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Henry, Age 8, chose Pretty Woman over The Fifth Element.
Henry: Why is she wearing those huge boots?
Me: Do you know what a hooker is?
Henry: Yes.
Me: How?
Henry: An episode of The New Girl.
Henry: If Vivian's roomate spent the rent money on drugs, couldn't she just call the cops on her?
Henry: What did she say about your foot being the same length as your arm? Is she a nerd hooker?
Me: I'm going to fast-forward any sex stuff.
Henry: Please.
Henry: Oh My god she has a toupee? The blonde hair is a wig? Her long hair is way prettier.
Henry: This guy is a good actor (Jason Alexander)
Henry: Why did Edward say "stay in the shallow end" of the tub?
Me: It was a joke.
Henry: Not funny.
Henry: Oh man she needs new clothes now.
Henry: Why are those women in the store so idiotic? They kicked her out because of that outfit? She was going to spend money in their shop! EL STUPIDO.
Henry: She's getting in trouble at the hotel for her old clothes now? She needs new clothes SO BAD.
Henry: Vivian kind of looks like Sal, but in hooker boots.
Henry: I think she should have bought a lot of normal clothing, not just a cocktail dress.
Me: Look she has a new dress. Do you think he likes it?
Henry: Edward?
Me: Yes.
Henry Who cares, he's a pervert.
Henry: She's sitting on the edge of the building. I'm not afraid of heights, but I'm not idiotic enough to do that, I wouldn't be comfortable doing that. She's dumb.
Henry: The hotel manager is like, SHE IS AWESOME.
Henry: What are they watching? HORSE GOLF OR SOMETHING?
Henry: Yup, this is horse golf.
Henry: Vivian is going to be really mad at Edward for telling him she's a hooker.
Henry: Oh she's wearing the red dress from the commercial. She's going to laugh and he's going to do the clam book joke on her hand.
Henry: Does the elevator guy just stand in the elevator all day? That's a terrible job. I bet some guys just stand in there and play Angry Birds all day.
Henry: It takes 3 minutes to get to China from Calgary on a rocket. Sal told me that, but Sal is wrong about a lot of stuff.
Henry: If the hotel manager liked her so much, he should have given her a job in that hotel.
idontreallyknowhatimdoing a dit: why you be so hawt gurrrrrrrrl?! i can give you some mo streaks in yo hair OH YEAAA
The Bug Mansion
When I was little I lived in a house with deep wells for the basement windows and chipmunks used to fall into the wells and get stuck down there. My dad would climb into the wells and grab the chipmunk in a hand towel and set him loose in the yard and I would watch from the basement through the windows or over his shoulder outside.
My mom and dad redid that basement. I don't remember what it looked like before they fixed it up but I do remember them laying the beige tiles and my mom texturing the stucco on the walls and my dad figuring out how to motorize the 100-inch screen for the tv. I remember that there were millipedes everywhere after it was finished, and once we moved away I would call it the "Bug Mansion" instead of its actual name, "Bub Mansion." My mom and dad would watch the Red Wings play and I would run back and forth in front of the screen with my plastic hockey stick and a tennis ball pretending to be Sergei Federov: "and Federov gets the puck and he shoots AND HE SCOOOORES!!!" Who knows how many great plays they missed because my 4-year-old head was bobbing back and forth between the projector and the screen.
I used to sit in a room in that house (I remember it as the attic but it may very well have been just another room on the second floor) and listen to my Puzzle Place cassette tape and color in pictures with crayons. The only song I remember from that cassette tape has something to do with "ant… ant… anticipation." But I'll never forget that line, or that room.
Sometimes I would run around the backyard and have my mom or her friend ("aunt Deb") time me. My mom had a silver watch with a sleek chain and a white face, and now that I think about it I can't believe she timed me running around the yard for any reason other than to be rid of me for a minute or so to give her time to talk to her friend. I say "a minute or so" but she probably knows the exact amount of time it took me to run around that yard. Aunt Deb moved to North Carolina or South Carolina or maybe Virginia at some point, and we even drove over there to visit her once, but long story short I don't think I would recognize her if I passed her on the sidewalk, even though she was my mom's best friend.
Once it was stormy and I was in the backyard trying to get my kite on a 3-foot string to fly.
Once it was late and my mom was just getting back from her night classes at the University of Michigan, Dearborn, where she was earning her Master's in Engineering Management. I was sick and she gave me some liquid Children's Motrin. It was orange and I liked the taste.
Once we were late for school and we ran down the steps, my mom, my sister, and I, and set the alarm and ran into the garage, closing the door just in time for the security system not to automatically call the police. I asked my mom how Pam the cleaning lady got in if we had an alarm. She knew the code.
Once it snowed so hard the garage door wouldn't open.
Once my dad moved to Ohio and never moved back.
Once Pam the cleaning lady wiped her wet rag over a pastel painting of a canyon from Utah. Once she broke a glass Q-tip jar. My mom fired her eventually. Too many broken things, she said.
When I was in kindergarden I had matching sweatpants and sweatshirt that were black and white and had "ACTION" screen-printed in bright neon block letters across the chest and down the leg. I once wore them for a week straight and after that week I only took them off when my mom pried them off my body and forced me into the shower.
My kindergarden class took a trip to a recycling facility. Surely we wandered through a very complex recycling system but all I remember is Ms. Tammy and Ms. Diane (I went to a Montessori school so we called our teachers by their first names) explaining to us how we could reuse things like bear-shaped plastic that had once held honey or foam cutouts that were sticky on one side. I know I made tons of crafts with the honey bears and the foam, and there was some sort of plastic fabric that I would eventually make into a cape or something, but the main thing I recall about that trip was that my mom was there. My mom never came on field trips or picked me up right after school. My mom was a working mom, and working moms didn't come on field trips. Only the stay-at-home moms, the full-time moms, came on field trips. I hated those moms.
When we lived in the house with the chipmunk-trapping window wells, my opère Samantha would drive me to school most days. One morning she brushed my hair and it hurt because it was knotty. I cried and she told me to shut up.
Samantha lived in the house with us. She had her own wing but she still shared a lot of her living space. Samantha was from Australia and ate her ice cream with waffles. She had a tv in her room. I remember that I was jealous of the tv. Once I had pink eye and got to stay home and watch Jeopardy on a tv that had been moved into my room for the day. Jeopardy and Big Bad Beetleborgs. Probably some Power Rangers too. Before I was sent home from school they put me in the upper floor of the play castle. The upper floor was where they put sick kids to quarantine them. It felt more like jail than like a play castle. I had been painting a pot for father's day when I told my teacher my eye was itchy.
