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The first test is a procedural vote on a jobs bill tonight. Then Thursday is the health care summit. And behind the scenes, Banking Committee Chairman Chris Dodd is trying to work out a deal with Republican Bob Corker on financial reform.
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IS SUMMIT JUST THEATER? Republicans have called it a trap, a setup and other names. Patrick O'Connor in POLITICO sums up the skepticism: "President Barack Obama has billed Thursday's health care summit as a chance for lawmakers to "seek common ground" to solve a decades-old problem.
"He doesn't want political theater, he insists, but a serious effort to forge bipartisan consensus. And yet Obama is unveiling a health care bill just days before the six-hour summit that wouldn't require a single GOP vote, with plans to short-circuit the Senate rules and push it through without Republicans if necessary. That's left some Republicans angrily questioning whether the summit is a sham and even Democrats uncertain and noncommittal.
"I'm not terribly heartened by what I've heard over the past week," said Georgia Rep. Tom Price, a conservative Republican who wasn't invited to the health care talks."
HEALTH CARE CAPS: President Obama's first move in his health care plan being released today involves cost containment. NYT's David Herszenhorn and Robert Pear report: "President Obama will propose on Monday giving the federal government new power to block excessive rate increases by health insurance companies, as he rolls out comprehensive legislation to revamp the nation's health care system, White House officials said Sunday. … Congressional Republicans have long denounced the Democrats' legislation as a 'government takeover' of health care. And while they will likely resist any expansion of federal authority over existing state regulators, they will face a tough balancing act at the meeting with the president to avoid appearing as if they are willing to allow steep premium hikes like those by Anthem."
BLAMING CONGRESS: Obama's deference to Congress on health care may have been his worst move, as LAT's Janet Hook reports: "As President Obama seeks to revive his moribund healthcare initiative — and arrest the precipitous drop in his political fortunes — he is struggling with the consequences of one of his most important early decisions: Letting Congress take the lead in designing his signature policy proposal. Leaving it to Congress put an unusually glaring spotlight on how Capitol Hill does business. The spectacle of Congress' horse-trading, secrecy and gridlock has fueled today's virulent anti- Washington mood. The public's reaction was all the greater because Obama had campaigned on a promise to change the way Washington did business, and because healthcare reform engendered such personal high hopes and anxiety. The way voters saw it, the smoke-filled room was back — and they did not like it."
HANDICAPPING THE JOBS BILL: Watch the votes of Sens. Olympia Snowe, Susan Collins and Scott Brown tonight on the jobs bill. James Hohmann handicaps the cloture vote in POLITICO: "After a year of blaming them for gridlock, Harry Reid suddenly has to make nice with Republicans to show he can manage the Senate and pass a jobs bill.
"So Reid is trying to figure out what it takes to land the two GOP votes he desperately needs. He's learned that Maine Sen. Olympia Snowe could be lured by more small-business tax breaks. He's heard about Maine Sen. Susan Collins and the timber tax credit she's pitching. And Reid talks as if he's got Massachusetts rookie Sen. Scott Brown on speed dial.
"Reid's office wouldn't say Sunday whether Democrats have the 60 votes needed for a procedural vote set for Monday evening, but Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell also isn't sure his side has the votes to totally block the jobs bill. McConnell hinted Sunday that some Republicans might back the procedural vote."
UNIONS PAN JOBS BILL: Union leaders think the jobs bill is "puny." Walter Alarkon in The Hill: "Unions and liberal groups have dismissed Sen. Harry Reid's $15 billion jobs bill as 'puny' while calling for larger stimulus measures.
"More than two dozen organizations, including the AFL-CIO, National Association for the Advancement of Colored Peoples (NAACP) and the National Council of La Raza, warned Democratic leaders in Congress to avoid tackling the troubled economy through incremental action. … The liberal groups' jobs package also calls for $40 billion for public works and job training programs, $70 billion for school construction, $10 billion in loans for low-income homeowners facing foreclosure and other provisions making it easier for distressed homeowners to keep their property."
DEMS AS OUTSIDERS: Now even Democrats are running against Washington. Shailagh Murray picks up on an interesting trend in The Washington Post: "Chris Coons wants to be a Democratic Senate incumbent. But don't mistake him for one just yet.
