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I still sing. Make an, ahem, note
I'm just back from church. Hurrah. I haven't been in yonks and yonks. I've thought for the last three Sundays—I think it's three—that I would make it this week and then I have one of my unscheduled collapses and don't.* I felt deeply guilty** a fortnight ago when my name was on the [singing] rota again and Aloysius could have really used some support—St Margaret's, like most of the rest of the northern hemisphere where people live, gets thin on the ground in August while they're all on holiday in someone else's home town.*** So if that shocking failure was a fortnight ago, my name would coming up on the rota again . . . yes. Hmm. Buck was leading. And there was no one else on the list.
. . . Pav, go lie down.†
I looked the music rota up on Thursday and blanched. Also I'd had no song list so I could look the stuff up on YouTube and complain. But possibly I had had no song list because I had been a no show for so long they'd drummed me off the rolls. Which in August when there is an insufficiency of people on stage to hide behind is maybe quite a good thing.
Friday. Still no song list. I began the day feeling pretty good in brain and energy terms, so I emailed Buck. WHERE IS MY SONG LIST [I might come, you never know]?
. . . And then Saturday I had another frelling lying-down day†† ARRRRRRGH . . .
Pav, go lie down.†††
So I got cautiously out of bed today wondering what was going to happen. One of the things that happened was that I FINALLY had a return email from Buck saying he'd only just got back from holiday to 1,000,000,000 emails and sure, come along tonight and we'll party.
So I went early like a good girl and found him practising ALL BY HIMSELF. Where would you like to be? he said, brandishing a music stand. In the middle? On the other side of the stage? BEHIND YOU, I said clearly. And you have to sing what I'm supposed to sing. No messing around with the tune.‡ He gave me his Steady Look, which is never a good sign. But we gambolled through the music, some of which I knew and some of which I did not know. One of the ones I did not know has a long embarrassing spell of Woah woah woah where you just sort of emote with your mouth open, torturing innocent variations of the so-called tune in whatever manner seems good to you. Ad lib. You know. Eh. Gah. Buck can do that one.
I didn't know how much voice I was going to have, because I've been too feeble lately to do much singing beyond folk songs while hurtling, but since for some reason they refused to turn my microphone off tonight you could certainly hear me.
As it happened it wasn't as dire as all that. One of the blokes who plays a keyboard was unwise enough to turn up for the evening service and Buck nailed him. So in fact we started a few minutes late while Jethro frantically dragged his keyboard out of the cupboard and started plugging things in with his hands going so fast he looked like an octopus with fingers. Which may explain why, when we got to the woah woah woah and Buck shot off into parts unknown I not only shot after him but soared past—he's a nice strong tenor with some top end but I'm a soprano. I win.‡‡
And having been winding up cables that hate me since I first started this singing shtick, tonight I had a lesson from the ex-roadie and ex-member-of-the-band Buck in how to wind up a cable so it doesn't hate you. Who knew this was a skill?
Pav, GO LIE DOWN.
Yeah. I think I'll do that too. Preferably in a bed however. With lots of pillows and books. Pav will probably prefer a chew toy.
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* I haven't been to the monks in forever either. Siiiiiiigh. If you have ME, don't join a church frelling MILES from where you live or fall in love with a bunch of monks who are even farther away. I thought I was finally going to make it to the abbey last Saturday . . . and got an email from Alfrick saying, don't come if you were planning to, there's a doodah^ on and night prayer is cancelled. And then Sunday, possibly from disappointment, I had another lying-down-in-a-daze day, and didn't make it to church again.
^ This is of course the deep theological usage of the term 'doodah'.
** Which does not improve the lying-down-in-a-daze experience
*** And the evening service is the little one. Apparently the earlier services still teem pretty well, even in August.
† Poor Pav's training has gone totally pear-shaped the last two months or so what with Everything Else Going On and I swore that as soon as things even BEGAN to settle down I'd start doing something more with her again.^ And fabulously amusing as rolling over on command is, the thing that would make a significant difference to both her quality of life and mine is if she would learn to GO LIE DOWN on command, so I have a better alternative when she's winding herself up to start bouncing off the ceiling than to lock her up in her crate again. Even bribing her with foooooood gets a little oppressive after a while and I need her to like her crate because she inevitably spends a good deal of time in it. And I don't want to make a huge deal of it when she's just being a bull terrier and put her in her harness and make her Long Down at my feet. 'Go lie down' is just another off button like Southdowner-trained Olivia's holding is.^^
^ Her walking more or less at heel and sitting and looking up at me when I stop is getting not at all bad except, of course, when I start to think so. But people who know bullies tend to fall down laughing when they see us doing our somewhat erratic trick+. I'm usually smiling even without onlookers++. The little evil eyes do enhance the experience of being stared up at—and the way a bullie's back legs are built how bullies sit down often provokes hilarity even in the clueless onlooker.
+ Ie successfully.
++ No NOT in surprise. You rude person.
++ Holding still works fine, by the way. If she gets too turbo-charged about another dog—and with her personality I am not going to risk her being ruined by too many encounters with stupid people's off lead ugly citizens the way my poor sweet hellhounds have been ruined—I don't just pick her up I hold her.
†† Possibly due to the extreme frustrations of Friday, which included, after learning of the third mortgage I was going to have to take out to pay for the new boiler, belting into Mauncester at the last possible minute to pick up our NEW CLEAR GLASS SPLASHBACK^ for the gas hob/stovetop at Third House which Ignatius had already promised to screw in on Saturday . . . AND THEY FRELLING MUFFED THE JOB. And are going to have to do it all over again. On their penny, but even so. Arrrrrrgh.
And then I rang handbells with Niall for the first time in months and it TOTALLY wiped me out. No measurable trace of brain function after. I used to be able to ring handbells without having to be rolled home in a wheelbarrow. . . .
^ Ordering same having taken somewhat longer than it might have when I arrived last Friday at 3:55 to find that despite the stated hour of closure as 4:30 the only person still there was locking up as fast as he could turn the key.
Finding someone who could provide a clear glass splashback has been a whole other saga as fashion presently dictates that the only splashbacks any cool up to the minute person would want are brutally glossy things in really harsh grisly in your face colours or the even more in your face polished steel uggggggh. I get enough of the dentist's office/torturer's look at my dentist's office/torturer's tea parties, okay? AND I WANT TO SEE MY TILES. They're nice tiles and they cost a lot of money.
††† If you stirred Pav and me together you'd get . . . one very extraordinary looking creature who lay down precisely the right amount in precisely the right circumstances.
‡ Aloysius perfectly well can sing harmony, and often does. Buck, however, is dangerous. He gets carried away.
‡‡ I had two people tell me after how lovely my singing harmony was.^ They're so nice at St Margaret's. And they so really need singers they are eager to be encouraging.
^ Wrong. Trust me on this.
Chirp chirp chirp chirp chirp chirp chirp*
It was going to be a really bad day.** The ME is using me as a punching-bag again*** and I got out of bed in stages, saying, it is Monday, and I am going to my voice lesson. I am going to my voice lesson. All I have to do is crawl to the car, unlock the door, and put the key in the little hole. Wolfgang knows the way.
It has been a really bad week for—not for singing, see previous about singing for sanity, but for attentive practise, so that I don't feel a total fool going to sing for Nadia.† After my voice slammed shut on me last Monday—which was actually rather alarming—I gave it two days off anything but folk songs and Leonard Cohen†† . . . and then I had stomach flu and all those deep breaths and gut-disturbing diaphragm action for singing seemed like a pretty bad idea, although I could (maybe) stop worrying about the slamming shut, which was probably germ related. †††
