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Professor Steven H. Goldberg currently teaches Evidence, Torts, and Constitutional Law. The 2008 graduating class selected Professor Goldberg as the Barbara C. Salken Outstanding Professor of the Year. He is the author of a trial advocacy book, The First Trial (Where Do I Sit? What Do I Say?), which has been popular with the nation's law students and lawyers for more than thirty years, and is the co-author, with Park, Leonard and Orenstein, of an evidence treatise in the West Hornbook Series, Evidence Law: A Student's Guide to the Law of Evidence as Applied in American Trials. The winner of the 1997 Keck Foundation National Legal Ethics Essay competition, Professor Goldberg has published articles on alternative dispute resolution, constitutional law, criminal procedure, and trial advocacy, in addition to works on legal ethics. He has taught at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock School of Law and at the University of Minnesota School of Law, where he was the associate dean for academic affairs and external relations. He served as dean of Pace University School of Law from 1989 through 1993. Professor Goldberg served for a decade on the American Bar Association's Standing Committee on Criminal Justice Standards, chaired an ABA Task Force on Commitment of Non-responsibility Acquittees, was a member of the Standards Review Committee of the Section on Legal Education and Admission to the Bar, and served as co-chair of the Westchester County Bar Association's Committee on Lawyer Ethics from 1991 to 2002. He is a member of the American Law Institute
Evidence Law: A Student's Guide to the Law of Evidence as Applied in American Trials. With Roger C. Park, David P. Leonard and Aviva Orenstein. St. Paul, Minn.: West Group, 1998. Third Edition, 2011.
The First Trial: Where Do I Sit? What Do I Say? In a Nutshell. With Tracy Walters McCormick. St. Paul, Minn.: West Publishing, 1982. Second Edition, 2011.
"Government May Not Speak Out-of-Turn", 57 University of South Dakota Law Review (Issue 3, page 401) (2012)
The Government-Speech Doctrine: "Recently Minted;" but Counterfeit, 49 U. Louisville L. Rev. 21 (2010)
"Putting the Supreme Court Back in Place: Ideology, Yes; Agenda, No," at 17 Georgetown Journal of Legal Ethics 175 (2004).
"Bringing the Practice to the Classroom: An Approach to the Professionalism Problem," at 50 Journal Legal Education 414 (2000).
"'Wait a Minute. This Is Where I Came In.' A Trial Lawyer's Search for Alternative Dispute Resolution," Brigham Young University Law Review 653 (1997).
"A Little Known History of Truth," 9 Georgetown Journal of Legal Ethics 1199 (1996).
"What Was Discovered in the Quest for Truth? (Symposium on Criminal Discovery)" 68 Washington University Law Quarterly 51 (1990).
"The Corporate Counsel Box," in 13th Annual Institute for Corporate Counsel: Critical Issues for In-House and Outside Counsel. New York: Practising Law Institute, 1990.
"Heaven Help the Lawyer for a Civil Liar," 2 Georgetown Journal of Legal Ethics 885 (1989).
"The Former Client's Disqualification Gambit: A Bad Move in Pursuit of an Ethical Anomaly," 72 Minnesota Law Review 227 (1987).
"What Your Opening Statement Should and Shouldn't Do; Some Surprising Advice," Criminal Justice, Fall 1987, at 10.
"Harmless Error: Constitutional Sneak Thief," 71 Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology 421 (1980).
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Review of Integrity, by Stephen L. Carter. New York Law Journal, Mar. 1, 1996, at 2.
Review of No Contest: Corporate Lawyers and the Perversion of Justice in America, by Ralph Nader and Wesley J. Smith. New York Law Journal, Dec. 3, 1996, at 2.
Review of Between Management and Labor: Oral Histories of Arbitration by Clara H. Friedman, New York Law Journal, Jan. 16, 1996, at 2.
Review of The Art of Questioning by Peter Megargee Brown, ABA Journal, June 1, 1987, at 142.
Review of Vigilante: The Backlash against Crime in America by William Tucker, 3 Constitutional Commentary 479 (1986)


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Technology Scholar Cathy Davidson Joins the Graduate Center
Leading technology scholar Cathy N. Davidson will join the GC's English Ph.D. program faculty effective July 2014. Davidson is currently the John Hope Franklin Humanities Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies and the Ruth F. DeVarney Professor of English at Duke University. She is also cofounder of HASTAC (Humanities, Arts, Science and Technology Alliance and Collaboratory), a coalition of individuals and institutions dedicated to collaborative thinking about teaching and learning innovation.
Beginning this summer, the Graduate Center will become an administrative hub of HASTAC. The HASTAC-administered MacArthur Foundation Digital Media and Learning Competition will be split between Duke and the University of California Humanities Research Institute.
Davidson will also direct, from the Graduate Center, the Futures Initiative, a CUNY-wide program that will advance the collaborative and participatory innovation in higher education, and involve both faculty and graduate students from affiliated institutions.
In response to the announcement, Davidson remarked, "The Graduate Center has some of the best scholars and graduate students in the country as well as excellent leadership in the areas of innovation, technology, and the future of higher education. The Graduate Center can be, and will be, pivotal in higher education innovation. I'm so proud to be part of such a fine public urban university system."
Chase F. Robinson, Interim President of the Graduate Center, noted, "In combination with other faculty appointments and academic initiatives, her presence will accelerate the Graduate Center's emergence as a national leader in the digital humanities, interdisciplinary scholarship, and Ph.D. education."
Davidson brings wide experience and expertise to the Graduate Center and the CUNY system. Appointed by President Obama to the National Council on the Humanities, she has published more than twenty books, most recently Now You See It: How the Brain Science of Attention Will Transform the Way We Live, Work, and Learn (Viking Penguin, 2011), and The Future of Thinking: Learning Institutions in a Digital Age (MIT Press, 2010).

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Tea party to rancher: Happy trails
Sorry, Nevada rancher guy, you're no Obamacare.
The story of Cliven Bundy, the rancher who stood up to the Bureau of Land Management after it rounded up his cattle over years of unpaid grazing fees, is getting lots of attention. Sean Hannity and Glenn Beck have interviewed him on their shows. Fox News's "The Five" debated his actions. The Drudge Report is giving prominent play to all the latest Bundy coverage.
It's got all the elements of a made-for-cable-TV fight — especially the element of a powerful federal government overplaying its hand, and freedom-living citizens standing up in protest.
But is Bundy really the guy the right wants as its new hero? And is his fight against big government going to turn national, or is it just an interesting, high-traffic story?
( Also on POLITICO: Reid: Ranch standoff 'not over')
So far, all signs suggest that national Republicans and tea party officials aren't about to jump on the Bundy bandwagon. After all, if they want to rally voters against big government, they already have Obamacare for that.
