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By Sara Sussanah Katz
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Chapter OneIt starts benignly. Mixing glass bottles in with the plastic, dropping a year off my age, fudging on my expense report. I download Joni Mitchell off the Limewire, not just one song but a whole album. I stop correcting cashiers when they make mistakes in my favor. I read a copy of Good Housekeeping from cover to cover in the cafe at Borders, accidentally stain page 31 with coffee, and never pay for it, just put it right back on the shelf and walk out of the store. By the end of the year I'm having sex with a professor of medieval literature who thinks that my husband is a fool.
How do I go from Good Housekeeping to good sex with Evan Delaney? I wish I could say I am pulled into this vortex of moral delinquency by some gravitational force beyond conscious control, but that would be a lie. I know exactly how I got here.
This is our third trip to Frankie Wilson's beach house on Ocean Isle in North Carolina. We call ourselves, with only a little irony, the Beach Babes. All of us live in the same Indiana college town, in the same suburban subdivision, all are married, all are mothers, all of us hovering apprehensively near our fortieth year. It is 1:34 in the morning and after too many Tequizas, tortilla chips, and peanut M&M's, it is time for the game AnnieElliot has named Dirty Deeds. I'd rather play Pictionary, to be perfectly honest.
"I light the Candle of Truth," intones Annie, lifting a lit wooden Strike 'Em Anywhere match to the thick celadon pillar. The blue-gold flame swiftly engulfs the match head and races toward Annie's fingertip but just as it's about to make contact with skin she drops it into a wet saucer where it lands with a satisfying sizzle.
Annie Elliot was the only neighbor in Larkspur Estates who marked our arrival with any fanfare. My immediate next-door neighbors hadn't even waved or lifted their eyes when our old blue van pulled up to the curb behind the Greenway moving van. The Skaffs to the west kept on digging out crabgrass. To the east the Gilchrists continued hosing down the driveway though in truth there was no dirt to hose away, just clean Irish brick the color of desert clay. Hosing driveways, I have since discovered, is a popular pastime in Larkspur Estates, a hypnotic activity that holds homeowners in its sway for thirty or forty minutes at a time, long after the work of clearing debris is done. It is like masturbation with no climax or reward except perhaps for the deep black shine of the wet asphalt or, in the case of the Gilchrists' four-thousand-dollar driveway, the glow of red Irish brick.
But Annie Elliot sprinted all the way from Azalea Lane to personally welcome me. Nearly six feet of lean muscle with merry blue eyes and a smirky kind of smile, Annie had apologetically handed me a thermos of Starbucks coffee and a box of Little Debbie snack cakes, explaining that she hadn't had time to bake anything from scratch but thought it would be wrong to ring my doorbell empty-handed.
"We moved here last year and nobody even stopped by." She thrust the snack cakes toward me, Little Debbie's cherubic yet oddly authoritative young face grinning up at me. "I figured, if your neighbors are anything like the misanthropes on Azalea, you'll need all the friends you can get. And don't worry about returning the thermos, I have a million of them. I buy them at yard sales. Thermoses and picnic baskets. I don't know why considering we never go on picnics. My husband isn't a big fan of the great outdoors. Last time we went on a picnic we drove out to Maplewood State Park and ate lunch in the van. My kids were like, Mom, why can't we sit outside in the grass like the other people? I said, Your father hates nature. You know that. Good grief. Anyway. Welcome to the neighborhood." She gestured toward the box. "I stuck my number in with the Little Debbies. Call me when you need a break from unpacking or whatever."
I did, the very next day, and we have talked almost every day since then.
Annie lowers her voice and assumes the exotic tone of a fortune-teller. "When the Candle of Truth is passed to you, please reveal something you wouldn't dare admit in any other context but this one." The lush scent of sandalwood lifts and blends with the briny air. "As always, nothing leaves this room."
The room in question is a sprawling expanse of white pickled maple and white leather perched above the Atlantic Ocean, with extravagant windows and two sets of sliding-glass doors that open onto a sun-bleached wraparound deck and the twenty-six evenly cut cedar steps leading to the beach. A sandstone hearth embedded with shells and sea creature fossils sits at one end of the room and at the other, an extravagantly large entertainment unit with the biggest screen TV I've ever seen, but why would anyone want to watch it when the best view is right out the window?
The water is as black as the sky now, waves thwacking rhythmically against the hard-packed sand. As a landlocked Midwesterner who must settle for Lake Michigan or, embarrassingly, the Big Kahuna Wave Maker at Willy's Water Park, I enjoy no greater luxury than these brief, voluptuous vacations at Frankie Wilson's beach house. I love everything about it, everything except this game.
Annie edges the candle toward Frankie, who is about to snap off the last of her New York Naturals glue-on French-tipped fingernails. The pile of discarded plastic nails looks like a mound of onion slivers in the thin light of the dimmed-down candelabra.
"God, how I hate these things," she says, prying off the pinkie nail and flicking it to the heap. Frankie's real fingertips are gnawed beyond the quick. They have the flat, pliable look of frogs' toes. "Someone needs to make fake nails that don't make you feel like you slammed your fingers in a car door, you know?"
The first time I noticed Francesca Cavendish Wilson she was staffing the pop bottle ring toss at Twin Pines Elementary's annual school carnival. She had black curly hair and black eyes and she was wearing a black T-shirt that proclaimed in bright yellow letters: I EAT CARBS. SO SUE ME. Frankie, I came to discover, is queen of failed business ventures such as her unself-conscious magazine for plus-sized women called Fat Lady (she misjudged her audience's willingness to claim the title with pride), her disposable frying pan liners (which were great, except for the bursting into flames part), and Pet Pebbles (like pet rocks but smaller).
I finally introduced myself to Frankie at the Cambridge County Women's Leadership Club, a sort of alternative Rotary for "professional gals." Phyllis Bagley, president of First Cambridge Bank, had started the group because she was tired of being snubbed at the testosterone-laden Rotary events. Bagley's intent was to create a network of savvy businesswomen who could break the good old boy tourniquet on this town. Unfortunately Bagley hadn't realized that all the arteries of influence here lead to the same hardened heart. This calcified organ wasn't the university as many self-inflated academics would have you believe, but Copley Machine Parts and its thirty-five subsidiaries, founded, built, and managed by fifty-three-year-old Arnold Copley who has no heirs but many foot soldiers who serve on every significant board, foundation, commission, and council in the city. It has been said that no new project, however worthy, will succeed without Arnold Copley's blessing-and money. Phyllis Bagley set out to disprove the theory. So far she has not succeeded.
