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Trustkill Records has launched a complete preview of "Singularity", the debut album from Manassas, Virginia's ADVERSARY. Due on November 11, the CD was recorded at Assembly Line Studios in Vienna, Virginia with Kevin "131" Gutierrez (RAVEN, DYSRHYTHMIA) at the helm and contains "ten tracks of intense, riff-heavy, bone-crushing power," according to a press relase.ADVERSARY "infuse a distinctly American sensibility into their groove heavy brand of metal. When the band was in the studio recording 'Singularity', Trustkill caught wind of them and without hesitation made them an offer, the band immediately inked the deal with the label. Together they plan to catapult this infectious, vitriolic sound into the consciousness of the heavy music adoring masses." Commented ADVERSARY's Brad Ryder: "When we started this band it was with the intention of doing everything, from songwriting to business, the right way. Accepting the offer from Trustkill was an easy decision. We now have on our side one of the biggest independent labels in the heavy music world, and one that understands what we have to offer to heavy music." Trustkill's Josh Grabelle added: "It has been a long time since I've heard a band come out of nowhere with 10 songs of absolute metal perfection. ADVERSARY are not the sound of today, they are the sound of tomorrow. Classic metal that even the most finicky of listeners will no doubt appreciate. We are excited to see what happens with ADVERSARY when everyone hears the music!" ADVERSARY is: William Clapp - Vocals
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Fox have moved James Cameron's new movie AVATAR's release date back to December 18th 2009.
That is the same pre-Christmas weekend on which TITANIC was released in 1997.
So far Avatar is the only film scheduled for that release date.
According to film magazine Empire, the movie has been put back to allow Cameron more time to work on the "incredibly complex" post-production of the movie.
This means that the film will have 18 months worth of post-production work.
Reuters claims that by waiting until December, the 3-D movie will be able to take advantage of a growing number of 3-D cinema screens.
Current estimates suggest that there will be 4,000 3-D screens in place throughout the US by May 2009.
There are no firm estimates for how many will be available in Europe and Asia.
The $200 million (£97.8 million) film features 12 computer generated characters and charts a band of humans struggling to survive against a planets indigenous inhabitants.
It stars Zoe Saldana, Sigourney Weaver, Giovanni Ribisi and Michelle Rodriguez.
Speaking to Hollywood Reporter about the film, Cameron said: "My goal is to rekindle those amazing mystical moments my generation felt when we first saw 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY, or the next generation's Star Wars.
"It took me 10 years to find something hard enough to be interesting."
He added that if he could pull it off AVATAR would be "the coolest film ever made".
Speaking to Variety, Jim Gianopoulos, co-chairman of Fox, stated that the advantage of 3-D movies is that they "pull the audience in".
According to the magazine, Cameron reportedly waited so long to make another film after TITANIC because he wanted to make his next project in 3-D and had to wait for the technology to catch up.
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The domino effect.
It's a Theory
Economics is not my thing, although I did once enjoy a money and banking lecture from a former Bank of England official, who worked at the Bank in 1992 when hedge funds, led by George Soros, attempted to take down the English pound. As the official tells it, the Bank was publicly brave in its statements but privately terrified. Soros had it rattled. With good reason, too--because of hedge funds' selling pressure, the Bank was forced to devalue the pound by removing it from the European Exchange Rate Mechanism.
Martin Wolf of Financial Times, on the other hand, understands economics quite well. Unhappily, he has a disturbing thesis. In "The emerging risks of ticking time bonds," Wolf argues that investment managers have replaced banks as the danger zone of finance. Leaning on research from Princeton economist Hyun Song Shin, Wolf worries that the global investment community has become addicted to emerging-markets bonds. And vice versa--emerging countries have become addicted to readily available foreign capital.
This pattern was not healthy when banks were the main source of money to emerging markets. The money spigot from banks does not flow at a consistent rate. Late in economic cycles, when capital is least needed by borrowers, it is most readily available from banks. Conversely, money tightens, sometimes to the point of unavailability, during recessions, when risk avoidance becomes the prime goal. This of course is when capital is most needed.
Wolf fears that the evolution in financing, from banks offering loans (the previous regime) to investment managers purchasing bonds (the current regime), has not improved matters. The lending pattern remains firmly pro-cyclical. Writes Wolf, "As the Fed is expected to tighten, the dollar will rise, prices of dollar bonds will fall and dollar funding will reverse. As the bonds they issued lose value, [emerging-markets] borrowers will be forced to post more domestic currency as collateral. That will squeeze their cash flows and trigger a downturn in corporate spending." The result will be recessions in emerging countries; a "doom loop" in Wolf's words.
In such an event, the doom loop would surely also swallow the stocks of developing markets. They likely would not decline as far, but emerging markets have become so large and so connected with other economies that there would be few places to hide with a stock portfolio.
This thesis worries me twice over. First, Wolf is not one to cry his name. If James Grant, for example, writes that terrible things are on the horizon, I won't fuss. Grant is by nature a pessimist who constantly foresees a future that is more dismal than the future that actually arrives. Wolf, on the other hand, is parsimonious with his predictions of doom. For example, when Wolf reviewed Nouriel Roubini's early 2008 forecast of a collapse in the housing market rending the financial sector, he concluded that Roubini was "excessively pessimistic."
Second, with the recent economic strengthening and the Federal Reserve pondering how to end its program of quantitative easing (QE), Wolf's trigger point may come sooner rather than later. Yes, ending QE is not the same as raising short-term rates, but it's a step in that direction. The next step from there would be the higher rates that Wolf believes will begin the domino effect.
Those things said, Wolf's theory does require a fair amount of speculation. As Wolf acknowledges, global asset flows are difficult to track. Returns on emerging-markets bonds and stocks, of course, are straightforward to gather. But as asset flows from investment managers are not, it's all a bit of a guess as to the relationship between the two.
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AIDS in Africa
million AIDS deaths already in the worst affected countries. Without
care and treatment, there will be 68 million more between now and
2020." The global figures on AIDS are terrifying, but the first
reaction of a number of world experts (of other diseases) to the
above announcement at the International AIDS Conference in Barcelona,
July 2002, was indignation. They protested that Peter Piot, executive
director of UNAIDS, must be stealing some of his figures from "their
diseases." Such is politics in the international health community.
on a grander scale has prevented a rational and effective response
to the AIDS pandemic, which is killing up to a quarter of many southern
African countries' populations. The real scandal is not the
unseemly scrambling after donor funds, but the imperceptible impact
of international and national responses to AIDS over two decades
of intense and costly activity. In its sobering 2002 report, UNAIDS
states that prevalence is climbing higher than ever previously believed
possible. It is spreading rapidly into new populations in Africa,
Asia, the Caribbean, and Eastern Europe.
third of Zimbabwe's population is infected and the epidemic
continues to expand even in countries that already had extremely
high HIV prevalence. In Botswana for example, the country with the
highest HIV infection rates in the world, almost 39 percent of all
adults are now living with HIV, up from less than 36 percent 2 years
we doing something wrong? Is the approach ill founded or even fatally
flawed? Neither UNAIDS nor any of its partners are even asking the
question let alone revising their strategies.
