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To Stop the Coffee Apocalypse, Starbucks Buys a Farm
Carlos Mario crouches next to a knee-high seedling growing in a plug of volcanic soil wrapped in black plastic. The young plant will one day be a coffee tree. A yellow sign identifies it as "Par 1 Plan 1," the code name for a new coffee hybrid. The mermaid logo on Mario's black cap identifies his employer.
Par 1 Plan 1 is one of 165,000 seedlings growing on a Costa Rican ridge 4,500 feet above sea level. The plants are arranged in long, neat rows within a 7.5-acre trapezoid crisscrossed with white irrigation pipe; there are scores of varieties, with names like Obata, Bourbon 2, and Et 47-P1. The patch is an open-air laboratory where Mario, a slight, 52-year-old agronomist with a salt-and-pepper mustache, tends to what he calls his "little babies."
Caressing the leaves of Par 1 Plan 1, Mario says it's a cross between a Costa Rican variety known for the bright flavor favored by U.S. coffee drinkers, and an African breed with a bitter taste but the resilience to battle a fungus ravaging Latin America's coffee crop. After a year in the nursery, a few hundred of these seedlings will be replanted nearby. Seeds from the trees that can fend off disease and yield the most abundant, high-quality beans will be replanted again in a cycle that could take five years before Par 1 Plan 1 is ready for Costa Rican farmers. The plant Mario is holding might never be responsible for a Starbucks venti latte, but its grandchild or great-grandchild might. "We have hopes," he says.
His nursery is part of Hacienda Alsacia, a 600-acre coffee farm in Costa Rica's verdant Central Valley. Starbucks bought the operation last year to experiment with growing its own beans. When the company took over in May, the farm was in bad condition. Concrete patios where beans are spread to dry were pitted and scored. Tires on pickup trucks were bald. Thousands of trees afflicted with leaf and soil fungus had stopped producing the red and yellow cherries that contain coffee beans. This year, Hacienda Alsacia will produce less than half the ready-to-roast beans it has in its best seasons. Starbucks, which just posted its 19th straight quarter of profit growth, is losing money on the farm.
Chief Executive Officer Howard Schultz says his company has no interest in vertically integrating. Starbucks annually buys more than half a billion pounds of "green" (unroasted) beans—about 3 percent of the world's supply—from more than 300,000 growers. On its own, Alsacia couldn't keep Starbucks's 20,000 stores going for even one day. Starbucks bought Alsacia because coffee is under siege.
Most of what's sold in the U.S. by Starbucks, McDonald's, Dunkin' Donuts, and other chains is a blend of arabica, one of the two species that dominate the $100 billion-plus world coffee market. Robusta, a cheaper species cultivated heavily in Indonesia and Vietnam, is easier to grow and less susceptible to disease but considered inferior for its harsher taste. It's used mainly in instant coffees and supermarket brands.
A fungus known as roya, or rust, has helped reduce arabica production in Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, and other Latin American nations over the past two harvests by as much as 35 percent, with further declines expected this year. Higher costs and falling world coffee prices have made survival tenuous for the multitude of small growers with 3- to 5-acre plots. Real estate prices pushed higher by urban sprawl are tempting some to forsake the bean and sell their land.
Complicating matters is climate change. The best arabica beans used by Starbucks and other upscale roasters thrive at elevations from 3,500 to 6,000 feet above sea level. Higher temperatures make these heights more livable for pests such as the coffee cherry borer and diseases like the leaf-killing rust, according to a report from the International Center for Tropical Agriculture in Colombia. The report predicts temperatures will keep climbing and rainfall will become more erratic, neither of which bodes well for arabica.
"Coffee is very sensitive," says Ric Rhinehart, executive director of the Specialty Coffee Association of America. "It doesn't have a lot of tolerance for big temperature swings, and it needs a very specific rainfall pattern." Plant pathologist Jacques Avelino of the French organization Agricultural Research for Development (CIRAD) says climate change could shrink arabica-growing areas in Central America "to almost nothing in a few decades." A research project at London's Kew Royal Botanic Gardens lists arabica as "vulnerable" to extinction.
Dozens of other coffee species exist, but over the decades arabica and robusta have emerged as the ones roasters and drinkers prefer. Starbucks only buys arabica. Schultz acknowledges that the bean's troubles are a threat to his business, though he says he's optimistic about arabica's chances. He says he's more concerned about maintaining a diversified and financially healthy base of suppliers.
Three-quarters of the world's arabica is grown in Latin America. Some of Starbucks's supply comes from Brazil, but it's the specialized beans from Central America's diverse microclimates that produce the blends for which Starbucks customers gladly pay $4 and more. Thanks to bumper crops out of Brazil and growing world stockpiles, arabica prices have plummeted to about $1.40 a pound from $3 in 2011. The average Costa Rican farmer—barred by law from planting robusta—is selling fewer arabica beans at lower prices while spending more than ever on fungicides to kill leaf rust. "Our relationships in Costa Rica go back 30 years," Schultz says. "Believe it or not," he adds, Starbucks will share what it learns about farming practices and new varieties, including new hybrid seeds, with farmers in Costa Rica and elsewhere. It will keep the best processed beans for itself to turn into the coffee blends it sells in stores; Starbucks recently filed for a U.S. trademark on "Hacienda Alsacia" for beverages, beans, and ground coffee. "What it's not about is creating anything that's proprietary."
Any sharing would be welcome, says Xinia Chaves Quirós, Costa Rica's deputy minister for agriculture and livestock. She offers a wry smile when asked what she thinks about Starbucks buying a coffee farm. "I thought it was a great idea," she says, "because it was like, 'Welcome to the real world of producing.' "
In the undulating fields of Hacienda Alsacia, pickers in grimy T-shirts and sweaty head rags pluck coffee cherries from the trees and drop them into plastic baskets and canvas bags. Flatbed trucks haul the cherries down curling gravel roads to the wet mill, a groaning, hissing contraption of tubs, troughs, hoses, and augers that strips the fruit of its skin, washes a slimy coating from the beans, and begins to separate the best.
A sweet aroma hangs in the air as Victor Trejos, the 46-year-old Costa Rican who manages the farm, fills a clear plastic cylinder with ripe cherries. He wants to know how many it will take to fill a liter. That will help him calculate how many cherries make up a fanega, a roughly 100-pound bag. Trejos is obsessed with the arithmetic of arabica. He used to work at Hacienda La Minita, a farm in Tarrazu, the Costa Rican region legendary for its rich, and richly priced, coffee beans.
One of the first things Trejos did after Starbucks hired him in June was assign a team of 15 workers to count each tree on the farm. He wanted to know how many healthy trees were in each of the 400 planted acres. For two weeks, using handheld counters, the workers trudged from 4,000 feet above sea level to 5,400 feet. They found many trees infected with rust or otherwise dying from neglect. "We have different plots where we can find only 3,000 to 4,000 coffee trees per hectare," Trejos says. The rule of thumb in Costa Rica is 5,000 trees a hectare, with each tree producing at least 2,500 cherries per harvest. Otherwise, the farm's overall yield will probably be too low to cover costs.
