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|a bit more detail?
Voted 10/10
|Though I remember the tip (in the 70's) as fairly uneventful... would a bit more detail be useful?
I think I just used the Adk guide to get to the trailhead.
|Posted Nov 15, 2007 11:39 pm
|Rob A
|Re: a bit more detail?
Hasn't voted
|ive been thinking the same thing...this hike was pretty bland with some good views ( my pictures dont really do i justice) I'll try to flesh out the general description and ill add some detailed trail info. I rather writ on SP then on term papers for school ;-)
Thanks, Rob
|Posted Nov 15, 2007 11:51 pm
|Bark Eater
|Lower Trail Head
Voted 10/10
|If you access via the lower trail head on Hurricane Road (not O'Toole Lane as referenced here) be aware that the trail head is not particularly obvious. No sign, no parking pull out, and only a small trail marker disc to denote the start. The easiest things to look for are the two "no parking" signs on the opposite side of the road. There are pull outs to park just perhaps 50-100 yards down the road from this trail head.
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Theme: Alien Conquest
Year: 2011
Pieces: 211
Minifigures: 3
Price: £25.99
When I picked up my first Alien Conquest set I was torn as to whether I should also get this set, in the end I didn't bother and just got the HQ, luckily for me fate conspired to bring me back to toys are us here is the review. (light was against me, so the photos aren't as well lit as the last ones)
UFO Abduction
The Alien Defence Unit soldier is preparing the city defences. But wait! An alien UFO is trying to abduct the farmer with its tractor beam and grabbing abduction function! Launch the flick missile before it's too late and send the galactic human snatcher spinning home!
Box front and back
The set comes with three minifigures, exactly the same moustached double sided head ADU trooper from the Earth Defence HQ set, a different alien and a really cool single sided head farmer.
its just a single instruction booklet with this set, nothing too difficult and its built pretty quickly without and fiddly bits at all, rather odd placement of three green "Plate 1X2 W. 1 Knob" (as Lego describe them) in the cockpit could indicate something else was to be included in the set but was removed maybe?, nothing is shown on them on the box or in the instructions so it will remain a mystery
The light is activated by pressing the green ball forward at the back of the cockpit as you can see in the pics.
Underside of the UFO showing the rubber claw pieces, the light grey ends are rubber going to regular plastic as it goes dark grey.
"abduction effect" is more impressive in the dark
Minifigs: 9/10
Minifigs are great, the farmer is the pick for me, he looks fantastic. the alien is good too, with different printing and a different head to the ones in the HQ set. the ADU trooper though is a direct copy of the HQ trooper, must have requested a transfer
Parts: 8/10
Not a great pile of parts but some nice pieces all the same, including a light brick giving the "abduction effect" a really nice clear dome on the saucer and some nice rubbery fangs on the under side of the saucer, for picking up unsuspecting abductees.
Design: 8/10
Its a classic saucer in the style of the 1950s B movies, the grille on the front is a little confusing though its a little too high in the sides for my liking but if it wasn't there'd be no room for the abductees, so its the price you pay, there is a nice "Area 51" sign on the front of the saucers stickers.
Playability: 7/10
The playability is pretty good, although its not very swooshable but the "abduction effect" is pretty cool so it makes up for that.
Price: 7/10
If the HQ seemed steep this one is a little steeper regards size Vs price, but it does have a light up brick (technological costs?) or maybe theres a worldwide plastic shortage going on
Overall: 39/50
Nice but no classic.
Hi Res pics are here
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I took a sample of this out of the GCTTB5.
I have been eyeing 52teas Genmaicha for a long time, but never wanted to commit to a whole package because I was sure that I probably wouldn't like it. I think I did try the marshmallow treat one way back in the day, but I don't even remember now.
Well, this tea is just not for me. It just tastes like vegetal green tea and toasted rice…duh…lol. The chocolate was nonexistent for me, but maybe I didn't get any in my teaspoon. Oh well, just not for me. Glad to have satisfied my curiosity though.
I had taken a sample of this out of the GCTTB5 to try later since I didn't want to have the box for too long.
This was an ok tea for me. There was slight notes of malt and honey. I read through the other notes, and now I feel like there was a hint of beeswax as well like Lala and Sil mentioned. To be honest, I find that kind of weird. Oh well, I'm glad I got to try it. I guess I can't like every tea!
Sipdown today.
I finished this one off as a cold brew and it was so refreshing. Sweet lemon, with hints of that macaroon and pastry.
Just ok. The toffee is fairly good but the chocolate is…not in this cup. I might have overstepped at 5 minutes. Next time I will try 4.
I had this as a latte in store the other day and it was fab. Bought a wee bit to take home. I'll let you know how that goes.
I've had some version of this tea type so many times. They all started to taste more or less the same to me.
I didn't pay close enough attention while drinking this tea last night, but from what I remember, I really enjoyed this rooibos. I also drank this while eating a macaroon, so that could have affected the taste. It was sweet and the strawberry was certainly in the forefront. Sorry, better notes next time.
I am not really a fan of the actual dessert creme brûlée but this tea was really good. I definitely get that burnt brown sugar note. The rooibos base wasn't too woodsy which is good. Overall, dessert in a cup!
How have I never had this tea before?
It's no secret that I love chocolate and this seemed perfect to have it on Valentine's Day. It was good, sweet chocolate and coconut. I didn't find notes of pecan, but that's ok because it was good anyway.
Happy Valentine's Day!
Yes, this is usually a winner. I say usually because I find sometimes depending on how I steep and how much leaf I use, it is a less stellar cup than the one I am expecting.This one is also very good added to DT Peanut Butter Cup if you have any of that handy.
Oh no, inconsistent I guess hey
i haven't tried the peanut butter cup. I can see how they would make a delicious combo though!
Maybe it is just my steeping and tastebuds. I find if I overleaf, the imitation flavours come out too much for me to enjoy the cup.


