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The Certificate of Completion (CCL) in Practical Nursing Program is available at seven of the Maricopa Community Colleges. Clinical experiences are provided in a variety of healthcare settings. Practical Nursing Program graduates are eligible to apply for the national exam for the practical nurse license. Licensing requirements are the exclusive responsibility of the State Board of Nursing.
The Certificate of Completion Practical Nursing Program is approved by the Arizona State Board of Nursing.
Program offerings:
This program is offered at the following sites:
Chandler Gilbert Community College
Estrella Mountain Community College
GateWay Community College
Glendale Community College
Mesa Community College
Paradise Valley Community College
Scottsdale Community College
Waiver of Licensure/Certification Guarantee:
Admission or graduation from the Nursing Program does not guarantee obtaining a license to practice nursing. Licensure requirements and the subsequent procedures are the exclusive right and responsibility of the Arizona State Board of Nursing. Students must satisfy the requirements of the Nurse Practice Act: Statutes, Rules and Regulations, independently of any college or school requirements for graduation.
Pursuant to A.R.S. 32-1606(B)(17), an applicant for professional or practical nurse license by examination is not eligible for licensure if the applicant has any felony convictions and has not received an absolute discharge from the sentences for all felony convictions. The absolute discharge must be received five or more years before submitting this application. If you cannot prove that the absolute discharge date is five or more years, the Board cannot process your application.
Level One Fingerprint Clearance is required for admission into the program. Applicants must present a Level One Fingerprint Clearance Card to be copied by the advisor or designee. For a Department of Public Safety Fingerprint Clearance Card application, contact MCCCD Healthcare/Nursing Advisor. If there is any question about eligibility for licensure or certification, contact the nursing education consultant at the Arizona State Board of Nursing (602.771.7800).
Health Declaration:
It is essential that nursing students be able to perform a number of physical activities in the clinical portion of the program. At a minimum, students will be required to lift patients, stand for several hours at a time and perform bending activities. Students who have a chronic illness or condition must be maintained on current treatment and be able to implement direct patient care. The clinical nursing experience also places students under considerable mental and emotional stress as they undertake responsibilities and duties impacting patients` lives. Students must be able to demonstrate rational and appropriate behavior under stressful conditions. Individuals should give careful consideration to the mental and physical demands of the program prior to making application. All must provide documentation of compliance with all health and safety requirements required to protect patient safety. Only students in compliance are permitted to enroll in nursing courses. Students will meet these requirements by providing the required documentation for the Health/Safety Requirements Documentation Checklist and the signed Health Declaration Form.
Health and Safety Requirements for the Nursing Program:
1. Students must submit a Health and Safety Documentation Checklist verifying completion of all requirements and maintain current status throughout the program.
2. Students must submit the Health Declaration Form signed by a licensed health care provider.
3. Students must test negative on a timed urine drug screen.
4. Admission to an Allied Health program requires that students be in compliance with the Maricopa County Community College District Supplemental Background Check policy. Program applications will not be accepted without a copy of an Arizona Department of Public Safety Level One Fingerprint Clearance Card. Upon conditional program admission, the student must comply with all requirements of the current MCCCD background check policy.
University Transfer Students:
Students who are planning to earn the Bachelor of Science in Nursing may obtain their prerequisite courses at the Maricopa Community Colleges. For information on courses that meet requirements for admission into a baccalaureate program, please contact a program advisor.
Following completion of the practical nurse level program of study, the student is eligible to apply for licensure as a practical nurse. Licensed Practical Nurses (LPN) may be employed in acute, long-term, and community-based health care settings under the direction of a registered nurse. Practical Nurses function within their legal scope of practice and use professional standards of care in illness care and health promotion activities for clients and families across the life span.
The Associate in Applied Science (AAS) Nursing Program is approved by the Arizona State Board of Nursing and accredited by the Accreditation Commission for Education in Nursing (ACEN), 3343 Peachtree Road NE, Suite 850, Atlanta, GA 30326; (404.975.5000); email: firstname.lastname@example.com.
Students must earn a grade of C or better in all courses within the program.
Course Fee Information:
Please see class schedule for information regarding course fees.
MaricopaNursing is aligned with Nurse of the Future Competencies: Patient-Centered Care, Professionalism, Leadership, Systems-Based Practice, Informatics and Technology, Communication, Teamwork and Collaboration, Safety, Quality Improvement, and Evidence-Based Practice. These competencies focus on key stakeholders of healthcare clients, colleagues and communities. Demonstration of the competencies will signify preparation for successful transition into nursing practice and further professional development.
|Course #
|Course Title
|The credit-hour range is subject to change depending on the student`s educational experience.
|Introductory Biology for Allied Health (4) OR
|General Biology (Majors) I (4) OR
|One year of high school biology
|Human Anatomy and Physiology I
|Fundamental Chemistry (3) AND
|Fundamental Chemistry Laboratory (1) OR
|Fundamental Chemistry with Lab (4) OR
|One year of high school chemistry
|First-Year Composition (3) OR
|First-Year Composition for ESL (3)
|College Mathematics (5) OR
|College Mathematics (4) OR
|College Mathematics (3) OR
|Satisfactory completion of higher level mathematics course
|Students that are admitted into the MaricopaNursing Program for Fall 2015 and Spring 2016, AND completed MAT120, MAT121, or MAT122 prior to Fall 2015 as an admission requirement, may complete the program without completing MAT140, MAT141, or MAT142 as a graduation requirement, by waiver of the program director.
High School diploma or GED is required for the Certificate of Completion in Practical Nursing. Applicants must signify that they meet this requirement by providing high school diploma/transcripts or GED completion OR by signing the nursing application page containing the `Declaration of High School Graduation or GED completion`. In some instances, high school diploma/transcripts or proof of GED completion may be required.
Formal application and admission to the program is required; all program prerequisites must be completed prior to submission.
A passing score on a nursing program admission test is required to complete an application.
The Nursing Program Chair reserves the right to deny acceptance of an admission application if the applicant was previously dismissed for issues relating to academic integrity, unsafe patient care, and/or two (2) or more failures from any nursing program.
All applicants holding or receiving a certificate as a Nursing Assistant and/or license as a Practical Nurse must remain in good standing with the Board of Nursing. Once enrolled, students receiving any disciplinary actions against their certificate or license must notify the Nursing Program Chair within five (5) school days. The Nursing Program Chair reserves the right to restrict the student's participation in clinical experiences and involvement in patient care until the certificate and/or license is valid and unrestricted.
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|Course Title
|Human Anatomy and Physiology II
|Nursing Theory and Science I
|Nursing Theory and Science II
|Practical Nursing Transition
- Define the most frequently used medical, diagnostic, clinical procedure, surgical, drug, laboratory, and pathological terms related to the human body. (BIO202)
- Create an environment utilizing therapeutic communication and caring to achieve desired client outcomes. (NUR152, NUR172, NUR191)
- Demonstrate effective communication skills both verbally, behaviorally, and in writing with health team members, clients and their families. (NUR152, NUR172, NUR191)
- Provide culturally competent care to a diverse population. (NUR152, NUR172, NUR191)
- Demonstrate legal and ethical behaviors in all nursing activities. (NUR152, NUR172, NUR191)
- Apply the nursing process to provide safe client care. (NUR152, NUR172, NUR191)
- Apply scientific principles and clinical reasoning to safely provide evidence-based clinically competent care within the current healthcare environment. (NUR152, NUR172, NUR191)
- Demonstrate accountability for quality improvement in the health care system. (NUR152, NUR172, NUR191)
- Integrate technology to assist in providing safe, effective client care. (NUR152, NUR172, NUR191)
- Manage information confidentially and effectively to insure positive client outcomes. (NUR152, NUR172, NUR191)
- Provide nursing care individuals and families across the lifespan that addresses the needs of diverse clients by engaging them in their healthcare decisions. (NUR191)
At Maricopa, we strive to provide you with accurate and current information about our degree and certificate offerings. Due to the dynamic nature of the curriculum process, course and program information is subject to change. As a result, the course list associated with this degree or certificate on this site does not represent a contract, nor does it guarantee course availability. If you are interested in pursuing this degree or certificate, we encourage you to meet with an advisor to discuss the requirements at your college for the appropriate catalog year.


