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Supercedes: The use of High Tech Equipment in a chiropractic office (dated 5-22-91)
The Massachusetts Board of Registration of Chiropractors ("Board") has today voted to adopt the following Policy Guidelines. These policy guidelines are intended as a recommended protocol for the profession to follow. The guidelines set forth below do not have the force or effect of law, as would a Massachusetts General Law or a Board rule or regulation. However, the Board utilizes these and other guidelines as an internal management tool in formulating decisions that relate to issues of chiropractic practice.
The Massachusetts Board of Registration of Chiropractors, after reviewing the most recent scientific evidence, including but not limited to information supplied by equipment manufacturers and independent researchers, has adopted the following guidelines regarding the use of advanced technology in the practice of chiropractic.
- For purposes of these policy guidelines, the term "advanced technology" includes, but is not necessarily limited to, the following equipment and/or procedures: Paraspinal Electromyography (Paraspinal EMG), Electronic Muscle Testing, Sonography, Thermography, Videofluoroscopy, Plethesmography, and Electronic X-Ray Analysis.
- All advanced technology used in a chiropractic office should be certified as meeting the currently applicable federal standards for such equipment. The appropriate federal safety certificates for each such piece of equipment should be conspicuously displayed on the equipment itself or elsewhere in the office.
- The protocols for the proper use of any type of advanced technology should be based upon appropriate, generally-accepted professional standards concerning the purpose and intended use of such technology, and the manufacturer's instructions concerning its operation. In determining the appropriate, generally-accepted professional standards concerning the purpose and/or intended use of a particular type of advanced technology, the Board recognizes chiropractic colleges accredited by the Council on Chiropractic Education (CCE), and independent research organization(s) recognized or approved by the Foundation for Chiropractic Education and Research (FCER) or a similar organization, as acceptable sources for such standards. The Board would not consider the manufacturer or any entity that serves within the manufacturer's distribution network as an acceptable source for such protocols.
- A physical examination of the patient, utilizing standard diagnostic and testing procedures, should always be performed before ordering the use of any advanced technology. Standard testing procedures may include, but are not necessarily limited to, palpation; neurological, orthopedic, vascular, and/or musculoskeletal studies or tests; radiographic imaging; and inspection of all available diagnostic studies that the patient had previously undertaken. In all circumstances, appropriate standard examination procedures should be exhausted before advanced technology is used, and the results of the standard examination procedures should indicate that the use of additional advanced technology is both appropriate and clinically necessary for proper diagnosis and/or treatment of the patient.
- If the clinical information that could be ultimately obtained from the use of advanced technology would be the same as what could be typically determined from a standard testing procedure(s), then the use of the advanced technology would be considered clinically unnecessary by the Board. Advanced technology should be used only if it will contribute significant clinical information which is both reasonably necessary for proper diagnosis and/or treatment of the patient and not reasonably available through use of standard diagnostic or testing procedures.
- If advanced technology is used as the exclusive means of documenting a particular diagnosis or evaluation, the chiropractor's treatment records should demonstrate that the same advanced technology was used for all patients with an identical diagnosis or evaluation, regardless of payment source, and that all such patients were charged a similar fee for it. If this cannot be demonstrated, then the chiropractic physician may, at his or her option, utilize the advanced technology, but should not charge for it.
- The use of advanced technology for the purpose of performing uniform patient screenings, pursuing or defending against an impending legal action or insurance claim, or simply for the doctor's own edification would be considered clinically unnecessary by the Board. Nevertheless, in such instances, advanced technology may be used and the patient may be charged for the cost of this service if utilization of that advanced technology does not pose a material risk to the patient and there is documentation in the patient's treatment record that the patient has specifically requested the service.
- The use of a computer drawing or analysis of x-ray films does not typically give a diagnostic or pathological finding which would not already be observable to the viewing doctor. Therefore, the clinical information that would be obtained from such computer drawings or analyses are presumed by the Board to be of questionable value in the diagnosis or treatment of the patient. Since the doctor can readily obtain the same information by carefully viewing and analyzing the x-ray film directly, any advantage afforded by computer drawings or analyses would be considered by the Board to have been performed solely for the doctor's own benefit and therefore would be regarded as not clinically necessary to the patient. The doctor may use such drawings or analyses, but the patient should not be made liable for the cost of this additional service unless there is documentation in the treatment record that this service has been specifically requested by the patient.
- The use of advanced technologies, such as Paraspinal Electromyography (paraspinal EMG), Electronic Muscle Testing, Thermography, Sonography, Videofluoroscopy, Plethesmography and others not specified, would generally be presumed to be clinically unnecessary if: (a) such procedures are being used during the initial trial phase of a condition, and (b) the relevant information available from these tests could typically be determined through standard testing procedure(s). Furthermore, the use of advanced technology of any type would be considered clinically unnecessary if the ultimate potential benefit of using the advanced technology would have no significant effect on the overall outcome for the patient when compared to the outcome obtained without utilization of the advanced technology. This is not meant to imply that these procedures are always invalid in a chiropractic setting, but rather that the Board believes that use of these procedures is of limited potential benefit to many patients in many situations.
The Board reserves the right to modify this policy and/or promulgate a regulation(s) as new scientific evidence is made available. This policy guideline is not exclusively limited to the particular advanced technologies that have been specifically named in this guideline.


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- 12 quail breasts
- Salt and pepper
- 3 TBSP olive oil
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- 4 medium green tomatoes, sliced thinly
- 1 TBSP salt
- 1 clove garlic
- 3 thin slices of fresh ginger
- ½ Cup white wine vinegar
- ½ tsp mustard seed
- 2 cloves
Sambal Mayonnaise:
- 1-3 TBSP sambal or hot sauce
- ¼ Cup mayonnaise
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A Larkspur native was charged with insider trading Thursday on allegations he made nearly $200,000 by buying Marvel Entertainment options before the comics publisher was acquired by the Walt Disney Co. in 2009, federal authorities said.
Toby Scammell, 26, secretly exploited his girlfriend, who worked at Disney and had knowledge of the pending Marvel acquisition, and bought $5,465 in Marvel options a few weeks before the deal, the Securities and Exchange Commission said.
Scammell funded half the stake by taking money from his brother's account, the SEC said. Scammell obtained trading authority over the account when his brother, an Army soldier, was deployed to Iraq.
"Marvel's stock price jumped more than 25 percent after the Aug. 31, 2009, public announcement, and Scammell then sold all of his Marvel options," the SEC said. "He didn't reveal his trades or profits to his brother or his girlfriend."
The SEC said Scammell turned a 3,000 percent profit in less than a month.
According to the SEC complaint, Scammell lived with his girlfriend in Los Angeles for a period prior to the Marvel/Disney deal. At the time, his girlfriend was serving an "externship" in Disney's corporate strategy department.
The girlfriend told Scammell she was working on a major deal, but the SEC complaint is unclear on how Scammell allegedly determined that Marvel was the target of the acquisition. Authorities noted that he had access to his girlfriend's Blackberry.
Scammell's lawyer, Miles Ehrlich, said the SEC's case is "riddled with distortions" and "stitched together ... on nothing more than a hunch."
"Here's the reality that the SEC chose not to include in its complaint: Toby testified under oath for four days, and he patiently explained the reasons why he made the $5500 of trades in question," Ehrlich said in a statement. "His reasons and his actions were all corroborated by the contemporaneous documentary and time-stamped computer evidence in this case."
"What the SEC has done here is wrong," he added. "And it's truly a sad day to see how the government can damage the reputation and future of an innocent young person without having real evidence to back up their charges."
The SEC said the investigation is continuing. The complaint was filed in U.S. District Court for the Central District of California.
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The moving experience of a lifetime
by Scott Burns
September 28, 2013
Source: Dallas Morning News
Pamela Villarreal looks up from her laptop. She checks that the correct Web page is projected on a large screen and nods OK.
I'm visiting with Villarreal, a senior fellow at the National Center for Policy Analysis in Dallas, to check out a new tool on its website - a free calculator that will estimate the lifetime value of moving from one state to another.