I did sing over the weekend—a little—and I noticed at church last night that I was making a noise.‡ But this morning, warming up, I felt like I'd Never Seen Any of This Music Before in My Life‡‡ and did not set out for my lesson in a very positive frame of mind.‡‡‡
But fate and body parts are often perverse little creatures. I don't even know how to explain what happened; if I try it'll sound like gibberish to non-singers and will probably make those of you who would understand what I was talking about if I could explain it properly fall down laughing. The point is I made what Nadia herself called a Technical Leap Forward having to do with waking up the 'mask' sinuses and persuading all the various bits and pieces—tongue and soft palate in particular—to clear out of the way and let the sound resonate. Gleep. And she took me up to the high B-flat I need for both Batti, Batti§ and I Want to Be a Prima Donna—I didn't know it, of course, although I knew we were getting up there—and which I do erratically have at home when I'm focussed on not paying attention and shutting myself down because I Can't Possibly Do That, so I know the frelling thing exists. And as she pointed out, grinning, I sang it with no strain and no muscle tension. It's the lack of tension that was so astonishing—she said, yes, your support has come a little adrift, but we can fix that.§§ You've made real progress today.
And . . . golly . . . you know . . . I may yet make a singer.
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* Although everything is relative. See next footnote.
** It's been a bad hellhound day for weeks. With the very, very occasional exception, Darkness more often than Chaos, neither of them is eating. The only reason they haven't starved themselves to death by now is because I keep force feeding them. They haven't eaten a scrap of anything today, voluntarily, for example. This is utterly demoralising for me even when the ME isn't bad. It's not the taste of the drug; they get three meals and only two of them are dosed. If they are having a unique nauseous reaction to this stuff—nausea which lasts through the third meal—that would explain it, but I doubt it's that simple, and neither the vet nor I can ask them how they feel or why they've decided food is the enemy.^ Meanwhile although their output is improved it's still far from . . . um . . . a neat pick-up so we persevere. Wearily.
^ Although if it were that simple, anorexia in humans would be less scary and less difficult to treat. I remind myself of this sometimes, on my knees beside the dog bed, stuffing cold sticky food down recoiling hellhounds.
*** I did survive^ my first official Samaritan duty shift, thank you for asking. It was a relatively quiet night which given that I was not at my best is probably just as well,^^ although I need some demanding shifts to get through the list of things your mentor has to support you through before you're turned loose to function mentor-less. I did write a few texts^^^—and I hope you eventually get over that initial shock of, oh, you poor thing, let me give you a cup of tea and a biscuit.#
The next fortnight is going to be a little unnecessarily exciting however since I'm still at the tremulous beginning of learning Sam weekly duty-shift stamina and I've got Street Pastor shifts two weeks in a row too. This is from the swap with Eleanor—she took my Friday night before a Saturday-morning Sam training in June and I'm taking her Saturday in July while she's touring great swathes of America with her husband. Meanwhile the ME needs to clear off.
^ . . . I'm here. I'm writing a blog entry. This is not the new Zombie McKinley. Breath on the mirror and everything.
^^ And I'm going to assume that hang-ups are not in response to my American accent.
^^^ My mentor, whom we will call Pythia, has a very good line: if you had written what this person has written, is this the response you'd want to read? —Since 'I have a magic wand and I'm about to make it all go away' is ineligible, like the cup of tea, if for different reasons.
# Tricky, of course, since they could be texting you from anywhere. New Guinea. Mars.+
~ I have no idea what the cup-of-tea-and-a-biscuit equivalent is in either New Guinea or Mars.
† Although I continue to be tempted to take . . . probably Matty Groves in to Nadia. Some folk song with drama. I told you, didn't I, that I asked her how you sing a maddened nobleman who is about to off both his wife and her lover when you're a soprano? And she said it's all in how you release the consonants. And. Glory. Yes.^
I may not have told you since I don't remember admitting that I'm not a big Sandy Denny fan^^. I know. Heresy. I am, indeed, so lost to all finer feelings that I wonder if the Sandy Denny cult might be somewhat based on the fact that she died young. Nice enough voice but . . . eh. Give me Maddy Prior or June Tabor or Norma Waterson. The Matty Groves take that makes my blood beat hard and my hair stand on end is Fairport Convention after Sandy Denny, with the blokes singing. And they can roar, which is not an option available to a soprano.
But I think I'm still not quite up to eating the scenery for Nadia. Maybe a few more weeks. Months. Years. . . .
^ ' . . . And I shall Strike the very next blow, and I will Kill you if I Can.'
^^ But when the ME is this bad I don't have any memory either.
†† Famous on twenty-three continents^ for having a vocal range of two and a half notes, and tends to write songs accordingly.
^ This includes Mars
††† Your Body Is Your Instrument. Why didn't I stick with the piano?
‡ I mean . . . singing. Melodic. More or less. Probably. I wasn't in the band this week so it didn't matter.
‡‡ Mozart? And he was—?
‡‡‡ Although the presence of non-eating hellhounds in the back seat, looking forward to their Monday afternoon post-lesson walk somewhere interesting, probably was not helping. They like me wrecked by ME: I'm much more willing to noodle along while they investigate every clump of grass for the recent presence of other dogs and/or fascinating pieces of litter.
§ Oh—that Mozart
§§ She also said that if I can't do this free resonating thing at home this week—don't panic. But that I should only sing new music—stuff I'm working on for the first time now—if I break out Che Faro, for example, which is absolutely my longing and desire, I'll just revert to old habits. Wait a little now, she said. We'll go back to Che Faro later, I promise.
Singing for Sanity
There is a person, let's say Person A, we will call him Abelard, who is doing a Project. He is canvassing reactions and seeking input from a variety of Other Persons. I am on this list. Recently I received an email from Abelard that was to everyone on the list. I answered. Most of our answers go to him individually—occasionally one escapes and comes to the entire list—and he then posts round ups about what everyone is saying about this or that. I noticed that my input had not been acknowledged. Hmm. Then there's an email saying that he hasn't heard from everyone and he's hoping the rest of us will get in touch. !!!!! So I emailed him again.
Then I emailed asking for acknowledgement that he's receiving my emails.
Still nothing.
So I emailed his boss, Person B, whom we will call Bozo, saying that Abelard was not receiving my recent emails about his Project. Bozo did not deign to reply to me, but he copied me forwarding mine to Abelard. Next round-up email Abelard adds a paragraph saying Robin, I'm not getting your emails.
I forward this back to Bozo and say now what?
There is a pause, and then Bozo emails grandly, well, since you're not really necessary to this Project why don't you just let it go?
I stare at this in disbelief for a moment (Bozo and I have had our little differences before—just by the way). Then I write him again. Then I take out all the adjectives and I send what I have written, including a copy of my original email to Abelard, to demonstrate that I might conceivably have something to contribute.
There is another pause AND THEN I RECEIVE ANOTHER EMAIL FROM BOZO SAYING THAT ABELARD IS RUNNING THIS PROJECT AND I SHOULD BE CONTACTING HIM DIRECTLY.
Then I took my two shifts of hellcritters out and sang like crazy.*
I told you last week that I was going to experiment in turning over a new leaf about my singing—well maybe blow on a new leaf or wave it around a little—or maybe turn over just a new petiole—although I suspect if you turn the petiole over the leaf goes with it. Whatever. But I was going to stop pretending I didn't have any voice just because I don't sound like Nadia or Joyce DiDonato, and I was also going to stop pretending that the only time I had any voice was during my voice lessons after Nadia had done her teacher magic and that it all went away again as soon as I was at home and it was just me and the piano and an assortment of beady-eyed hellcritters.** And, since I do have a voice, such as it is, I was going to work on developing singing stamina.
