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Canon Rebel XSi, 50mm, f/1.8, 1/13 sec, ISO 400.
Nothing says R&R like wine by a fire. Remembering the challenge, I set up my tripod in the yard and set the timer for continuous shooting. There were a lot of good shots, but I felt this one best captured the relaxation.
-Adam Mosier
Not much to say really, I saw her sunbathing and ran to get my iPhone 4 and commenced annoying her with it. It's unedited (cropped though).
-Aman Sandhur
Camera: Canon 40D
Lens: Canon 17-40L f/4
Exposure: 1.3sec, 17mm, f/5, ISO640
Relaxing by the fire with my wife roasting some marshmallows for s'mores.
Setup the camera on a tripod with a cheap wireless remote trigger. Pointed it at my wife sitting in front of the fire and took a couple of test exposures. I found it difficult to find the right exposure when trying to photograph fire while also trying to expose other subjects in the frame. Often (not surprisingly) the fire will blow out the photo. After I was satisfied with the test photo we loaded up some marshmallows and started roasting. Took a couple of shots and then sat and enjoyed our s'mores under the stars.
-Andrew O'Hoski
This shot was taken after a long day travelling through the Upper Peninsula of Michigan and my friend just decided to fall asleep. I couldn't help but get a quick shot of him before he decided to wake up. I took this shot with my Canon 7D, at 1600 ISO, 1/160s and f1.8 in a slightly lighted hotel room. He actually thought the picture was awesome and made it his facebook profile picture!
-Andy Dill
Camera: Samsung WP10 (waterproof for 3 meters..)
Picture taken 30.8.2010 in Egypt
Aperture f/3.6
Shutter speed 1/320 sec
Focal length 6.3mm
Picture was taken in Egypt when swimming and snorkeling in the red sea coral reefs trying to avoid all the fishies getting in to the picture. Water temparature was 24C and air tempereature 38C so the most relaxing way to be was just to stay in the salty sea keeping you floating there without any effort.
-Antti Saloranta
My birthday was on Sunday, I turned 25, so I celebrated a 2+5 party as a 7 year old. This means that I had a pinata and a ton of candy. This shot was taken with the pinata dumped over my head and a friend's baby as a final decorative piece.
The photo was taken with a Canon 780IS camera.
-Ari Moshayedi
It is a 5-part HDR image with exposures from -2 to +2
Camera: Canon EOS Rebel XS
F-Stop: f/5.6
Exposure time: 1/50 sec.
Focal Length: 33mm
I am so excited with how this turned out. Last period of the school-day, in Science class, I spaced out, started reading Gizmodo and saw the photo contest and it hit me! I was going to fake my way into a wonderful photo! So, I quickly sketched this up, I used a metal deck chair with some spray painted pieces of plywood on it to make it look more, wood like. I grabbed my mom's Nook and newspaper to hide my cheats and quickly whipped up a beverage. The not-too-shabby looking margarita was not all that yummy, comprised of milk, ice, water, and food coloring, it is not close to the refreshing drink that it resembles. Then, my relaxed, Sunday backyard thing was complete. It turned out a lot more put together than I thought and am very pleased!
-Ben Shay (aka. Soap Flakes)
Shot with a Canon 5d Mark II and 24-105mm f/4 L lens. Set to 28mm, f/13, 1/200th, iso 200.
I spent my labor day hiking Michigan's Sleeping Bear Dunes. One of my favorite things to do is to find a nice steep dune and jump as far as I can off the top — after checking my intended landing area for roots and rocks of course. This is one rare situation where falling 30 feet isn't just safe, it's an absolute blast! To catch this shot, I simply set up my camera at the bottom of a steep bluff and got my friend to hold down the shutter while I jumped as far as I could off the top.
-Charlie Dwyer
Camera: Canon Rebel XS
Lens: Canon 28-105mm f3.5-4.5 USM II
Beer of Choice: Killian's Irish Red
Focal Length 28mm
FNumber: 3.5
Exposure: 1/8 second
3 am Sunday morning beers with an old friend on Labor Day weekend after a long work week. This is the NYC version of one of those infamous Corona commercials- hold the lime.
-Chris Buffalino
Canon T2i with Helios 44-4 lens
Manual lens so unsure of aperture
Sitting on my friend's back porch this Labor Day Sunday, suddenly we has this amazing sunset so I what shots I could without turning everyone's relaxing day into an organized photoshoot, I took better pictures but this one best fit the theme.
-Chris Curl
A couple of my friends and I were hanging out all weekend at Lake Viking, MO. Everyone was catching fish except for my buddy's girlfriend. I just so happened to be on the dock right when she caught her first one, and to catch the confused look on her face when it came to taking the hook out.
Shot with an Olympus Pen E-PL1 with stock 14-42mm lens kit, set on auto but with Grainy Film art filter. No post-touch ups.
-Chris Maxwell
Here is Napili Beach on Maui. I didn't want to come home. The water is warm and the sun is hot. Taken with my Nikon D50 with my 18-55 lens.
I just walked around the hotels and shore looking for fun photos to take.
-Chris Zempel
Shot on a Canon 500D with a 50mm f1.8. ISO 100, 1/2000 at f4.5. It was the only lens I'd brought with me to Co. Kerry for the weekend, for my friend's 21st. I was just after popping over to the car to pick up the camera and was walking back across the beach. I really liked how every identifiable detail of the scenery was lost in the exposure (Take that HDR!).
My white balance was complete shite, so the photo was desaturated and a cream and purple gradient was mapped on to it to warm it up again, but maximise the contrast between light and dark areas. The image was also cropped.
-Cian Markey
Canon T2i
EF 50mm f/1.8 II
1/8 sec
There are few things my wife and I enjoy more on a warm summer night than lounging on our front porch with a bottle of wine, a deck of cards, and our dog. In an attempt to stay consistent with this Challenge's "R&R" theme, not much effort was required to setup this picture; I just put the Gorillapod on the porch stairs and snapped a few quick photos before being beckoned back to our nightly game of Gin Rummy. I took the first few photos with the playing cards in focus but decided to refocus on Shaido to represent the majority of our R&R time spent doting on and playing with her.
-Coleman Horton
Sony A500 DSLR
90 mm
1/10 sec
Photoshop - Desaturation and edge blur
As my girlfriend and I were drinking a couple beers watching a movie on the couch Sunday afternoon, I looked back and she had fallen asleep. This was our R&R moment of the weekend, we were so relaxed and just in a state of bliss. I grabbed my camera and took a couple shots. What a wonderful Labor Day weekend.
-Curtis Prize
Lumix FZ-35
Telescope tripod
1/1000 sec.
10 second timer
I had the amusing idea of making something similar to an action sequence of me playing outside and interacting with clones of myself. So after taking pictures of myself in certain positions with the camera on a tripod, I edited the images together in Photoshop.
This was taken yesterday resting in a hammock looking at the Arenal Volcano in Costa Rica. Later that night we actually got to see it erupt! Yay vacation! Not looking forward to getting back home to the real world... haha. Shot with Hipstamatic for iPhone (iPhone 4)
-Dan Jackson
This is our beagle pup Lucy, she is just about 8 months old, and she is incredibly lazy. There is nothing she likes more than to lay in the sun and have everyone within a mile radius rub her belly. This picture sums up Lucy perfectly in my opinion. Chillin in the back yard, beautiful cool summer day, just waiting for someone to rub her belly. Amen to that! Just snapped a quick picture with our Nikon D3000 in auto mode, nothing fancy.
