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Started by aussiebella , Jun 06 2010 08:34 PM
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Posted 06 June 2010 - 08:34 PM
I'm sure this will be the first of many posts in this section of Eb.
I had my daughter on Friday at 40 weeks and 5 days. She was born sleeping as they say.
We have decided to get her cremated and the funeral home don't provide or have urns or anything so i'm wondering where others who've been through this may have gotten something? Are there specialised places to buy this kind of thing? Did you just go to a gift shop and find a nice bottle/vase type thing?
I was even thinking of one of those stained glass jewllery type boxes or something??
I have no idea where to start or what to look for. This is not something I had planned for or ever thought could happen to me. I don't even know yet how her ashes will be given to us. I think in a small plastic container or something simple?
We are not having a funeral or specialised service. We have decided to wait until we have her ashes and take them home and then have our own memorial with family at my in-laws farm. I want to see if I can release some butterflies as butterflies have always been of big importance for me and it seem appropriate that they fly away towards the sky like she has.
Although I don't know if I should be having a proper service for her?? Am i not giving her justice by not having a funeral??
I'm so confused and being brave but I don't want to be brave. I don't want to have to be thinking about this.
I'm supposed to be tired and emotional and getting angry at my kids for being distracting while i'm breastfeeding her. I'm not supposed to be wondering what on earth to do with all the baby clothes and toys I have in her room.
OK I just need the information for now. I think the advice and comfort is something I need later. Right now I need to organise how to remember her otherwise I will start crying and never ever stop.
Posted 06 June 2010 - 09:16 PM
I am so very deeply sorry for your loss, and im terribly sorry you had to join our group.
You need to do what you feel most comfortable with, its all very overwhelming and its a position people never thought they would be in. We had a service for my Madeline because that was my initial response, I knew straight away I wanted to hold one. But if your gut or feeling is not to, then dont.
Be careful with your self. Cry freely. Talk about her. Put up photos of her, or your ultrasounds around the house. She's your baby and always will be.
There is a website that sells photos of the sunrise for the day your Amelia was born, that can be nice, but in the end it has o be what feels best for you.
Feel free to PM me when ever you like, I will listen to you speak about her, or anything you like xxxx
Edited by ~ky~, 07 June 2010 - 10:19 AM.
Posted 06 June 2010 - 09:28 PM
Sorry for your loss, Amelia Grace - a beautiful name, fly free and watch over your mummy
Here are 2 websites you can look at
Edited by ~ky~, 07 June 2010 - 10:19 AM.
Posted 06 June 2010 - 09:30 PM
Aussiebella - I am so sorry that Ameila could not stay hear with you.
Having a funeral for Amelia is your and your husband chose to make, we had a funeral for both of our daughters because to us it was a way our other children and our friends and family could say goodbye to our girls since nobody got the chance top meet them. Which ever way you decide to remeber Amelia would you wonderful and do what feels right for you.
I am suprised that Amelia's ashes will not not be put in a little urn for you, with our first DD, we were terrifeid to open the container since we didn't know how her ashes would be presented to us and we brough her a urn from http://www.urns-online.com.au/ which is the cherub ruby marble urn and including postage was $150-200 cheaper than the one in Australia. Both our girls are in a little urn which we recieved them in and the other one is a ornamental piece now. Ask the funeral home what container she will be given to you in so at least you know what to expect when opening the box up.
You are going though a hole range of emotions at the moment including confused on what has happened to your little girl and being brave for eveyone when you not feeling brave at all, I went on auto pilot a month ago when our 2nd DD was born and I am so over being brave and acting brave when heart is breaking over again.
Big hugs to you and if you want to talk to me feel free to PM me.
Edited by ~ky~, 07 June 2010 - 10:20 AM.
Posted 06 June 2010 - 09:32 PM
My daughers ashes rest on my drawers in my bedroom in a box that nobody knows is her urn.
For my 21st birthday my then BF gave me this beautiful jarra jewellery box that i had seen on holidays. When I was looking for somewhere to keep my daughters ashes I originally was going to put them in there, but when I got them back from the funeral home the container they were in was too big and I didn't want to unseal it so I tracked down the man who made the original box. His name was on the bottom so I just googled him and found his studio in WA. I told him the dimensions of the container and he made a matching box to my jewellery box and added a little lock for me. On the inside he attached her plaque from her coffin. She now rests on my drawers next to my jewellery box, and this really suited me as I didn't want something that people would instantly recognise as a container with her ashses in it.
In the box I also have her birth and death certificates, rosary beads and name bracelet.
There are lots of sites on line that sell wooden boxes or stained glass boxes, or if you are interested I can send you the name of the person who made mine. If you find one but it is not the size you need, most times you can email the maker and see if they will do one to your specifications.
As for how you chose to honour your daughter, that is up to you. There is no right or wrong way. She will feel no less loved if you don't have a funeral nor is she any less part of your family. Do what you feel in your heart is right.
Good luck with your decision.
Edited by ~ky~, 07 June 2010 - 10:21 AM.
Posted 06 June 2010 - 09:39 PM
I am so sorry for your loss of Amelia Grace. She has a beautiful name. Our DD was stillborn and her middle name is Grace too.
We went to a place that sold urns - they were a wholesale place but like you we didn't know where else to go. They had some beautiful ones to choose from. I can't remember the name right now but could look it up in the morning. We are in Melb too.
Be gentle with yourselves in the days ahead.
Edited by ~ky~, 07 June 2010 - 10:22 AM.
