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A fansite for the Brian Dannelly/Chris Colfer film,
Struck by Lightning.
Q&A With Chris Colfer
Chris Colfer does a Q&A with fans working as extras for the Homecoming scene, July 22, 2011
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Chris: I am so nervous that you guys are all here, because I was telling someone in make-up, but usually when we have people come out it's for all of us in Glee, but now it's just me asking for you guys to come out. So thank you so, so much. We can't afford extras, so you're our extras. So we hope you guys have a good time and I think maybe we'll do a Q & A or something later.
Chris: [Does anyone have] any questions? About anything?
Q: What's your favourite colour?
A: Blue.
Q: What would be your dream role to play on Broadway?
A: Ooh! Well, Next To Normal's closed, but I would've loved to have played the son in that. Um, I dunno. I mean obviously I would love to be… *mic dies; sound guy fixes it* Even the mic doesn't want to listen to me. Um, I mean I've told Disney if they ever do Pinocchio, that they know who to call.
Q: What do you hope people take away from this movie?
A: I hope people are just inspired by this movie, because I think a lot of movies that are made for kids in our generation are just about kids that wanna get laid or wanna do drugs or wanna be cool and popular. And my character doesn't want any of those things, my character just wants to get the hell out of this town. So as of right now, I hope it just inspires kids to keep going and use their voice.
Q: What's your spirit animal?
A: My spirit animal is actually our script supervisor, Bridgette Kelley, who is over there in one of the blue tents. So everybody, give it up for Bridget! But I'm probably a mix between a llama and a sea monkey.
Q: How are your sea monkeys doing?
A: They're dead… Okay, we're ready!
Chris: [I'll introduce to] you guys the cast of the movie. So first, we have Miss Rebel, who is playing my sidekick and partner-in-crime in the writing club. And then we have Carter Jenkins, [who plays] a very wealthy student who employs all of our parents. And then we have- where is Graham? There's Graham somewhere, who is the very flamboyant Seth Thomas of the drama department. And then we have Miss Sarah Hyland from Modern Family who is playing the queen bitch, Claire. And then we have Ashley Rickards, playing Vicky. She was up there, smoking. And next, Matt who plays Dwayne, the boy who enjoys his… supplements? And Roberto, who is playing the foreign exchange student. And I think [I've got everybody]… Robbie? Oh, Robbie, yes! But you're a jock; I don't care about you. And then Allie Grant is playing Remy, the high-strung yearbook editor… And, uh, yeah… Did you all see Ashley Fink from Glee?
Q: Duet!
A: We off duty, we off duty. Don't worry, our concert comes out in, like, two weeks. Any questions?
Q: Was it hard to come out?
A: Yeah. Uh, Chelsea Handler.
Q: What would you see in the Mirror of Erised?
A: I dunno. Good question. Well, I've probably– I've already seen myself in the mirror looking like this…
Q: Do you know how amazing you are? [*fans cheer*]
A: I'm soaking all this up!
Q: [Is this the first thing you've ever written?]
A: Yes, yes, first thing that I've ever written. You're looking at it. Yeah. Thank you! Thank you for being a part of it.
Q: Who's writing the facebook page?
A: Oh! Me, when I remember. But all of the characters have twitter accounts, so follow those. Those are written by me. I don't post them, but they're written by me.
Q: Do you realize this is probably gonna go down in history like Star Trek or The Prisoner or one of those shows?
A: I'm sorry?
Q: It's probably gonna have a history like Star Trek or The Prisoner or one of those shows?
A: What will?
Q: The classics?
A: What will go down in history?
Q: You, your character in Glee.
A: Oh, I hope so! I mean, yeah, that's one of the best parts about playing a character like him.
Q: Who's your celebrity crush?
A: You know, I can't answer this because I see celebrities everywhere, so I can't. 'Cause that'd be really awkward if I said it and then I would see them.
Q: Or awesome!
A: Awkward.
Q: Can I high-five you?
A: Uh, sure! Oh, maybe not. Security's telling me no.
Q: If there was a movie about your life, who would you want to play you?
A: Well, Meryl Streep can do anything. As soon as she's done playing Margaret Thatcher in Iron Lady, she hopes to play Chris Colfer.
Q: She won't be as good as you!
A: She'll be better.
Q: Have you seen all the Starkid plays or just the first one?
A: All I've seen is the first one.
Q: You need to watch the sequel! It's better!
A: Or maybe I've seen the sequel. I can't remember.
Q: Have you seen Umbridge or Voldemort?
A: Voldemort. Oh! But – oh! I don't know if – she might kill me for saying this, but Lauren Lopez is actually in the movie.
Q: Did you [base this off] Clovis East High School?
A: Kinda sorta. It's not really based on Clovis East, but – just basically the name is, I'd say. But the story isn't autobiographic.
Q: What's your life motto?
A: My life motto? Don't trip.
Q: [*Question unintelligible*].
A: Oh, um, my grandmother used to make me sing at her church during Sunday, but I never wanted to.
Q: Do you have any advice for aspiring actors?
A: Keep going.
Q: What's the movie about?
A: It's called Struck By Lightning and it's about a student who gets struck by lightning and killed, and then the rest of the movie is sarcastic, narrative flashbacks of his last years in high school. He gets to narrate his own funeral. How cool is that?
Q: Favourite Adele song?
A: Ooh! I love [Set Fire To The Rain], I love Someone Like You…
Q: What was your favourite song to sing in Glee?
A: Defying Gravity will always be really… really sentimental. I loved Rose's Turn, though. That was a lot of fun. And Some People, that was fun.
Q: [As If We Never Said Goodbye!]
A: Ooh, Sunset Boulevard!
Q: Have you ever been starstruck?
A: Oh, everywhere I go, yeah. Absolutely… Yeah, too many stories to be socially acceptable.
Q: Are you sick of the Single Ladies dance?
A: No! We just had the Glee tour; I'm done with it.
Q: How was meeting Adam Kolkin?
A: Oh, he's great, he's great. He's in this movie, too… I was so proud of him. He was so great. He plays Young Carson. He's great.
Q: What's your dream role?
A: Like, ever? This one that I'm doing right now.
Q: Favourite city to do a Klaine skit in?
A: Hmmm. We had so much material in London. I liked the one where I was throwing the plates. People thought I went insane, but… they were right.
Q: Did you know Darren was gonna kiss you on the Glee tour?
A: I had no idea. No idea. No, He totally laid one on me.
Q: Was it okay, though?
