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This thread is for members of the ONE thread from the Trying to Conceive forum. Some of you have started similar threads in the DDCs but this is an all-inclusive, cross-DDC thread. We have all made connections and friendships with ladies who got BFPs before or after us so this can be a central thread for us to catch up and for those on the other side of the One thread to keep up with us!
In bold, please tell me: Name, Due Date, how long it took you to conceive and what you went through to conceive, what "number" child this will be, and anything else you would like to add.
Due August 2011
19-savah, conceived on 4th month (3rd temping), #2
25-jillybeans (Jill), took 3 months, #4, having 1st boy after 3 girls!
Due September 2011
11-LovingBaby (Elizabeth), took 7 months (charting, OV strips), #3
27-ValH (Valerie), took 13 cycles (2nd cycle of Clomid & post-HSG), #1
Due October 2011
10-Yellowdart, tried for 5 cycles, #1
13-Nicolian (Nicole), charted for 2 cycles, #3 (#4 for DH)
23-not_telling (Jess), took 3 cycles, #2
Due November 2011
9-TalkToMeNow (Amanda), tried for 4 months, #4 (3rd pregnancy)
12-TTCChloeorConner (Nicole), tried for 16 cycles, #1
Due December 2011
11-Mummoth (Teresa), tried for 4 months (conceived on month "off!"), #3 (#1 for SO)
30-LadyScientist, conceived on the first "real" try, #1!
Due January 2012
25-MommyMatsumoto (Anna), tried for 15 months (tried vitex, soy, acupuncture, and leaving it up to DH!), #2
Writinglove, conceived the old-fashioned way in one month, #1
Due March 2012
28-tantylynn (Teesha), after 20 cycles (1st cycle of Clomid), #1
Due April 2012
13-belacmsage (Bela), 26, tried 6 months with opks, fertility monitor, preseed, vitex, soy, b-6 and male fertility drugs too! Finally, left it up to DH to decide when to DTD, did it A LOT and got her BFP!
26-vivica2, #3
ONE Thread Babies!
July 14th - Kayden (LivingSky)
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Baby girl arrived 10/11/11
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Baby girl arrived 10/11/11
Thanks for the new thread! I promise to take it from you in September...I just felt scared of taking it before I had a chance to see an u/s (or two, ha).
I've been going back and forth about which practice I should go to for this pregnancy. The one I used with my previous kids, or a new one up at the big regional hospital? I know and like most of the Drs and the MW at the practice I've been using. However, in my last pregnancy, one Dr. contradicted the others whenever I'd see her, which was a PITA sometimes, but worrisome, like when when one doc admitted me to the hospital for olighydraminosis and then this one tells me I shouldn't be there and sends me home. Uh, I didn't ask to be here?! SO did tell her off (nicely) when she was the attending for DS2's birth (of course), and I've been pleased since
I'm just afraid that with DS2's health issues, and the problems they caused him when I was pg, my regular practice will send me to the regional hospital anyway, JIC this baby inherits it. I made an appointment with them, then realized as time passed that 1) I havent' been to a male OB-GYN in over 8 years and was freaked about it and 2) I KNOW there will be 10x more interventions at the big hospital. I now know how to deal with the local hospital to get the birth I want, and I don't want to fight while in labor any more than I have to. So, I don't know what to do.
*Sigh* I've gone around and around with this. Thanks for reading this far, if you have!
Yellowdart, I'm glad your fluid levels went up! You must be so relieved.
Did Anyone rent/buy a doppler during your 1st tri? What kind, and do you think it was worth it?
Mama to two June bugs, ages 3 and 5, and a m/c at 8wks on 8/11/11.Rainbow Girl 7/25/12
Thanks for the new thread, YellowDart!
cygknit - Good luck figuring out which docs to see! I think the most important thing is for it to be someone you feel comfortable with and that you trust with the care of you and your new LO. I can see risks and beneifits for both locations, but in the end, it comes down to what makes you feel better. Again, good luck - not an easy decision, I'm sure!
Valerie - Happily married to DH since 09/08
Baby Jacob's finally here!! 10/4/11
cygknit - Can you have an appointment with your old hospital and the new one and see who you feel best about? Sometimes the big hospitals can be nicer than expected. But it's also nice to deal with a familiar place. So either could work for you! I hope one option stands out as the best one for you soon!
Quick new Kayden pictures From July 30, 16 days old:
Married to my wonderful DH 5/2010, Mom to DS1 Kayden 7-14-2011 and DS2 Jakob 8-29-2013
Owned by Friesians and Drum Horses, plus the dogs, cats, rabbits and chickens
LivingSky - Thanks for sharing the pictures! Such a handsome little boy you have there. I love all the hair! So who does he look like, you or DH?? Just curious. ;)
Valerie - Happily married to DH since 09/08
Baby Jacob's finally here!! 10/4/11
Actually, another friend suggested going to both. I think it's a pretty good idea! Maybe then the answer will be more clear, what with having that much more information. I have another window open with my insurance plan, so I can be sure it's covered *before* I go. Thanks for the great advice, and the sympathy/understanding.
LivingSky, I love his hair!!! And those arms! Do you nibble on him all the time, or what? He's so stinkin' cute.
Mama to two June bugs, ages 3 and 5, and a m/c at 8wks on 8/11/11.Rainbow Girl 7/25/12
Hi all! I thought I would come over and join you. I remember some of you from the One Thread. I'm Bela, 26, due April 13th with #2. We tried 6 months with opks, fertility monitor, preseed, vitex, soy, b-6 and male fertility drugs too! Finally, left it up to DH to decide when to DTD and we did A LOT and got our BFP! We have our first u/s scheduled for the 30th! Hoping all goes well.
Thanks for the new thread! We had our first pregnancy ultrasound today and everything looked good! Baby is only a grain of rice, but I'm measuring right on 6 weeks 2 days and heart rate was 111bpm. We have 2 pictures of our baby now, yay!! Also, I had my first vomiting experience - 2 minutes before walking out the door to go to the ultrasound lol. I feel like crap and have to go to work now, but it's ALL worth it. I mean just look at that gorgeous baby, LivingSky! Thanks for sharing more pics :)
T-lynn (25) married DH on 28/07/07 DD Isla born 28/03/12 TTC #2
LOVE the picture, LivingSky! That makes me oodles excited.
Welcome to the newbies. =D
I went to physical therapy once (For the non-existent feelings in my hands/fingers). She wanted me to go back twice a week for the duration of my pregnancy. As wonderful as it would be to get a wrist/hand/finger massage twice a week, I have 80/20 insurance, so it'd be costing me about $80/week to do this. It's not worth it to me. I asked her to just write me a prescription for splints. She said not unless I tried therapy for at least two weeks. =/ SO, I'm dealing with it. 14 weeks left... ... ... And it's only getting worse. My wrists now lock when I first wake up and I have to stretch them out for a good 15 minutes before they'll do anything. I have zero feeling in my fingers and the numbness is slowly turning into straight pain. I found that ice helps a smidge, but nothing brings feeling back. *SIGH* I'd trade this for morning sickness any day. It sucks so bad. I can't do anything without causing pain to myself. School hurts (The writing). Work hurts (Lifting stuff). Everything hurts.