"Coons, the New Castle County executive in Delaware, is one of a handful of Democrats vying to win races in open seats that could swing the balance of power in the Senate. These challengers are seizing on the sour national mood to cast themselves as reform-minded outsiders, willing to drive a wedge between themselves and Democratic leaders as they vow to shake up the political establishment that their party controls.
"In Missouri, Democratic candidate Robin Carnahan pronounced "I'm disappointed" when President Obama released his budget early this month. "Missouri families have to balance their checkbooks, and our government should be no different," Carnahan lectured the White House. In Connecticut, Richard Blumenthal shrugged off the prospect of an Obama campaign visit as "an open question" and has steered clear of Sen. Christopher J. Dodd."
POMBO'S COMEBACK: One of the most controversial former members of Congress — especially in the eyes of environmentalists — is back. Jim Carlton of the WSJ reports: "When former Rep. Richard Pombo was soundly defeated in his 2006 re-election bid after serving seven terms, many environmentalists hoped they had seen the last of one of their biggest foes. But as the GOP's fortunes improve nationally, the California Republican is seeking a path back to power.
"Mr. Pombo announced last month that he was running again for the House, but not for his old seat representing California's 11th Congressional District, on the outskirts of the San Francisco Bay area, where he was first elected in 1992 and still lives. Instead, he is seeking an open seat in the neighboring 19th District, which he considers still safely conservative. During Mr. Pombo's former tenure as chairman of the House Resources Committee he weighed proposals to sell off some national parks and advocated weakening the Endangered Species Act, among other controversial measures. Such proposals prompted the Sierra Club to label him 'the most frightening man in Congress.'"
WAR AGAIN SPLITS DEMS: This issue is flying under the radar, but it's about to go prime time. Tory Newmyer and Steve Dennis of Roll Call: "House Democrats are having a hard enough time rallying a deflated base as their domestic agenda flounders. But as they return to town this week, they are set to get a fresh reminder of a lingering issue that could depress their liberal flank even further: the debate over President Barack Obama's proposed troop increase in Afghanistan.
"Consideration of funding for the 30,000 additional troops is not expected to start in earnest until next month at the earliest. But the White House will get an early look at Congressional Democratic support for the buildup as soon as this week, when Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio) offers a resolution calling for a swift end to the eight-year-old war. Kucinich's bid to end the conflict has no chance of passing, but it threatens to split the Democratic Caucus at a time when Members are struggling to unite and revive their stalled domestic agenda. In the short term, the vote will give a forum to anti-war liberals eager to go on record opposing Obama's Afghanistan strategy."
TOYOTA DISSES DEMS: Toyota saved $100 million by short-circuiting a few items, and it called Dems bad for industry. Jake Sherman of POLITICO reports ahead of the congressional hearings: "Internal Toyota documents derided the Obama administration and Democratic Congress as 'activist' and 'not industry friendly,' a revelation that comes days before the giant automaker's top executives testify on Capitol Hill amid a giant recall. According to a presentation obtained under subpoena by the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, Toyota referred to the 'changing political environment' as one of its main challenges and anticipated a 'more challenging regulatory' environment under the Obama administration's purview.
"This document, in addition to piles of other records, will be front and center this week as the Japanese automaker girds to face lawmakers hungry for answers about a recall that has the company teetering."
WJLA WASHINGTON WEATHER: After a gorgeous weekend, the workweek gets off to a damp start. Any early sunshine quickly will fade behind clouds as light rain develops by midday. Showers last off and on through the overnight and into tomorrow, but should not be so heavy as to cause major flooding. Highs this afternoon top out in the low to mid-40s, with mid- and upper 30s overnight.
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If you've read about Puritan history, you already know about their rocky start in Boston.
But despite many hardships and setbacks, the Puritans settle in, build the community that becomes Boston, and their numbers grow.
During the period of the Boston History Timeline covered on this page, from 1631 - 1680, the Puritans and their new town - soon to be a city - achieve many "firsts."
1631 Despite a lack of food and 200 deaths during their first winter, the Puritans persevere. Although about 200 return to England and many of the original group scatter to found Roxbury, Lynn, and Medford or join others in Cambridge and Watertown, Boston continues to grow.
Within a year after the arrival of the first group, as many as 1,500 other Puritans follow. They lay out a first street, probably where Washington and Union Streets are now, and another, Tri-mount, where current-day Tremont Street is.
