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Vasumathi was aghast. She never expected that her 13 year old son's room will be strewn with porn photos and books. And to top it when she checked his mobile which was loaded with all porn pictures which Vasumathi herself could not see. Of course Vasumathi knows that in the sixth grade itself a child is given proper sex education here. Initially she felt a bit nervous about this "early sex education" but her husband Raghavan consoled her. "Vasumathi see it in a positive way. It is good to have proper knowledge about sex and since in this country free sex is prevalent it is better our Son Vishal gets a proper knowledge of it. Definitely you and I cannot give him this information because we will be hugely embarrassed. So be calm". Vasumathi settled down for that moment.
But exactly for the past three months she could see a visible change in her son's attitude. She could see that he is not the same child Vishal who used to talk to her about all the things that happened in his school and chat with her and ask her about her school life and college life in
As a child he was chirpy and buoyant. Generally girl children are supposed to talk more but Vishal in that sense was different. He used to talk continuously as Vasumathi would be cooking her night meal or dropping the clothes in the washing machine. Sometimes Vishal used to help her in vacuum cleaning the house by hopping on top of the stool in cleaning certain areas of the wall which Vasumathi could not reach. Vishal had taken after his father and could sing beautifully. He used to sing all the Tamil film songs and sometimes when he would struggle to get a Tamil word Vasumathi would just hug him in love and teach him that word. Till last year Vishal was a kid though he had grown tall for his age. In true American term he is really "big" and that was because he preferred junk food more than the typical south Indian Iyengar food that she prepares at home.
Raghavan and Vasumathi shifted to US exactly 13 years ago during that Y2K problem with H1B visa which allowed the entire family to shift to the
Vasumathi and Raghavan hail from a very normal middle class Iyengar background and had a very normal typical Iyengar upbringing. Raghavan's mother was an entrepreneur in the sense she used to sell sarees, diamond earrings and all that and the house used to have middle class "mamis" streaming in continuously from morning 10 to night 10 and Raghavan's mother Padmasini mami was very popular in that Triplicane area which is actually an Iyengar hub. Padmasini mami was enjoying a roaring business and Vasumathi came to that house to buy a saree in installment through one of her neighbors and the first day she went to Padmasini mami's house she was attracted more by Raghavan than the sarees mami showed. It was evident that Raghavan also was showing interest in her as he used give furtive glances as Vasumathi would be pretending to see different sarees – a pretense to remain there for as long as possible. Without much difficulty they expressed their desire and at that time Vasumathi was in her final year B A. Already a nonchalant student this love affair added fuel to the fire and she just scraped through in a third class with minimum marks.
One year after College was real fun. Padmasini mami was too busy to shadow her son's movements and neither was she interested in it.She used to say often "I have a son it is the problem of the daughter's parents" and ultimately that is what happened. Raghavan even when he was in
Vasumathi is facing a problem for the first time. Raghavan's job demanded touring and he used to be away for five working days and used to come home only on Fridays and spend the week end with family "a grand south Indian Iyengar lunch" and evening eat outs with the children choosing "what to eat and where" but Vasumathi made sure that the kids were choosing only "vegetarian stuff". Her first clash came with Vishal in a restaurant only. As usual on a Saturday week end Vishal chose a restaurant and Raghavan went to that one precisely. On reaching that place itself Vasumathi felt there was something wrong because she could not see even a single Indian face and above all the place had more number of Afro Americans and even they gave a bizarre look at this Indian family. That particular restaurant in
Vasumathi was struggling within her and she did not know how to react to what she had seen in Vishal's room. Though it was a big house with a cellar and a big garden ( there is a competition among brothers who earns more who leads an American style of life and who has a huge house and in this race Raghavan leads and this has made Vasumathi proud in family gatherings) and decorated rooms for the kids Vishal and Kushal used to sleep in the same bedroom with their parents. Actually Vasumathi liked it and to make love after the children slept they go to the cellar where there is a special TV with child lock. Raghavan used to open the lock and the x rated films used to make him hot and Vasumathi responded just beautifully and they used to come back to the kids after a couple of hours. What she failed to understand was that Vishal knew that his parents were leaving the bedroom to make love and so one day he declared that he was going to sleep alone in his room. When Vasumathi tried to react Raghavan silenced her saying "this is a dangerous age. Don't protest for every move of his then he will turn a rebel". She was waiting for Thursday and there were two days more for Thursday to come. She did not want to encounter or assault Vishal with any embarrassing questions without his father and she had more confidence in Raghavan in handling the situation because he is level headed and calm and not emotional like Vasumathi.
At last the expected Thursday came. Raghavan entered the house and even in the foyer he planted a peck in the cheek of Vasumathi (this is usual every Thursday evening) and then hugged the children. Vasumathi was clad in a black backless halter and jeans with her hair cut short. Raghavan came near her and said "mmm…you are gorgeous lady…your back less halter especially the stunning black color that you had chosen just turns me on.. I don't think I can wait for the next four hours how about a quickie?" .For the first time in her married life Vasumathi was squirming in her chair as Raghavan was hugging her from behind the sofa she was seated.
After dinner when Raghavan wanted the children to speak of their experiences that week Vasumathi serving the dessert ( of course a south India mysore pak) she looked straight at Vishal's face whether he would come out with any "news". But Vishal in typical American style shrugged his shoulders "nothing specific dad" he had the exact American accent and no listener would say that he is Parthasarathy Iyengar's grandson. Only last year Vasumathi and Raghavan went to
When Vishal got up early from the gathering "sorry dad I can't spend long time with you because I am expecting a call from my friend" and was above to move when Vasumathi said in a rough voice " Vishal sit down I want to speak to you" and Vishal was quite amused to see his mother agitated over nothing. "Yeah…mom tell me what do you want to speak about…I think I have nothing to share with you" and sat down on the sofa. Raghavan was stunned to see a livid Vasumathi. She looked at Raghavan and said "Raghav I think the time has come for us to speak to Vishal. We should inculcate in him out Culture and Values and he must follow our tradition" and her voice was stern and firm and was apparently dictatorial which amused both the kids.
Before Raghavan could answer Vasumathi burst out "You know Raghav just two days before I went to Vishal's room and I was shocked to see… she was groping for words because she was embarrassed in the first place and as she was filled with emotions she could not choose the right word. She looked at Kushal and said "you go in" and at that point Vishal intervened and said "let him be here. One day he also has to go through this isn't it? The earlier he faces it the better".
Vasumathi gulped some water and said " Vishal's room was full of porn pictures and books and his cell phone has more than fifty hard core porn films which he watches every now and then" Vasumathi was gasping because she had become too emotional and agitated and could not speak coherently also. She told Raghavan "Please tell him or if necessary hit him and bring sense into his head. Tell him about our family traditions and he should know that we are not Americans to live like them but we are Iyengars and we have our own rich tradition to follow".
