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We're two weeks away from Easter and you know what that means: Easter egg decorating! If you're looking for creative Easter Egg decorating ideas, then look no further!
We rounded up 9 different tutorials that put a unique twist on a timeless Easter tradition. Scroll down to see which Easter egg decorating idea fits your taste and style.
Floral Creative Easter Egg Decorating Ideas
Easter Egg Tattoo DIY
Put a modern spin on easter egg decorating and instead of dipping them in dye give them cute floral tattoos. This decorating route is super easy, affordable and doesn't take a lot of prep or clean up time.
All you need is temporary tattoo paper, an inkjet printer, white hard boiled eggs, a wet rag, scissors and a A Beautiful Mess' downloadable Easter tattoos.
Click here for the whole tutorial by A Beautiful Mess.
Cactus Easter Eggs
If you want to get into the Easter spirit but stand out from the crowd, skip the expected creative Easter egg decorating ideas and make Cactus Easter Eggs. This design is a clever but not so obvious Easter egg decor idea.
The supplies you'll need are hard boiled eggs, green egg dye, a fine tip black marker, small terracotta pots, decorative gravel, glue and pink or yellow tissue paper. Once Easter passes you can reuse the pots and gravel for real succulents!
Click here for the whole tutorial by Delia Creates.
Floral Easter Egg Centerpiece
This is the Easter egg decorating idea for florists and flower lovers. Take your egg decorating one step further this year and create this beautiful and easy-to-make floral masterpiece.
The tools you'll need are empty egg shells, a knife, water, flowers and scissors. This dainty and stunning centerpiece will impress all your guests. It's also a thoughtful and stunning hostess gift.
Click here for the whole tutorial by Merrythought.
Cute Creative Easter Egg Ideas
DIY Doily Easter Eggs
If you or someone in your home can't stand the thought, look or smell of hard boiled eggs, than this is the Easter egg decorating idea for you. Substitute cardboard eggs instead of real eggs and make these adorable doily Easter eggs.
What's nice about this decoration is that you can re-use it for all the future Easters! The tools you'll need are craft paper mache eggs, paper doilies, scissors, Mod Podge Matte, and a paper grocery bag.
Click here for the whole tutorial by The Little Red Window.
Sprinkle Easter Eggs
Create Easter eggs that look like they belong in a Brit.Co photo shoot and make these colorful sprinkle Easter eggs. This decorating idea is quick and easy to do, and the final product is adorable!
All you'll need are pastel nonpareil sprinkles, hard boiled eggs, tacky glue, a spoon and a paintbrush. For a photo perfect look, tenderly place these sprinkled babies in pastel egg shaped dishes like our Colorful Custard Bowls.
Click here for the whole tutorial by Studio DIY.
Fuzzy Easter Egg Cozies
Nothing is cuter than a well executed cozie. This is another fun egg decorating alternative if you aren't about that hard boiled egg life.
Bust out your knitting needles, bright colored yarn and knit these charming Easter egg cozies. The materials you'll need are fingering weight yarn, as set of US #3 double pointed needles and stuffing.
Click here for the whole tutorial by Purl Soho.
Crafty & Creative Easter Egg Ideas
Sophisticated Placement Eggs
If you want to make an easy table decoration that incorporates egg shells, whip out your golden marker. These makeshift egg placement cards are simple and elegant, a winning combo in our book.
For this Easter craft you'll need a hard boiled egg and any colored fine point Sharpie. Silver and gold give a nice touch.
Click here for the whole tutorial by JSH.
Easter Bunny Mini Eggshell Vases
Combing your love for the Easter bunny and eggshell crafts and make these precious Easter Bunny Mini Eggshell Vases. Seriously nothing is cuter than these little fellows. They're the finishing touch to your Easter home decor.
The tools you'll need to make these little bunnies are empty egg shells, a black marker, white paint pen, pink and red coloured pencils, Washi tape, white office paper and flowers and leaves. Be the hostess with the mostess and delight your guests with these friendly bunnies.
Click here for the whole tutorial by We Are Scout.
Easter Egg Candles
Last but not least are these Easter Egg Candles. This is another resourceful Easter craft which results in a decoration that you can use after Easter.
To make these cool Easter Egg Candles, gather blown out egg shells, soy wax flakes, 5 inch candle wicks, wax paper, Dixie cups, Crayons and essential oils. The outcome? Colorful and aromatic candles!
Click here for the whole tutorial by HelloGlow.
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Video Of The Week: An S2000 is Laid To Rest
So, some of you were upset about having wasted two minutes of your life after watching last week's video of the week. Is that really such a big [email protected]#king deal considering the rest of your time is wasted on S2KI anyways (haha, we jest!!). Just as last week's "pointless" video, the video you are about to see may appear to be pointless too, pointless in that you will see an S2000 being taken apart, crushed, and then given a ceremonial burial by the fine students of the Butte College Motorsports Program.
Per the description of the video, this S2000 was one of the cars Honda gave to magazines to test drive. Having completed its tour of duty, it was donated to the Butte College Honda PACT Technician Training program to use for racing purposes with their newly formed Motorsports Dynamics class. Wow! How does one get into that program? Having been converted into a race-ready machine, the car then went on to achieve honors in the SCCA championships in 2008 and 2009, even finishing first in its class at The 25 Hours of Thunderhill. Shortly after the race, the car had to be crushed (we are not sure why), and its components were removed for educational purposes. The car may be gone, but its impact lives on. Rest in peace, little friend; you shall not be forgotten for you achieved in your short life what most S2000s can only dream of. I'm sure you will all agree that this car was given a proper send-off as opposed to languishing in a scrap yard or being wrapped around a tree.
Click through to watch our video of the week!
Tip of the hat to the Butte College Motorsports Club


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William Shakespeare. Photograph:( Others )
English, like every other language, has changed over time. So much so, that the form used by writers back in the sixteenth-seventeenth century is today very difficult to comprehend.
A 17th century writer, Richard Stanyhurst, published Contention Between Liberality And Prodigality, where he wrote about the game of tennis. "Every minute tost, like to a tennis-ball, from pillar to post. Free thee poast toe piler with thoght his rackt wyt he tosseth."
When the book was published, a game of tennis and this phrase was tied to each other. Even before the tennis racket came into existence, there were elements equally important and the game was all about strategy and endurance. The net, nothing more than a rope was tied to a post at one end and to one of the pillars supporting the galleries at the other end, and thus, the idiom from post to pillar began.
This is just one of the thousands of pages that exist today in handwritten documents from 16th to 17th century England. Volunteers are now coming together to transcribe these old English documents as part of an initiative called Shakespeare's World. It was launched on Zooniverse, a research-crowdsourcing platform in 2015 with an aim to make people understand the English language used around the time of William Shakespeare.
Old English manuscript (Source: Wikipedia Commons) (Others)
There is a lengthy list of literature written around the time, now called the Renaissance. The development of the English language is also linked to the consolidation and strengthening of the English state. This idea of Shakespeare's World was thus conceptualised in 2013 when Zooniverse's founder, Chris Lintott started discussing with his friend Victoria Van Hyning, a scholar of English literature, what she considered the most pressing problem in the humanities. And what came out of it was that there was a looming problem of text transcription, according to the New Yorker.
Zooniverse has partnered with the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington DC, and the Oxford English Dictionary. Volunteers for Shakespeare's World can view images of documents from the Folger's manuscript collection and transcribe. The best part about this process is that the volunteers dont have to worry about getting the text perfect. Many transcribe each line independently, and an algorithm originally designed to identify similar DNA or protein sequences compares the strings of letters to determine a likely best answer. Spot-checks suggest that the quality of completed lines is close to that of scholarly work, as reported to the New Yorker.
Till now, Zooniverse users have completed more than 3,300 pages.
The Zooniverse project is scheduled to last for two more years. Meanwhile, Folger team will be uploading finished transcriptions to their Early Modern Manuscripts Online database, which launched in beta this month. Volunteers continue to log hours in the evenings, on holidays, and during coffee breaks.


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Part – I
Section 3: Volcano goddess on rampage
Siva and Vishnu under attack
Display of power in Siva temple
Destroying powers of women are known since ages and any male interacting with a female has only one end – fall. Everyone falls before a smiling dame under her psychic command and invading force of breasts. Love is first state of fall; second is marriage; third is inability to say 'no madam'; and, fourth is reconciled status of henpecked husband. These four constitute the steps even in feminine Tantra; and, goddess Swati wished and was determined to subjugate me to the extent of my total control in the fourth state through her mediums. A female spirit's final subjugation of a man's mind goes even a step further. She drives her victim ultimately to his suicide through saps – an acronym for self-inflicting auto-suggestive possession syndrome.
Since Tantra is a manifestation of the psychic self and physical body does not run it, a female active spirit or goddess is as much capable of inducing the five destructive steps of Tantra as a living individual when a man falls under her possession. How quickly and how fast a victim reaches the final stage depends upon two factors: power of the spirit or goddess, and the opposing strength or manojav in the person under attack. Swati's strength of command was formidable and beyond challenge for any living person. As evident from my books reaching Bangalore instead of their destination Bombay, Swati needed barely a few minutes for possessing and executing quick and short commands. Implementing Malun's desire of making me seated by the side of a teenager in a flight from Kolkata to Delhi came within minutes through a commanding spirit on the head of the desk officer for the flight. Godly spirits take hardly any time to possess and drive the possessed to carry out an act.
