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Phyllis Yes has taken the real-life challenge of caring for her aging parents and turned it into a screenplay that examines the issues facing adult children as caregivers.
"Good Morning, Miss America" ran in March at Coho Theatre in NW Portland. With candor, humor and pathos, Yes's play delves into serious health issues, conflicted family dynamics and memory decline — all issues Yes had to deal with.
Family caregivers are faced with emotional baggage, as well as decisions about finances, safety, legal documents, housing and the healthcare system.
"The play is based on my personal experience," she says. "For over 14 years, my mother's health steadily declined. And my stepfather's wasn't far behind, with increasingly poor judgment, progressive memory loss and growing distrust of others."
Over the years, Yes found her role transitioned from a frequent visitor and overseer, to the singlehanded navigator of a most challenging time.
Adding to the challenge was that her mother and stepfather lived in the Midwest.
She knows it's an experience millions of adult children face as their parents age. Unfortunately, she says, "we sometimes act surprised, like we didn't see it coming."
The play doesn't provide answers to all the questions these situations present, but Yes hopes it provokes conversation and communication within families that didn't happen in hers because no one wanted to talk about death.
Yes admits to a bit of sibling rivalry with her younger sister, whom she believes was favored by their mother because she was "a cute little blonde who got to stay out late and do whatever she wanted, and who made me always realize that I wasn't perfect."
After Yes's biological father died of a brain tumor, her mother began taking classes at a junior college, where she met her second husband, a professor whose own wife had died of cancer. They dated 13 years and finally married when Yes was 50 years old.
As the years went by, and her mother's health declined, Yes and her sister did not agree on their mother's care.
"Let them alone, they're adults," Yes says her sister would comment about their mother and stepfather. "But she didn't see the lapse of judgment, forgetting to take pills, the falls and my stepfather unable to pick her up. Nor did she know of his forgetting which bank he was using or not remembering he owned the home they lived in for 50 years. She did not see the severity of what was going on."
Her mother wanted to live to be 100 years old. When they talked, she would say "if" I die, rather when "when" I die. Now, Yes wishes she and her mother had taken more time alone to discuss her later years.
"But she deferred to whatever my stepfather said," Yes says. Thus, the screenplay emphasizes the need for early planning. "People need power of attorney and to know the wishes of their parents."
She admired the role her stepfather took as his wife's health declined.
"I never thought my stepdad would want to take care of my mom when she went downhill, but that was a great surprise," Yes says. "He loved her so much. He would greet her in the morning with 'Good morning, Miss America' and she loved to hear him say that. He would get her cleaned and dressed, and get her in her chair. Both were interested in appearance and he encouraged her to keep coloring her hair and using lipstick. She always kept a mirror beside her to check how she looked."
In fact, Yes's mother never revealed her age until she turned 90, "and she then enjoyed people telling her she didn't look it," Yes says. "My mother told me she wanted to marry a man with hair and who looked good in a bathing suit. She looked good in one when she was 75."
Yes was at the hospice when her mother was dying.
"I wished I'd missed it, but I know she was glad to know I was holding her hand," Yes says. "I would have preferred not seeing her suffer. I'll never know if my feelings were obligation or love, or her feeling for me an obligation or love, because it was a conflicted family. I have come to the belief that she loved me … I think."
It took Yes, a retired art professor at Lewis and Clark College, and internationally-known artist, four years and more than 30 rewrites to complete the play.
She notes that women write only 17 percent of plays that make it to production, despite the predominance of women in the audience.
"It's wonderful to have a woman's story," Yes says. "I am so grateful to the theater community who took me under their wings."
When she first realized her circumstances could be turned into a play, she began taking notes, rather than relying on memory.
"I taught myself," she says. "I went on the internet to learn the format. Theater was not new to me because I acted in plays in junior college and, at Lewis and Clark, I took 12 to 13 students with me to New York every fall term. I hired a theater professor and an architecture professor and every week we went to Broadway and off-Broadway plays. It was part of an off-campus program."
She also spent a year writing a blog for a bank website — critiquing theater, music and visual arts.
The hardest part of writing was getting the right dialogue, she says. The easiest part was understanding the situation.
"I kept the screenplay close to what really happened," says Yes, who also networked with members of local theater groups. They offered ideas and connected her with others who could provide the knowledge she needed to write and produce a play. They held readings in living rooms, and the Lewis and Clark, and Coho, theaters.
"I was having coffee all over town, getting to know these interesting people," she says. "It felt like it was synchronicity, that it was meant to be."
Remembering her mother's final days as a "sad, sad thing," Yes calls her play premiere a "recent dream come true. I've since talked to so many people who have had such different experiences tending to aging parents. Some found it terrible, and others considered it a blessing, a gift."
She believes the topic of aging parents is important and her sponsors agreed. She has secured funding from Legacy Health, Providence Health, Ronni Lacroute, McCoy Millworks, VanderVeer Center, The Johnson Family and Leading Age.
"When OHSU came on, it gave me confidence that they would think the topic was important," Yes says.


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Data Points Podcast Episode 36 - Water and Data in California
Nothing is more critical to people's lives than water. Local governments across the US usually do such a good job of providing safe, clean water that it's often overlooked. However, recent high profile incidents in Flint, MI (lead), and in California (drought) have brought water and local government back into the conversation.
In this episode, Sharon and Eric sat down to talk with Patrick Atwater, a Civic Data Scientist with ARGO (Advanced Research in Government Operations) and the Project Manager for the California Data Collaborative. Patrick joined us to talk water data in California, using data science tools at the local government level, and building partnerships among governments to help tackle big problems.
If you want to learn more about Patrick's projects, check out the Github page on open source analytics developed with the California Data Collaborative and the street quality work that is currently scaling to more cities. Also feel free to get in touch with the GovEx team via our contact page and we can connect you to additional resources.
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Get in touch with us and let us know what you want to hear, suggest potential episodes, and give us feedback on how the podcast is going. You can contact us on Twitter at Gov_Ex or reach out via our website at govex.jhu.edu/contact.
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A quick comment about the plans - they are very well done. I write plans for a living and so I see quite a few. Given the scope of the project, they are amazingly complete, and well organized. Nat Puffer and Burt Rutan (designer of Long-EZ from which the Cozy is derived) have done an excellent job targeting the novice builder.


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The decision to build muscle is not an easy one. It can also become quite discouraging since results don't appear quickly. This is the reason why it is so important you use the right techniques and do all the right things so you can build and maximize your muscle mass. This article will introduce you to some solid basics that can help you to do just that.
Make sure you have enough vegetables in your diet. Proteins, complex carbs and vegetables are all important for building muscle. There are many essential nutrients that can only be found in the vegetable family and not in carbs or protein. Vegetables are also rich in fiber. Fiber allows the body to use protein effectively.
Include carbohydrates in your diet if you wish to build your muscle mass. Carbohydrates provide the energy required to complete your weight-training exercises; if you don't consume enough of them, your body will turn to protein for its energy needs, slowing down your progress. Eat enough carbohydrates so that your body can function, and you will be able to make it through your workouts.
A lot of people who exercise end up putting more emphasis on speed than they should and less emphasis on technique than they should. Instead of trying to squeeze in as many reps as possible, focus instead on completing your reps slowly and correctly. Don't rush, and focus on doing each rep with proper form.
If you set short-term goals, then reward yourself each time you reach a goal, you will become more motivated. Motivation plays a key role in any long-term commitment. Setting rewards can also help you stay with your muscle building goals. As an example, get a massage, which will help increase your blood flow and benefits muscle growth.
Compound exercises may be the key to maximizing your muscle-building results and getting the most out of your workouts. These exercises use several muscle groups in one lift. For example, a bench press will utilize shoulder, tricep and chest muscles all at once.
Try to change your routine. Like any workout, things can become boring, which can keep you from doing them. Try varying the order of your routine from day to day, or focus on a different set of muscles each day. Having a new workout to look forward to each time you go to the gym makes it more likely that you will stick with your bodybuilding program.
Work the right muscles to create an illusion of bigger bulk. You can achieve this by focusing your strength training on your shoulders, upper back and upper chest. When you do this, your waist will look smaller, and the rest of you will look bigger.
You must consume enough protein to build muscle. A wonderful way to get protein is by consuming protein supplements and shakes. They are particularly effective after a workout session, and also before going to sleep. If you want to shed pounds while building muscle, have one serving a day. On the contrary, if mass as well as muscle is your goal, you can drink up to three of these per day.
