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Iram was concerned when he entered the main palace, not so much that this was one of the few times Jin had been around the twins but more because of the events concerning his slave. Lebaux was locked away in scrolls and Lilith was confident he would return them when he had an idea of what he needed. Iram decided deciphering Chris' problems could wait. For now he looked down at Lebaux's daughter as well as his own with pride, Jin was progressing fast. Her demon energy was high for her age, but she had internally put a limit on her power. She would be a powerful creature when she grew up. But for now she needed lessons from the only two demons alive who could claim to be Clan Leaders of Wrath House.
They entered the huge training arena Zeke had built, half of it was all exercise equipment that woudl help them keep up on their regimine. The other half was where the training would take place. Some gaurds filtered around working out, but Iram's gaze was focused on the demons in the center. Zeke pointed to the side and two grown demons walked away. Kale and Sen, obviously not pleased to be excluded but unwilling to disobey the King. The boys themselves were doing stretches on the floor, garbed to fight they were wearing loose cotton and silk. Jin was garbed likewise, only she was levels above them interms of skill. Iram as well as his most trained fighters were training her when he didnt hve work to complete. Zeke turned and smiled down at Jin. "Little Jin, how are you?" he asked, the boys eyed her annoyed.
"Fine my king." Jin smiled at him as he patted her head.
"Your father tells me you already bested Haul, he is a demon in strength." Zeke smirked. "I commend you for the feat itself, but you are still worlds away from being a Clan Leader."
"Teach me my king."Jin smiled with promise. Iram swept her up under his arm as Zeke swept his own boys up.
"Here's the thing you three will now begin trainging together, once every two days. Iram and I will trade turns teaching, and you will obey all orders and rules." Zeke spoke, "Your demon caretakers are prohibited from intervening and joining in. That goes for you as well Jin, your shadow spirit is to remain dormant."
Zeke dropped his boys and Iram dropped Jin, they lunged for eachother, all tree fighting with promise. Zeke phased over and lowered his voice, "They should team up against her or they wont win." He chuckled and sighed. "Ambrosia told the caretakers the truth."
"Ah, how did they take it?" Iram asked, he twisted as he felt a shift in the kingdom, something holy had risen up, then was swallowed by something dark. Zeke's eyes darkened as he clutched his chest.
"Chris-" Zeke huffed before he closed his eyes, seeking. He vanished from sight and Iram turned to the kids, jin already had them pinned on the ground, sitting on lucas who was keeping Asher down.
"Well done student Jin." Iram spoke, "Now what went wrong?'
"Where did father go?" Asher asked.
"A bit of business but he will return." Iram spoke, "Why was Jin able to pin both of you?"
"She kicked me." Asher growled.
"She dropped me on Asher." Lucas huffed.
"Incorrect, when you face an opponent more powerful or stronger than you you rely on two things."Iram spoke, "Listen up Jin, we will focus on this alot."
"What is it father?" Jin asked.
"Teamwork, and using your opponents strength agaisnt them." Iram said. "Come at me and I will demonstrate."
They rused him as one and he flipped Jin behind him, dropped Asher to the floor and grabbed Lucas' head as he swung. "Teamwork, we have a long road ahead of us."
Lebaux sat against the door to his room as he felt Chris' energy lift then ebb, the darkness inside him was growing. The Paladin energy was running rampant he was fighting to control it, even as he went through whatever was going on in his mind. Lebaux couldnt find anything helpful in the scrolls. As Lebaux stood to stretch he heard Hope scream. He ripped the door open to find Julia lifting her from the floor in front of Chris' door. "No! I want to see daddy!" Hope yelled.
Lebaux walked over and took her into his arms, "Hey little bit, your daddy is hurting right now, we need to let him heal." he spoke.
"I can heal daddy!" She protested bright blue eyes glistening with tears. Lebaux hugged her his heart aching.
"No sweet one, he needs to heal himself this time, he'll be okay." Lebaux tossed her into the air and she didnt seem the least bit amused. "Look at uncle bo, would he lie?"
"If it got you the last cookies." She huffed, he smirked.
"Leave it to uncle bo, I'll protect your daddy, I'll help him." Lebaux entered the kitchen where Julia offered her a cookie, she clamped on it out of reflex. "How about you draw for your daddy, maybe it will help."
She nodded and moved to her little art table, Lebaux clenched his fists and went back to his room he snatched the scroll up to find something useful.
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Online Organizing for Social Justice tele-clinic this Friday
Rashad Robinson from ColorOfChange.org (last seen around these parts on a Democracy Exchange last year) will be joining a tele-clinic hosted by the Center for Media Justice this coming Friday. The session, Online Organizing for Social Justice, will explore best practices, troubleshooting assistance, and offer discussion on strategies for getting the most out of your new media communications. Here's more, from the Center:
Online organizing using technologies such as social media, especially Twitter and Facebook, YouTube, e-mail, and podcasts can enable faster communications by social justice movements and the delivery of local information to a wide audience. In 21st century communications organizing, the use of online strategies has become crucial to building movement momentum, and amplifying your community's and your organization's public voice.
This monthly tele-clinic will focus on online organizing – including list building, email blasts, designing alerts, and other tactics, platforms and strategies. Rashad Robinson, Executive Director, Color of Change will offer best practices and help participants receive feedback on their current strategies and practices and troubleshoot challenges.
Sign up on the session's EventBrite page.
Washington to allow voter registration via Facebook app
The state of Washington will be taking the next step in convenience voter registration as they will roll out an application allowing eligible voters to register via Facebook. Washington has allowed online voter registration since 2008 (when 158,000 new voters registered online), but it will now become the first state to allow voters to register via the social networking website.
Here's how it works, via TechPresident:
When users access the Facebook application, it asks them to give permission to transfer their name and date of birth from their Facebook profile to the application's interface. The application then performs a real-time check against the database to see if the user is already registered, in which case it directs the user to the My Vote interface. If not, it brings up an interface allowing the voter to register, assuming the user has a Washington state driver's license or I.D. card number. If that is entered, the system does a real-time check against the Department of Licensing's database.
Yahoo! News reports that Rock the Vote has also launched an online app in collaboration with the state of Washington, separate from the Facebook app, targeting young folks to register to vote. Heather Smith, Rock the Vote's Executive Director, says that they will be launching similar applications for California, Oregon, and Nevada.
Leveraging technology and online social networks are great ways to get young people (and all people who utilize the internet) to register to vote. It can only have a positive effect on voter registration in the state, and perhaps will encourage other states to think of creative, new ways to outreach to eligible voters.
Take the Civic Data Challenge
Earlier this year, our friends at the National Conference on Citizenship launched the first-ever Civic Data Challenge at the Data 2.0 Summit in San Francisco. The project hopes to bring new eyes, new minds, new findings, and new skill sets to the field of civic health.
The Challenge will turn the raw data of "civic health" into beautiful, useful applications and visualizations, enabling communities to be better understood and made to thrive. NCoC is opening up its data, as well as other data on the important topics of health, safety, education, and the economy.
You're invited to collaborate with others, analyze the data, and create something amazing to showcase what you find. Designers, data scientists, researchers, and app developers are especially encouraged to join the challenge. There will also be prizes given out to the winners (!).
All entries for the Challenge must be received by July 29, so time is running out! Winners will be announced at the 67th Annual National Conference on Citizenship on September 14 in Philadelphia.
