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Things You'll Need
Plastic food storage container
Glass jar with lid
Potting soil
Although it may seem like the pit in a nectarine is a giant seed, it is actually a sort of pod that stores the real seeds. Instead of spending money on a baby nectarine tree from a local nursery, you can propagate your own tree using the pit from local fruit. This method is a bit more time-consuming, and your tree won't bear fruit for three to five years, but you will have the satisfaction of knowing that you grew your tree from seed.
Step 1
Save a pit from a nectarine. Ideally, you should use the pit from a nectarine grown by a local farmer so you can be sure the plant will survive in your climate. Rinse away any remaining fruit pulp, and let the pit dry out on a paper towel for a week.
Step 2
Place the pit on a hard, flat work surface, and hold it in place. Gently tap the pit with a hammer until it cracks open. Pull the pit apart, carefully remove the seeds, and set them aside. If necessary, tap the pit with a hammer again until you remove all the seeds.
Step 3
Place the seeds in a plastic food storage container, and store them in your refrigerator until you are ready to plant. Remove the seeds from cold storage in mid to late January, about four months before the last spring frost. Fill the container with room-temperature water, and allow the seeds to soak overnight.
Step 4
Fill the glass jar with soil, and plant the seeds about 1/2 inch deep. Carefully water the soil until it is just moist. Be careful not to overwater the seeds. Secure the lid to the top of the jar, and keep the jar in your refrigerator for about three months, checking the jar every other week to see if the the seeds have sprouted.
Step 5
Remove the jar from the refrigerator after the first three months, and remove the lid. Keep the jar in a warm, sunny spot, and water as necessary to keep the soil moist. After all danger of frost has passed, transplant the seedlings to a sunny spot in your garden.
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Joy Milne can smell Parkinson's disease. This Scotland native noticed an evident change in her husband's scent six years before he was diagnosed with the neurodegenerative disease. When Milne brought up her incredible sense of smell to neuroscientist Tilo Kunath, it was dismissed as nonsense. Kunath eventually agreed to test the truth of Milne's claim after encouragement by an associate. Milne smelled twelve shirts, six of Parkinson's patients and six healthy patients. She answered eleven out of the twelve correctly– and the owner of the one shirt she misinterpreted as having Parkinson's was diagnosed one year later.
Milne identified the source of the smell near each shirt collar, around the area of the neck containing sebaceous glands, which secrete sebum. Dermatologists have been recording excess sebum production in Parkinson's patients for decades. Neurologists now have reason to link overworking sebaceous glands with an early symptom of Parkinson's disease.
Neurologists now have reason to link overworking sebaceous glands with an early symptom of Parkinson's disease.
A team of scientists is currently working to identify the molecular marker of this specific scent. Finding molecular markers is the easy part; pinpointing the single right marker, out of the nine thousand found in sebaceous secretions, is the challenge. Due to the recent nature of this scent discovery, much of the research remains in preliminary stages.
New tests to detect early stage Parkinson's disease are already in the works. Valid possibilites include a urine test to identify the markers as mentioned above, a breath test similar to the urine test, and specially trained scent detection canines.. All of these tests bring hope to Parkinson's patients. With early detection, Parkinson's patients can receive medication to slow the progression of the disease. Joy Milne has opened an incredible door of opportunity for all those affected by Parkinson's disease. Though her husband passed away, Joy's superpower will continue to improve countless lives.
Kwon, Diana. (2015). One Woman's Ability to Sniff Out Parkinson's Offers Hope to Others. Scientific American. Retrieved from http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/one-woman-s-ability-to-sniff-out-parkinson-s-offers-hope-to-sufferers/


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Our qualified practitioners are passionate about what they do.
Dr Seema Datta
Aruvedic consultant
Dr Seema is an Ayurvedic doctor, international speaker and interpreneur specialising in women's health. She gained her bachelors in Ayurvedic Medicine and Surgery from Nagpur University in 1995.
In the last 20 years, she has supported women in all sorts of life situations, whether be it during menarche - transition from a girl to woman , pregnancy and birth - transition from woman to motherhood or menopause.
Dr Seema's clinic, Keyajee, extends support to all women, especially working women, to balance health while going through a stressful work environment. Through consultations, she will help you to understand your body and how to keep it in a maximum state of health with certain diet plans and suitable Ayurvedic massages and treatments.
Dr Seema offers the following treatments-
Detox plan - The 7 day treatment consists of diet plan, massages and Basti treatments.
Preconception treatments - Starts at least 3 months before conception. It includes diet plan and treatment protocol to prepare your mind-body to welcome new soul in the womb and nurture through to birth naturally in the world.
Pregnancy - Dr Seema helps to maintain your energy throughout the pregnancy so you can enjoy your special time. Support throughout pregnancy with diet plan, specific massages, padabhyanga (Ayurvedic foot massage) , meditation & yogic breathing.
Birth Doula - Dr Seema has experience of attending births in hospitals in India for 3 years, she can be the birthing partner you want.
Postnatal Care - Consists of a combination of diet plan, massages with warm oil, hot fomentation with herbal Pottalis, Kati Basti, Shirodhara & head massage as per your requirements.
Dr Seema can travel internationally for birth and postnatal support.


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I needed a new CPU, so I go to the monthly computer show as usual. Instead of buying from the company that I know is reliable, I decide to save $20 by getting a Pentium III from Company X. It didn't work.
So I mail it back to be replaced, but now I need a new motherboard (when the first CPU overheated, it damaged the motherboard too). Instead of ordering it from the company that I know is reliable, I go to eBay and buy one from Company Y.
So now I have to send my new motherboard back to be replaced. Maybe I'll learn something from this. Stay away from computers all together.


