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I'm seeing end-of-the-year collages everywhere, so I thought I would make my own.
2013 has been a good year for me. I was elected Student Body President at my university (Fire Up Chips!). I made some great new friends. Made the Dean's List (twice!) and dyed my hair purple.
But one of the things I am most proud of myself for is finally being able to take selfies.
I remember being in 8th grade, and everyone had a myspace. Everyone. It was before the days of tagging, so you had to upload your own pictures for your profile.
I couldn't do it. I thought I was so ugly that every single picture I took was unsuitable for people, especially my peers, to see. I ended up having a photoshoot with a friend, and I only put the pictures online where I wasn't looking into the camera. I literally had these black and white pictures of me with my hand over my face or facing away from the camera.
As I grew up (and moved on to facebook!) I got a little better, but as a friend pointed out in highschool, even then I always had to be in a picture with someone. I still wouldn't publish a picture of just me.
Finding feminism saved me. It took me years to realize that I wasn't ugly. That I was taught to see myself as ugly, and to see my worth as being directly tied to what I looked at. I knew this the moment I discovered feminism, but it took me years and years to feel it.
I finally feel it.
Not every day, but most days.
It's the most liberating feeling in the world, loving yourself. Self-care takes on a whole new meaning when you finally think you deserve it. Selfies allow me to capture my appearance as I want it, they allow me to show myself to the world and say "This is me, and I am hot".
I'm still working on some hang ups I have about my appearance. It's hard for me to leave the house without makeup, and I have a hard time wearing jeans or anything casual. But I'm working on it! And I'm honestly really thankful that I am able to recognize these things as problems, instead of thinking that they are normal or personal failings.
In 2013 I'm thankful for a lot of things, but one of the things I'm most thankful for is selfies.


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Unexpected Results: 5 Reasons Why A Recipe Might Fail
A flat cake, a bland soup, a dry loaf of bread...When a recipe doesn't turn out as expected, we feel the disappointment to our very core. Our instinct is to blame either the recipe itself or our own inferior cooking skills, but here's the thing: very often, it's neither.
Certainly, recipes sometimes do have errors or maybe it calls for a technique we haven't quite mastered. But when we have a recipe fail or talk to other people about their recipe failures, most of the time it seems to come down to one of these reasons:
1. Oven Temperature is Off - Even if you only use your oven occasionally, picking up a cheap oven thermometer is a worthwhile investment. Ovens are often several degrees warmer or cooler than the numbers on the dial and having an oven thermometer means you know exactly how much to adjust the oven to compensate.
2. Ingredient Substitutions - Going off-recipe is a fun and creative part of the cooking process, for sure. But it also requires a little more due diligence on our part to understand how the additional or substitute ingredient will affect the recipe. For instance, cutting the sugar in a cupcake or substituting a tenderloin for a chuck roast in a braise will give you very different results than the recipe author intended.
3. Equipment Substitutions - Ditto on the equipment. If the recipe says to use an 8-inch pan or a cast-iron skillet, there's probably a good reason for it. That doesn't mean we can't substitute something else in its place, but we just need to understand that our dish might turn out differently.
4. Adjusting the Cooking Time - Recipes are often written with the expectation that you're following along. If you pause in the middle of making a cake and come back to it an hour later, some chemical reactions might have taken place that the recipe didn't intend because it thought the cake would go right in the oven. Same goes for shortening the cooking time - like the time for bread to rise or a roast to cook. The result might be different. As with the ingredient and equipment substitutions, it's not that you can't adjust the cooking time. You just need to think it through first.
5. And Finally, Trust Your Own Judgment! - Recipes (and the people who write them!) aren't fail-proof and they also can't take into consideration every variable in your kitchen, like how cold your eggs are or how strong your whisking arm is. We love this quote from Dorie Greenspan, "Just about every time you cook or bake, you've got to make a judgment call - it's the nature of the craft." She means that just because a recipe says to cook something for 15 minutes, you should use your judgment if it's not quite done yet or starts to burn at the 13-minute mark.
A failed dish is a disappointment, definitely. But every time a recipe doesn't come out quite the way we expected, it's also an opportunity to learn something. We'll think back and try to figure out what in the recipe or what we did made the dish turn out this way. Next time, we'll have a better idea what to do.
These five reasons are the biggies, in our opinion. What other reasons have you come across in your cooking for why a recipe doesn't come out quite right?
Related: Recipe Rescue! What To Do if You Oversalt
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the worst for me is when a recipe that i previously made and turned out excellent the first time, fails miserably the second time. i agree with all the points in the post.
I'd even include the item about ingredient age. Some foods/chemicals we cook with lose their abilities over time. As do spices and their flavors. It may look and cooked the way you expected, but sometimes the flavors just aren't right.
If a recipe fails, yes, it's usually my fault, but over time I've come to know which of my cookbook authors have well-tested recipes and which do not. Some recipes are just plain more fail-safe than others. My general rule is to avoid hippy authors when baking. Anyone ever use the first edition of the Tassajara Bread Book? Disaster. I think they've fixed that.
Building on Aschalk's comment, I agree that ingredient quality in general can be a huge factor. Two-week-old oniony butter in your sugar cookies? Pass the mouthwash. Using macadamia nuts from anywhere other than Hawaii? I hope you have a strong imagination when it comes to flavor. And so on. Everything after ingredients is makeup.
I've said it before, I'll say it again: recipes are guidelines, not rules.
However, you should only break the rules of a recipe if your kitchen experience and technique are solid. The craft of cooking DEFINITELY has rules.
I've know how recipes can fail and what I've learned from my mistakes (everyone makes them!) here.
aschalk is right, especially in baking: common pantry items have expiration dates, and yeast can go bad so easily if not kept in the freezer.
Number 5 is important. I remember having a Martha Stewart scone recipe that called for two Tablespoons of baking soda. Instinct immediately said, "They must have meant teaspoons." I almost stuck to the recipe but ended up going with my instinct. Sure enough, my scones turned out great with the smaller amount, and I later found a message board full of complaints that the original recipe resulted in painfully bitter scones (to be expected with that much baking soda).
Number 5 should also say always check the comments (for recipes found online).
My mom recently struggled with a Jamie Oliver recipe coming out very undercooked, and sure enough, when she checked the comments, nearly all of them were about increasing the cooking time.
I love finding recipes online now BECAUSE of the comments made. Almost always the comments will lead me to make the recipe better. BUT, I still love my cookbooks; it's their smell, the feel of the pages, there is something romantic about them. I have found the most success with Southern Living (you can look most of them up online as well), Julia Child (it did take her years of development and testing and she covers substitutions like no other), and anything by Cooks Illustrated. These books have become my teachers.
I still don't understand why my no stir, oven baked risotto came out as hot stock and raw rice. Toast for dinner that night and major disappointment for me.
I've never had a recipe fail. Maybe it wasn't as good as I hoped, but it wasn't error on my part. Everything always turns out as it is supposed to, sometimes the recipe is just crappy.
6. Many people post pretty pictures of food that is lacking in the taste and texture department, but the author doesn't mention it.
Often getting another blog post up is more important to people than sharing successful results. You can even see that some of the expertly lit, beautifully positioned, and well-garnished results may not be that good from the texture in the photos (especially with baked goods). I certainly think that posting a less than stellar recipe is absolutely fine, but at least the author should talk about it so that the readers know what to expect when they try it. If it makes a dense cake, just say so. If it makes a salty soup, just make that clear.
Sometimes the recipe is at fault, because people are trying to generate content rather than offer something of value.
I laughed out loud about the hippy baking books (the older ones at least), you're totally right.
I would also add something about unavoidable substitutions: when trying to cook in someone else's house, know that things almost always turn out at least different given the cook wear/oven etc.
And when trying to cook in different regions, ingredients are often just inherently different (protein contents in flour for example) and might not come out right at first. Both examples of when your instincts don't serve you as well as the should first time around.