Swati demonstrated to me her power to punish the worshiping men of Hindu deities in 1993 by possessing and torturing a priest of the Siva temple visited infrequently by me. Her action was like that of Mahmud Ghazni – denigrating the deity before his priests. An old priest of Siva temple of Dehradun sank into saps, I believe, on account of Swati's anger upon Siva. The case is below.
Dehradun has a cave shrine of god Siva, named Tapakeshvar. I knew the priest of the temple since 1971. He was a person from East Bengal, now Bangladesh, and would attend to my worship whenever I visited the shrine. My visits to the temple were more frequent since 1989 to the unhappiness of my alien goddess who was opposed to rituals for me by the priest in Siva temple because of my survival due to Tantra ritual for me in Siva temple of Sibsagar in '88.
Once I visited the temple with a young colleague in the noon of summer 1993. There was none in the temple except the priest, sitting lonely on a cot in a corner. He did not get up from the cot for my ritual. I smelt a rat, and I completed it myself before sending the young man out of the temple. I knew my young friend was feeling unhappy at my unusual order to send him out leaving me alone in the temple.
I went to the priest after the young man was out. I was shaken while talking to the priest. He was no more a devotee of Siva or Kali. He had all accusations against the two deities for his problems and woes.
Swati could demonstrate that her writ runs unchallenged even on the priest of the Siva temple who was devoted to him for over fifty years. She had not only possessed the priest but also driven him to the final state of masculine surrender under saps. The priest wrote off Shiva on the command of Swati unmindful of a half century of his dedicated worship of the god. The goddess had sunk him successfully deep into self-inflicting auto-suggestive possession syndrome.
I came out of the temple with a sad heart because I could do nothing in the case. Priest of the temple was a soldier of righteousness in my assessment, living with dignity of a respected devotee of Siva all life. She demonstrated to me her power of possessing and commanding the men around me often. They were common worldly men, anyway. Manojav in such people is low. The priest was an ascetic, spending his whole life as a celibate person. Even priest's manojav could not stand the command pressure of Swati.
The person did not live long after my visit in 1993, embracing death as a fallen soldier of Siva struck down by my alien Swati. I recounted of the passages from the novel of Rider Haggard titled 'She'. The character is just like Swati. Her command must be obeyed was her dictum. If anyone tried to overrule, her punishment was clear and unambiguous. He or she had to die.
In the present case, Siva's priest had done nothing wrong by himself. He was merely conducting rituals for me in Tapakeshvar Temple. My alien Swati had picked him up merely to demonstrate her potential to kill anyone at her choosing if he comes to my help. It did not matter for her if the person is a priest of a powerful god like Siva. Every soul was amenable to punishment of Swati so long it bore a human body. Her anger and bitterness towards me was extreme. I had kept living a bit too long in her opinion defying her flames of anger.
Siva of Sibsagar had saved me from my alien through worship by a Tantra-ritual by the priest of the temple in Assam. Swati was taking away the life of another priest of the same deity at Dehradun in lieu of the life-saving ritual of Assam for me. The priest of Dehradun did not know ABCD of Tantra to save himself from her.
The deity in Tapakeshvar Temple was the witness of the rampage of the Turkish volcano goddess in twentieth century as Siva was for Mahmud Ghazni at Somnath long ago. Swati did not know that she must pay rather soon a price for her misadventure before Siva. I too had no idea if there could be a day when Siva would dress down the goddess cloaked under invincible Buddhist Tantra.
The goddess wished to communicate to me about my own end on the lines of the priest through self-inflicting auto-suggestive possession syndrome. It was a different matter that my mind did not heed to her threats to respond in fear. There is an advantage of being a Hindu. We know that destiny cannot be altered; and, losses, gains, life and death are a part of destiny. Also, Hindus treat death merely as a momentary stop in the long journey of soul. Soul acquires a new body after its old one is gone. Threats of Swati did not cut much ice with me.


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Is coffee good for health?
Do you have a penchant for drinking coffee every day? Not strange if you are a true coffee connoisseur. Drinking a cup of coffee or espresso or cappuccino has now become a way of life at all levels of society, even the number of coffee drinkers among young people is also increasing every day. Coffee industry and coffee farmers of course delighted with this trend. Drinking coffee has become a part of social life for centuries. Is cooffee g
Do you have a penchant for drinking coffee every day? Not strange if you are a true coffee connoisseur. Drinking a cup of coffee or espresso or cappuccino has now become a way of life at all levels of society, even the number of coffee drinkers among young people is also increasing every day. Coffee industry and coffee farmers of course delighted with this trend. Drinking coffee has become a part of social life for centuries. Is cooffee g
There are many studies showing that the coffee and its derivatives have positive and also negative effects on the human body. If you want to always be able to drink coffee for the rest of your life, then you need to know some aspects of coffee.
We often hear the bad and good effects of coffee on our lives. For fans of the coffee, the coffee can make us ready to go and excited in doing activities, so every morning and afternoon a lot of people drink coffee at work or at home. But coffee is often regarded as the cause of several diseases such as hypertension, stroke, and heart disease.
|A warm kiss and a cup of coffee. Image: wikihow.com
Though coffee has no such side effects, but still need further study, coffee can actually reduce the risk of death from stroke and heart disease. There is also a unique study that revealed that the aroma of coffee can stimulate the sex drive of women, so if you are sitting in the cafe there is a chance you will get an attractive date. If so, make sure you choose the best coffee in order not to lose the original aroma of coffee.
According to the results study in Australia, each additional one cup of coffee per day can reduce the threat of diabetes by seven percent. Adversely affect the perception of coffee is commonly related to unhealthy habits such as drinking alcohol, smoking, less sleep, lack of exercise or unhealthy diet such as eat too much fast food (junk food) or energy drink. Please pay attention to the caffeine content of energy drinks that you will buy.
If drinking coffee is an activity that can nourish the body, then how many cups of coffee we should drink every day? Dr. Rob van Dam of the Harvard University experts say that, when we consume coffee and experiencing the side effects of caffeine such as sleep disturbance, chest thumping, and stress, then you have excessive coffee drinking.
There is some research that says that drinking six cups of coffee a day had no effect either by death or other health problems. One cup is here largely a black coffee containing 100 mg caffeine. Please beware; if you enjoy a cup of coffee at a coffee shop, its caffeine content can reach 330 mg. Black coffee we consume at home, the caffeine content is usually less than 100 mg per cup. Wow. If so, drinking coffee at home is certainly healthier than in a fancy cafe.
Please understand the side effect of caffeine is individual. Effects of coffee on everyone are not the same. That said, if you drink coffee in the evening, there will be a sleep disorder. Coffee also contains calories, which can lead to obesity.
If you're brewing coffee should reduce the use of sugar or you can choose low-calorie sugar. Do not also use creamer, because there are a lot of calories in a creamer. The true coffee connoisseurs usually refuse to add sugar to their coffee.
If you drink coffee at a fast food restaurant then the calorie content is about 500 calories. If you're caloric requirement of 2000 per day, then 25 percent of caloric needs are fulfilled from a cup of coffee. Organic coffee and Kopi Luwak (civet coffee) is safe for your stomach (gastric) because Kopi Luwak and organic coffee are containing with low acid.
Those six cups of coffee a day with a caffeine content of less than 100 mg per cup and high calorie content are not considered safe and healthy for our bodies. But if the cup has side effects and harm to our health, so avoid drinking coffee. Notice if you feel something bad in your body.
Drinking coffee is so much fun especially when drinking with friends or loved ones, but you must be wise; do not drink too much coffee. Healthy lifestyles in every facet of your life will not be able to stop your predilection for coffee. You are a smart person, and then you know what you should do for your life.


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How to Help Your Kid If They're Struggling in Math
Their homework may be over your head, but there are tips to survive this dreaded subject.
Math used to be simple. Hard, but simple with an answer that was elegant, accessible and always the same as long you knew your formulas and followed the rules. Now it's a lot more like a science class with a dose of language arts thrown in, thanks to complex step-by-step problems that require an interpreter.
Math education has evolved from a ton of memorization to fostering a deeper grasp of underlying concepts—which is great, but also confusing as heck for parents trying to help their math-challenged kids. And don't even try to get involved with your middle and upper graders' math homework—you probably couldn't find X even if you used a time machine to go back to your high school days. Between newfangled approaches and long-lost aptitude, what's a parent to do when the numbers (and grades) aren't quite adding up? Here are a few ideas for starters:
Remind kids that they can do it.