The colonists fail to foresee Boston's growth, and instead of designing straight, logically laid out streets for the benefit of future generations, they loop their roads and lanes around every knoll, boulder, and hollow—a convoluted pattern that you can still observe today in the oldest parts of Downtown Boston.
Also in 1631, public transportation begins in Boston with a family-run ferry service between Boston and Charlestown—thus becoming the first chartered public transportation in North America.
The colonists build Boston's First Church—a simple one-story, thatched-roof structure containing rudimentary benches and a roughly-made pulpit—on the road now called State Street.
William Blaxton, who has been wrangling with the colonists about his claim to 800 acres of the land that they're now occupying, receives an official grant from Governor Winthrop for 50 acres.
Boston's population in 1633 is estimated at 3,000 – 4,000.
The Town of Boston collects 6 shillings (or more) from each resident and buys 44 acres from William Blaxton for 30 pounds. Blaxton retains 6 acres in case he ever decides to move back to Boston.
Boston residents all have free access to the new land – Boston Common, which becomes the first public park in the United States.
Fifty years after the acquisition, several older residents recount "after which purchase the town laid out a trayning field; which ever since and now is used for that purpose, and for the feeding of cattell."
Also in 1634, the Town of Boston issues the first license to operate a tavern to Samuel Cole.
The Town of Boston establishes the Boston Latin Grammar School—the first public secondary school in America and today the oldest continually-existing public school in America—to teach Latin, Greek, and the importance of responsible dissent.
In roughly 100 years, Boston Latin's many illustrious students will include future patriots Benjamin Franklin, John Hancock, and Samuel Adams.
Boston Latin has since moved to Boston's Fenway neighborhood, but you can see the original site near Ben Franklin's statue on the Freedom Trail.
Also in 1635, Boston establishes a night watch, which evolved into the Boston Police Department—making it the oldest Police Department in the United States.
Harvard College, the first and oldest institute of higher learning in the United States, is founded in Newtowne (now Cambridge) by a vote of the Great and General Court of Massachusetts Bay Colony.
The college is named for John Harvard, a Charlestown minister had learned beer-making back in England from William Shakespeare and who, when he dies in 1638, leaves his library and half of his estate to the new school.
The first African slaves are brought to Boston.
Boston establishes the first post office in America in Richard Fairbanks' tavern.
The first free public school in America—the Mather School—is established in Dorchester.
At Harvard, students almost revolt because "they often had to go without their beer and bread." The college president has neglected his responsibility to keep them supplied with a sufficient amount of both necessities. Does this count as the first near-riot over a beer shortage in America?
Stephen Day prints the Bay Psalm Book, the first book published in the Colonies.
By 1640, about 20,000 European immigrants, mostly English Puritans, live across Massachusetts (which includes current-day Maine). After 1640, European immigration virtually stops for a number of years.
After some trial and error with governance, the Massachusetts Bay Colony is being run by Governor John Winthrop, a deputy governor, and two groups elected by property-owning church members who are stockholders of the Massachusetts Bay Company. Churches follow a congregational model, meaning that each church rules itself. In church and state, the Puritans reject central rule and embrace local rule.
A law is passed that declares that Boston Commons is "perpetually" to be public property.
Puritans organize and build the Second Church in the North End.
Boston residents open the Boston Public Library - the first public library in America - which you have to be 16 or older to enter.
William Blaxton sells his remaining 6 acres to Mr. William Pepy.
Boston Puritans pass the Boston Quaker Laws, which specify imprisonment and expulsion as the punishment for the "crime" of being Quaker.
Builders complete Boston's first Town House, built of wood to house the courts, a market, and a place for town elders to meet. Unfortunately, it will burn down in the Great Fire of 1711. When it is rebuilt, it eventually becomes known as the Old State House, which we can still visit today.
Also in 1658, Boston Puritans pass a law that specifies the death penalty for all previously expelled Quakers who return to Boston.
William Blaxton, who is still a bachelor at age 59, marries Sarah Stevenson, a widow with 6 children in Boston on July 4. They return to Rhode Island to live. Their son John will be born the following year.
Also in 1659, the Puritan-run General Court bans the celebration of Christmas because they object to its "pagan" roots and its association with the Anglican Church of England. In England, Christmas hasn't been celebrated ever since Oliver Cromwell and his Puritan followers banned it back in 1647.
