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trishJanuary 7, 2013 at 2:35 pm
Hi Amy. Your post tugs at my heart. :o) What a dear family. Very close friends of ours has a little one with DS. I remember holding him right after he was born. He is such a doll!
I am scrap tripping along too. I posted one of my blocks just today. :o)
Funky KimJanuary 7, 2013 at 2:37 pm
You're friends with that family? They totally tugged my heartstrings when I saw their story on the news. I have prayed almost non-stop since that story that the Russian government will continue to allow American's to adopt their special needs children.

And I'm off to look at the scrappy trips tutorial. Because I need more UFO's in my life.

RosaJanuary 7, 2013 at 3:16 pm
I agree,they give pattience and unconditional love.
Sherry WollardJanuary 7, 2013 at 4:08 pm
Great story, my niece just lost her 16 years old DS boy on January 6. DS children leave a very special place in your heart. Thanks for sharing
Missy ShayJanuary 7, 2013 at 4:36 pm
What a great Christmas present for the family and the child who got adopted, a new family! That was sweet of you to finish the quilt for them!
pcflamingoJanuary 7, 2013 at 4:38 pm
I am Big Bossy Sister for my brother who is on Social Security Disability. He swallowed a penny when he was very young; it cut off the air to his brain and caused brain damage. Without family to watch over him, he would be one of those sad guys living under a bridge somewhere getting beat up for his money. So it comes to me.

We have our moments, but I have learned to pick my
Claire FisherJanuary 7, 2013 at 5:10 pm
I love the She Devil hat – totally cool! It is an amazing story – I helped a friend here to adopt a little D.S. baby that was an amazing experience. These people with special needs enrich our lives in so many ways – my youngest is Autistic and each day brings something new – good and not so good but he was sent to me or rather chose me for a reason…I'm thankful that he is healthy and I&#
adaisygardenJanuary 7, 2013 at 5:27 pm
What a great story all-around… it was so kind of you to offer to do the quilt, and how wonderful that this family has actually chosen to adopt what others find "less than desirable". I'm sure they are rewarded everyday by the unconditional love they receive from those children!! A truly great story of unselfishness and compassion! Thanks for sharing something so personal and
Katy CameronJanuary 7, 2013 at 6:03 pm
I'm holding off on the scrappy time sucker right now as I try and finish my dad's Indie Star for his birthday on the 16th. I might have earmarked a bundle of fabric for it though. Possibly. Maybe. *ahem*

Loving the wee Russian inspired quilt, and *everybody* needs a flaming sun visor!
KatelynJanuary 7, 2013 at 6:50 pm
Thank you so much for sharing this story with us. It has really made an impact on my day. As a teacher I have had children with ds come in and out of my life and just yesterday I was thinking of a special few and how much I missed them. I am in awe of this wonderful family and will be keeping them in my prayers.
IN other news. I love the blocks! I think orange and/or brown would look a
LJJanuary 7, 2013 at 7:32 pm
I do have plans for the Scrappy Trip Along. It looks like fun and a great way to use scraps.
Miss HollyJanuary 7, 2013 at 7:55 pm
Wow !! What an amazing post in so many ways!! What wonderful people your neighbors are…..Love how the squares look!!!
AnitaJanuary 7, 2013 at 8:54 pm
What a neat story. As for your scrappy tripalong I would use 30s fabrics to make it look vintage and maybe some flower sugar or American Jane fabric. I love what you have so far and think it will look great!
Sarah CraigJanuary 7, 2013 at 9:53 pm
Thanks for sharing that wonderful story, Amy! I'm sure that quilt will be treasured forever… And yes, I'm jumping on the scrappy trips bandwagon, because I think it will make a great and easy king-sized quilt for my own bed! Can't wait to start my first blocks tomorrow!
CathyKJanuary 8, 2013 at 12:10 am
Thank you for a wonderful post, Amy. You have the best eye for color, too. Those blocks are gorgeous!
mascanlonJanuary 8, 2013 at 12:15 am
Our 18 yr old granddaughter has DS. She brings us such joy and love and has taught the whole family about unconditional love. This year she graduates from HS, we couldn't be prouder. And right now I have a pile of tee shirts marking everything from cheer leading, basketball, National Charity League, Church Baking, summer camp and a myriad of other activities waiting for me to make them into
cat and vee xoxoJanuary 8, 2013 at 12:44 am
Beautiful post Amy, thank you so much for sharing. What a blessing you've been to your neighbour, and your neighbours in turn to their gorgeous girls from Russia.

My brother and his wife waited 6 years (years!!) to adopt their little girl H from Ethiopia – and that was after a 2 year governmental-assessment process – so, 8 years all up. Adopting internationally from Australia
MicheleJanuary 8, 2013 at 5:29 am
Thank you so much for this beautiful post. You know that adoption is very close to my heart since my own two darlings are adopted and I believe that every single child should have a forever family. Many happy blessings to your newest neighbor.
ThimbleannaJanuary 8, 2013 at 8:19 am
What a neat post Amy! That little quilt is so sweet. And you're trippy! I'm SOOOO tempted — just trying to decide if I should abandon my UFO goals so soon into the new year LOL!
QuiltstoryJanuary 8, 2013 at 10:04 am
You're awesome Amy! I love that quilt top you finished…looks so great. And what a sweet story :)

And we totally avoid the twitter scene, is that so bad?? You may need to show us the ropes sometime! Love your start!
Nanette MerrillJanuary 8, 2013 at 10:24 am
Love this post. First off the Russian quilt is very sweet. Binding it was probably fun. I don't mind binding at all. I enjoy it. And as for the viral project, I've succumbed myself. Sadly last night I worked on it. Sew fun! I'm glad. But seriously I have SO many projects going on. I get what you're talking about. I should be working on a pattern for a quilt that came
Melissa {polkadot chair}January 8, 2013 at 12:24 pm
Once one of my neighbors saw my sewing room in my basement and asked me if I ran a store out of my home. Talk about embarrassing… I think she seriously thought I was a crazy hoarder…. 🙂
TammyWJanuary 8, 2013 at 4:06 pm
Great post! I love the visor. As a biological parent of a son with Down Syndrome and an adoptive mother of a typical child–thank you for writing a lovely post regarding both topics. Congratulations to your neighbors on their newest addition to their family. What a blessing for all of them.
dianeJanuary 9, 2013 at 9:33 am
Wow, Amy, you really are a great writer. Thanks for sharing this lovely story and for being a part of this amazingly helpful quilting/blog community.
People who take care of special needs children are angels for sure.
I am one of the #scrappytripalong sheep too. Mine is waiting to be quilted as soon as my backing fabric arrives.
xoxo
Wendy FranczakJanuary 9, 2013 at 10:40 am
Love your color combo! I have two tops to complete before I can try the scrappy trip along and the anticipation is driving me crazy! 🙂
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tinkerFebruary 23, 2020 at 8:53 am
Oh, my goodness. I have followed your blog/Pinterest for a couple of months now. It began with my obsession with Long Time Gone, and the inspiration I found in your posts. My QAL is just about to start, and I am grateful for all I have learned from your posts. But this story, so beautifully told, has grabbed my heart. Your are an an amazing person with a humble spirit – a rare entity in this crazy world. Unbeknownst to you, you have become part of my orbit of friends. Quilt On!


