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I wanted to offer up my top 5 free to cheap Valentine's Day presents that I think any mom would love. You'll notice a theme – it's all about alone time or getting more sleep!
1. Surprise sleep-in for mom where Michael gets the kids up and ready for school. It's hard to get up at 6:45 week in and week out especially on cold mornings. (When I had Lilina, Michael got the kids ready for school that entire first year of her life and I really, really appreciated it. So he has done it the past. It would be a nice treat every once in a while.)
2. Quiet time for me to read while he takes the kids to park (or anywhere outside the house) to play.
3. A bubble bath alone WITHOUT a 3-year-old inviting herself in!!! ("Oooh, mountains of bubbles," she says while stripping off her clothes. I always try to convince her the water is too hot. However that only works for so long and then before you know it I am sharing my relaxing bath with a preschooler who is trying to swim in the tub.)
4. A walk alone with my husband. This is harder than you would think because you can't just leave three kids alone in the house while you take a walk together. You have to either hire a babysitter or pawn them off on a friend for an hour. I would adore if he told me one of the neighbors was watching all three for us to take a walk.
5. Massage by Michael – Michael is actually very good at massages but hates giving them. Bums me out.
One other free idea that Michael did for me at Christmas was checking out some of my favorite music from the library. It was a nice surprise for him to bring home a swing album (which he hates!!) and Michael Jackson's greatest hits – a 5-CD collection. I appreciated him thinking about what I would enjoy. (A corollary idea: Burning her a mix CD from old albums (cds) you used to enjoy together!)
This is a slide-show of 20 other ideas — not free though. (I love the classes idea. I would love to take dancing with Michael. I regret that I could never talk him into swing lessons before we had kids. I think that would be romantic and force you to keep weekly dates to attend the dance classes.)
On the flip side I think Michael would appreciate time alone in the house and sleeping in too.
My current plan for Michael is all his favorite food treats that the kids always steal from him – like chocolate-covered nuts and toffee-covered popcorn. Nothing fancy or expensive — just his own private stash of snacks that the kids cheat him out of. I need to keep thinking and add some more to this plan. I am totally open to husbands' ideas of what Michael would enjoy for Valentine's Day. (Keep it clean – I know he would enjoy that.)
So: Moms here's your chance to tell your hubby what you would enjoy for Valentine's day. And hubbies here's your chance to let us know some great ideas to make you happy!
(A slight aside: I want to wish my big brother a happy birthday today! He is 42 today and has made it more than a year and half with his new transplanted heart. It is truly a miracle that he is alive so birthdays are extra special. God bless you big brother! I hope you many more happy birthdays!)
February 11th, 2011
1:16 am
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February 11th, 2011
6:11 am
If you are giving in to your 3-year old then I perhaps you should recognize who the adult is and who the child is. There is nothing wrong with setting boundaries for your personal space. Oh yeah, I forgot, you also let your kids come into your bed too.
February 11th, 2011
7:18 am
Those work well for giving to you man as well. (wink wink, nudge nudge)
February 11th, 2011
7:20 am
well i rarely got to take a bath by myself when my kids were little-so i can completely understand that. i dont think it is so much giving in as its hard to resist a little one getting so excited about a bath with mommy. we even named bath time for me 'fred'-as in 'ok im gonna go fred now' and it wasnt long til my youndest one figured that one out….lol…ove of the worst arguments my ex and i got in was his being unable to understand why i wanted just ONE bath without any company!! grrrr….all of these are great theresa…and maybe a cd burned for him of yalls favorite music would be nice for him to receive too. to me any time alone or with a loved one is a great gift. so it goes without saying that maybe the men would like something along those lines too.
February 11th, 2011
8:15 am
"It's hard to get up at 6:45 week in and week out especially on cold mornings…"
Wha??? Seriously?
And kick your kid out of the bathroom when you're in the tub; have some boundries – it's not all about the children all the time….
6:45am…. it's hard to get up…. Incredible.
February 11th, 2011
8:30 am
I just want my husband to take my son to his evening Karate class, so I have an hour ALONE in the house. It is surprising to me how tiring it is to never be alone. Of course, I'm going to use that hour to bake them a little surprise, rather than spending it relaxing for myself. But, hey, that's the life of a mom!!
February 11th, 2011
8:36 am
It's hard to get up at 6:45?? Some of us get up an hour earlier! When does your kids' bus show up? Ours is here at 7 a.m., so getting up at 6:45 is not an option. And lock your bathroom door next time you're in the tub. Sheesh!
February 11th, 2011
8:42 am
Make a mix CD then put it in portable radio then stand outside that night an play it loudly until her attention is piqued and a dramatic moment occurs. Make sure to make a dramatic statement as well in order to "win the girl."
Proceed with movie-like scene of heartfelt novelty. Then top it off with a touch of lighthearted tomfoolery and clever catch phrases related to romantic themes.*
That's a wrap! :D
*Disclaimer: a lot harder to do with a straight face if she's a fat chick.
February 11th, 2011
8:51 am
I usually work at night and then try to spend a little time with michael so if you go to bed between midnight and one then 6:45 is not enough sleep. So it depends on when you are going to sleep.
February 11th, 2011
8:52 am
I feel bad for my husband, who gets up at 4:00 a.m. five days per week. I try to let him sleep in on the weekends, when I am home. I know he sleeps a lot when I am not home but it throws his clock off and then he is wide awake on Sunday night. He is exhausted by Friday as he does not usually go to sleep before 10;00 or 11:00. I cannot complain about getting up, compared to him. If I can sleep until 7:00 I am thrilled! I have never been one to be sleeping in bed at 9:00.
I do not like massages…he does…perhaps that is what I can do for him! We will be home alone on V day…no kids living here now. Maybe I could make him breakfast…4:00 is early!
Re: the bath….
I suggest you set a timer and give it to your 3 year old. "Mommy needs some time to herself and will close the door. When the timer goes off, you can come in to visit." The bubbles will be gone and the water will be cold…tee hee.
Clear expectations can eliminate chaos. When I am out and about, I say this every day ( as I observe parents and teachers) and yes there were plenty of days I did not set the expectations and ate a giant plate of chaos. I learned the hard way. Initially, I was better at setting expectations in my classroom than with my kids but soon I got better at both.
Re: the snacks…"Kids, here are Daddy's snacks in this basket…here are yours…he does not want fruit rolls ups nor juice boxes…please do not touch his snacks."
I love fun jewelry and would like a Pandora bracelet. Anyone have one? I have my charm bracelet from when I was a girl but it is too jingly to wear now. It is a fond memory. I also LOVE my Brighton watch that my sister got me for my 50th birthday…I wear it every day.
Happy V day to all of my friends here. It has been grand chatting with you and meeting many of you too. See you next week DB and hopefully soon Misty…also JATL.
TWG…Happy Birthday to your brother!
February 11th, 2011
9:09 am
It's hard to get up at 6:45, classic! i'm speechless.
February 11th, 2011
9:17 am
This sounds more like Mother's Day stuff, and by the way, what are you moms doing for your man for V-day?
It is supposed to be a 50/50 day, you know. We work really hard every day, moving those mountains with our large, manly pick-up trucks, we build complex things that even we don't understand, and kill all of the spiders for you, not to mention opening jars.
Well, what do we get for all of that?
MJG, Me, using my huge oversized truck, had some mountain moving yesterday, while I was designing my latest groundbreaking invention, and then, I killed a bunch of spiders…with my bare hands, so I didn't get to reply to your answer to my question until this morning…starting at 6:44 sharp. It is there now.
