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Here's how RW members rated this race (104 votes).
In short: For serious spring marathoners only. Ugly, dull and fiddly course. 4 toilets at Race HQ is pathetic for a supposedly serious runners' eventDate of review: March 5, 2012
In short: An absolute favourite, I come back time and time again.In full: Thanet roadrunners are brilliant at organising, better year after year. So encouraging on the way round and marshals at all key points. Fantastic route, nice ups and downs and such a varied route keeps it all interesting. Good idea to do the loops at the start to make up the mileage so a nice sprint back along the front at the end. Lots of prizes for the winners and a great medal, T shirt and snacks for everyone. Love this race!Date of review: March 5, 2012
In short: A good value 20 miler!In full: I really enjoyed this race despite the weather. I found the organisation and marshalls excellent.It's the first time I've done a race over 13.1 miles and I can't believe how much I enjoyed it. Date of review: March 5, 2012
In short: Well organisedIn full: Thanks to the organisers and Marshalls. Good job and nice T-shirt.Date of review: March 5, 2012
In short: Excellent Marathon PrepIn full: As one of the race team just want to say well done to all the runners yesterday in not ideal conditions.There was a toilet queue but there is at every race I've been too and the there were also toilets on the seafront which were mentioned in the race information sheet sent to every entrant.Thanks to the First Time Race Director Andy for picking this race up and putting it back on the calendar!Date of review: March 5, 2012
In short: My first race over half-marathon distance - challenging in places but I did it and hope to be back next year!Date of review: March 5, 2012
In short: superbly organised, friendly and great value for moneyIn full: My first attempt at this race and wasnt disappointed at all.. The organisation was smooth, hq was more than adequate bar the usual backlog for the loos... perhaps the organisers could also advertise the other toilets near the start? The race itself was very well organised, plenty of good enthusiastic marshalls, well operated drinks stations and a fair smattering of spectators.. The course was fairly tame in the first half but the drag up the ramp at the cliff was a killer for me, still i cracked on and finished sub 2.30 so really happy with that - will be back if i am barmy enough to do another marathon next year!Date of review: March 5, 2012
In short: Excellent race, excellent course, well done TRRIn full: Having done this in 2009 I knew what to expect and you didn't let me down.The organisation was pretty much perfect, although a couple more portaloos at the HQ would always come in handy, there were reasonable public toilets by the start as well but not everyone knew this hence the long queues.I wear contact lenses and you were able to provide a room with a sink and soap so that I could put them in without going near the alcohol hand cleaners in the portaloos.Excellent marshalling as always, plenty of encouragement and directions where needed.Thank Thanet, another excellent race, see you next year hopefully...Date of review: March 5, 2012
In short: Very well organised on a nicely balanced courseDate of review: March 5, 2012
In short: Nicely organised, well marshalled.In full: Windy, damp, and a fairly lumpy course for a coastal race. Mix of seafront and housing estates with a short section of offroad. Very well organised with plenty of friendly marshalling, frequent water stations and a small but perfectly formed goody bag without the usual selection of leaflets for recycling. Provisional results up on the website the same day, which I think is also excellent for a non chip timed race. Thanks to the organisers and marshalls.Date of review: March 5, 2012
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cable and internet included. Linens, towels, iron, blow dryer,full kitchen and even a pack n play for a baby to sleep supplied.
Transportation is also at your doorstep with the 14th Street cross-town bus just steps away at 11th Street on Avenue C, providing easy access to virtually every train stop (the L, 4, 5, 6, F, B, V, 1, 2, 3, 9, A, E, C) along its path!. I also have flexible check in and check out avail.
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We had a great time in this apartment! Nice place to stay because there are many god places to eat in the neighbourhood. The apartment has everything you need, well equipped. We slept wonderful in the beds and were not disturbed by any noises.
Very clean apartment, interior / appointments good, location of apartment excellent, near to all points of manhattan, neighborhood great, very advisable!
We enjoyed staying there very much! Much better than a hotel!
Apartment was great, location was also great for us. We loved getting back to the apartment in this area after long busy days in NYC. We could sleep very well there without all the city noises that you would get in areas closer to the city "hotspots" like Times Square. We felt totally safe here. Will definetely recommend this apartment to others.
Apartment compliant site, pleasant, well appointed, served by bus and metro, I will praise him again if I return.
Appartement conforme au site, agréable , très bien aménagé, desservi par bus et metro, je le louerai de nouveau si je devais revenir.
A very nice place in a good area in East Manhattan!
All things you might need i the apartment and lots of space. I´d love to come back!
Good shops just outside and a really good Italian/Mexican Resturant 15 meters from the frontdoor.
A local bus takes you all the way from Ave C till 8Th Ave on the fourtennth street: Nr 14D
Thanks Shawn from the Swedish ladies!
The perfect week!
We are totally satisfied after spending one week in November in the apartment.
A clean, fresh, good sized and priced apartment. The Landlady (Shawn) was very flexible with all our requests. The East Village area was nice and a short walk from Union Sq. Please don't change anything - we will come back!
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Europe, Sweden, Stockholm, Farsta
The apartment is to be recommended with absolute.
It is spacious and modern, there is plenty of storage space for your own stuff.
We have the apartment found absolutely clean, bathroom is modern and the kitchen fully equipped with all amenities!
Shawn is very helpful if you have questions or requests.
The location is perfect, very quiet for N.Y. and to quickly reach Midtown,
Taxi approx $ 11.
Sofa bed for one person ok, probably for two uncomfortable.
In our opinion, this apartment has a great price-performance ratio.
Das Apartment ist mit absolut zu empfehlen.
Es ist großzügig und modern eingerichtet, man hat viel Stauraum für eigene Sachen.
Wir haben das Apartment absolut sauber vorgefunden, Badezimmer ist modern und die Küche mit allem Comfort perfekt ausgestattet!
Shawn ist sehr hilfsbereit , wenn man Fragen oder Bitten hat.
Die Lage ist bestens, sehr ruhig für N.Y. und Midtown schnell zu erreichen,
Taxi ca 11 $.
Sofabett für eine Person o.k., für zwei wahrscheinlich unbequem.
Unserer Meinung nach hat dieses Wohnung ein super Preis- Leistungsverhältnis.
The holiday in NYC was awesome and one of the reasons was Shawns apartment. The location offers many restaurants, bars and shopping facilities. The apartment itself is very clean and provides everything you need. Also the contact with Shawn was regular and I never had the feeling to get lost. So, all in all everything was perfect and I can´t tell anything bad. Thank you very much again for this wonderful place, which made the holiday in NYC additionally very awesome.
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3 world leaders, 2 Supreme Court Justices, 2 presidential candidates, 2 members of Congress, and a TV host, not to mention a CEO, a First Lady, and Anna Wintour
Updated: March 10, 2014
A year after the publication of Lean In, Sheryl Sandberg is back with another initiative to promote female leadership. This time, the Facebook exec takes aim at the language we use to describe women and girls who take charge. Her "Ban Bossy" campaign hopes to change a culture in which men are bosses, but women are "bossy." Along with her co-sponsors, former Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice and Girl Scouts CEO Ana Maria Chávez, Sandberg is asking people to stop referring to women as "bossy," especially when they're talking to little girls because of its negative connotations.
"When I was in junior high and running for class vice president," Sandberg explains in a Wall Street Journal op-ed, "one of my teachers pulled my best friend aside to warn her not to follow my example: 'Nobody likes a bossy girl,' the teacher warned." The Facebook exec and billionaire is of course not the only powerful woman to rise above that label. Here are 16 incredibly successful women, from Margaret Thatcher to Marissa Mayer, all of whom were called "bossy" at one point or another, and some of them have been called much worse (poor Angela Merkel).