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Seoul, South Korea - June 20, 2008, INUS Technology, Inc., the developer of Rapidform® 3D scanning software, today announced that it will feature its latest inspection software applications at the 19th Design Engineering & Manufacturing Solutions Expo (DMS) in Tokyo, Japan, June 25 - 27, 2008. At the event, INUS will officially launch Rapidform XOV™2/Verifier. The company will also highlight its newly-released SolidWorks® add-in, InspectWorks™.
Calvin J. Hur, senior vice president of marketing & global sales for INUS, stated, "In the year since the last DMS exposition, we have made massive changes to Rapidform. The latest of these advances is version two of Rapidform XOV, which we will debut at DMS 2008. With its new functionality and automation, Rapidform XOV2 will change the way that 3D scanning quality control software performs. Inspection will be available to designers and engineers, not just dedicated metrologists.
According to Hur, XOV2 uses a "feature-based quality inspection" concept that makes it easier and more efficient to complete part inspections from 3D scan data. The tools and structure of Rapidform XOV2 are designed for professional, metrology-level inspection, yet its work-flow and interface are extremely easy and intuitive, making XOV2 a powerful product even for the occasional user.
XOV2 is metrology software that provides feature-based, parametric inspection history coupled with a 3D PMI interface (Product Manufacturing Information) that imports GD&T information defined in the CAD model. Using a systematic approach that automates the inspection process, XOV2 offers the highest level of repeatability and reproducibility for accurate quality control reports.
InspectWorks, a SolidWorks add-in that was introduced in April 2008, will also be highlighted at the DMS expo. InspectWorks is the world's first application for verification of part dimensions using 3D scan data within SolidWorks. InspectWorks is for designers and engineers with occasional inspection and verification requirements during the product development process, such as first article inspection and process try-out.
In less than 10 minutes, and with minimal operator intervention, InspectWorks produces color map deviation analysis, section deviation analysis and automatic DimXpert™ GD&T calculations. By leveraging the GD&T specifications, InspectWorks provides visual feedback for pass, fail and warning conditions relative to the manufacturing specifications.
INUS Technology will have live demonstrations of XOV2 and InspectWorks, as well as XOS™2 and XOR™2, in the Rapidform booth located in DMS's East 2 Hall (CAD/CAM&PLM/PDM Zone) stand 13-10.
About INUS Technology Inc. INUS Technology helps companies unlock the power of 3D scanning. The company's software solutions are the most widely installed products for reverse engineering, 3D imaging and inspection using 3D scan data around the globe. Rapidform makes 3D scanning an extremely powerful tool for a variety of applications and is used in fields such as manufacturing, R&D, quality inspection, medical research and civil engineering. Leading companies including Audi, Ford, Hyundai, Toyota, Rolls Royce, Volkswagen, Hitachi, Panasonic, Oakley, Samsung, Sony, Alcoa, and Benteler use Rapidform's advanced technology to innovate throughout their research, design, manufacturing and quality control processes. For more information, please visit http://www.rapidform.com


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Description Trinocular Research Grade Biological Microscope
Specification of Binocular Research Grade Biological Microscope
The Series Compound Trinocular Biological Microscopes is our Advanced Higher Academic Biological Microscope. For the laboratory, medical school, veterinary clinic, physicianââ¬â¢s office the economical is the ideal microscope system. Itââ¬â¢s mechanical durability holds up to the constant daily use and demands of a busy laboratory. This is the ideal combination of economy without compromising quality. The uses a 3 watt LED with variable intensity control, rated for over 25,000 hours of use. A new optical standard of precision optics is found in this series of advanced trinocular student microscopes. These proven, durable microscopes will withstand the constant student wear and tear a student microscope endures from day to day use. The rugged cast aluminum base is designed with stability in mind, but compact in design to fit most laboratory bench. The quadruple objective turret nosepiece is in reverse position to permit easier changing and positioning of specimen slides and to protect the objective lenses.


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We will continue the short-term bug fixing as well as answer questions concerning the achievements.
Concerning the reset in the minigame section we changed our plans due to some of your complaints/suggestions. There will be no reset so no time/aps are lost. Of course, ther will not be a compensation either, as there is nothing to compensate for From tomorrow on, there will be two sections for minigames. The one already existing will only count friendly games in the future, the newly implemented will serve for medals of tavern games only.
By the end of January we will also introduce a medal ranking system, so there's even more fun in collecting medals.
The introduction of further medals is expected to start early / mid-March, so that you can prove yourself in other disciplines.


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Mountain Area Preservation (MAP) is an environmental land use advocacy organization founded in 1987 by local citizens who were concerned that Truckee's small town, mountain character was being threatened by outside influences with development proposals impacting access to open space and our quality of life in the Sierra Nevada.
MAP's mission is to preserve the Truckee-Tahoe region's mountain character and natural environment for present and future generations. Since inception, MAP has worked collaboratively to protect over 5,000 acres of open space in the region, advocate for smart growth development and community benefits, such as workforce housing, alternative transportation, parks, trails and clean natural resources for our community. Created by longtime locals who wanted a voice in determining the future of their community, MAP is truly a grassroots organization.
Our Goals
- Preserve and protect open space in the Truckee-Tahoe region through collaboration, education and stewardship.
- Sustain the authentic mountain character of the area by protecting the diversity of the environment, culture, and economy.
- Advocate for responsible land use decisions and smart growth development in the region.