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Hi Jump Kick serves as Mienshao's most powerful move. Eliminate the physical walls & ghosts and Mienshao can get off a bit of a Hi Jump Kick sweep...provided I connect on all of them. U-Turn is there to gain momentum and switch out on predicted switches like a Cofagrigus that might want to come in predicting a Hi Jump Kick. Stone Edge is there to hit fliers like Crobat who would otherwise wall it. Aerial Ace is for dealing with opposing Heracross and other fighting types. I could carry HP Ice for Flygon locked into Outrage or Gligars which would wall Mienshao, but the ability to remove Heracross is a little more favorable in my opinion. Umbreon @ Leftovers Trait: Synchronize EVs: 252 SDef / 252 HP / 4 Def Calm Nature - Heal Bell - Wish - Foul Play - Protect The cleric and special wall of my team. Heal Bell rids my Pokemon of status. I mean it would be VERY unfortunate if one of my sweepers got paralyzed or if one of my walls got Toxic'd. I can use Wish to heal either myself or pass it on to a favorable recipient. Protect guarantees that I get my Wish up (provided Umbreon survives the previous turn) and is useful to scout for anything that might like to Trick or lock itself into a Choiced move. Foul Play helps me deal with powerful physical attackers that would like to ruin Umbreon's day. Crobat @ Choice Band Trait: Inner Focus EVs: 252 Spd / 252 Atk / 4 SDef Jolly Nature - Brave Bird - U-turn - Cross Poison - Sleep Talk Crobat serves to create momentum with U-Turn chains and sweep whenever he needs to. Brave Bird is Crobat's most powerful move breaking through Fighting types, Bug types, and Grass types that are pretty common in the tier. U-Turn, as I said earlier, helps create momentum so I can bring either a check/counter, or a sweeper in depending on what my opponent brings in. Cross Poison is a bit of a filler STAB that I would like to see changed on Crobat but to what is the question. 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If I feel like I can outspeed the rest of his team regardless, Nasty Plot is the move of choice. Getting Porygon-Z in safely is all a part of Mienshao's & Crobat's side jobs. Having one of them U-Turn on something I can set up on such as a Gligar or an Umbreon helps Porygon-Z set up and destroy. At +2, Tri-Attack rips through pretty much anything that isn't a Steel type (which are easily dealt with Mienshao or Swampert) or Ghost type. For the Ghost types, Dark Pulse lays a heavy dent on them. If you have any tweaks for me, please lay them on me. I am open to criticism. And in case if Froslass gets banned, I'd like to see some replacements for her.


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Writing with characteristic grace and wit, Larry McMurtry tackles the full spectrum of his favorite themes from sex, literature, and cowboys to rodeos, small-town folk, and big-city slickers.
First published in 1968, In a Narrow Grave is the classic statement of what it means to come from Texas. In these essays, McMurtry opens a window into the past and present of America's largest state. In his own words:
"Before I was out of high school, I realized I was witnessing the dying of a way of life the rural, pastoral way of life. In the Southwest the best energies were no longer to be found on the homeplace, or in the small towns; the cities required these energies and the cities bought them...."
"I recognized, too, that the no-longer-open but still spacious range on which my ranching family had made its livelihood...would not produce a livelihood for me or for my siblings and their kind....The myth of the cowboy grew purer every year because there were so few actual cowboys left to contradict it...."
"I had actually been living in cities for fourteen years when I pulled together these essays; intellectually I had been a city boy, but imaginatively, I was still trudging up the dusty path that led out of the country...."
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An Introduction: The God Abandons Texas
Being a writer and a Texan is an amusing fate, one that gets funnier as one's sense of humor darkens. In times like these it verges on the macabre. Apparently there was a time in the forties and fifties when people sort of enjoyed reading about Texas, if the reading was light enough. The state was thought to be different another country, almost. It had Nieman-Marcus and the Alamo and a lot of rather endearing millionaires. As late as 1961 Mr. John Bainbridge of The New Yorker was able to do well with a book called The SuperAmericans, a collection of polite anecdotes about the millionaires. For Texas letters, the forties and fifties were the Golden Age; that is, J. Frank Dobie was still alive. To Texas readers he was a notch above Homer and a notch below Shakespeare, while the world outside reckoned him almost as good as Carl Sandburg. One moderately good writer was all that was expected of a place like Texas.
In those days, of course, Lyndon Johnson was still only half of Rayburn and Johnson. The nation's intellectuals lost no sleep over him, and MacBird was undreamt of.
Alas, all is changed. We aren't thought of as quaintly vulgar anymore. Some may find us dangerously vulgar, but the majority just find us boring. As a subject, Texas has become frankly stultifying: if it's another country, it's a country literate America hopes to hear no more about. That magisterial stream, the "Pedernales," is frequently pissed in now by intellectuals who appear to hope that the products of their literary bladders will somehow eat holes in the Presidential motorboat. Having yielded Mr. Johnson, it is hardly to be expected that the state will yield anything funny in the next few years, much less anything aesthetically interesting.
Thus the writer like myself, whose characters live in Texas, may find himself writing into a rather stiff wind. If he is ambivalent about the state as a place, the stiffness of the wind may cause him to become discouraged about it as a subject. This is particularly apt to happen if he attempts to write from Texas, as well as about it. Many Texas writers migrate, of course, and make their way to the literary capitals; there they often find their frontier manners and their experience in the boondocks so marketable socially that they have little time for reflection, and, indeed, little desire to reflect upon the place they have left. What most of them find the time for is nostalgia, a somewhat different thing.
It would be a pity if the chill literary winds discourage too many people about Texas as a subject, for present-day Texas is a very rich subject, particularly for the novelist. Present-day California might be even richer, but California, whether as a subject or a place to live, is almost too taxing. There the confusion is greater, the rivalries of manners more intense: the question is whether anyone can live in California and comprehend it clearly now. Nathanael West would have a harder time with the state today than he had in 1939.
