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Heidi Klum (born June 1, 1973 in Bergisch Gladbach, North Rhine-Westphalia, West Germany) is a German supermodel, actress, fashion designer, television producer, singer and artist.
Heidi Klum is undoubtedly one of the most famous models in the world (and with no exaggeration, one of the most beautiful). Merely in her late-twenties, she seems poised for the kind of longevity in the business not often seen among the top fashion models, with endorsements and photo shoots coming at her as quickly as she jots them down in her Palm Pilot.
Project Runway
In December of 2004, she became the host and judge of the reality show Project Runway on the U.S. cable television channel Bravo, in which fashion designers compete for the opportunity to show their line at New York Fashion Week and receive money to launch their own fashion line. She also received an Emmy Award nomination for the show for the first and second seasons.
Germany's Next Top Model
In December of 2005, in addition to hosting the second season of Project Runway, she became the host of Germany's Next Top Model, the German version of America's Next Top Model, which aired on the German network ProSieben. The show was a ratings success, but was not without controversy. German feminist groups encouraged boycotts of the show after one of the contestants was eliminated after being told she was "too big". Several politicians also accused the show of promoting anorexia and other eating disorders.
Clothing line, designing and perfume
Klum created her own clothing lines (including one for infants) that were featured in the German mail-order catalog "Otto". She also has designed shoes for Birkenstock, jewelry for Mouawad, and swimsuits - featured in the 2002 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue - that, for a limited time, were available for sale through her personal website. Her Mouawad jewelry collection debuted on the cable shopping network QVC on September 14, 2006, and 14 of the 16 styles sold out after only 35 minutes.
She also produced her own fragrance, called "Heidi", which is currently available for sale through her own website.
Victoria's Secret Model
When you hear of Victorias Secret, Heidi Klum automatically comes to mind, and we can never deny the fact that the two, Victorias Secret and Heidi Klum, have boosted each others popularity.
Klum is an artist and has had several of her paintings appear in various art magazines in the U.S. On September 27, 2002 she dedicated a sculpture she painted called "Dogs with Butterflies" to commemorate the role of rescue dogs in the aftermath of September 11. She has also had a rose named after her, known as the "Heidi Klum rose".
Klum is featured in the 2004 James Bond video game Everything or Nothing, where she plays a villain Dr. Katya Nadanova.
Klum has appeared in several music videos, including Jamiroquai's video "Love Foolosophy" from their album A Funk Odyssey , and Kelis's "Young, Fresh N' New", off her second album Wanderland.
In November 2006 Heidi released her debut single "Wonderland", which was written for a series of television advertisements for the German retailer "Douglas". Proceeds from the single were given to a children's charity in her hometown of Bergisch Gladbach.
Personal life
Klum married celebrity hairstylist Ric Pipino on September 6, 1997. The couple divorced in November 2002. She has also dated Red Hot Chili Peppers frontman Anthony Kiedis, and Philip Zevenbergen.
Klum has a daughter, Helene "Leni" Klum, who was born on May 4, 2004 and named after Klum's grandmother. Her father is Klum's former boyfriend and Formula One manager, Flavio Briatore. Klum's husband, British musician Seal, is helping her raise the child. Even in the earlier stages of their relationship, Klum said Seal treated Leni as if she was his own child.
Heidi Klum and Seal were wed on May 10, 2005, on a beach in Mexico. Klum gave birth to their son, Henry Günther Ademola Dashtu Samuel, in Los Angeles on September 12, 2005. On November 22, 2006, in Los Angeles, Heidi gave birth to their second son, Johan Riley Fyodor Taiwo Samuel.
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Heidi Klum interview
In her interviews, Heidi Klum never fails to give important tips for women on how to take care of themselves. Read more in the article and watch Heidi Klum interviews on video.
Heidi Klum Book
Heidi Klum has ventured into the literary world as she wrote a book about modeling back in the year 2006. This book is entitled Heidi Klum's Body of Knowledge: 8 Rules of Model Behavior (to Help You Take Off on the Runway of Life) and was published last June 2006. Read the whole article about Heidi Klum's book..
HKNB - Heidi Klum for New Balance
Heidi Klum opened a new collection with New Balance and Amazon.com. The supermodel turned super-multitasker informs that her New Balance Collection will be chic, comfortable and affordable at the same time.
Heidi Klum's Hans and Franz
The German supermodel has named her breasts 'Hans' and 'Franz', as a tribute to her homeland. See more about Heidi Klum breasts.
Birkenstock sandals designed by Heidi
Heidi designes shoes & sandals for Birkenstock and Papillio. These sandals are pretty popular!
Heidi is in the top of best paid models
Although the fashion world was hit by crisis, the situation on the top list of best paid model has not changed in the big extent, not even in the standings, or the earnings. Gisele Bundchen still firmly holds the top. Heidi is second.
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Forget BofA. Check out online bank BofINovember 1, 2012: 3:22 PM ET
As customers move toward mobile banking, is an online-only and branch-less bank the bank of the future?
Bank of Internet's CEO Gregory Garrabrants told an audience at an investing conference in San Diego last week that his bank, with roughly $2.4 billion in assets, can compete with its larger rivals because it's not weighed down by real estate costs and has a lean staff.
