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Pink Saturday~A Repeat
Hi everyone! This is a repeat post. Sorry about that but, we have been without internet since last night and I was caught off guard. But, this is a good one to repost since, I am redoing this little tin hanging basket-ish thing for a little splash of spring. When I get it redone, I will show ya how it turned out.
It's Pink Saturday already! Wow, this week went by so quick! Stop by and visit Beverly at How Sweet the Sound And check out everyone else's pinks for the week!
My pink is just a little find found at Salvation Army a couple of month ago.
It's just a little "Shabby Chic" metal wall basket with pink roses on the front. It was brand new with the Michael's tags for $9.99 still on it. It as marked $1.99 but,it was blue sticker day so it was half off.
It even had the original shower puffs in it still connected to the price tag.
I'm not sure what I am going to do with it yet. But, I thought it was pretty and a great price.
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One of these days I WILL get to go shopping with you! Adorable!ReplyDelete
xoxo Pattie
I agree, great find! Happy Pink Saturday!ReplyDelete
Good Grief!! I Love, love, love this wall basket! So pretty and pink too!ReplyDelete
That is so adorable, Diann. Love the colors...ChristineReplyDelete
How cute and a lucky find! :)ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMarch 6, 2010 at 11:59 AM
Oh, I love it. Lucky you. Happy Pink Saturday.ReplyDelete
Happy PS!ReplyDelete
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"Do these shoes match this purse?"
It is very pretty and I could so see that being used to do a tea party!ReplyDelete
Diann, love the wall basket/bucket. I have some (in green) and love them, yours is so pretty with the pink roses. Great find.ReplyDelete
Great find!ReplyDelete
Happy Pink Saturday!
Hugs, Lisa
Hi Diann, happy P.S. a day late..we were so busy yesterday buying and planting plants in the yard, friends stopped by and we went out to lunch and I had to nap, to didnt get to very many Pinks yesterday..ReplyDelete
I love love love the wall basket..that is the DEAL of the year..why don't I see these things when I am out and about??? hehe..
Have a great week, hugs
- AnonymousMarch 7, 2010 at 5:36 PM
Lovely pink find ... new to ME ;-)ReplyDelete
Glad you got your Internet back in time to post.
Hugs and blessings,
Thank you for taking the time to comment! I love to hear your ideas. If you ask a question, I will answer it here in a comment back to you. Please check back! Thank you for visiting and have a wonderful day! Diann :)

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Last year's writer-in-residence at Manchester's Centre For New Writing, poet Neil Rollinson returns to the city to read from his latest collection, Demolition (Jonathan Cape, 2007).
What's changed since your first collection, A Spillage Of Mercury, came out in 1996?
I've probably got a bit more serious as time's gone by. The first book was full of youthful enthusiasm. My most recent book, Demolition, I've written since my father died, so there are more poems about mortality.
Are you a fan of Joe Stretch, your reading partner tonight?
We were writers-in-residence at the same time. I live in London now and he lives in Manchester, so I don't get to see him that much, but I'm loving his novel, Friction. It's the first time I've laughed out loud at a book.
One of your poems is called Half-life, another Entropy. Why do you incorporate scientific terms into your writing?I never trained as a scientist, I've just been curious about science. I just finished a new poem that was commisioned by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation to do with space and poetry. I came to Manchester to visit a scientist who works at Jodrell Bank and she took me through some concepts about radio astronomy.
You used to write poems about sex. Why did you want to tackle such a hard-to-translate subject?
Because I was an idiot. It is hard; it's a genre that's flooded with cliché, Mills & Boon and so on. I think I did a good job on those and I became quite well known for being an erotic poet.
You don't think you're in line for Literary Review's Bad Sex Award, then?
I've never really had a bad response from anybody. They're basically celebratory; they're not smutty or dirty. Most of the people I've read them to have said: 'Wow, I'm glad you read that, I haven't heard anything like that in poetry before.'
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Machinery will go head-to-head in a battle for blood at Churchill's Saturday night. Okay, so probably blood won't factor into the battle, and the most we could hope for is that someone throws their MacBook across the room. Nope, this is just a simple battle for laptop musicianship supremacy.
The 2008 Miami Edition of Laptop Battle will feature twelves local competitors, which include such notables as Peasants With Feathers, PG-13 and the Deuce Crew, along with celebrity guest judges Otto Von Schirach and HAL 9000 (er, the super computer from 2001? Maybe not), and hosted by MC Kentsoundz. The winner receives prices from Ableton, Native Instruments and M-Audio.
So go out and support the digital contenders and hope your favorite walks out a winner, 'cause, shoot, the new version of Ableton Live 7 is $499 and even DJs/producers gotta eat!
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Don't Flip the Fish: Rules of Etiquette at a Meal in China
I'm a bit drunk ! How's that for starters?
Blame the Baijiu. The stuff of legends, or leg ends. Depends where you are. I'm in Huayuan and its been a funny old day. Last night I made a call to Mr Ma, he works for the government education department. From there on it was full Chinese hospitality at its finest.
Chinese are absolute masters at making you feel welcome. Even if you're a foreigner with the language abilities of a plum you'll be alright. Lucky really. A local English teacher was called upon and then it was all go, go, go.
In came the food and out came the Baijiu. Baijiu is a white spirit that makes you shudder and leaves an aftertaste like an earthquake. Good stuff. We were all served a small bottle with a clay top that needed to be smashed off to reveal the cork. One bottle is basically one big shot glass full.
Old habits die hard, and with me being so fit, I am able to hold my drink pretty well. When asked if i wanted more, I thought why not? since your asking. They were only being polite I think, and thought I would say "no". We had a laugh about levels of tolerance and then the second round came in. One guy dropped out and lost face for Hunan.
It was a really great dinner and I learnt a lot about the do's, the don'ts and the, it doesn't maters. Here is a brief summary of what to do and not to do during dinner.
Etiquette at a Chinese meal seems complicated but its not. Do the following and you'll be fine.
Don't tuck in until the host says to do so. No different to a western meal really. Common sense. You will be urged to try each dish, but you don't have to do it straight away. There is seemingly lots of pressure during a meal to eat everything and try everything. It's just their way of making sure you are taken care for. Slowly slowly.
Very important: Never drink alone.
Water and soft drinks are ok, but alcohol is a social drink. "Cheers" or "Ganbei" each time you drink, or simply tap your glass on the table making eye contact with the person you want to ganbei. You don't have to ganbei everyone each time, you can single people out. It's good to individually ganbei people at the table especially if they are the host, some other special person, or if they simply haven't been drinking very much. Get them back, because you're involved in every toast and are getting more and more pissed. **Editors note for you Americans: pissed in British/Canadian English means drunk rather than or in addition to angry.