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Field Trips & Student Groups
Exhibit: "Finding Light in the Darkness" - Grades 6 and up.
Scholarships available to assist with field trip fee and travel expenses. Apply for a scholarship!
Through artifacts and stories from local Holocaust survivors, students will begin to understand the history of the Holocaust and that their choices make a difference. "Finding Light in the Darkness" engages students with an Anne Frank annex, Reflection Wall, embedded testimony screens, interactive Liberation and Post-War stories, and a special feature highlighting local students. Class visits are 90 minutes and include an exploration of the exhibit, a short film, and an interactive activity. Optional addition (approx 60 minutes): Request a member of the speakers bureau to share their family's Holocaust story with the students.
*Tours available in Spanish by special request.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many students can you accommodate on a field trip? The Holocaust Center can easily accommodate field trips of 12-40 students. Have more students? We can often schedule multiple back-to-back groups at the Center, so ask us about this option! Numerous downtown Seattle attractions are nearby for group rotations. We suggest a student to chaperone ratio of 7:1.
What does a typical field trip to the Holocaust Center look like?
- Students will view an introductory film that connects the history of the Holocaust to our world today,
- Students will explore the exhibit, "Finding Light in the Darkness," using an age-appropriate worksheet to guide themselves, along with the help of docents.
- Students will participate in a hands-on activity. Teachers can choose from several activities (see options on request form) or we can pick for you.
- Experienced docents and staff will be present at all times to answer questions and encourage conversation.
- Students will learn about the history of the Holocaust, and how and why this history matters to us today.
- Students will consider the roles people play in different situations - perpetrators, bystanders, rescuers, upstanders, victims, and collaborators. They will be challenged to consider how even small actions make a difference.
How long should we expect to be at the Holocaust Center? Approx. 90 minutes. You have the option of requesting a Speakers Bureau member to speak to your students for an additional 60 minutes at the end of the visit.
How far in advance do I need to schedule a field trip? Please request dates that are at least 3 weeks in advance.
Can students eat lunch at the Holocaust Center? We do not have the facilities for students to eat lunch at the Holocaust Center.
What should teachers/students bring with them? Students will not be able to bring backpacks/large bags inside – please leave at school or on the bus. Weapons of any kind, including pocket knives and pepper spray, are absolutely prohibited from entering the Center.
What days are you open for field trips? We are open to school groups each day of the week except Wednesdays and Saturdays.
How much does it cost to bring a group of students? The field trip fee is $175 (this includes a $100). Scholarships are available to assist with the field trip fee and travel expenses. Apply for a scholarship!
What should we do to prepare our students for the field trip? Once your field trip is scheduled, we will send you suggested activities and materials to help prepare you and your students. We will also provide post-field trip suggestions.
Field Trip Fund Scholarships are made possible due to the generous support of individual donors and: the Alfred & Tillie Shemanski Trust Fund, the Goldman Sachs Philanthropy Fund, and the Tacoma Jewish Community Fund.
The development and training of museum tour guides (docents) is made possible with the generous support of the Union Pacific Foundation.


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Hello Beautiful Thinkers,
I was listening to all my songs on shuffle the other day and Mika's "Grace Kelly" came on. I had heard this one in a long while but since then it's been stuck in my head. You know how songs do that where you'll hear them again after a long while and it's like they're as amazing as the first time you heard them. Anyway even if you're not as in love with the song as I am, I think there's a good writing prompt in it. Listen to the lyrics, as he suggests all the changes he could make for this person to like him. Is that other person worth it? Write a scene in which your character considers changing something about himself for someone else. Does he go through with it? Does it work? Does your character realize that the change was a mistake? Is someone really worth your time if you have to change who you are to be with them?
Keep Dreaming Beautiful Thinkers,
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vagreys wrote:Found a copy of British Cookery (Boyd) in good condition for $1.84, a copy of Sausage and Small Goods Production (Gerrard) in like-new condition for $20, and a 1930 2nd edition copy of The Butchers' Manual (Palframan) in good condition for $11.32. Not a bad book hunting day.
salumi512 wrote:...I should come visit when I go see my family in Va Beach this summer. I think we could share a bourbon and a pork shoulder...
wheels wrote:What's Sausage and Small Goods Production like Tom? It's one I've not got.
vagreys wrote:Still, my copy has definitely been used. It has no date, but is a 2nd edition, so somewhere around 1930. The previous owner's name is stamped in the front of the book - "Rainhill Piggeries, Mill Lane, Rainhill, Liverpool." The cover was blue cloth hardback with gold lettering, and the spine has faded to lighter purple due to light/sun exposure. The pages are high-grade enameled paper (high clay content typical of that period), and in great condition.
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Happiness Is A Contagious State of Mind
"We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have." Frederick Keonig Do you ever think about the difference you make for someone else, simply by being present, attentive and kind? As you go about your day, stop for a moment to acknowledge whomever you meet. Your smile or gentle words could be just what they need to make their day.read more


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After some genre-defining silent films (which we'll get to much later on in the Criterion Collection), Austro-Hungarian émigré director Josef von Sternberg did a run of films with Marlene Dietrich — the first in Germany (The Blue Angel, 1930) but the rest in the United States. In some ways these defined something else in cinema, every bit as important as a narrative structure, which is a sense of the fetishisation of the actor as icon. Obviously there had been stars before Dietrich, but the quality that Sternberg gets across in his run of films with her is something else, something more profound, something almost magical. His penultimate film with her was The Scarlet Empress, and alongside the shimmering beauty of Dietrich — the burnished close-ups, the flamboyant dress — this must rank as some kind of masterpiece of set design. Every image is crammed with baroque detail, every shot framed by grotesque sculptures presiding creepily over the action. This latter largely revolves around Dietrich on her road to becoming the Empress Catherine II, "Catherine the Great", married into Russian nobility (the mad Peter, played with wide-eyed intensity by Sam Jaffe) and learning the ways of the court and methods of extending her power. The camerawork and lighting is bravura, but it's those stylish set touches that only heighten the film's giddy campness and emphasise how much Sternberg has given to the cinema in the 20th century. Stars would never again shine quite as brightly.
FILM REVIEW: Criterion Collection
Director Josef von Sternberg; Writer Manuel Komroff (based on a diary by Catherine II Екатери́на Алексе́евна); Cinematographer Bert Glennon; Starring Marlene Dietrich, John Lodge, Louise Dresser, Sam Jaffe; Length 104 minutes.
Seen at a friend's home (DVD), London, Sunday 31 July 2016 (and earlier on VHS at home, Wellington, April 2001).


