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I Am Woman, Roaring
With apologies to Katy Perry and Helen Reddy.
If you have visited here occasionally, you know that Frippery Farmhouse has experienced a down turn in recent years. I posted about that way back here, and here.
We have bucked up, born the load, yada yada.
Four years, even laughing about it, like here.
How long do we have to make lemonade ???
I am becoming sour.
This year has been the one that pushed me over the edge...
breast cancer, the last of our retirement savings, crushing medical bills...never cried once this year.
Nothing can break through this shell.
But fate said, not enough, and on the day before our 28th anniversary I lost the setting out of my engagement ring, diamonds and all.
Not at home, somewhere else, no clue...
Big ugly crying face...over and over.
I know, its a thing right?
But it was the last thing I felt I had from our old, less scary life.
OK...enough...no more.
I told whatever cosmic wheel that has been trying to crush us to back off.
"Don't make me turn around and take my earrings off."
Karma should be trembling right about now.
No matter what we lose in life, there is always something left.
I have the ring of my husbands love around me.
The man who has honored and cherished me and treated me like a queen these many years.
We don't need no stinking diamonds.
I will, however, continue to roar.
So watch out if you sneak up behind me and tap me on the shoulder.
In between rages, I will count my blessings,
but not too loudly,
Wouldn't want to tempt fate.
Remember, even if things seem to be at their lowest, find something to rejoice in.
Just don't draw too much attention to yourself because the cosmos is fickle.
One more apology.
This one to Gloria Gaynor...
I will survive.
Back to happiness, fun and frivolity here...promise.
Thanks, my friends, for listening, P.


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It's a Tokyo Thing
By Blaine Harden
Washington Post Foreign Service
Friday, December 21, 2007; Page A21
TOKYO -- As a megacity, Tokyo has no rival. It has more buying power than Brazil, more people than Canada, more concrete than can be imagined.
With about 35 million people, greater Tokyo is by far the world's most populous metro area, with nearly twice the people of greater New York. There are 80,000 restaurants here -- six times as many as in New York.
Although it is the political, economic and cultural center of Japan, Tokyo itself has no real center. It's a jumble of densely populated districts that are themselves big cities, hubs for the frenetic inbound rush and exhausted homeward retreat of millions upon millions of subway and train commuters. The cyclical crush of humanity approaches chaos but never quite gets there -- the Japanese being sticklers for rules.
A unifying thread, if there is one, is movement. But transience across such a vast canvas reveals little. To sharpen the focus, consider a triptych of miniatures -- three small stop-frames that suggest the larger rhythms of life in the planet's preeminent urban space.
They commuted in on Sunday morning to soak up the big-city miracle of large numbers of strangers looking at them.
It was not such a long train ride, by Tokyo commuting standards. Two hours.
Yuka Yamai and Mai Kogahara, both 16, had gotten up shortly after dawn. Before the 8 a.m. train, they had spent an hour getting their outfits together: gluing on fingernails, wiggling into petticoats, pulling on black platform shoes.
When they got off the train in Tokyo's Harajuku district, they were no longer shy girls with braces from the distant suburbs.
They were Goth-Lolita girls -- part of a teenage tribe that on Sunday morning dips its collective toe in the bracing waters of urban voyeurism.
These girls wear jet-black bangs, cut straight at eyebrow level across their (sometimes pimply) foreheads. They work hard at looking bored as scrums of American tourists snap their photographs. They saunter down a narrow shopping street lined with stores that sell Goth-Lolita gear -- chains, lacy black see-through blouses, knee-high leather boots with four-inch heels.
Yuka wore a black and white ensemble, with an elaborately embroidered puffy blouse and a poodle-shaped purse. Mai wore a white and black version of pretty much the same thing. There was a blood-red plastic heart stuck in her hair.
They were grateful to their parents, they said, for giving them the money to purchase six complete outfits. Each one costs about $500, meaning they both had about $2,500 worth of Sunday-only get-ups back in their suburban closets.
"At the beginning, when we started wearing these clothes, our parents showed us unpleasant faces," Yuka said. "But they get used to it."
And why come to Harajuku to be gawked at by strangers?
"It is just to be seen wearing something that other people don't," said Yohno Yamaguchi, 14, another girl from the suburbs. "I like the sensation of people looking at me."
A bad-girl look, however, does not require bad behavior. On the train to Tokyo, the girls said, they are careful not to offend other commuters.
They board with their fake fingernails pre-painted and firmly glued on.
"We don't want the smell of nail polish to bother the passengers," said Yohno.
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The routine of the Tokyo salaryman is nothing if not tiring.