One weekend my dad took me to the Dearborn Public Library to check out Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel. That's the last time I had a library card.
It's weird, the things you remember. And honestly what difference do those memories make now, scattered amongst amino acids and which brain regions correlate with which language deficits? But I can't help that every time I see a sailboat I think of the picture of my mom's first husband that she kept in the green glass container in her room along with her Chapstick and a couple of safety pins. I don't know his name, maybe it was Mark or something, but I know that picture and I know she still has it somewhere safe.
We've been gone from that house for years, decades even. All the school plays and the holiday singalongs and the America's Funniest Home Videos reenactments with my neighbor Evan fade darker with every passing minute. And I know the new owners killed all the ivy on the front of the Bub Mansion. But still I can't help but wonder who frees the chipmunks these days.
the higher you climb, the further you fall
Cupcake Angst
Hello tumblr. It's been a while.
Let me list for you all the reasons to hate cupcakes:
1. If you're going to divulge in the sweet, succulent goodness that is cake, why stop halfway? Go big or go home, that's what I always say (always have and always will).
2. Cupcakes are impossible to eat without looking like an enormous fool. Maybe I just have a small mouth but I mean seriously, right?!
3. THE WORD CUPCAKE JUST PISSES ME OFF. It is a disgusting word. It has too many /k/ sounds (linguistics majors/anyone who has taken a phonology class, you're welcome). It's like "let me just give this mediocre food you're about to eat a name that is clearly coming from the back of my throat, oh and by the way THREE of the sounds that make up this word clearly require the aggregation of excess saliva in the aforementioned rear-throat place of articulation."
Anyway, I'm done with exams. I hope y'all are doing well. I'm gonna go to sleep now. Good night.
I don't want to study for orgo
wow, I can't believe it's already February.
is it Spring Fair yet?
is there a profession that requires limited education and involves me eating food all day and receiving a paycheck substantial enough to support an addiction to shopping (and potentially various other addictions) while living in Paris and driving an Audi R8?
ok I'll go back to studying now.
mattpanico a dit: Why is your blog theme in french?
because french is the best language and it makes the most sense to me. and I'm probably the only one who reads my blog.. hahah :)
Fedoras: Limit 1 per Crew
I love Workaholics. Please go watch Season 1 right now. Thank you.
quite lovely!


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- Mark Hurych
- El Centro, CA
- United States
This conversation is closed.
Anticipating that we are in the Anthropocene, How shall we proceed?
I am exploring the big question of how we shall proceed as a human family. I am attempting to allow this question to be explored and restated from as many different perspectives as possible. It is difficult to talk about the purpose without being overwhelmed with doom. I've found many individuals, as in the examples from TED talks, approaching these concerns from very different perspectives. I want to promote that open-ended open-mindedness with this question. Large scale and small scale. What can we do with our Internet? What can we do with our capacity to empathize? What can we do with our creative potential at making games out of things? What can we do politically? ...educationally? ....parenting? ...at work? ...with neighbors? ...with humor? ...with paradigm shifts? ...mentoring and setting an example? ...?
Closing Statement from Mark Hurych
The final answer is that we need to go to square one, back to the drawing board. We need new ways of connecting and celebrating our solutions as we find them. Our tribes or "in" groups need to expand to include all humanity.
Extinction episodes do not look good for large species such as ours, so we need to take our motives to a place where we can engage in the greater good for the long long term.
Excellent isolated solutions continue to pop up. They need support and scaling up. We are threatening our own mother Earth. While our brains have enlarged (last 10,000 years) our thriving senses have shrunk, or been ignored. Crops, houses, and domesticated animals grounded us in security but also robbed us of the perspective of our own participation in nature.
We are of nature and we can and must harness our knowledge for the collective good of the biosphere.
Now let's get out there and win this one for the millennia to come!
"Physical fitness" is a wonderful term. What about loving fitness, eusociality fitness, relationship fitness, tribal upgrade fitness, innovative fitness, acceptance fitness, wisdom fitness, inspiring fitness, supportive fitness, cradle-to-cradle fitness, sustainability fitness...
...and on and on until we've got integrated planet fitness.
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Apr 9 2012: You raise an interesting question Mark, but I'd suggest we be careful accepting the Anthropocene as a done deal. First, we need to be clear that the Anthropocene is still an informal proposal for a new geologic time scale (likely an epoch). But for the sake of argument, let's assume the term does get picked up (which seems likely). Here the really important questions emerges--which Anthropocene are we talking about?
I'm writing my dissertation on the Anthropocene, and I believe there are at least 3 distinct versions of the concept which are emerging as political frameworks from the original scientific idea, and each of them takes a very different view of the world described by the Anthropocene.
One version could be called the Liberal Anthropocene, and it links the idea to a liberal political project that is explicitly pro-growth and development. It argues for a post-environmental politics grounded in support for high-tech, Western-style consumption and a belief in the power of markets and technology to address environmental problems.
Another version could be called the Ecological Anthropocene, and it takes the idea and reads it as supporting a critique of industrial society, capitalism and unlimited growth. This version of the Anthropocene rejects the technological optimism of the liberal position, arguing instead that capitalism and industrial technology cannot address the underlying crisis because they are themselves its cause.
A third version could be called the Dystopian Anthropocene, and it links the idea to a political deception advanced by radical environmentalists and activist scientists who want to impose a new world order under the guise of saving the planet. This third position is less coherent than the first two strands, but it unifies global warming skeptics, religious fundamentalists, right-wing pundits and conservative think-tanks around a common project of fighting environmental reform.
So I'd ask, which Anthropocene are we discussing here?
Apr 11 2012: chris crews
Rather than narrowing the search for solutions, my tendency is to want to broaden it. While that is my intent I may be about to put my foot in my mouth here.
I always panic at the thought of taking a multiple choice test and i have no Anthropocene thesis statement, so I'd answer, "all of the above," maybe. Let's take L, E, and D as 1) 2) and 3)...
1) Liberal Anthropocene is a go IF we apply the right technology in time and don't confuse "growth" with some kind of shopping spree with natural capital. "If" is a big word here, and "growth" would have to be updated way past any Adam Smith framework.
2) Ecological Anthropocene looks like a free-for-all fight between capitalists and environmentalists, so it doesn't seem useful to apply here. I may be wrong. I mean industrial society by any interpretation probably needs to be criticized and re-evaluated from time to time. Here I pose a "what if" ploy to sneak in the answer. What if we closed the loop of industrial material so that it became completely recyclable? It would probably take someone from Brooklyn to pull that off, but it might be done.
