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It is racist. You never hear white people get called thugs. If he's intimidating,Black, had long hair, he must be a thug right?RolandDeschain wrote:Considering the people at extremeskins.com say anyone calling Sean Taylor a thug is racist, and that thug is a "racially-charged term", I find Fight 4 Old DC's post pretty amusing.
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McGwire needing vote bump to progress on Hall path
Mark McGwire is a candidate on the National Baseball Hall of Fame ballot for the eighth year. The Class of 2014 will be announced Wednesday. You can watch the announcement live at 2 p.m. ET on an MLB Network simulcast on MLB.com as part of a three-hour live show beginning at noon. On Thursday, MLB.com and MLB Network will air the news conferences featuring the electees live from New York at 11 a.m. ET.
In four years as a coach, Mark McGwire has achieved something he long wanted: he's just a guy doing his best to help the team win. McGwire does his work -- quite successfully the past few seasons -- and stays out of the spotlight.
Mark McGwire is a candidate on the National Baseball Hall of Fame ballot for the eighth year. The Class of 2014 will be announced Wednesday. You can watch the announcement live at 2 p.m. ET on an MLB Network simulcast on MLB.com as part of a three-hour live show beginning at noon. On Thursday, MLB.com and MLB Network will air the news conferences featuring the electees live from New York at 11 a.m. ET.
In four years as a coach, Mark McGwire has achieved something he long wanted: he's just a guy doing his best to help the team win. McGwire does his work -- quite successfully the past few seasons -- and stays out of the spotlight.
Even with a move from St. Louis to Los Angeles, the famously private McGwire is no longer a star attraction for reporters. He was a huge story when he was hired by the Cardinals prior to the 2010 season, but with each passing year, his profile has lowered.
That McGwire made the move from the place where he is most beloved tells a lot about the former slugger. McGwire became the Dodgers' hitting coach in 2013, choosing to be close to his family rather than remain in Cardinals country, where he remains an icon after four-plus seasons, 220 homers and 473 RBIs in a St. Louis uniform.
McGwire's lower profile as a coach coincides with him no longer being a stronger candidate for enshrinement in Cooperstown as it appeared he might be 10 years ago. Then again, he's also no longer the lightning rod that he was almost four years ago after admitting to PED use.
These days, the iconic slugger is one of many names under consideration, so far receiving enough support to stay on the ballot but not enough to put himself in the picture for future induction. Entering his eighth year on the Hall of Fame ballot, the question is whether McGwire ever will start the kind of climb that could get him into the Hall by the time his allotted 15 years on the Baseball Writers' Association of America ballot are up.
McGwire, who retired as the No. 5 home run hitter of all time (he's now 10th), looked like he could be headed for Cooperstown immortality when he called it a career following the 2001 season. Since then, the subject of performance-enhancing drugs in baseball became a front-burner issue, and McGwire was the first casualty in Hall of Fame voting.
When McGwire returned to the game to be the Cardinals' hitting coach in 2010, he repeatedly apologized for his use of PEDs. Although some argued that he didn't go far enough, McGwire came forward in a way that few of his contemporaries have. And yet he stepped backward, rather than forward, in the voting.
The 2011 results -- the first after his public admission -- saw McGwire receive a lower vote total and vote percentage than in any of his previous years on the ballot. McGwire received 115 votes, 19.8 percent of the electorate, after holding steady at 21 percent or more in his first four years. He dropped slightly in 2012, to 112 votes, good for 19.5 percent, and last year he dropped to 96 votes, or 16.9 percent, the 15th-ranked total among last year's candidates.
His first time around, "Big Mac" was named on 23.5 percent of ballots, ranking ninth among all candidates. McGwire's second year on the ballot, 2008, saw virtually the same result. Once again he finished ninth in the balloting. He received 128 votes, or 23.6 percent.
In McGwire's third year as a candidate, his vote total and percentage both dropped, but he bounced back. In the 2010 balloting, McGwire once again returned to exactly 128 votes, which this time was good for 23.7 percent of the vote. Then he dropped off in '11, a little more in '12 and even more in '13.
A candidate must receive 75 percent of the vote from Baseball Writers' Association of America members to gain election to the National Baseball Hall of Fame. After no players were elected last year for the first time since 1996, second baseman Craig Biggio (68.2 percent), starting pitcher Jack Morris (67.7 percent) in his 15th and final year on the ballot, and first baseman Jeff Bagwell (59.6 percent) are the top returning vote-getters from last year's ballot. Greg Maddux, Tom Glavine and Frank Thomas are among the first-timers on the 2014 ballot
The odds for McGwire grow longer because of an influx of prominent names on the ballot the next two years. Voters are permitted to support no more than 10 players, so the addition of qualified candidates affects the vote totals of holdover players.
During his playing career, McGwire admitted taking androstenedione, a steroid precursor, but nothing stiffer than that. In January 2010, he stepped forward, admitting to steroid use and apologizing for it. McGwire staunchly maintained that his statistics were not inflated by his use of the drugs, but his contrition was hard to miss.
"I wanted to talk about this five years ago, but I wasn't in position to do it," McGwire said after his nationally televised admission. "I think everybody that's a human being has held something in that they wanted to release for quite some time. ... I'm ready to turn the page and move on with my life. It's something that I totally regret. I can't say that I'm sorry enough to everybody in baseball and across America, whoever watches this great game."
As a player, McGwire was a true offensive force and, perhaps, an under-appreciated fielder. He was a 12-time All-Star, an American League Gold Glove Award winner in 1990 and he finished in the top 10 in Most Valuable Player balloting five times.
He ranks eighth all-time in slugging percentage, 10th in home runs and first in at-bats per home run. McGwire played on six playoff teams, three pennant winners and the 1989 World Series-champion A's. His .263 career batting average argues against induction, but by most other numbers, his was indisputably a Hall of Fame career.
"For me, there isn't anything that's changed about, No. 1, how much I believe in him, and No. 2, what that means as far as his career and his production and some of the historic things he did," said Tony La Russa, who managed McGwire in both Oakland and St. Louis. "I'm hoping that he gets that honor sooner rather than later."
When McGwire made his full-season debut in 1987 for a young and emerging Oakland team, he was a phenomenon, hitting 49 homers, most of them mammoth and majestic. He drew 71 walks, showing the strike-zone judgment that would be nearly as much a part of his profile as his power. And he did all that while playing his home games in a brutal hitter's ballpark several years before the offensive eruption of the 1990s.
McGwire followed that up with 32, 33 and 39 homers for the pennant winners from 1988-90, then struggled badly in '91. A rebound brought 42 homers in '92, but McGwire battled injuries throughout '93 and '94.
When McGwire returned healthy in 1995, though, he was a force like never before. He hit for a higher average than he had in the past. He drew even more walks. And he hit homers at a rate even he hadn't previously managed. From 1995-2000 -- his last really effective season -- McGwire went deep 316 times, an average of once every 8.06 at-bats.
McGwire was a dominating force in the lineup until injuries finally took him down. He struggled through 2001 before hanging it up at age 38.
Matthew Leach is a national reporter for MLB.com. Read his blog, Obviously, You're Not a Golfer and follow him on Twitter at @MatthewHLeach.


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Test your knowledge by taking our Hunger Quiz
This is the first in an occasional series on hunger and food insecurity issues in our nation, in Kansas, and in Butler County.
For more information, check out Kids Need to Eat, founded to address these issues in our community.
