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Financial statements are meant to enable the reader to evaluate the performance of an enterprise, analyze its cash flows and assess its financial position. Recently, widely publicized cases of misleading statements, which were nevertheless attested as to their fairness by outside auditors, resulted in improper revenue recognition, overstatement of income and misrepresentation of financial position. There is now a growing awareness of the importance of honest reporting as the foundation for investors' confidence in the integrity and proper functioning of the financial markets.
This course examines the generally accepted accounting principles [GAAP] underlying the financial statements, their implementation in practice and the role of the independent auditors. Note is also made of the limitations of financial reports, their evolution in response to changing business conditions, current accounting controversies and the constraints that limit the freedom and influence the course of action of rule makers and regulators. The perspective and main focus are not those of the accountants who prepare financial reports, but rather those of the users of the information contained in them: mostly investors and the financial analysts who serve them, creditors and, to some extent, management.
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November 3, 2010 Braille Institute Creates Cylke Digital Platinum Award
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In a tribute to the advent of digital talking books and players for blind and physically handicapped readers—and to the man who ushered in the new medium—Braille Institute Library Services (BILS) in Los Angeles presented the first Frank Kurt Cylke Digital Platinum Awards during its annual open house on Oct. 22.
BILS Director Henry C. Chang and Open House Committee Chair Tina Herbison presented the inaugural award to its namesake Frank Kurt Cylke, director of the National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped (NLS), part of the Library of Congress, "for 37 years of unwavering leadership and commitment to the blind and visually impaired communities throughout the United States."
The new award recognizes the NLS transition from cassette books and machines to digital talking books on flash-memory cartridges and two models of digital players. The system, launched in 2009, features high-quality sound, variable speed control, a built-in audio instruction manual, advanced navigation, and an incremental sleep button.
"I thank Dr. Chang and the Braille Institute Library Services for the recognition," said Cylke. "But the real reward is seeing the joyful reception of this new equipment by blind and physically handicapped readers."
The Digital Platinum Award, which replaces the BILS Golden Cassette Award, is given to outstanding individuals and organizations in the library community. Other honorees included:
&bull Marshall High School student Karen Acros-Moreno, a BILS patron since age four, who is a volunteer for the Blind Children's Center and for the Los Angeles Marathon's 5K on behalf of blind children.
&bull Vernon, Jim, and Jarod Laub—three generations of volunteers who have donated many hours at the BILS Orange County Branch. Vernon is a volunteer and a patron; his son Jim and his grandson Jarod are machine-repair volunteers.
Designed by Herbison and BILS Open House Committee members Kokoi Aryee, Siran Aytayan, and Alex Cruz and manufactured by Cristaux International in Chicago, the award is made of crystal and represents a stack of three digital-book containers with a digital cartridge balanced on top.
The Braille Institute was established in 1919 as Universal Braille Press and was instrumental in advocating federal legislation to fund the printing and national distribution of raised-print materials through the Library of Congress Services for the Blind. The agency was one of four presses that produced the first braille titles for NLS after the free library service was established in 1931. Today BILS, a subsidiary of Braille Institute, serves more than 75,000 blind and physically handicapped individuals at five regional centers and through more than 350 community-outreach locations in Southern California.
The National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped (NLS), part of the Library of Congress, administers the braille and digital talking-book program, a free library service available to U.S. residents and American citizens living abroad whose low vision, blindness, or physical handicap makes reading a regular printed page difficult. Through its national network of regional libraries, NLS mails books and magazines in digital audio and in braille, as well as digital audio equipment, directly to enrollees at no cost. Select materials are also available online for download and music instructional materials are available in large print, braille, and recorded formats. For further information, visit www.loc.gov/nls/ or call 1-888-NLS-READ (1-888-657-7323).


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Lynn Messina has a fascinating piece in the New York Times declaring that men should not be taught gentlemanly behavior. Why? Because it leads to gender inequality and sexism, which eventually leads to an unequal status for women in the workforce.
I asked three friends what they thought about Messina's article.
First, I asked two girlfriends if they wished men our age were more gentlemanly, even if that meant that they, as females, would have to act more 'ladylike' (eg. not be able to drink as much, sleep around, etc.). While both agreed that they wished men were more gentlemanly, they were also not ready to give up their ability to have a single lifestyle.
One of them, who's involved with Greek life, told me, "I feel like once you leave the college atmosphere, you're expected to settle down, go on actual dates, commit."
The other said that she would absolutely give up the ability to hook up, but she still wanted the ability to party as she pleased.
The third person, a male friend, said: "You can make equal pay and equal status a common place, but still respect the fact that women and men are built differently. Different doesn't need to mean 'unequal.'"
He went on to say that young college kids have the right to explore themselves and live a single lifestyle, but with boundaries and a balance between serious dating and hooking up. He worries that when men and women are ready to settle down and stay in committed relationships, they won't know how to go about it, since a lot of 'dates' happen over texting and social media.
Call me old fashioned, but there's something really nice about a man holding a door open for me, even if that means I have to act 'ladylike' (whatever that means).


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The Atlantic door is always open
The slight sea breeze is smelt in every corner of Vigo. The Atlantic is very close and wrap your senses up. Like in any seaside city, it has a harbour that serves the arrivals and departures and also promotes the consequent sharing of different cultures. Since roman times, many people arrived to this Galician diamond and Vigo insists on preserving much of all these heritages.
The Puerta del Atlántico, that you can find in Plaza de América, is the monument that symbolises this relationship with the world and reminds all the people, who draft away to other continents, for other adventures.
The truth is that Vigo's harbour is not just another harbour. It is one of the most important in Spain and one of the main receiving fresh fish and seafood from Europe. Fishing is such an important activity in this Galician city that it is included in touristic routes. If you are interested in knowing more about fishers daily routines during your visit, you can follow the different steps of the fishing activity, from the shipyards, where vessels are built, until the bustle of Vigo Fish Market. If you prefer to assist only the last phase of the process, with the fish or seafood suberbly placed on the plate, know that you are also in the right place! We will tell you all about it below!


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Out of all the wonderful My Year Of Flops entries by Nathan Rabin, my favorite is still Freddy Got Fingered, Tom Green's mystifyingly bizarre film that nearly defies explanation, somehow greenlit at the apex of Green's popularity on MTV. Add to that his successful YouTube channel and a nicely introspective interview on Marc Maron's podcast a few weeks ago, and Green deserves a re-evaluation as a comic persona and batshit pied piper who inspired so much of the confident, zany, unchecked humor that young and idealistic comedians put out on the Internet.
Tom Green falls into an interesting category of oddball comedians who strangely still have ambitions of being late-night talk show hosts like David Letterman. Jimmy Fallon is the only sketch comedy disaster to tumble into this role—with great success—but Anthony Jeselnik also fits this type as well. Green loves the format insofar as he can constantly subvert it and push it to see how far he can go with his ideas, and that experimentation can be very exciting, even if it has the chance to take a turn into something disturbing or boring.
All this is a way of saying that unfortunately, "The Future Is Gnar" wastes an inspired guest star. Tom Green is a footnote here, providing recorded phrases for the automatic telemarketing system that threatens to replace all TelAmeriCorps employees with robots, and playing a cyborg version of himself who murders Alice with a futuristic blade-hand. That idea alone—Tom Green as a cyborg killing machine—is enough to pique curiousity, but though this finale is ambitious, it's still an under-developed experiment, held back by an over-reliance on sophomoric sexual humor and a strangely limited sense of adventure. There's no real reason for it to specifically be Tom Green in the guest spot. His appearance is barely more than an excuse to play lines from Freddy Got Fingered and make other references to that movie.