My next ultrasound is on the 23rd with the Perinatologist (To check on the kidney). Then I have another one on the 26th with my regular OB (To check on the fact that I'm measuring 5 weeks ahead). My glucose test is also on the 26th, then I go to two week appointments. Any advice on what NOT to eat to avoid having a bad glucose result? =D
We need updates on everyone else. WHERE IS EVERYONE?!?!
Me: , DH: , Two , Two , DS: (10/31/11), DD: (9/17/13).
Welcome, Bela!!! And congrats!
T-Lynn - Yay for the good u/s!
TTCCorC - Ugh, so sorry about the wrist issues. I know that must be frustrating. I hope the next 14 weeks go by quickly for you. Will you be working and going to school up until the very end, or will you get a little break? Are there any over-the-counter supports that you could try for your wrists? Good luck at your upcoming u/s! As for what not to eat, my doc said to avoid fruit, juices, jellies, and cereals the morning of the test. He recommended stuff like whole wheat crackers and cheese, boiled eggs, etc - stuff without a lot of sugar.
We did a breastfeeding/childcare class last night, that was fun. And it was cool to hang out with some other first-time moms. Now I've got to get us signed up for the childbirth class. Other than that, all is well. I had to go shopping yesterday to buy some new shirts. I swore I was done buying clothes with only 8 weeks to go, but my belly had a growth spurt, so I had no choice. I'm swearing again that I really am done this time. I don't care if I have to start wearing DH's shirts, I can't buy anymore maternity clothes when I'm this close to done!
Valerie - Happily married to DH since 09/08
Baby Jacob's finally here!! 10/4/11
Welcome, Bela! I'm glad to see you here!
Tanty, I admit to being a little jealous you had an u/s already! I'm super glad you got the reassurance and pictures. That's priceless!
TTCCorC, I have no advice on the GTT. I failed the 1 hr both times and passed the 3 with no problems. GL with the kidney check and I'm glad you get an extra peek at the babe. I hope there's some relief out there for your hands.
Val, I'm glad the class was fun. Will you be doing a multi-session CB class, or an intensive? We did a 2 day, 6 hr day, class and it was interesting. GL on the clothes! I pulled out all my maternity clothes and am giggling at how big some of the shirts are. There's no way I can wear them anytime soon, they were just for getting me through those last weeks when NOTHING would fit.
AFM, 5 days until the big medical center appointment and 10 until the one at the old practice. The 10 day one has the u/s scheduled for that day but I have no idea when I'd have one for the medical center. Clearly, this is on my mind, and I just can't wait. I'm drafting my list of questions for them both. It will be interesting to see how each will (or won't) respond.
Mama to two June bugs, ages 3 and 5, and a m/c at 8wks on 8/11/11.Rainbow Girl 7/25/12
TTCCorC~ that sucks about the CTS! Is there a school near you that teaches massage? Maybe their rates are more affordable. I don't know about the GTT test... DH has diabetes, so I'm testing my blood with a spare monitor that he has. I don't need to take the test as long as the readings are normal.
Everything is good here, Blobby has started moving around like crazy! I don't remember the other two being like this, I can't lay or sit still for long without feeling something. I put a baby name book in the bathroom, and told everyone to put their initial next to names they like. DD has gone through a few times, so there are hearts next to her initials for names she really, really likes, she liked a bunch of the names DH likes, and she initialed next to her own name!! We're keeping it for the baby box for sure. I got my wedding/engagement rings back today! It's all soldered together and polished and pretty looking. We went to the water park and had a picnic tonight, it was fun.
~Teresa, raising DS (Jan. 02) and DD1 (Jun. 04) and DD2 (Dec. 11) with DH.
Good luck and I hope you pass with flying colors!
Married to my wonderful DH 5/2010, Mom to DS1 Kayden 7-14-2011 and DS2 Jakob 8-29-2013
Owned by Friesians and Drum Horses, plus the dogs, cats, rabbits and chickens
Member list should be updated. Congrats Bela. :D
TTCCoC: My midwife said to have a more or less normal breakfast but maybe focus on protein that morning. Also, exercise after a meal helps reduce the blood sugar spike and should help with the GT test as well, so if you can go for a walk between the icky drink and the blood draw, do that. It's true you don't want to get a false negative, but drinking a glass of heinous orange sugar drool then sitting still for an hour isn't exactly normal behavior.
Just over six weeks till this babe of mine is theoretically "full term". Holy cow! What am I gonna do with a baby?!?!
Baby girl arrived 10/11/11
I wanna add - it's nice to see a TON of BFPs in the TTC thread from this summer, even if a lot of those ladies aren't finding their way over here. I feel sadness for the women there who are having a hard time getting pregnant. I'm seven months along now and those TTC days are getting a little distant, but I remember how nervous and frazzled I could get worrying about my fertility after just a couple months of trying. I'll have babe in arms in another couple months, and some girls who started TTC around when I did are now dealing with infertility issues. I don't know how to reach out to them without feeling like I'm rubbing my belly in their faces, but I'm still chart-stalking some of the TTC ladies every cycle in the hopes that this will be the one for them.
Baby girl arrived 10/11/11
I agree Yellowdart. I still stalk the TTC forum daily and it's awesome seeing people get BFPs. If/When I do post over there, it's normally just to tell someone I'm stalking them or to wish everyone luck. I'm the same, I don't want to step on anyone's toes about the fact that I got my BFP and they haven't yet.
I had a dream that I had a 5-pound, 26 week old baby last night. I had him 14 weeks early and he was completely healthy... But my milk never came in. I guess my biggest two fears are coming through on my dreams... Having a premee and not producing milk.
Also, I got splints for my wrists and they have helped a TON. I'm still numb at the tips of my fingers but there's no more pain! =D
I got a video of Conner kicking. It took me like, a week for him to quit being camera shy but I FINALLY got it. It's awesome and I'm excited to have that to look at 15 years from now.
Me: , DH: , Two , Two , DS: (10/31/11), DD: (9/17/13).
I agree Yellowdart. I still stalk the TTC forum daily and it's awesome seeing people get BFPs. If/When I do post over there, it's normally just to tell someone I'm stalking them or to wish everyone luck. I'm the same, I don't want to step on anyone's toes about the fact that I got my BFP and they haven't yet.
I had a dream that I had a 5-pound, 26 week old baby last night. I had him 14 weeks early and he was completely healthy... But my milk never came in. I guess my biggest two fears are coming through on my dreams... Having a premee and not producing milk.
Also, I got splints for my wrists and they have helped a TON. I'm still numb at the tips of my fingers but there's no more pain! =D
I got a video of Conner kicking. It took me like, a week for him to quit being camera shy but I FINALLY got it. It's awesome and I'm excited to have that to look at 15 years from now.
Hey ladies, I just found this August thread.
Wow, it's interesting to read about this dream because I had two similar dreams recently that really freaked me out and highlighted the exact same fears. Mine were a little more creepy though... I was thinking of sharing them on here just to help solidify the fact that they were not real, but they both really scared me and put me in a funk that lasted the rest of the day.
In the first one I had triplets that were only about 4 inches long and pink and looked like undeveloped fetuses. I kept them on a pillow lined up next to each other and carried them around the house with me. At some point I had to go somewhere and left them in the care of someone else (I'm not sure who that was supposed to represent), and when I came back one of them had slid off the pillow and its head was bent backward. I started screaming and actually woke myself up screaming in real life. It took awhile to realize that had not in fact happened.
In the second one I was trying to breast feed and nothing was happening. I was squeezing my boob but all that came out was lots of gray ash like a volcano. Finally after more squeezing a huge gush of dark gray milk came out but that was it.
