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As though it were yesterday, I recall the upset in their voices on the day they discussed the doctor's recommendation for a feeding tube. Considering the infrequency with which doctors actually bothered to speak directly to family members, I assume the news was delivered via the shift nurse. The tube was being ordered to better facilitate her nutritional needs. On a floor full of kids dependent on breathing tubes, drainage tubes and electronic monitors, a feeding tube was the next logical step. But to Misty's family, that step was leading in the wrong direction.
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ZEBULON,NC (Catholic Online) - Her name was Misty. It was printed in chalk on the nurses' station board along with a list of other first names. We would never actually meet, but I caught a glimpse of her one day as I walked passed her room. The mental picture I'd developed before that sighting was of course all wrong.
Just days into our month long stay in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit, we met Misty's family: aunts, an uncle, a grandmother, father and cousins. Now, almost nineteen years later, I've lost count, but there were enough of them to fill the room around us. Doubtful our paths would have ever crossed if not for the circumstances that forced us all into that tiny waiting room.
Naive, overwhelmed newbies we were, but Misty's family were well-seasoned veterans in this system of corridors, white coats and ever-changing prognoses. They took to us and us to them in a fast friendship that felt like it would last a lifetime.
In bit and pieces, through conversations and encounters over the next weeks, Misty's life story unfolded. Born to young, unwed parents, her mother died sometime before the baby would finish toddlerhood. Knowing she would never see her daughter grow up, Misty's mother had one dying wish; she made her sister swear to raise the child as her own. That little sister bore that promise with unswerving faithfulness and along with the rest of the extended family she committed the next fourteen years to caring for her sister's only offspring.
Sometime after losing the mother, it became apparent that Misty suffered from serious medical conditions which were the result of an under-developed brain. Her life would include many PICU stays and she would never know the freedom of spinning to "Ring Around the Rosie" or the joy of singing her ABCs. By the time we met her family, she was relegated to a bed, unable to speak or provide her own basic needs.
Surely some outsiders questioned her "quality of life". To a culture that equates physical fitness and mental capacity with the measure of a person's worth, Misty might have appeared a hopeless case.
Her family knew her better.
She loved it when her aunts and grandma fed her, they proudly boasted. At mealtimes, she rewarded them with smiles and eyes that spoke the words her mouth could not. And though the doctors and nurses insisted she was forever silent, Misty cooed for those who loved her. Rather than flowers and teddy bears, family members shopped for new, lace-trimmed nightgowns to make her not infrequent hospital trips more pleasant. Every day it was someone's job to brush out her long, flowing hair and wash her pretty face. True to her promise, Misty's aunt insured that someone always remained nearby.
Words like burden, trouble, or unwanted never entered our conversations.
As though it were yesterday, I recall the upset in their voices on the day they discussed the doctor's recommendation for a feeding tube. Considering the infrequency with which doctors actually bothered to speak directly to family members, I assume the news was delivered via the shift nurse. The tube was being ordered to better facilitate her nutritional needs. On a floor full of kids dependent on breathing tubes, drainage tubes and electronic monitors, a feeding tube was the next logical step. But to Misty's family, that step was leading in the wrong direction.
To the doctor, who probably spent five minutes reading her chart, this fourteen year old was a case study in medical interventions. To the busy nurse, Misty was another terminal patient with machines to monitor, levels to record and notes to take. The act of feeding her was just another necessary procedure to follow, but to her aunts and grandmother meals were so much more.
At the time I thought I understood their desire to retain this autonomy for Misty, the ability to taste flavors and feel textures across her tongue. But now that I've experienced the excitement of spooning first bites into my own little ones' open mouths, I can relate all the more to their desperate attempts to protect her mealtimes. Three times a day, Misty's family had the privilege to lovingly nourish her with food and she had the opportunity to feed their hopes and dreams. With my own not-yet-verbal children, I have to watch for their bodily cues to tell me if the food I offer is pleasing to their palate and when they've reached their fill. Feeding a child means moving in close, making eye contact and connecting (physically and mentally).
A feeding tube meant more than simply relinquishing a chore, it meant stripping Misty of one more "normal" function. When you expect your child to grow-up, to advance through life's milestones, it's easy to take such little tasks for granted, but Misty's family didn't have that luxury.
On that day, walking passed her room, I peered in expecting to see the girl my mind had formed. Instead, the young girl of about fourteen appeared so tiny and fragile in her hospital bed. Her legs barely reaching beyond the midway point, she was no longer than a child of five or six. And that long hair flowed nearly the full length of her stunted body it seemed. I was startled by the reality.
The image I'd created was based on my idea of "normal" because that's how Misty's family portrayed her. The obvious love they had for her communicated a different picture, while my eyes sized her with a worldly measure. No one ever knew my surprise and for that I am glad because I am ashamed of it. My false vision betrayed my ignorance and bias.
Those few weeks, nearly two decades ago, changed my life. I lost touched with her family, so I never did learn whether or not they managed to protect her from the feeding tube directive, but I've never taken for granted the real importance of "feeding" my children.
Misty was truly everything that her family saw her to be. Beautiful. Worthy. Special. Perfect. And in my mind, she will forever remain larger than life not because of her stature, but because she personified Christ (the hungry Christ, the naked Christ, the imprisoned Christ) to those who took the time to see.
Tara K. E. Brelinsky is a home schooling mother of eight living children, with six more heavenly ones who intercede. Married to her childhood sweetheart, they make their home in North Carolina where they teach Natural Family Planning, grow a garden, raise two dogs, a cat, ducks, roosters and a flock of hens (in addition to all those wonderful kids). Tara studied journalism a lifetime ago in college, but now she writes simply for the the glory of God. You can read more of her musings and inspirations on her blog "Blessings In Brelinskyville" (www.http://brelinskyville.blogspot.com/).