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Course Prefix: LAW-772
Course Section: 001
Credit Hours: 6
Instructor(s): Lowrance
Course Description:
Students enrolled in the Public Defender Clinic represent indigent clients in felony cases under the close supervision of an experienced public defender. While representing indigent clients, students will receive intensive instruction in client and witness interviewing, all aspects of trial advocacy, sentencing advocacy, handling evidentiary hearings on constitutional issues, as well as in ways to improve their public speaking style. This training occurs in the context of offering quality legal representation to clients of limited financial means in considerable need of assistance.
Students are expected to spend 300 hours in the Clinic during the semester (approximately 30 hours of training and 270 hours of casework). As a general guideline, students are expected to work 20 hours per week. Students participate in a mandatory seminar, with instruction in courtroom advocacy, interviewing and counseling skills, substantive law and court procedure.
The Public Defender Clinic is a graded course (6 credits). Evidence is a pre-requisite. Students must have taken or concurrently be enrolled in Professional Responsibility, Criminal Law and Civil Procedure Trial Advocacy is not a pre-requisite, but if you have been through this course, the skills are beneficial to students' cases.
One week prior to the start of the semester, students are required to attend a mandatory three-day training session.
This course fulfills the professional skills requirement for graduation.
NOTE: Please see the Clinical Program website for more details as well as the application. http://law.asu.edu/clinics
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Credit Hours: 6
Grading Option: Letter Grade Only
Graduation Writing Requirement: No
Flexible Writing Requirement: No
Skills Requirement: No
Experiential Learning: No
Prerequisite: Evidence is a pre-requisite. Students must have taken or concurrently be enrolled in Professional Responsibility, Criminal Law and Civil Procedure.
Special Withdrawal Course: Yes. Because of administrative considerations and professional obligations to courts and clients, no student pre-registered for a clinical offering shall be allowed to drop the clinic later than one month preceding the first day of classes, or to add the clinic, unless approval is obtained from the Director of the Clinical Program.
Limited Enrollment Number: 5
Final Exam Given: No
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I've spent time in both the sciences and the humanities. My primary interest is in what makes human beings produce poetry. I like to use text-processing tools like perl, sed and awk to solve problems, but I also have some experience with GIS, remote sensing and digital image processing.
My free time is spent reading Lawrence Durrell and Flann O'Brien, caring for goats and chickens, and otherwise in general indolence.
Digital interests
My broad interest is in using computers to investigate intertextual patterns in poetry, particularly Classical Latin and Greek poetry.
I'm the Tesserae Fellow for 2011-2012 at the Classics Department's Tesserae Project. Led by Neil Coffee, Tesserae is a search engine designed to locate allusion in Latin poetry.
In my research at Tesserae I'm working with Walter Scheirer of the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs to apply the tools of authorship attribution to influence detection. Our preferred feature sets are character and phoneme bi-gram frequencies; but we're also investigating new methods in metrical n-grams. For pattern matching and classification we have been working with support vector machines, and are just starting to test the power of one-class SVMs in open-set problems.
My long-term project is an examination of the Homeric epos using computer-based stylometric methods. I've compared the Iliad to the Odyssey using a feature sets composed of n-grams at the phoneme level and classification with machine learning techniques. I'd like to look more closely at each poem to try to pick apart intra-poem heterogeneity. My goal is to be able to tie quantifiable observations to current oral-formulaic theory (particularly theory from a cognitive angle).
Recent Work
Forstall, C. and W. Scheirer, "Visualizing Sound as Functional N-Grams in Homeric Greek Poetry." Poster presented at Digital Humanities 2011, June 19–21, 2011. View abstract
Coffee, N., J.-P. Koenig, S. Poornima, C. Forstall, R. Ossewaarde, and S. Jacobson, "The Tesserae Project: Intertextual Analysis of Latin Poetry." Poster presented at Digital Humanities 2011, June 19–21, 2011. View abstract
Forstall, C. and W. Scheirer, "A Statistical Stylistic Study of Latin Elegiac Couplets." Poster presented at the Chicago Colloquium on Digital Humanities and Computer Science, Nov. 21–22, 2010. View abstract
Forstall, C. and W. Scheirer, "Features from Frequency: Authorship and Stylistic Analysis Using Repetitive Sound," in Proc. of the Chicago Colloquium on Digital Humanities and Computer Science, Nov. 2009. View abstract/full text


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Toshi's imports: The wedding planner-- from Japan
Charlottesville has long topped "best of" lists as a vacation destination or place to live, but Toshi Sato has won Charlottesville unexpected acclaim: as a wedding hot spot for Japanese couples.
Each year, Sato's business, Pinnacle Planning, brings more than 70 Japanese couples to Keswick Hall to tie the knot. How did he begin making connubial connections between Charlottesville and the Land of the Rising Sun?
"I was desperate," Sato laughs. "I had to do something."
Sato was working in sales for Keswick Hall, coordinating trips for international– particularly Japanese– travelers. With encouragement, he says, from Keswick's top brass, he separated from the resort but continues to work closely with it. In fact, nearly all of his couples spend three or four nights at the hunt country resort developed by Sir Bernard Ashley in the early 1990s.
Ironically, luxurious Keswick is a cheap option for many Japanese couples. Back in the home country, Sato explains, tradition dictates that couples invite to their wedding not just family and close friends, but work acquaintances as well. These massive events, which can cost as much as $50,000, are held in hotels and generally last only two hours or so.
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Add to that the Japanese recession over the past decade, and Sato says his $10,000 Virginia wedding packages look ever more appealing.
He lines up a Japanese priest– the Rev. Theodore Kitchen, who was a missionary in Japan for 40 years– as well as a Japanese beautician and photographer. He arranges for flowers, transportation, accommodations, videographer, and a wedding-night meal. The couples usually rent the UVA chapel for the ceremony.
Planning a Japanese wedding in Jefferson country requires a few adjustments, Sato says. Brides typically do not want colorful bouquets, and they generally wear less make-up than American brides. There is also no sugar in the Japanese wedding cake.
Problems are few, he insists, but he does recall one affair that quickly turned into a wedding planner's nightmare.
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Fortunately, the bride was understanding. The couple held the ceremony anyway, but didn't make it legal until they returned to Japan.
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But what I'd like to do here, is discuss in deeper detail the why behind this project. As a museum of contemporary installation art with an artist residency program that exhibits mostly new site-specific works, the Mattress Factory has earned a reputation for pushing artistic boundaries by allowing the artists we work with to explore complete artistic freedom during their time here at the museum. Our goal as an organization is to make the artists' vision a reality. Period.
And with that comes artwork that provokes thought and poses questions. Damien Hirst grew flies in our gallery for several months. Yumi Kori flooded our basement with water. Sarah Oppenheimer cut a large hole through our 4th floor gallery floor. If I had a nickel for every time I've heard someone say, "This is art? My kid could do that," I'd be a rich guy. But if I also had a nickel for every time someone has said that our James Turrell pieces have influenced the way they perceive the world or how Greer Lankton's It's all about ME, Not You has brought them to tears, I'd also have some pretty heavy pockets. And back in November an exchange on Twitter with Nina Simon got us thinking about how we, as a small art space in Pittsburgh, could start a wider dialog about the concept of art itself.
So shortly after Nina's tweet, I started chatting with Carolina Miranda (a.k.a. C-Monster) about the idea of an "Is This Art?" iPhone app. We knew if this project was going to be effective it would have to be funny, and Carolina is one of the wittiest, most on-point art & culture bloggers out there. When she agreed to write the art crit for the app, we knew we were onto something. All that was left was to develop the app, but again, as a small art space in Pittsburgh, we have no software developers on staff.
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SEATTLE -- One of the toughest -- and perhaps most pivotal -- road trips this season is in the books for the first-place Orioles, who appear to be clicking at just the right time.
Baltimore ended a successful three-city trip on the West Coast with Sunday's 3-2, 10-inning win over the Mariners, the latest example of a thriving starting staff backed by solid defense and just enough from the bats.
"That was a grind-it-out win," Orioles manager Buck Showalter said of his club's sixth consecutive extra-innings victory. "Is there such a thing as a man crush on your team? I was pretty proud of them today. There were a lot of chances to give in there."
The O's, who got their sixth quality start in seven games from righty Miguel Gonzalez, kept their their divisional lead at three games over second-place Toronto. Baltimore (58-46) tied a season-high 12 games over .500 and ends the 10-game trip -- seven of which were decided by two or fewer runs -- 6-4 with series wins in Anaheim and Seattle.
