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* TEPCO uncertain about when services for millions will be restored
* Blackouts can happen outside of the devastated areas
* Fukushima 1 valves were opened and steam was released to cool the
reactor - steam contained radiation
* Electricity in four prefectures was totally cut off: Miyagi with 1.38
million households, Aomori with 790,000, Iwate with 750,000 and Akita with
* 5.1 million households in the Tohoku and Kanto regions was still out on
Saturday; 4.1 million within Tohoku Electric Power Co.'s operation -
attempting to restore safe service, but no timeline has been provided
-Yamagata Prefecture, or some 450,000 households, were also out, and
190,000 houses in Fukushima Prefecture also experienced a blackout.
* 640,000 in Ibaraki, 210,000 in Tochigi and 130,000 in Chiba, are without
* Tokyo and Gunma, Saitama, Yamanashi and Shizuoka prefecture electricty
Explosion at Japanese nuclear plant raises fears
* Trains dissappeared
* Thousands missing
* 50,000 Japanese troops for rescue/recovery missions
* More than a million households without water
Japan earthquake: Officials say nuclear catastrophe averted
* Reactor core allegedly intact
* Damage confined to walls and roof around the reactor; metal casing
* A "tiny" amount of radiation has leaked according to Chief Cabinet
Secretary Yukio Edano, saying a**There was no large amount of radiation
leakage outside. At this point, there has been no major change to the
level of radiation leakage outside, so we'd like everyone to respond
*Sea water used to cool the reactor
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Tepco warns of blackouts, urges energy cut
Compiled from Kyodo, Staff report
Millions of households affected by Friday's horrific temblor and tsunami
are experiencing interruptions to water, gas and electricity supplies, and
exactly when they will be restored is uncertain.
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On Saturday, Tokyo Electric Power Co. warned that blackouts could strike
in many areas, not just in the zone of devastation, because damage to
power-generation facilities has left electricity in short supply.
Tepco called on both companies and individuals to save power and sought
help from other utilities in supplying electricity. In addition, it
decided to cancel a plan to suspend power supplies for about three hours
on a rotational and regional basis Sunday but said it might be
reconsidered for Monday.
Tepco, operator of the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant, opened valves to
release pressure from inside the container housing the reactors, a move
that led to the release of a small amount of radioactive steam.
Industry minister Banri Kaieda also issued a plea to restrict electricity
As of Saturday noon, electricity at about 5.1 million households in the
Tohoku and Kanto regions was still out. About 4.1 million are within
Tohoku Electric Power Co.'s operation, and the utility is trying to resume
safe operations, but cannot predict when this will occur.
According to Tohoku Electric, electricity in four prefectures was totally
cut off: Miyagi with 1.38 million households, Aomori with 790,000, Iwate
with 750,000 and Akita with 530,000.
Almost all areas where electricity is supplied in Yamagata Prefecture, or
some 450,000 households, were also out, and 190,000 houses in Fukushima
Prefecture also experienced a blackout.
As for the Kanto region, Tepco said about 1 million households in three
prefectures, 640,000 in Ibaraki, 210,000 in Tochigi and 130,000 in Chiba,
are without electricity, while the recovery is under way. The supply for
Tokyo and Gunma, Saitama, Yamanashi and Shizuoka prefectures has been
Explosion at Japanese nuclear plant raises fears
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IWAKI, Japan (AP) a** An explosion shattered a building housing a nuclear
reactor Saturday, amid fears of a meltdown, while across wide swaths of
northeastern Japanofficials searched for thousands of people missing more
than a day after a devastatingearthquake and tsunami.
* Smoke rises from Fukushima Dai-ichi power plant's Unit 1 in Okumamachi
in Japan's Fukushima prefecture on Saturday.
NTV Japan via AP
Smoke rises from Fukushima Dai-ichi power plant's Unit 1 in Okumamachi
in Japan's Fukushima prefecture on Saturday.
NTV Japan via AP
Smoke rises from Fukushima Dai-ichi power plant's Unit 1 in Okumamachi in
Japan's Fukushima prefecture on Saturday.
The confirmed death toll from Friday's twin disasters was 686, but the
government's chief spokesman said it could exceed 1,000. Devastation
stretched hundreds of miles along the coast, where thousands of hungry
survivors huddled in darkened emergency centers cut off from rescuers,
electricity and aid.
The scale of destruction was not yet known, but there were grim signs that
the death toll could soar. One report said four whole trains had
disappeared Friday and still not been located. Others said 9,500 people in
one coastal town were unaccounted for and that at least 200 bodies had
washed ashore elsewhere.
