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So...after we had trouble ttc last year and gave up, defeated and frustrated, we decided to book our first family trip for Disney. We were scheduled to fly out on 11/2 and return on 11/9. There's no way that was gonna happen being so close to my due date. I booked on 2/13 which just so happened to be the date of my lmp....wish I had known that then!! I booked everything through Disney, and purchased trip insurance. I just cancelled this morning, Disney cancelled fine, and I have to file a claim with the trip insurance company for airfare. The lady at Disney assured me that they'd process the claim and I'd get a refund for airfare. Well, the insurance company wasn't so confident. She said that pregnancy isn't covered unless there is "complications with pregnancy". ugh. I told her that I was considered a high-risk pregnancy and had to have an emergency c-section with my last baby. She said that doesn't really matter, it all depends on what your doctor writes on the paperwork.
I guess it wouldn't be the worst thing in the world if we don't get the airfare refunded. It works out to just over 2k (for 5 of us) which we could use on the basement renovation this summer, but we can easily use the tickets to travel to my fathers this summer instead. I'd much rather get the money back though.
Anyone have any experience with this??
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Hala Madrid! Real Madrid players and fans collaborate in motivational video
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One of the many descriptions is 'the Bernabeu on a big match day', offered up by Casillas himself.
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U.S. Rep. Chris Smith addressed the World Summit in Defense of Persecuted Christians on May 12 at the Mayflower Hotel in Washington, DC. Excerpts of his remarks:
Thirty-seven years ago during my first term in Congress, I read Tortured for Christ by Romanian pastor Richard Wurmbrand.
As so many of you know, it is the true story of unspeakable physical torture and psychological abuse of underground Christians under Romania's dictator Nicolae Ceausescu and Pastor Wurmbrand's harrowing 14-year incarceration. Sabina, his brave wife, also suffered prison and forced labor for her faith.
I was moved to tears when I read it.
Like so many, I was inspired by Pastor Wurmbrand's indomitable faith, breathtaking courage and hope and challenged by his admonishment to believers to cease enabling evil by our naiveté, cold-hearted indifference or cowardly complicity.
After being drugged and beaten Pastor Wurmbrand said he was in such bad shape that he even forgot the words to the Lord's Prayer so he simply prayed: "Our Father I have forgotten the prayer, but you surely know it by heart…"
Jesus' powerful and unambiguous teaching in Matthew 25—to see those construed by the world to be the "least of these" to be as Christ Himself—applies to many. Pastor Wurmbrand was a spiritual and moral giant but situationally, the "least of these."
Whether it be defending unborn babies and their mothers from the wanton violence of abortion or protecting the vulnerable victims of human trafficking or feeding the hungry or mitigating terrorism and war—the exponential increase in the number of persecuted Christians worldwide today, begs a far more robust, effective and sustained response.
So I—all of us—are especially grateful to Rev. Franklin Graham for convening this groundbreaking World Summit in Defense of Persecuted Christians.
My first religious freedom mission was to Moscow and Leningrad in 1982 on behalf of Soviet Jews. While there I also met, and prayed with the Siberian Seven—a group of Pentecostal Christians who fled to the US Embassy and lived there for five years until finally getting exit visas. During that trip—and many subsequent trips—I began to grasp Alexander Solzhenitsyn's astute observation that communism doesn't merely believe that God does not exist, it hates Him.
Solzhenitsyn called it "militant atheism".
Like you I saw that hate throughout the Soviet Union, in Romania, the Warsaw Pact Countries—and that God-hatred continues to thrive today within dictatorships like North Korea, Cuba, Vietnam and China.
On a trip to China in 1994 I had the awesome privilege of meeting with Bishop Su Zhimin. Bishop Su was a leader of the underground Catholic Church.
