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Borderites qualify for state track meet
Freshman Alisha Fisher broke a 25-year-old Blaine high
school record in the long jump last Friday in qualifying
for the state track meet that began today at Eastern Washington
University in Cheney.
Fisher was joined by pole vaulters Kit Schumann, Kimberly Harmening and Erin Lippie, 110-meter hurdler Randy Newton and discus flicker Jessica Summers. The top three athletes in each event go to state.
Near misses were notched by the boys 4 x 400 relay team, who finished less than two seconds out of third, the girls 4 x 200 relay who missed by six-tenths of a second and the girls 4 x 400 relay that missed third by a shade under four seconds, 4:22.6 to third place Meridian's 4:18.8.
Fisher earlier had troubles with another of her specialties, the 100 meter hurdles, finishing well out of the money. But after coming oh, so close to the 16 foot one inch Blaine school record in the long jump at the league finals in Lynden she finally broke through the barrier that's stood for 25 years, beating it by half an inch. And while she's not even old enough to drive, she's already got the composure and poise to do well at the state level.
Randy Newton improved on his time in the 110 hurdles and broke 16 seconds on his way to winning his event again.
Jessica "Stretch" Summers likes to say that her discus talents come from having "long levers," that is long limbs, with which she can catapult the little disc that looks like a spacecraft from a bad space movie well over 100 feet. Her 109 foot six and a half inch toss was good enough for third place.
As they have most of the season, Blaine's pole vaulters won on both boys and girls sides. Kit Schumann went 14 feet, equal to his record-setting leap earlier in the year that he's since exceeded, and both Kimberly Harmening and Erin Lippie qualified for the girls, Lippie's 9'6" winning the event.
Adams named new coach
Girls' varsity basketball assistant coach Rob Adams
will take over for former head coach Patrick Green next
season, the Blaine school board decided at their Monday,
May 24 meeting.
"I thought I had a chance at it when Patrick announced that he was leaving," said Adams, a 1991 Blaine high school graduate, obviously happy with the appointment.
A special education teacher in the high school, Adams is currently completing his seventh year in the school district and brings experience as an assistant to both Green and prior to that with boys' varsity basketball coach Rob Ridnour "as one of Rob's 30 or 35 assistants," he joked.
Adams said that there won't be a lot of difference in his approach, saying that "I like the discipline of Patrick's offense, it's good team basketball and they've played good defense under that system too." Adams promised that he'll pick up the pace a bit, get up and down the floor quickly, "to kind of buzz-saw the opponents, not just with speed but with quick smooth transitions and showing different looks. More like a chameleon than a cheetah," he said.
Rob and his wife Julie have a brand new eight-month old son, Dawson, who attended his first state basketball tournament last March. It undoubtedly will not be his last.
Blaine fastpitch season ends in Sedro Woolley
Four of the seniors on Blaine's fastpitch softball
team won just three games the year they played as freshmen
in Blaine. The fifth, senior Holly Steckler, joined the
team later as a transfer from Issaquah high school.
They won nine games the next year, 12 last year for their first winning season and this year went 16-8 to finish third in the league and fourth at the district playoffs Monday in Sedro Woolley.
A very hoarse, physically sore, exhausted but happy head coach Rob Adams described the six-team district tournament, originally scheduled for last weekend but delayed two days by rain, as a long softball marathon. "We played for eight hours," he said, "four games, one right after the other."
The Lady B's won the first game against Nooksack Valley 10 to 5. "We hit well," said Adams, "which we needed to do to get into that six o'clock game for third." Lacy Cheatwood, Alisa Burk, Sirita Lawson and Amanda Stull all had two or more hits, and Holly Steckler's one hit was a home run. Blaine got 15 hits while holding Nooksack to nine, and allowing just five of them to cross the plate.
Against their second opponent, South Whidbey, Blaine hoped to stay close but got shut out 10-0. They've been shut out all season by South Whidbey's phenomenal pitcher Kristi Robinson.
Blaine won the third game of the day against Lakewood 8-0, outhitting their opponent 10 to 2. Stickler, Burk and Lawson all got two or more hits.
Blaine's last game of the tournament and, it turned out, of the season was another match with Nooksack, who made short work of Blaine's game but tired girls, winning the game 10-4 and a trip to the state tournament.
"I'm real proud of these kids, the way they've come along," Adams said, "It's been a good year." Next year should be, too, when Adams will have head coaching duties in both fastpitch and in girls' varsity basketball as well.


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AT&T (NYSE:T) and Verizon Wireless (NYSE:VZ, NYSE:VOD) legal battle may be over, but the war over their respective network coverage rages with the two companies attacking each others 3G coverage, speed and capabilities. But an independent examination of the real performance of the two providers 3G networks shows that while Verizons map may lack the huge gaps of AT&Ts, its claims of a superior mobile data network may be overblown.
Root Wireless, a start-up network performance monitoring company, mapped out the network conditions of AT&T and VZWs network in 7 major markets where both operators offer 3G services and found that AT&Ts high-speed packet access network (HSPA) consistently beat VZWs EV-DO network in a bevy of different metrics, ranging from download speeds to optimal signal strength. Verizon Wireless has attacked AT&T primarily on its nationwide coverage, which is focused primarily in the major metropolitan areas, but within those metropolitan areas the tables are turned, Roots metrics show. While AT&T still has weak spots in its urban footprint, they are no more pronounced than in Verizons network, and when extrapolated across the entire market footprint AT&Ts fairs far better, producing far fewer peaks and valleys in network capacity and much greater data speeds, said Ron Dicklin, Root Wireless chief technology officer.
Dicklin said he believes AT&T is getting a bad rap, resulting from Verizons very effective ad campaign and the high expectations of iPhone users rather than any inherent flaw in its networks. AT&T has a much more stable higher-speed average than Verizon, Dicklin said. In general youre going to get a much more balanced experience with AT&T than you would with Verizon in areas where they both have 3G.
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For the second consecutive season, senior Troy Huff was a unanimous selection on the All-Big Sky First Team selected by the league's 11 head coaches and announced on Monday by conference officials.
Classmate Jamal Webb was selected as the Co-Reserve of the Year, sharing the honor with Portland State's DaShaun Wiggins. Webb and backcourt mate Aaron Anderson were also named to the honorable mention All-Big Sky team.
Huff, who was one of two unanimous picks as a junior, was one of four Big Sky players picked for the first team on all the ballots. Weber State senior Davion Berry was named the league's MVP, while his teammates Jeremy Senglin (Freshman of the Year) and Joel Bolomboy (Defensive Player of the Year) also picked up individual awards.
Northern Arizona's Quinton Upshur was named the Newcomer of the Year and also earned a spot on the first team along with Huff, Berry, Montana's Kareem Jamar, Sacramento State's Mikh McKinney and Eastern Washington's Tyler Harvey.
Huff was the only Big Sky player to finish in the top five in scoring (19.6; 2nd), rebounding (7.0; 5th) and steals (2.3; 1st) during the regular season. His 19.6 ppg average is a career-high and he now ranks third on UND's all-time scoring charts with 1,940 points.