You don't need to drink the whole glass, even if the other person decides to do so. If they say the 'whole glass' then either politely say 'just a little' or go along with it. Up to you.
Ganbei literally means dry glass, as in 'down the hatch'. Not always so though. Play it by ear. Basically though everyone will try and get you hammered.
Don't feel pressured if you're not into it. It's not rude to say you don't drink or will only drink a little bit. Just be firm, but friendly and it's fine.
Sometimes at the beginning of a meal you will be asked if you prefer beer of Baijiu. Baijiu is normal for a welcoming or formal dinner. But you can still ask for beer. Even though it is a formal meal, if Baijiu is ordered the meal will soon become jolly and relaxed. Relax with the whole occasion. The more you relax the more your host will relax.
Don't worry about making a mess.
All bones or gristle that you can't eat go on the floor or the table. These are considered separate universes so you can use them freely. If you have a fish bone, single it out and spit it out.
If the food is spicy eat some congee (rice soup). Good for calming down your mouth.
If you blow your nose on a tissue, drop it on the floor. It is considered disgusting to put a dirty tissue in your pocket or on the table. Remember the floor is a separate Universe. Once something is dropped on it, it is not even noticed. Same goes for litter.
Don't flip the fish if there is one. Its bad luck to do so. The Chinese are superstitious and flipping a fish has the same connotations as a capsized boat. If the dish has lots of fish in it then don't worry about not flipping them. You'll have a nightmare otherwise for absolutely no reason.
Don't stuff your face then just suddenly stop. Best to gradually stop eating, and rub your belly maybe. Leave some food in your bowl and some drink in your glass. If you empty it each time, someone will refill it as they are good hosts. To leave food unfinished means that you are satisfied and that the host provided too much.
It is quite natural for a western person to finish the food as it is considered an insult maybe that you didn't like it enough to finish. Depends I guess. Anyway. If you're full, you're full, but leave a bit in your bowl and glass anyway. Saves a load of hassle.
Like in any country compliment the food. Quite often you are an honoured guest so the host wants to make sure you enjoy yourself.
There is no need to keep saying thank you the whole time. If you have made it this far you are already considered a friend and friends don't need to keep saying thank you to each other.
This is one of many things that are misinterpreted by westerners. Chinese do not always say thank you. If you are a friend then it is just accepted that you mean well. To keep saying thank you is a bit dodgy and suspicious. But don't worry. Ample room is made for your cultural errors.
Make a toast, or even a few. Say all the things that you think you should say. Be bold, say it with conviction. 'You feel very welcome' or 'you are happy to make good friends'. You can of course say thank you in a toast, just not all the time when someone gives you a drink, a bowl of rice or the waitress gives you a new Chopstick that you dropped.
There must be other rules, but from what I can work out, the above are the fundamentals.
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Well the stage is set. John McCain versus Barack Obama. And you have to make a choice. Many of us already have. But whether you are ready to vote today or you are still undecided, you have a responsibility.
That responsibility is to know where your candidate stands on the issues critical to our country. I urge everyone to learn where Obama and McCain stand on these critical issues.
Choosing a president based only on the fact that he has an electrifying presence or that he has decades of experience and service is the wrong way to decide. You owe it to our country to see where these men stand on the issues.
And finding that out has never been easier thanks to the internet. On-line you can check out each candidates website and see exactly what their position is on issues like immigration, social security, the war on terror, the economy and others.
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ARC Book Review: The Strays by Emily Bitto
ashley | There's something I find so mesmerizing and fascinating about the bohemian artist's life and that magic is brought to life in The Strays by Emily Bitto. I felt so swept up in this book, I may as well have moved across the world to be taken in by the fantastical Trenthams.
Told from split points in the 1930's and 1980's, Lily recounts her childhood adventure as the close friend of Eva Trentham and her time on the sidelines of their bohemian home come artist's commune and what that means for her and the three young daughters who blossom without any real adult supervision or guidelines.
Lily was rather unglamourous except as our narrator, but this subtly gave the reader the opportunity to slip into her shoes and feel almost as if they, themselves, were recounting their own childhood. But Lily didn't have to shine, she was surrounded by enough eccentric characters to carry this story. Eva was that kind of confident free spirit you can't help but be drawn to, Bea seemed like the only responsible one in the entire family, parents included. Heloise was certainly colourful in a very odd way. And then the remaining artists who inhabited the home to make up the circle all had their own interesting attributes.
As a debut, I quite liked the story and Bitto's writing. But ultimately, it didn't wow me. I enjoyed it, it was a nice read, but although it likely was for the time period, it wasn't necessarily shocking or unexpected. It was also influenced by certain facts and the existence of similar people in similar situations, which I didn't know going in and was kind of disappointed to find out.
In a way, this reminded me a bit of The Virgin Suicides, not necessarily for the content, but for the dreamy feel and the way these four naive girls were trying to come into their own while living in their own destructive dreamworld, a dreamworld that was basically constructed by their artist parents.
I'd be very curious to read more of Bitto's work, to see what other worlds she can build perhaps outside the inspiration she took from this particular art world. But she is off to a strong start and I was certainly smitten with this anything but normal family and their commune of strays.
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Since the moment Goose Island announced their new Rare Bourbon County Stout, there's been a lot of rigmarole about pricing for high-end beers, especially since this new bottle of Rare at 16.9 ounces will clock in at $60 retail. That's no small number in the beer world, even for craft which fetches higher and higher premiums every year based on exotic ingredients, experimental processes, and demand in the market. That price tag has motivated people in the media to break it down to a price-per-ounce comparison to the last Rare from 5 years ago, and compare it to other fantastic stouts on the shelf that go for far less. But does that makes sense? Is a $60 price tag unreasonable? Is that even the point?
It's worth noting that I have an ongoing relationship with Goose Island, with whom I do strategic and creative work that we're both very proud of. That means I have a financial, emotional, and intellectual interest in their well-being. It also means I'm in the room when a lot of important discussions occur. So my bias can also be seen as a well-informed understanding of their decision-making process. That's also true of dozens of breweries around the country with whom I do this kind of work. So while this story is inspired by the recent conversation about Goose Island Rare, here it serves as a door into the larger issue of pricing that I think is very misunderstood by consumers and professionals alike. My goal is to educate and show the implications of narrow thinking on an industry I love. Of course, you'll decide what's right for you.
Pricing in beer has always been far more accessible than its comparables in wine or spirits. And a lot of that has to do with the "workaday" perception of beer, even as we transition our culture from the six-pack macro lagers to beers that are fruited with local farmers' crops, fermented in puncheons for 1-2 years, and produced on scales that don't even register a blip on same charts. It's still all "beer" in our minds, and I think that's holding us back from being able to appreciate what some of these products actually are.