In England, Puritan Oliver Cromwell's reign ends as the king is restored. With Cromwell in power, the colonists have experienced little interferance in their affairs. That happy state is about to end. For a time, the Boston Puritans refuse to recognize the authority of Charles II - planting the seeds for over 100 years of increasing tension, ending only with the Revolution.
Because the Boston's first graveyard, now called King's Chapel Burying Ground, is filling up, the Puritans establish re-purpose a dank corner of Boston Common and establish the Granary Burying Ground. In coming decades, it becomes the final home for a number of Revolutionary War heroes.
A group of members secede from First Church and build the Old South Meeting House, the place where over a hundred years later the Patriots meet secretly to foment rebellion and hatch the Boston Tea Party plot.
In Rhode Island, William Blaxton (by now spelling his name "Blackstone") dies at age 80 and is buried next to his wife, who died 2 years earlier at age 48, in Lonsdale, Rhode Island.
8000 BC-1630 AD: Puritan History 1631-1680: Puritans build Boston
1681-1760: Massachusetts Bay Colony 1761-1772: No Taxation without Representation
1773-1774: Boston Tea Party 1775: American Revolution begins
Patriot Profile: Menotomy Hero The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere
1775-1799: Siege of Boston 1800-1849: American Industrial Revolution
1850-1899: Boston Grows and Develops 1900-1945: Curse of the Bambino
A Gruesome Event: Great Molasses Flood 1950-1999: Urban Renewal and Regeneration
2000-Present: The Curse is Reversed

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You can probably get passes for as low as $30 at this point. Maybe even cheaper if you wait till the last minute.
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How to add reclock in Philips CD303
Dear Sir
How to add reclock in Philips CD303?
Could anybody can teach me?
Thanks you very much!!
Do you mean an aftermarket clock ?
I have Philips CD350 and interested in that too...
For instance, if to buy some aftermarket clock from ebay like this?
should a quartz simply be replaced by new clock + feed the clock with 6v?
Hi, First you should open up the machine and see what frequecy the crystal
is using for the laser decoder (SAA7XXX).For Philips it is commonly 16.934Mhz. but it can be another frequency depending on which model it is.
After you know the frequency then get the correct clock module,
of course the power suppy differ from one to another but generally it
is DC volts but the one you showed is 6V AC? If so depending on what
power voltage on your machine you can tap accordingly or modify/add another
transformer or DC rectification.
Follow the instructions provided with the clock module ( electrical connections) and you will have no problem. Hope this helps.
PS you may need to remove the caps connected to old crystal if instructed by the particular clock module.
You can download Philips cd303 service manual but it is in dutch language! The schematics is all you need.
hi Singa,
many thanks! It appears to be quite simple :)
finally found the clock that seems to be quite decent for my Philips CD350 :)
btw, could anyone pls advice which transformator is better to choose as clock's PS? should it be toroidal obligatory and what should be the min VA (10 or 20 or even higher?)
10VA is probably too much for the clock.
I do not think there is any difference between transformers, apart from mounting them.
Hi dtses,
That's a nice ocillator with 1ppm temperature compensated but
let's say we take it as face value the claim of 1ppm accuracy,you need a very
low noise power supply and the one on the pcb is well a standard one perhaps
better than a plain 3 pin regulator.Anyway you get what you pay for.
It's easy to calculate the VA (volt ampere or power in watts) needed for a transformer by using Ohm's law.You can check for a typical TXCO how much current it uses from the datasheet and the 74hc163 it would actually not be much.
So for illustration we use a figure of 100mA which is way in excess of the
true value.The input voltage needed by clock pcb as shown is from 7-20 volts
DC.For lowest noise pick a lower voltage,eg. 9V is commonly available.
(Assuming TXCO and 74hc163 are 5V rated.3V headroom for 3pin regulator.)
VA=current X voltage =100mA X 9V= 0.9VA ~ 1VA
Add some 10% or more for transformer losses and the common VA values
you will see in catalogues is from 2 ,3,4,5,6 etc. So closest will be 2VA.Even
a 3VA is no harm.Do not use one that is too big as the space available in the
cd player is limited.
PS as you can see it has a "frequency divider in 74hc163" ,if you are only using
16.934Mhz you tap from the stated take off solder pads and it is preferable to
cut the power trace to 74hc163 and reconnect from the output of TXCO removing one noise source in the 74hc163.(ie. not use the 74hc163).
