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Demovictory9's JournalA couple used surrogates to have 21 babies in less than 2 years.
A couple used surrogates to have 21 babies in less than 2 years. Experts say that having such a big family is unusual but could work.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/lifestyle/parenting/a-couple-used-surrogates-to-have-21-babies-in-less-than-2-years-experts-say-that-having-such-a-big-family-is-unusual-but-could-work/ar-AAQv6fI?ocid=msedgntp
Kristina and Galip Ozturk have had 21 biological children in 19 months using surrogates.
They join Kristina's 6-year-old and Galip's nine older children. Sixteen nannies help the family.
Experts say that if the family dynamic is healthy, raising this many children could be OK.
Kristina and Galip Ozturk have a big family. In the past 19 months, the couple, who live in the country Georgia, have used surrogates to welcome 21 biological children into their family.
"I can tell you one thing - my days are never boring," Kristina recently told The Sun.
The Ozturks' youngest baby is 3 months, and their oldest is 19 months. In addition to the babies, the couple live with Kristina's 6-year-old from a previous relationship and one of Galip's nine older children.
To provide that environment, the Ozturks rely on 16 live-in nannies and a variety of personal chefs, cleaners, and assistants, Kristina said on Instagram, adding that the nannies were not assigned specific children but rotated.
https://www.tori.ng/news/171701/story-of-millionaire-couple-who-spent-140k-on-surr.html
Detailing the finances of the situation, Galip and Kristina noted that they paid each surrogate £7,700 per pregnancy and their nannies were paid £350 a month each.
The nannies work four days on, two days off and live in the couple’s three story mansion where they have their own rooms and kitchen.
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Kristina said: "It costs about $5,000-$6,000 (£3,500-£4,200) per week for essentials for all the kids. Sometimes a little more, sometimes a bit less.
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The babies are: Mustafa, 14 months; Mariam, 13 months; Ayrin, 13 months; Alisa, 13 months; Hasan, one; Judi, one; Harper, 11 months; Teresa, 11 months; Huseyin, 11 months; Anna, 10 months; Isabella, 10 months; Ismail, nine months; Mehmet, nine months; Ahmet, nine months; Ali, eight months; Kristina, eight months; Sara, seven months; Lokman, seven months; Galip, six months; and Olivia, four months.
Teen Charged With Mowing Down Cyclists Is Champion Livestock Breeders' Son
Teen Charged With Mowing Down Cyclists Is Champion Livestock Breeders’ Son
The apparently well-connected teenage driver charged at long last with six felony counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon for allegedly mowing down six bicyclists outside Houston after purposely belching a thick cloud of black diesel exhaust at them has been identified as the son of a competition livestock breeding family in the area.
On Monday, lawyers for the injured cyclists named the 16-year-old suspect’s parents as Jason and Jennifer Arnold of Waller, Texas. The couple, who specialize in raising and showing sheep and goats and serve on the lamb committee of the Waller County Fair, have a 16-year-old son who has won prizes for his champion lambs. In 2020, the young man’s 92-lb. “market goat” was named the fair’s grand champion.
Reached by phone, Jason Arnold, 43, immediately hung up when asked about the charges against his son, whose name The Daily Beast is not publishing pending a formal announcement by authorities. In a follow-up text message, Arnold, who also processes venison for local deer hunters, referred all inquiries to the teen’s lawyer.
“My client and his family continue to pray for the quick recovery of the injured bikers,” attorney Rick DeToto told The Daily Beast. “Due to the confidentiality laws surrounding juvenile proceedings, we have no further comment at this time.”
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/teen-charged-with-mowing-down-cyclists-is-champion-livestock-breeders-son/ar-AAQw5Dl?ocid=msedgntp
hare outruns train
https://www.buzzvideos.com/fun/484930/hare-outruns-train-on-the-tracksGop. Gets bad news. Sununu isnt going to run for senate
Now they have to scramble for another candidate to challenge the dem. 
https://www.cnn.com/2021/11/09/politics/senate-chris-sununu-2022/index.html
Politician to miss his anti-vaccine mandate rally because he has COVID
Politician to miss his anti-vaccine mandate rally because he has COVID
A Republican lawmaker in North Dakota will miss his Monday rally opposing vaccine mandates because he has COVID-19. Instead, Rep. Jeff Hoverson said he will stay home and take a cocktail of medications including the unproven anti-parasite drug ivermectine and the malaria remedy Hydroxychloroquine.
