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Schools and nurseries are able to apply for timber outdoor play equipment grants and funding for classrooms to help grow the educational areas for the children and pupils to learn. As children will be used to learning inside, giving them the chance to learn outside will stimulate them mentally as it gives them a break from their regular schedule and routine allowing for them to think outside the box. The play-equipment is commonly being installed in playgrounds across the UK due to its many benefits it offers.
If you are still unusre on anything on Outdoor Play Equipment Graphics, please make sure that you get in touch with our specialist team by filling the provided enquiry box. They can offer you a range of valuable knowledge that they have acquired from their abundance of past experience within the industry.
Timber Play Equipment is the apparatus used in a playground by pupils that is made of wood. The apparatus is very beneficial to both the school and the school pupils due to its long-lasting, durable nature. Without all of the beneficial apparatus , your school pupils could become bored during their break and lunch break and will therefore not be energised throughout the day to do better in school. The pupils will be able to learn much more in lesson if they receive all of the fresh air that they need and therefore we always advise implementing some sort of enjoyable activity in the playground of your school. However, the wooden apparatus is usually installed as part of a trim trail for children to play on as they complete the circuit. Find out more about the funding grants here - https://funding-grants.co.uk/ which can tell you everything you will need to know.
There are so many nearby wooden playground apparatus suppliers and installers based throughout the UK and we can easily pass you information on to these contractors and companies if you fill in the contact form on this page, these outdoor companies should also be able to help assist you secure relevant funding and possibly even write the bids for yourself. The funding grants available could be for any of the following items:
Classic Timber Outdoor Furniture
Wooden School Timber Shelters
Schools External Classroom Gazebos
Outdoor Play Equipment
Timber Trim Trail Playground Equipment
Wooden School Canopies
The design and specification of these wooden external products may be tailored to any local school, nursery or educational sector customer because obviously no job seems to be the exact size and dimensions therefore the designs could be made to fit existing school buildings or budgets restraints. With all the different design ideas and opportunities you can create an outdoor learning centre that is unique to your institution. The wood apparatus closest to you looks great for providing the children with an enjoyable activity during their break to have fun and socialise with their friends.
Play-equipment could be a great way for children to improve both their education and fitness. Children in primary, secondary and nurseries https://funding-grants.co.uk/education-grants/early-years-nursery/ are able to get the necessary funding grants which can benefit their health. Please get in touch with us today if you would like to find out more information and speak to one of our play-equipment funding specialists today.
Costs, Prices and Quotes of these projects also can be adjusted to fit budgets depending on the design specification and the costs depend generally on the size required and complexity of the apparatus, shelter or canopy. If you want some guideline costs for a funding application then please fill in the contact form and a quotation should be submitted back quickly. However the classroom could act as an invest due to the time you wouldn't be spending inside using electricity and other potential expenditures, this also massively helps benefits the environment which you can also use as a teaching tool for the children
With the outdoor apparatus other works might also be needed like groundwork's and safety surfacing and all these can be priced in the quotation by the specialist contractors because they can advise on the best suitable surface specification which could be wetpour rubber crumb surfacing, rubber mulch safer surfaces, artificial grass surface or many other safety flooring options that are now being introduced to the marketplace.
The outdoor play grants can help all special needs schools https://funding-grants.co.uk/education-grants/special-needs-school/ which can improve the way in which everyone learns. No matter what the age or size of a child, play equipment can help everyone improve their physical education or education. The funding grants are a great way to make sure every child has the access to all facilites, so speak to us today if you would like to find out more. Just fill out the contact form provided to talk to our experts.
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Community Gardens can be found in many Forsyth County neighborhoods and are as diverse as the people gardening in them. While community gardens have similarities in the way the gardens are set up, each uniquely reflects the gardeners' personalities. There are over 90 community gardens in Forsyth County.
Community gardening is a great tool for improving food access to individuals who may not have good garden conditions on their property and to neighborhoods that are suffering from food insecurity. Community Gardens are wonderful organizing tools for neighborhoods, clubs, and faith communities. Many community gardeners are gardening for the first time and need help with the basics of growing a garden. Garden groups may need help with garden organization, operation, and resources. Serving as a mentor to a community garden is one way to help improve fresh food access in Forsyth County.
A Community Garden Mentor is someone who is knowledgeable about gardening, enjoys sharing that knowledge with others, and has been trained to support community development around gardens. A Community Garden Mentor encourages best practices in the community garden, while providing moral support to new gardeners and their gardens. Mentors will commit to visiting their assigned garden on a regular basis during the growing season, to answer questions about gardening, to bring in the Community Garden Extension Agent when needed, and to encourage the gardens to participate in the Community Garden Resource Program classes and activities. Community Garden Mentors are matched to gardens that will best suit schedules and personalities.
Community Garden Mentor Training classes are offered in January and February with daytime and nighttime sessions available. The classes are free and supported by a grant from the Winston-Salem Foundation. The classes include 18 hours of mentor training in classroom instruction including the American Community Garden Association 'Growing Communities' curriculum, as well as field trips to community gardens. During the growing season, mentors are required to attend a monthly meeting with other Garden Mentors. Throughout the year, Mentors are encouraged to enroll in the 'Sustaining Community Gardens Series' and to take advantage of other classes offered by the Consumer Horticulture Program of Forsyth Cooperative Extension.
The goal of the Community Garden Mentor program is to match people who have practical, hands-on vegetable gardening experience with gardening groups in order to help support and sustain community gardens in Forsyth County. You have an opportunity to make a difference in your community. Help improve food access in Forsyth County by sharing your love of gardening with others as a Community Garden mentor.
If you are interested in becoming a community garden mentor, contact Mary Jac Brennan, Extension Agent for Community Gardens for an application. Phone 336-703-2850 or click here for an application.
If you are interested in requesting a community garden mentor for your community garden, contact Mary Jac Brennan, Extension Agent for Community Gardens for a request form. Phone 336-703-2850 or click here for a request form.

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Strontium Video No. 3
Discovered in 1790 and first isolated in 1808, strontium is an element that belongs to the group of alkaline-earth metals. It is a soft metal, like lead, and has a silvery color when freshly cut. Pure metal does not occur naturally and can only be produced through processing. It makes up about 0.04 percent of the Earth's crust and is most commonly found in the minerals strontianite (the carbonate) and celestite (the sulfate). Commercially, it is used as an ingredient in red signal flares.