* COMPLETE COVERAGE: Japan copes with devastation
* PHOTOS: Tsunami hits Japan
Atsushi Ito, an official in Miyagi prefecture, among the worst hit states,
could not confirm those figures, noting that with so little access to the
area, thousands of people in scores of town could not be contacted or
accounted for.
"Our estimates based on reported cases alone suggest that more than 1,000
people have lost their lives in the disaster," Chief Cabinet Secretary
Yukio Edano said. "Unfortunately, the actual damage could far exceed that
number considering the difficulty assessing the full extent of damage."
Among the most worrying developments was concerns that a nuclear reacter
could melt down. Edano said Saturday's explosion was caused by vented
hydrogen gas and destroyed the exterior walls of the building where the
reactor is, but not the actual metal housing enveloping the reactor.
Edano said the radiation around the Fukushima Dai-ichi plant had not risen
after the blast, but had in fact decreased.
Three people being evacuated from an area near the plant have been exposed
to radiation, Yoshinori Baba, a Fukushima prefectural disaster official,
confirmed. But he said they showed no signs of illness.
Virtually any increase in ambient radiation can raise long-term cancer
rates, and authorities were planning to distribute iodine, which helps
protect against thyroid cancer.
Authorities have also evacuated people from a 12-mile radius around the
The explosion was caused by hydrogen interacting with oxygen outside the
reactor. The hydrogen was formed when the superheated fuel rods came in
contact with water being poured over it to prevent a meltdown.
"They are working furiously to find a solution to cool the core, and this
afternoon in Europe we heard that they have begun to inject sea water into
the core," said Mark Hibbs, a senior associate at the Nuclear Policy
Program for the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. "That is an
indication of how serious the problem is and how the Japanese had to
resort to unusual and improvised solutions to cool the reactor core."
Officials have said that radiation levels were elevated before the blast:
At one point, the plant was releasing each hour the amount of radiation a
person normally absorbs from the environment each year.
The explosion was preceded by puff of white smoke that gathered intensity
until it became a huge cloud enveloping the entire facility, located in
Fukushima, 20 miles from Iwaki. After the explosion, the walls of the
building crumbled, leaving only a skeletal metal frame.
Tokyo Power Electric Co., the utility that runs the Fukushima Dai-ichi
plant, said four workers suffered fractures and bruises and were being
treated at a hospital.
The trouble began at the plant's Unit 1 after the massive 8.9-magnitude
earthquake and the tsunami it spawned knocked out power there, depriving
it of its cooling system.
Power was knocked out by the quake in large areas of Japan, which has
requested increased energy supplies from Russia, Russia's RIA Novosti
agency reported.
The concerns about a radiation leak at the nuclear power plant
overshadowed the massive tragedy laid out along a 1,300-mile stretch of
the coastline where scores of villages, towns and cities were battered by
the tsunami, packing 23-feet high waves.
It swept inland about six miles in some areas, swallowing boats, homes,
cars, trees and everything else.
"The tsunami was unbelievably fast," said Koichi Takairin, a 34-year-old
truck driver who was inside his sturdy four-ton rig when the wave hit the
port town of Sendai.
"Smaller cars were being swept around me," he said. "All I could do was
sit in my truck."
His rig ruined, he joined the steady flow of survivors who walked along
the road away from the sea and back into the city on Saturday.
Smashed cars and small airplanes were jumbled up against buildings near
the local airport, several miles from the shore. Felled trees and wooden
debris lay everywhere as rescue workers coasted on boats through murky
waters around flooded structures, nosing their way through a sea of
Late Saturday night, firefighters had yet to contain a large blaze at the
Cosmo Oil refinery in the city of Ichihara.
According to official figures, 642 people are missing and missing 1,426
Prime Minister Naoto Kan said 50,000 troops joined rescue and recovery
efforts, aided by boats and helicopters. Dozens of countries also offered
President Obama pledged U.S. assistance following what he called a
potentially "catastrophic" disaster. He said one U.S. aircraft carrier was
already in Japan and a second was on its way.
More than 215,000 people were living in 1,350 temporary shelters in five
prefectures, the national police agency said.
Aid has barely begun to trickle into many areas.
"All we have to eat are biscuits and rice balls," said Noboru Uehara, 24,
a delivery truck driver who was wrapped in a blanket against the cold at
center in Iwake. "I'm worried that we will run out of food."
Since the quake, more than 1 million households have not had water, mostly
concentrated in northeast. Some 4 million buildings were without power.
About 24% of electricity in Japan is produced by 55 nuclear power units in
17 plants and some were in trouble after the quake.
Japan declared states of emergency at two power plants after their units
lost cooling ability.
Although the government spokesman played down fears of radiation leak, the
Japanese nuclear agency spokesman Shinji Kinjo acknowledged there were
still fears of a meltdown.