A Neo-liberal Approach
over 20 years now, the international AIDS community has persisted
in a reductionist obsession with individual behavior and an implicit
acceptance of a deeply flawed and essentially racist theory.
line with neo-liberal doctrine, it has explained the spread of AIDS—and
the extremely high prevalences in sub-Saharan Africa—in terms
of individual sexual behavior. It has exaggerated the extent to
which people control their lives and circumstances and ignored larger
macroeconomic and political factors and poverty-induced population
vulnerability in terms of seriously weakened immune systems. The
insistence on analyzing this colossal public health catastrophe
in terms of individual behavior has correspondingly restricted the
response to action at the individual level, usually promotion of
safer sex, condom use, and education for prevention.
the impact of these peripheral efforts has been insignificant, although
tired old success stories are still regularly wheeled out for display.
As long as the root causes of AIDS continue to be neglected, such
efforts will remain cosmetic, unsustainable, and exceptions. Average
HIV prevalences in the adult population of most sub-Saharan African
countries are 25 percent. The figures for Europe and most of the
industrialized world are still under 0.1 percent and, in many cases,
under 0.01 percent. Individual behavior cannot possibly account
for this enormous difference, which would imply that people in some
African countries have at least 250 and even 2,500 times more unprotected/unsafe
sex than people in Europe, the U.S., or Australia.
absurdity of this proposition, which has its origins in racist mythology,
is not confronted because assumptions about sexual behavior are
usually implicit. Myths thrive precisely because they are unstated
and therefore rarely subjected to scrutiny. Running parallel to
this dubious proposition is the perverse refusal to confront the
obvious, such as the almost perfect "coincidence" of high
prevalence of HIV/AIDS (and all the diseases of poverty) with the
poorest regions of the earth.
epidemic of gigantic proportions is taking hold in Southeast Asia,
home to an even larger number of powerless and poverty stricken
people. It will be interesting to see if any notion of structural
violence is at last invoked to advance our understanding of the
dynamics of the pandemic or if we will discover that previously
quite "well-behaved" Asians are as "promi- scuous"
as Africans.
fundamental public health lessons of the past 150 years are known
even to lay people. It is well understood that the overall health
status of populations and their capacity to fight off infection
is related primarily to food, water, sanitation, and housing. According
to an article by E. Stillwaggon, "HIV/AIDS in Africa: Fertile
Terrain," published in the
Journal of Development Studies
(August 2002): "A century of clinical practice demonstrates
that people with nutritional deficiencies, parasitic diseases, generally
poor health and little access to health services or who are otherwise
economically disadvantaged have greater susceptibility to infectious
diseases whether they are transmitted sexually, by food, water,
air or other means."
in the case of HIV/AIDS, seriously deficient immune systems have
been ignored as a factor of vulnerability and determinant of the
high levels of infection in desperately poor populations.
dictum, "the microbe is nothing, the terrain is everything,"
is still the best summary of century-old public health wisdom. The
focus on individual behavior is almost as absurd in the response
to AIDS as it would be if it were applied to the response to tuberculosis.
A sound public health approach to TB does not exhort people in high
prevalence areas not to breathe too much on each other—not
understanding that they are breathing more or less like every other
human being on earth. It addresses the sanitary, nutritional, and
housing arrangements, which determine their high vulnerability.
and having sex—though not quite in the same category—can
both reasonably be seen as everyday human behaviors. The peculiar
focus on the exotic, the unusual, the immoral, and the illegal has
obscured the simple fact that AIDS is overwhelmingly transmitted
through heterosexual, penetrative, vaginal sex. Few people know
that when AIDS hit the headlines as a "gay plague" in
California it was already a well established heterosexual epidemic
in Africa. The unimportance, in the eyes of the world, of African
people in general, and of African women in particular, may partly
explain this neglect. The common sense interpretation of the facts
is that high risk physical and economic environments, coupled with
dangerously weakened immune systems, leave people highly susceptible
to all kinds of infections including HIV.
A Racist Theory?
fight against AIDS in Africa has been dominated by long-standing
Western prejudices against African sexuality and cultural practices.
A striking example was in the early 1980s, when speculation about
the Haitian origin of AIDS and the role of bizarre voodoo practices
led to a wave of anti-Haitian discrimination. As with Jamaica, the
Dominican Republic, and Trinidad, it turned out that tourists (mainly
U.S. homosexuals) were the most likely source of virus transmission.
It has been pointed out that in the absence of penicillin, the war-ravaged
Europe of the late 1940s would have been devastated by epidemics
of syphilis and gonorrhea.
international AIDS community has pursued a singularly unsuccessful
strategy with religious conviction, rather than with good science
or even common sense. Evidence, in the rather odious academic area
known euphemistically as "sexual networking," is flimsy.
Rates of sexual activity do not appear to vary much between populations
(though of course there are always groups within populations who
either take more risks or have more risks imposed on them). What
seems to emerge from the literature with consistency is that multiple,
mostly serial, casual, and unprotected sex is common in Africa,
Europe, the U.S., and parts of Asia, with most men everywhere having
more partners than most women (WHO 1995).
rates/types of sexual activity do not appear to have a clear relation
with prevalence of HIV infection. A major multi-site study undertaken
by UNAIDS in four sub-Saharan African cities showed that most parameters
of risky sexual behavior were not consistently more common in the
high HIV prevalence sites than in the relatively low prevalence
Gender Diversions
implicit assumption that African people have more or less "brought
it on themselves" through their "promiscuity" has
evolved through a superficial, neo-liberal gender analysis into
a much more explicit accusation of African men. If such an apolitical
gender debate has resulted in shifting the blame from all African
people to all African men, it has failed. No one disputes that women,
particularly in developing countries, are not only biologically
more vulnerable to sexually transmitted infections including HIV,
but they are also acutely vulnerable socially, culturally and economically.
Women have to exchange sex for material favors for their own and
their children's survival in many poor countries. For as long
as they do not control when, where, with whom, with or without protection,
they have sex—they will be at risk.
women in Europe are clearly at far less risk than men in Africa.
If we take as a rough indicator of risk, the average prevalences
of less than 0.1 percent and 25 percent for Europe and Africa respectively,
it becomes clear that neither individual behavior nor gender inequality
accounts for the spread and pattern of the pandemic. Sound feminist
analysis, rooted in social justice, recognizes oppression of women
in poor countries within the context of the oppression of entire
communities of men, women, and children, none of whom have any meaningful
control over their lives.
in sub-Saharan Africa carry a risk of contracting HIV infection
at a rate 500-1,000-fold compared to women in the rest of the world.
This is quite a large difference to explain in terms of African
and European male sexual behavior.