Sonia Sotomayor
One former Second Circuit clerk for a rival judge called Sotomayor "not that smart and kind of a bully on the bench," and the New York Times reported that some lawyers call her "difficult" and "nasty" in a piece titled Sotomayor's Blunt Style Raises Issue of Temperment. RNC Chairman Michael Steele called Sotomayor "abrasive" and said the Supreme Court is "not a place for abrasive personalities." Right, Antonin Scalia?
Janet Yellen
When Janet Yellen was confirmed as the first woman Federal Reserve Board Chair, people wrote blog posts with titles like "Janet Yellen: the Bitch of the Fed."
Madeleine Albright
Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright's cousins recall her as "very bright, very bossy" when she was growing up. "As I began to climb the ladder, I had to cope with the different vocabulary used to describe similar qualities in men (confident, take-charge, committed) and women (bossy, aggressive, emotional,) " she said in her memoir. She also noticed how men behaved in ways that would be dismissed if they had been women. "If women leaders had acted the way Arafat and Barak did during Camp David," she wrote, "they would have been dismissed as menopausal."
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
When the Supreme Court justice found out that her male law school classmates had a habit of calling her "bitch," Ginsburg said "better bitch than mouse."
Hillary Clinton
Australian feminist Germaine Greer called Hillary Clinton " bossy and cold and manipulative" during the 2008 Presidential campaign when she ran unsuccessfully for the Democratic nomination. A female supporter of the Republican nominee, John McCain, elicited chuckles from the candidate when she asked "how do we beat the bitch?" And in 2007, Glenn Beck called Hillary a "stereotypical bitch" and said that the "range in her voice" was like "fingernails on a blackboard."
Geraldine Ferraro
Barbara Bush once delicately declined to get catty about the late Geraldine Ferraro: "I can't say it," she said, "but it rhymes with 'rich.'" In 1984, Ferraro became the first woman to be nominated for Vice President by a major political party when Walter Mondale chose her as his running mate on the Democratic ticket.
Susan E. Rice
Fellow diplomats called Susan Rice "bossy" when she was the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, and the French U.N. Ambassador even whined, "we are not the 14 dwarves, and she is not Snow White." Other U.N. Security Council Ambassadors have called her "the bulldozer" or "the headmistress."
Elizabeth Warren
One pundit advised Senator Warren to "stop the finger wagging; it adds to her strict schoolmarm appearance and bossy manner." After Warren said that if she didn't create a strong consumer protection agency there would be "no agency at all and plenty of blood and teeth left on the floor," GOP attack adds called her rhetoric "unnecessarily aggressive."
Michelle Obama
The First Lady says it's not just her opponents who've cast her as "bossy:" even the President says so. "This year, I have to say, the president actually put most of the ornaments on the tree because he says I'm bossy," she said about the White House Christmas decorations, "So I just sat back and let them do it." She says she'd like to turn the page on the idea that she's bossy, angry, or bullying. "That's been the image that people have tried to paint of me since the day Barack announced [his candidacy]– that I'm some angry black woman."
Indira Gandhi
Richard Nixon called the Indian Prime Minister an "old witch," and national security advisor Henry Kissinger had some nice words about their diplomatic relationship: "While she was a bitch, we got what we wanted," he said.
Correction: The original version of this post misspelled Indira Gandhi's surname.
Angela Merkel
As if anything could be worse than being called the "iron frau," former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi called her an "unf**kable lard-ass."
Anna Wintour
In a 60 Minutes segment about the Vogue editor, Morly Safer said Anna Wintour was "a name that strikes terror in some, loathing in others, and transforms some into obsequious toadies." Safer reminded viewers that Wintour has been "portrayed as Darth Vader in a frock," and asked her whether she is, in fact, a bitch. "I hope not," she said, "I try not to be. But I like people who represent the best of what they do, and if that turns you into a perfectionist, then yes, I am."
Shirley Chisolm
Shirley Chisolm was the first African-American woman elected to Congress, and she wrote that black men "were running me down as a bossy female, a would-be matriarch." Her mantra was "unbought and unbossed," and she's famous for saying, "the emotional, sexual, and psychological stereotyping of females begins when the doctor says: It's a girl."
Katie Couric
The TV anchor has been regularly called a "bitch" in the blogosphere, and stories about her slapping colleagues seem to be greatly exaggerated (she's accused of slapping a news editor, when really she slapped his arm). And she's been talking about the "boss/bossy" distinction for a while:
Marissa Mayer
A 2012 Business Insider article about the Yahoo CEO described her "bullying managerial style" and quoted a former colleague who said she "doesn't understand managing any other way than intimidation or humiliation." Another former colleague said she was "a nightmare of a human being, but she gets things done."
Barbara Walters
When the legendary television journalist was hospitalized after bad fall, blogs said she was "still bossy from bed," and a spokesman from ABC News said she was "alert (and telling everyone what to to), which we all take as a very positive sign." As rumors swirl about Walter's possible retirement, TMZ's headline read "Barbara Walters Bitches About Retirement Plans."


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Call To Drop Charges
The African Centre for Justice and Peace Studies, and the Committee to Protect Journalists, have separately called on Sudan to drop charges against at least 10 journalists who have reported on the alleged rape and torture of a 25-year-old art graduate. The Committee to Protect Journalists also called on Sudan to abandon all other tactics of harassment against these journalists. Why should the Sudanese government be so sensitive to reports of what this young woman went through? For a start, she is a pro-democracy activist. Secondly, the rape and torture were carried out by the National Intelligence and Security Services (NISS).
The Case Of Safiya Ishag
Safiya (or Safia) Ishag's "crime" was to be associated with pro-democracy group Girifna and to have attended some rallies in January this year, where she was seen handing out flyers. A week or two later, on her way back from a bookstore, she was pounced upon by the security services, who brought her to a building where she was beaten, thrown to the ground, and brutally raped before being released with the warning that if she were caught again things could be worse. She went public with her story in a video that she uploaded on the internet.
The Charges Against The Journalists
Among the journalists charged for reporting the rape is Omar-al Gerai, who wrote a piece titled "Rape…Under Sharia Law". Not only did he delve into Safiya Ishag's case, but he also looked critically at the Sudanese justice system and the tens of thousands of detainees who have been subjected to it. Charged along with him was Abdullah Sheikh (or Shaikh), editor of Ajras al-Huriya, the paper that published Omar-al Gerai's article in March. They were not told what the charge was until they were in court last month, when they found out that they were being charged with defamation. The trial has been adjourned till June 21.
The Problem With Sudan
As the Committee to Protect Journalists sees it, "Rather than address the systematic failures that enable torture and rape, the Sudanese government has chosen to subject journalists who cover them to politicized legal proceedings. The problem is rape and torture in government custody, and a political culture that tolerates such acts".
To the African Centre for Justice and Peace Studies the charges "seem motivated by a desire to prevent pubic discussion of NISS conduct rather than a desire to protect the reputation of individual security agents".
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Why is rape such a common weapon of political violence? Do the perpetrators think that it might silence their victims and act as a warning to other activists to tone down their activities? Would Sudan heed the calls by the two organizations to drop the charges against the journalists?