He jumps on a crowded train around dawn and often gets home about 10 p.m., after a business meal and a few drinks. (The dinner-booze ritual helps explain why Tokyo needs 80,000 restaurants.)
Akira Muraoka, a 51-year-old salesman, has been grinding it out for decades. And it makes him sleepy, especially after lunch.
So, like a legion of his middle-aged peers, he wanders at midday into department stores that devote a sizable amount of floor space to the display and demonstration of expensive electronic massage chairs.
"I sleep for 30 minutes to get rid of exhaustion and I am a happy man," said Muraoka, who takes off his shoes and suit jacket before sacking out in a chair that marries the comfort of a Barcalounger with the control panel of a fighter jet and sells for about $3,000.
His sleeping hall of choice is the second floor of Bic Camera, an electronics superstore. It offers about 15 chairs that knead the feet, undulate the spine, squeeze the calves and vibrate all over.
In some chairs, herky-jerky action beneath a prone salaryman gives the impression that his body is possessed by demons. Despite all the jostling, however, it is not uncommon to hear people snore.
Bic Camera, which is trying to sell the chairs, has a sleeping policy. A sign says, "Please limit your use to 15 minutes." But a clerk in the massage department said it would be impolite to actually wake anyone up.
Muraoka woke himself up. While tying his shoes, he said he would have preferred more time in the chair. "I wish I could sleep longer," he said. "But I have meetings."
Asked if he had ever considered buying a massage chair, he replied, "No."
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Beneath Shibuya Station, where 2.5 million commuters arrive and depart every day, an evening event captures the pleasures and punishment of workaday Tokyo.
It's the rush hour at Tokyu Food Show, a gourmet emporium where all the food is fresh and all the shoppers are wilted.
The food is really something: Creme caramel poured into real eggshells and topped with buttons of whipped cream. Steamed mountain potato skins stuffed with sweet red bean paste. A shrewd selection of the world's best cheeses, champagnes and chocolates.
According to the store's marketing experts, the people who buy this stuff are career women in their 30s and 40s, as well as single men. They have worked long days and are facing long train rides home. They are relatively well off. They don't want to cook.
About 20,000 to 30,000 of them invade Tokyu Food Show after work. Most it seems, come at the same time. They line up and wait their turns -- and they begin to look sweaty, defeated and sad.
"I was craving tiramisu, but they have run out," said Yuriko Masuda, 41, a single masseuse leaving work with what she said was the flu coming on and facing 40 minutes on the train.
Whatever they buy, they usually don't eat it until they get home. There are rules about eating on the train.
Special correspondent Akiko Yamamoto contributed to this report.
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Final Fantasy XIV update 2.2 gets a trailer
Square Enix has released a trailer for update 2.2 of Final Fantasy XIV – Through the Maelstrom. The new update, which will be released on March 27th, includes a new main story, dungeons and much more.
Square Enix has released a trailer for update 2.2 of Final Fantasy XIV – Through the Maelstrom. The new update, which will be released on March 27th, includes a new main story, dungeons and much more.
Square Enix have released a host of new screenshots showing off some of the key characters for patch 2.2 of Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn – Through the Maelstrom. This new content patch will be released later this month.
With the release of FFXIV patch 2.1 Square Enix are offering former players a chance to check out the patch this weekend for free.
Today, free to play MMORPG publisher, Perfect World Entertainment has revealed that they plan to release current and future titles on current and next-gen consoles.
Some good news for fans of the mmorpg Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn, as patch 2.1 was released today. This new update brings a wealth of new content including player housing, 24 player dungeons and more.
Regenesis, the latest expansion for Perfect World Entertainment's martial arts and mysticism free to play MMORPG, Jade Dynasty has received a CG trailer. The new trailer focuses on the two new playable races: Psychea and Kytos.
SG Gaming Info takes a look at Square Enix MMORPG Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn and sees how it compared to the original Final Fantasy XIV from 2010.
After nearly a week after FFXIV: ARR's launch, FINAL the game's Producer and Director, Naoki Yoshida has apologized for the numerous login issues that have plagued the game.
Perfect World Entertainment's new free to play MMORPG Neverwinter is having a 3 weeks long event called 'Summer Festival'. In this event players take part in various events which include herding animals and killing trolls.
Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn, Square Enix's new MMORPG, is now out and with all new releases the game has a launch trailer. Personally I think the trailer makes the game look more like a singleplayer game rather than an MMO.
Early access for Square Enix's relaunched MMO, Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn has begun today. Everyone who pre-ordered the MMO will be able to take part in Early Access.
Square Enix has today announced that the final beta test for Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn will run from August 17 to August 19. It has also being announced that early access for those who pre-ordered the MMO will begin on August 24th.
