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Listening to french online radio while working at my easel, I can't help feeling nostalgic. If I could, I'd take the plane and head off to Paris today. Above is a captured beauty of Montmartre at 4pm, which is exactly the time there right now. The sound of children murmuring in short french phrases while walking with their parents, a couple having coffee at the balcony, tourists drifting by checking their camera whether they had enough pictures of Sacre Coeur, footsteps echoing while taking the endless stairs, artists occupied with their caricatures, memories of Montmartre are always there with me.
Weekend is indeed very short.
I'm enjoying the last few hours before we head off to reality.
I wish I make the reality into a dream one day.
Happy weekend Everyone!
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This is the busiest "Valentine's season" I have ever had.
We decided (with the help of another couple), that it would be fun to throw a Valentine's party for our church's Young Families class. I saw some super cute ideas on Kara's Party Ideas for a Vintage Valentine's party, so I thought I'd try and put them to good use. We named our party, "Cupid's Banquet and Brawl," because we felt that it definitely needed a little spicing up with some good competition after the nice dinner.
We decided (with the help of another couple), that it would be fun to throw a Valentine's party for our church's Young Families class. I saw some super cute ideas on Kara's Party Ideas for a Vintage Valentine's party, so I thought I'd try and put them to good use. We named our party, "Cupid's Banquet and Brawl," because we felt that it definitely needed a little spicing up with some good competition after the nice dinner.
I found these adorable vintage Valentines on Craigslist from a lady who lives only about 15 minutes away. She was selling most of them for just a quarter a piece!
We held the party in our church's "Fireside Room," so it would be cozy and romantic. :)
I wish I would've gotten a closer shot of those red pom-pom things on the mantel. They were adorable and sooo easy to make. Again, I got the idea from here.
These soda-fountain centerpieces were so easy to make. Go here for a tutorial. They're not quite as cute as the one's from Kara's blog, but they were much cheaper! I couldn't find taffy without the hearts on them. And instead of filling up the glass with M&M's ($$$), I swapped them for the new Strawberry Milkshake Malted Milk Balls (about 1/5 of the price of the M&Ms since they filled the glass fuller too!).
I wish I would've gotten a picture of my sweet friend, Dana. While I was setting up the games and decorations, she was busy in the kitchen prepping the salads, getting lasagnas in and out of the oven, getting the garlic bread ready and slicing the dessert. And since her husband ended up with strep, she even had to be without her Valentine for the night. :( Poor girl. But she was definitely a life saver!
The guests finally arrived... 26 of us total!
The couple in this picture on the left (Jason and Amy) CRACKED. ME. UP by arriving in full "competitive gear." Complete with sweatbands, jerseys, tube socks and all. Ha!
After a lovely meal, we broke for up into 4 teams - Team Amoré, Team Liefde, Team Mohabbat and Team Sayang. All those words mean "love" and the teams got extra points for figuring out which language it was in. (Yes, Team Amoré got flack for being the easiest one to guess, but they just got lucky for drawing an easier name! )
Each couple also had a number (1, 2, or 3) so we started out with a team competition and then for the next round, we broke up and went with other couples who had our same number to compete against them for more points for our team. We had 6 rounds total before our grand finale.
The "I Give You This Ring..." Relay
We had to pass a cup and then a ring down the line using only straws. And don't worry... we tried to line up husband-wife-wife-husband-husband-wife, etc. so it didn't get too awkward. ;)
Another round was Just Dance so we could get our groove thing on.
You go, girls!
... and boys!
Oh how I wish Chad would've let me video this one... the Chipmunk Serenade.
The men had to draw a love song out of a bowl and then attempt to sing it to their wives with their mouths stuffed full of crackers. The last wife to crack a smile was the winner. Sorry for the terrible picture with Chad's face pretty much completely chopped off... I was trying to get my "game face" on.
The Ring Drawing Game
The men had to try and draw their wives wedding rings without seeing them and without help from their wives.
The other competitions included The Wedding Picture Match-Up (trying to figure out whose wedding picture is whose with the faces cut out of the pictures) and Give Me Some Sugar (one spouse feeds the other a Little Debbie cake using only their mouths - first one done is the winner).
And for the grand finale...
The Not-So-Newlywed Game!
Thanks to the brave couples who attempted this, in hopes to win more points for their teams! I hope none of you needed counseling after this one... ;)
The big winners of the night received...
A large assortment of chocolates (for the winners of the Not-so-Newlywed Game), and the three couples from the winning team got to each have a $10 gift card to either Panera, Olive Garden, or Victoria's Secret. Ooh là là!
And now I'm excited for my two biggest Valentines (Chad and Addie) to get home from school so we can have our own family Valentine's activity (more about that in tomorrow's post).
And, of course, I must leave you with these pictures of my sweet little Valentine girls.
Happy Valentine's Day!!!

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The Zoo is home to one Standing's Day Gecko.
International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List status: Vulnerable. They are listed in appendix II of CITES which prohibits their commercial trade.
Standing's day geckos reside on trees in the dry, spiny forests of southwest Madagascar. Until the early 1990's, the range of this species was one of the very few areas in Madagascar which was relatively undisturbed. However, because of increased deforestation, Standing's day geckos are now of special concern and considered vulnerable.
Here at the Zoo these animals are fed waxworms, mealworms, crickets, fruit nectar, fresh fruit and calcium.
Standing's Day geckos are true pairs. They live in partnerships in which, should one of the animals die, the remaining partner will not normally mate with another.
Day geckos have a clear, fixed plate covering their eyes and do not have eyelids. They use their long tongue to lick their eyeballs to keep them clean.
Day geckos have tiny, hair-like structures on the bottom of their flattened toe pads that allow them to climb up steep, slick surfaces such as glass or walls.


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Winning an argument about whose turn it is to take the bins out might seem a world away from a hostage negotiation - but they have more in common than you think.
An expert in training hostage negotiators has revealed the rules for persuading others to do what you want - and he says that they're winning tricks whether in the field or at home with kids in an untidy bedroom.
Simon Horton has even used his methods to help business leaders build on their successes, but he says the same ways of making your mark can be used when it comes to romantic issues, asking for a pay rise or simply getting the kids on side.
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He's now penned a book to pass on the benefit of his knowledge, The Leader's Guide to Negotiation, and here are some of his top tips.
Look at yourself
The key to engaging those who are watching you is to watch yourself.
Simon says that the complex neurological world of 'cognitive biases' mean that people are more collaborative and trustworthy if they are seen in a mirror.
He cites a study with an honesty box where people added payment for snacks more regularly when there was a mirror on the wall.
Simon's tips are best suited to a negotiation in business, or a mediation in divorce proceedings.
Join forces against a collective opposition
Establishing a common cause will help bring you all get on side, even if you don't agree on other issues.
"Often a hostage taker will feel the world has done them wrong in some way," Simon says. "When you know what that is you can say, "We definitely don't want them to get something out of this" and use that common enemy as a motivator."
Feel your way
The bonding chemical oxytocin ramps up when we touch - and it helps build trust.