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The Dow Jones Industrial Average dipped 2.54% from its September closing value in October, while the NASDAQ Composite fell 4.46%. During the same period, investors pressured Treasury prices, which pushed yields up a bit; the yield curve's increases ranged from one basis point for three-month Treasuries to 10 basis points for seven-year paper, according to the latest monthly fund overview issued by Lipper.
How did these trends translate into mutual-fund flows? "For the fourth consecutive month, investors were net purchasers of fund assets, injecting $30.5 billion into the conventional funds business (excluding exchange-traded funds)," explained Tom Roseen, head of research services for Denver-based Lipper in his October report.
Plus, despite becoming more risk averse, investors injected $34.2 billion in bond funds. They also put $300 million into stock and mixed-asset funds, but withdrew $4 billion from money-market funds.
October was the 18th straight month of outflows for domestic equity funds, with $10.2 billion leaving this group. Of Lipper's 12 classes, just two—small-cap growth funds and multi-cap core funds—experienced net inflows. "Large-cap funds once again suffered the largest net redemptions (–$6.9 billion) of the capitalization breakouts—for their 41 consecutive month of outflows," noted Roseen.
World-equity funds had $1.6 billion of net withdrawals, which was the group's third-consecutive month of redemptions. In addition, Lipper's global-diversified equity funds group had $1.9 billion in withdrawals. Global flexible-portfolio funds and international multi-cap core funds, however, had the largest net inflows of the group at $900 million each.
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One of life's big decisions - Disneyland or Disney Sea?
In the end Disney Sea won out. Ride-wise it's a no-brainer. I accidentally left my Mickey t-shirt here so my clothing for the day was easily decided. Coming along for the ride was my Mickey popcorn holder.
I won't repeat too much from what I said last time. You can read those details here.
One thing I wasn't counting on were the sh*tloads of high schoolers running riot. We didn't realise it was a holiday for them. This of course made the lines almost unbearably long and tiring. Even the line for the must-have curry popcorn took ages.
Highlights for today. The small girl holding her teddy bears, bawling her eyes out after riding the Tower of Terror (2nd row, seat 3 above), Aquatopia being closed (crap ride), and Toy Story Mania being as much fun as it was last time.


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There are a pair of blog posts over at Reformed Baptist Fellowship styled as catechisms, one for Christian wives and the other for Christian husbands. They aren't really catechisms, but more lists of advice. There are glimmers of helpfulness in them, but for the most part they are awful. Simply awful.
One main problem is that these aren't really catechisms, and to call them such gives them an air of authority that is just not there. As Patricia Hunt said, this pair of posts "offers no scriptural proofs with his 'catechism'? Catechisms are for doctrine, doctrine rests on scripture." There is no scriptural support for any statement in the posts. None.
An even bigger problem is that the writer, a Reformed Baptist pastor, premises the whole thing on faulty doctrine. In the preamble to each post he writes that his purpose is to help people who find themselves in difficult marriages to non-Christians, particularly those marriages where the spouse is "especially ungodly."
That's a huge doctrinal mistake. There is no relative degree of godliness or ungodliness for those who do not belong to Christ. The only godliness possible is in those who have the spirit of Christ within them. (Romans 8:9-10.) It is part of the faith that every one who belongs to Jesus has been given (Ephesians 2:8-9), and without this faith it is impossible to please God. (Hebrews 11:6.)
This is Reformed Doctrine 101, and I can't imagine this pastor being so mistaken on it not once but in both blog posts. The real problem though is that this premise leads the reader to think that all which follows in these "catechisms" is to be measured by how much ungodliness is in the unbelieving spouse, rather than guiding the reader to an understanding that the unbelieving spouse – being without the Spirit – is completely unable to understand the relationship the Christian wife or husband has with God. (1 Corinthians 2:14.)
The posts continue to fail on practical as well as doctrinal grounds repeatedly.
Mistreated Spouses Get Better Than They Deserve?
Take questions 11 and 12 in each post. (I'll quote the one directed to women. He wrote the identical advice to men, just switching the spousal roles.)
Q11. How good a husband is my husband to me?
A11. Much better than I deserve, and therefore I will thank God for him every day.
Q12. How good a wife am I to my husband?
A12. Much worse than I ought to be, and therefore I will confess my sins to God every day, asking forgiveness, and to my husband as needed, and continue in prayer for grace to grow into the excellent wife that God wants me to be, and that would be such a blessing to my husband.
If interpreted to mean that all of us deserve death for our sins and therefor anything we receive short of that is more than we deserve, then I suppose he might have some scriptural basis for this. But in the context of two posts on marriage relationships, that interpretation just doesn't hold up. No, these points are in the context of how people treat one another.
That's where one of the real big problems comes in, as many commenters to the posts there have shown. He tells women that this advice is a blessing worthy of memorization that will help them in difficult marriages. He then admonishes them that even if this advice does not actually help their "difficult marriage" their husbands are still treating them better than they deserve.
This pastor completely ignores the fact that many people are not treated better than they deserve by their spouses. They are married to people who hurt them. You would think that someone charged with pastoral care of God's people would know that and write marital advice accordingly.
Women are Needy, Fearful and Full of Feelings!
The post for husbands also includes this point:
Q6. What is it to live with my wife in an understanding way?
A6. It is to show her honor as the weaker vessel, being sensitive to her needs, fears, and feelings; to nourish and cherish her with the love and affection of Christ.
This is yet another point where the writer's blending of a Bible verse with his own take on women and men is conflated in a manner contrary to the meaning of that verse. It looks like he is starting from the biblical instruction that husbands are to treat wives "with respect as the weaker partner and as heirs with you of the gracious gift of life" (1 Peter 3:7). He then puts his own gloss on the word weakness, identifying it as the wife's "needs, fears, and feelings."
How he went from Peter's use of the word "weaker" to identifying the weakness as wives having fears and needs and feelings reveals more about his view of women culturally than scripturally, because the Bible does not say women are fearful or needy or full of feelings in ways that men don't share.
As one commenter to the post on these "catechisms" at Spiritual Sounding Board pointed out the sexist nature of the pastor's advice:
Women aren't the only ones who can be afraid, needy, and insecure. I've known plenty of men who had those characteristics.
I have too. Does that mean the husband is the weaker partner in those marriages? How could he be if the pastor is correct in his reading of 1 Peter 3:7? No, the real answer is that there is no inherently emotionally weaker partner in a marriage merely by virtue of which one has a Y chromosome. The context of the verse just doesn't demand that conclusion.
So here's my advice to married people, and to everyone else too:
Be devoted to one another in love. Honor one another above yourselves. (Romans 12:10.)
… whatever you do, do it all for the glory of God. (1 Corinthians 10:31.)
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Snapshots from Malaysia: Breakfast at Toh Soon Cafe, Georgetown, Penang
I don't think I'd ever gone to an eatery just to try its toast, but that's why locals and visitors crowd Toh Soon Cafe, a Chinese coffee shop (or kopitiam) occupying the better part of an alley off Campbell Street in the city of Georgetown.
It's a family operation of the simplest order: A jumble of plastic tables and stools under an awning face the "kitchen," an assembly counter where toast is buttered and coffee poured. There's no oven, or toaster, or broiler—the toasting action is brilliantly low-tech. In what looks to be a repurposed oil drum, a charcoal fire both heats water for hot drinks and toasts the bread below. A man hunches down with the toast grate, eyeballing each slice of bread and flipping just as it starts to turn golden.
Just toasted enough to melt the butter spread on, it's lightly crisp and a hint smoky, soft and delicate in the middle. Get it topped with salted butter or with butter and sugar, with a thin, salty peanut butter, or (my favorite) with kaya, a sweet, creamy coconut egg jam.
Also available are loosely poached eggs and small parcels of the ubiquitous nasi lemak (rice cooked in coconut milk with peanuts, spicy sambal, and deep-fried anchovies).
Coffee and tea (kopi and teh) are the logical accompaniment; whether hot or iced, they're served with a considerable pour of sweetened condensed milk unless requested otherwise.
Those predictable choices are complicated by what was, to me, an unlikely-sounding third: both. Kopi cham translates literally to "mixed coffee," the two stirred together in what looked to be equal proportion. The predictable taste of an English breakfast tea is bolstered by a bitter backbone of strong coffee, which itself has a thick, velvety texture; with a light hand on the milk, it's got the character of milky tea but impact of strong coffee.
It's just toast and coffee, yes; but how often is toast given this much attention?
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Martin Fallon (Mickey Rourke) is an IRA terrorist with a concience who, while attempting to blow up a British military transport, accidentally bombs a bus full of schoolchildren. The incident haunts Fallon, who decides to quit the IRA and escape to London. Fallon wants to relocate to America, but he lacks a passport, and his criminal past would prevent him from getting one. Jack Meehan (Alan Bates), a British gangster who knows about Fallon's past, offers him a deal -- he can get Fallon the papers and the cash to go to America, but in return he must kill a man. A priest, Father De Costa (Bob Hoskins), witnesses Fallon committing the murder, and Fallon wants to find a way to keep De Costa quiet without putting more blood on his hands. The original director of A Prayer For The Dying, Franc Roddam, left the production midway through shooting due to disputes with the producers, and star Mickey Rourke later attempted to disassociate himself from the film (although paid £1 million to star in the film). Also stars Liam Neeson. Director Mike Hodges.
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Senator fights for child inheritance rights
A Nebraska senator is attempting to pass legislation in hopes of helping children conceived through artificial insemination receive their parents' benefits.
Sen. Bill Avery's proposal got a public hearing before the Judiciary Committee on Wednesday. Under LB 134, if a person writes it in a will, their child could receive inheritance even if that child is conceived three years after that parent dies.
Avery hopes the legislation would help children, like Kayah, who were conceived through artificial insemination.
Melissa Amen said it was her husband's dying wish for her to continue with fertilization treatment and insemination.
"In 2006, I lost my husband to cancer and seven days later, I conceived a child," Amen said.
Although the couple planned for a child for more than a year, Kayah has been denied any survivor benefits from Social Security.
"It was devastating because I didn't even think it would be a problem," Amen said.
Kayah's case went all the way to the Nebraska Supreme Court, which ruled against her, saying a child conceived after a father's death cannot receive any part of his estate.
"It's really a gut-wrenching story. It's just a great human tragedy," Avery said. "We can't change the laws for Social Security, but if the state law provides for this, there is a very good chance Social Security benefits could be extended."
Amen doesn't know if the bill would help her since she has already been through the appeals process, but she said she will continue to fight for their daughter.