At last week's SOE Live, Sony Online Entertainment and Infernum Productions announced that the upcoming free to play dragon focused MMORPG Dragon's Prophet will be released on PC in North America and Europe on September 18.
Yesterday, Sony Online Entertainment proudly unveiled EverQuest Next (EQN), an MMO they claim will offer a new vision for the future of online games. Let's have a look at what EQN has to offer.
The free to play MMORPG Fiesta Online has turned five this week and to celebrate, the developers are adding a new hero class called the Crusader, along with various events to celebrate the milestone.


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Spring is here! So be ready for all the bright fun colored tutorials coming your way. This look is so fun and flirty and I can't get enough of it! The only trouble I have with wearing peach toned makeup is finding something to wear with it. I had to buy a burgundy shirt because I think if i paired the look with black I would've ended up looking crazy. Besides, it's nice to branch out of your comfort zone some times.
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Radioactivity released during the Three Mile Island (TMI) accident in 1979 does not appear to have caused an increase in cancer mortality among people living within a five-mile radius of the nuclear accident, according to researchers at the University of Pittsburgh''s Graduate School of Public Health.
While several follow-up studies on the TMI population have been conducted in the past, this one is the most extensive due to its longer, 13-year time-frame and the use of information about residents'' lifestyles and everyday radiation exposure beyond what was caused by the TMI incident.
"This study helps put to rest the lingering question of whether the residents of Three Mile Island are experiencing an increase in cancer deaths as a result of the nuclear accident," said Dr. Evelyn Talbott, associate professor and principal investigator on the study.
The TMI incident occurred at a nuclear power plant near Harrisburg, Pa., on March 29, 1979, when a reactor leaked small amounts of radioactive gases.
It is often referred to as the worst nuclear accident in American history.
Scientists have calculated that the average person present in the area during the 10 days after the incident was exposed to considerably less radiation than the annual dose an individual receives from the everyday environment in the United States.
The University of Pittsburgh study covered the years 1979 to 1992.
Researchers collected information on education, occupational, smoking status, residential history, medical history, previous radiation exposure and daily travel in and out of the area during the 10 days following the accident from 32,135 individuals.
The researchers found no consistent evidence suggesting that the low-dose radiation released during the TMI accident had a measurable impact on the mortality of those living in the are for 13 years after the event.
For example, elevations in mortality from cancers of the bronchus, trachea and lung were observed in women, as well as an increase in lymphatic cancers in men, even after controlling for background radiation exposure, education and smoking. However, neither showed a significant does-response trend.
Likewise, investigators noted an increasing pattern of relative risk for breast cancer in relation to increasing levels of likely exposure to gamma radiation, suggesting a possible link between dose of radiation and increased risk.
However, they concluded that overall there was no significant relationship between likely exposure to gamma radiation and breast cancer mortality.
"A relationship between gamma radiation and breast cancer has been noted in other investigations, but emissions from the TMI incident were significantly lower than in other documented studies," said Talbott. "Therefore, it is unlikely that this observed dose trend is related to radiation exposure on the day of the accident."
Although the researchers found no significant evidence showing an increase in cancer death from the TMI accident, they acknowledged that further study is warranted.
"Because the latency period for many cancers is 20 years or more, continued follow-up on the TMI residents will provide a more comprehensive look at their mortality, as well as morbidity, from various cancers," said Talbott.
The University of Pittsburgh research team is currently analyzing data collected through 1999 on the same population.
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St. Louis, Mo., March 25, 2016 – The No. 9-ranked Washington University in St. Louis women's tennis team swept doubles for the fourth time this season en route to a 9-0 victory over Rhodes College Friday evening at WashU's Tao Tennis Center.
After the doubles sweep game WashU a 3-0 lead, senior Jamie Silverberg (No. 2) and freshman Lisa Chionis (No. 5) both won their singles matches in straight sets to clinch the match for the Bears.
Match-by-Match Results:
1. Grace Deering/Jamie Silverberg (WASHU) def. Caroline Doherty/Anna Volkov (RHO) 8-0
2. Rebecca Ho/Mindy Borovsky (WASHU) def. Morgan Wilkins/Sara Lynn Abbott (RHO) 8-2
3. Aly Coran/Kaylan Griffith (WASHU) def. Jessie Amaro/Annie Thomas (RHO) 8-1
1. #37 Rebecca Ho (WASHU) def. Caroline Doherty (RHO) 6-2, 6-1
2. Jamie Silverberg (WASHU) def. Anna Volkov (RHO) 6-1, 6-0
3. Aly Coran (WASHU) def. Morgan Wilkins (RHO) 6-4, 6-2
4. Kate Lee (WASHU) def. Sara Lynn Abbott (RHO) 6-4, 7-6 (7-5)
5. Lisa Chionis (WASHU) def. Jessie Amaro (RHO) 6-1, 6-1
6. Brigitte Hodge (WASHU) def. Annie Thomas (RHO) 6-1, 6-0
• The Bears are 2-0 at home this season.
