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Newly Discovered Articles by Jean Toomer
Charles Scruggs
Despite Toomer's dismissiveness, the three articles he wrote for the Call in 1919 and 1920 are significant texts both in themselves and in what they add to our understanding of Cane; they represent his background of political and economic thinking which, though too little remarked on, underlies the stories and poems of that book. They remain his most militant public statements about racial matters in the United States, and in "Americans and Mary Austin" he shows a subtle understanding of how American prejudice spilled over lines of race or class identity or political party or regional affiliation. Finally, the Call articles, or specifically the reply to Mary Austin, gave Toomer entry to Waldo Frank's circle, a group including Gorham Munson, Sherwood Anderson, Lewis Mumford, Paul Rosenfeld, Alfred Stieglitz, Kenneth Burke, Hart Crane, and others. When Toomer came to write Cane the intellectual and literary examples of this group would be vital to him.
Most of the members of Frank's circle were moderately left in the politics of 1920, which meant they were socialists of one kind or another; Frank, Rosenfeld, and Anderson had been associated with the Seven Arts magazine, whose publication of Randolph Bourne's anti-war articles had led to its suppression in 1917. Toomer's own political interests during his "years of wandering" (his own phrase for the period from 1915 through 1920) have been given little attention by either his critics or biographers. Kerman and Eldridge in The Lives of Jean Toomer, paraphrasing a passage from The Wayward and the Seeking, say that in December 1919 "he got a job as a fitter in the New Jersey shipyards. Ten days of this cramped, cold, tough work were enough to cure him of ideas about life as a laborer and of his dream of socialism." But it is a serious distortion to summarily dismiss the most important continuous strand of Toomer's intellectual development in the five years before he began writing Cane. Certainly his introduction to the Frank group was a direct result of his leftist political affiliations, and Frank and the writers he knew would provide Toomer with a leftist cultural milieu where political ideas could find expression.
from Arizona Quarterly 51: 2 (Summer 1995). Copyright © 1995 by the Arizona Board of Regents.
Toomer's Articles
by Jean Toomer
The New York Call, 15 June 1919
Hither and thither among the dead and dying of the battlefield moved the crouched shadow of the ghoul. His practiced hands went about their business with a precision almost machine-like. In the gray dawn his trained eyes missed no valuable. Now and then he would have to turn a corpse that he might rifle its pockets. Infrequently he would bend lower, dislodge from the mud a severed hand, and pluck from it a ring. Only once did he hesitate; as he was about to jerk a heart-shaped locket from a slender neck, two eyes, luminous in their death stare, seemed to plead with him to spare that remembrance. His hesitation, however, was but momentary, for quickly snatching the locket he hurried on with his business. But suddenly a flash and a sharp report; the ghoul straightened, whirled, and fell amongst the misshapen forms of his helpless prey.
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Seated around a hard-grained table sat the war profiteers. Their cheeks were full and their eyes glowed with the light of conquest. Slaves entered obsequiously and deposited upon the broad table a heap of coins. Coins of all shapes and sizes there were, coins stained with the tears of children, coins wrung from the breasts of mothers. The slaves retired. The profiteers rubbed their hands and swept the loot into their coffers. Many slaves entered and piled a more varied assortment upon the ample table and withdrew. Here and there a bright red coin shone out and seemed to fascinate the profiteers. But they broadly smiled and swept the mass into their coffers.
Slaves, with more gold bearing heavily upon their weary shoulders, struggled to the table and disgorged their weighty burden. The coins rolled out, red and gory with the blood of men. The slaves stared, but their masters drove them from the room and hastened back to divide the spoil. Slaves, with a peculiar light in their eyes, stalked in and placed upon the table a bundlebut they did not retire. The profiteers, mindful only of the treat before them, ripped open the bag and grabbed at its contents. But they recoiled, afraid, for they had touched there the hearts of men.
by Jean Toomer
The New York Call, 2 August 1919
The central fact emerging from the recent series of race riots is not so much that the Negro has developed an essentially new psychology, characterized by a fighting attitude. The Negro has always been conspicuous for his aggressiveness when arrayed against a foreign enemy. What is significant is that the Negro, for the first time in American history, has directed his "fight" against the iniquities of the white man in the United States. It is, of course, obvious that this fighting spirit received a decided stimulus in the form of the world war. It is likewise clear that the manifest disinclination of civil authorities to protect Negro life went far to crystalize a long smouldering resentment. Yet the outstanding feature remains, not that the Negro will fight, but that he will fight against the American white.
As long as the Negro was here passive the true solution of the race problem could wait. The South burned and lynched, and the North aided by its silence. But now, with the Negro openly resolved and prepared to resist attacks upon his person and privileges, the condition assumes a graver aspect. Immediate steps toward co-operative relations are imperative. It now confronts the nation, so voluble in acclamation of the democratic ideal, so reticent in applying what it professes, to either extend to the Negro (and other workers) the essentials of a democratic commonwealth or else exist from day to day never knowing when a clash may occur, in the light of which the Washington riot will diminish and pale. Clearly, then, this is no time for appeal. This is no time for academic discussion and presidential meditation. This is essentially a time for action.
Amongst those who would offer a fitting solution there is a motley group so deep in the pit of prejudice, and with vision so circumscribed by the walls of their confinement, that they would eliminate racial differences by increasing the very acts which immediately caused them. They would have the fist of the white man educate the brain of the black. And where common, everyday American brutishness proved to no avail, lynching-bees and burning-fests would be substituted. Thus would they hold up to the eyes of the world the salutary effects of depravity. As those in this class are their own and only counsellors, none may advise them, nor can they counsel others wisely.
Then there is a second group which limits its suggestions to the worn-out method of "constitutional rights for the Negro," who seem to believe that therein lies the sole solvent of racial antagonisms. Quite naturally, believing as they do in the adequacy of our governmental machinery, and certain as they are of the essential goodness of all Americans, they deplore the Negro's fighting psychology, contending with irrefrangible logic that "two wrongs never make a right."
As to the extension of constitutional rightsit should be apparent that under this very constitution the country has come to this crisis. To fit a worn-out coat on the Negro will not alter the essential character of things. Race riots are prevalent in Chicago, where Negroes enjoy political privilege. In effect, the constitution gives no more. The solution, then, must lie deeper than mere suffrage.
As to deploring the new spirit and attitude of the Negro there is much to be said. Not a few who condemn the Negro's "fight" would be themselves the first to fight under like circumstances. Their quarrel is not with fight, per se (a war with Mexico would meet with their hearty approval), but with the Negro (or any other worker), who displays an active unwillingness to submit to injustices. Such a Negro is difficult to exploit.
But over against those whose rhetoric covers their intention are individuals who, in all sincerity, believe physical resistance or aggression, as a means to an end, a discredited institution. And, on the whole, they are in the right. But this one conditioning factor should be noted. In this instance the choice of meansthe prerogativeis not with the Negro. If a man would shoot you, and there be no one to prevent him, you must shoot first. Life permits of nothing less. In substance, just this condition prevailed in Washington. Not only did the civil authorities offer little or no protection, but in all too numerous cases were themselves the assailants. Those, then, who would aid in the present crisis would do well to focus attention and action upon those fundamental and determining causes which have irresistibly drawn the Negro into his present position. To do this brings one adjacent to the thought and action of the labor movement.
In the literature of the Socialist movement in this country there is to be found a rational explanation of the causes of race hatred, and, in the light of these, a definite solution, striking at the very root of the evil, is proposed. It is generally established that the causes of race prejudice may primarily be found in the economic structure that compels one worker to compete against another, and that furthermore renders it advantageous for the exploiting classes to inculcate, foster, and aggravate that competition. If this be true, then it follows that the nucleus of race co-operation lies in the substitution of a socialized community for a competitive one. To me, it appears that nothing less than just such an economic readjustment will ever bring concord to the two races; for, as long as there are governing classes and as long as these classes feel it to their gain to keep the masses in constant conflict, just so long will a controlled press and educational system incite and promote race hatred. Where there is advantage to be secured by racial antagonisms, heaven and hell will be invoked to that purpose. Demagogues may storm and saints may plead, but America will remain a grotesque stormcenter, tom by passion and hatred, until our democratic pretensions are replaced by a socialized reality.
by Jean Toomer
The New York Call, 10 October 1920
Though we are some distance from a realization of the race to be known as the American, yet in general contour and aspirations it is visible to those who see. It is certain that it will be a composite one, including within itself, in complementing harmony, all races. It will be less conscious of its composite character than the English are of theirs, and it will be considerably more aware of the grandeur of its destiny. The splendid fire of this latter will effectively coalesce what straggling tendencies to antagonism and disruption may still be hanging over from the former individual race consciousnesses. The resultant temper will be broad, inclusive, aware of one race only, and that the American. In fine, in our future national type humanity will have again achieved the constructive association of its varied elements.