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Green tree pythons were once known by the name Chondropython viridis and was placed in its own genus. When scientists noticed the similarities with Australian and New Guinea carpet pythons, it was placed in the genus Morelia and given the scientific name Morelia viridis. In the pet trade, however, green tree pythons still go by the nickname "chondro" and this is unlikely to change soon. (Bartlett, 1995; Ross and Marzec, 1990)
There can be considerable variation in color and patterning in green tree pythons. Because of this, some herpetologists and many hobbyists in the pet trade separate the species into variants or races. These include the Aru, Sorong, Biak, and Yapen. While these races aren't recognized currently, additional research may suggest these variations warrant subspecies or species status. (O'Shea, 2007)
Green tree pythons are often mentioned in discussions of convergent evolution in reptiles. This is because Morelia viridis shares similar ecology and morphology with Corallus caninus, despite their relatively distant common ancestry. Both species live in tropical rain forest habitats and are arboreal ambush predators. They exhibit similar diets and switch from a diurnal lifestyle as juveniles to a nocturnal lifestyle as adults. Green tree pythons and Corallus caninus also share the same resting and hunting postures and, remarkably, both species undergo ontogenetic color change from a red or yellow juvenile to a bright green adult. This can make it quite difficult to differentiate between the two species. One of the few ways to tell them apart is the position of the labial pits. In Corallus caninus, the pits are on the upper and lower lip. Green tree pythons only have labial pits on the upper lip surface. Corallus caninus are found in the tropical rainforests of South America. (Bartlett, 1995; Torr, 2000; Wilson and Heinsohn, 2007; Wilson, Heinsohn, and Wood, 2006)


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Milk, Hannah, Anna, Neil
1. New freeshop
2. Shop box office
3. Other shop stuff
4. General web stuff
1. New freeshop
How is the new freeshop working out?
Good, but stuff is still being left at random times. People are pissed off when told they can't leave their stuff. Probably they end up throwing it away. We need to get the word out about the new system. Publicity overkill. Anna will make poster and seek to get the words out on facebook, email, bb, twitter etc.
Sunday is good day for it. Is usually 2-5 pm, but people can start leaving stuff from opening time on Sunday.
2. Shop box office
Shop is looking good but barely any customers. Hannah suggests doing more box office like we do for Beltane. She contacted some clubs and a guy called David from the Ark got interested. He want to sell tickets for Ark events through us. Events are 6-8 pounds and advance tickets currently only sold. The Ark will put forest shop info on their website. We will be expected to do some advertising with flyers and on the sandwich board. Peoples think the Ark is cool and good peeps to do business with. We would get 50p booking fee per ticket. The Bowery is also interested in taking this up. All present thinking this is good idea cos it will boost income for the shop and raise awareness, possibly lead to more artwork sales and maybe also make shop staff less bored. It also good to offer alternative to Ticketweb & Ticketmaster who are not much liked.
Hannah is going to get this set up in the next week.
3. Other shop stuff
Coffee & chocolate selling well.
More food might be good. Specialist, local vibe is good. Stuff that is somehow special, for gifts etc
Need to get shop web page going. Hannah into it. Milk will get her started on how to do it. Online sales should be focused on small number of key items that we want to sell and promote. Anna suggests forest vinyl, Golden Hour Books, Stolen Stories, latest chapbook. Try to keep online shop to about 4 or 5 items for now as it is a complicated endeavor.
Free audio downloads also good for web. Neil & Milk on this
4. General web stuff
News section separate from events, which are on the right.
Events shows about 10 posters on front page
Blogs could be problematic and should only be done by authorised peeps.
Collective pages not current enough. Needs a more 2.0 system. Neil wants to maintain a linkblog. Links to webpages of forest artists could be integrated into this for the time being. Content less likely to be outdated
Front page news permissions need tweaking. Milk on it.


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Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton attended the July 8 Conference on Afghanistan in Tokyo, Japan, where she reaffirmed our enduring commitment to the Afghan people, met with Afghan civil society leaders, and joined the international community in supporting Afghanistan's development needs.
Building on the decisions made in Bonn and Chicago, as well as the U.S.-Afghanistan Strategic Partnership Agreement, the United States joined over 70 partners in Tokyo to underline our continuing support for Afghanistan's efforts to strengthen itself and provide a more peaceful, secure, and prosperous future for its people through the conclusion of the security transition in 2014 and into the Transformation Decade. In Tokyo, the international community and Afghanistan agreed to a different kind of partnership built on the principles of mutual accountability. In the Tokyo Framework, the government of Afghanistan and the international community agreed to a list of priority reforms, on important steps to improve the effectiveness of international assistance, and how we will collectively review progress moving forward. The international community made clear its intent to support Afghanistan, while recognizing that sustained financial support is only possible, and only responsible, if Afghanistan successfully implements its program of necessary governance and economic reforms and maintains a political system that reflects its pluralistic society, including the equality of men and women, and remains firmly founded in the Afghan Constitution. You can read more about the conference here.
Capitalizing on the opportunity afforded by the Tokyo Conference, Secretary Clinton, Afghanistan Foreign Minister Rassoul, and Pakistan Foreign Minister Khar convened the first ministerial-level Core Group meeting and reaffirmed that the purpose of the Core Group is to enhance cooperation between Afghanistan, Pakistan, and the United States to support an Afghan peace and reconciliation process.
While in Japan, Secretary Clinton also had discussions with Japanese government counterparts on bilateral, regional, and global issues of mutual concern. In remarks with Japanese Foreign Minister Koichiro Gemba, Secretary Clinton said:
"...We also discussed the opportunity to strengthen our economic relationship, and the United States welcomes Japan's interest in the Trans Pacific Partnership, which we think will connect economies throughout the region, making trade and investment easier, spurring exports, creating jobs. The TPP is just one element of our increased focus on the Asia Pacific, but it is important that we recognize that the Japanese-American relationship is really at the cornerstone of everything we are doing in the Asia Pacific. We are not only treaty allies; we are friends and partners with common interests and shared values.
"When I leave Japan, I will be traveling to Mongolia, Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia, where I will deliver a common message: The United States is a partner in the Pacific working not only to promote security, but also to create greater economic opportunity, support democratic reform, spark innovation, and strengthen the ties between and among our people."
One example of the connections between the American and Japanese people is the Tomodachi Initiative, a public-private partnership that supports Japan's recovery from the Great East Japan Earthquake, and invests in the next generation of Japanese and Americans in ways that strengthen cultural and economic ties, and deepen the friendship between the United States and Japan over the long-term.
During her visit to Japan, Secretary Clinton participated in a Tomodachi event at the U.S. Ambassador's Residence in Tokyo, where she said:
"The United States and Japan are allies. We are partners. But we have a special responsibility to keep creating a better world, not just for ourselves but for those who have so little and who need so much. Today I spent at the Tokyo Conference that the Japanese Government has done an excellent job in preparing and holding today. And Japan has been very generous to Afghanistan, a country far away, over the last 10 years, because there was a commitment by the Japanese Government and people to help someone else in need. And Japan historically has been very generous with aid and support to people who were suffering.
"When the disaster of the earthquake and the tsunami and then the nuclear plant meltdown happened, it would have been very easy for Japan to say we can't continue helping anybody else because we have so many needs ourselves. But as we heard today at the conference, Japan did not stop helping Afghanistan and other people, even while you had to do so much for your own citizens. I think that is the spirit of Tomodachi, and I think Japan has set a great example for the world."
Secretary Clinton is on travel to France, Afghanistan, Japan, Mongolia, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Egypt, and Israel. You can follow her trip on www.state.gov.


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The White House is pulling a tactic out of its campaign playbook and President Obamas own community organizing past using the organs of government to enlist average Americans to help Obama advocate for his priorities.
