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by Paul Vallely
Posted: 09 Aug 2013 @ 12:04
The Church needs clerics who can learn from their people, says Paul Vallely
I TOOK the first copy of my book on Pope Francis last week to the church in which I grew up in Middlesbrough ( Features, 2 August). Aptly enough, the church is dedicated to St Francis, although that was not the reason I chose it. Rather, I was there because it was the farewell mass for the parish priest, Fr Peter Keeling, who has presided over many of the most significant events in the Vallely family across the years.
His farewell homily was a masterclass in priestly virtues. It began, as had that first appearance on the Vatican balcony of the new Pope, with an appeal to the people before him. He first apologised for what he might have got wrong over the years. By way of example, he recalled the occasion when an elderly couple had asked him to remember their dead son during morning mass. When the crucial moment came, Fr Peter momentarily forgot the first name of the man for whom they were to pray. He made a stab at it, and knew immediately that he had got it wrong.
Throughout the service, he was seized by remorse. As soon as it was over, he changed out of his vestments and rushed to the couple's home. They opened the door with some surprise at seeing the priest whom they had seen at the altar only moments before. But they did not seem concerned at his abject apology. "Actually, Father, we didn't hear, because we didn't have our hearing aids switched on. We often don't at mass."
But if the leaven of humour is an essential part of the good news that is the gospel, so is the passion for justice. "It's a pity, Father," one older parishioner had commiserated, "that they never made you a canon, like they did with previous parish priests." Fr Peter had only laughed: "If they ever make me a canon," he quipped, "you can take me out and fire me."
His commitment to causes of justice and peace had led to a number of run-ins with the authorities, ecclesiastical and civil, but he saw their disapprobation merely as confirmation that he was acting on an imperative that the Second Vatican Council had declared to be constitutive to the preaching of the gospel.
Many Roman Catholics had begun to fear that men such as Fr Peter were to be replaced by a generation of pietistic priests turned in on the inner sacramental life of the Church rather than on the outworking of gospel values in our wider culture. The election of Pope Francis - for whom "Francis" is not so much a name as a programme of action - has rekindled the hope that the Church will once again move in the direction on which priests such as Fr Peter have been so focused.
The retiring cleric offered one final story. He intended it to be self-deprecating, but it cut two ways. In the local bank, one of the women behind the counter, the week before, had asked him whether he knew when Kate was coming out of hospital. Rapidly he ran through in his head all the Kates in the parish, before admitting that he didn't know. Only then did the bank clerk make it clear that she had been asking about the Duchess of Cambridge.
The Church needs priests for whom the people of the parish are more important than public figures. Pope Francis, too, understands this from his long years as a bishop in the slums. As one of his aides told me: "He doesn't see the poor as people he can help, but rather as people from whom he can learn." I did not have to go to Argentina to hear this. Priests such as Fr Peter Keeling had taught me that warmth, humanity, and social justice are the keystones of the faith, back in the first church in which I ever set foot.
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This week's local highlight is Fuyu persimmons from Fuyu Farms, located less than 150 miles from Oxy.
The season is drawing to a close, but those delicious persimmons that have been in the marketplace are from a small local farm. Unlike many persimmon varieties - including the native American variety and the more common Hachiya variety, which are astringent and unpleasant to eat raw - Fuyu persimmons sweet and delicious even while still slightly firm. They also have an incredible natural shelf life, staying firm for up to three weeks, growing slightly sweeter as it gets softer. Fuyus are often used in puddings or for baking, but eaten raw they provide great nutritional benefits; the fuyu persimmon is a great source of Vitamins A and C, beta carotene, fiber, and some essential amino acids. Try them while they are still in season!
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There has never been a more "shovel ready" project in history than the Keystone XL pipeline, which has been exhaustively engineered, studied, reviewed, and re-reviewed as Obama tries to kill the project without admitting that's what he's doing. At stake are about 20,000 immediate jobs, a secure supply of North American oil, billions in private investment, and the global efficiency benefits of connecting a major crude source to the world's most efficient refining center. The latest news is that rather than simply say "yes," Obama is conducting yet another open-ended study.
The original permit application for the project was submitted in 2008. The State Department exhaustively reviewed every aspect of the proposal.
The State Department issued three different press releases in the spring of 2011 — in March, April, and June — that included this sentence: "The U.S. Department of State expects to make a decision on whether to grant or deny the permit before the end of 2011."


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With half term seemingly every five minutes and a long stretch of summer holiday looming ahead, it can be hard to know how to keep kids of all ages, but particularly under-10s, entertained. Here are a few suggestions for brightening up days indoors and fun trips out that won't break the bank or drive you crazy.
Note: This guide is rather UK-biased as that's where I am, but the home-based activities can be done anywhere!
Babies might not need to be out and about as much as older children, but they do benefit from a change of scene and toddlers can always do with burning off energy. You might be longing to get them stuck in to a sandpit or water table but not have a garden or the room in your house as well as not quite trusting all the facilities at your local park; for example ours has a sandpit, but also a lot of foxes. This makes me highly suspicious I'd be dumping my infant in a fox toilet. What's the alternative?
Well, down south, Watford's Parents Paradise is a huge indoor soft play area that has graduated entry prices without the need to have a longer membership - plus babies under 12 months are completely free. Our friends swear by it for their eleven month old who is a very confident crawler. You will probably need to spend some money on site as bringing in food and drink is strictly forbidden and there's an extra fee for go kart rides if you take an older child, but generally speaking it's a very cheap option for some peace and quiet while they burn off energy crawling and wobbling around.
If soft play appeals and you're elsewhere in the UK, you can find a directory of similar places in various locations at SoftPlayAreas.co.uk
Again in the south, it can be hard to find a little bit of nature on your doorstep. However, Belmont Children's Farm in Mill Hill is a lovely urban option, with low entry fees (free for children under 18 months) and a great collection of cuddly residents, from guinea pigs to alpacas. For a pound or two extra, you can grab a bag of feed and offer pellets off your hand to many of the animals, and the farm is plentifully supplied with sinks and hand gel dispensers so health and safety is carefully observed without ruining your fun. The cafe offers a good selection of food and randomly but deliciously specialises in waffles. I've actually been there with a nine month old who seemed to enjoy it, but I think it would be better value with an older child.
If you're not in the capital, there's a comprehensive list of children's farms and petting zoos by city on Childrens Leisure.
But what if going out isn't an option and you need to make the most of the time stuck indoors? Well you could...
Create a safe obstacle course - our ten month old daughter thinks it's hilarious to cruise in a big circle around the room. If you've got silly amounts of money to spend on this you can get sets of extra large foam blocks for building or for a much more affordable price huge foam floor puzzle shapes.
Get some minimal mess creativity going - even if you don't have a garden to take the brunt of the imagination explosion, there are options that don't mean too much clearing up. The Aquadoodle is a great favourite among toddlers and the worst that can happen is a puddle of water. And of course with older toddlers setting them a challenge in LEGO Duplo is a brilliant open-ended creative activity.
Use technology productively - no-one wants kids to go four-eyed, but learning to use a computer creatively and playing some simple games together or doing some drawing or writing with reception-age children will be beneficial to both of you. You don't have to get any more complicated than MS Paint, but if you want to go a bit more flashy Disney Junior has loads of games and activities, from playing music to choosing an image to print and colour and the Fisher Price website has infant, toddler and pre-school games.
Older children have a lot more freedom and are able to careen around on bikes and play outdoor games in the park. But they can still benefit from a change of pace, and there are some days that just don't lend themselves to getting fresh air.
