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How To Date: Single Parent
Reconciliation is not a plan;
As two single parents we stand;
The birth of a baby created;
Is bliss;
Life exploded into being;
The beauty of this blessing is what we are foreseeing;
Responsibility of innocence is honored and faced;
Extended family is kindly embraced;
Starting over with a child;
Feeling liked a domesticated cat, released out into the wild
Having the pleasure of loving my baby, learning from one another as we both grow;
Selfless giving I bestow;
To give to my child fills my heart with love, strong and bold;
Receiving back is a reflection of the mirror I hold;
Yes, my relationship has shifted;
But, a new opportunity to have what I desire in a partner has been gifted;
Victoria Levine
Well here you are, circumstances and choices have lead you to becoming a single parent. As a single parent you have many responsibilities and sometimes you may feel as though your life is not your own. Your life is yours you just have an extension of other lives within yours. It is important to have a piece of it that is just for you. You need balance and that self nurturing time that you can call your own. It may be time put aside to work out at the gym or take yoga, these places usually have affordable day care. It could be reading a book, playing a sport, learning a hobby or signing up for a class you want to take. It could be getting out with your friends or having a passionate night of amazing sex. All of these things help us to stay balanced in life. A happy healthy life, is a balanced life. Utilizing any family members or close friends that are willing to help babysit is a must. Spread it out so no one feels taken advantage of, keeping it a fun and pleasant experience for everyone. If money is not an issue, having hired trustworthy help is a great benefit. Especially for a working single parent. If money is an issue, trading off with another single parent once a week, watching each other's kids, can work out well, especially for date night. Yes date night. You are a single parent, you are not dead.
Dating can be tricky, but here are a few tips:
Keep your love life and dating experiences separate from your kids;
If you are just looking to have fun, do not get into detail about your kids.
If you are looking for a relationship, you do want to let who you are dating know that you do have kids. If this scares them off, better sooner than later.
Wait at least 5 to 6 months before planning an introduction. You need to establish your feelings for one another before you start including the kids, even if you both have kids. It seems easy to just bring everyone together, giving you more chances to see each other, but you do not want to bring people into your life that your child could become attached to and then have them disappear.
If the X gives you guilt for having a life, do not let it effect you. As long as you are spending quality time with your children and their needs are met, you are fine. The X may be a little jealous.
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Abstract: This research seeks to examine the role that context or learning situation plays in strategy choice by comparing the strategy patterns of a private English medium secondary and a government secondary school in Botswana. More specifically, the main ofjectives of this study are to, firstly, investigate whether the type of school influences the choice of language learning strategies of its students: secondly, to find out whether private English medium secondary school students use more strategies than government secondary school in Botswana: and, thirdly, to explore the role played by gender on the choice of language learning strategies. Form four students from oneprivete English medium senior secondary school and one government senior secondary completed the strategy inventory for language learning (SIILL). The data was analysed using descriptive statistics to calculate means and standard deviations of strategies and inferential statistics such as ANOVA to establish the relationships between group and individual strategies. The findinds of this study showed that the choice of strategies was not greatly influenced by the type of school from which the student came. However, this study found that government school students relied more on the use of dictionaries. On the other hand, private English medium students volunteered to look for conversation partners in order to get practice in speaking English. In relation to gender, the findings of this studyconfirmed other previous findings that female students use more language learning strategies than do male students. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10311/859 Files in this item: 1
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Season Finale with Zach Braff and Maroon 5
Our season finale. It was as celebratory/teary as I thought it was going to be, but still fun. It's very much like the end of a school year, with people hugging and wishing each other good summers. There is even a version of cleaning out your locker; getting rid of stuff from your dressing room.
Here are some things I found that made me say out loud "why do I have this?" A CD of only the guitar intro to a James Taylor song, a glossy picture of the cast from "Lost", a plastic cup filled with honey packets, and a PlayStation controller not connected to anything. I seriously have no idea how these things ended up in my room.
Some things I remember from the week:
There was a part in the Vinnie Vedecci sketch where Italian crew guys are supposed to be playing a game of foosball (you know, the mini soccer game?). For some reason the props department didn't hear about getting a foosball table until the rehearsal on Saturday. It happens sometimes and is no big deal, but for some reason everyone on the floor was talking about it. It drove me crazy hearing that word 'foosball' over and over again!
"They didn't get a foosball table. Are we supposed to be playing foosball? Were you not told about the foosball table? No, nobody mentioned a foosball table to us."
Try saying that word over and over to yourself. It just doesn't sound right. They did eventually find a foosball table. Foosball.
Hanging out with the superfans outside the studio. Every Friday night, hardcore SNL fans camp out outside NBC to get on the standby line for tickets to the show. They bring sleeping bags and tents and are so dedicated. Bill and I stopped by to talk to them for a bit. They are so sweet and way nicer than the superfans who camp out for "Dateline".
Working with Tom the costume designer on getting the right look for the Melissa character. We kept using city areas to guide it. "A little less Williamsburg. It's L.A. but more Silverlake." Right before we did the sketch I had to run in to the control room to get last minute script changes from the producers. It was kind of a rushed and serious moment until I caught myself in a mirror and saw what they were talking to.
