1966

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In 1966 (the year you were born)

Lyndon B. Johnson is president of the US As part of nationwide protest against the Vietnam War, demonstrations are staged all over the US In Miranda vs. Arizona, the Supreme Court rules that criminal suspects must be apprised of their rights before interrogation US planes begin bombing of the Hanoi area of North Vietnam Controversial American comedian Lenny Bruce is found dead of a drug overdose in his home John Lennon says, "We are more popular than Jesus" sparking controversy in the US The first black Senator is elected to the United States Senate Cindy Crawford, Janet Jackson, Mike Tyson, Halle Berry, Adam Sandler, and Kiefer Sutherland are born Baltimore Orioles win the World Series Green Bay Packers win the NFL championship Montreal Canadiens win the Stanley Cup The Good, the Bad and the Ugly is the top grossing film Valley of the Dolls by Jacqueline Susann is published Pet Sounds by The Beach Boys and Sounds of Silence by Simon and Garfunkel are released Star Trek and The Newlywed Game premiere

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Life Tango - (Jun 16 2007)

I've
checked out another site for goals and I have to say Lifetango.com is
the best. Especially when it comes to the community and
encouragement. sup er viva is complicated and cold in my opinion. It
reminds me of when people join little closed minded clicks and do
things just to please those within it exclusively without regard for
others. I'm sure that is not true with all, but just in my findings.



Anyways,
This is a great site that I can't wait to spread the word about and I
appreciate all the encouragement I've received here. I hope I can help
others along the way as well.



Good luck to everyone in reaching their goals and finding new ones!

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Dangerous Sippy Cup

I'm all for safety, truly I am. Priorities are a tad off it seems, however. The following is an article posted on Boing Boing

TSA detains woman over infant's sippy cup -- I feel safer!

Jordan says: "This one just made my blood boil: a mom was bullied by a gaggle of security officers at Dulles Airport in Washington, D.C. over the water in her 19-month-old son's sippy cup. The story starts out sort of funny, with the sippy cup being seen as some sort of deadly weapon, but quickly spirals into nightmare territory. This is a national embarassment; I feel more threatened by these uniformed goons than I do by terrorists, and I lived in NYC during 9/11."

"I demanded to speak to a TSA [Transportation Security Administration] supervisor who asked me if the water in the sippy cup was 'nursery water or other bottled water.' I explained that the sippy cup water was filtered tap water. The sippy cup was seized as my son was pointing and crying for his cup. I asked if I could drink the water to get the cup back, and was advised that I would have to leave security and come back through with an empty cup in order to retain the cup. As I was escorted out of security by TSA and a police officer, I unscrewed the cup to drink the water, which accidentally spilled because I was so upset with the situation.

"At this point, I was detained against my will by the police officer and threatened to be arrested for endangering other passengers with the spilled 3 to 4 ounces of water. I was ordered to clean the water, so I got on my hands and knees while my son sat in his stroller with no shoes on since they were also screened and I had no time to put them back on his feet.

"I was ordered to apologize for the spilled water, and again threatened arrest. I was threatened several times with arrest while detained, and while three other police officers were called to the scene of the mother with the 19 month old. A total of four police officers and three TSA officers reported to the scene where I was being held against my will. I was also told that I should not disrespect the officer and could be arrested for this too. I apologized to the officer and she continued to detain me despite me telling her that I would miss my flight. The officer advised me that I should have thought about this before I 'intentionally spilled the water!'"

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(Sidenote: WTF is Nursery Water? It's a brand of fluoridated water for babies. The American Dental Association has asked WalMart to stop selling it. "According to the ADA, consumption of fluoridated water puts a baby at high risk for dental fluorosis -- a defect of teeth that causes staining and sometimes corrosion of the enamel.")

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Adoptees ISO Birthfamily

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Hi everyone!


I thought I'd organize some of my tips for you in one spot as opposed to the little bits and pieces in my e-groups that I often leave :-)
Many things you may already know but I'm going to be careful not to assume any of those things here. Many of you may have just made the decision to search. Usually you will find that most people in search of birth family are more than happy to help each other as they find possible matches for others along their own journeys. It's exciting when we that are involved in our own search find a match for someone else from another registry!