If this is true, then it follows that, individually and collectively, we are distant from the true American (racially) in just that proportion as we are mindful of former race affiliations. Applying this test to the United States of today, some idea of the assimilative processes yet required to produce our ideal type will be manifest. Street conversations quite generally revolve around "nigger," "cracker," "wop," "kike," "polak," "greaser" and "foreigner" and the like. While in the drawing rooms where esthetic pretensions gloss over a poverty of moral and human values, the same sentiments find expression in a weaker but less offensive vocabulary. It is a bitter dose for a certain class of Gentiles to think of the future Americans including Jewish blood; and it is equally galling for the Orthodox Jew to contemplate the fusion of the Hebrew and the Christian. It would occasion a rupture of friendship, if not a fight, to suggest to the average white man that the blood of his future grandchildren will commingle [with Negroes. In addition there is the] current nonsense among [the] Negroes of the white race being degenerate. Asiatic eyes in the progeny of the Californian is a frequent and current coast nightmare. And all who are American citizens in name are at one in crying horrors at the foreigner. And yet there is nothing more certain than that these seeming ill dreams, frightful to the narrow and the prejudiced as are nature's elements to the uninformed, will come to pass. And there is tremendous good inherent in their certainty. In them rests the seed of the true American, the evolved spiritual pioneer of humanity.
National ideals, varied, and more or less partial and confused, have a host of followers. It is claimed by all the foremost of our institutions and societies that they are integral in the formation of our national character. Our arts are dynamic in their desire to produce something uniquely American. And then, too, there is a body of workers, known as the Americanists, who are devoting energies to research in aboriginal society, art and culture. From the materials thus released many are making deductions as to the future of our present country and the lines along which it may be expected to progress. Thus, it is clear that much effort is being spent to crystallize a national type. But an effort, even when sincere, need be neither intelligent nor sympathetic: it quite frequently omits both these happy attributes, contenting itself with mere functioning. And so, many energies, directed at our evolution, have been degraded, producing no salutary or compensating effects. An interesting case in point recently appeared in the columns of the Nation. In an article, entitled "New York: Dictator of American Criticism," Mary Austin, an American, and undoubtedly having at heart the interests of the national culture, protests to New York against its obvious ascendancy in the matters of criticism and intellectual initiative.
Any centralized control exasperates the provinces, especially if these provinces be conscious of their identity and zealous of their local rights. So it is not surprising that Miss Austin should voice a protest against the usurpation of democratic prerogatives by a group centered in New York. The validity of this protest, as respects New York, however, seems to me to revolve around the question: Is the ascendancy of this group due to an exclusive control of the means of expression; i.e. the publishing houses and the reviews, or does the dominancy of the group rest solely on its intellectual attainments? If the South and the West may not be heard because of the former, then the protest is a serious one and should commend itself to the sense of economic freedom of thoughtful Americans. If, on the other hand, the combined voices of all "extra-New Yorkers" is not sufficient to be heard above a small Manhattan group, then the protest loses none of its seriousness, but its appeal should be transferred from the economic sense to the shame of every one concerned with the cultural growth of this country.
As I read Miss Austin's article I am led to conclude, in absence of clear proof to the contrary, that New York and the New Yorkers are dictators of American criticism for the same reason that Moscow and the Bolsheviki are dictators of the present course of Russia, namely, that they are doing the job better than any others are now capable of doing it. Thus, it seems to me that Miss Austin's quarrel is not so much with New York as with that "vast extra-Manhattan territory" of which she speaks. Such an address to them would undoubtedly spur them toward an articulate consciousness of their own strength and responsibilities.
Miss Austin is decidedly positive in her indication of the Americans. Whether the expression, the form and the substance of an attained American consciousness will be derived from the cultural resources of the Indian or not is a matter of question, the solution of which cannot concern us here. What is of moment is that a group of workers have turned over a body of knowledge, the essence of which is unknown to America at large. This omission places a handicap on every effort at a true interpretation and understanding of what is comprehensively American. Energy directed toward the removal of this handicap is in the nature of a national service. Miss Austin, in this instance, has rendered just such a service.
My next point is pertinent. It regards her stated attitude toward the Jews. Miss Austin opens this phase of her subject by wondering "what part is played in this schism between literature and the process of nationalization by the preponderance of Jews among our critical writers." I cannot for a moment admit that such a schism does exist between literature and the process of nationalization, as I know them. But, as this subject can only adequately be handled in a more extensive paper, I shall have to leave it an undetermined possibility and pass to her next passage.
"There is nothing un-American in being a Jew," says Miss Austin. Certainly not. But why state the obvious? Once made, such statements are never without their contrary implications. And, when sincerity is the question, one feels it better to have left such things unsaid. But to continue: "It is part of our dearest tradition that no derivation from any race or religion inhibits a contribution to our national whole." Nor is this passage effective. Miss Austin knows that in practice it does not now obtain. She need look no further than her own California and its relation to the Japanese to feel the error of this remark. "We could not without serious loss subtract the Jewish contribution from our science or our economics, or dispense with the services of the younger Jewish publishers. It is only when the Jew attempts the role of interpreter of our American expression that the valadity [sic] of the racial bias comes into question."
Frankly, I know of no immediate analogy to the sentiment here expressed other than that of the average Southern white in his attitude toward the Negro. I can imagine him saying: "No, th' nigger ain't un-American, so far as that goes; a good nigger's all right. An' he's damn useful pickin' cotton. But let him keep away from them polls. I ain't going to have no nigger legislating for me." Nor does the difference in the phases of human effort lessen the force of the analogy. In both cases there are prejudice and racial consciousness, whereas a national consciousness without prejudice is the aim.
Miss Austin then asks: "Can the Jew, with his profound complex of election, his need of sensuous satisfaction qualifying his every expression of personal life, and his short pendulum swing between mystical orthodoxy and a sterile ethical culturecan he become the commentator, the arbiter, of American art and American thinking?" From the position taken at the beginning of this article it is clear that no racial or religious unit thus conscious of past affiliations can truly reflect America, the evolved American. The point in question is, Are the Jews such a unit? Is Miss Austin exact in her conception of them? To support an implied negative answer to her question, Miss Austin cites Waldo Frank's "Our America." Her short review of it does not convince me. As to the "complex of election," admitting a want as regards the Americanists, which want, by the way, I can picture most Catholics or Protestants capable of, how many men are there to name other than the "gentlemen" Mr. Frank chooses? A single volume may not be inclusive. Selection is imposed upon it. And in justice preference must be given those whose known output demands it. I think Mr. Frank's choice admirable, and fail to see in it any strict evidence of a peculiar complex of election. Turning to the pages of his book, I am deeply convinced as to the essential American origin and nurture of its fibres. Evidence of a distinct "need of sensuous satisfaction" and "pendulum swing" in this case is not available.
It thus appears to me that what was nominally a valid protest against the one-sided development of the American intellect degenerates into a force misdirected against the intellect vested in a single race. Desiring the inevitable amalgamation and consequent cultural unity, Miss Austin's article has given new cause for old race consciousness. Aiming at a community of cultured differences, she serves the cause of disunion. With her soul toward the realizable ideal, her eyes still focus on the unfused metals of the melting pot. And what is true of this writer obtains for millions of those who live within the political boundaries of the United States, augmented in these latter, of course, by the crudity of their expression and the essential poverty of their lives. Yet, and nothing is more certain, from just such stuff will a continent of Walt Whitmans evolve, universal in their sympathies and godlike of soul.
All articles reprinted from from Arizona Quarterly 51: 2 (Summer 1995). Copyright © 1995 by the Arizona Board of Regents.
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Greetings blogfolks! Yesterday was the first night of the full moon with two more remaining and i had a blast! I was working till 11 pm and when all my clients left i got to do some magick. Firstly, i made a rosemary pentagram and a lavender wreath that i left as offerings with a huge piece of apple cake at the crossroads. This is the way i thank the Goddess for my baby since the night of the conception. Well, the rosemary pentagram is what i usuially do but i was feeling a bit more crafty yesterday! Then i smudged my home with sage, as always deiseil beginning from the Eastern room and making a full cycle. At the same time i was saying my favourite cleansing spell. I usually do not do cleansings on the full moon, but the last few days a lot of people have entered my home all with their own set of problems and it was more than needed. And finally at the end i cast a prosperity spell, that i recently written and i absolutely love while burning some incense i made last month.
