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The biopsy was done
on a Friday morning.
The results were not
what we wanted to hear.
So surgery was performed
first thing Monday.
My wife Bernie spent
two nights in the hospital,
then I took her home and began my education
in how to be her caregiver.
Looking back, I believe we both managed pretty well.
It was difficult at times,
but we found our ways to give and receive care
with empathy, with honesty,
and occasionally with doses of laughter.
In addition to handling these new roles,
we needed to handle something else just as much—
our grief.
Bernie was grieving the loss of her breast,
the loss of her physical health,
and potentially the loss of life itself.
I was grieving too, for the same things,
from my perspective as her husband and lover.
So while I struggled to learn the ropes
of becoming my wife's caregiver,
I also struggled on another level—
learning the ropes of dealing with particular feelings
of shock and grief, anxiety and fear.
For quite some time I felt disoriented.
When our initiation into the role of caregiving is sudden,
it's a lot to deal with all by itself.
Often this sudden introduction is complicated
by what else is happening to us,
by what led us to this new role.
As a result, we may be sad and grieving, as I was.
We may be angry, if not furious,
at whoever or whatever caused this unfortunate situation
we're now a part of.
We may feel abandoned and alone
or helpless and exposed.
We may feel all these things, and more.
When we're grappling with powerful feelings
emerging from unwanted changes in our life,
while simultaneously grappling
with the new responsibilities of caregiving,
it can all seem quite daunting.
There are ways, of course, we can learn to deal
with what is before us.
Bernie and I did, as we lived
and learned and grew, all at the same time.
But whether we're expecting it or not,
sometimes our caregiving has another layer to it—
a layer of independent feelings
that we dare not ignore.
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Shopping will improve the mood
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The Mean Seasons: Fables Vol. 5 – Willingham et. al. I am enjoying this graphic novel series so much. I spent an evening sitting in a cafe composing a post on the awesomeness of one of the main characters. The series is not unproblematic, but it's better than a lot and it is fairytales not retold but… matured? continued? and thrown into a difficult situation they have to deal with or perish. Snow continues to be amazing, Bigby to be difficult, everyone has their own agendas and jealousies, and they are beginning to be under threat not only from the old world but from elements of the new and from their own rules. Will the triumph of democracy be a deathblow for Fabletown? Will investigative journalists expose the secret at the heart of 21st century New York? Will true love triumph? And will anyone ever cut Snow a break? I wish comics weren't so expensive. I'm trying to not buy more than one volume of this a month, but I bought vol. 6 a week after this one.
Batman – A Death in the Family . My first actual Batman encounter other than the movies and The Daily Batman, so while I enjoyed reading it (and found the idea of readers "voting Robin off") I don't really have any framework within which to review it. But seeing the Joker so much gave me a jawache.
Assorted short comics acquired at Supanova – these were out of context for me, both in terms of the continuing stories and the sort of comics they are, so I won't review them. Also, I was disconcerted by the artwork being so much weaker than what I am used to seeing and so much better than mine.
Labyrinths – Borges. Finally. And yes, he is gorgeous. He reminds me of Umberto Eco, but perhaps took himself a little more seriously. His short stories, essays and poems tread between fantasy (sometimes reminding me of Lovecraft) and philosophy, theology, impossible hypotheticals, all short enough that they leave you room to go off on thoughts of your own. I would sit on the bus pondering the relationship between his examination of 'The Argentine Writer and Tradition' and the cultural cringe and the landscape in Australian speculative fiction until I began to suspect the reason I was having trouble concentrating at work that week was because I was thinking too much outside it. The final poem in the collection was 'Elegy' which contained the very lovely line: "to have grown old in so many mirrors" which reminded me of Elliot but is both more beautiful and just as tragic.
The Game – Diana Wynne Jones. As lively and convoluted (plot and story and characters all) as any of her stories, but in other ways just as reserved. The story of the paths of the mythosphere, the interconnectedness of families and stories and myths and legends (the Sysiphus strand which reaches out to the legend of Sysiphus at one end, but closer to home is office workers dealing with never-empty in-trays), the whirling wheeling stars (which reminded me of P. L. Travers at her best) are so rich and ripe and vivid and yet DWJ holds back so much, telling only the barest part of the story and leaving the reader wanting so very much more. Not that the story is untold, but she has shown and hinted at wonders and worlds just over the edge of it and then pared back to only the core of her tale. It is incredibly frustrating. I wrote to the DWJ list that "DWJ is very good at giving the impression that there are stories spilling over the edge of the one you are reading, that there are worlds and events and tales that you can't quite turn the page to read although you *want* to, and that she probably won't tell you ever because they aren't necessary to the (quite wonderful) story at hand. Lately, however, she seems to be developing this to a very fine pitch – as if she has worked out the bare minimum she needs to actually tell to convey the story she wants to tell you, while hinting at an even more voluminous universe. The story she is telling works and is very very good, but as a reader I am convinced that there is *so much more out there* that it becomes a kind of exquisite torture." The worst part is that I know from experience that even if she does write a sequel, it will probably be about an extremely peripheral character and is unlikely to take place in the same universe.
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still so young to have travelled so far. old enough to know who you are. (crowded house distant sun)
i'm sitting at my table. i love this table. it is made with bamboo and dark wood. it seats four comfortably but could happily have eight squished around it, elbows rubbing together, sharing in love, laughter, a nice meal. i'd like to do that just once before i leave this apartment. have a dinner party. maybe 'fancy dress and funnel cakes' will be the theme.
david gray 'shine' filling the air.
it is a beautiful song.
it might be one of the songs that goes on my 2008 soundtrack.
once f made us two compilation cd's. they were titled 'soundtrack for the interstates'. he created the covers using ticket stubs and photographs and bits and pieces from our roadtrip together across country. i knew the entire order of the songs on these cds. there wasn't a song i'd skip. it reminded me of sunshine. steering with knees. feet up on dashboard. breakfasts with entirely too many calories at cracker barrel.
and i wonder, what do you do with these things? the photographs and cards and emails and notes and gifts? the vase you purchased together in new york city. the prayer book inscribed with both names. the tangible reminders of something that no longer exists.
i've thought through the options. i'm thinking it all might be gathered in a box. to be buried. that might be the gentlest, kindest resolution.
marabeth just made us her speciality drink. it's endearingly called 'nut nog' and it is heavenly. it is comfort and contentment in liquid form.
hot steamy almond milk blended with natural peanut butter, agave, cinnamon…mmm
sugar free & chocolate free. and yet perfectly delicious.
jen jack rabbit has been by my side since saturday noon. i love the fact that on friday we talked about the possibility of her flying in for the weekend and the next day there she was. twinkling eyes, four inch red heels and all. it's been so great having her here. the three of us spent practically every evening together when we lived in haifa. now, nearly eight years later, the dynamic has not changed at all. complete openess, love and tender care. we are soul sisters. fluid and easy. conversation flows. silences never awkward. actions never premeditated. like the blood in my veins these two women are intrinsically part of me. part of my journey.
ladan flies in tomorrow night. i am already looking forward to curling up on the couch and catching up on the twelve months since we saw each other last.
you say you're proud of me.
i'm not entirely sure why.
but everytime you say it, i believe you.
thank you for your words.
my heart felt better afterwards.
i have decided that it is okay to spend money on things i love. like the journal i purchased over the weekend. it was perhaps overpriced but had a soft suede green cover with silver embossing. it is so beautiful that the words i will fill it with do not do justice to it's exterior but that's okay. when i look at it i see beauty. i want to fill my life with more beauty. it is coming. candles were a brilliant start. more to follow.
i would like a book to get lost in. or a recommendation of a book i can get lost in.
a good story.
please submit ideas :)
tonight jen drew a bird. the operative word being 'drew'. she never claimed to be an artist. and let's face it, birds are not easy to draw on the best of days. but anyway her efforts in rendering a bird caused me to laugh so much that my stomach hurt and tears spilled down my face. this weekend also had me lying on the floor of a dressing room in a fancy botique trying to do up a pair of jeans that were definitely a size (or three) smaller than what i needed. i looked up into the faces of my two friends laughing with me and i didn't want to be anywhere else, doing anything else.
moral of the story – laughter is good. need more of it in my day.
