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Wild Iris (film)
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- For plants called wild iris, see Dietes iridioides and Iris.
|Wild Iris
|Directed by
|Daniel Petrie
|Produced by
|Kevin Goetz
Marshall Persinger
Gary Lucchesi
|Written by
|Kent Broadhurst
|Gena Rowlands
Laura Linney
|Music by
|Laurence Rosenthal
|Rene Ohashi
|Edited by
|Hughes Winborne
Release date
Running time
|93 minutes
|United States
Wild Iris is a 2001 drama film starring Laura Linney, Gena Rowlands, Emile Hirsch and Fred Ward, including Miguel Sandoval, Scott Gibson, Amy Stewart and Lee Tergesen. Original screenplay by Kent Broadhurst. This is the last movie directed by Daniel Petrie.
Laura Linney won the Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or Movie. Gena Rowlands was also nominated for the same award. In addition, Wild Iris received a 2002 PRISM Award for TV Movies and Miniseries,[1] 2002 Aurora Gold Award[2] for excellence, and was nominated for the Golden Satellite Awards 2002 for Best Motion Picture Made for Television.
- Gena Rowlands as Minnie Brinn
- Laura Linney as Iris Bravard
- Emile Hirsch as Lonnie Bravard
- Fred Ward as Errol Podubney
- Lee Tergesen as Lud van Eppy
- Miguel Sandoval as Ramando Galvez
- Scott Gibson as Ronnie Dale Bravard
- Amy Stewart as Rhondlyn Podubney
- Michael McLachlan as Gang Leader
- Philip Eddolls as Teenager #1
- Nathan Hoppe as Teenager #2
- Peter Costigan as Teenager #3
- Caroline Gillis as Smoking Mother at Mall
- Boyd Banks as Handprint Clerk
- Ingrid Veninger as Woman in Line at the Mall
- Judy Sinclair as LaNelle Turrell
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The arrest of 11-year-or-so-old Christian girl, Rimsha Masih, in Pakistan in connection with the blasphemy charges has shocked the world but not Pakistan and majority Pakistanis. But it's not easy for them to speak out in Pakistan. If they do so it clearly means they are looking for trouble, not less than a death threat.
An 11-year-old Pakistani girl with Downs Syndrome might be put to death for blasphemy. Killing people for expressing negative and/or dissenting views on religion, for burning Qurans, for writing letters -- is this Islam? No. In Islam, a law that penalizes a person for challenging or disparaging the religion -- is blasphemy itself.
In Sharia-benighted Pakistan, an 11-year-old Christian girl with Down's Syndrome has recently been incarcerated for blasphemy. Rimshah Masih allegedly burned pages of the Quran and other Islamic textbooks, including a Quran primer. The girl was found holding the charred pages. Unfortunately, Rimshah is not the only Pakistani facing such charges. Pakistanis collectively have shown little outrage at these travesties.

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Court says landlord not liable for car damage from falling ice
There are 27 comments on the Bennington Banner story from Feb 11, 2011, titled Court says landlord not liable for car damage from falling ice. In it, Bennington Banner reports that:A Montpelier landlord is not liable for thousands of dollars in damage to a tenant's vehicle caused by snow and ice that fell off an apartment building's roof, the Vermont Supreme Court ruled Friday.
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#1 Feb 12, 2011
...and if the tenants were inside their cars, then what? the judge is probably good friends with the landlord, ever think'a that?
#2 Feb 12, 2011
"The justices said the implied warranty of habitability -- which says the landlord "will deliver and maintain premises that are safe, clean and fit for human habitation"--"
The premises certainly weren't safe in the "designated parking area".
#3 Feb 12, 2011
If the landlord was a wonderful human being, as mine is, he would have covered the damages with no questions, as he would have the proper insurance on his property. Sad for the single mom of six who works..
#4 Feb 12, 2011
If you're poor, you don't get justice. It doesn't matter what race you are, what sex your are or even what political party you belong to. If you don't have enough cash to pay a platinum lawyer to unplug a judge's ears and unblock his/her eyes, you may as well wear a clown outfit to court and speak in gibberish, because the outcome would be the same in both cases-you lose!
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#5 Feb 12, 2011
I agree with the first comment. The parking spot clearly was not safe otherwise her car would not have been damaged. However now people know this landlords name and hopefully will remember not to rent from him.
#6 Feb 12, 2011
Maybe she should try coming back with the neglience claim.
#7 Feb 12, 2011
I would have taken this verdict out on the landlord's car with a lead pipe.
Seriously though, why wouldn't her car insurance cover this? Or her renter's insurance? Or her ice hazard insurance? Or her AFLAC?
Oh, that's right, you pay into insurance companies for years and when you try to use it, they say sorry, you're not covered for that. Now
i remember.
#8 Feb 13, 2011
She should claim the damage to her vehicle through her own auto insurance. That is why you have auto insurance. Being poor, and a single mom,(the most overused excuse for EVERYTHING), is no excuse for not being responsible for your self.
All the Libtards should stop blaming everyone else, get out of their ivory tower, and teach self responsibility....the world would be a better place.
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Since: Jun 08
Pittsburgh, Pa
#9 Feb 13, 2011
I question what kind of liability insurance this landlord has...
If my tree blows over during a storm and strikes the neighbors house, my insurance covers the damage....
Sounds to me like her attorney was the jerk here.... She sued under the wrong premise as a tenant and should have sued as an
outside party.... If this had happened to someone visiting a tenant would the judge rule the same way???? I don't think so...
#10 Feb 13, 2011
If low income she probably did not carry collision (which pays for damage to one's vehcle). Liability, which is required is cheaper.
I am a bit surprised at the ruling since the car was on the landlord's property and he didn't clear the roof, it seems he should be liable-guess that is one of those gray areas of the law.
#11 Feb 13, 2011
If you are poor it is because of stupid lifestyle choices that you made and it is no one's fault but your own. Six kids hey? From how many different bums? Don't tell me this so called family isn't getting a free ride at the taxpayers expense.Bottom line...poor people SUCK !
#12 Feb 13, 2011
You suck.... How dare you judge anyone!! Shame on you for your assumptions.
#14 Feb 14, 2011
Waaaaaaahhhhhh, libs trying to hold rethuglican slumlords accountable for the unsafe conditions of their property!
#15 Feb 14, 2011
was there a sign?
#16 Feb 17, 2011
Me suck? Why thank you. It must be a bummer to be a PEZ. I have more bread than a prison meatloaf. ha ha ha ha.
#17 Feb 17, 2011
Does the sign change anything?
#18 Feb 19, 2011
As far as how much bread you have means nothing. I said shame on you for your assumptions of anyone. and who the hell are you to judge anyone? Money sure does not buy love or happiness. If you think it does. You are an idiot.
#19 Feb 19, 2011
The rich man is usual materially rich, but quite often found to be poor in spirit.
#20 Feb 19, 2011
Isn't that the truth.
#21 Feb 22, 2011
if ice fell on your car next to a danger falling ice sign?
I would think it matters...
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Fathers and Daughters

 On a charter vacation in the British Virgin Islands with his daughter, two god-daughters, and his best pals, the author discovers that on a trip to paradise with a gaggle of young girls, time can absolutely stand still . . . or move faster than ever

 by Herb Mccormick

So right before the trip, I purchase a
 brand-new Red Sox cap--a white cotton one 'cause I know it's going to
 be hot in the islands--and as a lifelong fan of the Boston Nine, I
 reckoned it was time to replace my ratty old blue one after the Sox
 finally "reversed the curse" and won the World Series the previous fall. You never know when and where the opportunity to yank the chain of a Yankees fan might present itself, right?

 Now we're sitting in Trellis Bay, near Tortola in the British Virgin
 Islands, on our Moorings 4700 catamaran. I've just strolled back from
 the airport at Beef Island to meet the incoming flight of my old friend
 PK and his daughter, Helene. While I met the plane, another pal, who
 goes by the nickname Furbio, waited back on the boat with my daughter,
 Maggie, and his two daughters, Molly and Lauren. And yes, the trip did
 have a pre-conceived theme: After many years of idle chatter, we three
 dads were finally taking our rapidly growing "little girls" for a
 charter-cruise vacation.