When you workout, it is important you train with different muscles; such as, chest with back, or hamstrings with your quads. This gives one muscle group a break while you work the opposite and also ensures that you don't train unevenly and create muscle imbalances. Therefore, you will have a better workout because you are reducing how long you are in the gym.
Compound exercises are crucial when building muscle. These are exercises that use several different muscle groups to perform a single lift. For example, a bench press will utilize shoulder, tricep and chest muscles all at once.
Building muscle does not necessarily equate to achieving a ripped physique. A variety of muscle building routines are available, and it is up to you to choose the one appropriate to you before beginning. If you desire extremely large muscles than you will eventually probably need some supplements in addition to your diet and workouts.
Increase your protein intake to build your muscle mass. Protein is essential to the maintenance and growth of muscle; working out without eating protein can result in loss of muscle. It is possible to ingest about 1 gram of protein for each pound you weigh.
When attempting to increase your muscle mass, it's an excellent idea to consume foods that are rich in protein before a workout and immediately afterwards. Taking 15 grams of protein a half hour prior to and a half hour after your routine will get the job done. An 8-ounce glass of milk has between nine and 11 grams of protein, depending upon the type of milk (skim, whole, etc.).
Make sure that you are consuming the right amount of calories each day. There are many calculators available, some even online. They can help you to determine what your intake should be based on your muscle mass goals. By making use of this kind of calculator, you can quickly determine what adjustments need to be made to your daily diet for desired results to be obtained.
It is necessary to monitor your calories, if you want to build muscle. There are good calories and bad; so focus on consuming healthy whole grains and lean protein along with a good quantity of fresh fruits and veggies. If you eat a poor diet, you will be unable to build muscle mass.
Work your muscles to exhaustion to get the best results from your exercises. Leave nothing on the table. Push yourself during each set until you are literally physically unable to complete another rep. If you must, lower your set length.
Pre-exhaust weak muscle groups to ensure that you hit all the areas you want to target. It is common for one frequently used muscle group to get exhausted before you work through all your exercises. You can fix this by performing an isolation-type exercise, such as straight-arm pulldowns, that do not emphasize the bicep muscles as much. Therefore, you will pre-exhaust your lats. When it is time to perform rows, you shouldn't be limited by your biceps.
A good weight training program should prioritize strength above all else. Being stronger means that you should slowly be able to increase the amount of weight you are lifting in each exercise. As a general rule, you should increase your weights by five percent after every two sessions. Carefully analyze what you might be doing wrong if you are not seeing this type of progress. If you feel like you are weaker than when you last worked out, it is possible that you haven't properly recovered from the previous workout.
Focus on improving bicep curls. Usually, you fail to move the bar or dumbbell past a parallel point, which means you don't get the full benefit of the top half of the bicep curl. The upper half of the bicep curl is the most powerful part. This can be remedied by doing the barbell curls while seated.
Be sure that you limit yourself to working out at about three or possible four times in a week. This gives the body the needed time to repair itself. If you overwork your body you have a greater chance of getting an injury and then needing to take time off to let it heal.
When attempting to increase your muscle mass, eat a lot of fresh foods. Prepackaged foods are normally full of preservatives and chemicals which harm your immunity. When you add healthy foods to your diet you help boost up your immune system, which can help your efforts in muscle building.
Adjust your diet to suit your training. To build muscles, you will need a good protein intake and less fat. Bodybuilding is not a free pass to eating more; you still need a balanced diet. You need to consider taking protein supplements and vitamins in order to aid you in building muscles quicker.
Try switching the grip for your back. For example, use a mixed grip when performing deadlifts to help increase your strength. This sort of grip assists you in twisting the bar in one direction, so your underhand grip starts twisting the bar in the opposite direction. This will help to stop bars from rolling over your hands.
One way to work around muscle groups that are holding you back is "pre-exhausting." For instance, your biceps could fatigue before lats on rows. You can correct this by doing isolation-type exercises, like straight arm pull-downs that won't overly-stress the biceps. The result is that your lats are exhausted ahead of time and then when you row, your bicep won't limit you.
When you are working to build up your muscles, pay attention to your diet and everything that you are consuming. Staying hydrated is always important, but it is even more so in building muscle since up to 70% of muscle mass is water. Do not drink excessively when building muscles; alcohol causes muscle tissue to break down, which defeats the purpose of building your muscles.
Giving your muscles a good workout is very beneficial, even if you have no desire to bulk up. You can improve your self-esteem, feel more confident, and strengthen your joints and lungs when you combine weight training with cardio workouts.
It is imperative that you eat well while trying to build up your muscle. Without proper nutrition, it will be difficult for your body to regenerate muscle fibers. Protein shakes have been proven to be a great source of protein to consume after a workout to help rebuild muscle fibers.
When you're building muscle, you have to be constantly conscience of what your eating. You must stay hydrated since muscle tissues are about 70% water. Do not consume too much alcohol, because it breaks down your muscles when you drink it in large amounts.
While it can be tempting to power your way through your workouts and to use maximum speed to do your repetitions, don't do it! Performing each exercise more slowly can better your results, even if it means using less weight to do so. Each repetition should be done for at least 20 seconds in order to fully use each set of muscles.
Avoiding alcohol is an important step when your exercise regime is centered on muscle building. However, consuming one glass of wine on occasion is not really bad, just as long as you only have one drink. Alcohol isn't good for you and can interfere with muscle growth.
Maintain your cardio routine. While cardiovascular exercises do seem technically contradictory to building muscle, they are essential for maintaining heart health. 3 moderate cardio exercises per week of 20 minutes per session will be enough to properly exercise the heart without negating your weight training progress.
If you are a novice at body building, work on your form before your power. You can lift more weight as you progress, but any flaw in your form will be increased with time, unless you correct it right away. If you lift heavy weights with bad form, you could do more harm than good to your body, and you could even end up with some serious injuries.
Before working out, consume a sufficient amount of protein. Before doing your workouts, consume about twenty grams of whey protein. This helps your muscles recover more quickly and minimizes the chance that your body will use muscle protein as energy while you work out.
Be patient with your body because building muscles is a process that will take some time. That said, if you know best practices for building muscle, you can be confident that you will see results, eventually. Combine the tips you just read with your existing knowledge about bodybuilding to optimize your bodybuilding routine and become really ripped.
Working out with your friends and family can help you to stay motivated. This is a great way to impart extra adrenaline to help keep you driven. When you have an extra boost of pure energy, you will be able to work more, and build up a little more muscles.


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The release last week of the revised South East Queensland Regional Plan brings into focus many issues, but one central assumption – that infill housing targets can accommodate future population growth in existing urban areas – suggests this plan might have about as much chance of realistically being achieved as Peter Pan being told to 'think happy thoughts' so he can fly.
The revised SEQ Regional Plan attempts to 'manage' the growth of south east
Setting aside any critique of 'smart growth' policies and their impact on housing choice and costs, the attempt to contain future growth in SEQ into existing urban areas is perhaps the most contentious aspect of the SEQ Regional Plan. Put simply, it is hard to see how the numbers stack up.
The targets.
The plan proposes that half of all new residents are to be accommodated in existing urban areas via infill housing (medium to high density). Within the City of
For south east
That's a lot of units. Some back of envelope sums are helpful here. Imagine a twenty level highrise unit block, with four units per floor. That's 80 units. The 138,000 dwellings infill target, if it was all delivered as 20 storey highrise buildings, would equate to 1,725 such twenty storey unit towers across
For south east
Now the SEQ Regional Plan makes precious little comment about how the planners expect this scale of infill to actually be delivered. It's a bit like envisaging a Dubai-scale apartment boom right here in
Does this sound like a plan, or are we being asked to think happy thoughts?
So where will they go?
The revised SEQ Regional plan does at least suggest that there are some preferred areas for infill development activity, particularly around transit nodes – which makes sense. Transit oriented development exploits existing public transport infrastructure (however overtaxed it may already be) and mixed use development to create work-live-shop-play environments. It can be tremendously successful, and
But bring the issue of scale back into focus – the hypothetical 1,725 apartment towers are for accommodation only. They do not include additional requirements for more office space, more retail space, more schools, hospitals, medical centres etc – it's a long list.