-Dan Owen
Camera: Nikon D3000
Lens: 18-55mm @ f5
I asked my wife to name the first thing that came to mind when thinking of "R&R" and she suggested a bubble bath and a glass of wine. I ended up liking this particular shot, that captured the wine glass as the primary object of focus, with her toes entering the tub in the blurred background. The glow of the candles gives the entire shot a relaxing warmth.
-David G
Taken on a Canon EOS Rebel T2i
18-55mm (kit) lens
Aperture priority
Shutter 1/25
My wife took this photo of (me and) our dog on a relaxing Friday afternoon. (Sometimes the beach is great, sometimes a swimming pool, but sometimes there's nothing like crashing out on the couch and playing mindless games on your iPhone...) No post production except for a small levels tweak on Photoshop to bring up the white a bit.
-David Preston
Nikon Coolpix L110...set to 'portrait' mode...that's it. Had to rest the camera on the railing to get a steady shot.
Boathouse Row is always a spectacular night time sight in Philly, and here I am with my wife enjoying one of the last few summer nights with her before two little ones come join us (!!) in the next week or so.
-Andrew Haas
Camera: Canon T2i
Lens: Rokinon 8mm F/3.5 Fisheye Lens
Flash: Canon T2i onboard flash
Skater: Jacob Vance
Beautiful sky, fresh air, and flying high...Alright, so it's not your typical way to catch some R&R, but what better way to get away from it all then spending labor day weekend on your board? —Jacob Vance catches a lofty kickflip from the pyramid as he gets ready to put it down in the quarterpipe. After this one I'd say it's definitely time for some real R&R Jacob.
-Erik Bandy
This photo is shoot with Nikon D60 Camera equipment....this saturday in a beach in Albania in a very relaxing scene when it seems the sun can be kept in our hands....it seems so paceful really to Rest and Relax.
-Ervin Habazaj
Olympus E-500 with a Olympus Digital 18-180mm lens, f/3.5, 1.6 seconds, ISO at 100.
At 2am, its kind of hard to find a model, so I whipped out a set of models from my collection of Anime characters. This set was the closest I could get to a relaxed and resting situation, so I just worked with what I had at the time. To set up the angle of this particular shot, I placed a WoW box under the camera just so the angle would be a little more 'eye level.'
-Eugene Kwok
Camera Brand: Canon
Camera Model: Canon EOS 350D DIGITAL
Date Taken: 2010:09:03 15:37:36
Exposure Time: 1/400 sec.
Aperture Value: 6.92 EV (f/11.0)
ISO Speed Rating: 1600
Flash Fired: Flash did not fire, compulsory flash mode.
Metering Mode: Pattern
Exposure Programme: Normal programme
Focal Length: 18.0 mm
This was taken at Kagyu Samye Ling, a Tibetan Buddhist Temple in Eskdalemuir, Scotland. Across from the reception was a small garden with benches, and in my mind, the benches in the garden seemed a reasonable enough symbol of rest and relaxation — although the rest of the area was just as beautiful and peaceful to wander around. I had to do some editing work in Gimp because I felt that the shot was a wee touch too bright — possibly because of the whiteness of the walls of the nearby buildings. I hope it looks okay now.
-Fiona Conn/Theologica
I came across this little guy at the Hopkinton State Fair, NH this weekend. I don't see how this is comfortable but he certainly looked rested and relaxed!
-Hannah Nofsinger
Canon 5D Mark!! with 24-105L IS shot at 4.0 bracketed. +2 0 -2. Processed in photoshop CS5, Silver EFX Pro. Our family was all relaxing poolside this weekend, but none of us could do better than this.
-Jason Reed
Shooting Summary:
Camera: Canon Rebel T1i
Lens: Sigma 10mm f/2.8
Shutter Speed: 1/4000sec @ f/2.8
Me and my wife decided to take our niece to downtown Chicago today. After walking all around Millennium Park and the lakefront, we decided to take a break at the Harris Theater right in the center of Millennium Park. With the niece running around and playing, it doesn't get much more relaxing than this.
-Jeff Mezera
For 40 something years my dad has been going on a camping trip with his old scouting buddies. This was my second trip with them and I took this photo around the campfire using a Canon Rebel XT, 2.0s at f/3.5, 1600 ISO, no flash. I thought this was the best example of some real R&R.
-Jim Gorski
Camera: Sony NEX-5
Lens: Sony E-Mount 18-55mm
Spent the day at Bernheim Arboretum & Research Forest in Kentucky. We then proceeded to crash on the picnic blanket. This is my girlfriend and our daughter taking it easy after a looong day.
iPhone 3Gs. Hipstamatic 160 camera app.
After spending an afternoon at the beach and being a part of the chill time, we were walking back to our bikes and about to head home. Just as we were about to hit the bike path the sun was descending and helped give a great retrospective on what a chill day it was on the sand.
-Jody Abbott
I used my friends to frame to pool, and with the terrace across the water, and the two chairs just seemed to work for me. Also the contrast between the two people, one leaning forward, the other leaning back, also the essentially opposite clothing, one with a sun dress the other a bikini top.
I used a Cannon Rebel XSi, 1/30s, f/22 and ISO 100.
-John Barton
My idea of r&r is getting away from everything and enjoying nature, with my camera of course. There was a couple in a sailboat who had the same idea.
I took this picture in Fort Fredrick State Park Md.
This picture was taken with my Canon XS in aperture priority mode.
I used an 18mm focal length (wide angle lens) to show the scale of nature vs the sailboat.
It was shot with an ISO of 100 at 1/400th of a second at f/8. I also used a circular polarizer to darken the blues in the sky and cut the glare coming off the water.
-John Chapman
Nikon D3s
Tamron 17-35mm f2.8-4.0
Madeline Ritchie enjoys the 3.5 hour ride on the Durango and Silverton Narrow Gauge Rail Road Train traveling from Silverton Colorado.
-John Sturr
Camera: Nikon D90
Lens: 50mm f/1.8
Exposure: 1/4000 sec
I took a long walk on Sullivan's Island to reflect on the past year and also wind down from a long day. This photo is actually #363 of my 365 project, and I'm happy to share it with you as I feel that photography forces me to slow down and really think about how and what I see in the world and I believe this photo expresses that calmness that takes over when I get into that zone.
-Joseph Nienstedt
Canon EOS Rebel xt
Manual Exposure
1.6 sec
28mm (Quantary 70-300mm)
At the tail end of my family's San Diego vacation, we decided to check out Sunset Cliffs to watch the sun setting of course. After I finished shooting some pics of the sunset I wanted to take advantage of the perfect lighting so I looked around for a few more shots. I noticed a family relaxing off in the distance and they became my subjects for this weeks shooting challenge.
-Juan Limtiaco
It might not be exactly what you were looking for, but every Labor Day weekend, Rowdy & Reveling Nerds descend upon Atlanta for Dragon*Con, the sci-fi, fantasy, comic book, anime, gaming etc. "nerdy-gras". Saturday morning of Labor Day weekend, they all come out for the crazy-fun, wacky parade. There is SO much great stuff to see at the parade, it was hard to pick just one, but I liked the colors and the beautifully made cardboard box costumes in this one. This parade is THE Labor Day event for our family!!
Photo taken with Nikon D50 with zoom lens- on auto setting.