Compare and contrast: With Obamacare, Republicans and tea party groups can talk about people being forced out of health coverage that they liked, higher premiums to meet the law's new coverage standards, constant changes in the rules by the Obama administration — and, of course, the hated individual mandate.
With the ranch standoff, they can talk about how a powerful federal agency took a guy's cows — in an operation they blandly called a "cattle gather" — instead of solving the problem, say, any other way.
( Also on POLITICO: Bundy to sheriffs: 'Disarm' the BLM)
But they also have to talk about a guy who didn't pay his grazing fees for more than 20 years, in a state where the federal government owns 86 percent of the land, and where other ranchers just go ahead and pay the fees.
At that point, it's not such a powerful rallying cry anymore.
"It's like, really, Glenn Beck? This is the issue you want to get behind?" said one Nevada conservative activist who has followed the story for years. "People who aren't in tune with the story just jumped all over it. And then you go back and read the facts of the story, and then you go, 'Uh oh.'"
A quick recap: the Bureau of Land Management released about 400 cows it had rounded up from Bundy this weekend after hundreds of protesters, some reportedly armed with handguns and rifles, took Bundy's side and demanded that the agency return the cattle to him.
( Earlier on POLITICO: Feds release cattle after roundup)
The agency declined to comment Tuesday, but it released a timeline of its 20 years of efforts to get Bundy to pay his grazing fees — dating back to 1993 — including court orders. Bundy insists that he doesn't recognize federal authority over the land and that his family has run a ranch there since the 1870s.
Top Republican operatives said they haven't really followed the Bundy story that much. Officials at the top Republican campaign organizations, the National Republican Senatorial Committee and the National Republican Congressional Committee, didn't respond to requests for comment. Top lawmakers were silent.
And a spokesman for the Tea Party Patriots said there was no one available to talk about the rancher issue on Tuesday. They had other battles on their hands — including suing the IRS for documents on the scrutiny of nonprofit groups — but when the group is outraged enough to get involved in a big-government fight, you usually know it.
Not even Harry Reid — who insisted that the ranch standoff is "not over" and that a guy who breaks the law can't just get away with it — could bring the national Republicans and tea party officials out to fight.
It's almost as if they haven't been watching Hannity.
The Fox News host rallied his viewers to get mad about an overreaching federal government flexing its muscles. "I mean, we have rapist and murderers and bank robbers and pedophiles out there, and they've 200 agents, you know, surrounding your ranch because your cows are eating grass on land that they don't even want or need and that you're arguing isn't even theirs," Hannity told Bundy during the interview. "So they realized, I think, at some point, politically, that this was going to backfire on them."
Some Republican operatives say the Bureau of Land Management clearly overreacted, and that its actions were another example of federal arrogance. "Most other litigants would have filed a lien on the property," said GOP strategist Brad Todd. "But the Bureau of Land Management doesn't think it's like any other actor."
But Todd, who produces ads for House Republicans and other clients, said that even if the story gets more traction, it "won't override Obamacare," which makes a more powerful case for the Republicans about an Obama administration that ignores popular protests against its policies and rewrites the rules at will.
"When he does that, he's defying the will of his supervisors," said Todd. "The voters sent him supervisors in 2010 because they didn't like what he was doing. And they re-elected those supervisors in 2012."
And Republican strategist Kevin Madden noted that "Obamacare is embedded in the 2014 decision of voters … It's an issue that goes beyond health care. It's a budget issue, it's a quality of life issue and it's an issue that raises questions about the size of government."
"Sure, other issues or controversies may compete in that size of government issue space, but it's unlikely they will impact voters' lives as directly as Obamacare does," Madden said.
Democrats don't seem worried about whether the issue will galvanize conservative voters — at least outside Nevada. "The right's biggest problem is its own echo chamber, which convinces them to focus on stuff like this instead of issues that matter to most middle-class Americans," said one Democratic aide.
And while the conservative activist said some Nevada Republicans will run on "the Bundy ranch" in the upcoming state elections, it's not a good issue for outsiders who haven't been following the story from day one.
"This is one of those things that got way out of hand," the activist said. "It just feels like something that should have been handled a long time ago."


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Many Colleges Bend Rules
Seeking Big Donors, Duke Woos
Beneficent 'Development Admits'
By DANIEL GOLDEN
DURHAM, N.C. -- Despite her boarding-school education and a personal tutor, Maude Bunn's SAT scores weren't high enough for a typical student to earn admission to Duke University.
But Ms. Bunn had something else going for her -- coffeemakers. Her Bunn forebears built a fortune on them and, with Duke hoping to woo her wealthy parents as donors, she was admitted.
Afterward, her parents promptly became co-chairmen of a Duke fund-raising effort aimed at other Duke parents. "My child was given a gift, she got in, and now I'm giving back," says Maude's mother, Cissy Bunn, who declines to say how much the family has contributed to the university.
Most universities acknowledge favoring children of alumni who support their alma mater. But to attract prospective donors, colleges are also bending admissions standards to make space for children from rich or influential families that lack longstanding ties to the institutions. Through referrals and word-of-mouth, schools identify applicants from well-to-do families. Then, as soon as these students enroll, universities start soliciting gifts from their parents.
Duke says it has never traded an admission for a donation. "There's no quid pro quo, no bargains have been struck," says Peter Vaughn, director of development communications. While it won't comment on individual cases, the university notes that financial gifts from parents are used to update facilities and provide financial aid, among other things.
The formal practice of giving preference to students whose parents are wealthy -- sometimes called "development admits" -- has implications for the legal challenge to affirmative action, which the U.S. Supreme Court will hear April 1. Special admissions treatment for the affluent has racial overtones, at least indirectly. Reflecting the distribution of wealth in America, the vast majority of major donors to higher education are white. Defenders of minority preference say such advantages for white applicants are precisely why affirmative action is still needed.
Top schools ranging from Stanford University to Emory University say they occasionally consider parental wealth in admission decisions. Other elite schools, such as Massachusetts Institute of Technology, say parental means don't influence them. "I understand why universities leverage parent contacts to enrich themselves," says Marilee Jones, dean of admissions at MIT. "If somebody's offering them a check, why not take it? But I honestly think it's out of control."
While children of the wealthy have long had advantages getting into colleges, a look at how "development" admissions works at Duke shows how institutionalized the process has become at some major universities.
Under-endowed compared with rivals such as Harvard, Princeton and Stanford, Duke has been particularly aggressive in snaring donors through admissions breaks. Widely considered one of the nation's top ten universities, Duke accepts 23% of its applicants and turns down more than 600 high-school valedictorians a year. Three-fourths of its students score above 1320 out of a perfect 1600 on the SATs.
Yet in recent years, Duke says it has relaxed these standards to admit 100 to 125 students annually as a result of family wealth or connections, up from about 20 a decade ago. These students aren't alumni children and were tentatively rejected, or wait-listed, in the regular admissions review. More than half of them enroll, constituting an estimated 3% to 5% of Duke's student body of 6,200.