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Nils Roar Sælthun Flood risk assessments in the Norwegian flood research program HYDRA Nils Roar Sælthun, NIVA Hallvard Berg, NVE Hans Olav Eggestad, Jordforsk Lars Gottschalk, University of Oslo Irina Krasovskaia Morten Skoglund, The SINTEF Group Astrid Voksø, NVE Magne Wathne, The SINTEF Group Nils Roar Sælthun The HYDRA Programme HYDRA is a research programme on flood initiated by the Norwegian Water Resources and Energy Administration (NVE) at the beginning of 1995. The major flood in south-eastern Norway in the spring of 1995 made the programme particularly relevant. Nils Roar Sælthun Working Hypothesis The working hypothesis is that the sum of all human impacts in the form of land use, regulation, flood-protection etc., may have increased the risk of floods. Nils Roar Sælthun Mission HYDRA is aimed at developing knowledge, information and methodology to support state and municipal authorities, insurance companies and other organisations in their work and decision making. Nils Roar Sælthun Time frame, funding and participants Time frame of 3 years, terminating in 1999 Economic framework of NOK 18 million Funding: The Ministry of Petroleum and Energy. Executing parties: Norwegian research institutions and universities Norwegian Water Resources and Energy Directorate, one river authority. Board of users Nils Roar Sælthun Projects: Impacts of watershed land use. Flood impacts in urban areas. Flood reduction, flood protection and flood management. Risk analysis. Environmental consequences of floods and flood prevention measures. Integrated watershed/watercourse/floodplain modelling Databases and Geographical Information Systems (support activity at NVE). Nils Roar Sælthun Risk analysis project The main objective: to improve the methodology for loss assessments - aimed at streamlining cost/benefit analysis of flood mitigation measures. Central components R1: Damage/loss functions R2: Improving flood mapping R3: Flood analysis and risk analysis R4: Improved front line decision tools Nils Roar Sælthun R1: Damage/loss functions Objective: Establish standardised loss functions for various objects with special emphasis on buildings and cultivated land, based on assessments and inventories after the 1995 flood Nils Roar Sælthun R1: Objects investigated Buildings Infrastructure roads (direct and indirect costs) railroads (direct and indirect costs) flood levees and erosion protection Agricultural areas physical damage crop losses Nils Roar Sælthun Damage to buildings 1200 1000 800 Damage (kNOK) Constr. yr 1850-1942 600 Constr.yr 1946-94 Trend line 1850-1942 400 Trend line 1946-94 200 0 0 100 200 300 400 500 600 Water level (cm) (ground level = 200) Nils Roar Sælthun R2: Improving flood inundation mapping Objectives: Improving flood zoning methodology, testing of various base map types and laser scanning; identification of exposed objects and areas by use of GIS and digital property registers; Nils Roar Sælthun R3: Flood analysis and risk analysis Improved regional flood frequency analysis Flood line estimation Test and verification of loss curves Establish frequency/damage curves Nils Roar Sælthun Regional flood Normalised regional frequency curve for Glomma (PDS) observed floods 1966 (blue),1967(green),1995(red)(SPDS) frequency 6 analysis 4 maximum 2 0 0.1 1 10 100 scale parameter - Ret ur n - pe ri o d - 10 50 100 500 1000 Upstream Upstream Glomma Laagen Downstream Glomma Laagen Nils Roar Sælthun R4: Improved front line decision support Public perception of risks Public reactions to abandoning and evacuation orders Local decisions under lack of external information Decision trees Methods: polls expert panels fuzzy set analysis
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Methuselah, the Judean date palm grown from a 2,000-year old seed, has turned out to be male, and there's fresh hope he could sire a revival of his extinct species – he's potent.
Now ten years old, the tree is over ten feet tall, with offshoots and flowers, and its pollen works, says Sarah Sallon, MD, director of the Hadassah organization's Louis L. Borick Natural Medicine Research Center.
Sallon who initiated the Germination of Ancient Seed Program as part of her long term Middle Eastern Medicinal Plant project, works with neighbors - Palestinians and Jordanians - to develop and conserve the medicinal plants in this area. "Plants have no borders," Sallon points out, and she believes there could be great potential in their medicinal properties.
Methuselah was born of a date seed found during the 1960s excavation of Masada by Prof Yigal Yadin. Sallon obtained it by asking the late archaeologist Prof Ehud Netzer for seeds. "He thought I was mad but he agreed," Sallon said.
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In the Passover story, as in most of the Bible, men usually get the acclaim. So when Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Rabbi Lauren Holtzblatt recently published an article highlighting the role of Moses's sister Miriam, Pharoah's daughter Batya, and other women in the biblical narrative, it was hailed as a feminist perspective. But while being reminded of the women who participated in the events related at the Passover seder may feel inspirational and affirming to women, such female-centric retellings work counter to the goals of empowering women in Judaism. People who want to advocate for Jewish women should be careful not to lean too heavily on the rhetoric of the strong female biblical figure.
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(JTA) — I recently attended the bris of my friend's son and it was the first such occasion at which I was not crying tears of sadness for myself. Two years ago I was at her older son's bris, and I remember pretending my copious tears were of joy. In reality, all I could think was: How come everyone else gets to have the very thing that I want most?
It would take me three years, 10 doctors, nine rounds of in-vitro fertilization and four miscarriages to finally get and stay pregnant.
And there I was, in my second trimester of pregnancy, listening to my friend deliver a speech at her son's bris, and all I can think was: What about everyone else who can't have children? Even though I'm out of the precarious first trimester, when risk of a pregnancy loss is greatest, the pain of my long, winding fertility journey is still too raw for me to forget everyone I've left behind.
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Let me back up. In 2008, Rebecca Solnit wrote her seminal essay, "Men Explain Things To Me." In the essay, Solnit relates a story where she went to a party and mentioned that she had been writing about the famous photographer Eadweard Muybridge. Almost immediately, a man begins talking over her, pontificating that a very important book on the subject was published recently and she should really know about it. The book he is talking about, despite not having read, was the one written by Solnit. Another party guest had to point it out to the man several times before he would acknowledge Solnit's book, and he didn't apologize for lecturing her.
Although Solnit herself did not coin the term "mansplaining," she is often given credit for identifying the phenomenon where men who are less knowledgeable on a topic insist on lecturing a woman who may know more than they do but who is ignored or taken less seriously because of her gender. And thanks to her essay and others like it, I finally have words to articulate the feeling of being condescended to by people who are less informed than I am. That's why when a non-Jewish colleague at work spent ten minutes explaining Passover to me as if I, a Jew, had never heard of it before, a word immediately popped into my head: "goysplaining."
By now, you've surely heard of the uproar of Lena Dunham's latest New Yorker piece, titled "Dog or Jewish Boyfriend? A Quiz." In list form, Dunham asks the reader to judge whether it is her pet dog or her Jewish boyfriend (Jack Antonoff of the rock bands Bleachers and Fun) who "doesn't tip," "never brings his wallet anywhere," and "expects to be waited on hand and foot by the women in his life." As per most things produced by Dunham, the (Jewish) internet flew into a frenzy, debating as to whether the piece was anti-Semitic or not. After reading the piece myself — and as someone who is a champion of Dunham's work — I came to the conclusion that yes, Dunham's article is not only guilty of perpetuating well-worn Jewish stereotypes for cheap laughs but ingrained with anti-Semitic overtones, if not borderline or overtly anti-Semitic in nature. (For a dissenting opinion, read Flavorwire's Sarah Seltzer's hilarious "Other Lena Dunham Pitches The New Yorker (and the ADL) Will Definitely Accept", or Hilary Saunders' response here at the Forward.)