-Julie Roden
"A Quarter Of A Century Later, Labor Day Should Feel The Same...If You Can Remember What It's Like To Be Six"
EVO 4G with Android 2.2
Lens: Default
Photo Editing App: Vignette using Lo-fi Effects & auto ISO (200ish)
Technique: (light leaks, film grain, x-tra vignette)
Location: GPS latitude: 39.591087 GPS longitude: -104.814415
Listening: to "The Only One" by Kevin Devine 2010
Though this child-as-a-subject shot should automatically warrant the cliche tag, I would argue this...it is more ironic that a rather feisty six-year-old could represent relaxation in such a way that opposed my manic moment...to frantically navigate away from twitter into my camera app before he ran off again. Then, I realized I should be laying right next to him, staring at the clouds through thae canopy of leaves...and set the phone down!
-Kelli Trainer
I'm from Hilo, Hawaii (one of the rainiest towns in the world) and on Labor Day weekend my friends and I decided to take a trip to the other side of the island (Kona -the dryer side of the island-) to relax and get away from the rain. When we were waiting for a table at Outback I realized that I had just enough time to snap some shots of my friends relaxing after a long drive over. So I ran back to my car and got my camera, I got back just in time to catch my friend looking out at the sunset. (Picture taken with a Canon 40d camera, with a Sigma 50 mm 1:1.4 lens at 1/640 sec at 2.0 F-Stop and ISO 100)
-Kelsey Ito
I took this shot with a Canon ESO 20D at a 25 mm focal length, using f/14.0, ISO 400, and a 1/400 shutter speed.
Kirby's first time at the lake was stressful. He had a leisurely kayak ride with my husband, until he dove headfirst into the water and had to be rescued. While pugs are generally professional resters and relaxers, this photo captures the purest form of rest and relaxation after a near-death experience.
-Lindsay Arvin
Canon XSi
Exposure 0.6s
The dog is my 9mo old Alaskan Malamute, Izzy. She spent most of yesterday running around with an aunt's puppy and is therefore, extremely tired (still) today. Her life is clearly rough, and she needs to relax. She had plopped down like this, I grabbed my camera, and she got up and moved to the other side of the room, only to come back and do it again in less than a minute and I was still laying on the floor waiting for her, so I was able to grab it. :)
-Lori Fredericks
This is a picture of my friend sleeping at school. He just looks so
peaceful.... Anyways, this was taken by my XTi with a 50mm 1.8 lens at
f/1.8, ISO 100 1/100 shutter speed. We actually used this for a spanish
project discussing the effects of sleep deprivation. It was fun.
-Lucas Lim
Samsung Nx10 and 50-200mm Lens. Lens at 88mm, f/5.6, 1/80, iso 800
The photo was taken at Burlington this weekend on a quick vacation with my girlfriend, on this labor day weekend.
Decided Lake Champlain should be a great area to captures the essence of rest and relaxation.
But what I've discovered is the best way to relate the subject was not the lake itself, but the people looking at it.
So there you have it. Relaxation, on a lovely weekend, while peoples gathers to look at a fantastic sunset.
A perfect way to end a perfect day.
-Marc-André Archambault
Canon Powershot SX200IS. ISO 100. My feet in the Aegean Sea.
-Mark Farinas
Canon XSi
10-22 mm @ 17mm
1/60 sec
f 4.0
While other people were out relaxing during their labor day weekend, my friends and I were studying all weekend long. Here's a shot of my buddy as he performs a physics experiment.
-Mark Lee
"End of the Day"
The most relaxing thing I can do is go for a bike ride. I tried to capture what it feels like at the end of the day after having been out on the bike for most of the day where the only thing I had to worry about was picking up miles.
Fuji s100fs / F2.8 / 3s / 7.1mm fl / ISO 100
Illuminated with a portable spotlight (thus the long exposure)
-Mike Case
With a large music festival and video game convention in town,
relaxation for me meant escaping the crowds and sound. This is a
random couple (and seagull) who had the same idea, watching the
setting sun finally break through a cloudy day. I used Camera RAW for
the fire sky. Shot was taken with a Nikon D90 and 11-16mm Tokina @
f18, 1/80, ISO 160, 11mm.
-Nick Sprankle
Camera: Canon 1000D (Rebel XS) on Aperture Priority mode
Aperture: f/3.5
Shutter: 1/4000 sec.
Lens: 18-55mm @ 18mm
Just my dog and I relaxing in the yard. The foot was a mistake, but no photo of a dog is complete without his best friend!
Lumix FZ-35
Telescope tripod
1/1000 sec.
10 second timer
I had the amusing idea of making something similar to an action sequence of me playing outside and interacting with clones of myself. So after taking pictures of myself in certain positions with the camera on a tripod, I edited the images together in Photoshop.
-Peter Glitsch
It was taken with a Nikon D60 w/ a 35mm prime set at ISO200, 1/250s, and f/5.6.
A lot of New Yorkers leave the city for the long weekend, but I found myself here. And what better way to relax than to toss a frisbee with friends in Central Park and lie down in the grass afterwards? My friend Chris was lying there next to me and just looked so happy I had to take a picture of him, and this was the result.
-Emily Turner
Shot with a Nikon D50 using a Sigma 70-300mm @ 195 mm, ISO 200, 1/240s, f5
I was out chopping wood at our family cabin in Northern Minnesota when I noticed our neighbor relaxing with his dog "Jazz" at the end of his dock. Jazz had been launching himself off the end of the dock all day so I can understand why he's looking so sleepy! I tweaked the exposure a little in Photoshop and landed on this shot.
-Rick Walstrom
Nikon D90/F-stop @ 2.5/ Shutter 2 secs/ Focal Length 50
50mm Lens
Poker Table
For Labor Day Weekend my family and I headed up to the Appalachian Mountains where we have a camping spot right on the West Branch of the Delaware River. Mama dukes and Dad headed out for the last beer run of the night before we started what would be a sloppy weekend. While they were gone my brother and I decided to start break out the ol' GIT-TAR, sit on the stacks of firewood and just chill out next to a blazing hot fire. My tri-pod ended up breaking so I rested my Nikon D90 w/ 50mm lens on the poker table and want to get a pretty detailed picture of him in what was a pitch black night, albeit, starry night. I turned the Exposure time up to 2 seconds, set the F-stop at 2.5, rested it on the table and snapped as he was playing Dust In The Wind. The picture was set to shoot in RAW format so no photo altering was needed.
-Rocco Fiandaca
The Gear: Nikon D90, 18-200 VR-II
The Shot: 36mm, f/5.0, 1/25th sec, ISO1600
The Story:
Setting - The Seekonk Speedway annual end-of-summer Thrill Show. Not far from Boston, but beyond the suburbs lies the Action Track of the East. When you're in the crowd, you don't care about the project deadlines, how the economy is doing, or whether you left the oven on at home. You have one thing on your mind: watching cars get ****ed up. Go ahead, embrace your inner red neck. Cheer when the pools of fluid that have collected on the track throughout the night begin to ignite from the sparks of the car that lost a front tire; Cheer when that bumper that's been dragged around the track finally lets go; Cheer when there's one car left, rocking back and forth as the checkered flag drops. Just cheer - you don't have a care in the world.
-Ryan Powers
I used a Nikon d5000 on aperture priority, with f/18 and 1/30 shutter. Color correction done in iPhoto and Photoshop.
I spent Labor Day hanging out by the pool in Orange County,
California. Swimsuit + Chucks + gin margaritas = my idea of some R&R.
-Sarah Emerson
The shot was taken during a fishing trip to Silver Lake in Mammoth, CA. The adults were sitting back enjoying the beautiful weather and a couple of the kids decided that they wanted to splash around in the cool lake water. Of course the scene ended with both of them wet, and one of them crying. However, I didn't think those shots were very relaxing. Equipment: Nikon D3000, 35mm f1.8 DX lens. Settings: f2.2, ISO 200.