3) Dystopian Anthropocene already plays out on every movie scenario. How does it go? Apocalypse knocks out everybody except the hero, who somehow sees the whole thing as an exciting game. And that's great, as long as you happen to be the one-in-a-billion guy who survives.
Bill Clinton passed out a book to his staff about non-zero sum scenarios. So here I am, probably failing the dang test, erasing all my answers and changing to "none of the above." If we can't include the idea of high tide raising all boats, count me out.
We = Everybody
How shall we proceed?
Apr 11 2012: Or someone from slab city to close the loop:). Having lived in two distinct dystopian communities(religious fundamentalism and anarcho-nihilism) I have to believe that nothing beats an ideology and ideologies are almost indestructible. As I sit here I am not optimistic except in the vaguely mystical sense of "well, I guess it will all work out somehow". With half the worlds population following religions that don't predict a good ending it seems futile to expect them to "get on board" with ANY proposal to improve things! "technology", the application of "science" , is relatively free of ideology, but science itself gets filtered through ideology and whatever doesn't fit is just thrown out. I need more time to consider the three futures, but like mark they seem too narrow. Very likely all three ( and more?) will occur at the same time for quite a while. These futures will as likely be distributed geographically. Why have an enormous military except to keep the others systems away?
I don't like the title of "liberal" for the first option but since that is the path we appear to be on now, and because that is where the money and power is now it seems likely that it will be the dominant outlook unless some large force changes it. The ecological is opposed by the other two extremely powerful forces and so might be in the weakest position and the least likely to win out.
It occurs to me that I've experienced the dystopian, the ecological, and I've been tending towards the "liberal". It might be a case of if you can't beat em, join em. There is no doubt that the L ( shouldn't it be more properly called the Technological?) is the big guy in the room. Im a self trained designer having read 10,000 books, a third of them technical. I have boxes and boxes of tools in the bus and I know how to use most of them.
Mark Hurych 10+
Apr 15 2012: How shall we proceed? First step I think is to look beyond our selves to real changes in the world. I tend to see the world using the lens of demography and improvements in communication technology as the independent variables. Memes emerge as pieces of extant culture are mashed up to find some that capture an emerging reality.
What I see is the next inflection point in an evolving capitalism. This most recent arc of history could be dated from the 1960's as the children of the world war II vets came of age. "boomers" both white and people of color changed the world at speeds previously unimaginable. 1968 is probably a convenient date to anchor the change. In the States, the Nixon and then Reagan response was the counter trend. It's fair to say that with the recent meltdown of the Republican party and especially the elimination of Newt Gingrich, the era of bully boy politics based on the Southern Strategy has played it self out.
For whatever its worth, I was intimately involved in the Student Movement that erupted in 1968. The more I watch the more convinced I am that 2012 is 1968 redux. The generation represented by Obama and the 40 -30 somethings that are now in policy making decisions - the children of the Boomers - have the tools and vision to make the next inflection point.
I nice read to articulate a much more positive - albeit still very dangerous - view of what's next is http://www.amazon.com/Arrival-City-Largest-Migration-Reshaping/dp/0375425497 Arrival City.
The story he tells is mass migrations from rural to urban centers has been playing out for 5000 years. The good news is that Arrival Cities have always been a source of social mobility and urbanization leads naturally to lower birth rates and more sustainable living arrangements.
Apr 15 2012: Michael Josefowicz
Welcome and thank you former printer with time for blah blah concerned about global literacy, thank you so much for participating here. after seeing your bio, I am curious about what other creative ideas you have.
We are observing the secondhand benefits of urbanization, with less waste and lower birth rate. Do you see the urbanization trend as an opportunity for a new economy of social capital? Can you explain what social capital is and how it works? What about global literacy? Do you see global literacy as a key factor for positive change? if yes, how so?
Apr 15 2012: Some good questions here. These three positions may or may not be the most useful, and perhaps could have other names (a la Kenny D's comments above). Originally I was thinking about the Liberal Anthropocene as the Technological Optimism Anthropocene, but the probem with this is that really all three positions rely on technology, they just want it put to different ends. I think the most critical distinction has to do with the underlying worldviews (ontology and epistemology) of these positions.
The Liberal variation is so-called precisely because it want to advance the classical project of Liberalism as transmitted through European intellectual history--Humanism, Scientific Positivism, Capitalism, Individualism and Secularism.
The Dystopian vision is actually not the one that Mark outlines, but is perhaps closer to what Kenny D hints at. It is dystopian in the sense not of collapse but of global domination (1984ish). For those of the fundamentalist persuasion, as well as those leaning to the right wing--Alex Jones Illuminati/NWO version of libertarianism, the Anthropocene is the ultimate project for global domination and one world order under the guise of environmentalism and liberal science. When this is added to the Heartland Institute, global warming deniers, and the attack on science that has been going on over the last decade, that is the dystopian view of the Anthropocene I am describing. This position actually rejects the "doom and gloom" Hollywood view of The Day After Tomorrow apocalypse variety.
But I think the even more fundamental problem is that without a material shift, an ideological shift, and I would argue a spiritual shift, nothing is likely to change on a big enough scale to really rethink our future in a different way. I'm an eternal optimist, but when I look at the politics coming out of the main threads of the Anthropocene, what I see is mostly denial, deception and more business as usual politics. For me, the challenge is how to avoid that
Apr 16 2012: Chris Crews, thanks for stopping by again.
Of the three shifts, *material, *ideological, and *spiritual, I can't really place one over the other as highest priority without including the other two.
I think I share with you the shrugged shoulders response about where we are likely to see the next best strep forward. I thoroughly agree that business as usual just will not work.
My guess is that the best efforts are being made right now from the grassroots level. The web site Worldchanging.org and the book by the same name list dozens or even hundreds of small but very very positive steps being taken by communities all over the world.
My take on their meaning goes like this:
*Materiel change I think has to come in the form of zero carbon emissions or carbon neutral technologies. Clean means green.
*Ideology to me means a shift toward on-the-ground organizations taking on challenges instead of the next candidate or the established institutions.
*Spiritual growth in terms of applying the golden rule, or empathic community, or investing emotionally in things like gifting, paying-it-forward, or altruism.
I think the best news is likely to come from individuals and ad-hoc organizations.
I'm also encouraged by cultural exchange efforts such as the Silk Road tour of musical groups like Abigail Washburn's Sparrow Quartet.