Webb, who qualified for the Reserve of the Year Award after only starting half of UND's 20 Big Sky games, became the first player in UND history to register four consecutive seasons with 50 steals and 100 assists. He finished fifth this season in Big Sky games in assists (3.9/g) and second in steals (1.8/g).
Anderson, who was a second team All-Big Sky selection a season ago, earned honorable mention honors after averaging 10.0 ppg in league play and shooting 84.7 percent from the free throw line.
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MVP – Davion Berry, Sr., G/F, WeberState
Newcomer of the Year – Quinton Upshur, Jr., G, Northern Arizona
Freshman of the Year – Jeremy Sengelin, G, WeberState
Defensive Player of the Year – Joel Bolomboy, So., G, WeberState
Reserve of the Year – Jamal Webb, Sr., G, North Dakota & DaShaun Wiggins, Jr., G, PortlandState
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*Mikh McKinney, Jr., G (Sacramento State)
Tyler Harvey, So., G (Eastern Washington)
Quinton Upshur, Jr., G (Northern Arizona)
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Derrick Barden, Sr., F (Northern Colorado)
Gary Winston, Jr., G, (PortlandState)
Kyle Tresnak, Sr., C (WeberState)
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Tate Unruh, Sr., G (Northern Colorado)
Venky Jois, So., F (Eastern Washington); Keron DeShields Jr., G (Montana); JordanGregory, Jr., G (Montana), Flavien Davis, Sr.,F (MontanaState); Aaron Anderson, Sr., G, (North Dakota); Jamal Webb, Sr., G (North Dakota); Max Jacobsen, Sr., F (Northern Arizona); DaShaun Wiggins, Jr., G (PortlandState); Dylan Garrity, Jr., G (Sacramento State); Joel Bolomboy, So., F (WeberState)
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2009 Tour de France: Behind the Scenes
Who's the Strongest Climber?
The yellow jersey contenders know best, and they tested the waters in the low mountains of stage 13 to see who will be able to hang when the race hits the heart of the Alps.
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Since the beginning of the Tour de France, and even before it started, people have been talking about who would be the strongest in the mountains. That's a concern every year, but it became even more important once it was clear that Astana was starting the Tour with four riders who could potentially win (they're down to three now that Levi Leipheimer is unfortunately out with a broken bone in his wrist). But determining who's the strongest isn't as clear as looking at the standings, even now that we're deep in the second week of the race. Today was the start of the second mountain range of the 2009 Tour de France, and the riders were busy examining each other as they raced up and over five categorized passes.
Great poker players know how to read people and learn the signals that opponents innately display when they're confident or distressed about the cards they're holding. Great cyclists need to have the same knack for reading opponents, and nowhere is that more important than in the mountains. Every rider has his "tells", the unmistakable signs that he's struggling. One rider might drop his head, or dip one of his shoulders. Another might grimace or change the way he pulls on the bars. But many of the best riders are also very stoic, and very skilled at keeping the pain from showing. By projecting strength when you're weak, you can often trick your opponents into riding steady when, in reality, it's the absolute best time for them to attack you.
With a week of rolling stages between the end of the Pyrenees and the beginning of the Alps today, there were some big unknowns about the true condition of the yellow jersey contenders. And although today's stage wasn't terribly conducive to big attacks from the men hoping to win the Tour de France, it did give them an important chance to evaluate each other's climbing strength before the bigger showdown on Sunday's stage to Verbier.
You have to remember that most of the men in the yellow jersey group on today's climbs know each other quite well. It's different than when you go to a road race a few hours from home and don't know anyone in the field. These guys race against each other frequently, and a few even train together despite being on different teams. Just as you're better at reading the body language of someone you know well, the riders at the Tour de France are very familiar with their rivals' riding styles. But one of the consequences of Lance's three years away from the sport was that he missed out on getting to know how some of the younger guys ride, especially when they're under stress. For instance, in 2005 - the year Lance retired - Saxo Bank's Andy Schleck was a first-year professional and didn't ride the Tour de France. Now the younger of the Schleck brothers is a major contender for the yellow jersey, and the mountains are his favorite playground.
Lance has always been very observant, and I've often said he's one of the smartest on-the-road tacticians I've ever known. He - along with all the other contenders - has been watching his rivals since day one, in order to better understand how they react when they are feeling pressured and how they ride when they're feeling confident and strong.
The pace on the Platzerwasel climb today was difficult, and Astana was the team leading the charge. Not only did keeping a high pace discourage other teams from launching attacks, it also provided an opportunity to see if any of the contenders would unexpectedly crack. When it became clear that the biggest players in the race were able to handle the high pace, there was no reason to continue burning through the team's energy and they backed off the intensity. But even without dropping anyone, the riders in the group picked up important clues about the relative strengths of their rivals. Just by watching someone on the bike, listening to their breathing, seeing how they grip the bars and roll their shoulders, and even noticing how they move around atop the saddle, you know whether that person is comfortable with the pace or starting to dig deep.
Stage 13 was difficult, but not terrible. You can tell that by the fact that yellow jersey wearer Rinaldo Nocentini stayed with the group of the major contenders and retained his six-second lead over Astana's Alberto Contador. Even more telling was the presence of sprinter Thor Hushovd in the group of the yellow jersey contenders at the finish. The big Norweigan finished sixth on the stage, and gained enough points to once again take the lead in the green jersey points competition. He's a strong rider, and he can make it up and over climbs reasonably well for a sprinter, but if the yellow jersey contenders had decided to use today's mountains to really hurt each other, Hushovd would have been jettisoned far earlier and wouldn't have been able to make it back to the group in time to sprint for sixth place.
The major showdown is coming, and it starts on Sunday with the summit finish at Verbier. I don't know who's going to be in the yellow jersey at the end of that day, but by the final two kilometers we'll at least know what the riders probably already know about each other: who's the strongest climber in the race.
Chris Carmichael has been Lance Armstrong's coach for 20 years and is the founder of Carmichael Training Systems (CTS). Chris's newest book, "The Time Crunched Cyclist: Fit, Fast, and Powerful in 6 Hours a Week" has just been released and signed copies are available at
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A themed tour of the gallery in British Sign Language.
During this tour we'll be thinking about the collections in terms of scale. How does an artist make something look heavy or create a sense of greatness? Your guide Jennifer Little will be getting to grips with this and lots more.
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Stephanie Izard on Girl & the Goat, "Top Chef," and more
STEPHANIE IZARD, INC.: In the two years since the curly-haired Chicago chef won a TV reality show, she has managed to turn her 15 minutes of fame into the launching pad for a celebrity brand. Her $1.5-million, 130-seat restaurant in the West Loop is racing to open next month. Will the crowds come?
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R & D: Recently, Izard (top left) has been trying out dishes for her new restaurant at underground dinners around the city.
Jeff Ruby's October 2010 Dining Out column
Design elements of Girl and the Goat
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Stephanie Izard weaves in and out of traffic, the beams of her Mini Cooper barely piercing the foggy gray haze that envelops I-57. No one has passed us for miles. All the way from Chicago to Champaign, the tiny car whizzes past 18-wheelers, SUVs, and vehicles twice its size. What would take the average driver two and a half hours takes Izard barely two.