Garrabrants, speaking at Stocktoberfest, a conference run by social investing site StockTwits, said Bank of Internet is able to cut out the layers between consumers and the bank. Based in San Diego, the bank has just one branch and none of its own ATMs. But its offers free service at all ATMs in the US.
Bank of Internet (BOFI) has been a winner for investors this year. Shares are up 74%. But more impressively, the bank has shined since the financial crisis in 2008. Even though Bank of America (BAC), one of the best performing bank stocks in 2012, is up 72% this year, its shares have severely lagged its online rival since September 2008.
In an era where smaller banks are struggling to make a profit as Dodd-Frank and other regulations have made it more expensive to operate as an FDIC-insured bank in the United States, Bank of Internet has benefited as consumers do more banking remotely.
Bank of Internet's lean model has allowed them to eliminate overdraft fees on certain checking accounts too and offer higher interest rates on deposits. The bank offers consumers other easy services like giving them the option to take a picture of a check on their mobile phone and deposit it that way.
The bank also hopes to compete with Google (GOOG) Wallet and other innovative banking operations by Internet companies by open up its mobile platforms to outside software developers similar to how Facebook (FB) and Apple (AAPL) let programmers write code directly to their platforms. By doing this, Garrabrants expects to use customer data to offer its customers local coupons and other rewards.
Related: Bond fund manager: Beware Treasuries
While Garrabrants admits that banking hasn't reached a point yet where customers want to completely give up on tellers and ATMs, he says he's noticing a shift. "We're seeing a lot of movement away from the branches."
And who knows. Maybe it will be able to lure more customers who are afraid of investing in the market to stash cash with them. Paul Berry, former chief technology officer of The Huffington Post and founder of social media aggregator RebelMouse, joked at the StockTwits conference that he and his wife have almost all their savings in FDIC-backed accounts as opposed to the market because he's "just that [bleeping] paranoid."

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MILLIONS of Indians have watched a display of the country's military power and cultural diversity amid tight security during national day celebrations.
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was a special guest at Sunday's parade in the Indian capital, the highlight of the annual Republic Day festivities.
Schoolchildren, folk dancers, and police and military battalions marched through New Delhi, followed by the military hardware display and folk dances. India adopted its democratic Constitution on January 26, 1950.
Similar parades were held in Indian states, including Jammu-Kashmir and Manipur, where separatist militants don't accept Indian rule and called for general strikes.
Four low-intensity explosions marred the celebrations in Imphal, the capital of remote northeastern Manipur state, but did not cause any damage or casualties, police said.
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Sometimes I read science reports about the weather. It's not that I'm a nerd; I'm just interested in stuff that hits me right in the face. Stuff like the blazing sunshine (certainly not rain) that heated up our summer this year. And the mild breezes of last winter, one of Michigan's warmest on record.
A word of caution, though. Reading science reports about the weather can trigger anxiety attacks. That's because…
*Details about extreme weather throughout the country seem to bombard us non-stop.
*Weather scientists' predictions are pretty dire and they're based on statistics. (It's probably not good for me that I majored in statistics in college.)
*It doesn't take much imagination to get a picture of what happens if the country runs out of energy to operate air conditioning when the temperature hits 100-plus for weeks in a row (42 days in a row for Dallas, Texas, this summer).
*And scariest of all, global warming deniers are still bucking the scientists and pushing their own notion that all this is normal variation. Human beings keep burning fossil fuels? That has nothing to do with it, folks, so drill, baby, drill, and burn, baby, burn.
Wild thinkers are saying that if this keeps on, we'd have to live underground. That would sure ruin the looks of the neighborhood.
To quell my anxiety, I'd like people not to shout down but to listen to the scientists about where Earth and we, her children, stand with Mother Nature. And I'd like people to encourage the necessary, if inconvenient, actions needed to avert catastrophe.
Here's a web link to one of those weather science reports. It has to do with what happened to the ice in the area of the North Pole this summer. Here's a quote to get you started:
"Astonished by the summer's changes, scientists are studying the forces that exposed one million square miles of open water–six Californias–beyond the average since satellites started measurements in 1979."
Let's lighten up
Mr. Wilkins began reading his recovery-room record at the hospital.
The doctor arrived for the routine check-up to find the elderly gentleman quite concerned about one notation.
"I know I was in a bit of a mess when I was admitted," said Mr. Wilkins, "but I didn't realize I was that bad." His face was sad as he apologized. "I hope I didn't offend anyone too badly."
He was comforted when the doctor explained the acronym S.O.B. meant "Short Of Breath."
Let's lighten up again
A little kid raised his hand and asked the teacher, "Would you please tell me, ma'am how do you spell icholas?"
Miss Simmons, the teacher, thought she had misunderstood. "Don't you mean Nicholas?" she asked.
"No, ma'am. I've written the 'N' already."
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Q: What would you do if a blond threw a hand grenade at you?
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A second century of greatness
Earlier this week President Obama used authority granted by the Antiquities Act of 1906 to designate five new national monuments.
Delaware earned its first national park unit, celebrating the state's inaugural role in ratifying the U.S. Constitution. Maryland's Underground Railroad National Monument pays tribute to famous conductor Harriet Tubman. Nature and culture are now protected on Washington's San Juan Islands. And New Mexico scored the Rio Grande del Norte National Monument, which safeguards abundant wildlife habitat and the archaeology of Archaic-era Indians and Hispanic explorers from the 18th century and beyond.