I've been making peanut brittle for years. The last step requires adding baking soda to soften up the texture. The last two times I made it, the colour and texture was terrible; you could almost see the raw baking soda in the brittle. The acids were neutralized before all of the soda was consumed. I had picked up a box of Wal-Mart "Great Value" baking soda, thinking who could screw up baking soda? I bought a new box of brand-name baking soda and the problem disappeared.
I've made Bill Granger's scones, double checking that it said 2 tablespoons of baking soda, but my brother-in-law swears by them, and they worked & tasted fine...
I find translations are the big problem - from metric to American & vice versa, and it is the publishers who get that wrong. I always just use whichever is the original, although still find the whole half a cup of carrot thing not quite normal.
I think fresh ingredients is the biggest culprit for me. I had a container of bread machine yeast that said it was good until March 2011, but that was not the case as I tried to use some in December and wound up with a flat loaf. These things happen. You can't beat yourself up over it (hah! I get so upset with myself when I make a mistake!)
When I do blog a recipe, I only blog recipes for things that taste good. And if I mess up, I'm usually taking a photo and posting it to facebook to ask my friends what I did wrong!
My latest failure was the creme brulee I prepared on Monday. I followed the recipe that was posted here last week but attribute the failure to one of the points mentioned above. Notably, the size of the equipment; in this case my ramekins. Since the recipe indicates it makes 4 servings, and I filled up 2 1/2 ramekins, that should have been a red flag to bake it longer. I should have trusted my instinct to bake it longer than the 65 minutes than I did but since it was the first time I had ever attempted that dish, I was leery. Next time-trust my instincts!
After seeing Julie & Julia we now know that cookbook authors don't always test their recipes. "Who has the time?!"
Sourcing recipes online has been a blessing with my novice cooking.
One more thing to have in mind, the place where you are cooking or baking!!! I came from Brazil to USA two years ago and I'm still having trouble trying to adjust recipes that use common ingredients for both countries!
Testing, testing, testing....and tasting, specially when you are looking in a international cookbook recipe.
This is SO true! I very rarely have recipes just completely fail, but I think that's often because I get them online (and read the comments) and because I have a pretty strong cooking intuition. It helps!
One of the things I've noticed about getting recipes from blogs is that the comments are all about how beautiful the picture looks, how good it "sounds", and how great it turned out. The effort to contain negativity means you can't really discuss the recipe. I've made five recipes recently from my favorite blog. Overall, the results are good, but some were less than satisfactory. But since all the comments are over-the-top raves on how good it LOOKS, I don't feel comfortable saying anything less than glowing. Which means I'm not really getting any feedback from fellow cooks.
I tried one too many times to use whole wheat flour in place of all purpose flour in my old recipes before my hushand got fed up and threw the rest of the bag out. It just doesnt come out the same! (next time i buy whole wheat flour, i'll find recipes that atually call for it)
why my recipes fail
sloppiness/inattention - the first time I make something, I tend to take my time, make sure the vegetables are chopped evenly, measure the spices rather than eyeballing, greasing and flouring the pan very carefully, etc. Subsequent go-rounds are faster and looser, which sometimes works out fine, but sometimes leads to substandard results.
measuring issues – my baked goods are always better when I use a scale to measure; with measuring cups I'm scooping up too much flour
overmixing dough – especially with cakes, muffins, and pastry, must take care not to overwork the gluten
overseasoning – I have a hard time resisting the urge to double the amount of cinnamon and vanilla, or throw in just a little more of the spicy chili paste, or add more spices because I'm making an Indian dish and I'm itching to use the fenugreek I just bought (even though the recipe doesn't call for it). Tasting while cooking can be misleading; one bite of soup may taste just right, but when you sit down and eat a whole bowl, you realize it's too salty. Restraint is the best policy.
overcooking – cookies, cakes, brownies and the like should come out of the oven slightly underdone. Fish goes from raw to perfect to rubbery in a matter of seconds, it seems.
Most important advice for baked goods: taste the batter before it goes into the oven. Delicious batter= delicious baked goods. Also, don't open the oven door until just before you think it might be done, and then take it out the second you think it is done.
Most important advice for stove-top cooking: watch the heat. There is a tendency to crank it way up, but most of the time, medium or medium high is better than blazing hot (unless you're wok cooking).
A few years ago, I had promised my boyfriend's parents a cake and had ambitious plans to make a new recipe of a complicated french dessert. Of course the day I was to make it, I got very ill so my wonderful non baking boyfriend stepped in to make it. It was awful! It turned out a sugary cookie slathered in butter.
I still wonder if it was the recipe or the boyfriend. Maybe when I get over the taste memory of taking a bite of whipped butter, I will try it myself.
Two things have caught me off guard before...the importance of room temp ingredients in baking (a lot of Ina's recipes call for this, but others don't and they should)...also, adjusting baking time due to altitude (why I can't keep this one in mind I will never know).
A recipe of failure.I've trying to compromise my weaknesses in cooking. Thanks to gourmandia.com that taught me some tips to avoid failure in making a recipe.

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Home birth has been proven to be as safe or safer than hospital births for normal pregnancies. A study done by the CDC shows there has been a steady rise in home births and birthing center births.
The American College of Obstetricians and Gynocologists (ACOG) has maintained that they absolutely do not support home birth, classes on home birth, or anyone who provides midwife care during one. They think encouragement of them is irresponsible and wrong, and they are part of the reason there have been recommendations for or even successful enactments of laws to ban home birth in some places.
In addition to the country's excessively high c-section rate and our ranking as #1 in intervention in the world (which is GREAT in life-or-death cases but really bad in non-emergency births), and the anti-vaginal birth after cesarean laws in some states, it's no wonder that women are choosing home birth.
Sometimes secretly.
When you strip away a woman's right to choose what's best for her body, force her into dangerous and scary situations, force her to have no hospital option but a repeat cesarean (despite the fact that vaginal births after cesaerens are much safer), you force her to escape the system and realize that she has to go against "conventional wisdom" and even accepted social standards to do what is healthiest and safest, or even just the most desired and most comfortable choice for her. (Sound like another polarizing issue?)
Unfortunately, all of these things have some very serious repercussions on home birthing women as well.
They are likely to be treated badly by hospital staff, despite the fact they obviously did what is recommended -- come in if/when there's a problem, concern, or complication. In fact, every recommendation for home births makes sure that it's clear for the midwife and patient to acknowledge certain situations in which a transfer to the hospital is necessary -- and I've never known a woman to argue it -- but it can make it difficult to make that decision for fear of the actions of the hospital upon arrival.
Women avoid use of a midwife or doula in areas, from lack of insurance coverage (despite home birth's major financial benefits to insurance companies) or even due to feeling the need to hide the birth from family and friends -- in some cases, CPS has been called on women JUST for birthing at home. No wonder they're keeping it secret!
Home birth advocates often use other countries with high home birth rates as examples, but it's argued that those countries also have very different systems in preparation for birth, as well as much more education and support for home birthing mothers as well. Just like with breastfeeding, when it stops becoming the norm, myths and rumors begin to override fact and the number of people who are able to properly teach and assist becomes much more limited.
Eugene Decleq, of the Boston University of Public Health, who was the author of the study for the CDC that showed the increase, states that the lack of such a setup keeps safer home births from being a bigger option in the United States.
I think if you actually move to a system like that, it would be fine in the United States, because the evidence from other countries suggests that it is as well.
Looking at the numbers, adopting such a system probably wouldn't lead to widespread home births in the United States. It would not climb to 30 percent like the Netherlands, but would be closer to the rise to 3 percent seen in the United Kingdom
Seeing as we're not going to see any rise in professional and insurance company support of home births and an overhaul of our midwife training anytime soon, what else can be done?
