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Leave it to Kim Kardashian to save us in times of a recession.
Reggie Bush's main squeeze leads the list of prop bets that could win you big bucks if you place the right bets during the Super Bowl telecast on Feb 7.
Sure you could bet the Indianapolis Colts vs. New Orleans traditionally, but where's the fun in that?
Las Vegas is practically giving money away with some of the prop choices this year.
Is there a bookie in their right mind that really thinks CBS will show Kardashian less than two times? She'll cover the over on that one by the kick off. And yes, she will likely be shown more times than Eli and Archie Manning combined.
You can also bet on if an NFL player will get busted on South Beach before the Super Bowl. We're checking the court dockets as we speak to see if that's already been done. The better bet might have been if a player in the game actually gets arrested. That's happened here before. Take the over.
And you should definitely bet the house on announcers mentioning Hurricane Katrina every time the New Orleans Saints have the football. Take the over.
While arrests and a heaping helping of Kardashian's assets are sure things in our eyes, there are a few more challenging wagers for the experienced betters.
Vegas couldn't help but jump on the Tim Tebow bandwagon and the odds appear to favor betting CBS will show his controversial ad during the Super Bowl.
Will Carrie Underwood fly through the National Anthem or pull a Whitney Houston and delay kick off by 30 minutes? "American Idol" preaches speed so take the under on 1 minute and 42 seconds.
And just to make you stick around for halftime, Vegas has rolled out a series of titillating The Who bets that could make you miss the Lingerie Bowl.
If Pete Townsend isn't attacked by protesters outside Sun Life Stadium, how many times do you think he will do his trademark windmill move? The line is at 5 and considering he is nearly 100-years old, we might have to push on that one.


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From the quaint old downtown neighborhoods to the eastside homes with panoramic views of Puget Sound, the wide variety of shops, the schools and pristine parks, and the community services and inherent volunteerism, Marysville has something for everyone to discover and enjoy. Marysville is a wonderful place to visit, live, play or work. It is Snohomish County's second-largest city and is a vibrant city whose charm is exceeded only by the remarkable people who call it home.

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Nothing (well, almost nothing) has driven United Elite members crazier in the past few years than the idea that United is selling upgrades before giving free upgrades to Elites. This has been discussed ad infinitum on Flyertalk, and if you're a United shareholder you should be happy about this.
Anyway, the offers I've received in the past few years to upgrade have, for the most part, been unreasonable. But today I saw that I could upgrade my rather cheap ticket tomorrow to San Antonio (~$300) for $79. That seems crazy cheap to me, considering it includes a LaGuardia – Houston leg that (supposedly) is incredibly different to get upgraded on (it's a 737-700 with only 12 FC seats.
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Expanding Hate Crimes Bill
The break down of which cites that 55% of incidents reported are racially motivated, 17% are of religious prejudice, 14% are sexual orientation bias, and 14% are due to ethnicity intolerance.
A few weeks ago, this country took a significant turn, with the passage of HR Bill 1592, or the "Matthew Shepardâ€? bill.Â
This measure had been spurred by the brutal violence against victims based on their sexual orientation or gender identity, such as Matthew Shepard, Brandon Teena and Lee Person.Â
The bill, which is expected to sail through Congress, has already been threatened by the White House with a veto. The legislation passed, 237-180, shy of the two-thirds votes needed to override a presidential veto.Â
Nearly 40 years ago, the hate crimes bill was signed to law protecting American citizens on the basis of race, color, religion or national origin. As people of this nation we had not evolved enough scientifically, theologically, or technologically to include in that bill what we now understand with regard to human sexuality.Â
The expanded bill includes federal protection based upon one's gender, gender identity, sexual orientation or disability. Additionally, it grants federal authorities leeway to participate in hate crime investigations.Â
The Judiciary Committee cited FBI data which affirmed that since 1991 statistics have been collected on more than 113,000 hate crimes. The break down of which cites that 55% of incidents reported are racially motivated, 17% are of religious prejudice, 14% are sexual orientation bias, and 14% are due to ethnicity intolerance.Â
If we are to enact this important bill into law, it will give legal protection to people that need it. However, governmental laws do little to change bitterness within the hearts of the folk who perpetrate hate crimes.Â
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The passage of this bill into law will be the first step, in an often unspoken in public, laborious debate, determining who has worth and value in our great nation. "This is an important vote of conscience, of a statement of what America is, a society that understands that we accept differences,� said House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer.
If the turn that America takes is indeed toward unity or wholeness, then I hope that we look over the global history of hate crimes and learn from it. Also, we might begin moving some of the private debates out from around our proverbial dinner tables into the public arena of our town halls, remembering that there are both joys and costs to living as citizens together in a nation as strong, diverse and free.
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Sean Payton returns to the sidelines this season after serving a one-year suspension, and fans in New Orleans have sky-high expectations for the coach and the Saints.
NEW ORLEANS — Welcome, Crescent City. The doctor is in. Just lie on the couch and tell us about this overwhelming sense of euphoria you're feeling.
What's that? You want to be in that number when the Saints come marching in? Well, sure, but try to remember the pro football team that represents your city is coming off a losing season, like so very many before in its mostly tortured history.
Yes, Sean Payton is back, and he is a very good coach. But, come on, Big Easy, it can't really be that easy, can it?
"Oh, yes, it can," argues Saints fan David Kissee Jr. "He's the architect who's going to build this building back together."
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Kissee watched from end zone seats at Tulane Stadium in 1967 at age 11 when the expansion Saints played their first game and has loved them ever since. He watched practice from metal bleachers at the Saints' training camp recently and got caught in a soaking rain after, but like lots of Saints fans sees only sunny skies ahead.
Payton is the reason. The Saints won just one playoff game in the 39 seasons before his arrival. Under Payton, whose tenure began in 2006, the season after Hurricane Katrina, they've won five playoff games, including, glory be, Super Bowl XLIV. He sat out last season under NFL suspension for the excesses of Bountygate — and the Saints lost their first four games on their way to a 7-9 record.
"My theory is Payton has got to be worth three games," political strategist James Carville tells USA TODAY Sports. "So, now we're at 10 already, which gets you in the hunt, and here we go."
