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Solitaire rings have become all the rage these days all thanks to their upsurge in popularity back in the day. Even up until now, their charm holds and cements itself in people's hearts. So whether you're buying it for yourself, as a present or maybe because you're planning to pop the question then you better know what diamond solitaire ring designs are available for you. When it comes to this beautiful eloquent and sparkly jewelry, it is fairly easy to get overwhelmed with your options. We'll discuss four factors that various designs have. Take a look and scroll down.
What metal is the stone being set into? You can choose from gold, silver, rose gold and the list goes on. The number of carats should also be considered here. The most popular choice is often gold but you should consider not only your budget but what metal looks best against your skin. Some people look better with gold, some with silver while others have both metals flatter their complexion.
There are many cuts that a stone may have. The very characteristic of diamond solitaire rings is the fact that instead of having many stones set, there is only one in it. This is why it has been called solitaire in the first place, because of its solitary stone. But what makes a diamond beautiful would have to be its cut. This refers to the small intricate facades from which the sparkles are made possible. The better the cut then the more lustrous it is. There are varied cuts available in the market today. There is the round, princess, oval, marquise, pear shaped, cushion, emerald, asscher, radiant and heart cuts to name a few.
The size is also a crucial element here. Oftentimes the bigger the stone the more the jewelry is valued. However the size of the item will depend on your preferences.
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George Will: A Michigan Republican to watch
Michigan supported Barack Obama over native son Mitt Romney by 9.5 points and has elected just one Republican senator since 1966. The governor, however, and nearly all other statewide officers are Republicans, the GOP controls both legislative chambers, and Amash, son of a Palestinian father and a Syrian mother, would benefit from Michigan having the nation's second-largest Arab-American population (almost 200,000).
He absorbed a libertarian understanding of opportunity from the example of his father, who began his very successful business career by buying stuff from small wholesalers and selling it door-to-door. Amash graduated magna cum laude with an economics degree from the University of Michigan, then earned a law degree there. "Some of my views," he says mildly, "were a little bit different from my Republican peers." He began reading Friedrich Hayek and other representatives of the Austrian school of economics, and less than four years after he left Ann Arbor he was in Michigan's Legislature where in his one term there he cast the only "no" vote on more than 70 bills.
When an eight-term Republican incumbent retired from Congress in 2010, Amash, supported by the free market Club for Growth, handily won the primary and the general election because, he says, of "the simplicity of my message" - limited government, economic freedom, individual liberty. He refuses to vote for legislation the House has not been given time to read, which is eccentric, and he explains each vote on Facebook.
For example, he voted against reauthorizing the 1994 Violence Against Women Act because it "created new federal crimes to mirror crimes already on the books in every state pertaining to certain domestic violence offenses" and because it addresses "subjects over which the federal government has no general jurisdiction." The Constitution "explicitly authorizes Congress to criminalize only a few activities, which relate to matters that are clearly federal in nature (counterfeiting, crimes on the high seas, treason)." Furthermore, federalizing criminal law increases the danger that "a person may be charged in both state court and federal court for essentially the same crime." This federalization of crime also burdens the federal judiciary and tempts budget-constrained state governments to leave many criminal matters to the federal government.
Regarding illegal immigrants, Amash asks: "Does anyone want federal police going door-to-door searching for 11 million people?" In foreign policy, "I'm a non-interventionist who believes there are reasons to wage war but defensive reasons," meaning "an actual or imminent - meaning immediate - threat." Like his parents, Amash is an Orthodox Christian and pro-life. He believes marriage is a sacrament, but because others do not, perhaps "government should not be engaged in marriage at all."
He says, "Tell me how a Democrat is going to attack me on the social issues." Republicans, however, might take up that task. Nevertheless, he thinks he could win a Republican primary and that "my mix of positions is best for winning the general."
He adds, "Because I do not fit neatly in the Republican box, some establishment Republicans and pundits think I am extreme" but "I am a moderate" because "the point of the Constitution is to moderate the government."
Immediately after Levin announced his retirement, Amash received a late-night text message from Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, encouraging him to run. "There's a great coalition over there," Amash says, referring to freshmen Lee, Kentucky's Rand Paul, Wisconsin's Ron Johnson, Arizona's Jeff Flake, South Carolina's Tim Scott, Texas' Ted Cruz, Pennsylvania's Pat Toomey and Florida's Marco Rubio, a group whose average age is 48, 13.5 years less than the average of Senate Republicans.
Last month, when Paul was waging his 13-hour filibuster, Amash made his first visit to the Senate floor and was struck by the contrast with the House, which he says is "good fun" and "loud and boisterous." The Senate would be more so with Amash inside and Michigan Republicans, having lost six consecutive Senate elections, might reasonably want to try something new. But as Amash undertakes to "tear down the left-right paradigm," he must consider how the delicate but constructive fusion of libertarians and social conservatives has served Republicans, and the sometimes inverse relationship between being interesting and being electable.