Stop scaring women away from the hospital, for one. One of the driving forces for some women who choose home birth often isn't the desire to birth at home. As often as not, it's the desire to escape the hospital. Rightfully so, when our country is rising above a 1 in 3 c-section ratio, over twice the recommended maximum percentage. All it takes is a tiny bit of research and reading of birth stories as well to see how women are bullied and forced into unnecessary interventions in some hospitals to understand why someone might refuse to birth in a hospital setting.
If the OCOG and CDC want to discourage the choice of home births at a time when many are looking into the option more, they should provide a more home-like atmosphere at the hospital.
Rather than using monitors that strap a woman to a bed unnecessarily, forcing her to be unable to deal with her pain and internalize it, they need to make it standard procedure to allow and encourage women to walk around (not just in early labor, either), take baths or hot showers (both of which are okay even after your water is broken), sit on birthing balls, and deal with her pain in ways other than gritting her teeth and bearing it or accepting the often horribly pushed medications.
If hospitals employed doulas and kicked out doctors until they were actually needed, that move alone could (and does) significantly reduce the amount of complications and c-sections.
No one should discourage home birth by attacking the women who choose it and make them seem like baby-endangering freaks. Instead we all need to acknowledge that many of our hospitals are currently broken and terrible places for giving birth, and work to change that instead.
If our hospitals could function more like birthing centers and really work to help mom be in beneficial positions to push on her own (instead of on her back being told when to push) and encouraged to deal with pain in healthy ways, we'd get more women back into hospitals in the first place. We'd also save a lot of babies and mothers who die or are mentally or physically damaged for life in hospitals from complications from unnecessary interventions and cesareans as well.
What are your thoughts on home birth?
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Thanks for that clarification, Allboys. You're correct. There are laws against providing a VBAC anywhere other than a hospital in some states, which a lot of women aren't comfortable with (and will lead them out of the hospital if they want their VBAC) but that isn't a direct anti-VBAC law. There are also hospitals that refuse quite a few things, generally based on malpractice insurance and whatnot, again not specifically a law, but leaving no options for women who refuse their practices.
One of the driving forces for some women who choose home birth often isn't the desire to birth at home. As often as not, it's the desire to escape the hospital.
This was true in my case. I actually didn't love the idea of a home birth, but I liked it better than the idea of having another hospital birth like my first.
I am a huge proponent of out of hospital birth. My son was born at a freestanding birth center with a direct entry midwife and I had an AMAZING experience. My midwife was hands off and just let me do what felt right. My future babies will be born at home with a midwife.
I definitely think things can and should be improved at hospitals for the women who choose or have to give birth there.
I personally will NEVER give birth in the hospital if I have a low risk pregnancy. Hospitals, to me, are where sick and dying people (and all of the fun germs they have) go. 1 in 5 people admitted to a hospital end up with an infection that has nothing to do with the reasons they were brought in. That number includes moms and babies. I wouldn't want to needlessly expose myself or my newborn to things like MRSA and every other bug floating around in hospitals.
Great post!! My first son was born by c-section after a failed induction that I was needlessly pressured into by my OB. My second son 3 1/2 years later was born peacefully on our bedroom floor at the foot of the bed. Unless there is a medical emergency I will never birth in a hospital again. I felt like a broken person after my oldest son's birth, and I felt like that piece of me that was broken was put back together again after my HBAC. There's a lot to be said for the normal flow of hormones that occurs during an unmedicated birth. I feel like I became a better mom to BOTH of my boys once I experienced a normal birth.
Awesome post, Christie! I desperately want to give birth at home. However, it's a felony for a midwife to attend a homebirth in Nebraska, and there are also no freestanding birthing centers. However, much like the previous poster, there are still midwives willing to risk breaking the law in order to provide that homebirth experience.
They're just insanely difficult to find. In my case, a friend of a friend of a friend is having a homebirth, and if I'm willing, I can give my contact information to my friend, who will then pass it down the line to the midwife. If I decide to use her services, I'll be given a pager number to contact when I enter labor.
The fact that there has to be such subterfuge in order for a woman to have the birthing experience she chooses is appalling.
If you want to homebirth, more power to you but it's not for me!


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One under-$10 stock that's quickly approaching some major breakout levels is multi-channel specialty retailer Coldwater Creek (CWTR). The sellers have hammered this stock lower in 2011 with shares off by over 60%.
If you take a look at the chart for Coldwater Creek, you'll notice that this stock dropped sharply from its September high of $1.83 to a recent low of $0.81 hit in late November. Following that low print, the stock has started to rebound big and print higher lows and higher highs, which is bullish price action. Now CWTR is approaching a major breakout if the stock can manage to take out some near-term overhead resistance levels with volume.Traders should look for a sustained high-volume move and close above $1.14 to $1.20 a share, either today or in the coming days of weeks. A high-volume move above those levels should set this stock up for a retest of its 200-day moving average of $1.53 a share, or possibly much higher. Shares of CWTR are trending higher today by around 5.6% at $1.12 on heavy volume. Volume has already registered over 1.7 million shares, which is well above its three-month average action of 1.07 million shares. One could be a buyer of this stock off any weakness and anticipate the breakout. I would simply use a mental stop just below its 50-day moving average of $1.02 in case the breakout never hits or fails. One could also buy off strength and get long once the range of $1.14 to $1.21 a share is taken out to the upside with volume. Look for volume on any future breakout that hits close to or above 1.07 million shares.
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My Son Punched Another Kid
Even we therapist moms can lose it sometimes -- and this incident definitely made my temper spike!
Dr. Michelle Golland: OK, I have a confession to make to all of you moms. I hate to say this, but I am the mom who is defending her 9-year-old son after he punched another kid and wound up in the principal's office last week. I'm a psychologist, I help heal relationships and I don't believe in violence, but (oh my god, I'm saying "but!") my son, Asher, has had a long history with the kid he punched in the nose. (Yes, he punched him in the nose!) Horrible, but (OK, again with the "but") you see, this boy and Asher had been in school together last year and had had issues. Asher had felt picked on, teased and "left out of the group" because of this kid. I had held Asher while he cried and struggled to manage the conflict on his own, his self-esteem crushed.
I can tell you right now that trying to use my clinical skills with my own children only goes so far. Your kids are like wearing your heart outside of your body -- and you are just praying that others will treat that heart with love, kindness and understanding. So last year, when Asher was struggling with this boy in first grade, I intervened in some appropriate and (truthfully) not-so-appropriate ways.
Asher and I practiced ways he could express his feelings in a calm and cool manner to this kid. I initiated a playdate at our home -- which didn't go so well. It wasn't the boys who were the problem; the other boy's mom insisted on staying at my home during the playdate. I knew it was going downhill fast when Asher and his friend came out wearing full-blown Nerf war gear: goggles, Velcro vests and bright-orange Nerf guns (cocked and loaded).
They were so excited as they both bounded around the corner into my kitchen. Then I and the boys were stunned when the other mom said that her son was not allowed to play with Nerf guns. She might as well have said, "Michelle, you suck and are a horrible mother who is certainly going to create a serial killer out of your son!" OK, maybe I'm being sensitive, but seriously: The boys were so dejected as they walked away, stripping off their Nerf gear and dragging the guns on my hardwood floor. Needless to say, there were no further playdates scheduled.
Later, after Hanukkah last year, this kid kept telling Asher that he was a liar about having an iTouch. (My parents tend to spoil the kids. We wouldn't have bought it, but hey, Nana and Papa have the spoiling card to use at will in our house.)
Anyway, for about a week, Asher would come home in tears because he was being called a liar. I spoke with his teacher, and she explained that the boys were working on these issues. She also admitted that this kid was targeting Asher. OK, now I was really pissed!