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Posted 07 June 2010 - 12:20 AM
I am so saddened to hear of the loss of your precious daughter Amelia. It's so damn unfair.
Our daughter's ashes were given to us in a gorgeous little urn by the funeral home. I recall them telling us that if we wanted a different one we could order one through them. Maybe check if the funeral home have brochures for a supplier?
We didn't have a public funeral. We had a little service in the hospital chapel with just me, DH and my parents present. The chaplain did a naming ceremony and anointed her as i held her. We're not religious, but for some reason i found it very comforting. I felt like i had done something for her.
I think the memorial at the farm sounds beautiful and IMO is a form of a funeral for her. Just follow your heart and do things the way you and your DH want to and can bear to.
I'm so sorry. Your family are in my thoughts
Edited by ~ky~, 07 June 2010 - 10:22 AM.
Posted 07 June 2010 - 07:08 AM
I am also sorry for your loss.
We chose not to have a service at the funeral home, we had our son cremated and had a small ceremony at home with just our immediate family. I am not religious, and didn't want a full funeral service, it just didn't seem right for our family if that makes sense? I certainly didn't feel like i wasn't doing him justice by not having a funeral service. What we did came from the heart.
I couldn't find an urn that i really liked, so i haven't actually got one yet. Connor is still in the container that the funeral home put him in. It is in a beautiful gold drawstring bag.
I didn't want to get something i wasn't totally happy with, and i'm sure when the time is right, something will stand out to me, until then i am happy to wait.
My thoughts are with you.
Edited by ~ky~, 07 June 2010 - 10:23 AM.
Posted 07 June 2010 - 11:41 AM
Thankyou all for your ideas and stories.
The reason we chose to wait was because I wanted to wait til we had the money to do everything I want to do at her "service". Like the butterflies and have a beautiful place for her ashes.
Although i'm torn because my Mum is only here for a few days and won't be there to say goodbye (although she did say goodbye at the hospital and that was special).
There's so many things I want to do though and I think i'm getting carried away with trying to find ways to remember her and forget about trying to grieve.
It's not real yet? I keep thinking that i'm waiting to go to hospital to have her and bring her home. i'm a bit lost. I keep wandering around the house wondering what to do. I don't feel right doing normal things and I can't really yet as my Mum is here and my husband is home...so there's no routine to go back to.
I slept with the blanket they gave me at the hospital for her. I held it in my arms and rubbed it all night. I also had to sleep with the tv on (on mute) because I couldn't handle my room being so dark.
I don't know how to do any of this. What do I do next? I feel so empty. I have no tummy anymore but I have no baby. I don't understand it???
Posted 07 June 2010 - 01:37 PM
Hi aussiebella
I am so sorry for your loss. My daughter was stillborn almost 4 years ago and I too found it hard to find anything for her ashes. I have a music box from Peters of Kensington. The funeral home sealed her ashes inside ans engraved her name on the top.
I too still struggle to understand why this happens.
Take care of yourself
Posted 07 June 2010 - 01:47 PM
I know how you are feeling we lost our little boy Kobi Hunter on the 11th April 2010, he was born at 38weeks. I have spent the last 8 weeks planning a funeral service taking a holiday and now doing as much as I can to keep his memory alive. The types of things I have done I have listed at the end and they have very much helped.
I slept with a teddy bear that my sister had bought Kobi when we passed the 12 week scan. I have had 2 previous miscarriages, we have no living children, Kobi would have been our first. I almost packed it to take on holidays as I had not slept without it since leaving the hospital.
We had Kobi cremated and we think we may split his ashes and have a memorial site at the cemetary but also scatter them at the beach as this is significant to us. We had balloons at his service that spelt his name, we later released them with our nieces and nephews.
Do whatever you think is right for you there are no right or wrong answers. There are websites that you can also order jewellery where you can keep some ashes with you if that is something you wish to do.
What we have done;
If you think it would help SANDS offer a 24/7 phone service where you can ring and talk to someone who has been through what you are experiencing.
I have only started on these forum sites since losing Kobi but it is amazing the type of comfort you can get from knowing someone else is going through the same thing.
Posted 07 June 2010 - 05:17 PM
I still have my daughter's ashes in the container I got from the funeral home as I wasn't sure what I wanted to do with them. It sits on my bedside table. She died on 13/11/09.
I'm glad I gave it some time to think it through. I've now found a beautiful urn necklace that you can put a small portion of the ashes in and carry them close to your heart for ever.
I also found a nice childs trinket box that I am going to put them in and seal. It's not a traditional urn, but it beautiful and suits what I was looking for.
I can send you the links if you like?
Posted 07 June 2010 - 06:19 PM
I would love the link thankyou
My husband wants to get a necklace with a little holder for her ashes. I'm considering it too.
My only concern is seperating the ashes. I feel like i'd be cutting off her finger or something to put inthe locket. She didn't have enough hair to have taken hair. We have asked if they can save her cord after they do the examination (for COD)
I guess we will decide when the time comes.
Posted 07 June 2010 - 09:00 PM
I just wanted to say how my heartbreaks for you, Amelia Grace is a beautiful name. My daughter was stillborn at 41 weeks in December during labour for no known reason. Life is unfair...
We have a little silver and pink urn with an angel on it which have Veronica's ashes. I have them sitting with her photo, locks of her hair and other bits and pieces. I talk to them everyday and place a kiss on them every morning and night (that might make me sound a bit crazy...)