Weird, I know! I do not usually have dreams like this and remember them so it really threw me for a loop.
Anyone else have weird/creepy baby-related dreams?
27 y/o & DH married 7/3/10. Living in Maryland with 3 and 2 and one on the way!
Our Easter BFP will bring us a New Years Baby due 12/30
Mama to two June bugs, ages 3 and 5, and a m/c at 8wks on 8/11/11.Rainbow Girl 7/25/12
cygknit. I am so sorry for your loss. Hopefully there will be another BFP in your future soon.
cygknit~ So sorry to hear of your loss, I hope you'll be back soon!
~Teresa, raising DS (Jan. 02) and DD1 (Jun. 04) and DD2 (Dec. 11) with DH.
Oh no cygknit, I'm so sorry. I hope you come back soon.
Everyone: should I add a remembrance/memorial list to the first post? It's so sad to just remove people after loss without acknowledging their sweet babies in some way. Or is that too much? Other graduates groups in this forum don't seem to have losses listed. Is this something that people who have experienced a loss would want?
Baby girl arrived 10/11/11
Weird dreams... I don't know if it's because I haven't been sleeping well, or if it's psychedelic pregnancy hormones, but I've been dreaming like crazy... last night the baby was really hairy and had a salt-and-pepper beard and I was furious with my mom for singing "Scary, scary, scary!" while she was holding it.
I really like my midwives... they both seem very confident that I'll get my home birth (I did with my first two, but I was younger then) She asked whether the kids would be there or not, so I told her my plan was for them to be in the house, but that my son would probably prefer to be in another room. Then I told her my daughter insists that she wants to watch the baby come out, and she seemed surprised but okay with it. I guess I was a little surprised, too... DD is just 7, it seems like that might be a lot for her to absorb...
~Teresa, raising DS (Jan. 02) and DD1 (Jun. 04) and DD2 (Dec. 11) with DH.
((BIG HUGS)) Cygknit. I hope you'll get to rejoin soon.
Anna (29) & DH (30) 6.2006 :: 2.2008 :: 1.2012 I'm a proud mama!
I had dreams about not being able to nurse my DD all of the time (either that or she wouldn't latch), but when the time came, she latched on immediately and we had a long and successful nursing relationship. I know it goes without saying, but try not to think too much about not producing enough milk. If that ends up being the case, there are always supplements (fenugreek) and things that you can do to increase supply. ((Hugs))
AFM, I am 16 weeks today and had my appointment with my midwife yesterday. We're not using Doppler or ultrasound so she used a fetoscope to listen for a heartbeat. She heard about 6 beats and the little bugger moved and wouldn't get in range of the fetoscope. Our next appointment I'll be 20 weeks and she should be able to hear it loud and clear. Here's a picture in case some of you are wondering what it looks like for a midwife to use a fetoscope.
Anna (29) & DH (30) 6.2006 :: 2.2008 :: 1.2012 I'm a proud mama!
Married to my wonderful DH 5/2010, Mom to DS1 Kayden 7-14-2011 and DS2 Jakob 8-29-2013
Owned by Friesians and Drum Horses, plus the dogs, cats, rabbits and chickens
cygknit - So sorry for your loss. You'll be in my thoughts and prayers.
Valerie - Happily married to DH since 09/08
Baby Jacob's finally here!! 10/4/11
Hi, ladies... What I'm about to post is going to be long and completely unrelated to TTC/Pregnancy/Anything, so don't read it if you don't want to. I just need to vent. Here it goes...
Sunday night, my husband and I decided to go on a date. Mind you, this was like, an 1130pm date because my husband works seconds. So, we're getting ready to leave, open the door, and my dog takes off. GREAT. He never does that... Ever. Seriously. So I'm guessing he had to poo or something. He's a black German Shepherd... It was 1130pm, so I couldn't see him. I start yelling his name, looking for any sign of him... Then I hear it. Yelling, growling, barking... A fight. Awesome. I have my husband run over there and break it up. He brings my dog back inside, I check him out... He's fine. I go back outside to talk to the other dog's owner... It's a cop... And his retired K9 dog. Perfecttt. He's got one wound. It's a bite mark. On his right front leg. It's not anything serious. It's a booboo you'd get if you fell down on the sidewalk or something. There's blood around the wound from the skin tearing, but it's not BLEEDING. The guy's freaking out. He has to take him to the ER Vet to get stitches, blah, blah, blah... He's being a big baby about the whole thing, forreal. I'm annoyed at this point. He calls one of his buddies over to file a report. His buddy tells him a report isn't necessary because we didn't LET him out, he GOT out. We tell him to take him to the stupid, over-priced, retarded expensive ER Vet, bring us the bill, and we'll pay for it. Problem solved, right? (The vet bill was $297.13, by the way. $50 to clean the wound. $90 in pain meds, LOL. $45 for a pain injection. $115 to be seen. There was something else, too... I don't remember.)
The next day, I come home from work to find a note on our door from Animal Control. LOL They're asking us to call them. I do. An Animal Control Officer comes over and informs me that we have to put our dog under a 10-day quarantine to watch for any signs of rabies. Okay... That's annoying, but whatever. We can do it at home since he's up to date on his shots. We don't have to do anything different, just be extra careful that he doesn't get out without a leash. Fine--- No problem. Are we done now, overly annoying officer neighbor guy?
I come home from work tonight with a note on our door from the APARTMENT complex. He informed them that we "Knowingly let our dog out without a leash or supervision and he attacked his dog, causing his dog to need emergency medical supervision." LOLLL On TOP of that, he told the apartment complex that the following night, we let him out AGAIN without a leash or without supervision. THAT is a flat out lie. The incident that occurred Sunday was a once in a lifetime FREAK thing. My dog has never been outside in this complex without a leash. At this point I'm pissed. So. I keep reading. Due to the fact that we aren't abiding by the apartment complex's leash laws (WHATEVER), and another tenant has stated that our dog puts him in fear of his dog's safety... We have 24 hours to permanently remove our dog from the premises or our lease will be terminated and we will be evicted.
What does this guy want from us?!?! Seriously!!! I don't even know what to do. We can't get evicted, this is the ONLY complex that allows German Shepherds (Not to mention I'm having a baby in 3 months and I really don't want to move.) and my dog is my son, so I do NOT want to get rid of him.
I called the guy. He ignored my call. I asked him to call me back.
I guess I'm going to go to the office tomorrow and plead my case to the apartment complex and see what they say... ... ... I'm so pissed/annoyed/irritated/everything at this entire situation.
Sorry about the rant. I'm just... Flabbergasted at the entire situation. We have complied with every single thing this guy has wanted/done. We have been 100% cooperative and now he's making us choose between our home and our dog.
P.S. My dog isn't mean. He's really not. If a dog shows him aggression, he stands up for himself, but in the 3 years he's been alive, I've never one time seen him initiate any kind of anger/violence towards another animal or human. He's my baby. =(
If you ladies remember, we just had to put our other dog down back in June because of her epilepsy. I really, really, really don't want to lose another dog...
If you read this... Thanks. I feel better typing it all out. I just pray, pray, pray that tomorrow works out in our favor.
Me: , DH: , Two , Two , DS: (10/31/11), DD: (9/17/13).
