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Every now and then I struggle with the question of whether cancer will come back or if it is hiding inside of me and is just looking for an opportunity to plant its ugly, insidious self in some organ. I don't understand if the cancer went away or if it is just dormant. When it comes to breast cancer no one likes to tell you that you are cured, and when the word remission is used it just sounds like the cancer has gone into hiding.
Like most breast cancer survivors, I say things like "I had cancer," or "I don't have breast cancer anymore," but this doesn't speak to the actual status of cancer in my body. Some experts like to say that we all have cancer cells in our bodies — it is just a matter of whether it develops or not. I tested positive for the BRCA2 breast cancer mutation, which means that a part of the gene that prevents breast cancer from developing in the body is mutated. I still don't understand if that means it makes cancer or it allows cancer. This is all so confusing.
Every year I get further away from the breast cancer diagnosis that proved I was mortal. I now live through many days not even thinking about cancer. People don't see a breast cancer survivor when they look at me; it isn't written on my forehead. No one knows I had breast cancer unless I tell them, and I am telling fewer people these days. I am not keeping it a secret — I write about it here three times a week — but I am not thinking or talking about it as often. The subject just doesn't come up as much, and I think that is because I am not as preoccupied with breast cancer as I was in those first months and years following diagnosis.
I am not cured — at least, no one has said that I am. I have survived for 5 years and look and feel healthy. I am suspicious of the enemy though. I know cancer doesn't just go away. I know cancer is a killer and I know it killed members of my family. I am more susceptible because it already grew into a tumor in my breast. I know it spread to my lymph nodes and that it can spread again.
Cancer: I fear it, but I am not living my life in fear of it. Today is one of those days when it hits me that I have an enemy and it is out there somewhere. Or maybe it is in here somewhere. I just know that cancer is my enemy and I need to stay vigilant and be strong and have the courage to keep on living.


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Jenny marched into the house with armloads of colorful and sensuous folds of luxurious fabric draped over her arms and piled up to her chin. A bulky Nordstrom Rack shopping bag hung on her wrist, filled with a mish-mash of expensive looking shoes.
I'd known Jenny since we were 14. In high school, she was my constant companion as sidekick, confidante, and best friend. We'd stayed friends over the years, even though our lives took decidedly different turns. She went away to college, joined a sorority, got a degree, and found a high-profile sales job downtown. She drove a shiny, black, vintage BMW convertible, had weekly pedicures and manicures, and her bleached blonde tresses tended to on a regular basis at a salon. She tanned, drank cosmopolitan martinis with wealthy businessmen at the downtown hot spots during happy hour, and vacationed in Europe.
She also had the most amazing boobs. Her chest investment had paid off over the years, and she was wined and dined often by some of Portland's most powerful men. She even enjoyed a brief stint as the lover of a handsome and famous western-music troubadour. Compared to me, she was a celebrity and centerfold. Still, like her implants, we were the perfect pair. After several weeks of late night dinner parties and club socials, she'd come to my house to decompress. She would bring the wine, and I would provide the meatloaf and homemade mashed potatoes while she would regale me with her sex-in-the-city adventures.
After the kids kissed Auntie Jenny goodnight, we'd both slip into our sweats. Jenny's sported a Nike swoosh on the hip and she'd wear a cleavage-flattering tank, whereas mine were usually Hanes sweatpants with the drawstring waistband and tight elastic gathered at the ankles that made my body resemble a Jimmy Dean sausage link. I topped it off with one of Mike's XL hoodies emblazoned with a past softball team's logo. Jenny usually used her attire to frame her bust as though it were a great work of art, or at least a really good replica. I hid mine as strategically as possible because I likened my profile to an apple on a stick.
Jenny and I would arrange ourselves on my couch and stay up late, laughing at movies she'd brought over and played on her projector laptop from work. Our lives were almost the direct opposite of each other's, but our history and humor kept us tightly bound. She helped me remember how to laugh. She helped me remember what I was like before I became a wife and mother, what I was like when I had ideas and aspirations that went beyond figuring out which grocery store had the best coupons that week.
The kids were with my parents for the day, and Jenny had come over to be my stylist. Over the past few weeks of turmoil, she had come to my rescue. Her highly coiffed and polished exterior hid a heart of gold that far outshone her carefully gilded blonde highlights. She was always there for me, and her loyalty was unquestionable. One thing that always delighted and amazed me about our friendship was the intangible understanding, the almost psychic bond she had with me. Jenny knew things she shouldn't have, things I'd never told her about. She always called when I needed her. She called me moments after Mike had confessed on that awful Valentine's Day morning. After learning the devastating truth about Mike, I couldn't bear to see anyone with my face puffed and swollen that night, so I hid in my darkened house. Jenny again knew what I needed and she delivered. I found a brown bag with Kung Pao chicken and M&M's on my doorstep. Jenny didn't intrude and beg for salacious details. Instead, she gave me much needed time to process the news alone, while somehow knowing I also needed Chinese take-out and chocolate.
We spread the garments across my bed. Jenny's exquisite taste was apparent as I read the designer labels hidden inside the fully-lined, fitted jackets, blazers, cashmere sweaters, and perfectly tailored pants and skirts designed specifically to show off the feminine figure. Dana Buchman, Badgley Mischka, Elie Tahari, Banana Republic, and J.Crew were brands I'd only looked at before in catalogs, and if I was lucky, on the racks at Goodwill. Here they were, pressed and displayed across my bed as mix-and-match wardrobe essentials, and Jenny was guiding me through the process like a fairy-godmother-turned-personal-shopper. She tried everything on me, commenting on how different fabrics draped and hung on my slender, new figure and showed me how to piece together scarves, jewelry, shoes, and wraps. For the first time in a long time, I looked at myself in the mirror in my bathroom and was hopeful. With my friend's expertise and loving touch, I was starting to come out of the frumpy shell that had cloaked me for the past 14 years.
In addition to a new wardrobe changing my appearance, weight loss was an unexpected side effect of going through the traumatic end of my marriage. When people asked how I lost weight so quickly, I explained that emotional stress was the ideal diet enhancer. Perhaps crying fits burned a lot of calories, but I also wasn't eating like I used to. I had allowed myself to buy groceries at Trader Joe's and was eating things like yogurt and fresh vegetables instead of Hamburger Helper and half-gallons of Western Family ice cream. Sometimes, I just plain forgot to eat. When it did occur to me, I would often decide to just push through the hunger, making it a challenge. Finally, there was something in my life that I could control.
I was down to a size four. I never imagined I could fit into sleek designer clothes. She dressed me in outfit after outfit that made me look elegant, professional, and even sexy. I tried on every shoe in the bag and realized quickly the difference a gorgeous heel can make to the silhouette of a woman's leg, and how my feet looked much different in a peep-toe kitten heel and sheer seamed stockings than they had in secondhand Birkenstocks and tube socks. I couldn't help but imagine scenes from Looney Tunes cartoons, when Bugs cinched in his waist, curled his ears into a movie-star hair helmet, and slathered on red lipstick to his instantly full lips. I felt like Bugs Bunny in drag, but I looked more like Jessica Rabbit.
As the closing act in my femme fatale makeover, Jenny fussed with my hair, cut short at the neighborhood Supercuts, and spiked it with product that smelled like Hawaiian flowers and banana. Wisps of playful red hair framed my face. I felt like an injured bird being let out of the cage back into the wild, taking flight after being nurtured back to health.
The next day, I was going to walk into the culinary school where Jenny worked to try to land a spontaneous interview. I desperately needed a job, and she let me know about an opening at the school she worked at in the admissions department. She had told me that about 350 other résumés, just like mine, were in a stack on the Director of Admissions' desk, many of which had real sales and work experience and a full degree behind them. It didn't stop me, though. I had three children relying on me - three mouths to feed, three little heads to put a roof over, and most importantly, I wanted to finally provide my family with health insurance.
