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This page can be found on the web at the following url: http://www.opm.gov/news/opm-awards-new-long-term-care-insurance-contract,1462.aspx
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEMay 1, 2009
Contact: Edmund D. Byrnes202-606-2402
Washington, DC - The U.S. Office of Personnel Management has signed a contract with John Hancock Life and Health Insurance Company to provide insurance for the Federal Long Term Care Insurance Program's second 7-year contract term. John Hancock has been a 50 percent joint Program insurer since the Program's 2002 inception.
"The Federal Long Term Care Insurance Program is an important benefit that helps enrollees pay for long term care costs that are not covered by health insurance, which can be emotionally and financially devastating for their entire family," said OPM Director John Berry. "It is the Federal Government's way to partner with Federal employees to help them and their families plan for the years when they may need assistance with daily activities."
The new contract includes new benefit options with increased home health care reimbursement, new benefit periods and higher daily benefit amounts, and increased payment limits on informal care provided by family members.
Premium rates for current enrollees with automatic compound inflation (ACI) protection will increase between 5 percent and 25 percent. The program has not had an increase in the last seven years and another increase is not expected until 2016. There is no premium increase for enrollees with Future Purchase Option.
John Hancock will provide a decision period for current enrollees before any premium increases take effect. They can choose from personalized options that include remaining with their current benefit structure, keeping their current premiums substantially the same by making changes to their benefits, or taking advantage of a one-time opportunity to switch to the new benefit structure without underwriting.
This increase will be the first since the Program began seven years ago, and is consistent with increases in other public sector long term care insurance programs since 2002.
Long Term Care Partners will remain as the Program administrator.
The Federal Long Term Care Insurance Program allows most federal and United States Postal Service employees and retirees, active and retired members of the uniformed services, and qualified relatives to apply for the insurance coverage, and it offers flexible benefit options to meet the diverse needs of the federal family. Services covered include: formal and informal care at home, adult day care, assisted living facility care, hospice care and nursing home care. Currently 224,000 people are enrolled in the Program.
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French Vogue Editor Carine Roitfeld was the most famous editor in the business aside from Anna Wintour—until she quit. Jacob Bernstein asks industry insiders what made the rising star fall out of fashion.
What could have led to the resignation of Carine Roitfeld at French Vogue? It's a question virtually the entire fashion world has been asking since the editor announced early Friday that she'll be leaving the magazine next month.
Roitfeld said it was nothing other than an itch to do something new, a feeling that 10 years at the helm was a milestone and it was "time to do something different," she told The New York Times.
Her boss Jonathan Newhouse professed deep admiration for her, telling the Times, "It's impossible to overstate Carine's powerful contribution to Vogue and to the fields of fashion and magazine publishing." According to one person who knows both Newhouse and Roitfeld well, there was no outward indication that he'd been unhappy with French Vogue.
Still, the announcement caught everyone in the business off guard, even her closest friends. There was rampant speculation that Roitfeld was leaving to work with Tom Ford on his newly launched women's line, but a close source in the fashion business said that's doubtful, because Ford didn't even find out about Roitfeld's resignation until it was all over the Internet. Many are still questioning Roitfeld's decision to feature Ford on this month's cover—an editorial choice that didn't exactly curry favor with advertisers like Armani, Chanel, and LVMH. Roitfeld and Newhouse couldn't be reached for comment for this story.
Ultimately, the reason for the editor's departure, said one industry source, may have been that she's simply more unhappy with the job than she cared to admit. According to this person, the increasing commercial considerations of the magazine (and her bosses at Conde Nast) began to wear on her. She didn't like having to kowtow to advertisers, and she was being pressured a bit more than in the past to get more product on the pages of her magazine, this source said. It probably didn't help matters that Roitfeld has a well-known distaste for handbags—she considers them totally unfashionable—and the entire fashion industry rests on the continuing strength of the accessories business.
Gallery: Carine Roitfeld
While almost every fashion editor these days is being forced to make harsh economic tradeoffs to keep their magazines afloat, the idea doesn't sit so well with a woman known for thumbing her nose at the establishment. When asked by New York magazine in a definitive 2008 profile whether she might be gunning for Anna Wintour's job, Roitfeld poured cold water on the idea. "I'm not a business girl, I will never be a business girl, but I will say, for Anna Wintour, that I respect successful people, I like things that are success [sic]. But this is really American."
If Roitfeld managed to succeed at French Vogue, it's largely because it was small enough and niche enough for her to recreate it in her own Helmut Newton/Yves Saint Laurent-obsessed image. Tough, sleek, shellacked in black eyeliner, Roitfeld arrived at the job after working hand-in-glove with Ford in the mid-'90s to recreate Gucci as the ne plus ultra of jet-set fashion. And her style hasn't changed much since she got to French Vogue. The good thing about that, said Michael Roberts, the former fashion director of Vanity Fair and The New Yorker, is that "There is not one person who cannot identify a Carine Roitfeld photograph." The bad thing, he said, is that "it can also get you into a kind of cul de sac. It doesn't go anywhere after that."
Roitfeld has a well-known distaste for handbags—and the entire fashion industry rests on the continuing strength of the accessories business.
The sniping hasn't been limited to Roitfield's aggressive, angular fashion sense. There have also been complaints about the lucrative work she has booked as a stylist doing ad campaigns—work she continued to accept long past the time she was made editor of French Vogue. Earlier this year, the entire French Vogue staff was disinvited from Balenciaga's fashion show after Max Mara began selling a coat that looked remarkably similar to a Balenciaga that Roitfeld had recently borrowed for a photo shoot. "I think that if Conde Nast had any issue with her," said one colleague in the business, "it's the consulting work."
And then there was Roitfeld's penchant for doing photo shoots that were "controversial" but somewhat lacking in a coherent message—like one recent spread in which a white model was done up in blackface, and another that featured photos of pregnant models smoking cigarettes. The most recent issue even featured a shoot with little girls done up in sexy designer duds, prompting a certain amount of controversy online and rattling some inside and out of Conde Nast.