Yes, you read that right: the lifetime value. Not just whether you can afford a move today, but the long-term impact on how much more (or less) you'll be able to spend each year and leave to heirs.
I ask Villarreal to test the move people are making every day: from California to Texas. We use as our example a 40-year-old worker who's single and earns $70,000. Angela has $70,000 in retirement accounts and $70,000 in taxable savings. She rents in California at $1,500 a month and intends to rent in Texas at the same amount. Villarreal presses the "calculate" button.
The results appear in a flash. Angela will gain $1,615 a year in spendable income by moving to Texas. If she saves it, she adds $133,593 to her estate.
That's nice, but not exactly earth-shattering.
"What if she moves so she can become a homeowner?" I ask. Villarreal has Angela take $40,000 from her taxable savings for the down payment on a $200,000 condo. It has a $160,000 mortgage with an $810 monthly payment. She presses calculate again.
We gasp. "Maybe we should call her Lady Gaga!" Villarreal says.
Moving to Texas to become a homeowner will add $12,692 a year in spendable cash. It will do this every year for the rest of Angela's life. If she saves the additional spending power and maintains her current spending level, the move will increase her estate by $1,049,571, all in dollars of today's purchasing power.
The big benefit doesn't come from escaping the California income tax. Virtually all of the benefit comes from moving from a state where many middle-income people can't afford a home to a state where they can.
How long do you think it would take a $70,000-a-year worker to gain after-tax spending power of $12,692 a year in this economy?
I'd like to say it's simple, but it isn't. The engine behind this calculator isn't driven by the relative price of avocados and movie tickets. Its primary driver is tax differences. A single worker earning $70,000 a year gets hit with a tough income tax in California. The federal income tax rate is pretty tough, too.
When Angela moves to Texas, she sheds the California income tax. More important, she gets a pile of itemized deductions for homeownership that reduce her federal income tax. She also gets to build equity.
I ask Villarreal if she has found other moves that are as dramatic.
"Well," she says, "you can get figures in the millions pretty easily when you use high-income people as examples. It probably says a lot about why LeBron James went to low-tax Florida to join the Miami Heat instead of NBA teams in high-tax states like New York, Illinois or California."
The calculators on Bankrate.com and CNNMoney.com are based on data from the Council for Community and Economic Research.
The calculator behind the NCPA's tool is different. It's based on ESPlanner software, the same software that professor Laurence J. Kotlikoff and I used as the basis for our book, Spend 'Til the End. Using a sophisticated calculating engine, it calculates the lifetime discretionary income ramifications of decisions about location, shelter, savings and taxes.
The main difference between the NCPA tool and the full financial planning software is that the NCPA calculator makes assumptions to reduce the items you have to enter to get a result. The calculator is at whynotmove.org.
Scott Burns is a syndicated columnist and a principal of the Plano-based investment firm AssetBuilder Inc. Email questions to scott@scott burns.com.


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Newcomers welcome at Kiwanis club breakfast meeting
The Kiwanis Club of Seminole Breakfast welcomes newcomers. The group meets for breakfast on Tuesdays at the Seminole Family Restaurant. Meetings feature speakers from business, government and nonprofit groups.
Speakers for upcoming meetings include Jason Ohman, senior consumer protection investigator with Pinellas County Consumer Services, who will discuss a foreclosure prevention initiative on Sept. 9.
On Sept. 16, former state legislator Leslie Waters will speak about her recent experiences working in Asia.
When: 7:15 a.m. Tuesdays.
Where: Seminole Family Restaurant, 6864 Seminole Blvd.
Panama Canal Museum offers speakers bureau
Representatives from the Panama Canal Museum are available to speak at community and educational functions in Pinellas County.
The speaker's bureau is funded by a Pinellas County Cultural Development grant to offer community outreach and education programs.
Twenty local nonprofit groups will be able to take advantage of the 45-minute programs about the history of the Panama Canal, its future, and the people and places of Panama.
The free lectures are available from September through January.
The Panama Canal Museum was founded in 1998 to document, interpret and articulate the role played by the United States in the history of Panama, with emphasis on the construction, operation, maintenance and defense of the Panama Canal.
For information about booking a speaker, please contact Kalika Novoa, 394-9338, or e-mail director @panamacanalmuseum.org.
The museum is at 7985 113th St., Suite 100, in Seminole. Hours are 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Mondays through Saturdays. The museum is wheelchair accessible.
Women's golf league plays at Tides course
The Tides Women's Golf League plays Tuesday mornings at the Tides Golf Course. New members to the league are welcome.
Call Carol at 579-4167 for more information or stop by the Tides Golf Course, 11832 66th Ave.
Chamber event focuses on business leads
The Seminole chamber sponsors several regular events and activities including a business leads group that meets Wednesday mornings at 7:30 a.m. at the St. Petersburg College, Seminole Campus, TLC Building, Room 108. For more information, call the chamber office at 392-3245 or visit www.seminolechamber.net.
Library student board prepares for new year
The Seminole Community Library at the SPC Seminole Campus offers fall programs for teens including the Library Youth Advisory Board for students in grades six through 12.
The board meets the first and third Mondays of the month at 7 p.m. The first meeting of the new school year is set for Sept. 15.
Board members get to help choose materials for the young adult collection and earn volunteer credits.
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All Seminole Recreation classes and activities are offered at the Seminole Recreation Center, 9100 113th St.
Call the Recreation Center at 391-8345 for more information on dates and times, fees and membership requirements.
Freaky Fridays begin
The kids night out program for elementary-age students, "Freaky Friday," is offered the first Friday of each month.
The program runs from 7 to 11 p.m. and participants will be served a hot dog, chips and a drink.
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What they said: Brandt SnedekerJanuary 05, 2013
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Q. A little bit of hurry‑up and wait, a lot of waiting around, but sounds like they made the decision to push it to tomorrow.
BRANDT SNEDEKER: Yeah, they did do the right thing. It's just a little too windy out there for us to play. If the course wasn't so exposed, it wouldn't be a problem but you have a lot of greens exposed to 40‑mile‑an‑hour wind gusts.
It's tough to make that call. They did the right thing. We had to try to play today if we wanted to try to get 72 holes in. Unfortunately a short day, but hopefully get out tomorrow and get some golf.
Q. Monday is going to be a race to the finish; does that change how you think about it?
BRANDT SNEDEKER: A little bit. You definitely have to be a little more aggressive and think about it beforehand and also it's going to be the guy that kind of get hot tomorrow is going to be a big advantage, because you have 36 holes out here tomorrow where if you get on a roll, you can make a lot of birdies and hopefully get things going the right direction. So tomorrow is going to be a really big day.
Q. How much does the wind tomorrow, 15, 25, how much does that help you, hurt you, affect you?
BRANDT SNEDEKER: Just going to affect the way you play the golf course a little bit. The direction can change‑‑ I doubt it will, but it can. And you try to get out there and just take advantage of the holes that are downwind, kind of get by the holes that are into the wind and really plot your course that way.


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Study of the Safety, Tolerability, and Pharmacokinetics of GAP-134 Administered Intravenously
This study has been completed.
Wyeth is now a wholly owned subsidiary of Pfizer
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First received: October 30, 2008
Last updated: July 16, 2009
Last verified: July 2009
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This study will evaluate the safety, tolerability, and pharmacokinetics (PK) of ascending doses of GAP 134 administered as 6-day continuous IV infusions to healthy subjects.
|Healthy Subjects
|Drug: GAP-134 Drug: placebo
|Phase 1
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Allocation: Randomized
Intervention Model: Single Group Assignment
Masking: Double
Primary Purpose: Treatment
|Official Title:
|An Ascending Dose Study of the Safety, Tolerability, and Pharmacokinetics of GAP-134 Administered Intravenously as 6-Day Continuous Infusions to Healthy Subjects
Further study details as provided by Wyeth is now a wholly owned subsidiary of Pfizer:
Primary Outcome Measures:
- Safety as determined by reported adverse events, laboratory test results, and ECGs [ Time Frame: 3 weeks ]
Secondary Outcome Measures:
- Pharmacokinetic parameters [ Time Frame: 9 days ]
|Study Start Date:
|November 2008
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|February 2009
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|February 2009 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
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|Experimental: GAP-134
|Drug: GAP-134
|Placebo Comparator: placebo
|Drug: placebo
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years to 50 Years (Adult)
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|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
- Men or women of non childbearing potential (WONCBP) aged 18 to 50 years inclusive at screening.