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#450 - turretbuddy (07/21/2012) [-]
#447 - anonymous (07/21/2012) [-]
So many newfags not aware that this is a repost and the faggot OP didn't give credit, **** you all that thumbed up
#444 - foxxyfox (07/21/2012) [-]
"Ever have an urge but won't go away?"
What if that urge IS sex?
What if that urge IS sex?
#442 - suckmyballsack (07/21/2012) [-]
I love these things.
this post is missing the one If you pour pretend salt in your mouth you can taste real salt! thats the best one ive ever seen
this post is missing the one If you pour pretend salt in your mouth you can taste real salt! thats the best one ive ever seen
#439 - victorfzec (07/21/2012) [-]When I have a boner in public I'll have an excuse now
#437 - thirdasscheek (07/21/2012) [-]
what do i do if i cant stop thinking about sex and have a constant boner?
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That thing about the gag reflex. That's going to be quite useful ;3
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Idk if I would rather piss myself or have a massive Boner in public.
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Fun fact: You can't lick your elbow, no matter haow hard you try
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Think about sex, yeah that's helpful until you get a boner.
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I punched myself in the face the first time thinking it was bad trolling...
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I was mid way through taking nail polish off when i tried the first one. Now all i can taste is the remover and it's revolting.
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I have been running a bereavement group, or as I call it a comfort group for adults who have lost a loved one. Why did I start this group? The pains of grief are too difficult to navigate alone so I want to help others in the same situation. I am fueled by this one never-ending thought, create a group with my moms needs after my dad died in mind. When I lost my dad, her husband we felt hopeless and trapped inside the dark and blurred walls of grief. Not only dealing with grief but also being broke and depressed we didn't know help was out there and we didn't know where to look. We thought our grief was unique only for us, which made the pain difficult to experience and talk about around others.
The group I run is free for all members, funded by through my 501(c)(3) the Too Much Too Soon Foundation, because money shouldn't stop people from grieving. I know if I heard about a group like the one I run now when my dad passed I would have made my mom join, not that I think she would have fought me. It was not healthy for her to sit and dwell on grief 24/7 with no outlet and no one to share her experience with. With a group to talk with she could have said what was on her mind, what scared her, or just sit, be silent listening and relating to other members. I know the group wouldn't have prevented her cancer but it would have given her different quality of life until she passed.
Losing both my parents I have learned many lessons about life, if I sat and talked about all the lessons it would take days to explain. The biggest lesson learned which only took nine years is I now understand the true meaning of life, well my meaning of life. Life is for giving back, being your own hero and a hero for someone else. I fly by the seat of my pants, bite off more than I can chew and 'wing it' when it comes to life. But that is only because I understand that when you take on more life than you expect, you learn about your breaking points. The single greatest lesson I learned in life is that pushing what you think possible builds confidence and self-understanding. When you play it safe inside your walls of what you think possible you don't allow any 'WOW' moments in. Those moments first viewed as errors or missteps that you think you should probably have never done. 'WOW moments define you, make you sit back and think 'holy moly, I did this?!' These moments are addicting, mostly because you push the boundaries of what you expect from yourself and want to keep pushing.
The meaning of life is about pushing your life's limitations and not playing it safe but playing life risky to your advantage. I learned this lesson not by choice but by need to survive my grief. It was down right depressing not knowing what or how to help those you love that need assistance, myself included. I sat on the sidelines a long time just wondering what I could do to help but never actually doing anything out of fear or insecurities that I couldn't help. I lived inside a barrier I created that blocked me from living life only because I was scared of life. I was being bullied by my perception of what I thought my role was in the world. There inside the barrier I lived comfortably, perpetually worried and unsatisfied with the way things went but to scared to make any real choice inside the bubble of grief I thought I deserved to be in. I was so wrong and didn't realize that I had full control over my life until I pushed life, flew by the seat of my pants and I understood I can do no wrong, only right.
In my group I have one member who can't afford to bury her deceased son. I currently am working on her behalf to bring her son home to her for free from another sate. I didn't know how to go about this matter or know anyone who could help before saying 'yes, I will help you' all I thought of was my mom before I threw myself in fully. I thought of how we could have used the help when I first lost my dad and how nice it would have been to hear a person say 'yes' or 'let me help you' rather than an 'um, maybe' or 'no.'
I was a kid who failed out of college twice, crawled my way back and ended up on the dean's list. All the moments in my past I was embarrassed about were nothing to be ashamed of but signs of my super powers I just didn't know how to control. My powers I used were being stubborn, aggressive, noisy yet humble and persistent to the point of annoying because it was what got me the attention I needed for help. All the interactions I had in my day-to-day life including battles with bill collectors or conversations that played in my mind over and over again that had already happened, just dreaming of what I should have said made me. Those are the moments that shaped me and made me able to call up another state and ask for help to bring a woman her son.
Another feather in my cap I wasn't scared to tackle, I am currently teaming with a large cancer organization in NYC to create a mutual cancer support community on a large college campus in NYC. It may appear that I bite off more than I could chew, but I bite perfectly because I know my breaking points and take calculated risks for giant rewards.
I created these groups to be a hero to others and my past self and family. I can't change the past and wouldn't want to, I am using the worries and concerns of my past for fuel to shape my future.