When Asher came home that same day and again said he was being called a liar about his iTouch, I told him not to worry -- that Mommy would take care of it. I slipped his iTouch into my purse and went to his school to serve lunch like I do every Tuesday. As all the boys settled in at their little round table ripping open Lunchables, I kneeled down and said a big hello to them all. Then I said that I had heard that some of them couldn't believe Asher had an iTouch, so "I wanted to show all of you how neat it is!" I pulled it out. Asher was wide-eyed, and a smile broke out across his face. His doubting friend looked at me with surprise, then looked at Asher and said, "Cool, Asher." Mission accomplished. I know -- I am so lame, right? But I tell you: Asher never came home crying about being called a liar again.
Fast-forward to the punch in the nose. I was volunteering in the library. Asher's class walked through the door -- but no Asher. Walking up to his teacher, I asked where Asher was. She said, "He's in the principal's office because he got into a fight." I actually gasped and said, "Oh my god, is he okay?" She said, "Yes. He threw the punch."
I ran to the principal's office, swung open the door, and sitting next to Asher was THAT kid. My heart started racing. I needed to explain to the principal the "past issues" and defend my son. (I know: It was lame, since I didn't even know what had happened. But I did just that.) Out in the hallway, I said, "Asher has had real problems with this child before, being teased by him. This kid is ... well, how do I say this? ... kind of a jerk." Can you believe it?! I told the principal that this kid was a jerk!
Now, any dignity I had was clearly gone. I am the suckiest mom who may be creating a serial killer with all the Nerf guns we have, and clearly (with the punch in the nose), my kid is on the road to being a violent criminal who just may one day cook meth in our basement. (Those are my deepest fears, by the way, and I don't even have a basement!)
The principal, with all her grace and diplomatic finesse, said, "Thank you for the information, but let me figure out what happened, and I will come and get you." I walked back to the library in sort of an adrenaline-rush stupor and waited. When we spoke a little while later, she explained that another kid had pushed Asher, and the boy he punched was the referee of the game but didn't see him get pushed down. So frustrated Asher punched him -- obviously totally bad on Asher's part.
She also asked me to let go of the history between the boys and said she believed they actually wanted to be friends and that they do like one another. OK, now I'm a sucky, judgmental, defending-violence loser mom who wasted a lot of money and time getting a doctorate in psychology. Given the situation, I totally owned up to and apologized for my inappropriate behavior. The principal put her hand on my shoulder and said, "It's all right, but it is important we set a good example for the boys." I smiled and thanked her for understanding. I realized then that even moms sometimes need a good talking to from the principal.
|Dr. Michelle Golland is a USC graduate and a licensed Clinical Psychologist (PSY#16974). She works with adults and teens and is an expert in the field of marriage and relationships. Dr. Michelle Golland has given her expert advice on CNN, HLN, MSNBC, ABC, and FOXNews. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband and two wonderfully exhausting children.
maybe the kid deserved it.
I am a member of the Bad Mom Club.
I've always told my daughters that if someone hits them, they should hit back and not stop until someone pulls them off the other kid. I've told them where to hit boys for the most effect.
I've also told them that if they KNOW for sure that another kid is going to hit them, they should hit first, repeatedly, until they are pulled off of the other kid.
I agree with tennmom, a kid has to defend him/herself.
Good for your son defending his self.
Sound like this other kid is a bully.
You are NOT a sucky mom!! Bullying/picking/teasing goes on because the good kids like your son Asher are just told to put up with it by the teachers who are too lazy to interact and handle the situation! I was picked on for years and I wish my mom had talked to a principal or teacher. The bullies are usually the teachers' favorites so they get away with it. I wouldn't be so quick to allow Asher to hang out with a child who calls him a liar - what kind of friend is that?
I totally agree especially with boys, a boy needs to be able to defend himself. I try to let my kids handle their own battles but sometimes as mom's we have to jump in. My nine year old daughter said that this girl has been picking on her at the bus stop. I can see her bus stop from our porch but can not hear from there. The other day this girl looked like she was being mean to my daughter so I went closer. I heard her tell my daughter that she was too "white". We live a nearly all white neighborhood except for this other childs family. I about lost it you have no idea how bad I wanted to say "why are you sutch a rude little bit**?. But she's nine so I didn't. But what I did do is I started walking twords her house and told her I was going to go talk to her mom. She quickly told my daughter she was sorry and told me her mom wasn't home. My daughter said that she's been really nice ever since.


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Can Ecstasy, Primarily Known as a Club Drug, Help People Suffering From Trauma?
Israeli drug trials are investigating whether MDMA can be a useful psychiatric tool in treating post-traumatic stress disorder
During the Six Day War, a 24-year-old communications officer named Josef was stationed on the front line in the Golan Heights when one morning, a bullet tore between the eyes of his commanding officer. He was a bright and pleasant fellow whom Josef had grown fond of—they had slept beside each other, talked about their families, and worked closely together in the army. Josef was rattled by his death, as he was by the rest of the carnage he witnessed that day, when more than a dozen other young men were killed.
After the war, Josef went back to the kibbutz where he lived with his wife and two children and tried acting like everything was normal, except it wasn't. He became prone to explosions of anger. His marriage fell apart. He felt distrustful of everyone. He remarried and divorced again, and then again. He started abusing drugs. Nothing could shake the memory of what he had experienced that morning in the war and his crippling shame over having survived. "I got hurt mentally in '67," he told me. "I see all kinds of pictures from the event itself. I can smell it."
In the mid-1990s, he began having nightmares. "Every night the same," he said. "It's a dream of a trap I can't get out of. It's called different names, but it's the same place. You see and feel it, heavier and heavier. You can't stop it."
Josef went to see a therapist but scoffed at her recommendation that he take medication; a previous trial with psychiatric drugs had backfired and triggered his violent temper. Nor did he want to become dependent on sleeping pills. He sought help at Beer Yaakov Mental Health Center, half an hour southeast of Tel Aviv, and found out about a clinical trial taking place there to test the effects of MDMA—the drug commonly known as Ecstasy—on post-traumatic stress disorder. He felt he had nothing to lose.
As a patient in the trial, Josef participated in a series of psychotherapy sessions, followed by two days of taking a dose of MDMA with a pair of therapists sitting quietly nearby and monitoring his vital signs. From the outside, it didn't seem like much. Internally, however, what happened to him was unspeakably complex and cathartic. "I didn't become what I'm not, but I had a big release," he said. "I released my guilt: 'Why him and not me? How come I'm alive at all?' Whatever happened, happened, and I can't do anything about it. On the basic level, I got rid of these heavy feelings that I was carrying."
Josef is 70 now and lives in a village in the Galilee overlooking the sea. He speaks about his MDMA experience with a tinge of amusement, aware of how incongruous it must seem that an aging former soldier with 10 grandchildren took a drug best known for fueling all-night dance parties and youthful bacchanalia. For him, of course, it was something entirely different. "It was a kind of salvation," he said. "Those two pills really did it."
Researchers in Israel believe that Josef's experience can be replicated, and that MDMA could become a significant tool in helping those with chronic, intractable PTSD. An official clinical trial that began at Beer Yaakov in February is on track to test the drug's effects on 10 patients within the next two years, one of a number of related studies happening around the world. If the results are positive, MDMA may become known as something far more profound than the impetus for a gazillion teenagers to don neon, wave glow sticks, and grind their teeth all night to ear-splitting bass lines. It could become a vital element of psychiatric care.
If MDMA surmounts its illicit reputation and becomes a prescription medicine—a goal that researchers have been working toward for more than a decade—one might say that it all started with Rick Doblin's bar mitzvah.
Doblin, 59, is the founder of the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies or MAPS, a nonprofit organization that has driven the effort to cultivate a legal, therapeutic context for the use of MDMA and other psychedelic drugs for over 20 years. Doblin grew up in a Conservative Jewish family in suburban Chicago in the 1960s, the kind of heady, engaged household where remembrance of the Holocaust and devotion to Israel got equal billing with complex conversations about the Vietnam War. He was a spiritual seeker from a young age: His personal path was in many ways kick-started by the deflation he felt at his own bar mitzvah.