Texas is almost as intense, but much less dizzying. Society here is divided, but it is not yet fragmented to a degree that would raise difficulties for the novelist. The state is at that stage of metamorphosis when it is most fertile with conflict, when rural and soil traditions are competing most desperately with urban traditions competing for the allegiance of the young. The city will win, of course, but its victory won't be cheap the country traditions were very strong. As the cowboys gradually leave the range and learn to accommodate themselves to the suburbs, defeats that are tragic in quality must occur and may be recorded.
I started, indeed, to call this book The Cowboy in the Suburb, but chose the present title instead because I wanted a tone that was elegiac rather than sociological. Nonetheless, I think it is essentially that movement, from country to subdivision, homeplace to metropolis, that gives life in present-day Texas its passion. Or if not its passion, its strong, peculiar mixture of passions, part spurious and part genuine, part ridiculous and part tragic.
However boring Texas might be to move to, it is not a boring place to be rooted. The transition that is taking place is very difficult, and the situations it creates are very intense. Living here consciously uses a great deal of one's blood; it involves one at once in a birth, a death, and a bitter love affair.
From the birth I expect very little: the new Texas is probably going to be a sort of kid brother to California, with a kid brother's tendency to imitation.
The death, however, moves me the way of life that is dying had its value. Its appeal was simple, but genuine, and it called to it and is taking with it people whom one could not but love.
The last, the affair of the heart and blood, is really more physical than would have seemed possible, with a land so unadorned; but the quality of one's intimacy with a place seems to depend as little on adornment as the quality of one's intimacy with a woman. One should not, perhaps, call it a bitter love affair merely one that has become a little too raw, too real, too stripped of fantasy. The time may have come to part or marry, but, for myself, I put no trust in either alternative. Parting would not leave me free, nor marriage make me happy.
There is a song Texas kids still sing, a song about the passing of the cowboy:
I'm going to leave
Old Texas now,
They've got no use
For the longhorn cow.
They've plowed and fenced
My cattle range
And the people there
Are all so strange...
It is a slight song, but, for the Texas writer, an inescapable subject. When I think about the passing of the cowboy, my mind inappropriately hangs on the poem of Cavafy's, from the scene in Shakespeare, from the sentence of Plutarch's: the poem in which the god abandons Antony. I like Cavafy's treatment best, with Antony at his window at night in Alexandria, bidden to drink past all deceiving while the god and his retinue file away. In Shakespeare only the guards hear the strange music that marks the god's departure, but it is still a telling moment indeed, a telling fancy.
I can believe I have heard such music myself, in Fort Worth, Houston, Dallas; by the Rio Grande and the Brazos; in the brush country and on the Staked Plains. The music of departure is now rather faint, the god almost out of hearing. The god who abandoned Antony was Hercules what is the name of the god who now abandons Texas? Sometimes I see him as Old Man Goodnight, or as Teddy Blue, or as my Uncle Johnny all people the reader will meet if the reader reads on but the one thing that is sure is that he was a horseman, and a god of the country. His home was the frontier, and his mythos celebrates those masculine ideals appropriate to a frontier.
Myself, I dislike frontiers, and yet the sense that my own has vanished produces in me the strongest emotion I have felt in connection with Texas, or with any place. It has embedded itself in the titles of each of my books, and just as I think I have worn the emotion out it seizes me again, usually at some unlikely moment. I see my son, age five, riding a mechanical horse in front of the laundromat on Sunday morning, and the sight calls up my Uncle Johnny, when he was age five, sitting on top of the McMurtry barn watching the last trail herd go by. It is indeed a complex distance from those traildrivers who made my father and my uncles determined to be cowboys to the mechanical horse that helps convince my son that he is a cowboy, as he takes a vertical ride in front of a laundromat.
That is the distance I hope to cover in this book. It may, like my other books, be a form of parting, a wave of the hand at Old Man Goodnight, Teddy Blue, Uncle Johnny and all they stood for.
It is also, on a baser level, a literary gambit. It has clearly become necessary to write discursively of Texas if one is to be heard at all beyond one's city limits. The South, fortunately for its writers, has always been dark and bloody ground, but Texas is only scenery, and poor scenery at that. Even so, Mr. Faulkner had to write about a girl being raped with a corncob before he gained more than a semblance of a readership, and most of that soon deserted him. Today the fields of fiction are littered with raped bodies try the corncob route and readers will yawn in your face.
As a regionalist, and a regionalist from an unpopular region, I find the problem of how to get heard rather a fascinating one. I haven't found it especially depressing, but then I wouldn't have gone in for writing if I hadn't liked talking to myself. I quite recognize that there have always been literary capitals and literary provinces, and that those who choose for whatever reason to abide in the provinces need not expect a modish recognition. Recently, of course, the picture has become much brighter. The Texas writer who really wants to get famous has only to work up his autobiography in such a way that it will (1) explain the assassination and (2) make it possible for President Johnson to be impeached. If he can do that, his name is made. The New York Review of Books will beat a path to his door, particularly if his door happens to be somewhere in Manhattan. Should his door be in Anarene, Texas, they will probably rely on the mails, but in any event he can put obscurity behind him. If he ever gets to New York he may even meet Susan Sontag.
I don't understand the assassination and I doubt that I can do anything about the President. My chances of meeting Miss Sontag are accordingly pretty slim and I might as well forget about it and go on and write a book about the place where my characters live.
I have a feeling I had better do it now, before the emotion I feel at the thought of the god becomes only the memory of an emotion. That god is riding fast away, and will soon be out of sight and out of hearing.
