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Mar 16 2012
Has That Ever Happened to You?
Three things have happened to me in recent days.
I'm wondering if any of them has happened to you.
1. A couple of weeks ago, immediately following my appearance on QVC, I was walking out of the building so that I could make it to the airport in time to catch my flight home. I had photographed this same hallway earlier in the day, when I'd first arrived on the scene and was still blissfully unaware of the danger that awaited me.
After the segment, as I was walking briskly out of the building, I was texting my beloved husband back home, letting him know that I got finished right on time and that I couldn't wait to hug him and squeeze him and kiss and him call him George when I got home, when all of a sudden the world came to a screeching halt when I ran smack dab into the underside of the staircase. See the underside of that first landing there? Yes.
My face and head slammed against back of the staircase, my phone dropped and skidded along the freshly polished floor, and it very much hurt my feelings.
Then the woman who had been walking behind me—who I did not know had been walking behind me—said, "Oh my GOSH! Are you OKAY?"
And then she said "You know, I saw you headed for the stairs, but I thought to myself, 'Surely she knows that's there!'"
Then she picked up my cell phone and handed it to me.
Has that ever happened to you?
2. Last night, as I was getting dressed for my presentation and book signing in Boston, I discovered to my horror that every single one of my tops had contracted a profound case of static cling. I wear loose and flowy tops for a reason—so that they will not cling to my four-child mid-section—and the static cling not only made them cling, it made them cling.
I was already running late, so I ran downstairs to meet Janice, the kind woman who was scheduled to give me a ride to the bookstore. I planned to run into the hotel gift shop and pick up a bottle of Static Guard, but when I got to the lobby, there was a demonic clock sign on the gift shop door that read "Back in 30 Minutes." I began to cry.
But I surged on, going outside and introducing myself to Janice and asking her if she thought it might be possible to find a drugstore along the way. And I explained my static problem. Not that I needed to point this out. My shirt was clinging so violently that it looked like it was painted on my person. Janice said sure, there's a drugstore right next to the theater and bookstore. I heaved a sigh of relief.
We pulled up and I darted into the drugstore and headed straight for the section of the store where I determined the Static Guard would live. It did not live there, so I asked the employee at the register where I might find Static Guard because I was experiencing a violent static problem. Not that I needed to point this out. She very considerately walked me to the aisle from whence I'd just come and pointed to an empty spot on the shelf. "Oh," she said. "Looks like we're out."
I had ten minutes remaining until my presentation was to begin. My static cling was worse than ever, and it was sending electrical charges to my eyeballs. Not knowing what else to do, I grabbed a bottle of spray starch and a box of dryer sheets, quickly paid for them, and ran out to the car.
I opened the car door and explained to Janice that I'd struck out on the Static Guard front, but no need to fear because (whipping it out of the sack) I bought spray starch! But to protect her from the fumes, I closed the door, stuck the bottle inside my shirt, and began to spray. Then I removed it prematurely as I was spraying and to my horror, sprayed a white dotted mist on Janice's passenger side back window. I opened the car door again, pointed out what I'd just done to Janice, and said I am so very sorry. She said aw, no problem. Then I closed the door, grabbed a dryer sheet, and rubbed it all over the inside of my top. This was on a busy city sidewalk.
Then I got back in the car, and two lovely girls walked by on their way to the bookstore and said, "Hey, Ree," as they waved.
Has that ever happened to you?
3. One day during our recent family vacation, when my husband and I were skiing together, I was stuck because I was tired and unable to find the skills to get out of a mess I was in. Just in the nick of time, a nice gentleman in a ski patrol jacket came up to me and asked if I could use a little help. I said oh yes, thank you so much. Marlboro Man was downhill a ways and couldn't help me, and I needed assistance.
The man gave me some pointers about how to get down the hill I'd accidentally committed to, and before I knew it I was reunited with my beloved, a sweet and helpful ski patrol helper by my side.
The ski patrol guy looked at Marlboro Man and said, "I was just giving your mom a quick pointer—I think she's good to go!"
Has that ever happened to you?
I'm just curious.
1054 Comments and 41 Replies
Lora On Friday, March 16 at 1:05 pm
My husband went gray and bald very early so he's been referred to as my father more times than I can count. People also ask him about his grandson – who just happens to be his son.
Heather H On Friday, March 16 at 1:05 pm
Yep to #3. I was at Sams club and the lady there referred to me as my husband's mom. I will never forget that and every time I am at Sams and see that lady it comes right back to my memory. Oi vey!
Melanie On Friday, March 16 at 1:06 pm
First and foremost, glad you are okay and I hope you didn't suffer any bruises you would then need to explain. This kind of thing happens to me so often that my husband now calls me MEL BOB short for Melanie, Bit Of a Bumbler. When I read to him your encounter with apple fritters and donut case doors, all he said is, that could have been to you…and it often has been! Have a safe weekend!
Arnebya On Friday, March 16 at 1:06 pm
Yes, yes, and, no, not yet. All these newfangled buildings in DC seem to have a jutting out landing or a sticking out, too long bottom stair as though people should stand and talk there before descending the remaining stairs. But from the back, it's just an awkward appendage that it took my forehead THREE TIMES to meet in THREE DIFFERENT BUILDINGS before my forehead started to say, "Say, dummy, we're in a newfangledly designed building, how's about you pay attention."
Static cling hates MY HAIR, not my clothes. And I do know the dryer sheet trick though. Yup, use it on mah head.
Amber On Friday, March 16 at 1:07 pm
Oh geeze…for me it never fails for something like that to happen. Thanks for sharing…you gave me a much needed laugh!!!
Kelly On Friday, March 16 at 1:09 pm
HAHA!!! Your mom!? Oh gosh. These are too funny!! Thanks for the laugh. I just love ya!
Alica @ Happily Married to the Cows On Friday, March 16 at 1:10 pm
That last one is sooo funny! No, I'm sure you don't look old…he just looks so very "youthful"!
Liz On Friday, March 16 at 1:11 pm
I am the crazy girl from Boston that jumped in front of Janice's car t say hi to you. My friend and I were so incredibly excited to make it into your presentation and meet you at the book signing. You were so great and we hope you make it to Boston again!
Lee C On Friday, March 16 at 1:12 pm
Painful, funny and how-very-dare-you indignation!
Just a quick tip, I have the same static troubles with my lovely work trousers, moisturising my legs really helps stop the cling and sometimes all I have about my person is handcream…. Hey, whatever works.
Taryn On Friday, March 16 at 1:12 pm
I've been called my friend's mother by a carnival worker, when we were both 19. And while ski patrol hasn't called me someone's mother, the lift worker has called me a dude (in my defense, I was wearing a helmet and goggles with my hair in a braid behind my head, and my ski gear is white and green instead of something obvious like pink).
Pam D On Friday, March 16 at 1:12 pm
I was just reading a blog post and began laughing so hard right after taking a drink of water that it shot out of my nostrils and onto my laptop screen. Has that ever happened to you? Did the thought cross your mind that maybe the blogger now owes you the cost of computer repair because they didn't put a disclaimer at the beginning of their post that it might cause sudden, violent spurts of hysteric laughter?
Kyle On Friday, March 16 at 1:12 pm
made me laugh so hard…i snorted. Thankfully, I was alone. Except for Baxter…he didn't care. Thank you…I needed that, albeit, not at your expense!
MelanieL On Friday, March 16 at 1:13 pm
Oh my gosh you are hilarious! I can't wait to meet you in person next week!!
Sandie On Friday, March 16 at 1:13 pm
Oh I laughed out loud at that last one! I once walked into a pole. Felt like it knocked me back a few feet but since no one was around I just kept walking. And I was once struck on top of a ski hill that I shouldn't have been on and had a nice ski patrol guy help me down. But I was with girl friends and about 17 y/o so no I have not had someone call me my husbands mother. Honest to God I am still laughing out loud at that. How could he! Oh no. you're too funny.
Barbara V On Friday, March 16 at 1:13 pm
Didn't the woman notice you were walking and texting (probably not a good combination, right?)? She should have said something!
Haven't had the cling problem yet! But have you ever just needed something quick from the grocery store in the morning and you don't want to take a shower…and you run into someone you know?!
I take it the ski patrol person was a ten year old boy? or a blindman? or from another planet?
You crack me up! I probably shouldn't read your posts at work! People are wondering why I am giggling!
gregH On Friday, March 16 at 1:14 pm
O m G x 3 lol…
JennW On Friday, March 16 at 1:14 pm
OMG…I'm still giggling at this blog post. The way you describe your recent adventures had me right there with you. Love it. And I'll be at the Seattle signing…I'll have static guard just in case.
Seriously Sassy Mama On Friday, March 16 at 1:15 pm
I think I just spit i was laughing so hard. I have walked smack dab into a wall, and had my shirt cling to my three child and doughnut midsection.
Cheryl B:) On Friday, March 16 at 1:15 pm
On your first one – I usually only text while sitting in one spot, not walking or driving. Most of the time anyway.