"It's too hard. I'm not smart enough." To kids and adults, math can seem like a secret code. Stanford professor Jo Boaler, author of Mathematical Mindsets: Unleashing Students' Potential through Creative Math, Inspiring Messages and Innovative Teaching and faculty director of youcubed.com, calls BS on that sort of thinking—and so should you. "You can learn math [on] any level you want," Boaler says. "When you struggle with ideas, that's when your brain is growing." Encourage your kids to take things step by step, and immediately shut down attempts to psych themselves out.
Ask your child's teacher for help.
Ideally, your child should be the first one to approach his or her teacher—help is often available before or after school or by appointment. But if that's not happening, don't be shy about tipping the teacher off to problems as soon as you notice them. A quick email or note will do it. "I've never met a teacher that said, 'No, I won't help your child.' You just have to ask," says Jennie Baslaw, a math and science specialist currently teaching third graders at Lyndhurst Memorial Campus.
Do your own research.
Not sure how your child is supposed to tackle a specific problem? Google it. There's probably a video of someone doing that exact thing, plus plenty of apps and websites to help. "Resources like Khan Academy and Ten Marks are often free and aligned with the content students are seeing in class," says Jameel Misbahuddin, STEM supervisor for Columbia High School in Maplewood.
Don't stress about the PARCC.
"There's always been standardized testing," says Baslaw, noting that the PARCC is meant to gauge student progress and help teachers figure out which kids need extra help—not crush your child's soul. So don't opt out, she recommends. Getting comfortable with testing under pressure while the stakes are low can only benefit her down the road. By high school, most students (with few exceptions) must pass the PARCC to graduate.
Work on what you know.
You know the sum is 8, yet the correct answer resembles hieroglyphics. Don't be intimidated. "It's still math—it's just presented in a different way," says Baslaw. "For example, a bar model is just a visual representation of a word problem. But it's still a word problem. Parents get hung up on the strategies," she says. If the way the problem is expressed is confusing, focus on the old school number work and let teachers worry about strategy and execution.
Ask your child to show YOU what to do.
Have your child walk you through a problem complete with the diagrams, graphs and models, required for full credit. This will give you a clearer sense of what's being asked. It's a little embarrassing, but you wouldn't be the first parent to ask a 7-year-old how to regroup by 10s and 1s.
Master the basics at home.
Immersed in core concepts and strategies, teachers don't have time to focus on math fact fluency. Yet, kids can't focus on deeper learning if they're still adding numbers on their fingers. "It still comes down to memorization," says Baslaw. So break out the flash cards and quiz your kids 'til facts are second nature. A quick recall of common equations makes it easier for teachers (and you) to pinpoint problems and kids to make the most of timed tests.
Get physical.
Using hands-on materials enhances learning. "If I give kids something physical, they get it so much more [easily]," says Baslaw, who recommends trying the CPA approach (Concrete, Pictorial, Abstract) at home, especially the C which means manipulating anything from blocks to straws as a way of kinetically driving home concepts. Even older elementary students can benefit from hands-on learning before moving onto to representative and numbers-only strategies.
Carve out a quiet area to study.
Tweens and teens need a quiet study space to focus, unbothered by texts, an addictive Instagram feed, Call of Duty and other diversions. While some kids prefer the white noise of working at the kitchen table (which may be fine for little ones), older kids need a quiet, screen-free study area that's comfortable, personalized, stocked with must-have supplies and free from distractions.
Keep on top of their tests…
Teens often underestimate how much time they need to properly study for exams. "It's rare that teachers give tests [or] quizzes without advanced notice and review sheets," says Misbahuddin. "If parents know there's a test coming up, which is pretty easy to do now thanks to class websites, they can ensure their child takes the steps to prepare."
…And make sure they study the right way.
Starting to study the night before a major test is obviously the wrong strategy, but what works? Instead of simply re-reading review sheets, Misbahuddin encourages students to redo practice problems from scratch, first with the answers nearby and then without help. Encourage kids to do extra practice problems featured in their textbook. (It's fine—they're already cranky anyway.)
Focus on fractions.
Like memorizing number facts in the lower grades, intuitively understanding fractional relationships helps older kids and tweens master more complicated concepts. To boost partial number prowess, Dan Battey, associate professor of mathematics education at the Graduate School of Education at Rutgers University, recommends parents encourage kids to count fractions by denominator (ie: 1/8, 2/8, 3/8, 4/8...) and look for equivalence (ie: 2/8 is also 1/4). "This is essentially number sense work for fractions, just as we would work on whole numbers for younger grades when counting and talk about place value," says Battey.
Turn it over to tutors.
If all else fails, hand your child off to an expert. "Math is currently a gatekeeper, not just to STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) careers, but college and careers in general," says Battey. "To get into a good undergraduate program, math will impact their access." Even would-be artists and authors need to pass the subject, so if your child simply isn't getting it, invest in a tutor who does.
Try these resources with your kids:
- algebrarules.com
- brainpop.com
- fun4thebrain.com
- khanacademy.org
- mrnussbaum.com
- multiplication.com
- tenmarks.com
Jennifer Kantor is a parenting writer who lives in Maplewood with her husband and two kids.


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Americans Gunned Down in Mexico; Toyota Disputes Runaway Prius Story
Aired March 15, 2010 - 18:00 ET
SUZANNE MALVEAUX, CNN ANCHOR: Senator Harry Reid's wife Landra is out of the hospital after suffering a broken back and nose in a traffic accident. Doctors say she will not be paralyzed. Both Reid's wife and adult daughter were hurt when their minivan was rear-ended by a tractor-trailer on Thursday. Senator Reid spoke about the accident just a short time ago on the Senate floor. (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) SEN. HARRY REID (D-NV), MAJORITY LEADER: Really was a close call, but we're grateful it wasn't worse. And we're confident she will be making a full recovery. Won't be tomorrow or the next day, but she will be back on her feet as soon as she can. (END VIDEO CLIP) MALVEAUX: The Reids have been married for 50 years. You're in THE SITUATION ROOM. Happening now: shocking killings in Mexico. Two families connected to the U.S. Consulate in Juarez are devastated as a result of a drive-by shooting. Are Mexico's drug gangs raising the stakes? And Toyota is casting doubt on a driver's terrifying story about a runaway Prius -- what investigators are learning more in this case. And a serial abuse case in the Catholic Church is turning the spotlight on the highest levels of the Vatican. Wolf Blitzer is off today. I'm Suzanne Malveaux. Welcome to our viewers in the United States and around the world. You're in THE SITUATION ROOM. The violence which has killed thousands in northern Mexico is sending shockwaves across the border. The FBI is helping investigate the drive-by shootings which killed three people linked to the U.S. Consulate in Juarez. A pregnant American Consulate employee and her U.S. husband were killed in one attack. Their 10-month-old child survived. Now the husband of a Mexican Consulate employee was killed and two children wounded in it another shooting. Mexican authorities say they were targeted by a gang tied to drug traffickers. The State Department has authorized the temporary departure of consulate employees' families. We want to dig deeper now with our CNN senior Latin American affairs editor, Rafael Romo. Rafael, tell us, what is going on here? What is the latest? What's happening? RAFAEL ROMO, CNN SENIOR LATIN AMERICAN AFFAIRS EDITOR: Suzanne, all three victims attended a children's party hosted by another consular employee. As they were heading home, they were chased down by armed men who opened fire, killing both the American Consulate employee identified as 35-year-old Lesley Enriquez and her 34-year-old husband, Arthur Redelfs, a detention officer at the El Paso County jail. Their baby girl, who was riding in the back seat, was not harmed and is now in the custody of Mexican social services. This afternoon, I spoke on the phone with the mayor of Juarez, Jose Reyes Ferriz, who tells me they believe, they believe at this point a local gang known as Los Aztecas, the Aztecs, may have been responsible for the killings. This gang is known to work for the Juarez cartel, specifically their enforcement line known as La Linea, or the Line. The Juarez cartel is involved in a turf war with their archrival the Gulf cartel. Also, Suzanne, in another development, the FBI announced today that they're assisting the Mexican attorney general's office in their investigation. But, so far, there's no information that the victims were specifically targeted because of their connection to the consulate. Suzanne, that's the latest. MALVEAUX: And the consulate in Juarez is closing. Some Americans are returning back to the states. Is that right? ROMO: That's right, Suzanne. The consulate in Juarez is closed today because of that, and also because it's a holiday in Mexico, and will also remain closed tomorrow to allow employees to mourn the death of their co-worker. The State Department is allowing the families of consular employees in six cities along the U.S./Mexico border to return to the United States for 30 days while they investigate the incident. This includes consulates in cities like Tijuana and Ciudad Juarez, of course. This afternoon, a State Department official said about 400 dependents of consular employees are eligible to temporarily return to the United States. MALVEAUX: And Juarez is called one of the most dangerous cities in the world, but there are Americans who travel back and forth there every day. Tell us why. ROMO: Well, Suzanne, it's a very important city to both Mexico and the United States. There are more than 300 American assembly plants located in Juarez, and the trade between the border city and El Paso is estimated to be about $50 billion a year. Of course, many Americans work in these companies and live in Juarez or constantly travel to the border city. MALVEAUX: Why is the city of Juarez so much more violent than the other cities in Mexico? ROMO: