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Billie Holiday
Background and Early Years
Billie Holiday was born on April 7, 1915, as Eleanora Fagan, and was later nicknamed "Lady Day," was an American jazz singer, composer, a seminal influence on jazz and pop singers, and is generally regarded as one of the greatest female jazz vocalists.
Billie Holiday had a difficult childhood, which greatly affected her life and career. Much of her childhood is clouded by conjecture and legend, some of it propagated by her autobiography, Lady Sings the Blues, published in 1956. Her professional pseudonym was taken from Billie Dove, an actress she admired, and Clarence Holiday, her probable father. At the outset of her career, she spelled her last name "Halliday," presumably to distance herself from her neglectful father, but eventually changed it back to "Holiday."
Holiday's grandfather was one of 17 children of an enslaved Black woman from Virginia and a White, Irish plantation owner. There are conflicting reports about whether her 13-year-old mother, Sadie Fagan, and 15-year-old father, Clarence, were ever married, but if they were, they did not live together for any significant period. Clarence played guitar and banjo professionally and joined jazz-band leader Fletcher Henderson in the early 1930s, so he was on the road much of the time she he spent little time with his family.
There is some controversy regarding Holiday's paternity, stemming from a copy of her birth certificate in the Baltimore archives that lists the father as a "Frank DeViese." Some historians consider this an anomaly, probably inserted by a hospital or government worker.
Thrown out of her parent's home in Baltimore, Sadie moved to Philadelphia where Holiday was born. Mother and child eventually settled in a poor section of the city. Holiday's parents married when she was three, but they soon divorced, leaving her to be raised mostly by her mother and other relatives. At the age of 11, she reported that she had been raped. That claim, combined with her frequent truancy, resulted in her being sent to The House of the Good Shepherd, a Catholic reform school, in 1925. It was only through the assistance of a family friend that Holiday was released two years later. Scarred by these experiences, Holiday moved to New York City with her mother in 1928. In 1929, Sadie discovered a neighbor, Wilbert Rich, in the act of raping Holiday; Rich was sentenced to three months in jail.
According to Holiday's accounts, she was recruited by a brothel, worked as a prostitute and was eventually imprisoned for a short time. It was in Harlem in the early 1930s that she started singing for tips in various night clubs. According to legend, penniless and facing eviction, she sang "Travelin' All Alone" in a local club and reduced the audience to tears. She later worked at various clubs for tips, ultimately landing at Pod's and Jerry's, a well known Harlem jazz club. Her early work history is hard to verify, though accounts say she was working at a club named Monette's in 1933 when she was discovered by talent scout John Hammond.
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Hammond arranged for Holiday to make her recording debut on a 1933 Benny Goodman date, and Goodman was also on hand in 1935, when she continued her recording career with a group led by pianist Teddy Wilson. Their first collaboration included, "What A Little Moonlight Can Do" and "Miss Brown To You," which helped to establish Holiday as a major vocalist. She began recording under her own name a year later, producing a series of extraordinary performances with groups comprising the Swing Era's finest musicians.
Among the musicians who frequently accompanied her was tenor saxophonist Lester Young, who had been a boarder at her mother's house in 1934 and with whom she had a special rapport. Young nicknamed her "Lady Day" and she, in turn, dubbed him "Prez." In the late 1930s, she also had brief stints as a big band vocalist with Count Basie and Artie Shaw. The latter association placed her among the first Black women to work with a White orchestra, an arrangement that went against the temper of the times.
Holiday was recording for Columbia in the late 1930s when she was introduced to "Strange Fruit," a song based on a poem about lynching written by Abel Meeropol, a Jewish teacher from the Bronx, N.Y. Meeropol used the pseudonym "Lewis Allen" for the poem, which was set to music and performed at teachers' union meetings. It was eventually heard by Barney Josephson, proprietor of Café Society, an integrated nightclub in Greenwich Village, who then introduced it to Holiday. She performed it at the club in 1939, with some trepidation, fearing possible retaliation. Holiday later said that the imagery in "Strange Fruit" reminded her of her father's death, and that that imagery played a role in her persistence to perform it. In a 1958 interview, she bemoaned the fact that many people did not grasp the song's message: "They'll ask me to 'sing that sexy song about the people swinging'," she said.
When her producers at Columbia found the subject matter too sensitive, Commodore Records' Milt Gabler agreed to record it for his label. That was done in April of 1939 and "Strange Fruit" remained in her repertoire for 20 years. She later recorded it again for Verve Records. While the Commodore release did not get airplay, the controversial song actually sold well, but Gabler attributes that mostly to the record's other side, a song called, "Fine and Mellow" that was a juke box hit.
In addition to owning Commodore, Milt Gabler was an A&R man for Decca Records, and he signed Holiday to the label in 1944. Her first recording for Decca, "Lover Man," was a song written especially for her by Jimmy Davis, Roger "Ram" Ramirez and Jimmy Sherman. Although its lyrics describe a woman who has never known love, its theme—a woman longing for a missing lover—and its refrain struck a chord in wartime America and the record became one of her biggest hits.
Holiday continued to record for Decca until 1950, including sessions with the Duke Ellington and Basie's orchestras, and two duets with Louis Armstrong. Holiday's Decca recordings featured big bands, and sometimes strings, contrasting her intimate small-group Columbia accompaniments. Some of the songs from her Decca repertoire became signatures, including "Don't Explain" and "Good Morning Heartache." Holiday made one major film appearance, opposite Louis Armstrong in New Orleans in 1947. The musical drama featured Holiday singing with Armstrong and his band and was directed by Arthur Lubin.
Strange and Fruitless
Her personal life was as turbulent as the themes of the songs she sang. Holiday stated that she began using hard drugs in the early 1940s. She married trombonist Jimmy Monroe on August 25, 1941. While still married to Monroe, she took up with trumpeter Joe Guy, her drug dealer, as his common law wife. She finally divorced Monroe in 1947, and also split with Guy. In 1947, she was jailed on drug charges and served eight months at the Alderson Federal Correctional Institution for Women in West Virginia. Her New York City Cabaret Card was subsequently revoked, which kept her from working in clubs there for the remaining 12 years of her life. The exception was when she played at the Ebony Club in 1948, where she opened under the permission of John Levy.
By the 1950s, Holiday's drug abuse, drinking and relationships with abusive men led to her deteriorating health. As evidenced by her later recordings, Holiday's voice coarsened and did not project the vibrancy it once had. However, she had retained—and, perhaps, strengthened—the emotional impact of her delivery.
On March 28, 1952, Holiday married Louis McKay, an opportunistic and unsuccessful pimp. McKay, like most of the men in Holiday's life, was abusive, but he did try to get her off drugs. They were separated at the time of her death, but McKay had plans to start a chain of Billie Holiday vocal studios, a la the Arthur Murray dance schools. Holiday also had a relationship with author Orson Welles.