Simon says touching your boss' elbow is an appropriate but useful way to make that relationship better when you're asking for a higher salary.
Leave subconscious pointers
Language cues can help implant ideas in someone's head without them realising.
"There are different structures to our language patterns – on one level we hear things consciously and on another level we are processing subconsciously," Simon tells MailOnline.
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For example, telling your children "I wonder who's going to tidy the room. You can decide," puts the phrase 'tidy the room' in their heads, and when they do it, they'll think it was their idea.
Explain yourself
... Even if it doesn't make sense, Simon tips.
A study on people asking to jump the queue in a shop found only 32% of people let someone in after being asked "Would you mind if I jump the queue?"
But that jumps to 92% when you ask "Do you mind if I jump the queue because I'm in a hurry?"
Weirdly, "Do you mind if I jump the queue because I've got some photocopying to do?", the result was almost identical number.
Be the early bird
A survey on parole decisions found that it was more likely to be granted shortly after breakfast - and the chances lessened the later it got.
Simon says it's because of blood sugar levels, which reveals another useful tool in his hostage negotiating training: food.
"Food is used as a reward and if the negotiator wants the hostage taker to make a big decision food is often sent in beforehand."
Praise positives
... And ignore the negatives.
Like training a dog, giving positive reinforcement for people will help to better dispose them to your needs. Instead of feeling nagged when you point out negatives, they will feel happy and confident - thanks to your reward of their behaviour.
Shape up
Smart clothing or uniforms are persuasive, as evidenced by con artist Frank Abagnale, who Leonardo Di Caprio portrayed in Stephen Spielberg's Catch Me If You Can.
As well as the outfit, wear the attitude.
"An air of self importance goes a long way. If you believe you are important others will too," Simon adds.
The Leader's Guide to Negotiation: How to use soft skills to get hard results by Simon Horton is available now, published by FT Publishing priced £16.99


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HOW FUN! I miss my Fresno friends...y'all are truly one of a kind. :-) I'm glad you started posting again. I love reading your posts. I really like the one before this...In fact, I'm going to go comment on it now...
Hey it is so fun to hear from you and see your blog. Your parent's haven't changed at all, it's fun to see pictures and hear how everyone is doing!! Hey I got an update on everyone but Whitney, what's he up to? LeGrand says Hi too and he wants to know how Craig Kellogg is doing. Time flys, I can't believe Heidi's a mom now!! Wow!! Are you living in Fresno? Where are you parents living? It was good to hear from you and it'll be fun to keep in touch.


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Or maybe they just exist in worm holes of time, where they force to you speed through them, even though your perception doesn't accept this possibility and you only see the weekend as a regular two days until you get to the end of it. Where did the weekend go? I swear it was Saturday just ten minutes ago...
Weekends always go by so quickly when you aren't paying attention, which is something I do quite often. I got my hair cut with Em on Saturday morning, but it took much longer than we thought because Sean (the woman we go to) was very busy. By the time we got home four hours later, my mom decided she didn't want to go grocery shopping and tempted me into going with her to hit some craft stores and see what was there. Michael's made a good moving choice, but a bad redecorating decision. The aisles were narrow, none of the sections were in any kind of organized, and the way traffic flowed through the store, it jams easily and no one can move. So we found the knitting stuff way in the back corner, were disappointed by the lack of good yarn, and then were disappointed by the lack of sock needles. TOTAL lack.
So we mosied on over to A.C.Moore and browsed their just-as-busy, smaller, more navigable store and mom got some sock needles for the Strikke along. I had to get a cablestitch holder for my clessidra socks, and I did.
Yesterday I cleaned my room while mom and dad went grocery shopping. Then I sat around and did nothing. It was a nice, peaceful day.
Well, I must go do a few loads of laundry because I need clean work clothes. I don't think they'll like me showing up dirty. Ew.


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This movie gets: 10.00 (1 rating)nofreelist.com Ranking: not yet ranked (awaiting 2 ratings)
12 Monkeys (Twelve Monkeys) (1995) is also mentioned in pearly's review of 28 Days Later (2002), em_fiction's review of Fight Club (1999), pearly's review of Fight Club (1999), andy-j's review of Minority Report (2002) and mino's review of The Crimson Permanent Assurance (1983).
Bruce Willis plays James Cole, a prisoner who is sent back in time to find information about the mysterious "Army of the 12 Monkeys", a group who let loose a virus which killed billions of people, and forced the survivors to move underground. When he reaches the past, Cole is sent to a mental institution, where his doctor, Kathryn Railly (Madeleine Stowe) takes a special interest in him, and another patient named Jeffrey Goines (Brad Pitt) helps him to escape. From here, the three people's lives become strangely intertwined as Cole tries to figure out what is real and what's just in his mind.
With movies that involve the theme of time travel, there's a danger that the script will be written in such a way that the effects of said travel are inconsistent. But when you're watching 12 Monkeys, there do not appear to be any such plot holes. Any grey areas that there might be are masked by the constant question of whether Cole is actually travelling in time, or whether he's just a complete nutter. The character of Jose (Jon Seda) keeps this question alive, and the mystery continues even to the end of the film, where most people will probably have made a decision, even though you can never be sure.
Terry Gilliam is most definitely one of my favourite directors. His attention-to-detail is absolutely phenomenal. One of the most memorable things about this movie is the interrogation scenes where Cole is asked to explain his findings. The whole look of these scenes is very Gilliamesque - they're futuristic, but in a dank and kinda crazy way. You can tell that they've been put together by someone with a design eye.
I also have to mention the scene where the animals are released from the zoo and are roaming around the city's highways - also very memorable. And then, there's the music. The piano accordian theme is brilliant - you'll be humming it for weeks after watching the movie.
The performances in 12 Monkeys help to make this movie such a fantastic experience. Bruce Willis, who had, until this came along, really only done action flicks (with the possible exception of Pulp Fiction (1994)), is given a chance to show his acting skills. This could have been a really, really, bad thing, but he ends up pulling it off - in probably his best role ever. And when Brad Pitt was given the role of the loopy Goines, he was lesser-known, but he absolutely steals the show with his lazy-eyed, finger-wiggling, energetic performance (it's a top example of his ability to take a role further than most would bother with, and shows why he was able to become as successful as he has).
Edited in such a way that the timeline is all out of whack, quite obviously painstakingly structured and carried through, these labours make 12 Monkeys a very enthralling watch. The many layers going on make it the kind of film that can be watched multiple times, and the kind of film that I personally am bound to love (it's all about the detail, man!). And, I do. A masterpiece.
i loved that movie!!! especially brad playing the insane guy role...Bravo!
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Disney's live action remake of their animated classic, Beauty and the Beast, is potentially one of this year's most anticipated movies. Being such an avid Disney fan (as you will well know from previous blog posts of mine) you can only imagine just how ecstatic I was when I heard about this release and even … Continue reading An honest opinion: live-action Beauty and the Beast review
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Officer Rescues Dog Left For Dead. What Happens Next Is Shear Joy.