And what better exercise aid than very long folk songs?*** I had another little epiphany about singing folk songs too, and this makes me look like even more of a nincompoop† than the 'oh woe is me I have no voice' thing. I've taken folk songs in to Nadia off and on right along pretty much from the beginning and she's even said (repeatedly) 'find what works for you' but noooooo I'm not going to let myself get away with it being easy. So I keep trying to find THE EXACTLY PRECISELY RIGHT VERSION of whatever, which I will then learn slavishly . . . but folk songs being the slippery little devils that they are I rarely do find the exactly precisely right version which means that . . . I can't learn them. No! Not allowed! It must be the ultimate perfect rubber-stamped passed-in-triplicate official THE VERSION!!!!! How pathetic is that. Very, very, very slightly in my defense, the problem often is that I have the version I like and I want to sing in my head and/or my imagination's ear, from Maddy Prior or Jean Ritchie or someone, and the available sheet music is never it. McKinley. It's folk music. Make it up. Good grief.
To be continued again. . . .
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* Or, you know, like sanity. Till I felt better. Hey, it works. A good murder ballad. . . .
** At Third House the critter beds will not be slap next to the piano. WILL. NOT.
*** I sang for service again this past Sunday. This clearly counts as vocal press-ups, since over the course of a long evening you're singing hard for probably an hour and a half. Riordan, who was music leader for the evening service, sent us the playlist Monday evening. Usually I'm whining for it Thursday or so and on at least one occasion we got it Saturday afternoon.^
It's a mixed blessing however, having it that early. You have so much less excuse for not spending serious time learning the latest rash of driv—I mean, these earnest, committed songs of modern worship. ARRRRRGH. What I have found, however, is that power ballads for God have the same effect on me that power ballads about everything else do—which is to say they depress the crap out of me.^^^ It's all so moany.
So I maybe didn't get quite as much practise in as I might have done for having had the playlist all week. But the funny thing was that in the heat of the moment Sunday evening with everyone else singing and twanging and thundering~ . . . it all became quite jolly. Aside from the whole 'worshipping God' aspect. At the end of service as I was crawling around on my hands and knees coiling up ENDLESS, Midgard-Serpent-length frelling cables, Buck sauntered past nonchalantly and said, if you get too good at that, you know, we'll put you on the rota permanently.
In six months I'm going to have a voice like iron.
^ People have lives. Christians too.
^^ I would much rather sing Are you working in the vineyard of the Lord?, which isn't on YouTube, which is very sad+ or When the roll is called up yonder, of which there are a gazillion versions on YouTube, many of them not fit for much beyond making you a Hindu++, although I rather like this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIB0xL-ejQk&index=11&list=PLD747A0359ACA320E But then I have a weakness for the banjo after a misspent childhood listening to the Kingston Trio.+++
+ 'From the desert wilds of sin/ Are you bringing lost ones in?' Gospel lyrics don't mess around.
++ Although if student performances of Voi Che Sapete can't put me off Mozart—and they can't—the Singing Goldfish# of Goodgodville shouldn't shake my faith.
# Glub glub glub glub
^^^ I had a friend a million years ago in another life+ who used to call the soft rock radio station his wife favoured 'suicide music'. This is perhaps a little strong but I know what he meant.++
++ Although I like this video:
Wheeeeeeeee SPLASH.
~ Serious drum kit. Golly.
† Not to say an incompetent twit.
Good stuff. Makes a change.
There is a God*: hellhounds ate their dinner. For like the first time in a fortnight. Maybe three weeks. I don't know how much these thrilling new horizons of food prejudice are the new treatment they're on, how much is the weather—although summer only began about this week**—how much is natural hellhound perversity and how much is the Borg.*** But it is hard on the person poking food down their throats two or three times a day†. I suppose it is too much to hope for that this is a new trend. . . .
Meanwhile. I've been singing.†† I've had a series of tiny epiphanies this week in a sort of PING-OW-PING-OW ††† cattle-prod pattern. Nadia's new beginner soprano was ahead of me this week instead of the scary could-have-been-professional-WHY-AM-I-BOTHERING bloke. And she was torturing poor old Caro Mio Ben in a way that made me feel almost nostalgic. But . . . I could hear what Nadia is doing with her. In a way that you can't hear yourself. I know I've been that route‡ but it's waaaaay different from the inside. I could hear her 'real' voice breaking through occasionally‡‡ and I could hear what Nadia keeps telling me about me, that pitch is not the problem, making the sound is the problem, and if/when I make the sound correctly the pitch will be fine.‡‡‡
Last week was not a great week in what I acknowledge has been a too-little-interrupted series of crap weeks, and I was expecting Nadia to have to spend most of my lesson winkling my voice out of hiding. It's a bit prone to slamming the door shut and hiding under the bed. I'm so used to going to my lesson to be re-set that I don't always notice what I'm doing at home because it can't possibly be any good, now can it? Nooooooo.§§ I go through the frelling blasted motions and then take the pieces in to Nadia to do something with. So, for example, I have been failing to notice that recently, even when I'm having a crap week, there's still enough voice for me to sing with.
I was singing within the first few minutes of warm-up last Monday. SINGING. Nadia didn't need forceps or anything. And we had a really good bash at Vedrai Carino§§§. And . . . okay, so I'll never be Joyce DiDonato, but at my age it would be kind of a waste, not to mention that I already have a perfectly good creative career. But . . . I do have a voice. I may never get much beyond singing Jesus Is My Boyfriend for Sunday service at St Margaret's but . . . I have a voice. I have to stop saying I don't.
Also . . . my voice got tired before the end of the lesson because it had come roaring out of its silk-lined palanquin with such uncharacteristic dispatch. I came home thinking if I sang more and maybe developed some stamina, and engaged more with what I chose to sing and why I chose it. . . .
PING. To be continued. . . .
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* Hahahahahahaha.
** And my annual anguish about when/if to turn the Aga off.
*** Who mess with our dogs and our rose-bushes as well as our computers to keep us demoralised and malleable. Souvenir de la Malmaison is out there laughing her thorny little socks off because of course Death by Sunlight began after all the rain had wrecked most of her flowers this year as usual. Since she's now about forty feet tall she's oppressing all my neighbours too.
† Two bottom lines: they get really ill if they miss more than one meal in a row, as I re-proved recently^, and the new drug has to be given with food.
^ None of us enjoyed the experience
†† Well duh.
††† And another one bell ringing at Crabbiton last night.
I was only the third person to arrive expecting to pull a rope and Felicity was wondering if she should have cancelled practise—it's June, it's hot, everyone is at home enjoying the long daylight and either drinking their iced tea or pouring it over their heads to cool off—and Wild Robert wasn't going to make it. Three more people turned up. Yaay. Crabbiton only has six bells: we're good to go.
Um. Except for the fact that Felicity and I were the good ringers and . . . um.
The funny thing is . . . we had a good practise. Everyone managed to do something that made them feel they were learning something. In poor Felicity's case this was mostly the thankless task of holding practise together. In my case . . . she frelling made me frelling call SEVERAL touches of frelling Grandsire doubles.
I used to know a simple-minded touch of Grandsire where if you can count to three twice you'll do. And then various things happened, including that I started ringing at Forza where there are eighty-seven bells and almost enough good ringers to ring them, and you'd better not even admit that you can (probably) call the notorious beginner's touch of Grandsire doubles. And then when I recently began ringing at Crabbiton . . . Wild Robert decided it was time I learnt the touch after the beginner's touch.
I have spectacularly failed to learn this new touch, and in the process—especially since it's been a while since I tried to call it—I have forgotten the beginner's touch.