Static is so bad where I live in the winter. I fried my mouse connection on my computer when I went to shut it down after putting my tennis shoes on (as soon as I put my shoes on I have to touch something to discharge myself), I hadnt done that before I went to turn off my computer.
On the last one – I am happy to say that I am always thought to be 10-15 years younger than I am. Most people dont even believe that my son is mine, but that I am his aunt or sister. They dont believe that I am a grandma or am old enough to have a son who is married:) I guess all those years of having zits and oily skin paid off in the end. Gosh I hated those who had clear cmplexion in high school and right after. I hated that they complained when they got one single zit on their face. Um have you looked at mine lately – its just one zit you have!! Well now look who has the last laugh, as they all have crows feet and laugh lines and my face is still plump and wrinkle free at the at of 47 – yes I am proud to say that I am 47 years old. I love going out to the club and getting hit on by 22 year olds only to tell them that I am old enough to be their mother!! haha
Michele On Friday, March 16 at 1:15 pm
I was in my late 30 when I had my first daughter. While in the hospital, and not feeling particularly beautiful, my nurse came in and asked me where I got my hair cut. I perked right up thinking what a hip, yet slightly older mom I must be and told her. She replied she would have to pass that information along to her MOTHER!! Boy did I feel just plain old!!
Dawn Britt On Friday, March 16 at 1:17 pm
It sounds like you've been having morre "donut case" days. All I can say is YES, I've had days like yours and oh do they make me cry, feel embarassed and want to hide. But, as with all things, they pass and life goes on. I figured out one thing along this journey called life. No matter what I do or how crazy I act, my friends and family still love me. You know why?………..because all my craziness is "Me" and so I'm a package deal just like you are. We all love you Ree because you are REAL and that's a BIG thing in my world and I would say it is in yours as well. God Bless and try not to walk and text anymore.
Kathy F On Friday, March 16 at 1:18 pm
Your too funny! Yes things like that happen to me too…
I really wanted to let you know I received my pre-ordered cookbook yesterday afternoon from Amazon- oh…….I just LOVE it!!! Can' t wait to try donuts,peach whiskey chicken and so many others!!!!!!!
Amy W. On Friday, March 16 at 1:19 pm
WOW!!! You are SO funny! Yes, stuff like that happens to me too. I love your blog and Food Network show. I plan to buy your new cookbook too just as soon as I can get to the store.
Tiffanie On Friday, March 16 at 1:19 pm
Honestly, Ree now that I'm done busting a gut cause seriously, we could be sisters. I say this to my husband and kids everytime I watch your show or read your blog and they want to know why I'm laughing to myself. I just love you that your so honest and real. I wish my memory was good enough to recall all the crazy insane things I have done, you would then be laughing to yourself about me, haha!
Jennifer On Friday, March 16 at 1:20 pm
Oh Ree, I sooooo needed that! I needed the laugh and I needed to be reminded that stuff happens and you just have to laugh:) You can't take yourself too seriously;-)
Andrea@That'll Do Farm On Friday, March 16 at 1:20 pm
I'm sorry times 3. But that last one. That's the one that really hurts. More than the bonk on the head. Let's just hope your hubby isn't the type to use that against you! Things could get reallllll ugly reallll fast.:)
wendy f. On Friday, March 16 at 1:20 pm
Ree you just made my day. I needed a good laugh and your little confessions did it. Thankyou!
Nicole On Friday, March 16 at 1:21 pm
You are definitely not the only one. My husband and I were out for our anniversary (he was 28, I was 27) and the waitress very politely carded him before bringing our wine–while at the same time telling me, "Oh, no, you're okay." He still laughs about that one…and I will, too, someday!
Iggy On Friday, March 16 at 1:21 pm
walking into things, is the reason, I don't walk and text anymore. That, and I trip over invisible stuff. ;p
K.Young On Friday, March 16 at 1:21 pm
Laughing hysterically. But not AT you. And I love that you can laugh at yourself. It's a quality that more people need to have!
Lori On Friday, March 16 at 1:22 pm
Ree, Girl, each of the three vignettes taken from your busy life struck a sympathetic vibration with me. All I have ever wanted to be is lady-like and demure. You know like old Hollywood. It is like I live in an alternate universe of my intentions. "Can you pick up some ice"? "Sure Hon", I replied as I hopped down out of my husband's gigantic pick-up. We were taking the family to the lake for the afternoon. Now, finding the proper water-wear for my forty-something, three baby having body is not for the faint of heart. I like to shift the focus to things I can control…like my perfectly painted toes, adorned with cute and sporty flip-flops. I had my hair in the best Jen Aniston ponytail that I could muster. I was feeling great as I paid for the ice, and I know the cashier was wondering where I got my fabulous sunshades. I liked the way my sundress fluttered on my calves as I clicked toward the ice machine and passed the warning sign of wet floors, written in two languages (both of which I can read and understand). My next thought appeared why are my feet in the air and where is my other flip-flop? Yes, that's right. I busted it in front of the entire HEB. Dang it, in an instant sucked back from Narnia or the Matrix or wherever it is that allows me to think I have it all going on.
sharla On Saturday, March 17 at 5:56 pm
I was laughing so hard, my husband came down the stairs to see why I was crying… sorry — just laughing WITH you, certainly not at you … since I have enjoyed similar "character building" experiences myself!
Eliza H On Friday, March 16 at 1:22 pm
Priceless! Thanks for the giggles.
Rebecca On Friday, March 16 at 1:22 pm
Once my husband and I went skiing in the Alps. As we don't read French, we ended up at the top of this much more complicated mountain than I was prepared to handle. I guess "bunny slope" isn't a French word. It took about 2 hours to get down this mountain as 5 year olds on tiny skis zipped past me. My poor husband had to have me sit on my butt and slide part of the way since my legs were ridiculously tired. In Europe, they aren't as concerned about safety because there was no ski patrol. Just a few orange mesh "fences" that seemed to imply "Don't go this way. You'll fall off a cliff." I narrowly avoided these. We did see a snow mobile and tried to find out who owned it and would they kindly drive me down this mountain. But the owner was nowhere to be seen and I didn't feel like hotwiring a snow mobile (nor can I), stealing it, getting down the mountain, getting arrested, and spending the night in a French jail.
The next day when everyone went skiing again, I stayed in the hotel.
Becki On Friday, March 16 at 1:23 pm
Bless your heart! I've had all that and other horrifying at the time, funny now moments.
Jennifer On Friday, March 16 at 1:25 pm
You are not alone….all of this sounds soooo familiar. Once, I ran across a floor I had just mopped (yes, I am that absent minded). Of course, my feet when out from under me and as I went down I grabbed for something…anything to break my fall..I grabbed the handle of the dust pan full of dirt I'd left on the counter…so I landed flat on my back in a pile of dust.
And a child recently told me that I looked like a young woman with very old hair and wondered why I had such dark smudges under my eyes.
Kim On Friday, March 16 at 1:25 pm
Ree, you make me smile. Very similar things have happended to me and so much of what you write I feel like we are kindred spirits. You will be a few hours drive from me on Monday when you are in Pittsburgh and I wish I had the nerve to come to see you. I know when I would get up to you in the line I would freeze and something like what you have described in this post would happen to me. I will be there in my heart.
Emily Rowe On Friday, March 16 at 1:26 pm
Hand lotion works great on static cling. Just rub it in your hands and then your shirt. Great on stockings especially!
Tina Gilliland On Friday, March 16 at 1:26 pm
Oh my… THIS was my introduction to your blog. LOL I LOVE it!!! Ahhh to be normal. I can so relate. I'm so happy to have found you. As I perused your site I came upon your "blogging" write up. I have a blog that I started and it was just for me to put things down to remember. And it's been a year and I don't have many posts. Your article gave me reason to go back and start again. It's locked as private, but still… I need to write more. I love writing. Took writing in college and thought I'd continue and in a sense I have with journals and such. But I like online. I like adding pictures easily thru a Google search to relate with what I'm writing about. So you've given me hope to continue. I just have one question. Is there a way to publish it under a ficticious name so that "those you don't want to read the personal stuff" can't find it? (Family!) LOL I'd love to make it public but not sure I want to pour all this out to my family as it CAN be hurtful and I'd never want that. But, I find that sharing and getting others opinions are a plus. Does any of that make sense??? Thanks for reminding me of a lost love. The love of writing.
Ruthie On Friday, March 16 at 1:28 pm
#3: twice, but the other way round. My husband's friend came wedding dress shopping with me. Seamstress assumed she was my mum (only 13yerars between us)… that would have made my husband (same age as her) my dad. At the beginning of this year, said friend, my husband and I were on vacation together. They asked my friend to sit on one of the dog sledges and told my husband to join "his wife", to which he responded that this would not be possible as I was already sitting on the other sledge. The good guide was more than embarrassed and apologised for separating us. Never make assumptions about how a group of people fit together
Suzanne On Friday, March 16 at 1:28 pm
I am laughing so hard! You have brightened my afternoon with these stories. These exact things have never happened to me (You know, since I've never appeard on QVC, no one would recognize me in a strange city and call me by name, and I've never been able to aford to go skiing.) but some things so similar have and all I can think is "Thankfully I'm not the only one that does stuff like this!"