The isotope strontium-90, which has a half-life of 28 years, is considered the most dangerous constituent of radioactive fallout from nuclear explosions. It can replace some of the calcium in foods and ultimately become incorporated into bones and teeth, where it continues to emit electrons and cause radiation injury. Controlled amounts of radioactive strontium have been used as a treatment for bone cancer.


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Derek Lowe (2-5, 4.52) vs. Greg Reynolds (0-2, 5.40).
COMMENTS: Just what the doctor ordered: a three-game series against the league-worst Rockies. Here's the scoop on Reynolds:
Reynolds had all kinds of command issues in his last start in Philadelphia, as he walked eight batters and allowed five hits and six earned runs in 5 2/3 innings. Three of those walks led to home runs by Chase Utley and Geoff Jenkins in the fifth inning. Reynolds threw 101 pitches, but only 51 for strikes. This will be the fifth career Major League start for the 22-year-old righty, who is searching for his first victory.
Meanwhile, Lowe has been improving in his past few starts. If the Dodgers can't win tonight, then there is no hope for this team.


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Beneath the Lion's Gaze
Maaza Mengiste
Jonathan Cape
Mengiste's debut novel, Beneath the Lion's Gaze is a fraught and tender portrayal of a land ravaged by revolution. Bloodshed and resistance tear through the novel, offering a tragic glimpse into Ethiopia's brutal history and, as the conflict strips bare society, Mengiste reveals both the very worst and the best of humanity.
Tragedy arrives in various forms, from the mundane to the monstrous, and as their mother lies dying in hospital, Dawit and Yonas struggle to relate to one another and to come to terms with the changing country outside. Dawit's grief, both for his mother and his country, is a furious one and he joins an underground resistance movement, further alienating his family.
Mengiste's writing is bold though occasionally stilted, but she really hits her stride in the later half of the book. The drama becomes increasingly devastating and in these passages there are moments of brilliance, with poetic prose that grips the soul. An emotional tour de force, this powerful and moving novel will break your heart.
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Watch This Collection of 'Family Guy' Look-alikes — Daily Distraction
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You probably have that one annoying friend who thinks he does a great Stewie Griffin impression. But does he look like Stewie?
We didn't think so. These poor folks eerily resemble the foul-mouthed, animated Griffin family. Even Brian the dog (R.I.P., or not?) has a real-world doppelgänger. And we promise none of them tries to do his best Quagmire voice.
The Daily Distraction is your Internet break from reality. Whether you're eating lunch at your desk or avoiding high school exes on Facebook, you might just laugh, say "aaahhh" or not believe what you just watched.


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There's a great story in the Wells Journal today about the London 2012 Opening Ceremony, which was attended by Glastonbury organiser Michael Eavis. Michael told the Journal, "We were there from the start to the finish, sat right by the side of the Tor. I think Danny Boyle was trying to capture the spirit of Glastonbury Festival. We were flattered to be resembled. He captured our political side as well as the music. I felt I was in the right place for a change. We were thrilled to bits with it. You could never get a better stadium show in my lifetime. So many volunteers were involved, kids from schools, youth clubs and dancing schools. They created a feeling of well being."
The creative director of the Olympic Opening Ceremony, Stephen Daldry told the Journal: "The image of rural England – this idyllic, mythical England that everyone has is not just part of our past – it's part of our living present. What better way to express it than Glastonbury Tor and what better way to celebrate Somerset. The festival culture that Michael Eavis has created is so much part of our culture. We tried to get the Glastonbury Festival feel into the ceremony."
Meanwhile, Michael's daughter, Emily, attended the dress rehearsals a couple of nights earlier and took these photos:


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The Richard G. Lugar Center for Renewable Energy (LCRE) was established in 2007 to address the societal needs for clean, affordable, renewable energy sources while improving the nation's energy security and helping to mitigate the negative impacts of climate change.
Our primary mission is to promote research excellence in renewable energy through collaborative efforts among faculty in the disciplines of engineering, chemistry, physics, biology, and environmental affairs and public policy.
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The news that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration this week approved the use of Truvada, an AIDS drug, to prevent infections in people who are HIV-negative is being greeted with skepticism, derision and even worry by some doctors in South Africa.
South Africa has the largest HIV epidemic in the world, with 5.6 million people infected. Each year hundreds of thousands more South Africans get the virus, so it might seem that a tool to stop new infections would be welcome here.
But there's concern that there could be serious negative consequences if Truvada starts being used as an HIV prevention pill. Truvada currently is part of the primary drug regimen in South Africa to treat HIV. Doctors here say Truvada has far fewer side effects than most other AIDS drugs but it still has some.
Dr. Ashraf Grimwood, a longtime AIDS activist based in Cape Town and now the head of Kheth'lmpilo, says he's already seeing decreased kidney function among some HIV-positive patients who take Truvada.
He says it's unclear what the long-term effect would be of putting healthy people on Truvada, but he worries that it could cause more kidney failure.
"We only have 4,000 places (in South Africa) for renal dialysis and every week people are sent home to die because we don't have kidneys to replace them," he says.
Grimwood adds that he likes the idea of a prevention pill, but he doesn't think it should be Truvada. "We simply don't know enough," he says.
There's also concern that if HIV-negative people go on Truvada, don't take it properly and get infected, new drug-resistant strains of HIV could develop. This would undermine the current national drug treatment program, which uses Truvada as a major part of its arsenal.
Dr. William Mmbara at the Ithembalabantu Clinic just outside of Durban says he's already seeing osteoporosis developing in some HIV patients who are on Truvada. "So am I going to risk giving someone osteoporosis later in life to protect them from HIV today?" Mmbara asks. "No. It just doesn't make sense."
Dr. Eric Goemaere with Doctors Without Borders in Cape Town also questions whether using Truvada to prevent HIV makes sense at a time when South Africa is still struggling to get anti-retroviral drugs to people in his words "in desperate need" of them. According to the government's own statistics, only about half the people who currently require anti-retroviral drug therapy are getting it.
"It raises a very acute ethical question," he says.
But Goemare says Truvada for HIV prevention might be appropriate for women who are trying to get pregnant.
"As we all know in Africa a young woman needs to get pregnant, needs to show her fertility. It's part of the culture," he says. "What do you do if you're not in a stable relationship? And unfortunately in the townships stable relationships are rare. So how do you get pregnant and not get infected. Actually they probably would be the first group to benefit from this if the government offered it."