Last night I re-invented it from first principles, with some help from the band.^ It took three tries but . . . we did it. And the teeny-weeny epiphany was: Wild Robert wants me to learn this second touch because it'll force me to pay attention to where the other bells are, rather than blindly following a simple pattern for my bell. I don't have enough brain. Counting to three twice is enough, when you're also ringing a frelling bell.
Except . . . I had to pay some attention to where the other bells were last night, to re-figure out the simple pattern for mine. I didn't do it well or thoroughly . . . but I did it enough to have a tiny insight into what Wild Robert is on about. And what I'd have to do to call his nasty next touch. PING. OW.
Now I have to decide if I'm going to tell him.
‡ Including torturing Caro Mio Ben.
‡‡ Note that she has more voice than I did when I began, but, as I was telling someone again recently, everyone has more voice than I did when I began. Nadia, Sorceress. Put her up against Circe and Circe would creep away weeping and get a job as an insurance adjuster.
‡‡‡ This is not to say there aren't pitch problems out there. I used sometimes to follow a woman with quite a nice voice . . . who couldn't carry a tune in a basket. I think she has stopped coming.
§ Also just hearing Nadia beginning to open her up is cheering somehow. It makes it more of a process and less . . . sorcery.
§§ I'm also having a meltdown crisis of confidence about the Samaritans as we approach the end of training and the beginning of duty. SIIIIIIIIIGH. I am so predictable.
§§§ Mozart is my man. Although if anyone could find a half-decent edition of Beethoven's folk song arrangements for solo voice I would be all over it.
Tra la la update
Jonas Kaufman, AKA world's most fabulous male singer*, was interviewed on Radio Three this past Saturday afternoon**—early enough Saturday afternoon that I was still kind of staggering around groping for more caffeine and tripping over the hellterror, who gets very excited by the prospect of . . . everything.*** And I was listening to him and thinking [sic] approximately three things: (1) He sounds nice.† (2) He sounds a lot like Nadia talking about singing. (3) WHY AM I BOTHERING? If he's a Ferrari I'm a junkheap bicycle with bent steering and a tyre missing. SIGH.
I sang for service again last night. I think I've told you I'm singing approximately fortnightly because they are mysteriously short of singers††. Horrible confession time. It's fun. Even more horrible confession time: it's chiefly fun because of the team thing, I who loathe groups and feel that the perfect social assemblage is two hellhounds, a hellterror and a laptop.††† I realised the fun thing with particular acuteness last night because we were attempting a song that nobody knew, but Buck, who was leading, had decided we should. So we were all somewhat equaller than usual, although not that much because Buck and Aloysius more or less know what they're doing and the rest of us say 'yes boss' and try not to look stuffed. But learning something as a group—learning something that needs a group to do it—is, you know, bonding.‡ I suppose God gets a look-in here somewhere too.‡‡
It is interesting, how far I've come. Nadia teases me about the sleep she lost, when I was first taking lessons from her, wondering how she was ever going to open me up out of a faint squeaking noise.‡‡‡ Due to various traumas today was my first lesson in three weeks and I've been missing her—the thing I go to her for even more than knocking the weevils out of my repertoire§ is to reset my voice. The longer I'm left un-reset the less voice I have as the old habits relentlessly shut me down again.
Except . . . not so much. I was certainly glad of my resetting today§§—we also had a little weevil-elimination from THE SUN WHOSE RAYS ARE ALL ABLAZE—but I'd had enough voice to leave a singe mark on the back of Buck's shirt yesterday evening. I'm learning more music because every note isn't a life or death struggle against entropy.
Singing is, you know . . . it's fun.
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* http://www.jonaskaufmann.com/en/ Note that I'm not the only person who thinks so. The thing about Kaufman is the dark edge: I adore Juan Diego Florez ^ http://www.juandiegoflorez.com/ for example but he doesn't scare me. Kaufman in full transcendent roar is scary.
^ We're sticking to tenors here. If we let baritones in+ we'll be here all night.++ And when did opera singers get cute? I never wanted to go home with Pavarotti.+++ When I was still young enough to go hang around stage doors they were never cute. Unfair.
+ Dmitri Hvorostovsky http://hvorostovsky.com/ for example.
++ Um. It's already morning. Just by the way.
+++ Note: ewww.
** http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04571zt I really hate the BBC web site, it is such a mess. If you don't know exactly where to find something in the schedule you're gerfarkled. I idiotically, because I so should know better, just now started by putting 'Jonas Kaufman' in the search window and . . . got one hit, to a review of some CD he was in quite a while ago. You need to download your podcasts fast while they're still unearthable on the recent schedule. Because I am a dedicated, not to say pathological, listener to Radio Three I use the wretched BBC site a lot and have I think three times filled out one of those PLEASE TELL US HOW WE'RE DOING questionnaires in which I give them relentlessly one star for everything and fill the 'other' options with detailed complaints. . . . And for some reason nothing ever changes.
*** Hellhounds open one eye and say Wake us up if the world ends. Well, wake us up if the world ends if there's going to be anything good to chase. Demons, sprites, fifty-foot mutant rabbits, etc.
† It's not enough that he's cute, he has to be NICE?
†† Any Fool Can Sing. As witnessed by the fact that I've received a few compliments on my singing. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. I think this is known as 'be nice to her so she'll keep coming and filling up a gap on stage'. Although Buck turning on me—I was immediately behind^ him last night—and saying, you're really loud, may not exactly construe as a compliment.
^ repeat behind. Behind is good. Farther away from the FRONT is GOOD. Also, it turns out, good is the awful spotlights that frelling BLIND YOU. It means you can't really see the congregation.
††† Peter is in bed asleep as are all sensible people at this hour.
‡ I'm trying to decide why it seems so different in kind from bell ringing, which is also a necessarily team thing.^ Maybe because music is simultaneous rather than serial? And by being simultaneous rather than serial there's slightly more room to go wrong without anyone hating you? Well, at least in an informal service in a small-town church. There isn't a losing-the-quarter equivalent in informal small-town service singing, I don't think. If you make a horrible clashing noise you stop and start again at the beginning of the verse. Nobody dies or goes home mad. And nothing that happens on stage at St Margaret's is ANYTHING like as intimidating as the frelling ringing chamber at Forza. Which I have to start cranking myself up to face again as soon as Wednesday night Samaritan training is over—and as of this week we're more than halfway.
^ And which I blame for getting me softened up on the subject of team activities.
‡‡ Pretty much every musical friend I have warned me that singing for service may make it less about worship and more about performance. I am very likely missing something but this doesn't seem to be what is happening. It may have to do with the fact that This Voice is as new as my Christianity is. Newer. It's like oh, gee, thanks, God, I like being audible when I sing^, here, have some back. ^^
^ So long as I am remotely on pitch
^^ I've started thinking about writing my own Jesus Is My Boyfriend power ballad.+ Or maybe just setting a few lines of a psalm.
+ I still think most Modern Christian Worship Music sucks rabid wolverines. Maybe it's just that holding a microphone makes me care.
‡‡‡ Remember that we're talking about something growing from the size of a bacterium to the size of a small, undernourished Chihuahua. Very impressive in context^ but I will still never make Mastiff size or, to put it another way, I will never sing with Jonas Kaufman.
^ Yaaaaaaay Nadia
§ When I've been performing something in an especially weevilly way I tell Nadia that at least it proves I'm not slavishly listening to the pros on YouTube. Speaking of pros: Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau singing Schubert lieder: AAAAAAAAUGH. WHY AM I BOTHERING?^
^ For fun?
§§ Nadia can briefly raise me from undernourished Chihuahua to mini bull terrier. If I ever made it to whippet x deerhound I'd start going to auditions.