The fifth park, the Charles Young Buffalo Soldiers National Monument in Ohio preserves the home of the U.S. Army soldier and West Point graduate who, prior to the establishment of the National Park Service (NPS) in 1916, served as one of the first superintendents of Sequoia and General Grant (now Kings Canyon) national parks. Young, as head of a regiment of so-called Buffalo Soldiers, was one of few African-Americans who achieved the rank of officer at the time. He was known for his courage, diplomacy and sheer volume of accomplishments.
A thread linking these monuments is that each pays tribute, in part, to this nation's immigrants (early Dutch, Swedish, Finnish and English settlers founded the colony of Delaware) and/or its current minorities—African Americans, Latinos and Native Americans.
Paradoxically, these are the groups that rarely see the inside of a national park unit. An NPS survey released in 2011 revealed that, in 2008 and 2009, 78 percent of park visitors were non-Hispanic whites. Latinos accounted for 9 percent and African-Americas for 7 percent of visitors. Asian Americans made up roughly 3 percent and American Indians, Alaska Natives and Pacific Islanders, approximately 1 percent.
Visitation did not correlate with the racial and ethnic makeup of the country at the time: the population of the U.S. was 64 percent white, 16 percent Latino, 13 percent African American, 5 percent Asian and less that 1 percent each of American Indians, Alaska Natives and Pacific Islanders.
Of course, these demographics are shifting dramatically. Last year the Census Bureau reported that minorities now account for over half of the babies now born in the U.S. By 2050, Hispanics are projected to be roughly 30 percent of our population; blacks, 15 percent and Asian Americans, 9 percent. Whites will be make up just 47 percent or less of America by then.
The lack of people of color in parks is a significant issue for the NPS. In the current ramp-up to the 100th anniversary of the agency in 2016, there's a lot of talk about how to position the park system for a second century of greatness (more on this in Part 2 of this blog). The Park Service knows it needs a sustainable constituency that supports the idea, and viability, of those places. This means making minority Americans aware that national parks are their land, too.
When asked during the NPS survey why they don't go to parks, many minorities said the "park experience" is unfamiliar to them—they don't know where parks are located, what they have to offer, or what to do when they get there. They also don't identify with the recreation ethic that seems synonymous with national parks; they believe that engaging in parks means being outfitted out with REI gear, walking uphill all day or sleeping on the ground.
The NPS has done a lot recently to expose people of color to parks, to celebrate diversity in the park experience, and to seek out new ways to honor the contributions minorities, including women, have made to our history and culture. Education programs across the country, often with private partners, sponsor wilderness trips for city kids, and some bring rangers into classrooms to introduce various park resources to children.
The NPS-sponsored American Latino Blogger Tour allowed readers to follow five social media leaders in the Hispanic community on their road trips to parks across the country last summer. Last month, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar launched a study to investigate the stories, places and people of Asian American and Pacific Island heritage. The National Park Foundation, the fundraising arm of the NPS, has created the American Latino Heritage Fund and African American Experience Fund to protect and promote the rich legacy of those groups.
While there may not be enough NPS units celebrating minorities' history and contributions, they represent some of the most moving and spectacular ones. Consider the new monuments to Harriet Tubman and Charles Young (and the César E. Chávez National Monument established last year). The Brown v. Board of Education, Manzanar and Sand Creek Massacre national historic sites are powerful places for learning and reflection. Recalling an afternoon at the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial last fall chokes me up still.
Looking forward to the NPS Centennial and the future of our national parks, it's clear a national campaign targeting people of color is needed. We need to profile parks as spots for family gatherings, casual encounters with nature, and making memories. They should be advertised as places with a shared ownership and history. (A You are Yosemite ad could include a photo of African Americans there in the 19th century with images of visitors of all flavors there today. A caption might read "Roughly 500 Buffalo Soldiers serving in Yosemite and Sequoia national parks in 1899, 1903 and 1904 evicted poachers and timber thieves and put out forest fires. They are Yosemite, and so are you.") As the leader presiding over the NPS' 100th anniversary, and one who has enjoyed high-profile national park outings with his family, President Obama is a logical champion and spokesperson for this effort.
Minorities are our present and future explorers, teachers, scientists, CEOs and policymakers. They need what parks have to offer—knowledge of shared experiences, an understanding of the interconnectedness of natural resources to our daily lives (even in cities), and the freedom and joy of discovering other worlds.
And as they did during the time of the Buffalo Soldiers, the parks need them—desperately.
Heather Hansen is a journalist working with the Red Lodge Clearinghouse /Getches-Wilkinson Center for Natural Resources, Energy and the Environment at CU Law School, to help raise awareness of natural resource issues.
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Wander around serene Japanese gardens or unwind with a hot spring bath in Tokyo.
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The famous Tokyo shopping districts of Akihabara, Ginza and Shibuya will meet your every retail need. Japan is also renowned for its wonderfully ornate gardens and parks filled with cherry blossom in spring, with some of the finest to be found in Tokyo. Sample superb sushi and other exotic dishes, and experience a different scene each evening, courtesy of the city's eclectic nightlife.
Gadget lovers and anime enthusiasts will be in heaven in the famous shopping district of Akihabara. Or for big-brand shops, luxury labels and flagship department stores, make your way to Ginza. Young fashion followers favour buzzing Shibuya. Or discover the shimmering hub of shopping and dining that is Roppongi Hills.