A: It was hysterical.
Q: Was it tough to [decide to] submit Grilled Cheesus?
A: Yeah, it really was. Last year, it was really easy 'cause I had like one good episode to submit. And this year it was really, really tough. But I couldn't really choose it myself, because I would sit there and watch it and criticize myself to the bone, so someone else chose it for me and I went with it.
Q: What Broadway musical would you love to be in?
A: I would love to have been in Next To Normal, but it's closed.
Q: How was it working with Kristin Chenoweth?
A: Oh, she's fantastic. Great. Yeah, she's this big bundle of energy.
Q: Is she really nice?
A: Yes. She's a sweetheart, yeah.
Q: What's your favourite movie ever?
A: My favourite movie ever? Ooh, I could never choose, but I love– Have you guys seen Stardust? I love Notes On A Scandal, and I love X-Men.
Q: What was your favourite memory from the tour?
A: I loved surprising the audience every night, with the skits [and] all that.
Q: First, congratulations on your nomination.
A: Thank you!
Q: What's your idea for what Kurt's gonna do in Season 3?
A: Oh, I dunno. Graduate. They say that he is gonna be really funny this season, so I'm looking forward to that, 'cause Kurt's very sad in most episodes.
Q: Who's the biggest prankster on the Glee set?
A: Probably Amber. She – oh, God – she recorded me on the treadmill once and posted it on twitter, she would write love letters, love notes and pretend she was Lea.
Q: I made you a present. Who do I give it to?
A: Oh, someone, I guess. Anyone with a walkie in their ear.
Q: What Hogwarts house would you be in?
A: What Hogwarts house would I be in. Okay, listen. After much consideration, okay, of course I wanna be in Gryffindor, but I really– I'm in Ravenclaw. Yeah.
Q: If you could do a duet with anyone, who would you pick?
A: Oooh. Um, Polly Bergen, who's playing my grandmother in this movie. She - okay, she is the funniest woman I've ever met in my life, and she's eighty-one years old, and has the quickest wit of anyone I've ever met. She is awesome.
Q: How do you feel about the possibility of Darren Criss taking Daniel Radcliffe's spot in How To Succeed in Business?
A: I think he'll do great. Yeah. Great. I'll go see him.
Q: [What's your favourite Disney song]?
A: Oh my God. Yikes, I dunno. When You Wish Upon A Star.
Q: Can you sing it for us?
A: No.
Q: Thank you for the letter and thank you for signing it.
A: Oh, you're welcome! Thank you so much for coming!
Q: What is your vocal range?
A: High? I've never measured it, but– I dunno, it's pretty wide, I think.
Q: What? What was the question?
A: My vocal range! Oh, that could've been awkward.
Q: What's your favourite TV show, besides Glee?
A: I love Nurse Jackie, and I love, love Modern Family… Wherever she is. [Shout-out, Sarah, shout-out!] I dunno, I can't think of any right now. Okay, you're going to make fun of me, but Finding Sarah on OWN…
A: One person! No, I loved Oprah Behind The Scenes. Have you seen it? Oh, God, it's so good!
Q: What's your favourite Disney Channel show?
A: My favourite Disney Channel show? It will be The Little Leftover Witch, coming soon! Do you remember So Weird? And then they took it away.
Q: Your favourite Kurt line?
A: Oh, yikes, I can't even remember all of them! Um, I loved–
Q: "You look like a technicolour zebra!"
A: You know, that was actually mine, I ad-libbed that one? I loved it when he looked at Rachel and said, "Oh, I've missed your insanity." Um, yeah, he's had some good ones. What's your favourite Kurt line?
Q: "She's dead, this is her son!"
A: Oh, right, "She's dead, this is her son." Ryan stole that from me, I said that.
Q: What's your favourite Broadway musical?
A: Okay, Wicked will always have a soft spot for me because it's the first thing I ever saw. I love Sweeney Todd, and I love Next To Normal. I loved Sister Act. I haven't seen The Book of Mormon yet, but I'm sure I'll love it.
Q: What is the one Glee song that you're sick of singing?
A: Don't Stop Believing. No, it's great, it's wonderful to perform, but just hearing it… It's funny, whenever – we go out as a group, we'll go out to dinner and they'll start playing it, and we'll just look at the manager and be like, "Really? Really?"
Q: If you had a llama, what would you name it?
A: [Steven]. No, no, it would be, like, Cornelius.
Q: Do you canoe?
A: Do I canoe? On occasion.
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It's hard to comprehend how anyone could abandon these two sweet dogs. I've discovered they are rock solid housebroken, sit for their meals (instantly at the same time, it is so cute!), and are very well adjusted. After having them in my home for a while, I would guess Louise may be a first litter puppy of Thelma's. Their mannerisms and actions make us think so, but of course we'll never know for sure. As their foster mom, I am falling head over heels in love with them!
Both of these dogs are healing very well from surgeries; every day that passes, the better they feel! They have hearty appetites and love spending time outside in the dog yard when it's warm. If you love the seniors, and would enjoy giving one or BOTH of these easy to care for sweethearts a warm and caring home in their twilight years; I promise you will be greatly rewarded. I've not regretted one minute bringing them home with me. They are adorable! Thelma is the mellower of the two, preferring to hang out and enjoy her comforts. Louise is turning into quite the character! She is playful and lively, and loves to practice her "play bows".
At some time in their past, someone cared because they are both spayed. They have been micro-chipped and are up to date on all shots. They would so much appreciate a forever home and family. Will it be yours?
P.S. One other thing I've noticed since we've taken them into our care; they've quit asking for the keys to the convertible!
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By Jennifer Benjamin
Miss that erotic charge you had when your love was brand-new? Reboot in the bedroom with these tips for turning up the heat on your old flame.
Long-term love brings all sorts of advantages: a shared history with the guy you love most, a partner who you know will always have your back, and a warm, satisfying sexual connection that can only come from years of intimacy. Still, as great as it is to know each other so well in bed, how could you not miss that crackle and spark you had when you and he first started having sex? Thing is, it doesn't take a lot of work to recapture that "just-met" excitement. Step back, reminisce, enjoy security and butterflies — and congratulate yourselves on really, truly having it all.
Create a Little Distance
Best friends, partners, soul mates — it's what many couples strive to be. But while that kind of emotional melding feels warm and secure, it's not always sexy. "The very things that love thrives on — familiarity, stability, and security — can kill passion and lust in a relationship," explains couples therapist Esther Perel, Ph.D., author of Mating in Captivity. "For desire to thrive, you need to maintain some of the elusiveness and independence you had when you were first together — if you're too available to your partner, too open with each other, you lose that edge."