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Tirhut (Devanagari:तिरहुत, Tirhuta: তিরহুত) is a region in Bihar, India. Its name is a simplification of the Sanskrit tirbhuktī (তিরভুক্তী/तिरभुक्ती), which means a land bounded by 3 rivers. The rivers defining Tirhut are Gandak in the west, Kosi in the east and Ganga in the south.[1]
Tirhut Division or Tirhut Commissionary[2] is also an administrative-geographical unit of Bihar. Muzaffarpur is the headquarters of the Division. The Division comprises Six (06) Districts -- Muzaffarpur, West Champaran (headquartered at Bettiah), East Champaran (headquartered at Motihari), Vaishali (headquartered at Hajipur), Sitamarhi and Sheohar.
The administrative head of Tirhut Division is a Commissioner, a senior officer of the Indian Administrative Service (IAS). Tirhut's present Divisional Commissioner is Shri Atul Prasad,[3][4] a 1987 Batch IAS officer of the Bihar cadre.
- 1 Other names
- 2 Cities of Tirhut
- 3 Economy
- 4 History
- 5 Demography
- 6 Rivers & Floods
- 7 Renowned figures from Tirhut region
- 8 See also
- 9 References
- 10 External links
Other names[edit]
Videha is now what known as Mithila in Janakpur, Nepal, Tibhukti, Republic of Vajji and The Great Vajji Union are alternative names of Tirhut.[1]
Cities of Tirhut[edit]
Muzaffarpur is a major settlement in the Tirhut region. Darbhanga, Barauni, Saharsa and Purnea are the other important towns within the region. Vaishali, Lichhavi, Sitamarhi and Darbhanga are tourist destinations in Tirhut.[5]
Agriculture is the main economic activity of this relatively poor region. The main crops are rice, wheat, pulses, moong, urad, arhar, jute and maize. Further cash crops include chillies, coriander, turmeric, ginger, bananas and tobacco.
Other industries are largely concentrated in Muzaffarpur. These include dairies, railway engineering workshops and leather production.
Ancient History[edit]
Ramayana King Sirdhwaj Janaka, the 21st king of the Janaka Dynasty ruled ancient Mithila(now in Southern Nepal) along with Tirhut. Mithila, an ancient place in this region, bears a value of sacred Hindu belief where, Seeta (other name Vaidehi: The Princes of Videha) sprang to life out of an earthen pot while Rajarshi Janak was tilling the land. There had been 57 kings in this dynasty.[6]
After the end of the Janaka dynasty, Videha/Tirhut was divided into 8 states, Mithila was isolated to Nepal and power was devolved to local elected representatives. Ancient Mithila,Tirhut was the world's first democratic republic. During this period, Tirhut was known as the Vajji Republic or the Great Union of Vajji.
Even the powerful kingdom of Magadh had to conclude matrimonial alliances in 519 B.C. with the neighboring states of the Licchavis(Nepal). Ajatshatru invaded Vaishali and extended his sway over Tirhut. It was at this time that Pataliputra (the modern Patna) was founded at the village Patali on the banks of the sacred river Ganga and Ajatshatru built an invincible fortress to keep vigil over the Licchavis on the other side of the river. Ambarati, 40 km from Muzaffarpur is believed to be the village home of Amrapali, the famous Royal court dancer of Vaishali. Vaishali, a center of religious renaissance, Baso Kund, the birthplace of Mahavir, the 24th Jain Tirthankar and a contemporary of Lord Buddha continue to attract visitors from across the international boarders.
From the visit of Hieuen Tsang till the rise of the Pala dynasty, Tirhut was under the control of King Harsha Vardhan. After 647 A.D., the region passed on to the local chiefs. In the 8th century A.D. the Pala kings continued to have their hold over Tirhut until 1019 A.D. Later Chedi kings of Central India ruled till they were replaced by the Sena dynasty in the 11th century.
Islamic Invasion[edit]
Between 1210 & 1226, Ghais-u-ddin Iwaz, the ruler of Bengal, was the first Muslim invader of Tirhut. He, however, could not succeed in conquering the kingdom but extorted tributes. It was in 1323 that Ghiyasuddin Tughlaq established his control over Tirhut.
The history of Tirhut will remain incomplete without a reference to the Simraon dynasty (in the Western part of Tirhut i.e. Champaran) and its founder Nanyupa Deva who extended his power over the whole of Tirhut and Nepal.
During the regime of Harasimha Deva, the last king of the dynasty, Tughlaq Shah invaded Tirhut in 1323 and gained control over the territory. Tughlaq Shah handed over the management of Tirhut to Pt. Kameshwar Thakur. Thus, the sovereign power of Tirhut passed from the Hindu chiefs to the Muslims but the Hindu chief continued to enjoy complete autonomy.[5]
Maithili Poet Vidyapati[edit]
During this period (1352–1448), Vidyapati Thakur was a Maithili poet and Sanskrit scholar in the region. He was born in Village Bisphi of Madhubani. Folklore says that he was such a great devotee of Lord Shiva that the lord was really pleased with him. And once He decided to come to live in his house as a servant. As the servant, he is said to have taken the name Ugna. At several places in the region, Lord Shiva is still worshipped by this name. It is said that the lord in form of servant had imposed a condition on Vidyapati that he could not disclose his identity to anyone else or else he would go away. One day, When Vidyapati's wife was angry at her servant and started to beat him Vidyapati could not tolerate the same and asked his wife not to beat Lord Shiva himself and since then the lord disappeared and never was he seen again.[7]
Tirhut Under the administration of Bengal[edit]
By the end of the 14th century, the whole of Tirhut passed on to the kings of Jaunpur and remained under their control for nearly a century until Sikandar Lodi of Delhi defeated the king of Jaunpur. Meanwhile, Hussain Shah, the Nawab of Bengal had become so powerful that he exercised his control over large tracts including Tirhut. The emperor of Delhi advanced against Hussain Shah in 1499 and got control over Tirhut after defeating its Raja. The power of the Nawabs of Bengal began to wane and with the decline and fall of Mahood Shah, north Bihar including Tirhut formed a part of the mighty Mughal Empire. Though Muzaffarpur with the entire north Bihar had been annexed yet the petty powerful chieftains continued to exercise effective control over this area till the days of Daud Khan[disambiguation needed], the Nawab of Bengal. Daud Khan had his stronghold at Patna and Hajipur and after his fall a separate Subah of Bihar was constituted under the Mughal dynasty and Tirhut formed a part of it.
Tirhut Under British Administration[edit]
East India Company in 1764 after the battle of Buxar controlled over whole of Bihar (Including Tirhut) . The success of the insurgent at Delhi in 1857 caused grave concern to the English inhabitants in Tirhut and revolutionary fervor began to permeate the entire region.[5]
Khudi Ram Bose[edit]
In 1908 the young Bengali revolutionary, Khudi Ram Bose, 18 was hanged for throwing the bomb at the carriage of Pringle Kennedy who was actually mistaken for Kingsford, the District Judge of Muzaffarpur. After independence of India in 1947, a memorial to this young revolutionary patriot was constructed at Muzaffrapur. In 1912, Bihar was carved out of Bengal. Bihar is an unsuccessful alliance of Mithila-Magadh-Anga. The visit of Mahatma Gandhi in Tirhut (Motihari) in December 1920 and again in January 1927 had political effect in arousing the people and Tirhut continued to play a prominent role in the country's freedom struggle.[5]
People of north of the Ganges River in Bihar are called Tirhutia or Maithil. Famous 14th century poet wrote beautiful song Param Priya Pavan Tirhut Desh. This region is predominantly Hindu with small population of muslims. Maithili and its dialects are spoken in the region. Hindi is the language of officials documentation.[8]
Rivers & Floods[edit]
There are several rivers flowing through this region from north to south and merge in river Ganges. These rivers along with flood bring every year fertile soil to the region. However, sometimes government sponsored floods causes loss of thousands of lives. Major rivers of Tirhut are Mahananda, Gandak, Kosi, Bagmati, Kamala, Balan, Budhi Gandak.[9]
Natural floods[edit]
Since beginning of Human civilization, rivers have been an important part of hum life. Tirhut has 7 major rivers and several tributaries of it. All these rivers receive water from Himalaya. This is the reason, these rivers never have shortage of water. Every year, any of these rivers had been bringing valuable floods for the people of Tirhut. Flood waters used to enter the agriculture land, leave their silt, which are quite fertile and go back to the river. This pattern of humane flood was boon for Tirhut. This made her land extremely fertile. But, natural floods are no more in Tirhut.
Man made floods[edit]
Soon after independence, the Bihar government made several attempts to tame these rivers. They built high barriers on both banks. This caused the rivers to silt up and flood frequently, depositing sandy silt on the surrounding land.
Kosi Flood 2008[edit]
Flooded Tirhut region
|18 August 2008
|434[10] (Dead bodies were found until 27 November 2008)
Areas affected
|Tirhut region, India, and Tirhut region, Nepal
The 2008 Kosi flood was one of the most disastrous floods in the history of Tirhut, an impoverished and densely populated region in India. A breach in the Kosi embankment near the Indo-Nepal border (at Kusha[disambiguation needed] in Nepal) occurred on 18 August 2008. The river changed course and inundated areas which hadn't experienced floods in many decades.[11] The flood affected over 2.3 million people in Tirhut.[12]
The flood killed 250 people and forced nearly 3 million people from their homes in Tirhut.[13] More than 300,000 houses were destroyed and at least 340,000 hectares (840,000 acres) of crops were damaged.[14] Villagers in Tirhut ate raw rice and flour mixed with polluted water. Hunger and disease were widespread. The Supaul district was the worst-hit; surging waters swamped 1,000 square kilometres (247,000 acres) of farmlands, destroying crops.[15]
Renowned figures from Tirhut region[edit]
It is the birthplace of Janak, Sita, Shatanan, Vishwamitra, Yajyavlakya, Maitryee, Gargi, Gautam etc. in epical age. Lord Mahavir was born in 599 B.C. at Kshatriyakund which was a part of the well known Vaishäli republic, now its form southern part of Vaishali. Tirhut had unending number of great scholars like Mandan Mishra- Bharati(Mahishi, Saharsa), Vachaspati I(Thadhi), Kali Das(Ucchaith, Benipatti),Vachaspati II(Samaul, Madhubani), Udyanacharya(Karian, Samastipur), Shankar(Sarisab, Darbhanga), Murari, Pakshdhar, etc. grear writers- Jyotitishwar (varnratnakar 1224 AD),Harimohan jha great poets like Vidyapati, Chanda Jha, Surendra Jha 'Suman', Baidyanath Mishra 'Yatri' who wrote in Hindi also as Nagarjuna, Ramdhari Singh 'Dinkar', Arsi Prasad Singh, Janki Ballabh Shastri,Krishna Kumar Jha Mithila Anveshan etc.
See also[edit]
- ^ a b डॉ॰ शशिधर कुमर "विदेह" (2011-05-25). "।। मिथिला = विदेह = वज्जि / बज्जि = तिरहुत।।: Mithila = Videha = Vajji / Bajji mahasangh = Tirbhukti = Tirhut WHY ??????". Mithilavidehavajjitirhut.blogspot.in. Retrieved 2012-07-13.
- ^ http://tirhut-muzaffarpur.bih.nic.in
- ^ http://gad.bih.nic.in/Documents/Transfers/TO-01-05-10-2014.pdf
- ^ http://persmin.gov.in/ersheet/MultipleERS.asp?HiddenStr=01BH038800
- ^ a b c d http://www.tirhutlive.in/About_tirhut.php
- ^ "A Brief History of Muzaffarpur". Muzaffarpur.bih.nic.in. Retrieved 2012-07-13.
- ^ Česky (2012-05-24). "Vidyapati - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia". En.wikipedia.org. Retrieved 2012-07-13.
- ^ Česky. "Bihari languages - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia". En.wikipedia.org. Retrieved 2012-07-13.
- ^ "Rivers of Bihar | Bihar Articles". Bihar.ws. Retrieved 2012-07-13.
- ^ A report by the Department of disaster management, Government of Bihar
- ^ A Dalit watch report on the flood camps in Bihar
- ^ "Half of Bihar under water, 30 lakh suffer;". CNN IBN. 09/01/2008. Archived from the original on 3 September 2008. Retrieved 2008-09-01. Check date values in:
- ^ Michael Coggan in New Delhi (2008-08-29). "Death toll rises from Indian floods - Just In - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)". Abc.net.au. Retrieved 2012-07-13.
- ^ abc.net.au, Death toll rises from Indian floods
- ^ reuters.com, Bihar villagers desperate as floods spread