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Prasanth wrote:Noise control is becoming increasingly important for a wide variety of OEM designers. Examples of products that take noise control considerations into account during their design cycles include equipment such as computer hard drives, house appliances, material handling and transportation equipment etc,. In the transportation market, which includes aircraft, ground and marine segments, the demand is for low noise level goals. Achieving these goals is of primary importance for OEM to be continue to be competitive or to keep a given supremacy in the market. The automotive industry has been a leader in the adsorption of noise control technologies. Methods in use for several years for the prediction of interior noise levels include : finite element method(FEM), statistical energy analysis (SEA) boundary element analysis (BEA) etc. The internal combustion engine has mechanized the world. Since the early 1900s it has been our prime source of mechanical power. The vast number of internal combustion engines in the world today has resulted in air pollution, noise pollution etc.
One typical engine noise classification technique separates the aerodynamic noise, combustion noise and mechanical noise.
AERODYNAMIC NOISE-aerodynamic noise includes exhaust gas and intake air noise as well as noise generated by cooling fans, auxillary fans or any other air flow.
COMBUSTION NOISE- combustion noise refers to noise generated by the vibrating surfaces of the engine structure, engine components and engine accessories after excitation by combustion forces.
MECHANICAL NOISE-mechanical noise refers to noise generated by the vibrating surfaces of the engine components and engine accessories after excitation by reciprocating or rotating engine components.
Exhaust system noise includes the noise from exhaust gas pulses leaves the muffler or tail pipe and noise emitted from the vibrating surfaces of the exhaust system components. Noise emitted from the surfaces of exhaust system components results from two different types of excitation forces: those generated by the pulsating exhaust gas flow and those transmitted from the vibrating engine to exhaust system components. Additional considerations in the reduction of exhaust system noise include proper selection of piping lengths and diameters, proper mounting of exhaust system components and proper positioning of the exhaust outlet.
Intake system noise includes noise generated by the flow of air through the systems air inlet and noise emitted from the vibrating surface components. As with exhaust systems surface radiated noise results from two different types of excitation process: those generated by the pulsating intake air flow and those transmitted from the vibrating engine to intake system components. In many instances, an engines air cleaner will provide significant attenuation of intake air noise. If additional attenuation is required, an intake air silencer can be added to the system. To minimize intake system surface radiated noise, proper design, selection and mounting of intake system components are essential.
Water cooled engines are typically cooled by using a radiator as a heat exchanger – with an axial flow fan is used to draw cooling air through the radiator. Air-cooled engines generally use a centrifugal fan in conjunction with shrouding to direct cooling air across the engine. Fan noise consists of both discrete frequency tones and broadband noise. The broadband components of fan noise are caused by the shedding of vortices from the rotating fan blades and by turbulence in the fans air stream.
The discrete frequency components are the result of pressure impulses that occur each time a fan blade passes an obstacle in the fans pressure field. When fan blades are spaced at equal angular intervals, the fundamental discrete tone will occur at the fans blade passing frequency.


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Perhaps what love seeks is not reciprocity but redemption, the sense that who you are is worthy and was always worthy of love.
~ Abraham Verghese
I wrote about Abraham Verghese in this post over the summer, where I couldn't wait to read his novel Cutting For Stone. Let me tell you the man didn't disappoint. The book was phenomenal. It will easily hold a place in my personal top ten favorite books of all time. I wept quite a few times while reading the last hundred pages. Verghese writes so beautifully and compassionately about love, loss and trying to find our way in the world. His writing really appeals to me because he connects medicine, suffering, spirituality and the notion of healing (versus curing) effortlessly with his capacity for empathy.
So, of course, after finishing the book I had to learn more about him and went to the first place anyone with a computer goes these days, wikipedia. In the immortal words of Stephen Colbert, "It is the first place I go when I'm looking for knowledge, or when I want to create some." And, oh, how I swooned when I learned that "He is renowned at Stanford for his weekly bedside rounds, where he insists on examining patients without knowledge of their diagnosis to demonstrate the wealth of information available from the physical exam." I've only been a nurse for close to four years but having an attending do this is like the healthcare equivalent of a unicorn. I didn't think such a creature exists. If you have a passion for medicine or are just curious about ways to bring the care back in healthcare I highly recommend his website.
I had started this page with a different quote "The world turns on our every action, and our every omission, whether we know it or not." But then I found the quote on love and I just loved it so that took the top spot. Following are some longer quotes from him that I found moving.
On Love
Love to me has a quality to it like a trip wire – hence we 'fall' in love, instead of simply 'arriving' to love. Love comes down to a set of wills trying to match and sometimes mismatching in spectacular fashion; I think all love is unrequited unless we have a clone of ourselves and even then the love is unrequited. In my day job I see all too often that people's appreciation of the existence of love, of the meaning of love, or of the idea that the meaning of life turns out to be love – all these are arrived at too late, when the love is long lost, or arrived at just before the moment of death.
Perhaps what love seeks is not reciprocity but redemption, the sense that who you are is worthy and was always worthy of love.
On suffering
I think the key to being a good physician, something we all aspire to, is to understand how the illness feels from the patient's perspective. Sometimes that is hard – how do we ask a 27-year-old medical student to imagine the suffering of someone felled in their fifties with cancer that is incurable?
But the trying, the willingness to engage with the patient, to see yourself in them – to see your own vulnerability, your own variety of fear, your need for reassurance – that goes a long way.
On the difference between curing and healing
Every illness has a physical deficit as well as a sense of spiritual violation. You break your leg and you have a break in the femur, but there's also a great sense of, "Why me? Why now?" Medicine has done a great job of taking care of the break, but not as a good a job of dealing with the sense of violation people feel with illness.