That's why, for the sake of your sex life, it's a good idea to make some space. "A little bit of distance and separation, both physical and emotional, can actually fuel sexual excitement because it sets up a thrill-of-the-chase kind of dynamic, similar to what you had when you were first dating," says Los Angeles-based sex coach Patti Britton, Ph.D., co-author of The Complete Idiot's Guide to Sensual Massage. "When you perceive a gap between you and your partner, you subconsciously feel challenged. And that perceived 'obstacle' can actually increase your desire for each other."
Maryanne, 31, an educator in Phoenix, travels a lot for work, as does her husband. While the time apart can be tough, they find that it winds up doing great things for their sex life. "After being gone for a while, it's like we can't get enough of each other," Maryanne says. "It really builds up the anticipation, so when we are together again, it's exciting and steamy and new." No business trip required: A regular girls' night out (and guys' night for him), a weekend away with your girlfriends every so often — all can create the kind of space you need to recharge those naughty feelings.
Another benefit of time apart is that it allows you to make a life for yourself outside of your relationship. "It's important to have an identity as an individual, to be involved in activities that take you away from the home and each other and give you something of your own," says Sharna L. Striar, Ph.D., a certified sex therapist and relationship counselor in private practice in New York City. Try revisiting some of the activities and personal passions you used to pursue before you two started dating but maybe haven't had time for since. It could be yoga, running, photography, or even just Thursday happy hours with friends. By feeding your soul this way, Striar adds, "you're likely to discover a few new things about yourself — things that your partner can then discover as well."
It's also okay — even good — to keep some corners of your life and mind all to yourself. "Many couples feel like the only way to bond is by sharing everything with each other," says Perel. "But it's mystery that really fuels desire and draws your partner to you. You might think that if you've been together for years, it's impossible, but the mystery is always there, if you allow it."


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Whether the Grinch stole BYU's viewers or Cougar fans were just uninterested in the finale of a diappointing season, the TV numbers for the 2012 Poinsettia Bowl are just plain bad.
BYU's win over San Diego State drew 2.2 million viewers, down about 900,000 from the 2011 Poinsettia Bowl (TCU-Louisiana Tech) and down 1.4 million from the 2010 Poinsettia Bowl (San Diego State-Navy).
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That's not good. Even if that's, in part, because the first three quarters of that game were a big, honkin' bore, that's bad.
And, yes, I'm surprised by this. If only because of the great, prime-time kickoff, BYU-SDSU should have done better. That's only about 200,000 more than BYU's appearance in the 2011 Armed Forces Bowl, which was in a miserable Friday morning time slot.
Utah State, on the other hand, not only improved by winning this year's Famous Idaho Potato Bowl matchup with Toledo but drew about 400,000 more viewers than the 2011 Potato Bowl, which the Aggies lost to Ohio. The Aggies were seen by about 2.8 million viewers.
For those of you keeping track, yes, USU's bowl game was seen by more viewers than BYU's bowl game for the second year in a row.
Again, I'm somewhat surprised. Not displeased because — as I pointed out before the games were played — I thought the Potato Bowl was the more interesting of the two.
This is pretty good news for Utah State. And pretty awful news for BYU.
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Ok so this month im out from twitter, facebook and instagram!!! I think most of us are so attached to the social media nowadays we cant live without it… But i decided i dont want to be one of those ppl… So for this month nomore social media just blogging in tumblr lets hope it goes well!!!
Even though we will see each other at work… We had to let go… It feels hard but it had to happen… I think its the best decision and now we had to keep with our old routine!!! I had fun and i dont regret anything after all!!! The last part was better than wht i thought!!
Dont know wht to do
Its hard and now tht im not in high school anymore i've come to realize tht i miss some of those high school moments, not all of them, but just some of them!!
As a 21 year old person i know i have to be mature and get on with my life but i feel tht if i dont fix this whtever i feel i wont be able to keep going… the hard part is tht idk where to start!!!
Lily and James Potter died today.
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The Kid Is Just Right
Saturday afternoon I was marketing at Rittenhouse Farmers Market when my sister came by and handed off a rack of goat. It was a Coleman Brand cryo'd 8 rib package, prime! Thank you so much lil sister.
Sunday morning the Lil Lady went off to HeadHouse Market leaving me with ample time for shopping on my own. At 1pm HeadHouse was still bustling and overflowing with inspiration. Beechwood had a selection of heirloom garlic. I find these varieties plainly superior to supermarket knobs and absolutely worthy of the higher price and the extra fuss. They also offered an authentic French shallot variety.
BlackBird Heritage Farm's red zebra tomatoes were irresistible as was the meaty yellow tomato they were offering. I got KO'd by Blooming Glen's Purple Genovese basil's perfumed punch. I also snatched their zucchini blossoms. We plated the flowers with cheeses and julienned the squash into the tomato salad.
Savoie Farms 'Onaway' potatoes along with a few from a blue variety were headed for the deep fryer.
We started out with BirchRun Hills Blue and a Baguette from WildFlour. We also buttered our bread with suave and smoky walleye dip that we swapped for canelés with Aimee @ Talula's Table.
This was simply great grub.
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West Cape May Farmers Market
Vendors were stepping lively at this market Tuesday.
We sampled some empanadas and picked up some corn. The best buy that day was peach cider beverage from Circle M Fruit Farm.
The peachy juice, mixed with some dark rum and lime juice and shaken over ice, morphed into a real Summer pleaser. I've been calling it Peg Boy's Peach.
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Saturday, July 24, 2010
Cafe Huong Lan
For lunch today this combo of fresh squeezed sugar cane juice and banh mi from Cafe Huong Lan @1037 S. 8th helped tame the stupefying heat.
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Friday, July 16, 2010
From Media Farmers Market
On a super hot night, we were happy to simply rinse off a pint of Stratton's Wynnorr Farms cherry tomatoes and gobble them down with bits of chevre, a grate of pepper and a wedge of tasty olive bread from Big Sky Bread and call it supper.
Shellbark Hollow makes some great stuff. This goat crottin was another example of their crafty and delicious cheeses.
Excellent local stuff completely sourced from Media's Thursday afternoon Farmer's Market.
