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Just picture this for a moment…It is now December 22nd 2012, the predictions have all come true and the world in in turmoil. You look back to 2010 and think “if only I had taken the precautions then maybe today my family and I would have coped better than we did.” If surviving 2012 is important to you then you must read on and follow some rules to protect your family.

Facing the unknown will not come easily to us and we have to let go of the traditional ways of protecting ourselves and think outside the box. A solid plan and quick reflexes will be required to survive the catastrophes we are told will occur.

If this all comes to pass one thing is for sure and that is a great shortage of food and water. This situation will make food far more precious than gold especially in a money-less society. If you prepared properly then you will have accumulated canned goods, rice and dry beans for best storage without power. Extreme heat or cold and many other factors could lead to starvation if you aren’t prepared.

There will be thousands who have not prepared properly so you will always have to be on your guard to remain in ownership of your survival supplies.

A solid plan is needed to survive these catastrophes and there are certain places that you don’t want to be. Here are a few suggestions for you to consider if these 2012 predictions come to pass:

The size of the community you live in The height of the surrounding buildings The ease of a swift evacuation. Will there be thousands all fleeing at the same time? Are there a lot of bridges in your area as they will collapse as fast as buildings. Mid sized or large cities are not the best places to be when you know disaster is coming. You and your survival supplies will be in grave danger when a catastrophe hits. Be prepared. Mass panic leads to chaos and the inability to leave quickly. The terrified populace will do anything to survive. Mob rule is prevalent in a catastrophe situation. People who have not prepared as well as you will instantly become your enemy. Martial law is highly possible during this time, which is never good. Crumbling buildings, traffic accidents, train derailments and more And so much more that cannot be included in this one article…

It is imperative that we protect our own during these horrific times in order for us to survive and carry on the human race. I know there are many skeptics out there and they think 2012 is hogwash and that is fine. We are all entitled to our opinions and mine tends to be that 2012 is real and we should be prepared. Please read as much information as you can on this subject..you owe it to yourself and your family.

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Mad Men is an American period drama television series created and produced by Matthew Weiner. The show is broadcast on the American cable network AMC and is produced by Lionsgate Television. It premiered on July 19, 2007 and completed its second season on October 26, 2008. The third season began on August 16, 2009.

Set in New York City, Mad Men is set in the early 1960s at the fictional Sterling Cooper advertising agency on Madison Avenue. The show centers on Don Draper (Jon Hamm), the agency’s creative director, and those in his life, in and out of the office. It also depicts the changing social mores of 1960s America.

Mad Men has received critical acclaim, particularly for its historical authenticity and visual style, and has won multiple awards, including nine Emmys and three Golden Globes. It is the first basic cable series to win the Emmy Award for Outstanding Drama Series.

Mad Men features an ensemble cast representing several segments of society in 1960s New York, although it focuses most on Don Draper. Mad Men places emphasis on showing each character’s past and their development over time. The following character summaries were based on information gathered from the page ‘About the show’ at amctv.com.

Lead characters

* Donald Francis “Don” Draper (Jon Hamm): Creative director and eventual junior partner of Sterling Cooper Advertising Agency; Draper is the series’ main character. His past is shadowy, but he has achieved success at the agency. He is married to Elizabeth “Betty” Draper and has three children, but has a history of infidelity. Draper’s real name is Dick Whitman; he assumed the real Don Draper’s identity during the Korean War.

* Margaret “Peggy” Olson (Elisabeth Moss): Olson rises from Draper’s secretary to a copywriter with her own office.[20] She unknowingly becomes pregnant with Pete Campbell’s child, is told she suffered a mental breakdown after the unexpected birth given that she did not know of her pregnancy, and gives the baby up for adoption.

* Peter Dyckman “Pete” Campbell (Vincent Kartheiser): A young, ambitious account executive from a privileged background. Campbell tries to blackmail Don Draper with information from Draper’s past.[19] He and his wife are unable to conceive a child, and he remains unaware of his child with Olson until the second season finale.

* Elizabeth “Betty” Draper (née Hofstadt) (January Jones): A former model and Don Draper’s wife and mother of their three children, Sally, Bobby and Eugene Scott. She gradually becomes aware of her husband’s womanizing over the first two seasons. Following a brief separation, Betty allows Don to return home after discovering she is pregnant with their third child, but not before having a tryst of her own.

* Joan Harris (née Holloway) (Christina Hendricks): Office manager and head of the secretarial pool at Sterling Cooper. She has a long-term affair with Roger Sterling until his two heart attacks cause him to end the relationship.