February 11th, 2011
9:27 am
I love the sleeping in bit! I almost always get up before Hubby during the week. I'm up by 6:30 (when we lived farther from work it was 5:30) while he gets up at 7:30. I used to make up for it by sleeping till noon on the weekends but since having our son those days are just fond memories. I'm up by 7:30 on the weekends if not seven since that's when our one year old wakes up!
I'm may suggest the sleeping in bit for Sunday. That would be lovely.
February 11th, 2011
9:28 am
Ummm, as a working mom, I would love to sleep until 6:45 everyday – "week in and week out" as you say! Even in cold weather. Welcome to my world. Have to get kids up and get ready for work!! At least you can go back to bed or catch a nap! Geezzz….
February 11th, 2011
9:30 am
Sorry, typo there "I may suggest"
oh and for hubby I'm sending him to a friend of ours who does massages!
February 11th, 2011
9:34 am
@shaggy …and I just replied to you. You and others may want to check it out. I guess most here did not realize what I was talking about and that is why they were so snarky to me. catlady got my point. Some like to be snarky to me no matter what the topic but that is not something I am able to change. When anyone comments in a rude manner and does not understand what is being said…I am getting better at letting go and realizing that not everyone has the same capacity to think.
FYI…my husband is not the bug man here…he hates bugs and has a deathly fear of bees and wasps. I lived on the farm and am not even too nervous around snakes. I have also driven a dump truck, hauled hay and castrated bull calves. I will give a shout out to my husband about anything techno and bow to his expertise. I would not be on this computer today, if it were not for him…thanks honey!
February 11th, 2011
9:40 am
I'm with you, T, getting up before 7:30 am makes me REALLY grouchy — but that's usually because I often work until 2 or 3 am :-) I don't care how long I may have had to get up at 6:30 to get the kids off to school, etc — whenever I am on my own, I "revert" to my night-owl ways. So now that I can set my own schedule, I usually go into the office at 10 or 11, work until 4, come home, do home things, and then about 11 pm, sit down and work on the projects that need intense concentration. Hit bed about 2, up at 8 or 8:30, walk dog, shower, repeat. :-)
February 11th, 2011
9:42 am
I will take alone time any time I can get it in any way!!!!! It's important for everyone, and it's something I desperately need. I would do anything to be able to sit down in my house for 2 hours and read -alone -by the fireplace with NO ONE ELSE THERE. My husband seems to finally get the fact I want alone time and it's not weird -most women I know do – and understands it more than I think he used to, but I SERIOUSLY need for him to take the kids places often on the weekends, so I can have some time alone at the house. He has done this before, but I don't think he realizes how imperative it is that it happen often. Unfortunately it seems that in order to get that, we have to have some huge fight first, and he has to realize that I'm really at the point where I'm about to snap. I would do just about anything at this point to have a week off while the kids are at their schools so I could get some organizational things and decorating things taken care of at home. If I could get some chunks of time on the weekends on a regular basis, then maybe I wouldn't need a whole friggin' week!
Everyone on this board understands how it is with small children -a one or two hour project winds up taking all day because of the interruptions and "help." I've tried since the birth of my first son to get my husband to establish some sort of weekend tradition where he takes the boys to breakfast every Saturday or to the playground and for ice cream that afternoon or Sunday afternoon, but it never works. These things happen once in awhile, but I want a regular schedule! I have to go away to get any decent, quality alone time at this point -which I like sometimes, but I don't want to drop $400 or $500 every few months just to escape and relax! So YES, the one thing -the most IMPORTANT thing -beyond gifts or anything else is for me to have REGULAR ALONE TIME! The best gift my husband could ever give me would be to make a calendar schedule for a year with chunks of alone time for me on it every weekend!
And sleep? You should kiss the ground Michael walks on that you have a husband who got up for a year! We "take turns" on weekends, although an inordinate amount of noise seems to be made with no effort whatsoever to squelch it when it's my morning to sleep in. I used to try to close doors and be quiet, but I don't any more. Unfortunately he seems to be able to sleep through anything. If my husband had any idea how much happier our home would be if he could provide me with some real sleep and alone time on a weekly basis, he would probably do it, but since he's never tried consistently -he doesn't know.
February 11th, 2011
9:46 am
@MJG -Happy V-day to you too! I'll email you about school stuff! I have a friend with a Pandora bracelet and it's very pretty. I have an older-school style charm bracelet from James Avery that I love. I need to get some new charms for my youngest and my new kitty! I had given my mother a charm bracelet like mine years ago, and I think I'm going to have them transfer her charms onto mine. I think the Pandora idea is cool because they're not dangling everywhere and getting caught on anything -that's the only argument I have with mine.
February 11th, 2011
9:47 am
Touche'. Many here already have ascertained that you function at a higher level than ordinary people, and without the ego either, never self-aggrandizing. Wow, to be you.
February 11th, 2011
10:00 am
@ shaggy…seriously, is that a compliment or an insult? I do not know.
I am not too bright since I had to look up: self-aggrandizing to see what it meant.
Most here do not want to be me and sometimes I do not either. Especially today, as I have to go for my pap smear….ladies anyone want to trade a morning alone for that….lol. Is that TMI? I am still in my pajamas and home alone with the dog. I did not have to get up at all but did at 7:00. I think I will fix myself some breakfast and go out to get the paper. Have fun all!
Thanks JATL..I look forward to meeting you!
February 11th, 2011
10:17 am
I would kill to be able to wake up at 6:45 am week in and week out…0400 over here…6:45 is sleeping in for me on the weekends.
February 11th, 2011
10:19 am
I don't get people who complain about their kids. Why did you have them in the first place??
February 11th, 2011
10:25 am
I would be ok if I were just given a card..NO chocolate please..I love getting flowers, but don't want my husband to spend $100.00 on them..Just go pick out somthing small and hand it to me..The same with jewerly, nothing big..
@shaggy..I have been married 17 yrs. and this yr. will be the first year that we have been together on that day..My husband has always been at the Daytona 500 for Valentines Day..One yr. I sent him roses with a silk rose mixed in and chocolate..Put on the note that I would love him until the last rose died..He never even realized that one of the roses was silk and would never die..:~)
February 11th, 2011
10:27 am
Theresa, my sister has to get up by 4:00 every morning (in VA/DC area) to be at work on time…
February 11th, 2011
10:39 am
I'm a single mom so Valentine's is really just another day for me. LOL. I'd rather spend the time making Valentine's with my son so he can give them out to his grandmas. But if the opportunity arose, I wouldn't turn down spending some time with the guy I'm dating. Just not likely to happen due to our schedules. :)
February 11th, 2011
10:40 am
@TWG -I know! I feel kind of pathetic that one of my biggest fantasies has become a week at home alone -so I can do house work in peace! Seriously, it would help "center" me in so many ways! My last 2 years have been a crazily obnoxious whirlwind, and I don't feel like I ever got the change to truly organize when we moved into this house.
@Complain, complain -those of us with kids love our children and enjoy them a majority of the time, but do you have NOTHING in your life that is usually great, but annoys the crap out of you on occasion? You know -a career, a spouse or significant other, a good friend, a pet, a relative…. I just love people who think once you have kids you should NEVER EVER complain or get annoyed or put out with them or having them around all the time. You're unrealistic at best. I've never met another human -and that includes my children -who I want to be around 100% of the time, and I certainly don't expect anyone to want to be around me 100% of the time either.
February 11th, 2011
10:44 am
Theresa you get NO sympathy from me. I am usually on the road by 6:45. Sleeping till 8 to me is considered sleeping in….LOL. That won't happen until Sunday….