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Thank you for your message - slowly (ever so slowly) - I have been going through my family tree trying to put a place/find a home where my family/family tree entries have been buried or cremated - laid to rest (still have a lot more to go through & joining "findagrave" website has helped me to degree) - However by this example of "Florence Alice KEARNEY & William Daniel KEARNEY" even though I have the Queensland Death Certificate of Florence Alice Kearney - where she was buried stated on her 'death certificate' - "Maryborough Garden of Rest Cemetery" - I did have a gander on the 'many' internet sites online - when I tried to locate where she was actually buried - (& found it daunting - & came to 'no' end - as per usual at the time - all I had was that written/stated on her Qld Death Certificate). I thank you for today sending me your message. Furthermore I noticed upon review of her file listed in your database/index (there are a few details - missing or simply you may be only able to write certain information in her file. Just letting you know - I have in my attainment all (3) of her Vital Records - Wales Birth Certificate (App No: 5566987-1; Reg No: WBXZ 460120; Birthplace: "Valley Farm" Wiston, Pembrokeshire, Wales) - Qld Marriage Certificate (Reg No: 1907/ 3094 451) - Qld Death Certificate (Reg No: 1968/ 97338; Place of Death: Brisbane Special Hospital - Brisbane, Qld. I don't know if you're able to add or edit any details you have in your database system - however if you're interested I can send you (PDF-Files) of all (3) of her historical certificates.
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Hi have you seen this site
there is a photo
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Hi Kay, While at Lutwyche Cemetery the other day I had located Leonard Adcock grave. His grave doesn't have a headstone. Sadly they are still working on the three new Anzac portions.
I still took a photo of his grave and will upload the photo while waiting to see if they put a plaque down for him.
The ANZ-7,8 & 9 portions at Lutwyche Cemetery only have a handful of plaques down so far. Regards Carol
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Hi Kay,
Do you now have all the photos you need?
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Hi Kay,
Do you now have all the photos you need?
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Hi Kay,
Did this company send the photo to you that I posted on their site??
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Did this company send the photo to you that I posted on their site??
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Hi Kay,
Well I expect you can see that we found the grave!! It is a lovely graveyard and HUGE - so extremely lucky to find it. Its a gorgeous very crisp sunny day and so took my husband and our grandson Haaron for extra eyes. It was Haaron who found the headstone first - getting him trained and he's only 8. Prize was the opportunity to climb in one of the enormous Yew trees followed by ice cream!!
I have taken a few other pics of the site so if you would like to see more of the positioning etc then let me have an e.mail address and I will willingly forward them to you.
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Skip to comments.Persistent Drop in Fertility Reshapes Europe's Future [The Death of the West]
Posted on 12/26/2002 6:50:59 AM PST by twas
On a recent night at the Blue Elephant recreation center here, a clutch of parents watched adoringly as dozens of 3- and 4-year-olds sprinted through a colorful playroom, bounced on the cushioned floor or doodled on drawing pads, aglow with creative pride.
It was Italy as outsiders still imagine it: child-worshiping and family-loving.
But there was something wrong with the picture. Most of the parents were gazing at one, and only one, child. That was true of Gianluca Valenti, who said that giving his son any siblings would be too exhausting and expensive, and of Barbara Lenzi, who said that more than one child "doesn't seem to make sense."
It was also true of Rosa Andolfi, who responded to a question about having an additional child as if a vampire were near.
"Basta!" Ms. Andolfi more or less yelped, then made a cross with her index fingers and thrust it forward. That gesture was not just funny but telling; it touched on an increasingly worrisome reality for Italy and other European countries whose fertility rates have plummeted over the last decades, shifting one-child families close to the statistical norm.
In Spain and Sweden, Germany and Greece, the total fertility rate or the average number of children that a woman, based on current indicators, is expected to give birth to was 1.4 or lower last year, according to the World Health Organization.
In no West European country did the rate reach 2.1 the marker that, demographers say, means an exact replenishment of the population. By contrast, the United States had a 2.0 rate, which demographers attribute to greater immigration.
While that trend has been evident for many years, its slow-building consequences are now coming into starker relief, as more West European countries acknowledge and take new steps to address the specter of sharply winnowed and less competitive work forces, surfeits of retirees and pension systems that will need to be cut back deeply.
In Italy, where the fertility rate last year was 1.2, according to the health organization, Labor Minister Roberto Maroni has announced that the cost of the state pension system will need to be reduced. Mr. Maroni said the government would offer incentives, which he did not specify, to keep people at work past the minimum retirement age of 57.
The United Nations recently published data suggesting that the population of Spain could decline to about 31.3 million in 2050 from about 39.9 million now. According to the World Health Organization, Spain's fertility rate last year was 1.1, the lowest in Western Europe. Many provinces in Italy's wealthy, well-educated north have rates well below that.
The rate in the province of Ferrara, which includes the city of Ferrara, has been under 0.9 for each of the years since 1986 that Italy's National Institute of Statistics kept track.
Ferrara officials talk about the dearth of young children in the streets, the closing of elementary schools over the last decade and a pervasive sense that something is missing.
"There's a lack of energy," Deputy Mayor Tiziano Tagliani said in a recent interview here. "The society is colder without children."
Nationwide, Italy's fertility rate has been so low for so long under 1.5 since 1984 that the country offers an especially good glimpse into the dimensions and dynamics of the trend.
For example, Italy now has the world's oldest population. The percentage of people 60 or older is 25, compared with 16 percent in the United States, according to the population division of the United Nations.
The division's experts project that by 2050, if current trends hold, 42 percent of Italy's population will be 60 or older.
Antonio Golini, a professor of demographics at the University of Rome, Sapienza, said that would be "unsustainable, from a cultural and even psychological point of view."
That sense of alarm was reflected in Pope John Paul II's first-ever address to the Italian Parliament in November. The pope said "the crisis of the birthrate" in Italy was a "grave threat that bears upon the future of this country."
In Italy, as in other West European countries, the low fertility rate is interwoven with an array of other issues immigration, for one. While many people and many politicians in Europe would like to clamp down on the rising tide of new arrivals over the last decade, they may be forced to accept it, simply to fill jobs and maintain levels of productivity.
Europe stands out as the continent with the lowest fertility rates. The numbers are now starkest in East European countries like Bulgaria, Latvia and Ukraine, each of which had a rate of 1.1 in 2001, according to the World Health Organization. (Its figures sometimes differ slightly from those of individual countries, but provide a yardstick.)
