as far removed spiritually and mentally from Roxbury street life as possible. The middle schooler serves as a junior deacon at the Berea Seventh Day Adventist Church on Seaver Street in Dorchester. In the parlance of the church, Clarke has "Jesus on his mind.'' Now he is recovering from a stomach wound caused by a single shot from a blessedly small-caliber weapon.


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Ellie McIntire's son is a first-grader at Hillcrest Elementary School, and she decided to give them a different kind of holiday present a few weeks ago.
McIntire wound up donating 24 brand-new Android Tablets to the Hillcrest technology department, according a press release.
She connected with Eric Sloan, the school's technology integration teacher, who advised her on the tablets that could best help the Hillcrest program, and McIntire finished the job.
"I wanted to give the students an opportunity to use even more updated technology," McIntire said in a statement. "The younger they learn, the more advantages they will have in the future."
McIntire is a Realtor who works with Keller Williams Realty Centre in Columbia, and Sloan said that her gift is something that's going to help the school for awhile.
In fact, Sloan already downloaded math and phonics applications and came up with a shortcut to a student search-site on the desktop.
He said he's very happy to have gotten the 24 new tablets.
"They are durable, very solid, perfect for the kids," Sloan said. "The plan is to use them for offline apps that will deliver practice instruction in math and reading for the primary-grade levels, K-2.
"This will involve basic letter sounds, sight words, math practice with basic facts and number sense. With the intermediate students, grades 3-5, we feel the target use will be more towards research."


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