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The chicken or the egg: Ubuntu on ftp.gnome.org
A few minutes ago, I went to ftp://ftp.gnome.org/. The first thing I noticed was that releases is a symlink to mirror/ubuntu-releases/. Is Ubuntu that important to consume GNOME's bandwidth?
Incidentally, www.gnome.org is hosted by Red Hat, Inc., whereas ftp.gnome.org is hosted by Umea University, Sweden, but is this a reason for GNOME to mirror Ubuntu, Ubuntu, and Ubuntu only, from all the distros that include GNOME?
Which came first, the chicken or the egg? GNOME or Ubuntu?
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- a variety of assorted cotton fabrics, all at least 6" wide { I used three gorgeous prints from Melody Miller's Ruby Star Spring and Ruby Star Shining }
- 6" x 72" piece of velveteen
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{ directions –please use a ¼" seam allowance throughout }
1. Cut fabrics for the patchwork front of the scarf. Make sure all of the pieces measure 6" wide; they can be any length you'd like. You can make it as scrappy as you'd like by making lots of different cuts of fabrics in a variety of lengths. Feel free to incorporate areas that are fussy cut and even the selvedge of your fabric. If you fussy cut the fabric, be sure to leave room for the seam allowances so that your image remains how you'd like it.
2. From a two-yard length of cotton velveteen, cut a piece that is 6" wide. You can make this cut easily by folding the fabric in half, and in half again, being sure to keep the selvege lined up as neatly as possible. Use a rotary cutter and straight edge to cut through all four layers. This will become the back of the scarf.
3. Lay out the patchwork pieces for the front of the scarf, in any design that you like. As you're laying out the fabric, keep in mind that the finished length of the scarf is approximately 72" so you'll need to line up enough pieces to create a strip that is that long out of the fabric.
4. Sew the patchwork pieces, right sides together, to create the front of the scarf.
Press seams open with an iron.
Note: depending on the orientation of the print on your fabrics, you may want to align half of them in one direction and the other half in the opposite direction, so they'll face the correct way when the scarf is worn.
Voila! The front of your patchwork scarf is done!
5. If you'd like to add a tag to the back of the scarf, sew it to the velveteen now. You can find the center of the fabric by folding it in half and pressing it with your finger. Center the tag on the velveteen and sew it on, making sure to backstitch to lock the seam.
6. Sew the front of the scarf and velveteen, right sides together.
Be sure to use a lot of pins! The plush texture of the velveteen can be a little tricky to work with, so it's a good idea to use plenty of pins in this step to keep your fabrics from sliding apart while sewing.
Backstitch at the beginning and end of your seam to lock the threads together. Leave 3-4 inches on one side open for turning the scarf right side out.
7. Remove pins. Trim the four corners of the scarf very close to the seam line, being careful to not cut your stitches. This will give the ends of your scarf nice, square edges.
8. Use the opening to pull the scarf through and turn it right side out.
You can use a turning stick (a chopstick works really well too) to help get the corners nice and even.
9. Tuck in the seam allowances of the opening, being careful to line them up along the edge of the scarf.
Press scarf with an iron.
9. Top stitch along the entire perimeter of the scarf, about 1/8″ from the edge. Backstitch at the end of your sewing to lock the stitches.
You're done! Now you have a super cute and warm patchwork scarf to keep for yourself, or to give as a handmade gift. If you make one, I'd love to see photos of your finished scarf!
Wow, we love that scarf — and we know several people who would love receiving one this Christmas! Thanks for the great idea, Heather.
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Just as their name suggests, Bohemian Waxwings live a nomadic lifestyle akin to the gypsies of Bohemia. The fruits and berries they consume are available only for a short time, so they move around to find food - even during nesting season. Thus, Bohemian Waxwings do not defend territories as other birds do, and some scientists believe this is why they don't have a true song.
Bohemian Waxwings are irregular winter visitors to the Canadian-bordering U.S. states, but they also have been spotted as far south as northern New Mexico and south-central California.
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Thrombocytopenia is a lower than normal number of platelets in the blood.
Platelets are one of the cellular components of the blood along with white and red blood cells. Platelets play an important role in clotting and bleeding. Platelets are made in the bone marrow similar to other cells in the blood. Platelets originate from megakaryocytes which are large cells found in the bone marrow. The fragments of these megakaryocytes are platelets that are released into the blood stream. The circulating platelets make up about two third of the platelets that are released from the bone marrow. The other one third is typically stored (sequestered) in the spleen.
Platelets, in general, have a brief lifespan in the blood (7 to 10 days), after which they are removed from circulation. The number of platelets in the blood is referred to as the platelet count and is normally between 150,000 to 400,000 per micro liter (one millionth of a liter) of blood. Platelet counts less than 150,000 are termed thrombocytopenia. A platelet count greater than 400,000 is called thrombocytosis.
Platelets iparticipate in coagulation. Platelets initiate a sequence of reactions that eventually lead to the formation of a blood clot. They circulate in the blood vessels and become activated if there is any bleeding or injury in the body. Certain chemicals are released from the injured blood vessels or other structures that signal platelets to become activated and join the other components of the system to initiate coagulation. When activated, the platelets become sticky and adhere to one another and to the blood vessel wall at the site of the injury to slow down and stop the bleeding by plugging up the damaged blood vessel or tissue (hemostasis).
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I'm a little more excited than usual for this weekend, because we just creep closer and closer to Halloween. So, make sure to check out a blog from my co-worker Jenni on all you can do to get your scare on.
And take a look at the other kid-friendly events going on this weekend, from wizard-training to walking for hearing loss.
Magical Museum
Yes, you have to wait till Nov. for the new Harry Potter movie, but at least you can become an expert wizard this weekend.
The Hutchings Museum invites kids to wear costumes and meet live owls and learn all about enchanted rocks, mythical creatures, magical potions and everything else they need to know to become a wizard or witch. Galleons are available for $1 to spend as money at the wizard marketplace. $3 per head.
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Anime Banzai 2010
Japanese animation grows in popularity each year. Poof: Utah's yearly Anime Banzai. Attendance keeps going up, so this year they rented out the Davis Conference Center in Layton. Learn all about Japanese animation (anime) and comics (manga). Extra points if you dress as a pokemon or Megaman.
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Up at the Library
The City Library shows a kid-friendly movie at 3 p.m. in the story room every week. This week, it's Up, the story of Carl, a 78-year-old man who fulfills his dreams to travel by tying thousands of balloons to his house. One problem: Young wilderness explorer Russell inadvertently joins him on the trip.
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Walk4Hearing set out to raise $25,000 to support Utah's Deaf community, but has already raised about $2,000 more.
Bring the kids to support Utah's Deaf community in the Walk4Hearing at Sugar House park. Regisration is at 9 a.m. and the 5K starts at 10 a.m.
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Edgar Lee Shell, 82, of Grayland Street, passed away Thursday, Jan. 17, 2013, at his home.
A funeral will be at 2 p.m. Monday at Davidson Funeral Home Chapel by Preacher Clyde Akers. Burial will follow in Forest Hill Memorial Park.
The family will receive friends from 6 to 8 p.m. Sunday at Davidson Funeral Home and other times at the home.
Mr. Shell was born Dec. 24, 1930, in Lenoir to James Robert Shell and Ethel Mae Blankenship Shell. He was retired from Vacar Battery. Preceding him in death were his parents and a son, Anthony Lee Shell, on June 8, 2009.
Surviving are his wife, Betty Byrd Shell of the home; three sons, Barry Wayne Shell of Winston-Salem and Ricky Gray Shell and Edgar Allen Shell, both of Lexington; two daughters, Diane Willett and husband Ray of Gibsonville and Teresa Jean O'Neill of Lexington; 12 grandchildren; eight great-grandchildren; three great-great-grandchildren; and two brothers, Perman Levi Shell and wife Alice of Lexington and Gary Warren Shell and wife Kay of Winston-Salem.