With its array of beautiful Shinto shrines and temples, Ueno Park symbolises traditional Japanese culture. If this glorious green space whets your cultural appetite, why not explore it further with ikebana flower arranging or origami lessons? Discover the ancient practise of tea ceremonies, or watch an exciting sumo wrestling match.
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By: Alex Weprin, Broadcasting & Cable
While much of the media business is in economic turmoil and ad-supported television is hurting, HBO and Showtime actually are thriving.
Both networks are up more than 20% in primetime ratings year-over-year, and a recent report from SNL Kagan pegged HBO's penetration at about 29.1 million homes and Showtime's at 17.1 million homes. Both figures are up from last summer, despite the lagging economy.
"As the advertising business has been tough in this recession, our model looks pretty good," says Showtime chairman Matt Blank.
HBO has been stealing many of the headlines with its strong True Blood/Hung-induced Sunday night renaissance, but Showtime has been setting ratings records of its own with its summer lineup of Weeds, Nurse Jackie and Penn & Teller: Bullshit!
"I don't think it is a zero-sum game," says Dave Baldwin, HBO's head of program planning, of the HBO-Showtime rivalry. "In our history, we have seen phases of upward spirals and downward spirals in terms of audience. Right now we are in a nice, healthy upward spiral phase."
"We both exist quite well in terms of critical acclaim and profitability in the same space," echoes Showtime Entertainment President Bob Greenblatt.
So while HBO's turnaround has captured headlines, Showtime is happily capturing network records. Rookie Nurse Jackiewas the highest-rated premiere in network history. Weeds is up 5% from last season and drew 1.68 million viewers for its season debut, the best for any program on the network this year.
And while the network has no new shows slated for the fall, Greenblatt expects to order one or two scripted series for 2010. Showtime passed on both of its pilots and two pilot presentations in the last development cycle. "None of those really were going to be the next great show for us," he says.
But the network is also focusing on films. MGM, Paramount and Lionsgate are leaving Showtime to launch their own pay cable channel Epix in October, which has forced the network to ink movie deals with smaller outfits in an effort to keep the theatricals flowing after 2010. So far, the network has deals with The Weinstein Co. and Summit Entertainment, which produces the Twilight movie series, among other production companies.
The Weinstein Co. has been under particular scrutiny, with questions about its financial state and whether it can remain solvent. "We like their movies; if we don't get their movies, we will buy other movies," Blank says. "But most of the speculation about them is probably premature. Let's see how they do with the films they have made."
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When five-year-old Sally Chow was last angry with her dad, she didn't stomp her feet or throw a tantrum. The Vancouver youngster simply held up her thumb and finger and defiantly pinched them together — a gesture used on computer tablets for resizing something.
"That was her way of saying, 'I'm making you smaller,'" says John Chow, laughing.
According to Sesame Workshop, the non-profit behind Sesame Street, about a quarter of U.S. kids are going online daily by age three, while around half are doing so by age five. A 2011 survey by Parenting Group and BlogHer, meanwhile, finds that a third of North American Gen Y moms (18 to 27) have let their children use a laptop by age two.
The adoption age for digital media has been dropping so quickly, in fact, that there are now tablets designed exclusively for babies and toddlers. The infant-aimed Vinci, which retails for $389 to $479, hit the market in August, while LeapFrog's new LeapPad Explorer — a $109 tablet for kids aged four to nine — has been tipped as one of the hottest toys for Christmas.
"Parents are tired of kids nagging them to use their tablets and iPhones," says David Perkinson, LeapFrog's senior director of global content. "(These ones) can take everything a kid can dish out."
Warren Buckleitner, a former teacher and founding editor of Children's Technology Review, is already predicting tablets will be the "bicycle of the 21st century" for children.
"The worst thing you can do right now is put your head in the sand and say this whole thing is a fad," says Buckleitner, who reviews kids' tech for the New York Times.
Despite the recent influx of child-oriented electronics, he suggests Apple's iPad still offers parents the best value. He lists chief among the tablet's virtues its 10-hour battery life, which ensures "the device stays awake longer than the child."
But Buckleitner hastens to add that children shouldn't be left to their own devices — literally or figuratively.
"I don't think it's healthy for a child to spend all day alone with a screen," he says. "Kids will just play Angry Birds for the rest of their lives if that's an option."
A Duke University study indeed found that when parents weren't supervising kids on the computer, the youngsters' inclination was — unsurprisingly — to choose play over learning. Harvard, meanwhile, has plumbed the dangers of wiring kids for distraction, with researchers noting links between young people's device screen-time and over-stimulated brains.
Chow, father of five-year-old Sally, admits it can be a struggle to get his daughter to surrender her iPad when it's time for her studies. But he doesn't regret the purchase, noting that it's readying her for the digital world in which she'll grow up.
"She's immersed in technology," says Chow, an Internet entrepreneur. "She has no idea what a cassette is, or even a CD for that matter."
Rhonda McEwen, assistant professor of new media at the University of Toronto, says tablets offer substantial developmental opportunities for young children in terms of fine motor skills and language. But she worries that disproportionate emphasis on the devices will come at the expense of catching a ball, playing hide and seek, or even penmanship.
"It used to be cursive versus print; now it's keyboard skills versus printing skills," says McEwen. "But there's still a lot of room for us to marry the two, integrating the joy of working on an iPad with learning how to write on a piece of paper."