TTCCorC~ that's awful, I'm sorry... your neighbour is being totally unreasonable. Police dogs are trained to be aggressive! I don't know if there's a way to find out or not, but I'm curious if this guy has had his dog reported for being aggressive, and it's a get-you-before-you-get-him kind of thing. That's how it strikes me, anyway.
~Teresa, raising DS (Jan. 02) and DD1 (Jun. 04) and DD2 (Dec. 11) with DH.
TTCCorC - Wow, that whole situation sucks. I hope everything works out for you - keep us posted!
Valerie - Happily married to DH since 09/08
Baby Jacob's finally here!! 10/4/11
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FAYETTEVILLE — It is happening so fast.
While the month of February may feel like a distant memory to most, for the parents of 2-year-old Mira Reid Jones, February feels like the beginning to one of the longest and most painful days of their lives, and the two say they haven't yet had a moment to process it.
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In February Mira Reid's parents learned that their youngest daughter had a spinal tumor that would require immediate surgery and possibly months of chemotherapy. This month, the family is fighting back the best way they know how — with music.
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Jesse Jones does not want to stop there.
"Well, I myself am a musician, I play in two bands at the moment, Drive and Drayton Road, and this event came from the music community wanting to do something to show their respects," he said. " … But I felt weird trying to put together a benefit for myself. I have done plenty of benefits for other people but it felt weird putting together something for my own gain. I started to communicate with people online who were going through this and realized that we could make this a regular event to help other families with children diagnosed with this disease, so I decided that I want to do this every six months and raise money for pediatric cancer patients."
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"It started with her having pains, grabbing her legs at one time, and it was happening often enough that we took her to a few different doctors but they couldn't give us any answers," Jesse Jones said. "It was finally bad enough that we had to be persistent that we said it must be worse than what you are telling us. It was. It was far worse than we could have imagined.
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Besides Driven and Drayton Road, the two bands that Jesse Jones serves as guitarist for, other area bands performing at the event are Faith and Fiction, Aurora and Waking Tera. The event will also feature a raffle for a guitar donated by Jesse Jones' favorite manufacturer, Paul Reed Smith guitars.
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[Snip]....The Coolola beach is about 70kms long and we camped about halfway. Tonje felt it only natural to test the strenght of her R80GS. It can take about the expected amount of abuse after getting off at about 70km/h....[Snip]
[Snip]....the Fresh Water road, 20 km's to Rainbow Beach and or brunch. This road as it turned out isn't suited for a fully loaded bike with a big rider…..350kg's on 20 cm2 in soft sand and uphill is really exhausting. After three km's the the track get's hard enough that you don't have to be on your toes and you can actually enjoy the ride….don't get me wrong, there's still several more km's before you can sit down, and when you can you're on hard packed dirt, surrounded by green rainforest with vines hanging down from the trees – nothing less than spectacular !....[Snip]
[Snip]....A 100 meters after the sealed surface ended a state of wild chaos broke out as two fully oaded bikes tried their best to navigate the ditch at 80km/h. It had been raining so I guess we should've expected the roads to be soft and slippery – covered by 5-10cm of red sludge from hell......[Snip]
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[Snip]....Equipped with Marius' business card and orders to find Hooterz Scooterz and ask for Steve and we'd be taken good care of, we found the barge terminal.....[Snip]
[Snip].....We pitched our tents and got a shower and a couple of beers in the bar at Bungalow Bay and had a few laughs with five Irish girls .....[Snip]
[Snip]....the manager and quiz leader soon announced that the Nowegians riding around Oz on motorbikes would act as head judges and award the last six points. It just so happened that the team we awarded the six points was running five points behind. The prize was free beer and we were invited over to the winning table to share of the prize....[Snip]
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Top 5 Greatest Lily Allen Outbursts
As anyone in her native UK will tell you, Lily Allen has been suffering (or thriving, depending on your perspective) from a lack of filter ever since she emerged with her charisma-laden debut full-length, Alright Still, in 2006. Mouthy, quick-witted and -- as her fellow Londoners would say -- a bit of a smart-arse, Allen's opinionated diatribes and inability to back down from public arguments, have got her into heaps of trouble over the years. So, in celebration of the fact that Sheezus is performing at the Nassau Coliseum with Miley Cyrus this weekend, here are our Top 5 favorite Lily Allen outbursts.
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5. Hitting Back at Annoying Critics
After a British reality TV person named Katie Hopkins said of Allen: "I quite liked her when she was singing and kind of interesting and then she... was removing herself from the spotlight because she wanted to be a mother and that largely involved gaining two stone [28 lbs] and looking pretty hideous... She is just famous for having a famous dad," the singer hit back via Twitter, and made Hopkins look like an unreasonable, ignorant douchebag. " I am not famous for having a famous dad, I doubt that most of my fan base have a clue who my father is," Allen began, before explaining, "[My] two pregnancies... were terrifying... and I was pretty much on bed rest for 20 months. I wasn't exercising because I didn't want to take any risks, and, funnily enough, the survival of my children felt more important than being thin. Oh, and whilst 'weighing me up', fat shaming... hey, look I'm on the cover of Elle this month!" That told her!
4. Ranting Mid-Set About Soccer at 2014's Glastonbury Festival
In June, Lily Allen was performing at one of England's biggest festivals, Glastonbury, right when the rest of her country was consumed with the World Cup. Utterly unprompted, Allen decided to go after the head of the International Federation of Football (FIFA), mid-set, saying: "The next song is dedicated to... the most corrupt, annoyingly corrupt, person there is in the world, [FIFA head] Sepp fucking Blatter, you cunt!" Unperturbed that few people knew what the hell she was talking about, she later continued: "I was worried I was going to conflict with an England game in the World Cup... But that didn't happen. Not only because we are shit, but I reckon there's probably a little bit of corruption going on." This is particularly funny, given that her actor father, Keith Allen, sang on a popular English "football" anthem, back in 1998 (called "Vindaloo"). Bet he was thrilled.
3. Bickering With Elton John
In England, Elton John is practically a member of the Royal Family -- he's used to getting his own way, diva-ing up a room when he's not happy and turning an extraordinary level of bitchiness on at the drop of a hat. So pairing him up with Lily Allen to present a GQ Award in 2008 was always going to be a disaster. Allen, for her part, was not on form that night, hitting the stage, clearly intoxicated and transparently unimpressed with the entire affair. John, irritated by her lack of professional sheen, spat out: "What? Are you gonna have another drink?" Lily responded: "Fuck off, Elton. You know what? I'm 40 years younger than you. I've got my whole life ahead of me," to laughs from the audience. This prompted Elton to declare, "I could still snort you under the table." Step too far, Elton. Step too far.
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Montreal and Quebec are two cities that are dominated by their European-influenced pasts and they are utterly charming because of it. Both cities are situated in the province of Quebec, which is the largest Canadian province by area and is the only one to have French as the official language.
The two cities offer visitors an alluring mixture of history, culture and charisma and this has ensured that both destinations are established Canadian attractions.
Montreal is the second-largest French-speaking city in the world, behind only Paris, which reflects vastly on its colonial past and the North American European settlement of the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries.
Montreal itself could well as be situated in France and there are many things associated with the city that remind you of its French-influenced past. The mother-tongue of its population, landmark names, street names as well as attractions and numerous architectural styles all serve to remind visitors of how proud the people of Montreal truly are to be, unofficially at least, a part of France.