Chermside, Indooroopilly, Carindale and Upper Mt Gravatt are some of the activity centres expected under the plan to accommodate this frenzy of building activity over the next twenty years. But within these centres, the plan again is silent on precisely where the activity is to take place. It seems fair to ask the question: have the proponents of this plan at any stage pulled out a map and decided which entire suburban blocks are to be demolished to make way for the 1,725 apartment towers needed for infill development, or is there some new approach to infill which somehow creates new development sites in built out neighbourhoods?
The credibility gap is actually much wider than this. Infill housing is usually delivered as a mix of medium (townhouse style) to high density. Medium density projects by nature occupy a larger footprint than a high rise tower. So the reality of the numbers is that the foorprint needed to achieve the infill targets will be much greater than our hypothetical 1,725 towers in
Where exactly are these sites? I've had a good look at Chermside, Indooroopilly, Carindale and Upper Mount Gravatt, and even the wonders of Google Earth don't reveal vast hectares of vacant land adjoining transit nodes just waiting to be developed as housing.
Has anyone asked the people?
The physical impossibility of the target numbers being delivered is one fatal flaw of the SEQ Regional Plan, and will remain so until the plan's proponents explain – in precise detail – where and how these numbers will be delivered. Only with that sort of street by street analysis of available land can the credibility gap be closed.
But then there's another, significant gap in all this. The SEQ Regional Plan proposes perhaps the most fundamental change in the way of life and urban environment for
The reality is the community are highly likely to object strenuously to dozens of 20 storey towers appearing in their neighbourhood. Jim Soorley was once savaged by the Liberals for proposing a 'sardine city' but his ambitions for infill were miniscule compared to what the SEQ Regional Plan now proposes. The scale of community objection to the infill targets of the SEQ Regional Plan, once the community realises, could be sufficient to unseat local Councillors or State MPs, and the prospect of that is another fatal flaw for the plan. Politically, it is hard to see how it could ever be delivered.
Then there are other market realities to deal with. Families overwhelmingly prefer detached housing and backyards for the kids, so even if deprived of housing choice, will there be a big enough market to buy all the units and townhouses proposed? There's an issue of cost also – high to medium density is expensive to deliver, inflated by infrastructure levies and build costs. So will there enough people who could afford to buy all the units and townhouses proposed? There's an issue of planning polarity, in that while the SEQ Regional Plan is a state instrument adamant on infill, many local council planning schemes don't support it. Once again, how that tension will be resolved adds yet another wedge to the credibility gap.
Never land?
Is it possible that such a comprehensive planning scheme which purports to deliver on so many noble objectives (preservation of open space, quality of life etc) actually failed to do the most basic maths on the key assumptions that underpin it? And if that maths was done, why is the plan silent on the answers?
The questions are already being asked and the answers are not forthcoming. At the end of the day, unless and until the Plan's authors and proponents can answer the physical realities of 'where' and 'how' in fine detail, site by site, street by street and neighbourhood by neighbourhood, the SEQ Regional Plan is suffering a yawning credibility gap from day one.
In the meantime, a region with a demonstrable housing shortage could find the shortages worsen, affordability deteriorate and growth – the economy's engine room – falter.
And that doesn't sound like much of a plan.
[If you haven't searched through the SEQ Regional Plan for all the details yet, this is a good place to start: Chapter 8 on 'Compact Settlement' sets it out. You can find it here - http://www.dip.qld.gov.au/resources/plan/SEQ/regional-plan-2009/seq-regional-plan-2009-part-d-dro-08.pdf ]


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Last Saturday, I conducted a six-hour lecture on Special Commercial Laws at the Legal Edge Bar Review Center attended by aspiring future lawyers. It was my first time to speak on substantial legal topics for hours before curious minds of all ages, including those older than me, yet courageous enough to take the grueling Bar exams this November.
While the subject of my lecture covered a minuscule number of points in the Bar exams, as it traditionally comes out in only two to three questions in the Mercantile Law Exam, the examinees attended in droves and listened attentively or at least until they got bored of my voice. But as what we emphasize to Bar-takers, every single point counts in the Bar exams since this may spell either passing or flunking what is arguably the most difficult exam in our country.
As a lawyer, I can say that the laws that I discussed were quite old, antiquated and outdated, despite being commercial laws, relating to business and profit which the international business chamber may expect to be the most updated among all Philippines laws.
These include the Negotiable Instruments Law and the Warehouse Receipts Law, both of which are over 100 years old, yet still frequently asked in the Bar exams. Also, questions on Trust Receipts, Transportation Law, among other old laws, are expected to come out. I tell the examinees that reading these laws is a chore since these were handwritten by the legislators at that time; hence, the run-on and repetitive sentences made without the ease of copy-paste, delete and other typing functions we have today.
It is my prayer that these commercial laws be revised and updated along with other archaic laws in the Philippines (special mention to our criminal laws). Upon checking the House of Representatives website, I saw that there are pending laws on the amendment of commercial laws, such as House Bill (HB) 4067 for the Amendment of the Foreign Investments Act, HB 6310 for the Modernizing of the Warehouse Receipts Law, and HB 6691 for the Amendment of the Securities Regulation Code, all authored by Rep. Arthur Yap, HB 5537 for the Imposition of Stiffer Penalties under the E-Commerce Act, authored by Rep. Mikee Romero and Rep. Enrico Pineda of 1-Pacman Party-list, and HB 7653 for the Amendment of the Negotiable Instruments Law, authored by Rep. Maximo B. Rodriguez, Jr. However, these have been pending in their respective committees for months now.
Compare these to the legislative priorities of President Rodrigo Roa Duterte. Just this week, crucial and important laws progressed by leaps and bounds, particularly the Bangsamoro Basic Law (BBL) and the draft Federal Constitution prepared by the Consultative Committee on Constitutional Amendments.
The BBL underwent the Bicameral Conference Committee hearings starting on Monday, July 9, attended by members of the House of Representatives and the Senate, at Crowne Plaza Hotel, Ortigas Center. The members of Congress deliberated daily, and talks ended past midnight. Debates were intense yet necessary. Subcommittees were made, consisting of senators and House members, to ensure that each provision will be discussed.
In the end, Malacañang chose to adopt the House version of the BBL, amid all the contentions regarding the territory to be included in the Bangsamoro Government. This gave us a preview of the arduous process ahead – the holding of several plebiscites in concerned municipalities, cities and provinces pursuant to Section 10, Article X of the 1987 Constitution. Yet it appears that we are even ahead of schedule as it was mentioned by presidential spokesperson Harry Roque that the President will sign the bill into law before the State of the Nation Address on July 23.
The Consultative Committee on Constitutional Amendments formally handed its draft Federal Constitution to Speaker Pantaleon Alvarez on Wednesday, June 11. Chief Justice Reynato Puno met with Speaker Alvarez and several scenarios were discussed to ensure the transition to the federal form of government. One of these would be the controversial no-election scenario that would require the immediate amendment of the 1987 Constitution.
In so saying, the Speaker was being practical considering the scarcity of time to push federalism. 2019 is an election year and certificates of candidacy will be filed in October 2018. Thereafter, each politician will be in "survival mode" as re-election or other forms of political agenda would be their priority. Take that away, then politicians can focus on delivering the campaign promise of the President which is to revise the 1987 Constitution.
Speaker Alvarez's statement sparked reactions from Senate President Tito Sotto. Of course, this is no easy task. Yet, under this administration, it appears that anything is possible and we are ready to write our own history. What is important is that politicians, stakeholders and the Filipino people must have an open mind in what can possibly be done within the next year or so. BBL was a dream during past administrations but we pulled it off this time. The same can be said about Charter change.
With all this legislative change that stands to reshape our country, let's not be mere spectators and instead be active participants. When the dust settles, I will probably still be lecturing on commercial laws that are over 100 years old. Perhaps, a provision in the new Constitution requiring that Philippine laws be mandatorily reviewed and updated every 10 years by a governing body would be a good idea? Let's try our luck.


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|The Cafe
by Crew Cut ©
Tired, aching feet. Needing massaging. That's the worst aspect of my job - waiting tables in an inner city café. Latte, cappuccino, short black, long black, macchiato, flat white....Turkish bread, bagels, long rolls, sesame seed rolls, white sliced..... From 10.30 am to 7 pm most days. Good days with tips, bad days when a customer does a runner. But the worst is the feet!
And the best? The one day when I got to do some research. Action research, that is. I'm writing the Great Australian Lesbian Bodice-Ripper (or is that clit-licker?). The best day happened one day last summer.
