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Our dog was dropped off for boarding 18 July 2014, in normal health. On July 24, Flint River Bed N Biscuit calls and states that our dog cannot use its rear legs. After hip radiographs were taken, Dr. Kevin Lowe treated our dog for an enlarged bladder with SMZ/TMP. We never received another call and returned from our vacation July 27. At pickup, our dog had no use of his rear legs and had to be towel walked out. Boarding provided no explanation as to whether his condition had improved or worsened. We demanded Dr. Lowe call first thing Monday morning, July 28. We were devastated, ruining our vacation memories in the process. At home, we immediately researched what could cause such sudden ataxia. Tick-borne infection was the top results. After we (the patients) suggested to Dr. Lowe that a neurological infection must be causing the ataxia, he prescribed Minocycline July 28 and sent the July 24 blood off for additional tests (which Dr. Lowe even excluded the eventual neurological infection from this test order). Not until we visited with an AVSS Orthopedic specialist and a regionally renowned veterinarian, did we finally get the correct blood tests ordered to find out that our dog during boarding was infected with Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever (RMSF). Both second opinion Vets stated that the enlarged bladder would have been a secondary effect to the neurological infection and that the enlarged bladder (or urinary tract infection) would never cause sudden ataxia. Veterinary and human research also support their findings. Furthermore, the CDC states that SMZ/TMP may worsen the RMSF infection. Our dog (while under the care of a medical professional - Dr. Lowe) had to endure a minimum of 5 days with RMSF without the proper antibiotic and possibly causing long term neurological effects that we won't know for several more months. I strongly advise NEVER to treat or board your dog at Flint River Animal Hospital.
Everyone was great with my sweet Gracie (shih tzu) for her spay. They found a hernia during surgery and called me right away about it and got her taken care of. Have switched over to them as our family vet of choice. Great job! Excellent facilities and staff.
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If you can get authorized user status on a credit card account with a good payment history, don't hesitate to do so. If you pay the bill on time, the account holder's history becomes yours. http://www.goldsilverfactor.com/ Be aware, however, that it also works in reverse; if the account holder defaults, your credit will suffer as well. Repair your credit. If you want to take out a loan, a company is going to look at your credit report. If you have a poor credit score, they may refuse to loan you money or the loan that you qualify for, may have a very high interest rate. By paying off your bills in a timely manner, your credit score will improve, gradually. If you have a lot of debt that you are unable to pay, talk to a credit counselor. They will negotiate a repayment plan with your creditors, often lowering the payments and interest rates. Pay down credit card debt. Most people carry a debt on their credit cards, usually at an exorbitant interest rate. By paying the minimum amount each month, you will only be making a small dent on the balance. If you have any excess cash, you should start trying to pay off the credit card that has the highest interest rate. Once you have paid off that debt, focus on your other cards in the same manner. Always pay down the debt of the card with the highest interest rate, first.
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Good location if you want to visit El Rancho (whether more than a quick visit is worth it is questionable), but don't want to pay to stay the night there. This little motel is just across the road. Fantastic neon sign at the front is...More
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The French merdias recently announced that according to the INSEE (National Institute for Statistics and Economic Studies) French women had a total fertility rate of 2. Since then, all the French establishment is congratulating itself for France's great performance and celebrating the super fecund French woman.
However, beside the Front National, nobody realized that 2 is not enough to reach the replacement fertility rate, and moreover that the number announced by the INSEE and the merdias do not represent the fertility of French women, but the fertility of the women in France.
One have to research elsewhere than in the INSEE's statistics to find out, for instance, that the most fertile department is Seine-Saint-Denis, and that in this department 40% of births are from foreign mothers.
The true demographic balance is that ethnic French population is being substituted.
As said Mohamed BEN BRAHIM BOUKHAROUBA, a former president of Algeria, in a U.N. speech in 1974: "One day, millions of men will leave the Southern Hemisphere to go to the Northern Hemisphere. And they will not go there as friends. Because they will go there to conquer it. And they will conquer it with their sons. The wombs of our women will give us victory."


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Dear DC AmeriCorps Alum,
Join fellow alumni in helping current corps members prepare for life after AmeriCorps! Share your knowledge and experience in a fun, innovative 18 MINUTE NETWORKING format. Besides being a fun and interactive evening with great hors d'oeuvres and refreshments, this event co-sponsored by City Year and AmeriCorps Alums-DC will showcase the power of the AmeriCorps Alums network and its many leaders to support each other's work in the community, support currently serving members, and live the values of a lifetime of service. Event details are as follows:
PURPOSE: Facilitate a dialogue about life after AmeriCorps and give corps members the opportunity to meet and network with alumni who are established in their careers and have leveraged their AmeriCorps experience to succeed in the working world.
STRUCTURE: Two or three alumni with experience in a particular field of work lead small group discussions about the steps they have taken since graduating from AmeriCorps that have let them to their current work. The Emcee introduces each of three 18 minute sessions (two sessions, break, and one final session). After each 18 minute session, corps members rotate to a different table and participate in a new discussion. During the break and after the third session, there is time to connect informally with alumni whom you didn't get a chance to meet.
DATE/TIME: Tuesday, March 21, 2006. The schedule will be as follows:
Corps Registration & Alums Arrive/Mingle: 5:45 - 6:30pm
18 Minute Networking: 6:30 - 8:30pm
Alumni Reception: 8:30 – 10:00pm
PLACE: Public Welfare Foundation, 1200 U Street, NW; Washington, DC
Known as the True Reformer Building, this beautiful structure was the first in the nation to be designed, financed, built, and owned by the African American community after Reconstruction. It is easily accessible by metro, one block from the east exit of the U Street-African American Civil War Memorial-Cardozo stop on the green line, follow the 13th St Exit.
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I'm fine crossing big, sturdy bridges, no problem. But small, rickety, POS bridges? Mmm-mmm, no thanks. Here are 9 such bridges, that will in all likelihood lead to your demise. Drowning, impalement, smashing your head on a big rock, all real possibilities.
This is a bridge between two Pakistani cities Passu and Husaini. I'd probably just stay home.
Another view of the same bridge.
A crappy bridge near the north end of Ao Son Beach on the west coast of Tarutao.
Wow, I think we have a winner. See that? See his foot? I bet he died. I'd rather swim across, thank you very much, sir.