Humane Officer Russ Harper saved a pit bull that was dying on the side of the road.
This Skinny pit bull pup is left for dead. What was clear from the scars that marked his body was that this poor pup was the victim of a dog fighting as a bait dog. All alone, scared, with no one to comfort him, laying there dying. This creature is probably having the most peace he's ever even had. What a heartbreaking sight.
Remi is begining to show signs of wanting to live. He's eating a bit and just and inch at a time is showing signs of trusting.
Here he is being held and comforted by the officer who rescued him. This may have been the first time he has experienced affection or care.
Remi Being Cradled in the officers arms.
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Remi resting his head in the crook of the officers arm. His eyes closed, feeling the weight of his head and releasing into the safety of the officers arms.
You can see even with a body covering how skinny he is… but he's beginning to rush and even takes a treat from a vet tech.
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AMD Fury X2 specifications confirmed, launch within two months
Gemini is on its way
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AMD Fury X2 specifications confirmed, launch within two months
Gamers and hardware enthusiasts, hold your nerdgasms. AMD has confirmed the specifications of its upcoming Dual Fury GPU, codenamed 'Gemini'. The card, which we'll address to as 'Fury X2' for now, will supposedly launch within the next two months. More specifically, WCCFtech has stated that the card launch at the end of this month / the beginning of December. The Fury X2 will feature two Fiji XT GPUs, which will both feature 4GB of HBM each. The combined memory bandwidth will be a mind-boggling 1 Terabyte per second.
With the Fury X2, AMD is aiming to boost 4K-performance with up to 80%, according to internal documents. Both Fiji-XT GPUs in the Fury X2 will have clock speeds of up to 1GHz while the stacked 8GB of HBM will run at 500MHz. It's worth noting that the Fury X2 will supposedly not work on 32bit Windows, but let's be honest, if you're getting a video card like this, you're probably running a 64bit OS anyway. A full list of specifications, courtesy of WCCFtech, can be found below.
|Fiji XT x2 (Gemini)
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GCN Compute Units
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As you can see, the specifications are pretty much the same as the original Fury-GPUs, but doubled. The Fury X2 seems like a very promising card, and we at OC3D will keep you up to date on everything Gemini-related.
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If the TDP is indeed 375W for this one, then I guess the performance of this card is heavily TDP limited. I mean a Fury-X has a TDP of 375W alone...
To me it sound more like two Nanos stuffed together. So probably this is not the card we hoped it would be.
Judging by the specifications, it might just perform about the same as two Fury X's in CrossFire. It that's the case, AMD will have a killer GPU on their hands. Especially since CrossFire with the Fury cards seems to scale very well.
The Fury X has a TDP of 275w actually. I was surprised to see that the TDP was only 375w too, though. It seems quite low. Can't wait to see some actual performance numbers.
If it uses a variable clock speed like the nano it will achieve Dual Fury X like speeds by simply increasing the power slider in CCC.Quote
it looks like AMD will be running this at lover clocks than the Fury X, which explains the lower TDP. Perhaps this will act more like dual Fury nano GPUs, or somewhere between dual nano/dual Fury X.
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The Bunny Brunch on Saturday, April 19th in Lafayette
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Hurry to catch up with the Easter Bunny! Space is limited for the special Bunny Brunch so plan now to attend the pancake breakfast, puppet show, egg hunt, and the excitement of visiting with the Easter Bunny!
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This was originally published in December 2015. If you didn't read it a year ago, then, as NBC used to say about its reruns, "It's new to you!"
As our pastor, Rev. Michael Boccaccio, points out every year, "Christmas is not a day, it's a season." The Christmas season traditionally starts on Christmas Day and ends on the Feast of the Epiphany (or Little Christmas in some parts of the world), which is on January 6, the day the Wise Men showed up at the stable in Bethlehem.
Father Boccaccio told us that, in the Catholic Church, the Christmas season officially draws to a close on the day that Jesus was baptized. That date varies from year to year, and can extend to January 15 or so. He insists that no Christmas trees or decorations can be taken down until that day. He threatens to make surprise visits to our homes to check that our decorations are still up after January 1, but we all know that he won't visit, just like he knows that our trees and holly will be long gone before the middle of January.
But back to the Epiphany and the Wise Men: I've always had a problem with that story. Mary and Joseph were on their way from Nazareth to Bethlehem to register for Emperor Augustus' mandatory census when Jesus was born. Penalties for disobeying the emperor were undoubtedly stiff back then, so I imagine Joseph bundled Mary and Jesus up shortly after Jesus' birth and hustled them out of the stable and off to the census bureau.
I don't see them staying in a stable for 12 days. And even if the landlord did let them linger awhile, it probably took those Wise Men from the general area known as "the East" longer than 12 days to get there. They were following a star, and stars are only visible at night, so they would have had to have taken the days off to wait for nightfall … and to shop for gold, frankincense, and myrrh.
Depending on how far east they were, it could have taken them months, or years. But, if they were only a few miles east, they could have made it in time, star notwithstanding. However, nobody knows where they started from. I've heard stories that they showed up at Mary and Joseph's house when Jesus was a toddler. Then again, the accepted story is that they were definitely at the stable at the same time that Jesus and His parents were.
This reminds me of David Sedaris' story about the six to eight black men who accompany Santa on his rounds in Holland. Sedaris wondered why no one had gotten an accurate count over several centuries. I personally wonder why the whole Wise Men story is so vague, when the other details of Jesus' birth were documented so clearly. A visiting priest to our parish complicated the story further by saying that there was no mention of three Wise Men in the Bible; only three gifts were noted. That means that any number of Wise Men could have been there bearing three gifts. Or maybe only the three best gifts were recorded, and the Diaper Genie and bottle sterilizer were left out.
Here's another question I have: Why is the revised end of the Christmas season on the day of Jesus' baptism — which occurred 30 years or so after His birth? I suppose the Church is playing it safe using that date, since The Wise Men had to have arrived within three decades.
However, if we use that logic, Father Boccaccio will make us keep our trees up year-round.


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After years of unprotected sex, failed timed cycles, inseminations and several IVF's, I am now the mom of two boys and an outspoken infertility advocate. Whether you're trying to get pregnant, currently pregnant or a new mom, please laugh along with me while we deal with the business of getting knocked up despite the universe's efforts to knock us down!
Wednesday, June 2, 2010
Grabbing June by the Balls
Do you remember in fifth grade when they tested your physical ability? You'd run, you'd do sit ups, and they'd try to force you to climb up a rope (for whatever damn reason). Do you remember the chin ups? I could never, ever do chin ups. I still can't. I vividly remember just hanging there while my gym teacher looked at me with her arms crossed waiting for me to do something. I would offer her one amusing anecdote after another but that didn't seem to suffice. Typically, after five minutes or so of some quality hanging, she'd let me release the bar and drop defeated to the floor.
This weekend in general, I was in the serious throws of PMS. Every symptom was there: Cramps, backache, headaches, sleeping poorly, craving chocolate and moodier than a bipolar patient off their meds.