• It was WashU's first 9-0 victory of the season.
• Silverberg's two wins increased her career total to 127, passing Wendy Lehmann (1994-98) for fifth on WashU's all-time leaderboard.
• Senior Aly Coran moved into a tie for eighth with Lauren Zwick (2002-06) on the Bears' all-time wins list with 122.
• Junior Rebecca Ho reached 111 career victories, tying Kat Copiozo (1998-2002) for 16th on the all-time wins leaderboard.
• Sophomore Grace Deering earned her 65th career win with the victory at No. 1 doubles.
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WashU improved to 7-5 with the win, while Rhodes dropped to 6-7 on the season. The Bears return to action by hosting NCAA Division II Bellarmine University Saturday, March 26. Match time is set for 11 a.m. at the Dwight Davis Tennis Center in Forest Park.


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Smartphones have become so much more than just a device for taking and making calls, sending and receiving texts, and interacting with apps and the web. You can now use smartphones to control things like this cool little BB-8 Droid from Star Wars and Sphero, a must have for the Star Wars fan in the family. With the use of paired smartphone or tablet application you can control the little BB-8 Droid and make it move anywhere you want it to go. It also listens to you and responds to commands, and you can use the app to record messages and video and have them play "holographically" from the BB-8 Droid just like it would in Star Wars.
Although you will still be controlling the BB-8, the more you use it the more it begins to develop a specially unique personality causing its actions and attitude to evolve. It also features autonomous behavior, so once in a while it will end up doing random things, making it feel more like a real Droid to offer up a little bit more of an immersive experience. It's also eventually going to be possible to control the Sphero BB-8 Droid with force gestures once Sphero releases the force band they unveiled back during CES. Normally, the Sphero BB-8 Droid goes for $149.99, but you can currently pick it up on sale for just $129.99.


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A good laugh is sunshine in the house. William Makepeace Thackeray
Anyone's life truly lived consists of work, sunshine, exercise, soap, plenty of fresh air, and a happy contented spirit. Actress Lily Langtry
Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.
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Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine for the soul. Luther Burbank
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Learning GenderFebruary 16, 2010
By Sarah Michele Ford
Interacting with young children can be a great window into the ways in which we are socialized into all sorts of things, but most especially gender. This weekend my husband came downstairs wearing a hoop earring instead of his usual stud. As soon as our five-year-old daughter noticed this, she protested.
Kid: DADDY! You can't wear that earring!
Husband: Why can't I wear it?
Kid: It's a GIRL EARRING!
Me: What makes it a girl earring?
Kid: It just IS! Daddy, go change it!
We probed further to try to get her to explain why dangly earrings are for girls and stud earrings are for boys and the best we could get out of her was that girls wear big earrings and boys wear small earrings. Despite us providing her with lots of counter-examples, she stood firm in her belief that certain types of jewelry are gender-marked.
How did she come to make a connection between hoop earrings and gender? What subtle forces are at work here?
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Playa del Carmen, Mexico
Casa Caracol
Casa Caracol
This New Playa del Carmen Luxury two-story home is conveniently located in the private gated community of Playacar Phase I. Just 50 steps from the beach and only a 5 minute short walk to town and the famous shopping and restaurants of 5th Avenue or the Ferry to Cozumel.
The acommodations in the house are 'turn key" (you just need to show up); daily maid service (except Sunday) maid to do dishes, maid to wash your clothes, house manager to run errands. Lots of beach chairs and beach towels. An outdoor shower, for when you return from the beach.
Casa Caracol has a large private swimming pool great for moonlight dips. The 2nd level deck overlooking the Caribbean Sea is great for sunset margaritas. The 4 bedrooms are large and comfortable, each with en-suite bathroom. An extra trundle bed is available in one bedroom and a high chair and Pack n Play are also available.
You'll have the comforts of home with the Caribbean just steps away. Go to sleep at night with the sound of the ocean or enjoy the air conditioning with separate room controls. Enjoy moonlight dips in your private pool and the views and night lights of the Island of Cozumel from the decks. Large gourmet kitchen with travertine counter tops.
For a $25USD fee, plus cost of the groceries, the owners will arrange for your food list to be stocked in the refrigerator upon your arrival.
A $100USD combined tip for the week is requested for the maid and house manager. Maid service included Mon-Sat. For you convenience, the owners can recommend a private chef service or door to door limo service from the Cancun airport and all day excursions.