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Holy Cow!
We have been floored by your response to my little blog series. All I know is God asked me to be transparent about what has been going in our lives (as I've done in the past), so I obeyed. I'm so glad I did! 😀 THANK YOU for all your support and encouragement this far.
It means more than you'll ever, ever know. 🙂
The story isn't over yet.
Let us review: Why did we halt our adoption?
The simplest answer is because we cannot afford to pursue adoption and surrogacy at once.
*For more on why we before 3 weeks ago we never dreamed surrogacy would be an option, and how we were both finally at peace with moving forward with our adoption plans, please see Part 1.
*For more on the Facebook message I received 3 weeks ago from practically a perfect stranger that would rock anyone's world, please see Part 2.
*For more on our surprisingly spirited 1st reaction to that message, please see Part 3.
*For more on the questions we both had, and the emotional struggle I went through, once the surrogacy option was presented to us, please see Part 4.
*For more on the initial, God-filled meeting I had with the woman who strongly felt God may very well be calling her to be our surrogate, please see Part 5.
Coming out of work last Monday evening, I was on a high.
I have never been more excited to drive home.
No, I take that back – to drive anywhere.
I couldn't wait to tell John everything that had transpired earlier that morning with the God-sent woman who came into our lives out of the blue, about the one who was so at peace with helping make us a family of three. It was becoming more and more clear that she was going to help make John's (and therefore my) dream of having children of our own flesh and blood come true. I was confident that only a few hours earlier I had met not just another human being but an angel sent to us by our Heavenly Father to accomplish His miraculous plan. I was on cloud nine.
John and I spent the whole evening talking about my meeting with this woman we had both grown to love.
We prayed.
We, especially John, cried many tears of joy.
We laughed.
We thanked the Lord profusely for how He was seemingly working in our lives for His glory.
We cried again.
We spent a lot of time thinking about our children's names. Hannah Grace will undoubtedly be our first-born daughter; that has been decided since before we got married. A boy's name, however, has always been hard for us to solidify. As of now, 2 names are still in the running and no decisions have been made. I am praying the Lord clearly tells John the name I like is his God-given name, not just one his mother likes, soon. 😉 This conversation wasn't one we hadn't had before; in fact, we'd had it hundreds of times. What we never had done before, however, is try to come up with 2 names for both genders we could both agree upon, like we did that night.
John was clearly dreaming BIG. He was believing the Lord could not just give us one child through surrogacy but TWO (or more) and wasn't afraid to pray specifically for it. My usually skeptical, very realistic husband was once again showing that he had extreme faith that God was working on our behalf. He was operating with a faith I had never seen in him before, a childlike faith I had prayed so many hundreds of times before for him to have. My prayers had been answered, even if not in the way in which I was imagining. After all, we hadn't planned on surrogacy ever being an option for us; we were adopting, and that was that. I was planning on my prayers being answered by him being completely at peace with that decision and showing this much enthusiasm and joy about the prospect of being a family through the beautiful gift of adoption. Though I wasn't sure how it was all going to work out now that the Lord had hijacked our plans, I was absolutely in love with my husband in that moment. I could have easily stayed in that moment with him forever.
We went to bed that night full of joy and peace, anxiously anticipating how the Lord was going to work next.
And then Tuesday came.
Unlike most days, I had to be at work that day at 9:00am instead of my usual 1:00pm. I was happily going through my work day, answering phone calls and gathering people's information for them to be quoted auto insurance, while trying not to daydream too much about what our biological child would look like, when I got a Gmail chat message from John on my phone.
"I have some bad news," the message said.
He went on to tell me that after talking with our insurance that morning, as well as two – not just one – fertility clinics, he was informed that, as the prospective parents, we would be responsible for the entire fertility bill for all parties involved (3), that the surrogate's insurance wouldn't kick in until pregnancy was achieved. We had naively assumed, though, that the implantation of our embryo (what we thought they meant by IVF) into the surrogate would be covered under her insurance (if at all) because she'd be the one being "serviced." We had already been talking through, and planning, on the very real possibility of her insurance not covering it and therefore us needing to pick up the entire tab for it, so that wasn't a deal breaker.
It wasn't ideal, but we could work through it.
There was another problem, though.
Things were about to get worse – a lot worse.
John went on to tell me we don't have the fertility coverage on our insurance plan we thought we had. In our minds, all the other fertility treatments, besides In Vitro Fertilization (as we defined it), were covered by our insurance, so it was just a matter of how much implantation was going to cost.
Like I said, it was our understanding that the embryo implantation was essentially defined as "IVF". Sadly are understanding of our coverage couldn't be further from what was really going to be covered. Quickly he had learned that "IVF" is what they call the entire process, meaning my egg retrieval, his sperm retrieval and analysis and implantation. Yes, the whole process, not just a third of it.
The only "good" news that came out of his dialogue with our insurance company was that he was informed we did have coverage through our prescription plan for the hormonal shots/prescriptions that both I, and the surrogate, would need to achieve successful implantation. In their words, that would shed a "couple thousand" off the bill.
So, instead of our estimate of probably getting through the fertility part of the process for $5,000 (or less), he was told by the fertility clinic that, without IVF coverage, we were looking at bill of $20-25,000 for just the fertility. This total didn't include the legal fees, pregnancy or our payment to the surrogate. In a matter of minutes, our dream of having a child through surrogacy went from a miracle within our reach to seemingly an impossible financial hill to climb. Impregnating the woman who was feeling "called" to carry our baby now came with a perceived cost almost as huge as if we would have gone through a surrogacy agency, something we've already established we could never afford, even if we found the "right" person to carry our baby.
In a matter of seconds, my heart shattered into a million pieces.
Unlike John, I didn't have a door to shut to hide my tears. I hid behind my computer screen and prayed for the breath to return to my lungs. I wanted to go hide in the bathroom, but I knew the sobs that would inevitably come behind a closed door would scare my co-workers and any customers who happened to walk in. I had no escape for several hours. I wasn't about to tell my boss, even if he was a close friend, I was too emotionally unstable to finish out my day. We were already short two people, which is why I came in early, so I knew he desperately needed my help. I wasn't going to put him in a tough spot just because I received some bad (OK, horrible) news. No, I had no choice but to pull myself together and continue to welcome people into our State Farm office with open arms. None of our policy holders were going to want to hear my sob story. They just wanted to pay their bill and get on their merry way. They just wanted to hear a friendly voice on the other end of the line when they had a policy question, one who was giving them their undivided attention. As one who prides myself in doing my job with excellence, I knew I had no choice but to bury the raw emotions I was feeling until closing time. So I did.
Once I got into my car a little past 5:00pm, however, I lost it.
I sobbed the whole way home.
I begged the Lord to make the emotional roller coast we'd been on for weeks (more like years) to end.
I asked Him "why" a hundred times.
I told Him, "I can't do this anymore" more than once.
Then I got home and did what I always do when I'm upset.
I cleaned.
Don't get me wrong. We don't live in a pigsty, hardly so. Since I live with one who loves a tidy home, I clean all the time. The kind of cleaning I engaged in that night is the mindless, I-just-need-to-take-my-mind-off-my-current-reality-so-get-out-of-my-way type of cleaning. I stood at the sink and begin washing a huge pile of dishes, some which I took out of the cupboard, even though they were clean, to give me more to do. I didn't want to be sobbing when John got home, so the only other option left was to focus on scrubbing the tar out of my Corelle Ware.
John came home, changed out of his suit into something comfortable, and joined me in the kitchen. Instead of conversing after work like we usually do, we didn't speak. There was nothing left to say at that point. He joined me by the sink, picked up a dish towel, went to begin drying the dishes I had piled a mile-high into the drying rack, and proceeded to do what I knew was coming.
He stood in the middle of the kitchen and began to cry.
We held each other, as we felt our world crashing down on us.
Throughout the course of the evening, hardly anything was said. We just held each other on the couch in our family room for dear life. Most of that Tuesday evening was spent mostly in silence, with us staring at a TV screen and wishing the past 8 hours were all a bad dream.
"I don't see how we're going to be able to afford this now; it's over, Babe," was muttered by John more than once.
"This seems like a cruel joke," was also said by both of us at least a few times that night.
Eventually, we got off the couch – the same couch on which just 24 hours before we had cried tears of complete joy – and headed to bed. Instead of having sex, and therefore being completely relaxed before we drifted off to sleep, we were bent-out-of-shape, emotionally bankrupt and had no choice but to cry out to the Lord for answers. We held each other in bed and prayed for a long time.
"Why, Lord?"
"What are you doing?"
"What was the past 3 weeks for, anyway?"
"Why did You give us so much peace about this for nothing?"
"Are we really supposed to borrow all this money? Is that Your will? Help us, Lord! We need Your help."
"Help us to move forward with adoption and put this behind us."
"Help us, Father, to get up tomorrow, to face the day."
As John eventually drifted off to sleep, and I was left in the darkness alone, I remember once again saying to the Lord,
"Not our will, Lord, but YOURS be done. I just don't really know what that is right now, at all. Please help."
Answers, however, weren't going to come easily. Part 7 to come!
*Note: These blog posts have not been pre-written. I've been writing each only 12-24 hours before posting. Therefore, due to John asking me to spend this evening with him (instead of blogging) watching the OSU game (go Bucks!), and then us going out of town together this weekend for some much-needed alone time, I will NOT be posting Part 7 until next week. In the meantime, we would appreciate your continued prayers. You all have been SO incredibly encouraging to us; it means more than you'll ever know! We're humbled by the fact God has allowed us to walk this journey for His glory and are doing our best not to "waste" this difficult time.
Thanks in advance for your prayers and patience. I'll be back next week. 🙂


