2012年10月29日星期一

No. It shouldn't affect the home study.

What's disclose the reason for the visit (on the medical form, you will be asked about it) and what you did to address the problem. Your social worker/assessor will ask about it, and if the reasons you were anxious have been dealt with in a healthy manner (therapy, exercise, family support) then you are golden (Diablo 3 Gold).

I think it can actually be seen in a positive light that you reached out for help and are open to discussing it. It says a lot about a person-how they handle their problems, especially since adopting has its own unique stressors. Best of luck with your adoption, and please know that many on this board are anti-adoption and will tell you differently to try to discourage you. (Most of them are from an earlier era where adoption was not as open and accepted as it is now).

this decision is made by paps before they ever know a biomom - they don't want the child's mom anywhere in the child's life, period.

some who adopt from abroad later say that oh, they wish they could find the child's biomom in China (Diablo 3 Gold), or wherever - nope - easy to say.

if they are interested in the child maintaining his/her heritage, they wouldn't adopt from a country where it's nigh impossible to trace bios.

I think many adopters give lip service to the idea of searching/finding for international adoptees because as the adoptees grow, the adopters see the angst the kids have and wish to appease it - but of course, they made the decision to adopt from abroad for the specific outcome of not having a biomom to deal with (Diablo 3 Gold).

I knew an adoption facilitator and she confirmed that PAPs came to her wanting to adopt internationally specifically to keep the biomom out of their lives, and the child's life, forever.

Pity for the kids.

 

2012年10月25日星期四

If I was by a river and far from regulatory

I'd use a water turbine, or multiple water turbines (Diablo 3 Gold)...usually low output compared to a wind gen at speed, but river currents are far more steady.

I've used small wind generators on boats years ago- I still even have a prop blank out in my shed...the ones I used were built with old 24V computer tape drive motors and used about a 30" diameter blade to get the right speed for max output.

They worked well but any of that stuff that moves needs maintenance...water wheels and turbines have their own issues from the corrosive effects of water and potential problems with floods and debris taking them out.

But I've been close to wind generators that came apart in high winds or when the prop hit part of a boat's rigging accidentally while going full speed, and it's scary as hell even with baby ones like my friends and I used...so if you have a steady alternative, the peace of mind of a hydro power system is a big benefit (Diablo 3 Gold)

2012年10月23日星期二

Drs appt today, yet another scale and and new dr

Drs appt today, yet another scale and and new dr. I was dx as pre diabetic eight weeks ago and my new way of eating started that same day (Diablo 3 Gold)!! Of course it should have started 15 years ago.....but I digress.

On her scale I weighed three pounds less than I weighed on my primary drs scale, from several weeks ago....as I always say, I know each scale is very different. I am not longer getting upset by the number as I know how my clothes are fitting.

She said to weigh myself only once a week, naked, right before I eat anything. I am going to buy a scale soon. I think only in the last few days I can finally feel I'm losing weight. When I lie on my side, I can feel the contour of my hips and waist is not as it used to be. So, all pointing in the right direction.

On the other hand, this dr is an endocrinologist whom I went to for my thyroid as it's working fine as per blood tests but it is very enlarged. While there she saw I listed pre diabetes on my forms so we discussed that as well. She feels my primary was wrong in not telling me anything when I had my A1C eight weeks ago (Diablo 3 Gold), other than lose weight and come back for another a1c in three months. She said she would have put me on Metformin and wanted to do that today, until she learned I've completely changed my diet and it has been eight weeks since my dx so I'm going back in four weeks for another a1c and then we'll see if it's changed at all. If so, and I hope it has, then I'm on the right track. But she said even losing weight and changing the diet sometiimes won't make a difference in your a1c and being either diabetic or pre diabetic makes losing weight more difficult. I'll know more in four weeks when I go back.

I told her what I eat and she said I was eating exactly the right things.

I came home and made scallops and spinach for lunch and it was delicious!

I've had way too many health issues this years. It's been a difficult year. 

2012年10月20日星期六

What does all that bio/CV/gossip have to do with whether

What does all that bio/CV/gossip have to do with whether or not his music is any good (Diablo 3 Gold), and do you really need to have a hack writer for the NYT to pose the question? Do you not have a mind of your own? (BTW, I have a very low opinion of the NYT.)