A black-and-white map of the farm delineating sections, elevations, and numbers of trees hangs in Trejos's office. It helps him plan when and where to replant so Alsacia is gradually replenished without losing too much production in any given season. He recently replanted 30 acres with trees—some rust-resistant—that will begin bearing beans in two or three years. He's also analyzing the chemistry of the soil and trying different fertilizers depending on location and elevation.
Washed beans are usually dried in two stages. First, they're spread out on concrete slabs in the sun, then they're brought indoors and put in rotating steel drums until they reach 11 percent moisture—no more, no less. Trejos keeps track of the drying progress on a whiteboard nearby. Throughout the process, the beans are rated for quality—by ripeness, size, weight, and color—that will help determine how much roasters will pay. Typically, around 70 percent of Alsacia's product will meet Starbucks's requirements.
It's Trejos's attention to detail that Starbucks says it wants to pass on to other growers. That won't always be easy in a region where some farmers still use their teeth to determine when a bean is dry enough for roasting. "Small farmers aren't thinking about long-term investment. They're thinking, 'I have to sell a lot of coffee this year,' " says Craig Russell, Starbucks's executive vice president for global coffee. "A lot of times you ask farmers what fertilizer they used last year and they don't remember what or how much."
Hemileia vastatrix, better known as leaf rust, has periodically bedeviled coffee farms since the 1800s, when Ceylon, now known as Sri Lanka, switched from growing coffee to tea in the face of a rust invasion. The fungus appeared in Brazil in the 1970s, and its spores later migrated north on the wind. In recent years it's caused serious trouble for Costa Rica and its neighbors. Many farms, even larger ones, were unprepared. Some didn't believe the fungus could thrive at the highest coffee-growing elevations because it never had before. About three years ago, leaves pocked with yellow blotches—rust's telltale sign—started showing up on trees unprotected by fungicide. The powdery spots rubbed off on the hands and clothes of pickers, who helped spread the disease further.
Almost every day, workers on the Bella Vista farm, 5 miles east of the capital, San José, put on goggles, face masks, and raincoats to spray rust-killing chemicals across the 620 acres. "We started last year and it never ends," says Eric Andre, a lean, tanned 40-year-old who began driving a tractor on his family's farm when he was 8. Rust has infected more than two-thirds of the trees at Bella Vista.
Squeezing through a thicket of 6-foot-high trees, Andre points to one heavy with plump red cherries. "See this?" he says, grinning. "The perfect coffee." Two steps away, branches of a rust-riddled tree are bare or speckled with useless blackened cherries. Many trees will have to be pruned to the ground and won't sprout beans again for three years. In accented English, Andre explains, "What is the worst is, we are fighting against one type of rust, then 15 days or one month later, there is another type."
Starbucks has been buying the bulk of Bella Vista's annual harvest since the 1990s. Andre's getting $2.20 a pound from the company thanks to a contract he signed a while back, yet he's still losing money: His costs have jumped from about $1.90 a pound to $2.60. At a Starbucks in San José's ritzy Escazú suburb, half-pound bags of roasted beans from the region surrounding Andre's farm sell for about $8. Standing beneath the three-story coffee mill his father bought in 1959, he says, "If coffee prices don't go up, we are going to be in serious problems. We may even have to close."
For a decade, Starbucks has persuaded Andre and other Costa Rican farmers to standardize their methods in efficient, sustainable ways under the company's Coffee and Farmer Equity (C.A.F.E.) Practices program. In 2004, it built a center in Costa Rica devoted to coaching farmers and has since added similar centers in Rwanda, Tanzania, Colombia, and China. The company thinks being able to practice what it preaches on its own working farm should give it more credibility.
Starbucks must tread a fine line. Alsacia is much larger than 90 percent of Costa Rican farms, and most growers don't have their own processing mills. With $14.9 billion in annual revenue, Starbucks could invest piles of cash in the farm. Agronomist Mario says that won't happen. Doing things other growers couldn't afford would defeat the purpose of Starbucks's buying Alsacia: "If we just spent a lot of money, nobody else could do the same."
Starbucks first considered buying a farm in Costa Rica about a decade ago. Over dinner at an Italian restaurant near San José, Russell's predecessor as head of global coffee, Dub Hay, told Alsacia owner Alfredo Antonio Robert Polini that Starbucks might want to buy his plantation. "It had been my dream for a long time," says Hay, who retired in 2012. "I couldn't think of another farm we'd want to put Starbucks's name on."
Costa Rica was a logical choice. Starbucks had its farmer education center there, and the country offered relative safety and better infrastructure than other coffee-growing nations. "It's one of the few places in the world that you can go to a coffee farm on a paved road," Hay says. Hacienda Alsacia had its own mill and varying elevations that made it a perfect spot for experimentation. Starbucks resurfaced the drying patios, painted the mill, and added the nursery where Mario's sprigs of Par 1 Plan 1 grow.
Mario drank his first cup of coffee at age 11. He grew up in the small town of Grecia, where he still lives and where two of his brothers grow coffee and sugar cane. With a bachelor's degree in agronomy from the University of Costa Rica and a master's in plant pathology from Ohio State University, he studied coffee diseases for Icafe, a nongovernmental organization that promotes the nation's coffee industry. Starbucks hired him in 2004 to run global agronomy research at its support center in San José. Throughout his career, Mario has been interested in coffee's biodiversity—or lack thereof. "It's most important to have different varieties," he says. The main objective of the Alsacia nursery is "to increase the genetic base for coffee."
For all of the different Kenyan, Sumatran, Guatemalan, and other blends at your local Starbucks, arabica is a species with a narrow genetic makeup. The strains familiar to most coffee drinkers have been around only a few centuries, a relatively short span to mutate naturally and develop resistance to disease. "It's a tiny little baby," says Rhinehart of the specialty coffee association. "It has not had a chance to be successful, and there's a chance for it to be unsuccessful. Some pathogen could take it out." Few of the arabicas used in commercial coffee are equipped to fight rust, particularly as new versions of the fungus appear.
Although coffee is one of the world's most valuable commodities, it's essentially an orphan crop. No developed nation farms it in a significant way. Until recently, the squads of scientists toiling over corn and soybeans in multimillion-dollar laboratories had left it alone.
Thousands of undeveloped arabica strains grow wild in Ethiopia, widely considered the birthplace of coffee. "That's where all the base genetic diversity exists," says Tim Schilling, executive director of World Coffee Research, a nonprofit group of coffee companies, growers, and scientists affiliated with Texas A&M University. "But the government won't let anyone in there to collect anything in those forests anymore. Now you can't even take leaves out of Ethiopia. They are very protective of the intellectual property there, and rightfully so." The Ethiopian Embassy in Washington did not respond to a request for comment.
Nestlé, among other companies, has been developing hardier varieties and has pledged to distribute 220 million plantlets to farmers by 2020. In a lab at Cornell University, World Coffee Research is now sequencing the DNA of about 1,000 Ethiopian strains collected during the 1950s and 1960s. The sequencing is designed to determine the most genetically diverse 20 to 30 arabica strains that can then be crossbred and propagated. The hope is to generate seeds that will resist not only rust but worms, bacteria, and other threats, while yielding abundant cherries that produce a delicious cup. Starbucks isn't a member of World Coffee Research but will be testing 30 new arabica strains for the group in Mario's nursery. Schilling says Mario "knows his stuff."
