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Saturday, April 28, 2012
I'm Tired
Wednesday night youth group was cancelled so the kids could fly to the Philippines to go to the temple so I was free. Gina was keen to put the kids to bed so I arranged a date night for Brian and I. The Titanic exhibit closes this weekend and I didn't want to miss it. We went to enjoy and get away. It should have been great. On the way home I asked Brian if the date was so blaw because the nature of a museum dictates that you read the displays and this we didn't talk and interact like a good date would involve or were we just too dang tired to go out on dates on a week night. The museum was good enough in the Titanic exhibit. For my opinion on the Andy Warhol exhibit you could simply reread my posting on going to book club in November of 2010 before we left Fairfax. In short - I just don't get art and knowing that should have saved the $4 to upgrade my ticket and spent it on ice cream after the museum.
Both of us admitted as we drive home at 10pm we'd rather be in bed asleep. Maybe we would have better dates on Friday nights.
I wish it was chilly today. There is thunder outside without rain...yet. It's rolling and intriguing me. My curtains are drawn and I want to curl up into my sheets and find the comforting warmth from a cool storm outside. Instead I will shower and go begin the day. My cute kids await my grand assent down the staircase to tend to all their pressing needs like pouring milk onto Cheerios and finding the tag on the Thomas the Train underwear. I'm like a rock star around here and I'm happy to say I know they love me.
Tuesday, April 24, 2012
Just the Daily Toy Clean Up Routine
Maddie has begun weeping at every conceivable anything as well. It's beyond ridiculous and i have coped incredibly well today but my patience has been exhausted.
The two middle children are already heading to bed as soon as the last morsel of food crosses the backs of their tongues. They are banished from my presence.
Sunday, April 22, 2012
I'm Not Doing Anything
It's long been the joke at our house because of some sibling story from Brian's past life. Some neighbor kid would come upstairs periodically and telling everyone at his house, "I'm not doing anything." Then he would return back downstairs. I understand this neighbor friend was breaking his mother's decorative plates down in that basement.
We get home from church at about 4:30. Today our home teacher visited right away and soon it was a few minutes after 5:00. The kids didn't eat breakfast until we came downstairs this morning and we decided to make Ben a birthday breakfast of waffles, eggs and smoothies. We finally ate at 10:00 am. That made getting lunch at 11:00 a bit of a joke before they left for church at 11:55 (Maddie had a fever so Ashlyn and I stayed home with her). The boys each took a small bagel for lunch on the go but were likely pretty hungry when they got home from church.
Brian let them all have a trick-or-treat (the name of our residual candy stash) but only one each because it was nearly dinner time. After the treat Jacob came to me multiple times saying, "I'm not eating anything in the kitchen." Or, "I am not doing something right now." Shortly after that we went in the kitchen to make dinner. Jacob proceeded to tell me, "I just ate two of those behind the fridge so you couldn't see me do it." He was referring to pink candy sticks. The joy of a three year old and their incomplete sense of logic and what you should and shouldn't say. Guess who got a timeout.
Tuesday, April 17, 2012
Coming Home Again
We weighed in at 20, 50 and 51 pounds for checked baggage. Then 40 and 45 pounds for our carry on bags. We had to leave plenty of our shopping treasures behind but we will pick them up when we return for summer vacation in July.
Brian has made traveling easy with his ingenious luggage train. With our super easy to maneuver Costco luggage driving this train is a snap!
Sunday, April 15, 2012
Ashlyn's Birth Story
The morning of March 6th came early. Surgery was scheduled for 8:00am so we had to report to the hospital at 5:30am. The parking garage wasn't even open and the main doors to the hospital were still locked so we had to walk around to another entrance. We arrived at the admissions desk and pre-paid the estimated bill smiling to myself knowing my surgery was likely to run over and cost more because the doctor says it gets more difficult with each one and takes longer each time. Most people don't have four C-sections in this country. One child is the norm in Singapore these days.
After we paid they sent us upstairs to settle into my room. We paid for a shared room and they put is in a private room. Before we settled in we clarified but they must have been totally full because I got to stay. I was excited about that! First thing I notice is on the table was a packet of things the nurse had out ready for me. The most prominent thing was a big foreboding box marked "Fleet Enema". Not the most welcome site. Also included were razor and other things like that and it all started to become very real to me. This surgery thing isn't really all that fun. In my head I started thinking that I'm also getting a catheter, IV, spinal block and loads of other things on top of the fact that they are going to slice me open and mess up my entire abdominal wall muscles AGAIN. Time to hit the Panic button!
After I'm prepped for surgery I climb onto the gurney and they wheel me out to the elevator and down one floor to the operating theater. We went through the first theater doors and Brian was instructed to stay here and change into his surgery garb. I went on in and they moved me onto a heated waterbed surgery table. It felt so nice and warm! The anesthesiologist Dr. Lew, who I had met earlier in my room, came in and got to work. I laid on my left side on the table and curled in a ball as small as I could while he felt for the right spot to put in the needle. They kept having to tell me to try to crunch down smaller, try to hold my knees tighter, curve my back more. They were a fun bunch of people and Dr. Lew was cracking jokes about other things so I finally cracked back at him that I had a big ball in my stomach that made it hard to get real small but if he could just take that out I'd do a much better job of being small. They all laughed.
There was a bit of pinching and at some point I recall the pain making me want to arch my back the other way and just clutching my knees tight and repeating, "Breathe. Breathe. Breathe." so I could focus myself and ignore the pain. Soon enough that was over and the local anesthetic began to work on my back so he could put the big stuff in. Everything went exactly like clockwork and completely how he said it would. Since I was on my left side gravity pulls the medicine down and the left side begins numbing first and feels warm, then a little tingly. Then they roll you onto your back and it starts to flow onto the right side and it gets warm and tingly. I must have had my left knee partially bent when I lost feeling because for the entire two hours of surgery I felt like I just wanted to straighten out my leg and lay it down flat. I knew better than to ask them to do it for me. Surely they weren't operating with my leg bent so it was completely in the way of them doing their work.
As the spinal block starts to take full effect and everything evens out with the tingles and they gave me some oxygen because something was low and they watched my blood pressure closely. At one point I wanted to vomit. Dr. Lew must have seen the distress on my face and asked if I was feeling sick. I confirmed and he held a bucket next to my head waiting until I told them I was okay (I did vomit once, with Maddie I believe it was). It was interesting that all my C-sections in the USA they strapped my arms down to rolling table/carts on either side of me. This time they had a fabric under my upper body much like a canvas material. They had me cross my arms over my chest then wrapped me much like we swaddle babies to keep them still and warm. I could have moved my hands if I really wanted but it was so nice to not be strapped down like to a table this time.
Soon enough Dr. Loh began testing to see if he could begin the surgery. He pokes me with the scalpel, "Can you feel that?" "Yep!" "Okay, we'll wait a minute." A minute later. "Can you feel that?" "Yeah." "Can you feel it still?" "What?" "We're ready." I laugh. Guess so. Dr. Lew tells me that when it's time for the baby to come he will lean over my head and assist by pushing the baby up and out at the base of my rib cage. Sounds better than what happened with Jacob. I believe they lifted my body up by grabbing my ribcage from inside and turning my body because my body was lifted off the table for the smallest second and I came out with a severely bruised rib cage that lasted two weeks. Sounds better than that to me.
I hadn't been sleeping well for a while because of my big achy body and now that we were here in the operating theater I felt a sense of relief that the pregnancy was over. I started to feel really comfortable and then sleepy. Then so sleepy I positively couldn't keep my eyelids open. I thought to myself, "I can't sleep through the birth of my baby, but it will probably be a few minutes and they will wake me up, right? I can just sleep for a few minutes. It will feel sooooo good to just sleep." About that time they said to give me something for low blood pressure and Brian appeared next to my head. A very welcome sight, even in his silly surgery clothes. I will myself to wake up, embarrassed I was so completely ready to sleep through the birth of our baby. Soon I'm feeling more alert. Later after Ashlyn and Brian leave the surgery and I have time to kill talking to Dr. Lew I asked why I felt so tired, was it just me or the medicine. He said my low blood pressure had done it so they had been watching it and administering drugs to level me out. Then I didn't feel so bad about wanting to sleep through the delivery.