 As PK and Helene sort out their cabin in the forward port stateroom of our big cat, Saturday Knight, the rest of us slip over the side for a refreshing swim. Soon enough, everyone's in the drink.

 We all come back aboard, and everyone's taking turns using the
 freshwater shower off the aft deck. Maggie pulls off her red bathing
 suit from beneath the towel wrapped around her and gives it a carefree
 toss before disappearing below to change.

 A while later, we're
 all lounging around, getting the grill and the dogs and the burgers
 ready, when it occurs to me that I should be wearing my Sox cap. As I
 might've mentioned, you just never know who could be hanging out on the
 next boat over.

 So I'm hunting everywhere for the cap and no
 one knows where it's gone to and I'm starting to wonder--egad!--if it
 might've blown overboard, when it finally appears. Under Maggie's red
 bathing suit. Maggie's brand-new, soaking-wet, red bathing suit!

 My crisp white cap is now, well, damp pink, but I pull it on anyway.
 And later on I take it off and look at it. And as the evening unfolds I
 look at it quite a bit. And every time I do, I think of my beautiful
 little girl, and the pink hat starts to grow on me. I mean, really,
 really grow on me. By the way, isn't beer great?

 So just
 before bed, I kiss my already snoozing daughter on the cheek and put
 the hat up on a shelf--the very same hat that just a few hours earlier
 I'd been planning to give a good scrub with hot, soapy water--and I go
 to sleep. As slumber comes, it occurs to me that I'm never going to
 wash that pink hat. Like, ever.

 From the very moment I learned
 that fatherhood was on my horizon, I wanted a daughter. My dad and I
 had ultimately weathered the slings and arrows of some outrageous
 father/son misfortunes--at times the outcome was seriously in
 doubt--but I'd had a good, hard look at that movie and was terrified by
 the thought of a sequel. Plus, I know precisely what happens to boys,
 and when. To paraphrase the comedian Paul Reiser, I went to high school
 with me.

 Not that I didn't realize that raising a daughter
 would have its own tests, but all in all, I preferred my chances with
 the fairer sex. After all, my very own sister always seemed to be
 Daddy's Girl, even as he and I were at each other's throats. Would it
 be asking too much to have the same sort of relationship they shared?

 There were, of course, early trials and tribulations. I was on a
 magazine assignment in New Zealand when I got the news that, back home
 in Rhode Island at the tender age of 3, Maggie had plunged some 15 feet
 from the balcony of a health club, of all places. But she never lost
 consciousness and had a pithy comment to the ambulance attendants after
 they'd strapped her to the gurney for the ride to the hospital: "I'm
 stuck." She recovered fully and apparently inherited her dad's hard
 head.

 She hated loud noises--thunder, fireworks, roaring surf,
 the sunset report of a yacht-club cannon--which were all things I
 loved. She adored stuff--snakes, spiders, all the
 creepy-crawlies--which gave me the willies. But from her earliest days
 we undoubtedly shared a passion for several of the most important
 things: reading, music, the water. Especially the water. By 7 she could
 swim nearly the length of a regulation pool--underwater. She was so
 oversensitive to some things I could scream, so compassionate in other
 ways I could weep. I guess it goes without saying, but I'll say it
 anyway: I love her so.

 Then there were my pals, PK and Furbio,
 as good a set of friends as a fellow could ask for. We'd all been born
 in Newport Hospital a few months apart when Ike was still running the
 big show, been constants in one another's lives for decades on end,
 stood up for one another at marriages, and been right there with an
 open ear and a shoulder to lean on when parents set forth to the great
 beyond. PK was Maggie's godfather; his daughter, Helene, and Furbio's
 youngest, Lauren, were both mine.

 I had a long history with
 these lads, and for years and years we'd been talking about chartering
 a sailboat and taking a spin together through the B.V.I. And that's all
 it had been: talk. Then, somehow, all the planets in our different
 daily universes fell into alignment--the i's of school vacations were
 dotted, the t's of work commitments were crossed--and suddenly we were
 in Trellis Bay last spring with a freezer full of food, a chart spread
 out on the saloon table, and a week's worth of plans to be made. We
 were finally going sailing after all.

 At 7, my Maggie was the
 youngest aboard. Helene, 10, and a terror on the lacrosse fields back
 home in Baltimore, was just enough older to think Maggie was at times
 goofy, and just enough more mature to be her good buddy anyway.
 Fourteen-year-old Lauren was happiest listening to musicals on her
 portable DVD player, but she was a pacesetter when the activities
 turned aquatic. At 16, Furbio's oldest daughter, Molly, was the elder
 of the tribe in many ways: Her wry observations soared over the heads
 of the other girls about 99 percent of the time. And if Maggie grows up
 to be half the water-woman Molly is, I'll be very happy.

 The
 first stop, naturally, was The Baths at Virgin Gorda. We ferried the
 girls in as far as the dinghy mooring on one of those days when the
 rollers were breaking on the beachfront and, when swimming ashore, you
 had to time your approach between the wave sets to avoid getting
 crunched at the last moment. I actually only learned this after
 Maggie's successful, if spluttering landing. She never would've tried
 it had the other girls not been over the side the moment we picked up
 the mooring--in other words, before I could say anything--and it set
 the tone for nearly all the adventures that would follow. The very last
 thing my daughter was going to be was left behind.

 I've
 wandered The Baths a few times over the years, but it was all so very
 different with a bunch of kids who'd never been there before, whose joy
 and energy over all this new terrain was contagious, and this, too,
 would become a recurrent theme for the voyage. If you want to view
 something familiar through a fresh set of eyes, do not hesitate to
 bring a few fresh sets of eyes.

 That night we anchored in
 Gorda Sound for another round of swimming and a barbecue, and next
 morning we hopped ashore for a tour of the Bitter End Yacht Club, a
 discovery for the girls that was on a par with Columbus' of the New
 World. Luckily, since the next stop was the parched island of Anegada,
 I had a quick look at the water tanks before we shoved off, and
 promptly topped them off while I still had the chance. Do you have any
 idea how much fresh water four young ladies can consume in the space of
 48 hours? Neither did I. For some reason, my lecture on the benefits of
 saltwater bathing was met with silence.

 In Anegada, we ran
 into my old pal Bob Grieser, the marine photographer, who was there on
 assignment for another sailing magazine. Included in Bobby's wide
 repertoire of skills is his remarkable ability to imitate a barking
 hound, and thus the nickname Photo Dog was bestowed upon him. If a
 voyage can have a mascot, he became ours, for the girls, especially
 Maggie, adored him. He joined us for the ride out to Loblolly Beach and
 an epic snorkel on the reefs--the new experiences just kept coming and
 coming--and when we returned to the harbor, he made chums of the local
 fishermen and did his best to get the girls to pose for a picture with
 a big, live Anegada lobster. Only brave Helene had the nerve, though
 they all made extremely short work of one after its brief detour to the
 open-fire grill.

 Our little trip was flying by, but it was starting to get really good, and it would get better still.

 One wishes he could say the vacation was a success on absolutely all
 counts, that the girls took to sailing like the fish they resembled
 once they splashed the water, but that would be pushing it. For them,
 the sailing was simply the means to reach a new island: Maggie
 generally hit the trampoline or the settee and zonked out for every
 passage; the other girls retreated to books and iPods or joined my
 daughter for a nap. But I made some serious inroads with the guys,
 neither of whom had sailed much before. By trip's end, Furbio was
 envisioning the day he retires as a firefighter to move aboard a
 catamaran, and PK, though not exactly bitten by the sailing bug, is now
 in the market for a cabin cruiser. Not bad, if I do say so myself.