In an email sent to people who signed up to receive official updates from the White House, recipients are told to forward the message to their friends, asking them to help promote what is in effect White House propaganda. The White House email list, which government officials began compiling earlier in Obamas term, is separate from the famed Obama campaign email list, but recipients are nonetheless being asked to engage in partisan political activity.
The email, sent out Friday, presents a video of Obama in the East Room earlier the same day making his case as negotiations with Republicans are set to begin on the budget stalemate that could lead to massive spending cuts known as the fiscal cliff.
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The Obama Creepy Personality Cult continues.
Obamugabe has been doing that from day one.
He has been failing.
Yes, he somehow assembled enough votes to get another term.
His margin was much smaller, and his "mandate" is non-existent...his popularity is going to plummet, and he may very well be less popular than Bush II was at the end of his time in office.
Republicans ought to treat this communist the same way his party treated Dubya after Dubya won re-election.
I have a message for him, but I don't think he wants to hear it.
And he got more votes in certain precincts than there were voters.
Another stolen election and the Republicans do nothing!!
And he got more votes in certain precincts than there were voters.
Another stolen election and the Republicans do nothing!!
OMG !!! more endless boring speeches from Obama about nothing
Gloves are off. If you are a Zero-bot, I'm considering you an active threat to my existence and will treat you accordingly.
Is there anyway a virus can travel thru this list?
Just asking.......
Yeah and I bet Axelrod will head it up with his new 'school' and he will get tax payer dollars to do it, too.
The government goodies, handouts and paybacks for green energy were found out. Now 'education' will be the new bleeding of our tax dollars to friendlies of the administration.
I believe that this is a tactic that was employed by one of Hussein's heroes. Mao Tse Tung. Soon we'll be supplied (at taxpayer expense no doubt) with little red books of Hussein's teleprompter quotes.
Well isn't that just exciting. *eye roll*
Ditto. If anyone asks me for anything, to do anything, to advocate anything, the first thing out of my mouth is "who'd you vote for," and then the chips fall where they may. I'm firing the landscaper today and the pool guy on Friday.
And another thing, I'm changing my tagline for the first time in about 5 years because it is hopeless.
The rest go to the pick up "equality check" here line.
The state and the dictator are inseparable.
How is this not a 3rd world country?
My FR Anti-Virus software flags whitehouse.gov as a malicious spammer.
There have people caught by casinos using electronic devices to run up credits and cause fraudulent jackpots on the new digital slot machines. Not much of a stretch to make the jump from a slot machine to a voting machine. There are precincts in Richmond Va. that show high 90s% for Smokes. Google sat pics show these are not slums. It's getting close to crunch time. Pick your poison. On your feet or on your knees.
Herr Goebels would be jealous over the tools available to Obama.
He has been failing.
Not according to over half the Americans. Most think he is just fine. I don't know how we are ever going to win another election with the electorate we have right now. I still think pick Romney was a stupid decision. Oh well at least I warned people. My hands are clean.
To quote Rage Against the Machine (yeah yeah I know they're commies), "F YOU I WON'T DO WHAT YOU TELL ME!"
How is this not a 3rd world country?
A lot of third world countries don't allow voting. Obama had an incredible get out the vote. Romney sucked in so many ways but get out the vote was his biggest failure. He was told to go to colleges to get young votes and he said it was not enough investment....what a goof.
No, politically, we are not a third world country. We are a second world country.
It is enough that the people know there was an election. The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything.
What Anti-Viral program is it?
Just joking :)
Yes, but some 3rd world countries do allow voting. Like Saddam and Hugo Chavez comes to mind. Somehow, they always win.
Obama won by vote rigging
I suppose that's what all the hollow points are for.
How is this not a 3rd world country?
Give it time...
Yes, but some 3rd world countries do allow voting. Like Saddam and Hugo Chavez comes to mind. Somehow, they always win.
In our country, that does not happen. We have been pretty even with Republican and Democratic Presidents. Heck before Obama, GW Bush won twice.
Obama won by vote rigging
The loser always says that. Democrats said that and still think we stole the election in 2000. It is the same thing every election especially with a split country. I am sure if Romney won, the Democrats would be saying the same thing with our close ties to the electronic voting companies. It will always be the same thing.
Count me out.
0bama's NATIONAL CIVILIAN SECURITY FORCE
Then THIS
Stolen birth certificate, stolen social security number, stolen election.
He is not even a competent Socialist.
All the wheels are going to start coming off very quickly now.
Maybe this election wasn't stolen after all. They bought all those hollow points in case he lost. /s?
So, let me guess...they'll be getting a paycheck using our tax dollars against us? I can't see all that many of the gimme crowd doing this on a voluntary basis.. at least a 'gimme a gift card'... Bizarro world.
Maybe I should start a brown shirt factory, in China of course.
They will be part of Obama's army answerable only to him and authorized by the Obama care affordable health care act. No mention of this was made or the new taxes or the IRS agents (18,000) by Romney or Rove during the campaign.
I have no illusions of how committed leftists are to their worship of Obama and the religion of liberalism.
It is coming. And we must resist.
using the organs of government to enlist average Americans to help Obama advocate for his priorities.
Of course! Just following the model -- The Reichsfuhrer sets up his Sturm Abteilung to destroy any resistance to the Amerikan socialist workers party's dictates ------ every enlistee gets a free brown shirt ------
He CAN'T do that to himself...
Clint Eastwood said so!
Man, I can't go to the grocery store since Wed without looking at every person there, red, white, black, asian, etc. and think thanks a hell of a lot...and our county went red!
And if they have an Obutthead 2012 sticker on dey car, I stare at them then shake my head....
Yes, paranoia strikes deep....
Good one...I have that on my heavy metal play list...
great for releasing aggression..I shout it in the car...
why can't we conservatives cop some of the leftie lyrics?
They work for us just as well... and are for a better cause!
I'd tell Obama to kiss my ass, but he might actually try to.
Go Fornicate yourself Obama. You'll get nothing out of me.
The FSA(Free Sh*t Army) has an appetite that cannot be satiated.
Move the country where?
Past what dysfunction?
What middle class?
Has it not been a steady march to more government, more spending, more globalization, and less freedom no matter who was elected? Seems like we've had very similar choices for a while now-no bold choices just bad and not as bad. A different face gives the illusion of change though.
To me it's been like going to hell in a hand basket, and it's only a question of how fast. Go fast with Dems, and slower with Pubbies.
"The average age of the world's greatest civilizations has been 200-years. These nations have progressed through this sequence: From bondage to spiritual faith, from spiritual faith to great courage, from courage to abundance, from abundance to complacency, from complacency to apathy, from apathy to dependence, from dependence back again to bondage."
Alexander Fraser Tyler, 1700
Well we have beat the average, but if we don't stop voter fraud, educate Americans on founding principles, and return to spiritual faith, I am not optimistic for the future.
That doesn't mean to give up. I'll keep fighting.
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In previously continent adults, aged 70 or older, use of urinary catheters or diapers while in hospital increases the risk of new urinary incontinence
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Implications for nursing practice of this research
■ The rationale for the use of all continence containment products should be documented in the nursing notes.
■ The use of reliable and valid urinary continence assessment measures are crucial in the identification of risk factors predisposing to the development of urinary incontinence in older people.
■ Implementing urinary continence promotion strategies to prevent the development of new onset urinary incontinence (UI) in hospitalised older people should be incorporated into nursing practice.
Implications for nursing research in light of this study
■ There is a need for further exploration of the reasons for the continued use of containment products in hospitalised older people.