Blake makes the most sense as the guy who can spin out a futuristic hellscape fantasy where machines take over TelAmeriCorps, and his vision certainly has a few laughs. The guys huff gas to while away the time locked in their cubicle, waiting to be taken to "Orientation" where they are repurposed as cyborgs, even more mindless cogs in a larger machine. The makeup work is terrible, but it's at least laughably so, as robotic versions of Jet Set, Waymond, Montez, and Jillian stand in the way of the trio defeating TINA, the computer system so successful no one earns any commissions.
In Blake's vision, the trio are among the last remaining employees not turned into cyborgs—until Alice comes to change him. Anders sacrifices himself, which inspires Blake and Adam to make an escape attempt. After rescuing Anders, they still have to get a tracking device out of him, which leads to the strangest scene in the episode, as they remove the wire and electronic equipment from his ass. It's a cringe-inducing sequence, but not funny or particularly inventive. Once they pull the giant, metal anal beads out of Anders, they do send it right back to Alice with a loose butthole note, which gets a nice little laugh, but most of "The Future Is Gnar" is just general robopocalypse doom-and-gloom.
The only comedic bits with specificity are Adam's overt sexual advances toward Alice, volunteering to be her sex slave—anything for a shot with her. In the final moments of the episode, as the trio try to shut down the generic "mainframe" in a little nod to nonspecific technical jargon, Adam takes the fingering reference even further as he sticks his hand into the machine to "deactivate" the system.
"The Future Is Gnar" has a premise that should let Workaholics run wild with imagination, but it still feels limited by some factor—probably the budget, which keeps the episode confined to one location, with only Tom Green as the only featured actor outside of the regular cast. The humor is familiar, and even the most notable scenes fall short of what this show is capable of when operating at its best. In the midseason finale, Workaholics flashed back to how these guys met in college, and now there's a middling fantasy of their future stuck in a corporate hellhole. It must have seemed like a harmonious end to a double-length season, but the jokes didn't keep pace with ideas for this finale.
Stray observations:
- Adam "CauseProblems" DeMamp is just about the perfect name for that character.
- I still pick "Real Time" as the best episode of this oversized season, but I'm glad that Comedy Central opted for 13-episode orders for the fourth and fifth seasons.
- "I'm not an ocean dog, I'm a city cat."
- "It's too late to abort it, which is exactly what my mom used to say about me."


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Assessing the Tea Party Movement
The disparate groups known collectively as the Tea Party are the wild cards come November.
Tea Party activists supported Scott Brown and claimed some credit for his stunning upset win in the special Senate election in Massachusetts earlier this year. But they also supported Debra Medina in her bid for the GOP gubernatorial nomination in Texas yesterday, and she finished a very distant third, with less than 20% of the vote.
And therein lies the rub. Few can even define the Tea Party, let alone figure out what its role will be come November.
For now, only one thing is clear. Millions of Americans are fed up with Washington. They've concluded that the federal government is dysfunctional, and they want big change. Many of them are finding a voice in the Tea Party movement, which gives it huge potential. But much depends on whether leaders emerge who can harness the power and whether GOP leaders can make it work for them.
The Tea Party's biggest impact will come this spring, in a host of Republican primaries that feature battles between conservatives and big-tent moderates. Even in Texas, where its candidate lost, the record is mixed. Perry embraced the Tea Party and had plenty of support from its members (Medina was a weak candidate to start with), and Tea Party candidates further down the ballot ran surprisingly well.
The Tea Parties -- and there are many -- will clearly make a difference in some states, but their impact in November will depend on how good they are at raising money, putting together organizations and help Republican candidates get supporters to the polls.
At this point, the movement is still fractious and a bit nebulous, which is typical of most national movements in the beginning. Tea Party members are loosely united by opposition to government intrusions into everyday life, but that means different things to different people. Their views largely track Republican philosophy, with a couple of big exceptions: The war on terrorism, which includes unprecedented intrusions that have GOP support, is perhaps the biggest one.
The size of the movement is unclear, but it's estimated at a few million. There are 1200 national chapters, and they recently hosted their first national conference. Gradually, month by month, the Tea Partyers are getting more organized and more disciplined. They're starting to raise money, size up and grade candidates in key primaries, and they will field some of their own to run as independents -- possibly as spoilers, possibly as winners. They will also be spending money through Tea Party political action committees managed in different parts of the country. The movement's social media system and Web sites are more professional, too, less haphazard than last year.
Look for many centrist and conservative-leaning lawmakers to actively seek Tea Party support, mentioning it in campaign flyers and ads. They'll distance themselves from the more radical elements of the movement.
There's even talk of establishing a Tea Party caucus in the House and Senate comprising generally conservative lawmakers who want Tea Party support and back the platform of small, limited federal government, respect for states' rights, lower taxes and lower spending.
The Tea Party is unlikely to ever be an official national party. There's disagreement in the movement about whether to be an officially registered party. That's not the goal of Tea Party leaders, who that such a step would only help majority party Democrats by splitting conservatives. Even without being a registered party, though, it will remain an important political movement and venue for often angry and vocal supporters. Many are typically white, rural, Republican or conservative-leaning independents, including many from the South.
Three new Tea Party political action committees have just been launched, and the original Tea Party PAC is expanding after being revamped with the help of professional fund-raisers. More PACs are expected. So-called Tea PACs will be used to make donations to favored candidates and fund TEA Party-sponsored candidate training sessions as well as Tea Party-backed ad campaigns. Combined, Tea Party PACs are expected to spend $9 million by the end of the election year and perhaps more in the 2012 elections after they are better known and marketed.
There are several states where the Tea Party will have a potentially large impact:
Florida. In this big base for Tea Party supporters, they're responsible for lifting the U.S. Senate primary election prospects of conservative Marco Rubio (R), a favorite of the right, over far-better-known Governor Charlie Crist (R), who is often portrayed as a moderate. The primary is Aug. 8. A brutal primary fight, as this one is shaping up to be, could split Republicans and give Democrats an edge in November.
Kentucky. The Tea Party has been vital in boosting Republican Rand Paul, a physician and son of Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX), the long-shot GOP presidential candidate. The younger Paul is running roughly even with the state GOP establishment pick, Kentucky Secretary of State Trey Grayson, for the party nomination. The primary is May 18. Several Tea Party campaigns are being organized for the two House candidates as well as local races.
Nevada. Tea Partyers could unwittingly play the role of spoiler. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D) is struggling to win reelection this year. Republicans have yet to settle on a candidate, and polling suggests Reid would win if the contest including a Tea Party candidate who would siphon votes from the GOP contender. Three Tea Party activists are strongly considering running as third-party candidates.
In Arizona, Sen. John McCain (R) has a close reelection race, thanks partly to the Tea Party. McCain is running in the Aug. 24 primary against former Rep. J.C. Hayworth, who is angling for Tea Party endorsements. He recently hired Tea Party activists to help run his campaign, for instance, and is repeatedly portraying McCain as too moderate for the state, in part to appeal to Tea Party supporters.


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You Are Already Rich – You Were Born That WayBy Peggy McColl in Abundance on May 7th, 2008 / 3 Comments
Wealth is your birthright. It's everyone's birthright! The silver spoon was in your mouth on the day you were born. You may not realize it because you think that to have riches you need lots of cash or financial holdings – or a genuine silver spoon – but this is a very limited and distorted way of thinking about wealth. Being rich doesn't necessarily mean you have a pile of $100 bills, a stack of gold bars, or a mink coat in your closet.