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Weekend Confirmed 102 – SSX, Binary Domain, Vita
SSX, Binary Domain, and Syndicate co-op played, your games that frustrate you but keep you coming back, and more this week as Christian and James Stevenson join Jeff and Garnett.
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GDC looms on the horizon next week but there's no quiet before the storm. Christian Spicer and James Stevenson join Jeff and Garnett for a show stacked with great games. SSX, Binary Domain, and Syndicate co-op lead the pack, and there's still plenty more to talk about with the PlayStation Vita. The conversations also cover some of your games that drive you right to the brink but keep you coming back for more and hoped-for inclusions in the rumored to be announced SimCity 5. And that's just some of the talk that races by along the way before Finishing Moves caps it all off.
Weekend Confirmed Ep. 102: 03/02/2012
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Corporate Social Media Policies Ebook
Earlier this year I published a short series of posts on how to go about creating social media policies for your organization.
I've now pulled the essence of these posts into an ebook on corporate social media policies, to make the content even easier to reference when you're working on these documents for your organization. You can download the Social Media Policies Ebook here, or check it out on SlideShare.


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By MICHAEL HILL and JOHN KEKIS
This undated photo provided by the New York State Police shows Kurt R. Meyers, the man being sought in connection with the shooting of six people in two incidents in upstate New York, Wednesday, March 13, 2013. Authorities said guns and ammunition were found inside Meyers' Mohawk, N.Y., apartment after emergency crews were sent to put out a fire there Wednesday morning. Soon after, two people were fatally shot and two others wounded at John's Barber Shop, around the corner from the apartment, police said. The second shooting happened about a mile away in Herkimer, where two people were killed at Gaffey's Fast Lube and Car Wash. (AP Photo/New York State Police)
HERKIMER, N.Y. (AP) — Police in upstate New York stormed an abandoned building Thursday morning where a man suspected of a deadly shooting rampage at a car wash and barbershop had been holed up, killing him after he fired on an FBI dog.
SWAT teams entered the building around 8 a.m., and sent the dog in first, Trooper Jack Keller said. The 64-year-old suspect, Kurt Myers, had been inside since Wednesday afternoon.
"He was waiting for us," Keller said. "He kills the dog. They hear shots fired. Our teams returned fire and the suspect gets shot."
No officers were injured in the basement shootout, he said.
Police say Myers sauntered into a barbershop Wednesday, coolly asked if the man cutting hair remembered him and then opened fire with a shotgun, the first shots in a burst of violence that would leave four dead, two critically wounded and people in this small village aching to find out what set the gunman off.
We commend the courage and extraordinary efforts of the state police, the FBI and local law enforcement officials in finding the suspect and ending this horrific spree of violence and bloodshed," Gov. Andrew Cuomo said in a statement Thursday morning. "It's now time for mourning those who we lost in this senseless act of violence."
John Seymour, one of the men wounded in the attacks told his sister, Mary Hornett, the barbershop attack came out of nowhere.
"He just said that the guys were in the barbershop and this guy comes in and he says, 'Hi John, do you remember me?' and my brother said, 'Yes, Kurt, how are you?' and then he just started shooting," Hornett said.
Hornett said her brother, who was hospitalized in critical condition, was doing well after being shot in the left hand and right hip.
"My brother couldn't think of any reason why he would do such a thing," she said of Myers, a former customer who hadn't been in the shop for a couple of years.
The shootings shattered the peace and rattled the nerves of Mohawk and Herkimer, two small villages about 170 miles northwest of New York City, separated from each other by the Mohawk River and the New York State Thruway.
Police said Myers' rampage started with a fire in his apartment in the nearby village of Mohawk at about 9:30 a.m. Wednesday. He then drove to John's Barber Shop around the corner and used a shotgun to kill two customers, D'Amico said, identifying them as Harry Montgomery, 68, and Michael Ransear, 57, a retired corrections officer. In addition to Seymour, the shop's owner, another customer, Dan Haslauer, also was listed in critical condition at a Utica hospital.
The gunman then drove to Gaffy's Fast Lube in nearby Herkimer and used the shotgun to kill Michael Renshaw and Thomas Stefka. Renshaw was a 23-year employee of the state corrections department who worked at Mid-State Correctional Facility near Utica. Stefka worked at Gaffey's and attended Mohawk Reform Church, where he played guitar during services.
Neighbors said they barely knew Myers, who rarely spoke, left every morning in his red Jeep and came back.
Traci Randall said the only time she remembers speaking to her next-door neighbor was when he yelled at her son because he thought he had shot an air pellet at his Jeep.
"He would walk by himself. He was kind of a loner. No wife," she said.
Neighbors said he never had visitors or friends. Gary Urich said Myers wouldn't even say much as 'Hi' to him when walking by his porch.
"I said, 'How are you doing?' No response. He just walked by," he said.
Michele Mlinar, a bartender at Cangee's Bar and Grille in Herkimer, said Myers frequently went in and had a bottle or two of Coors Light and left without speaking to anyone. She said he was always alone and she didn't even know his name until police released his mug shot on Wednesday.
Cangee's owner Candy Rellin called Myers "just an odd little man."
The two villages are about 65 miles east of Syracuse on opposite sides of the Mohawk River — which connects the Erie Canal to the Hudson River and from there, the sea — in a region known as the Mohawk Valley.
Elizabeth Cirelli was shocked by Stefka's slaying. He was a neighbor in Herkimer.
"He was a great guy, a really nice person. This is horrific. We really couldn't believe it," she said.
Herkimer County Community College lifted a lockdown during the afternoon, and schools near the scene released students. D'Amico said most of the three-block neighborhood around the search scene was evacuated.
Herkimer is a village of 7,700 named for the German immigrant family that settled in the western Mohawk Valley in the 1720s. The economically distressed villages are 2 miles away from Ilion, where a 2-century-old Remington Arms gun plant is a major employer.
Associated Press writers Chris Carola and Mary Esch in Albany and Tom McElroy in New York contributed to this report.