The Challenge is presented by NCoC (the National Conference on Citizenship) in partnership with the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. NCoC and Knight Foundation hope the Challenge will uncover new findings on why community engagement and attachment are critical to building thriving communities.
Most states at severe risk for corruption
This week the State Integrity Investigation released its final findings and scores. The investigation, headed by groups Global Integrity, Center for Public Integrity, and Public Radio International, looked into 330 different "corruption risk indicators" divided into 14 categories and used them to put together a final corruption risk grade for each state in the US. The categories deal with transparency, public access to information, ethics, judicial accountability, redistricting, and other areas.
Grades reflect the structures in place to prevent corruption, and the degree of access that the public has to these structures and mechanisms. Much of the grade, too, has to do with the "teeth" of the law, and what happens on the enforcement end. The end results and grades do not bode well for residents, as states overall have a long way to go in rooting out corruption.
Only four states nationwide received a grade of B or higher, while no states scored an A, and 8 states received F's. More than half of the states, 26, received grades of D or F from the investigation. See each state's final grades here.
What does this mean for democracy? It means that, by and large, states have not been doing a good job of presenting clear and open information for the public. Additionally, it means that the business of the people has been taking place largely behind closed doors, leaving considerable space for back-room deals and actions taken by officials that conflict with the public interest. Other reports have shown the areas in which corruption occurs the most (University of Illinois-Chicago Anti-Corruption Report, PDF), but even when laws and mechanisms are in place, corruption can and does happen. What matters more sometimes is how quickly offenders get caught, and how they are punished for their actions.
How can we push our states to enact tougher laws and, hopefully, improve their score for the next study? On each state's page users can submit the scores to their representatives. Together, we can push our legislators to enact more stringent laws and structures to help root out corruption. It will require a large movement of the people because up until now, at least according to this thorough investigation, states have not been moving that much on their own.
Introducing Campaign for Stronger Democracy's new executive director, Peter Hardie
The Campaign for Stronger Democracy is delighted to announce the hiring of its new executive director, Peter Hardie. Peter has already begun his work at the Campaign, and brings with him extensive experience from both local and national electoral campaigns, in a variety of roles including field and leadership positions.
"There may be nothing more challenging than genuinely democratic communities; there is also nothing more transcendent, or more closely linked to our health and sustainability as a nation, indeed, as a global society," said Peter. "The Campaign for Stronger Democracy is a community of folks from divergent fields and practices who all stand on this fundamental truth of democracy: the more the better. I can't be more pleased and honored than to have been asked to lead this initiative."
Peter recently completed a strategic thinking process with Demos/The American Prospect, and previously served as Executive Director of the Pushback Network, a national network of grassroots organizations developing electoral and voter engagement strategies for social change. Peter has also helped lead TransAfrica Forum, an international advocacy organization, and worked as a consultant to the Ford Foundation.
A graduate of Harvard University and labor and community activist upon leaving college, he helped shape many grassroots community initiatives around peace and justice, violence against women, youth involvement and public schools. He enjoyed teaching in a Boston public high school and working with activists on public school reform efforts. As a union member and staff person for a number of unions, he organized new members, negotiated contracts and addressed issues of workplace democracy.
Peter is also principal of Wayfinding Organizational Consulting, incorporating principles of community and discovery into the dynamics of organization, social justice and social impact.
"As father to a seventeen-year-old son, I know only too well the intrinsically human quest for democracy," said Hardie. "We want to be heard. We want to shape and craft our surroundings. We want to grow, and we want others to grow alongside us. We want a stake, and a say."
Stay tuned to the Campaign for Stronger Democracy blog, Facebook, and Twitter for future opportunities to engage with Peter and learn more about the Campaign.
Assessing the State of the Union
Now a couple of days removed from the 2011 State of the Union address, we take a look around at some of the reactions from the democracy arena:
- National Conference on Citizenship points out President Obama's stressing of civic participation and public works as ways to jumpstart the country. NCoC brings the speech back to their report from 2011 on the connection between civic health and unemployment.
- The Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights released a statement touching on the importance of closing the student opportunity gap; the loss of public sector jobs; and the pay gap between men and women, and women of color in particular.
- Public Campaign notes that the President pushed for an end to lobbyist bundling, which they say is a positive step. However, United Republic mentions that the President also receives bundled contributions, though not from lobbyists.
- Sunlight Foundation also touches on lobbying, saying that it is very unlikely for President Obama's proposal from his speech to pass both houses of Congress. Instead, Sunlight suggests focusing on increasing lobbyist disclosure and tightening requirements for who must register as lobbyists.
- TechPresident has a rundown of some of the ways in which technology enhanced the State of the Union viewing experience, including the White House's interactive feed, and twitter reactions.
- From ColorOfChange, executive director Rashad Robinson says that the organization applauds the creation of a governmental unit to investigate banks, but still demands full accountability from banks.
- In the Huffington Post, Sayu Bhojwani of the New American Leaders Project said that although President Obama spoke about the need for immigration reform, his actions so far in his presidency have not backed up what he has said.
- NoLabels pushed for Senators and representatives to sit together in the House during the speech. The New York Times reports that not many chose to intermingle with the other party (though most who did were Senators)
- In Nonprofit Quarterly, Rick Cohen examines the omission of the nonprofit sector from the speech.
- Research!America says that the President's call for enhanced training in science and technology is a very positive development, but notes that funding must be preserved for progress to truly be made.
- Politico reports that one of the items President Obama spoke about in the speech, the STOCK Act, is coming closer to getting a vote and heading to the President for a signature. The bill would ban insider stock trading by members of Congress.
- Finally, Colorlines has word clouds for all three of President Obama's State of the Union addresses.
SOPA, PIPA, and democracy
Much has been said this week about SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act) and PIPA (Protect IP Act), particularly as it concerned the shutting down of some of our recent websites, even if only for a day.
The bills caused an uproar in the online community, and many websites including Wikipedia, Blogger, and Reddit decided to go dark for the day and direct their users to contact their representatives to oppose the bills. According to SOPAstrike.com, over 115,000 websites participated in the strike, over 3,000,000 emails were sent (and likely more), and over 10,000,000 signed the petition against SOPA/PIPA.
The strike showed a great amount of people-power, just in the sense that so many folks took the time to sign the petition and contact their representatives. It was a great exercise in mobilization and education on issues relating to the internet.
But, did it work?
In the short term, that answer appears to be "yes." Today the votes on both SOPA in the House and PIPA in the Senate have been delayed, and the number of Representatives and Senators opposing the bills has grown in the past few days.
What, if anything, can we learn from this moment, and what are the next steps? In the future, will well trafficked parts of the internet have to shut down in order to draw attention to an issue? What are some other approaches to creating this sort of widespread protest to restrictive legislation? How can we connect issues from different parts of the democracy movement and have these 10 million people unite behind an array of other issues that may be of importance to them as well?
Clearly, there are still more questions than answers, but one thing for sure is that democracy is alive and well. People are willing to contact their representatives and make their voices heard, but they also have to be motivated. At the very least, the SOPA/PIPA internet strike shows what happens when the usually-napping giant of US democracy is awakened. Now, to just awaken it more frequently…


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Another summer 2011 wedding! This is the July wedding of Amy and Marcus by Yakima based Memory Montage Photography. Everything from the bright flowers to the hot pink bridesmaid shoes, waterside setting, Chinese lanterns, fairy lights and the adorable candy table makes this wedding a great example of summer elegance. I love how the couple dressed up their outdoor event with subtle upscale elements, like Amy's fabulous necklace and hair piece! Perfection.
