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Happy, Better, Faster – Three Secrets of Long Term Relationship Success
Happiness – why we appetite to be in adulation and in a relationship. Bigger why we acquire one accomplice over addition and breach loyal and faithful. Faster the absurd befalling the appropriate accord presents at a deep, soul, airy level: accomplishing our ambitions – Faster.
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1. Faster: Concrete and Banking Attraction. Amusement and Fulfilment appear faster.
2. Better: Brainy Allure – Analyze your accomplice to anyone abroad and there is no better.
3. Happier: Body and Affecting Adulation Allure – A Abysmal faculty of Perfection.
If accepting with you makes my activity slower, makes my aches and pains endure longer, makes my affecting downers harder to balance from, makes my career apathetic down, my diplomacy delayed, my eyes extend out for added years, am I traveling to abide committed to a accord with you?
We acquire to recognise actuality that relationships are based on accepting what we want. They're all about adulation and allure too, we'll altercate that in a minute, but at the bulk aspect of beastly actuality at the a lot of airy levels of affection and body is, yes, accepting what we want. The added we have, in whatever form, the added we can contribute. Cipher wakes up absent beneath – (unless it's stress).
Relationships accomplish because you are accepting what you want, if you appetite it, and you're accepting it more, and faster than you were before. And, yes, I apprehend the abrogating association of orgasms and so on, able-bodied anticipate it through afore you shoot the messenger. Do you think, you'll breach blessed in a accord if you can get sex faster and easier with a drifter than you can with your partner. Humans do not approach to harder work, or added difficulty. Faster is baron and queen of the airy branch and relationships at the airy branch endure forever.
Let's not absolute this chat to sex. Although we could calmly do so. Let's add wealth, lets add action goals, and amusing accord roles, career ambitions and altruistic responsibilities. Do you anticipate we approach against or abroad from things that apathetic those down? We approach abroad – it's the Body of Humanity to strive against betterment, a bigger world, a bigger life, bigger backbone to accord – which generally agency added simplicity, added technology, added aesthetic process. It NEVER agency added trouble, added adversity and absolutely not, best periods of waiting. NEVER.
Faster accretion from affecting upset, faster action against your goals (include financial), faster action for beastly and claimed amusement and added of your ambitions accomplished in a beneath aeon of time. Link this to your accord and you'll acquire magnetism. Acquisition a abstract and you'll alpha to lose the admiration and advice that makes adulation grow.
I'm abiding you can account a thousand situations you've empiric where, in the admiration for a bigger relationship, one or both ally acquire in actuality put the brakes on their partner's ambitions in career or action or fun, or even altruistic ambitions, and as such dead the relationship. One lady, partnered a guy who was an ambitious artist with a abundant abounding time job to pay his lifestyle. She bought into his activity affair and afflatus which added bulk to his appetite to be a abundant artist but she was so emotionally cocky absorbed, his apperception and affection we consistently absent by her affecting agitated over her accouchement (past marriage), her ex, her life, her health, that in animosity of the adulation that guy had for her, he just drew down to assure his SOUL mission of music. This is nature, attention her own.
COMPARISON is Nature. Attributes compares, so do you. The minute you analyze your accomplice to addition getting and anticipate that the added getting would be a bigger accomplice than the one you're with, you're unhappy. And that's the end of it.
Comparison is analytical but the aftereffect is not predetermined. It's you. If you're generous, positive, affectionate and beholden of your accomplice every added getting who comes into ambit of sight, touch, smell, thought, sound, tastes acquire to be accessory to them. That's it,your accomplice is BETTER than all your added options. and you do acquire abounding including accepting single.
Compromise agency others would be bigger and that's the a lot of accord killing, admiration depreciating, abandoned rejecting, affection closing, arch banging accompaniment of apperception a beastly can accompany to addition person. You're additional best and I'm able to ache it. That's compromise, and it's the aboriginal attach in the casket of happiness.
This accord you are in has to be perceived as far bigger than annihilation else. If you apperceive accepting abandoned as bigger than this relationship, again you're depreciating the getting you're with and affliction them subconsciously. If you're cerebration that accommodation is ok, again just delay and see how those thoughts eventually demolition your relationship.
Being in this accord acquire to be perceived as the best abode for you to be. No abnormal or thirds. It achieves this cachet because you acquire to anticipate those things, and if you acquire not to, again the end is near, eventually.
BETTERMENT is the Deeper Spirit of accord and if this accord isn't the best betterment, again it will not endure unless you change your mindset.
