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Today's Bombshell is blogger Eboni from LA:
She says, "I have been obsessed with reading fashion blogs forever, and finally decide to jump in the mix with my own blog — The Fashionista Next Door (www.ifeluvsu.blogspot.com)."
"…How would I described my style? Well, I think eclectic pretty much sums it up. I let my mood dictate my style. I might be rocking a sophisticated, classy pencil skirt on Monday, ripped boyfriend jeans on Tuesday, and a vintage ensemble on Wednesday."
"… I absolutely love scouring thrift shops! Nowadays you have stores like Urban Outfitters mass producing vintage inspired looks, but the real treasures are hiding on racks in your local thrift shops! My fave item right now is a HOT pink silk blouse I picked up for $4.99 at my local Goodwill."
Hot! Eboni, I love vintage finds too, especially for accessories like scarves and jewelry. You don't have to spend a fortune to look stylish!
Y'all know me, I love preps, so your first outfit is my fave. Also, snaps all around for your robin eggshell blue pedicure. Loves.
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her style is cute!!
Very stylish!
its ok……..
its ok. not bad. but style I truly admire, i will try to jack.
i wouldn't jack this.
but it is ok.
Cute, that second pic tho…no bueno
Her style is okay. The first pic is cute & I like the shoes she has on in the last pic.
Her style is just okay at best, nothing different that stands out
Eboni you are adorable and so is your style! For the people saying that she doesn't stand out- I live in Atl and the people I see walking around everyday, normally, are all legging'd out or Forever 21 rejects. Most of the females out here are cookie-cutter imitations of the next girl. If I saw Eboni out about in any of these outfits (minus the 2nd), I'd think to myself, "awww, she looks cute". I think for everyday normal, day-to-day outfits, this is nice. *gets off my soapbox, exits stage left*
I like these looks. I can tell that ms. eboni is not afraid to put different looks together and that is wonderful. Loving the boyfriend jeans. I recently stole two pairs of my husband jeans and have been rocking them. Also, I like the necklace in the second pix.
Cute, no not completely dynamic, but cute. I'm inspired by the first look and I'm gonna check out her blog. I love finding new fashion blogs.
Loving all of her shoes, everything else, meh…
Cute…loving the blazer in first pic and the boyfriend jeans in the last.
Eboni's style is adorable. I really love the first pic. Dressy shorts + blazer + nude pumps = perfecto!
The style is has good bones, but nothing dynamic… I would try more standout accessories that bring out the basics you have in your closet… And girlie, I thought your hair was cut short in the first pic… it's def a look you should experiment with in the summer… short hair looks great on you!!!!
Im a fan of them all eboni except the 2nd one .. I would have perfered the second one without that top maybe just a white tank and the necklace??… idk .. but either way do your thang …
I like it!
Very versatile. I like it!
I really like her 3rd and 4th looks and I like how she paired that blazer with the shirts for a nautical look. Nice.
Great style! Love the first outfit and the shoes in each photo are pretty fly.
I only liked the last look. It was aight. That's all.
nothing special cute girl
Good sense of style.
If anyone knows where to get that necklace in the second pix – let me know…would love to rock it with a tank and jeans .
absolutely love that first outfit!
Her style is cute. I like the first and last pic the most.
Thanks for the feature, and thanks for all the feedback… good and bad! Much appreciated.
Eboni Ife'
Oh and "yusufswifee", the necklace in the second pic is not actually a necklace. It is the detachable fringe from a dress I bought at Planet Funk here in LA. Didn't care for it with the dress, but I wear it all the time as a necklace. You can try making your own. Maegan over at Love Maegan gives a good DIY tutorial on her blog here — http://www.lovemaegan.com/2009/06/diy-t-shirt-to-fringe-necklace.html
ehh..the outfits are okay.
Go EBoni! love your blog!
Cute…I have to start going back to Goodwill and thrift stores. Do some mixing and matching without breaking my wallet :)
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Here's a disturbing thought: As much as the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has upset auto lenders and dealers, it hasn't even gotten around to the vast category of subprime auto lending.
Sure, the bureau has targeted dealer reserve in prime-risk lending. And now the bureau is reportedly looking into F&I products as well.
In both of those cases, it's easy to understand the dealer as middleman. For prime loans, dealer reserve is the delta between the lender's buy rate and the rate the customer pays. For F&I products, there's a wholesale price and a retail price. Simple.
But what's the bureau going to measure when it searches for discrimination in indirect subprime lending, in which the pricing model is completely different? I've asked some auto lending experts this question, and nobody seems to know.