The answer is simple, bad music does not endure.

Like all composers, some people like them others do not, it's a matter of taste. Every composer has pieces best left unplayed as well, what percent of their ouvre falls into that catagory probably has something to do with why they are or aren't well regarded now. Then, of course (Diablo 3 Gold), there are one hit wonders (yes, in any era).

If you enjoy his music, does it matter what anyone else thinks? Or vice versa, for that matter. 

2012年10月19日星期五

Bmoms and babies are like harp seals

Just like you can claim harp seals are murdered by men with clubs NOT those who buy and wear real fur coats (Diablo 3 Gold). BUT if you wouldn't buy the f-ing fur coats, the seals would never be killed. They are taken BECAUSE there are buyers. The situation only changes when the BUYER insists on ethical practices before they will agree to buy.

So if the PAPs continue to allow unethical practices in adoption, the abuses will continue because it's a system that preys upon the powerless. The victims have no voice, no money, no power to control or change anything. Only the BUYERS can force the industry to change.

So stop paying those who behave cruelly and unethically. Get your baby from agencies who can PROVE they do not use coercive methods to obtain their babies for sale. Help mothers PARENT if they want to. That way the only babies on the market are those whose mothers really did CHOOSE adoption and were not forced into it by circumstances (Diablo 3 Gold).

Of course you would say that, sly.

Yet another rendition of what has already been said on this forum time and time again.

Don't you get bored talking about the same thing when it never accomplishes anything at all? You, engltchr, hank, all the other "mysterious" grays too cowardice to post in green-making vile accusations against people you don't even know-need to reevaluate yourselves and quit dwelling on the fact you can't control or change people (Diablo 3 Gold).

And now it's the newest poster who puts up with this crap. All of you hags have yet to post links to prove he's said any of the things you CLAIM he's said. You've all thrown out empty accusations you can't prove. So typical. MasterPo has been the least obnoxious and offensive as far as I'm concerned. Some of you act like you're on the playground swingset throwing out grade school taunts. What's even more pathetic is that none of you are embarassed by your behavior at all.

 

2012年10月10日星期三

So why don't you train horses?

You say you know more than running coaches, but you have no desire to really teach running - you'd rather teach efficient movement and how that person applies it is up to them, fair enough... but why not train horses? that's surely more lucrative, no? if you can train horses, why wouldn't you (Diablo 3 Gold)?

I still think that if you're teaching running (and you do teach running - I've seen your videos - you actually compare yourself to track and field coaches), you should have an active interest in running. you should run yourself, or at least have some history of prior running. It's a very complex sport and there's more that goes into it than theory. That's like me telling a heart surgeon how to perform a total correction of Tetralogy of Fallot because I know all about it, yet I haven't actually done it. If that's what you're doing, you're basing it on theory, not actual practice.

If you were with Nike for two years (Diablo 3 Gold), who and what exactly did you test? The T Rex thing? I personally can immediately see the strain it puts on the knee and ankle joints by rotating the toes slightly in. I have tried running up hill like that and all it did was give me a twinge in the knee and make my ankles hurt. Surely you can't maintain that movement for long distances with all that compressive and shear force involved in running, can you? Is this specifically what you tested in your two years at Nike?

2012年10月7日星期日

Talk to him

Talk to him about your fears (D3 Gold). I'd wager that for many good men, if they raised a baby from infancy, or even adopted a child later, they would whole heartedly consider it their child. Heck, my awesome step dad still considers me his daughter, even though he hasn't been married to my mother in years. He came into my life at 4, and has always been one of my greatest supports through thick and thin. A relationship with a child you raise is very special, blood or no blood.

I know one family that was both fertility challenged, and they adopted a baby girl. She is THEIR child, no less than if she was their blood. She is her parents world.

I know a same sex couple who recently had a baby boy through a sperm donor. Only one of the mothers in biologically related, but that boy has TWO moms, and I think it would be unfathomable for them to think bio mom loves him more.

If you BOTH are committed to each other, and both want a child (D3 Gold), AND he's behind the donor idea, I say do it. But talk to him first, make sure he knows your worries and then let him reduce your fears.