"It's a different second half," said Orioles third baseman Manny Machado, who went 2-for-4 and drove in the winning run on a sacrifice fly, "and we are trying to put ourselves in a good position to run away with this American League East."
The O's got dominant pitching performances the final two innings from T.J. McFarland and closer Zach Britton -- who struck out the side -- and picked up righty Darren O'Day, who allowed a run for the first time in 15 outings with Mike Zunino's game-tying shot in the eighth.
After Adam Jones doubled for the second consecutive at-bat to start the 10th Nelson Cruz and Chris Davis walked to load the bases and bring on Machado against reliever Yoervis Medina.
"He was challenging me," said Machado, who fell behind 0-2 before lacing a ball deep into center field. "Going up there you knew his best pitch was his fastball. He started off with a strike and and came up and in and I was down in the count quick. I was just trying to get it up and put it in play. And that's what happened and we came out with the win."
"It wasn't a good pitch," Seattle manager Lloyd McClendon said of the fateful pitch to Machado. "He threw him a strike. Right there you want to expand, and try to get a chase pitch. He was in the heat of the battle. He was battling, trying to get a ground-ball out. He went at him with his best stuff. It just didn't work."
Machado gave the Orioles the lead in the bottom of the eighth inning, but it was erased in an uncharacteristic outing from O'Day, who entered the day with a league-leading 1.00 ERA.
"Darren proved he's human today," Showalter asid. "I thought it was pretty apropos that the team picked up a guy who's been so solid for us all year."
Gonzalez, who lowered the starting rotation's ERA to 2.94 on the road trip, turned in a solid six-inning outing as he continues to have a stellar month of July. The right-hander wasn't particularly dominant, allowing 10 baserunners over the 90-pitch start, but kept the Mariners offense stagnant for most of the afternoon.
"I felt like every inning there was some runners on," said Gonzalez, who allowed one run on Chris Taylor's second-inning double. "Just tried to minimize whenever I wasn't doing well and making pitchers when I needed to. Our defense was great tonight and even our offense battled."
Gonzalez was replaced by lefty Brian Matusz, who pitched around a one-out single and walk in a scoreless seventh to keep the game tied at 1.
Machado had a hand in the O's first run as he opened the third-inning with a single and moved to third on a double by catcher Caleb Joseph. Jonathan Schoop drove a ball into left-field to score Machado and give the Orioles their lone run off Mariners starter Roenis Elias.
"It was a tough road trip, but it was a test to see what we were made of," center fielder Adam Jones said of an Oriole team that is 13-7 over its last 20 road games. "Three great pitching staffs, three great bullpens, three great offenses. We grinded it out. Wasn't pretty, but a 'W' is always pretty no matter how it looks."
The Orioles, who boarded a plane back East on Sunday night, will now face the Angels and Mariners again in a homestand that starts Tuesday.
"It was a test, it was a test to see how good of a team we have and I think we came out in a good positive way," Machado said of the trip. "We have to go back home and play them again. Let's not get ahead of ourselves and keep playing our game; that's going to take us where we need to go."


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Fresh Herb Tart
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- 1 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
- 1/8 teaspoon salt
- 6 tablespoons cold unsalted butter cut into pieces
- 1 tablespoon unsalted butter for frying
- 2 tablespoons ice water - (to 4)
- 6 ounces finely-chopped country ham
- 3 tablespoons minced shallots
- 2 large eggs
- 2 large egg yolks
- 1 cup heavy cream
- 1 cup chopped mixed soft fresh herbs (such as parsley, chives, chervil, basil, and tarragon)
- 1/2 teaspoon chopped fresh thyme
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/4 teaspoon freshly-ground black pepper
Servings 8
Step 1
Sift the flour and salt into a medium bowl. Add 6 tablespoons of the cold butter and mix with a pastry blender or your fingers until the mixture resembles coarse crumbs. Add the water 1 tablespoon at a time and mix until the dough comes together and is no longer dry, being careful not to overmix. Form into a disk, wrap in plastic wrap, and refrigerate for at least 30 minutes.
Roll out the dough on a lightly floured surface to 10-inches in diameter. Transfer to a tart pan with a removable bottom and place in the refrigerator to rest for at least 20 minutes.
Preheat the oven to 400 degrees.
Line the pastry with parchment paper and fill with pie weights or dried beans. Bake until the crust is set, about 12 minutes. Remove the paper and weights and bake until golden brown, about 8 minutes. Remove from the oven.
In a skillet, melt the remaining tablespoon of butter over medium-high heat. Add the ham and cook until beginning to color and the fat is rendered, about 3 minutes. Add the shallots and cook for 1 minute. Remove from the heat and spoon into the bottom of the tart.
In a bowl, beat together the eggs and egg yolks. Add the cream and beat well. Add the mixed herbs, thyme, salt, and pepper, and mix well. Pour into the tart shell and bake until the top is golden and the filling is set, about 25 minutes. Remove from the oven and cool on a wire rack for 20 minutes before serving.
This recipe yields 8 servings.


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Leftovers: Sugar Sculptures, Eating Bugs, Lazy Susan History, and More
Are there really foods that we don't like, or just foods that we haven't liked yet?" That's the question posed in the opening to this article in the New York Times. It doesn't give a scientific answer, but as someone who's convinced/forced their SO to give olives a try and has yet to win them over on mushrooms, I'm down with his upbeat belief that all foods are possible. —Carrie Vasios Mullins, Sweets Editor
In case you've ever wondered where the Lazy Susan came from and how it became a common part of the Chinese dining experience, this post from Smithsonianmag.com is for you.
Also! If you've ever wondered what a shopping mall food court looks like closed and devoid of humans, head to Duck Pie for photos of "Stillness and silence at the abandoned White Flint food court."—Robyn Lee, AHT Editor/Art Director
Over the course of almost two years, Sarah Agudo tried to find out where the restaurants in her neighborhood (San Francisco's Mission—also my neighborhood) get their meat. It was trickier than she expected. —Maggie Hoffman, Drinks and Senior Editor
The bugs-for-food movement seems to be gaining increasing traction in Western countries (check it: I even took the dive myself at The Explorer's club last week). The latest on the subject comes from The Atlantic, exploring the significant role that insects could play in global food security, especially in the face of rapid population expansion. Too bad all the good reasons have pretty much nothing to do with how they taste. At least they're crunchy? —Niki Achitoff-Gray, Associate Editor
An Irish artist duo is raising money to build a giant sugar city sculpture in Sugar Hill, Harlem. Sweet. —Jamie Feldmar, Managing Editor


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The holidays are meant to be festive, and what better way to celebrate these festivities than to dress up and go GLAM for your holiday events. When going to parties, wearing red, silver, gold and sparkling black are all great choices for these jubilant times of the year. Dresses and pant suits are always great choices. If you opt to wear jeans, be sure and pair them with high heels and a catchy top. Add vibrant accessories to give your look an extra shot of glitz and glam.
It is also bewitching to pump up your makeup. If you are going to an evening event, consider smokey cat eyes. Also adding a bit of shimmer to the eye lids can be incredibly alluring. If you play up the eyes, be sure and wear a lighter lip color. If you want to go with bright red lips, do your eyes in aired natural way but add a sleek eye liner for that seductive touch.
Your hair should be flowing and not too sprayed. If you can, treat yourself go to a blow out bar. They have popped up in many areas and are very popular for their cost effective blow dries and styles only. Add tasteful decorations if it goes with your choice of clothing. Loose curls are provocative and feminine. Just be sure it's a style you can feel beautiful in.
When you are all done putting your holiday look together, go out and have a great time! Own your glamorous look, shine and remember, confidence is always the sexiest accessory.


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1. an implement, such as a dragnet, dredge, etc., used for dragging
2. a sporting coach with seats inside and out, usually drawn by four horses
3. a braking or retarding device, such as a metal piece fitted to the underside of the wheel of a horse-drawn vehicle
4. Aeronautics the resistance to the motion of a body passing through a fluid, esp through air: applied to an aircraft in flight, it is the component of the resultant aerodynamic force measured parallel to the direction of air flow
5. the trail of scent left by a fox or other animal hunted with hounds
6. an artificial trail of a strong-smelling substance, sometimes including aniseed, drawn over the ground for hounds to follow
7. Angling unnatural movement imparted to a fly, esp a dry fly, by tension on the angler's line
8. short for drag race
(computer science)
To move an object across a screen by moving a pointing device while holding down the control button.