Somewhere in Nepal. Yeah, that looks sturdy,
Two planks of wood wide? What if you have big feet?
An attempt to get around flood waters in Southeast Asia. "Ok everyone, pile on! Don't worry, it's supported by rope!"
Rickety bridge across the Ourika River at Setti Fatma, Morocco. PASS!
Really? Could it look less safe? At least it is over calm water.
Rickety bridge over the top of "The Bride's Veil," Brazil.
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- Bl0ss0mAugust 20, 2009 at 12:51 PM
Yeah there's a lovely rope bridge in Northern Ireland called the Carrick-a-Rede rope bridge:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrick-a-Rede_Rope_BridgeReplyDelete
It's got a bit tame in recent years, the bridge is a lot sturdier now, but it's still only a few planks thick with the raging Atlantic far far below...
Obviously, you've never seen the ladies they've got in Husaini.ReplyDelete
Omg =O very good.ReplyDelete
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For the Diocese of Pune - Don Bosco Youth Centre, 4 Koregaon Road, Pune
Nov 20, 2010
Aug 28, 2010
CTBT Training
The Salesian Catechetical Team animated by Fr. Edison Fernandes and Sr. Caroline D'Souza organised a four day Catholic Teacher's Basic Training (CTBT) programme from August 19 to August 22. Twenty six first time catechetical teachers from various schools and parishes participated actively in the various sessions. The aim of the course was to give a basic training in catechesis to the teachers so that they are competent in teaching. The sessions were based on four themes: to grow in Jesus, to relate like Jesus, to teach as Jesus and to personalize the vision of Jesus.
The participants also had an opportunity to animate and participate in the daily Eucharist. Each day concluded with a short review and briefing of the day's sessions. Preparation and presentation of syllabus and lessons formed an integral part of the course. The pinnacle of the CTBT programme was the Eucharistic Celebration on the final day during which the catechists were commissioned and certificates were distributed. The participants had an educative and enriching experience.
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That lovely painting is by William Dring 76'. Dring (1904-90) was a prolific portrait painter known for his boardroom and official portraits, and he depicted a number of royal occasions. One of his drawings is in the National Portrait Gallery, (Sir (William) Lawrence Bragg), and much of his war work is in the Imperial War Museum. He was also a regular exhibitor at the Royal Academy from 1928-70.
I picked it up from a charity shop for £40.
Oh, and that other lovely landscape A6 on top is from Adrian Taylor (from 2003).


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Stephen Curry and the Golden State Warriors Are Breaking Analytics
The Golden State Warriors and Stephen Curry are unreal. That is to say they're unrealistic. As in, you can't even say they're putting up "video game numbers" because you can't do the kind of stuff they're doing in any video game without a Game Genie.
That's it. They're putting up "Game Genie" numbers.
Popular tongue-in-cheek phrases like "video game numbers" aren't the only thing being destroyed by Steph and the Dubs (a cool band name, if you want it). Advanced analytics in general might need to be re-evaluated if last year's champs and the league's MVP can keep up their current pace. 10 games is still a small sample size, sure, but that doesn't make their numbers to date any less mind-boggling. They are maxing out a bunch of metrics, threatening to break a good number of records if they can keep it up. The scary thing? It's hard to say that they won't.
Here are some team numbers so far and how they compare to the all-time leaders in each:
|Current Record
|Record Team
|Average Margin of Victory
|1971-72 Lakers
|Simple Rating System
|1970-71 Bucks
|Effective Field Goal Percentage
|2013-14 Heat
They are currently destroying the all-time records for Margin of Victory and Simple Rating System (a team rating that takes into account average point differential and strength of schedule), while knocking on the door of the 2013-14 Miami Heat's Effective Field Goal Percentage record (weighted twos and threes).
The Warriors currently have a ludicrously high nERD of 98.9. If you're unfamiliar, nERD is one of our in-house metrics. It's set on a scale from 0-100 (with 50 representing the league average) and is meant to be predictive of the team's ultimate winning percentage in a schedule-free vacuum based on performance-to-date. In other words, the Warriors have been damn near perfect, playing like a team that should win 98.9% of their games.
That would be an 81-1 record over a full season, in case you're wondering.
They can't possibly stay that dominant, but their MVP, Stephen Curry, is doing everything in his power to help his team make a run at the record-setting 1996-96 Chicago Bulls team and their 72-10 win/loss mark.
Like his team, Steph is on his way to making NBA history in a number of places if he can keep up his torrid pace.
|2015-16 Curry
|Record Holder (Year)
|Player Efficiency Rating
|Wilt Chamberlain (1962-63)
|Win Shares per 48 Minutes
|Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (1971-72)
|Box Plus/Minus
|LeBron James (2008-09)
|True Shooting Percentage
|Tyson Chandler (2011-12)
Curry is currently averaging 33.3 points, 5.2 triples, 5.3 rebounds, 5.6 assists, 2.6 steals, 0.3 blocks, and 3.0 turnovers per game, with a shooting split of 52.2% from the field, 47.3% from downtown, and 92.6% from the line. Seriously, his shot chart is pornographic:
When you input numbers like that into the formula for just about any advanced metric, you're in for an eye-popping result. He might not actually beat the records for Player Efficiency Rating, Win Shares per 48 Minutes, Box Plus/Minus, and True Shooting Percentage all in one shot, but it certainly looks like he'll at least threaten the top mark in each of them. Steph's 40.3 nERD through 10 games -- our metric that estimates how many games above .500 a league-average team would finish an 82-game regular season with the player in question as one of its starters -- would also be the highest we've ever recorded.
You can beat the "Warriors got a lot of injury luck during their title run" and "Regression is a-comin'!" drums all you want, but we're witnessing a truly special team and player and that should be properly appreciated. They might not reach the heights of being considered the best of all-time in their respective classes, but Steph and the Warriors certainly look like they'll be forcing their names into those conversations for their performances this season.


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Reflections on Islam
Whether Islam is a religion of peace or if Islam is different from Islamism is really rather irrelevant, as George Jonas has said repeatedly in his essays in the National Post. Essentially all terrorism in the world today is done in the name of Islam by Muslims. To repeatedly moan that such terrorists are not real Muslims is increasingly unconvincing and misleading. It is true that the face of terror and religious violence is not the only face of Islam. But it is one of them. Islam is not a united faith. To change metaphors, Islam is a house with many rooms and a number of them are occupied by those who believe that offensive violence is a legitimate tool in the service of Allah. Even moderates will admit that Islam is going through a difficult transition in recent years; for some, the transition is one that would take it back to its violent past if they are successful.