It's no one's place to judge another person's sense of Jewish identity; to do so is not only egregious, but divisive for the Jewish community as a whole. However, Dunham's piece can also be considered a case of whether it is, indeed, a piece of Jewish humor, or whether it is a piece of humor that happens to be written by someone Jewish. To me, it's the latter. Humor that speaks from within the culture is different than humor that speaks from one who positions themselves on the outside the culture. By failing to use inclusive qualifiers to identify herself from within the culture, Dunham's piece skewers toward the anthropological, the study of the Jewish boyfriend from one that does not identify as the sole same.
In September, I'll begin my tenth year as a Jewish Day School teacher. I have taught Judaic Studies to almost every level from kindergarten through twelfth grade, and I feel lucky to have found a career path that enables me to spend every day engaging with Jewish texts in a rewarding and purposeful way.
There's not a lot of glory in day school teaching. It's not prestigious work. People assume that they could walk into our classrooms and do our jobs for us, forgetting — or not believing — that we are skilled professionals. The highest-achieving students in day schools and colleges are encouraged to pursue careers in law, medicine, finance, maybe even the rabbinate — not in day school teaching. When promising young teachers arrive at new jobs, they often insist that this is just a starter job before they find their real career or advance to a higher role in their school. I was one of those teachers, until I realized that I didn't want to work anywhere but in a classroom.
Among parents who believe that full-time immersive Jewish education is the best choice for their children, and who take on the immense financial burden of day school tuition, there is a conversation taking place about how to make the day school commitment more manageable for families. There is talk about how to address the tuition crisis, and — more recently, in these pages) — about how to make the day school schedule more accommodating for families with two working parents. Without a doubt, it is difficult for couples to manage two careers and the day school calendar. My husband and I have just begun to deal with this ourselves; our older son is in his first year of Jewish nursery school and we're trying to figure out if either of us will be able to attend his first model seder.
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When Henrietta Shapira attended Joel Entin's 'Progressive Dramatic Club,' whose acclaimed members included beloved acting teacher Lee Strassberg, not only did her acting career change—but her romantic life as well. It was there, while starring in the club's many one act plays, she met Louis Schnitzer and by the year's opening theatrical season, 1919-20, they were married.
As if to celebrate their union they opened the country's first Yiddish Art Theatre on 27th Street and Lexington Ave. No sooner did they premiere their creative enterprise than the fur truly began to fly and detailed accounts of their theatre's internal theatrics sold much of that summer's Forverts.
Arguments with both Schnitzer's and accusations against them were frequent and even Forverts' Editor Ab Cahan devoted some space to Henrietta fledgling acting career.
But beloved Yiddish actor Celia Adler truly threw down, adding her two kopeks to the mix, letting readers know the Schnitzers were, in no uncertain terms, 'amateurs' with no "actorly" aspirations. And then she launched the deepest arrow to pierce the heart of anyone desirous of a life in the arts saying Louis himself was nothing but a 'successful businessman.' Though she conceded he claimed to want to create better theatre and even seemed to have an innate respect for intelligence and knowledge.
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I had my first teaching experience as an 8th grader, leading groups at my synagogue. I was immediately in love. The person I became when I was teaching — confident, funny, charming, and able to command the attention of small children and their parents — amazed me. I went on to volunteer as a tutor and teach Hebrew School throughout high school and college, so when I had to face the realities of graduation, I knew exactly what I wanted to do. I would move back to New York and become a teacher.
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(JTA) — To the business press, the symbolism of Ruth Porat's move from her position as chief financial officer of Morgan Stanley to her newly announced perch as Google's CFO of the future couldn't be more obvious — it represents a shift in power from Wall Street to Silicon Valley. And there's no question that it's a big deal when one of the most powerful women in finance decides that the grass — or at least the money — is greener on the other side of the country.
But Porat's career leap to the Mountain View, Calif., tech giant, starting May 26, also means that she is moving back home to the Bay Area, where she grew up. And a brief look at her family history reveals that the forces that led them to end up in northern California were nothing less than the defining events of 20th century Jewish history: the Holocaust and the founding of the state of Israel. Porat's father, Dan, was born in 1922 in what is now Ukraine, and he later moved with his family to a shtetl in the Carpathian Mountains and then to Vienna, which is where they lived when the Anschluss of 1938 brought the Nazis to power. In a written memoir archived by the Center for Jewish History, Dan Porat recalls going to watch Hitler ride triumphantly into the Austrian capital. Thanks to his strong grasp of Hebrew learned at cheder, he was able to escape to a kibbutz in British Mandate Palestine; the rest of his family was killed in the Holocaust. Dan Porat volunteered to fight in the British army.
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A friend of mine recently suggested that if men nursed babies, there would be no more endless debate among parents about breast versus bottle. Everyone would do what was best for them and their families without guilt, criticism and second guessing.
This made me think about other possibilities. What if men were in charge of Passover cleaning, for example?
In the Long Island Orthodox home where I was raised, Passover cleaning started a month before the holiday. We removed all the books from the shelves and shook them in case a crumb had clung to the pages. Clothing, rugs, windows, desktops, mirrors, cars, garages, bathrooms, the dust that gathered above the closets – all of this got a good scrubbing.
If you're not weary yet, wait for it because we haven't gotten to the epicenter. The kitchen is where the party really started. We emptied kitchen cabinets, cleaned them and covered them with new lining. In the days leading up to the seder, we removed plates and silverware from the kitchen and replaced them with Passover sets, along with pots, pans, dish towels, tablecloths, can openers, peelers, whisks and garlic presses that were waiting in a basement closet all year. We cleaned sinks and ovens with boiling water and cleanser. We emptied the refrigerator – everything had to go because if its proximity to chametz – and then lined the shelves to ready it for newly-purchased food, condiments and drinks.
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In the wake of the Israeli election and Bibi's statements on the two state solution, it's not surprising J Street's annual conference focused on the fears of what the future will bring and warnings of what will happen if Israel continues on its current path. But it was Stav Shaffir — who at 29 is the youngest member of Knesset — and her "politics of happiness" that finally gave the 3,000 person audience something to believe in.