Still, one source cautioned against seeing her exit from French Vogue as anything resembling a career ender. "Carine is Carine," this person said. "She will land on her feet. She can go back to consulting full time and make three times what she was making at French Vogue."
Whatever the complaints against Roitfeld, most of the fashion world seemed to be mourning her exit from the magazine. As Diane von Furstenberg said, "She's a great editor. She has great style, and I thought French Vogue was great. I am so sorry to see her go. Her leaving the magazine creates a big hole."
Luckily for Conde Nast, there is no shortage of talent ready to take over the magazine. More than half a dozen candidates were being bandied about in the British papers Friday, although the three most likely seemed to be Emmanuelle Alt, French Vogue's fashion director and herself a prominent stylist for the white-hot design firm Balmain; Katie Grand, editor of Conde Nast's new coffeetable-like magazine, Love; and Virginie Mouzat, the fashion director of Le Figaro, a woman known for having a more commercial sensibility.
Given Roitfeld's bombshell this week, it's perhaps appropriate that the December/January issue now on newsstands features her old pal Ford on the cover, in a tribute to his return to womenswear. Whatever comeback Roitfeld has up her sleeve will just have to wait for another issue.
Jacob Bernstein is a senior reporter at The Daily Beast. He has also written for New York magazine, Paper, and The Huffington Post.

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Lyrics Depot is your source of lyrics to Housequake by Prince. Please check back for more Prince lyrics.
Housequake Lyrics
Artist: Prince
Album: Sign 'O' The Times
Shut up already, damn!
Tell me who in this house know about the quake?
(We do)
I mean really, really
If you know how 2 rock say 'yeah' (yeah)
If U know how 2 party say 'oh yeah' (oh yeah)
But if U ain't hip 2 the rare house quake:
Shut up already, damn!
Everybody jump up and down
There's a brand new groove going round (housequake)
In your funky town (housequake)
And the kick drum is the fault
You gotta rock this mother, say (housequake)
We gotta rock this mother, say (housequake)
We're gonna show U what 2 do
U put your foot down on the 2
U jump up on the one
Now you're having fun
You're doing the housequake
Does anybody know about the quake? (yeah!)
U can't get off until U make the house shake
Now everybody clap your hands
Come on
Let's jam y'all
Let's jam
Don't wait 4 your neighbor
Green eggs and ham
Doin' the housequake
There's a brand new groove goin' round
In your city, in your town: Housequake
And the kick drum is the fault
Housequake, (housequake), housequake
U gotta rock this mother
(U gotta rock this mother)
Housequake, housequake
U gotta rock this mother down
Come on
Housequake, housequake
Now that U got it, let's do the twist
A little bit harder than they did in '66
A little bit faster than they did in '67
Twist little sister and go 2 heaven
Come on y'all, we got 2 jam
Before the police come
A groove this funky is on the run
Hey yeah!
Shake your body 'til your neighbors stare at cha!
Quake, quake, quake, quake, quake, quake
Everybody, everybody jump up and down
There's a brand new (groove) groove that's going round
In this city, in this funky town
And the saxophone is the fault
Check it out
If U can't rock steady
Shut up already, damn, U got 2 get off!
U know what I'm talking about?
On the one y'all say, housequake
Top of your body, let me hear U shout
Say, housequake
My lord, (housequake)
My lord, (housequake)
Louder, say it (housequake)
Shock-a-lock-a boom!
What was that? After shock!
Everybody, everybody
U gotta rock, U gotta rock
Come on
We're gonna shake, we're gonna quake
Cuz we got the baddest groove that we could a make
We on then 2, y'all
The drummer's gonna tap
We gonna see if we can rock this mother 2 the max
And that's a fact
Come on say it (housequake) (come on)
U can't follow it
We got the baddest jam in the land
Everybody shut up, listen 2 the band
Shut up already, damn
Prince Lyrics
Prince Sign 'O' The Times Lyrics
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A few years ago, James Mollison began taking photos of children around the world and their rooms. "I soon realized that my own experience of having a 'bedroom' simply doesn't apply to so many kids," he recalls in his book Where Children Sleep, which collects his images from 18 countries. Striking and unsentimental, Mollison's work shows that wherever a child lies down at night is not so much a retreat from as a reflection of the world outside.
Erlen is 14 years old and is pregnant for the third time. She lives in a favela in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Her home is a small shack. She usually sleeps on the floor, but now that she is in the later stages of her pregnancy, her mother has swapped places and allowed her to sleep in the bed. Erlen was 12 when she first became pregnant, but her baby was stillborn. A year later, she lost a second baby soon after its birth. If her new baby survives, Erlen is unlikely to return to school as she will need to stay at home to look after it. She will be a single parent. Erlen would like to be a vet when she is older, and to live somewhere else.
Dong is nine years old. He lives in the province of Yunnan in southwest China with his parents, sister, and grandfather. He shares a room with his sister and parents. They are a poor family who own just enough land to grow their own rice and sugar cane. Dong's school is 20 minutes' walk away. He especially enjoys writing and singing. Most evenings, he spends one hour completing his homework and one hour watching television. When he is older, Dong would like to be a policeman, because he'll be able to "catch thieves and run around."
Samantha is nine years old. She lives with her parents, and her guinea pig and fish, in a detached house on Long Island, New York. Samantha has achieved a black belt in karate. She has been world champion three times. She first became interested at the age of three, when she saw a television ad featuring karate. Her bedroom is full of trophies she has won in competitions. She spends four hours a day practicing karate at the studio and also has an hour and a half of school homework each night. Samantha would like to become a karate movie star.
Douha lives with her parents and 11 siblings in a Palestinian refugee camp in Hebron, in the West Bank. She is 10 years old and shares a room with all five of her sisters. Douha works hard at school because she wants to be a pediatrician when she grows up. Douha was born in a refugee camp, and there has always been violence around her. Her brother Mohammed killed himself and 23 civilians in a suicide-bomb attack against the Israelis in 1996. Immediately after the bombing, the family home—including all their possessions—was destroyed by the Israeli military. Douha has a poster of Muhammad on her bedroom wall.