Although even younger tots can really enjoy museums they are a good deal more interesting as they get older. The V&A Museum of Childhood in Bethnal Green is entirely child-focussed, in both activities and collections, which span from the 1600s to the present day. Better yet they're running an exhibition of works by children's author and illustrator Judith Kerr (Mog, The Tiger Who Came to Tea) until September, so adults have plenty to take in too. The Kids Pages means you can have some build up and follow on activities to do around your museum visit.
Similarly interesting is Leeds' Abbey House Museum, which is a firm favourite of my five year old nephew; though entirely Victorian in focus the children's rooms upstairs are interesting to young and old(er). And the recreation of a street in 1800s Leeds is both slightly eerie and interesting. To top it all it's right opposite Kirkstall Abbey, which is beautiful, peaceful and surrounded in parkland for kids to run about in.
If you're not sure what's near you or need to know more about different options to plan a trip further afield, the Show Me site features fun stuff from museums, galleries and heritage sites across the UK.
Then there's always the theatre for a special day out. While hunting around online for good options I became deeply jealous that I don't live in Scotland because the Biggar Puppet Theatre looks incredible, with performances around £7 and backstage tours just £3. But of course London is not short of child-friendly theatre, such as Wimbledon's Polka Theatre, which also has austism-friendly and signed performances listed.
The Official London Theatre Guide has loads more options in and around the capital, including Kids Week which aims to offer free theatre experiences for kids from 12-26 August, but for further afield check out your local press or explore the latest from children's theatre touring groups such as Oily Cart, who focus on early years groups and children with complex disabilities or Multi Story, who have also performed in North and South America and Europe.
Thinking of ways to make a rainy day more fun? How about...
Creating a treasure hunt - either you for your kids or the older kids for the younger ones. The prize can be simple and cheap or even something like getting to pick the next day out and clues encourage problem solving.
Having a movie day - why should adults get all the duvet days? If it's a miserable day outside, let them pick a few family favourites and snuggle down to watch. Okay, tomorrow might have to be an active day to burn off the extra energy, but everyone deserves a lazy day sometimes, including parents who have spent their time planning fun activities!
Messing up the kitchen - I've never met a child that didn't like stirring batter and licking the spoon. There's a real sense of achievement when producing something the whole family can enjoy, and there's an awful lot of skill in carefully decorating a cake or cookies. BBC's Good Food site has lots of child-friendly sweet and savoury recipes to get you started.
Finally, remember: a little boredom never hurt anyone. In fact, sometimes it leads to the best kind of imaginative play or discovering - perhaps writing! - amazing books. Some of my favourite holiday activities from a very young age included plenty of time to read. Your kids probably have oodles of books, toys and games they hardly ever look at during term time, so they can raid the cupboards and keep themselves occupied for a while, too!
Alexandra Roumbas Goldstein is a mum of one, digital marketer and online community manager who takes any opportunity to blog about parenthood, social media, cats, baking and Disney. Follow her on Twitter @mokuska
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There are pros and cons to visiting any popular sites in the offseason, but here's an argument to visit two more:
■ Great Smoky Mountains National Park (Tennessee and North Carolina). More than 9.5 million people visit the park annually, which makes it the most popular in the U.S. parks system. The park comprises 800 square miles, 80 percent of which is covered, in three seasons, by the canopy of leaves from more than a hundred species of trees, including hickory, oak and maple.
In winter, that vegetative screen is removed. Don Barger, southeastern regional director for the National Park Conservation Association, said vistas from the more than 800 miles of hiking trails are "an entirely difference experience; it's almost like hiking out west."
In summer, thanks to humidity and the blue wisps of smoke that emerge after rainfall (hence, giving the park its name), visibility might be 25-30 miles. In winter, when fewer than 2,000 people visit, it's more like 100 miles.
Runoff from melting snow -- Great Smoky Mountains has 10 peaks that top 6,000 feet in elevation and averages 6 feet of snow on the peaks annually -- freezes, "making your mountainside waterfalls a festival of water and ice. It's just gorgeous," Mr. Barger said.
Information: www.nps.gov/grsm.
■ Ski resorts in summer can be thrilling. Although Whistler Blackcomb in British Columbia still has skiing until the end of this month, the lower elevations have been prepped for a wide range of adventures.
PEAK 2 PEAK is a 2.7-mile gondola ride between the Whistler and Blackcomb mountaintops. The gondola runs generally are closed for a few weeks of servicing right after ski season ends and going into autumn. Check www.whistlerblackcomb.com for dates.
Ticket prices vary and second-day free ride deals exist. Children can ride for as little as $22 USD, adults up to $49.
Want to see a bear? There are no guarantees, but more than 50 black bears live on the mountains, and tour options include 4-x-4 vehicle rides to Yogi and Boo Boo's neighborhood. Prices range from $164 USD to $173.
And what are tall trees without a zip line or two? Ziptrek Ecotours offers a network of suspension bridges, suspension stairways and zip lines. Size and age restrictions apply. Tours range from basic (two hours, $26.60 USD) to more elaborate (five hours and a meal, $210, www.ziptrek.com).


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November 13, 2010: Kindness Veneration Relic
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Sat. 11/13/10 9:06pm
Charly inna Brixton:
Good evening Blu. Trust you are in fine fettle? | |
Sat. 11/13/10 9:10pm
D. Blumin:
Charly, back in Brixton are ye? If by fettle you mean suspenders, cardigan, and a matching leotard, then the answer be yes indeed! | |
Sat. 11/13/10 9:11pm
Charly inna Brixton:
Ah! I can just picture you now. | |
Sat. 11/13/10 9:13pm
Charly inna Brixton:
I hope you also have on a soggy cloth cap and your feet warming on a couple of ferrets? Otherwise my picture would be wrong. | |
Sat. 11/13/10 9:15pm
happy holiday daniel---have you got any holidays plans yet??? | |
Sat. 11/13/10 9:15pm
Charly inna Brixton:
I just remembered.... Your American definition of "Suspenders" is different from us Limeys. That's ruined my picture now! | |
Sat. 11/13/10 9:17pm
D. Blumin:
What's the Brit definition? | |
Sat. 11/13/10 9:19pm
Charly inna Brixton:
They hold your fishnet stockings up. | |
Sat. 11/13/10 9:30pm
D. Blumin:
Indeed! Cheri - back at ya, but which holiday are you referring to? World Kindness Day? | |
Sat. 11/13/10 9:53pm
Charly inna Brixton:
I think you would call a garter belt , no? | |
Sat. 11/13/10 10:00pm
D. Blumin:
Call World Kindness Belt a garter belt? OK. You got it... | |
Sat. 11/13/10 10:00pm
this mv/ee track is really pretty | |
Sat. 11/13/10 10:01pm
Charly inna Brixton:
It's the kind thing to do | |
Sat. 11/13/10 10:03pm
D. Blumin:
Jeff, hiya! | |
Sat. 11/13/10 10:07pm
hey sir , evening. just woke up to that track. | |
Sat. 11/13/10 10:10pm
dj scott:
der blumin! happy world kindness day to you. | |
Sat. 11/13/10 10:15pm
D. Blumin:
DJ Scott - same to you! Same to you! | |
Sat. 11/13/10 10:22pm
Listener James from Westwood:
Heard the last cut, wondered, "Hm, is this Joe Bataan?", logged in, and, yes indeed. I have FMU to thank for knowing & digging his voice. Thanks for playing that cut! | |
Sat. 11/13/10 10:28pm
digging this Goblin brother! | |