 But the longish sail from Anegada to Jost Van Dyke was one of my
 highlights, mainly because it gave me the chance to reflect on the trip
 so far. I was actually glad to see Maggie curled up and snoozing; her
 mother would've been scandalized by the hours she was keeping, and she
 clearly needed the rest. But her days (and nights) had been filled with
 swimming and laughter and camaraderie. She may have been the junior
 member of the sisterhood, and as such she spent equal amounts of energy
 learning from the others and seeking their approval. But in return she
 was granted generous helpings of time and patience and friendship. It
 was a wonderful thing to watch.

 Yes, we could've taken the
 kids to Disneyland or on a ski trip, but what's better than a 24/7
 sailboat excursion in the Caribbean, where the best lessons learned are
 the intangible ones--what it takes to be a good shipmate, to be
 considerate of others while living in a small space, to conserve water
 and energy and be immersed in nature and the outdoors? What other venue
 could give you what you get--what you earn--by being on a small boat
 for a real voyage?

 As we dodged one squall after another on
 the sail to Jost, I realized our week together would ultimately become
 one seamless memory--all of us together, frozen in time, healthy and
 tan and very happy--like an image from a favorite old photograph. Who
 knows what the future will hold, what these little girls will
 eventually become, what grand adventures are waiting out there for
 them? At that moment, I couldn't have cared less. We were all together
 on a boat cleaving purposefully through the blue Caribbean sea.
 Whatever happens, I realized in a sappy moment for which I have no
 excuses or apologies, we'll always have these islands.

 Well,
 I'm sure you can guess what happened to the pink cap. By week's end,
 the sweat and brine had conspired to erase the reddish tint almost
 completely, and it looked just about brand-new. Like our little trip,
 now coming to an end, Maggie's pink present simply wasn't meant to last
 forever.

 After Jost, we pulled into The Bight at Norman
 Island, where the piercing sound of a yelping mutt signaled a final
 drive-by visit from the beloved Photo Dog and where the girls had a
 quick, unfortunate glimpse of the antics atop the lewd, infamous Willie
 T's, which led to a round of questions that were simply impossible to
 answer and fingers' crossed that the moms would never hear about this
 singular lapse of judgment.

 Finally, we got up real early on
 our last full day and made our way over to The Indians--the B.V.I.'s
 signature outcropping of rock and sea life, one of the great snorkeling
 spots in the Caribbean--where we scored the best mooring around and set
 up for a long morning and afternoon of water sports.

 By 0900,
 Maggie and I were in the water with masks and snorkels and making for
 the nearby reef. She insisted on leading and took right off, and I had
 to do some serious booking to keep up. I was a pretty proud papa, I
 must say, when something happened that will remain with me for a long
 time.

 I could see she was heading for simple trouble, a fringe
 of coral with no pass and small, breaking wavelets, where there was no
 option but to turn around. It was no big deal, really, but she had a
 moment of panic and started babbling away, her eyes very wide, though
 it was impossible to pinpoint the exact nature of her distress since
 she refused to take the snorkel out of her mouth.
 "Rrrrrrrmmmmmmmrrrrr," she said. In any event, I waved for her to
 follow me in the opposite direction, and she dutifully collected
 herself and obeyed.

 As we worked our way into deeper water,
 she sidled up alongside and grabbed my hand, and she held on as we
 calmly resumed our way back to the boat, now enjoying the play of light
 on the reef and the schools of small, colorful fishes.

 It was
 much later, on the flight home actually, that it dawned on me that the
 entire little escapade encapsulated so many transitions one deals with
 as a parent: trust, discovery, discomfort, fear, support, recovery,
 more trust.

 And the final little moment, just before we
 reached the boat, gave me a clear look at the coming attraction that
 all fathers of young daughters will someday inevitably face. As we
 approached the swim ladder to climb back aboard, she gave my fingers
 one last, tough, lovely squeeze. Then she let go and was gone.

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And as the heavy grey clouds move,
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But defying gravity,
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Slinking slowly,
Or sometimes running a marathon.
I feel the power in my fingers,
I'm a tyrant: merciless and cruel.
There is no fate, no God except for me.
With my pen, my instrument of destiny,
I create whole lives and genealogies.
Plucked from the throbbing, thriving pit
That is my imagination.
Years from now, perhaps,
People will read this and see,
A hidden meaning in the poetry,
An unintentional metaphor or simile.
For now, I write only to please me;
It's a release of emotions that sets me free,
But a selfish, egocentric activity.
But then again I might decide
That all I've written is nonsense and lies,
And so it will end up on a rubbish tip
A scrap of paper fluttering in the wind.
Words flying back to where they came from
A poem about poetry.