After all that i cooked dinner, watered all the plants(all one million of them!),fed my pets and finally at around 12.30 am i was off my feet eating while watching vampire diaries. I waited for my husband to return from work till 4.15 am and we finally slept around 5. So, needless to say today i woke up at 2.30 pm and now three hours later i am still on my couch drinking coffee trying to unwind from this past week.
:Lately, i am feeling that although i am constantly busy that i do not do my best. This past week i worked crazy hours but i have n't studied at all for my final exam for my classical singing diploma, besides not missing any of my classes. Also, i feel like i have n't worked out enough except some really long walks i took every day. I feel like i could have eaten better although i am on day 5 after eliminating sugar from my diet. I went to buy some baby stuff but i stress about all the things i should have already done. It seems that if i do good in one part of my life, everything else just suffers. I can't help but feel guilty when on my spare time i am not productive. Like yesterday night instead of resting i could have studied, or meditated, or done some house chores, or make a baby musical playlist, or something along the lines. As i write all this down i understand that this is not a healthy mindset. At the very least, it is a very hard place out there, hostile and dark. Whenever we try to turn it into a happy place, full of light, it is nothing short of a miracle. When we try to create a smile, for us or those we love, or even those we barely know, when we do something to improve ourselves, lives, or surroundings, even the little things, we manifest greatness.
So, i should stop focusing on what i do n't do and really pay attention in all my tiny victories. This week, i helped a lot of people through my work. I enjoyed many long walks. I cut off sugar. I bought some new clothes for me and a few baby essentials. I worked hard on my classes. I made for me and my family many healthy meals. I spent time with my mom. I connected with the Spirit. I talked and sung to my baby. I watched a movie with my husband.. We came up with a name for our baby. I gave a lot of love to my pets. I arranged my closet. And, why not, i found myself some time to relax and recharge.
I have to accept the fact that i deserve a slow day. Some way, somehow..
Blessings and love and happy full moon!
Keep out! Long rant
Greetings blogfolks! Yesterday was the first night of the full moon with two more remaining and i had a blast! I was working till 11 pm and when all my clients left i got to do some magick. Firstly, i made a rosemary pentagram and a lavender wreath that i left as offerings with a huge piece of apple cake at the crossroads. This is the way i thank the Goddess for my baby since the night of the conception. Well, the rosemary pentagram is what i usuially do but i was feeling a bit more crafty yesterday! Then i smudged my home with sage, as always deiseil beginning from the Eastern room and making a full cycle. At the same time i was saying my favourite cleansing spell. I usually do not do cleansings on the full moon, but the last few days a lot of people have entered my home all with their own set of problems and it was more than needed. And finally at the end i cast a prosperity spell, that i recently written and i absolutely love while burning some incense i made last month.
Baby girl and Esbat plans
Greetings blogfriends! Who are you all amazing people doing today? We are ecstatic. The doctor just told us that we are having a baby girl which is good because, i had already bought a bunch of cute pink stuff and we have been referring to the baby as a "she" for months now.
On a magical note the full moon is just around the corner and i personally can't wait. I want to cast a blessing on the house because there are a lot of stagnant energies(as always this time of the year). I have collected on a recent trip spring water from a beautiful frozen mountain and i am going to bless it with basil(I still have one surving in the living room) rosemary and hibiscus flowers(that are still blooming outside, which is weird because it is really cold). Basil for luck, rosemary for cleansing and hibiscus for love. I will charge it under the full moon and sprinkle it around the house and water my plants with it. Also a couple of spells need to be cast on those three magical days.
Also it is time to plant a few seeds for good luck. I have some seeds of evergreens and i can't wait to plant them because they correspond with health, stability, longevity and protection. Each seed in a separate small pot with a twig, a written wish on paper and a coloured string.
What are your plans for the upcoming Esbat?
Biotin issues, opinions needed....
Greetings to all of my wonderful blogfriends. Now that the word is out i can finally write here again. This is my place of truth, so keeping such a big secret from here made it impossible for me to blog. I want to tell you about a recent adventure i had that really scared the crap out of me!
The last couple of months i have developed seborrheic dermatitis on my face(especially around the nose, eye brows and forehead) and inner ears. I also had raw lips, really cracked especially at the edges which were swollen and painful. All these things are symptomatic with biotin deficiency very common in pregnancy(uncommon otherwise). If you read how this can affect a fetus(studies made on rats) you panick. So, of course, i called my obgyn, my very expensive, very well known obgyn, by the way! The midwife picked up, as always! She had never heard of biotin and told me to visit a dermatologist! At this point i have to mention it was two days before New Years so no one was working. I tried calling a really good doctor who happens to be my mom's client but she did n't pick up. And so the panicked pregnaqnt lady called the SOS doctors who make home visits. In my gut i knew before hand that this was a mistake. That the doctor would be an idiot. I cried and set up an appointment anyway. He came, he told me i had a seborrhoic dermatitis which i knew, that it had nothing to do with biotin deficiency(?!?),it was due to stress, and that my lips were cracked because of the saliva running through them during sleep!( What the fuck???!!) He took 100 euros, prescribed me with daktodor, and left!
Called the midwife again she said to take the ointment and that i did n't need anything else. I started cried again really hard(not while on the phone)!
I then called again my mom's client. She picked up, told me it was nothing to worry about, that i can take the ointment AND a biotin supplement and that it was really common in pregnancy!! I started crying again from relief this time. Called the midwife one more time and she sounded irritated that i was bothering her again. Keep in mind that in all these months i have never called them to ask for anything. Once i saw a drop of blood and because it did n't continue i told them at the scheduled appointment. She said she would have to ask the doctor and that she would call me back. This was around noon. She called me back at 21.00 o clock in the fricking evening to say that the doctor said it is not necessary to take a supplement but i should if it will make me feel better!! ?????What?????
My instincts have never failed me, i knew what was wrong with me and i needed the support of my doctor because i can not make any medical decisions by myself anymore. I felt really alone in all this and made me second guess my choice of obgyn.
Now bare in mind that i love you guys no matter what and if you feel like i was totally overreacting you are free to tell me so. I really want to hear someone else's perspective in all this, because i am obviously subjective and hormonal and this situation keeps bugging me. What 's on your minds?
Be blessed, be loved and be safe,
I have an announcement to make!
Greetings blogfriends! I have been gone for a while but i had a pretty good reason. The actual reason was that i was in an introvert mode but i will get back at that. A lot has changed in my life since i was last here. Most of the things i was doing have faced out of my life, i am not kickboxing anymore and i am barely singing. But the change is much deeper than that. Every New Year's Eve i make this set of goals that are near to impossible(or downright there) and i force myself to do them and if i fail to any of them i feel bad. This time i have n't even thought of any resolutions. All my wishes are the same, all my desires begin and end to the same place. I just want to have a healthy and happy baby. Yes, you guessed that right i am pregnant. I just entered my 5th month. I wanted to tell you right away, but there were people in my life i have n't told and i did n't want them to find out too soon. Many do n't know still. We broke the news to most, but we do not broadcast it. But, nontheless this is my place to share and grow and it was time.
We were blessed, because we did n't even try. It was just this one time of unprotected sex on the full moon of September 30th. We have agreed to start trying after December this way i would be able to graduate this year. But that night we were driven by the Moon, entranced even. It was magical. After it happened i went to the crossroads and thanked the Great Mother with a rosemary pentagramm for the blessing She has bestowed upon us and i filled my hair with jasmine. It was very late and i was alone in the streets just me, my dog and the silence. I came here and wrote a post but i could n't tell everything because i did n't want people in my life to know. Which seems weird but i am very cautious about energies. So, i wrote and left the most important part out.
I knew i was pregnant right away. My mom kept telling me for 2 weeks that i am crazy and it does n't happen that easily. I could n't wait to be officially late to take the test and 2 days before my period was supposed to happen i peed on the stick and it was positive. All this time i have been meditating, doing prenatal yoga and taking pregnacare vitamins.
Then i had a complication and i had to stop singing, moving and generally doing anything that did n't involve a couch. It was scary and combined with the constant morning sickness, i was pretty miserable. But then finally after a bunch of u/s's the detachment was gone and i could stop taking utrogestan so the nautia was gone and i could do things again. I am still trying to return to normal and do the best job i can to provide a good home for her(we still do n't know the gender but all the women in my family have girls..).
Most of the magical things i have been doing was for protection of my baby. Every full moon, for all the three days of it, i have been leaving the same offering on the same crossroad to the Moon Goddess, thanking Her and asking for Her blessing.