A Disease Of Poverty
common with all sexually transmitted infections (STIs), HIV/AIDS
has a particular relationship to poverty. The poor are more vulnerable
to HIV infection than the rich—notwithstanding transient vulnerabilities
of richer men who can afford to use prostitutes—of which much
has been made. The fact remains that 95 percent of infections are
in developing countries; and more than 70 percent are in sub-Saharan
Africa where over 80 percent of the deaths have occurred. Women
are more vulnerable than men; young women are far more vulnerable
(4 to 5 times) than young men. Oppressed and marginalized "minorities"—blacks
and Hispanics in the U.S., refugees and street children everywhere—are
more vulnerable than dominant majorities.
are plausible explanations, in terms of biological vulnerability,
for the very high rates of HIV transmission among poor populations.
The major biological factors of interest are malnutrition and chronic
co-infection with other diseases of poverty, notably, parasitic
infection, tuberculosis, malaria, and other tropical diseases. These
factors are known to seriously impair and interfere with immune
function, and to be responsible for the bulk of infectious disease—whether
bacterial, viral, or parasitic.
thesis that is proposed for the huge variation in prevalence between
countries is that HIV-negative people whose immune systems are weakened
by poor nutrition and constantly challenged by co-infections are
more vulnerable to HIV infection; and that HIV-positive people,
in the same condition, are more infectious to others. The result
is high population transmission rates.
is no shortage of evidence on the adverse, even devastating effects
of malnutrition, under-nutrition, and specific nutritional deficiencies
on immune function, susceptibility to infection and capacity to
cope, once infected.
term nutritionally acquired immune deficiency syndrome (NAIDS) is
applied to immunological dysfunction associated with malnutrition
in infants and small children. Is it unreasonable to suppose that
a similar mechanism may operate in adolescents and adults and may
be worth investigating and even—as a precautionary principle—acting
on? The average African household is caught in a poverty cycle of
low food production, low income, poor health, malnutrition, poor
environmental sanitation, and infectious disease. Food security,
as primary prevention, should be a priority strategy in the fight
against AIDS in Africa. With water and sanitation, it has the huge
advantage of simultaneously reducing population vulnerability to
all the other diseases of poverty.
brings us to the second major factor, chronic co-infections, most
of which are also related to the failure to meet basic needs. There
is ample evidence that co-infections not only interfere with immune
function, but they also increase viremia—the level of HIV circulating
in the body. High viremia, unsurprisingly, is associated with increased
risk of transmission.
infections, which affect over a quarter of the world's population,
overwhelmingly in developing countries, may play a particularly
important role in high population transmission rates of HIV and
TB. Some researchers have suggested that in order to control both
these epidemics, parasitic infections must be controlled first.
The only co-infection that has received due attention is sexually
transmitted infection (syphilis, gonorrhea, chancroid etc), which
is known to substantially increase vulnerability to HIV infection.
Prevention and control of STI has been recognized as a key strategy
in the fight against AIDS.
the fact that the modes of transmission are the same for STIs as
for HIV—both are blood borne diseases, which can be transmitted
sexually—has meant that the focus on individual behavior and
individual agency can go unchallenged. This would not be the case
if the co-infection to be prevented or controlled as a factor of
susceptibility to HIV infection were intestinal worms or enteritis.
the exception of some brave and outspoken NGOs, the mainstream international
AIDS community steadfastly refuses to address poverty, powerlessness,
and inequality. It is not that the AIDS community does not talk
about poverty. On the contrary, it is the most fashionable subject
at the moment. Poverty reduction (rather than eradication) is on
everyone's lips in the alliance of WB/IMF/WTO/G8, the UN agencies
dealing with AIDS, government aid agencies, and "charitable"
foundations, such as Ford, Rockefeller, and Bill and Melinda Gates.
sanctimonious tones, they lament the persistence of poverty, but
in a perverse reversal of logic, they advocate for massive attacks
on a few killer diseases (malaria, TB, and AIDS) in order to "create
prosperity." No amount of health delivered to Haitians or Tanzanians
today is going to provide them with prosperity tomorrow or the next
day. It will allow them to survive where others die in rather precarious
conditions, perhaps until the next bout of illness.
will protest that the connections with poverty have been recognized
from the start. This is true, but it has invariably been in terms
of the economic impact of AIDS on communities, in particular on
their productivity rather than poverty as the root cause of extreme
susceptibility to all infections including HIV.
when social and economic factors, such as labor migration, exchange
of sex for survival, gender power imbalances and population movements,
have been identified as contributing to vulnerability, the solutions
proposed are still focused on the residual action possible at the
level of individual behavior.
most striking example of this is the provision of condoms at the
pithead of mines in South Africa to tens of thousands of migrant
laborers slaving to bring up gold for white-owned transnational
corporations and to thousands of migrant women selling sex to feed
and clothe their children. Migrant labor and sex slavery are unhealthy—even
life threatening—socially constructed phenomena, which can
therefore be socially deconstructed. Examination of poverty and
powerlessness as root causes of AIDS would threaten these kinds
of production arrangements. They would also imply a fundamental
shift in the international economic order, massive redistribution
of the earth's resources, and an end to the fantastically exploitative
rela- tions between North and South.
overwhelming power of vested interests confines both the research
agenda and the strategies of the international AIDS community to
the sphere of the individual in order that structural, economic,
and political inequalities neither be brought to light nor questioned.
Declaration of Alma Ata (International Conference on Primary Health
Care) in 1978 explicitly recognized structural inequalities and
macroeconomic factors as determinants of poverty and therefore of
population health status. As this approach threatened the status
quo, it was politically sanitized and reduced to a few technological
interventions. By the early 1980s, neoliberal dogma was already
being imposed in international fora and primary health care had
more or less been abandoned.
the only progress possible in public health today, and in the fight
against AIDS, is a return to the wisdom of Alma Ata—armed at
the turn of the century with 20 years' more evidence of the
negative health effects of savage, free market neoliberalism. The
"triumph" of capitalism in the Russian Federation, for
example, has been accompanied by the collapse of health services
and spectacular increases in rates of illness and death.
Trillions Rather Than Millions?
sums made available through international aid are pitiful compared
to the sums that would be released through debt cancellation, fair
trade, and measures to end the continued pillage of developing country
resources. These amount to trillions rather than millions. It is
not hard to understand the preference for international aid. First,
it brings about one and half times more back to the donor country
than is received by the recipient country. Second, it is immediately
used to service the debt to Northern banks—far larger sums
than are available to the health and education sectors of debtor
countries. Third, even though it may increase the size of the crumbs
from the rich person's table, it does not threaten the international
economic order. On the contrary, it deepens the dependency that
is so profitable to the developed countries and so devastating to
developing countries.
is the responsibility of international health authorities to identify
the determinants of health (and disease) and to advocate for policy
and action, which will contribute most effectively to the goal of
health for all, even if this lies outside the health sector. If
food, water, sanitation, basic health care, and housing are the
quickest, cheapest, most effective ways of achieving health for
all, then the international health community should be advocating
these basic needs can only be met when countries' national
capacities are freed from the strangulation of debt and unfair terms
of trade and from the destabilizing chaos of financial flows then
they must recommend this. If national food security requires a degree
of protectionism rather than unfettered free trade, it must be strongly
advocated. There could be no clearer public health imperative. If
the obstacle to such advocacy is the hand that feeds the international
AIDS community, then the time has come to bite it. That hand is
the alliance of WB/IMF/WTO, the G8—even occasionally the UN—and
the transnational corporations influencing their policies.
beauty of a fair international economic order lies in the fact that
nations, communities, and families left to their own devices are
quite capable of meeting their own basic needs. Removing the obstacles
to self determination is the task to be accomplished.
international AIDS community needs to ally with the tremendous movement
for social and economic justice today. As a start it might wish
to make immediate debt cancellation and the introduction of a Tobin-type
tax its funding source for the first few years, followed swiftly
by the first steps towards fair trade, bringing trillions of dollars
to public health efforts within the long promised new international
economic order.