In a prime-risk loan, the dealership typically adds some amount of dealer reserve to the lenders buy rate. In subprime, the dealership makes money by marking up the retail price of the vehicle based on what it has to pay the lender for providing the loan and based on how much it paid for the vehicle. If it's a used car, the dealership's cost for the car can vary from unit to unit with condition, mileage and features.
That's going to be a real can of worms. The bureau has jurisdiction over buy-here, pay-here dealerships. Maybe that segment will provide some clues for what's in store for indirect subprime lending. Meanwhile, it's something to think about.
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TOLLESON, ARIZ. — A 50-year-old meetinghouse of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in this Arizona community some 13 miles west of Phoenix was destroyed by fire early Friday morning.
Investigators are looking into the cause of the fire, which firefighters on the scene called "suspicious," according to several news reports. No injuries were reported in the blaze.
A neighbor reported smoke coming from the church at 2:15 a.m. Firefighters from five different municipalities worked on controlling the blaze, but the building is, according to one official, "a total loss."
"This is a tragedy, a great loss to members of the church in Tolleson," said President Ronald Waldron, president of the church's Phoenix Arizona Maricopa West Stake (a stake is an ecclesiastical unit consisting of a number of local congregations, similar to a diocese in other Christian denominations).
"We have members of the church in Tolleson who have been worshipping in that building ever since it was built in the late 1950s," Waldron said. "This was back in the days when members of the church did most of the fundraising and much of the construction for new meetinghouses, so we have members here who remember working on the building with their own hands. This will be a great loss to them."
The building has been a prominent landmark in the community as well, Waldron said, with many community events and recreational activities taking place there through the years.
"I have already received calls from city officials and from school district administrators, expressing their concern and offering facilities and other assistance that might be needed," Waldron said. "We appreciate the concern and support."
Three local congregations were meeting in the Tolleson meetinghouse, which means that around 1,400 worshippers have now been displaced for however long it requires for a new building to be constructed on the site — a process that will probably take between 18 months and two years, according to Waldron.
The plan for this Sunday is for the 10 wards in the stake to be divided between the two other meetinghouses in the stake. All of the wards will hold Sacrament Meeting (the congregational worship service during which the sacramental communion is offered) only, excluding Sunday school classes and instructional meetings for children, youth and adults that are also part of the church's weekly three-hour routine of worship and instruction.
"During the next few days we'll figure out how we're going to deal with it long-term," said Waldron, noting that the heavy weekly usage of LDS meetinghouses for a variety of youth and adult activities would make schools and civic buildings "impractical." More likely, he said, the three wards will share time and space in the other meetinghouses in the stake and in neighboring stakes.
"It will be tight for a couple of years, but we'll be fine," he said. "People have a way of rising to meet challenges like this. I have every expectation that our members will do just that."
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I am the person who reviews our security system when there is an incident at our condominium complex.
It sometimes takes hours of viewing playback to find what I am looking for (theft, vandalism, drug deals).
I need to be able to view the system from my home at times. If I am out of town I must be able to do the same. We use Hikvision. They do not know how to configure the system so I can do this. Nor does Time Warner, who is our server.
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Here is a link that might be useful: Hikvision FAQ
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Sheriff Lanny North says some sort of family squabble led to yesterday's deadly shooting near Logan, about 50 miles southeast of Columbus.
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What's so bad about things going back to what they were? After all, it was Hispanic people who settled the Southwestern US, the major cities were all founded by Hispanics and the entire area was (along w Aboriginal languages) Spanish speaking. The US brazenly invaded and occupied half of Mexico and now the Anglos are freaking out. What a delicious twist of irony...
I don't agree with the law that was passed but it was not passed simply for immigration. The real cause can be found in the below article from The New York Times. It all has to do with border violence.
Again, this law does not deal with the real problem. If you care at all I strongly encourage you to read the entire article. The individual who was shot was politically connected. That was the catalyst.
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"Astonishing hypocrisy. Give Arizona back to the Navajo and Hopi and send the Arizona legislature back to wherever they came from."
Well, giving it back to the Navajo and Hopi would, practicality considerations aside, actually make some sense. The Navajo and Hopi are not Mexican so I don't really see the hypocrisy here. The historic Aztec and Tarascan empires fall well within the current boundaries of Mexico.
I always thought the whole Aztlan reconquista thing a somewhat odd line of reasoning. Mexico inherited what is currently California, Texas, etc from the Spanish colonial empire. It is true that the land used to belong to Mexico, but if you go back further the land ultimatley belongs to the indians.
The Economist seems to have no problem criticizing other countries for protecting their cultures or economies, yet when Parliament does the same thing for the UK, they are all for it.
The Economist likes to dress up in global clothing, but occasionally its Union Jack undergarments show.