Apr 16 2012: Got the jagged edge ground down so at least I can eat! Had to approach dangerously close to large urban population center however. (ha!) you have to experience the heavy hand of police surveillance to appreciate it. I don't mean to lay a heavy " you straight people don't know what it's like trip" but the "cops"(border patrol, local sherries, park rangers,etc) have a profile (prejudice) and if you fit it they just never lay off. It was rain turning to snow as I left the dentist so I set out for a site on BLM land about 5 miles away that I had camped on many times over 8 years ago. In less than 24 hours I was accosted 5 times by border patrol and was finally told it was OK to stay there! Of course it was OK it's a legal camping area. They also spotlighted me repeatedly all night. Why couldn't they just check the plates( thereby knowing me, my non record,etc) and go on their way? Did they really think I was going to load up illegals in a bright blue 33 ft school bus? I'd
Love to live in a more urbanized area for a while to take advantage of the interactions but I can't take the harassment. Why isnt there some place for those of us on the road to go in the city without worrying about losing it all? Back to the desert for me.
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Eight Run Inning Leads Vikings Past Dakota Wesleyan
SIOUX FALLS, SD — Augustana used an eight run fifth inning to defeat Dakota Wesleyan University (10-11) 17-7 under the lights at Karras Park Home of Ronken Field on Wednesday night. David Borchardt led the Vikings (11-9) offensively with a 3 for 5 performance with a career-high six RBI.
Tony Viger also had a big night at the plate for the Vikings. Viger also went 3 for 5 at the plate while driving in four runs.
Jake Petersen, Kye Winter and Alex Fink each collected two hits and an RBI for the Vikings. Michael Willman (3-0) earned his third win of the season on the mound. He tossed 4.2 innings and allowed four runs on six hits while striking out three batters in his fourth appearance of the season.
Dakota Wesleyan scored the game's first run in the top of the first inning when Michael Lukkason grounded into a double play to score Kirk McBreen who led off the game with a double.
The Vikings tied the game at one in the bottom of the first inning on an RBI double by Viger. Augustana took a 2-1 lead in the bottom of the second inning when Petersen singled to left field to score Ben Ludwigson who reached on an error earlier in the inning.
Augustana pushed its lead to 5-1 scoring three runs in the bottom of the third inning. Viger delivered his first home run of the season with a shot to right field with one out in the inning to make the score 3-1. The Vikings scored a run on a wild pitch before Ludwigson delivered a double to drive in another making it a four run game.
Dakota Wesleyan got back on the board in the top of the fourth inning to make it a 5-3 game. Tim Cusick led off the inning with a home run to right field before Erik Nockleby belted a one-out home run over the center field fence to bring the Tigers within two.
Augustana got a one out hit in the fourth but left two runners on base and DWU made it a 5-4 game with a run in the fifth. The Vikings then poured on eight runs in the bottom of the fifth inning on five hits to go in front 13-4.
In the fifth inning, Alex Fink belted his first career home run and Viger, Winter and Borchardt each delivered RBI hits. Marcus O'Neill also helped a run across as he picked up an RBI on a walk.
Augustana added three more runs in the sixth and another in the eighth inning as the Vikings earned the 17-7 win.
The Vikings return to action this Friday and Saturday hosting Southwest Minnesota State for a four game series. Both doubleheaders will begin at noon at Karras Park Home of Ronken Field in Sioux Falls.


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Virginia General Assembly 2013: Legislation Regarding Abortion, Contraception Coverage, Rape
HB 1: The Fetal Personhood Bill, back again for another round. Establishes "personhood" as beginning at conception, outlawing all abortion and processes that could interfere with a fertilized egg.
HB 1285: Bans and criminalizes abortions after 20 weeks gestation, except in narrow cases of medical threat to the mother, under the assumption that at this level of development, unborn children can feel pain. Depending upon what penalties are incurred, who determines what severity of medical threat merits a termination, and the impact of "methods most likely to allow the survival of the child" on the mother's health, this could be an inconsequential bill or a negative one.
HB 1316: Establishes sex-selective abortions as a felony, requires women seeking abortions to sign a statement acknowledging this. Sex-selective abortion is not a widespread or even observed problem in Virginia; this bill was generated to support the anti-abortion talking point that it is, and to provide another avenue of prosecuting doctors who perform abortions.
HB 1112: Eliminates the HPV vaccine requirement for girls entering public school. The driving motivation of this bill is the colloquial belief that protecting girls from Human Papillomavirus, a sexually transmitted infection that can cause cervical cancer, will cause them to become promiscuous. This has potentially wide-reaching public health implications, and is based on a misconception.
SB 277: Prohibits and criminalizes forced abortion. At face value this appears positive- nobody should be forced to have an abortion against their will. However, it was introduced by the same senator, Ralph K. Smith (R), who introduced the anti-sex-selective abortion bill, and appears to be merely another way to enter fetuses at all levels of development into law as "unborn children". Supports the anti-abortion meme that abortion doctors force women into abortions.
SB 21: Broadens the definition of rape to remove the requirement of force. "Any person who has sexual intercourse with a complaining witness, accomplished against the complaining witness's will by coercion, is guilty of rape. Currently such an offense must be accomplished by force, threat, or intimidation."
HB 1315: A Conscience Clause exempting employers from covering contraception, sterilization, and abortificant drugs in their employee insurance plan, for any reason.
HB 1314: Requires that all insurers offering policies to employers offer a policy that does not include contraception, sterilization, and abortificant drug coverage, in order to furnish employers who are taking advantage of the Conscience Clause outlined in HB 1315.
Buckle up, looks like it's going to be an interesting season yet again.
HHS: Let's Treat ALL Women Like Children
As we all know by now, HHS Secretary Sebelius has overruled the recommendation of FDA medical experts in order to prevent Plan B One-Step from being sold over-the-counter in pharmacies in the US. Katha Pollitt at The Nation wrote an excellent op-ed about it, which I've quoted below.
I'm trying to think if there are any laws or regulations affecting only men in which unfounded fears about middle-school boys deny all men normal adult privileges. Needless to say, no one suggests that underage boys get a prescription if they want to use condoms, or that grown men have to ask the pharmacist for them and maybe get a lecture about the evils of birth control and promiscuity.
How Birth Control and Abortion Became Politicized
By the 1930s, a Gallup poll showed that 75 percent of Americans favored contraception. Sanger's organization, then called the American Birth Control League, reached out to the medical community and clergymen for support. In 1931, a committee of the Federal Council of Churches of Christ endorsed contraception in order to promote "marital love."