We're off to Champaign to visit Prairie Fruits Farm, a small husband-and-wife-owned establishment that will make unique specialty cheeses for Izard's forthcoming restaurant, Girl & the Goat. On the way, she tells the Taco Bell story, pausing to abruptly change lanes. A few nights before, the rising young chef and one of her two sous-chefs, Dave Gollan, were out in the suburbs cooking a charity dinner. Riding back to the city in a hired car, they chased the workday with a bottle of wine and some homemade pineapple vodka. That went down smoothly, so they ventured to The Bluebird in Bucktown for a few beers. Sometime in the night, they took a cab to a Taco Bell. Of course, the morning after, neither Izard nor Gollan remembered the Taco Bell visit. It took finding a receipt—and $9.47 in change in Izard's pocket—to shake loose the memory.
And though it is buried in the recesses of inebriation, the Taco Bell trip is strangely relevant. Which Izard finds funny. That's part of her charm. She can whip up a four-course meal for the most discerning audiences, as she did on season 4 of the hit TV show Top Chef, or she can wolf down a gordita and a beer and have the gall to call it research.
The gordita is research. Or was intended to be. For the uninitiated, a gordita—actually, Taco Bell's Cheesy Gordita Crunch—is a taco with two outer layers: a soft flatbread and a hard taco shell. It's the play between the crunchy and the chewy that Izard wants to incorporate into a dish for Girl & the Goat. In her version, she fries up pizza dough so that it is crisp, yet soft on the inside. She imagines that the fried dough will serve as a scoop for brandade, a blend of fish, cream, and potatoes that has the consistency of a dip. Her mother, Sue, used to fry up dough like that, and it's one of Izard's favorite foods from her childhood.
As for the rest of the dishes, she has loose ideas: a flatbread topped with shredded goat, house-made sausages, sustainable seafood dishes. Four months before the restaurant's May opening date, if you ask Izard what the menu will be, she laughs and says, "There's going to be one." But even she's not sure yet exactly what will be on it.
I've been hanging out with Izard for three weeks now, and I haven't seen her cook a thing. Nor would I taste a bite until later at a private dinner with 100 other guests. She promises that she and her sous-chefs have been experimenting with sausage making and meat curing. But during the time I've been with her, that has been on hold as she picks her pottery, approves her logo, and sorts through the millions of tiny details that surround any major restaurant opening. The opening is a big one, particularly given the lousy economy: Izard's business partners, Kevin Boehm and Rob Katz, are spending $1.5 million to convert an old manufacturing facility at 809 West Randolph Street (near Halsted) into a fully functioning restaurant.
On its face, it sounds like a shrewd investment. Izard won a reality show watched by millions and refused to stop there. By thinking of herself as a brand, she has extended her 15 minutes of fame some two years and counting. That she'll star in her own TV show one day isn't a question of if, it's a question of when.
But is Girl & the Goat a huge gamble? Izard ran a self-funded restaurant for nearly three years, then closed it after she got too stressed out. The concept isn't novel, either: It's a shared-plates gastropub, the kind of thing that Chicago—and even the West Loop—has seen before.
The truth is, the most hyped restaurant opening that Chicago has experienced in a while is probably both a calculated capitalization on a budding brand and a roll of the dice.
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No, it's fine. I didn't need my heart.
Are we crying about a doodle of dinosaurs?
Welcome to Tumblr
Oh god it hurts why would you ever
The meteor was coming.
Oh, God, it was coming and she didn't know what to do. Her son, her beautiful little son, pressed close to her side, craning his neck to look up at his Mother.
"Mummy, why is everyone moving? There's plenty of food here." He asked in his sweet, innocent voice.
"Because, my sweet, sometimes it is best that we move on. It is our way." She replied, forcing the words past the lump in her throat.
"Oh," Her son said, turning his gaze to the fiery rock in the sky that would spell their deaths out for them, "the old Triceratops told me it was cuzza that rock. He said the rock could hurt us real bad." He continued, not understanding what he meant by those words in his innocence.
"Triceratops is being silly, he just wanted to tease you one more time before he left." She lied, choking on her tears. Oh, God, he son, her lovely son, was going to die not understanding.
She turned her face to the meteor- it was close now. It wouldn't be long. Swinging her head around, she dropped her face to her sons and nuzzled him one last time. "Let's play a game, yes? And then we'll go join the others." She suggested.
"Okay! What game shall we play, Mummy?"
"Let's play pretend. We will imagine the sort of place we would like to move to, and when we open our eyes, that's where we shall be."
"How do we play?"
One last look at the meteor- it was almost time.
"Close your eyes and imagine the place, and count to thirty out loud. Just like when we play Hide-and-Seek." She curled herself around her son, both of them now laid on the beach.
"Ok, Mummy. 1, 2, 3, 4…"
She watched the meteor approach with sad eyes, and just before it hit land she turned her head, laying it and her neck over her son and bracing herself.
Her son had not yet said 30, but it was over.
what the fuck is wrong with you
Damn it Tumblr, stop that.
It's not cool to send people anon messages trying to figure out where they live. It's not cool to stalk people's blogs over it either. It's not cool trying to figure out if you know someone if they've asked you to leave them alone or come off anon. It's particularly not cool if that blogger writes a lot about their sexual assault and things like that and you creeping could endanger them.
This is not about my blog, it's about someone else's. And she's freaking out. And seriously, what you're doing isn't ethical at all.
Both of these images are false.
The first one is an edited image from an article from 2004: 80 Thai Muslims suffocate after arrest at protest. It has nothing to do with Burmese soldiers but Thai soldiers, and it was not a deliberate massacre. Those people died because they were weak from lack of food combined with the suffocation caused of being held together in a tiny area.
The second image is of Buddhist monks cremating China's earthquake victims from 2010. And Buddhist monks are very unlikely to kill people- any people- at all, because of their beliefs- spreading lies about them like this is a complete disrespect of what they believe in.
Not only are those images and others like them a disrespect of what the Burmese people suffer from, they are nothing but misinformation and lies that complicate matters further and thus only hurt people. It is true that the Burmese government enforces the persecution of Muslims in Burma, but not like this. Spreading lies does not help the cause. Misinformation is not helping.
If you're so concerned about what's happening in Burma, then actually educate yourself about the issue instead of spreading lies.
i m just gonna keep reblogging this until ppl understand not to circulate around fake pictures. it would mean a lot if my followers did the same but no one is obligated to.
This blog is going through some changes so I thought I'd put post this up here
This goes out to all the cis people who, it's quite obvious, want to help and befriend trans people, but who keep alienating and angering us instead. I've seen the befuddled looks on your faces when this happens, and I thought I'd try to clear a few things up for you. Let's look at some common scenarios in which well-meaning cis people screw up with the whole pro-trans thing, and look at how some of these could go differently:
Scenario: You see someone whose gender you can't determine just by looking at them. You want to make sure that you're respectful of their identity.
Wrong Way to Ask: "Are you a man or a woman?"
Phrasing it this way will put the trans person on the defensive, and make them feel like you're questioning and possibly even attacking their gender. It can also make them feel highly insecure about their gender presentation.
Right Way to Ask: "What pronouns do you prefer?"