-Life, what is it? Whatever you want, seriously!
This week I offer advice on how to find balance between feelings of being owed after losing a loved one and creating your own happiness. Watch the video below, comment, share and like.
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I sit down and discuss how to survive grief with questions asked by everyday people coping from loss. I hope you enjoy! And please don't forget to share.
This week I answer a question from Steve in Rhode Island who asks about how to 'move on' from his parents passing.
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When I see the success of others why does my blood boil? Well is blood boiling really the proper word? Seeing others gain success certainly makes my heart beat quicker but I would say the first word that comes to my mind is how I feel like a loser. A failure, the kind of guy the universe works against. It's not a jealous feeling when others find success, I think about how I have 'good' jobs, reasonable values and a notable amount of self-worth. I guess the best way to explain how it feels is inside me is that straight road I once was sure I was on, twist and contorts like Linda Blair's head in the Exorcist. That road is now made of wrong ways, U turns and one-way streets that are all jumbled together. That once sound world I was in I now realize was far more fragile than I ever thought and that just doesn't make my blood boil, it annoys and scares me. Now that's what for lack of a better word makes my blood boil. The idea that no matter how much I accomplish I just can't figure out why I don't feel better about myself. My mind runs wild wondering about if I will have enough money to live off of as I look for any indicators that this undertaking is my destiny, but mostly I stress about getting to the next step. A step where I can finally release that gobbled air inside me that is just eating away my insides and probably causing cancer.
My blood boils because I don't learn to cherish my own strides and appreciate what I have done.
I focus on what I haven't done or need to do. I know life is NOW. What boils my blood is that I always think in the now but what I don't have. I forget about the work behind the successes I have already had. Instead I imagine a world where the person I see getting success is living and breathing their passion that allows them the life I so desperately fight for. But how hard do I fight?
I hung a picture of me on my fridge and I thought 'that was a different me, I knew what I wanted but sat around waiting for it to find me.' Which I swore just as a pigs belly is bacon that it would. I thought right after about what I have done since that picture was taken, 8 years of memories in .6 seconds. 'Now this is me. The only difference is I go out and find the life I want.' Sure it's hard, highs and lows, excitement followed by sudden disappoint but it's adventurous and journey-tastic and I am addicted to it. It's a life I choose because I can't think of myself for existing other then this dream, the one I used to only daydream about. When I daydreamed about my dream it was different. I pictured being more content and less worried. What makes my blood boil is how I feel at times like a buffalo walking in ice, he can see the land that he wants and now just needs to figure out the steps to walking on ice.
What boils my blood is how living my dream is like having an empty hole in a ground where a massive skyscraper is supposed to be standing. I forget at times I have to pour the foundation, design the building, put up the walls and plumbing, put on a roof. And for anyone who has worked in construction knows nothing goes as planned.
When it doesn't go as planned I revert back to my insecure self and summon the me 5 years ago. I go back to what I did when I was lost. Go out for a drink. Spend money. Eat. I revert back to my habits that gave me temporary comfort. I am too easily convinced I am a failure who will never figure things out. But no matter what I am feeling on my inside I don't show that to others because I fear it will make me look weak. On the outside I keep doing me, it's a cheesy, overplayed statement that frustrates me to say because that means I have to understand the me I want. However, even if I am not sure of myself I do know the race of life is long. Those ideas and dream I have, they are important to me. Don't they deserve to be played out? I think I either live my dream or someone else's, and the later doesn't fit right for me.
What boils my blood is regret. Regret sucks, that's my motivator now when I fall down or I keep tripping over my feet. I want to know that on my deathbed I can think, this was a hell of a life, I did that one thing that scared me and it felt great. What makes my blood boil is when I think of how my parents didn't do what they wanted in life. I don't know what they thought in their final moments, but it boils my blood that they had to go before I found out.
What calms my boiling blood is how at the end of the day I never give up on me. I have to understand some days will be more productive than others. Understand I may not feel as content as I thought I would but I feel more confident and accomplished than I ever thought I would. When I break down my thought process and reasoning behind why my blood really boils it's not the success of others, being scared of failing or not finding my place in life. The only thing that really gets my blood boiling is how I am trying to always prove myself to my parents and how I will never get that closure. I will never stop chasing the impossible, what makes my blood boil is how I want the one thing I can't have. So in the meantime I will keep staying blind to how I can't hear them say they are proud of me and keep loving my passion expecting to one day hear those words and always being disappointed when I don't.
Life can't be mapped out, you dig at the 'X' to find the gold and you think 'where is the next X.'
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It's 13 O clock on March 26. The time between reality and dream, it is where you aren't quite convinced of the dream you are in but are just seconds away from believing. I just woke up to look at my cell phone, I was only asleep for 3 minutes. In my mind I think 'this is gonna be a long night' I try to roll back over to catch the rest of that dream. After tossing and turning I put my hands up and surrender to the fact this night's sleep is a wash. The dream I had runs though my mind in slow motion, paying attention to the little details I probably created after I woke up and trying to over analyze her words.