That's the sort of buoyancy that will animate the Mercedes-Benz Superdome on Sunday when New Orleans opens its season against the rival Atlanta Falcons. Fans know their Saints were 13-3 in Payton's last season in 2011. It's as if 2012 proved his worth, quantified it, and left fans to believe he can turn L's into W's like water into wine. Let the good times roll.
"New Orleanians turn sadness to celebration as a matter of course," says writer Lolis Eric Elie. "But make no mistake. We don't enjoy losing. For us, the return of Sean Payton is like the return of John the Baptist. Our return to a black and gold Super Bowl would be like the return of Christ himself."
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Such hyperbole might be blasphemy in other places, but not so much here, where football really is religion, from the team name to the vivid imagery invoked by the faithful. "RedempSean" is a slogan you see on T-shirts these days.
Payton, for his part, gently tries to tamp down expectations, like Carville's calculus that the coach's presence means sure-fire double-digit wins.
"We've got to be smart in regards to the idea that one person is back and all of a sudden you're back to winning 11, 12, 13 games," Payton tells USA TODAY Sports. "We've got a lot of things we have to correct. We have to be better on defense and better running the football.
"I think all any fan wants is a chance, and I'm sure they felt a year ago the penalty was one in which it was unfair and it prevented their team from having a chance to win, so I understand their frustration."
Payton says all this on the edge of the field where he has just run a crisp practice on another steamy Louisiana morning. He says he used his time off as a sort of battery-charging sabbatical.
"Those early weeks were difficult, angry, bitter, upset, but after that I got focused on the next seven or eight months and tried to make a positive out of it," Payton says.
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"The hard part was not having had a chance to visit anyone in football for a year. It's good to be back."
Advise Payton of the Second Coming comparisons and he grimaces at first, but then breaks into a wry smile.
"They're passionate fans," he says. "There's a tie here to our team and this fan base that is unique, unlike any other place I've been."
Saints fan Lori Cavagnaro is sporting one of those "RedempSean" shirts, although she means redemption from suspension, not from sins, because she doesn't think the Saints committed any.
The NFL accused Saints defensive players of pooling money to pay bounties for "cart-off" hits that knocked opponents out of games. The league said the slush fund operated for three seasons, including 2009, the one that ended in early 2010 with that Super Bowl victory. The scandal led to multiple suspensions, including general manager Mickey Loomis for eight games and assistant head coach Joe Vitt for six. Payton's season without pay was unprecedented punishment for a head coach.
But Cavagnaro, like a lot of Saints fans, dismisses all that.
"Every business pays incentives," she says in the dimness of Snake and Jake's Christmas Club Lounge, where she tended bar for a dozen years before moving to Utah. Now she plans her vacations around Saints games.
A sign behind the bar says, "NFL, Geaux (expletive) Yourself," a post-suspension sentiment representative of many Saints fans, as well as of the acid ambiance of Snake and Jake's, a low-slung, late-night dive bar that revels in its grimy inelegance.
Expletives are not softened in the graphic graffiti in the men's room. High on the door, in large numerals, it says "31" on one raised panel, "17" on the other.
Bartender Rhys Cook penned that tribute to the sainted score of Super Bowl XLIV on the day the men's room door was installed. "Before that," he says, "we didn't have a door."
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Gracie, a dachshund-Chihuahua mix, strolls atop the bar like she owns the place. Dave Clements actually does. Gracie is his girlfriend's dog.
"We don't see many Saints players in here," Clements says. "Sean Payton would have to kick them off the team if they did."
Ex-Saints tight end Jeremy Shockey, who caught a TD pass in that Super Bowl win, used to come by. He signed a white Saints visor one night. Bartender Robin Dacey flashes a beam of light on it and starts to lift it from its perch behind the bar but thinks better of it. "Little moldy," she says with a shrug.
A lift-up for the city
Payton's popularity seems higher than ever, despite his suspension, or maybe because of it. Doing time for alleged corruption does not often diminish the appeal of populist scoundrels in Louisiana history.
The Saints played so badly for so long that once upon a time their own fans wore paper bags over their heads and called their team the Aints. Payton's real RedempSean act was the Super Bowl win that washed away all of that losing history in a shower of champagne.
Retired pharmacist Adolph Bynum is an original Saints season ticketholder who remembers the bad old days. He also remembers when Katrina wrecked the Superdome and how the Saints played their 2005 season in San Antonio amid worries that maybe they were never coming back.
"Payton was a lift-up for this city" on his arrival in 2006, Bynum says, "and still is."
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Jacqueline Blanchard, an executive sous chef at Restaurant August who will be a first-time season ticketholder this season, recalls many fans thinking the Saints would fare well last season even without their coach. "That," she says, "was ignorant on our part."
Before last season, says Cristiano Raffignone, co-owner of Dick and Jenny's restaurant, "We thought, 'It's not just him.' Well, it's him."
Quarterback Drew Brees has a few points to make about his coach's return. First, "It's old news to us," as Payton returned to the Saints months ago. Second, last season's staff coached well, "I just wish our record reflected that." And third, football is a team game where one man never makes all the difference.
That said, Brees launches into a paean to Payton, as an offensive mind and a leader of men. When Payton was hired in New Orleans in 2006, he brought Brees with him, though Brees had suffered a debilitating shoulder injury with the San Diego Chargers.
"He believed in me," Brees says, "when I didn't even know if I could believe in myself."
Now the city puts its belief in them. Carville figures it's as simple as this: "You win a Super Bowl around here and people have a great deal of faith in you."
Juan Gershanik, a neonatologist and native of Argentina who has lived in New Orleans since 1982, says locals like to think of favorite Saints as favorite sons.
"This is a sentimental town," he says, "and we have no problem expressing our feelings. We think of Drew Brees and Sean Payton like part of our extended families. They're nice relations to have."
Carville says he has lived in a lot of places and watched a lot of sports and has never seen a more popular athlete in any town than Brees is in his.
"The city has certain iconic figures in the post-Katrina era," attorney and civic leader Bill Hines says. "The Saints triumvirate are (Saints owner) Tom Benson, Sean Payton and Drew Brees. Last year we kind of lost that middle piece. And now we have him back."