This phrasing makes it clear that you intend to respect the person's gender identity, regardless of what they look like. It shows an acknowledgment that the onus of respect is on you, and not their presentation or "passability".
Scenario: You have just made an insensitive joke about trans people in the presence of your trans friend. You didn't mean to hurt them, and you weren't even thinking about them when you made the joke, but now the relationship is strained and you want to try to repair it.
Wrong Thing to Say: "Come on; it was just a joke! Lighten up!"
This tells your friend that you don't take their pain seriously, and that you don't think they should take it seriously either. It sends a message that trans lives and trans experiences matter less than your feelings of guilt and unease at being called out.
Right Thing to Say: "That was really thoughtless of me. I'll try not to do it again."
Nine times out of ten, your friend will know you didn't mean to hurt them. Most people don't. But they need you to understand that you have hurt them. They need you to know this, not so you can stew in guilt, but so all involved can heal and move on.
Scenario: Your trans friend doesn't "pass". You think you can see what they're doing wrong, and you want to help.
Wrong Thing to Do: List off all the things they're doing "wrong", and tell them how to fix them.
Trans people's self-esteem is rocky enough as it is. By focusing on all the ways in which they look different from cis people, you are not only causing anxiety and dysphoria for the trans person, but also reinforcing the idea that trans people are "lesser" or "fake". Besides, your friend may not even see "passing" as a desirable goal, in which case you are getting up in their face for no reason at all.
Right Thing to Do: Mind your own damn business.
If your friend wants you to help with their image, they will ask you. Regardless, respect their gender identity unconditionally.
Scenario: You've messed up a trans person's name/pronouns. You didn't mean to, but you can see the anguish on their face, and you want to make things right.
Wrong Thing to Say: "I'm sorry; it's just that you're still [previous name] to me!"
Of all the things you could possibly say to a trans person, this is among the most hurtful. It's one thing to struggle to accept someone's identity; it's quite another to impose the wrong identity on that person in order to excuse your difficulty.
Right Thing to Say: "I'm sorry. I'll keep trying."
Everyone makes mistakes, and everyone has difficulty adapting to a major change in another person. What's important is that you try, and that you correct yourself when you mess up. That's all anyone can reasonably ask; at the same time, it's the least you can do.
Scenario: You're framing a health issue in terms of a specific gender (e.g., framing menstruation in terms of women), and a trans person points out that it isn't necessarily unique to that gender and/or that they're being left out of the discussion by your framing.
Wrong Response: "Well, BIOLOGICALLY speaking, it really does only affect [gender]."
Framing gender solely in terms of biology is always hurtful to trans people, no matter what the context. It's even more hurtful when people who are strongly affected by an issue are deliberately erased in discussions of it.
Right Response: "Good point. I'll try to remember it."
We're all soaking in narratives that mash all the complexities of gender into two discrete categories, so it's understandable that you'd initially think in those terms as well. But expanding your mind is never a bad thing, especially when it means including people who need/deserve to be included.
Scenario: You've known your trans friend/relative by one gender all your life, and now, all of a sudden, they're asking you to call them by a different name and pronouns. This comes as a shock, and you feel like you don't know them anymore; you feel like they've died and some new person has taken their place. Yet you want to stay in relationship with them, somehow.
Wrong Thing to Do: Categorically refuse to respect their request, insisting that it's too difficult and hurtful for you.
Your trans friend/relative has taken a great risk by revealing their identity to you, and they've done so because they want and need to stay in relationship with you. For you to refuse to accept them, for you to prioritize your (relatively smaller) pain over theirs, is terribly cruel. Your pain is absolutely valid, but this is not the way to handle it.
Right Thing to Do: Work out your grief issues with a counselor and/or with cis friends, away from your friend/relative.
The person you thought existed is gone, most likely forever. This is going to be very tough for you to deal with, and you absolutely do need to deal with it. But the person who does exist, the person you've loved, will need your continuing love and support — and that person is not responsible for your healing. Do whatever you need to do to get to a place where you can relate to them respectfully and lovingly, and do it without placing additional burdens on them.
In short: respect us; care about us; treat us as equals; be willing to learn; be willing to grow. Once you get the hang of it, it's really not as hard as it seems.
Okay, guys, here's the situation. thelittlekneesofbees is having a hell of a time right now after coming out to their family. Their home situation has gotten to toxic levels and they are literally having to live a lie to make sure their parents don't kick them out. They need to move out, ASAP, but are lacking the funds. You can read about their situation here [[WARNING: triggers for religious abuse, homophobia and probably related others I missed.]]
I'm not a great artist, but I wanted to do what I could to help them. I understand their situation, and I know others out there know it even more-so. No one should have to live in fear of their parents, their parents' ideology, or their bigotry. thelittlekneesofbees is asking for any kind of donation, but as of right now, they're running out of time.
SO. I'm offering my services as an artist. I'm not amazing, but if you'd like, I'll digitally paint a bust of you, or another character/person of your choice, for a $5 donation that will go straight to thelittlekneesofbees.
Here's some quick samples of my artwork (my DA is here with fancier pieces):
Here's how you do it:
1. Message me with your art request. Give me details about what you'd like/send me a picture of you/of whomever else you'd want me to draw. I'm not good with drawing animals, so no anthro unfortunately. ):
2. Send $5 to thelittlekneesofbee's paypal donation address at email@example.com or by going here directly. Once they've sent me a message about receiving the donation or you send me a screenshot of the paypal checkout screen/the confirmation email (whatever's easier), I'll carry on with your art piece.
3. Once it's been confirmed, and I've finished the piece, I'll send you a screenshot to make sure it's what you want. :) If it is, I'll send you the full resolution finished picture!
4. Congrats, you're awesome!
PLEASE consider donating. I know what it's like to have a parent force their ideology on you and basically dehumanize you because of your sexuality/faith/etc. It's barbaric, and if you can help thelittlekneesofbees, I cannot thank you enough on their behalf. Even if you can't afford it, please signal boost this post!!!! If you can afford less than $5, simply donate it when you can.
ALSO: If you are able to help by offering your own artistic talents in any way to help bring in more donations, PLEASE contact thelittlebeesofknees with the offer to help. Every bit counts!
Thank you!!
Why are you so beautiful to me?
I received a message from someone stating that they were going to work to make sure Project Offspring never happens. They said that not including bigots in the inclusive community was a racist act. Okay, no they didn't word it that way. They said QUOTE "Someone being racist towards people doesn't mean they shouldn't be included. You're the one who's racist." «No joke.
This person went on to say that they would QUOTE "Make stuff up if they had to" in order to make sure it never happened. They stated that I was the QUOTE "True racist" for saying that white people couldn't use a racist word. (Not going to put the full quote here because…yes, it was as bad as you'd imagine)
I intended to ignore this message. I left Tumblr but couldn't stop thinking about it. So instead, I decided to put them on blast. Here's the best part, the page that they sent it from has disappeared. It's like a damn theme today. Interesting, huh?
Instead of going on about how this is the VERY reason that Project Offspring is needed, I am going to say…
On this North American Independence Day, use your dollars wisely. Donate one dollar to Project Offspring.