Dr. Loh must have been having trouble keeping my skin open to work. He clipped my flesh to a string and hung a saline bag from it as a weight and had Dr. Lew hang it over the screen by my head. Dr. Lew started cracking jokes again. "It's not high tech but it's functional!" I did learn that the sheet in my face isn't to avoid law suits, it's to keep germs out of the surgery space since I haven't scrubbed down my upper body. I thought that was interesting.
Not too many minutes after Brian arrived it was time for baby. Dr. Loh told us baby was coming, then we heard a cry and they announced it was a GIRL!! I knew it! It had to be a girl. I had always thought it, but talked myself into a boy because I figured it would be a boy just because I thought it should be a girl. Mind games. I was so happy!! Maddie would be so happy! I couldn't wait to tell her. They took Ashlyn over to check her out and Brian tells me it was only a minute or two, they didn't even really clean her up, before they brought her to me and placed her in my arms. It was so great. The first baby of four that I was able to hold right away. They let me keep her for three or four minutes and took our picture before they whisked her away to do a proper check up and clean her.
She got oxygen right from the start, just softly blown into her face. Her pediatrician was present at the surgery as is common in Singapore, his name was Dr. Loh. My surgeon was also Dr. Loh and it was confusing some days. The camcorder video of the first seconds after birth catch Dr. Loh saying she had fluid in her lungs right from the start. After they took her back to get her checked out Brian got to trim the cord then he went with our new baby girl into the normal delivery area to a baby clean up room. They stayed for about an hour and a half while I was still in surgery.
They kept the oxygen mask near her face and she got her bath and did a weigh and measure while Brian sat by her. Dr. Loh did a quick check about 30 minutes later when she should have been released and checked her. HE told Brian she was having a hard time breathing so they would keep her for observation for a while longer and observer her. Then he was off to his office. For a little while the nurses got a full oxygen face mask on her then they take it away to see what happens to her oxygen saturation levels. Eventually the nurses called Dr. Loh and pushed for her to be moved to the NICU. They wheeled her over to NICU where Brian got admission papers and they sent him down to the cashier to pay for her stay. (That's efficient.)
Brian tried to find me at this point but I wasn't in my room. He went back to NICU. Checked the nurses upstairs. Finally waited for me at the operating theatre outside because he wasn't allowed back in. Finally someone told him I was done and he waited for me in my room.
Ashlyn was born at 8:28 am. I spent an additional hour and a half after that in surgery. I couldn't count the number of times Dr. Loh said "It looks like a jungle in here," referring to my internals. I'll never know if that is all relative and coming from the fact that people in Singapore usually only have one child and I'd had four C-secitions so he wasn't used to seeing that many. When they opened me up on my third surgery I was told, by a doctor that routinely did repeat C-sections, that it looked fantastic. In fact before he said anything one of the surgery staff had said that it looked like my last surgeon had done a fantastic job and it was such a clean scar. After number three I had a green light. Now after number four the doctor says it's advisable to hang up my pregnancy hat for my own health. I had originally planned to have my tubes tied during the surgery but when it came right down to it, it felt too final and though we have no plans for more children, I couldn't commit. Right then and there on the operating table I finally felt okay with doing it. Too bad he wouldn't have changed plans mid-operation or I would have done it.
As the surgery went on and on and on I began to get more and more uncomfortable. It wasn't that I felt sharp pains because the medicines take care of all of that. You can still feel pressure though. The longer it went on the more it hurt. It got particularly bad when he got to replacing the muscle wall. As he pulled layer after layer together and did whatever he has to do it got worse and worse until the point tears of pain were welling up in my eyes. It was so bad that I wanted to ask him to stop and give me a break for a minute. Just make it stop. Maybe just leave me open so I didn't have to finish the procedure.
I asked how much longer I needed to last. He said twenty to thirty minutes and I spent the remainder of that time telling myself to breath, focus on other things, ignore the pain and try not to give in and cry because that would only make it worse. Dr. Lew was so great. He talked me through it. He cracked jokes and brought me tiny squeeze bottle of water and gave me two or three drops of water at a time. He just kept talking and when I winced in pain as my internals were being repositioned he would tell me I was doing great. I don't remember that with my other surgeries, but the pain really started during the last half hour and this surgery was complicated enough that the other surgeries had never lasted that long. I think I believe him about what I look like inside. He estimated how long it should take before the delivery date. When we talked after the surgery he said it took about 20 minutes longer than he had anticipated it would so he could properly fix me up.
My understanding is that they close you up with a fresh wound. Just like a fresh cut can adhere to a bandaid and stick to it as it scabs over and heals, my internal wounds can attach themselves to other body parts. Surgery number three must have healed not so well compared to numbers one and two. Dr. Loh was very, very concerned and checked my urine bag about a thousand times in the next 24 hours to make sure it was totally clear. He was concerned with the work he had to do that my bladder was still okay. It always ran clear, but I appreciated how meticulous he was and careful to make sure nothing went wrong.
After surgery I went to the recovery room. This is typically where Brian wheels the baby in and meets me again while I wait to be able to move my legs again before I get to go to my room. I was surprised not to see Brian or a baby. In fact there was no family at all in the recovery room and the maternity patients were mixed with everyone else. I felt really tired and kept my eyes closed for nearly the entire half hour of my stay there.
My Dr. Loh came to make sure I was okay and told me the baby was in the NICU but didn't have much information. Somehow I knew it was okay, just a little hiccup we had to get through. Somehow I had a feeling this delivery would be different from my other three. Back in October I began to feel it. I know this delivery would come with unique challenges. Nothing huge or terrible but there would be something wrong. Here it was. Finally they wheeled me from recovery to my room where Brian was waiting with a little more information.
Ashlyn had what they thought was probably wet lung, possibly immature lung thought the second was not likely because she was a full term 38 week baby. Wet lung was the obvious culprit because C-section babies don't get the chance to squeeze the fluid out of their lungs by passing through the birth canal. She was born on Tuesday morning. I couldn't get out of bed until Wednesday so I didn't get to see her again until the next day.
After we talked for a little bit in my room and he updated me on why Ashlyn was in NICU, I couldn't stay awake anymore. I was nodding off and it was time to pick up Maddie from school. Brian headed home to pick up Maddie at school, Jacob from Monson's house and sick Ben from the Daynes home. Since Ashlyn was in NICU they couldn't see her anyway so we figured he could come see me while he was sick.
They were cute when they arrived at the hospital. They still didn't know if the baby was a girl or a boy. They all wanted to meet the baby at the same time they found out. We told them that because she was in the special nursery they couldn't meet her today and asked if we could tell them. Maddie and Jake said yes and Ben wanted to guess. Brian whispered into Maddie and Jacob's ears while Ben ran to the other side of the room to hide in my bathroom and held his hands tightly over his ears with a grin that stretched from ear to ear. Then Brian took the kids to look through the tiny 6" square window at their baby sister on the opposite side of the room. Basically they could see a box with monitors. Ben wasn't able to tell if it was a girl or boy. Brian asked if he wanted to be told and he did. He just smiled, glad that our family kept the boy-girl-boy-girl-boy-girl pattern.
Over the six days Ashlyn spent in the NICU it was mostly just waiting. They took a chest xray the first day and weren't able to determine which thing was wrong, wet or immature lung, but time would tell and the treatment for both was the same. She started with enriched oxygen pumped into a box around her head and antibiotics. She also got a feeding tube because we couldn't feed her or hold her without her oxygen dipping too low. When the oxygen enriched air wasn't keeping her oxygen levels up enough they had to move her onto a CPAP (continuous positive air pressure) to force her lungs to open up. That took the hard work away from her so breathing didn't completely exhaust her little body. After a day or two they took the CPAP away but eventually put it back. When she was still having trouble after two days they did another chest xray and determined it to be immature lung.
I really got to go see Ashlyn on Wednesday for the first time but we still couldn't hold her yet. Just watch her in her little NICU crib. Thursday was the same. Friday after lunch was my first chance to hold her and try to nurse her. I showered and got the chills so bad I was stuck in bed for a long time before I could move and almost missed the feeding time which had me really upset. I was a little late but they let me try. She didn't latch on and while the feeding was a bust, we did get to hold her at least and it started to feel real from that point on that we had a baby. Saturday I was discharged from the hospital and was able to get Ashlyn to latch on and feed three times which was really exciting.