What most people don't understand is that wealth is an energy force. Every one of us can tap into this wonderful force whenever we like because it comes from a divine source of abundance that is always available to us. We're all born with access to this faucet of abundance. Turn it on and you'll find that wealth manifests in your life in many different ways: You may have plenty of friends and family, a treasure chest full of ideas, abundant joy and enthusiasm, and any number of expressions of affluence. When you develop the 21 Distinctions of Wealth, you'll know how to turn on that faucet.
A major reason why most of us block the flow of wealth and abundance is that we get stuck on the details of how it shows up in our lives. This blinds us to the creativity of the Universe, which has far more clever ideas about how to manifest riches than we can possibly imagine. We insist that we want cash or gold, but really, what good is a stack of green paper or a bar of gold? What can you do with them?
I suppose that you could use a bar of gold as a paperweight or to prop a door open, and you might use a piece of that green paper to mark your place in this book. Currency, precious metals, jewels, and fur aren't wealth; they're merely symbols of it, representing something of value that can be exchanged for something else of value. If you recognize all the forms of wealth available to you, you can start trading them in for what you most value.
Right this moment, you may be extremely wealthy and not even realize it. Everyone has a great deal of value, or assets, that they can enjoy and increase. You probably don't have stacks of bills or gold bars lying around your home, but I'm certain that you have a personal hidden gold mine you can work with and turn into another form of wealth. Your gold is special because unlike the precious metal, it's magnetic. Once you recognize it, value it, feel gratitude for it, and experience the joy of possessing it, you'll find that your gold is vibrating and acting as a magnet, attracting even more wealth to you.
Do you doubt that you have a hidden gold mine? Most of us focus on what we lack and overlook our special gifts, qualities, and resources – whether it's our creativity, our abundant love, our willingness to work hard, our excellent communication skills, our boundless enthusiasm, or some other quality or skill that has great value. Instead, we start subscribing to negative thinking and telling ourselves that we can't have wealth, that it's foolish to hope for it. These kinds of thoughts and the oppressive feelings they create blind us to the riches we hold within us.
In the 1930s, a ten-foot-tall clay statue of the Buddha, which had been found in a deserted Buddhist monastery, was moved into a storage facility. Twenty years later, monks at a monastery in Bangkok, Thailand, expressed a desire to own the statue of the great Buddha, so arrangements were made to move it. But as it was being lifted, it slipped off the crane and fell. The giant Buddha cracked, and at first everyone felt terrible that this beautiful statue was ruined. But then the movers realized that peeking through the crack was a shimmer of gold.
Upon investigation, they discovered that beneath the clay exterior was a solid-gold statue, which had been covered in mud centuries before in order to prevent robbers from recognizing its value and stealing it. After hundreds of years, none of the monks who knew the Buddha's secret remained. Those who had valued the statue for what it represented now discovered that it was a treasure in another sense: It was worth a fortune!
In your life, what golden Buddhas lie hidden beneath the mud? What qualities and resources have you forgotten about because you haven't considered just how valuable they are? What are your overlooked blessings? What do you possess that can be exchanged for what you most desire? You may be thinking, I don't have what it takes to be wealthy. I don't have the right skills, the education, the connections, or the time to create wealth. Yet if you look carefully, you might unearth talents, wisdom, qualities, resources, and ideas that are secretly worth a fortune.
Like everyone else, you were born with precious seeds of wealth . . . but have you claimed them, planted them, and nourished them? Some people are born with a knack for making friends and networking with other people—they might know the very individual who can direct them to where they need to be in order to receive the riches that are ready to flow into their lives. Others are tremendously creative and hardworking by nature, but they end up squandering precious time and never planting the seeds of their ideas in fertile ground. Still other people are brilliant observers and communicators who have the potential to transform those exceptional talents into another form of abundance.
If you're blind to the gold beneath the surface of your Buddha, it's because you lack the positive emotions that would open your eyes and allow you to rediscover and claim your birthright – emotions such as faith, confidence, worthiness, joy, enthusiasm, and abundance. Yes, abundance is an emotion. Feel it and experience it and your eyes will open to all the affluence already present in your life. Then you'll attract even more of it to you. Your wealth is there before you – ready to be claimed, invested, exchanged, built upon, and enjoyed.
Wealth truly is every human being's birthright. The Divine doesn't want us to go without. That's why we're born with curious minds; the potential to think, speak, and create something new; and open hearts that are willing to trust and believe in the seemingly impossible. Try telling a child that she can't possibly become a princess in a castle and she's likely to roll her eyes at how unimaginative and foolish you are. Much too quickly, we lose our ability to believe that we can live a life of opulence and luxury.
Look around at our world, lush with life and filled with strange and extraordinary creatures who remind us that the "impossible" is possible. (I once read that honeybees aren't supposed to be able to fly according to the laws of aerodynamics, but they do it anyway!) Think of the millions of microscopic creatures and countless leaves on all the trees in the world. What makes us think there isn't enough abundance to go around? Human beings in the most primitive living conditions have created art, music, tools, and new ideas and found resources to draw upon. The Divine gave us the ability to conceive and create, to think and to dream. So why don't we believe we can manifest what we desire?
As a goal-achievement coach, I've met many people who are held back from creating the lives of their dreams because of their strong negative feelings that actually block them from manifesting and receiving the riches they deserve. They generate the emotions of lack and guilt and lose faith that the Universe is there to co-create with them all that they long for. Their bodies actually create an energetic vibration that attracts people and situations that mirror their belief they're lacking. They readily give up their birthright of abundance and creativity, as if it had no value, and leave behind their childlike willingness to dream and believe. Their resourcefulness slips away, and they can't recognize the wealth that's inside and all around them, just waiting to be claimed by them.
When my son, Michel, was 12, he would often take apart broken skateboards that he found in the garbage at a skateboard park. What another person saw as junk he had the creativity to view as a source of wealth. He would clean up the pieces – the wheels and such – and sell them as replacement parts to the kids at school. He then exchanged the money he made for fishing gear or accessories for his mountain bike. He, like so many children and young people, hasn't lost his ability to see the gold inside the Buddha. He recognizes the wealth around him and the resources he has within, such as his knowledge about skateboards and his cleverness. With the eyes of a child, he can recognize riches when he sees them and claim them for himself, without guilt or embarrassment.
You, too, have this ability to reclaim your birthright and start living a prosperous, abundant life. All you have to do is let go of the negative thoughts and feelings that have been blocking you and open yourself up to the gifts you were born with.
The excerpt is taken from the new book, 21 Distinctions of Wealth by Peggy McColl. It is published by Hay House (May 2008) and available at all bookstores.
Available also at amazon: 21 Distinctions of Wealth
It will look like this: You Are Already Rich – You Were Born That Way


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"Daddy, I Pee-Pee On The Grass"?
We were out in our courtyard this morning, and I noticed the Little One was tugging on the back of her dress. Pulling it up, trying to turn around and look at her backside. I asked, "Bella, whatcha doin'?"(thinking perhaps she was just trying to get a feel for her outfit)...Uh Uh! She said the above...evidently, having seen the dogs pee-pee countless times...'on the grass'...
After explaining that "we" don't pee-pee on the grass, only dogs do...and in extreme emergencies, Daddy does, we ventured back in...where I decided it was time to wish everyone a HAPPY FATHERHOOD FRIDAY!! Check out DAD-BLOGS
I need your help this week...or rather, your questions for a Superstar!
That's right! If you've ever wanted to interview a superstar, now is that chance.