I had a dream where I sat with my mom at a table where she had a backpack in her lap, we talked about how she was dead but came back, a common topic. She unzips the backpack and begins to pull out paper after paper, the header on the pages has my business name 'TOO MUCH TOO SOON." She starts to cry in a soft voice 'I'm so proud of you' with each page pulled. I start to cry in the dream, it feels so real and the cry feels so damn good. In my bed my eyes have fully adjusted to the darkness in my room and two thoughts cross my mind. I need some chocolate milk and that was the most intense dream I have had in recent memory.
These dreams are recurrent, my parents rising from the afterworld to see me in my dreams. I am blessed but there are nights I swear I will never sleep again because the pain from watching my parents die night after night. I have some dreams that make my hand crunch into a fist and squeeze tight for a second. I get watery eyes thinking all the beauty my parents have given me and how much beauty they had and have missed. What brings me back down to a calm state is my belief. I believe in angels, the afterlife, messages in dreams, my parents watching over me, all things spiritual. My faith eases the pain at 13 O Clock when surviving that hour of life versus dream is the only task on my mind. I need the comfort of my beliefs and thoughts to save me. I sit and try to make my mind wonder by distracting myself. It at this hour I am plagued of my mistakes made, the bills I never paid, the money I spent on unnecessary goods and the relationships I have tossed away. I criticize myself instead of console myself, I revert back to the Andrew who was disappointed how much he lost control of life and was certain wouldn't amount to anything. I start to question why my parents died and what I must do in their passing. I run through a list of to-do's for tomorrow, none of which will ever really get done but it's an attempt to put my mind to sleep. 13 O clock is the bane of my existence, it's where I remember yesterdays and tomorrow, I know I will see this time for the rest of my life. 13 O clock in the world of grieving is common, it's where your thoughts, emotions and memories take you and when you feel most alone. It is where you can only see the devastation around you and what you don't have. Today my 13 O clock is about my mom because it was 2 years ago today she passed, today I welcomed 13 O clock.
I love you mom.
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The other day I thought I saw you. When I was standing at the bus stop. I looked in disbelief rubbing my eyes expecting you to disappear as fast as this certain mirage had appeared. You didn't, you still stood there standing just 100 steps from me. How could you be so close?
I missed my bus because I couldn't believe I was looking at you and I didn't want to risk losing you again. I was frozen just wondering what I should do. I had thought about this scenario before and I always thought I had an answer. I was convinced I would stand up, run to hug that last hug I didn't know I had to give. However, my body and mind spilt and I listened to logic and sat.
Finally I did build up the courage to stand. I walked towards you knowing it's not real but praying for anything else. I could see myself one minute in the future holding a conversation with you. You and I catching up on what has happened since you left and me nervous this mirage will end before I want.
It was only 100 steps but the walk was long, I was half refusing to look away and half refusing to look to hard until I get ten steps away. It is not the ghost of my dad just a strange man. In the immediate walk back to the bus stop I don't think how stupid I was for having the thought. I get upset it wasn't him because I so desperately wanted that to be real. I talked to him on my walk back. I said 'I miss you! I wish that was you!" I wait for the bus still looking, I can't stand how upset I am it wasn't real.
There are no rules for grief, memories help you remember and being open to your pain is healthy. If you want to survive grief you can't carry it with you as a separate part of you embarrassed to feel what you do and ignore what doesn't make sense. Grief is a part of your identity, your daily life, and in the world of grief moments rarely make sense or seem fair.
I survived my parents passing by understanding this one certainty: if I felt a feeling then it was valid and needed to be understood. Letting go isn't easy but either is standing still. I choose to move forward and grieve my way because I know if the roles were reversed and my parents had to bury me I wouldn't want to think of them sitting around depressed, sad, and not moving. I have navigated my way through the burning stars, foggy mornings and blurred lines of life after death. It wasn't easy to understand life doesn't stop moving even if I do. I had to learn how to bend to life, make it work for me but most importantly learn 'how to duck 'as my father told me time and again.
I also learned not all choices are right or wrong. Good or bad. Sometimes there are only sucky and suckier choices. The night before my mom passed her doctors encouraged my family and I to lower her oxygen intake to help her pass quicker instead of hanging on to life. On my moms last night she and I sat alone in the hospital room, a nurse came in and shuffled my mom around to make sure she wasn't getting bedsores. The movement caused my mom to start wheezing because her lungs were filled with liquid. The nurse naturally starts to turn my moms oxygen up to stop her from wheezing. I had to pull this nurse outside and tell her how she can't raise the oxygen level because I feared it would reverse what was trying to be done. That wasn't a good or bad choice but just sucked! Plain and simple.
I learned from my experience with grief that life isn't black and white, that these situations you thought you would never have to respond to are the ones that shape you quicker. You can't plan your response and expect it to go the way you wish. Surviving means managing expectations as well balancing what is wanted versus what is already had. I never thought i would spend my time daydreaming about what growing old with my parents would be like. It hurts to know the life I once had planned for us now rests in bus stop daydreams and a daily series of 'imagine if's.'