My house is empty and quiet.
I have no valentine, and I'm ok with that. I'll buy myself something nice, if I want to. I may go get a tree and plant it in my yard, or buy some seeds and start them in the "greenhouse". I was never one for flowers on VD, they just die. I prefer to plant something. I sent my daughter a little Valentine care package. Sent Mom a card……that's about the extent of my VD.
I hope everyone has a romantic VD with their significant other. I would also suggest you go out on Sunday, to avoid the crowds.
February 11th, 2011
10:48 am
NO! Don't go out on Sunday! We actually always celebrate on the 13th because of a funny proposal glitch that happened, and it's really wonderful -no crowds, no worrying about a reservation and places are virtually empty, so the wait staff is delighted to see you and attentive to your every need! We want to keep that to ourselves ;-)
February 11th, 2011
10:50 am
@JJ..Did that last night, took the kids to the Japanese Steak house that they love..THought with it being Thurs. it wouldn't be that busy..Ha, turned out that there were at least 6 people there celebrating birthdays..Oh well, they enjoyed it and that was the reason for taking them..It was "their" day..
February 11th, 2011
10:50 am
@JATL, we all need breaks from our kids, spouse, etc. but it's the way TWG phrased it that irked me.
February 11th, 2011
10:56 am
@Complain, complain 10:50–We don't ALL need breaks from our spouses.
I'm with my husband 'usually' 24/7–I like it and would not change it.
Go ahead, call me weird. I like him and I like to be around him.
February 11th, 2011
11:02 am
@ Dreamer…I cannot imagine being with ANYONE 24/7 call me weird! I need a little variety and he would not want to traipse around with me.
Quick question…I thought a lot of SAHM's sent their kids to preschool, so they would socialize, wear themselves out and come home for a nap and so moms could have some time to themselves? TWG maybe you could send the 3 year old to preschool or does she already go? Give yourself some time alone?
February 11th, 2011
11:21 am
I stumbled across this on Facebook – it's a pretty entertaining Valentine's Day cheat sheet, check it out! http://on.fb.me/hehJcl
February 11th, 2011
11:47 am
@JATL—I totally get you and relate to needing the alone time! I don't know why it is sooooo difficult for others to understand this, especially husbands, it seems. It would take pleading to no end when I was married to get my ex to handle the kids for a few hours, AWAY FROM THE HOUSE, so that they would leave me alone and let me just sit quietly and read or something to re-energize myself. And once I would finally get a few hours, and he would even notice and comment on how much more relaxed and happy I was once they came home, it would still be ages before I could get him to do it again. He would want to keep bringing up the time he took them to the park that morning "in March" as if that should keep me happy for the next 10 months!
February 11th, 2011
11:53 am
@MJG: There is not many people I could be around 24/7 either. But with my husband, I can be with no problems. It's weird because we have completely different personalities (with the same core beliefs though) and get along wonderfully.
February 11th, 2011
12:28 pm
I am speechless. (everyone can applaud) Can't even begin to comment.
February 11th, 2011
12:46 pm
I told my husband not to send flowers, I have a lovley collection of dried roses already. Like so many here I just need some me time.
For my Husband, I am cleaning his shop. I know it dose not sound like much, but it is a a big shop, 24 by 24 and he never puts tools away. So I spent last weekend sorting, cleaning and putting things away, will do the same this weekend. He has everything from electric fence, plumbing, painting, hand tools, battery operated tools, power tools, and more nails, screws, bolts, nuts and washers.
In cleaning I found his old work watch, the one he wore around the property so he would not ruin his good dress watches, it was nasty covered in mud and the wristband was distroyed. I ordered a new watchband and this morning took the watch apart, cleaned it, set the correct time and put on the new watchband.
I didn't spend over $15, but feel he will appreciate the gifts more than if I had spent $500.
February 11th, 2011
12:51 pm
5. Massage by Michael – Michael is actually very good at massages but hates giving them. Bums me out.
Perhaps if you didnt hate giving blow jobs he wouldnt hate giving massages!
February 11th, 2011
1:05 pm
@LM – That kind of stuff is WAY more appreciated, then blowing $100 on some flowers. What you did was VERY romantic…..especially cleaning up his watch. That was a sweet thing for you to do and I am sure he will appreciate it.
It's the simple things in life that are so appreciated. I hope you have a wonderful Valentines Day!!
And for those who want some "relief' alone time without the kids. That day will be here before you know it, and it will be nice, for a week or two. Then you will really start to miss the noise, the intrusions, the knocks on the door while trying to take a bath. Trust me, there will be plenty of "ME" time when they leave……But I know the feeling. I am a single mom so there wasn't a lot of "ME" time.
February 11th, 2011
1:09 pm
LM…can you come over here and help me with my husband's stuff? LOL I often find silverware and dishes out there. His DRESS watch, ties and all sorts of stuff. He is ALWAYS looking for something as it is never where it should be. After 28 years, I gave up.
February 11th, 2011
1:27 pm
@ Steve- that is an apples to oranges comparison…it would have to be oral to oral and maybe massage to hand job?
Either way, I understand the sentiment.
We personally do not subscribe to the Hallmark holiday in our household. Women & men should be offended they need an advertising campaign for their significant other to remember to show them love and appreciation. It should be an all year thing, not a once a year "have to" thing.
February 11th, 2011
1:42 pm
Thanks JJ, I try to figure out what he needs, sometimes it is small like the watch, other times I have gotten him industrial shelving (like the stuff at Lowes and Home Depot). Either way it is always something he needs, had mentioned previously and not something that will not end up being.
MJG, sure… LOL Sounds like both my DD and Hubby are like your Husband. Neither can find something right in front of them. lol
If I end up losing this job, maybe I can hire out as a personal organizer. Don't think there will be much need for one in this economy.
February 11th, 2011
1:43 pm
oops, should have said, "not being used."
February 11th, 2011
2:00 pm
WIth regards to the "hallmark Holiday", my parents used to go to the card store together, and they would each pick out a card and hand it to the other one so they could read it. They would smile at each other, and say "Oh that was so sweet", Then they would put the cards back and leave the store……My mom always thought that was so much fun…..Again, the little things…..
February 11th, 2011
2:25 pm
@ JJ- well, that serves the purpose intended AND saves money :o)
February 11th, 2011
3:28 pm
Fresh thought… I love to read so my husband got me a Nookcolor. He love "special" attention so I gave him dress up time and "special" attention!
That was last weekend for our pre-just-in-case grandparts aren't available Valentine's Date. We are going out again tomorrow. SO Ithink I will go get him a new out fit for me to wear to double the pleasure but this time I think I will wrap it up for him to open like a surprise! With a box of chocolates to match! Sood good?


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The British family justice system is often described as a blunt instrument by professionals who work in it because the family courts offer very little by way of truly tailored outcomes, restricted by process, conflicts of interest, culture and whether we like it or not, wildly fluctuating levels of competence in every sector of the system.
Ensuring that families get the best possible outcome is fraught with constraints and results in both mothers and fathers feeling let down, with many feeling as if they have been denied time with their children as a result of court ordered contact arrangements. And it is the children who suffer the most as a result, because the system, for the most part, still does not understand children well enough.
The recent and ongoing feud in England over shared parenting has fuelled the dilemma of unsatisfactory family court processes, as pressure groups focus on finding ways to ensure that parents are not excluded from the lives of their children. A new presumption in law was suggested, that of one involving shared parenting. This would mean that every time a child went into the family courts as a result of their parent's separation or divorce, that the court would presume, as a starting point, that each parent was entitled to have contact with their child. An outcry followed: what kind of presumption would this be in the finer detail and would it replace the guiding principle we had in law, that a child's welfare would be the paramount consideration in every case?