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Friday, July 9, 2010
Red, White and Blue
Last week at HeadHouse we swapped some canele for Savoie Farm's red, white and blue potatoes. They were fantastic. We grilled a bunch off and slapped them with dill and sour cream to go along with some rosemary/garlic grilled chicken. Absolutely spectacular with sweet, light clear potato flavor and amazingly delightful airy texture.
Monday morning I pan fried the rest and plated them up with a pair of Renaissance Sausage n eggs.
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There's a few eating spots in Philly that deserve this name but I am referring to the documentary Gasland. If you want a look at how the gas industry takes toxic dumps in our water and soil in order to exploit and extract, Gasland is worth your time. Narrow greed and disrespect for life pour off the screen and out of the faucets.
Folks who are committed to excellent, pure food should consider their values under seige. Gasland will make you sick.
It looks like Pennsylvania may become Gasland soon.
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So in the phrase "drink's victims" drink has in some sense been personalized? As though the victims were attacked by Drink and their addiction is not their fault, whereas "the victims of drink" has no such personalization? Or am I completely off the mark?
This reminds me of the way we use "all" in mathematics. Whenever I read "for all" I sometimes, for a moment, think "all" is being used collectively rather than distributively as a synonym for "each". Though "all" in mathematics is never used collectively no one ever points out this ambiguity of the word. I suppose mathematicians don't care much for English, or maybe it's that many writers of textbooks are not native speakers.
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noun-adjectives. 'Too many
s have dropped out of the language', said Lord Dunsany in 1943, 'and the dark of the floor is littered with this useful word.' Some twenty years earlier this phenomenon had provoked the following comment in the first edition of the present dictionary: 'It will be a surprise, and to some an agreeable one, if at ths late stage in our change from and inflexional to an analytical language we revert to a free use of the case we formerly tended more and more to restrict. It begins to seem lkely that
drink's victims
will before long be the natural and no longer the affected or rhetorical version of
the victims of drink
. The devotees of inflexion may do well to rejoice; the change may improve rather than injure the language; and if that is so let due praise be bestowed on the newspaper press, which is bringing it about. But to the present (or perhaps already past) generation, which has been instinctively away of the differences between
drink's victims
the victims of drink
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Raw Esoteric// Merry Christmas Brother
Stage 1. Past Relationship: Framed in white, shards of our work remain as we have always executed them; true works of art and nothing less. We gave everything to this place; hot cans in the summer, cold sweat in the winter, cuts and bruises, dirt and grime, and whole albums of memories, music, and lungs of dusted color. The top and bottom frames contain paint chips from individual pieces we've painted together, and meeting in the middle frame are chips from works which have brought us closer together in a multitude of ways; the first wall we killed together, meeting Nice1, those nights.., buffing… We worked from the outside in, Casa made us stronger.
Stage 2. Newness: The under light illuminates through transparent panes, engulfing the paint chips into an overpowering silhouette: this light immerses the color of each chip into the shadows, removing their identity from the walls and eliminating any memory for future generations. Rebirth and cleanliness will be the new face of Count Casa, and will never be the same to us again. It will never hold the same glory, the walls will never be as challenging, and she will never be seen in the same light.
Stage 3. Memory: The 'memory' of the old Casa retaliates, and with one last dying breath crawls through and beneath the paint chips. Having this glow of our Hearts imbedded within her walls, it eventually dies out with time. It shines not as bright as previously, but is more mysterious, making the viewer want to strip away at the paint chips to reveal the true wall once again. We will always have the memory of Count Casa in our Hearts, and never let that memory go until the day we die. In the summer we thrived there, and in the winter we froze there; painting, having Heart to Heart talks, bringing girls there, throwing rocks at fucking trains. It was our second home and nothing will take that from us.
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Germany's Not Just Faking Holocaust Contrition
News that drunken revelers had, on New Year's Eve, used Berlin's Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europeas a urinal came shortly after The New York Times published an op-ed by Yascha Mounk on the conflicts of being a German Jew.
Together, these items create an image of a Germany not at ease with itself, of a nation that still hasn't come to terms with its past and found a place in its social fabric for Jews or the memory of Jews. Mounk suggests Germany has swung between "a bout of philo-Semitism" and "a new mood of 'enough is enough'" when it comes to processing the Second World War, adding:
Clearly, there was something artificial about the ritualistic displays of historical contrition that had long been central to public life in Germany. But to assert that the time had come to move beyond the past, once and for all, was no less artificial. Normality cannot be decreed by fiat.
Mounk is right, on the one hand, to suggest that after the Shoah, things can never be normal again, neither for Germany as a whole or German Jews in particular. "Increasingly, I realized that the mere mention of my heritage erected an invisible wall between my classmates and me," Mounk writes. "I realized that even my most well-intentioned compatriots saw me as a Jew first, and a German second."
But to suggest that Germany's public struggle to come to terms with the past is in some form artificial does a disservice to what Germany has achieved since the end of the Second World War in this regard.
A Bittersweet Holocaust Memorial in Berlin
While President Obama attended meetings in Berlin prior to his grand address at the Brandenburg Gate, First Lady Michelle Obama and their children, Malia and Sasha, visited the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe. Guided by the director of the site, Uwe Neumärker, the family spent half an hour among the 2,711 stone sarcophagi which range in height and rise and fall along the undulating ground across the five-acre site.
"They were impressed that we Germans have such a memorial in the centre of our city," Neumärker later told the JTA. The First Lady in particular was said to have commented that the memorial "really has an aura." But while the site has the White House seal of approval, since its opening in 2005 — in fact, even during the years preceding its construction — Peter Eisenman's memorial has been controversial and divisive.
I have been to the memorial on several occasions at different times of day and night and at different times of year. With each visit, my impression of the site evolves and changes. Its scale – the memorial takes up an entire city block – can at times feel alienating and at others speaks to the scope and enormity of the catastrophe. Its logical, fashioned layout and the cool and unrelenting greyness of the stones can either feel distant and impersonal or like a statement about the cold, mechanised, and rationalised way in which the Holocaust was carried out, how it came to be faceless for those who were committing the crime.
In particular, I appreciate the way in which Memorial to the Murdered Jews has come to be the focal point for commemoration of the Jewish past in Berlin, a space for strangers to explore, wander, and wonder. When you walk down into the very centre of the memorial, sunken and enveloped by the looming columns, the sounds and sights of Berlin are eradicated. The Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe thus, at its best, creates the space for reflection and contemplation, or at the very least forces an emotional response through isolation and dislocation. At night, when the stelae hold back what little light there is, such thoughts and reactions are only heightened, deepened.