Mario bounces happily between the 174 rows of seedlings in the nursery, where he's testing more than 100 new strains of arabica. He points out a favorite, dubbed "Mario 2." It's an Ethiopian strain that resists rust and produces an appealing cup. But it tends to grow in erratic ways that make its yield unpredictable and, therefore, risky—especially for a small farm. "Some [trees] are taller, some have longer branches, some have different leaves," Mario says. He hopes to remedy that by repeatedly propagating the plant, reusing the seeds of only the most consistent trees. Pointing to a row of similar-looking Mario 2 sprigs, he says, "You can see, it's almost like a clone."
Mario 2 may be ready for commercial use in three or four years. Starbucks can't judge a new variety too hastily, Mario says, because a grower who devotes a swath of his farm to it can't afford to learn years later that it's not as hardy or delectable as once thought. Mario 2 and other strains also must be tested in other soils, elevations, and mixes of shade and sun.
Hacienda Alsacia won't be producing its peak annual harvest of 700,000 pounds for another few years—if then. Starbucks's Russell says that, depending on how things go, the company might consider buying another farm or two. It's difficult to predict what will happen with rust, bugs, rainfall, temperatures, and the other increasingly fickle factors involved in growing coffee. "Making good coffee," Russell says, "is hard."


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My kid is a biter
Never, ever be tempted to bite back. This is terrifying for your child and actually reinforces the very behaviour you don't want encourage.
For experimental biting:
- Don't let your child see that you think biting is funny or a game
- If she bites you, firmly say, 'No! Biting hurts' and remove her quickly from whatever part of your body she's biting
- If she's teething, give her plenty of safe things to chew on
Biting from frustration:
- If you know you have a biter, make sure that you are always supervising his interaction with other children.
- If your child does take a bit out of another child, firmly remove him and say 'Biting hurts. We don't bite'. Make a bit of a fuss over the victim – so the victim gets your attention, not your child - and restrict his play by keeping him next to you for a short while.
- Don't put your child into situations that you know will be difficult for him. When your child socialises with other children, keep it short and sweet.
- Biting from frustration tends to lessen as your child matures and is able to articulate his feelings. However, some children persist in biting long after they're able to talk about how they feel. If this is the case, you will need to help him learn other ways to manage his feelings.
Biting from feeling powerless:
- Ensure that older siblings leave enough space for your youngest child to get what he needs, and that decisions about sharing and turn-taking are equitable.
- Make sure that he is equally included in play with older children.
- If he can't play with older siblings without resorting to biting, withdraw him from the game - older children shouldn't have to tolerate his biting as a consequence of including him in their game.
Biting from stress:
- Do a little detective work and try to figure out what's causing the stress
- If you can't remove the cause of the stress, you may have to closely supervise him to avoid the trigger.
- Help him develop other ways of dealing with his emotions. If biting really does give him the release he needs, try to find something more acceptable to bite – a teddy bear, a blanket.
- Always respond calmly but firmly to biting – and give all your attention to the victim rather than the perpetrator.
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This article was written by Ella Walsh for Kidspot. Sources include SA Government's Parenting and Child Health
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Harrison remains undefeated in DC
By Gary "Digital" Williams at ringside
DC welterweight Dusty Harrison remained undefeated with a second-round TKO over Shane Gierke of Youngstown, OH Saturday night at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington, DC. Harrison, who was battling a cold during the evening, knocked down Gierke three times, once with a beautiful left to the body. The third knockdown, an overheard right to the head, directly led to the stoppage at 2:46 of the second round. Harrison is 9-0, five KOs while Gierke is now 5-27-2, four KOs.
After a six-year absence, Waldorf, MD light heavyweight "King" James McCallister won a six-round unanimous decision over James Denson of Akron, OH. McCallister, who hasn't fought since April of 2006, scored a knockdown in the fourth round but Denson got his shots in as well and had McCallister in some difficulty at times during the bout. Kudos to referee Michelle Myers for allowing both men to work their way out of trouble. McCallister is now 12-6-1, three KOs while Denson falls to 5-11, three KOs.
Palmer Park, MD junior lightweight Kevin Rivers, Jr. made his pro debut a successful one with a four-round unanimous decision over David Warren Huffman of Milwaukee, WI. A nice matchup saw Rivers win sweep all four rounds (40-36) on the judges's scorecards. Huffman is now 1-8.
DC welterweight David "Day-Day" Grayton scored a first-round knockout over Anthony Jones of Jackson, TN. Grayton knocked down Jones four times before the bout was stopped at 2:14. Grayton is now 2-0, two KOs while Jones is 0-5.
Another DC welterweight, Harold "Sweet Lee" Parker, needed just 48 seconds to stop David Tomlin of Wilson, NC. Parker is now 3-1, three KOs while Tomlin is 0-5 and has yet to get out of the first round.
DC heavyweight Danny "Smooth" Kelly also scored a first-round TKO stopping Ryan Shay of Fort Mills, SC. The bout was stopped at 2:47. Kelly is 2-0, two KOs while Shay is 5-16, four KOs.
Hillcrest Heights, MD middleweight Jarrett Hurd stopped his opponent, Mike Arnold of Akron, OH in just 1:30 of the first round in his pro debut. Hurd dropped Arnold twice en route to the win. Arnold is 0-9.
Richmond, VA super middleweight Immanuwel Aleem used a tremendous double left hook to the body and head to drop Marcus Clay of Baton Rouge, LA and go on to stop Clay at 57 seconds of the second round. Aleem is 2-0, two KOs while Clay is 1-3.
A number of former and current pros were in attendance at the card including former world champions Keith Holmes, Sharmba Mitchell and Isra Girgrah Wynn. Also spotted in the audience were current IBF Junior Welterweight champion Lamont Peterson along with his brother and world lightweight contender Anthony, former world title contender Lamont "Bay" Pearson and current contenders Thomas Snow and Tony Jeter.
Many of the former pros were there to honor the former deputy commissioner of the District of Columbia Boxing and Wrestling Commission, Gilbert Ware. Mr. Ware was lauded for his 35 years of service to the commission. Before his work with the commission, Ware was a boxing manager. One of his former charges — former world welterweight contender Tyrone "Butterfly" Crawley of Philadelphia, PA — was also in attendance.
The card was promoted by Keystone Boxing. Brian Dillon served as matchmaker.


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Lesson 3: Labeled Diagrams
Lesson Plan
Bats | 750L
- Learning Goal
- Identify facts learned from a labeled diagram.
- Explain that labeled diagrams teach you information.
- Duration
- Approximately 50 minutes
- Necessary Materials
- Provided: Unit Example Chart, Independent Practice Worksheet
Not Provided: Bats by Gail Gibbons, chart paper, markers
Teacher Modeling
will explain that another characteristic of informational books is that they include diagrams. Diagrams are drawings that can help you understand information about a topic in a book. I will add this to my Characteristics of Informational Texts Chart that I started in Lesson 1 (Example Chart is provided in Unit Teacher and Student Materials). Then, I will model how to identify information in labeled diagrams in Bats by Gail Gibbons. I will look for a drawing that is trying to show information, Then, I will read the labels on the diagram to learn about the diagram's topic. For example, on page 5, there is a diagram about a little brown bat. I will read the labels aloud to the class, and explain that this diagram taught me that bats have eyes, ears, a nose, a tail, wings, and their fur can be red, white, black, gray or brown. I also learned that the length of their whole body is about three inches.