I do know what I can handle and I don't waste time worrying about moments I can't control.
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TUESDAY, Oct. 27 (HealthDay News) -- More than 65 percent of U.S. mothers with depression don't receive adequate treatment, a new study has found.
Black, Hispanic and other minority mothers are least likely to receive adequate treatment. Mothers with health insurance are three times more likely to receive adequate treatment than those without insurance, wrote the researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health.
"Health insurance facilitates access to adequate treatment for maternal depression. Expanding health insurance coverage to mothers with depression is a critical step in helping them get the care that they need," study author Dr. Whitney P. Witt, an assistant professor of population health sciences, said in a news release from the university.
The analysis of national data on 2,130 mothers with depression also found that working mothers were less likely to receive adequate treatment, possibly because long work hours make it difficult for them to find time to seek treatment. This means that workplaces could prove a useful location for depression intervention.
"Services like employee-assistance programs can help these mothers get screened and treated, even if they are unable to visit a provider or a mental health professional in the health-care setting," co-author Kristin Litzelman, a population health sciences doctoral student, said in the release. "Since healthy employees are productive employees, it's often a win-win for employers to offer benefits that support employee mental health."
Depression in mothers can have a major impact on the entire family, especially on the health and well-being of their children, the researchers noted. Treating depression in mothers can improve the long-term health of their families.
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Cougars' Gibson plans to catch on again
There it was, a football in the western sky above Husky Stadium, big as a harvest moon. All Brandon Gibson had to do was frame it with his...
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PULLMAN — There it was, a football in the western sky above Husky Stadium, big as a harvest moon. All Brandon Gibson had to do was frame it with his hands and catch it.
He did, of course, completing Washington State's 42-35 Apple Cup victory over Washington last November.
And that seemed like it would be the end of it for Gibson as a Cougar. No more all-Pac-10 seasons, no more season school receiving-yardage records (1,180) like he established in 2007.
Paul Wulff came on in December to become WSU's new head coach, and that looked like the logical time for Gibson to exit. But he gave Wulff his first upset victory, returning to an uncertain senior season with a different coaching staff.
"That didn't really affect my decision at all," Gibson said after a recent workout here, referring to the coaching transition. "I told Wulff from the beginning I was thinking about leaving, depending on my draft grade."
During Christmas break, he discussed the new offense with coordinator Todd Sturdy and warmed to the idea of a senior season, how the Cougars might do some innovative things to get him the ball.
He talked to the last two Cougars who faced the decision. No consensus there; Jason Hill opted to return for his senior year in 2006. Devard Darling, the transfer from Florida State, passed on what would have been his senior year at WSU in 2004.
"In Jason's case, he wanted to work toward a degree and come back for one more year," Gibson said. "He didn't feel he was prepared to leave early. Devard was physically mature and they'd come off a Holiday Bowl season. He was ready to go."
Then Gibson got back the NFL draft analysis he had requested.
"It was a mid-round grade," said Gibson. "I don't want to put it out there, [but] it wasn't what I wanted. If it had been a little higher, I would have left.
"You get back a mid-round grade, you can go anywhere. You can go as high as two, as low as six. It all depends on your 40 time, and I didn't want to leave it up to a 40 time. I didn't feel, if I got drafted in the seventh round, I'd be happy with myself."
That's not necessarily a downer for Gibson, and certainly not for the Cougars and holdover receivers coach Mike Levenseller.
"There's no better sport than college football," Gibson said. "In my mind, I could leave, but why not come back and just enjoy college — be a regular person, and student? I didn't want to be viewed as a big-time college football player, I just wanted to be normal, really.
"Coming back, I was really excited about that. I get to play with my teammates. You only get the college experience once."
The 40 time of which Gibson speaks can indeed be a deal-breaker. He's not a burner; he said he ran a 4.46 in high school but hasn't done one at WSU. Instead, Gibson's calling card is terrific hands, better than Hill's, and, at 6 feet 1 and 201 pounds, an ability to get off the line and dictate terms to defensive backs.
Injuries in WSU workouts could test Gibson's resourcefulness. NCAA 400-hurdles champion Jeshua Anderson had a hernia operation that will keep him out until at least late September and fellow sophomore Daniel Blackledge, a good prospect, has missed most of fall camp with hamstring problems.
"Hopefully, coach Sturdy does a good job of hiding me," Gibson said. "If I get double-teamed, I get double-teamed. I still have to make plays through the double-teams."
So, about that Apple Cup climax — how does an all-league wideout find himself so ridiculously open?
"I believe the corners were playing cover-2 and the safeties were playing man," Gibson recalled. "The safeties were coming down on the slot [Michael Bumpus]. 'Bump' ran a bubble route to the sideline.
"As soon as I got past the line of scrimmage, as soon as I got past the corner, I said, 'Somebody messed up.' "
You could say that.
Gibson ran to the post, Alex Brink got the ball away a millisecond before taking a big hit, and Gibson does what he usually does. He made the 125th reception of his WSU career. And in time, he decided there would be a lot more.
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Even though it is very late in the summer to be hiring, I was offered a job yesterday.