This is made possible by the memorial's abstraction and ambiguity – nothing about it is guided or forced, each visitor granted the space to engage and have their own experience. But it is this indistinctness and the almost remote nature of the memorial that has beget criticism. Writing in The New Yorker, Richard Brody stated that there is a vagueness about the memorial which is he finds "disturbing". Indeed, without the full title, "it would be impossible to know what the structure is meant to commemorate; there's nothing about these concrete slabs that signifies any of the words of the title, except, perhaps, 'memorial.'"
This disconnection Brody identifies is indeed inescapable. For a site which proclaims itself to be specifically dedicated to the memory of murdered Jews, there is nothing particularly Jewish about it at all. By comparison, across the street is the Memorial to the Homosexuals Persecuted under the National Socialist Regime, at which through a small window in a concrete cuboid, a movie depicting a kiss is visible. This scene is befitting as a symbol of defiance, "a lasting symbol against exclusion, intolerance and animosity towards gays and lesbians." Whatever one thinks of the memorial and the film, it does at the very least fulfil its duty in this way.
In Prishtina, Jews Have Become History
PRISHTINA, Kosovo — There is no longer a Jewish community in Pristina, the capital of the newly independent country of Kosovo. Through flight, deportation, aliya, and intermarriage, Jewish Pristina has over the past seventy years gradually diminished into non-existence.
During the era when Kosovo formed part of Yugoslavia, the government in Belgrade did not do much to discourage this trend. In fact, in 1963 as part of an effort to rationalise the centre of Pristina, the authorities demolished swathes of the city's historic centre, including many Ottoman-era houses, a covered market, and various holy places including Pristina's only synagogue. The gradual exodus of Jews thus came with an erasure of their physical presence.
Since independence in 2008, however, the new government of the Republic of Kosovo has sought to memorialise Pristina's Jewish history. Not only does the government view such efforts as essential to Kosovo becoming a nation integrated into Europe, but it understands the parallels between the histories of Jews and Kosovar Albanians, both as persecuted peoples, peoples who have been the victims of genocide and ethnic cleansing, and peoples whose ambitions at statehood have been rejected by the rest of their respective neighbourhoods.
This process began in the summer of 2011, when students from Dartmouth and the American University in Pristina cooperated on an exploration of genocide, an exercise which culminated in the renovation of the city's small Jewish cemetery. A new entrance was constructed, the site tidied, and the gravestones repaired, renovated, and replaced to their original location, the shards and slabs having previously been littered around and about.
But a few months later, the site was vandalised by neo-Nazis who spray-painted swastikas on the freshly-repaired gravestones, adding the words "Juden Raus" for good measure. Within forty-eight hours, municipal authorities made clean the site, and today while the grass has grown long around the burial places, the stones themselves – some of which are more than a hundred years old – remain in place and intact.
Europe's Foundation of Ashes and Dust
Europe's foundations are constructed upon ashes and dust. They are built where the walls of the ghettos were once erected around overcrowded quarters in Warsaw, Łódź, and Krakow. They are built upon the pits of Babi Yar and the mass graves made across Poland, Russia, and the Ukraine. They are built upon the ruins of the camps whose names are forever branded on our collective memory: Auschwitz, Treblinka, and Sobibor.
Europe exists because of the Holocaust – it is forever tied to that awful past. Through education, commemoration, and memorialisation, the peoples of Europe are constantly borne back to the horrific events which preceded our zero hour, in the knowledge that they were of our own making and that it is our responsibility as a continent to ensure such things never occur again. European institutions exist precisely in order to prevent another war to end all wars, another war of imperialism, slavery, and annihilation.
By extension, Europe also exists in order to protect those who were the victims of the last great war and Hitler's campaign of racial and biological purification, including and perhaps above all the Jewish people. Ensuring the safety and allowing for the political, economic, and cultural flourishing of European Jewry is or should be one of postwar Europe's founding principles. It is an obligation of national governments and the European community to uphold it at all costs.
The nations of Europe have indeed succeeded in preventing another war, another catastrophe, yet across the continent conditions for Jews are worsening. In 2012, recorded anti-Semitic hate crimes increased by 30 percent year-on-year, ranging from physical violence to the vandalism of synagogues and cemeteries. This was not, as it has been in the past, a phenomenon linked to events in the Middle East, a revulsion at times of conflagration and unrest in Gaza or Lebanon. Rather, there has been an overall deterioration in the economic and political state of Europe, with Jews suffering disproportionately as a consequence.
Memory and the Vel d'Hiv
Monday marked the seventieth anniversary of the rafle du Vel d'Hiv, the mass arrest and deportation of Jewry from France, conducted by Nazi and some 9,000 Vichy police officers, on July 16 and 17, 1942. 12,884 Jews were penned into the Vélodrome d'Hiver, the majority including 4,000 children for five days in the heat of summer with little sustenance, before movement onto Drancy and then Auschwitz. An official act of commemoration in the presence of President François Hollande will take place on Sunday, July 22.
A poll conducted by CSA for the French Union of Jewish Students has revealed that 67% of those aged between 15 and 17, 60% between 18 and 24, and 57% between 25 and 34 did not know of the round up of Jews into and out of the Vél d'Hiv. Across the entire population, 42% possessed no knowledge of the one of the most important events in the history of twentieth century France, indicitive of the nation's struggle and oftentimes failure to face up to the hand it played in the Holocaust.
It was not until 1995 that the French government officially acknowledged that it had played any part in this most heinous of acts. "These dark hours soil our history forever and are an insult to our past and our traditions. The French and the French state seconded the occupying powers in their criminal folly", Jacques Chirac proclaimed on Vél d'Hiv day in 1995. "France committed the irreparable".
History and the Holocaust: Holding the Vatican to Account
Historical narratives in the Middle East have often been the most malleable of things, twisted and adapted to suit the needs of political or monied interests. As Simon Sebag Montefiore notes in his ambitious and sweeping tome, Jerusalem: The Biography, during the 1990s, the PLO banned Palestinian historians from admitting that there had been a Jewish Temple built upon the Haram al-Sharif. This instruction came from the top, and at Camp David in 2000 when peace was within pen's reach, Yasser Arafat is said to have "shocked" American and Israeli negotiators by suggesting that the Temple was in fact located on the Samaritan Mount Gerizim. Any Jewish claim to the Mount or indeed the city itself was therefore a kind of modern fabrication.