Mike had either been let go from or quit countless jobs since I'd known him. As a family, we never knew from one week to the next if the next ear infection, pink eye outbreak, or high fever would be covered by health insurance, and I was constantly fretting, not knowing for sure if I could call a doctor or take a child to the emergency room if necessary, due to Mike's erratic employment history. I remember applying for my family to be on the Oregon Health Plan emergency welfare insurance program a couple of times while married to him. It was embarrassing, but more importantly, it was necessary. Most of my neighbors and friends' children were covered by their husband's health insurance. I didn't know one parent that worried about that basic need other than me. It was a guilty secret, never knowing for sure if my children would be covered. Of course, I never knew for sure if I could pay the next utility bill, or even if I could afford milk, bread, and eggs. But not having health insurance for the kids petrified me more than anything else. I found myself, on more than one occasion, collecting the soda pop cans found in the neighborhood on walks with the children and trying to return Mike's empty Bud Light cans so I could afford a few groceries.
Never again, I told myself. To me, it would be a luxury not to worry about providing my family with the bare necessities like heat, food, a roof over our heads, health insurance, and dental insurance.
I needed my own job. I needed to be sure I could independently take care of myself and my children. The local culinary school was offering a salary of $34,000 per year, five thousand more than Mike had ever made at any of the multiple jobs he'd worked at since I'd been with him. I had to get it.
A week after Jenny had given the Director of Admissions my resumé, I still had not received a phone call. Desperate times called for desperate measures. I was going to visit him, unannounced, unexpected, and looking my best. I was determined to talk him into giving me the job. This unannounced visit to the Director of Admissions required an extra dose of audacity. I carefully wrapped my short and experience-slender resumé in a huge white gift box, tied it with an oversized royal blue ribbon, and begged my friend RJ to drive me to Portland for the day. I had never driven downtown, and the one-way streets and unfamiliar territory scared me. Not only did I need moral support, but I also needed a chauffer and someone to hang out with my children in the car while I pitched myself to a hiring executive in a borrowed suit. She graciously agreed, and arrived at my apartment with time to spare, smiling supportively.
RJ dropped me off at the front of the culinary school offices and hugged me reassuringly. Faith was asleep in her car-seat in the backseat of her minivan. Jackson and Claire sat looking out the window at the city they had never visited. I gave RJ a last squeeze, trying to glean any confidence from her that I could. Catching a reassuring look from her as we parted, I took a deep breath, threw back my shoulders, grabbed my enormous box with my tiny resumé, and stepped out onto the downtown city sidewalk.
Inside the twelve story office building, Margie, a middle-aged blonde, sparkly-eyed little lady, took an immediate liking to me for some reason. She giggled and ushered me into the Director's office after offering me puff pastries from the tray at her desk that the students refreshed daily. When I walked into his office, even though I still felt like an overweight, undersexed housewife, he treated me like the confident and professional woman that I had disguised myself as. After all, I don't think it was every day that a doe-eyed, hyperventilating woman in spiky red hair and suit came rushing into the office carrying an enormous gift box wrapped in an oversized blue ribbon. Without a question, he welcomed me into his office.
"Hi there. You look like Annette Benning!"
I smiled broadly. This interview was off to a good start. Confidence filled me, and after the 30 minute interview I left feeling very positive. Even though I didn't have a job offer, it wouldn't take long for the phone to ring with good news.
Walking back to the minivan, I caught a glimpse of myself in the department store window and did an immediate double take. Subconsciously, I expected to see my old self, the predictable, safe, forest green minivan of the woman that I used to be. Instead, looking back at me was a sleek new sports car. I couldn't help but stop and smile for a minute. I sashayed my hips and concentrated on walking in my borrowed high heels the rest of the way to the car where my kids were waiting for their smiling, and soon to be employed, mommy.
"The Makeover" is a chapter from my memoir Illumination - How One Woman Made Light of the Darkness. (For information on independent bookstores to purchase the book from, please visit http://www.sophiavanburen.com/Sophia_van_Buren/Books.html).

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Adjacent to the SOMC LIFE Center and connected by the atrium is the Friends Community Center, an 8600 sq. ft. facility with a stage and state-of-the-art audiovisual equipment installed in each of three connecting rooms. A permanently-installed dance floor is in the room which houses the stage. A licensed commercial kitchen is available for use as well as 500 place settings of china, glassware, and silverware. Serving plates, coffee servers, chafing racks, etc. are also available for use to persons using the facility.
A piano is available for entertainment purposes. The piano is located behind the stage and can only be used in Room A. The Friends' Community Center is the perfect place for all of your gathering needs. From business meetings to weddings, we have everything to make your event memorable.
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This group of dedicated, mostly-volunteer community members heads up a number of fund raising events year round.
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Date: 11 April 2018
Price: Free
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10.30am-11.30am: Rucksack of Rhymes
Join us for an hour of singing, stories and playtime for tiny tots. Explore a short poem by William Wordsworth through songs, rhymes and a story. We will sing some songs and tell some stories for 30 minutes then have play time and craft activities for another 30min. Activities for children age 6 months - 5 years and their families.
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(CNN) -- You can calm down now, Internet. Ben Affleck has gotten the original TV Batman's stamp of approval.
Adam West told People magazine at San Diego Comic-Con on Thursday that he has faith in Affleck's ability to carry the role of the Caped Crusader in the highly anticipated movie "Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice."
"My feeling is that Ben Affleck will be really good simply because he's a great talent," West said. "And I'd be very interested in seeing him in the role."
The release of a close-up shot of Affleck at Batman had Comic-Con has once again stirred debate about whether the role was miscast with the Academy Award winner.
One Twitter user posted a picture of an iceberg with the caption, "An Iceberg that looks like an old depressed Batman.....or Ben Affleck as it's now commonly known #BatmanvSuperman."
An Iceberg that looks like an old depressed Batman.....or Ben Affleck as it's now commonly known 😄 #BatmanvSuperman pic.twitter.com/OjLZZlZS0d— Nick (@ColossusNick) July 25, 2014
West, who played Batman in the TV series from 1966 to 1968, was on hand as Warner Home Video announced the coming release of the complete TV series on DVD and Blu-ray. The 85-year-old actor had some words of wisdom for Affleck.
"Just make the costume work for you, Ben," West said.
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The Hail Mary should not be part of the bidding prayers at Sunday Mass, Bishop Kieran Conry of Arundel and Brighton has told his clergy.
Bishop Conry wrote to his priests, saying: "Questions come up again and again about the inclusion of Marian prayers with the Prayers of the Faithful. There should be no Marian prayer at this point."
But a liturgical scholar has suggested that the use of the Hail Mary may be an acceptable "local expression of prayer".
Parish priests in Bishop Conry's diocese have asked those who prepare the bidding prayers to exclude the Hail Mary. "However, this should not in any way undermine the importance of devotion to Mary and we strongly encourage the use of Marian prayers in the home and other non-Eucharistic liturgies," said the newsletter of the parish of the Nativity of the Lord in Redhill, Surrey.
A spokesman for Bishop Conry said: "Bishop Kieran has recently reminded his clergy that the Hail Mary should not be included in the Prayers of the Faithful in line with the sample prayers provided in the Third Edition of the Roman Missal, the guidance provided by the bishops' conference liturgy office, and his own previous Guidelines for Prayers of the Faithful issued in 2005."
The guidelines state: "The Roman Rite does not, in fact, envisage the inclusion of devotional prayers in the Prayer of the Faithful. Following a medieval practice in England, the Hail Mary has been customarily said after the final intercession. Properly understood, a set of prayers directed to the Father, through the Son and in the power of the Holy Spirit, contains no obvious place for prayers to the saints. This is why, some years ago, the Holy See wrote to the Bishops of England and Wales advising that such devotional prayer should not have a place in the Prayer of the Faithful. The Holy See asked that the, by then, widespread practice be gradually and gently discouraged."