Carville says the region is living through "a golden era of Saints football. People always loved the team, but right now it couldn't be more in the bloodstream."
Other smaller NFL cities love their teams too, of course. Green Bay comes to mind.
"I wouldn't say that football is bigger in New Orleans than anywhere else," says Elie, a story editor on AMC's Hell on Wheels. "It's just that we celebrate things with more flair and color than anywhere else."
Bobby Hebert knows about that. He made his name as the quarterback who took the Saints to their first playoff game following the 1987 season. These days he yaks on local talk radio.
"Sean Payton doesn't walk on water," Hebert says, "but people feel like maybe he can walk on it far enough to cross the Mississippi River."
OK, Big Easy, that's enough for today. Next time, forget the therapist's couch. On Sunday, try the living room couch.


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House prices are rising again in most parts of the country, and strongly. So why aren't we all whooping for joy? If they are honest, most homeowners would admit that news of prices going up is cause for satisfaction. Of course it would be tasteless to crow. It is not polite, especially given the years we have spent cultivating the etiquette of austerity, to remark delightedly on how much the neighbour's house has just fetched. But it would be unnatural not to feel a twinge of pleasure at hearing that your biggest asset is back in demand and growing in value.
Yet a cloud seems to hang over this latest good news from the housing market. Is it, in fact, good?
This is the question that Brandon Lewis, a local government minister, stumbled over when pressed on the Today programme. Mr Lewis said the picture of rising prices was "generally a good thing". But he added, somewhat vaguely, that it was "not as straightforward" as "good news" or "bad news".
What is beyond doubt is that prices are now rising almost everywhere. For years data has poured out showing that prices in London and the South East keep on rising, but what is new about the latest tranche of figures is that they show recovery touching regions where the market has for years been utterly moribund. Buyers in the West Midlands and the North East are signing up in greater numbers today than at any time in the last decade, for instance, yet house prices in both regions fell so sharply during the crisis that they remain below their 2005 levels.
The figures made the front pages but Mr Lewis was not alone in giving them a muted welcome – or worse. Readers have been giving vent to their dismay on the Telegraph website. They say rising prices do not mark a recovery, but rather a relapse into the debt-fuelled malady that almost killed the patient the last time round. Many commentators, even before the latest release of positive figures, were using the word "bubble" in connection with the housing market.
That rising house prices could be less than cause for joy underlines how deeply the financial crisis has informed our attitudes and even changed them. In 2006, what appeared to be ever-rising prices were perceived as normal and a more or less unquestionable boon. A rapidly expanding mortgage market meant people could buy with little or no deposit or could even, in the notorious case of Northern Rock, borrow more than the value of the house.
No one was "excluded" from the bonanza. Poor credit history, no deposit – it didn't matter, you could still borrow and buy. And in those pre-crisis days there was no embarrassment in being a private landlord with an expanding portfolio of buy-to-lets.
But the banking crisis changed all that. Any complacent sense of property wealth evaporated in early 2009 as house prices started to fall. The immediate and almost total withdrawal of mortgages from that point meant only the wealthy, with large deposits, could borrow.
And at the same time, the Bank of England's drastic slashing of interest rates made millions of savers only too aware of what was really afoot: the banks and the borrowers who had over-gorged were being given time to rebuild their finances, benefiting from record low borrowing costs and lenders who were instructed to go easy on those who defaulted. The savers – those who had laid money aside – were the ones who must pay. For them, it was a bitterly unfair outcome of the crisis.
This more subtle grasp of how the housing market is linked to other aspects of the economy appears now to be prompting the soul-searching. There has been fierce criticism of the rebounding buy-to-let market, where landlords are accused of exploiting a housing shortage and profiting from tenants' inability to raise a mortgage. Today's landlords do not boast – as they may have done in 2006 or 2007 – about their huge yields or expanding portfolios. Many, ironically, are the same savers who complained of low returns on their cash and who have turned to property investments as a result.
Elsewhere, younger, aspirant homeowners have successfully mobilised themselves into lobby groups such as Pricedout.org, arguing powerfully that they are being excluded from a fundamental rite of passage older generations took for granted. They call themselves "generation rent" and argue that house price inflation has heaped wealth unfairly on their elders. And many of their parents, the same people who today experience a quiet pleasure at the thought of their property again rising in value, share their anxiety. They want their children to own property, too.
And so the doubts run through what has become an emotional debate. Housing, because of the status our culture attaches to owning a home, will always be complicated. But perhaps – at least for now – the doubts are overstated.
If you sweep aside the data from London – where most commentators are based and where, often, the media makes its focus – the recovery in the wider market is still early and weak. London is indeed extreme. A house bought in fashionable Notting Hill in 2005 is today, for instance, worth nearly three times as much. Inner London – where residential development is frenzied and properties are marketed in Singapore or Jakarta rather than in a local estate agent – has its own problems, but they are not remotely shared by the housing markets outside the capital.
Houses in the UK's worst-performing regions, such as Northern Ireland, are still worth less today than they were a decade ago. There, talk of a bubble would be viewed as a joke – a bad one. Even if prices nationally rise at three or four per cent for the next few years, given the extent of the falls in 2009 and 2010 it will be some time before they recover their 2007 high-point. And if the effect of inflation is taken into account to give a "real" value, house prices would not recover at that level of growth until well into the 2020s.
The Government, the Bank of England and other authorities have intervened in the housing market through a range of policies since the crisis. Sustained low interest rates, the availability of cheap funding to lenders, schemes aimed specifically at younger buyers, such as Help to Buy, are just a few of the initiatives. This intervention, regardless of whether in the end it succeeds, itself sparks controversy, with claims that the public will be somehow manipulated into feeling prosperous by the next election.
But the ambivalence of the response to this week's news of rising prices suggests the electorate is not so easily led. Having endured the crisis, homeowners are better equipped to draw their own conclusions about rising prices – blessing or curse. In any case, at least outside the capital, it is probably too early to read the trend.
Potential buyers are indeed on the horns of a dilemma – caught between fear on one hand that prices will rise further, and doubts on the other about the wisdom of borrowing hugely while rates are low – but these are informed anxieties. Among the plethora of housing data in recent weeks, for example, was the fact that four in five new mortgages are arranged on a fixed-rate basis.