A Voice of Distinction
Her late recordings on Verve constitute about one-third of her commercial recorded legacy and are as well remembered as her earlier work for the Columbia, Commodore and Decca labels. In later years, her voice became more fragile but it never lost the edge that had always made it so distinctive. On November 10, 1956, she performed before a packed audience at Carnegie Hall, a major accomplishment for any artist, especially a Black artist during the segregated period in American history. Her performance of "Fine And Mellow" on CBS's The Sound of Jazz program is memorable for her interplay with her long-time friend Lester Young.
Holiday first toured Europe in 1954, as part of a Leonard Feather package that also included Buddy DeFranco and Red Norvo. When she returned almost five years later, she made one of her last television appearances for Granada's "Chelsea at Nine," in London. Her final studio recordings were made for MGM in 1959 with lush backing from Ray Ellis and his Orchestra, who had also accompanied her on Columbia's Lady in Satin album the previous year. The MGM sessions were released posthumously on a self-titled album, later re-titled and re-released as Last Recordings. Her final public appearance, a benefit concert at the Phoenix Theater in New York's Greenwich Village, took place on May 25, 1959. According to the evening's emcees, jazz critic Leonard Feather and TV host Steve Allen, she was only able to make it through two songs, one of which was "Ain't Nobody's Business If I Do."
Early Ending
On May 31, 1959, she was taken to Metropolitan Hospital in New York suffering from liver and heart disease. On July 12, she was placed under house arrest at the hospital for possession of drugs, despite evidence suggesting the drugs may have been planted on her. Holiday remained under police guard at the hospital until she died from cirrhosis of the liver on July 17, 1959, at the age of 44. In the final years of her life, she had been progressively swindled out of her earnings, and she died with only $0.70 in the bank and $750 on her. Holiday is interred in Saint Raymond's Cemetery in The Bronx, N.Y.
Her impact on other artists is undeniable and even after her death. In 1972, and in what was surely the most egregious insult to Lady Day's memory, Diana Ross portrayed her in a film that was loosely based on Lady Sings the Blues, the autobiography she co-authored with William Dufty. Although the movie strayed even farther from the true story than the book, it was a commercial success and earned Ross a Best Actress Academy Award nomination. In 1987, Holiday was posthumously awarded the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, and in 1994, the United States Postal Service introduced a postage stamp of Holiday. She ranked No. 6 on VH1's "100 Greatest Women in Rock n' Roll" list in 1999, and she was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2000. Over the years, there have been many recorded tributes to Holiday, including the song, "Angel of Harlem," a 1988 release by the group U2. Holiday was posthumously inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame, which is a special Grammy award established in 1973 to honor recordings that are at least 25 years old, and that have "qualitative or historical significance.
Although her unique style has never been successfully duplicated, Holiday inspired many singers and continues to be regarded as one of the jazz idiom's most important vocalists. Her distinct delivery made Holiday's performances instantly recognizable throughout her career. Years of abuse eventually altered the texture of her voice and gave it a prepossessing fragility, but the emotion with which she imbued each song remained intact. Her last major recording, a 1958 album entitled Lady in Satin, features the backing of a 40-piece orchestra conducted and arranged by Ray Ellis. He said of the album in 1997: "I would say that the most emotional moment was her listening to the playback of "I'm a Fool to Want You." There were tears in her eyes...After we finished the album I went into the control room and listened to all the takes. I must admit I was unhappy with her performance, but I was just listening musically instead of emotionally. It wasn't until I heard the final mix a few weeks later that I realized how great her performance really was."
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The Neoliberal Revolution
In his review of Daniel Stedman Jones' Masters of the Universe: Hayek, Friedman, and the Birth of Neoliberal Politics ("The Neoliberal Revolution," February), Scott Sumner states that privatization across the globe "was driven by pragmatic rather than ideological considerations" but fails to help readers with just what the difference is between these two.
As someone who had a hand in putting reason on a regular publishing schedule very much for philosophical or "ideological" reasons, I would urge more clarity about these matters. What exactly are ideological versus pragmatic reasons? Is someone who has come to take principles of individual liberty seriously—like the American Founders and many libertarians—being ideological?
Suppose I hold that no one may kill another other than in self-defense, or take another's resources unless these are freely given, engage in sexual intercourse with someone only if it is voluntary, etc. Am I being ideological? And would it be pragmatic of me to refrain from such conduct based on my belief that it would be bad practice, flawed policy to proceed that way?
In short, since when has it become a liability to be a principled libertarian, and why so?
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Regarding Ronald Bailey's piece, "Can Money Buy Happiness After All?" (February), let's give the final word to Beatrice Kaufman, wife of playwright George S. Kaufman. She is widely credited with having first said, in 1937, "I've been rich and I've been poor. Rich is better." Steve Williams Apple Valley, CA
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Gears of War 3 shifts 3 million copies in the first week
Microsoft has announced that the conclusion to the Gears of War trilogy has broken an impressive sales landmark within its first week of release.
Gears of War 3 has sold 3 million copies worldwide taking the series through the 1 billion USD mark since the first game was released in 2006.
Microsoft's Phil Spencer said: "Gears of War was the first killer app for Xbox 360, and the series has continued to contribute directly to the overall success of the platform ever since. Gears of War 3 kicked off the biggest Christmas period in Xbox history, setting the standard for the kind of amazing, action-packed experiences gamers should expect on Xbox 360 this year."
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Congressman Trey Gowdy, South Carolina Republican, spoke with Fox News Channel's Greta Van Susteren on Friday and declared that it does not matter that General David Petraeus, now former CIA Director, resigned before testifying prior the hearings Congress has called regarding the investigation into the government's failure to protect four American lives during the attacks of the diplomatic mission in Benghazi.
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"The fact that he's resigned and had an [extra-marital] affair has nothing to do with whether he will be subpoenaed to Congress," Rep. Gowdy said. "I hope we don't have to subpoena a four star general and a former CIA director. I would hope he would come voluntarily but if he won't he will be subpoenaed."
Republicans are suspicious of the timing of Petraeus's departure, and how long those investigating Petraeus's affair with his biographer, Paula Broadwell, knew about the relationship.
"None of what happened today is an offense to a subpoena. He's either a witness in our case in chief or he's gonna be a rebuttal witness if Susan Rice and others blame him for their failure of intelligence and failure of information. But there is no way we can get to the bottom of Benghazi without David Petraeus," Mr. Gowdy added.


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CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (AP) — A child care worker who wouldn't lie about a child's injury has been awarded Iowa unemployment benefits.
The Des Moines Register reports (http://dmreg.co/1buEWFD) that worker Brandy Jones filed an unemployment claim after her hours were cut by We Teach 2.
State records say an 8-year-old was hurt when the broken high chair she was in collapsed on March 14. Jones' filed an accurate report about the injury, despite being told by her supervisor to say the child bumped her head while playing.
The state says the supervisor warned Jones against complaining to Iowa authorities and cut Jones hours in half. The state says the center's owner told Jones to find another job after Jones complained to Iowa authorities.
A state judge says evidence showed the center had retaliated against Jones.
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Thanks Harper's Bazaar!
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- Kali Walker said...