Send in your questions for our Little one...ask her anything...(KEEP IT CLEAN PLEASE). BellaDaddy will pick the best and interview Bella for you! And sometime next week, we will present the interview...in all it's (EDITED), un(RETOUCHED) glory.
So, c'mon, humour me...send your comments and questions. Ask her pretty much anything you like...keeping in mind, she has two dads, she loves music, and of course, being the center of attention, among other ideas for you to consider.
Thinking Aloud
Or rather, blogging about it.
As is every Fatherhood Friday, my buds and (moms) over at Dad-Blogs.com would love to hear from you...check us all out: DAD-BLOGS.
Sometimes I sit and stare at my child...watching her eat, chew, swallow, play, run, laugh, blink, smile, flap her arms, fly a kite, pet the dogs, shake the hand of a stranger, squeal in delight when a friend comes to visit...and I wonder..."where did she learn this"?
I would like to say it is from me, or my partner, but, observations have proven, she is absorbing on her own: growing, educating herself, becoming a little person. Right before our eyes.
She has her opinions, and makes them known. We know her likes and dislikes as she is never one to hold back.
She dresses herself, buttons and unbuttons, pull up her pants, buttons and zips...and even puts her shoes on the "correct" feet. We say correct, because when telling her the shoes were on the wrong feet, saying 'you need to put them on the right feet', this would confuse her...as she already knew she had a left AND a right foot. (I imagined her saying, "Daddy, I only have ONE right foot, how can both shoes be on the right feet"?).
Now, would never say I was living "the Dream"...as I have never truly imagined, or dreamt, that this would be my life right now. I am 45, and a father...of a toddler. And, I am having so much fun! Living a childhood all over again. Splurging on toys and such, that I never had as a kid...and now, I can play to my hearts content...with a little one who is incredibly spunky and fun. LOVES to be silly, (like me)...loves to make people laugh (like me)...and in general, is turning out to be such a wonderful little human being...(like me) LOL!
I may not have done all that I wanted in life...who has? But know this...I am certainly having the time of my life now...I get to live through a child's eyes...and I get to be part of the process by which another human being turns out to have a compassionate heart and mind.
So, kudos to ME :-)
PLEASE! Watch Your Kids Around Water!
Every year, I sit and watch, tempted to change the channel or turn off the news altogether, simply because I find it extremely difficult to comprehend. HOW on earth do people lose track of their kids, even for that spilt second? No Clue. Every year, it is the same. Gates left open. No Gates at all. Parents napping while toddler crawls out doggie doors...etc...etc...etc...I will never be one to point fingers, however, I cannot advocate stupidity. We should ALWAYS be watching our kids...regardless of how tired, overworked, busy, etc...ALWAYS!, hoping, praying that this never happens to us, or anyone we know.
So, with that being said, please review the following tips. And remember,
Drowning Threat
In many states, drowning is a leading cause of accidental death for children one through four years age.
A child can drown in less time than it takes to answer the telephone.
For every drowning, an additional five near drowning cases are treated in the emergency room. Irreversible brain damage occurs in 3 to 5 minutes.
In California there are more than 330 people with irreversible brain damage because of near drowning incidents. Of this total more than 75 people are currently hospitalized at a cost of $120,000 per year for life.
Drowning Prevention Tips
There is no substitute for adequate supervision. Children need to be watched. Never leave children unattended in or around pools or spas - not even for a second.
Access to the pool or spa area should be limited by locked doors, windows and self closing, self latching gates on fences surrounding the pool. Latches should be above the reach of children.
Keep rescue equipment such as a long handled hook and a ring buoy with a rope hanging near the pool.
Install a phone by the pool so you can answer it without leaving children unattended.
Always keep chairs, tables, or toys away from the pool or spa fence to keep children from using them to climb over.
Do not allow anyone of any age to swim alone. Drowning happens to adults too. When you are entertaining a group of children or adults, have a designated pool watcher who is responsible for keeping track of everyone.
Always completely remove a pool or spa cover before use to avoid the possibility of anyone being trapped and drowning under the cover.
Is your pool surrounded by a 5 foot 6 inch high or higher fence or barrier?
Are the gates self-closing and self-latching? The self latching mechanism should be out of the reach of children. Is the self-latching mechanism at least 54 inches, from the bottom of the gate? If less than 54 inches, the latching mechanism should be located on the pool side of the gate.
Are all the gates kept locked?
Are pool rules posted in a visible location?
Is rescue equipment kept near the pool? A ring buoy with an attached line and/or a long handled hook.
Is the pool cover completely removed or properly installed? Never use a pool with its pool cover partially
Are steps and ladders leading to an above ground pool secured, locked or removed when the pool is not in use?
Are the diving board and any slides in safe operating condition?
Does the hot tub or spa have a solid, locking cover, and is the cover in place and locked when the spa or hot tub is not in use?
We were in a one of our favorite, cool restaurants: FEZ. One of us, I don't remember which, not important, had veggies on our plate. Bella had a perplexed look on her face, reached over, took a spear and headed on....looked at it for a moment, exclaimed: "look Daddy, it's a little tree" and proceeded to devour it...
I was so frikkin excited, I almost pissed my pants...! (I didn't, I was wearing some pretty nice jeans most certainly - Love my clothes!).
Now, we have been trying to get her to eat veggies for so damn long, I had actually given up. Many of you know how difficult this can be...getting kids to eat what is "good for them" always ends up badly. None of us wanted to eat it...we wanted to ENJOY it...and face it, veggies just aren't that exciting...Instead, we gave her vitamins, and veggies drinks to supplement. This kid can be stubborn...and so can we...but screw it, she always wins out.
But now? Now I can relax. I think I am gonna win this one...gonna come up with some names for each veggie. A few ideas come to mind:
Snowman Nose (carrots)
"Go Fly A Kite"
Recently, a blogging pal of mine over at Dad-Blogs, Out-Numbered offered up one of the most brutally honest postings on a blog I have ever read: things-that-suck-about-having-kids. You HAVE to read his writings...clever, humorous and completely direct. Personally, I live vicariously through his musings :-) So many things we really want to convey as parents about our children, however, most of us choose to remain 'PC'...Parentally Correct".
So, in honor (or in spite) of Jason, his amazing blog, & Fatherhood Friday, I am submitting for your entertainment....a "cutesy pictures of birthday parties, messy cupcake faces or first poop poops on the potty" Video.
We have a grassy "wash" area near our home, and recently our friend Nancy was out and about with her kids, flying a really cool kite. It has been fairly windy around here lately, as is the norm for this time of year.
Bella was absolutely mesmerized by the bright colors of their kite, the fact that it was flying 'like a butterfly' and of course, that Bailey & Harrison were at the helm of something so fun!
Of course, she HAD to have one. Of course, Daddy HAD to get her one. Of Course, I DID!
The video below is the outcome of that recent purchase. We had just come from a Starbucks run, and Bella, knowing the kite was in the house, noted the windy conditions. (like she is a weather person n the making). We get out of the car and Bella says: "Wow, Daddy, ish windee. Please, Please, kite, kite...play with Bailey n Harrishon n Nanshee" (she talks that way at times, mostly when she is excited about something...her words include SH allot). Daddy puts the kite together, (surprisingly easy) and off we go.
Had a great time...me included!
There is music involved, so turn it down, turn it up...either way...enjoy my submission to cuteness!