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Single Family Home with 2 levels
4 bedrooms, 4 baths, 2900 square feet
King, King, King, and King
8 guests maximum
Nearest airport
Cancun (or optional Cozumel)
45 minutes by car from Cancun (45 minutes by ferry from Cozumel)
Property View
-Views of the Caribbean Sea from the 2nd floor master suite windows and master suite terrace. -Views of a mayan ruins from the family room. -Views of the Caribbean Sea from the pool.
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For a $25USD fee, plus cost of the groceries, the owners will arrange for your food list to be stocked in the refrigerator upon your arrival.
A $100USD combined tip for the week is requested for the maid and house manager. Maid service included Mon-Sat. For you convenience, the owners can recommend a private chef service or door to door limo service from the Cancun airport and all day excursions.
Activities of Interest
- Arts
- Fish
- Golf
- Hike
- Shopping
- Watersports
- Zip line
- Horseback riding
- Cenote exploring
- Cycling
- Snorkeling at Yal-Ku Lagoon
- Sailing
- Paragliding or sky diving
- Wind Surfing
- Beach walking
- Tennis
- Scuba diving or snorkeling
Places of Interest
- Tulum or Chichen Itza Ruins
- Isla Cozumel
- Xcaret or Xel-Ha aquatic theme parks
- Snorkel with the sea turtles at Akumal Bay
Peaceful Playacar Retreat
From the moment we began interacting with the owner to our departure, we had a wonderful experience with and at Casa Caracol. Although we have stayed in Playa del Carmen before, this was our first stay in Playacar. We loved it, and it was perfect for our family with young children. The location was ideal, as it was just a few steps from the beach (around 70 for the adults), a short walk into Playa del Carmen, and even across the street from some Mayan Ruins. Of course location isn't everything, and we enjoyed the well-decorated and very clean house, as well. We also had Constantina make us a meal one night, and it was amazing! Bob and Nancy were wonderful to work wth, and we hope to be back again someday. Thank you! "
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House was perfect, 50 yards from beach and very short walk to 5th Ave. owners where very responsive to all questions and needs before, during, and after our trip. We will go back if we have the opportunity."
Property Amenities
- Air Conditioning
- Chef's Kitchen
- Concierge Service
- Crib
- DVD Player
- Gated Community
- Handicap Accessible
- High Speed Internet
- Laundry Service
- Multiple TVs
- Outdoor Grill
- Outdoor Pool
- Satellite/Cable TV
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I was reading this sentence by grand master Choa Kok Sui, that everyone has the ability to heal. This sentence resonates with me because I truly believe sometimes people don't know what great healers they are. Even by their smile they heal some part of you. It's up to us if we want to accept it or not. In this world universe will give you signs put people to help you with your great purposes in life. How many times have you been out of the line and back in the line. Even now for me sometimes I can't help it but feel helpless, but I try to be with my helplessness because I know This will pass too.
So now that we are in this world, why not be the healers. Listen to someones story, hold someones hand. Smile, Smile, Smile to a strangers face as you pass them. Send blessings to every human, tree, crow, whatever you see.
As I was writing this the crows in our backyard started making sounds all together so I went to see what is going on and Just be with them.
Since they called me, I am gonna talk about these crows a little bit. These crows are incredibly smart. They communicate amazingly and they know me in any part of the city. I usually whistle and they respond.
Back to our topic of being a healer, 🙂 So why not, we all decide to be healers. Lets start with ourselves. First acknowledge what needs to be healed. Give yourself a big big Gigantic hug. We need big hugs from ourselves.
So now I am gonna sit with myself comfortably and have a chat. Anyone else is welcome to come, sit and heal.
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An aunt of Aylan Kurdi, the three year old Syrian who drowned while trying to reach Europe, has revealed how he shouted "Daddy, please don't die" as his last words.
Fatima Kurdi, who lives in Canada, said the toddler's dying cries were a plea to his father Abdullah to save him as the pair struggled together in the Aegean sea. Aylan's brother Galip, 5, and mother Rehan also perished, leaving Mr Kurdi as the sole survivor.
A Turkish police officer carries the body of Aylan Kurdi in Bodrum (Nilufer Demir/AFP/Getty Images)
Ms Kurdi, who is Mr Kurdi's sister, spoke to reporters in an interview in which she also voiced guilt for sending the family money to pay for the people-smugglers who put them in a flimsy boat across the sea from Turkey.
Rehan Kurdi with son Aylan (EPA)
Pictures of Aylan's lifeless body washed up on the shore at the Turkish resort of Bodrum made world headlines on Wednesday, and have proved a turning point in the debate over whether to allow Syrian asylum seekers into Europe.