I was plucking pale lettuce leaves from the lunch buffet when Frankie appeared at my side and heaved a fat slice of strawberry cheesecake onto her plate.
"I only come for the dessert," she said, ladling extra strawberry compote on top of the thick wedge.
She joined me at my table and I marveled at the unself-conscious way she enjoyed her food. She pressed her spit-moistened finger to the plate to gather up the last of the graham cracker crumbs and bring them to her mouth.
At some point in the middle of Phyllis Bagley's exhortations, Frankie passed me a note: "Do you have a kid in Twin Pines?"
I nodded.
Next note: "Me too. Where do you live?"
I took her pen and wrote: "Larkspur Estates." I passed the pen and paper back and waited for her response, already burbling inside because I knew I was making a friend.
"Me too! On Periwinkle," she wrote. And then: "Do you hate living there as much as I do?"
I made a face and by tacit agreement we slinked out of the meeting room and regrouped at the Starbucks next door where we spent the next hour drinking the house blend and complaining about our neighborhood.
Frankie stares into the flame and I can see that she's sorting through her options. The last time we played this game she admitted to spying on the housepainter as he played with himself behind the garage. He was on a lunch break and apparently had packed a copy of Great Big Butts along with his tuna sandwich.
"Category, husbands." She runs her fingers through her capriciously coiled hair. "Oh, boy. You guys are going to think I'm crazy."
"Nobody's going to think you're crazy," says Annie. "Remember? No shame, no blame."
Frankie darts her eyes to the vaulted ceiling and sucks in her breath. "I convinced my husband that Angelina Jolie is really a man."
We stare and wait for details.
"Jeremy has always had the hots for Angelina Jolie. He thinks she's a knockout. The boobs, the lips, whatever. Okay. So I told him that my mother's cousin Denise was the head surgical nurse during Angelina's-I mean Angelo's-sex-change operation. I threw in a bunch of believable details-the name of the surgeon, the brand of collagen they used for her lips, her first words when she came out of anesthesia."
"Which were ...?" I ask.
"Which were, 'Can I see my penis one more time before you throw it out?' Okay. So. Now Randy thinks Angelina Jolie is some kind of freak. And I never have to hear about her again." She smiles exultantly. "Do I pass?" Everyone agrees that Frankie's confession qualifies.
It is Annie's turn. "Oh, this definitely falls under the miscellaneous category," she says, putting her knuckle between her teeth. "Oh, God. I hate to admit this. Please don't think I'm awful."
"Just say it," Frankie demands.
"Okay. Here it goes." She takes a deep breath and cringes in anticipation of our response. "I don't pick up after Schatzi. Ever."
"Wait a second. I've seen you pick up after your dog," I say. This really was a revelation. All residents of Larkspur Estates are bound by a subdivision covenant that states, explicitly, that you've got to clean up after your dog. Other regulations include the proper storage of trash cans (out of view), parking of cars (never on the street), use of yard signs (prohibited except for the two-week period before election day). Annie was president of the neighborhood association for three years straight. She knew the dog poop rules better than anyone.
"No, you've seen me pretend to pick up after my dog. I just bend over and move a tissue around here and there so it looks like I'm picking something up but I always just leave it there. Oh, big deal. He's a miniature dachshund. You can hardly see his shit. Besides, it's all organic, isn't it? Well, isn't it? Will someone say something? Oh, God, I'm horrible!" Annie sighs heavily. "Well, friends. There you have it."
"Good grief," says Frankie, "this game used to be fun. Dog poop, Annie? For the love of Jesus and Mary." She tears open another bag of peanut M&M's. "Julie, please tell me you can do better than dog poop." The candle's small flame wavers as a sudden warm gust muscles through the screen door.
"Don't be so sure." I search my memory in futility for some transgression that might satisfy my friends but what's the point when I have never had an overdue library book, when I always correct cashiers when they make mistakes in my favor, and I don't lie, unless you count the white ones like telling Lala Townsend she looked great after she'd lost all her hair from chemotherapy. I had preserved my virginity until Michael and I were engaged, and even then I felt a little guilty. I suppose I could mention the time I told the pizza guy that yes, my eyes really were that green when I knew it was the tinted contacts that impressed him. Or I could tell them about the time I switched a store-bought pecan pie from its original foil tin into my own glass pie dish so other parents at the Brownies pot luck might think I'd baked it myself (although if anyone asked I would have told them the truth).
"I've got one," I say, finally. "Category: sex. I guess." I dip my pinkie into the hot wax that pools at the top of the candle and watch it harden on my finger. I am stalling. "Well, it was a Wednesday. No. Thursday. I was expecting a UPS delivery. My mother had told me to expect a package, some gifts for the kids. So, you know that UPS guy. The cute one?"
"Yes. The one with the ponytail," Frankie says.
"And that amazing ass." Annie smiles beatifically.
"Uh-huh. That's the one."
I ask you, is there a woman in this town who doesn't know this particular UPS driver? His hair is the color of butterscotch syrup, the ponytail unexpected and thrilling. He wears shorts even in the winter and the curly blond hair on his legs shimmers in the afternoon sun as he races up the walk and you wish he'd slow down just a little as he jogs back to the truck. Sometimes he waves as he's pulling away from the curb. No one knows his name.
I pick out four blue M&M's that, contrary to popular belief, will absolutely melt in your hands if you are nervous enough.
"As I was saying, I knew he'd be coming sometime that day, so ..." My friends lean in. The room is quiet as a mausoleum. "I'm saying I made a special effort to look nice. I looked like crap all day but when I knew he was coming I put on makeup. Just for him. That's a big deal for me, you know? I'm married, remember?"
Annie is shaking her head as if I am the most pathetic excuse for a woman she has ever known. I blow out the candle. "Game over. I don't know about you guys but I can hardly keep my eyes open."
"That's it? That's your whole story?" Frankie is frowning.
"What else did you want to hear? That I met him at the door wearing a swimsuit? That I told him I liked his package?"
"That would be a start." Annie sucks an ice cube into her mouth and pops it back into the glass. "Were you thinking you might try to seduce him?"
Why would I want to seduce the UPS guy when I've got a husband whose lovemaking is as much an expression of adoration as it is an act of sexual impulse. Michael knows my body's idiosyncrasies the way Yo-Yo Ma knows his cello, approaching me with intuition, touching me with devotion and also precision. It's true that Michael and I haven't found much time for sex. He seems to be toiling longer and later at work and sometimes we go full days without more than a few words between us, let alone physical contact.
