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My college graduation present was a 32-oz T-bone steak from The Capital Grille. It was two pounds of pure protein, and to this day the $65 price tag makes it the most expensive meal that's graced my taste buds. But in the world of culinary absurdities, money is no object. So if you happened to win the lottery and have the urge to spend more on a meal than I'll make in an entire lifetime, you might want to consider this crazy expensive meal. Travel costs have not been included in the final tally.
Treasure Hunting: Waring 12" Heavy-Duty Big Stix Immersion Blender
"Speak softly, and carry a big stick." – Theodore Roosevelt. And by "big stick", the former President meant the Waring 12" Heavy-Duty Big Stix Immersion Blender. Because nothing complements foreign policy better than a bowl of warm, comforting, creamy soup. Read on...
5 Non Traditional Thanksgiving Side Dishes
Tradition. It's a word synonymous with Thanksgiving and the musical Fiddler on the Roof. Between the Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade and, The National Dog Show, all you have to do is throw in some stuffing, turkey and a pumpkin pie-induced nap and you've just landed yourself a Thanksgiving chock full of tradition. While most people find comfort in the traditional Thanksgiving, this year I urge you to mix it up a bit just like the pilgrims did all those years ago. I've scoured the interwebs to come up with these five non traditional Thanksgiving side dishes to throw on the table this year. Keep an open mind, and don't worry— I'm here to hold your hand through these changes.
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While chestnuts roasting over an open fire are all well and fine, when it feels like your fingers are going to freeze off, they aren't worth the wait. However, a nice hot holiday drink not only warms the fingers, it warms the soul as well, and it does it with quickness. Read on for hot holiday drink recipes...
Roasting Pans: A Heavy Metal Thanksgiving
It takes a certain level of skill to roast a turkey. Cooking it for too long and not basting enough can result in a dry, chalky bird that the entire family picks at, but never really eats. But did you know that the kind of roasting pan you use can impact how the turkey cooks as well? Read on...

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#WhyIStayedPosted: September 20, 2014 Filed under: Female Power, Feminism, Violence Against Females, Woman | Tags: #WhyIStayed, Domestic violence, Feminism, Janay Rice, Memory, Misogyny, Power, Ray Rice, Sexism, WPLongform 165 Comments
Several months ago I wrote, "Stopping the Violence," a blog post about a verbally abusive relationship I was in. He and I were together for nine months—longer, if you count the times we got back together. While nine months might not sound like a long period, the emotional injuries I sustained from those months with him were significant. It took me years to recover.
Yes, I stayed. Even after he punched a wooden fence one night in a jealous fit because I'd said hello to an ex-boyfriend. Yes, I stayed. Even after he swung his fist at me, stopping just before making contact with my face.
I definitely have had my issues, some of which I was working out with him. For a long time, I used to think that it was all my fault. If only I had been stronger or tougher, or perhaps less broken. Maybe I wouldn't have gotten involved with him at all.
Then again, some of the strongest and smartest women I know have been in relationships where domestic violence was involved. These are women that if you looked at them you'd think twice before messing with them. These are women that on the outside appear nothing like what you would expect a victim of domestic violence to look.
And like me, it took them a while to realize what was going on. Most of these women didn't leave right away. One of them is in her abusive relationship still.
At first, I stayed because I didn't realize that his behavior was abusive. I mistook his jealousy and temper for passion. At that time in my life, nearly twenty years ago, I was numb and out of touch with emotions. The yelling, the torrid makeup sessions would get my adrenaline rushing. The highs and lows created by our dynamic together allowed me to really feel.
I also was under the false impression, thanks to the patriarchal and misogynistic society that I grew up in, that "real" men should want to dominate their woman, "wear the pants." I found that behavior sexy back then, not offensive and harmful like I do now. Not to mention that the stereotype disparages and is harmful to men.
When the angry outbursts turned into verbal fists and put-downs, I stayed because by then I was emotionally invested in the relationship. I loved him. And it's not like I sometimes didn't give as good as I got.
Maybe he was right. Maybe I really was too sensitive. Maybe I needed to toughen up or get a better sense of humor. And like he said, did I really need to talk to my guy friends anymore now that I had him?
Looking back, I realize that, all my rationalizations, this was the abuse talking through me. Blame the victim until she starts to blame herself.
But I was so deeply involved with him, I couldn't think or see clearly. I no longer had a handle on the relationship. The abuse was handling me.
In her book The Verbally Abusive Relationship, author Patricia Evans lists the numerous effects of verbal abuse on women, including:
- A distrust of her spontaneity
- A growing self-doubt
- An anxiety or fear of being crazy
- A desire not to be the way she is, "too sensitive," etc.
- A reluctance to come to conclusions
- A hesitancy to accept her perception
- A concern that something is wrong with her
I hadn't understood how abusive his behavior was until I read her book. She described our dynamic, and all my feelings, perfectly.
If I can just make him understand what he is doing, he will want to stop, I thought. But all attempts to explain ended in fights.
I started thinking up reasons I could give him for why we needed to break up. "I want out because you're abusing me" didn't feel like it was going to cut it.
I worried about hurting his feelings or making him mad. I felt obligated to give him a reason he would find acceptable. I tried to get him to break up with me instead.
During one of our horrible fights, I gave him an ultimatum that I knew he wouldn't agree to. I wanted him to think that ending us was his doing.
You'd think I would have been relieved to be done with him. But when he reached out a few months after our break up, I decided to try again. And again. Maybe we just needed time off from one another. Maybe this time will be different. It never was.
After him, I became wary about men who liked to fight. I became wary of most men, really.
Years later, I dated a man who appeared to hate conflict. He would shut down at the hint of an argument. He would spoil me, taking me on trips abroad and showering me with expensive presents.
But over time he'd start to tell these jokes. There was the one about how I needed stop wearing my red high heels because they made me look like a slut. Just kidding, sweetie! Or how when people saw us together they looked at me and immediately thought "mail order bride." It's just a joke, honey!
Sometimes, he would imitate me when I smiled. Only, he would scrunch up his eyes and twist his mouth sideways into these grotesque expressions. This is what you look like, sweetie! Then he would lean over and kiss me.
His remarks, cushioned in teasing, affectionate tones would catch me off guard. The "jokes" would usually happen at the most unexpected moments—a romantic dinner at an expensive restaurant, while laughing with friends at a wedding. I'd be feeling happy and relaxed or confident and that was when he'd strike.