Tzvika is nine years old and lives in Beitar Illit, an Israeli settlement in the West Bank. It is a gated community of 36,000 Haredi (Orthodox) Jews. Televisions and newspapers are banned from the settlement. The average family has nine children, but Tzvika has just one sister and two brothers, with whom he shares his room. Tzvika wants to become a rabbi when he is older. He also likes to play religious games on his computer. His favourite food is schnitzel and chips
Joey lives in Kentucky with his parents and older sister. He is 11 years old. He regularly accompanies his father on hunts. He owns two shotguns and a crossbow and made his first kill—a deer—at the age of seven. He is hoping to use his crossbow during the next hunting season as he has become tired of using a gun. When he is not out hunting, Joey attends school and enjoys watching television with his pet bearded dragon lizard, Lily.
Irkena lives in Kenya with his mother, in a temporary homestead encircled by a strong thorn enclosure to protect the family's livestock. He belongs to the Rendille tribe, who live a semi-nomadic life in the harsh regions of the Kaisut Desert. Irkena is now 14 years old and must be circumcised before leaving the community manyatta (settlement). Irkena will then become a morani (young warrior), and live in the bush with other warriors. During the month before he is circumcised, Irkena kills as many birds as possible with his handmade catapult, and hangs the corpses round his head as a status symbol, signifying his maturity and skill at hunting.
Maria lives in Mexico City with her parents and older sister. Their home has three stories and is set around a courtyard, behind security gates. The family has taken security very seriously ever since one of her cousins was kidnapped by a gang. Maria is 12 years old and attends a private school. Maria enjoys socializing with her friends at school but does not like working hard. Her hobbies include all types of dance—tap, ballet, Irish—but she would like to be a professional jazz dancer one day. Maria has two stereos, an iPod, a cellphone and her own private doorbell outside her room.
Jaime is nine years old. He lives in a top-floor apartment on Fifth Avenue in New York. His parents also own luxury homes in Spain and in the Hamptons. He has a younger brother and sister who are twins. In his spare time, apart from playing the cello and kickball, Jaime likes to study his finances on the Citibank website. When he grows up, he would like to be a lawyer like his father.
Indira lives with her parents, brother, and sister near Kathmandu in Nepal. Her house has only one room, with one bed and one mattress. At bedtime, the children share the mattress on the floor. Indira is seven years old and has worked at the local granite quarry since she was three. Indira works five or six hours a day and then helps her mother with household chores. Her favorite food is noodles. She also attends school, which is 30 minutes' walk away. She does not mind working at the quarry but would prefer to be playing.
Ten-year-old Lewis lives with his parents and sister in a semi-detached house on the outskirts of Barnsley, in Yorkshire, England. He has been given an ASBO (Anti-Social Behaviour Order). This means he is banned from going out at night, and must not possess drugs, alcohol, knives, or even a screwdriver. Lewis has Attention Deficit and Hyperactivity Disorder and has also been diagnosed with schizophrenia. His aggressive behaviour has led to his being excluded from his special school seven times. Lewis has felt happier since taking his medication but resents his curfew because he misses playing outside in the street with his friends.
Alyssa lives with her parents in Kentucky. She is an only child but her grandmother, uncle, and orphaned cousin live close by. Their small, shabby house, heated only by a wooden stove, is falling apart. The ceiling in Alyssa's bedroom is beginning to cave in. The family would like to buy a trailer if they could afford it. Alyssa's mother works at McDonald's and her father works at Walmart; everything they earn goes toward bringing up their daughter.


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Our Spectral Tour of olfactory ghost stories is turning out to be shorter than expected. I thought smells would be the perfect, uh, medium for unsettled spirits to make themselves known to the world of the living. Apart from a beautifully sentimental 19th century poem, and a more recent novel, the pickings have been slim. Not so much as a farting poltergeist.
In What the Nose Knows I described how some artists, like William Faulkner, weave themes of smell into their work, while others use scent to kick-start their creative engines (Richard Wagner and Emily Dickinson for example). Among the latter I would now include the fine Irish poet William Butler Yeats, who thus becomes the last stop on our tour. (Even if you don't care for poetry The Second Coming will grab you attention: it's an apocalypse in two short verses.)
Yeats apparently went through at least one extended period of preoccupation with spiritualism and the occult. He and his wife experimented with "automatic writing" and sleep talking. His book A Vision was an attempt to organize these spirit-inspired cogitations into coherent prose. He relates the various ways the "communicators" made contact:
Sweet smells were the most constant phenomena, now that of incense, now that of violets or roses or some other flower, and as perceptible to some half-dozen of our friends as to ourselves, though upon one occasion when my wife smelt hyacinth a friend smelt eau-de-cologne.Yeats categorized his various spirit guides into instructors, communicators, frustrators, etc. The substance of A Vision—the wisdom Yeats distilled from the smells and bells—consists of stuff like this:
. . . Such smells came most often to my wife and myself when we passed through a door or were in some small enclosed place, but sometimes would form themselves in my pocket or even in the palms of my hands.
. . . I seldom knew why such smells came, nor why one sort rather than another, but sometimes they approved something said.
. . . Sometimes if I had been ill some astringent smell like that of resinous wood filled the room, and sometimes, though rarely, a bad smell. These were often warnings: a smell of cat's excrement announced some being that had to be expelled, the smell of an extinguished candle that the communicators were 'starved'.
. . . I can discover no apparent difference between a natural smell and a supernatural smell, except that the natural smell comes and goes gradually while the other is suddenly there and then as suddenly gone. But there were other phenomena. Sometimes they commented on my thoughts by the ringing of a little bell heard by my wife alone . . .