Hearing James Anderson, the guy who writes "Deep House Dish", sing these lines to our music arranger so she can come up with tracks: "Cause it's my duty duty duty duty to pop my booty booty booty booty."
Andy, Akiva, and Jorma shot the digital short with Zach very late on Friday night. They shoot and edit these pieces really late with very little equipment or planning. I am always blown away when I finally get to see them.
I had to do a few quick changes during the live show. That's when you have a sketch soon after another that requires a full costume transformation. You don't have time to go back to your changing booth so they run you to a designated spot in the studio. Every cast member is provided with a wardrobe person, makeup artist and hair/wig stylist. These people rip everything off of you and put you in a new outfit and wig in seconds ("careful with the moustache...ouch!").
It's dramatic and frenzied, with the stage manager yelling "you have twenty seconds...fifteen.." to add to the stress. By the way, the person who does my hair is Jodi. She is amazing and a total New Yorker. The "Bronx Beat" sketch came from Amy's impression of her. I hope this blog isn't how Jodi is learning about this.
Zach was really cool to work with and a very good sport about being puked on by a puppet.
Leaving the after-after party at 6am with the sun coming up. These bicycle guys in full spandex gear rode by and I was like "Who gets up this early? That's crazy! I should write a sketch about bicycle dudes next week." I guess that masterpiece will have to wait.
PS: I'm going to continue writing about previous episodes from this season as they rerun them over the summer. Foosball.


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March 7, 2011
Tyrannosaurus: Hyena of the Cretaceous
Of all the organisms scientists have found in the fossil record, Tyrannosaurus rex is the most prominent ambassador for paleontology. No dinosaur hall is complete without at least some fragment of the tyrant dinosaur, and almost anything about the dinosaur is sure to get press coverage. We simply can't get enough of old T. rex. It was no surprise, then, that a census of Tyrannosaurus specimens from Montana's Hell Creek Formation published by Jack Horner, Mark Goodwin and Nathan Myhrvold in PLoS One gained wide media coverage, but there was a sub-story that many news outlets missed. Rather than overturning the image of Tyrannosaurus as a predator, as some reports claimed, the conclusions of the new study actually brought Horner's stance on the iconic dinosaur close to what other experts thought.
The story behind the new PLoS One study began eighteen years ago. The film Jurassic Park had just triggered a wave of dinomania unlike any seen before, and paleontologists were quick to take advantage of the interest that the film had generated. Among them were Gary Rosenberg and Donald Wolberg, who organized 1994′s Dino Fest event at Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis, and one of the invited speakers was Jack Horner. One of the chief consultants on Jurassic Park, Horner had helped bring the film's terrifying Tyrannosaurus to life, but in his talk he presented a different picture of the dinosaur.
Horner's lecture was titled "Steak Knives, Beady Eyes, and Tiny Little Arms (A Portrait of T. rex as a Scavenger)," and a transcript of it was printed in the collected proceedings of the conference. With Jurassic Park fresh in the audience's mind, Horner explained that the real animal probably wasn't as speedy or ferocious as the film made it seem. "In fact," Horner said, "I think the only thing that Tyrannosaurus rex would have done in that movie is eat that lawyer."
In Horner's view, Tyrannosaurus was built for scavenging. Despite possessing a huge head full of serrated teeth the size of rail spikes, the tyrant dinosaur had puny, rigid arms, and Horner argued that strong arms would have been essential for an active predator to catch and subdue prey. Furthermore, Horner pointed to the apparently small eyes of Tyrannosaurus and the large olfactory lobe of the dinosaur's brain. Horner asserted his uncertainty about these features—"I don't know if it's worth anything," he said—but hinted that they might be consistent with the idea of Tyrannosaurus as a scavenger that was better at sniffing out carcasses than following live prey. Since the hadrosaurs and horned dinosaurs of the time lived in giant herds, Horner suggested that tyrannosaurs followed them to pick at the carcasses of those that died as the herds trod around the landscape. Horner concluded:
Picture Tyrannosaurus rex. He has no arms, can't run fast, appears to have a large olfactory lobe and he's big. Interestingly enough if you think about it, one of the best things to be if you are a scavenger is big so you can chase away anything else around the carcass.
Horner's book "The Complete T. rex", published that year with science writer Don Lessem, presented the "obligate scavenger" hypothesis to a wider audience. Similar ideas had been proposed before, but Horner's public suggestion that Tyrannosaurus was a lazy scavenger stirred immediate controversy. This was not so much an academic debate as a tug-of-war over who would mold the image of Tyrannosaurus.
Among the early responses to Horner's ideas was a 1997 lecture delivered by Theagarten Lingham-Soliar to the British Association for the Advancement of science (later printed in Geology Today) titled "Guess who's coming to dinner: A portrait of Tyrannosaurus as a predator." Tyrannosaurus would have scavenged when the opportunity arose, Lingham-Soliar said, but the reinforced skull and impact-resistant teeth of the dinosaur were clearly well-suited to handling struggling prey. Even juveniles had these features, and given their small size it was probable that they were actively hunting smaller fare instead of relying on scraps from carcasses already obliterated by adults.