- Body mass index (BMI) in the range of 18.0 to 30.0 kg/m2 and body weight ≥50 kg.
- Healthy as determined by the investigator on the basis of medical history, physical examination, clinical laboratory test results, vital sign measurements, and 12-lead electrocardiogram (ECG).
- Serum creatinine level must be less than 1.30 mg/dL. (Normal range: 0.44 to 1.24 mg/dL.)
- Nonsmoker or smoker of fewer than 10 cigarettes per day as determined by history. Must be able to abstain from smoking during the inpatient stay.
- Presence or history of any disorder that may prevent the successful completion of the study.
- Any significant cardiovascular, hepatic, renal, respiratory, gastrointestinal, endocrine, immunologic, dermatologic, hematologic, neurologic, or psychiatric disease.
- Any surgical or medical condition that may interfere with the distribution, metabolism, or excretion of the test article.
- Acute disease state (eg, nausea, vomiting, fever, or diarrhea) within 7 days before study day 1.
- Any history of clinically important cardiac arrhythmias.
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- History of alcoholism within 1 year before study day 1.
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General Surgery Clinic, Umraniye Training and Research Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey
Hepatogastroenterology 59:59-61. 2012..The goal of this study was to investigate the effect of cholecystectomy on alkaline reflux, histopathological changes in the gastric mucosa and H. pylori colonization...
- Active gas aspiration to reduce pain after laparoscopic cholecystectomyIbrahim Atak
Department of General Surgery, Umraniye Teaching and Research Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey
Surg Laparosc Endosc Percutan Tech 21:98-100. 2011..To investigate to what effect active subdiaphragmatic gas aspiration reduces pain after a laparoscopic cholecystectomy...
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Department of General Surgery, School of Medicine, Istanbul Medeniyet University, Istanbul, Turkey
Int J Med Robot 10:257-62. 2014..This literature review focuses on the potential benefits and eventual limitations of robotic surgery with respect to the traditional minimally invasive laparoscopic surgical technique for gastric cancer...
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Department of General Surgery, Umraniye Training and Research Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey
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Saturday, October 20, 2007
Yes, thanks.
In case you're just catching up or didn't know or forgot or whatever, when I started dating Ish/Pete, he was separated. Several wonderful and yet terrifying months later, his status changed to going through a divorce. And then, a mere year and nine months after we met, he was officially divorced. Piece of cake! Just like that! La la laaaaaa!
< / sarcasm >
So but here we are now. On the one hand, he's only really been single for a little over four months.
On the other hand, the hand that I happen to be waving at the moment, we've been together for over two years.
I have written comparatively little on our relationship because I wasn't supposed to, back when he was separated and then getting divorced. But now that we're more or less a "normal" couple, I don't even know where to start. I spent so much time and energy blocking him/us out as a possible blog topic that it's like I don't know HOW to write about him/us without sounding stupid or boring.
The plain truth is that our relationship has been overall great, and fun, and really, really funny.
But it has also been scary and sad and hard. Because right, it is a relationship.
One day last April, without warning, I found myself writing about the hardest part. I wrote this post -- about feeling on the outside, when we were so very unsure, when we were not going to Europe, when we were maybe not going anyplace.
The gist, if you don't want to read my heartbreak directly (and I wouldn't blame you), is that Ish is the kind of guy who can and would take the right girl to Paris. And I wrote about how I wish I could be that kind of girl. And how I'm afraid I'm just not built that way.
That post exposes my deepest fears and greatest self-doubts. And it is brutally honest and true.
But I think it's probably time to say, here in writing, that it's not my only truth.
As much as I have this horrible dread, this deep-down fear that I am never going to be "good enough," well. I have this other, deep-down belief, too.
The one where I am fan-fucking-tastic.
SO WHAT if I spill nearly anything I ever sip because you know what else? I am not about my clothes. I am smart and interesting and funny, and no pair of designer shoes are going to make me smarter or more interesting or more funny. Yeah, I know I need to lose weight, but have you seen me dance? And what good is having a fantastic body if you still insist on lights-out-only sex? What's that all about? Lights on, covers down, let's rock this casbah, baby!
I am a mess, sure, but I clean up okay. Sometimes I have my feeling down, feeling fat days and I don't want to wear anything but pants with elastic waistbands and t-shirts and no make-up. But that doesn't mean I don't also have my cleavage-exposing, curve-hugging outfit days where I blow out my hair and rock the smoky eyes and seductive glances.
I have baggage and I have strength. I have sadness and loss, and I have hope and an unshakable belief in love, good, and a glass-half-full tomorrow. I have some pretty good talents, some pretty good stories, and I almost always have something to say. I am vibrant and present and every day, I show up for my life.
And so I have my doubts, of course, but I also have my fierce conviction that if he doesn't see it, doesn't get it, doesn't want it, then we're both better off moving on. No matter who that "he" is.
Right now, that "he" is Ish. And for all his path-wending, he does, totally, get it.
"I really do love you," he will say.
And sometimes I think that's amazing and hard to believe. But most of the time I just say, only half-kidding, "You'd be pretty dumb not to."
We leave for Paris in two weeks.
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See! You are that girl-just like someday someone will bring me to the drive-in.ReplyDelete
- Superfantastic3:05 PM, October 20, 2007
Good for you! Paris is so amazing. I didn't get to go with someone I loved, but I did get to eat lots of pain au chocolats, which is pretty much as close as you can get without an actual man.ReplyDelete
I know exactly what you were saying in that other post because I am there right now with the guy I'm dating. I have moments of absolute terror, waiting for the day he'll realize that he's far too good for me. Of course, I realize in my rational moments that I have a lot of good qualities and he's lucky to have me too, but it doesn't stop me from looking at him from time to time and thinking "What are YOU doing with ME?" That damn other shoe, just dangling there.
So, thanks for being all inspirational-like.
- Anonymous3:33 PM, October 20, 2007
Kristy. I have been reading your blog for over a year now, but I have been too shy to say anything until now (I apologize if that's weird, I don't know proper blog etiquette, am I supposed to introduce myself? Hi.) I don't remember how I came across your blog but I have been hooked from day one. Today's post was so beautiful, it made me cry. Thank you, I needed that.ReplyDelete
I think that this post just proves that you're a real, true human being. That's what makes each of us interesting and worth it. I have to say, I'm a new reader of yours but I already think that you're fan-fucking-tastic!ReplyDelete
Have a great time in Paris!
that is awesome. i had my paris moment when j & i went to belize last thanksgiving. we had already been married awhile and while it probably will make no sense to anyone, it was my paris. we had a fabulous time and i will never forget it.ReplyDelete
but i do hope to go visit museums in paris someday. hope you have a fabulous time. enjoy.
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- Anonymous6:47 PM, October 20, 2007
YES! I have known that you are, in fact, fan-FUCKING-tastic all along. And I am so happy he gets it. And I am going to check this blog for 2 weeks and smile at no-new-updates, oh yeah, CUZ YOU'RE IN PARIS. I couldn't be happier for one of my real friends than I am for you, one of my many e-friends!ReplyDelete
I've been reading you forever. This made me practically tear up. Yay for Paris. Yay for you guys.ReplyDelete
- Anonymous6:02 AM, October 21, 2007
What an awesome post! I think pretty much everyone has days when they feel awful, surely? I know I do.ReplyDelete
Enjoy Paris.
I just started reading your blog (linked from Redacted) and this post is so ass-kicking, I am totally in love with you (I'm a straight woman, so you know how I mean). If I didn't live in the east of Canada, I'd soooo want to hang out and be your friend.ReplyDelete
Thanks for making my day.
Yep, this totally made my day, too. I mean, seriously, you've got one of those Love Story love stories, you know? The capitalized ones. The ones that HAVE to be written about.ReplyDelete
And yes, that's pretty freakin' fantastic.