We had funeral and then a small gathering of just our immediate family when we went to the cremetorium (spelling?) - a private time to say good-bye. I don't think you have to have a funeral, you do what feels right for you and your family.
I remember feeling like I should of being doing something. I should of been bathing her or, struggling to breastfeed or something...I just felt lost and empty and I didn't want to return to 'normal' things.
KHK - I actually take a photo of Veronica with me whenever I travel now (I travel a bit with work). I just can't not have it with me and wear her photo in a locket everyday. I just need to see her with me...
Edited by poppess, 07 June 2010 - 09:00 PM.
Posted 10 June 2010 - 02:25 PM
Hi aussiebella
Sorry to hear about the loss of your daughter Amelia Grace, beautiful name by the way.
DP and I had our twin girls cremated (they were born 12-10-09 @ 23.3weeks due to PROM) we didnt have a funeral service as we decided we wanted to have a little service at our home with close family and friends (the ones who showed support) We had pink and purple balloons that we attached poems and a personal message to them and let them go out on a hill near where we live, it was a beautiful and special day for us and for our girls.
I also bought a pendant urn which has a bit of my girls ashes in it, its a infinity sign and it absolutly goregous, DP finally found a pendant urn that he likes in a shape of a bullet as he likes hunting and it was a pefect urn for him, we wear or necklaces everyday. We found them on ebay lol of all places, but we love them which is the main thing. We never ended up getting an urn for their ashes, even though we looked around for something we just didnt find one we liked but we decided to let our girls ashes go at a waterfall which was a beautiful spot that DP picked out and i loved it, it was so peaceful as no one was around as its kind of hidden as you have to walk a little bit and the path was a bit overgrown, and as soon as we let their ashes go there was a butterfly that flew right around us a few times, i like to think it was them giving us a sign .
Heres a few other things:
-Im also considering getting a tattoo in memory of my girls.
-Im also doing a scrapbook up of them as we have lots of photos.
-We also got their names written in sand as theres a lady that does that for ppl who have experienced baby loss. Its called to write their names in the sand. http://namesinthesand.blogspot.com/ And we got the photos blown up and they look great.
-theres also a lady who writes names on flowers too who i think is a friend of the lady who writes names in sand http://onlysayitwithflowers.blogspot.com/2...o-requests.html I havnt had this done but am considering it.
-I also have a few photos in frames of them and little bits and pieces that people gave as gifts in memory of my angels which are in the lounge.
Hope this helps a bit for you to decide what you and dh would like to do in memory of your little angel Amelia There are so many things you can do and ppl on here are great with showing support and ideas.
Sorry for the long post.
Edited by ~ky~, 10 June 2010 - 05:57 PM.
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For those that have done a tour with the Forward-Deployed Naval Forces (FDNF) in 7th Fleet, it is known especially well that the long-term schedule is taken with a grain of salt. Stateside deployers have the luxury of knowing their deployment timeline years in advance. However, the Japan-based ships in 7th fleet, especially the nine destroyers and cruisers that make up the backbone of the battle force, face uncertainty every day.
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Continuing the unbroken record of marriage equality wins since last year's Supreme Court ruling against DOMA in the Windsor case, today a federal judge ruled unconstitutional Kentucky's ban on marriage for same-sex couples.
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In America, even sincere and long-held religious beliefs do not trump the constitutional rights of those who happen to have been out-voted.
He dismissed the opposing arguments — including that the ban was good for the state's economic stability and birth rates — out of hand, noting, "These arguments are not those of serious people."
The judge has stayed the ruling for now, meaning that Kentucky couples can't immediately begin marrying. But the decision is a significant victory for LGBT families in the Bluegrass State, where activists have fought courageously for equal rights for many years. Congratulations, Kentucky!
In its 5-4 ruling today in Hobby Lobby, the Supreme Court's right-wing majority played fast and loose with the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA), the law that provided the basis for the claim that religious liberty rights conflicted with the Affordable Care Act (ACA). As Justice Ginsburg's dissent pointed out, the clear language and history of RFRA stated that it was intended to "restore" the protection of religious liberty that the First Amendment provided before Justice Scalia's infamous decision in Employment Division v. Smith, which said that there was no protection for religious people whose religious practices were substantially burden by general laws. As a participant in drafting and helping get support for RFRA in the 1990s, I can testify personally that this was true. The broad coalition of groups and legislators – from PFAW to the National Association of Evangelicals, from Orrin Hatch to Ted Kennedy – would never have agreed otherwise. But the 5-4 majority in Hobby Lobby nevertheless claims that RFRA was, in Justice Ginsburg's words, "a bold initiative departing from, rather than restoring, pre-Smith jurisprudence."
This twisting of RFRA was significant in two ways to the Hobby Lobby result. First, it allowed the majority to rule that for-profit corporations like Hobby Lobby could claim rights under RFRA. As Justice Ginsburg pointed out, the Court had never so ruled before, since religious liberty protection properly belongs to individuals and religious institutions like churches. Second, it led to the majority's ruling that there was a "substantial" burden" on religious exercise in the case, based on the claim that the religious beliefs of Hobby Lobby's owners were offended by the ACA requirement. As Justice Ginsburg explained, pre-Smith law made clear that this kind of mere conflict with religious beliefs was not enough to prove a substantial burden. Instead, a requirement must actually restrict or burden "what [the person] may believe or what he may do." Under this analysis, Ginsburg explained, any burden in this case was too attenuated to be substantial. After all, Hobby Lobby was not required to purchase or provide contraceptives, but simply to deposit money into undifferentiated funds that finance a wide variety of benefits; it was up to individual employees whether to utilize contraceptives.