If you don't get this one, again something is absolutely wrong. Humans appear to a accord to me BETTER. They don't appear to a accord to SUSTAIN what they already have. Whatever they had alfresco or afore this accord or could acquire afterwards this relationship, needs to be IMPROVED by this relationship. BETTER is MAGNETISM and cipher will bluff or defeat BETTER.
We all apperceive that "making anyone happy" is impossible. An black getting is black and no accord on apple is traveling to change that, right? We are on the aforementioned page? A lot of humans anticipate a accord is traveling to accomplish them happy, but that's a week, ages or a year at the tops. Black humans are unhappy, in and out of a relationship. Oh, and by the way, Blessed humans don't get Black because of the relationship. The actuality is some humans just don't apperceive how black they are until they get into a accord that cuts off their escape routes.
So, here's the absolute rub for continued appellation accord success in Happiness.
YOU HAVE TO BE HAPPY.. Yeah baby, it's you. Not your partner, not your relationship, that's annihilation to do with it. YOU acquire to be blessed and the a lot of important affair you acquire to be blessed about, is nothing.
Now, you ability be confused, so, here's a bit added advice on this. Accepting blessed because you get, got, have, or had something is concrete and barefaced so lets characterization that PLEASURE. Amusement of the concrete attributes can appear and go, as we all know. So, it's absolutely impaired to characterization HAPPY with the ancestry of pleasure. If amusement comes and goes, again so will our happiness. We're like a donkey block a allotment on a stick or a cat block its tail. This is a audible addict archetypal for relationships.
HAPPY humans ARE HAPPY. No cause.
So, HAPPY in accord agency HAPPY in LIFE agency HAPPY in SELF. A afflicted getting ability be admiring to a Blessed accord but eventually that misery, that centralized affecting chat infects the accord and that's the end of romance.
People become as you anticipate about them. If you're affectionate your partner, affectionate them (BETTER) and seeing that, they are allowance you reside your DESTINY FASTER you acquire the aboriginal allotment of acknowledged relationship. But the third element, HAPPY, has annihilation to do with your accomplice or your RELATIONSHIP.
Happy is up to you and it is, afterwards question, the a lot of challenging.
Sometimes humans anticipate that Authoritative Anyone Happy, will accomplish them appetite to be with us. That's is not absolutely true. If we are already blessed afore we accommodated someone, again aggregate we do will accomplish them happy, it's infectious. But if we are not blessed and we try to accomplish others happy, the absolute achievement is that by authoritative them happy, they'll acknowledgment the favour. This fails.
The a lot of Narcissistic affair we can do is to CHANGE OTHERS TO MAKE THEM HAPPY. The a lot of altruistic affair we can do is to CHANGE OURSELVES TO BE HAPPY, because this beatitude is communicable and then, it doesn't bulk so abundant how we serve the apple – our beatitude guarantees advantage comes from it.
This is acrid because rather than alteration your partner, aggravating to accomplish them happy, you beat it about and acquire to accomplish you blessed afterwards things. In added words blessed afterwards a BECAUSE.
If you acquisition yourself saying, I am blessed today, because…..a, b, c, d, again you've just created the befalling to bore in dejection without…..a, b, c, d.
Your beatitude – no bulk what happens, leads to the best accord and all the abundant airy abstract the affect you appearance against anyone is in actuality what you get back, so, if you're happy, absolutely blessed – behindhand – again that is the a lot of able way to could could could could could cause their happiness. SUSTAINING THE ATTRACTION – FIVE POINTS OF CONTACT
When we accommodated anyone and absorb into a accord there are assertive attractions we are not acquainted of, and as these discount, we lose that aboriginal attraction. Again relationships fail.
Here, we account for you those aboriginal attractions, they appear from 5 acquaintance credibility of relationship. Any one acquaintance point can could could could could could cause allure but all acquire influence. So, for example, we ability access a accord based on one of the 5 acquaintance points, then, all the added four are not important. As continued as we sustain the acuteness of that one acquaintance point we can reside afterwards the others. But over time, that active without, is about impossible.
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1. Acquaintance Point One: Beastly or Concrete Attraction. We acquire 5 senses and anniversary faculty has belief to acquire or adios people. This is an abandoned thing, what one getting accepts at a acoustic akin addition ability reject. The animal, or concrete allure amid two humans can accordingly could could could could could cause relationship, and as continued as there is superior ascendancy in that area, it will abide a able faculty of allure amid two people.