"Since I arrived in the United States I have heard frustration I haven't heard in the past, beyond frustration — almost despair," said Shaffir."But despair, this we cannot afford."
In analyzing the election outcome, Shaffir shrewdly acknowledged, "we simply did not give the Israelis a clear enough picture of what dreams we have for a better future. Ladies and gentleman its about time we do."
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"Pulpit Plus One: The Secret Lives of Rabbis' Husbands, Partners, and Wives" features the voices and experiences of the partners of pulpit rabbis. In this interview series, "Pulpit Plus One" takes an honest and lively look into the nuances of a complex role.
Justin is a 32-year-old adjunct mathematics professor, who grew up Protestant and is a convert to Judaism. He lives in New Jersey with his wife Lisa and their eight-month-old daughter. Lisa works seven days a week on the rabbinic team of a very large Reform synagogue.
When you were dating, what was it like for you when your partner decided she wanted to be a pulpit rabbi?
It's weird now that I think about it years later: it wasn't anything that came up. In my Jewish journey I was so into Judaism and into learning, that it wasn't like: "Why would you want to do that?", it was: "This is awesome!" It just kind of happened, that she was going to go to rabbinical school, and everything was going to be fine.
I remember poring over the Starr Report in 1998. A special excerpt was published in the Washington Post and as a eighth grader at the time it served as the sex-ed class my school didn't provide.
But what I most remember the most was the vitriol directed toward Monica Lewinsky, less for her actions than her actual being. Everyone from late-night comedians to leading feminists were vicious in their attacks against her. She was fat. She was ugly. She was Jewish. She wasn't the type of girl you would risk having an affair with. As a Jewish girl concerned about my appearance and my weight, seeing someone who looked like me be so denigrated shaped the way I saw myself and how I thought the world saw me. (It also gave me a permanent fear of straightening my hair.)
Then like the rest of the world I moved on. Monica Lewinsky would pop up in the news once in a while as an aspiring handbag designer or reality show host, and more recently as a name check in popular rap songs.
I understand why some Israelis, intending to go vote for Isaac Herzog and the Zionist Union, went in and voted for Benjamin Netanyahu and Likud at the last minute.
Tuesday I was wondering, really, how I would vote if I were Israeli - knowing what I know and having lived through what I lived through in Jerusalem during the peace process in the late 1990s.
A Bibi voter is, perhaps, a liberal whose city has been bus-bombed. Or maybe, better yet, a liberal who is watching Islamic State videos.
The last time that peace between Israelis and Palestinians was a serious solution to what many Israelis refer to as "the situation," the streets of Jerusalem were not safe. As Israel moved to normalize relations with the Palestinians, extremists on both sides of the green line started fomenting campaigns of violence for which average citizens on both sides paid in blood. That was a time of hope, and it was very difficult.
I guess it all depends on what peace really is. On how you define it.
Is the occupation peace? Is peace a time when your streets are safe but you continue to build walls to isolate yourself from your neighbor and to control his movements and to bomb the living daylights out of him when it suits? A time when the future down through the generations looks dim, but the present seems secure?
Or is peace a time when your own streets are not safe? When the road to good intentions is paved with hell? Is peace a time when the future for your sons and daughters may promise stability and growth, but the bus they're on might not get there?
The known is better for most voters than the unknown, security today better than peace in a distant tomorrow. The pragmatist in Israel today deals only with reality - and votes for Bibi. The idealist deals with dangerous hope - and votes for Bibi, when the voting machine brings her back to reality.
Because of this, though, Israel is not the place most of its founders had dreamed of.
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When Nurit Shein joined Philadelphia's Mazzoni Center in 1995, she inherited an organization saddled with debt and unsure of its future.
Two decades later, the LGBT-oriented health facility is still struggling to cope — with success. Under Shein's leadership, the $11.3 million organization has outgrown its three Philadelphia-area buildings; next summer, the center will consolidate into a sparkling, 45,000-square-foot headquarters at the southern edge of Philadelphia's downtown core.
The clinic began as an HIV/AIDS facility; today, thousands of Philadelphians access its primary health care, mental and behavioral health, and LGBT legal services, along with HIV/STD testing, outreach, and education programs. "Nurit has made a major contribution to LGBT health," says Mark Segal, founder and publisher of Philadelphia Gay News. "She realized that the needs of LGBT people were not being met by the standard medical profession and she filled that void."
Israeli-born, Shein worked her way up through the ranks in the Israel Defense Forces, retiring as a colonel. Before arriving in Philadelphia in 1995, she was the director of programs for the Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Center. She and her wife, Union for Reform Judaism leader Rabbi Sue Elwell Levy, live in Philadelphia's Center City. The Forward's Michael Kaminer caught up with Shein on a busy morning that started with an accidental lockout from her own office.
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According to a 2014 study by the Institute of Health Metrics and Evaluation, the United States is the only developed country with increasing rates of maternal mortality rates. And the World Health Organization reported that between 1990 and 2013, the maternal mortality rate increased from about 12 to 28 deaths per 100,000 births in the U.S. Journalist and researcher, Jennifer Margulis believes this is because America's health care system is failing pregnant women.
Margulis is the author of six books on the topics of childcare, including her recently published "Your Baby, Your Way: Taking Charge of Your Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Parenting Decisions," published by Simon and Schuster. A former Senior Fellow at the Schuster Institute for Investigative Journalism at Brandeis University, she has openly criticized the big business of childbirth and the soaring numbers of Caesarean sections in the United States.
The Boston native and daughter of scientists, Margulis, 45, has dedicated much of her career to researching the medical and business practices of childbirth and childcare in the United States. Her mother, famed microbiologist Lynn Margulis was married to astrophysicist Carl Sagan before meeting Margulis's father, an X-ray crystallographer.
Margulis lives in Oregon with her Italian-American Catholic-raised husband, and their four children — who they are raising Jewish. With a master's in comparative literature from U.C. Berkeley and a Ph.D. in English from Emory, Margulis dedicated her career to research.
Margulis spoke to the Forward's Dorri Olds about her decision not to circumcise her son and other concerns.
Dorri Olds: Why are there are such high maternal death rates in the United States?