Heather, you are so graceful and wonderful for letting us peek into your world. I am only a sophomore in college but I look up to you so much- as silly as that sounds- because you made your way for yourself. Congrats on all of the recent publicity, you deserve it more than anyone!
- February 4, 2011 at 3:31 PM
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Oh Heather, I love your words of encouragement! I hope you're having a fabulous time cruising.
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Heather, Congrats on the Harper's Bazaar story, very fun. And bon voyage!
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Great story, congratulation!
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Those words of advice mean ten times more coming from someone like you! Great post and enjoy your cruise!
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Congrats girl!
Newsworthy indeed!
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Yesterday, as part of her New Zealand visit, the Duchess of Cornwall ate some carrot cake, and afterwards the school that made it for her tweeted her a picture of it. It looked delicious, and indeed Clarence House tweeted back to say that it was.
But while we know Camilla enjoyed the cake, what we possibly don't know is the school where she ate it not only baked the cake, it also grew the carrots in a magnificent garden on its own grounds.
It's not some stately private school, but a decile-one state school, among the power pylons of Auckland's East Tamaki. Something special is happening there, because people who can are choosing to make a difference.
KidsCan are in there, and so too are Garden to Table – a programme aimed at getting kids growing their own food.
Church groups and charitable foundations are also involved, all embodying the proverb "it takes a village to raise a child".
We went back there today, to see the school who made a cake for a Duchess.
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Children's Voice Article, January 2002
Gay Adoption
by Kristen Kreisher
Until the 1950s and '60s, adoption was predominately used to place healthy white babies in the homes of middle class, married couples. In the decades since, adoption practices have changed dramatically, and adoption has become a way for increasingly diverse populations to form families.
According to the Adoption and Foster Care Analysis and Reporting System, on September 30, 1999, 127,000 children in the public child welfare system were waiting to be adopted. The median age of children in this group was 7.7 years, and many had spent more than 36 continuous months in foster care. That same year, 46,000 children were adopted from public child welfare agencies. Some were infants. Some were teenagers. Many were Latino. Many more were white or black. Adoptive parents were equally diverse-31% were single women, 2% were single men, and 1% were unmarried couples. Among these adoptive parents were gay and lesbian individuals and partners.
Adoption professionals acknowledge agencies nationwide are placing children with gay parents, but little data is available on how many children are placed with gay, lesbian, or transgendered individuals. "Many agencies are making these placements, but not necessarily talking about them," says Ada White, CWLA Director of Adoption Services. "Agencies are not tracking it and don't intend to track it."
Madelyn Freundlich, Policy Director with Children's Rights Inc. in New York City, and former Director of the Evan B. Donaldson Adoption Institute, says numbers are hard to come by because "questions on sexual orientation are often not posed and recorded."
Laws and Practices
Federal and state laws govern adoption, but practices within states often vary from region to region-and even from agency to agency and judge to judge. By researching state laws and analyzing court records, the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), the nation's largest gay and lesbian organization, have determined 21 states and the District of Columbia are "open" to gay adoption. "More and more states recognize gay and lesbian adoption as a fine thing," says Lisa Bennett, Deputy Director of HRC's FamilyNet. "Some have explicit, welcoming language."
New Jersey was the first state to specify that sexual orientation and marital status cannot be used to discriminate against couples who are seeking to adopt. The state also allows second-parent adoption, a legal procedure by which a coparent can adopt the biological or adopted child of his or her nonmarital partner. New York also grants second-parent adoptions statewide and forbids discrimination in adoption decisions. California recently enacted a new domestic partnership law that legalizes second-parent adoption.
A limited number of states, however, absolutely preclude gays and lesbians from adopting. Most notable among them is Florida, where a federal judge in August upheld the state's 1977 law banning gay adoption. Steven Lofton and Douglas Houghton challenged the law after being refused the right to adopt the children in their care. Lofton is the foster parent of a 10-year-old boy he has raised since infancy. The state allows homosexuals to be foster parents. Houghton is the guardian of a 9-year-old boy who has been in his care for five years.
In his ruling, Federal District Court Judge James King wrote, "Plaintiffs have not asserted they can demonstrate that homosexual families are equivalently stable, are able to provide proper gender identification, or are no more socially stigmatizing than married heterosexual families."
Utah prohibits adoption by any unmarried couple or individual. And while Mississippi does not explicitly ban gay and lesbian individuals from adopting, it does prohibit adoption by same-sex couples, and the climate is reported as unwelcoming.
The policies in most states, however, are unwritten, and experts assume they will stay that way. Freundlich doesn't believe more states will codify policies for or against gay adoption, but will "continue along informal lines." According to Joan Heifetz Hollinger, a visiting professor at the University of California Berkeley School of Law and a leading scholar on adoption law and practice, much of the decisionmaking in adoption cases "happens behind public view, without much scrutiny."
Informal, variable policies are the rule in most states. Louisiana, for example, restricts adoption to married couples and single individuals and has no reported cases of gays adopting. CWLA's White, previously a Louisiana social worker and state adoption director, however, says, "I myself placed kids with gay parents," stressing that many were already foster parents to the children and her decisions were based purely on their "ability to parent."
The new permanency guidelines in the Adoption and Safe Families Act of 1997 have led to an increased number of children in the child welfare system who need homes, and a growing acceptance of nontraditional families who want to adopt. Freundlich says agencies want to "maximize adoptive family resources without drawing attention to the specific characteristics of who those families are."
A Suitable Home
Historically, adoption has provided a service to adults who wanted a child. The intent of modern adoption practice, however, has become providing a service to children. "The focus needs to stay on children, not the rights of adults to adopt," says Freundlich, who stresses that children needing families should not become a civil rights issue. Compli-cating the matter is that both those in favor of and against the right of gays to adopt feel they are focusing on the best interests of children. The question then becomes how to determine the best adoptive resource for a child. Who should be considered? Who should not?
CWLA's Standards of Excellence for Adoption Services state, "Applicants should be assessed on the basis of their abilities to successfully parent a child needing family membership and not on their race, ethnicity or culture, income, age, marital status, religion, appearance, differing lifestyles, or sexual orientation." Further, applicants for adoption should be accepted "on the basis of an individual assessment of their capacity to understand and meet the needs of a particular available child at the point of adoption and in the future."
The task handed to social workers, state agencies, and judges is to determine what is a suitable home for a child in the public child welfare system. But, as Hollinger points out, "there are no tests of suitability. Where is the standard? Where is the evidence that certain parents do better?"
Florida does not consider Steven Lofton and Douglas Houghton to be suitable adoptive parents for the boys they have been raising for several years. Lofton, a pediatric nurse who once won the Children's Home Society's outstanding foster parenting award, is caring for three children who tested positive at birth for HIV. Houghton, also a nurse, took on the care of a 9-year-old boy whose biological father left him with Houghton when he was 4. Although Judge King acknowledged "the existence of strong emotional bonds between plaintiffs" in his ruling, he wrote that the state's ban on gay adoption is in the best interest of Florida's children.