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So they're back. Fifteen years after leaving us for the Texas Governor's Mansion, Laura and George W. Bush have returned to Dallas. Not since the Jonas Brothers bought a house in Westlake have so many North Texans gossiped about their new neighbors. When the former leader of the free world moves to town, there's a lot to talk about. In the following pages, five writers explore how the Bushes will affect our lives in Dallas—from why China might be our new BFF to how to survive an encounter with the Secret Service. Let's be careful out there.
George Bush is Big in AsiaGeorge Bush's popularity (yes, popularity) could be a boon for Dallas.
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Ex-presidents seem to follow a protocol that requires them to disappear for a few years after they leave office. Jimmy Carter was barely heard from after being beat by Ronald Reagan; he only emerged (as an unwelcome gadfly) when Bill Clinton became president. George H.W. Bush also disappeared, only to reappear in public when his son asked him and Clinton to spearhead the tsunami relief effort. To everyone's amazement, even Bill Clinton stepped off center stage until the call came from the Oval Office.
Considering his low approval ratings, George W. Bush might be expected to be even more low-key than his predecessors. But I would like to argue a different line for the former president to take. While showing proper deference to his successor, he still can have a very positive continuing role where it counts most for the American economy: in India and China.
As it turns out, the former president's approval ratings abroad are not as low as people might think. In India, Bush is the most popular American president in history. Future historians may look at Iraq as a blip on the screen (an expensive blip, yes, but still a blip) and count the president's success in courting India as the major foreign policy turnaround of the early 21st century. Because of it, Bush could become one of the most influential and respected ex-presidents in the nation's history. If he succeeds, Dallas as his operating base will reap many of the benefits.
Bush is not known as a man who indulges in retrospection. So while he suffered many "disappointments" (his word) during his two terms, don't expect him to dwell on them. He will write the obligatory memoir, but that will be an effort directed at his first priority (after overseeing the fundraising of his presidential library at SMU): repairing his own family's fortunes. The sale of the Texas Rangers brought him an after-tax return of about $12 million, which no doubt increased substantially in the bull markets during his time in public service. But there's also little doubt that he, like everybody else, has seen those gains disappear in the market collapse. To begin the repair program, he gave his first post-presidential speech in Calgary in mid-March, probably netting him an easy $150,000, and there's little doubt more will follow. Even so, Bush is likely to be considerably more circumspect than Bill Clinton in this regard (as in others). The Clintons have reportedly amassed a $100 million fortune since leaving office.
America's preeminence in the post-Cold War era and its dominance of the global economy have given ex-presidents a prestige abroad that Americans at home cannot really grasp. Bill Clinton has not been shy about using it, which is why so many governments and sovereign funds are donors to his foundation. While Bush is not likely to follow Clinton's lead in grasping after every available dollar, he could not ask for a better model in forging his post-presidential identity.
Like Jimmy Carter, Clinton established a nonprofit foundation, named it after himself, and began leveraging his name to do good works. His HIV/AIDS initiative—an issue Bush cares deeply about—has provided free, life-saving medicine to 1.4 million people, mostly in Africa. His climate initiative is working with 40 of the world's largest cities to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. His foundation is now tackling childhood obesity.
Bush is in a position to do more than promote good causes, important as that is. His strength is in Asia, and he should use Bill Clinton's model to leverage it.
China, of course, does not encourage public opinion polls. But a recent Los Angeles Times story found indications of affection for Bush everywhere, especially in Beijing, where his image dominates an exhibit hall in the Cultural Palace of Nationalities. Bush extended a hand to China immediately after 9/11 and backed it up with free-trade policies that enabled China to become the third-largest economy in the world. He sealed the deal by attending the 2008 Summer Olympics in the face of criticism over China's human rights record. No one action could have been more important to the face-conscious, still-insecure Chinese. The Times quotes a retired nuclear scientist: "We will never forget that the leader of the most developed country in the world stood up to pressure to come to the Olympics."
Like Japan, China is an export-driven economy. Japan's severe contraction this year shows the risks of building an economy based on other people's purchasing power and subject to the ups and downs of the energy market. Indeed, China will manage to maintain its growth in 2009 only by pumping a huge stimulus investment into the economy (10 times ours relative to GNP), and even then growth is expected to fall from 9 percent to barely 5 percent.
India, on the other hand, depends little on exports. Its is a service economy. While India, too, has been hit by the global meltdown, growth is only expected to fall to 7 percent from 9 percent last year. (A report by the Federal Reserve of Dallas last August predicted that India's economic growth would be more resilient because of its mix, and so it has proven to be.)
In the world's largest democracy and now fastest-growing economy, we have tangible proof of Bush's popularity. During his time in office, polls in India routinely gave him approval ratings in the high 50s up to the low 70s, even while Indians expressed disapproval of such policy decisions as the Iraq War.
To understand why Bush is so popular, we have to understand a little about India's recent history. After independence in 1947, India kept three vestiges of its colonial past, one that would serve it very poorly and two that would serve it very well. The first was a state-managed economy, brought to India by English graduates of the London School of Economics and maintained by Indian graduates of the London School of Economics. We know how well that worked. The second vestige, which worked considerably better, was the British educational system. The third was, as every educated Indian's second tongue, the English language.
Anti-colonialism and a socialist ideology in the first 50 years of the new country's independence tilted India toward the Soviet Union. In response, American policy makers adopted Pakistan as our proxy in the region, which only pushed India further into Moscow's open arms. As the Cold War heated up, India became perhaps the most anti-Western country in the world not directly under Soviet or Maoist control.
The Soviet Union was India's largest trading partner, and when it collapsed, one or two Indian states—which have a great deal of autonomy in the Indian federal system—started gingerly experimenting with loosening business regulation, encouraging entrepreneurship, and allowing free trade. The experiments were so successful that even the orthodox socialists in New Delhi had to wake up. Even so, Indian hostility was so deeply ingrained that, three years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, Tom Clancy could write a best-selling novel envisioning a scenario in which India would ally with a Japanese business cartel to take down the United States in the Pacific.
With three moves, Bush reversed this decades-old antipathy. First, in the immediate aftermath of 9/11, he threw the Taliban out of Afghanistan, removing an Islamicist putsch in a nation long friendly with India. Second, he abolished restrictions on India's access to civilian nuclear technology and nuclear fuel, which was viewed as sign of India's maturity as a world power. Third, he visited India in 2006 to establish new bilateral relations, a personal touch that was welcomed as a sign of America's new respect for India's emergence in the world economy. Meanwhile, the Bush presidency coincided with the rapid rise of outsourcing by American companies, which fueled enormous employment growth in India.
For his willingness to embrace this recalcitrant emerging power and overturn a half-century of American policy toward the subcontinent, Bush is regarded, if not as the father, at least as the rich uncle of the Indian economic miracle.
The former president could do no greater service to his country than to continue to build on the foundation he laid in Indo-American and Sino-American relations. The Bush library complex will include a policy institute that, I hope, will focus on his most notable foreign policy success, the new bilateral relationship with India. By bringing together Asian and American policy elders, business leaders, and opinion leaders, the institute could continue the work he began. Under the president's leadership, the Bush institute has the opportunity to become the place where conversations between the world's two fastest-growing economies and the world's largest economy take place and where bilateral policy questions can be addressed in a less formal, more collegial, and more creative environment than allowed by diplomacy through official channels.
The high regard for Bush in Asia could be a major asset as Dallas becomes an international player. Dallas already has a direct stake in the success of the major Asian economies. China's shipping containers are unloaded at the Port of Long Beach onto railway cars headed to the Dallas Inland Port for breakup and delivery across the country. Major Dallas employers such as Texas Instruments, Kimberly-Clark, Hewlett-Packard's service division (formerly EDS), AT&T, and Verizon have made major investments in China and India. Dallas already is blessed with vibrant and prosperous Chinese and Indian communities. (The Chinese have a Dallas daily newspaper; Indians here have their own glossy monthly magazine.)