1 comment on "still so young to have travelled so far. old enough to know who you are. (crowded house distant sun)"
Anusce Says:
January 21st, 2008 at 12:48 pm
Dear Woman I would like to be when I grow up,
if you have time to read make sure your immerse yourslef in the Kite Runner and A thousand Splendid Suns….they are both amazing books.
And if you wish to be inspired, encouraged and find love for life, then you must read Paolo Coehlo, the ZAHIR! It is amazing!!!
love you always


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ISIS attempts suicide attack on al-Hol camp in Syria
(CNN) A group of ISIS militants in two vehicles rigged with suicide explosives attempted to attack the al-Hol camp in Syria which holds around 60,000 displaced persons, according to US Central Command.
One of the vehicles exploded prematurely about 12 miles northeast of the camp, which alerted the nearby US partnered forces, the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), said CENTCOM spokesman Col. Joe Buccino.
When the SDF arrived at the scene, two men got out of the second vehicle.
One man detonated a suicide vest, Buccino said, while the second was shot and killed by SDF forces.
Another ISIS militant is in SDF custody.
The second vehicle was rigged with approximately 110 pounds of explosives, Buccino said.
A total of four ISIS militants were killed in the engagement, including in the first vehicle which detonated prematurely.
"The response of our partnered forces highlights not only dedication to their people, but also their tenacity and commitment to the enduring defeat of ISIS," Buccino said.


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Arun Gawli get life term in corporator murder case
Special MCOCA court judge Prithviraj Chavan, while pronouncing the judgement in Mumbai, also imposed a fine of Rs 17 lakhs on Arun Gawli, failing which he will have to undergo an additional 3-yr imprisonment.
Gangster-turned-politician Arun Gawli was on Friday sentenced to life imprisonment by a special MCOCA court in Shiv Sena corporator Kamlakar Jamsandekar murder case.
Special MCOCA court judge Prithviraj Chavan, while pronouncing the judgement in Mumbai, also imposed a fine of Rs 17 lakhs on Gawli, failing which he will have to undergo an additional three-year imprisonment.
Ten others were also awarded life imprisonment in the case while accused Sunil Ghate was convicted only under Arms Act and has been sent to three years' rigorous imprisonment.
The court also sent Gawli to ten-year imprisonment each for being a member of the organised crime syndicate and extortion.
While pronouncing the sentence, judge Chavan said "Instead of death I am giving you life imprisonment."
During arguments on sentencing in the Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA) Court, the once feared underworld don had told judge Chavan that there was no reason for him to kill the Sena corporator for a "paltry" amount of Rs 30 lakh.
"After 2007 BMC elections, when Shiv Sena was not in majority it was our Akhil Bharatiya Sena who gave them support of four corporators (to attain majority). At that time each of our corporator commanded very high monetary value (for providing support) and there was no reason for me to kill Jamsandekar for Rs 30 lakh," Gawli argued.
On August 24, the former MLA and 11 others were found guilty of murdering Jamsandekar in 2008. According to the chargesheet, a sum of Rs 30 lakh was paid to the Gawli gang for eliminating the Sena corporator over a land deal.
Earlier, Gawli's lawyer Sudeep Passbola had argued in the court that his client should not be given capital punishment, as demanded by the prosecution. "Give a dog a bad name and shoot it - that should not be the principle," Passbola had said.
According to police, the contract for killing Jamsandekar was given by Sahebrao Bhintade and Bala Surve, who were reportedly the Sena corporator's rivals in construction business and local politics.
Crime Branch had said the other reason why Jamsandekar was killed was that Bintade and Surve were eyeing a plot at Saki Naka in suburban Mumbai and the corporator reportedly "refused to cooperate".
Jamsandekar was murdered at the behest of Gawli, who had, along with the co-accused, conspired to eliminate him. He was shot dead in March 2008 at his residence in suburban Ghatkopar.
Gawli was arrested on May 21, 2008 and is in custody since then.On October 7, 2010, the court framed charges against Gawli and other accused under MCOCA, sections 302 (murder), 34 (common intention) and 120B (criminal conspiracy) of IPC. All accused had pleaded not guilty to the charges.
Demanding death penalty for Gawli and co-accused Vijay Giri and Pratap Borse, Special Public Prosecutor Raja Thakare had said this was the first case in which the kingpin of an organised crime syndicate had been convicted.
Thakare had said Gawli was heading an organised crime syndicate and used Akhil Bhartiya Sena (ABS) as a political front for his "criminal activities".
"The gang slowly expanded its horizons, where they misguided youth and got them to do illegal work," Thakare had said, adding the gang members continued to operate from jail.
Gawli's lawyer Sudeep Passbola said Jamsandekar was not targeted for extortion but for political vendetta and rivalry.
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And we're off! Now that the last and final session of "The Exceptional Experience" has started, and the client service consultation has been taken down in preparation for maternity leave, you may be wondering, what's next? Did I just miss out on everything that Ashley Uhl Consulting offers? What if I was interested, and so far it just hasn't been the right time for me?
Well, don't despair, my friend! There will be future opportunities, they'll just be a little different in their format (and some of the old formats may come back over time – that's TBD). So instead of live classes and the consultations, I'll be offering work at your own pace, pre-recorded video courses, all focused on helping you elevate your design firm and the client experience. And even if we have worked together in the past and you're eager for more – don't worry, there will be totally new info coming out for you as well – hint, some of which will help you with giving gifts to clients for the holidays! These courses will be coming out over the next couple of months so be sure to check back in periodically to see what's new!
Thinking Like a Client is a Game Changer
Now onto this week's post – how to think like a client. Learning to walk a mile in your clients' shoes really is a game changer. It allows you to understand the woes, the anxieties, the worries, the frustrations, etc. of a client – and not only to have sympathy for them, but also be able to address them beforehand. And when you can do that, you're in a league all your own.
Very, very few businesses really understand what their client is nervous about, thinking about, and losing sleep over when it comes to their interactions. Instead, naturally, they're thinking about their half of the equation. They're thinking about what keeps them up at night – what clients are difficult, what orders didn't come through, why didn't that client call me back. But when a business can turn that around and think about things from the client's perspective, well, few things can hold them back from success.
So how do you begin to understand your client? How do you really know what they're thinking about, worrying about, or using as a deciding factor when it comes to working with a designer? Well, there's 4 things you can do. Two are pretty easy, and two are a bit more of a commitment. Let's start with the easy stuff first.