Although, it is the scariest time of my life, i have never been happier and everything has shifted inside me. All the things i used to obsess about, all the things that seemed to matter just ceased to exist in my mind. It seems extreme, but it just happened and i do n't feel bad about it. Maybe i am still in a trance.
Blessed be and love to all.

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'Nothing's changed' for Kevin Ollie, UConn — yet
HARTFORD >> Kevin Ollie insists nothing's really changed in his life in the six days since becoming the first head coach in 25 years to win a national championship in his first trip to the NCAA tournament.
"I have to walk my dog and pick up the poop, all that stuff," he said, with a smile. "Dogs don't really care. Nothing's really changed."
You'd have a hard time believing that after Sunday's dual national championship victory parade and rally in downtown Hartford. If it wasn't already apparent that Ollie is now the toast of the town, maybe all you had to know was that while Jim Calhoun was vacationing in Hilton Head, S.C., on Sunday, Ollie basically had some 10,000 people on the State Capitol lawn cheering for him to get a pay raise.
"He deserves it," Shabazz Napier said of the praise and adulation Ollie's been getting. "He's reaping the benefits of being the great coach that he is. He's a talented coach, he always believed and had faith in us."
PHOTOS: Slideshow from Sunday's parade in Hartford
BLOG: David Borges UConn men's basketball blog
Of course, that leads to speculation that Ollie might bolt for the NBA. While everything's in the rumor stages at this point, marquee teams like the Lakers and Knicks could be on the hunt for a new head coach very soon. Napier, for one, doesn't believe Ollie will depart for the NBA.
"He's not going anywhere," Napier said. "He loves this university. When you love this university with the passion he has, he's gonna stay here until they tell him he's got to leave."
Ollie essentially agreed.
"Nothing will shake me," he said. "I love this place. Like anything else, I evaluate it each and every year. I want the conditions right around my student-athletes. You just never know where the NCAA is going in years to come. I want to make sure the university is doing everything possible for our student-athletes to succeed. If I don't see that, maybe it's an opportunity for me to leave. But I'm going to evaluate that each and every year, and it's perfect right now. We're doing everything it takes for our student-athletes to get their grades and do certain things on the road and have a great experience at this university."
And about that pay raise? Both Ollie and athletic director Warde Manuel jokingly referred to it on the podium on Sunday.
"(Manuel) says I need a raise, and the church says, 'Amen!'" Ollie said to the crowd. "I'm just playing ... but you're right."
Afterwards, Ollie said to reporters, "We're going to sit down. Whatever it takes, I want to be here at the University of Connecticut. Hopefully, we can come up with a great solution that benefits not only me, but benefits the university going forward."
So that likely takes care of the national-champion head coach. But what about his players? Napier, of course, is a senior who will almost certainly be taken in the June NBA draft. But juniors DeAndre Daniels and Ryan Boatright have decisions to make. Though neither is a sure-fire draft pick (Daniels likely would be selected, Boatright not), they'll sit down with Ollie over the next few days, talk things over with their families and come to their respective decisions.
"I'm just going to give them information that I've received from general managers, and then they're going to have to make their own decisions," Ollie said. "I don't want to make any decisions for them. I want them to be committed, if they're gonna come back. They've got to have the right attitude. If they decide to go to the pros, they're gonna have to have the right attitude. I'm gonna give them information, and they're gonna have to make the decision that's best for their family. Not what's best for UConn. What's best for them and their family. And hopefully, they make the right decision and be committed to it. If you decide to go the NBA, you'd better be in the best shape of your life. If you decide to come back to UConn, you'd better be in the best shape of your life. I know they will."
Daniels elected not to talk to reporters after Sunday's parade and rally. Boatright, meanwhile, confirmed that he's got a tough decision to make. Asked if he pays attention to the chatter from NBA scouts and other sources that gets out there, he admitted, "You do a little bit. You take the good with the bad. Everybody ain't gonna believe in you or think you're a pro. So, you've just got to take the good with the bad and have firm belief in yourself, firm confidence."
He added that the idea of returning to UConn for his senior season and being "The Man," like Napier was this past season, could be attractive.
"It ain't even about being 'The Man,'" he added. "It's just getting to put on the UConn uniform again, just having another chance to do this again. These type of experiences drive you to want to do it again. This is something special. It felt good to be a part of this."


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Today we have a JP Lizzy Mocha Mint Tote up for grabs!
We love that this bag comes with matching accessories, and don't doubt that you will too. This fabulous bag is worth $98.
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California's $16 billion budget hole has garnered headlines, as has Gov. Jerry Brown's proposed fix, which includes tax hikes and budget cuts.
But from the boots-on-the-ground perspective of business relocation coach Joseph Vranich, in an interview with AdvisorOne, a further increase in taxes for the 48th ranked state in terms of tax burden (according to the Tax Foundation) will only exacerbate the problem.
"There's always a tax comparison with another state," says Vranich (left), whose Irvine, Calif.-based Spectrum Location Solutions serves clients from large corporations moving 1,000 employees to family-run companies moving 10 people. "Every client I've ever served has saved various taxes by moving out of the state."
Vranich has been tracking the numbers for years, and says he uses conservative public domain information that is beyond challenge but that really understates the problem. Officially, he says, 254 large companies left California last year, a rate five times higher than 2009, but he cites private economic modeling specialists that put the figure as high as 4,600 departures in 2010.
"My data is only the tip of the iceberg because there are so many companies that are [exiting] quietly," he says, adding that the trend appears to be accelerating this year. Vranich is unaware of a cross-state database, but believes California has the highest number of business exits, and that "New York and Illinois are probably tied for second place."
The top reasons prompting these exits are, in general, high taxes, excessive regulation and an environment of hostility to business.
"The No. 1 reason why a company leaves varies depending on whether they are in a profitable or unprofitable position," Vranich says. "If you are profitable, the No. 1 reason is high taxes. If you are unprofitable, the No. 1 reason is the regulatory burden," he says, noting that fees, fines and compliance costs are so significant that their elimination could be all that is needed to bring a company to profitability.
As for business hostility, Vranich cites as an example a wholesaler whom the City of Los Angeles invalidly reclassified as a retailer, assessing two years of back taxes that would cost him $200,000. When he showed up to a meeting to fight the unilateral decision, a Department of Finance employee greeted him with the words, "The enemy has arrived," eliciting the chuckles of his staff.
But the businessman was not amused. He had to fire two employees to pay the incorrect assessment while hiring a lawyer to restore the correct tax classification. While he "won" the case, the legal fees cost him in the six figures. "The city of L.A. is the worst city within the worst state" in terms of hostility to business, said Vranich, who advises businesses wanting to establish a footprint in California's large consumer market to consider business-friendlier nearby cities like Burbank.
The top destinations for exiting California businesses are Texas and Arizona, and the reasons are these states exhibit the opposite of California's negatives. "Taxes are lower, the regulatory environment is more gentle and government agencies more cooperative," Vranich says.
Other factors besides taxes, regulation and government hostility can play a determining role in business relocation decisions, he says. Lifestyle concerns, such as a preference for four seasons, have impelled some clients to choose Colorado, for example.
And for professional service firms such as financial advisors, lawyers and accountants, the cost of hiring employees tends to be the critical factor. "A software maker can save between 30 and 40% of the cost of an employee if he hires him outside the borders of the state of California," Vranich says, citing special rules that make software development costlier in California. "[Non-software] companies can save 20 to 30% in hiring outside of California," he says, adding that firms may want to keep their headquarters here but staff their back office outside of the state.
The business relocation consultant warns businesses exiting California to be careful about establishing their residency in their new state, citing very aggressive monitoring by California tax authorities.
"If it's a family-owned company, you can't just move the company out of California and reduce your tax liability," Vranich says. "With LLCs and S-corps, all the profits flow to the owner. You'll get the compliance savings and lower real estate taxes," he says. But you will also get a tax bill from California if your kids are still attending school in the state or if your phone bills or flight patterns demonstrate a pattern that the state's Franchise Tax Board regards as proof you live in California more than 50% of the time.


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Eric Salter Balfour (born April 24, 1977) is an American singer and actor of film and television. He is the lead singer of Born As Ghosts, formerly known as Fredalba. His best known roles include Milo Pressman on the action-thriller TV series 24 and Duke Crocker in the supernatural series Haven.
Balfour was born in Los Angeles, California, the son of Sharon, who works as a marriage and family counselor, and David Balfour, a chiropractor. He has a younger sister, Tori. He has Russian, French, and Native American ancestry.