But the trend hit Western Europe earlier, and has had more time to produce hand-wringing and soul-searching. Apart from welcoming more immigrants, no one knows precisely what to do.
Many governments have expanded tax breaks for parents, child care alternatives or maternity and paternity benefits, acknowledging that a high cost of living and more women in the work force can be obstacles to large families. In some of those countries, like France, the fertility rate has nudged slightly upward.
Spain is considering a variety of ways to address those obstacles: cheaper utility bills for large families; assistance for young couples who are trying to afford homes; the creation of hundreds of thousands of new preschools and nursery schools; and longer hours for existing schools, an accommodation for working parents.
Although the Italian government provides mothers with nearly full salary compensation for about a half-year of maternity leave, the city of Ferrara, like several other north Italian cities, added benefits that kick in after that period. They include cash supplements of about $350 a month for mothers who want to stay at home an additional nine months. Ferrara also has pumped millions of dollars into nursery schools and child care centers like the Blue Elephant.
But Italy's low fertility rate persists, suggesting that the reasons go well beyond the arithmetic of salaries and schedules.
"People are studying longer, and thus are finding work later, when there is work, and then are marrying later, which doesn't necessarily mean having a baby anymore," said Valerio Terra Abrami, head of the department of social statistics for Italy's National Institute of Statistics.
Contraception and abortion are more readily available. Divorce is more common.
Moreover, decades of prosperity have altered people's assumptions and expectations. Older people once poised to look after grandchildren now pursue other activities and travel more. As for would-be parents, their attachments to leisure time, conveniences and indulgences do not easily accommodate multiple children or sometimes, for that matter, any children at all.
"It's never been at the top of my list," said Teresa Ginori, 41, a fashion magazine consultant who lives outside Milan. "It's never been in the top 200 things."
Ms. Ginori and many women she knows have never married, in part, she said, because of a facet of Italian life that she cited as one possible explanation for the especially low fertility rate here.
Many Italian men, she said, live with their mothers into their 30's. When they marry, they are not prepared to help out at home in ways that take pressure off women, especially if those women want to have children.
"Even the most open-minded guy if you scratch with the nail a little bit, there's the mother who did everything for him," she said. "I hate the mothers of these men. These mothers are a disaster."
Parents also seem to feel that they owe more opportunities to the children they do have, a conviction that discourages large families.
That partly explained the prevalence of only children in Ferrara, where one-child parents at the Blue Elephant center mentioned siblings who had also stopped at one child. The center's coordinator, Monica Viaro, 37, has only one child, an 8-year-old son.
Ms. Andolfi, 32, who has a 3-year-old son, said a second child would limit her son and limit the baby. She conceded that her family's definition of what it needed was expansive.
"The cellphones aren't enough and the televisions aren't enough," she said. "It's a little selfish."
Ms. Lenzi, 32, who is also part of a two-career couple, said she liked to read to her 3-year-old son, adding, "It doesn't make sense to have three just to tuck them in at night and say, `Ciao, stella,' and that's it."
Eat, drink, and be merry, for tomorrow we will be overrun.
It is hard to imagine that a long time ago, these people's ancestors ruled the world for hundreds and hundreds of years. The best hope for Italy is:
1. A Catholic revival
2. Make it easy for people of Italian decent to move back
3. End the socialist gravy train
This won't initially do anything to solve the problem because the people who will be hardest hit are the elderly who will (A) be unable to do anything about the birth rate and (B) will not have the children to take care of them. The absence of a welfare state to catch you when you are elderly, however, may get enough people to realize that children can be useful to them later in life.
But the trend hit Western Europe earlier, and has had more time to produce hand-wringing and soul-searching. Apart from welcoming more immigrants, "no one knows precisely what to do".
If I may be so bold
.I know what to do
women have babies, that is the answer. Nothing new about this, it is called procreation. Governments have to reduce the tax load on families, by granting greater tax relief for married men with families
What a drastic notion :-)!
I feel so sorry for these people ... the elderly with no grandchildren, the parents with nothing in their hearts but cellphones and cars, the children with no siblings, spending their lives in daycare centers ...
They are so blind. We are celebrating Christmas with six children under twelve ... all the ones who can talk are saying, "Can we have a new baby next Christmas? That was so much fun last year!" Sure it's a lot of work, but what else were you going to do with your life that's worth anything?
I guess I can plan a "Great Mosques of Europe" tour, someday when the kids are grown ...
1) What is it that these childless people are counting on to care for them in their old age? It is the govt, and indirectly, the taxpayers. What if the govt goes bankrupt? What if there are no longer enough taxpayers to finance them in anything like the style to which they've become accustomed? In reality, these people are each making a calculation that they can squander their lives on themselves and materialistic pursuits, and that they can throw the responisibilities of caring for them in their old age off onto society and onto those people (whom they probably view as "suckers") who take the time and effort in their lives to raise children.
2) Notice how these discussions are always draped in the ideology of liberalism. As if everything would be fine in a world without children if we could only find some other way to finance our welfare state.
3) I'm afraid that it will take a severe economic crisis (which many of these old, childless people probably will not survive.....life is tough on the street at 80 with no kids and no socialism) accompanied by a resurrection of traditional western values to turn this thing around. Western people are too steeped in this culture of narcissism and materialism to be extracted in any other way but by cold, ugly reality. Excepting this, we will be displaced by other cultures who harbor values more conducive to survival and procreation.
4) I was at a Christmas party yesterday with 6 other couples aged 35-45....all highly educated professionals. Other than my two kids, one couple had one child and the other 4 couples had none. Twelve adults and only three kids....not a good sign for the future.
Jim Dobson reported this morning that since the promulgation of Roe v. Wade 29 years ago, there have been approximately 100 million American children born and 41 million American children aborted. 28% of the Roe v Wade generation will never know life on this planet.