As for the appropriate age to introduce computers, McEwen says it's almost a moot point for educators, as youngsters are being acquainted with technology long before entering Kindergarten.
"For us, it's about working with parents to determine the appropriate amount of screen time, not at which age children should have the devices," says McEwen. "That horse is already out of the gate."


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Today's Gospel finds us in a time of intense teaching by Jesus. It must have left the Apostles agape with wonder. In the few lines before today's Gospel reading, John tells us that Jesus has just explained his relationship with the Father and the Holy Spirit.
Today, Jesus extends a message, makes an invitation to humility: as love binds me to the Father, so love binds me to you. Reading the words silently, to oneself so to speak, misses the thrill of hearing them read aloud.
Such reading brings out emphases and discovery. Jesus seems to say, "You know all you need to know about me: You are my friends – servants, followers no longer, but friends."
No, not "seems." Jesus says it clearly, "As the Father has loved me, so I have loved you; abide in my love. . . . No one has greater love than this, to lay down his life for one's friends. . . .
"I have called you friends, because I have made known to you everything that I have heard from my Father."
As we know the Apostles, at times puzzled, sometimes querulous, often bewildered, and on other occasions doubting, they persisted in spite of all and learned at last to teach and live as Jesus taught and lived.
Their lives so formed pointed the way to acts of heroism, mercy, generosity and altruism through the centuries which followed. The world has had its rough spots, but in between it abounds with blossoms. How can we know them?
Sometimes they speak for themselves. I cherish the story of the 33 Chilean miners trapped by a mine collapse on Aug. 5, 2010 and entombed for 69 days. We all yearned for them, many of us prayed for them, an international team of mining engineers worked to rescue them.
Good for the people whose resolve to free them succeeded so brilliantly. The world rejoiced to see the blossom of love among the ruin.
Sometimes gratitude reminds us. On last Oct. 6, Ed Stelmach, then premier of Alberta unveiled a statue in front of the Alberta Legislature. The statue declares gratitude to the nuns for their great and lasting contribution to the development of the West and its children.
Though he spoke from his own experience, Stelmach's words echoed in the memories of the many of us who learned from those women guided by the love which Jesus taught.
Sometimes the world cannot deny the beauty of the lives of our heroes – lives such as Pope John XXIII, Mother Teresa, Martin Luther King or Jean Vanier.
Sometimes a near moment can break into blossom: a woman almost completely abandoned by her mind, sat in a wheelchair in a care facility.
A roughly bearded electrician armed with his belt of clippers, nippers and clamps, the tools of his trade, espied her. He broke stride, leaned over to kiss her forehead, looked straight ahead and jangled on his way.
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How one couple set sail for Europe and spent eight years exploring the Mediterranean
'Bill," Judy called to me, her voice remarkably calm. "I think I have a broken wrist."
Two days earlier, we had set out from Rhode Island aboard our 42-foot sailboat, bound for Bermuda—which was two days distant. The night before, Judy's arm got tangled up with the main sheet as we were changing course.
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This was the beginning of what we hoped would be our retirement adventure: crossing the Atlantic and living on our boat as we explored the Mediterranean and Europe. There were immediate thoughts of turning around and abandoning our plans.
But Judy wouldn't hear of it. We arrived in Bermuda and spent a month there while Judy's arm healed. That would be the darkest moment in what became an eight-year odyssey: embracing, and reveling in, a cruising lifestyle.
What would prompt two retirees (I was 65 and Judy 64) to do something most people just dream about? First, we had the boat, which we already had sailed on the Great Lakes for four years. Our sailing experience actually goes back to the mid-1970s in a variety of keel boats.
Second, we have understanding children, who were just beginning to have our grandchildren and who gave us their blessing to embark on what we called "Bill and Judy's most excellent adventure."
Third, we are adventuresome by nature, and this seemed like a great way to experience a wonderful sport to its fullest.
Initially we were going to live on the boat for only a year or so. My main goal was simply to sail across the ocean and back. However, once we berthed in Horta (on the Azores islands, approaching Europe) and talked to other sailors—and realized how much there was to see and do—we decided we might have to adjust our timetable.
As it turned out, one year blended into the next, and before we knew it eight years had passed while we sailed the length and breadth of the Mediterranean. Here's a brief look at how we did it and how others can do the same.
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To start—and at the risk of stating the obvious—you must have a boat and some experience. It helps to be mechanically handy as you have to be your own repairman much of the time. The Internet and the Global Positioning System have greatly facilitated long-distance and long-term cruising.
While we were cruising, we maintained our home in Grand Rapids, Mich. It was a great base to fly back to for the Christmas holidays, and in some years for July and August. (The Mediterranean is hot and crowded at the height of summer.)
At various points, family and neighbors kept an eye on our house; we also hired a lawn service. The only significant increase in our bills was the cost of flying back and forth from Europe two times each year.
Living expenses were actually lower on our boat than at home. (No expensive auto and utility bills.) A good mix of tying up at marinas (about €15 to €30, or $19 to $38, a day) and anchoring (free) kept day-to-day sailing expenses manageable. Most other costs—including boat insurance, food, clothing and maintenance—were a wash.
Most people don't have a clear idea of what cruising is all about. I guess the best answer is that it is like high-class camping. You are outdoors a good bit of the time. There is a lot of walking (good for the body) and, if you are in the Mediterranean, fabulous food (which also happens to be healthy).