Balfour appeared on the kids TV show Kids Incorporated for one season in 1991. In 1997, he appeared in the pilot for Buffy the Vampire Slayer, as one of the show's very first victims, Jesse McNally. He appeared as a regular cast member in three short-lived TV shows. NBC's Hawaii was cancelled after seven episodes in 2004, UPN's Sex, Love & Secrets was cancelled after four episodes. Also in 2005, Balfour starred in the sexually explicit drama Lie with Me opposite Lauren Lee Smith. In March 2006, Balfour debuted as Brian Peluso on producer Dick Wolf's short-lived NBC crime drama, Conviction, which lasted one season. Balfour was also a guest star on the hit show Dawson's Creek, in the ninth episode of the first season.


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WindowsXP Theme (release 1)
some features...
- Collapsable Elements
(Start menu, Forum window, Shout Box, treelink)
- Custom menus
- Desktop Feature. (Put any amount of HTML behind main forum window, e.g your logo or icons like your xp-desktop)
- Icon view of boards, childboards and messages
- Popup when there are new personal messages
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Download for 1.1 rc1
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I like it,true qualities of xp
Looks good, nice job. But what about the copyright, are we allowed to use those graphics elsewhere than Wİndows XP?
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Happy New Year!
Whether you are off to a party with freinds
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July 15, 2009
News Release 09-053
Inv. Nos. 701-TA-457 (Final) and 731-TA-1153 (Final)
Contact: Peg O'Laughlin, 202-205-1819
The United States International Trade Commission (USITC or Commission) today determined that a U.S. industry is materially injured or threatened with material injury by reason of imports of certain tow-behind lawn groomers from China that the U.S. Department of Commerce has determined are subsidized and sold in the United States at less than fair value.
All six Commissioners voted in the affirmative.
As a result of the Commission's affirmative determinations, the Department of Commerce will issue countervailing and antidumping duty orders on imports of these products from China.
The Commission's public report Certain Tow-Behind Lawn Groomers from China (Investigation Nos. 701-TA-457 and 731-TA-1153 (Final), USITC Publication 4090, July 2009) will contain the views of the Commission and information developed during the investigations.
Copies may be obtained after August 17, 2009, by emailing email@example.com, calling 202-205-2000, or by writing the Office of the Secretary, 500 E Street SW, Washington, DC 20436. Requests may also be made by fax to 202-205-2104.
Certain Tow-Behind Lawn Groomers and Parts Thereof from China
Investigation Nos. 701-TA-457 and 731-TA-1153 (Final)
Product Description: Non-motorized tow-behind lawn groomers (TBLGs) are a group of four distinct pieces of lawn grooming equipment, whereby each piece incorporates a hitch and is intended to be towed behind a lawn tractor, all terrain vehicle, utility type vehicle, riding lawn mower, or similar vehicle. The four specific types of TBLGs covered in these investigations are tow-behind lawn aerators, dethatchers, spreaders, and sweepers. Aerators perforate the lawn with small holes to facilitate the penetration of oxygen, water, and fertilizer to the roots for healthier grass. Dethatchers rake and dislodge debris compacted on the lawn surface to further promote penetration of oxygen, water, and fertilizer. Spreaders distribute granular material such as grass seed or fertilizer evenly across the lawn. Sweepers brush debris, such as grass clippings, leaves, and twigs, off the lawn surface and into a catcher bag for disposal. TBLGs are generally intended for personal use on residential lawn areas of a size that will effectively accommodate the apparatus (towing vehicle and piece of equipment) as opposed to manually powered groomers, which are intended for smaller lawn areas, and motorized groomers, which tend to be of a size and weight designed for high volume, commercial use.
Status of Proceedings: 1. Type of investigations: Final antidumping and countervailing duty. 2. Petitioner: Agri-Fab, Inc., Sullivan, IL. 3. Investigations instituted by the USITC: June 24, 2008. 4. Hearing: June 16, 2009. 5. USITC vote: July 15, 2009. 6. USITC notification to the U.S. Department of Commerce: July 27, 2009. U.S. Industry: 1. Number of producers in 2008: Five. 2. Location of producers' plants: California, Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio. 3. Employment of production and related workers in 2008: (1) 4. Apparent U.S. consumption in 2008: (1) 5. Ratio of the value of total U.S. imports to total U.S. consumption in 2008: (1) U.S. Imports: 1. From the subject countries during 2008: (1) 2. From other countries during 2008: (1) 3. Leading source during 2008: China.
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President Barack Obama added more of northern California's beautiful coastline this week to a national monument, ensuring it will be preserved and protected. Much of the credit goes to photographer Bob Wick.
Credit: Bob Wick/Bureau of Land Management
Wick, a wilderness specialist with the U.S. Bureau of Land
Management, moonlights as an amateur photographer. His powerful images
propelled a grassroots campaign to protect the rugged stretch of Mendocino County
coastline in California.
Wick's photos do more than describe the new addition to the
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With the Facebook initial public offering (IPO) now official, industry and financial analysts say that a huge influx of cash could enable the social networking company to topple Google from its dominant position in the online world.
Facebook had been expected to file its IPO papers with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission this week, and it did just that late Wednesday afternoon. Analysts and potential investors were eagerly awaiting what is one of the largest IPOs in recent years.
With an expected valuation of $100 billion, financial analysts say the IPO is worth about $5 billion. That's a big potential war chest for a company that has been fighting for social networking users and advertising dollars with the largest Internet company on Earth -- Google.
Given the popularity of its search engine, along with services and products like Google Maps, Android, and Chrome, Google obviously is no slouch: It has 32,000 employees around the world and $37.86 billion in annual revenue. That's $1.166 million per employee in revenue.
But Facebook, with just 3000 employees, pulls in $3.8 billion in revenue; that's $1.8 million in revenue per employee.
"Facebook has 800 million users," noted Dan Olds, an analyst with The Gabriel Consulting Group. "How many companies have 800 million anything? The thing that's interesting is that Facebook is profitable and solidly profitable. And an IPO is a huge step for any company, but it's the validation for Facebook, their business and their social networking model."
Facebook and Google are increasingly in each other's wheel house.
Just this past year, Google launched Google+, its own social network and a new direct competitor to Facebook. (Just last week it made Google+ more available to teens, another move to broaden its appeal.) And Google CEO Larry Page has said he plans to integrate Google+ social features into the company's wide range of services and products.
With a lot of new cash, Facebook could make a lot of moves. Olds wonders whether Facebook would try to buy Yahoo, which has been struggling, or even Twitter.
And both Olds and Scott Sweet, a senior managing partner with IPO Boutique, said Facebook could use the money to hire more employees and acquire other Internet companies. Theey also pointed out that Facebook could use the cash to find partners and set up operations in China, which could dramatically increase an already immense user base.
It would take some time -- and Facebook would have to successfully pull off some big moves -- but it could one day dominate Google, according to Sweet. "I do believe that anything is possible with Facebook," he added.
Unseating Google would be no easy feat, though.
First off, according to Olds, the companies are not substitutes for each other. Google is the basis for most searches. Facebook is the basis for most social connections.
And while a profitable IPO would make Facebook stronger, Google is still substantially larger.
"It gives Facebook a ... war chest," said Olds. "Google, though, has $45 billion in cash and short-term investments. That's a really big war chest. Even with this influx of cash, Facebook still can't play in Google's league in terms of cash."
Mark Siegel, a managing director with Menlo Ventures LLC, said Google came along to surpass Microsoft as the biggest tech company. And now Facebook is poised to take the lead from Google.
"Facebook is potentially the platform company for the next 10 years," said Siegel. "I absolutely think this is a scary event for Google. Will it make [Facebook] dominant over Google? Well, Facebook already does dominate Google in terms of social networking. This will enable Facebook to compete with Google in a lot of areas."
Could Facebook push past Google?
"Well, this certainly enables Facebook to move in that direction," said Siegel.
This story, "Will Facebook's IPO Help it Beat Google?" was originally published by Computerworld.


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Media about Women on Waves
Our direction action methods to end unsafe abortion often attract the attention of the media. Here, you can read the media coverage that we have received.