Brewers have been slowly increasing the prices on high-end beers—largely because they're not just exceptions to their larger production schedules anymore. In fact, for some producers, like Side Project, they're the entire identity of the brewery itself. For breweries making a couple one-offs a year, it's easy to minimize a margin and cut your losses on something special because the rest of your operation makes up for it. That's how pricing gets balanced across a larger portfolio. But for smaller producers with a more narrow focus, that's not viable. Each beer has to earn its keep or get killed.
A few years ago, Founders Brewing Co. decided to raise the prices on the lower-cost portion of their portfolio, those workaday six packs, in order to subsidize Cerise, a very expensive fruited beer. Their goal was to get the beer into the hands of more people, and actually connect with the target audience for that beer, which is a mix of beer geeks (who are attracted to its uniqueness and quality), and decidedly-not-beer-geeks (mainstream consumers who just thought of it as a great fruited beer with a phenomenal flavor). They had to choose between making a more efficient fruited beer—either sourcing less interesting, less quality fruit—or raising prices somewhere else. They chose the latter.
Each brewery has to balance pricing in their portfolio against their own goals, against their through-put in a competitive market, and where the market is telling them they have the most flexibility. And that's the key for me. It's not about high or low prices. It's about flexibility.
The lower end of the beer pricing market was established long ago, and it still haunts craft beer to this day. Any craft brewer trying to move a Lager or a Pale Ale has to compete, in some ways, with the cost of a Budweiser or a Miller Lite. Because if they separate too far from that benchmark, they're no longer making "beer" in a way that a mainstream consumer will recognize. They're making some sort of specialty product that belongs in its own world.
Craft beer has always battled with this reality of the market, and over time, it's been able to successfully increase prices for a core six-pack beer into the $10 range in most urban markets. To Lagunitas founder Tony Magee's point, he's never charged more for his beer than he does right now. And for other craft brewers, his prices are still low enough that it's serving as a bit of a new perception blocker for craft drinkers who look at a $7.99 Lagunitas six-pack and compare that to a $9.99 four-pack and wonder why they're paying more. There will always be a low-end benchmark for pricing, but thankfully that low-end continues to creep upwards (slowly), and at least craft is being compared to other craft at this point. It's keeping the lights on.
Now, let's talk about the high-end. There have been some seemingly crazy price points for beers lately, but really, this is a sign of the market correcting itself from being held back for too long. Compare beer to the wine world, and you see a much narrower tolerance for pricing tiers in beer than you do in wine. Wine has producers that range from Three-Buck Chuck to the $10 sweet spot for a decent wine, hitting every increment into the hundreds of dollars on most larger retailers' shelves. We're not even talking about the after-market exchanges here.
The argument can be made that wine deals in much more defined ingredient costs than beer. After all, wine comes from grapes, which grow on a hill somewhere with confined lots and characteristic terroir, and there's only one vintage a year. In that way, it's a much less manufactured product than a beer, which can be made anywhere at any time, to some degree. But again, that's looking at "beer" as a fairly narrow concept. That's commodity beer—Lagers, Pale Ales, Ambers. Beers that, regardless of their quality, have a fairly understandable cost structure to them, which is what I mean by "commodity." That's not a value judgment on the style's worth.
However, the higher-end market of beer is made up of an entirely different set of factors much more akin to wine, whether they're Wild Ales, beers made with estate-grown fruit (similar to wine grapes), barrel-aged and/or fermented, or any number of harvested (timely) or exotic ingredients. Consider the costs of limes last year when the cartels in South America were holding them hostage. Or the cost of using a local micromaster's grains compared to super sacks of malt from a commodity producer. Or the timeliness of harvesting hops for a fresh hop beer. And, of course, the costs of the aging process and the barrels they're in, which are more competitively shopped around than ever before. These are the kinds of beers being haunted by the old commodity definition of "beer" when it comes to pricing. And these are the breweries that require a new kind of tolerance and flexibility in the minds of the consumer if they're going to survive.
Consumers are a funny bunch. They often demand two opposing ideals at the same time. People want the best things in the world, and they want them for cheap. The more we demand that things costs less, the harder it becomes to meet consumers' quality requirements, and the harder it is to produce the beer a brewer really wants to make.
There are trade-offs. And many of them are sheltered from the consumer in order to avoid the other side of the unreasonable argument—quality and craftsmanship. Lagunitas, for example, has been using hop resin—large, Juicy-Juice-style cans of bittering hop liquid—instead of hop cones or pellets for a long time now. The reason is because it's a cost-efficient way of using hops that wouldn't live up to their aromatic standards, or it's a failed crop that they guaranteed they'd buy from the farmer in the pursuit of a new hop variety worth the risk of failure. There's nothing wrong with this method, but it's not something most consumers would be interested in when compared to the platonic ideal of what an IPA is in their heads. To the casual consumer, this method might feel grotesque, or like an abomination to their demand for a fresh, beautiful IPA, but up against the pricing demands from the same consumer, something has to give. You can't have your cake and eat it too. Unless we're talking about "hop cake," like SweetWater uses as an efficiency ingredient. Leave no hop residue behind.
And the more retailers start to align with those consumers because they're the frontline of the market, the bigger the squeeze gets on breweries to perform and make trade-offs. That could be a trade-off in the quality, ingredients, or process of the beer. Or worse, that beer might not be viable at all given the pricing limits in the market based on an outdated perception. And that beer won't get made. For retailers, it's easier to push back on the costs of goods than it is to educate the consumer and build an understanding and appreciation for a new kind of product. It takes multiple engagements with consumers to help them see something like "beer" in a new light. Consumers need encouragement to take risks and learn from their experiences. And they need strong retailers who are able to encourage them on that journey.
Pushing back on producers to keep prices down is a tactic more suitable for Walmart than craft beer retailers. Walmart forces their will back up the value chain—in terms of pricing, of course, but also production schedules, features, packaging, and pretty much anything that helps increase their effectiveness at selling a product and making a profit. Likewise, larger retailers, such as Binny's, as well as big-box retailers, have been pushing their needs back up the value chain, forcing breweries to adapt to the market rather than have the market adapt to the brewers. Some of this is extremely helpful input that helps brewers plan better. But some of it potentially creates a ceiling under which brewers must operate in order to have access to market. And none of that has to do with creating new and interesting beers that are worth paying more for.
Right now, we have more beers available at lower prices and higher quality than at any point in our nation's history. This means that production of those beers will eventually outweigh demand, and a pricing evolution is one way to solve for that. Pricing has to consider demand and velocity (the rate at which beers move through the market, ideally before they're out of code). As the market gets more crowded, and shelf and tap spaces gets more limited, brewers will need to sell less beer at a higher margin in order to maintain viability. It's a simple equation. And it's the opposite of what many breweries are doing, where they make more and more low-to-mid-range beers, and try to fill the market with as much volume as possible, hoping they can make the same or slightly more money based on volume alone.