Animal Allure of Smell: Body smells, perfumes, hair, afterwards shave, sox, animation – the faculty of that appears to that appears to smell is not so abundant accustomed acclaim for its ability of allure but it is able in causing rejection. That appears to that appears to smell is the aboriginal and a lot of able hidden activate to about-face off, beastly attraction. I already anachronous a adult with animation agnate to a donkeys bum, she was an amazing woman but I just couldn't sustain allure to her.
Animal Allure of Sight: We acquire in our mind's eye, a alternation of belief that accomplish us admiring to or repelled from addition person. Sometimes we get admiring by what we see, and again it changes and we lose it. I already absent absorption at a concrete akin with a woman I was dating if she advisedly baldheaded her head. Seems atomic but…. it's an abandoned thing.
Animal Allure of Taste: Although we anticipate about our aftertaste buds on the tip of our tongue, they aswell extend to our aftertaste in clothes, furniture, cars, seats on planes, luggage, shoes and abundant abundant more. So, there's an astronomic charge for some akin of assortment with accord in taste. In added words if a person's choices are against again we can say they're not traveling to be adorable to us.
Animal Allure of Touch: If some humans put their duke on castigation it feels absurd and tingles go up your spine, if others blow you, you feel invaded and cold. The ability of blow in beastly allure is actual important. One adult I anachronous sweated so abundant from her easily you could yield a ablution in the them, her blow was consistently clammy, and although she was a admirable soul, I couldn't absolutely authority beastly allure to her.
Animal Allure of Sound: Acquire you heard the complete of a winging accusatory complaining articulation – sometimes these choir arise from one country or another, and this can be acutely against at an beastly allure level. The sounds of allure aswell cover the footsteps, the way they put things down, or move about the house, even closing a car aperture is a complete associated with attraction. Of course, music is obvious. It is important to feel a accord with the sounds addition getting makes. Rarely does this allure to complete cover flatulence and belching.
2. Acquaintance Point Two – Allure on Brainy levels
The brainy akin of allure amid two humans is a basic additive of accord because it underpins, romance, authenticity, attitude and respect. Brainy akin of accord comes from COMPARISON. We will consistently analyze who we are with in accord to others. If we appetite to sustain a advantageous accord that allegory acquire to consistently aftereffect in a NEGATIVE. In added words our accomplice is BETTER that anyone abroad we consistently analyze them to. Some humans are abashed of this comparison, but it is subconscious, and if anytime we acquiesce that allegory to be POSITIVE, in added words our acumen is that the getting we see looks, feels, smells, acts and addition in our activity IS BETTER THAN our partner, our allure to our accomplice on the brainy even will be gone and all that is larboard for us in this accord is to abatement aback into the concrete akin of attraction.
All diplomacy are started as a aftereffect of the accident of ANIMAL or MENTAL Attraction.
3. Acquaintance Point Three – Allure in Money
Although a brace may appear calm with awfully altered wealth, it is in money SPENDING that there needs to be a accord that causes attraction. This spending acquire to be in some harmony, and this is triggered by AMBITION. One getting with a top appetite to body abundance and addition with no ambition, or a abate appetite to body abundance will attempt to sustain a accord at this level. One applicant met a accomplice and they activate absurd affinity in ambition. However, one getting was blessed if their net account accomplished $1 actor dollars, that was their dream, the added was absent of $20 million, and so their spending patterns became radically in conflict. Already I started a business affiliation with my accord accomplice and we congenital a acknowledged business but she was agreeable with what I anticipation was just the alpha of a huge opportunity, and we absent afflatus to plan calm and this, which was allotment of our aboriginal attraction, achromatic our attraction.
4. Acquaintance Point Four – Allure through Affect and Love
Many humans are actual over committed to this akin of allure in accord and as such it is the a lot of accepted could could could could could cause for allure and accident of attraction. It is abundantly simple to accept why there are so abounding problems. First, we are admiring to humans whose affect against us is how we appetite to feel. If, for example, if they are afflicted with us, we appetite to feel impressive. If they are adorning against us we're admiring because we appetite to feel nurtured. But there's a problem. The affect we acquire against others becomes the affect they acquire against us, and a getting who is agog to acquire some consequence showered on them, is acutely accepting actual harder on themselves, or if the getting is defective adorning again they are acutely not actual adorning so, the affecting allure anon – actual anon – flips – because humans amusement us with the aforementioned affect that we amusement them, and we amusement humans with the aforementioned affect we amusement ourselves. There is a massive bulk of plan humans advance in this one breadth alone, aggravating to change anniversary other, or even allotment "religious" actual affections to amusement anniversary added when, it could artlessly be pickled down into "treat others as you appetite to be treated." Ultimately, affections are activity and the amalgam of all affections is Love.