Test Your Knowledge: THE HUNGER QUIZ
True or False? [answers below]
1. One in six Americans do not have access to enough food.
2. Most persons who experience hunger are homeless and out of work.
3. Few children experience hunger because there are programs to care for them.
4. Most persons in low income households would be fine if they just worked harder.
5. Even college educated adults struggle with issues of hunger in this country.
6. Lack of adequate nutrition only affects a child's growth.
7. In school, children living in food-insecure households perform just as well as children who have enough nutrition daily.
8. More than 2 million rural households experience food insecurity.
9. Urban counties have the highest poverty rates in the U.S.
10. Nearly 49 million Americans don't have dependable, consistent access to enough food due to limited money and resources.
• Hunger is a reality for 1 in 6 people: including hard-working adults, children, and seniors who are forced to go without food due to limited resources.
• Hunger is not an issue just for the homeless and those living in poverty. In the Feeding American Network, 36 % of households served have at least one working adult.
• Lack of resources prevents nearly 49 million people from getting enough food.
• 17 million children live in food-insecure households. Hunger affects their physical, cognitive and behavioral development.
• Children in food-insecure households are likely to experience fatigue and difficulty learning in school. School lunch programs help but don't solve the whole problem.
• Insufficient nutrition puts children at risk for illness and weakens their immune system. In adults, it can contribute to physical illness and mental health problems.
Answers: 1. True. 2. False. 3. False. 4. False. 5. True. 6. False. 7. False. 8. True. 9. False. 10. True.
Adapted from: http://feedingamerica.org/hunger-in-america/hunger-facts.aspx


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Last month, I shared one of my "Messy Recipes" (a recipe book or card that was splattered with ingredients from being used over and over again) from my little blue book that was my journal during my catering days - it contained all of my favorite recipes that I made over and over for my clients. Well, this month, I was asked share another sort of "Messy Recipe" by the folks at LG.
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250a Firmware Lab
Lab 3: Firmware Programming
Due on Wednesday, October 19th at 5PM
For this lab you need your MaxKit, with your Satellite CCRMA .
- 1 Firmware Programming On Arduino
- 2 Custom Communication
- 3 Low-latency sensing
- 4 Make A Musical Interaction
- 5 Optional: Autonomous Satellite CCRMA
- 6 Optional: Programming Linux
Firmware Programming On Arduino
Compiling and uploading firmware code in the Arduino Program
For this class, we assume that you will be adapting existing working code for your own applications. While this is certainly easier than writing firmware from scratch, it does require understanding how existing code functions.
- Use the usual procedure (see described before) to power up Satellite CCRMA and login as the user ccrma with the password temppwd.
- Download the first files for the lab using
wget https://ccrma.stanford.edu/courses/250a/labs/lab3.zip
- Unzip lab3 three with
unzip lab3.zip
- And enter the lab3 directory by typing
cd ~/lab3
- Start the Arduino software by typing the command arduino & in the XTerminal to your Satellite. Please upload the following firmware programs from your Arduino program's Examples folders to your Arduino controller and see how they function. Do attach LEDs, buttons, as is appropriate:
* Examples->Digital->Blink * Examples->Digital->BlinkWithoutDelay * Examples->Digital->Button
Custom Communication
One reason that you might want to program the Arduino microcontroller is to enable greater control over the communications from the Arduino. In this segment of the laboratory, we learn a wider variety of ways to send data from the Arduino hardware to the computer than we have previously used.
Serial communication with the Arduino Serial Monitor
You might have noticed in the previous lab segment that it can be very hard to know what is going wrong when the Arduino hardware is in autonomous mode. Here, we send serial communications between the Arduino hardware and the Arduino IDE.
- Examples->Analog->Smoothing: Use the Serial Monitor (icon on the far left on the Arduino IDE toolbar) to get data back from the Arduino. When you do this, you'll notice the TX light on the Arduino lights up and stays lit.
The high datarate on the Serial monitor can make the Xwindow for the program freeze. If the Arduino IDE crashes, go to the main terminal and type 'fg' to bring the arduino to the foreground, and then type 'cntl-x, cntl-c' to kill the program. Now add a delay to the loop function to prevent the freeze. What size delay makes for speedy updates but doesn't cause freezing?
- Examples->Communication->SerialCallandResponseASCII. This will show you how to do two-way communication with the Serial Monitor.
Serial communication with PD
Now let's try using serial to communicate with PD.
First let's try outputting information to the Arduino hardware:
- In Arduino, load Examples->Communication->PhysicalPixel
- The PD patch for communicating with this firmware is lab3/physicalpixel.pd.
- You may need to hunt for the right serial port to make this work. Serial port 4 worked for us...
Next let's try getting information from the Arduino hardware:
- In Arduino, load Examples->Communication->Graph
- The PD patch for communicating with this firmware is lab3/Graph.pd
- Again, you need to set the right serial port, ascii/binary, and graph on/off settings.
Low-latency sensing
Encoder input
- Download example firmware for interfacing with a rotary encoder using the command
wget ccrma.stanford.edu/courses/250a/labs/files/encoder2011.zip
(Or use scp, Fetch, or your favorite secure FTP program to get encoder2011.zip onto your kit.)
- Extract the ZIP file by typing
unzip encoder2011.zip
- Enter the encoder2011 subdirectory by executing
cd encoder2011
One final reason that you would want direct control over the Arduino firmware is that you might have very low-latency sensing needs. As an example of this, we show you here how to use encoder input with the Arduino.
- Quit Pd to ensure that Pd isn't using the USB/serial connection to the Arduino.
- Start up the Arduino software using the command arduino & and upload the sketch ~/lab3/encoder2011/encoder/encoder.pde to the Arduino. Then quit the Arduino IDE and start up Pd by typing pd encoder.pd
- Now you need to build this schematic to interface the encoder: http://cm-wiki.stanford.edu/mediawiki/images/c/c1/Encoder_filter.png.
Pin two is the middle pin on the rotary encoder, and pins 1 and 3 are the other directly adjacent pins. It can be a bit difficult to plug the encoder into the solderless protoboard, but you can do it if you straighten out the pins first.
Note: In the schematic, AVR Phase A is digital pin 2 or the Arduino, and AVR Phase B is digital pin 3.
Now you're ready to send out the position of the encoder over the serial bus. The values should start near zero and increase or decrease, depending on which direction you turn the encoder. How are negative numbers represented? Why does the encoder always start near 0 when the program on the Arduino is restarted?
Make A Musical Interaction
As the final main deliverable of the lab, you should cause your Satellite CCRMA kit make some sound that depends on how you manipulate the sensors. For example, you could make a musical instrument, a music controller, a mock-up sound art installation, or some other sonic interaction. Now that you have had some experience synthesizing sound, your sound synthesis patch should involve more than just a few osc~s. Think about what you want to design before you get started.
For your musical interaction, you can write your own firmware, or you can use Firmata. If you choose to use Firmata, then you need to re-flash Firmata to the Arduino. (See instructions from Lab 2.)
Start up the Jack audio server by executing the command qjackctl & at the terminal and clicking on the Start button. In order to be able to hear audio, you will need to plug a pair of ear buds, headphones, or loudspeakers into the 1/8" (2.54mm) jack labeled AUDIO OUT on the beagleboard.
It is probably easiest to make your patch by modifying ~/on-startup/windy-day.pd, which Edgar demonstrated in class. To start it up, first change to the directory ~/on-startup by typing cd ~/on-startup in the terminal. Then type pd windy-day.pd & to startup pd.