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Ringgold's Law is Player of the Week again
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As of lately, there are pretty much three things in life that are guaranteed: Death, taxes and Nico Law is going to chew up somebody's defense.
Law, Ringgold's junior quarterback, was at it again Friday in a 42-7 win over Big Nine Conference foe Albert Gallatin.
Law completed 13 of 18 passes for 266 yards (20.5 yards per completion) and three touchdowns. He also had 127 yards rushing on nine carries (14.1 yards per carry) and another touchdown to pace Ringgold (4-2, 4-2).
For his efforts, Law is this week's The Valley Independent Player of the Week. He has won the honor twice this season.
"Nico did exactly what Nico needs to do for us and we are coming to expect from him," Ringgold coach Matt Humbert said.
Humbert said that Law, who has posted gaudy numbers week-in and week-out continues to get better because he wants to improve.
For the season, the Ram star has rushed for 7-7 yards and seven TDs and thrown for 1,049 yards and 12 TDs.
The scary thought is that as good as Law has been, he isn't at the top of his game.
"He isn't close to where he can be as a football player yet," Humbert said. "But he is determined to get there with his work ethic."
In honor of the Halloween season, that is a very scary thought - for opposing defenses.
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•Ringgold's Dayshore Majors, who caught three passes for 82 yards, including TDs covering 65 and three yards. He also scored a two-point conversion.
•Monessen's Clintell Gillaspie, who made the most of his three touches in a 55-19 win over Serra by catching two passes for 120 yards and two TDs and carrying the ball once for 25 yards and another score.
•Monessen's Javon Brown, who had two carries for 98 yards, including a 95-yard romp and also scored on a 92-yard kickoff return.
•Belle Vernon Area's Derek Verklereen, who had a season-high 166 yards rushing on 18 carries and also booted four extra-points in a 28-0 win over Trinity.
•BVA's Cody Menges, who caught four passes for 109 yards, including two TDs and also ran for another TD.
•BVA quarterback Mike Fine, who hit on eight of 18 passes for 157 yards and two TDs.
•Charleroi running back Brandon Bowman, who rushed for a season-high 127 yards on 14 carries and scored twice in a 46-21 loss to Waynesburg.
•Charleroi quarterback Brennan Matthews, who threw for 154 yards.
•Yough's Clayton Waldron who rushed for 157 yards and scored three TDs in a 46-32 loss to Valley.
•Yough quarterback Tyler Donahue, who threw for 146 yards and two TDs.
•Frazier quarterback Charles Manack, who hit on nine of 16 passes for 141 yards and three TDs in a 33-9 win over Avella.
•Frazier running back Nick Smalich, who rushed for 101 yards, including a 17-yards scoring run.
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Glazer piano concert marks 1949 Carnegie Hall debut
An artist in residence at Bates since 1980, Glazer is a musician of international renown, still vital and active after decades of touring, composing, recording and teaching. On March 4th he will reprise the program he played in his Carnegie Hall debut.
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Bates senior Chris Berry (Augusta, Maine) finished his exceptional collegiate swimming career with the best weekend of his life last weekend at the NESCAC Men's Swimming and Diving Championships. Berry broke or had a hand in breaking an astounding total of seven Bates event records at the meet, while the Bobcats set 13 new event records as a team.
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Tough Sell
Josh Holdeman '93 has his clients in focus during a landmark Christie's sale
March 1, 2009 4:17 pm
They Came, They Bought
Featured image It's Dec. 16, and they're coming. Scores of visitors stream into the Manhattan headquarters of Christie's, the purveyor…
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Experience counts
By drawing on inspirational ancestors and marshaling its community, Bates moves forward
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Athletics' passionate friends
Bobcat Buddies — Friends of Bates Athletics raises $220,000 in inaugural season.
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Turning Points: Simple Questions
The latest campus comings and goings
March 1, 2009 1:01 pm
A Step Ahead
Izzy Alexander '09 set a fast pace right from the start.
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Spring at Bates
It was still late winter at Bates as we went to press for the Spring issue, so this June 2008 photograph of a rugosa rose in front of Carnegie Science was chosen hopefully.
March 1, 2009 12:40 pm
Reliving "A Night of Alchemy"
On a given February night in 1939, an entertainment-seeking Lewiston resident could sit at home and listen to Death Valley Days on the radio. Or he could take in a movie, like The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, starring Mickey Rooney and Walter Connolly, at the Empire.
And if their appeal was nil? Well, how about the science show at Bates?


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I'm not normally a fan of book trailers—most of them are either cheesy or amount to little more than a dramatic reading of the back cover copy, which doesn't thrill me. However, this book trailer from Libba Bray promoting her latest book for teens, Going Bovine, is a hilarious exception to the norm (embed code not available, so you'll have to visit EW.com to watch).
The 3-minute video is incredibly wacky. Any author who describes a book as "having all the hallmarks of being weird that people have come to know and tolerate in my writing" while wearing a cow suit gets my vote. We're talking to Bray about Going Bovine in an interview that will only appear on our website, and now I can't wait to hear what else she has to say about the book.
If you check it out, come back and let me know what you think. Are there any other book trailers I shouldn't miss?


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1 year, 6 months ago Tim Landis, The State Journal-Register
Line would carry electricity from the Illinois border near Quincy to the Indiana border near Terre Haute
From Tim Landis, The State Journal-Register:A state appeals court has consolidated eight legal challenges to the planned route for a high-voltage Ameren transmission line that would carry power across central Illinois.At issue is a request by attorneys for property owners across the region that the Illinois Commerce Commission reconsider the route for the Illinois Rivers Project.In two separate rulings, the ICC approved Ameren Transmission Co. of Illinois plans for a nearly 400-mile, 345,000-volt transmission line that would carry electricity from the Illinois border near Quincy to the Indiana border near Terre Haute.A section of the line from Meredosia in Morgan County to Pana in Christian County would pass near Pawnee, just southeast of Springfield.The $1 billion transmission line is needed to improve reliability to meet long-term power demand, according to Ameren Transmission.More than 400 public comments on the proposed route were filed at the ICC. Opponents argued the high-voltage line — power lines typically range from 138,000 to 345,000 volts — would hurt property values, interfere with farming and create environmental hazards.Springfield attorney Edward McNamara, who represents the Morgan, Sangamon and Scott Counties Land Preservation Group, said a route favored by opponents would be shorter and less expensive than the route the ICC approved.Following an existing power line corridor, according to opponents, would be 18 miles shorter and would save approximately $36.8 million. However, the ICC concluded the route as approved would be least expensive when "all costs and benefits are taken into account."The ICC agreed to rehear the case but stood by its original decision with slight changes in February. The case then went to the appellate court. An attorney for the ICC asked last week that the commission have until July 18 to update the legal record based on the sheer volume of documents."There are 2,713 separate electronic items on the commission e-docket," said special assistant attorney general James Weging. "Some of the items may be one page long, and others may run a couple of hundred pages."The Illinois Rivers power line would be part of a larger Midwest network that would carry electricity from wind farms in the West. Consumers in states crossed by the transmission line, including Illinois, would share the cost.Ameren Transmission spokesman Leigh Morris said the company has continued design work, as well as easement and property acquisition, pending the outcome of the court case.
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David Tennant & Billie Piper Return For Doctor Who 50th Anniversary!