Mark Carney, the new Governor of the Bank of England, may have indicated only last week that rates will stay low for years – but these borrowers are taking no chances and are trying to limit their risk. That behaviour, at least, doesn't seem like the heedless greed typical of buyers in an asset bubble.
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Yeah it seems worse now than say the 90s, because it should be different. We have money etc when its unravelling a bit for me, Moshiri looks to have no clue. It is exhausting yeah you are right there!!
Want us to win, want us to go all out for a victory and dont think is going out does us a favour at all.
Oh ffs. I've convinced myself we're getting seven points from the next three games and going through.
PickfordKenny Jags Keane Baines Baningime SigurdssonLookman Vlasic Rooney SandroBaningime and Sigurdsson playing in the middle of a midfield 4 like this:In possession = Baningime covers as Sigurdsson gets forward as a sort of false number 10Dispossessed = Both fall back side-by side to protect the back 4
Seems like a lot of work for Sigurdsson and Rooney would then end up getting in his way. Not sure you can play both in the same side.
Not at all. We need to defend as a team at the moment so if you're on the pitch you have a role to play when the opposition has the ball.And for all his experience - Rooney HAS to stay in position.If they can both do that (and I see no reason why they can't) then it should be a decent formation.
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Colorado Blue Columbine
Rocky Mountain Columbine
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Scientific Name:
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Scientific Name Synonyms:
Aquilegia caerulea James
Life Span: Perennial
Origin: Native
Growth Characteristics: Colorado Columbine is a bushy, clump-forming perennial, 1-2 feet tall and 1-2 feet wide, growing from a taproot. It blooms April-July. Most species are short-lived, living only two or three years.
Flowers: Erect. Columbine is often bi-colored, meaning the sepals and the petals are two different colors. There are 5 petals and 5 sepals. The sepals extend out at right angles from the flower. The petals extend backward forming a slender spur with a bulbous, glandular tip. The petals and sepals range in color from white to blue, or sometimes pink. The stamens are 13-24 mm long, and often extend out beyond the petals. Columbine is pollinated by bees.
Fruits/Seeds: A follicle.
Leaves: The basal leaves are one to three times ternately compound, 9-37 cm, and much shorter than the stems. Leaflets are green on top. The leaves of Columbine are similar to the leaves of Meadow-rue.
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Colorado columbine occurs throughout the Rocky Mountains at elevations from 6000 to 10,000 feet. Found in sagebrush, pinyon-juniper, mountain-brush, aspen, Douglas fir, Aspen-tall forb, spruce-fir, and alpine tundra communities. It is especially common in Aspen stands.
Soils: Tolerates a wide range of soils except heavy, poorly drained ones. It prefers rich, moist soils with light to moderate shade.
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Colorado columbine is the state flower of Colorado. All parts of plant are poisonous if ingested.
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Roundtable Workshop on South Highway 3 Friday and Saturday
Submitted by Margit Johnson on Tue, 11/06/2012 - 4:25pm
Nov 16 2012 8:00 am
Nov 17 2012 8:30 am
Location:Archer House, Lower Level conference room
The Northfield Roundtable invites the community to another workshop with urban designer, Bill Johnson, on Friday, November 16 in the Lower Level of the Archer House from 8 AM – 12 noon and again on Saturday, November 17 from 8:30 – 10 AM.
This is the fifth workshop facilitated by Johnson to assist the community to envision what "could be" regarding current and future uses and configurations in key areas of the city. This session will focus on the Highway 3 South corridor from the Cannon River bridge south of 5th Street to Menards in Dundas.
In the Friday session, the participants will share their ideas about ways to make the highway corridor more inviting as a gateway and a link within and between our communities, as a vital commercial area, and as a multimodal transportation corridor. Johnson will translate participant ideas and insights into visual concepts, share those preliminary conceptual illustrations at the Saturday session and invite feedback from participants.
Previous workshops have focused on other parts of the city: Second Street East/West corridor (August 2010); 5th St. Corridor (January 2011); the Commons: highway, railroad and river corridors (April 2011); and the greater Bridge Square area (February 2012).
The community input from those workshops is reflected in the first iteration of the Framework Plan that can be found at http://www.northfieldroundtable.org/. David Van Wylen, chair of the Northfield Roundtable, notes that the Framework Plan is not a fixed physical plan but contains "conceptual illustrations that capture community ideas for development/redevelopment; designed to be specific enough to inform and inspire, yet vague enough to imply broad directions and foster continual ideas."
Bill Johnson was first invited to Northfield by the EDA as a member of a team from Holland, MI, in May 2009. Johnson had led that city in similar workshops to envision what "could be" in areas of Holland. Those plans have proved to be highly utilized and valuable to the city. The Roundtable anticipates similar outcomes of the Northfield conceptualizations for this community.
The Roundtable is grateful to those who have participated in the process and provided rich ideas in previous sessions, and welcomes and encourages ongoing dialog among community members – most immediately in the November 16-17 workshop.


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When the government enacted a $787 billion package of tax cuts and new spending this spring, there was much talk about how all that money would help pull the economy out of a deep recession. But readers are asking: Just how much of this money has been actually spent? Turns out the answer is not much.
Confidence in the stimulus money is beginning to wane. People are still waiting for billions of dollars to reenergize the economy. … How much of the stimulus money has actually been doled out as of this week? What percentage of the total stimulus package and how many billions is that?
— Christine, Address withheld
The idea behind the government's economic stimulus package was to get money flowing through the system, boost economic activity and create jobs. But an msnbc.com review of the latest federal spending data shows that the money is flowing at a trickle.
One reason is that although Congress approved all this spending, the money has to go through the appropriations process before checks can be written. To help spread out the impact, the stimulus package is a 10-year program — with almost all the spending the first three years. But most of the money won't be available until next year. Of the $478 billion in direct spending (the rest is mostly tax cuts), the Congressional Budget Office figures only about $150 billion will be available this year.