A "meltdown" is not a technical term. Rather, it is an informal way of
referring to a very serious collapse of a power plant's systems and its
ability to manage temperatures.
Yaroslov Shtrombakh, a Russian nuclear expert, said a Chernobyl-style
meltdown was unlikely.
"It's not a fast reaction like at Chernobyl," he said. "I think that
everything will be contained within the grounds, and there will be no big
In 1986, the Chernobyl nuclear reactor exploded and caught fire, sending a
cloud of radiation over much of Europe. That reactor a** unlike the
Fukushima one a** was not housed in a sealed container, so there was no
way to contain the radiation once the reactor exploded.
The reactor in trouble has already leaked some radiation: Before the
explosion, operators had detected eight times the normal radiation levels
outside the facility and 1,000 times normal inside Unit 1's control room.
An evacuation area around the plant was expanded to a radius of 12 miles
from the six miles before. People in the expanded area were advised to
leave quickly; 51,000 residents were previously evacuated.
"Everyone wants to get out of the town. But the roads are terrible," said
Reiko Takagi, a middle-aged woman, standing outside a taxi company. "It is
too dangerous to go anywhere. But we are afraid that winds may change and
bring radiation toward us."
The transport ministry said all highways from Tokyo leading to quake-hit
areas were closed, except for emergency vehicles. Mobile communications
were spotty and calls to the devastated areas were going unanswered.
Local TV stations broadcast footage of people lining up for water and food
such as rice balls. In Fukushima, city officials were handing out bottled
drinks, snacks and blankets. But there were large areas that were
surrounded by water and were unreachable.
One hospital in Miyagi prefecture was seen surrounded by water. The staff
had painted an SOS on its rooftop and were waving white flags.
Technologically advanced Japan is well prepared for quakes and its
buildings can withstand strong jolts, even a temblor like Friday's, which
was the strongest the country has experienced since official records
started in the late 1800s. What was beyond human control was the killer
tsunami that followed.
Japan's worst previous quake was a magnitude 8.3 temblor in Kanto that
killed 143,000 people in 1923, according to the USGS. A magnitude 7.2
quake in Kobe killed 6,400 people in 1995.
Japan lies on the "Ring of Fire" a** an arc of earthquake and volcanic
zones stretching around the Pacific where about 90% of the world's quakes
occur, including the one that triggered the Dec. 26, 2004, Indian Ocean
tsunami that killed an estimated 230,000 people in 12 countries. A
magnitude-8.8 quake that shook central Chile in February 2010 also
generated a tsunami and killed 524 people.
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may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
Japan earthquake: Officials say nuclear catastrophe averted
Fears of a nuclear meltdown in Japan have subsided after a reactor that
was damaged in Fridaya**s devastating earthquake reportedly emerged intact
from an explosion.
37 minutes ago
By Justin McCurry, Correspondent / March 12, 2011
Fears of a nuclear meltdown in Japan have subsided after a reactor that
was damaged in Fridaya**s devastating earthquake reportedly emerged intact
from an explosion.
Skip to next paragraph
A day after the country was thrown into chaos by a fierce tsunami
triggered by the largest earthquake in Japana**s history, the country was,
for a few terrifying hours, bracing itself for a possible nuclear
Television cameras captured the moment that smoke poured from what at
first appeared to be one of four reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear
plant, located 150 miles north of Tokyo.
IN PICTURES: Japan's 8.9 earthquake
After a few nerve-wracking hours, however, the government and the
planta**s operator, Tokyo Electric Power, said the damage had been
confined to the walls and roof surrounding the reactor, sparing its metal
The chief cabinet secretary, Yukio Edano, told a televised press
conference that radiation around the plant had, in fact, started to
A a**tinya** amount of radiation had leaked earlier in the day when
officials attempted to relieve pressure inside the reactor.
a**We have confirmed that the walls of this building were what exploded,
and not the reactora**s container,a** Edano said, adding, a**There was no
large amount of radiation leakage outside. At this point, there has been
no major change to the level of radiation leakage outside, so we'd like
everyone to respond calmly.a**
Some exposure to radiation
Tokyo Electric said four workers had suffered minor injuries in the
explosion and were being treated in hospital. But Japanese TV reported
that three people who were seeking refuge nearby when the explosion
occurred may have been exposed to radiation.
The reactor was one of several at two nuclear plants in Fukushima
prefecture whose cooling systems failed after the area was shaken by
Fridaya**s 8.9-magnitude earthquake.
Prior to the explosion, officials had detected eight times the normal
radiation levels outside the facility, and 1,000 times normal inside the
affected reactora**s control room.