1 – Act Like Your Own Client
Sometimes all you need to do is just act like your own client. If you have an office, sit in the waiting room. What do you notice? Are the chairs uncomfortable? Are they too worn down? What are you looking at? A lot of messy desks? What do you smell? Hopefully nothing awful! What do you hear? Anything that's making you crazy? What magazines are there for you to look at? Are they from four years ago or torn apart from clients ripping out recipes or articles while they wait? Now get up and walk the path that you would lead a client down – maybe to your desk or a conference room.
Sit down where they sit. Notice anything unpleasant or unclean? Are the tables from this angle strewn with fingerprints? Can they see the screen properly if you use a projector to showcase your designs? Is there gum under the table on their side, or something loose that can attach itself to their clothing and cause a rip? Now keep going, visit your bathroom, your parking lot, and any other space that a client may go into. What leaves a good impression? What leaves a not so great impression? Notice and make adjustments to everything.
Now what if you don't have an office? Still act like your own client. Sit down at your own dining room table and set out everything you bring to client meetings – the documents, are they all bent? Your bag, is it worse for the wear? Do you have enough working pens, for both the client and yourself? Does anything seem to be missing from what you would assume a designer would bring? And what about the contents of the bag – is everything strewn every which way? And what about how you present your materials – if you bring a cork board, is it way too "holey?" Try to observe everything you do from the a clients' perspective – and then make the necessary adjustments.
2 – Think Like Your Own Client
Now in addition to acting like your own client, walking your office space, or presenting items to yourself, you also want to take time to actually sit down and think like your own client. Put yourself in their shoes and think, what would I be thinking at this stage? What would I be wondering about? What information would I need to make me feel – prepared, comfortable, ready, like I'm getting a great value out of this?
The more you can train your brain to think like your client, the more successful your client experience will be. But, this does take time, and training. We naturally think like well, ourselves. We think about what's hard for us, what's easiest for us, and what's best for us.
But when we can learn to put ourselves in our clients' shoes, we can address problems before they become problems, we can prepare our clients for what's next, and we can overall wow them with just how well we understand them and their plight.
Clients, at every level, want to feel understood. So spending time thinking about how a client must feel, what information they want and need, at each stage in your process, will have a HUGE pay off – for both you and your future clients.
3 – Work with a Friend
This is where things get a little bit more complicated, but if you really want to go all in, you can get a lot of fantastic information. If you have a friend who needs a space designed, you could strike up a deal – I'll design for you, and in exchange, I get to pester the heck out of you with questions about what you're thinking at each stage, what you're wondering about, what you wish you'd known, etc.
Now, people have different opinions on working with friends so do take that in mind before you go down this route. But if you have a friend who you trust entirely, is very honest but kind, is similar to the kind of client you'd like to work with, and is insightful enough to share what they were thinking about, worrying about, etc. at each stage – then go for it.
And don't change any part of your typical process for this friend as then you won't be getting genuine feedback. Just act like it's business as usual. Have them go online, look at your site, write down anything they're still wondering about, have them contact you via your contact page, write back to them and set up a screening call, etc. Do everything exactly the same way you would with a normal client – and then just give them a list of questions to use as they go throughout.
You'll want to ask questions like – did you feel prepared for the next step? Did you feel anxious? What information do you wish would have been shared to prepare you for what was next? What were you wondering about? Then on and on it goes until you reach the end of the project. And even if they're not ready to purchase the products and you just get to the design presentation stage, there's still a huge benefit in getting all of the information you can up to that point.
4 – Strike Up a Deal
Now, the other option – striking up a deal with a client. If you've met a client that you really like and you think would be a great candidate for giving feedback, offer up the idea of lowering your design fees in exchange for extensive feedback at every stage in your process.
Now you'd want to make this very, very clear for the client in terms of what the conditions and expectations are and put them in your contract – like for each stage, you agree to be interviewed for 30 minutes in person on what your thoughts are, what can be improved upon, etc. and in exchange your design fees will be lowered by 50% but there will be no adjustment to any product fees.
Whatever your conditions are is up to you, but holding this type of intensive customer study is something that really can help. Most clients just won't want to answer that many questions about how they're feeling, thinking, etc. throughout the entire process. In fact they would loathe it and really start to question why you're so desperate to know.
But, if you've created a specific deal with a client who knows why you're always asking, this can be greatly beneficial and give you great insight that you most likely wouldn't be getting any other way. The questions you'll want to ask them are the same as you'd ask your friend – what were you worried about at this stage? What information would have helped you feel more prepared? What was stressful for you at this stage? What caused you frustration at this stage? And then of course some more positive ones thrown in there as well – what went really well at this stage? what did you enjoy about this stage?
A Work in Progress
Now you'll of course never fully know what it's like to be a client as well, you're not the client, you're the designer. But the closer you can get to knowing them, understanding them, and anticipating their needs, the more successful you're going to be at working with clients.
People want to feel known, and people want to have their fears calmed before they completely take over their mind. So it's worth the time and investment in studying and investigating what it is your clients might be going through as they work through your design process.
It's also worth it when it comes to understanding the value you bring – as you may just realize when you're going through this exercise, "Man, I'm nailing an awful lot of this! Our place is gorgeous, it smells like a summer's day (and not a spray can version of it), things are organized, there's no gum under our tables, our documents are streamlined and easy to read, we tell our clients how to prepare for each meeting, and we do a great job of keeping in touch with them. I think we can raise our prices. I also now know what to talk about in those beginning conversations around the extra value we bring." – And hint, it's not that you keep the bottom of your tables gum free. Although that's definitely a good thing!
Getting outside of your own head and into someone else' isn't an easy feat. But it's a worthy one. And let's be honest – isn't that true of just about everything good in life? It's not an easy feat, but it's a worthy one. So go out there, act like your own client, think like your own client, or get feedback from an actual client (or friend) and then make the necessary adjustments to bring your entire design firm to that next level of success and amazement.
Share in the comments below, what have you done to try and put yourself in your clients' shoes?


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When you want to increase your chances of bagging a turkey you will want to use a turkey blind.
The eyesight in a turkey is very good. That is why you will want to know the value of a turkey blind now, more than ever. Not only is this going to keep you hidden, but it will also make the terrain look varied as well.
What else is nice is when you are hunting from a turkey blind you will spend plenty of time out in the wild scouting your spot to put the blind. You will find some of the advantages of a blind will include increase concealment, a noise reduction on the inside, waterproof materials, and plenty of room for everyone. What else is nice is the larger blinds will need to be brought with you if you are a bow hunter. Even if you are using a shotgun you will find that you have more success in a blind.
Stay Hidden
This is easily one of the biggest reasons to get a blind and that is you are hidden. When you are one of the run and gun style hunters you may find yourself using a tree or even branches. However, if you are getting to much time in the open looking for concealment you will only increase the chance of a turkey seeing you.
With ambush hunting blinds you are going to have a great spot to ambush a turkey from regardless of what is around you. Even if you are in the middle of a field the turkeys will still come out because of the blind. What else is nice if you do not need to brush a turkey blind like you do for deer. All that you have to do is put it in place and then you are ready to go.
Often you will find that turkey is hunted for in food plots. The blind makes it nice because, as mentioned above, you can set it up in the middle of the field. Not to mention you tend to get a full view around the blind. Even if you are a bow hunter you will notice the Banks Stump Vision Series, allows you to open all the windows and have a shoot through black mesh that goes to the window frames. This allows you to stay hidden when you are drawing back.