■ Further research into the triggers that predispose UI in older people while in hospital is required.
■ There is a need for continued exploration of urinary continence promotion strategies that will prevent the development of UI in hospitalised older people.
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Looks and sounds great what else can I say. Will buy the header very soon to complete the exhaust.
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This dirt bike exhaust is just throaty as it can get and it comes with a installed spark arrestor so you can hit the trails with it, i have noticed some really big differences, it seems more responsive like it has the power to do anything, with that stock exhaust the crf has sounds like a baby with this monster on it its like a monster. its not to expensive either so it wont break your budget and its definitely worth the money too.
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I frequently get offline requests from members, and especially new members, to recommend a Caputo 00 dough recipe that they might use to try out their newly acquired Caputo 00 pizzeria flour. I usually respond by asking them what kind of oven they have, whether they have or plan to use a preferment of any sort, whether they want a room-temperature fermented dough (as is typically done in Naples), or a cold fermented dough (in the refrigerator). Usually I am able to steer them to one or more recipes posted at threads at the forum. But, for the most part, the demand seems to be for a room-temperature, same-day dough using commercial yeast and baked in a standard home oven.
Although the poolish ordinarily includes all the yeast, in this case it is so little (0.08 g.) that I have omitted it in the poolish calculations just to keep the math simple. If it turns out that you feel that your poolish is weak and overmature, you should be able to add a small amount of IDY to the formulation. In either event, you will want to watch the time of fermentation of the final dough so that it doesn't overferment.


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Fish pie - in four steps
Delicious and easy - a fish pie anyone can make. You'll learn how to poach fish and make a white sauce too
Nutrition and extra info
- Freeze without eggs only
Nutrition: per serving
- kcal824
- fat40g
- saturates22g
- carbs61g
- sugars10g
- fibre4g
- protein60g
- salt3.12g
- 400g skinless white fish fillet
- 400g skinless smoked haddock fillet
- 600ml full-fat milk
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- 1 small onion, quartered
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- 4 cloves
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- 2 bay leaf
- 4 egg
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- small bunch parsley, leaves only, chopped
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- 100g butter
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- 50g plain flour
- pinch freshly grated nutmeg
- 1kg floury potato, peeled and cut into even-sized chunks
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- 50g cheddar, grated
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Poach the fish. Put the fish in the frying pan and pour over 500ml of the milk. Stud each onion quarter with a clove, then add to the milk, with the bay leaves. Bring the milk just to the boil – you will see a few small bubbles. Reduce the heat and simmer for 8 mins. Lift the fish onto a plate and strain the milk into a jug to cool. Flake the fish into large pieces in the baking dish.
Hard-boil the eggs. Bring a small pan of water to a gentle boil, then carefully lower the eggs in with a slotted spoon. Bring the water back to a gentle boil, with just a couple of bubbles rising to the surface. Set the timer for 8 mins, cook, then drain and cool in a bowl of cold water. Peel, slice into quarters and arrange on top of the fish, then scatter over the chopped parsley.
Make the sauce. Melt half the butter in a pan, stir in the flour and cook for 1 min over moderate heat. Take off the heat, pour in a little of the cold poaching milk, then stir until blended. Continue to add the milk gradually, mixing well until you have a smooth sauce. Return to the heat, bringto the boil and cook for 5 mins, stirring continually, until it coats the back of a spoon. Remove from the heat, season with salt, pepper and nutmeg, then pour over the fish.
Assemble and bake. Heat oven to 200C/fan 180C/gas 6. Boil the potatoes for 20 mins. Drain, season and mash with the remaining butter and milk. Use to top the pie, starting at the edge of the dish and working your way in – push the mash right to the edges to seal. Fluff the top with a fork, sprinkle with cheese, then bake for 30 mins. Make up to a day ahead, chill, then bake for 40 mins.
Different flavours
Seafood: Add 200g raw peeled king prawns to the baking dish along with the poached fish. Salmon & dill: Replace the smoked haddock with 400g skinless salmon fillets, and use dill instead of the parsley. Fish & vegetable: Add 100g each frozen peas and sweetcorn to the baking dish before pouring over the sauce
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Wow, this was the best fish pie I've ever made and will be a firm favourite when I have non-meat eaters over for dinner. Using the poaching milk for the sauce makes it delicious.
I made it with white fish/salmon, peas and small cubes of carrots (included in the poaching stage). 1/2 teaspoon of mustard power, dried dill and some chopped spinach into the sauce.
This is a really huge dish and I'd say that it is six healthy portions, rather than the 4 stated in the recipe. I also made it slightly lower calorie by using semi-skimmed milk, reducing the butter in the potatoes from 50->25g and cheddar from 50->25g. All of this brings it down to around 460 calories a portion for the 6 portions.
Just made this with my girlfriend and I can honestly say that it is one of the most flavoursome meals I've ever eaten, never mind cooked, in my life. We used peas in the pie and ended going with smoked haddock and whiting. We also put some mustard in the sauce (just enough to give a tiny hint of flavour) which was nice too! I would say that this easy serves more than 4 people considering that we used the same amount of ingredients listed on this recipe but ended up with two pies, of which we could only manage half of one between us. If you're looking for a good fish pie recipe and are trying to decide which one to go for, choose this one. You will NOT be disappointed.
I tried it both ways, with and without egg. I didn't mind the egg, but without gave me more of the fish pie taste from my childhood, which was what I wanted. I see many complain about the number of pots required. I did it all in one pot. used a large pan to poach the fish. After talking out the fish used the same one to make the sauce, saved the sauce in the measuring jug I used for the milk, then boiled the potatoes in the same one. Maybe takes a little longer, but not much, and leaves little to clean up.
A lovely, really comforting recipe, although due to clumsiness I spilt over half the infused milk down the drain and had to replace with normal milk which I think made it taste a lot blander than it otherwise would have been. Added loads of frozen peas and the suggested prawns which gave it a lovely texture. Will definitely make this again although will attempt to make a lot of the components simultaneously, which should shorten the process. Lots of washing up required though!
I didn't add the suggested salt due to comments on this thread saying it wasn't needed; I personally felt it could have done with some, but I can't have salt in my diet anyway so I didn't add it. My housemate added a little to hers and she loved the recipe!
Pretty tasty and straightforward (especially with a supermarket fish pie mix). Husband gave it 7/10, but he does have high standards! Great weeknight supper. Might do without the eggs next time but that's a personal thing. Didn't add the salt but not sure it needed it. Just wish there was a way to make it without all those pans!!
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I do understand why salamisausage advises against using salt. And I agree that when making a fish pie using cheese and smoked haddock (which is soaked in brine before smoking) there is no need to add salt, which is a recognised contributor to hypertension. In this connection I am given to understand that bananas provide a potassium ion which will displace the more harmful sodium ion in the body. Do the nutritionists agree, please? For my own part, I think it essential to add salt when cooking shellfish like prawns, scampi, shrimps or lobster. These are usually cooked in water, and this process extracts through osmosis the naturally-occurring salt in their bodies. IMHO, to preserve the original flavour, the addition of salt to the cooking medium is essential. I believe the same to be true of migratory fish such as salmon, sea-trout, eels (now protected!), lampreys and shad which alter their cell structure upon entering fresh water from the sea. But it would be very informative to hear from a nutritionist or other scientist in this regard. But to return to the point, especially when making fish pie for children or the elderly, be very careful about the salt occurring in cheese and smoked fish, and certainly do not add any. A little smoked fish goes a very long way. I like to add mustard and anchovy essence to fish pie. They too contain some salt, so I am going to experiment with soaking smoked fish in water before use, and see what the outcome might be. Cooking is always about experimentation and putting one's own stamp on a conventional dish, IMHO.