The strategy appears to be paying off. For the last six years, Duke says it has led all universities nationwide in unrestricted gifts to its annual fund from nonalumni parents: about $3.1 million in 2001-2002. A university fund-raising campaign recently met its $2 billion goal. While 35% of alumni donate to Duke, 52% of parents of last year's freshman class contributed to the university -- besides paying $35,000 in tuition and room and board.
Students admitted for development reasons graduate at a higher rate than the overall student body, Duke says, although their grades are slightly lower. These applicants are held to the same lesser standard as some top athletes; not whether they can excel, but whether they can graduate. "There's never been a case where I think the student can't be successful at Duke, and the student is admitted," says admissions director Christoph Guttentag.
Caroline Diemar, a Duke senior, says she favors maintaining minority preference for college admissions because she knows from experience that well-connected white students get a boost too. The daughter of an investment banker, she applied early to Duke despite an 1190 SAT score. Her candidacy was deferred to the spring.
She then buttressed her application with recommendations from two family friends who were Duke donors, and she was accepted. "I needed something to make me stand out," says Ms. Diemar, a sociology major with a 3.2 grade point average, below the 3.4 average of the senior class. "Everybody at Duke has something that got them in." The lesson she learned: "Networking is how you go about everything."
After she enrolled, Duke recruited Ms. Diemar's parents to serve as co-chairmen of a fund-raising effort. Her father, Robert Diemar, declined to say how much he has given to Duke. "We support all of our five children's schools," said Mr. Diemar, a Princeton alumnus. He said Duke accepted his daughter on merit.
The practice of giving preference to the children of potential donors has caused fissures on Duke's campus, with some worrying that it dilutes the student body's intellectual vitality and undermines racial and economic diversity. In November 2000, a report to the trustees by a university committee on admissions called for a one-third cut in applicants accepted for development reasons. Mr. Guttentag says he plans to reduce such admissions to about 65 this year to achieve "greater flexibility" in shaping next fall's freshman class.
Duke President Nannerl O. Keohane thinks the Supreme Court should uphold affirmative action because preferences for children of potential donors is "disproportionately favorable to white students ... . The two are definitely linked, and it seems odd to me to allow one sort of preference, but not the other."
The University of Michigan, defendant in the affirmative action case before the Supreme Court, wants to continue to allow preferential treatment for minorities. It also gives preferential admissions treatment to children of potential donors -- but only if they're white or Asian.
Discretionary Points
Under the 150-point "Selection Index" Michigan uses for undergraduate admissions, a review committee may award 20 "discretionary" points to children of donors, legislators, faculty members and other key supporters. Minorities underrepresented in higher education -- Hispanics, African-Americans and Native Americans -- qualify for an automatic 20 points, but they are ineligible for the discretionary points. The university says less than 1% of admitted students receive this edge.
The late Terry Sanford, Duke president from 1969 to 1985, practiced donor preference on a large scale. Mr. Sanford, a gregarious former North Carolina governor, used his wide circle of contacts in business, politics and the media to elevate Duke from a regional to a national university. According to Keith Brodie, Duke's president emeritus, Mr. Sanford would personally meet each year with the admissions and development directors to ensure special attention for 200 of these friends' children applying to Duke. More than 100 would ultimately enroll.
As president from 1985 to 1993, Dr. Brodie says, he removed himself from the admissions process, resisted lobbying by some trustees, and trimmed the number of underqualified students admitted due to donor preference to 20 a year. "A Duke education is too valuable an asset to squander," says Dr. Brodie, a professor of psychiatry, who was criticized as president for a lack of fund-raising zeal. "University presidents are under greater pressure than ever to raise money," he adds. "I suspect many of them have turned to admissions to help that process."
Harold Wingood, who was senior associate director of admissions under Dr. Brodie, recalls that 30 to 40 students per year were upgraded from "rejected" to "wait-list," or from "wait-list" to "admit" due to their family ties. "We'd take students in some cases with SAT scores 100 points below the mean, or just outside the top 15% of their class," says Mr. Wingood, now dean of admissions at Clark University in Worcester, Mass. "They weren't slugs, but they weren't strong enough to get in on their own."
The numbers have increased under Ms. Keohane, Duke's current president. Duke says it admitted about 125 nonalumni children in 1998, and again in 1999, who had been tentatively rejected or wait-listed prior to considering family connections. It accepted 99 such students in 2000. Similar data aren't available for 2001 or 2002, the school says.
Ms. Keohane says she didn't intentionally increase the number of wealthy applicants given a leg up. She says "it is possible that the numbers drifted upward" during the recent $2 billion-fundraising campaign because "more people in development expressed interest in candidates. But this was certainly not a policy directive, or even a conscious choice."
The system at Duke works this way: Through its own network and names supplied by trustees, alumni, donors and others, the development office identifies about 500 likely applicants with rich or powerful parents who are not alumni. (Children of major alumni donors are given similar preference in a separate process.) It cultivates them with campus tours and basic admissions advice; for instance, applying early increases their chances. It also relays the names to the admissions office, which returns word if any of the students forget to apply -- so development can remind them.
The development office then winnows the initial 500 into at least 160 high-priority applicants. Although these names are flagged in the admissions-office computer, admissions readers evaluate them on merit, without regard to family means. About 30 to 40 are accepted, the others tentatively rejected or wait-listed. During an all-day meeting in March, Mr. Guttentag and John Piva Jr., senior vice president for development, debate these 120 cases, weighing their family's likely contribution against their academic shortcomings.
In her 2001 book, "Admissions Confidential," former Duke admissions officer Rachel Toor recalled that most admissions officers "hated to see these kids get in" because they were "the weakest part of our applicant pool." Nevertheless, most of the 120 students are admitted.
Once these children of privilege enroll, the development office enlists their parents as donors and fund raisers. According to Dr. Brodie, Duke's parent program originated as a forum for parent concerns about safety issues, but it has evolved into a fund-raising vehicle.
A committee of more than 200 nonalumni parents provides its volunteer army for the four classes currently at Duke. Committee members usually give at least $1,000 to Duke, and the eight co-chairmen and the national chairman much more -- including at least two seven-figure gifts endowing faculty chairs.
Membership in the parents' committee is by invitation only and is overwhelmingly white. Lately, one affluent Chicago suburb -- Lake Forest -- has dominated its higher echelons. Lake Forest luminaries on the committee have included department-store heir Marshall Field V, who has given at least $100,000 to Duke; Paul Clark, chief executive of Icos Corp., a biotech firm; Robert DePree, chairman of corn-meal maker House-Autry Mills Inc.; and investment banker Willard Bunn III, Maude's father.
The Lake Forest couples are social friends, serve on many of the same Chicago-area boards and several sent their children to the same private elementary school, Lake Forest Country Day. They write recommendations to Duke for each other's children.