Ms Kurdi, who has since spoken on the phone to Mr Kurdi, told The Times that he had revealed to her how he had frantically tried to save his sons' lives while also trying not to drown himself.
Abdullah Kurdi mourns with a relative during the funeral of his family (AFP/Getty Images)
"When the boat flipped upside down and the waves kept pushing down, those two boys were in his arms," she said through sobs. "He tried with all his power to push them up above the water to breathe and they screamed: 'Daddy, please don't die'."
Soon, she said, Mr Abdullah realised that Galip had already died, so he let him go. "He tried to save the second one, Alan (the Anglicised nickname given to Aylan). He looked at him and there was blood coming from his eyes. So he closed his eyes and he let him go. He looked around for his wife. She was floating in the water. He said: 'I tried with all my power to save them. I couldn't."
Galip (right), and Aylan Kurdi with their father Abdullah
Ms Kurdi, a hairdresser by profession, is understood to live in Toronto, and was in touch with her brother and his family when they first tried to migrate to Canada earlier this year. They claim they were refused asylum, despite telling officials that their home town of Kobane in Kurdish northern Syria was under assault by Isil fanatics.
She added that she had spoken to her two nephews on the phone just a fortnight ago, and that the elder one, Galip, was hoping to be bought a new bicycle when he reached Europe. She said she now regretted sending the family the money that facilitated the journey that ended in tragedy, but that Mr Abdullah had told her: "Don't blame yourself. You did it to help us.
Hungary in crisis
Meanwhile on Saturday, around 4,000 refugees who had been stranded in Hungary were allowed to cross into Austria and Germany this morning, ending a week-long stand-off in Europe's migrant crisis.
The refugees, mostly from Syria, Somalia and Afghanistan, streamed across the border in the pouring rain in the early hours of Saturday morning and were welcomed by cheering Austrians on the other side.
Many in the bedraggled column were visibly exhausted, many with small children, and only carrying only the few possessions they had managed to bring with them from Budapest's main railway station.
The total number of migrants entering Austria from Hungary in the current wave is expected to reach up to 10,000, the Austrian interior ministry said on Saturday.
The scenes, reported by Austrian state TV, unfolded after more than a 1,000 refugees took matters into their own hands on Friday and set off on foot, promising to march to Vienna.
Facing growing international condemnation for its treatment of the refugees, the Hungarian government capitulated late last night, sending a convoy of buses late last night to pick up the marchers and take them to the border.
Thousands of other refugees who had stayed behind at Budapest's Keleti railway station were then also picked up in buses in the small hours and driven from Budapest to the Austrian border.


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Saturday, December 6, 2014
I have now officially completed my first full work week here at Pole. (The schedule is six days on, one day off – most people work 8:30am to 5pm Monday through Saturday.) My typical weekday starts with a group meeting over breakfast, where we discuss the plan of work for the day. Two days a week we try to call into telecons with our collaborators in the US – which start at 6am local time (a challenge for me). This doesn't always work, as the satellite service is patchy at best. This week we were only able to join for about half of each call. After our breakfast meeting, I walk the half-mile out to the telescope, work until lunchtime, walk back to the main station for lunch, and then go back to the telescope until dinner. On windy days the walk isn't the most fun part of my day, but I'm glad to have an excuse to get outside and get some exercise. It can also be quite beautiful – we had several days of windy, overcast weather this week, which blew a lot of ice crystals into the air and produced some truly incredible sundogs.
Apart from having to get used to getting up early again, my week was actually pretty relaxed – mostly because we are still waiting for our new telescope parts. The first set of focal planes was tested at Harvard this week, which revealed that they needed a bit of rework. This means shipping them back to Caltech, which will cost us another few days. We are hoping that they will leave the US next Friday and arrive here within two weeks from today. We are also waiting for the rest of our work force to arrive. That is happening more immediately – Kirit (my fellow Harvard astronomy grad student) is in McMurdo and will hopefully fly in on Monday and Abby is only waiting on good enough weather to launch ANITA before she is able to come down as well. It will be exciting to have more people around. The BICEP3 group is growing too; four more people arrived this week, bringing our combined total to fifteen.