BBC reports that David Tennant and Billie Piper are now confirmed as appearing in the upcoming 50th anniversary special of…
BBC reports that David Tennant and Billie Piper are now confirmed as appearing in the upcoming 50th anniversary special of Doctor Who. The special is expected to air on or around the anniversary date of November 23, 2013. The special will also star the current Doctor, Matt Smith, and his companion Clara Oswald…or Oswin…or Onslow…or whatever she's called the next time we see her. Also appearing is noted character actor John Hurt.
Well, we knew this was pretty much inevitable, didn't we? One of the most popular Doctors along with one of the most (inexplicably) popular companions…that was pretty much a given. And you know what? I'm fine with them coming back. Oh, I dislike Rose with the burning intensity of at least three suns, but seeing her again, just one last time, would be quite nice.
This does raise up some larger questions. I'm assuming we'd see them at some point during their season two adventures, probably being pulled out of their normal time stream to intersect with 11 and Clara Oscar. That's perfectly fine, but it does make it very unlikely that Rose would also appear alongside Christopher Eccleston's 9th Doctor. Now while rumors about him appearing have circulated for some time, we haven't had any confirmation. Of course, until just today, we didn't have any confirmation about Tennant and Piper, so make of that what you will.
Anyhow, if she's not with 9, that makes for an interesting situation. The only time we saw the Ninth Doctor without Rose was when he just met her, and it's strongly implied that was right after he regenerated. Does this mean that we fans might get what we've been aching for all these long years and finally, finally get to see Paul McGann return as the 8th Doctor and see him regenerate into the Ninth? As one other Doctor once said, time will tell. It always does.
We also have yet to hear about any other possible casting news, like other companions (Donna, please), possible villains (the Master would be fine, but maybe the Rani?), and any old series characters that might put in an appearance (I can haz Baker, Davison, Baker and McCoy?). We also haven't any idea if we'll get things like daleks or Cybermen or the like. And of course, we won't know for months yet what the quality will be like. Multi-Doctor stories are always problematical, and while "The Three Doctors" is one fine piece of story-telling, "The Five Doctors" and "The Two Doctors" both suffer mightily, for all that they're still very entertaining.
We here at WhatCulture will, of course, bring you more news on this, and any developments, to Doctor Who as a whole and the anniversary special in particular. In the meantime, I think we can just all go sit down and go "squeeeeeee!" for a bit.


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Time to complete: 30 minutesHouse your summer memories in a keepsake pizza box!
What you need:Small sturdy pizza box , natural objects , rocks , dirt , shells etc , glue , small plastic bags , pencil , white paper.
Instructions:Gather objects of nature. Place objects in a pizza box and glue in place. Older children can write the date and place where each object was found. Your child will remember their summer travels throughout the year.
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29 Things I Have Lost Since Becoming a Parent
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posted May 16 2014 5:42AM
When you see what the #1 thing is that
"I Have Lost Since Becoming a Parent,"
you'll know this list is the best one Ever Ever!
Nipples that point in the same direction.
Bladder control when I sneeze, laugh, do jumping jacks, or stand up from a seated position.
The desire to party, unless said partying involves lying on a couch watching old episodes of
Hart to Hart
while spraying a can of Reddi-Whip into my mouth in short, steady bursts.
The nail on my big toe, after angrily kicking a semifunctional Diaper Genie and telling it (unironically) to "EAT SH*T!"
My memory of the last time my bras were washed. (Nearest estimate, spring 2011.)
The ability to stay awake in a movie theater.
Or while watching a TV show after six o'clock.
Or while reading an e-mail.
Or right now.
My virginity. (Just making sure at least one of us is paying attention.)
The capacity to wake up at 5 a.m. to go for a jog.
All credibility for implying that there was ever a time that I woke up at 5 a.m. to go for a jog.
The combination to locker 623 at the gym that I have been paying $45 a month since November 2007 to use, but which I have not actually set foot inside since March 2008.
The notion that babies are pure, innocent, loving souls, replaced by the knowledge that they are the neediest, most narcissistic creatures in the universe (with the exception of a boss I once had whose ability to turn every conversation back to her was so amazing, upon reflection it may have been a superpower).
Patience for the sound of children whining, after one minute.
Patience for the sound of adults whining, after 20 seconds.
My crush on my OB-GYN ever since the day that I looked between my legs and saw him one elbow deep inside me, the other arm holding a cell phone to his ear telling his wife that he may be late for dinner but that he would almost certainly be able to make the 8:00 show.
Since laying spread-eagle on a gurney in the hallway of a maternity ward, the concern that someone might see my naked body. Now I couldn't care less if someone were to post in Times Square a high-def 50-foot nude photo of me popping a chest pimple.
The beeper number to my pot dealer.
My badass rep.
OK, I never actually had a badass rep. Or a pot dealer, for that matter.
The job that I interviewed for when I was eight months pregnant, and after the interviewer asked, "Aren't you due to have a baby next month?" I said, "Yeah, I'll probably lay low for a coupla weeks afterward, but I should be ready to get back to work after two, three weeks... tops."
My sh*t, just now, upon rereading #19.
A handle on current events; if pop culture knowledge was an animal, mine would resemble a groundhog emerging every six weeks to randomly yell out a social trend (
"Gangnam Style!" "Ryan Gosling!" "Game of Thrones!"
) only to retreat back into its hole of social oblivion and stale macaroni for another six weeks.
My belief that children can be "molded" into anything other than who they intrinsically are.
An argument with another new mom -- a close friend -- over the use of baby leashes.
My friendship with that mom.
The ability to enjoy any form of entertainment in which a child is in danger, even though when I was a kid I couldn't get enough of it, and when
Flowers in the Attic
came out my friends and I passed that dog-eared paperback around the fourth grade like it was a
and hoped/wished/prayed that someone would lock us in their crawl space, and when no one did, we all wondered what was wrong with us.
A lifelong family friend to a heart attack -- a decidedly unfunny event.
The illusion that anything in life is guaranteed.
The capacity to dwell on emotionally painful topics.
The hard shell around my heart, causing me to weep openly at the beauty of life as it manifests in such moments as an elderly couple holding hands, a plastic bag blowing in the wind, or a pair of feral cats copulating in my backyard.
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November 27, 2015
Officials say a wildfire that prompted evacuations in parts of Oklahoma has been contained.
The Freedom Hill Fire Department says the fire that flared up near Mannford in northeastern Oklahoma is still burning Monday but has been contained. Officials say cooler temperatures and a light rain overnight helped slow the fire, which scorched more than 90 square miles on Sunday.
The National Weather Service says the fire risk remains very high with triple-digit temperatures possible Monday, but rain is predicted later in the week.
Multiple fires popped up in Oklahoma throughout the weekend and one blaze is being investigated as a possible arson. Witnesses told Oklahoma County sheriff's deputies they saw a man throwing a lighted newspaper from a black Ford pickup, but no arrests have been made.
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I trust Jennifer Brunner
Before I got to Ohio, I knew what everyone else knew: Ohio Democracy is a joke. An awful, sick, joke where racism keeps the Republican Party in power.
I didn't know until I got there that those problems had been taken care of. Jennifer Brunner had been on the case. Jenifer Brunner fixed the lines, and gave minorities their vote back.
3 Days ago she announced for the Senate.
I hope she wins.


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A main gas line rupture causes a traffic nightmare for morning commuters.
Bowling Green Police say the rupture happened due to utility construction near the intersection of Nashville Road and Campbell Lane.