I have been a strong advocate of the "One dollar is enough if we all do it" theory but this crap, especially the "Make stuff up if I have to" part has sent me reeling.
To the person who sent the message: I am going to take a wild guess and say that you are probably "Hate following" me. That's cool. Know this, you should have just left it alone. This crap has made me want to see this project through even more. YOU are the reason this is not only needed but GOING to happen. Thanks for the extra motivation.
This is a prime example of the lengths people will go to stalk and harass us. Even when we try to create safe spaces where we don't have to interact with these people, they try to stop us. They're constantly shouting "if you don't like what I say block me," and yet they're constantly pursuing and harassing us no matter where we go.
look. it's okay to appreciate another culture.
I have dozens and dozens of non-chinese friends who, for whatever reason, decided to learn mandarin chinese. (which is fantastic—multilingualism is wonderful.) and through learning mandarin, many of these friends learn about various aspects of chinese cultures, and they're now totally in love with china and have a really deep appreciation for everything chinese.
and I am cool with that.
a lot of them would love to live in china. a lot of them wish they'd grown up in and with chinese culture.
they know that they're always going to be laowai (foreigners, others), and that they can't change that.
the thing about ~*transethnicity*~ though? well, there are multiple things about it:
(1) it essentializes and homogenizes races, ethnicities, and cultures. (link contains gifs)
(2) it trivializes the struggles that many peoples go through to claim their heritage. people are persecuted for their heritage. people die to claim their culture. these are ongoing struggles.
(3) it does not erase the presence of white privilege. I am aware that there may be transethnics that are not white. but many of them are white, and they still have white privilege. they will still go through society benefiting from the system that privileges them and rewards them for their existence. the system of racism does not oppress them as it does people of color. white people may scream all they want about how they're really Black on the inside, but that won't change their skin color, and they will still receive the benefits of white privilege.
(4) and furthermore, physical designation of race and ethnicity is all very much arbitrary and constructed. that is to say, people who are of a certain race or ethnicity have a vast spectrum of physical appearances. there are very light Black people, very dark Black people, and every shade in between. there are chinese people with straight hair; there are chinese people with wavy hair. there is no one way to look a certain race or ethnicity, and yet transethnics very often stereotype these physical appearances into one model that very frequently is the dominant fetishized model of a certain race/ethnicity (dainty Asian women, strong Black men, etc. etc. etc.)—and I don't think that that's a coincidence. it's a form of incognito racism.
(5) transethnicity appropriates from the trans* community as well. violence and discrimination against trans* people, especially trans* people of color, are on the rise: trans* people are murdered for simply existing. trans* people struggle for access to basic human necessities such as healthcare and housing, and it is still very much legal in too many places to fire someone from their job for being trans*. and this discrimination, this oppression, is systematic and normalized. transethnics do not face this kind of oppression. maybe there's some prejudice and discrimination on an individual level, but on a societal, institutional level? nope.
(6) marginalization based on race and marginalization based on gender are not the same. they are two struggles that often intersect, that may have similarities, but they are not parallel. my experience as a cis chinese-american does not in any way qualify me to talk about marginalization based on gender. being trans* does not qualify a white person to talk about racism. etc. etc. etc. being "transethnic" is not parallel to being transgender.
(7) there is also the question of transracial/transethnic adoption, which is a whole different set of struggles, and I don't really know enough about it to say anything on that topic.
mostly, for me, the reason why transethnicity pisses me off the way it does boils down to this: people of color in a white-dominant society have essentially been forced into "transethnicity" for as long as the system of racial oppression has existed. that is, people of color who talk white, dress white, act white, think white, step all over their fellow people of color as an act of buying into white supremacy, are rewarded and allowed to advance in white-dominant racist societies.
we've been forced to assimilate. we've had our cultures and heritages stripped from us. we're forcibly whitewashed. we struggle to reclaim our heritages and histories. these struggles are deep collective wounds that span generations, and we're shown signs every day that these struggles are in no way ending.
and ~*transethnics*~ want me to respect their identity? while denying me the autonomy of defining my own damn heritage?
no. just no.
here's some more eloquently worded anger. (contains gifs)
I'm gonna return to my regularly scheduled fandom blogging. I've spent far too much time on this topic.
— Margaret Atwood, The Penelopiad (via delucazade)
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The Jazz can run, all right.
After years of watching Western Conference opponents get faster, the Utah Jazz rolled out an offense Friday night in their 97-81 preseason win against Oklahoma City that was crisp in transition, was validated by timely 3-point shots and initiated by fierce interior defense that produced eight blocked shots.
Jazz 97, Thunder 81Mo Williams scores 15 points to lead Utah.
» The Jazz unveiled a faster, more dynamic offense, despite shooting 42 percent from the field.
Jazz at L.A. LakersAt the Staples Center
Tip-off » 8:30 p.m. MDT
TV » None
Radio » 1280 AM, 97.5 FM
Records » Jazz 1-1, Lakers 0-2
About the Jazz » They split the 2011-12 season series with the Lakers, 2-2. ... They play their next four preseason games against the Lakers and Clippers, including three in Los Angeles. ... Since 2010, they have won 10 of 12 games in the preseason. ... F Paul Millsap won't play.
About the Lakers » They have lost their first two preseason games to Golden State (110-83) and Portland (93-75). ... Against the Trail Blazers, G Kobe Bryant and C Dwight Howard did not play. G Steve Nash finished with 13 points and four assists in 25 minutes.
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"We've been working on it since Day 1 in training camp," point guard Mo Williams said. "Coach has been beating it in, guys are responding well to it."
How well?
Playing without Paul Millsap and Jamaal Tinsley, both away for personal reasons, the Jazz outscored a watered-down Thunder team 29-16 in fast-break points. Six players scored in double figures, and the Jazz never trailed against the defending Western Conference champions.
Mo Williams, acquired via trade in the offseason from the Clippers, finished with a team-high 15 points.
"I'm the head of the snake, so I'm going to have to push the ball," Williams said. "I have wings that can really get out and run and they can make plays off the dribble when they get it."
After Williams, the Jazz were remarkably even. Gordon Hayward scored 13, Marvin Williams, Al Jefferson and Enes Kanter added 12, while Alec Burks contributed 11.
Oklahoma City held out James Harden and Russell Westbrook, and three-time defending scoring leader Kevin Durant scored just nine points in 19 minutes. The Thunder were led by 12 points from forward Serge Ibaka.
The Jazz gave fans their first look at an offense that seemed likely after offseason additions made the Jazz more athletic and better from the perimeter.
"I thought that that's the kind of tempo that we want to create right from the beginning of the game," coach Tyrone Corbin said.
But perhaps the most promising sign for the Jazz wasn't Marvin or Mo Williams, who combined to make all three of the Jazz's 3-pointers, or Derrick Favors, who blocked three shots in the spot start. It was Burks, the second-year guard out of Colorado who picked up point guard minutes and scored 11 points. While most of Burks' scoring came on drives to the basket, his most memorable play — which will land him on SportsCenter and every other highlights show from here to eternity.
In any Dunk of the Night Awards, Burks may have stolen the prize from Enes Kanter, who earlier in the night took a pass from Randy Foye up for a strong one-handed, up-and-under jam.