Fan-fucking-tastic post, Kristy! But then, you are a fan-fucking-tastic writer! :)ReplyDelete
You and Ish have a GREAT time in Paris!
Thank you for the kind words. After I wrote this I thought about taking it down because I feel embarrassed and almost ashamed of being so brazen in writing!ReplyDelete
I'm bracing for the mean commenter, you know?
That said...
LL - How romantic! I believe it will happen, and be awesome.
Superfantastic - Exactly. Sometimes I wonder if it's only worth it this way, though? I mean, this is the most exciting relationship I've ever been in, that's for sure.
Anon 3:33 - thank you for de-lurking. Welcome to the "party." :) I'm glad you said hi, and genuinely touched. *hug*
tracy - thanks! That's so nice of you. And uh, nice to meet you.
becky - I don't care if it doesn't make sense, I think that we can be bowled over by romance at any time in a relationship, and that definitely shouldn't stop with marriage. Congrats to you. :)
Casey - that's so sweet I don't even know what to say. Ish/Pete even got a little choked up reading your comment.
sue - thanks for reading and thanks for hanging in and thanks for the encouragement. It means so much.
Kyls - thank you, I'm so glad it came across as good and not "obnoxious." And oh, those days are many...we just hold out for the better ones.
rebecca - that's awesome! Especially because Dan rocks and I often feel I'm not worthy. But you know, we could totally be friends and then talk about Dan and Brooke on the phone like they're Brangelina. Would Brooke and Dan be just "Bran"? Or um, "Drooke"? We need to work on this.
elise - Gosh, I sure hope so. So far, so good. Thanks for the encouragement. :)
DML - Well, thank you for saying so. You're not so bad yourself, there, missy. And I hope we do have an *awesome* time. Whee!
Also, btw? I hope it's okay if in the next week or so I write about my neuroticism related to this trip.ReplyDelete
Like, getting over having to buy clothes at THIS SIZE for the trip, and being the fat American among all the waify French fashionistas? Yeah?
I am so glad I stumbled upon your blog. Wonderful writing. Heartstrings tugged.ReplyDelete
Ack! Congratulations a million times over! You are fucking-fan-tastic and I could tell since the first time I read you about two years ago. I have only been to Paris once and for about two hours for a layover. Some French woman who had brought her itty bitty poodle mix on the plane got off with us. Going through customs the dog began humping her leg very enthusiastically, to which she said to our group of giggling teenagers: See, everyone loves returning back to Paris!ReplyDelete
Love you and nothing but happy thoughts your way!
Hurray for both of you. :) Look forward to some illustrations after your trip. ;)ReplyDelete
And one of the many reasons I'm glad I stumbled on your blog is because every now and then someone leaves a comment that I like so I click on their link and find more fabulous funny folk to read. Hello Franki!
Honey, you rock. You soo deserve...you know....
Lovin' you from the innernets...
Your ghostcyberselfadoptedmom.....
yay, you! for everything you just said.ReplyDelete
Yay! I am so glad you are the Paris girl. I hope you enjoy it, and don't miss Versailles!ReplyDelete
LOVE this. It's true, you are fan-fucking-tastic. It's so easy to forget that, and isn't that crazy? Me, I'm still trying to get a grip on that for myself. But I'm glad YOU've got it, and have fun in Paris!ReplyDelete
Amen sister! I have both of those kinds of days and after being divorced a year (after going through a divorce for 6 months and being separated for 6 months before that) am waiting for the guy who thinks I'm worth Paris. He may never show up, but that doesn't mean I'm not worth it! Thanks for the post!ReplyDelete
Just came across your blog, am loving it. Have a great time!
so exciting - have fun.ReplyDelete
If you elope we'll send you gifts.
By mild coincidence, I have been trying to convince another Internet friend that it is confidence that actually makes a woman sexy. This more confident self of you comes as absolutely no surprise to me. While your neuroticism is cute and funny and what propels She Walks, your sexy confidence, the part that lets you put it out there for all to see, makes it so compelling. It's is the counterpoint to your self-deprecating melody.
For this blog to be as great as it is, the confident part of you has to exist.
Thank God it does ;)
You made me go Awwwww!ReplyDelete
I'm horribly envious .... I love Paris like I lived there in a former life. Isn't going to happen in this one *sigh*
Have an awesome time. Take a filthy lot of photos and post them on your blog and let us all writhe in agony looking at them, ok?
YAY KIKI!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!ReplyDelete
After 3 years in my current relationship, my boyfriend is bringing me to South Africa to meet his family. For a month. In December. I am the only woman he has ever brought.
I am that girl. And I totally get it : )
I think you are brilliant and that you deserve Paris!ReplyDelete
(btw, I live in Paris and would be more than happy to provide addresses and must sees if you like)
- Anonymous4:48 AM, October 22, 2007
Yup. Enough guilt thrown at the poor guy and blogged about to the whole world, and he'd finally have not much choice. It could have been so much more romantic to wait until it was HIS idea to take you somewhere that HE wanted to.ReplyDelete
Flame away. It's my opinion.
I'm so impressed, I have no idea what to write! You are incredible!ReplyDelete
Ahhhh forget all that bullshit of feeling like a fat American...you're not fat, you're beautiful and someone knows it and loves all your little "details" (by that I mean the unfavorables). My fiance will pay extra love and attention to my "details" which I'm not so found of. It's taken me 4 years to get over my "details" but I don't mind them so much thanks to him. I know that if he had the money, he would totally take me to Paris! So jealous! I can't wait to hear your stories. Oh and BTW... I'm Jewel! Thank you for your writing, I really appreciate you sharing your life.ReplyDelete
That made my heart melt. :)ReplyDelete
Enjoy Paris, the two of you deserve it. Can't wait for the pictures!
Bon-Freaking-Voyage. Very cool.ReplyDelete
- Anonymous8:41 AM, October 22, 2007
this put tears in my eyes...the best kind of tears...the happy kind.ReplyDelete
Have a wonderful time.
All the best
Bravo. I'm a new reader to your blog but you have an incredible writing style and an relatability (I think I just made that word up).ReplyDelete
in short. you are awsome. :)
anon 4:48 - I'm not going to flame, I see your point. Were it not my blog (well, and my life), I would probably feel the same way.ReplyDelete
But there's always more to the story, and the chronology as it may come across here isn't quite right.
We -- and I do mean "we," not me cajoling -- had already decided to go to Paris by the time I wrote that piece last April. It was only because the issue/s had been resolved that I was able to put it into perspective and write about it.
I have not written anything about our relationship that we haven't privately discussed and resolved...for the very reasons you outline. I don't ever want to use this blog as my personal passive-aggressive machine.
That's also why I never write about us. I have TONS of angst, fears, concerns, hopes -- all the trials and tribulations that come from being in a relationship. But I can't/won't/don't write about those unresolved feelings here because it wouldn't be fair (or useful). If I can't talk about it with him, if I don't feel like I'm in a good place about it with him, then it doesn't get posted here.
We've had our European reservations for months, I just didn't know how to bring it up earlier.
Hear, Hear, Kristy!ReplyDelete
Although you share so much of yourself with us through your blog, it is still YOUR LIFE, and there are things you will always keep private.
I LOVELOVELOVE your blog, and I appreciate the parts of your life you are willing to share.
< / lurk >ReplyDelete
Everything that K puts on her blog that involves me, we have discussed. There is no formal process, but by the time it's on the blog, it's been processed. Sometimes I see posts pre-publication, but most of the time, I only see them after they are online. On very rare occasions, I've asked K to change or remove something, which she has done without hesitation.
So: we're going to Paris. I was not guilted into it. It's something we've been discussing for along time, and plans have been in the works for months.
I'm looking forward to it!
< lurk >
I had tears in my eyes by time I got to We leave for Paris in two weeks.ReplyDelete
I think you most both be fan-fucking-tastic.
Paris will be beautiful for you, Kristy. Not because of the time of year or season, per say, but because you're going with someone you love and you deserve this trip. I hope you and Ish have a fabulous time. And I'm so happy for you! Yay!ReplyDelete
Have a wonderful and safe trip, drink lots of wine (cheaper than water there, from what I've heard), and we'll be expecting some great pictures and posts when you get back!