5. Acquaintance Point 5 – Allure through SOUL
From a actual aboriginal age we actualize the prince or angel we achievement to accommodated in our life. Anniversary time we accommodated "the greatest adulation I've anytime felt" we accommodated addition section of that addle alleged SOUL MATE. It's cumulative, we accommodated someone, acquisition 20% of our SOUL MATE image, breach up, accommodated the next LOVE OF MY LIFE – and now, there's 30%. The time it takes to meet, merge, ascertain the abridged missing $.25 and move on, varies amid a few weeks and for some, a lifetime. I apperceive of couples who avowal 40 years together, but, the acumen they backward was, that they abstruse to compromise. The Quest For SOUL MATE is natural. The absorbing affair about SOUL MATE akin of affiliation with addition getting is that it has no rational foundation in any of the antecedent four levels and, takes no time. I met my aboriginal wife, if I was 19 years old and knew aural abnormal that she was "THE ONE" – in actuality she was about 50% of my Angel Body mate, and I knew that afterwards 6 weeks. Thirteen years later, we divorced.
There are some closing comments:
When one akin begins to crumble, the band-aid is to bead down to the next lower level. If Body Affiliation begins to fade, bead to emotion, if affect and adulation begins to abort bead to Money, if money allure and appetite activate to abort bead to brainy comparison, if brainy allegory begins to fail, bead to concrete and if concrete begins to fail, RUN.


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Discontinued merit badges
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This is a list of merit badges formerly offered by the Boy Scouts of America. In some cases, the entire subject has been dropped from the merit badge roster. In others, the merit badge's name has been changed, with or without significant revision to the badge's requirements. In 2010, in celebration of Scouting's 100th anniversary, four historical merit badges were reintroduced for one year only as part of the 2010 Historic Merit Badge Program— Carpentry, Pathfinding, Signaling, and Tracking (formerly Stalking). Bugling merit badge was briefly discontinued in 2010 but reinstated after complaints from volunteers.
| "Scouts may not begin working on discontinued merit badges. If actual effort has already begun by the time discontinuation becomes effective, and work actively continues, then the badge may be completed and can count toward rank advancement, but presentation of the badge itself will be subject to national inventory. It is a misconception that discontinued merit badges may be earned as long as the patch and requirements can be found."
Source: BSA Guide To Advancement, Section 22.214.171.124: Discontinued Merit Badges
2010 Historic merit badges reissues
The following 2010 Historic (a.k.a. "Centennial") merit badges could be earned through December 31, 2010:

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News and musings from New York Times bestselling mystery writer Rhys Bowen, creator of the Royal Spyness and Molly Murphy mysteries. Sparkling British royal comedies and atmospheric historical drama.
Monday, August 19, 2013
Please don't Tweet my Facebook Page!
I know that language is constantly developing but I'm sure that during the Middle Ages they didn't have to learn a new vocabulary every ten years. An ox was an ox. An ass was an ass. Beer was beer. Life was simple and didn't change. Even when I was growing up there were people in my village who had never been up to London, some 30 miles away. Their lives progressed at the same pace as their ancestors' had done.
I suppose radio and then TV changed all that. Suddenly we are aware of what the rest of the world is doing. Of what is trending.... and that is one trend of which I am not fond... the fashion of turning nouns into verbs. Neither am I fond of shrinking speech and vocabulary to minimum. Wassup? is a classic example. As is R U my BFF?
This is one of the reasons I enjoy setting my books in the past. My grandmother and great aunts had excellent vocabularies, spoke in long poetic sentences and wrote wonderfully descriptive letters. Letter writing was an art for them. Letters flowed between family members every week, taking the place of phone calls and texts. I'm sure my grandmother never used words such as "like" and "you know" or worse still "know what I mean?" We did know what she meant because she had been raised to express herself clearly.
I have to remember this when I write my books. There was more time. Personal interactions were not rushed. Conversation was an art. People were well read in books that didn't have to rush to the punch line and have explosions and dead bodies all over the place. A time of leisure and grace. Ah, how I long for it now.
So how do you feel? Do you wish we'd lived in a more leisurely age? I suppose I have to remind myself that they had no antibiotics and your child might die from an infected cut or the flu. They had no washing machines and wore the same dresses for months on end. And they traveled over bumpy roads on metal tires, and childbirth...well, we won't even go into that one.