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LG Revere / Revere 2
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I'll be damned if I am going to do that review again!
PROs: Good Audio - clear & loud
Decent signal capture
Good battery life (~4 days w. moderate use)
Battery Recharges fast in ~2 hours
Menu Text font size is resizable
Camera is 1280 x 960 (1.22 Mb)
Ring tones are good (MP3?)
CON: LG should have rubberized the exterior - the phone is VERY SLIPPERY. This is a serious fault!
No Video capability
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You Say 'Basic' Like it's a Bad Thing...
Got this phone as my "work phone" on a second line with my family's ancient family plan on Verizon. Our family plan has no data allowance, and I didn't feel like texting anyone at work, so I went for the most basic flip I could get. The Verizon reps all laughed at me, and sent me home with this masterful piece of Korean technology. Pros and Cons!
PROS: Great signal. I mean great. This phone became my primary "talking phone," because of the awesome reception.
Solid design, intuitive interface, good feel "in hand."
This phone can bluetooth tether like a beast! I only use it to tether to my macbook pro, but it can act as a USB mass storage device, and I can send pcitures or MP3 files to and from the phone over bluetooth. This is a useful feature, because I needed some tunes to replace the available ringtones, which were sorely lacking.
CONS: The available ringtones and wallpapers are pretty lame/annoying. I like me a basic phone environment. That means no animated wallpapers, no pictures of birthday balloons that make it impossible to see the time and date on the inner screen of my phone, etc. In order to get a plain, black wallpaper, I had to take a picture with the phone with my hands over the camera lens, and then save that picture as my wallpaper.
The T9 function has to be turned on EVERY TIME you make a text. It is clunky and time-consuming. The text prediction is also not as good as the old Nokia's... it often gets things hilariously wrong. Also, I wish that the '0' key was "space" and the '#' key was "next." Having to constantly thumb over to '#' while texting made my right thumb very sore.
Phone takes for-EVER to boot up when turned on.
CONCLUSION: Awesome phone with great hardware and surprisingly advanced features for people looking to get a basic, reliable phone. This thing holds a charge forever, makes calls, and can send texts. What more can you ask for?
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Bluetooth is not always Bluetooth
My wife and I use identical phones to makes things easy on us senior citizens. We decided to make a change last November and have been struggling ever since. The Revere has bigger buttons than our old phones but no way to make text display larger. As a basic phone it works well and I thought it would be a good replacement for our older Motorola phones. I thought Bluetooth was Bluetooth until we got these phones, however, but it is not! This phone will not work with automated phone systems (e. g. âpress 1 for sales, press 2 for service, etc.âÂ) over Bluetooth. I have tried three different copies of this phone on four different Bluetooth compatible devices (two cars and two home systems) and none of them work. LG will not acknowledge this and Verizon can only give me a replacement of the same phone. Since this is an important feature to me, I cannot rate this phone well. If you do not need Bluetooth (it also is slow in connecting incoming calls over Bluetooth â you must wait about 2 seconds before saying âhelloâ on answering or the other party will not hear you), than this will not matter to you. Make sure you know exactly what features you want or need and test them quickly so you can return the phone before the Verizon expiration period (30 days in my case) if it does not meet your needs.
Excellent High Quality Phone
Decided to use the phone for awhile before I raved on it and it doesn't disappoint. I wanted a basic phone for clear reception and this is IT!! No drops and the battery life is super great as well. It took over 3 weeks for me to get down to the last bar although I didn't use it too much at the time for talking but it shows the lasting power of the battery regardless. It has a good solid quality feel with easy to read menu options.
I bought this at Walmart for $20 and use air time cards (w/o a payment plan) with different options to pay through Verizon. I have a very sweet deal that I pay $1 a day only when used and can talk with other Verizon users after that for free, all others are 10 cents a minute. Most of my family have Verizon phones so its well worth the cost.
It great for text messages also but I don't use it for the internet so can't comment. It has many phone settings/rings/options to choose from but too many too list.
If your looking for a quality phone with excellent reception and crystal clear calls then I highly recommend getting the LG Revere.
I Love my LG Revere
I love my LG Revere phone. It is a simple dumb phone that you talk on. I know I am old fashioned, but I use my phone to actually talk to people, not do text messages, surf the Internet or take pictures.
The voice quality is very good. The reception on Verizon using this phone is very good to excellent.
I can't believe the battery life. My old phone from AT&T got only four days charge on the battery. My LG Revere gets 14 days charge on the battery. No, that isn't a typo; I actually said 14 days charge.
One more thing, I really like the way the phone feels in my hand â a very nice tactile feel.
Decent for a basic flip, but lacks features I enjoyed with my Sprint flip phone. For one, the T9 feature does not default for texting, so every time you write a new text, you have a couple extra steps to go through before you can text with T9. My Sprint phone would save the default T9 option when I chose it, and just went right to it. Second, the short cut directional keys do not allow any feature of the phone to be saved there. So, going to Favorites, or to the calculator, for example, still take multiple steps. Again, my old cheap Sprint flip phone had better options than this. It's a sturdy, decent phone, but I wish I had my old one back.
It is just fine
This phone is as simple as its gets. Easy to use with great battery life. The camera is good enough for wallpaper or caller ID. The only minus I found that it takes about 20-30 seconds to power up. This is true on both phones I own. Originally I thought that my phone was defective, but since both do the same thing I am OK with it. It is just minor inconvenience. For those for looking for a phone to talk, or some texting I think it is the best Verizon has on the market. One more thing, the reception is awesome on this phone, it even works in my basement where other phones would not get a signal.
So far, so good...
Let me begin by saying, I am a big fan of flip phones that don't try to be computers. My phone doesn't have to be brilliant. It just needs to make calls, text and take the occasional pic. And this phone is perfect.
I've had the Revere for only a week, and so far, I'm lovin' it! It's thin, sleek, feels good in my hand, has big enough buttons to ensure easy texting.... and has all the features I need. I especially love the option to set the ringer to "ring and vibrate", even if the ringer isn't set on high.
Everyone else in my family likes to make fun of me for not having a 'smart" phone, but to me, it's way smarter to get a phone like this one that isn't 'going to the shop' every other week!
I think Verizon has scored big with this LG!!
LG Revere
If the rating went to 10 I waould give this phone a rating of 15!
I went from the LG Accolade to this phone today when I saw it on display at radio Shack. They started selling Verizon today and they were offering this phone for $29.99 with a $20 gift card which I used for airtime.
Verizon also started a $50 unlimited plan with unlimited talk, Text, and Web.
Which is exactly what I wanted.
The whole package could be a "Killer " service for MetroPCS and Boost.
Thank you LG and Verizon.