King is not alone in believing gay, lesbian, and transgendered people should not adopt. "It is wrong to intentionally deprive a child of a mother and a father," says Kristin Hansen, spokes-person for the Family Research Council (FRC), a conservative, pro-family public service organization that opposes gay adoption. FRC believes it best to move children into permanent homes with married parents. "Children deserve the best possible homes, especially children in the child welfare system who have special emotional and psychological needs."
Proponents of gay adoption agree the well-being of children in the child welfare system, many of whom have special needs, is primary, but argue that gays and lesbians can be excellent resources for children who have had difficult childhood experiences. "Often, people who themselves have had a difficult time being accepted or have faced criticism have special insight or empathy," Hollinger says. "Rather than excluding, one might consider that some people, because of their sexual orientation, may be better able to serve these children."
Hansen, however, says the promiscuous nature of gay relationships, higher suicide rates among gays and lesbians, and the shorter life expectancies of gay men make "homosexual households an at-risk situation" where children are at "greater risk for emotional, social, and sexual identity problems." "They are free to believe that," Hollinger responds, "but where's the evidence? There is no evidence that it is an unhealthy environment or that certain categories of people are better than others at being parents."
"There is no ideal family form anymore," says HRC's Bennett, who points to the diversity of family structures revealed by new census data. "There are many forms of family."
Researching Family Life
Studies examining children raised by a gay parent or parents have shown no difference in developmental outcomes as compared with children raised by heterosexual parents. Critics, however, contend these studies are politicized with sample sizes that are too small to be conclusive.
In an April 2001 article in the American Sociological Review, researchers Judith Stacey and Timothy Biblarz of the University of Southern California reported the results of their examination of 21 studies on gay parenting. Stacey and Biblarz found that although "the authors of all 21 studies almost uniformly claim to find no differences in measures of parenting or child outcomes," their examination of the data suggests that the children of gay parents demonstrate some differences in gender behavior and preferences. Lesbian mothers reported their children, especially daughters, are less likely to conform to cultural gender norms in dress, play, and behavior, and are more likely to aspire to nontraditional gender occupations, such as doctors, lawyers, or engineers. They also discovered that although the children of gay and lesbian parents are no more likely to identify themselves as gay, lesbian, or bisexual than the children of heterosexual parents, they are more likely to consider or experiment with same-sex relationships during young adulthood.
Stacey and Biblarz also found that the children of homosexual parents show no difference in levels of self-esteem, anxiety, depression, behavior problems, or social performance, but do show a higher level of affection, responsiveness, and concern for younger children and "seem to exhibit impressive psychological strength."
Gay parents were found to be more likely to equally share child care and household duties, and the children of gay partners reported closer relationships to the parent who was not their primary caregiver than did the children of heterosexual couples. "These findings imply that lesbian coparents may enjoy greater parental compatibility and achieve particularly high quality parenting skills, which may help explain the striking findings on parent-child relationships."
Stacey and Biblarz point out that the differences they found should not be considered deficits. "They either favor the children with lesbigay parents, are secondary effects of social prejudice, or represent 'just a difference' of the sort democratic societies should respect and protect." They go on to stress that categorizing parents as gay or heterosexual "erroneously impl[ies] that a parent's sexual orientation is the decisive characteristic of his or her parenting." They suggest that sexual orientation only matters because homophobia and discrimination say it matters.
Gay Parents or No Parents
With so many children in the public child welfare system in need of permanent homes, gay parents are sometimes seen as resources for hard-to-place children. Bennett says, "So many gay and lesbian parents are adopting from the child welfare system. They are so interested in becoming parents that they are willing to take children others are not." She says an "unspoken hierarchy" exists in adoption practice, and one of the great ironies of the debate is that gay and lesbian parents often adopt the children with the greatest need.
In a New York Times editorial responding to the Florida decision, Dan Savage, an author, syndicated columnist, and adoptive father, wrote, "The real choice for children waiting to be adopted in Florida and elsewhere isn't between gay and straight parents, but between parents and no parents."
By prohibiting gay and lesbian people from adopting, there are unquestionably fewer potential adoptive homes for children. "If people are going to hold a narrow opinion of who can adopt," Bennett says, "they are sentencing some children to a life without a loving home."
Michael Colberg, a lawyer and social worker who lectures on adoption issues and maintains a private counseling practice in New York, cautions, "You don't want to give the impression that these are B-list parents adopting B-list children. We can't afford to have that discussion. The discussion needs to be who is in the best position to support these children."
Colberg urges any parent looking into adoption to learn about the special needs of adoptees and assess what kind of parents they can be and what kind of child they can parent well. He asserts, however, "Gay and lesbian people can be in a particularly good position to adopt," because of their own exposure to being viewed as different. "Most minorities are socialized into their minority status by their parents," but both gays and adoptees must face being a minority alone. "If parents really do their work, they can mentor their kids."
Raising Rachel
In the late 1980s, Colberg, who is gay, and his partner adopted a baby girl through a private agency and faced a string of court battles to retain custody and obtain a second-parent adoption. "We faced a lot of discrimination all the way along the line," he says.
The family is now settled in New York City, where Rachel attends sixth grade. Colberg says they picked her program by watching the kids come out of different schools at the end of the day, observing how the kids interacted with one another.
He describes his daughter as well-adjusted, alert to the world, strong-willed, and mature. While her father is on the phone, Rachel comes into the room, kisses her dad, and announces she knows whom she wants to invite to her upcoming party. "Rachel is a city kid, a live wire."
Colberg writes, "Adolescence inher-ently brings discomfort. For adoptees, the search for identity is magnified. For adoptees with homosexual parents, additional concerns may be present." He acknowledges that parenting is always a learning process, and raising a soon-to-be teenage daughter is a challenge. He says they just stay focused on her needs.
"Nothing is more important than raising a child," he says. "Nothing is harder. There is nothing you're less trained for."
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Blue Raiders rout Tech, 44-0
Starts 2-0 at home for first time since 2001September 14, 2006 · Chuck Morris
Wide receiver Bobby Williams caught a team-leading three passes for 51 yards in the Blue Raiders victory Thursday night over Tennessee Tech. (MT)
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The Blue Raiders (2-1) took advantage of three second-half turnovers to blow open a 3-0 game.
Middle Tennessee took advantage of a 61-yard kickoff return by Phillip Tanner to start the second half. Eugene Gross capped a 29-yard drive with a 1-yard touchdown run.
Reggie Doucet's second interception set up a 7-yard scoring drive. Clint Marks connected with Luke Paschall for a 9-yard touchdown to expand the Middle Tennessee lead to 16-0.
Marks also rushed for 50 yards, including a career-long 45 yard run that set up a DeMarco McNair 16-yard touchdown run with 13 seconds left in the third quarter.
Roy Polite's interception of Tech's Lee Sweeney set up a Blue Raider score in the fourth quarter.
Marks connected with Taron Henry for a 13-yard touchdown with 11:58 remaining in the game.
The Blue Raiders defense, which held Tennessee Tech (0-3) to 135 yards of total offense, added a touchdown. Lonnie Clemmons picked up a fumble and returned it 40 yards for a score with 8:17 remaining.