Our big goals were to have her breathe and eat before she could be discharged. Her oxygen levels would drop during feedings so she went back on oxygen. Sunday she was finally completely off the oxygen and we were hopeful she could come home but by now she had developed jaundice and had to stay an extra day under the blue lights. Sunday Brian drove me to the hospital with a laptop, a breastpump and cab fare home. I spent at the hospital on the couches in the lobby making a visit to the NICU every three hours to feed Ashlyn while he went back home and took the kids to church. I fed her at the 9am, 12 noon and 3pm feeding before I was physically too tired and headed home in a cab to our house leaving them to feed her my expressed breastmilk.
Monday morning our plan was to do the same as Sunday and if she was released I'd take her home in the cab with me. We got the kids off to school and at 8:30 were driving downtown when I got the call on my mobile phone that she was ready for discharge because the bilirubien levels had dropped enough. We were so excited. I went in to feed her while Brian parked the car and paid off her hospital bill. Then he drove me back home where she got to meet Jacob for the first time. Brian had to go to work then so he left me with Ashlyn, Jacob and Gina to watch over us. Jacob was instantly in love with Ashlyn. Maddie met her when she got home from school at 1:30 and Ben at 3:00. It was a great way to give them all their own personal time with her and overall a very happy day for us to all be home together as a family.
The process of picking a doctor was a hard one for me last summer. I hit brick walls right and left, even got turned down by one doctor. I know now that I was lead to Dr. Loh to take care of me and I am thankful for him helping me through this pregnancy. Even with the worrisome scans in the last few weeks and the difficulty of the surgery he helped get Ashlyn here in good health.
Down Side to Snow
It's SNOWING!!
I'm so excited to see snow on this trip! I decided it was wishful thinking to hope for snow on such a super short Utah visit, especially considering the calendar is showing April. What a beautiful surprise to hear on the weather report Thursday night that there might be some snow coming our way. When I asked Ben what he wanted for Christmas this year the only thing he came up with was snow. I had to persuade him to consider toys as an option because I couldn't get him snow. Grandpa knows just how much I love snow and how much the kids miss it. He knew we needed to get on the road soon to drive back up to Salt Lake City so he hurried on outside and built a huge snowman just for the kids. After a little while Dad went out to help him and Uncle Brett took the camera for me to get some pictures while I fed Ashlyn. Grandpa sure loves you guys!
Grandpa Dean's Funeral
It's been nuts being in the USA again. I am so happy in Singapore, and was happy in Virginia and Texas before that but for the first time I've felt the heart pangs that it sure would be nice to live in Utah again. Not sure I've ever felt that before. I've been so focused on seeing the country, then the world for the last twenty plus years it hasn't occurred to me to want to live somewhere I have already seen. But coming home this time for the funeral Utah seems a little bit new. The mountains are so beautiful. The snow such an amazing thing to see and feel. A warm home in the cold season seems so much more like a home than the air con concrete shell with cold marble floors we have now. Carpet. Christian churches dotting the city. Trucks. Family.
My siblings have scattered in the wind but Brian's immediate family is close together in Utah. And they are so much fun. It was great to come together and celebrate Grandpas life together. To see all his posterity together because Brian's uncle Todd, aunt Karen, cousin Shelley and all her little family were there staying at his parents place too. I think he was proud of his little clan. He was born nearly one hundred years ago, he would have turned ninety nine this year. I loved hearing the stories of his life from Craig's telling of his life sketch and Shelley sharing stories from the five grandkids.
He was the driving force in his chapter of the American Legion. Brian's family went for years and years on Memorial Day to the small Centerfield Cemetery. One year after we were married I joined them and won't ever forget that morning. They got up early, early in the morning and hauled a big load of flags and heavy metal flag poles to the small town cemetery. Grandpa knew which headstones were veterans. I suspect he probably personally knew every single person buried there and I believe in his mind honoring their memories was one of the most important things he could do. His patriotism was something to be admired and helping him was a bit of an honor. We worked to hammer stakes in the ground, mount the poles and hang the flags before anyone else was probably out of bed on a holiday morning. The other veterans tell stories of how he persuaded them all to join up and serve and what a great example he was. They were all there to honor him with military honors firing off shots at the burial site and then Anne was presented with a flag.
I think the day would have made him proud. He was a great man. I wish we were closer to have spent more time around these last few years since he stopped being able to come visit us wherever we lived. I had hoped to get a picture of him with all four of my kids this summer. Now I'll have to settle for this picture of his four newest great grandchildren born in the last six months. He had eighteen great grandchildren which made for a pretty busy family party and he would watch all the action from the couch while we visited with him. It won't quite seem right this summer to come home and not visit with Grandpa Dean. He is loved and will be missed.
Claudia's Blanket
Claudia makes the most gorgeous blankets. I can't believe the skill and how many hours it must take. She is a wonderful friend and neighbor in Fairfax. She lived across the parking lot from our building and loved our cute little kids. She made a blanket for Jacob's blessing day just like it with a blue ribbon. I didn't think Ashlyn would be so lucky as he was to get one too, but sweet Claudia mailed one all the way to Singapore. The blanket and the cute angel in it are just beautiful and we will keep it as a real treasure from her special day, thanks to wonderful Claudia.
Ashlyn's Pre-Birth Story
We welcomed our sweet angel Ashlyn Anne Zufelt into the world about a month ago on March 06, 2012. Because it was my fourth C-section the doctor advised a scheduled C-section at week 38 plus or minus four days according to my superstitions. He said that with a straight face though to my American mind it sounded like it should be a joke. Nope. He is just very sensitive to the fact that luck and numbers mean a whole lot to many cultures here in Singapore. Brian and I poked around the internet looking for auspicious days to have a baby and joked for months about it. In the end I was pushing for a leap day baby, February 29 but it was just out of reach being three days outside my approved window and the doctor wouldn't budge.
Everything went according to plan with the pregnancy and she measured 50 percentile until about week 30 when she hadn't grown quite as much as he would have liked. She had a fairly dramatic dip to the 20 percentile line. No big deal yet, Dr Loh noted to watch things more closely and try to rest more. At 32 weeks she measured back to the 50 percentile line and we thought we may have just got an off measure once. 34 weeks put her back down again and we started tracking more closely and going in more often to make sure we didn't have a problem meaning we would have to deliver early. He began having me do 30 minute scans to track heart rate and make sure she was okay that way as well starting at 34 weeks. Weeks 35, 36, 36.5, 37 and 37.5 brought the same results that she was growing slower than she should and I was relieved to have her coming in just a few more days since I was getting a bit nervous.
They planned to do my bloodwork to make sure I was healthy enough for the surgery and check their regular stuff the Friday before my Tuesday delivery so of course the preceding Monday I came down with a rotten flu type bug with a nasty cold and congestion. I knew she needed to come out and I had to pass my blood test for the surgery I spent Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday sitting on the couch resting. I watched cartoons with Jacob, checked my email and napped. This was the first time of many that I was deeply grateful for Gina's help in our home. Before that week it was nice to not have some of the house responsibilities but it wasn't needed. Gina ran the house and started dropping off and picking up Maddie from school so I didn't have to walk in the heat so far. She took care of dinner and played with Jacob. She was an angel.
Saturday morning I got up and went to the kids room to turn off their air con about 8am since I heard the cartoons on the TV downstairs and was startled to see Ben pop his head over the edge of his loft bed. "Mom, I don't feel so good." I helped him down from his bed and he went straight to vomit in the toilet. He rested that day and was better Sunday but Monday had a fever again. Not good. He couldn't go to school and Gina had her university exams that day so I took him to my last baby scan the day before the scheduled delivery. We enjoyed the time sitting listening to the baby's heartbeat for thirty minutes watching the print out slowly come out of the machine and guessed if the baby would be a boy or a girl and tried to choose cool names for him or her.
In the back of my mind though was what in the world was I supposed to do with a fever child when I was supposed to go deliver a baby!! I kept thinking maybe Brian could stay…NO…but what are we supposed to do? Could he wait in the lobby? He's old enough. But he can't come in. He's sick and it's a newborn baby! Maybe a neighbor could take him for the day. Except if we've got this nasty bug that has been going around the neighborhood for months no one in their right mind will take him! It's a fever one day, fine the next fever one day type thing that lasts two to three weeks, the kids are missing tons of school and it's hitting families one victim at a time and taking months to clear a single house. No one will take this kid. I asked one friend that was already planning to take Jacob for the day (Gina had exams again). I knew full well her family had just rid themselves of the bug and it had been about 10 weeks there. She was also delivering a baby about 6 weeks after Ashlyn and she politely and understandably declined knowing she didn't want that back. I figured I'd call my visiting teacher. She was the only empty nester I knew in Singapore and would be willing I knew.