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This is first installment of my new "Gen Xers Who Hate the Effects of Aging Series" AKA "Like totally, WTF is happening to us?"
Lately, I've been fascinated by what we Gen Xers are doing to look and feel the way we did when we tied our first flannel button down around our shredded hole ridden Levis. I've compiled lists of the most popular procedures both surgical and non-surgical and now I'm on a peel kick. Yes, like most Gen Xers I spent the 80s peeling layers of sun-burnt skin from my nose, shoulders and chest and here I am again looking to peel off the dead skin — minus the need for Solarcaine.
Here's why I'm kinda obsessed with chemical peels: they're an alternative to lasers, offer a range of potency and effects and they're a great place to start. I'm focusing on light peels because they're quick (can get some otc, at a spa or doctors office) easy on the skin, have some nice effects and leave your skin looking tighter, brighter and refreshed. Ohhhh and they're in my budget.
What chemical peels do: Slough off dead skin cells, diminish fine lines, freckles and sun spots, smooth skin texture and help correct skin damage caused by aging, hormones and sun exposure.
Enzyme Peels – These are non-acid peels usually derived from fruits. These are perfect for people with sensitive skin or with specific sensitivity to acids. They mainly exfoliate skin and refine pores.
Mandelic Acid Peels – These are the least irritating of the AHA peels. They're good for people who are acne prone. A good choice if your main concern is treating rosacea and uneven skin tone.
Lactic Acid Peels- These are pretty basic and a good peel for first timers. They are less drying than glycolic peels and work well on fading age spots.
Glycolic Acid Peels – These are the most common peels. They come in multiple grades and will give you more noticeable results than the other light peels. They are also the harshest of the light peels.
Salicylic Acid Peels – These are BHA peels. They can get a bit deeper than AHA peels and are often used on oily skin to help with breakouts.
Jessner's Peels: These are alcohol based peels that often combine multiple acids. The strongest of the light peels, they can be extremely drying and not good for those with sensitive skin. These are usually used for those with oily skin and work well on cystic acne. (The downtime is a bit longer than other light peels.)
Downtime: These peels are often called a lunchtime peels for a reason. They're quick (they take about 10 minutes) and there is little down time. You may have some redness (like a sunburn) and scaling/peeling which could last up to a week.
You should know: You may need a series of multiple peels to get you desired results. You can repeat the peels about every 2-5 weeks depending on how your skin reacts.
Tips: Use a daily moisturizer and sunscreen to keep skin moist, help it heal faster and avoid sun damage to the fresh layer of skin, which will be exposed.
Note: This will probably be subtle, but you may not look your hottest. Come up with a great excuse as to why you're so "sun burned," preferably one that makes co-workers and friends jealous. Then when any redness is tamed and the results are completely apparent those same people will notice how amazing you look and resent you even more.
Also, I don't mean to pry, but why are your friends and co-workers so petty? (just sayin)
If you know anyone who looks old or is like me and obsessed with not looking that way please feel free to share this with them. If you have any technical or medical questions feel free to post in comments. I will try to get you answers from professionals (or I'll make something up).
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Some good news for people who enjoy restraints, riding crops and floggers in the bedroom: A new study says you probably don't have a mental disorder.
The results "seem contradictory to what the general public and professionals believe," said Andreas Wismeijer of Tilburg University in the Netherlands, who published the study along with Marcel van Assen.
Previous studies had suggested that BDSM activities were linked to mental disorders and vulnerability to abuse, according to the researchers, who published their results in The Journal of Sexual Medicine.
But in the new study, researchers found people who like BDSM, which stands for bondage-discipline, dominance-submission and sadism-masochism, were well adjusted and reported slightly better wellbeing than people who don't take part in those activities.
"We do have a lot of academic literature that's finding these positive things and not finding harmful characteristics," said Dr. Beverly Stiles, who has studied BDSMers but was not involved with the new research.
"The people that identify as being part of the (BDSM) subculture, this is who they see themselves as in their core," said Stiles, chair of sociology at Midwestern State University in Wichita Falls, Texas.
"There have been a number of studies in Finland and other places that basically concluded that there was no more or less psychopathology (or mental illnesses) among those who practice BDSM compared to control groups," said Dr. Richard Krueger, who researches sexual behavior but wasn't involved in the new study.
"They were fairly well adjusted or better functioning," said Krueger, an associate clinical professor of psychiatry at the Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons.
The authors recruited 902 BDSM practitioners and 434 people who don't take part in BDSM activities through advertisements to take surveys.
The questionnaire asked about BDSMers' personality, wellbeing and how they handle attachment and rejection.
Overall, BDSMers performed just as well as those who didn't report any involvement in BDSM activities. In fact, they scored slightly better on questions that measure neuroticism, openness, adventurism, wellbeing, awareness and sensitivity to rejection than the comparison group.
Stiles cautioned, however, that the study's participants volunteered, which means they may not be representative of the general population.
Rachel Venning, co-founder of the Babeland chain of adult stores in New York and Seattle, said this was the first time that she had heard that past research connected BDSM and mental illness.
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"We have the section that's got the blindfolds, cuffs and floggers and people don't see it and go 'that's psycho!'" Venning told Reuters Health.
In fact, Babeland stores saw a jump in sales of BDSM items mentioned in E.L. James's popular 2011 romance novel "Fifty Shades of Grey."
"Every person on every airplane and every beach chair was reading a copy of that book. That gave people a little more permission to explore that stuff without making them feel like a freak or weirdo," Venning said.
Stiles told Reuters Health that BDSM practitioners include doctors, nurses and lawyers.
Some diagnostic criteria manuals, in certain European countries, have removed references to BDSM, Krueger said. However, the new edition of the American Psychological Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM-5) still considers sexual masochism a disorder if it causes people stress or dysfunction in their lives.