Trials and setbacks are commonplace. Replacing a roll of Scotch tape can be an all-day affair. Language differences turn simple chores into adventures. And then there's the weather. Many say the wind in the Mediterranean either doesn't blow or it blows 100 miles per hour. In reality, it is much like Lake Michigan.
In conversations with other live-aboard cruisers, we all seem to agree that the main attraction isn't passage making or sightseeing, but rather people.
Wherever we moored the boat for an extended winter stay, we met and shared marina slip space with a large community of cruisers who had a common love of sailing and adventure. Most were from other parts of Europe, but some were locals who were just as eager to socialize. This allowed us to immerse ourselves in the local community and helped hone our language skills.
One of the side benefits was that socialization often included invitations to homes for dinner parties and terrific meals. The friendships we made are still active. To this day we continue to visit with the people we met—sometimes as hosts here in Michigan and sometimes as guests in Europe.
Winters in Barcelona
Another great benefit of cruising is the absence of timetables and deadlines. If we wanted to linger in a famous port, we did.
During our third year, while cruising the coast of Croatia (our favorite area) and looking for a good spot to winter, we decided late in the summer to sail to Venice. We moored at the city's only yacht club, which had limited space for transients. They made room for us for one night—and then two, and then three. Our plans for a quick visit eventually stretched into a seven-month stay.
Indeed, little of our wandering was planned. As the years rolled by, we continued to sail east, finally spending a winter along Turkey's southwestern coast in Kemer Marina. A highlight of this stay was participating in the Eastern Mediterranean Yacht Rally. We covered 1,500 sea miles over eight weeks, during which we visited ports in Cyprus, eastern Turkey, Syria, Lebanon, Israel, Jordan and Egypt. Land tours took us to 15 different World Heritage Sites. These are experiences we never could have duplicated through standard travel tours.
Other than Judy's mishap at the start of our journey, medical care wasn't much of an issue. We were both healthy and needed no care except for occasional dental work. In Italy I had to have a root canal and crown, while Judy had to have a broken tooth rebuilt. Neither cost more than €150—about one-tenth the cost in the U.S. And the work was first class.
Our last two winters in the Mediterranean were in the marvelous city of Barcelona. The marina, Port Vell, is in the heart of the city, and bus and subway stops were within a stone's throw of the dock where we tied up. Given its role as the art and cultural capital of Spain, as well as the engine of the national economy, Barcelona was the perfect big city to experience.
It was during our final winter in Barcelona that we realized we had reached the end of our journey. We had traveled every inch of the European Mediterranean coast, including the Middle East, Tunisia, Morocco and every major island. It was time to return to the U.S. and home.
Do we miss the lifestyle? By all means. It was enriching, exciting, peaceful—and yes, a little terrifying at times. But we haven't given it up completely. We are still cruising and racing—only we do it closer to home now, on Lake Michigan.
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Purple gain: Frances Brand's house gets painted
Has The Artist Formerly Known as Prince bought a house in Charlottesville? Why else would anyone paint the traditional white cottage at 111 Washington Avenue a shocking, Easter M&M candy shade of purple?
In fact, the house belongs to Cindy Brand, who painted it as a tribute to her grandmother, local artist and activist Frances Brand. Brand, who died in 1990 at the age of 89, likely wouldn't have minded the house's new look.
After all, blending in was never high on Frances Brand's list of priorities. Brand, who was once asked on a date by Al Capone, was arrested for civil disobedience while marching in a protest organized by Martin Luther King. She served as an Army major and secretary of Charlottesville's NAACP chapter. Locally, Brand was known as the "Purple Lady" for her head-to-toe purple wardrobe. Painting the house Brand's trademark hue was the "best way to remind people of her spirit," Cindy Brand says.
Since Cindy Brand moved into the house on Washington Avenue after her grandmother's death, she has maintained it as an unofficial Frances Brand museum. Frances Brand wanted people to "experience the world through her home," which is chock-full of artifacts from her travels around the globe, says Cindy Brand.
Brand often opened her home to members of the community. Charlottesville resident Martha Dix remembers visiting Brand's house several times during the 1980s. "It was amazing. Everything she owned had a story," she says.
A gallery behind the house features the "Charlottesville Firsts," Brand's Grandma Moses-style portraits honoring the accomplishments of local residents who "broke down barriers and opened doors for those who would follow," says Cindy Brand.
Subjects include Cornelia Johnson, the city's first female African-American police officer, and Nancy O'Brien, Charlottesville's first woman mayor. Despite the collection's popularity, Brand never sold any of her paintings, wanting to "maintain the integrity of her art and avoid selling herself out," says her granddaughter.
Cindy Brand isn't ready to go through the red tape necessary to make the house an official nonprofit museum, but the house is open to visitors. Free tours of Brand's "Gallery of Firsts" can be scheduled by calling 245-8753. With such a visible tribute to the artist open in town, Charlottesville won't soon forget its "Purple Lady."


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Friday, August 11, 2006
The act of killing from 20,000 feet
'As German fuel supplies dwindled in the autumn of 1944 and into the final months of the war, aircraft were grounded, tanks halted, training for replacement pilots could not be maintained, and most of the new and highly effective Messerschmitt 262 jet-fighter aircraft (photo above), of which over 1,200 had been produced by the end of 1944 and which might have considerably prolonged the war, had neither fuel to fly nor trained pilots to fly them. The ME 262s were anyway extremely fuel-hungry aircraft, and those that went into action had to be towed to their end of their runways to conserve fuel, cows were used to do the towing to further save the fuel of tractors.'