Youth Introduction
If you are bringing your kids with you, then you must have a blind to keep the kids hidden. In the blind, you can even talk quietly with your kids about the fundamentals of hunting turkey. If they get bored easily you may find that they can bring along their smartphones or even a book. What else is nice is the kids can move around and you will not have as much in the way of lost shots because of them moving.
What is nice is this allows the kids to talk and not miss a shot because of them moving.
When you have the kids you will find that the blind is going to reduce the missed shots, but also makes it easier for them to talk among themselves.
Often in the spring, you will find that you are going to deal with insects coming out. That often means you will have to deal with the inconvenience of these pests, but the kids may not understand why they are around. When you are in the blind you will find the pest is gone, but so is any bad weather. This is going to make it easier for you to have a great hunting experience. This is very true for the first time hunter and even the younger kids. If they have a bad experience they may not want to go hunting anymore.
Plenty Of Space
When you are in a mobile turkey hunt you will find that you do not need a lot of equipment. This may mean missing out on some of the luxury items you would be carrying with you. When you have a blind, though, you will be able to hunt with the extra items you would usually bring with you and that makes the hunt nicer. You can even bring a lunch with you when you hunt in a blind. What else is nice is you can even videotape some of the hunts as well. No matter what, when you are filming the hunt, the blind tends to give you plenty of space.
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text: How much of beauty - of color, as well as form - on which our eyes daily rest goes unperceived by us! No one but a botanist is likely to distinguish nicely the different shades of green with which the open surface of the earth is clothed, - not even a landscape-painter if he does not know the species of sedges and grasses which paint it. With respect to the color of grass, most of those even who attend peculiarly to the aspects of nature only observe that it is more or less dark or light, green or brown, or velvety, fresh or parched, etc. But if you are studying grasses you look for another and different beauty, and you find it, in the wonderful variety of color, etc., presented by the various species.


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Britney's back with another 'Bitch' song
LOS ANGELES – Cover your kids' ears, because Britney Spears still loves the big bad "B word."
On Monday, the pop princess debuted her latest single, titled "Work Bitch" a day earlier than anticipated after a low-quality version was leaked on the Internet. In it, she croons about one's desire for a hot body, a Lamborghini, and a big mansion – and to get that, "you better work, bitch." In fact, she uses the B-term no less than 15 times throughout the song.
We counted.
This isn't the first time we've heard Spears sing out the term that once was used to describe female canines, but is now used mostly as a derogatory jab at her own gender. Almost six years ago to the day, amid a highly-publicized meltdown, Spears released "Gimme More" with the catchy opening "It's Britney Bitch." In November, she released the song "Scream and Shout" with will.i.am and played homage to that hallmarked phrase with the lyrics "you are now rocking with will.i.am and Britney, bitch." And in her 2009 song "Lace and Leather," Spears told us straight up, first verse: "French fingertips, Red Lips/Bitch is dangerous."
And while it has been a long time since Spears was the sweet smiling, wide-eyed Disney-darling turned teen pop star, she is a mom of two boys and still courts young fans, which has some critics saying the B-word thing is both inappropriate and getting a little long in the tooth.
"Using curse words in pop songs doesn't show off artistic talent, it shows lack of creativity. It's sad that so many female recording artists think in order to stay relevant they must degrade themselves," entertainment publicist Angie Meyer-Olszewski told FOX411's Pop Tarts column. "And as a parent, it becomes more difficult to set a proper example for our kids, when mainstream musicians are portraying images and lyrics that contradict traditional teachings of right from wrong."
However, very little has been said critically of the title word in the mainstream media since Spears dropped the song. According to New York-based PR guru Elissa Buchter, that's because the once shocking B-word really doesn't have much of a sting these days.
"The word doesn't hold quite the stigma that it used to and has become a part of the mainstream; younger women even use it as a term of endearment to describe their friends now. That could signify the decline of American culture or perhaps it's just a product of changing times," she said. "Britney and her team are savvy in capitalizing on that shift to create a song her demo will respond to, however her song would probably be a hit even without the controversy Miley Cyrus is courting in order to build her brand. Despite her own personal struggles, Britney has a huge built-in audience who will devour any catchy dance song she releases, controversy or not."
But as veteran PR guru Roger Neal pointed out, eyebrow-raising lyrics isn't a necessity for hitting the big time.
"It does not have to be like that. Look at Donny Osmond, in his day he was bigger than Miley and Britney together," he said. "Today, he's hot all over again and never had to push boundaries."


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Counting contractors' deaths? Was she talking about including the deaths of mercenary soldiers into the U.S. troop death count? I guess she was. But their deaths, although tragic, wouldn't have made the troop death toll all that much higher. Or would it?
Then, as my plane was cruising at 35,000 feet somewhere over Greenland, it finally hit me what she was talking about. "Contractors!" She wasn't talking about the handful of mercenaries out doing battle on the front lines. She was talking about the 130,000 contractors (according to Defense News) doing battle on the chow lines, the truck lines, the supply lines and PX lines in Iraq.
Everywhere you go in the Green Zone and on all the military bases in Iraq, you see "Contractors" doing jobs that were formerly done by soldiers. In Vietnam, the soldiers themselves did all these jobs. The supply clerks were soldiers. The janitors were soldiers. The sentries were soldiers. There were soldiers on KP, in the motor pool, in the offices, on guard duty, manning checkpoints, on the road. Now all that work is being done by contractors. Yet, to paraphrase Shakespeare, "When you cut them, do they not also bleed?"
"The reason there are significantly lower numbers of troop deaths in Iraq now than there were in Vietnam is because of our more efficient body armor," everyone tells me. Hell, no. The reason there is a significantly lower number of troop deaths in Iraq now is because nobody counts the contractors' deaths. 600 contractors are dead and 4,000 are wounded? But now we can't count them because of semantics? Whatever.
One contractor I met in Iraq said to me recently, "A friend of mine in the supply office got killed by a mortar last week." And then she cried.
Whether we officially count them or not, the price that "Contractors" pay for our country is the same. And the costs of this "war" are just as enormous to THEIR families and friends. By using contractors instead of soldiers and not counting their deaths and fiddling with the numbers, the Department of Defense tries to make this "war" a little bit more palatable. But guess what? I find this peekaboo game that the DoD is playing with dead people to be in "grave" error.
PS: Contractors do not like to get killed. But our troops don't particularly like getting killed either!
PPS: Every time I talked with a soldier and he or she found out that I was a journalist, they would always say the same thing. "When you go back home, PLEASE tell people that our tours of duty have just been extended to 15 months and we are not happy campers about that!" You know, serving in Iraq isn't all that bad -- because of the work ethic, the comradeship and the can-do attitude of our troops and, yes, of our contractors too. Plus it's a steady job. But still and all. It's HOT over there in the summer and people SHOOT at you! And despite help from the "Contractors," our troops are really stretched thin (and that idiot in the White House is talking about starting a war with Iran? With WHAT troops?) Thus yet another extended tour of duty far away from spouses and family does NOT sit well with the troops.
PPPS: Bush and Cheney's failure of leadership have gotten us bogged down in disaster after disaster, including the World Trade Center, Katrina, Afghanistan, Lebanon, the Israel/Palestine tragedy and Iraq. Bad concepts, bad planning and bad execution are their stock in trade. Let's ditch these bums before they can think up something else to foul up!
Iraqi citizens in the neighborhoods are truly sick of all this violence and they appear to be organizing at the neighborhood level to protect their own from the warring factions that rage above them -- at their expense. Listen up, guys. This is hopeful.