Optional: Autonomous Satellite CCRMA
By this point you should be done with your musical interaction. If you would like to go the extra mile, we will now show you how to make your musical interaction autonomous in the sense that it can operate all by itself, free from any external laptop computer. We will show you how to do this using the example windy-day.pd.
To Enable A Default Patch On Boot
- First put StandardFirmata back on the Arduino as described in lab 2.
- In the terminal, change to the on-startup directory by typing
cd ~/on-startup
- The files need to be updated. You can do this by running the command
wget ccrma.stanford.edu/courses/250a/labs/files/newonstartupfiles.zip
and then
unzip newonstartupfiles.zip
and agree to replace the files in question.
- Now, type ls -la to see what files are in there. You can see that the link (aka alias) default_patch.pd points to windy-day.pd. In order to enable the default patch to load on boot, rename the file load_default_patch_disabled to load_default_patch using the command
mv load_default_patch_disabled load_default patch
- The cat command can be used to display the contents of any ASCII file. To look at the contents of load_default_patch, type cat load_default_patch. As you can see, it starts up Jack using the text-based jackd instead of qjackctl, and then it loads default_patch.pd in pd with the graphical user interface (GUI) disabled.
- Now your kit should be ready for autonomous Satellite CCRMA. To test it, just reboot the kit by typing sudo reboot and entering the password temppwd. As it is rebooting, plug a pair of ear buds, headphones, or loudspeakers into the 1/8" (2.54mm) jack labeled AUDIO OUT on the beagleboard. Within about a minute, your kit should be fully rebooted. To check this, you can try logging in with SSH. Either way, it should start running windy_day.pd upon startup.
- Once your kit is fully rebooted, if you touch the anaog input pins on the Arduino A0-A7, it should start making some sound. However, unless you connect up a sensor circuit to some of the analog inputs, the exact behavior may be complicated. In particular, it will depend on the electrical properties of your body (how much sweat is on your fingers, whether you are touching a grounded device such as a laptop with any part of your body. Ask for help if you cannot get any sound.
- Finally, log back into your Satellite. Type ps -A at the prompt to get a list of the currently running processes. jackd is the Jack audio sound server, and pdextended is the pd process. To stop the default patch from running, type stop_default. To see how stop_default works, type cat ~/on-startup/stop_default.
Optional: Programming Linux
We don't actually expect you to do anything here, we are just providing some more information that is maybe helpful for you linux gurus. Since Satellite CCRMA runs Ubuntu linux on an OMAP chip, many standard software packages have been compiled for it. This is why we were easily able to install software such as Jack, Audacity, ChucK, Faust, Jacktrip, and the Arduino software.
If you are lucky, you can install your favorite software using the apt-get utility. To get a list of packages available on the OMAP's ARM architecture, type
sudo apt-cache pkgnames
You will notice that this list is way too long to look at. You can pipe it to the text file using the command
sudo apt-cache pkgnames > packages.txt
and then look at it using emacs packages.txt, or you search for a particular package, such as
sudo apt-cache pkgnames | grep emacs.
Or, you can compile linux software yourself on the Satellite. The gcc, g++ tools etc. are already installed.
Type the df command. You can see that there is not a whole lot more than 1GB available on the SD card, so you should only install software if you decide that you need it.


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I'm baaaack!
Last night I did my first book signing for Sex, Sin, and Zen: A Buddhist Exploration of Sex from Celibacy to Polyamory and Everything in Between (get yours now). I was at East/West Books in Mountain View, California.
Tomorrow night (Sept. 17th) at 7 pm I will be at Copperfield's Books in Petaluma, California.
On September 20th at 7 pm I'll be at Diesel Books in Oakland.
I'll also be on Henry Tannenbaum's show on San Francisco's KRON channel 4 on Sunday morning (Sept. 19th) at around 9 am.
Then I'm flying back to Milwaukee, where my car is parked, and driving to Akron, Ohio for rehearsals for Zero Defex's performance at a show called The Debacle on Saturday September 25th at Kent Stage in Kent, Ohio. The show starts at 8pm. We go on pretty late, around midnight.
Following that I'll be talking at the Cleveland Buddhist Temple on Wednesday September 29th at 7 pm.
Then it's on to New York for a book signing on October 15th at 7 pm.
This will be followed by a weekend non-residential zen retreat on Oct. 16th and 17th.
In November I'll be participating in a Dogen Translators Forum held at the San Francisco Zen Center November 5-7.
I'll also announce some Montreal gigs in October or November once the dust settles up there. And a couple events in and around Los Angeles in November.
All of this mad flurry of activity comes just as I get out of a month long stay at Tassajara Zen Mountain monastery in the middle of the Ventana Wilderness Area near Carmel Valley, California.
As you can see from the photo posted above, I got myself a haircut while I was out there. I've been into punkrock for 20-some years and this is my very first mohawk. I also somehow lost 10 pounds even while living on what seemed like a steady diet of the world's most delicious bread and cakes. Tassajara is famous for its baked goods, and rightly so.
I was initially asked to come to Tassajara to give a couple of talks to students there during the final week of their annual summer guest season. Tassajara mainly functions as a Zen monastery. But it was originally a hot springs resort and every summer they open up the resort for about three months to paying guests. There is no paid staff as such. All the guest relations and suchlike are handled by Zen students. These students follow a regular Zen schedule in the mornings and evenings and spend most of the rest of their days working the jobs necessary to keep the resort running. This includes room cleaning, bed making, cooking, dining room duties, keeping the pool and bath house running, washing dishes and so forth.
When I got the invitation I looked at my schedule and noticed I had about a month free. So I asked my friend Greg Fain, the tanto (head of practice) at Tassajara, if I could just come for the whole month and be a student. He made some inquiries and found out there was space, so the deal was done. I had no idea what I was getting myself into. But it felt like I needed this.
Y'see, folks, I'd been traveling around the world for the three or four months prior to going to Tassajara. I was the toast of all Europe, the Middle East and Asia, with rabid fans clawing their way to see me in Helsinki, Belfast, Warsaw, Toulouse, Berlin, Amsterdam, Tel Aviv, Shizuoka and elsewhere. People were stopping me on the street in Austin, Texas and Tokyo, Japan to tell me how much my books had meant to them. When paying by credit card for a used book in Knoxville, Tennessee the clerk said, "I thought I recognized you!" I'm starting to suspect that when I sometimes get stared at in restaurants and other public spaces maybe it's not because I have a booger hanging out of my nose, but could in fact be because not everyone who recognizes me feels comfortable coming up and saying "hi" (it's always OK with me, by the way, as long as people are respectful).
It's weird.
Plus the life I was living was drawing me further and further away from my Zen practice. It's hard to sit twice a day when you're zipping around from place to place faster than a speeding bullet all the time, meeting people, hanging out, seeing the sights, getting fed and all the rest.
How come all this is happening and I'm still poor as shit?
But I digress. I felt like I needed the rigorous schedule, the ridiculous rules and the hard work Tassajara requires of its students to get back on track. We'll see whether it worked or not.
I was assigned to the dining room where I was something like a waiter most of the time. There are no menus at Tassajara. The meals are the same for everyone. So there was no ordering involved and, unfortunately, no tips to be had. But I poured coffee, opened wine bottles (it's all BYOB there, no alcohol is sold or served), bussed dishes, brewed coffee, scraped compost into buckets and did most of the stuff waiters do. That was on days when I wasn't assigned to be a dish washer.