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In recognizing how incredibly fast Pinterest is growing, and the quick migration to Pinterest by many businesses (including ourselves and several of our clients). I was recently asked at a conference, which businesses would really benefit by being on this platform and why they would do so. Here's the list and reasons that I came up with for the group:
- Hair, Nail, & Spa Salons – Obviously this platform is incredibly suited to the primary demographic of users (Pinterest is the number one platform of choice for female social media users). Pinterest Boards can be used to highlight and focus on photos of current hairstyles, fashions, nail color trends, hair colors, beauty and facial trends and the lists go on.
- Travel Agencies – Think of Pinterest as your home for virtual travel brochures and videos. Because of the "wish list" feature of Pinterest, where people are pinning and repining great travel images and destinations they would like to plan on visiting.
- Home Remodelers – Use Pinterest as an online gallery to show off before and after photos of your projects to demonstrate your expertise and examples of great work you have performed.
- Interior Designers – The same basic idea as remodelers would work here. Pinterest can be leveraged as an online gallery to show before and after photos, show off trends, fabrics, patterns, signature pieces, and so on.
- Landscapers – Here you can benefit from sharing how-to information, as well as showing off examples of work you have performed. Just like rooms in our homes, we tend to pin photos or repin photos of things we'd like in our yards someday.
- Event & Wedding Planners – Here you can showcase venues, ideas, your portfolio of work done, decorations, themes, and settings. The list here is endless.
- Jewelry & Clothing – Combining product photos and the Pinterest "Gift" option can help to drive online and in store sales of items you sell.
- Tattoo Shops – Where better to place an online gallery of your artwork and designs! You can also show off specific signature pieces, as well as provide examples of tattoos designed for specific body areas.
- Auto Detail/Paint/Customizing – The number one things that Males on Pinterest pin after food pins, are pins of vehicles, especially dream cars, customized cars, and video as well. If you can provide these images of your work online they are sure to be repinned (believe me, I found a showroom photo of a 1979 Chevy Chevette, my first car, and even that car is my pin with the highest number of repins).
- Resorts & Campgrounds – Similar to travel, you can virtually create an online travel brochure for your property to drive awareness and interest. You can even open up certain Pinboards to allow your guests to pin photos from their trips or vacations. Allowing your customers to help share the fondness and memories of their trip.
At Sterling Cross Communications, we have a vast experience in creating and executing exciting and outside the box campaigns across several social media platforms. If you need help or more ideas on placing your business on Pinterest or need a strategy and action plan on what to do on these channels please contact us at http://sterlingcrossgroup.com.


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In Britain, these are teatime favorites, but in the States, we like them for breakfast, too. You'll get tall, flaky, buttery scones that are excellent partners with your finest jams.
- Yield
- Makes 12 scones
- 3/4 cup whole milk
- 2 large eggs, chilled
- 3 cups unbleached all-purpose flour, plus more as needed
- 1 tablespoon plus 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 2 tablespoons superfine sugar
- 1/4 teaspoon fine sea salt
- A few gratings of fresh nutmeg
- 10 tablespoons (1 1/4 sticks) unsalted butter, chilled and cut into 1/2-inch cubes
- 1/2 cup dried currants
- 1 large egg, well beaten with a hand blender, for glazing
- 1. Position a rack in the center of the oven and preheat to 425°F. Line a half-sheet pan with parchment paper.
- 2. TO MAKE THE DOUGH BY HAND: Whisk the milk and 2 eggs together in a small bowl; set aside. Sift the flour, baking powder, sugar, salt, and nutmeg into a medium bowl. Add the butter and mix quickly to coat the butter with the flour mixture. Using a pastry blender, cut the butter into the flour, scraping the butter off the blender as needed, until the mixture resembles coarse bread crumbs with some pea-size pieces of butter. Mix in the currants. Using a wooden spoon, stir in the milk mixture and mix just until the dough clumps together. TO USE A MIXER: Whisk the milk and 2 eggs together in a small bowl; set aside. Sift the dry ingredients together into the bowl of a heavy-duty stand mixer. Add the butter. Attach the bowl to the mixer and fit with the paddle attachment. Mix on medium-low speed until the mixture looks mealy with some pea-size bits of butter. Mix in the currants. Reduce the mixer speed to low. Add the milk mixture, mixing just until the dough barely comes together.
- 3. Turn the dough out onto a well-floured work surface and sprinkle about 2 tablespoons of flour on top. Knead the dough a few times, just until it doesn't stick to the work surface. Do not overwork the dough. The surface will be floured, but the inside of the dough should remain on the wet side. Gently roll out the dough into a 3/4-inch-thick round.
- 4. Using a 2 1/2-inch fluted biscuit cutter, dipping the cutter into flour between cuts, cut out the scones (cut straight down and do not twist the cutter) and place 1 1/2 inches apart on the prepared half-sheet pan. To get the most biscuits out of the dough, cut out the scones close together in concentric circles. Gather up the dough scraps, knead very lightly, and repeat to cut out more scones. You should get two scones from the second batch of scraps. Brush the tops of the scones lightly with the beaten egg, being sure not to let the egg drip down the sides (which would inhibit a good rise).
- 5. Place the scones in the oven and immediately reduce the heat to 400°F. Bake until golden brown, about 20 minutes. Cool on the pan for a few minutes, then serve warm or cool completely.
Reprinted with permission from Sarabeth's Bakery: From My Hands to Yours by Sarabeth Levine with Rick Rodgers, © October 2010 Rizzoli New York


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Letter from the President
Larry Pimentel
President and CEO Azamara®
Dear Fellow Traveler:
Thank you for your interest in Azamara. We appreciate it. Guests such as yourselves visiting our site and spending time with us are indeed a vote of confidence and inspire us to serve our customers even better. We realize there are many fine cruise lines out there ready to welcome you and that they offer some excellent vacation experiences.
Cruise Line Differences
I don't like to use the common, cruise line marketing phrases that elevate one line or one ship over another. One cruise line or one cruise ship is not necessarily better than another. There are many choices and it's more accurate to simply say one line, or one ship is different from others--- not better but different. And that's my point in this message to you--- Azamara is different. It will provide you with a different kind of cruise experience. Here's what I mean.
The Azamara Differences
The Destination Immersion® Concept: We believe that the principal reason travelers such as yourself circle our globe is to immerse in the rich historical and cultural experiences of regions you are unfamiliar with, yet they are regions that you wish to visit and explore. It's the personal discovery of the unknown that captures the interest. And that's a major point of difference with Azamara. We focus on the destinations and offer more overnight stays and more late night departures. This is not a minor detail to experienced travelers, or to anyone who has had to rush back to their ship when they yearn to stay longer. We call this opportunity Night Touring. We also offer extensive programs for onboard education supported by a knowledgeable international staff who know the hidden treasures in each port. And be sure to ask about our shore excursions and CruiseTours programs that can take you deeper into local and regional culture.
Exceptional Quality: You will find our twin cruisers to be beautiful boutique ships, much like European boutique hotels, with every amenity the discerning traveler desires. Service is attentive but never intrusive. Our regionally-inspired cuisine and world-class boutique wine cellar rival the finest urban restaurants anywhere. And our ships feature top-tier spa and fitness facilities.
Our Commitment to You
Azamara makes a two-part commitment to our guests. First, it is to provide you with an unmatched leisure holiday experience offering adventure and sophistication. And second, since our loyal guests are a demanding clientele, you seek good value. So our commitment to you is to provide you with just that---a unique experience that you perceive to be a good value.
I hope to have the pleasure of welcoming you aboard soon. And, all of us at Azamara believe you'll love where we take you...