Even though we genuinely want to take the summer to have crazy monkey sex, lose some weight (which I'm hoping you can do through the crazy monkey sex) and regroup in general, I still can't help but get sad when I know I'm getting my period. Aunt Flo has become "Exhibit A" in the case I've mounted against myself as being a failure. Her arrival is always a reminder of what could have been.
Needless to say, I wasn't in the best emotional place when I got an email from one of my friends with pictures of her child. She and I started trying to get pregnant the very same month (not that I'm bitter). She now has a four month old son and I have a several thousand dollar debt. Perhaps I should email her a copy of my invoice for good measure?
Then, on Facebook (or "Fertilitybook" as I like to call it since everyone on there seems to be pregnant or having babies), another good friend of mine posted pictures of her three children. If only I could post the picture my doctor took of the fertilized eggs they transferred for my IVF. It's a lovely photo; in black and white and the two embryos are side by side. They both even look like me – curvy and fabulous! Still though, aside from the fact that they no longer exist, they really aren't as cute as my friend's two-year-old daughter. They may be cuter than Jennifer Lopez's kids though. Have you seen her kids? WOW. Too bad they look like their father… it's a shame.
The biggest news from this past weekend was that Sam's brother and sister-in-law gave birth to their second child; a girl. They started trying for their second kid six months after we started trying for our first (again, not that I'm bitter or anything). Yesterday, they sent me the baby's first picture. That also happened to be the day Aunt Flo arrived. Despite trying to pass it off as some sort of "Rorschach Ink Blot Test", I resisted the urge to send them a picture of my period.
Seeing everyone's families grow, the pictures, the emails, etc. made me feel like I was in fifth grade again hanging from that bar only this time, I wasn't in gym class. I was in "Fertility Purgatory" being forced to watch everyone else live our dream... just hanging... waiting for something to happen.
It's like when you order something at a restaurant and you see a member of the wait staff put it on someone else's table. That's how I felt this weekend. "Umm, excuse me? I'm sorry but I think you got the baby we ordered?"
Did I mention I'm not bitter?
There really is only one thing to do when you're feeling stagnant and in the dumps and that's to come up with a new plan. Get active. Fight the good fight. In short – get super effen pissed off and start kicking ass and taking names.
In my case, I've decided to cheat on my usual Reproductive Endocrinologist (a very nice old man who I'm sure means well) and get a second opinion from a respected fertility clinic here in New York City. This shouldn't be a big deal as it's my uterus and I can show it to whomever I choose, but I do have a bit of guilt. I honestly don't know why. I mean, I've been with my doctor for awhile now, but it's not like he put a ring on my finger. Well, if I'm being fair, he did give me a Nuvaring once but that hardly counts.
I've left a message with a new fertility clinic and I've faxed over a request to my current doctor to ask for a copy of all my records. Perhaps a pair of fresh eyes looking at our case can come up with some explanation as to why we're not pregnant yet. If not, then hopefully I can at least get a hotter doctor.
I'm also taking herbs that my acupuncturist has recommended, I bought the book, "The Infertility Cure: The Ancient Chinese Wellness Program for Getting Pregnant and Having Healthy Babies", I'm eating healthy, I'm taking my vitamins, I'm exercising, and I'm trying (yes, that work again… trying) to not be scared.
I'm scared that they'll never figure out why we can't get pregnant. I'm scared that they will find out why we can't get pregnant and it'll be something unfixable. I'm scared of spending more money and not getting results. Mostly though, I'm scared it's never going to happen for us. And if it isn't obvious, I'm also scared of Jennifer Lopez's kids. Seriously - they don't look right (not that I'm bitter...)
What I need is to remember is what my fifth grade gym teacher used to say to us: "It's not whether you get knocked down; it's whether you get back up." She also said, "You're all lazy and probably won't amount to much." But I find the first quote far more appropriate and inspirational. Yes, I've been knocked down but I'm getting back in the game in the hopes that this time around... I won't get knocked down. I'll get knocked up.
So, I have a message for the month of June – I'm handing out lollipops and whoop ass… AND I'M FRESH OUT OF LOLLIPOPS!
18 comments:
- COME ON BABY said...
I will cross my fingers that some hot doc helps your girl bits and get you a baby ASAP!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- June 2, 2010 at 5:54 PM
Love the picture of the little boy and the quote at the end of the entry. We if women rock. We keep getting up and trying again and again even after being knocked down. I'm sorry you kept getting things rubbed into your face. Things just aren't fair. I hope it is our turn soon and that you enjoy your monkey sex ;)
- June 2, 2010 at 5:54 PM
- Jenny said...
There is never anything wrong with getting a second opinion.
My gyno was my second opinion (before finally ditching him to go to an RE). My first gyno gave me three months' worth of bcp to "regulate me" and patted me on the back and said, "Don't worry honey the next time I see you, you'll be pregnant" (after three years of no pregnancies). I walked out of the office bawling and no one cared.
I grabbed life by the balls and made it to what I wanted. ie. I told the second gyno on my first visit with him that if he didn't listen to me and do what I wanted I would go elsewhere.
-smiles sweetly-
Good luck hun, you know what's best for you. :)
- June 2, 2010 at 6:09 PM
- Slackie O. said...
Step away from the guilt! Would you rather have warm fuzzies for your RE, or some freaking answers?
That's what I thought.
- June 2, 2010 at 6:12 PM
- RachelP said...
I've had some serious PMS too this week, AF is working her way in slowy but surely since my D&C in April. Anticipating "bright red blood" so I can call and get my baseline. Although we're waiting on treatment, they still want to do another dye test to make sure there is no damage.
I've had a nasty time with "FertilityBook" this week, counted at LEAST 8 friends who are pregnant.
- June 2, 2010 at 7:57 PM
- The Infertility Doula said...
I've said it before and I'll say it again: it's your fertility, you need to take charge and don't sit on the sidelines (your gym teacher would be pissed!). And don't feel guilty. This is the business of making babies so you can take your business somewhere else. I think you're doing the right thing.
Oh, and I love the images you have. Where do you find them?
P.S. I know what my next entry's going to be about -- getting a second opinion.
- June 2, 2010 at 8:00 PM
- shufuinjapan said...
You are right, it should so totally be renamed: Fertility Book. I have considered hiding the people who only post pictures of their kids who are not BFFs or anything.
I also hear you about feeling guilty about going to a different doctor. I live in Japan and have a nice doctor who mumbles in Japanese. I think he is competant but he mumbles so it makes it even more difficult to figure out what he is saying and even my Japanese husband has trouble. Now the nurses eaves drop and debrief me after our sessions to make sure I don't get mixed up. Will I move to a new doctor? probably not for now since I have a good thing going with this one even though he mumbles. In your case you are at the IVF stage so it's big business, don't feel bad about taking your money somewhere where you might have a chance to get what you paid for.
That would be nice! To actually get something other than a pain in the butt, vagina etc for all the money we are forking out.
Good luck with your new RE.
- June 2, 2010 at 8:36 PM
- Mrs. Type A said...