Freshman Desmond Gee led Middle Tennessee in rushing with 61 yards, all in the fourth quarter. He capped the scoring with a 15-yard touchdown run with 1:40 left in the game.
Middle Tennessee held Tech to 10 yards rushing, the fewest yards allowed since allowing 11 yards in the 2002 season to Utah State.
Both teams struggled offensively in the first half.
Tennessee Tech was held to 33 yards offensively and three first downs. Middle Tennessee picked up 103 yards - 55 on a Marks to Bobby Williams pass which set up a 24-yard Colby Smith field goal and four first downs.
Tech's Sweeney completed 13-of-27 passes for 125 yards and three interceptions.
WALDEN TIES SCANDRETT: Junior Erik Walden recorded two quarterback sacks (all in the first half) to run his season total to a team-best three sacks. For his career, Walden now has 12 career sacks, which ties Devarick Scandrett for second place all-time at Middle Tennessee. Walden needs just three more sacks to tie Anthony McCord as the all-time leader.
FIRST AND SECOND PICK: The first interception of the Rick Stockstill era came late in the second quarter when Reggie Doucet stepped in front of his man and ended a Golden Eagle drive. It marked the first interception of Doucet's career and then the senior added his second interception midway through the third quarter. The Blue Raiders picked off three passes in the contest.
STREAK ENDS FOR SMITH: Placekicker Colby Smith saw his streak of consecutive made extra points come to an end during the third quarter against Tennessee Tech. Smith was a perfect 60-for-60 on point after attempts before missing wide left following the Blue Raiders' first touchdown of the game.
DEFENSE TURNS IN STELLAR EFFORT: The Middle Tennessee defense produced its best effort of the I-A era, limiting Tennessee Tech to just 135 total yards from scrimmage, including only 10 yards rushing. The previous least yards allowed was 156 to Utah State on October 30, 2004. The shutout was the first for the Blue Raiders since October 30, 2004 (21-0, Utah State). The defense allowed only 11 rushing yards to Utah State on November 30, 2002. The unit also intercepted three passes in the contest, the first three-INT game for the Blue Raiders since getting three picks versus Akron on September 17, 2005.
CLEMONS GETS TD: Sophomore Lonnie Clemons returned a fumble 40 yards for a touchdown in the fourth quarter, his first career touchdown and the first returned fumble for a TD by a Blue Raider since Dennis Burke (61 yards) on November 30, 2002, versus Utah State. It was the first defensive touchdown by Middle Tennessee since Michael Woods (89 yards) on October 11, 2003, versus New Mexico State.
PASCHALL HAS FIRST TD: Senior wide receiver Luke Paschall had a game to remember in the win over Tennessee Tech. Paschall equaled his career-high with two receptions for 20 yards, including the first touchdown catch of his career. Paschall got on the board for the first time in his career when he hauled in a 9-yard strike from Clint Marks. The Dickson, Tenn., native nearly had another touchdown grab, as his first catch of the night came up just inches shy of the goal line.
GROSS OVER 200: Middle Tennessee scoring machine Eugene Gross became just the eighth player in school history to top the 200-point mark when he dove in from 1-yard out in the third quarter for his third touchdown of the season. Gross ran his scoring total to 204 points and needs just 11 more to take over seventh place on the all-time scoring list from Keegan Ray.
MARKS MOVES PAST WALKER: QB Clint Marks passed Billy Walker for fifth place on the all-time list when he completed a 9-yard strike to Luke Paschall in the third quarter. The Fort Myers, Fla., native tossed a second touchdown in the contest, a 13-yard strike to Taron Henry, passing Billy Walker (1964-67) for fifth place on the all-time list. Marks needs just two more passing touchdowns to tie Mickey Corwin (1983-84) for fourth on the career list.
QUICK HITTERS: Middle Tennessee has now started 2-0 at home for the first time since 2001 ... OL Germayle Franklin has now started in 31 straight games ... MT is now 4-2 all-time on Thursday night ... Walk-on Brandon Gantt played in his first collegiate game as a member of the kickoff team and then later forced a fumble against TTU ... Freshman running back Phillip Tanner played his first collegiate snaps on defense against TTU ... WR Bobby Williams' 55-yard catch in the first quarter was the longest of his career and the longest play from scrimmage for the Blue Raiders this serason ... Michael Cannon made his first reception of the season late in the first quarter ... Phillip Tanner returned his first career kickoff to start the second half and returned it 61 yards ... QB Clint Marks registered a career-long run of 45 yards late in the third quarter ... Junior Roy Polite picked up the third interception of his career early in the fourth quarter ... WR Rod Taylor made his first career reception late in the fourth quarter, tallying two catches for 21 yards in the contest ... Middle Tennessee quarterbacks completed just 12 passes in the contest, with eight different receivers catching at least one pass.
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|jesu, joy of man's desiring
|NE Gully & dry heaves!
Date Climbed: Sep 7, 2013
|I forget the day we climbed this so I just picked a date in Sept. I'm no authority, but Peter Croft is right: this HAS to be one of the best Sierra scrambles!!!!
Bring a pair of rock slippers and the steep, slippery 5.2 cruxes are okay without a rope.
...on the long descent I did not stop to drink water so I had some violent dry heaves near the parking lot, which really frightened some tourists.
|Posted Dec 5, 2013 1:21 am
|NE ridge
Date Climbed: Nov 11, 2011
|Not a very inspiring climb but gorgeous views from the summit!
|Posted Dec 2, 2013 7:15 pm
|Vitaliy M.
|Fun solo
Date Climbed: May 24, 2013
|Climbed a very prominent arete to the right of the NE gully which splits up and right around the red rock band. Climbed a headwall that was 99% never climbed before- sketchiest moves I have done while soloing. Had a lot of fun in the end. Rock above wasn't bad at all and arete was amazing!
|Posted May 27, 2013 1:42 pm
|From Laurel/Bloody Saddle
Date Climbed: Oct 13, 2012
|Out on a fall camping trip with ST, FR, and MB. JQ and I ascended from the saddle. Great weekend. Featured the first snow of the year.
|Posted Oct 15, 2012 10:25 am
|NE gully kinda ha
Date Climbed: Sep 21, 2012
|started up this route and made some wrong turn but this mistake led us into a fantastic river of great rock... nice welcome back to the rock for my friend jenn.. we are calling this johnny cash ring of fire 5.8R.. damn i wont forget this!! outstanding.
|Posted Sep 22, 2012 11:19 am
|Wishing for more snow
Date Climbed: Nov 26, 2011
|We had hoped for more snow, but the start to the season was quite dry. Ended up bushwacking up to the NE ridge where decent rock was finally found. Overall a nice day and a nice view.
|Posted Apr 17, 2012 7:04 pm
|From Sherwin Flat
Date Climbed: Jan 9, 1996
|Solo, North Side, good hike.
|Posted Feb 26, 2012 8:39 pm
|50th birthday
Date Climbed: Oct 31, 2009
|Climbed with brothers Jon & Andrew to celebrate (commemorate?) my 50th.