Sat. 11/13/10 10:29pm
D. Blumin:
Thanks fer checking in, James! Hope all's well in W'wood! | |
Sat. 11/13/10 10:34pm
D. Blumin:
Edo! Nice to see ya! | |
Sat. 11/13/10 10:37pm
daniel---this will my last comment for a few weeks cause i'll be taking a lil break till mid december,,take care | |
Sat. 11/13/10 10:38pm
D. Blumin:
Take care, Cheri... Have a good break... | |
Sat. 11/13/10 10:43pm
dj scott:
that vivian stanshall is somethin' else. | |
Sat. 11/13/10 10:43pm
Charly inna Brixton:
Fantastic album | |
Sat. 11/13/10 10:51pm
Tim Serpas:
Professor Dum Dum? | |
Sat. 11/13/10 10:52pm
D. Blumin:
Tim, that's exactly what I was thinking - somewhere in Bavaria he rides and he rides but he cannot hide from World Kindness Day, Tim. | |
Sat. 11/13/10 10:54pm
Charly inna Brixton:
WKD passed me by. It's already Sunday here. Perhaps every day should be WKD? | |
Sat. 11/13/10 10:58pm
Charly inna Brixton:
Moon Unit: Way to go!!! | |
Sat. 11/13/10 11:01pm
D. Blumin:
From the UK, Charly - you should be proud! | |
Sat. 11/13/10 11:02pm
Charly inna Brixton:
O rly ? | |
Sat. 11/13/10 11:04pm
David Korn:
Seattle, cum West Caldwel... It is great to hear your show again. I have been away Daniel, for 27 years, and moved back, two weeks ago, to take care of my aging mother, all 79 or 80 lbs of her, age 83. A major test, for any mom, our aging mother or parents. We all grow old, but then again, some dont.... I am so very, very happy to hear you, not from the far off, Emerald City, 3000 miles away, from here, near the Watchung Mountains. **** The astral ships, in human guise, soar whirl galaxcies, listening to the orb or Daniels Blumin show, the blooms of eternity, heavenly, incommensurable vast, silence,flickers, jewel green blue earth, dappled NY metro, a necklace of light, from outter space, anon, or as Lao Tsu said, 'So careful, the men of old, like men crossing thin ice!" | |
Sat. 11/13/10 11:07pm
west virginia here.... puttin my measly 2 ¢ in !!! | |
Sat. 11/13/10 11:13pm
west virginia and england once shared the same coalfield before the continents decided to split--china coalfields -must be weird uncle | |
Sat. 11/13/10 11:16pm
Charly inna Brixton:
Well they say talk is cheap so welcome. I'll match your 2¢ | |
Sat. 11/13/10 11:17pm
Charly inna Brixton:
Coal is done in England. We fought and lost. | |
Sat. 11/13/10 11:22pm
we also runnin white flag up stick | |
Sat. 11/13/10 11:28pm
which we will do right after we set stick on fire for more power!! | |
Sat. 11/13/10 11:30pm
Charly inna Brixton:
Up the miners - Coal not dole! Takes me back. | |
Sat. 11/13/10 11:35pm
al gore is right---save the planet spoil the clintons | |
Sat. 11/13/10 11:39pm
i should have said spoil the bushes...--but too late | |
Sat. 11/13/10 11:48pm
volcanoes and the sun tryin to kill us---but we have plenty of coal to throw at em | |
Sat. 11/13/10 11:51pm
Charly inna Brixton:
You may need a Bush to shelter under from which to throw your coal. | |
Sat. 11/13/10 11:54pm
:) | |
Sat. 11/13/10 11:55pm
ah! the papaya salad merchant!!! | |
Sat. 11/13/10 11:56pm
Charly inna Brixton:
Ooh , a fruit salad sounds really good right now. | |
Sat. 11/13/10 11:57pm
Charly inna Brixton:
Another great show Daniel - - - - Thanks ! | |
Sun. 11/14/10 12:20am
D. Blumin:
Olgu! Hello! Thx, Charly! | |
Sun. 11/14/10 9:11am
Good job, Daniel! Hope you'll get the brand new Tazartès' cd at the station. Pretty weird stuff as always. | |
Mon. 11/15/10 2:22pm
D. Blumin:
Thx, Looms! Haven't heard the GT yet, but lookin fwd!!! | |
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Five Apps I'd Like to See on My TV
Chris AlbrechtWhen I was growing up, my parents referred to the television as the "idiot box" or the "boob tube" because of its power to sap my ability to do anything other than stare blankly into its cathode glow. But the TV-viewing experience is undergoing a transformation as new levels of connectivity bring with them an assortment of applications designed to make watching TV a whole lot more active.
Recently, Vizio announced that it is bringing Twitter and Facebook functionality to its TV sets. Yahoo's widget engine offers access to weather, Flickr photos, and eBay. In the meantime, Cablevision is linking its TV and phone services so that when your phone rings, the show you're watching can be paused.
The thought of all these new features junking up a TV screen was enough to make my colleague Om title one of his recent posts, "Sometimes a TV Should Just Be a TV". But most of the readers who responded to our query about whether people really want widgets on their TVs said yes, and preliminary research from TDG earlier this year echoes that sentiment. According to TDG's numbers, 76% of consumers think having a widget toolbar on their primary TV set would be valuable.
I'm inclined to agree, but instead of the standard widgets that give me stock information or allow me to order a movie on Netflix, here are five apps I would love to have on my television:
The Who Is That? App: This should be a no-brainer; it's for all those times when there's a recognizable face in a show, but I just can't quite place it. Use facial recognition—or even just bring up the performer's IMDB page with a selection of photos.
The Buy This Song App: When a cool song comes on during a program, rather than waiting until the end to read in the credits whose it is, this widget would tell me who performed it and give me the option to purchase it right then and there. Bonus points for tying it to my music library so it's waiting for me the next time I fill up my iPod.
The Watch With Friends App: As noted earlier, this one's already being done—and not just by Vizio. Verizon will also offer Twitter and Facebook through its FiOS TV, and Microsoft is incorporating social aspects into its Xbox 360 video experience. Like we saw during the inauguration (http://newteevee.com/2009/01/20/facebook-cnn-is-future-of-tv/) earlier this year, there are times when technology can help people far apart share in a moment together.
The Play Along App: I'm not a huge game-show watcher, but it would be fun if instead of just shouting Jeopardy answers at Alex Trebek, I could play along and keep tabs as to how well I'm doing. Microsoft is working on something similar to this with the game show 1 vs. 100.
The What Should I Wear? App: Jerry Seinfeld once quipped that he didn't care what the temperature was, he just wanted to know what to wear. I'm in the same boat. This widget would tell me whether or not I need to bring a jacket (though since I'm in San Francisco, the answer would always be yes).


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KDE Ships December Updates to Plasma Workspaces, Applications and PlatformToday KDE released updates for its Workspaces, Applications, and Development Platform. The list of 71 recorded bugfixes include improvements in the Dolphin file manager and Kontact email and groupware client. KDE's development platform has received a number of updates which affect multiple applications. Commentsknown bugs list?Is there a list of known bugs and regressions? There is a regression since 4.9.3: Bug 311214 (clicking on an opendocument file opens it as zip-file.) It's already been fixed in source but it needs to be released.
By Pascal d'Hermilly at Thu, 2012/12/06 - 7:57am
bugzilla or your distro can help you...As far as I know there's nothing else than a smart bugzilla query you can try. Meanwhile, you can try to ping your distro team to include the fix in their packages. It seems the openSUSE packages already have it as I can't reproduce this on 4.9.4 here.
By Jos Poortvliet at Fri, 2012/12/07 - 11:52am
Perhaps a wiki in futureCould be nice to have a wiki page for these kind of releases, so we can stand on each others shoulders.
By Pascal at Fri, 2012/12/07 - 12:40pm
Apparently they fixed the Folder Refresh Bug!From the list of bugfixes it looks like they have finally tackled the very long-standing bug where Dolphin/Plasma folder widgets would not show updates to files in a directory unless manually refreshed... YAY! This bug has been reported many times and I'm going to test it out to see if they have finally squashed it for good.