There was an uneasy calm and actually Raghavan himself did not like the way Vasumathi broached the topic. Well … Raghavan knew that Vasumathi is a woman with average intelligence and is fit to be a good Iyengar house wife and even her aggression in bed is something that Raghav taught and she follows it because she simply loves Raghavan. So Raghavan was not surprised by this onslaught and actually he knew this would crop up one day and actually this weekend he wanted to discuss this topic with Vasumathi as he already knew all that Vasumathi was "revealing" today. It is indecent to assault a young adult like this in a family gathering thought Raghavan and anyways the damage is done and now it is his duty to indulge in damage control exercise.
Before he could start Vishal went into the master bedroom and brought out a bunch of pictures on the table. Actually they were personal pictures which Raghav had shot Vasumathi when they had first come to US and they were all digital pictures which could be seen in their laptops. Vasumathi had actually bared and dared in those pictures Vasumathi in a towel in the bathroom flaunting her long lovely legs, and in another Vasumathi and Raghavan in the bathtub locking their lips this must have shot with Raghavan timing the camera. Vasumathi was stunned by these pictures and wondered how he had access to these pictures.
Vishal looked at her straight and asked "mom. When you can intrude into my privacy and ransack my room as though I am a criminal why should I not do it? I have seen these snaps when I was young and I remembered them and took them out of your wardrobe. Now answer to my questions- I have seen the house where Padma Patti lives and also your first "so called bedroom" which appeared like a dungeon. And that's where you started your sex life and conceived me and if you had continued in that house by now your sex life would have come to an end. Your sex life with the same partner becomes interesting only if you are innovative and that would not have been possible if you had been in
Vasumathi knew she had lost one son and now looked at the younger one and wondered when she would lose him may be another 3 or 4 years. She looked at Raghavan misty eyed and he could understand Vasumathi's feelings. She looked at him and tears dropped from her eyes and muttered "Raghav I am ashamed….see how he talked about me" Raghav said "Vasu don't take it seriously he has just given vent to his anger. Actually tonight I wanted to discuss with you this particular matter but you broached it abruptly. Anyways it's good that we have thrashed it out. Remember Vasumathi you can never have the cake and eat it too. As Vishal rightly said when we enjoy so much because of the American society why should we deny the same to our son? Marital commitment is for Indians. Americans do have marital commitments but remember they never mix marriage and sex. Please understand that and remember you might celebrate his poonul but not his marriage. He is an American he will inform you about his marriage and may invite you and even if he doesn't just take it lightly" and wiped her tears.
free sex in the usa? i must be living on mars . . . the walls of some indian temples have vastly more provocative images than television fare over here. in the past, they also had devadasis to boot. oh yes, i also remember the remixed music videos on mtv and v india. a bet rap video looks almost puritan in comparison. but then, facts are never convenient when prejudice is preferred instead.
weird. i have a hard time believing tht america or its customs are as monstrous as its made out in this story.
hi girija,
very interesting background you have there!
i am an engineer and now an instructional web/content designer/ engg technical writer. you are welcome to my blogs anytime at - http://r-sharma.sulekha.com/blog/posts.htm
very nice story,and a nice way of conveying the message ...........was very shocked while reading your story...........it made me to think on these issues
thank you ranjini. considering the number of response i am getting for this story i decided to post my second story a little later. and i was working for tutorvista as a testprep tutor tutoring high profile exams like sat toefl and ielts. but from this month i am not because i am planning to do other things and the one in pipeline is a documentary on the plight of muslim women in south india.
may i know a little about you please
girija jinnaa
good narration, story conveyed a good msg, that culture of the society were one is brought up as well the life of their parents play a significant role in moulding the life of young generation.
very interesting!! my last job was in a college to create the software and the tools to facilitate online tutoring! i worked on a cyber tutoring project to create websites that enable distance education. what company are you working for? you could send me a note if you wish.
loved ur story!! arent we proud of our "kamasutra" ? somehow there is total mix (read confusion!) of tradition and culture and now religion nowadays..
dear rs
i am an online english tutor to us - does this clarify american testprep??!1
well, this is not comfortable way to look at things, american way is porno and sex without an iota of respect for parents -
indian ways mix marriage and sex - that is perfect ...
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I agree and disagree, there is a degree at which a company does go overboard with customization like 2nd life, but sometimes there is such a thing as not being customizable enough .. FF Online.
I think wow had struck a nice balance, now being able to change your hair and dance are nice, face as well, I don't see that being a problem, armor dyes ... I kinda agree with you on that one, obviously if blizz where to put something like this ingame, they would have to give the player base a limited pallet of colors to work with that blizz thinks would look good on say a T6 armor set.
But to go back a little and say blizz might be going to far with there customization of characters in wow, I have one name for you ..
City Of Heroes
Not as complex as 2nd life, but not as stupid simple as FF Online

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COLDWATER, MI (WTVB) - A check for $31,000 has been presented to CHC Hospice Services at the Community Health Center of Branch County as the proceeds from this past summer's 20th annual Great Hospice Duck Race. Held the first Saturday in June, the event is organized by a volunteer committee and each year with the hard work and generous support of the community they reach their goal of raising funds and awareness for hospice programs and services. All proceeds from the race go to support patient and volunteer service programs.
Since 1997, CHC has touched 1,060 patients through the Hospice program. In the last eighteen years, 100% of the money went directly to patient care in the community so those using hospice have received some type of financial assistance. The goal of hospice is to provide the terminally ill patient with the ability to control the direction of their care. The Duck Race is CHC Hospice Services only major fundraiser for the year and organizers say it would not be possible without the support of the community and their sponsors. Randy DeGroot, CHC CEO, and Home Health and Hospice employees, and committee members were on hand recently to receive the donation from John Rohloff, Duck Race Committee Chair.


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HOUSTON (Reuters) - An oil field service rig working on an inactive gas well caught fire in Louisiana on Wednesday, injuring as many as three workers, the U.S. Coast Guard said.
The fire went out on its own after burning a short while. There was no pollution, a Coast Guard spokeswoman said.
The accident occurred about 20 miles south-southeast of New Orleans in Bayou Perot as the rig was converting an inactive gas well for injection disposal of waste saltwater.
The incident was in inland waters - not the Gulf of Mexico - north of Barataria Bay, the Coast Guard said.
Rig safety has been under scrutiny since the April 20 blowout of BP Plc's Macondo well in Gulf waters off Louisiana. Eleven workers died, and the blowout triggered the worst offshore oil spill in U.S. history.
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Last Saturday, Brad Pitt, who was riding one of his custom motorcycles on the streets of Beverly Hills, was implicated in a minor crash with a car. The Hollywood star got through it with only a few scratches and although the bike was towed from the scene, it looked like it could have been ridden to the shop without problems.