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Truth Bombs with Henry [No. 1]
On the eve of her daughter's high school graduation, a friend with two teenage daughters confessed that she wished she'd written down more stories from her kids' early childhood years.
"If there's one piece of advice I have for you guys," she said to a room full of mothers with young children. "It's that you should write down the funny, adorable stories before they fade from your mind. That's the one thing I wish I'd done when my girls were little."
As a writer and natural keeper of warm, fuzzy and sometimes prickly memories, I decided to take this advice to heart. Introducing Truth Bombs with Henry – nuggets of sage and succinct wisdom articulated by my smart ass kid.
By now I'd have two kids
That's me up there, four months pregnant with the baby I lost in December. I remember feeling way further along when I took the pic. It's one of only two belly pics that exist from that ill-fated pregnancy.
They say by the time you sprout your second or third or, if you're Michelle Duggar, your 19th kid, your wrung-out stomach "pops" early, making it doubly or triply or quadruply harder to resurrect your abs. This is the sad truth for all gestating women, except Heidi Klum.
I read a description somewhere that likened the bellies of women who've had babies to balloons that have already been inflated. New balloons are a bitch to blow up. They don't give. You have to pre-stretch them and blow like a mother to fill them with air. Your face turns red and the tail can be difficult to knot.
Twice inflated balloons are another story. They swell immediately.
With my second pregnancy, I quickly inflated, then quickly deflated – both physically and emotionally. When it became apparent that I couldn't repress my way back to feeling normal, I did the only two things I could think to do at the time: I ran and I blogged. More accurately, I ran a lot and blogged just once.
This miscarriage wiped me out. Running made me feel strong again. Blogging – as heavy as that last post was – helped me compartmentalize my thoughts and articulate things I couldn't in person.
The thing is: I'm a lighthearted person. I cry NOT AT ALL in front of people. Prior to this miscarriage, few people outside my family and BFF of 20 years have seen me cry. In the last five years, I can count two: the veterinarian who euthanized my dog and my friend Kim, who watched me break down over breakfast when my son's off-the-wall behavior became too overwhelming to handle. "I can barely parent one," I tearfully confessed. "How will I manage two?"
The heaviness of being empty: the crushing reality of a late miscarriage
Note: this is a deeply personal story. I'm still struggling to articulate it – in real life and in words. As a writer, I find it impossible to not process my feelings in narrative form. As a journalist, I find it equally impossible to write only for myself, which is why I have a blog and not a journal.
On Dec. 1, I lost my second son due to (still mostly) unexplained reasons. He was 18 weeks old – too early to be considered stillborn, too late to still be a secret. The experience wrecked me in some way. Despite my attempts at maintaining a sunny disposition, I withered. Despite my naturally steely resolve, I withered. Despite having just grieved the death of my sister's newborn, I withered. Despite knowing nothing good would come from turning to the internet, I Googled – and withered. The people who knew me best thought I was doing OK. How could I let them think otherwise? No one wants to talk about dead babies, so I put on a nice face, feigned levelheadedness and withered.
Each night, I searched the web for stories like mine in a fruitless attempt to find answers or peace or a crystal ball forecasting that this will never happen again.
Yet Google never brought me peace. It just made the situation worse. I cursed my luck. I cursed my body. I cursed the shitty misfortune of being born a woman and not a man. It's always easier for men, or at least it is in the MINDFUCK that is reproduction. I cursed my genes. I held my sister as the doctors pulled her baby off a respirator. I watched in horror as my niece, born full term to loving parents, took her last breath. It was a moment so awful, so cruel and so sad that I vowed I would never write about it. Instead, I channeled this sadness into something positive – an online photo project that went semi viral. I wanted my sister to know that her daughter mattered. Now here I was, exactly six months later, curled up on my bathroom floor, moments away from delivering a boy who wouldn't matter in the most literal sense. At 18 weeks, he wasn't even old enough to warrant a birth or death certificate.
Turn down the noise. Parenting is hard enough.
A dear friend who doesn't have children recently asked me a very standard, very benign question:
"How's motherhood?"
I deliberated for a week. I typed and retyped responses in the dialogue box. I started writing things like, Motherhood is the best. It's awesome. I'm astonished and humbled every day. I found my purpose, my true calling, the reason why I'm meant to be on earth.
I erased those sentences and started again.
Motherhood is a mixed bag. Some days I feel like I'm floating down a river, bobbing effortlessly like an otter on its back, my head tilted toward the sun, my body weightless and my mind on nothing more than playing. Next to me is a smaller otter, a tinier version of myself. We're splashing and slip-sliding and doing whatever it is otters do. The small otter is following my lead. I dip underwater. He dips underwater. I flip onto my back. He flips onto his back. The air is warm and the water is cool. The small otter climbs on top of my chest, burrows under my chin and together we float as one, at peace with each other in our wild, meandering domain.
Then there are days when I feel like I'm swimming against the current in a heavy Mississippi flood. I can't touch the bottom. My muscles ache from kicking and paddling. I'm swimming in slow motion past fallen tree limbs and wayward debris. A young boy is clinging to the branch of an old oak, crying like a kitten, desperate to be rescued. "Mama," he cries "Save me." I push my body upstream, past overturned cars and floating piles of untethered junk, the flotsam and jetsam of everyday life. Beleaguered but not broken, I wade through waist-high weeds. I climb the tree, retrieve the child and clutch him to my chest. I lower us back into the water. I kiss his wet forehead and like Rose in Titanic I vow to never let go. He hugs me, happy to be in my arms. He tells me he loves me. Then he punches me in the face.
When my childless friends ask me about motherhood I have an urge to respond with these longwinded analogies as if it's the only way to articulate how terribly difficult it is. GAG.
The truth is nothing is easy. What's easy is being a kid and even that's hard.
I willfully signed up to be a mother, ugly bits and all. As much as it may feel like parenting is a herculean feat, it's not. For better or worse, big people have raised little people for centuries. Same complicated human experience, different generation. Same circle of life, different shit getting our panties in a twist.
Joining a co-op forced me to cook
Let me begin by saying I hate cooking. I really truly do not like to cook. Unlike most of the females in my family, I'm not wired for it. I much prefer pulling something out of the fridge and eating it with little to no prep time and little to no guilt. Even Rachel Ray's 15 Minute Meals are too much trouble for me to follow.
I'm a lousy rule follower, which means I'm a lousy recipe follower, which means I have a hard time seeing a meal through from scratch to finish. When I was in my 20s, single and drinking alcohol every other night, my culinary hangups were a non-issue. As a 31-year-old married mother of a wild child, I'm much more concerned about food, or as I like to think of it now: fuel. If you're not into cooking, your family risks eating Rice-A-Roni and chocolate pudding cups for dinner. This is a problem.
I'm fairly health conscious, minus the
occasional everyday peanut butter cup(s).
I've been a vegetarian* since I was 19 years old. I love fruits and vegetable, thus I try to stuff Henry with as many as possible. (Meat-and-Potatoes-Only Joe is a lost cause, so please refrain from sending suggestions on how to sneak nutrition into his food. And yes I've tried Jessica Seinfeld's Deceptively Delicious and no, it did not deceive him.)
About a year ago, I joined an organic food co-op called the Hot Mamas of St. Pete. (If the group were called the Haggard Mamas of St. Pete I would not have joined.) I did this at the urging of my neighbor – a total hot mama – who needed someone with whom she could share her twice-a-month bounty. For $20 every other week, I split a laundry basket stuffed with everything from eggs to kale to baby eggplant to bok choy. Avocados and berries always go first. The greens and veggies stick around until I toss them in a stir fry, a salad, or a quiche.
Rock me mama: Growth and change in 2014
I started this post a couple weeks ago and my intentions were to discuss the ways in which I think I've grown as a person, a mother and a journalist. I also intended to discuss the ways in which I think Joe has grown as a person, a father and a journalist. I thought this would be semi-interesting to at least four people.
I intended to share some of my brilliant and ghastly time management strategies, as well as some of my brilliant and ghastly potty training strategies.
I thought I'd tell you that Henry regularly uses the toilet, but since he also regularly bites other humans, throws close-fisted punches and flings chewed food on myself and the dog I wouldn't say he's 100 percent housebroken yet.
I thought I'd tell you we got a new dog.
Folding him into our life has helped fill a void and mend an ache. After months of huffing Cubbie's favorite blanket in an attempt to bring him back, I washed it today for the first time with a load of sheets.
I thought I'd tell you that after a year of hustling as a freelancer, work is starting to happen with as much surprising regularity as Henry's good potty days. This month I filled my calendar with so many projects and assignments I had to turn down work.
Christmas contest winner :: Ali's story
At the beginning of the month I set out to see past the commercialization of Christmas, past the insanity of Christmas shopping, the bombardment of Christmas advertisements, the glut of Duck Dynasty merchandise, the $30 Elf on the somebody else's shelf and the siege of angry holiday traffic.
I didn't have to look too far to see beyond the racket. Everything I needed to see was "invisible to the eye," as my favorite children's book author Antoine de Saint-Exupéry so eloquently articulated in The Little Prince.
{"Voici mon secret. Il est très simple: on ne voit bien qu'avec le cœur. L'essentiel est invisible pour les yeux." In English this means, "One sees clearly only with the heart. What is essential is invisible to the eye."}
At the start of the month when I posted a storytelling contest I had no idea this one would come my way. As the author of this wacky blog, I expected to receive wacky stories ripe with sarcasm. I expected at least one reference to the Griswold family and one reference to the frozen flag pole in A Christmas Story.
Instead I got a story that began with a phone call at the end of November from a young woman in Kentucky named Ali. She wanted to know if I was available the week after Thanksgiving to take photos of she and her 20-month-old son. They would be on vacation for a week on Longboat Key. She wanted beach photos of just the two of them.
"Nothing extravagant," she said. "Just an hour or so of me and him doing our thing."
She seemed a little scattered, a little distant. As a journalist, I wanted to know more. As a photographer, it was none of my business. Were these Christmas portraits? Your basic mom/son portraits? She didn't say.
I penciled her in for a Saturday just before sunset, which was how we got on the subject of lighting sky lanterns.
'Tis the season for embarrassing your mother at the grocery store
It's Dec. 22! Hark the herald Henry sings! {More on that at the end of this post.}
How quickly time flies when you're too busy to run off the beer and cookies you can't stop consuming. Ugh.
{I asked Santa for more work this month and I got my wish straight away. Subsequently, I've asked him for better time management skills and a little help whittling my holiday beer gut. I've also asked for a pug puppy since this house could use a little more chaos, piss puddles and hyperactivity. I can hear those of you with multiple children and pets sniggering under your breath. Bitch has no idea what chaos is.}
A few housekeeping items:
On Christmas Eve I'll introduce you to the VERY DESERVING winner of the Lance's Christmas story contest. {Hint: the winning story veers pretty far from the original contest rules, but it was more RAW and powerful than anything I've read in the last four weeks. You'll see why on Tuesday.}
What else?
Oh yeah. Remember my buddy Mifflin Lowe? His Christmas album, Wilton Wilberry and the Magical Christmas Wishing Well, inspired student artwork at an elementary school in Tampa. Apparently even 6th graders love Wilton. The coolest thing about the project? The kids used iPads to make digital illustrations. Soooo 2013! {The illustrations are at the top of this post.}