Of that money, some agencies have done at lot better than others at writing checks. The Social Security Administration — which knows a thing or two about writing checks — has spent all $13 billion of its stimulus budget for this year. About three-quarters of the $21.5 billion allocated to Health and Human Services has been spent. And the Agriculture Department has processed about two-thirds of the $3.2 billion it has available this year.
But it seems that other agencies are having a harder time getting the money out the door. As of mid-June, for example, spending by the Transportation Deptartment for so-called "shovel ready" projects represented barely 2 percent of available funds. The EPA has barely touched its $4.4 billion in stimulus spending. Same for the Defense Department.
According to our calculations, roughly $53 billion or one-third of the $150 billion in fiscal stimulus money available for this year has been spent as of June 19. As a percentage of the $479 billion in total stimulus funds, that represents only 11.1 percent.
That's not necessarily a bad thing. As we recently learned from the rapid, massive spending that accompanied the early months of the war in Iraq, when government spends too much money in a hurry some of that cash has a way of ending up in places Congress never intended. It's pretty hard for any company, institution or government to spend close to half a trillion dollars in a matter of months and make sure it all ends up where it's supposed to.
Still, some of the economists, financial analysts and government officials pointing to "green shoots" in the economy may be overstating the impact of the spending portion of the stimulus package. Tax cuts certainly have helped. So have increased benefits like extended unemployment insurance. Anytime you can put money in someone's hands to pay their bills, those dollars have an immediate, positive impact on consumer spending. Even in this recession, consumer spending remains the biggest driver of economic activity.
But despite all the talk about all the new jobs we're going to create by rebuilding roads and bridges, it looks like it's going to be awhile before we see road crews rolling out a lot of new steel and asphalt.
I don't understand how $300 million in Medicare savings is going to help finance health care reform for the uninsured. I would have thought that Medicare taxes are only to pay for Medicare, especially since it is going to run out of money in the near future.
— Bill, Atlanta
A lot of members of Congress, among others, are asking the same question.
Unlike previous attempts to tame the relentless rise in health care spending, there's pretty widespread agreement this time around that something has to be done. There's not a lot of time left before my generation of boomers hit our peak health care spending years — with every expectation that much of that cost will be picked up by Medicare.
But health care reformers face the same "chicken and egg" problem that has stymied past efforts to heal the system. Expanding the pool of people with health insurance will create a number of important improvements, beyond the obvious benefit of helping care for sick people who can't afford insurance.
For one thing, many of the 50 million people who are uninsured are young and relatively healthy, so the cost per person probably won't be as high as the current average. Making sure everyone is covered will help eliminate the problem that people with "pre-existing conditions" face when they can't switch insurers. Perhaps the biggest benefit could come from providing people with health care early in their lives so they don't face chronic, costly illnesses when they turn 65 and begin getting government-funded care for the first time.
Spending by regionPart of the discussion has focused on research that indicates that paying more for health care may not necessarily result in better care . Researchers looking at big differences in spending in different regions of the country argue that the outcomes in high-spending areas are no better than in low-spending areas. If they can better understand why — and try to encourage big-spending providers to adopt more frugal practices that don't compromise care — the potential savings could be enormous.
The problem is that those savings many not come for decades. That means the hundreds of billions of dollars required now to expand coverage to millions more people would represent an upfront investment at exactly the moment the government can ill-afford to borrow the money it will need to pay for that investment.
That leaves Congress and the White House with some tough choices. One is to scale back the plan, making smaller changes that may not do much to slow spending. Another is to borrow the money to expand coverage and hope the savings materialize soon enough that health care won't sink the federal budget. Another would be to expand coverage but simply force cuts on Medicare and other federal health care spending and let providers figure out how to maintain the same level of care with less money.
There are no easy answers to this one. If there were, they would have been implemented a long time ago.
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Now I imagine that many readers of this blog will be scrambling to their search engines as this is the first time I have mentioned Michael on this blog. To save you the trouble here is the all slick man himself in full flight as he launches into a tirade of homophobia outside the Parish Church of St Joseph's in Newtown,NSW.It may not surprise readers to notice that the video clip has disabled comments. I guess Mr Voris is not keen on dialogue and conversation. A simple web search shows that the Friday evening Mass at St Joseph's is not advertised as a "Gay Mass'.
Full marks to Peter Maher, the pastor at St Joseph's who has posted a response to this video presentation. Peter makes a solid case for pastoral inclusion rather than the subtle homophobic dismissal of Michael Voris.
Mt Voris likes to add his STB to his credits,however it turns out that the triple acronym is just a fancy undergrad degree in Theology. When it comes to the issue of the Church and sexuality I think I would place more cred on Peter's pastoral experience and community recognition of his professional practice.


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For all of us who spend more time gaming with friends via Xbox Live than we do working on homework, Microsoft has issued a little bit of a warning: Xbox Live is going to be taken down for 24 hours starting next Monday.
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Just what is this "cool new stuff" set to hit our consoles? Ben got to check out some of the future changes coming to the 360's online services at E3, including things like streaming Netflix movies and a very Nintendo Mii-like concept in the avatars. There's no definite announcement regarding when these services will actually go live, but if Microsoft is taking Live down to make it compatible with these new ideas, they're probably closer than we think.


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READING – Albright senior Dave Singleton (Hill School) had 16 points and 13 rebounds as the Lions won their sixth straight game, 77-67, over Lebanon Valley. On Wednesday, Singleton had 12 points in a win over Alvernia.
* * * Kutztown junior Tyler Brooks (Daniel Boone) had 13 points, eight rebounds, three assists, three steals and two blocks in a 71-64 win over Bloomsburg. On Thursday, Brooks had 18 points, four boards, six assists, two blocks and two steals in a 94-87 win over Mansfield.
In that same game, Mansfield sophomore Joe Bell (Pottsgrove) had 21 points, 11 rebounds and an assist in the losing effort. Also last week, Bell had a game-high 19 points in a 75-68 loss to Millersville.
WOMEN'S BASKETBALL Albright senior Kari Ludy (Pottsgrove) was the only Lion to score in double figures, with 10 points, in an 83-44 loss to nationally-ranked Lebanon Valley.