The break happened just after 8 a.m. and traffic was blocked while repairs were made.
Some of the businesses in the immediate area were evacuated briefly, but were allowed to return when officials determined there was no gas in their buildings.
Traffic was re-opened after about 30 minutes.
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B.A. Nilsson
Don Byron and Bang on a Can
Ballad for Many (Cantaloupe Music)
As a tick-tock motif sounds insistently, percussive streams
of plangent tones pick up melodic elements. A crescendo of
intensity brings the short track to a peak, and it drops to
a quiet close. Its an arresting piece of music on its own
that takes on an extra dimension when heard alongside the
vintage TV program it was written to accompany: a remarkable
Ernie Kovacs segment from the early 1960s titled Eugene,
performed without dialogue. It opens with Ernie, wearing a
straw boater and sporting an amusingly phony nose, trapped
in a shrinking, doorless hallway. The tick-tock imperative
makes sense, and, as that motif carries into the next segment,
it becomes amusingly ironic underscoring.
The six tracks correspond to the programs segments, including
a goofy, silent Dutch Masters commercial. One of the final
segments plays on a tilted set filmed to look as if its normal;
theres a parallel off-
kilteredness about the music that leaps the 40 years and nicely
connects them.
Red-Tailed Angels is a suite written last year for the soundtrack
to a documentary on the Tuskegee Airmen, the World War II
group that comprised the first African-American fighter pilots.
Two other extended pieces are Basquiat, a ballad named for
the painter that grows in intensity over a repeated ground,
and Show Him Some Lub, the seven-minute album-closer that
incorporates a recitation of names and places that provide
clues to the performers identitiesa shrewd and moving work.
Byron, who just finished a stint as an artist-in-residence
at the University at Albany, is a restless, eclectic composer
and performer whose work ranges from innovative jazz sessions
to a tribute album to Spike Jones alumnus (and cut-up in his
own right) Mickey Katz. Joining forces with Bang on a Can
is one of those combinations that makes a whole lot of sense,
as BoaC are a similarly restless, classically tinged ensemble
always seeking to stretch the boundaries of formal compositions.
The six performers are talented, and therefore busy playerssome
time ago I wrote glowingly about pianist Lisa Moores recording
of Frederic Rzewskis music, and shes equally effective as
part of this ensemble, which also includes Evan Ziporyn on
reeds, cellist Wendy Sutter, Mark Stewart on guitars, bassist
Robert Black and drummer David Cossin. Byron joins them on
a few cuts as well, including a track titled Silver Wings
in Red-Tailed Angels, itself an arrangement of He Wears
a Pair of Silver Wings, scored very effectively for two clarinets
and cello.
Back before the massive record-industry mergers, youd find
BoaC recordings on a major label; they seem much more happily
ensconced on their own Cataloupe Music label, and brought
in renowned audio engineer (and longtime Byron collaborator)
Tom Lazarus for this recording. It sounds great, which is
good: Youll want to listen to it repeatedly in order to coax
some of the hidden treasures that only familiarity can bring.
Douglas Quintet
From Austin, Texas (New West)
After the Sir Douglas Quintets run in the 60s, Doug Sahm,
with or without the band, hopped from label to label. When
he and organist Augie Meyer reconvened a new version of the
Quintet at the beginning of the 1980s, they recorded the stunning
Border Wave album and hit the road. This set, recorded
for Austin City Limits in 1981, is a portrait of a
band firing on all cylinders. There are classic Sahm originals
such as Mendocino, Shes About a Mover, and Groovers
Paradise, the latter given a buoyancy that improves it over
the version that appeared on the album of the same name in
1974. When they kick into the Kinks Wholl Be the Next in
Line? (a rare instance of a triumphant cover of a Ray Davies
songtry and think of more than two others), you can hear
the excitement level in the room go up. A great musician,
singer, writer, showman, and bandleader, Doug Sahm oozed music
to the very end of his life (he died in 1999 from a heart
attack at age 58). Hes the real thing, and this disc is an
important addition to a wonderfully sprawling discography.
The Whippersnappers
Against It Now
(Hearn Brothers Productions)
The Whippersnappersmultinstru-mentalists Peter Davis, George
Wilson, and Frank Orsinihave enlivened the Capital Region
folk-music scene for three decades. Davis is in the house
band of Jay Ungers WAMC radio show Dancing on the Air,
playing guitar, piano, and clarinet; Wilson is a traditional
fiddler and banjoist par excellence who has played with Fennigs
All-Stars and is a frequent performer at regional contradances
and folk festivals; and fiddler-
mandolinist-guitarist Frank Orsini has played with bluegrass
greats Bill Keith and Frank Wakefield. Assembled by Davis
in 1976 to serenade the crowds at Saratoga Race Course, the
trio released a cassette, Getting Happy, in 1988, and
now, finally, have their first CD. Up Against It Now
is a footstomping, ripsnorting collection of old-time music
that juxtaposes country songs of the 1920s and 30s with Celtic
fiddle tunes, and shows muchbut by no means allof what these
three can do.
Of the 13 tracks here, five are songs by banjoist and singer
Uncle Dave Macon (1870-1952), an early star of the Grand Ole
Opry who turned professional at age 50 when the automobile
ruined his lucrative mule-and-wagon business. A man of the
world, he disdained the fire-and-brimstone preachers of his
native Bible Belt and wrote songs that were often funny and
always down-to-earth. These are sung with rustic zest by Wilson,
who also has mastered Uncle Daves intricate banjo style,
with Orsini providing smooth backup on fiddle. Standouts are
I Was Born About 14 Billion Years Ago, Uncle Daves version
of the creation story, here reworked by Wilson to square with
modern science, and Buddy Wont You Roll Down the
Line, about a controversial convict-leasing program
of the early 20th century that supplied forced labor to Tennessee
coal mines. Orsini then takes over the vocals for the French
Canadian song Les Raftsman, which celebrates the
leisure-time pursuits of the men who moved goods long ago
on the northern waterways.
For the instrumentals, Wilson and Orsini team up on fiddle,
alternating between unison and harmony lines with Davis expertly
backing on guitar or piano. Not only is the fiddling vivacious,
but the old traditional tunes themselves often have quaint
and intriguing titles: The Joys of Wedlock, The Gobby-O,
Teviot Bridge, The Methlick Style. What was the Gobby-O?
Or the Methlick style? Alas, the unfortunately spotty liner
notes dont say.
Still, folk fans will relish this record. Lets hope the Whippersnappers
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Mark Panuccio of Clifton sings the role of Chairman Mao for the first time.
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Nearly 50-people from Coffee, Dale and Geneva Counties have achieved an important first goal in their education.
Youth Enrichment Services or the YES program sponsored a G.E.D graduation ceremony at Enterprise-Ozark Community College in Enterprise.
Young people initially dropped out of high school, but with the help of YES tutors, they now have their G.E.D's.
Amber Lynn Bryan of Elba initially dropped out of school, now she plans to continue her education by going to a culinary school to become a chef.
"I thought about it I dropped out of high school after becoming pregnant with my son. I thought I should go ahead and get my G.E.D to make a better life for my son," said Bryan.
Each of the four counties under YES program has several tutors who help students prepare for the G.E.D exam.
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Soprano Laura Portune will join the Heisey Wind Ensemble on stage to sing Handel's 'Let the Bright Seraphim.'
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The Heisey Wind Ensemble will present its annual holiday program, "Christmas at the Reese Center," on Saturday.