That struck Lepore, she says, because of how people think of birth control and religion today.
"A big reason why I wrote this piece was to try to ask us to remember that things have not always been thus," says Lepore. "This set of issues around birth control and abortion seems so overdetermined, as if they are naturally partisan … or had been consistent over time."But that was not the case in the 1930s and 1940s, when birth control gained religious support from Protestant and Jewish leaders.
Study: Rate of Unintended Pregnancies Among Poor Women on the Rise
As Republicans seek to eliminate funding for contraception, a new report from the Guttmacher institute finds that while "the rate of unintended pregnancies continues to decrease among wealthy or educated women, the rate among women who fall below the federal poverty line has climbed." "At a minimum, however, we must ensure that all women, and particularly those who are most vulnerable, have access to the education and range of reproductive health services and counseling they need in order to plan the pregnancies they want and prevent the ones they don't," Guttmacher Institute President and CEO Sharon Camp said.
STFU, Sexists.: My Plan B Experience.
This firsthand account comes to me from feministexpression, and is a perfect example of why we need hard and fast rules for pharmacists, and real consequences for a failure to follow those rules.
Let me start with a little background. I am a seventeen year old, sexually active girl from a conservative state with conservative parents. This past week, I needed to purchase emergency contraception. As I'm sure you know, the legal age in the United States to purchase EC is seventeen. I went to a local pharmacy (a chain pharmacy that is located across the U.S.) that was about fifteen or so minutes from my house, to avoid running across anyone who would think about telling my parents about what I was purchasing.
I walked to the counter, and asked the man at the desk for "Plan B." As expected, he asked for identification and I willingly handed over my drivers license. He stared at my license for a bit, counting back the months to make sure I was of age. Then, he appeared puzzled. He walked to a woman working behind the counter as well, and asked her if you had to be seventeen or eighteen to purchase emergency contraception. She immediately responded "Legally, she needs to be eighteen." He still seemed confused, and walked back to me, and repeated what she said to me. I was completely shocked, and said "No, I'm positive you have to be seventeen years old to purchase emergency contraception."
The man helping me continued to look confused. But the woman slowly turned to me and looked quite angry. She called another female pharmacist over, and asked her the same question. She also said that I needed to be eighteen. I repeated, "The law says seventeen." And both women glared at me. The second woman said "It would be illegal for us to sell you Plan B, because you're eighteen and the law says seventeen."
At this point our conversation had started to get quite loud, and so I took back my driver's license from the man and walked out of the pharmacy, completely outraged. I had to drive another thirty minutes to a pharmacy to get EC. The woman who worked at that pharmacy (the same chain of pharmacy, mind you) gave me a smile and a box of EC….Which said very clearly on the box, "Over the counter for those seventeen and older."
Enough of this conscience clause bullshit, enough of this slut shaming bullshit. We don't make exceptions for Christian Scientists to become pharmacists and deny people prescription drugs, and anyone unwilling or incapable of performing their job in accordance to the law shouldn't have that job anymore. We're at nearly 10% unemployment in the US right now. If you're not willing to do your job, GTFO and let someone else do it.
Another example of Why We Can't Have Nice Things.
I have a very difficult time believing that this was an honest mistake. This is something that the pharmacists should know. This is something clearly written on the outside of the box. If they truly did not know that they were mistaken, then I'm frightened at their ignorance.
Unfortunately, this is something that anti-abortion pharmacists are known to do quite often. It's something that anti-abortion, anti-contraception activists have explicitly supported. They believe that emergency contraception is the same as an abortion, which is absolutely not true. It even says on the label not to take it if you are pregnant because it won't do anything. It works the exact same way as the birth control that millions of people take every single day.
But they don't want to give it out, and this is a problem. They're using their position of power to deny someone a perfectly legal medication that will prevent them from getting pregnant. You know what that leads to? More abortions!
It wouldn't surprise me if some anti-choicers went to pharmacy school just because they want to be on the front lines of denying contraception to desperate, frightened young women.
"I've had two abortions, one at 17 and one at 20. The first taught me to use birth control responsibly and the second taught me that sometimes it fails. My first experience visited a lot of guilt on me because even though I didn't agree with anti-abortion rhetoric logically, I retained the fear that God would punish me for what I was doing. But when I woke up in the recovery room with a dozen other women and saw the anguish mixed with relief in each of their faces I realized that whatever brought us here, nothing would be better in our lives under the added burden of caring for a child. It took a while, but I forgave myself and never looked back.
My second experience was different but equally stressful. I was working and going to school and when I found out that I was pregnant didn't have enough money for hormonal birth control every month, let alone the abortion procedure and neither did my boyfriend. I called around and found an organization that was willing to chip in the last third of the money and arrived at the clinic. This time my emotions were much more limited. It felt like going to the doctor for some other routine procedure, not an abortion. I also went to a different clinic, a facility run completely by women who really seemed to care not only about a successful procedure, but about how we were dealing with the experience as individuals. They even offered in-house counseling. In both cases my greatest allies were my friends who supported me even if they didn't agree, and my boyfriend who is now my husband and the person that I'd love to have children with when we're both ready."
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Let me tell you some things.
I used to investigate child abuse and neglect. I can tell you how to stop the vast majority of abortion in the world.
First, make knowledge and access to contraception widely available. Start teaching kids before they hit puberty. Teach them about domestic violence and coercion, and teach them not to coerce and rape. Create a strong, loving community where women and girls feel safe and supported in times of need. Because guess what? They aren't. You know what happens to babies born under such circumstances? They get hurt, unnecessarily. They get sick, unnecessarily. They get removed from parents who love them but who are unprepared for the burden of a child. Resources? Honey, we try. There aren't enough resources anywhere. There are waiting lists, and promises, and maybes. If the government itself can't hook people up, what makes you think an impoverished single mom can handle it?
Abolish poverty. Do you have any idea how much childcare costs? Daycare can cost as much or more than monthly rent. They may be inadequately staffed. Getting a private nanny is a nice idea, but they don't come cheap either. Relatives? Do they own a car? Does the bus run at the right times? Do they have jobs of their own they need to work just to keep the lights on? Are they going to stick around until you get off you convenience store shift at 4 AM? Do they have criminal histories that will make them unsuitable as caregivers when CPS pokes around? You gonna pay for that? Who's going to pay for that?