A slightly different
version of this article first appeared in
African Journal
of AIDS Research.
Alison Katz is a member of the People's
Health Movement.


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On Thursday, June 8, Monsanto presented a check to The United Way of St. Charles Parish for fifty-five thousand dollars.
Along with the donation each year, Monsanto sponsors a United Way Kick Off Fair and Fund Raiser Campaign in order to raise even more money for the organization.
In addition to the United Way annual campaign, Monsanto supported the organization by having two employees volunteer to serve on their "Allocations Committee".
This committee was charged with researching all of the organizations that the United Way distributes funds to in an attempt to ensure that each of these organizations was aligned with the mission of the United Way and had properly utilized all of their funding.
This was a wonderful way for Monsanto to feel their donations were significant enough for them to be a valued member of the Allocations Committee. In addition, Monsanto was able to support the United Way who, without the help of local volunteers, would be unable to afford the resources necessary for such an extensive review process.
|Stephanie Rowley, Monsanto Employee and Co-Chair of the United Way Campaign, presents check for $55,000 to Denise Brodsky, Executive Director of United Way of St. Charles Parish.


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making a (more) permanent mold from cement/concrete for aluminum castings?
I've been looking into aluminum casting for a while now (done it once or twice with different "furnaces")
Now I'm reading alot about lost foam casting (sounds interessting too)
But I was thinking; do you think (/have experience) that I could make some kind of "permanent" mold out of some kind of cement/ concrete/ fireclay mixture for casting similar pieces several times??
I was thinking, when you make the furnace(s) you make a cement/ concrete/ fireclay mixture that can withstand the temperature, so shouldn't it be able to withstand the temperature of the aluminum being poured into it also?
(and therefor be able to make the mold out of)
- I was thinking to use a special type of cement ment for use around a fireplace.
What do you know/ think of the idea?
- and also; is there any (other) cheap/ "easy" way to make permanent molds for several similar castings? (at home/ the backyard)
PS. not important but I've made/ used a coal fired furnace, a gas (butane) fired furnace and now I'm about to build an electrical furnace (for the sake of expence and time of heating up)... I'm trying to make some casting sand/ green sand, but the ingredients looks to be rather difficult for me to gather (In Denmark Europe)
Think I'll give it a shot, just think it's important to make enough " air vents".
By that way, if you don't need anymore help on your question, then you can mark it as answered by clicking on the blue button and selecting a best answer.
For example, the sand casting process uses a mold only once, because of the type of cast they are making. For something like an engine block, they use a sand mold. The sand is held together with a special adhesive. The aluminum is heated and poured into the sand mold and once its set the mold is heated to breakdown the adhesive in the sand so that the sand can be poured out of the cast aluminum. (Otherwise you can't get the mold out of the cast).
AFAIK, in large productions, they have a process where they use one mold to make the sand mold, and then they create the aluminum cast, and reuse the sand for additional molds.
By using a positive mold and a negative mold, I think you could achieve similar results, but again, it all depends on what you are making.
I hope that helps.
Their complexity makes a multi part mould difficult to make so you can get it off.
Silicone may be used and be released because it is flexible to some degree but sand is simple, works and is no problem at all to remove.
Even then the shape of the pattern has to be considered so it can be removed from the mould unless the lost foam is used.


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Florida education news: Environmental education, report cards, elected superintendents and more
HELPING HOMEOWNERS: Stetson Law student David Fernandez, who's translating Florida statutes into Spanish as a project, helps some Hispanic Spanish-speaking homeowners understand their rights. (Times photo, Melissa Lyttle)
INVEST IN EDUCATION: The United States needs to put more money into schooling to keep the nation competitive, former Polk Community College president Larry Durrence writes in the Lakeland Ledger.
GETTING BACK ON TRACK: Palm Beach leaders are hoping two weeks of meetings with administrators, teachers and parents will help the battling district right itself, the Sun-Sentinel reports.
CREATING A VISION: The Collier School Board moves ahead with its strategic plan, the Naples Daily News reports.
WHO NEEDS REPORT CARDS? Lee parents track their children's daily progress with a free Internet service called Parent Link, the Fort Myers News-Press reports.
DIRTY HANDS: Some Polk students get knee deep in environmental education at a restored wetland, the Lakeland Ledger reports.
ELECTED OR APPOINTED? Burned by their elected superintendent, Monroe leaders are considering a referendum on whether to appoint all future superintendents, the Keynoter reports.


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Business is good for local pawn shops these days.
Start with nation-leading joblessness and mortgage delinquencies, which put people on the prowl for extra cash to make ends meet. Throw in a passel of reality-TV shows, including Vegas-based "Pawn Stars," for a glamorous patina. You end up with a sort of Golden Era for the pawn industry.
"The publicity's been great. It has whet the appetite for people who would not necessarily have walked into a pawn shop," said Michael Mack, owner of Maxpawn at 2400 S. Jones Blvd.
But Mack has his own additional edge, and he said his business model is behind his Nov. 5 move to quadruple his space to 5,300 square feet.
Sure, Maxpawn gets an assist from the 50,000 listeners who tune in to Mack's weekly show on CBS Radio. The 4-year-old store's real secret, though, is catering to women, Mack said.
"The female customer is more apt to pick up her loan (item) than a man is," Mack said. "Women are more sentimental, and they're often more responsible."
That might defy conventional wisdom. Doesn't the store make more if it can sell merchandise?
Not really, Mack said. At their core, pawn shops are short-term lenders, and they do best if they get return borrowers.
"Our asset isn't the item. It's the customer," Mack said. "We try to lend the right amount so you'll come back and get your loan."
Still, that doesn't mean Maxpawn never sells. It specializes in handbags, and carries sunglasses, belts, accessories and even Apple gadgets. Memorable sales include a white crocodile Hermès Birkin bag, which the store sold for $90,000, and an iPhone 5s that came into the store on the phone's launch day.
Maxpawn also works with customers who advertise on craigslist. The store will authenticate the item and give it to the buyer in-store, removing the risk factor of showing a total stranger the Rolex you're trying to unload.
Maxpawn is a second business life for Mack, who served on the Las Vegas City Council from 1999 to 2005. Mack also worked with his brother, Steve, who owned the SuperPawn chain, which was the nation's largest privately owned pawn business when Cash America bought it in 2004. SuperPawn had more than 20 stores in Las Vegas alone when Steve Mack sold it.