It's a very interesting dynamic, Suzanne. As you know, Juarez is at the epicenter of an earthquake of violence in Mexico caused by drug trafficking. It's located right in the middle of territories controlled by two of Mexico's most powerful drug cartels, the Gulf cartel and the Juarez cartel. So, we're very much talking about a turf war that the Mexican army hasn't been able to control, in spite of having deployed thousands of troops there. Definitely a very scary situation, Suzanne. MALVEAUX: OK. Rafael Romo, thank you so much for that update. Juarez, just across the U.S. border from El Paso, is home to about 1.3 million people. It's also considered Mexico's most violent city. Already, more than 480 people have been murdered in Juarez so far this year. Now, last year, there were more than 2,600 that were killed. In 2008, there were more than 1,600 homicides. Most of these deaths are blamed on the drug trade. Well, the U.S. and Mexico have previously vowed to step up the fight against these drug cartels, but do these latest killings mean that the cartels are now fighting back? I want to bring in our CNN national security contributor, Fran Townsend. She was homeland security adviser to President Bush and worked in the Justice Department during the Clinton administration. Fran, thanks so much for being with us. FRANCES TOWNSEND, CNN NATIONAL SECURITY CONTRIBUTOR: Good to be here. MALVEAUX: I was with President Bush in Mexico City when he made that visit, and he stood beside the president, President Calderon, and said something that we hadn't heard before from the Bush administration, that the U.S. in part is responsible, right, for the violence of the cartels, because we're the ones who are seeking these drugs. Is the U.S. in part responsible now? What is our responsibility for this rise in violence that we're seeing? TOWNSEND: Well, you know, Suzanne, we have been working for years on a bilateral basis with the Mexican government, trying to get them the intelligence, the law enforcement help that they need. You have reported that the FBI is going down there now to help with the investigation of these recent killings. But we have got to do more. We can't keep doing the same sort of cooperation and expect it to get better. I think the cartels have raised the stakes. When you look at this most recent series of killings, the shootings were 10 minutes apart. They clearly targeted people leaving this one party. They intended to target people who were working at the consulate. The other interesting thing to me is, while the State Department is permitting families of those working at the consulate to leave, you know, ordinarily, in a terrorism situation, like when we had an explosion in Saudi Arabia, what we did was, we demanded that the families leave. The -- those became unaccompanied posts for a period of time until the security situation got better. I will tell you, that seems to me where this is going. You can't have consular officers and their families and their employees be the targets. And so you're going to have to reduce the target set for the bad guys until you can get the security situation under control. MALVEAUX: The people that you're talking to, whether they're in the White House or advising the White House, do they think that the Obama administration needs to do something more about this? Because they have been pouring billions of dollars into Mexico, been working very closely to try to help Calderon fight these cartels. What needs to be done? TOWNSEND: Well, that is -- it is true, Suzanne. And, truthfully, if you go back to the Clinton administration -- you mentioned that I had worked in the Justice Department -- there was millions upon millions of dollars being poured into Mexico then, and it's been consistent across Republican and Democratic administrations. And nothing seems to be working. I mean, I really think that this is -- this now has become such a crisis. When you see the flow of immigration across -- you mentioned the El Paso border. The real concern for southern border governors is going to be, is that violence going to seep across the border into the United States? Remember, Janet Napolitano, the secretary of homeland security, was the governor of Arizona. She understands this problem. And when she was governor, as part of an immigration reform effort, we put National Guard troops on the southwest border of the United States. And, so, the question is going to be, will the violence go up and be so severe, that they're going to be willing to put U.S. National Guard troops on the U.S. side of the border to make sure that the violence doesn't seep over into the United States? I think that's really the next test for policy. MALVEAUX: And does the Obama administration need to be more open in how it's dealing with Mexico? Is there a certain sense that neither side is being open enough in terms of how they are approaching this problem? TOWNSEND: Well, it's a sensitive political issue, of course. The government of Mexico doesn't want to be seen to be taking too much assistance from the United States. Both, frankly, we need more than platitudes anymore. Both sides say, we're going to work together. The president comes out and I think sincerely says he's outraged by these recent killings. But I think to give the American people and the Mexican people confidence that we have a plan that will work and that we're committed to, you have got to be honest about what are at least the broad strokes, the pieces of that plan that we think we're going to put in place to make this better. MALVEAUX: OK, Fran Townsend, thank you so much for joining us. TOWNSEND: Thank you. MALVEAUX: Well, citing these latest killings in Mexico, Texas Governor Rick Perry is calling on the federal government to prevent violence from spilling over the border. It's a follow-up to his appeal last week requesting that the government deploy Predator drones along his state's border with Mexico. Well, we showed you last week how those unmanned aircraft were able to track illegal immigrants until agents on the ground can catch up with them. Toyota casts doubt on a driver's harrowing tale of a ride in a runaway Prius. We're going to tell you what the investigators are saying. And the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas says she wants to join the front lines of the Tea Party movement. But is that appropriate? Plus, a serial sex abuse case in the Catholic Church causing some embarrassment at the very highest levels of the Vatican. (COMMERCIAL BREAK) MALVEAUX: Jack Cafferty is in New York with "The Cafferty File." Hey, Jack. JACK CAFFERTY, CNN ANCHOR: Suzanne, the cost of long-term unemployment to the American taxpayers may soon be unsustainable. DailyFinance.com reports more than six million workers say they have been unemployed for more than 26 weeks. That means long-term unemployed now represent more than 40 percent of all the unemployed in this country, one of the highest levels ever. The average length of unemployment among this group, seven months. The payment of unemployment benefits for longer and longer periods of time of course adds to the deficit. One expert points out the high unemployment rate, plus longer time collecting jobless benefits, is a dangerous combination, saying the government could be on track to spend $250 billion a year on unemployment benefits alone. Another downside is that, over time, some workers tend to lose their skills, and that means they risk becoming unemployable. They either have to move down the employment ladder or be re-trained to do other jobs. No surprise, then, that a new poll suggests that jobs are a top concern for many Americans, a Gallup poll showing 31 percent of those surveyed say that unemployment is the most important problem facing the country today. And, when asked what they think will be the top problem facing the U.S. in 25 years, the top response is the federal budget deficit. The irony, of course, is, the more the government spends on jobs programs and unemployment benefits now, the more our $12 trillion-plus national debt will continue to mushroom out of control. Here's the question: What's the ultimate solution to long-term unemployment? Go to CNN.com/caffertyfile and post a comment on my blog -- Suzanne. MALVEAUX: OK, thank you, Jack. Well, the U.S. wants Israel to roll back a decision to build new homes in a disputed area of Jerusalem. And it's demanding other steps to encourage peace efforts. The housing project was announced during Vice President Biden's visit to Jerusalem just last week, embarrassing the Obama administration. I want to turn to our CNN foreign affairs correspondent, Jill Dougherty. Jill, obviously, the heat is on here, and we have heard some pretty outstanding rhetoric from the secretary of state and we understand directed from the president as well. What is the latest here? (CROSSTALK) JILL DOUGHERTY, CNN FOREIGN AFFAIRS CORRESPONDENT: Right. Well, Suzanne, you know, this really is becoming serious. In fact, an Israeli official tells CNN that the ambassador from Israel to the United States, Michael Oren, actually told his fellow Israeli diplomats that the relationship between the United States and Israel is in a crisis. (BEGIN VIDEOTAPE) DOUGHERTY (voice-over): The Israeli announcement on settlements in East Jerusalem turns into a full-blown diplomatic crisis when Hillary Clinton took the gloves off in an interview with CNN. HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON, U.S. SECRETARY OF STATE: The announcement of the settlements the very day that the vice president was there was insulting. DOUGHERTY: Secretary Clinton wants action. In a tense phone call Friday with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Clinton, according to U.S. and Israeli officials, demanded Israel reverse its decision on the settlement project and take concrete steps to prove it wants to negotiate with the Palestinians. P.J. CROWLEY, ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF STATE FOR PUBLIC AFFAIRS: She asked for a formal response by the Israeli government. And we await that response. DOUGHERTY: Israeli officials tell CNN, Jerusalem is debating what steps it might take to diffuse the crisis. But Netanyahu stood his ground Monday. While calling the timing of the announcement regrettable and hurtful, he says settlement building will not stop. The spat is stirring a hornet's nest on Capitol Hill... SEN. JOHN MCCAIN (R), ARIZONA: It doesn't help them to have public disparagement by the secretary of state. DOUGHERTY: ... and within the powerful Jewish lobby. Conservative AIPAC called the public rebuke a matter of serious concern and a distraction from important issues like Mideast peace and Iran. The liberal J Street termed the U.S. reaction understandable and appropriate. A former U.S. Middle East adviser to Republican and Democratic administration says, being tough with Israel is fine, if there's a strategy. AARON DAVID MILLER, PUBLIC POLICY SCHOLAR, WOODROW WILSON INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR SCHOLARS: The fight has to be worthwhile. In other words, it has to make the president look good, and