I love that even though they used computers to create them, they still look like kid artwork. Now that Henry is in preschool my estrogen makes it impossible to NOT LOVE ALL KID ARTWORK.
I've said it once and I'll say it again: motherhood makes you soft. {This is a good thing.}
Also: it breeds humility.
Want an example?
Of course you do.
How to surprise your husband on his birthday
Most of the people in my life go out of their way to not celebrate their birthdays.
For example …
For her 50th birthday dinner, my mother, the diva, requested that my father to take her to Long John Silver's for chicken planks and french fries. For her 77th birthday, my Oma took one look at the balloons I had hung up for her and said, "Vell, dees is the first time I've had balloons on my birthday."
"The FIRST time?" I asked.
"Ve didn't have balloons in Germany after the var."
This was delivered with such a mix of melancholy and hardness that I felt at once glad and guilty for having hung them.
My Nana has bemoaned her birthday for years. Earlier this year, when I mailed her a container of homemade brownies, she told me to save myself the effort because she's "an old crow" and the brownies were "all mush" by the time they arrived.
My sister PK has such severe birthday anxiety that as a child she refused to acknowledge the date. However, like any young ingrate she still liked receiving presents, so to ensure she'd still be gifted but not celebrated she invented a new birthday; an unbirthday for those of you who are into Alice in Wonderland. The date? May 11, the same day as my parent's wedding anniversary. This was obviously a strategic move so my mother would be less apt to forget it. It worked. At 28 she still gets presents on this day.
Having said this, I do not come from a family of party poopers. Under different circumstances these people are SUPER fun and celebratory. It's birthdays that bring out the Eeyore in them. Unlike me, this apathy stems less from a fear of mortality and more from a fear of ATTENTION.
My husband on the other hand is exactly the opposite. He's a birthday whore.
He lives for December 8. Truthfully, he lives for the WEEK of December 8. For Joe it isn't so much a birth DAY as a birth WEEK. He counts down to it like a child counts down to Christmas. (For the record, he counts down to Christmas too because I think he views Christmas as an extension of his birthday.)
December is Joe's birth MONTH and he'd lay claim to all 31 days if Jesus' big day didn't get in the way.
Sometimes I enjoy his birthday whoriness. When you come from a family of limelight dodgers, it's refreshing to see a grown-ass man get bitchy when you break tradition and unknowingly cut the first slice of his birthday cake. ("What's wrong with you? It's my birthday. I'm supposed to make the first cut.")
Joe doesn't open a bag of LJS chicken planks and call it a day. In the fall he types out a long list of things he'd like for his birthday and emails it to me in a Word doc.
This year he failed to send the September wish list. Probably because he's been so busy supporting our family, being a superb dad to Hank and a patient, understanding and bighearted husband to his sometimes high-strung, sometimes neurotic, sometimes surly wife.
HE EARNED A SPECIAL BIRTHDAY. (And a ticket to see Trey Anastasio play the House of Blues in February.)
So on a weekend that kicked off Dec. 6 with my dear friend Gabriel's wedding in Safety Harbor, Fla., I planned a two-day celebration that involved a surprise hotel stay at the Safety Harbor Resort & Spa, a surprise boat ride from the hotel to Hula Bay Club and a surprise dinner attended by a rotating cast of family and friends.
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The Los Angeles Galaxy are set to lose superstar David Beckham after Sunday's MLS Cup Final, but they already have big things in mind for the post-Beckham era. On Friday, the president of Galaxy ownership group AEG left no ambiguity as to who is the next soccer star he wants to see added to L.A. Beckham first joined the Galaxy when he was 31, and another star from the Real Madrid is set to turn 31 right around the time Major League Soccer's 2013 campaign kicks off. "We're well aware of Kaka's interest in MLS, and we in turn have made it very clear to him that he's aware of our interest in him," Tim Leiweke told Sports Illustrated. "We have a great relationship with Real Madrid, and just as we worked through a player with them six years ago [Beckham], I'm absolutely convinced we could find the right deal this time, too." Of course, Chelsea star Frank Lampard has been vocal about his desire to replace Beckham in Los Angeles, so this could be bad news for that theory. Nonetheless, the Galaxy now have an open designated player slot, and in MLS big-name talent has a funny way of funneling into them. Interestingly enough, the Galaxy seem to be supremely concerned not just with getting another marquee name, but making sure that player first into head coach Bruce Arena's plan. Is that a sign MLS is improving? Who knows, but it figures that, going forward, the Galaxy will continue to attract huge stars on the downward side of their career. Photo of the Night This is about two minutes after tipoff at Philips Arena in Atlanta. Clearly the Hawks are doing well. Quote of the Night "After that game, I think we were all struck by the fact that so many people were leaving our building with a smile on their face. Normally, when a team loses, fans are down. But not with us. And that was an eye-opening moment." –Phoenix Suns president Jason Rowley introducing "Satisfaction Guarantee Night" Tweet of the Night It's the New York Post. Is anyone really that surprised they're being mean? Next, @nypost will fly a photographer down to Dr. James Andrews' office and mock Tommy John surgery patients for not being able to throw yet — Jay Jaffe (@jay_jaffe) November 30, 2012 Video of the Night We have no idea what the announcers are saying, but we bet they think that's a really bad flop, too.
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text: 27 inventive room design ideas In a small walkable community on the Washington coast, we designed two houses (and one big yard) for a new kind of beach living Our 2013 Idea Town No matter where you go in Seabrook, the sound of the waves follows you. That's by design. The Grays Harbor community is built so every home is no more than a five-minute walk to a firepit, a bocce court, or the beach. Sound idyllic? We thought so too and chose Seabrook as the setting for this year's Sunset Idea House—make that Idea Houses (we couldn't help but build two). Designed by architect Peter Brachvogel as a multigenerational retreat, the houses have views of the ocean and a shared backyard. Inside, Seattle designer Brian Paquette created breezy but bold rooms that redefine beach house style. Pore over these photos for ways to make your home—no matter where—feel like a getaway. Pinterest Idea House #1: Shoreview In this 2,544-square-foot house, a reverse-living floor plan capitalizes on the view: The living and dining rooms and kitchen are on the second floor, with two bedrooms below and a master bedroom loft up top. The furnishings are simple and clean lined, the sensibility is modern, and the entire home is enveloped in a hazy color inspired by the sand, sea, and sky. "The house is meant to embrace and amplify the nature around it," says designer Brian Paquette. Design for the view The 12-foot-high Andersen windows in the living room, above, are spaced to mimic the shore pines outside and make the room feel like a treehouse. For an uninterrupted view, Paquette chose low spindle chairs from CR Laine rather than high-back ones. Steal colors from nature The living room's gray wall color, Early Frost CSP-590 by Benjamin Moore, changes with the light. In the full sun, it's a pale gray that mimics the chic firewood logs and makes the room feel like a gallery; as the sun sets, the walls pick up a purple tone that's a close match for the clamshells on the beach below. Include creature comforts A big square ottoman is reachable from every seat in the living room. Pay attention to form Welting in a contrasting color emphasizes the lines in furniture. Layer textures Weathered woods give the kitchen dimension. The gray-wash floor matches the cool walls, the reclaimed-wood on the island adds warmth, and the whitewashed beams bring a sense of airiness. Blend well White grasscloth shades almost disappear when rolled up. Be bold in small rooms A wallpaper pattern that might overwhelm a large space can enliven a smaller room—like the den, with its floral print from Makelike. Break up bare walls A blue barn door leading to the den adds an architectural element to the dining room, left, and lies flat against the wall to save space. Hang art close In the stairwell, Paquette hung prints by artist Jennifer Ament so tightly, they touch. This helps the display look like one art piece—and relieves a lot of measuring anxiety. Give the pooch a pouf The cover of the dog bed is sewn from the same Sunbrella fabric as the living room upholstery, and can be unzipped and thrown in the wash. Rethink the headboard Paquette upholstered the bedroom headboard with vintage Japanese boro, an indigo patchwork. "Don't be scared of vintage fabrics," he says. "They add character." If a fabric is delicate, an upholsterer can back it so it's sturdy enough for most uses. Create an accent Hang wallpaper on just one wall—it creates a focal point. Design for bare feet Tile floors with radiant heating make the bathroom seem like a spa. The Kismet tiles are made of concrete that feels chalky soft underfoot. Soak up the scenery Put the bathtub on a pedestal by the window; the step up gives the tub a view. Make a scene In the backyard, Azek gray-wash decking (a tie-in to the floors inside) creates a "room" near the fireplace. Whiskey barrels and galvanized farm-trough feed containers hold salad greens, blueberries, and salt- and wind-resistant shore pines. Display art in a new way In the guest quarters above the garage, a large photograph of the Olympic Peninsula, taken by Virginia Wilcox, is displayed on a Cost Plus World Market easel to fill a corner. Keep views clear Cable railings leave a wide-open view from the second floor. Idea House #2: Beach bungalow In this 1,600-square-foot bungalow, Paquette used many of the same design elements as in the larger house—but amplified the playfulness. Shrimp orange, chartreuse, true green, and dark aqua pop up throughout the spaces. The walls are packed with art—some of it framed, some hung from binder clips, and some plastered right onto the stair risers. Plant for practicality For one side of the shared backyard, designed by Seabrook's Stephen Poulakos, in-ground perennials and edibles in containers form a small kitchen garden. A mix of pea gravel and crushed oyster shells prevents water runoff. Think long term A metal roof can last 50 years or more. Get glitzy underfoot Add small pieces of recycled glass to pea gravel for shimmer. Reach great heights What the master bedroom lacks in square footage, it compensates for with a soaring paneled ceiling. The deep aqua wall color makes the lofty space still feel like a cocoon. Play up dimensions Paint ceilings a lighter tone of the wall color to make them appear higher. Brighten up Traditional lines and tufting meet beach-bright colors in the living room's CR Laine Chesterfield sofa. The color relaxes the serious piece, as do the chipped trunk and stool. Mismatch freely In the dining room, the mix of whimsical lighting from Rejuvenation, antique chairs, and a sleek table lends to the pleasantly unmatched look. Keep one color uniform Palm leaf green molding is a constant through most of the house, even while the wall color shifts from icy blue to chartreuse and back again. Bring molding down from the ceiling for a cozy, informal feel. Surprise with detail To add a sense of history in an unconventional way, Paquette enlarged black-and-white photos of clam diggers that he found at the local historical society, then decoupaged them to the stair risers. Bring the indoors out Cedar wood paneling gives the covered outdoor kitchen, below, warmth. The beams—painted green to match the home's trim—add enough architecture to make the space feel like a bona fide dining room. What it's like at Seabrook Like any beach community, the yards in Seabrook are strewn with sand pails, bikes, and buoys. But unlike many similar towns, Seabrook is purposely condensed into small neighborhoods, each centered on a communal green space or firepit, and no neighborhood is more than a short walk from the rest of the development. Houses are built as the lots are purchased (and often offered as rentals so they don't stand empty for part of the year), and owners have a say in the design of their homes—meaning there's a lot more personality than you might expect from a planned town. The official name for this intentional community-building design is New Urbanism, but town founder Casey Roloff calls it common sense. Either way, it's working. One homeowner met his Seattle neighbor only when they discovered they lived a few homes away in Seabrook. Kids run freely between houses, and families meet up at the volleyball net or in their shared front yard—Seabrook's miles and miles of wide, unspoiled beach. Seabrook, 4275 State 109, Pacific Beach, WA; seabrookwa.com