These concerns are much more than historical or theoretical. First, the majority's rationale could deprive millions of Americans of contraceptive or other coverage under ACA. Even if restricted to closely held corporations, more than 50% of all American workers work for corporations that could similarly claim under Hobby Lobby that their religious beliefs are sincerely offended by providing coverage for contraceptives or other services, and that would be enough to trigger RFRA. Second, if a corporation can prove it is substantially burdened under RFRA because its owners or board have a sincere religious objection to a government requirement, they can make exactly those claims to try to exempt themselves from anti-discrimination and other workers' rights laws. The Hobby Lobby majority tried to downplay this concern by Justice Ginsburg, but specifically mentioned only that laws banning racial discrimination should be safe from this claim. For example, what about laws banning discrimination based on gender and sexual orientation? The 5-4 majority opinion is almost an invitation to businesses to further distort RFRA by making such claims.
In the Supreme Court's decision in Hobby Lobby, the Court held for the first time ever that a for-profit corporation counts as a "person" under the Religious Freedom Restoration Act and that a "closely held" corporation basically shares the religious exercise rights of its owners. This leads American law into a treacherous minefield, as Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg made clear in her dissent.
It's worth pointing out, as Justice Ginsberg also noted, "'Closely held' is not synonymous with 'small.'" Hobby Lobby is a massive corporation employing some 13,000 people, but there are other closely held companies that are much larger. In a footnote, Ginsberg mentions family-owned Mars, Inc. and closely held Cargill, which are both among the largest five private companies in the country. Guess which is number two? Koch industries, with $115 billion in revenue and 60,000 employees. Brothers David and Charles Koch reportedly own 84 percent. Rounding out the top five private companies are Dell and Bechtel. Those five companies employ more than 436,000 people. What religious claims might their owners find useful to make in undermining laws that protect their workers?
In another win for equality, today U.S. District Judge Richard Young struck down Indiana's ban on marriage for same-sex couples. Because the judge did not stay the ruling, the Indianapolis Star reports that couples can begin getting married right away.
Not a single state marriage ban has been able to withstand a challenge in federal court in the wake of the Supreme Court's 2013 decision in United States v. Windsor, which struck down part of DOMA.
Congratulations, Indiana!
Since last Friday's ruling by Federal Judge Barbara Crabb that Wisconsin's ban on same-sex marriages is unconstitutional, hundreds of same-sex couples have lined up to get marriage licenses across the Badger State. Immediately after receiving the ruling, clerks in Dane and Milwaukee counties began issuing marriage licenses, and in both areas, facilities stayed open late on Friday and continued issuing licenses on Saturday. Officiants, including judges, ministers, and commissioners, married couples on-site at their respective county courthouses.
Similar to actions in other states where courts have struck down same-sex marriage bans, Wisconsin's right-leaning GOP Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen filed multiple motions to "preserve the status quo" attempting to stop same-sex marriages from happening.
As of Tuesday afternoon, 48 of the state's 72 counties were issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples, despite the ongoing legal battle. Wisconsin's Vital Records Office is accepting the licenses, but holding them until they receive further guidance from Van Hollen.
For its part, the ACLU filed a proposal of how to implement same-sex marriage in the state. If approved, the plan would force Governor Scott Walker, Attorney General Van Hollen, and county clerks across the state to treat all same-sex and opposite-sex couples equally under the law.
Judge Crabb is set to have another hearing on June 19th.
A District Court judge ruled today that Wisconsin's ban on marriage for same-sex couples is unconstitutional. Judge Barbara Crabb relied on equal protection law to strike down the ban:
"My task under federal law is to decide the claims presented by the plaintiffs in this case now, applying the provisions of the Fourteenth Amendment as interpreted by the Supreme Court," she said. "Because my review of that law convinces me that plaintiffs are entitled to the same treatment as any heterosexual couple, I conclude that the Wisconsin laws banning marriage between same-sex couples are unconstitutional."
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There is about a month remaining before the end of the Supreme Court's current term, which is expected to be at the end of June. The Roberts Court has already done great damage in the cases it has decided so far. The far-right's ruling in McCutcheon v. FEC drove another dagger into the heart of our democracy by empowering the wealthiest and most powerful among us to exercise even more control over our election. Town of Greece v. Galloway continued the arch-conservatives' goal to undermine the constitutionally mandated separation of church and state.
But there are many important cases remaining to be decided over the next several weeks. Depending on how the Court rules, the entrenched power imbalance already harming our democracy could be significantly worsened.
Recess appointments and sabotage of the executive branch: NLRB v. Noel Canning.
This case has the potential of completely remaking the president's recess appointment authority from how it has been understood and exercised since the 1800s. The recess appointment power has long been used by presidents of both parties during all kinds of recesses, not just those occurring annually between sessions of Congress. And it has always been used to fill vacancies regardless of when those vacancies first became open. But that may soon change.
It's important to note that this case arose out of far-right conservatives' efforts to nullify laws they don't agree with. In this case, the laws in their crosshairs were those protecting workers, which they sought to undermine by preventing the National Labor Relations Board from having enough members to conduct business. Specifically, Republicans blocked the Senate from holding confirmation votes on President Obama's nominees to the NLRB, finally provoking him to make recess appointments in January of 2012. This was during a vacation period when the Senate was meeting for pro forma sessions for a few minutes every few days, a practice that came about for the specific purpose of preventing recess appointments.