A tool fashioned from sheet steel and having a toothed edge along the long dimension; used to level and scratch plaster to produce a key for the next coat of plaster. Also known as comb.
A tool consisting of a steel plate with a finely serrated edge; dragged over the surface to dress stone.
(fluid mechanics)
Resistance caused by friction in the direction opposite to that of the motion of the center of gravity of a moving body in a fluid.
The bottom part of a flask used in casting.
In thermal cutting, the distance deviating from the theoretical vertical line of cutting measured along the bottom surface of the material.
(mining engineering)
Movement of the hanging wall with respect to the foot wall due to the weight of the arch block in an inclined slope.
1. A piece of sheet steel with a toothed edge along the long dimension; used to level and scratch plaster to produce a key for the next coat; a comb.
2. A tool consisting of a steel plate having a finely serrated edge; used to dress stone by dragging it back and forth across the surface.
i. That component of aerodynamic forces acting on the wing or the airfoil section, which is parallel and opposite to the relative airflow. The sources of drag are the pressure distribution patterns over the airfoil, called induced drag; the skin friction of the surface; and other factors like the shape of the airfoil. Total drag is the sum total of induced drag and parasite drag. Drag (D) = Coefficient of drag (CD) x ¼ density (ρ) x square of relative speed (V2) x surface area (S); or D = CDqS, where D is the drag, q the dynamic pressure (¼ρV2), and S the surface area.
ii. The fore-and-aft movement of the tips of the blade of a helicopter rotor in its plane of rotation. The freedom given to each blade of a rotor to allow it to move in the plane of rotation independently of other blades. This is to avoid bending stress at the root. The blade is allowed to lead or lag about a dragging hinge, but movement of the hinge is restricted by some form of drag damper to avoid undesirable oscillations.
dragTo move an object on screen such that its complete movement is visible from starting location to destination. The movement may be activated with a stylus, mouse or keyboard keys.
To drag an object with the mouse, point to it. Press the mouse button and hold the button down while moving the mouse. When the object is at its new location, release the mouse button. See Win Drag and drop.


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One day in early February, I met Anthony Weiner and Huma Abedin for breakfast at the Gramercy Park Hotel, one of their regular joints, just a few blocks from their apartment on Park Avenue South. The first thing Weiner said when I sat down was that their 13-month-old son, Jordan, had just moments ago taken his first step. They were both giddy, kvelling with baby-pride, especially Weiner, who, with all his free time, has become his son's primary caretaker. This is what life is like now for the man whose name is invariably followed in print by some version of "the disgraced former congressman who sent out a lewd picture of himself via Twitter." He seems to spend much of his time within a five-block radius of his apartment: going to the park with Jordan; picking up his wife's dry cleaning and doing the grocery shopping; eating at his brother Jason's two restaurants in the neighborhood. This is what happens after a scandal: Ranks are closed and the world shrinks to a tiny dot. It is a life in retreat. And for a man who was known, pre-scandal, for his overweening ambition, his constant presence on cable news, his hard-charging schedule that verged on lunacy, well, it has been quite a change.
Because of their careers, Weiner and Abedin are pros when it comes to small talk, chatting about the baby, their two cats and the pleasures of domestic life. But as the conversation shifted into why we were there, Weiner got serious and went into problem-solving mode; Abedin, while still cheerful and talkative, started to look a little nervous. As Abedin pointed out to me later, she has a tendency toward pessimism. "Anthony," she said, "is a glass-half-full person. He doesn't dwell. He's not negative."
They present as two people who have painstakingly pieced their private life back together: they cook dinner and watch TV and have friends and family over to their spacious prewar apartment for special occasions. They seem to be functioning again as a couple, even unselfconsciously bickering in front of the waiter. But what they do not yet have a handle on is their public life. Before he resigned from Congress, Weiner was leading in early polls as a candidate for mayor of New York, and almost immediately after the scandal, there was speculation about whether he could make a comeback. Could anyone survive such an ignominious end to a Congressional career? Much less someone whose attack-dog tendencies made him so many enemies? The two of them had seemed to be a power couple on the cusp of a Clintonian rise. Now what?
When they appeared in People magazine last summer, it looked like a toe-dipping of sorts. (The couple say that it was entirely for the purpose of getting a picture of Jordan published so it would no longer have value and the paparazzi would stop camping out on their corner.) But there were other reports that suggested they were testing the waters for a return to politics: Last July, The New York Post reported that Weiner was weighing a run in 2013, because after that his public matching funds would expire. In January, The New York Daily News reported that Weiner's name was among the candidates voters were asked about in a poll of a five-way mayoral primary. And The New York Post reported that pollsters had asked voters about a run for comptroller, pitting Weiner against the Manhattan Borough president, Scott Stringer.
At breakfast, Weiner quickly put all the speculation to rest: he is eyeing the mayor's race. He told me that his political committee spent more than $100,000 on polling and research by Obama's longtime pollster, David Binder (a detail that would be made public — and prompt a flurry of news reports — in mid-March when a spending report was filed with the city's Campaign Finance Board). The focus of the poll, Binder says, was the question "Are voters willing to give him a second chance or not, regardless of what race or what contest?" And the answer? "There was this sense of 'Yeah, he made a mistake. Let's give him a second chance. But there are conditions on that, and there are a couple of things we're going to want to know: What have you been doing since this incident occurred? Did you learn anything from this mistake? How did you deal with it?' They want to know that they've put it behind them."
By agreeing to be interviewed, Weiner and Abedin would seem to be trying to give voters what they want — and gauge public reaction. But it's clear that the idea of talking about the scandal and its aftermath appeals to them on a personal level too. "We have been in a defensive crouch for so long," Weiner said. "We are ready to clear the decks on this thing." Their lives have become too small, too circumscribed, too claustrophobic for a couple accustomed to public life. They haven't been to a major event together — no White House Correspondents Dinner, no red-carpet events — in nearly two years. "We didn't want to make other people uncomfortable," Abedin said, "but also, we just didn't want to deal with it. I have now gotten used to people asking, over and over again, 'How is Anthony?' Oh, he's good! 'But how is he doing?' He's doing fine."
Weiner and Abedin have realized, it seems, that the only way out is through. So they have agreed to talk — and talk and talk — for the first time about what happened and why and what it looks like from the inside when your world comes crashing down because of, as Weiner puts it, "one fateful Tweet."
The story of how Weiner and Abedin became a couple is more interesting than most "how did you guys meet?" conversation starters, partly because nearly a decade passed between their first date, if you can call it that, and their wedding, and partly because of the high-profile supporting cast. Weiner was elected to Congress in 1998, but it wasn't until Hillary Rodham Clinton became a senator from New York in 2001 that he began bumping into Abedin, who was working as Clinton's senior adviser. "I started seeing her around," Weiner says, "and I was like, 'Wow, who is that?' And I was not the only one. It's not like she's this lightweight beautiful person in fancy outfits. She's like this intriguing, fascinating creature."
Abedin was born in Kalamazoo, Mich., raised in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, went to a British girls' school and had traveled more before she was a teenager than most people will in a lifetime. She was sophisticated and glamorous and had worked with Hillary Clinton since she was 21, when she started as a White House intern while attending George Washington University. As Weiner himself puts it: "She is the most competent, graceful person I've met in all my years in politics. . . . And she's the hatchet woman! The person at the side of the principal is usually the bad guy."
At a Democratic National Committee retreat on Martha's Vineyard in August 2001, Weiner asked Abedin if she wanted to go out for a drink. She told him she had to work. Weiner turned to Clinton and said: "I asked Huma out for a drink, and she says she has to work. Can you give her the night off?" With Abedin now behind Weiner, waving her arms and shaking her head "no" to try to get her boss's attention, Clinton, forever the Midwesterner, said, "Of course all you young people should go out!" Terry McAuliffe, the chairman of the D.N.C., who was watching the scene unfold, said: "Huma Weiner! Oh, my gosh! That's so funny." Abedin was mortified.