Arguments like yours have become so tiresome. The Indians may have arrived first, but they were not the ones who built this country into the superpower that it is today. Our European forefathers are the ones who built this country. We as their descendents have every right to determine who we want in to ensure our continued success.
Your idea of open borders is absolutely preposterous. Do you have any idea how many people will end up living on top of us? Starting with all of Mexico and Central America, then all of Latin America, Asia, Africa, Middle East...how do you think the US can support 6 Billion people? Try living in the real world for a change.
Those who opposed this law should read this article in Newsweek about why the Arizona law became a necessary evil:
I would like to see what they think when the house next to theirs turns into a drop house for illegals and drug smugglers with Ak-47s, when their children can't even go in the backyard to play in broad daylight, when they need to sleep with 2 guns under their bed, and can't sell their house because no one wants to buy a house next to a drop house. Or what they have to say when illegal immigrant children swamp their local school and turn it upside down with gang warfare, scare off all the good teachers and students, bring down the test scores and plummet their property value because no one wants to buy a house tied to a low scoring Spanish speaking school. This is already happening all over Arizona, Texas, California. Soon it'll be all over the country if we don't stop illegal immigration now. It's easy to be benevelont and generous when it is not on your dime.
Personally I am not in favor of immigration of any kind. IMO that is just the rich world's way of continuing to plunder from the developing world. First we took their natural resources, now we're taking their human resources. By encouraging the best minds in the developing world to immigrate to the US, and allowing every young person who can run jump and swim across the border to come in, we help ensure that the world continues to develop in a completely lopsided way, where rich countries stay rich or get richer, while poor countries stay poor or get poorer with corrupt crooks and criminals running the country. If the rich world simply stop all immigration, the world would develop much more evenly.
And for our own good, it's time the self-righteous liberals who run our media and government face up to the reality that Multi-culturalism is a failed concept. There is not a single multi-cultural country in the world that is at peace, because multi-culturalism emphasizes our differences rather than commonality. Mass immigration without assimilation breaks down social cohesion that comes from a shared culture. Humans are not by nature made to coexist peacefully in close proximity with those who look and sound vastly different from us. If there is any immigration, it should only be legal, in small numbers(no more than 100k a year) with policies that gear towards full assimilation within one generation.
Not one word is mentioned in the article of the indigeneous native American indians that live in Arizona, and that the state is about 1/3 indian reservation land. The indigeneous indians are not Mexican and have their own languages and cultures. The overwheming majority of hispanics in Arizona are economic refugees or decendents of economic refugees from Mexico.
These are two very simple unavoidable truths : 1.) What the United States took away from Mexico by annexation, the Mexicans are taking back by immigration. The Yankee North will kiss California, Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas good-by in one more generation. 2.) One generation after that, these will secede and form a totally unmanageable country "CaArNeTe" This country will will forget its origins and shoot all Mexicans, Guatemalans, Salvadorans, and anyone else from south of the Río Grande wanting to come in on sight. You read it here first.
The U.S. Federal Government allows Human Rights Violations to happen, because they do not enforce border security.
Here is what happens at the drop houses. The illegals are led in to a room in a house in Scottsdale Arizona, or Phoenix Arizona. They tell the Illegals who are usually carrying drugs for the coyotes as part of the deal they made, they take the drugs and the clothes that the illegals are wearing. This way they can not run.
The 8x 12 room has the windows boarded up so no sun light can come in and you can not tell if it is day or night. And between 25-50 people are told this is a lay over before release to freedom.
What happens next is Rape of the women and children, Ransom demands from family members in Mexico.No food, usually the children are taken from the parents.
Sometimes if the RANSOM money does not show up the parents are assisnated and the children are sold into prostitution on the street.
All I can say is this is worse than the LIBERAL MEDIA makes it out to be.
We need secure BORDERS.... NOT a year from now, but RIGHT NOW!
We Won't get fooled again in 2010!
It is vital to understand, in considering the global debate about immigration and population movements, that The Economist and conventionally trained economists will never oppose unrestricted immigration because they treat people in their models and in their minds in the same way as they treat things and manufactures - they see them as entirely fungible and replaceable at the drop of a hat. So if illegal immigrant Manuel will pick strawberries for $1.00/hr while citizen John will demand $1.50/hr for the same job, then it's sorry John, but there's the door, regardless of John's longevity in the community, his legal status and the contribution he has made through taxes over the years. This approach makes sense for things, but not for people.
Economists, who are invariably mono-lingual and have rarely lived in foreign countries or poor districts, hardly ever take into account the importance of community, language and culture to human civilization. The problem lies in the scale and speed of immigration. Too much immigration over too short a span of time will overwhelm existing communities and unnerve established populations. The answer lies in controlled immigration. This gives the immigrants and the host community time to get used to each other and adjust.