Ben stayed home and I took Maddie to swim lessons and mentioned my trouble to my mommy friends at the pool and instantly had two volunteers to take Ben. Grateful to have that managed I went home and made my final arrangements, wrote out lists of where the kids would need to be each day and who was helping with different things and left it for Gina. Then I began to feel anxious about the surgery. All the worry over the babys health had distracted me from the fact I had to have another C-section and all of a sudden I was worried. Brian called Mike Daynes over and they gave me a blessing and it helped calm my nerves. Then it was hugs and kisses, scriptures and bedtime goodbyes to the kids and promises that Dad would bring them to come see me and the baby girl or boy after school. Off to bed with the kids and I packed my bag for the hospital ready to welcome a new baby from heaven early in the morning.
Thursday, April 12, 2012
More trucks
Speeding tickets
Space - I can see for miles and miles
Snow capped mountains
Legacy Highway - don't even know where it goes so we will stick to I-15
Diesel truck for FedEx with three trailers attached
Sign "Bridge Ices Before the Road"
Church steeples popping up through the trees in every neighborhood
Five lane highway with minimal mid-afternoon traffic
Michael's craft store
Lowe's and Home Depot
RVs for sale
Big SUVs
Dairy Queen - blizzards
Joann fabric
A dollar store!!
Brian pulled onto the wrong side of the road and my stomach knotted up until I realized he was on the right side after all
Very clean windshield - wipers are where the turn signal should be
Dry air
Old cars - I'm pretty sure a car older than five years in Singapore is sold off to Thailand
Sunday, April 8, 2012
I Found Kathi
Jake saw the tabernacle choir and said he found Kathi. Then he found her again and again and again. "I found LOTS of Kathi's!!"
Sunday, April 1, 2012
Graffiti at Church
Quotes of the Day
Also of note:
"I'm just going to look at the clouds to find a letter shape there."
"Does it count if the tree is in the shape of an L?"


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Bangladesh is located in South Asia and shares its borders with India. It is the seventh most populous country in the world and is mostly densely inhabited. The poverty level, however, has fallen by more than 20%, helped by its prominent agricultural sector.
The Bangladeshi economy is helped by its big garment sector, which contributes more than two-thirds of the country's trade. The major challenge to prosperous growth is the vulnerability of the land to cyclones and floods. However, even with such challenges, Bangladesh has experienced a growth rate of 5% since 1990. This growth has been helped by remittances from expatriates as well.
Bangladesh's economy is characterized as poor and developing, despite several improvement efforts at the national and international levels. In 2008, the per capita income of the country stood at US$520, while the world average is $10,200. As of 2009, Bangladesh had an estimated population of 162,221,000 people. The literacy rate in the country is about 41%. The poverty rate is very high. However, over the years, there has been considerable improvement in the poverty level as well as health and education levels.
Over 50% of Bangladesh's GDP comes from the service sector. Despite this, two-thirds of the country's population is engaged in agricultural activities, with most of them growing paddy.
Bangladesh Economy: Major Constraints
Here are some of the major impediments to the growth of Bangladesh's economy:
Widespread political and bureaucratic corruption
Economic competition relative to the world
Serious overpopulation
Widespread poverty
Frequent cyclones and floods
Political instability
Poor infrastructure
Insufficient power supplies
Slow implementation of economic reforms
Bangladesh Economy: Growth Highlights
Bangladesh is a member of several international organizations, including the Commonwealth of Nations, BIMSTEC, SAARC, the D-8 and the OIC. According to the Country Brief released by the World Bank in July 2005, Bangladesh has improved considerably in terms of reduction in population growth, human development and gender parity in schooling. The poverty rate of the country has seen a decline of 20% since the early 1990s.
Since 1975, there has been a two-fold increase in the per-capita GDP. During the 2008 global economic recession, Bangladesh managed to stay flexible. According to the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS), there was an increment of $62 in the per capita GDP in FY2009 from US$559 at the end of FY2008. Fiscal 2009 registered per capita income of US$621. About 25% of the country's GDP in 2009 came from remittances of expatriates, totaling $9.7 billion and garment exports worth $12.3 billion.
According to the World Bank, Bangladesh has achieved a growth rate of 5.7% in FY2009. The country has registered significant expansion in its middle class. The consumer industry has grown considerably. The increasing foreign direct investment highlights the growth rate of the Bangladesh economy.

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Pennsylvania is one of just 15 states that ban predatory payday loans, for now. If state Rep. Chris Ross (R) and state Sen. Pat Browne (R) have their way, though, the Keystone State will open its arms to companies that already pull billions of dollars out of poor communities each year through loans with average interest rates of over 300 percent.
Browne has sponsored a bill to remove the state's 24 percent cap on interest rates. The legislation is modeled on a bill Ross pushed through the Pennsylvania House last year, but which never won Senate passage in 2013. While Browne did not comment on the effort, Ross told the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review that their efforts are meant to give the state better control over companies that currently operate in the state from the internet shadows.
"I believe there is a need for a properly structured, short-term lending in Pennsylvania," Ross said. "We've got the Internet, for which there is no effective means of regulation to protect consumers."
The Department of Justice is fighting illicit online lending, despite criticism from industry-friendly Republicans at the national level. And while that indicates that there is a real demand for cash advances in poor communities where paychecks don't always come in time to cover the bills, it doesn't mean lifting the cap on interest rates is necessarily the right solution. If lawmakers want to do something to help satisfy that demand, they don't have to invite the fine-print trickery of private payday lending companies into their states' neediest corners. (Each year more than 12 million people take out payday loans nationwide and end up paying roughly $520 in interest and fees for every $375 they borrow thanks to limitless interest rates.)
The most promising alternative would be to resurrect the Postal Service's (USPS) long-dormant banking powers. The USPS has physical locations in many communities that have been abandoned by banks — places where payday lenders flourish by virtue of being the only option for desperate people — and could provide the same basic banking services and short-term loans at non-abusive prices. The revenue that postal banking would bring in would also close the budget hole Congress created for the USPS when it required the agency to keep its pensions fully funded for the next 75 years, a requirement no other business or government agency faces. Polling on the idea is scarce, but one survey found significant support for the idea with many still unsure what to think.
Using the post office to meet the needs of poor people without access to bank accounts would also end the cycle of legislative gamesmanship that has surrounded payday lending for decades. The companies that profit from the practice spend a lot of money on political contributions, and use the resulting clout to either kill reform efforts in states where the loans are allowed or expand their access to customers in states that regulate the industry more tightly. Payday lenders have proven adept at evading state regulators, and have slipped through the cracks of national financial regulation. While the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is finally putting regulatory cops on the payday lending beat and winning unprecedented legal victories for abuses, postal banking offers an even more elegant solution.


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As for the spam issues that go along with email list usage - it really depends upon your particulars. Your mail server, the application you use, and the recipients mail server, etc... Reaching people at home is becoming increasingly harder and I don't foresee this getting any easier. Reaching business customers, however, hasn't changed much.
Is it worth the investment. I still think it is but with the caveats I mentioned earlier. You build the list and you nurture the relationship. This does two things. One it helps eliminate the anonyminity of your business by giving you the opportunity to display your personality. Second it offers your customers a way to contact you in return and gives them more of a sense that you're a real business and through the consistent and regular use of email, you establish a virtual identity in their minds. I'm relying on the old advertising rule of thumb here, the one that says it takes a potential customer seeing your ad 7-10 times before they will act on it.
...and as all the others have said (quite rightly too), building up and managing your own customer database as a marketing channel is one of the best ways to approach email marketing because you can be sure of the lead quality and also that they're interested in what you're selling.
Is buying an email list worth it? Maybe, it depends what you expect that list to do for you. Bought-in email lists tend to well as limited-use tools to sell products or build your customer database, they work less well if you just merge them with your existing customer data before you've confirmed the interest of the contact / prospect.
To get the most from a list you'd want to target people who've shown an interest in your area previously & who are in the right demographic - people who're more likely to register or buy something from you, therefore becoming part of your customer database which is a very valuable marketing asset in its own right.
Aren't all email lists rubish? No, a good well managed email list can be tailored to meet your needs, offer a good response rate, low bounce rates and very few spam problems but it will cost you more to use.