I have to admit, my first few days on the job I was all like, "Don't these people know who I am? I am one of the most important voices in Buddhism today! Refill your coffee? HA! You should be so lucky as to get your coffee refilled by a star of my caliber!"
I'm exaggerating, but not by much. And there were a few guests who did recognize me. But by and large the guests at Tassajara aren't my target audience. I was more often spotted by students. That was OK, though, because it doesn't take long to get over being starstruck by a guy who you see hauling stinky buckets of compost and cleaning encrusted crud off the samovar.
As Greg said just now when I read him some of this, "It's a great way to study the self." It sure was. Gives you perspective, perhaps even "too much perspective" as Spinal Tap said. But it was really good.
I had a few adventures. Like when I went out for what was supposed to be a three hour hike with three other people. We ended up losing our bearings in the woods and had to spend the night at a campsite we found, completely unprepared. I had on a t-shirt and jeans. It gets down into the 40s Fahrenheit at night out there in the mountains. No sleeping bag, no jacket. I had a towel wrapped around my shoulders to try and stave off some of the cold. Oh and we'd walked through the creek for much of the way and were soaking wet.
I met some amazing people. Formed a punk rock band. Re-learned stuff I'd forgotten. Officiated a well-being ceremony for Nina Hartley's mom. Dressed up in my robes just about every single day. Got my first mohawk. Learned some new jokes (Q: What has two knees and swims in the ocean? A: A two-knee fish!). It was totally worth it and I'd do it again anytime the staff there will put up with me.
I'll write up more of my overall impressions of the place in the coming weeks.
See ya at the book signings!


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Ever get offered to do a giveaway with something you really love? And just can't wait to post about it? I have been so excited to do this giveaway for the longest time. Plus I have one to giveaway to you.
The AreoPress is quite the remarkable little machine. It's absolutely perfect for one cup espresso. Makes more than just one cup too, but since I'm the only coffee drinker in the house it's perfect for me. I love my starbuck via's, but they can get costly. So glad I have an AreoPress now, far cheaper and just as tasty. The espresso is so much cleaner, crisper, and WAY less acidic.
I have to be honest when I first got the package and saw the parts I was a little intimated, but once it's together you are good to go, and cleanup is literally non-existent. All you really have to do is change filter, put in ground coffee, add hot water--just like any other coffee maker. But the flavor is so much better than those awful drip makers that have that bitter, heavy, cigarette-butts-in-water taste.
Trust me, if you like clean, sharp, crisp espresso, then you have to get one. They retail for only $29.99. That's not a bad price at all in this economy.
Don't forget to check out their Facebook page for deals and giveaways too!
All you have to do to enter the contest is go to their website and tell me where you can buy one. This is their website: AeroPress.
ONE entry per person.
PLEASE have a valid email, OR leave your email along with your answer.
The winner will be announced on Friday February 3, 2012. Good luck!


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Cut Outs
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Combo Sticker
Card Kit
Project Kit
12" Chipboard
Dimensional Stickers
Layered Chipboard
Oh my Gosh!! Absolutly Gorgeous Line!!! I love it! Can't wait to get a hold of this line.. :)ReplyDelete
I was soooo happy when I saw this collection. These papers are warm, deep, fallish and traditional...I just love them so much. And now that I've seen all the gorgeous coordinating embellishments, I completely fell in love with the dimensional stickers too. Gosh, you've definitely outdone yourself and I can hardly wait to work with this collection.ReplyDelete
The colours are just gorgeous !!! I know what I'll be doing with this collection!!!ReplyDelete
Absolutly Beautiful!!! Amazing colours. Already starting to have some template ideas for that line of paper :-)ReplyDelete
Wow!! Absolutely gorgeous collection! I'm inlove with each paper! Thanks for a chance! Autumn is my favorite season and I have loads of fall photos to scrap!ReplyDelete
Gorgeous... love those rich colors!ReplyDelete
OMG!!!!!!!!!1 Absolutely amazing line!!!!!!!!!! What a beautiful and warm colors! I love all!!!!!ReplyDelete
Gorgeous collection. You have captured the essence of fall beautifully!
jessicascraftshaque dot blogspot dot com
I got married on a beautiful November day almost 3 years ago. Does this gorgeous collection give me permission to redo some wedding pages? I love it!!!! Suzy email@example.com
Oh my goodness....you are killing me!Just stunning! I love it all!ReplyDelete
Very beautiful collection! So warm colors :)ReplyDelete
I LOVE this fall collection, the colors are simply gorgeous!ReplyDelete
A really classy looking line, great for all of those general autumn layoutsReplyDelete
I love the colors in this line. Absolutely beautiful!! I just can't get enough of it!ReplyDelete
Woo Hoo!! Gorgeous, just gorgeous!! I KNEW I would not be disappointed!ReplyDelete
I love this paper, the colors are fab. But of course it's BoBunny!! You guys rock! You keep giving us awesome stuff to play with.ReplyDelete
I LOVE the colors! One thing I have never loved about "fall" LOs is the washed out colors of brown and muddy orange...I love the BRILLIANT hits of color in this! I may just make my first Fall LO this year!ReplyDelete
oh my gosh you really have made this an awesome line i love everything about it the colours,papers,stamps and embellies are a must have thanks for the chance of winning a fab prize xxReplyDelete
That turquoise next to those warm colors just screams "USE ME NOW" It's very beautiful, Kudos to the designers who worked on this set!!ReplyDelete
A beautiful Fall collection!ReplyDelete
Love fall colors, and this is an aweome line as usual!ReplyDelete
Totally gorgeous!!! I am in love with these colors and the sunflowers!!!ReplyDelete
What beautiful fall papers!ReplyDelete
This was a collection I couldn't wait to see, and you delivered the goods! WOW, love these autumn colors and all the little bits you've added to it! I adore fall, and these will be so easy to work with!ReplyDelete
love this! Can't wait until this hits the stores! would love to win it all!ReplyDelete
Wowwwwwwwwwwwwww! I am in LOVE!! I loveeeeeee the vibrant colors! :):):):):):):):):):):):)ReplyDelete
Gorgeous collection the colours are so vibrant and bold.
Janie Boots
Very nice! Can't wait to get my hands on it!!
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Love the rich colors mixed with teal! Great icons on the chipboard accents :)ReplyDelete
Wow! I love the fall colors! Such a lovely collection! I'm scrapping fall pictures now so please pick me! Thanks for the chance to win!ReplyDelete
I need two of them...one to look at and admire and the other to play with!!!ReplyDelete
I love the colors. It almost makes me wish summer was over and fall was here.ReplyDelete
Love, love, love this collection. The sunflowers are to die for and the flourishes are awesome! The embellishments are fabulous. Thanks for a chance to win.ReplyDelete
The colors in this line are gorgeous! Wow! I bet it is even more beautiful in person! Can't wait!!!!ReplyDelete
This is so awesome. I really love the acorn pack!ReplyDelete
Just a word: FABULOUS! I love the colours palette , the design...everything of this new line!!!ReplyDelete
This one is so beautiful! love the colors and all the beautiful embelishments! hugs MarleyReplyDelete
I love the beautiful fall colors and all the fantastic embellishments in this line!ReplyDelete
Great!! fabulous! I can't wait!ReplyDelete
This is some of the most beautiful paper I've ever seen. I want it ALL! I LOVE Bo Bunny <3ReplyDelete
Woow what a precious collection and all the embellies rocks!!ReplyDelete
Oh my goodness, yes I love this collection! Fabulous colors and designs, I can't wait to get my hands on it!ReplyDelete
This is such a pretty autumn collection!!! :)ReplyDelete
this is just beautiful, congrats on this first new line, I can't wait to see the rest !ReplyDelete
I love fall & your new line! Great colors, leaves & flowers!!!ReplyDelete
Absolutely fabtastic colors and collection!!! I like to project kit.ReplyDelete
I really love this line..just gorgeous.ReplyDelete
That is one gorgeous collection!ReplyDelete
Gorgeous!! The colors are so fresh and amazing. You'd think that there was no new way to do fall, but you proved that wrong.ReplyDelete
Absolutely gorgeous line. I'd love to have that in my hands!ReplyDelete
Gorgeous new collection!!! Just love the rich colors and the pops of blue!!! A must have!!!!ReplyDelete
The colours are so warm and vibrant! Love the addition of dragonflies too :)ReplyDelete
This is SO pretty! Love the patterns...