The concert will begin at 7:30 p.m. at the Reese Center on the Newark campus of Ohio State University and Central Ohio Technical College, 1179 University Drive.
A selection of traditional carols and holiday classics has been chosen for the performance, including "Festival Fanfare," "A Fireside Christmas," "An Irving Berlin Christmas" and more.
HWE member Jerry Coomer will serve as the narrator for "The Polar Express," and soprano Laura Portune will join the HWE on stage to sing Handel's "Let the Bright Seraphim."
Tickets are available at the door for $15 for adults, $10 for seniors and $5 for students. Guests are encouraged to arrive early.
For more information, call HWE Business Manager Doug Moran at 740-344-8333 or visit heiseywindensemble.org.


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In 2004, the families of eight gunshot victims sued the manufacturer and dealer of the Bushmaster XM-15 used in the DC Sniper rampage for negligence. They won. The New York Times reported, "Under the terms of the settlement, Bushmaster Firearms Inc. of Windham, Maine, the gun's maker, will pay $550,000 to the victims' families; Bull's Eye Shooter Supply of Tacoma, Washington, the gun dealer, will pay $2 million."
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StepOne for Parents and the Politics of Good Intentions
"The National Coalition's Board of Directors is pleased to endorse StepOne for Parents (StepOne). …StepOne is a computer-assisted mental health screening system available on the Internet ."
Screening, as means to identify health problems in the general population has been promoted for decades. Think of eye exams in schools, mammograms, colonoscopies, regular dental check-ups. We each are encouraged to check problems that may need to be addressed in our health. Screening for mental health problems in children and adolescents is a topic that has generated substantial controversy since publication of the New Freedom Commission's final report in April 2003. Amid charges that the project to screen children in schools is Orwellian, driven by the interests of drug companies and supported by school districts bent on invading the lives of families and drugging their children, people in communities all over the country ( see: Iowa, Indiana, Florida, Illinois ) responded with distress to the use of the TeenScreen tool. There were legislative and school district moves in Illinois, Michigan, and Florida to make the use of such instruments mandatory, moves that met considerable resistance from citizens and privacy rights advocates.
The National Coalition's Board of Directors is pleased to endorse an instrument for mental health screening created by Dr. Michael Conner, a psychologist in Oregon. The screening instrument, StepOne for Parents maintains family privacy, parental control over information about their children and promises to move beyond controversy to provide a useful and effective means to bring families and adolescents to the clinical care they need.
StepOne for Parents (StepOne) is a computer-assisted mental health screening system available on the Internet. The system includes the Adolescent Clinical Screening Questionnaire (ACSQ) and subsequent clinical screening reports. The ACSQ is intended to involve, educate, and empower parents so they can seek help and services that they believe are appropriate and necessary for their children. StepOne has a "terms of use" agreement and qualifies a parent or other informant by testing the user's knowledge after he or she reads the terms of use. People must pass a test of their understanding about the system to access it. This approach provides a means to measure informed consent. StepOne also qualifies parents as informants about the child by asking questions about their education, knowledge of their child, reading ability, and primary language.
To use StepOne for Parents go to http://www.InCrisis.org
Clinical screening reports (CSRs) are generated by the StepOne program. The reports are based on responses provided by parents who have been qualified by the system as reliable informants. CSRs provide information in an organized format that can help parents seek help, communicate with school and health care professionals, and advocate for services they believe are appropriate and necessary.
In addition to qualifying the users, StepOne is designed to protect family privacy and to provide parents with information and initial guidance. StepOne does not replace the role of parents or the role of health care professionals. StepOne is designed to involve and support parents in understanding their children and to respect parental responsibilities and right to privacy.
StepOne was constructed to work online. The program can be used anywhere that parents have access to the Internet. This also allows the developers to update the system immediately. Parents can start the questionnaire, save their responses, and return later to finish. StepOne can collect information about the process and outcome of mental health interventions if the parent and informants return to their private file and provide a new screening. The system compares the first screening to the second and offers analysis of the differences.
The StepOne computer software provides a level of encryption and data security that is one of the highest available to the public. Services offered have been reviewed by a multidisciplinary team of health and education professionals. The system, in all levels of its operation, meets or exceeds ethical and professional standards for development and operation of an Internet mental health screening system.
StepOne is simple and easy to use. No appointment, oversight, third-party approval, or government involvement is necessary. Parents set up a secure personal account and are asked to complete a series of questionnaires about their children's current and past behavior, especially behavior during the past 4 weeks.
StepOne asks many questions. Their purpose is both to create a screening report and to educate. Parents who use StepOne discover how well they know their children through questions they may never before have considered. Parents who answer "Don't Know" many times are advised to talk with their children or have a mental health professional talk with their children about relevant issues.
StepOne is designed to take input from one or two informants. When two parents complete the questionnaire, they may discover how much they agree or disagree about their child's behavior and history. Parents are exposed to a broad range of questions, not only to identify potential problems but also to raise their awareness of potential problems. The process of parents getting to know their children's feelings and situation better can be a positive step for families. Discussion between parents about their child's mental and emotional well-being is an important part of parenting and, in itself, can help children.
The ACSQ can be used to identify symptoms and signs of behavioral problems, syndromes, and mental health disorders. It can be used to obtain historical and behavioral observations, ratings over time, and information from multiple sources and thus indicate the presence or absence of symptoms and disorders. Additionally, the system can measure a child's probable response to an intervention, treatment, or program.
StepOne supports but does not replace the role of clinical interviews, functional evaluations, professional diagnosis, and the creation of treatment plans. InCrisis clinical screening reports utilize research principles that demonstrate ways reliable, accurate, and valid data can produce useful information for parents and school and health care professionals.
TeenScreen is a computer rather than Internet based screening method and requires the involvement of a motivated teenager. It has utility for situations where adolescents want to have their problems paid attention to and their parents are not interested or involved. TeenScreen is lauded in the New Freedom Commission report as an example of how things should be done. TeenScreen is a good tool if it is used ethically and professionally; it can compliment StepOne for Parents. TeenScreen has been in development at Columbia University for more than a decade, and as a consequence does not have the flexibility and multidimensional capability of Dr. Conner's Internet based approach to mental health screening. Further, the politics of good intentions, i.e. the intent to promote means of mental health screening has run into its strongest resistance on the matter of TeenScreen and who its supporters and funding sources may or may not be.
There was much discussion in 2003-2004 of an objective of universal screening. A Teen Screen Newsletter, Fall 2003 listed 16 national organizations as endorsing universal screening, including the American Psychiatric Association and the School Social Work Association of America. Their website currently (09/02/05) lists 34 organizations as supporting mental health screening, which seems to be a somewhat modified position.
Numbers of protests resulted from the implementation of TeenScreen protocols in the nation's schools. Particularly parents were concerned by the use of passive consent, "a skimpy form with no warnings." Parents who did not sign the form and return it were considered to have given permission. Lawsuits have been filed and there are numerous voices of protest against mental health screening objectives set by local and federal initiatives.
January 4, 2005, Rep. Ron Paul introduced the Parental Consent Act of 2005 to prohibit the use of Federal funds for any universal or mandatory mental health screening program. A SAMHSA Background document (posted on the TeenScreen site) asserts: "There are no federal funds being used to support mandatory screening. Legislation prohibiting the practice is unnecessary." Clearly, the resistance to Federal support for screening has generated a counter-response.