"It's just that," I continue, lamely, "I think he's good-looking. And I wanted to look nice when he stopped by."
"Why?" Annie asks.
"I don't know. Just because he's cute, I guess."
"Let's review the facts as we know them," Frankie says. "You put on lip gloss so you'd look nice for the UPS guy. He gives you a package, you sign for it, you close the door. End of story?"
"Not just lip gloss. Blush too."
"Jesus, Julia, you are a fucking bore." Annie delivers this line with the finality of a game show host. I'm sorry. That's incorrect. You're out of the game. Annie has always said that I give off clear and indisputable married vibes. Even the meter-reader, widely known in our neighborhood for his glib lechery, will not flirt with me. "You work for the Bentley Institute, for Christ's sake, and this is the best you can come up with? Good God, woman."
Yes, that's right, I work for the Bentley Institute. As in, Eliza A. Bentley, the first American scientist to study, quantify, and demystify human sexual behavior. As in "The Annual Bentley Report on Sexual Behavior." As in the Bentley Museum, the world's largest collection of erotica and sexual artifacts, available for viewing by appointment only, and only if you have the appropriate academic credentials. You can't just walk in off the street and ask to see the Egyptian dildos.
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It might be a little premature to declare a primary tenet of global warming theory "invalidated" ...
Analysis of rainfall and surface moisture trends have led to a number of studies investigating whether the Earth has been undergoing drying, or whether drying is reversing.
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Nobody cares about your precious objects. And while your show sits idly for a month at an empty gallery, gathering dust, 30 other shows will have come and gone. Those galleries and alternative spaces were crowded each night with provisional, experimental projects that burst open and shimmered for one day or night. They converge, rather than emerge, existing more as participatory group play done for the process, not the result. No goals loitering on the horizon. Teleological creativity is so Old Testament. Now, groups of people can join in the fun, and the art is about the doing together, rather than the done alone. So stop priming all those canvases, and put your power tools on eBay.
That seems to be a paradigm, maybe powered by the desperate instability and uncertainty of the conventional distribution system. Nothing is really selling, the gallery might not be open next month, and who can afford cadmium colors or bronze fabrication? (I mean, just look at these horrible photos. I'd like to replace my stone age Canon poop-and-shoot, but gadgets don't grow on trees.)
Jacob Robichaux embodied an epicenter of creative activity last night at Museum 52, the cool gallery succeeding Participant, Inc at 95 Rivington, next to the synagogue that collapsed about two years ago.
Jacob's solo debut at the gallery last year, ...bell, string, whistle, cube… featured sculptures, collages, and sculptural paintings, "painthings" (as coined by the indispensable Sam Gordon), each of which was then selected by a peer, who would enact a performance based on/inspired by that particular piece. What a smart way to ensure that dialogue circulates around one's work, while constantly revitalizing an inevitably stationary show. Another example would be Richard Aldrich's sound performance, which I wrote about here a few weeks ago; that exemplified collaboration and casual performance embedded in the commercial space of luxury goods. Or the current Laura Parnes show at Participant, marked by screenings and readings. Or the recent Paper exhibition at Artists Space, perforated by weekly performances. An older one would be A.L. Steiner's panel discussion in the project room at John Connelly Presents, during her show, One Million Photos, 1 Euro Each (Minimum Order), or her co-labia-rative project co-founded with Nicole Eisenman, Ridykeulous, which hosted a freewheeling performance/exhibition night at the very same space, when it was still Participant, Inc. (Gee, Participant must be onto something!) You could note scores of other artists who insist that the gallery be a relational, performative space, and not just an exhibition room. Personally, I'm excited for TM Davy's upcoming night at Envoy Gallery.
So Jacob's night, DiSoRgAnIzEd, was the penultimate twinkling link in the chain of one-offs happening at Museum 52 as it leaves Rivington St, roams in a holding pattern and eventually settles into a new space, rumored to be the space formerly known as the seminal Rivington Arms. DiSoRgAnIzEd included penny cleaning, popcorn popping, web surfing, a dance class, and many other events, in the midst of casual, disheveled objects, art or art-related. For example, the accomplished and essential sculptor and painter Lucky De Bellevue hung a recent rejection letter from the Guggenheim Foundation. The work in the show was intimate and "submitted for the approval of" the immediate community/scene, compounding the communal atmosphere electrified with collaboration.
So I'm tossing out all my brushes and gesso. Objects completed in solitude are relics, while the real action is in the real action.


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When you make a contract, one thing to consider is whether you'd like the right to assign it to someone else. You should also consider whether you'd be happy if the other party were to assign the contract to someone else. Let's consider the pluses and minuses.
Assignment Can Relieve a Party's Obligations
When you assign a contract you are transferring the benefits and obligations of the contract to a third party. There are a couple of reasons to do this. One reason is when you don't want to perform your part of the contract. You will pay someone else to do your part, and you'll be free of the obligation to do so.
For example, let's say someone has paid you $10,000 to paint their house. You might want to assign your obligation to paint the house to someone else. Maybe it's because you've found another job that pays more. Maybe you've found someone who'll paint the house for $9,000. Either way, you benefit by assigning the contract to the third party. In the first case you might assign the contract to the third party for $10,000 and take the more profitable job. In the second case you'd assign the contract and pay the third party $9,000. You pocket the $1,000 difference.
Assigning the Right to Another's Performance
More typically, you'll assign the right to receive the benefits of another's performance under a contract. Let's say you have a contract to purchase a certain number of gizmos each month from a gizmo seller, at a certain price. The contract runs for a year. You've decided gizmos aren't working out for you, and you'd rather not buy any more. You can just find someone else who wants to buy the same number of gizmos each month and assign your rights and obligations under the contract to him.
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Before attempting to assign a contract, you will want to make sure it's legal. If the contract says nothing about assignment, it's legal to assign it. Contract rights are property under state law and can be assigned, or bought and sold, just like any other property.
It's a good idea to include a clause in any contract specifying whether or not it can be assigned. It's standard to say the contract may be assigned by either party so as long as the other party to the contract approves. It's also standard to say the other party may not withhold approval unreasonably. If your contract requires the other party to approve the assignment, it's a good idea to get the approval in writing.