Responses like Lingham-Soliar's did little to quell the debate. The scavenger hypothesis was popularized in books, news reports and documentaries. Horner's influence even turned Tyrannosaurus into a scavenger during an early scene of Jurassic Park III. Horner hinted that part of his motivation for proposing the obligate scavenger idea was to get scientists and dinosaur fans to think critically about commonly accepted ideas. Despite the amount of attention the idea received, other paleontologists were not convinced.
The ultimate take-down of Horner's hypothesis was published by tyrannosaur expert Thomas Holtz in the 2008 book "Tyrannosaurus rex: The Tyrant King." Right at the outset, Holtz pointed out that flesh-eating animals do not break down into neat categories of "scavenger" and "predator." Spotted hyenas—traditionally believed to be almost pure scavengers—have been found to be active hunters, and even lions, iconic hunters, obtain a significant part of their food through scavenging. Large carnivorous animals both hunt and scavenge food. Tyrannosaurus would not have been different.
Holtz's paper was the first comprehensive and scientific critique of Horner's idea. The ideas had been batted around in talks, documentaries and popular books, but Holtz actually put in the scientific legwork to see if the traits Horner associated with scavenging truly indicated that Tyrannosaurus relied almost entirely on carrion.
Holtz's analysis dismantled what Horner had proposed. The eyes of Tyrannosaurus were not atypically small; the proportions of its legs would have allowed it to run faster than other large theropods (and, more importantly, potential prey species); it had deeply rooted teeth that would have been able to cope with the stresses generated by struggling prey; and its small forelimbs would not have prohibited it from hunting and killing other dinosaurs. Oddly enough, some of the best evidence of tyrannosaur hunting come from two animals that escaped attacks by the dinosaur: an Edmontosaurus with a partially healed bite along its tail and a Triceratops skull showing a similar type of damage. Since Tyrannosaurus was the only gigantic predator known from the habitats in which the injured herbivores were found, it is probable that the dinosaurs were survivors of Tyrannosaurus attacks.
Tyrannosaurus almost certainly scavenged—something that has been supported by the recent discovery of cannibalism and an instance of scavenging by the related Tarbosaurus—but there was nothing about the dinosaur that barred it from being a formidable hunter. "[T]here is no evidence to suggest that tyrannosaurs were radically different in diet from living large-bodied carnivores, which obtain food [by] both predation and scavenging," Holtz said.
As reconstructed by Holtz, Tyrannosaurus may have been the spotted hyena of its day. The hyenas do not have large claws or muscular arms like lions. Instead, they primarily catch, kill and consume prey with their robust jaws, which is what the tyrant dinosaur would have done as well. Especially after Holtz's paper, the idea that Tyrannosaurus hunted and scavenged should not have surprised anyone. So why did so many media sources act with astonishment at the statements by Horner and his team in reference to their new PLoS One paper?
The answer — after the jump
The recent publication of a paper that explicitly attacked Horner's hypothesis set the stage. A few weeks ago, Chris Carbone, Samuel Turvey and Jon Bielby published a study suggesting that smaller meat-eating dinosaurs would have destroyed most of the available carcasses before Tyrannosaurus had a chance to get to them, making it unlikely that the giant dinosaur relied on carrion for food. There were a few problems with the lists of dinosaurs the authors drew up to create their estimates, but the study still made the important point that Tyrannosaurus probably would have competed with numerous other dinosaurs for carrion. Scavenging would not have been as easy a gig as Horner initially proposed.
The study by Carbone and co-authors cast doubt on the ability of Tyrannosaurus to find—much less consume—dinosaur carcasses. But a little more than a week later, Horner, Goodwin and Myhrvold concluded that the tyrant must have scavenged.
Horner and colleagues based their hypothesis on a census of dinosaurs found in the vicinity of Fort Peck Reservoir in northeastern Montana during the decade-long Hell Creek Project. The goal of this effort is to "create a comprehensive biotic foundation from which paleobiological and geological hypotheses could be tested," including an understanding of dinosaur abundance at the end of the Cretaceous. The new paper presented some preliminary results from the census, and Tyrannosaurus turned out to be more common than expected.
Outcrops sampled by the Hell Creek Project were divided into three sections: lower, middle and upper slices. The top and bottom sections were the focus of the PLoS One report, and within each portion many remains of Triceratops, Edmontosaurus, and Tyrannosaurus were found. Triceratops was the most common in each section, but, surprisingly, Tyrannosaurus was just as common, if not slightly more common, than the hadrosaur Edmontosaurus. In the upper Hell Creek section, for example, the census included twenty two Triceratops, five Tyrannosaurus, and five Edmontosaurus.
(The dinosaurs Thescelosaurus, Ornithomimus, Pachycephalosaurus, and Ankylosaurus were also included in the breakdown, but were relatively rare. Small predatory dinosaurs, such as Troodon, were reported as being rare and are not included in the breakdown.)