"So, we went out for a drink," Weiner says, "which is when I found out she doesn't drink, and she orders tea and excuses herself to go to the ladies' room, and when she gets up, this cabal of four or five of her friends come over to the table and say: 'Stay away. She wants no part of you.' And this part of the story Huma disputes, but it's true. She never came back. She ditched me." (She claims that it took her awhile to get back to the table because she kept bumping into people she knew, and by the time she did, he was gone.)
Over the next six years, they ran into each other regularly. "We'd show up at some pancake breakfast on a Sunday," Abedin says, "and Hillary would be going up to the podium, and Anthony would be walking offstage." Here, she imitates him in shtick mode: " 'I warmed 'em up for you, Hillary. They're all set, teed up to go!' Hillary would always laugh, and I would think, My God, he's such a jerk."
But the ice began to thaw after George W. Bush's State of the Union address in 2007, when Weiner found himself sitting next to Clinton and serving as a buffer between her and her new political rival, Barack Obama. Abedin texted Weiner: "I appreciate you looking out for my boss." They went out for coffee after that and realized they were very much the same. "We both lived these very intense professional lives, both married to our jobs," Abedin says. "And he got it." The relationship turned romantic in 2008, during Clinton's presidential campaign. "By the time Iowa came around," Abedin says, "we were more than just friends." At a stop in Puerto Rico, an A.P. reporter asked Weiner why he was spending so much time campaigning for Hillary. "It's largely because I'm dating Huma," he said, and the news was out.
By the spring of 2011, Abedin was newly married, pregnant (a secret only her family knew) and traveling frequently as deputy chief of staff for Clinton, who had become secretary of state. "Deputy chief of staff to the secretary of state — especially when that secretary is Hillary Clinton — is a big deal," Abedin's colleague, Philippe Reines, says. "It's a huge portfolio. This 'body woman' crap is so 10 years ago." Reines says Abedin played an important role in developing a good relationship between Clinton's State Department and Obama's White House — no small thing given the fierce competition between the two teams during the campaign. "That didn't just happen," he says. "It required everyone giving everyone else the benefit of the doubt."
The job was all-consuming. Abedin told me a story about how her nieces and nephews made a video for her for Mother's Day last year, portraying her as always half-engaged or absent because of work. Abedin was in tears. "Anthony was like, 'What's wrong?' And I said, 'All they think I do is work!' The entire movie was: 'Aunt Huma, Aunt Huma, Jordan's walking!' 'Oh, I'm on a conference call. I have to go on this trip.' . . . I didn't even process how much what I did dictated my personal life."
At the end of May in 2011, Clinton joined President Obama for an official trip to London, ending with a state dinner at Buckingham Palace. "And for some unbelievable reason," Abedin says, "the White House included me not only in staying at the palace but also in the dinner with the queen. . . . I remember sitting in this spectacular room in the palace at my little desk, writing a note to Anthony saying, 'I cannot believe what an amazingly blessed life that we live, these incredible experiences we've both had.' " She went on to Pakistan and then Washington, where they landed very late. "The next morning he had left me a message: 'My Twitter was hacked. When are you going to be here?' "
On Friday night, May 27, a photograph of a man's torso wearing gray boxer briefs and an obvious erection appeared on Weiner's official Twitter account. It was a smartphone shot that Weiner meant to send privately to a 21-year-old college student in Seattle, but instead accidentally Tweeted to all 45,000 of his followers. "I knew it was bad," Weiner says. "Huma was coming back from overseas, and I called her and left her a message. . . . I lied to her. The lies to everyone else were primarily because I wanted to keep it from her."
Over the next few days, Weiner was besieged by reporters demanding to know if the picture was of him — and if not, if his Facebook and Twitter accounts had really been hacked, why he hadn't called for an investigation. At a news conference, he came across as defensive, calling one of the reporters a "jackass."
"I've never been on Twitter," Abedin says. "I couldn't tell you the first thing about how it works. And Anthony had told me in the past that there were these sort of trolls on the Internet who were trying to damage him, take him down. And so, that's the mind-set I came with to this conversation." It wasn't such an implausible theory; after all, it was the not entirely reputable right-wing blogger Andrew Breitbart who broke the story. "Anthony was Anthony," Abedin says. "Confident! Determined! Defensive! I was right there with him: 'Let's fight! Defend! I don't understand. Why don't you just say this is not your picture?' I was with him. One hundred percent."
But every day, more questions were being raised, more reporters were calling. Weiner's dissembling began to take on an air of desperation as reports surfaced that there were transcripts of sexually explicit exchanges with another woman. "And all the while we have this secret that I'm pregnant," Abedin says. "Going to doctors' appointments, finding out if the baby is O.K. I was also sleeping a lot. I was falling asleep at 6 o'clock at night on the sofa."
By June 1, when Weiner said, "I can't say with certitude" if the picture was of him, it was clear, at least to most of the world, that he was guilty of something. That weekend, Weiner and Abedin escaped to a friend's house in the Hamptons to get away from all the "hoopla," as Weiner calls it, "and that's when people starting coming out of the woodwork. I got a call from Chris Cuomo saying that they had someone who was going to say that I texted with her. It reached this point where I just sat down with Huma and said, 'Listen, I can't. . . . I don't want to lie.' . . . I just didn't want to lie anymore to her." Here, his voice cracks and tears well up in his eyes. "I have a choppy memory of it, but she was devastated. She immediately said, 'Well you've got to stop lying to everyone else too.' And basically we drove back to the city, and she said: 'You've just got to tell everyone the truth. Telling me doesn't help any.' It was brutal. It was completely out of control. There was the crime, there was the cover-up, there was harm I had done to her. And there's no one who deserved this less than Huma. That's really the bottom line. No one deserved to have a dope like me do that less than she did."
Abedin's memory of this moment is a little sharper. "The weekend was over, we're about to leave, the car is packed, and Anthony said: 'I have something to tell you. I can't lie to you anymore. It's true. It's me. The picture is me. I sent it. Yes, these stories about the other women are true.' And it was every emotion that one would imagine: rage and anger and shock. But more than anything else, in the immediate, it was disbelief. The thing that I consciously remember saying over and over and over again is: 'I don't understand. What is going on? What's happening to our lives?' "
At a hastily arranged news conference in New York on Monday, Weiner tearfully admitted that he "engaged in several inappropriate conversations conducted over Twitter, Facebook, e-mail and occasionally on the phone" and exchanged "messages and photos of an explicit nature with about six women over the last three years," essentially the entire length of his relationship with Abedin, but that he had never met any of the women in person. "I felt like I couldn't breathe," Abedin says. "I felt like I was in an airplane really high in the air, and all of a sudden, the plane is coming apart at the seams, and I am just doing all I can to hang on for dear life. That is what it felt like."
Two days later, Abedin boarded Clinton's plane for a weeklong trip to Africa, with a stop in the United Arab Emirates. "My compass was my job," she says. "It was where I could go and life was normal — nothing horrible had happened there." As she was sitting on the plane, across from her colleagues, Reines and Jake Sullivan, two of Clinton's aides, her phone rang. It was someone from the White House saying, "We are here for you, and we love you." Abedin, who had been worried about embarrassing her friends in the administration, finally broke down and sobbed. With tears streaming down her face, she turned to Reines and Sullivan and began talking about some issue that was on the Africa agenda. "They just totally went with it and got down to work. There was no attention paid to my tears. And I was like, 'Thank you for just responding like that.' "
When they arrived at the Emirates Palace hotel in Abu Dhabi, Cheryl Mills, Clinton's chief of staff, told Abedin to go directly to her room. Mills had helped arrange to fly in Abedin's mother and older brother, who live in Jeddah, and they were waiting upstairs. "One of the things that I remember about that night is that there was a lot of very, very painful silence. But just being in the room together, just knowing that they trusted I would make the right decisions, the right choice for myself and my baby. . . . And ultimately they wanted to make sure that I was going to have a husband who was going to be good to me, a man who would be good to my mom's grandchild. 'We're just here, we love you, how do we make you better?' And I will never forget that."
During a previous trip that Clinton and Abedin made to Saudi Arabia, Abedin's mother, Saleha Mahmood Abedin, vice president of Dar Al-Hekma University, said to Clinton: "Hillary, you have spent more time with my daughter than I have in the past 15 years. I'm jealous of you!" Clinton is a mother figure to Huma, and there is little doubt that the two of them had a heart-to-heart on one of those many long flights during the trip. Weiner himself pointed out the similarities between their experiences of betrayal. "If you read Hillary's biography of the time," he says, "she speaks pretty frankly about believing that there were people out to get her husband — 'I believe him, I'm going to stand in there, I'm going to tell friends that it's bull' — and the way she felt when she found out the truth."