Think Check
Ask: "How did I identify facts on a diagram?" Students should explain that you looked for labels and read them for information about the topic of the book.
Guided Practice
will continue to look at the labeled diagrams in Bats (pages 6-7, 16, and 22 have diagrams), and identify new information we learned about bats from the diagrams. We will reflect that we have learned many facts from the diagrams of an informational text, so we will add this title to the chart, along with 1-2 examples.
Independent Practice
will identify one new fact that you learned from a labeled diagram and explain how you knew the book was informational. (Independent Practice Worksheet is provided.)
Build Student Vocabulary wing
|Tier 2 Word: wing
|Contextualize the word as it is used in the story
|[Diagram p. 5]
|Explain the meaning student-friendly definition)
|A wing is a part of the body that some animals use for flying. Bats, insects, and birds all have wings. If the diagram says that the bat's wingspan is 10 inches that means that the bat's wings are 10 inches long from tip to tip. (Measure approximately ten inches in the air.)
|Students repeat the word
|Say the word wing with me: wing.
|Teacher gives examples of the word in other contexts
|The wings of an eagle are much bigger than the wings of a ladybug! I always wished I had wings. I would love to fly!
|Students provide examples
|Can you name two animals that have wings? Start by saying, "Two animals that have wings are ____________________."
|Students repeat the word again.
|What word are we talking about? wing
|Additional Vocabulary Words
|inches, pollen
Build Student Background Knowledge
After looking at the diagrams in Bats, explain that bats are nocturnal, which means that they sleep during the daylight and are awake at night. Bats usually live in caves, attics, barns, or other dark places. Some people are scared of bats, but they are actually very gentle animals who only eat insects. Some types of bats can eat 600 insects in an hour!
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My hair has a long and proud history of being an unstoppable asshole.
I have naturally curly hair. It has been the source of much angst and horror throughout my life. People say, "oh you're so lucky! I wish I had naturally curly hair!" No, you don't. Trust.
When I was 0 to 2 years old, no one could have ever foretold the terror that it would become:
Okay, so that's fine. It's obviously curly, but not out of control.
Then, in kindergarten, it got more assertive:
Wow, those bangs are some serious business. Also, that sweater is gorgeous. Very fashion forward.
Okay, before you scroll down, prepare yourself. I NEVER let people see this picture of me. But, I've decided it's too hilarious to keep from the world any longer.
HOLY COW! WHAT HAPPENED? First of all, I had to wear glasses, and apparently, only adult-sized glasses were available at the time. Then, clearly, my hair took on a life of its own. Also, another great outfit. I used to call this my senorita dress. When I told my husband this, he died laughing. He still brings it up pretty often. He's like, "Maybe when we go to dinner tonight you could wear your senorita dress and matching headband? That would be great." And then he cackles to himself.
That's my brother next to me. He's so cute. He looks pretty annoyed to have to take a picture next to my hair-beast. I'm sure he's thinking, "that headband is not doing much to wrangle that hair. Maybe try a grocery bag?"
So, from the age of eight until 15, my hair was INSANE. I had no idea how to style it. And it was the early '90s so bangs were really in.
I'm about twelve in this picture. Why am I standing in a snowy tundra without a coat on? Because my mother and stepfather went through a phase where they thought I might be able to become a child model. (Not with THAT hair, I was't'!) And so this picture is one that was taken by a photographer for head shots, I guess. Pretty awesome. Obv, I didn't make it as a child, or any kind of model. Could be because I would sooner DIE than be a model. And, I clearly wasn't model material.
I like to say that I went through a long awkward phase. Pretty much from the age of five until a few years ago.
Then when I got to high school, I went to the opposite end of the spectrum and would wear my hair like this ALL THE TIME:
In an old-lady bun. Because that's the only way it would act right. That's me in the giant Gap sweatshirt. I'm beginning to also see a pattern of bad fashion choices. Good God.
Now, I have finally learned how to manage it. At least during daylight hours. Here is a picture of me and my cute husband from a few years ago. See, how it seems to be acting cool?
But overnight, it's still unstoppable. It's like it takes on the properties of the end of a broom and becomes a fright wig. This is what the husband and the baby see in the mornings. At least the glasses are normal size now.
So, as you can see, curly hair is not for everyone. It takes courage and fortitude and a really good sense of humor.


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Metro Manila Cleanup Sites (Oct. 6, 2012):
Note: Cleanup at LPPCHEA will be limited (1,500 people max.) to protect the avian population and habitat. Please contact LPPCHEA to signup.
CAVITE Cleanup Site (October 6, 2012):
Batangas Cleanup Sites (for October 6, 2012):
Batangas City: Coordinator: BCRMF (Noel Mendoza Mobile # 0917.533.44.58 Email: firstname.lastname@example.com)
For the following, please contact respective local government or PENRO/CENRO/ENRO/DEPED
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Treasure hunting is becoming a very popular way to have some fun these days. It is a great way to entertain your children and in these hard economic times, is a very cheap way to entertain them as well. Kids love treasure hunts. You don't even need an expensive "treasure" for them to find. You can have them hunt for things that they already own or things that they get every day.
One would be to have them find a part of their lunch at each place. Each clue would lead them to a different thing that you need to make their lunch. You could hide each thing around the house like the bread for a sandwich in one place, the peanut butter in another, jelly in another, a bag of chips in another and so on. Then write clues to help them find each thing. You could also just leave the ingredients of the lunch where they normally are rather than hiding them and instead of the clues leading them to the place where they would be hidden, have the clues be about the ingredients. For example, instead of hiding the bread under the bed and having the clue lead them to the bed, you could just have the clue be about bread.
Another fun variation on the lunch treasure hunt is to have the lunch ready and then hide each part. It would kind of be like a progressive dinner. Hide the sandwich in one place, the chips in another, the carrots in another, the fruit snacks in another, and finally the cookie in another. Each clue would lead them to a part of their lunch. Once they found their sandwich, they would eat it there and then follow the clue that they found with their sandwich to the next part of their lunch. They would eat that part, and then go find the next, and so on.
Your kids will love it, and probably eat their whole lunch because they can't go on to the next part until they finish what they have found. You can also really build up the desert so they are super excited to find it. You'll have them finishing their whole lunch in no time.
Real Treasure Hunts: Cryptic Treasures
Welcome to Cryptic Treasures. On this website you'll find all sorts of fun things dealing with Treasure. From legends of lost treasure, to codes and ciphers used to obscure the whereabouts of treasures, to periodic treasure hunts that you can participate in, there definitely should be something here that you'll find interesting.
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Treasure Chest Coloring Pages
Here are a few treasure chest coloring pages to keep those little treasure hunters entertained. Whether they are little pirates, treasure hunters, or just budding artists, they should have fun coloring these treasure chests.
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Go back to COMG- The Cruze Owner's Maintenance Guide
So a lot of people have mentioned (mainly xtreme revolution who has helped to point this out) that the spark plugs are gapped incorrectly from the factory.