By DonCornelius at Thu, 2012/12/06 - 9:53pm
Let's see ;-)Aw, that's cool. Hope it works with Nepomuk: I have a 'recent files' folderview on my desktop but after booting it shows that Nepomuk is not running - just a timing issue and a refresh solves it. I'll check it later today :D
By Jos Poortvliet at Fri, 2012/12/07 - 11:54am
High Memory UsageIn my system (Kubuntu 12.04) "plasma-desktop" is taking >90 MB after the update. I would be glad to know the appropriate forum to discuss it.
By Rajendra at Sat, 2012/12/08 - 10:46am
Forumshttp://forum.kde.org/ > KDE Software > Workspace
By Carl Symons at Sat, 2012/12/08 - 3:49pm


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Update on Amber (12 year old with brain cancer) in orange at the bottom.
You have not failed, you are doing everything you can and are a great mother for caring and loving your baby so much. I wish your daughter a smooth recovery!
You are very welcome!!! That's the least I can do for you! So many hugs and prayers to you guys! I hope she has a WONDERFUL birthday! Happy Birthday sweetheart! You are an amazing young lady and this will be the best birthday yet!
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Quoting Bird16_J:I am so very sorry momma! Hugs to you and to her! Just live everyday the best you can! I'll be sending you lots of good thoughts and prayers for both her and you that things will be alright!
Things like this do give me hope that the Dr's are wrong....Thank you
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I'm so sorry you have to go through this, and I sincerely hope she pulls through. I don't know if this is any consolation, but a friend of mine was diagnosed with cancer at 13, and through a rough patch she was said to not live past her 15th birthday. She's 24 now and very much alive and cancer free!
You have not failed, you are doing everything you can and are a great mother for caring and loving your baby so much. I wish your daughter a smooth recovery!
So sorry to hear this, just live and cherish each and every day, keep fighting, miracles happen every day. Keeping you and your daughter in my thoughts and prayers.
This cancer (grade 4 glioblastoma) is the most aggressive brain cancer there is. Every scan that comes back clean is great, but there is only a 3% chance that it will not grow back within the first year. Most people with this only live around 14 months, we are just now 6 months into this.
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If her last one back clean, isn't there a good chance this one (on the 31st) will too? I'm confused...
Take it one day at a time.
I am so sorry Mama *hugs*. Enjoy every moment...that is the only thing I know.


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A Raisin in the Sun tells the story of three generations of a family living and struggling together under one roof. The Youngers--Mama 2004 Tony winner Phylicia Rashad, her children Beneatha Sanaa Lathan and Walter Lee Combs, and his wife Ruth four-time Tony winner Audra McDonald and their son Travis--live on Chicago's South Side in the 1950s. It is a place in which dreams, like the raisin in the Langston Hughes' poem from which the play takes its title, wither and die if nothing is done with them.
The show has been packing them in at the Royale since it began previews. Despite the fact that Combs, who many consider to be the production's big box-office draw, was out for two and a half performances last week, A Raisin in the Sun did not suffer at the box office. It was up $47,551 from its pre-Tony take to come in at $603,913.


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II. On The Town
Where do you stay? What will it cost? How do you get a drink? Where to eat? What will that cost ? What's playing? Is it a talkie? How many people live here, anyway? What kind of place is this? All the answers are here.
November 1988 | Volume 39, Issue 7
Rand McNally 1926 Guide to New York. 50 cents.
New York practically has no strictly American restaurants, with food cooked in the native manner and served in the simple home style. One of the hardest things to buy in New York is genuine American cooked and served foods. The few exceptions are some of the oyster houses, dairy lunch rooms and occasional tea rooms that specialize in southern dishes prepared by a negro cook.…In the leading houses the chef is French; in a considerable portion of the others, he is German, Viennese or Italian. The waiters are almost universally foreign. In fact, the main distinction between the American and the foreign restaurant is that the former professes to cater to the American taste, while the latter tends to exaggerate its foreign features and make the most of their advertising value.
— Rider's New York City — a Guide-Book for Travellers, 1923
Nearly all Italian restaurants feature table d'hote dinners. Usually these include antipasto (the Italian hors d'oeuvre in which is included many small fish), minestrone or a thin consomme, spaghetti or ravioli (and with excellent sauces), chicken or steak, lettuce salad, and either caramel custard, spumoni, biscuit Tor- toni or apple cheese. The lunches are lighter versions of the dinners.
Among the Italian specialties that are excellent and not included on many table d'hotes are broccoli with browned butter and cheese or Hollandaise sauce, veal scallopine, gnocchi Romano, and zucchine.
Enrico & Paglierri — 66 W. llth St. Lunch, 85c; Dinner, $1.35 Week days: Saturday, Sunday and Holidays, $1.50 and a la carte.
Sardi's, 234 W. 44th St. — Lunch, 8Oc to $1.25; Dinner, $1.50 and a Ia carte.
The French table d'hote is usually like the Italian. The a Ia carte is much better. Nearly all the food is good if the restaurant is good, and chicken cooked in any manner is always dependable. The best vegetables in the world are served at Longchamps.
Louis, 154 W. 50th St. — Lunch, 5Oc; Dinner, $1.10 Week days; Saturday, Sunday and Holidays, $1.25 and a la carte.
Longchamps, 19 W. 57th St., 55 5th Ave., 423 Madison Ave., 1015 Madison Ave., a la carte.
Charles, 138 6th Ave. — A la carte Dinner, Sunday, $1.75.
Rich, heavy but grand meats and gravies are served at these restaurants. Luchow's have apple pancakes that are really dreams of apple pancakes.
Luchow, 110 E. 14th St. —Ala carte.
A la carte dinners include more strange foods than ever Fanny Farmer dreamed. If you order sukiyaki you can cook it at your table, which is quite a lot of fun. This food is nothing like Chinese.
Daruma, 781 6th Ave. — Lunch, 60c; Dinner, $1 and $1.25 and a la carte.
Henry's Smorgasbord is an adventure. Fast three days before attempting a Swedish table d'hote dinner.
Henry's, 69 West 36th St. — Lunch, $1.25; Dinner, $2.00.
East Indian
Curry is inevitable. Ditto rice. Ditto atmosphere.
Ceylon Indian Inn, 148 W. 49th St. — Dinner, 85c to $3.00 and a la carte.
— Gotham Guide, 1926
The Hearthstone, 174 West 4th Street. One of the few places in the Village where you are sure of having home cooking. You are never turned out to make room for others. And Mrs. Lyons offers second helpings!
The Pickwick Inn, 123 West 44th Street, is an eating place not to be missed, either for luncheon or dinner. Its customers say that they get more and better food for less money than anywhere else in town.
The Roosevelt, Madison Avenue at 45th Street. New York City's newest and finest hotel with an unexcelled table in all its departments.
New York Exchange for Woman's Work, 541 Madison Avenue. A choice restaurant for ladies, serving all meals. Cakes and fancy articles for sale.
Mary Elizabeth, Fifth Avenue and 36th Street. This dainty eating place is worth many visits by those who like discrimination in their choice.
Ye Cheshire Cheese, Seventh Avenue and 47th Street. Not a replica of Dr. Johnson's old rendezvous in London, but serving a dainty meal worth trying.


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The Passage to Europe: How a Continent Became a Union, by Luuk van Middelaar/translated by Liz Waters, Yale, RRP£25/$40, 352 pages
The Lost Continent, by Gavin Hewitt, Hodder & Stoughton, RRP£20, 368 pages
German Europe, by Ulrich Beck/translated by Rodney Livingstone, Polity, RRP£16.99/$19.95, 120 pages
To Americans or Asians, it is self-evident that Europe must get its act together if it wants a secure place at the world's top table. The longer Europe wrestles with how to save its monetary union and restore a sense of collective purpose to its politics, the more non-Europeans interpret the continent's struggle as symptomatic of a profound crisis.