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Congratulations! I'm so happy for you! I know how worried you were.
First of all things can change in a minute - something else might open up while you are there. It happened to my dh who took a job with really bad schedule and then something else opened up and he jumped at it. You'll see...In a meantime a bird in hand...
Secondly, 90 minute commute can be time well spent if you for example like listening to books on tape (well, ipod). How often do you have books read to you :).
Third, you won't be working daily, so two or three day weeks won't be as bad as 5 day weeks would have been.
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I was hoping you'd chime in. You're fairly religious. Did your religious views push you toward homosexuality?
I've been active in my church from a very young age. Didn't really party like my friends did growing up. I didn't do things that cost money on Sundays to observe the sabbath. I served a two year mission for my church saved myself for marriage. I am still very attracted to women and think boobies are hot. The closest I came to feeling gay was when I saw Champ Bailey pick off an improbable interception from Aaron Brooks in the end zone against the Saints in the mid 2000's. I suppose I wasn't "hardcore" enough, I guess...
I was going after two angles. The first comment was more along the lines to throw off suspicion (eg Marcus Bachmann and his gay therapy repair institutions).
But by hardcore, I was really talking more about the being extremely outspoken about being gay. So you don't qualify. This comment was made with religious leaders in mind, ie Ted Haggart, fill-in-the-blank Catholic priest,etc. I would certainly agree the majority of the hardcore outspoken are really as anti-gay as the portray. But the ones that are covering are higher percentage of this subgroup than the normal population rate is of being gay, IMO. At least it seems that way but I dont have any stats.
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UD Sunday!! What's on the menu?
B - 2 slices bacon, 2 medium eggs scrambled w/ a bit of cheese, grits w/ butter & ezsweet
L - leftovers from last night grilled chicken breast/onions w/ a few pinto beans, avocado, salsa and sour cream
D - not sure it's DH & I first date anniversary so we may go out tonight.
Got 1900 calories to eat!!
B - coffee with HWC, oat bran
L - potatoes
D - potatoes
Snacks - potatoes
Can you tell I am doing a potato day?
B: Out with MIL: jalapeno jack omelet, country potatoes, toast with jam (800)
B- 2 fried eggs, 6 strips of bacon
S- cottage cheese and pears
L- salad and can of chili
D- roasted chicken, mashed potatos, asparagus
Went to Costco and snacked on various items
I realized today that on Tuesday, I need a MD and switch rotations for lunch with a group on Wednesday (I looked on the menu, it's a steakhouse, it's just too hard to eat super low cal...) and then the saturday after next, special dinner at my favorite restaurant...
Anyhoo, I'm enjoying today's UD!
B: cereal and almond milk
L: small movie popcorn with butter
S: one of those pop things with rawtella, and about 3oz of leftover "chinese bbq pork" that I made the other day (still good, but better hot).
D: I'm making the copykat wendy's chili! I doubled the recipe, couldn't find pinto beans (only refried ones, and I don't think that's right-- the internet said I could use black beans or white kidney, so I went with black), and I seriously had to use our 2nd crockpot! I even measured everything (which I don't usually do) so I'm hoping I can use the wendy's calorie counts when we eat it :)
Lynn-- Isn't costco more fun on JUDDD than on Atkins? ;)
I did have 1 cookie (sample) at the grocery store today, come to think of it... meh, homemade is better!
Siren, I made a huge batch of mock Wendy's chili,my own recipe, and it was 158 calories a cup. I froze 22 one and a fourth cup servings, and my son and I used them almost every day for a whole month of DDs. It was really worth it! I just had to remove 1 or 2 single portions from the fridge(I used quart sized freezer bags) and place it or them in a bowl of hot water for 10 minutes, then open the bag and pour the still partially frozen contents int a pot on medium heat with a lid for about 5 or 6 minutes. Perfect. TIP: be careful when you put it in the freezer if your freezer shelf has slats. 2 of my bags of chili slipped a little bit through the slats before they were frozen, and then froze that way. They were stuck, and had to be 'broken' to get them out.
Had a great day, saw Hitchcock at the cinema, and watched the Baftas tonight on TV.
B 2 slices of Vogel bread with Marmite and Marmalade
Late lunch olive, pizza and ice cream with my half a bottle of red wine
DD tomorrow :)
Dinner: Jalapeno turkey burger, no cheese, iced tea
Wine and chocolate later.
B English muffin with butter and raw honey, lots of hot water
l mashed potato 1cup with more water
2 hours yoga
d ounce raw almonds and dried mango
Not a nutritionally sound day. And it ended more in md category. Not very hungry.
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"Since Cast Lead - another historic watershed - only 300 Qassam rockets
and mortar shells have been fired, and "only" one person has been killed"
On 2010 Mac 21, at 08:36, Nate Hughes <firstname.lastname@example.com> wrote:
MESS Report / America's Mideast woes don't begin and end with Israel
By Avi Issacharoff and Amos Harel
Tags: Israel News
About the MESS Report
Anyone who heard Centcom commander David Petraeus' testimony before the
U.S. Congress, or read his accompanying report, will have a hard time
explaining this week's screaming headlines heralding a crisis in
Israeli-American relations.