I checked on mine which were way off (around .02) , took about 20 minutes to get them to normal (.035), haven't driven it around yet to test but am happier knowing its done. Here is a quick write up of this process:
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5/8 inch spark plug socket
T30 Torx Bit
Spark Plug Re-gapping tool ($1.99) at any autoparts store. Be careful to check the sizes make sense (I'm pretty sure the one I received was put together backward - notice .045 is smaller than .035)
Pop off engine cover
Remove the two torx screws
Wiggle out the spark plug boots
Not sure why this boot has so much dust
Remove the spark plug and re-gap as shown in this video
Spark Plug Gap - NGK Spark Plugs - Tech Video - YouTube
Reverse the procedure and put everything back together.
Have a few beers... not many things to work on yet with this car, might as well enjoy the small tasks.
EDIT: Since Brishke created this excellent post we have discovered that the ignition coil springs in the boots are frequently jammed into the side of the boot. They need to be straight. The easiest way to do this is to take a long skinny screwdriver and gently insert it into the end of the boot and into the end if the spring. Gently wiggle the screwdriver until the spring comes free. Remove the screwdriver. This needs to be done on all four boots.
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So I was talking to our friend Mike at Hillbish yesterday on some molding and after a little chatting someting came up about the manual tranny 5 speed...MTX. He mentioned how high cost the fluid was for this tranny. I bought my 05 in May and decided to change all the fluids. I told my Ford parts man what I had and all that and he gave me two bottles of fluid. After Mike mentioned the price I said...heck I did not pay that and he said you better check what he sold you. After calling my Ford parts man...who happens to be a good friend and gives me items for his cost we discovered he sold me the wrong fluid.
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May Baby Mayhem!(461 Posts)
Hello fellow May mums. Let's follow on from our lovely ante-natal threads, here's the first of the post-natal ones. Join us as we work out how to handle nappies, feeding, colic, crying and all things newborn, or just to celebrate the joys of a new baby!
Feeding to sleep seems to be stopping working a bit here too! Managed the 'shush pat' this evening- Adam grumbled for a bit but when it turned into crying I went to rub and pat his back saying 'ssshhhhhh' over and over. Worked quite quickly, just stopped when he was calm then he was asleep fairly quickly. That might be worth a go, I seem to remember it working quite well with ds1 who I never really fed to sleep as he wouldn't.
No teeth here yet, but ds1 was 9 months when he got them so not expecting any yet! Get occasional dribbly phases but no need for any medication yet. Wanted to get some Ashton & parsons powders in but they have more than doubled in price since ds1, fire at the factory or something.
Eating going very well here, he'll try anything! Rejected pasta at first but now eats it quite happily. Had spinach and cheese pancakes this eve, went down a treat and fussy ds1 loved them too.
Hi all, gosh they're growing up quick aren't they? In the last couple of weeks DS has started sitting by himself, started solids, gone into the 'big bed' in his own room and learnt some new tricks, namely bubble blowing, spitting, screeching and how to lift his bum off the bath support then splash it back down so water goes everywhere! No rolling over yet though, he just gets stuck on his side.
Those of you doing BLW, when you offer chunks of food such as cucumber, melon, bread, chicken how big do you have the pieces? I've started DS with purees which are going ok, but he's not really been interested in the finger food I've offered so far. I've tried small pieces of pasta, cucumber and banana and French fry sized sticks of banana but it's like he doesn't really know what to do with them. Is he maybe not ready yet? Or would larger pieces be better? I know they have a good gag reflex etc but am still a bit nervous about choking! Any tips?
Sleep still not great! We've got down to 2 night wakings now, but I still have to feed him each time he wakes. At the moment I do think he is still hungry, but we'll see what happens when he's taking more solids! He's also been harder to get to sleep since moving him into his own room He would normally either feed to sleep or, more usually feed to sleepy then settle himself to sleep quite quickly. I was quite chuffed with this as I want him to be able to self settle but it doesn't seem to have helped his sleep in general! Tonight I bathed him at 7pm, fed at 7.20pm and put him in his cot - wide awake - at 7.45pm. It's now 8pm, he's still awake sucking his fingers and I'm sat on the floor typing this and 'Shhhhhing' intermittently! The poor thing does have a really stuffy nose though which isn't hel
Gah blooming phone!
I meant ...which isn't helping. He got 2 teeth early on, about 14 weeks but despite much dribbling and fist chewing ( actually anything chewing! ) there's no sign if any more. I tried the Ashton and Parson powders but as well as being expensive found the stupid paper wrappers made them really hard to give! Are the boots ones in proper sachets?
Well, I think he might have drifted off, and my tummy's rumbling. Hope everyone's ok, I will try and remember to check back soon!
Hello everybody
Haven't been here for a while-not much time,managed to log into MN a couple of times,tried to post and the site went offline.Very frustrating,grrr.
Sleepwise wasn't too fantastic here,waking up a few times everytime,took DS to our bed to feed hiim to sleep.It worked but little monkey decided he prefers our bed to his cot so was shouting in the morning to be lifted and settled in our bed.No way Jose...
Feeding-haven't tried anything except mashed carrots a few weeks back-no clues from DS that he wants anything yet but...he got his first tooth today!
Off to hv this week,they will tell me hopefully what his weight is.
wrigglebum apparently ashton&parkers had a problem with production for the last couple of years.I'm shocked that it still persists because they're loosing the custom.DS is having Boots teething powder and it seems to soothe him for a while.
Cydonia i got River Cottage toddler and baby weaning book,worth checking in the local library if they have it-I thought that it was yet another book with recipies for yummy mashed carrots but was nicely surprised and decided to buy the book,the recipes are not just for babies but for adults and it tells you how to adapt it for a baby..Have a look in charity shops for older books.
As for different "meals"-have a look what's in the supermarket and try to copy that at home.At one of the baby groups we had a presentation of supermarket vs home cooked food.Day to night.Loved broccoli,pear and pea mash.
Have to go,DS not settled and crying
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hope everybody is doing well,take care x
Marking my place as I lost you again. Wrote a post the other day & iPhone ate it. Grrrrrr.
Waking lots still at night for feeds.
Blw going well.
Chubby cheeks now - so lovely to see after the skinny weeks.
Currently looking at when to go back to work and child care options.
Will post more when I have time.
Commando crawling and cutting first tooth here. Eek - no wonder we are getting no sleep!
Lurking but no writing as everybody's busy elsewhere.
NotZiggy congrats on 1st tooth
DS has enormous cheeks and a double chin-amazing when I think about this skinny baby having feeding issues at the beginning and hardly any weight gain.
Eating lots,doesn't matter how much he'll get-he eats it all,mashed veg and porridge.
Tried some blw today with steamed carrot,broccoli and pear,he gagged a few times(never swallowed anything) which I find scary like hell.If you have any tips please share them(keep trying?wait a couple of weeks?)
Will keep lurking,please keep posting
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Sleep still a bit of a problem here, wakes quite a lot in the night and has been awake and crying for a while in the night last few nights. He has a bit of a cold and is so snotty so he won't settle in the cot and wants to be held. Seems to be quite uncomfortable in his tummy too, so I've ordered some probiotics for him to see if it helps as he gets so windy.