It's also standard that some contracts are not assignable. Contracts for personal services typically aren't assignable. If you contract with a specific house painter because you've admired his work, chances are you don't want him to assign his performance obligation to another painter. If you hire your kid's favorite band to perform at his graduation party, you don't want a different band to show up and play.
The down side of assigning a contract is that you may remain responsible for the performance of the contract, if the person to whom you're assigning the contract (called the "assignee") breaches the contract.
The best approach when you're assigning a contract is to make a written assignment agreement. A lawyer can help you draft an agreement tailored to your specific circumstances, with language that clearly spells out everyone's responsibilities and rights. That way, you're less likely to be left holding the contract "bag" if the assignee doesn't live up to his or her contract obligations.
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text: galleryA-List B-cups08.12.09galleryA-List B-cups08.12.09 5:45 PM ET OutOfSightMedia, BuzzFoto, FilmMagic / GettyKelly OsbourneThe 24-year-old daughter of Ozzy and Sharon says she dreams of dropping from a D-cup to a size between B and C—"something you don't need to wear a bra with"—and plans to have surgery before she weds fiancé Luke Worrall. "It's no secret that I hate my boobs," she told the Daily Mail. "Perfect boobs is what I want."Eamonn McCormack, WireImage / Getty Images; AP PhotoSharon OsbournePerfect boobs are what Kelly's mom Sharon sought in 2005. First, she had a breast augmentation, bringing the 53-year-old mother of two from a 32C to a 34DD, then she had a reduction to bring them down to a more modest size. "I'm having them changed," she said right before the second surgery. 'Ozzy likes them, but they're too big. Honestly, they weigh a lot." She'd had a previous reduction surgery 20 years earlier, followed by a lift. Paul Drinkwater, NBCU Photo Bank / AP Images; Michael Loccisano / Getty ImagesDrew BarrymoreIn 1992, a few years before she hopped up on David Letterman's desk and Mardi Gras-flashed her chest in honor of his birthday, Barrymore underwent a breast reduction at the age of 16. "I've learned something, though, about breasts through my years of pondering and pontificating," she once told a reporter from the New York Daily News, "and that is: Men love them, and I love that." Julien Hekimian / Getty Images; David Dyson, Camera Press / RetnaVictoria BeckhamPosh reportedly had two breast enlargements before her 2009 reduction surgery, which brought her down from a 34DD to a more manageable 34B. (Although Beckham always denied the surgeries, telling the BBC in 2003, "I'm completely natural.") According to the British tabloids, the former pop star turned fashion designer had the operation in Los Angeles and then flew to France to recover with husband David and their two sons.Time Life Pictures / Getty Images; Frederick M. Brown / Getty ImagesSoleil Moon FryeBy the time she turned 15, the freckle-faced, 5'1" Punky Brewster star wore a 38DD. She couldn't even go out for a jog around her Burbank home without neighborhood boys shouting "Hey, it's Punky Boobster!" The former child star had a six-hour reduction surgery in 1992, just before her 16th birthday, dropping down to a 36C. After the surgery, she said she felt she was "finally free." Kevin Winter/Getty Images; Kevork Djansezian / AP PhotoQueen LatifahThe Queen's 2003 breast-reduction took the 5'10" actress and rapper from enormous to just merely large. Formerly an F-cup, Latifah decided to have the procedure after losing 25 lbs. "I was pretty big," she told People magazine in 2007. "Now I'm like a DD. I wanted to be a triple. They took one D too many!" Her surgeon offered to throw in some lipo, but she declined. Pamela AndersonHonestly, who can keep track of the Baywatch babe's breasts anymore? They're up, they're down, they're up, they're down. She's had more booms in her bust than Goldman Sachs. In 1999, Anderson's oversize implants were replaced with a more modest set in 1999, saying "I just wanted my body to return to its original state."L. Cohen, WireImage / Getty Images; Marcel Thomas, FilmMagic / Getty ImagesJennifer ConnellyThe new face of Balenciaga is thought to have had a breast reduction after baring all in 2000's Requiem for a Dream. The exact date of the surgery is unknown, but fans saw a noticeably slimmer Connelly in 2006's Blood Diamond. Connelly's publicist categorically denied the reduction, saying "It's absolutely not true—swear on my life." The actress blames stress and weight loss for her flattened curves.Ron Galella, WireImage / Getty Images; Walter McBride / RetnaLoni AndersonThe former WKRP in Cincinnati star went to a doctor to downsize her 38Es in 1995. She had two reduction operations, taking them down to a more manageable D-cup. "There was no hope in sight except for maybe tying them in a knot. I had to have the surgery done," she said after the second operation. The sculpted former wife to Burt Reynolds denies all other surgeries, except an eye lift.Ron Galella, Ltd., WireImage / Getty Images; Dan Herrick, FilmMagic / Getty ImagesRoseanne BarrIn 1991, the comedian and proud plastic-surgery aficionado added a breast reduction to the long list of cosmetic procedures she's undergone, including a nose job, facelift, cheek implants and liposuction. The 5'4" Barr went from 40DDs to 38Cs to relieve strain on her back. Surgeons reportedly took off three pounds from her bust.Time Life Picture / Getty ImagesKim FieldsTootie went under the knife in 1984, at the age of 16, just after she ended her run as America's sweetheart on The Facts of Life. The still-buxom actress hasn't spoken about the surgery in any great detail, but producers reportedly wrote it into an episode of Living Single, on which Fields starred as Regine Hunter from 1993 to 1997.Kevin Winter / Getty Images; Matthew Simmons / Getty ImagesPatricia HeatonIn 2002, the Everybody Loves Raymond star copped to a breast reduction and a tummy tuck in a Q&A with People magazine. After four children delivered by C-section, she said, "my breasts were hanging down to here from breast-feeding those babies and my nipples were like platters. I wanted to fit into the gowns that I finally got to wear."Ed Geller / Retna; Matthew Simmons / Getty ImagesKimberly StewartIn 1997, at the age of 18, the party girl had a breast-augmentation surgery that endowed her with what her father, Rod Stewart, once called "a lovely pair." Eight years later, the grownup party-girl had the implants removed—and gifted them to fellow rock-progeny Jack Osbourne. "I got them taken out, signed them, got them framed and presented to Jack," she said. He hung them on his bathroom wall.