|Posted Dec 6, 2011 11:08 pm
|Great early winter climb
Date Climbed: Nov 26, 2011
|SMG climbed the NE ridge. Enjoyed the view and the scrambling. Great day!
|Posted Nov 29, 2011 2:28 am
|NE Slope
Date Climbed: Nov 26, 2011
|Climbed the NE slope from Convict lake and followed the ridge to the summit. Took about 6.5 hours for our group of 9 to reach the top.
|Posted Nov 28, 2011 2:46 am
|Mendenhall Couloir Variation
Date Climbed: Aug 14, 2011
|Car to summit in 2:25, solo. Lower portion covered in snow, so climbed loose 3rd class on the right. At one point you had to go underneath a slab of snow! Fun, but weird climbing overall. Missed the left turn to the right gully in the red band and ended up going up a smooth grey slab to a point north of the summit. Descended the large bowl to the north of the summit, then down a steep trail through brush.
|Posted Aug 14, 2011 7:39 pm
|From Laurel/Bloody Saddle
Date Climbed: Jul 31, 2011
|Gnarly storm weekend. Got an early start and planned on the Laurel/Bloody double but storms built crazy fast and we were in thunder/lightning/rain by the time we made it down from the quick Laurel summit. No bloody today...
|Posted Jul 31, 2011 10:39 pm
|NE Gully
Date Climbed: Jan 21, 2011
|Having done it earlier in the summer as a rock climb, it seemed only fitting to climb it as a massive snow climb. Both were fun, definitely comparable in difficulty. I still think the descriptions of the "worst rock you will encounter" are very blown out of proportion; felt decently solid wherever I climbed up there.
|Posted Jan 21, 2011 3:35 am
|From saddle
Date Climbed: Jun 12, 2010
|Went up from saddle between Laurel and bloody. Good conditioning hike. Not very interesting route.
|Posted Sep 7, 2010 12:59 pm
|NE Gully
Date Climbed: Aug 17, 2010
|Spiced it up a bit by climbing the ridge to the left near the top. Fun stuff.
|Posted Aug 17, 2010 8:45 pm
|Traverse From Bloody
Date Climbed: Jul 18, 1982
|Great view. Still a tremendous amount of snow on the surrounding peaks, but this route was mostly snow-free. Descended north side to the plateau then dropped down east to Convict Creek/ Lake.
|Posted Jul 18, 2010 12:51 pm
Date Climbed: Jul 9, 2010
|very long climb, lots of bad rock if you get off route, and pretty much took the same route Forjan described due to snow down low
|Posted Jul 9, 2010 11:32 pm
|NE Gully Up, Snowboard Down
Date Climbed: Feb 24, 2010
|Great climb/run! Gotta do in summer now.
|Posted Mar 3, 2010 8:52 pm
|Re: NE Gully Up, Snowboard Down
|Nice job boarding that. Have you done Bloody Couloir? Just curious how they compare. I did Bloody and found it intimidating looking down from the top, but really not so difficult.
|Posted Mar 30, 2010 6:23 pm
|Princess Buttercup
|NE Gulley
Date Climbed: Sep 20, 2009
|First big Cl4-5 solo climb. Loved every minute of it, despite being tired from the Whitney MR/MT loop the day before.
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Flores, Sanchez go deep again in Charleston lossBy
Jess Todd's tenure in the Yankees' organization is over, he was claimed off waivers by St. Louis today. He was designated for assignment last week to make room on the roster for Amaury Sanit. Thanks for the 1.2 innings and 21 pitches, Jess.
Meanwhile, Kevin Goldstein wrote about Jesus Montero today (no BP subs. req'd), and basically said that calling him now would be the wrong move because there would be too much pressure on him to immediately produce. I agree to a certain extent, but the kid could come up in the middle of September with the Yankees twenty games up in the division and the pressure will still be there. At some point you just have to close your eyes and jump in, otherwise they'll be waiting forever to call him up.
Triple-A Scranton was rained out. I'm not sure when they're going to make this game up, but they don't go back to Pawtucket until the second-to-last series of the year in September.
Double-A Trenton had a scheduled off day.
High-A Tampa (8-4 win over Palm Beach)
Abe Almonte, CF: 3 for 5, 1 R, 1 RBI, 1 K – seven for his last 12 (.583) with two doubles
Walt Ibarra, SS: 2 for 5, 1 2B, 1 K
Rob Lyerly, 3B: 2 for 4, 2 R, 1 2B, 1 RBI, 1 BB, 1 K, 1 E (fielding) – 12 for his last 21 (.571)
Luke Murton, DH & Neil Medchill, LF: both 1 for 4 – Murton drove in two … Medchill doubled, walked, and struck out
Kyle Higashioka, C: 0 for 4, 1 BB, 1 PB, 1 E (throwing)
Taylor Grote, RF: 0 for 5, 4 K – oof … at least he threw a runner out at the plate
Kelvin Castro, 2B: 4 for 4, 3 R, 1 RBI, 1 BB, 1 SB - got picked off first … great day, he's quietly having
Kevin Mahoney, 1B: 4 for 5, 2 R, 1 2B, 1 HR, 3 RBI
Josh Romanski, LHP: 7 IP, 5 H, 4 R, 2 ER, 3 BB, 3 K, 1 WP, 8-7 GB/FB – hooray for pitching deep into the game
Chase Whitley, RHP: 2 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 2 BB, 1 K, 1 WP, 1-3 GB/FB
Low-A Charleston (8-4 loss to Greenville)
Eduardo Sosa, CF: 1 for 5, 1 2B, 1 RBI – rumor has it that Slade Heathcott got a five-game suspension for the brawl, and this is the third game he's served
Ramon Flores, LF: 1 for 5, 1 R, 1 HR, 1 RBI, 2 K – threw a runner out at third … that's three straight games with a jack, and he hit it off a brand name too
J.R. Murphy, C: 2 for 4, 1 R, 1 K, 1 E (catcher's interference) – just his 19 K in 147 AB (12.9%)
Rob Segedin, 3B: 1 for 4, 1 2B
Kyle Roller, 1B: 0 for 4, 1 K
Gary Sanchez, DH: 1 for 3, 2 R, 1 HR, 2 RBI, 1 BB - second straight game with a homer, third jack in four games … seven for his last 17 (.412) with three doubles and three homers
Kelvin DeLeon, RF: 0 for 2, 2 BB, 1 K
Garrison Lassiter, SS: 1 for 4
Anderson Feliz, 2B: 0 for 4, 2 K
Jose Ramirez, RHP: 4 IP, 4 H, 6 R, 6 ER, 5 BB, 5 K, 1 WP, 2-3 GB/FB – just a brutal year so far
Michael Recchia, RHP: 2 IP, 3 H, 2 R, 2 ER, 2 BB, 0 K, 1 WP, 1 Balk, 2-1 GB/FB – 6 BB, 4 K in 10 IP
Manny Barreda, RHP: 2 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 1 BB, 2 K, 1 HB, 1-1 GB/FB
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Ramon Flores is the most interesting man in the Yankees system.