-Sean Yoshimoto
Shot was taken with a Nikon D40 and the nikkor 18-55mm bundled lens. The photo was taken on a late morning while doing some R&R with a buddy (pictured) at work on the Friday before labor day weekend and we were relaxing the best we could at work. I used ISO 400 and f/3.8 with .4 shutter speed at 22mm. Did some minor editing in iPhoto to bring out some of the colors I was looking for.
-Shawn Takatsu
Nikon D300
AF-S DX VR Zoom Nikkor 18-200mm
ISO 400 200mm f/7.1 1/800
Sunday 9/5/10 12:52PM PST
This little guy looked so relaxed hanging out in the Santa Cruz harbor for everyone to see. I thought "that's the life", just floating in the water like that without a care in the world.
-Ulrika Friesen
Canon 5D MKII
Lens: Canon 24-70mm f/2.8
Shutter: 1/50
f/9.0 @ 24mm
Lazy Saturday at LBI in NJ. My friends have grown accustomed to me behind a camera so I sort of disappear and insert myself between conversations which is a great way to capture candid shots. Shot low at sitting level to feel part of the conversation. I try not to overshoot as the constant clicks makes people feel more self conscious so part of the fun is anticipating peoples movements/reactions. Used a B&W polarizer for cloud/sky contrast.
-Warren Chow
Although it may appear to be, this photo is not quite from "a day at the spa". My wife was in labor on Saturday and I took this while she was resting in the labor&delivery room bath. The irony of the weekly theme and the act of labor seems quite appropriate for this contest. Taken with a Canon 5D and 85mm f/1.8 USM lens. ISO 400, f/2 at 1/80 sec, no flash just natural daylight. This is of course submitted with her permission and in honor of our newborn son, Theo!
-Wesley Duffee-Braun
Sony DSLR, f/8, 100 ISO, aperture 4.64
Flying a kite with my Dad and brother at the park, turned out to be quite relaxing, once you lay down on top of the baseball diamond fence that is. I took this shot lying down in the grass behind the baseball diamond to get just the right angle. It was fun rolling around in the grass taking shots from such a low angle.
This is a photo I took of my 5 year old daughter, Brooklyn, that I took on Labor Day while we were relaxing on Pensacola Beach. I snapped this photo when she laid down on the sand to take a rest after playing in the water.
-Corey Floyd


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Dad of Newtown victim Avielle Richman, 6, blogged about his daughter's life
NEWTOWN, Conn. -- Avielle Richman's spirit drew people in.
Those who knew the 6-year-old girl with curly, brown hair will remember her infectious smile, peals of laughter and her spirit, according to her obituary.
Avielle moved to Newtown last year with her parents, Jennifer Hensel and Jeremy Richman. She was among those killed Friday when a gunman opened fire at Sandy Hook Elementary School.
She spent the summer swimming, going to the library and practicing archery. Avielle also went on a 1,300-mile road trip with her family from Sandy Hook to Iowa, according to the Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier, based in Waterloo, Iowa.
Avielle's father chronicled her adventures over the last months of her life on a blog, USA Today reported.
The blog is filled with photographs of Avielle during her outdoor adventures and trips.
One is with her training pony, Betty, at Zoar Ridge Stables in Sandy Hook.
Her trainer, Annette Sullivan, who owns the stables, told the Connecticut Post. Avielle would "giggle when she trotted," and liked to wear her pink cowboy boots.
"Her smile could get her out of anything," Sullivan told the paper.
She turned 6 on Oct. 19. In her birthday photo, she is sporting a sly smile, wearing a dress with a cow on it; she is standing barefoot in the driveway, with white sunglasses pushing back her long locks.
"I know that every parent says this, but holy cow I can't believe how fast time flies!" the post reads.
The blog's final post was on Nov. 19, about a Thanksgiving Day parade in Stamford, Conn.
The earliest post was in May, at the 12th annual Pootatuck Duck Race.
Avielle was born in San Diego. But her family's roots are in Connecticut, the Washington Post reported.
Her passions were her friends, music, horseback riding, archery, kung fu, swimming, ice skating and participating in superhero adventures, according to her obituary.
Her father wrote a blog about Avielle's first day of first grade at Sandy Hook Elementary.
"Our little hummingbird is starting first grade tomorrow," he wrote.

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Me Time Book Club is a group of women from Tuscaloosa, AL. Their mission is to "relax minds and enhance souls through words in the form of books." Kena Clark talks with Tamara Elllis Smith about this creative and charitable group.
Hi Kena! Please tell us a bit about your book group.
The name of our book club is Me Time. We have 8 members, consisting of all women, our ages range from 30 to over 50 years old. The personality of the book club is free spirit.
Oh I love that! Free spirit…
We allow every member to express herself fully and without judgment.
That's an incredible tenet to express and follow! Is there anything else that makes your group special to you or that you think might be different than other book clubs?
What makes our group special is the fact that we give back to our community. We participate in charity events and community service.
That is special—
One of our members suffers from Lupus, and every year we participate in their walk and donate to the Lupus Foundation.
What a great, important thing to do.
In July, 2015, Me Time donated a variety of books to the Lewis and Faye Manderson Cancer Center, which is located on the campus of Tuscaloosa's Druid City Hospital. The books were placed in the center's infusion room so that people can read during treatment!
Oh my gosh, Kena. What a vital gift.
The staff at the Manderson Cancer Center were very appreciative of the book donation and felt that the books would be put to good use.
I would imagine that is so true. Books are such a wonderful escape.
Yes. We also host authors! So far, we have hosted three authors and will continue to host even more.
How did the group get started?
I started the book club in November, 2011. The premise, initially, was to get a group of women together who already loved to read. "Me Time" represents us taking a break from our day to day routine by reading and relaxing.
Ah, just as you write in your mission statement on your website! "Our mission is to collectively enhance our minds and relax our souls through words in the form of books." I love that.
Very cool. Can you tell us about your meetings?
We meet every five to six weeks, and every member gets a chance to host her own meeting. The hostess picks the book, the venue and the food. We try very hard to stay on topic. The hostess is in charge of the flow of the meeting and asks the questions.
What sort of books do you read?
We read all genres. The hostess picks whatever type of book she likes.
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Working on development, human rights and peace has become increasingly difficult in Sudan. In the last month, three NGOs have been closed and their staff harassed and questioned by the National Security Service (NSS). Worryingly, this crackdown is expected to continue in the coming weeks.
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"Our means of growth are still too coarse and our structural adjustment is lagging behind."
China's energy consumption per unit of GDP dropped by 2 percent in 2011, short of a 3.5 percent target, frustrating those who are attempting to change the economy so that it wastes less, and is not as dependent on coal and imported oil.
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Drill and countersink two holes in each PVC piece, then space and screw them along a pair of 2-in.-wide boards. Attach the upper board to your shop wall and snap a pipe clamp in either end to position the lower board for screwing to the wall. That's it. You've shaped AWOL pipe clamps into an orderly arsenal.
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Saturday, April 09, 2011
Apparently Vampires in this game are healers.
That just blew my mind. Vampire tanks, sure. Vampire DPS, definitely. Vampire healers...uh what?
Also, they seem to shape-shifters, which actually makes a lot of sense given the mythos, and is a pretty cool spin on the class.
And according to Melmoth at Killed in a Smiling Accident, the vampires barely wear clothes and wield giant crucifixes as weapons.