'Pretty Intimate Group'
Susan DePree, Robert's wife, describes the Duke parents committee as a "pretty intimate group" but not "clubby." She declined to say how much she and her husband have contributed to Duke, but says they solicited at least one six-figure gift from a parent-committee member.
Maude Bunn, whose family lives in Lake Forest, attended an elite boarding school in Lawrenceville, N.J., where the Bunn Library opened in 1996. She says other Lake Forest parents recommended her to Duke.
Cissy Bunn acknowledges her daughter didn't fit the academic profile of a Duke student. "She's bright, she had good grades, but she doesn't meet the superstar status," Mrs. Bunn says. "Did my normal child take the place of somebody who could really make a difference in the world? Sure, yes, to an extent. But there are so many things you can lose sleep over. I'm happy for me and my child."
Maude Bunn says she initially felt very awkward at Duke because her admission "wasn't necessarily on my own merits." But these days, the sophomore says she is thriving. "The more time I've spent here, I feel more and more confident -- they didn't have to take me if they didn't think I was equal to all the other students they are admitting," she says. "I'm doing just as well as everybody I know if not better." She is studying art history and wants a career in fashion.
Now her younger sister Meg, a high-school senior, is applying to Duke. Maude says the family likes Meg's chances. "The people my mother works with for fund raising told her, 'It's really hard to get the first child in,' " she says. "After that, sisters and brothers are easier." Duke says it, like many universities, gives some preference to siblings.
Mrs. Bunn says she's not twisting anyone's arm. "I told them, 'If she's qualified at all, that would be lovely,' " she says. "If she gets in, I'd be happy to stay on the parents' committee."
As college admission becomes increasingly competitive, parents try to help their children's chances in any way they can. Duke accepted Jane Hetherington in 2000, despite SAT scores in the mid-1200s and what she calls "average" grades in high school. She attributes her acceptance to a "wonderful recommendation" by Norman Christensen Jr., then dean of Duke's Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences, a graduate program. She got the recommendation after one meeting with him.
At the time, her father, John Hetherington, was vice president of Westvaco Corp., a paper-products firm that had donated to the school, sponsored research there and hired some of its graduates. Mr. Hetherington asked a family friend on the school's advisory board to have the dean interview Ms. Hetherington.
Mr. Christensen, a Duke professor, says he was impressed by Ms. Hetherington's devotion to environmental studies. The student's father later reciprocated by arranging a meeting between the school's new dean and Westvaco's chief executive officer, hoping the company would increase support for the school. Nothing came of it, says Mr. Hetherington. (Westvaco merged with Mead Corp. last year.)
"I don't feel we benefited from anything you would describe as the traditional white power structure network," says Mr. Hetherington, who is now a Republican state representative in Connecticut and favors a "sunset law" for affirmative action. He doesn't think his position affected his daughter's acceptance into college. "It worked out for some reason," he says. "In all candor, we got lucky."
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Microsoft's Surface Windows 8 Pro tablet will go on sale in Europe in the second quarter priced somewhere around €899, while a local telco is now reselling the latest editions of its Office 365 hosted productivity suite, the company announced ahead of the Cebit trade show on Monday.
Microsoft Germany's CEO Christian Illek didn't give the Surface Pro's exact price in euros, but the number will be around the same as the U.S. price in dollars, he said in a news conference at the company's booth on the show floor in Hanover.
While an €899 (US$1170) price tag appears significantly higher that the Surface Pro's U.S. price of $899, a 30-percent mark-up is not unusual for electronics devices in Europe, where prices are typically displayed inclusive of value-added tax at around 20 percent. U.S. prices typically exclude local sales taxes. When setting international prices, vendors also tend to allow an additional margin in case exchange rates shift unfavorably.
In addition to Germany, Surface Pro will also go on sale in Australia, China, France, Hong Kong, New Zealand, and the U.K. in the coming months, Microsoft said.
Office 365 seller revealed
Illek also announced a new sales channel for two recent editions of Office 365: Deutsche Telekom.
Office 365 Small Business Premium and Office 365 Midsize Business are now on sale through Deutsche Telekom's Business Marketplace online app store, said the German telecommunications operator's head of marketing, Michael Hagspihl.
The Small Business Premium edition, with 25GB of storage, shared calendars, Office Web Apps, Office Professional Plus Desktop Version and support from Deutsche Telekom will sell for €11.45 (US$14.90) per user per month for up to 25 users, while the Midsize Business version, including cloud-based email at a company's own domain name, Active Directory synchronization and support from Deutsche Telekom will cost €11.90 per user per month for up to 300 users. (See also "Office Showdown: Microsoft Office 365 vs. Google Apps.")
The companies announced the distribution deal on the show floor at Cebit, where their sprawling booths face one another across the main aisle of Hall 4. Stands there are still under construction: The show opens Tuesday, and runs through Saturday.


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Deutsche Bank Takes Negative 2013 Outlook on Life Insurance Companies (DB, PRU, UNM, LNC, MET, AFL, PFG)
Deutsche Bank A.G. (NYSE: DB) initiated coverage today on the U.S Life Insurance industry. While they do have some Buy recommendations in the current report. their bias is decidedly bearish. If the overall thesis and the current metrics they are concerned about prove correct, it could be a very difficult year for an industry with many peers in other insurance sub-sectors taking hits by Superstorm Sandy.
In today's initiation, analysts at Deutsche Bank cited several specific reasons for their bearish views on the industry. These include a prolonged low interest rate environment, weak employment markets and equity market uncertainty. They cite these issues as ones that not only can pressure return on equity (ROE), but can increase the risk of balance sheet impairment.
Two companies did stand out and were started with Buy ratings. Prudential Financial Inc. (NYSE: PRU) and Unum Group (NYSE: UNM) were both cited as standouts in an otherwise dismal field. The analysts see Prudential having the ability to dramatically increase its business in the international markets, while Unum should be able to leverage pricing changes. Both companies are viewed as turnaround stories that are less market sensitive and have strong capital positions.
Four other companies were started with Hold ratings. They include Lincoln National Corp. (NYSE: LNC), MetLife Inc. (NYSE: MET), AFLAC Inc. (NYSE: AFL) and Principal Financial Group Inc. (NYSE: PFG). Deutsche Bank cited additional specific risk areas of concern regarding the industry. Those include balance sheet impairment, the possibility of a double dip recession and, as always, government regulation. They did indicate that an economic recovery and improvement in the yield curve (rising rates) could prove beneficial to the sector.
One interesting thing to note is the insurance industry is viewed as a high beta (volatility) sector. This is due in part to the companies being subject to weather-related and other natural disasters, like Superstorm Sandy, which ravaged parts of the East Coast. If you want an apples-to-apples comparison, that is really more pertaining to property and casualty insurance carriers. In life insurance, it boils down to balancing projected payments versus projected liabilities for 10 to 35 years (or more) into the future. Deutsche Bank suggests in its report that these names are much better viewed as short-term trade ideas rather than long-term investments. That is a rare call by any Wall St. firm.