"My bar mitzvah was pivotal for me because nothing happened," he said. "I was really expecting a spiritual experience, and it was a big shocker for me that my bar mitzvah didn't transform me into a man. I was 17 when I first took LSD, and I had a somewhat difficult time, but I felt like I was engaging a kind of psychic energy that I had anticipated from my bar mitzvah, that deeper spiritual experience that older rituals don't offer most people anymore."
As a student at the New College of Florida, Doblin studied the era of psychedelic research that flourished mid-century and decided that he wanted to become a psychedelic therapist, an unlikely goal since almost all such work had ended with the criminalization of psychedelic drugs amid their explosion in the '60s counterculture. Still, Doblin harbored his dream and became particularly interested in the therapeutic reputation of a substance called MDMA.
Synthesized by German chemists in the early 20th century, MDMA was a compound that didn't have much of a life until the 1970s, when an underground community of therapists discovered its unique ability to reduce anxiety and facilitate openness, and they started exploring its benefits in treatment. By the 1980s, however, it had seeped from therapeutic to recreational settings, where it was renowned for melting inhibitions, pumping out feelings of empathy, and enhancing the sound of dance music. In 1985, it was outlawed.
Yet interest in MDMA's therapeutic potential never really went away, and for Doblin it became deeply personal. In 1986, his grandmother, Leona Perlman, was suffering from unipolar depression, and he suggested to his family that he facilitate a session of MDMA-assisted therapy with her. His parents balked because of the drug's illegality, so Doblin took it himself and sat with her one afternoon at her house on Chicago's west side. ("I figured I would try for a contact high," he said.) As his grandmother declared that she wanted to die, Doblin gently invited anything deeper she wanted to process.
She admitted that there was one thing she'd never found closure around: In 1923, her Orthodox father—Doblin's great-grandfather—had fulfilled a lifelong dream by moving their family from Chicago to Israel, and there she started a romance with a young Jewish man who served in the Palestinian police force. For reasons that were unclear—perhaps because the young man was irreligious or lower class—her parents disapproved of the relationship and sent her alone back to Chicago, where she eventually married the man who would become Doblin's grandfather. Yet she never forgot about that youthful romance, and she showed Doblin an illuminated copy of the Song of Songs, a shriveled rose, and a note the young man had given her for her wedding.
Doblin attributed her revelation of this buried family secret to his own demeanor under the influence of MDMA and the space it afforded his grandmother to open up, and it triggered a mission within him. "I came out of being under the influence of MDMA feeling like we had to get politics out of the way so we can do the science and see what it can actually be helpful for," he said. "We'll never know if MDMA could have helped my grandmother, but I think it could have."
That year, Doblin founded MAPS with the intent of reintroducing MDMA as a prescription drug in the United States and, ultimately, around the world. The Santa Cruz-based organization has since flourished as a nonprofit broadly devoted to drug policy reform, public education, and research on the medical benefits of a wide range of psychedelics as well as marijuana. Yet even as the organization's profile has expanded, it has maintained Doblin's original goal of establishing legal MDMA-assisted psychotherapy as part of its focus.
Because of hurdles to psychedelic research in the United States, Doblin developed an international strategy to try and get MDMA research approved elsewhere. In Israel, he saw not just a place where he had deep personal ties and feelings of kinship, but a country that had already produced some of the world's top PTSD researchers, that had a culture of independent-mindedness, and that frankly harbored a lot of trauma.
"All that meant that we had a really good chance of doing research in Israel that would potentially contribute to the entire field," Doblin said.
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Meg confronts her worst fear after the test results come back.
What Dr. Kadowaki said next was what she least expected.
'Congratulations, Meg," Dr. Kadowaki said. "You're pregnant. You're tests proved positive."
Meg was sppechless. "What? How?" she inquired. "There...there must be some mistake."
"There was no mistake, Meg," Dr. Kadowaki said, gently. "But, I want you to come back every two weeks to check things out."
"Ummm..o-okay," Meg stuttered. "Thanks, Doctor."
"You're welcome, Meg," the doctor said. And with that, Meg walked out of the hospital in low-spirits.
As Meg walked inside the house, she was greeted by her mother.
"Hi. Meg," her mother said. "How was your day?"
"It was...O.K. I guess," Meg said, flatly. "Can I tell...you something?"
"Of course, dear," Mrs. Murry said. "What's wrong."
"Well...I...uhh...I'm..pregnant," Meg whispered.
"Meg," her mother began. "I can't say I'm thrilled about this, but I'm not 'pissed off' either. I want you know, that if you have any questions, or need advice, you can ask me."
"Thank you, mother," Meg said, relieved. "For everything you've done."
"Let me guess...was it with Calvin?" Mrs. Murry teased.
"Umm...yeah?" Meg said, a little sheepishly.
"Don't worry. We'll keep 'daddy' our little secret," Meg's mother said. "Are you going to tell Father, or do you want me to?"
"Umm..could you tell him for me?" Meg asked. "He won't get as mad if you tell him."
"True," Mother said. "Alright. You can go outside for a while if you want. It'll be good for the baby and you."
"Ok," Meg said. "Is it alright if I walk to Calvin's house?"
"Sure, sweetheart," Mother said. "I'll see you later."
"Bye, Mother," Meg said.
"Bye, Meglet," Mrs. Murry said as Meg walked out the door.
Meg knocked on Calvin's door. As she waited for an answer, nightmares began to run through her head. What if Calvin doesn't want the baby? What if he never speaks to her again?
Then he answered the door.
"Meg!" Calvin said, smiling. "To what to do I owe this pleasant surprise?"
"I..uh..need to talk to you," Meg said, frowning. "It's important."
"Sure, Meg," Calvin said. "Let's go sit by that tree." Meg nodded, and followed Calvin to the apple tree on the nearby orchard.
"So, what's the matter?" Calvin asked.
"Well...I'm..pregnant, Calvin," Meg said, worriedly.
Calvin stood there in shock for a few seconds before he smiled ear-to-ear.
"That's great, Meg!" Calvin said, happily. "How long have you known?"
"I found out today," Meg said. "You're happy?"
"Happy? I'm thrilled!" Calvin said, grinning. "Do your parents know?"
"Yes, I told my mom, but my dad...well..mother will tell him," Meg said, blushing.
"I see," Calvin said. "Awwwww...crap! 'Mother' is calling me in for lunch. I'll come over later today."
"Ok," Meg said disappointed. She really wanted to spend time with Calvin. "I'll see you later then, Cal." She gave him a short kiss on the lips, and left.
"So, Meg wanted me to tell you something, Alex," Mrs. Murry said.
"What is it?" Mr. Murry inquired.
"She's pregnant," Mrs. Murry said.
"WHAT?!" Mr. Murry roared. "SHE'S PREGNANT?! AT 17?!"
Mrs. Murry looked at her husband with wide eyes. She was in shock. "Calm down, Alex,"
"No! I will not calm down! I'm going to talk to Meg about this." Alex said.
"Fine," Mrs. Murry said, defeated. "But don't yell at her. I'll be in the garden with the twins." And with that, she walked out of the room.
Just then, Meg walked in the front door. She almost bumped into her mother, since she was not paying attention.
"Oh, sorry, honey," Mrs. Murry said. "Father wants to talk to you."
"Oh, ok," Meg said. "Thank you, Mother."
Meg walked up to her father's room, worried about what he might say.
"Ah, Meg," Father said, coolly. "Your mother told me about our pregnancy."
"Umm...yes, Father," Meg stated. "I am pregnant."
"Mhmm. Meg, did you want to get pregnant?"