Of course, paparazzi were on duty and there have even been speculations about a paparazzo hitting Pitt from behind and causing him to crash, but the most plausible scenario is that Brad was riding between a parked car and a car stopped at a red light when he clipped the parked car with the handlebar and crashed at slow speed.
After the crash, the caring biker inspected his motorcycle and talked to the other party involved. When the tow truck arrived, he walked away. See it all in the videos attached after the break.
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All of the cans that Clinton Elementary School first-graders brought in produced a total that made their teachers proud.
The school's first grade classes collected canned goods as part of a nationwide food drive called the "Souper" Bowl of Caring. The drive started about two weeks ago and wrapped up Feb 11.
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RICHBURG – Lewisville High School's Dion Foster hopes to play football for Clemson or South Carolina one day. If he does, he'll have taken the long road to one of his home-state universities.Foster signed Wednesday with Coffeyville Community College in Kansas. At one point, Foster was going to be placed in the school by Auburn, but decided against the move."That lets me weigh by options," Foster said. "I want to be able to look at Clemson or USC.
FORT MILL - Lancaster, sparked by tough defense, capped Region III-AAAA regular-season basketball play with a sweep of Nation Ford High School of Fort Mill on Friday night.
Defense played a key role in the Bruins' league wins.
The playoff-bound Lady Bruins used sticky defense to deliver a 51-41 win in the varsity opener. The LHS boys, in the nightcap, made key defensive stops in downing the scrappy Falcons in a 68-62 overtime win to complete the varsity broom job.
The boys' game was tight throughout and went to OT deadlocked at 55-all.
KERSHAW - Three sites are now being considered by a group in Kershaw who hope to create a first-rate children's park.
Beverly Timmons, who heads the Kershaw Community Park Council, said organizers are looking at two publicly owned properties and a private piece of land in the downtown area.
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Andrew Jackson and Buford capped regular-season Conference VIII-AA basketball play with impressive wins on Wednesday night.The Jackets, on BHS Senior Night, wrapped up their season with a second win over playoff-bound Lee Central, the two-time defending Class AA state champion.AJ, on a road trip to Cheraw, registered a 58-48 win over the Braves.BHS's 53-45 win coupled AJ's victory put the Vols in a three-way tie for second place with Lee Central and Cheraw.LC, for the Class AA Lower State playoffs, took the second seed since the S
Former Gov. Jim Hodges is one of South Carolina's greatest citizens. He is the type of leader who puts right ideas and right actions ahead of his own political well being.
During his term as governor of South Carolina he wisely removed the Confederate flag from the state capital dome, signed the bill that recognized Martin Luther King's birthday as an official holiday and ended the legalization of the video poker industry which had plagued the weak and poor of his state even though he knew this would create political and economic ammunition for his powerful rivals.
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Lancaster High School football standout Robert Fletcher, with the stroke of a pen to sign his name, made Bruins' football history Wednesday afternoon.Fletcher, a four-year member of the Bruins' football team, signed scholarship papers in the LHS conference room to continue his football career at Wingate University in Wingate, N.C.Fletcher's signing marks the first LHS football signing under second-year Bruins' coach Bennie McMurray."It's an honor," Fletcher said. "This is a great opportunity.
INDIAN LAND – Indian Land's playoff-bound Lady Warriors solidified their Class A Upper State postseason basketball bid with a 59-50 basketball win over North Central in their Conference III-A regular-season finale.The Lady Warriors' win gave IL a split after the North Central boys took a 57-43 win over the Warriors in the nightcap.In the opener, the IL girls finished fast for the nine-point win over the Lady Knights.The contest was deadlocked at 20-all after one period and the IL girls held a 31-29 edge at the half.The Lady
Last February, I turned 12 years old and as a result, I joined the Boy Scouts.
I was growing up and I was lucky in more ways than one. Talk about a dream come true –Momma just about cleaned out the "Official Boy Scout Headquarters" equipment section inside Robinson-Cloud's clothing store on Main Street to get me the latest in Scout accoutrements.
I was really amazed by all that stuff.
I had been hankering for Boy Scout gear ever since I was a Cub Scout in Mrs. Ellie Pipkin's Cub Scout Pack, where she was our den mother.
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Tyler Flowers couldn't handle the throw home, and Mike Moustakas scored the game-winner.
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When can you trust your struggling studs? Twelve starts into the season, Fantasy owners still have no idea what to make of Mike Minor. After he was sidelined with an injury to open the year, Minor just hasn't been able to recapture his old form.
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Chris Sale outpitched James Shields, Tyler Flowers homered and the Chicago White Sox beat the Kansas City Royals 1-0 in the season opener on Monday.
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In the long-term, Jean Segura could be a Brewers fixture at shortstop for the next few years.
Tigers Pull Into AL Central Lead With 5-4 Win Over Royals
Most of the 32,360 fans at Comerica Park groaned when Jhonny Peralta hit a tailor-made double-play grounder that looked set to end the eighth inning. Andy Dirks made them cheer.
White Sox Shut Out By Royals, Division Lead Shrinks To 2 Games
Bruce Chen pitched into the seventh inning, Alex Gordon hit a two-run double and the Kansas City Royals beat the AL Central-leading White Sox 3-0 on Wednesday night to snap Chicago's five-game winning streak.
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Chris Sale won his eighth straight decision, Adam Dunn homered in his third straight game and the Chicago White Sox beat the Kansas City Royals 2-1 Sunday.
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Philip Humber snapped out of his post-perfect game slump. This time, the rest of the Chicago White Sox let him down.
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Danny Duffy returned from the minors to toss seven sharp innings, Matt Treanor delivered a go-ahead two-run single in the sixth and the light-hitting Kansas City Royals hung on to beat the Chicago White Sox 4-2 on Tuesday night.
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surprise, it was quite good, even my husband liked it. great meal for low carb. i was worry about the fresh mint so i only used a small amount and 1/2 tsp of coriander
This is one of my staple salads. It is quick, easy to make and a hit with my husband!
It would probabley taste better on the leaves. I tried it with some whole wheat pasta and it was just ok.
It was pretty good. I'd probably suggest keeping the dressing separate, as I had a complaint about a "strange bite -- probably the Worcestershire." The coriander added an interesting flavor, but lettuce leaves that hold up well to be used as wraps a la fajitas are difficult to find.
This was really nice! I added a few more veg, because I didn't feel like a meat salad. I added half a red and half a green bell peppers and a handful of sugar snap peas! I'm looking forward to having the leftovers tossed in a leafy salad.
Why do you ppl even bother with these recipes? Just make regular spaghetti or a burger. Cumin is nothing like cayenne. They are totally unrelated. Its a salad, not a pasta sauce.