The Supreme Court has been asked to answer several questions: (1) Can a recess appointment be made only during the recess between two sessions of Congress (which occurs once a year and can last only a split second), or can it be made during any recess? (2) Can the Senate use pro forma sessions to turn what would otherwise be a recess into a non-recess, thereby preventing recess appointments? (3) Is a recess appointment limited to those vacancies that first became open during the same recess during which the appointment is made?
Attacks on public sector unions: Harris v. Quinn.
This case is about home care personal assistants (PAs) in Illinois, who provide in-home care under two of its Medicaid programs to people with disabilities and other health needs. But it has the potential, should the Roberts Court wish, to deliver a crippling blow to public sector unions nationwide.
Illinois PAs are classified as state employees for the purposes of collective bargaining and work under a common "agency shop" agreement: If the employees in a particular group choose to have a union represent them, the government employer recognizes that union as their exclusive representative. When the union carries out its collective bargaining functions, it does so on behalf of all the employees, regardless of whether they actually join the union. Members pay dues to support this activity on their behalf. To prevent "free riding," the law requires non-union members to pay their fair share to support the basic collective bargaining activities being done on their behalf, but not to support non-collective bargaining activities such as political campaigning with which they might disagree.
The Supreme Court has long recognized that such arrangements for public employees are consistent with the First Amendment, dating back to a 1977 case called Abood v. Detroit Board of Education. But that precedent is threatened in this case as petitioners – backed by the anti-worker National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation – call for the Roberts Court to overrule Abood. According to the PAs who brought this case, the arrangement violates their First Amendment freedom to choose with whom to associate. They also claim that exclusive representation violates their right to petition the government on matters of public policy, since the subject of their negotiations is the functioning and budgets of state Medicaid programs.
As Justice Kagan noted during oral arguments, this "would radically restructure the way workplaces across this country are run," imposing so-called "right to work" regimes on all public employment throughout the United States. In so doing, it would substantially drain the coffers of public sector unions, which has been a longtime political goal of conservative extremists.
Unfortunately, the far-right Justices on the Roberts Court have already demonstrated their eagerness to join in the political attack on workers. Two years ago, in Knox v. SEIU (another case involving public sector unions), they severely undercut another longtime precedent that had enabled public sector unions to protect workers' rights by deciding an issue that wasn't before them, ruling against the union on an issue that it had not even had a chance to argue. As Justice Sotomayor pointed out in her dissent, the majority was acting in violation of the Court's own rules to achieve this result. Whether they will show a similar eagerness to undercut public sector unions remains to be seen.
Corporate religious liberty rights: Sebelius v. Hobby Lobby and Conestoga Wood Specialties Corp. v. Sebelius.
These cases have the potential to give religious liberty rights to for-profit corporations, and to empower their owners and managers to ignore laws on health insurance coverage, employment discrimination, and other areas based on their religious beliefs.
Under the Affordable Care Act and HHS guidelines, employers generally have to provide certain preventive health services, including FDA-approved contraception, to women employees. The cases challenging this requirement involve several companies and their owners. Conestoga Wood is a for-profit corporation with 950 employees, owned by members of the Hahn family. Hobby Lobby is an arts and crafts chain store with over 500 stores and about 13,000 full-time employees, owned by members of the Green family. The Greens also own a corporation called Mardel, a chain of 35 for-profit Christian bookstores with about 400 employees.
The Greens and the Hahns have religious-based opposition to the use of some of the contraceptives covered by the law. They claim that the law violates not only their own religious freedom, but also the religious freedom of the large for-profit corporations they run. The primary law at issue in the cases is the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA), enacted in 1993. Under RFRA, a federal law cannot "substantially burden a person's exercise of religion" unless it advances a compelling government interest in the least restrictive manner.
A key question for the Justices is whether a for-profit corporation is a "person" covered by RFRA. Unsurprisingly, before this litigation, no court had ever found that for-profit corporations have religious liberty interests either under RFRA or under the First Amendment. Yet a divided Tenth Circuit ruled for Hobby Lobby: They concluded that since corporations have First Amendment political speech rights under Citizens United, it follows that they also have First Amendment religious rights, and that RFRA should be interpreted to include them as "persons." As PFAW Foundation Senior Fellow Jamie Raskin has written, "the outlandish claims of the company involved would not have a prayer except for Citizens United, the miracle gift of 2010 that just keeps giving."
The next question is whether the coverage requirement is a substantial burden on the families' (and possibly corporations') exercise of religion, even though they are not forced to use or administer the contraception, or to affirm that they have no religious objection to it. Since the ones providing the health insurance are the corporations and not the individual owners, a ruling in favor of the owners would have implications for a concept basic to American law: that a corporation is a legally separate entity from its owners.
If the Justices find a substantial burden on the corporations or their owners, then they will determine if the government interest (furthering women's health and equality) is a compelling one, and if the coverage provision advances that interest in the least restrictive manner.
While a victory for either the corporations or their owners would directly harm women's health, it could also open the door to employers being able to exempt themselves from other laws that they have religious objections to, such as anti-discrimination protections.
Women's Access to Reproductive Health Clinics: McCullen v. Coakley.
The Court is being asked to overrule a 2000 precedent upholding buffer zones around reproductive health clinics. The current case involves a Massachusetts law that creates a 35-foot buffer zone around such clinics (with exceptions for employees, patients and others with business there, and people passing through on their way somewhere else). Anti-choice advocates claim this violates their freedom of speech because it restricts only people with a particular viewpoint.