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The Federal Bureau of Investigation plans to hire roughly 1,000 people, after the Justice Department announced Monday the end of a three-year hiring freeze.
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"Where No Fan Has Gone Before" is the sixty-fifth episode of Futurama, the eleventh of the fourth production season and the twelfth and last of the fourth broadcast season. It aired on 2 April, 2002, on Fox. It guest-stars William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, Walter Koenig, George Takei and Nichelle Nichols as themselves, as well as Jonathan Frakes as himself in a jar. Fry is an avid Star Trek fan, but when he discovers that it has been banned, he seeks out the forgotten tapes.
- 1 The Story
- 2 Production
- 3 Reception
- 4 Additional Info
- 5 Episode Credits
- 6 References
The Story
Act I: "Those words are forbidden!"
The opening scene puts us right into court martial held by Zapp Brannigan in the hold of the Planet Express Ship. Accused of setting foot on the forbidden planet Omega 3 are: Fry, Bender and Leela, witnesses are the heads of the cast of the original Star Trek: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, Walter Koenig, Nichelle Nichols and George Takei. The accused recount the events of the last few days...
While renting some videos, Fry finds out that Star Trek is banned in the 31st century. Nimoy explains that it was once a major religion, but was banished. The tapes of the episodes and movies were deposited on the forbidden planet Omega 3. Fry visits Leonard Nimoy's head in the Head Museum and convinces him to join the search for the rest of the cast, whose heads-in-jars have been lost for 300 years. The Planet Express Ship heads toward Omega 3 to retrieve the tapes, with Leela, Fry, Bender and Nimoy's head on board, and crash-lands on the planet.
The surface is littered with set pieces from the original Star Trek series, and among them, the rest of the cast is assembled - no longer heads-in-jars, but complete. It is revealed that behind all this is a gaseous energy being named Melllvar (looking suspiciously like a bad special effect from the original series), who demonstrates his power by randomly murdering Welshie, the replacement for James Doohan.
Act II: "I am Melllvar, Seer of the Tapes! Knower of the Episodes!"
Now that Melllvar, the self-declared ultimate Trek fan, has the entire original cast complete (Nimoy is provided with a fresh body), he can open the eternal Star Trek Convention, complete with everything: quiz show, autographs, singing contest, fan fiction - all for Melllvar. It turns out that his encyclopaedic knowledge of Star Trek is second to only one - Fry.
In the meantime, the Planet Express crew leave the planet, but decide to return and rescue the actors by trying to destroy Melllvar in a way truly worthy of Star Trek. However, they fail and are dragged to the planet and the Planet Express Ship's drives are disabled. Now Melllvar is not sure who is worthy of his fanatical devotion: the actors or the Planet Express crew, who really are a motley crew of spacefaring adventurers. He chooses the traditional method of all energy beings in Star Trek: a fight to the death.
Act III: "You can't let a TV show be your whole life!"
Just as things are heating up however, Melllvar is called to dinner by his mother and the two crews cooperate to escape. The Trek cast install their own ship's drive on the Planet Express Ship, but find they are slightly too heavy and leave the actors' bodies behind - they are once more reduced to heads-in-jars. Fortunately for Fry, they are still light enough to carry all the episodes.
Melllvar is pursueing them in a mint-condition spaceship when they encounter the Nimbus, and Zapp Brannigan installs his court martial. When he asks what happened to Melllvar, Leela notes out that nothing happened to him, and they are still under attack. Melllvar decides that if he can't have the original Star Trek crew, he won't let anyone else have them either, and continues to try to destroy the ship. Fry persuades him to let them go and get a life instead of letting a TV show be the center of his existence.
The writer of the episode, David A. Goodman, made an effort for this particular episode to include as many references to the original Star Trek series as possible.[1] And his references ranged from obvious ones, such as "Shatner's log", a play on the Captain's log from Star Trek, while there were more subtle ones, such as Shatner's immediate comment about "the impossible has happened" being a reference to the first episode, "Where No Man Has Gone Before", which is the immediate line following the opening.
In addition to writing, much of the animation for this episode was styled after Star Trek, such as the opening where the Planet Express ship flies across the screen like in the original series' openings. As well as the credits sequence's music was replaced with the original Star Trek theme, and using recaps from the episode, something Star Trek did, but Futurama does not. This was also the first Futurama episode to utilize all synthesized music instead of the usual full orchestra. This would become the permanent ordeal due to budget cuts beginning with the first movie.
This episode was subject to censorship by itself.
This episode was named #12 on IGN's list of top 25 Futurama episodes.
Additional Info
- The title caption for this episode is the same as the title. This also happens with "Rebirth" and "Reincarnation".
- This episode is one of two Futurama episodes that do not feature Professor Farnsworth, the other being "The Why of Fry", which is the preceding episode in production order.
- The opening sequence begins with a flyby of the Planet Express Ship fitted with Enterprise nacelles, and a William Shatner Shatner's Log, a play on the "captain's log" that opens nearly every episode of every Star Trek series.
- In the Church of Trek, worshippers are shown wearing Starfleet uniforms, and two have the appearance of the black-and-white aliens from Let That Be Your Last Battlefield.
- One of the Trekkies that is thrown into the volcano wears a shirt reading, "Beam me up Scotty, there's no intelligent life on this planet," a popular bumper sticker slogan.
- As the two men throw Trekkies into the volcano, one of them repeatedly says, "He's dead, Jim." This is a line commonly said by Doctor McCoy (DeForest Kelley).
- In the Head Museum, one of the heads appears to be that of Apu Nahasapeemapetilon from The Simpsons.
- All the tapes of Star Trek are fired out of an Eagle from UK Science Fiction show "Space 1999" in a torpedo, and land on a nearby planet, just as Spock's body was at the end of Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan.
- The estabishing shot of Omega 3 shows props from the Star Trek episodes "Spectre of the Gun," "Who Mourns for Adonais?," "The Gamesters of Triskelion," "The Ultimate Computer," and "The City on the Edge of Forever."
- The trivia contest uses quatloos, the same currency used by the Providers in "The Gamesters of Triskelion."
- The Planet Express Ship fires down on Melllvar, and as in the original series, the beams are shown leaving the ship in diverging directions, but somewhere in between they converge so that both strike the target at the same time, in the same spot - plus they look like the bad special effect in the original series.
- Shatner rips his shirt, a frequent occurrence on the show that was joked about by the cast. During the fight scene with Leela, he also uses the "clasped fist punch" used many times by Kirk which would be startlingly ineffective in a real fight. Leela raising the stone above her head is reminiscent of Kirk's fight scene with Gary Mitchell in "Where No Man Has Gone Before."
- Nichelle Nichols distracts Fry, Leela, and Bender with her famous fan dance as seen in Star Trek V: The Final Frontier.
- Nimoy attempts to nerve-pinch Bender.
- Melllvar's ship looks like a Romulan Bird-of-Prey.
- The ending credits feature the Star Trek Fanfare, and play back images from the episode, as well as a picture of Kif in a parody of the famous "Balok's puppet" alien seen on some of the Original Series ending credits.
- The wheelchair equipped with the Morse lamp in which the witnesses are placed is a spoof of the wheelchair used by the disabled ex-Enterprise captain Christopher Pike in the original Star Trek episode "The Menagerie".
- Nichelle Nichols had her second appearance on the show here, as did Leonard Nimoy.
- Although DeForest Kelley appears in this episode, and is specifically identified by Leonard Nimoy, he never speaks. This is because Kelley had sadly already passed away prior to this episode's conception.
- An ongoing joke in the Star Trek series, if someone was to die on an away mission it was a non-permanent character in a red uniform, or a redshirt. Thus Welshie, the non-permanent character in a red uniform, was killed and re-killed by Melllvar.
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- "Pippi Longtentacles"
- "Moon Men From Mars"
- "Galaxy Wars"
- "Planet of the Clams"
- "The Bellyachers"
- "The Yawning'
- "Werewolf Dog"
- 6 unnamed Jim Carrey movies
- James Doohan, known for playing Scotty in the Star Trek franchise, refused to appear on this episode.
- The robot arm seen putting the Star Trek crew into their ship looks a lot like Bender's mother, so it might be.
- The video showing the Church of Trek depicts a sign stating "Ceiling of the Christine Chapel closed for renovation". The name of the chapel is a reference to both the Sistine Chapel in Rome and on nurse Christine Chapel from the original Star Trek series.
- The fact that Melllvar is referred to as a child by Fry could be a reference to the (possible) Q Trelane, who was amongst Q a child and whose parents appeared almost identical to Melllvar.
- The title caption for "Less than Hero" says that Futurama is "soon to be a major religion". Star Trek, which is referenced in nearly every episode, is revealed to have become a religion centuries ago in this episode.
- Although it is revealed here that the use of the words "Star" and "Trek" together in the same sentence is forbidden, no one reacted that way whenever those words were mentioned in the pilot.
- Fry was interrupted trying to say "Star Trek" in ("Space Pilot 3000").
- During the episode "Brannigan, Begin Again", Hermes says the words "Star Trek" in order to relate DOOP to something Fry is familiar with as the professor is giving the ceremonial ribbon cutting scissors to the crew, and no one reacts as if those words are forbidden.
- "Star Trek: The Pepsi Generation" failed to be forbidden in "That's Lobstertainment!".
- Since only "Star Trek: The Original Series" and its accompanying six movies were specifically mentioned as being forbidden and blasted to Omega 3, it's possible that the subsequent Star Trek shows and movies were never outlawed.
- While Melllvar should have 86 tapes- 79 episodes, 6 movies and "that blooper reel where the door doesn't close all the way," the cart is holding only 85 tapes.
- The blooper reel could be an extra on one of the episode or movie tapes.
- Mellvar may have gotten rid of the blooper reel as he seems to want to think the show is perfect.
- The blooper reel could be an extra on one of the episode or movie tapes.
- When Fry is telling Melllvar to rethink his life, he is clearly holding Shatner's head is his arms. However, after Melllvar flies off, Shatner is suddenly on the table with the rest of his cast members.
Fry: All this time we thought he was a powerful superbeing! Yet he was just a child...
Melllvar's Mom: He's not a child, he's thirty-four!
Walter Koenig: When we woke up, we had these bodies.
Fry: Say it in Russian!
Walter Koenig: [groans] Vhen ve voke up, ve had these wodies.
Fry: Eeee! Now say "nuclear wessels"!
Walter Koenig: No!
Leonard Nimoy: Melllvar, you have to respect your actors. When I directed Star Trek IV, I got a magnificent performance out of Bill because I respected him so much.
William Shatner: And when I directed Star Trek V, I got a magnificent performance out of me, because I respected me so much!
Leonard Nimoy: Hey, we've done heroic things too!
Nichelle Nichols: Yeah. In the third season, I kissed Shatner.
Fry: Look at Walter Koenig. After Star Trek, he became an actor.
Walter Koenig: Not just an actor, but a well-rounded person. With my own friends and credit cards and keys.
Nichelle Nichols: What if I distract them with my famous fan dance?
William Shatner: Oh, that's good, good, good. And then, George, you hit them with a karate chop.
George Takei: I find that offensive! Just because I'm of Japanese ancestry, you assume I know karate. Have I ever led you to believe that I've studied karate?
William Shatner: Well, no. But, you never talk about yourself.
George Takei: [sadly] Maybe if you showed a little interest...
Fry: [Melllvar has just killed Welshie.] WELLLLSHIEEEEEEEEE!
- Bender
- Bender's mother (possibly)
- Debut: DeForest Kelley
- Dick Clark's head (cameo, unknown moment)
- Fry
- Debut: George Takei
- Debut: Jonathan Frakes
- Kif
- Leela
- Leonard Nimoy
- Nichelle Nichols
- Matt Groening's head (cameo, unknown moment)
- Debut: Melllvar
- Debut: Melllvar's Mom
- Mike D's head (cameo, unknown moment)
- Pamela Anderson's head (cameo, unknown moment)
- Debut: William Shatner
- Smitty and Url
- Spock
- Debut: Video Store Clerk
- Debut: Walter Koenig
- Debut: Welshie
- Debut: Welshie's cousin (mentioned in speech only)
- Zapp Brannigan
- Zoidberg
Episode Credits
- Writer
- Director
- Voice Actors
- DVD Commentary
- Special Guests
- ^ Goodman, David. Commentary for "Where No Fan Has Gone Before" on Volume Four, disc 2.