The history of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has too suffered from the existence of propagandistic and nationalistic historical narratives from which deviation was (and in some cases still is) deemed unacceptable. It was not until the 1980s in Israel that, thanks in the rise of the New Historians including Benny Morris and Avi Shlaim, the hypothesis that the Land's Arab population in 1948 fled their homes of their own will, or that they were instructed to do so by their leadership, was publically challenged and discredited by worthy scholars. On the other side of the fence in Palestinian schools, whilst textbooks have had passages which incite violence expunged, the State Department found that they often showed "imbalance, bias, and inaccuracy", with some failing to depict "the current political reality, showing neither Israel nor the settlements". It very much remains the case that one man's atzmaut is another man's nakba.
Within Israel and the wider West at least, those whose pursuit is the study of the Holocaust have by contrast been committed to the search for a truthful historical narrative. This is not to say the Holocaust is not open to historical debate – see the division which exists between the intentionalists and functionalists over the very origins and nature of the Shoah, as an example. It is certainly the case, however, that the volumes of research published on the Holocaust have led to the creation of a clear narrative arc, replicated in museums and memorials around the world, including in Jerusalem's most astonishing and draining exhibit at Yad Vashem.
The most recent alteration to the main display, however, places such claims into doubt. Writing in Ha'aretz, Nir Hasson reports that a wall panel explaining the role, or lack thereof, of the Vatican and the leadership of the Catholic Church in Holocaust has been edited in order to portray Pope Pius XII in a more flattering light. Whilst the previous inscription noted that Pius XII, whose accession occurred in 1939, "shelved a letter against racism and anti-Semitism that his predecessor had prepared" and "abstained from signing the Allied declaration condemning the extermination of the Jews", the new panel adds what might be deemed colour, adding that some argue his silence "left the initiative to rescue Jews to individual clerics and laymen" who carried out "a considerable number of secret rescue activities".
Reunification fuelled the neo-Nazi fire
Jamel represents the failings of German reunification writ large. A hamlet in the German Land of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, it is a neo-Nazi settlement where people Hitler salute in the street. And it is a town where people gather together around barbecues inscribed with the words "happy holocaust" in medieval blackletter script.
The reunification of Germany resulted in the loss of 2.5 million Eastern jobs in industry alone. Today, parts are still blighted by high unemployment, social isolation and the emergence of skinhead gangs that target foreign workers and asylum seekers as scapegoats for their socio-economic ills.
Nationally, the prominence of the far-right in German politics is often overstated. But in the east, the simmering undercurrent of neo-Nazism and unreconstructed communism amongst the disaffected suggests, amongst other things, a rejection of unified German identity and its historical discourse.
Read more: http://www.thejc.com/comment-and-debate/analysis/55166/reuni%EF%AC%81cation-fuelled-neo-nazi-%EF%AC%81re


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As an old man of almost 40 years I am struggling to understand the desire to move to Google apps or office 365. I am sure I am wrong and the $$$ savings can be good but the recovery/backup problem really rules it out for me. Google say Document and file recovery policy If you can't find an item in All items, Trash, or by searching, it may have been permanently removed from Google Drive or deleted by someone else.
Anything that has been permanently deleted from Google Drive by the owner, or if the owner's account was deleted, can't be recovered. Its also not possible to recover anything in Google Drive after a Google Apps domain administrator deletes someone's account. I wouldn't mind integrating it to what we have but chromebooks again seem to provide more issues than solutions. We seem to have a ABM attitude coming through. Can anyone help persuade me, I really don't want to be seen to be old skool.


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Alcoa's earnings: A sign of surprises to come?
The key takeaway from the company's report is that earnings may now surprise us not by being great, but simply by being less bad than we expected.
Investors were bracing for an unpleasant announcement when Alcoa (AA) announced its first-quarter results after the bell Tuesday, anticipating that the company would report a loss of a few cents a share.
That would have marked a gloomy start to what is expected to be an underwhelming and even outright depressing earnings season, one that most analysts expect will conclude with S&P 500 companies posting results that are flat over year-earlier levels, or at best up one or two percentage points.
Little wonder, then, that the Standard & Poor's 500 Index ($INX) on Tuesday posted a loss for the fifth straight session -- this time, the largest decline it has recorded in more than four months: 1.7%, or 23.61 points.
But Alcoa surprised everyone by reporting a profit. Analysts had forecast a loss of 3 to 4 cents a share; the company instead reported a profit of 9 cents a share, as some businesses, such as its aerospace division, picked up the slack and helped offset the impact of higher energy costs and plunging aluminum prices.
The company's surprise profit -- even though it's nearly 70% below year-ago profit levels -- triggered jubilation and buying on the part of investors. Alcoa's stock jumped more than 7% at the start of Wednesday's trading, and stocks overall opened the session nearly 1% higher.
The question remains, however: To what extent is Alcoa's positive surprise a harbinger for first-quarter earnings? It's important to note that the profit was generated in part because of more aggressive cost cutting and equally aggressive efforts to boost revenues at divisions whose fate is less tied to commodity prices, rather than on gains from a stronger economy. At best, Alcoa's results are sending mixed signals.
In fact, while the broader market is staging a bit of a relief rally this morning in response to the better-than-expected news from Alcoa, the key takeaway from Alcoa's report is that this is a quarter where earnings surprises can be categorized as "not quite as bad as we had expected" rather than by how solid they were and how upbeat comments from management were during the conference call. That's an important shift.
For stock prices to continue to zoom higher long-term, and investor anxiety to abate, positive earning surprises have to fall into the latter category. Analyst expectations for results at most S&P 500 companies have been steadily scaled back over the course of the first quarter, and beating a lowball number is less of a feat than clearing a higher bar. After all, Alcoa's profit -- however pleasant a surprise -- was a fraction of what it was in the first quarter of 2011.
The big unknown is how much of this still-bearish outlook is baked into stock market valuations at their current levels. It has been clear for some weeks now that first-quarter earnings results were going to fall significantly short of the kinds of double-digit gains recorded in recent periods. But investors are now actively seeking out the bad news to justify their nervousness after months during which the stock market has rallied with tremendous consistency and rewarded us with the best first-quarter performance in well over a decade.
That translates to a lot more noise and volatility surrounding each significant earnings result that hits the headlines. It's more important than ever before to be prepared to stick to your guns, to be confident that you own a stock you'd still want in your portfolio even if someone tells you it's about to fall 10% due solely to market noise or in a kneejerk reaction to an offhand comment by a CEO during an earnings conference call.
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City Councilman John Leonard continues to recover from facial fractures and contusions after three men assaulted him early Wednesday morning at the Dakota Arms Apartments.
