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Blue Nile(3 / 5)
Everyone is familiar with Blue Nile. They are the powerhouse of loose diamonds online and have been operating their online diamond business since 1999. Based in Seattle, Washington, their advantage in the online diamond market is shear size. At the time of this writing (December 2014), they have more than 230,000 diamonds available for search online at any given time.
The company continues to stay competitive and is still the largest online retailer for loose diamonds and engagement rings. In fact, it is estimated that Blue Nile is nearly three times larger than their nearest competitor! Diamond rings still make up about 70% of Blue Nile's sales as they cater to the first time diamond buyer. Because most men don't have a clue about how to go about purchasing a diamond, they rely upon Blue Nile to help educate and steer them in the right direction.
The future growth of Blue Nile looks promising as well with Blue Nile putting more focus on the non-engagement jewelry market for repeat customers throughout the year. Blue Nile's long time specialty has been their very popular "design-your-own-engagement" ring tool. It is probably a well known fact by now that Blue Nile doesn't own or house the 230,000 diamonds that are in their "inventory". They instead utilize the drop-shipping business practice of showcasing diamonds on their website that are really owned and housed by various diamond vendors located anywhere in the world. Some consumers don't seem to mind this, as many businesses use this practice to save on inventory and overhead costs. However, with the diamond business this can lead to serious quality and customer service issues.
There Are Easier Diamond Buying Options For Round and Princess Cut Diamonds Online
As the age of information continues to grow, more and more people are turning to the internet for reviews, pricing information, customer service, and product consistency. Although Blue Nile is still the reigning champion when it comes to purchasing diamonds online, there are other diamond vendors that specialize in diamonds that make the process much easier and very transparent (see my five star recommended diamond vendors to see what I mean).
Although Blue Nile only sells GIA or AGS certified stones with access to the actual diamond certificate online, they do not provide any other features that would make a true assessment of a given diamond possible. For example, technological advancements have allowed such tools as Sarin machines, Ideal-Scope, ASET, and high resolution digital photographic technology to be available to the consumer so they can offer the novice buyer some help in choosing a quality stone without the need to see it in person beforehand. The vast majority of Blue Nile's loose diamonds have a GIA certificate which makes it extremely difficult to evaluate a diamond's cut proportions and light return because there is no ASET image accompanying the diamond. With the growing online diamond market, these tools are becoming a necessity and that is why other diamond retailers like: Brian Gavin Diamonds, Zoara, Leibish&Co, Enchanted Diamonds, and Ritani and are quickly gaining traction and notoriety within the industry. If any diamond vendor wants to stay afloat in this market, they will eventually need to step up their game and add this technology to their arsenal of selling tools.
Blue Nile 'Signature Ideal' Are Not Necessarily Hearts & Arrow Diamonds
Another issue that I've have seen over and over again is the story behind Blue Nile's 'Signature-Ideal' collection of diamonds. People want to know what this distinction means, how are these diamonds different? Well, to answer these questions one needs to do a little investigative work. First of all, Blue Nile has stated that their signature ideal diamonds have the following standards:
Table % – 55.0 – 57.0%
Polish – Ideal
Symmetry – Ideal
Most of Blue Nile's Signature Ideal Diamonds are GIA certified. And if you read my article on GIA vs. AGS, GIA has larger parameters for what they consider an "excellent" cut grade. In other words, what may be "excellent" to GIA may fall into a lower cut grade according to AGS standards. I'm not saying that all Blue Nile Signature Diamonds are bad, but I do stress that it is simply Blue Nile's "opinion" that these set of diamonds are up to par with IDEAL standard diamonds. Blue Nile's Signature Ideal's come with a 3rd party Gem Certification and Assurance Lab (GCAL) certificate. See below…
GCAL is an independent diamond research and identification laboratory located in New York, New York. It appears that Blue Nile has branded GCAL's Diamond Audit Guaranteed Certificate. This report bascially verifies the accuracy of another lab's grading report. The report information says, "If the diamond meets GCAL's grading standards, then it qualifies for certification and GCAL's "Zero Tolerance" 4C's Consumer Guarantee". The inexperienced diamond buyer is paying a premium for Blue Nile's Signature Diamonds just to be independently certified by a 3rd party lab and to have it laser inscribed with the Blue Nile logo and cert number. That is the only difference between Blue Nile Signature diamonds and their other available diamonds. This is NOT the same as hearts and arrows certification, nor does this necessarily mean that the given diamond is eye-clean.