What we have, then, is a schism in the market. We have the low end engaging in price wars, slashing the prices of kegs and six-packs in order to get volume. And we have the high-end trying to break through the perception limits on what beer should, and can, cost. And if you're a brewery like Goose Island, you're big enough that you have to play both ends at once. So you get cheaper and cheaper 312, and more and more expensive Gillian and Bourbon County. It's a portfolio balancing mechanism that creates flexibility across a large number of beer brands.
Of course, $60 for a beer might not be in your budget. Anyone would be perfectly sane to weigh their options depending on their personal priorities. But the chatter that I see, from consumers and retailers alike, who are associating a $60 beer with some sort of money-grab and exploitation, are severely hindered by their perception of what "beer" costs and ignorance of the many factors at play outside of the direct costs of ingredients. Commodity pricing has no place in a beer of this sort. It's a one-and-done beer that challenges even the most experienced and efficient brewers in the creation of a viable product for the market. Without the 35-year-old Heaven Hill barrels, or the aging process, or the custom-blown glass bottles, or the 20+ years of continuous experience making one of the best Imperial Bourbon Barrel-Aged Stouts in the world, the product simply doesn't exist. Like anyone who seeks out a 23-year Pappy, no one is paying a straight cost per ounce—they're paying for the ride. And that's either something you care about, or you don't.
But I, for one, find the price tag to be perfectly reasonable and hope that it's indicative of a future where brewers can price their products against ingredients, process, packaging, and market demand accordingly, without being labelled greedy or exploitative. Brewers should have the freedom to experiment, show pride in their beers and the packaging that accompanies them, and generally explore new territory without fear of consumers and retailers cynically suggesting that they're doing it for the wrong reasons.
Not every beer needs to be accessible. Sometimes that's the price of making new things at extremely limited scale or with major risk of failure. And I'm not lobbying for beer across the board to be more expensive, not for that sake alone. I'm arguing for a greater tolerance among consumers and retailers toward the costs associated with certain beers, or the revenue opportunities they legitimately represent for those breweries in a wider spectrum of considerations. Otherwise, this industry you're claiming you have passion for and want to see grow is being held back by your own narrow idea of "what beer costs."
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"Seat at the Table" is a new series hosted by Isabelle Racicot, a well known television and radio host in Quebec, and Martine St-Victor, a communications expert, specializing in pop culture and politics, who runs her own PR firm in Montreal. In the segment of their show called Elephant in the Room, Racicot and St-Victor explore the idea that very successful women can make the rest of us feel bad about ourselves. About our choice to work hard. That the exhortations of uber-successful women on how we should be successful, happy, and healthy, and at the same time live more balanced lives, sometimes make other women feel guilty, unworthy, or unhappy with their own choices. And that this is particularly frustrating when these "helpful" exhortations are patently unrealistic. Or sometimes even hypocritical.
Racicot and St-Victor call out successful women like Arianna Huffington and Sheryl Sandberg who have both written and spoken on how to be successful and, at the same time, have more "balance" in our lives. Whether that means getting enough sleep like Huffington, or leaving the office every day at 5:30 like Sandberg. I chuckled as I listened to the clip from Arianna Huffington's Ted Talk on the importance of sleep because I used that same Ted Talk in a post I wrote about sleep a while ago. And, like Racicot and St-Victor, I noticed that, oddly enough, Huffington pitches sleep as a "feminist issue." As I said in my post, Huffington's Ted Talk was presented at a women's conference, so I guess she felt she had to spin the issue that way. Still, it seemed a bit like pandering to me. But never mind.
|The beavers in Algonquin Park have been working hard.
Finally, Racicot and St-Victor talk about Indra Nooyi, CEO of PepsiCo. In an interview at the Aspen Ideas Festival in 2014, Nooyi is refreshingly honest and witty in her discussion of how hard it is to work and raise a family. You can hear the whole interview with Indra Nooyi here if you're interested. After jokingly making reference to an interview in which self-help guru, actress, and super-mom Gwyneth Paltrow tells Conan O'Brien that she would "rather die than let [her] kid eat Cup-a-Soup," St-Victor and Racicot exhort their listeners: "don't be a Gwyneth, be an Indra." They stress that most working women do not have the luxury of being able to make the kinds of choices suggested by wealthy and privileged women like Arianna Huffington, Sheryl Sandberg, and even Gwyneth Paltrow. But that's a whole issue in itself, isn't it? Still, despite all the celebrity advice out there Racicot and St-Vistor say they refuse to feel bad about loving their work, and working hard at their jobs.
So what the heck is my point in all this? Well. Kind of the same as Racicot and St-Victor's... at least partly. And it constitutes only a small part of the whole issue of work. That maybe working hard is getting a bad rap these days. We're all busy telling each other not to be so busy, not to make work our whole lives, not to work so hard that we have nothing but work in our lives... all of which I agree with. I think that work-life balance is very important. But it also seems we've lost the idea that hard work has its own benefits. Beyond climbing the corporate ladder. Beyond getting a pay raise to allow for the bigger house, the new car each year, the fancier vacation, whatever. We seem to have lost the idea that there is inherent value in doing a job as well as you can. No matter what that job may be.
|My step-father's old lumber mill, falling down now.
And this week I started thinking about all of this with respect to blogging. Because now that I'm retired, and I'm no longer 'gainfully' employed, blogging has become my job. I mean, I don't make money from my blog. But it's more than just a "hobby" to me. And doing it as well as I can is important to me. How hypocritical would it be of me to spend all those years pushing kids to do their best, asking them to read, research, write, rewrite, and rewrite again, if I simply turned around and did the opposite? And what I gain from all my hard work is satisfaction. The opportunity to have a voice, have my say, so to speak. Plus, the chance to use my time and my abilities to do something I love. And if what I want to say is important to me, why would I not work hard to do it justice?
|Besides blogging I also work hard to keep up with Hubby.
Don't get me wrong. I don't think that it's a bad thing for bloggers, or anybody doing any job, to be fairly remunerated for their hard work. That would be silly. I think people should be paid a living wage so young parents don't have to work three part-time jobs to make ends meet. And I regularly read and enjoy many excellent blogs which make money for the blogger. I look at a couple of these women bloggers as role models, and aspire to be as good as they are some day.
I know that being paid for our work is society's preferred way of saying that our work has value. But I'm saying that money is not the only compensation that makes our work worthwhile. That's the "elephant in the room" for me. When I was still teaching, I didn't make more salary if I worked harder, designed more creative lessons, or stayed up later researching a new idea. But I sure felt more satisfaction if I knew that I had done my very best for the kids.