The 'Old City' of Veux-Montreal is the quintessential representation of France in another country, where the riverside hideouts and the boutiques, galleries and restaurants form a pleasant destination for you to enjoy.
Visitors to Montreal also have the privilege of easy access to the Canadian capital of Ottawa, and furthermore, the other colonial centrepiece city of Quebec is a mere 3 hours up the shore of the St. Lawrence River. Quebec City is afforded the title of being Canada's first settlement and it remains a major draw due to the unbelievable atmosphere throughout the city.
The legacy of being the city that had basically started it all is still greatly influencing modern day Quebec. In 1985 the city was awarded UNESCO World Heritage Status and is still the only city in North America with the original fortified walls intact.
If you venture around certain districts of the city, you will begin to appreciate the sheer beauty of this marvellous destination. Cobbled streets and marvellous period architecture distinguish the districts of Basse-Ville and Haute-Ville and the marvellous thing is you could almost be back in the colonial age and walking around a well-known European city, such is the influence of Europeans on the Canadian way of life.
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When the researchers compared the ethnic groups in their sample for haplogroup D of ASPM, they found that it occurs more frequently in European and related populations, including Iberians, Basques, Russians, North Africans, Middle Easterners and South Asians. That haplogroup was found at a lower incidence in East Asians, sub-Saharan Africans and New World Indians. For Microcephalin, the researchers found that haplogroup D is more abundant in populations outside of Africa than in populations from sub-Saharan Africa.
To produce more informative statistical data on the frequency of haplotype D among population groups, the researchers applied their methods to a larger population sample of more than one thousand people. That analysis also showed the same distribution of haplogroups.
Their statistical analysis indicated that the Microcephalin haplogroup D appeared about 37,000 years ago, and the ASPM haplogroup D appeared about 5,800 years ago ?both well after the emergence of modern humans about 200,000 years ago. "In the case of Microcephalin, the origin of the new variant coincides with the emergence of culturally modern humans," said Lahn. "And the ASPM new variant originated at a time that coincides with the spread of agriculture, settled cities, and the first record of written language. So, a major question is whether the coincidence between the genetic evolution that we see and the cultural evolution of humans was causative, or did they synergize with each other?"
Lahn said that the geographic origin and circumstances surrounding the spread of the haplogroups can only be surmised at this point. "One can make guesses, but our study doesn't reveal how these positively selected variants arrived," he said. "They may have arisen in Europe or the Middle East and spread more
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WASHINGTON — Within an hour of learning Tuesday that Gov. Rod Blagojevich was about to name a successor to President-elect Barack Obama, the Senate Democratic leadership drew a clear line in the sand: Anyone appointed by the embattled Illinois chief executive would not be accorded Senate membership.
But that declaration has touched off questions of whether Democrats have the power to keep out Blagojevich's pick.
Democrats said they were confident of their legal standing under Article I, Section 5 of the Constitution, which says "each House shall be the Judge of the Elections, Returns and Qualifications of its own members." On rare occasion, the Senate has denied seats to candidates whose election outcome was in doubt or who were caught in up corruption.
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Yet constitutional experts question the extent of that authority, particularly in light of a 1969 Supreme Court decision in the case of Adam Clayton Powell of New York. The court found that the House could not bar Powell if he met the constitutionally determined qualifications for age, citizenship and residency.
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by Geoffrey Ciani - This weeks edition of On the Ropes Boxing Radio featured an exclusive interview with Hall of Fame boxing trainer Emanuel Steward, who trained and prepared Miguel Cotto for his impressive victory against WBA junior middleweight champion Yuri Foreman this past weekend at Yankee Stadium. Steward is also currently working with unified IBF/WBO heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko. Steward talked about Cottos victory and his future and also touched on some recent news pertaining to Klitschko and a potential unification showdown against WBA champion David Haye. Here is what Emanuel had to say:
On how he would rate Miguel Cottos performance against Yuri Foreman:
I thought he fought a very good fight. I would give him, I would say out of a ten, probably about a nine and a half, a nineit was close to a perfect fight. He did everything he was supposed to do and I was very proud of him. To lay out a plan is one thing but to actually execute the plan is a different thing. He fought a very smart fight, was totally relaxedprobably the most relaxed person in the whole arena, and that included me. His jab worked very good, but also I think the fact that he was so comfortable with the fight and with everything that was going on around himwhich really surprised me, especially after being in so much drama in his recent fights and his personal life..
On what he told Cotto after round four when Yuri began having success landing lead right hands:
The fourth round was probably the best round for Yuri Foreman. I think in the first minute, he landed about three maybe four lead fast right hands and to Miguels credit, Miguel adjusted himself. As a matter of fact, I thought he won the last two minutes of the round but nevertheless I gave the round to Foreman because of the three or four effective punches. But actually, Miguel stopped getting hit with the right hand himself. I didnt even have to speak to him at all about that. When the round ended, it was not even a topic that was brought up in between the rounds because he blocked them by using his left glove one time, and then he started actually parrying them and catching them in his right open glove and throwing a left hook after catching them. So he made the adjustments himself. I didnt even have to speak to him really after that. I told him to pick up his pace again and get back to the jab, which he was getting away from, and he just said, Okay, no problem. He went out for the fifth round and went back to being a little busier, so it really wasnt anything dramatic. It was just like anyone in the course of a long fight and they have a mental lull or relaxation for a minute, and then you make the adjustments and he did it himself without me even speaking to him.
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Deputies were called just after 5:30 p.m. to the report of a woman with gunshot wounds in the 27000 block of Reese Creek Road, northwest of Monroe, said Capt. Greg Ridler of the Benton County Sheriff's Office.
At the scene, deputies learned 60-year-old Gale Fogelstrom was picking up her mail when she was shot.
Ms. Fogelstrom told deputies that she heard about 40 rounds of ammunition being fired, which is fairly common for the area, Ridler said. She was walking north, back towards her residence when she was struck by two bullets.
A passerby picked her up and drove her back home, where her boyfriend called 911. She was taken by helicopter to Good Samaritan Hospital, where she was listed in good condition Monday.
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Take a look at some of the beadwork coming from today's top bead artists and designers, and you'll see a lot of peyote stitch. Peyote stitch is doing things that it has never done before, showing up in geometric and sculptural beaded jewelry design ideas and incorporating new and exciting glass beads and beading supplies like leather, satin cord, and cabochons.
So, who better to lead us through a new peyote stitch adventure than Beadwork magazine editor Melinda Barta? Melinda's peyote stitch designs have been loved by beaders for many years, and now, she's got a brand-new book, full of fun, fashionable peyote stitch beading projects for us to enjoy! Melinda was nice enough to take some time out of her busy schedule to share with me some of her favorite things about peyote stitch, along with her best tips for working with peyote stitch.
With so many variations within this stitch, Melinda says that she could never get tired of
designing with peyote stitch. The beading projects designed and selected for this book
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circular, and tubular, plus more unique variations such as two-needle,
diagonal, free-form, and sculptural. And peyote stitch is so easy to
embellish and to adapt for use with your favorite beading supplies like rivolis,
cabochons, pearls, and leather, giving you more options for your peyote stitch beading projects than every before!
Interestingly, when the discussion of thread tension comes up in her
classes, it turns out that most of the time beaders run into trouble
using tension that's too tight, not too loose. Tension that's too tight in peyote stitch can result in broken beads and broken beading thread, so try these four tips for successful peyote stitch beading projects!