Also, he likes my blog on Facebook =D
5 homers in 125 AB's. Not bad for a "little guy with no power". I don't know how he's not the Yankees' best hitting prospect after Montero and Sanchez.
In my dream world he's a Bobby Abreu clone.
he isn't cause murphy is better hitter! but i like what im seeing… charleston trio is marvelous, Heahtcott, Flores and Murphy
I once read that one of the reasons the Yankees parted with Arodys Vizcaino was because they felt they had a similar type prospect in Jose Ramirez. I'll say that hasn't exactly come to fruition
Ughhh why does Jose Ramirez suck so much ass this year? I mean he got demoted and he's still getting shelled out there
Innings jump perhaps? He could be nursing some kind of soreness and hiding it from coaches on two levels.
Hooray for Gary Sanchez getting back on track!
Double hooray for J.R Murphy continuing to mash
Yes. Very excited about what Sanchez is doing these last few games.
How long till Chase Whitley gets up to Double-A? The kids seems legit.
Why would there be so much pressure on Montero if he was to join the Yanks as a DH? I imagine he doesn't get many pitches to hit at Scranton and is expanding the zone. With the Yanks he could concentrate on his hitting. Catching is not needed now.
They could use a good bat.
I think it's because he'd be looked at as a fix for what ails the Yankees right now. The bats are sucking, he'd be coming up and viewed as a savior of sorts. If he came up after a 10 game stretch where they went 8-2 and scored 7 runs a game, the pressure would be a little less. I agree with Mike though in that I don't think it's a good reason not to bring him up. If that's the only think stopping them, then just make the call.
Agreed, and I'll add that he'd not only be coming up as a savior of sorts because the team is slumping so badly, but also because of the timing with regard to the Posada situation. Whether it's fair or not, the optics of the situation would be such that a lot of people would think Montero killed Posada.
I have to say, I saw people yesterday criticizing Goldstein for writing that, but I've had the same thought the last couple of days. I wouldn't feel that way, but I think a lot of people would, and I think it ratchets up the fan pressure on Montero to produce immediately.
If you read Goldstein's blurb re Montero again, I think it's pretty clear he's talking about Montero in the context of the Posada situation and not in the context of the team slumping. He doesn't mention the slump once, it's all about the Posada situation.
Pressure for a rookie being promoted? There is always pressure on a prospect when he is promoted no matter when or where it is.
So when another second place team (at the time) has a struggling player at a certain position then makes a change to bring up their best hitting prospect, there also was lots of pressure.
And Eric Hosmer has sure looked pretty good since he was promoted.
Again, there is always lots of pressure when any prospect for any team is promoted for the first time.
Yankees should find out what day constitutes non Super 2 status (86 days on roster in preceeding year) since that appears to be their plan, and bring Montero up the next day.
That Super 2 day appears to be July 4th. Bring Montero up for the July 5th-6th games at Cleveland or wait until the home Tampa series that follwoing weekend.
Personally, I bring him up now and forget about the Super 2 garbage. If Montero becomes the hitter everyone thinks he is, the Yankees do not have to worry about arb status or "control" years because they will likely sign Jesus to an early long term contract, similar to Cano's deal.
It is always best to have your BEST PLAYERS in the system play for the major league team as that is the only level where winning really matters.
But before that, they need to stop with this 8 man bullpen, especially if Noesi is not being used and Posada has nbo versatility.
If not Montero, then one of the Triple-A outfielders for RH power (Maxwell) since Posada, Tex and Andruw can't hit RH, or Jorge Vazquez since he also has power.
Good day …… plus heathcott only got 5
And tonight would make it game 3 of serving that suspension. Really, i think this kid has got enough untapped tools and judging from the onfield progress he's made there appears to be the work ethic to make the majors.
If Heathcott keeps hitting, he'll be Tampa bound after mid season. To me, its looking more like JR Murphy is going to get promoted first. Including 2010, Murphy's already accumulated almost 450 at-bats at Charleston. If the kid keeps hitting like this … promote Murphy to challenge him.
Wouldn't surprise me if Heathcott gets the jump in six weeks or so. He had a full year at Charleston and unlike Murphy, who is working on defense at multiple positions, Heathcott seems to play a decent CF. The only issue I see is Lyerly, who could probably get the promo to Trenton but at the expense of Brad Suttle, a good hitting prospect but an older one who might not have that many chances left.
its the majors and its NY, theres always pressure.
the way the yankees are hitting he will feel like hes in AAA so theres no pressure
I think you messed up DeLeon's line for this evening; two of his strikeouts are being shown as walks.
Mike, SWB Yankees will be remade as a double header July 2. Time TBA.
Might as well throw Montero into the hottest fire during the regular season. Every game, AB and pitch will have more pressure once he starts playing in October.
Could it happen again????
On May 29th 1995 I went to Seattle to watch the Yanks and the M's play on my birthday. It turned out to be Jeter's ML debut.
This year I'm again going to Seattle on my birthday to watch the Yanks & M's…
Hey, that's my birthday too!
I think the Yanks will wait on Montero. I think they'd probably want to see what Maxwell or Vasquez can give them first. Those two guys are older, and their shelf life with the organization is a lot shorter than Montero's. Add in the Super 2 angle, and getting reps behind the plate, and it makes sense. The other two have 14 homers each I think, so why not give them a shot while they're hot.


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Last week I wrote about the screen interview. This week, the God awful phone interview; unlike the traditional face to face interview, this exercise leaves us with NO opportunity to read the persons "non verbal communication." Did I answer that question well? Did she like the answer? How can I tell?
Let's start with preparation for the phone interview. Men have more difficulty with this than the ladies. Dress for the interview. If you take the call in your pajamas with your big floppy slippers, you will sound as if you are taking the interview in your pajamas with your floppy slippers on.
Men, get up shave, put your suit on. (It need not go to the cleaners after the interview) Put any pets or family members that could be distracting in another area of the house. Put your wife's make up mirror on your desk. Remember the customer service training.They can hear your smile!
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If you need to stand up, it's ok! You breathe better when standing; ask your community church choir group to confirm this. Treat the interview as if you were in the room with the interviewer. Answer the questions remembering to state the situation, speak about any obstacles, explain the action that you took and bring home the results. Stay on track and always keep the answers on point.
Listen carefully; this is how you might compensate for the lack of nonverbal communication. If the interviewer says, "I agree" or "yes, right," you have done well. No response my indicated that the person did not like your answer. If that is happening, it's ok to ask the interviewer, "How do you feel about this issue?" Or "What do you think about that situation?" These hints may help in providing comfort in the interview. Remember, the interview, no matter the type, is a two way street.
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Despite a growing chorus of critics, the incoming head of the California High-Speed Rail Authority board remains confident that "the fundamentals of high-speed rail in California are strong" and that the central San Joaquin Valley is the place to start construction later this year.
Dan Richard, appointed to the authority board last summer by Gov. Jerry Brown, told a Fresno Chamber of Commerce audience Friday night that the Valley is a crucial backbone to connecting Los Angeles and San Francisco rail service. He added that he opposes shifting $3 billion in federal money from the Valley to start construction in other parts of the state.