it has to advance the American national interest, and it also has to create some measure of a breakthrough in the negotiations. (END VIDEOTAPE) DOUGHERTY: And, Suzanne, we're getting more information on that conversation by phone between Secretary Clinton and Benjamin Netanyahu. A senior U.S. official tells CNN that Clinton warned him that this announcement calls into question the U.S./Israeli relations, that working against the peace process is working against U.S. interests, and there are consequences from that. In addition to reversing that decision on the settlements, Clinton also wants the Israelis to make an official declaration that the peace talks, even if they're indirect peace talks, will deal with the core issues of the conflict, and that, of course, includes borders, refugees, Jerusalem, and especially the settlements. And then, finally, we are expecting, we're told that Secretary Clinton will be speaking with Mr. Netanyahu in the coming days to get his response to all of this -- Suzanne. MALVEAUX: Thank you, Jill. Clearly, President Obama tried to make it a priority year one, and he is still having some trouble with this. Thank you, Jill. Toyota tells its side of the story. Investigators are casting doubt on the terrifying account by a driver who said that he was trapped in a runaway Prius. And will Justice John Stevens be leaving the Supreme Court? What he is telling CNN's Jeffrey Toobin. Stay with us. You're in THE SITUATION ROOM. (COMMERCIAL BREAK) MALVEAUX: Well, the driver's story was gripping. Trapped behind the wheel of a runaway Prius, he tops 90 miles per hour before a highway patrol officer caught up with him, helped him bring the car to a stop. Well, now Toyota says an investigation is casting doubt on that account. Our Brian Todd has been looking into this. And, Brian, I guess we have some questions about whether or not this is really true, huh? BRIAN TODD, CNN CORRESPONDENT: We do now, Suzanne, Toyota pushing back very hard and very publicly against this driver's account that he had an out-of-control Prius. Jim Sikes had claimed that the gas pedal on his car got stuck recently on a highway near San Diego, that it got past 90 miles per hour. He says he kept trying the brakes, that the car kept speeding up, and, finally, a highway patrol officer caught up to him, instructed him by loud speaker to apply the brakes and the emergency brake at the same time, that that tactic worked, he was able to stop the car, and no one was injured. But now Toyota says it is conducting a joint investigation with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. They tested Sikes' Prius and an identical one, and Toyota says his account is not consistent with their findings so far. (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) MIKE MICHELS, VICE PRESIDENT, TOYOTA MOTOR SALES USA: The system was tested under driving conditions and found to be functioning normally, indicating that, if the accelerator pedal was stuck, pressing the brake pedal would have resulted in dramatically reduced power to the wheels. (END VIDEO CLIP) TODD: The reason for that, Toyota says, is because driving a hybrid car like the Prius with both the gas pedal and the brakes simultaneously depressed would cause serious damage to the motor and to other parts of the car. So, the car is designed to prevent that from happening. Therefore, with the gas pedal depressed and the brakes depressed at the same time, power was shut down to the wheels. They say in their test, Toyota said the car performed as it was designed to do. The car did not show damage, Toyota says, that is consistent with the engine having been at full throttle while the brakes were on. It is now a he said/she said situation. (CROSSTALK) MALVEAUX: So, how did Sikes' attorney respond to this? TODD: Well, he pushed back hard. This attorney, John Gomez, says this report doesn't really -- st prove that his client was wrong or that he was lying. He says that the fact that Toyota wasn't able to replicate what exactly happened doesn't mean anything, because they haven't been able to replicate any of the incidents of sudden acceleration in this recall. Toyota now says, look, we just got to look further into this claim, so they're going to keep digging into it, and, again, this could get even messier from here. And this guy Sikes and his attorney says -- they say they have no plans to sue Toyota at this time. But this is just getting a little bit uglier as we go. MALVEAUX: So, there's still a lot of questions around this. TODD: That's right, absolutely. MALVEAUX: OK. Thank you, Brian. Appreciate it. (NEWS BREAK) MALVEAUX: The wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas launched a new group to lobby for fiscal conservatism. Is there a conflict of interests? We will ask legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin. And California's budget in crisis, and school districts are now taking the hit -- thousands of pink slips handed out just today. How can school systems survive? And another sex scandal rocks the Catholic Church. This time, it's in the archdiocese once shepherded by Pope Benedict XVI. (COMMERCIAL BREAK) MALVEAUX: You're in THE SITUATION ROOM. Happening now: health care reform hanging in the balance. The clock is ticking. President Obama takes his pitch on the road again today, and comes away with a new rallying cry: We need courage. And travel by taxi, well, it's a way of life in New York City, but now the city is investigating a suspected scam by thousands of drivers. Have they been fleecing riders out of millions of dollars? Well, we're going to look into that. Wolf Blitzer is off today. I'm Suzanne Malveaux, and you're in THE SITUATION ROOM. President Obama will almost certainly get another opportunity to name a Supreme Court justice. That would be to replace Justice John Paul Stevens. CNN senior legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin -- he is author of "The Nine" -- interviewed Justice Stevens in the new issue of "The New Yorker." Jeff, thanks for joining us here. And you made a little news here in your interview when you asked him about how long you think he would be staying, and he said about three more years. So, this obviously does give President Obama a chance to -- for another nominee. JEFFREY TOOBIN, CNN SENIOR LEGAL ANALYST: Well, what he actually said was, no more than three more years. I actually think it will be less than that. He said that he will decide in the next month whether he retires this spring. And given the fact that he has hired only one law clerk, instead of the usual four, this year, I think it's very likely that this vacancy will happen this spring. So it's just when President Obama doesn't have enough on his plate, he's probably going to have a Supreme Court vacancy. MALVEAUX: Well, obviously, he made history in nominating Justice Sonia Sotomayor. What would this look like in the court if he had a second shot at this in replacing Stevens? TOOBIN: Well, I think, again, as with the replacement of David Souter by Sonia Sotomayor, the voting blocks probably wouldn't change much. Even though John Paul Stevens was appointed by Gerald Ford in 1975, he has become the leader of the liberals on the court. And it is likely that Obama would appoint someone whose politics would be very similar. Perhaps at the moment it looks like the front runner is Alaina Hagen, the solicitor general. So the voting blocks wouldn't change, but the leadership would be very different. John Paul Stevens has really rallied the four liberals -- Sonia Sotomayor, Ruth Ginsburg, Stephen Breyer -- and the question of whether those four would remain a cohesive force that would be very interesting and uncertain if Stevens left. MALVEAUX: And something very interesting that Justice Stevens told you was that this is a court that has become more political, an atmosphere that has become more political. TOOBIN: Well, that was really striking to me that -- you know, in my interview in "The New Yorker," Justice Stevens really talked about how much the court had changed since 1975, how much more conservative it had become, how much the court had moved to the left on so many issues. The case that he was particularly outraged about was the Citizens' United case earlier this year, the case that said corporations have the same right to free speech as individuals. He wrote a blistering dissent in that case. But just in general, here you have this Republican appointee, this life-long Republican, a moderate Republican, an endangered species, talking about how he -- the court was really a very different place now than the one he joined almost 36 years ago. MALVEAUX: Let's talk a little bit about what's making news today. Justice Clarence Thomas's wife, Virginia Thomas, started a new group now. It's a nonprofit organization, a lobbying group that is linked to the same philosophy as the tea party group, espousing fiscal conservatism, a limited government. It's called Liberty Central, and there's a quote that she gives the "Los Angeles Times" saying, "I adore all the new citizen patriots rising up across this country. I felt a call to the front lines with you, with my fellow citizens, to preserve what made America great." Now experts say this is not a violation of the ethical rules, but clearly, this might give a look -- an appearance of partiality, would it not, to have Justice Thomas's wife engaged in something so partisan here? TOOBIN: I'm really not sure it's all that dramatic a development. You have to consider who Ginny Thomas is. Ginny Thomas is a veteran political activist in her own right. She used to work for Dick Army, the former Republican leader in the House. She's has worked for various conservative foundations. She is an outspoken conservative, just like her husband, the Supreme Court justice. You know she shouldn't have to give up her career to -- because she is married to Clarence Thomas. Now could she get a job that is somewhat less explicitly political? Sure. But it's not prohibited by the laws. It's not prohibited by any ethical rules. And my sympathies are basically with Ginny Thomas here. MALVEAUX: I used to talk to Ginny Thomas all of the time in covering President Bush, and obviously she was a big part of the Heritage Foundation. TOOBIN: Right. MALVEAUX: A very conservative group. Is there anything that Justice Thomas needs to do, however, to reassure the American people that he's not aligned with his wife's philosophy or the lobbying? Would there be cases where he would have to recuse himself? TOOBIN: Well, if her organization were a party to any case before the court, of course he would have to recuse himself there, or if she filed a brief in some case. But I don't think she'd be silly enough to file a brief in a Supreme Court case. Look, her politics are his politics. That's presumably part of why they love each other. I mean there is no mystery here about Clarence Thomas's conservative politics, nor about hers. So, yes, if she were directly involved in a Supreme Court case, sure, he would have to recuse himself. But other than that, I think this is obviously a match made in heaven. (LAUGHTER) MALVEAUX: All right. Thank