Jennifer Margulis:The first is the overuse of C-section births. A variety of studies confirm that a woman is two to four times more likely to die in childbirth from complications from a Caesarean section than from vaginal birth. As our C-section rates have climbed and now remain high — over a third of American births are by C-section — so do our maternal mortality rates. Women sometimes die unnecessarily because they don't have access to surgical birth. But in America we've taken a lifesaving intervention and made it into a life-threatening intervention.
Another reason has to do with poverty in the U.S., which influences every aspect of a woman's maternity care. Poor women, and especially poor women of color, are at higher risk of dying in childbirth — often because they do not have access to adequate care. This is not a failure on the part of these women, it is a failure by the medical system. It is important to realize that this is a social problem, not an individual problem.
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Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg can now add Torah scholar to her resume (after fashion icon and weight-lifter). On Wednesday, the 82-year-old released a feminist reading of the Exodus story to be read at the Seder. The essay, created with Rabbi Lauren Holtzblatt of D.C.'s Adas Israel congregation, focuses on the women who were instrumental to the Passover narrative: Moses' mother Yocheved, midwives Shifra and Puah, Pharoah's daughter Batya and Moses' sister Miriam. "Since Jews are commanded to to see ourselves as having lived through that story, so that we may better learn how to live our lives today. The stories we tell our children shape what they believe to be possible — which is why at Passover, we must tell the stories of the women who played a crucial role in the Exodus narrative," writes Ginsburg and Holtzblatt. "These women had a vision leading out of the darkness shrouding their world. They were women of action, prepared to defy authority to make their vision a reality bathed in the light of the day. Retelling the heroic stories of Yocheved, Shifra, Puah, Miriam and Batya reminds our daughters that with vision and the courage to act, they can carry forward the tradition those intrepid women launched."
The reading, published through the American Jewish World Service, is a call to action and part of a series from the humanitarian organization that "draws on teachings from the holidays to inform our thinking about Judaism and social justice."
Although she served as camp rabbi at Camp Che-Ne-Wa in Minerva, New York, when she was 15, Ginsburg is not an observant Jew. In a speech at Sixth and I Historic Synagogue in 2008, she attributed this to being prohibited from being part of the mourner's minyan (because she was a woman) upon her mother's death when Ginsburg was 17. But Ginsburg has always cited her Jewish identity as a key component her value system, famously saying, "I am a judge, born, raised and proud of being a Jew. The demand for justice runs through the entirety of Jewish history and Jewish tradition."
Welcome to Throwback Thursday, a weekly photo feature in which we sift 116 years of Forward history to find snapshots of women's lives.
From 1915 until 1930, Esther Grosshandler Friedman of the Bronx helped usher in the modern era in local politics when she presented herself as candidate for the Socialist Party's representative in New York's State Assembly and Senate. In 1920, ushering in an era when envisioning women's emancipation in popular culture meant bobbing one's hair a la Downton Abbey's Lady Mary Grantham, bathtub gin and maybe even free love — Friedman really walked on the wild side, as it were, by running for Congress while Jewish and female.
A child immigrant from Hungary, Friedman had the "mazl" of working in a cigar factory — where one easily imagines she may have met fellow cigar makers Ab Cahan, future founding editor of the Forverts, or Samuel Gompers, future founder of the American Federation of Labor. It would not have been unusual for Friedman to have acquired literacy skills on the job as well, as cigar making, factories were known for having "readers" relaying newspaper articles and other literature to the workers as they rolled tobacco leaves into cigars. Studying at night-school at City College and the Teacher's College of Columbia University, she pursued her education and later taught at the noted Rand School of Social Science on East 15th Street. A foundational educational resource for workers and activists it offered lectures, courses and even a summer camp experience. An in demand speaker at strikes, she addressed several strikes including those of the garment workers, embroidery workers and even her old cigar making colleagues.
Ayelet Shaked of the Jewish Home Party is one of 28 women elected to the Knesset./Flash90
In an election with the highest voter turnout since 1999, a record 28 women were chosen for the 20th Knesset.
The percentage of eligible voters who came out Tuesday was 71.8; the turnout 14 years ago was 78.7 percent.
Ten of the parties running in the election garnered seats in the Knesset, with 15 not reaching the electoral threshold of 3.45 percent, or four seats.
The number of women elected broke the record of 27 set in the 2013 elections, according to the Israel Democracy Institute. The Zionist Union had eight women elected, followed by the Likud Party with six.
The number of Orthodox and haredi Orthodox lawmakers fell from 39 to 25, while the number of Arab-Israeli lawmakers increased from 12 to 17, including one each in the Zionist Union, Likud and Meretz parties.
The Knesset will welcome 41 new lawmakers, or slightly more than one-third of the parliament, according to the Israel Democracy Institute.
After all the New York Times articles, PBS segments, NPR interviews and memoirs (including my own) about the Off The Derech (OTD) narrative, the long rumored OTD TV show has finally arrived. Well, the show isn't exactly about a person trying to build a self-determined life after leaving ultra-Orthodoxy — but it still feels like a sample of the genre.
I'm talking about Tina Fey's new Netflix comedy, "Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt." The show follows twenty-nine-year old Kimmy (the ebullient Ellie Kemper), as she transitions into a new life in New York City after being held captive for fifteen years, together with three other women, by a doomsday religious leader in an underground bunker in Nowheresville Indiana.
Certainly, an ultra-Orthodox childhood is a different kettle of fish from a prolonged stay in a hole in the ground, but as I watched Kimmy's unusual transition into "normal" adulthood, I couldn't help but be reminded of my experiences and those of my friends.


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MIAMI GARDENS, Florida — From the 43-song set list to the emotional, never-before-seen home movies, there's so much to absorb during Beyoncé and Jay Z's On The Run Tour. The last thing you need to be worrying about is your outfit, which, to be fair, will never even come close to rivaling any of Bey's tour looks — like the Dolly Parton wedding pantsuit complete with veil, HELLO — so you should probably just go ahead and take a seat.
Just in case you're still nervous about assembling a flawless lewk, check out these 19 fans I photographed at the On The Run Tour kickoff on June 25 for inspiration. Still stressing? Based on what I saw at Sun Life Stadium, the merch stand will have you covered, provided you momentarily accept the fact that $40 is a totally reasonable amount to pay for a ski mask.
There were lots of tees, each for $40.
Got $35 and a cold head? There was also this floral-brimmed Beyoncé cap or this black and white Hova snapback.
I recognized a lot of the merch from Bey's online store, like the emoji lyric tees and the "CAKES BY THE POUND" heather-grey sweatshirt.
A lot of the Jay-centric apparel sold on tour is available on his site, too.