As officials attempted to relieve the pressure building up inside the
affected reactors, the chilling prospect of a Chernobyl-style meltdown
momentarily drew media attention away from the human tragedy unfolding
elsewhere in the region.
As a precaution, the government expanded evacuation zones around both of
the affected plants and advised residents to leave the area. In all more
than 51,000 resident living near the facilities have been evacuated.
Many feared the worst when TV pictures showed the reactor building had
been reduced to its metal frame.
Sea water used to cool reactor
The firm said it planned to fill the reactor with sea water to cool it
down and reduce pressure, while officials said its core remained intact.
The International Atomic Energy Agency said it was urgently seeking
details from Japanese authorities, adding that plans were being made to
distribute iodine to local residents.
The incident could call into question Japana**s enthusiasm for nuclear
power. The countrya**s 54 reactors provide 30 percent of its electricity,
and there are plans to increase provision to 50 percent by 2030. But the
industry has been plagued by accidents and allegations of cover-ups.
Anti-nuclear campaigners said the dangers of a serious accident remained.
a**Fukushima remains under threat of a serious reactor meltdown,a** said
Jan Beranek, head of Greenpeace Internationala**s nuclear campaign.
a**This would potentially create an iodine cloud, which could spread high
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And our first show is 4/20.
I'm ready.
I've been ready for years.
I'm at work.
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I think I would have best chance at a Capital One but I don't want 3 HP's and I don't want a $300-$500 Credit Line on a Business account that won't increase!
The catch also those is I don't want ANY store cards, I want Visa/MC,Discover, Amex.
Amex I'm still Blacklisted.
Discover Personal declined for INQ and to much debt about 2 months ago.
I would go try a Sams Discover but the closest location is about 45 miles and it's terrible, I would never go, Walmart just as sparce and terrible... I have a personal Walmart Store and I shop onine only now and am trying to just pay it down and sit little less usage.
Any other options?
My TU is my best and cleanest.
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i met my current boyfriend a few years ago. he wasnt in a place emotionally to start a relationship and he had a family member pass away. he moved from new york to the west coast to resolve things and clear his head. we talked the whole time and he decided 9 months ago to move back here to be with me.
we had some fights when he got back. mostly over small things. insecurity issues that came up. ive always tried my best to be open with him and make his transition here better, knowing how hard it was for him moving futher away from his family. they live closer to california. my family has been so supportive of him and welcoming. all of my friends love him and love how happy i have been.
he has been here short of a year (9 months) and wants to move again. my situation doesnt really afford me to move with him. if he did move it would probably be to his hometown which is not a major city and doesnt offer any opportunity for me. i would be living his life if i moved with him.
i'm not sure what to do. we broke up so he could figure it all out and make a decision. we are still here in new york an i have been extremely depressed about how immobilized i am. i want him to stay. i also know i cant force an ultimatum or decision on him in a certain timeframe. i also know its only been about a month of this limbo and i am already going crazy. ive been trying my best to just be patient and focus on myself completely.
i guess i just would like some support or insight into what others would do. should i just move on knowing he probably will move? i wish i were enough to keep him here but i dont think i am. and i am having such a hard time processing that. it feels like he just moved back yesterday, and i dont know where or what city he would be happy in. i wish he would give it a full chance here.
i am heart broken :(
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You wish you were "enough to keep him here"? J, no one would be enough! HE has a problem, he runs away from his problems. Who moves across the country to "clear" their head because a family member passed away? He has problems with insecurity? You're turning cartwheels to make him happy, and you're just wasting your time. He has problems that you will never solve....he needs professional counseling, and insecure people will rarely agree to get help. "Normal" people don't have to "break up" to make decisions.......they just make them! Maybe he "broke up" but you haven't.......you're in limbo, limbo of your own making. You don't know where he would be happy? Guess what? He won't be happy anywhere because where ever he goes, he takes his problems with him. Even if he stays where you are.......you need to accept the fact that he has serious problems, and if you don't make the break final and complete, you will be putting up with those problems, and trying to fix him forever. You will never be able to fix him, so right now you have to fix yourself.......meaning understand and realize that life with him would be a continual misery, and you'll wind up as messed up as he is. Wish him well, and move on! END IT!


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Nick and Vanessa Lachey announced Tuesday — their third wedding anniversary — that they're expecting a baby girl, who will join big brother Camden, 22 months.
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Fox's Dads has been hailed as the most offensive new show of the fall, both by criticsand by the network itself (yay for spin marketing!). But while offensive humor certainly has its merits, the "humor" portion is a necessary component for it to do so. Dads is offensive without being funny — and that's the show's biggest problem.