The lower courts disagreed, citing the 2000 case of Hill v. Colorado, where the Supreme Court upheld a buffer zone making it illegal to approach within eight feet of people at clinics for the purpose of counseling, education, or protesting. (This applied anywhere within 100 feet of the clinic.) That 6-3 decision analyzed the law as a content-neutral regulation of speech that was reasonable in light of the importance of protecting unwilling people's right to avoid unwanted conversations and their right to pass without obstruction. However, two of the conservative Justices in the 6-3 majority have been replaced by far more conservative Bush nominees: Rehnquist (by Roberts) and O'Connor (by Alito). Since Justices Kennedy, Scalia, and Thomas dissented in the 2000 case, there may very well be five votes to not only strike down the Massachusetts buffer zone but also to overrule Hill completely.
As noted in an amicus brief that PFAW Foundation joined, the Massachusetts law applies to people regardless of the content of their speech and is a content-neutral way to ensure that women can enter the clinics to exercise their constitutional rights. The law does not prevent abortion opponents from approaching women who are more than 35 feet from the clinic entrance (as opposed to the Colorado law, which prohibited unwanted close contact anywhere within 100 feet of the clinic). And the record in this case shows that anti-choice advocates have consistently been able to distribute literature to individuals approaching clinics, as well as to have quiet conversations with them.
Nevertheless, many felt after oral arguments that five conservative justices were likely to strike down the Massachusetts law. If they do, we will see if they also overrule the 2000 precedent, opening the floodgates to another era of efforts to block women from exercising a deeply personal constitutional right.
Regulating greenhouse gases: Utility Air Regulatory Group v. EPA (and several companion cases).
In these cases, industrial interests and their allies are attacking the EPA's ability to effectively regulate their greenhouse gas emissions.
In Massachusetts v. EPA in 2007, the Supreme Court ruled in a 5-4 decision that the EPA has the authority under the Clean Air Act to regulate emissions of greenhouse gases from new motor vehicles, since they easily fit within the CAA's broad definition of "air pollutant." This ruling, resisted by the Bush Administration, allowed the Obama Administration to adopt regulations on greenhouse gases from cars and trucks in 2010.
Under the EPA's longstanding interpretation of the Clean Air Act, once EPA regulation of a pollutant from mobile sources (like cars and trucks) goes into effect, that pollutant is automatically subject to regulation under EPA rules for stationary sources (like factories and power plants). Those regulations involve permitting requirements for facilities emitting pollutants over statutory thresholds. But greenhouse gases are emitted in far greater volumes than other pollutants, and millions of industrial, commercial, and even residential sources exceed the statutory threshold. The EPA recognized that immediately adding these millions of stationary sources to its permitting programs would impose tremendous costs to both industry and to state permitting authorities. So in what is called the "Tailoring Rule," the agency chose to move gradually, initially subjecting only the largest sources of emissions to mandatory greenhouse gas permitting, and planning a gradual phase-in for others, with planned rulemakings on how best to accomplish that phase-in.
Industrial interests, the Chamber of Commerce, and their conservative allies in state government have challenged the EPA rules. They argue that since the addition of greenhouse gases to the stationary sources permitting programs would cause what they characterize as results not desired by Congress (such as bringing huge numbers of buildings, including churches, schools, bakeries, and large private homes into the programs), it means that greenhouse gases are not the type of pollutant to which these permitting programs apply. And that lets the major industrial contributors to greenhouse gas pollution off the hook. They also claim that the Tailoring Rule is a rewrite of the Clean Air Act, which only Congress can do. So we end up with hyperbolic right-wing talking points in Supreme Court briefs, like this from Southeastern Legal Foundation:
This case involves perhaps the most audacious seizure of pure legislative power over domestic economic matters attempted by the Executive Branch since Youngstown Sheet & Tube [the 1952 case striking down President Truman's seizure of steel mills during the Korean War].
As the Constitutional Accountability Center noted in their amicus brief supporting the EPA, the agency's gradual approach satisfies rather than subverts the central purpose of the Clean Air Act:
This is not a suspension of the relevant statutory provisions nor a failure to enforce the CAA as written. To the contrary, EPA is setting priorities based on both practical realities and its limited resources, biting off no more than it or, as important, the regulated entities themselves, can chew at any given time. This phase-in of the CAA's requirements is not a rewrite of the statute, and it is fully consistent with the executive authority vested in the President by Article II of our enduring Constitution and the separation of powers evidenced in the Framers' design.
The following is a post by Gabriela De Golia, Advocacy Associate for affiliate People For the American Way Foundation's Young People For program.
Last week, in a speech in support of a constitutional amendment to reduce the influence of big money on our political system, Majority Leader Harry Reid said, "No one should be able to pump unlimited funds into political campaigns." On political spending, Sen. Reid noted, the "Koch brothers are in a category of their own."
Indeed, the Koch brothers' influence in shaping our national political dialogue is stronger than many realize. In March the Center for Public Integrity wrote about David and Charles Koch's financial investments in colleges and universities—the nation-spanning "campus of Koch Brothers Academy." By pouring millions into schools across the country, the Koch brothers bankroll academic programs to promote their economic and social ideologies. They champion regressive political philosophies and create a pipeline for youth to become engaged in conservative activism. In effect, the Koch brothers are leading a crusade to funnel young people into the conservative movement.