The Chinese have generally adapted well to life in the UK. They are accepted by the majority community (there is a well-patronized Chinese takeaway in almost every English town and village); they are discreet, well behaved and integrate well; they are not religiously dogmatic, nor do they hide away their women, so there is plenty of intermarriage which helps them integrate faster; there are not such overwhelming numbers of them that they dilute the existing community and slow language acquisition by the second generation, and they add value and color to the local community.
Immigration is not all or nothing. It is vital that everyone realizes the folly of mass immigration. Communities all over the world are being swamped by a huge influx of immigrants whom the existing communities have nothing in common with. But this serves the purpose of the economists, who are in the powerful position of advising governments and who, in their one-dimensional view of humanity as just another factor of production, simply want to see labour costs go down and GDP rise, regardless of the human cost. It also serves the purpose of the plutocrats, who need an army of wage slaves to support the vast infrastructure of restaurants, farms, highways, hotels and airports that they few benefit from while living in gated communities away from the seething masses who keep them running.
If The Economist had its way, Japan would be flooded tomorrow with a massive wave of immigration from countries with no historical ties to Japan nor with any linguistic or cultural features in common. This would not only be a great shame because Japan is rare in the world for being a nation with very few racial and ethnic tensions, and because Japan is a mono-cultural society with a strong cultural identity and no land borders, the Japanese have a harder time adapting to foreign ways than more culturally diverse countries. It is also irresponsible as it would impose a huge cultural and linguistic burden on the communities that have to house the new arrivals. It takes at least a generation to fully integrate as the children of immigrants grow up speaking the host country's language, but if too many immigrants arrive in a country at once, integration is slowed down because "birds of a feather flock together".
The Economist's arguments are beguiling, because it will always point to the contributions that immigrants make to a host country out of all proportion to their numbers. Einstein, Tesla, von Neumann and Sikorski and Red One are just a few examples of the people who benefited the host country enormously through their work. But immigrants also bring in negative contributions too (which The Economist will only begrudgingly acknowledge). And the scale of immigration now dwarfs past immigration numbers. The US used to be big enough and rich enough to accommodate large numbers of immigrants. But its capacity is finite. How many more shanty towns and slums does it want before things get out of hand?
It's a question of scale. Moderate immigration with proper screening for applicants likely to contribute to the host society is fine; mass immigration with few or no controls and amnesties for illegal immigrants (whom The Economist irresponsibly doesn't even allow to be treated differently from bona fide legal entrants) is likely to end in tears for both immigrants and hosts.
Remember the Alamo? How delightful -- Texas rebelled from Mexico because they outlawed slavery. Truly an appropriate symbol for anti-immigration protesters.
It certainly seems odd that a country, Britain, with a border all around it of water and a strict immigration policy combined with terrorists who want to blow the place up would write that only old white folks think walking over the boarder is a bad thing for the United States. The problem is the federal government under the pressure of the business interests has refused to enforce immigration law. The voters in a time of economic troubles blame the immigrants for their troubles and want stricter controls. Unfortunately from a economic standpoint and a social standpoint the present solution is the optimal solution. The hardships screen out the weak, lazy and stupid so the US benefits greatly from the cheap labor our welfare class won't do.
I don't understand how any self-styled libertarian could support this law. Have they not an ounce of political integrity?
I was just in Phoenix two weeks ago for a conference as this story was breaking. The people I met who, interestingly, were caucasian, african american, and latino, all supported the law. And no, they weren't all at the conference--they were from all walks of life.
The gist of their opinion was that, yes, the police chief is a racist but illegal immigration is just that "illegal" and that a free for all is in no one's interest and penalizes those immigrants who decide to obey the law. If immigration rules need to be relaxed that's fair enough and a separate issue to address once current rules are enforced.
I did not see any massive protests--only about 25 -40 people on bicycles riding around and yelling at a latino man in his truck for not joining them. I also saw a mixed racial crowd celebrating hispanic culture at a cinco de mayo festival.
I read up a bit on the law. Police already have numerous search and seizure powers based on their determination of probable cause. This law merely extends those powers to include immigration status. That seems a very common sense level of authority. Will there be individual police who abuse those powers? Yes, just as there are those who abuse current powers. That doesn't mean they shouldn't have the authority, merely that mechanisms must be in place to punish such violations.
What I take from all this--Don't Believe the Hype! Activists will misinform you on the assumption that no one will actually take the time to read the law. Then once people are stirred up because they think their race is under attack, the activists mobilize them for their agenda.