Katy S On Friday, March 16 at 1:30 pm
No, no one has ever thought I was my husband's mom. I was asked when I was 24 or so if my mom was my sister! I couldn't figure out if they thought I looked older or my mom looked really young.
Hope your head is OK.
Norma On Friday, March 16 at 1:30 pm
OMG…those were funny stories. Yes to walking into a street sign while everyone else missed it. My sister, who is only 1 year older than me, accompanied me to one day surgery. The scrub nurse mistook her for my mother, I don't know if my sister has ever recovered from that! And I think we were in our late 30's. Ouch.
CindyS On Friday, March 16 at 1:30 pm
Well, up until the part about his "your mom" comment, the third one happened to me. The only time I've ever been skiiing (in the Rockies), I had to have a ski instructor help me get down the hill. (I'm a Florida girl. What do I know about hills?)
Jill of All Trades On Friday, March 16 at 1:31 pm
The first one…yes, only it was a door knob that found my eye socket as I was dodging a wasp…
The second…noooo…
The third…well, that one (sorry) just made me laugh. Did you turn around and smack the cute little ski guy upside the head!
Colleen On Friday, March 16 at 1:33 pm
Ok now this post actually had me cracking up at my desk because not only funny but I can sooo relate!
Anne D On Friday, March 16 at 1:35 pm
How funny you should mention that. On my school's campus we have a new building, and as my friend and I were sitting in the lobby by the staircase she asked, "Why is there a railing running underneath the perimeter of the stairs?" My first thought was that the school doesn't want us college kids to study underneath the stairs and pretend it's a cave. But then I figured it was to keep us from walking under it and then smacking our head on the back of the staircase.
I guess our school does care about us.
Maybe QVC could take some pointers.
Harpo8 On Friday, March 16 at 1:35 pm
I am laughing my head off and snorting my lungs out. Thanks Ree for that awesome post!
Gabrielle On Friday, March 16 at 1:36 pm
Jeez woman you had me laugh! You made my day!
I have been charge with the count of all 3 felonies and It won't stop until I stop running, multitasking, being a crazy working girl, mom, cook, wife etc…Sounds familiar to any of you here! hahaha
Watch out staircase (street sign, doors etc…) here we come!
Happy Friday everyone
the farmer's wife On Friday, March 16 at 1:36 pm
bwah ahahahahahha
i laugh with you, not at you
Harpo8 On Friday, March 16 at 1:37 pm
Actually I did that myself and got a enormous goose egg
Jamie On Friday, March 16 at 1:38 pm
I have had #3 happen to me in the most awkward situation. My lovely friend (who has spent more than her fair share of time in a tanning bed and with a cigarette in her mouth), was a new mom. We were out and about and I happened to be holding her daughter for a moment. Someone said "Isn't it nice to be out with mom and grandma" clearly looking at her for the grandma part. Ugh…not what a new mom needs to hear!
Holly Jones On Friday, March 16 at 1:38 pm
What I want to know is- what did Marlboro Man say to the ski patrol guy? Or was he laughing too hard to speak? Hopefully he chose whatever words very wisely. Surely he took you straight to the spa for some therapy- you deserved at least a massage, if not a whole body wrap, massage, facial, and mani-pedi.
Donna K On Friday, March 16 at 1:38 pm
No on #1. No on #2. The first time I ever went skiing (age 25) a friend told me it's no big deal. She said you just take the lift to the top and ski down. She had never lied to me before. Up I went and many falls later I was only 1/3rd of the way down and I sat and refused to try again. Well the day went on and they closed the lifts and turned out the lights for the night. My friend told the ski patrol that her friend was still up there somewhere. A wonderful ski patrol guy found me and showed me some basic moves to get me down. He taught me to ski! Just the two of us, alone on the mountain. It was great. However, the applause from the crowd waiting at the bottom was very embarrassing.
Laura M On Friday, March 16 at 1:38 pm
When I first met my daughter's best friend's mom I thought she was her grandma, thank goodness I didnt open my big mouth. I have been the recipient of "when is the baby due?" more that once.
Morgan On Friday, March 16 at 1:39 pm
I was in Victoria's Secret this week and the salesgirl said very reassuringly, "It's ok, even my MOM shops here." I turn 30 tomorrow, so I may be feeling old, but I could NOT be that chick's mom!
I've also done the wipeout…complete with Birkenstock flying off my foot and arcing through the air, landing much more gracefully than I did.
Patrice On Friday, March 16 at 1:39 pm
Oh nooes Ree! # 3 is shocking! It makes me feel ancient, because I'm a good 10 years older than you. Of course because I am 10 years older the chances of me being on a mountain on skis with a cute ski patrol guy are slim to none! lol I think you look young in spite of 4 children, or because of your children as my Mama would have said. Children keep you young my Mama always said. My Mama would have also said you are sprightly. Interesting word, sort of antique but useful. And this concludes my stroll down memory lane. Which I can only attribute to the fact I am on cold meds. LOL
Kelley Taylor On Friday, March 16 at 1:40 pm
His mother? No way! So sorry!
Cee On Friday, March 16 at 1:42 pm
I'm not much older than you and in a video game store the other day, a man asked me if I was buying something for my grandson. I hope he thought my grandson was darned young!
Angel On Friday, March 16 at 1:44 pm
I was going to take a X-ray and my daughter was with me. I was undressing and I over ther the tech say to my daughter ( who was about 5) is that your grand ma???? My daughter then said "No thats my mom". When I come out of the dressing room the tech face was red.
lwheeler On Friday, March 16 at 1:44 pm
Ree: This is why you have so many fans. You still live a normal life. Your entourage hadn't scouted the hallway prior to your departing. You didn't call your personal assistant to "get it for you. . . now" and your body guard didn't clear the mountain so that you could get down. You still hang like most of us, figure your way out of situations and do stupid stuff without meaning to. And that makes you loveable. I am still laughing at the whole "your mom" thing. Didn't you just want to whop him upside the head.
Nancy D. On Friday, March 16 at 1:44 pm
Oh my gravy gerty, that was the funniest things I've read all day (sorry Ree!)! I shouldn't be laughing because I have indeed run in to something pretty obvious and had an audience….. Glad to know I'm in good company!
Rosemary On Friday, March 16 at 1:44 pm
the last time i went skiing, about 43 years ago, the ski patrol asked after landing from a 10 minute roll down the slope, "can you do that again". He may not have been the ski patrol, but still, that hurt.
Melissa B On Friday, March 16 at 1:46 pm
Ok you are seriously crackin me up! I have had plenty of those times when things aren't funny when they happen but later you're like tears rolling down your cheeks laughing about them! One time I was in a shoe store and they had one of those mirrors at the end of the aisle. I was busy trying to pick out a pair of shoes and not really paying attention and ran right into the mirror. I guess in my head the reflection was a never ending rack of shoes definately NOT a mirror!
Lisa H. On Friday, March 16 at 1:47 pm
You are too funny!
Holly in PA On Friday, March 16 at 1:48 pm
I am so sorry, but I laughed and lauged all the way through this…. I am so happy that you let all your readers know how "real" you are and that you don't try to live a "perfect" life for us. Thank you!!!
Misha H On Friday, March 16 at 1:52 pm
You are not alone my dear. I am sure many of us have at one time ran into something we were not paying attention to. Years ago when visiting my sister in Florida we were going to some amusement/entertainment spot and we all volunteered to pay for the enterance fee. We all begin digging in our purses for our wallets, including my sister who is the driver and still had the car in motion! She managed to run into the one and only car in the whole parking lot. No one, thankfully, has ever called me the mother of my husband but I have someone ask if my brother, who is 3 years younger than me, was my father. He was not pleased. Have a safe trip!
TiffH On Friday, March 16 at 1:53 pm
His Mother!!! Thats just downright stupid you do not look like you could be his mother! And the whole walking into a stair thing, well frequently things jump out and hit me when I was no where near them, really I wasn't!
PaisleyPam On Friday, March 16 at 1:53 pm
OMG! You need to stay in the house for awhile and curl up on the sofa and watch Moonstruck and try to forget all about this. That's my suggestion. I have had one of those things happen to me and I"m not saying which one. It's bad…
T C On Friday, March 16 at 1:53 pm
I've been hit with scenario #3. We had enclosed our porch but the taxing powers that be had decided that it was now considered a "Florida Room" which meant that our taxes were going to increase. The town sent out a woman to come to our door and let us know this bad news in person. I answered the door and was speaking with her when my husband joined us. He introduced himself and the tax lady said that she was "just explaining to your mother.." about the tax increase. Hubs corrected her and then she wouldn't drop the matter…just kept apologizing over and over. I had to excuse myself and let hubs take over so she'd get finished and leave.
Annie M On Friday, March 16 at 1:55 pm
Number 3 has happened to me in a slightly different way.
I was on vacation with my husband on a cruise ship. They had a jumbo chess set on the pool deck. So a little after midnight when it was quiet, we went up to play a game.