I've been with you since your single, pre-blog, Best-of CL days (we even emailed, once upon a time), and have been quietly following the ins and outs of your life without commentary.ReplyDelete
Right now, reading about your man and your trip, I feel like a proud parent. You deserve a good relationship - you deserve to be taken to Paris, and I'm happy to read that you are getting everything that you deserve.
Have a fantastic trip!
Your words made me smile.. have a fun trip!!ReplyDelete
omg omg omg omg...ReplyDelete
Yes, I've been lurking here for far too long. Kinda creepy when you think about it but all these commenters, wow! I'm shy and you're popular and yikes. But yeah! This had to be commented upon. I'm SO happy for you. I hope you guys have a fantabulous time.
- firstname.lastname@example.com:05 PM, October 22, 2007
I used to comment a lot but my own life has been in the way recently. I just HAD to comment today.
I am SO Incredibly Happy for you! I too had tears in my eyes because without having to reread your Paris post I remembered it and how much it made my heart ache for you. I'm so glad that you are the girl and that you and Ish got to this point months before you posted it. I may not "know" you but I've always felt a kinship with you, as many of your IIFs probably feel. You will take a little piece of each of us with you in your heart to Paris.
And what an amazing post, btw!
- Anonymous3:22 AM, October 23, 2007
Hi K,ReplyDelete
I've been silently reading your blog for a while now, and this is my first comment. Today's post hit home for me...and I just wanted to say MERCI BEAUCOUP for your wonderful writing and your "unshakable belief in love, good, and a glass-half-full tomorrow"...it's INSPIRING. :)
And YAY for Paris. I wish you (and Ish) all the very best...kick-@ss in Paris!!!! :)
-a hawaiian girl in india
- hellohahanarf6:17 AM, October 23, 2007
"I really do love you," he will say. And sometimes I think that's amazing and hard to believe. But most of the time I just say, only half-kidding, "You'd be pretty dumb not to."ReplyDelete
this was a wonderful post, k. well done! i love that you are insecure and confident all rolled into one. you are wonderful!
i'm thrilled for both of you and your paris getaway. looking forward to photos and drawings. stay safe!
I remember the Paris post - I cried at work. Now I read this and got teary - congrats! Have a wonderful time in Paris!ReplyDelete
I'm so happy for you. I was really scared right up until the end that you were going to say you broke up. I just ended a four year, live-in relationship with a wonderful man... who also thinks I am wonderful, because beneath all that wonderfulness, we're just not right for each other. It is the hardest thing I've ever done, but undoubtedly the most "right" thing.ReplyDelete
HAVE FUN. I love Paris. Go do the Musee D'orsay. And the Rodin Museum. That's my fave. :-)
I really enjoyed this post because I can relate totally...my pretty wonderful boyfriend was also "separated" at the time that we met. It was just going to be fun, no strings attached...and here we are three years later. It's nice to know I'm not alone! Yes, he's only been divorced for a year and a half, but we've been a team for way longer than that. It's a hard balance to find.ReplyDelete
- Anonymous1:58 PM, October 23, 2007
I've only been reading your blog for a few months, but there is something about you so real that I adore. I too come from a fractured past. Our family while perfect looking on the outside was full of drama on the inside. I also went through relationships that were not healthy in my younger days. I dated a man for multiple years only to find out he lived a complete double life. I wised up and we broke it off. I didn't date anyone for over a year because I was so devestated and thought no one could love me. (Pity party of one... that was me) Then almost 4 years ago I met a man online on a dating site... we met in SF (we didn't live here at the time) spent the day together it was fantastic. We kept in touch but lived long distance - a year in a half ago we reconnected when he moved to SF and I was living in Sacramento and started dating, now we are engaged and living in SF. For us it was multiple things... Timing being the most crucial. The second was trying to get over all the insecurities from past relationships and family issues and realize there really are GOOD GUYS out there. We all deserve happiness, and love and to be loved it's just finding the mate who gets you and who you get. I believe everything in life happens for a reason good or bad... and I'm happy for you that you found the Good!! :) YAY! I love your blog and your Paris Post reminded me of myself when I first started dating my now fiance. What will be will be - enjoy the ride!ReplyDelete
Jenn in SF
I only recently started reading your website -- it was when Lisa sent the BlogHer CEs that link to the post you did about going to the gym with a personal trainer (HILARIOUS, by the way!).ReplyDelete
I wanted to comment on this one, though, because I'm currently in a similar situation. I'm seeing a guy who's separated (except mine is already going through the divorce), and I can't talk about him on my website because of his "status." I kind of get the same feeling you do; that when I'm finally able to talk about him, it's going to feel weird because I'm so used to NOT talking about him. It's good to know that other people have gone through the same experience. :)
"I have baggage and I have strength. I have sadness and loss, and I have hope and an unshakable belief in love, good, and a glass-half-full tomorrow. I have some pretty good talents, some pretty good stories, and I almost always have something to say. I am vibrant and present and every day, I show up for my life."ReplyDelete
simply. beautiful. and oh so well put.
enjoy your time in paris, my dear, you two deserve to have a wonderful time.
xo, bb
- Anonymous8:24 PM, October 24, 2007
You GO, girl! And enjoy every minute of it!ReplyDelete
ME TOO!!!ReplyDelete
'nuff said.
Well, or Amen or something like that.
And ... thanks.
Good luck with Ish!
I justread your old post about paris in april and im so glad you are going now. Have fun!!ReplyDelete
Woo! Kiki and Ish in Paris :)ReplyDelete
Glad things are going so well, and that you are feeling so very good about yourself.
My boy's divorce became final this week and with my other hand I wave that we've been together like 10 months. But I still fear that he will wake up one day and wonder why he is with me, even though I like to think myself confident most the time. You give me hope though.
You help me keep the hope alive, that one day I will be The Paris GirlReplyDelete
Yay! I have just finished reading every single post you have ever written after finding my way here via Whoorl. And I started to cry when I read, "We leave for Paris in two weeks." I love your blog, you have inspired me to write a blog, and I will continue to read.ReplyDelete
Thanks for all the laughs and tears!


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Who's left? Plenty more, but one must note funny guy Seth MacFarlane, who continues to prove that he and fame make for good bedfellows. This was MacFarlane's third round as roastmaster. Great joke: "How do you get fired from Two and a Half Men? Do they haul you in and say, 'Sorry, you don't suck enough'?"
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An online acquaintance recently posted a link on Facebook to an article Myths And Facts On U.S.-Israel Diplomatic Row. In it, the anonymous author seeks to state for the record what the myths and facts are regarding the recent diplomatic tension between Israel and the US. I responded that I think that it is laughable how this purported "fact check" gets the facts wrong and instead tries to put its own agenda-driven spin on the situation. Here is my take on their facts:
(Claimed) Fact 1: Tensions Started When Israel Announced Construction Of More Settlements In East Jerusalem.
My Response: Israel announced approval for plans to build 1600 apartment buildings in a Jerusalem neighborhood called Ramat Shlomo.
Ramat Shlomo is located in North Jerusalem, not East Jerusalem. See the image to the right. People like to refer to all areas of Jerusalem that are located outside of the 1967 border ("the green line") as East Jerusalem. To do this as a rule is misleading. It implies that Israel is building in the middle of some completely Arab neighborhood, located in the Eastern part of the city (the section that the Palestinians would like to be their eventual capital). As you can see, Ramat Shlomo does not fit that description. It is a religious neighborhood, 100% Jewish that currently has 20,000 residents.
Israel announced that apartment buildings would be built. They did not announce that settlements would be built. Around here (ie: in Israel) and to anyone at all familiar with the region, a settlement is a Jewish town or collection of houses that is located in Judea and Samaria, outside of the 1967 borders, outside of Jerusalem. Think: Bet El, Kochav haShachar, Ariel, Efrat. Neighborhoods of Jerusalem are not normally referred to as settlements. (Even the Peace Now website makes a distinction between Jerusalem and Settlements on their policy pages).