Until this man, I had no idea that domestic violence can happen even when there is no yelling or fighting involved. I had no idea that it could be doled out so tenderly or take place in such public, even fancy, settings.
The National Coalition Against Domestic Violence says that approximately 42.4 million women in the U.S. have experienced intimate partner violence. Domestic violence impacts individuals of all ages and from every level of education, economic background, gender, race, and nationality. Often, intimate partner violence happens behind closed doors.
I doubt that NFL player Ray Rice ever thought that anyone would be watching him punch out Janay, his then-fiancé, inside an elevator. She later married him.
Many women are too ashamed or terrified to admit to anyone, including themselves, that their boyfriend/fiancé/husband/wife/the father of their children is abusive. It is not uncommon for a victim of domestic violence to refuse to press charges against her partner.
When a woman is deep in an abusive relationship—which is often when the violence starts—the abuse happens enough times that her tolerance level goes up. Someone going into a rage in the middle of the night for the smallest reason starts to feel like normal, instead of unacceptable, behavior. Leaving him, which would seem like the obvious, logical choice, gradually turns into the last resort.
Maybe a woman has come to depend on her partner financially. Or maybe he is the father of her children. Maybe she is afraid he'll kill her if she tries to leave. Or maybe she can't imagine living without him.
I am in no means advocating for anyone to stay in an abusive relationship. Leave immediately, if you can, is my advice. But I do want to honor the many reasons why women stay with their abusers, as evidenced by everyone who tweeted their own reasons under #WhyIStayed.
Their reasons may not make sense to anyone else. Some of their reasons may not even make sense to these women. Then again, nothing about domestic violence makes sense.
Coming Out of GrandmotherPosted: August 31, 2014 Filed under: Body, Family, Movement, Woman, Woman's Bodies | Tags: Bodies, Death, Family, Grandmother, Grieving, Memoir, Memory, Women's Bodies 58 Comments
I saw a woman at the bank the other day. A bank teller. She had the same kind of liver spots on her face that my grandmother used to have, right on the side of her cheeks by her eyes. She had laugh lines like my grandmother did. The shape of her face was almost exactly like hers. So was the texture of her skin. I wondered if the woman's skin, like my grandmother's skin, is what old lady Filipina skin is supposed to look like… like a coconut but not so hard, smooth even though it looks rough.
Seeing this woman was like looking at grandmother again, as if she were standing in front of me even though it wasn't really her. The teller also had drawn in eyebrows, except my grandmother never used black eyeliner to pencil in her eyebrows. She always used a brown pencil. (Although when my grandmother was in her seventies once, she drew one of her eyebrows in blue because she was in a hurry and didn't notice. When my sister pointed it out hours later my grandmother laughed so hard that she had to put her hand over her mouth to keep the rest of her laughter from spilling out all over the floor.)
I wanted to touch this bank teller's face. I wanted to press my face next to hers and inhale deep to see if she smelled like Pond's cold cream and Johnson's baby powder, just like my grandmother. If I could have stood in front of the teller window longer I would have looked at her hands to see if they were wrinkled in the same places where my grandmother's fingers had been wrinkled too.
As a little girl living in the Philippines, when it it was time to take a nap, I would get into bed with my grandmother and wrap my arms and legs around her until I'd fully sunken into her down comforter softness. I would hold on to her tight because I knew that once I fell asleep she'd find a way to free herself from my limbs and get on with the rest of her day. I didn't want to let her go.
When my grandmother died in 2006 I didn't make it to her deathbed. I wasn't able to fly back from the U.S. for her funeral either, so I never got to hold her goodbye. For that first year after, the longing to hug her one more time was this big, constant ache inside of me.
Until one day, while moving in my body—which is my way of going inward and working out stuff in my life—the realizations hit me:
I come out of the womb of my mother, who came out of the womb of my grandmother. We're like a Matryoshka doll—only human, not wooden; Filipina, not Russian. My body comes in part from my grandmother's DNA, which still very much lives on in my DNA. My grandmother is right here, right now, alive in me.
Knowing this doesn't make the hurt of losing her any less, but it does make the pain feel a little less tender. Now, when I miss my grandmother, rather than looking everywhere and wondering if she's out there, I sink into my body a little more deeply instead. Because I know that's where I can always find her.
The Womb as Navigator, Executive Advisor, and Source of Feminine PowerPosted: August 19, 2014 Filed under: Body, Female Power, Feminine Power, Feminism, Womb | Tags: Feminism, Memory, Power, Tantric Dance of Feminine Power, Womb, Women's Bodies, Wonder Woman 45 Comments
I love to drop into my womb. I first learned about this practice when I started studying The Tantric Dance of Feminine Power™ over ten years ago. "Drop into your womb" is one of the instructions the teacher gives you before you can dance.
As someone who was used to connecting to my body from the outside-in—usually secondhand through the male gaze—I'd never thought to connect to my body from inside of myself, let alone to my womb of all places.
That very first time I tried to drop into my womb, I ended up in my belly area instead. Since the belly is the part of the female body I would see grow bigger in pregnant women, I figured that was where my womb must be. But when I went home later that night and Googled "womb" just to be sure, I discovered that it was located lower down in my body.
Up to this point, I'd spent a lot of my life living in my head, thinking… thinking… thinking my way through life rather than being fully in my body and present to the moment. My body, as far as I was concerned, was for getting me places and attracting the opposite sex. It was also the part of me that my mind couldn't seem to control no matter how hard it tried. I felt like I was occupying my body but not really connected to it.
My body liked to disobey me. Like in gym class when I was a girl. I so wanted to hit that volleyball over the net whenever it came flying my way. I would try to "think" my arms into gracefully knocking the ball over, but noooooooo! My hands would helplessly flap at the ball, while the rest of me tried to get out of the way because I was afraid of getting hit.
I also was fearful of my body's natural appetites and impulses. I believed that if I wasn't constantly regulating my own behavior I might overeat, get knocked up, or end up in other sorts of trouble.
"Think with your head! You can't trust your body," one of my male relatives would warn me.
No wonder it took me a while to learn how to drop into my womb and stay there.
Now, when I say that I drop into my womb, I don't actually physically re-enter my uterus or go sliding around in my fallopian tubes. That would be truly frightening—and probably grotesque and very messy. It's about focusing my awareness down in my pelvic area instead of letting it stay up in my head.
When I drop into my womb, my awareness—some might call this the mind, consciousness, or spirit—comes down and links up with my body. My head and my body no longer feel like disjointed parts, at odds with one another. They become unified parts of a whole—that whole being me.