Filed under: 24/7 Wall St. Wire, Analyst Calls, Banking & Finance, Personal Finance Tagged: AFL, DB, LNC, MET, PFG, PRU, UNM


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The Shuttle Columbia (STS 107) carried
the Shuttle Ozone Limb Sounding Experiment-2 (SOLSE-2) as a
demonstration of new technology that will be used on the next generation
of meteorological satellites to monitor ozone change. Current
instruments flying on NOAA and NASA satellites look directly downward
toward the Earth, which limits their ability to accurately measure ozone
in the lower layers of the stratosphere, the layer of atmosphere 10 to
50 kilometers (6.2 to 31 miles) in altitude. New technology called
"limb viewing" (depicted below) allows observation of the
atmosphere from the side rather than straight down. When viewed from the
side, the Earth looks like a flat circle, and the atmosphere appears
like a halo around it. This halo is known as Earth's
"limb." From that side view, the layers of the atmosphere
appear like layers in a cake, allowing instruments like SOLSE-2 to see
the lower layers of the stratosphere. This is important because most of
the recently observed ozone change, like the "ozone hole,"
occurs in the lower stratosphere.
To understand how SOLSE-2 is able to measure ozone in the stratosphere, remember that sunlight is composed of numerous different wavelengths of electromagnetic energy, and that the individual molecules in the atmosphere can either scatter that incoming light or absorb it. The way each component of the Earth's atmosphere interacts with sunlight is called the "absorption spectrum." Like fingerprints reveal the identities of people, the absorption spectrum of the atmosphere can be used to identify the various gases and particles in it. The ozone layer near the tangent point (the point in space at which the instrument's line of sight appears to touch the edge of the curve of the Earth) absorbs radiation at several wavelengths of light. SOLSE-2 infers the presence of ozone by using a spectrometer to separate the light it detects into individual wavelengths, and then measuring the relative absence of radiation at wavelengths that are strongly absorbed relative to wavelengths that are weakly absorbed.
The atmosphere is a blue haze that thins as it rises above the curve of the Earth's surface. Called the "limb," it provides a view of the structure of the atmosphere. Orbiting scientific instruments look at the limb to measure how the concentrations of trace gases vary with altitude. One of these instruments, the Shuttle Ozone Limb Sounding Experiment-2, flew in the cargo bay of the Space Shuttle Columbia on its final flight. (Image STS073-E-5113 courtesy NASA-JSC Gateway to Astronaut Photography of Earth.)
The graphs above show preliminary results from the SOLSE-2 experiment. The top panel illustrates the structure of the light—all the different wavelengths—detected by SOLSE at an altitude of 25 kilometers (15.5 miles) above the Earth. The dips in the line at specific wavelengths (listed along the horizontal axis) indicate that less light at those wavelengths made it back to SOLSE-2's detectors. The broad dip in the line near 600 nanometers (600 billionths of a meter) shows where ozone absorbed light most strongly, while the other wavelengths have more subtle dips. The narrow dip near 760 nanometers is absorption by oxygen.
The bottom panel is an ozone index that shows the amount of light in a triplet of wavelengths (one strongly absorbed relative to two weakly absorbed) detected by SOLSE-2 between 0 and 50 kilometers above the Earth. Where ozone is high, index values will be low because ozone absorbs the light, leaving less to be detected by the instrument. Index values (green diamonds) were lowest (farthest to left on the graph) around 20 kilometers above the Earth, which is just where years of research and model calculations indicate the "ozone layer" should be. Indeed, in both cases, SOLSE-2's measurements nearly duplicate what model calculations predict they should be in an atmosphere containing typical amounts of ozone. In the bottom panel, the red line shows the observations that atmospheric ozone models predict we should see; the blue line shows the observations that would be expected if the atmosphere contained no ozone.
The measurements made by the SOLSE-2 mission on the Space Shuttle Columbia demonstrated that the limb-sounding technique will work very well for monitoring ozone in next-generation satellites. Although the primary data storage for SOLSE-2 was on board Columbia and was therefore destroyed, data were sent down to Earth for about 15 minutes during each orbit, yielding about 40 percent of the data collected during the mission. That amount was more than sufficient to demonstrate that the experiment was successful. The efforts of the Columbia crew (Rick D. Husband, William C. McCool, Michael P. Anderson, David M. Brown, Kalpana Chawla, Laurel Blair Salton Clark, and Ilan Ramon) resulted in the collection of valuable scientific data that will help design future Earth-observation satellites. Tragically, the Columbia and her crew were lost during re-entry into Earth's atmosphere on February 1, 2003.


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Grow Me Plantable Ecofriendly - Dagdusheth Ganpati (16 inch)
Rs. 3,600
Plantable Eco Ganesha - Dagdusheth Ganeshji
Idol height: 16 inches
Delivery: Only in Mumbai & Navi Mumbai at extra cost
Seeds: Basil
Idol is made of 100% natural red clay so it will not damage the environment.
Visarjan of Ganapti idol can be done at home in any big pot, bucket or drum. You can also perform visarjan of the Ganapti in lake, river, sea or pond.
The idol has seeds in it, so after visarjan, you can put the entire dissolved clay in a pot to grow plants. We also provide a packet of basil seed along with the Ganeshji in case the visarjan is not done at home.
No harmful chemical, ink, colors used.


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'Bigfoot' sighting in China
BEIJING, China -- Chinese authorities are investigating several apparent sightings of a legendary 'ape-like' beast at a nature reserve in the central Hubei province.
The mythical creature, suspected by locals to be a 'Bigfoot', was apparently seen by six people, including a journalist in the Shennongjia Nature reserve on Sunday afternoon, the state-run Xinhua news agency reported.
Local legend has it that the reserve is home to the half-man, half-ape creature but several high-profile searches in the past three decades have failed to find any evidence of its existence.
Speculation the 'Bigfoot' could be a descendant of apes mounted after China's state media reported several years ago that scientist had found fossilized teeth of giant primates in the area.
The latest sighting described the creature as a grayish ape-like animal, the Xinhua report said, about 1.65-meters tall with shoulder length black hair.
A vehicle carrying the journalist and five others was making a turn when the occupants saw the creature moving fast across the road, the Xinhua report said.
By the time the vehicle had stopped, the animal had disappeared.
The passengers found several 30 centimeter-long (12 inches) footprints and newly broken branches in the jungle near the road, the report said.
They also claimed to have discovered a three-meter-long (9.9 feet) patch of "foul smelling urine-like liquid" on the road where the creature was seen.
While some scientists theorize the creature could be the missing link between primates and humans, other hypotheses say it may be a bear, monkey or an elaborate hoax.