“Covid is real and like a really bad flu,” Hoverson wrote on Facebook. “I am currently quarantining and each day is getting better.”
Hoverson claims his home remedy, which is popular with right-wing pundits, should be more widely used by the public. He noted that he’s not hospitalized and said he’s on the mend.
The lawmaker, who is also a pastor, told the Associated Press he tested positive last week for coronavirus. He said three of his teenage children will attend Monday’s rally at the statehouse. He is a father of six.
https://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/ny-covid-lawmaker-anti-vaccine-rally-20211108-uhu7yrxqjffxpmahj5onc44r6a-story.html
Americans Are Flush With Cash and Jobs. They Also Think the Economy Is Awful.
Americans Are Flush With Cash and Jobs. They Also Think the Economy Is Awful.The psychological effects of inflation seem to have the upper hand.
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This is the great contradiction that underlies President Biden’s poor approval ratings, recent Republican victories in state elections and the touch-and-go negotiations over the Biden legislative agenda. It presents a fundamental challenge for economic policy, which has succeeded at lifting the wealth, incomes and job prospects of millions of people — but has not made Americans, in their own self-perception, any better off.
Workers have seized the upper hand in the labor market, attaining the largest raises in decades and quitting their jobs at record rates. The unemployment rate is 4.6 percent and has been falling rapidly. Cumulatively, Americans are sitting on piles of cash; they have accumulated $2.3 trillion more in savings in the last 19 months than would have been expected in the prepandemic path. The median household’s checking account balance was 50 percent higher in July of this year than in 2019, according to the JPMorgan Chase Institute.
Yet workers’ assessment of the economy is scathing.
In a Gallup poll in October, 68 percent of respondents said they thought economic conditions were getting worse. The share who thought things were getting better was lower than in April 2009, when the global financial crisis was still underway. And it is not merely a partisan response to the Biden presidency. In the University of Michigan’s consumer sentiment survey, Republicans rate current economic conditions worse than Democrats do — but both groups give ratings about as low as they did in the early 2010s, when unemployment was much higher and Americans’ finances were a wreck.
The reasons seem to be tied to the psychology of inflation and the ways people assess their economic well-being — as well as the uneven effects that rising prices and shortages have on different families. It may well be shaped by the psychological scars of the pandemic, one manifestation of this being an era of exhaustion.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/06/upshot/inflation-psychology-economy.html
Oscar Pistorius, Olympic Runner Convicted of Murder, Is Up for Parole
Oscar Pistorius, Olympic Runner Convicted of Murder, Is Up for ParoleThe double-amputee sprinter has served half his sentence for killing his girlfriend. His victim’s parents were said to be “shocked” at the prospect of his release.
JOHANNESBURG — Oscar Pistorius, the double-amputee Olympic sprinter who garnered global headlines after killing his girlfriend in 2013, may soon be paroled from prison, South African corrections officials said Monday.
Mr. Pistorius shot his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp, through a locked bathroom door in February 2013. He claimed that her death was an accident, and that he had fired his gun in the belief that an intruder had entered his upscale home in a Pretoria suburb.
He was convicted of manslaughter — later upgraded to murder — and sentenced to 15 years. And on Monday, the Department of Correctional Services said Mr. Pistorius, 34, had served half his sentence, making him automatically eligible for parole under South African law.
But first Mr. Pistorius will have to face his victim’s parents as part of the parole-consideration process — a prospect they sounded distressed by on Monday. The parents are “shocked and surprised” at having to consider the athlete’s freedom sooner than they expected, a lawyer for the family said.
Prison has “taken its toll” on the celebrity athlete once nicknamed the Blade Runner, said Julian Knight, Mr. Pistorius’s lawyer. “When Oscar is eventually released on parole, I don’t think he’ll be anywhere like the Oscar that went into prison,” Mr. Knight said.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/08/world/africa/oscar-pistorius-bladerunner-parole.html
A Dog's Life Why are so many people so cruel to their dogs? My search to understand a hidden scourge
a hard read but you'll have more respect for PETA after reading this. they go in and save these animalsA Dog’s Life
Why are so many people so cruel to their dogs? My search to understand a hidden scourge.