Clarification - increased "dressing" by 1/3. Leave meat in pan, drain if necessary. Add dressing and stir. Add noodles and heat. I prefer this served hot.
We love this dish. The flavors balance wonderfully - very yin/yang - typical of Thai or Vietnamese cuisine. Worcestershire is an interesting substitute for fish sauce which would normally be used. I increase the sauce by 1/3, use a combo of Worcest. and fish sauces, skip the salt and increase the cayanne to 1 tea (may be too much heat for some). I also add 2 (1.76 oz) bunches of soaked bean thread noodles to the meat near the end of cooking. The noodles will absorb the additional liquid in the pan. Finally, the choice of lettuce is important. Use a soft sweet lettuce such as Boston or butter. As the reviewer from Seattle said, the meat should be rolled in the leaves.


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Well, the latest theories seem to sugest that there have been big bangs going on for eternity! It seems that each Galaxy could be the result of big bangs in themselves, that big bangs are a part of the collapse and expansion of each galactic component in an infinite universe! Seemingly!!!! It does appear to be a ludicrous proposition to think that the universe just began! Began from where? From god?
I'm an athiest so I dont buy into that!
Conversley, the idea that the universe is infinite, without a beggining and without an end, is equally bizzar! I dont think the human race will be able to get it's collective head around this problem for hundreds of years! What is important is what is observable truth, what we can see and test and confirm. But we will keep speculating what???


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Noah Beresin from Chiddy Bang is enjoying his first day off in a while. Just as his hip hop duo was plucked from the obscurity of the college party scene, the same thing keeps happening each time the group touches something new.
From recordings to remixes to live shows, there is not much which goes unnoticed by a wider audience now.
And, for the record, the band is looking forward to Parklife 2010. But they all say that, right? However, Chiddy Bang has something that makes the anticipation all the more infectious - Platinum sales in Australia for the band's MGMT-sampling hit "Opposite of Adults".
And it's not like Australia has followed some worldwide phenomenon. Sure the single has struck a chord but it's hardly the new "Sex on Fire".
"We've never gone Platinum anwhere," Beresin laughs. "So obviously I've never been to a country that where we've gone Platinum so this is going to be a first for us. I knew it was going well but it's not like it was #1 in the US or anything. So that fact that it went Platinum in Australia is something we're super siked on and super proud because for us, to hear that, it makes Australia this golden light at the end of our tunnel. We've never been there either so we're looking forward to sitting on a beach somewhere and drinking wine."
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It sounds like a fitting end-to-a-chapter for a band at the end of a record run. But for Chiddy Bang, the little wine-fuelled getaway is coming in the middle of the current wave. Or, perhaps it's the start. The band is still yet to release that debut record which has been pushed back to 2011 now. Although, it does seem like we've been hearing that name, The Swelly Life for a while now.
Instead, the band has just announced a mini-album, The Preview, will drop in the middle of the Parklife tour.
"The main purpose of this release is to give our fans some new music whilst we finish recording our debut album, Swelly Life," Beresin says. "It's called The Preview because it gives listeners a glimpse of what's to come on Swelly. Preview is for riding around in your car and the album is for stadiums. It will be 100 percent new songs. We're just taking it to the next level with guitars and tape machines and basically making the craziest music we can."
There's something in his voice that makes such grand statements feel so believable. It especially makes sense when digesting the fact Chiddy Bang is now at the top of the pile of hip hop tastemakers. The samples will be easier to get and more people will be waiting to hear just what kind of twisted beat or loop will come next.
"Sometimes I have nothing and sometimes I have a whole track," Beresin says of his creative process. "With "Kids" (the sample used in "Opposite of Adults") I had nothing. I downloaded that mp3 from iTunes. If you listen to it closely you can hear my friends sitting around clapping and laughing in the background. They were all there."
It was just a bunch of friends, bored in a basement, waiting to see if the finished product was the soundtrack to their next good party. Now the party-starters of the world are doing the same thing.
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Momvestigation: One in five kids has witnessed sex in school. Now, hear their side of the story.
"Kids in my school are always hooking up or having sex in the closets, bathrooms or auditorium. I can't describe the nauseating feeling of walking down the hall and having to dodge the used condom on the ground." -- Kristen, 18, Atlanta
On Friday, we shared the results of our groundbreaking survey: One in five kids has witnessed sex in school. In this segment, called "Heard It, Saw It," you'll hear firsthand accounts from teens and tweens who've seen sex in the classroom, the girls' bathroom ... even during a high-school basketball game. These kids are from all parts of the country and all walks of life, but their stories are disturbingly similar. They've witnessed foreplay, oral sex and intercourse on school grounds during school hours. In our survey of 500 teens between 12 and 17, only 14.8 percent of kids said they'd ever tell their parents if they witnessed sex in school.
|For moms, this is a total wake-up call. You'll also hear a child psychologist, a family counselor and CosmoGIRL!'s editor-in-chief weigh in on why this is happening. In this tell-all age of Facebook profiles and celebrity sex tapes, are things like modesty, privacy and boundaries becoming things of the past? Warning: What you're about to watch is graphic and raw, but it's something every mom in America can't afford to miss.
Tomorrow: Hear from kids who've had sex at school, in their own words.
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On the tour we explore the major Prague sights and attractions from all perspectives: from high above the city, from the ancient cobbled streets, and from the river.
Some of the sights in Prague are only accessible on foot, so there is a fair amount of walking on the tour. But there are plenty of rest breaks, including a boat trip, a pub lunch in a Medieval tavern, and a coach transfer up to Prague Castle.
After meeting your guide, we start the tour with the coach transfer up to Prague Castle (the highest point in Prague).
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Next, we descend through the picturesque Lesser Town, walking down the "Royal Way" Nerudova Street, and stopping off to visit the awe-inspiring St. Nicholas Church and Charles Bridge.
We then enjoy a well deserved break on board a small boat. During the 40 minute river cruise you'll be served a complementary drink and snack, as we cross the river and sail under Charles Bridge.
Back on dry land we head for a Medieval tavern which dates from the 15th century. A traditional Czech pub meal with a choice of food and a beer, or soft drink, is included in the tour (vegetarian option is available).
We then continue through the medieval centre of Prague, exploring the Old Town Square and the Jewish Quarter, once the largest Jewish ghetto in Europe.
Throughout our trip we learn of the dramatic history and legends associated with each area of the city.
As a farewell gift, we present you with a map of Prague and a CD of Prague photos with our compliments.
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If you require a tour in French, German, Italian, Russian or Spanish please state it in special requests on the booking form.
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Following the theft of six adult bicycles from Heartspring, a nonprofit organization helping children with special needs, the community has rallied to replace the stolen bicycles…and much, much more.
The community has donated almost 50 bikes so children with special needs can continue their program goals.