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Summer has arrived, meaning the year's already half over (wow!). And along with all the diabetes conference activity underway this summer, we've once again had the pleasure of reading some great blog posts from across the Diabetes Online Community (DOC) this past month.
In no particular order, here's a smattering of our June faves:
Naturally, we have to begin with the big ADA conference in San Francisco this month — the largest diabetes meeting in the world — and the fact that, for the first time ever, a whole contingency from the DOC was on hand! Two posts in particular that are caught our eye are from Heather Gabel at Unexpected Blues and Chris Snider at A Consequence of Hypoglycemia, who both wrote about the history-making DOC session; along with a post by Christel Aprigliano at The Perfect D who was "Case Number Five" and got to see her own D-life weaved into an esteemed endo's presentation. We also saw this one from D-Mom Meri Schumacher at Our Diabetic Life. Way to make an impact, D-peeps!
While we're talking Chris Snider at the Scientific Sessions, not only was he working the halls and conference rooms in a red ADA shirt (as an ADA employee), but he also played Twitter-moderator for a dinnertime chat hosted by JnJ.
Also at ADA, many DOC advocates came together to talk D-stigmas, and there was a whole accompanying Twitter conversation happening in real-time. Chris wrote a blog post on that session, for those interested in learning more.
The national org of diabetes educators doesn't hold its big annual meeting until August, but they're heavily promoting some federal legislation and our fellow type 1 Jane Dickinson, who's also a CDE, has a post on that advocacy effort at her blog, It's All About Balance.
We hear a lot of inspirational stories in our Diabetes Community and in the bigger world of chronic conditions, but is there too much "inspiration" and not enough "real talk" going on? Health advocate Carly who blogs at ChroniCarly explores that question in her latest post. What do you think?
A huge congrats to Meredith Pack, a type 1 blogger and cartoonist for us here at the 'Mine, who's expecting her first baby in December! Love the shirt, Mer! We're very happy to hear the news, and can't wait to see how you follow all the expecting-D-mom-bloggers who've written about their pregnancy and diabetes experiences.
We're thrilled to see another PWD friend, Dayle Kern, jumping back into the diabetes blogosphere recently with her new blog, called Imperfect Pancreas. One of her first posts was the very interesting topic of how you "cross the lines" when it comes to non-D friends being diagnosed with diabetes. Great to have you back and hear your voice, Dayle!
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There's so much we really don't know about the different types of diabetes, so how can we know for sure whether we belong in the T1 category when definitions aren't clear — technically, socially, or cellular-ly? There's a fascinating discussion going on over at D-Mom Katy Killilea's blog, Bigfoot Child Have Diabetes, about prepping for the CWD Friends For Life conference and those beloved green bracelets that all PWDs get to wear.
While the online D-Community continues to grow, there's still no substitute for meeting up in the Real World. Our friend Renza from Australia had a random "in the wild" meetup recently that she recalls at her blog, Diabetogenic.
Meanwhile, you might be a DOCaholic if… that's what Scott at Rollin in the D has attempted to define. Do you fall into this category? Our team at the 'Mine may or may not; we'll let our blog and Twitter feeds be the judge!
Summer is also diabetes camp fun season, and our teen D-blogging friend Sarah at Insulin Pens Don't Have Ink writes about her experience going to Camp Kudzu in Georgia. Click on over to hear more about everything from the "bug cabin" to boating while marveling at living alongside camp friends with diabetes.
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CORPUS CHRISTI- We continued to dry out across South Texas on Tuesday with only a few stray showers and hotter highs. A weak and small pocket of moisture in the western Gulf will move ashore overnight and Wednesday and produce a few stray showers around sweltering temperatures. Then it will be bone dry and blazing hot thru Sunday. Chantal continues to be no threat to interests in the Gulf of Mexico while headed toward the Central Bahamas and the southeast Atlantic coast of the U.S.
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2 Stars
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April 18, 2014
ok but wasn't worth the price:(
Rockville, MD
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I would recommend this item to a friend.
These bags are AWESOME!
April 17, 2014
Ok- first of all, these bags are HUGE!!! I looked all over the place for cute canvas totes to hold all my bridesmaids goodies, and found these- saw the price, and thought they must be too good to be true- but they aren't!! Super nice quality, very large, and the color is really nice! They also seem to be made well, so hopefully they wont fall apart. Overall SO happy with this purchase, and definitely would recommend to others!
Pros:LARGE, cute colors, well made
Best Uses:Storage, day trips, overnight bag
Dallas, TX
5 Stars
I would recommend this item to a friend.
Great bag!
August 21, 2013
I purchased these in various colors for my bridesmaids and they came out great! They were on sale when I bought them and I can say it was worth every penny. I highly recommend this bag!