Police say it started shortly after 12:30 a.m. when 34-year-old Jessica Harris went to the apartment directly above them to ask the men to turn down the loud music. They started arguing and followed Harris back downstairs. When one of the men tried to go into her apartment, she and Leonard pushed him out. That's when police say the three men assaulted the councilman.
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U.S. support for the 9-year Afghanistan war is slipping and the death toll is climbing.
As the fighting intensifies, the Pentagon and White House are hoping that political support for the war can hold at least through year's end to give Army Gen. David Petraeus time to make headway.
Progress in Afghanistan only began this spring and needs time to take root, Petraeus said in comments broadcast Sunday that were aimed at shoring up American support for the war.
Petraeus, who's been credited with a successful war strategy in Iraq and who took charge of U.S. and NATO military operations in Afghanistan in July, described an "up and down process" of seizing Taliban-controlled territory and creating "small pockets of progress" that he hoped will expand.
The goal, he said on NBC's "Meet the Press," is to keep al-Qaida and other extremist groups at bay while the Afghan government has a chance to take control and earn the trust of the local population.
"We're here so that Afghanistan does not once again become a sanctuary for transnational extremists the way it was when al-Qaida planned the 9/11 attacks in the Kandahar area," Petraeus said in an interview taped in Kabul, the Afghan capital.
Petraeus and other military leaders have warned of more combat casualties as additional troops are sent to the fight. July was already the deadliest month for U.S. forces, when 66 troops were killed.
Last fall, President Barack Obama authorized 100,000 troops in Afghanistan — triple the level from 2008. Obama's Democratic supporters have reluctantly swung behind the plan, but lawmakers are beginning to question whether Afghanistan can be won. Petraeus is expected to give an updated assessment to Congress in December.
Petraeus said in the interview that the war only recently has been given the right "inputs," or resources: more U.S. and Afghan troops to take over Taliban territory and more civilians to restore services to the population.
"There is understandable concern and, (in) some cases, frustration," Petraeus said. "Therefore we have got to really put our shoulders to the wheel and show during the course of this year that progress can be achieved."
Petraeus described Afghanistan as a tough and enduring fight that would require its "character and its size being scaled down over the years."
If the U.S. loses, there would likely be a bloody civil war followed by a takeover by extremists. If the U.S. succeeds and Afghanistan stabilizes, the country could become the region's new "Silk Road" with the potential to extract trillions of dollars worth of minerals, he said.
But the goal is not to turn Afghanistan into an industrialized democracy, he said. Even if the nation relies heavily on tribal councils for governance, the central government in Kabul could still run the nation effectively without influence from extremist groups such as al-Qaida.
Petraeus said arresting al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden remains a primary goal.
He also said the Taliban leadership had detached itself from much of the fighting, occasionally sending messages via cell phones, but is not as engaged in the war as before.
"We actually see discussions among (Taliban foot soldiers), chatter among them … wondering where their senior leaders are, and wondering why (Taliban leader) Mullah Omar hasn't set foot back in Afghanistan or even been heard from now in months and months and months," he said.
When asked about the rocky U.S. relationship with Afghan President Hamid Karzai, Petraeus denied there were serious problems and defended Karzai as a leader trying to curb corruption. Petraeus said he and Karzai usually talk once a day, sometimes more, and take walks in the garden behind Karzai's house.
"We have the kind of relationship that, I believe, we can each be forthright with the other and that means occasionally, again, confronting issues that are difficult for either of us," he said.
In a separate interview with The Washington Post, Petraeus made clear he was not looking to shake up the war strategy pursued by his predecessor, Gen. Stanley McChrystal. McChrystal was forced to resign after he and his aides were quoted in a Rolling Stone article as being dismissive of their civilian bosses.
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6 Responses to "The deadly gamble in Afghanistan"
This man is patently full of shit. We're winning nothing in Afganistan. Nothing. We're losing everything. When you're in a hole, any damned fool knows you stop digging. The level of violence hasn't changed at all in the last nine years. The Russians couldn't do anything in twelve. Don't our fearless leading look? Don't they see what's going on? How goddamned blind can they be?
This general is selling Parkinsons as an alternative to cancer. Who does he think he's kidding? His ass isn't on the line. He men are the ones who are going to continue to get shot up. Obama, I'm sad to say, hasn't the balls to simply say "STOP IT. NOW. ALL OF IT".
So what exactly ARE we still fighting for? Patreus says to keep the taliban from gaining a stronghold. So what does he have instead of a taliban stronghold? A daily killing field. That's the choice Patreus wants to give us. One sick result or the other. Don't people unstand this effort is a fools errand? This world has gone completely mad. 50% of the people in this country are on drugs and/or antidepressants. 1/2 of the marriages fail. Most of the businesses are in the crapper. The economy is dying. How the hell much more does it take to figure out something is seriously wrong and has to be fixed? How much more punishment is necessary before someone else goes postal and says "no more"? One needn't be even a keen observer to sense everything is completely out of whack. HELLO OUT THERE!!! Anyone home?
This patreus is a sell-out and a liar. While he's taking lovely walks in the garden bonding with that crook that's supposed to be running the government, Afganistan continues to be the heroine capital of the world WITH OUR FREAKING BLESSINGS and under the auspices of a corrupt government. Is anyone paying attention out there?
Anyone out there believes Patreus can "win" anything out there, please call me. I have several select bridges to sell you. /rant.
I believe this is now the longest war in America's brief history. Afghanistan has outlasted invaders for centuries, and they will outlast us as well.
And remember who armed and supported them against the Russians some thirty years ago. Now we're the imperial power hell-bent on conquering these people. How the tables have turned.
What do we need more time for? Haven't we been poster boys for terrorist recruitment long enough? This is comic-book stupid.
104 Democrats voted against war funding. Republicans (surprise) provided the necessary support this failed president needs for further adventurism and expansion in Afghanistan. Personally it provides a great enclave for the Taliban so we know where they are. And these are the folks that will pray at a mosque near Ground Zero? WTF are we thinking!
Support for the war ended around 2006, back when Democrats promised to end the war and won the House because of those promises. 4 years later…
Remember when they planned 9-11 in the Tora Bora area?
Where's the next place we need to conquer? Why, they must have planned 9-11 there too!