What Petraeus said is this: "The [Israeli-Arab] conflict foments
anti-American sentiment, due to a perception of U.S. favoritism for
Israel. Arab anger over the Palestinian question limits the strength and
depth of U.S. partnerships with governments and peoples ? and weakens
the legitimacy of moderate regimes in the Arab world. Meanwhile,
al-Qaida and other militant groups exploit that anger to mobilize
support. The conflict also gives Iran influence in the Arab world
through its clients, Lebanese Hizballah and Hamas."
Which all sounds logical enough. But it goes very little way to
justifying obituaries to Israel's U.S. alliance. Petraeus conspicuously
avoided any hint that the conflict with the Palestinians and recent
violent clashes are the result of Israeli policy. He made no mention of
Israeli settlements; nor (disappointingly for some) did he make any
reference to Israeli building in east Jerusalem.
The interpretation chosen by some is apparently this:
If Washington succeeds in forcing Israel to alter its position and
respond to Palestinian demands, parts of the Arab and Muslim world will
see the United States as more anti-Israeli - with the added implication
that al-Qaida's operational and recruiting power will diminish.
Only that this is a wild exaggeration. A change in Israel's stance and
even a peace deal with the Palestinians will do nothing to alter
al-Qaida's combat strategy, to say nothing of the Taliban in Afghanistan
and Pakistan, or Iraqi militants. Even were the U.S. to announce a total
military and economic boycott of Israel tomorrow, nothing would induce
radical Islamists to lay down arms against America.
Moreover, and much to the chagrin of those Americans who favor an
unashamedly anti-Israeli foreign policy, not even if America joined the
global jihad and offered to fight shoulder to shoulder with al-Qaida
would the extremists accept the offer and give up their attacks against
U.S. targets.
For the militant groups, as for extremist regimes like Iran, Israel is a
secondary target. Their main problem is the Western world and its
leader, the United States.
Not for nothing did Iran's Revolutionary Guard label Israel the 'Little
Satan' and the United States the 'Great Satan'. America's problems in
this part of the world don't begin and end with Israel. It is far too
glib, even disingenuous, to suggest that they do.
It is essential to stress that it is not just the Israeli-Palestinian
conflict that is damaging America's status in the Muslim world. It is
also the West's permissive culture that angers Muslims. All that the
United States stands for is anathema to extremist Islam. Ever wondered
why it is that when senior U.S. officials visit Ramallah, the streets
are never hung with stars and stripes? Is it just because the U.S. backs
Israel? There is more behind America's declining fortunes in the Arab
world than just that.
There are several likely reasons why Egypt, Jordan, the United Arab
Emirates and even the Palestinians continue to interpret the Obama
administrations policies as weakness:
Attempts at reconciliation with Syria, for example, and the return of a
U.S. envoy to Damascus, even as Syrian leaders spit in America's face
and parade their alliance with Tehran.
Or the apparent decision to pull back from crippling sanctions on Iran,
and America's seeming resignation to Iran becoming a nuclear power.
>From the moment America announced its intention to "extend a hand" to
Syria and Iran, the moderate Arab world's derision was palpable.
Or perhaps the fact that America is becoming increasingly bogged down in
Afghanistan and Iraq.
These things aside, the decline of the 'moderate' powers in the Arab
world relative to the 'Axis of Evil' has much to do with factors wholly
unconnected with either Israel or the United States. Struggling
economies, income inequalities, poor education, democratic deficit,
rampant corruption - issues to which General Petraeus made at least
passing reference in his testimony.
But let's take a few steps forward in time. Let's presume that Israel
gives in to the U.S. demand to freeze construction in east Jerusalem. It
will no doubt improve Obama's standing with several Arab governments
(Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Egypt, the Palestinian Authority). But will it
lead to a let-up for even a moment in the efforts of Hamas, Hezbollah,
Iran, Syria and al-Qaida? It is fair to presume that the opposite is
true. I am sorry if this shatters any illusion that all of America's
problems in the Muslim world will disappear if Israel does.
Extremist Islam was a problem long before Israel even existed. The ideas
around which the Muslim Brotherhood and its Shi'a equivalents took shape
first sprang up at the beginning of the 20th century when an Indian
extremist, Abu Allah Ali Mawdudi, exported them to what is now Pakistan
and from there to Iran and the Middle East. Founding fathers of the
Brotherhood such as Hassan al-Banna first became active in Egypt in 1928
- two decades before Israeli independence and 39 years before the
occupation of the West Bank. Banna's heir and the scion of modern global
jihad, Said Qutb, started his campaign long before 1967 - in 1951, in
fact, shortly after returning disgusted by the decadence he encountered
during his studies in... yes, the United States.
It seems that those who rushed to interpret Petraeus's comments as a
hint that Israeli settlements are the root of America's woes should
think again - and check the historical record. Settlement building is
certainly a threat to the Palestinians and, in my view, to the future of
the State of Israel itself. But Centcom has bigger threats to deal with.