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Passenger Attacks Flight Attendant With Nail Clippers
An Alitalia Flight heading to Rome from Paris was forced to make a detour stop in Libya on Sunday after a passenger grew increasingly agitated mid-journey.
According to CNN, flight attendants were eventually forced to immobilize the man after he tried attacking a flight attendant with his nail clippers.
The man was taken into police custody on arrival, and the remaining 131 passengers eventually landed safely in Rome.
The attacked flight attended was taken to the airport emergency room for a check-up.


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BlockArt Gutenberg Blocks – Best WordPress Gutenberg Block Plugin.
Packed with powerful features, BlockArt, offers a seamless website building experience. It offers six unique and responsive blocks to add. Moreover, you get a BlockArt Library comprised of Sections, Starter Packs, and Templates. Whether you're a skilled designer or a beginner at WordPress, BlockArt is for you.
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2.0.3 – 29-09-2023
- Enhancement: Update google fonts.
2.0.2 – 26-09-2023
- Fix – button block js error.
2.0.1 – 26-09-2023
- Feature – Option to add top separator on section block.
- Feature – Option to add bottom separator on section block.
- Feature – Option to change button hover style on button block.
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- Feature – Option to change button opacity.
- Feature – Option to change button position properties.
- Feature – Option to change button html tag.
- Feature – Option to enable button caption.
126.96.36.199 – 20-04-2023
- Fix – Block CSS generation issue.
2.0.0 – 17-04-2023
- Fix – React 18 render errors.
- Enhancement – CSS generation for blocks used with block themes.
- Enhancement – Dynamic CSS filename with timestamp to avoid browser caching issues.
1.1.4 – 27-02-2023
- Fix – Flickering issue while using block URL setting.
- FIx – Block issue while text is selected among multiple blocks.
- Enhancement – Tooltip component.
22.214.171.124 – 13-12-2022
- Fix – Blocks CSS issue added via customizer.
1.1.3 – 08-12-2022
- Fix – Block render issue in widget block editor.
- Fix – Block css generation issue in customizer.
- Fix – Possible PHP errors.
- Fix – Button block focus and active state colors issue.
1.1.2 – 22-09-2022
- Enhancement – Optimize dynamic blocks CSS.
- Fix – Background image setting not working.
1.1.1 – 20-09-2022
- Enhancement – Image block on frontend.
- Fix – Slider block control converting decimal to integer.
- Enhancement – Button block ability to group/stack multiple buttons
- Fix – CSS generation for blocks.
1.1.0 – 05-09-2022
- Fix – Button block icon size and gap settings not working.
- Enhancement – Inspector control tabs and panels.
- Fix – Widget blocks not generating CSS for latest changes.
- Fix – Compatibility issue with older version of WordPress.
1.0.9 – 23-08-2022
- Update – Minimum required WordPress version to 5.5.
1.0.8 – 23-08-2022
- Fix – Toolbar deprecated warning.
- Fix – Library data initial fetch issue.
- Enhancement – Show library data API connection detail error message.
1.0.7 – 08-08-2022
- Tweak – Image block editor improvement.
- Tweak – Blocks tab inspector control improvement.
- Fix – Button block icon alignment issue.
- Fix – Template/Section import issue.
1.0.6 – 17-06-2022
- Enhancement – Cache library data.
1.0.5 – 16-06-2022
- Update – Readme description.
- Enhancement – Library data error handling.
1.0.4 – 17-06-2022
- Enhancement – BlockArt templates and section library.
- Update – Header field
Tested up to.
- Fix – Possible block recovery issue.
- Fix – Widget block css issue.
1.0.3 – 23-02-2022
- Enhancement – Reusable block CSS.
- Added – Review notice.
1.0.2 – 25-01-2022
- Fix – Color palette in WP 5.9.
- Fix – Section block in WP 5.9.
- Fix – Dynamic CSS issues on editor in WP 5.9.
- Fix – Color Picker UI in WP 5.9.
- Fix – Library modal design in WP 5.9.
- Enhancement – Block layouts.
1.0.1 – 12-01-2022
- Fix – Library templates count.
- Enhancement – Section block alignment support.
- Enhancement – Widget block CSS generation and loading on frontend.
- Enhancement – Block settings on widget and customize screens.
- Fix – Block recovery issue on widget and customize screens.
- Enhancement – Copy and paste styles on older version of WordPress.
- Enhancement – Blocks live preview on customize screen.
- Enhancement – Section block editor CSS.
1.0.0 – 02-12-2021
- Initial release


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Friday, February 10, 2017
Hilarious Cat Book: "Stop Meowing and Go the F*ck to Sleep" By Rosa Silva Illustrated by Diana Necsulescu (With Give-Away!!!)
59 comments:
That sounds like a fun book!ReplyDelete
The only thing that got me to "shut the $% up" and go to sleep wuz leaving twinkle lights on. Year round. Good thing my momma duzn't require dark to sleep.ReplyDelete
Thank you Caren for such a wonderful review! I'm really happy that my book made you laugh! My goal when I wrote the book was just that - to make cat lovers have a good laugh because, like you wrote, we all know that sharing our lives with a cat is not just sunshine and roses.ReplyDeleteReplies
Rosa you are most welcome!! Oh I loved it!!! I learned an entirely new side of you that I NEVER knew (and I LOVE IT!) and you captured how we feel, it was just adorable, and the illustrations are purrfect!!!!! It was my pleasure to review it!Delete
It sounds like that book is about my Chris. :)ReplyDeleteReplies
Ha!!! Yes!!!! That is what is so great about it, we ALL know cats who this book could be about.Delete
Looks like a great book. I am in!ReplyDeleteReplies
It is!! Good luck to you!Delete
Oh, that sounds hilarious! Much as I love my cats, I am sometimes "inspired" to hurl some HBO words at them!ReplyDeleteReplies
It is! Thanks for your honesty because you make those of us, (like me) who often "hurl HBO words" feel less guilty!Delete
I love my cats dearly, but I really need to read this to them!ReplyDelete
I'm relieved to hear I'm not the only one who adores the furry little beasts dearly and at the same time gets really, really frustrated =)ReplyDelete
Sounds like a good read!Replies
Oh you are NOT alone!!!!!!! Poor Cody, you should hear what I say to him sometimes.... I am a MEAN MAMA!! lol!!!!!! If you entered, good luck! It's a world-wide give-away!Delete
Thanks for this wonderful giveaway. Mt cats are too needy, noisy, after me affection and never stop turning and getting in closer and pushing me towards the cliff.ReplyDeleteReplies
you are welcome!! lmao about "the cliff"Delete
Everything from headbutting me to trying to climb under the covers with us to chasing each other up and down the halls at 3am.ReplyDelete
I was lucky to have good kitties at night. So lucky.ReplyDelete
Have a purrfect day Cody. My best to your wonderful mom. ♥♥♥Replies
There are good kitties at night? YOU LIE!!!! Kidding!!!! You have a purrfect day too! xoxoDelete
I started laughing just reading the title of the book so I can imagine how funny the actual book is.ReplyDeleteReplies
I know, right? When I saw the title I KNEW it was a book for me lolDelete
I purchased my copy when I saw her announce it was on sale, so I won't enter your giveaway. But anyone who wins will surely love it!ReplyDeleteReplies
so happy that you loved it too!!!!!Delete
this title is hilarious and so very familiar! Cheers!ReplyDelete
OMG! This looks hilarious! WANT!ReplyDelete
In the passed I have never had a cat I have had to say that too lmao :-)ReplyDelete
Have a sleeptastic weekend :-)
Looks like a fun book!ReplyDelete
Purrs xx
Athena and Marie
We jump all over mom when she's trying to sleep cuz we want to play!ReplyDelete
I tried to put my address in but when I hit enter to make a new line, the box closed and I couldn't open it again to finish putting in my address. I can dm you via twitter with it if you like.Replies
thanks for the heads up...if your name is selected I will get a hold of you.Delete
I sure don't like the title though!ReplyDelete
That sounds like a very funny book!!ReplyDelete
I've read the original version, "Go the F*ck to Sleep," and if this one is anything like that, I'm sure it's hilarious!ReplyDelete
What a hilarious-sounding book, and we're sure someone will come out with one called, "Stop playing/walking all over the bed/scratching in the litter box/clawing at doors/pouncing on toes and go the f*ck to sleep!ReplyDelete
What a great book!ReplyDelete
Mes was serenading Mommy and our roommate Pat in the hallway between the bedrooms last night! Pat realized mes wanted to goes downstairs and it was too dark, so he turned on the light for mes! Mes went downstairs, realized that Mommy had turned off my heating bed, so mes comed back upstairs and sat right beside her face, and MEOWED right in her ear! Mommy said "Shut the F** up!". So mes did!