Eating going well here still, he rarely gags now (just keep offering the finger foods LimeFlower, he will get the hang of it) and we've given a few lumpy spoon fed meals (fish risotto and shepherds pie, just the same as we had with no further chopping) and he ate them no problems. Adam normally has finger food, with a bit of spoon feeding thrown in, so he pretty much has what I have. Tonight for example he had a couple of chunks of lamb and some apricot from our tagine to chew on then cous cous and sauce from the spoon. He seems to like pretty much everything except pasta, which is pretty much all ds1 eats!
Glad feeding is going well Ziggy after all the problems you had.
No teeth here but we have proper crawling, started a couple of weeks ago so was 6 1/2 months! Is now able to pull up to standing and is starting to cruise a bit- eek. Ds1 crawled at 9 months and cruised just before 10 months so I'm pretty shocked at how early Adam is.
How's Adam wrigglebum ?Did he manage to get rid of his cold?What about sleeping?Good luck with the crawling
DS sometimes sleeps nearly all night,sometimes wakes up every 2 hours.He's a manipulative little monkey-if he starts crying in the night he know that i'll pick him up and give him a boob in my bed-it's sooo comfy and warm unlike his cot.
Tried to give him something to feed himself-cut ripe banana into sticks,he managed to eat a bit and smeared the rest everywhere.The same fate met broccoli,not interested in sweet potato at all.
I can't give him our food as it's salty(plenty of stuff cooked in the freezer) so all I've given him so far are mashed veg and some baby rice.No meat/fish yet.
Still not sitting up by himself,has 2 huge bottom fangs and the upper ones on the way as biting all toys like mad(and my boobs sometimes).
Catch up with you later-that's if anybody still lurks here
Well he got over one and now has another cold! He's still pretty chirpy though. We had an awful night with him screaming inconsolably and awake every 30 mins- and turns out we have a tooth! I wasn't expecting one yet as ds1 was 9 1/2 months- yet another reminder that they're all different .
Could you try giving DS finger foods for lunch LimeFlower? Cream cheese on toast, peanut butter on oatcakes, that sort of thing? Halved cherry tomatoes or cucumber sticks are quick and easy too. They won't eat much to start but it's all good practice.
Oh,dear.Not good about cold,hope he'll get over it soon.My sympathy re sleepless night but congrats on the tooth
I saw one lady in the village-her son is month older than mine,her son has no tooth yet,mine has 2 and the other ones on the way as he's constantly biting things and sticks his fingers into mouth.Boots teething powder seems to help him.
I tried to give him a bit of avocado,banana and bread with (unsalted) butter.He ignored fruit and went for a bread-managed to eat a stick,gagged once but swallowed it
I've got some creamy cheese (philadelphia type) but it contains salt?Tomorrow I'm going to make him omelette and cut it into strips.Posted on weaning board and got some good advice but thanks for suggestions
One tooth through. The tooth next to it is coming too but is taking forever. Poor baby pretty much cried all weekend. Baby calpol did not help either
I saw the comment re lunchtime finger foods - we do toast or salt free rice cakes with houmus or tuna or Brie.... Seems to love it! Soft apple or pear or nectarine or kiwi as well. Or a pre steamed carrot. He does love carbs though!!!! Those are the sort of things we have in the fridge now because I will eat them. But I have had to change my shopping habits
He likes chunks of meat too - chunky bits of ham or from a roast. Fish from a fish pie is popular, as is the mashed potato!!
My MiL made a chicken casserole which he had bits out of too.
Depends what foods you have in your freezer of course. We seem to have meat and fish, stews and bolagnase sauces!!
He likes rice too - with daal or as risotto. I made a Stilton and kale risotto the other night and he could not get enough of it. If only he would eat the fruits I offered as eagerly!
Yoghurt or from age frais with fruit purée is. Very popular. As is porridge with Purée.
He loves slightly cheesey omelette and pancakes too. However making pancakes for breakfast is a little more than I can manage more than once a week.
We have had a bug too. Am only just recovered. None of my antenatal classes prepared me for a vomiting baby in Victoria Station during morning rush hour..... Luckily we had already been into the passport office and ordered his fast tracked passport so our task for the day had been completed.
Picture me hopping from foot to foot thinking f£&! What do I do now?!!!! I managed though - don't have much choice do you?
Being ill whilst looking after a sick child is awful.
Goodness knows where we picked up the bug but DH was very sick too. Typical that after 5 months of no work he should get a new contract to start 24 hours after the onset of a vomiting bug!!
Of course it means we could not join Mil in France for the week before Christmas. Went down like a cup of cold sick which irritates me. Why could she not just be happy he has a job at long last?!! Grrrrrr. There was much wailing and gnashing of teeth I can tell you. I did my best to levitate above it. I've even brought PFB to see her down south for 2 nights. DH owes me!!
What is anyone else doing for Christmas? We are off to my parents. DH not over joyed at the prospect. My dad does the house up like Santas grotto for my mum.... You cannot move without walking into decorations. They are v excited to have their first GC for his first Christmas.
Congrats on the tooth NotZiggy
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My deepest sympathy on being ill and caring for a baby-this is a nightmare in my head as DS is snotty at the moment with occasional cough,DH was feeling flueish last night and I'm a bit choked up.Hats off to you.
Sod your MIL,some people are impossible to please.
How do you feed your baby risotto?
another nightmare thinking about DS feeding himself and when did you start feeding meat?
FIL was texted and mailed by both of us and never bothered to answer.So much for "loving Grandpa".Sod him.I'd have thought that he would treat our DS equally to his other DGC but obviously DS being his only biological GC is less equal than the others.Yes,I'm bitter.I'm tempted to post the parcel with their prezzie to them-instead I'll have to go and see them sitting with a plastic smile on my face.
We'll spend Christmas at home-first Christmas with 3 of us and after years of feeling miserable at this time of the year I'm looking forward to it!
Any suggestions for a prezzie?Looking for a sensible toy(something to get him interested) and not too expensive
as we have to fork out for a new car seat soon
Take care everybody,keep posting
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Risotto was such fun. Went everywhere!!! We started with meat early on - just gums it into submission
I am thinking of getting PFB a crawl ball. Saw it on my supermarket on line ordering page... Made by vtech I think. Saw one at a lll meeting & looked fun for baby learning to crawl. It has lights & buttons & come back to you after you roll it away. It's a sort of rolling activity centre which won't take up too much space (unlike so much of the other expensive crap).
Oh & it is only £11.99
But ikea also have stacking cups for a couple of quid - bargain (Shame I spent a small fortune on other crap!!)
Good luck. Xmas is plastic smile central I find....
Hello NotZiggy
I'm afraid that my sense of "fun" is a bit different than yours,especially that it would be me cleaning it up-DH is a messmaker and requires constant
nagging reminding to keep the things tidy.I've got enough on my plate already.
When did you serve meat to your one and what did you give him?DS tried to grab DH's sausage roll today and went absolutely bananas when DH refused to give it to him(salt in sausages).I had a look at weaning board,somebody placed a link to YT video of a baby chewing on a chicken leg.Will try to find a link.
I saw this crawling ball at my friends-it didn't come back after rolling.I'm after something that doesn't flash,play tunes or requires batteries otherwise i'll go bonkers.
I bought DS stacking giraffe from ELC and he loves it-different textures,thickness and colours,here's the link http://www.elc.co.uk/Sensory-Stacking-Rings/130560,default,pd.html This toy is fantastic.