Bishop Conry also told his clergy that "when the papal Masses for Pope Benedict's visit in England were being prepared any set of Intercessions that were sent to Rome that included the Hail Mary were returned with this prayer removed".
The diocesan spokesman added: "In offering this advice to his clergy Bishop Kieran is endeavouring to follow the mind of the Universal Church and encouraging them to do likewise."
Prof David Fagerberg, author of Mary in the Liturgy, said that because the practice of including the Hail Mary was widespread in England but not elsewhere, there was a tension between national and universal practices.
He said: "Need things be the same in all countries? In matters of popular piety and devotion, certainly not. But the case of the official liturgy is different. So the question turns on this: is the use of the Hail Mary a local expression of prayer, or does it become a liturgical formula, part of the cultic act of the Church?"
He added: "We have suffered many decades of a false opposition between liturgy and devotion, with some liturgical scholars looking down their noses on Marian devotion. I would hope none of that is involved here."


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(CNN) -- Zhang Xin is a billionaire property magnate, has been named one of the world's most powerful women and has played a large role in transforming Beijing's architectural landscape.
Zhang's company Soho China is transforming whole areas of the Chinese capital.
At 43, Zhang has made a name for herself bringing hip, urban architecture to Beijing's previously gray and drab skyline, and making a lot of money while at it.
She co-founded her property development company Soho China -- which stands for Small Office, Home Office -- with her husband Pan Shiyi in 1995. When it went public in 2007, it had raised $1.9 billion.
Wealthy, stylish and dynamic, Zhang and Pan are the embodiment of middle-class Chinese aspirations of wealth and success.
However, Zhang's own path to success includes an itinerant childhood and working in a Hong Kong sweatshop when she was only 14 years old.
Zhang's parents came from a long line of Chinese immigrants who lived in Burma but moved back to Beijing, taking jobs in the Bureau of Foreign Languages. They later separated when Zhang was only 5 years old. Zhang and her mother relocated regularly until they finally settled in Hong Kong. Zhang, then aged 14, worked in a garment factory, while learning English at a secretarial college.
She managed to get a scholarship to study economics at the University of Sussex in England and went on to gain a masters degree from Cambridge. Head-hunters from an investment bank offered her a job on Wall Street where Zhang worked until 1994, when the lure of being part of China's rapid transformation and economic boom became too great. Watch Zhang speak abouth the Beijing property market »
She returned to Beijing where she met Pan and joined Vanatone in 1995, the property company he co-founded. The pair set up their own company that became Soho China and have since embarked on a number of projects -- One of their first was a boutique hotel by the Great Wall of China.
Since then, Zhang has fostered her passion for architecture and design and invited a number of internationally renowned architects and artists to work with them, including Riken Yamamoto, Patrick Schumacher and Ai Weiwei.
Soho China's Jianwai project in Beijing's Chaoyang district was completed in 2007. The mix of business and residential towers has transformed a previously run-down and depressed area in the east of the city into one of its most appealing areas for young aspiring professionals.
Last year, Forbes listed Zhang as #19 on their list of the 400 richest Chinese, with a net worth of $1.21 billion. Even in the current tough economic climate, Zhang and Soho China have a bright outlook for 2009 and beyond.


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Torrington officials giving away rain barrels, compost bins this fall
TORRINGTON >> It's raining free barrels and bins in Torrington.
Officials in City Hall have announced a second round of giving away 16 rain barrels, along with 16 compost bins, through a lottery next month.
The Torrington Conservation Committee is taking entries until Nov. 14, with lottery tickets available in the city's Land Use office and Mayor's office inside City Hall. Entries are free and the winners will be announced Nov. 15 at the committee's meeting, although winners don't have to be present to win.
The give away is funded through a Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection grant and available to all Torrington residents.
Only one entry per address is allowed.
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Governor Jerry Brown and environmentalists are at odds over the Governor's recent approval of a bill that will streamline the environmental impact review process for large scale construction projects.
The Governor recently signed a bill that would speed up the process for building a new football stadium in Downtown Los Angeles, making the argument the state is top-heavy with environmental regulations.
"I can tell you as Governor when I'm signing hundreds of bills, we have too many laws, and too many rules," Brown said. "We've got to shake things up, we got to pave the way to put people back to work."
But have tough economic times put environmental regulations on the back burner in favor of big business?
The Sierra Club thinks so and has opposed Brown's move to accelerate AEG's plans to build an NFL stadium called Farmer's Field.
The bill would call for any lawsuits against projects like Farmer's Field to go directly to an appeals court, allowing only 175 days to resolve the complaints.
The Sierra Club argues that by removing the local courts from the process, the public will have no leverage for negotiating better pollution controls, traffic controls, and better community services for their neighborhood.
But Senator Alex Padilla (D-San Ferndando Valley) disagrees.
"We're not skirting environmental laws," said Padilla. "We need this for providing a little bit more certainty, a little more light at the end of the tunnel for developers of significant-sized projects liked this."
Padilla said the process still requires a full environmental impact study and actually improves transparency in the process.
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More on the battle between the proposed NFL stadium and environmentalists:
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This week's scripture passages are Matthew 1:18-25; 2:13-15, 19-23
This week's lesson is the third in a series titled "Christmas – A Season of Obedience". Pastor Chuck presented the teacher's training this week, and the audio from that session is below. You can either click on the audio player below, or you can click on the link underneath to download the .mp3 file to your own computer. Once you have listened to the audio, please let us know by filling out the comment section.
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NEW YORK - From the Irish pubs of Stockholm to bustling Koreatown in Los Angeles, expat Olympic fans around the world are following - or trying to follow - their favorite back-home athletes, an often lonely and difficult pursuit in our otherwise connected world.
At Mike's Place, a popular hangout in downtown Jerusalem where the American, British and Canadian flags fly alongside that of Israel, Beto Capon took in women's swimming. The 25-year-old call center worker from Mexico City who's been living in Israel for four years still roots for Mexico when the Olympics roll around.
"Watching the Olympics from here is weird for me," said Capon
"Here I don't have fans to share the experience with," he said.
Steve McCready, 52, was jollier at Dubliner's in central Stockholm for the boxing match between Ireland and Germany.
Fifteen years in Sweden, the construction worker is soaking up six to seven hours a day of the London Games thanks to the pub's satellite TV and the company of fellow Irishmen. Irish badminton? He was watching.
"Of course you want to follow your home country. If Ireland is competing you want to see them, especially if they do well," McCready said Thursday.
But he's not bothered by the Olympic-viewing eccentricities of his adopted Sweden.
"You have to accept that in any country you're living in, they will concentrate on their own teams and favorite sports," he said. "Take handball, for example. The Swedes love it, so there's going to be a lot of that."
Asa Ibrahim, a spokeswoman for the municipality of Sodertalje, said in her area's large Iraqi and Somali immigrant neighborhoods people prefer to watch Olympic events at home - with friends.
"There are places here where just about every balcony has one or two satellite dishes. They do that to get their home country's channels, but then they also invite each other over to watch things together," Ibrahim said. "People here prefer to go to each other's houses."
Aside from pubs and satellite dishes, some sports fans far from their homelands are resorting to video online, thanks to healthy bandwidth and programs like the Expat Shield, which helps users hide their IP addresses to bypass restrictions on who has legal permission to show the games - and where.
One place where viewers in the U.S. can follow more international teams is on Telemundo. The Spanish-language network owned by NBCUniversal has exclusive TV rights in the U.S. to Olympic coverage in Spanish.
"We are only showing trials that are relevant to Hispanics in the U.S., and that doesn't just mean U.S. Hispanics, but to the broader Hispanic community," said Telemundo spokesman Camilo Pino.