"...." Meg was speechless. She did want to do "it" with Calvin, but if she said that, her Father would kill her.
"Well? Did you?" her father pressed. "Be honest with me, Meg."
"Umm...uhh....y-y-ye-yes," she said, sheepishly. Then he hit her. Even harder than the last time. When she looked up at him, he hit her again. This time, with a lamp.
"What kind of IDIOT are you?! Getting pregnant at 17!" her father roared.
Meg started to sob heavily as her father continued to hit her chest and slap her.
"Stop it! Stop crying! You've no right to snivel like a child!" Meg's father shouted.
Finally, when she couldn't take it anymore, Meg blacked out on the floor.


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Can You Really Evade a Bloodhound by Crossing a River?
The tracking prowess of Bloodhounds has been a staple of crime literature since 1890 when Sir Arthur Conan Doyle introduced "Toby" in The Sign of the Four. In fact, from Doyle's descriptions some might argue that the breed possesses almost magical ability to follow a scent trail. Well, if you define having over 4 billion olfactory receptor cells as being "magical" then I guess I'd agree. You see, the human body is constantly shedding millions of dead skin cells as we move around. These cells contain a unique scent that the dog can identify us by. It's as if we are dropping radio isotopes and the bloodhound is a Geiger counter. Their over sized floppy ears and never ending supply of saliva maximize their ability to stir up and capture the cells from the ground as they track nose down to the ground.
Bloodhounds have been bred to track and I have watched them find evidence when no other breed could. Over my career I've had the good fortune to work with several outstanding dogs and handlers who have literally tracked criminals to their front door step. They have tracked moving vehicles for dozens of miles, found bodies under water, and even grave sites in flood ravaged areas. A well-trained dog and handler and an invaluable asset to a law enforcement agency.
But if you watch enough television you might think that this amazing animal has an Achille's heel. If you're a bad guy being chased by bloodhounds all you have to do is cross a river and you're home free right? Wrong. I'm not sure how this idea came to be so common. Perhaps as authors we simply can't fathom a Superman without a Kryptonite. Every great character has to have some fallibility otherwise they seem too good to be true right? Whatever the reason, the idea that crossing a river ends the chase is simply not true.
In the movies it's always a small river too; never the Mississippi. Imagine a group of rough and tough lawmen chasing a murderer when to their shock and horror the trail ends at a small river bank. "Weeeeell shucks! That son-of-a-gun crossed through this knee deep water! He's gone for sure now. Let's call it a night and head to Dunkin' Donuts". God help us all if law enforcement ever gets to that point.
The fact of the matter is that bloodhounds can track a scent over water. It's true that the moving water will carry a scent down-stream but this is only an issue if the bad guy is moving upstream (away from the scent). Coupled with that is the fact that even if a bad guy wanted to travel through a river there are several things that work to his or her disadvantage. As any fly fisherman will attest; walking along a stream bed is tricky. The rocky bottom is uneven and slippery; and then there's the current. In places like Colorado the water can be just above freezing even in the Summer at some elevations! The fact of the matter is that you slow your speed of escape tremendously in water and this is not what the bad guy wants. Sooner or later they have to get out and onto dry land again.
This is why a good bloodhound handler simply works the banks. In all likelihood the suspect will leave signs of disturbance like shoe impressions or damaged vegetation that even a rookie could find. If by some chance he gets out on some rocks the bad guy is still shedding skin cells and a well-trained bloodhound will quickly recover the scent. In a way, I suppose we should encourage all criminals to wade into rivers if for no other reason than to slow down their escape. But if you're planning on using this scenario in a novel just be aware that it doesn't work well unless you're cops are jonesin for a doughnut fix!
Posted on August 14, 2011, in Characters, The Crime Scene and tagged bloodhound, Crime Scene, detective, fiction, forensics, man tracking, murder, mystery, police, thriller, tom adair. Bookmark the permalink. 18 Comments.
Another great article! I always learn the most fascinating things from your posts.
The TV show, MYTHBUSTERS, has done a number of segments on the various ways a criminal can supposedly avoid being tracked by a bloodhound. Each method was tested against bloodhounds with professional trainers, and I don't recall a single instance when the dog was confused by a trick to hide the scent.
Probably the most remarkable evidence I've seen of the power of a dog's nose was two cadaver dogs who were brought in separately with different handlers into a B&B room where a woman had been killed and wasn't discovered for several days. Both dogs found the scent exactly where the body was found.
What is remarkable is the crime was almost a hundred years old, and the room had gone through an incredible number of cleanings and several remodelings since as well as being occupied by many people.
Interesting post!! Thanks!
I wonder why too many seem to be using labs. As one who lives altogether too near one I can attest that they seem too stupid to use for anything except to annoy the world (even their dumb owners once they got a life) and yet that seems to be the type dog used in my area. I'd love to hear your take on that as I want to remark on them in a novel & compare their stupidity to intelligent dogs like bloodhounds.
My untrained bloodhound is 28″ and weighs 120lbs. She is a big one. She can track anyone just by smelling an article of clothes. That is what they do. The training part deals with reading the dog and keeping the dog focused. We cannot keep up with her, so we just play around in the fenced acre we have. She will cross track on her own. The cross tracking means that they will come to a circle back trail and turn to follow the freshest scent. Even if it is only fresher by a few minutes. She can also pick up scent in the air and will turn in that direction and then pick up the ground scent again. They do not back-track, but maybe they could be trained to do so. I don't know. It is fun to just watch her track my husband or a friend. When we were camping last summer my husband and I both had to go up to the bathhouse. He went ahead while I waited a few minutes. We were going to change off on the dog. When I headed out with her on the road, she picked up his scent (on her own) and followed it directly (through the grass and not the road) to the mens room and just went on in. Fortunately she was on a really long leash!!!
I forgot to mention that she is pretty much useless for anything else. A guard dog she isn't. Her size might intimidate someone, but to sic her on someone will only get them licked!
I have a question for you.A man came to my door with a gun held to me the police dog tracked his scent and then lost it at the river.So is it only blood hounds that can track them even if they went through the water? In this case I don't believe the police did enough to try and pick up the scent on the other side of the river,and I'm sorry but I was so upset I don't know if this dog was a blood hound or not.Thank you for your help with my question.Have a great day.Dolores Colorado
This has been fascinating, thank you so much. I am pretty unsophisticated with blogs so I hope you see this even though the original post is rather old.
In my story line a young man runs, not necessarily from the law but as far from home as he can get. He is bleeding and heads to an empty barn, perhaps going through the creek, but if so by necessity, not to hide his scent. The whole thing takes place nearly a century ago in a rural area. No bloodhounds available, but likely hunting dogs. Is it possible for a family member to divert the dogs, perhaps at the creek, by using something with the young man's scent to lead them up a trail to a road? Once the young man realizes he has to try to hide his scent, is there anything simple he could do, or someone else could do for him, again assuming the dogs are not trained for this?


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OKLAHOMA CITY – The Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta is recalling 800,000 doses of the H1N1 vaccine. About 600 doses of the 800,000 were shipped to four private physicians in Oklahoma County.
The vaccine in question came in pre-filled syringes intended for young children ages six months to three years. The CDC is recalling the doses made by Sanofi Pasteur because that batch of vaccines is slightly below specifications for antigen potency.
Around 70 total private physicians across the state received the vaccines and immediately pulled them from shelves after they were notified.
Oklahoma City-County Health Department (OCCHD) Public Safety Chief Phillip Maytubby said Oklahoma children are at no risk.
"As soon as we got the alert about the recall we notified those physicians within minutes and advised them to pull those doses from their refrigerators for shipment back to CDC," says OCCHD Vaccine Coordinator Paula Wall.
The state identified at least 1,800 children who were vaccinated with the lot.
"It's a safe vaccine, it's just less potent. That's the reason the vaccine is being pulled because of potency issues," said Don Blose with the Oklahoma State Department of Health.