I grew up in the Southwest and surrounded by Mexican culture. Its part of my culture too, even though I'm white. Be it food, music, language or family connections I celebrate it and so do many others. What I don't celebrate is the radical agenda of some in the region who seek to replace English with Spanish and remove the borders. These are separate issues that have nothing, repeat nothing, to do with race or culture for the vast majority of Americans.
I'd personally rather pay $10 for a head of lettuce than indirectly subsidize an immoral system. In fact, $10 per head lettuce might spur interest again in personal gardens, which would ultimately lead to reduction of our dependence on the corporate farms now enabled through illegal immigration. We cannot just assume that short term perpetuation of the status quo is the means or an optimal end.
I was born in Bulgaria, and my family went through hell to immigrate legally into the United States. 6 years and literally tons of paper -- my parents are prominent math professors. Needless to say this cost a lot of money and the uncertainty was very hard to live with.
I have NO SYMPATHY whatsoever for people who choose to simply hire someone to take them across the desert, refuse to learn english and then expect to be treated as equals when it comes to state services. Sorry, it would be nice indeed, but this is the real world. There are a lot of people with problems, why should taxpayers in this country have to worry about yours with priority?
The reason it is a disaster to immigrate legally is that the federal government has refused to enforce the laws and has let so many people in already. 20 million? 40 million? Where does it stop? For this reason a lot of people choose to disgrace themselves by paying someone to marry them so they can stay 'legally'. There needs to be a merit based system like in Canada, it really isn't that hard to do. Oh you speak English? 10 points, you have a degree? 15 points. Do you have money to support yourself here while you get the hang of it? another 5 points, etc. What we have now, is the criminals, and the unskilled coming into the country, when we should be sucking in the best brains in the world, to compete 20 years from now.
The reasons neither party will touch the issue on a federal level are purely political and it is sad to watch. I wish someone could sue the federal government, and make them enforce the laws and protect the borders.
The deluded old argument about farming coming to a standstill if there were no hardworking mexicans. Give me a break, The Economist, you of all publications should understand that the availability of people that will work all day for 20 bucks, is the very reason we don't have strawberry picking machines, and house cleaning robots -- the simply isn't any incentive to invent them.
The comparisons to Nazi Germany are equally deluded -- let's remember for a second that Hitler actually killed people. No one is suggesting this, nay in return for breaking our laws, we are offering a nice bus or plane ride home.
ALL ILLEGALS GO HOME, make immigration civil and efficient in choosing people based on merit. Don't tell yourself that it's the American way and that's how it's always been. It's always taken a little bit of initiative and enterprise to cross the Atlantic or cross the Pacific, especially in the old days. Nowadays we're taking about getting in a truck and driving north. These are a different caliber people, and I have no problem saying that.
I have absolutely no problem with this law, and I don't think it goes far enough. I think all law enforcement agencies should work together to enforce the laws and deport illegal immigrants as the should. I am in my late 20s and a legal immigrant myself, so congrats on your stereotype, The Economist.
Love the publication, but could not disagree any more with this article.
Interesting that the same people who don't want illegal immigrants around because they 'cause crime' also dont want illegal immigrant children to be educated, thus leading to more crime.
Isn't it ironic that protesters march in the streets of Arizona in shirts with Spanish writing while carrying the Mexican flag. These people are the ones that pose the greatest threat to the U.S., be they legal or illegal. It is the behavior of a large majority of people of Hispanic origin that creates resentment towards them. If they truly wished to be U.S. citizens and an integral part of this nation they would embrace the U.S. and not just what they can suck off it.
Were I to decide to emigrate to a foreign land and become a citizen there I surely would not be seen there waving the U.S. flag while denigrating my new country of residence.
This contempt for the U.S. is evident when you travel to an area with a large Hispanic population. You could keep a large number of the illegals employed if you would put them to work picking up all the trash that they and their fellow Hispanics have thrown on the street. When you see the large amounts of litter and debris deposited it pretty well sums up their attitude towards the U.S..
As long as the Hispanics are more concerned with looking out for fellow Hispanics than they are with looking out for their fellow U.S. citizens their will be resentment against them.
A friend of mine is of Hispanic origin and is constantly harassed by his wife's family in Mexico for not standing up for the rights of Hispanics. He is constantly being accused by his wife's family of being a traitor to "his" people. Try as he may he can not get them to understand that he is an American, and all citizens of the U.S. are his people.
If these people have such fondness for Mexico and hold it in such high esteem I suggest that they would be much happier if they returned. If they feel such a need for social action I would suggest they concentrate their efforts in assisting Mexico to reach the status of a functioning state instead of attempting to import Mexican dysfunction to the U.S..
How do you suggest our infrastructure is to cope with the no less than 1 billion people which would come here if we followed your call for abolishing borders and allowing everyone to do whatever?