However, we in the progressive movement are also investing in our youth. Despite not having as much money as oil tycoons, key players in the progressive movement understand the power of youth and are fighting back with a long-term progressive infrastructure. Programs like Young People For (YP4) of People For the American Way Foundation provide young progressive leaders the tools to create systemic change, roll back conservative advances, reclaim our democracy, and fight for justice.
By teaching young adults to identify key issues in their communities, create concrete action plans, and mobilize others through organizing and advocacy, YP4 helps Millennial change-makers build power to win on progressive issues. For example, through our program's Money in Elections campaign, young activists have held rallies, gathered petitions, protested banks, and spoken at national events in support of reclaiming our democracy. Ariel Boone, a 2009 YP4 Fellow, lead a successful campaign urging the University of California at Berkeley to divest $3.5 million out of Bank of America and reinvest these funds in a local bank that contributes millions to the surrounding community. Last year 2013 Fellow Brendien Mitchell spoke alongside Senator Bernie Sanders and other pro-democracy movement leaders at a rally to get big money out of politics on the steps of the Supreme Court. These are but a couple examples of how YP4 is supporting young people in taking a stand against corporate influence in our political system.
As YP4 enters its tenth year, we continue to recognize that to build a movement, you need to think long-term. From recruiting youth from marginalized communities into our Fellowship program, to assisting them in getting more voters to the polls through our voter engagement programs, to training them to run successful campaigns through our Front Line Leaders Academy, we support youth every step of the way of their leadership journey.
Often in conversations about politics and civic participation, young adults are afterthoughts, considered an "apathetic" audience that doesn't vote. But Millennials are far more engaged than given credit for. In fact, today's young adults are anything but disengaged. Despite being the first generation to be economically worse-off than their parents through no fault of our own, Millennials are far more likely to do community service than older generations. About half of us vote, and we currently account for over 20 percent of the voting-eligible population in the US – and that number is growing as more of us turn 18. We must constantly overcome conservatives' best attempts to keep us from the polls, efforts which in themselves show how much power we hold over the political process – no one would try to disenfranchise us if we didn't matter. And last but certainly not least, we are the most diverse and progressive generation in recent history.
Ironically, two individuals who spend enormous amounts of money to influence the civic lives of young adults represent political leanings at odds with much of the Millennial generation's values. The Koch brothers singlehandedly influence the US political arena more than almost anyone else thanks to their nearly limitless pool of oil money. They are two of the most radical and influential right-wing leaders today who are attempting to abolish the minimum wage, get rid of Social Security, defund the Affordable Care Act, equate money with speech, and lead the transformation of American democracy into an oligarchy. As shown in the Center for Public Integrity report, in 2012 they gave nearly $13 million in tax-deductible donations to higher education institutions, including many that are often considered "liberal," to promote their ideologies.
These contributions show that conservative leaders do understand the power of youth and the return they get from investing in youth leadership development opportunities. By shelling millions into programs for young conservatives since the 1970s and focusing on long-term capacity building rather than just mobilization during elections, conservatives see the fruits of their labor in congressional dysfunction and the weakening of our democratic processes.
But programs like YP4 are doing the work to turn this tide by developing young progressive leaders. As Andrew Gillum, Director of Youth Leadership Programs at People For the American Way Foundation, wrote earlier this year: "Investing in progressive young people is the key to ensuring our movement's capacity to create and sustain social change for years to come."
Creating change is hard and takes time, especially when up against big money like that of the Koch Brothers. But by investing in young people, the progressive movement can make a real difference in both the short and long terms. We simply cannot afford to not invest in youth.


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Tulip post bloom
This last fall I planted many many tulip bulbs and was rewarded this spring with the best show of tulips we have ever had. I have to say it was wonderful. Not sure if the weather conditions were right or the bulbs were better but it was pretty exciting.
Now the foliage on several has died back entirely. On some it is still green. If I want to try and have flowers again next fall what is the best course of action for me? Dig them up or leave in the ground? In the past I've always just left them in the ground because I wasn't impressed enough with the previous bulbs performance to put forth any effort.
Thank you.
Please note my response to rocketjeremy6. In your location (the same as mine), you should start chilling in a refrigerator about the first of September, after having spent the last few months in a cool dark place. I have a separate refrigerator to prevent bloom damage from gases emitted from fresh fruit in the household refrigerator. I plant mine the first week of December under my roses and they come up in about 6 weeks. They finish blooming about the time the roses leaf out, which makes a good combination. Al
Hey Al.
Thanks for your post. For a second there I was beginning to wonder if my question didn't actually belong on the bulb forum.
I appreciate your feedback. However our weather is a bit more wintery than yours from what you say. By December our ground is frozen solid and you cannot start working again in the garden until at least April usually. That's when the tulips start to break ground. Or not if the weather was long and snowy. So I need to research further I think. I'm trying to work out if I should be digging them up now and just keeping them dry and cool all summer and then replant in October. Last year I bought the bulbs in October and planted them around Halloween some time.
Kate you must live in a elevation of over 5 thousand feet and tulips would probably do OK if not dug at all. Your temperatures sound like what tulips like. You would plant them deeper and they would be a little later blooming than here. They should be fine in the ground all summer. Al


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Nordstrom's investment in menswear retailer Bonobos illustrates the trend, as does Bonobos' own development plans.
In 2007, Andy Dunn set out to see if he could not only start a web-only business, but build an entire brand of menswear online. He started with pants.