A lady walks by and says "The ultimate challenge, mother versus son.". I looked right at her and said "Excuse me, that's my husband!".
CathyM On Friday, March 16 at 1:55 pm
Oh, you poor, poor thing
Weatherlass On Friday, March 16 at 1:56 pm
OMG! On all three counts! No to the first two but the Mom thing, yes! I was sooooo embarrassed. A man heard a women (prob 30) say Mom, I'm done. Well, her Mother, which by the way looked around 60, was around the corner so the man couldn't see her. The man looked around and only saw me and my husband who does look a lot older than me even though he's only 3 years older than I am (premature gray on his part). He said to me "does your daughter have time to put letters on the back of the sweatshirts that she is selling?". I' m hoping that he thought I was a second wife as the other is most unbearable! I'm only 37 and people often think that I am younger than that. Not a good day!
Carolyn On Friday, March 16 at 1:57 pm
Oh, Ree, you are so much like the rest of us, only with your own TV show, etc.
Yes to #1, but not on a stairway, just a wall – you'd think that would be impossible to miss, but, No, not me.
Yes to #2. Hate that and had it happen so much that I now carry dryer sheets in my purse in a baggie just because I've been embarrassed too many times.
Almost to #3. In my husband's case, his skin is smoother than mine but he's white haired and almost bald so I still look younger than him. What happens to me, though, is every time I'm out with my one of my parents, people mistake me for my dad's wife and my mom for my sister, because I have his grey hair, and my mom has darker hair than both of us. That is just WRONG!
Carolyn A On Friday, March 16 at 1:58 pm
Laughing out loud here in Arlington, VA. The last two stories were hysterical! The first one, – not so much. I hope your head is OK… Ouch.
Anyway, thanks for making me laugh : )
Megan L On Friday, March 16 at 1:59 pm
Yes, I walked into the screen door that separated our balcony from our apartment. I'm actually laughing about it while I'm typing this. To tell you the truth my husband has never let me forget it. And the best part was I thought to myself minutes before walking into the screen, "Gee it looks a little foggy out here to me." Well duh, of course it looked foggy.
The second one hasn't happened to me but something similar did. My veil for my wedding was very very long. I had the idea of using my veil as a train instead of having an actual train. Well in the middle of our wedding as I'm sitting there helplessly grasping onto my fiance's hand my veil begins to overtake my face. I think I must have stepped on the darn thing three times throughout the whole 20 minute ceremony. Needless to say I have a picture where my sister in laws are trying helplessly how to figure out how to put my veil on me the picture says it all they all have looks of utter confusion on their faces.
The third thing I had something similar. I was covering something for a newspaper when I was in college at a local elementary school and was told to go to class by a hall monitor. Not sure which is more embarrassing but I feel your pain either way.
annamaria On Friday, March 16 at 1:59 pm
So funny! You know, I couldn't really tell you if these things happen to me because (after they do) I block them out.
Mawiyah On Friday, March 16 at 2:00 pm
Don't ever stop blogging – none of that has ever happened to me – I am here at work – I was bored out of my mind until I read this post. You are a gem Hilarious – and there is no way in the world you look like Marlboro Man's Momma!
SHeila On Friday, March 16 at 2:00 pm
OH yes.. talking to my hubby walking to the bathroom ran into the door with my bosom on the left side (I am a 42 G).I hate them hate them… . Had a HUGE lump and blue place the size of your fist that did not go away for 3 months. I take blood thinners. erk
SandyK On Friday, March 16 at 2:01 pm
Bless your heart for sharing all that with us, Ree!! The situations you described have not happened to me…..but have you ever locked your keys in your car….
with the engine running ……
In my defense, this was before the days of On-Star, etc….needless to say, my hubby, who had to come and rescue me (cell phones were just beginning to be used at this time) was not amused!
the 7msn ranch On Friday, March 16 at 2:01 pm
Here's another cure for static cling:
Run a wire coat hanger between yourself and the offending clinging garment a few times. If baling wire happens to be more handy, I'll bet that would work, too.
MP :) On Friday, March 16 at 2:03 pm
LOL Ree!!
OMG — Once again, you've made my day!!
Must say, all THREE of those have happened to me over the years!!
Thanks for allowing us to remember we're ALL NORMAL–even through all the "glitches" life throws out!!
**on an ANIMAL note along those lines, my old "Three Bars" bred QH mare will be 35 years old on April 19th … everyone who meets her thinks she and my 14 yr old QH mare are sisters and ask how "close in age" they are!! She's quite a horse!!!
Patti On Friday, March 16 at 2:03 pm
LOL! Very embarassing situations! But so funny When are you gonna write another book?
Meg Grace On Friday, March 16 at 2:03 pm
I'm just waiting for the day #3 happens, as I am 16 years older than my husband
PaulaK On Friday, March 16 at 2:04 pm
Oh, Ree! Thanks you soooo much for the laugh! I have had several such embarrassing moments but the worst was sliding down the spiral staircase into my class reunion! The silk dress I was wearing was very useful as a super slide! I soon learned to walk on the wide outside part of the spiral NOT the skinny inside!
JanieS On Friday, March 16 at 2:04 pm
Yes it has happened to me – on the way down a stairway someone even told me about the low ceiling up ahead and I still bumped into it – !! The static cling thing – from Michigan we always had that – didn't know about the spray starch and dryer freshner thing – wish I had know that -!! And yes on the last one – I was prematurely gray at 30 – they would call me grandma when I had my kids out!! We have to laugh at this stuff though – can't let it get us down. You take care Ree – love your blogs – cooking – – family and animals!! I am such a big fan!!! Thank you for sharing!
janahn On Friday, March 16 at 2:05 pm
Oh the humiliations of life! Being humble is a very good thing… too bad what it takes to get/keep us there…
Olivia On Friday, March 16 at 2:06 pm
How on earth could anyone think you are Marlboro Man's mother? You both look the same age and perfect for each other. Good grief!
kmouse On Friday, March 16 at 2:07 pm
That last one was a KILLER! NO WAY! Good thing you have a sense of humor.
Nix that young man off your Christmas card list, though.
JudithNYC On Friday, March 16 at 2:08 pm
Oh, Ree. I am clumsy but none of the first two things has ever happened to me. I am more into the break the donut display case thing.
The third thing did happen to me. I was 23 and very pregnant with twins (seven pounds each, thank you very much.) When I was a few days from my due date I went to get a very short haircut because I knew that I would not have much time to fix my hair for the next 18 years or so.
When my husband came to pick me up the hair dresser told him "We are almost done with your mom."
It's been almost 40 years and I swear to you, there are tears in my eyes as I write this.
Brittany On Friday, March 16 at 2:08 pm
I have never had that happen to me but I have had my fare share of mishaps like getting pooped on by my baby in the doctor's office right before the doc walked in… after waiting 2 hours to see him.
If you ever have the static issue again… I hear that rubbing the positive end of a battery on your clothing will get rid of the static cling. You may have had better luck in the drug store finding batteries, plus less mess. right?
Candy On Friday, March 16 at 2:09 pm
This made me laugh out loud! Thanks…I needed that! Seriously maybe not those exact things happened to me, but I think we have all had "those moments"
Mary On Friday, March 16 at 2:09 pm
I ran into a light pole on the sidewalk once right in the middle of a festival, so I can relate to the first. The last one, well I have a different problem. Everyone thinks me, my husband, and my daughter are all brother and sisters. They tell him all the time how nice he is to babysit his little sisters.
Marsha On Friday, March 16 at 2:09 pm
Just finished thumbing through your new book. Everything looks great, can't wait to try some of the recipes. However I must say as much as I love dogs, I prefer the ending of the first book over the second. ( what cowgirl wouldn't?)
Lori Ann On Friday, March 16 at 2:10 pm
What a wonderful read this Friday afternoon! Thanks for always sharing the honest moments – with all of your success it is nice to know that you are right here – slamming into walls – with the rest of us! People really do need to monitor their mouths a bit better – don't ya think!? Have a great weekend!
MaryP On Friday, March 16 at 2:11 pm
Firstly, the ski patrol guy must have been blind. Never walked into a staircase, but as I was walking out of a school once there were double doors open. One would think double doors would have 1 big door frame, but not so, it was 2 doors next to each other. As I walked out in a crowd I walked smack into the pole between the 2 open doors (that appeared to be double doors) and gave my teeth quite the shaking!
Pauley Maitland On Friday, March 16 at 2:11 pm
That last one is downright hilarious!
Amy Newton On Friday, March 16 at 2:12 pm
yes… all of those things to some degree… LOL I was 'texting' and tripped up a curb – that I had lifted my foot to step on… phone went flying.. all in front of the completely windowed front of the Bureau of Motor Vehicles….. and as far as clothing catastrophes… lets just leave it at pregnant/44/ sneezing…. and the last one, I took my son – who was 19 at the time to the Dr right before he had to leave for basic training to get a bad case of poison ivy cleared up… and the Doc looked at me with contempt and wanted to know why his 'girlfriend' was in there, speaking for him. I said "I'm his MOM!!!"…….
so glad you share your 'humanisms' with us….