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Just because we can live without something, it doesn't mean we have to.Meredith
Derek: I am calling post-it, Zola, Bailey, the tumors on the wall, ferryboat scrub caps. I thought D.C. was everything. I was wrong. You... you're everything. I love you and I'm not going to stop loving you. I can't live without you. I don't want to live without you, and I'm going to do everything in my power to prove it.
Meredith: I can live without you, but I don't want to. I don't ever want to.
You want to be a mess, be a mess. I don't care. I can take it.Alex
Ben: I have a beautiful and very strong wife.
Stephanie: Ew, Warrren. No, I want your case.
Meredith: It seems like you came home because you thought you were in trouble.
Derek: I came home because we're on trouble. I came home to work on us. I came home.
There's this thing I used to do when I was a kid to my mom's VCR. I'd take it apart piece by piece, then put it back together again. But inevitably, there was always a piece or two left over. Something I didn't quite know what to do with. So, what do you do with that piece? Do you try to fit it back in? Do you try to make it work? Or do you decide you can live without that missing piece?Meredith
Don't apologize for caring about your [Jo] patients. A lot of doctors aren't willing to go all in. It hurts too much. But that's what's going to make you such an excellent doctor.Miranda
Callie: You [Meredith] and Derek are living proof that love exists. That it works, that there is hope. You guys are a freaking romance novel, and I, for one, am rooting for you two. Team MerDer!
Alex: I'm not saying that.
Meredith: He's done this before.
Maggie: What?
Meredith: Moved to a new city, got a new job, ignored his wife's calls, met a girl, fell in love, started over.
Callie: Wait, what are you talking about, "met a girl"?
Meredith: Me. He met me. He left Addison when the marriage got hard, moved to Seattle, met me in a bar. What if he's doing the same thing now?
You're [Callie] right. Godspeed. Go kiss everyone.Arizona
Jackson: What is the matter?
April: What's the matter is that you keep holding me like this delicate flower that's gonna break every time you look at me. That is what is the matter.
Meredith: She was perky, and she sounded happy and tall with a lot of great hair.
Alex: You saw her? How did you see her?
Meredith: I didn't. I heard her voice. Her perky, happy, tall voice.
Maggie: I hate voices like that.
Alex: You can tell by the voice?


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Childish Gambino – Heartbeat
3 years ago • HIP HOP
Childish Gambino (aka Donald Glover) stepped into the music world a couple months back and dropped Camp, an album that received mixed reviews that included an absolute stomping via Pitchfork. I personally liked the album, and 'Heartbeat' was definitely a stand out on the album. Glover has now paired the track with an accompanying video that follows an odd relationship between himself and a female companion. Check it out above.
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Orange Arugula Salad with Vanilla-Infused Oil
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- 2 cups washed arugula leaves
- 1/4 cup thinly-sliced red onion
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- 1 teaspoon white wine vinegar
- 1 tablespoon vanilla oil (previous recipe)
- Salt and pepper
In a salad bowl toss arugula and red onion. Segment orange over a small bowl to catch juice. Add vinegar and vanilla oil to orange juice and season with salt and pepper. Pour dressing over greens and toss. Garnish with orange segments.
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I have a G20 Travel Van that blew a rad hose awhile back. While replacing the hoses I thought it would be a good idea to instal a new thermostat. As the van is only used during the warm summer months I installed a 180 degree rather than the 195 that I was replacing. I'm now wondering if this will affect engine performance. It runs fine although much cooler now but will running this cool a thermostat cause performance issues? Just curious. Thanks
One of the products of combustion is water vapor, and some water vapor gets past the piston rings and into the motor oil, in the normal course of events. When a vehicle is started up and driven for an hour or more, the oil heats up, and the water evaporates. By installing a 180 degree thermostat, you have caused the engine to run cooler, and this will result in more water accumulating in your oil, if you do mainly short trips. If you ordinarily drive the vehicle for an hour or more, per trip, then there will be time for the water to evaporate, so there will be no problem.
**It runs fine although much cooler now but will running this cool a thermostat cause performance issues?**
Nope. That's plenty warm enough for the engine management system to go into closed loop. The thing to remember about thermostats is they only set a minimum temperature. They do nothing to restrict how high the temperature can go. Whether its a 160* or a 195*, once it's fully open, that's all it can do. The maximum temp is to the rest of the cooling system. In other words, if your engine had a funtioning 195* thermostat and the engine temp always goes to 230*+, putting in a 180* or 160* stat wouldn't prevent that from happening. Might take it a little longer to get there, but it won't stop it. You'd have other issues. If you put in a 180* stat and it's holding at 180* on a warm day, you've got a pretty darn good cooling system. There is no advantage to going from a 195* if that was stock to a 180* stat. Does no harm either. jmo
One thing you have to ask yourself. Why would General Motors spend millions of dollars testing engines and then deciding to use a 195 degree thermostat rather than 180 degree thermostat. Do you figure they had a reason to do so? If your vehicle is a computer controlled engine the reason may be so it can get hot enough to go into closed loop. And let the computer control the fuel management system. I have seen units where the thermostat is stuck open just a little. And it would take for ever to go into closed loop. And after being in closed loop for a short period of time it would fall back into open loop because it was running too cool. Just food for thought.
Raising the coolant temperature from 180 F to 195 F reduces emissios and inceases engine efficiency. However, I suspect that lubricity is better at 180 F with longer engine life. There is an argument that engine life may not be extended since the higher temperature tends to keep more moisture and condensates out of the oil.
The engine may not pass emissions tests when the coolant is too low.
Regarding the oxygen sensor, most systems go into "closed loop" operation around coolant temp of 140 F, therefore, the oxygen sensor function should be operable at 180 F. Some systems may set a trouble code for "temperature too low". Some emission test stations scans the engine controller for certain trouble codes.
This is a good info. I didn't know higher engine temp improves efficiency. I recently had my thermostat changed, and the first thing I noticed was the engine seems to heat-up much quicker (judging from the temp guage on the dash). I'm not sure what size thermostat he installed.


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Release Day Blast: The Witch of Painted Sorrows by M.J. Rose
What the Cat Read is thrilled to be participating in the Release Day Launch celebration for M.J. Rose's newest novel, The Witch of Painted Sorrows, murr! Be sure to swing by the blog on March 26th when we post our review as part of the tour event hosted by Media Muscle/BookTrib! =^.^=
Publisher: Atria Books
Date Released: March 17, 2015
Series: The Daughters of La Lune #1
Possession. Power. Passion. New York Times bestselling novelist M. J. Rose creates her most provocative and magical spellbinder yet in this gothic novel set against the lavish spectacle of 1890s Belle Époque Paris.