But Michael Mack said he's happy to stick with just one or two locations. Mack said he's "excited about downtown" and looking to open a store of "preloved handbags" in the area. But that'll be it for expansion for the foreseeable future.
"It's been great for me to be back in the pawn business — the business I know so well — and doing it the way I want to do it," Mack said. "I don't want to be one of 50 stores. I don't like being in a tower. I like touching the customers and helping people out."
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The NBA will start fining players for flopping, and that made Knicks' center Tyson Chandler a very happy man.
Chandler, the reigning Defensive Player of the Year, doesn't have anything to worry about on his end as he's a known defensive terror and legitimate tough guy, but he's thrilled the league is at least trying to curtail a time-honored tradition of duping the refs into calling fouls.
Entering his 12th season, Chandler said he's seen a plethora of floppers, and added there could be a lot of guys in today's game who'll get fined.
"I love that. There's going to be a lot of guys who'll be in trouble in this league," said Chandler, then joking even some on his own team will be fined. "I don't want to name names but mostly the guards and Europeans, so we'll have to talk to [Argentinian import] Pablo [Prigioni] about that."
Commissioner David Stern has long tried to clean up the act of flopping, which over the past 15-20 years has taken on the shape of international soccer, where a player acts like he was just clipped by a sniper after the slightest of touch.
As recently as this summer, Stern began kicking around the idea of penalizing those who try to "trick the referees" into calls. The new rule allows the league to penalize players who get away with flops after the fact. And as he told the Associated Press, by way of SLAM Online, Stern said the league office already retroactively goes back and either upgrades or downgrades flagrant fouls after review, so the flopping fines would go along those lines.
Stern joked that the league's letter to the offending player would read something like: "Greetings from the league office. You have been assigned flopper status." He then clarified by adding, "No, I'm joking, but something like that. That sort of lets people know that it's not enough to say `it's all part of the game.' We just want to put a stake in the ground that says this is not something that we want to be part of our game -- without coming down with a sledgehammer -- but just doing it in a minimalist way to begin stamping it out"
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Barcelona face Neymar 'tax fraud' case
The Spanish tax authorities have launched a case against FC Barcelona for a tax 'fraud' of 9.1 million euros related to the transfer of Neymar last summer, according to reports in Spain.
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Madrid-based judge Pablo Ruz is currently conducting an investigation into the complicated 86.2 million-euro deal, and has asked Barcelona, Neymar's father and FIFA for all documentation relating to the transfer amid reported suspicions of the existence of different versions of the paperwork.
A public prosecutor presented a new petition to Spain's High Court on Wednesday outlining the reasons for wanting to take a tax case against the Catalan club. "There is a whole series of contracts that show signs of simulation, as well as financial engineering operations," the writ reads according to El Pais.
The prosecutor, Jose Perals, claims that Barca paid a total 37.9 million euros in a signing on fee (10 million euros in 2011 and 27.9 million euros in 2013) to join the club -- money which he maintains income tax of 9.1 million euros must be paid on.
Barca have previously maintained that this figure was paid as a "penalty clause" which was triggered when the Catalan club signed the player 12 months earlier than had been previously agreed. This money was -- according to the club's own website -- paid to a company controlled by Neymar's father.
Barca have admitted that they paid out a total of 86.2 million euros when signing the Brazilian player last summer, with different amounts being paid to his former club Santos and an agency controlled by his father. Some of these payments are claimed to relate to services not directly related to the transfer, including marketing, scouting and development work in Sao Paulo.
Santos and "third-party investors" who previously held a share of Neymar's "playing rights" are also unhappy with how the 86.2 million euros was divided up, with the Brazilian club having a request that FIFA hand over all its documentation relating to the case rejected by a court in Sao Paulo.
Catalan newspaper El Periodico printed a copy of a petition from Spain's Fiscalia de la Audiencia Nacional which speaks of the different payments made and the issues which the authorities have with Barca's version of events.
Sandro Rosell, who stepped down as Barcelona president in January as the controversy over the transfer intensified, new Barca chief Josep Maria Bartomeu and Neymar Sr could all be called to testify as investigations in the Spanish capital continue.
All of the individuals involved continue to maintain that the deal was all legally above board. In January, prior to Rosell's resignation, the Catalan club released a statement saying that the transfer was complex but not illegal.
"The complexity of the contract, which the prosecutor calls 'contract simulation', has never been in itself illegal and we believe that the prosecutor is mistaken to believe that it is," that statement said.
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THE Campaign to Protect Rural England launched its annual awards last week to celebrate outstanding projects which benefit the public and the environment.
Last year, Stroud District Council's ambitious canal restoration scheme was recognised along with a gas pipeline project, a bridge repair, a skill centre for a commercial orchard, a Roman heritage visitor centre and the renovation of a tithe barn.
In previous years, village stores, homes, museums, village halls and townscapes have also received awards.
CPRE's Gloucestershire chairman, Charlie Watson, said: "The awards are not a competition. They acknowledge projects creating a sustainable economy, supporting the environment and enhancing the social life of the countryside."
Since the CPRE Gloucestershire Awards were launched in 2007, 28 schemes have received awards.
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Above: Catherine Coleman, a member of Soyuz TMA-20 crew, inside the descent module, looking toward the right side of the capsule. The main flight control panel, sporting liquid-crystal displays is on the left. Credit: Roskosmos
Above: Members of Soyuz TMA-20 crew, Dmitry Kondratyev (left) and Paolo Nespoli inside the descent module, looking toward the left side of the capsule. Credit: Roskosmos
The reentry capsule of the Soyuz spacecraft, known by its Russian acronym as "SA." is the only section of the vehicle, which returns to Earth at the end of the mission.
It contains two or three personally contoured couches where the cosmonauts recline for ascent, descent and landing. Seats are facing controls and displays developed at OAO Fazotron-NIIR that are used for all critical flight activities.
The reentry capsule also contains life-support systems, batteries for the descent phase of the mission, primary and backup parachutes and solid-propellant engines for landing. The reentry capsule is also equipped with eight small attitude control thrusters, which are used exclusively during the descent phase of the flight. They are powered by by one-component propellant of hydrogen peroxide. Tendency of this propellant to degrade over time is considered as one of the limitations on the length of the orbital flight of the Soyuz spacecraft.
The reentry capsule is also equipped with an independent guidance, navigation and control system, that is less complex than the main system in the PAO module.
A periscope extending from the reentry capsule provides the crew with a forward view toward the docking mechanism and a downward view for seeing the surface of the Earth.
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She's the cream of pastry chefs
Sarah Magnus loves cooking in top hotels — when she's not being throttled, that is
Next week, aficianados from all over the UK will gather at north-west London's Ivy House to spend an entire day cogitating, discussing and digesting a matter close to our hearts. Food.
In the three years since he founded Gefiltefest, Michael Leventhal has become something of a godfather of Jewish food - the Noshfather, so to speak. If you need the lowdown on the best bagels in London, a pointer in the direction of someone to teach you how to grow your own vegetables, or an introduction to the writer of the latest cookery book, he is your man. He knows anyone and everyone in the world of Jewish food.