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GlobalData's new report, "Asia-Pacific Traditional Wound Management Market Outlook to 2020", provides key market data on the Asia-Pacific Traditional Wound Management market. The report provides value, in millions of US dollars, volume (in units) and average prices (in US dollars) within market segments - Gauzes (Woven Gauzes (Sterile Woven and Non-Sterile Woven Gauzes) and Non-Woven Gauzes (Sterile Non-Woven and Non-Sterile Non-Woven Gauzes)), Sponges (Woven Sponges (Sterile Woven and Non-Sterile Woven Sponges) and Non-Woven Sponges (Sterile Non-Woven and Non-Sterile Non-Woven Sponges)), Bandages (Conforming Bandages (Cotton and Synthetic Conforming Bandages), Non-Adherent Bandages and Adhesive Bandages), Abdominal Pads (Sterile and Non-Sterile Abdominal Pads) and Gauze Sponges (Woven Gauze Sponges (Sterile Woven and Non-Sterile Woven Gauze Sponges) and Non-Woven Gauze Sponges (Sterile Non-Woven and Non-Sterile Non-Woven Gauze Sponges)).
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The report also provides company shares and distribution shares data for each of these market categories, and global corporate-level profiles of the key market participants, pipeline products, and news and deals related to the Traditional Wound Management market wherever available.
The data in the report is derived from dynamic market forecast models. GlobalData uses epidemiology and capital equipment-based models to estimate and forecast the market size. The objective is to provide information that represents the most up-to-date data of the industry possible.
The epidemiology-based forecasting model makes use of epidemiology data gathered from research publications and primary interviews with physicians to establish the target patient population and treatment flow patterns for individual diseases and therapies. Using prevalence and incidence data and diagnosed and treated population, the epidemiology-based forecasting model arrives at the final numbers.
Capital equipment-based forecasting models are done based on the installed base, replacements and new sales of a specific device/equipment in healthcare facilities such as hospitals, clinics and diagnostic centers. Data for average number of units per facility is used to arrive at the installed base of the capital equipment. Sales for a particular year are arrived at by calculating the replacement units and new units (additional and first-time purchases).
Extensive interviews are conducted with key opinion leaders (KOLs), physicians and industry experts to validate the market size, company share and distribution share data and analysis.
* Market size data for Traditional Wound Management market segments - Gauzes, Sponges, Bandages, Abdominal Pads and Gauze Sponges.
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Decluttering to Sell Your House
Decluttering shows your home to best advantage, which can make for a faster sale and a higher sales price. It can also be a great way to organize your life as you get ready to move, which is an excellent side benefit. If you set it as a weekend project, you can get your home looking more ready for sale in short order, and when you're done, you can decide whether you want to work with your real estate agent or a home stager to add extra touches.
While a lived-in feel is great for the home you actually live in, it's usually not what prospective buyers want to see. They're interested in the aspirational potential of the home, and want to be able to imagine themselves in it. If your house is crowded with personal possessions, art, mismatched or oddly sized furniture, and other belongings, it can be a turnoff. Buyers can also get distracted, which makes it harder for them to focus on whether the house is right for them.
A good first step to declutter your home to sell is to walk through and take pictures. You might be surprised by what you see. Rooms that feel comfortable and open when you're in them might look dark, messy, and small in photographs; and remember, photographs like these are what a real estate agent is going to use to try to tell your home! You can use these photos to zero in on problem rooms and areas to prioritize your decluttering project.
Your first step should be to honestly assess your possessions to see what you don't need to keep around. That includes garbage, things you aren't using anymore, old clothes, and other things that you've kept around with no real purpose in mind. Get rid of them now so you don't have to sort through them in your new home, and either donate them to charity, take them to the dump, or sell them if they have value.
With these items cleared, you can get a better idea of how much clutter you're dealing with. You may have a lot of things you need to keep, in which case it's time to start thinking about prepacking. You don't want to strip your house, because that can make it feel cold, but consider packing up the things you won't need for a few weeks or even months while the sale goes through and you move into a new place.
That can include some of your books, movie collections, and other media, along with bulky furniture or items that aren't very attractive. Rooms can look small and cramped with too much furniture, and it's a good idea to pull out numerous pieces and leave a few artfully staged in the middle of the room to make it feel spacious and pleasant. You can also use this opportunity to showcase diverse uses for the rooms in your house; for example, the space you're using as a television room could be made up as a guest bedroom.
You should also eliminate any collections of objects you have, although you may display a few items. Collectibles may be a passion, but they're very distracting for buyers. Stick instead with a few accent ornaments or pieces of art to make your home spacious and allow people to imagine what they might put there.
Don't leave these items in boxes in your home. It creates the impression that you don't have storage space, and you don't want that. Your buyers will go through closets, garages, and outbuildings, which means you can't store them on-premises. Consider renting a temporary unit or contacting the moving company to see if they will take and store items before the big move.
You should be left with a small assortment of items in daily use, paired with key items of furniture. Don't slack off when it comes to your decluttering mission here! Make sure items like toiletries, kids' toys, and kitchen utensils are neatly stowed in drawers, containers tucked away in cupboards, and more. This will keep the house looking tidy, and it showcases creative uses of the existing storage space. Make sure everyone in the house gets in the habit of putting things away after use, and encourage them to take that habit with them when they move, because it will make your new home much more pleasant to live in.
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"I know you're tired of waiting. And you may have to wait a little while more, but she's on her way, Ted. And she's getting here as fast as she can." -StellaI'm in no rush -- especially now that my suspicions from last week have been confirmed: Stella isn't the Mother.
"As Fast As She Can" was in many ways the flip side to "Right Place Right Time." Where last week's episode kept looking for every excuse it could find to spend time on comedy with the supporting cast while pushing Ted's story to the background, this one focused almost entirely on Ted, with a mix of comedy (Ted being asked to design a murder room) and angst (any scene with Ted and Stella). And while I don't hate Ted the way some fans have grown to, he's much less compelling, and funny, than any of Barney, Marshall, or Robin.(*) Add to that the way Stella quickly became the most unpleasant character in the show's history, and the way that they wrote Jason Jones as if they had cast Ed Helms instead (they're two different people, right?), and you have an episode that's not one of my favorites from this season. Like I said last week, I've really lost any interest in finding out who the Mother is and how Ted meets her, and I'd be fine if the show tabled it for the forseeable future, and/or if Ted met the Mother immediately (assuming the casting was good and the character was written to be more likable than Stella) and the show moved on to other pursuits. (Hey, if "Prison Break" could keep calling itself that for years after they broke out of Fox River, why can't "How I Met Your Mother" keep its name while changing its focus?)
(*) Once upon a time, I would have put Lily on that list, but it's been remarkable how little the show has missed her these last few weeks while Alyson Hannigan was on maternity leave. (In case you forgot, this week's final scene, and all of next week's finale, were all filmed out of sequence so the producers could do their finale before they lost Hannigan for the year.) I like Lily, but her absence has forced the writers to lean much more heavily on the Marshall/Barney team, and they've been (insert Barney Stinson superlative here) together.