Sandrine Salome flees New York for her grandmother's Paris mansion to escape her dangerous husband, but what she finds there is even more menacing. The house, famous for its lavish art collection and elegant salons, is mysteriously closed up. Although her grandmother insists it's dangerous for Sandrine to visit, she defies her and meets Julien Duplessi, a mesmerizing young architect. Together they explore the hidden night world of Paris, the forbidden occult underground and Sandrine's deepest desires.
Among the bohemians and the demi-monde, Sandrine discovers her erotic nature as a lover and painter. Then darker influences threaten–her cold and cruel husband is tracking her down and something sinister is taking hold, changing Sandrine, altering her. She's become possessed byLa Lune: A witch, a legend, and a sixteenth-century courtesan, who opens up her life to a darkness that may become a gift or a curse.
This is Sandrine's "wild night of the soul," her odyssey in the magnificent city of Paris, of art, love, and witchery.
I stood on the stoop of my grandmother's house and lifted the hand-shaped bronze door knocker and let it drop. The sound of the metal echoed inside. Her home was on a lane blocked off from rue des Saints-Pères by wide wooden double doors. Maison de la Lune, as it was called, was one of a half dozen four-story mid-eighteenth- century stone houses that shared a courtyard that backed up onto rue du Dragon.
I let the door knocker fall again. Light from a street lamp glinted off the golden metal. It was a strange object. Usually on these things the bronze hand's palm faced the door. But this one was palm out, almost warning the visitor to reconsider requesting entrance.
The knocker had obsessed me ten years before when I'd visited as a fifteen-year-old. The engravings on the finely modeled female palm included etched stars, phases of the moon, planets, and other archaic symbols. When I'd asked about it once, my grandmother had said it was older than the house, but she didn't know how old exactly or what the ciphers meant. Where was the maid? Grand-mère, one of Paris's celebrated courtesans, hosted lavish salons on Tuesday, Thursday, and many Saturday evenings, and at this time of day was usually upstairs, preparing her toilette: dusting poudre de riz on her face and décolletage, screwing in her opale de feu earrings, and wrapping her signature rope of the same blazing orange stones around her neck. The strand of opal beads was famous. It had belonged to a Russian empress and was known as Les Incendies. The stones were the same color as my grandmother's hair and the high- lights in her topaz eyes. She was known by that name—L'Incendie, they called her, The Fire.
We had the same color eyes, but mine almost never flashed like hers. When I was growing up, I kept checking in the mirror, hoping the opal sparks that I only saw occasionally would intensify. I wanted to be just like her, but my father said it was just as well my eyes weren't on fire because it wasn't only her coloring that had inspired her name but also her temper, and that wasn't a thing to covet.
It wasn't until I was fifteen years old and witnessed it myself that I understood what he'd meant.
I let the hand of fate fall again. Even if Grand-mère was upstairs and couldn't hear the knocking, the maid would be downstairs, organizing the refreshments for the evening. I'd seen her so many nights, polishing away last smudges on the silver, holding the Baccarat glasses over a pot of steaming water and then wiping them clean to make sure they gleamed.
Dusk had descended. The air had grown cold, and now it was beginning to rain. Fat, heavy drops dripped onto my hat and into my eyes. And I had no umbrella. That's when I did what I should have done from the start—I stepped back and looked up at the house.
The darkened windows set into the limestone facade indicated there were no fires burning and no lamps lit inside. My grandmother was not in residence. And neither, it appeared, was her staff. I almost wished the concierge had needed to open the porte cochère for me; he might have been able to tell me where my grandmother was.
For days now I had managed to keep my sanity only by thinking of this moment. All I had to do, I kept telling myself, was find my way here, and then together, my grandmother and I could mourn my father and her son, and she would help me figure out what I should do now that I had run away from New York City.
If she wasn't here, where was I to go? I had other family in Paris, but I had no idea where they lived. I'd only met them here, at my grandmother's house, when I'd visited ten years previously. I had no friends in the city.
The rain was soaking through my clothes. I needed to find shelter.
But where? A restaurant or café? Was there one nearby? Or should I try and find a hotel? Which way should I go to get a carriage? Was it even safe to walk alone here at night?
What choice did I have?
Picking up my suitcase, I turned, but before I could even step into the courtyard, I saw an advancing figure. A bedraggled-looking man, wearing torn and filthy brown pants and an overcoat that had huge, bulging pockets, staggered toward me. Every step he took rang out on the stones.
He's just a beggar who intends no harm, I told myself. He's just look-ing for scraps of food, for a treasure in the garbage he'd be able to sell.
But what if I was wrong? Alone with him in the darkening court- yard, where could I go? In my skirt and heeled boots, could I even outrun him?
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New York Times Bestseller, M.J. Rose grew up in New York City mostly in the labyrinthine galleries of the Metropolitan Museum, the dark tunnels and lush gardens of Central Park and reading her mother's favorite books before she was allowed. She believes mystery and magic are all around us but we are too often too busy to notice… books that exaggerate mystery and magic draw attention to it and remind us to look for it and revel in it.
Rose's work has appeared in many magazines including Oprah Magazine and she has been featured in the New York Times, Newsweek, WSJ, Time, USA Today and on the Today Show, and NPR radio. Rose graduated from Syracuse University, spent the '80s in advertising, has a commercial in the Museum of Modern Art in NYC and since 2005 has run the first marketing company for authors – Authorbuzz.com
The television series PAST LIFE, was based on Rose's novels in the Reincarnationist series. She is one of the founding board members of International Thriller Writers and currently serves, with Lee Child, as the organization's co-president.
Rose lives in CT with her husband the musician and composer, Doug Scofield, and their very spoiled and often photographed dog, Winka.
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Release Day Blast: Shade by Jamie Begley
Publisher: Young Ink Press
Date Released: March 16, 2015
Series: The Last Riders #6
Want, need, pain, and joy were emotions Shade had never known existed before Lily. He knew the first time he saw her face that she was going to change his life forever. The thing he hadn't expected was how hard it would be to hide who and what he was from her. Each step he took out of the shadows revealed more of himself, until only one secret remained. Shade arrogantly believed he could help heal the wounds from her past, but now it was his own past that was trying to tear them apart. To keep Lily, Shade would have to use the very skills he had been trying to hide from her. The skills that made him a killer … a soulless monster.