In the absence of the focal planes, my work this week has been a mix of typical Keck maintenance tasks and lab prep tasks. On the lab prep side, we have located everything we will need to disassemble and reassemble telescope receivers and have tested that all of the relevant hardware works. On the maintenance side, Grant has been teaching me everything one needs to know to keep Keck running smoothly. The most important collection of tasks happens once every two days, at the end of each observing cycle. Even though Antarctica is quite cold, our telescope needs to be much colder than the outside temperature here to get the best possible data. In fact, our focal planes operate at only a quarter of a degree above absolute zero. To keep them this cold, each receiver is connected to a special "helium sorption refrigerator" containing helium gas. (The other parts of the telescope receiver don't need to be quite this cold but still need to be far below room temperature, so we cool them using a secondary system called a pulse tube refrigerator. Each pulse tube also contains helium gas.) The helium sorption refrigerators need to be "cycled" every two days to stay cold. While the fridge cycle is going on we can't take data, so it is a perfect time for telescope maintenance. Maintenance tasks include replenishing the refrigerators' helium supply if necessary, cleaning the metal track along which the telescope mount rotates, fine-tuning the telescope pointing, and checking to make sure that there is no snow inside the receivers or the ground shield. Snow removal was a big task yesterday due to the bad weather mid-week – we swept and shoveled perhaps a cubic meter of snow out of the ground shield. The most spectacular sundogs of the week appeared to reward our efforts.
And with that, I'm off to enjoy a lazy evening and a free day tomorrow. The weather is clearing up again, so we are all hoping for no more delays of people or cargo. Fingers crossed!


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Wolverines are back at Crisler Center on Thursday, hosting Northwestern at 7 p.m. #goblue https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DVN__bEU8AAlQQ3.jpg
Final Score: Penn State 74, MSU 59.
The Spartans are home next against Maryland at 7 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 8. https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DVOPI0aX4AEeG4l.jpg
Post Game Recap: McCutcheon leads the Spartans with 18 points as MSU falls to Penn State, 74-59. https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DVOkxdYU8AApoLB.jpg
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MHCC helping the environment one rain garden at a time
Students coming to Mt. Hood Community College this fall might notice some changes in the main parking lots designed to make the campus healthier for salmon and the environment.
"MHCC's Salmon Safe project and its partners are making a big difference for Beaver Creek and the Sandy River with these retrofits," said Sandy River Watershed Council Executive Director Steve Wise. "A few small steps for the campus lead to a great leap forward for salmon, cleaning millions of gallons of water into the future."
The current project includes the construction of a large rain garden and bioswales to improve water quality.
The college at 26000 S.E. Stark St. is a key component to the well-being of the Sandy River and the area's entire watershed.
About one-and-a-half-miles of Beaver Creek and Kelly Creek run through the 212-acre Mt. Hood college campus and merge there to flow to the Sandy River. Almost one in 10 juvenile fish in the Sandy Basin use Beaver Creek.
Construction will be completed by Sept. 24, the first day of the fall term, with positive impacts lasting well into the future, said Kara Caselas, project manager for the Sandy River Watershed Council.
The plants in the rain garden and bioswales filter runoff from the parking lots, making the water safer for the environment and salmon. The council estimates this first phase of the Salmon Safe retrofit project will clean about 1.6 million gallons of water per year.
The project is estimated to cost $780,000, with this summer's work accounting for about half that cost.
Next summer another similar, second phase of the project will be completed, depending on fundraising success, Caselas said.
Contractors for the project are Britton Excavating and Grow Construction.
In May, more than 130 people volunteered at MHCC, ripping out pavement around big trees in the parking lots.
Volunteers will again help out, this time for a planting party from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 27. Native plants will be planted in the rain garden and bioswales.
This is part of the college's work to maintain its Salmon Safe certification. MHCC is the first certified Salmon Safe community college in the country.
To maintain certification, the college must stick to best practices in stormwater management, pest control, erosion and sedimentation control, water conservation and irrigation, stream and stream-bank habitat and wetlands management and design guidelines for future development.
The Salmon Safe Clean Water project is a collaborative effort between MHCC, the Sandy River Watershed Council and a range of regional partners including East Multnomah Soil and Water Conservation District, Metro regional government, the city of Gresham, Spirit Mountain Community Fund and the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality. Other supporters include Oregon Watershed Enhancement Board Resource Legacy Fund and the Environmental Protection Agency.
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To the Editor:
Re "What Women Get From Work," by Jill Filipovic (Sunday Review, April 30):
Yes, women are allowed to be ambitious and love their jobs, but it's inevitably a love-hate relationship until they find work that truly fits their lives.
The traditional rigid, more-than-full-time job doesn't accommodate the two big caregiving roles women shoulder: children and aging parents. Flexible work (part time, telecommuting, consulting, occasional freelance work, job sharing, entrepreneurial ventures and so on) blends with family life, rather than overpowering it.
Career does not have to be at the expense of motherhood, and ambition is not reserved for the few aiming for the executive suite. Indeed, ambition must be redefined: Today's most strategic, creative and ambitious women are also those who recognize that there are many paths to professional happiness when there is ample room to nurture and love not one but two jobs: caring for family and achieving financial security.
The writer, a career consultant for women, blogs at 9 Lives for Women.