Shared parenting is, at its most general, the idea that upon separation, both parents play a role in their children's lives. It does not define the quantity of time each parent spends with a child, but focuses more on quality of time, whether in person or through indirect contact like phone, mail and Skype, for example. At its most narrow interpretation, it implies that each parent is to share their children's time equally between them. This latter definition has become a political hot potato in Britain, with many mothers, and child experts warning that division of time in this kind of situation is not an exact science and that an attempt to enforce such a regime on all children going through separation would lead to many feeling disorientated and unstable, and a great many being exposed to harm. This was compounded by the fact that our child protection legislation had historically not housed presumptions of any kind, as they were considered to be restrictive and therefore potentially dangerous as they could lead to miscarriages of justice. Others hailed these concerns as unfounded, and many father's rights groups, supported by politicians and academics, rallied to counter those concerns, mainly by suggesting that the presumption could easily be rebutted if evidence existed to show that a child would be harmed by contact with one parent or another.
Of course, there can be no sensible debate over whether children should have the opportunity to spend time with both their parents. It is hugely important for children to be able to do that whenever possible, not least of all because our children should have access to the people who love them. But when we look at a system which is attempting to cater for all families from all walks of life, with differing backgrounds and perceptions, we have to make sure that whatever processes are in place it can deliver the most efficient and personal service, for everyone. The family courts are also a very different arena to the family unit – they have to make sure that every child is protected and their best interests promoted.
For a time, speculation ran rife over what the government intended to do in relation to shared parenting, but made it clear that it intended to consider placing some kind of presumption of shared care inside current legislation, which might require courts to presume that shared care should be the norm unless evidence can be shown to the contrary either by inserting this consideration as part of the welfare checklist or adding it in as a starting point. The list of suggestions the government gave was varied and included:
- Amending the Children Act 1989 to require the court to "work on the presumption that a child's welfare is likely to be furthered through safe involvement with both parents – unless the evidence shows this not to be safe or in the child's best interests".
- Requiring the courts to have regard to a principle that a child's welfare is likely to be furthered through involvement with both parents;
- Providing that the court's starting point in making decisions about children's care is that a child's welfare is likely to be furthered through involvement with both parents, and;
- Inserting a new sub-section immediately after the welfare checklist, setting an additional factor which the court would need to consider.
Since those suggestions were made, the UK government has begun working on a new piece of legislation, called the Children and Families Bill. This Bill has become the home of what is now a presumption of shared parenting, but as the Bill is still being worked upon, it is not yet law. Part 2, section 11 of the Bill deals with parental involvement and tells us currently that:
"(2A)A court, in the circumstances mentioned in subsection (4)(a) or (7), is as respects each parent within subsection (6)(a) to presume, unless the contrary is shown, that involvement of that parent in the life of the child concerned will further the child's welfare."
In this way, the presumption as it stands does not quantify the amount of contact, and is unlikely to, which has caused certain groups to react angrily, saying that the presumption is nothing more than a placebo, a nod to aggrieved fathers in the UK, but that little will change. Others are anxious about the presumption still, as it is felt that if a parent who is trying to protect a child from abuse is unable to offer the kind of evidence that might be expected, or fails to offer it in time, within the court's artifical time limits and boundaries, that it may lead to children being placed in harm's way, and possibly dying as a result.
But there is also a question mark over the legality, or compatibility of including a presumption of shared parenting, of any kind and definition, when we consider the existence of the Paramountcy Principle, which tells us that the welfare of the child must be paramount when deciding family cases. At its best, an added presumption might simply behave like an echo of the Paramountcy Principle, making it a pretty innocuous addition and at worst, where 'involvement' were to be defined as a 50/50 time share in a case going through the courts, it could be in direct contravention of The Principle, whose starting point is not prescribed, but fluid, allowing for the possibility of greater personalisation for contact and therefore better outcomes for children. Much rests on how sophisticated the process could become and the competence of those working on future cases.
The Paramountcy Principle is arguably the finest standard we have in ensuring that children can be with both their parents where it's right for them to be so, but it is not working as well as a safeguard as it should, and the government's recent decision to consider adding a presumption may well be an indication of an acknowledgement on this front, or a very ambiguous nod to fathers' rights groups who have long campaigned for a change in the law. But what if these quarters are wrong? What if our Paramountcy Principle is failing us, not because it is not good law, but because it is law without the support on the ground which it needs to succeed? And if that is the case, (which I believe it is) a presumption in shared parenting is doomed to fail also, whatever its definition and will leave fathers' rights groups feeling more than a little disappointed.
Although the Bill is not yet complete and will face more amendments throughout the coming weeks, it is unlikely that the presumption of shared parenting in its current state will change a great deal. If that is so, then we will have to see how this presumption works in practice and hope that it does not cause more harm than good. The reality though, is that the UK family justice system doesn't need more law. What it needs is a thorough revamp, which needs to involve some serious culture changes. A presumption of shared parenting is, to my mind, unnecessary and ultimately will, I think, prove fruitless.
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But what if each of these premises is at best incomplete and at worse false or misleading? (Leave aside the likelihood that they're not entirely consistent with one another.) What if the architecture of the Net can be changed by government and the dynamism of e-commerce? What if the the very developments that enhance electronic commerce also undermine political freedom and privacy? The result might be that engineers and activists who are concerned about preserving democratic values in cyberspace were focusing their efforts in the wrong direction. By viewing governmental power as the primary threat to liberty, autonomy, and dignity, they'd blind themselves to the real threats-threats that it may require government to block or remedy.
It is precisely this situation in which Harvard law professor Lawrence Lessig believes we find ourselves. In his new book Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace (Basic Books, 1999), Lessig explores at length his thesis that the existing accounts of the political and legal framework of cyberspace are incomplete and that their very incompleteness may prevent us from preserving the aspects of the Internet we value most. Code is a direct assault on the libertarian perspective that informs much Internet policy debate these days. What's more, Lessig knows that he's swimming against the tide here, but he nevertheless takes on in Code a project that, although focused on cyberspace, amounts to nothing less than the relegitimization of the liberal (in the American sense) philosophy of government.
It is a measure of Lessig's thoroughness and commitment to this project that he mostly succeeds in raising new questions about the proper role of government with regard to the Net in an era in which, with the exception of a few carveouts like Internet gambling and cybersquatting, Congress and the White House have largely thrown up their hands when it comes to Internet policy. While this do-nothingism is arguably an improvement over the kind of panicky, ill-informed interventionism of 1996's Communications Decency Act (which Lessig terms "[a] law of extraordinary stupidity" that "practically impaled itself on the First Amendment"), it also falls far short, he says, of preserving fundamental civil values in a landscape reshaped by technological change.
More difficult to get a handle on is his use of the word "code," which seems to expand and contract from chapter to chapter. At some bedrock level, Lessig means "code" to signify the software and hardware that make up the Internet environment--akin to the sense of "code" that programmers use. But he is also fond of metaphoric uses of "code" that muddy the waters. "Code is law," Lessig writes at several points, by which we may take him to mean that the Internet's software constrains and shapes our behavior with as much force as law does. And of course the book's title equates code and law.
Elsewhere, however, he writes that code is something qualitatively different from law in that it does not derive from legislative or juridical action or community norms, yet may affect us more than laws or norms do, while providing us less opportunity for amendment or democratic feedback. It does not help matters when he refers to things like bicycle locks as "real-world code." But if you can suspend your lexical disbelief for a while, the thrust of Lessig's argument survives any superficial confusions wrought by his terminology.