That has meant following athletes ranging from Cuban-American gymnast Daniel Leyva of Miami to Argentine tennis player Juan Martin Del Potro, and Mexican synchronized divers German Sanchez and Ivan Garcia, who took home a silver, the country's first medal in the sport.
At the It's Boba Time cafe in Los Angeles, immigrants and university students sucked tapioca balls and milk tea through fat straws Wednesday, some looking for the Olympics the old-fashioned way, thumbing through Korean-language newspapers with color photos of judo and fencing stars on their front pages.
Staring intently at his laptop, 49-year-old Joon Ha of California watched the finals of sports South Korea is competitive in - judo, fencing, shooting, archery - via downloads from Korean television websites.
NBC's coverage out of London hasn't included many Korean athletes, but that doesn't upset him.
"The United States is a very big country, and it's understandable that there are so many games they compete in that having the games of this one country on television will occupy all the programming," he said.
That's a sore subject with British expats who were outraged when the BBC blocked non-UK users from accessing Web streams of some popular radio programs due to International Olympic Committee rights demands.
After a deluge of complaints, the BBC announced that it had negotiated with the IOC to allow non-UK users access to all but a few Web streams. The reasoning: Although the shows do feature Olympic content, it isn't broadcast live and makes up a minority of programming.
Ironically, if you're in a country where the IOC didn't sell exclusive rights to broadcast the games, you stand a better chance of being able to watch the events you're interested in than if you're in countries like France, Japan or Mexico where it did. That's because the IOC is providing its own free YouTube live stream of the games in 64 nations across Asia and Africa.
In Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Zambia, Zimbabwe and elsewhere, fans can watch 10 live streams as well as highlights, provided they can access highspeed Internet.
The importance of Internet and mobile viewing hasn't been lost on the IOC. It said in a statement that it expects the number of hours broadcast online and on mobile platforms globally to exceed television coverage for the first time during the London Games.
Fans of American sports such as baseball and basketball have long found ways to get around territory restrictions by using so-called proxy computers in the U.S., or signing up to U.S.-based virtual private networks, or VPNs. Such networks make computers appear to be in the United States, for a charge of about $10 per month.
Colin Manning, an Irishman who has lived in Germany for more than a decade, remains an avid fan of Olympic sports back home. He has turned to the gray area of VPNs to access the Irish broadcaster RTE and fumes about the restrictions as "completely mad in the digital age."
"They are still operating in this broadcaster mode where the signal is completely controllable," said the 51-year-old computer scientist as he sat in a Berlin cafe. "There is no concept of saying `Colin Manning is in Berlin and he wants to buy this package from us. Let's sell it to him.'"
At the Chinatown branch of the San Francisco Public Library, 22-year-old Kevin Liao is all about broadband for the Olympics. Flipping through a Chinese comic book, the Chinese emigre of two years had no complaints about the U.S.-centric coverage during NBC's prime time.
"NBC is on the TV. I don't like watching TV," he said. "On the Chinese sites, I can get my full coverage of how Chinese teams are doing but still get a little bit of how American teams are doing."
Miao Liu, a 21-year-old sophomore at American University in Washington, D.C., and a native of Shenzhen, China, said she gave up on NBC's coverage because of the decision to broadcast the opening ceremonies on tape delay. She, too, has been watching the Olympics online, streaming coverage from China's CCTV network, and she's been pleased with it.
"They show the entire competition, but obviously they will talk more about our athletes," Liu said.
NBC's coverage could benefit from a more international approach, she said. "It seems a little weird since America is an immigrant country and so diverse."
While the commentary on NBC is U.S.-focused, customers at The Australian, a sports bar with kangaroo steaks on the menu in Manhattan's Garment District, can watch Australian commercial television.
That's just what four 20-something vacationing friends from Down Under were looking for. They sipped drinks and munched on lunch Thursday, waiting for Australian swimmer Mitch Larkin to compete while the rest of America was honed in on American Ryan Lochte.
"A lot of bars claimed they were showing everything, but it was just NBC," said Ian Anderson, a 27-year-old from Perth.
Tasari Wossen, a 73-year-old native of Ethiopia who lives in Washington, said he was dismayed by NBC's focus on American athletes - and not optimistic that he would get an opportunity to see his countrymen compete in distance-running events.
"For a country that says it's about freedom of speech and balanced coverage to completely ignore the rest of the world goes against the Olympic spirit for me," said Wossen, a freelance journalist. "I don't think it benefits the American public. It's very narrow-minded."
Blake Sobczak in Jerusalem, Louise Nordstrom in Stockholm, Frank Jordans in Berlin, Frank Bajak in Lima, Shaya Tayefe Mohajer in Los Angeles, Verena Dobnik in New York, Ben Nuckols in Washington, D.C., Fenit Nirappil in San Francisco and Laura Wides-Munoz in Miami contributed to this report.


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And the 2012 Pulitzer for Fiction goes to... no one! "[I]n allowing the selection process to become hamstrung, the Pulitzer jury and board have denied laurels to a novelist, something there are already too few of these days," says Bethanne Patrick at BookRiot; judge Maureen Corrigan shared her anger at the WaPo, and Ann Pratchett feels "disappointment as a writer and indignation as a reader," but manages "to get all the way to rage as a bookseller."
- Josi S. Kilpack talks about the rejections that writers face from people they care about.
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- A professor shares the fiction-writing process books he used to unlearn his "worst academic habits."
- Rachelle Gardner shares tips on how to title your book.
- The latest installment of "BACK UP YOUR WORK" warning articles: Author loses 5,000 book library + his current WIP in garden shed fire. (via Sarah Weinman)
- Look, I know this is going to be upsetting to some of you, but Frost was joking about the importance of the road less traveled. I found that out from a professor who gleefully made fun of our freshman optimism, but you can take a less annoying route: see that and nine more of the "most misunderstood lines" in literary history (via Kate Testerman).
- The Atlantic Wire has kicked off a new "YA for Grownups" series with Jen Doll's list of the greatest girl YA characters. (You might also check out "What Does Young Adult Mean," for help answering that irritating "you mean like Twilight?" question.)
- If Goodreads is not your thing, you might try Curated Children's Books for reading suggestions-- or sign up to be a curator yourself.
- Bookshelvers Anonymous wonders if classics are a lost cause.
- Our friend Capillya Uptergrove says, "Teens deserve good cover design too!"
- Spamazon. Mockbusters. Pick your favorite pun, but double check that title before you buy books from Amazon.
- The Justice Department's case against publishing is "the modern equivalent of taking on Standard Oil but breaking up Ed's Gas 'N' Groceries on Route 19 instead," says the NYT.
- Concerned about all these lawsuits and piracy and end of publishing predictions? Chuck Wendig has your guide to preparing for the end.
- I don't understand how this works, but Audible opened a $20m fund that will reward authors for using social media. (via Rachel Stark)
- Author Kim Strickland is mad because PW's "scathing" reviews of self-published books are so well-written that authors can't even manipulate a pull quote into something positive... which is somehow unfair.
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- Author Liz Coley saves you from death by taxes.
- Editor Diana Gill, agent Ginger Clark, and Publicity Director Pamela Spengler-Jaffee did an AMA at Reddit this week. (You can practically see Diana blushing through the screen when "weinerjuicer" gave her a "marry, boff, kill" question.)
- Announcements you might want to check out:
- Francis Lawrence, who most recently helmed Like Water For Elephants, has been offered the job of directing Catching Fire.
- It's tornado season in my neck of the woods. Jim McDonald has a great post about shelter safety (which might also be helpful if your story involves storms).
- Long but interesting post about email and online security at The Atlantic (tl;dr: turn on your Google 2-step verification and don't use a stupid password).
- "There is nothing worse than being a girl. I'm not saying this as a former girl- I quite liked being a girl. I'm saying this from the POV of the entire rest of the world." Mur Lafferty's fantastic letter to her daughter (via Liz Czukas)
- Emily Asher-Perrin at Tor exhorts movie poster makers (and I'm assuming, by extension, cover designers) to please stop taking this picture.