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Federal surface transportation policy is in disarray, having suffered from a chronic lack of vision since the first surface transportation reauthorization following the completion of the Interstate Highway System in 1991. 1 Recent actions, such as the failure to keep spending in check with revenues, have compounded the problems, forcing states, regional authorities, counties, and municipalities to fund an increasing share of highway maintenance and construction. Meanwhile, congressional debate over multiyear reauthorization of federal surface transportation programs has reached an impasse. As the Senate and House offer irreconcilably different legislative proposals regarding length, funding, and revenue collection, inadequate revenue and excessive spending have pushed the Highway Trust Fund to the brink of insolvency. The Highway Trust Fund's highway account (a separate mass transit account also exists) is expected to be unable to meet its outlay obligations by early Fiscal Year 2013, according to 2011 estimates from the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office. 2 This is not to say the trust fund will incur negative balances, which is forbidden under current law. Rather, when projected revenue is expected to fall short of outlays, the U.S. Secretary of Transportation must begin rationing funds to the states. 3 If projects are delayed due to unpredictable funding, construction costs will naturally balloon because of the costs associated with getting labor, equipment, and materials back in place. The federal government's highway outlays are paid for primarily through revenue raised from federal excise taxes on gasoline and diesel fuel. These accounted for nearly 90 percent of total Highway Trust Fund revenue in FY 2011. 4 Projected highway account outlays exceeded projected revenue by 15 percent, but leftover funds from previous years kept the programs operating. 5
Marc Scribner is a Land-use and Transportation Policy Analyst at the Competitive Enterprise Institute in Washington, D.C.
Over the past few years, every state and the District of Columbia receive more in federal highway funding than the various federal excise taxes on highway activities within the state generated, according to the Government Accountability Office. 6 During FY 2005–2009, the funding return on highway taxes ranged from $1.03 for every dollar collected in Texas to $5.85 in Washington, D.C. 7 Massachusetts, on the low end of the scale, received $1.17 for every dollar collected. 8 While the vast majority of Massachusetts highway funding comes from non-federal sources, if all highway funding responsibility were to be devolved to the states—as a growing number of fiscal conservatives in Congress advocate—additional revenue must be found. This issue brief examines the current funding realities and offers several potential mechanisms that could be used in Massachusetts to close the funding gap under a devolution scenario. However, there is a way forward. Maintaining the "user-pays/user-benefits" funding principle should be of the utmost importance to transportation policy makers seeking to address the nation's growing transportation challenges. User-pays offers a number of advantages over general revenue funding: 1. Fairness: Highway users benefit from the improvements their user taxes or fees generate. 2. Proportionality: Users who drive more pay more. Users who impose disproportionate costs, such as heavy trucks, are charged more. 3. Funding Predictability: Highway use and therefore highway user revenues do not fluctuate wildly in the short-run. 4. Signaling Investment: Revenue roughly tracks use, which provides policy makers with an important signal as to how much infrastructure investment is needed to maintain a desired level of efficiency. New technologies can help create novel approaches to transportation funding. To get there, we also need to turn away from existing failed policies. The Increasingly Inadequate Gas Tax. Much of the funding gap—at least at the federal level—from user-based fuel taxes can be attributed to costs associated with construction increasing at rates greater than corresponding tax rates. Therefore, the increasing inadequacy of fuel taxes as highway-user revenue sources is a long-term problem that must be addressed. Consumer preferences and federal regulation, namely the Corporate Average Fuel Economy program, are driving more fuel efficient vehicle designs. 9 While this may reduce air pollution externalities, it will have little to no impact on other external costs associated with vehicle use, such as congestion and infrastructure damage. This creates two long-term issues that are troubling to transportation policy makers: 1) Virtually all taxes on fuel are collected on a fixed per gallon basis, so revenue raised per vehicle mile traveled (VMT) will fall as the U.S. vehicle fleet becomes more fuel efficient; and 2) newer vehicles will be most fuel efficient, so wealthier individuals who can more easily afford them will incur fewer charges associated with the cost of their use—thus, the burden of fuel taxes will likely shift toward lower-income drivers of older, less fuel efficient vehicles. 2
With the future of the fuel tax plagued by efficiency and equity problems, the purpose of maintaining such a revenue collection mechanism should be revisited. As of 2008, only 49 percent of total revenue for highways in Massachusetts was collected from users (from federal and state fuel taxes, vehicle taxes, and tolls). 10 The remainder primarily comes from non-user state taxes and bonds. 11 Massachusetts ranks 29th for highest fuel taxes in the nation—and the taxes keep on rising. As of January 1, 2012, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts imposed fuel taxes of 23.5 cents per gallon for both gasoline and diesel, making no attempt to charge more to heavy trucks. 12 Future capital improvements and current deferred highway maintenance will require further and significant fuel tax increases if fuel taxes are to continue to provide their present share of total revenue for highway projects. 13 Political realities, however, render these tax increases difficult or nearly impossible (assuming raising fuel taxes to fund improvements is desirable when compared to other alternatives—a dubious proposition at best). Compounding the fiscal difficulties of continuing highway funding through fuel taxes, VMT are no longer increasing at historical rates—due in part to vehicle saturation, congestion, fuel prices, and demographic and population changes—while the vehicle fleet is growing increasingly fuel efficient. Further complicating matters, a greater proportion of total vehicle registrations and VMT now belongs to heavy trucks, which do a disproportionate amount of damage to roads. The long-held assumption that highway users will continue to pay at the pump for the costs associated with their highway activities is becoming ever more tenuous. The importance of maintaining the "userpays/user-benefits" funding principle justifies transitioning to other user-based revenue collection mechanisms. Expanding UserPays through Technology. The ongoing breakdown of the link established by fuel taxes between highway use and highway-user revenue presents an opportunity as well as a challenge. Fuel taxes are a poor proxy for true user charges, but the superior 3
alternative—tolling—was for many years a disfavored form of revenue collection. However, today it appears that many past criticisms of tolling, such as queuing at toll plazas, no longer hold due to technological improvements. Modern electronic tolling can eliminate the congestion and reduced speeds that became commonplace at human-staffed toll plazas. With current technology (not all of it widely deployed), a driver can install on his vehicle a low-priced transponder that automatically charges the driver's pre-paid account or credit card for highway use. The Massachusetts FAST LANE program is a good example of this technology in action. If the driver's vehicle lacks a transponder or his account balance is insufficient, license plate scanners identify the vehicle and the turnpike authority will send the owner a bill for the toll plus a penalty. 14 Furthermore, electronic tolling makes it quite easy to implement a variable rate structure to better price road use under different traffic conditions to ensure that a desired level of vehicle throughput—the number of vehicles moved through a corridor in a given period of time—is consistently achieved. 15 This is known as congestion pricing or value pricing. Massachusetts, like many other states, has already implemented electronic tolling systems on its turnpike. In 2009, the Massachusetts Department of Transportation's (MassDOT) electronic tolling network handled 66.7 percent of total toll transactions and raised 65.9 percent of total turnpike revenue. 