Tensions did not start with Israel's announcement. They started with Biden's and Clinton's (i.e.: Obama's) reactions to Israel's announcement. These Jewish neighborhoods in Jerusalem (Ramat Shlomo, Ramot, Gilo, Pisgat Zeev, Neve Yaakov, Talpiot Mizrach - almost all of the sections of Jerusalem in purple on the map to the left - population over 200,000) were never on the negotiating table. It is not as if Israel has been promising these areas to the Palestinians and then did something brazen like this. Even the building freeze that Israel voluntarily agreed to (receiving nothing in return) was only for settlements in Judea and Samaria. See Leo Rennert in the American Thinker:
Ramat Shlomo, a neighborhood of orthodox Jews in northeastern Jerusalem, is exactly the kind of place that all previous U.S. peace proposals envisaged as remaining under Israeli sovereignty. Construction of Ramat Shlomo began in 1993 (it now is home to 2,200 families with a population of 16,000) -- seven years before Bill Clinton and Ehud Barak offered Arafat their Jerusalem plan for a final peace deal -- with Israel retaining all Jewish neighborhoods, including Ramat Shlomo, while Arab neighborhoods would be folded into a Palestinian state.
This didn't have to be an issue, and Israel's announcement didn't have to cause such a brouhaha. It was not but a few months ago when Hillary praised Netanyahu for making the "unprecedented" of freezing building on Settlements outside of Jerusalem. Based on that, there was no reason for Israel to suspect that building in Ramat Shlomo would touch a nerve - the US knew that Israel would still build in Jerusalem, and had even given Israel praise for this. In this case, Obama was looking for something to cast Israel (and especially Netanyahu) in a bad light. This was the target of opportunity. (Note how the US had nothing negative to say about the Palestinians planning the dedication of a square in Ramallah in memory of a terrorist who murdered 38 Israelis).
For those who don't know much about the area, saying that Israel announced construction of more settlements in East Jerusalem sounds much more inflammatory. I offer the following correction: "Tensions Started When Biden Reacted to Israel's Announcement of Approval for 1,600 New Housing Units in Ramat Shlomo, a Jewish Neighborhood in North Jerusalem located outside of the 1967 borders".
(Claimed Fact 2): Israel Prime Minister Himself Says The Expansion Of Settlements In East Jerusalem Will Continue. Negating the supposed myth that "Decision To Expand Settlements Is A Bureaucratic Misunderstanding".
See above note related to the distinction between settlements and Jewish neighborhoods in Jerusalem. And even if you want to claim that anything in Jerusalem outside of the 1967 borders should be called a "Jewish Settlement" in "East Jerusalem", this is not an accurate quote of Netanyahu.
The article claimed that the decision to "expand settlements" approve apartments was a bureaucratic misunderstanding. This is not an accurate statement (why they are quoting Sen. Lieberman is beyond me). The timing of the announcement was a bureaucratic misunderstanding (probably). But the actual content of the decision was in line with Israel's policy for the past 40 years of allowing people to build in Jerusalem. No misunderstanding there.
(Claimed) Fact 3: The Ongoing Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Endangers Our National Security
The claim here is that because the Arabs are upset at Israel, and the US is viewed as being allies of Israel, the longer the Israeli-Palestinian conflict goes on, the worse off it will be for America.
Following this logic, the US should invade Israel, destroy its government and turn it over to the Arabs. All of the Arab/Muslim states in the region hate Israel and want to see it destroyed. This is not going to change any time soon. Using this statement as a reason to put pressure on Israel is tantamount to saying that "the existence of Israel Endangers Our National Security". Since the conflict looks like it is going to continue for just that long.
To quote a favorite blog on the subject: "This is why Generals are supposed to stay out of politics. What did Petraeus think the Arabs would say if he asked them the question? They will be satisfied with nothing short of the end of the Jewish state. And why did Petraeus repeat what the Arabs said at face value without trying to analyze it? Sorry, but Israel is not going to roll over and die because the Arabs are unhappy with us."
The interchange quoted between Biden and Netanyahu didn't happen. Jeffrey Goldberg from the Atlantic: "Since I do not have overwhelming faith in the stenographic and interpretive skills of some Israeli reporters, I called the White House to ask if Biden actually said this. It would be quite something, of course, if he did. I spoke with a senior administration official last night who accompanied Biden on his trip to Israel, and he said that Biden did not say tell the Israelis that their actions were endangering American troops."
Update: Not only did Biden never say those things. Neither did Patraeus (!!)


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The late British writer W. Somerset Maugham said it best:"Tradition is a guide and not a jailer." The headliners of the 28th annual Living Traditions Festival represent not just the skeletons of traditional music but also the flesh and muscle of 21st century rhythms and melodies. That peculiar yet delicious dichotomy illustrates that traditions live and thrive in 2013 in a state where white people make up 86 percent of the population.Presented by Salt Lake City Arts Council, the festival which is known for having the best food booths in the Intermountain West will feature four musical headliners who are steeped in tradition but are unafraid of pushing the boundaries of their respective genres.A perfect example of tradition's flexibility is Cindy Shea, the leader of the 13-member Mariachi Divas, headlining Friday night's entertainment. Her parents have given her Italian and Irish ancestry, and not an ounce of Mexican blood runs through her veins, though mariachi can be strictly defined as the major-key folk music of male peasant farmers of Veracruz and other spots in Mexico.However, Shea, in a phone interview, said that she is a "Latina inside."The seeming incongruity doesn't stop there. Since founded by trumpet player Cindy Shea in 1999, the Mariachi Divas have garnered four Grammy nominations (and won one) with an all-female ensemble, represented by women of not just Mexican descent but also Cuban, Samoan, Argentinean, Colombian, Panamanian, Puerto Rican, Swiss, Japanese, Honduran, Guatemalan, Salvadorian, Peruvian, Tongan and Anglo descents. "If we were all the same, we'd be boring," Shea reasoned.In 2009, Mariachi Divas won the Grammy for Best Regional Mexican Album of the year (for "Canciones De Amor"), and it marked the first time in Grammy history that an all-female mariachi group had been a nominee and a winner."We're definitely not traditional," Shea responded.Shea grew up in the suburbs of Los Angeles, and her true colors began showing at a young age. "Why was a girl attracted to the trumpet at eight years old, when all of her friends picked up flutes?" she asked rhetorically. "As a trumpet player, I was always the only one among boys."When Shea graduated from high school, she earned a jazz music scholarship and moved to Miami, where she studied with Cuban jazz trumpeter, pianist and composer Arturo Sandoval. It was there that she "absorbed every part of the culture" of multi-cultural southern Florida, and began to love learning and playing mariachi music. But she has always played it with a twist; the band performs traditional songs as well as original music and even tributes to dearly departed influences, including Michael Jackson, Whitney Houston and Etta James. When the ensemble is not touring, its performs every day of the week at the Disney Resorts in Anaheim, both at Disneyland and Disney California Adventure Park.On Saturday night, Irish-born country artist Maura O'Connell will close out the night. In a phone interview, O'Connell said that she uses tradition as a "touchstone," so that even though she has lived in Nashville for the last quarter-century, the accents and influences of her Irishness are always represented.When she was growing up in Ennis in County Clare, in the west of Ireland, O'Connell heard country music on the radio and detested it. "If you would have mentioned country, I would have felt ill," she said. "It was the showband version. It didn't have the same soul that I know country [today] has."But as the 1970s arrived, it was singers such as Emmylou Harris and Bonnie Raitt who convinced her that not only could country be "decent," but a genre she would spend the rest of her life interpreting with the traditional Irish influences that pulsed in her veins.O'Connell considers herself "quasi-retired," only performing at events she considers significant. Her most recent album was 2009's "Naked with Friends," a breathtaking a cappella album that featured vocal turns from Dolly Parton, Mary Black, Alison Krauss, Paul Brady and Tim O'Brien. Her resonant alto tackles Elvis Costello's antiwar theme "Shipbuilding" and Joan Armatrading's "Weakness in Me," but also Celtic songs, such as "Maidín I M'Béarra" and "Hay Una Mujer Desapercida."Performing immediately before O'Connell at the Festival will be the trio De Temps Antan, a group of three French-Canadian men who explore the traditional music of Quebec. Audiences new to music from Quebec might be surprised to hear that much of the music sounds like Cajun music of southern Louisana, and there is good reason for that Cajuns are descended from Acadian settlers who fled eastern Canada during what was called the Great Expulsion from their homeland during the French and Indian War in the 18th century.Andre Brunet, the fiddler in the group, said in a phone interview that deviating from tradition while still respecting the past is a key to the band's kinetic energy onstage. "We want to keep our tradition alive, but we never stop our ideas," he said. "We try to be contemporary and look everywhere around us." To paraphrase Brunet, he said he used memories to create memories.Brunet was raised by a musical family, and picked up the fiddle because he idolized his uncle, a respected fiddler in town. "I grew up where music was everywhere, where singing and dancing was there," he said. "[Music] is in my bones."But he is not content to regurgitate the music from centuries ago. "[Traditional music] is not always popular, but we want to make it alive," Brunet said.Closing out the Festival on Sunday, appropriately enough considering it is the Christian Sabbath, will be The Relatives, a gospel group led by Rev. Gean West, a pastor in Dallas.The Relatives have one of the most interesting back-stories in music today. The group had disbanded and was dormant for about four decades until rediscovered by music fans scouring record bins for long out-of-print records much like how Detroit singer-songwriter Rodriguez was recently rediscovered after quitting music for more than 30 years, as chronicled in the Academy Award-winning documentary "Searching for Sugar Man."The Relatives, who reunited in 2009, didn't find any success when they first toured 40 years ago, because audiences in the late 1960s and early 1970s were more interested in "traditional-sounding" groups, West said. But The Relatives were ahead of their time, weaving the new sounds of psychedelia and funk into their music, and early audiences who came in expecting traditional gospel were disappointed. "We enjoyed all types of music, and put it into the music we had," West said. "At the time we were performing, we weren't as kindly received as we are today."Now, The Relatives are booked around the country in a nation where songs from the genre "psychedelic gospel" are housed in the same iPods that carry "political hip-hop," "avant-garde metal" and "Mongolian throat singing." All genres are blending into new genres, and that is one tradition that will survive well into the future.