Earlier Friday, Richard -- who lives in the Bay Area community of Piedmont -- spent time visiting with farmers in Kings County, a hotbed of opposition in the Valley.
"I felt it was important to really understand what the issues are as we come through the Valley," Richard said. "I know we have impacts, and today I had a chance to see some of those on the ground.
"I'd like to try to go back and see what we can do to minimize the effects to the greatest extent possible."
Richard acknowledged concerns raised by critics in government and the public over the rising cost -- estimates grew from $45 billion in 2009 to more than $98 billion in November -- and about ridership.
"The specific questions about our business plan need to be addressed, and we will," he said, adding that a revised plan may be available in the next six weeks. "But we believe strongly that the fundamentals of high-speed rail in California are strong."
Richard said about one-third of the $98 billion estimate to build the San Francisco-Los Angeles stage of the system represents the effects of inflation during construction. Billions have been included for potential cost overruns.
And he said it's important not to waste the opportunity to get federal funds, which require that contracts be awarded and construction begin by the end of September.
"There are a number of people who would be just as happy to give that money back, and there are people who would say, 'Let's take it out of the Valley and put it in other places,' but I oppose that," said Richard, who acknowledged that he was originally skeptical about building first in the Valley.
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PHOENIX, Arizona, February 25. IF you thought it was going to be a fairly quiet weekend in the pool here in the United States, you were in for a big surprise. Two American records and two national high school records were broken in the past five days, not to mention a host of other great swims in high school and college swimming.
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The Georgia women's team, as expected, won the SEC team title by 124 points over Texas A&M in their first SEC championships. The Aggies had a good run on Friday, winning all the women's events and making a big statement that they will be major players in the SEC. On the men's side, however, Florida ended Auburn's winning streak at 16 with a 212-point victory in the team standings.
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The Warriors lost two of their best bench players when Carl Landry and Jarrett Jack left during free agency. They were able to find replacements in Toney Douglas and Marreese Speights, but I think we can all be in agreement when I say that they are going to contribute less.
Douglas is defensively-oriented, which is what the Warriors need. Speights is a jump-shooter, who doesn't look to attack the basket first. The Warriors don't need another shooter.
They have a strong core of Stephen Curry, Harrison Barnes (who I suspect is starting), Andre Iguodala, David Lee, and Andrew Bogut, but their second unit (Thompson not inlcuded) is very weak. Thompson will be scoring big numbers off the bench, but other than that the Warriors are going to struggle to put up points in the middle of the first quarter when the starters are all sitting.
The life of the offense, at that time, will be Thompson. The second unit is mainly defensive, but obviously, the Warriors need to have some offensive life in order to compete. They can't stop their opponents on every single defensive possession.
I believe that Thompson will be the Warriors' only offensive life off the bench. Occasionally, we will see Douglas and Speights put up some big numbers, but the Warriors are replying mainly on their core to do the heavy lifting. They need to find some instant offense, other than the sixth man, that they can rely on.
They're not doomed without bench scoring, but against some of the deeper teams in the NBA like the Los Angeles Clippers or the New York Knicks, the Warriors will slow down offensively.
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Anne River Siddons was born in 1936 in Fairburn, Georgia, a small railroad
town just south of Atlanta, where her family has lived for six generations. The
only child of a prestigious Atlanta lawyer and his wife, Siddons was raised to
be a perfect Southern belle. Growing up, she did what was expected of her:
getting straight A's, becoming head cheerleader, the homecoming queen, and then
Centennial Queen of Fairburn. At Auburn University she studied illustration,
joined the Tri-Delt sorority, and "did the things I thought I should. I
dated the right guys. I did the right activities," and wound up voted
"Loveliest of the Plains."
During her student years at Auburn, the Civil Rights Movement first gained national attention, with the bus boycott in Montgomery and the integration of the University of Alabama. Siddons was a columnist for the Auburn Plainsman at the time, and she wrote, "an innocuous, almost sophomoric column" welcoming integration. The school's administration requested she pull it, and when she refused, they ran it with a disclaimer stating that the university did not share her views. Because she was writing from the deep South, her column gained instant national attention and caused quite "a fracas." When she wrote a second, similarly-minded piece, she was fired. It was her first taste of the power of the written word.
After graduation, she worked in the advertising department of a large bank, doing layout and design. But she soon discovered her real talents lay in writing, as she was frequently required to write copy for the advertisements. "At Auburn, and before that when I wrote local columns for the Fairburn paper, writing came so naturally that I didn't value it. I never even thought that it might be a livelihood, or a source of great satisfaction. Southern girls, remember, were taught to look for security."
She soon left the bank to join the staff of the recently founded Atlanta magazine. Started by renowned mentor, Jim Townsend, the Atlanta came to life in the 1960's, just as the city Atlanta was experiencing a rebirth. As one of the magazine's first senior editors, Siddons remembers the job as being, "one of the most electrifying things I have ever done in terms of sheer joy." Her work at the magazine brought her in direct contact with the Civil Rights Movement, often sitting with Dr. King's people at the then-black restaurant Carrousel, listening to the best jazz the city had to offer. At age 30, she married Heyward Siddons, eleven years her senior, and the father of four sons from a previous marriage.
Her writing career took its next leap when Larry Ashmead, then an editor at Doubleday, noticed an article of hers and wrote to her asking if she would consider doing a book. She assumed the letter was a prank, and that some of her friends had stolen Doubleday stationary. When she didn't respond, Ashmead tracked her down, and Siddons ended up with a two book contract: a collection of essays which became John Chancellor Makes Me Cry, and a novel of her college days, which became Heartbreak Hotel, and was later turned into a film, Heart of Dixie, starring Ally Sheedy.
As Ashmead moved on, from Doubleday to Simon & Schuster, then to Harper & Row, Siddons followed, writing a horror story, The House Next Door, which Stephen King described as a prime example of "the new American Gothic," and then Fox's Earth and Homeplace, about the loss of a beloved home.
It was in 1988, with the publication of her fifth book, the best-selling Peachtree Road, that Siddons graduated to real commercial success. Described by her friend and peer, Pat Conroy, as "the Southern novel for our generation." With almost a million copies in print, Peachtree Road ushered Siddons onto the literary fast track. Since then the novels have been coming steadily, about one each year, with her readership and writer's fees increasing commensurately. In 1992 she received $3.25 million from HarperCollins for a three book deal, and then, in 1994, HarperCollins gave Siddons $13 million for a four book deal.
Siddons' success has naturally brought comparisons with another great Southern writer, Margaret Mitchell, but Siddons insists that the South she writes about is not the romanticized version found in Gone With the Wind. Instead, her relationship with the South is loving, but realistic. "It's like an old marriage or a long marriage. The commitment is absolute, but the romance has long since worn off . . . I want to write about it as it really is: I don't want to romanticize it."
She and her husband, Heyward, split their time between their homes in Charleston, South Carolina, and Brooklin, Maine.
This biography was last updated on 09/19/2010.
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