Immaculata senior Chrissy Esbensen (St. Pius X) poured in 16 points and added five steals in a 65-48 win over Baptist Bible. Esbensen also had 10 points in a 63-54 loss to Gwynedd-Mercy.
Kutztown senior Ashley Wood (Spring-Ford) led the Golden Bears with 23 points and five assists in a 79-68 loss to Bloomsburg. Wood also had a game-high 17 points in a 63-59 win over Mansfield.
Philadelphia University junior Megan Finn (Perkiomen Valley) had 10 points in a 69-63 loss to Bloomfield. Finn also had nine points and six assists in a 75-67 win over Georgian Court.
Saint Vincent senior Melissa Mansur (St. Pius X) had eight points, three rebounds and a team-high four steals in just 13 minutes of action in a 93-62 rout of Grove City.
MEN'S SWIMMING Penn State junior John Hauser (St. Pius X) finished second in the 200 medley relay, second in the 100 breaststroke (57.34) and third in the 100 freestyle (45.78) in a 186-101 win over Towson.
WOMEN'S SWIMMING Boston University senior Megan Happ (Spring-Ford) won the 1,000 freestyle (10:25.77) as the Terriers beat archrival Boston College, 228-72.
Delaware sophomore Jamie Kane (Pope John Paul II) was second in the 200 breaststroke (2:24.06) and fifth in the 100 breaststroke (2:24.06) at the Bison Invite at Bucknell.
Ohio State senior Shannon Draves (Boyertown) was on a first-place team in the 200 medley relay (1:41.97) and won the 200 butterfly (2:02.14) in a win over Northwestern.
MEN'S INDOOR TRACK & FIELD Princeton freshman Brett Kelly (Boyertown) finished third in the 3,000 meters (8:28.42) at the Penn State Sykes & Sabock Challenge Cup.
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Israel Hit by Wave of CyberAttacks During Gaza Offensive
Cyber-attackers are targeting Israeli government and business Websites as part of a protest against Israel's air assault on Gaza.
Israel has deflected over 44 million cyber-attacks against its government systems ever since Operation Pillar of Defense, a military campaign to knock out key Hamas leaders, began last week, said Finance Minister Yuval Steinitz at a press conference, according to a Times of Israel report. All the attacks were successfully thwarted, except for one, Steinitz claimed, adding that the affected site was "wobbly for a few minutes."
Israel's latest air offensive against Gaza came in retaliation for Hamas-led attacks earlier in the week. Steinitz said the attackers were trying to breach Web sites to install anti-Israel content and compromise data. Most of attackers were against government sites, such as the Prime Minister's Office and of the Home Front Command.
Israel is fighting a war on "a second front," Steinitz said, according to the Associated Press.
Steinitz's remarks came after hacktivist collective Anonymous launched a series of distributed denial-of-service attacks against various Israeli sites to protest the strikes. DDoS attacks hit the Websites of the Israel Defense Force, the Prime Minister's office, Israeli banks, airlines and infrastructure companies, Israel-based Radware told SecurityWatch.
"For far too long, Anonymous has stood by with the rest of the world and watched in despair the barbaric, brutal and despicable treatment of the Palestinian people in the so called 'Occupied Territories' by the Israel Defence Force," Anonymous said in an online statement announcing #OpIsrael.
Despite various Arab groups claiming they were going after Israeli servers, Steinitz said the bulk of the attacks appeared to be coming from United States and Europe-based IP addresses, and not from Arab countries. The incidents were mostly trying to knock servers offline by overwhelming the sites with too much traffic and were not actual breaches looking for sensitive data to steal, said Carmela Avner, the government's chief information officer.
A group allegedly linked to Iran called Islamic Jihad has also obtained detailed information on 5,000 high-ranking Israeli military personnel, according to a report by Mashgreh, an Iranian media outlet. The group had assess personnel data, including names, telephone numbers, addresses, email and ranking, and help with Israeli agent. According to Mashregh, an Iranian media outlet run by the Revolutionary Guards, Islamic Jihad obtained detailed information on 5,000 high-ranking Israeli military personnel and published information on 92 of the Israelis.


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Review: Enough power to defeat GTX 780 Ti
The EVGA GTX 780 Classified has been dethroned as the company's fastest non-Titan card following the introduction of the GTX 780 Ti Classified, which became the new alpha dog.
However, even the plain GTX 780 Classified is still a very attractive card and here is why. As the Ti launched and superseded the GTX 780, it became quite a bit cheaper. Right now you can pick up a GTX 780 Classified for about €70 less than a reference GTX 780 Ti card and it's a whopping €200 cheaper than the GTX 780 Ti Classified.
The GTX 780 debuted at €620 and today you can have the GTX 780 Classified for €480.
EVGA's Classified series cards are known for their all-custom PCBs and spruced up power components, which provide more power stability and overclocking potential. As a result, we were able to squeeze out a lot of performance out of the card and beat the reference GTX 780 Ti. The custom cooler is quiet, too. The ACX cooler features a huge heatsink and two 90mm fans.
Before we move to test results let's refresh our memory. If you know enough about the GTX 780 save your time and feel free to skip to the next page.
Nvidia's Kepler architecture has been around for a while. Kepler was officially launched in March 2012 and became known as the Geforce 600 series. The top of the line was the GK104-based Geforce GTX 680 card that stood its ground for quite some time. This was a 28nm chip that stayed with us for years and it's on sale even today in GTX 760 / 770 based mainstream cards.
Then the world's attention shifted to the GK110, a massive new chip that was announced at Computex 2012 and finally released in November 2012 as the Tesla K20 compute card. This one was based on the brand new, 7-billion transistor GK110 28nm core.
The gaming world met the GK110 chip in late February 2013 as it debuted in the fastest graphics card at the time, the Geforce GTX Titan. The Titan has 6GB of GDDR5 memory, 2688 Shader processors, 224 texture mapping units and 48 ROPs or render output units. The card is clocked at 837MHz base clock and 876 MHz boost clock and was the fastest card for some time. The problem was the $999 price which was enough to burn a huge hole in most wallets.
It is interesting to note that the Titan got a lot of flak for its price, but that did not deter Nvidia. In fact, the company launched an even more expensive card this year, the $2,999 Titan Z.