When I ask Abedin if Clinton guided her through those first terrible days, she says: "We've had a lot of personal conversations, none of which I feel comfortable talking about. But what I will say about her, and for that matter her entire family, the unconditional love and support they have given me has been a real gift. And I think she would be O.K. with me saying this, because I know she has said this before: at the end of the day, at the very least, every woman should have the ability and the confidence and the choice to make whatever decisions she wants to make that are right for her and not be judged by it."
Meanwhile, back in New York City, Weiner was determined to put his head down and get back to work, but that was made more difficult by the fact that Congress was not in session. "So there wasn't any real place for me to go," he says. "I had, and this is not exaggeration, 20 television cameras outside my little co-op in Forest Hills."
He tried not to read the headlines, which were full of puns on his name. Everyone, it seemed, loved a Weiner joke. Even Jon Stewart, a friend of Weiner's since the late '80s, did not hold back. "I may have been impeached by some sort of comedy board if I hadn't made all those Weiner jokes," he says. When I ask Stewart if, knowing Weiner for so long, the scandal surprised him, he said: "It did, in that you never expect the person you know to be the guy on TV in the middle of the quagmire, but it didn't surprise me in that we're all human. So it's not like, 'My God, I can't believe the depravity!' First of all, in terms of these types of scandals, the depravity was on a very low scale."
It was a sex scandal without any actual sex — more creepy than anything else. But it was hard for people to get their heads around: an affair is one thing, but sending crotch pictures to a virtual stranger? Mike Capuano, a congressman from Massachusetts and Weiner's roommate in Washington for many years, spoke for a lot of people when he told me, "He obviously did something incredibly stupid that, honestly, I still don't understand."
Then there was the fact that Weiner didn't own up to the behavior even after he was caught. Barney Frank, a former congressman who survived a sex scandal of his own 25 years ago by immediately telling the truth, says that was Weiner's biggest mistake. "The instinct is: don't tell anybody anything other than what they already know for sure," Frank says. "Well, the problem with that is, if you are caught not being open and honest, you make the press into enemies. They have a vested interest — a legitimate one — in almost destroying you."
Weiner fielded a lot of calls from friends and colleagues, many of them offering advice. One prominent state politician called to confess that he was a sex addict and urged Weiner to join his support group. Another call was from Stewart. "We create a two-dimensional effigy of an individual and just kind of burn it in the town square and then walk away," Stewart says. "As someone who is part of the process that does that to people, when I talked to him, it was more from that perspective than anything else, to say: 'As low as you are, please understand that what's happening to you right now isn't really happening to you, it's happening to whatever caricature we've all created of you. You have your own responsibility in this, but it's not to us. I know it's hard to separate yourself from that, but I hope you can at some level.' "
At the time, Weiner couldn't believe the size of the media maelstrom, but now he sees all the factors that contributed to it: "My last name; the fact that I was this combative congressman; the fact that there were pictures involved; the fact that it was a slow news period; the fact that I was an idiot about it; the fact that, while I was still lying about it, I dug myself in deeper by getting beefy with every reporter. But it was also this notion of how much attention our relationship had gotten, this kind of Camelot feel to it. It turned out to make it harder on both of us, and it made the explosion that much bigger."
Abedin returned on June 15. "She sneaks to meet me in the trunk of her friend's car," Weiner says. "Then we go away to another friend's house in the Hamptons, just the two of us, trying to figure out if we can save our marriage and what we're going to do and everything else. First, there was the decision to resign. Huma didn't really want me to, frankly. But I just had to cull that part of the conversation out of our lives and focus on my marriage, my family, her family. I just didn't have any bandwidth. My career seemed the least important of all of those other things. That wasn't easy for Huma. Her frame was: We've gotta get back to normal somehow." But he had made up his mind. The next day, while Abedin stayed behind in their apartment in Queens, Weiner held a chaotic four-minute news conference at a senior center in his district, at which hecklers nearly shouted him out of the room, one yelling, "Goodbye, pervert!"
At the apartment on 20th and Park that Weiner and Abedin rented not long after the scandal, Jordan, sick with a cold, was asleep in his nursery. Weiner's mother was also there, helping out with the baby. On this day in February, Abedin was in Washington, setting up the transition office for Clinton as she pivoted, at least temporarily, into private citizenship. But since leaving the State Department, Abedin often works from home alongside her husband, which is a great deal more togetherness than they are used to.
"Anthony and I had not spent more than 10 consecutive days together until I was pregnant and we went to Italy and France for two weeks," she told me. "That was the longest period of time we'd ever spent together. Later, when we thought about it, we didn't realize that so much of our lives were kind of these snippets of, we see each other for a few days and then are separated."
Weiner said this period has been a respite for both of them. "Whatever Hillary does next, who knows how long it's going to last, and whatever I do next. . . ." He trailed off. "We kind of have the feeling that we're on this reprieve. It's calm. Let's enjoy it while we can."
We headed down the hall to the office that he shares with his wife. He closed the door, and I asked if he was prepared to tell me how this all started. "The story of the scandal?" he said. The original behavior, I said. He paused for a long time and then started in.
"Part of the challenge of getting to the bottom of it for me," he said, "is that I viewed it as so frivolous that it didn't spark a lot of, like, 'O.K., I started doing it on this day' or 'O.K., now I'm crossing a Rubicon.' For a thoughtful person, it's remarkable how little thought I really gave to it until it was too late. But I think a lot of it came down to: I was in a world and a profession that had me wanting people's approval. By definition, when you are a politician, you want people to like you, you want people to respond to what you're doing, you want to learn what they want to hear so you can say it to them. Twitter and Facebook allowed for me — not only could I go to a town-hall meeting or a senior center or in front of the TV camera, but now I could sit and hear what people were saying all around. Search your name on Google, begat read comments on your Facebook page, begat looking at what people are saying about you on Twitter, to then trying to engage them. 'Oh, you should like me!' 'No, that's wrong!' or 'Thank you very much!' And it just started to blur into this desire to engage in it all the time. Someone stops me in the airport and says, 'Wow, you're amazing.' Well, O.K., now, at 2 o'clock in the morning, I can come home from playing hockey and I can find someone saying, 'Oh, that was great' or 'You're an idiot.' So somewhere in there it got to a place where I was trying to engage people in nothing about being a politician. Or sometimes it would start out about politics and then, 'You're a great guy.' 'Oh, thanks, you're great, too.' 'I think you're handsome.' 'Oh, that's great.' And there just wasn't much of me who was smart enough, sensitive enough, in touch with my own things, understanding enough about the disrespect and how dishonorable it was to be doing that. It didn't seem to occupy a real space in my feelings. I think it would be pretty surprising to a lot of people: What was he thinking?" He scrunched up his face and shoulders. "I wasn't really thinking. What does this mean that I'm doing this? Is this risky behavior? Is this smart behavior? To me, it was just another way to feed this notion that I want to be liked and admired."
I asked whether he ever worried that it was going to come out.
"Well, I would stop, or say I was going to stop, talking to someone. Or not be responsive because I'd gone on to other things or whatever. And someone would get upset. One of these people would say, 'You're not paying enough attention to me' or 'What's going on with our relationship?' And, I would then maybe play out, you know, if they told someone else that I was not paying attention to them anymore. . . . But I would also think, Well, they're my friends. We got into this conversation with one another because they cared, they were my fans, they would never do anything." He took a deep breath and sank into his chair and stared at the table. "It wasn't until after the train had run me over that I really understood that playing on those tracks was going to be problematic. I just had this disconnect." Here, he began to seem agitated — frustrated by his inability to adequately explain his behavior. "Is it that I had this exaggerated notion of 'No one will believe it?' Or, since I didn't think I was doing anything that was all that serious in my mind, that the world wouldn't see it as being all that serious?" Finally, he said: "I knew when I did it, almost from the moment I did it, there was no good way for it to end. When I sent that fateful tweet."
I startled myself that day when, after two hours of listening while he unburdened himself, I heard these words come out of my mouth: "Maybe we should stop there for now." Never has an interview felt so much like a therapy session. Perhaps this was because Weiner started seeing a therapist almost immediately after the scandal broke.