You'll note I said "use" and not "buy" - most businesses that sell quality email lists only lease their data for a set purpose, they don't sell it outright. They normally wont release their data outside the company and those that do will only release it to trusted 3rd parties - this ensures they have complete control over how and when their data which helps keep their list responsive as the people on don't get overloaded with junk.
Unless you're dealing with your own customer data then IMHO the best approach to legitimate email marketing is to pay a reputable agency or list broker to manage the campaign which allows you to treat it as you would a regular marketing exercise.
Why? Well for starters unless you're heavily into legitimate email broadcasting they're probably going to have a better broadcast setup than you meaning more emails get through, less get bounced or encounter technical issues. Quality email lists used to offer some kind of compensation or refund for verified bounces, but only if they're coming from a reputable source.
Being a client has it's advantages too; you have a knowledgable point of contact for your questions, their familiarity with the email lists available on the market should ensure you get the best results possible for your campaign and they should be able to offer advice on response rates based on previous campaigns.
It also means that if something does go wrong you're not left "holding the bag" because all the email comes from their servers and points back to their servers (so they can track response rates), although with 100% opt-in data that shouldn't be a problem.
- Tony
Using seed names in a list works a little like this; the people compiling the list strike a side-agreement with some of the contacts - in return for some freebie or other the contract agrees to report back on any offers they recieve as a result of being on that list.
All the data-owners have to do is compare their list of "allowed" users with the responses from their seed names - if they find someone using the list without permission or using the list outside the terms of their license they send in the legal department armed with a copy of the license.
How do they know for sure?
Well if you managed to hit multiple seed names and those people have been given some unique identifier by the data-owner (such as a typo in their name) then the only way you could have done that is by using the list they provided to you.
- Tony
Someone could have received or stolen the name from ANYWHERE. The disk could have been lost....hell...it could be a postal worker who used the address. It's awful tough to prove I'd imagine.
Well lets say they've given their "plant" data some unique contact information (for example giving Mr and Mrs Smith's house a vanity name when it's never had one, using a fictional middle name for Mr Jones or even adding a completely fictious person who doesn't exist) and for the sake of argument the seed names have been inserted really well so you can't spot them.
At this point you've got data which is unique to certain source or company and they could argue that there's no other way for you to have gotten that data except through them - Mr & Mrs Smith don't really have a tacky house name and Mr Jones doesn't really have a middle name so they couldn't appear elsewhere and then there's that fictious person only who exists in the data from one company.
Hitting a small number of seeded names might not raise any alarm bells but if you managed to hit a large portion of the seeded names present (complete with unique elements) then it'd be pretty obvious someone was using that data because the odds of those specific people randomly getting the same piece of marketing from the same company are going to be really-really-low.
What about if the data "leaks"?
Well there's nothing to stop a "seed name" from being unique to a certain client or campaign so they could identify the source of the leak and looking at the marketing to see who's using it now and then asking all manner of sticky questions.
- Tony
ps. You're right that it's not an exact science, but that's why most companies who value their information generally don't let it out of their sight, and even then there would probably still be seed names present "just incase".
You're right that it's not an exact science
Actually, direct marketing companies have been doing this for years. They have a large seed list and the names are inserted with a code that identifies the mailing it was rented to. No one is going to go through a couple 10K names to look for them.
In physical mailing lists HannaK152HY Smith looks a bit odd and still works, but on an email list? That's like the norm.
Besides that, many of the "good" companies you can try renting from won't even let you get your hands on the list itself. You would send them the creative which they would then mail for you.
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CITYADMIN...that's all you paid for THAT many addresses? ...just $30?
A sure sign that the list is worthless.
Looking for a good list is like looking for a good girl/boyfriend, you don't want one that is cheap and has been used by everyone on the block. And if you do decide to shack up, don't come crying if you end up with some *ehm* problems. ;)
With direct mail, you normally do get the names and they are heavily seeded, so it would be impossible to be sure that you have removed the seeded names if you wanted to try to use the list again without permission. DM companies keep very close tabs on the mailings.
Email is both easier and harder. Easier, because you can easily put thousands of seed names in that a virtually undetectable. Harder because spammers use programs that create infinate number of letter/number combinations for email spamming and so could possibly mail a seed email without ever knowing a list exists. Can't really do that with seeded physical addresses.
Emails are much easier to mail than postal, so most of the time a list provider or broker will simply mail the list for you. Very good providers and brokers will provide a garuntee of return (i.e. 1% of the list will respond) so that you know you are not getting junk.
Either way, I would caution anyone who is thinking about renting a list to be very careful. Over the past few years, a few companies have been prosecuted for spamming when in fact they had either rented a bad list or someone with a bad list emailed on their behalf. The government considers you liable, even if the "guy told you it was a real opt-in list".
Spamming is now a crime and the government is taking it very seriously.
Spammer gets 9 years [webmasterworld.com]
Spammers ordered to pay $1 billion [webmasterworld.com]


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I'm pretty fortune to live and train where I do (click HERE). While I wouldn't necessarily classify it as "the country", there is certainly enough of it around. And while it may be true that there are certain risks that one has to assume when training in a, well, let's call it "rural" area as I do. I have learned to deal with coywolves, dogs and dog shit, chipmunks, asshole drivers, moron pedestrians, tourists and rutting goats.
That's pretty much the full gamut of what this area has to offer hazard-wise.
However, there is one potential danger in particular that has surfaced recently and has me a bit flummoxed by the reaction it's been getting.
No, not the coywolves as I mentioned up above – them bitches are scary – just your ordinary, average, disinterested urban coyote.
I've never mentioned them before as a "threat" because I just don't see them that way.
I mean, were you ever stressed or threatened by this guy in the past:
Hell, no!
I figured that if I ever did run into a coyote I'd just wait for it to strap on a rocket pack and roller-skates and then just stop short on a cliff edge so that he overshoots me before stalling over open air and then falling to the ground with a puff of dust.
However, on the rare occasion I do see them they are usually heading in the opposite direction in order to avoid me – and quickly, I might add. I guess I can strike a rather menacing image when wrapped in a Lycra cycling kit and wheezing like an asthmatic gorilla.
So I keep telling myself anyways.
Anyhow, lately with all the construction in the area lately sighting a coyote isn't the rare thing it used to be. Sure, we hear them almost every night prowling the fields behind our house but we never actually saw them very often as they are typically nocturnal. Now, well, we see them a bit more often as they are no doubt becoming a bit displaced with this ever-changing environment.
Just last week, upon completing an evening run a coyote popped out of the underbrush just ahead of me and, seeing this fat, spandex-clad train wreck heading right for it – beat it off back into the bush again.
I will say, however, I'd be lying if I said that my heart didn't skip a beat.
Regardless, beat it I did in true Michael Jackson form, so I kept going and never thought another thing about it. After all, the coyotes have always been here and aside from their middle of the night howling, they've never posed me any real serious threat.
Unfortunately, all the tourists coming back into town now that the summer cottage season is upon us don't exactly feel the same way.
Suddenly coyotes are a HUGE threat.
So much so that they have recently posted a memo, warning dog walkers about coyotes in the area as well as discussing what they should do if they encounter one.
And me being the sarcastic dick I am, find this a bit funny.
I understand that coyotes are more or less disinterested in humans but dogs on the other hand, well, add a dog to the mix and their interest could surely be piqued. Especially given all the fluffy little frou-frou lap dogs that the tourists like to tout around on their fake-diamond studded leashes.
In that case, Fifi is essentially a harnessed appetizer prior to the evening's regular meal.
Common sense might suggest to normal people that one probably should not walk their little mutt after dark, especially in poorly lit areas or along out-of-the-way places – but tourists are seldom normal nor do they occupy anything resembling common sense.
No, instead they issues memos about what to do when you do exactly that and then run into the proscribed issue.
Smart, right?
Told you I was a sarcastic dick, didn't I?
Anyway, I'm making the correlation here that if a coyote were brazen enough to go after Fifi with its owner around in close proximity – stupid as they may be – perhaps I should heed more notice seeing as how in my running tights, I might also be mistaken for a moveable feast. Maybe there would be some token takeaways – weak as they may be – for me to better educate and prepare myself for future encounters of the canid kind.