At the opening of Book V is a diagram where every date was fixed by my instructors. They have adopted a system of cones not used elsewhere in this exposition. If one ignores the black numbers it is simple enough. It shows the gyre of religion expanding as that of secular life contracts, until at the eleventh century the movements are reversed. Mask and Body of Fate are religion, Will and Creative Mind secular life. My instructors have inserted the black numbers because it enables them to bring into a straight line four periods corresponding to the Four Faculties that are in Flinders Petrie's sense of the word 'contemporaneous.' . . . If we keep the straight line passing through the Four Faculties of the same length as the bases of the triangles we can mark upon it the twenty-eight phases, putting Phase 1 at the left hand, and the line will show what the position of the Faculties would be upon an ordinary double cone which completed its movement in the two thousand years of the era.Riiiiight.
I have to say that this sort of stuff fails to move me. It's not so much that it's unscientific; rather it's that the aesthetics of it—the numerology, the spirit hierarchies, the obsession with parallelisms—bore me to tears.
The falcon cannot hear the falconer, but the poet can smell the Beyond. Perhaps it doesn't matter that the spirit messages were blarney; delusions can be the means to great art.


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When rapper Jay-Z celebrates an anniversary he likes to celebrate in style. He took wife Beyonce to Cuba for a headline-stealing fifth anniversary trip earlier this year and now the Jigga man will be giving the 10th anniversary of his 40/40 Club a similarly high-profile treatment.
According to Black Enterprise:
Honored guests, stars, VIP and members of Major League Baseball's prestigious 40/40 club are expected to join Jay-Z to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the opening of the 40/40 club in New York City on Monday, June 17. The venue officially opened on June 18, 2003.
As for an appearance by a certain Grown Woman? The North American leg of her tour kicks off at the Staples Center in Los Angeles on June 28, some 11 days later. Said an insider who wouldn't confirm her attendance: "Where else would she be?"
Guests are receiving a baseball enclosed with the club's logo which says "Jay-Z Invites You."
The anniversary event comes after the lounge reopened after closing last spring for renovations, said to cost somewhere in the neighborhood of $10 million.
"The updated New York flagship location includes 12,000 square feet of space, a 20′ x 20′ illuminated bar, an 18-foot tall champagne fountain, leather upholstered wall panels, and more than thirty 55-inch flat screen television monitors," publicity for the newly-minted club said in January.


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UUA Moderator Gini Courter explained the Board of Trustees' changes in policy regarding "independent affiliate organizations" in a letter published on trustee Linda Laskowski's blog, "UUA View from Berkeley," (February 2). At its January meeting, the board voted to stop granting independent affiliate status altogether; see "UU News," page 49, February 2.
Bloggers reacted to the February 9 guilty pleas of Jim David Adkisson, who murdered two and injured six others in a shotgun attack on the Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church in Knoxville last July, and to the release of the manifesto Adkisson wrote prior to the shooting (see "UU News," page 41, February 16).
Sara Robinson at "Orcinus" read Adkisson's manifesto and concluded that "right-wing eliminationism" drove Adkisson to kill two Unitarian Universalists. She argued that liberals "are no longer safe, not even in our own houses of worship," but added, "The right wing has, as usual, grossly underestimated our courage and our commitment" (February 10).
Ogre at "Sparks in the Dark" compared right-wing talk radio to the genocide-inciting broadcasts in Rwanda in 1994: "Radio Rwanda called for people to go and kill the cockroaches—and Tutus were massacred. Adkisson's been listening to American Hate Radio—and what he heard is what he wrote, that liberals are a pest like termites, and should be killed" (February 10).
Lizard Eater at "The Journey" thought that Christine Robinson's UU World essay "Imagineers of Soul" was "slamming hands on the steering wheel good" (February 23). In the comments, UUMomma wrote, "I'm crying as I read it, wishing I had had an 'Imagineer of the Soul' to turn to, a safe place to be vulnerable. This is why I go to church."
At "California Girl in Massachusetts," the Rev. Dorothy Emerson liked Joanna Fontaine Crawford's uuworld.org article about the International Convocation of Unitarian Universalist Women, " Reclaiming My Space in the Sisterhood" (March 16), but wrote, "I must say I feel misunderstood and rejected by her labeling of the opening ceremony as 'hippie pagan'" (March 19).
The Rev. Daniel Harper announced that poet Everett Hoagland, a member of his congregation, will be inducted into the International Literary Hall of Fame for Writers of African Descent (March 30). UU Worldfeatured Hoagland's poetry in July/August 2004.
Bloggers also discussed Facebook, the fast-growing social-networking site. The Rev. Victoria Weinstein defended the site from hand wringers who worry it is eroding "real" relationships ("PeaceBang," March 10). Chalicechick posed questions about how youth group advisors can or should engage youth on Facebook ("The Chaliceblog," March 22). Lizard Eater explored the complex topic of ministerial boundaries on Facebook, generating lots of feedback ("The Journey," March 23).
At "CUUMBAYA," Pagan UU Joel Monka responded to Doug Muder's uuworld.org column, " A Religion for Hard Times": "My spiritual life has been greatly enhanced by my UU experiences. But despite having been an enthusiastic UU for more than a dozen years, I'm afraid that UU itself is still like monosodium glutamate in my life—a flavor enhancer for what I already had, rather than a stand-alone religion in its own right" (April 8).
Related Resources
- The Interdependent Web.A weekly roundup of blogs and other user-generated web content about Unitarian Universalism, collected by uuworld.org.


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Book 4 in the Joe Pickett series
C.J. Box (2004)
It's an idyllic late-summer day in Saddlestring, Wyoming, and game warden Joe Pickett is fly-fishing with his two daughters when he stumbles upon the mutilated body of a moose.
Whatever – or whoever – attacked the animal was ruthless: half the animal's face has been sliced away, the skin peeled back from the flesh. Shaken by the sight, Joe starts to investigate what he hopes in an isolated incident." "Days later, after the discovery of a small herd of mutilated cattle, Joe realizes this something much more terrifying than he could have imagined.
Local authorities are quick to label the attacks the work of a grizzly bear, but Joe knows otherwise. The cuts on the moose and the cattle were too clean, too precise, to have been made by jagged teeth. Are the animals only practice for a killer about to move on to another, more challenging prey?