Shape-shifting vampire healers in skimpy outfits who wield giant crucifixes. The mind staggers at the design process which came up with that.
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- Telanarra11:29 PM, April 09, 2011
"Shape-shifting vampire healers in skimpy outfits who wield giant crucifixes. The mind staggers at the design process which came up with that." I'm Confused you mean Vampires aren't like that in your world?ReplyDelete
- Anonymous3:30 AM, April 10, 2011
I left Wow in Feb (after 4 years) and started playing Forsaken World in March around launch time. I really enjoy it and it gets my recommendation. It's a lot more laid back than wow. Graphics are cool and I was looking for something that was not so hectic and competitive.ReplyDelete
I've not played a Vampire yet but they're pretty common. They can heal but many choose not to.
Erm. The vampires aren't healers.ReplyDelete
The vampires have a spec that CAN main heal. The other two specs are very much pure DPS.
The priests have two specs that can main heal, and the last spec that is VERY much pure DPS. No holds barred.
FW isn't wildly innovative by any means, but play it for a while, and in many, many small places, it *is* an innovative take on the genre.
Okay, the obvious draw of scantily clad blood-sucking, undead priest aside, is the game any good??ReplyDelete
I don't think I could go ogle, I mean, try it out if it wasn't ;)


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Utah Supreme Court delivers some clarity on river access
Last week, Colorado's river access law was as murky as Utah's. According to both Colorado and Utah laws, if a river through private property was navigable, you could float through. But you could not touch the river bottom or the banks, which was part of the landowner's property. The water is public, the dirt and rocks beneath it is private.
Those unclear access laws created lots of arguing. What if a boater needed to get out and scout a rapid? What if their boat scraped a rock in the river? Is that trespassing?
While Colorado lawmakers have shied away from sculpting regulations or rules that could end the uncertainty, Utah's Supreme Court this week weighed in, delivering some much-needed clarity to Utah's river-access law. And it's not going to make landowners happy.
The Court on Tuesday ruled that the public could walk on stream beds flanked by private property.
From the ruling:
"We hold that the scope of the easement provides the public the right to float, hunt, fish, and participate in all lawful activities that utilize the water. We further hold that the public has the right to touch privately owned beds of state waters in ways incidental to all recreational rights provided for in the easement, so long as they do so reasonably and cause no unnecessary injury to the landowner."
That means anyone can wade through a river bordered by private property, so long as they do not leave the bed of the river and gained access to the river through a public right-of-way, like a bridge or defined access point. Yeah, landowners with pristine fishing habitat are gonna love that.
What the Utah Court did not define was where a stream bed begins and ends. In Montana, the definition as the stream's "high water mark" has essentially opened all streams to strolling fishermen and hikers, irking private property owners to no end.
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The AP reports that most of the damage occurred in Adairsville, about 60 miles northwest of Atlanta. I-75 around the city is shut down in both directions due to overturned vehicles and intense damage. At least one person is dead, according to CNN. Tornado warnings remain in place for other areas in the state.
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This piece in the Philadelphia Inquirer is very interesting, both for the outside perspective it gives on Governor Paul LePage and Maine's 2014 gubernatorial race and for this tidbit from Brent Littlefield (an adviser who works for both the governor's campaign and the closely-linked pro-LePage organization Maine People Before Politics):
"LePage's more recent private polling shows his approval rating above 50 percent, and he is leading likely opponents, political adviser Brent Littlefield said."
If true, this would be a surprising result. No public poll since his election in 2010 has shown LePage's job approval rating above 50%. The highest it has been is 44% in one MPRC poll in November, 2011 (although that was of likely referendum election voters) and 44% again on a Pan Atlantic SMS poll last spring. All other public independent polling has shown lower numbers. Two recent internal polls from organizations that aren't exactly friendly with the Governor have shown him tied with or running behind Congressman Mike Michaud, his likely Democratic opponent in November.
Littlefield also tweeted at FiveThirtyEight blogger Micah Cohen after he wrote this post describing LePage as one of the most vulnerable incumbent governors in 2014. Littlefield claimed that Cohen had "bad ##'s on LePage" and that "His ##'s are healthy."
Contacted by email, Littlefield declined to provide any further information on LePage's internal polling.
Update: I've been reminded that LePage had a 47% approval rating on a Critical Insights poll in October of 2011, also of likely referendum voters.


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From the bedroom to the boardroom, the past 60 years have seen many a win for women. The pill gave us control over our own reproduction in 1960, and in 1973 Roe v. Wade did more of the same. Women have broken ground in politics, business, literature and art, giving new voice to female desires. There have also been back steps and sidesteps, missteps and mistakes. For a closer look at the modern female, we tracked down a dozen influential women, from artists to intellectuals, to discuss what we've gained and lost. Some spoke in their homes over glasses of petite sirah and boxes of Chinese takeout; others in Manhattan cafés over bowls of oatmeal. All helped provide a frank and honest look at the current state of our sexual lives.
There is almost no positive place for a woman to stand and be sexual, on a sexual journey, in our culture.—Naomi Wolf
Men are having their 39th birthday parties at Disneyland. these are the men we're supposed to be pro-creating with?—Natasha Leggero
Cindy Gallop
Writer, advertising consultant, founder of MakeLoveNotPorn.com
The older I get, the hornier I get. People ask me why I date younger men, and it's very straightforward: I like having sex. I like having a lot of sex. I'm all about lots of stamina and short recovery periods, which men my own age, sadly, are not going to deliver. And in a context in which I'm focused on my work and my ventures, I'm not looking for a relationship. I don't feel I'm necessarily a relationship person, to be perfectly frank. I don't think I'm a monogamous person.
Every time I say publicly that I date younger men, I feel I'm striking a blow for all womankind. But I'm also public about it not because I'm saying I think everyone should do what I do, but because to me it's a matter of a much bigger point, which is that I believe everyone should be free to decide the relationship model that works for them. Which may, by the way, be different at different points in your life.
I'm very open about the fact that I date younger men casually and recreationally. I date a lot of them; I keep the pipeline refreshed constantly. But I have one key criterion: They have to be very nice people. I have a good radar for very nice people. As a result, I date only utterly lovely young men, and I date them in an atmosphere of mutual trust, respect, affection and liking. Some of my so-called casual relationships go on longer than most people's committed ones.
The great thing about older woman–younger man is that I can have all the chiseled cheekbones, bulging biceps and six-pack abs I want. And I enjoy all that, obviously. But at the same time, I'm just looking for what I find attractive about this person. They don't have to be conventionally good-looking; they may be quirky, they may be interesting. I might really love their forearms. It drives a completely different assessment, which is much truer, to just see a person for who they are and see how you respond to that. In 11 or 12 years of online dating, I have never had a bad first date; my filtering sensors are very, very good. I've met men I did not feel attracted to and ended it. But I've never had a bad first date. One of the most paralyzing dynamics, in life and in business, is fear of what other people will think. And we absolutely apply that in a dating context as well. There is an external-facing dimension to how we assess our dates—and I don't have any of that. I would love people to think differently about how they look at whom they date, in a similar way.
Natasha Leggero
Stand-up comic, actress
One guy I work with, I won't say his name, he's on television and he makes a lot of money. He was making fun of me for having an assistant. I said, "Well, I just want someone to go to Rite Aid and the post office. Who picks up your dry cleaning and buys the dog food?" He was like, "I have a wife." And I was like, "Yeah, I'd like a wife too." And he said, "Well, she doesn't work. She's in charge of running the household and raising the family." And then he goes, "Sometimes I'll walk down the hallway and throw something on the floor, just so she knows the division of labor."