Among these brain nuggets are the following:
- Stand tall and be assertive. Coyotes are wary of humans and your presence enough be enough to ward it off. Maintain eye contact. Do not turn your back on the coyote and do not run. Running away can trigger a coyote's prey drive and cause him or her (nice that they're not perpetrating any gender stereotypes here) to chase you.
Yeah, as a runner – that helps me not.
Anyone who's ever seen me at any significant distance into a run knows that "tall and assertive" is not my jam. At best, I look like Frankenstein with a bad case of scoliosis lumbering through the street. It's all I can do to remain upright, much less assertive about it.
And running away? Ha!
As long as I don't fall over and freely give up my soft mushy underbelly I'd be doing well.
- Haze the coyote until it leaves the area.
You mean like dress it in drag and make it chug a tallboy through a funnel? I'm figuring that in doing this there is a significant risk that the coyote might enjoy this too much and never leave the area.
Just sayin'…
If what they mean to say is to make a ruckus as to deter the coyote coming any closer, believe you me, I will be emitting a full range of cries, grunts, wails, screams and screeches. I will be a literal cacophony of despair. I will make a racket that would have any Einstürzende Neubauten fan handing out ear plugs and it will come naturally, I assure you.
So, if anything, what did I learn?
Absolutely buckus.
However, I now definitely know beyond a shadow of a doubt, that if a coyote should ever make his presence known and decide that I should represent some sort of tasty victual, I'm more or less screwed.
At best, I can scream my ass off and try to stand fully erect but, honestly…why bother? At that point in the workout the chances are good I'll be more content to just roll over and accept my fate as the main course at the coyote buffet.
Thankfully, the chances of any of this actually happening are slim to none so I'm not really worried about it. Unless of course, for what forever reason, I decide to strap on a pink leash and harness and crawl around the Friendship Trail in a pair of furry underwear.
In that event though, the tourists might want to include on their next memo about what to do should they encounter me.


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The experience of pain is something that most people are extremely familiar with. However, once we begin to examine the subject from an ethical point of view, and particularly when we examine so-called marginal cases such as nonhuman animals, we are quickly confronted with difficult questions. This thesis, through an examination of a particular feature of moral language and a description of recent research on pain, provides an analysis of how pain fits into ethical theory. It is argued that universalizability is an important feature of ethical systems and provides a basis for claiming that an agent is acting inconsistently if he or she evaluates similar situations differently. Though the additional features prescriptivity and overridingness provide an important connection between moral judgment and action in HareâÂÂs two-level utilitarianism, it is argued that they ultimately lead to claims incompatible with lived moral experience. Arguments by Parfit and Sidgwick are discussed which tie acting morally to acting consistently, and it is concluded that selfinterest theory is not a tenable position. After the features of moral judgment are discussed, the necessary features of a moral subject are examined. It is concluded that sentience, or the ability to feel pleasure or pain, is a sufficient condition for being a moral subject. Arguments are examined that attempt to show which animals likely consciously experience pain. Difficulties for these arguments are discussed and an original argument is presented that at least partially addresses these difficulties. It is concluded that from an ethical perspective our current practices such as factory farming are probably not justified. It appears especially likely that our treatment of other mammals is unethical, but the answers are not as clear with other animals. However, all of the conclusions are tentative, as no doubt future scientific investigation will shed more light on our knowledge.
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This is an interesting article but I can't understand why anyone would want to force their dog to wag his/her tail. My dog wags his tail all the time because we treat him well and he's a happy little guy.
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There has always been debate within various forms of entertainment over whether a series or story idea has overstayed its welcome. People may cry out for more, but is it worth the risk of a weakened narrative or overall impact?
In an interview with Official Nintendo Magazine, Ace Attorney series creator Shu Takumi revealed how he wanted the Phoenix Wright saga to end after the third title, Trials and Tribulations:
I felt that Phoenix's story had been told, and that the series should not continue. Knowing when to end a story is very important and I wanted to avoid dragging it out and having it become a shadow of its former self.
When it was decided that the courtroom clashes should continue, however, Takumi was set against Wright returning to the spotlight:
Years later, when it was decided within Capcom that Ace Attorney 4 would go ahead, my position was that we should change the main character and tell a new story. I didn't plan to have Phoenix in the game, but my colleagues said they wanted him to appear in some form, which is why he ended up being the accused in the first case in Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney.
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I admit we aren't 100 per cent sure that human activity is causing global warming. So let's all go home in our SUVs and join an "axe the tax" campaign.
Come to think of it, we aren't sure that our houses will be robbed, flooded or burned to the ground, so let's cancel our home insurance while we're at it.
After all, the vast majority of the world's climate scientists will only admit to being 90 per cent certain that our carbon emissions are causing global warming on such a scale that we face global catastrophe if we fail to change our ways.
If nine out of 10 doctors said your child needed an immediate operation, would you wait until all 10 agreed?
James Hansen, a leading climate expert who raised the alarm about global warming to the U.S. Congress 20 years ago, says he's 99 per cent sure, but that's still not 100 per cent. So why should we pay more by way of a carbon tax to address a problem that may not exist?
True, a report prepared by M.K. Jaccard and Associates for the David Suzuki Foundation titled Pricing Carbon: Saving Green argued persuasively that a carbon tax is an effective tool for bringing emissions down, and governments, scientists and economists around the world agree.
But what if they're wrong? Never mind that countries such as Sweden, which implemented a carbon tax in 1991, have proven such measures are effective and that they actually produce economic benefits.
Why should we change if we don't have to? Rising gas prices due to global market forces are already hitting us hard enough. Why should we add to the misery?
Consider this: if the industry shills and their followers are right and global warming isn't the threat we think it is, and we act anyway, the oil will still be there for future use and we'll also have cleaner air and greater innovation in green technologies, along with stronger economies.
If the majority of the world's climate scientists are right and we fail to act, we face ecological, social and economic catastrophe on a scale beyond anything we've experienced in modern times.
Consider also that carbon taxes such as British Columbia's and the one the federal Liberals have proposed are actually tax shifts.
The money collected from individuals, businesses and industry will be returned in the form of cuts to personal and business taxes. The 2.4 cents a litre increase in gas prices that is one small part of the B.C. tax is minuscule compared to market increases. The tax may help us move away from continued reliance on increasingly scarce and costly fossil fuels.
Whether it's called a tax shift, a revenue-neutral tax or a new tax, it will get people worked up. No one likes taxes, but we like roads and schools and hospitals and police services, so we pay them.
We also pay about $90 a tonne to put garbage into landfills, so why are we so concerned about having to pay to put garbage into the air?
Politicians have two powerful instruments to influence behaviour: regulation and taxation. In the mindless mantra of anti-taxation groups, taxes are bad and we should always cut and never increase them.
The ludicrous aspect is that these groups are silent about the enormous taxpayer subsidies to fossil-fuel and related industries that make windfall profits while resisting even a small tax hike.
Together with measures such as a cap-and-trade program, a carbon tax can use money from industries that are not energy-efficient to create economic benefits and incentives for those that are wiser in their energy use.
The income generated by a carbon tax can be used to cut income taxes, build more public transit, upgrade trains, develop renewable-energy sources and retrofit homes and buildings with energy-efficient technology.
For 20 years, scientists have warned of the need for urgent action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
Leading economists have shown that the cost to bring emissions down will be about one per cent of GDP annually, while the costs incurred if we don't reduce emissions could be economically catastrophic.
When politicians, businesspeople and citizens show leadership by proposing or implementing solutions to the real problems facing the planet (yes, more than 90 per cent certain is as real as it gets in science), they deserve our support, not mockery and politically motivated misinformation.
Axe the tax, my ass!
Take David Suzuki's Nature Challenge and learn more at www.davidsuzuki.org.
© 2008 The Daily Gleaner (Fredericton)
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- Johnathon said...
"If the majority of the world's climate scientists are right and we fail to act, we face ecological, social and economic catastrophe on a scale beyond anything we've experienced in modern times. "
Buddy, you can think like Al Gore, but rest assured that most Canadians don't think the world is ending anytime soon.
So your party can try to rip us off to pay their poverty progam, or Canadians can just say, " We are paying enough already".
Canada is only responsible for 2 % of world emmissions and the Libranos want to increase everything we know of, to fund their poverty scam.
There is no guarantee that Dion's plan will lower emmissions and by how much.
I can't understand why you people are so dramatic and alarmist when you know that even if Canada shut down our whole economy , the world would still have the 98% to worry about.