I just got an e-mail from reporter Stewart Nusbaumer. He said, "you would love to be where i am now. the Col. here is damn sensative, and is doing the right way. let the iraqis sort it out, help them. don't impose. let them have their neighborhood watches, make them professionals slowly."
"i'm in town now, it looks like a nuke was dropped here. Hit, the town, was a major insurgents stronghold, they ran the town. then the people, evidently, said enough. now the big thing is for the US to help them create a police from local people.
"now, that is simplified, and things are not black/white, and the commander is taking a chance here in trusting locals, helping them out a little at a time. but the Col knows he is leaving, that it is up to them...." So. If Americans throw Bush and Cheney in jail, then average Iraqis who are struggling so hard to bring order to their poor shredded country will see by example that Americans don't tolerate gangsta behavior either. Throwing Bush and Cheney in jail just might be the exact token gesture to start bringing peace to Iraq!
PPPPS: I met the most wonderful surgical tech at the Combat Support Hospital in Baghdad. "I was trained by the Army for this job," she told me. You shoulda seen her in action, stepping up to the plate and helping to save lives. The most important thing in the world one can possibly do is to save a human life. I envied her. I wanna save human lives too! And if you are just out of high school and jobless and are afraid to leave your sleazy boyfriend because he's so needy and cute, here's a recommendation from me: Join the Army and become a surgical tech. You will be helping out people far more needy than the cute boyfriend -- plus the guys over here are all far more cute.
And, like that wonderful surgical tech in Baghdad, let's concentrate on helping to save lives in Iraq, not to destroy them. Iraq needs a Marshall Plan, not a "surge". Exxon doesn't need all that extra oil money. But Iraq does. 3,000 Iraqi citizens meet violent deaths every month. Imagine the Virginia Tech tragedy times 100 every single month. That's a hecka lot of post-traumatic stress.


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Although Streamwood is served by three library districts, most residents enjoy the services of the Poplar Creek Library District. The Poplar Creek Library actually started in Streamwood in 1966. Created by a successful referendum to establish library service for the Village residents, the library was first located in a house on Briarwood Drive. The Library moved into commercial store front space in 1969. It the mid-1970s, the Streamwood Library became Poplar Creek District Library and expanded its service area to include areas of Hanover Park. In 1976, ground was broken for a new main branch building on Park Avenue. In 1980, the Library became a Federal and State document depository. And, in 2009, the Poplar Creek Library underwent a major expansion, more than doubling in size!
Residents who live west of Route 59 are served by the Gail Borden Library District. Its main branch office is located on North Grove Avenue in Elgin. Residents who live east of Barrington Road are served by the Schaumburg Township District Library. Its main branch is located at Roselle and Schaumburg Roads in Schaumburg. All of these Districts have reciprocal agreements. This allows residents from each district to share and use the facilities from each district.
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SINGAPORE: Two of South-East Asia's richest businessmen are experiencing the weight of dollar strength after loading their business empires up with cheap US currency debt.
Anthoni Salim, who controls the First Pacific Co conglomerate, and T Ananda Krishnan (pic), a major shareholder of Malaysian mobile phone operator Maxis Bhd, are feeling the pinch as the rupiah and the ringgit slump to the lowest since the 1998 Asian financial crisis.
The duo's companies have among the most foreign-currency debt in their respective countries, with dollar liabilities totalling at least US$3.8bil for Salim and some US$2.3bil for Ananda, data compiled by Bloomberg show.
While the lessons of the 1998 meltdown have prompted both tycoons to take out currency hedges and seek to balance cash flows and liabilities, concern over their foreign debts is weighing on the two groups' shares and bonds. Although Hong Kong-listed First Pacific stock is down 38% this year its bonds are still trading above par. The pain may be about to get worse as traders price in a 62% chance the Federal Reserve will raise interest rates by December, with 32% saying a rise could come as early as this week.
"Without prudent foreign exchange risk management, a company would have increasing interest payments in local currency, a deteriorating credit profile and rising hedging costs," said Mark Yu, a money manager at Atlanta-based Invesco Advisers Inc, without referring to any specific Asean borrower.
Pressure won't let up in the near term, considering "the Fed is going to hike rates, global emerging market economic growth is slowing" and a more flexible yuan fixing will increase regional currency volatility," he said.
Since China devalued the yuan in August, the ringgit has weakened 7.6%, making it the worst-performing currency in Asia ahead of the rupiah, which is down 6.1%.
The Philippine peso has weakened 4.3% this year, 2% of that since the depreciation.
Hong Kong-headquartered First Pacific, with interests ranging from noodle maker PT Indofood Sukses Makmur to Philippine Long Distance Telephone Co, had US$1.8bil of dollar-denominated borrowings as of June 30, its interim report shows.
First Pacific's main source of income is dividends from subsidiary companies in Indonesia and the Philippines. Salim, 66, is chairman and ultimately controls 45.1%.
First Pacific's operating companies "have been proactively arranging local currency loan funding," Sara Cheung, an investor relations official in Hong Kong at First Pacific, said. Its Philippine phone company, PLDT, had revenue of more than US$700mil last year. Indofood also derived US$400mil in export sales in 2014, she said.
E-mails and telephone calls to Salim's personal assistant based in Jakarta went unanswered. Salim is Indonesia's fifth-richest person.
Eu Jin Song, a Kuala Lumpur-based spokesman for Bumi Armada Bhd, one of Ananda's companies, said Bumi's dollar debt was used for projects secured against long-term contracts that generate US dollar revenue. Unlike Salim's companies, Ananda's foreign debts are bank loans.
Companies that have strong export earnings may be less affected, according to Shamaila Khan, an emerging market money manager at AllianceBernstein Holding LP, which oversees about US$485bil.
"Our view has been for the past three years that we're going to experience a strong dollar, so what I've been picking are exporters, companies that are solid exporters banking on the fact global growth is not going to be fantastic but it's going to be stable," Shamaila said, declining to talk about the two tycoons specifically.
First Pacific's US$400mil of 2019 bonds have fallen from a high this year of 108.057 cents on the dollar in April to 105.506 cents currently, Bloomberg-compiled prices show.
They were sold to investors at par, or 100 cents on the dollar, in June 2012. Philippine Long Distance Telephone's dollar notes due 2017 are trading at 108.402 cents compared with 113.517 cents at the start of the year. PLDT's indirectly owned Cignal TV Inc is starting a television channel in the Philippines under license from Bloomberg LP, the parent of Bloomberg News.
After sliding, First Pacific's shares are trading at an about 38% discount to net asset value. PLDT stock has declined 18% this year while Indofood Sukses Makmur has fallen 21.1%. "First Pacific is trading at a significant discount to net asset value," Singapore-based Crispin Francis, a special situations analyst at Smartkarma Innovations Pte, said.
"That's related to the currency definitely, as they're exposed to emerging markets. I think they'll survive and do well though. It's a huge company with a very diversified business."
Foreign debts of companies directly and indirectly controlled by First Pacific total US$3.83bil, the company's mid-year results show. Just over 10 % of that is hedged. The amount includes US$534.5mil of debt at Salim's flagship instant noodle maker Indofood Sukses Makmur, which has debt equivalent to 3.44 times its operational earnings, the second-highest ratio among Indonesia's largest listed companies, Bloomberg data show.
Officials at Indofood didn't immediately respond to an e-mailed request for comment.