1) If they were hearts and arrows certified, then Blue Nile would have used GCAL's Heart and Arrows Guaranteed Certificate (GCAL's Heart and Arrows Guaranteed Certificate)
2) Pulling a random diamond out of their "inventory" like: 1.1ct Signature Ideal, I-SI1 we can see that this diamond doesn't score well on the HCA tool. This diamond's score was 3.0, with Light Return -Very Good, Fire -Very Good, Scintillation- Very Good, Spread or Diameter for Weight – Very Good. Conclusion: Very good worth buying if the price was right $7106.00 (which it is not).
Now that we know that Blue Nile's branded Signature Ideals can vary widely in cut quality, the onus is on the consumer to search through the more than 230,000 diamonds to find a well cut stone.
Step 1 – Go to Blue Nile's Search for Diamonds page and enter in the following:
– Enter round brilliant for your desired diamond shape, carat weight, and diamond color
– Leave the Price parameter untouched
– Choose "very good", "ideal", "signature ideal" for cut
– Choose your desired clarity grade (recommend VS2 – VS-1) (SI1's may not be eye-clean and therefore without pictures it is safer to choose a VS2 or better in clarity)
Step 2 – Advanced Criteria (Very Important!)
– Choose 'excellent/ideal' polish and symmetry
– Choose 53% to 58% Table (55%-57% is optimal but will show less results)
– Choose 59.5 to 62.5% Depth (60% to 61.7% is optimal but will show less results)
– Leave everything else blank
*It's important to note that we cannot search by crown or pavilion angle and so, we are limited in this capacity as well.
Step 3 – Results The results that show up according to the above parameters is a very refined list of available diamonds that are of top cut qualities. Go through the list and see if there are any AGS graded diamonds. These diamonds are your preferred diamonds as AGS has stricter cutting standards than GIA (click here for more on the differences between GIA vs AGS). Additionally, AGS issues 'The Platinum Light Performance Diamond Quality Document' to elite diamonds that meet their strict cut guidelines. After finding diamonds with an AGS grading report pay special attention to it's ASET image located on the grading report itself (some AGS reports will not have an ASET image, only Platinum Performance Diamond Quality Documents will have this). For example, I found this 0.508ct, H-color, VS-2 clarity, AGS Ideal cut for $1533.00 at Blue Nile. This diamond shows ideal light performance, ideal polish and ideal symmetry. It shows virtually no inclusions and the ASET image is bright red with blue contrast. ASET images help to show how well a diamond is cut. This diamond may not be a perfectly cut hearts and arrows diamond, but it shows excellent symmetry and contrast. This is an example of a beautiful looking stone that will shine bright and show off a beautiful sparkle.
Step 4 – Enter Your Diamond Into The HCA Tool Since this diamond is graded an AGS ideal cut, we can expect this diamond to be brilliant. However, for the purposes of further understanding a diamond's expected "performance" we can easily plug in this diamond's available proportions into Gary Halloway's HCA Tool (click diamond cut for more info on this). This tool only works for round brilliant diamonds, but helps to predict light performance (brilliance, fire, scintillation and diamond spread). As expected, this diamond resulted in an "Excellent" score. For the record, nearly all AGS "0" ideal cut diamonds should score well in the HCA Tool; so it isn't really necessary to use HCA in order to confirm what we already know. Remember, this isn't one of Blue Nile's coveted Signature Ideal diamonds which goes to show that you really must do your homework in order to find an excellent cut diamond.
Step 5 – Buy The Darn Thing! I did purchase this diamond and had it set in a classic four prong 18k white gold solitaire setting. I ordered the ring on a Thursday and it was shipped free to my home by the following Wednesday. I have to say that I wasn't at all surprized when I saw the diamond in person. It was exceptional. This little beauty is definitely "eye-clean". Take a look at its accompanying AGSL report which you can see both in the original version and electronic versions below:
Blue Nile Offers:
– Free delivery for both domestic and international orders
– 30 day return policy
– Conflict-free diamonds
– Specific Canadian diamond selection (for those that are very concerned about where their diamonds are sourced)
– New fancy diamond collection online
Some Disadvantages:
– No real pictures of diamonds online for easy shopping assessment (except with the Blue Nile Signature Diamonds, in which case you can see the picture as part of the GCAL report. This picture is not magnified and shows no real clarity assessment value).