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The UFC's "Primetime" series returned on Thursday with the first episode previewing "UFC 157: Rousey vs. Carmouche."
Thursday's first of three episodes goes inside the lives of UFC 157 headliners Ronda Rousey (6-0 MMA, 0-0 UFC) and Liz Carmouche (7-2 MMA, 0-0 UFC). The two fight later this month in the first women's bout in UFC history.
Thursday's premiere episode includes an emotional conclusion from Rousey, the first women's bantamweight champion in UFC history, as she discusses the death of her father when she was young and how it affects her today.
The complete episode is available here. The second and third episodes in the series will air next week and during fight week for UFC 157.
"UFC 157: Rousey vs. Carmouche" takes place Feb. 23 at Honda Center in Anaheim, Calif. The evening's main card airs on pay-per-view following prelims on FX and Facebook.
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Actually a shorten season will play heavily into the discussion esp with this make it whole provision they have been discussing, even in a shorten season there are still revenue, they need to decided if they changes they are putting in place would start day 1 of the new CBA or would be pushed til next year. So its not a small trivial matter, the league took in 3.3 billion last year, even if we chop of say a 1/3 of the season that still over 2 billion dollars.
Yeah but Don said he wants the players paid in full for this season even if they play a shortened season. Owners will only pay a prorated portion of the season. So even if a deal gets done, you got to deal with that.