With social and business connections already so well established in Dallas, the Bush institute is perfectly positioned to strengthen the intellectual and public policy connections that smooth the way for friendly relations and increased trade. That would be a lasting legacy—for George W. Bush, for Asia, for America, and for Dallas.
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Correction: April 15, 2009
We stated in our story "He's Big in Asia" that "Ross Perot's companies have more employees in India than in the United States." Of Perot Systems' 23,000-plus employees working across the globe, 65 percent are based in the United States.
Don't Bum Rush the BushesHow not to get shot by the Secret Service and other tips for living with an ex-president.
by Trey Garrison
The question no one wants to ask out loud about the Bush family moving back to Dallas is: how much of a pain in the oval office is this going to be? How often will their movements and security requirements inconvenience me? We asked around. The generic statement from the U.S. Secret Service about having "as little impact on citizens, neighbors, and neighborhoods as possible" wasn't very helpful. But their evasiveness is to be expected. It says it right there in the name: secret.
Rob Saliterman, communications director for George W. Bush's office in Dallas, was likewise oblique. He was only able to say the former president will spend most weekdays in Dallas. Except when he doesn't.
So D Magazine turned to Ronald Kessler, former writer for the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, and the New York Times bestselling author of Inside the White House: The Hidden Lives of the Modern Presidents and the Secrets of the World's Most Powerful Institution; Laura Bush: An Intimate Portrait of the First Lady; A Matter of Character: Inside the White House of George W. Bush; and 14 other books with the word "inside" somewhere in the title. Kessler has had extraordinary access to the Bush White House, the FBI, and the CIA. We figured he'd have some insight on what it will be like to have Dubya and Laura tooling around town.
Critics won't like hearing this, but Kessler says President Bush is well aware of the effect his presence has on people, and he doesn't like it. "He is very thoughtful," Kessler says. "He doesn't like inconveniencing people."
Here's how to cope with that inconvenience:
Can I Get a Picture, Mr. President? If you see President Bush in public, a good way to get a cement kiss is to run up to him digging in your pocket for your cellphone camera. Even if you know him—say you were in the oil bidness together back in Midland or owned that baseball team together—you'd best ask the nearest Secret Service agent if you can approach. Look for the guy with sunglasses, earpiece, suit, and the bulge under his jacket.
I'm Late for Work. What Is This Gridlock? It's probably not him. When the former president is being driven around town, they won't close down roads like they do for the current president. At most, you'll see rolling roadblocks at intersections. A lower profile means better security.
Why Is There a Chopper Hovering Over My Pool? No one in officialdom will talk much about this one, but it's likely that President Bush will use neighbor Tom Hicks' heli-stop to fly short distances, like to Crawford. Hey, you borrow your neighbor's weed wacker, right? For fixed-wing flights, he'll likely go to Love Field, just like you and me. Unlike you and me, he'll probably use a friend or supporter's plane.
How Does He, Um, Eat? With his mouth. But seriously, President Bush doesn't enjoy going to restaurants for lunch or dinner, because he feels weird when people watch him eat. He'll likely just order hamburgers delivered from somewhere near his office. (Hello, Snuffer's.) If it's a scheduled lunch or dinner in public, the Secret Service will run background checks on guests, restaurant employees, and anyone else involved, and the area will likely be secured. If it's a surprise drop-in, agents will take up positions outside and inside the restaurant while the former president dines with his guests or noshes while reading a book. No lockdown. And, no, he's not a king. He doesn't travel with a food taster. Laura likes to dine out at the best—though not necessarily fanciest—places. Expect to see her at Herrera's and the Porch.
Is He Going to Hog the Katy Trail? President Bush doesn't jog much anymore, but he does bike. There are plenty of trails at his Crawford ranch, but he might take advantage of some of the trails around the Dallas area. They'll be picked at random, and rides will be low profile. Laura is a big walker, so don't be surprised if you see her strolling near Daria Place—with big escorts and a black SUV creeping along behind her.
An F-List Celeb Imagines What Preston Hollow Life Will Be Like For WI, too, am a huge celebrity who happens to live in Preston Hollow. I expect George W. to drop by soon.
by David Feherty, illustration by Brian Ajhar
Given the events of the past eight years, once George the Second escaped from Washington, D.C., I think most of us here in Dallas would have understood if he and the former First Missus had moved someplace a little more secluded than Preston Hollow. Like Area 51, maybe, or some sandbar in the Galapagos Islands, just so they could catch their breath for a couple of years and take stock of their lives. I mean, what a nightmare of a time that was to be president of the United States! His two terms must have felt like the rest of the world had inserted the Washington Monument into him and it was his job to heave it out. Although there are those who insist that most of our problems were Dubya's fault, having spent considerable time in the Middle East myself, I think it's unlikely history will tell the same story.
But that's another story. Right now, I have new neighbors about a par 5 away, just across the Tollway, which is far enough away from my place for me to act neighborly. I hate my neighbors because of their very proximity, or at least I hate the ones that want to talk to me who aren't doctors or gun dealers or who don't have their own airplanes. Doctors, gun dealers, and other people's airplanes can be useful, but people who want to "visit," whatever that peculiar Southern application of the verb entails, just get on my nerves. If I have to visit someone, he had better either be in jail or the hospital, and to be honest I'd prefer jail. I do golf commentary on CBS and sometimes star in television commercials wherein I jump on a trampoline while wearing a skirt. I'm an F-list celebrity at best. But for some reason an inordinate number of people want to talk to me, and always about blubbedy-blah-blah (imagine the sound of a single gunshot here) or Tiger Woods. No, when I make it home, I slam the door behind me and peek out the letterbox to see if I've been spotted by any of the bastards who live nearby.
So I was thinking: if it's that bad for me, what is it going to be like for George and Laura? I mean, it's not like they can stroll around Tom Thumb stealing grapes like the rest of us, is it?
Even with their Secret Service entourage, the Bushes are going to be besieged by herds of North Dallas McMansion-dwellers, more brown-nosed and full of BS than any longhorn. Nouveaux riche and face-lifted old-monied fossils alike will descend upon them like ants to the honeypot every time they set foot outside their door. The area that encompasses the Park Cities and Preston Hollow is home to roaming packs of these social climbers. I'm talking to you, the guy with the champagne flute, the stupid grin, and the trophy wife who, if she has one more facelift, will be wearing a triangular beard. You're just the type who will want to show that famous hospitality for which Texas is renowned, and your nasty little dog will try to hump poor Miss Beazley half to death. (Although that former First Scottish Terrier has shown some gnashers recently, so Fido beware.)
After George and Laura spend a few days wringing the unwashed hands of North Dallas' finest, and, what, with Tom Hicks vaulting the fence and banging on their front door, looking for free advice on what to do with the Texas Rangers (who, incidentally, I believe will be useless until Chuck Norris is in charge), I suspect that Crawford will start to seem like a much better idea to G2, provided he can get planning permission for an alligator-infested moat around the ranch and a bigger wall than we have planned to keep everyone in New Mexico, Texas, and Arizona from immigrating to Mexico when Iran takes control of the entire Persian Gulf and we're paying $15 a gallon. Dick Cheney had enough sense to bury himself under 12 feet of snow in Wyoming instead of the 12 feet of concrete everywhere else he's been stationed for the past eight years. And while I'm on the subject of vice, for my money, Sarah Palin came along too late. She's waaay better-looking than Dick Cheney, and when she shoots at something, you can bet that at least the damn thing will be dead.