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5 Stars
I would recommend this item to a friend.
Buy this bag!
August 18, 2013
This is a great bag for the cost. I purchased seven for my daughter's upcoming wedding for the bridesmaids to use when dressing at the church. It is a very nice size and the quality is better than I had expected. The monogrammed name makes it even more special. :)
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White Stone, Va
5 Stars
I would recommend this item to a friend.
Great Bag...great value!
August 4, 2013
This tote bag made a wonderful gift bag for my daughter's bridesmaids...I even bought the bride one with her new initials! Roomy, well-made and came promptly.
Best Uses:Almost unending uses...I filled it with gifts for each bridesmaid in hopes that they would remember our wedding every time they used it.
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5 Stars
I would recommend this item to a friend.
Love it!!
December 7, 2011
I just got these totes in today!! And I am so pleased!! I ordered them for bridesmaid's gift, I love the personal touch they add! The girls are going to love them, the color is great ( I ordered lavender to match their dresses with lavender writing) and it has plenty of room! Great deal for the price, I even went back and ordered myself one of the big day!!! Only thing i would change is to have the name printed a bit bigger, but other than that great product!!
Pros:Functional, Fits Theme, Personalized, Good Value
Best Uses:Bridesmaid Gift
Southern California
5 Stars
I would recommend this item to a friend.
Great Stitching Quality!!!
July 12, 2011
I just received my order in the mail and these bags are everything I envisioned and more!! The quality of the stitching is very well done. I chose the font "Monogram Serif" and it looks very classy. I HIGHLY recommend these bags, especially as bridesmaids gifts!
Pros:Functional, Good Value, Personalized
Best Uses:Destination Weddings, For Fun, Gift
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5 Stars
I would recommend this item to a friend.
Love these bags!!!
March 23, 2011
I read all the reviews on this product and was so happy when I got these bags in the mail today!! They are exactly as I envisioned. I dont know what the negative reviews are all about...the color is just fine...they came perfectly packaged....the stitching is fabulous and my girls will love them!!! Thanks American Bridal
Pros:Good Value, Personalized, Fits Theme, Unique, Functional
Best Uses:Bridesmaid Gift
Practicle Bride
Charlottesville, VA
5 Stars
I would recommend this item to a friend.
Absolutely incredible!
November 1, 2010
I am preparing these as gift bags for my bridesmaids. After reading other reviews I ordered them understanding they were not white (which was not a big deal) and am very pleased. Since I want my girls to be able to use these even after the wedding I used their favorite colors and not the wedding colors. They wont be carrying them down the isle or holding them in pictures so I had no need for them to match my colors. I am so excited to be able to give these!!! Also from the other reviews, I am pleased with the sturdiness and the quality, they were a great deal for the price.
Pros:Unique, Good Value, Functional, Personalized
Best Uses:Outdoor Wedding, Gift, Destination Weddings
pratical bride
5 Stars
I would recommend this item to a friend.
Absolutely incredible!
October 26, 2010
I am very pleased with this product. They are sturdy and the embroidery looks amazing. As others have said the color is more of a cream or off white, but since I was expecting that, I am very glad I bought it. Cannot beat the price I got! I sent a picture to my bridesmaids of just the color options because I wanted them to be happy with it, even after the wedding. I am going to fill them with some goodies including clothing to wear before the ceremony while we're getting dolled up and after the reception. They have offered to help clean up and this way they can carry a change of clothes conveniently. Plus they are both in taking college classes so these are a very practical gift. I would definitely buy these again!!!
Pros:Functional, Good Value, Personalized
Best Uses:Outdoor Wedding, Sentimental Keepsake, Gift
Never Again
Wakefield, MA
1 Stars
August 10, 2010
I am EXTREMELY disappointed in this bag. The bag in the picture looks smooth and a crisp white. However, when I received this bag, it was dingy and looked used, worn, and dirty. The fabric is "pilly" and not smooth. I am EMBARRASSED to give these as gifts. DON'T WASTE YOUR MONEY!!!!
Cons:Look old worn, UglyPoor Quality
Best Uses:Bridemaids Gift
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laurel, mt
5 Stars
I would recommend this item to a friend.
Above and beyond expectations
February 7, 2010
My daughter wanted something unique and functional for bridesmaids - something they could use before the wedding as well as after the wedding. The bags work perfectly. They are a great weight and the color blue was perfect - indeed, we were very pleased.
Pros:Personalized, Functional, Unique, Fits Theme, Good Value
Best Uses:For Fun, Destination Weddings, Gift
Chicago, IL
4 Stars
I would recommend this item to a friend.
Good Tote!