We all ought to be ashamed of this tragedy. I count seven abortions in my own family:
- My mother had one a couple months before she was married in 1953;
- My youngest sister (age 41, currently married, childless, and infertile) had one at age 16 during an "oops" with a boyfriend
- My older sister (age 47, never married, Hollywood mentality) has had four -- like Russian women, she uses them as a birth control technique
- My father's second wife had one, because she got pregnant before they were married.
My wife and I are dedicated Christians and have three lovely children. They are the only grandchildren my parents have.
Do any of you ever read the obituaries? Do it and see how many elderly that pass away have large numbers of grandchildren -- maybe 1 in 4. It seems like a shame that an 85-year old woman will die with 3 or 4 grown children and one grandchild. The rest were aborted, or the children were too self-centered to marry or perturb their selfish lives with the distractions of children.
Isn't the legacy of the left, and the death culture, grand?
Demography is history. At last year's Eastern Oklahoma Catholic Homeschool Association Valentine's Day party, I counted 74 children ... but they weren't holding still, so I probably missed some. Sometimes I miscount my own kids ...
As if everything would be fine in a world without children if we could only find some other way to finance our welfare state.
Europe thinks they've found it ... import a few million Moslems a year. Is there a mathematically gifted FReeper running a pool on how long it takes before all the governments of Europe are Moslem?
People just don't understand what they're missing. Parents deprive themselves of babies, and then complain that they don't find any fulfillment in their families. (IMO, babies are the reward for moms; Cub Scouts are the reward for dads!) They deprive their children of siblings, and then insist that the children need government-supported "socialization."
If people don't give love, they're not going to receive any ... unless we get the Revival first, or a full-scale jihad (alternate plots in my future-history novel ...) the Social Security Revolution is going to hit a lot of baby boomers right where they live.
Those Hispanics may save us yet...
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Proverbs: When the wicked rise to power, people go into hiding; but when the wicked perish, the righteous thrive. He who oppresses the poor to increase his wealth and he who gives gifts to the rich-both come to poverty. A large population is a kings glory, but without subjects a prince is ruined.
"Modern times in the west" had better figure out a way for people to have enough kids to bring the birth rate above 2.1 or so, or it's headed for extinction. That's simple mathematical reality.
Of course, long before that takes place, some more fecund folks will move in and turn the few remaining "modern westerners" into dhimmified slaves in their 9th Century Muslim paradise.
Yes we are that selfish a Western culture. The government, especially the socialist professional bureaucrats of the US and Europe, are ferociously discriminatory against children, all under an astonishingly brazen cover-up that they do it all "for the children."
This explains the Left's lust for high taxes, amorality, abortion on demand, their systematic removal of all trace of religion from public life, etc.
There is an overwhelming pressure against children here, worse in the more socialist states of Europe. I remember this de-population problem first appeared in communist Eastern Europe in the 1960's. It has spread, like the plague it is, ever Westwards. Actually the Black Plague will ultimately be shown to be less deadly that this new plague of cultural suicide.
I know, its SICK. We are taxes so much and women have to work instead of staying home to build a family, and we have to pay for college etc so that children become an economic burden. Meanwhile in the third world, they have 6-8 children, and they dont even have to worry about supporting them, because good ol USA and Europe will feed them. No matter how many kids the third world has, we'll ship them enough grain, medicine, etc to take care of them, while our own nation goes extinct. When I hear leaders talking about the AIDS "crisis" in Africa which doesnt even make a demographic blip, while ignoring the genocide of historic proportions occuring here and in Europe, it makes me sick. I'm glad to see the New York times reporting this, I've been banging the drums on this issue for over a year, ever since I started reading UN birthrate statistics and realized the truth. I feel like Cassandra from Greek Mythology, destined to know the future, but ignored and powerless to alter it.
So many horrible events have come to together at once to wipe us out, birth control, abortion on demand, massive taxation/socialism making children a burden on those who work, radical feminism encouraging women not to have children, selfish materialistic men determined not to start a family, massive third world birthrates, a liberal media telling us we're morally obligated to work even harder, having less kids, in order to feed and clothe the third worlds 8+ kids per woman, massive immigration hiding the problem from us so that we don't realize it until it's too late.
Germany was turned around by military defeat in 1945.
The Perfect Storm is set upon us.
This is misleading terminology. I doubt that "fertility" rates have dropped, the Italians are probably just as "fertile" as they have ever been. It's the birth rate that has actually dropped as more people in developed countries practice birth control and abortion to prevent and eliminate pregnancies caused by their "fertile" state of being. The opposite of "fertile" is "sterile."
By definition, this issue only applies to non-white "human weeds." Margaret Sanger's heirs focus a lot of their abortion "service" marketing on minority communities, in faithfulness to her eugenics vision. The irony is -- the sword she forged to wield against the "lesser breeds" has decimated the liberal sophisticates.
Interesting point, Tom! The "religious fanatics" (us! ... and the Moslems) and the immigrants are still having children, while the "superior" types are disappearing from the landscape.
And I have to object to the "both parents must work" and "can't afford a large family" explanations. I know too many large families with one income (including us) to buy into that. They don't have everything the people with two jobs and one child have, but we all have homes, vans :-), food and clothing, zoo memberships, books for our kids, college scholarships when it's time for college ...
I sympathize, though, with the people who think it's impossible, because often a couple doesn't know anyone with more than two children. I was fortunate during a critical time, when we had our girl and boy and everyone expected us to be "done," to meet families with 6, 8, or 10 children who were happy and comfortable.
Three children is the hardest; after that it gets easier. I'm looking forward to having a full "staff" of 10, before I retire from the Baby Thing!
Plus Spanish isn't all that different from Italian ---those who won't learn English would be better off in Italy where they wouldn't have that much to learn.
That's the part that doesn't make any sense. The producers have to pay for all the immigrants and their children that they can't afford children of their own. Ending all welfare programs and lowering taxes would go a long way in solving the problems.