Now, immediately after watching this one, I popped in a DVD screener of the season finale so I can interview Carter Bays for something that'll run next Monday night after it airs. Because of that, I don't want to say too much else about what this episode did or didn't reveal about Ted's quest for the actual Mother, but I'll tell you two things about the finale: 1)I really liked it, and 2)It features a certain oft-discussed barnyard animal, for real this time.
In the meantime, a few other thoughts on "As Fast as She Can":
• I want to ask Bays about Barney's confused driving history, but I don't remember all the details anymore, save that in one episode, he couldn't drive, and an episode or two later, he was hijacking Ted's moving van. Anybody want to fill in some gaps for me?
• I loved the way Neil Patrick Harris' voice got both high and Southern as Barney tried to tell the others that he could talk his way out of a ticket.
• Ted's ringtone is "Let's Go to the Mall." I like that the producers didn't put some canned laughter under that moment to highlight it, the way I imagine a number of other shows would have. Either you noticed it, or you didn't.
• Ordinarily, I try to play New Jersey expert whenever the show makes a geographic reference, but I have no idea how to even spell the name of the town where Barney got arrested.
• Late last year, the show promised that we'd find out about the goat by the end of this season. Here, we got a tease about Tony writing a movie called "The Wedding Bride," that will conveniently be released in May 2010.
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GOP Blocks Democrats' Minimum Wage Try in Senate
WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Republicans derailed a Democratic drive Wednesday to raise the federalminimum wage, blocking a cornerstone of President Barack Obama's economic plans and ensuring the issue will be a major feature of this fall's congressional elections.
Facing the threat of a GOP takeover of the Senate, Democrats have forced votes on a procession of bills designed to amplify their message of economic fairness. Republican senators accused Democrats of playing politics by pushing a minimum wage measure designed to lure voters but too expensive for employers and sure to result in lost jobs and higher inflation.
"This is about trying to make this side of the aisle look bad and hard-hearted, and to try to rescue this midterm election," said No. 2 Senate GOP leader John Cornyn of Texas.
The legislation, by Sen. Tom Harkin of Iowa, would increase the $7.25 hourly minimum wage for American workers in three steps until it reached $10.10 after 30 months. The minimum has been at $7.25 since 2009, with 3.3 million Americans earning that figure or less last year.
"We saw this morning a majority of senators saying yes, but almost every Republican saying no to giving America a raise," Obama said in pointedly political remarks at a White House event with low-wage workers. "And then if they keep putting politics ahead of working Americans, you can put them out of office."
All but daring Republicans to vote against the measure, Harkin said before the vote, "Who's going to vote to give these people a fair shot at the American dream? And who's going to vote against it?"
The answer came moments later when senators voted 54-42 to continue debating the legislation — six votes short of the 60 needed to keep the measure moving forward. Every voting Republican but one — Bob Corker of Tennessee — voted no.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada was the only Democrat to vote with the Republicans. That was a procedural move that will let Reid call for another vote on the measure, underscoring the political value Democrats see in the bill.
Though Obama backed Harkin's legislation, the president proposed a $9 minimum wage in his 2013 State of the Union address. That has fueled talk by lawmakers including Maine's two senators, Republican Susan Collins and Independent Angus King who usually sides with Democrats, that a compromise might be the next step.
But election-year politics suggests that would be difficult.
Leaders of the GOP-run House have shown no interest in even allowing debate, giving Senate Democrats little incentive to cut a deal. And Obama has recently signed executive orders requiring a $10.10 minimum for many federal contractors, making it hard for him to agree to a lower figure for everyone else.
Polls show that while the overall public favors an increase, Democratic voters strongly support one but Republicans — especially tea party backers — are against it. Powerful interest groups on each side are also against a middle ground, with unions backing a full increase and business groups opposing one.
"We are not going to compromise on locking people into poverty," Reid told reporters, adding later, "We'll compromise, but not on the number."
Republicans in turn point to a report by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office, which estimated that an increase to $10.10 could cost about 500,000 jobs in 2016. They did not mention that the report also found the boost would mean higher incomes for 16.5 million earners and lift 900,000 people out of poverty.
"To pay for the raises, the money has to come from somewhere," said Sen. Mike Enzi, R-Wyo. "So if you like the dollar deal at your fast food, get ready for $1.50."
Instead of a minimum wage increase, Congress should be working on bills that would create jobs, such as allowing construction of the controversial Keystone XL oil pipeline from Canada to Texas, Republicans said.
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., said of the bill's supporters: "These are the same Washington Democrats who have been at the helm of the economy for five-and-a-half years, the same ones who have been bragging about a recovery."
Democrats note that if the minimum reached $10.10 in 2016, it would mark the first time since 1979 that a family of three earning the minimum would have surpassed the federal poverty line. They also argue that theminimum wage, which began in 1938 at 25 cents an hour, has fallen well below its peak value. In 1968 when the minimum was $1.60, it was worth $10.86 in today's buying power.
Other Democratic bills that have hit GOP roadblocks this year would restore expired benefits for the long-term unemployed and pressure employers to pay men and women equally. Democrats plan future votes on bills easing the costs of college and child care.
Harkin's bill would also gradually increase the minimum wage for tipped workers like waiters to 70 percent of the minimum for most other workers. It is currently $2.13 hourly, which can be paid as long as those workers' hourly earnings including tips total at least $7.25.
Associated Press writers Matthew Daly and Jim Kuhnhenn contributed to this report.
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Despite the fact that the days are slowly getting warmer, the mornings are still pretty cool and a bowl of oatmeal still hits the spot for breakfast. I had been wanting to try doing a baked oatmeal for a while and I figured that I should do it now before the morning get too warm. Sweet potatoes are still in good supply and I was thinking about the sweet potato casserole that I had made a while ago and wondering if I could make a baked oatmeal version. I prefer using steel cut oats to rolled oats when making oatmeal but I could not find a recipe for a steel cut oats baked oatmeal. In the end I decided to just modify the rolled oats recipe for the steel cut oats. Steel cut oats require more liquid and more cooking time but you can cut down on the cooking time by soaking the oats overnight which is what I decided to do. I roasted the sweet potatoes in the oven until they were nice and soft and starting to caramelize for added flavour. Maple syrup seemed like a natural addition and keeping with the sweet potato casserole theme I went with a pecan streusel topping. I had to wait to add the streusel topping until the oatmeal had cooked enough that the streusel would not just sink into the oatmeal so I added it part way through the cooking process. The baked sweet potato oatmeal turned out really good! It was nice and warm and sweet and really creamy on the inside with a slightly crisp topping. The sweet potato flavour really came through and of course it worked well with the pecan topping. It was like having dessert for breakfast. In fact, a scoop of melting vanilla ice cream would probably go really well on it.
