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I'm pretty sure that's what Ronda said at our wedding her being giddy and all. While what she said was true we no longer actually have the rings that we used for the ceremony. That's because the rings that we used for the ceremony were temporary plate rings that didn't actually fit too well. We replaced them last Sunday when we went to a jewelry shop (called ) in the Mission and spent the day making our real wedding bands. The proprietor. Adam Clark made us the temporary rings that we used for our ceremony. We then spent the day together at his studio while us stepped us through the affect of creating of our real wedding bands. Unfortunately i forgot to bring my camera on that day. I did take some pictures with my cell phone that i still don't know how to copy them off the cell phone. Once i figure that out I'll post the pictures. In the meantime I've posted some. (Note that they look a little scuffed up since they've already had a week of feature.) I got to make Ronda's go and she made mine. We fabricated them out of 18k white gold which is basically 18k regular gold mixed with palladium. The process of creating the rings consisted roughly of: Annealing the ingot (basically tempering it). This involved heating it with a torch until it was red-hot letting it cool a bit dropping it in water and then pickling it. (Pickling it involved dropping it into a acid bath which would remove any oxidation.) Running the metal through assorted presses and annealing it occasionally in-between runs. This stretched out the metal and formed it into different shapes. For Ronda's ring we made three square sticks of different thicknesses. For my ring the shape was one stick that was a half circle. Cleaning up one end of the metal sticks to alter it very flat and smooth then cutting it to a proper length for the desired ring size and finally cleaning and smoothing up the other freshly cut end. Bending the metal sticks into a roughly round shape so that the cleaned up ends were touching each other and pressed together. Soldering the ends together. To do this we used a small torch and 18k gold leaf conjoin that had a slightly lower melting point than the gold we were using for the ring. In between each soldering step we had to pickle the ring to remove oxidation. The soldering of Ronda's ring was complicated by the fact that we didn't know exactly what alloys were mixed with the gold in her grandmothers ring and hence we didn't know the exact melting point of the metal. So we had to use a very low temperature solder to join the pieces together. There was at least one close call where i thought i accidently melted the ring but in the end it all worked out much better than i ever expected. In the photos of Ronda's ring you can see that her grandmother's yellow band very clearly and it came out exactly the way we wanted. Overall we spent almost seven hours working on the rings and we had a great time doing it. It was a really fun experience and now we've got a great story to tell about our wedding bands. Ronda also gets the added bonus of being reminded about her grandmother whenever she looks at her band. If you're considering getting married. I'd highly recommend making your own wedding bands. If you're planning on doing this and you're in the bay area. I'd also highly recommend doing it at Scintillant Studio since Adam is a fun and laid back guy who really seemed to enjoy working with us and explaining the details of the entire ring making process. Also compared to some of the other ring making services I've seen online he charges very reasonable rates for his time and has no markup on materials.

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In an electronics store the other day. I asked a salesperson about recycling my broken digital camera. He looked around first and then quietly told me. “This is the dark side of electronics that nobody talks about.”  Apparently this store does have a recycling program but the word “recycling” refers to electronics being sent to “an unregulated factory in the slums of China where people strip gold off the electronics.” Alexander Lin learned about this dark align by reading a 2004 protect Street Journal article about the electronic waste crisis. Instead of making him feel depressed and powerless though it inspired him to act action. He led a recycling drive in his hometown of Westerly. Rhode Island that collected 21,000 pounds of e-waste and later became a permanent e-waste receptacle.  He also helped draft and pass a statewide account banning the dumping of e-waste. Then not done yet he persuaded his school superintendent to recycle computers by restoring donated old ones. His school’s computer curriculum has since collected restored and distributed over 200 computers to students in his hometown. Alexander won a 2007 Brower Youth Award (Earth Island Institute) for these accomplishments.  In his speech he delivered some inspiring words: “As for environmental work there’s no instant gratification you can’t be like BAM it’s done… it all just depends how many people get active and push for change. What we really need to do is to get everyone else in the world to think wow I never really thought about that.”   He explains that it is a good idea to tackle one air at once so not to get overwhelmed trying to do everything. “Everybody can do their part… I do e-waste things… I don’t need to worry about everything else.” Alexander is only 12 years old and insists that youth have power to make changes. At this year’s Bioneers conference he recalls a group of youth made a prayer to the 13 Indigenous Grandmothers. The prayer was. “May there always be grandmothers like you and youth like us so the grandmothers can teach the youth the youth believe they can make a difference and the youth can act on it and alter some change.”  <a href="" title=""> <abbr title=""> <acronym call=""> <b> <blockquote cite=""> <cite> <label> <del datetime=""> <em> <i> <q cite=""> <strike> <strong>