Soon afterward, Joe's worst fears are confirmed. The bodies of two men are found within hours of each other, in separate locations, their wounds eerily similar to those found on the moose and cattle. There's a vicious killer, a modern-day Jack the Ripper, on the loose in Saddlestring – and it appears his rampage is just beginning.


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Valerie Gillies Interview
How did the project begin?
It all began with working on the Lyne Water in the Borders. One or two of the springs that feed into it have a lot of associated local folklore, which I realised ties into world folklore about wells and springs. I remember hanging over the edge of a well where one of the Lyne Water springs flowed out and noticing it had a very characteristic voice – almost like a speaking or chattering voice. I began to wonder, what if every pure source of water, like a spring or a well, has a different sound. How interesting that would be from the point of view of poetry and creating words, where poets get their words or sounds. Was it the case that every spring is different, just as every poet is different? That was what inspired me to start going to different springs, listening to them and recording their sounds, photographing them, drawing them in my notebook. I wanted to travel to them, find out what they're like today, find out if people still visit them and what they have to say about them. I set out on my first field trip with a little recording machine and a tiny camera, the smallest I could get. I was on tenterhooks until I could establish that there was a difference in 'voice' between one spring and another – I could have been wrong, water pressure might have been fairly similar everywhere. I felt pure joy when I played back my recording of the second spring I visited and it sounded dark and slightly sinister compared to the more cheerful, chattering one that I'd heard first. Since then I must have visited 120 springs and wells and they are each totally different.
In The Spring Teller, is the teller the voice of the well?
The title has a couple of meanings embedded. A spring teller is a diviner, someone skilled in finding where water is, usually by dowsing. The word 'teller' contains the feeling of telling the story, communicating the rhythm and the individual voice of each spring. At the outset I knew that these poems would all be different rhythmically; it was almost as if the springs themselves were suggesting a whole new idea of poetics or metrics.
Divining. What on earth do you think is happening there?
I don't know. I just know that it works. On my field trips I've always got a pair of divining rods with me. Some of the springs are very overgrown, you need to be prepared to search for them. I was taught to use divining rods by a friend who'd spent years putting up fences in the Borders and used divining rods to find the best place to put a fence stob. He taught me in a very practical way how to use them. Anyone can do it, the rods are like an extension of our own arms and hands.
I've heard that diviners can even tell quantities and depths of water.
Yes, they will ask their rods, how many metres down? Something in us knows it, but it's difficult to get it spot on unless you have the rods. Very curious.
The idea of 'healing wells' is regarded as a bit esoteric. But I once read that monkeys in the wild use particular plants for curative purposes, and that really makes me wonder how they work that out. It makes me think that deep inside all of us is an inherent understanding of the properties of the natural world and that science is a way of drawing out that innate knowledge.
Traditional methods of determining the curative powers of particular springs were quite scientific. Any water coming from the water table through the rocks in different locations is going to contain different chemicals. People experimented with different waters to discover which worked for what – for instance, water containing iron could be a curative for people with anaemia. A condition called 'dry eye' used to be very prevalent in Scotland in the days when people sat around the fire at home being kippered by the smoke, and the application of water from certain wells was known to relieve that irritation. Interestingly, I met an American eye surgeon on one of my Highland trips who told me that an ingredient used to treat dry eye symptoms associated with modern air conditioning and central heating contains one of the chemicals found in water from these ancient 'eye wells'. In the past, people who couldn't afford medicine used these wells: the healing wells were the doctors of the poor.
The Victorians were very interested in taking a scientific approach to the power of water. The British Geological Survey analysed samples and recorded the chemical traces they found (although the constituent elements can be expected to have changed somewhat by now). There was also strong interest in the architecture of old canopies, or well-houses. I looked at some wonderful Victorian drawings of medieval well-houses before visiting them, often to find them looking a bit more battered. I like to get a sense of the history: which wells were famous, which were travelled to. I would go to wells that had been renowned in the past, wondering if anybody still visited them, or if they still existed. I have Ordnance Survey Explorer Maps for Scotland which give the names of springs in blue if they still have water, or in black gothic if they're dry. Sometimes the springs have broken up down the hillside, sometimes they've moved – springs can get offended and move! Like in folklore, you know, if you say rude things to them, they dry up! But then they appear somewhere else.
Did you find it surprising how many people still visit these wells?
Wells are still fairly sociable places and yes, it's surprising how many people go to them and take away bottles of the water. I love some of the recordings I have of wells where you can hear people laughing and chatting in the background.
Did you actually get down to writing while you were at the wells - did ideas float to the surface of your mind there?
Yes, and I was always writing or sketching in my notebook. I have built up quite an archive of the sounds from the wells, and hundreds of photographs, some of which appear in The Spring Teller. These are places that people have regarded with awe for hundreds of years – this pure, fresh water will once have been rain that seeped through to the water table long ago and reappeared, purified as it's come up through the rocks, so you could be drinking rain that fell a hundred years ago, and so on, back through the water cycle.
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I don't actually light candles all that often (though my boys think it's fun to have a fancy dinner with candlelight at home), but I seem to always be admiring candlesticks. I should at least make more effort to light candles on Shabbat! No reason (I don't think) that I couldn't use some fun, modern candlesticks instead of the traditional silver ones. Here are 30 candlesticks that will inspire me (and you) to add ambience into winter evenings.
1 Happy Chic by Jonathan Adler Elizabeth Wood-Trim Candle Holder
2 Design by Conran Candlestick Holder
5 Michael Graves Design Footed Candleholder
7 Areaware Reality by Harry Allen Candle Holder
8 Ladies & Gentlemen Homestead Candlesticks
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14 Jonathan Adler Candle Holder, Squirrel Candlestick
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16 Orrefors Totem Balance Candlestick
17 Kate Spade New York Jules Point Candlestick
18 Orrefors Aviang Oval Candlestick
19 Ilse Crawford Ilse Candleholder, $140 at The Future Perfect.
20 Georg Jensen Koppel Candlesticks
22 Nate Berkus Industrial Inspired Metal Candle Holder
23 RabLabs Agate Candle Holders
24 Gideon Dagan Adam + Eve Candle Holders
25 Marimekko Loistava Candleholder
26 Y'A Pas Le Feu Au Lac Les Perles Candleholder
27 Areaware Distorition Candlestick by Paul Loebach
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That's right... the Codename: Kids Next Door/One Piece mash-up
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African Broadcasting Network
African Broadcasting Network (ABN) is the manifestation of the vision of Papa and Mama Ayo Oritsejafor (National CAN President, 2010 - 2016). It is a satellite Christian television station with a difference, strategically positioned to serve as a strong voice for the gospel of Christ from Africa to the world.