you, Jeffrey. And obviously, get back to us if you have more news on Justice Stevens. I know he's 90 years old, but still very active. He plays tennis. And -- but we just -- we don't know when he's going to make that decision. But you let us know when you get a whiff of it. TOOBIN: I'll be here. I'll tell you. (LAUGHTER) TOOBIN: All right. MALVEAUX: Thank you, Jeff. We appreciate it. Well, a new twist in the latest sex abuse scandal in the Catholic Church. This time, it is in an archdiocese once overseen by Pope Benedict himself. And she was revealed as the "other woman" in the John Edwards scandal. Well, now Rielle Hunter is speaking publicly for the first time. Stay with us. You're in THE SITUATION ROOM. (COMMERCIAL BREAK) MALVEAUX: In Germany, an archdiocese once overseen by now Pope Benedict XVI says a priest convicted in 1986 of sexually abusing minors has been suspended for violating a condition that he not work with young people. Our CNN senior Vatican analyst, John Allen, joins us now from Denver. His biography of Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, now the Pope, is titled "The Rise of Benedict XVI." John, tell us what you can explain about what happened here. What are these charges about, and how are they linked -- allegedly linked to the Pope? JOHN ALLEN, CNN SENIOR VATICAN ANALYST: Hi, Suzanne. Well, here's what we know. Pope Benedict XVI served as the archbishop in Munich from May 1977 to February 1982. During that time, a priest from another diocese in Germany, who had been accused of molesting young men in that diocese, was sent to Munich -- that is the Pope's diocese -- for therapy that was more or less the practice in the church at the time. That happened with the Pope's knowledge. However, what also happened is that while he was in Munich, this priest was given a new assignment in which he apparently went on to commit other acts of abuse for which, as you say, he was criminally convicted in 1986. Now what church officials are saying is that that assignment, that decision to put him back in the field, happened without then Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, now Pope Benedict XVI, so without his knowledge. The church official who is responsible for it has admitted his own failure, has taken full responsibility, and has said that the Pope was not aware. But in any event, Suzanne, it obviously happened on his watch, and that clearly is creating a whole series of new problems for Benedict XVI. MALVEAUX: What do you think is the fallout here for the Pope? ALLEN: Well, I mean, immediately this is the first time that he's been directly linked to the crisis in the sense not just of managing the church's policies, but apparently of a breakdown in the system in a diocese for which he was directly responsible. I think long-term, the problem is this. I think when we talk about the sex abuse crisis, there are really two interlocked problems. There's the problem of priests who abused and there's the problem of bishops who failed to clean it up. So the question some critics may be asking is, what credibility will Benedict XVI have in writing (INAUDIBLE) on bishops if it turns out that during his own term as a bishop he had more or less the same problem. MALVEAUX: Is this an investigation that is ongoing, or have they -- have they basically cleared the Pope? Are we going to learn more about this? ALLEN: Well, I think if we learn anything from the way the sex abuse crisis is played out in other places, it is that one accusation, one charge, one report typically leads to more. I'm quite certain the Vatican is hoping tonight, Suzanne, that this is the end of it. That this will be the only case of a priest who was moved around on Cardinal Ratzinger's watch. But I don't think we know that for sure. And I can tell you that right now, reporters and reform activists in Germany are poring through the records of those five years that the Pope was archbishop of Munich very carefully, looking to see if there are indeed other instances of priests who slipped through the cracks. MALVEAUX: How concerned do you think the Vatican is about this? ALLEN: I think they're extraordinarily concerned about it. I think that the proof of that is that normally when a crisis erupts someplace, the Vatican measures its words very carefully and takes an awful long time to say anything publicly. In this instance, just hours after this report broke in the German press, the Vatican had a statement indicating that the guy who had been the Pope's deputy at the time had taken full responsibility for this decision, and then going on to complain about efforts to attack the Pope, to drag him into this crisis. I think all of that has a reflection of the fact that they realize, this is potentially very damaging, and they're worried about where the story might go. MALVEAUX: Is there -- in your reporting, is there any soul- searching that seems to be going on within the church itself about why there are so many priests who allegedly have abused children? ALLEN: Well, I think that soul searching has been going on for some time, from the point in which this crisis first erupted and I think the conclusion that most people have drawn is that however you explain the crisis, what it has shown is the danger of putting priests on a pedestal. That after all, you know, despite their Roman collars, these are still just human beings. Some of them are going to fail. And in a few instances, they'll fail in spectacular ways. And therefore, you need to have strong accountability mechanisms in the church. Strong policies to ensure that when this kind of abuse does occur, swift and sure justice is applied. I think today, most people would say the church has done a pretty good job on that front. But obviously, its failures in the past are now coming back to haunt it. MALVEAUX: Do you think this Pope gets credit for stepping out? Obviously, he was the first Pope to address this head on, and in even talking with some of the alleged victims and vowing that this would never happen again. Do you think that he has some credibility in this issue, or is that damaged now? ALLEN: Well, I think from Vatican's point of view, that's one of the real frustrating things about this story. Because up to this point, in a papacy which has otherwise had its problems, Benedict's handling of the sex abuse crisis has been something that a lot of people have praised. As you say, you know, he was the first Pope who has really brought the hammer down on some high-profile priests who were previously thought of as untouchable. The first Pope to meet with victims, the first Pope to adopt strong policies, the so-called zero tolerance policy. First Pope to apologize directly and in his own voice for the crisis. And, of course, now in some ways, at least in the court of public opinion, all of that may be brought into question because of decisions he either made or failed to make 30 years ago. And I'm sure for the Pope's friends and admirers, that's got to be enormously frustrating. MALVEAUX: John Allen, thank you so much for joining us. Really appreciate it. In New York City, taxis are, of course, a part of the culture. But now city officials want to make sure being overcharged is not a part of the culture as well. They're investigating a suspected multimillion-dollar rip-off. And a long affair and a 2-year-old child. Until now the mistress of former presidential hopeful John Edwards has held her tongue. But that has changed. Rielle Hunter finally breaks her silence. You're in THE SITUATION ROOM. (COMMERCIAL BREAK) MALVEAUX: Mary Snow is monitoring some of the other top stories that are coming into THE SITUATION ROOM right now. Hey, Mary, what are you working on? MARY SNOW, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Hi, Suzanne. The head of the Senate's banking committee is proposing sweeping regulatory changes for the financial system. Senator Christopher Dodd unveiled the bill today. It would give the government new power to break up giant failing companies, force the industry to pay for its failures, and create a consumer watchdog within the Federal Reserve. The Coast Guard says high water levels on the Potomac River are to blame for a barge colliding with Washington's 14th Street Bridge. The Coast Guard spokesman says an initial assessment shows no structural damage to the bridge or the barge. The bridge is open to traffic and the barge is tied to the bridge and so barge almost decides where to move it. And if you want to save the federal government $1.5 billion, the Census Bureau has a suggestion. The agency estimates that's how much could be saved if we all mailed in our census forms instead of waiting for a census-taker to show up at the door. The bureau has mailed the first 120 million forms to households to the mandated population count. Suzanne, they say it takes 10 minutes, 10 questions. MALVEAUX: OK, great. Thank you, Mary. SNOW: Sure. MALVEAUX: Well, here's a loaded question. What is the ultimate solution to long-term unemployment? That is Jack Cafferty's question of the hour, and Jack is going to read your answers just ahead. A secret affair and a secret child. No secrets anymore for former Senator John Edwards' long-time mistress. Rielle Hunter goes public. You're in THE SITUATION ROOM. (COMMERCIAL BREAK) MALVEAUX: Time now to check back with Jack Cafferty. Hi, Jack. JACK CAFFERTY, CNN ANCHOR: Suzanne, the question this hour is what is the ultimate solution to long-term unemployment? Dave writes, "Lower the tax rates for small business. My small business last year did exceedingly well. I paid a six figure sum for my corporate annual tax. And I would gladly have used much if not all of that money to hire additional people. I already have a staff of 18. And we all work more than 40 hours a week. Business is great and I want to grow." Mo in Dallas writes, "Let's get the jobs back here in our country. Yes, I'm sure that goods would cost a little more. But paying for unemployment and welfare and other benefits would go down a lot. Wouldn't it be nice to call about a bill or a computer repair and be able to understand the other party?' Joe writes, "Unemployment will be a major problem as long as we allow unfair trade and don't stop illegal immigration. We need to renegotiate our trade agreements to take into account the unfair advantage countries have that have no health insurance, no Social Security, no worker protections and no environmental regulations. It all contributes to the cost of manufacturing here in this country." Pat in Staten Island writes, "The facilitation of private sector growth via tax cuts is what has always worked in the past. Sadly, it seems that growth lately has been only in government employment. The pending health care bill is chock-full of mandates that will cripple small business. The people who provide jobs, contrary to what this administration thinks, are not the enemy." And Jim writes, "I don't think there is a government solution to the current problem. Life comes at us in cycles, some good, some not so good. It's up to each individual to persevere and make it the best they can from the situation. Each person