What will we feed them? Where will they sleep? Is America responsible for all the people of the world, simply because it is the richest country? This does not seem fair at all. Also, as mentioned in my previous post we wouldn't get the average people, we would get the unskilled and the criminal types first.
It would be better to have a law that will empower the police to deport anyone caught committing crimes rather than make it a police job to racially profile all Latinos in the State. As it is now, many Latinos are sent back leaving their family members behind and their employers without cheap and reliable helps.
The Economist made it's position clear on immigration clear several years ago with a cover piece titled "Let Them All In". So it is not surprising that the party line is outraged at Arizona's legislation SB1070. Of course the Editors and opinion makers a the Economist don't have to live with armed attacks on their civil servants, vicious latino street gangs and narco mafias and a federal government that views native born legal citizens as an impediment to its patronization of foreign nationals. No, The Economist is free to pontificate from a safe distance while a border war rages on.
The reality is that Americans of european descent face becoming a minority in their own country at the wish of their own government. The coming latino majority is openly hostile to Anglo culture and views every single spanish or indigenous language speaker as having more rights to live in the US than anglos do. Combine this with a sky high latino birthrate, plummeting academic achievement and graduation rates and you have a recipe for the coming century.
Arizona is to be applauded for attempting to remove those in this country who have placed themselves at the head of the line and feel entitled to skirt our laws and procedures.
Thinking, rational citizens support Arizona and fervently hope its example will spread.
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Maddie Meyer/Getty ImagesDespite frequent injury interruptions, Farmar has exhibited noticeable improvement in his second stint in L.A.
Jordan Farmar2013-14 salary: $884,293 | Age: 27 | Season stats: 10.1 PPG, 4.9 APG
Season recap: Farmar has had an interesting basketball journey since leaving the Los Angeles Lakers as a free agent in 2010. First, there were two seasons spent with the Nets, during which he ended up backing up Devin Harris and, later, Deron Williams, even though a big reason he left L.A. in the first place was to avoid being behind Derek Fisher in the rotation. Then there were stints overseas in Israel and Turkey. The native Angeleno left millions in guaranteed money from his Turkish team, Anadolu Efes, on the table to return home last summer and accepted the veteran's minimum from the Lakers. He has showed great growth and maturity since his first run with the team, taking on the role of a vocal leader. His game has improved as well, as he has become one of the most reliable 3-point shooters in the league (43.8 percent). However, a persistent right groin injury caused Farmar to miss half the season (41 games).
Sacramento Kings in late February, scoring 30 points while shooting 8-for-10 from 3 and also dishing out the ball for seven assists. Not to mention, he did all that in just 29 minutes of playing time.
Season lowlight: Tears in his right hamstring caused Farmar to miss stretches of 10 games, 16 games, four games and 11 games as the season wore on. He'd probably also want a do-over on the Lakers' Christmas Day game against the Miami Heat, in which he went 1-for-7 from the field with four turnovers.
Final grade: B-
Notes: The Lakers' point guard position was cursed this past season. Not only did Farmar miss half the season, but also Steve Nash managed to play just 15 games, Steve Blake dealt with multiple injuries before being traded and Kobe Bryant, Kent Bazemore and Xavier Henry -- who all played out of position to fill in at the point when nobody was available -- had injury problems of their own. General manager Mitch Kupchak took the blame for the injury epidemic late in the season, admitting he might have mismanaged the roster last summer and failed to bring in enough insurance to cover L.A.'s bases.
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What's next?: Farmar made it clear that he didn't make a financial sacrifice to leave Turkey for just one season with his former team. The Lakers should have plenty of money available this summer to give Farmar a raise and keep him around, but there are some questions surrounding the decision. Is Farmar ready to be a full-time starter if Nash is injured again next season? Is Farmar's body type too fragile to withstand the demands of an 82-game grind? Would L.A. be better off using its first-round draft pick on a point guard, such as Oklahoma State's Marcus Smart, rather than making a big commitment to Farmar?
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Posted 10 April 2012 - 08:16 PM
So I know an elective CS birth story is a boring read for most but this birth was very special and healing for us and I needed to write it, and now want to share it For anyone who reads, sorry for the length.
This elective was for our 3rd child. Our first was a traumatic VB with lots of complications – shoulder dystocia, 3rd degree tear, ventouse birth, DD requiring resus, retained placenta requiring MROP under GA, PPH of 3 litres requiring blood transfusions to name just a few . Our second was an emergency CS after labouring until 10cm, an epidural that failed during incision in the CS, was eventually done under GA and another PPH requiring blood transfusions. Needless to say we were very apprehensive about another birth experience and sought opinions before TTC on whether it was advisable (due to PPHs) and what plan we should have for a third birth, the outcome of which was that due to a history of shoulder dystocia a CS was the safest bet.