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- 1 1/2 cup steel cut oats
- 4 1/2 cups milk
- 1 1/2 cup sweet potato (cooked and mashed)
- 1/4 cup maple syrup
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 cup brown sugar
- 1/2 cup pecans (chopped)
- 1/4 cup flour
- 3 tablespoons butter (softened)
- Mix the steel cut oats and the milk in an 8 inch baking dish and let sit over night.
- Mix in the sweet potato puree, maple syrup, vanilla extract, and salt.
- Bake, covered, in a preheated 350F/180C oven until most of the liquid has been absorbed, about for 30-40 minutes.
- Mix the brown sugar, pecans, flour and butter and pour it onto the oatmeal and bake, uncovered until golden brown on top, about 20 minutes.


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It suddenly got a bit colder out and I was immediatly thinking about a warm comforting soup. The first soup that I thought of was of course chicken noodle soup and then I remembered seeing this recipe for a Thai chicken noodle soup which sounded really good. I could just imagine all of the fresh and bright Thai flavours in a chicken noodle soup and I just had to make it. This soup starts out with your basics like the chicken broth, the chicken and the noodles, though this soup uses rice noodles, and from there it goes on to add some Thai flavours including lemongrass, lime, garlic, ginger, fish sauce and something special, a hit of coconut milk to make the broth nice and smooth. You could add any vegetables that you like and I went with carrots and bok choy and I finished it off with some sliced shiitake mushrooms. Despite the long list of ingredients this soup is nice and easy to make and yet it is so amazingly good! The soup was just bursting with flavour and a freshness that was very welcome on a cold winter day! One of my favourite things about Thai cuisine is the use of lots of fresh herbs and the fresh cilantro really brought this soup home. Another one of my favourite aspects of Thai cuisine is the spicy heat and the birds eye chilies certainly warmed this soup up nicely.
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- 1/2 pound rice noodles
- 6 cups chicken broth or chicken stock
- 1 pound chicken breast (cut into bit sized pieces)
- 1 carrot (sliced thinly on an angle)
- 2 stalks lemongrass (peeled and chopped)
- 2 kaffir lime leaves (thinly sliced)
- 2 birds eye chilies (sliced)
- 2 cloves garlic (chopped)
- 1 thumb sized piece galangal or ginger (grated)
- 1/2 pound baby bok choy (separated)
- 4 ounces shiitake mushrooms (stemmed and sliced)
- 1/4 cup coconut milk
- 2 tablespoons fish sauce
- 1 lime (juice and zest)
- pepper to taste
- 1/4 cup cilantro (chopped)
- 2 green onions (sliced)
- Bring a pot of water to a boil and remove from heat.
- Add the noodles, cover and let sit until cooked al dente, about 5-8 minutes.
- Drain and rinse in cold water.
- Meanwhile, bring the chicken stock to a boil in a large pot.
- Add the chicken, carrots, lemongrass, kaffir lime leaves, chillies, garlic, galangal and simmer until cooked, about 5-8 minutes.
- Add the bok choy, and shiitake mushrooms and simmer until the bok choy just wilts, about 1-2 minutes.
- Reduce the heat and mix in the coconut milk, fish sauce, lime juice and zest, and pepper.
- Taste and adjust the seasoning as required.
- Remove from heat and mix in the noodles, cilantro and green onions.
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The White House will unveil a broad, new strategy Thursday aimed at battling homegrown terrorism in the U.S. The program aims to empower communities by teaching local officials to recognize violent extremism and see the threat as a public safety issue, like the battle against gangs and drugs.
The plan comes as the terrorism threat against the U.S. continues to evolve. All eyes used to be trained on al-Qaida in Pakistan. But more recently the attacks have come from violent extremists here in the U.S. who picked up radical ideas from the Internet. Those plots, though less spectacular, are the ones the Obama administration is trying to fend off.
"What we have to do is be prepared for these different types of approaches that al-Qaida is pursuing," John Brennan, Obama's chief counterterrorism adviser, told NPR in an interview about the plan. "The large attacks, the small attacks, the groups that are operating together and the individuals who may be vulnerable to these types of entreaties."
New Partners
The 20-page White House strategy — entitled "Strategic Implementation Plan for Empowering Local Partners to Prevent Violent Extremism in the United States" — puts some meat on a bare-bones outline the administration released four months ago. In that August dispatch, the White House laid out broad initiatives for preventing the spread of violent extremism in the United States. That plan, just seven pages long, was criticized for being thin on details.
The challenge is going to be trying to put the violent extremism initiatives into existing programs. But there are lots of ways to do it, and we'll work with the schools to tailor the approach to what they need.
The latest offering, which is expected to be released Thursday afternoon, is not exhaustive, but it provides a better idea of what the administration has in mind. The plan envisions a fusion of local partners — schools, community boards and leaders — with both local and federal law enforcement and other agencies. Many of these new partners, like the Department of Education, have never participated in national security issues before.
"We had a long conversation about what kinds of things education can do," said Quintan Wiktorowicz, a senior director of the National Security Council at the White House, who spearheaded the initiative. "In the same way they fight gangs, or bullying, they can help here. The challenge is going to be trying to put the violent extremism initiatives into existing programs. But there are lots of ways to do it, and we'll work with the schools to tailor the approach to what they need."
U.S. counterterrorism officials have become adept at spotting terrorism suspects who travel overseas to get training or arrange large money transfers to support terrorist groups. But homegrown followers who quietly embrace violent extremism after watching al-Qaida propaganda on their computers don't raise those same flags. In those cases, federal officials often learn about their intentions when it is too late. That's why the Obama administration is so eager to get into the fight local partners who are better positioned to pick up on these subtle cues.
A U.K. Model
The plan has some hints of a 2008 program in the United Kingdom called "Prevent." Authorities in the U.K. began dealing with homegrown terrorism long before it became an issue in the United States. Wiktorowicz was in London studying the program for years before starting his job on the National Security Council in Washington.