16 In 2010, 69.3 percent of transactions and 68.5 percent of collected revenue were processed electronically. 17 By 2011, those figures had increased to 71 percent and 70.2 percent, respectively. 18 Moving to an electronic-only system would arguably be superior, but phasing in electronic tolling while retaining manual toll collection has been largely successful in Massachusetts. Another high-tech method of charging highway users for the costs of their activities is VMT taxation, which is currently being considered by transportation policy makers. This typically involves requiring vehicle owners to install Global Positioning System (GPS) receivers that track not only total vehicle miles traveled, but which roadways were used at which times of day (a cellular network triangulation system could also be deployed). This would allow for variable pricing much like tolls, except that all roads would presumably be covered under such a scheme. 19 Critics of VMT taxes argue that the technology is error-prone and subjects drivers to additional privacy risks and potential double-taxation if fuel taxes are to remain in place. Government mandates regarding location data deserve serious scrutiny, but a properly designed system need not sacrifice user privacy. It has been demonstrated that GPS location information can be appropriately segregated from the information provided during the payment transaction. For instance, in Oregon's VMT tax pilot program, real-time location or travel history was never transmitted. Rather, users were assessed charges at the pump based on the zones and times in which they traveled that were stored by the onboard device. 20 Technological limitations that reduce accuracy, particularly in dense urban areas, 21 and phase-in challenges such as double-taxation are still of some concern, but solutions are being developed. However, the movement toward the market provision of roads would be dealt a major setback as 4
concession projects would likely be forbidden from independently collecting revenue through tolling if VMT taxes are in place, which would reduce their general appeal. Innovative Facilities Management Practices and Reforming MassDOT. Tolling in many respects remains the most attractive option and it is not limited to traditional turnpikes. Across the country, high-occupancy vehicle (HOV) lanes on highways are being converted to high-occupancy toll (HOT) lanes with much success. After HOV lanes became popular with policy makers in the 1980s and 1990s, it quickly became apparent that ridesharing is not popular enough to justify dedicating significant capacity exclusively for multi-passenger private vehicles and buses. As a result, HOV lanes will not likely achieve their congestion mitigation targets. 22 HOT lanes price away the excess capacity by charging drivers a toll for the privilege of achieving faster average speeds than often congested general purpose (GP) lanes, which reduces congestion and improves speeds in the GP lanes as well. 23 Both the I-93 North and I-93 Southeast Expressway HOV lanes in the Boston metropolitan area should be converted to HOT lanes and integrated with the FAST LANE system. While the I-93 Southeast Expressway HOV lanes provided a 116.5-percent increase in hourly passenger throughput relative to the GP lanes in 2010, 24 the I-93 North lanes provided only a 22.6-percent increase, 25 which suggests significant underutilization. Robert Poole, director of transportation studies at the Reason Foundation, helped create and popularize the HOT lane and later HOT network concepts. HOT networks are linked HOT lane systems designed to connect entire urban areas with premium toll lanes that can also support Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) service. 26 Poole's latest tolling innovation is the "managed arterial." 27 Arterial roads are typically six or more lanes punctuated by signaled intersections. To address reduced speeds and congestion caused by traffic queuing at signalized intersections, Poole proposes creating tolled underpasses and overpasses that bypass the intersections altogether. 28 This would improve traffic flows not only for premium-paying private automobiles and BRT service, but for GP lane users as well. To minimize waste and best align the incentives of facility managers with those of facility users, tolling authorities should remain independent of regional and state governments and be financially self-sufficient. This includes keeping revenue segregated and within the facilities and preferably leasing turnpikes to private-sector partners. In 2007, Massachusetts ranked dead last in turnpike efficiency as measured by the "cost-take"—the fraction of toll revenues used to cover operating and maintenance costs. 29 With a cost-take of 79 percent, Massachusetts sets itself apart from the rest of the nation, with second to last West Virginia coming in at 64.5 percent and the national average being 42.6 percent. 30 In contrast, the average cost-take of private toll road concessionaires was 27.6 percent. 31 Were the Massachusetts turnpike operated in a more efficient manner, capital improvements could be made and debt related the Central Artery project could be more quickly retired—and done without toll increases. Tolling facilities are best built and managed by private firms under concession agreements. These firms have a strong incentive to control costs and can access private capital markets for project financing, which shifts fiscal burdens and project risk away from taxpayers and toward 5
the private concessionaires. 32 A number of states, particularly Virginia, 33 have enjoyed great success with public-private partnerships and there is little reason to believe Massachusetts is incapable of joining them. Lawmakers in the Commonwealth should immediately begin work on public-private partnership authorizing legislation, using Virginia's law as a model. 34 If widely implemented, tolling "free" roads and new roads and better management of existing tolling facilities can help close the funding gap if Congress were to devolve the remaining federal surface transportation fiscal responsibilities to the states. However, the transformation of Massachusetts transportation policy should not end there. Governor Deval Patrick's 2009 consolidation of a number of transportation entities into the new MassDOT was a flawed and grandiose reaction to very serious issues. True reform is now in fact less likely because the larger department will have more flexibility in cross-subsidizing various programs, shielding wasteful projects from fiscal realities. MassDOT consolidation was driven in part by the dire financial position that had plagued Boston-area transit provider Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) for years. The complete failure of MBTA's 2000 Forward Funding Financial Plan underscores this. Virtually every cost was underestimated and benefit overestimated. 35 Fare box collections accounted for 28.3 percent of total revenue in FY 2010, 36 slightly below the national average of 32.1 percent. 37 Much like highways, relying on non-transit-user revenue to fund transit improvements runs serious financial risks. Dedicated sales tax revenue, which makes up the largest component of MBTA funding, grew at one-third the rate initially projected for 2000– 2009. 38 The MassDOT consolidation has neither improved MBTA's fiscal position nor addressed any of the core problems facing the transit agency. Politics usually trump efficiency, so minimizing political interference in the transportation sector is imperative to achieving socially desirable outcomes. Decentralization, concessions, and adhering to the user-pays/user-benefits principle is the only sensible market-oriented, fiscally conservative path forward for transportation in Massachusetts. Conclusion. There is much to be done in this area in terms of additional research, but the themes discussed above offer a new vision for Massachusetts' surface transportation system. While the current Congress is unlikely to devolve all federal funding responsibility to the states, it appears likely that revenues and expenditures will remain flat or decrease in real terms. In practice, this acts as a form of devolution as aging infrastructure across the country must soon be replaced. That means state, regional, and local governments will bear an increasing share of this funding responsibility. In the transportation realm, Massachusetts has often lagged behind other states—and, indeed, most states—in adopting innovative technologies, practices, and institutions. Adopting some or all of the suggestions in this brief will go a long way toward improving Massachusetts' standing among the states while greatly enhancing mobility for residents and businesses.