On the night of 13th to 14th February 1945 RAF Bomber Command carried out two devastating raids on the city of Dresden. In all 768 aircraft dropped 2,646 tons of high explosives, incendiaries and flares. Shortly after midday on on 14th February a formation of 316 bombers returned for a third attack in which a further 782 tons were dropped. All three raids met with minimal resistance from German aircraft or anti-aircraft guns for the reasons explained above. The city was crammed with refugees fleeing from the advancing Soviet forces. The death toll from the raids will never be accurately known, but conservative estimates put it at about 25,000.
The quotation in the second paragraph is taken from Among the Dead Cities. This is a brilliantly researched and written, and deeply disturbing new analysis by philosopher A.C. Grayling of the Allied policy of 'area bombing' that led to death and destruction in Hamburg, Dresden, Tokyo and many other cities. A brilliant study of one of the most complex issues of morality of modern times which concludes that the policy of area bombing was unecessary, disproportionate, and was in defiance of accepted moral standards.
In his final chapter Grayling asks: 'What is the moral difference between bombing women and children and shooting them with a pistol? Is it that when you bomb them you cannot see them - and you did not intend that particular child to die - and any way they may escape the bombing, perhaps by reaching a shelter? But if they are here against a wall just feet away from the muzzle of your pistol they cannot escape: it is more personal; you can see their eyes. Is that the difference - the anonymity of the act of killing from 20,000 feet?'
Another new addition to the Dresden literature is Firestorm, the Bombing of Dresden, 1945, edited by Paul Addison and Jeremy A. Crang (Pimlico, ISBN 184413928). This is an antholgy of contributions to the colloqium on Dresden organised by the Centre for Second World War Studies at the University of Edinburgh in 2003. Particularly noteworthy are Nicola Lambourne's chapter on the reconstruction of the city's monuments (see I am a camera - Dresden), and Alan Russell on why Dresden matters. The latter includes a survey of post-war musical activity (including Rudolph Mauersberger's scandalously neglected Dresden Requiem), and gives us a timely reminder that the first performance of Britten's War Requiem outside the UK took place in Dresden in 1965.
Related resources On An Overgrown Path include * Dead, dead, dead everywhere ... * Dresden Requiem for eleven young victims * I am a camera Dresden * The Radiance of a thousand suns *
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12 comments:
- Pliable said...
And let us not forget the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the 61st anniversary of which passed almost unnoticed last week.
Thank you to the ever relevant Renaissance Research for reminding us of another 'act of killing from 20,000 feet.'
- 8:45 am
- Berend de Boer said...
Is it true that "you did not intend that particular child to die"?
Wasn't the actual intention to kill as many civilians as possible? The bombing was intentional and the civilian death was intentional.
That's quite different from our days where Western countries do not intentionally target civilians.
PS I completely disagree with Grayling's argument of course, but that isn't what I want to discuss.
- 10:18 am
- Pliable said...
Berend, the apologists for the massacre in Dresden, and as you know I am not one of them, would claim they did not intentionally target civilians.
Dresden was considered to be a strategic target because it was a railway hub used to move armaments to the eastern front. The raids were supposedly targeted at the railway marshalling yards to the west of the main railway station.
The horrendous civilian casualties were caused by a number of factors. The subways under the railway station were packed with sheltering refugees. This was where the heaviest casualties occured, and walking through those death chambers which have been restored as subways when I took a train to Berlin last year was one of the most chilling experiences of my life.
The raids also suffered from the known phenomena of 'bomb creep' where successive waves of bombs are dropped away from the marked target. And a failure in the marking of the targets at the start of the raid meant that the bombs were dropped on blazing buildings instead of on flares marking the railway target.
But whatever the apologists say the bomb tonnage dropped, the lack of defences, the huge refugee population, and the city's cultural importance make the bombing of Dresden a low-point of Western civilisation.
- 1:28 pm
- Phil Harris said...
I am glad you, pliable, reminded us of the supposed strategic targeting and justification for Dresden.
While working on the Continent a few years ago I became aware of the frisson that my name sometimes prompted - Harris and 'war criminal' came to mind, apparently.
I am not sure why you were so conservative about numbers. I tend to go with Vonnegut's 100K plus.
(BTW came to uour site by a very overgrown path this morning; I was at school with David Hemmings and remember his role with Britten.)
- 1:33 pm
- Pliable said...
Phil, thanks for your comment and visiting the blog.
I noticed you coming in via a Google search for Epsom Glyn Grammar earlier.
We must have been at that school at the same time, although I was several years below David Hemmings.
Strange how these overgrown paths converge, and Britten seems to be a constant presence on them at present.
- 1:48 pm
- Berend de Boer said...
How widespread are these apologies and when did they come into existence?
Weren't they invented much later? I remember reading somewhere that the US initially was quite aghast at the British bombing the civilians, but started doing it themselves after a while.
So it seems to me that initially this strategy had some acceptance, but perhaps the embarrassment wasn't invented until much later?
- 10:24 pm
- Pliable said...