Men are keeping tabs. It is kind of a fucked situation that we're in, because all women are working. We have aspirations, and we don't have time to pick up full-time after a man. I do have a lot of thoughts about this. I think it would be nice if women could have wives. I was trying to think lately of someone who has everything. Like, if there are any female stand-up comedians who have a touring schedule, an acting career and a family. There really isn't one. There was Phyllis Diller. She had those things. She had a TV show, a family and a stand-up tour. There are a lot of men like that. There aren't really any female touring comedians who have children, whereas there are tons of males, because they all have wives. It does make it hard for women to have everything.
Now more than ever, the thinking woman and the career-driven woman and the woman with ambition, she has to find a partner. Now women need someone who's only going to help and add to their lives. If that's not going to happen, they break up. I have friends in their 30s who are freaking out about having a baby. Meanwhile, men who are in their 30s are barely ready for pet ownership. They're having their 39th birthday parties at Disneyland. These are the men we're supposed to be procreating with?
Jane Pratt
Editor of xoJane.com, founder of Sassy and Jane magazines
I remember with Sassy we were the first magazine to give teenage girls information on birth control and STD prevention, and we also wrote about gay teenagers, which was considered so controversial at the time that we lost our 15 biggest advertisers. Then we were taken off about half the newsstands we had been on. It seems like things have moved in a pretty progressive direction in terms of giving that kind of information to young women. In the just over two years that xoJane has been around, we've done 187 articles on abortion. That shows how much we are still fighting the abortion-rights battle, that it would still be such a big topic. Whereas, some of those other things—obviously gay rights are still a huge issue, but we've come such a long way.
To me, there are always new frontiers. One of the things I feel I am addressing a lot more these days is issues of gender, gender as a fluid concept. It's becoming more and more a part of the way I produce the website and the media that I produce for women. Even to the point that, when I talk about xoJane being a website for women 18 to 34 or 18 to 49, it feels really old-fashioned to me to say it's for women. What makes it for women, as opposed to just for people? I don't know if people identify themselves in that way as much as they used to. In terms of the way we write and talk about sex with women, a lot of times you could read the article without gender pronouns and not know whether it was for a man or a woman because it's so much about getting what you want sexually and what works for you.
Now it's more acceptable to be open about just wanting to hook up or be casual and not want a relationship. I never wanted to get married, was never interested in it. Recently I've found that more women just love being single and don't have any interest in that either. I think it is important for women to hear from other women that it is an option. It is an option to not be monogamous with one person for the rest of your life. There are huge industries built around being married and coupling off. It's the same with women who don't want kids. There's not really a voice out there. For me, as someone who didn't want to get married, I almost felt as though I was missing some chip or gene or something that makes women see a bride and then want to be a bride.
Erica Jong
Author of more than 20 books, including Fear of Flying and Seducing the Demon
What is fascinating to me is that there's a nutty minority that wants to take back all the rights of women. A woman who can't control her own fertility can't control anything about her life. It's the bedrock of women's freedom. These guys who are passing crazy laws about sticking sonogram wands up women's vaginas know the laws will be overturned. They're taking a stand for the benefit of the fringe minority that votes in midterm elections. The majority doesn't agree with them, so what we're seeing is democracy being perverted for the sake of a well-organized fringe. It's interesting to watch, and distressing. If you go back in time, Hitler didn't have a majority when he came to Munich. He did not have a majority, but a very well-organized minority can come to power in a democracy. Watching it happen is truly amazing.
One thing you can see is that fascists always want to keep women barefoot and pregnant. And what is it about? It's about fear of women, fear of women's immense physical power—the power to give birth—and if they can't stop it, they want to control it. Women are mysterious objects. Women control the means of reproduction, and it's necessary to keep them in the power of men.
It's so irrational and crazy, because every UN report on the status of women has shown that wherever you educate women, wherever you give women birth control, the whole society goes up economically in just a few generations. But if you keep women from education and from birth control, the whole society becomes impoverished. So what they're basically doing is something that's good for no one. It's such a primal desire and so completely illogical. It's interesting to me that here we are, nearly 100 years after the women's vote, going through this again. It's just mind-boggling.
Elizabeth Wurtzel
Author of four books, including Prozac Nation; lawyer
In love, there is no equality. I'm a hardcore feminist, so if I am saying that, it must be true. Living with a man means picking up his dirty socks and bringing him coffee and pastries in bed, and it means he always comes, even if you don't. The reason it is crucial that women make a lot of money and have a lot of power in the public sphere is that it is not going to happen in private, if they love men. I know this. I drive a hard bargain as a writer and a lawyer. David Boies is one of the most powerful men in the world, and he will tell you that I don't work for him—he works for me. But when it comes to love and the men I love, I am a slave. It is a pleasure to serve: I love being in love. That's just the way it is.
The book I'm writing now is going to be called YES: A History of Love at First Sight in New York City. I am sorry for all the times I said no. And I don't mean to sex. I'm happy for all the times I said no to sex, because it was probably not nearly enough times. But I'm sorry for all the things I said no to, like the times people said, "Come with me to the movies," and I was like, "No, I'm tired." I'm sorry for all the times I was tired and just didn't do something. I'm sorry for all the times I was cranky, because I should have gone out. I missed a movie; I missed going to a very good museum exhibit. I'm sorry for everything I said no to. I'm sorry for trips I said no to, because as you get older, fewer things come up. They just do. Life becomes more boring in general. And it's too bad. You should just do everything you can do. I'm sorry for all the things I haven't done; I should have done everything. I should have done all the things that were a dumb idea, that would have compromised my dignity—which is not so important. That would have been, you know, just fun. But mostly I can't complain, because I said yes to most things. I am not somebody who spent a lot of time avoiding things. And I think that's better.
Megan Mullally
Actress, singer
I've always considered myself to be a very sexual person. I had sexy thoughts when I was little. When I was three years old I had a recurring dream about a witch who would put me in an oven and cook me, and then she would take me out and eat me. I was like, "Oh yeah! Cook me! Cook me, witch! Put me in that fucking oven and cook me. Do it, do it." That was my first sexual thing, and I don't know what that means. I was always interested in sex.
I had a lot of boyfriends and a lot of flings. I think flings are great. That's something women should investigate a little more thoroughly. The trick is, you have to not care. I was in my late 30s when I first started having successful flings and didn't get emotionally attached to the guy. But you have to be at a point in your life when you're not needy, when you're not looking for a husband or a long-term boyfriend or anything.
I feel one of the last taboos is for women not to have children. I'm not going to say I never wanted to have children, but I never had a burning desire to have children. When I met my husband and we got serious and were going to get married, I tried. I was 44, and it was a little bit late in the day. But he was the first guy I was going to try with. I just didn't have that burning desire. If you don't have it, you should honor that. Having children isn't something you should do just because everybody else is. To be in the slim minority of women who don't can be a little unsettling and make you feel like, Well, is there something wrong with me? But I never felt that. My life has been about trying to entertain people. In my own paltry way, trying to entertain people is my service. My service is not raising a family. I know you can do both, but that just wasn't my thing.
The other taboo is a new taboo: I have not had any plastic surgery or any injections or anything done to my face or body. And that is the new taboo. People are mortified. People look at my neck and are like, "Oh God, what is that?" I think it's great and fine for other people, and there's certainly a lot of new technology out there that's not as invasive. You can end up getting stuff done and look reasonably okay, but it's not for me. I just want to see what's going to happen. Also, somebody's got to play the old lady in the movies, and sooner or later I'm going to be the only one who doesn't look like she's 40. And I'll be working.