I suppose I'd better explain my waiting technique. This is the one reserved for when the Gaydar starts beeping off the screen. It used to be "Serve from the right, clear from the left", but now it's tables jam-packed together, and do the best you can. Somedays, just sometimes, getting up close to gorgeous women makes the nipples firm and the jeans wet.
This day, in walked a tall, good-looking woman. She plonked her backpack down at one of the outside tables, slipping the straps off her muscular shoulders. Her singlet top barely covered her braless, firm and rounded breasts. Cut-off jeans shorts, long athletic legs (immediately thinking about them wrapped around my neck!). She wore a single clear glass earring in one ear, a row of studs and gold sleepers in the other. Tousled, untidy short hair framed an open, smiling face. This gal's hair was curling around the nape, 2 inches all over. Seen better days, perhaps (like 8 weeks ago?).
She sat down next to her pack, facing towards the door, and half-turned to the street.
My nipples pointed out through my T-shirt. My face felt flushed. I smiled and asked her what I could get her. "Latte and raisin toast" she replied, returning my smile.. Aha - a breakfaster - looked like she's just arrived on the train at the central station around the corner.
I retreated inside and thought this through. Not in the habit of picking up customers. Not even sure she was a dyke. Gawd. Lust swamped me. I was throbbing...that inexplicable electricity of pure desire took hold.
Decided to try the Look Straight Into Her Eyes technique. I took out her coffee first..Shit. She had taken out a book..didn't even look up. Absorbed. A minute later I returned with the food. She had placed the book face-down, spine-up on the table. "Death by the Riverside" by J.M. Redman! One of my favourite dyke authors. "Now, now, say something NOW". For the first time I was caught for word. "Good book?" I stumbled.
"Oh, yeah" she replied, in a slow drawl. She then picked up the book and began to read again, holding the book in her left hand as she picked up a slice of toast in her right.
I retreated inside and took up a position where I could admire her, well, admire is a bit mild...slaver, drool and fantasise would be more accurate! I wanted to slide my hand up her thigh and slip it into one leg of those sexy shorts. I could imagine her wet bush and pulsating clit (I could feel my own!). I wanted to touch her nipples through her singlet, tweaking and rubbing them till she pushed my face onto them, pulling the top down to expose them fully. My tongue would flick and lick those brown, hard nipples...rolling them, scaping my stud over them, depressing them firmly....pushing them inwards, then sucking them out loooooong and gently nibbling the back of them.
I imagined her smooth toned ass...me pinching her buttocks and probing her hole...gently(at first) pulling her buttocks apart and pushing them together...
I looked up with a start and saw her looking for her purse. Plate and glass empty...ready to go. I sauntered coolly (oh yeah?) outside. "Ready for your bill?" She nodded assent, and I wrote the total on the order pad, tore it off and placed it on the table. As I did, my hand brushed, barely, against her arm. The hairs stood out on BOTH our arms.
"Er..." she started. "I couldn't help noticing your hair".
My hand immediately jumped to my head, brushing my palm across its spiky bristles. Here I have to explain that I have a bit, well, let's be honest here, a BIG fetish for short short, barely-there hair. Dykes with buzz cuts, flattops, crew cuts, little boy cuts with short back and sides...But you knew that already! You didn't? Oh, well, I get it shaved every 2 weeks, sometimes more, if there's a lover around into holding the clippers. Number One buzz, with a wisp of fringe at the front. And, I like my lovers the same.
"I've been on the road a few weeks," she said, "and I REALLY need a haircut." Yes, I thought, you do (for me). "Can you tell me where you get yours done?"
"Oh, sure," I said, and gave her directions to my butchgal cutter's shop. I opened my mouth to talk some more, maybe ask where she was from, where she was going to, when she said "Thanks," put the money down on the table, smiled, stood up, shrugged on her backpack and said, "Bye."
Oh, yeah, that's right, you great stud dyke...let one slip away. I was so tempted to run after her, but the café was filling and my attention was sought by a large party of office girls and guys at the next table. Young men in suits, girls in tight pastel suits, or black, skirts riding high on thighs, long STRAIGHT hair falling over their eyes, or permed. Probably a lipstick D amongst that lot, but who could tell?
I went out that night, looked meaningfully into my beer, and went home alone to surf the net and work the vibrator till the batteries went kaput. Couldn't get sexyshorts out of my mind.
Next day, run off my feet (oh, the ache) I rushed outside carrying a plate, and "bang" straight into a customer looking for a chair. Her dark, smouldering eyes looked right into mine. "Hi," she smiled. One large rainbow earring fell from her lobe. And her hair! Ever seen a magenta-colored crew cut? Like a recruit into some great dyke army!
"You get a break soon?" she asked.
"In 5 minutes I'm finished," I blushed. I reached out and touched her hair. I couldn't help it. Her pupils dilated, her hips moved, almost imperceptibly closer to me. She winked and I circled my mouth with an index finger, sucked it, and placed it against her lips. She drew it into her mouth, sucked it out again and said, "5 minutes!"
We agreed to go home to my place...walking distance. I couldn't stand the agony of walking so close and not touching. In broad daylight, in the middle of my town, I pushed my hand down the back of her shorts, and stroked the crack of her ass. No panties. She moaned. We were passing a small park, and she steered me into it. Noone around. We found a secluded spot amongst some trees.
She whispered, "My name is Marijke...yours?"
"Sue", I gasped. We fell onto the grass, kissing wildly, passionately, tongues exploring the softness of each others' mouths, thrusting down throats...she tore my T-shirt from me...traced the rose tattoo on my left tit, flicked the nipple rings and ate my tits in precisely the way I had imagined eating hers! I undid her shorts, and pushed my hand down the front, desperately searching her pussy. She was as wet as I. Drenched with the moisture of lust and heightened arousal. I pulled her shorts off, as she wriggled and writhed. She humped my leg as she continued to chew my breasts, flicking, sucking, licking, rolling, pulling. My fingers probed her pussy hole...slipping two easily inside the slippery wetness. She looked into my eyes and suggested I take off my trousers. She got off me and pulled them from the ankles. Pushed her face against my panty-covered cunt, and pulled my panties off with her teeth.
Both naked, sun on our skin, moaning, exposed but in a private world. We clasped each other and rolled on the soft, mossy grass. Neither of us cared who was top, who bottom....we were clamped together. I made the first move and as she lay on her back, I sat on her face, leaned forward and buried my face in her cunt. We reflected each others' moves. She sucked, I sucked. I flick flick flick flick flicked her clit, she did likewise. My tongue stiffened and pushed into her wet hot hole. I ran my tongue along her clit, stopping to circle the electric tip....she did the same. She trailed her tongue along my clit, and plunged it deep inside, then repeated over and over...languidly, then insistently. Our hips gyrated and ground into each others' faces.
I removed my tongue and pushed 4 fingers high into her cunt. She gasped, taken by surprise. She responded by rimming my asshole with a finger, and then pushing inside, all the while continuing to eat me.
Pumping and fucking, oblivious to the world...and then, cumming...in a joyous, flow of wet, pulsing and throbbing, shuddering and shivering. Then, screaming...I know, I know, here we were fucking ourselves senseless in a public park, then screaming like whores. Then, laughing, and clasping our clothes to ourselves as we let go and a passing couple came to investigate the screams!
"Oh, Jude, Linda .... Hi!" I laughed.
"Meet my friend Marijke. She's visiting from....ummmm"
"Holland," she finished for me. "Pleased to meet you!"
Jude and Linda met us at the girl-bar that night, after we'd been home to my place, showered, fucked, showered, got Marijke's pack from the hostel, fucked, said fuck-it to another shower - what's wrong with sex smell!, dressed (in plain singlet-strapped t-shirt dresses, no underwear....good for a quick get-out), taken turns with my strap-on, got dressed again and finally left the house.
Good thing I could suck her tits on the dance floor while she rubbed her hands over my bristles, she could toe my cunt in the booth, staring at each other over beers, good thing we could slow-dance holding each others' asses, pulling our pussies together.
"Just goes to show the power of a good haircut," we laughed with my friends. "How could femmes ever find each other?" we joked.
Maybe one of you will write and tell us...me and my lover Marijke. Her visa runs out soon...but she'll be back. Good thing the government accepts same-sex partners now for immigration!
She doesn't mind being in my book. What's a book after an initial tryst in the park!!