Companies related to Malaysia's second-wealthiest entrepreneur, 77-year-old Ananda, owe more than US$2.3bil in foreign-currency debt. Pay TV operator Astro Malaysia Holdings Bhd had some US$296mil of dollar obligations as of April 30, which was hedged. Officials at Astro also didn't immediately respond to a request for comment.
Another company, oil services provider Bumi Armada, had US$1.2bil of foreign-currency obligations as of June 30. Although Bumi Armada earns the bulk of its revenue in US dollars, its clients are cutting costs amid supply challenges in the oil and gas industry, Bumi Armada said in its March 31 quarterly report.
Bumi Armada spokesman Song said the company's "contracts were based on US dollar charter rates and generate US dollar revenue for the group."
Another of Ananda's companies, mobile phone operator Maxis, had US$829mil in foreign debt outstanding as at June 30, its interim report shows. All that amount was hedged using cross currency interest rate swaps. Maxis had debt equivalent to 54.5 % of its assets, the fourth-largest ratio in Malaysia, according to data compiled. – Bloomberg


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I love to sew, but I know there are those who either can't or simply don't want to, so for this month's Christmas on a Budget post I thought I'd share two inexpensive no-sew ideas for things you can start collecting now to have ready come December.
First up…
Our family is making the switch from using paper gift wrapping that gets used once and then is thrown away to wrapping that can be reused year after year. These Christmas themed tins come in a variety of shapes and sizes and can be picked up for pennies at your local thrift store.
In fact, the ones pictured above ranged in price from 29 cents to 39 cents. For less than $1.50, I now have 5 tins ready to pop gifts into in the weeks before Christmas. All it takes is a bit of tape to hold the lids on and keep the overly inquisitive from peeking at their gifts and they'll be ready to place under the tree.
When I brought them home and showed them to Dave, I said, "Wouldn't some little one just love to see a tag with their name on it on this bear tin." Dave replied, "Not just a little one, I'd love seeing a tag with my name on that tin too." Ahhh… that man is a keeper.
Next up… is an idea that I've been seeing on quite a few of the home schooling blogs and which I think would make a great gift to give to a family with young children; either as a family gift or given as a set to the individual children.
They are called Busy Bags and are plastic zip bags with a simple project or game to keep young children busy. Many of them can be put together with things you might already have around the house or after a quick trip to the dollar or craft store.
These Colouring Busy Bags took me all of 15 minutes to put together, no trip to the store necessary. I simply printed several colouring book pages off the net, trimmed the paper to fit and popped them into the bags with boxes of crayons I picked up at last year's Back to School sales. A search on colouring book pages brought up dozens of links. For the bag on the right I printed off some Christmas pages from the Crayola site. The bag on the left I printed images that I thought would appeal to either a boy or a girl. This link alone has over 5000 pages.
Following are a few links to some more homemade Busy Bag ideas:
Homemade Children's Lacing Cards
This morning, I stopped off at the Dollar Tree and came home with all this for $9+ tax.
For older children, I found these Colouring and Activity Pads. Tomorrow I'm going to hit the Back to School sales and pick up a couple of packs of pencil crayons to add to these.
Dollar Tree had a great selection of puzzles. The one on the left would be suitable for 1st or 2nd graders. I'm going to print out the nursery rhyme Hey, Diddle, Diddle to add to that busy bag.
The one on the left would keep 3rd and 4th graders busy while at the same time teaching them the States and their capitals.
Or you could make up a themed busy bag as I did with this Winnie the Pooh one. This would be great to send along with a child that is spending the night with grandparents or on a sleepover.
Learning Cards could be put in individual quart sized zip bags or in a bag all together as I've done here.
And how about a craft kit or two. This one called for a bottle of white glue but I thought a glue stick would make for less mess. Craft kits would be a great way to use the 40% off coupons that Michaels and Hobby Lobby offer on a regular basis.
Wouldn't a few of these Busy Bags packaged up in pretty basket make a great Christmas gift to give to a family with a newborn to help keep an older child (or children) occupied while Mom is nursing or Dad is bathing the baby, etc.
Or if you wanted to get a little more creative, you could put them in a box that you've decorated and label it "The Rainy Day Box."
I plan on putting together a box or two with a variety of different busy bags not just as Christmas gifts but to have on hand for times when we have young children visiting.
I hope you'll join me again in August for my next Christmas on a Budget series post when I'll not only be sharing a tutorial or two for using that Christmas fabric you bought at the Christmas in July sales (remember last month's post) but I'll also be hosting a giveaway, as well. And this time the giveaway will be open to all my readers wherever in the world they may live.


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Today we went to Macy's to have lunch, see the Christmas windows and visit the FAO Schwartz floor in the store.
One of the things that the girls like best about the downtown Macy's is the endless escalators that there are to ride. When we reached the first escalator they both paused, leaned over the railing -- no gasping Grandma Jan -- and started saying, "Hi. Merry Christmas." to anyone who came up the escalator. They didn't want to leave their self-appointed post as "Macy's Official Christmas Greeters" so after five minutes of watching the Holiday Committee of Two at work, Eric and I had to prod them on the escalator despite their pleas to stay longer.
The fun thing about riding escalators with them is that Michal is scared to step on by herself so I have to pick her up, and then immediately put her down, because, as she tells me every time, "I'm not afraid of the riding part, just the getting on part." So after picking her up and putting down at least 10 times, we'd eaten lunch, been sprinkled with fairy dusty by a Christmas fairy, admired the Tommy Hilfiger-designed tree in the Walnut Room, ridden in the elevator because I was tired of lifting Michal up and down and scoped out the FAO Schwartz toys -- including a $6,000 stuffed dragon that will not be under our tree this year. (I would love to know who does buy a $6,000 stuffed dragon.)
We also spent some time outside admiring the decorated windows. It was really cold though and we didn't last long before we headed back inside for hot chocolate.
We also saw Ralph in concert today, which is always fun. He was very enthusiastic when I wanted to take a picture. Unfortunately, I can't say the same thing for Michal and Kenna. They were not interested in on-demand smiling, only in getting Ralph's autograph on their ticket.
They were both however more than enthusiastic when it came time to join the swarms of other pint-sized Ralph fans on stage for the final song. They literally dragged me down the aisle to the stage and, once up there, Kenna wormed her way back on the stage so she had a better spot. Michal stayed at the front of the stage where I could see her and where she could make sure the audience could see her too.
In the last picture you can see our friend Ella and Kenna in the background.
All in all, it was a very good day.
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In England here everyone likes to think we are the masters of the English language and we (says the Irishman) have exported the English language across the globe. However, it appears it hasn't always been a one way street (assuming one way street has the same meaning in both UK and US) and considering the vast majority of you lot live across the pond then it only seems fair that we should doff our hats to you too.. For example, 'barking up the wrong tree', I thought that was an old English expression but it turns out it's American. It comes from the practice of raccoon hunting in the 1800's. The canny raccoon would scurry up a tree when being chased by hunting dogs and the dogs would stand with their paws on the trunk of the tree and bark at the raccoon. The hunters would catch up and one of them would climb the tree only to find the raccoon wasn't there, the dog had been mistaken and was barking up the wrong tree..
Being 'on the breadline' comes from the 1870's and specifically because the Fleischman Bakery in New York was renowned for always having fresh bread. They baked their own bread each morning and whatever wasn't sold by the end of the day was given away for free to the poor. Consequently a queue, or line as Americans would say, formed outside their bakery each evening and if you were poor then you were on the breadline.