As we spoke and then prayed, the Bishop prayed for his persecutors, he prayed for the misguided leaders of the Chinese Communist Party. Bishop Su's body bore witness to the brutality of China's Communist Party. He was beaten, starved, and tortured for this faith and spent some 40 years in prison. Yet, he prayed not just for the persecuted church, but for the conversion of those who hate, torture and kill. His witness and his faith absolutely amazed me. Love those who hate you as Christ did from the cross? Do good to those who persecute you? For Bishop Su these were more than words, it was his faithful and faith-filled response to one of our Lord's most difficult teaching. Unfortunately, only couple years later Bishop Su was arrested again and disappeared. He has not been heard from since.
A few years ago, on a visit to Jos, Nigeria, I visited another amazing man of faith and courage—Archbishop Ignatius Kaigama. We visited churches that had been recently firebombed by Boko Haram and spent hours listening to survivors tell their stories.
At a Nigerian IDP camp, I also met with an evangelical believer—Habila Adamu.
Dragged from his home by Boko Haram terrorists, he was ordered to renounce his faith. With an AK-47 pressed to his face, he was asked "are you ready to die as a Christian?"
With amazing courage Habila answered, "yes, I am ready to die as a Christian." He was asked a second time and he repeated his answer—"yes I am ready to die as a Christian."
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By some miracle, he survived.
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He closed his testimony with this—"do everything you can to end this ruthless religious persecution…but know Christ first."
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I remember when I was younger, one of my favorite things to do was look through High Times magazines and check out pictures of marijuana nugs. It blows my mind sometimes to think about the fact that the Cannabis Cup is now here in the United States. If you would have told me that in the mid-90's I would have likely not believed you. This video is for the little Johnny Green's out there that couldn't make it to the Cup to see a lot of these nugs in person. Don't worry, your time will come:
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This brings me back to when I first went trick or treating in the late 2000's and was dressed as a nurse (not sexy; just practical).
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01 January 2011 Drama, Romance
Telefilm on Spain Queen Sofia. It all starts in Corfu (Greece), in the summer of 1961. The Royal Palace of Mon Repos, summer residence of the Greek royal family, he wakes up at work. The service strives to prepare the house for some illustrious guests: the "Barcelona", which are none other than the Spanish royal family in exile. The purpose of the visit is to formalize the relationship between Sofia, the eldest daughter of the kings of Greece Paul and Frederika, with Juan Carlos, the son of Juan de Borbón and Maria de las Mercedes. Both young intimated in London, at the wedding of the Duke and Duchess of Kent.
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What does Daffy mean?
Daffy as a boys' name (also used as girls' name Daffy) is of Hebrew origin, and the meaning of the name Daffy is "beloved". Daffy is an alternate spelling of David (Hebrew).
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Sumerian Hymn to Ninkasi and Sapporo Space Biru
Sumerian Hymn to Ninkasi
and Sapporo Space Biru
by Ştefan Tiron
Ninkasi was the Sumerian goddess of brewing and beer, and her hymn is probably the most ancient written record of a beer recipe, nearly 4000 years old. Her name meant "you who fill my mouth so full".
After thousands of years this hymnal literature still resonates with us because it carefully enumerates many elements associated with today's brewing: hulled grains, sweet aromatics, dough/yeast, malt, collector vats, big ovens and most importantly clean sparkling water and sacred lakes. Even in early role as a social lubricant at feasts and gatherings, beer or its ancient equivalent was much closer to the homebrewed varieties of today than to its brand-conscious descendents.
The fabled clean sparkling water of Sumerian verse or its lack imparts a new urgency concerning water privatization around the world today and the ongoing water wars where entire communities get cut off the water grid or are pushed to pay for its distribution. Before becoming an industrial brand, let's not forget that beer was an important way to utilize and recycle even the last leftovers grains, and also to sustain communities that most of the time had limited access to drinkable water. Both bread and beer had such an important symbolic value for humans because they were connected to the alchemically active powers of fermentation. Bread was added to aid beer fermentation and they were both shapeshifting right in front of human eyes. First and foremost they should be considered living proof of our continuous partnership with an invisible and omnipresent microbiological world that helps us enzymatically transform, diversify and elaborate on naturally growing seeds and sprouts.