Berend, you are correct, the US did not adopt 'area bombing' until late in the war, and for some time were opposed to the strategy.
But the third wave of bombers that attacked Dresden were in fact US. The 1st Division of the US 8th Army Airforce sent 678 tons of bombs and incendiaries to Dresden, although not all were dropped on the city, some were dropped on nearby Chemitz.
The US also used area bombing with dreadful results on the city centre of Tokyo, and Grayling cites this in his book.
- 7:25 am
- Phil Harris said...
Further to US attitudes. My understanding is that Eisenhower as commander of all forces on the ground in Europe wanted (needed) British Bomber Command resources 1944 onwards to attack active German military nearer the frontline and thought the so called 'strategic' bombing of German cities a serious misuse. His requests were turned down. 'Bomber' Harris was unreachable and presumably had some protection from Churchill. Correct me if I am wrong. I do not have authoritative sources to hand.
Returning to the current middle-east; attacks by air and long-range artillery. I heard Israel knocked out another power station this morning. That has potential for a lot of long distance casualties in the next weeks. Plesch in the Guardian yesterday recalled pragmatic value of the moral high ground. Yesterday I sent an email of support (not on pragmatic grounds - more a matter of keeping my own head/heart straight) to the Archbishop of York for his week long vigil and fast on behalf of peoples of middle-east. No mean feat if he has to pop out from the office every hour to light a candle and say a prayer, and sleeps in the old Minster. I belong to no religion but if I was near York I would pop in and lend a bit of moral support. The bishops email is email@example.com . Nice place also for a concert I am told - somebody could perhaps combine the two together at short notice? Any suggestions?
- 9:22 am
- Steve Hayes said...
Assuming that the plot had achieved its aims the number of dead would probably not have exceeded that in the Nato bombing of Yugoslavia in 1999. What's so "unimaginable" about that?
And they are talking of putting the North Atlantic Terrorist Organisation between Israel and Lebanon.
- 12:45 pm
- Garth Trinkl said...
While the NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) bombing of Yugoslavia in 1999 has done more than anything else to alienate large parts of Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union from "the West", it should also be recalled that the intention of the bombing [the so-called 'good intention'] was finally to stop the 'genocide' of Muslims by the Serbian State in the Balkan conflict and the dissolution of the Former Yugoslavia [it was the gravest incidence of genocide in Europe since 1945]. Bill Clinton acted after realizing that 'the West' and the U.N. had failed to stop the genocide occuring in Rwanda in 1994, which resulted in the deaths of over 800,000 Africans over a three month period.
- 9:50 pm
- Mozie said...
After watching the documentary " The Fog of War" with Robert McNamara, former Secretary of Defence during Truman and Kennedy, where he ponders that these decisions to kill "em masse" actually helped to shorten the war and save more soldiers' lives, I just ponder on the actual Power these people hold over the planet's lives. Amazing that there was no Nuremberg trial applied to these people, just because they were acting in the name of Freedom.
- 9:04 pm
- George Hannan said...
The morality of war & killing is a long chain - where does it begin - where does it end?
- 5:17 am


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The number of African Americans in the unemployment line has declined with March's unemployment rate dropping to 13.3 percent. According to figures released by the Dept. of Labor Friday morning, it was13.8 percent in February.
The national unemployment rate decreased to 7.6 percent from 7.7 percent.
Meanwhile, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Thursday that for the week ending March 30 the number of new unemployment claims sprung to a 4-month high of 385,000.
For the week ending March 18, the total number of people receiving unemployment was 5,288,614 compared to 7,050,710 during the same week in 2012, according to the most recent statistics available said BET.com.
The US economy added 88,000 jobs, which is the fewest added in nine months. The decrease in the unemployment rate was mostly due to about 500,000 people no longer looking for work.
Economists surveyed by Newswire predicted the economy would add 200,000 new jobs in March. Automatic Date Process, the payroll provider, estimated 158,000 jobs.
Reuters attributed the lagging hiring to the dwindling demand for construction workers.
Sequestration, otherwise known as programmed extensive federal budget cuts, is also a concern because as soon as it is felt its effects will be indicative of the economy's continued weakness.
Alan Krueger, Chairman of the White House Council of Economic Advisers, said that the "arbitrary and unnecessary cuts" mean less investment in the nation's future competitiveness and warned that the sequester could eliminate 750,000 full-time jobs by the end of the year.
House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, however, insisted that the Democrats were just making excuses for why unemployment was still high, and did not have enough solutions. He made no comment about the lower jobless rate and used the "disappointing" report to push the Support Knowledge and Investing in Lifelong Skills (SKILLS) Act, a job training bill recently passed in the House.
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October 23, 2014: Carey Chiselbrook (Georgia, United States; AAVSO observer code CCY) observed the WZ Sge-type dwarf nova VSX J213806.5+261957 in outburst at a visual magnitude of 9.7 on 2014 October 22.0590 (JD 2456952.55903). Prior to the outburst detection, the last observation (also by CCY) indicated the star was not in outburst less than 24 hours prior (mvis < 13.8 at JD 2456951.6326).
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V513 Peg (HS 2214+2845) 2013 July 18 21:08:59 through July 19 01:04:23 UT
V513 Peg is 16.8V at minimum and 12.5V at maximum. Please monitor V513 Peg closely through July 19.
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OR And 2013 July 10 11:47:01 through 15:56:12 UT
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