There are the voices who will sanely speak to this reality? They are, admittedly, few. George Jonas, whom I mentioned earlier, is one of them. Over the weekend, I finished reading his latest book, Reflections on Islam (Key Porter Books, 2007). Jonas is a columnist with the National Post and the CanWest News Service and one of the finest writers in Canada in my opinion. Reflections on Islam is a collection of his essays on Islam written between early 2001 and late 2006. Many of them I had read when they were first published and found them helpful then just as I still do. His arguments and opinions reflect an uncommon common sense that has been almost wholly lacking since 9/11. This is how the publisher describes the book (and while I often distrust publisher descriptions, this one is accurate):
On September 11, 2001, four hijacked airplanes changed the world. Or did they? The 9/11 attacks shattered the modern illusion about Islam as a wholly peaceful faith. They raised the possibility that this seemingly new struggle between East and Westbetween secular democracy and Islamist theocracyis just the latest variant of a much older contest between Islam and the non-Islamic world that has been now simmering, now flaring up, for the last 1,400 years. If we have failed to see the skirmishes along Islams perimetersin Kashmir and Kosovo, in India and Pakistan, in Chechnya and Xinjiangit is simply because we have refused to look.
In Reflections on Islam, award-winning author and columnist George Jonas explores a range of issues that have come to occupy our daily attention. Is there a difference between Islam and Islamism (and does it matter if there is)? Are we in the midst of a clash of civilizations? How is the confrontation between theocracy and democracy manifesting itself outside of the Middle East? Was it a mistake to invade Iraq, or simply a mistake to stay? At what point do liberal impulses on matters such as multiculturalism and immigration becomes short-sighted and dangerous?
Witty, provocative, and eloquent, this collection of essays written between early 2001 and late 2006 showcases Jonas at his best. Reflections on Islam should be required reading for anyone grappling with the defining issues of our age.
Reflections on Islam can be ordered online from both Chapters and Amazon. I heartily endorse it.


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8th annual Pat's Run is bright and early tomorrow morning. This was my very first race, and my third time running it now. I wrote this little post right before the first race. It all definitely still applies. The race now fills to capacity- this year they actually sold out! Just amazing, but it's a true testament to Tillman and also the work that The Tillman Foundation does.
I also have a great respect for Pat's widow, Marie. There was a great article in the Arizona Republic about her today. To use her pain and grief and turn it into something positive, she is one strong woman. Now she's remarried and a new mom- yet still keeps the Organization going. I can't wait to read her new book coming out in June.
Our crew of friends that runs each year seems to keep growing. My first year my friend Scott flew in and joined us by walking. Allison walked/ran it, and Sam only did the kids run. Bret took photos. :) Last year it was Scott, and my sister Katie joining me, and we all ran. Allison ran again, and Sam, Kimber's son and our friend Jill and her family also ran the 4.2 miles. Bret ran with the kids, and at the end of it he said he would like to seriously run it and see how he does.
This year Scott didn't make it out for the run, but Katie is here again. Plus, my whole family will be running. My brother Andy is running too, and our good friend Rob. Sara, who is a friend of mine and Kimber, is running for her very first time- and I'm so excited for her! I am guilty of planting the seed in Sara. Back in December I did a little presentation on running for the Girl Scout Troop, to prepare them for the Thin Mint Sprint we ran in March. Unfortunately no one signed up in time, but I guess it planted enough of a seed to encourage Sara to see what she can do. I for one can't wait and see how all her training with Kimber pays off!
Me, I have no goal time for tomorrow. Sam and Allison want to run it with me, so I think we're all going to try and stick together. It probably means I'm going to slow them down, but I'm going to try my hardest to keep up with them! Pat Tillman was always challenging and pushing himself, so I will keep that in mind as I run with my family tomorrow.


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At any rate, I recalled an incident about nine months ago with a former co-worker. Lets call co-worker "Tom." Tom seemed nice enough when we first met and we immediately had a flirty little banter going. After a few shifts together, Tom and I got to talking about ourselves and I shared with him that I am a Women's Studies graduate student and an active feminist advocate. This was when our friendly banter turned sour. Tom constantly made terrible, offensive sexist jokes, thinking that I'd find them adorable. He turned everything into some sort of sexist comment just to see what I'd do. When I confronted him, saying it wasn't funny and that it was really offensive, he did the old "you have no sense of humor" schtick.
Alas, working with him became a tiresome chore for me and some of his jokes made me angry for days. I eventually transferred to another location in part to get away from him. After that he texted me a several times to tell me another of his hilarious jokes. I am hoping that my non-responsiveness will give him a hint, since being blunt did not.
As I think about that exchange I think about the endless instances of sexism that we all swallow every day because we want to keep the peace and we want a reprieve. Of course, this is not peace, this is a silent and subtle war to remind women of our place as second class citizens.
Then I get to thinking of my male relatives, including my father, who say some of the most ignorant things I have ever heard and, again, I bite my tongue because when I don't the consequences are devastating.
Men are allowed the easy comfort of their unexamined privilege, but my regard will always be shot through with a steely, anxious bolt of caution.
Then I think about whenever a man at work is really friendly and I thoroughly enjoy our conversation and then he ends it by calling me "little girl." Every time a situation like this arises, I am reminded, like Melissa, of the male privilege that we are all constantly swimming in.
In one of my undergraduate Africology courses, I had developed a wonderful relationship with my professor who was one of the smartest and most compassionate men I had ever met. I shared my undergrad thesis with this man and graciously accepted his comments and criticisms of my writing. And then one day in class he said that in 1865 following the passage of the 15th amendment, "African Americans were granted the right to vote." It felt like I had been slapped in the face, so stunned was I to hear this man whom I had trusted and respected erase the history of black women in America in one sentence.
I hope those men will hear me when I say, again, I do not hate you. I mistrust you. You can tell yourselves that's a problem with me, some inherent flaw, some evidence that I am fucked up and broken and weird; you can choose to believe that the women in your lives are nothing like me.
Or you can be vigilant, can make yourselves trustworthy. Every day.