I've grown to love this way of connecting with my body so much that I've started to drop into my womb even when I'm not in dance class.
When my mind and my body are joined up, it is easier for them to work together and communicate with one another. Playing volleyball would be a different experience now if I were to drop into my womb. I'd let my body and its instincts and impulses kick ass, rather than trying to play the sport from just inside my head.
Connecting to my womb space has made a lot of life's experiences more satisfying. Sex is more pleasurable when my awareness is down around my pelvic area instead of in my brain, where I can't feel anything. As a performer, I do my best acting when I'm dropped in my womb instead of agonizing about remembering my lines. And believe it or not, I even drop into my womb when I parallel park!
And you know how sometimes you just know things even though you don't know how you know them? These hits of insight and intuition come through me even stronger when I'm dropped into my womb:
You don't have writer's block. The story you want to tell just needs more time to gestate in your body… I know you think you blew that job interview by not pretending to be more excited. That was your body's way of helping you weed out the wrong opportunity…. Stop trying to figure out what to do next! Stay connected to your body and wait for the answer to come to you.
It's as if by dropping into my womb, I connect to a flowing fountain of wisdom—my own wisdom. This is not information that comes from books or experts. It is knowledge that comes directly through my feminine body.
So many women are taught to cast aside their own instincts and feelings in favor of the opinions and instructions of external authority figures—male ones, especially—that it can seem wrong to act upon that inner knowing. It also can feel bizarre and frightening. But what if there is no better guide for how to live our lives than our own female bodies?
When we are plugged into our bodies, we become embodied. This transforms us into women with full access to the unique wisdom, abilities, and powers that reside in each of us, waiting to be unleashed.
As a young girl living in the Philippines, I used to stand in the middle of my bedroom, stretch my arms wide, and turn around and around in place. I so badly wanted to transform into Wonder Woman—or, at the very least her younger sister.
I thought I wanted to be a superhero, like Superman or Batman, when really what I longed for was to experience my own power.
Every time I drop into my womb, I am Wonder Woman. I become my own kind of wonder woman.
I Look At My FeetPosted: July 30, 2014 Filed under: Beauty, Body, Body Image, Dance, Feminism, Movement | Tags: Beauty, Body Image, Memoir, Movement, Women's Bodies 39 Comments
I used to look at my feet and see big… long..ugly. At least that's what some of my relatives told me they saw when I was growing up . So I stopped taking care of my feet.
In college I walked around the Berkeley campus for four years in Nordstrom style loafers. I bought them in all the different colors: Blue. Black. Beige. And red. When I'd wear out a pair, I'd buy another pair. I'd take the BART across the bay to San Francisco on a Saturday.
Once, when I went home for summer vacation, my aunt looked down and said, "What have you done to your feet? They look like you've been plowing the rice fields [in the Philippines]!" Oops. Then again, how would she know?
I considered wearing tennis shoes instead. I sure could have used them. I was walking at least a couple of miles from class to class every day. But I thought that wearing tennis shoes would make me look less sophisticated. I thought Nordstrom loafers made a difference over tennis shoes in terms of how many boys would like me.
Looking back, I doubt most guys even looked at my feet—or my shoes—except for that one dude from my sophomore year who had a foot fetish. But I didn't really like him much anyway.
Now, twenty years after college, all these boys are gone. Married to other women. Out of my life. In the end, none of them really mattered.
As for me? I still have my feet. My feet, which keep me steady and grounded. My feet, which keep taking me to different places and back. They matter to me now.
When I'm in yoga class, I look at everyone's feet. Truth is that their feet don't look much bigger or longer or uglier than mine. Some of the other women's feet are even bigger. None of their feet are ugly really. Maybe my feet have been normal looking all along.
Come to think of it, I have my mother's feet. And I never thought her feet were ugly. I'd recognize her feet in an all-female foot lineup.
In dance class once, the teacher told us to let one of the body parts we wish we could disown do the dancing. That night, my feet tapped on the floor in freedom and jubilation. For the first time, in the movement, the beauty of my feet came through. For the first time, in the dance, I got to experience beauty all the way down in my feet.
A few months later, a woman that I know knelt down in front of me to bless my feet. She rested her fingers on their surface, feeling them with a reverence I'd only ever seen reserved for holy objects. Her gesture, alluding to the sacred, made me teary-eyed.
These days, I only wear high heels if I don't have to do much walking—although sometimes, when I'm in the mood, I put on my red fuck me pumps and go to town. They're four inches tall. Made in Italy. I wear them because they please me. They make me feel sexy and badass.
If I didn't have long feet, how the hell would the rest of my body balance out my big breasts? I might topple over.
Maybe my feet have always been perfectly made, their drawn-out, slender shape just the right size for me. I just needed time to grow into them.
What Lives in the Female BellyPosted: July 15, 2014 Filed under: Belly, Body, Creativity, Feminine Power, Feminism, Woman | Tags: Blogging, Female Belly, Feminism, Memory, Sexual Abuse, Stories, Women's Bodies, Writing 64 Comments
I decided to name my blog "Stories from the Belly" for a few reasons. The first was that I wanted to tell the kinds of stories about being a woman that aren't often shared out loud—true tales that might feel too shameful or painful or embarassing to tell anyone. Instead, a woman might store these stories deep within, locking them inside her body and forgetting they are even there.
I'd buried these types of stories in my belly for years. I didn't even know that's where I put them until I took a writing class with poet Jack Grapes more than ten years ago. Jack teaches students how to access the memories that we've buried in our gut, right in the belly.
I grew up having very strong feelings about this part of my body. My belly, like the earth, has always been round, never flat. Even when I've placed myself on a restrictive diet or felt motivated enough to work out five times a week, my belly is full and soft.
As a teenager I tried to hide my belly. I would wear loose clothing. I subsisted on half-breaths for years so I could keep my stomach pulled in under my rib cage. If only my belly would disappear—although anatomically if I didn't have a belly and all that it contains I'd be in big trouble.
Maybe then I shouldn't have been surprised that my belly was where I'd buried the true stories that I was most mortified and wounded by: the story of how I endured a verbally abusive relationship; the story of how as a young girl I hid my dark complexion inside nylon stockings and under long sleeves (I wanted people to think I had lighter skin); and the story of when a swim teacher molested me.