Seed beads and Delicas are Melinda's favorite beads for working in peyote stitch, of course, but she also enjoy mixing in pearls, gemstones, pressed glass beads, crystal beads, and lampwork glass accent beads. Most of her peyote stitch beading projects are made with Fireline, but when she needs a nylon thread that perfectly matches the beads, she prefers Toho's One-G.
My favorite beading project from Mastering Peyote Stitch is her Big Sky Bracelets. I love the combination of flat, circular peyote stitch and leather cord to make some quick and easy bracelets that I can see myself wearing every day.
When was the last time you picked up a beading book that had you wanting to make every single project in the book? That was what I thought when I flipped through Melinda Barta's new Mastering Peyote Stitch. It's not just a peyote stitch book for advanced beaders, either -- Melinda takes you step-by-step through each variation of peyote stitch, along with her expert recommendations for materials and tips for great beading technique. And if you love Beadwork magazine's Designers of the Year, you'll love the beading projects from designers like Jean Power, Cynthia Rutledge, Sherry Serafini, Melanie Potter, Laura McCabe, and Jean Campbell!
Pre-order your copy of Mastering Peyote Stitch and get your beading needles warmed up, because this is peyote stitch like you've never seen it before!
What do you like best about peyote stitch? Is there a particular variation that you feel drawn to? For me, the day that I mastered circular, flat peyote stitch was one of the highlights of my beading journey. Leave a comment here on the Beading Daily blog and share your thoughts and questions about peyote stitch!
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I have doing peyote stitch for about 3-4 year, now, and I love what can be done with it. I have been making keyfobs for Christmas this year, only I am doing something I have never seen done before; personalizing them with their names. I try to get their favorite colors (2 or 3 of them), and bead their names on the keyfob. I use a 2" long wooden dowel, about 3/8" in diameter (we get one dowel that is 36" in length and then get about 18 fobs out of them) and screw in an eye screw to put the key ring on to after the beading is done. I am enjoying "designing" these and have even had a "special order" requested for a business with their name and chicks beaded on there as well. I LOVE peyote!
Bonita in S. Central OK
No, my peyote stitch cannot do this! Maybe someday.
I am about to go on a cruise and was wondering what craft I could take to pass the time that was not too heavy. After reading this email I will take my seed beads and patterns for Peyote stitch and make some jewellery. Better than reading and I will have something to show at the end.
Is the buckle bracelet in the new book
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Regarding head coverings: just because the 1983 code doesn't mention head coverings doesn't mean that the previous requirement is not required anymore.
Why do Protestant bibles translate John 3:16 as Jesus came that they "will" have eternal life, and Catholic bibles say "might" have eternal life.
What is the official church teaching about whether or not we can believe there might not be people in hell?
I think I heard Patrick Madrid say that you have to go to God before you go to a priest for confession. What might he have meant by that?
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In images of Jesus, is there significance to him having a part in his beard?
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The renaissance of Catholic apologetics has done great good for the Church. Ordinary Catholics are learning how to defend and explain the Faith—and to share it enthusiastically with others—more fluently and confidently than ever. As an experienced apologist and evangelist, Mark Brumley has seen firsthand what this renaissance has accomplished. But he has also witnessed its dangers and pitfalls; some of which are so serious that, left unchecked, they can undermine all our efforts. When we try to prove too much from reason alone, for example, or when we let prideful desire to win arguments overshadow our goal of communicating God's truth, we run the risk of becoming mediocre—even counter-productive—stewards and messengers of that truth. In The Seven Deadly Sins of Apologetics, Brumley examines the most common faults that defenders of the Faith must guard against, and shows you how to avoid and overcome them. Read this concise and lively book today and become a more effective apostle tomorrow!


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U.S. intervention in the Syrian conflict is becoming a more likely possibility, writes Karen DeYoung. Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Robert Menendez, D-N.J., says: "The U.S. must play a role in tipping the scales toward opposition groups and working to build a free Syria."
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West Ham United midfielder Mark Noble has defended Andy Carroll over claims he goes to ground too easily.
Noble responded to claims from Southampton's Adam Lallana that Carroll won a succession of 'soft' free-kicks at Upton Park, two of which led to goals in the hosts' 4-1 victory.
He insisted: "Andy's a big man and if he doesn't go down he won't win any free-kicks because the refs think that's he's too big to get a free-kick.
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The country that is fondly called 'Last Shangri La' played host to the Mountain Echoes Literary Festival, an initiative by the India Bhutan Foundation. Spanning across three days, the literary fest brought together writers, environmentalists, scholars, photographers, poets, musicians and filmmakers to share stories, create memories, and engage in a cultural dialogue.
Yesteryears actress Waheeda Rehman, fashion designer Wendell Rodricks, celebrity chef Kunal Kapur and author Anuja Chauhan were amongst the many Indian celebrities and authors, who graced the event. Sessions ranged from Bhutanese mythology, fiction, non-fiction, poetry, politics, travel and engaging conversations,where speakers shared their travel memories across the globe.
"The festival has become a place where writers from different areas of literature come every year. They are inspired to write better, interact creatively with each other. There are so many interesting Bhutanese writers who also learn from their Indian counterparts and share a sense of community here. Also, it is an inspiring location for a festival like this," said festival director, Namita Gokhale.
Her Majesty Queen Mother Ashi Dorji Wangmo Wangchuck shared candid childhood memories of her travels through Bhutan, "My travels on foot deep into the heart of Bhutan have made me connect with real people and experience real conditions and that for me is the pleasure of travelling." She inaugurated Travelling In, Travelling Out—A Book of Unexpected Journeys, edited by Gokhale. Sharing the platform with the two women was designer Wendell Rodricks, who has also written an essay for the book. He shared, "The more I travel, the more I realise that all people are one."
While topics of travel enthralled the audience, there was also author Anuja Chauhan, who entertained us with a typically colourful, amusing and frank introduction to her books and the art of writing. The festival was well-curated and offered a rich experience with interesting discussions across diverse topics, including the theory behind crime, detective and thriller genres which were reasonably explored by Batabyal, Doyle and KO Dahl.


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BOISE -- One Meridian teenager is dead and another four are seriously injured after an early morning car crash in Boise. The victims range in age from 17 to 19 years old.
Boise Police say the crash happened at about 1:22 a.m. Saturday morning at North Curtis Road and Opohonga Street, just north of the connector.
According to their reports, five teens were riding in a 2002 Silver Lexus 4-door when they struck a cement wall at a high rate of speed. The crash instantly killed Scott R. Hyde, 18, of Meridian, who officers believe was in the back seat of the car.
Boise firefighters had to cut both front seat occupants from the wreckage. Three others, including the driver, remain hospitalized with what officers have been told are life-threatening injuries.
Sunday, those three remained in the hospital.
Boise Police crash reconstruction experts say it appears four of the five teens in the car, including the teen who died, were not wearing seat belts.
The only teen who appears to have been buckled in was the front seat passenger. She received non-life threatening injuries. Because she is a juvenile, no further information is available on her condition or status.
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Bollywood is talking politics like never before. Many B-Town actors like Shatrughan Sinha, Vinod Khanna, Raj Babbar and Hema Malini aren't new to the world of politics, but this time around even those B-Towners who aren't contesting elections are airing their political views for everyone to hear. A war of words has followed now that celebs are taking a firm stand on who they want to support for this Lok Sabha elections.