"Just because I had to do something to be able to deal with it," he said. "But also, I went from not really thinking through very much to having everything just blow up in such a monumental way, that you'd have to be really blind to not realize there must be some things that I need to resolve here and understand a little better. Therapy wasn't something that came naturally to me. I am this middle-class guy from Brooklyn, the men in our family don't hug each other, we don't talk about our feelings. It wasn't a comfortable place to be. And now I start sentences with, 'My therapist says. . . .' "
What does your therapist say? I asked the next time we met.
"It's none of the easy stuff. She didn't tell me: 'You have a sex addiction! You were abused as a child!' None of that stuff, which in a lot of ways, I'd kind of prefer." He laughed. "It's an easy explanation that people intuitively get." He talked a bit about how he didn't like being alone, had a hard time being "still," didn't like "being in empty spaces." And then he said: "It's clear it wasn't because I didn't love Huma. It wasn't because there's anything about my relationship with Huma that was missing that I was looking for elsewhere. Even that would be pat, kind of understandable on some level." Then he went back to the idea that Twitter and its ilk provided such easy access to the feedback loop. "You know, like spin the wheel! Find someone to say something to you! And if it wasn't 2011 and it didn't exist, it's not like I would have gone out cruising bars or something like that. It was just something that technology made possible and it became possible for me to do stupid things. I mean, the thing I did, and the damage that I did, not only hadn't it been done before, but it wasn't possible to do it before."
Naturally, being in therapy has also forced him to do a lot of thinking about his family. Here are the salient facts about the Weiners: His mother, Fran, is a retired math teacher with a master's in finance who grew up in East Flatbush; his father, Mort, grew up in Coney Island, went to law school on the G.I. Bill and opened a small practice in Manhattan. "Pretty intense guy," Weiner says of his father. They had three boys: Seth, Anthony and Jason. Seth was brilliant and rebellious. He struggled with alcohol and drugs and died at 39 when he was hit by car while crossing the street.
Mort and Fran divorced not long after Anthony went to college. "Not a lot of gratuitous hugging in our family. My father's expression of love was entirely through solving problems for us. Doesn't take a genius to figure how I went into politics to be a problem solver and wasn't particularly good with the emotional side of things," Weiner said. "This fix of having an emotional back and forth on the Internet at 2 a.m. seemed, to me, like getting something that I didn't really have a lot of, and it was easy and it never really got in. It bounced off." And that was as far as he would go on the record about his father — the only subject on which he went off the record at all.
Sometimes it takes a participant-observer to explain a family's unique dynamic. Jason's wife, Almond Zigmund, has known the Weiners for more than 20 years. About the scandal, she says: "I felt like there was something there that spoke about an inability to talk out loud, and the way that his family functioned had fostered that to some degree. And I would specifically link it all to the death of their brother and how in the aftermath of that, it didn't feel like there was a whole lot of collective grieving or recognition of what went on. When you suppress something, it eventually starts to come out in weird ways. You look for outlets, and maybe it comes out distorted and sideways."
How Anthony Weiner and Huma Abedin stayed together through Weinergate is, like most negotiations between couples, deeply complicated and in some ways unknowable. "If there's anyone who's genetically predisposed to be able to sustain the onslaught that came from without, it's these two," Jason Weiner says. "Part of it is their background. They're both political animals, let's face it, and they can both move past the personal and be able to filter it. She was in the Clinton White House, and if there's anyone who saw what it means to be the subject of an onslaught, be under fire, it's her. And the two of them together have been able to survive, maybe even thrive."
The day I finally sat down alone with Abedin, in a quiet, empty hotel bar near their apartment, she was nervous about discussing the "whole episode." We talked for nearly an hour before I finally, awkwardly, brought it up. "Do you want me to start from when the story broke?" she said, "or when he told me?" She stared as I hesitated, and she said, "You're like: 'Whatever. I wasn't there.' " She laughed and then shot me a look. "I wasn't there, either."
But despite the occasional flash of anger or lingering disbelief, she told me that she had forgiven him. When I asked how long it took for her to think she might be able to get over what her husband did, she said, "That's a really good question," and then took a minute. "At the time, we were very early in our marriage, but it was an old friendship. He was my best friend. In addition to that, I loved him. There was a deep love there, but it was coupled with a tremendous feeling of betrayal. It took a lot of work, both mentally and in the way we engage with each other, for me to get to a place where I said: 'O.K., I'm in. I'm staying in this marriage.' Here was a man I respected, I loved, was the father of this child inside of me, and he was asking me for a second chance. And I'm not going to say that was an easy or fast decision that I made. It's been almost two years now. I did spend a lot of time saying and thinking: 'I. Don't. Understand.' And it took a long time to be able to sit on a couch next to Anthony and say, 'O.K., I understand and I forgive.' It was the right choice for me. I didn't make it lightly."
I met Weiner for dinner alone one night at one of his brother's restaurants, L&W Oyster Co. After dinner was over and the plates were cleared, he wanted to keep talking, so he ordered an enormous root-beer float and slowly consumed the whole thing. "I love Huma a great deal," he said. "I live with a lot of guilt about what I put her through. She's this amazing woman who did nothing wrong, who, to some degree, has people staring at her now on the subway because of what an idiot her husband was. And I feel bad about that. A lot.
"But in the confines of our home and our relationship and our parenting this child and our love for each other — she said she wanted to get through it, she wanted not to conflate the giant international news story with the two people who were involved in it. And a lot of women couldn't do that. And Jordan has given us a lot of perspective. We have to deal with this a lot. It's not behind us. It kind of bubbles around and comes up in different ways. But she's, um. . . ." Here, he paused and took a deep breath and started to cry. "She's given. . . ." He stopped again, could barely get the words out. "She's given me another chance. And I am very grateful for that. And I'm trying to make sure I get it right."
As he was composing himself, I looked around and could see people at nearby tables trying to look as if they were not staring. When I asked Weiner about how he is treated around New York City, he perked up. "Three or four people came up to me on the subway today and said nice things to me," he said. "It's an axiom of politics that people are nice to you to your face. So, even now, people are remarkably nice to me." What kind of things do people say to you? "It's a bit of a trip," he said, and laughed. "Put it this way: it's hard to forget even for a moment that you have become a figure of fascination. Like, you know, I don't travel too far without someone turning around and looking or taking a picture of me or coming up to say hello or whispering to their buddy. When it gets into more than that, it's one of the following: 1) 'Oh, you should run.' 2) 'Man, you got screwed.' 3) 'Aw, I'm so sorry what happened to you.' 4) 'Spitzer! You're Governor Spitzer!' "
While there certainly was a lot of strategic thinking in deciding to tell their story six months before the mayoral primary, there didn't seem to be a lot of strategy to how they told it. Weiner says he decided to wing it in our interviews. "I'll probably get into trouble for stuff that I'll say in this piece, but I'm just at kind of a different place with that way of looking at stuff. It just doesn't feel comfortable anymore. And I think as a result, if I ever go back to doing politics again, I don't think I'll be as good at it. Either that or I'll be" — he starts laughing — "this crazy new kind of politician. It's somewhere between Chauncey Gardiner and Bulworth. 'He said what? Oh, that must be some brilliant strategy!' 'No! It's the other way around!' " He laughs. "I don't remember some of the skill to, like, be that guy."
That guy was a bit high-strung anyway. Weiner's most famous pre-scandal moment was in July 2010, when he went berserk on the floor of the House because a Republican colleague, Peter King, was, he believed, trying to scuttle that day's vote on the 9/11 health and compensation act. It was a minute and 40 seconds of such poisonous rage that it's actually frightening to watch, even if the message itself was admirable. "You know what, he can act like a jerk," Almond Zigmund, his sister-in-law, says. "But that's one of the things that I respect him for."
But nearly everyone who cares about Weiner says that pugilistic political persona long ago bled into his personal life and made him "hard to take," as his brother Jason puts it. "I wouldn't stand for other people saying this about him, but there was definitely a douchiness about him that I just don't really see anymore." His family agrees that the post-scandal Weiner, the diaper-changing Weiner, is far more likable. "No one has been harder on him than he has been on himself," Jason says. "I find that refreshing, because he was always — in his political career, and it was sort of overflowing into his personal life — this completely decisive, 'this is the right thing because this is what I'm doing.' It's like this circular reasoning that was kind of hubristic. He doesn't have that anymore. The irony is that it could make him a better politician."