- Lots of interesting discussion centered around TV this week. "The Bachelor" is getting sued for racial discrimination, since they've managed to air TWENTY THREE seasons without a bachelor/ette of color. Dodai Stewart at Jezebel says we need to keep talking about the white girls on HBO's new series "Girls;" while "Girls" writer Lesley Arfin learned there's no such thing as ironic racism, and creator Lena Durham talked trash about "airport chick lit."
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I am a BCGS member (1593) – can you please send me a password to access the member only section. Thanks. Moyna Laing
Note that the commercial/$ websites mentioned here usually offer some free information or services.
The French Genealogy Blog: http://french-genealogy.typepad.com Anne Morddel of The French Genealogy Blog has published a book,French Genealogy from Afar (2013).
French Genealogy & Family History, About.com. Includes a tutorial for beginners, a guide to civil registration in France since 1792 and lists of contact information for each of the archives in France and for societies and groups that may be of assistance: http://genealogy.about.com/od/france/French_Genealogy_Family_History.htm
Genealogy of France, Inter-Service des Archives de France, information and links to databases: http://www.france-genealogie.fr
Archives de France: http://www.archivesdefrance.culture.gouv.fr Includes notarys' and naturalization, military records and more.
Archives Nationales d'Outre-Mer (Overseas Territories Archives): http://www.archivesnationales.culture.gouv.fr/anom/fr/index.html
France, GenWeb: http://www.francegenweb.org/
La Revue Français de Généalogie: http://www.rfgenealogie.com/
Ancestry.com, $, includes BMD and some electoral rolls for Paris: http://www.ancestry.com
World Vital Records, $: www.worldvitalrecords.com
GeneaNet, includes guide to French records, members' trees, indexes of French family history societies, French old local newspapers. $: http://en.geneanet.org
Guide de genealogie. $ www.guide-genealogie.com/
Haute-Marne, France Archives: http://archives.haute-marne.fr Images of original civil registers and census records.
Haute Corse, France Archives, scanned vital records 1793 to 1902, Commons of Upper Corsica : http://www.cg2b.fr/site/index.php?page=l-etat-civil-en-ligne
Genealogical Centre of Haute-Marne, transcriptions of civil and other records:
The second website, http://www.actes52.fr/ Genealogical Centre of Haute-Marne, main website: http://www.actes52.fr/52genealogie
French Republican Calendar, Philippe Chapelin, généalogiste http://www.gefrance.com/calrep/calen.htm
1804 French Civil Code, translated INto English,the Napoleon Series website: http://www.napoleon-series.org/research/government/c_code.html
FamilySearch has more information on researching in France, including 2 courses, one on Beginning Research in France and one on Reading French Handwritten Records: https://familysearch.org/blog/en/searching-french-family-history-records
See also the Archives nationales above.
Légion d'honneur database, 1802- (includes those deceased to 1977): http://www.culture.gouv.fr/documentation/leonore/accueil.htm
France, Societies, FamilySearch. Includes related societies, for example, for Huguenot research: http://familysearch.org/learn/wiki/en/France_Societies
I am a BCGS member (1593) – can you please send me a password to access the member only section. Thanks. Moyna Laing


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BOSTON — University of New Hampshire head football coach Sean McDonnell has been recognized as the Division I FCS Coach of the Year by the New England Football Writers. McDonnell, who earns the award for the fourth time in his career, will be honored at the N.E. Football Writers Annual Awards and Captains Banquet tonight at the Montvale Plaza in Stoneham, Mass.
The 14th-year head coach, who was previously feted in 2005, '08 and '10, claims this honor the same week he was tabbed the AFCA Regional Coach of the Year for the third time in his career (2004, '05). McDonnell guided the Wildcats to a co-CAA championship for the second time (2005) with a 6-2 league record, and the 'Cats closed out the season with an 8-4 overall mark following Saturday's 23-7 loss at Wofford College in the second round of the NCAA Division I FCS Championship.
McDonnell, who secured his 100th career coaching triumph at Georgia State on Oct. 6, has posted a 104-66 record to become the second-winningest coach in school history, trailing only his mentor Bill Bowes (175-106-5) in overall victories.
He was the Eddie Robinson National Coach of the Year recipient in 2005 and has been crowned the Gridiron Club of Greater Boston Head Coach of the Year in 2000, '04 and '09.
Under McDonnell's leadership, the No. 11/13 Wildcats have strung together a nation-leading nine straight trips to the NCAA playoffs and have been ranked in the Top 25 for a staggering 125 consecutive polls, the nation's longest streak that dates back to Sept. 13, 2004.
Former UNH head coaches Chief Boston (1962), Joe Yukica (1967) and Bowes (1994) previously received this award, which has been handed out annually since 1953.
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – After a strong performance at the first meet of the season, sophomore James Anderson of the University of New Hampshire men's indoor track & field team was named the America East track performer of the week, announced by the league Tuesday afternoon.
Anderson began his sophomore campaign by cruising to a victory in the 800-meter run at the Jay Carisella Invitational. Besting a field of 11 runners, Anderson's time of 1:54.94 was nearly three seconds better than the runner-up. It is also currently the seventh-best time in the country and the best time in the America East.
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I just read the wikipedia page
But I don't understand how to get this formula:
$$\rho(\mathbf{x}) = \frac{1}{4\pi G}\Delta V(\mathbf{x})$$
Can anyone tell me why?
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I just read the wikipedia page
But I don't understand how to get this formula:
$$\rho(\mathbf{x}) = \frac{1}{4\pi G}\Delta V(\mathbf{x})$$
Can anyone tell me why?
This equation comes most simply from the following two: $$ {\bf g}=-\nabla V, $$ $$ \nabla\cdot{\bf g}=-4\pi G\rho. $$ Plut the first one into the second, and you're done.
Of course, the natural next question is where those two equations come from. The first one is the relationship between the gravitational field ${\bf g}$ and the gravitational potential $V$. It's pretty much the definition of gravitational potential.
The second one is Gauss's Law for gravitational fields. It follows from the inverse-square law. Wikipedia gives a derivation. (That derivation is for electric fields and potentials, rather than gravitational ones, but if you just replace ${\bf E}$ with $-{\bf g}$ and "charge" with "mass," it's exactly the same.)
$\Delta=\nabla^2$ is the Laplace operator. So from $V(\textbf{x})=-G\int_{\mathbb{R}^3}\frac{1}{|\textbf{x}-\textbf{r}|}\rho(\textbf{r})dv(\textbf{r})$ we have:
$\Delta V(\textbf{x})=-G\int_{\mathbb{R}^3}\left(\nabla\cdot\nabla\frac{1}{|\textbf{x}-\textbf{r}|}\right)\rho(\textbf{r})dv(\textbf{r})$
But it's easy to show that $\nabla\frac{1}{|\textbf{x}-\textbf{r}|}=-\frac{\textbf{x}-\textbf{r}}{|\textbf{x}-\textbf{r}|^3}$ and $\nabla\cdot\left(\frac{\textbf{x}-\textbf{r}}{|\textbf{x}-\textbf{r}|^3}\right)=4\pi\delta^3(\textbf{x}-\textbf{r})$
(tell me if you need help with this)
$\Delta V(\textbf{x})=G\int_{\mathbb{R}^3}4\pi\delta^3(\textbf{x}-\textbf{r})\rho(\textbf{r})dv(\textbf{r})=4\pi G \rho(\textbf{x})$


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- Stretch Films, Wang Film Productions
- Cartoon Network
- Courage the Cowardly Dog Episode Guide
- Cartoon Characters: Courage, Muriel Bagge, Eustace Bagge, The Computer, Ma Bagge, Precious, Wonderful, Adorable, Lovable Duckling.