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We humans have a pesky tendency toward earthbound thinking. The natural world comes more easily to us, for obvious reasons, and thus, even when we aim to overcome our disposition and contemplate ways to improve things beyond the immediate, it's hard for us to break out of the box.
Much like Judas Iscariot, who reacted harshly to Mary's outpouring of expensive ointment on Jesus's feet, we are prone to react only to the material implications, ignoring altogether whether God might prefer us to do something so peculiar as "keep it for the day of [Jesus's] burial," as was the case for Mary.
It is for this reason that the Apostle Paul urged us to present our bodies as a "living sacrifice" — to not be "conformed to this world," but be "transformed by the renewal of your mind." Such a life, Paul explains, demands a transcendent perspective made up by constant "testing" of the world as we naturally see it, that we might "discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect." This is a life consisting of far more than surface-level observations of the physical world, requiring us to submit our reasoning about everything from material prosperity to human happiness to the ultimate will of the Supreme Creator.
This call to active and continuous spiritual discernment reaches into every dusty corner of our day-to-day lives, and it involves plenty of overlap with what we might call the "natural realm" (unhealthy dualism in the other direction is, of course, a competing temptation). Thus, in exploring something as overarching and all-encompassing as our social and economic thought, we should be wary of allowing these natural tendencies and earthly values to serve as the dominating inputs, legitimate and valuable though many of these features may be when properly ordered (e.g. "happiness").
When we attempt to subvert God's transcendent reality, the problem can play out in a variety of ways and in varying degrees. Most clear, perhaps, at least in recent memory, is the example of Soviet Communism — an orientation that Whittaker Chambers once described as "man's second oldest faith," whose "promise was whispered in the first days of the Creation under the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil":
[Communism] is the vision of man's mind displacing God as the creative intelligence of the world. It is the vision of man's liberated mind, by the sole force of its rational intelligence, redirecting man's destiny and reorganizing man's life and the world. It is the vision of man, once more the central figure of the Creation, not because God made man in His image, but because man's mind makes him the most intelligent of the animals. Copernicus and his successors displaced man as the central fact of the universe by proving that the earth was not the central star of the universe. Communism restores man to his sovereignty by the simple method of denying God.
But although the glaring errors of atheism help illuminate where things can turn sour, the trickier questions lie with the rest of us who do seek to place God at the center of all things, yet still find ourselves persistently struggling with how that should look in our day-to-day endeavors. (more…)


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Stephanie Mills still leaving fans 'Breathless'
Stephanie Mills has been wowing audiences with her distinctive, powerful singing voice for more than four decades, and it is still amazing to believe that such power comes out a diminutive frame that stands less than 5 feet tall.
It seems like yesterday that Ms. Mills presented herself to the world in the lead role of Dorothy in the all black cast of "The Wiz" on Broadway and won the hearts of many that would become longtime fans with the show-stopping "Home," which would become her signature song.
Mills is of the few Broadway stars to have parlayed her musical stage success into a successful recording career gaining R&B chart hits with songs such as "Whatcha Gonna Do With My Lovin'," "Never Knew Love Like This Before," "Two Hearts" (duet with Teddy Pendergrass), "I Have Learned To Respect The Power of Love," "I Feel Good All Over," and dance hits "Pilot Error," and "The Medicine Song."
But not only does Mills have a powerful singing voice, she also has some strong opinions, I discovered, about the lives of former love Michael Jackson and Whitney Houston, Marriage Equality and the rights for gays. During my interview with Ms. Mills prior to her stop at San Francisco's Yoshi's June 14-17, I also found how much of a devoted mother she is to her only child, and how she was introduced to the AIDS disease during the run of "The Wiz."
Different now
BeBe: As I was thinking back about your career which has spanned over 40 years, it is common knowledge that you rose to major prominence as a teen with your Broadway role of Dorothy in 'The Wiz.' Your rise to fame in your youth so quickly was uncommon was uncommon back in the day, but now everywhere you turn around there is a teen heading for stardom from their recording or movie role. Have you made any comparison to what it must be like for these kids today versus when you rose to fame?
Stephanie Mills : Well, you see I started in the business when I was like 9-years old. My first Broadway show was 'Maggie Flynn' (a 1966 flop about Civil War draft riots in New York City). I was 9 years old. I started so young.
But now with all these reality shows, people are instant stars, which I don't really agree with. I just don't agree with reality stars that have actually done nothing coming into super, super-stardom when so many of us have paved the way and have worked to become recognized as entertainers. It's really like fast-food now. Anybody can do the silliest thing, or dress the most bizarre way and become a huge, huge entertainer. It's really different.
Back then, we were taught how to do interviews and how to come into a room, and how you should conduct yourself. Everything was respectable. Now all the morals and respect are out the window. They care about nothing!
BeBe: That is interesting about your comment about being groomed, I guess is a good word to use for your training.
Stephanie Mills: Yes, we were groomed. Think about it - myself, Ashford and Simpson, Patti LaBelle - when we performed together, we were so happy to be with each other. We were never like, 'Who is getting the most time?' or 'Who came on first or who came on last?' We never thought about that stuff the way people do today. We were just happy to be there and see each other, because you never see other entertainers unless you are at a function like that. We just had a good time. It is so different now.
A rough couple of years
BeBe: You know Dionne Warwick said the same thing. She had the same commentary about her performances with Patti (LaBelle) and Gladys (Knight). She said: 'We were just happy to be together. We weren't concerned about who was doing what, or how much time. We just had a good time.'
Stephanie Mills : Or who had this or that spot. It wasn't about that.
BeBe: Now, girl, 'Home,' the song from 'The Wiz,' is definitely your signature song. I mean child. Child. Child (Stephanie Mills laughs loudly). But do you at any time feel pressure to have to perform that song still today?
Stephanie Mills: Oh my God, yes! Sometimes the first time I walk out on stage they (the audience) yells out. 'Home.' I say, if I do that the show's over (we both laugh). But how when I sing it, I give tribute to James Brown, Teena Marie, and Luther, and Michael Jackson, so many of my friends. This has been a rough couple of years for me with people that I've known and done shows with, and grown up with (and their passing). Whitney's death was very, very hard on me. I'm still struggling with why it happened. And why was it allowed to happen? I struggle with that on a daily basis. How could that have possibly happened? But it's sad. I pay tribute to all of them at the end of 'Home.'
BeBe: and then we just lost Donna Summer.
Stephanie Mills: Yes, I know. And Don Cornelius ('Soul Train'). Back in the day I was on his show a zillion times.
BeBe: Girl, you were on 'Soul Train' like it was your home! But you got out of the business at one point. Why?
Stephanie Mills: Yes, you see, I got out of the business before it killed me. People don't realize that I chose to let my record contract go. I wanted to move to Charlotte (North Carolina) and just clear my head, and to do shows when I wanted to do shows. Because the pressure of being in the business will kill you if you allow it! You are looked at only as a commodity. You're not looked at as a human being. And I think that was the problem with Michael and Whitney. For them to reach their status that they were and be so unhappy, you know something was definitely wrong. So, I look at those things. It's a hard business to be in. but you love it, it's in your blood. When I was listening to an interview of Donna Summer, it's in your blood, though she walked away from it and did certain things at certain times because it becomes overwhelming.
Back to the theater
BeBe: I know Donna had a hard time embracing the whole 'Queen of Disco' title. The public wouldn't let that go for her.