should strive to enrich themselves with education and to support others. I doubt there'll ever be a government solution to self-motivation. You either have that or you don't." If you want to read more on the subject go to my blog at CNN.com/caffertyfile. Suzanne? MALVEAUX: OK. Thank you, Jack. Rielle Hunter tells the world that she is in love with Johnny. Johnny is former Senator John Edwards. What else does the one-time presidential hopeful's mistress have to say? Next CNN's Jeanne Moos delves into Hunter's revealing new "GQ" interview. Also, if you thought that a New York City cab ride was too pricey, well, you know, maybe it was. We're going to tell you about an investigation into what could be a multimillion dollar rip-off. You're in THE SITUATION ROOM. (COMMERCIAL BREAK) MALVEAUX: The other woman in the scandal surrounding former Democratic presidential hopeful John Edwards is speaking up for the first time. Our CNN's Jeanne Moos takes a most unusual look at Rielle Hunter's revealing "GQ" interview and photo shoot. (BEGIN VIDEOTAPE) JEANNE MOOS, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): She used to be his mistress and campaign videographer. (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) JOHN EDWARDS, FORMER PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: Very graceful, camera girl. (END VIDEO CLIP) MOOS: Now the camera girl is in front of the camera for "GQ." UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Sit like this, but drop this leg like -- MOOS: Rielle Hunter showed some leg, she showed some midriff while holding her 2-year-old daughter fathered by John Edwards, but when the photos appeared -- UNIDENTIFIED MALE: That's beautiful. MOOS: -- she told Barbara Walters she cried for two hours. BARBARA WALTERS, CO-HOST, "THE VIEW": She said she found them repulsive. When I asked well, if that was the case, then why did you pose the way you did, she said that she trusted Mark Seliger, whom she said is a brilliant photographer, and she, quote, "I went with the flow." MOOS: That's pretty much how the affair with Edwards started, according to Rielle, when they bumped into each other on the street. "I just uttered to him, you're so hot. And he said, why, thank you, and he almost jumped into my arms." Later in his hotel room, she said, "I had never experienced anything like what was flowing between us." But what was flowing through commentators wasn't sympathy. WHOOPI GOLDBERG, CO-HOST, "THE VIEW": She's with us now like, I don't know, foot decay. (LAUGHTER) MOOS: Speaking of decay, Rielle Hunter said John Edwards' relationship with his wife had been "dysfunctional and toxic and awful for many, many years. The home was wrecked already. I was not the home wrecker." Rielle Hunter told "GQ" she gave Edwards a phone that looked like his work phone so he could call her on it, but Elizabeth Edwards confirmed suspicions when she picked up her husband's phone and hit redial. "And I answered the phone and said, "Hey, baby," and click. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: That was a good one. MOOS: Their first night together Edwards told her, "Falling in love with you could really mess up my plans for becoming president." She told "GQ", "We love each other very much and that hasn't changed, and I believe that will be until death do us part." At least the nude photos are an improvement over the previous tabloid ones. (On camera): Rielle Hunter has company in one of the "GQ" photos, a lot of company, in bed with her. It's not exactly a menage a trois. Well, you count. (Voice-over): Barney and friends. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Dora and Kermit. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: That is so bad. ELISABETH HASSELBECK, CO-HOST, "THE VIEW": If you're going to involve Kermit, Barney and Dora, put your pants on. OK? MOOS: Keep Barney out of this. Jeanne Moos, CNN, New York. (END VIDEOTAPE) MALVEAUX: Happening now, President Obama and Democrats put on their game faces and make their final big play for health care reform. This hour the arm-twisting, the promises going on behind closed doors. And the risk for the president if he comes up short.


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Energy of November 2016Gail
Energy of November 2016
The energy of the month blogs will be shorter than my regular blogs, with just a few thoughts and things to think about for the month. What can I say about the energy of November 2016, other than to say, it is a little wonky. This of course is an understatement. It is very wonky and somewhat unstable.
Personally, I have always enjoyed November as it is my birth month. Also, November has Thanksgiving which is about being grateful and thankful. This could not come at a better time this year. We all need a little time to reflect, be thankful and appreciative for what we have.
The election in the United States though is foreshadowing all of this just a little. Okay, well a lot. However, luckily the election will be over the beginning of the month. We will continue to hear about the election for the next couple of months and the negativity from the campaigning will hopefully start to dissipate. Sometimes it is hard with so many people stuck in fear. It is palpable right now. What if we all tried to keep an open mind and be open to different possibilities and accept the outcome whatever it will be graciously.
I hope it is a good month for all those reading this and that we are able to move forward and can all live with the results from the election peacefully.
Thanks for joining me. Until next time. Good Journey.
Namaste, Gail


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The finest rendering of Dumas' tale to date. A perfect blend of comedy, romance, and no-holds-barred swashbuckling adventure. The cast is phenomenally good.
Lester has crafted here the most inventive and wildly enjoyable version of The Three Musketeers ever committed to film.
Imagine a late night, a rainy night why not, watching old swashbuckling films from the Golden Age, particularly some one of many sword fighting scenes. The rapiers are held nimbly, the fight itself a dance. And now imagine a voice out of the dark behind you saying, "It weren't like that. Why, it weren't like that at all" and you'd have the beginning of where this film's direction lies. The typical Hollywood glamorization is tossed in favor of something more naturalistic, making for a rousing time in old medieval France, where intrigue is the law of the land. Good fun.
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Probably the best version of the classic historic adventure by Dumas and directed by the controversial Richard Lester. Controversial you say? why yes, not only was he brought on board to radically change (reshoot) the already half made 1980's 'Superman II' without current director Donner knowing anything about it. He also made this film in its entirety but upon realising he had tonnes of filmed material he decided to split the film in two, thus creating the sequel and upsetting his entire cast.
A few things jump out at you straight away with this film. Firstly the visuals are pretty darn good, very epic, very lavish and very grandiose (need more epic-like words). Filmed mostly on location within Spain (I believe) everything has really been given an extremely rustic classical style that looks exactly as it should for this 17th Century adventure. It looks as if real historical/heritage buildings have been used for various locations in the story which really does give a sense of realism to the film. Add to this a full wave of near perfect looking costumes, wigs, props, weapons, sets, carriages, plenty of beautiful horses etc...the effort, craftsmanship and love put in is clearly visible.
Secondly the action and swashbuckling. This production is like a stuntman's bible, it virtually has everything you could want in an old fashioned romp. Scaling towering heights, riding horses at full charge, jumping onto moving horses, jumping from heights, devilishly dangerous swordplay, large scale multiple battles, gymnastics, acrobatics etc...there is no CGI, no tricks and no bluescreen, this is all the real deal just like in the good old days of Errol Flynn. The film is chock full of daring action but at no point do you ever see any blood, gore or even death really (not much). Its all edited and acted in a way that everyone can enjoy without getting upset, this is one reason the film is such a joy.
Thirdly the humour. This is something Lester masters so well for this series, some may say the humour is childish...and they would be right, it is. There are a lot of pratfalls, slapstick, silly visual gags, silly dialog etc...many of the stunts are pratfalls really, daring but purely for laughs. Much of the amusement actually comes from dubbed voice work added on later in production. All the time you hear funny little bits of dialog which are clearly dubbed in (no one has tried to hide that fact) coming from the background, supposedly the background characters. Usually very silly simple babyish comments, typically British 'Carry On' type humour that adds a whole other dimension to the film.
Lastly the cast. Oh boy the cast, its like one of Hollywood's old silver screen classics where they have jammed in as many star names as possible. The film is epic and the casting is just as epic. An international mix of all star players await you here. The four Musketeers are played by the stoic and reliable Oliver Reed who fits the drunken role of 'Athos' to a tee, Frank Finlay as the portly buffoon-like 'Porthos', Chamberlain as the slim athletic 'Aramis' and a very young skinny York as 'd'Artagnan'. All four are absolutely superb in their roles and I have never seen another person play them as well. What I like is the fact they're not muscle bound pretty boy sex icons, they look very regular, scruffy and laboured yet at the same time they all have that perfect aristocratic sense about them which fits the period beautifully.
The rest of the cast is so blindingly good its just scary, Christopher Lee is caddish to the hilt as 'Count De Rochefort', almost like a live action 'Dick Dastardly'. Heston plays 'Cardinal Richelieu' with the manly presence he was known for and Dunaway is like a black widow spider and strikingly beautiful in her white period dresses as 'Milady de Winter'. But then you have smaller roles that are just as good if not better! who can forget old Roy Kinnear as the bumbling 'Planchet' giving us such brilliantly funny physical comedy and Simon Ward as the 'Duke of Buckingham', this guy looks so good in his getup its like he was zapped in a time machine from the 17th Century!. Its all in the facial hair.
This is old time film making right here folks, the whole approach is grand in scale and highly impressive to watch. The way Lester went about this as a kind of Chaplin-like comedy, historically accurate in appearance and high on heroic flamboyant Fairbanks-like daredevilry deserves much kudos and respect. The fact he pulled this off is even more impressive! I'm sure to read this on paper you could be forgiven for thinking it wouldn't work.