Sorry, where was I? Oh, yes. Here's the thing: all of this visiting will be perpetrated by people who actually like 43! What about those who consider him the root of all evil? We have a few of those, and I can't imagine what that bunch of self-righteous, indignant jerks might be like if they get the chance to visit. As for me, my politics are somewhere in the middle—and then way outside both wings. I believe in the death penalty, especially for pro-lifers, child molesters, those opposed to gay marriage, and for stupid dancing in the end zone. I believe in the abolition of estate taxes and the Pickens Plan. I'd lower the legal drinking age and raise the driving age to 18 nationwide, make Kinky Friedman governor of Texas, and make all schools, public and private, start earlier with one hour of physical exercise.
I'd have to say, though, that if I were G2, I'd have to consider the wisdom of that 30-year rule that applies to classified government documents. I'd wait at least that long before I moved to Preston Hollow. Thirty years seems to be about the length of time it takes Americans to forget really bad things. Look at Donny and Marie Osmond. Does no one remember how badly they sucked the first time around? Yet both of them are back on television for no apparent reason, other than one is fat and can't dance, and the other is a Hollywood used-to-be who squeals mindless gossip on people who would rather dive into oncoming traffic than talk to him. If Dubya were to reappear at 92 years old, his first album would probably go platinum. And, anyway, it will be that long before any of us knows the truth about how and why he played some of the rotten cards he was dealt.
From my own experience visiting the troops in the Middle East, I can tell you this, though: despite how the conflict has been portrayed by our glorious media, if you gave any U.S. soldier a gun with two bullets in it, and he found himself in an elevator with Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, and Osama bin Laden, there's a good chance that Nancy Pelosi would get shot twice, and Harry Reid and bin Laden would be strangled to death. I've never met a soldier who didn't love this president and this country, and I've met a bunch of them, at home and abroad, in hospitals and in theater. At Walter Reed, Bethesda Naval Medical Center, and the Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio, I have visited dozens of patients, and I always ask of them before I leave: "What do you want to do when you get out?" No matter how broken or burned, or how many limbs they are missing, they give only one answer: "I want to go back. I want to rejoin my team, to finish our mission." They are rightfully proud of what they have done and want nothing more than to be with their brothers and sisters in arms, because they know the consequences if their job is left unfinished. Right here on American soil, we will end up with unqualified people having to do the job they have been doing over there so incredibly well, and with such extraordinary compassion. The fact is, Americans in America have been safe since 9/11, almost the whole length of G2's term as president, and for that we should be thankful.
So I think I'm okay with my new neighbors. I've met George the First and the great Barbara a few times and have enjoyed their company immensely. I don't think the apple fell too far away from the tree. G2 loves to ride bikes, and so do I. Maybe I could get a job in the Secret Bike Service, as the official drafter to No. 43. I've already taken a couple of vehicular bullets from behind (experiences I've chronicled in this magazine), so the safest place to ride in Dallas is apparently in front of me.
Call me, Mr. Prez. Your dad has Jim Nantz's number, and now that you can't surreptitiously listen in on my cell phone calls anymore, Nantz can get ahold of me for you. I'm just around the corner, and I promise not to do any dry-humping, although I can't speak for my much-loved mound of hound, Ziggy, who is the worst beagle in Texas. You might want to have Laura put Miss Beazley up if I do happen to drop by to, you know, visit.
David Feherty is a golf analyst for CBS and the author of four books, including, most recently, An Idiot for All Seasons.
How The Bushes Will Change Dallas Real EstateHow the Bushes will change Dallas real estate, from the Cooper Aerobics Center to Tom Hicks' living room.
by Mary Candace Evans, illustration by Peter Horvath
Since 1988, George W. Bush has kept a private locker at the Cooper Fitness Center. For security reasons, the name plate simply read "George Walker." In January that changed. Dr. Kenneth Cooper promoted his patient and running buddy. He moved the former president's cube to the No. 1 spot. And now the name plate bears the full "George W. Bush."
There's no word out of the Cooper Center about who got booted from, or graciously gave up, locker No. 1. But you can bet that the cachet of locker No. 2 has risen considerably. Such is the impact that George and Laura will have on Dallas real estate.
In 1994, George and Laura left a 3,600-square-foot Austin stone home with a gravel driveway on one-half acre at 6029 Northwood. The Bushes lived in Preston Hollow—but they lived east of Preston Road, not in the enclave of high net worth west of Preston called Old Preston Hollow or "The Honeypot." The relative modesty of their home endeared them to their neighbors. Laura was a quiet homemaker. She seldom had a housekeeper and is said to have bleached her own countertops. Both she and George carpooled their daughters to school in a Suburban. When his parents visited, No. 41 and Barbara stayed in the guest house and sprinkled Secret Service around town, which was kind of fun. Dallas sent them off to Austin with enthusiasm, kind of sad to see them go. This city practically exploded with pride when he went to D.C. "Austin? George Bush is from Big D."
Now, 15 years later, he's back, and Dallas has changed. My 27-year-old Uptown hairdresser said she would refuse to style Laura's locks, which I don't believe, but she's not alone in her dislike. Dallas County went nearly 60 percent for Barack Obama. We are larger, more diverse. Travel north of LBJ, the psychological dividing line of blue-chip real estate from the burbs, and you find entire communities of Sikhs, Buddhists, and Muslims. George Bush may have super-glued himself to the religious right, but while he was gone, Dallas grew more liberal and tolerant. Gay men hold hands, kiss in public, and lead corporations. You see more Birkenstocks, even at the Wal-Mart Neighborhood Market on Central. Whole Foods has stores across the city. We eat more fiber and yogurt and save the fat grams in ribs for special occasions. Even our garbage collection has changed. The former president will have to divide his paper and plastic from the rest of his rubbish.
Then there was the housing boom that changed the face of North Dallas. The Bush administration's housing policy aimed to make home ownership a dream come true for every American—including some who probably should have limited their dreams to multi-family housing. But when money is cheap and anyone can get a mortgage, why not? We all got newer homes, bigger homes. You couldn't drive down the street without picking up a nail in your tire from some construction project. The mid-century ranches were scrapped to make way for 7,000-square-foot stone castle-ettes with turrets, porte-cocheres, and a media rooms. It all began pre-Bush, at the tail of the '90s dot-com boom, but those low interest rates magnified the momentum. Now even homes built in 1994 look worn.
When I first reported on the DallasDirt real estate blog that the Bushes had bought a home on Daria Place, off Meaders Lane, life on the quiet Mayflower Estates cul-de-sac changed forever. Choppers swooped, and television news trucks put up their microwave masts. In eight hours, images of 10141 were beamed across the world on television and the Internet. A steady parade of gawkers streamed through the neighborhood, and it seemed for a time like living near the Bushes wasn't going to be much fun. (Except when it's time to sell.)
The gate incident allayed that fear. On January 7, an unusual neighborhood meeting took place at the 25-acre estate of Cynda and Tom Hicks, which backs up against the new Bush home. Everyone who lives on Daria Drive and Daria Place was invited to the Hickses' for an hour-long meeting to find out what was going to happen to their street now that the Bushes were moving in.
"The Hickses were incredibly gracious," says a person who attended the meeting. "I think he was even busy that night, but we felt if we had the meeting at his home, everyone would attend."
Refreshments were offered—water, sodas, no alcohol. Also in attendance: Secret Service agents and officials from the city of Dallas. Tom Hicks welcomed everyone, and then he said, "We have a call from the president." He put George Bush on speakerphone to chat up his new neighbors for the first time.
"I cannot tell you how excited Laura and I are about our new home and neighborhood," George said from his ranch in Crawford. "I promise to keep my lawn mowed and be a good neighbor." He apologized for any inconvenience their home purchase was causing. The president said he hoped they could have a gate if all the neighbors agreed. Bush clearly wanted their support, but he didn't need it. When his father, George H.W. Bush, moved back to Houston, Texas passed a law that gives cities the right to erect a gate at a former president's residence. Still, George W. discussed with his neighbors what the gate would look like, how it would operate. He mentioned that he'd pay for its construction. Questions were answered, everyone was asked to sign a form to give the city the go-ahead, and George thanked them and said he couldn't wait to move into his new home.