That argument depends heavily on the first point Lessig makes about Internet architecture, which is simply that it's malleable--shapeable by human beings who may wish to implement an agenda. The initial architecture of the Internet, he says correctly, emphasized openness and flexibility but provided little support for identifying or authenticating actual individuals or monitoring them or gathering data about them. "On the Internet it is both easy to hide that you are a dog and hard to prove that you are not," Lessig writes. But this is a version of the Internet, he says, that is already being reshaped by e-commerce, which has reasons for wanting to identify buyers, share financial data about them, and authenticate the participants in transactions. At the center of e-commerce-wrought changes is the technology of encryption, which, while it has the ability to render communications and transactions in transit, also enables an architecture of identification (through, e.g., encryption-based certification of identity and digital signatures).
The key to the creation of such an architecture, Lessig writes, is not that a government will require people to hold and use certified Ids. Instead, he writes, "The key is incentives: systems that build the incentives for individuals voluntarily to hold IDs." Lessig adds, "When architectures accommodate users who come with an ID installed and make life difficult for users who refuse to bear an ID, certification will spread quickly."
But even if you don't believe that e-commerce alone will establish an architecture of identification, he writes, there are reasons to believe that government will want to help such an architecture along. After all, a technology that enables e-commerce merchants to identify you and authorize your transactions may also have an important secondary usefulness to a government that wants to know where you've been and what you've been up to on the Internet.
And if the government wants to change the technological architecture of the Internet, there is no reason to believe it would not succeed, at least to some extent. After all, Lessig says, the government is already involved in mandating changes in existing architectures in order to effectuate policy. Among the examples of this kind of architectural intervention, he says, are (a) the Communications Assistance to Law Enforcement Act of 1994, in which Congress compelled telephone companies to make their infrastructure more conducive to successful wiretaps, (b) Congress's requiring the manufacturers of digital recording devices to incorporate technologies the extent to which perfect copies can be made, and (c) the requirement in the Telecommunications Act of 1996 that the television industry design and manufacture a V-chip to facilitate individuals' ability to automatically block certain kinds of televised content.
With an identification architecture in place, Lessig argues, what previously might seem to be an intractable Internet-regulation problem, like the prohibition of Internet gambling, might become quite manageable.
So can the open-source movement, which Lessig refers to as "open code." The problem with "architectural" constraints, and the thing that distinguishes them from any other kind, is that they do not depend on human awareness or judgment to function. You may choose whether or not to obey a law or a social norm, for example, and you may choose whether or not to buy or sell something in the market, but (to use the metaphor) you cannot enter a building through a door if there is no door there, and you cannot open a window if there is no window. Open code--software that is part of a code "commons," that is not owned by any individual or business, and that can be inspected and modified--can provide a "a check on state power," Lessig writes, insofar as it makes any government-mandated component of the architecture of the Net both visible to, and (potentially) alterable by, citizens. Open code, which still makes up a large part of the Internet infrastructure, is thus a way of making architecture accountable and subject to democratic feedback, he argues. "I certainly believe that government must be constrained, and I endorse the constraints that open code imposes, but it is not my objective to disable government generally," Lessig writes. But, he adds, "some values can be achieved only if government intervenes."
Take wiretapping, for example. Once upon a time, it was not so easy for law-enforcement agents to get access to private conversations. But once telephones had become commonplace and, as Lessig puts it, "life had just begun to move onto the wires," the government began to tap phones in order to gather evidence in criminal investigations. Does wiretapping raise Fourth Amendment concerns? The Supreme Court first answered this question in Olmstead v. United States (1928)--the answer for the majority was that wiretapping, at least when the tap was places somewhere other than on a tappee's property, did not raise Fourth Amendment issues since the precise language of the Fourth Amendment does not address the nontrespassory overhearing of conversations. That is one mode of translation, Lessig writes--the court preserved the precise language of the Fourth Amendment in a way that contracted the scope of the zone of privacy protected by the Fourth Amendment.
Another, and arguably preferable approach, Lessig says, would be to follow Justice Louis Brandeis's approach in his dissent in Olmstead--an approach that preserves the scope of the privacy zone while departing from a strict adherence to the literal language of the Amendment. Brandeis's dissent, arguing that the capture of private conversations does implicate the Fourth Amendment, was adopted by the Supreme Court forty years after Olmstead.
But what if technology raises a question for a court for which it is not clear which interpretative choice comes closer to preserving or "translating" the values inherent in the Bill of Rights? Borrowing from contract law, Lessig calls such a circumstance a "latent ambiguity." He further suggests--this is perhaps the most unfashionable of his arguments--that, instead of simply refusing to act and referring the policy question to the legislature, courts might simply attempt to make the best choice at preserving constitutional values in the hope that its choice will at minimum "spur a conversation about these fundamental values...to focus a debate that may ultimately be resolved elsewhere."
With intellectual property, and with copyright in particular, technological changes raise new problems that the nuanced established legal balances built into the law do not address. Lessig challenges the long-standing assertion, in Internet circles, at least, that the very edifice of copyright law is likely to crumble in the era of the Internet, which enables millions of perfect copies of a creative work to be duplicated and disseminated for free, regardless of whether the copyright holder has granted anyone a license. In response to that perceived threat, Lessig observes, the copyright holders have moved to force changes in technology and changes in the law.
As a result, technologically implemented copyright--protection and copyright--management schemes are coming online, and the government has already taken steps to prohibit the circumvention of such schemes. This has created a landscape in which the traditional exercise of one's rights to "fair use" of another's work under the Copyright Act may become meaningless. The fact that one technically has a right to engage in fair use is of no help when one cannot engage in any unauthorized copying. Complicating this development, Lessig believes, is the oncoming implementation of an ID infrastructure on the Internet, which may make it impossible for individuals to engage in anonymous reading.
This bears some explaining. Consider that if you buy a book in a bookstore with cash, or if you read it in the library, nobody knows what you're buying and reading. By contrast, a code-based licensing scheme in which you identify yourself online in order to obtain or view a copy of a copyrighted work may undercut your anonymity, especially if there's an Internet I.D. Infrastructure already in place. The technology changes are "private" ones--they do not involve anything we'd call "state action" and thus do not raise what we normally would call a constitutional problem--but they affect public values just as deeply as traditional constitutional problems do.
A similar argument can be made about how the Internet alters our privacy rights and expectations. Because the Internet both makes our backgrounds more "searchable" and our current behavior more monitorable, Lessig reasons, the privacy protections in our Bill of Rights may become meaningless. Once again, when the searching and monitoring is done by someone other than the government, it means that the "state action" trigger for invoking the Bill of Rights is wholly absent. What's more, such searching and monitoring, whether done by the government or otherwise, may be invisible to the person being investigated. You will have lost your right to any meaningful privacy and you will not even know it is gone until it is too late. Lessig's analysis of the problem here is convincing, even though his proposed solution, a "property regime" for personal data that would replace today's "liability regime," is deeply problematic. This is partly because it would transmute invasions of privacy into property crimes--aren't the jails full enough without adding gossips to the inmates?--and partly because the distinction he draws between property regimes and liability regimes as to which benefits the individual more is (in my view) illusory in practical terms.
Perhaps Lessig's most controversial position with regard to the threat of private action to public values is the one he has explored previously in a number of articles for law reviews and popular publications--the argument that some version of the Communications Decency Act--perhaps one that required minors to identify themselves as such so as to be blocked from certain kinds of content--is less dangerous to freedom of speech than is the private use of technologies that filter content. It is important to understand that Lessig is not actually calling for a new CDA here, although that nuance might escape some legislators.