Breweries are also intimately linked with the discovery of carbon dioxide and the idea that the colorless air that surrounds us is actually a composite made up of different exhaust gases. English dissenter, supporter of American and French Revolution and early chemist Joseph Priestly started speculating that "dephlogisticated air" (what later Antoine Lavoisier called oxygen) and "fixed air" (carbon dioxide) where part of the mix, after moving in 1767 near a brewery in Leeds. He noticed that a special kind of air was flowing out of the brewing vats like an invisible stream made visible only by its capacity to extinguish burning fire. This discovery inspired him to devise an artificial method for making fizzy beverages2 or soda water and every other carbonated water since. Apart from its bubbly appearance, carbon dioxide is an important and infamous greenhouse gas and a significant component of the anthropogenic climate changes we are living through just now.
Not long ago, I was wandering among the buildings of the Timişoreana brewery in Romania, and I had this very physical contact with the space inhabited by processes that make beer possible. The whole air was impregnated by the heavy odorous effluvia of fermentation hovering over an entire area. It felt like huge quantities of evaporated beer in the air, like beer poured over hot stones in a sauna that was slowly condensing over the surrounding territory.
It is as if beer was suddenly brought back to its point of origin. Far from its bottled up cold six pack existence, it was flowing out a well-kept and overspilling man-made and yeasty marshland. In the wake of drying marshlands and changing river courses, we have extended another kind of comestible marsh.
Sapporo gives us the last piece of the puzzle with its Sapporo Space Biru, the beer brewed from barley kept in outer space on the ISS station for several months. In a very down to earth way, this beer is itself (because of its alcohol content) unavailable to the space crew that cared for its return to earth. Sapporo Space beer tastes like any other beer because it is not about otherworldly flavors, but about confirming earthly living under extraterrestrial conditions. The fact that the barley was not affected by orbital space conditions was taken as another sign of homely orbital living. This is why space beer should be un-spacy, otherwise it stops being part of the terraforming and beerforming vision where the future is brewing.
1. The Hymn to Ninkasi, inscribed on a nineteenth-century B.C. tablet, contains a recipe for Sumerian beer, translation by Miguel Civil after J.A. Black, G. Cunningham, E. Robson, and G. Zlyomi 1998, 1999, 2000, The Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature, Oxford University.


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Did you know that shy people have a harder time starting relationships, making friends, getting jobs and starting a business? Use these 3 easy steps to overcome shyness and unleash your inner social champion to achieve your goals.
It might surprise you to find out that despite the fact that I've been a very public person for most of my life, I had to push past my shyness to do it.
Because being shy doesn't work out too well for your ambitious.
Often times, shyness is perceived as a form of social rejection by our more extroverted counterparts, and us shy people wind up without as many job offers, partnerships and missing out on a lot fun.
If you want to develop any kind of business, you absolutely need to connect with people. It takes time and if you are shy (like me) a little practice.
Research shows that the popular self-help idea of 'positive thinking' your way to a new personality is dead wrong.
Psychologist Joanne Wood via BBC reports:
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Your posture has tremendous impact on your thoughts and behaviour.
One of the most powerful and simple ways to instantly boost your confidence is to work on your stance so that you stand and sit up straight.
#2. Smile
When you smile, it tells your brain that you are happy which instantly influences your thoughts and calms your nerves.
Remember to smile genuinely and others will respond in kind.
#3. Ask Questions
If you find yourself worrying about how to react to what someone is telling you, focus instead on why they are telling you.
Ask questions and chances are more than likely that your amazing listening skills will be highly appreciated and your shyness won't even enter into the equation.
Believe me, I fought my way through with sweaty palms and it helped me to overcome challenges and achieve amazing goals. Truth be told, my most successful ventures are always a result of a group of us coming together.
Push past that initial anxiety because that's exactly what everyone else is doing!