Europe's ability to sustain its social and economic model, and to preserve its influence in a world of existing and emerging great powers, is unquestionably being subjected to an intense test. But the notion that Europe is losing its way is nothing new. In a 1975 report to his fellow European leaders, Leo Tindemans, the then Belgian prime minister, wrote: "The European idea is partly a victim of its own successes: the reconciliation between formerly hostile countries, the economic prosperity due to the enlarged market, the detente which has taken the place of the cold war ... Europe today is part of the general run of things: it seems to have lost its air of adventure."
Today's policy makers and commentators construct similar arguments to explain Europe's uncertain sense of direction. Democracy, prosperity and peace – the historic conquests of the post-1945 era – are reasonably well-established across most of the continent, west and east. But where, some lament, echoing Tindemans, is the "air of adventure"? The sobering truth is that the prospects for a more deeply integrated Europe, capable of inspiring two or three dozen nations with a common vision, appear to be remote. Doubtless a crisis can serve as a catalyst for change. For now, however, it is proving difficult even to construct a "Europe" limited to the 17 nations that share the euro.
Three new books – one by a Dutch historian and political philosopher, one by a British foreign correspondent and one by a German sociologist – diagnose Europe's troubles with a realism and clarity that suggest a long and arduous road ahead. The most impressive is Luuk van Middelaar's The Passage to Europe, originally published in Dutch in 2009 and the winner of several European literary prizes. It is a discerning, balanced, gracefully written book, flavoured with the insights of political science but filled with the meat of European Union history over six decades.
Van Middelaar, an adviser to Herman Van Rompuy, the Belgian politician who in 2010 became the EU's first full-time president, writes with refreshing bluntness about the national impulses that drive the European policies of the Union's big three powers. "France looks to Europe for a reincarnation of itself. Germany seeks (or has sought) redemption from guilt. Britain wants 'a seat at the table' whenever the others meet."
EU member states, especially the eurozone nations, do share a considerable amount of sovereignty. A set of landmark European Court of Justice judgments, dating from the early 1960s, established the primacy of EU over national law. Governments have gradually accepted that they belong to a political entity in which they can, on specific policy issues, be outvoted – even if achieving consensus is the preferred method. But unlike the 13 American states in 1787, Europe has never had a "foundational moment" from which to emerge as a federation that derives its legitimacy from the consent of the European people as a whole. In fact, van Middelaar writes, "the singular use of 'people' is taboo" for most national leaders.
At the Convention on the Future of Europe, which drafted an EU constitution in 2002-2003, some politicians pushed for a pan-European referendum to endorse the document. The idea was to demonstrate that the constituent power underlying the EU's new institutions would reside in Europe's citizens as a collective mass. This was an audacious attempt at proclaiming a US-style, "We, the people of Europe" breakthrough. It might have turned the EU from its habits of intergovernmental co-operation and towards something more federal. But the initiative got nowhere: there was simply no appetite for it among most governments. The proposed constitutional treaty, meanwhile, crashed in flames when Dutch and French voters rejected it in national referendums.
Equally, attempting to build a European identity from above, in the manner of 19th-century nationalist politicians and thinkers, is a doomed endeavour, van Middelaar contends. Eugen Weber, the late US historian, wrote an influential book, Peasants into Frenchmen (1976), in which he showed how the modern French identity arose in the late 19th and early 20th centuries from economic transformation, military conscription and the spread of literacy and republican political values by means of mass education. But as Jan-Werner Müller, the Princeton university professor, once incisively put it: "Where today are the provincial illiterates who, voluntarily or not, need to be 'Europeanised'?"
Common history textbooks for European high schools would be an experiment fraught with risk, as van Middelaar reminds us in recounting the fate of a book in which historians from 12 countries each wrote one chapter. The EU-inspired project was dropped because the chapter on France referred deprecatingly to the "barbarian" rather than "Germanic" invasions of early medieval times, and a Spanish author appalled the English by branding Sir Francis Drake, the Elizabethan maritime hero, a "pirate".
As van Middelaar says, the EU yearns to connect with a "European public" in the way that politicians connect at national and regional level. Instead, millions of Europeans view the Union as largely irrelevant to everyday life, the exceptions being those interest groups selected for generous endowments and subsidies. The task for the EU, van Middelaar sensibly concludes, "is to allow the voices of the national electorates – first the parliaments, then the voters that stand behind them – to be heard in European democracy. This is a far from simple challenge, but the member states do not have a great deal of choice."
The eurozone's debt and banking crises barely figure in van Middelaar's book but they are the big theme of The Lost Continent, a work of lively reportage by Gavin Hewitt, the BBC's Europe editor. He travels from Greece, Ireland, Portugal and Spain to France, Germany, Italy and the UK, showing a perceptive awareness of how the political and economic dramas vary from one country to the next.
The origins of Greece's collapse lay in a culture of political patronage and tax evasion that long predated the euro's birth in 1999. By contrast, one interesting question in France is why a country that boasts world-class businesses and a sense of universal mission for mankind should be so leery of globalisation.
Few political leaders emerge with enhanced reputations from Hewitt's account. But at least the beer-soaked conviviality of Brian "Biffo" Cowen, the former Irish prime minister whose political enemies accused him of running the country into the ground from a bar stool, was less eye-popping than the sybaritic excesses of Silvio Berlusconi, Italy's billionaire ex-premier.
It should surprise no one that the first instinct of Angela Merkel, a Lutheran pastor's daughter who rose to become Germany's chancellor, was to grasp for a moral cure of the eurozone's debt-fuelled ills. "Member states face many years of work to atone for past sins," Hewitt quotes her as saying at a summit in March 2011.
Other German voices were more insolent. As Greece received its first, €110bn rescue from Germany and other international creditors in 2010, the German tabloid Bild suggested: "We give you cash, you give us Corfu." This prompted an indignant Greek pensioner to tell a radio show that, when the ancient Greeks were carving beautiful statues, the ancestors of the Germans were "living in caves and growling like dogs".
Hewitt ends on a judicious note, commenting: "The crisis has confirmed Germany as Europe's indispensable nation and therein lies a great irony. The currency that was intended to bind Germany into Europe has ended up with the coronation of Germany as the dominant power. It has not sought this role and is not yet entirely comfortable with it."
Ulrich Beck, a left-leaning social scientist at Munich university and the London School of Economics, would broadly agree with Hewitt, but also delivers a crisp, sometimes sharply critical assessment of Merkel's style of leadership. In German Europe, Beck contends that Germany's rise to pre-eminence in the euro crisis owes much to what he calls Merkel's "art of selective procrastination".
By this he means that while the chancellor is prepared to approve financial rescues for individual debtor countries, she will not throw her weight behind grand schemes for accelerated European integration. In pursuing such a strategy she does just enough to keep the euro going, to retain the trust of German voters and to extract solemn promises from debtors that they will imbibe Germany's economic and fiscal "stability culture" in return for loans and guarantees.
Beck coins the term "Merkiavelli" to suggest that Merkel displays certain qualities, such as an unsentimental, tactical adroitness, that Niccolò Machiavelli, the Renaissance political philosopher, made famous in The Prince. "The Prince, Machiavelli believed, must only stick to what he said yesterday if it brings him positive advantages today. Transferring this to the present situation would produce the maxim: today you can do the opposite of what you proclaimed yesterday if it improves your own chances in the next election."
As an example, Beck cites Merkel's U-turn on nuclear power, which she executed just after Japan's 2011 Fukushima disaster and just before an important election in Baden-Württemberg. There is something in what Beck says, but it is hardly a watertight theory: after all, Merkel's Christian Democrats lost that election.
Beck's more important point is that, "the German policy of austerity has yet to show any successes – quite the contrary, in fact. The debt crisis now threatens to engulf Spain, Italy and perhaps even France ..."