– Blue Nile drop ships most of their diamonds
– No longer the cheapest and most competitively priced for loose diamonds online
– Use caution when looking to buy Blue Nile's 'Signature-Ideal' diamonds
Although you can find excellent diamonds in this category, I've found that Blue Nile has a very large range of what they consider an acceptable "ideal" diamond as well as higher prices.
Final Thoughts
Although I technically will help individuals find a suitable ideal cut round brilliant diamond from Blue Nile, the honest truth is that I can't give Blue Nile five stars because in my experience their customer service is lacking in advanced cut education and more importantly their diamond search tool is still populating diamonds without any magnified images, HD videos, light performance information etc.
You might think this is just picky of me, but honestly you are limited to purchasing only round brilliant diamonds based on cut proportions alone and even this is essentially risking it. There is no way that you can purchase anything other than a round diamond from their search tool because a fancy shaped diamond just has too many variables to leave to proportions alone. Additionally, their prices are not the lowest. They do not visually inspect their diamonds for quality control before shipment and the jury is out on who actually sets their jewelry for them. Given all this, I wouldn't personally purchase from Blue Nile unless they had an extremely good offer.
Blue Nile has the advantage of all other online diamond vendors in that they are a public company with shareholders that push forward to dominate the market and keep the sales up. However, if you are a savvy consumer, you are better off investing in a quality diamond from a vendor that has earned your business with the necessary tools you need to make a sound decision.
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Like Allure editor Linda Wells, I don't typically wear a ton of makeup. I've become very familiar with the minimal essential products I need to pull off looking bright eyed and fresh faced so that I look presentable, yet I don't have to spend a lot of time getting ready. However, when the weekend comes around, I love going all out and trying new products to create fun and intricate makeup looks.
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I wear make-up everyday, but Monday through Friday, it's just a very light dusting of powder foundation and some lipgloss, so I can't really say that I have a full face of make-up on. However, on the weekends when I'm not rushing to go to class or my internship, I spend a little more time to put on my makeup, which then consists of mascara and a little blush or bronzer. The only time I ever really get myself dolled up is for a club or a bar.
northernstar 6 years
I never wear a full face of makeup because I hate looking like I have a lot of makeup on. I also don't like the way foundation feels on my face, my skin starts feeling tight. I have a pretty good skin, I get a pimple or two once a year or once every two years so I don't feel the need to apply makeup. I also never wear makeup on my lips because both my fiance and I hate eating lipstick. I use mascara all the time though.
xladifreshx 6 years
I never wear makeup.I don't need it.:]
xladifreshx 6 years
I never wear makeup. I don't need it. :]
MadalenaO 6 years
I'm wearing make up quite often but not every day. I don't like having too much on face and I know I don't need that. Usually I am using mascara and lipstick (my lovely pink Chanel), foundation only in winter 'cos I have no problems with skin. O course if I'm going out I always have glamorous make up;)
MadalenaO 6 years
I'm wearing make up quite often but not every day. I don't like having too much on face and I know I don't need that. Usually I am using mascara and lipstick (my lovely pink Chanel), foundation only in winter 'cos I have no problems with skin. O course if I'm going out I always have glamorous make up;)
monday 6 years
i only do the whole shebang (concealer, foundation, eyeshadow, liquid liner, mascara, blush, liptint, finishing powder) once or twice a week - either because i feel like putting all that o or the occasion calls for it, otherwise i just put on tinted lip balm. a full face takes too much time [i need more practice] and i'd rather get an extra 30mins of sleep :P
danixk 6 years
I'm going to have to say, on average, 5 days. Maybe, 6....
wanderine 6 years
once a week! I go to school everyday and my everyday make up is simply primer, bronzer and masgara.I am actually surprised that some of you girls want to put on full makeup everyday....i mean too much make up just aging your skin and clog your pores.
bigestivediscuit 6 years
1-2 ... on other days I just can't be bothered to do EVERYTHING. Besides, mmost of the people I work with wear minimal makeup so I don't want to look like I'm overdoing it. I think I'm the only one in my department who always wears eyeliner.