Lessig interprets such a version of the CDA, and the architecture that might be created by it, as a kind of "zoning," which he sees as preferable to private, non-legislated filtering because, he says, zoning "builds into itself a system for its limitation. A site cannot block someone from the site without that individual knowing it." By contrast, he says, a filtering regime such as (now widely regarded as moribund) Platform for Internet Content Selection enables all sorts of censorship schemes, not just nominally child-protecting ones. PICS, because it can scale to function at the server or even network level, can be used by a government to block, say, troubling political content. And because PICS support can be integrated into the architecture of the Internet, it could be used to create compelling private incentives for people to label their Internet content. Worse, he says, such blocking would be invisible to individuals.
Third, a PICS-like scheme, implemented at the server level or higher, is actually less threatening to freedom of speech than key-word or other content filtering at the server level or higher. PICS, in order to function, requires that some high percentage of the content producers in the world buy into the self-labeling scheme before a repressive government could use it to block its citizens from disapproved content. Brute-force key-word filtering, by contrast, does not require anyone else's cooperation--a repressive government could choose its own PICS-independent criteria and implement them at the server level or elsewhere.
Fourth, there's nothing inherent in the architecture of a PICS-style scheme--in the unlikely event that such a scheme were implemented--or any other server-level filtering scheme that requires that users not be notified that blocking took place. In short, you could design that architecture so that its operation is visible.
Lessig is right to oppose the implementation of anything that might be called an architecture of filtering. But one wonders why he is so intent on saying that zoning is better than filtering when both models can operate as tools of repression. Lessig answers that question by letting us know what his real worry is, which is that individuals with filtering tools will block out those who need to be heard. Says Lessig: "[F]rom the standpoint of society, it would be terrible if citizens could simply tune out problems that were not theirs.... We must confront the problems of others and think about problems that affect our society. This exposure makes us better citizens." His concern is that we will use filtering tools to bar us from that salutary exposure.
Leaving aside the question of whether his value here is one we should embrace--it is hard to harmonize it with what Brandeis in his Olmstead dissent termed "the right to be let alone"--it seems worth noting that the Internet does not really stand as evidence to Lessig's assumption that people will use their new tools to avoid confrontation with those holding different opinions. Indeed, much of the evidence seems to point the other way, as anyone who has ever viewed a long-running Internet flame war or inspected dueling Web sites can attest. Nothing forces combatants on the Internet to stay engaged, but they do anyway. The fact is, we like to argue with each other--as Deborah Tannen has pointed out, we have embraced an "argument culture." Whether that culture is healthy is another question, of course.
But even if one disagrees with Lessig's analysis of certain particular issues, this does not detract from his main argument, which is that private decision making, enhanced by new technologies and implemented as part of the "architecture" of the Internet, may undercut the democratic values--freedom of speech, privacy, autonomy, access to information--at the core of our society. Implicit in his argument is that the traditional focus of civil-libertarians, which is to challenge government interventions in speech and privacy arenas, may be counterproductive in this new context. If I read him right, Lessig is calling for a new constitutional philosophy, one rooted perhaps in Mill's essay "On Liberty," in which government can function as a positive public tool to preserve from private encroachments the liberty values we articulated in the Constitution. Such a philosophy would require, however, a very imaginative "translation" of constitutional values indeed to get past the objection that the Bill of Rights is only about limiting "state action."
What Code is really about is the need for political liberals to put a positive face on the role of government without embracing statism or seeming to. Although this is clearly Lessig's project, he's pessimistic about its success--in the public debate about Internet policy, he complains, the libertarians have essentially won the field. What he would like to see, perhaps, is a constitutional structure in which something like the Bill of Rights could be invoked against challenges to personal liberty or autonomy, regardless of whether the challenges come from public or private sources. The ideology of libertarianism, he believes, will interpret the changes wrought by e-commerce and other private action as a given, like the weather. "We will watch as important aspects of privacy and free speech are erased by the emerging architecture of the panopticon, and we will speak, like modern Jeffersons, about nature making it so--forgetting that here, we are nature," he writes in a somewhat forlorn final chapter. Lessig may be right in his gloomy predictions, but let us suppose that his worst fears are not realized and a new debate does begin about the proper role of government in cyberspace and about appropriate limitations on private crafting of the online architecture. If that happens, it may be that at least some of the thanks for that development will have to go to Lessig's Code.
Mike Godwin is senior legal editor of E-Commerce Law Weekly and author of Cyber Rights: Defending Free Speech in the Digital Age (Times Books 1998).
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Sweet-and-Sour Shrimp with Onion and Red Pepper
Jasmine rice gives this dish a savory aroma. You can substitute long-grain and wild rice if you don't have it on hand.
Yield: Makes 4 servings
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Amount per serving
- Calories: 333
- Calories from fat: 11%
- Fat: 4.2g
- Saturated fat: 0.5g
- Monounsaturated fat: 2.2g
- Polyunsaturated fat: 1.3g
- Protein: 18.3g
- Carbohydrate: 53g
- Fiber: 2g
- Cholesterol: 135mg
- Iron: 2.8mg
- Sodium: 309mg
- Calcium: 44mg
- 1 pound unpeeled, medium-size fresh shrimp
- 1 tablespoon dry sherry
- 6 teaspoons cornstarch, divided
- 3 teaspoons vegetable oil, divided
- 4 thin slices fresh ginger
- 4 green onions, cut into 1-inch pieces
- 2 garlic cloves, minced
- 1 small red bell pepper, cut into thin strips
- 1 (6-ounce) can unsweetened pineapple juice
- 1 tablespoon cider vinegar
- 1 tablespoon lite soy sauce
- 1 tablespoon orange juice concentrate, thawed
- 2 tablespoons water
- 2 cups hot cooked jasmine rice
- Peel shrimp, and devein, if desired.
- Whisk together sherry and 2 teaspoons cornstarch in a medium bowl; add shrimp, coating well. Chill 30 minutes, turning occasionally.
- Heat 2 teaspoons vegetable oil in a large nonstick skillet or wok at medium-high 2 minutes. Add ginger and next 3 ingredients; cook 1 minute or until tender. Remove vegetables from skillet; discard ginger.
- Remove shrimp from marinade, discarding marinade.
- Heat remaining 1 teaspoon vegetable oil in skillet; add shrimp, and cook, stirring often, 2 minutes or until shrimp turn pink. Return vegetables to skillet; stir in pineapple juice and next 3 ingredients.
- Stir together 2 tablespoons water and remaining 4 teaspoons cornstarch; add to shrimp mixture. Bring to a boil; cook, stirring constantly, 1 minute or until thickened. Serve over rice. Prep: 40 min., Chill: 30 min., Cook: 6 min.
- *Most of the cholesterol comes from shrimp. But they're also low in saturated fat, which makes them a nutritious, heart-healthy choice.
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Previously I discussed LB's Mike Rivera, A.J. Edds and Ikaika Alma – Francis (Ike). In this series we take a look at the tight ends. The TE position has for the most part, been all but totally ignored by the Fins executive staff, but that is likely to change this year (I hope). With Bill Daboll coming in as the new offensive coordinator, it is practically guaranteed we will be seeing more double TE sets, which will lead to the Fins addressing the position either through the draft, free agency or perhaps having enough faith to count on someone already on the roster. They simply have no choice. The position was thin enough using a single set system. A dual set will demand changes. The first possible "diamond in the rough" we will meet is Jeron Mastrud.