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'We have been gagged' councillor tells Lincolnshire hospitals meeting as public questions are stopped
The new chairman of the trust which runs Grantham hospital has been criticised for putting an end to public questions at board meetings.
Professor Dean Fathers has just become chairman of United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust and has angered people by putting an end to questions.
The board met at Grantham Hospital this week where regular attender Coun Ray Wootton stood up before the meeting began to say he was unhappy with Prof Fathers' decision.
Coun Wootten said: "We are extremely disappointed by this decision not to have public questions. We feel we have been gagged and we are angry because we also ask questions on behalf of the people of Grantham who already have a low opinion of the board. We ask you to put public questions back on the agenda."
Prof Fathers responded in a statement to the Journal. He said: "ULHT is an open organisation which is accountable to the people of Lincolnshire and we welcome input from the public.
"Councillor Ray Wootten, and all members of the public, are welcome at our board meetings which are held in public. We have taken the decision to take public questions off the beginning of the board agenda but at the end of the meeting I welcome feedback and observations of the meeting. Councillor Wootten was involved in this discussion at the end of our recent Board meeting. There are many ways members of the public can ask questions of ULHT. The main way is to ask Board members at our public locality forum meetings. These meetings are held in each of our hospital towns every three months. Each meeting has 20 minutes for questions to the panel, and questions and answers are formally recorded and published on our website. These also are reported to the Trust Board every quarter.
"I am personally meeting stakeholders to talk about how we can better work together, and how their views can shape the work of the Trust. I met with both Councillors Ray and Linda Wootten in May, and asked if they'd like to help the Trust to find someone from the Council to be a governor on a new Trust Members' Council I am passionate about setting up. Governors will be important in holding our Board to account and the Members' Council would provide the appropriate place for all his questions to be raised and answered.
"We also welcome the public contacting us on Twitter, Facebook and via our website or even by sending us questions in advance of the Board meeting which I then pass to the relevant non-executive director to ask where appropriate."
Coun Wootten said people should still be able to ask questions of the board when it met as it was a body accountable to the public .
The leader of South Kesteven District Council, Coun Bob Adams, also attended Tuesday's meeting. He said: "Public bodies should be accountable and accept they are open to challenge and should not try and stifle public participation."
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Medicaid Pharmacy and Therapeutics Committee Agenda for April 24, 2009
The Pharmacy & Therapeutics (P&T) Committee will meet April 24, 2009, from 8:15 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Meeting Room 6, Concourse, Empire State Plaza, Albany, New York
Agenda Items:
A. Clinical Drug Review Program
Description: The Committee will consider requiring prior authorization for palivizumab (Synagis) in order to evaluate and address appropriate utilization consistent with approved indications including factors associated with long-term efficacy, public health and potential for overuse or misuse.
B. Preferred Drug Program
Description: The Committee will re-review each therapeutic class subject to the Preferred Drug Program periodically as described and listed below. Therapeutic classes not included on this agenda will be re-reviewed at a later date.
- The Committee will review new clinical and financial information as required, to recommend preferred and non-preferred drugs.*
- The Committee will only consider clinical information which is new since the previous review of the therapeutic class and then consider financial information.
- New clinical information may include a new drug or drug product information, new indications, new safety information or new published comparative clinical trials (placebo-only controlled studies, information in abstract form alone, posters, and unpublished data is poor quality evidence for the purpose of re-review and submission is discouraged).
- Those wishing to submit new clinical information must do so in an electronic format by April 10, 2009 or the Committee may not have ample time to review the information.
*The current preferred and non-preferred status of drugs subject to the Preferred Drug List (PDL) may be viewed at https://newyork.fhsc.com/downloads/providers/NYRx_PDP_PDL.pdf
No relevant new clinical information was found for the therapeutic classes listed below (items 1 - 8). Any new clinical information must be submitted to the Department by April 10, 2009. The Committee is only interested in clinical information that is new since the previous review.
1. ACE Inhibitors (previous review date April 30, 2008)
Drugs Affected: Accupril (quinapril), Aceon (perindopril erbumine), Altace capsule (ramipril), Altace tablet (ramipril), benazepril, Capoten (captopril), captopril, enalapril maleate, fosinopril, lisinopril, Lotensin (benazepril), Mavik (trandolapril), moexipril, Monopril (fosinopril), Prinivil (lisinopril), quinapril, ramipril capsule, trandolapril, Univasc (moexipril), Vasotec (enalapril maleate), Zestril (lisinopril)
2. ACE Inhibitor/Diuretic Combinations (previous review date April 30, 2008)
Drugs Affected: Accuretic (quinapril/hctz), benazepril/hctz, Capozide (captopril/hctz), captopril/hctz, enalapril maleate/hctz, fosinopril/hctz, lisinopril/hctz, Lotensin HCT (benazepril/hctz), moexipril/hctz, Monopril HCT (fosinopril/hctz), Prinzide (lisinopril/hctz), Quinaretic (quinapril/hctz), quinapril/hctz, Uniretic (moexipril/hctz), Vaseretic (enalapril maleate/hctz), Zestoretic (lisinopril/hctz)
3. Dihydropyridine Calcium Channel Blockers (previous review date April 30, 2008)
Drugs Affected: Adalat CC (nifedipine CC), Afeditab CR (nifedipine CR), amlodipine, Cardene (nicardipine), Cardene SR (nicardipine SR), DynaCirc (isradipine), DynaCirc CR (isradipine CR), felodipine ER, isradipine, nicardipine HCl, Nifediac CC (nifedipine CC), Nifedical XL (nifedipine XL), nifedipine, nifedipine ER, nifedipine SA, nisoldipine, Norvasc (amlodipine), Plendil (felodipine ER), Procardia (nifedipine), Procardia XL (nifedipine XL), Sular (nisoldipine)
4. ACE Inhibitor/Calcium Channel Blockers (previous review date April 30, 2008)
Drugs Affected: benazepril/amlodipine, Lexxel (enalapril maleate/felodipine ER), Lotrel (benazepril/amlodipine), Tarka (trandolapril/verapamil ER)
5. Calcitonins - Nasal (previous review date June 12, 2008)
Drugs Affected: calcitonin-salmon, Fortical (calcitonin-salmon), Miacalcin (calcitonin-salmon)
6. Erythropoiesis Stimulating Agents (ESAs) (previous review date December 13, 2007)
Drugs Affected: Aranesp (darbepoetin alfa), Epogen (epoetin alfa), Procrit (epoetin alfa)
7. Progestins (for Cachexia) (previous review date December 13, 2007)
Drugs Affected: megestrol acetate, Megace (megestrol acetate), Megace ES (megestrol acetate)
8. Central Nervous System Stimulants (previous review date April 30, 2008)
Drugs Affected: Adderall (amphetamine salt combo), Adderall XR (amphetamine salt combo XR), amphetamine salt combo, Concerta (methylphenidate), Daytrana (methylphenidate), Desoxyn (methamphetamine), Dexedrine (dextroamphetamine sulfate), Dexedrine Spansule (dextroamphetamine), dexmethylphenidate, dextroamphetamine sulfate, dextroamphetamine sulfate SA, Dextrostat (dextroamphetamine sulfate), Focalin (dexmethylphenidate), Focalin XR (dexmethylphenidate XR), Metadate CD (methylphenidate CD), Metadate ER (methylphenidate ER), Methylin ER (methylphenidate ER), Methylin (methylphenidate), methylphenidate, methylphenidate ER, Procentra (dextroamphetamine sulfate), Provigil (modafinil), Ritalin (methylphenidate), Ritalin SR (methylphenidate SR), Ritalin LA (methylphenidate LA), Vyvanse (lisdexamfetamine dimesylate)
New information is known to exist for the therapeutics classes listed below (items 9 - 21). The Committee will evaluate the following therapeutic classes to determine the significance of the new information on preferred and non-preferred status.