hmcmcd 6 years
I think I have the worst of it. I have to wear full face all the time. i have acne scars too that I know are not really "covered" by the foundation but it does make me feel more secure. I am also a blonde so my eyebrows are very light (must wear brow powder) and although I have long full eyelashes they are also blonde, so w/o mascara they disappear.
ggnelle 6 years
bareessentials is my friend. a little of that, mascara and eyeliner is what i use usually.
luxecake 7 years
I wear a full face of makeup everyday. It's not in me to leave the house without anything on my face... The bare minimum always includes eye shadow, blush/bronzer, lipstick/gloss, mascara and eyeliner. MINIMUM! Hehe.
AmberHoney 7 years
Love the makeup - do it all the time. It's fun for me.
chhavi 7 years
I apply full face make up only when I have to go out somewhere, to a party or to shop, you know. I haven't been anywhere majorin the past 4 months... so all I do is lip balm or a little kajal.
missdiorluxe 7 years
I wear mascara, a little foundation and bronzer each day. I will wear eyeshadow and eyeliner few days a week, mainly when I go out at night. :)
keiraz 7 years
mostly at night when I hang out and sometimes when I am really in the mood at work :-D
Sugarblonde 7 years
I wasn't really sure of what "full face" meant. I'll wear concealer, mascara, eyeliner to work just because my face isn't perfect... but i dont usually do eyeshadow/lipstick/blush.
brdwaystarlett 7 years
Light Foundation. Mascara and soft eyeliner. Blush. MUST HAVE BLUSH. Otherwise I look like a zombie. Daily.
dkaanoi 7 years
i would say 4 days. 2 random days at work and whenever i go out on the weekends. But i never leave the house without my lipgloss, bronzer and mascara on!!!
MartiniLush 7 years
I LOVE makeup! I love to put it on, try new looks and new products. I am a huge experimenter! :-)
details2 7 years
I pretty much where makeup everyday.My face is naturally flushed red - so I have to use a tinted moisturizer.I have bluish dark circles in both corners of my eyes - so I have to use a concealer.I have thin sparse brows - I feel so much prettier with brow pencil.I have long blond lashes that you can't see with out mascara.I've had more than enough people comment on that my face looks washed out if I'm not wearing a little blush.I skimp on lip color - because it just seems to wipe off to quickly.The stains I've tried have looked too extreme.I love eyeliner - but it's something I'm trying to go without - because it's "too much look" for daytime.I try to wear all of these products in the most natural way.I've had people find out what I wear and say that they had no idea I used that many things - I took that as a complement.


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Yes, I'm grateful that the bitter cup of whatever last week's blizzard was named passed us more or less by. But that doesn't make the dribs and drabs of powdery snow — an inch here, two inches there — we've been getting any more enjoyable.
Until this morning, that is, when the weather brought a sweet little field sparrow to the feeders.
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A cool day in late November — especially a cool day in late November with cold and big snows predicted for the next day — is perfect for spending a little time with the backyard sparrows. The roster Tuesday morning was pretty much what was expected in northern New Jersey: lots of slate-colored juncos and white-throated sparrows, with the odd chipping, song, and fox sparrow to liven things up.
One bird, this bird, stood out in the feeder flock.
It was more than superficially junco-like, with a dull gray hood, white belly, and pink bill, but the pattern and color of the underparts were off. The dull olive-tan of the breast sides and flanks seemed wrong for not just for a slate-colored but for any junco, and the color reached quite far in towards the vent in a wide band, almost isolating the white undertail coverts. At some angles, the bird seemed to show a "color corner" between the hood and the breast sides, but at others just the usual smudgy blend shown by brown, immature or female, slate-colored juncos. Some of the rear flank feathers seemed to have very fine, just barely visible dark shaft streaks.
A closer look revealed a couple of other oddities. The ground color of the back seemed unexceptional, but its neat pattern of prominent but fine black streaks was worth a second look.
A bit of faint, diffuse streaking isn't all that unusual in brown juncos this time of year, but these markings — darker in life than in the photos I took through my dirty window — struck me as beyond the pale.