In Jack's class, I used my pen to siphon out the painful memories and release them from my body. In the process of transforming these traumas into stories for class, I began to heal from them. I started to feel whole again.
When I later participated in women's circles, I discovered that stories that come from the belly are even more more potent when shared. These gatherings usually begin with a "check-in." Each woman takes her turn talking about an internal struggle, a personal victory, or a new realization about herself.
I can't tell you how many times over the years a woman has told the kind of personal story that people usually don't talk about and I've thought, Really? You mean It's not just me!?
Whenever it's been my turn to share a fear, a neurosis, or a "this happened to me" moment, the women's responses have been similar. Always, there is empathy, compassion, and recognition. Often, in these exchanges, some kind of release or relief happens for someone if not everyone.
In certain women's circles nothing even needs to be said. The telling of an experience is visceral, transmitted from one female body to another.
Like at one gathering that was specifically for survivors of sexual abuse. As I entered the room, I looked around and realized that I knew almost everyone there.
That understanding alone—of knowing that these women, whom I knew personally, also carried their own stories of sexual abuse in their bodies—helped shed my shame around what happened.
Before that circle, I'd spent years trying to hide in plain sight. I was scared my abuse secret would be found out. I pursued acting but constantly sabotaged any potential success. I wrote professionally but only as a ghostwriter. My fear was that if anyone discovered I had been sexually abused they would want nothing to do with me.
But as I looked at these women, whom I admired and knew to be courageous, warm, compassionate, and wholehearted human beings—women I was honored to call my friends— I began to see and feel differently about myself. I started to let people see me.
For me, it has been shame that has compelled me to act smaller, compact my fullness, and swallow my voice. Shame caused me to entomb my messy truths in the bowels of my belly—along with my complicated feelings, my fiercest parts, and even my power. It has been in the digging up and reclaiming of all these disowned bits, allowing them to find their rightful place in my body and in my life—without the shame—that I've finally started to embody my wholeness.
The title of my blog pays homage to women and their bodies in all their fullness. It honors different aspects of the lived female experience that often get cast aside, disowned, or stuffed down in the belly. It embraces the (my) feminine appetites.
These are the many desires that live in the female body. And I'm not just talking about sex and food either.
I am a woman who is hungry to know herself totally, demands to be fully met by her man, and wants… craves… must have… much from this one life.
Thank goodness we have the stomach for all of it.
The Other "F" WordPosted: June 24, 2014 Filed under: Body, Female Power, Feminism, Woman | Tags: Aging, Bodies, F-word, Feminism, Forties, Sexism, Women's Bodies 68 Comments
Three years ago I turned forty. I flipped out when it happened, even though I knew that the negative ideas about women hitting middle age are misogynistic and wrong.
Here are excerpts from my journal that I wrote in 2011 about this milestone age (Apparently I was watching a lot of Oprah back then):
- Oprah says that hiding your age is like denying your existence. Yet I can't help myself. At parties any time the topic of age comes up I find myself leaving the room and running to get a drink. If I come back and people are still talking about age, I get up again, this time to go look for ice. I don't want to admit that I'm 40—especially living in Hollywood where it seems like everyone I know is 25.
- I'd lower my age on Match.com if I wasn't so opposed to lying. My ex-boyfriend says that a lot of guys who see my profile are writing me off right away just because the number "40" appears in my age box. It's almost as if my age is my expiration date and I've turned into a carton of spoiled milk.
- People who know my real age say that I look pretty good "for 40." Still, there's that caveat, "for 40," as if "looking good" and "40" don't usually go together.
- I finally decided to stop checking my face in the mirror to see if any new wrinkles appeared overnight. I mean, what if by staring at myself under the blaring bathroom light, my forehead furrowed with worry, I'm making more wrinkles happen?
- I watched Oprah's Lifeclass on OWN. The episode was about celebrities on aging. Actresses Ally McGraw, 72, and Bo Derek, 53, talked about how their necks are now showing their age. I thought, Fuck! Really? The neck? The fucking neck? One more body part to worry about.
Entering middle age for a woman can feel scary in a society that places so much value on youth. Girls and younger women are objectified. Older women are mocked or treated as if they are invisible. And if a woman tries to hold on to her youth for too long, she too risks being ridiculed. It seems to me that the only way for any woman to escape this contempt is by dying young.
Psychologists and former models Vivian Diller and Jill Muir-Sukenis are the authors of Face It: What Women Really Feel Like as Their Looks Change say, "While individually we were taught that beauty is only skin deep, our youth-obsessed culture reinforces the notion that beauty is our currency, our power, and what makes us female."
They write that millions of women are "surprised, and embarrassed, even" to discover that they care so much about their changing looks. Even "the first wrinkle or gray hair can send us into an emotional tailspin."
Reading their book, I thought, I'm not the only woman my age feeling this way? Why don't more of us talk about this? It would definitely make me feel less alone, neurotic, and superficial. Now I understand why there are women who feel like they have to get Botox shots or go under the knife. We're taught to despise ourselves for getting older yet we look down at each other for wanting to look younger.
At the Academy Awards this year, actress Kim Novak, 81, made a rare public appearance. Novak, who became a big star in her twenties, obviously doesn't look like her younger self. But she does appear to have undergone some work.
The vitriol directed at her by men and women on social media for trying to look younger even though she is an old woman made me sick. I can only imagine how it made Novak feel. Then again, she probably would have gotten just as much heat if she'd walked onto the stage looking her age. I can see the headline now: Kim Novak, 81, actually looks 81!
About six months into being 40, I realized I had a choice to make. I could keep chastising myself for getting older, or I could stop buying into the messed up ideas around aging that I'd internalized. Considering that I'd spent most of my thirties waking up to who I really am and what I really want, I certainly didn't want to fall asleep again under another sexist spell cast by the patriarchy.
At 41, I kicked my sugar habit and became the healthiest I've ever been. I also started writing my first book because I was finally ready. After 40 years of people pleasing, I stopped saying yes whenever I really mean no. I also stopped worrying about men who weren't interested in me and started to pay attention to the men that I was interested in. Last year, I met the person that I want to grow old with. And even though I don't look 23 anymore, or even 33, I love the way I look today at 43.
Still, I'd be lying if I said that I no longer panic whenever a new sign of aging makes an appearance. Just the other day I stressed out when I saw a gray hair fall out of my left eyebrow. I'd never even thought to worry about that body part.