All Press Releases
This is an overview of all the press releases about our campaigns; the launch of new hotlines, ships campaigns, legal battles, and other events. Read more »
Media Abortion Robot Belfast 2018
Operated from Amsterdam, the abortion robot successfully delivered abortion pills in Belfast, Northern Ireland. After that, the abortion bus toured Northern Ireland offering free ultrasounds and medical counsel. The campaign highlighted the different legal reality of women in Northern Ireland in… Read more »
Media Coverage Mexico 2017
VIDEO FOOTAGE AJ+ - Al Jazeera Democracy Now El financiero Bloomsberg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fx_MPoOjxm8 MSN https://www.msn.com/es-co/video/viral/el-%E2%80%9Cbarco-del-aborto%E2%80%9D-ofrece-servicios-en-m%C3%A9xico/vp-BBA8QiV https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gw77DQL5AHE… Read more »
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Video report Dutch abortion boat told to leave Guatemala, EFE La crónica de la llegada del "barco del aborto" a Guatemala , Televisiete Guatemala ¿Escándalo por el barco del aborto que llegó a Guatemala? , TN23 Protestan en Guatemala por llegada de "Barco abortivo" , CB24… Read more »
Media Abortion Drone Ireland 2016
Footage of the abortion drone flight: A+J https://www.facebook.com/ajplusenglish/videos/749705158504327/ Irish Times: http://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/drone-delivers-abortion-pills-to-northern-ireland-1.2693583 Huffington Post Quebec: http://quebec.huffingtonpost.ca/2016/06/21… Read more »
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Media abortion ship in Portugal 2004
The best way to get an impression of the discussion in Portuguese society is to look at the overwhealming press coverage. From august 23 on, we have collected more than 700 newspaper articles. Next to the continuous TV coverage on all channels public and commercial. It shows how our trip has helped… Read more »
Media coverage Poland 2003
For more then 2 weeks the Women on Waves ship was the main topic in all newspapers, television and radio. Abortion was discussed openly and in depth in the media, on the streets, in homes, bars and parliament. During our stay we witnessed an enormous change in the way the discussion about abortion… Read more »
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More than 200 Irish and international journalists attend the press conference. The ship Aurora is front page news all over the world. BBC Worldnews, CNN, ABC, NBC and numerous other networks and news agencies cover this groundbreaking event. Positive press coverage appears in several Irish… Read more »
Media launch safe abortion hotline Venezuela 2011
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Media launch safe abortion hotline Argentina 2009
Links Press Watch in YouTube!: www.youtube.com/watch?v=deo07ORRj2Q www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6kbeRyWk60 Listen to Interviews and Radio Spots here: Frequencia Zero FM www.frecuenciazero.com.ar/sitio/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=206%3Aaborto-seguro&catid=3%3Adestacados& Read more »
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Links Press Radio Netherlands - article and online interview (in Spanish) www.rnw.nl/espanol/article/perú-línea-telefónica-sobre-abortos Peru 21 - peru21.pe/noticia/487378/crean-linea-informar-como-abortar Peru.com (with video) - www.peru.com/noticias/lima20100528/99217/Polemica-genera-lanzamiento Read more »
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Weirotter, Franz Edmund (Innsbruck 1733 – Vienna 1771). Wide River Landscape. In front boat with lowered square-sail as well as sprit sail and dinghy, both with several figurines. On the water further sailing and other boats. On the left town silhouette. Etching. Inscribed: 4 / F. E. Weirotter fecit. 3⅝ × 8½ in (9.1 × 21.6 cm).
Nagler 16, 4. – Sheet 4 of the 6-sheet set of the "Six différantes vues d'après nature", dedicated to the painter, miniaturist, draughtsman, and etcher Jean Antoine de Peters (1725 Cologne 1795) active in Paris. Since a several years' stay in Brussels Peters, on friendly terms with Wille, Grand-Maître de l'Ordre Teutonique, and ennobled about 1763 by Louis XV, was court painter of Charles Alexander de Lorraine et de Bar, governor of the Low Countries, and – since 1768/69 – of Christian VII of Denmark. – On sturdy laid paper. – Especially charming Dutch scenery.
With Weirotter the landscape etching experienced a fine culmination and in 1766 Schmutzer, then director of the Vienna Academy, recommended Maria Theresa the appointment to the academy of the still young artist to take over the landscape subject there. According to Schmutzer's report for the empress the artist in his mid-thirties made
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which were bought readily in England , the Netherlands , and Germany
4-5000 . annually ".
The suggestion was accepted immediately by the Privy Council, because Weirotter otherwise "already has a call to Saxony in hands". But at his much too early death "his complete artistic bequest found no market in Vienna; it left to Paris. Connoisseurs and friends of his sheets
had to pay dearly for impressions of individual sheets …
As etcher Weirotter ranks with the most eminent artists … "
(ADB XLI [1896], 520 f.),
having "developed a truly astonishing activity on both the fields assigned to him (in Vienna), the landscape drawing and the etching,
and given impetuses influencing still today "
(Thieme-Becker XXXV [1942], 309, quoting Carl von Lützow).
His whole ability is reflected by the works after own invention as here. His admiration with the contemporaries follows from letters by and to Wille as the German Pope of Art residing in Paris. So Winckelmann on occasion of Weirotter's stay in Rome "Mister Weirotter has made me … a present of own works,
which I reckon among the best of the kind
… This young artist will be a credit to his native country". And in glance backward at the preceded Paris period of training with Wille (1759/63) this to Hagedorn in Dresden "He has become so ready in drawing that his drawings look far more effortless than his paintings". And as collector the Leipsic banker Gottfried Winckler "I have no doubt, that Mr.
Weirotter will deliver to us much beautiful after the Italian journey ".
Quoted after Décultot et al. as editors, Wille Correspondence, Tübingen 1999, pp. 314, 316, 318, each from 1764.
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Zimmer to keep a lower profile at Rays' spring camp
Tampa Bay senior baseball advisor plans to commute a few times per week
TAMPA, Fla. -- Rays senior baseball advisor Don Zimmer says he is "as ready as I can get" for his 65th season in the game.
But Zimmer won't be quite as visible at Tampa Bay's Spring Training this year. A day before his 82nd birthday, Zimmer said he won't be renting an apartment in Port Charlotte, Fla., but rather making a few trips per week from his condo in Seminole, Fla.
"I can go down once in a while and come back the same day," said Zimmer, making an appearance Wednesday night on the red carpet at a party for Derek Jeter's annual charity event at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino.
Zimmer explained it would be too difficult on him and his wife, Jean, to move all of his home dialysis equipment south for Spring Training. He also said his leg issues require him to be "very careful" walking up and down stairs, and the tubes in his stomach may prevent him from putting on a Rays uniform -- No. 65, for his 65th year in baseball.
"I've got tubes all in me. But everything's all right," Zimmer said. "I can't complain. Nobody wants to hear it, anyhow. No complaining."
Zimmer has served in his current role with the Rays since 2004, working as a coach during Spring Training and pregame workouts at Tropicana Field.


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Gloria Allred: I Smell a Meg Whitman Rat
Gloria Allred says she's been sandbagged by Meg Whitman -- in a crass attempt to win the election in spite of the undocumented housekeeper scandal.
Gloria and her client, Nicky Diaz Santillan, Whitman's former housekeeper, were supposed to appear today before the California Labor Commission ... to formally protest Whitman's refusal to pay Santillan for work she did.
But the hearing was mysteriously continued until November 17 ... two weeks after the election. A rep from the state agency tells TMZ ... the hearing was continued because Gloria wanted to amend the legal papers she filed with the Labor Commission.
But Gloria is calling BS, claiming she never asked for a continuance and believes this is a power play to get Meg elected Governor. Gloria says, "If this is how she treats her Latina housekeeper, it does not bode well for how she may treat working people if heaven forbid she is elected."
As for Meg, her camp tells us, "Someone needs to tell Gloria Allred that her political circus has left town."
Gloria's parting shot ... "This is not EBay and we are not buying the lies she is selling."
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By Rabbi Yerachmiel Milstein
The only clue that something extraordinary was happening on my recent flight to Israel was a half hour delay in boarding. Otherwise, everything seemed to be quite unremarkable as we buckled up, raised our fold-down trays and brought our chair backs to their full upright position prior to take off.
The captain made his usual remarks about course, speed, altitude and unexpected turbulence that can happen any time. Within minutes, roaring engines peeled us away from the ground and we sliced through low hanging, cotton-candy clouds behind which was hiding a magnificently luminescent, seemingly enlarged, near full moon. Drinks were brought around, dinner was served and all the 777's hundreds of video screens sprang to life with the usual mix of TV sitcom reruns, slightly stale movies and kid fare.
When the seat belt indicator dimmed just after dinner, I eagerly alighted from my seat and took a spin around the cabin to encourage the blood in my legs to reacquaint itself with the rest of my body and to meet and rub shoulders with new and hopefully a few familiar fellow passengers.