Posted by Avi Issacharoff, March 21 2010
Who's in favor of a Palestinian intifada?
By Zvi Bar'el
Tags: Intifada, Israel News
How can you find out if someone is a leftist? You ask him whether he
thinks an intifada will take place. If he responds, "Yes, no doubt.
Pretty soon," we have a dangerous leftist. If he responds, "That's
silly, a few riots and a Qassam rocket are not an intifada," we have a
proud Jew who believes that the Arabs have already learned their lesson.
This is one of the new characteristics of the left-right clash, but not
of the real danger that lurks behind the Temple Mount's thick walls, or
beyond the fence surrounding the Gaza Strip.
The dice games between the left and right in Israel, where the result on
the Palestinian side needs to be guessed, usually take place when
inactivity on the political front leaves people bored. It's as if it's
someone else's game; we're just managing the bets. There is also the
game between Israel and the United States. Obama is with us or against
us? With us? The right-wing fans stand up and cheer. Against us? The
left applauds.
Here is another way of distinguishing between the left and right: In the
morning a Qassam rocket falls and kills someone. Someone? Just a foreign
worker, the kind that can be replaced. The "terrorism map" is
immediately pulled out. If the rocket belonged to Hamas, alas, Operation
Cast Lead failed. A point in favor of the left. If a different group
fired the rocket, possibly a global jihad organization - something that
falls not to us but to the "international community," which handles
Islamic extremism - we lose interest. In other words, Cast Lead is still
effective. A point for the right.
This is the nature of the risk during a political vacuum. On the face of
it, nothing terrible is happening. Since Cast Lead - another historic
watershed - only 300 Qassam rockets and mortar shells have been fired,
and "only" one person has been killed. In Jerusalem "only" several dozen
police officers and Palestinians have been injured in clashes on the
Temple Mount. There are often more injuries at a soccer game that turns
violent. The demonstrations at Sheikh Jarrah? At Na'alin and Bil'in?
Nothing to write home about. "Just another" issue for legal
deliberations over the right to demonstrate and the right to property.
But a vacuum is an explosive situation. For example, the authority of
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas is already being challenged. He has
made too many errors recently and has too few achievements. The dispute
between Israel and the United States is a great achievement, but it has
yet to bear fruit. There has been no real construction freeze and no
transfer of territory to the PA.
True, the Palestinian security forces control the streets, and there is
order and obedience, but there is no hope. The PA doesn't quite know how
to leverage the dispute with Israel. Should it declare an independent
state? Should it hand over the conflict to the UN in an effort to
increase international pressure on Israel? Like Israel, the Palestinians
are doing their real negotiating with the United States. In the
meantime, there are different sounds from the ground - some people
believe there is no way to avoid another violent outburst, which will
extricate the PA from its status as a soft player that is implementing
Israel's vision of Palestinian autonomy.
Unlike the West Bank, Gaza is armed with Qassam rockets and long-range
missiles, but the Hamas threat is not just directed at the communities
of the northern Negev. Hamas' ability to get supporters in Jerusalem and
the West Bank onto the streets is something new. It's not measured
merely by the number of stone-throwers on the Temple Mount, but also by
the alternative of an uprising that the Islamist group is trying to
encourage. The holy sites are its living space, and when a non-religious
Egyptian newspaper writes in its main headline that "The Al-Aqsa Mosque
is on the verge of collapse" because of the Israeli construction work,
and the kings of Jordan and Saudi Arabia are furious because of Israel's
activities in Jerusalem, Hamas doesn't need Qassams. The smoldering can
be seen and heard.
Will there or won't there be an intifada is a sly question. It assumes
that even if an intifada does take place, we already know how to handle
it, and if it does not happen, well, we've won anyway. Meanwhile, the
main question now in the dispute between the left and right, as if it
were really an ideological issue, hides behind it: the true struggle for
the future of the state and its international standing.
Nathan Hughes
Director of Military Analysis


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The Tenth Circuit ruling in a case brought by the devout Christian owners of hobby and book stores marks the first time an appeals court has examined Obamacare's contraceptives policy.
Requiring that certain contraceptives be made available under the mandated health-care coverage of Obamacare would substantially burden the religious rights of a chain of hobby stores and Christian bookstores and their devout Christian owners, a federal appeals court ruled Thursday.
The court ruled that the companies, Hobby Lobby Stores and Mardel, Inc., and its owners, the Green family, have a valid claim in their case under the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA).
But a majority of judges on the court declined to approve an injunction that would allow the company an exemption from paying for contraceptive methods they find religiously offensive.
Instead, the court sent that issue back to a federal judge to determine whether an injunction should be issued to protect the religious rights of the company and its owners.
The company is facing a July 1 deadline to comply.
"We hold that Hobby Lobby and Mardel are entitled to bring claims under RFRA, have established a likelihood of success that their rights under this statute are substantially burdened by the contraceptive-coverage requirement, and have established an irreparable harm," Circuit Judge Timothy Tymkovich wrote for the court.
"But we remand the case to the district court for further proceedings on two of the remaining factors governing the grant or denial of a preliminary injunction," he said.
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