Wanda On Friday, March 16 at 2:12 pm
Dear Ree .
The next time you get static cling my deer just get a can of hairspray and spray your top that should do the trick.
Elizabeth On Friday, March 16 at 2:14 pm
Walking into walls, and static cling…you bet. Have not had the "Mom" thing happen yet, Yikes!!
Pam On Friday, March 16 at 2:15 pm
Ree, I was there at that book signing and it was so worth waiting 3 1/2 hours to meet you. My friend and I came down from New Hampshire to see you. Loved every minute of the presentation, the song at the end of it was the best. I hope the rest of your tour is as successful as it was in Boston. Please try and come to New Hampshire some time. Thanks again, you put a smile in my heart.


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Massachusetts, California, Oregon, Maine, and Nevada are most likely to be the next five states to legalize marijuana, based on careful analysis. In the near term, two basic things are required before a state is likely to legalize marijuana. The state needs to allow citizen ballot initiatives and have an electorate ready to embrace reform.
While the approval of marijuana legalization in Colorado and Washington State has made it easier for politicians to come out in support of legalization, as a group politicians are still well behind the rest of the country on this issue and are risk-adverse. No state currently has a legislature where anywhere near half the members have publicly endorsed marijuana. Most politicians are probably going to wait to see how the federal government responds and how the regulation works in these two states before putting forward their own laws. As with medical marijuana back in the 1990's, it is likely that more than a half dozens states will approve it at the ballot box before it is finally passed by a state legislature.
That means in the short-term almost all the action will result from initiatives but just under half all states even allow some form of citizen initiative. The next several states to legalize marijuana will most likely come from this group.
Even if a state's law would allow citizens to put a marijuana legalization question on the ballot, it will fail unless a majority of the voters in the state support legalization. Theoretically, a legalization initiative could be put on the ballot in Utah next year, but it would be destined to fail in such a deeply conservative state.
The easiest way to approximate how much support there is for legalization in a state is to look at how liberal it is. According to Gallup, as a group "Liberals" are the most supportive of marijuana reform and "Conservatives" are among the least. It is safe to assume that the more liberal the state, the more likely it is to support marijuana reform.
Unfortunately, as you can see in this chart of the 20 states with the most Liberals, relatively few allow initiatives. Of the ones that do, the obvious top tier targets are Oregon, California and Massachusetts. Voters in Massachusetts recently overwhelmingly approved both marijuana decriminalization and medical marijuana initiatives. In addition, the vote on local advisory question indicates strong support for legalization. It is probably the most favorable place for a campaign.
In recent elections marijuana initiatives came close to winning approval in California and Oregon, but part of the problem was poorly drafted initiatives as well as funding issues. With better campaigns, better initiatives, and slightly more time for support to grow both states should be in good position in the next few election cycles
The second tier consists of Nevada and Maine. They are not as liberal as the first tier states, but they are significantly more liberal than the country as a whole. Both states were also among the earliest to approve medical marijuana at the ballot box. Maine voters approved of medical marijuana in 1999, while Maine voters approved it in 2000.
Predicting the future is impossible but if one can make reasonable assumptions based on data and previous patterns. Indications are that five states most likely to adopt marijuana legalization next are Massachusetts, California, Oregon, Maine and Nevada – in that order. These will be the top targets for national organizations working to advance the issue.
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I started messing around with cars since I owned my 1st car. Could not afford to have a clutch replaced, lifters or a head gasket or even a heater core. Dabbled in body work and restorations starting with a 67 mustang... and got alot better each time. Learned by my mistakes. I have to say my 69 Stang is the finest car I have ever owned and took ALOT of hard work to get it exactly the way I invisioned it before I began the restoration. I love going to car shows talking to other classic car lovers... and learn so much by sharing past experiences with other classic car owners. Car people are so much fun to hang around with ! I go to alot of car shows and meet alot of wonderful folks doing so. Also, there is nothing like the smell of hotdogs and hambergers in the air while the band is playing classic songs from the 50's 60's 70's & 80's while checking out all the cool cars. Man it just does'nt get any better than that !!!
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My first car
1968 Chevy Camaro
Car I wish I still had
I got it now
My dream car
1969 Mustang - BOSS 429 !
Car clubs I'm in
Hang out with alot of San Antonio Car Club members... but not in a car club. No time for meetings !
- Type of racing: Nascar
- Driver: Dale Earnhardt Sr. & Richard Petty
- Driving song: Mustang Sally
- Car movie: Diamonds are Forever
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September 12, 2013
'Paint This with Jerry Yarnell' Star to Lead Artist Demonstrations at Art on the Hill
Internationally known professional wildlife, western and landscape artist Jerry Yarnell will be featured among the artisans providing demonstrations during the fourth annual Art on the Hill, Sept. 20-21 at Rogers State University.
The recipient of numerous national awards, Yarnell will hold a painting demonstration in the Baird Hall atrium from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 21.
The demonstrations are part of the two-day Art on the Hill art show and sale, which will be held at RSU's Claremore campus. The celebration also will feature live music, theatre events, children's crafts and more. All activities are free and open to the public.
Yarnell and his unique style can be seen on his very popular PBS television series entitled, "Paint This with Jerry Yarnell™," which airs on RSU Public Television and other public television stations nationwide and in several foreign countries. He also has authored 13 books on painting and hundreds of teaching videos.
He has been honored with numerous awards with his work receiving enthusiastic responses from shows to galleries across the country. He is often invited to be the keynote speaker for entertainment or educational purposes for schools, civic groups, environmental groups, corporate meetings and conventions, as well as lay speaker for church services and related activities.
Through his Yarnell School, he has more than 42,000 students worldwide. His workshops at the Yarnell Studio & School of Fine Art (both at his Skiatook-area studio and across the United States) focus on sharing the fine-art techniques that he has obtained over his 30 years of painting and teaching. His complete series of illustration videos, DVDs, and books is available at YarnellSchool.com.
The featured artist demonstration on Friday will be Jerry Emanuel, who will be holding woodturning demonstrations throughout the day in an area between the artist tents. Also on Friday will be:
In addition to Yarnell's demonstration on Saturday, there will be three other demonstrations that day, including:
For more information or the complete schedule of activities, visit www.rsu.edu/ArtOnTheHill.


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It all started with some ratty extensions…
…and it only got worse from there. Is this the VMAs or a Rob Zombie movie?
Still too hard to tell.
Britney's trainwreck more or less set the tone for the rest of last night's show, which was supposed to be a new-and-improved version of the Video Music Awards. Mostly, it just felt schizophrenic, with its performers scattered through a series of "parties" at the Palms Hotel in Las Vegas. Though less ceremonious in general (gone away, for the most part, were performer introductions, thankfully) and about as short as you could possibly expect an awards show to be (just over two hours, double thankfully), this year's VMAs was a series of quick cuts and excerpted performances. It felt like a parody of MTV and the short-attention-span generation the network supposedly spawned. The awards show is what would happen if ADHD got ADHD. (And what's worse — they gypped us out of what was undoubtedly the best part of the night: the Kid Rock-Tommy Lee tussle.)
After the jump, we recount some highlights. And by "highlights," more times than not, we mean "lowlights."
So, at this point, it's utterly clear that a comeback from Britney is not in the cards, right? (Sarah Silverman said it best during her, uh…monologue was it? "She is amazing. I mean, she is 25-years-old and she's already accomplished everything she's gonna accomplish in her life.") If Britney couldn't get it together for a four-minute comeback performance, how can she possibly be expected to get it together for the next chapter of a career? Seriously Brit: don't waste your time…
…unless, of course, you plan on giving us a series of awkward performances like last night's. As painful as it was, Britney's rendition of her solid new single, "Gimme More," provided the unitentional hilarity that only the performance of a camp icon can. Hmmmm…maybe that's the angle for the next chapter of her career. On second thought, don't give up yet, Brit! Dance, Britney, dance! Pacing the stage, looking bored, half-heartedly attempting moves, each more awkward than the next, the girl was a mess.
Seriously, did she almost fall over?
She's cross-eyed now?
She thinks it's a joke?
She's a human "C"?
Bad, bad, bad. Although, I'm not gonna lie…
That was hot.
And you know what else was hot, for real for real? Her body — Brit's slightly thicker than she was at her python-carrying, Madonna-Frenching, VMAs prime and, Zombie-movie hair excepted, maybe hotter than ever. In fact, a few of the girls on last night's show were packing a little more than you might have expected. Let's hear it for the unexpectedly stocky girls of the 2007 VMAs!
For real: good for all of them. They'll all probably be ridiculed for their extra pounds, but we can only hope that they'll ignore it and keep reaching for the donuts. Seriously: it's refreshing to see three superstars of Britney's, Beyoncé's and Alicia's caliber look so healthy.
Speaking of appearance, let's go over some of the looks that made the VMAs a moving eyesore:
Lil' Mama
I'm dubbing her Lil' Bo Bleep, because seriously? This outfit looks like s***.