In the light of mass unemployment and persistent recession, Europe's policy makers are quietly recasting austerity. But it remains unclear how far the Germans will ease the pressure on what they view as overspending, semi-reformed partners. On the whole Germany's leaders seem utterly convinced that their economic diagnoses and prescriptions are correct. Yet, as Beck remarks, "Merkel has absolutely no interest in going down in the history books as the chancellor who presided over the demise of the euro." In that, for the moment, lies Europe's hope of happier days to come.
Tony Barber is the FT's Europe editor


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BCS system swan song: Auburn vs. Florida State
As college football prepares for the final Bowl Championship Series, featuring a Florida State-Auburn championship game, it's easy to see why the coming four-team playoff won't solve all the postseason problems.
Heck, we might just miss the BCS. Maybe?
It sort of worked out this season. Top-ranked Florida State (13-0) was the only team to get through the regular season unbeaten, and the Seminoles did it in dominating fashion. Auburn (12-1) won the Southeastern Conference, and among the teams with imperfect records the Tigers' resume is best.
"We all complain about the BCS, but isn't it funny how often they get it right," Florida State coach Jimbo Fisher said.
The pairings became official Sunday night when the final BCS standings came out. There was no question about 1 and 2. It'll be the Seminoles and Tigers at the Rose Bowl on Jan. 6 for the national championship.
In the other marquee bowls:
Alabama will play Oklahoma in the Sugar Bowl.
Clemson will play Ohio State in the Orange Bowl.
Michigan State will play Stanford in the Rose Bowl.
Baylor will play Central Florida in the Fiesta Bowl.
Of course, Big 12 champion Baylor (11-1) and Big Ten champion Michigan State (12-1) might argue with that top two. But over 16 seasons college football fans have built up what can be called BCS acceptance, learning to live with the fact there is only room for two.
Fans of particularly aggrieved teams (2000 Miami, 2004 Auburn, 2008 Texas, just to name a few) still burn over the slights. Generally, though, by the time the championship game kicked off, most everybody was on board.
And only eight times before the BCS did No. 1 play No. 2 in a bowl game.
"It's been a remarkable seismic change for this sport," executive director Bill Hancock said. "That was unthinkable before the BCS."
Now think about this season playing out under next season's format.
In the new world order known as the College Football Playoff, a selection committee will pick four teams to play in national semifinals.
The winners play for the championship.
So how would a panel that includes Tom Osborne, Archie Manning and Condoleezza Rice sort out this season's top four?
Florida State and Auburn, of course. And … Baylor and Michigan State? But what about Pac-12 champion Stanford (11-2)?
Sure the Cardinal has two losses, but as Auburn Athletic Director Jay Jacobs said Saturday: "I have nine words. Strength of schedule. Strength of schedule. Strength of schedule."
Among this season's best teams, Stanford played the toughest schedule.
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We study materials with heterogeneous structure, including natural viscoelastic composites such as bone, ligament, tendon and wood, as well as synthetic composites, biomaterials, and cellular solids with structural hierarchy. We investigate the freedom of natural and synthesized materials to behave in ways not anticipated in elementary continuum representations, to ameliorate stress concentrations, and to attain physical properties of much higher magnitude than anticipated from standard theories. Designed Cosserat solids have been made by 3D printing. Viscoelastic materials are of particular interest as high performance damping materials and as practical materials which undergo creep in industrial settings. We determine viscoelastic properties including internal friction, dependence on strain rate, and creep over eleven orders of magnitude of frequency and time, with no need for temperature shifts. In our laboratory we synthesize and characterize materials with extreme and unusual physical properties. Materials which undergo phase transformation are of interest in the context of viscoelastic damping and of negative stiffness. We have developed new materials with reversed properties, including negative Poisson's ratio (auxetic), negative stiffness, and negative thermal expansion. Designed materials can have thermal expansion or piezoelectric sensitivity of arbitrarily large magnitude. Designed lattices have zero thermal expansion. Composite materials stiffer than diamond over a temperature range have been demonstrated in the lab. Such materials may be called metamaterials but we have not done so. We also study practical composite materials such as dental composites for tooth restorations and aircraft composites in the context of damage resistance and damage tolerance as well as moisture ingression. Piezoelectric composites and lattices, chiral elastic lattices, as well as thermoelastic composites and lattices are presently of particular current interest. We pursue basic research as well as applied research for industry. Industrial research has included high temperature performance studies of alloys for small engines, improved shoe insoles, and advanced dampers. |


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By Bobby Harrison/NEMS Daily Journal
JACKSON – Legislation was sent to the governor Tuesday that would allow municipalities in dry counties to vote on allowing the sale of liquor.
The bill would allow any municipality with a population of more than 5,000 or any municipality that is a county seat to vote to allow liquor to be sold. Twelve members of the 52-member Mississippi Senate voted against the proposal, which earlier passed the House.
Under current state law, when votes are held to legalize liquor, it must be a countywide referendum. Liquor, though, can only be sold within municipal boundaries.
There have been instances where a majority of city dwellers have favored the legalization of alcohol, but it has been blocked by the vote of county resdients.
The legislation would allow a vote solely within municipal boundaries of cities of 5,000 or more or of a county seat on the issue of selling liquor if 20 percent of the registered voters present a petition to the board of aldermen in support of the referendum.
Rep. Lester "Bubba" Carpenter, R-Burnsville, said he supported the proposal because it is time to get the Legislature out of the business of voting on the issue for individual towns.
In recent years, legislation has been passed to allow certain cities in dry counties to sell liquor by granting them resort status.
"The local people know better than we do," Carpenter said.
Earlier this session the Corinth Board of Aldermen asked the Legislature to allow a Corinth-only vote on the sale of liquor. Lgislators from the Corinth area refused to file a bill to allow the vote, but the bill sent to the governor Tuesday would allow that vote.
Sen. Rita Potts Parks, R-Corinth, said she voted against the proposal because she believes all liquor votes should be countywide. She said that was the overwhelming sentiment of her constituents who contacted her about the issue.
Sen. Lydia Chasaniol, R-Winona, chair of the Tourism Committee, said the bill promotes tourism and economic development.
"We are hoping to attract tourism," she said. To do that, Mississippi's liquor laws need to be compatible with those in surrounding states. "Tourists often want a nice wine with their dinner," she said.
If voters in a municipality approved the sale of liquor, it would be up to the town's governing board to set up guidelines. The board could restrict the sale of liquor to restaurants or could allow it to be sold in package stores.
How They Voted
VOTE OF Northeast Mississippi senators on bill to allow municipalities to vote on the sale of liquor:
FOR – Hob Bryan, D-Amory; Nancy Collins, R-Tupelo; Gray Tollison, ROxford; Bennie Turner, D-West Point.
AGAINST – Nickey Browning, DPontotoc; Gary Jackson, R-French Camp; Russell Jolly, D-Houston; Rita Potts Parks, R-Corinth; Bill Stone, D-Ashland; and J.P. Wilemon, D-Belmont.


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Granted my photo is just awful, but the recipe easy as it was, was not great. If you didn't see the noodle clinging to the bowl, you would never know that I put noodles in the dish. I don't know what I was expecting and the best part was the sautéed beef and the broccoli without the noodles.
I chose to blanch and cool the broccoli before finishing as the recipe states and it came out with a little crispness and not too browned as I have often ended up with.
The peanut sauce was way too thick and I thinned it considerably and ended up not using the most of the sauce.
I like buckwheat noodles that I buy at an Asian store and I have a particular brand that I use, but was out of so I purchased another brand at our local store, not to my liking at all and maybe contributed some to my negative evaluation.