This was the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991 (ISTEA), Public Law 102-240 (December 18, 1991). 2 Testimony of Joseph Kile, Assistant Director for Microeconomic Studies, Congressional Budget Office, before the Committee on Finance of the United States Senate, "The Highway Trust Fund and Paying for Highway," May 17, 2011, p. 8, http://www.cbo.gov/sites/default/files/cbofiles/ftpdocs/121xx/doc12173/05-17-highwayfunding.pdf. 3 Two mechanisms discipline Highway Trust Fund highway account spending: the Byrd Test and Revenue Aligned Budget Authority (RABA). For brief descriptions of how the Byrd Test and RABA function, see Testimony of Phillip R. Herr, Director of Physical Infrastructure Issues, Government Accountability Office, "Highway Trust Fund: Options for Improving Sustainability and Mechanisms to Manage Solvency," Before the House Subcommittees on Oversight and Select Revenue Measures of the Committee on Ways and Means, GAO-09-845T, June 25, 2009, pp. 8-9, 10-13, http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d09845t.pdf. 4 Kile, p. 4. 5 Ibid., p. 5. 6 Government Accountability Office, "Highway Trust Fund: All States Received More Funding Than They Contributed in Highway Taxes from 2005 to 2009," Report to Congressional Requesters, GAO-11-918, September 8, 2011, http://www.gao.gov/assets/520/511454.pdf. 7 Ibid., p. 11. 8 This outcome occurred as a result of the Equity Bonus Program, which was created to address donee-donor state rate-ofreturn issues. However, due to general revenue infusions to the Highway Trust Fund, considerably more funding was available for apportionment than actual revenue raised by the states through federal taxes on highway activities. Equity Bonus was established by 2005's SAFETEA-LU (Sections 1104 and 1102) surface transportation reauthorization, which replaced the similar Minimum Guarantee Program originally established by 1998's TEA-21 reauthorization. Typically, most funding credited to the Highway Trust Fund's highway account is distributed through a number of FHWA highway programs under strict apportionment formulae. Both Minimum Guarantee and Equity Bonus use an addition formula created to address equity concerns that were held by certain states. Unfortunately, lower highway-user revenues led Congress to initiate general revenue transfers from the Treasury, which resulted in state disbursements exceeding state revenues as Congress failed to exclude general funds allocated to the highway account from the binding Equity Bonus apportionment. 9 See, e.g., BP Energy Outlook 2030, London: BP p.l.c., January 2012, p. 66, http://www.bp.com/liveassets/bp_internet/globalbp/STAGING/global_assets/downloads/O/2012_2030_energy_outlook_b ooklet.pdf. 10 Federal Highway Administration, "Revenues Used by States For Highways – 2008," Highway Statistics 2008, Washington, D.C.: U.S. Department of Transportation, March 2010, http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/policyinformation/statistics/2008/pdf/sf1.pdf. 11 Ibid., from Table SF-3, "Revenues Used By States For State-Administered Highways – 2008," March 2010, http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/policyinformation/statistics/2008/pdf/sf3.pdf. 12 American Petroleum Institute, "Notes to State Motor Fuel Excise Tax Report," January 1, 2012, http://www.api.org/Oiland-Natural-Gas-Overview/Industry-Economics/~/media/Files/Statistics/State_Motor_Fuel_Excise_Tax_Update.ashx. The 23.5 cents per gallon (cpg) effective tax rate on both gasoline and diesel fuel includes the 21 cpg excise tax and the 2.5 cpg tax that supports the Massachusetts Underground Storage Tank Program. 13 A 2007 study from the Massachusetts Transportation Finance Commission "found a transportation funding gap in Massachusetts of $15 [billion] to $19 billion [over 20 years] to bring our existing assets to a state of good repair. These estimates include operating as well as capital needs. These numbers do not include ANY expansions or enhancements." Transportation Finance in Massachusetts: An Unsustainable System, Findings of the Massachusetts Transportation Finance Commission, March 28, 2007, p. 57, http://www.eot.state.ma.us/downloads/tfc/TFC_Findings.pdf. 14 Massachusetts Department of Transportation, "Frequently Asked Questions - FAST LANE Program," MassDOT website, http://www.massdot.state.ma.us/highway/TrafficTravelResources/FASTLANEProgram/FrequentlyAskedQuestions.aspx. 15 For a fairly comprehensive list of variable tolling facilities, see Texas A&M University professor Mark Burris's Web document, "Variable Priced Highway Facilities," https://ceprofs.civil.tamu.edu/mburris/pricing.htm. 16 Massachusetts Department of Transportation, "Monthly Summary of ETC and MLT Transactions & Revenue 2009 vs 2010," MassDOT website, http://www.massdot.state.ma.us/portals/0/docs/infoCenter/financials/toll_reports/etcmtl_tr_09_10dec.pdf.