Larry Pimentel
President & CEO


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Heard Around the West
Rick Kirschner, a naturopath who works with corporations to resolve staff conflicts, has been hired to train the trash-talking city council of Ashland, a city better known for hosting the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. The therapist will have his work cut out for him. At the last meeting of the seven-member group, Councilman David Chapman told Councilman Eric Navickas to "shut your f--- mouth," reports the Mail Tribune. At an earlier meeting, Navickas was on the dishing-out end, calling the mayor a "Nazi." Kirschner, co-author of Dealing with People You Can't Stand: How to Bring Out the Best in People at Their Worst, will be paid $37,000 to curb the elected officials' penchant for cursing and establish civility. "It may seem like a lot of money," said Ashland administrator Marsha Bennett. "But if the council doesn't function, the city doesn't function."
A "virtual fence" along the Arizona border with Mexico is so virtual that it doesn't function. At a cost (so far) of $15 million, Boeing Co. erected nine 98-foot towers across 28 miles close to the border four months ago, but the company reports that a "software glitch" has prevented the system's radar, sensors and cameras from doing their job to halt illegal immigration and drug trafficking. In an explanation that sounded remarkably like the old saw "The operation was a success, but the patient died," Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff explained that "individual components worked well, but the system integration was not satisfactory." The high-tech fence is the first stage of an ambitious plan to blanket both the Mexican and Canadian borders with some 1,800 such towers, reports The Associated Press.
The voters spoke in Arizona, but did they think ahead? A successful state proposition declared that students without legal status aren't true-blue Arizonans, even if they've grown up in the state and graduated from local high schools. That means undocumented students must now pay out-of-state tuition, which is $12,000 more than other residents pay. Arizona State University has begun helping some 200 Mexican-Americans with scholarships, but that's a drop in the bucket: The Arizona Republic reports that nearly 5,000 young people this year may be unable to get enough loans to afford a college in the state.
Not to pick on Arizona, but how did a cancer patient in Tucson get forgotten for almost five hours in a CT scanner? Elvira Tellez, 67, woke up after the 25-minute procedure only to find the room dark and nobody around. She screamed for help to no avail, then spent several hours struggling to free herself from the giant machine, reports the Associated Press. Finally, she wiggled out from under a heavy blanket and called her son, who told her to call 911. Perhaps the oddest thing about her experience at Arizona Oncology Associates was the reaction of one of its doctors. Said Steven Ketchel: "People have been left in the office after hours ... My guess is she was lying on the table waiting and waiting, and nobody told her she could go home." What did Tellez make of her experience? In Spanish, she said, "I think and think and think. But I can't understand it." Readers commenting on the story found the doctor's comment amazingly blase predicted a lawsuit from Tellez and her family, and suggested that the clinic add a new protocol to its lock-up routine: "Sweep the office for forgotten patients."
Never mind trophy wives, now there's trophy land. A mere 10 acres in Montana's Paradise Valley can be yours for $2.3 million, invites Nieman Marcus, in its famously over-the-top Christmas catalog. The pricey acreage is listed as a "fantasy gift," reports the Associated Press, along with a dragon topiary bush for $35,000 and a $1.4 million submarine for two.
Neuroscientists at the University of California at Berkeley ask the darndest questions: Could a human be trained to emulate a dog and track a scent along the ground? The scent chosen was chocolate, and the answer was "yes," though dogs remain far more adept at using their sniffers than people. Still, reports New Scientist, Berkeley undergraduates quickly learned fast to wag their noses back and forth, stereo-style, to keep both nostrils transmitting the location of the chocolate-laced trail. Photos of the experiment were perhaps a mite undignified. The students wore blindfolds and earmuffs to block their other senses, and in order to crawl quickly over the grass - rumps skyward - they had to don knee pads and heavy gloves.
As the Silverton Standard & the Miner put it: "County Treasurer Bev Rich is known for going to great lengths to collect unpaid taxes; in this case, 181 centimeters." That's the length of a pair of downhill skis made by Scott Robert Carlson, who owed $505.28 in property taxes. In lieu of cash, he donated a pair of his custom skis, which he says are worth $850. The San Juan County treasurer is now accepting bids on the skis.
Betsy Marston is editor of Writers on the Range, a service of High Country News in Paonia, Colorado. Tips of Western oddities are always appreciated.


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In some local comedy news, there's been a bit of backlash on social media against the organizers of The Cape May Comedy Festival.
Andrew Alexander–editor of It's Always Funny in Philadelphia–found a participant from the festival to write an exposé on the proceedings. The resulting article is fascinating look at the shit show that comedians put themselves through, pretty much all the time.
At the end of the day, it's hard to sympathize with the masochistic lifestyle choice of the standup comedian, which puts oneself through a dignity juicer semi-nightly for the belief that their voice and point of view are important. (Or, simply for funsies.) Still, when you see a "talented" comedian coming out the other end, you should admire their tolerance for the sausage grinder which takes experiences like this one and learns how to process it into laughs, in pretty much any setting.


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Can you imagine walking into a furniture store and seeing, among the living room sets and wardrobes and armchairs, a fuzzy little lion cub stretched out on the floor for you to pet? I know it sounds like the beginning of a really awesome dream, but this was a real experience for those who shopped at Sophisticat on King's Road in London circa 1970. At the time the area was the absolute height of British cool. Its most famous resident was Mick Jagger. However, even cool cat Mick (SEE WHAT I DID THERE) couldn't compete with his neighbor, Christian, the friendly baby lion who liked to give human-style hugs. Maybe you've already cried over his lovability and wished for a lion snuggle of your own while refreshing the video on YouTube over and over again, but if not, I'm warning you now—break out the Kleenex, because this story is like an Elliott Smith album multiplied by freshly-cut onions in terms of tear-jerkery, except you'll be weeping tears of pure joy.
Anyway, you're probably wondering how Christian's living scenario came to be. If anything even close to an animal as exotic as a lion showed up in a boutique these days, you KNOW it would be a huge scandal, and rightfully so. However, in the late '60s, before the passage of global laws protecting endangered species, an English department store, Harrods, sold all kinds of exotic "pets" to wealthy people, including camels, baby elephants (the Prince of Albania bought one for Ronald Reagan; Nancy called him "GOP"), and Christian, who had been acquired from a defunct zoo in a British resort town. Anyone with enough cash up front could buy an undomesticated wild animal, regardless of their ability to properly care for it. One afternoon in 1969, a man named John Rendall went to check out the store and was appalled to discover a beautiful lion cub confined to a small cage. Naturally, he freaked out and bought Christian for 250 pounds, which would be something like $4,000 today. Wouldn't you do the same if you saw a cuddly cub in that sad situation? I know I would, even if my parents said no. "I mean, I promise to walk him!"
Nowadays, even corner pet stores and shelters will give you very detailed instructions for how to care for your dog or cat or guinea pig, but Harrods sent Rendall off with nothing more than some diet information. For a LION. In the middle of LONDON.
Despite their lack of experience with large African wildcats, Rendall and three friends made sure that Christian had everything he needed to be a happy little cub. He had his own large living quarters in the basement of Sophisticat, which was owned by Rendall, and was allowed to play outdoors in a secluded graveyard nearby. He was also fed quite well—Rendall provided four meals and supplementary vitamins every day. In return, the lion showed plenty of affection to his owners and the store's customers, who considered him a friendly local celebrity. Christian was welcomed into the area's restaurants and clubs, arriving in his owner's Bentley like a total boss. Christian loved to be in public, and would show off by getting on his back legs to hug Rendall or other people who were warm to him. Christian was so famous for imitating human behavior that the documentary about him is subtitled, The Lion Who Thought He Was People.