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Before the Ha'penny Bridge was built there were seven ferries, operated by a William Walsh, across the Liffey. The ferries were in a bad condition and Walsh was informed that he had to either fix them or build a bridge.
Walsh chose the latter option and was granted the right to extract a ha'penny toll from anyone crossing it for 100 years. Initially the toll charge was based, not on the cost of construction, but to match the charges levied by the ferries it replaced.
A further condition of construction was that, if the citizens of Dublin found the bridge and toll to be "objectionable" within its first year of operation, it was to be removed at no cost to the city.
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Incredimail launches for iPad with a photo inbox and built-in browser
Many of us whose parents discovered the internet in the past decade are all too familiar with Incredimail, mostly through the excessively cute stationery that would come attached to virtually every message. It's time to shake some of those old preconceptions now that an iPad version is here. The tablet port has stationery for anyone who craves it, but it's more focused on becoming a one-stop shop for everything associated with communication: it centers on a unified inbox for IMAP-based email accounts (POP3 soon) that shows quick peeks of both mail and any included links. Users won't have to leave the app at all for a few common non-messaging tasks. There's both an integrated web browser as well as a photo inbox that currently shows Facebook images, with plans to support Flickr, Instagram and Picasa in the long run. Those on Android devices or the iPhone will have to wait for their eventual turns at Incredimail, but everyone using Apple's tablet can give it a whirl today, for free -- even if they have no intentions of sending messages that could be confused with greeting cards.
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Jaffe: Many 2014 Predictions Were Wrong
Marketwatch's Chuck Jaffe points out as the calendar is just hitting the home stretch for the year, it's time to recognize that virtually everyone who made calculated forecasts for 2014 was wrong. Photo: Andrew St. Clair for The Wall Street Journal.
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yet listen to the market experts just about a year ago ... all you have done everything wrong they were all long this year everything that they said was going to happen has not happened was that important ... because in a couple weeks ago to start making their predictions for twenty fifteen and Chuck Jaffe for MarketWatch ... is here to talk about the silly season ... and yet to use to love all this time last year ... at the road was the silly season was in it ... yes and you know sort of like the Christmas shopping season to keep moving it more and more forward right and all that really does is make sure that probably every year from your forward again to be much more wrong ... yet but they were really bad last year there are really bad look everybody was saying that the stock market was going to to Paul's if not have the big correction phase in interest rates are going to go up ... though things didn't happen ... now and so what you can wind up with this year is that much more of the same anime or doubling of your posts in one stranger gonna go up only one or two middle say that many can wait until twenty sixteen ... are definitely when the stock market haven't gone just about three years without a decline of at least ten percent ... did I wind up seeing everybody said well the normal average is about once every twelve months since World War two ... so who are way overdue so it's gonna happen ... and are more than a few people that seven everybody expects something that's precisely what it doesn't happen ... so ... what how does these forecasts that ... is so bold to say oh I was just early ... but when you were early you were role ... and so we have to recognize that would wind up with another raft of protections ... and are all pretty much be equally wrong ... the existing Utah tele enough for the stock analysts these guys a lot of their targets for the end of the year ... and if you talk to enough then you finally realize that ... they know that it's going darts at a board and they know that that is more or less the game to play discounting get people's attention ... so sure how much attention to people who pay ... to these forecasts ... well I think you should pay attention to forecasts that makes sense to you but I think you wanna go up and get some divergent opinions I mean did you hear somebody makes a really compelling case for the market to be on a hell of a handcart while you wanna make sure you ... build her portfolio protect from some of that but you also want to remember that back I probably was predicting it this year and they've been wrong ... so you wanna mix it with some of the other things I mean if you won a reason to diversify listened to enough prognostications cuz ... we know that they all have been in truth they have a bit of a sound okay I have a tendency to be wrong ... and ... you know we can look at the future and know that it's basically going to be the same only much much longer ... at the same things happening so you wanna take ... a number of things and I'm rather than just say ok well all those in the three guys who are saying the market when the haka get not here ... for the three guys it's a buy everything in you NovoLog and adjusts the wrong time I chop up in on the spot give me one prediction for the next twelve months ... that one critics in the next twelve months is that everybody ... who makes predictions in the next four months will deny them ... or say come up with the reason why they are wrong before we get to this point next year ... to hide that fact fallen out will take this up again probably just about another


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You've Got to See This Remarkable Off-Grid Cabin Built by Snowboarding Legend Mike Basich
Mike Basich once lived in a luxurious 4,000 square foot mansion, but right now, the former professional snowboarder is living out his childhood dreams in a tiny cabin in the snow-covered Sierra Nevada mountains.
But really, his 250-square-foot, off-grid home in Soda Springs, California is a dream come true for anyone who appreciates living off of the land.
Featured recently on the YouTube series Seeker Stories, Basich's home is a labor of love constructed over a five-year stretch. It's a fortress made with 175 tons of mountain rock that he and some friends moved with their own hands.
Nicknamed Area-241, the house gets powered by the sun, heat from a single fireplace and has a wood-fired hot tub with water supplied from a nearby waterfall. The pad sits on at 40-acre piece of land and has everything one possibly needs and even a personal chairlift.
There's one exception ... for whatever reason, Basich hasn't installed an indoor toilet, though he said in an interview about simple living: "It's always going to be hard—that's the best part about it all in some ways. To focus on what you are willing to give up if needed to make it happen, like using an outdoor toilet versus something you're use to, etc.").
At one point in his snowboarding career, Basich told Seeker Stories he was pulling $170,000 a year and bought a giant home and a fancy car. When asked by host Lisa Ling why he decided to leave all that for something much simpler, he explained: "It didn't do anything different for me. It just took up time."
Now that he no longer in the professional circuit, he's found a second calling as a snowboarding photographer and does a lot of work with extreme-action video camera makers GoPro, of course.
"Nature inspires me, and that's why I choose this kind of environment," he said. "I want to learn how to live off the grid, have appreciation for nature, and how to keep the rain off my head and stay warm."
"I like to think of it as getting back to the basics of humanity," he added. "I like feeling connected to the Earth more than I could with a 4,000 square foot house."
In the video, Basich takes the viewer on a tour of his cabin and explains how its design inspiration came from the golden ratio law of nature.
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How Air Pollution, Food Delivery and Plastic Waste Are Connected
Researchers from the National University of Singapore (NUS) have discovered a link between air pollution, food delivery and plastic waste.
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By Matthew J. Landry and Heather Eicher-Miller
When university presidents were surveyed in spring of 2020 about what they felt were the most pressing concerns of COVID-19, college students going hungry didn't rank very high.
Why It Matters
This is not just a matter of growling stomachs. This is a straight-up education and health issue.

When students don't really know if they'll be able to get enough to eat, it can lead to a series of problems that make it harder to stay in school. For instance, it can affect academic performance and sleep quality. It can also lead to poor mental and physical health outcomes for college students.

Food insecurity can also result in disrupted eating patterns if there is not enough food or the variety or quality of what someone eats is low.

Campus Food Pantries
Previous strategies by colleges and universities to fight hunger in their student bodies have varied widely. They include campus food pantries, emergency cash assistance and nutrition education through noncredit classes or workshopse.

These strategies were put to the test during the spring 2020 semester, when nearly three in five students said they had trouble meeting their own basic needs during the pandemic.

College food pantries saw big increases in demand. Others said they were getting less donated food. This made it even harder to meet the rising food needs of students.

Campus food pantries largely rely on local or regional food banks, which have been dealing with greater demand than they are able to meet during the pandemic.

The many students who are attending college remotely will, of course, have less access to campus resources like food pantries.

Federal Help
Other potential ways to get more food are government programs like the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, known as SNAP. Yet the majority of able-bodied students are not eligible. Long-standing restrictions, like the college SNAP rule, prevent full-time students from receiving these benefits.

Such regulatory hurdles were created under the assumption that most students can rely on their parents to get enough to eat. However, college students have vastly different levels of financial support. Some students can rely on their parents for everything and others cannot rely on their parents for anything.

Decreased reliance on parental financial support is especially common for first-generation students and students of color, who now make up 45% of enrolled college students.

Under normal circumstances, many college students might rely on part-time jobs to pay for their food.

Short-Term Solutions
Universities and colleges can make it a priority to ensure students are aware of all available campus resources and services. They can also potentially help students apply for federal assistance benefits.

Campus food pantries are not a fully effective and efficacious solution for the scale of college food insecurity, but they can be a good interim solution to increase access to food for students.

Campuses without food pantries can start one, making use of resources the College and University Food Bank Alliance provides. Schools with food pantries can try to get them to reach more students.

Universities and colleges can also lean on one another for support. The Alabama Campus Coalition for Basic Needs is a great example of this. It brings together 10 universities across the state of Alabama collectively working to address student food insecurity.

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High Potency CBD Oil At An Amazing Price
Plain Naturals is making waves in the CBD space with a new product line for retail customers looking for high potency CBD products at industry-low prices.
Is More CBD Really Better?
Plain Naturals offers a 5000mg CBD oil tincture in 30ml bottle for $99.99.
Consumers have gotten used to paying high prices for low amounts of cannabidiol. Plain Naturals is beginning to change that. There are myriad studies showing that low doses of CBD (less than 50mg per day) are ineffective for many users. And many clinical studies have shown effective dosages of 100 - 800mg per day to be effective for many conditions ranging from anxiety and depression to Parkinson's disease and cancer. And several studies published by the National Institutes of Health have shown up to 1500mg per day to be consistently "well-tolerated" by adults.