As I approached the rear of the aircraft I could make out a hospital-blue curtain which seemed to hover above the last 5 rows of the center seats in the shape of a bathtub. Upon closer examination I could see all type of hospital gear attached to hoses, pumps and wires adjacent to what was a flying intensive care unit (ICU), complete with EKG monitor, feeding tubes and intravenous drip equipment.
My first instinct was to satisfy my curiosity and try to steal a look at the patient inside, but I suddenly recalled a talk given by my rabbi in which he underscored the enormous importance the Torah places upon respecting every human's right to privacy — especially the ill — and walked on past the impromptu ICU and into the aft galley of the plane.
Swinging around the rear of the aircraft, I re-entered the passenger cabin and my eyes instinctively darted again towards the blue curtain. I nearly bumped right into the man attending to the patient, someone I recognized as an old acquaintance from my native Brooklyn. Wearing a kipah on his head, a stethoscope around his neck and rubber gloves on his hands, he was occupied drawing some fluid into a syringe.
"Shalom aleichem," I said heartily. He looked up and remembered me as well.
"Aleichem shalom," he responded warmly. Casting a glance towards the makeshift ICU, I asked him if he was allowed to tell me anything regarding what this was all about.
"She had major heart surgery in the United States," he replied, and we're bringing her back to Israel to be with her family.
Tens of questions instantly began forming in my mind. Why was she being moved while in such a precarious state of health? How did they get the airline to agree to transport someone so ill? How much did it cost to arrange for this mini flying hospital?
As if reading my mind, my friend said, "Don't ask me anything I'm not supposed to answer. A lot of people had to pull strings for all this to happen and if word got out, future missions like this could suffer."
As I looked deeply into his face I could plainly see rings of exhaustion around his eyes. Reading my mind again he told me of the many hours of careful preparation that took place before the patient could be brought on board the plane. He had been awake many hours before dawn to prepare for our late afternoon flight, and I obviously can't sleep during the flight, he said sweeping his hand toward the EKG and respiration monitor.
"How long do you get to stay in Israel?" I asked, figuring he'd take advantage of the 'mission' to get at least a few days of R&R in sunny Israel.
"About nine hours," he smiled.
I remembered that he worked as an Emergency Medical Technician for a major ambulance company in New York and so I casually asked him if the firm paid extra compensation for this extraordinarily difficult assignment.
"Actually," he said sheepishly, "they don't pay for this. You have to volunteer if you want to do it." I started feeling very small next to this truly generous man.
"Well then, it's nice of them to at least give you the day off to allow you to do something as amazing as this."
"They didn't. It's coming out of my vacation time." Generous didn't begin to describe this guy.
"You're kidding aren't you?" I incredulously asked.
"It's no big deal. A few weeks ago, I had requested to take today off anyway."
"But how could you have known a few weeks ago that this patient would need transporting precisely today?"
He chuckled, "Who knew? Tonight my wife and I are celebrating our 25th wedding anniversary. Looking down at the floor of the plane he paused for just a few seconds and said, We had plans to get away for the day."
"So what happened to your plans?"
"When the opportunity arose to transport this patient, I mentioned it to my wife and she thought my being here would make a terrific anniversary gift for the two of us."
When our flight began its steep descent into Tel Aviv the stewardess' voice rang out over the public address system and thanked everyone for flying. She then apologized for the delay in take off due to our very special passenger in the rear of the aircraft.
She couldn't have known just how very special, indeed.
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Wednesday, January 23, 2013
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WILLIAM A. COLLINS: The Public School Business
As the latest round of data culled from tests taken by schoolchildren around the world showed yet again, kids in Finland, South Korea, and other countries are outscoring our kids. Overall, we're ranked No. 17.
Our schoolchildren perform worse overall than they should because of one simple reason: economic inequality. Our rich country has too many poor kids whose educations suffer from their poor health and poor diet. Those disadvantaged students who lack access to strong early childhood education programs like Head Start are already behind when they get to kindergarten.
This isn't rocket science but it's tough to cure. Families in this fix need reliable health care, adequate nutrition, access to free or inexpensive preschools, decent housing, and small-sized classes for their kids. All those things cost big money and tight belts are in style these days.
Not to worry. Americans are nothing if not shrewd, especially our business leaders. They're big boosters of the latest educational fad. Instead of doing something to end poverty or mitigate its impact on our kids, we're supposed to just blame teachers for the academic shortcomings of poor children.
To make it easier to blame teachers for circumstances beyond their control, our public schools now subject kids to an endlessly expanding battery of tests. When a bunch of students who fare poorly all have the same teacher, her job is on the line.
Remember George W. Bush? While the Republican Party has struggled mightily to erase him from the American voter's consciousness, his mark on education is hard to miss, thanks to the deep-reaching tentacles of his No Child Left Behind law.
That cynical system is still making teachers fume, dividing parents, and diverting funding from key educational priorities.
Of course, it's good for some folks. The standardized testing business is booming. And there's a whole new corporate education niche that includes the privately run charter schools that now educate two million American kids.
Billed as a way to expand parental choice and administrative autonomy, charters also siphon money out of the public school system. Their explosive growth is a bit baffling, though.
Typically, charters get established on the basis of promises that they're absolutely necessary because test scores are abysmally low. Then, once they're up and running, their big-money boosters implore everyone to ignore any test scores that don't improve, along with any increases in segregation, dropout rates, and teacher burnout.
The debate over charters and the plight of our public schools has moved from PTA meetings to corporate board rooms. It's all the rage for Bill and Melinda Gates, Sam Walton's heirs, and other like-minded billionaires.
But how could teachers be the cause of our kids' overall mediocre academic achievement when rich American students are already among the world's highest achievers? No real education emergency is hindering their academic vitality, including in states where teachers are free to organize real unions with teeth.
Kids at schools with affluent student bodies outscore schools serving impoverished children on those international tests, Valerie Strauss recently pointed out in her Answer Sheet blog on The Washington Post's website. "That is true on all standardized tests. And that continues to be the real story in U.S. education."
Yes, millions of children with fewer advantages do need a better education than they're getting. There are only three clear but hard solutions to that problem: more economic equality, ending the racial and class segregation of our increasingly diverse public school students, and creating more parity in the funding enjoyed by all school systems, regardless of the affluence of their student bodies.
Charters and high-stakes testing can't possibly solve the real problems haunting our nation's educational system.
Emily Schwartz Greco is the managing editor of OtherWords, a non-profit national editorial service run by the Institute for Policy Studies. OtherWords columnist William A. Collins is a former state representative and a former mayor of Norwalk, Connecticut. OtherWords.org


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A wealthy company director and two managers have been charged over a mill explosion which killed four people.
George Boden, director of Wood Treatment Ltd, which ran Bosley Mill in Cheshire, has been charged with gross negligence manslaughter following the explosion and devastating fire at the mill in July 2015.
The firm has been charged as a corporate body with corporate manslaughter and both the firm and Boden have been charged with health and safety offences, along with two other managers.
Workers Dorothy Bailey, 62, Derek Barks (known as William), 51, Derek Moore, 62, and Jason Shingler, 38, were all killed in the disaster, with others left injured after the blast at the wood flour mill which made wood chip products.
Jenny Hopkins, head of the Crown Prosecution Service special crime and counter terrorism division, said: "Following explosions at a wood flour mill in Bosley on Friday July 17 2015 which led to the death of four people and injuries to a number of others, the Crown Prosecution Service has authorised charges.
"Cheshire Police has been authorised by the CPS to charge Wood Treatment Limited with corporate manslaughter and George Boden, one of its directors, with gross negligence manslaughter.
"The company, Mr Boden and two others who were managers for the company have also been charged with health and safety offences."
Boden and the two managers, Philip Smith and Peter Shingler, will appear at Stockport Magistrates' Court on December 2.
The explosion, on Friday, July 17, 2015 resulted in a 1,000C inferno raging for days before the bodies of the victims were recovered from the wreckage of the devastated mill buildings.
The mill dominated the village of Bosley in rural Cheshire, with many locals working at the plant, which made wood products in a process producing wood flour, which is airborne and highly-combustible particles of wood.
It had been used as a flour mill since 1927, producing woodchip products commonly sold in pet shops and other retailers.
The manufacture involved pulverising wood into very fine or sawdust particles, which can be used to make a variety of products including wood chips, wood and plastic composite materials and fillers.
It was the main employer in the village, which has a population of around 400, with almost everyone knowing someone affected by the disaster.
An initial report of a fire at the premises at about 9.10am on the day of the disaster was followed by two loud explosions – which some witnesses likened to "an earthquake" – and then massive plumes of flames were seen up to 70 metres high.