Naomi Wolf
Author of eight books, including The Beauty Myth and Vagina: A New Biography
There is almost no positive place for a girl—a teenage girl, a young woman, a woman—to stand and be sexual, on a sexual journey, in our culture. There was this brief, shining moment when I was growing up in the mid-1970s that really influenced me. I grew up in the Haight-Ashbury in San Francisco, and it was like anything was acceptable; you were weird if you weren't at least bisexual. Being gay was a revolutionary, positive thing. Everyone was open and exploring, including women. And also the culture for a moment was not yet so pornografized—probably because of technology. When men and women encountered each other, they were learning about each other from each other, rather than from this giant for-profit industry of pornography.
One thing that's being documented is how quickly sex becomes boring if you masturbate to pornography and so you need to ramp it up to what one young man who talked to me about his porn addiction called "the kink spiral." I keep seeing this in pop culture: the choking thing, angry anal, aggression. It's not that I'm passing moral judgment, but it worries me as a human being that porn makes us so desensitized to sex itself—which is supposed to be this revolutionary, transformational power—that we need to ramp it up with aggression.
My objection is not to pictures of naked women. What has happened to Generation Y and teenagers is that everybody grows up already addicted to online porn. What worries me is that porn doesn't liberate sex; it closes it down.
I haven't seen Playboy lately, so I don't know how explicit it is, but I could see a movement that encourages teenage boys to subscribe to a magazine that has naked, pretty women sitting there, rather than turning on a video. It's almost romantic compared with what's online. How nice. Women are beautiful. I'm going to get all kinds of shit from feminists for having said that.
Joanna Angel
Adult-film star, owner of Burning Angel Entertainment
Porn stars are more touchable now. They're not on pedestals like they used to be. People know a lot about them thanks to social media. So much of their information is out there and easy to access; it's a little different from the image of the porn star in the early 1990s. It's like that with musicians too. If they have a mental breakdown, everyone knows about it. It doesn't really matter, because you have to adapt with the times no matter what. In some ways it's better and in some ways worse.
For me, most of the changes are probably a good thing because I'm not an untouchable-looking blonde Barbie doll. If my entire persona were based on my being perfect-looking, then I probably wouldn't have a career in porn. I've definitely been able to thrive off of cashing in on the way I look and also my personality—that's how I've been able to connect with fans. I probably wouldn't have been able to be who I am had I done porn in a different decade.
I can't speak for anyone's career but my own: I have never been subjected to anything bad just for being a woman. I know some people may have that image of porn. I'm not saying porn is the right place for every woman in the world. A career where everyone is looking at you, where you're out there to be judged, can be very tough if you don't have a thick skin. I've never felt degraded. I never let being a woman get in the way of anything I ever do.
Tristan Taormino
Author, sex educator, adult-film director
I think we've finally seen the emergence of smart and quite purposeful porn stars. The narrative was either you were plucked off the bus from the Midwest and coerced into doing porn, or you somehow fell into it and now you're there. But then people like Jenna Jameson and Sasha Grey, and to some extent Belladonna and Stoya, began to emerge—these are women who are 100 percent in control of their jobs, their branding, their marketing, their businesses. That really is a shift. And then they, of course, become role models for the next generation. "Oh look, we can do this with standards and boundaries and still possibly move on to something else." They became role models.
On a superficial level, I definitely like the changing aesthetics of who qualifies as a porn performer. There was a time when there was a dominant aesthetic, when if you wanted to make money, you had to have this kind of California-girl look: blonde with blue eyes, surgically enhanced boobs, a tan. The truth is, that's one standard of beauty, but there are also tattooed and pierced girls, punk rock girls, girls with pink hair, girls who aren't a size two, girls who are flat-chested, girls who have an indistinguishable ethnicity. All these different tropes have come in, featuring women with different bodies, different aesthetics. Many of them have managed to achieve success; that has opened the playing field for who can be a performer, who can be a porn star. The people who dominate the female performer pool are white and thin. So there's that. We aren't there yet. But we are in a better and different place from where we were. Hopefully that's going to keep moving. Some of this parallels mainstream Hollywood in many ways. It's not just the porn industry.
Miranda July
Filmmaker, author, artist
Just two days ago I was doing an event and a woman asked me, "How come there is so much sex in your books and everything you do?" Part of me was grateful she noticed, because no matter how far in that direction I go, people tend to still just call me cute.
Unless you're being overtly erotically sexual as a female, people almost don't clock it as sex. What I said to her was that the territory feels so wide open to me; it feels, surprisingly at this point, that still not much has been done with sex. We're seeing the same things done again and again, so it just feels fun, like it's not hard to think of something no one has ever done. And that's not true with most things that are so much a part of life. A lot of smart people have walked all over everything else. And also, it's an intersection of power and intimacy and shame and vulnerability, and boringness, potentially—all these things that are interesting to me. It's not even necessarily that sex is so interesting; it's that you can get at all these interesting things through it. That has evolved, I think, initially coming out of being a child. I was focused on the sexuality of children, which is pretty impossible to do anything about.
With my first feature film, Me and You and Everyone We Know, I was thinking there should be, that that should exist as its own thing, separate from what we think of as real sex, like adult sex. Children have their own ideas of that, and in some ways that's part of children's right to have their version of sex, whatever that is in their heads. I remember thinking this is such a debatable idea, it needs its own sort of branding and logo. I was consciously thinking that when I came up with the "back and forth, forever" symbol, ))<>((, that we used in the movie. I was thinking it could be like the Coca-Cola or Nike logo but for children's sexuality. So it can have humor in it, because it is funny. It gets less funny as you get older. Kids can see what's funny about all that. I think that has its own power. And it did kind of work. I think managing to brand children's sexuality is pretty radical and could even be potentially threatening in a way. Especially a woman doing that—because I'm supposed to be maternal, or I'm just so caught up in my own orgasm.
Dr. Ruth Westheimer
Sex therapist, author
Certainly more women know that they have to take responsibility for their sexual satisfaction. Even if their partner loves them, he cannot know what they need to be sexually satisfied. We know that today—not just because of me; there are other people in the field of sex education—there is a tremendous increase in women who know what they need to be sexually satisfied. Women have learned to be the initiators, to not wait for sex to be initiated, to know that this is important for them and their partners. It's not that she's going to be aggressive. She is going to be assertive and knows how to be sexually literate.
Also, I think Playboy was very important. Hugh Hefner knows me, but not in the biblical sense of the word. Put that down! Not knowing in the biblical sense, but I certainly have met him many times. I'm grateful to him, because the foundation of free speech certainly had a tremendous influence on issues of sexuality—on talking about it, on being able to discuss it. I want to say one thing for Playboy: I have always told mothers that if they find Playboy under their boy's mattress, never talk about it. Make believe you never saw it and leave it there.
Aisha Tyler
Comedian, actress, television host, author
I think people have an unrealistic expectation of marriage. I think they have an unrealistic expectation of their spouses. I think most people don't know what they're getting into, and they're more excited about the wedding than they are about the marriage. A lot of people are just not cut out for it. Marriage is not for pussies. It requires an infinite amount of patience, not just with the other person but with yourself. And it requires a willingness to allow someone else to be flawed, and their willingness to allow you to be flawed as well. What makes a great marriage is finding someone who is willing to see the best in you at all times. That doesn't mean they are a Pollyanna or blind; it just means they see what in you is equivalent to greatness.