Preparing


When you are thinking of finding information on your birth facts:

Always keep in mind your expectations. What do want out of reunion? Do you actually want a reunion or do you just want to know information such as medical info etc? Go through all the "what ifs". Are you prepared to handle any scenario? Are you willing to except less then perfect circumstances regarding your relinquishment?

You must keep in mind:
You're bmom was most likely just young and thought adoption was to your benefit, being told by many she was doing a "selfless act".

But there are other situations you must think of and be willing to accept.
The jail thing, the mental thing, death, drugs, rape, incest, black and grey market, and kidnapping to name a few. Also you may be related to your adopted parents by blood. Chances are these were not the circumstances behind your adoption, but it's good to ask yourself how you would handle these things.

For me, for example, the idea of my mother being a criminal and losing me, was a better idea than to think she was a famous politician that thought of her image. When I realized that it didn't really matter and that what I wanted was to just simply know--I began my search ready for anything.



Deciding



Always keep in mind a reunion may not be wanted by your birth family.
Also there could be painful memories and that is not your fault.
You may not even like any of them when you do meet them. They may not like you.
I've heard stories where they were a "bunch of mooches" that view you as some spoiled adoptee.



Once you go through all the possible negative things that are not that likely, you are ready to begin your search. I think your expectations are very important, yet I apologize for blabbering so long on that subject.


Beginning


Find out how supportive your adopted family will be in your search. You may find they are as eager as you are to learn of your birth family's traits and talents. Ask questions. Do you have a possible birth name to go on? Will social services help in your state? Were you records sealed? Obtain a "vault copy" of your amended birth certificate (it's the longest- most complete).
Get your non- identifying information from the state in which you were adopted. Read it and keep it. Make sure you register with the International Soundex Reunion Registry. They are key. Follow up and keep in touch with them. Make sure they have your current contact info at all times.


There are many registries and support groups on the internet for all members of the triad (birth families, adoptees, and adoptive families) Join them all. Keep your email current with them.


Beware of the following:


There are people very much against you for searching and will act as though they are assisting you while sabotaging your efforts. Not very many of them, but they are out there; believe it or not. That is why it's important to be in charge of your own search and accept the help of search angels. Search Angels are usually legit and volunteer their time while sometimes still in search of their own birthrights.



To protect yourself:



Post just certain info that is needed for a match. Always keep track of what you post. Hold some "cards" for when you truly think you've found a match. That would be some info that only a bmom would know and that you know for fact you have not posted anywheres. It may be a birthmark, heart murmur, some hospital info, birth time and weight etc.
Don't pay money for what you can do yourself. There are a lot of volunteers out there to help you.
There are also stalkers and weirdos out there. Share no more than you have to on boards and online registries.


Things to remember:



Non ID info can be bogus. Yes, signed and notarized, yet completely false. I had a man email me telling me that it was "a lie made up by frustrated searchers". I, in the end, was able to email him back telling him that after a DNA test with motherhood confirmation (with the mother that was supposedly dead) that the nonid info was a lie made up by people trying to get searchers to disregard truth. It makes me wonder how many people this man told that to that would have otherwise found their birth families. I urge you to keep the non id info as a tool, but NOT to limit yourself to it's info. If anything, when you find your birth family--you can all share a good laugh or cry about it!


So remember; your place, time, date and weight at birth can be wrong. You may not have a name to go on--and you may not know what member of your birth family you are looking for.



Also keep in mind, Your bmom may also have false info--so her post may read ISO another date, another gender, (yes true) and another place of birth. There will be some clues, so please do not rule out anything as a result of your non id info. You may want to consider people who are looking for someone a few days off from your "known" birth date. When a baby is placed in a young mom's arms who is in an unwed mother's home, they may very well say "this is your baby girl"---when in truth--well, she never changed the diaper--she also isn't really sure what day it is.