Massachusetts Department of Transportation, "Monthly Summary of ETC and MLT Transactions & Revenue 2010 vs 2011," MassDOT website, http://www.massdot.state.ma.us/Portals/0/docs/infoCenter/financials/toll_reports/etcmtl_toll_reports_2011vs2012.pdf. 18 Ibid. 19 See James M. Whitty, "Final Report: Oregon's Mileage Fee Concept and Road User Fee Pilot Program," Oregon Department of Transportation, November 2007, http://www.oregon.gov/ODOT/HWY/RUFPP/docs/RUFPP_finalreport.pdf. 20 Ibid., pp. 9-10. 21 Ibid., p. 35. 22 Gordon J. Fielding and Daniel B. Klein, "High Occupancy Toll Lanes: Phasing in Congestion Pricing a Lane at a Time," Los Angeles: Reason Foundation, Policy Study No. 170, November 1993, http://reason.org/files/22b593c21e642143157e65dc5223ce9a.pdf. 23 Robert W. Poole, Jr. and C. Kenneth Orski, "Building a Case for HOT Lanes: A New Approach to Reducing Urban Highway Congestion," Policy Study No. 253, Los Angeles: Reason Foundation, April 1999, http://reason.org/files/d9a8a29899b8f5bba4a5eb1f78707db7.pdf. 24 Boston Regional Metropolitan Planning Organization, "Southeast Expressway: Comparison of HOV and GeneralPurpose Lanes," MPO website, http://www.ctps.org/bostonmpo/3_programs/6_mms/4_hov/i93se.html. 25 Boston Regional Metropolitan Planning Organization, "I-93 North: Comparison of Southbound HOV and Southbound General-Purpose Lanes," MPO website, http://www.ctps.org/bostonmpo/3_programs/6_mms/4_hov/i93n.html. 26 Poole and Orski, "HOT Networks: A New Plan for Congestion Relief and Better Transit," Policy Study No. 305, Los Angeles: Reason Foundation, February 2003, http://reason.org/files/536de94066a3400358dfe2ccf7c84403.pdf. 27 Poole, Thomas A. Rubin, and Chris Swenson, "Increasing Mobility in Southeast Florida: A New Approach Based on Pricing and Bus Rapid Transit," Policy Study No. 400, Los Angeles: Reason Foundation, March 2012, http://reason.org/files/mobility_southeast_florida.pdf. 28 Ibid., pp. 19-20. 29 Poole and Peter Samuel, "Pennsylvania Turnpike Alternatives: A Review and Critique of the Democratic Caucus Study," Policy Brief No. 70, Los Angeles: Reason Foundation, April 2008, p. 6, http://reason.org/files/cd52022e2d52ff1d17fd6423645c6642.pdf. 30 Ibid. 31 Ibid. 32 Marc Scribner, "The Limitations of Public-Private Partnerships: Recent Lessons from the Surface Transportation and Real Estate Sectors," Issue Analysis 2011 No. 1, Washington, D.C.: Competitive Enterprise Institute, January 2011, pp. 68, http://cei.org/issue-analysis/limitations-public-private-partnerships. 33 Ibid., pp. 11-12. 34 See Public-Private Transportation Act of 1995, Va. Code § 56-556 et seq. 35 David F. D'Alessandro, Paul D. Romary, Lisa J. Scannell, and Bryan Woline, "MBTA Review," Report to Governor Deval Patrick, November 1, 2009, p. 15, http://www.mbtareview.com/MBTA_Review_2009.pdf. 36 Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority, "Financial Statements and Required Supplementary Information: June 30, 2011 and 2010," MBTA website, November 2, 2011, p. 5, http://www.mbta.com/uploadedfiles/About_the_T/Financials/MBTA%20Audited%20Financial%20Statements%20June% 2030%202011-FINAL.pdf. 37 American Public Transportation Association, "Appendix A: Historical Tables," Public Transportation Fact Book, March 2012, p. 89, http://www.apta.com/resources/statistics/Documents/FactBook/2012-Fact-Book-Appendix-A.pdf. 38 D'Alessandro et al., p. 12.


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Fred Willard, who was arrested for allegedly masturbating in a movie theater on Wednesday (July 18), may not suffer the full-on career derailment that rocked Pee-wee Herman's life when he did the same thing in 1991. And that's why Willard should vigorously thank Pee-wee (real name Paul Reubens) for breaking the ice when it comes to public masturbation.
Willard's already been axed from his gig as host for a new PBS "Antiques Roadshow" spinoff called "Market Warrior," but he's unlikely to find himself completely out of work or be vilified in the press (at least it hasn't happened yet). And as for the large-scale negative reaction that had parents calling for Pee-wee's head (ahem), it isn't developing.
Pee-wee was first and foremost an children's entertainer (And yes, he started out using that character for decidedly adult fare, but ended up a Saturday morning staple), so when he was arrested parents were outraged.
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Several years ago, a woman who had worked in an organization for many years consulted me about how to handle a secret she had kept from co-workers. After a long illness, her husband had died and she chose to conceal this event from her co-workers. The woman had cordial professional relationships with her colleagues, but she did not wish to be an object of pity or scrutiny. She justified this failure to disclose an important life event as separating her private life from her professional life but felt uncomfortable when she was invited to a barbeque at a colleague's home. How would she explain the missing husband?
Another woman consulted me about her supervisor, complaining that she heard far too much about the supervisor's private life of partying, drinking and dating. This supervisor would send pictures of herself to her staff while she was out and about. In many of the pictures she appeared to be under the influence of alcohol.
What information should be shared with colleagues and supervisors? What information should be withheld? What should you do if you find yourself working with someone who shares too much? How do online postings influence the sharing of personal information? In the first case, not enough was shared. In the second, too much was shared.
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To be successful at work people should see your strengths, your good judgement, your skill at handling awkward situations and your focus on productivity. You don't want people to see how confused and upset you are about that pesky personal problem. Many organizations offer confidential employee assistance from trained behavioral health clinicians who can meet with you and help you figure out how to handle those personal problems, preserving a boundary between your work and personal life. The Faculty Staff Assistance Office here at Boston University offers a confidential setting in which people might explore how to handle distressing personal problems and figure out what to say at work to supervisors and colleagues.
In the first case, the widow met individually with each of her close colleagues and supervisors, informed them of the loss of her husband and explained briefly that she had coped with his illness and death by not talking about it at work. She asked them for their understanding and she attended the next office social event.
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Once you have shared something about yourself at work, you can't pull it back. But not sharing major life events or simple social activities and interests can be interpreted that you are aloof and do not care about the people with whom you work. Strike the right balance between too little and too much.
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Meet The Designer
Miquella creates original, handmade costume jewelry combining traditional craft techniques with Swarovski crystal to create glamorous and wearable pieces. Founded in 2008 by David Rosenburg Miquella quickly developed a signature style of interlacing Swarovski crystals with Japanese silks and Nappa leather to create glamorously edgy pieces.


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Erste Group Bank AG was founded in 1819 as the first Austrian savings bank. Now around 47,000 employees are serving 16.6 million clients in more than 2,800 branches in 7 countries. Erste Group is one of the largest financial services providers in Central and Eastern Europe.
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