The Geforce GTX 780 was the first desktop card in the GTX 700 series and the first mass market implementation of the GK110. It launched in May 2013, with 2304 CUDA cores, 863MHz base GPU clock, 192 texture mapping units (TMUs), 48 render output units (ROPs) and 3GB of GDDR5 memory running at 1502MHz on a 384-bit memory bus. The EVGA GTX 780 Classified works at a 993MHz base clock, which points to a significant performance boost over reference cards. Unfortunately the memory is still running on reference clocks, i.e. 6008MHz (effective GDDR5). This is typical of EVGA, since the company rarely overclocks memory.
Basically the GTX 780 is a watered down Titan. The GK110 is made out of clusters and Titan has 14 clusters with 192 Shader cores each. The Geforce GTX 780 has 12 of these cores enabled and the new comer Geforce GTX 780 Ti comes with a record number of 2880 shades, which translates to 15 clusters enabled.
Specification wise the GTX 780 ended up with 50% more CUDA cores than its predecessor, the GTX 680. This among other things gives the GTX 780 card a significant performance boost, although the GK110 is based on the Kepler architecture used in the GTX 680. The GK104 chip used in the GTX 680 has 1536 CUDA cores. The GTX 780 has a 384-bit bus while the GTX 680 is limited to a 256-bit interface, but the memory speed on both cards is 6008MHz.The frame buffer was increased from 2048MB to 3072MB of GDDR5 memory.
Compared to the GTX Titan ($999), the GTX 780 debuted at a more attractive price of $649. Nvidia's response to AMD's new R9 290X was to slash the price of the GTX 780 by $150 and launch the full GK110 Geforce GTX 780 Ti.


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You may be dealing with a behavior problem, or someone in your household has allergies, or you are having trouble finding housing that will accept your companion. These situations can be frustrating, and you may feel that giving up your companion is the only solution. But before you take that drastic step, be aware of the resources that are available to help you deal with these problems.
Behavior Problems
If you are dealing with a behavior problem, talk to your veterinarian. Many problems are due to a treatable medical condition. For example, a housetrained animal may begin urinating in the house due to a urinary tract infection. Your vet will be able to rule out a physical cause of the problem and may also be able to refer you to an animal behaviorist in your community who has the expertise to help with your companion's behavior problem. These web sites also have helpful tips on solving behavior problems:
Best Friends Library of Pet Care Tips
Animal Humane Society Pet Behavior Online Library
You can also call the Animal Humane Society Behavior Helpline at (763) 489-2202 from 10am to 6pm, 7 days a week.
Health Problems
Does someone in your household have a health problem such as an allergy that makes it difficult to keep your companion? Has a physician actually recommended you give up your companion? Before taking such a drastic step: Read PETA's Living With Allergies to Animals.
Housing Problems
In a recent study, "moving" and "the landlord won't allow" were among the top reasons for giving up companion animals. If you are moving and are having trouble finding animal-friendly housing, or are experiencing other animal-related housing difficulties, read the San Francisco SPCA Tenant's Guide to Keeping Your Pet.
Finding a Safe and Loving Home for Your Companion
Finding a responsible home for your companion animal is the least you can do for an animal that has doubtlessly given you trust and unconditional love. When you look for a new home for an animal, please be sure the animal's best interests remain your top priority.
A "good" home means a home where the animal will live for the rest of his or her life, where he or she will receive attention, veterinary care, and proper nutrition, and be treated as part of the family.
Please do not turn your companion loose "out in the country." This is one of the cruelest fates any companion animal could meet. The suffering and fear they will endure is heartbreaking.
Breed Rescue Groups
For purebred dogs, there may be a breed rescue organization in your area that will accept the animal; check this list of Minnesota breed rescue organizations.
Newspaper Ads
For other animals, try a carefully placed newspaper ad in your local paper. Always charge a fee of at least $50 for adopting the animal. This will eliminate people who resell cheaply acquired animals to research, or use "free to good home" animals for training dogs for dog fighting. The brutal, illegal dog-fighting business looks for free kittens, puppies, and older dogs that fighting dogs can kill for practice.
ARC recommends visiting any prospective new home to get a feel for the environment. Screen potential homes carefully. If someone refuses to allow you to visit their home, do not place the animal with them. Don't be afraid to ask questions, impose conditions, or say no. The San Franciso SPCA's Surrendering Your Pet: The Last Resort has a great writeup on screening people who answer your ad and a list of questions to ask during a telephone interview: Ask for a form of ID. Record the number, name, and address for your records and require the new owner to sign an adoption contract. As part of the contract, require the new owner to contact you if he or she decides at some point to give up the animal. Follow up in a few weeks to see how the animal is doing.
Another option is to contact local no-kill shelters (but be aware that these shelters are often full).
Humane Societies
If the no-kill shelters are full, you can try local humane societies. However, be aware that animals surrendered to humane societies are often evaluated for adoptability, and there's a good chance the animal will be killed – especially if the animal is older, or too nervous or fearful during the evaluation.
We do not recommend surrendering an animal to your local pound or animal control facility. Surrendering an animal to a pound or animal control facility is generally a death sentence for the animal and in some parts of the U.S, municipal pounds surrender animals to research institutions who ask for them. Many municipal pounds do not put any effort into adopting out animals and often animals are only held for a few days before being killed.
Finally, only as a last resort, if your companion is terminally ill or has critical behavioral issues such as aggression, you may be considering having him or her euthanized by a veterinarian. Many people leave these animals at shelters, avoiding the reality of what will happen to their "best friend." It may be easier on you, but your companion will suffer for it by being thrown into a strange place, only to die there because he or she is unadoptable. Placing such an animal in a new home is difficult. Your companion may be traumatized by the shock of a new home or even abandoned by the new owner once his or her problems are discovered. If you choose euthanasia, as a final kindness, you should remain in the room to comfort your old friend during his or her passing. No one should die alone or with strangers.
Serial Pet Dumping
If you do give up your companion animal, please think long and hard before you consider getting another one. Make sure that what caused you to consider giving up this animal will never, ever happen again. When you took in this animal, you took responsibility for a living creature. You may have to accept the fact that you just are not able to have a companion animal.