9. Angiotensin Receptor Blockers (ARBs) (previous review date April 30, 2008)
Drugs Affected: Atacand (candesartan cilexetil), Avapro (irbesartan), Azor (olmesartan/amlodipine), Benicar (olmesartan medoxomil), Cozaar (losartan), Diovan (valsartan), Exforge (valsartan/amlodipine), Micardis (telmisartan), Teveten (eprosartan mesylate)
10. ARB/Diuretic Combinations (previous review date April 30, 2008)
Drugs Affected: Atacand HCT (candesartan cilexetil/hctz), Avalide (irbesartan/hctz), Benicar HCT (olmesartan medoxomil/hctz), Diovan HCT (valsartan/hctz), Hyzaar (losartan/hctz), Micardis HCT (telmisartan/hctz), Teveten HCT (eprosartan/hctz)
11. Beta Blockers (previous review date April 30, 2008)
Drugs Affected: acebutolol, atenolol, betaxolol, bisoprolol fumarate, Bystolic (nebivolol), carvedilol, Coreg (carvedilol), Coreg CR (carvedilol CR), Corgard (nadolol), Inderal (propranolol), Inderal LA (propranolol LA), Innopran XL (propranolol XL), Kerlone (betaxolol), labetalol, Levatol (penbutolol), Lopressor (metoprolol tartrate), metoprolol succinate XL, metoprolol tartrate, nadolol, pindolol, propranolol, propranolol SA, Sectral (acebutolol), Tenormin (atenolol), timolol maleate, Toprol XL (metoprolol succinate XL), Trandate (labetalol), Zebeta (bisoprolol fumarate)
12. Beta Blocker/Diuretic Combinations (previous review date April 30, 2008)
Drugs Affected: atenolol/chlorthalidone, bisoprolol fumarate/HCTZ, Corzide (nadolol/bendroflumethiazide), Inderide (propranolol/HCTZ), Lopressor HCT (metoprolol tartrate/HCTZ), metoprolol tartrate/HCTZ, nadolol/bendroflumethiazide, propranolol/HCTZ, Tenoretic (atenolol/chlorthalidone), Ziac (bisoprolol fumarate/HCTZ)
13. Bisphosphonates - Oral (previous review date June 12, 2008)
Drugs Affected: Actonel (risedronate), Actonel with Calcium (risedronate with calcium carbonate), alendronate, Boniva (ibandronate), Fosamax (alendronate), Fosamax Plus D (alendronate plus cholecalciferol)
14. Anticoagulants - Injectable (previous review date June 12, 2008)
Drugs Affected: Arixtra (fondaparinux sodium), Fragmin (dalteparin sodium), Innohep (tinzaparin sodium), Lovenox (enoxaparin sodium)
15. HMG-CoA Reductase Inhibitors/Statins (previous review date April 30, 2008)
Drugs Affected: Advicor (lovastatin/niacin extended-release), Altoprev (lovastatin extended-release), Caduet (atorvastatin/amlodipine), Crestor (rosuvastatin), Lescol (fluvastatin), Lescol XL (fluvastatin XL), Lipitor (atorvastatin), lovastatin, Mevacor (lovastatin), Pravachol (pravastatin), pravastatin, Simcor (simvastatin/niacin extended-release), simvastatin, Vytorin (simvastatin/ezetimibe), Zocor (simvastatin)
16. Triglyceride Lowering Agents (previous review date April 30, 2008)
Drugs Affected: Antara (fenofibrate), fenofibrate, Fenoglide (fenofibrate), gemfibrozil, Lipofen (fenofibrate), Lofibra (fenofibrate), Lopid (gemfibrozil), Lovaza (Omega-3 acid ethyl esters), Tricor (fenofibrate), Triglide (fenofibrate), Trilipix (fenofibric acid delayed release)
17. Selective Alpha Adrenergic Blockers (previous review date June 12, 2008)
Drugs Affected: Flomax (tamsulosin), Rapaflo (silodosin), Uroxatral (alfuzosin)
18. Urinary Tract Antispasmodics (Previous review date June 12, 2008)
Drugs Affected: Detrol (tolterodine), Detrol LA (tolterodine LA), Ditropan (oxybutynin), Ditropan XL (oxybutynin XL), Enablex (darifenacin), oxybutynin, oxybutynin ER, Oxytrol (oxybutynin), Sanctura (trospium), Sanctura XR (trospium), Toviaz (fesoterodine fumarate), Vesicare (solifenacin)
19. Anti-Emetics (previous review date June 12, 2008)
Drugs Affected: Anzemet (dolasetron), granisetron, Granisol (granisetron), Kytril (granisetron), ondansetron, Sancuso (granisetron patch), Zofran (ondansetron)
20. Proton Pump Inhibitors (PPIs) (previous review date April 30, 2008)
Drugs Affected: Aciphex (rabeprazole), Kapidex (dexlansoprazole), Nexium (esomeprazole), omeprazole, omeprazole OTC, pantoprazole, Prevacid (lansoprazole), Prevacid NapraPAC (lansoprazole/naproxen), Prilosec (omeprazole), Prilosec OTC (omeprazole), Protonix (pantoprazole), Zegerid (omeprazole)
21. Corticosteroids - Inhaled (previous review date September 18, 2008)
Drugs Affected: Advair Diskus (fluticasone/salmeterol), Advair HFA (fluticasone/salmeterol), Aerobid/Aerobid-M (flunisolide), Alvesco (ciclesonide), Asmanex (mometasone), Azmacort (triamcinolone), Flovent Diskus (fluticasone), Flovent HFA (fluticasone), Pulmicort Flexhaler (budesonide), Qvar (beclomethasone), Symbicort (budesonide/formoterol)
Agenda Timeline (subject to change based on meeting proceedings):
|Agenda Topic
|8:15 - 8:30
|Welcome and Introductions
|8:30 - 10:00
|Public Comment Period
|10:00 - 10:15
|10:15 - 11:00
|CDRP review of palivizumab
|11:00 - 12:15
|Clinical re-review of ACE Inhibitors, ACE Inhibitor/Diuretic, Calcium Channel Blockers (CCBs), ACE Inhibitor/CCB, ARBs, ARB/Diuretic, Beta Blockers, Beta Blocker/Diuretic, Bisphosphonates, Calcitonins
|12:15 - 1:15
|Lunch Break/Executive Session (evaluation of trade secret supplemental rebate information)
|1:15 - 1:45
|Summary of final recommendations
|1:45 - 3:15
|Clinical re-review of ESAs, Progestins, Anticoagulants, CNS Stimulants, Statins, Triglyceride Lowering Agents, Selective Alpha Adrenergic Blockers, Urinary Tract Antispasmodics, Anti-Emetics, PPIs, Corticosteroids
|3:15 - 3:45
|Afternoon Break/Executive Session (evaluation of trade secret supplemental rebate information)
|3:45 - 4:15
|Summary of final recommendations
|4:15 - 4:30
|Final Comments and Adjournment
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In the midst of the ongoing leadership crisis in Tamil Nadu between AIADMK leaders O Panneerselvam and VK Sasikala, staking their claim on the chief ministerial chair, Tamil Nadu governor C Vidyasagar Rao, who also serves as Maharashtra governor, is unlikely to visit the state in the next couple of days, claim sources.
While the administration in Chennai awaits the Governor for Sasikala's inaugural ceremony, the state head is attending a convocation ceremony at Institute of Chemical Technology in Mumbai on Wednesday and hence is unlikely to reach Tamil Nadu by Thursday. Sources add that he is taking legal advice before the appointment of Sasikala as the next chief minister of Tamil Nadu.
Major political developments in the state have occurred in the state in the past few days. On Wednesday night Panneerselvam announced that he was forced to resign from the post of chief minister and that he would be willing to step up if people want him to. Earlier this week, on Sunday, Sasikala was voted unanimously as the leader of legislative assembly. Panneerselvam tendered his resignation from the chief minister's post on the same day which was later accepted by the Governor on Monday. While Rao accepted his resignation, he asked him to continue till further development, said sources.
But Tuesday night's events have raised legal concerns for the Governor. The outgoing chief minister visited late J Jayalalithaa's memorial and sat for an hour, after which he publicly revolted against AIADMK chief Sasikala.
The prospects of Sasikala's immediate swearing-in as chief minister is now in the hands of the Governor. On Monday, the Governor was in Coimbatore for a function but didn't visit Chennai, and instead flew to Delhi, say sources. Rao reached Mumbai on Tuesday night. Reports suggest that he was seeking legal advice before administering the oath of office to Sasikala.
More than two days have passed since Sasikala was elected leader of the AIADMK legislature party clearing the decks for her elevation as the chief minister, but she is still to receive a call from the Rajbhavan. The state machinery started making preparations for Sasikala's swearing-in at the centenary auditorium of University of Madras, but there is still no word from the Governor on the date and time of the ceremony.