It took rescuers several days to recover all the bodies of those killed and the fire service remained at the site for a month afterwards.
A disaster fund raised £240,000 to help the families of the dead and injured in the wake of the disaster.
Derek Moore, 62, from Stoke-on-Trent left wife Lynne and was a stepfather to Mark and brother to Linda, Ann and Darren.
Dorothy Bailey, 62, was a mother-of-three and herself one of seven children, with five brothers and one sister.
Her family said she was "a loving mother to her sons Christopher, Matthew and Edward and a doting grandmother to her grandchildren".
She had lived in Bosley most of her life but only began working at the factory a short time before her death.
Jason Shingler, 38, was brought up in nearby North Rode and had a large extended family, who described him as a "loving son" to parents John and Angela and "kind-hearted and someone who would do anything for anyone".
Father-of-one William Barks, 51, from Leek, Staffordshire, had been married for 31 "happy" years to wife Debbie.
His family said after the disaster: "William enjoys building and restoring motorbikes and is a loving family man who lives a simple and happy life."
He had worked at the mill for 12 years.
In a memorial service after the blast, the Rev Pam Butler, Methodist minister for Bosley, said: "It is like there is a wound and this wound has been continually opened as the revelations come out of one body after the next.
"It's ripped the community apart. This is really painful to get through, it's harrowing."
The mill owner, George Boden, 64, runs a number of family-run businesses and lives in the village of Mellor, near Stockport.
A prolonged investigation was carried out by Cheshire Police and the Health and Safety Executive.
The full charges are that Wood Treatment Ltd is accused of four offences of corporate manslaughter relating to the deaths of Dorothy Bailey, Derek Barks, Derek Moore and Jason Shingler, and one offence of failing to ensure the health, safety and welfare of its employees in breach the Health and Safety Act at Work Act 1974.
George Boden is charged with four offences of manslaughter by gross negligence, relating to the deaths of Dorothy Bailey, Derek Barks, Derek Moore and Jason Shingler, and one offence under the Health and Safety Act at Work Act 1974.
Smith and Shingler are both charged with an offence under the Health and Safety Act at Work Act.


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Tempe, AZ – Medial cannabis and marijuana suppliers often struggle with managing and tracking their product lifecycle, generating reports and accepting credit and debit cards. A single, integrated PoS system has now been launched by Go Green Processing with free cash depository processing with vault. The on-premise vault also doubles as an ATM, and the vault itself can handle 20,000 notes at one time.
The merchant POS system is designed with an eye on giving patients and customers complete freedom to interact with the medical marijuana industry just as they do with other businesses. The on-premise vault also offers great convenience to the merchant and is serviced by an armored car that is always available. All funds can be transferred to the bank account in real time after deposit.
The Go Green Processing PoS system is meant exclusively for the cannabis industry, and offers a seamless, multi-device interface that can be used on the go. Sellers of medical cannabis and marijuana can now do with just one point of sale system that can accept credit and debit cards as well as cash, and manage the entire product lifecycle from purchase and inventory to sales. The Go Green Processing system comes with every feature that cannabis sellers want to see on their digital platform, and this includes accepting cards, depositing cash in-house, seed-to-sale integration, and managing funds via online banking, wire transfers, or electronic checking. Also included is a special Go Green Debit Card.
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If stand-up comedians in the 80s taught us one thing, it's that men never ask for directions. If female rappers in the new millennium have taught us anything, it's that when it comes to giving women direction, they're just as scared. As frustrating as airline food, the gender-bias that once plagued the oft-misogenistic genre of rap music has spent the past decade morphing into some mutant subversive institutionalized sexism. What was once a glass ceiling has become a glass cage with female rappers going from being seen as novelty acts to just being novelties. An overcorrection-caused car accident of post-Rawkus guilt, the present result is ladies' night becoming the one evening Hip-Hop goes to bed early.
For all the heat the likes of Lil Kim and Foxy Brown have caught in recent years, it's seldom mentioned that they were both parts of some pretty incredible songs. Such revisionist history, downplaying the importance of the actual music in favor of an unspoken morality, has been the catalyst for the lessened role of female rappers today. 15 years ago the dominant female voice in Hip-Hop was an overtly sexual one. While it did clear a path for women in the industry and could be deconstructed as a feminist equal-rights endeavor as women were freely able to express sexuality as much as men were, it suffered a backlash in the late-90s and that backlash is why there's so few good female rappers today. Sexuality suddenly became a negative and women who even slightly differed from this path (involuntarily lead by Missy Elliot) became seen as "positive" without really expressing any positivity, just an absence of a "negative influence."
More than anything, this forced female rappers to (more than any other group) have their "message" become most important and the actual act of rapping/making good rap songs took a backseat. Suddenly any female who wasn't rhyming about sexual conquests and reached mere adequacy over a beat became heralded as a "Great FEMALE Rapper." It's a double standard that has been detrimental to this day. Look at a tremendous talent like Jean Grae who balanced doing disturbingly well crafted social issue songs like "Taco Day" alongside female-masturbation tales like "Hands On Experience" and was both critically respected as well as commercially viable and versatile enough to be the one to carve the dope modern female rapper niche in the marketplace herself and tragically got pigeonholed by an audience and industry that wanted her to just be a female Talib Kweli. It's a
man's bland world.
To better maintain estrogen levels, rappers need to think globally and act locally. I've spent time at many Hip-Hop open mics around the country and have noticed a disturbing trend amongst the reactions to female participants. If a female rapper is completely awful, she's met with a polite golf clap and the night moves on. If she comes back at the next installment and is just *slightly* better, she's then showered with praise as if she's finally got *it*. This hinders the creative process and artistic progress as the female rapper in question now believes she has perfected her craft. This results in her output's quality plateauing and then opens the door for her to put on any gaggle of female friends of equal or lesser ability to be embraced in the same way. Now the prospects of ulterior motives from male observers come into play and the circle-of-dishonestly spins again.
There was an article that came out two summers ago about "why are there no female rappers at Soundset" or any number of (their words) "supposedly progressive underground hip-hop festivals" and the answer straight up is because THEY'RE NOT GOOD ENOUGH. The reason they're NOT good enough is because they've been told they were good enough for a long while now and nobody wants to tell them different. I've long believed that most underground rappers whether male or female are just a few honest friends away from making some incredible music, but while most criticism of males is written off as "haters," females tend to have others preemptively writing off these critiques with an ingrained belief that "female rappers come under more fire" (they don't) and now even the most novice of Gyno-American* steps to the mic with an unwarranted feeling of entitlement.
The best female rappers of all time (such as MC Lyte and Rah Digga, both of which I'm a long time devotee) are the ones who came up in the hardest of all-male environments and crafted their personalities to be more than either "the girl who has sex" or "the girl who doesn't have sex because she's too busy reading books or something." It's staggering how many she-rappers right now think bragging about themselves having a flat-chest or any semblance of sexual standards somehow makes them more Hip-Hop than thou. All this does is further enforce stereotypes by suggesting in order to be an exception to the rule one has to be the complete opposite. It's a self-defeating mindset that attempts to craft an identity based on who someone isn't rather than who they are. That being said, there are a growing number of female rappers now in NYC, New Orleans, Minneapolis etc. who seem to know the difference between "a great female rapper" and "a great rapper" and are striving for the latter. It's a trend I hope continues to the point where its no longer a trend and a rapper's gender becomes less of a definition and more of a dynamic.
I'd like to take a sec to say this jam here is dedicated to some of my favorites –
So until next time…Let's Agree to Agree!
*A term I'm using for readers who believe the fairer sex is more than a "man" or "male" with two extra letters.


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Can These Programs Tame Your Inbox?
Two new programs are designed to help clean up your inbox. Walt Mossberg joins digits to discuss. Photo: Mailstrom.
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Recently, I was talking to a mom who laments the fact that her daughter is hoping to a promotion which seems elusive. She is a regular reader of this blog and somehow instinct tells her that there is something wrong with where her daughter sleeps. You see by reading this blog she instinctively understood the basic principle or guidelines of Feng Shui and she somewhat knows that what hinders her daughter's career growth or progress is because she sleeps at the lower deck of the double deck or double decker bed.
Sleeping in double deck bed is a Feng Shui blunder, if you sleep at the lower deck it hinders growth, and when you sleep at the upper deck it signifies lack of support does making things harder. If this is unavoidable it is better to sleep at the upper deck but the best option is really just to avoid sleeping on a double deck bed whether you sleep at the lower or upper deck.
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