Since then his online store, Bonobos.com, has sold hundreds of thousands of pairs of khakis, trousers and slacks, known for their bright colors and energetic prints, and moved into other clothing categories aimed at fashion-conscious hip young men such as suits, shirts, sweaters and swimwear. Investors were taking notice, and Bonobos itself was ready for a change—a move toward a more physical type of retailing.
"What we realized was people want to touch and feel clothes in person," Dunn says. But building boutiques is a daunting task. Bonobos experimented with two standalone shops out of its New York and Boston offices, offering 45-minute try-on sessions in makeshift storefronts, an effort that quickly generated $2 million in sales. Dunn realized he was on to something.
"Just because we were able to launch web-only we didn't need to [stay there]," he says. "If you acknowledge that e-commerce is the biggest part of your store, it doesn't preclude your finding more offline channels."
So, he asked, "If we had one national existing partner, who would that be?" The answer for him was the store he most respects because of its emphasis on customer service: Nordstrom Inc.
Nordstrom has a history of investing in up-and-coming small businesses as part of the upmarket chain's growth strategy. In 2011 it bought flash-sales site HauteLook and has since launched a membership-based online store from that business called Sole Society.
In April, Nordstrom led a $16 million dollar investment round in Bonobos. The deal enables Bonobos to sell its clothing on Nordstrom.com and in 20 Nordstrom department stores. The move fits into Nordstrom's grand scheme for spending $140 million on e-commerce in 2012 and nearly $1 billion over five years. In fact, Nordstrom plans to devote roughly 30% of its capital budget to web-related expenditures.
Bonobos is also investing in e-commerce as it continues to expand its multichannel selling, Dunn says. The company founded an e-commerce technology research office in Palo Alto, Calif.—that is, amid the thumping heart of Silicon Valley—where it is working to create new tools to serve its customers, including a new e-commerce platform for its web store. "If you're really serious about doing e-commerce well, you've got to own your infrastructure and, if you want to innovate, you have to drive that innovation yourself or work with partners," Dunn says
The ambitions of Bonobos and Nordstrom reflect a larger trend: Merchants large and small are increasing the dollars they devote to e-commerce technology. For further evidence, look at the rising revenue figures on the financial reports of e-commerce technology vendors, and the growing trend of such technology giants as IBM Corp. and Oracle Corp. buying up major e-commerce vendors so that they can provide top-notch e-commerce software and services to their large retail clients.
The July issue of Internet Retailer magazine takes a long look at the companies making these big investments and reports on what they plan to do with their new technological capabilities. Examples range from building e-commerce innovation centers to developing mobile point of sale systems to more futuristic devices, like digital mannequin displays—all of it meant to better engage with today's anytime, anywhere customer.
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Symone Jacques repeats as The Bee's girls tennis Player of the Year
Beyer sophomore Symone Jacques' favorite thing about tennis is that no matter how far behind you are in a match, you're never out of it. You could be trailing 5-0 in the second set, down 40-love in the sixth game, and you can still come back. Get behind that far in most any other sport, and the clock also becomes your enemy.
But not in tennis. Until your opponent wins that final point in the final game of the final set, you've still got a chance.
Unless, of course, you develop a serious infection in your neck and have to retire from the match before its conclusion.
That's what happened to Jacques in the semifinals of the Sac-Joaquin Section singles tournament in November, when she had to retire against eventual champion Abby Bacharach of Del Oro (Loomis).
Nevertheless, for her efforts this year, Jacques has been named The Bee's girls tennis Player of the Year for a second consecutive season.
Jacques had a legitimate shot at a section championship – she won her first two matches of the tourney 6-0, 6-0 and 6-1, 6-2 – until she developed the infection – the result of a cut or perhaps an insect bite on her neck.
"I couldn't move my neck or my head during the match," said Jacques. "It was pretty disappointing."
Especially when you consider she'd beaten Bacharach in a tournament earlier in the season.
Still, Jacques made it to the section semifinals – as far as her sister, Jacqueline Jacques, ever advanced.
"My sister and I are very competitive," said Symone Jacques, who said the competition has mellowed as years pass. Jacqueline, a former Bee Player of the Year, is a freshman at Seattle University.
"It's always in the back of my mind – my sister did it, so I have to do it," Jacques said.
ON THE COURT: After dropping the Modesto Metro Conference opener to reigning league champ Lorel Rodriguez of Gregori, Jacques went undefeated the rest of the regular season and captured her first conference crown.
"She's naturally talented and she's a hard worker," said Phong Le, the tennis pro at Modesto Fitness & Racquet Club. "And she's very competitive."
Beyer coach Mark Gonzales said Jacques is so tough because of her intensity and consistency.
"She just gets the ball in more times than the other player," Gonzales said earlier this season. "That, and she has a strong drive to win, which I think we need a lot more of in most players."
OFF THE COURT: Jacques is a serious student. Her weighted grade-point average this semester is 4.6. Her dream school is UC Santa Barbara – "I really like the SoCal vibe and Santa Barbara is so beautiful" – and she hopes to become a heart surgeon one day. In addition, she's involved with the Science Olympiad, Key Club and Protecting Health and Slamming Tobacco Club.
In her spare time, she likes to bake.
"I took some classes for professional baking – cakes and cupcakes and things of that nature," said Jacques. "It kind of relaxes me. Plus, I have a really bad sweet tooth and baking kind of relieves it."
QUOTABLE: "After I retired from the semifinal match, I ended up in the hospital for three days. The doctor asked me, 'Why didn't you come in earlier?' I told him, 'Hey, I had a tennis match.' " – Symone Jacques
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