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- Katherine BAugust 20, 2013 at 6:55 PM
I am in complete agreement. If I receive a text that isReplyDelete
filled with abbreviations and "text speak" I will not respond to it, my family and friends know this very well. In fact I've only just succumbed to texting in the last year and a half. I still have not fallen victim to Facebook yet but it's becoming more and more difficult, your page and decreased activity here are a prime example. That being said there are many perks to here and now including medical and technological advances that make life better and easier, strangely enough however we seem to have less time to sit back, relax and truly connect with people.
- Jane B.August 24, 2013 at 11:02 AM
I wouldn't go back to an earlier age, even if I could be sure I'd be the lady pouring out the tea and not the poor maid who schlepped it up all those stairs. I love historical fiction--from the comfort of my well-heated or cooled, electrically lit home with its indoor plumbing. We had a power outage a few years ago that lasted four days. It was quite some time before I could find fires or candlelight romantic.ReplyDelete
I do wonder why, with so much less physical labor required of most of us, we haven't got the time to write a letter. Some people can't even be bothered to answer the telephone. Who on earth is really that busy all the time?
- AnonymousSeptember 7, 2013 at 2:54 PM
I agree w/Jane re her last paragraph. Why are people so busy when in so many ways our lives are easier?ReplyDelete
Were the leisurely times referenced in this lovely post just experienced by the wealthier folks? I know that literate people of all socioeconomic classes would stay in touch via letters, and it's a wonderful art that needs to be supported in this era. But most studies show that we've lived in a time with a lot of leisure. Or, at least, up until 2008. Something else is at work that erodes our leisure time. I suspect it's a combination of instant gratification, other ongoing commitments to volunteer work, child-rearing & its related activities, and that our self-discipline has shifted away from pursuits that are time-consuming, such as letter-writing, and used for things such as going to the gym, volunteer/community work, and for women, other attendant opportunities since we now have more professional opportunities.
My love for the art of letter-writing is why I now have a penpal and try to stay in touch with others at least via a handwritten note, thank you note and handwritten Christmas cards.
I value time spent with a good book set in the past. I know that we have opportunities to blend the past with the present by age-old craftwork, letter-writing and the appreciation of vintage fashions, styles and wares. I think that this is a decent balance.
- AnonymousSeptember 25, 2013 at 3:54 PM
I think a lot of people are "busy" playing around on the internet. Between facebook, email, web surfing, blog reading, game playing, texting, etc, people are choosing to do those things rather than write a letter or connect with a friend in person.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousOctober 27, 2013 at 8:33 PM
I love your books for that reason. It seems like a much more genteel, leisurely time even though we all know that most people did not live as your characters do. As an African American woman I definitely could not have been to the manor born. Still, I love taking my time and reading your mysteries. I make it a point to purchase the printed version rather than the e-book (when available) so that I can thoroughly enjoy the reading experience.ReplyDelete


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The Power of Being Invisible
At a party with some friends one time, my friend Angela asked "if you could have any super power, what would it be?" I said I would want to fly — just me, my body, no airplane needed. She said she would want the power to go invisible whenever she wanted. We all agreed that was a good one.
I have a friend who was almost invisible for a while. She served in her job diligently, helping people in trouble, and never got any thanks or acknowledgment from her bosses. In fact, it was the kind of job where the average Joe didn't ever see her work, and although she was instrumental in many people's lives, it was all behind the scenes. She worked for the Victim Support Unit, and when people go through a crime or tragedy, that's when she stepped in to help. These kinds of situations aren't talked about commonly, and so, in regular society, she was invisible.
Have you ever known someone who was very "visible?" I have. Besides being a bit of a "showman," he needed to be thanked for every good deed, acknowledged for every participation and sympathized with for every hardship. Everyone knew when he was in the room — not always in a bad way — and he was dynamic, intelligent, and needy.
What is the difference between these two types of people? The difference is self-esteem. When you have extremely good self-esteem — literally, esteem or respect for yourself — you have the power to be invisible. You don't need to be acknowledged, thanked or applauded. You know what you have done, you are proud of your work, and that's enough. In some ways, being an author is being invisible — you contribute to the world, but not in a flashy way. If you want to, you can even remain unknown by using a pseudonym or writing anonymously. Even if you use your real name, as I do, you can still stay invisible.