However, this mutual admiration between man and beast wasn't enough to sustain Christian's life on King's Road—the thing about lions is that, unlike your average housecat, they eventually grow into terrifyingly enormous predators. After a year, he was almost two hundred pounds and looked less like a kitten than a man-eater, though he retained his sweetheart demeanor. His owners realized that Christian needed a more suitable home. It was time for him to leave the furniture store and go somewhere where he could live the wild life that every good lion deserves (the "bad" ones deserve it too).
Luckily, right around the time that Christian was outgrowing the store, a solution presented itself in the form of Bill Travers and Virginia McKenna. The two had recently acted in the movie Born Free, which coincidentally told the story of conservationists George and Joy Adamson's attempts to return a domesticated lion to the wild. They suggested Rendall enlist the help of the real-life Adamsons, who were now living in Africa. So in 1971, Rendall and his friend Anthony "Ace" Bourke, who had helped him raise Christian, flew with their furry pal to Kenya, where they met the Adamsons and planned to help Christian adapt to his new surroundings.
Wild lions have a strict hierarchy in their prides, which are like tight-knit extended families. A typical pride will have three to four female lions, one or two males, and their cubs, and it's incredibly difficult to introduce a new lion to a pre-existing pride without inflaming tensions; it would be like the new girl plopping down at the lunch table of your high school's snobbiest clique. It was going to take a lot of work to ensure Christian's well-being as he transitioned from a pampered playboy into the kind of beast that roamed the ancestral plains.
George Adamson, Rendall, and Bourke planned to release Christian along with Boy, the lion who had starred in Born Free, so that the two could acclimate together and begin a new pride of their own. The lions were brought to a park, where they were housed in adjoining pens, separated by a wire fence. It was the first time Christian had met another lion since birth, and his lack of knowledge about the delicate social order of lions would probably have gotten him killed otherwise. Young male lions like Christian are supposed to observe a biological subservience to lions that are older, like Boy. The younger lion must wait to be approached by the older lion if he doesn't want to get mauled beyond belief. (I imagine it would be like the time I brought a sketchy new boyfriend to my high school graduation party and my dad basically threatened to disappear him, but with just a little more blood.) However, Christian was used to the world fawning over his very existence and had no idea that his interactions with Boy would be any different. When Christian ambled right over to the fence to check out his new friend, Boy hurled himself violently against it in anger. This process repeated itself day after day until Christian finally learned to show submission to Boy. Then the fence was removed, and it was time for the newly-united Christian and Boy to start establishing their own pride on the Adamsons' nature reserve. Then it was basically like every buddy-cop movie you've ever seen, with the curmudgeonly older dude slowly warming to the young hotshot—think Men in Black with zebras instead of aliens.
After a few years, George Adamson called Rendall to let him know that Christian's pride was now self-sufficient, and that he, his females, and their cubs rarely came back to camp. Although Rendall and Ace were thrilled that their pampered London lion cub was now fully acclimated to the wild, they missed their friend. So they decided to travel to Kenya in order to say a final goodbye. GET READY, because here's what happened when they did (this is actually the second time they went back, bringing a film crew with them, but it was a repeat performance of that first reunion):
HUGE LION HUGS, just like the ones Christian used to give as a cub. Even as a wild and free adult lion, he still loved his friends, showing his joyous affection by bashing his head into them repeatedly. Look at the way he sprints up to them when he recognizes who they are after years of being away! DAMMIT, CHRISTIAN, YOU ARE BREAKING MY HEART. FINALLY, PROOF that love transcends species, and that it lives on even in the wildest (LOL) situations.
There's a lot to adore about the story of Christian the lion, but I think what's most special about it is that the people involved didn't love selfishly. Despite their attachment to Christian, his human companions knew it wasn't right to keep him cooped up, however swankily, when he should have been stalking the shit out of some zebras on the plains in Africa. When you see Christian hug Ace and Rendall as a full-grown, healthy lion with a family of his own, it's clear that they made the right choice. And also that lions are adorable. ♦


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The first confirmed character, Lobo, will be released on May 7, 2013. He was first shown over the weekend at C2E2.
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I get constantly pestered by my relatives and friends asking me when I'm going to have children. I explain to them that I don't want kids. This doesn't seem to satisfy their needs for an answer. I especially get protests from the religious majority in my life.
I don't want kids because of the lifestyle I live. I have freedom, financially and socially. I like high risk activities and I am planning on making the military a career when I go back in. I don't want my wife to have to explain where I went if anything happens to me while on tour or otherwise. I also believe that I'm a better "fake dad" to my nephews and nieces. It's kind of a convenience. Yes, I like taking them places and spending time with them, but when I don't or can't, I don't have to. There's no diaper changing, disciplinary action or fiscal challenges. Plus, the way this world is going, I feel I don't want to bring children into the mess we are leaving for them.
I'd be interested to know what other people think when it comes to children. Are you having them or have you decided you don't want them? Maybe you're holding off for some reason? For all intents and purposes, I'm just curious.
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Not sure, I'm just 18 so I probably won't be thinking seriously about it for a while yet, but.. I think in the future, maybe just one of my own :P
My son was a surprise from a birth control failure. I never wanted to have children and I regret becoming a mother at 23. I am 27 now and it would have been better to have had him now that I am older. I would not trade being a mother for anything. My son is awesome and if I'm good to him I hope he will be there for me when I am at the end of my life. However, if you do not want to be tied down to a child don't have one. They change everything about your life and pregnancy is not pleasant for the majority (even for men caring for the pregnant woman). So no need to rush into something you have no desire to experience.
There is certainly no shortage of people, and several good reasons not to make more. On the other side of the equation is, among other things, a powerful unconscious drive to promote survival of our specific genes. Whichever choice you make will incur consequences lasting your whole life. For myself, not procreating was largely a matter of chance -- tried a few times without success, and ultimately ended up with a failed marraige for other reasons. Mostly I'm glad that I didn't have children, but I must say that it has left an emotional, irrational hole. It's as if my conscious mind is good with it, but the rest of my body senses failure at its prime imperative. If the opportunity to become a father arose (fat chance!) I can't say with complete honesty that I would decline it. And then I would be dealing with cognitive dissonance over all those rational arguments against procreating. So it's not a zero-sum game -- either choice is life-defining. I'm very happy now to be living with my little sister, a single mom, and helping to raise her wonderful son who, after all, shares a quarter of my genes.
I appreciate the responses. It's interesting to hear other points of view. Thanks guys!
I'm 30, married, and do not intend to ever have children. I made this decision when I was about 14 and never wavered at all. I knew I wanted a career and the freedom to pursue the things I enjoy throughout my adult life--travel, leisure activities, living in an urban loft, etc. I was up front about this with the people I dated seriously and, lucky for me, I found someone whom I loved who agreed with me wholeheartedly. People kept telling me that I'd change my mind once I felt my biological clock, but if it hasn't happened by now, it's not going to happen. I fully intend to remain sexually active in my marriage and see nothing wrong with doing so. My husband and I have talked about a vasectomy. He will no doubt be going through that as soon as he has some other unrelated medical procedures taken care of.
I never had the desire to become a father, initially from concern about the unpleasant burdens of parenthood. Eventually I came to realize that my philosophical position is termed "antinatalism". That is, I was an antinatalist before I became aware of the term.