Before he hung up, the president drew attention to a 14-year-old boy and future neighbor who was at the meeting in the Hicks home. His name was Jacob. Back in 2004, he had given George Bush a small donation for his second presidential campaign.
"I hope he remembers he sent me a dollar," George said. "Jacob, I want to shake your hand and look you in the eye and see if I spent your dollar wisely."
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Dreaming of LauraWe have so much in common. We will do lunch.
by Pamela Gwyn Kripke
My people move away. They go fast, and they go far. Paige went back to Chicago, seconds after we picked the beige-y yellow for her living room. Carolyn, out of nowhere, packed up her singing voice and Southern wit and gorgeous necklaces and zipped north, right past my hydrangeas, hope and promise spilling from her sports car like a julep in a tipsy hand. Then—it pains me still to describe it—Heidi, my college roommate, 2,000 miles and 900 decades from the dorm and somehow serendipitously placed two blocks down, relayed the news: "We are going to San Francisco."
I cannot walk by the house. It will be two years this summer.
I decided, during this time of mourning, that I would not attempt friendship with another human being who was not in my family. It would be fine. Isolation would provide alternative benefits. On occasion, though, the pull of social interaction has found me, me being a human being, and I have succumbed to it, to a safe point, like, "Oh, hi."
When I heard that the former president and his wife Laura would be setting up camp nearby, the pull tugged again, with unexpected gusto. At first, I did not understand the feeling. Why would the First Lady's proximity provoke notions of warmth and companionship in my asocial soul? "It's obvious!" I yelled to my surrogate pal Rachel Maddow, as footage of Mrs. Bush and Barney rolled past. I had a terrier named Barney. I have two daughters. I love words and books. A baby sitter we had years ago actually lived in Laura's room at the sorority, for goodness sake, and we went there, to the room, for a Halloween party. We were fairies in Laura's room. This is it, I told Rachel, the end of buddylessness. Laura is going to be my friend.
I should say that I am a Northeastern liberal Democrat, but I do not think that she will mind. Gals like us can tolerate political differences because we have the gal thing. We've had babies and we've made choices and sacrifices and floppy soufflés. We've had terrific careers. We've learned—and taught—the lessons that matter. We've selected boys, and handled them, and set them up in the most flattering of lights. Because they were cute, or nice, or both, or neither. Or something.
Of course, Laura is unaware that a marvelous new camaraderie waits for her in Dallas, and I am prepared for the possibility that she may be one of those lucky people who already has enough friends within driving distance, friends whom she actually speaks with and can recognize by sight, people who are not overly imaginative strangers with the ability to publish. But I am confident, nonetheless. So certain, in fact, that I can visualize a fabulous afternoon of fun, just us girls.
I'm thinking that Laura might want to drive, after all the chauffeuring and helicoptering, but I will offer to pick her up in my Honda, just in case. We will wear pants, casual, maybe a low heel. I will give her a bottle of that primrose hand lotion we talked about the last time, and then we will head to the bookstore for a browse, a read-through of some new first pages. On the way to lunch—which we will have near a porch, not on a porch, but on the inside, at the open window—we will pop in to the lighting store with the floor lamp I am considering buying. Floor lamps are so troublesome, for so many reasons, and Laura's eye could be very helpful. For lunch, we will have pasta with mushrooms in it and salads with no frisee, but plain old hearty romaine, and to drink, drink-drinks, because why not, it is Saturday and we are out living life and having a blast, talking and laughing and doing what we do. No interruptions, no work. George calls on Laura's cell phone, but we ignore it.
Feeling a little bad, later in the afternoon, after seeing an exhibit of mid-twentieth-century American photography, we get the screw tightened on his reading glasses, which Laura has in her purse. Then we eat chocolate chip cookies.
"Give those girls hugs for me," she says, stopping in front of my house and hugging me.
"I will, and hi to George," I say, hugging back. "What a great time, as always, Laurelei."
Next time, we'll try the pizza place on Inwood and see a movie. Friends are good, and I have the best new friend in the world, right here, in my own ZIP code. My luck, though, her husband will be transferred to Indiana.


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Posted: Mon Sep 01, 2008 3:55 pm
Post subject: Palin: abstinence ed...pregnant 17-year daughter
It was announced today that the high-school aged - 17 - daughter of Sarah Palin, the vice presidential nominee of the Republican Party, is five months pregnant. Palin, it should be noted, supported abstinence only education during her time as governor of Alaska. Talk about the age of celebrity...Palin and Britney's mom are gonna be/already are baby grandmamas. Perhaps the Dems ought to make a commercial. Oh, wait, pre-marital sex isn't the issue here, as supporters are already saying. What's important is that an underage girl apparently had unprotected sex, and, Juno-style, is going to carry the baby to term, and then raise it. Isn't that what every 17-year-old's parents hope and dream for?
Seriously, though...what more proof do we need that abstinence-only education doesn't stop teens from "doing it," and that not providing information on how to protect against pregnancy via birth control isn't the answer?
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Jane G
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Posted: Mon Sep 01, 2008 6:47 pm
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Well, it is one high-profile, close-to-home example of why abstinence only education doesn't work. But, I do have to say that it doesn't color my opinion of her (there's enough of that already
), and at least she is supporting her daughter. How awful would it be politically if it came out that Bristol was pregnant, and then got an abortion? Especially if Palin knew about it.
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Posted: Mon Sep 01, 2008 8:14 pm
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What happened to adoption as an option? I guess that wouldn't look good.
What I find hypocritical is the idea that they are asking for privacy but don't seem to feel it's necessary for the rest of us. Instead, we are supposed to put up with public interference in our reproductive decisions, in our decisions about sex education for our children and regarding whether gays can marry or even obtain other rights of couples.
Privacy when it's them; not when it's us.
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Jane G
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Posted: Mon Sep 01, 2008 9:08 pm
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^^ Well, in their defense, that is two different spheres of privacy, I think. Laws regarding reproduction may invade your privacy in one way, and that is something that's debatable.
On the other hand, I think everyone would consider being followed around by press and photographers during a somewhat embarrassing family situation as a violation of privacy.
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Posted: Tue Sep 02, 2008 2:11 am
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I think Barack Obama was spot on in
his response
to this:
"Let me be as clear as possible," Obama said. "I think people's families are off-limits, and people's children are especially off-limits. This shouldn't be part of our politics. It has no relevance to Gov. Palin's performance as governor or her potential performance as a vice president."
Obama said reporters should "back off these kinds of stories" and noted that he was born to an 18-year-old mother.
"How a family deals with issues and teenage children, that shouldn't be the topic of our politics, and I hope that anybody who is supporting me understands that's off-limits."
That's classy and very fair.
I don't recall any sex ed classes at my school in Israel as a 7th, 11th and 12th grader (I spent 8th-10th grade in the US and successfully cared for an egg baby) and my classmates and friends still managed not to get pregnant - despite the fact that quite a few of them were having sex. Although I believe it is advisable to teach about contraception and protection from sexually transmitted diseases in schools, a teen who wants this information can get it in other places - and parents who want to educate their children about making responsible choices can and should do so. I think it's far more important to ensure that birth control options are inexpensive and accessible to those who need them. By the way, for all we know the couple in question may have used contraception that failed for whatever reason - but that is their business, not ours.
Bristol Palin is 17 and she did not choose to enter the political scene. She should not be subjected to this kind of media attention (the previous insinuations that she was Trig's mother were vicious and nasty) just because of who her mother is and the choices her mother has made. I disagree with just about everything Sarah Palin supports and represents (lucky for her I don't have a vote in the US) but I think there's plenty to criticize about her - including her views on sex education and reproductive rights - without dragging her daughter into this.