Is that 2% worth making people pay more money for everything just so one can can realize his "vision".
I agree the climate may be warming, however I disagree as with thousands of scientists about hom much of it is natural and how much is human caused.
There is no way anyone will give up oil until it runs out.
No clown in the world could convince Canadians to simply pay more money for everything.
Especially Mr Dion.
- Jul 4, 2008, 12:10:00 PM
- James Curran said...
How's that flat earth thing going for ya today Johnnie? I know you're waaaay smarter than David Suzuki, so I guess we'll start posting your articles and papers here. Feel free to send them over.
- Jul 4, 2008, 12:36:00 PM
- KC said...
Even if global warming were a complete myth I would still favour a carbon tax. The oil in the ground aint gonna replenish itself in our lifetime, or that of our children, or grandchildren and so on and so on. When its gone its gone and its one of the greatest failures of our civilization is that we have been consuming it at breakneck speeds with complete disregard for the limited amount.
Maybe the oil wont run out in our lifetimes but even a best case scenario has it running out within a couple centuries--which is a millisecond in terms of overall human history. Its time to start preparing for it now so it doesnt cause a civilizational collapse as it would if it disappeared tommorow.
- Jul 4, 2008, 12:43:00 PM


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+Good, a UK digital company, have launched Twitter Magnets, a free service for people looking for a way to spend their idle hours in creating poems of 140 characters or less. Inspired by Twitter and the Fridge Magnets phenomena, this mash-up is another in the company's pixellated ideas and diversions, glossy flash web design and viral skullduggery. Here's our attempt at a poem, dedicated to Susan Boyle. Click on the image below to view a screenshot of the site.
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Dwi Cahyanto, Dedy (2009) ISOLASI DAN UJI MIKROBA ANTAGONIS POTENSIAL DARI RHIZOSFIR TANAMAN APEL (Malus sylvestris Mill) TERHADAP PATOGEN EMBUN TEPUNG DAN BERCAK DAUN SECARA IN VITRO. Other thesis, University of Muhammadiyah Malang.
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Cost of the apple production that's keep increasing because pesticide price of disease control was more expensive. The microbe isolation of rhizosfir can be used to overcome pathogen as cause of disease of flour dew and leaf spotted at the apple leaf by antagonist test. The ability of resistivity was value of antagonist ability to pressure the growth of pathogen as cause of flour dew and leaf spotted disease. The research objective was to find out microbe antagonist rhizosfir that can control pathogen of flour dew and leaf spotted disease at the apple. Isolation in this research was conducted at flour dew and leaf spotted disease as pathogen cause of disease. Isolation of rhizosfir uses dilution method as anthagonist microbe. The research sample was taken from Batu town East Java. Microbe as result of isolation was tested by test phases: (1) purification of microbe: (1.a) purification of leaf spotted pathogen and flour dew by observed large of microbe surface during for 7 days, (1.b) purification of antagonist microbe as many microbe gain from rhizosfir, (2) antagonistic test: (2.a) test of antagonist microbe by flour dew pathogen, (2.b) test of antagonist microbe by leaf spotted pathogen, (3) calculation of antagonist resistivity toward flour dew and leaf spotted pathogen on the seventh days after inoculation. Based on calculation, can be concluded that: (1) Gain 2 pathogen as cause of flour dew disease (Podoshaera leucotricha) and leaf spotted (Marssonina coronaria J.J. Davis), (2) Gain 10 types of antagonist microbe in Batu town from root land of healthy and unhealthy plant production centre of the apple consist of 8 mushroom isolate and 2 bacteria isolate, (3) Level of antagonist isolate was able to hamper the growth of pathogen at antagonist test with flour dew pathogen (Podoshaera leucotricha) from resistivity test start from the biggest A7, A1, A4, A2, A3, A10, A9, A8, A6 and A5 by level of resistivity 79,91%, 72,09%, 69,55%, 56,22%, 53,34%, 39,47%, 39,30%, 18,28% and 14,68%, (4) Level of antagonist isolate was able to hamper the growth of pathogen at antagonist test with leaf spotted pathogen (Marssonina coronaria JJ. Davis) from resistivity test start from the biggest A1, A2, A7, A4, A5, A10, A8, A9, A3, and A6 by resistivity 87,16%, 86,67%, 86,51%, 84,39%, 79,16%, 70,91%, 69,98%, 68,39% and 65,94%.
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So, I'm blogging again. Yay!
It has been a little over a year since I took my last website off the internet. This time around, I plan to focus only on things related to software development. No movie or video game reviews, no family photos, no introspective blogging on my birthday, no political opinions (except maybe in the cases where it relates directly to software development—maybe).
If you're wondering about the URL ampersand.space: pretty much everything I could think of with a dot com was taken. I noticed dot space in the list of affordable TLDs in my registrar of choice (Namecheap). It is supposed to be for websites about space exploration and astronomy... but it also works for making a domain name that is thoroughly confusing to say aloud.
This site is obviously still a work in progress. The current UI, that I threw together in a few hours, is supposed to evoke one of those low-res eighties-beige CRT monitors with green text. I intentionally broke a few UX guidelines, because that is how trendsetters set trends.
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Thanks to Mary at Tensegrities for alerting me to this story about big media and big oil. ABC refused to run this television spot from We Can Solve the Climate Crisis. ABC has no problem continuing to run ads from oil companies. Why isn't one group's money as good as the other's for buying advertizing? Especially when constant advertising from oil companies is part of the problem – it's misleading and it keeps people misinformed and keeps them thinking that fossil fuel isn't all that bad.
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Katy Perryand Orlando Bloom's break up is still chained to the read receipts.
Now a week after the couple announced their split, E! News has an exclusive update about where they stand as seemingly amicable exes.
A source tells us the Pirates of the Caribbean star is "cool" with the pop star, adding that they "still text and talk." These aren't just any 'ol friendly check-in texts—our insider reveals Katy and Orlando have also spent time with each other since ending their 10-month long relationship.
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Perhaps a new PR firm—Boling Nelson Manolatos Murphy Hong—will emerge from their Measure D experience.
Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it.
—Mark Twain
Today, we stand on one side of the looking glass. By the time we chat again next week, we will have stepped through it—and possibly in it.
Certainly in Spin Cycle's lifetime, you would be hard pressed to find an election season as angst-ridden, sound-bit and crap-filled as the current model. If our elected leaders of tomorrow are truly a reflection of society, then society is headed toward a whole load of hurry-up-and-wait.
But if there's one segment of society busting at the seams of busyness these days, it is our friends—at least they want to be friends—in the obfuscating world of public relations.
In San Diego, perhaps this is our penance for electing to our highest, most influential political office—that of mayor—a man steeped in the sleight-of-hand tomfoolery of a vocation whose sole purpose is to make its well-paying clients look good. If a few roads get paved along the way while we talk about the future, well that's just whipped cream on the mashed potatoes!
Locally, the talk champion for 2016 has to be the subject of where to house the San Diego Chargers in the future. (Judging by the team's agonizing play on the field, this is as close to a championship as they'll see.)
This discussion has blown air up the skirts of all sorts of segments of society, from the civic-pride fandom crowd to the underserved communities anticipating the short stick in the deal to the plugged-in municipal aristocracy freaking out as its status-quo world melts into puddles of unpredictability.
Perhaps this explains the wisps of sulfur emanating from the bubbling cauldron of chaos over at the San Diego County Taxpayers Association, a 71-year-old organization self-described as "San Diego's only independent, nonpartisan government watchdog." Its purpose and practices have been called into question of late over its 11th-hour entry into efforts to defeat Measure D, the less-discussed, step-cousin from another mother alternative to the hotel-tax-hike proposal from the Chargers, Measure C.
You may have heard that a political action committee connected to the allegedly non-partisan SDCTA burned its hand on the stovetop while trying to funnel thousands of dollars of hotel-interest cash into Measure D opposition, even though a formal "No on D" committee was never created.
Not everyone, it turns out, who opposes Measure C for its plan to turn over that hotel-tax hike to the tune of more than $1 billion to a billionaire NFL owner is against Measure D, the measure brought to you by activist attorney Cory Briggs and former San Diego City Councilmember Donna Frye that boosts the hotel tax slightly less but prohibits public subsidy of a stadium.
How do we know this? Well, the head of the San Diego County Taxpayers Association said so in a contrite email after he spilled the beans in an Oct. 18 San Diego Union-Tribune story that the PAC, thanks primarily to funding from the local Lodging Industry Association, would begin running radio ads and online videos against both C and D.