If a bunch of things sound right, but just a fact are two are off--maybe put them on a back burner for now--but please don't disregard them as a match. You may even have a sibling you didn't know of; also searching.

ISRR had found my mom but had to disregard; as my non id info stated that my mom was dead and I had four older siblings. It went so far as to say:

Birth mother regrettably passed away from streptococcal septicemia -origin unknown.
What a specific lie! lol

During my search, I've noticed a lot of Upstate New York adoptees dob 1960-1967 believing they have 4 older siblings yet no one looking for younger ones. Must be it is true of someone? Seems strange.

Also, I've often wondered in a case where there were children prior to or after the adoptee's birth--who would be old enough to remember who?


I had no name to go on and believed I was a child of a deceased mother who had me as a German, Methodist, factory worker at the age of 35, with no info on Bdad. My birth date was correct and I was relinquished in the same city of Syracuse that I was adopted in. My gender was also correct. In fact, my bmom and I were helping each other look for family members lol! We kept coming back to each others searches scratching our heads. We both had gut feelings.


I was relinquished when 3 days old, yet was adopted when pushing 3 years old. I never did figure out the first 3 years of my life. My birth mom had been assured I was in a great home. We were mutually searching for years and could have been matched up if only info was shared truthfully. My adopted parents were also supportive of a reunion.


My birth mom is a talented awesome woman that I am so happy to have found. She is like an angel. She is smart and artistic. I was the first baby and she and my Bdad (that I also found despite false info from the state) kept in contact for the sake of "the baby". How great is that! To think, I was German for 36 years, only to become Irish, Sicilian, and Italian!


My Motive


Point is, I want you all to have successful reunions with your b families or to at least have access to the truth of your origin --it's your birthright to know your heritage. I remember my first letter from the state telling me I have no right to that information. That needs to be changed.




My Opinion


I feel that facts are facts. You can lie cheat and steal, but it doesn't change them. I think that we as adoptees have the right just as anyone else to our birth records. Not knowing them doesn't change them. Sealed records protect; They protect liars, kidnappers, and crooks. When all members are of the triad are in mutual search, who of those people are the lies protecting? There are searchers who have died waiting for the courts to open records in hopes of medical info when the B family would have given anything to be able to help.



Urge everyone to
Support Open Records.



What we can do




Feel free to contact me and Please google adoption reunion registry. Aol member directory: search adoptees. There are also boards and forums. Clusty search engine seems to pull up some unique sites on Adoptee.

This was a vague outline of some tips. I will follow up with more specific links, ideas and strategies. In the meantime, Good luck in your searches and don't ever get discouraged. Look and re-look over some matches you may have ruled out before. It could be a foster sibling or someone other than who you thought you were seeking. Please help one another when you see something on one registry that looks a lot like someone another's been posting about.


Truth-Demand it.

Also know that I now reside in Tulsa for those living out of state who may need some local calls made or a trip to an office etc.

You can help others in the same way if you happen to live in a state they are searching. Sometimes just as much as a phone call can help towards a reunion.

:-)

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Looking back

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How it all began.......