The Prevent program broke new ground in trying to get local officials and community leaders involved in spotting radicalization in its early stages. The program came in for some criticism, though; specifically, detractors said there wasn't enough separation between the community work officials were doing and the intelligence they ended up gathering. But Prevent has taught counterterrorism officials a lot about how to engage communities.
Because the new American strategy will fold in many players who haven't had much exposure to counterterrorism, it will require a good deal of training. Officials familiar with the plan said they are concerned that if the training isn't done properly, or sensitively, it could hobble the strategy. Wiktorowicz said he is familiar with the concern.
Training has become a bugaboo in the wake of revelations about FBI counterterrorism training practices. The first inkling that something was amiss came in March. That's when NPR reported on the cottage industry of independent counterterrorism trainers who signed up to teach local and federal law enforcement officials about terrorism. The report found that the instructors were not being properly vetted and some were presenting skewed views about Muslim-Americans and their potential links to terrorism. Follow-up reports showed how Islamophobia had crept into both federal and local law enforcement training.
Wiktorowicz said the new strategy addresses those issues. A complete training review and specific training standards are expected to be in place by spring. The Department of Homeland Security will review the training and evaluate experts to weed out any lurking anti-Muslim bias. The idea is to inject some quality control into the training process. Wiktorowicz said the new program will focus on behavior, not religion or appearances.
"There are potential behavioral signals," he said. "For example, has someone in the community seen them watching violent extremist videos? Are they publicly coming out in defense of Osama bin Laden? Are they talking about the kuffar [unbelievers]? That's not enough alone, but if that is in a combination of other things, that's what we are looking for."
Public Safety
The new White House strategy is attempting to broaden the government's engagement with local communities across the board. If it works, the idea is to broaden the context of local discussions so they aren't just about terrorism; they are about something bigger.
"We see what we're doing as a public safety issue," Wiktorowicz said. "If a community was being targeted by gangs, the government would have some responsibility to help them. The same applies to a community that might be targeted with violent extremism; we have the same responsibility to help them. All parents are concerned about these kinds of issues, not just Muslim parents."
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With Shriners Hospitals for Children.
JT had his own PGA tournament in support of Shriners. According to the Las Vegas Review Journal, they're breaking up. Though Shriners acknowledges that Timberlake did "fulfill his obligations to the tournament and helped raise several million dollars...(he) wasn't able to generate greater interest in the tournament, and his star power wasn't enough to lure bigger-name players to the event on a consistent basis".
JT wasn't gold?
Tournament chairman Raoul Frevel was very specific about why they were not interested in continuing:
"Justin's a wonderful person. But we tried everything we could to get him more involved with our kids and the hospitals. But it seemed that when the TV cameras weren't on, he disappeared."
But that's rather telling, non? They made efforts to engage him with the kids, the HOSPITAL. But when he wasn't getting attention for it, he lost interest. The word used here is "DISAPPEARED".
Now it's one thing to have the blogs sh-t on you. It's another when the representative of a non-profit calls you out for being an apathetic dick. It means you are a mega mega dick.
Last week he was unresponsive with the local media at the Ryder Cup - click here for a refresher. This week a charity is suggesting that his volunteer participation was found wanting. That's pretty definitive in my mind. I mean, it's not like he had an angel's reputation before anyway.
But he sang for them a few times! There's a concert happening! He's Justin Timberlake! Having his name attached to the event for 4 years was worth more than any sick kids visits! He did you guys a favour, don't you see? Why is Shriners so ungrateful? He lent his name to them! His name! Justin Timberlake! Do you even know the importance of that name? What more do these ungrateful motherf-cking charity people want?
The man is an actor and a world class talent in a category of his own. They should consider themselves fortunate that he even bothered with them at all.
Now, let him go get married in peace.
Here's JT's fiancee Jessica Biel out shopping yesterday in LA. She'll be his wife this month. And she should be thankful every day.


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U.S. teens seeking weight-loss surgery have a startling number of health problems that used to be seen only in adults, according to a major government-funded study.
Half the teens had at least four major illnesses linked with their excess weight. Three out of four had cholesterol problems; almost half had high blood pressure or joint pain; and many had diseased livers or kidneys.
These kids weighed three times more than what is considered healthy, they weren't just teens "who want to fit into that cheerleading outfit better," said Dr. Thomas Inge, the study's lead researcher and a surgeon at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center.
The study offers reassuring evidence that obesity surgery is generally safe for teens, echoing previous short-term research. While it is a drastic, last-ditch option, major complications including accidental injury to internal organs occurred in just 8 percent of teens. Less serious complications including bleeding and dehydration affected 15 percent of kids during the first month after surgery.
The study involved 242 teens who had surgery at five U.S. centers from 2007 through 2011. Results for the first month after surgery were released online Monday in the journal JAMA Pediatrics. The National Institutes of Health paid for the study.
In a recent scientific statement, the American Heart Association said obesity surgery may be the most effective treatment for what it called "severe obesity" in teens, a condition it said affects about 5 percent of U.S. children and is increasing nationwide. The group's threshold for severe obesity is a body mass index of at least 35; the average BMI in the study was 51.
Because lifestyle changes and medication rarely work for such obese teens, the statement says obesity surgery should be considered for those with related health problems who are psychologically mature enough to handle it.
The new results bolster evidence from smaller studies in teens and also suggest teens may do better, at least initially, than adults. Earlier 30-day research in adults found a few deaths after obesity surgery, although the risk was no greater than for other major operations. There were no deaths in the teen study.
A three-year follow-up report on more than 2,000 patients in the adult study was also published online Monday in the Journal of the American Medical Association. It showed adults generally had fewer obesity-related illnesses than in the teen study, and most weight loss occurred within the first year after surgery. Gastric bypass surgery, the most common operation in the U.S., resulted in more weight loss and more improvement in related illnesses than stomach banding, as other studies have shown. Three-year death rates were low, and similar for both procedures, but band patients had many more repeat surgeries.
In the teen study, whether obesity surgery resulted in lasting weight loss and better health remains to be seen; the researchers are still following the participants and calculating data.
But anecdotal reports from the teens suggest they're doing pretty well.
Chelsea Hale of Cincinnati has shrunk from 314 to 170 pounds — almost half her previous size — since having surgery three years ago at age 17 at Cincinnati Children's. Before surgery, Hale had a hormonal problem, heart blockage and sleep apnea — all linked with obesity and all have since subsided.
"I feel good, I can pretty much physically do anything," said Hale, now in nursing school.