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tions of arsenic with several internal cancers at exposure concentrations of several hundred micrograms per liter of drinking water. However, they provide few data about the degree of association at exposure concentrations below a few hundred micrograms per liter.
An extensive literature describes cases of skin and internal cancers following medicinal treatment with potassium arsenite (Fowler's solution) for a variety of conditions (Sommers and McManus 1953; Rosset 1958; Robson and Jelliffe 1963; Jackson and Grainge 1975; Popper et al. 1978; Prystowsky et al. 1978; Reymann et al. 1978; Nagy et al. 1980; Falk et al. 1981; Roat et al. 1982; Robertson and Low-Beer 1983), exposure to arsenical pesticides (Sommers and McManus 1953; Kjeldsberg and Ward 1972; Popper et al. 1978), or consumption of industrially contaminated drinking water or pesticide-contaminated wine (Roth 1957). The case reports and case series do not provide the needed data for quantitative risk assessment. However, the occurrence of these tumors in high numbers after long-term ingestion of arsenic in relatively young patients, or at anatomic sites where cancer is an extremely rare occurrence (e.g., liver angiosarcoma), increases the likelihood that many of the documented cancers were induced by arsenic. The observations also assist in identifying major cancer end points. The most common types of malignancy described in the reports are skin cancer, lung cancer, angiosarcoma of the liver (probably noted because of its rarity), prostate cancer, and bladder cancer. Reports of other cancers also appear: leukemia; other hematopoietic cancers; and cancers of the breast, colon, stomach, parotid gland, nasopharynx, larynx, buccal cavity, kidney, and others. Additional case reports describe internal cancers after the appearance of Bowen's disease, a type of superficial intraepidermal carcinoma that has been linked with arsenic exposure (Graham and Helwig 1959; Epstein 1960; Peterka et al. 1961; Hugo and Conway 1967).
The second group of studies comprises epidemiological investigations. Most of them did not provide the informational quality necessary for interpretation of dose-response relationships. However, many of the studies included data that are valuable in establishing the level of risk of particular internal cancers associated with a range of likely arsenic exposures (see Table 4-1). The form of arsenic was not specified in the epidemiological studies cited except for Cuzick et al. (1992), who observed mortality in a cohort of patients medicinally treated with potassium arsenite. Ecological studies are considered first, followed by cohort studies. Studies are summarized in Tables 4-1 through 4-6. When evaluating the epidemiological evidence to help judge whether arsenic in drinking water is a likely cause of internal cancers or other diseases, the subcommittee used the evaluation criteria that have been discussed by Hill (1965) and others (Cox 1972; Susser 1973; Rothman 1986).