Stephanie Mills: She did have a hard time with that. She struggled with that. But you can't ever let it go, you know why? That would be like me saying I'm not going to sing 'Home' and don't ask me to sing anything from 'The Wiz,' That was my yellow brick road! You learn to embrace it. That is what put me on the map. That's what people love. I have to find some peace in it. But it is hard when you are trying to do something different. When you've done something that great, 'The Wiz,' the ensemble piece, was such a wonderful experience for so many people, you can't deny them that.
BeBe: And that brings up something else, because as you said you started on Broadway at 9, and went on to do 'The Wiz,' but it took you a long time to get back to the musical stage (1997 production of Stephen Schwartz's 'Children of Eden').
Stephanie Mills: It did take me awhile. You see, they (record companies) had me so caught up on my records, that I totally let my theater go. And finally, I wanted to get back to it, because I love the theater. And I've been directing some shows, too. I love theater! Doing theater is the best ground to learn your craft, and who you are as an entertainer.
BeBe: That's what Jennifer Holliday (Tony winner from 'Dreamgirls') told me. She said the same thing.
Stephanie Mills: Yes. It's the best way to learn discipline, to learn your lines. It's like going to college. It's like going to Princeton or Harvard. It is.
BeBe: It is so good to here you speak with commonality with so many other people that I respect, and to know that their experiences have been similar (to yours).
Stephanie Mills: Oh, yes. Jennifer and I come from the same place with the theater background. We know that that was the best thing that ever happened to us, even Melba Moore (Tony winner from 'Purlie'). Melba's still fabulous. What I dislike about our industry is that they like to throw us away. You know she's still fabulous. All of us are still fabulous, but when you have your acts like Tony Bennett and Frank Sinatra, they go on forever. They constantly reinvent them with duet albums, and it's not that easy for the black artists. Even the ones (blacks) that may have seven Grammys... that means nothing! Your gold album, your platinum album, that means nothing.
Recalling AIDS
BeBe: Now, the Broadway community in the late 70s and early 80s when you were performing was hit really hard with the emergence of HIV/AIDS. I have had other discussion with Broadway stars during that time (Jennifer Holliday, Sheryl Lee Ralph) and it was just devastating for so many people. Just one day you would look around and everyone you had done shows with were no longer there. But, you were young at that time. These other people I have spoken to were in there twenties already back then and could kind of grasp what was happening a little bit. But, how was that for you to put your hands around 'what the heck is going on?'.
Stephanie Mills: Well, you know back then, nobody really knew what it was. And it affected 'The Wiz' tremendously. There were a lot of people that were sick. And then what tragedy affected 'The Wiz' a lot. Such as one day one of the dancers that was in the show went home and his lover shot and killed him. Back then nobody knew what was going on. Had this happened to 'The Wiz' today, every little thing that went on with that show would have been public.
I am so glad that this wasn't the case because so many things, especially with AIDS and people passing away. One of my best friends passed away. But, back then, I didn't know what it was. I just knew one day I saw somebody and the next day they weren't there. They always said, 'well, he's just sick.' I never knew what was going on, and then later people would say he had 'the virus.' But now, they know what it is. Magic Johnson is living a healthy life with it in his system, so they kind of know how to deal with it, but back then they didn't.
The Jackson connection
BeBe: Now, I know you get asked this question all the time, and people bring up your relationship with the one and only, King of Pop, Michael Jackson. And I'm not going to spare you, honey. I'm going to let it out. So, was that really a loooove connection!?
Stephanie Mills: Yes, it was!
BeBe: Ooh, go girl!
Stephanie Mills: I thought I was going to be Mrs. Michael Jackson. I really did. I was so in love with Michael. We dated, but Michael was young then. And, he was just beginning to be "Michael Jackson," But, oh yes, we dated for a little while. Yes, we did. I really loved him. I really think Michael was so misunderstood. He was the most sensitive, most loving person. And I think throughout the years with all the child molestation (accusations), which I never believed and I'll never believe it, and all the things he went through just broke him down to nothing.
BeBe: You know, just as you did, he started out very young in show business. He was on stage singing at 9 and 10 years old doing his thing, and people did misunderstand his love and care for children, which he had because he didn't have a childhood.
Stephanie Mills: No he didn't. And he knew children were pure. They didn't want anything from him. They didn't judge him, and that was why he liked being around them because they accepted him as just Michael. They just wanted to just play. And people misconstrued that into something ugly.
BeBe: And that (play) was something he didn't get a chance to do while young. He didn't get a chance to be in the playground like other kids because he was working. He was making money for the family at that time.
Stephanie Mills: Back then he loved to go to the movie theater and eat popcorn. But, he would never go in and get the Famous Amos Cookies and popcorn he loved. I was always the one to go get the cookies and popcorn. He couldn't even do that and be comfortable. But he loved riding up and down Sunset Boulevard in his car with the top down, and when he wanted something, I was the one who jumped out to get whatever it was.
BeBe: What a life to have lived for so long because that didn't change as he got older....
Stephanie Mills: (breaking in) it got worse!
BeBe: Now, you were with Motown, as were the Jacksons, for a short time in the early part of your career. It was a brief time!
Stephanie Mills: (laughing) It was brief! I signed with Motown because Hazel (Gordy) and I became friends. And Hazel and I are friends to this day. And she was married to Jermaine Jackson, and I just thought I was going to be right there with the Jacksons and all. I didn't care what record I did or anything. All I knew is the Jackson 5 were on Motown and I wanted to be close to them. But, yes it was brief.
Favorite song?
BeBe: Motown had such wonderful writers back then with Holland, Dozier and Holland, Smokey Robinson,Michael Masser, Ashford and Simpson, all of them were writing for Motown then, and it just seemed like it would have been a perfect fit for you.
Stephanie Mills: I don't think they knew what to do with me because my voice was so mature, but I was still so young. I don't know. I don't think they knew what to do, but they clearly knew what to do with Michael. And at that time, Berry Gordy wasn't in at Motown as much. He was really no longer there running it. But, I really don't know what happened.
BeBe: But they learned from that mistake (letting you go), and let me tell you why?
Stephanie Mills : You think so?
BeBe: I do, because you know what? They brought on Stacy Lattisaw.
Stephanie Mills : Right!
BeBe: If you could compare someone with the maturity in their voice at a young age to you, I would say she was very similar. And you remember she was singing love songs at 15 and 16 years old ('Love On A Two-Way Street,' 'Let Me Be Your Angel'), and we were buying them. They learned from that mistake by signing her in the early 80s. She is a prime example of showing how the public was ready for a youngster to sing some of the (love) songs that Motown had, and she was able to get away with it. I'm saying, girl, what you know about love on a two-way street!
Stephanie Mills: (laughing) Right!
BeBe: And they learned really quickly after letting you go and seeing a mass all of your hits, particularly through the decade of the 80s and the early 90s. If you had to pick a favorite one of your song out of the bag, which one would it be?
Stephanie Mills: Oh God! I would probably say 'Starlight,' And one of my favorite songs to sing, it wasn't written for me, it's a Kenny Loggins' song, is 'Give It Half a Chance.'
BeBe: And why would you say that is?
Stephanie Mills: I love what that song says, and I'm a huge Kenny Loggins fan. And George Duke produced that song. I think he did a magnificent job producing it. I was with him and singing that song in my car, and we were about to do an album and I was about to work with George, whom I would love to work with again, and I said, 'George, I would love to sing this song.' And he said, 'let's do it!' George is a singer's producer. And I am particular about working with somebody who can do vocal (production). Because there is a big difference in producing a hit record than producing a singer.