I am probably not your typical woman. My husband and I play Xbox together, I love video games, I engineer my own podcast, I love computers and I'm an early adopter. I own probably seven devices. So for me, technology has been great. You know, I probably should spend more time having sex and less time looking at people have sex on the internet, but I think that's probably everybody's case nowadays. We all have our problems.
I hope men realize now that that picture of their penis is never not going to be on the internet. When society has crumbled and humans have vanished from the earth, cockroaches are going to walk in on iOS 972 and this picture is still going to be on the internet. So just don't do it! Unless you want your great-grandchildren to see your cock, don't do it. It's not going to work out well for you.
Now people are realizing even if you post something and delete it immediately, it's too late. As soon as you press tweet, that is the last time you will ever have control of that image. And I think guys should realize that, for better or for worse, our half of the species is not particularly interested in seeing a picture of your penis anyway. Unless it's a medical marvel and you should be in a museum or a circus, we're not interested. Take a picture of your bank account or your car or your IQ. Or maybe send away to 23andMe and send us a picture of your genetic makeup that shows you don't have any cancer precursors and will never have a heart attack. Send us information we can use. A picture of your dick is not going to get it done.
This article originally appeared in the January/February issue of Playboy. Read more from our complete archives on iPlayboy.com.
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OFFICE PROFILE: NEW YORK By: Thomas B. Hogan PARTNER-IN-CHARGE "New York is a great place to visit but I wouldn't want to live there." We hear this, or something like it, said by many of the visitors we have each year from other practice offices around the country who come here to serve client interests, to attend training meetings, or for other reasons. I suppose it is natural for them to compare New York with their home city and to compare the New York Of-fice with the office in which they work. New York City is big. Every visitor to the city, whatever else he may think of it, agrees on that. The over seven and one-half million residents inhabit five boroughs spread over 320 square miles of the world's most costly real estate. Manhattan, where our office is located, is the smallest geographically. Each day over a million more people commute to work from the suburbs in New Jersey, Connecticut, Long Island, and West-chester. Add to these the almost 14 mil-lion visitors New York has each year, and you have a lot of people. The New York practice office is big. Its working force is more than 500 people, and the office area is about the size of a football field. It is also the oldest office in the Firm, which is pre-sumably why we are asked to write about it for the first issue of H&S Reports. New York has frequently been called "Headquarters City," and it probably well deserves this title. Since 1946 it has been host to the United Nations, and most of the 111 member countries have representatives permanently sta- tioned in New York. New York is un-questionably the financial center of the free world. Of the 500 largest industrial corporations in the United States 133 make their headquarters in New York City, and of these companies 21 are served by the New York Office. The 15 largest stock brokerage firms maintain their principal offices within a small area, known throughout the world as "Wall Street," within a stone's throw of the New York Office. Ten of these brokerage firms are clients of the Firm. Interestingly enough, the largest com-mercial bank in the United States (Bank of America) is not in New York City but in California. The next four largest com-mercial banks are here, however, and two of them (Manufacturers Hanover Trust Co. and Morgan Guaranty Trust Co.) are audit clients of the New York Office. New York City is a curious combina-tion of contrasts and variety. It is the home of the winningest baseball team (Yankees) and the losingest (Mets). It houses the world's largest securities ex-change (New York Stock Exchange with 2,761 issues of 1,419 organizations) and the smallest (National Stock Exchange with 12 issues). Those who think of New York as a city chiefly of big busi-ness are wrong. Though the city is a home for some of the world's largest companies, the pattern of New York is that of a vast concentration of small business. It has been estimated that there are more than 240,000 business establishments in New York City, but only 500 of them have more than 500 employees. The bulk of the clients served by the New York Office are rep-resented by medium-size business es-tablishments. Some of the statistics about the New York Office are quite impressive. It oc-cupies 35,000 square feet with 66 pri-vate offices, 3 conference rooms, 3 staff and class rooms, a working paper file room with almost 2,500 feet of shelving, a Report Department with a full-time staff of about 35 people who annually turn out several thousand audit and MAS reports, 10KS, tax returns, etc. Last year we mailed out almost 2,000,-000 confirmation requests to customers of our clients. Our 134 telephones han-dle hundreds of calls each day. A sec-retarial staff of about 30 produces a steady stream of correspondence which goes to every corner of the world. Looking out of our windows in Two Broadway we see a harbor in or out of which an ocean-going vessel sails every twenty minutes. To the north, we see the New York Stock Exchange from which emanate reports on an average of 63,000 transactions a day (flashed on about 700 quotation boards of our client, Teleregister Corporation, in bro-kers' customers rooms around the coun-try and Canada). On the south is the new New York Clearing House where, on a usual day, almost $4 billion worth of bank checks are cleared in what has been described as "the vastest waterfall of cash flow in the world." On any given day New York Office staff men are at work in many of the skyscrapers opposite our windows. In one week last February, audit teams, generally consisting of three or four men, were serving ten transportation companies, seven paper companies, five food-processing companies, five chem-ical companies, five publishing com-panies, and four insurance companies; the rest of the staff were serving clients, many of them relatively small, in a variety of other fields. By July, staff as- 12 Two Broadway, seen from the U.S. Customs House, at the tip of Manhattan.
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When you are waiting for your first child to arrive, everyone tells you to slow down and enjoy it, because they grow up so fast. It's true. You get so bogged down in the diapers, the illnesses, the homework, the day-to-day that sometimes you don't notice it. Then all of sudden- BAM!- it hits you like a ton of bricks that somehow you blinked and your tiny little ones are all of a sudden little men and women.
I saw this with Sadie for the first time yesterday. I took my 3 kids plus one of Sadie's friends to the zoo after school. On the way there, Sadie and her friend were sitting in the back of the van singing as loud as they could to Lady Gaga and Taylor Swift while doing hand slap games. I had flashbacks of sitting in the backseat with my friends jamming to Paula Abdul's "Straight Up" and giggling and playing those same games. It seems like just yesterday that she was toddling around in the backyard and now she has this whole other life outside of me. She has friends and all these other people involved in her life that I have no control over! When in the world did my little girl all of a sudden get so old? I know she's only 6, but it just seems like it's all going so fast. Yesterday she came home with this picture she drew at school.
I asked her to tell me all about the picture and she told me that it was of her and her best friend, Cole, when they are all grown up and married! They are throwing a fancy, candlelit dinner party for their friends. Sadie is wearing her nicest dress and Cole is wearing a flower in his pocket he picked out of their yard. Oy. I just want to stop time for a while with that girl.
On the flip side, I do find myself wishing that the boys would grow up. Just a tiny little bit. I know they are just being typical brothers, but they are driving me crazy. Miles has some really aggressive orphanage behaviors and that itty bitty boy can just pummel Noah into submission in a matter of seconds. Noah, who doesn't have an aggressive bone in his body, tries to come up with more clever ways to settle the score with his brother. Like today... Miles was getting on Noah's nerves. So Noah went into the kitchen and fixed himself an enormous glass of ice water. When Miles was least expecting it, Noah dumped the entire thing on top of Miles' head. I sent Noah to his room for time out while I dried Miles off and sopped up the puddle of water out of the carpet. When it was time for Noah to get out of time out, I asked him why he did that to his brother. His response? "He liked it the last time I did it!" Really? How in the world does some of this stuff get by me?
I will just be so happy when school is out and I have my Sadie back at home all day to help balance out all the testosterone. Or maybe I just need a margarita? Or a vacation? Or a margarita on vacation? Yes. That's the ticket! Who's with me!
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