If you don't feel confident about diy then use as is.
Hello singa,
I really appreciate your explanation and help! :cheers:
read somewhere in the web that toroidal transformers are slightly better to use for audio purposes, so probably will be looking for such as there is quite a lot of space in my CD350.
Frankly speaking I'm not a DIY expert, even more - this would be my first CD tuning, so I guess I will leave the clock module as it's now. Maybe later replace the caps with Elna or OSCONs...
Btw, just to confirm that clock module should be shielded, shouldn't it? and will a 1mm copper plate be enough for that?
Take care not to over tighten the bolt of the toriod but if you are
using a molded or encapsulated toriod then this is not an issue as there are
tabs for the holes.I don't think it is critical to shield the clock pcb as you may accidentally make contact with some part and shorting the circuit.If this is an instrumentation equipment ,it may be wise to shield as you want to make accurate or precise measurements.A copper plate alone will not give
proper or adequate shielding as the radiation can go over or around .
Fully enclosed is better but a hassle ( the clock pcb ) but that does not mean you can't use it if there is space to install, better than no barrier?. Singa
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Failed IVF(7 Posts)
My friend has just had her first round of IVF and it didn't work
I want to support her and say the right thing but need advice. She is 5 years older than me and has been trying for a baby since late 2011. DH and I started trying at the start of 2012 and we would talk about baby plans together and wee on sticks to check ovulation and chat about it all the time.
I got pregnant first time and although I know it was hard for her (lots of her friends/family/colleagues have young babies or are pregnant) she was really pleased for me and she was the only person I told before 12 weeks. I went on to miscarry at 13 weeks and she was really supportive, and really helped when I got pregnant a few weeks after miscarrying. I was anxious through the first trimester but she was always there for me.
Now I have a 6mo DD and I so want her to have the baby she longs for. I don't have childcare so can only see her with my DD. Will this upset her now that her IVF has just failed? What should or shouldn't I say? I want to support her but know there isn't anything I can really do. We're not best friends but I don't really have many friends so she is probably my closest friend so I want to get it right.
She will obviously have further IVF but I don't know if I should be encouraging her hopes or not? If IVF fails and she wants a child that is biologically hers, she would need to look at surrogacy. I would potentially consider that as she would be an amazing mum but I'm not in a position to atm as we want another child and I think I would get too attached to her baby if I hadn't had all the children I want but then it would be selfish of me to make her wait another 18mo/2yrs if I could help her sooner. I would never suggest it anyway but I mention it to demonstrate how much I want to help, and that if she asked I would give it real consideration (with DH's approval).
Please give me some guidance. Sorry if I have said anything out of place, or that upsets anyone; I know infertility/surrogacy are emotive topics.
One ivf failure isn't the end though it may feel
like it to your friend at the moment as its probably the one that hurts the most. She is certainly quite some distance off considering surrogacy. In Terms of your little one, my view on this was always that someone else having a child did not take my child away from me. The only time an arrow went to my heart was when a colleague told me of her pregnancy and that of two other people in the team. I guess I found my tolerance level that day! Given your situation I would simply be upfront and ask her if she is ok with seeing you and your daughter at the moment.
Positive and true things you can say are 1) that it takes most people more than one go 2) that for many people the first round can be about finding out some more about drug level etc to make it better next time 3) if she hasnt slready found this website, suggest she visits fertility friends for help and support. Focus on mourning this loss and planning the next step.
Whatever you do don't mention that person everyone seems to know who simply relaxed, stopped trying and conceived instantly! That still makes my fist twitch now!
I know she is still in the early stages and has plenty more goes etc., but since she started trying she has become really low and each month it didn't happen was another blow. Then when she got the go ahead for IVF it was like a weight lifted and she could relax as she was no longer putting the pressure on herself each month to conceive naturally. Now that it hasn't worked this first time, she doesn't have the safety net of saying "it's OK; I'll get pregnant when I have IVF."
Since she started TTC I got pregnant twice, her younger sister got pregnant, had a baby and is now pregnant again. Her sister-in-law has has another baby. One of her best friends has a baby, and on our team at work, another got pregnant and is due in a month or two and my maternity cover got pregnant and is now in maternity leave herself, so all of her friends and family are all pregnant/have babies and when she goes to work 3 out of the 4 other people in her team are pregnant or have just had babies. I know she finds it really hard because sometimes she just starts crying at her desk and when people make announcements about pregnancies at work, she takes the day off so she doesn't have to be there when all of the congratulations are pouring in.