Alicia Keys
I'm not hating the bod, but please next time keep your bondage fantasies to yourself, girl.
Nelly Furtado
Before the show, she was rocking this bird's nest in her hair. Hey Nelly — just because you're in Vegas, it doesn't mean you have to look like a used-up stripper or casino-floor inhabitant. Nexxus leave-in-conditioner. Size of a dime. Smooth it in. Please.
It's great that Nelly cleaned up for her performance…
It's too bad she had to transform into
a python Madonna in the process.
Speaking of Madonna, don't you think that whole equestrian thing is played out, Ne? Just because you can, and just because there's nothing to it, it doesn't mean you should strike such a pose.
Aw, look! Bey loves animals so much that she brought her pet squirrel!
Mary J. Blige
And I think Mary picked that mushroom on top of her head from the same forrest.
Adam Levine
So, is his whole purpose to be a walking hypothesis of what would have happened if Pretty in Pink's Duckie were transplanted into the "Justify My Love" video? That would, at least, fall in line with his whole manwhoredork reputation.
Shia LeBeouf
Shia took the opportunity to announce the title of the upcoming Indiana Jones movie: Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. "It's a big deal," he told us. You know what's an even bigger deal? That molesty mustache he decided to rock. Lock up your daughters. No, seriously. Do it.
Dr. Dre
It looks like he's been hitting the gym instead of the recording studio. So that's why Detox has been so long delayed!
Seriously, who do you think can bench more — Tim or Dre?
Of course, such superficial matters are just one facet of the VMAs — though it could very well stand for "messy," the M still means "music." And so, as for the performances, it's pretty much the consensus that Chris Brown killed it (Alicia Keys would be my first-runner-up for being daring enough to emphasize emotion over technical perfection — that is SOUL).
Chris was pretty much the only performer to utilize the entire venue, coming as close to running circles around his peers as humanly possible. It definitely felt like a big night for Chris, although it was instantly dwarfed by the fact that the most memorable part of his act…
…was a throwback to someone else's act. Way to make a name for yourself, Chris!
In the Countdown to Overexposure category…
Three freakin' Kanye performances? Sept. 11 can't be over soon enough.
Seriously, is this amusing to anyone but them at this point?
Also, in the shots above in which Kanye's wearing the sunglasses, doesn't he look sort of like Flavor Flav would look like after having his ass kicked by Charm School? That'll never happen, but it's fun to pretend.
One of the downsides of the faster-paced show was that we only got to see snatches of some performances. At first, I thought it was unfortunate that we didn't get to see Cee-Lo singing Prince's "Darling Nikki" with the Foo Fighters.
But you know what? This was quite enough.
The VMAs did provide a public service, though.
Because you know you've spent many sleepless nights wondering what Rihanna would sound like backed by Fallout Boy. Well, wonder no more!
Did you happen to catch the pre-show? Because Nicole Scherzinger performed in one of those metal racks used by caterers.
Yummy! Who says women are objectified? Also, her guest rapper Lil' Wayne made fun of her name in his verse. A tied-tongue when attempting to pronounce "Scherzinger" is the latest celebrity must-have.
It's too bad that Linkin Park's light show didn't detract more from their music.
Next time bust out the lasers, guys.
Finally, the Nelly Furtado-D.O.E.-Kerri Hilson-Timberlake-Timbaland finale put an appropriately schizophrenic cap on the show.
It was nice to see Justin massage his brain:
But even more entertaining were Justin and Timbaland's off-stage antics:
It's so wonderful that our pop culture is propped up by complete spazzes.
Finally, I'd like to give out some awards to those who didn't end up taking home Moon Men last night (the full list of winners is here, FYI).
Biggest Who…?
Jennifer Hudson. Dreamgirls seems like it happened 5,000 years ago, doesn't it?
Best Human Imitation of a Vagina
Duh. Although this guy was nipping at her heels:
…with Kanye a close third.
Best Head in the Way of My View from the Couch
It's a tie! (Seriously, did they have the audience members film this thing? What was up with the camera angles?)
Best Sense of Humor About Oneself
Miss Teen South Carolina, who announced that future airings of the VMAs would be remixed while lampooning her infamous speech. But the best thing about this was that her stiff, Al Gore-like delivery meant we got to laugh both with her and at her. She's a consummate entertainer, that one!
Best Person, Period
The girl who popped her head in front when Gym Class Heroes won…something. Clearly, this was her night.
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Tony Bennet
A One Night Only Performance By Multiple Grammy Award-Winner Tony Bennett
Tony Bennett, the 17 time Grammy Award-winning musician whose music spans over six decades will play the Bord Gáis Energy Theatre in Dublin on Friday 12 September.
With worldwide record sales in the millions, and dozens of platinum and gold albums to his credit, Tony Bennett is a musician who touches the hearts and souls of audiences with his legendary vocals and charming stage presence. His long list of achievements, spanning over 60 years, includes seventeen Grammy Awards, including the prestigious Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, making this artist a true international treasure. His signature tunes, such as "Steppin' Out With My Baby" and "I Left My Heart In San Francisco" form part of the fabric of American music culture. Often billed as the world's most boyish octogenarian, Tony Bennett is a vital musical artist at the peak of his powers.
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The Alexander Hotel is only a 5 minute drive from the Bord Gáis Energy Theatre. Parking facilities are available. Dublin's main attractions are all within walking distance from the 4 star hotel.
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Points were at a premium in Thursday's action when Sweetwater's sub-varsity football teams traveled to Snyder. Both sub-varsities came away with close losses in a pair of defensive struggles while kicking off district play.
Sweetwater's junior varsity Mustangs lost 6-0 in their contest, while the freshmen fell by a score of 8-6. The nar-row defeats dropped both teams' records to 4-2 and they will stay on the road to face Greenwood this Thursday.
The junior varsity Mustangs' excellent defensive effort was led by Austin Marlett, who finished with seven tackles in the game including three for a loss. The offense was led by quarterback Hayden Reeves, who was 9-of-19 passing for 97 yards; and Kris Duran, who caught three passes for 53 yards.
In the freshman game, both teams scored one touchdown with the difference a two-point conversion by Snyder after its score in the first quarter. Sweetwater scored on a 2-yard run by Denzell Moore in the second quarter. Max Gomez, Adrian Vizzerra, Austin Kamer, D'Jaman West, Michael Lawrence and Dylan Jimenez were also offensive standouts. Defensive standouts were Cory Mendez (recovered fumble), Lawrence, Vizzerra, Daniel Maldonado, J'Corey Amos, Isaiah Gonzales and Branson Guelker.


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A Palm Harbor man was killed early Friday morning after deputies say he lost control of his pickup truck on and it overturned in Dunedin.
Pinellas County deputies say Matthew W. Vonderau, 31, was driving a Ford F-150 northbound on County Road 1 at Hickory Gate Drive when he lost control for unknown reasons.
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WASHINGTON DC -– Having stumbled on gun control, President Barack Obama on Monday called for a national dialogue on mental illness – a campaign touched off by last year's massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown.
Speaking at the beginning of a day-long White House conference on the issue, Obama said the time has come to bring mental illness "out of the shadows."
"I want to make sure people aren't suffering," he said.
More than 70 therapy dog teams who have been in the community for months will gather at Fairfield Hills for A Day of Thanks to the Newtown Therapy Dogs, hosted by Newtown Veterinary Specialists, on Saturday, June 22, from 10 am to noon.
This event is about learning their stories, taking some pictures, seeing the dogs, and offering heartfelt thanks for all they have done over the past six months.
The families of those massacred at Sandy Hook Elementary School are calling on legislators to amend state law so that photos and audio of the 911 phone calls from the December incident are not released to the public.
"They are offensive and an invasion of my son's right to dignity," said Dean Pinto, whose 6-year-old son, Jack, was fatally shot along with 25 other students and educators at the Newtown school.
HARTFORD — Twenty parents and spouses who lost loved ones at the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary on 12/14 gathered together at the Capitol in Hartford on Friday, May 31, to call on legislators to pass House Bill 6424, "An Act Concerning Fees for Searches of Accident and Investigative Reports of the Department of Emergency Services and Public Protection." They were joined by sisters, a brother, a son, a teacher, and others directly affected by what happened 5½ months ago.
Ricci's Salon & Spa, at 99 South Main Street, held a special event on Sunday, May 19: The Sandy Hook Green Salon-a-Thon. All services that were provided to customers included a bottle of Sandy Hook Green, a new, limited edition nail color created and donated by O*P*I Products, Inc. All proceeds benefited Sandy Hook Promise, a charity formed after 12/14. Among those participating at the event were, from left, Suzy DeYoung of Sandy Hook Promise, and also Jennifer Stoltz, and Dana Schicker.
Those awaiting the release of the long-awaited public investigatory report on the criminal actions of Adam Lanza, who shot and killed 28 people including himself in Sandy Hook last December 14, likely will need to wait somewhat longer than initially thought, possibly until October.