2013 Living Traditions FestivalThis three-day cultural festival, now in its 28th year, features ethnic food, children's crafts, bocce, and more than 40 music and dance performances.When • Friday, 5 to 10 p.m.; Saturday, noon to 10 p.m.; and Sunday, noon to 7 p.m.Where • Salt Lake City & County Building, 450 S. 200 East, Salt Lake CityTickets • Free admissionFeatures musical acts • May 17: Mariachi Divas, multi-cultural, all-female ensemble, 8:30 p.m.; May 18 • De Temps Antan, Quebec folk, 7 p.m. and Maura O'Connell, Irish -American folk, 8:30 p.m.; and May 19: The Relatives, psychedelic gospel, 5:30 p.m.Details • livingtraditionsfestival.com


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Cheerleader of the day
Bianca La Russa, daughter of Cardinals manager and Tampa native Tony La Russa, was selected to be a member of the 2011 Raiders cheerleading squad. She wrote on her Twitter feed: "A goal and a dream come true — I'm a 2011 Raiderette! I'm so excited to rep an organization that does so much good." Of course, now the question is whether there will be an NFL season for her to cheer.
Regret of the day
Football coach Rich Rodriguez now says he made a mistake leaving West Virginia for Michigan, where he was fired after three seasons. Duh, you think? Rodriguez told CBSSports.com, "I think it's easy to go back now and say, 'Gee, made a mistake.' And you can say that now because of hindsight. But at the time, some of the things I was looking to do and the opportunity that was there, you kind of make the move."
Rumor of the day
College football analyst Beano Cook predicts former UF coach Urban Meyer will be coach at Ohio State soon. Cook told the Columbus Dispatch: "I think Ohio State has major problems and I think Jim Tressel has major problems. … Urban Meyer will be the coach at Ohio State in 2012. … Urban Meyer will be ready to coach somewhere."


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Penn football lost one of its greatest treasures Thursday when former coach George Munger died of heart failure at the age of 84. Munger, the Red and Blue's all-time winningest coach, compiled an 82-42-10 record against national powerhouses like Army, Navy, Notre Dame, and Michigan in his 16 years at Penn's helm. After a storied high school football and track career at Episcopal Academy here in Philadelphia, Munger attended the University, where he played as a halfback and won the decathlon at the Penn Relays in his junior year. In 1938, at the tender age of 28, Munger returned to his alma mater to become the youngest gridiron coach in Quaker history. "I'm much too young to be the head coach at Pennsylvania," the always humble Munger said to then-University President Thomas Gates. Munger's youthful enthusiasm would serve the University and its athletes well. He led the Quakers to an undefeated season in 1947 (7-0-1) and three national top-10 finishes during his tenure. Throughout the Munger era, crowds approaching 75,000 packed into historic Franklin Field to see the 16 first-team all-Americans who performed for the Red and Blue. Included in this elite group were Hall of Famers Chuck Bednarik, George Savitsky, Tony Minisi and Reds Bagnell. Munger himself was elected to the National Football Hall of Fame on January 11, 1976. The success that Munger brought to the University helped the Quakers lead the nation in attendance between 1938 and 1942 with 1.78 million fans. The Munger era represented the heyday of Quaker football -- and his resignation signaled its demise. Munger announced his departure from Penn in 1952, after the University agreed to join the newly formed Ivy League. He knew the days of murderous schedules, national recognition and sellout crowds were numbered. However, Munger stayed on to coach one more season in 1953 until his replacement was named. That final campaign turned out to be his only losing one as a Quaker coach. Despite this unglorious end to a brilliant career, Munger remained involved with Penn athletics. He worked as the director of recreation for several years before being named to President John F. Kennedy's Council for Physical Fitness. Munger was an active alumnus and supporter of Quaker football until his death. His greatest legacy was probably left within the athletes that he coached. Many of Munger's players feel that their coach had a significant impact on their lives, even after they left Penn. "[Munger] taught me a secret -- the secret of how to approach life," Bednarik told the Philadelphia Inquirer. "He was a jovial man who would always laugh and act young. When I saw him a few years ago, it was like he had never changed, like he was in his '40s." In honor of the legendary coach, the George Munger Training Complex in Franklin Field was dedicated on September 28, 1985. In addition, the Munger Award is presented to the Quakers' most valuable player each season. Munger is survived by his wife Viola; daughter Carol Ober; his brother Peter; sisters Margaret Madsen and Katherine Steele, and four grandchildren. Funeral services for Munger, who was cremated, were held earlier this week. A memorial service will be held early in the fall. The family has requested that donations be made to the Greville L. Munger Scholarship Fund at Penn in lieu of flowers.
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DENVER -- It was a Thursday night when the Braves could look across at the right field scoreboard and chart their own destiny.
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10:30 p.m.
Even before rallying behind home runs from Marcus Giles and Javy Lopez, and Kevin Millwood's dominant performance that carried them over the Colorado Rockies 4-1 before 37,086 at Coors Field, the Braves knew there was ground to be gained in the NL East.
Among the three teams contending for a division title, only the Braves won Thursday. While the first-place Phillies fell to the Brewers in Milwaukee and the Marlins were losing to the Giants, the Braves won the rubber game of this three-game set on the strength of a diversified lineup and one of the best outings of Millwood's career.
With 42 games left, the Braves trail the Phillies by one game, while the pesky Marlins remain eight games out.
For the first time in a week, the Braves received some production from hitters other than Chipper Jones and Brian Jordan.
Jordan, whose .412 average this month leads the club, opened the second with a double up the left-center field gap, then Ken Caminiti rolled a single through the middle to make it 1-0.
Rockies starter Shawn Chacon, knocked out in the fifth inning last Friday by the Reds after allowing six runs on six hits, was in more trouble in the third.
With two outs, leadoff man Giles hit a 424-foot home run, ripping a 1 and 0 fastball into the Rockies bullpen, then Jordan followed walks to B.J. Surhoff and Jones with a single to left, sending in Surhoff with the Braves' third run.
Lopez led the fourth with his 13th home run, launching Chacon's first pitch into the left field seats, a drive estimated at 432 feet, making it 4-0.