MOL MOL MOL Nellie!!!!!!! Even YOUR Mom says it! I LOVE IT!!!!! You are such a hilarious kitty Nellie, we love you and your Mom!! xoxoDelete
I definitely need this book.ReplyDelete
I can't tell you how many times I have yelled that to Frodo!! Last night in fact he carried his ducky up into bed and unfortunately it "sings" every time Frodo moves it-- Ducky's days are numbered!ReplyDelete
This book looks SO amazing! I have to confess though...Mudpie is a wonderful little sleeper, goes to bed when I do and stays with me until the alarm goes off! Don't be jealous :)ReplyDelete
When you have four cats! , some days can feel as though there is a conspiracy to make you lose your mind! ;p Sounds like a fun read :)ReplyDelete
the critters in the cottage xo
That may be a scenario that plays itself out here but then somemommy feels guilty and dishes out treats. She's wrapped around our paws!ReplyDelete
I love this book. I already have a copy so I will skip the giveaway.ReplyDelete
I don't have a cat, but one of my dogs is very cat-like in many ways. He demands to be up and fed at the first sign of movement in the morning (or earlier!) Knows right where to put his cold nose, too.ReplyDelete
That book sounds really funny. We used an app on Mommy's phone to color the pictures. It's called Recolor and it was free at the Play Store.ReplyDeleteReplies
Ahhhh, I thought so!!! Came out great! I just don't like doing it with the apps, I would rather do it the old-fashioned way, but yours came out great!Delete
Chimera baths me, Scylla bites me everybody else is polite and lets me sleep.ReplyDelete
I bet that book was written by a human type!ReplyDelete
We are just talking to you it only comes out "meow"...
Noodle and crew
I think we've all said things that are not fit for print when we're feeling sleep deprived.ReplyDelete
Yup...we can agree wholeheartedly!ReplyDelete
Our kitties have not ever been allowed in the bedrooms...so this might be less of a problem...but they are not creatures who are dumb by any means.
Several of them have learned that that little round thing on the door is the ticket to gaining entrance...and Minko is the latest to rattle the doorknob at night along with piteous mews about being abandoned...shucks go and take a cuddle with your brofur...or the dog, OK!! Just 'shut the F...up!'
Hilarious! You had me at hello and I simply must have this f*cking book of which I'm sure my Peanut inspired... Purrs from Deb and the Zee/Zoey gangReplyDeleteReplies
Your comment cracked me up!!! xoxo Good luck!!Delete
OMC did are hilarious!! Mama would fur sure love it ;)ReplyDelete
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Bwahaha! This book sounds flat-out hysterical! Thanks for the chance to win it, Caren and Cody. :) Hugs!ReplyDeleteReplies
It is and you are most welcome! ((((hugs))) back!Delete
Cats are cats. And we love them.ReplyDelete
Hisia is a sweet girl inside the house. The only moment I feel like "killing" her is when she doesn't want to eat the food that I want her to eat. How come something can be delicious one day and absolutly not edible the next day ???
Outside is another story. Sometime she is deaf !
This book sounds hilarious.
Douce soirée
Nat à Chat
Caren, this sounds totally hysterical. Mauricio is our constant talker, and I know that I've told him to shut up on many occasions. I will be reading this whether I win a copy or not. Thanks for the review. Hugs, JanetReplyDeleteReplies
It is!! MOL about Maurico!! he should get together with Cody, but then again, Cody ONLY talks when he is bugging us for food! (((hugs))) back!Delete


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Interview with Kam Williams
Jill Scott was born on April 4, 1972 in The City of Brotherly Love where she was raised by her mother, Joyce, and her maternal grandmother. A naturally-gifted child, Jill was speaking at 8 months and learned to read by the age of 4. She credits her mother for broadening her horizons by taking her to see plays and to museums during her childhood.
After graduating from the Philadelphia High School for Girls, Jill attended Temple University, working two jobs to put herself through college. She majored in English and planned to become a teacher, but dropped out of school after becoming disillusioned with the profession while spending time in the classroom as an assistant.
She started out in showbiz doing poetry readings, which is how she was discovered by drummer QuestLove of The Roots in 1999. He invited Jill to join the band in the studio where she collaborated with the group on writing their Grammy-winning hit, "You Got Me." This led to her being signed by the Hidden Beach label to record her debut album, "Who Is Jill Scott?" This launched Jill's phenomenally-successful musical career which has netted the sultry singer three Grammys thus far.
The talented triple threat has also published a book of poetry and made a phenomenal foray into acting via both the big and small screens. On TV, she's handled the lead role of Mma. Precious Ramotswe on the Emmy-nominated, Botswana-based, HBO series "The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency." Meanwhile, she's received additional critical acclaim for her work in such movies as "Hounddog" and "Why Did I Get Married?"
Here, she talks about returning to reprise the role of Sheila in the sequel to the latter, the latest modern morality play from Tyler Perry.