We are a voice and a tune to major ministries and Christians based in Africa in particular and the world in general. We believe God will use ABN to further maximize the reach and impact of the gospel through the entire globe especially in these last days. We run with the Mission given to Papa Ayo Oritsejafor "...Take My Word To The World" and we do this by offering a variety of programs that will continuously inspire, inform, educates, and entertain millions of viewers across the world.
ABN is a satellite channel broadcasting from London, with a coverage that spans across the whole of Africa, parts of Asia and parts of Europe. ABN is currently viewed in Seventy Five (75) Countries world-wide and online on our WebTV.
Our founder is married to Mama Helen Oritsejafor who serves as chairman, ABN. She has played a pivotal role in the advancement of the vision which is evident in the operations of the various arms of the ministry.


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French Laundry at Home: The Year in Review
Ah, the end of one year and the beginning of a new. For some, myself included, the new year comes in September -- when the sloth of summer takes a sharp turn into crisper weather and busy schedules, and memories of the smell of pencil lead and paper cuts from a just-opened packet of notebook paper.
However, I also celebrate the new year just like everyone else does -- when December turns into January, and you screw up the first 10 or 15 checks you write by filling in the wrong year on the dateline. At this time of year, the one thing it seems like a lot of my friends are talking about are their New Year's resolutions. In fact, I bet some of you are thinking, "Gee, I don't know what New Year's resolutions I should make this year. Let's see what Carol has up HER sleeve!" (and seriously, if any of you actually DID think that, you need to have a drink; I mean it)
The thing is, if you're coming here for answers, you're S.O.L. I don't make New Year's resolutions. What I do instead at this time of year is spend a little time thinking about what I've liked about the past 12 months or so, as well as what I might want to do in the coming year. I spend an afternoon just like I did today going through old email, reading through my datebook, perusing pages of some of my journals, and thinking about what I've accomplished or what made me happy.
Last year at this time, I looked back on 2006 and my first reaction was that I thought the year was in the shitter. My grandmother died, I had a few health problems (none of them serious, just mostly annoying), went through a crappy breakup, saw some legislation my colleagues and I worked hard on get vetoed by the President, and missed out on an opportunity to move to New York. As soon as I finished making that mental list, I actually sat back and thought, "WAITAMINUTE! Despite a few disappointments here and there, on the whole 2006 was actually a pretty good year." I spent time with great friends and loved ones, signed on lots of new clients, built up a healthy bank account, made some much-needed cosmetic changes to my home, set aside time to write and read, traveled, and experienced countless other things I know I sometimes take for granted and shouldn't.
So, while I knew deep down inside that 2006 was actually a pretty great year, I couldn't get past this noodgey feeling that something was just off. And then I realized what it was: I was bored.
It's no good when I'm bored. Not at all. I get cranky and annoying. More so than usual, I should clarify. And, I just kind of coast and then annoy myself in ADDITION to annoying others. So, yeah; boredom, not so good.
Because I love making lists more than you'll ever know, I made a list last year of anti-boredom things I thought I should do in 2007 -- house renovations, business expansion, travel, shampoo purchases, etc. -- but as I was writing it, nothing was really jumping out at me. Sure, they were all things I could do, but somehow, I knew I'd still be bored.
So, instead of a big to-do list of crap I knew would deliver yet another boring year, I decided to go a different route and figure out an overarching strategy for the year. Yes, people, I gave 2007 a theme. Because if you didn't already know I was a huge nerd, you sure do now.
Instead of resolutions or a list of specific goals for that year, giving a year a theme is something that I've done off and on throughout my adult life -- sometimes without even knowing I was doing so. For example, 1999 was The Year I'm Not Learning Anything, and I dove headfirst (more than I usually do) into trashy magazines and bad television with no apologies. When not at work, I really tried hard to let my brain go to mush as often as possible, and it was great. 2001 was the year I started my own company, so I really didn't have a theme other than Let's Not Have 2001 Be the Year I Declare Bankruptcy Because That Would Totally Suck. 2002's theme was I Made It Through The First Year of Business So Let's See If We Can Keep This Gravy Train Moving Along Because Going Bankrupt Now Would Be Embarrassing and Also Suck. 2005 was The Year I Will Not Put Up With Bullshit From People (an incredibly liberating year, as I'm sure you can imagine). 2006 didn't really have a theme, which ipso facto, The Year I Was So Bored And Thus Annoying and Cranky That I Can't Believe Someone Didn't Punch Me in the Throat Because, MAN.
I decided that if I was really going to do this theme thing for 2007 (again, NERD), I needed to pull a little mental jujitsu on myself and declare 2007 as The Year of Yes. Now, that didn't mean that I was going to say "yes" to everything that came my way, because, hello, basket case. I'm very good at saying no, and turning down stuff that I think will infringe upon the very little amount of personal life a self-employed person tends to have. But I needed something that would stave off another year of impending boredom, so I was willing to try anything. I didn't have specific criteria for The Year of Yes, but my thinking went a little something like this: If I've never done it before, or I'm reluctant to try it, I'd say "yes." (get your minds out of the gutter, you sick, sick people) If something seemed the least bit daunting or made me wrinkle my nose or clench my shoulders in trepidation, I was going to say "yes." If something seemed preposterous and could very likely crash and burn in a heap of firey failure, I'd say "yes." I decided that for me the only way to not be bored was to leap before I looked and enjoy the ride. The goal wasn't to say "yes" to everything or to the things I would ordinarily say "no" to. It was to say "yes" to the things I would have ordinarily said, "Are you f-ing kidding me?!?!?!?" to.