This first chapter in the trilogy leaves you gagging for the sequel (even though there wasn't suppose to be one but anyway...), a rip roaring start that puts many modern films to shame.
Great fun! Remembering Michael York with his impossibly sexy face, Oliver Reed, Charlton Heston, Raquel, Richard Chamberlain, Faye Dunaway with her shaved off eyebrows (what's with that anyway?) and others who looked familiar but I couldn't place...anyway, it was a lot of fun to see it on DVD in my own private bed because there is absolutely nothing to see in the theatres...booooooo! Am I going to have to go out to Hollywood and give them some real story ideas? Where was I? Oh,yeah, it was beautiful to look at, action-packed, everyone getting swords stuck in them but getting up as if nothing had happened...they don't make em like they used to!
A young peasant eager to join the Kings' Musketeers falls foul of the scheming Cardinal Richelieu and his men while attempting to save the Queen from public scandal. One of the defining adaptations of Dumas' classic story, The Three Musketeers is a light hearted swashbuckler that was the Pirates Of The Caribbean of its day. A fantastic cast and attention to detail make for a highly characterful adventure full of old school charm and humour which was a million miles away from the period films of the time which were all so po-faced they tended to feel more like animated museum exhibits than entertainment. The Musketeers were not shown as infallible superheroes but clumsy brawlers who were just as apt to fall on their backsides or run away as a certain pirate we all know and love. Oliver Reed, at his most charismatic is the pick of a hugely appealing cast and there are a lot of laughs in the action sequences that are as much about slapstick as swordplay. On the downside, it all seems a little slight by today's standards, probably because it is only the first part of a two part story, concluded in The Four Musketeers. The plot and characterisation take a back seat to the gags so there is little in the way of dramatic weight but this was addressed in the darker sequel that was even better. A minor classic.
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text: HIV/AIDS Causes & Risk Factors At-Risk Populations HIV Risk in the Transgender Community Unique needs are still unmet by public health authorities Print By James Myhre and Dennis Sifris, MD | Medically reviewed by a board-certified physician Updated September 12, 2017 nito100/iStockphoto More in HIV/AIDS Causes & Risk Factors At-Risk Populations Diagnosis Living With Support & Coping Prevention Related Conditions History Symptoms Treatment View All There has been increasing public interest in the lives of transgender people following the much-publicized coming out of Caitlyn Jenner as well as the efforts of such activists as Orange Is The New Black actress Laverne Cox and advocate/writer Chaz Bono. Despite being a part of the larger LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender) community, not a lot of focus has been placed on transgender people, particularly in regards to the health risks and needs of both male-to-female (MTF) and female-to-male (FTM) transgender persons. Recent research has looked into the impact of HIV on the transgender population, including the clinical outcomes of those with living with the virus. What most have determined is that HIV risk is not only different among this population group, but that there is still a great misunderstanding as to the health needs of transgender women and men, many of which are still being unmet. HIV Prevalence in Transgender People In a nationally representative sample of HIV-infected people receiving medical care, an estimated 1.3 percent identified as transgender women. A systematic review further concluded that, in 16 countries with a male-predominant epidemic (including the U.S.), HIV prevalence among transgender women was estimated to be 19.1 percent—an inordinately high rate and considered to be hyper-prevalent (i.e., occurring in 15 percent of the population or more). HIV rates, surprisingly, were higher in high-income countries (21.6 percent) than in low- and medium-income countries (17.7 percent), with an overall three-fold risk of acquiring HIV when compared to the general population. The highest rate of all, however, was in the U.S., with a staggering 27.7 percent HIV prevalence. While there is not as much data regarding HIV in transgender men, prevalence rates and risk behaviors are considered to be low, according to a 2008 study by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). HIV Risk in Transgender People Transgender women in the U.S. are generally more marginalized and socioeconomically challenged than non-transgender people, oftentimes homeless with low incomes and little-to-no health coverage. The majority (60-70 percent) do not regularly access medical care due not only to cost but to the lack of transgender-friendly services. As a result, a large proportion—both MTF and FTM—are forced to obtain hormonal therapy through illicit sources, a practice known to increase the likelihood of HIV Infection. These issues are only further exacerbated in MTF transgender youth, wherein high rates of forced sex (52 percent), incarceration (37 percent), sex in exchange for resources (59 percent), and difficulty in finding employment (63 percent) place them at inherently high risk of HIV. Moreover, high rates of sex under the influence of drugs or alcohol (53 percent) were also linked with higher levels of unprotected receptive anal sex (49 percent). And while injecting drug use and needle-sharing were considered rare, 29 percent reported having illicitly injected liquid silicon—a practice not directly linked to HIV but one which is associated with poorer health outcomes (including scleroderma, respiratory embolism, and autoimmune disorders). Unmet Medical Needs in Transgender Women All of these factors only add to the vulnerability of transgender women in general, with isolation and stigmatization further impacting HIV rates as well as the long-term care of those infected. This is evidenced by the lack of disclosure seen in many transgender women with HIV. A 2008 analysis by the CDC concluded that, while 27.7 percent of transgender women tested positive for HIV, only 11.8 percent identified themselves as being HIV-positive. This may explain, in part, why a lower of percentage of transgender women are able to maintain adherence to therapy and why only 50 percent on therapy are able to sustain complete viral control. Even among transgender women with health insurance who regularly see a general practitioner, 25 percent consider cost, access to specialists, and the paucity of transgender-friendly and transgender-knowledgeable practitioners as barriers to care. A transformation of current clinical practices—as well as a better understanding of the needs of transgender men and woman—could effectively improve the quality of HIV care and prevention for this at-risk population. More specifically, this would need to include: Greater sensitivity and relevant services to better interact with the transgender community.Recognizing the identity of a transgender person as authentic, including the use of appropriate pronouns and titles.Better access to healthcare resources.Education and prevention materials appropriate to the transgender experience. Was this page helpful? Thanks for your feedback! Get information on prevention, symptoms, and treatment to better ensure a long and healthy life. Email Address Sign Up There was an error. Please try again. Thank you, , for signing up. What are your concerns? Other Inaccurate Hard to Understand Submit Article Sources Mizuno, Y.; Frazier, E.; Huang, P.; et al. "Characteristics of Transgender Women Living With HIV Receiving Medical Care in the United States." LGBT Health. April 28, 2015; doi:10.1089/lgbt.2014.0099. Baral, S.; Poteat, T.; Strömdahl, S.; et al. "Worldwide burden of HIV in transgender women: a systematic review and meta-analysis." The Lancet Infectious Diseases. March 2013; 13(3):214-222. Herbst, J.; Jacobs, E.; Finlayson, T.; et al. "Estimating HIV Prevalence and Risk Behaviors of Transgender Persons in the United States: A Systematic Review." AIDS Behavior. January 2008; 12(1):1-17. Sanchez, N.; Sanchez, J.; and Danoff, A. "Health Care Utilization, Barriers to Care, and Hormone Usage Among Male-to-Female Transgender Persons in New York City." American Journal of Public Health. April 2009; 99(4):713-719. Lombardi, E. "Enhancing transgender health care." American Journal of Public Health; 91(6):869-872. Continue Reading


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No, that isn't a typo in the title...I just can't think of what to actually title this post.
We have had plenty going on with us, but not one specific thing to write about. Since my last post, here is what we have done:
- Watched Allison and Jordyn participate (and rock!) triathlons in Edmond
- I didn't have anything to do this, but my cousins had their adorable baby girl, Dylan, at the end of July. I want to steal her.
- Spent a lovely Friday evening in my parents pool. Including watermelon racing in the pool.
- Drove to Hot Springs for a work party with Kyle's company. That drive is pretty, but really windy and long.
- My wonderful friend, Elaina, moved back to Tulsa!!
- Celebrated my friend, Amanda, with a lovely bridal shower. Including a margarita machine.
Mix all of these things in with work events, nights out with friends, sand volleyball and we are exhausted. And we are not about to slow down!
- This weekend: Kyle plays in a golf tournament in Pittsburgh, and I get to go to Dallas to see the new baby!
- Stella and Dot jewelry party next week. I am still waiting to have the date confirmed and then I will let everyone know.
- Labor Day weekend: weird that we don't have anything scheduled but I am sure we will find a way to be busy the entire time.
- Kyle goes to DC for work
- Restaurant Week in Tulsa (busy for me)
- Wedding in Dallas
-OSU football
- Bachelorette party in Austin!!
- Wedding in Baltimore, followed by an anniversary trip
I cannot believe that we are getting close to our 1 year of marriage. I have been mentally preparing a blog post on my reflection of my first year of marriage.
Kyle is in charge of planning our anniversary trip and I have no idea what he is planning. He is really good about surprising me, but he has gotten out of the habit of booking our trips. I always handle our flight, hotel, car and most of the itinerary. So I cannot wait to see what he has in store for us!


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The TSHS had a booth this year at the New Jersey Flower and Patio Show in Somerset, New Jersey. The club was there to provide knowledge and information about hostas. We also looked for new members at this event. A picture of our booth is shown below.