February 4, 2010
I ordered 10 of these bags to match my bridesmaid dress color of chocolate brown! They all came with the correct personalization and are of good quality!
Pros:Good Value, Fits Theme, Functional, Personalized
Best Uses:Gift
Collingswood, NJ
4 Stars
I would recommend this item to a friend.
"They came out better than I imagined."
January 6, 2010
Perfect for my bridesmaids that will be filled with goodies.
Pros:Fits Theme, Personalized, Good Value
Best Uses:Destination Weddings
Robyn the Bride
Wilmot Ohio
4 Stars
I would recommend this item to a friend.
Cute Bag
October 15, 2009
The bag is very cute. My wedding colors are black and white so I had my bridesmaids names put on the bags in black lettering and also the color I chose for the bags was black. The actual bag color is more off white but I still like them and hope my bridesmaids will as well.
Pros:Functional, Fits Theme, Personalized, Good Value
Best Uses:Bridesmaid Gift
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3 Stars
I would recommend this item to a friend.
August 31, 2009
I like the bag... I just thought it was going to be white and the color I chose. Instead it was a canvas color and the colors I chose. Other than that I like it.
Pros:Functional, Personalized
Cons:Wrong color
Best Uses:Bridesmaid Gift


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The Self-Destruction of the NCC
The National Council of Churches (NCC) is very sick, and perhaps dying. According to Richard Ostling, writing for the Associated Press, as the NCC celebrates its fiftieth birthday, it has reached "a historical low point." The people who worry about such things worry that it might not survive.
It is less and less important even to its own people: only 757 people registered for its fiftieth anniversary conference, of an expected 2,000 (a figure one suspects was a cautious one in the first place). More pressing, it is losing money: the mainline Churches that have funded it for so long are cutting back their contributions, and it faced a deficit of almost $4 million just this year. Even the Methodist Church has stopped giving it money, and, reports its chief ecumenical officer, not one member complained. Its finances are a mess, and its stewardship does not inspire confidence even in its friends. The council not only spent $750,000 on its own birthday party but also hired a consulting firm to help them restructure the organization, expecting to spend $750,000, and got a bill for $2.5 million. And of course its theology was reliably liberal, in a bland and uninspiring sort of way: one visitor noted that though the language from the podium was always "theocentric," "we were welcomed as 'people of God' who were on a mission to 'impact the world' for God (not 'him,' just 'God')."
Inevitable Irrelevance
Its decline was predictable. Groups that began life in the Pelagian utopianism of America after the war, thinking that human problems would be solved with enough energy and organization and goodwill and assuming that simply getting people together would work wonders, that have no market to control them, that lack members who actually believe something (the Evangelicals and the Roman Catholic Church do not belong), and that receive money and goodwill simply for existing, will eventually bloat into irrelevance. You do badly when you believe that you are doing God's work and no one asks you to explain what you are doing or to account for how you are doing it.
In response to the exposure of the NCC's problems, the retiring general secretary, the Reverend Joan Brown Campbell, declared that "we need to have a new structure." She believes that "all this," meaning the inescapable problems, "will result in something quite new." Ecumenism "doesn't have to exist in this form. Unity is among us, and nobody will be able to stop it. How this expresses itself is another question."
She responded as liberal activists faced with inescapable evidence of their failure always do. (Though, to be fair, without the usual blaming of conservatives for failing to help bring in the Kingdom.) The problem isn't their project, or how they pursued it; the problem is that the times have changed. They do not apologize or repent, and one assumes that they believe that they have been so busy doing good that they were simply ambushed by history. The solution they offer is always a new structure, and though they never describe its actual character, one is certain that it will look as much like the old organization as possible. Their work, they always claim, must go on, and it will go on, because history demands it.
I read the Associated Press and other stories from a certain distance: as a husband and father, living in a working-class suburb of a midwestern city, attending a small parish of one of the mainline churches that support the NCC, who works at one of that church's seminaries, though one uninterested in the NCC's projects. The life or death of the NCC would seem to have no effect on my life or on things I care about. The new council Ms. Campbell desires would matter no more to me than the closing of the Elks Lodge in the next town and its replacement by the Rotarians.
But would it? Does it matter if the NCC lives or dies? I think it does, and that it would be best if it dies.
Would It Matter?
"Recent pronouncements from council leaders," Ostling reported, "have favored universal health care, affirmative action, gun control, bilingual education and the nuclear test ban; and opposed the Senate trial of President Clinton, the Kosovo bombing, religious school vouchers and the economic embargoes of Iraq and Cuba." Though one regrets the predictable liberalism of its political pronouncements, indicating as it does the absence of a real mind in the NCC—surely there must be some question its leaders would answer differently than the editors of the New York Times—the positions Ostling listed are ones that thoughtful Christians might take. (I agree with them on the bombing of Kosovo and the embargoes of Cuba and Iraq).