Before I get into detail on Jeron, I think we should review recent history of the position. I know there have been many critics of Bill Parcells for whatever reason and that in itself is another topic, but no one can deny that bringing Anthony Fasano over from Dallas was an excellent move, perhaps even his best as a member of the Dolphins staff. Fasano was a 2nd round pick by the Cowboys in 2006 and shared duties with pro bowler Jason Witten.


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Talking about scripts for the new Manuscript Critique and Coaching service at the Loft Literary Center.
While I'm admitting how much I geeked out for Dante, I may as well also admit that I loved Shakespeare so much that I formed a fan club in sixth grade and actually convinced other little girls to sit around and read folios aloud with me. Shakey and I have since had a couple of falling outs, but all in all, I can't help but appreciate a master.
So I was pretty excited when The Unit Collective asked me to write what I imagine happens ten minutes after THE TEMPEST. I wrote it Friday, rewrote it Saturday, and it was staged at the Playwrights Center in Minneapolis last night by a great director and the best of actors. And here it is…
"The Brave New World" by Cristina Pippa
PROSPERO holds his staff up toward the sky.
Now that my charms are all o'erthrown, I have
No need of this tempestuous lightning rod!
(He sets each end on two adjacent boulders and steps down on it. With a crack, it's broken in half.)
And neither for my book—
I will no more give fire to the oak or shake the pine and cedar.
Farewell rough magic. I give o'er my airy charms and potent art.
(He slides his book of spells into the audience.)
Into the sea, my book is cast to be
Buried among the charmed and mystic fish.
(CALIBAN enters.)
What say you, Caliban?
I've made amends by straightening your quarters, sir. I presume you'll appreciate it, you're staying here on the isle.
Just one more night, you demi-devil. I leave for Naples in the morning. I only hope the civilized world will recognize me. I feel a savage myself after these twelve years in the wild.
I thought you decided the island life suited you and chose to stay for good.
Here? On a vacant witch's isle, when a dukedom is owed me in Italy? No, knave, I will be sipping limoncello and eating a torta ricotta e pera by tomorrow night. I have only a few years left of this life, and I will spend them in the lap of luxury, looking on as Miranda brings forth a litter of Italian princes.
You only say that to torture me, knowing I've loved her all these years.
You've wanted her. Love is not a thing you know.
I may not have known how to speak before you taught me your gentle tongue, but I can now articulate that her voice was like a kiss upon my ears every time I heard it. The very sight of her was worth all the riches in the world, and even my dreams of her face in the morning light were all I ever needed to go on living as your slave.
You violated her, you thing of darkness. You made me lock you up.
That's not true. I only pursued her in the way your books taught me to.
We won't discuss this further. If I think of it again, you'll have my hands around your stinking neck.
Why shouldn't I have made her my wife?
You treated me like a son when first we met,
And yet, you never once considered me worthy of Miranda,
Even when I was the only suitor she had for a dozen years and a thousand miles.
You're not worthy of a wild boar.
It's no matter now. The ship has sailed.
(Prospero nods. He looks out at the ocean and gasps.)
You don't mean— Is that the boatswain's ship, gone for Naples without me? And with my daughter onboard?
Aye, sir. That it is. And so she has.
I don't believe it. It can't have been much more than a quarter hour since I released them all to make preparations to leave tomorrow.
When you say "them all," you mean to include your brother, Antonio, and King Alonso— the same traitors who usurped you in Milan and forced you to leave by boat with your small child? No nurse or mother to help. No reminder of your status as duke but a sack of books.
What's past is prologue.
Seems like it may also be epilogue.
How could they have gotten so far already?
By your last wish. You asked Ariel to calm the seas and send auspicious winds for speedy sailing before you set him free.
And you're sure Miranda left with them?
For the brave new world, with her backstabbing uncle and vapid husband-to-be.
This is not what I meant when I told her, "Be not disturb'd with my infirmity."
(Prospero turns to the audience.)
It's your fault.
(He points at them.)
I'm confined to this bare island by you.
Did I not beg you—
But release me from my bands
With the help of your good hands.
This is what I meant, people—
(He claps, showing the audience how it's done.)
Go on. As you from crimes would pardon'd be,
Let your indulgence set me free.
What are you saying? You haven't committed any crimes?
(He waits, shrugs.)
I should never have given up my magic. That's it. I can't stay on this island without my daughter. And I will be Duke once more. I'm swimming out to the boat.
You won't make it, not with that wind.
It will be at my back too, won't it? I'd rather die in the sea than live another day on this wasteland. I don't even have magic to entertain myself with!
(He strips off his cloak and runs through the audience— into the sea.
Caliban watches him go.)
(He climbs onto a rock and looks out, all around him.)
This island's mine, its fresh springs and fertile land.
(Miranda enters. She picks up Prospero's broken staff and holds it out like a sword at Caliban.)
What have you done with my father?
Nothing, I promise. Though he's finally done with me.
What do you mean?
You should praise me for washing my head of any thoughts of murderous revenge exacted against my tormentor. He enslaved me, imprisoned me, made me suffer horrible pains from his dark arts, but I never touched him. And I won't touch you. Unless you want me to.
You tricked me. When the boatswain made ready to set sail, you promised to bring my father aboard.
By the time I reached the magician, the ship had vanished from our shore. What was the hurry?
I don't know. I can't say. Something about the wind.
Or a plan to leave the dukedom intact and not return it to your family. I've never been to the mainland, but I know those clowns Trinculo and Stephano thought it was worth taking.
Oh, what have I done? I let my beloved sail off without me.
He could have stayed here with you.
I told him not to.
He could have refused. I wouldn't have left if I were him.
You don't know him. I'm not convinced I did either. He was the first young gentleman I ever saw, and I fell at his feet. In my defense, he did call me his dearest love.
And "admired Miranda." As if you didn't know what your own name meant.
Perhaps I wasn't ready to go to Naples. All I remember of the mainland is a blur of sounds and smells, layers of petticoats, a fuss over my father, and then slipping off into the night. What would the court think of a specimen like myself? I'm no more a lady than that starling, collecting bits of hay for her nest.
Then it's all for the best. My island is your home, and though I am no longer your bondsman, ask me what you will.
(A moment.)
Where is my father?
In the sea, my lady, swimming toward that boat full of traitors.
Why didn't you tell me?
You asked me what I'd done with him, not where he'd gone.
I can only hope he has some ounce of magic left to see him safely there.
It's possible. I saw him throw his book of spells into that same sea.
(She shakes her head, fretting, then stops.)
He thought I was on the ship.
(Caliban nods.)
He also wanted his dukedom back.
Even knowing what he lost and how he lost it, I find I still believe mankind is beauteous and full of goodly creatures. I must go with them.
(She slips out of her dress and runs off through the audience.
Caliban watches her go.)
This island's mine.
(Lights out. End of Play.)
If you ever feel bad about your own writing, just remember that one of the world's most well-known works of classic literature is self-insert fanfiction where the author hangs out with his favorite poet and is guided on his journey of discovery by a Manic Pixie Dream Girl version of a woman he met twice.
Amazing. I'm the nerd who selected The Inferno for a high school English project and gladly memorized cantos in Italian in college. Now I'm seeing it in a whole new light.
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Describing an event as "star-studded" is pretty common, but Bruno Mars ' two concerts this past weekend at the Hollywood Bowl were the very definition of the phrase. In fact, there were so many celebrities in the audience that it's hard to believe that any regular fans actually took in the show.