During my pregnancy my ob repeatedly said she thought I would be amazed by how 'nice' birth could be, having an elective after my previous experiences. I was hopeful but doubtful, however 3 weeks on the other side I know exactly what she means and can say for us, this time, an elective was an amazing and positive experience.
The whole process was very relaxed. From the moment we arrived in the anaesthetic bay the mood was light. I work where I was giving birth, so that definitely helped. I knew at least some of the faces at every stop – maternity, anaesthetic bay, theatre, recovery – it was like being in the hands of friends. Prior to starting, we handed our camera over to our fab anaesthetic nurse who proved himself to be an awesome photographer as well as nurse. The cannula was put in and IV started and I was positioned for the local for the spinal. I had been fortunate enough to choose my anaesthetist and when I had chosen him my ob mentioned she found him very skilled and quick at inserting spinals – he certainly proved that to be true, within seconds it was in and I felt the warm, electric shock like feeling I'd been told about. Straight away I was helped to lie down, betadine was being applied to my stomach, calf compressors put on and catheter inserted. All this time I was sure that I could still move my legs but each time I tried, I had less movement. I did have a few minutes of mild panic, where I worried that the spinal would fail as the epi had in my last section, and was aware of the rate of my pulse elevated through the monitor, but I concentrated on calming myself and it passed quickly. I actually found the spinal a surreal sensation – I could feel all touch but no pain.
My ob asked us if we wanted to watch the surgery, which we did so the drapes were left down. Within seconds she was in and attempting to get the baby. Her assistant put a lot of pressure on my upper abdo to push the baby out (the analogy that had been described to me of feeling like a washing machine in my stomach was apt) but due to the baby's big size it was resisting! To pass the time the ob took last minute bets on gender. DH changed his mind at this point from boy to declaring with certainty it was a girl. As she furrowed around she also asked us if our others had been born with a shock of dark hair. DH and I looked at each other in surprise: our first two are redheads and we had presumed we only made them that way. She also commented that this one was looking to give its brother a run for his money with size (DS was 9lb 9oz). A few minutes passed where the ob struggled to free the baby's head, eventually forceps were used and she was successful. As they lifted the baby out and brought it up for us to see I was shocked by both the size –the gorgeous face was amazingly chubby (probably enhanced by the its squashed and bruised appearance) and the generous amounts of dark hair. I kept saying 'oh my god, it's huge, oh my god look at it's HAIR' over and over. The ob said 'Samshine are you going to look at what it is?!... she said to me 'it's a girl' (DH later said due to swelling he thought it was a boy).
Our little girl was quickly taken over to be checked by the paed while the ob got on with the business side of things. She had a little difficulty removing the placenta and commented that it was huge. I heard her say to her assistant 'this placenta is nearly as difficult to remove as the baby'… When she removed it she laughed to me it was so big they couldn't fit it in the dish for the placenta. She remarked that between the baby, huge placenta, and lots of amniotic fluid she reckoned I had instantly lost well over 10kg and joked how much lighter I would be feeling when I next stood up. There was some post partum bleeding at this stage and the ob later told me my uterus was very vascular but overall I only lost a litre of blood– an above average amount but a far cry from our previous PPHs. By this stage, DD was back to me. I had chosen our paed as he was very pro skin to skin at Caesars so she was placed on my upper chest. The drapes were raised for closing the wound so I wasn't able to fee d due to how high I had to hold her to allow this, much to DDs frustration as she angrily screamed for the breast for a full 30-40 minutes. Another nurse friend had told me if I wanted to watch them close that I would be able to see in the mirrors surrounding the theatre lights above me, so I did keep an eye on things up there, but mostly during this time I kept staring at her in wonder, she was beautiful but so different to the other two. DH and I kept laughing at her size and chubbiness and gender, and the ob had to ask me to stop laughing as it was making the stitching difficult!
Eventually we were out in recovery, where DD could finally – and enthusiastically did – feed. I was put on a syntocin infusion due to my history of PPH's. DD and DH stayed with me for the entire recovery experience, where DH and I just kept looking in adoration at this person we had made. Half an hour later we were back on maternity. It had all seemed so civilised and quick. She was weighed and turned out to be only 5g smaller than her brother… but 4cm shorter probably explaining why she looked so chubby to us. We treasured some time just the 3 of us then rang family to let them know. DD1 and DS came to meet their little sister and were absolutely besotted by her, and still are 3 weeks later. Later that afternoon, DH and I were alone with her again and finally got around to the business of naming her. We had been thinking boy all along so hadn't even been talking girls names for several months. As we disagree completely on names, we had told staff she might be nameless for days, however the moment we started discussing it one name we had thrown about much earlier in the pregnancy came to my mind and as soon as I suggested it DH said he had been thinking the exact same name. So Clara it was.