Now it is always recommended to begin with a lower dosage and increase until an effective dose has been reached. But the advantage of starting with a higher potency CBD oil is that it is much easier to use less to start with and increase over time than to buy very low dose CBD oil and ultimately end up buying more and more stronger products. To start at 50mg per dose of a 5000mg oil, you would simply use ⅓ dropper or about 10-12 drops.

The Truth About CBD Product Potency
CBD gummies from Plain Naturals are 100% vegan and sugar free.
Unlike most CBD brands which can be much smoke and mirrors when it comes to stating their product quality, potency and consistency, PlainNaturals.com has lab tests conducted by FDA/DEA approved laboratories and publishes their product lab test reports right on their website so customers know the quality of the product they are buying.

In a recent report published by the Food and Drug Administration, FDA tested 147 cbd oils and cbd products. They found that of the 102 products that indicated a specific amount of CBD, 18 products (18%) contained less than 80% of the amount of CBD indicated; 46 products (45%) contained within 20% of the amount of CBD indicated; 38 products (37%) contained more than 120% of the amount of CBD indicated and of those 147 products, the FDA also found nearly half contained levels of THC above the limit of 3.1 mg per serving (or .3%).

So there's a 70% chance that a CBD consumer is not getting what they pay for and a 50% chance that the product they are buying may not be legal.

When you buy CBD oil online from PlainNaturals.com, you also get an unconditional money back guarantee and the manufacturer's warranty of the product quality and potency.

CBD and Hemp Creams offer high-benefit, low-cost options to consumers.
Plain Naturals has taken the uncertainty out of the online CBD store process. By offering detailed laboratory reports on all their products and offering a money back guarantee, PlainNaturals.com online CBD store puts control back in the hands of the consumer when it comes to making their decision about where to buy CBD online.

In all 50 states and at the federal level it is 100% legal to buy CBD oil online from an online CBD store provided that the product meets the standards set forth in federal regulations, containing not more than 0.3% THC and manufactured from industrial hemp.

PlainNaturals.com offers CBD (Cannabidiol) products like CBD Oils, CBD gummies and edibles, CBD isolate powder, wholesale CBD, CBD and hemp cream and essential oils. PlainNaturals.com continues to be a top supplier of wholesale CBD products to retailers and has also opened a retailer online portal for stores and CBD dealers to buy CBD in bulk.

EcoWatch readers can take advantage of a special offer from PlainNaturals.com and save an additional 25% off any purchase of $99 or more through 10/31/20 with coupon code ecowatch25.

Mysterious Oil Spill Spreads Along 11 Miles of Delaware Beach
Environmental officials and members of the U.S. Coast Guard are racing to clean up a mysterious oil spill that has spread to 11 miles of Delaware coastline.
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By Dr. Kate Raynes-Goldie
Of all the plastic we've ever produced, only 9% has been recycled. So what happened to all that plastic you've put in the recycling bin over the years?
Triangle of Mistruths
The myth created around plastic recycling has been one of simplicity. We look for the familiar triangle arrows, then pop the waste in the recycling bin so it can be reused.

But the true purpose of those triangles has been misunderstood by the general public ever since their invention in the 1980s.

These triangles were actually created by the plastics industry and, according to a report provided to them in July 1993, were creating "unrealistic expectations" about what could be recycled. But they decided to keep using the codes.

Which is why many people still believe that these triangular symbols (also known as a resin identifier code or RIC) means something is recyclable.

But according to the American Society for Testing and Materials International (ASTM) – which controls the RIC system – the numbered triangles "are not recycle codes." In fact, they weren't created for the general public at all. They were made for the post-consumer plastic industry.

In other words, the symbols make it easier to sort the different types of plastics, some of which cannot be recycled – depending on the recycling facility.

"Unfortunately, just placing your plastic into the recycling bin doesn't mean it will get recycled," says Lara Camilla Pinho. She is an architect and lecturer at the UWA School of Design who is researching novel uses of plastic waste.

"The recycling system is complicated and often dictated by market demand. Not all plastic is recyclable. We cannot recycle plastic bags or straws for example."

Behind the Scenes
So, what makes recycling plastics so difficult?

"Essentially, there are two types of plastics – thermoplastics and thermosets. While thermoplastics can be re-melted and re-molded, thermosets contain cross-linked polymers that cannot be separated meaning they cannot be recycled," says Lara.

"Even thermoplastics have a limit to the amount of times we can recycle them, as each time they are recycled they downgrade in quality."

Even when plastics are recyclable, it is often more costly than simply making new plastics.

Sugar, Seaweed and Mushrooms
If the conventional recycling system isn't working, what else can we do with all the plastic we've created?

Lara is looking for ways to add value to recycled plastics such as using it in the design and development of architectural products. She hopes to use these architectural products to help underserved communities that are disproportionately affected by plastic waste.

In addition to recycling, we also need to find ways to reduce our use of virgin petroleum-based plastics.

Bioplastic is one such product that has been getting a lot of hype over the last few years. And although they're better than petroleum-based plastics, bioplastics also come with their own set of challenges.

"There are already a lot of bio-based alternatives to plastic, such as bagasse – a byproduct of sugar cane processing," says Lara.

Mycelium, a type of fungi we most often associate with mushrooms, are also providing an interesting plastic alternative.

"In the field of architecture, mycelium is starting to be used as an alternative to plastic insulation, but also as compostable packaging and bricks," says Lara.

"The bricks take around five days to make and are strong, durable, water resistant and compostable at the end of their use."

Hy-Fi Tower, created by The Living, is an example of a building made from these bricks.

And finally, there's seaweed.

"[Seaweed is] cheap and can reproduce itself quickly without fertilizers. In architecture, there is use for seaweed as an alternative to plastic insulation but also as cladding," says Lara.

More Money, More Problems
While all these alternatives are great, the main cause of our plastic dilemma is not scientific or technological, but economic.

As long as it remains cheaper to create new plastics from fossil fuels rather than from bioplastics or from recycling, we're going to be stuck with plastic garbage islands floating in our oceans.

The true cost to our health and our environment has yet to be included in the equation. But once it is, maybe that is when the real shift will happen.

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A-Rod gets break, then delivers first career pinch-hit
ST. PETERSBURG -- Alex Rodriguez received a scheduled day off on Sunday as the Yankees try to keep the third baseman's legs fresh while navigating a stretch of games on artificial turf.
The Yankees are in the heart of a six-game road trip that is taking them to Tropicana Field and Rogers Centre in Toronto, so manager Joe Girardi said that he selected Sunday -- a day game after a night game -- to rest Rodriguez.
"Whenever we get on this turf six days in a row, it was a concern last year for some of our guys," Girardi said. "That's partly because of age, and we try to manage them carefully. Sometimes you can run them into the ground, and then they're not productive when they're playing, so you have to pick your days."
Rodriguez did come off the bench in the 10th inning of the Yankees' 3-2 win, delivering a single for the first pinch-hit of his career (1-for-15).
Girardi said that his hope is that the 38-year-old Rodriguez will be able to play in all three of the night games at Toronto.
Rodriguez's production has cooled since an emotional nationally televised game a week ago against the Red Sox in Boston. In five games since his plunking and homer off Ryan Dempster, Rodriguez has gone 2-for-18 (.111) with seven strikeouts.
"Sometimes you just make decisions because you think it's the right thing to do," Girardi said. "Guys are going to want to be out there, but I think sometimes putting him out there becomes counterproductive over a long period of time."