Well...............I got the refund and i had to make some decisions that i carefully wieghed out with the kids. And the winner is...........a home computer. Kids homework and research, and me---I'd search for my birthfamily. I had been to the library twice up until then but there wasnt enough time to learn how to use the computer alone much less do some effective searching. So we made the big purchase after studying eveything such as price and needs of this machine. This was in the year 2001 btw. I worked 8 hours a day and stole some time when the kids were asleep to get online. It was my quest......my journey ......my adventure. I learned enough to keep my computer virus and worm (and all those other new terms i learned) free. Of course I discovered chat somewheres along in there and boy did that first IM scare and excite me at the same time. I looked to the left and I looked to the right-------then i said "hi" and quickly hit send as though it would blow up the universe. I was hooked there for a little bit ( ha ha). I always had a little window open on the side while i searched from that point on. I met a LIAR from one of the chats. Imagine that? But we wont get into that right now (I met him for 5 minutes in a public parking lot- right before i became a big cloud of dust before his eyes- as i sped off) .....................................So there i was, cigs and coffee and black computer eyes from sleep deprivation . I searched hundreds of adoption registries with thousands of entries. I was armed only with my BOGUS non id info from the state of ny vital statistics and an amended birth certificate with the wrong time and weight on it. But something kept bringing me back to this one fellow searcher. But of course she was looking for a child and i was looking for siblings. (as were so many others born in ny around my time) And of course my birthmom was dead and 35 when she had me. In fact i was the youngest of five siblings. Wow i was just like my youngest daughter in order born==what a coincidence. Me and this woman tried to help each other ..thru millions of correspondence ( you tend to help many others in your own independant search as you sometimes see matches for others) we kept in touch. We had so much in common --------well of course we did. She is where i got alot of my traits from.............She is my birthmother . I was her first child. She was young when she had me. The only sibling i have was born years AFTER me. They werent counting on DNA back in the 60's when they denied everyone the birthright to their heritage. They claim the lies signed and notorized were to protect the people involved in the triad of adoption. But when its a mutual search with the support of the adoptive parents as well --with all adults involved------WHO IS IT PROTECTING? The state registry could have released a confirmation of mutual search and match but didnt. THE ONLY PEOPLE SEALED RECORDS supports are the people involved in lies, kidnapping, blackmarket, greymarket and/or other horrible things that are common with sealed records. Thru my search i had to see where peoples search posts were no more.......they died waiting for a confirmation of match due to needing blood relatives for transplants etc. Most cases the birthfamily was eagerly searching just as hard as they were ..........but were too late.........
My mom is totally awesome --so smart, intuitive, creative beyond belief, and caring. My lil sister has got to be the coolest sister that ever walked the face of the earth. I only wished we could have walked in the same places sooner. Everything happens for a reason though. I guess i'm the one who populated the family lol. I met my dad thru all of this ............there was a sweet love story there for him and my mom waaaaaaaaay back then. But they both moved on ---and kept in touch just in hopes of getting the news on "the baby" ;0)
I talked to dad twice on the phone as he told me about my aunts and uncles and medical history etc. He met a "great lady" and moved away and i never got those photos he promised nor did i ever hear from him again.

It took years to admit i wanted to know my birthheritage and a few more to start my search. But it only took 6 months on the internet to find them.................................... Gotta love this machine.

So back to this Blog thing......................I'll figure it out real soon--------

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New blog for the Human race

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Desktop Battle of my Photo editors

I've recently had to uninstall my cheapy software that came with different digital devices (some I still own some I don't) One does one thing well and so on. I made it down to 3 photo editors other than what may have already been installed on the pc (that I've yet to use anyway).
The fight was of course between HP software against other Hp software. I weeded through that pretty quick like.
So now we have HP, Adobe, and Picasa. Keep in mind I'm using Windows with Hp products/devices (although my lil one's cameras of all brands are recognized by all this software)
Another main point is : These are all full versions (not trials) of FREEEEEEE. Always free.
Also-I'm not talking about online tools. For that we have Photobucket,Flickr and imageshack. (picasa too i guess)

Here were my findings:(Pardon the capitols)


ADOBE;**
GREAT FOR ORGANIZING
GREAT CALENDER VIEW
QUICK FIX(SMART FIX)
RECOGNIZES FILES THAT WERE ALREADY TRANSFERED
AND COPIES/DUPLICATES
KIND OF BAD ABOUT GETTING YOU TO SPEND $$$
I CAN'T REMEMBER SLIDE SHOW OR CAPTION

HP;*
GOOD FOR CREATING AND PRINTING/SAVING ALBUM
PAGE SETUPS
KIND OF UNRELIABLE ON ALL FEATURES
GOOD FOR EMAIL
REAL BAD ABOUT TRYING TO GET U TO SPEND $$$
CAPTION THERE BUT WEIRD (AFTER THE FACT)
SLOW (3 SECOND SLIDE SHOW)
EDITING SUX