The SAMHSA background document asserts Families Are the Decision-Makers. Parents and families are, and will always be, the first line of prevention and identification of health problems for their children – including emotional and behavioral problems. Parents, in consultation with health care providers and other professionals, are and should remain, the ultimate decision-maker regarding the health and wellbeing of their children. Parents are usually the first to recognize early signs and risk factors for potential problems in children, and often request screening for a child because of their own concerns. Professionals including physicians and educators must respect and listen to parents so that any problems can be identified early and appropriate referrals for assessment and care can be made. Whenever mental health screening is conducted, parental consent must be obtained.
StepOne for Parents moves beyond the controversy to support adolescents and their families. Parents screen the emotional health of their children, on their own schedule, in the privacy of their own homes. StepOne was developed from the awareness that:
StepOne for Parents is currently being used in research programs in Oregon school districts, treatment programs and clinical settings. The research is sponsored by Mentor Research Institute (www.MentorResearch.org) and InCrisis. In the near future adolescents and their families will be seeking therapy in clinics and offices all over the country, carrying a StepOne for Parents screening report that is comprehensive and useful.


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doesnt die after babyit evolves
Kathryn Geurin
months after our wedding, we were expecting a baby. Getting
this news was a bit like walking into a surprise party in
our honorafter the initial shock, we quickly settled into
celebration. Except, of course, that our anxieties were
slightly weightier than your average adoring-crowd fluster,
and the party doesnt end.
We wanted a family, no doubt about that. But we were planning
to plan. To wait until we had a bigger place. More money.
More college. More stability, maturity, time. More of all
the thousand things that may never come. The things we thought
would make us ready.
now I know that nothing, nothing could have prepared
us for that moment. A moment washed in fear and awe and
joy and love and the smashing comprehension that everything
is changed.
The revelation I was to be a mother made me feel strangely
like a child, naïve and unqualified. But my husband gripped
my eyes with his, a foggy upturn to his lips, and said,
simply, Im not scared.
Those words were a steadying foothold in my roiling dizziness
and my mind whorled into focus beside him as we began our
ride into parenthood.
After months of morning sickness and sausage feet, after
the heart-splitting bliss of that first cry, after marathon
sleepless nights and spit-up stains, tumbles, bruises, first
laughs, first steps, first words, our little family has
now blown out one candle.
And yes, everything has changed.
No one hesitates to inform new parents that their love life
is headed down the drain. The profound lack of romance in
our demographic has long been fodder for stand-up comedy
(usually involving jokes at a mates expense), movies (usually
involving a chaotic passel of tots and a plumbing problem)
and Sunday funnies (usually involving laundry and frizzled
hair). This collective societal laugh is not entirely unwarranted.
Nor, perhaps, is the apparently lucrative keeping romance
alive self-help book industry.
We were never much the romantic candlelight dinner types,
but, yes, an elegant meal and a leisurely glass of wine
have become more a pipe dream than a luxury. Luxury would
be better defined as a day in which all three of us manage
to be simultaneously clean.
Yes, when we curl into a cuddle on the couch there is now
a bright little body tucked between us. Yes, we stretch
to kiss goodnight over her soft sleep. And, yes, too often
I catch us moving around each other in our daily business,
doing our best to command the chaos with, yes, an armful
of laundry and frizzled hair.
But I consider our partnership in this ordinary, extraordinary
adventure a genuine success. I may be able to count our
recent dates on one hand, but I can count our fights on
the other, most of those born of stress or exhaustion. We
go about our days, waking, working, eating, exploring, sleeping.
Romance has been cast temporarily aside, but love, I suppose,
is a kind of energy. And energy, as Einsteins law declares,
is never lost. It only changes form.
Everyone told us that our romance would suffer. That parenting
was work.
What no one told us was that, whether by growth or necessity,
selfishness would wither to a vestigial wisp, and that love
would become the engine that drives our lives and informs
our actions. What no one told us is that the work itself
is love.
Forget the scattered rose petals, the chocolate-dipped strawberries,
the soft-focus, dreamy gestures. After many a long workday,
Ive stumbled over our threshold onto a freshly vaccumed
carpet, or into the kitchen to find dishes drying in the
drainer and my husband, barely home himself, slicing potatoes
with our daughter in his arms.
Thats love.
Warm towels after a shower, a half gallon of ice cream and
a jar of fudge, a few minutes of quiet, a shameless living
room dance party, a lullaby, a kiss caught over bubbling
dishwater or simmering soup, the same story read for the
14th time, a 3 AM diaper change, finger paints on the kitchen
floor, imagination, patience, persistancethose everyday
acts are our love notes now, and it is the most sincere
and beautiful romance Ive ever known.
We can do better, Im sure; were still learning to balance
this precarious tower of needs, wants, responsibilities,
freedom and fun. Im trying to say thank you more. To tell
him more often that because of him, my muddling days are
lit, again and again, by love and gratidude.
To tell him that more than once Ive had to catch my breath
in the cereal aisle as, a few steps ahead of me, he tickled
a delighted peal of laughter into the Cheerios. That Ive
choked back a swell of dizzying wonder, sitting on the edge
of the bed where they nap together, snug and rumpled, breathing
in quiet unision, her eyes my eyes, her mouth his. And that
I may never have loved him more than the day I came home
to find them perched at the coffee table, each working on
a masterpiece in crayon.
To tell him that love is waxing, not waning. Because, toddling
out into the world, itself thrown open anew, is a fresh,
exquisite, curious, joy-filled, blossoming life, proving
with every step what I believed all along: that together
weve become something better than our selves.
Said Yes!
those of you wondering what happened after I popped the
question in last weeks Wedding Guide, heres what transpired
David King
a good few hours on the day I would carry out the most romantic
action of my 29 years on this planet, I didnt feel particularly
romantic. For a while, as I waited with my mother for the
new issue of Metrolandwith my proposal to my girlfriend,
Jamie, printed insideto be delivered to Proctors in Schenectady,
I felt driven, motivated, like a man on a mission. But as
the minutes ticked by and the Metrolands did not
arrive, I began to feel helplessundone by my own convoluted
The florist had been contacted, credit card number given,
a price set. The plan was as follows: As soon as I brought
them a copy of the Wedding Guide, the florist would deliver
the paper and the bouquet to Jamie at her office. But the
issue wasnt arriving. My mother and I scoured Jay Street,
but not a Metroland could be found. Shes got one,
my mom shouted at a woman walking by. The woman was a bit
startled. I glanced at the paper in her arm, Its last
weeks issue, Mom, I replied.
Back at Proctors, my phone rang. The florist wondered where
the issue was. I will have it soon, I said. A chai and
brownie did nothing to calm my nerves. The phone rang again.
It was Jamies mother, Theresa, the ultimate planner of
parties and surprises and my partner in this whole routine.
Do you have them yet? she asked. No. They arent here,
I said nervously. Luckily, her friend at the Manhattan Exchange
had received a delivery. We waited a few minutes, wondering
if a delivery at Proctors was imminent. It wasnt.
As we dashed to my mothers truck it hit me how silly it
was that I was waiting around for a delivery of Metrolands.
Since 2004 I have been surrounded by them, my desk covered
in thembut this one meant more than any one ever before.
My mother darted out of the truck and up the stairs of the
Manhattan Exchange and emerged with a plastic bag full.
We made our way to the florist. Everything was coming togetheror
so I thought. But when I handed the woman behind the counter
the Wedding Guide, she was unsure she could deliver the
issue before 3 PM. Well, then, can I have the flowers?