State police spokesman Lieutenant J. Paul Vance said May 29 that the release of that report sometime in June is unlikely, with its disclosure coming at some later point. Lt Vance declined to say when that might be.
Five-time Grammy winner and Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee James Taylor, accompanied by his wife Kim and a sweet-sounding ensemble, entertained hundreds of invited Newtown families, 12/14 survivors, and emergency responders during a private one-hour set May 26 at the Walnut Hill Community Church in Bethel.
The Newtown Interfaith Clergy Association is planning two gatherings in June.
The first will be on Sunday, June 2, beginning at 4 pm. This will be the next in the monthly interfaith services that have been held on the first Sunday of each month at various locations since April.
This month's gathering will be hosted by Newtown United Methodist Church, 92 Church Hill Road. The theme will be "Finding Our Way in Times of Transition."
EASTON — "Jewish Art in Response to Newtown…," a collection of contemporary carvings by Harvey Paris, is on display at Easton Public Library through June 30. The exhibit features 20 carvings inspired by Newtown, Peace in the Middle East, the Holocaust and Jewish tradition.
The library will host an artist's reception and talk, open to the public, on Thursday, May 29, from 6 to 8 pm.
To the Editor:
A rare F5 tornado leaves a 14-mile path of destruction in a populated area. Twenty-four dead. We are doing something right: early warning systems and education, and more.
A disturbed young man walks into a school with a semi-automatic weapon. Twenty-six dead. When will we be able to say "We are doing something right"? My heart goes out to all 50 families.
Deborra Zukowski


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Pianist Morten Qvenild started the In The Country trio in 2003, with Roger Arntzen on the bass and Pal Hausken on the drums two fellow former students from the Oslo music academy. The trio played reams of concerts in over 20 countries over the last 13 years and has been awarded the Best Norwegian Young Jazz Artists in the mid 00´s. After four internationally renowned Norwegian albums, his ACT debut 'Sunset Sunrise' now proves that he has achieved a masterful reconciliation between tradition and experiment, between individuality and communal listening experience, between jazz and pop, in a way that has never been heard before. Even when Qvenild digitally distorts and extends the sound of the grand piano it's not because he wants to test the extremes. It all remains natural, grounded by a calm pulse and melodious despite all complexity. Qvenild is a master of reduction, who can carve out the kernel of a melody in elongated, dynamic, rhythmic and improvisatorial climaxes like few others and then transform that kernel into something completely new again.
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Thinking Globally about Growth and the Environment (PDF)
Phil Sharp
Environmental Management in Developing Countries (PDF)
Allen Blackman
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The Challenge for Rio+20: Funding
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The June 2012 United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development marks the 20th anniversary of the Rio Earth Summit, widely credited with launching sustainable development as a global policy agenda. Since its inception, this agenda has evolved into concerted actions and agreements to combat global warming, deforestation, biodiversity loss, environmental degradation, and poverty. The conference, Rio+20, continues this work by focusing on the themes of greening the world economy while at the same time eradicating poverty.
But any lasting progress or initiatives launched at Rio+20 could falter over a familiar stumbling block: how will recommendations for action be financed? Rather than focus on already-established priorities, Rio+20 should instead tackle the challenge of funding the transition to a sustainable world economy. Without urgent attention to this issue, global sustainable development will remain an elusive goal, and the long legacy of the first Rio conference will be diminished.
New Financing Needed
Conventional sources of development assistance and environmental funding are failing to keep up with the rising global bill for fighting climate change, biodiversity loss, and poverty. As a result, funding gaps on the scale of hundreds of billions of dollars hamper progress on sustainable development goals (see "Global Funding Gaps" below). Overcoming these gaps requires new sources of financing for environmental and development projects. Three options have been proposed: international funds, global markets for carbon and environmental services, and revenues from global trade and financial transactions.
International Funds
Existing funds for environmental and development projects have translated to limited success. Consider the case of the Global Environmental Facility (GEF), a major player since 1991. The GEF reports that it has elicited $10 billion from direct donor contributions—supplemented by more than $47 billion in co-financing from additional supplementary aid—for more than 2,900 projects in 165 developing economies. Despite this success, the GEF is severely restricted in its capacity to fund new initiatives. Since 1994, its total budget allocation has declined in real terms, while its range of environmental and climate projects continues to expand.
A new initiative is the Adaptation Fund, which finances adaptation investments in developing countries that are parties to the Kyoto Protocol on climate change. The fund is financed with 2 percent of the Certified Emission Reduction (CER) credits issued for projects of the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), among other sources. The CDM allows industrialized countries to invest in emissions reductions wherever it is cheapest globally, and often they purchase the CER credits earned by carbon-reducing investment projects in developing countries. Currently, the Adaptation Fund has raised just $286 million. Yet to adapt to climate change, developing countries will need $70 billion to $100 billion a year in additional assistance from 2010 to 2050.
Global Environmental Markets
International payment for ecosystem services has emerged as a possible new source of financing for conservation of global ecosystems. In this type of scheme, the beneficiaries of ecosystem services, such as reduced runoff and cleaner water, raise and distribute funds to those who conserve the environments that provide these valuable services.
The only operating international payment system for ecosystem services a sum that falls far short of the amount needed to make much of an impact. Financing REDD+ through carbon markets could earn developing countries an additional $2.2 billion to $13.5 billion annually. Yet a 50 percent decline in global deforestation through REDD+, for example, would reduce global greenhouse gas emissions by 3–6 percent annually but cost $17.2 billion to $28 billion per year. Bilateral initiatives, such as the Amazon Fund ($57.5 million), the Congo Basin Forest Fund ($165 million), and Norway's International Climate and Forest Initiative ($517 million), can only partially offset this financing shortfall. And the mechanism faces other obstacles: negotiations to expand global funding of REDD+ have stalled over concerns about verification of deforestation rates and carbon emissions, losses in timber and agricultural revenues, and corruption, fraud, and misgovernance.
A global cap-and-trade system for greenhouse emissions or a global carbon tax could also raise substantial funds. A carbon tax is more efficient and easier to administer globally. The tax could be equalized across different regions and industries, set low initially, and rising steadily over time to reflect increasing damages from global warming. Estimated revenues from such a scheme could range from $318 billion to $980 billion by 2015 (in 2005 prices) and $527 billion to $1,763 billion by 2030. But political realities, especially in the United States, have essentially ruled out the feasibility of implementing a global carbon tax or cap-and-trade system.
Revenues from Global Trade and Finance
Given the practical limitations and political difficulties of setting up international funds or markets for carbon and ecosystem services, sustainable development initiatives should consider the alternative option of raising revenues from global trade and financial transactions.
International finance facilities mobilize resources from international capital markets by issuing long-term bonds that are repaid by donor countries over 20 to 30 years. Unlike other global financing mechanisms, a handful of donor countries can start an international finance facility without a large international agreement, and existing aid institutions, such as the World Bank, can implement it. The amounts raised through bonds, however, are mostly likely to be in the tens, rather than hundreds, of billions of dollars. As a result, an international finance facility is probably best suited for specific health or infrastructure investments, such as immunization, clean energy, and improved sanitation. One such program, the International Finance Facility for Immunization, has raised $3.6 billion through bonds since it launched in 2006, using these funds for immunization programs and vaccine purchases in a total of 70 developing countries.
Revenues also could come from sovereign wealth funds. Such funds are routinely created by countries, by setting aside for investment purposes a proportion of their foreign exchange reserves accumulated from buying and selling goods and services in world markets. Today, sovereign wealth funds hold $4.3 trillion in global foreign exchange reserves, including $3.5 trillion in developing countries. In its Least Developed Countries Report 2011, the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development proposes that developing economies invest 1 percent of their funds in regional development banks, which could in turn facilitate a wide range of sustainable development initiatives. And in a report to the G20, Bill Gates suggests that allocating 1 percent of sovereign wealth funds in G20 countries would raise at least $40 billion annually for global investments in the environment and development. But to be effective, such a mechanism would require international agreement on the transfer and disbursement of the funds.
A third option is a tax collected on the sale of specific financial assets, such as stocks, bonds, or futures. A very small financial transaction tax would have a negligible impact on liquidity or overall financial transactions but could raise substantial funds on a global scale. For example, Gates proposes that a small tax of 0.1 percent on equities and 0.02 percent on bonds could bring in about $48 billion from G20 member states. The European Union proposed that rich countries consider collectively adopting a financial transaction tax at the G20 summit in Cannes, France, in November 2011. Although favorably received by many G20 countries, the proposal failed to receive full backing due to opposition from the United States, the United Kingdom, and Canada, who worried about its added burden to their banks. In January 2012, France announced the implementation of a new 0.1 percent tax that would come into force in August, regardless of whether the European Union agrees to impose a similar tax.
A variant on the financial transaction tax is a currency transaction tax, or Tobin tax, named after the economist James Tobin, who first proposed it in the 1970s. This tax is applied to foreign currency exchange transactions, which today total around $800 trillion annually. Thus, a currency exchange transaction of only 0.05 percent could raise $400 billion in revenues for aid to poor economies, climate change mitigation, and ecosystem conservation.