The relative number of Tyrannosaurus skeletons seems high for a predatory species. Why would a large predator be about as common as one of its prey species? Perhaps there was some kind of bias in preservation or collection. If Edmontosaurus was one of the main sources of food for Tyrannosaurus, for example, the skeletons of these dinosaurs were probably destroyed on a regular basis and therefore did not enter the fossil record. The census records what was preserved and discovered, but is not a perfect snapshot of local ecology. Even so, Tyrannosaurus does seem to be abundant in each section of the Hell Creek Formation that was sampled, and the authors of the new paper suggest that this was because the dinosaur was an opportunistic feeder.
Contrary to the conclusions of Carbone and colleagues, the PLoS One study proposes that Tyrannosaurus scavenged regularly. How else could the area have supported so many tyrant dinosaurs? "Tyrannosaurus may have acquired a larger percentage of meat from carrion sources than did smaller theropods," Horner and co-authors suggested, "therefore filling the role of a more generalized, carnivorous opportunist such as a hyena."
The conclusion of the new paper corresponds with what Holtz suggested several years ago, but frustratingly, Horner and colleagues do not specify what kind of hyena they imagine Tyrannosaurus as. This is not just a bit of nit-picking. Despite their reputations of scavengers, the large spotted hyenas actually obtain the majority of their prey by hunting. The degree to which spotted hyenas hunt varies from place to place, but carrion may make up as little as five percent of the diet of some populations, such as Kenya's "Talek clan." The smaller brown and striped hyenas, by contrast, are primarily scavengers that also take live prey when they can. Horner, Goodwin, and Myhrvold do not specify which species they are talking about—they refer to hyenas in a general sense—and so their exact idea of Tyrannosaurus feeding habits is left unclear.
Significantly, though, the authors of the PLoS One paper note that the feeding habits of individual Tyrannosaurus may have changed as they grew. Young Tyrannosaurus may have been more predatory, whereas the more powerful jaws of adult individuals allowed them to more effectively scavenge, meaning that Tyrannosaurus actually occupied a range of predatory niches throughout its life. Perhaps this is why smaller predatory dinosaurs are relatively rare in the Fort Peck Reservoir deposits: young Tyrannosaurus may have filled the "small predator" role.
That Tyrannosaurus was an opportunistic carnivore that both hunted and scavenged isn't news. Paleontologists have been saying this in response to Horner's "obligate scavenging" hypothesis for years, and Holtz specifically drew comparisons to predators like spotted hyenas. What is noteworthy is that Horner appears to have softened his original hypothesis to the point where I was surprised that Holtz's paper was not cited as a more direct source of support for Tyrannosaurus as an opportunistic feeder. The abundance of Tyrannosaurus in the Fort Peck Reservoir area is a significant surprise, but the paper's conclusions about the lifestyle of Tyrannosaurus is not as shocking as news reports made them out to be.
Cooper, S., Holekamp, K., & Smale, L. (1999). A seasonal feast: long-term analysis of feeding behaviour in the spotted hyaena (Crocuta crocuta) African Journal of Ecology, 37 (2), 149-160 DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2028.1999.00161.x
Hayward, M. (2006). Prey preferences of the spotted hyaena (Crocuta crocuta) and degree of dietary overlap with the lion (Panthera leo) Journal of Zoology, 270 (4), 606-614 DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-7998.2006.00183.x
Holtz, T.R. 2008. "A Critical Reappraisal of the Obligate Scavenging Hypothesis for Tyrannosaurus rex and Other Tyrant Dinosaurs." in Larson, P. and Carpenter, K. (eds) Tyrannosaurus rex: The Tyrant King. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
Horner, J.R. 1994. "Steak Knives, Beady Eyes, and Tiny Little Arms (A Portrait of T. rex as a Scavenger." in Rosenberg, G.D. and Wolberg, D.L. (eds) Dino Fest. The Paleontological Society Special Publication No. 7.
Horner, J., Goodwin, M., & Myhrvold, N. (2011). Dinosaur Census Reveals Abundant Tyrannosaurus and Rare Ontogenetic Stages in the Upper Cretaceous Hell Creek Formation (Maastrichtian), Montana, USA PLoS ONE, 6 (2) DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0016574
LINGHAM-SOLIAR, T. (1998). Guess who's coming to dinner: A portrait of Tyrannosaurus as a predator Geology Today, 14 (1), 16-20 DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2451.1998.014001016.x
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"Horner hinted that part of his motivation for proposing the obligate scavenger idea was to get scientists and dinosaur fans to think critically about commonly accepted ideas."- I can't read minds, but i can't help feel like this was a response to the immense backlash this idea produced.
"So why did so many media sources act with astonishment at the statements by Horner and his team in reference to their new PLoS One paper?"- Because controversy sells, especially when it concerns ol' T. rex.
I had come across this on UCMP's blog, but they didn't give as thorough a background as you did. Truth be told this opportunistic predator deal was how i viewed Arctodus for a while. And i think the idea that juveniles and adults occupied different niches is a very interesting one.
[...] Switek at his excellent Smithsonian blog has surveyed the pros and cons of the predatory and scavenging nature of T rex. Stumble! for [...]
[...] Instead, poor Al is given a worse deal than Tyrannosaurus, being treated as an obligate scavenger (sigh) with a septic bite and a horrendous musky stench floating around itself. If anything, I would have [...]