- April W
ABSOLUTELY GORGEOUS! Wow! Those colors are beautiful! I already have ideas for this line! Thank you!ReplyDelete
The bold colors are fabulous! This is unique and love it! I love the addition of the dragonfly!! GREAT collection!!! Thanks!ReplyDelete
This fall collection is simply gorgeous. And the embellishments-wow!! The Colours!-I love fall.
Can hardly wait to see these in person.
Leslee in MT
oh dear my favorite colors all together with beautiful patterns - Like it a lot ♥ReplyDelete
Love the fall collection. You never disappoint!ReplyDelete
omgoodness - such gorgeous, gorgeous colours! Fall is my favourite season! I LOVE this collection!ReplyDelete
Ooooooo - that leaf diecut paper - SWOON! Can't wait to get my hands on this!ReplyDelete
OMGosh-I love fall and this is making me long for it now!!!! This is an absolutely STUNNING line!ReplyDelete
beautiful colours. need to do some faal scrapping. But here in the Netherlands we don't have that many events in that time as you in the States have. But really a perfect line for works in the wood.ReplyDelete
LOVE these lovely Fall colors!ReplyDelete
This is one fabulous fall collection!! So elegant!ReplyDelete
Ohhh, just have to pick my chin up from the floor.... *sorry* I LOVE IT!!!! You can just feel the radiant colors of fall and the cool, clear air.... Can't wait for fall to come or for Forever Fall to be available!!ReplyDelete
I looooove the colors, so fab!!!ReplyDelete
Love the rich colors in this beautiful collection! The embellishments are amazing. Can't wait!ReplyDelete
Wooooooooooooooooooooh, these are great!!!
I love Fall and have a lot of pictures!!!
OMG!OMG!OMG! Love them all. Can't wait to put my hands on them!ReplyDelete
this line looks amazing!! those beautiful colors make me want to lay in big pile of colorful autumn leaves! looking forward to this line for all of those fun fall photos!ReplyDelete
The new fall line is absolutely gorgeous. I have some photos of my granddaughter from the fall of 2002 that I have not scrapped yet because I could not find paper to do the photos justice. Now I have. Thank you Bo Bunny.ReplyDelete
Love the color combo! The warm autumn colors with a splash of turqoise! Gorgeous!ReplyDelete
Knocking it out of the park again. Love these colors and being a Fall baby I just might be a little bias but WOW. The creations I could make w/this Line!ReplyDelete
Gorgeous rich colours in this collection! Beautiful!!ReplyDelete
what a great line!!! LOVE all those warm, rich colors, perfect for fall projects!!!!ReplyDelete
Oh goodness!!! This is fantastic! I especially love those little dragonflies!ReplyDelete
Mmmm... Delicious line is all I can say! Thanks for the chance :)ReplyDelete
I love this line...the colours are fab!! Lee-Ann :)ReplyDelete
Oh my! loooooove the colors! We don't usually see a bright blue for autumn, but the mix is sooo perfect! Love it!ReplyDelete
Absolutely gorgeous!!! Love it!!!ReplyDelete
WOW> WOW> WOW> I am completely in LOVE> I have a 5 year old who is totally into Pocahontas right now...and those colors and designs scream "Indian Princess: to me! GORGEOUS!!!!!ReplyDelete
OMGoodness I can't wait to work with this line!! That pop of the Teal is just perfection! I can't wait to see the layouts people make with this one! Just beautiful! :)ReplyDelete
I love this. The colors are perfect for fall. I can't wait to get some of this I have a few past years that I need to get caught up on and these are perfect!ReplyDelete
Love these Autumn colours! I've just been to a part of France where all the sunflowers are in full bloom - these papers would be perfect to capture those memories!ReplyDelete
OMG! This is gorgeous! It's definitely the best fall line I've seen in years. The colours are every bit as dazzlingly beautiful as the season itself. Way to go, Bo Bunny!ReplyDelete
Ohhh! Fall is my favorite season and the colors and patterns in this collection just make me so happy!!!! Love it all, especially the new buttons! Wooohooo!!!!!!!ReplyDelete
I just love the embellishments that go with this line!ReplyDelete
Fall is my favorite season and you outdid yourself with this amazing line. Love it! Thanks for the chance to win.ReplyDelete
Love the bright colors and I adore the dragonflys! what a beautiful new line.ReplyDelete
Wow - this is great. What a wonderful collection in brilliant colours!ReplyDelete
Wonderful warm colors. Perfect for some fall pictures.ReplyDelete
This is just stunning, I cannot wait to get my hands on this for my fall leaf pictures, my fall pumpkin patch pictures, my fall anything pictures. I am a traditional color person and this fits the bill to a TReplyDelete
what a beautiful fall line!!! Gotta love Bo Bunny!!!ReplyDelete
The colors in this collection are gorgeous! I love it.ReplyDelete
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Awww - I'm totally in love!
And I adore all those amazing embellishments as usual!
WOW!! I love the colors!ReplyDelete
This collection is beautiful! I am looking so forward to working with these papers on all my fall projects.ReplyDelete
Beautiful! I love the dragonflies!ReplyDelete
I love the colors and the flowers!!ReplyDelete
oh what a pretty collection, I already know what I could do with these! Love it!!!ReplyDelete
wow what great line! i love the nontraditional colors. looks awesomeReplyDelete
what a gorgeous paper line..i love the color combinations! Hope to get my hands on them very soon!ReplyDelete
WOW. GORGEOUS.:OReplyDelete
Gorgeous! I got at least 10 different ideas in my head just scrolling down this blog post! Hope they get them at my LSS really really soon...ReplyDelete
OH MY...OH MY...OH MY...STUNNING! What wonderful eye candy FOREVER FALL is! Bo Bunny...you never failed me! Can't wait to get my crafting fingers on this line! AWESOME!!!ReplyDelete
OMG!!! Gorgeous!
P.S. To my best friend, with whom I have made a pact to not buy anymore paper until we use what we have... sorry! Gotta have this one!