Taxes also could be imposed on the arms trade, tobacco products, airline travel, and aviation or shipping fuel to fund global environmental and development initiatives. For example, a 10 percent tax on global arms exports could raise up to $5 billion annually. Additional tobacco sales taxes in G20 and other European Union countries could generate $10.8 billion, global aviation fuel taxes an extra $27 billion, and shipping fuel taxes $37 billion, according to Gates.
Any of these additional taxes would require an international agreement, which could be difficult to negotiate successfully. And taxes on particular products are difficult to implement politically and would create problems of smuggling, especially for tobacco products, small arms, and light weapons. Airline travel, transport fuel, and tobacco products already are taxed substantially by some governments.
Too often, international talks on global environmental and development issues have focused on priorities for action, leaving the difficult task of financing global initiatives to be resolved through subsequent negotiations. It is time for the world to stop delaying. If Rio+20 became the venue for negotiations on new financing mechanisms for environment and development funding, it would signal that the international community is no longer just talking about finding solutions to pressing global issues—but is taking serious steps to overcome them.
Global Funding GapsThe costs of biodiversity protection, climate change mitigation and adaptation, and poverty eradication far outstrip what the world currently spends to achieve these goals. Current commitments to date (spanning multiple years) do not even match the funds necessary to address the issues for one year:
Further Reading
Barbier, Edward B. 2011. The Policy Challenges for Green Economy and Sustainable Economic Development. Natural Resources Forum 35(3): 233–45.
Barbier, Edward B. 2012. Tax "Societal Ills" to Save the Planet. Nature 483: 30.
Clémençon, Raymond. 2012. From Rio 1992 to Rio 2012 and Beyond: Taking Stock and Moving Forward in the Search for Sustainable Development. Journal of Environment and Development 21(1): 5–14.
Gates, Bill. 2011. Innovation with Impact: Financing 21st Century Development. A Report by Bill Gates to G20 Leaders, Cannes Summit. www.thegatesnotes.com/Topics/ Development/G20-Report-Innovation-with-Impact.
Pearce, David. 2007. Do We Really Care about Biodiversity? Environmental and Resource Economics 37(1): 313–33.
United Nations Conference on Trade and Development. 2011. The Least Developed Countries Report 2011: The Potential Role of South-South Cooperation for Inclusive and Sustainable Development. New York.
Atkinson, A.B. 2006. Funding the Millennium Development Goals: A Challenge for Global Public Finance. European Review 14: 555–64.
Brzoska, M. 2004. Taxation of the Global Arms Trade? An Overview of the Issues. Kyklos 57: 149–72.
Kindermann, G., M. Obersteiner, B. Sohngen, J. Sathaye, K. Andrasko, E. Rametsteiner, B. Schlamadinger, S. Wunder, and R. Beach. 2008. Global Cost Estimates of Reducing Carbon Emissions through Avoided Deforestation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 105(30): 10302–07.
Pearce, D.W. 2007. Do We Really Care about Biodiversity? Environmental and Resource Economics 37: 313–33.
United Nations Conference on Trade and Development. 2010. The Least Developed Countries Report 2010: Towards a New International Development Architecture for LDCs. New York.
World Bank. 2010. The Economics of Adaptation to Climate Change. Washington, DC.


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This is a beautifully clear exposition of the main points of Lie theory, aimed at undergraduates who have studied calculus and linear algebra. The book is modeled after (and named in homage to) Halmos's Naive Set Theory. The key simplification is that it deals only with matrix groups.
The book is well equipped with examples, and it always ties the matrix groups back to concrete examples, especially the complex numbers and the quaternions. The book has a very strong geometric flavor, both in the use of rotation groups and in the connection between Lie algebras and Lie groups.
The book's most conspicuous weakness is that it treats Lie theory in isolation. It doesn't give any clue where the subject came from or what it is used for today. Each chapter ends with a very informative "Discussion" section, but what is discussed is the portions of Lie theory that we couldn't get to in this book. There's no mention of differential equations, Klein's Erlangen Program, or representation theory.
Allen Stenger is a math hobbyist, library propagandist, and retired computer programmer. He volunteers in his spare time at MathNerds.com, a math help site that fosters inquiry learning. His mathematical interests are number theory and classical analysis.
1 Geometry of complex numbers and quaternions
1.1 Rotations of the plane
1.2 Matrix representation of complex numbers
1.3 Quaternions
1.4 Consequences of multiplicative absolute value
1.5 Quaternion representation of space rotations
1.6 Discussion
2 Groups
2.1 Crash course on groups
2.2 Crash course on homomorphisms
2.3 The groups SU(2) and SO(3)
2.4 lsometries of Rn and reflections
2.5 Rotations of R4 and pairs of quaternions
2.6 Direct products of groups
2.7 The map from SU(2) x SU(2) to SO(4)
2.8 Discussion
3 Generalized rotation groups
3.1 Rotations as orthogonal transformations
3.2 The orthogonal and special orthogonal groups
3.3 The unitary groups
3.4 The symplectic groups
3.5 Maximal tori and centers
3.6 Maximal tori in SO(n), U(n), SU(n), Sp(n)
3.7 Centers of SO(n), U(n), SU(n), Sp(n)
3.8 Connectedness and discreteness
3.9 Discussion
4 The exponential map
4.1 The exponential map onto SO(2)
4.2 The exponential map onto SU(2)
4.3 The tangent space of SU(2)
4.4 The Lie algebra su(2) of SU(2)
4.5 The exponential of a square matrix
4.6 The affine group of the line
4.7 Discussion
5 The tangent space
5.1 Tangent vectors of O(n), U(n), Sp(n)
5.2 The tangent space of SO(n)
5.3 The tangent space of U(n), SU(n), Sp(n)
5.4 Algebraic properties of the tangent space
5.5 Dimension of Lie algebras
5.6 Complexification
5.7 Quaternion Lie algebras
5.8 Discussion
6 Structure of Lie algebras
6.1 Normal subgroups and ideals
6.2 Ideals and homomorphisms
6.3 Classical non-simple Lie algebras
6.4 Simplicity of sl(n, C) and su(n)
6.5 Simplicity of so(n) for n > 4
6.6 Simplicity of sp(n)
6.7 Discussion
7 The matrix logarithm
7.1 Logarithm and exponential
7.2 The exp function on the tangent space
7.3 Limit properties of log and exp
7.4 The log function into the tangent space
7.5 SO(n), SU(n), and Sp(n) revisited
7.6 The Campbell-Baker-Hausdorff theorem
7.7 Eichler's proof of Campbell-Baker-Hausdorff
7.8 Discussion
8 Topology
8.1 Open and closed sets in Euclidean space
8.2 Closed matrix groups
8.3 Continuous functions
8.4 Compact sets
8.5 Continuous functions and compactness
8.6 Paths and path-connectedness
8.7 Simple connectedness
8.8 Discussion
9 Simply connected Lie groups
9.1 Three groups with tangent space R
9.2 Three groups with the cross-product Lie algebra
9.3 Lie homomorphisms
9.4 Uniform continuity of paths and deformations
9.5 Deforming a path in a sequence of small steps
9.6 Lifting a Lie algebra homomorphism
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SPARTANBURG A high school student in Spartanburg County has died after collapsing on the track at the school.
Coroner Rusty Clevenger said officials were called to Mary Black Memorial Hospital in Spartanburg shortly after 3:30 p.m. on Wednesday, where 14-year-old Chaquantei Qualiq Fowler of Cowpens was pronounced dead.
Clevenger said the ninth-grader collapsed on the track at Broome High School.
The coroner said efforts were made by school personnel and emergency medical service workers to revive the teen.
An autopsy was planned for today to determine the cause of death.
Clevenger said there is no indication of foul play.
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The S&P 500 is up a whopping 4.5 points versus the close of Jan 2nd. The entire year thus far was made on the first day and since then there has been a bunch of churn and nothing else. This should be very familiar to investors of the past few years – massive overnight moves on "news" and then a lot of churn/selling during the daytime sessions until the next piece of news. One exception was Q1 2012 but that was definitely the exception not the rule of the past 18 months.
If interested, John Hussman has a note out this weekend saying margin debt is 2% of GDP – the only other times this happened were the top of 2000, the top 0f 2007, and the intermediate top in February 2011. Just food for thought, not a short term indicator of any kind but certainly an intermediate item to keep in mind.
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This router was just what I was looking for! It was very easy to set up and get working, it's a wonderful thing!
struggles to maintain connection11/30/2009
This router has been out for a while but still has the its original problems. Hardware failures and frequent dropped connections are common for this router. Linksys is aware of the problems but chooses to drop the price rather than recall it. In the end, the company hurts its reputation.4 Helpful | 0 Not Helpful
It's Great!!!!8/13/2009
I really love this router. I'm not technically savvy, but getting this router up and running properly took me less than 30 mins. It has a range out of this world. I like everything about it, including the look. It's fast, fast, fast.1 Helpful | 1 Not Helpful


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