Kam Williams: Hi Jill, thanks so much for the time.
Jill Scott: My pleasure, thank you.
KW: Congrats on doing a great job in this sequel which I felt improved on the original.
JS: Thank you, I'm really excited abut it.
KW: How was it being reunited with everybody?
JS: It was so nice. It really was. It's just a pleasure to be around people that you like, and that you have a good understanding of. We clicked in the first film, and never really separated after we walked away from each other. We still called each other. "How're you doing?" "How ya' been?" "How's the kids?" "How's the wife?" And then, here it is a couple of years later, we're doing another film, and everybody just sank right back into character.
KW: Attorney Bernadette Beekman says she just loves your acting, and was wondering whether there are any plans to resume shooting "The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency."
JS: I certainly hope so. We've been talking to HBO about resuming. The reason why we didn't continue shooting was because I was pregnant and Mma. Ramotswe was not pregnant! [Chuckles] So, I had to wait until I had my child, and then once I did, I felt he was too young to travel on a plane for 16 hours. So, that was one of the reasons why we went on hiatus. At this point, we're looking at scripts, and trying to see how to continue the show because the feedback and excitement has been exceptional.
KW: Bernadette also says she thought your accent on the show was incredible, and almost did not believe it was you speaking. She wants to know how you perfected it.
JS: What's funny is that I spent about a month and a half learning the wrong accent. I didn't know it was wrong until after I arrived in Botswana. The Motswana people said, "What are you talking about? That is not a Botswana accent. You sound like you're from Zimbabwe." And they are very particular, if you are going to represent their culture. Their dialect is specific, so I had to unlearn everything I had learned, and then learn again.
KW: Why do you refer to the people of Botswana as the Motswana?
JS: You live in Botswana, you speak Setswana, and you are Motswana.
KW: Children's book author Irene Smalls would like to know, how has motherhood changed your views on life and career?
JS: Well, I am making an effort to truly live. I don't mean to imply by that that I haven't been alive before but, with my son being here and such a powerful force in my life, he's given me a freedom to be more. I think that sometimes we can get stuck, and just the fact that he's here says so much to me about my own existence. I didn't think I'd be able to have children, and this level of blessing is something I can't even put my finger on. I don't even know where to begin to describe the emotion. I feel like I have a lava stick in my spine that's propelling me forward to do larger things like going on tour with Maxwell, doing stadiums, and leaving my old record label to look for a new one that can support my new effort 100%. I appreciate my old label very much, but it's time to move forward. So, my son has given me the courage to get out of any box that I've been in.
KW: Larry Greenberg thinks your music is beautiful and as smooth as silk. He says, "Philly has produced more than its share of stunningly-talented artists. Do you think that growing up in Philadelphia has tempered your work?"
JS: Yes, this might sound terrible, but there has been segregation in Philadelphia for many years. The Italians live around Italians. The Greeks live around Greeks. Spanish people live around Spanish people, particularly Puerto Rican. And black people live around black people. That makes us culturally thick, because if you want to hear real Puerto Rican music, you go to Little Puerto Rico. If you want to eat real Italian food, you go to Little Italy. Everybody's welcome in any neighborhood in Philadelphia.
KW: It isn't like Boston where a black person couldn't even walk through an Irish or Italian neighborhood when I lived there.
JS: Well, in Philadelphia, you are welcome, and that's The City of Brotherly Love. I think that makes us culturally thick and sound, so you can experience all kinds of cultural authenticity.
KW: Laz Lyles says she hopes you plan to put out more poetry books. She has the first one and loves it. She wants to know, what's the way you've most changed, creatively since your first album?
JS: I think I've changed more as a person and, as I change as a person, there is new added creativity. I've seen more… I've met more people, done more things with dogs, and walked on more beaches since the beginning. The more I see, the more I wanna do; and the more I do, the more I wanna see.
KW: Laz also wanted to wish a happy birthday to you and your son, Jett. I know yours was April 4th. Happy Birthday! When's his?
JS: Thank you. His is the 20th.
KW: Is there any question no one ever asks you, that you wish someone would?
JS: Is there any question no one ever asks, that I wish someone would? Wow! If there is, I don't know what it is.
KW: The Tasha Smith question: Are you ever afraid?
JS: All the time.
KW: The Zane question: Do you have any regrets?
JS: Yes.
KW: The Columbus Short question: Are you happy?
JS: All the time.
KW: When you look in the mirror, what do you see?
JS: A woman.
KW: The bookworm Troy Johnson question: What was the last book you read?
JS: I read three at a time. One of the one's I'm reading right now is an autobiography, "The Secret Life of Salvador Dali."
KW: The music maven Heather Covington question: What was the last song you listened to?
JS: It was something really cool by an artist from DC. I can't remember his name.
KW: Was it Wale?
JS: Not Wale, his counterpart. A friend of mine played me his album in the car, and I found it really interesting.
KW: The Ling-Ju Yen question: What is your earliest childhood memory?
JS: Wow, that's another good one. Let me think… It was playing with my dog, Benji. He was my best friend.
KW: If you could have one wish instantly granted, what would that be for?
JS: You ask good questions! I like that. I would want a clean planet.
KW: Thanks again, Jill, for this opportunity to talk with you, and best of luck with everything.
JS: Thank you so much for the cool interview. Be well.


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I have attended services or been otherwise involved (writing obituaries) for three community leaders who passed on in recent months; former Pleasanton Mayor Ken Mercer, former City Councilwoman Karin Mohr and businessman and Taylor Family Foundation co-founder Barry Taylor.
Reflecting on what people said about each of them, there is one dominant fact: their love for family is what those closest to them will remember most.
Love of children and grandchildren and time spent with them is what was cited in each case.
When Elaine Taylor spoke at the well-attended memorial service for Barry, she cited the three most important gifts he gave her: adopting her young son as his own; giving her a daughter through their love and taking care of her aging parents as if they were his own.
Memories of Ken from a number of people who knew him well started with what a devoted father and grandfather he wasalways there for his grandkidsin victory and defeat on the sports fieldencouraging them and being present.
One friend mentioned how in recent months, he had started taking them out one-on-one (he has five) to focus individual attention on them and how rewarding it had been.
As the father of just one daughter, I can agree on how important called-out special times have been to us.
These recent events further solidified the comments I read in a Wall Street Journal New Year's column by Peggy Noonan. She had reached out to a number of public figure (media, politicians and others) for what was memorable about 2013. Invariably, the most important events concerned their own family (kids or grandkids)not their jobs or their interests.
There's a message in this for all of us.
Ken, at 71, and prior to his diagnosis very healthy, was taken way too soon. Same goes for Barry (fallen by a heart attack at 74again apparently quite healthy) and Karin (74, by a fall from a ladder while cleaning her guttersclimbing ladders at that age testifies to her physical health).
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