End rape. I know your type errs on the side of blaming the woman, but I've seen little girls who've barely gotten their periods pregnant because somebody thought raping preteens was an awesome idea. You want to put a child through that? Or someone with a mental or physical inability for whom pregnancy would be frightening, painful or even life-threatening? I've seen nonverbal kids who had their feet sliced up by caregivers for no fucking reason at all, you think sexual abuse doesn't happen either?
You say there's lots of couples who want to adopt. Kiddo, what they want to adopt are healthy white babies, preferably untainted by the wombs and genetics of women with alcohol or drug dependencies. I've seen the kids they don't want, who almost no one wants. You people focus only on the happy pink babies, the gigglers, the ones who grow and grow with no trouble. Those are not the kids who linger in foster care. Those are certainly not the older kids and teenagers who age out of foster care and then are thrown out in the streets, usually with an array of medical and mental health issues. Are they too old to count?
And yeah, I've seen the babies, little hand-sized things barely clinging to life. There's no glory, no wonder there. There is no wonder in a pregnant woman with five dollars to her name, so deep in depression you wonder if she'll be alive in a week. Therapy costs money. Medicine costs money. Food, clothes, electricity cost money. Government assistance is a pittance; poverty drives women and girls into situations where they are forced to rely on people who abuse them to survive. (I've been up in more hospitals than I can count.)
In each and every dark pit of desperation, I have never seen a pro-lifer. I ain't never seen them babysitting, scrubbing floors, bringing over goods, handing mom $50 bucks a month or driving her to the pediatrician. I ain't never seen them sitting up for hours with an autistic child who screams and rages so his mother can get some sleep while she rests up from working 14-hour days. I don't see them fixing leaks in rundown houses or playing with a kid while the police prepare to interview her about her sexual abuse. They're not paying for the funerals of babies and children who died after birth, when they truly do become independent organisms. And the crazy thing is they think they've already done their job, because the child was born!
Aphids give birth, girl. It's no miracle. You want to speak for the weak? Get off your high horse and get your hands dirty helping the poor, the isolated, the ill and mentally ill women and mothers and their children who already breathe the dirty air. You are doing nothing, absolutely nothing, for children. You don't have a flea's comprehension of injustice. You are not doing shit for life until you get in there and fight that darkness. Until you understand that abortion is salvation in a world like ours. Does that sound too hard? Do you really think suffering post-birth is more permissible, less worthy of outrage?
"Pro-life" is simply a philosophy in which the only life worth saving is the one that can be saved by punishing a woman."
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Perinatal testing checks for diseases or conditions in a fetus or embryo before it is born.
Testing can assess your baby's condition, rule out or confirm potential medical complications or problems, and help physicians manage or prevent difficulties.
When health status, family history, a mother's age, or an obstetrical finding increases the risk of pregnancy, your obstetrician may refer you to the Fetal Testing Unit at Sisters Hospital or Mercy Hospital for counseling and testing.
Even if you are planning to deliver at another hospital, your tests may be performed at our testing centers. We will communicate the results of your test(s) to your physician as soon as possible.
Although testing time can vary by procedure, your testing will probably take about one hour.
*Indicates a test that is common for all pregnancies.
During your first trimester screening, you'll undergo a non-invasive test that enables our staff to estimate the risk for potential chromosomal abnormalities (including Down's Syndrome) early in pregnancy. The test includes the Nuchal Translucency (NT) test, an ultrasound used to measure the thickness of the back of the baby's neck, and a maternal blood test. This test is the most accurate, earliest, and safest prenatal screening test available.
First trimester screenings typically take place between weeks 11 and 14 of pregnancy.
Ultrasound is a safe, non-invasive test that can evaluate pregnancy at all stages. It is often used to screen for potential fetal anomalies, determine gestational age, confirm a multiple pregnancy, assess fetal growth and well being, and discover complications of pregnancy.
We use 3-D technology in addition to the standard 2-D technology, allowing our staff to get more detailed photos of your baby when it is necessary.
In addition to our Perinatal Testing Centers, ultrasounds are available at Catholic Health locations across Western New York.
An ultrasound may be offered in the first trimester to confirm a normal pregnancy, determine the baby's age and identify any problems.
Ultrasounds may also be performed in the second and third trimesters to monitor growth and development.
Ultrasounds are a part of several other tests including amniocentesis, nuchal translucency screening, and biophysical profiles (BPP).
A biophysical profile uses ultrasound to look at the health of the fetus. It evaluates the activity of the fetus, body movements, breathing movements, fetal tone, and amniotic fluid levels (see amniotic fluid index).
The combined results of an ultrasound exam and the non-stress testing (NST) are referred to as a biophysical profile.
Amniotic Fluid Index is an estimate of the amount of amniotic fluid surrounding your baby. It is done via ultrasound and can detect where there is not enough or too much amniotic fluid present and the concerns that go along with these conditions.
Non-Stress Testing uses external fetal monitors to track the baby's heart rate and measure uterine contractions. It is performed when there is suspicion that the placenta may not be functioning well. Examples include post-dates pregnancies (pregnancies that last more than 42 weeks), suspected poor fetal growth, and previous pregnancy complications.
A BPP is commonly done in the last trimester of pregnancy. If there is a chance that your baby may have problems during your pregnancy (high-risk pregnancy), a BPP may be done by 32 to 34 weeks or earlier.
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We offer consultations for high-risk pregnancy, multiple gestation, previous pregnancy loss, and advanced maternal age.
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Chapter 2
The phone only rang two times.
Alice: Hello
Me: Hey Alice its Bella
Alice: Oh hey Bella, what's up?
Me: Well, I was wondering if you want to get lunch or something.
Alice: Yeah, sure, I'll be at your house in about two minutes
Me: Okay, I'll see you when you get here.
Alice: Okay, bye Bella
Me: Bye Alice
Then the line went dead.
I looked at myself in the mirror making sure I look alright.
I took a deep breath and walked out my room, as I was passing Charlie's room, I yelled, "Bye, dad, I'll be back later, love you!"
"Bye Bells have fun, love you to!" Charlie yelled back.
Then I ran downstairs and outside, Alice waited for me.
I walked to her car and got in. She smiled at me, "Where do you want to eat at?" she asked
I shrugged my shoulders, "I don't care, I'll go wherever you were going to go I guess."
"Okay, hold on!" she said and called someone.