But Ostling left out the council's most egregious pronouncement: its significant silence on abortion, the one current issue on which a Christian organization must speak. Silence on this horror means consent. This last explains why, whatever good the council may do (if it does any actual good, a point I will not grant without close examination), its dissolution ought to be prayed for.
To support universal health care or gun control, perhaps. But to remain silent on partial-birth abortion, no. Remember what exactly the NCC thought not worth commenting on: taking a living man, one who would survive were he allowed to be born, letting him actually begin to be born until the last moment he is legally considered unprotected, and then killing him by driving a spike into his skull, using a small vacuum to suck out his brains, and crushing his skull, when the dead and mangled body can be delivered and disposed of. The right to do to babies what some men were hanged at Nuremberg for doing to men and children, is one the NCC will accept. With the money of those of us who belong to the mainline and Orthodox Churches and the social power and political influence derived from claiming to represent them.
On the other hand, what would be lost if the NCC disappeared? It is hard, for those of us who do not believe that such organizations are intrinsically good, to think of anything. The very useful Yearbook of American and Canadian Churches might be lost, though I suspect this is profitable enough to be picked up by someone else. The various commissions and committees, almost certainly not: that members of the bureaucracies and political establishments of liberal churches can get together to talk is not a gift to the Church.
If people must talk, talk they will, and more effectively if unconstrained by (real or perceived) commitments to the NCC's bureaucracies and projects. The Rose Hill conference we helped sponsor did, I suspect, more for Christian unity than several years' worth of the council's programs—and did not, unlike the council, set back Christian unity by tacitly promoting the killing of the unborn or the wider political agenda of the New York Times.
So, as I say, we ought to hope and pray for the council's dissolution and give no aid to those who want simply to restructure it, because that will, for the most part, leave the same people pursuing the same ends by the same means, if under another name. The people in charge of the new body might not support in public the "right" to a partial-birth abortion, but it is hard to see how such a body representing such churches would ever restructure itself radically enough so that its leaders would not support it in private, much less oppose it in public as they ought.
Whatever Ms. Brown meant by "unity is among us"—I suspect she meant by "unity" the fellowship of the doctrinal minimalists, whose interest in ecumenism grows in proportion to their alienation from their own Churches' confessions—it is true that more and more Christians are beginning to look in friendship to their separated brethren. Lions are lying down with lambs. God is at work in reconciling men who had long been estranged.
But this new ecumenism—this ecumenical orthodoxy—is the fellowship of believers. In C. S. Lewis's famous lines from the preface to Mere Christianity, "It is at her centre, where her truest children dwell, that each communion is really closest to every other in spirit, if not in doctrine. And this suggests at the centre of each there is something, or a Someone, who against all divergences of belief, all differences of temperament, all memories of mutual persecution, speaks with the same voice." For this ecumenism, of those who love the Lord and are coming to love those who love him too, the NCC is at best an irrelevance and at worst an enemy.
A Modern Carthage
I suppose I might be wrong about this, and the council do more real good than it seems to do, and some new form—Ms. Brown's undefined "something quite new"—be able to do better. But I think again of its failure to speak for the life of the unborn, when it speaks on so many less important matters, a failure still unrepented of and unlikely ever to be repented of. The "moderate" response is to admit that the council erred badly here, but to plead that this one error should not override what good it has done otherwise, and what good it might do.
This argument appeals, for a moment, but then I think of what Chesterton said in The Everlasting Man of Rome and Carthage. Carthage worshipped Moloch, a god whose worship required tossing babies into a furnace. Rome knew that here was something that could not be allowed to stand, and when she finally conquered the city, left not one stone upon another. If anyone is still willing to support the National Council of Churches, he knows less of good and evil than the pagan Romans.
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From the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources
-- Hunters who want to get in the field early for Minnesota's 2010 spring turkey hunt must apply by Jan. 14, wherever hunting and fishing licenses are sold.
This spring's hunt consists of six five-day and two seven-day seasons. All resident and nonresident wild turkey hunters interested in hunting this spring must apply electronically via the internet, or by toll-free telephone at (888) 665-4236.
Resident hunters must pay a non-refundable $3 application fee at the time of application. Nonresidents must pay a non-refundable $3.50 transaction fee.
Key changes of interest to hunters include:
*Licenses for the last two time periods will be sold over-the-counter only.
*Hunters no longer must indicate a second choice of season on the application.
*Youth 17 and younger by April 13, 2011, are not eligible to participate in the lottery and should purchase a license for the season of their choice over-the-counter.
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