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Yes, I know, even though today is Halloween, Christmas has already started. At least that's what the folks at Target tell me. Well there still are a few hours of Halloween left, and you can score free food from Krispy Kreme!
Stop into the Krispy Kreme on the Beltline in costume, and get a free Halloween or Pumpkin Spice donut. Just have to be in costume. My guess is you actually HAVE to have a costume on. Can't be "Dad" or "Guy in a suit". Again, you are welcome. If there's free food to be found in West Michigan , I'm your man. I'd actually prefer a glazed kreme filled with white milk…thanks!


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Summer Nights, Cool Breezes and Cool Art
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RAA CONTACT INFO: Phone: 718-474-0861; Fax: 718-474-4373; e-mail: email@example.com; website: www.roc kawayartistsalliance.org.
ARTSPLASH 2007: RAA's annual juried multi-media cultural event is a major showcase for visual, literary and performing artists from all over the country, in an exciting variety of disciplines. The artwork and performers in ARTSPLASH fill sTudio 6 and sTudio 7 Galleries, the outdoor sculpture garden and the indoor and outdoor stages at the Rockaway Center for the Arts (RoCA), Fort Tilden, Rockaway, Queens, New York. Eligibility: ARTSPLASH 2007 is open to all media, including but not limited to, sculpture, photography, painting, watercolor, fiber and textile arts, dance, kinetic art, digital works, installation, video, film, audio CD, poetry, ceramics, music, theater, spoken word and performance. Performing artist participants will be featured in special events, both indoor and outdoor.
Deadline for receipt of entries: July 25, 2007. Dates: September 8-October 7, 2007. Opening reception: September 16, 2007.
Location: sTudio 6 at Fort Tilden, Rockaway, Queens, New York.
Eligibility: Open to RAA membership only (membership is $25). Work may be submitted from all types of media, including but not limited to, sculpture, photography, painting, watercolor, fiber and textile arts, dance, kinetic art, digital works, installation, video, film, audio CD, poetry, ceramics, music, theater, spoken word and performance.
Deadline for receipt of entries: October 4, 2007. Dates: November 18-December 16, 2007. Opening reception: November 18, 2007.
For both shows: For details and additional information please contact RAA: 718-474-0861; firstname.lastname@example.com. Full prospectuses and entry forms may be downloaded from: www.rocka wayartistsalliance.org.
Mark every Thursday evening on your calendar through August 30. This popular, lively outdoor series stars a diversity of great bands and the breezy, sparkling cooooooooool Rockaway nights. Concerts start at 7 p.m., and with the indoor stage in sTudio 7, they go on, rain or shine. Bring the family, beach chairs and/or blankets (some seating is available if you get there early enough) and your favorite cool drinks to RAA's outdoor Rockaway Moon Stage. July 5: The Kings, The John Lepore Band, and special guests (I'm intrigued). July 12: Seaside SongFest - James McKay (RAA board member and former member of The Flamingos, who are in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame) and friends do, do, do Doo Wop and other 50's vocal music.
Thanks to the bands and visitors to the Summer Solstice concert that kicked off this series. The rains came, but the bands played on in sTudio 7 where participants also enjoyed the artwork of "Planet Animals."
Combine great art with great food. "Lines in the Sand: The Chairs of Bagno Maria," an exhibit of painterly photographs by Christina Jorge, is presently on view through the summer at Joya Restaurant in Brooklyn. These timeless yet contemporary images transport the viewer to the summer Tuscan beach on which they were photographed. They capture the beauty and power of the vibrant colors and strong designs, angles and lines of the beach chairs of Bagno Maria in Italy. If you missed this exhibit when it first appeared in RAA's sTudio 6 Gallery last June, you can catch it now at Joya. If you saw it before, you can take renewed pleasure in these gorgeous images. "Lines in the Sand" is a perfect summer complement to the terrific Thai cuisine at reasonable prices to be found at Joya Restaurant. The large formatted photographs, which are c-prints, are of crystal clarity and highest quality, and are shown in floating gallery Plexiglas, adding to their clarity and immediacy. So stop in at Joya at 215 Court Street between Wyckoff and Warren Streets. Outdoor seating is available. For information: 718-222-3484. Hours: Monday 5-11 p.m., Tuesday-Thursday 12 noon-11 p.m., Friday/Saturday 12 noon-12 a.m., Sunday 12 noon-11 p.m.
Wave Hill is a stunning cultural institution in the northwest Bronx. Its gardens, woodlands, greenhouses and breathtaking views can inspire any artist. It is dedicated to exploring the interaction between human beings and the natural environment. As such, Wave Hill offers programs and workshops in the arts and sciences for children and adults, concerts and other cultural events. Examples: On view through August 26 is a group exhibition of work by contemporary artists, inspired by the writings of Henry David Thoreau, titled "Thoreau Reconsidered." "Digital Photography: Light and Shadow" is a workshop (one of a series) to be given starting on July 1, in which participants will walk through Wave Hill's woodlands while learning techniques of exposure, lighting and composition from photographer Marisol Diaz. Visit: www.wavehill.org to find out more information on how to spend a wonderful summer's day in a very special place. Phone: 718-549-3200.