LOVE the colors in this line!! B-E-A-UTIFUL!ReplyDelete
Fall- my favorite season! I love this collection. The colors are wonderful.ReplyDelete
Very beautiful collection! The colors are fabulous! I especially love the touch of turqoise, it adds so much, and you usually don't see it in fall collections!ReplyDelete
Gorgeous!!! I LOVE LOVE LOVE that sunflower paper! How soon will it be in stores?? :)ReplyDelete
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OMG, I just love fall! These are so warm and rich! I love all of this line! tfs TamiReplyDelete
love this line - the warm colors are gorgeous and making me long for cooler weather!ReplyDelete
Absolutely adore this entire line. Fall colors are my favorite - so warm and rich! My newest gotta have is the trinkets, they are so beautifully made. I would feel very spoiled and lucky to win, thank you :)ReplyDelete
Gorgeous, simply gorgeous.....each new line that comes out is wonderful. I'm going to need another job just to buy all the Bo Bunny lines. Can't wait to see the new Christmas lines.ReplyDelete
I LOVE,LOVE,LOVE the colors in this collection. They are just awesome!! So warm and earthy and comfortable. The embellishments are just wonderful too!! Can't wait to use these on some cards and scrapbook pages!ReplyDelete
Absolutely stunning! I can hardly wait for my LSS to get your gorgeous line in! Thinking ahead to a mini album I'll be making!!ReplyDelete
Oh My Word!!!!!!!!!!!! I am in HEAVEN...really. The colors are so me and the designs are delish!ReplyDelete
Gorgeous! I can hardly wait to get my hands on this collection :)ReplyDelete
The colors are so rich and it all pulls together beautifully.ReplyDelete
Love love love love love it! Fall is my favorite time of year and this collection captures the majesty of the season. Would make my year if i won it but def cant wait to get it either way :)ReplyDelete
Oh my gosh...I've been stating for weeks now that I can't get Fall and Halloween themes out of my head (but I don't want to rush summer away.) =D I love this! The colors and patterns are just beautiful!ReplyDelete
Spectacular colors and design. LOVE all of it. My mind is racing with ideas. : )
Chris R.
Love the Colors, love the patterns, love the entire line, thedie cut page is just beautiful, love it allReplyDelete
Love, love, love the beautiful fall collection! I am always searching for great autumn papers that aren't Halloween inspired! Thanks!!!ReplyDelete
This line is now my absolute fave-love the punch of aqua- very nice collection-if it could be mine
Lynda in Calif
Beautiful! I specially love the touch of turquoise with the traditional fall colors!ReplyDelete
Oh my, Oh my Oh my, I can't speak, I am speechless the line is gorgeous and I love Fall was wondering today if it could start soon.Unfortunetly for me I live in Florida and am due for three more months of 100 degree weather. But I could stare at this paper and pretend. Ahhhh, beautiful.ReplyDelete
What a beautiful paper line. I can hardly wait to get mine. Mind you....if I won??? Love..love my BoBunny paper.ReplyDelete
I love the bright colors and especially the teal with them. It opens up so many possibilities!ReplyDelete
love the colors!ReplyDelete
How beautiful! Stunning colors and gorgeous patterns... love it! If this is the beginning of the sneak - can't wait for what's to come!ReplyDelete
Gorgeous! I'm a summer gal all the way, but this line almost makes me wish for fall. LOVE IT!!!!!!!!ReplyDelete
Stunning line! I love the style of them- nothing cutesy, nothing "in-your-face." I really like those kinds of lines sometimes but something like this is a wonderful change from all of that.ReplyDelete
Wow!! I love theses papers! Fall is my favorite season!ReplyDelete
beautiful! The colors are rich and gorgeous! so yummy!ReplyDelete
Looks great! I particularly like all the choices of different mediums!ReplyDelete
Absolutely beautiful!!! Love all the colors in this line!!! Can't wait to play!ReplyDelete
Oh my gracious! The warm colors are fabulous and the artwork on these designs are incredible! As if the paper werent' enough, look at those trinkets and stamps - WOWZERS!!ReplyDelete
Fall is my FAVORITE time of the year, and my fave to scrapbook. This line is absolutely gorgeous and I can't wait to get it! I hope I win!!!!ReplyDelete
Wow the colors are amazing throughout this line! I really love the bright teal with all the more traditional fall colors!ReplyDelete
Gorgeous stuff for fall! Love the vibrant colors. Can't wait to see them in personReplyDelete
absolutly gorgeous!!! i love scrappin fall photos!! cant wait to get my hands on this!!ReplyDelete
Oh my gosh!!! I just love it!!! the colors are just beautiful!!ReplyDelete
I'm in LOVE!!!!! These are GOR-GEEEE-OUS! Of course I'm biased - I go a bit crazy for almost anything "BoBunny". :) Can't wait for this to hit the shelves!ReplyDelete
What gorgeous colors...makes me wish the temperature would start dropping already.ReplyDelete
L♥VE BoBunny and L♥VE fall papers~~this collection makes my heart smile!! :)ReplyDelete
WOW-JUST IN LOVE WITH FALL OR FALLING FOR IT! What a lovely collection!ReplyDelete
Holy Smokes what a gorgeous fall colors can't wait for that collection to come out a REAL MUST HAVE in my opinion!!! I want it!!!!!!!!!ReplyDelete
*swoon* Even better than I imagined from the first peek! Great colors - love the awesome blue added to the traditional colors.ReplyDelete
So beautiful! Bo Bunny is my absolute favorite paper company! You didn't disappoint!ReplyDelete
My favorite flower is the Sunflower and to see it in this beautiful collection is wonderful. Love every single bit of this collection. Thanks Bo Bunny!!!ReplyDelete
I don't often buy autumn lines, but this one is gorgeous and incredibly tempting!ReplyDelete
I can not even tell you how much in love I am with this line. *SwooN!* Oh MY! Sunflowers AND Dragonflies!!!!!!!ReplyDelete
I love the Fall collection. The colours, the stickers, the papers.... EVERYTHING =)ReplyDelete
Beautiful, as always. :)
Love the dragonflies!
A-B-S-0-L-U-T-E-L-Y Stunning!!! Fall is one of my favorite times of the year! Bo Bunny has done it again! Stunning colors, beaitufl embellies, LOVE the die cut paper!!! Bo Bunny by far has always been my top choice. Never fails! Beautiful, warm & exciting colors & line!ReplyDelete
This is absolutely beautiful!! I am in love!! :)ReplyDelete
This line is beautiful! Fall is my favourite time of year and you have captured everything I love about it in this paper collection. Gorgeous!ReplyDelete
That turquoise just makes this collection sing! Bravo Bo Bunny!!
Love this line. The colors are just so rich! Can't wait to use it!ReplyDelete
This is just stunning! I just love how you all coordinate everything...even stamps! Thanks so much for the chance to win!!ReplyDelete
I am in love with teal. I'm even more in love with teal and red together, then you added that brilliant gold, and I feel like I'm in heaven. :) Thanks for the sneaky peek!ReplyDelete
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This new line is amazing! The papers are absolutely gorgeous and all the embellishments fit perfectly! I can't wait to take pictures of raking and jumping in the leaves this fall so that I can have an excuse to buy this line!! Another A+ from BoBunny!!! :)ReplyDelete
That's just gorgeous!! I can't wait to find that in the stores!!ReplyDelete
Just gorgeous - another Bo Bunny Beauty! Can't wait to play with it.ReplyDelete
Love this collection and fall is my favorite time of year! Another great line.ReplyDelete
YUMMY, yummy colours for this fall line!! It reminds me of the Gypsey line, which was one of my faves!! I would love to create with this beauties!!!!