So... should the blogger on the "big blog" I mentioned above have spent a few more hours, working harder to write a more worthwhile post which would probably not have garnered any more sales than the flippant one? I think so. Because if something is worth doing, isn't it worth doing well?
Gad. What a Pollanna I am.
Enough with all this serious stuff. I'm off to visit my buddy Liz at Nordstrom in a couple of days. Who wants to talk shopping?
P.S. I'm adding these few thoughts after I read Ramona's comment below. I tossed and turned last night after I hit publish on this post. Knowing that some readers would think I was missing the point. But that's because there are so many points in this issue to explore. I really believe in a fair wage for quality work. I also understand that so many of us do not have the luxury of angsting about whether our work is satisfying enough. As a single parent of four kids my mum worked two jobs when we were kids, before she married my stepfather and we moved to the farm. She couldn't quibble about work-life balance. She didn't have time.
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The Witching Hour follows Witches: Hunted, Appropriated, Empowered, Queered (2012), a collection of texts and interviews which examined the witch figure as a metaphor for alterity. Conceived as its visual companion and as the catalogue of a group exhibition held at the art centre Le Quartier Quimper, the book explores the following questions: What do witches embody? What mechanisms and affects do they summon? How was this "unfortunate class"—as Jules Michelet has called them—raised to the rank of protofeminist? And what political, social and human lessons have they handed down to us?
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LITTLE ROCK, Ark., Feb. 17 /PRNewswire/ -- The Republican Party of Arkansas presented keynote Speaker Sarah Palin with an engraved Henry Repeating Arms Big Boy 44 Magnum rifle last night at their fundraising event at the Verizon Arena in Little Rock. The rifle was personalized with serial number PALIN-001, the brass receiver was inscribed with 'Presented to Sarah Palin - February 16, 2010 -Republican Party of Arkansas' and the Republican Party of Arkansas' logo was carved into the buttstock.
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Palin began her keynote speech in front of a cheering crowd of 5,000 by thanking the Republican Party of Arkansas for the beautiful rifle, noting that she even called her son Track to tell him about it, and stated, "It's great to be in a state where it's okay to cling to your guns and religion."
President Lincoln was presented with a Henry rifle during his presidency. It hangs in The Smithsonian and has become a priceless national treasure.
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Henry Repeating Arms is one of the country's leading rifle manufacturers. Their legendary name dates back to 1860 when Benjamin Tyler Henry invented and patented the first practical repeating rifle during the Civil War. It became known as the "gun you could load on Sunday and shoot all week long." Henry rifles went on to play a significant role in the frontier days of the American West and soon became one of the most legendary, respected and sought after rifles in the history of firearms. The company's primary manufacturing facility is in Bayonne, New Jersey and they have a second facility in Rice Lake, Wisconsin.
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I had a pretty shitty weekend. It was supposed to be good. It was a holiday. I was going to spend time with my family at the family cabin. There would be drinks, cards, a fire, kids, family and friends. Everything was set up to be great. And it started out that way.
Friday morning, I stopped off for a couple growlers of beer to take with us. As I waited for them to be filled, I thought it might be nice to have a touch of bourbon to close each night. So I looked at the bourbon selection and settled on one I hadn't had before but could blog about. Might as well take one for the team, right?
We were supposed to build a new fire pit over the weekend, but I noticed shortly after pulling in that my mom and step-dad had already finished it. This is going to be a nice weekend, I thought to myself. And so it seemed. That afternoon, we sat around the new fire pit and variously, read a book, played a game, or talked. It was a very nice afternoon. We had nice supper and then ended up playing cards. I broke into the growlers. Everything was going well.
It was a nice slow morning the next day. Relaxing. We ran to town, got supplies and generally enjoyed each other's company while waiting for the rest of the group to get there. One of the highlights of the weekend was going to be the time I got to spend with my niece and nephew who were coming with my brother and his wife that afternoon.
And everything went well until I noticed how my brother was treating my nephew (well, step-nephew, but I don't count such things). You see he is on medication for ADHD and is suspected of suffering from depression. He is a rascal, to put it mildly. I identify a lot with what he is going through. I'm also the product of divorced parents. I also had a step-dad who met me while he wasn't sure how to handle being a parent. I had problems with my mom, my dad, my step-dad, my step-mothers, my grandparents and step-grandparents…I was just generally an angry kid who suffered with undiagnosed depression (it wouldn't be diagnosed until I was much older and dealing with my own teenager). I saw that I didn't fit in in most of the "families" I had. Either I was related, but only seen every few months or I wasn't related and was just another kid hanging about. All except my one set of grandparents. My mother leaned on them so much that my grandfather became sort of a surrogate father to me. He was the one I rebelled against, not my biological father. But he was also the one I looked up to more than anyone else.
I grew up with this hanging over my head for a long time. I was so angry. I was a good kid for the most part, but inside I was searching for why I didn't belong. I just wanted to feel loved. And if that couldn't happen, noticed. And when it came time for me to adopt my own daughter, I promised myself that she wouldn't feel that way. That she would be loved and accepted by the family that I felt, at the time, had never fully accepted me.
Guess what? I failed. I didn't know how to be a parent at 19. I didn't know how to take care of a teenager at 29. I didn't know how to be the parent of a kid going through normal teenage stuff while dealing with the fact that she knew her dad had adopted her. Knowing that in order for that to happen, another man needed to have decided he didn't want to be her dad. That's heavy stuff. I wasn't ready for it. I lashed out like an angry baby and, much like my step-father and I while I was living at home, we never really saw eye to eye. And to top it off, I don't know that parts of my extended family ever fully accepted her as family either. I have a sister I haven't talked to for years over some of her comments.
So now, I see this happening with my nephew who is going through the same things I went through and then also the same things my daughter went through. And enough was enough. My brother is a father of two biological kids and can't see he isn't treating them the same way. My mother doesn't realize that the things she's saying are being absorbed and internalized by my nephew. On three separate occasions, I stepped in where I probably shouldn't have (though my sister-in-law thanked me). I became an advocate for my nephew because I hate that I can see the same things that happened to me, and then to my daughter, happen to him. I picked two fights with my brother and one with my mother over it. I spent a lot of time alone in the camper because I was so mad I thought I'd do or say something I'd regret.
It's a good thing I bought that bourbon. It wasn't the best bourbon I'd ever had, but it was enough to calm the nerves and let me breathe when I thought I would say something stupid. Nights around the fire may have included more than I should have had, but taking a sip instead of saying something stupid worked ok to keep me sorta talking to my brother.
That bourbon? Wathen's Single Barrel. Once I got home, I decided to review it and pour a couple samples for my sample library. That finished the bottle off. So, even though the bourbon was a welcome relief to a shitty weekend, how did it fair in the cold light of day?
Wathen's Single Barrel
Purchase Info: $29.99, 750 mL, Casanova Liquor, Hudson, WI.