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SBS could reap up to $40 million in advertising revenue from the World Cup in Brazil, as the broadcaster aims to better the average 350,000 viewers it attracted each match during the last tournament.
Advertisers have been lining up to cash in on one of the biggest sporting events in the world, despite the time zone difference, which puts most of the live games at early hours of the morning in Australia. The Socceroos' opening game against Chile on Saturday morning at 8am averaged 1.74 million metropolitan viewers.
The network, which has broadcast the World Cup for more than 20 years, is understood to have paid $30 million for the rights to the 2006, 2010 and 2014 World Cups, all things being equal, making this year's rights around $10 million.
Spot advertising packages
On top of the revenue generated from its six partners, SBS will also look to benefit from spot advertising packages for games and associated content,
The entire World Cup tournament, as well as all qualifiers involving Australia, are on the government's anti-siphoning list, despite efforts from
Despite the time difference, precedence set at previous World Cup's is giving SBS confidence it can deliver strong audience numbers for live matches.
In 2010, an average of 1.1 million viewers across five capital cities tuned in to watch Germany rout the Socceroos 4-0, which had a kick-off time of 4.30am across the east coast.
Throughout the entire tournament, SBS attracted an average of 350,000 viewers per games across capital cities, with a peak at 1.4 million for its coverage of Australia v Ghana.
The major advertisers will be tied to all 64 live games on SBS, with special priority given to Australia's matches, SBS director of media sales Andrew Cook said. "Advertisers also wanted to be a part of things outside the games, which is why we have our Aussie focus show, our full Brazil show and our World Cup show at night, as well as some of the social side of Rio, in terms of other content," Mr Cook said.
Exclusive rights
SBS holds exclusive live and replay rights for the entire cup. Matches will broadcast to standard definition and high definition, as well as streamed live and on-demand on desktop computers as well as tablets. SBS's World Game app will allow viewers to watch matches at different camera angles.
"We know, the World Cup is on for a month, people support Australia and generally another team because of the cultural makeup of Australia," Mr Cook said.
"From an audience point of view, it's such a big event, we're expecting good quality audiences, similar or better than South Africa," he said.
The 2018 and 2022 World Cup tournaments to be held in Russia and Qatar offer slightly more favourable time zones for SBS, who have retained exclusive broadcasting rights in a deal believed to be worth $40 million.
"There's a direction relation between audience and what you can sell the product for, the time zone will limit the audience potential of the property," Mr Nolan said.
"The World Cup in a better time zone could deliver audiences comparable to the Commonwealth Games, if not greater."
The broadcaster will also reap the benefits of deals made with the
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September Inland Empire jobs numbers show gains
Riverside County's Unemployment Rate Falls Nearly One Percentage Point
RIVERSIDE, Calif. - Riverside County's unemployment rate fell to 12 percent last month, with all but a few sectors expanding payrolls, state officials reported today.
The county's non-seasonally-adjusted jobless rate in September, based on preliminary estimates, declined nearly one percentage point from August, when the rate was 12.7 percent, according to the California Employment Development Department.
The rate was almost two percentage points below the level of a year ago, when unemployment stood at 13.9 percent.
Riverside County's civilian labor force numbered 937,400 people, with 112,300 out of work, according to figures.
The city of Cabazon had the highest unemployment rate countywide, at 29.4 percent, followed by Mecca at 23.7 percent and Homeland at 23.2 percent, according to the EDD.
The combined unemployment rate for Riverside and San Bernardino counties in September was 11.6 percent, down from 12.3 percent the prior month.
Bi-county data indicated that payrolls expanded in all but the manufacturing and hospitality sectors, which shed a total 1,000 jobs in September. Another 800 jobs were cut in non-categorized industries.
The professional and business services sector posted the largest increase -- 1,200 positions -- while the number of jobs added in the remaining sectors, including agriculture, also totaled around 1,200.
The state's non-seasonally-adjusted jobless rate was 9.7 percent.