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The only thing that I would say was bad was the cleanliness of the rooms. Looked alright but when - trying to switch off the lamp - I looked down on it, the bulbs were filthy. Fluffs of dust. Checked my parents room as well to see if ours was just the exception... The same. It's a shame the hotel getting a bad review due to poor performance of the cleaning ladies. Apart from that all good..!
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|Mon, 05-13-2013 - 3:31pm
This article says that most SAH moms do so, because they can't afford to work (i.e. couldn't make enough to cover their childcare costs). Or that their husband's income is in the top 5% of earners in the US. So SAHMs are at the two extreme ends of income. This seems to me to be pretty much what we've found through discussions on this board. Do you think that there should be programs in place to make it easier for SAHMs in the lower income brackets to go back to work? How could this be accomplished?
|Tue, 05-14-2013 - 8:46pm
|Tue, 05-14-2013 - 8:44pm
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I think it should be funded through taxpayer dollars.

May I ask how much you currently pay for your taxes? How much more are you willing to pay?

What type of taxes and if you are willing to ask, you should provide your own.
A lot >>
You realize that you are incorrectly comparing high property taxes (to cover the illegal apartments and their residents) to income taxes? Progams that we are talking about are funded normally through federal and state grants, not personal property taxes.
|Tue, 05-14-2013 - 8:41pm