Like 28 percent of the teens studied, she had gastric sleeve surgery, which involves removing part of the stomach and creating a smaller tube or sleeve-shaped stomach. She has to be careful about eating only small portions of foods, to avoid getting sick, but said otherwise she has no food restrictions.
Some teens in the study say they can no longer tolerate certain foods, including sugar, meat or dairy products.
Most teens had gastric bypass or stomach stapling, which creates a small pouch in the stomach and attaches it to the intestines. A handful had gastric band operations, in which surgeons position an adjustable band around the top of the stomach, and inflate it to shrink the stomach. This operation has not been approved for U.S. teens.
Inge, a pioneer in obesity surgery in teens, says he does about 30 to 40 operations each year at Cincinnati Children's and the numbers have increased slightly in recent years.
Kids must be severely obese to qualify. But many are so large that even when surgery results in substantial weight loss and better health, they can't shrink their BMI to below the obese range, Inge said. That underscores the need to find ways to prevent severe obesity, he said.
University of Colorado heart specialist Dr. Robert Eckel, an American Heart Association spokesman, said the study shows obesity surgery should be considered a reasonable approach for kids, but that the study results may represent a best-case scenario, since surgeons involved were all highly experienced.
Parents seeking obesity surgery for their teens should have them evaluated in centers that do lots of these operations, he said.


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New Yorker Boycotted For Lack of Female Writers
LatestAnne Hays noticed that the two most recent issues of the New Yorker featured almost exclusively essays and reporting by male writers. So she's returned those copies to the magazine, accompanied by a blistering open letter to the editors.
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Dear Editors of the New Yorker,
I am writing to express my alarm that this is now the second issue of the NYer in a row where only two (tiny) pieces out of your 76 page magazine are written by women. The January 3rd, 2011 issue features only a Shouts & Murmurs (Patricia Marx) and a poem (Kimberly Johnson); every other major piece: the fiction, the profile, and all the main nonfiction pieces, are written by men. Every single critic is a male writer.
We were already alarmed when we flipped through the Dec 20th & 27th double-issue to find that only one piece (Nancy Franklin) and one poem (Alicia Ostriker) were written by women. A friend pointed out that Jane Kramer wrote one of the short Talk of the Town segments as well, though it barely placated our sense of outrage that one extra page, totaling three, out of the 148 pages in the magazine, were penned by women. Again, every critic is a man. To make matters more depressing, 22 out of the 23 illustrators for the magazine are men. Seriously!
Women are not actually a minority group, nor is there a shortage, in the world, of female writers. The publishing industry is dominated by female editors, and it would be too obvious for me to point out to you that the New Yorker masthead has a fair number of female editors in its ranks. And so we are baffled, outraged, saddened, and a bit depressed that, though some would claim our country's sexism problem ended in the late 60's, the most prominent and respected literary magazine in the country can't find space in its pages for women's voices in the year 2011.
I have enclosed the January issue and expect a refund. You may either extend our subscription by one month, or you can replace this issue with a back issue containing a more equitable ratio of male to female voices. I plan to return every issue that contains fewer than five women writers. You tend to publish 13 to 15 writers in each issue; 5 women shouldn't be that hard.
A dismayed reader,
Anne Hays
Among the New Yorker writers of the female persuasion whom I personally look forward most to reading are Judith Thurman, Joan Acocella, Jane Mayer, Ariel Levy, Nancy Franklin, and the incomparable Janet Malcolm. (Malcolm's last piece for the magazine, published in May, was a devastating portrait of a woman accused and likely guilty of murder, trapped in a horrifyingly dysfunctional judicial system.) And among the fiction writers the New Yorker picked for its last "20 under 40" list of rising stars, an even ten were women: Sarah Shun-lien Bynum, Nell Freudenberger, Rivka Galchen, Nicole Krauss, Yiyun Li, Téa Obreht, ZZ Packer, Karen Russell, C. E. Morgan, and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. And as far as I'm concerned, the only Shouts and Murmurs in recent memory that was actually funny belongs to Allison Silverman.
Even given all of the above, however, it's true that most (if not all) issues of the magazine feature far more work from men writers than they do women. And Hays' accounting of the appalling paucity of female bylines in the last two issues is correct. (The January 10 issue comes out today, and at a glance I note only two pieces by women: a short story by Louise Erdrich and an essay of criticism by Acocella.) The under-representation of work by women in the most recent issues of the New Yorker is concerning indeed. A subscriber boycott is a pretty ballsy move, and I certainly hope it will make the editors there think differently.
But what about other top literary and current affairs magazines?
The current issue of The Atlantic boasts five-and-a-half pieces by women (Katherine Tiedemann and Peter Bergen share a byline on this story, hence the "half") out of 18 total stories.
The Nation has four-and-a-half pieces by women out of 17 articles in its January issue. (Teachers' union head Randi Weingarten shares a byline with Pedro Noguera.)
The January Harper's is a little worse. It includes 21 bylined stories, but only three pieces from women writers: Lynn Freed, Deb Olin Unferth, and Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts. Barbara Dobrowska and Tom Littlewood translated a piece together, as did Clare Cavanagh and Adam Zagajewski.
A look at the page of contents for the January 13 New York Review of Books reveals 21 essays, including six-and-a-half by women critics: Mary Beard, Arlene Croce (who used to be the New Yorker's dance critic), Sue Halpern, Amy Knight, Margo Picken, and Ingrid D. Rowland; Econo-couple Paul Krugman and Robin Wells contribute a piece under a shared byline.
Among literary magazines, N+1's last issue had out of its 16 items only one piece of fiction, one essay, and one review by women contributors. (There is one un-bylined piece of commentary.)
The Believer is doing comparatively well. Out of 23 bylined pieces, its current issue boasts poetry by Tracy K. Smith, an essay by Unferth, a review by M. Lynx Qualey, and a conversation between John Ehle, Michael Ondaatje, Linda Spalding, and Leon Rooke. Two women (Thalia Field and Bianca Casady) are interviewed (by male writers) and three of the books reviewed in the issue are by women.
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COMMENTS: Welcome Back, Kuroda! Little bit of 70's humor for you there. If yesterday's frittered-away six-run lead wasn't enough to confound you, then how about the gigantic question mark that is the return of Hiroki Kuroda? Will we see complete-game Hiroki or shelled-in-three-innings Hiroki? Shirimasen! Little bit of Japanese humor for you there.
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