Kanter cast his vote for Burks.
"I think it was a great dunk," he said. "When he came off the bench, was talking about, 'Oh my dunk was better, yours was weak,' whatever. It was a great dunk."
It was also symbolic of Burks' aggressiveness throughout the night.
"I like it," Burks said. "This is how I played in college. That's the type of player I am: I like to get on the break, creating on fast-break opportunities."
The Jazz are improving on an already fairly polished offensive product. Last season, they were fourth in scoring, but they were disastrous from the outside, making only 32.3 percent of their 3-pointers.
The Jazz made only three 3s against the Thunder, but they were timely, including a shot in transition by Mo Williams with 2:16 left in the third quarter to push the Jazz's lead to 70-61.
The only glaring rough spot for the Jazz was Favors, who started after Millsap went to Atlanta to attend the funeral of his grandmother.
Favors finished 0-for-5 from the field and with 1 point.Next Page >
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37 U.S. Code § 704 - Allotments: officers of Public Health Service
Source(Pub. L. 87–649, Sept. 7, 1962, 76 Stat. 485.)
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|Source (Statutes at Large)
|42:210(b) (1st sentence).
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More Machete? Great. Less Jessica Alba? Not so sure...
I'm not the least bit ashamed to admit I've had Carly Rae Jepsen's soon to be classic hit "Call Me Maybe" stuck in my head for three days now. It's so joyous.
Michael Kenneth Williams had what might be my favorite line ever in a TV show or movie on "Boardwalk Empire" but unfortunately I can only quote it in the shower, with music on and after a quick scan of my neighborhood to make sure no one is home. It's pretty bad. What I'm getting at here is Michael Kenneth Williams has been rumored to be joining the "Robocop" remake at Alex Murphy's partner and family friend. I mean partner in a police sort of way, not like life partner. Although they may have changed the story for the remake. I don't judge.
Blake Sheldon is apparently not the country singer. That guy has a T in his name or something. This Blake is an actor and he's been tapped to play not 1 but 2 roles in the upcoming season of "American Horror Story". Young Shel Shel (patent pending) will play the role of "Devon" and "Cooper" in the next chapter in the series. I have no idea who those characters are but they're powerful names so I have high hopes.
Do you like classic horror movies? Of course you do. Even if you don't you're too embarrassed to admit you don't like them. So most likely you and a group of friends will be too ashamed to call each other's bluffs about wanting to see "The Birds", "Frankenstein" and "Bride of Frankenstein" when they are restored and put into theaters this coming September and October. Make comments like "oh this is classic" and "did you know 'The Birds' is a reference to the threat of communism". You're going to look so cultured.
Don't ask me why but I'm here to tell you that Lindsay Lohan and Charlie sheen have both been added to the cast of "Scary movie 5". I'm also here to tell you that I've been wearing the same clothes for 2 days... to work.
Hey here's a guy who is going to jail because he went around giving BJ's to men who passed out at local bars. One man's public service is another man's forced sex act. It's a crazy world.
I want to tell you about this kid who got disqualified from the Olympics for, according to him, accidentally eating pot brownies. Not because I really care about the story but because he went to my high school and is from my home town and that makes me proud. Go America.
There's a new trailer for the "Total Recall" remake out but that's not the big news here. The big news is that in the trailer we have 100% confirmation that there's a 3 boobied hooker. I know, I can barely type I'm so excited. This might be the greatest day in the history of the world.
There can only be one "Highlander"! Well actually there can be multiple. There was for sure a sequel and now there's a remake of the 1986 cult classic that I've never seen. But I might see the remake, because Ryan Reynolds has been confirmed to be taking the lead in the film. I'm not going to go into why I will see it now because of him. I don't have to explain myself to you.
Sing this with me. I... like... movies with Danny Trejo. Charlie Sheen playing the president. And.. AND... TWINS! Remember those commercials?! Well I do and I'm talking about Elise and Electra Avellan being added to the cast of "Machete Kills". For those of you who don't follow the work of Robert Rodriguez the Avellan twins were those two girls from "Planet Terror" and the original "Machete" flick. Your move, 3 boobied alien.
For those of you who have been waiting with baited breath for the new "Carrie" remake I have the honor or breaking the news to you that production has officially begun in Toronto. For those of you who love freedom and hate maple syrup I have to misfortune of telling you that the "Carrie" remake has begun production in Toronto.
Here's a Seattle man who loves flashing so much that he stopped off on his way to court to flash some people. What was he on his way to court for? Well if I have to tell you that then you probably don't get any of my comic wit now do you.
When you're a pizza delivery lady and you come back to your car after making a drop off to find a naked man attacking your car and claiming it's his it's really best to just let him do his thing. That's just sound advice if you ask me.
Tomorrow night a buddy of mine is having a bachelor party in the fine city of New York. It's my first real night out of debauchery since my little bundle of joy stepped into the world some 11 months ago. This could go 1 of 2 ways. I could either be dead on my feet by 11, I don't think I've been up past then since I became a father other than when woken up by crying.... or I could go so far off the deep end then I end up getting drunk out of my mind and start a fist fight with a hooker. If there's no news on Monday assume the latter happened.
I don't know why I didn't see this coming but Charlie Sheen has signed on to play the President in Robert Rodriguez's "Machete Kills". I assume Gary Busey will be joining the cast any day now. I'm fine with all this by the way.
Word around town is that Rick Jaffa and Amanda Silver have been picked up by the folks at Universal to bang out the script for "Jurassic Park 4". You might recognize those two names from their work on 2011's "Rise of the Planet of the Apes". Perhaps "bang out" isn't the right term I should be using. I don't know if they're banging or anything. They may be happily married and now their better halves are obviously reading this and throwing a fit. God I've ruined another marriage!
I had no idea I was so pissed that Darren Ward's "A Day of Violence" hadn't made its way to the States but the internet tells me I should be excited about it it hitting our shores on August 21st so god damn it if I'm not all a flutter. The film has been sitting around since 2007 follows a British gangster as he chops down his rivals who are after him for the money he stole. Seriously I have never heard of this thing. But don't let that take away from the hoopla that's about to drop... from my pants.
What's better than a Roger Corman flick where a bunch of girls run around having tickle fights? How about one of those woman being 50 foot tall and in 3D? I know, it seems so simple it could just work! Well word has come from the mountains that Corman is ready to unveil his masterpiece, titled "Attack of the 50ft Cheerleader", next month at Comic-Con after a panel discussion. Let the magic begin.
A guy who insists on calling himself Thor snapped and started showing everyone his uncut manhood while dressed like a woman? There must be some kind of reasonable explanation. We'd all like to be called Thor. This guy was obviously just sane enough to think of it first.
Sometimes the trauma of getting into a car crash can leave someone so shaken they do crazy things. Like this Texas woman who left her kids at the scene, walked to a CVS, stripped and start eating ice cream. I'm not saying you won't go to jail for this, you 100% will, I'm just saying it happens.