But then I remembered that Sundance, my boyfriend's cat, is white. I decided that he must have hovered over me while I slept and shed hair over my face. "Please let that be white cat hair and not my hair! Please let that be white cat hair and not my hair!" I implored said eyebrow.
I must say that so far my forties are proving to be—to use yet another F-word—(pretty damn) Fabulous.
The Story of a Woman in Sexual PleasurePosted: May 30, 2014 Filed under: Body, Feminism, Pleasure, Sexism, Sexual Pleasure, Woman | Tags: Bodies, Feminism, Masturbation, Memory, Sexism, Sexual Pleasure, Sexuality, Women's Bodies 57 Comments
A few years ago I was asked to participate in a storytelling show. The piece I read was called "My Vibrator Story." I had written it in a workshop and test read the story at the end of class. The audience, made up of the other participants, was primarily women that day. My story, a personal tale about masturbation, ended up getting lots of laughs—so much so that I was invited to share it in front of a much larger, public audience.
But when the time came to read "My Vibrator Story" at this bigger event—no one had told me there would be over 100 people there—I bombed in my delivery of the piece. I indicated to the audience when I wanted them to laugh. I kept looking at them and smiling as I read as if to say, "This is one big joke, let's not take me or my story too seriously." The audience's response, as I read my work and when I finished, was lukewarm.
It was a long time before I was willing to read any story in front of strangers again. What happened to me that night? How hard could it have been to just read words off a page? Maybe I was too nervous. I'd never read my work in front of that many people before. Or maybe I'd felt insecure. The list of performers that evening had included original Saturday Night Live cast member Laraine Newman and other known performers.
Looking back now, I realize that beyond nerves and self-doubt there was something else going on for me that night: I'd felt deeply ashamed to be talking about female sexual pleasure, especially my own, in front of an audience that included men.
"My Vibrator Story" is about what I did years ago one summer. Tired of feeling disappointed in dating and having no desire for casual sex, I went down to the local sex shop and bought myself a sex toy. I liked mine so much that I went back to the store and got vibrators for my closest girlfriends, too. When I got tired of my vibrator I bought another and then another.
The story version of my experience, told in 1400 words, includes a jaunty play-by-play with orgasms. It also talks about the relief I felt for the respite: For once, I had total permission to not worry about someone else's sexual satisfaction. I could let my sexual experiences be all about me. And as I got to know my body better, I learned more about what I liked and what I didn't like. I began to recognize what worked for me and didn't work.
When it came time to share in public what to me felt like an empowering, self-honoring experience, the last emotion I expected to feel was shame. But that's exactly how I felt—as if I was telling a disgusting, dirty story.
Also, thoughts like these ran through my head as I had read: Why couldn't I have read the story about the night I was almost date raped by that frat boy in college? Or what about the one where my swim teacher fondled me when I was ten? As if those stories were less offensive because they were about horrible sexual experiences and not positive ones.
Granted, there are now more stories out there that portray the more pleasurable aspects of a woman's sex life—The HBO shows Girls and Sex and the City and Showtime's The L Word are a few examples. Also, more women are openly talking and writing about the female sexual experience, including their own.
Still, many people in this world continue to treat female sexual pleasure like a taboo topic: Fit to be viewed mainly in a pornographic context, and even then primarily for the purpose of arousing the male gaze. God forbid the portrayal of sex when it revolves around a woman's own pleasure.
In 2010, the movie Blue Valentine almost got an NC-17 rating because of a scene where actor Ryan Gosling's character performs oral sex on his wife, Michelle Williams's character. She is the one who orgasms. Last year, the CW network edited out a scene from an episode of the drama Reign because it depicted a female character sexually pleasuring herself. And just this month, Jean Franzblau, a writer/performer, got fired from a corporate job because the client found out she has a one-person show called Coming Out Kinky: A Grown Up Story.
Why are so many people in society still uncomfortable with stories about female sexual pleasure? I suspect this has a lot to do with a patriarchal paradigm that generally refuses to acknowledge women as sexual beings in their own right. It's okay to think of a woman as a slut or frigid or a sex object. A sexually empowered woman is still a big no-no.
Despite my behavior in private and my personal belief that female sexual pleasure is awesome, I'd obviously internalized the cultural shame around talking about it. Although the truth is, if the audience (no matter the size) had again been primarily women, I wouldn't have felt mortified when reading my "My Vibrator Story" out loud.
To be clear, the men who were in the audience that night didn't do anything to make me feel bad about telling my story. But as I looked out into the crowd and saw them there, my first response was shame. I think it's because on some level a part of me believed that patriarchy was right: female sexual pleasure is acceptable but only when a man is involved and not if it's all about the woman.
Any kind of societal or internalized conditioning that makes a woman feel ashamed about owning and embracing her sexuality has got to go. The next time I read "My Vibrator Story" in front of any audience, I'm going to do my best to tell the story simply and unabashedly.


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If you only had 15 minutes to get something to eat in Manhattan, Where would it be ? What would it be? And why?
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When I was a NYC Teaching Fellow in Brooklyn I never had time and it was always a street cart. Fast and cheap. No decent pizza nearby so I couldn't grab a slice.
I'd have a falafel at Alfanoose, or an uni panini (sic) at El Quino Pino, or chile rellonos at Zaragoza (215 Ave A).