BeBe: And, you are right, that is what leads the music industry today is the groove and the beat. The artist is almost secondary.
Stephanie Mills: Oh, it's all about the writers and the producers. The artist is just a means to get it out there.
On marriage equality
BeBe: And that's really, really sad because I miss those days of seeing and hearing artist who could "s-i-n-g" a song! I remember speaking with CeCe Peniston and her comment about hearing Whitney on record and then going to see her live and she sounded exactly the same on stage if not better. We miss that. That's why concerts are not like they were back in the day. Back in the 70s and 80s, we would go out and by the best outfit for the concert because we knew the show was going to be hot. We knew the performers were going to be hot. But these days they can barely sell a concert ticket. They can't do the big arenas anymore.
Stephanie Mills: You know I think it is because back in the day we gave our heart and soul. Everything was live. Everybody had a live band. Now everything is so digital, and a lot of things are taped. I don't like seeing an artist doing a show to track.
BeBe: Now getting on to something a little different, I think during your adult life, it would be fair to say that you have been unlucky in love with three divorces under your belt. With that, do you see marriage in your future or do you think you've been there, done that and you are over it? And what are your thoughts on the institution of marriage, and going further, your thoughts on the marriage equality debate?
Stephanie Mills: I think everybody, whether they're blue, black, gay, straight, whatever and they are a decent human being and paying their taxes, they deserve the rights that everyone else is getting. I always tell my friends when I hear them talk about children shouldn't live in a home with gay parents that you never hear about those children being molested. You never hear of those kids being burned and brutally attacked. You never hear about that, so, who are we to judge anybody? I never judge anybody. I think love is love. Who you chose to love is your business. What you do in the privacy of your home is your business. If you're living in a home whether it be a man and man, a man and a woman, or another woman and a woman, you deserve the same rights. I voted for it (marriage equality) here in Charlotte, but it's the Queen City so you know where that went. Marriage for me, I love loving but I have not been successful at it. And, I think it is because of me not trusting. I don't trust the love from the man. I don't really believe he loves me just for me. And, that's my problem.
I think in my mind I'm always thinking why is he here, what does he really want? And, I always destroy them (the relationship). I'm the kind that will destroy a relationship before I think it's going to be destroyed because they are going to leave.
Bobby and Whitney
BeBe: Well, you have put some time into analyzing and thinking about this. (both roar with laughter)
Stephanie Mills: I'm very clear. Well, I'll say this, and people may not like when I say this, but, when I saw that interview that Whitney did on Oprah when she talked about Bobby (Brown), I didn't like it. Because I felt like she threw Bobby under the bus. He wasn't there to defend himself. And, I don't believe that Bobby made Whitney do anything she didn't want to do.
BeBe: And, many people agree with you. Many have said that Whitney was strong willed, and she did not do anything that she didn't want to do.
Stephanie Mills: Right, and she was doing drugs before Bobby. Bobby drank, you know. But, she introduced him to the drugs. And I believe to this day that if she were still with Bobby, whom I know she loved dearly, she would still be alive. That's what I believe! I just don't believe in throwing people under the bus. I take full responsibility for whatever I do in a relationship, but I don't think it was anybody's business what happened between the two (Whitney and Bobby). I don't think she should have told some of things she told, but that's me. And then I watched an interview with him, and he said nothing but kind things about her.
BeBe: Now, I know you have a family where your child has some special needs with Down Syndrome. Do you spend time with any organizations advocating for the care for people with Down Syndrome, or finding an end to the disease?
Stephanie Mills: When I was three months pregnant I was told that my son was going to have Down Syndrome. I was high risk since I had him when I was 45 years old. They (specialists) asked me if I wanted to abort, and I said no! I don't care if my son has one eye, he's mine and I'm going to have him. And they told me all the things that could possibly be wrong with my son. But, my son is so beautiful and he functions at a very high level. Plus, I mainstream him. He goes to a regular school. He's an "A" honor student. He plays the piano. I go to school with him every day. I go there to make sure he is getting his work. Since he's been in the 4th grade, I'm a 4th-grader, too. And he's wonderful. I did not give into the 'he's not gonna be able to do this... he's not gonna be able to do that.' I hit the ground running when my baby was born. I don't allow people to treat him differently. I want him to do what he can do, so, I push him to be the best that he can be. I haven't attached myself to any sort of Down Syndrome organization, not because I didn't want to, but because I was so busy raising him. I felt that he could be an example as to how to raise a Down Syndrome child by mainstreaming him.
BeBe: With all of that, and the time that raising your son as a single parent, you still find time to perform and tour. That takes a lot of strength, honey!
Stephanie Mills: (humbly) Oh, thank you.
Staying positive
BeBe: No, really. I think sometimes the public forgets that people who have reached and live an acclaimed life, that's what I'll call it, because we put you where you are or in the situation you have in your life because we put you on that pedestal. You didn't necessarily ask to be there. And in that, we forget that you are normal just like we are and have the same things to deal with that we do, yet, I think it takes more strength because you are in the public eye. You have to make your living in the public and guard your family from the harshness the sometimes comes from that publicity. How do you do all that?
Stephanie Mills: I don't know, I just pray! I had a strong mother who always told me that I was always stronger than I think I am. I think over the years with me hit so hard with Teddy Pendergrass' and Gerald Levert's (two R&B singers that Mills recorded duets with) death, I've dealt. And my son's Dad is not in his life at all, so I am doing it all on my own. But I wanted him (son)! And the most important thing for me was that my child knew was that he was loved and that he was wanted. So I've focused on keeping everything in our lives positive, and making it right for us, and, still being able to sing. I take him on the road with me. He'll be with me in San Francisco. Sometimes he comes up on stage and plays guitar on 'I Never Knew Love Like This Before.'
BeBe: Speaking of San Francisco, you have an upcoming tour stop in San Francisco at Yoshi's beginning June 14 through the 17th. And you have an upcoming album coming up called 'Breathless'?
Stephanie Mills: I am still working on an album coming up, and it will be titled 'Breathless,' yes.
BeBe: Where did you come up with the title of the collection?
Stephanie Mills: It is the name of a song on the album about a man that I saw who took my breath away.
BeBe: And, you wrote this song?
Stephanie Mills: Yes.
BeBe: Well, you are touring a little bit this summer with a stop here in San Francisco, so tell me a little bit of what your show will entail. What can the audiences expect from your live shows this summer?
Stephanie Mills: I think they will be pleasantly surprised because I'm going to sing a lot of my songs. A lot of songs I've put back in my show. I do a medley of songs. It's going to be very upbeat -- just flat-bare-foot singing! No special effects, just me and my band and my singers rockin'! We are going to have a good time.
Stephanie Mills will command the stage for a limited engagement at San Francisco's Yoshi's, June 14-17. For more info on this tour stop, www.yoshis.com.
Her 2012 Summer tour continues with the following stops and dates: New York, NY - BB King Blues Club & Grill, June 23, 2012; New Orleans, LA - Essence Music Festival, July 6 & 7, 2012.
Follow Ms. Mills tour dates at at her website.
As an actress, BeBe was introduced to film with a lead role in the independent film "Under One Sun" with her character dealing with religious, racial and gender issues. Additionally, she appeared in the campy musical "Devious, Inc" (Australian Film Festival, San Francisco Short Film Fest) also adding additional vocals to the musical soundtrack. Both of these performances led to her selection for a lead role in Aisha Media's next short film series, "Con-tin.u.um" to be released in 2012.