The lots passed potency tests when first shipped, but tests show the vaccine lost potency over time. The vaccine is given in two doses about a month apart. Children who've already had the first dose should be okay.
"It still has some efficiency or effectiveness to it if you would. So they are not recommending that anybody, any child that's received any of these lot numbers be revaccinated," Blose said.
But if your child has been vaccinated with the first dose, they still need to follow up with the booster shot. It will come from unaffected lot numbers.
"They will just go through the normal process like they would have normally done anyway," said Phil Maytubby with the Oklahoma City-County Health Department.
State officials say the virus has peaked in Oklahoma... and right now the cases are dropping... but they don't want people to get complacent. They say it could spike again... so now is the time to get vaccinated... there's plenty of vaccine on hand for anyone who needs it.
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60 Seconds: Thoughts on Super Bowl Aftermath
Mission Local By Marta Franco The police department is increasing its presence across the city on Sunday to prevent any problems that a Super Bowl celebration could cause. Last week, SFPD Capt. Robert Moser said that "a significant amount" of resources are being directed specifically to the Mission District. We asked neighbors and merchants if […] [Read More]
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Mission Local By: Melissa Fabroso and Jeff Bendrell This video was produced in Mission Local's August 2012 video workshop. If you're interested in signing up for our next class, email us at firstname.lastname@example.com. Check out the scenes from a Mission salsa lesson. [Read More]
Protestors Threaten Muni Shutdown, Cause Delays
Mission Local Updated at 8:15 a.m. Protests are threatening to shut down Muni today, and have already disrupted service as a dozen police officers stand by. As of 8:05 a.m., the group that had shrunk to two dozen protestors was in front of SFMTA's downtown building, while disrupted lines had resumed. Commuters should still expect delays inbound […] [Read More]
Friend Remembers Man Fatally Shot on 16th Street
Mission Loc@l By Noah Arroyo The young man who was gunned down outside the Double Dutch bar on June 9 wasn't supposed to be out that night, one of his best friends said. Lorenzo Jimenez usually worked the night shift. That day, however, he worked a friend's early shift to help out, and decided to […] [Read More]
SFPD: Unreported Sexual Assault Similar to Earlier Case
Mission Local By Hélène Goupil San Francisco police said they have identified the victim of a possible sexual assault on 19th and Capp streets. Investigators have also found there are similarities between the previously unreported incident and a sexual assault case that was reported to police on June 15. Police said that they started an […] [Read More]
"Mexican Spring" Comes to San Francisco
Mission Local By Rigoberto Hernandez Yo Soy 132, a student movement in Mexico that many have dubbed as the "Mexican Spring" and the "Mexican Occupy" gathered in San Francisco Tuesday to demand fair coverage of the upcoming presidential and congressional elections. More than 100 protesters marched outside Univision's downtown headquarters to support the ever-growing movement […] [Read More]
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Mark Wahlberg headlines this biopic about boxer Irish Mickey Ward , which follows Ward's unlikely path to becoming a world lightweight champion. Pitt's Eklund is Mickey's half-brother, a talented boxer in his own right who went the distance with Sugar Ray Leonard in a title fight. In the film, he helps his underperforming brother make a remarkable run that leads to the world title.
The film, written by Scott Silver and being directing by Darren Aronofsky, will go into production after Pitt finishes work on the Universal Pictures film State of Play.
The Fighter was released December 10th, 2010 and stars Christian Bale, Mark Wahlberg, Amy Adams, Melissa Leo, Dendrie Taylor, Jack McGee, Jenna Lamia, Bianca Hunter. The film is directed by David O. Russell.


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What's your excuse for not pursuing your passion?
Mr. Smith talked about all kinds of excuses we are making for not going for it in life. I have many tiered dreams in life, and while some are checked off (like working abroad), others still need to be (like changing the world). I find myself thinking that there are too many gatekeepers in the world and too much potential for environmental destruction (i.e. putting out a certain product), so I am always rethinking my "passion", and hoping that I don't come across something where others or the world have to suffer just because of my own ego / narcissistic need to self-actualize.
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Mar 19 2012: I actually stumbled onto this topic as I was going to post a topic that's very similar. My excuse for not pursuing my passion is my age. I'm scared that since I'm so young everything I do will be awful and I won't even know it. I feel as though it's impossible for me to be successful at my passion and do it justice now, so why even try? That being said, I'm trying anyways because I think that I can do it, but the self-doubt that creeps up every time I think about how old I am and whether or not the ideas I have are childish is enough to cause me to make tons of excuses as to why I'm not trying harder.
Mar 19 2012: Hi Kari, I think you just have to do it even if for the practice of doing scary things. The sting of embarrassment, rejection etc. seems horrible, but it is a kind of education and perspective that you would NEVER get just sitting on your @$$. This understanding eventually forms a powerful arsenal for How to Deal With People later in life. So, it's realistic and smart of you to understand there are ageists out there who will prevent you from going further regardless of your ability, but you must, for the sake of exercising your passion, act when you're feeling it! And practice.
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1999, Journal of Medicine backs Todd Akin's claim that Rape Pregnancies Are Rare?
"In an average population, the miscarriage rate is about 15 percent. In this case we have incredible emotional trauma. Her body is upset. Even if she conceives, the miscarriage rate will be higher than in a more normal pregnancy. If 20 percent of raped women miscarry, the figure drops to 450 (or 740)."
"Finally, factor in what is certainly one of the most important reasons why a rape victim rarely gets pregnant, and that's physical trauma. Every woman is aware that stress and emotional factors can alter her menstrual cycle. To get and stay pregnant a woman's body must produce a very sophisticated mix of hormones."
Read more: christianliferesources.com
Research done by the "New England Journal of Medicine" and "Mahkorn & Dolan, "Sexual Assault & Pregnancy."
New England Journal of Medicine research: Sexual Dysfunction during Rape: nejm.org
This is the main article that talks about it which Akin must have read. His wording was off but it takes a bit of an IQ to understand what he meant without going nuts over it.
Webster dictionary= RAPE: (transitive verb) "1 a archaic: to seize and take away by FORCE" Majority of people like to vote for Politicians that want to "force"(RAPE) their views on others. In US just like most countries Rape means force, and many find it odd that Americans likes to be raped or rape another. Akin is guilty of wanting to rape (force) his views on others just like the Republicans and Democrats. Nit picking on what they want to rape does not make it less rape. As Obama said "Rape is Rape" and he wants to "force" (you know synonymous with rape) laws that most don't want. The word for rape is force in most countries, but only in America did they slowly change the meaning over time so that people feel better about being raped.
Regarding the recent Todd Akin's comments the same site had a follow up article:
"Akin suggested that the emotional trauma of a rape creates some sort of natural birth control reflex in a woman's body. He does not say pregnancies never occur, but in fairness he does not acknowledge that fact either."
"Is it true that the trauma of the rape reduces the chances for pregnancy?
I have yet to see a study that demonstrates some sort of contraceptive effect from a rape. I do believe, however, it is not an unwarranted conclusion."
"Pregnancy is rare after a single act of forcible rape. In a prospective study of 4000 rapes in Minnesota, there were no pregnancies. In a retrospective study covering nine years in Chicago, there were no pregnancies. In a prospective study of 117 rapes there were no pregnancies among either the 17 victims who received DES or the 100 who did not."
"I would counsel Akin to focus on that larger picture and leave the emotionally distorting event of pregnancy from a rape for a later day when society is better educated. "
Society better educated? Well that may be so since the IQ of most went as low into the mud and their loyalty got stuck in the mud as well. As misspoken Akins words are people's reactions indicate that they are at least 1 out of "16 Signs That People Are Becoming Stupider"
It also stated "Hard to conclude anything but thoughtlessness to speak of a "legitimate rape," as if there were any other kind of rape. In a world of sound bites Akin got bit. But is there such a thing as an "illegitimate rape"?"