Nine bicycles have been dropped off at Heartspring with eight more to be delivered this week. Sixteen more have been pledged for Heartspring staff to pick up.
KFDI radio DJ Tony Brueski hosted a bike drive for Heartspring July 27-28 and received 16 bicycles which will be delivered to Heartspring on Thursday July 30. Many other phone calls have come from individuals and businesses offering addition support if needed.
Cash pledges totaling $1450 will allow Heartspring to fix and maintain donated and currently used bicycles and adult tricycles used by the students at the Heartspring School. Preferred Health Systems donated 30 bicycle helmets.
With the donation of younger children's bicycles, clients receiving physical therapy from Heartspring Pediatric Services will also be able to benefit from these donations.
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Former state Senate majority leader Bill Stephens shook off a three-year hiatus from politics this morning to announce himself as a candidate to replace U.S. Rep. Nathan Deal.
The Fannin County native becomes the third Republican to announce for the 9th District seat. Mike Evans, the former state transportation chairman, and Tom Graves, the state lawmaker, are already in the race.
Stephens once served as Gov. Zell Miller's press secretary, and is tapping that same base for his finance committee. Businessman Virgil Williams will head it up. Miller and his wife Shirley are also part of Stephens' core support.
"North Georgia deserves a member of Congress who knows them, will represent their interests and knows how to take on the power structure–and win", said Stephens, a banker, in his press release.
Stephens was elected to the state Senate in 1998, but lost the GOP primary for secretary of state to Karen Handel, who is now running for governor.
According to May 2009 stats, the 9th District has the least diverse voting population in Georgia: 91 percent white, 3 percent black, and 2.6 percent Hispanic.
This was Mike Huckabee's best district in the 2008 presidential primary, according to one number-cruncher we know. Huckabee, who won the state, took 41 percent. John McCain and Mitt Romney won 28 and 27 percent of the vote, respectively.
— The Georgia Conservancy Board of Trustees announced Tuesday that former lieutenant governor Pierre Howard would serve permanently as the environmental group's president. Howard had been the interim top dog. President Jim Stokes left the spot in January.
Perhaps because Howard, as a former constitutional officer, might find it a tad awkward working the ropes at the State Capitol, Georgia Conservancy also said that Allison Wall, director of Georgia Watch and veteran lobbyist would also be part of the group's top leadership.
— U.S. Rep. John Barrow (D-Savannah) is taking some heat for a committee vote against the Democratic climate- change measure that would create a cap-and-trade system to control greenhouse-gas emissions.
An unusual coalition of Democratic interest groups — the League of Conservation Voters and VoteVets — have put out the ad below aimed at changing Barrow's mind. Similar versions are being run against Democratic blue dog Mike Ross of Arkansas and Republican Roy Blunt of Missouri.
While you ponder the above, consider these items found while perusing this morning's ajc.com:
Fayette County commissioner arrested for marijuana possession. The state budget meltdown delays a refill of the World of Coke museum. A possible break-in at home of Atlanta City Council President — and mayoral candidate — Lisa Borders. A new Georgia Tech research center aimed at quicker healing for soldiers. Clayton County approves another school superintendent contract, this one for $250,000 a year. A decision is coming on whether MARTA gets $25 million in federal stimulus. Good news: metro Atlanta homes decline in value at a slower pace than before. A first entry in U.S. Sen. Johnny Isakson's Africa diary.
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Your Luckovich fix. Cynthia Tucker and the "treason" talk of Republican candidates for governor.
From elsewhere in Georgia:
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NYT: North Korea threatens military strikes on South Korea. WP: Illinois senator offered to write check to governor before appointment. WP: Republicans face a delicate task in opposing the first Latina nominee to the U.S. Supreme Court. WSJ: Despite Democratic bent, Sotomayor has sided with corporate defendants, and the high court's 5-4 split is likely to remain.
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Roy Blunt is no Democrat.
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Stephens is a natural for Congress – an adulterer and liar.
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Stephens is exactly the kind of leader we need in north Ga. Congrats Bill!
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The biggest challenger facing engineers is the underbody of the vehicle. The six-speed ZF gearbox is a different shape than the S Tronic, meaning the underbody of the GT will need to be reworked. Still, the benefits of having such a transmission are numerous, such as a better driving experience that could help Bentley market the GT to a more sporting audience.
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See the little girl on the left? She made Megan Hilty a bracelet and when she got up to Megan, she gave it to her and Megan put it on and they took a picture together and she was still wearing the bracelet at the very end when she left :) it was so sweet.
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LOGLINE: A directionally challenged pizza man delivers a helping to the wrong guy at the right time.
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- Cast: Katie Jarvis, Michael Fassbender, Kierston Wareing, Harry Treadaway, Rebecca Griffiths, Sarah Bayes, Charlotte Collins, Chelsea Chase, Jason Maza, Sydney Mary Nash, Joanna Horton, Brooke Hobby, Jack Gordon, Grant Wild, Michael Prior, Sarah Counsell, Tony Geary, Hannah-Marie Keeble
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- Co Producer: Nick Laws
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- Executive Producers: Christine Langan, David M. Thompson, Paul Trijbits
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- Filming Locations: Essex, UK
- Production Companies: BBC Films, Kasander Film Company, Limelight Communication, UK Film Council
- Production Schedule: 23 June 2008 - August 2008
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The film won the Jury Prize at the 62nd Cannes Film Festival.
2010 Guide Analysis: "Already having won several awards and great praise at the Toronto Film Festival, Andrea Arnold's gritty Essex-set drama looks downbeat and somewhat cynical on the surface, but has led to some debate over its outcome which actually takes a tender and positive approach that indie urban coming-of-age stories rarely aspire too.
Newcomer Katie Jarvis has scored great acclaim for her role, as have the various supporting cast such as Rebecca Griffiths as the young sister and the increasingly fascinating Michael Fassbender as her mother's new boyfriend. There will be comparisons made to "Precious" of course as the basic premise of a young girl from a broken home with a c*nt of a mother is the same. 'Tank' however offers a more understated and hopeful approach that also plays more universally."


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The seminar is conducted in two parts:
This workshop has been offered at Fredericksburg (VA) Baptist Church, Bon Air (VA) Baptist Church, First Baptist Church Huntsville (AL), and First Baptist Church Greensboro (NC).
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The maker makes: on design, community, and personal empowerment
THE FIRST THING I got about the web was its ability to empower the maker. The year was 1995, and I was tinkering at my first website. The medium was raw and ugly, like a forceps baby; yet even in its blind, howling state, it made me a writer, a designer, and a publisher — ambitions which had eluded me during more than a decade of underachieving desert wanderings.
I say "it made me" but I made it, too. You get the power by using it. Nobody confers it on you.
I also got that the power was not for me alone: it was conferred in equal measure on everyone with whom I worked, although not everyone would have the time or desire to use the power fully.