Don't know, didn't care. I'm talking about people who love blabbing about taxes so much, it doesn't always ensure quality does it? Ggals' schools were higher than yours on this list.

Sorry your inlaws annoy you so much. That is great for her to get on the list so high. Again, I was not comparing the schools on that list. It is great to get on a top 2,000 list of all high schools in the country.

That isn't what the list shows, you didn't read the details correctly.
|Tue, 05-14-2013 - 8:36pm

How is that obvious? Are you really trying to implie that teen pregnancies only happen to parents who aren't involved in their kids lives?

Nope as I know (from my narrow view of life) some adults who got pregnant as teenagers and they had involved parents. It DOES happen BUT I do think the more you speak with your child about what is going on in their life, the more they will tell you. You need to have an open conversation that they don't feel embarassed (as you don't either) to ask or tell you anything.

It is a narrow view to think that nothing will change in the next years and that it will never happen to one's one child, either that or denial, pick one,.
|Tue, 05-14-2013 - 8:33pm
<<Textbook talk? And why are springs real life stories more accurate? Well at least to you, especially when they are so limited?
I know it helps you to sleep to think my views and experiences are limited. It is so not true though and I think in many situations your views and experiences are much limited. >>
I'm sure you do think that, it would not surprise me at all, however that doesn't make it true. All of your stories are pretty limited and so you just feel so sorry/sad/whatever/lollolololo for anyone or anything that is different. It's really a limited point of view and the continued denial is just part of it. Shrug.
|Tue, 05-14-2013 - 8:26pm

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Your school taxes are not alot, correct?

They are high enough that the high school my kids will attend ranks higher than yours on the US News and World Reports ranking.

That does NOT mean your school taxes are higher. I can assure you my school taxes ALONE are more than your ENTIRE home taxes. I don't think that makes a difference to make that list. But if it makes you feel better to attack me, go ahead. After all your dh's years of school (doesn't he have a master?) is he finally making some real money?

First, you might want to not attack someone when complaining about them attacking you, even when they weren't. LoL. Second, bragging about high taxes on a school with lower results doesn't really sound very logical on your part, you know? Third, I'm not sure I would be tossing out insults on spouses.
|Tue, 05-14-2013 - 8:23pm
>It is, there are a thousands of children in the foster care system waiting to be adopted in the US, right now. Friends of mine are a foster family and they have had numerous infants over the last couple of years, some staying longer than others, some going back to their parents and some being adopted. I know a number of families who have adopted children in the US out of the foster care system.
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That is how I got 2 of my nephews.
|Tue, 05-14-2013 - 8:21pm

No I don't think she's trying to insult you...well maybe a little. She is one of those parents who say, No, not MY daughter! It will not happen because I know everything that goes on at all times & that will never never change. That kind of perception is not realistic and may even be delusional.

Nope, that is not me. I know things happen. It is my job to make sure I can do the BEST so it does NOT happen. I guess when the tax payers are paying for welfare and wic, it is easier just to let them have the child and profit on it.

How is it easier and how doesn't one profit from wic?
|Tue, 05-14-2013 - 8:20pm
thardy2001 wrote:That's really the crux. It then makes it much easier to ask for more money from the taxpayer.
Please, feel free to pick apart my ideas and opinions, but don't try to make my arguments look weak because I'm unwilling to share my financial information on this board.>>
Only a few will fall for that trick...no worries.
|Tue, 05-14-2013 - 8:12pm
springfever2013 wrote:Ummm..I have as I know many companies that do that also. Unfortuntely, it sounds like many areas of the country do not offer enough for families. I guess that is why my taxes are so high. I also don't have to utilize a private school because of the bad conditions of my public schools.
My employer offers a child care benefit, and my kids will attend good public schools.>>
My public school with "bad conditions", you know because I use private school...has a full time preschool, lol.


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E-mail is a nice thing to be able to access whilst pounding away on a recalcitrant document. Access you may, but replying to that proton epistle is a wee bit more of a challenge than one might wish, especially if "Reply" buttons/keystrokes are your custom. If all else fails (and it will), right click. The same principles apply to newsgroup-reading.
Need to make a presentation to the board? Need to be able to rehearse timings of slides and make the best impression you can?
Both of these tools were surprisingly good. I'm no graphic artist but still managed to get a little slide up in less than seven minutes. Actual presentation makers could probably get the whole presentation done in that time. As it was, I attempted to make a few more "slides", create a slide show, change the order, etc., and view the results with Player. In terms of tools that are designed for productivity, and not for messing about with configuring/de-configuring options, these two applications exemplify the ease of use the developers of other StarOffice applications should be aiming for.
There are minor components of SO 5.2 that are interesting and provide pleasant "dressing" to the office suite. Some of the clip art is quite welldesigned. The Schedule is very nicely set up, allowing the user to survey an entire week at a glance. Fonts, as well as 2-D and 3-D effects, make for some eye-catching products.
On 10/13/2000 (yes, a Friday) Sun made the code for StarOffice 5.2 available for download (http://openoffice.org/). It's worth noting that Sun is still retaining the copyright of the project, regardless of who contributes what code or how much of the code is completely rewritten.
From what this writer has seen, three elements are missing from Star Office 5.2: consistency, modularity and unity. There is no consistent quality among the applications: some work very well indeed, while others are "not-yet-ready-for-prime-time". Modularity would allow each application to run separately, as does Player, and therefore give the user more direct control over what s/he wants to run. Running everything from "one place" sounds nice, but better results would arise out of an expanded context menu than from a bulky pseudo-desktop, which is more visible and serves less purpose than the menus concealed in its left border.
An office suite is normally categorized as "Productivity Software". StarOffice 5.2 doesn't yet belong here.
Stephanie Black is a recent migrant to IT and owns and runs Coastal Den Computing, a Linux consultancy. She has spent 80% of her coding life working with Linux and can be reached at email@example.com.
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