One afternoon in March, I met Weiner at Almond, another of his brother's restaurants. He came bounding in, announced that he was starving and ordered escargot and a cheeseburger. He seemed to be in a particularly good mood, going on unbidden about how so many of his acquaintances couldn't quite get their minds around the new Weiner. "Some people just don't buy it," he said. "Like they just don't have room for a second narrative about me." And then he said: "We have this notion of intimacy with politicians because they're always looking for ways to tell you what they have figured out you want to hear. But you don't know people, and you don't know what's going on in their lives. So you rarely ever get a really fulsome look at any politician."
I asked about the political ambitions of the new Weiner.
"I don't have this burning, overriding desire to go out and run for office," he said. "It's not the single animating force in my life as it was for quite some time. But I do recognize, to some degree, it's now or maybe never for me, in terms of running for something. I'm trying to gauge not only what's right and what feels comfortable right this second, but I'm also thinking, How will I feel in a year or two years or five years? Is this the time that I should be doing it? And then there's the other side of the coin, which is . . . am I still the same person who I thought would make a good mayor?"
He took a giant bite of his cheeseburger.
"Also, I want to ask people to give me a second chance. I do want to have that conversation with people whom I let down and with people who put their faith in me and who wanted to support me. I think to some degree I do want to say to them, 'Give me another chance.' "
How would he ultimately decide whether to run?
He pondered the question for an uncomfortably long time. "I don't know," he said. "It won't be something as pedestrian as 'Do I think I'll win?' It will be something more like 'Does it feel like I should be involved in this debate? Someone should be out there saying A, B or C.' "
About the current field, he said cautiously: "I know them all. I like them all." Then he took a tiny jab at the City Council speaker, Christine Quinn, for supporting Mayor Michael Bloomberg's effort to extend term limits. "The term-limits thing, as an issue, was a deal breaker for me. But, I think the polls are right: Chris Quinn is leading, and then someone will get into a runoff with her. I don't like runoffs, and I don't think we should have them so you don't have these divisive primaries anymore."
When I asked what he took away from the polling by David Binder (the full results of which he declined to share with The Times), he said: "People are generally prepared to get over it, but they don't know if they're prepared to vote for me. And there's a healthy number of people who will never get over it. . . . It's a little complicated because I always attracted a fairly substantial amount of people who didn't like me anyway." He laughed. "I am a bit of a polarizing case."
As for his actual odds? "David said I'd be the underdog in any race I ran."
And that's pretty much the conventional wisdom among people who watch city politics. "Sure, voters can get past his scandal," says one political adviser not connected to any of the candidates. "But why do they have to? There are four established candidates. Who are the voters who say, 'I need Anthony Weiner back?' " Over the last several months, Weiner has talked informally to a number of people in the political world, many of whom have suggested to him that the mayor's race is unwinnable and he should instead consider running for a lower-profile race like comptroller or public advocate. But Weiner has privately dismissed at least public advocate. (As the political adviser says: "You run for mayor and you lose, you can possibly run again. You run for public advocate and lose, you're dead.") When I asked him by e-mail if he would ever seriously consider running for another municipal office as a steppingstone to the mayor's race, he answered: "Maybe. I'm definitely not making eight-year bank-shot plans."
The question is why Weiner is so eager to enter a race that seems so tough for him to win. There is the matter of the $4.3 million in the Anthony Weiner for Mayor war chest (plus about $1.5 million in public matching funds if he runs in 2013), which would make him one of the better-financed candidates in the race. But there may be reasons to run that have nothing to do with his chances. "Is this about winning?" asks the political adviser. "Or is this an attempt to get the scandal off the books? Then the next time he runs for something, he can say: 'You know what? We talked about that last time. Aren't we beyond that?' If so, it's not a crazy strategy. Because when you're running in a race you know you're going to lose, you get to say all the positive things you want about yourself and take the brunt of the jokes this round and then figure out your real move after that. But that takes a lot of intestinal fortitude to do."
Another political operative echoes this way of thinking about the race: "I have no idea if he will run. But if he does, the reasoning might be: I don't want that to be the last word of my public career; I don't want that to be the thing that my son reads about me, as the end of my career. He's looking for redemption."
Weiner shoved the last bite of burger into his mouth. "I'm really trying hard to let things come to me a little bit more and be less about leaning in to every element of my life," he said. "And I think I'm a better person for that reason. It allows thoughts to breathe a little bit more. But, you know, it will be December, and I'll be like: 'O.K., I'm going to run! What the hell!' "
What do his friends and family say?
"My brother's like, 'Dude, you'd be great if you ran, you'd be a great mayor or something, but don't do it if it's going to screw you up again.' "
A couple of weeks later, the news broke that Weiner spent $100,000 on polling. The reporting was surprisingly straightforward and dredged up nary a detail of the scandal. The next day I e-mailed Weiner to ask what he thought of the coverage.
"It's getting less snarky," he wrote. "Interesting that none of the B-roll was scandal footage." Huma, he said, is starting to think he should run.


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The Sound of One Battery Clapping
Ah, the irony. Unwanted traffic noise is a bane of modern existence. Countless engineers have spent entire careers laboring to reduce vehicle noises from engine, exhaust, tires and aerodynamic turbulence. Most drivers and passengers prefer quieter cars; for starters, it makes it easier to listen to music. Now, with the advent of electric and hybrid-electric vehicles, we need to find a way to make cars noisier.
When new-fangled internal combustion cars first appeared on roads, some municipalities mandated that a man precede each car on foot, waving a red flag. That was meant to warn people (and horses) that a horseless carriage was approaching. Now, we have the opposite problem. At low speed, electrics and hybrids running on battery power produce almost no sound. While that silence may be golden for the driver, and hugely boost his eco-ego satisfaction that his non-combustion ride is saving the planet, it is less satisfying for a hear-impaired person, someone wearing earbuds, or anyone absorbed in a phone call that steps out between parked cars and into the path of the oncoming stealthy liability lawsuit.
To the dismay of ambulance chasers everywhere, the federal government will require that by the end of 2016, all electrics and hybrids emit a sound at low speed. That's because one study showed that electrics and hybrids are injuring pedestrians and cyclists at twice the rate of traditional cars. Thus, car makers are searching for the answer to the question: what sound should a silent car make?
It would be fun to use creative sounds. But imagine your confusion if you heard the tweeting of a parakeet, and then were confronted by a speeding two-ton vehicle? Yes, it would probably be best to avoid fancy ringtones. Sorry, no sound of a horse's hooves
Or Jetsons spaceship
Or a photon torpedo
Stick to a vehicle-type sound. For example, it would be cool if your Leaf sounded like a Ferrari F430:
or a Harley with straight pipes
The Porsche Boxster E electric prototype uses internal and external speakers to broadcast the sound of a gasoline Boxster. And here are some sounds Ford is playing with.
In any case, even if an electric car isn't in your future, the sound of them will be. Maybe use a clothes pin to put a playing card in a wheel's spokes. Or else have drivers just crank up their stereos, especially the bass. If nothing else works, you could always hire a guy with a red flag.


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Will There Be a Third Sex and the City Film? Cynthia Nixon Weighs In
No matter what your preferred genre of TV or film may be, one thing is certain -- everyone has their own personal connection to Sex and the City. Ever since the credits rolled after the franchise's second film, we were left with so many questions. What happens to Carrie and Big? Is Miranda succeeding at her new job? Who is Samantha's man of the moment? Most importantly: Can we expect a sequel? After 6 seasons and two successful movies, many claim the story has run its course, but Sarah Jessica Parker's subtle hint in our February issue remained fresh in our minds.
That's why when we spoke to Cynthia Nixon at the Rush HeARTS Education Luncheon in New York City, which she hosted, we just had to find out her thoughts on a potential Sex and the City 3 movie. "I believe the series has run its course, but if anyone else has any ideas they'd like to tell me, I'd be open to hearing them," Nixon says to a group of reporters, as we refrained from pitching our ideas right then and there. "If Michael Patrick King is writing the sequel, and Sarah Jessica Parker is starring in it, sure!" With Nixon and Parker both seemingly on board, it sounds like the ball is now in the director's court. Your move, King!
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