Please, do not become a serial pet dumper!!
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Transportation is a real problem - a report this month ranked Massachusetts 43rd in the nation in road conditions – and it's been on the state's to-do list since before Patrick took office. He decided to tackle it in the second-to-last year of a most successful governorship and he pushed it hard.
It may have been a year too late.
Transportation financing has been described as Gov. Deval Patrick's legacy, sometimes with a roll of the eyes. Not that there's not much of an ego boost in repairing roads, bridges and budgetary black holes. And Patrick, given to lofty rhetoric about social justice and civic engagement, has never been Governor Pothole.
But transportation is a real problem - a report this month ranked Massachusetts 43rd in the nation in road conditions – and it's been on the state's to-do list since before Patrick took office. He decided to tackle it in the second-to-last year of a most successful governorship and he pushed it hard.
It may have been a year too late. While Patrick plans to head off to the private sector at the end of next year, the folks who run the Legislature aren't going anywhere. The legacy feather they put in Patrick's hat this week was that of a lame duck.
Patrick is a practical executive with a streak of idealism, so he appended to his transportation package provisions making the tax code more progressive, a commitment to regional equity, and investments targeted at bringing jobs to the state's poorer places.
Patrick spent months building grassroots and business support for his proposal. He talked it up with business groups. He visited cities and towns across the commonwealth, state legislators by his side, listening to municipal officials pitch their favorite transportation projects. We can make it happen, he'd say, if your reps support my proposals.
Then House Speaker Robert DeLeo and Senate President Therese Murray went to work.
The progressive tax reforms Patrick had proposed – cutting the sales tax, raising the income tax and eliminating some deductions - were promptly stripped out of the legislation by the Democratic leaders, who aren't retiring at the end of next year, don't think transportation is a billion-dollar problem, and care more about taxes than legacies.
The smaller tax package they came up with is neither progressive nor geared toward economic development.
It includes another $1-per-pack cigarette tax, bringing the state tax take to $3.51 (in addition to a $1.01 federal tax). That's basically a tax on addiction. Cigarette smokers are disproportionately poor and sick. Most of them would quit smoking if they could, but they can't. Why should they pay hundreds of dollars a year to bail out the T?
It applies the sales tax to information technology services, an idea that wasn't much discussed before it was too late. Patrick and legislative leaders projected the vaguely-worded provision would raise $160 million a year, but business groups say the bite could be more like $500 million. Besides, high tech is the state's economic future; why single it out for higher taxes?
But what has made the biggest headlines and teed off the talk show listeners is an increase in the gas tax. The gas tax is regressive – lower income folks often have longer commutes in less fuel-efficient vehicles – but at least it relates to transportation.
Digging deep to find the courage to buck the anti-tax crowd, lawmakers came up with a measly three cents a gallon, to be adjusted automatically for inflation. That would bring the state tax to 44.9 cents a gallon (the feds tack on 18.4 cents), and everyone is painting it as a huge deal.
Three cents? Gas prices rose 14 cents in a single week earlier this month, and barely anyone noticed those riches being sucked out of our wallets by the oil companies. But sending three cents a gallon to the dreaded government so it can repair our crumbling roads and rescue public transportation sends Republicans into fits of outrage while Democratic legislators hide under the bed.
Patrick protested when the House cut his $1 billion package in half, but then Senate found another $300 million a year under the couch cushions, and he seemed ready to go along. But when the bill was finally on his desk, he balked. It's still too small, he said, introducing a new wrinkle: the prospect that tolls on the Mass. Turnpike west of Rte. 128, due to expire when construction bonds are paid off in 2017, could reduce transportation financing by $135 million. He sent the bill back, suggesting an additional three cents on the gas tax kick in if the tolls come down.
This was seen as a bid to line up support from legislators outside of Boston who have long complained about being short-changed on transportation funding. A particular target was likely the MetroWest delegation, whose members think of themselves as guardians of the beleaguered Pike tollpayers.
They didn't take the bait. The law says the tolls must come down when the construction bonds are paid off, but only if the governor certifies the highway is in a state of good repair. No one on Beacon Hill believes that whoever is governor in 2017 will give up that revenue, no matter what shape the highway is in, and the champions of the tollpayers show no interest in forcing the issue.
MetroWest legislators are interested in more tolls, not fewer. They stuck provisions in the bill requiring consideration of putting tolls on other highways before Pike tolls can be increased. They've decided their constituents will feel better about paying tolls every time they drive to Boston as long as they also pay tolls every time they drive to New Hampshire or the Cape.
So this week the Legislature overrode Patrick's veto with plenty of votes to spare. Patrick exerted more pressure on individual legislators than he ever had, and all it got him was barely-concealed resentment from Democrats who agree with him on a host of issues – including his vision for transportation and economic development - but weren't about to buck DeLeo and Murray to help him out.
You can make a strong case that Deval Patrick is the best governor Massachusetts has had since Mike Dukakis – the last governor to serve full terms. He's popular with voters and a star with the national Democratic Party.
But there's never been much affection for Patrick on Beacon Hill, where he'll finish his service as he began it, as an outsider. Nor has there been much fear of the consequences of crossing him. Now that he's a lame duck, there's even less.
Rick Holmes, opinion editor for the Daily News, blogs at Holmes & Co. (http://blogs.wickedlocal.com/holmesandco). He can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Yes, I agree here. I do not think there is anything physically we really can do to change the result. On my first attempt I wrapped myself up in cotton wool too much. For my second attempt (not sure when that will be yet - probably sometime beginning of next year - Feb or so ) I am going to tackle the IVF slightly differently - by trying not to think about it too much and to trust in my body and really limit the people I tell about my treatment. I will relax, chill, go with the flow and do all the things I would normally do. I would definately say I thought about it too much the first time around.
12 days after the receipt of my negative result I am feeling much better and back to my old usual self. If I can survive what I have just been through, I can survive anything. The hurt has gone and time has healed, as it always does with me.
TTC since our marriage in 2000
Ectopic pregnancy - lwft tube removed - Feb 2005
1st IVF = BFN
Next step: more tests and a laproscopy to check the uterus and right tube.