My recovery that day was painful, mostly due to the effects of the infusion which cause a lot of cramping/ contraction like pain similar to severe afterpains (speaking of which afterpains with a 3rd child are enough to veto a fourth!). That night there was talk of a blood transfusion, which Iuckily was able to avoid, and although I went home with a lower haemoglobin than with my previous two PPHs, I felt so much better this time. From Day 1, recovery was comfortable and rapid. Like with DS despite blood loss my milk came in early, on the night of Day 1 – within 36 hours - and DD has been feeding voraciously since!
Our experience was so fantastic. While in my ideal world I would not have given birth by elective C/Section it turned out my most wonderful ideal birth turned out to be this way, if that makes sense. It was a healing experience for us for birth and the ensuing days to be a time solely of happiness and elation and getting to know our baby rather than recovering both physically and mentally from a traumatic experience. Due to the positive nature of her birth, the ensuing days spent after getting to know Clara were anxiety free and blissful. I was on a bit of a high – and still am. She is the perfect final installment to our family.
So that's the story of Clara, born 15th March 2012, 4.338kg (9lb 9oz), 52.5cm… Our amazing restorative birth, albeit by CS.
Posted 10 April 2012 - 08:27 PM
Congratulations and what a beautiful name
Posted 10 April 2012 - 08:27 PM
SO glad it went well for you, sounds like a great experience. And a fantastic name. Well done.
Posted 10 April 2012 - 08:36 PM
Congratulations on the safe arrival of Clara. It's nice to hear a positive birth story, no matter how it was achieved.
Posted 10 April 2012 - 10:58 PM
Thank you so much for sharing your story. I'm heading in for an elective c-section (after emergency one three years ago) in the morning, so you have helped calm any last minute nerves that may've been stirring.
Congrats on the safe and happy arrival of Clara!
Posted 10 April 2012 - 11:08 PM
Congratulations!! Im so happy for you that it was a positive experience and you can now relax and enjoy your newborn
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Posted 11 April 2012 - 10:34 AM
Congratulations Samshine on the birt of your little girl. Thanks for sharing your story, that is beautiful. Lovely that you were able to have skin to skin and hold her straight after the birth and have her with you in recovery.
I remember reading about your first two births in a thread about MROP (I have also experienced this). I am very happy to read that you had such a wonderful experience this time around.
Edited by bottle~rocket, 11 April 2012 - 10:40 AM.
Posted 11 April 2012 - 10:46 AM
Sam I am so glad to read that Clara's birth has been so wonderful and healing. I was hoping that it would be a lovely calm event for you :hug: She is gorgeous and I have said it before but I love her name (and I wonder if she will be dark or grown new hair as red as C and F.
Posted 11 April 2012 - 10:53 AM
A gorgeous birth story!
COngrats again
Posted 11 April 2012 - 11:06 AM
Congratulations on the birth of Clara.
That is wonderful that it was such a good experience for you all.
Posted 11 April 2012 - 11:15 AM
What a great story... not boring at all!
I had an ECS for my first birth and will have electives for any subsequent births, so most certainly don't think that a CS birth is any less then a vaginal!
Posted 11 April 2012 - 09:21 PM
Loved reading your birth story, thanks so much for sharing it. It really helps me to hear how positive a 3rd c/s can be, no matter what your previous experiences were.
Again, I'm thrilled for you, it must be so cathartic for you. Congratulations on the safe and happy arrival of gorgeous Clara.
Posted 13 April 2012 - 10:05 PM
I haven't been on here much lately so didn't even know you were expecting you 3rd. I too remember you from a MROP thread years ago (I had it with DS1), and always remember what a great help you and the other ladies were that posted in there.
Congratulations on the healing birth of Clara. I am so happy you had such an amazing birthing experience. She is just beautiful (love the chubbyness).
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Posted 13 April 2012 - 10:10 PM
What a beautiful birth. Congrats op
Posted 13 April 2012 - 10:19 PM
Congratulations! So happy you had such a wonderful birth. What a fabulous ob you had - promoting skin to skin. Clara is gorgeous. Her name is beautiful too. Enjoy!
I think all birth stories are beautiful. I am so glad you had such a wonderful birth. Please do not apologise for telling a "boring" elective Caesar. I think most of us need to hear it. I tried a VBAC. 60 plus hours ending in c-sec. Wish I took the elective!!!!
Edited by AlexandraI, 13 April 2012 - 10:27 PM.
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