Hilzoy from Obsidian Wings wrote
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Posted: Tue Sep 02, 2008 9:14 am
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Well, hey, I have some sympathy for the daughter, but the publicity in this case is about the mother, who put herself in the public eye by accepting the nomination. She will be, after all, one heart attack or stroke or other climactic event from the presidency. That makes all her actions and the actions of those closely related to her fair game, in my thinking. That her 17 year old daughter got pregnant says something about Palin herself, especially when she touted abstinence as the way to go. I should think she would consider the situation a failure on her own part. It should definitely cause her to do some re-thinking of what she says and the beliefs she touts.
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Posted: Tue Sep 02, 2008 10:14 am
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When so many people are jumping to conclusions, it's amazing no one has hurt him- or herself.
I frankly don't understand how abstinence-only sex ed is in any way undermined by this event. I don't agree with abstinence-only, but since we have no idea whether Palin's daughter was on contraception that failed or didn't use any, it's pretty much data-free speculation at this point.
Palin definitely supports abstinence-only, but she has taken no initiative as Governor to put her preferences into practice. Alaska public schools' sex ed programs include information about contraception. If anyone has evidence that Palin pulled her kids out of those classes, I for one would appreciate the information.
I am neither a Republican nor a Palin supporter. But I do know a bit about Alaska and its party politics, and this summer people were definitely talking about the trooper case, as well as her new baby. Even the most cursory vetting process would have found information on that.
I'm dumbfounded by the level of ignorance that the media are displaying with regard to Palin, Alaska in general, and her career. And don't even get me started on the baby coverup story. How low do we go before we hit bottom?
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Posted: Tue Sep 02, 2008 10:27 am
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dick wrote:
I should think she would consider the situation a failure on her own part. It should definitely cause her to do some re-thinking of what she says and the beliefs she touts.
Sorry, can't agree with that totally, dick. I have three kids (all over the age of 30 now) and I know they acted and did things differently at times compared to the values I exhibited at home. I was disappointed and frustrated when that happened--and, yes, maybe even considered myself a failure. However, in retrospection, I didn't always feel the need to change my value system just because my kids didn't embrace it. Maybe in the future they would change their minds and maybe not, and maybe I would shift positions and maybe not, but I'm still entitled to my own thoughts on issues.
Seventeen is pretty young and at that age they're still pushing the boundaries with their parents. And, who knows, maybe they did use contraception, but that failed. (I think another poster may have already mentioned this.) So, until I know more, I definitely can't consider Palin a failure as a mother in this. Some errors in judgement just show up more readily than others. My kids are fairly stable now and I'm really proud of them all, but there were times when they were testing their wings where I thought that I failed miserably as a parent and wondered why they were doing some questionable things.
Just for the record, I don't agree with the Palin nomination for various reasons, most of all her not being adequately prepared to take on the presidency at a moment's notice. But being a failure as a mother doesn't work for me.
Also, at this time, with all the other trickling stuff coming down the pike regarding her, it truly makes me wonder about McCain's judgment process. Scary.
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Posted: Tue Sep 02, 2008 10:28 am
Post subject: Re: Palin: abstinence ed...pregnant 17-year daughter
LLB wrote:
What's important is that an underage girl apparently had unprotected sex, and, Juno-style, is going to carry the baby to term, and then raise it. Isn't that what every 17-year-old's parents hope and dream for?
Seriously, though...what more proof do we need that abstinence-only education doesn't stop teens from "doing it," and that not providing information on how to protect against pregnancy via birth control isn't the answer?
As far as I can see they are a pretty typical middle American family. Yes, I did say that. And that includes teen pregnancies still, I don't care how much education of
any form
they're given.
Teenagers will do what they want to do when they want to do it.
At least she's got a supportive family around her.
Or is "choice" not really "choice" unless it's the "right" one, depending upon one's pov? Whatever that is. Sigh.
You know, I am so sick and tired of people's sex lives being the way we decide our politics in America. I mean that on a lot of different levels.
Personally, I'm a lot more interested in how much it's going to cost to get around to places like work and the grocery store. Not to mention buy the @#$ groceries.
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Since I used to work at a charter school serving teenage moms and their children and saw firsthand the incredible leaps in maturation motherhood forced upon these young women, I have my own insights into this. Sure, many times the situation became too much and the young women struggled daily with their responsibilities. But there's something to be said for a 17 year-old accepting the consequences of her choice to have premarital sex, unprotected or not, and adapting her future around a new life.
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The way they disguised Bristol's baby bump during the VP pick speech was to cover it up with another baby. Did anyone consider how this may affect Bristol, to
her this way? Or the very public example this may set for other teenagers? Or the distraction this offers?...rather than the Republican platform and issues? Hmm.
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a teen's decision to have premaritial sex has little to do with parenting and alot to do with that teen's decision making skills. i really have a problem with the idea that this child having sex before she's ready is a reflection of poor parenting. really...do we blame the mothers for serial killers?
unless we were there in that household, we don't know what kind of parent palin is. no doubt she holds herself accountable in some respects and she should. however, it would be ridiculous to assume she stank as a parent just because her daughter made one disadvantageous move. kids are still gonna be kids no matter the parenting. all parents can hope is that in the end they've given their kids what they need in order to make the best decisions for themselves.
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Posted: Tue Sep 02, 2008 12:57 pm
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I've been reading everybody's responses, and here's what I've come up with: The reason I've been so bothered by this story is that for 20+ years, the right wing of the Republican Party has been all about "Family Values." Go to an evangelical church, have your daughters wear abstinence rings, don't let them teach sex-ed in the schools, and your kids will turn out better than that riff-raff down the street.
Earlier this summer I wrote about Purity Balls on my blog, and included the widely accepted finding that girls who have taken a chastity vow are less likely to use birth control to protect themselves against pregnancy and/or disease than those who haven't taken the vow. The reasoning is this: If you use protection, you've planned for sex, and if you've planned for sex, you're a "bad" girl.
It puts a very unpleasant taste in my mouth. Teens ARE teens...and in the 21st century, more of them are going to have sex than not. So why not arm them with the best ways to protect themselves, not only against pregnancy, but disease, and disease that nowadays can kill you?
In the end it's the hypocrisy of the situation that is my problem. AND the very tough road girls and boys who are still in high school have when they are also parents. I see a story like this and I want to cry; for many families who don't have a lot of money, this would mean dropping out of school and perhaps getting a GED. It means dirty diapers when other KIDS - ie, teens - are going to the beach. It would mean deferring college and working instead whatever job you can get these days without a degree that allows you to take care of a family...at the age of 18. Yes, these KIDS are responsible, but perhaps, just perhaps, had they better understood reproduction and had easier access to birth control (condoms and pregnancy tests in our local CVS are under lock and key...and there's a warning sign indicating that the area is under surveillance as well, which I just don't find very conducive), they could continue to be KIDS until they are older and haven't given up a lot of what they looked forward to. I'm all for being responsible, but I'm also for accepting reality and trying to make the best of it. No mother wants her daughter having sex before she's ready, and we all do whatever we can to prevent it. But it's clear it's going to happen regardless, and I'd much rather have a daughter armed with knowledge and tools than tell me one day that she's pregnant or has an STD.
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My point is that the sympathy being expressed for Palin is out of place. It is she who brought the publicity to her daughter's situation by agreeing to the nomination. Surely she was aware that this matter would out and questions would arise. Yes, teenagers are often heedless of consequences, but then, so was Palin, in my estimation.
What, I wonder, do these teenagers think about the impending marriage? Would it have occurred were Palin not the Republican candidate for VP?
The entire matter strikes me as arrogance of the first order.