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Date: Wednesday, May 25, 2016
Venue: KPMG Office, 23rd Floor, Hysan Place, 500 Hennessy Road, Causeway Bay
Communications expertise is vital for institutions such as the Hong Kong police force – and the force still has more to learn from the latest communications approaches, including social media outreach in particular. These are the conclusions of retired police officer and host of "Police Report" John Cameron, who met IABC members in Hong Kong in May to discuss his personal experience over nine years communicating for the Hong Kong Police, as well as recommendations drawn from his recently completed master's thesis.
Charlotte Judet: Fourth from right.
Communicating about Luxury and Sustainability: Find the Right Balance
Charlotte Judet, Vice President, Communication, Kering Asia Pacific
Time: 2:30 pm – 4:00 pm
Date: Wednesday, April 13, 2016
Venue:Langham Hospitality Group 2701, Great Eagle Centre, 23 Harbour Road Wanchai
On April 13, we had the pleasure to have Charlotte Judet, Vice President of Communication, Kering Asia Pacific to share with us the renowned fashion group's experience in finding the right balance for "Communicating luxury and sustainability".
Never stop learning: the key to future careers in business communications
I've heard that the communications profession is changing fast (or is it)? No, someone else told me that the fundamentals are still important (or are they)? Who knows? This is exactly why we need to keep the dialogue open about our profession – and it was the subject of a talk I gave on behalf of IABC Hong Kong chapter to The Hong Kong Polytechnic University School of Professional Education and Executive Development (SPEED) on March 2.
My key message for the talk, "Future Careers in Business Communications", was that we should never stop learning. It was clear that the 35 students who signed up for the talk have committed to continuing their education not only through professional development courses but also through enrichment activities such as external speakers arranged by the University.
I have observed over the past several years that several societal and technical changes are influencing our profession. These include the increase in non-governmental organizations and (social) activism; the search for "authenticity"; demands for greater transparency; ever-shorter attention spans; the speed of crisis propagation; fluctuating levels of trust in different institutions; and increasing political influence on commercial communication. Looking at Hong Kong alone, the changes in our population's media consumption habits show clearly why communicators need new skills. With 4.65 million mobile internet users, 96% of whom browse daily, knowledge of multiple platforms beyond "media" is a must.
Venue: KPMG Hong Kong
Address: 23rd Floor, Hysan Place, 500 Hennessy Road
Causeway Bay, Hong Kong
Date: February 29, 2016
Time: 2:00pm – 3:30pm
On the grid: Communications in an entirely online world
Christopher Daguimol, Regional PR Director, ZALORA
The immense opportunities of the online world continue to draw attention. Our first speaker event of the year - "On the grid" - attracted a full house of business communicators who came to hear how ZALORA operates in an entirely online world.
Launched in March 2012, ZALORA aims to redefine high-street fashion in its target market of 570 million people in South East Asia and Australia. To date, more than 3 million unique customers have purchased on ZALORA.
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Date: November 17, 2015
Time: noon – 2pm
Getting communicators a seat at the big data table
Ewan Ross, Area Director, Greater China, Meltwater
Is the communications department going to be left behind when it comes to making use of big data? In order to take advantage of the wealth of data now available, communicators need to address methodology and technology along with their traditional skills of storytelling and stakeholder engagement. Ewan Ross, with more than 7 years' experience across the UK, Greater China, India and Africa in using data analysis to support corporate communications, will take members and guests through the process of understanding and using big data to interact with and support senior leadership.
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'Totally destroyed': Sinead O'Connor reveals she has to go back to the hospital just hours after rambling video where she said it had been the 'most beautiful week of my f***ing life'
- Sinead O'Connor, 50, posted disturbing video from Travelodge room in New Jersey last week saying she was suicidal
- DailyMail.com disclosed the divorced mother of four was in hospital in New Jersey on Wednesday having left the motel room after the video was posted
- The singer was briefly released from the hospital as she appeared happier in a video posted in the early hours on Saturday
- Within just eight hours of the upbeat Facebook post, O'Connor made a second video Saturday saying she is 'totally destroyed' and heading back to the hospital
- She also calls herself a 'crazy b*tch' and adds 'It's so awful to be so crazy. A painful thing'
Sinead O'Connor's emotional anguish continues to be revealed in her painfilled Facebook videos.
In the space of just 24 hours the Irish singer has posted two very different looking clips, the first shows her extremely upbeat calling it the most 'beautiful week' of her life.
Within just eight hours of that, she posted a second video where she says she is so depressed, she's going back into the hospital.
As the DailyMail.com previously reported she was hospitalized earlier in the week after saying she was suicidal at a Travelodge in New Jersey on August 3.
Saturday's early post shows an upbeat Sinead O'Connor calling the troubling week 'The most beautiful week' of her life
In less than eight hours, O'Connor emotionally crashes as she says she is heading back to the hospital calling herself a 'crazy b*tch' and that its a 'painful thing'
O'Connor, whose eyes are welling with tears in her latest post on Saturday heartbreakingly calls herself a 'crazy b*tch' before concluding 'Its so awful to be so crazy. A painful thing.'
Her face is puffy from crying. The singer says 'Ok I'm totally destroyed now again, I'm going to have to go back to the hospital, nightmare. This is unbearable, unbearable, its absof***inglutley unbearable without my children, my loved ones.'
O'Connor's new posts are the latest in a continuation of a publicly anguished filled two weeks that saw her first start the worrisome videos on August 3, when she told fans she was at a Travelodge in New Jersey and suicidal.
Irish singer Sinead O'Connor revealed she was by herself at a Travelodge motel in New Jersey. She is now in hospital as she receives help for mental health issues
Her latest attack, aimed at her former manager Bruce Garfield
O'Connor, 50, has been very open about her ongoing battles with depression over the years.
While her first post of Saturday was much more upbeat than the second, where she admits she is heading back to the hospital, it was also rambling.
She starts by saying this past week has been been the 'most beautiful week of my f***ng life.'
'I am now living in a Travelodge motel in the a**e end of New Jersey. I'm all by myself.
'And there's absolutely nobody in my life except my doctor, my psychiatrist - the sweetest man on earth, who says I'm his hero - and that's about the only f***ing thing keeping me alive at the moment... and that's kind of pathetic.
'I want everyone to know what it's like, that's why I'm making this video.
'Mental illness, it's like drugs, it doesn't give a s*** who you are, and equally what's worse, it's the stigma, it doesn't give a s*** who you are.
'Suddenly all the people who are supposed to be loving you and taking care of you are treating you like s***. It's like a witch hunt.
'If it was just for me I'd be gone. Straight away back to my mum... because I've walked this earth alone for two years now as punishment for being mentally f***ing ill and getting angry that no one would f***ing take care of me.
'I'm a 5ft 4in little f***ing woman wandering the world for two years by myself.'
She then touches on everything from praising the family that runs the Travelodge, to how she had a kidney stone, to slamming President Donald Trump.
She also spoke about emotional issues she believes other musicians deal with. She references Justin Bieber as well and says: 'Let Justin be Justin, love you when you get in trouble. They didn't let you be a kid, f**k 'em.'
This past Thursday, the singer posted again on Facebook, this time in a lengthy status update, berating former manager Bruce Garfield.
In that update O'Connor also revealed she had remained in the hospital after saying she was suicidal on August 3.
She seems to have been released from he hospital only briefly as she said in her second post on Saturday she could not be home alone for even 24-hours before going back.
'Can't manage to live at home, not for 24 hours, nothing.'
In the Thursday post, O'Connor slams Garfield, accusing him of identity theft, adding he did not alert her family when she went missing 'two weeks ago having taken an overdose.'
Garfield responded to the outburst a short time later.
He wrote on his own Facebook Thursday night: 'Thanks friends, fans, and media for your concerns, but I will not be responding to any questions or requests to speak to Sinead O'Connor.'
O'Connor told her Facebook followers she was suicidal at a motel in a lengthy video posted on August 3, and she was struggling to stay alive day by day.
The clip led to fans rushing to the motel, in Hackensack, New Jersey, offering to help.
After she was taken to the hospital a friend used the singer's Facebook page to say she was 'surrounded by love and receiving the best of care'.
The singer's troubles have been further fueled by a messy and bitter legal dispute in Ireland with her manager, a former lover who she is now involved in litigation with.
Safe: O'Connor is no longer at the New Jersey motel where she had posted the video from and is in hospital elsewhere in the state. Police had checked on her welfare at the Travelodge
Waiting: O'Connor's car remains in the car park of the motel
O'Connor had spent time in a suburb of Chicago last year being cared for by friends, and has also spent time seeking help for her mental health issues at a facility in California.