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text: WWF Template for Terms o f Reference for Project and Programme Evaluations – October 20 2005 1 TEMPLATE FOR TERMS OF REFERENCE FOR PROJECT AND PROGRAMME EVALUATIONS This template is to be used to assist the development of Terms of Reference for Project/ Programme Evaluations. It is designed to comply with the concepts and terminology present in the WWF Standards of Conservation Project and Programme Management (the latest version of this document may be found on Connect at Home > Documents > Network Standards > Programmes > 0. WWF Standards of Project and Programme Management - Overview SUMMARY GUIDELINE FOR DEVELOPING TERMS OF REFERENCE If done properly and openly, projects are implemented in a context of learning and sharing. The continuous analysis of results by the project team allows for adaptive management, which greatly enhances the probability of success for any project. In addition, evaluations provide a formal feedback mechanism which can give further opportunities for learning, and may lead to the re-design of the project. Usually evaluations are designed to assess a project against its own stated goals and objectives (known as the "effectiveness" of the project). Other assessment criteria are normally included in addition (see below). Evaluations can be conducted at various phases of the project cycle - mid-term, at the end of a project phase, or sometimes after the end of a project. They can be conducted either internally or externally. Internal evaluations and audits, which are done by project team members and close partners, have the advantages of being relatively easy and cheap to conduct and that the people involved in the assessment can make direct use of the findings. External evaluations and audits, which are done by outside parties, have the advantage of providing an outside and unbiased perspective to the project team. For an evaluation process to be objective, it needs to achieve a balanced analysis, to recognise bias, and to reconcile the perspectives of different stakeholders. In general, evaluations should address five fundamental criteria: quality and relevance of design, effectiveness, efficiency of implementation, impact and potential for sustainability. Other criteria can be added as appropriate, but it is important not to be overambitious. Evaluations are conducted with a view to: enhancing project impact. developing recommendations for further developments of the project or the guidance of similar projects in the future providing an analysis of accountability with respect to the use of project funds drawing key lessons learned to contribute to organizational learning enhancing WWF's credibility and transparency The Terms of Reference for an evaluation (also referred to as the scope of work) will articulate the scope and limitations of the evaluation. Good ToR provide the basis for a good evaluation. They define the evaluation framework, and act as a point of reference throughout the process. They should be tight, explicit, and focused. The ToR provide a clear mandate for the evaluation team, specifically defining what is being evaluated and why, how the evaluation will be conducted, and the expected outputs. The scope of the evaluation (and the formulation of the ToR) will vary depending on a variety of factors (such as scale of the project, known successes/ failures/ contextual changes, time since inception of the project, the anticipated future for the project, the budget for the evaluation etc.) It is WWF Template for Terms o f Reference for Project and Programme Evaluations – October 20 2005 2 critical that the Terms of Reference for the evaluation are prioritised in response to the precise project situation, and to help the evaluation team focus on the essential issues. The initial draft of the ToR is usually the responsibility of the project supervisor. It is important that the ToR are developed consultatively, together with the project team and the donors so that their key concerns are addressed, and also with the evaluation team to allow for their input into the evaluation design and methodology, including its feasibility within the budget and time available. The Terms of Reference should, at a minimum, cover the elements listed below. TEMPLATE FOR TERMS OF REFERENCE 1. Project Background and Context Provide a brief description of the project and the surrounding context (up to 1 page of narrative). Include critical aspects of the biodiversity, policy, social, and economic context of the project. Identify major stakeholders and their interests and concerns. Detailed background information (e.g. project action plan/ logical framework) can be included in an annex. Provide also the following key information: Project Location Specify the region, country, or landscape as appropriate. State also the Global 200 ecoregion (where relevant) Project Name Project reference number Project budget State the total budget for this donor (noting the contract currency and exchange rate used). Also state the global (total) budget for this project. Donor(s)/ funding sources State all donors and (where applicable) the precise funding sources. Project duration State the project duration and the evaluation period (if different) lmplementing agency and partners State which organization(s) are implementing the project Project executant 2. Purpose and Objectives of the Evaluation Explain clearly why the evaluation is being done, what triggered it and how it will be used. This should provide the broad orientation, which is then further elaborated in the scope of the evaluation. 3. Audience for the Evaluation Who is commissioning the evaluation; who is expected to act on the results; how the evaluation will be used and the results disseminated. (Usually the main target audiences are project teams and donors). 4. Evaluation Issues and Key Questions – Evaluation Matrix This section should detail more fully the scope of the evaluation, building on the purpose and objectives above. The evaluation criteria (i.e. the questions to be answered) should be clearly identified. These form the basis for an evaluation matrix, which is useful to include as an annex. Below is presented a generic set of criteria and questions as guidance. It is not presented as a comprehensive list, but should provide a sound basis. There are too many specific requirements in this section for a single evaluation. Tasks and requirements/ questions should be prioritised, WWF Template for Terms o f Reference for Project and Programme Evaluations – October 20 2005 3 modified and added in response to the precise project situation and to help the evaluation team focus on the essential issues. 4.1 Quality and Relevance of Design Assess the continuing appropriateness and relevance of the Design. The project context, threats and opportunities may have changed during the course of the project. Assess what adjustments have been made and what others might be necessary. In particular: To what extent does the project respond to priority issues? To what extent are the objectives of the project still valid? Is the project team planning the most appropriate strategies? Are there any major risks or "killer assumptions" that are currently not be ing taken into account? What is the value of the intervention in relation to WWF"s Global Conservation Programme, to national priorities, etc.? Do stakeholders care about the project and believe it makes sense? 4.2 Effectiveness Assess the major achievements of the project to date in relation to its stated objectives and intended results. As far as possible this should be a systematic assessment of progress based on monitoring data for the planned Goal, Objectives and Strategic Activities. (Data already collected by the project"s monitoring and reporting systems should provide much of the basic information). Focus on the higher level results. Assess what has been achieved, the likelihood of future achievements, and the significance/ strategic importance of the achievements Refer to quantitative assessments as far as possible Include also qualitative evidence e.g. opinions on the project"s effectiveness based on impressions and interviews with target groups, partners, government, etc. Describe any major failures of the project to date, explaining why they have occurred. Describe any unforeseen impacts (whether positive or negative). Identify any exceptional experiences that should be highlighted e.g. case-studies, stories, best practice 4.3 Efficiency of Planning and Implementation Assess to what extent resources are being used economically to deliver the project. Are plans being used, implemented and adapted as necessary? For example: Is the overall project action plan used and up to date? What % of activities in the workplan is being delivered? Is financial spend in line with plan? Is monitoring data being collected as planned, stored and used to inform future plans Assess other programme management factors important for delivery, such as: Capacity gaps (these could be in the project team, other internal functions such as HR or Finance, or external organisations as appropriate). Working relationships within the team Working relationships with partners, stakeholders and donors Learning processes such as self-evaluation, coordination and exchange with related projects. Internal and external communication. 