PICASA;***
REAL FAST
GREAT FOR EDITING!
SO SO ON SHARING(ONLINE IS PAIN IN ASS)
EXCELLENT FOR EDITING
EMAIL IS GOOD
CAN MAKE COLAGES NOT SIMPLE TO REARRANGE
NOT GREAT ABOUT DUPLICATES
NEVER WANTS $$$$
GOOD FOR QUICK CAPTIONS
FAST SLIDE SHOW DISPLAYING CAPTIONS(1SEC)
RECOGNIZES USB AND PRINTER(MEMORY CARD)
IMMEDIATELY


ALL GOOD ON UPLOADING FROM CAMERA AS A DISK DRIVE
HP DOES NOT DO THE CAMERA AS A CAMERA (LIKE IT IS
SUPPOSED TO)

ADOBE BEST USED WHEN YOU NEED A QUICK FIX FOR A
MILLION PHOTOS
SORTING WITH CALENDER

PICASA BEST OVER ALL & FOR EDITING


HP IS THE BEST FOR CREATING,SAVING & PRINTING
ALBUM PAGES (PRINTER KIND OF TRICKY AS IT ASKS TOO
MUCH TECHNICAL CRAP)



IDEAL THING WOULD BE TO VIEW ON **ADOBE (MIGHT
AS WELL UPLOAD ON IT) THE OTHERS WILL FIND THE
FILES LATER

EDIT ON ***PICASA AND SAVE (OR JUST EMAIL)

ARRANGE--SEND SAVE OR PRINT WITH *HP (EMAIL GOOD
NOW, ALTHOUGH QUIRKY AT FIRST)


(HAD TO GET RID OF CAMERA SOFTWARE TO MAKE IT
QUIT "FIGHTING" WITH OTHER HP SOFTWARE)
(I USED TO LIKE THE HP DIRECTOR--BUT IT ALL PROVED
TO BE A MESS THAT WAS BEST UNINSTALLED TO SAVE
THE CONFUSION----DEVICES REALLY DON'T NEED THE
SOFTWARE TO FUNCTION ANYWAYS ALTHOUGH HP SAYS
THEY DO--ALL SOFTWARE RECOGNIZES ALL THE DEVICES)


So there you have it, PICASA is the winner!
Editors are supposed to edit.
Picasa has the most editing tools
You can create collages but the album page thing sends them online and that is not what we are talking about here.

It would be nice to have one of anything that does it all --but you know how the saying goes...You can't have it all/ or is it You can't have nothing? something like that.

My friends come to me when they want their pics taken and I have to have the best way to display edit and produce them.


I recently did a very stupid thing while searching for info on whether or not a person needs an email client, what kind, does it have pretty stationery, and so forth.
Instead, I stumble across, Freenigma. So quick and easy to install. It's an encryption tool made for "Crypto Dumbies" Works well with webmail. I have no idea why, but I thought it was a grand idea. I get it and immediately disable it. I then read tons of discussions in my Google reader on the thing. Ok now I'm scared. I think some more and realize it's no worse than any other online thing. But the whopper is..................Just who in the hell will I email with this? Does Mom have a decrypting thing? Does anyone? What would be the point? Wouldn't it get forwarded somewheres decrypted or something? Would it not get deleted the minute someone received it? Who am I? Am I 007 now or what? If I uninstall this thing is my key forever in someone elses hands now? Are they going to get mad and encrypt my stuff in/outgoing for ever? I do have one friend that wants to send code messages with no subject line back and forth--just us. Yay. I noticed it doesn't do anything with my signature links in my email. I tested it emailing myself and it asks for your password every single time (decript/encrypt) I don't know what the hell I have done-All I wanted was some pretty stationary. It was the damn word "free" that got me in this mess to begin with. lol!

Well, we'll just have to see the outcome...I hope my blogs don't get encrypted. Shit-I mean Shoot! That sounds scary, I should have labeled this posts "Tales from encrypt"................

Update

It's been awhile since I've posted to this blog as I've been playing over at Hot cut of Java. I'll be returning here soon. After all this was my first lol.