I asked. The arrangement wasnt ready. I will have to make
completely different plans, I said, desperately, This
has to work! The clerk told me her boss wondered if the
business could get a write-up in Metroland. My jaw
hit the floor. No! I said. You dont write for Metroland?
the clerk asked. I was enraged to the point of being numb.
The clerk promised her boss would call me in 45 minutes
and let me know if she could make the delivery. I got back
into the truck and told my mother what had happened. Then
I called Theresa, looking for level-headed advicemy mother,
I worried, was just as emotional as I. While I concluded
my conversation with Theresa my mother got out of the car
and went into the florist. Theresa advised that I cancel
the flower delivery, go to Price Chopper, pick out flowers
there and deliver them with the proposal to the front desk
at Jamies workplace. But I had to wait for my mother. She
returned, victorious. I made it clear to them that this
has to happen well before 3 PM, she said, adding that the
girl behind the counter had read the article and been brought
to tears.
From there we went to Jamies workplace. I waited in the
lobby and my mother departed. Sitting in the lobby was a
skyscraper-high stack of new Metrolands. Not only
did I feel dumb for searching for the things, but now I
worried that Jamie could have very well already seen the
article. And, if she had, why hadnt I heard from her? The
minutes passed and I didnt see a delivery person. The phone
rangfinallythe florist, announcing that the flowers had
indeed been delivered, and with time to spare. Are you
sure? I asked. They were certain.
It seemed like an eternity. I wanted to go up there myself
and check. But I waited. And then the phone rang. I answered
without looking at the caller ID. Hello? I said meekly.
I heard crying on the other end of the phone. Where are
you? Jamie asked. Im in the lobby, I said sheepishly.
You are? I will be right there. I packed up my Metrolands
and my computer and hurried to the elevator. She walked
towards me, her eyes flooding with tears. I dropped to one
knee and asked, Will you marry me?
of course! she replied, still holding back the tears. I
took her hand. The other hand, she said. And I took the
right one. The ring slid on perfectly. My grandmothers
ring. The ring my grandfather had given to my grandmother
decades ago. The grandparents I had written about in my
proposal. We hadnt even had the ring fitted. It was perfect.
But not everything had gone according to plan. I wanted
the flowers delivered first, with the proposal, so Jamie
would have time to read how much my grandparents meant to
me and how important the ring was that I was giving her.
But she hadnt read the story yet. The girls at the desk
downstairs had called her down to get the flowers, claiming
that a package had arrived that they were too busy to deliver.
Jamie thought she was picking up a box of pagers. When she
arrived and saw the flowers, she says, she initially thought
I was either sending flowers on a whim because I hadnt
seen her in a few days (thanks to the snowstorms that wracked
the region), or as a joke, as part of something I had written
for the wedding guide. She read the first few sentences
and realized it wasnt a joke. So, as she has done with
so many of my articles, she skipped to the end and the tears
It wasnt until hours later, that she wiped the tears from
her eyes and read the whole thing. The tears started again,
and I wiped them away as she read.
Day plans, wishes and wants from a handful of Capital Region
Well, wed like a shoebox full of candy hearts that say
Coax Me and cards from Michael Jordan telling us to Slam
dunk a super day! Because Valentines Day doesnt quite
have the same giddy charm that it did in third grade. (One
Metroland editor actually vomitted in anticipation
of the elementary school celebration.) Its our suspicion,
though, that this Hallmark holiday can be good fun for adults
too, so we asked some of our favorite artists, musicians,
radio personalities, venue owners, restaurateurs, charlatans
and eccentrics to answer one simple question: What do you
want for Valentines Day?
Laura Glazer
of WEXTs Hello Pretty City
magic radio that gets perfect reception.
Chris Wienk
at WEXT
want a heart shaped box of chocolates. Basically, Im Forrest
Dave Michaels
night out together without the kids in tow.
to announce a 2011 tour (including a somewhat local venue),
and also chocolate-covered strawberries and champagne.
Jasen Von Guinness
headed to an Albany Irish Rowing Club winter tradition called
broomball on Saturday. Its a great way for the club to
catch up over the off season and get some aggression out.
We play at a members house out in Nassau. From there, were
headed to a bed and breakfast in North Adams, Mass. Hopefully
have a great dinner and just enjoy being away from responsibility
for a bit. Sunday is all about MASS MoCA. Im a big fan
and try to get there routinely. My girlfriend, Janie, is
from Kansas and has never been, so Im really looking forward
to playing tour guide.
Sarah LaDuke
of WAMCs The Roundtable
a perpetual singleton, I dont really celebrate Valentines
Day or expect gifts. However, my birthday is two days before
Valentines Day and for that, passes to the Spectrum make
a perfect gift.
Joe Donahue
of WAMCs The Roundtable
wish for Valentines Day is a coupon for a long winter walk
with my Valentine (my wife, Kelly.) We can walk through
the snow, talk and even bring the dogso we have even more
reasons to smile.
Matt Baumgartner
of Bombers Burrito Bar and Wolffs Biergarten
considering that I am not in relationship at the moment,
this Valentines Day I am looking forward to some alone
time with a high-speed Internet connection, a well-rolled
joint and a six-pack of Utica Club.
Ted Etoll
Up Presents
live to eat, so the best Valentine I could get is a great
dinner out with my girlfriend.
freeform DJ
want flowers in gun barrels, seafood lasagna in Alfredo
sauce and oil tankers of prune juice to flush out our world
Matthew Loiacono
. . . for Valentines Day I wish for everyone who needs
a Valentine to have a Valentine. (Sorry, I kind of hate
this holiday.)
Matt Ferguson
The Other Head of Science
Day is a day for couples to set time aside to celebrate
all the silly, confusing and wonderful things that they
love about one another. For me, that could be anything from
going out and having a nice dinner to turning on some strobe
lights and having a two-person pajama dance party in the
living room. A little laser tag never hurts, either. Even
single people can enjoy laser tag on Valentines Day.
Kamran Parwana
chocolate deliveries would be lovely. Mysterious because
I dont have to talk to anyone, and chocolate because I
get to eat chocolate.
Linda Mussmann
Co-Director of Time & Space Limited
would like a revolution for this Valentines Day.
Yes, a revolution that includes Emerson, Shakespeare, Melville
and Gertrude Stein, Harold Pinter, Bertolt Brecht, Virginia
Woolf, Cornel West, Angela Davis, Malcolm X (to name a few)
as a source for inspiration and ideas in our schools and
our boardrooms.
A revolution that includes women and men as equals.
A revolution that considers the little people first and
the big people last.
A revolution that holds nature in awe.
A revolution that moves America away from a warrior nation
to a nation that makes change by other meansperhaps change
through hearts and minds not pistols and prisons.
A revolution that considers the health and the welfare of
our citizens first.
And, yes, equal rights for all and there are no exceptions
to this idea.
A revolution that asks citizens to think of a future without
wrecking the planet.
And last a revolution in educationit is our children that
count most.
Yes, hope for this new yet unapproachable America.
The bottom linemore wisdom and less donuts, AKA doughnuts.
Philip Morris
long time ago, my wife and kids and I converted Valentines
Day from a two-person event to a full-family affair . .
. we would eat together, share goofy cards and great hugs,
and include any dear friend who might not have plans for
the night. From eros to agapé in the categories of love,
the transition still sticks. What do I want? More agapé.