Those are MYYYYYYY colors! LOVE ITReplyDelete
Love the fall for taking outside pics, this paper is beautiful
I LOVE Bo Bunny but especially look forward to their fall line Forever Fall and autumn here in New England! Thank you.ReplyDelete
Of course I love all the Bo Bunny stuff. The layered chipboard looks great!! Fall is my favorite time of year, so these will be a great addition to my collection.ReplyDelete
What a sensational line. I love the large designs and the blue is a fav wonderful addition to the fall line. Thanks for the inspiration!ReplyDelete
WOW!! Love the collection, beautiful design and colors! Really would like to win.ReplyDelete
I this new line of papers and emblishments!!! I lost a dear friend a year ago and have been wanting to scrap memories of her. Dragon flies were our connection to each other and I am just elated that this line is full of them. I have found the collection I will use. Can't wait to scrap these wonderful memories now. Thank you Bo Bunny! You always fill my needs.ReplyDelete
The colors and designs on this collection are fantastic!ReplyDelete
I love it
Fall is my favorite time of year!
Absolutely Beautiful! So warm.ReplyDelete
Such a beautiful colour combo! I can't wait to see all the fantastic magic woven into the new collections.ReplyDelete
Oh my gosh, I've been holding off scrapbooking my fall pictures from when I visited the Ft. Worth Botanical gardens because I couldn't find a paper line that I loved.... This line will FIT SO PERFECTLY!!!ReplyDelete
I just love the teal in this collection - something different.ReplyDelete
Absolutely beautiful! I wouldn't expect anything less from Bo Bunny!ReplyDelete
Oh...love the colors in this line..can't wait for my fall photos :)ReplyDelete
Beautiful line - love the pop of turquoise with the traditional fall colors - gorgeous!ReplyDelete
WOW!! Very lovely line. Wonderful fall colors and patterns!! You sure know how to do it right! Thanks for the chance!ReplyDelete
LOVE love love it!
What an unexpected color combination. I think I'm most in love with the embellies. So so pretty and perfect for fall.ReplyDelete
Beautiful line! I am super excited about this versitile collection! :DReplyDelete
Beautiful! Can't wait for it to reach the stores!ReplyDelete
these colours are amazing together, you always seem to out do yourselves on every collection...I'm so glad I found out about Bo Bunny in May!!ReplyDelete
this is absolutely beautiful, although it is summer right now , fall is my favorite time of year, in fact already have my family photos lined up for fall shoots.ReplyDelete
Addicted to everything Bo Bunny!!! Love this new fall collection. Can't wait to get my hands on it.ReplyDelete
I simply love the almost aged look of the papers, and the gorgeous colours! It will definately be a pleasure to useReplyDelete
Beautiful! I love the bright blue in with the more traditional fall colors. And I'm a jewel addict so I'm loving those, too!ReplyDelete
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GORGEOUS line! Love the rich, deep colors in the paper and all the coordinating embellishments, etc. to all go together... gotta like that!ReplyDelete
beautiful vibrant fall colors....I must have!!!!!!ReplyDelete


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Sarah, Rachel, Hannah, Elizabeth. For the better part of three millennia, theirs were the faces of the childless — the faces of those who wept, mourned and wrestled with God for a gift he wouldn't give.
But this past summer, the cover of Time magazine showed the world a different face — that of a couple sunning themselves on a white, sandy beach, relaxed, childless by choice.
Increasingly, that face, not the biblical one, is the face the world connects with what the Time cover story called "the childfree life." With America's total fertility rate at 1.93, that's understandable. For many, contraception, consumerism and the radical upending of countless social norms have turned what once was seen as a curse into a desirable choice.
Still, for millions of Americas — as many as one-sixth of married couples — the face of the childless life remains what it always was, with the cross of infertility weighing all the heavier in a culture that no longer recognizes it as such.
Pain of childlessness
That cross, in many ways, is a cross of shattered expectations.
"I always assumed I'd get married, then have kids right away," said Kristy Tucker, who runs a support group in the Diocese of Lexington, Ky., for women struggling to conceive. "I thought because I was open to life, getting pregnant would be easy. But it wasn't."
The cross of infertility also brings with it a cross of seemingly endless doctors' visits.
In 2007, after more than a year of trying to conceive, the then 30-year-old Tucker and her husband began looking for medical answers to their problem. Although it took multiple doctors, several rounds of testing and more shots than she cares to remember, NaPro technology and a Creighton Fertility Care doctor helped Tucker give birth to a daughter in 2010 and a son in 2013.
Jennifer and Ryan Dornbush, however, were also 30 when they began seeking medical help for infertility. Protestants at the time (they converted to Catholicism in 2008), the couple had used natural family planning methods for several years, first to avoid pregnancy, then later to attempt it. When those attempts proved unsuccessful, they went the testing route. Jennifer checked out fine; Ryan had a slight problem, which doctors believed could be corrected by minor surgery. The surgery, however, changed nothing, and the couple spent the next decade in and out of doctors' offices looking for answers that never came.
Now 42, Jennifer still grapples with the question of couples who can't conceive: Why?
"It's such a little question, but it doesn't go away," she said. "Why don't we get this gift? Why, when we've been faithful to what God has asked of us, is this gift being withheld?"
Challenges for Catholics
Most couples trying unsuccessfully to conceive face those challenges. Catholic couples, however, face additional ones.
First, they have to accept (then explain to others) that some options open to non-Catholics are off the table.
"Everyone wants to know why we won't try in-vitro fertilization," said Dornbush. "Especially when it's the last viable medical option. They don't understand why Catholics can't go that route. Even when you explain, they don't get it."
Second, they have to live the childfree (or child-lite) life in a Catholic subculture that values large families.
That's a struggle for Mary Langley. Married at 37, she was thrilled when she gave birth to two children within a few years of getting married, and peacefully accepted her inability to conceive after that. Ten years later, however, in a Boston-area parish filled with large families, Langley often feels out of place.
"Some assume we used contraception or that I waited to have children because of a career," she said. "They just have no idea. I would love to have more children. I would love to have been married earlier. It just wasn't part of God's plan."
Recognizing that helps Langley deal with the assumptions people make. But for those who know their choices did play a role in their inability to conceive, dismissing the judgments of others isn't quite so easy.
Although Scott Belhorn was only 26 when he got married, his wife was nine years older. Neither were practicing Catholics then, and by the time they decided to try for a family, his wife was 40. Doctors assured his wife she could still conceive, but no baby came. Eventually, Scott went for testing, and they discovered the problem. But by then, it was too late.
Now 38 and saving up for an adoption, Belhorn still wrestles with guilt over the decisions he made a decade ago, a guilt, he said, that's exacerbated by the attitudes of some in his Latin Mass community in Cleveland.
"The presumptions they make sting more because some of them are correct," he said. "They remind me of my guilt."
Trust in God
Despite those struggles, the cross of infertility can bring blessings of a different sort.
For Dornbush, the past 13 years have taught her about trusting God and letting go of the illusion of control. Langley said she's grateful for the schooling in humility that's come with her small family.
"It's a trap when people have too high an opinion of you," she said.
More opportunities for service outside the home also can present themselves.
"If you don't have a large family, you're able to extend yourself more deeply for the larger Catholic family," said Belhorn. "If we're not focusing on raising six kids, we can focus on visiting people in nursing homes, helping single mothers and building up the body of Christ in other ways."
Dornbush, who works in the entertainment industry with her husband, agrees.
"We came here to work as missionaries, to evangelize this particular mission field, and we're able to build relationships with people in the industry in ways we wouldn't if we had children," she said. "When you realize children aren't possible, you have to let go of the hopes and expectations, then put something in its place so you don't feel like you're stepping out into the abyss. Moving to Hollywood was one of those things. Reimagining your life is scary, but it also can be exciting."