[...] support that pressure and having short front arms i just don't buy them being a predator. Look. Tyrannosaurus: Hyena of the Cretaceous | Dinosaur Tracking So are the dinosaurs as old as evolutionist say ? T. Rex Soft Tissue Found Preserved Hillary [...]
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TUSCALOOSA, Ala. (AP) -- Authorities are warning football fans to be on the lookout for fake tickets for Saturday's Alabama-Auburn game in Tuscaloosa.
The Iron Bowl is a sellout, but tickets are still for on sale on websites including Craigslist.
Many are priced in the hundreds of dollars, and brokers say some of those tickets could be frauds.
University of Alabama officials say that anyone trying to get into the game with a fake ticket could be investigated, and no one will get into Bryant-Denny Stadium with a counterfeit ticket.
Auburn and Alabama play at 2:30 p.m. Saturday.
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ALTHOUGH TEEN PROSTITUTES live in the same cities and towns as ordinary teenagers across the United States, their world is very different. They are here in our communities, and yet they are hidden from most people. They are kids, and yet the life they live separates them from most other kids and from normal teenage activities and concerns. They are criminals, but they are the victims of repeated crimes. They are family members, but most have not known a family's love and support. They have independence, but they do not have freedom. They are earning money, but they live in poverty. They are sexually active, but without intimacy. They have escaped one set of rules but are forced to obey other, harsher ones.
The world of prostitution is so separate from the ordinary world that most people rarely catch more than a glimpse of it. If they pause to wonder about a teen prostitute's life—to ask what it's really like, what would make a young person want to live like that, or what prostitution does to a teenager—they will not find many clues in the ordinary world. Even when the news tells of the death or the arrest of a young prostitute, it rarely explains anything about the world that young person lived in.
Looking behind the surface of that separate world is one way to see how teen prostitutes really live. Even from an early age, these kids often have a different and painful experience of the world. The steps they take to avoid being hurt in the ordinary world often lead them, unknowingly, into the separate world of prostitution. Exploring what prostitution means to the kids who are involved in it helps show what has worked and what hasn't in helping teen prostitutes return to the ordinary world.
For some teens, prostitution is a kind of turned-around way of trying to get the financial support and love that they need, but that their families haven't been able to provide. Yet their families may cling to a respectable image that is not connected to the harsh realities their child must cope with on the street. Lacking parental support and love, these teens would have a very difficult time trying to cross back into the world where they grew up.
One girl explained the attitude of her parents toward her life as a prostitute:
My family knows about it, but since I left home and have been supporting myself, I gets [sic] along better with them than when I lived there. My dad, he don't say nothin' about it. My mother says she wished I wasn't out there, but she will accept me back and I am still her daughter no matter what I did.1
This girl sees her prostitution as something she "did," not as a form of sexual exploitation. She perceives her parents' lives as better without her presence—a very profound loss, and a strong barrier to her ever returning to live under their care.
"She didn't really care"
Another teen prostitute's name was published in the crime reports of her hometown newspaper. In this very public way, she was labeled as a criminal. Yet her story reveals that she, also, lacked support from the most important person in the life of most children, her mother.
Yeah, she read about it in the papers when I got arrested for prostitution. So I explained it to her and it just hurt her so bad, she said. But she didn't really care 'cause she was trying to find some way of getting rid of having to support me, so it didn't bother her all that much. She said it did, and carried on a scene, but it didn't bother her at all.2
Her mother's respectability does not include a sense of genuine caring for her daughter's welfare.
These teens, like too many other runaways and hustlers on the streets of America's cities, have moved into a life separated from everyday concerns and values. The stories told by these and many other street kids show how different their lives are from the lives of most American teenagers. While all teens share many of the same hopes and wishes, these teenagers face quite different worries and problems. Their stories are a window into the separate world of prostitution.
Source: Teen Prostitution, ©1997-12-01 Gale Cengage. All Rights Reserved. Full copyright.


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SAVE Joan Rivers' place on the market again
If you saw this apartment in her documentary "A Piece of Work" and couldn't decipher the layout, all is revealed.
There're plans from when the house was split up in the 1930s, and a set in the condo declaration, but both omit the PH.
What a trophy!
Talk about over the top taste...
can we talk?
More background in today's paper: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/12/nyregion/for-joan-rivers-role-on-condo-board-a-serious-matter.html
Her best line: "It's how Marie Antoinette would've lived, had she had money."
I kind of love it. Also rent "A Piece of Work", quite an interesting film on this controversial, hard working and very sensitive woman.
Joan actually had a role in a pure drama "The Swimmer" with Burt Lancaster. This was one of those film gems that few people saw.
It's funny--I'm never a fan of fussy, over-the-top Louis-style decor BUT this one just works on so many levels. The super-high ceilings help, of course...
It's Joan meets Elton John.
I like how the article has a name spell correction on the Voodoo preistess.
I have nothing. In total agreement with everyone. Refredhing!
Yes, "The Swimmer": great flick; Joan Rivers + Cheever
What a gem!
In all honesty, how much would this place cost to make look "normal" or more
You mean rip the panelling out or paint it landlord-white? Anybody who wanted sheetrock would most likely buy a new-construction place instead.