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The beach dress with open back looks rather good on slim women, therefore I have not written the stitches for many sizes. However, the same pattern can be used in a skirt – browse photos on Etsy how it might look like:
I have calculated the stitches of the bottom part of the original dress so it might be worked as a knee length SKIRT. Pattern is available here:
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The skirt has no side seams. Instructions are given for the following sizes:
S/M with waist circumference 65-72 cm (25.5-28.5''), hips 89-94 cm (35-37'');
M/L with waist 73-80 cm (29-31.5''), hips 97-102 cm (38-40'');
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Before you could go on and enjoy the trip, there are many things you need to do to achieve a complete stress-free journey. You might have been planning on this for over a year now, but there are still some things that you need to be sure about before you take off. You might even find yourself confused by the different advices you may have got from various people. However, here is a small guide for you to have a successful trip.
Firstly, you may already have a mental map about all the things you need to take. While trying to pack your bags and luggage, several other things will come in to your mind. Make sure that you don't let them conquer you as you are packing your luggage because if you forget and leave some thing at home sometimes the whole trip would be a stressful one for you. Make sure you have these most commonly forgotten items such as toothbrush/toothpaste, socks, sunglasses, sunscreen, a hat or a cap included in your luggage. Before going on the trip conduct a small research on the weather pattern of the place that you're going to visit so that you can take extra shoes and coats. If you're planning to go on a boat ride, make sure that you take a cotton rope with you as it could be helpful, and you never know when you'll need it.
If you are planning to set up a camp some where you'll have to take some special equipment with you such as a pocket knife, a sleeping bag, a blanket, nylon rope Australia, a box of matches and a first aid kit. There are many more buy these are some important equipment that you should keep in your mind when planning to set up a camp. Do not forget to take some snacks along with you. This can help you in cases where you cannot get food too easily. Take small snack packs that you can easily carry around and make sure that none of these snacks include an ingredient that could make you allergic. Furthermore, do not take too much luggage with you, as it can be hard to keep track of everything that you are taking.
List down all the necessary things that you need to take with you and double check the list of items before you leave. Once you begin your journey make sure that you limit your social media usage, and make sure that you cannot be reached easily. Do not check your mails and messages constantly as this will stop you from enjoying your vacation, as you're going on this trip to release stress.