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It occurs all over the country, the pitiless 24-hour-a-day chaining of dogs to lifelong sentences of misery and madness. The practice is not the province of any race or any age or any nationality or any region of the country, though it is most prevalent, by far, in areas of rural America where resources are limited and opportunities are slender. Many states have enacted laws that attempt to limit how many hours a day it may be done and under what circumstances, but none bans it entirely. Most of these compromise laws are halfhearted half-measures that are difficult to enforce. In the majority of states, there are no laws at all. Some municipalities have banned dog-tethering on their own, but they represent less than 1 percent of all cities, towns and counties in the country.
It would be tempting to call this an epidemic, except epidemics usually have a clear starting point, and they eventually end. This particular cruelty has been going on as long as anyone can remember, and no one knows when it will stop, or if it ever will. If you’ve never heard of it, or had no idea of its ubiquity, that’s probably because humanity has ample tragedies of its own to report on, and because news organizations prefer to avoid these depressing, nonessential stories. They repel readers and listeners and viewers.
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The dogs’ imprisonment often is located in what Nachminovitch calls “the backyard of the backyard” — as far from the house as possible, as though their existence is a disagreeable inconvenience. They tend to live at the center of a dirt circle with a diameter twice the length of the chain around their neck, which is often 10 feet or less. That’s their world — the dirt universe they’ve carved out with their paws as they run in circles, testing centrifugal force, straining futilely to escape, like a moon corralled by gravity. Beyond the circle is grass they seldom if ever get to touch or sniff. Most of these dogs have been deemed unworthy of entering the family home.
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Sometimes, people are so lacking in savvy, and so unaware of what constitutes animal abuse, that they inadvertently turn themselves in. On this day a woman has telephoned to ask PETA for help with a dog named Dora, who, the caller says, lives outdoors because her child has allergies, but is well cared for. She says Dora is scabby with fleas, and has lost chunks of fur, and the owner has little money, and is asking for free medical assistance. That is something that PETA does.
The PETA people arrive. Dora is a boxer mix. She is in a cage in a carport behind the house. She is in direct sunlight. It is 90 degrees. She has no water.
“Oh my God, she’s dying,” Nachminovitch says.
She is spitting mad, locked in the cage, flea-bitten and sweltering and snarling. As the PETA people get water to her, one of them notices something on the periphery of this scene.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/magazine/2021/11/08/why-are-so-many-people-so-cruel-their-dogs/
A 'war on books': Conservatives push for audits of school libraries
During the last year, Mary Ellen Cuzela — concerned about students being indoctrinated about sex and “critical race theory” — successfully petitioned her suburban Houston school district of about 83,000 to remove two books from their libraries: the novel “Lawn Boy” by Jonathan Evison and the graphic novel “Losing the Girl” by MariNaomi.
Cuzela, a mother of three who works for the district as a substitute teacher, said she was encouraged by Republican Texas lawmakers’ focus on critical race theory, an academic framework for examining systemic racism — which is not taught in any U.S. public school — that she considers “Marxist ideology” and “anti-American.” She has a list of more than a dozen more books she wants removed from schools along Houston’s rapidly growing and diversifying Energy Corridor, home to some of the world’s major oil and gas companies.
“I don’t want to ban books. I don’t want to be a book burner. My goodness, no,” said Cuzela, 49, whose children have attended public school for years in Katy. “I’m not into censoring. That is not what this is about. We filter students’ internet access. We have keywords, trigger words, that we know people shouldn’t have access to as a minor. So why isn’t that same process in the school libraries?”
One of the books, “Lawn Boy,” refers to oral sex between boys, and the other, “Losing the Girl,” features LGBTQ characters.
https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2021-11-08/texas-schools-ordered-to-investigate-books
Fan thrown down stairs
Watch #47.. Drags man.down.stairs by his hair
.steps on head of other man
https://twitter.com/FloydMaywebster/status/1457561270203256833?
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