I have no good, tightly-focused images of the wing pattern, but the one above at least gives a hint of the inconspicuous dotted wing bars; the tips of the median coverts weren't always even this visible, but several of the greaters on each wing showed very small white triangular tips, creating a short, jagged "droplet" wing bar on the gray wing.
The bird's tertials seemed more or less normal, with the typical broad buffy edgings of brown slate-colored juncos, if perhaps just a little more white towards the tip of the outer web than most.
While the other juncos were setting off their feathered flash bulbs all around the yard, this bird kept its tail resolutely folded. Though I could never contort myself into a position from which I could see the underside of the tail, I eventually had several reasonable if brief looks at the bird in flight, when it showed no white in the outer rectrices. Given my split-second view of the bird as it dashed into the arborvitae, I'd be hard pressed to prove that it actually even had all of its rectrices, but the ones I could see were dark.
With the growing suspicion that this might be a bird of mixed ancestry (put that way, which bird is not?), I worked hard to imagine the shadow of a face or throat pattern. The hood seemed unremarkably gray, with some dull rusty shading and streaking at some angles. There was an occasionally noticeable paler patch on each side of the neck beneath the auriculars, a feature shown by many brown slate-colored juncos.
The strangest thing about the bird's head plumage was the area around the eye. The lore was decidedly blacker than the rest of the already dark head, no big deal in a slate-colored junco, but that color continued back to surround the eye and to end in an odd broad point behind it.
The bird was minutely larger than some of the other juncos in the flock, but still obviously much smaller than the white-throated sparrows.
If this is not just an even weirder than usual junco, what might it be? There are numerous records and reports of apparent hybrids between slate-colored juncos and white-throated sparrows, among them the winter birds well photographed and well described by Mark Szantyr a few years ago in Connecticut.
Nearly all of the documented individuals assigned to this hybrid combination are obviously, conspicuously intermediate in appearance, combining a white throat and lore with a gray breast and head. Some are more subtly marked, such as the one photographed by Szantyr and almost entirely junco-like but for a single brown, white-tipped greater covert. And surely others, perhaps the majority of them, are even more cryptically clad, indiscernible to humans and maybe even to their flock mates.
If in fact this odd sparrow was a hybrid or introgressant, I'm not sure we can tell with any real certainty which species might be lurking in its family tree. To my eye, the very fine back pattern and incomplete vent strap immediately suggested not a Zonotrichia but rather a Lincoln's sparrow, but we will probably never know.
We'll probably never know. But it's always fun to look close; if it weren't, we wouldn't bother looking at all.
Two White-throated SparrowsPosted by: | Comments
Both photographed here in northern New Jersey on the same late October day.
A New Jersey Birder's California JuncoPosted by: | Comments
The calendar and the weather agree: It's still late summer in northern New Jersey. A month from now, things will be different, but for the moment, only the most foolishly impatient prodder of the seasons is thinking of winter birds.
Except, of course, on this date. It's September 6. And every year on this day, we pause — don't we? — to remember the only Oregon junco named for a New Jersey birder.
Eugene Carleton Thurber died in California on September 6, 1896, at the shockingly tender age of 31. Born in Poughkeepsie in 1865, Thurber moved to Morristown in 1881; a "promising young ornithologist, a careful collector, and a good observer," he published his magnum (and perhaps solum) opus in November 1887, the List of Birds of Morris County, notable especially for its early records of the Lawrence's and Brewster's warblers.
Fragile health sent Thurber to California in 1889, where he
lived an out-of-door life in the field, collecting birds and mammals, as his health would permit, and preserving to the end his love for his favorite study.
On May 24, 1890, Thurber collected two juncos on Mount Wilson in the San Gabriel Mountains. That summer, he showed the skins to Alfred Webster Anthony, another New York native exploring the Golden State; Anthony was "considerably surprised" to learn of juncos'
nesting in abundance within twenty-five miles of Los Angeles,
and as none of the other local collections seemed to include any similar specimens, he organized an expedition in late August to "obtain, if possible, a series of birds." On August 27 and 28, Anthony found juncos "very abundant" between 5200 and 5800 feet elevation. He shot what seems to have been a total of eight adults, two juveniles, and one bird of unknown age and sex; all of those new adult specimens, however, were — as one might have predicted, without climbing the mountain in the first place — "in ragged moulting plumage," inadequate for diagnosis.