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Offset vs. Digital Offset – How to Decide
Offset vs. Digital Offset – How to Decide
Offset lithography is ancient, but certainly not outdated. While digital printing revolutionized the industry, traditional offset printing maintained its place among, and even chalked up a few distinct advantages over modern digital processes. Offset printing's staying power leads many to the question, "Which is better for my project? (Offset vs. Digital Offset)"
Offset Printing: How It Works
Offset printing is the most common technique used for commercial (high volume) printing. In offset printing, images are transferred from negatives to aluminum plates through a chemical reaction initiated by the passing of light (like in a photo lab). Each color (CMYK) has its own plate.
Ink and water rollers then douse the plates, and that's where the lithographic process happens. Ink (which is oil) and water don't mix, so the flat image maintains ink while the non-printing area collects water (thus keeping ink off of it). The image received by the plates is then transferred to a rubber blanket, and then finally from the rubber blanket to the final surface, often called the substrate.
The original image never touches the paper; the rubber blanket transfers it, hence the term "offset."
Digital Offset Printing: How It Differs
The main difference between offset and digital offset printing is a little easier to understand. Basically, digital eliminates a good portion of the labor and materials involved in plain old offset. Films, color proofs, plates, having to assemble the pieces – all out the window with digital offset printing. The image is transferred digitally rather than manually.
Offset and digital offset printing are both incredible processes that we'll be discussing separately in future posts.
Offset Printing Advantages
Let's go back to old school offset and talk about why it's still around.
The best thing about offset printing is that your unit cost goes down as your quantity goes up. Once you have your plates and proofs, a great deal of the work has been done and you can print an insane number of prints before needing new plates. Your image quality is also extremely high with offset printing – It used to be dramatically higher than with digital, but that gap has closed. Nevertheless, you still get great quality in large quantities.
Digital Offset Printing Advantages
Circling back around to digital offset, if you want your project done fast, this is going to be your choice. Digital offset printing has a much quicker turnaround time than offset does. It's cheaper for low volume projects (because it requires less time and labor). Your prints aren't going to vary much if at all, and you have a lot more options as far as what you can print onto.
Possibly the biggest advantage of digital offset printing, though, is variable data printing. With variable data printing, each piece can be printed with different text or graphics (relayed from a digital file) without the press ever stopping or even slowing down. Obviously this is great for books, personalized letters and invitations, localized ad campaigns, etc.
When To Use Which
Given what we've discussed, here are a few basic guidelines for deciding whether your project is best suited for offset or digital offset printing:
– For cost-effective mass production of a single image, go with offset. That's its main selling point.
– If you think you may want to print the image many more times – offset (because your plates are already made and unless you're printing millions of copies, you probably have many more runs before you need new plates).
– If your quantity is low, you're going with digital.
– If you're customizing prints and/or wanting a wide variety of options to print onto (wood, plastic, different types of film and paper, etc.) – definitely digital.
– If you need your prints soon – digital, although this can get expensive if you're summoning a digital offset printer to do an offset printer's job.
Note: the colors you're using may also be taken into account to determine the most cost-effective option, but experts will bring that to your attention upon speaking with you about your project.
Coming Soon: Digital Onset Printing
Now that we've brought you up to speed on offset and digital offset printing, we'll soon be introducing digital onset printing. Check back soon for the amazing new possibilities this technology brings.
*The information in this post is in no way definitive and should only serve as basic background knowledge. Technology is constantly changing, and every project is different. It's important that you speak in great detail with a professional representative before making a decision on the production of your project.
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Northern Ireland's political leaders have taken to the fairways on the last round of their business mission to China.
First Minister Peter Robinson and Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness visited the UBS Hong Kong Open in a bid to promote golf tourism back home.
The ministers were guests at the Hong Kong Golf Club, in Fanling, for the European Tour International Schedule tournament.
But they did not get the chance to cheer on Northern Ireland's world number one Rory McIlroy as the Co Down golfer missed the cut.
Mr Robinson said: "The participation and success of local golfers has shone the international spotlight on Northern Ireland, giving us the ideal opportunity to promote local tourism.
"China is a significant emerging market and that is why we are working to build awareness of Northern Ireland as a tourism destination.
"Golf tourism currently generates over ÂŁ14 million per year for the local economy in Northern Ireland, with the average spend per golf visitor coming in at ÂŁ300-ÂŁ450, significantly higher than the average visitor spend."
Mr McGuinness added: "As our golfers continue to play at the highest level of competitive golf around the world, more people will want to come to play the courses that our local golfers enjoy, and this will increase tourism spend in our local economy.
"Tournaments, such as the Hong Kong Open, represent a window to the world to gain further widespread exposure, and we are working to make the most of the opportunities created by our world-class golfers. Promoting our golf offering to an international audience and capitalising on the current global interest in our local golfers will help grow tourism here."
Jamie Birkmyre, championship director of the UBS Hong Kong Open, said: "It was an honour to host the First Minster and the Deputy First Minister at the UBS Hong Kong Open. Their commitment to golf and the European Tour was evident in their support at the Irish Open, and we were delighted that they took time out of their busy schedules to attend another of our prestigious tournaments. We hope that they thoroughly enjoyed their visit, and we look forward to welcoming them to more tournaments in the near future."