I was looking for something similar-something that he'd be able to grasp,have a look and slobber it.An absolute hit in the house are boxes-empty tea box,cereal box and so on.Post is also dealt with immediately-he managed to chew on a couple of official letters from the council,tearing off bits of kitchen towel and so on.Just have to watch and take it away from him when it starts falling apart.
I was stuck in the house with him this week due to his cold-gosh,how I miss going out!Went to the shop today with him,roads and pavements were like skate ring.
Please keep posting
Stacking giraffe link
Bloody computer just kicked me out of internet,grrr
BLW chicken video,enjoy
We started on the meat fairly early, just after 6 months. Adam just chews and spits out whatever he can't handle. Had 3 king prawns yesterday and I found the mangled remains of just over half of one so the rest must have gone in! He has had small amounts of sausage (chorizo in a casserole) and went crazy for it. Homemade meatloaf, meatballs or burgers are quite good and easy to chew, or make your own chicken dippers? We had homemade fish cakes today- yum! In terms of how to feed, he gets big chunks of his food on his tray; anything spoonable (eg curry sauce and rice, shepherds pie, risotto, yoghurt etc), I load the spoon and put it near his mouth and he guides it in.
Presents- Stacking cups and rings are always great (we have all that kind of stuff already), bead frames are popular too. Adam just likes anything he can chew or climb up on! Going to get the walker out after Xmas as he's looking like he might be ready for it soon! For Xmas we're giving books, a traditional jack in a box (more display right now), a star projector type thing for his room and something cuddly.
Wrigglebum how do you manage to find a compromise between home meals and no salt for the baby?I can't,that's why I find it so difficult as what to offer to DS.
Had a fish pie the other day but contained smoked haddock(salty),tatties at the top were salty,meatballs are salty and so on and so on...
Tomorrow he'll get some pasta shapes(cooked without salt tonight so our dinner was a bit bland) and hard boiled egg.
Gave him some broccoli,celeriac and carrot sticks and a bit of a chicken,he didn't seem to be too interested-all food gets bitten and spat out.The only bit that went through was broccoli-saw the evidence in the nappy.
Present-just a small token one-no point in going bonkers this year when he hardly remembers anything and we aren't loaded financially.Thanks for the suggestion on the bead frame,never thought about that
Went for a walk today,first time in over a week as DS a bit snotty/coughing.That was bliss-I started going bananas in the house-nobody to talk to,friends busy with organising Christmas/work so no reply to text.Just missing some adult conversation.
DH came from work,took DS over for a while so i could prepare the dinner.DS never settled in bed until 9 pm so ate the dinner late
Waiting for a washing machine to finish now and then off to bed.
It feels so lonely sometimes with nobody to speak to for days!
Anyway hope you lot have a nice Christmas with lots of nice things
I just add salt at the table instead. I've never been one to add much salt anyway. I do use a very small amount- eg in a chilli or curry maybe 1/2 tsp in a pot that he'll eat less than a 20th of won't worry me too much. I use a lot of herbs, spices and garlic instead. Had beef casserole tonight- beef, tomatoes, carrots, red wine and loads of herbs and garlic. Really tasty and no need for salt or stock. Homemade meatballs or meatloaf can manage without salt, again just tons of herbs for flavour. For fish pie just don't salt potatoes or sauce and limit the amount of smoked fish in there, you can add extra herbs then add salt at the table.
Hello! I've just discovered you all on MN! Is it too late to join you all? My DS2, Theodore, was born on 7th May 2012. I hope all your May babies enjoy their first Christmas!
Certainly not too late to join Lotty but we're not the most active thread I'm afraid . Belated congratulations. Love the name.
Happy Christmas all, especially to the babies for their first Christmas.
Hello lotty and welcome your DS is bang on month older than mine-ended up with a June baby.
wrigglebum thank you for all your suggestions ,MIL gave us a slow cooker for Christmas so trying tatties&gravy and whatever meat is on the go.DS tried to grab a roll of DH so gave him a bit of mine and...he ate it!
wishing all of you Happy New Year
Sorry I've been absent for the last few months. Just wanted to wish you all a very Happy New Year!
Lime - we also got a slow cooker for Christmas! I'm hoping it will help when I go back to work.
We've only recently started weaning as DD was only 6mo on 9th Dec. Going with BLW like I did with DS and she's having a little once a day but will look to increase that in the next few weeks.
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A mother from Belgrade is facing charges after her special needs son wandered away from home and had to be pulled from a stream five miles away by a stranger.
Patricia Stanton was headed to work at around 6:00 Monday morning. While traveling on the Wings Mills Road in Mt. Vernon she spotted a young boy in the middle of the street. She pulled over to see if he needed help but when she approached the boy, he headed down the embankment toward the water.
"He got into the water and was climbing on the bridge abutment and was hanging onto the bridge abutment and climbing on the rocks to go under the bridge," Stanton said Tuesday. "I kept calling to him and he wasn't really responding. I could hear 'no, no' and I was calling for his name and by the time I got down to him and he wasn't responding, I just stepped into the water and grabbed him and pulled him out."
Stanton says she tried talking to him and realized he was a child with special needs and she called 911.
"I thought that maybe he lived nearby and when he got back up to the road, he started walking and I asked him for his hand and he let me take his hand for a little bit. I just kept talking to him and thinking that maybe he'd be headed towards home and i'd just go with him to make sure he was going home," Stanton said.
But the boy climbed up on a nearby culvert and wanted to go back in the water. With the help of another passerby, the two good samaritans were able to get the boy to safety. Police arrived and discovered the boy had wandered over five miles from his home in Belgrade.
State police charged the boy's mother with endangering the welfare of a child. Police say she didn't realize her son was gone until they brought him home. Police are not releasing the boy's age, but they're describing him as a pre-teen. When they got him home the boy was wet but other than that he was uninjured.
The folks at the Maine Parent Federation provide support for parents of children with special needs. MPF Executive Director Janice Lachance, whose son is autistic. Lachance says there are things that families can do to alert parents their child is leaving the house, like putting an alarm or bells on the door.
We didn't want to out locks on the door or bolts on the door because of fire," Lachance said.
Carrie Woodcock also works at MPF and her daughter suffers from down syndrome. Woodcock says it's not that it's more common for a child with special needs to wander off, they just don't communicate their intentions to their parents the way a child who doesn't suffer from special needs would.
"She's not gonna tell me she's leaving the house," Woodcock said. "So I could be vacuuming and not hear even an alarm on the door go off and she can wander off and it could be a matter of 30 seconds."
For more information on the maine parents federation, go to their website startingpointsfor.me.org


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The Week Ahead: Central Banks to the rescue
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- QE3 and its impact on the dollar
- The ECB as the Svengali of the markets
- The yen falls sharply post the Fed
There was some thrilling action in financial markets last week. In the last 10 days EURUSD is up 600 points, the S&P 500 is comfortably above 1,450 and Brent crude oil is testing $117 per barrel and may test $120 in the coming days. The chief drivers have been stimulative monetary policies from the Federal Reserve in the US and the European Central Bank in the Eurozone. Both banks have pledged "unlimited" support to sort out their respective problems and for the first time since the financial crisis broke out in 2008 the Fed and the ECB have said they won't stop until the problems are solved. This is aggressive action from the world's most important central banks and the markets like it.