Yes, how much to paint the place white?
Sure, paint it white if you plan to turn it into a bank. Given the debutantes who come from abroad with much cash; I picture walls of velvet. For starters.
If she sells it to Bruce Jenner no one in the building will know she moved.
Good morning Ms. Rivers.
My name is Jenner! Bruce Jenner! I won the the decathlon, I married a Kardasian, I am the strongest bravest man you will ever know!
That Joan Rivers is so funny...always tweeting her act, what a professional. Jenner...how funny.
I hear Heidi Abromowitz put in a bid.


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Nature: Structure Fire
Address: 33105 Serenity Cir Millsboro, DE 19966
On Sunday evening, July 8th, during a severe thunderstorm watch, the Indian River Volunteer Fire Company was alerted for a structure fire at 33105 Serenity Circle in the Peninsula off of Bay Farm Road.
Emergency incident response included: Ladder 80, Engine #80-1, and Rescue 80 from the Oak Orchard facility and Engine #80-3 and Engine #80-5 from the Long Neck facility.
Emergency response crew assignments included to investigate the reported incident and determine the severity of the issue. It was identified that the homeowner had extinguish actual fire and identified an odor of propane within the residential structure.
The incident command functionalities were coordinated by Chief Steven C. Deery, Jr. who requested Engine #80-1 and Engine #80-3 to investigate the incident, disconnect the propane gas service, ventilate the structure, and mitigate all concerns.
It appears that the incident was result of a potential lightning strike causing a brief fire and impacted the propane gas lines.
The property owner was apprised to have the gas lines evaluated prior to reconnection and will have to mitigate some damage to the interior walls and insulation.
While investigating this incident, Chief Deery continued to smell smoke and potential fire; however, this current residential location was not the origin of the concern. Upon additional evaluation, Chief Deery located a neighboring residential structure with smoke pouring from the eaves and notified the Sussex County Emergency Operations Center that an actual working alarm was present in the unit block of 33199 Serenity Court.
Chief Deery transferred incident command for the initial incident and mitigated the second alarm concern.
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JobsOhio under scrutiny from Ohio Ethics Commission
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - Ohio's ethics agency has warned six of nine directors of Ohio's fledgling privatized job-creation board that their business interests raise potential conflicts of interest.
The Ohio Ethics Commission identified the six JobsOhio board members, including Chairman James Boland, along with three employees after a routine review of their confidential financial disclosure filings. A JobsOhio spokeswoman said none of the potential conflicts amounted to anything. She said the board has not played a role in any dealings the flagged companies may have done with the state.
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Exxon Valdez Oil Spill Litigation Records Appraisal and Processing Project
- About the Project
- Oversight Task Force
- Frequently Asked Questions
- Other Exxon Resources
Alaska State Archives Record Group 1 Office of the Governor; series 801Exxon Valdez oil spill records
The Exxon Valdez oil spill was a decisive event in world history. It permanently changed the lives of those who live in Alaska; especially people in the spill region. Lawsuits between the State of Alaska, the United States government and Exxon and Alyeska Corporations and other defendants lasted five years. All state and federal cases were eventually combined as a federal case presided over by Judge J. Russell Holland and a state case presided over by Judge Brian Shortell.
The Alaska Department of Law Environmental Litigation Section, led by Barbara Herman and Craig Tillery, tried the case on behalf of the State of Alaska. Over the years the State accumulated a huge case file ~ testimony, filings, evidence and miscellaneous other material ~ as many as eight million pages! Storing and managing files was and continues to be a significant cost to the People and State of Alaska.
Alaska State Archives Record Group 1 Office of the Governor; series 801Exxon Valdez oil spill records
Final litigation settlement with the State of Alaska came in 1993. (This doesnt include private plaintiff cases nor the States current Reopener Clause litigation, which covers unforeseen additional damages, which were tried and settled separately.) State records policies required the Alaska Department of Law to retain the file for fifteen years. That ended in 2009 and the Alaska State Archives subsequently began to evaluate the records.
But 8,000,000 pages is a lot of material, and portions were spread among several locations in Anchorage and Juneau. Making decisions about these materials was a full time job; only one of many for the State Archives. Fortunately the National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC, the National Archives grant agency) provided funds for a special project to address these materials and to hire a project archivist. The State Archives provided one of its permanent staff to act as project director.
The two year project began October 1, 2011 and will terminate September 30, 2013. It allows archivists to determine what permanent Exxon Valdez litigation files to keep in the State Archives and what files no longer need to be kept. Project staff will sort through, dispose and organize records in Juneau, then move to those located in Anchorage. Records without permanent value will be disposed. Permanent records will be organized and added to the State Archives catalog, then publicized around the world via an online bibliographic catalog.
Alaska State Archives Record Group 1 Office of the Governor; series 801Exxon Valdez oil spill records
To assure participation by Alaskans, who were most significantly impacted by the spill, project staff has assembled a seven member Oversight Task Force. The Task Force will meet four times, at about six month intervals, and will review and comment on project activities, and most importantly, will advise project staff on significant issues historians dont usually deal with ~ issues like legalities and restrictions, science and technology, community and regional affairs, and how to best keep the public informed and involved.