I could never do a pull up either...maybe there is a correlation between piss poor upper arm strength and infertility....i think i will google it. ;-)
- June 2, 2010 at 9:15 PM
- Mrs. Green said...
I LOLed the whole time I read this. I love your humor and glad that you make light of your situation with it.
I know it can be discouraging, but I am glad you are taking charge. A second opinion is always good. Hey, maybe even a third!
Good luck!! And keep us posted!
- June 2, 2010 at 9:18 PM
- OliveLEAH said...
just found yr blog today and decided i'm in love with you... in as non-creepy way as possible between one ttc-er to another on the internet. depending on how the next week goes, i also plan on taking june by the balls and making it my bitch. i have you to thank for that. thanks!
- June 2, 2010 at 9:50 PM
- sienna said...
you'll get your turn! believe it :o)
btw, a bunch of us have recently decided enough is enough and switched to cornell from our various old clinics. i highly recommend, if you haven't looked into them yet. although, i'm sure this'll be more believable after i get my bfp in july :o)
- June 2, 2010 at 10:25 PM
- Misfits said...
I like how you roll. Own it!
My thoughts are so evil when it comes to that kind of baby bullshit. It's all "look what I did." When in fact, it's so much harder for the IF bitches to get pregnant that I sometimes feel like saying, "yeah ANY bitch can have a baby, but for us special ladies it's freaking WORK. My baby cost as much as your car, bitches!" :)
I'm going to get in line when you've got lollipops, 'cause lord help anyone who gets in your way this months with a hot slop of whoop ass ready to be smacked down.
- June 3, 2010 at 12:24 AM
- Rachel said...
Please don't feel bad about the second opinion! If we had not seen another doctor, I would have had surgery when the real problem was with my husband's motility and morphology. Seriously, get the second opinion!!!
And I could never do a chin up either. I'm wondering with Mrs. Type A...
- June 3, 2010 at 4:19 PM
- irrationalexuberance said...
Funny, I just posted about my guilt about moving on to another RE, also in NYC. I'd love to know who you are talking to, as I could use all the help I can get.
I think your attitude is fabulous -- yeah, youre scared (welcome to the club of real or imagined IF fears controlling your life), but you are coming out swinging. I hope to hell that you knock the shit out of this problem and greet the next month fully knocked up.
- June 3, 2010 at 5:51 PM
- Christy said...
Moving on....now that is something I have been contemplating, reading this proved that I need to go with my gut and get that second opinion, a year and a half is long enough to not have any answers. Thanks for the push I needed. Keep up the fight and keep us posted!!
- June 4, 2010 at 12:03 AM
- praying4amiracle said...
AF came for me today... on top of that it's my birthday. I have spent thousands on ttc too, and still nothing to show for it. I love the "Fertilitybook" comment...if it's not someone who's PG it's someone showing off their 3 kids!!! We've decided to take a "medical break" not that it's going to help, but I've had more people look at my crotch in the last 9 months than in my lifetime and I'm exhausted and ready to enjoy life again with my DH. Your sense of humor puts a smile on my face even on a day like today. Thank you!
- June 5, 2010 at 6:18 PM
Thanks, I needed this laugh. I've been mean to hubby today because he had performance issues today (i'm ovulating and forced him to have sex with me--absolutely forget what making love is these days....)and well, it's VERY frustrating when i'm on all kinds of drugs doing my part and he can't do his...
on top of that, get this--i'm a teen parenting counselor in the inner city.... yes, 14, 15, 16 year olds getting pregnant "on accident." oh, work is glorious these days....
- June 5, 2010 at 7:23 PM
I'm a fellow-traveler in NYC and have a great RE I can recommend if your new one doesn't work out. (though I'm not with child yet). Great, organized office, usually no wait for appts. Comment back and I'll send you the info if you're interested.
- July 8, 2010 at 11:41 AM


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This summer we are moving to a country that people have only heard of because of a goofy movie called Borat. The information about where we are moving is limited but we are talking with people that are there currently. Learning a new language is okay, if you've been exposed to it since watching Sesame Street, like Spanish. Russian is scary. It sounds scary and it looks scary.
{Most} People do not join the missions field or the military or the foreign service to get away from their family and friends. They join because they are called by God to live a different kind of life. Not better just different. We know what it feels like to be gone and miss the important things, like weddings and new babies and funerals. We know what it feels like to be left out because they know we can't just fly in for the weekend. We know what it feels like to wave goodbye at the airport for the ump-teenth time. We have birthdays and Christmases that last a month because of all the packages and mail delays. We feel the ache in our chests when we think that this could be the last time we see a special someone. Friends' children, niece (because there is only one) and nephews grow up so fast. And shopping in a store where you can read the labels. And leaving yet another a church family that just got to know you. I won't even talk about missing the food, oh, the food.
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Big Dog Bowl of Biscuits http://www.nwlink.com/~donclark/
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Vashikaran specialist the Vashikaran is completely based on the number Tantra and mantras that are used or used by tantric. The Mantra of Vashikaran what problems such as the attraction of a person Sammohan Yantra is increasingly used to impress and attract people from all over. The specialist Vashikaran India stated that have been used for thousands of years in our country India. The Vashikaran is the mixture of two words like Vashi and the other is Karan, which means that by Vashi means to attract anyone under control, and Karan means doer.
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Spanish Virgin Islands Internship May 2017
Research in the Spanish Virgin Islands
This research expedition will focus on developing and publishing a sailing guide to the Spanish Virgin Islands. After a very successful research season in 2015 creating the first field guide to this remote archipelago, this research expedition in 2017 will focus on collecting information needed to publish the regions first sailing guide. The primary focus will be on conducting coral reef surveys, determining the location and quality of safe anchorages, collecting information on beaches and islands, location of bioluminescent bays, creating geospatial maps of bathymetry data (water depths) and island topography, navigational lights, landmarks, information on the local culture, as well as any other helpful information to sailors traveling through this island group.
This internship offers you the opportunity to conduct research from your home or university during the summer of 2017 and spend one week (May 23-30, 2017) sailing around the Islands of Vieques and Culebra and the 23 islands and cays that make up the Spanish Virgin Islands.
What this internship offers you:
1. You become a contributing author in a Global Treks publication.
2. Gain experience designing, researching, collecting, and synthesizing data.
3. Experience living aboard a sailboat while sailing through the Caribbean.
4. Learn to sail a 48 foot sloop rigged monohull.
What you can expect
We work with each student to set up an individualized topic of research. You will spend 10-20 hours per week working remotely from home or school researching your assigned topic. You will then spend 1 week in May living aboard a sailboat while sailing around the islands of Culebra and Vieques. The sailboat is 48 feet long and consists of 4 cabins, a kitchen, dining area, and four bathrooms. Each cabin will be shared by two students. Mornings will be spent sailing between the islands and in the afternoons we will anchor in a protected bay and get out to explore the island and conduct surveys. It is during this time on the islands that you will investigate your research topic and document what you discover through surveys, observations, note taking, and photographs to include in the guide book.