- Vocal Talent: Marty Grabstein (Courage), Thea White (Muriel Bagge), Lionel Wilson [Lionel G. Wilson] (Eustace Bagge), Simon Prebble (The Computer), Billie Lou Watt (Ma Bagge), Arnold Stang (Precious, Wonderful, Adorable, Lovable Duckling), Peter Fernandez, Gerrianne Raphael, Dennis Predovic.
- Directed By John Dilworth.
- Produced By Robert Winthrop.
Executive Producer: John R. Dilworth.
Associate Producer: Risa Neuwirth.
- Written By Irvin S. Bauer.
Staff Writer: William Hohauser.
Head Writer: David Steven Cohen.
Story Supervisor: John R. Dilworth.
- Music By Jody Gray, Andy Ezrin.
- Production Manager: Barbara Jean Kearney.
- Executives in Charge of Production: Jay Bastian, Linda Simensky.
- Senior Story Consultant: Irvin S. Bauer.
- Foley Artists: Gregg Barbanell, Vincent Guisetti.
- Sound Editor: Douglas Hinton.
- Sound Re-Recording Mixers: Richard Fairbanks, Michele Woods.
- Recording Director: Peter Fernandez.
- Voice Director: Peter Fernandez.
- Design Supervisor: Tim Chi Ly.
- Design: John Allemand, Jeff Brennan, Jim P. Dilworth, Kevin Kobasic, Pilar C. Newton, Ramses, Andy Smith, Martin Wittig, Jose Andres Velasco.
- Walk Cycles: Ray Da Silva, Tony Eastman, David Wachtenheim.
- Mouth Charts: Janet Benn, John Paratore, Martin Wittig.
- Additional Design: Pictor Entertainment, Inc.
- Storyboard Supervisor: Bob Miller.
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- Recording: Pharoah Editorial.
- Record Engineer: Richard Fairbanks.
- Dialog Editor: Peter Roos.
- Casting: Donald Case Casting, Inc.
- Production Coordinator: Randall Grant.
- Production Assistants: Stephen Parker, Maria Fernanda Urgelles.
- Production Support: Robert Bandel, R. Theodore Brown, Martin Fullone, Daryle Lockhart, Tara Purrone, Nelson Magallanes.
- Production Assistant: Daryle Lockhart.
- Assistant To Mr. Dilworth: Joanne R. Bongiorno.
- Art Director: John R. Dilworth.
- Color Stylists: Andrew Covalt, Dai Dai, Fida Hamze Reuter, Margaret Frey, Lee Stacy.
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- Main Title: John R. Dilworth.
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In a revelatory performance, Charlize Theron stars in the shocking and moving true-life story of Aileen Wuornos, a prostitute executed last year in Florida after being convicted of murdering six men. While Wuornos confessed to the six murders, including a policeman, she claimed to have killed only in self-defense, resisting violent assaults while working as a prostitute.
Bravely burrowing beneath the tabloid headlines about America's first female serial killer—and the media's sordid designation of Wuornos as an unrepentant monster—in the midst of the horrors and pathologies, first-time writer-director Patty Jenkins unearths an unlikely love story between two misfits.
Nearing suicidal despair, Wuornos wanders into a Florida bar, where she meets Selby Wall (Christina Ricci), a young woman sent by her parents to live with an aunt in order to "cure her homosexuality." Wuornos—victim of a tragic, abusive upbringing—quickly falls in love, and clings to Selby like a life preserver. Unable to find a legitimate job but desperate to sustain her relationship with Selby, Wuornos continues working as a prostitute. When one of her johns turns violent, Wuornos shoots the man in self-defense; the first in her tragic string of killings.
Shot in many of the actual locations where Wuornos committed her crimes between 1989-90, in its grittiness, verisimilitude, and hard-won empathy for its antihero, Monster is reminiscent of the great, iconoclastic American films of the '60s and '70s. Co-starring Bruce Dern, Monster succeeds as searing social commentary, road movie, and, most profoundly, as love story. Theron's ferocious, fully-committed work—astounding physical transformation matched by unerring psychological acuity—is sure to surprise audiences familiar with her work, and in writer-director Jenkins, Monster heralds a major new filmmaking talent.


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THE MUNICIPAL ADVISORY BOARD A sense of fiscal limits The real world of politics and municipal finance was brought to the research study by a Municipal Advisory Board of mayors, municipal officials, government experts, and academic scholars. The Board offered guidance to the research staff on the direction, scope, and focus of the study. The following edited transcript reflects concerns expressed at an August meeting of the board. Participating in this portion of the discussion were: Fred Armstrong, controller, Indianapolis, Ind.; Peter Bearse, Princeton University; Clark Burris, controller, Chicago, III.; Arthur Holland, mayor, Trenton, N.J.; Walter Kelleher, former mayor, Maiden, Mass.; Arthur Naftalin, former mayor, Minneapolis, Minn.; Mason Neely, finance director, East Brunswick, N.J.; and Florence Rubin, League of Women Voters. The moderators were: James Howell, First National Bank of Boston, and Charles Stamm, Touche Ross. BEARSE: The basic question is: what do we really mean by fiscal stress? We need to come up with indicators for people on the firing line. What kind of data, what kind of information system does one need in order to manage a city's financial affairs? Perhaps it's a matter of looking at the behavior of a city over a period of years and asking: what are the warning signals, and what should I do in response to them? Take the pension fund problem. People who have Rubin worked on this recognize that we've got a time bomb here. Another warning signal can be the rise in short-term debt. NEELY: And what about your long-term debt that is authorized but not issued? How much hidden debt is there out there, because people are afraid they're going to lose their rating or they won't be able to issue the debt. Instead, they're building progress out of borrowed funds or fund surpluses, and this authorized debt doesn't show up on the balance sheets. It's just not recorded. ARMSTRONG: There's also the question of whether it is social factors or economic factors that are causing your fiscal stress. Indianapolis used to have a strong welfare program with a year's residence requirement, and you had to have a meaningful job as a taxpayer before you were eligible. Then we dropped those requirements about four years ago, and the welfare rolls went sky high. So social programs can have their own impact. HOLLAND: Perhaps the point is, if you're in need of money in this country, you go after whatever's available. Out of general revenue sharing, for example, one affluent county in New Jersey built bridal paths. One township in our county, which did not need public works money, nevertheless applied for sewer money under the program. NEELY: The risk is rewarding inefficiency. If people who operate inefficiently get more money, you will encourage inefficiency. Holland Naftalin HOLLAND: The latest CETA legislation provides very rigid requirements on accountability and against abuses. We supported it because people who spend money properly don't want to have it cut off. NAFTALIN: It's clear that some cities have extended themselves beyond the realities of their economic base. But it is a very subjective question: what are the realities of an economic base? Clearly, many northern cities extend themselves beyond their limits, if you compare some of the growing sunbelt cities. But you get involved in a choice of values there. I'm uncomfortable with that kind of measurement. BEARSE: One of the things you can do with a complete data base is see the trade-off between the current expenditures burden and the capital expenditure ratio, whether you're trading off the future for present expenditures. If you look at that in relation to things like the tax base, you'll get a sense of your limits, at least with respect to debt. HOLLAND: I like what Peter is saying about debt and time, for I really believe people do use current funds to rob the future. And then all of a sudden they have a crisis, for the waterworks has not been maintained and it just cannot handle the capacity, and they're faced with an emergency and they rob the future again. BEARSE: One of the reasons, of course, that it is easy for public officials to postpone maintenance is 19
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Municipal advisory board: Sense of fiscal limits
Armstrong, Fred
Bearse, Peter
Burris, Clark
Holland, Arthur
Kelleher, Walter
Naftalin, Arthur
Neely, Mason
Rubin, Florence
Howell, James
Stamm, Charles F.
Municipal finance
Armstrong, Fred
Bearse, Peter
Burris, Clark
Holland, Arthur
Kelleher, Walter
Naftalin, Arthur
Neely, Mason
Rubin, Florence
Howell, James
Stamm, Charles F.