The luckiest makers
Empowerment and desire. It takes extraordinary commitment, luck, and talent to become a maker in, say, music or film, because the production and distribution costs and risks in these fields almost always demand rich outside investors and tightly controlling corporate structures. (Film has held up better than music under these conditions.)
Music and film fill my life, and, from afar, I love many artists involved in these enterprises. But they are mostly closed to you and me, where the web is wide open, and always has been. We all know gifted, hard working musicians who deserve wide acclaim but do not receive it, even after decades of toil. The web is far kinder to makers.
To care is to share
Not only does the web make publishers of those willing to put in the work, it also makes most of us free sharers of our hard-won trade, craft, and business secrets. The minute we grab hold of a new angle on design, interaction, code, or content, we share it with a friend — or with friends we haven't met yet. This sharing started in news groups and message boards, and flowered on what came to be called blogs, but it can also slip the bounds of its containing medium, empowering makers to create books, meet-ups, magazines, conferences, products, you name it. It is tough to break into traditional book publishing the normal way but comparatively easy to do it from the web, provided you have put in the early work of community building.
The beauty is that the community building doesn't feel like work; it feels like goofing off with your friends (because, mostly, it is). You don't have to turn your readers into customers. Indeed, if you feel like you're turning your readers into customers, you're doing it wrong.
If you see a chance, take it
The corollary to all this empowerment is that it's up to each of us to do something positive with it. I sometimes become impatient when members of our community spend their energy publicly lamenting that a website about cats isn't about dogs. Their energy would be so much better spent starting bow-wow.com. The feeling that something is missing from a beloved online resource (or conference, or product) can be a wonderful motivator to start your own. I created A List Apart because I felt that webmonkey.com wasn't enough about design and highfive.com was too much about it. If this porridge is too hot and that porridge is too cold, I better make some fresh, eh?
I apologize if I sometimes seem snippy with whiners. My goal is never to make anyone feel bad, especially not anyone in this community. My message to my peers since the days of "Ask Dr Web" has always been: "you can do this! Go do it." That is still what I say to you all.
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The change you experienced last night at midnight is available to you every moment of every day.
Dan Benjamin,
1 January 2010
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it takes a train
When asked why there's so much pain
Jesus and Buddha will tell me the same:
"Shit happens, and people change."
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Why Standards Fail
Back in 2000, CSS co-creator Bert Bos set out to explain the W3C's design principles—"to make explicit what the developers in the various W3C working groups mean when they invoke words like efficiency, maintainability, accessibility, extensibility, learnability, simplicity, [and] longevity…."
Eventually published in 2003, the essay, although ostensibly concerned with explaining W3C working group principles to the uninitiated, actually articulates the key principle that separates great design from the muck we normally wade through. It also serves as a warning to Bert's fellow W3C wizards not to seek the dark magic of abstract purity at the expense of the common good. Tragically for these wizards, and for we who use their technologies, it is a warning some developers of W3C specifications continue to overlook.
Design is for people
In his introduction, Bert summarizes the humanistic value that is supposed to be at the core of every web standard:
Contrary to appearances, the W3C specifications are for the most part not designed for computers, but for people. … Most of the formats are in fact compromises between human-readability and computer efficiency….
But why do we want people to read them at all? Because all our specs are incomplete. Because people, usually other people than the original developers, have to add to them….
For the same reason we try to keep the specifications of reasonable size. They must describe a useful chunk of technology, but not one that is too large for an individual to understand.
Over the succeeding 25 web pages (the article is chunked out in pamphlet-sized pages, each devoted to a single principle such as "maintainability" and "robustness") Bert clearly, plainly, and humbly articulates a series of rather profound ideas that are key to the web's growth and that might apply equally admirably to realms of human endeavor beyond the web.
For instance, in the page entitled "Use What Is There," Bert says:
The Web now runs on HTML, HTTP and URLs, none of which existed before the '90s. But it isn't just because of the quality of these new formats and protocols that the Web took off. In fact, the original HTTP was a worse protocol than, e.g., Gopher or FTP in its capabilities….
And that fact shows nicely what made the Web possible at all: it didn't try to replace things that already worked, it only added new modules, that fit in the existing infrastructure. …
And nowadays (the year 2000), it may look like everything is XML and HTTP, but that impression is only because the "old" stuff is so well integrated that you forget about it: there is no replacement for e-mail or Usenet, for JPEG or MPEG, and many other essential parts of the Web.
He then warns:
There is, unfortunately, a tendency in every standards organization, W3C not excluded, to replace everything that was created by others with things developed in-house. It is the not-invented-here syndrome, a feeling that things that were not developed "for the Web" are somehow inferior. And that "we" can do better than "them." But even if that is true, maybe the improvement still isn't worth spending a working group's resources on.
Shrinkage and seduction
In his gentle way, Bert seems to be speaking directly to his W3C peers, who may not always share his and Håkon's humanism. For, despite what designers new to CSS, struggling for the first time with concepts like "float" and the box model may think, Bert and Håkon designed the web's layout language to be easy to learn, teach, implement, maintain, and (eventually) extend. They also designed CSS not to overwhelm the newcomer with advanced power at the cost of profound complexity. ("CSS stops short of even more powerful features that programmers use in their programming languages: macros, variables, symbolic constants, conditionals, expressions over variables, etc. That is because these things give power-users a lot of rope, but less experienced users will unwittingly hang themselves; or, more likely, be so scared that they won't even touch CSS. It's a balance.")
This striving to be understood and used by the inexperienced is the underlying principle of all good design, from the iPhone to the Eames chair. It's what Jared Spool would call usability and you and I may consider the heart of design. When anything new is created, be it a website, a service, or a web markup language, there is a gap between what the creator knows (which is everything about how it's supposed to work), and what you and I know (which is nothing). The goal of design is to shrink this ignorance gap while seducing us into leaping across it.
What were once vices are now habits
You can see this principle at work in CSS, whose simplicity allowed us to learn it. Although we now rail against the limitations of CSS 1 and even CSS 2.1, what we are really complaining about is the slow pace of CSS 3 and the greater slowness with which browser makers (some more than others) adopt bits of it.
Note that at one time we would have railed against browser makers who implemented parts of a specification that was still under development; now we admire them. Note, too, that it has taken well over a decade for developers to understand and browsers to support basic CSS, and it is only from the perspective of the experienced customer who craves more that advanced web designers now cry out for immediate CSS 3 adoption and chafe against the "restrictions" of current CSS as universally supported in all browsers, including IE8.
If CSS had initially offered the power, depth, and complexity that CSS 3 promises, we would still be designing with tables or Flash. Even assuming a browser had existed that could demonstrate the power of CSS 3, the complexity of the specification would have daunted everyone but Eric Meyer, had CSS 1 not come out of the gate first.