4.4 Impact To what extent is the project contributing to a long-term positive effect on people and nature? How is WWF making a difference? WWF Template for Terms o f Reference for Project and Programme Evaluations – October 20 2005 4 Normally this should assess to what extent the project is achieving its Vision and Goal. It can be combined with Section 4.2 Effectiveness if it makes sense to do so. 4.5 Potential for sustainability, replication and magnification Assess the key factors affecting sustainability of the project, such as: What is the social and political environment/ acceptance of the project? Will the project contribute to lasting benefits? Which organisations could/ will ensure continuity of project activities in the project area? Is there evidence of organisations/partners/communities that have copied, upscaled or replicated project activities beyond the immediate project area. Is such replication or magnification likely? Assess whether the programme be considered as delivering value for money for its present scope/ scale of impact (it is recognised this will be a somewhat subjective view)? What are the cost implications for scaling up impact? Are there savings that could be made without compromising delivery? Assess and make recommendations on the key strategic options for the future of the project i.e. exit strategy, scale down, replication, scale-up, continuation, major modifications to strategy Comment on any existing plans Make recommendations in addition 5. Methodology Provide specific suggestions for data collection methods to be used (e.g. field observations, interviews, focus groups, questionnaires, participatory methodologies, etc.). Note the possible geographic scope of the sampling and any cultural conditions that may affect the methodology. Lists of key informants and important background documents are attached as Annexes 2 and 3. N.B. Direct observation is critical for gathering evidence and opinion. However for most WWF evaluations, the evaluation team will not collect primary data on populations, threats or socio- economic status. Therefore the precision of the evaluation results will depend to a large extent on the quality of the monitoring data already collected by the project. 6. Profile of the Evaluation Team. Detail The specific skills or characteristics needed in the evaluator or evaluation team, e.g. technical knowledge, familiarity with the country / culture, language proficiency, evaluation experience, facilitation and interviewing skills, etc. Define the structure of the team, including roles and responsibilities. 7. Outputs and Deliverables List of key deliverables and deadlines (e.g. workplan, briefings, draft report, final report). The required format for the evaluation report is attached as Annex 4. 8. Evaluation Timetable A suggested timetable for the evaluation. To be realistic, a timetable must allocate adequate time for: Development of the evaluation design; finalization of the evaluation matrix; sampling strategy Development of research instruments (questionnaires, interview guidelines, etc.) Review of documentation International travel; domestic travel Field (or desk) research Data analysis (usually half the number of days of the research) Meeting with project staff and stakeholders on the initial findings and recommendations Preparation of the draft report WWF Template for Terms o f Reference for Project and Programme Evaluations – October 20 2005 5 Incorporation of comments and finalization of the evaluation report. 9. Cost General allocations (not a detailed budget) of resources available for the evaluation (consultant fees, travel, subsistence allowance, etc.). 10. Logistical Support (normally provided by the implementing office). Support to be provided to the evaluation team and by whom (provision of documentation, scheduling of interviews, local travel, arrangement of accommodation, access to office facilities, etc.). Annex 1. Evaluation Matrix The evaluation matrix is an important tool summarizing the evaluation design. First the key questions for the evaluation are defined. These then are broken down into specific research questions. Then for each specific research question, data sources are identified, together with data collection tools or methods appropriate for each data source. It may also be useful to specify indicators by which the specific questions will be evaluated. Issues Key Specific Data Sources Methods / (Indicators) Questions Research Tools Questions Design Effectiveness Efficiency Impact Sustainability (other key issues as necessary) Annex 2. Key Informants A list of individuals who should be consulted, together with their contact information and organizational affiliation. The list of individuals/ groups will normally include, but not be limited to, the following: Project Team members Implementing Partners WWF Template for Terms o f Reference for Project and Programme Evaluations – October 20 2005 6 Direct stakeholders such as local community groups, private sector, local and national government agencies. (It may be helpful to consult the original stakeholder analysis for the project). Donors Senior WWF staff in the implementing office, and perhaps WWF International Specify also the locations to be visited. Incorporate the information in the Evaluation Matrix, if that is helpful. Annex 3. Documents to be Consulted A list of important documents that the evaluators should read at the outset of the evaluation and before finalizing the evaluation design. This should be limited to the critical information that the evaluation team needs. Data sources and documents may include: WWF Standards for Project/ Programme Management Project proposal Action Plan (e.g. (atest) log frame/ Results Chains) (Latest) Annual work plans Monitoring data and analysis of that data (Latest full year) technical report Key outputs produced: research/ surveys conducted, Regulations and policies developed Partnership arrangements e.g. agreements of cooperation with local governments Newsletters and publicity information Output of any organizational learning initiatives Other assessments e.g. self-assessments, previous evaluations Annex 4. Required Format for the Evaluation Report Title Page, including project title and number, date of report, authors and their affiliations, WWF contact point for the evaluation, etc. Executive Summary (1-4 pages): Brief project description and context Purpose and expected use of the evaluation Objectives of the evaluation Summary of the evaluation methodology Principle findings and conclusions, especially relating to project goals / targets Key recommendations Summary of lessons learned Acknowledgements Table of Contents List of Acronyms and Abbreviations Main Report Purpose of the evaluation Audience for and use of the evaluation Objectives of the evaluation WWF Template for Terms o f Reference for Project and Programme Evaluations – October 20 2005 7 Evaluation methodology, including: rationale for choice of methodology, data sources, methods for data collection and analysis, participatory techniques, ethical and equity considerations, major limitations of the methodology Composition of the evaluation team, including any specific roles of team members Project description, including: context, underlying rationale, stakeholders and beneficiaries, conceptual model, results chain or logical framework, and project monitoring system Evaluation findings, documented by evidence: - Design: quality and relevance - Effectiveness (progress towards objectives and results); contributions of stakeholders; constraints or problems encountered - Efficiency of Planning and Implementation - Impact; progress towards Vision and Goals (often the impact on biodiversity and livelihoods) - Sustainability and replicability of project / programme impacts; capacity built; institutional and stakeholder issues Conclusions: insights into the findings; reasons for successes and failures; innovations Recommendations (based on evidence and insights) Lessons learned with wider relevance and that can be generalized beyond the project Annexes to the evaluation report: Terms of Reference for the evaluation Evaluation matrix Timetable List of individuals interviewed and of stakeholder groups and/or communities consulted List of supporting documentation reviewed Research instruments: questionnaire, interview guide(s), etc. as appropriate Project logical framework Specific monitoring data, as appropriate Summary tables of progress towards outputs, targets, goals – referring directly to the indicators established for these in the project logframe Short biographies of the evaluators.


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The development of private manned space flight is proceeding rapidly; there are proposals to launch paying passengers before the end of 2014. Given the historically dangerous nature of space travel, an accident will probably occur at some point, resulting in passengers' injury or death. In the event of a lawsuit stemming from such an accident, a court will likely find that a space flight entity operating suborbital flights is a common carrier, while an entity operating orbital flights is not. Regardless of whether these entities are common carriers, they face a threat of high levels of liability, as well as risks stemming from an inability to obtain insurance and the escalation of tort litigation costs. Given that the private manned space flight industry is brand new and can provide many benefits to the United States and the world, it is important to protect the industry while it grows. Individual states have attempted to protect the industry by passing liability immunity statutes, but passing statutes on a state-by-state basis is insufficient to protect the industry from the liability it faces. As a result, this Note proposes a national tort liability immunity statute to shield the industry until it reaches a more advanced stage of development.