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(YELLOWSTONE N.P.) – A group of tourists is in hot water, quite literally. A Wisconsin man contacted Yellowstone National Park officials after he saw about 30 people walking on the cone of the iconic Old Faithful geyser through the park's webcam. Park rangers cited four people for walking off the trail in the dangerous thermal area, a charge that carries a $125 fine. The tourists claim they didn't see the dozens of signs warning visitors to stay on the boardwalks.
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How to install Linux on an eMac
Why replace Mac OS X with Linux on an Apple eMac? I did it to revive an aging hardware platform and provide a computer to a friend. Here's how I replaced "Tiger" (OS X 10.1) first with Debian, then Ubuntu.
My friend Jack asked me a couple of weeks ago to help him find a good deal on his first computer. He just wanted something he could use to browse the Internet and keep in touch by email over a dial-up connection. I thought of the eMac in my living room, which has done nothing but gather dust the past few years.
The eMac is a fine machine, but it has always been a little slow, due primarily to the fact that it has only 128MB of RAM. That shortage of RAM kept me from upgrading to a later version of OS X several months ago: the latest version would install only on machines with 256MB. I didn't want to give Jack a machine that he would immediately need to spend several hundred dollars on in order to bring its operating system up to snuff, so I decided to see if I could install Linux on it.
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The 100 year old home was rebuilt to make it handicapped accessible for Christine's 15-year old daughter Brooklyn, who requires the use of a wheelchair from time to time. Brooklyn was born with a brain tumor and underwent many brain operations as a young girl. She's now cancer-free, but does have loss of her right arm. Christine has three other children, 21-year old Brian, 18-year old Brandon, and 4-year old Camri.
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Nov. 9, 2012
Recap | Box Score | Notes | Game Action
Mount St. Mary's at Pitt, Petersen Events Center, November 9, 2012
Pitt 80, Mount St. Mary's 48
Quoting Pitt Coach Jamie Dixon
Opening Statement:
"For the first game I thought we played really hard, probably an entertaining game for people watching. Lots of energy, terrific for both teams. They played small which was an adjustment for us. It usually is in the preseason when you play some teams. Obviously we knew they were going to shoot some three's, we figured that they would play like VCU, so we watched some tape of them last year. Lot of three's played real small, sometimes had four guards out there. I thought we guarded pretty well in the beginning, they hit some three's obviously and kept it close, but we continued staying with it and I thought we got a little better at contesting shots. We had to adjust to their speed, to their quickness and their deep range. We talked about it, we saw it coming. We had to guard the ball screens. Rotations, we have to get better at that. It was good to see it on film for our guys, as far as guarding the ball screens. A lot of good things, talk about offensively you can't do much better than that. 71 percent, only eight turnovers rebounded half of our misses, that's pretty efficient offensively. Some really good things on that end. As far as guys individually, I thought Lamar (Patterson) was really solid at the end, thought he was really unselfish and made some nice plays. He didn't look for himself and that was big. I thought we were really unselfish, even with the big lead, hopefully a sign of things going forward. Steve (Adams) and Talib (Zanna) gave us good presence inside. Dante (Taylor) got in some foul trouble and never really got going, but he's been playing really well and I'm excited about him. I thought Tray (Woodall) and James (Robinson) played really well and (Trey) Zeigler gave us good minutes. Thought we played really solid. Still trying to figure out a couple of guys. Chris (Jones) I think we're going to redshirt at this point, Aron (Nwankwo) same thing. Duron (Johnson) and John (Johnson) had a sickness and weren't able to go. I think they'll be ready to go tomorrow and I'm looking forward to having them out there. Mike (Lecak) is a redshirt as a transfer, so we only had nine guys that we could really put in there. I was looking for guys to put in at the end, but didn't have anyone to put in. We'll have everyone out there tomorrow and we'll have a good practice before we go against Fordham."
On Cameron Wright playing following the passing of his father from brain cancer:
"It's been a year and a half, I remember when he called me and told me he had been diagnosed with brain cancer and it's been an unbelievable tough time for the family. When I talked to him he said he wanted to play, his mom said he wanted to play, and his dad would've wanted him to play. It's tough, the players rallied around him. He's been playing well. You kind of sensed it the last couple of days that there was something. Talked to him a couple of times, he never really talked about it much. I thought he played really well, the numbers he had eight points and three rebounds, but I thought he got open and did some really good things defensively. He's had some really good practices these last couple of weeks and he's going to be a real good player for us. Can't say enough, he wanted to do it for his dad and I told him afterwards that his dad is very proud of him."
On what adjustments he made after Mt. Saint Mary's started the game 6-of-8 from three:
"I don't know, we were doing the same things. I said ball pressures need to get better, a little bit better hedging the ball screen. There was a flare that we didn't guard the right way, didn't guard it how we usually do. They scored in different ways. They made some tough shots, some deep threes. I would say we tightened up. I wouldn't say we did anything different per say, but we tried to do better at what we came in trying to do. Maybe were surprised at how quick and how deep they were going to shoot. We talked about it, but we couldn't even show them on film because we didn't have any film on them from this year. We talked about and it seemed like more of their shots were guarded in the second half. I think we learned as the game went along and I don't know if it was adjustment as much on our end."
On playing against the press:
"It's hard to play against it at any time, but especially when it's the first game. We knew they were going to probably do it, so we practiced for a while on it. Started early on it as far as playing against it. I thought the best thing we did was decisions on the back end. Usually that's where you run in to trouble. You don't get a lot of turnovers in the front court once you get across. Our shot selection once we got across, we got lay-ups, we didn't settle for threes. It was all of our guys. We made simple plays, simple passes and attacked when it was there."
Quoting senior guard Tray Woodall
On what the Panthers did offensively in setting a school field goal percentage record:
"We were moving the ball around, obviously Talib (Zanna) went 10-for-12 and he got a lot of layups inside. We didn't want to settle for three's (3-pointers), we shot one-for-six and I shot four three's. We didn't want to settle for jump shots, we wanted to make sure we could get to the basket. We've got big guys inside who can finish, we've got guards that can attack it to the basket, (and) we've got athletic players, so we didn't want to settle and we knew we could get lay-ups. Once we got them early, we were confident we could get them at the end."
On the team finishing 20-0 on fast break points:
"It's something that we definitely work on in practice. We wanted to stop them in transition, obviously, and we wanted everybody to get back, communicate and match up. As far as on the offensive end, having two point guards out there, myself and James (Robinson), we wanted to get out and run. We wanted to make sure we made smart decisions and also get guys lay-ups and shots, and that's something that we emphasize too. We wanted to pressure the ball a little more and also wanted to get out and run a little more."
On the Panthers offense:
"We just wanted to take what the defense gave us and they closed out on us pretty hard. They were trying to guard us pretty tight, so we just tried to take what the defense gave us and they gave us driving opportunities, so we just took that. We got to the basket on numerous occasions and tried to dump off to our bigs to make sure our bigs were happy inside, and we got them a couple of easy lay-ups."
On adjusting to the Mountaineers' full-court pressure:
"We were prepared for that. Coach (Jamie Dixon) told us about how their coach was from VCU and how VCU pressured, and I'm glad we got to it early. Teams like Louisville will do that so we want to be prepared for that. I'm glad we emphasized that early on pressing. We did a good job today and I was happy to see James (Robinson) doing a great job too, just going out there and handling that pressure."
On the conditioning of Pitt's frontcourt:
"It's great. We did a lot of off-season training and a lot of conditioning this off-season, and our bigs were, a lot of times, up front with the guards. It was great to see those guys definitely translating that over to the games and it's great to see guys get out and run. We want to reward our big men once they run the floor. It's just rewarding having those guys able to run. It's making our job a lot easier."
Quoting sophomore guard Cameron Wright
On competing in practice for a chance to get minutes during games:
"Every day we just go into practice with the mindset of making each other better. Once game-time comes we put all our trust into the coaching staff and they make the best decision for the team. We're all a brotherhood and whatever the coaches have in mind, we're all for it."
On his level of comfort now in his third year with the Panthers:
"Going into my third year, you know, two on the court, I'm extremely comfortable. Just learning my redshirt year from Brad Wanamaker, Gilbert Brown, learning from (Tray) Woodall, of course, and (Ashton Gibbs), I've been prepared. It's time for me to get out there."
Quoting junior forward Talib Zanna
On his game plan for getting himself set up for baskets:
"The guys did pretty good passing the ball. We just came out focused and ready to go."
Quoting Mount St. Mary's Coach Jamion Christian
On how the team played in the first 11 minutes:
"I'm really pleased with how our guys played in the first 11 minutes of the game. I think that's just a small microcosm of what you're going to see through the duration of the year."
On playing Pitt:
"I think it was a great game for us to open with because to beat a team like Pitt, you're not only going to have to play pretty well, you really have to play together. When you're trying to build a program like we are, you want to play teams like that to use as an example for what you want to become."
On his team shooting 6-of-8 from three-point range to open the game:
"Every time I call a player over there, I think it's going to go in. I was disappointed it was 6-of-8. I thought we should be 8-8."
On how the performance changed after the first 11 minutes:
"We just turned the ball over. In any game, you can't afford to turn the ball over. If you do, you hope to deflect a pass out of bounds. We had a couple live ball turnovers. We didn't stick to the plan that we had set out for our guys for a few minutes. In games like this, it can get away from you."
On Talib Zanna's improvement during his Pitt career:
"He looks unbelievable. I've seen him play since he was a junior in high school, so I'm pleased for him because he's really starting to become the player we all thought he could be."
Pitt Men's Basketball Season Ticket Renewal Opens
Pitt Lands St. John's Transfer Malik Ellison
Pitt to Host Montana and UCSB in Legends Classic
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Chapter 6
The Courtyard of the Hotel Grammont.
On Malicorne's arrival at Orleans, he was informed that the Comte de Guiche had just
set out for Paris. Malicorne rested himself for a couple of hours, and then prepared to
continue his journey. He reached Paris during the night, and alighted at a small hotel,
where, in his previous journeys to the capital, he had been accustomed to put up, and at
eight o'clock the next morning presented himself at the Hotel Grammont. Malicorne
arrived just in time, for the Comte de Guiche was on the point of taking leave of
Monsieur before setting out for Le Havre, where the principal members of the French
nobility had gone to await Madame's arrival from England. Malicorne pronounced the
name of Manicamp, and was immediately admitted. He found the Comte de Guiche in
the courtyard of the Hotel Grammont, inspecting his horses, which his trainers and
equerries were passing in review before him. The count, in the presence of his
tradespeople and of his servants, was engaged in praising or blaming, as the case
seemed to deserve, the appointments, horses, and harness that were being submitted
to him; when, in the midst of this important occupation, the name of Manicamp was
"Manicamp!" he exclaimed; "let him enter by all means." And he advanced a few steps
toward the door.
Malicorne slipped through the half-open door, and looking at the Comte de Guiche, who
was surprised to see a face he did not recognize, instead of the one he expected, said:
"Forgive me, monsieur le comte, but I believe a mistake has been made. M. Manicamp
himself was announced to you, instead of which it is only an envoy from him."
"Ah!" exclaimed De Guiche, coldly; "and what do you bring me?"
"A letter, monsieur le comte." Malicorne handed him the first document, and narrowly
watched the count's face, who, as he read it, began to laugh.
"What!" he exclaimed, "another maid of honor? Are all the maids of honor in France,
then, under his protection?"
Malicorne bowed.
"Why does he not come himself?" he inquired.
"He is confined to his bed."
"The deuce! he has no money then, I suppose," said De Guiche, shrugging his
shoulders. "What does he do with his money?"