Check out previous research expeditions to the
Spanish Virgin Islands during the summer of 2015.
Position Details
- 7 Positions available. We are looking for students in all majors. Focus areas include creative writing, investigative journalism, wildlife, plants, marine life, natural history, tourism, economics, GIS, as well as students interested in the making of a documentary of the expedition.
- Mobile Research from any location (3 months/10-20 hours per week)
- Action Research in the Spanish Virgin Islands (May 23-30, 2017).
-Interested in earning college credit? We will work with your university to ensure that you receive 3-6 credits for your contribution to the field guide. Credits can be applied to summer or fall semester.
1. Develop and publish the first sailing guide to the Spanish Virgin Islands.
2. GPS boat anchorages, hiking trails, navigational lights, points of interest, and survey water bathymetry.
3. Conduct research on the areas natural and cultural history.
5. Explore all of the islands and bays in order to document what sailors can expect to find.
4. Collect video and photographs to include in the making of a documentary of the expedition.
Program Costs: $2,050
Program fee covers lodging, sailboat charter, a licensed U.S.C.G. Captain, supplies, food, local transportation, and mooring costs.
*Airfare transportation to St. Thomas U.S. Virgin Islands not included. We are more than happy to help you book your flight. Flights typically start at $350 depending on your location. We will meet you at the St. Thomas airport with our company shirts on and a sign with your name.
*Interested in an intern position but not traveling? Please fill out an application to be considered for a position helping in with documentary making, marketing, and the publication process.
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On September 20, Immigration Daily published an editorial with the simple, and all too accurate title: Liar Trump.
The comment lists fourteen specific lies that Trump has told during his campaign, most of which relate to immigration, and it also made clear that "the list goes on and on".
History shows that all dictators take and hold onto their power by using the Big Lie strategy, based on Adolf Hitler's theory that as long as one repeats a lie often and loudly enough, people will start to believe it.
Are Donald Trump's lies connecting Muslim immigrants, or even immigrants in general, with terror any different?To give just one example, after last weekend's New York bombing attack, which was made by an unknown person at the time, and is known to have been made by a disturbed Muslim US citizen who was already previous known to the FBI and had no known connection with any terrorist group (much like the Orlando killer) Donald Trump claimed:
"There have been Islamic terrorist attacks in Minnesota and New York City and New Jersey. These attacks and many others were made possible because of our extremely open immigration system which fails to properly vet or screen the individuals coming into our country."
(Italics added.)
The truth (as it later turned out), is that the bombing suspect, born in Afghanistan, was brought to the US as a child by his father, who later, in 2014 asked the FBI to investigate his own son for possible terrorist sympathies!
Does this show that the father was not properly screened when he entered the US? And what kind of screening could anyone have done on the child?
But Trump's rush to blame "open" immigration, allegedly led by "ISIS founders and MVP's" Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton (another huge Trump lie) is typical of his strategy of blaming all Muslims, and by extension, immigrants in general, for every mass or attempted mass attack in America, is not by any means new.
Richard Cohen, in a September 20 Washington Post article: Trump's Hitlerian disregard for the truth, describes how this happened in Germany.
See (same article but with a slightly different title):
This does not mean to say that Trump is the same as Hitler. As Cohen points out in his article, Trump is not anti-Semitic.
I was among those who defended Trump against what I considered to be an unfair charge of anti-Semitism, based in the resemblance between a sheriff's badge used in one of his campaign ads against Hillary Clinton and a Jewish six-pointed Star of David.
As Cohen also points out, Trump has never suggested invading any other countries. Nor, it is important to add, has Trump ever proposed mass extermination.
Trump is certainly not Hitler. The man with the blond mop of hair is not the same as one with the mustache.
But there is a very close, and uncomfortable, similarity between Trump's repeated false attacks on immigrants, including but not limited to Muslim ones, as agents of terror, and Hitler's attacks on the Jews for "declaring war on Germany" as described in Richard Cohen's article.
As Cohen says:
"There is no lie that cannot be believed. Even after Germany had murdered most of Europe's Jews...many Germans believed...that their country's defeat only 'confirmed the "power of world Jewry."'"
He concludes:
"At the advent of the Hitler era, [Germany] was a democracy, an advanced nation...It had a unique history...so it cannot easily be likened to the contemporary US. But it was not all that different either. In 1933, it chose a sociopathic liar as its leader. If the polls are to be believed, we may do the same."
Roger Algase is a New York immigration lawyer and a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Law School. He has been representing mainly skilled and professional immigrants in work visa and green card cases for more than 35 years. Roger's email address is firstname.lastname@example.com


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Hello Neighbors,
Legislation of Interest
- ART Transit Advisory Board O-16-12 (Sanchez, Harris) creates a special private-interest transit advisory board for business and property owners only along the ART route. The purpose of the Board would be to develop short term solutions to issues that arise during construction of ART and to form long term strategies for coordinating operation of the line with business activities up and down the Central Avenue corridor and on Louisiana to the Uptown Transit Station. We already have a citizens' Transit Advisory Board. I encourage all citizens to participate in our TAB, including business and property owners. I oppose a separate Board that benefits a specific class of residents. This bill is on the agenda for the meeting this coming Monday, May 2.
- APD Retention Program R-16-38 (Gibson, Benton) directs the Administration to defer and discontinue any retention incentive programs and salary increases for APD officers higher than the rank of Commander (Major, Deputy Chief, Assistant Chief, and Chief) unless APD has made measurable and sustained progress towards compliance with the DOJ Court Approved Settlement Agreement (CASA). Compliance would be measured as a percentage of completion of the CASA requirements within the established deadlines, as reported by the DOJ appointed Monitor over the two most recent reporting periods. The Resolution also directs the Chief of Police to designate a Project Manager to oversee compliance with the CASA and provide updates on these efforts at each City Council meeting. This bill is on this Monday's, May 2 Council agenda.
- AFD Minimum Staffing R-16-41 (Benton, Lewis) establishes the standards for staffing of firefighters within the Albuquerque Fire Department (AFD) apparatus, units, and squads to help maintain AFD's Insurance Services Office (ISO) Class 1 rating. The ISO Class 1 rating is, in part, a reflection of AFD's resource capacity and ability to respond to emergencies. That rating allows for a reduction of property insurance premiums for City residents and businesses. This resolution is on this Monday's, May 2 Council agenda.
- Ballot propositions regarding our existing Open and Ethical Elections public financing of City elections P-15-12, P-15-13 (Harris) and P-16-2 (Davis): I generally support changes that would make the Mayor's race fair and competitive financially between publicly-financed and privately-financed candidates.
- North Corridor MRA R-16-49 (Benton, by request) designates The North Corridor Metropolitan Redevelopment Area between the railroad tracks and 4th Street from Granite Avenue to the city limit and directs the Metropolitan Redevelopment Agency to prepare an MRA Plan for the area. This bill will have its first hearing at Council's Land Use Planning & Zoning Committee (LUPZ) on Wednesday, May 11. The LUPZ meeting begins at 5:00 pm in the Council Committee Room, 9th floor of City Hall.