Being on Cloud Nine, another American import is a very modern import. Between the 1930's and 1950's the American Weather Bureau divided clouds into classes of one to nine. The highest, cloud nine, is the cumulonimbus, which reaches 40,000 ft and can appear as a white mountain. A popular radio show during the 1950's had it's hero Johnny Dollar knocked unconscious and magically transported to 'cloud nine' where he was revived and lived to fight another day.
There's more than one way to skin a cat is another import and happily it doesn't involve different techniques for skinning cats, it's actually different techniques for skinning catfish which are notoriously difficult to skin.
On the wagon comes from our American cousins. During the very early 1900's water wagons would go around American towns and cities cleaning streets and some carried drinking water as well. Folk (nearly always men) whom had given up alcohol could often be found gathered around the water wagons trying to quench their thirst with water rather than the demon drink. Some hardened drinkers would actually climb on the wagon and stay there drinking as much as possible as it cleaned the streets and thus 'on the wagon' came into widespread use.
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Shravan Mangala Gauri Vrat or Mangala Gauri puja is regarded as one of the most rewarding Vrats or fasts. It is performed during the month of Shravan Maas. It is an important Vrat observed by married and unmarried women in Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, and a few communities of Maharashtra. This vrat is performed for a long life of husband and a happy married life. Mangala Gauri Vrat is observed on Tuesdays or Shravan Mangalwar during the Shravan Maas (the month of July-August).
This puja is dedicated to the worship of Goddess Parvati or Gouri, with the intent that Goddess Gauri will bless the household with prosperity, good health, and marital bliss. This vrat is performed by women during the first five years of marriage.
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Mangala Gauri Vrat Dates for Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Punjab, Himachal Pradesh, and Bihar
Mangala Gauri Vrat Dates for Andhra Pradesh, Goa, Maharashtra, Gujarat, Karnataka, and Tamil Nadu
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The procedure for Mangala Gauri Vrat varies from region to region. Here are the things required to perform the puja:
List of Puja Samagri for Mangal Guari Vrat
You must read: Spiritual activities during Shravan Maas
Mangala Gauri avahan, Ganpati avahan mantra, Avahan mantra for all Gods and Goddess, Story and Aarti of Goddess Gauri, Dhyan, pushpanjali, and Homam are performed in sequence. Special puja dedicated to Goddess Parvati is performed on Shravan Mangalwar and women dress up in traditional attire complete with mangal sutra, bangles, vermilion or sindoor, and flowers. This is symbolic of staying married women for their entire lives. The puja is done to ask for Goddess Parvati's blessings for a good married life, and a prosperous household.
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The story goes: A very long time ago, there lived a merchant named Dharampal. He was very wealthy and had a beautiful wife. But they were very unhappy as they didn't have any children. By a lot of pujas and the grace of God, his wife gave birth to a son, but he was short-lived as he was cursed to die of snakebite by the time he turned 16. He was married before he turned 16 and was fortunately saved by his wife whose mother observed the Mangala Gauri Vrat. The girl's mother, because of her vrat, was blessed by a daughter who would never face widowhood. Hence, Dharampal's son was saved and got a life of 100 years. Thus, all women observe this puja for the long and healthy life of their husbands.


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Aimed at the medical market, Sony's new OLED TV boasts a resolution of 2048x2560 pixels.
While Sony's XEL-1 retail OLED is very much discontinued, the company is still working with OLED technology.
According to a press release, Sony will unveil the medical display later this month. The screen is 20.5 inches, with a 2048x2560 resolution. Because the display will be used for medical imaging, it's actually monochrome, with a super-high contrast and extremely rich black levels.
Interestingly, despite showing off the screen in Chicago, Sony has made it clear that it won't actually be available for sale in America.
Sony already has an OLED monitor in the market: the 24.5-inch PVM-2551MD, with a 1920x1080 resolution. Sony is touting the new monitor as having applications for a wider range of surgical procedures.


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This summer, electro hip-hop artist Blue Future executed his most massive project to date; dropping tracks over the course of 15 weeks to fully unveil his vibe-filled full length After Tomorrow LP. While that was a soul-satisfying collection of alien-influenced grooves we couldn't get enough of, there's a promise of more Blue Future in our near-future, starting with his recent spacey remix of Vibe Street's 'Feel What's Real'.
His first Vibe Street remix to date — and one of many to come over the next few months — is a refreshing dose of feel good electro-soul, with the perfect proportion of glitch-funk tossed into the mix, leaving us thirsty for more of Blue Future's eardrum quenching beats. Luckily for us, the two are planning a 2-night run together in Baltimore on 11/10 and Philly on 11/11, so you might want to keep an eye out for that announcement to avoid some serious FOMO.
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Little Miss H has an amazing imagination and is brilliant at independent play. She happily bounces around her room pretending to be a mermaid, princess, Octonaut or superhero. She pretends that her My Little Pony toys are in trouble and that she needs to leap to their rescue
In fact, only this morning she was Super Princess Mermaid Ariel and she had to rescue Rainbow Dash. Who had got stuck down a crevice (the side of Mummy and Daddy's bed).
"Awwww, poor Rainbow Dash. Don't be sad. Super Princess Mermaid Ariel will rescue you."
She gets really absorbed in this pretend play and it is adorable. It often means that any adults around have to spend hours with a blanket cape wrapped around them or being given medical check-ups. And Mr H and I are no longer allowed to refer to ourselves as Mummy and Daddy. We are Cinderella and Belle (ha ha – poor Mr H)! Little Miss H is Snow White and her baby brother has recently been named Rapunzel.
#VertbaudetHeroes – our superhero
When Vertbaudet asked me if Little Miss H wanted to enter their competition #VertbaudetHeroes, I knew that it would be perfect for our imaginative daughter.
#VertbaudetHeroes wants to encourage children to use their imagination and creativity to design and craft their own secret superhero identity. By making their very own superhero costume our children will learn that they can express themselves fully in their everyday adventures.
Mr H and I are keen that our children learn to be themselves at all times. And we want them to know that they can be whatever they want to be. Even a superhero!
Little Miss H is Super Skye, the pinktastic superhero
Little Miss H was very excited when I told her that we were going to turn her into a superhero. She was adamant that she wanted to be Skye, the flying female cockapoo from PAW Patrol.
Little Miss has recently discovered PAW Patrol and it is safe to say that she is obsessed. And she especially loves Skye and her little pink outfit and helicopter. All superheroes should fly and wear pink.
We headed upstairs and raided Little Miss H's wardrobe and dressing up box. But she doesn't have many pink clothes (apart from a Sleeping Beauty costume) as I first thought. And we were very limited on costume choices.
In the end Super Skye was created. The costume consisted of a cut off pair of pink leggings, a pink tutu, a vest top, a blanket as a cape and a feathery headband. I then put Little Miss H's in bunches to resemble cockapoo ears.
We headed out into the garden for Super Skye to head off on her first superhero mission.
Super Skye planning the best course of action for her rescue mission.
Super Skye checking to see if the weather is suitable for flying.
Super Skye mentally preparing herself for the rescue mission.
And we're off! The rescue mission is go.
Post mission debrief.
The #VertbaudetHeroes competition is open to the public. The prize is a £250 family trip for 4 to the UK attraction of your choosing and £200 in Vertbaudet vouchers.