And there folks is the jist of the problem, a post Christian W. Europe. Funny, in Russia, with the economy recovering, the birth rate has started to go up and the abortion rate to drop. While the churchs are bursting at the seams.
This was/is only the case because under the soviets there was no birth control. As is, the numbers are steadily dropping and with the improved economy of the past 3 years, the birth rates are nudging up. In the end, Russia will be the only hope of Europe against the Islamics...well, with Serbia included.
"fertile - Capable of reproduction" (Taber's Cyclopedic Medical Dictionary)
See post #15, too. Anyway, thanks for the reply and the info.
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Skip to comments.Obamacare Enrollees 'Finding it Impossible to Cancel Their Plans'
Posted on 02/28/2014 12:15:08 PM PST by SeekAndFind
A Florida TV station reports that a man has spent 50-60 hours trying to cancel his Obamacare plan, and he still can't get off it:
"We are hearing about a new problem that involves the Affordable Care Act," said the anchor. "People who signed up for coverage are finding it impossible to cancel their plans. Channel 9's Lori Brown spoke with an Orlando man who has been trying unsuccessfully to cancel for more than six weeks now."
"Andrew Robinson was looking forward to getting health insurance through the Affordable Care Act. He has a small publishing business and works part time, so he hasn't had coverage. In early January he signed up for a plan that cost nearly $300 a month. About a half hour later he and his wife realized they could barely afford that. They quickly found a less expensive plan through Humana for $116 a month," says the reporter.
"I immediately called back the Florida Blue and asked them to cancel the policy I just set up," says Robinson.
"But he quickly learned canceling Obamacare is no easy task. ... More than six weeks later after spending 50 to 60 hours on the phone his policy is still not canceled and he is still waiting for the payment Florida Blue withdrew from his account to be refunded."
(Excerpt) Read more at weeklystandard.com ...
And all of them blind numbskull followers of the pied piper himself, Obamalamadingdong. This is actually very funny!
Why not just quit paying and see what happens?
Don't pay the premium!!
He's probably lying according to Harry (the booty) Reid.
Booty as in filthy obtained lucre.
TOTALITARIANCARE locks you in? No problem, the escape hatch is the death panel.
Adios mofo.
"Why not just quit paying and see what happens?"
Automation withdrawal from his bank account.
" he is still waiting for the payment Florida Blue withdrew from his account to be refunded."
"Hi, this is Rachel from Care Services . . . . "
Great post, that was the first thing that came to mind.
They already took his money and won't give it back.
been there, done that.
there are times when you have to change account numbers
to get something to stop,
which means new checks, among other things.
"Automation withdrawal from his bank account."
There are ways to stop that too!
Well, yeah, that real-time monitoring of every single financial action and your bank account is not something the government wants to give up.
As we are all forced into this program, there will be no way to escape the horrendously anal scrutiny of our money that the government believes belongs to them.
It's all about TAXES and CONTROL and nothing else. If they wanted to improve health, they would have dealt with healthcare, not insurance, finance (yours), and the IRS.
That which has been seen cannot be unseen......
Obamacare is the Borg.
Just shut off the money — that is all they care about anyway. Insurance? What insurance?
Rule of Socialist Aquisition #1: Once you steal their money under force of law, you never give it back!
Wife set that up for automatic withdraw a couple of years ago to save a couple of bucks and we ended up having to close the account and open a new one. (free, but a hassle with new checks, account number changes, etc.) We couldn't stop Duke energy from doing it no matter how much we threatened, we learned out lesson and will never allow anyone access like that again.
" Obamacare is the Borg. "
More like an Assimilated Marxist Ferengi....
[ Why not just quit paying and see what happens?
Automation withdrawal from his bank account.
he is still waiting for the payment Florida Blue withdrew from his account to be refunded. ]
Time to switch banks and close the account...
Or close down your account, go off the grid, change you name to something ending in "ez" and get a fake matricular card....
Hi, this is Rachel from Care Services . . . .
Rage building, Rage Building.... those jerkwads call me 3-5 times a day... I block every number but they keep caller ID spoofing new numbers ever so many days...
[ Automation withdrawal from his bank account.
There are ways to stop that too! ]
Switching Banks comes to mind...
[ Wife set that up for automatic withdraw a couple of years ago to save a couple of bucks and we ended up having to close the account and open a new one. (free, but a hassle with new checks, account number changes, etc.) We couldnt stop Duke energy from doing it no matter how much we threatened, we learned out lesson and will never allow anyone access like that again. ]
My friends call me paranoid, but I always use a physical checkbook to pay monthly bills...
I don't think you're paranoid at all. We still pay some stuff on line but will never allow a withdraw by anyone again.
He could try calling his bank, but I think he'd have to close the account to stop the obamacare payments.
LOL Great idea. Jose Illegalez?
Correct. Before Dodd-Frank it was easy to get what I call throwaway checking accounts: no monthly fee, no or small opening minimum, easy to transfer money in to or out of and easy enough to close. There are still a few places (mostly on-line only) where you can get such accounts. But they are harder to find.
Reid says these stories are just lies.
Obamacare Enrollees 'Finding it Impossible to Cancel Their Plans'
The part of Obamacare Obama picked up from Islam
Once you take the cheese the trap is sprung.
Last thing I remember, I was Running for the door.
I had to find the passage back To the place I was before.
"Relax, " said the night man, "We are programmed to receive.
You can check-out any time you like, But you can never leave! "
In the meantime he won't be able to get new coverage.
Is there any difference to going to your bank and having the bank set up an automatic payment, versus going to the company and allowing them to set up the auto withdrawals?
I would think that if you went to the bank and set it up, it would be way easier to go back to the bank and cancel it.
change you name to something ending in ez
I recall in the 80's, adding a z to the end of their name was a tactic of the homosexual community..so stylish!
Article said they already took his money.
We use our old bank account to pay the IRS or anything govt. related. It has just enough money in it to cover what we use it for but no more than that. I'll be damned if I willingly give the Feds access to my money!