Among the foodies Leventhal has unearthed is Sarah Magnus. Magnus is a rare creature. A nice Jewish girl, born and bred in NW8, who has elected to spend as much of her time as possible in hot, unforgiving and sometimes misogynistic professional kitchens.
Magnus grew up with a love of food in part due to her mother's amazing cooking skills. After leaving Immanuel College, she toyed with cooking for a living but was put off.
"I went to university and then worked in an office because that's what nice Jewish girls do," she says. "I ended up working as PA to the director of a charity because I wanted to do something worthwhile, but I was miserable."
Her culinary epiphany came while helping cater an event at her synagogue (Lauderdale Road). "I realised I could do this and was good at it, so I decided to train as a chef," she recalls. In 2006 she went to the Cordon Bleu school in Marylebone and after graduating worked at The Bread Factory - a leading London artisan bakery. "We supplied bread and pastries to clients including Gail's, Selfridges and Harvey Nichols, and we made the best scones in London".
From there she moved on to The Berkeley hotel. Where most of her contemporaries might be more likely to be found in their finery in the hotel's Caramel Room, enjoying their Prêt-à-Portea (a fashion-inspired luxury tea), Magnus was happier in the kitchens, constructing designer pastries and chocolates. "We were all encouraged to participate with ideas, which was really nice" she smiles.
Two-and-a-half years later she was ready for a new challenge. A stint as a temporary chef led to a permanent position in the pastry department at The Savoy, where she has been ever since. Magnus is relaxed about the male-dominated environment she works in. "You can't be too sensitive," she laughs "or a bit of prude or you may find it difficult. I've found having four siblings has been good preparation. You learn how to hold your own."
Life in the kitchen has its share of dramatic moments. Magnus recalls: "When I was at The Berkeley a world-famous chef, who was cooking at the hotel, came to use our pastry-rolling machine. I joked that he would have to wait a while, and the next thing I knew, he had his fingers round my throat."
Her parents could not be more proud of her career, but her mother does not abuse her daughter's skills by asking her to knock up the occasional pastry. "She says she doesn't like to trouble me," says Magnus. However, her siblings have definitely found advantages in having a professional chef in the family.
"In the early days of their married lives, it was not unheard of for my two sisters to ask me to make cakes so they can pass them off as their own," she laughs.
Magnus's personal life has suffered since she changed career. "It's difficult," she says "especially in this job as the hours aren't very sociable. On a good day a shift is 10 hours, but can be 12-14 hours. A beer after work serves as decompression time."
At Gefilte-fest she will be demonstrating how and how to make Turkish delight with kosher gelatine. "I thought we should do something a bit different," she smiles.
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A FORMER SNP leader has urged the party to pursue an aggressively negative independence campaign, targeting the "cancer" and "greed" of London and the south east.
Gordon Wilson said negative campaigning worked and SNP MSPs and MPs and cross-party allies in the Yes Scotland group should "be deployed as soon as possible in a managed offensive" against "the enemy" of the UK capital and the prosperous south of England.
His call came in what he described as a mid-term report card on the referendum battle, produced for the pro-independence Options for Scotland think-tank.
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In a withering analysis, Mr Wilson gave the pro-independence side three marks out of 10 and the pro-UK side four.
He said Yes Scotland had campaigned with "all the excitement of a robot" and had allowed itself to become a "punch-bag," adding: "Political punch-bags do not usually win votes."
The former MP, who was succeeded as leader of the SNP by Alex Salmond in 1990, warned the Yes campaign had become "bogged down in trench warfare" about the currency, Europe and other issues that could not be resolved in detail until after a Yes vote.
However, his most controversial advice came over the future direction of the campaign.
Mr Wilson said voters should be offered additional referendums, if Scotland becomes independent, on the country's currency, joining the EU and retaining the monarchy, in a move he claimed would outflank the pro-UK campaign.
He urged pro-independence campaigners to mount an all-out attack on the "rapacious greed of southern England" which he accused of "gobbling up the wealth" at the expense of other parts of the UK.
"Scotland, with the moral support of the North, should strike at the southern cancer," he said.
Justifying a more determinedly negative tone than the SNP's "Westminster isn't working slogan," he added: "From Yes Scotland and the Government, there is the peculiar notion that negative politics does not work - something the Americans would find strange."
A spokesman for Yes Scotland said: "The Options for Scotland report is an interesting contribution to the debate. Gordon Wilson has suggestions for both campaigns, but I think we can be confident he will be voting Yes."
However, the report was condemned by Better Together and Scottish Labour. A Better Together spokesman said: "The language used in this report is nothing short of disgraceful.
"To talk of 'the cancer of the South' is completely ridiculous and totally out of tune with how people think in this country. The way that the nationalists talk about the rest of the UK and consistently blame every problem and every issue on someone else shows up their so-called positive campaign for the sham that it is."
Drew Smith, Labour's constitution spokesman, said: "This stinging rebuke to the separation campaign by a leading nationalist shows the underlying tensions within their campaign.
"Scots won't be convinced by a campaign that can't even answer the basic questions it is being asked."


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Name: CHAPEL OF ST MARY
List entry Number: 1187989
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County: Leicestershire
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Chapel. 1873 by A.J. Purdie, a pupil of Pugin. Early French Gothick style, and strict Puginian principles. Rusticated limestone blockwork with ashlar dressings and roof with fish scale tiles. Nave, chancel and Lady Chapel to north. Main entrance to north west in porch with moulded arch which dies into a straight chamfer. Statue niche below gable coping that terminates in gablets. Lancet windows to nave. North chancel chapel with western rose window and angle butresses, and paired trefoiled lights; This chapel terminates in a canted apse. Chancel east window of five foiled lights with transom contained beneath three larger lancets surmounted by a rose window. Paired lancets to south and four foiled lancets lights to the west with rose window above, at an upper level and smaller grouped lancets below. All the tracery is of a spare clean design. Eastern bellcote with finial. Partially detached vestry to south with gathered chimney. Inside the church represents a complete expression of Puginian principles retaining all its original detail. West gallery with copious chamfered woodwork. Steep timber trusses to nave roof. Richly moulded chancel arch with cylindrical shafts and foliate capitals capped by square abaci. Steep rib vaulted chancel roof with quatrefoil lights of stained glass angels set into it. Two bay arcades to north Lady Chapel. Rich decorative scheme throughtou. Encaustic tiles with Turville emblems, ornate altar rails and reredos. Wall painting throughout by romaine Walker in 1900. Gilded stencils on all walls, gilded capitals above shafts painted in bands or chevrons of bright colours. The chancel walls are crowded with the figures of Saints and Angels with golden halos and wings. Stained glass by Hardman: Individual figures in each light, some as late as the 1940's. Memorial to Francis Fortescue Turville, 1889, in the Lady Chapel. A recumbent marble effigy.
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A GANG of teens as young as 15 could be banned from a shopping centre after they were caught brazenly asking customers to buy them booze.