What could top last weeks new that Raj from "What's Happening" had joined the cast of Rob Zombie's "Lords of Salem"? How about Jeffrey Daniel Phillips joining the cast? Who's that you might ask? Why just one of the most famous cavemen in history. Ya know, minus the real cavemen. Let's call him the most famous insurance selling caveman of all time. Well next to the other two. There's three of them in those commercials isn't there? Let's just call him a guy. He's a nice guy. God I hate you.
Oh boy oh boy! More set pics from "The Dark Knight Rises" and this time we've got Anne Hathaway as Catwoman. Boy she looks comfortable in that suit. If people made a big deal over Michelle Pfeiffer doing flips in her Catwoman outfit back in 1992 I can't wait to see what sort of fuss they make about Hathaway stomping around the set like the Frankenstein monster recovering from hip surgery. Is it hot in here or is it just her?
I've seen a ton of movies that Michael Fassbender has been in but for the life of me I have no idea who the guy is. That aside though if I had one choice for who could play Alex Murphy in the upcoming "Robocop" remake he would be it. Don't ask me why he just would be. And the good news for me is that director Jose Padhilla wants him for the role too. Which I kind of think is weird since I don't know who he is. It's like if Rob Zombie wanted one of the Geico cavemen for one of his movie or something.
And last but not least Charlie Sheen has accepted a role in "Scary Movie 5". I don't know what else to say about that. I'm crying on the inside though.
A good friend will save you from a grizzly bear attack. An even better friend will see you're getting attacked by a grizzly bear and shoot you before the bear can kill you. I think that's what the plan was. Either that or bad aiming. Probably the second thing actually.
And what do you do if you want to relax in the nude but don't have a porch? Go to your neighbor's house of course. You'll go to jail for that just so you know. But man you'll be relaxed.
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Culled from CJR's frequently updated "Must-reads from around the Web," our staff recommendations for the best pieces of journalism (and other miscellany) on the Internet, here are your can't-miss must-reads of the past week:
Bret Easton Ellis's real art form is the Tweet — "Come over at do bring coke now"
The 17 ways we argue in politics — The Intemperate Outburst on Twitter That Proves All My Foes Are Basically Raging Sub-Morons
Gawker's Adrian Chen and Max Read collaborate on an important political satire — "[I]magine if Glenn Greenwald cared as much about Beyonce as he does about drone strikes"
What is middle class in Manhattan? — "The average Manhattan apartment, at $3,973 a month, costs almost $2,800 more than the average rental nationwide. The average sale price of a home in Manhattan last year was $1.46 million … the average sale price for a new home in the United States was just under $230,000"
The story of the Times' most-read stories of 2012 — What types of pieces tended to do well
Internet users demand less interactivity — "We just want to visit Web sites and look at them"
Salon's guide to writing a memoir — How to avoid embarrassing yourself (but not your family)


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I picked up this little laser-cut house at Crate & Barrel this past weekend.
It makes the most delightful geometric shadows with the help of a tealight. It's sturdy (made of steel), kind of a modern take on a hurricane, and only about $25 (free shipping, too). There is a red version but I feel like the white one has more versatility to be used year-round. If you need a good hostess gift, I highly recommend this little guy.
I picked up this little laser-cut house at Crate & Barrel this past weekend.
- Thursdays. Growing up, my dad worked in the auto industry and Thursdays were his day off…therefore, it has always been my favorite day of the week.
- Winter hats, especially those with pom poms. Evidence here, here, here, here, and here. Oh, and I keep staring at the awesome ones from this post.
- The Wet Brush (yeah, still). I'm seeing more reviews pop up on Tumblr and all I can think is, "YAY, for no more tangles!"
- The heavy knit of this boyfriend sweater.
- Whipping up this Basic Quiche from Real Simple whenever I just don't want to cook. Slap ingredients together and throw that beast in the oven. It's a winner.
- I love the notion of 'shopping' my house. Do you ever do this? Move furniture into different rooms, revamp the furniture layout, change up the art work, dig old stuff out of a cabinet and mix it up with new stuff on a bookshelf. It's breathing new life into our digs, I swear. Bonus: cost-effective.
- BP's 'Chandler' Loafer from Nordstrom is impossibly cute and chic. Really great for everyday wear in a multitude of seasons. 50% off ain't bad, either.
- This personalized version of the Night Before Christmas. Cool keepsake idea, right?
- I love the wish tree at our church, benefiting young kids in need this holiday season. Yesterday I eagerly picked up winter coats, hoodies, sparkly tops, The Littlest Pet Shop, and itty bitty purses for the young recipients (per their individual requests).
- Brainstorming more ways to give. I told Fitz that I really want to organize a food drive or a toy drive with his company this year, so I'm in the process of researching local shelters and charities. Got any recs? If so, let me know!
What do you love?
Dalston House by Leandro Erlich
Let's have our imaginations get carried away for a moment. You down? Okay, then.
- I wish cars were self-cleaning…the exterior and interior variety.
- I wish Floyd of Rosedale could be displayed on my mantle till next year's Iowa-Minnesota matchup. When visitors are over I'll just casually be like, "Oh this bronzed pig, right here? Yes, well it's all about grandstanding tradition and sportsmanship. And kicking ass, of course."
- I wish that pancakes and macarons were calorie-free.
- I wish I had a black tie event on the calendar. Who doesn't love a man in a tux?
- Additionally, I wish I had an event in which I would be the one wearing a tux.
- I wish my yard had a Honeycrisp apple tree, and I wish my kitchen had a sweet little old lady who made apple crisps and tarts.
- I wish I could navigate my writer's block more effectively. Everyday life is a test to my multi-tasking acumen and I constantly feel like I'm falling short.
- I wish our house had a secret passageway or hidden alcove. Or maybe it does have one and I just haven't found it yet.
- I wish I would talk less and do more. Sort of 'just make it happen' mentality.
- I wish these fancy kicks would magically appear in my closet, along with this green J. Crew minaudiere.
- I wish more people used the term 'minaudiere.' I mean, how fun is that word?!
- I wish for my posture to be more 'elongated ballerina' and less 'hunched hobo.' Note to self: Engage those abs!
What do you wish for?
This article hits the nail right on the head.
(Fitz sent me this link a day or so ago; can you tell we both used to work in real estate?!)
- This house is becoming a home: bought a shower curtain that POPS!, nabbed an old trunk that doubles as a coffee table, and moved some things from here to there. It's looking goooood.
- Feeling a little sluggish after a long evening of emphatic conversation, bottles of Alpha Omega, and a whole lot of laughing with great friends.
- Tomorrow: There will be a boat. There will be costumes. There will be Buffet. And really crappy weather (seriously, someone send Mother Nature a cookie bouquet).
- A friend recommended the Pink Martini channel on Pandora…not bad.
- I dream of Eataly!
- Wells can now answer some questions with a resounding 'Yes!' though it sounds more like 'YISSS!'
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Psst, if you don't read John and Sherry's blog, Young House Love, you are seriously missing out. They are witty, smart, DIY masters, have an adorable little girl named Clara, and share our affinity for unique dog monikers. In their case: a chihuahua named Burger. BURGER!!!