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The "Eagle Forum Alaska" took down the page with this questionnaire, but it's been flashing across the internet over the last couple of days. What makes it relevant to this discussion is her answer to question #3,
as an elected official running for higher office
. Since her own choices over her child's reproductive education worked so well for her she wants to make sure that others only have the option to walk her walk -- not in their own personal lives, of course, but in public school with public dollars. I don't have a problem with her "opting out" her children, but don't opt everyone out!
Monday, July 31, 2006
2006 Gubernatorial Candidate Questionnaire
The following questionnaire was sent to all candidates for Governor with their responses listed in the order we received them.
1. Complete the sentence by checking the applicable phrases (you can check more than one).
Abortion should be:
Banned throughout entire pregnancy.
Legal to save the life of the mother.
Legal in case of rape and incest.
Legal if the baby is handicapped.
Legal if the baby has a genetic defect.
Legal in the first trimester.
Legal in the second trimester.
Legal in the third trimester.
Sarah Palin: I am pro-life. With the exception of a doctors determination that the mothers life would end if the pregnancy continued. I believe that no matter what mistakes we make as a society, we cannot condone ending an innocents life.
2. Will you support the right of parents to opt out their children from curricula, books, classes, or surveys, which parents consider privacy-invading or offensive to their religion or conscience?
Sarah Palin: Yes. Parents should have the ultimate control over what their children are taught.
3. Will you support funding for abstinence-until-marriage education instead of for explicit sex-education programs, school-based clinics, and the distribution of contraceptives in schools?
Sarah Palin: Yes, the explicit sex-ed programs will not find my support.
4. Will you support efforts to raise or lower the mandatory age of education? Why or why not?
Sarah Palin: No, again, parents know better than government what is best for their children.
5. Will you support an effort to expand hate-crime laws?
Sarah Palin: No, as I believe all heinous crime is based on hate.
10. Do you support the Alaska Supreme Courts ruling that spousal benefits for state employees should be given to same-sex couples? Why or why not?
Sarah Palin: No, I believe spousal benefits are reserved for married citizens as defined in our constitution.
11. Are you offended by the phrase Under God in the Pledge of Allegiance? Why or why not?
Sarah Palin: Not on your life. If it was good enough for the founding fathers, its good enough for me and Ill fight in defense of our Pledge of Allegiance.
12. In relationship to families, what are your top three priorities if elected governor?
Sarah Palin:
1. Creating an atmosphere where parents feel welcome to choose the venues of education for their children.
2. Preserving the definition of marriage as defined in our constitution.
3. Cracking down on the things that harm family life: gangs, drug use, and infringement of our liberties including attacks on our 2nd Amendment rights.
Oh ... and regarding the Pledge of Allegiance, the words under God were added in 1954 when Dwight Eisenhower signed the legislation. When the Pledge of Allegiance was originally written by Francis Bellamy on October 11, 1892, he did not use the words under God in any way, shape or form.
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Beautiful, captivating, inspiring, complicated and often misunderstood - the women who became muses for their masters had more in common with the artists who painted them than might be seen on first glance.
These women from all walks of life often reviled and looked down on in their own time, have transcended their humble beginnings through canvas and paint to inspire and utterly captivate their audiences.
Elizabeth Rossetti (née Elizabeth "Lizzie" Siddall) 1829 - 1862
Born in 1829 Lizzie was first "discovered" by the artist Walter Deverell in 1849 who had close associations with Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Less than 2 years later, Lizzie was sitting almost exclusively for the jealous Rossetti.
Lizzie's life with the artists of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood was turbulent and complicated, much like her relationship with Rossetti who during his lifetime painted and drew thousands of pictures of the young woman - who later became his wife.
Illness from posing in a freezing bath of water for Millais' "Ophelia", afflicted with depression and an addiction to Laudanum affected Lizzie's health greatly. It is perhaps her struggle with this, that makes such a striking comparison with the beautiful aloof woman you see in the paintings of her.
The circumstances surrounding her tragic death in 1862 - attributed to an accidental overdose of Laudanum and persistent depression after the birth of her still-born daughter, along with tales of a suicide note, means to this day it remains somewhat of a mystery.
Laid to rest in Highgate Cemetery her grave, tragically re-opened by Rossetti 7 years after to retrieve his manuscript of poems spurred further folklore. Howell, Rossetti's agent who was present at the exhumation is said to have told Rossetti later that her body had lain preserved, and her delicate beauty intact surrounded by her copper hair - which had by all accounts continued to grow after her death, filled the coffin.
Her grave - frequently to be found with fresh flowers on it, has become a place of pilgrimage for fans and admirers of both Lizzie herself and Rossetti's work.
Fanny Cornforth (Sarah Cox?) 1835? – 1906?
Fanny (Her real name is thought to be Sarah Cox) was discovered by Rossetti in 1858 during the years that Lizzie was living in France to improve her health. Fanny was born into a working class family of a Blacksmith. Throughout her life and after her somewhat undocumented death, she was branded by critics amongst other things, an obese illiterate prostitute and a thief; a woman from a poor background who was greedy for more than money and fame.
Despite this less than flattering description from her critics, Fanny's earthly beauty delighted Rossetti who continued to paint her after Lizzie's death when Fanny moved into his home to be his house keeper. Her striking and bold red hair became almost synonymous with the Pre-Raphaelite look.
It is to be noted that Rossetti's final thoughts were of Fanny, showing his continued fondness for her despite their relationship being frowned upon.
Jane Morris (née Jane Burden) 1839 - 1914
Jane Burden was the daughter of a stableman, born in Oxford. It was whilst at a theatre showing in the audience that she was noticed by Rossetti and Burn-Jones who asked her to model for the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. Her first "sitting" was initially Rossetti who was at the time painting "Queen Guinevere" during which time she was introduced to William Morris, whom later she married.
After Lizzie passed away Rossetti turned more and more to Jane as his muse, and despite her being married to Morris they formed an attachment that lasted til Rossetti's death in some form or another.
Jane, like Lizzie and Fanny had striking features with her dark hair and Romanesque profile. She is noted for having rather large hands, though with the help of private education after her marriage to Morris, she was also noted for her extreme grace and "queenly" presence.
Henry James a novelist described Jane
"...with a maze of crisp black hair, heaped in a great wavy projections on each of her temples, a thin pale face, great thick black oblique brows, joined in the middle and tucking themselves away under her hair, a mouth like the "Oriana" in our illustrated Tennyson, a long neck, without any collar, and in lieu thereof some dozen strings of outlandish beads. In fine complete."
Her close association to the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood encouraged her own creativity in embroidery and painting fostered by her husband and the development of the Arts & Crafts movement that came out of the Pre-Raphaelite era.
The only surviving oil painting by her husband William Morris conveys just how much she was admired and loved by the artists who drew her. Morris in despair of being able to capture her beauty wrote on the work
"I cannot paint you but I love you"
To Every Artist, a Muse
In any shape or form we all find inspiration in a variety of ways; ask any artist and they will tell you that at some point they have been inspired by an artistic "muse"
1) Have you had - or do you currently have an artistic muse?
2) Do you think that having an artistic muse is as important in modern styles of art?
Further Reading
I highly recommend the following sites and blogs with grateful thanks which were extremely helpful in putting together this short article. If you have as much interest in Pre-Raphaelite art as I do you will find them great reads!


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What was your dream from your childhood? Have you reached that dream? Or are you still struggling looking for a dream? You may even be a parent with teenagers or kids in college, trying to help them find their own dreams. Whatever your situation may be, one book can help you with those dreams.
Shanna Beaman's first book, The Woman's Guide to Living Your Dreams!
Shanna Beaman, a local author from Woodland Hills, UT, has been working on her second book called Onramp to Your Future, due in late spring. Her first book The Woman's Guide to Living Your Dreams and the second book are both self-help guides to help others clarify their goals and make a plan to reach them. But her new book will cover five specific steps of how to stay motivated, as well as other useful tools such as time management, family involvement and accountability.