So do I. I like having that paper trail and if there's a problem I can go to the local branch of the bank and discuss it. Another fringe benefit is that writing that check means I'm scrutinizing that bill more carefully.
So I'm a banking dinosaur, and proud of it.
Sounds like AOL all over again.
But, but Dingy Harry sand all of these reports were false! Everything was perfect in ObamaCare land, costs were down $2,500 per year, everyone had access to their doctor, etc.
Was already withdrawn and not being refunded.
Question is if he really did as quick a turn-around s he said and tried to cancel within a half hour or if he didn't try until after the policy was in effect. He might have been covered for a while which makes the contract "consummated".
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I'd rate this book a 3 -3 1/2 star read. The second in Robinson's Inspector Banks series, this was a slow moving almost old fashioned mystery. Set in the small Dales area of Swainsdale, Banks is called in to investigate the murder of a retired scholar, who appears to be liked by everyone and had no enemies. Trying to find out who wished the dead man ill, Banks slowly unfolds the real stories in the village and eventually discovers the real story and motive and killer.
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Peter Robinson is that most rare of mystery writers. He is not satisfied with a corpse, a detective and some clues. Robinson creates a complete world with three-dimensional characters who come alive for the reader. In "A Dedicated Man," the shrewd and dogged Detective Chief Inspector Alan Banks investigates the death of Harry Steadman. Harry was a former university professor, a man with no enemies who studied local history for fun. Yet someone hated Harry enough to brutally murder him and dump his body in the Yorkshire dales. For quite a while, Banks is completely stymied. He questions Harry's widow and his small circle of friends, but Banks makes little progress. Only after relentless digging and after the death of a second victim does Banks come up with the solution to the crime. It turns out that Harry's life and those of his friends are not as straightforward and uncomplicated as they had at first seemed. What is wonderful about Robinson is that he makes police work look as tedious and difficult as it really is. It is clear that without relentless and time-consuming detective work on the part of Banks and his colleagues, they would solve few crimes. Robinson, along with Rendell and James, is a superb writer of novels that also happen to be first-rate mysteries.
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Fans of Peter Robinson's "Inspector Banks" mysteries will not be disappointed in "A Dedicated Man." The author presents us with another host of interesting characters, any of which could be the evil-doer. The most complex of all is Banks, and we are given more insights into his psyche and his home life. Robinson's wonderful descriptions of Yorkshire and its people make me feel as though I were there, having a pint in the local. This is a very good story that keeps you guessing to the very end why anyone would want to kill "The Dedicated Man." I highly recommend this to new readers of the Banks mysteries as well as to the already addicted reader.
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Review of the First Year of CMS's Durable Medical Equipment Competitive Bidding Program's Round 1 Rebid
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The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), within the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), implemented the durable medical equipment (DME) competitive bidding programs (CBP) bidding process for the round 1 rebid. Nearly the same number of suppliers submitted a similar number of bids for both the CBP round 1 rebid and round 1. Many suppliers continued to have difficulty complying with financial documentation requirements; however, the number of bids disqualified in the round 1 rebid was significantly less than for round 1. After being notified of their bid results, some suppliers were found to have bids that were disqualified incorrectly and were subsequently offered round 1 rebid contracts. About one-third of the bidding suppliers were awarded CBP contracts.
Relatively few CBP contract suppliers (those awarded CBP contracts) had their contracts terminated by CMS, voluntarily canceled their contracts, or were involved in ownership changes. Under the CBP, non-contract suppliers (those not awarded CBP contracts) can grandfather certain rental DME for beneficiaries they were servicing prior to the implementation of CBP until CBP-covered beneficiaries rental periods expire. Also, some CBP contract suppliers entered into subcontracting agreements with non-contract suppliers to furnish certain services to CBP-covered beneficiaries in the round 1 rebid.
CMSs ongoing multiple monitoring activities generally indicate that beneficiary DME access and satisfaction have not been affected by CBP. Although some of these efforts have limitations, in the aggregate, they provide useful information to CMS regarding beneficiary access and satisfaction.
Early data indicate that utilization has decreased in some CBP-covered DME categories. GAOs review of Medicare claims data found that fewer beneficiaries in competitive bidding areas received some CBP-covered items in any of the first six months of 2011 than in the same month of 2010.
Although the first year of the CBP round 1 rebid has been completed, it is too soon to determine its full effects on Medicare beneficiaries and DME suppliers. GAO found that, in general, the round 1 rebid was successfully implemented. GAO also found that utilization of selected DME declined in the CBP areas; while there are many possible reasons for this, it does not necessarily indicate that beneficiaries have not had access to needed DME. GAO does not assume that all pre-CBP utilization was appropriate and the CBP may have reduced unnecessary utilization of DME. More experience with DME competitive bidding is needed, particularly to see if evidence of beneficiary access problems emerges. For that reason, it is important to continue monitoring changes in the number of suppliers serving CBP-covered beneficiaries.
In commenting on a draft of this report, HHS noted that the CBP round 1 rebid resulted in savings of more than $200 million in its first year. HHS also cited the results of CMSs monitoring of beneficiaries access to DME in CBP areas as evidence that the CBP did not affect beneficiaries adversely.
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To achieve Medicare savings for DME, the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003 (MMA) required that CMS implement the CBP for certain DME. In 2008, the Medicare Improvements for Patients and Providers Act (MIPPA) terminated the first round of supplier contracts and required CMS to repeat the CBP round 1referred to as the round 1 rebid, resulting in the award of contracts to suppliers with payments that began January 1, 2011. CMS has estimated that the rebid will lead to significant savings for Medicare.
MIPPA requires GAO to examine certain aspects of the CBP. In this report, GAO reviews (1) the outcomes of the CBP round 1 rebid process; (2) the effect of the CBP round 1 rebid on DME suppliers; (3) how the CBP round 1 rebid has affected Medicare beneficiary access to and satisfaction with selected DME; and (4) the extent to which the CBP round 1 rebid has affected the utilization of selected DME items.
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