An update on the boys with the killer smiles:
Wells is on the MOVE these days…crawling, pulling himself to stand, pulling on my pants leg, climbing onto furniture, walking while gripping coffee tables and couches, standing over and over and over and over again in the tub, and exploring every electrical cord, outlet, night light, dog dish, vent, cabinet, and shoe. #wearescrewed
Fitz is also on the move, albeit career-wise as he starts grad school in less than two weeks. #schoolshopping?
Wells has a play date tomorrow with his suburban buddies. He is the oldest of the group and has the least amount of teeth- zero! #gummygrins
Fitz and I have a double date tomorrow night with neighbors from our old digs in Chicago. They moved to the suburbs around the same time we did- different areas, but huge renovation projects for both of us. Conversations will include words like drywall, budget, and permits. #scintillating


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In June, the Family Fund lost a dear friend, colleague, and mentor. Richard was a former board president of RFF. He was also an inspiration, a thought leader, a relentless advocate for and practitioner of work that improved people's lives in his community and across the globe. He will be missed by so many.
The White House, the Department of Labor and RFF grantee, the Center for American Progress, hosted the Summit on Working Families in Washington D.C. Following through with his committment to elevate the conversation about workplace policies to a national level, keynote speaker President Obama made a strong case for workplace reform, noting that the U.S. is the only nation among 22 developed countries that doesn't guarantee any paid maternity leave. Many of the Summit's breakout sessions featured RFF grantees, including the National Partnership for Women & Families, MomsRising, the National Women's Law Center, and Family Values @ Work, who provided guidance on policies that would improve the lives of women and families.
The AAAS's "What We Know" report, sponsored by RFF, continues to reverberate and is cited regularly as a touchstone of credibility about the scientific consensus on climate. A recent article in Salon uses the report to eviscerate the Wall Street Journal for allowing discredited and industry-paid advocates to continue to spread misinformation about accepted science in an Op-Ed piece.
Rarely does an organization chart new territory for the advocacy community and provide resources and expertise where none existed before. Such is the history of RFF's recently spun-off project, the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis. The Institute's reports and analyses have been game-changers in the hard look at coal investment risk, first in the U.S. and now internationally.


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Last week was marked by more volatility which doesn't seem to surprise anyone. Luckily this time the direction was up as the stock market had its best week since 1974, mainly fueled by the half a percentage point interest cut by the Federal Reserve as well the smaller than expected contraction in the GDP.
During those large swings up and down it is easy for investors to lose focus on the big picture and not sticking to their financial plan by converting all of their holdings to cash. Luckily there were several dividend companies that reminded their patient long-term holders that increasing dividend payments could help them out in increasing their total returns over time.
Vornado Realty (VNO) announced that its Board has approved a 5.60% increase in its quarterly dividend from $0.90 to $0.95 per common share. Vornado Realty is a dividend achiever having increased its dividends for over fifteen years. The stock currently yields 5.60%.
Home Properties (HME) announced that its Board has approved a 1.50% increase in its quarterly dividend from $0.66 to $0.67 per common share. Home Properties is a dividend achiever having increased its dividends for over one decade. The stock currently yields 7.20%.
Questar (STR) announced that its Board has approved a 2.00% increase in its quarterly dividend from $0.1225 to $0.1250 per common share. Questar is a dividend aristocrat having increased its dividends for 29 years. The stock currently yields 1.50%.
Williams Partners L.P. (WPZ) announced that its Board has approved a 15.00% increase in its quarterly distgributions from $0.55 paid in third quarter 2007 to $0.635 per unit. The partnership stock currently yields 12.10%.
Dominion Resources (D) management anticipates that in January it will recommend to the board of directors an annual dividend rate in 2009 of $1.75 per share, or a quarterly dividend rate of 43.75 cents per share. This represents nearly an 11 percent increase over the current annual dividend rate of $1.58 per share. This utility currently yields 4.40%.
The Hanover Insurance Group, Inc. (THG) announced that its Board has approved a 12.50% increase in its annual dividend from $0.40 to $0.45 per common share. The stock currently yields 1.30%.
This dividend increases list led me to put VNO and HME on my list for further research.
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Monday, November 3, 2008
6 Dividend Stocks rewarding their shareholders with higher payouts
Last week was marked by more volatility which doesn't seem to surprise anyone. Luckily this time the direction was up as the stock market had its best week since 1974, mainly fueled by the half a percentage point interest cut by the Federal Reserve as well the smaller than expected contraction in the GDP.
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I love the idea of companies actually paying back some earnings. It seems like so many company stocks you buy today never pay a dividend. Really when you think about it what are you buying if you don't get to share in the profits!ReplyDelete
Thanks for stopping by. I agree with you that companies which have the earnings should pay their owners, the shareholders, back. Otherwise what good are record earnings if the owners never see a dime of it?
FO dividend increased. 5% yieldReplyDelete
@FixThePig If a company can put their earnings to good use, there is no reason for them to pay fat dividends.ReplyDelete
I agree that it is nice to receive tangible (sort of) cash money from the businesses you own. However if they are plowing their earnings back into their business at attractive rates i.e. ROE (careful), then it should lead to an even greater enterprise value.
Stock is an ownership interest in a real business. Make sure your business is intelligently allocating it's capital, and weather it's dividends, share buybacks, capital investments or R&D it really doesn't matter.
In theory it makes sense for companies to reinvest their earnings straight back into the business.
In reality these money are wasted away on failed acquisitions, taking on too much risk with new products. Companies that consistently not only pay but increase their dividends over time are more fiscally responsible than the companies that don't pay any dividends.
Companies that reward shareholders with dividends are showing confidence in their ability to generate growing earnings because they could afford to. Furthermore companies paying out dividends show shareholders that earnings are real and not manufactured using an army of CPA's.
As a small business owner myself, I enjoy getting cash back from my businesses on a regular schedule so that I could decide if I wanted to reinvest into the business by purchasing more shares or spend it on something else.
Last but not least most companies can only grow their ROE/ROA to so much as they could be reaching the limits of their marketplace. The ROE would then incrementally start declining, making it worthwhile for these stocks to pay out dividends instead of spending the cash on acquisitions to buy competitors or start a division in a completely new sector in order to diversify. Most often than not diversifications do not work..
To summarize it is nice for companies to pay out some portion of earnings ( up to mid 50%) back and then reinvest the rest in the business. Success comes from good balancing.
@Dividend Growth Investor I believe we both said the exact same thing, we just used different phrases and examples.ReplyDelete
I think a companies earnings payout policy should be decided by their management, in the hopes you have invested in a business with honest and able management, you should be fine, dividends or no dividends.
However to clarify, I am not trying to say that all companies who don't pay dividends or low dividends are fine investments.
Without a doubt some day a business will hit an ROE wall, which better put is a ceiling in their companies life cycle, no doubt this will be succeeded by declining ROE, the time frame in which this unfolds could be super long or short. No telling, depends on business and market environment (i think I am getting to meta here and not practical enough). At this point paying out more earnings is the smart thing to do. But again if you have invested in a company with honest and able management, they will make the right decision.
Finally, you don't want to invest in companies whose top executives are hell bent on building an empire, as you said this can lead to "failed acquisitions, taking on too much risk with new products."
Please making conversation with you and as I said in the opening of this comment I think we are in agreement here.
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