So Anthony, apparently forgetting about Google Images, sent his little series, which by now included both of Thurber's skins, to Washington, whence Robert Ridgway replied with some "rather unexpected" information: Anthony's — Thurber's — California juncos represented a "strongly marked" but still unnamed subspecies.
A deficiency, naturally enough, that Anthony promptly made up in the October 31, 1890, issue of Zoe:
I take pleasure in naming this handsome Junco for the discoverer, Mr. E.C. Thurber of Alhambra, Cal.
A few months later, having run through the juncos in a collection of birds purchased from Thurber in 1889, Frank Chapman was mildly skeptical: he pointed out that Anthony had failed to demonstrate that his new thurberi could be distinguished from the very widespread shufeldti.
The AOU, however, recognized the new race in 1892, and continued to list it as valid in the last Check-list to tally subspecies. BNA and Pyle, too, list thurberi among the Oregon junco subspecies. I'm glad we have a name for this population, whose recent colonization of the nearby California lowlands has provided some surprising insights into the rapidity of junco evolution.
Thurber's early death kept him from leaving much of a biographical trail: We know a great deal more about the junco than the man. All the more reason to remember him once a year, I think, even if our juncos are still a month away.
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A hundred years ago, there was still a tidy little list of North American birds whose nest and eggs had never been seen by white scientists. Among them: the dusky seaside sparrow.
The collectors of those days took their failure personal, and their inability to discover the home of
a bird whose range covered only a few square miles, and one that had been known to science for forty-one years, and whose nest had never been found, was a "slam" on the ability of us true Oologists.
In the early summer of 1914, Oscar Baynard and Henry Simpson set out to put things right. For a full week in May, Baynard and his "old side kick"
cruised the entire length of Merritts Island, visiting every place where there had ever been any records of the Dusky Seaside Sparrow…. on the morning of May 21st … I saw a Black Sparrow…. I killed the bird and upon dissecting same found it to be a male evidently in full breeding.
This sure made us feel good.
Encouraged, the collectors "plunged into the marsh" and quickly discovered "at least" twenty dusky seaside sparrows in the dense salicornia carpet. Four hours later, they had found no nest. Simpson suggested over dinner that the sparrows
did not lay eggs at all but had young like an animal.
And so after their meal, they took to the time-honored method of dragging the marsh with a weighted rope. It took no time at all before a bird flushed as if from a nest, which the searchers found and promptly collected, with its three "heavily incubated" eggs.
To say that we were elated is expressing it mildly and we did a regular Indian Tango or some other kind of dance…. We vowed we would find more nests or never leave the spot.
Baynard and Simpson lived up to their vow only too well in the days that followed, taking fledglings, nestlings, and two more sets of eggs. The third clutch they collected was so "heavily incubated" that one egg began to hatch on the way back to the boat; Baynard
was unable to save but one egg of this set.
"Save," indeed.
Two of the nests and egg sets, along with the skins of the parent birds, were sold to John Eliot Thayer, of gull fame. Thayer in turn donated the first nest and clutch, collected on May 21, 1914, to Harvard's museum, where they still reside.
Does it matter that, by my count, Baynard and Simpson killed at least 17 sparrows and sparrows in spe on those few May days a century ago?
I don't know how to answer that question, or how to argue that the dusky seaside sparrow would have remained doomed regardless of the efforts of the collectors. But wouldn't it be fine today to have seventeen dusky seaside sparrows and their hundred years of descendants buzzing away in the marshes of the Florida coast?


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This is what happens when you have a bunch of untapped creative energy on your hands. Just sitting around, I decided to write a couple of random poems about rain, music, and, of course, the Yankees. I think this one came out very well, and mirrors my feelings surrounding this Derek Jeter/New York Yankees contract dispute.
Just as a quick comment, I believe that neither side is really at fault. I just think that this is what happens when you have two big sides trying to figure something out. They don't call it negotiations for nothing!
Come on, Derek!
Where have you gone, Derek Jeter?
You are our captain, our savior, and our leader!
With five World Series Championships under your belt
If you ever left us we would surely welt!
The Steinbrenners and Cashman should be ashamed
For it is their actions which lead to blame!