The group of four boys entered the store in late last Friday afternoon and were seen by shop security hanging around the drink aisle at Asda Walmart, in Haydon Wick .
When they were approached and told to leave one of the youngsters became verbally abusive and police were called, although the gang had fled by the time officers arrived.
Police are trying to identify the teens and have said they will be issued with bans from the Orbital Shopping Park and also warned that any adults who buy alcohol for those who are underage can also face prosecution.
PC Matt Lewis, community beat manager for Haydon Wick, said any youths who cause trouble on the site could expect to be banned.
He said: "Four youths, all aged about 15, were bothering shoppers in Asda in the drinks aisle trying to persuade customers to buy them alcohol. Fortunately Asda has a robust policy.
"Two of the males have already been identified, and we are making inquiries to identify the others.
"Once we have done so these individuals will be issued with banning notices preventing them from coming onto the Orbital Shopping Park.
"The owners of the park are well within their rights to impose a ban and we will work closely with them to help assist with that.
"It is also worth pointing out it is an offence to buy alcohol for someone who is underage and thankfully no one did so on this occasion."
Mark Gibson, duty manager at Asda Walmart, said: "There were a group of four youths who were quite blatantly asking members of the public to buy alcohol for them.
"When security approached one male and asked him to leave the store he became verbally abusive.
"Police were informed and allegedly they had been trying to go into another store. We work very closely with the police and have our own strict challenge 25 policy.
"We would support the police in pursuing bans for the youths involved. It is the first time I've heard of this happening at this store – it is not a recurring problem and certainly less so since challenge 25 was introduced."
Anyone with any information should contact north Swindon police on 101.


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A neo-Nazi weekly, published by the widow of General Erich von Ludendorff, German hero of the first World War and a strong supporter of Adolf Hitler's National Socialist Party, carries a sharp attack in its current issue on the West German reparations and indemnification program, accusing the Jews of fraud and the German advocates of reparations, of bribery and corruption.
The weekly, called "Die Volkswarte," is published in Paffenhofen, Upper Bavaria. The attack was published as a separate insert and is being widely distributed all over West Germany. It said most Jewish claims are fraudulent and this Jewish fraud is costing Germany billions and devaluating German currency; that President Theodor Heuss supported the program because, it said, his daughter-in-law was Jewish, and that the Christian Democratic Party supported the legislation because it received a large bribe from Israel.
The paper, incidentally, complained that Israel was the cause of all the troubles in the Middle East and should not, therefore, receive financial support from the German people.


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CHICAGO (May. 25)
The United Jewish Appeal has raised $39,000,000 in cash during the first five months of this year, it was announced here today by Edward M.M. Warburg, general chairman of the U.J.A. at the closing session of the two-day National Mobilization Conference of the agency.
The conference, attended by 500 Jewish community leaders from all parts of the country, was also told by Mr. Warburg that in response to the U.J.A. urgent call to the communities to raise a minimum of $10,000,000 in cash during the month of May, the communities raised the record sum of $12,000,000.
Mr. Warburg described the $39,000,000 in cash raised thus far in the 1952 drive as "a magnificent outpouring of generosity" by American Jews. "They are showing that they cannot stand by idly while Israel struggles in economic hardship and while hundreds of thousands of men, women and children in Eastern Europe and Moslem countries live in fear of their lives," he stated. The conference delegates unanimously adopted a resolution pledging "tireless and vigorous efforts to maintain and increase the flow of cash to the United Jewish Appeal."
Addressing the final session of the conference, Israel Ambassador Abba Eban reiterated a plea made last night at the parley by Israel's Foreign Minister Moshe Sharett in which he called upon American Jewry to give the maximum financial assistance to Israel in order to help the state win economic security.
Mr. Eban emphasized Israel's unique position as a democracy in the Middle East, asserting that the fact of its existence as a democratic state must "not be viewed in American or in Western terms, but in terms of the area in which the institution of democracy has been planted–an area surrounded by nothing but despotism by absolute monarchism, by feudal and corrupt republics."
The Ambassador reminded the U.J.A. conferees of Israel's bitter struggle to achieve a modern economy while absorbing 700,000 new immigrants who have doubled the state's initial population. "The astonishing thing," he said, "is not that we have accomplished this unique process of absorption to the accompaniment of much hardship and tension-the miracle is that this feat has been accomplished at all."
Foreign Minister Sharett described the serious shortage of funds which forced Israel to adopt a "makeshift method" of economic existence. He said the lack of funds is retarding full development of Israel's agricultural potential and "epoch-making discoveries of mineral wealth."
Mr. Sharett forecast a "rich industrial and commerical future for the whole of Israel "provided the U.J.A. and other sources succeed in raising many more millions of dollars in a "selfless, farsighted and creative assistance" for the new state. At the same time, he expressed the belief that Israel's mineral discoveries "will in all probability," sooner or later, include the discovery of oil.
Israel's economic future "is only a question of funds," Mr. Sharett said, adding that in other respects the new state is richly endowed with people, knowledge, determination and physical assets. He cited as an example of makeshift efforts forced on Israel the procedure by which the new state achieved its recent bumper grain crop in the almost unsettled Negev.
Reporting that the Israel Government found it necessary to temporarily enlist hundreds of veteran farmers, bringing them to the Negev to sow and reap 175,000 acres of barley and wheat, he pointed out that had adequate funds been available for Negev colonization by new immigrants, this vast agricultural operation would have been unnecessary. "Only a greatly increased local population will permanently fill the Negev vacuum and help Israel to live and prosper," he stated.
Mr. Warburg, in an interim report on U.J.A. expenditures, notably in Israel, said that the agencies of the U.J.A.–the United Israel Appeal, Joint Distribution Committee and United Service for New Americans–spent a total of $45,244,000 since January 1st to save, resettle and rehabilitate 537,000 men, women and children. Of this sum, nearly $37,000,000 was spent in Israel alone to provide for the settlement, housing and welfare of the 310,000 immigrants.
Mr. Warburg said the $37,000,000 spent in Israel in the first five months of 1952 brings to nearly $300,000,000 the total of U.J.A. funds made available to Israel since its establishment four years ago. Other speakers included Rudolf Sonneborn, national chairman of the United Israel Appeal, and Moses Leavitt, executive vice-chairman of the Joint Distribution Committee.
Chief among the outstanding checks presented at the conference today were by the following Jewish communities: New York, $2,200,000; Chicago, $1,405,000; Los Angeles, $1,000,000; Detroit, $1,000,000; Philadelphia, $500,000; Washington, D.C., $500,000; and, San Francisco, $350,000.


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I'm posting in here, because I'm not sure where else to post. I made a similar post about 5 years ago. But I'm at the same cross roads again. We have a 4.5 year old DD. and I'm about to be 37 years old.
Do I have another baby with a depressed husband? I decided to have a baby the first time. But it put a lot of stress on our marriage in the first year. Recently we went through marriage therapy (a lot of our problems stem from DH's depression and anger) and it has helped a lot, but just a few months ago, DH was talking divorce. We REALLY are so much better now, but still his depression looms. He is on meds, but hasn't done any real therapy to help himself.