I think her only way of handling it was the thought that IVF would sort it out and although she does know it often doesn't work straight away, she now has that doubt about whether it will work at all so it's like she needs a new safety net, and obviously no one wants to discuss drastic things like surrogacy/adoption etc. when she has a real chance of getting pregnant herself.
I'm just not sure what to say because when she talks to me about other people with babies/who are pregnant, she let's slip that it bothers her to listen to them and be around them all the time but then at the same time she wants to see me and my DD so I can't work out if we are going to help her or make it worse.
Please talk to ur friend open and honestly about ur feelings, the worst thing about IVF is people avoiding difficult issues with u ! Talking from experience I lost one of my closest friends while going through ICSI as she fell pregnant and avoided all contact with me ! Once her baby was born things improved a little and she asked me to be god mother, which I was delighted about !!! But things went downhill very quickly from then on in, I stopped being invited to gatherings....I felt like the "IVF" problem friend !! I've since went on and after four attempts have a wonderful 4 year old boy !!!! My friendship has never really recovered, we r more like acquaintances, which hurts me a lot !!! PLEASE don't let this happen to u guys.....also on the ivf front tell her to look into accupuncture ! X
People are different and I can understand that my logic of someone else's child not taking mine away may be of no comfort off others. I've said this on here before however I think it is always worth having a b plan or even a c plan. This protects you from some of the feelings of desolation after a failed attempt as you know what your next move will be. For me, the first failed attempt was definitely the worst. I just couldn't stop crying. The second and third failures I took in my stride. Attempt four has 12 more days before eviction from my tummy. Maybe I'm a bit perverse but I have cried during my pregnancy at how kind people have been to me as I feel so lucky to have made it. Even with attempt 4 underway we were still investigating donor eggs (plan b) and routes for adoption (plan c) so a failure would not be a dead end, we would know where we were going to next.
I wouldn't recommend acupuncture to her. She's more than likely researched everything about trying to get pregnant. Nothing worse than someone with kids 'recommending' something to you like you haven't thought of it before!
Be a good friend, listen, be there for her.
You sound like a great friend. I was the friend who couldn't get pregnant when all her other friends were and I never wanted them not to talk about their pregnancies or not to meet their babies. For some reason I was fine with them falling pregnant, maybe because I already cared about them so much. It was people I was more removed from like work colleagues or friends of friends that I found difficult. As other posters have said when you are having difficulty conceiving and going through IVF you already feel excluded enough.
I also would tell my friends how it hurt to hear about other pregnancies and yet still be happy to see them and their children. Let her set the parameters. I would ask her how she feels rather than not talking about it if she doesn't bring it up. When I was TTCing it was such a huge part of my life that I needed to tell someone about it but if I wasn't in the mood I would just be quite brief.
It is also wonderful of you to even consider surrogacy but I would leave it for a while. You don't want to give the message that you can do easily what she can't (unless she has a really solid diagnosis that means she definitely can't carry her own child); subfertility can affect anyone, even people who have had more than one child before.
And I agree with twinkle do not recommend anything to her, she has undoubtedly tried everything she is comfortable trying. The one thing that drove me up the wall when TTCing was having friends say, "having you tried lying down after sex/ovulation predictor kits/acupuncture"? YES of COURSE I have! Ditto like lozster says, absolutely do not tell her about 'that person' who just 'relaxed' and 'stopped trying' and fell pregnant. That just makes you feel as though the difficulty in conceiving is your own fault.
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What I see occurring, both now and increasingly in the future, is Americans abandoning prior positions and principles in the light of harsh realities.
Years ago, a majority of Americans opposed universal health care, as they felt this is something that should be obtained on an individual basis and through the private sector. But, with the costs sky-rocketing and employers struggling to afford coverage for their employees . . and job losses that eliminate such coverage . . and the reality of millions (including children) without health coverage . . Americans are now largely supporting some sort of govt-provided health care for everyone (and will likely even cover those in U.S. illegally). And, with govt-provided health care, you KNOW that the govt will increasingly have a say in what used to be personal decisions that have an impact on health costs (anti-smoking we've alread seen; I suspect we will see efforts to curb consumption of alcohol, high-cal/fast foods, caffeine, sugary drinks . . that Americans will be pushed to exercise a certain amount of time weekly . . I wonder if genetic testing will at some point be used to tell people who they can procreate with . . who would be a bad vs. good genetic match for you). When told that "this is the only way we can afford to cover everyone", Americans will gradually give up the right to make decisions for themselves.