Millwood, who had not won since beating the Reds July 25, had a live fastball and a wicked curve working, no more evidence needed than the 1-for-4 he hung on Todd Helton, last year's batting champion.
Helton, who was 6-for-9 in the first two games, tapped to second in the first inning, popped to short in the fourth, flied to right in the sixth, then rolled a run-scoring single through the right field in the eighth.
Only four base runners advanced beyond first base in the final 41/3 innings against Millwood, who improved to 5-1 against the Rockies.
Millwood, who has allowed the Rockies just six runs in the 281/3 innings he's pitched at Coors Field, struck out three and allowed 10 hits before giving way to Steve Karsay, who pitched the last 12/3 innings for his sixth save.
Millwood threw 89 pitches, 70 for strikes.
This article published in the Athens Banner-Herald on Friday, August 17, 2001.
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Kobe Bryant in legal filing: My mother had no right to sell my memorabilia to auction house
The legal back-and-forth over one-of-a-kind memorabilia from Kobe Bryant's high school days continued this week, with the Lakers All-Star guard insisting in a legal filing that his mother had no right to sell his gear to a New Jersey-based auction house.
The Associated Press reports the latest development, which comes in response to a lawsuit by Goldin Auctions which sought to continue with a planned sale of Bryant's gear, which includes game-worn jerseys, medals, rings and other mementos.
In a filing Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Camden, Kobe Bryant says his mother acknowledged to him recently that she did not have permission to sell the items.
"I never told my mother that she could have my personal property, let alone consign it for public auction,'' Bryant wrote in the filing.
He also posted on Twitter, "When u give Give GIVE and they take Take TAKE at wat point do u draw a line in the sand? (hash) hurtbeyondmeasure (hash) gavemenowarning (hash) love?''
Bryant's mother, Pamela Bryant, reportedly received $450,000 from Goldin Auctions in exchange for hundreds of Bryant's personal items that she had been storing for him.
The Los Angeles Times reported last week that Pamela Bryant took the money so that she could purchase a house in Nevada. A lawyer for Bryant reportedly contacted the New Jersey-based auction house with a cease-and-desist letter that requested that the auction, which is already being marketed on GoldinAuctions.com, be halted.
"Mr. Bryant's personal property has ended up in the possession of someone who does not lawfully own it," said Kobe Bryant's attorney, Mark Campbell. "We look forward to resolving this legal matter through the legal system."
The Associated Press reported that Goldin Auctions, which reached an agreement with Pamela Bryant for the items back in January, sued Kobe Bryant in response to his cease-and-desist.
A New Jersey auction house filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Camden on Thursday for the right to sell the stuff after the NBA star's lawyers wrote the firm telling it to cancel a planned June auction.
In its court filings, Goldin says Pamela Bryant told the auction house that she asked her son five years ago what he wanted to do with the items that were in her home.
"Kobe Bryant indicated to Pamela Bryant that the items belonged to her and that he had no interest in them,'' the auction house's attorneys wrote. So she put them in a $1,500-per-month New Jersey storage unit.
Kenneth Goldin, owner of the auction house, says he can't cancel the auction because he's already advanced $450,000 to Bryant's mother and put money into advertising the auction.
Meanwhile, ESPN.com reported that Pamela Bryant only sought to auction the items after her son refused to provide her with the money to purchase the home she wanted.
A source told ESPN that Kobe Bryant offered to pay his mother up $250,000 toward a home she wanted. She refused, saying she wanted $450,000. When Kobe Bryant turned her down, the source said that unbeknownst to Kobe Bryant she struck a deal to get the $450,000 advanced through the auction company.
The source said Kobe Bryant was unaware that his memorabilia was being auctioned until hours before the auction company released the news of the sale. Sources close to Kobe Bryant confirmed to ESPNLosAngeles.com that before learning about the auction through news reports, the Lakers star has given his parents "millions of dollars in financial assistance" throughout his 17-year career.
So what exactly is at the center of this dispute between mother and son? Goldin Auctions announced the "The Bryant Collection" earlier this week, providing these details in a press release.
The centerpiece of The Bryant Collection: presented by Goldin Auctions is a road maroon Lower Merion High School (LMHS) #24 basketball uniform (shorts and jersey) from Bryant's freshmen year. This uniform is special in that he only wore #24, as a freshman, before switching to #33 for the remainder of his high school career. It is believed to be the only authentic game worn #24 Kobe Bryant LMHS jersey in existence. The next time he wore a #24 jersey was when he switched his NBA number to it after the 2005-06 NBA season. When he finally removes #24 from his back, it will hang in the rafters alongside, Wilt, Kareem, Magic and Shaq.
In addition to offering one fortunate collector the chance to own this rare #24 uniform, The Bryant Collection also includes two complete #33 LMHS uniforms (shorts and jersey) worn by Bryant during his high school career. One uniform is in the home white and the other is the road maroon.
The six rings in the collection include: a 1996 High School McDonald's All-American ring; 1996 High School State Championship ring; 1998 and 2000 NBA All-Star rings; plus a team issued Kobe Bryant 2000 Lakers championship ring given by Kobe to his father Joe Bryant and a specially designed version for his mother Pamela Bryant.
Here's the GoldinAuctions.com promotional artwork for the collection, which includes shots of Bryant's jerseys, medals, trophies, and rings.


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Should Family Members Who Provide Alzheimer's Care Be Paid?
Last updated: Jun 24, 2008
Should the family member who's handling the lionshare of caregiving for a parent with Alzheimer's be paid for his or her (usually her) services? That "increasingly popular option" came up in a Wall Street Journal column on blunting the costs.
The problem:
Alzheimer's care carries the twin burden of usually being available both 24/7 and long-term. We hear so many stories at Caring.com of members who give up their jobs or downshift to part-time in order to look after parents. They save on the cost of professional care. But they lose income, retirement savings, Social Security -- and, potentially, medical insurance.
The pitfalls:
Federal bills that would compensate family caregivers have tended to die in committee. Should taxpayers pay for this growing need? Families may not have funds to pay one of their members, especially in this economy. And If funds come from family, there may be sibling disagreements over how much -- or whether -- to pay. How will care be monitored? Is it a wise financial move for everyone? If your parent ends up applying for Medicaid some day, the payments can be viewed as a transfer of assets, the WSJ warns, delaying eligibility.
The advice:
- Be sure to draw up a personal-care agreement if you go this route.
- Use an elder-law attorney who knows both state law and federal Medicare rules.
- Talk about the possibilities early in the disease, if you can. What are your parent's preferences? Should a live-in caregiver inherit the house or a larger share of the estate, instead of taking a salary?
- Turn over all the money rocks. Some long-term care insurance policies pay for a family caregiver to become a licensed home-health aide. Don't overlook paid family leave. Medicaid offers a Cash and Counseling program, which Caring.com blogger Nell Bernstein highlighted last week. More on options for getting paid here.
The questions:
Do you know anybody for whom paying a family Alzheimer's caregiver works?
Should family caregiving be paid at all, or does it fall under "what families just do"?
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The chief executive of Bedford Hospital claimed this week that A&E services will not close under merger plans.
And in an interview with the Times & Citizen, Joe Harrison claimed that the merger provide a better standard of care at the hospital.
Earlier this month Dave Hodgson, The Mayor of Bedford launched a Save Bedford Hospital campaign. And while Mr Harrison declined to comment on the move he did criticise 'senior stakeholders' for suggesting that services may suffer.
He said: "Legally we are not allowed to move any services around as part of a merger. You can only close a service by going out to public consultation."
He added: "We are absolutely committed to maintaining A&E services on this site. There is no question of taking A&E services off this site and it is unhelpful when senior stakeholders potentially scare the public with things that are untrue."
And Mr Harrison stood by the merger plans claiming that they would help to bring better services to the hospital and protect it from service cuts in the future.
He said: "I genuinely believe it's the best way of securing cruicial services for the population of Bedford. If we don't do something like this I can see crucial services moving further afield as the hospital fails."
To have your say on this story, and hear what Mr Harrison had to say about the separate Healthier Together initiative, visit www.bedfordtoday.co.uk