Yes real rape getting raped for real, fake rape saying you were raped when it was consensual. Example is the next link.
Rape victim says:
"I was forcibly raped in 2001. It happened while I was ovulating. I was scared to death that I would become pregnant. When I asked the physician what my chances of being pregnant, he handed me a AMA journal that highlighted a study done in 1999. That study was done concerning all the reported rape cases in Minnesota. Not a single case resulted in a pregnancy. I also did not get pregnant, and thankfully I didn't get an STD either.
I now work in a rape recovery center in a major city. I have met with women who claim to have gotten pregnant while raped. These women tend to be 16 or 17 year old girls with their parents standing over them. When I get them alone and they open up, all of them said the sex was consensual. They were going through the motions because they didn't want to upset their parents. In the last 6 years, I have never seen a true rape case result in pregnancy."
So what the rape victim stated is that women lie to say it's rape from talking to many other rape victims, and from the "original" medical journal stated too much trauma "might" hurt the body be pregnant but nothing solid to prove it, despite saying no pregnancies emerged form rape.
Akin confused the article in a way and people should also look at the research they present. Since the report of rape and pregnancies will skyrocket (fake rapes) so that they can have an abortion if you can only get one that way by law. Statistics will then be manipulated by women for personal gains to have an abortion. what Todd Akin believes and wants laws to impose should be 2 different reasons which he should stick to what he believes for himself and what others believe for themselves.
CNN commented on the 1999 article.
""What we know is that chronic stress can decrease fertility," said Dr. Sharon Phelan, a fellow at the American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG)…"
"While the stress associated with rape may not lower a victim's risk of becoming pregnant, rapists often do not ejaculate, thereby decreasing their victims' risk of pregnancy, said Phelan."
People have to think how the research was done on what the motives were then and now. Todd Akin was off a bit in his wording but generally its the original research that should be the target. Research usually can be tainted and it gets worse year by year due to political reasons. Even now Dr. John C. Willke commented still saying its "just downright unusual" to get pregnant from rape.
At least some sites went after the source while other sites attack only Akin as if he made it up or the Huffington Post that makes insensitive rape jokes where the masses laugh.Todd Akin Legitimate Rape Kit or Legitimate Rape Song
The GOP is not that stupid and they never wanted Akin out for many political reasons.
Palin comments on what she thinks. and Good Morning America he states "I don't know the future"
If you need help in how to determine yourself what is true or not see.
(NOTE: pro or anti sites both make extreme arguments which point to "scientific" research. The point is science is not perfect and changes, and that definitions or understanding the definitions are changed for political reasons.
And if we take away science to deal with just factual definitions of rape for example, then many are for laws that rape (force) people. This applies to the far left and far right of political commentary. Local news is a bit more honest than global corporate news. For example "The left-right illusion" http://pix11.com/2013/01/08/left-right-illusion/ )


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118/365 (09.26.11) on Flickr.
Work then run. TheEnd.
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118/365 (09.26.11) on Flickr.
Work then run. TheEnd.
Another day down. This is the park I have been running at (and where most of my recent pics have been taken). Didn't come out super well since it was overcast and like 7pm. Meh.
79/365 (08.18.11) on Flickr.
Went running again at the park after work today. It was such a nice day with an amazing breeze so I just sat in the shaded grass after my run (4-5miles).


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Civilization 2400: A glimpse at life 400 years into the future
By Dick Pelletier
What might life be like in 400
years? Those who ponder such things, futurists and other
forward-thinkers suggest exciting and sometimes fantastic
At a recent Stanford
conference, acclaimed futurist Ray Kurzweil predicted that
information technologies will double 30 times in the next 25
years, increasing knowledge a billion-fold from that of today.
By mid-century, other experts claim, humans could begin merging
with their machines in hopes of living life in a forever-young
non-biological body without fear of unwanted death.
If we extend Kurzweil's formula
from 25 to 400 years, the following sci-fi-like future could
– Cutting-edge biotech and nanotech were credited with
decreasing death rates from 50 million in 2008 to 35 million by
2020, 5 million by 2030; and zero deaths were recorded in 2050.
Birthrates quickly diminished
during the 21st century. Bringing babies into the world to
"continue family lines" didn't make sense when parents realized
that indefinite lifespans were becoming reality. But
space-dwellers are still encouraged to have children to populate
their colonies.
Earth population reached 6.7
billion in 2008; by 2050 this figure increased to 9 billion.
Humanity's first off-world baby was born on Mars in the 2030s
during construction of the red planet's first colony,
Only 3 billion people remain on
Earth in 2400. More than 8 billion have migrated from the planet
to create a better life for themselves in space colonies
scattered throughout the galaxy.
By mid-21st century,
non-biological bodies were accepted by most people as a much
better way to live. People felt more secure in a body that
automatically repaired itself when damaged. And changing body
size and adding new physical enhancements was especially helpful
to those living on other worlds with different gravity and
– By 2100, scientists harnessed 100% of the Earth's energy,
giving researchers the power to control weather and develop
near-light-speed spaceships. By 2200, we utilized all of our
sun's energy, enabling explorers to build colonies on planets
outside our solar system. By 2300, we began mining energy from
other stars, acquiring the huge power necessary to format
By mid-24th century,
technicians launched the first information probe backwards in
time through a wormhole. Scientists can now send nanobots back
in time to retrieve minds from lost loved ones just before they
died, allowing them to continue living in our time. Immortality
has been achieved.
– SETI Director Seth Shostak believes other beings exist in
space and some day we will find them. Though it's impossible to
predict when contact might happen and what aliens will look
like, for this article we will imagine the following scenario:
In 2350, explorers discovered
intelligent life on the planet Garth, 2,000 light-years from
Earth. Teleporting through wormholes, the first Earth/Garth
meeting convened on Mars in 2400. Garthlings were peaceful,
friendly, and like us, could change their body's appearance. For
this meeting, everyone assumed the "human look". Plans were laid
for future joint explorations.
these events happen? In the 21st century,
advances in technologies promise to end sickness, aging and
death, and usher in greater-than-human intelligence.
Forward-thinkers believe these breakthroughs will carry humanity
into this amazing "magical future" time.
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Governor Signs Tougher, Local Puppy Mill Bill
Albany - (WALK) Local governments may now enact powerful legislation to protect the well-being of animals under provisions of a bill now in effect in New York State.
The legislation was approved by the New York State Senate and Assembly last year, and signed into law this month by Governor Andrew Cuomo. Its Senate sponsor, Ken LaValle (R-Port Jefferson) says New York's existing "Pet Dealer" law regulates dog breeders' methods, but wasn't tough enough to eliminate unregulated puppy mills.
The new law, now in effect, gives local municipalities the right to take stronger action immediately to go beyond the Pet Dealer Act to investigate conditions, protect animals, and prosecute law breakers.
"I'm hopeful that local governments can now take the lead in enacting resolutions to stringently regulate and license pet dealers, so the reputable breeders can continue to supply healthy, happy dogs and cats to families," said LaValle. "This legislation sends a strong message that animal cruelty will not be tolerated in this state."
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The journal of the English preacher and founder of Methodism, John Wesley. Posted as a blog from his journals from 1737 onwards. Please note that this is posted as if "in real time" so there will be wide gaps where Wesley's journal falls silent for a while. In these gaps I may post other excerpts of interest from his writings.
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Thursday, 25th July 1745
I came back safe, blessed be God, to Bristol. I found both my soul and body much refreshed in this peaceful place. Thursday, August 1, and the following days, we had our second Conference, with as many of our brethren that labor in the Word as could be present.
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Hello Seymour- Interesting blog. Would you be interested in helping write a book chapter on John and Charles Wesley, for an upcoming Christian history book? Please email me.
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