General Petraeus is a man on the make. Most of his career he's been an aide to higher ranking officers; ie., a "gofer". I thought I'd supply a link that pretty much sums up his leadership style or lack thereof. He excels at being "pitch man" for the Pentagon and White House policies rather than his skills at managing a theater of war. In other words when his bosses tell him to jump, he's simply making sure he jumps high enough. If anyone foolishly gets us involved in a war with Iran it will be him along with the braindead characters that sit on the National Security Council who ar enothing but button men for Israel's interests in the Middle East.
The link shows what Admiral William Fallon thought of this man and his distaste for such in high command. Also a link to Admiral Fallon. Fallon is man who's able to view the greater picture in managing "multiple" theaters of conflict and the hazards thereof. I'm sure Fallon was student of "Sun Tzu the Art of War". The U.S. if grossly overextended at this time. We're even steaming about the South China sea trying to make our presence known to the Chinese. We can't prevail in Iraq or Afghanistan ergo we surely cannot prevail against the Chinese in any land conflict, leaving only nuclear options which are unacceptable except to immature intellects or those in high places that have ready access to a bunker with a ten year supply of food, first run movies and even unmentionable pleasures provided to sate their boredom until radiation levels drop to reasonable levels. Meanwhile the rest of us are reduced to shadows in green glass. I guess the upside is that these miscreants we call leaders will have no one left to tax. / : |
Link concerning Fallon's excoriation of Petraeus and his management style.
Link for General Petraeus
"Some news reports have speculated that Petraeus may have interest in running for the presidency, especially after he visited a school known for hosting the presidential debates, New Hampshire's Saint Anselm College." …extract from Wiki
My point is that with General Petraeus; a man who doesn't question authority now in charge, we are ever closer to a preemptive attack on Iran first via Israel with us being expected to clean up the mess. Fallon was a roadblock to the Bush administration for such an attack. It will be an ugly world destablizing situation for which we are not up to the task. Iran's terrain is surely not like Iraq's with similarities to Afghanistan.
I surely hope our leadership doesn't do something stupid, but it seems they are headed that way.
As a followup note: Israel has a nuclear stockpile of nominally 200 "thermonuclear" weapons"; ie., hydrogen fusion warheads although they do not admit to such along with the capability of delivery such on short notice. My point we're talking the difference between half megaton yields vs. tens of a kilotons. Iran at best might have a crude uranium or plutonium bomb in the works. They've initiated no testing program so to go from enriched, bomb grade plutonium to a deliverable weapon via a missile takes a level of expertise and materiel that's not demonstrated at this time unless the Chinese have sold them such technology. Now for them to produce simply a conventionally detonated truck bomb filled with radioactive material is another issue. Regardless, if any nuclear attack occurs in Israel on Iran's behalf, rest assured Tehran will be reduced to "green glass". The Israeli's don't need us to do their dirty work as usual.
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How to Raise a Girl As a Single Father
Raising a child with one parent, can be hard. If the child was a girl, and you were a father, it would take some time for her to start getting over that she has no mother to help her.
1Spend some time with her. Identify her problems, and find something to fix it. If she felt that you're helping her to get over her problems, she won't feel that you're a stranger or that you can't cover her mother place. Let her feel that you are always with her and that she can always talk to you if she ever needed to say anything.
- Make her think that it's a rule to tell you everything. Build a full-trusting-relationship. Girls,whether with their mothers or not,dont tell their secrets unless with their friends. Make your daughter feel safe while she is talking to you, by forgiving her if her mistakes were unforgivable.
2Understand that she will still miss her mother. Helping her to deal with not having a father doesn't mean that she will forget her mother. Of course, she will always be sad and might also feel that you're trying to cover her mother place in a bad way. If you felt that she is a bit feeling lonely or sad, try telling her that her mother is still with her in her heart.
- If possible, try to make her mother visit her once a month. If you can't for reasons, such for the death of her mother, avoid marrying another women. In most cases, your daughter won't agree to bring another woman to the house.
- Don't try to make her forget about her mother. No one can forget about their mother, and it won't make you look that you care about her. It will make you look like that you're the one who keeps your daughter from visiting her mother. If she is too young to understand the truth, which won't make her feel happy while doing anything with you.
3Let her be busy. Your job isn't only to be a father now, your job is to keep her from being lonely or sad because of her mother. Make her live her life as a normal person. Let her do anything that would make her stop thinking about her mother, and keep her busy. Try making her start practicing a sport she likes or whatever she wants.
- Sometimes, sports isn't enough to make her start thinking about anything else. Let her see that you still care about her while keeping her busy. Going camping, mountain climbing (if she is old enough), or even a simple trip should make her like you more.
4Focus on being a father. As a father, your job is to care for your child whether with a mother or not. Understand that girls need tons of things. Find a job with good salary if you haven't yet, and buy whatever she wants. Remember to buy things you find that your daughter need. As a single father, your job now is to teach her to buy what she need, and not buy what she thinks that she won't.
- It might seem to you a bit weird when your daughter start asking you to play with her with a Barbie doll, but get used of it. Get used of playing with dolls, brushing her hair, taking care for her, playing with her girly games, etc.
- Raise your girl as a normal father. Understand how to raise a child, and keep on doing what you need to do. Remember: Your daughter will start acting like you. Remember to show her what good things you do.
5Ask for help. Sometimes, even if you're a father, you won't understand a girl since you're a man. Ask for help around your family, friends, or even a babysitter. Start reading books about raising children and skip the parts about the mother, or read books that is about how to raise a girl if you're a single father. Search on the internet for how-to articles about that, and start learning for others' experiences.
- Avoid getting a babysitter. Your daughter might not enjoy that idea. Before doing anything that would make her daily life different, try asking her what she thinks about that thing. Though, don't do everything she asks for. Think well before doing anything.
6Talk about her mother. In both ways, she will always remind her mother, so when you talk about her, it might make her feel better even if it look like that it won't. Start telling her that her mother would be very happy if she stopped being sad about her, and continued her life happily.
- Keep on telling her that her mother is fine, and that she loves her. Make your daughter stop worrying about that her mother is in pain or whatever. If your daughter knew that her mother is okay, she might start thinking to forget about it.
7Make her laugh. Sometimes, your daughter might start acting on you that she is happy and smiling from the heart. Give her the chance to laugh from the heart. Do anything that would make anyone laugh. Go to the cinemas and watch a funny movie, dress like a clown and surprise her, etc.
- Let yourself smile, too. Your daughter, will never be happy if she saw that you aren't. Relax, and deal with not having a mother to help you raise your child. Start realizing that you are the only one that your daughter can talk to without being scared.
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