Details: Barrel number: 4730. Bottled on July 22, 2014. 47% ABV
Nose: Vanilla, caramel, toasted almonds, faint melon and some oak.
Mouth: Dry woodiness. Hot in the mouth. Caramel, toasted almonds and oak.
Finish: Lingering heat and oak fading to a bitterness that if it were paired with more than just woody flavors would be pleasant.
Thoughts: For me? Meh. I'm not a fan of overly dry, woody bourbons. And to my palate, that's what this is. It's more so than I would have expect from an NAS bourbon.
Speaking of NAS, I do have a few beefs with this bourbon. The first being just that. This is an NAS bourbon. But right in the middle of the label is a large "eight" in a a script font. Under that in smaller type is the word "generations." This subconsciously suggest and eight-year age statement. I know because I had to keep stopping myself from thinking of it as an 8-year old over and over. And I know better. Secondly, I really wish people would use a screw cap. That photo above? That's the cork. It broke the second time we opened the bottle. Not only is a screw cap going to keep the bourbon inside tastier if it lasts more than a weekend, but it has a much smaller chance of failure.
So your milage may vary, but for me? I won't be buying this again. Not even to soothe a really shitty weekend that brought back way too many feels.
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How many times have you simply applied for a job and left your application in the hands of fate? Kind of risky if you ask me. Is there anything you can do to increase the odds that someone will actually review your resume?
Use The 2 Step Method
Most job applicants won't take the time to do these two steps, and that's the reason I recommend you do it. The first step is easy. You know that drill. You find a job online and modify your resume to showcase the most important qualifications you have for the job and send a kicking cover letter that explains why you want to work at that company (this requires you've done research and know more than the company's name).
Step 2 is what I want to talk to you about. Go find someone who works for that company. Simple idea but time consuming to implement.
If you can find a strong ally, supporter, cheerleader, or advocate inside the company will that increase the odds of your resume getting reviewed? It is called an employee referral and it is powerful. According to the 2012 CareerXroads source of hiring study, the number one source of external hiring was employee referrals (28%)! Good to know! This is why Step 2 is so important. You are leveraging the power of an inside contact to refer you.
LinkedIn- A Powerhouse
LinkedIn is the go-to source for finding inside connections. When you go to a company's page on LinkedIn, see who works there and who you are connected to. If your network is tiny, that is, you have fewer than 100 connections on LinkedIn, finding first level connections is going to be tough*.
*It is important to remind you that your LinkedIn connections should mirror your real-life connections and I'm pretty sure you interacted with more than 100 other professionals over the past couple of years. But this isn't just a number game. The strength of your relationship with your connection is equally important.
Don't Stop
Twitter, Facebook, Google+, and Pinterest all draw different crowds and may enable you to tap into employees who work for the company you are applying to. Search them all. If you have the same results I did, you will find some employees on one network you were unable to find on others.
Unlike LinkedIn, Twitter and Google+ are open networks which don't require someone to accept your invite to see what they are saying on these platforms. The benefit to you is that you can or could begin immediately building a relationship with company insiders without waiting for a referral, as you usually would on LinkedIn.
Use Twitter and Twitter search tools to find inside connections. Then use Facebook to see who you are connected to in your personal network. We often overlook the fact that our friends and family may know people who can help us professionally. And don't forget about Google+ and Pinterest.
You don't have to use them all…but it is good to know about them.
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Flagship Course on Health Systems Strengthening: focus on noncommunicable diseases
27 April–1 May 2015, Barcelona, Spain
The WHO Regional Office for Europe is hosting the 11th Flagship Course on Health Systems Strengthening to be held from 27 April to 1 May 2015 in Barcelona, Spain. The course is offered by the Division of Health Systems and Public Health of the WHO Regional Office for Europe through the WHO Barcelona Office for Health Systems Strengthening and focuses on noncommunicable diseases (NCDs).
The deadline for receiving applications is 20 March 2015.
The week-long intensive and interactive course takes a systematic approach to health systems strengthening in order to address the growing burden of NCDs. Integrating theory and practice, the course tackles a number of key topics, incorporating:
- assessing health system performance, including progress on NCD outcomes towards the NCD Global Monitoring Framework 2025 targets and equity dimensions;
- systematically diagnosing determinants of health system performance;
- reviewing regional trends in the coverage of core NCD interventions and services, with a focus on options to scale up individual health services for cardiovascular disease, diabetes and cancer;
- tackling health system challenges through effective policies such as making priority-setting more explicit in line with health system goals, empowering the population to become front-line workers in managing their chronic conditions, strengthening the models of care for early detection and proactive management of NCDs, ensuring better continuity and coordination across providers and aligning incentives with desired service delivery solutions;
- learning from good practice experiences in Europe through two "good practice roundtables";
- carrying out an own country exercise.
In each module, participants and trainers will be engaged in interactive discussions.
The course will be delivered in English with simultaneous translation to Russian.
FacultyThe core training team will be composed of:
- Rifat Atun, Professor of Global Health Systems, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health;
- Tamás Evetovits, Head of Office a.i., WHO Barcelona Office for Health Systems Strengthening, WHO Regional Office for Europe;
- Melitta Jakab, Senior Health Financing Policy Analyst, WHO Regional Office for Europe;
- Sarah Thomson, Senior Health Financing Specialist, WHO Regional Office for Europe.
In addition to the core trainers, invited experts will share examples of good practice from Europe.
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The course is open to all 53 Member States in the WHO European Region and will accept a maximum of 50 participants. It is designed for national and regional government officials from health ministries, health insurance funds and economic and finance ministries; representatives of academic institutions, international and nongovernmental organizations; and health service providers in the public and private sectors.
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Virtual Banks – Are they the new "local" bank?
In last week's blog, Bank Branches – "News of my death has been greatly exaggerated", I argued that bank branches are not only thriving, but are the foundation customer interaction channel for most retail banks and that video will be the enabling technology to reinvigorate and reenergize the branch.
In the spirit of equal disclosure, I would like to point out that there are major two competing strategies regarding the retail bank. Many institutions, as I argued earlier, believe that the branch will continue to be an important channel for their retail customers and are investing heavily in their infrastructure.
Other "virtual banks" believe, and they are betting the bank's capitalization on their beliefs, that the branch structure as a vehicle for deposit collection and loan creation is financially unsustainable and in order to maintain a robust return on average assets have developed business models that eschews the branch concept. They chose to deliver their products and services utilizing Internet, call center, ATM and mobile channels exclusively.
Why this trend away from physical location? The virtual banks believe that the market is becoming more rational. They contend that customers will prefer the higher rates on deposits and lower rates on loans and video interactions, associated with lower-cost virtual models to the more traditional, albeit higher cost, physical location models.