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The year was 1969, and my son, Frank Davis - Little Frank - needed a simple haircut.
Mr. Roy L. Sharp, 67, of Sturgis passed away on Thursday, June 16, 2011, at North Mississippi Medical Center in Tupelo.
MANTEE — Harvey Hillhouse, 88, retired welder for B & W in West Point, died Thursday, June 16, 2011 in Eupora.Â
Mr. Eddie Charles Jones, 71, passed away June 14, 2011, at OCH Regional Medical Center in Starkville.
Rev. Joe "Fixer" Thomas, 83, died June 11 at OCH Regional Medical Center in Starkville. Services will be held June 17 at 11 a.m.
Nell Davis James, 88, passed away on June 16, 2011 at OCH Regional Medical Center in Starkville. She was a retired dental assistant and a member of First Baptist Church.
Mr. Joseph Robert "Joe Bob" Davis, 83, retired educator, died June 15 at North Miss. Medical Center in Eupora. Funeral services will be at 1 p.m.
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It has been nearly a month since an accident left a local business woman in critical condition, and still no charges have been filed against the driver.
The West Oktibbeha Timberwolves were discouraged at first when they lost in the final four of the Mississippi State 7-on-7 camp this week.


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Walk with a haphazard, startled, inadvertent nature videographer..
While walking along an easy trail along the Oconaluftee River we came across some elk, also known as wapiti. I had already seen the cow elk when I discovered the young bull elk camouflaged among the underbrush of the woods. What none of us had noticed was papa elk. He seemed to appear out of nowhere....
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For a change of scenery - Walks with foam
It's nice to be able to crawl over hill and dale again this summer. It's been a year and 2 weeks since I tore my achilles tendon.
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I was standing right beyond that window ..
Despite feeling rather 'knieschlockerisch' (the wobbly knee effect that happens after a scare), I had the wherewithal to take several photos. I am posting this photo because it shows how close the oak tree fell to the house. Inside the house, I was just about 12 feet from where the tree landed. I consider myself to be very lucky. (see above photo)
I might be adding a few more photos, but right now I want to get this post out. I had almost forgotten that I volunteered to put up a haiku theme by yesterday, I believe? ....oops...
If anybody wants to write a haiku with the theme of 'Power', please feel free.
Oh .. .... our air conditioner has started a slow leak.
Part of our basement has a nice puddle in it. If I get hot, I will splash around in it, I guess. Now, you know the saying - all good things come in threes. I wonder what is next?
PS: And another Oh ... the pinetop's truck? It is now a hermetically sealed lowrider (his description, not mine.)
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Rim Ok Hua looks out over her patch of farm just across the Tumen River from China, where rows of lush, green young potato plants stretch into the distance.
The full moon on Saturday will appear to be unusually big. In fact, it will be a "supermoon." That's the nickname for full moons that happen when our celestial neighbour is relatively close to Earth.
GAZA, Palestine - Ignoring international appeals for a cease-fire, Israel widened its range of Gaza bombing targets to civilian institutions with suspected Hamas ties and deployed ground troops inside Gaza for the first time early Sunday to raid a rocket launching site in the Palestinian territory. More than 156 Palestinians have been killed.
MADRID, Spain — A passenger jetliner preparing to leave Barcelona's El Prat airport taxied across a runway where another was about to land, forcing the arriving plane to abort its landing and climb sharply to avoid a possible disaster.
There is just one catch: many of the 14 houses and 50 outbuildings in the mountain village are abandoned and would cost hundreds of thousands of dollars to restore
A high-speed rail service could one day haul travellers from China to Canada, according to a pair of recent reports from Russian and Chinese state-funded news sites.
VATICAN CITY - Members of Pope Francis' sexual abuse advisory board said Saturday they will develop "clear and effective" protocols to hold bishops and other church authorities accountable if they fail to report suspected abuse or protect children from pedophile priests.
NASHPORT, Ohio — A couple who held hands at breakfast every morning even after 70 years of marriage have died 15 hours apart.
A Vancouver area teen who told a heart-breaking story in a YouTube video of cyberbullying that led to an all-out schoolyard attack has apparently committed suicide. In stories and posts flooding Vancouver's social media networks, #RIPAmanda is trending as people post news and condolences for the teen identified as posting the video, Amanda Todd.
Star gazers in parts of North and South America got a rare treat early Tuesday morning - a total eclipse of the moon.
Whiskers wasn't your average sea otter. Rather than hang out with his own kind off Nootka Island on the west coast of Vancouver Island, he would often come ashore to socialize with humans.
Everyone gets wet at Thailand's annual elephant Songkran leading up to the Songkran Festival for the Thai New Year. Splashing water and putting powder on each others faces is symbolic of cleansing and washing away the sins from the old year.
FORT HOOD, Texas — U.S. army base Fort Hood has reported an active shooter to local authorities.
Police say a Lufthansa plane was diverted after a passenger being deported from Germany threatened the cabin crew with a broken razor blade.
B.C.'s natural resources sector, including the budding liquefied natural gas industry, was declared to be in Canada's strategic interests Monday as part of a non-binding federal-provincial deal that includes a commitment to encourage the active use of the Temporary Foreign Worker program. The accord was signed as Premier Christy Clark, bringing with her what she described as possibly the largest B.C. delegation to Ottawa in Canadian history, declared that the LNG sector could be a "nation-builder" at least as important as Alberta's oil wealth.
DARRINGTON, Wash. — Hundreds of family photographs and albums are among the personal belongings being recovered by crews searching for victims at a massive debris site left by the deadly mudslide in Washington state.
Molars taken from skeletons unearthed by work on a new London railway line are revealing secrets of the medieval Black Death — and of its victims.
Authorities say there are 108 names on the list of people who've been reported missing or unaccounted for in the weekend mudslide in Washington state.
Ukraine's armed forces took what may prove to be one of their final stands Saturday in Crimea, as pro-Russian forces stormed and seized control of an air force base amid a barrage of gunfire and explosions.
Two people were killed when a news helicopter for KOMO-TV crashed outside its station near the Seattle Space Needle, sending clouds of black smoke over the city during the morning rush hour.


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