"I believe anyone can reach any realistic dream, if they'll just clarify exactly what they want, put together a plan and then take action," Beaman says. "I believe everyone should live their dreams!"
We interviewed Beaman to take a closer look at what she's all about with her new book:
Q: Can you tell me a little bit about your new book Onramp to Your Future?
A: "I am writing Onramp to Your Future particularly for teens, as well as college students who haven't decided upon a major or a path for their life. This fun and innovative book will inspire young adults to choose a path for life through a series of questions and exercises prompting them to envision their future. It will help them clarify their passions, what they enjoy doing and what they are naturally good at; it will have them analyze their current goals and the purpose for each. Then through a series of step-by-step worksheets in the book, they will begin formulating their plan for life."
"The book is not just about goal setting and planning; it will be filled with enjoyable and age appropriate ideas on ways to stay focused, the importance of surrounding yourself with good friends and mentors, staying involved in school and other activities, tips on dating, ideas on how to make good choices, the harmful effects of drugs, along with much more. When teens have a focus on their future, they are less likely to get into trouble and more likely to lead an exceptional life."
Q: It seems like your first book was also about dreams and future. What made you want to help others reach for their goals, especially through books?
A: "I love dreaming about my future and knowing I can reach my dreams. I know others have dreams and there are so many people who just don't know where to start or how to make a plan to reach their dreams, so I decided I wanted to help others because I love success stories; all kinds of successes, big and small."
"I have been fortunate to have mentors in my life that have helped me get to places that I may not have been able to get to without their inspiration. I still have a mentor who motivates and guides me, but not everyone has that opportunity. I decided books are available to everyone. They are an inexpensive media and they can be read at the leisure of the buyer. In a book, I could offer all of my knowledge in one place and guide people step-by-step through a life changing process. I knew I could reach more people and affect more lives by offering this information in a book."
Q: What's your personal frustrations and successes of reaching your own dreams?
A: "I've set goals that were too big and that can be discouraging when it happens, but I look back and I took away a lot of knowledge going after those dreams; I know so much more now than I would have, had I not set those goals. I have reached many goals, big and small, in many areas of life such as having been successful in the corporate world, publishing my first book, staying healthy, having a beautiful family who is supportive of my goals and now being able to work from home."
Q: Many people struggle trying to find their passion their whole life. What do you suggest to those who haven't found their dreams yet?
A: "They should write down what they enjoy doing and what they are good at. They should close their eyes and visualize themselves doing or being what makes them happy; this is where they will find their passions. From there, take some time to do some research and figure out how they can incorporate those passions into their life."
Q: Why should people read your new book?
A: "Getting the younger generation to plan for their future will open so many doors that otherwise may never open. Knowing what they want brings awareness and opportunity; it puts their future into focus and solidifies a vision. They will build a plan and begin taking necessary action; planning for college or a career, family, health, finances and other important factors for their future. Now is the time because every day that passes by, is a day you cannot get back. Before they know it, they will be an adult and they will either be what and where they planned or they will be one of the many that are still wondering what's next. Watch for this book to come out in the late spring."


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The unique friendship bond between Tennessee Titans running back Chris Johnson, Jacksonville Jaguars receiver Mike Sims-Walker and New Mexico State running back Kenny Turnerwill be featured on tonight's episode of ESPN's E:60.
Johnson and Turner were both high school football teammates at Olympia high school. Sims-Walker, who played for Edgewater high school was also friends with the pair. One fateful evening, the friends' lives were forever changed after a local shooting resulted in Kenny Turner serving five years in state prison. The Orlando Sentinel first chronicled the story in January as Turner was looking for a Division 1 scholarship opportunity.
Turner was ultimately offered a chance at New Mexico State
A film crew from ESPN came to Orlando this summer to get footage for a pair of Chris Johnson related stories with reporter Michael Smith.
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Volleyball Splits Final Pair At Hofstra, Eyes Home Opener Tuesday Night
FINAL STATS: Central Michigan 3, Princeton 0 l Princeton 3, USC-Upstate 2
A terrific team performance in the final match and a fast start in the fifth set helped the Princeton women's volleyball split its final day of the Hofstra Invitational. Following a 3-0 loss to Central Michigan, Princeton capped its Saturday in Long Island with a 3-2 win over South Carolina-Upstate.
Sophomore Kendall Peterkin was a standout performer in the victory, recording 16 kills, eight digs and four service aces in the 22-25, 25-22, 26-24, 22-25, 15-10 win. The victory gives Princeton a 3-3 record after two weekends, and send it into Tuesday's home opener against Seton Hall with momentum.
Like Friday's matchup with Hofstra, the Tiger Class of 2017 was particularly strong, with all five freshmen posting significant contributions. Outside Cara Mattaliano had 14 kills and a career-high 22 digs, while middle Brittany Ptak had a career-high 11 kills to go with three blocks.
Setter Lauren Miller had 23 assists and 17 digs, while Ellie Shannon had six kills and five digs. Mary Claire Bartlett also chipped in on the defensive side with six digs.
As head coach Sabrina King had looked for throughout the preseason, it was a total team effort in the win. Junior Tiana Woolridge, who was selected to the all-tournament team, contributed nine kills and five blocks, while junior co-captain Sarah Hanna had seven kills and three blocks. Classmate Ginny Willis had a team-high 26 assists, while sophomore Sarah Daschbach notched a career high with 31 digs.
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Love is patient, love is kind. Love is never boastful, nor conceited, never selfish, not quick to take offense. There is nothing love cannot face; there is no limit to its faith, its hope and endurance. There are three things that last forever: faith, hope and love; but the greatest is love."—Corinthians 13:4-7
I've referred to this biblical passage many times to help me put things in perspective, keep my head on straight and my priorities in order. It's just about the best thing ever written about love, and it pretty well describes the relationship between my old friend Paul Niklas and his severely developmentally challenged son Michael.
Just after we were married in August 1963, Margaret Mary and I met Paul and Nancy Niklas. At that time their youngest child, Michael, was six months old. As the years progressed, Michael didn't develop mentally. He never uttered a word, never expressed emotion. These days he might be described as severely autistic. Maybe the words were different then, but the outcome was the same. After years of visiting hospitals around the country, the Niklases were told Michael would never change; he would always be a little boy inexplicably lost inside himself.
In 1970, the Niklases made the difficult decision to place their son with the Brothers at Mt. Aloysius Home for Men in Columbus, Ohio, about two hours from their home in Cincinnati. This decision was wrenching but it also gave them the gift of more time with their two older daughters, allowed Michael the care of experienced professionals, and gave their life a new rhythm and routine. Over the years, they saw Michael once a month, bringing him home and involving him in family activities.
Paul is 75 now; Nancy died two years ago. These days, my friend is both mother and father to Michael. When he and Michael came to visit us a few weeks ago, it was the same old Paul—laughing and upbeat—but with Michael always close by his side. He attended to his son, now a 49-year-old man, with great sensitivity, bathing him in the mornings, helping him in the bathroom, holding his hand and leading him through restaurants. I watched him kiss him on the forehead. "I love you, Michael," he said. For a moment, I thought I could see a little light in Michael's face, but then it was gone.
Paul Niklas doesn't care for his son out of duty or guilt or resignation or parental obligation. He loves him. That's all. He isn't sad for his son; he is committed to his son. He, like most parents and people who understand love, has a deeper commitment to his son. Michael is different, but his dad has taken that—and more—in stride.
These days, "love" seems to last about as long as it's convenient. Celebrity marriages last 72 days. People marry four and five times. Parents abandon children. Children divorce parents. Babies are unwanted from the moment of birth. It's a world that exists as a parallel universe to people like the Niklas family, a world where commitment is old-fashioned at best. When romance abounds this spring, I'm going to revisit what love means. The first thing I'll think of is Paul's unconditional love for his son—the kind that emanates from the heart.


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