Upcoming Events & Meetings
- Rail Yards Market: Opening Day May 1, Sundays 10 – 2 thru October
- Santa Barbara Park Renovation Groundbreaking: Thursday, May 5 at 10:30 am
- Downtown Neighborhoods Association Mother's Day Historic Home Tour: Sunday May 8th, 2016, 11:00am – 3:00pm
- 20th Annual Downtown Growers' Market: Saturdays 8 – 12 thru November 5
- Valley Area Command Citizens Policing Council (VACCPC): Meetings are every fourth Thursday at 6:00 pm in the Los Duranes Community Center.
- Cultural Services Events
Project Updates
- Projects List
- 12th & Menaul: Design will be complete this fall, after which phasing will be determined based on available funding.
- Girard Boulevard Complete Street Master Plan: Engineering design will be complete in late spring, followed by a public meeting.
- Rio Grande Boulevard Complete Street Test Project: The state funding agreement has been executed and the consultant will be collecting "before" data along the corridor. Striping of the roadway is expected to occur Summer 2016. Based on recently completed analysis, the test project will be extended further south. The new project boundaries are Indian School Road to Griegos Road.
- Santa Barbara Park Renovation: Groundbreaking Thursday, May 5 at 10:30 am!
- Sawmill Traffic Plan: Improvements for 12th Street, including the intersections at Sawmill Road and at Mountain Road, are being designed based on the sector plan amendments, previous studies, and public input. A community meeting to present the design will be held this summer prior to construction.
Community Announcements
- ABC-Z Project: Public Meetings are scheduled in April and May. Get details!
- Laun-Dry Supply Co. Clean Up Update from State Representative Javier Martinez
- Boards and Commissions Vacancies: Greater Albuquerque Bicycling Advisory Committee has a SW Representative vacancy and an Unincorporated East vacancy.
Isaac Benton
City Councilor, District 2


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Autumn/Winter Show at the Tramway
The Tramway will launch their Autumn Winter exhibitions this Friday night with the opening of two major shows. Lara Favaretto, an Italian born artist, sculptor and performer will exhibit new work alongside London based film artist Hilary Lloyd until 20th December.
Lara Favaretto, uses sculpture, photography, film and installation to create artworks that produce a sense of magical fantasy and urgency, forming an immediate bond with the viewer through a sense of play.
For Tramway's epic main gallery space, Favaretto will create a kinetic sculptural environment with various motor powered elements. These choreographed and durational sculptures will explore Favaretto's ongoing artistic investigations into the idea of festival in its various incarnations, drawing on its popular forms and associations such as the carnival or circus. These themes often assuming the form of sculptural objects, installations or events united by the careful planning of their collapse, disintegration or corrosion, thus exploring the significance of an artistic gesture that accepts eventual compromise.
Lloyd creates video, film and slide installations which to date have focused on the themes of the modern city, its subcultures and the people that operate at it's fringes, her gaze articulating both a personal relationship with her subject, and the processes of reconstructing the act of looking. Lloyd creates a form of 'anti-portraiture', shooting situations and protagonists with a contrived passivity that allows the viewer to form their own narratives from her rhythmic and highly charged compositions.
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fredericboch.com wish you a Happy New Year 2012!!
I just want to say that I'm sorry not to have been very active on my Blog and homepage. I will try to do my best for 2012.
This New Year has started with a new job as I moved back to Fiha Lhohi Island Resort by middle of December to be in charge of our Diving Centers. It is really good to be back to Fiha and see the island again. The dives are different compare to North Male Atoll. There are, like in Club Faru, so many interesting dives, which are really enjoyable. Our House reef is fabulous and there is every day something different to discover.
The Island is, as you can see on the picture made by my friends from amriphoto.com is a fantastic shot and its represents perfectly where you can find me.
I'm looking forward to fulfill my new functions on both islands and I hope to meet you once on Fiha Lhohi.
fredericboch.com wish you all the best for this coming year!


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OAKLAND, Calif. -- Aaron Judge can't wait to get to spring training and start learning from new teammate Giancarlo Stanton.
The reigning AL Rookie of the Year alongside the NL MVP. What a sluggin' one-two punch in the middle of the New York Yankees' lineup -- not to mention daily entertainment during batting practice.
Judge, who grew up in California's Central Valley and attended Fresno State, was at the Golden State Warriors' game against Dallas on Thursday night and spoke about his club's trade for Stanton this week.
Judge says, "We're just adding not only great players but quality guys as well."
The Yankees acquired Stanton on Monday from the payroll-shedding Marlins and new CEO Derek Jeter.
Stanton led the majors with 59 home runs and 132 RBIs last season, while Judge was second with 52 homers. New York topped baseball with 241 home runs.
"He's an MVP,'' Judge said of the 28-year-old Stanton, also a right fielder like Judge. "You can learn a lot from a guy like that, just kind of watching how he goes through his normal routine. I'm just looking forward to being around him. He'll blend right into this team. We've got a good chemistry in the clubhouse. He's going to be a great fit for New York.''
Stanton is owed $295 million over the final decade of his record $325 million, 13-year contract. The Marlins, with former Yankees star Jeter running the show, will send $30 million to the Yankees if Stanton doesn't exercise his right to opt out of the deal and become a free agent after the 2020 season: $5 million each on July 1 and Oct. 1 in 2026, 2027 and 2028. Under a change in baseball's new labor contract, that money will be prorated for the luxury tax and Stanton will count as $22 million annually.


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The silly season. It certainly is. Love it or hate it, here in Australia we will spend $22 billion on Christmas this year. That is an insane amount of money! It actually makes me feel a little ill thinking about the reality of all of that money. What it could be better spent on, who could benefit from it, who could be fed, clothed and housed with it.... $22 billion is a lot of money. And money is powerful.
Rather than get all depressed about commercialism, hide away and refuse to participate though, I have a better idea. Use your money wisely this Christmas. I don't mean search around for bargains, I don't mean buy cheap knockoffs, I don't even mean spend less! I mean recognise that your money is powerful and use it as reflection of your values.
For me, this means that I will be buying handmade, locally produced and ethical gifts. It means that I won't be buying mass produced products, I won't be buying products made from unsustainable and non-recyclable materials and I will be supporting local designer makers. I am going to put my money where my values are.
For you, it might mean buying from the Oxfam shop to support workers in third world countries. It might mean, if you choose to eat meat, that you splurge on a free-range, sustainably-produced, rare breed ham or turkey instead of the factory farmed supermarket variety. It might mean that you support our local community and economy by only buying Australian made products. It might mean hand-making your cards or even some of your gifts!
Spending money on your loved ones at Christmas isn't a bad thing. Commericalism isn't even an innately bad thing. Money isn't bad either. It is simply a tool, one that you can use to support and sustain the type of world you want to live in and you want your children to grow up in.
Here's some tips and links....
1) Shop for unique handmade locally produced gifts at The Finders Keepers market in Sydney this weekend. Not only will you be using your money to support emerging designer-makers, you will find some really beautiful things that your family and friends will love. And I'll be there!! ;)
2) Shop online at Blue Caravan or Made It for the same reasons! Buy from designers in your local area to save on the postage km's and carbon.