"Jasp, let everyone know me and Bella are going to be joining you guys for lunch!...I don't want to talk to him right now, can't he wait until we get there?....ugh, okay….What do you want Edward?" Alice said his name and my heart just started thumping hard and fast in my chest. "Yeah she's coming with me….I don't know, why don't you ask her when we get there?" ask me what, "Edward stop, shut up….we're going to be there in 20 minutes okay….okay, bye." Then she hung up. My heart was beating so fast.
"So we are going to eat with my family. If that's okay with you?" she said
"That's fine with me." I said
"Okay, then." She said and started the car.
"Alice, did you know what my dad was going to ask me?" I asked quickly before I change my mind. She stopped the car quick and looked at me.
"Yeah. Why? Did he ask you yet?" she asked excitedly
"Yes!" I said
"I said yes!" I said, then she started jumping up and down full of excitement
"That's great! We're going to be sisters soon! Yay!" She said
I laughed at her, "I know!" I said.
"Edwards going to be so happy you said yes! He has emerald green eyes and messy bronze hair!" Alice said describing what he looks like.
"Okay! Got it!" I said.
"Jasper is my boyfriend, he has kind of long hair, blonde. Rosaline is his twin, she has long blonde hair and she is married to my brother Emmett, he is like a big teddy bear! Him and Rosaline been married for 2 years already and Rosaline is about 4 months pregnant, so she's kind of moody!" And we both started laughing.
Before I knew it, we were in front of an all you can eat buffet.
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Alice parked right next to a silver Volvo. It kind of makes sense that she would, the Volvo and Alice's car are both nice.
"Oh, this is Edward's car." Alice said pointing at it.
"Ohh, okay!" I said
"Are you nervous, 'cause you look really nervous!" she said
"Yes! I'm nervous because I don't know him and we are going to be eating with him!" I admitted to her.
"Don't worry Bella! Once I told him that you will be joining us for lunch, he got super nervous!" she said trying to make me feel better.
"Oh, yay!" I said a little more nervous
We both jumped out the car and she came over to my side and started walking into the buffet. Alice was looking for the boys, I don't really know what they look like so I can't really help her with that.
Then I saw two guys waving their hands for us to go over there. I tapped Alice's shoulder and pointed to where they were.
"That's us!" she said. She started walking but then she grabbed my arm to follow her. And I did.
"The one with mess up hair is Edward and the one with blonde hair is Jasper!" she whispered in my ear real quietly. I just smiled and nodded.
Edward sat in one chair and Jasper sat next to him. Alice sat by jaspers side which left me sitting by Edward.
"You guys, this is THE amazing Bella!" Alice said making me blush. Why do I always have to blush, this is really embarrassing.
I hurried and faced a different direction. It was too late, they all started giggling at me, then the next thing I know, Edward had his mouth by my ear, then he covered his mouth with his hand so nobody can read his lips, then he said, "I like your blush!" of course I have to start blushing more. "Thanks!" I said.
"Well, I see you guys are getting to know each other!" Alice said. Then she turned to face Jasper and kissed him, it was a whole 5 seconds, "I've missed you sooo much!" she said after she broke the kiss.
"I missed you to!" Jasper said.
Then Edward grabbed my hand gently, we both looked at each other, then of course I started blushing, again, and he chuckled. Then I bit my lip looking down at our hands. I liked holding his hand, it was nice and gentle. I never want to let go.
"I am hungry, I think we should go get some food!" Alice said.
"Yes!" Jasper said right after her.
We all got up and walked over to the food section. As much as I didn't want to let go of his hand, I had to so I could get me some food.
I got some macaroni and cheese, mashed potatoes, and corn. I wasn't that hungry so I just got a small plate. Alice got the same thing as me except she had green beans. Jasper and Edward got 4 slices of pizza, 4 for Edward and 4 for Jasper and we all got cokes.
We sat, ate, and laughed the rest of the lunch. Edward dared Jasper to get every desert on one plate, and to eat at least half of it. It was so funny watching Jasper chug all the different deserts.
We finally checked the time, it was 4 o' clock
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Alice and Jasper were talking so they were paying no attentions to us.
Then Edward gave me a warm hug and gave me a soft kiss on the cheek. It felt so right, like I belonged here with him, in his arms. My heart was racing like crazy and I was blushing like crazy. I've never felt this way about anyone before, well, I did but not like this!
"See ya later!?" Edward said.
"Umm, y-yah!" I said stuttering a little.
He was about to walk away, before I stopped him. "Wait! Can you drive me to Alice's house? In plus, I think they might want a little alone time together!" I said while looking at Alice and Jasper who were now kissing each other very passionately, and then Jasper started leaning on Alice…"Ugh, I can't watch!" I said while looking up at Edward.
"Uh yah, I think it would be better for me to drive you! EWW, get a room!" Edward said out loud. He sounded just like a child who've never see someone French kiss.
I didn't notice that he was still holding my hand, I felt like I never wanted to let it go and it felt like he never wanted to let it go. That thought made me smile to myself.
I looked at Alice, who was now facing the ground with her hands in front of her, she is probably really embarrassed, I mean I would be. Jasper was also facing the ground, but he had his hands behind his back. They look like they just committed a crime.
"Umm, Alice. I'm going to be riding with Edward so you and Jasper could get caught up!" I said winking at her. Her mouth dropped open, shocked at what I did and said.
She shook her head and gave me a shy smile.
"That will be great!" she said, "So meet you guys at my house?" she said assuring that we are still going.
"Yah!" I said. "Alright, let's get going!" Edward said while towing me to his silver Volvo.
"I like your car!" I said to Edward as he opened the passenger door for me.
He looked at, smiled and said, "Thanks, I had it since high school, Alice thinks I need a new one!"
"I think it suites you!" I said while smiling.
"hmm!" That's all he said. I think he wanted to say something else but couldn't.
I was about to get in the passenger seat when Alice suddenly said, "Umm guys, I think I'm going to cancel dinner for tonight. So do whatever, I don't care, just make sure Bella gets home!" she was about to get in the car when she said, "Oh and Bella, I don't know if your dad mention this to you or not, but you will be working with me! So I'll pick you up around 9 in the morning, and don't worry about getting dress, I'm going to dress you!"
"He didn't tell me anything. I'll make sure I'm up! See ya tomorrow!" I said waving.
Then I got into the passenger seat, and then Edward walked to the driver's seat.
After he sat and shut the door I said, "So, where we going?"
He looked at me and shrugged his shoulders. "I kind of thought you knew where we are going!" He said.
Then he was deep in thought for like 3 minutes.
"Ooh, I know what we can do! We can go to your house; I need to talk to your dad anyways!" He scared the heck out of me.