There was a time when religious practices and symbols were such a part of public life that very few even questioned it. But now, you see surveys where a majority of Americans support removing public expressions of faith (lest, I believe the thinking is, every cult and sect must be given equal footing . . add to this, many people today resent anyone or anything setting limits or judgments upon their behaviors).
There was a time when human life was respected and protected. But, over time, the demands for abortion-on-request have gotten stronger, such that even barbaric practices like partial-birth are defended as "rights". Seems like the only life seen as worth protecting now are the convicted murderers sitting on death row.
With the economy, there was a time not long ago when the average American trusted private business to make sound decisions rather than govt. Now, its the other way around -- due to stupid, self-serving decisions by a relative few, the Federal govt will increasingly take over decision-making regarding the economy. Politics, not market forces, will dictate (kind of reminiscient of the former Soviet Union).
Probably the biggest die-hards of all are the gun-rights people. But, in the face of wide-spread gun violence, affecting even those from "good" neighborhoods, I think it will eventually occur that private ownership of firearms will be denied to all but a few well-heeled collectors. Again, because of the irresponsibilty of a relative few, all Americans will be denied the right to protect themselves and their property, and denied any means to resist the oppressive govt all this indicates will be the future of America.
And, you know that people will gradually trade away what remaining freedoms exist. They just become too tired and too fearful to resist any longer. I know that I am coming to feel this way . . . just take everything so that perhaps I can die in peace. Man, this is not the country my father fought for.
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Child's prey: I just finished reading Alan Prendergast's "Catch-16," in the December 8 issue, and I feel sorry for this girl's parents. I find children like Kaeleigh (and, yes, she's a child) annoying and disrespectful. Kaeleigh claims she's more "mature" than her peers. Quite the contrary, Kaeleigh has proven she needs constant attention, just like a toddler. "To be completely honest," Kaeleigh, my five-year-old son has more sense and maturity than you do! How dare you steal from your parents and cause them so much turmoil?
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Words to live by: I read Alan Prendergast's article about the Altvater family and wanted to write a few words of solace for the parents, being a former teenager much like their daughter. I know that it is presumptuous to think that I have anything helpful to say, and it probably won't change their feelings, but I know that my mother would have liked to hear that all hope was not lost when she was dealing with me.
Dear Chris and DeEtte: Fifteen years ago I was exactly like your daughter. Many of the things that she said in the article are exactly the things that I said when I was in her situation. I started running away from home at the age of fifteen, became wildly defiant, and dropped out of high school. Like Kaeleigh, I was bored, didn't feel challenged, and thought that it was a waste of my time. My mother would try to impose a curfew -- I would sneak out. She would try to force me to go to school -- I stopped going entirely. She threatened to ground me from my things -- I would scream at and intimidate her. Hopefully unlike your daughter, I developed a drug habit and started hanging around with the wrong people. My mother tried counselors, tough love, you name it. Eventually, I ended up being sixteen years old with no skills, living on my own.
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I am not trying to shove advice down your throat; I am sure that you have received plenty. I just want you to know that there is life on the other side. I wish the best for your family.
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Hard time: I was fascinated comparing the family situations in Alan Prendergast's "Catch-16" and Jessica Centers's "Focus on the Family," which appeared just a week earlier, in the December 1 issue. DeEtte and Chris Altvater are trying so hard to raise Kaeleigh right -- and they're paying the price. It's just not that easy in the best of circumstances. If only the courts and social-service agencies put the same amount of effort into dealing with teenagers as they do into dealing with infants!
I hope their efforts pay off with the McAdam family. I just don't think I would be so forgiving -- ever -- of a woman who smoked meth while she was pregnant, then gave birth to a baby who had to go through withdrawal. As I said, being a parent is not that easy in the best of circumstances, and this sounds like close to the worst.
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Addicted to love: Jessica Centers's "Focus on the Family" was a well-written piece. The sad part is that it reminds me of my sister's current situation and an addict's lack of understanding when it comes to his or her actions. My sister can only see her older daughter two times a month. Since my sister lives in Colorado Springs and her daughter lives in Fort Collins, my wife and I have to drive down from Denver to pick her up and drive her all the way up to Fort Collins. And the whole time, she complains that it's so unfair that she can't see her oldest child more when she's been clean for a whole year.