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A picture, the old saying goes, is worth a thousand words. In today's always-connected digital world, however, a provocative web video more probably is worth several million. And in such horrible circumstances as the current ISIS surge into Iraq, accompanied as it has been by videos of hostage beheadings, the price tag surely goes way up into the billions.
C loser to home, we now also have the shocking surveillance-video footage of NFL star Ray Rice slugging his then-fiancee Janay Palmer (now his wife) in an elevator last February. The saddest aspect of that particular incident — besides the fact that the couple actually got married — is that there was nothing all that special about what Ray Rice did; unfortunately, men have been physically abusing women for more millennia than we can count. Indeed, this magazine did a cover story on the subject nearly 30 years ago (see inset).
But the fact that this bully's performance was captured "live" on video has brought the issue of domestic violence front and center in our culture, as never before. Let's hope this new focus lasts longer than media sensations usually do. Personally, I hope Ray Rice is banned for life from the NFL, and that that organization develops a zero-tolerance policy as regards domestic violence. But even that would be a largely symbolic victory, one that might make players in that league behave differently, yes, but one that would mean precious little to the millions of American women still dealing with domestic-violence issues on a regular basis.
Much more necessary is zero-tolerance of domestic violence in every corner of our society. And that zero-tolerance has to start with the male half of our population.
Let's face it, gentlemen. The problem is us. According to the Department of Justice's 2011 figures, nine out of ten homicides are committed by males. Similarly, the vast majority of domestic-violence incidents involve men being physically abusive to women. The burden thus must be placed upon all men to put an end to this unacceptable nonsense. There is never an excuse, of course, for striking a woman, but equally, there is no excuse, ever, for knowingly tolerating any other man's abusive behavior to a partner. We all need to speak up, whenever necessary. No excuses.
It is probably no coincidence that the current controversy has focused so directly upon the all-male National Football League, whose response to the recent flurry of domestic-violence incidents can be described as thoroughly inept at best. The NFL's business model, after all, is built around what might be called institutionalized male violence. Every fall Sunday, a thousand-plus male athletes dress up in gladiatorial costume to engage in one-on-one physical combat, i.e., trying to beat each other's brains out. (They are evidently quite successful at this; a recent study determined that as many as 30 percent of retired NFL players suffer from permanent brain damage.) So we're surprised when they take their work home with them?
We shouldn't be. All of us, male and female, have become inured to living in a culture where violence — in films, in video games, and, yes, in sports — is omnipresent. But the time has well and truly come to make our homes — all of our homes — no-combat zones.
Speaking several weeks ago on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the passage of his Violence Against Women Act, Vice-President Joe Biden observed that his one regret about that legislation was that his committee labeled the problem "domestic violence, as if it's a domesticated cat. It's not. It's the most vicious form of violence there is."
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|Geoffrey Castle in Underhill's Angel. A treasury of songs for the holiday season. Breathtakingly beautiful ancient melodies with modern inspiration. Total playing time is approx. 50 minutes.
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MILTON, N.Y., Aug. 26, 2016 /PRNewswire/ — Sono-Tek Corporation (OTCQX: SOTK) held its Annual Shareholders Meeting on August 25, 2016 in Milton, New York. The business review presentation used is available online at the Company's website: http://www.sono-tek.com/annual-meeting/. The results of Fiscal Year 2016, which ended on February 29, 2016, were discussed.
During the meeting, Dr. Christopher L. Coccio, Chairman and CEO, highlighted the past year's business performance which resulted in a 9% increase in sales over the previous fiscal year. He reviewed the performance of the Company's diversification strategy in terms of new products and markets, coupled with geographical expansion to multiple areas of the world. Robb Engle, VP of Engineering, discussed the New Product Development program and the resulting three new product platforms created in the past year. These new product platforms have already led to several orders in new areas for Sono-Tek, and this will continue to be the heart of the Company's business growth model.
The Company's President, R. Stephen Harshbarger, described the current outlook for FY 2017, in which the Company is anticipating a dip in sales compared to FY 2016 due to global economic conditions, particularly in China and parts of Latin America. The decrease in sales has primarily affected the float glass, fluxer, and medical stent segments in the first two quarters of fiscal 2017. He described the Company's actions to expand into additional markets with the creation of new products, in conjunction with front-end investment in sales personnel and expanded trade show participation. Mr. Harshbarger stated that, "Orders and quotations for newly released products are accelerating; and helping to offset the sales decline we are seeing with our more established product lines due to global economic conditions. In addition, the Company's Lean manufacturing program is already having a positive impact in terms of decreased unit costs, decreased inventory tie-up, and shorter cycle times."
Since the meeting occurred just prior to the end of the second quarter of the Company's current fiscal year, the Company indicated that the guidance provided in its last quarterly press release dated July 14, 2016, is still accurate, and its sales volume for the quarter ending August 31, 2016 will be comparable to sales for the quarter ended May 31, 2016. The Company is anticipating an increase in its sales volume in the second half of the year. This increase, coupled with cost reductions, should enable the Company to achieve a profitable result by the end of the Fiscal Year.
For further information, contact Dr. Christopher L. Coccio, at 845-795-2020, or visit our website at www.sono-tek.com.
Sono-Tek Corporation is a leading developer and manufacturer of liquid spray products based on its proprietary ultrasonic nozzle technology. Founded in 1975, the Company's products have long been recognized for their performance, quality, and reliability.
This release contains forward looking statements regarding future events and the future performance of Sono-Tek Corporation that involve risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially. These factors include, among other considerations, general economic and business conditions, including the economies of China and Latin America; political, regulatory, competitive and technological developments affecting our operations or the demand for our products; timely development and market acceptance of new products; returns on our investment in additional sales personnel; continued efficacy of our Lean manufacturing program; adequacy of financing; capacity additions, the ability to enforce patents and create new applications; strength of sales in the glass coating, fluxer and medical stent markets; our ability to maintain and build backlog, achieve increased sales volume at projected levels and continued profitability. We refer you to documents that the company files with the Securities and Exchange Commission, which includes Form 10-K and Form 10-Qs containing additional important information.
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