I think that if I am tempted to make anything like beef and broccoli with noodles, I might consider using a simple sesame noodle recipe and use my regular brand or other Asian style noodle or go to a more traditional recipe and serve with rice.


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Bob Edwards Weekend, February 9-10, 2013
Doyle McManus, Washington columnist for the Los Angeles Times, joins Bob to discuss the latest political news.
Dror Moreh is director of The Gatekeepers, a striking documentary about the Israeli/Palestinian conflict. The film gives a history of Israel and its intelligence service, the Shin Bet, through interviews with the last six living former heads of the espionage organization. The Gatekeepers is nominated for Best Documentary at this year's Academy Awards.
Then, the latest installment of our ongoing series This I Believe. This week, we hear from Lorena Templeton Querns about growing her family through adoption.
Pulitzer-Prize winning author Jared Diamond talks to Bob about his 48 years in Papua New Guinea, his interest in tribal culture, and his latest book The World Until Yesterday: What Can We Learn From Traditional Societies?
For over 20 years, illustrator and author Danny Gregory has created one personal illustration a day in addition to his regular work. This habit guided him through the painful and shocking death of his wife Patti, who died in 2010. Gregory compiled his illustrations along with his and Patti's story in his new book A Kiss Before You Go: An Illustrated Memoir of Love and Loss.
Bob Edwards Weekend airs on Sirius XM Public Radio (XM 121, Sirius 205) Saturdays from 8-10 AM EST.
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Our tomatoe leaves are covered with reddish brown spots. I am assuming they are mites. WE sprayed with diazon but that didn't work.
We used a mite spray it seemed to help a little, but the mites moved over to a space that hadn't been hit with the spray. HELP. What is effective.


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MONDAY, Oct. 25 -- A woman's weight influences her fertility, two new studies suggest.
In one study, researchers compared Society for Assisted Reproductive Technology (SART) data on 158,385 menstrual cycles with the height and weight of women. They found that cycle cancellation rates became more common with increasing body mass index (BMI) and that the chances of not becoming pregnant, or failing to carry a pregnancy to term, rose significantly with increasing obesity.
In the other study, researchers at Harvard University and Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston examined the quality of eggs and embryos from women with different BMIs.
Eggs from women with high and low BMIs were more likely than eggs from normal-weight women to produce immature oocytes during an assisted reproductive technology (ART) cycle, leading to a lower likelihood of successful embryo transfer and a lower live birth rate.
The studies were to be presented Monday at the annual meeting of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine in Denver.
"Clearly a healthy body weight is an important advantage in all aspects of health, including reproductive health," Dr. James Goldfarb, SART president, said in an American Society for Reproductive Medicine news release.
"We are hoping that with better information we can provide better help to our patients whose struggle with infertility includes a struggle with weight," he said.
More information
WomensHealth.gov has more about preconception health.
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these places
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this outfit from totokaelo (aaaaaah)
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this fox. mid sneeze or mid giggle? we'll never know.
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Islamabad: Pakistan's Parliament made history on Thursday by becoming the first National Assembly in the country's history to complete a full term of five years, with the conclusion of the House's 50th session, setting the stage for the holding of elections. Zardari lauds govt for completing tenure (Agencies) Latest News from World News Desk
"The session that started on February 18, 2013 has prorogued on completion of its business," Yasmeen Rehman, a lawmaker for the ruling Pakistan People's Party, read out from a letter from President Asif Ali Zardari.
Religious Affairs Minister Syed Khursheed Shah congratulated parliamentarians on the completion of the National Assembly's five-year constitutional term and said the credit for the passage of 138 bills by the lower house of parliament goes to parliamentarians from the treasury and opposition benches.
Rehman, who was chairing the session in the absence of Speaker Fehmida Mirza, said, "I pray that Allah gives us success and that democracy should continue and the next parliament should also complete its term."
However, only a handful of lawmakers attended the last session of the 13th National Assembly, which was largely devoted to farewell speeches. Pakistan is due to go to the polls to elect a new parliament sometime in May, and the election will mark the first time in the country's history that power will be transferred from one democratically elected government to another.
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"Yes, I have AIDS"
By GudgudeeFYI: names have been changed for privacy reasons!
6:30 am: *Hello Moto!* Not wanting to get out of my comfy bed, I hit snooze to get a few more precious minutes of sleep before stepping out into the cold Chicago wind. It seemed like a typical morning as I gazed out my window, grey skies, the howling wind, frozen lake, and the typical morning traffic on LSD. Sitting on the futon, sipping my morning coffee, I hear that annoying ringer go off again. Ignoring the call, I sit there just pondering about how fortunate I am to live the life I have; so thankful for my supportive family, loving friends, and ok health. Slowly I walk over to the telephone, oh, hmmm, I wonder what my girl Pinky wants this early in the morning.
So what about Pinky? Shes a beautiful, well educated, respectable wife, daughter, and a good friend. She lives a true inspirational Islamic lifestyle. I have never seen her take off her hijab, nor have I ever really seen her making eye contact with the fellas who gawk at her body. All in all, a virgin- sweet & innocent gal.
She married into a similar type family whos only son, Ali, was the typical class clown. Like most teenage guys, he fell for a girl, Miriam, very early in his life and had every intention of marriage with her. Miriam too wanted Ali but their naseeb wasnt meant to last. Miriam passed away before taking wedding vows. Now quick note about Miriam, she had one previous fling with another man and girl (yes a one time threesome event), which Ali was aware of.
So getting back to the chilly winter morning and conversation with Pinky:
Me: Just tell me why are you crying chica?
Pinky: Its horrible, I cant even say it. You know how Ive been battling pneumonia these past few weeks, feeling very sick and rundown, well I went for a check up and
*crying continues*
Me: Are you pregnant? I know Ali and you have been trying! Congrats babe!
Pinky: NO, I HAVE AIDS.
Me: What did you say? *thought I mistakenly heard her say something disturbing and then wishing I could take back my previous words*
Pinky: Yes, I have AIDS.
Me: But how? The only man youve ever been with is Ali, so how did this happen?
Pinky: Ali tested positive for HIV also, but his immune system has been able to fight off the bugs. We never thought to get tested before and he didnt know until now. The only person he must have contracted it from was Miriam, and she, only God knows. *crying turns to shrieking wails now*
*chills and tears filled my heart*
Me: Im coming over right now.
The world seemed to have stopped as I hung up the phone with Pinky that day. As I traveled to her house, everything around me was quiet; the radio was on but I heard nothing, the cars beeped their way through traffic yet I felt as though no one was around. Feelings of guilt, anger, shame, and sorrow hurricaned through my mind. How could God let this happen to such a good person? She never did anything sinful or wrong! For once in my life, I was speechless. I didnt know what to say to my dear friend.
We talked for hours that day, sobbing and pondering about if and how she should break the news to her family. Should she tell her parents about this horrific roadblock in her life? While sitting next to her, she called her mother for a family meeting. I stuck around to support her while she explained her test results to the parents. Obviously, everyone was shocked and in terrible grief. The yelling, screaming, and crying from both parties didnt seem to end, but when it did, uncle ji dismissed Pinky as his daughter. He called her unimaginable names, called her a disgrace to the family, and asked her to never contact them again. And then both uncle and aunty left!
CAN YOU BELIEVE THAT? I was so outraged and astounded at her fathers remarks and her mothers khamoshi. Apparently they forgot that they had arranged this marriage after carefully investigating the guy and family as most desi families do. Pinky ka kiya kasoor hai? How was it her fault?
So these days she is receiving drugs to ease the pain this disease causes, but the truth of the matter is, shes dying and can only pray that God forgives her and her husband for their sins.