Vivek Oberoi campaigned for his mother-in-law Nandini Alva, who is the Janata Dal (Secular) candidate from Bangalore Central. But that's not all. The actor also extended support to BJP candidate Arun Jaitley, who is a close family friend. BJP candidate Hema Malini's daughters Esha and Ahana with their husbands Bharat Takhtani and Vaibhav Arora respectively were in Mathura to support their mother. Similarly, Moon Moon Sen's daughters Riya and Raima joined the Trinamul Congress candidate to seek votes in Bankura.
The big B-Town divide happened when a bunch of people, Mahesh Bhatt, Nandita Das, Zoya Akhtar, Kabir Khan, Imtiaz Ali, Vijay Krishna Acharya, singer Shubha Mudgal and others, endorsed writer Anjum Rajabali's appeal to secularism. The appeal didn't go down well with celebs like Madhur Bhandarkar and Tusshar Kapoor, who were pretty vocal about their views. In fact, some artists including Madhur, Vivek Agnihotri, Ashok Pandit, and designer Vikram Phadnis spoke in support of BJP's prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi. Though Kirron Kher is BJP candidate, her husband Anupam has said that she is not the reason for his supporting Narendra Modi. In a recent interview, he said that his vote goes to Modi because he can see in the politicians' speeches that he has a plan, from the point of administration and getting the nation together. Sridevi and husband Boney Kapoor campaigned for Amar Singh and urged voters to vote for him.
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Court won't let Temple Mount group lay 'cornerstone' of Third Temple
High Court also prohibits group from visiting Temple Mount after 9 A.M., fearing clashes during Ramadan.
The High Court of Justice on Sunday rejected a request by the Temple Mount Faithful to place what the organization said was the cornerstone of the Third Temple next to the Western Wall, Israel Radio reported.
The court also rejected a request by the group to visit the Temple Mount after 9 A.M. during the week-long Sukkot holiday, which begins Monday night. The organization says its goal is to build the Third Temple on the Temple Mount and to liberate the Temple Mount from "Arab occupation."
The justices said they feared clashes because Sukkot coincides this year with the Islamic holy month of Ramadan, which has become a time of increased attacks by suicide bombers in addition to being a month of fasting and introspection.
The court rejected the petitioner's contention that the ruling was a form of capitulation to terrorism, saying the verdict represented a balanced approach.
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NEW YORK ( TheStreet) - U.S. stock indices slipped Thursday after a weekly jobless claim report was seen as sufficient enough to prompt the Federal Reserve to curb the bond-buying stimulus measures that have fueled the best year in equities since 1997.
The Fed's policy making committee is scheduled to begin a two-day gathering on Sept. 17 to discuss the possible reduction in the roughly $850 billion in bond buying that has helped the U.S. economy recover from the recession of 2008. The central bank is expected to announce its economic projections at the conclusion of the meeting on Sept. 18.
The S&P 500 lost 0.3% to 1,683.42 while the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 0.2% to 15,300.64. The Nasdaq dropped 0.2% at 3,715.97.
Weekly jobless claims for the week ended Sept. 7 fell by 31,000 to 292,000, the Labor Department reported in data released in Washington. Economists polled by Thomson Reuters were expecting claims to rise slightly to 330,000, up from the prior week's 323,000. The number may have been lower than expected, because two states failed to report for the week."I think that anybody who is rooting for taper-zero or taper light, I believe the Federal Reserve is going to do the full taper, which is consensus $20 billion


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Faculty Spotlight: Adam Persky, PhD
Adam Persky, PhD, has vivid memories of some of the milestone moments in his teaching career.
Take the first time he ever taught a class: a nutrition and exercise course at the University of Massachusetts, where he was pursuing his masters.
"I was absolutely terrified," Persky says. "I don't think I ever sweat so much in my life. I was like, 'I know nothing about nutrition. I eat doughnuts for breakfast. What do I know about nutrition?' They said, 'Don't worry about it. These are freshmen and sophomores. They know nothing.' "
Fast forward to 2003—his first year teaching at the UNC School of Pharmacy—and his lesson on hepatic clearance.
"My knees were shaking," Persky recalls. "I was one step away from having an anxiety attack because it was hard material, and I didn't want to screw it up."
And then there was the time he was tossing out candy on the first day of class and nearly beaned a student with a miniature chocolate bar.
"I didn't put enough loft on this one, and it whizzed at this poor girl's head and went by her ear," he says. "It was the first day of class, and I didn't know these students that well. I just couldn't stop laughing. Two years later, I still talk to her and joke about almost killing her. It was a great icebreaker."
While teaching may not seem like something that came naturally to Persky—and the self-deprecating clinical assistant professor might be the first to tell you so—it has become his passion. Despite his initial anxiety about teaching the class at UMass, Persky enjoyed the experience, in part because of his interest in the course subject and in part because of the interaction with students.
By the time he earned his masters in exercise science, he had decided that he wanted to become a faculty member so that he could teach. Positive teaching experiences at the University of Florida, where he earned a PhD, reinforced his commitment to the classroom. After a fellowship at UNC, he joined the faculty at the School, with teaching being his primary responsibility.
"If I had to be a faculty member and not teach, I don't think I'd be here," Persky says. "Research is fun. I like research, and I like publishing, but I like the interaction in class with the students."
The nervousness he felt in that first class at UMass hasn't gone away, but Persky says that's not a bad thing, even if he has to cope with the preclass jitters by pacing around his office while fiddling with a soft baseball bat.
"The day I stop getting nervous before I teach is the day I'm in trouble," he says. "That nervous energy helps me out. Baseball players play 180 games. How can you be excited after 180 games? You figure at some point you get tired of it, but I guess it's the energy of playing. And this is the energy of teaching.
"To this day I still get nervous before I teach. You have in your head the way things should go, and you want things to go that way. You hope they do, but they never actually do. You leave class thinking you are the worst thing to ever happen to the word 'teacher.'"
His students and peers obviously disagree with that performance assessment. Near anxiety attacks and candy-related mishaps notwithstanding, Persky has earned several teaching awards, most recently receiving honorable mention in the Innovations in Teaching competition sponsored by the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy.
Research in the Classroom
While Persky holds a PhD in pharmaceutical science, he veered away from traditional research to focus on his passion for teaching. Much of his research now comes in the form of looking for new and better ways to instruct his students, which is especially important considering the difficulty of the courses he teaches.
"Since I've been here, I've tried different things to engage students, to get them to appreciate my area of expertise a little bit more because pharmacokinetics is typically one of the more hated courses in the pharmacy curriculum throughout the country," Persky says. "It's very math-based, and math scares a lot of students. So everything I've done to date has been aimed at helping students learn what they need to learn so they can apply it."
To that end, he has devised various exercises and games to make the classroom more interactive. His favorite exercise so far is a game in which he creates a crime-scene investigation scenario using characters from popular TV shows such as House and Grey's Anatomy. In the scenario, a victim dies from a drug interaction, and the students have to work in groups to piece together about fifty clues to figure out the culprit and how the crime occurred.
Persky says the interactive classroom activities require adjustments by both the students and the teacher.
"Students are used to sitting there and just writing notes, so when you try to do something different with them, they get a little skittish," he says.
"And it's harder for me to do those sorts of things because I have no idea what's going to happen at the end of class. If I go there and lecture, I know exactly how it's going to go. I have everything planned. But when the students have input, ask me questions, and have ideas, it forces me to do things differently, which forces me to develop different ways to approach it."