The first thing I said yes to was on January 3rd, 2007 when a friend asked me to teach public relations writing in the Masters program at Johns Hopkins University. Me? A teacher? A professor? I don't even HAVE a graduate degree, and I was pretty sure I'd suck at teaching other people what I do for a living. But, I agreed to do it, and you know what? It was a TON of work but I loved it, and I found out I'm actually pretty good at it. I loved it so much that I followed her to Georgetown and now I teach part-time in the Masters program there. My students have been amazing, and I learn as much from them as I hope they learn from me.
Another thing I said "yes" to was hosting a radio show. I talk to the media all the time for my job; and, I have hosted segments and done panel discussions on-air here in the DC market, but I've never hosted my own show. So, when the host of a program I was a panelist on left the program and they asked me to take over, I said "yes" and it's been fantastic. The show runs on the eight Clear Channel-owned radio stations here in the DC market every Sunday morning, and I love every minute of it. Even the hate mail from listeners who think we're full of crap (which sometimes we totally are).
Something else I said "yes" to this year were two enormous and daunting client projects that a year ago I would've turned away without even considering. One involved a high-profile international celebrity, and the other one involved a government program for people with disabilities. Both projects took me out of my professional comfort zone and have led to other things in the pipeline for 2008. I've grown so much both personally and professionally as a result of working on these two projects, and met some amazing people in the process. And, to be totally selfish, my bank account ain't suffering, either.
But the one thing I decided to do in 2007, this Year of Yes, that has taken on a life of its own and in fact has changed me the most, is this very blog. I started it because one morning I had the TV on in the background as I was cleaning the house, and got really angry that people who were watching a particular program on a particular cable network were expected to believe that dumping some vodka and a taco seasoning packet on a store-bought rotisserie chicken was a great idea for dinner. I was ranting inside my head composing a hateful letter to that cable channel's programmming VP just as I was dusting my bookshelves, and there it was: The French Laundry Cookbook -- a book I often thought deserved white-glove treatment and should be viewed only under glass because it is so lovely and clean and full of delicious, crisp writing and storytelling... and a book I admire and respect for its dedication to the pursuit of perfection.
I pulled the book off the shelf, turned off the TV, plunked down on the sofa, pulled a heavy wool blanket over my lap, and started gingerly turning the pages once again, as I had done at least once every month for YEARS. But this time, it felt different. As most people who know me in real life will attest, I, too, am a bit obsessed with the pursuit of perfection. I don't like to be wrong about anything, and I can't stand it when I don't live or work up to my own expectations or standard of perfection. So, when I read through The French Laundry Cookbook in the past, I saw it as something that would give me more than 100 ways to screw up, not live up to my own standard of perfection, and be a big, fat failure.
But opening The French Laundry Cookbook that day felt different from all the other days I'd looked at it before. I actually felt as though I might be able to pull off one or two of the dishes. As I continued looking through it, I flipped the pages faster and faster, realizing that everything about the dishes appealed to my sense of order, time management, discipline, and list-making obsession. And, something just clicked.
I decided right then and there that there was no point to my anger at the cable channel I'd been pissed off about because its programming wasn't going to change, nor was it going away. So, instead of trying to find a way to prove them wrong (because I'm not really a stubborn 5-year old although I sometimes play one on TV), I decided instead to prove to myself that I could cook every dish in the heavy, gorgeous, pristine book that was sitting in my lap. And, as I reached to open the drawer in the coffee table to get a pad of paper and a pen to make a grocery list, it hit me -- maybe I should do a blog about cooking every dish in this cookbook. I have to say, even though I'd set up blogs for clients and other people, I wasn't necessarily a big fan of blogging. So, I asked myself, "Who the hell would read a blog about me cooking every recipe in The French Laundry Cookbook?" I counted: My mom, my dad, eight or nine friends who liked food, and maybe a cousin or two. Were a dozen readers worth it? At that point, I felt the shoulder shrug and wrinkled nose thing going on that told me I was shirking it for some reason, so I said (out loud, strangely enough), "Fine. I'll do it." I just figured I'd give it a go and see what happened. If it sucked, it sucked, and I'd just delete it after a few posts and pretend like nothing happened.
I turned to page 35 of the book -- Gazpacho -- wrote down the ingredients, drove to Whole Foods, bought everything I needed, and got started that afternoon.
As soon as I'd done the first dish, I was hooked. I was already a pretty good cook, if I do say so myself, but this gazpacho was better than any I'd ever made before. And, not only did the gazpacho taste amazing, the whole process of planning and shopping for it, as well as making it, was energizing. Sharing it with my friends and neighbors, and anxiously awaiting their response, was nerve-wracking and powerful all at the same time. I was slightly giddy as my guests left and I started the dishwasher.
I went upstairs to my little home office, loaded the photos onto my laptop, and opened a Blogger account. When I started to type my first post, I felt a little guarded, like I was putting myself out there more than I was comfortable with. I proofed and spell-checked the post, and as soon as I clicked the "Publish" button on that first entry, I knew I was in for a wild ride. But I didn't know then what I know now -- that the book and this blog would unlock something in me I still can't quite define.
It may sound odd coming from someone as cynical and snarky as I am, but doing this blog and cooking this food has changed my life. Okay, maybe "changed my life" is too much. It's really more that it's made me more comfortable and happy in a life I already loved. I've fallen in love with my kitchen again (I was in a long-held "hate" stage in my love-hate relationship with that room), and reclaimed a part of my brain I'd long since ignored. I've been able to write about something I love. I've been able to hear from so many of you about what you love about cooking and food. I've eaten amazing food in my kitchen, as well as others. I've become a better cook because I'm more open to taking risks in the kitchen. I've received the most kind and generous advice and counsel from some of the best in the business. I've received accolades I never thought possible. I've met one of my literary heroes.