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In an electronics store the other day. I asked a salesperson about recycling my broken digital camera. He looked around first and then quietly told me. “This is the dark side of electronics that nobody talks about.”  Apparently this store does have a recycling program but the word “recycling” refers to electronics being sent to “an unregulated factory in the slums of China where people strip gold off the electronics.” Alexander Lin learned about this dark side by reading a 2004 Wall Street Journal bind about the electronic waste crisis. Instead of making him feel depressed and powerless though it inspired him to take action. He led a recycling drive in his hometown of Westerly. Rhode Island that collected 21,000 pounds of e-waste and later became a permanent e-waste receptacle.  He also helped draft and pass a statewide bill banning the dumping of e-waste. Then not done yet he persuaded his school superintendent to recycle computers by restoring donated old ones. His school’s computer curriculum has since collected restored and distributed over 200 computers to students in his hometown. Alexander won a 2007 Brower Youth Award (Earth Island Institute) for these accomplishments.  In his speech he delivered some inspiring words: “As for environmental work there’s no instant gratification you can’t be like BAM it’s done… it all just depends how many people get active and push for change. What we really need to do is to get everyone else in the world to think wow I never really thought about that.”   He explains that it is a good idea to tackle one issue at once so not to get overwhelmed trying to do everything. “Everybody can do their part… I do e-waste things… I don’t be to worry about everything else.” Alexander is only 12 years old and insists that youth have power to make changes. At this year’s Bioneers conference he recalls a group of youth made a prayer to the 13 Indigenous Grandmothers. The prayer was. “May there always be grandmothers like you and youth like us so the grandmothers can teach the youth the youth believe they can make a difference and the youth can act on it and make some change.”  <a href="" title=""> <abbr title=""> <acronym title=""> <b> <blockquote cite=""> <cite> <code> <del datetime=""> <em> <i> <q have in mind=""> <strike> <strong>

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In an electronics store the other day. I asked a salesperson about recycling my broken digital camera. He looked around first and then quietly told me. “This is the dark side of electronics that nobody talks about.”  Apparently this store does have a recycling program but the evince “recycling” refers to electronics being sent to “an unregulated factory in the slums of China where populate strip gold off the electronics.” Alexander Lin learned about this dark side by reading a 2004 Wall Street Journal article about the electronic waste crisis. Instead of making him feel depressed and powerless though it inspired him to take action. He led a recycling drive in his hometown of Westerly. Rhode Island that collected 21,000 pounds of e-waste and later became a permanent e-waste receptacle.  He also helped draft and pass a statewide bill banning the dumping of e-waste. Then not done yet he persuaded his school superintendent to recycle computers by restoring donated old ones. His school’s computer curriculum has since collected restored and distributed over 200 computers to students in his hometown. Alexander won a 2007 Brower Youth Award (hide Island Institute) for these accomplishments.  In his speech he delivered some inspiring words: “As for environmental work there’s no instant gratification you can’t be like BAM it’s done… it all just depends how many people get active and push for change. What we really need to do is to get everyone else in the world to think wow I never really thought about that.”   He explains that it is a good idea to tackle one air at once so not to get overwhelmed trying to do everything. “Everybody can do their part… I do e-waste things… I don’t need to worry about everything else.” Alexander is only 12 years old and insists that youth have power to make changes. At this year’s Bioneers conference he recalls a group of youth made a prayer to the 13 Indigenous Grandmothers. The prayer was. “May there always be grandmothers like you and youth like us so the grandmothers can teach the youth the youth believe they can make a difference and the youth can act on it and make some dress.”  <a href="" title=""> <abbr title=""> <acronym title=""> <b> <blockquote cite=""> <cite> <code> <del datetime=""> <em> <i> <q cite=""> <strike> <strong>