Here's just a partial list of those stars who attended Bruno's Moonshine Jungle tour on Saturday and Sunday: Matt Damon , Tom Hanks , Aaron Paul , Jared Leto , Will Ferrell , Zac Efron , Gwen Stefani , Jessica Alba , Sharon Stone , Ryan Philippe , Lea Michele , Chris Martin of Coldplay , Paula Abdul , Anna Paquin , Tim Allen , Minka Kelly , Kayley Cuoco , Quentin Tarantino , Howie Mandel , Brad Garrett and legendary producer Quincy Jones . In fact, Bruno dedicated a cover of a Michael Jackson song, "Rock with You," to Jones, since he produced it.
Bruno's tour, featuring Pharrell Williams and Aloe Blacc , continues through the summer, wrapping up in Colorado in August.
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Sony Alpha 7 (A7) Review
Sony Alpha 7 Review - Verdict
The A7 is not without its faults - even with the on-chip phase-detect AF, focusing performance for moving subjects is restrictive, burst shooting is also slow, there's the odd handling quirk, while aesthetically its not going to win any prizes, but it also does a lot of things very well.
The specification is very comprehensive, while the level of customization means you can really tailor the A7 to handle how you want. The grip is comfy and the presence of more traditional dual controls and revised menu make it much more intuitive to use than any other Sony system camera we've tested.
That's not forgetting the fact that its smaller and lighter (with the exception of the A7R) than any other full frame interchangeable lens camera available, and the most affordable too.
While Sony should be applauded for offering sophisticated adapters for existing A-mount users (there are also a host of third-party offerings for other lens mounts), new users should bare in mind the relatively limited lens line-up. While the 28-70mm lens offers versatility, the optical performance doesn't deliver the results that the sensor deserves, while the 35mm and 55mm Zeiss optics are excellent, they're not cheap.
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Lindsay Lohan Gains 5 Pounds: Actress Puts on Weight After Being Taken Off Adderall (VIDEO)
Lindsay Lohan has gained 5 pounds in weight after being taken off Adderall in rehab over recent weeks, according to reports.
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A chef has been killed by his own customers after they complained that his dish of fried noodles were not up to standard, in a bizarre killing in Germany, according to reports.
An inmate is suing Taco Bell, claiming that the restaurant stole his idea of making a hard shell taco out of a Doritos chip.
The Jodi Arias jury was in tears on Thursday as they listened to the siblings of Travis Alexander talk about the impact that his murder has had on their lives.
Pat Robertson has given advice to a woman pleading for help to forgive her husband for cheating on her years ago.
A chef has been killed over a meal on the German holiday island of Sylt, according to reports.
A Florida airport shooting took place on Wednesday, leading to the arrest of two men, with a third man going on the run, according to reports.
Nicki Minaj is leaving American Idol after just one season on the show, according to reports out this week.
A flurry of tornadoes have hit Texas, leaving at least six dead and dozens injured, as widespread destruction was seen in the region Wednesday night.
A honeymoon prostitution arrest has taken place earlier this month, after the groom, only just married, was caught attempting to hire a prostitute.
Trayvon Martin's shouts for help in a voice recording just seconds before he was shot dead by George Zimmerman will come under scrutiny when Zimmerman's trial commences on June 10.
An amputee has been killed by dogs in a horrific attack in South Carolina, according to reports.
An Iron Man stunt has gone wrong in Missouri after the owners of one theater sought to promote the latest installation in the Iron Man movie series by having a man attend its premiere showing of the film kitted out in body armor, carrying an assault ..
Shakira is leaving The Voice after only one season on the judging panel, according to reports out this week.
A so-called food porn photo has led to the bust of a pair of ID thieves in Florida last week.
Wrigley has pulled gum containing caffeine from store shelves this week, after increasing pressure had ben applied on the company by the FDA.
Comedian Lisa Lampanelli has lost 106 pounds after having gastric-sleeve surgery in April 2012. She now has said that she has never looked or felt better.
A man has been swallowed by a hippo, but amazingly survived the ordeal and is now telling his extraordinary tale.
Tamerlan Tsarnaev has been buried somewhere outside of Massachusetts, according to reports out on Thursday.
White House "racism" is rife, according to one Afghan woman doctor, who has written about her experience at the White House Correspondent's Dinner last month in a piece to the Huff Post.


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Most will be off-color or offensive, usually making fun of things that are horrible. If it bugs you, don't look. I for one, can laugh at just about anything and find humor in it, I'm not pretentious enough to not make fun of anything. Maybe I'm Just An Asshole?
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Batman is already overpowered just by waking up in the morning. Because he is the night, he is the Batman.


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The faith organizer reports to the Alabama state director and the associate director for HRC's Religion & Faith Program and is responsible for the implementation of the goals and objectives for faith organizing for Project One America, including strategy development, engagement of faith communities in Arkansas, and relationship-building with priority faith communities and thought-leaders.
This is a matrixed position, which enables flexibility in interacting and working across different departments. This position will supervised by the state director including performance reviews and long-term planning, however daily project input, guidance, and oversight, including expenditure approval, maybe provided by associate director, religion & faith.
This is a full time postion.
The deadline for submitting an application is Dec. 1, 2014.
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Business Ideas in the News / April 10, 2008
NexCen Brands Inc. is beefing up its executive team to manage upcoming expansion.
Even with the soft U.S. economy, the brand management firm said it is not slowing its acquisition pace and confirmed plans to buy three to 5 new brands each year in 2008 and 2009.
NexCen already owns The Athlete's Foot – first purchased in November 2006 – and high-end footwear retailer The Shoe Box, as well as fashion brand Bill Blass, home furnishings brand Waverly and quick-service brands Maggie Moo's and Marble Slab Creamery. Robert D'Loren, president and CEO of NexCen, said the addition of a chief marketing officer and a new CFO were necessary given the company's plans for ongoing worldwide growth – its brands are now in 50 countries – and management of 1,900 franchised stores.
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Daniel of Erie
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|Dmitry Borisovich Alexandrov
September 15, 1930
Odessa, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union
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Erie, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Daniel Alexandrov (born Dmitry Borisovich Alexandrov, Дмитрий Борисович Александров; September 15, 1930 – April 26, 2010) was an American Russian Orthodox bishop of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia.[1]
He was born in 1930 in Odessa, Soviet Union. Due to anti-Communist family connections, Dmitry's father, Boris Alexandrov, decided to move the family to Zlatoust in the Ural Mountains in 1938. Within just a few months of the move, Boris was arrested and disappeared; it was later found out he was executed. Mrs. Alexandrov then moved her family back to Odessa.
In 1944 they left westward with the fleeing German Army, and within two years found themselves living in the Alps. Thanks to family in the United States, the Alexandrovs were able to emigrate to America, and came to New York in 1949. From 1952 to 1958, Dmitry studied at Holy Trinity Orthodox Seminary (Jordanville, New York), finishing with the first graduating class, along with the future Metropolitan Laurus (Škurla).
From his early years, Dmitry Borisovich was interested in the pre-Nikonian "Old Rite" of the Russian Orthodox Church, and decided to work toward somehow healing the schism of the Old Believers.
In August 1965, he was ordained deacon, and soon afterwards, priest.
In 1988, he received the monastic tonsure and the new name of Daniel. On August 13, 1988, Hieromonk Daniel was consecrated a vicar bishop for the Diocese of Eastern America, with the title "Bishop of Erie, Pennsylvania, Defender of the Old Rite". The Church of the Nativity is his Cathedra, whose congregation he played an integral role in reuniting with the Russian Orthodox Church. He was temporary administrator of the Diocese of Australia and New Zealand from 1995 to 1996.
Bishop Daniel died on April 26, 2010.[2]
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