Like Melissa, it pains me when men call me a feminazi or say that I clearly hate men. I don't hate men. I just don't trust them. Or rather, it takes a lot longer for me to trust them and even then, instances like these put me on the defensive. When I was younger I would say that I hate men after reading Andrea Dworkin's texts or listening to groups of friends tell of their sexual assaults or watching Law and Order SVU. It took me a long time to realize that it wasn't all men and that men swim in the same water of patriarchy and male privilege as the rest of us.
But I hope that they will heed our call to make themselves trustworthy, to examine their privilege and to listen when we say "that is offensive" or "that is painful" or "that is sexist!"


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- I'm not an artist
- I'm not good enough
- I don't have the right supplies
- Uugggh... how do you fill up the empty page : )
Thursday, August 11, 2011
Smell The Flowers - Art Journal Page
13 comments:
- Starla B. said...
WOW. Just wow. This is gorgeous!
- August 11, 2011 at 4:13 PM
- Danni said...
It does suck you in! I am starting another page today-a little less "predictable" of me..hehe!!
Gorgeous pages, my friend!! I am really drawn to the colors you used, so pretty!
- August 11, 2011 at 4:18 PM
- Patti J said...
Wow, Dana, this is fantastic! Love it - am going to have to find some time to give this a try!
Thanks for sharing!!!
- August 11, 2011 at 4:43 PM
- kurlygirl said...
Dana I love your pages!!!! Love the McDonald's napkin, lol! That's all I need... I already hoard anything remotely crafty. My son's shorts have holes in them and I was thinking... what can I use camouflage on? LOL! Now I'm going to be running around swiping napkins!
I don't live anywhere near a craft store right now, but I had to make a trip to a larger town today. My route "just happened" to take me by a Joann's. I was thisclose to buying supplies for this. I don't know how much longer I can just think about it and talk about it before I do it! Danni's page is great... thanks for sharing the link in your post!
Heather :)
- August 11, 2011 at 7:58 PM
- Ann said...
Hi Dana! Love your pages! I've just signed up for classes at http://suziblu.ning.com/groups/group/list. Of course I signed up while I was away so had no supplies to get started, hahhaha. I'm taking Petite Doll's and LaLaLa, and I'm pumped to get started. Just wanted you to know you've got some more company. :)
- August 11, 2011 at 8:05 PM
- Karenliz said...
Beautiful pages! I'm sucked in too! I love art journals.
- August 11, 2011 at 9:12 PM
Very Pretty
Hugs Julie P
- August 12, 2011 at 12:49 AM
- Lori m said...
Thank you for sharing your art journal, I just love, love what you're doing on it. Gorgeous work and thank you for dropping by my blog and leaving me the well wishes and I hope your daughter is feeling better too.
Hugs, Lori m
- August 12, 2011 at 8:24 AM
- Roxann said...
Hey, Dana do'ed it! Miss ya, GF! Love these art books. Where does everyone find the time! I hope to post my before and after bath this weekend. I think I will post it in the craft room section.
- August 12, 2011 at 6:53 PM
- Peggy T. said...
Dana, this is beautiful. I found you on Outlawz and am now following your blog.
- August 13, 2011 at 7:56 AM
- Sheree said...
Dana.. Once again you have outdone yourself!! Wow!!!!!
- August 13, 2011 at 4:35 PM
- Jan Hunnicutt said...
Hi Dana,
I love your newest art journal page! You're right we do all struggle with not feeling good enough or like an artist, but the supplies... oh ya we have those - lol we can fill an empty page :)
Hey, I think I'm you latest cohort... I started an art journal last week and have a couple pages done, guess I should blog about it soon :)
Have a great weekend my friend!
- August 13, 2011 at 8:41 PM
- Brenda said...
Dana, I love, love, love this. I mean really, you are so very talented!! I am always amazed! I love how you brought this together. Hmmm, should I be offended you didn't put my name down as one of your friends that will jump in next? LOL!! I just might you know!!
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One great piece of mischief has been done by the modern restriction of the word Temperance to the question of drink. It helps people to forget that you can be just as intemperate about lots of other things. A man who makes his golf or his motor-bicycle the centre of his life, or a woman who devotes all her thoughts to clothes or bridge or her dog, is being just as 'intemperate' as someone who gets drunk every evening. Of course, it does not show on the outside so easily: bridge-mania or golf-mania do not make you fall down in the middle of the road. But God is not deceived by externals.
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Google has changed the way its Webmaster Tools SEO service reports site backlinks to include backlinks from a wider spectrum of domains. In the past, webmasters have been able to download a report on 100,000 inbound links arranged in alphabetical order. The issue was that this report gave an incomplete picture of a site's link profile, as sites with large numbers of backlinks were rarely able to access data for links from the end of the alphabet. The reporting change addresses this issue.
Webmaster Tools team member Yinnon Haviv said on the Google Webmaster Central blog: "Most of the links are now sampled uniformly from the full spectrum of backlinks rather than alphabetically. You're also more likely to get example links from different top-level domains (TLDs) as well as from different domain names." This change is likely to result in the availability of a more diverse link profile for sites, though the link report will still be alphabetical. The expanded link range will show links from high-quality domains and also allow webmasters to find and deal with poor-quality inbound links.
This is a major advantage for content marketers and firms looking to provide a good SEO service. Head of Search at theEword Natalie Booth said the change was "likely to prove valuable for those looking to clean up links to their site."
With recent search algorithm changes, many brands are finding themselves penalized by poor link building practices from the past. Using the updated backlink report means they will have a more realistic assessment of the types of inbound links to their site and whether questionable links represent a high proportion of those links. It will also help SEOs to see how effective their marketing campaigns have been in building quality links and relationships with other authority sites.
The change enhances the utility of Google Webmaster Tools, which helps webmasters optimize the status of their site in Google search. It includes tools to submit a sitemap, check a site's crawl rate, see broken links and redirects, view keywords searches, work with structured data and check for malware. The Webmaster Tools dashboard also allows Google to communicate suspicious activity that might hurt search rankings to webmasters.
The update complements another recent announcement by the Webmaster Tools team, which allows webmasters to use the new Manual Actions report to see whether any part of their site violates Google's quality guidelines. Together, both tools should result in clearer information for content marketers and SEOs and cleaner results for web users.