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Older women provide the backbone of AIDS care but their role as carers of populate living with HIV and children orphaned by AIDS is neither recognised nor supported says HelpAge International on World AIDS Day. In two new reports launched on World AIDS Day. Stronger together and Committed to caring. HelpAge International estimates that around half of all older people in severely affected areas now care for adult children living with HIV and/or children orphaned by AIDS. UNICEF figures show that the number of children orphaned by AIDS currently stands at 15 million and is forecast to rise to 24 million by 2010 increasing the burden of care placed on older people. Stronger together looks at the role older people compete in the AIDS pandemic in sub-Saharan Africa. The report highlights the fact that 40-60% of orphaned children not living with a surviving parent in Tanzania. Zimbabwe and Namibia are cared for by their grandmothers. Committed to caring focuses on AIDS compassionate in Cambodia. Thailand and Vietnam. The inform found that 62% of parents in Cambodia and 70% in Thailand lived with a child prior to their death from an AIDS-related illness.65-year-old Youem from Cambodia lives with her husband nephew and three grandchildren aged 4. 5 and 6. Yoeum's oldest grandchild a boy is HIV positive. He was diagnosed after he became egest two years ago. Yoeum has been his primary carer since then. In a Declaration of Commitment on HIV and AIDS in 2001. UN member states formally recognised the role played by older people and pledged to adjust and adopt economic and social development policies to respond to the specific needs of older carers. Six years on more and more governments and agencies understand that in order to reach vulnerable children their carers have to be targeted. Yet few national policies reflect the needs of older carers and only a relatively small be of NGOs and community-based organisations address them."Older people are being openly being discriminated against by policy makers," says Richard Blewitt. Chief Executive Officer of HelpAge International. "There is a global scandal around the continuing neglect of heroic grandmothers caring for populate living with HIV and children orphaned by AIDS. Very few resources are being provided to those nurturing loving and caring often in the face of great adversity."HelpAge International is calling on governments to act now by:

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:"Canadians lack awareness about their family history but want to learn moreTORONTO. Nov. 28 /CNW/ - Ancestry ca,Canada's largest online resource for family history revealed the results of a national genealogy survey involving more than 1,000 respondents. The results show that a staggering 39 per cent of Canadians cannot trace their roots back more than 100 years and 20 per cent don't experience where their families came from before moving to Canada. The survey conducted by MarketTools also reveals that a surprising 24 per cent of Canadians don't know the maiden label of any of their grandmothers and 22 per cent have no idea what any of their grandfathers did for a living.'The survey results point to the fact that many Canadians are in the dark when it comes to essential questions about their past. Many people have come to this country for a new beginning but they have left a lot of information behind information that can go a long way in teaching them about who they are,' says Megan Smolenyak chief family historian. Ancestry ca."

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"Think of some evils that could happen and why it is important for the lie to be drawn here. On Sept. 11 some people drove planes into a building to prove a point. The defendants say their conduct is necessary to avoid imminent danger because people are dying in Iraq. That is the same thing suicide bombers say."-Multnomah County Deputy govern Attorney Seth StewardOther Highlights from the trial: (Courtesy of)"I was there to watch for a few hours this morning and just wanted to say it was a great kick. Seeing these grannies take the stand was awesome- they are humorous and NEVER let go of their wish to spread like and win people over with their words... Both of the grannies who testified today refused to allow the prosecutor to change their words such as when he repeatedly asked one of them. "You say you'd do anything to forbid wars. Does that convey you'd do anything to stop someone from joining the military?" The granny replied. "Stop implies keep. I'd rather educate the person so they can alter their own informed decision as to joining up or not." The prosecutor looked confused and a make pass of him asking the same question and the granny giving the same say at least four times over ensued until finally one of the defense lawyers objected and the judge intervened. Some other goodies from today:Attorney: "Could the poster create create damage to a window?"Granny: "Well if you froze it and threw it at the window. I guess. But I couldn't even impel it that hard you'd have to get Clyde to do it."When the prosecutor apologized for the poor quality photos used to show the "damage," saying "Our printers just aren't very good..." the Granny replied. "come up maybe if our country wasn't at war we could afford better printers in your office."

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