The future of the future of standards
It was the practical simplicity of CSS that enabled browser engineers to implement it and tempted designers to use (and then evangelize) it. In contrast, it was the seeming complexity and detachment from practical workaday concerns that doomed XHTML 2, while XHTML 1.0 remains a valid spec that will likely still be working when you and I have retired (assuming retirement will be possible in our lifetime—but that's another story).
And yet, compared to some W3C specs in progress, XHTML 2 was a model of accessible, practical, down-to-earth usability.
To the extent that W3C specifications remain modular, practical, and accessible to the non-PhD in computer science, they will be adopted by browser makers and the marketplace. The farther they depart from the principles Bert articulated, the sooner they will peter out into nothingness, and the likelier we are to face a crisis in which web standards once again detach from the direction in which the web is actually moving, and the medium is given over to incompatible, proprietary technologies.
I urge everyone to read "What is a Good Standard?", and I thank my friend Tantek for pointing it out to me.
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.net interview
There was a point in the 90s when I felt like a sucker for doing HTML and CSS."
The .net Zeldman interview is available for your downloading pleasure (4.2 MB PDF). For more of the best in web design and development, visit netmag.co.uk.
Update, 27 May 2009
An HTML version of the interview has now been posted on .net's website.
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A List Apart is changing
A List Apart, for people who make websites, is slowly changing course.
For most of its decade of publication, ALA has been the leading journal of standards-based web design. Initially a lonely voice in the desert, we taught CSS layout before browsers correctly supported it, and helped The WaSP persuade browser makers to do the right thing. Once browsers' standards support was up to snuff, we educated and excited designers and developers about standards-based design, preaching accessibility, teaching semantic markup, and helping you strategize how to sell this new way of designing websites to your clients, coworkers, and boss.
Most famously, over the years, writers for ALA have presented the design community with one amazing and powerfully useful new CSS technique after another. Initially radically new techniques that are now part of the vocabulary of all web designers include Paul Sowden's "Alternative Styles," Mark Newhouse's list-based navigation, Eric Meyer's intro to print styles, Douglas Bowman's "Sliding Doors," Dave Shea's "CSS Sprites," Dan Cederholm's "Faux Columns," Patrick Griffiths and Dan Webb's "Suckerfish Dropdowns," Drew McLellan's "Flash Satay," and so on and so on. There are literally too many great ones to name here. (Newcomers to standards-based design, check Erin Lynch's "The ALA Primer Part Two: Resources For Beginners".)
Web standards are in our DNA and will always be a core part of our editorial focus. Standards fans, never fear. We will not abandon our post. But since late 2005, we have consciously begun steering ALA back to its earliest roots as a magazine for all people who make websites—writers, architects, strategists, researchers, and yes, even marketers and clients as well as designers and developers. This means that, along with issues that focus on new methods and subtleties of markup and layout, we will also publish issues that discuss practical and sometimes theoretical aspects of user experience design, from the implications of ubiquitous computing to keeping communities civil.
The trick is to bring our huge group of highly passionate readers along for the ride. My wife likens it to piloting the Queen Mary. (Q. How do you make the Queen Mary turn left? A. Very, very slowly.)
The slow, deliberate, gradual introduction of articles on business and theory has not pleased all of ALA's readers, some of whom may unrealistically wish that every issue would present them with the equivalent of a new "Sliding Doors." It is possible, of course, to publish one CSS (or JavaScript or Jquery) article after another, and to do so on an almost daily basis. We could do that. Certainly we get enough submissions. The trouble is that most articles of this kind are either edge cases of limited utility, or derivatives that do not break significant new ground. (Either that, or they are flawed in our estimation, e.g. relying on dozens of non-semantic divs to create a moderately pleasing, minor visual effect.)
We review hundreds of articles and publish dozens. Some web magazines seem to have those proportions reversed, and some readers don't seem to mind, and that's fine. But any content you see in ALA has been vetted and deeply massaged by the toughest editorial team in the business. And when you see a new "design tech" article in our pages, you can be sure it has passed muster with our hard-ass technical editors.
Moreover, the fields of meaningful new CSS tricks have mostly yielded their fuels. We've done that. We've done it together with you. While a few new lodes of value undoubtedly remain to be tapped, we as a community, and as individuals who wish to grow as designers, need to absorb new knowledge. ALA will continue to be a place where you can do that.
When we began focusing on web standards in 1998, we were told we were wasting readers' time on impractical crap of little value to working designers and developers. But we kept on anyway, and the things we learned and taught are now mainstream and workaday. While we apologize to readers who are again being made irritable by our insistence on occasionally presenting material that does not fall directly within their comfort zone, we hope that this experiment will prove to be of value in the end.
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Stick out your tongue
While employed at a famous New York advertising agency twenty years ago, a partner and I created a TV commercial touting an over-the-counter medicine client's revolutionary new cold and flu remedy for young children.
Only when the shooting and shouting was over did we learn that the product did not, in fact, exist.
The commercial whose every creative detail we'd had to fight for was never going to run.
The client—the marketing side of a product development group—had a budget of $60,000 to spend. So they spent it, even though the R&D side of the product development group had not been able to deliver the product.
It was not a liquid medicine that needed to be measured. It was not a pill that needed to be chewed or swallowed. It was a pill that dissolved instantly on the tongue. Or would have been, if the engineers had been able to create it.
During weeks of presentation, the client rejected campaigns that would have caught the attention of the nation's parents. The client bought a safe campaign that called less attention to itself, then set about systematically softening its edges. My partner and I wanted to cast like Fellini or Woody Allen. We brought in amazing children of various backgrounds, their faces rich in character. But the client picked cute blonde girls instead.
And so on. Every decision, however small, required approval. Everything was a fight. A ladies-and-gentlemanly fight. A fight that sounded like polite, mutually respectful discussion. A fight with invisible knives.
We won some and we lost some. For all the back-and-forth with the client, the resulting commercial wasn't bad at all. The first few times anyone—even the guy delivering sandwiches—saw it, they laughed. Afterwards, they smiled. It could have been okay. It could have gotten my partner and me out of that agency and to a better one.
After the shoot was completed, the client told our account executive that the product did not exist and the commercial was never going to run.
The client had known this going in. So why didn't they let us win more creative battles? Because they wanted something soft and safe to show the boss who had the power of life and death over their budget.
Why did the boss give them $60,000 to produce a commercial for a product that didn't exist? Because that's how corporations work. If they didn't spend advertising dollars in 1988, they wouldn't get ad dollars in 1989, when (in theory) they would finally have a product to advertise.