After DD, my DH felt like he didn't have enough of my time, and that we couldn't do anything, and that our sex life was lacking.
NOW, he wants the all important BOY. Really?? yes He feels like he's always wanted two children, a girl and a boy. And he wants HIS biological boy, to carry on his whatever. Its SO.... Grrr... I've asked him, what if we DON"T have a boy?? What if it turns out to be a girl?? And he has no real answer. All I know is, he ONLY wants two kids, he wants them to be his biologically, and he wants a boy and a girl. (we have the girl)
I'm worried about what if its not a boy... how will he deal?
And worried about all the same stress a baby can put on our marriage, even if it is a boy.
And I'm worried about being on my own with two kids if he later decides he does want a divorce.
Also, we moved away from family, with DD my mom was a HUGE help, here we'd (I'd) be mostly on our own.
He feels if he doesn't have two kids, he'll look back on his life with regret. He's very depressed about the prospect of only having our one child.
Personally, I'm on the fence. I could be happy with just DD, and I think I could be happy with another baby. But I wouldn't be happy with a stressed out marriage and divorce. I would love for DD to have a sibling, even if they are 6 years apart. Part of me says, F it, just have the baby and let the pieces fall where they may. But my mom has me scared to death about raising two kids on my own, if we end up in divorce. I do think we're pretty solid in our marriage and our commitment to it, else I wouldn't be considering another baby. On the bad side I don't see DH getting any REAL help for his depression.
I just felt like getting this out there... Any advice would be appreciated!
Empower him by strengthening your connection to each other & tap into his natural drives http://takeninhand.com/.
Get to the roots of the depression try http://www.theemotioncode.com/ , EMDR other similar methods.
Plan to conceive together (life & trust affirming), defer to his priorities while holding him accountable for responsible decision making.
This is between you and him, unless you plan on living with your mother (and even then) .
Thank you for such a compassionate reply!
I will check out the links!!!
Also, it's miserable having a parent who's chronically depressed (I speak from personal experience). And then, on top of that, to constantly witness the healthier parent make excuses for him, condone his behavior and/or constantly argue about it is pure hell.
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ONLY a year after graduating a young artist from Abingdon is taking the textile design world by storm.
Aged 22, Lollie Dunbar has been asked by women's fashion company Wallis to design a line for their spring and summer collection.
The high street store called Miss Dunbar after she won a scarf print competition run by Liberty, the World Land Trust and her university, last December.
Miss Dunbar, daughter of Bafta award winning animator Geoff Dunbar, said two of her designs were selected and sold in the Liberty scarf hall last year.
She said: "Luckily someone from Wallis saw the scarves and managed to get in contact with me.
"They asked me to go for a meeting in London last May but I wasn't quite sure what it was about.
"When I arrived they were throwing all these exciting ideas at me. I had to say: 'I am really sorry but I am not actually sure what I am doing here.' "That's when they said that they wanted me to design a print collection for them.
"I was so shocked that all I could think is 'I haven't even graduated yet'."
The inspiration for her designs came from looking at the jewellery, pottery, tattoos and textiles at the Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford.
She said: "That's what triggered it for me. I then came up with several patterns and they chose three of them."
Her prints have been transferred on to maxi dresses, scarves, trousers and a jacket and they have already been named as one of this seasons 'must haves' in You and Women's Own magazine.
The collection will also be appearing in Cosmopolitan and Harpers Bazaar's next month.
Design director for Wallis, Jo Collins, said that they were attracted to Miss Dunbar's raw talent.
She said: "What we loved about Lollie was her freshness of ideas.
"It was a joy working with such a great personality and an enthusiastic creative textile designer."
It was not the only major accolade for Miss Dunbar. In March she also won the Ideal Home Show's wallpaper design competition.
The show, which was judged by television designer Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen, was held at Earl's Court.
Miss Dunbar is currently a freelance designer for the accessories company Lola Rose.
Her Wallis collection can be bought at selected stores or on the company's website.


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From Beaks to Genes: Chris Filardi on Island Birds and Biology
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Chris Filardi is the director of Pacific Programs at the Museum'sCenter for Biodiversity and Conservation. He has spent his career studying island birds and their unique ecologies, from working with indigenous communities to conserve island ecosystems to tracking the foraging behavior of Palm Cockatoos. At the upcoming SciCafe on Wednesday, April 4, Filardi will talk about how the genomic revolution and increased access to islands have changed how these systems are studied. He recently answered a few questions about the role islands play in understanding speciation, or how new species arise.
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Museum Curator Emeritus Ian Tattersall's latest book, Masters of the Planet: The Search for Our Human Origins, offers a look at early human ancestors and reveals how our species came to rule the planet. On Wednesday, March 28, Tattersall will discuss his work with Science Friday host Ira Flatow at a live recording of NPR's popular talk show in the Milstein Hall of Ocean Life. He will also speak about the book at a special Museum lecture on Monday, April 2. Tattersall recently answered a few questions about Masters of the Planet.
Ira Flatow: Science Friday at the Museum
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This Wednesday, March 28, NPR's popular weekly talk show Science Friday travels to the Museum for a special public recording in the Milstein Hall of Ocean Life. Host Ira Flatow will interview Museum Curator Emeritus Ian Tattersall about how Homo sapiens became the dominant human species and speak to a panel of urban biodiversity experts, including Eleanor Sterling, the director of the Museum's Center for Biodiversity and Conservation. Flatow recently shared what he's looking forward to about the evening.
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The effects of a parent's bond with a child have been a popular topic in the news. But what does the science say? The Museum's upcoming four-week course The Parent-Child Bond: Behind the Science of Attachment, which begins on April 17, will explore the latest psychology and neuroscience on attachment through expert guest speakers, online resources, documentary footage, and in-class projects. Howard Steele, a professor of psychology at The New School and founder of the journal Attachment & Human Development, will be a guest lecturer for the course and also appears in the Museum's attachment-themed Science Bulletin, part of the Museum's innovative exhibition and online media program. Below, Steele answers a few questions about the psychological effects of parent-child relationships.


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Poinsettia plant
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Cut poinsettia bracts with stems from plant (we used only one). Immediately dip the end of each stem into melted candle wax to seal and then place stems in cool water. Cut the foam to fit inside teapot. Soak foam following manufacturer's instructions; place inside teapot. Add cut poinsettia bracts. Fill in the arrangement with ivy and ferns.
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greenmamabecky☮ TTC since Jul 2013; 18 kids; Enfield, Connecticut 20987 postsDec 29th '12
Quoting Moses.:" LOL I wish I could teach him to tell the other kids to f**k off if they start teasing him. "
This kid at my sons daycare was repeatedly biting him HARD so bad that he was leaving marks and bruises for a week at a time. DH told him to poke him in the eye with his thumb and yell at him "Don't bite me!" the next time he did it.
I was kinda happy he told him that :oops: The teachers weren't doing anything.
Anyway it ended up happening again, this time right under his freaking EYE and my son didn't retaliate anyway. We pulled him out of there and he's in a new one now that's much better.