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What does a novelist do when he or she (he in this case) finds himself in Uganda, where neither Penguin, Random House, Barnes nor Noble ever set foot? Does he fly to America? But he wasn't given a visa. So does he then not write the novel. That's what I did.
Or that's what I thought. Until the idle typing I had been doing in between bits of actual work at office began to take the shape of a real story and not a blog post, so I just went ahead and wrote it. I had a novel there.
So, what does a novelist do when he has a novel and Random House, Penguin, Barnes and Noble still haven't called? He lets the novel gather dust on a C-Drive somewhere.
Actually, I wrote this so long ago, the computer I typed it on is actually junk now. It was in 2007 those prehistoric ends.
So what does a novelist do when he finds it on a backup CD and thinks, hey, someone might enjoy reading this?
He puts it up online and says, well, if you want to read it, please take a look. It's funny. You might like it.
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By Renate Klein and Susan Hawthorne
Since the publication of Rachael Hills's article "Who's Afraid of Melinda Tankard Reist" (and see her reflections two weeks later) at least ten on-line and print media articles have joined in a public dissection and commentary along the lines of, "she's a conservative religious fundamentalist" and "she's pro-life and can't be a feminist."
The subliminal context of the attempts to bring Melinda Tankard Reist to her knees and destroy her work is of course the elephant in the room: if her considerable impact on educating the public about the harms of the sex industry could be reduced, the pornography and prostitution promoters and profiteers would rejoice.
As her publishers at Spinifex Press, Australia's only feminist publishing house (and secular), we take issue with these portrayals of Melinda Tankard Reist. It is easy to try to dismiss someone by smacking on a "fundamentalist" (whether Christian or Muslim, Hindu or Jewish) label and thereby dismiss the arguments that a person makes. What is less easy, but more ethical and intellectually rigorous, is to examine Tankard Reist's views – which are shared by many feminists and other advocates for social justice and human rights – and to see what the factual arguments for those views are. Read more>


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But when Monday rolled around and all of a sudden it was my birthday week- thirty smacked me in the face and I panicked. I got into the HOLY SH!T it's really here mindset. I lost my sanity. Here is what my brain said to me:
- I haven't accomplished anything!
- I don't know what I want to be when I grow up!
- I don't have my act together!
- I haven't built an orphanage yet!
- My kid isn't healed yet!
- You didn't lose the weight
- I haven't shared Jesus with some people that I want to share Jesus with!
- I haven't convinced my husband to adopt a fourth child!
- I haven't learned French!
- I haven't started an orphan care ministry at my church!
- I haven't gone back to Africa to love on the children there.
- On and on and on and on
Y'all, it was heavy. I thought about eating a whole chocolate pie. Had there been said chocolate pie around, I probably would have downed it. Instead, I ate the fun dip I bought for my kid's Easter baskets and called a good friend and griped a whole lot about it. She said, "Ummm, Megan. Who do you expect yourself to be? Katie in Uganda?" (if you don't know who this is- she's about the most amazing 20 something living in Uganda raising a zillion adopted daughters all on her own and ministering to the people there one changed heart at a time)
I thought about that question for a millisecond and then said, "Yes. I want to be Katie in Uganda." Actually, I want to go be Megan in Congo. I could list the excuses here one by one why I can't go and be Katie in Uganda or Megan in Congo, but they would just be that- excuses. But one thing I can do for now is be Megan in Kentucky talking about Congo. Cause I'm ONLY 30! I ain't dead yet. There is still time for all the other things.
So today, on my thirtieth birthday, I'm going to tell my story of "Why Congo".
If you go back to 2008- I couldn't have found the Democratic Republic of Congo on a map. I *may* have had a fleeting thought that it was in South America instead of Africa. (Geography is NOT my strong suit) I knew that I wanted to adopt and all I had done for a year was bury myself in information about adopting from the foster care system. For a multitude of reasons, we kept running into dead ends on that front.
My husband came home from work one day and said, "Hey- do you remember the Otts? He was in the office today and they just adopted a little boy from DRC." So I went to trusty google and started looking at Congo. Lo and behold, it was in Africa- imagine that!
I don't know about you, but in my mind, Africa had a stigma. Poor. Dirty. Violent. AIDS. I had seen reports on the news and people talking in real life for years about how we should "just let Africa die on the vine". Or the old adage, "It's Africa. Things will never change." But then I came across a news article about Congo that opened my mind. I've looked all over for it and can't seem to track it down. But in it, a man was being interviewed in an internally displaced persons camp. The pictures of the camp made my stomach turn. Little barefoot children running around everywhere in rags. Women cooking outside of makeshift tents on tiny fires because firewood was scarce. Sick people lying around everywhere. Soldiers all around the perimeter with machine guns. Yep- it looked just like the Africa that fits the stigma. But then the man being interviewed started to share his story. He was a teacher. A TEACHER. This man had skills and a job and a life and a home and he had previously been providing for his children. He wasn't just some "poor African stigma". He was a worker. He introduced the interviewer to other people around the camp. A minister, a carpenter, and on and on. Real people. Real jobs. Real lives that all changed when their villages were burned and terrorized by war.
It made me think about the whole subject of "poor Africa" differently. I wondered what it would be like if this were me. My husband in finance. My mom a nurse. My dad a store manager. My aunt a teacher. What if we were all providing a life for our families and then all of sudden that was taken away and the best we could do now for our families was to live in an IDP camp? There are no welfare lines. You can't walk up to a government office and say, "My village was burned and now I have no job and all my possessions are gone. Can you hook me up with some food stamps and a medical card until I can rebuild my life?" It just doesn't exist.
The shift in my brain came when I saw the people on the news as real people- real people with stories and histories and dreams for their families that had nothing to do with poverty and war and disease. War orphans. It almost chokes me to say it out loud. Children born to real people whose dream for their family was ripped apart. It hurts. It's not fair. That was it for me. I was sold that this was where our baby boy would come from. I was in love with the Congo- it called out to me, it haunted me, it intrigued me, it INSPIRED me.
When we announced that we were adopting from Congo, one woman said to me, "Ugh. I don't understand African women. Why do they keep having children when they can't take care of the ones they've got? They've got one attached to each boob and one on each hip and ten in toe behind her." I'm sure that woman was not the first one to think that thought. But let's play the numbers. About 20-25% of the children in Congo won't live to see their fifth birthday. If you are playing those odds and you want to have 5 children actually make it to adult hood, you do the math. Then add in children born as a result of rape and lack of rights for women and it compounds.
I'm sitting here looking at my children playing Wii on the floor at my feet. They are safe and loved with bellies full of birthday cake and ice cream and they don't have a care in the world . I can't imagine a mother in a third world country looking at her children and actually wondering which ones of them won't make it. Her love for her children is just as deep but she carries a burden I will never feel the heaviness of. Just because I don't know that woman, doesn't mean that she isn't real or that her pain and her fear isn't real. It doesn't mean that she doesn't have hopes and dreams for her family. I thank God every day that I was born in a country where I don't have to worry about contaminated water, malaria, or rebel militias claiming the lives of my babes.
To be a true lover of humanity though, means that I will come along side that mother and that teacher and those war orphans and do what I can do TODAY. What I can do today- on my thirtieth birthday is make those people real for you as well. My friend Ingrid told me this morning that guilt is a truly useless emotion. (Amen, Ingrid! You are a wise woman!) So today, I'm dropping the guilt that I haven't accomplished everything that I wanted to by the time I was thirty and I'll start focusing on the promise of the great things to come in the next thirty years. I'll keep striving to cross some more of those things off the list. Look out world- my 30's are going to ROCK! (That's me yelling my message to the world, by the way!)