Looking at the Fed first, its QE3 programme will purchase $40bn per month of mortgage backed securities until the unemployment rate drops to a level acceptable to the Fed. The Fed did not state what this level was, but we believe it could be somewhere south of 7%. On the surface this looks like the Fed has left itself open to an unlimited liability on its balance sheet, which is dollar negative. But if the economy picks up and the unemployment rate starts to fall then the Fed may halt QE3. The Fed is trying to do two things with QE3: 1, anchor its latest round of unconventional policy to the performance of the economy and 2, reduce long-term interest rates even further. The Fed also pledged to keep interest rates between 0-0.25% until 2015 and is extending its Operation Twist programme.
QE3 and its impact on the dollar
What has been interesting is that US Treasury yields have actually risen since the Fed action. The Fed is hoping that its latest round of policy stimulus will mean that more people move out of Treasuries and into riskier assets like real estate and stocks in an attempt to generate employment and boost the economy. Thus, going forward we may see Treasury yields continue to rise as people sell their holdings of government debt. But if Treasury yields are rising why doesn't the dollar strengthen? It is all because of supply and demand. The Fed is buying up mortgage-backed securities using freshly printed money, this should - in theory - boost the size of the money supply, which is dollar-negative.
The market doesn't wait until it gets concrete data about the money supply to make its move; instead it reacts to the potential impact of QE3, which is why we have seen the dollar decline on a broad-based basis since July. But traders want to know what this means for the long-term outlook for the dollar and whether the decline can be expected to continue? Back in 2010 the dollar fell after the immediate announcement of QE2 from the Fed before rallying again over the next 4 weeks. After reaching 1.40 in the build-up to QE2, the euro then fell below 1.30 the weeks following the announcement, before rallying back above 1.45 from January - June 2011. Post the QE3 announcement the dollar is looking extremely oversold, so a pullback in risky assets in the coming days would not be unusual.
However, we believe that the sell-off, especially in EURUSD could be fairly shallow due to the ECB action to reduce credit risk in the currency bloc (see more below). We believe this pair could trade in a 1.28- 1.35 range until the end of the year. After big policy announcements like the ones we have seen, I like to look at the long-term charts to get a grip on where currencies may go next. On the weekly EURUSD chart there is a key resistance level around 1.35 - the 200-week moving average. The weekly MACD momentum indicator is pointing higher, suggesting there could be further upside to come, however the 1.35 level is going to be a tough hurdle for the bulls to clear in the medium-term.
Figure 1: EURUSD weekly chart
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The ECB as the Svengali of the markets
There were some important developments in the Eurozone last week. Firstly the German Constitutional Court ruled that the ESM long-term rescue fund was legal, secondly the Dutch public voted in a pro-euro Liberal party at its general election last Wednesday. These are key developments as they concern two major creditor countries in the currency bloc and highlight their commitment to the euro project.
Add these events to the ECB's OMT programme announced at its meeting at the start of September and there has been a significant reduction in the tail risk of 1, the Eurozone falling apart and 2, the fear of Spain applying for a sovereign bailout as the ECB's bond-buying programme won't actually get triggered until Spain or Italy apply for either a bailout or a precautionary credit line. Some have argued that the German Court's decision that Berlin could not give more than EU190bn to the ESM leaves the bailout fund without enough fire power to bail out Spain and Italy, however, the ECB's OMT programme makes the size of the ESM fairly irrelevant.
The ECB's bond-buying programme makes the prospect of a country actually needing to tap the ESM fairly minimal. If Spain applies for a bailout programme with all of the conditions attached then the ECB can start buying the bonds of that country, which should mean they can continue to tap the capital markets for funds because the ECB acts as a reliable buyer in the secondary markets.
This doesn't address competitive issues faced by some countries in the currency bloc, and it doesn't reduce any of their debt burdens but it could help boost their economic growth. There is a negative correlation between falling bond yields and rising consumer and business confidence, which should feed into stronger growth in the long term. The ECB is most likely hoping that growth should bottom sometime around the end of the year, and if Spanish bond yields continue to fall then the Bank may have helped to ease credit conditions in the currency bloc without buying any sovereign debt. The ECB is acting as a Svengali in Europe's peripheral bond market.
This week we get initial PMI readings for the currency bloc for September. They are expected to pick up slightly, but remain mired in contraction territory. The markets will be looking for some improvement in the outlook for Germany; it releases its ZEW survey on Tuesday. This survey is expected to pick up after sharp declines for most of this year, which may be deemed encouraging by the markets and could help to extend the recent rally in the euro and the Dax.
Figure 2: Spanish- German bond spread
Source: Bloomberg and Forex.com
The yen falls sharply post the Fed
Compared with the dollar's performance against the other major currencies, it strengthened against the yen after the Fed's QE3 announcement. This is due to a couple of things: 1, the threat of intervention risk from the Japanese authorities and the prospect of the Bank of Japan significantly boosting the size of its Asset Purchase Programme when it meets on Wednesday and 2, the rise in the Treasury yields tends to be positive for USDJPY. This pair broke through 78.00 on Friday, which may placate the Japanese to some extent, but we believe they want to see a move back above 80.00 in this pair.
So what does the move in USDJPY tell us about the prospect of continued dollar weakness in other crosses? At this stage it is hard to tell. It is natural for USDJPY to react to a move in Treasury yields, also as market and sovereign risk levels have dropped then the yen tends to get sold off. Thus, the move higher in USDJPY is perfectly normal at this stage. However, if we see continued strength in USDJPY then this could start to beef up the greenback against other currencies and we could see a limit to dollar weakness, so watch out.
But in the next few days the trajectory for this pair will be dependent on the outcome of the BOJ meeting. The finance minister said on Friday that monetary policy could be shaped by outside factors (read the FOMC rate decision) thus we could see an extension in the APP programme to the tune of 10 trillion yen. This may be enough to get this pair to 80.00 in the medium-term, especially if the BOJ follows the Fed's lead and uses the term "unlimited" when it comes to future asset purchases.
Figure 3: USDJPY daily
Source: Forex.com
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Date: circa 1920
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Randall and McAllister Coal Company building, Portland
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Storage, Union Wharf, Portland, 1924
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Wharfingers Tool House, Union Wharf, Portland, 1924
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Highlights from the history of what is perhaps the most popular tourist destination in Maine. The site was created by a partnership between MDI High School, Mount Desert Elementary School, and a number of supporting organizations: Acadia National Park, Bar Harbor Historical Society, the Jesup Memorial Library, Great Harbor Maritime Museum, and the Maine Granite Industry Historical Society. Exhibits cover Northeast Harbor, the Granite industry, Bar Harbor's Building of Arts, the Green Mountain Railway, the Bryants and the Rockefellers, and steamboats.
A history of the easternmost town in Maine as created by the Lubec Historical Society, Lubec Consolidated School, Lubec Landmarks, and Lubec Memorial Library. Exhibits include the sardine and herring industries, the Sardine Queen, the West Quoddy Head Lighthouse, the 1911 Centennial Celebration, the S. S. Cumberland Steamer, the gold hoax, an important community quilt, a tragic boating accident, and the blizzard of 1934, among others.
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