To the Editor:
I read Jill Filipovic's wide-eyed Sunday Review essay with familiar frustration, because she ignores black women's longstanding participation in the work force.
Whether because of black men's low wages or women's need for independence — even their desire for independence — married black women of all economic classes have long worked outside the home. You would never know this from Ms. Filipovic's article.
Wives and mothers in the work force have made black families relatively egalitarian, but as nonblack women have become wage earners, Americans at large have not looked to that experience for guidance. It's as if we were not Americans, as if black people must stay on the far side of an intellectual color bar marked "race" that blocks us from relevance as Americans, even when our experience might inform society as a whole.
The writer is professor emerita of history at Princeton and the author of "The History of White People."
To the Editor:
Leading up to and during my Ivy League education and subsequent master's degree, I received the constant message that I would fulfill myself through a career in whatever profession I chose. And indeed that is the case: I chose to stay home and raise my children.
Jill Filipovic's argument that women will be truly independent and happy, and their children better off, only if they work for money runs counter to my understanding of my own work. Are cooking, cleaning, driving, counseling and teaching my children, volunteering at school and in the community, not useful work?
Just because it's not paid doesn't mean that it doesn't bring me great happiness, pride and satisfaction, nor does it decrease my contribution to society.
Whether this work is performed by women or men, mothers or fathers, unpaid work is work and should be valued equally.


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A federal court ruled past year that Secretary of State Jon Husted was following the law by throwing out ballots that had minor errors such as signing a name rather than printing it and leaving a digit out of a social security number.
At the heart of the legal challenge is whether the new Assembly boundaries that Republicans shaped create districts that are too partisan. Then they will have a response deadline of Friday, July 7.
The US Supreme Court [official website] on Monday reversed a decision [opinions, PDF] by the US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, finding that the circuit court did not have authority to review the trial court's decision where the trial court had not violated defendant's due process rights during the penalty phase of his criminal trial. "A rule against partisan gerrymandering will have a major impact for communities of color, where partisanship unfortunately has often been used as an excuse for actions that hurt minorities", Li said in a statement.
Redistricting litigation is by no means a rarity, regardless of how far removed a case may be from the last decennial census or even if the boundaries are actually enforced at the time.
But Subodh Chandra, a Cleveland attorney for the Northeast Ohio Coalition for the Homeless and the Columbus Coalition for the Homeless, said he found it "profoundly disappointing and unfair" that Ohio and MI, two presidential election swing states within the 6th Circuit's jurisdiction, would have fewer tools than swing states in other court jurisdictions to fight voter suppression. That happened before in 2006-2007, he added.
"The courts have been very hesitant to get involved in policing how these partisan maps are drawn".
In a related ruling Monday, the high court handed Republicans a victory by blocking a lower court ruling that the state develop new maps by November 1. He says the redistricting process was "entirely lawful and constitutional". By redrawing districts to encompass several Democrat-leaning territories, Republicans effectively cost Democrats votes beyond the majority needed to elect a blue politician in that area.
The U.S. Supreme Court announced Monday that it will consider Wisconsin's redistricting lawsuit.
The way gerrymandering was carried out in states like Wisconsin was that Republican lawmakers would stuff Democratic voters into already Democratic districts and Democrats would do vice versa in their constituencies.
But Wisconsin officials defended the legislature's work and called on the justices to undo the lower-court ruling.
The court said both the First Amendment and the Constitution's guarantee of equal protection prohibit redistricting plans that make it harder for members of a disfavored political party to elect their candidates and that can not be justified on legitimate grounds.
Wisconsin Attorney General Brad Schimel is praising the Supreme Court's decision to put on hold an earlier ruling that new legislative maps be drawn.
"The grant of stay makes it considerably less likely the court will rein in partisan gerrymandering via WI case", he wrote on Twitter.
Similar lawsuits are pending in Maryland, where Democrats dominate, and North Carolina, where Republicans have a huge edge in the congressional delegation and the state legislature.
"Partisan gerrymandering of this kind is worse now than at any time in recent memory", said Paul Smith, who is representing the challengers to the GOP plan in Wisconsin. Said another way, Republicans control 77 percent of the seats, despite winning just 53 percent of the vote. The Brennan Center for Justice says the efficiency gap "counts the number of votes each party wastes in an election to determine whether either party enjoyed a systematic advantage in turning votes into seats".


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Madison Whittet
North Bay, ON, Canada
What year in college are you?
What is your favorite part of the LSSU Kinesiology Department?
What drew you to a degree in Kinesiology?
What class have you taken so far that you would consider your favorite? Why?
Once you graduate from Lake State, what are your plans?
If you could give students one piece of advice for their freshman year, what would it be?