The unexpected, however, can be a positive, as Persky found out during one of the crime-scene investigation games.
"Last year, one of the students had a very long, very detailed answer of what happened," he says. "I had to sit down for it because it took so long for him to explain it. But he incorporated almost every aspect of the clues into it and really made it sound quite reasonable. It was something I never even thought of.
"When you design things that are out of the ordinary, such as games, I can't predict what will go on and what should happen, but sometimes things just happen and you go, 'Well, I didn't expect that, but I'm glad that happened,' or 'I'm glad that question was asked.' "
Appealing to the iPod Generation
Persky is currently involved in a project to develop another interactive learning tool. He is part of a team that is creating multimedia modules for the professional pharmacokinetics curriculum. The modules are designed to enable students to learn the basic contents—material that would normally be covered in lectures—before coming to class. Class time would then be used for higher-level learning, such as discussing practical applications.
Around the same time that leaders at the School were looking into the project, UNC Information Technology Services was considering something similar through the Teaching and Learning First Partners Program. The two teamed up to produce a pilot module on the hepatic clearance portion of the curriculum.
"Hepatic clearance is the most difficult material in our course, but it also has a lot of good graphical representational material," Persky says.
"ITS said, 'This is exactly what we are looking for, and you guys seem to be prepared, and you already have stuff on the table, so you'll be our first partner.'"
Persky and Gary Pollack, PhD, the School's executive associate dean, began working with instructional designers and multimedia developers from ITS. They completed the pilot module, which contains approximately one-and-a-half hours of class material, in fall 2006 and conducted a trial run in one of the classes that semester.
During the hepatic clearance section of the course, half the students in the class attended normal lectures while the other half used the module instead of coming to class. The two groups were given a quiz on the material before and after the lesson. Persky says the quiz scores showed that both groups improved after attending the lecture or using the module, but that there was no significant difference between the two groups.
"I did as well as the module," Persky says. "Overall I think the students liked coming to class better because they were used to me and the way I talk about things. Students liked the module, too. The modules are great, but we don't want to lose our human contact. We didn't want to lose the faculty member. It's more of 'You do your job outside of class, and we'll do our job inside of class.' "
The trial results suggested that the modules can be effective in content delivery, and the team began producing a series of ten modules that will encompass the entire course. They will be incorporated into the curriculum in fall 2007. Students will use the modules before attending class and will split into three groups during class to discuss application of the module material. Each module contains a quiz, which will count toward the students' grades. The modules also will serve as self-assessment tools to help identify areas that students need to work on.
"The course has taken on a very different structure because of these modules," Persky says. "I'm used to standing in front of 150 people and speaking, whereas now it's discussion. In order to discuss, you really have to know what you're talking about, and you have to know how to ask the right questions to bring people out."
The development team will continue to collect data on the modules via student performance and surveys. The modules also track things such as how much time students spend on a particular section and the steps they take in working through the exercises.
"I think this approach is hopefully more engaging, and if you design it right, it can be engaging and sort of fun," Persky says. "What we are trying to do is to appeal to a generation born with iPods in their ears.
"It can benefit a lot of courses, but it'll probably span from being eighty percent module to ten percent module, depending on the course. You still need students to be able to read books and primary literature."
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Tough choices if Obama wins but loses popular vote
WASHINGTON (AP) — An uncertain and thorny four years could await President Barack Obama if, under one possible outcome of Tuesday's election, he keeps his office despite losing the popular vote to Republican Mitt Romney.
Never before in American history has a sitting president won a second term without winning the popular vote. This year, it's well within the realm of possibility. An incredibly tight race seems to favor Obama in the most competitive states that will decide the winner, even if growing Republican enthusiasm means more voters overall go for Romney.
If that happens, Obama would face mounting problems with little ability to claim that Americans support him. He'd be dealing with stubbornly high unemployment, Mideast unrest and the threat of a double whammy of tax increases and spending cuts in January.


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CrunchPad -- have shown up looking very, very close to a finished product. As you can see in the gallery below, the (supposedly) $200, WiFi enabled pad has gotten dressed up in multiple colors and been shoved into some fairly handsome looking packaging. There's no telling if this means the device is any closer to a buy-able reality, but one thing is for sure: a microblog is no place for secrets.
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The Richard Hamilton Acquisition Prize sponsored by Champion & Partners
Funded through the generous support of Champion & Partners, the Richard Hamilton Acquisition Prize provides up to $10,000 to support a museum's purchase at the Fair. The British Museum was the recipient of the 2013 prize which funded their purchase of a 1985 linocut by Ida Applebroog entitled American Medical Association I as well as a collection of the artist's self-published offset books entitled A Performance, 1977-1981.
In naming the prize, Champion & Partners pays tribute to the artist Richard Hamilton, who inspired their own appreciation of prints, and his profound influence on printmaking. It was conceived to enable museums to acquire significant prints for their collections and to inspire individual collectors by illustrating the profusion of affordable museum quality works on offer at the IFPDA Print Fair.
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Apple's new iPhones simultaneously aim high, low
The camera, called iSight, has "auto image stabilization," which helps avoid blurry pictures, and a slow-motion option for video. A "burst mode" can take 10 frames per second as long as you hold your finger on the shutter, then find the best one in your camera roll.
The 5S's biggest innovation, though, may be in how it's unlocked. Instead of relying on a four-digit code to gain access to the device, 5S users will have the option of allowing the smartphone to memorize their fingerprints instead. The 5S contains a thin scanner, called "Touch ID," inside the home button on the phone that automatically recognizes a user's selected fingerprint. The fingerprint scanner also can be tied to Apple's iTunes and apps store to remove the need to type in passwords to access those services, too.
In a nod to privacy concerns, Apple said the copies of the fingerprints won't be stored in its own data centers.
Analysts believe the fingerprint scanner eventually could open up a new source of revenue for Apple if the company is able to work out deals to use the technology to automatically process payments made when people are shopping on their iPhones and iPads.
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Julio Jones coming back strong.
Julio Jones coming back strong.
The underdog Falcons are, surprisingly, killing the 49ers right now in the NFC Championship—not only are they up 17-0, they did it before San Francisco was able to muster a first down.
With half of the fantasy football season under our belt, we now have a very nice sample size to analyze the marketplace.
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Hollywood actress Brooke Shields has revealed that she instantly made friends with Michael Jackson when she first met him because sexual tension was off the table between them.
She told Rolling Stone magazine that at the age of 13, when she first met the pop star, she was "the most celebrated virgin ever" while Jackson was trying to adjust to the scores of women who "wanted to throw themselves at [him] and feel like they were going to teach him [the sexual ropes]," China Daily reported.
Shields, best known in India for her role in The Blue Lagoon (1980), a film about teenage lovers marooned on a tropical island, a storyline that lent itself to showcasing the beautiful actress, then just 14, in the nude, said that as Jackson grew up, "the more asexual he became to me".
But the singer was also curious about the actress's early affairs. She said: "He was like a little kid who talked about the 'bases' — what first base was, what second base was, it sounded very odd to the outside, I can imagine, but to the inside, to someone who has never really left his bubble, you can understand how he would be curious."
Shields, 44, was married to tennis star Andre Agassi from 1997 to 1999. She is now married to television writer Chris Henchy and has two daughters with him.


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