Further, these virtual banks see technology moving from the bank branch to the customer (Internet, mobile phone, in-home video capabilities) obviating the need for extensive branch networks. And, while my generation, baby-boomers, finds a traditional bank branch reassuring, today's younger customers will be looking for institutions that are able to accommodate their lifestyles.
The question for the future is, "what is the most cost effective way to integrate and deliver retail banking functions?" What business model and technologies will maximize the bank's bottom line and be most accretive to the institution's stock price. Regardless of the model chosen, banks will strive to provide a level of customer service consistent with growth and profitability requirements. In short, banks will make every effort to become as low a cost provider as possible within market constraints. Banks will focus on business models and delivery channels that provide the greatest value and benefit to the majority of customers while reducing overall costs to the institution.
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Let Trust Be The Foundation
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What's life like with three kids and two pups? It's entertaining, that's for sure! MTME breaks down family fun ideas and shares personal insights from a former B2B editor and digital marketer turned mom running a business and a household -- all under one roof. With her husband as her #1 fan, there isn't anything she can't accomplish. Read on to learn how she breathes in fire and exhales success.
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Masshole Mommy
Without communication there can't be trust. I do trust my husband, but I need to be able to talk to him and vice versa first.
Fatima Lora
I think it's based on the relationship you have with your partner. For me, I need to trust you before I can freely communicate with someone. And that's what has helped my husband and I open up to each other.
ana de jesus
You are so right, if you don't have the foundation then how can you create a happy marriage? Open communication is the key to longevity.
Fatima Lora
Thanks, Ana. I'm all for communicating. You just have to make sure you're willing to put in work.
Charlotte TheMummyToolbox
I agree, they do go hand in hand, I am not one that is very open about my feelings in general so I need there to be an element of trust before I even let you in, and that's where I build from
Fatima Lora
Exactly. I'm the same way. I need to trust the person before I'll be completely honest with them.
Tanya @ Moms Small Victories
It sounds like you and your husband have made effective communication the cornerstone of your marriage and I think that's so important. Great post.
Fatima Lora
Thank you. It hasn't always been easy, but we try to always put ourselves in the other person's shoes.
Housewife Eclectic
Communication is the most important thing in a marriage for sure! And empathy for sure!
Fatima Lora
I love that you brought up empathy. It's definitely important for marriage, and relationships in general.
Claire C.
I'm impressed with people who have been married that long as well. Trust is SO important – when it's gone everything turns bad!
Fatima Lora
Yeah, you hear so many stories about divorce that it really makes you appreciate long-term relationships.
Amanda Love
Trust is very very important. I think that should really be the foundation that most relationship is based on. Without that, nothing else really matters.
Fatima Lora
That is true. Trust plays a huge role in relationships.
Roxanne Ferber
Communication is the key to all relationships. I also think people think confrontation is a negative thing, but it can be the catalyst for great growth.
Fatima Lora
I agree. It really has to do with how you confront people. Some will wait until they've had it and blow off steam. That's just a headache for the other person. And you suffer as well.
Shelly @ Behind Blue Eyes
Trust and communication are key in a relationship and go hand-in-hand. The moment you have to start playing detective in a relationship, you will not get that trust back. Without that trust, you will not communicate as you should.
Fatima Lora
I agree. It's such a great balance when you have both in your relationship. And based on experience, playing detective isn't fun.
Author TP Keane
for me, communication is only part of it. You also have to have respect and a willingness to see the other person happy. I've been married to my husband for nearly 16 years and I love him more now than I ever had. He's a wonderful man who does many little things to show me that he cares. That's all i need.
Fatima Lora
Hey TP, thanks for chiming in. I really love that you brought up how you love your husband more after 15+ years. It's beautiful (and inspiring) to know that the love between the two of you has increased with time.
Laura - Eye Candy Creative Studio
communication is HUGE with me & I have unfortunately been in some relationships where it has turned into not being that important for the other person – it sucks, I need it to function.
Fatima Lora
Hey Laura. The good news is you learned from those past relationships. That's what really matters.
I love this. Marriage can be so hard and it definitely takes so much work, but it's worth it!
Fatima Lora
Thanks for taking the time out to read my post, Sarah. I have to agree. Marriage is beautiful, but you need to put in work. Like any relationship, you need to nurture it.
Karissa Ancell
I hope to be one of those couples who are married 30 years. I'm at almost 12 years right now so I'm on my way.
Fatima Lora
Aww. Congrats on going over 10 years with your spouse. That's always such a blessing.
Heather Lawrence
My hubby and I have been married for going on 15 years and there have been some rough patches in our marriage. We found out early on not to try and mirror our parents relationship because a lot of what we have seen them do isn't something we want to do. We have learned from the past and are comfortable with who we are as a couple…finally!
Fatima Lora
Yes! There's so much beauty in just being yourself and doing the things that work for you and your spouse. Every relationship is different, and your needs are unique.
Kimberly Stroh
I think it's so individual for each couple. There's magic in being unique & respecting that.
Fatima Lora
I agree. Thanks for sharing, Kimberly.
Donna M
Communication is definitely a very important facet in a relationship. I learned that early on my relationship with my husband, and it is definitely something that has become very important when things get tough
Fatima Lora
Hey Donna. Glad you were able to learn early on. Communication helps with dealing with differences.
Brittany Lockwood
Communication is key for a successful relationship! Congratulations on 10+ years with your husband!
Fatima Lora
Thanks, Brittany, but we're still on our fourth year. My parents have been married for almost 40 years.
Stacey D
I trusted my husband and he had a two year affair before he walked out the door. I truly thought we had it all – a great marriage, a great family, a wonderful life. As much as we talked – he never shared that he was unhappy. It takes more than communication and trust. It also takes commitment and loyalty.
Fatima Lora
:/ the toughest part of any relationship is how vulnerable we are to getting hurt. You're right. It definitely takes a lot more, but for me the base needs to be trust.
Trust is the hardest part of any relationship! I have had a lot of shady people in my life but I need to remember not all people are bad! And trust a tad bit more.


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While Hideo Kojima is mostly famed for his work in the Metal Gear series, some fans also love him for the Zone of the Enders franchise. A Zone of the Enders HD Collection is currently in development, but some have argued that it simply isn't enough, and that we need a third installment that takes advantage of modern hardware capabilities. Thankfully, Hideo Kojima shares that same enthusiasm.
When Hideo Kojima was asked by GamerFitNation if he plans to make a Zone of the Enders 3, he replied (roughly translated from Japanese):
We would like to make Zone of The Enders 3 just as the fans do, but we don't have the manpower required to make such a game.
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However, we do have a good platform for a Zone of the Enders 3 with the proprietary Fox Engine. So once we do have the staff required, we would be very excited to make this game which many fans have been asking for.