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Locke describes the process for advancing a conspiracy theory:
8.1 Sell emotion first.
8.2 Scare the reader away from primary documents.
8.3 Distort the evidence.
8.4 Emphasize eyewitness testimony.
8.5 Emphasize unsworn witnesses.
8.6 Raise non-essential issues.
8.7 Omit the complete context of the evidence.
8.8 Promote yourself to expert.
8.9 Don't solicit the other side of the story.
8.10 Accuse the defenseless.
8.11 Emphasize preliminary information.
8.12 Recycle discredited evidence.
Locke also lists the major myths and facts about the assassination. Read his FAQ online here.


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Swordquest: Earthworld is a game released for the Atari 2600. It was created as the first part of a four-game adventure series for that system that would, in turn, become part of a series of game playoffs hosted by Atari where successful players would be rewarded valuable prizes (in the case of Earthworld, a talisman made of 18K solid gold with 12 diamonds and the birthstones of the 12 zodiac signs). It was followed by Fireworld and Waterworld, which were released; the final part, Airworld, was worked on but never finished or released.
As told in the pack-in comic created by DC Comics, Torr and Tara are twins who are out to avenge the deaths of their parents at the hands of the evil King Tyrannus when they come across a crystal that contains the spirits of Mentorr and Mentarra, who lead the two adventurers into Earthworld to find the Sword of Ultimate Sorcery and the Talisman of Penultimate Truth. Earthworld consists of twelve rooms, each one marked after a sign of the Zodiac.
The player travels through various rooms, picking up and dropping off items and playing various mini-games in some rooms to access items stored in those rooms. If the correct items are placed in a room, a clue shows up, pointing the player to a page and panel in the comic book included with the game. There, the player would find a word that was hidden in that panel. The object is to find all five correct clues in the game.
In the final playoffs for this game, the talisman was awarded to Steven Bell, who had melted the gold down (except for the sword part) in order to pay for school.


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The gem of passion and smoldering desire, Ruby is believed to burn with inextinguishable internal fire. This fiery gem is believed to attract and maintain love, making it a popular choice for brides who desire to express their unique personality. Courage and power are also associated with Ruby. Ruby is recognized as a talisman to ensure harmony, guard against sorrow, inspire confidence and bring success. It was believed that wearing a red ruby brought good fortune to it's owner, although the owners must have already had good fortune to own such a rare and precious gem! Ruby is traditionally the July birthstone and the 15th and 40th anniversary gifts.
Throughout most of recorded history Ruby's have been one of the most valuable gems. They are the second hardest gem, after Diamonds, making them great for all types of jewelry. This jewel gets it's name from the Latin word ruber meaning red. Part of the corundum family, Ruby is the sister of Sapphire and only comes in one color, red. The shades of red vary from purplish and bluish red to orange red in medium and dark tones. Color is a key element when considering value, the pure red void of brown or blue overtones claiming the highest prices. Ruby's in sizes over 2 carats are difficult to come by. They are routinely enhanced by traditional heating methods to produce, intensify, or lighten color and/or improve clarity.
There are several Ruby designs in our current Barbara Heinrich trunk show. They will only be here during the month of July so make sure you come by to see her stunning designs!
Another stunning example of Ruby jewelry is Susan Drakes raw ruby necklace with an ancient Roman arrowhead.


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Arthur Schlesinger Advises the President
My Conversation with the President.
The President of the United States is calling, said the operator. Right away I heard a Texas accent reverberating in the receiver.
Hey, Artie, how are you? It was definitely President Bush. I have never met him, but his liking for nicknames is well known. No one has called me Artie in 48 years. Look, I'm having a discussion here on the war in Iraq, confessed the President, and I'd like your opinion on what to do next.
I'd look for a good opportunity to declare victory, stop the mayhem and leave, Mr. President, I answered.
But my advisors tell me that to pull out would be a disaster, replied Mr. Bush, a real calamity. If we pull out now and leave the Iraqis in this mess, what foreign government would ever trust the word of the United States in the future? It would destroy our credibility. Our priority is to stay on course.
You'll have to put up with the bad press, I told him. The last time the United States obviously threw in the towel was thirty years ago in Vietnam. The stakes were claimed to be high. According to President Eisenhower's Domino Theory, the fall of South Vietnam would lead to communist control of all of Southeast Asia.
Our defeat and our humiliation, Richard Nixon would say later, would lead to boldness on the part of the great powers, which haven't renounced their objectives of world domination.
However, I continued, we did end the mayhem and pulled out of Vietnam. The spectacle of our Vietnamese friends hanging onto helicopter skids even more glaringly emphasized the US defeat and humiliation. But the credibility crisis never happened. For most foreigners, the US returned to its senses after a long period of aberration.
The act of packing it in extirpated us from a war that we could not win and one in which our vital interests were not at stake. The departure liberated our armed forces. They were freed up to play their role of containment and dissuasion in other parts of the globe. In the end, our withdrawal from Vietnam raised our credibility, just at De Gaulle's evacuation of Algeria raised French credibility.
The aftermath proved the Domino Theory wrong, the very notion that had led us into the Vietnam War, just as the Iraqi situation has shown the allegations of weapons of mass destruction to be false--the pretext which had led us into the war.
I'd like you to think about this, Mr. President. The pullout from Vietnam was an historical precedent.
Moreover, I added, we had genuine obligations towards our Vietnamese friends. Obligations which do not exist in Iraq. We intervened in a civil war in Vietnam to prop up one of the camps. That meant that by pulling out, we abandoned our comrades-in-arms. We committed an act of moral betrayal for which our allies paid a heavy price. We were forced to make a difficult choice: pursue a hopeless war or sacrifice our friends. Geopolitics is an harsh mistress. But, in spite of the ruin which we left behind in Vietnam —far more than the death and destruction we're leaving in Iraq- Americans are still well-liked in communist Vietnam.
The future of Iraq is uncertain. A pullout may lead to anarchy, with all sides exercising their options, or it could lead to Islamic domination. But it may also serve as a catalyst for cooperation among Sunnis, Shi'ites and Kurds who may then end the insurrection and govern Iraq. The shock of a US pullout may stimulate the development of a sense of responsibly among the Iraqis.
As long as I am President, shot back George W. Bush, we'll stay. We will fight and we will win the War on Terror.
But Mr. President, I said, as long as the US military occupation lasts, it will continue to encourage the recruitment of terrorists from all over the Middle East. As Chuck Hagel, a Vietnam Veteran and a senator in your own party said, "The longer we stay the more problems we'll have."