I'm proud of my sister's sobriety, but I can't forget the times I went to her apartment to find her passed out and her eight-year-old daughter trying to find food for my four-year-old nephew. I can't forget the money that she stole from family members and the promises broken. She doesn't like it, but I tell her that a year isn't enough and that there are dues to be paid before getting full rights to her daughter.
Now my sister just had her third child, whom she lives with in a home for mothers in her situation. Her two other kids are with their respective fathers until she gains the full confidence of the courts. I guess my point is this: We can't feel sorry for these addicts. The burden of proof is on their shoulders, and it takes more than twelve months of sobriety and "trying really hard" to do so. I love my sister and her kids. I want them to be together. But if we don't focus mainly on her kids' needs, we're just creating another generation of people with problems, problems that they'll try to turn into excuses for their drug use.
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Paving the past: Regarding Luke Turf's "My Way for the Highway," in the November 24 issue:
Every time I drive on the I-70 viaduct, heading west from Colorado Boulevard and toward downtown, I look down at all those interesting little streets and old houses. How typical that in the '50s and '60s, when the government thought the future was all about big cars on fast highways, they would intentionally divide a historic neighborhood and pave over our past.
I hope that when I-70 is rebuilt, these neighborhoods are reunited and allowed to come back together as a community that all of us can enjoy. Send I-70 to Adams County!
Lori Hanson
Tunnel vision: Luke Turf's enjoyable article in your Thanksgiving issue was also historically informative. While it is nice to be shown in a favorable light, he was way too kind to the Colorado Department of Transportation.
Mr. Cline's death "bed," "kitchen" and "toilet" were not part of a low-income housing plan. They were provided by CDOT's ignoring Denver's six-inch-weed common code and providing a six-foot-weed camouflage for Mr. Cline's indiscretions, as well as for many before him and still.
While CDOT over-promotes massive new projects, they bury the deprived both literally and figuratively. There could be another investigative story here, as to how CDOT adjusts budgets so they pay thousands of dollars in bonuses to overpaid consultants while depriving citizens of just a few hundred dollars for what should be normal maintenance.
For more than three years, CDOT has been challenged to clean up this mess. Our "civil servants" are simply breaking the law with self-styled immunity. This confirms what the underside of any extensive elevated highway structures they build through neighborhoods in the future will suffer.
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Wake up and smell the coffee: Afire from reading about the Louisiana goodness of Lucile's (Jason Sheehan's "Party On," December 1), I went directly to the new Denver outpost, which just happens to be in my neighborhood. We went on Saturday morning, were seated quickly and were treated with efficient friendliness by the entire staff. As each dish and condiment appeared, I became more emotional and effusive. Luckily, in the boisterous atmosphere of Lucile's, no one appeared to notice. I nearly cried over the biscuits (like little fluffy clouds), homemade sausage and apple butter. The words "It's like angels came down from heaven" were used. My friend and I went back that same afternoon, but Lucile's was closed. So we went back in the morning for Sunday breakfast. Bliss!
Thanks for getting the word out. Now Denver has a source for beignets and chicory coffee, and I plan to make it a Sunday tradition.
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Sense and sensibility: For twenty years, I have labored to spread the essence of Lucile's. When folks pass by, I ask, "Are you having a good time?" instead of "How is your pickled okra?" I ask the staff, "Are you having fun today?" I remind all that a restaurant is about all five senses -- touch (the napkins, hug old people sometimes -- they may need the feel), sight (the old house, your uniforms, your face, the dirty carpet), sound (Creole music, not rap right now), smell (the spice tea: I had to go up on the roof in Denver to block out the Chipotle exhaust from our HVAC -- not that it's bad, it's just not Lucile's exhaust) and, last but not least (but for some folks maybe the least), taste. Food may not be truly authentic, but damn it, it's always fun, flavorful and healthy.
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Flash Draw Created Oct 15, 2012 640 x 460px Unless noted Copyright 2012 Xxangel943xX.
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Thauwa Oct 16, 2012
Great work! There certainly is a paradise-like feeling to this! 5/5
Xxangel943xX replied: Oct 16, 2012
thx :D
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