Protecting Lily kept him on his toes. He had never known a woman could manage to always be in the wrong place at the wrong time as often as her. She needed his skills and strength to keep her safe, and keeping Lily safe was his priority. Without her, he didn't want to think what life would be like for him or others who would be unlucky enough to be near.
He stomped the snow off his boots before going inside the small office building. It was late enough there wouldn't be anyone to see him enter.
Making his way to the office of Knox's wife, he bent over the lock, taking a few minutes to open the door. Then, sliding inside, he made his way into her private office and went to the window which gave him the view he had come to observe.
As he watched Brooke lay her son down in his crib to sleep, in hindsight, Shade thought he should have known Lily would change his life. It had taken two women to satisfy him the night after seeing her for the first time and then hours before he could purge her from his mind until he could sleep. And that had only been the beginning.
Standing in the darkness, staring at the church across the street, his mind played back over the series of events that had led him to that place in time…
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I was born in a small town in Kentucky. My family began poor, but worked their way to owning a restaurant. My mother was one of the best cooks I have ever known, and she instilled in all her children the value of hard work, and education.
Taking after my mother, I've always love to cook, and became pretty good if I do say so myself. I love to experiment and my unfortunate family has suffered through many. They now have learned to steer clear of those dishes. I absolutely love the holidays and my family puts up with my zany decorations.
For now, my days are spent writing, writing, and writing. I have two children who both graduated this year from college. My daughter does my book covers, and my son just tries not to blush when someone asks him about my books.
Currently I am writing five series of books- The Last Riders, The VIP Room, Predators MC, Biker Bitches, and The Dark Souls.
All my books are written for one purpose- the enjoyment others find in them, and the expectations of my fans that inspire me to give it my best.
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Release Day Blast: Vincent by Sarah Brianne
Publisher: Young Ink Press
Date Released: March 16, 2015
Series: Made Men #2
Vincent knows the glamorous side of the Mafia, being born a soldier. Lake lives on the opposite side of the tracks, born the daughter of a soldier. The light and dark side of him are at constant war, but he is letting his darkness reign.
She is trying to find peace, and she will soon be far enough away to find it. Discovering that his boss owns her, showed him how little he knew her. Knowing all about him only makes her want to hate him.
I'm a fu**ing made man.
I'm just fu**ing trailer trash.
Her father somehow managed to keep it working by doing his own repairs on it, using different parts from various cars and even making some himself. Lake liked to call it the Frankenlac.
She thought he would have bought a new car sometime between 1981 and 2014, but nope. He had better ways to spend his money. Yeah, like betting on a horse or for chips to throw in the middle of a poker table.
Even though Lake's father was a level-twelve gambler on the Richter scale, she wouldn't trade him for the world because Lake knew the other side of the coin all too well.
She shook her head, unwilling to think about the coming weekend. Most teenagers would be happy it was Friday, but not her. No, her weekends were nothing except torturous. Literally.
Her father finally reached the destination and put the car in park. "All right, kiddo. Have a good day. I'll see you Monday."
Lake looked away from all the stares outside of the car to meet her father's smile. "You, too, Dad. See you Monday." She had managed to force a smile of her own by the end of the sentence.
Lake opened the door and stepped out of the car, grabbing her bag.
"Love ya, kiddo."
That time, Lake didn't have to force a smile. "Love you, Dad."
As she closed the door, another scraping sound occurred. After watching her father start to drive away, she was finally able to turn around and face the teenagers' looks. It honestly wasn't as bad as it seemed; they always had much better things to talk about. Not to mention a short attention span.
See, Lake wasn't popular nor was she unpopular; she was just … well, Lake.
After a moment of complete silence, loud laughter filled the air along with some serious black smoke from her father's car blowing a gasket. Lake put her head down and pulled up the hood from her hoodie, trying to conceal her face.
Great. It can't get any worse, can it? She started walking through the parking lot, weaving between the people and cars.
Beginning to hear loud music come closer, Lake turned her head to see a big, white Jeep heading her way. She had to jump back to dodge the corner of the vehicle as the brakes squealed into 'park'.
Lake stood in shock from the close call as her heart began to pound. She knew exactly who was driving before the girl exited the Jeep along with three of her friends.
Ashley. It was hard for her to even say her name in her head.
"Oh, my gosh. I didn't even see you," Ashley said sarcastically through her snickering.
Lake decided to take the golden opportunity of being able to talk back. She didn't get many chances.
"Oh, my gosh. Really? Maybe you need to get glasses. Quick, how many fingers am I holding up?" Lake stuck up her middle finger then heard muffled laughs.
Ashley scowled and spoke as loudly as she could. "Sorry, I don't speak trailer trash."
That right there was how a lot of the world saw Lake—just a piece of trash. Trailer trash, to be exact.
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Hey! My name is Sarah Brianne and after living for twenty-two years the characters in my head told me enough was enough and I have finally put pen to paper (or is it finger to keyboard?) to tell their stories. Since I was a little girl I have watched every chick flick I could get my hands on, then when I became older I discovered a whole new world of romance novels. To me there is nothing better then a tale of true love and those are the stories that have inspired me to write. Like everything else in my life I have put my own spin on two lovers destined to be together.
Next to my books my prized possession are my two beautiful fur babies, Kalypso and Khaleesi. I know what you're thinking, do you pack them in your purse? Yep, right next to my kindle.
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Kensington Publishing's Ultimate Hero Search: Round Three Day Four
What the Cat Read is excited to be helping to spread the word about Kensington Publishing's search for the ultimate hero! On February 9th Kensington started the competition off with 32 heroes from amongst their many titles, and after two weeks of fierce competition and your votes, they are now down to 16 contestants.
Here's how the event and voting work: In a March Madness style elimination tournament, Kensington will pit their heroes against each other in three remaining successive rounds. Fans will vote in each match for their favorite hero and the winner of each match advances onto the next round until there is only one hero left standing. To place your votes, you can visit Kensington's TUMBLR or Kensington's WEBSITE. Remember, each match runs for a full 24 hours!
Why participate? Maybe you'll discover your new book boyfriend. Maybe you'll find a new author to add to your auto-buy list. Many of the featuring Kensington's heroes are on sale, so now if your chance to check out those titles that sound appealing and add them to your reading pile, murr! =^.^=
Here's today's competition:
The Dominant vs The Ex-Army Detective
Playing the Game by M.Q. Barber
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Against the Sky by Kat Martin
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