* Roger Sterling Jr. (John Slattery): One of the two senior partners of Sterling Cooper, and formerly a good friend of Don Draper. His father founded the firm with Bertram Cooper, which explains why his name is before Cooper’s. A picture in Cooper’s office shows Roger as a child alongside Cooper depicted as a young adult. In the same scene[episode needed], Cooper refers to the picture and calls Roger “Peanut”, indicating that theirs is a friendship (perhaps even family relationship) that spans many decades. In Season 2, Bertram Cooper mentions that “the late Mrs. Cooper” introduced Sterling to his wife, Mona, who Sterling is in the process of divorcing in favor of Don’s former secretary, the 22-year-old Jane. Bertram Cooper’s sister, Alice Cooper, babysat for Sterling when he was a child. Sterling served in the Navy and was a notorious womanizer (living like he was “on shore leave”) until two heart attacks changed his perspective, at least for a while. The heart attacks did not affect his drinking or smoking habits, which remained excessive. He retains considerable affection from both Sterling Cooper employees (with whom he has far more contact than Bert Cooper) and his family. By 1962, Sterling has returned to work and is seen to indulge in his old habits.

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When is the right time to move from infertility to adoption? When do you emotionally feel ready? Will you ever feel ready and must move forward with other ways of creating your forever family! Mardie Caldwell, through her personal experience and over 20 years of working with couples nation-wide, has made it her life’s work to bless children needing forever adoptive parents.

How do couples decide to move forward in adoption as opposed to doing donor embryo or IVF?

We just had our third try with IVF with my own eggs. Our doctor told us that I was a poor responder and the quality of my eggs is not good. He said our only options are either with donor embryo or adoption. I am just trying to work through the loss of both a dream and of the babies we fertilized and trying to decide the best direction for us. I still have such a passionate desire to “carry life” in me, but I am not sure if that will go away once I start the adoption process or adopt. Does it? My fear with trying donor embryo is if it doesn’t work, can I take another “failure” after all our losses. My fear with adoption is that it might take years or the adoption might keep falling through. My only experience with adoption is a co-worker with an older child adoption that has not been good. I realize there is no guarantee with either path, but it is such a difficult decision, I am curious as to what led other adoptive parents to their decisions.

Mardie’s reply:

We decided that it was more important for us to be parents than to be pregnant. My biological clock was ticking, and we had to decide what we wanted most in our family.

We moved from infertility to adoption and then after our first adoption of our son, we tried some mild infertility treatments again. We didn’t have a lot of money to do extensive infertility drugs or procedures.

So, we decided that adoption was right for us. The decision to adopt came surprisingly easy to both of us. We always wanted to adopt someday regardless of whether or not we had any biological children. So, it was a true blessing for us.

The desire you mentioned about “carrying life” inside of you is natural, and I think most women desire to conceive and see their pregnancy go to term and deliver a healthy baby. I still had that when we adopted. I don’t necessarily think it wrong to have that feeling.

We have suffered seven pregnancy losses. We have experienced infertility, miscarriages, a fetal demise, and a tubal pregnancy with twins. In between the losses, we did have one full term birth of our daughter. It is a hard call. I have always told my adoptive parents that they need to work on creating their family, and if they want to try infertility treatments while trying to adoptive parents, they should. I just couldn’t imagine using birth control when trying to adopt after all the effort of attempting to get pregnant, and I’ve never felt I should ask my prospective adoptive parents to do something I wouldn’t do.

Just a few years ago my OB-GYN gently said to me, “Mardie, why are you doing this to your body?” in reference to all the pregnancies and then losing them. I know he just didn’t understand the desire to give it one last try. A few months later he discovered pre-cancerous cells in my uterus, and I underwent a hysterectomy shortly after that. Knowing I would never carry a child again was difficult.

Even with my “oven” (or as my daughter calls it her “first home”) gone, I still have moments when I experience “signs of pregnancy” and forget it is not possible for me to carry a baby. After so many years of wanting and trying and planning for babies, old habits are hard to break.

I counsel prospective adoptive mothers to pray that if God doesn’t want you to be a mother, He would take the desire away. For me, the desire didn’t leave me, and we adopted our son. You need to be honest with each other and find a medical professional whom you can trust. The chances of success in adoption are so much greater than with infertility treatments. When comparing the cost of infertility treatments and the cost of adoption, you will discover more help in financing and grants for adoption than infertility. Though the emotional ups and downs are about the same, they vary depending on the adoption route you take. Needless to say, when you look down at a child in your arms and those beautiful eyes are peering back up at you, and you know you are a mom-well, that is priceless.

I always say – Don’t give up; there is a baby for you!

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