But above all, and perhaps MOST important -- I wasn't bored for one single day of the year because I was doing something that fed me in a way I didn't know I needed. And, you all are a big part of that -- so, THANK YOU. I'm grateful that you come here to see what I'm up to, and I love your comments and email, so keep 'em comin'. I'll need it when in a month or two I have to slice the skin off a baby cow's tongue and try really, really hard not to vomit. Repeatedly. For days. Because, ack.
So, what's my theme for 2008? No clue. But I hope you'll stick around to find out. In the meantime, I'm raising a glass of wine here at my desk to clink with yours in wishing you a happy, healthy 2008.
Happy new year, everyone!
Read my previous post: Roquefort Trifle with French Butter Pear Relish


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...one of the most highly
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Coding Standards
The TR1 Tuple type provides a default constructor, a constructor that takes initializers for all of its elements, a copy constructor, and a converting copy constructor. The details of the various constructors are described in this section.
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Semantics: Copy initializes each element with the corresponding parameter.
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This weekend, after several false alarms, searchers finally found some bodies from Air France 447, which "disappeared" over the Atlantic Ocean one week ago.
Search teams from France and Brazil have found a total of 17 bodies, along with debris including luggage and pieces of the plane's wing, floating about 700 miles off Brazil's coast. [Perhaps we can now stop saying that the plane "disappeared."] But the prospect for recovering all 228 people on board is looking bleak:
The part of the ocean where the debris and bodies have been found ranges between 19,685 and 26,247 feet (6,000 and 8,000 meters) deep. The search area covers 77,220 square miles (200,000 square km), an area nearly as big as the country of Romania.


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In a first-of-its-kind study, an international team of neuroscientists and robotics engineers have demonstrated the viability of direct brain-to-brain communication in humans. Recently published in PLOS ONE the highly novel findings describe the successful transmission of information via the internet between the intact scalps of two human subjects - located 5,000 miles apart.
"We wanted to find out if one could communicate directly between two people by reading out the brain activity from one person and injecting brain activity into the second person, and do so across great physical distances by leveraging existing communication pathways," explains coauthor Alvaro Pascual-Leone, MD, PhD, Director of the Berenson-Allen Center for Noninvasive Brain Stimulation at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) and Professor of Neurology at Harvard Medical School. "One such pathway is, of course, the internet, so our question became, 'Could we develop an experiment that would bypass the talking or typing part of internet and establish direct brain-to-brain communication between subjects located far away from each other in India and France?"
It turned out the answer was "yes."
In the neuroscientific equivalent of instant messaging, Pascual-Leone, together with Giulio Ruffini and Carles Grau leading a team of researchers from Starlab Barcelona, Spain, and Michel Berg, leading a team from Axilum Robotics, Strasbourg, France, successfully transmitted the words "hola" and "ciao" in a computer-mediated brain-to-brain transmission from a location in India to a location in France using internet-linked electroencephalogram (EEG) and robot-assisted and image-guided transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) technologies.
Previous studies on EEG-based brain-computer interaction (BCI) have typically made use of communication between a human brain and computer. In these studies, electrodes attached to a person's scalp record electrical currents in the brain as a person realizes an action-thought, such as consciously thinking about moving the arm or leg. The computer then interprets that signal and translates it to a control output, such as a robot or wheelchair.
But, in this new study, the research team added a second human brain on the other end of the system. Four healthy participants, aged 28 to 50, participated in the study. One of the four subjects was assigned to the brain-computer interface (BCI) branch and was the sender of the words; the other three were assigned to the computer-brain interface (CBI) branch of the experiments and received the messages and had to understand them.
Using EEG, the research team first translated the greetings "hola" and "ciao" into binary code and then emailed the results from India to France. There a computer-brain interface transmitted the message to the receiver's brain through noninvasive brain stimulation. The subjects experienced this as phosphenes, flashes of light in their peripheral vision. The light appeared in numerical sequences that enabled the receiver to decode the information in the message, and while the subjects did not report feeling anything, they did correctly receive the greetings.
A second similar experiment was conducted between individuals in Spain and France, with the end result a total error rate of just 15 percent, 11 percent on the decoding end and five percent on the initial coding side.
"By using advanced precision neuro-technologies including wireless EEG and robotized TMS, we were able to directly and noninvasively transmit a thought from one person to another, without them having to speak or write," says Pascual-Leone. "This in itself is a remarkable step in human communication, but being able to do so across a distance of thousands of miles is a critically important proof-of-principle for the development of brain-to-brain communications. We believe these experiments represent an important first step in exploring the feasibility of complementing or bypassing traditional language-based or motor-based communication."


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I did this monsters storytime the last week of October as a slightly scary option that wasn't actually HALLOWEEN. But one nice thing about monsters is that you can use this theme any time!
Here's what we did:
Opening Song: My Hands Say Hello
Book: Big Scary Monster by Thomas Docherty (Templar, 2010). Big Scary Monster loves scaring all the other creatures, but when he heads down the mountain in search of more creatures to scare, he finds himself getting scared and lonely.
Felt: Go Away, Big Green Monster (based on the book by Ed Emberley) Not only does this felt story reinforce body parts vocabulary, it shows kids that they have nothing to fear from monsters.
Book: Go to Bed, Monster by Natasha Wing (HMH, 2007).
Song: If You're a Monster and You Know It
(gnash your teeth, show your claws, stomp your paws, wiggle your tail, give a roar)
Source: Miss Meg's Storytime
Book: Jeremy Draws a Monster by Peter McCarty (Henry Holt BYR, 2009). Jeremy is a lonely little boy but when he attempts to draw himself a friend, he ends up with a rude monster.
Felt: Five Little Monsters Jumping on the Bed. Miss T made me this super cute felt with the template from Falling Flannelboards.
Book: Creepy Monsters, Sleepy Monsters by Jane Yolen (Candlewick Press, 2011).
Closing Song: Do You Know What Time It Is?
Play Stations:
- Blocks (we always get the blocks out!)
- Monster paper bag puppets