Exxon Valdez Litigation Documents Project Slideshow SchoolTube video or (PDF)
Oversight Task Force Members
Patience Andersen Faulkner,
Member Eyak Tribal Council
Prince William Sound Regional Citizens Advisory Council
& Cordova District Fishermen United
Long lasting environmental and emotional impacts mean that Prince William Sound Spill History never goes away. Patience worked at the Fishermens Claims Office in Cordova processing nearly all 53 EVOS claims categories for class attorneys and coordinated direct action attorneys. She interviewed many claimants and collected interview support documents. She continued to assist on a pro bono basis and shes still in contact with many claimants. She also serves on the Prince William Sound Regional Citizens Advisory Council and several public interest organizations.
Kurt Fredriksson,
Former Commissioner Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation
Kurt has more than30 years resource and environmental regulation experience across multiple Alaskan venues. He established the Governors temporary Cordova Office during the States first Exxon Valdez Oil Spill response season and was an Oil Spill Trustee Council member. As Deputy Director and Director of the Spill Prevention and Response Division, 1990-1998 he collaborated with the Legislature, industry, regional citizen groups, federal agencies and other public stakeholders to develop the nations most advanced spill prevention, preparedness and response network. As Deputy Commissioner of Environmental Conservation, 1998-2004 and Commissioner, 2004-2006, he was Alaskas primary spokesperson on environmental quality issues and approved state environmental quality standards.
Andrew Goldstein,
Curator of Collections & Exhibitions
Valdez Museum & Historical Archives
Valdez, like all Southcentral Alaska communities, has a unique story to tell about how it was affected by the Spill. The Valdez Museums Archives has about 15,000 documents, photographs and other items that narrate this emotional story. Andrew is familiar with the complex issues and well acquainted with the museums archives collection and the need to identify and prioritize EVOS collections. For 3 years he researched and then installed the Museums May 2011 Exxon Valdez Oil Spill Exhibit. He has connections to professionals, scholars, stakeholders, and community members from all perspectives.
Barbara Hendricksen,
Lead State Paralegal
Exxon Valdez Oil Spill Litigation
Barbara filled an essential role on the States Litigation Team. She was involved in every aspect of collecting documents from state custodians, how they were screened for privilege and production to defendants and private plaintiffs. She helped develop systems to identify deposition document sets and she knows who to contact for answers about particular document sets. Her work remains one of the most professionally exciting and gratifying experiences of her paralegal career.
Carrie Holba,
Exxon Valdez Oil Spill Trustees Council
Alaska Resources & Information Services
Carrie has been the Trustee Council's Exxon Valdez Oil Spill Collection manager and librarian since 1991. Shes worked at length with the documents and reports at the Trustee Council office, including the Council's Official Record, and the extensive oil spill collection housed at ARLIS. For 20 years, Carrie has provided reference assistance to Alaskans and people around the world who are researching the spill from diverse perspectives.
Jennifer Schorr,
Assistant Attorney General
Alaska Department of Law Environmental Section
Jen Schorr is an Assistant Attorney General for the State of Alaska in the Environmental Section. She serves as the Alternate Trustee for the Alaska Department of Law on the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill Trustee Council, and also served as the Interim Deputy Executive Director for the Trustee Council from 2008-2010. Jen attended law school at the University of Washington, where she also attended the School of Marine Affairs and earned a Master of Marine Affairs. Prior to moving to Anchorage in 2008, Jen was an environmental lawyer at the Seattle law firm Perkins Coie.
Craig Tillery,
Lead State of Alaska Attorney
Exxon Valdez Oil Spill Litigation
Craig led management of state public document issues for ten years and brings detailed knowledge to the task force; he knows oil spill legal issues, the legal significance of particular documents and the implications of preservation orders. Hes familiar with spill history and most players from a first person perspective. He directed Exxon Valdez Oil Spill litigation and restoration literally from day one. Realizing that mastering the massive volume of litigation and natural resource damage assessment documents was key to mastering the litigation process, Craig led efforts to organize the litigation generated documents. Craig served on the States team who negotiated the 1991 state and federal civil claims settlement that laid the foundation for the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill Trustee Councils marine research and restoration efforts. As the Attorney Generals Trustee through 2010, and in a crucial de-facto Council advisory role, he helped decide the uses for the $900,000,000 settlement funds.
Others closely associated with the spill and litigation will provide advice and information.
Project Staff
Larry Hibpshman, Project Director
Larry grew up in Alaska and is a long time Alaska State Archives employee. He attended Alaska Methodist University, among other schools and has a Masters Degree in American Studies. Hell be responsible for the projects general administrative management and Task Force activities. Hell also be involved in hands-on review, appraisal, weeding, disposal, arrangement, description and public outreach.
Wendy Sparkman, Project Archivist
Wendy has lived in many places but grew up primarily in the Fairbanks and Chugiak-Eagle River areas. She received her Master of Library Science Degree from Florida State University. She has previously worked for the Florida State University Library and the Chugiak-Eagle River Library. Wendy works mostly on day-to-day arrangement and description, but also takes on additional activities as needed.