In the late 1990s I was frantically dating, with very poor results; not because women were shocked at my aversion to fatherhood (though this was indeed shocking), but for general reasons of nerdiness and beta-maleness. Eventually fortune smiled upon me and I met a very pleasant, straightforward young lady who had no desire for motherhood. Her reasons were different from mine; for her, babies were icky and she was terrified of the risks in mothering them and raising them. We married, and lived more or less happily ever after - for a while. By mutual consent, I had a vasectomy. Then last year things abruptly changed. Coming out of nowhere, my wife announced the imperative of her biological clock, and that she must try her hand at motherhood, since dying childless would be an unacceptable failure and would contravene the biological imperative of womanhood. She left me abruptly, and now we're entering the final phase of divorce. Interestingly, she was never interested in adoption, foster-parenting, volunteering with children, baby-sitting other people's children... all that she wanted was a biological child of her own.
So the question of reproduction has touched me deeply. It ruined my marriage to the woman who I still love, despite her sudden betrayal of our relationship. And even if our divorce somehow escapes being devastating emotionally and financially, I'll still be saddled with the burden of loneliness and the awful prospects of finding another mate. If dating was so tough 15 years ago, it shall be all the more burdensome in middle age.
Perusing this forum, objections to reproduction are quite common, as are testaments by folks happy in their decision to remain childless. There's even an entire discussion group - "The godless and the childless", which enjoys considerable activity. But no amount of peer support will assuage my heartbreak of losing my wife. And how many of these internet friendships can realistically lead to a substantive assay at a new relationship?
So sorry to read all this. I hope you are able to find the social support you need, whether it be through forums like this, family, or new friends/romances. I want to tell you not to give up hope for finding romantic companionship so readily, but I know that I would feel similarly in your shoes, so it would be a bit hypocritical for me to say that. I've been struggling to make non-romantic friends lately; it's not so easy.
Not sure. I don't want them now, but I'm only 20, and biology is a bitch. There's a chance I don't have much choice, I have PCOS and it may limit my fertility, but on the other hand all seven of my mother's children were accidents on birth control, as are probably the majority of my cousins. There is also the fact that I've never had sex so I'm not off to a great start. I don't really like most children, but I like my niece, and I like babies.
I had PCOS as well. My Dr. put me on Metformin to treat the problem. It helped but it also made me a fertile myrtle, 9 months later i'm a mommy... I had no idea the medicine increased fertility so drastically. My Dr had spoken with me about the possibility I would never have children bc of the PCOS, she was wrong, very wrong.
I went on metformin at first, but it made me stop losing weight and get pretty sick (flu symptoms) so I had to stop. Then I started birth control which made me gain like 10 pounds, so I stopped that as well. Yeah PCOS is not too fun is it?
I should get my eggs frozen as I might want one when I get old, but I'm in no hurry, have a couple of decades to make up my mind =/
With the past month came my Twentieth birthday, already the first one to have gone so long without becoming pregnant in my generation. Understand I come from a traditional Hispanic family, the women cook, clean, and raise children as opposed to the men that are encouraged to get their education and get good jobs.
I have the undeniable silent pressure of my family on my back to get my own family started, perhaps due to how I was raised I have the urge to give in.
Logically I know I will hold off, but biologically and subconsciously my mind fauns over becoming a mother.
Still. I can say that without much room for doubt I can hold off till I am financially stable (and hopefully thriving). I went through the necessary steps and got an implanted contraceptive, encouraged my boyfriend to always carry condoms with him (he still wont bend and get the male implanted contraceptive, but I still feel its far he do it too).
This way I can go about being as safe as one can regarding sex, have a good relationship, go to school and enjoy my time being young- but still allow myself to faun and daydream of my future life.
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Always been worried this is holopr0n. Let me know in the unlikely event it ain't.My Father Bleeds History doesn't bode well for its ability to rise above holocash market.
Taking a crack at The Arena, by Bishop Ignatius Brianchaninov.I'm a little intimidated, and hope it inspires more than discourages me.
Started the new book just published by St. Herman of Alaska Brotherhood:The Beginnings of a Life of Prayer by Archimandrite IreneiOnly on page 40 or so, but am finding it to have very helpful reminders, and is instructive and inspiring at the same time. I always thought Father Irenei was so intelligent that it would be difficult for me to fathom anything he says. But this book is really so very well written that I have no problem following his train of thought, even though I am so busy and stressed at this time.He quotes quite a bit from various sources, like the Philokalia for one. And he is a very kind, pastoral caring Father Confessor who takes the time to listen then give his suggestions and prayers, even for a visitor. But sometimes it's hard to remember everything said, so this book is something I can go back to again and again if needed.
"A is for Musk Ox""The Beekeepers Apprentice"
I am about 120 pages into rereading The Idiot and I am amazed at how different my reaction has been. I remembered this book as being very soap-opera-like, but this time around it seems really great. What a difference 10 years makes!
Yes, and I much enjoyed it this time around. Though I have a different purpose and maybe that helped
Fwiw, what I've found helpful is not to look at the relationships as being about love interests (which I did too much before), but rather as being psychological and spiritual insights into what a virtuous or even Christ-like person would be like. Myshkin doesn't love Natasya or Aglaia in the traditional sense, but rather because he sees how broken they each are, in their own way, and he wants to save them. It's how God probably sees us in some way, and he's willing to do whatever it takes (even die) for us (this is also connected with Myshkin's end, but I won't spoil that). Why all this didn't occur to me before I don't know. Maybe because I'm not just reading for pleasure but am actually thinking about the novel this time around (and also reading secondary literature).
Right now, just the Scriptures. For my birthday on the 18th, I've asked my parents for Blessed Theophylact's commentary on the Gospels, so I'll probably be reading those soon.
Sophocles' Antigone and Oidipous Tyrannos. Oh, and the poems of Constantine Cavafy.
Quote from: Cyrillic on February 08, 2013, 04:17:45 AMSophocles' Antigone and Oidipous Tyrannos. Oh, and the poems of Constantine Cavafy.I did an essay on those today. Why aren't you reading Oedipus Coloneus?
Online is heresy. Recommend me a paperback version of it; it's my birthday soon anyway, people are asking me what I want them to buy me.
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There's been an awful lot of whining about the state trigger cuts that eliminated money -- about a quarter billion dollars -- for getting California students to school. In rural districts, people are saying that students who ride more than 30 miles to school in some cases simply won't go. In the big Los Angeles district, where hour-long bus rides to schools on the other side of town are common, school leaders are threatening to sue to block the cuts.
What a bunch of wimps!
Think of it as an opportunity to get tough. Back in the day of people like Gov. Jerry Brown (who pulled the triggers), before kids got weak (and before little things like desegregation and the slowing of school construction in the name of saving money and cutting taxes), kids walked to school, dammit.
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Wouldn't that be a good idea now?
For one thing, we have an obesity crisis in this country, and obesity starts at a young age. Depending on which study you prefer, a fifth or a third or half of American school-age children are obese. Let's say those kids live in Hollywood and have to walk over the hills to Sherman Oaks to go to school every day. Would they be obese doing that every day? No way.
A few sniveling critics will point out that if you had to walk 20 miles to school every day, you might show up late, since the walk would take several hours. Bah, humbug! You'd just need to start early, like at 2 am, which wouldn't be so hard since you wouldn't get home til 10 pm or so. With that kind of schedule, there wouldn't be time for video games or TV or the other mindless distractions from education.
If a school district decides that's simply too much walking, well fine: they can build more schools closer to kids. Since there's so much money out there for schools. Or they can do what Gov. Jerry Brown suggested and simply cut other programs to keep their school buses moving.
You know, the sort of programs that make it worth going to school in the first place.