My friends experience has really got me thinking about an important question: In an arranged marriage situation were guy/gal hook up because of some rishta lady, do you bring up past sexual relationships? If yes, then how does one start up a hefty topic with someone they barely even know? If a person has a sexual past and you are seriously considering them for shaddi, would it be so wrong to ask them to get tested beforehand without offending the other?
**** A public safety announcement: Be responsible with your sexual activity. One shot is all it takes to pass on a lifetime of misery. ****
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I say get everyone tested. People lie all the time.
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Last week an unnamed Saudi source warned The New York Times (April 25) that Saudi Arabia would use "the oil weapon" against the United States and would demand that strategic American military bases in the region be abandoned "if Mr. Bush does not moderate his support for Israel's military policies." Those actions would represent a "strategic debacle for the United States," the source warned.
By the next day, Saudi spokesmen were denying issuing such warnings, but as suggested by The Times' columnist William Safire (April 29), the denials were expected. The source, Safire wrote, could have been "acting on Abdullah's direct instructions to panic the president into one-sidedly denouncing the Israelis and treating Yasir Arafat as victim rather than terrorist." Alternatively, Safire suggested, the source could have been from Saudi opponents of Crown Prince Abdullah.
Whatever the case, Saudi Arabia has started throwing its weight around Washington. Some of Washington's top PR firms were hired, and a series of TV and newspaper ads were prepared for cable television. Untold numbers of press backgrounders and briefings were arranged for Saudi spokesmen with the press and political leaders in Washington.
The ads, paid by the Saudi Embassy and part of an estimated $10 million campaign, actually try to promote "Saudi Arabia's alliance" with the United States in combating international terrorism. Here's the text of a second ad:
"We've been allies for more than 60 years, working together to solve the world's toughest problems, working together for world prosperity, working together to bring peace to the Middle East, working together to create a better future for us all."
How do they say "chutzpah" in Saudi Arabia?
Saudi Arabia is desperate to convert Americans who remember that 15 of the September 11 hijackers/mass murderers were Saudis. Saudis want to hide their ambassador to London who published a poem in the London-based Arabic newspaper Al-Hayat (April 13) criticizing America and praising suicide bombers. Saudi princes seek to whitewash the support Saudi Arabia gives to fanatical Islamist schools around the world. The danegelt paid by the Saudis to Yasir Arafat, Hamas, al Queida, and "martyrs" telethons places them on the wrong side of President Bush's "evil axis."
Representative Tom Lantos of California put it best when he was asked about the ads on CNN's "American Morning with Paula Zahn" (April 29).
"The notion that we have been allies for 60 years is an absurdity," Lantos declared. "We have been protecting the Saudi regime, which is an repressive regime living in the Middle Ages. We just had this example of the air traffic controllers [outrage], that women air traffic controllers cannot handle a Saudi plane. Their values, their policies, their attitudes are diametrically opposed to ours. They have oil, we need that oil and that's why we protect them. That's the basis of the relationship. Their society is diametrically opposed in values to our society. They have no religious freedom. They have no rights for women. They have no political pluralism. So… to say we share the same values I think is absurd. This is a very clever PR trick and they are pouring millions of dollars into it. I wish they had poured this money into Arab refugee camps. We wouldn't have the problem that we have today."
According to advertising trade journals, AMC, Bravo, History Channel, Lifetime, USA Network and The Weather Channel have all turned down the ads, costing them estimated revenues of $300,000-$400,000 each.
You can write to these companies and commend their commitment to "honesty in advertising."
AMC – firstname.lastname@example.com
Bravo – email@example.com
USA Network – email@example.com
Will other channels be able to resist the financial temptation of the Saudi whitewash?
HonestReporting encourages members to monitor their local stations for the Saudi distortions. Be prepared to respond to local station managers and producers, using Tom Lantos' eloquent arguments.


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Finished or unfinished - Finished hardwoods are available in hundreds of pre-stained and sealed options. While choosing unfinished wood and staining and sealing it yourself allows you to put a completely individual stamp on your flooring choice, one big advantage to prefinished hardwoods is that they typically contain a layer of factory applied aluminum oxide as a sealer. It's harder and more durable than the multi-coat polyurethane finish usually used as a DIY sealer for unfinished wood flooring.
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Engineered wood is typically less expensive than solid hardwood, but it's designed to be very stable and durable. Instead of a single piece of wood, it's constructed in layers with alternating grain and a thin hardwood veneer on top. This makes it strong, dense, and resistant to warping. It's a good overall choice and also a viable wood option for areas like basements or kitchens where hardwood isn't appropriate.
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Tennesee walking horses... 1 Attachment(s) In the next week, I will likely be the owner of a 6Yo gelding TWH. As I have spent most of my years riding primarily English, and I ride primarily (for now at least) an English saddle, I have a few general questions. I have had limited saddle time on him, but to say I'm impressed with his easy gait is an understatement. On the other hand, I'm not clear if my English saddle will be sufficient for him, at least for the time being. I borrowed a saddle for the test rides. Trail, road and ring pleasure hacking (no showing or events) are all He will be doing. I have also discovered that as he transitions his gait-speeds, he becomes a bit of a jack-hammer. If you forget your gripping the saddle with your thighs as he slows, you are asking him to speed up. I need to be sure I relax as much as possible when i need gait/speed changes, as it gets a bit jarring in the saddle, and you cannot (or should not) leg-grip. What I'm asking here, is for anyone who has more experience than I, chime in, and let me know what you think are any thoughts on the transition from straight English riding techniques, to primarily riding a gaited horse. What I can definitely say about him..He is trained to the nine's, he is very gentle and easy-going. no "panic" buttons I have yet found, and as personality goes, he is exactly the type In have been searching for. So, who would like to add ANYTHING about their experiences with the TWH? ALL comments are welcome, I will be rethinking the ways I have ridden previously, as some of them seemingly won't work well for him Thanks much, Lw (his photo is attched) |
You say you rode him english and that may be the issue...I have had my TWH for a little over a year now, but ride western (more to grip while in transisition(only my opinion of course), ..riding him and my quarter horses are night and day. Snap (TWH) just vibrates with energy, walkers walk fast and he leaves my others behind, and when they get in their gait its like floating...I love it and he does too. He was only actually properly trained/broke a year ago....(supposed to have bought a broke horse and he wasnt)..and we make progress everyday. He has a wonderful personality, and from what I get from other TWH owners thats overall how they feel about theirs. I would think with a english saddle cueing would be more easily felt because more of your body makes contact with the horse from my observation. Walkers are wonderful for trail rides...on Snaps first trail ride its like its his mission to just keep trucking, my quarter horses are just more laid back, my daughter complains that we leave her and her horse behind..but its just natural for walkers to have go. Hes not scarey (not anymore anyway) its just a different energy..I guess I cant explain it... this might not help much but your going to love your walker if hes anything like mine:) and it could just be time and adjustment factor for him to get used to what you want from him. |
I have not had the English saddle on him yet, but it is my best and most favorite saddle. I had done my test rides in Western, only currently, I do not own one. I do have an Aussie saddle, maybe that will be the best option. Still I have my best seat in my 30year old well broken to my butt English saddle. As to his "feel", I liken Him to a train. Once he has motion, best to let him go. He is a very large legged and bodied Horse, so when he's in drive, I'm covering ground..I dislike trotting, so this should work out for me...It is mostly my lack of experience working with this breed, so it is a learning (relearning?) experience... I appreciate your reply, btw...Lw |
I have 2 walkers. I've always ridden them in a western saddle but I have a 12 year old that rides my 5 year old mare in an english saddle and just plain adores her. I am not educated in the proper methods for riding a walking horse but in my experience it helps to actually ride with your lower legs forward, almost in front of the girth and I've seen alot of pix on the web of saddle seat folks doing that on gaited horses. Not sure if it's proper advice or not but it helps me since my horse has that side to side gait rather then a trot... |
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