That is the fatal contradiction in your policy of staying the course. There is another tremendous flaw, too: If we want the Iraqi Army to be sufficiently able to contain the insurrection, it will need heavy weaponry from the United States. Given the uncertainty of the future of Iraq, no one can say if or when these arms would be used against the occupying army itself.
But we owe them something, insisted the President, referring to the GIs killed in the war in Iraq, and we are going to finish the job for which they sacrificed their lives. But as Stephen Schlesinger, Director of the World Policy Institute, observed: Using this logic, we would still be in Vietnam, because we owe it to the 50,000 Americans who died there. In Iraq today, the question is to find out where our national interest truly lie.
Mr. President, I said, our true interests lie in ending this senseless war.
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We all hear about drugs in sports and performance enhancing drugs. But what are these things? Do you know for sure? And who governs the use of these substances in international sports and athletics? And do these things really need to be banned in the first place? Or is it just another form of human adamancy to control whatever they can. Despite of the truth that PEDs only provide an edge and the base for a successful athletic performance has to be present in the first place in order to optimally utilize the effects of PEDs, the social stigma and preconceived notions regarding PEDs in sports has led to the wide unacceptance of these chemical compounds in the sporting world. The truth being the complete opposite that every professional sport today is using performance enhancing drugs and the surprising thing is that people simply choose to turn a blind eye to it. It may be because they just want to believe that PEDs are not a big part of the sport, whereas, in reality, it has been a huge part of the sporting world for a long time.
A PED or a performance enhancing drug in sports is a chemical compound that is used to enhance the physical capabilities of an athlete or a sportsperson in any type of physical pursuit. They usually work by causing the body to build surplus muscle and also by reducing muscle fatigue and boosting muscle recovery. PEDs usually fall under the category of anabolic steroids. Anabolic steroids are essentially synthetic and molecularly engineered versions of the male primary sex hormone testosterone. However, there are also PEDs that are non-steroidal in nature such as Ibuprofen which limits the inflammation in the body due to strenuous physical exercise. PEDs also provide various other effects like an increase in physical strength, increase in the production of red blood cells, increase in aggression, focus, and skyrocketed fat metabolism.
Performance enhancing drugs are used for various purposes. They provide a wide spectrum of uses such as an increase in muscle mass, increase stamina, increased speed, increased strength, increased focus, increased aggression and so on. They are versatile compounds that can be used in any sport and the results are no less than phenomenal. However, it still depends on the hard work and dedication of the sports person to deliver when it matters.
It is quite difficult for a normal being to decide if any chemical compound is a performance enhancing drug or not. But it is the job of the World Anti-Doping Agency that administers the use of chemical compounds in various sporting events. The WADA was created in 1991 as an independent international agency which is sponsored and facilitated by different sporting federations around the world. The WADA follows the anti-doping code, which is basically a set of guidelines for the athletes all around the world on administering or using chemical compounds in their bodies.
The Prohibited list is WADA's list of substances that it prohibits athletes from taking for performance related use. This list is full of anabolic agents, androgenic steroids, stimulants and certain protein peptides. This list, however, keeps on updating every now and then. There are also certain substances that are permanently banned from usage such as narcotic drugs. While on the other hand, there are substances that are banned only during the competition such as alcohol.
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The Code followed by WADA has a certain provision for a specific set of therapeutic drugs, which are used for curing or treating certain diseases. In case, a drug is being used to treat or cure a chronic or acute disease and there are no alternative ways to cure or treat it, the usage of that drug may be permissible. In addition to this, the drug should not cause any further performance enhancement to the athlete's physical capabilities.
An athlete who is participating in an international or national sporting or athletic event, can at any times be asked to report for random testing for chemical substances. The athlete or the sports person will be asked to give her or his urine or blood samples for testing purposes. Testing can be both in during competition or not during a competition. But usually, it is the athletes who grab the finishing positions are the ones who face the test more often. It will be safe to say that the best of the best are the ones who are frequently tested.
If an athlete or sporting person is found to be taking certain chemical substances that have been banned by the WADA, she or he may face penalties ranging from a lifelong ban from that sport to a mere reprimand. The consequences are also affected by a number of factors. The punishment also depends hugely on the degree of doping and the type of doping, and also the chances of repetition of doping. In certain cases, the decision of stripping someone of their title or medal that may have been earned during the doping was ongoing, is rested with the sporting federation of the respective sport.
No, to be honest, there is no specific ban on nutritional supplements or dietary products. But there are plenty of examples of food products and nutritional supplements that have been reported to consist of certain substances that are banned by the WADA. The WADA does not spare this as an excuse for athletes to use these aforementioned type of nutritional food supplements. Therefore, athletes are advised to closely monitor what they are consuming in the form of these so-called nutritional supplements.
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So freshman Rep. Jean Smith (R-OH), who sent the House into an uproar when she attacked retired Marine Rep. Murtha as a coward, isn't just tactless, she might be a liar as well. She said, "A few minutes ago I received a call from Colonel Danny Bubp, Ohio Representative from the 88th district in the House of Representatives. He asked me to send Congress a message: Stay the course. He also asked me to send Congressman Murtha a message, that cowards cut and run, Marines never do." Only problem is Bubp reportedly denies he said any such thing.
Also: Saturday Night Live spoofs Schmidt, plus the original footage of her comments on the House floor (which were later stricken from the record).
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christi barth, cruise romance, cruising toward love, romance, romantic suspense, vacation romance
My guest today is Christi Barth, who just happens to have written one of the wittiest romances I've read in a long time, CRUISING TOWARD LOVE. (The excerpt at the end offers a glimpse of one of my favorite scenes.) Christi says she's here to give us an inside look into her novel, but frankly I'm having a hard time getting past how I am NOT on a cruise at the moment. Seriously, what she describes has me wanting to flee the blog and hit the high seas! However, I'm going to suck it up, get past my envy and pay rapt attention. Join me?
Christi Barth, take it away!