Mental health advocates have said they hope that the video has a positive impact on others with mental health problems.
O'Connor posted the clip on Facebook on August 3 revealing she was all by herself at the $70-a-night Travelodge motel at the 'a*** end of New Jersey' and fighting to stay alive every day.
Friends rallied round Sinead O'Connor today as one posted on Facebook on her behalf
Fachtna O'Ceallaigh (left), 70, who met O'Connor in the Eighties when she was 17 and steered her to stardom in a partnership that lasted until 2012. Right, the singer performing in 1990
As the clip went viral fans rushed to the motel, where O'Connor had left her car, but she had already gone. Local police said they had checked on her welfare.
And later that day, a post on her Facebook page said: 'Hi everybody, I am posting at Sinead's request, to let everyone who loves her know she is safe, and she is not suicidal.
'She is surrounded by love and receiving the best of care. She asked for this to be posted knowing you are concerned for her. I won't respond to any questions, so please understand. I hope this comforts those of you were concerned.'
Her breakdown comes against the backdrop of a legal battle where she is being sued by a former lover - and long-term manager - for alleged defamation and breach of contract.
Help: Sinead O'Connor's last known public performance was in January 2016 in Chicago, where she led a tribute to David Bowie. Her friend Matt Walker was drumming and she was staying with him and his wife Charlotte in the Chicago suburbs
The action is being taken in Ireland by Fachtna O'Ceallaigh, 70, who met O'Connor in the Eighties when she was 17 and steered her to stardom in a partnership that lasted until 2012.
He claims O'Connor terminated their business relationship without warning and defamed him in a letter published on her website and a fan's website. He is seeking damages of around ¤500,000 (£452,000).
O'Connor denies the claims but, according to her lawyer, who appeared at a pre-trial hearing at Dublin High Court ten days ago, ill health has delayed her ability to defend herself.
Lennox took to Facebook on Tuesday to address what she described as O'Connor's 'truly distressing call for help'.
Speaking about their romantic relationship in previous interviews, she described them both as 'driven people': 'You can see that from what we achieved together,' she said.
The couple broke up at the time of the release of Nothing Compares 2 U and the stunning close-ups of her crying in the video were attributed to her misery over the split.
In the past, O'Ceallaigh, who also managed U2 and Bob Geldof's Boomtown Rats, has always been sympathetic to his muse.
Illinois home: O'Connor was staying in the family home of Matt and Charlotte Walker near Chicago when she decided to go for a bike ride in May 2016, and was declared missing amid concerns for her safety.
Echo of Jersey: The singer was found six miles from Wilmette in a run-down $84-a-night Best Western Hotel in the Chicago suburb of Morton Grove
'The same thing that makes her great, that generates joy and fulfilment in her work, has also caused great pain and difficulty for her,' he said.
'It is incredibly painful to see her living her life the way she lives it sometimes.'
But the pair's business split — which came, according to sources, via a 'very colorful email from Sinead' while on tour in Germany trying to reboot her career - changed things.
Since then O'Connor has largely stayed away from Ireland, where her four children - Jake, 29, Roison, 21, Sahne, 13, and Yeshua, 10, live.
At the start of 2016 the singer moved to Wilmette, Illinois, at the start of the year and moved into the large suburban home of her friend, drummer Matt Walker.
He lives there with his wife Charlotte and their children.
O'Connor and Walker performed together in Chicago in January 2016 in a tribute to the death of David Bowie. It is the last known time O'Connor sang on stage.
Last May, in an echo of her current predicament, O'Connor sparked concerns for her welfare when she went for a bike ride from the Walkers' home, and did not return, prompting a major police search.
About two hours after she left on the ride, a rambling message was posted on her official Facebook page that referred to emotional trauma she had been through over the years, prompting fears she had disappeared to take her own life.
She was found a day later in a hotel a few miles away. Since then, DailyMail.com has learned, she has been at a facility in California and received help from a therapist who she praised in the video. DailyMail.com is not naming the therapist, or the facility.
Charlotte Walker declined to comment this week.
The outpouring of support this week for O'Connor is likely to be welcomed by those closest to her.
'I go to bed every night worried about you,' one person wrote. 'I wake up and tentatively log onto Facebook because of my worry for you.'
Another wrote: 'To Sinead's kids get over and help your mother, she is crying out for you all, forget what has happened and forgive, keep forgiving her until you get over there and give her a hug.'
Keith Kaulfers, a guest staying at the Travelodge motel, said he thought O'Connor 'would stay at a much nicer place — a hotel, five stars, things like that'.
And Hamilton Richard, who is visiting the US from England, told NorthJersey.com that he was '100 per cent' surprised to hear about O'Connor being at the hotel.
'I'd be very confused not just surprised that she's here,' Richard said, adding that the area of New Jersey was 'very different, but not an a**e'.
O'Connor has spoken previously about how she was diagnosed with bipolar disorder more than a decade ago and has struggled with depression and post traumatic stress for years.
She told Oprah Winfrey in 2007 that before her bipolar diagnosis she had struggled with thoughts of suicide and overwhelming fear.
She said at the time that medication had helped her find more balance, but 'it's a work in progress.'
O'Connor said in later interviews that she was misdiagnosed with bipolar disorder in 2011.
O'Connor, who is a mother to four children from different relationships, took to Facebook in 2015 to say she had taken an overdose at a hotel somewhere in Ireland.
Irish police later said she had been found safe. The next month, she posted on Facebook that she had been detained in a hospital for mental health evaluation.
Comedian Arsenio Hall dropped a $5million lawsuit against O'Connor earlier this year after she apologised and retracted comments she made on Facebook that he had supplied drugs to Prince.
If any readers are seeking help, please contact the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline on 1-800-273-8255 or visit suicidepreventionlifeline.org.
O'Connor (pictured in 2012) was diagnosed with bipolar disorder more than a decade ago but later said she was misdiagnosed
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Photographer Shelly Kay took some pics of a film set called "Ringside"... and it appears Daredevil season 2 has started filming!
CBR has a few pics from Kay here:
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#charliecox talking w/ Director. #daredevilseason2 filming. @olv @Daredevil Copyright: #shellykayphotography pic.twitter.com/qP2ZaZgEUk— Shelly Kay (@ShellyKaynyc) July 6, 2015
Getting new marking positions. @Daredevil @olv #DDseason2 Copyright: #shellykayphotography #CharlieCox #eldenhenson pic.twitter.com/uYvSaxeO03— Shelly Kay (@ShellyKaynyc) July 6, 2015
Oh my Cox. #daredevilseason2 filming today. Copyright: #shellykayphotography #CharlieCox #eldenhenson @Daredevil pic.twitter.com/VhgA12L9ZZ— Shelly Kay (@ShellyKaynyc) July 6, 2015
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While U.S. labor and employment laws have helped ensure for the fair and equitable treatment of millions of U.S. workers, a significant number of U.S. employers continue to engage in activities that violate these laws. From a manager who makes disparaging comments about an employee's religion to a worker who is fired for taking time off to care for an ailing loved one, employers who fail to uphold and violate employment laws can and should be held accountable.
Deaf woman files ADA lawsuit against Starbucks
In an August blog post, we commemorated the 25th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act. Since it was signed into law, the ADA has helped protect and preserve the rights of millions of disabled workers to fair and equal treatment in the workplace. While the ADA lays out actions that violate its terms and provides clear directives on how employers can remain compliant, unfortunately some employers continue to discriminate against disabled workers.
How the gig economy is creating confusion for employers and workers alike
There's a saying related to the fact that the only thing you can count on is that things will always change. For U.S. workers, gone are the days when an individual was hired right out of high school or college and pledged allegiance to and rose through the ranks of one company throughout his or her working years. Today, not only are people likely to have several jobs during their lifetime, but the jobs they hold may have various employment classifications.
Why speaking up is the only way to stop sexual harassment at work
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When life gives you scraps... Make something out of them!
Monday, August 26, 2013
Beach Time
Happy Monday!
Really pulling out the Older pictures here! Well ....13 years ago pictures. Here are pics of my family at Bethany Beach in 2000. This months
Birds of a Feather kit
was perfect for these!
This is also the "Simple Stories" I love summer kit that I have been using for several posts in the last week. Love the Cardstock Stickers!!
Thanks for stopping by!
Happy Scrappin and Stampin
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