Project staff hopes others, particularly those in the Oil Spill Region will become involved, and we welcome emails and telephone calls. For information or to comment contact:
Larry Hibpshman, Project Director
141 Willoughby Avenue
PO Box 110525
Juneau, AK 99811-0525
Phone: 907.465.2241 Fax:907.465.2465
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Q: Why dispose of any of the material? Why not keep all of it?
A: There are several reasons:
- It costs a great deal of money to store records. So far the State of Alaska has spent over a million dollars just storing about 10,000 cubic feet of Exxon Valdez Litigation files. By appraising the records and eliminating what isnt really needed the project will save the State ~ and the tax payers ~ about $37,000 per year.
- There is a lot of duplication. Litigants on both sides photocopied and microfilmed records and files repeatedly to assure immediate availability while the case was prosecuted. Many files are identical except that one is the original and the other a temporary backup copy. By eliminating duplicate files we can eliminate a lot of shelf space costs.
- Not everything is needed to document the spill and its effects. Even when files arent actually duplicate copies there is a lot of overlap in content among several dozen file sets. Eliminating the least accessible and/or least descriptive allows us to provide better access to those who want to use the records.
- It is standard records management practice to appraise records, determine the ultimate value of files and establish the best available retention policies, procedures and care. As the records are currently unorganized it is difficult to establish what these are, not to mention assist public access.
Alaska State Archives Record Group 1 Office of the Governor; series 801Exxon Valdez oil spill records
Q: How will you decide what to keep and what to toss?
A: Well do this in several ways. Since there is a lot of duplication our first goal is to identify it, and decide what can be disposed. Much of the duplicate material is located in Juneau so well start there.
But even among unique files there may be some that dont really need to be in the archives. Project staff will analyze various file types, apply archival and records management theory and discuss exceptions and State Archives retention procedures.
Well also query our Task Force of experts about issues and conditions that influence relative value of particular files and documents.
Finally were anxious that Alaskans, especially those who live in areas directly affected by the spill, be involved. We welcome comments and suggestions from anyone familiar with the spill and its records.
Q: Why do the records need to be reorganized?
A: Actually reorganization is a misnomer. The records dont need to be reorganized ~ we need to re-establish their original order.
The litigation process was long and the records are complex. Since the records were created theyve been scattered geographically and have become disarranged. The primary organizational goals are to determine and restore the original arrangement and to describe it so that people can use the records.
We also must provide minimum necessary space. Most cubic foot boxes in storage are less than completely full, and some contain portions of several different file sets. If we draw related files together and eliminate unneeded ones we can store the records compactly.
Q: How will the records be reorganized?
A: Professional Archives are guided by two organizing principles:
- Provenance: Records should be arranged to reflect their organization of origin
- Original Order: Records should be retain their original organizational structure
Doing this assures content and context arent lost and prompt retrieval possible.
Alaska State Archives Record Group 1 Office of the Governor; series 801Exxon Valdez oil spill records
Q: Will all of the records be made available to the public, and if all records will not be available, why?
A: Most but not all will be available. Some are protected from disclosure by attorney client privilege and attorney work product sanctions, or were sealed by court protective order. The State Archives must respect these serious legal requirements.
But the good news is that we estimate perhaps only 2% of all files are restricted, and state litigation discovery staff removed and placed these files in sealed envelopes. Meanwhile, one of the Task Forces jobs will be to suggest long term policies that eventually allow the State Archives to open restricted records to public review.
Q: Why havent the records been available to the public for the last 18 years?
A: They have been available to a somewhat limited extent.
State records law requires public access to public resources if they arent restricted by law or judicial protection. However, until records become noncurrent they are kept in semi-current storage under the control of the creating agency. Until then the Department of Law (in this case) must approve access requests. This creates a burden for Department of Law personnel whose primary responsibilities are directed elsewhere. Once the records become noncurrent the State Archives reference staff ~ people whose primary job is to provide access ~ will provide routine access.
Q: Can I help?
A: Yes. We would love to hear from you. Please communicate with us as described above. Also let others know about the project.
Q: Will some of the records be made available to view online?
A: Possibly. As we review whats available we may choose selected items to show electronically. A project to scan and exhibit all records electronically would be too expensive and difficult to carry out given currently available technology.
Q: Whatever happened to the tanker vessel Exxon Valdez?
A: Soon after the disaster Exxon towed it to San Diego and repaired its
damage. The company renamed the vessel Exxon Mediterranean and put it to
work in Europe. Exxon later transferred the tanker to a subsidiary,
River Maritime Inc. renamed it SeaRiver Mediterranean, later shortened
to S/R Mediterranean. The vessel's single-hull design prevented return
to North American and European waters, so it was redeployed to Asia and
the Middle East. In 2008 ExxonMobil sold the ship. The new owner
refitted it as Dong Fang Ocean, an ore carrier. In November 2010 it
collided with another cargo ship, was towed to China and again renamed
Oriental Nicety. In March 2012 the ship was sold as scrap for $16
million to an Indian firm.
Based on a March 20, 2012 Pennlive.com report. (Mechanicsburg PA Patriot-News; McClatchy/Tribune-MCT Information Services).
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