This is a behind-the-scenes peek at the craziness authors inflict upon themselves. I love cruising. The staff treats you like a rock star, the weather's great, the food's amazing, the atmosphere is ultra-romantic, the drinks are free-flowing, and you're completely removed from the real world. When I decided to set my next book on a cruise ship, I patted myself on the back for a great, sexy idea. Except….no matter how big the ship is, the H/H are essentially stuck in the same location for a week. Where's the zing (once they stop having sex, of course)? What's going to propel them forward? Panic set in. But I came up with the idea of a scavenger hunt. It got them off the boat and took them to exotic locales. More patting the back ensued. Maybe even a celebratory cocktail.
But…what the heck would these cruise ship passengers need to find in a foreign country? Somehow each idea I had dug me into a deeper hole. Finally, after learning waaaaay more history about Caribbean islands than I ever intended, I found a way out. I won't give away too much, but in San Juan, they end up searching for a mask.
The mask on the left is a prime example of a vejigantes. Ugly and scary, right? Well, they're supposed to be. The masks origins are way back in the 1600s in Spain. They were worn in processionals to scare sinners into going back to church. Spaniards brought the custom over when they colonized, but the locals have tweaked it over the centuries.
The masks are now a symbol in Puerto Rico of resistance to colonialism and imperialism. Think of the masks as their own, bright, papier mache way of sticking their tongue out at Spain. Used in many festivals and Carnival, they are a truly authentic souvenir of the island country.
Black, red and yellow are the traditional colors, although they've become such an art form in Puerto Rico now that you can find them in any color to match your living room décor. In my book, one of them pops up in the same bright turquoise as the cruise ship. Hmm…a clue, perhaps?
Now that I've piqued your curiosity, I bet you're ready for a funny, sexy romp through the Caribbean. So dive into the pages of Cruising Toward Love. Here's a blurb to get you started. If you really want to get your feet wet, there's an excerpt below the banner (and it takes place during their excursion to San Juan!).
Can an unexplained breakup and ten years of heartache be cured by the romance – and endless buffets – of a tropical cruise? When her sister is left at the altar, small town librarian Zoe Balis jumps at the chance to take the bride's unused ticket for the honeymoon cruise. But she didn't count on sharing a cabin with the man who broke her heart ten years ago!
Army medic Nate Hyatt never told Zoe goodbye when he enlisted – or the real reason why he dumped her on prom night after a year as high school sweethearts. And he never stopped dreaming about the girl he left behind. Could this voyage be his chance to fix the worst mistake he ever made? After all, a Caribbean cruise should be romantic… if he can convince her to move past ten years of bitterness and hurt.
Once aboard the luxury liner, Zoe befriends a bored Internet mogul with more heart than tact. Nate vents his problems to a ship's photographer battling PTSD. The four team up on an island hopping treasure hunt. The stakes grow higher with each of Zoe's mysterious brushes with death. They race to discover why she's a target and who's behind it, while still competing in the treasure hunt. Zoe's never gotten over her first love, and is tempted to let Nate back into her life. But she already lost him once. She's not willing to risk loving a man whose career keeps him in a combat zone. Can Nate breach her defenses and suture her broken heart? Grab a deck chair and see if they survive the stormy relationship seas as they cruise toward love!
"Did you stop kissing me because you weren't enjoying it? You see, I've dealt with the first time you rejected me, when you left all those years ago. There's no need to rehash the past. But I don't think I could bear you rejecting me a second time. So I have to know—did you not take me to bed the other night because I didn't turn you on, or was it because I somehow wasn't good enough at it?"
The world stood still while she waited for his answer. Zoe focused on the squawk of sea gulls and the muted slap of the surf at the base of the wall. The lyrical lilt of Spanish from the group of teenagers passing by. A low buzz which must be some exotic insect in the shrubbery along the path. Every sound in her immediate vicinity rang with absurd clarity—except the sound she waited on with bated breath—Nate's reply.
"If you still don't want me, just say so, damn it!" she burst out.
Was it anger that hardened the lines of his body? Disinterest? Annoyance? Zoe couldn't get a read on him. Nate advanced slowly. She backed into the turret, the space tight and cramped even for her stature. Built for the far shorter men of an earlier century, Nate had to duck his head as he edged ever closer. His sheer presence commanded as much area as his physical body. Something, some emotion rolled off him in waves, shimmering like heat above asphalt on a summer day. Why couldn't she tell what was going on in his head?
"The sky is blue," said Nate, his face separated from hers by only a breath.
Huh? "Is that a military thing? Are you talking in code?"
"The sun rises in the east. Play with fire and you'll get burned. These are all absolute truths. Indisputable facts. Well, there's one more absolute you need to file away in your mental card catalog."
Nate brought the lower half of his body so close Zoe felt the heat radiating from his legs. Despite the heat, her goose bumps had goose bumps. The anticipation of his touch brought her every sense to high alert. He raised his arms up, planted his hands on either side of her head to cage her in place. Then he tilted so his forehead bumped hers. Her field of vision narrowed to the indigo sea of his eyes, pupils flooding black in the shaded darkness of the narrow turret they shared.
"I want you, Zoe." He forced the words out in a heavy rasp. "I wanted you the day we met. You wore a red ribbon in your hair, dropped a stack of books on my foot, and apologized adorably for ten minutes. All I could think of was wrapping the ribbon around my hand to pull you in for a kiss. I wanted you the first time we kissed, on the bridge in a storm. One by one, I licked off every raindrop that clung to your skin. I wanted you when I saw you covered in mud last Friday. Wanted you badly enough to crawl right into the mud to be with you. I want you now, and I will always want you."
Zoe let her eyes flutter shut in preparation for a kiss. Such a heartfelt, utterly romantic speech could only end one way. Just as whipped cream hungered for a cherry, his words demanded to be topped off by a kiss. She didn't care about the past. With a handful of sentences he'd put her insecurities to rest. Nate dazzled her, and she was ready for more.
What was taking him so long? From beneath her lashes she snuck a peek. No Nate. Hoping the knees he'd melted to jelly would hold her, Zoe scrambled out onto the dirt path. Twenty strides ahead, Nate bellowed at her over his shoulder. "Hurry up. We don't want to miss the reading of the clue."
From confusion to relief with paper hearts dancing overhead…right back to confusion, all in less than five minutes. Zoe trudged after him with one thought uppermost in her mind—now what?
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Pioneer Hardwood Floors is located at the address 3011 Se 134th Ave in Portland, Oregon 97236. They can be contacted via phone at (503) 777-8726 for pricing, hours and directions. Pioneer Hardwood Floors specializes in Decks & Patios, Boats, Cotton.