Governments, at least the ones I know of, work the same way. Since last night, the city of New York has been paving 34th Street in places it doesn't need to be paved. Why do they do this? To justify the budget. In a better world, money set aside to pave streets that don't need paving would be reassigned to something the city actually needs—like affordable housing, or medical care for poor or homeless people. But cities are corporations—that Mike Bloomberg is New York's mayor merely confirms this—and few corporations are agile enough to rethink budgetary distributions on the basis of changing needs.
Last week, in an airport, on one of the inescapable widescreen TVs set to CNN (and always set to the wrong resolution) I saw a commercial for a revolutionary children's medicine product that melts instantly on the tongue.
I guess they finally made it.
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Dear anonymous
Dear "New Yorker:"
It is snowing again in New York City. I'll wait while you verify.
Presently the precipitation is recorded as 0.11 inches. But if you venture out, you may notice snow piles that are several inches high. How can we account for this discrepancy between the recorded height of snowfall and the actual height of some snow piles?
People shovel.
In this city, custodians and superintendents salted and shoveled sidewalks before 7:00 AM.
When people shovel, they push the snow into curbside banks that reach inches or even feet higher than the recorded snowfall level.
To see this, walk outside and look. The fresh air may do you good.
Sometimes after a snowfall, the temperature drops. Then those high banks of snow stick around.
Sometimes it warms just enough to rain into those frozen banks of snow. Then you get cold wetness that can reach into a toddler's shoes (if she's not wearing boots). And banks of old snow at the edges of curbs that, combined with freezing rain, can wet a small, bootless child halfway to the knees.
If you spent less time fact-checking other people's blog posts and more time living, you would know these things about snow, and children, and weather reports.
And even if "halfway up to A—'s knees" were off by an inch or more, a person who is alive would say to themselves, "A father, worried about his child's exposure to weather, sees conditions as somewhat worse than they are."
A person who understands people might seek further evidence of hyperbole, and would find it: "My kid looked like she had been swimming in the East River."
A parent, or a non-parent alive enough to imagine the anxieties of parenting, would recognize that this an exaggeration, intended to convey (and through the catharsis or writing, alleviate) parental guilt and anxiety.
Trying to prove strangers liars is no substitute for lived experience. You missed the point of what I shared, and attacked the reality of my story on petty (and false) grounds.
Let me tell you how your anonymous attack made me feel:
Blessed to have a meaningful life.
Blessed not to have to fill my hours poking around, looking for inaccuracies in other people's websites, hoping to embarrass strangers.
Whoever you are, I hope your life grows richer than it is today.
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Lord of the Rains
Relentless winter rain was turning last night's snow to slush as I with my head cold and A— with her wooly hat left the lobby of our apartment building, headed for the nearby crosstown bus.
From home to preschool is a mile uphill, and we always walk it. But today was no day for pedestrianism. Even the dog could barely be persuaded to lift his leg.
And taking the bus was a form of bribery. A— did not want to go to school today, but she loves to ride the bus.
"We'll ride the bus to school!" we proposed, and this enticement sufficed to get the girl dressed and downstairs—where we spied the bus, half a block away, accepting passengers and about to leave.
We ran through the slush, holding hands, my office bag bouncing off my left shoulder, the diaper bag bouncing off my right, the stroller sliding ahead of us, guided by my free hand.
You must fold a stroller before boarding a New York City bus. At the bus doors, I had trouble folding. The stroller would not collapse. The driver and the wet passengers inside stared down at me like bison on a nature show, blinking impassively while contemplating my destruction.
A woman in front of me took A—'s hand, to help the little girl onto the bus while her father wrestled with a child carrying appliance.
I saw myself stuck in the slush. I saw the bus doors closing. I saw a strange lady taking my daughter away.
I grabbed A—'s hand, pulled her away from the stranger.
"I'm sorry, thank you, I appreciate it, but my daughter has to stay with me," I said. At which point, blessedly, the stroller collapsed. I scooped daughter, stroller, diaper bag and office bag into my arms, ascended the bus steps, and placed my Metro card into the card reader.
The bus driver looked at me and said something incomprehensible. The bus beeped; the card reader blinked red and ejected my card.
I reinserted the card, smiling, already soaked, my daughter and possessions balanced against my chest. Again the red, the beeping, the ejection.
This time I understood what the bus driver was saying.
"Your card's empty."
"Oh," I said, the whole bus watching me and my daughter, every face wondering what refugee camp we had escaped from, and whether the bus driver would show mercy and let us ride on this most miserable of cold wet rainy days.
The bus driver blinked at me.
"Um," I said.
"Pay or get off" the bus driver said.
Buses accept Metrocards and coins only. You need $2 in coins. I don't carry $2 in coins.
"Can I give you two dollars in bills?" I said.
"No," the bus driver said.
So the girl and I plunged back into the slush and began the mile uphill walk in the rain.
"Why can't we ride the bus?" my three-year-old asked through trembling lips.
Her whole world was now about the bus ride she'd been promised, and the promise I was inexplicably breaking.
"I'll let you walk," I said, since walking, instead of riding in the stroller, is also a perk.
I took out her Dora the Explorer umbrella, which we bought two weeks ago at a premium price.
It was broken, I discovered. The umbrella offered no protection whatever from the rain. On the plus side, you could still read the Dora the Explorer logo, so the licensee was getting his money's worth.
Umbrellaless, toddling along, we made it to a major avenue where the deep, melting ice and snow came halfway up to A—'s knees, and women stared at the idiot father letting his beautiful innocent child flounder about in wetness.
"There's too much ice, now; you've got to get in the stroller," I said.
"No!" she said.
There was nothing else for it. "I'll give you candy," I said.
In the Duane Reade on Third Avenue, I let her pick the candy—she selected something pink and disgusting—while I unpacked the stroller to get at a plastic sheet at the bottom. The plastic sheet is supposed to snap over the top of the stroller, protecting children from rain, snow, and oxygen. I could not get it to snap or stay or even cover the stroller. Strike three.
So we walked the rest of the way uphill, uncovered, rain-battered, she with her candy and I with silent curses.
We reached the school and climbed the steps in the usual way—the girl refusing to climb the steps, me carrying her in one hand and the stroller in the other.
We were both soaked through and I realized I was the worst father walking the earth. All the other kids came in wearing rain boots. My kid was wearing pretty little black Maryjanes. The other kids were damp. My kid looked like she had been swimming in the East River.
What saved me was this:
In the library at the top of the stairs, preparing to read a Curious George book before school began, the girl sat by the radiator and said, "Look, Dad. This hot stuff will get me dry."
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Stealing design
Don't worry about people stealing your design work. Worry about the day they stop.
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- Song:
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Best Songs of 2011
Figured I'd start posting some of my absolutely favorite tracks of 2011. For the first track I've selected Panda Bear's Slow Motion…for obvious reasons. Noah Lennox the guy behind the Panda continues to entrance and hypnotize me with everything he does and Tomboy was no exception.
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