In an Oct. 19 email titled "Courtesy Note to No on C folks," Haney Hong begins, "By now, you might have gotten wind of a fast-moving effort from SDCTA to put out messaging on No on C & D. I regret that I neglected to keep folks posted, and no excuses on my part. Apologies."
Then the mea culpa: "Just so you all know, SDCTA opposes both C & D, and I recognize that not everyone in No on C opposes D, so I wanted to keep these efforts separate and away from any of you who might have stakeholders with respect to your position on D. I also got information that SDCTA is the best voice for opposition to C and D, and we are running with it."
Spin Cycle tried unsuccessfully to follow up with Hong regarding what he meant by "got information," but let's, for now, assume what he meant is the checks cleared. Quickly put on the case to pump out this newly funded opposition message was the new powerhouse PR agency on the block, Manolatos Nelson Murphy Advertising & Public Relations.
If the names sound familiar, they should. Tony Manolatos is a former Kevin Faulconer staffer and a visible frontman in the "No on C" team. Bob Nelson is a port commissioner who once hired Faulconer when he ran another PR firm. And Kelly Murphy Lamkin is an advertising specialist and daughter of former mayor Dick "10Goals" Murphy, who resigned from office in 2005 amid the city's pension-underfunding scandal.
The problem is neither the Lodging Industry Association PAC nor the Taxpayer Association PAC—both served as treasurer by key "No on C" player April Boling—initially decided it didn't need to file the proper public campaign reports of the independent expenditures. By Monday following hoots and hollers, those reports were filed with the city.
But Briggs isn't satisfied. He has sent letters to several radio stations on behalf of San Diegans for Open Government requesting the stations stop running the ads until the disclaimers are revised "to reflect that the majority of the money provided to pay for the ads came from the hotel industry." Either that, he wrote, or provide equal time to D backers.
Briggs said Tuesday the stations have acknowledged receipt of the letter, but that is all.
On the bright side, perhaps hoteliers—standard bearers of the status quo—have their sights on D because they no longer fear C. "They used the risk of D hitting 50 percent to scare everyone into running a campaign against D," Briggs said.
For Nelson, his new firm's abetment of the hoteliers' wants may have future ramifications on his port duties. "He may have to recuse himself from some future vote were it to come up," said Gil Cabrera, former chairman of the San Diego Ethics Commission.
Safe travels through the looking glass, San Diego!


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On Tuesday evening I drove from D.C. to Philly then back again on Wednesday night after helping my sister and brother-in-law. This isn't exactly far when you're talking about distance, but the fact that I might have had to drive through 4 successive rush hours was looking like a daunting task. (D.C., Baltimore, Wilmington , Philly) I left around2:30pm from the Dulles airport area, and believe it or not the worst part of the drive was the 495 beltway around the D.C. area. On the way back I left Philly around 9:45pm, and of course, it was smooth sailing the whole way. However what I discovered, as I had left my CD cartridge in the trunk and mp3 player in my bags, was that no matter what time of the day, one out of every seven or so spins of the "seek" feature on your car radio that isn't a commercial will yields a song that will make you dry heave… if you're lucky.
I wondered how free radio has survived in a day when super-served targeted marketing is the norm. It's pretty rare that you can't find exactly what you want these days. Mostly thanks to math. Those crazy little algorithms that are busy running in the background of everything, crunching the numbers, making sense of your last 5 purchases, clicks of the mouse or how many times you've punched in at the gym to act like you were working out. I also wonder how songs like "Wind beneath my wings." can be heard 4 times in a 4 hour round trip excursion within 36 hours. Are you kidding me? Where are those big brother-ish calculations now when I need them? Rescue me from the obscure guessing game that all people on the road at are possible "Delilah" listeners! I used to think being off the grid, would be so free, so independent, no strings to hold me down! As soon as I got home I plugged in my mp3 player, fired up my gmail and itunes, then remembered, indeed I can't have my cake and eat it too, as I noticed, that the last.fm plugin has just blasted out to all my friends, that indeed at the moment, I'm listening to Christina Aguilera. Geez. Can't a guy have one guilty pleasure? … "I'm a genie in a bottle baby. Come, come, come on and let me out!" 😉


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Tickets have gone on sale for the much loved Lincolnshire Show, with hundreds of new exhibitors lined up to appear over two days in June.
The 133rd annual event returns to the Lincolnshire Showground on Wednesday and Thursday, June 21-22, in celebration of rural life .
Showground chief executive Jayne Southall said: "With a wide range of attractions, stands and non-stop entertainment, there is something for everyone, whether young or old, a returning or a first-time visitor.
"We're delighted to be welcoming not only large scale attractions but also a wide range of local businesses to showcase their products to the public."
Around 600 exhibitors will be trading at the show, including first-timers such as Ferry Ales Brewery, a craft ale brewery based in Fiskerton.
Co-owner John Cussons said: "As a local business, it is great to be involved in an event of this size and it gives us a chance to get out, meet customers and get immediate feedback from our products."
The event also promises a spectacular programme of entertainment, food, shopping, music and exhibitions of farm life.
Broke FMX, the UK's top ranked freestyle motocross riders, will thrill audiences with long-distance jumps and acrobatic feats.
Another new attraction for 2017 will be Man and Machines in Motion, a narrated arena display demonstrating how farmers use machinery from harvesters to mowers.
The show will also host its first pop-up restaurant, serving up breakfast, brunch and afternoon tea menus designed by award-winning chef Steven Bennett of Grimsby dining sensation The Comfy Duck.
Advanced tickets are £19 for adults, children are £6 and under-fives go free. Family tickets, for two adults and up to three children are £40. Car parking is free on both days.
For more information on tickets, exhibiting, sponsorship opportunities, membership or hospitality packages, visit www.lincolnshireshow.co.uk.


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Yoga during pregnancy prepare you for being a healthy mother, it stretches your body, gives healthy breathe and mental satisfaction. Some people think that it is harmful but the prenatal yoga is good and safe for both women and her child. It is scientifically proved that prenatal yoga lessens the nausea, headaches, lower back pain, half breathe, less sleep, indigestion and so on. You can also get in touch with the other pregnant women and share your problems in the yoga class.
Steps and Techniques of Yoga during Pregnancy
- Before starting the prenatal yoga, you should first consult your doctor. The doctor advice you the best posture of yoga and prevent from the moves that harm you and your baby life.
- Doctor mostly advice women to go for gentle Yoga. Because yoga helps the women to release the relaxin hormone. After releasing, it softens the tissues and makes the pelvic joints more flexible.
- It is better to join the yoga class rather than doing it alone. And make sure that you have collected all stuff for Yoga.
- You should drink plenty of water and eat well before going for Yoga.
- Don't do some postures like bending your back down or hot yoga. Avoid the Bikram yoga as the rise in the temperature of the body is not good for the health of the child as well as the mother.
- You should do the postures such as twisting the body to and fro, front and back, make rib cage but don't stress out your body.
- You can also get help from the Yoga videos on the internet. But before starting the particular yoga provided in the video, check the certificates and degrees of the instructor.
- Joining the Yoga class is better than learning from the tutorials because there are a lot of risk to your life and kid.
- A Yoga class teaches you the gentle stretching the body, deep breathing exercises, postures blocks, and a posture period of relaxing your body.
- Start the yoga by the simple firm sitting steps with various poses. You can lay your legs straight, bow down, cross and so on. Use your hand to give support to your body and belly at every move.
- Gently push your butt with hands, and if you feel pain in the knee while sitting than changing the pose immediately.
- Push your breast gently with your hands for a deep breath. It freshens your mind and heart.
- Do Baddha Konasana pose as helps your blood to circulate properly in the body, this pose is also called bound angle
- The squat pose is beneficial pose during pregnancy as it improves circulation of the blood as well as releases the relaxin hormone from your body.
- Do the "table pose" or cow and cat pose, this pose is done by inhaling the air in and out and gently moving the back up and down.
- You can also do the warrior poses, by stretch your arms and legs.
- Now do some change in the poses like balancing your body with the help of the wall, raising your head up and the legs laid upward with the wall, and corpse poses.
- Above simple steps of yoga helps you to be active during pregnancy and to overcome the future complexities.
source: http://www.manyweekspregnant.com/yoga-during-pregnancy/