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The Winter/Spring edition of the International Journal of Foreign Language Teaching is up at http://www.ijflt.com
These are the contents of the research section. The Teacher to Teacher section contains photos, articles and videos from this summer's iFLT conference in California.
Does Being an L2 Native-Speaking Teacher Influence L2 Use?
by Frédérique Grim
A Note on Error Correction: The Effect of Removing One Outlier in Ryoo (2007)
by Stephen Krashen
Video Gaming: The New Free Voluntary Reading?
by Kenneth Horowitz
What Successful Language Learners' Stories Can Tell Us
by Alex Poole
Incidental Acquisition of Spelling Competence: A Re-Analysis of Pérez Canado (2006)
by Stephen Krashen
A Corpus-Based Analysis Comparing Vocabulary: Input from Storybooks and Textbooks
by Ming-yi Hsieh, Fei-yu Wang, and Sy-ying Li
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January 30, 2011
Winter/Spring Edition of the International Journal of Foreign Language Teaching
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We frequently get some common questions, so it's time to put together a FAQ.
1. How do you do the ship tracker thing?
This is one of the most frequently asked questions I get. The service itself comes from marinetraffic.com, who allows the embedable google map centered on the location you choose.
All vessels over 350grt are required to transmit an ais signal (automatic identification system)on VHF. I have a standard VHF antenna connected to an ais receiver. The ais receiver converts the VHF signal to an NMEA sentence. The NMEA sentence is sent to a laptop running ship plotter which displays the signal on a chart or radar
Like display, and sends the update to marinetraffic.com.
NMEA is a common standard for navigation devices to communicate with each other. An ais sentence will contain a vessels name, position, course, speed, destination, eta, and mmsi number.
2. Who is the Signalman Guy on Facebook and Twitter?
The Signalman has no name, But he was used in the 1954edition of the Admiratlys Manual of Seamamship to Illustrate semiphore. I have scanned the Page Bellow:


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We all know that mainstream media reporters aren't the brightest bunch, but NBC's Domenico Montanaro takes stupid to a new level. He titles his article "Facebook Choses Huckabee, So Far" then goes on to report the raw numbers showing Ron Paul winning with a huge margin.
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a few words about her some time ago, mostly covering the topic of clothes my family used to wear in the post-war Poland. What I didn't tell you back then is what kind of a person my Grandma is. And she's, well, the coolest.
When we take our regular walks, she still can't get used to the fact her body is not fifty years younger, so her pace is strong and fast (well, until she loses her breath). She laughs with me, tells me fascinating stories from her youth (like when she was 18 and convinced a guy to think she wanted to marry him, made plans to run away with him and then, on the day of their supposed wedding, hidden behind a pillar of the Register Office, she laughed her head off while he was waiting for her, all awkward, flowers in hand --and she never showed up) and from time to time, she invites me to search through her wardrobe.
Well then. I've been scavenging her wardrobe and so far have found loads of crocheting/knitting magazines, skirts and dresses from 1960s onwards, lovely purses and handbags, some beautiful fabrics and a small collection of cute vintage curios including one nylon stocking, lipstick called "Pink T.N.T." and a train ticket from 1954, among others. As more shelves await me, I'm going to have a blast finding new stuff that she had hidden away for years.
When looking at clothes like this, I feel like I'm being lied to when I go downtown to buy stuff --I mean, I know so many modern clothes will fall apart after two washes. I know that majority of clothes won't last a year. I know that if I take the best possible care, I will be able to wear something through three seasons, rarely more. And here I am, looking at --and wearing! --a jacket that's around 50 years old, was worn a lot in its time and still holds shape, colour and the only thing that shows a little wear are the cuffs --there's slight chafing at the folds if you know what you're looking for. This raises so many questions in my head, questions about capitalism and its rules and about the consciousness of our customer choices and about our awareness of the situation that we've been put in or have been putting ourselves in. It also makes me want to sew more, and learn more about constructing garments that last for a lifetime. Because they can, contrary to what we are being told.
Shirt: thrifted
Cardi: thrifted at Holy Rags
Skirt: thrifted, turned into pencil shape by me
Flats: Nord
Necklace: ? I always forget where I bought my cheap jewellery
Bag: ?
Scarf: thrifted, a gift from my boyfriend's mum
Belt: vintage, a gift from my mum


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Haven't been here in awhile, but I'm back now! Might share some more of my random musings, like the one posted above, a little more often.ReplyDelete
I would like to say that I'm very happy for my good friend, Amber Housey, and her blog and new book, Flipside Stories! Congratulations, Amber Girl! You did it! ; )ReplyDelete


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It can be pretty exhausting sometimes and I can get pretty psycho about it all at times, but it is the life I live! I can't just "relax" and "wait for it to happen"...that's not how my body works! I have to treat this issue like anyone else with any other ailment treats theirs. We are taking a break for the fertility specialist for a little while since we got the go ahead to keep trying on our own. I will keep taking extra folic acid and progesterone supplements for the last two weeks of my cycle. We know I have low progesterone which is part of the cause for my miscarriages.
I read a lot of blogs. It's almost therapy for me because I read blogs with families that are struggling with pregnancy. Sometimes it's nice to know that others out there can relate to your issues and give you a different perspective. There are few that I stick close too particularly because we share the same faith and I love to see how God is working in their lives and throughout the tough times. I think in my next post I will link some of them for you to read. Many of them have done multiple IUI's, IVF's, and overall just tried and failed for years. It is heartbreaking but also gives me so much hope that so many of them are pregnant now and carrying their babies beautifullly.
Nick and I put a contract on a home in West Cobb and it fell through today after the inspection. The foundation is crumbling ): We really liked the house and what it could be for us, but it's apparent that God has a better home for us. It just wasn't the right one. Although we are out $350 for the inspections, we could have been out thousands and thousands if we wouldn't have had a very throrough inspection. Thankful for that!
Well, I will continue in my TWW and in 8 days figure out what's going on this month! Always hopeful because my God can do BIG things (:


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**Live every moment of your life as if it were precious and irreplaceable, as indeed it is, with goodwill and love in your heart, and good works as your guiding light and aim. Face fears with the light heartedness of a child, and chase rainbows for no reason but joy; take delight when you discover the pot of gold meant just for you. Live thusly and your life's journey will be as a sweet dream, cherished and most dear.**
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