If you want to come alongside the hurting in Congo- as always I'll love for you to be a part of our favorite charity working in DRC- Our Family in Africa (formerly Our Family Adoptions). If you'd like to make a donation, I can assure you that it will be put to good use. Consider it your birthday gift to me! If you'd like to be put on the mailing list for our monthly newsletter about the great things OFA is doing in Congo and how you can be a part of it, shoot me an email (meganterry01 @ aol.com) and I'll get you added! Thanks!
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New York's spring art auction season draws to a close on Friday with a sale at Phillips after a frenzied two weeks that saw Christie's and Sotheby's set a sales record.
Various media reports placed some of the world's top collectors in the audiences at these auctions.
Combined sales of Impressionist, modern and contemporary art at Christie's and Sotheby's, the two premier auction houses, brought in $2 billion, passing the $1.8 billion in sales last fall and breaking records for at least three dozen artists, according to The Wall Street Journal.
However, none of the action overshadowed the drama at Christie's last fall, when a collector paid some $142 million for a 1969 Francis Bacon painting that had been estimated at a high of $85 million.
Collectors during the current sales season kept their bidding in the mid- to low range of the art works estimates, The Journal reported.
It's likely many collectors will show up at this year's three Art Basel shows, the first of which opened Wednesday in Hong Kong.
In anticipation of those shows, Wealth-X, the ultra-high-net-worth intelligence and prospecting firm, has put together a list of the 10 biggest art collections in the world.
The combined value of these collections is $15.1 billion. Their owners' total net worth is $61.9 billion.
Following is the Wealth-X top 10 list.
10. NORMAN BRAMAN, former owner of the Philadelphia Eagles football team and the owner of several car dealerships
Value of Art Collection: $1 billion
Net Worth: $1.8 billion
According to Forbes, Braman has a 240-plus-piece art collection that includes the largest private collection of Alexander Calder's work.
9. BIDZINA IVANISHVILI, prime minister of Georgia who made his fortune in metals and banking
Value of Art Collection: $1 billion
Net Worth: $5.7 billion
Ivanishvili's extensive collection includes "Dora Maar with Cat" by Pablo Picasso, which he bought at Sotheby's in 2006 for $95 million, according to Forbes.
8. SAMUEL NEWHOUSE, chairman and CEO of Advance Publications in New York, which he and his brother Donald inherited from their father
Value of Art Collection: $1 billion
Net Worth: $10.2 billion
Forbes reports that "Si" Newhouse owns an extensive collection of modern art.
7. STEVEN COHEN, founder of SAC Capital Advisors
Value of Art Collection: $1 billion
Net Worth: $11.1 billion
Cohen's art collection includes works by Warhol, Picasso (his "La Reve" seen above), Cézanne, de Kooning, Damien Hirst, Francis Bacon, Jeff Koons and Gerhard Richter, according to Vanity Fair.
6. FRANCOIS PINAULT, luxury goods magnate
Value of Art Collection: $1.4 billion
Net Worth: $14 billion
Pinault is the 100% owner of Christie's, which sold $5.9 billion worth of art at auction in 2013. His personal collection comprises 2,000-plus works by artists such as Picasso, Mondrian and Jeff Koons, according to Forbes.
5. EZRA NAHMAD (pictured on left)
Value of Art Collection: $1.5 billion
Net Worth: $1.6 billion
4. DAVID NAHMAD (pictured on right)
Value of Art Collection: $1.5 billion
Net Worth: $1.8 billion
Brothers David and Ezra Nahmad are international megadealers of modern and impressionist art. According to Forbes, they own an inventory worth some $3 billion that is stored in a duty-free warehouse next to the Geneva, Switzerland airport. Their stockpile includes works by more than 400 major artists, from Monet and Matisse to Renoir and Rothko, and includes 300 Picassos, worth some $900 million. The brothers, who hold their assets jointly, split 50/50, buy and sell most of their pieces at auction.
3. PHILIP NIARCHOS, oldest son of Greek shipping magnate Stavros Niarchos
Value of Art Collection: $2.2 billion
Net Worth: $2.5 billion
Philip Niarchos inherited the bulk of his father's art collection, which is said to include the largest private holding of Van Goghs. According to Forbes, Niarchos has grown the collection, adding post-war and contemporary works.
2. ELI BROAD, founder of Kaufman and Broad Home Corp. (now KB Home) and former owner of Sun Life Insurance Company of America (now SunAmerica)
Value of Art Collection: $2.2 billion
Net Worth: $6.9 billion
Besides his own personal art collection, Broad and his wife Edythe's foundations hold more than $2 billion of art.
1. DAVID GEFFEN, founder of founded Asylum Records and Geffen Records
Value of Art Collection: $2.3 billion
Net Worth: $6.3 billion
Geffen is a major collector of works by American artists from the second half of the 20th century, including Pollock, Rothko and de Kooning.
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* Blixt becomes third rookie to win on 2012 PGA Tour
* Seals one-shot victory after closing with a 68 (Adds quotes, detail)
Oct 14 (Reuters) - Sweden's Jonas Blixt overhauled a stumbling John Mallinger to win his first PGA Tour title by one shot at the Frys.com Open in San Martin, California on Sunday.
Two strokes behind the pacesetting Mallinger overnight, rookie Blixt fired a three-under-par 68 to break clear of a tightly bunched leaderboard on a sun-splashed afternoon at CordeValle Golf Club.
The red-shirted Swede snatched the outright lead when he sank a seven-foot birdie putt at the driveable par-four 17th after overhitting the green off the tee, then safely parred the last to finish at 16-under 268.
Blixt pumped his right fist in delight after sinking a four-footer to claim his first victory on the U.S. circuit, before being soaked in champagne as he was embraced by friends and family on the 18th green.
"It's unbelievable," the 28-year-old Swede, who finished third at last week's Las Vegas Open, told Golf Channel after becoming the third rookie to triumph on the 2012 PGA Tour. "I have no words right now.
"This is the biggest dream I ever had. It's been the greatest two weeks I have ever had on tour."
Blixt, who was sidelined for two months earlier this season because of a rib injury, said having friends and family with him over the past fortnight had helped him stay ultra relaxed.
"I haven't thought about golf after rounds," he added with a grin. "I always practise after rounds and I haven't done that in these two weeks either. It's crazy, just crazy."
American Mallinger, like Blixt bidding for a maiden title on the tour, bogeyed five of the first nine holes on the way to a 72 and a tie for fourth at 14 under with compatriot Jimmy Walker (62), Fiji's Vijay Singh (68) and Brazil's Alexandre Rocha (68).
Veteran Tim Petrovic closed with a sparkling 64 to share second place with fellow American Jason Kokrak (68) in the second of four events in the PGA Tour's Fall Series.
For much of the afternoon at CordeValle, a playoff seemed to be on the cards and four players - Petrovic, Rocha, Blixt and Walker - were tied for the lead late in the final round.
Petrovic, whose only PGA Tour victory came at the 2005 New Orleans Classic, edged one stroke clear when he chipped in to birdie the par-five 15th before faltering with a bogey at the par-three 16th after being bunkered off the tee.
However, he regained a one-shot cushion with a birdie at the par-four 17th where he drove the green and two-putted, and narrowly missed sinking a 25-footer at the last.
"My hands were shaking coming off the last hole I was so pumped up," the 46-year-old Petrovic smiled. "The putter felt really good this week and I drove the ball really good today."
Blixt joined Petrovic at the top with a birdie at the par-five 15th, where he was just short of the green in two and chipped up to nine feet, and Kokrak made it a three-way tie by draining a 15-foot eagle putt at the 17th.
However, the tournament was effectively decided when Blixt birdied the 17th after his chip from greenside rough hit the flagstick for his ball to settle seven feet past the cup.
After coolly sinking that putt, the Swede parred the last to secure victory and earn a two-year exemption on the PGA Tour. (Reporting by Mark Lamport-Stokes in Los Angeles; Editing by Frank Pingue)


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