That being said, the cross endures.
"God and I are going to have a long talk about this someday," Dornbush joked.
In the meantime, the prayers and encouragement of the Church remain essential.
"Infertility is a hidden cross," said Tucker. "People in the pews and positions of ministry need to understand that. Even the little things — like letting people know you're praying for them — help. People may not talk about it, but come Mother's Day, there's always someone sitting in the pews, crying because she can't stand up and be acknowledged."
Emily Stimpson is an OSV contributing editor. This is the first in a two-part series on challenges of growing a family.
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HMA, CRMC respond to '60 Minutes' segment
CBS' "60 Minutes" said it talked to more than 100 current and former employees of Health Management Associates for Sunday night's segment focusing on claims that HMA pressured physicians to meet admissions quotas regardless of medical necessity.
HMA, a Florida-based company, owns three for-profit hospitals in Central Pennsylvania: Carlisle Regional Medical Center, Lancaster Regional Medical Center and Heart of Lancaster Regional Medical Center.
Of the three, only CRMC was mentioned last night, with two physicians who formerly worked there featured prominently on the broadcast. Dr. Cliff Cloonan was CRMC's assistant emergency room director, and Dr. Scott Rankin worked in the same department.
"My department chief said, 'We will admit 20 percent of our patients or somebody's going to get fired,'" Cloonan said on the broadcast, noting that unjustifiable admissions put patients "at significant risk for hospital-acquired infections."
Rankin added that, for patients 65 and older, the admissions benchmark was 50 percent.
This morning, CRMC CEO John Kristel and two staff physicians, Dr. Howard Alster and Dr. Scott Miekely, denied that administrators pressured admissions decisions.
"Our physicians make medical decisions based on what's most appropriate for our patients," Kristel said. "Myself and other hospital administrators do not get involved in clinical decision making."
Kristel noted that both Cloonan and Rankin left CRMC of their own accord.
Alter has been at CRMC for 26 years, and the medical staff has elected him to his third term as medical staff president. He called the statements on the show "a misrepresentation of how we operate" and "not in line with my experience," saying that excess admissions would have been picked up by a medical staff peer review if they had occurred.
"In my years as an ER doc, I've never been told by an administrator elsewhere or here that I had to meet a quota," said Miekely, CRMC emergency department medical director.
Both other HMA hospitals in the area had no statement beyond what HMA has issued, which follows:
"According to their report, '60 Minutes' conducted more than a year of research and found no issues with the quality of care at Health Management hospitals, stating on the broadcast that 'hardly anyone we talked to complained about the quality of care at HMA hospitals.'
"It was also notable that '60 Minutes' failed to identify a single patient who had been inappropriately admitted from any of the company's emergency rooms, including by the physicians interviewed.
"Neither '60 Minutes' nor the physicians interviewed identified any admission decision in which a physician's medical judgment was overridden by an HMA executive, much less to defraud Medicare.
"'60 Minutes' did not in any way dispute the admissions data it was provided by Health Management over the last several months. That data demonstrated that admissions rates from the company's emergency rooms were in-line with national norms and consistent over a several-year period.
"Instead, '60 Minutes' relied entirely on disgruntled former employees of the company and former contracted physicians, several of whom are seeking financial gain through active litigation with Health Management."
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"As the state physician association, we can say that the best medical decisions are made when physicians, leading a team of health care providers, work closely with their patients without the presence of financial pressures," Schott wrote. "PAMED estimates that approximately 70 percent of physicians are now employed by a large group, hospital, or health system. Physician employees must put the needs of patients far ahead of their or their employers' economic needs.
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JV team loses 56-45
The Boonville Pirates basketball team picked up its first sweep of the 2012-13 season Tuesday night by beating the Kirksville Tigers by a score of 51-43.
The Pirates, improving to 10-9 overall and 4-3 in the NCMC, had an up and down game against the Tigers while leading 10-9 after first period's end only to have Kirksville rally back with a 11-7 advantage in the second quarter to go up 20-17. Meanwhile, in the third quarter, Boonville again outscored Kirksville 15-8 to regain the lead at 32-28. Then, with the game still up for grabs going into the fourth, the Pirates all but made it official by holding a 19-15 scoring edge for the victory.
Boonville Pirates basketball coach Scott Floyd said it was nice to see the players bounce back from a disappointing loss to Mexico on Friday night and play well on both ends of the floor against Kirksville.
"This was an extremely important win as it got us over the .500 mark overall and increased our conference record to 4-3," Floyd said. "I am very proud of the boys for sweeping the season series with the Kirksville. Our defense was outstanding throughout the game and we took advantage of the fact that Kirksville played us mostly man in the second half to get into sets and take advantage of our height and quickness.
"Though Ta'Vious only scored six points, he was a monster on the glass, as he grabbed 10 rebounds against a feisty Kirksville group. Gus Kemp came up big in the game as he scored 11 points. Though he is a 52% free throw shooter, Gus hit on 5-6 free throws on the night to help pull away from the Tigers. Gauge Sharp, out the last month due to injury, played a good all around game on both ends of the floor. Damario was able to take advantage of the man defense and score baskets in the paint. JT Washington gave us valuable minutes off the bench as he contributed three points and three rebounds. Jay and Tyler were able to slice through the Tiger zone (1st half) and score some key buckets. We had very balanced scoring up and down the line-up tonight. Everyone contributed in the victory."
Gus Kemp led the scoring attack in the game for Boonville with 11 points along with two steals and one assist.
Damario Walker had 10 points, five rebounds, three assists and one steal while Tyler Peterson added eight points, six rebounds, one assist and one steal, Jay Barnhart with eight points, three rebounds and two steals, Tavious Brazil with six points and 10 rebounds and Gauge Sharp with five points and two rebounds.
For Kirksville, Tyson Grgurich tossed in 15 points.
The Pirates also finished the game hitting 19 of 47 shots from the field for 40 percent and 13 of 19 from the foul line for 68 percent. The Tigers, meanwhile, hit on 13 of 20 shots from the line for 65 percent.
In the junior varsity game, Kirksville defeated Boonville by a score of 56-45.
The Pirates, dropping to 7-4 overall and 3-4 in the NCMC, trailed Kirksville by just one (16-15) after first period's end but was outscored 12-7 in the second to trail the Tigers at the break 28-22. Meanwhile, in the third quarter, Kirksville again outscored Boonville by one (12-11) to extend its lead to seven at 40-33. Then, in the final period, the Tigers added to their total by holding a 16-12 scoring edge for the victory.
Boonville Coach Kent Peterson said Kirksville played well both offensively and defensively and the Pirates struggled to guard them in both their man and zone defense.
"They defended very well and we were unable to have much flow all night on the offensive end of the floor," stated Peterson. "Clayton Lang knocked down five three-point field goals at crucial times, which helped keep us in the game. Once again we struggled to close out quarters as we had the game tied in each of the first three-quarters and ended the first quarter giving up a shot and then the second and third quarters Kirksville closed with 6-0 and 7-0 runs, which was the difference in the game. We get a chance to bounce back tonight against Bowling Green in the first round of the Mexico JV tournament."
The Boonville boys varsity basketball team, meanwhile, will hit the road once again on Friday night as they travel to Fulton to take on the Hornets. The game is a varsity doubleheader with the girls. Girls game starts at 6:00 with the boys game to follow.