I slapped his arm lightly and said, "God Edward, you scared me!"
Then he started laughing. "I'm…sorry!" he said between laughs. I didn't do anything but wait for him to stop laughing.
"So, your house it is?" he said
"Yup, d you know where to go?" I asked ready to tell him where it's at.
"Yah, I was over there a few days ago. Charlie need to talk to me, so I went and visited him. Edward said.
He started the car and began to drive. Then he grabbed my hand.
Even though I already know the answer, I want to hear it from him.
"What did he asked you, that is reason he wanted me back here?!" I asked
"Where'd you live before here?" he asked clearly trying to avoid the question
"Arizona and don't try to avoid the question, it would only make me bug you about it more!" I said obviously
He chuckled and asked, "How'd you know I was trying to avoid the question?"
"Okay A), its only oblivious and B), I had lots of people trying to avoid some of my questions before, so I'm used to it. But I'm letting you get away from this question!" I said reminding him to answer my question.
"Ugh okay! Don't get mad at me, I don't know if your dad said anything to you or not, but I guess I'm going to tell you anyways. He asked me to…umm…marry you!" He said really nervous but real quick at the same time.
Then out of nowhere, I started laughing. Edward just looked at me like I was crazy.
"What? Why are you laughing?" he asked eager to know what I was laughing at.
"Nothing, nothing!" I said slowing my laughter.
"No, tell me why you are laughing?" he asked getting a tiny bit angry.
"I was laughing because he asked me the same thing before I came to lunch with you guys!" I said
"Oh! So what did you say?" he asked curious
"Umm yes!" I said nervously
Then he smiled to himself.
"So what are you going to talk to my dad about?" I asked while playing with is hand.
"Umm, nothing important." Edward said.
I didn't really want to know what he wants to ask my dad, that's between them.
"Okay!" I said
"We're here!" Edward said.
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A new scam was uncovered at the Almaty International Airport in January 2000. Men posing as "meet and greet" airport facilitators for international arrivals lure unsuspecting foreigners into cars purportedly to take them to their hotel. However, the driver of the car proceeds to drive to a secluded gas station in the country. He then demands approximately $100 for gas to take the foreigner back to the city. All Americans planning travel to Kazakhstan should make prior arrangements with their contacts in Almaty for concrete identification upon arrival at the airport. Americans should not leave with anyone who does not show the pre-arranged identification, even if the person is holding a sign with the traveler's name.
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|Historic Adderley house in Marathon.
At Crane Point Museum and Nature Center in Marathon, the historic Adderley house is made of crushed and fired seashells. George Adderley's home was built in 1906. It is the oldest house in the Keys outside Key West, and it was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1992. It is surrounded by 63 acres of palm and tropical hardwood hammock, saved from development by the Florida Keys Land and Sea Trust. Sundays, the museum and nature center opens at noon – and last Sunday, that was just as the temperature was heading into the upper 50s. The thatch palm hammock, with hundreds of palms, is a splendid hike. Adderley's tabby house, a sturdy and charming example of Bahamian architecture, is open to walk through.
|Dicliptera sexangularis.
A little farther on is the Crane house, a 1950s pink house that looks into Florida Bay. Francis and Mary Crane bought the land in 1949 and decided not to disturb the native mangroves and hammocks around them, although they knew David Fairchild, and grew plants for him at this site. Growing around one of the palms at the Crane house is Dicliptera sexangularis, a delicate red wildflower with thin stems and leaves. The tubular flower attracts large orange sulphur butterflies and is a larval host plant for Cuban crescent butterflies. I've only seen this plant once before, and was delighted to find it here and even more delighted to remember its name – okay, at least the Dicliptera part. A visit to Crane Point is a walk back in time, native wildflowers and all.
After a rainy cold front, the colors of Earth always brighter in the chill sunlight that follows. The Garden is no exception on this President's Day. Martin Feather, manager of the butterfly exhibit at the Clinton Family Conservatory, was in shirt sleeves Monday morning, relishing the 50-degree weather and grateful that so many of his charges were still alive. Volunteers brought cold-stunned butterflies into the metamorphosis lab to gradually warm up again. Some of the newly hatched butterflies were kept inside for an extra day to make sure the weather would gradually warm.
Hitch, the cattle egret who follows people and the tram, and his wood ibis friends were happily eating bugs, and a great egret stalked lizards near the Garden House loggia. Plenty of visitors enjoyed the glory of the day, including a group of red-robed monks from India who photographed themselves with cell phones.
Here's a look at the great lawn from the loggia.
|A winter's day at Fairchild.
|Euglossa viridissima, an exotic bee.
Poking around Cape Florida last Friday, I came across a
|These bees visit 'gullet' flowers, such as
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beautiful metallic green bee hovering around a morning glory. Turns out it is the euglossine orchid bee, Euglossa viridissima, that Bob Pemberton, retired entomologist, first described after finding it at his Fort Lauderdale garden about seven years ago. This species of bee has naturalized in South Florida. Primarily an orchid pollinator in Central America, the South Florida bees have been known to visit about 100 plant species here. The males collect volatile and aromatic compounds in special hind leg pockets with which to attract females, while the females collect resin for brood chambers from such flowers as Delchampia aristolochiifolia. I sent photos to Dr. Pemberton and Dr. Suzanne Koptur, ecologist at FIU, for positive identification, to make sure I didn't confuse it with a metallic green sweat bee. As long ago as 1971, evolutionary ecologist Dan Janzen of the University of Pennsylvania worked in Costa Rica and wrote about euglossine bees flying as far as 23 kilometers or 14 miles from flower source to nest
|Pretty yellow flowers on thryallis hold up in dry times.
When there is little rain, as there has been for the last two months, many plants begin to show their unhappiness by shedding leaves, allowing their leaves to sag, or putting on an unhappy demeanor. A few plants are able to soldier on, and one of them is thryallis, Galphimina gracilis. Its sun-yellow flowers are an indication of its disposition in dry times. Native to Mexico and Central America, this drought-resistant shrub once was a star in the Xeriscaping lineup, and then quietly slipped into a supporting cast. Well. Walking through the Garden this week, I happened on thryallis looking like a plant in its prime. The yellow flowers usually are present in the normal warm season but this year the season has extended into our "winter" and so she thrives. Five petals that are slightly clawed put it in the Malpighiaceae family, related to our native locustberry. Like locustberry, it is a sprawly shrub, about 3 to 5 feet tall, and leaner and longer in shade. Plant it in full sun for the best shape and most flowers.


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