They'll give you only 3/$15 while you want 22 million a year
It is a trav...wait, what did I just hear?
Say it isn't so, future New York mayor
The Yankees need to overpay for an aging position player?
It does not matter whether you are Jeter or Albert Pujols;
Nobody is worth that amount of Rupels!
Everything in this world is now wrong;
I feel like listening to a depressing song!
The Yankees and Jeter are now at odds;
Might as well go ahead and sign Bonds!
Derek Jeter is not like that, is he?
I thought he loved the Yankees so much he would play for free!
It certainly seemed that way throughout the years
When fans of all kinds would cheer for him and throw up their beers
There was the catch, the dive, the tumble
In a clutch situation he would never fumble!
He even earned the nickname, "Mr. November"
Because he gave us so many moments to remember!
It will all work out in the end;
one of these two will bend
We will all live happily live ever after...
Especially after 2011 when we parade down the Canyon of Heroes bathed in laughter!


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Pleaes move me to Waiting to O. Only an 8 day LP. Sigh.
I'm going to add vitex this month to see if it helps lengthen it any. I may not be around as much this month, I think I just need to chill on this baby making thing.
Attached, homeschooling mom to Sam (10), Henry (8), Clara (5--now in public school Kindergarten) and Noah (2)
Ick, I'm sorry Were you doing B6 and/or prog cream? Just wondering if they did anything or not.
Good luck to everyone o'ing and in the tww!
Everyone who is waiting to o, I hope a nice home is building for your baby!
Just an update: I made it through the weekend, still pg at 15dpo No spotting yesterday, but today had cramping like AF was going to start and one spot of pink. So I'm still a nervous nelly. Still taking the prometrium (200mg in the evening) but also still slathering on the natural prog cream about 4 times during the day. I figure it can't hurt. I go back in to get prog tested again this Friday when I will have been on it a week. I so want this little one to stay around with us!
Mama to my beautiful Ana Carolina (2/07), Isabel Cristina (6/10), and #3 on the way in August 2013!
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You Know What I Hate?! - NOV 1
Cam Davie
November 01 2011 08:46AM
The Jack O'Lanterns are angry. And so am I.
Photo courtesy architectips.com
Today I continue my weekly feature of me venting and raging on stupid crap happening with the Canucks, their fans and around the NHL. Two things about feature... 1) It will appear (hopefully) every Monday, and 2) It is blatantly ripped off from a stand-up bit from comedian Craig Anton. On either point, I make no apologies. Enjoy. Or don't.
In this week's edition, Raffi Torres has got 99 problems and CanucksArmy IS one, I hate on the Oilers, and on myself for giving props TO the Oilers, and some more Hallowe'en stuff.
One More Post About Raffi's Jay-Z Costume
Thomas Drance
November 01 2011 08:27AM
Having digested the issue for twenty-four hours, read through the comments (many of them exasperating, many of them thoughtful) on my original post, and read the excellent takes on the issue by better writers than I in Bruce Arthur and Harrison Mooney, I figured I'd try and sum up my thoughts about a days worth of dialogue. After this I'll return to Canucks Army's regularly scheduled programming of dry statistical analysis and prospect interviews and such.
Alain Vigneault's Expiry Date
Thomas Drance
October 31 2011 12:44PM
Over the weekend I read a really interesting piece on whether or not the Canucks are "Tuning out Alain Vigneault" by Joe Pelletier. Joe is a hockey historian, a Canucks fan and an absolute must-follow on twitter, so go do that. While I very much enjoyed his take, I disagreed with it in some respects and I figured it would be worthwhile to elaborate.
Here's the meat of Joe's take (I've paraphrased to some extent):
Mad Max: The Fourth Line Warrior
Jeff Angus
October 31 2011 08:31AM
What qualities make up an ideal fourth liner in hockey? If you polled fans, words like grit, toughness, tenacity, energy, and aggressiveness would likely be tossed about. The famed Grind Line, featuring Kirk Maltby, Kris Draper, and Darren McCarty, helped Detroit win multiple Stanley Cups. All three wouldn't have looked out of place in a third line role, but they fit best when skating together on Detroit's energy unit.