By the time such a project would be in the realm of possibility, given Kojima's busy schedule, the PlayStation 4 will likely be nearing development completion. As such, Zone of the Enders 3 could be a title that releases around the time the console launches to beef up its library. Until then, we'll be stuck replaying the first two originals, which were outstanding in their own right, after they re-release in HD Collection form sometime in 2012.


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President Obama has often been accused of being missing in action on Capitol Hill – not a schmoozer, not eager to put in the personal time with lawmakers to advance his priorities. But as described by Sen. Ron Wyden (D) of Oregon, Mr. Obama's point person on trade in the Senate, "the president was all-in on this issue."
No question, the president's trade agenda took tremendous bipartisan effort to shape and pass. Senator Wyden took care to praise Republican leaders who he said were always "straight" with him. They rescued the trade package from a surprise derailment by House Democrats earlier this month. The president, too, applauded Republicans and Democrats for "coming together" on trade.
But it was Democrats who held the key to this presidential priority. Most Republicans in the GOP-controlled Congress may have agreed with Obama on trade, but not enough of them did. To win this signature item, Obama was going to have to win and hold some Democrats, and that was going to take persistent outreach and a convincing argument.
In the end, "gutsy" pro-trade Democrats in both houses stuck together despite pressure to abandon a deal, Wyden said. And a "very determined president" used the bully pulpit to explain how his approach differs from trade policy of the 1990s, which many Democrats blame for lost jobs and lower wages.
His articulation of his policy "was a very significant help" as was his outreach to Congress, Wyden told reporters Wednesday.
The result was the passage of two trade bills by the Senate Wednesday. The first, called fast track, means that Congress cannot amend any trade bill the president negotiates – it can only vote up or down. The second provides assistance for workers displaced by global trade. Both bills have now passed both houses, and together, they are one of Obama's major second-term priorities. He intends to use the authority to negotiate a historic trade deal with 11 other Pacific Rim nations.
To get to this point, the president put in hours on the phone with Wyden, at times talking two or three times a day, working out the next day's strategy in 11 p.m. phone calls. And he stayed in touch with the GOP leadership.
But he also reached out to other lawmakers. Sen. Chris Coons (D) of Delaware says the president's outreach persuaded him to vote "yes."
In the five years since he's been a senator, Senator Coons says he's never had as much engagement with the White House on any issue as on trade. For months, the senator debated and discussed trade with the secretary of Labor, the secretary of Commerce, the US trade representative, the vice president, and yes, even the president.
Coons says he gave "comparable" time to labor and environmental leaders who strenuously oppose the president's push for a Pacific trade deal.
But his mind was changed by the administration's argument that the United States has an opportunity to positively influence the rules of global trade and strategic relations in the Pacific. He attributed Wednesday's narrow Senate passage of "fast track" – with not one vote to spare – to the "personal, relentless, and effective" lobbying of senators by Obama and his cabinet.
"I think that frankly is what made the difference," said Coons in an interview after the 60-to-38 vote that sent the bill to the president's desk for signature.
Obama's outreach to members didn't always work. His unexpected show at a congressional softball game on the eve of a key House vote set tweets aflutter, but not the hearts of opposing Democrats. The next morning, his rare visit to Capitol Hill didn't dissuade them from killing his plan through an unusual move.
But Republican leaders found a way around that "procedural snafu," as Obama's spokesman called it, and the president persisted.
"He threw himself into it…. He would not take 'no' for an answer," says presidential scholar Martha Joynt Kumar, adding that Obama used every lever that a president has for influence, and he used them simultaneously.
Not that he wasn't also very involved in the priority of his first term, the Affordable Care Act. But with the ACA, she says, he waited for people on the Hill to make decisions. This time, he moved directly.
"In 6-1/2 years, you bring to bear the lessons you have learned, and he did that."
Whether Obama can carry that forward to the rest of his agenda – infrastructure, corporate tax reform, immigration, the budget, and an Iran deal (if there is one) – is another matter.
He was able to pursue fast track because it aligned with the interest of Republicans. But the president and GOP leaders clash on many of these other issues, particularly over spending.
Meanwhile, the Democratic rift over trade has spilled into the presidential race, with Hillary Clinton waffling on her views of the Pacific trade deal. She supported it when she was the president's secretary of State.
On Thursday, Obama was clearly trying to heal the rift.
"As president, I've spent the last 6-1/2 years fighting to grow our economy and strengthen our middle class, and that remains my top priority today," he said in his statement. The new trade legislation will give workers "the chance to compete and win."


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2014 GMC AcadiaReview
Nice Suv — We rented a GMC Arcadia for a vacation. We drove from CT to Al and then to Fl. Then we drove from Fl back to Ct. It had plenty of room for 2 adults and 2 kids with lots of luggage. It was very good on gas. The V6 motor could of been stronger for the size of this vehicle. That is the only downfall of this vehicle.
Primary Use: Family transportation
Pros: Good on Gas, comfotable
Cons: V6 needs more power for the size of the vehicle
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Great room, features, power, heads up display, everything you want
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I like the looks and handling of this vehicle and like this model much better than than the 2010 model we traded for this one. This vehicle is very stylish, roomy and fun to drive. I especially like... Read More
2012 GMC Acadia Reviews
Awsome Ride
The best thing about the Acadia Denali is its looks. The White Diamond Tri-coat color is the best color I have ever seen on a car. The Acadia also has plenty of room for 7 passengers with a large co... Read More
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2011 GMC Acadia Reviews
Almost Got It Right.
Best design GM has ever produced. Large but not too large. Cargo capacity is huge, flat and easily accessible with fold into the floor seats. Third row seats are actually useful for adults. Car rides ... Read More
Great Suv For Family
Love this vehicle. Vehicle handles well in winter weather. All wheel drive is great. Spacious enough for a family of 5 traveling. good on gas mileage for the amount of space available and all wh... Read More
2010 GMC Acadia Reviews
Great 8 Passenger Family Suv
This SUV offers a great deal of space for its size. Offers a smooth, comfortable and quiet ride. Second and third rows are very configurable and easy to arrange. Premium Bose sound system really deliv... Read More
Awesome Suv
My family and I really enjoyed this car, especially to go camping, for the outdoors and trips in general, this SUV is great, we totally recommend it. It gives good miles per gallon, is very comfortab... Read More
2009 GMC Acadia Reviews
Powerful Family Car.
We kept the car about two years. Would be happier with better MPG out of the engine this size, but never lacked in power. The DVD and Navigation are nice to have and the Bose Speakers are phenomenal. ... Read More
Sleek And Safe
I have loved Acadia's since the first time I laid eyes on them! I looked for a very long time for mine and it is absolutely everything I wanted. I love the way it handles and just grips the road. It ... Read More
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