3) Have a vegetarian Christmas! It will encourage you to get creative with your family's feast and you might come up with an amazing new tradition! Though, if you really can't do Christmas without the ham, shop for sustainably produced meat at Urban Food Market.
4) Check all of your sweets and other packaged goods for palm oil before you buy! If you don't know why you shouldn't be using palm oil, read this.
Feel free to share this with your friends and family. Stay safe and happy this holiday season.
TE x
Tuesday, November 29, 2011
Spend good this Christmas
Posted by Tenille Evans at 11:45 AM
Labels: christmas, hand made, markets, money, silly season, the finders keepers, vegetarian
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So You Say
It is all in the mind, you say, and has
nothing to do with happiness. The coming of cold,
the coming of heat, the mind has all the time in the world.
I wish the bottom of things were not so far away.
You take my arm and say something will happen,
something unusual for which we were always prepared,
like the sun arriving after a day in Asia,
like the moon departing after a night with us.
Note: "So You Say" has been published as a single-stanza, seven-line poem in a variety of online and academic references, sans the line "I wish the bottom of things were not so far away." The seven line version can be found in Selected Poems (1981). The version shared here is from the first edition of The Late Hour (1978) and matches the version published in Collected Poems (2014). Does the revision that appears in Selected reflect Strand's concern that the line is too connected with Rilke's poem "Lament"? Rilke was a favorite of Strand's, though there is certainly no 'sampling' going on here (or as contemporary poets would say, it is not a "cento"). This revision also coincides with Strand's stylistic evolution of eliminating stanzas in favor of single blocks. That the Collected Poems returns to the original could be a desire to reproduce the first edition books to the letter–or that Strand decided that he preferred the eight-line, two-stanza version after all. Such are the questions that haunt my waking hours. –PR


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This will be a truly raw and untouched Canadian Arctic experience for nature enthusiasts around the world, all accessible within a short flight from Yellowknife, Northwest Territories.


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No 339, HWWA Discussion Papers from Hamburg Institute of International Economics (HWWA)
We analyze whether financial integration will lead to lower national regulation of domestic banking activities. In our model, banks? efforts and public regulation can lower the probability of bankruptcy. We contrast the national case with an integrated banking market and find that banks will exert greater effort to monitor their foreign activities. Thus, financial integration may increase prudential behavior and regulation. We also discuss incentives for banks to organize their foreign holdings in branches or subsidiaries. We show that the absence of a common lender of last resort can reduce the probability of financial crisis.
Keywords: Bank regulation; lender of last resort; European financial markets (search for similar items in EconPapers)
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The speech is over and I shall move on after this post….
The president has made his big speech in Saudi Arabia and that was about it…he was suppose to make others but with that one speech he had shot his wad….it seems he was spent (but I thought it was Clinton that was low energy)….
The speech was to the Muslim World…….he went to the heart of the "Muslim World"….Saudi Arabia…..sadly Saudi is NOT the Muslim World….regardless what the president had to say……
"I chose to make my first foreign visit a trip to the heart of the Muslim world," President Trump said in Riyadh on Sunday, in a speech billed as a call to Muslims to promote a peaceful understanding of Islam and to unite against terrorists.
Riyadh is the capital of Saudi Arabia, but it is not the capital of the Muslim world. In fact, it's worth remembering that "the Muslim world" is not actually a place. It's a Western idea built on the faulty racial logic that Muslims live in a world of their own—that Islam is an eastern, foreign religion that properly belongs in a distant, faraway, dusty place. (This is arguably the logic that underlies Trump's Muslim travel ban, currently held up in the courts: Islam is foreign, "Islam hates us," Islam cannot possibly be a real American religion and that is why we can ban its adherents. Stephen Miller, an architect of the travel ban, was also reportedly among the writers of Trump's Islam speech.)
Source: Trump Addressed a 'Muslim World' That Does Not Exist – The Atlantic
The American Conservative posted that Trump should not make this speech, this was before the trip began…..
One of the possible pitfalls of Trump's upcoming foreign trip is the speech he intends to give in Saudi Arabia on Islam:
A speech was added in Saudi Arabia to provide an "inspiring yet direct" message to the Islamic world, according to national security adviser H.R. McMaster. That's an echo of Trump's predecessor Barack Obama, who addressed Muslims in Cairo in his first major speech on foreign soil.
A second address in Israel, which local newspapers reported would take place at the ancient archeological site of Masada, was moved indoors to a museum. Transporting Trump to the mountaintop overlooking the Dead Sea would have required the use of a cable car.
Both speeches were being drafted by Trump's policy adviser Stephen Miller, who helped write Trump's convention and inaugural addresses, with input from the large collection of advisers who are helping to plan the trip: son-in-law and senior adviser Jared Kushner, McMaster and deputy national security adviser Dina Powell.
Source: Trump's Islam Speech Is a Mistake | The American Conservative
Well in all honesty this is a moot point because the speech he made was not about Islam at all…..but others did not seem to think much of this speech at all……
First is an op-ed from the NYT….and as one would think it is not very flattering…..
Two of our opinion writers, Mustafa Akyol in Istanbul and Wajahat Ali in the Washington, D.C. area, watched President Trump's speech in Saudi Arabia this morning and discussed what they thought it means for the Middle East, American foreign policy and Muslims around the world.
Finally a piece written by Juan Cole……..again not very flattering……
Trump's speech on Islam, written by notorious Islamophobe Stephen Miller, who used to organize Orwellian Two Minutes Hate sessions against Muslims at Duke, is just as bizarre as everything else Trump does.
Miller-Trump imply, as has become common in right wing American discourse, that Muslims have a peculiar problem inasmuch as they produce terrorists. What do they think the Ku Klux Klan is? I estimate that people of European Christian heritage polished off as many as 100 million persons in the 20th century and that Muslims may have killed 2-3 million.
Source: Trump on Islam: Neo-Orientalism and anti-Shi'ism
The speech on Islam was more about the divide and anti-Iran, which is a Shi'a sect within Islam, than it was about the religion per se….
Did Trump just declare an escalation in the situation between US and Iran?
Riddled with hypocrisy, clichés and absurdities, President Donald Trump's speech Sunday before an assembly of monarchs and despots in Saudi Arabia spelled out an agenda of escalating US militarism throughout the Middle East and a buildup in particular toward war with Iran.
Hailed by a fawning American media as "presidential"–supposedly eclipsing for the moment the crises and factional struggles engulfing the administration–the speech was reportedly drafted by Stephen Miller, the extreme right-wing ideologue credited with being the chief architect of Trump's abortive executive order banning people from seven predominantly Muslim nations from entering the US.
Source: Trump's Speech in Riyadh Signals US Escalation Against Iran | Global Research – Centre for Research on Globalization
Is this a good thing or is it a line being drawn on the backs of our military?
The speech lecture is over…..we can all go back to our regularly watched commentary.