October 31 News and Notes
Robert Cleave
October 31 2011 02:26AM
All Hallows Eve is here in all its glory, with children headed to the door this evening in search of treats their parents would never let them near any other night, and those same parents openly regretting the sugar rush they're about to bestow on said urchins. Of course, for those of you in between those ages, Hallowe'en is about other pursuits, and those are perfectly fine as well. As an aside, when did this copious skin baring business start in earnest? When I was in university in the early 80's, you'd only see someone in their knickers if you were dating them, and even then it was iffy ;-) I'm not complaining, mind, just attempting to fill the gaps in my knowledge base.
Anyhoo, let's get to it. In this aggregation of notes, the Leafs hit a roadblock in the nation's capital, the Oil are cruising for now, and Vancouver snaps out of their funk with a bang.


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Hometown Snapshot
Lighthouse brings joy to Hagonoy fisherfolk
HAGONOY, Bulacan—The Christmas everybody is hoping for in the island village of Pugad is finally here.
After eight years of darkness, fisherfolk found their lighthouse reignited on Friday, ensuring Christmas will be literally bright here for the Simbang Gabi (midnight Mass).
Dax Uy, Bulacan chapter president of Sigla Movement of the Philippines (SMP), initiated the repairs for the lighthouse. A Cagayan de Oro City resident, Uy's mother is from Bulacan town. He is also married to a resident from Iba village here.
The SMP team installed a solar panel, six pieces of 12-volt batteries and a backup battery to revive the lighthouse.
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- Up to 2 children 12 years old and younger stay free when occupying the parent or guardian's room, using existing bedding.
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Guests can unwind at the end of a long day and enjoy televisions with cable channels. Business travelers will have access to desks and phones during their Gothenburg visit. Rooms also include coffee/tea makers and blackout drapes/curtains.
Private bathrooms are outfitted with hair dryers.
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Distances from Clarion Collection Hotel OdinGarden Society of Gothenburg - 0.3 km / 0.2 mi
Gamla Ullevi Stadium - 0.4 km / 0.2 mi
Palm House - 0.4 km / 0.3 mi
Nya Ullevi Stadium - 0.6 km / 0.3 mi
Brunnsparken - 0.7 km / 0.4 mi
Nordstan Shopping Center - 0.7 km / 0.4 mi
Baltespannarparken - 0.8 km / 0.5 mi
Gustav Adolf Square - 0.8 km / 0.5 mi
Gothenburg Town Hall - 0.8 km / 0.5 mi
Kronhusbodarna - 1 km / 0.6 mi
Kronhuset - 1 km / 0.6 mi
City Museum - 1 km / 0.6 mi
Avenyn - 1 km / 0.6 mi
Gothenburg Opera - 1 km / 0.6 mi
Rohsska Museum for Design, Fashion and Decorative Arts - 1 km / 0.7 mi
The closest major airports to Clarion Collection Hotel Odin are:
Gothenburg (GSE-Gothenburg City) - 10.2 km / 6.4 mi
Gothenburg (GOT-Landvetter) - 19.3 km / 12 mi
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- Three letters of recommendation (Please note: Two programs require letters to be filled out on specific forms- Pharmaceutical Evaluation Policy track of Pharmaceutical Sciences, and Nursing Ph.D Please click on the names of these programs to access the recommendation forms.)
- Official transcripts from each university attended.
- For all international applicants, official test results of the TOEFL score and the GRE score must be sent directly to UAMS by the Educational Testing Service. A photocopy of the scores sent to the student, who in turn forwards the scores to UAMS is not sufficient. No action will be taken on an application containing a photocopied test score. There is no exception to this policy. The code for the UAMS Graduate School is 6901. If selecting by institution name, please select the following: U AR Med Sci Graduate School
Please submit all application documents to the following address:
UAMS Graduate School
4301 W. Markham Slot #601
Little Rock, AR 72205
The following application documents can be submitted by email to email@example.com:
Summary of Experience form
Statement of Purpose
Letters of recommendation directly from recommender
It is the applicant's responsibility to make sure all application materials have been received by the Graduate School. Please contact email@example.com to confirm receipt of transcripts, letters of recommendation, affidavits of support (if required), GRE/ TOEFL scores, or other documents required by the program.
All admissions decisions are communicated in writing by the Dean of the Graduate School. The Graduate School cannot communicate admissions decisions via email or phone calls.