To enter share a photo of your little one wearing their very own superhero costume via Twitter or Instagram using the hashtag #VertbaudetHeroes. Or you can upload a photograph to their Facebook page. Full details of the competition and the terms and conditions can be found on the Vertbaudet blog.
The competition ends on 12th September and after that a winner will be chosen at random.
Good luck.
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By Michael W. Chapman
(CNSNews.com) – A witness testified in the Gosnell abortion-murder trial that she saw one baby expelled alive into a toilet where it "was like swimming" and "trying to get out." According to the grand jury report in the case, clinic workers testified that babies often expelled from their mothers into the toilet and that, in at least one instance, the toilet was lifted from the floor to "get the fetuses out of the pipes."
The ongoing trial concerns abortionist Dr. Kermit Gosnell and the Women's Medical Society clinic he ran in Philadelphia. He is charged with, among other crimes, the first-degree murder of seven babies who had been born alive during abortions and then killed, their spinal cords snipped.
In the grand jury report (Grand Jury Report.pdf) on the case, released in January 2011, many pregnant women were given drugs to induce labor. According to employee Latosha Lewis "one or two babies fell out of patients each night. They dropped on lounge chairs, on the floor, and often in the toilet."
If "a baby was about to come out, I would take the woman to the bathroom, they would sit on the toilet and basically the baby would fall out and it would be in the toilet and I would be rubbing her back and trying to calm her down for two, three, four hours until Dr. Gosnell comes," Lewis told the grand jury.
The Women's Medical Society abortion clinic at 3801-05 Lancaster Avenue, Philadelphia, PA. (Grand Jury Report)
The report continues: "James Johnson, who supposedly cleaned the clinic and bagged its infectious waste, confirmed Lewis's account. He testified that sometimes patients 'miscarried or whatever it was' into the toilet and clogged it."
"He described how he had to lift the toilet so that someone else – he said it was too disgusting for him – could get the fetuses out of the pipes," reads the grand jury report.
Johnson is the common-law husband of Elizabeth Hampton, the sister of Gosnell's wife, Pearl.
Gosnell preferred to have the babies expel "because it made his job easier," reads the report, which adds, "If fetuses had not precipitated, Gosnell would often have his staff physically push them out of their mothers by pressing in the mother's abdomens." (See Grand Jury Report.pdf)
The ongoing trial of Gosnell, 72, is occurring in the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas. The defense case is supposed to start on Monday, April 22. Gosnell is charged with seven counts of first-degree murder (seven babies), one count of third-degree murder of a mother, as well as infanticide, conspiracy, abortion at 24 or more weeks, abuse of a corpse, theft, corruption of minors, solicitation and other related offenses.


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SHAPHAN shā' fən (שָׁפָ֤ן; LXX, Σαφαν, coney, rock-badger, has been taken with other names, by some scholars, as an evidence of totemism in Israel). 1. Son of Azaliah, and secretary of state to Josiah, king of Judah. It was Shaphan who brought "the book of the law" which was discovered when the Temple was being repaired, from Hilkiah the high priest to Josiah in 621 b.c. (
His influence upon his sons is clear, for he was the father of Ahikam who also was an official in the court and involved in the discovery of the book of the law (
2. The father of Jaazaniah, one of seventy idolaters in the Temple (
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915)
An old totem clan name (so W.R. Smith; compare, however, the article TOTEMISM; Gray, Gray, Studies in Hebrew Proper Names, 103 ff, and Jacob's Studies in Biblical Archaeology, 84 ff).
(2) Perhaps the father of Jaazaniah, one of the 70 men whom Ezekiel saw, in his vision of the Temple, sacrificing to idols (
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Zelda is being remembered on her anniversary. For a tribute, go here. For a set of links to articles by Marcia Falk, Lea Aini, and Rami Saari, and examples of her poems (in English) beyond the one given below, go here. Better yet, in Hebrew: here; here; and here. The best online introduction to Zelda and her poetry is, without a doubt, this piece by Varda Koch Ocker.
I will begin by quoting Marcia Falk on translating Zelda's poetry. What Falk has to say applies a fortiori to translating the poetry of the Bible.
I believed then as I still do today – that to make a text one's own one has to encounter it deeply, embracing its beauties and its flaws, ultimately giving oneself over to it entirely. It seemed to me at the time that such total surrender to the words of another required a fundamental affinity for that other's voice. Yet here I found myself translating poetry that I would not – could not – have written, and that I was not even sure I fully understood. Religious lyrics infused with a visionary wildness, Zelda's poems were utterly unique, not part of any poetic school in Hebrew letters. In both sensibility and form, they were not just unlike anything I might have written but distinct from anything I had read – as the poet herself was very different from anyone I had known.
Falk's evocation of Zelda's poetry and the craft of poetry translation is splendid. She will not be surprised that I do not reproduce her excellent translation of Zelda's לכל איש יש שם. The work of translation is of a piece with giving oneself over to it entirely.
A student of biblical Hebrew at the intermediate or advanced level ought to be able to read this poem without vowels and without the use of the dictionary with the sole exception of the words I list in the glossary. That's a slight exaggeration, but words not in the glossary are found in BDB or HALOT.
A couple of notes on the translation. Hebrew qatal, like the Greek aorist, has an omnitemporal use adequately expressed in English by the so-called present. In my opinion, that is how Zelda uses qatal in this poem. One might suggest otherwise based on the first stanzas of the poem, but the last stanza of the poem is proof positive I think that an omnitemporal sense is intended – equivalent to the gnomic aorist, let me point out, for the sake of those who are reading this and know ancient Greek. Note also the "gender-neutral" use of איש in the poem, and the "gender-neutral" use of the third masculine singular pronoun throughout. David Stein and I have been going back and forth on this subject matter and related ones offline. The results of our dialogue will eventually make their way into cyberspace.
לכל איש יש שם
שנתן לו אלהים
ונתנו לו אביו ואמו
Everyone has a name
that God gives
and one's father and mother give.
לכל איש יש שם
שנתנו לו קומתו ואופן חיוכו
ונתן לו האריג
Everyone has a name
that stature and the curve of one's smile give
and the weave of one's clothing gives.
לכל איש יש שם
שנתנו לו ההרים
ונתנו לו כתליו
Everyone has a name
that the mountains give
and the walls of one's city give.
לכל איש יש שם
שנתנו לו המזלות
ונתנו לו שכניו
Everyone has a name
that the stars give
and one's neighbors give.
לכל איש יש שם
שנתנו לו חטאיו
ונתנה לו כמיהתו
Everyone has a name
that one's offenses give
and one's longing gives.
לכל איש יש שם
שנתנו לו שונאיו
ונתנה לו אהבתו
Everyone has a name
that enemies give
and love for others gives.
לכל איש יש שם
שנתנו לו חגיו
ונתנה לו מלאכתו
Everyone has a name
birthday celebrations give
and one's work gives.
לכל איש יש שם
שנתנו לו תקופות השנה
ונתן לו עיורונו
Everyone has a name
that the seasons of the year give
and our blindness gives.
לכל איש יש שם
שנתן לו הים
ונתן לו
Everyone has a name
that the sea gives
one's death gives.
חיוכו. From חִיּוּךְ, 'smile.'
המזלות. From מַזָּל, 'zodiac sign, fate, good luck' as in mazal tov.
כמיהתו. From כְּמִיהָה, 'longing, yearning.'