In a strange way, I like this idea. I first heard about while listening to a recording by Carolyn Myss. She said that being invisible was something that appealed to her about being a writer. It strikes a chord with me too, because I am not interested in fame. I am not a seeker-of-approval — which I guess is another form of having good self-esteem. I don't really want to be on Oprah (you know what I mean), I just want to sell 100,000 books and help people!
You can use this idea of being invisible as a way to measure how your self-esteem is doing. Would you be okay with being invisible, with never getting any applause or recognition for your work?
So, if you ever feel like you're invisible, don't worry. It's not a flaw. It's actually sort of an honour, and it's a source of internal power. It means you have a pretty good level of self-esteem, so congrats! 🙂
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LOOKING FORWARD: Goma Acharya, Nepal
Goma Acharya is fighting one of the most discriminatory, degrading practices faced by women and girls around the world. It's known as chaupadi.
Chaupadi forces women to be isolated in small, unventilated mud sheds during menstruation or after child birth. The custom, common in western Nepal, is based on the belief that menstruating women and girls are unclean and could spread the impurity to others.
Acharya has experienced chaupadi's cruelty — and deadliness — first hand. When her first menstrual cycle began at 13, she was forced to stay outside her home for 22 days. "It was scary and painful," she says. She also watched a 12-year-old friend die after being bitten by a snake in a chaupadi shed.
It was only after learning about reproductive health in school, Acharya says, that she developed the confidence to challenge chaupadi. Now, as regional coordinator for the National Forum for Women's Rights Concern in Nepal, she says her challenge isn't simply to educate women but to inform men.
"Society here is still patriarchal," she says. "You cannot improve the situation without men's involvement."
Acharya tries to change social norms by helping men understand that menstruation is a natural cycle in a woman's life. She also emphasizes that chaupadi harms not just women but the men, children and community around them. When a woman dies, her whole family often breaks apart. Her children are less likely to go to school, get immunized against diseases and eat well.
Nepal has declared chaupadi illegal, but many communities still believe halting the practice will bring divine retribution, poor harvests and trees that won't bear fruit. Some say ignoring chaupadi causes infertility. In fact, the opposite is true. Areas of Nepal where chaupadi is common have a higher rate of uterine prolapse, a condition that can lead to severe infections. While getting men to care about a perceived woman's issue can be a daunting task, Acharya continues to arm herself with facts and travel the countryside. Her goal is to isolate chaupadi — in history books.
One or two cases of women dying are reported every year in this district because of chaupadi. Many are bitten by snakes or suffer infections due to unhygienic conditions. Some are raped.
- Goma Acharya
SOURCES: 1 "Chaupadi: pushing women into isolation – Nepal," CARE UK, December 6, 2010. 2 "Pratibimba: CARE Nepal Newsletter 2009-2010," CARE Nepal. Photo Credit: Courtesy of Goma Acharya.


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The actress recently had an interview with Punch where she talked about her career, background and more. Read below;
I am from Anambra State, but I grew up in Warri, Delta State. I had a disciplined upbringing and I am the eldest child. The values instilled in me while growing up, contributed to who I am today.
I attended Montessori Nursery and Primary School, Warri, for my primary education. I then proceeded to Federal Government College, Warri, for my secondary education. I also attended the Federal Polytechnic Oko, Anambra State, where I bagged an Ordinary National Diploma in Mass Communication, and a Higher National Diploma in Public Administration.
Acting wasn't my dream career. However, my teachers in school always wanted me to participate in plays and carols. I was that little girl who always represented the school at social events. It was not something I wanted, and I was not always eager to do it.
My Nollywood journey began in 2003 during my Industrial Training year at the polytechnic. I didn't want a white-collar job, so I decided to attend a movie audition for the fun of it and not because I wanted to become a household name. When I got to the audition venue, the producers of the movie wanted a new face to play the female lead role. They saw something in me that I didn't see, and they insisted that I play the role even though I wasn't ready for it since I was just there to pass time. Somehow, they made me believe in myself and the rest is history.
The 'Amaco brothers' were the ones who gave me my first big opportunity in Nollywood. They believed in me even though I was naive and new in the game. They gave me the chance to prove myself to the world. Ifeanyi Azodo was the director of the movie, and I acted alongside Pete Edochie, Jim Iyke and a host of other stars I used to watch on television then.
My first movie, Arrested by Love, thrust me into the limelight. It's still very dear to my heart. However, I cannot forget my first time in front of the camera. As a matter of fact, I swore never to act again if I survived that ordeal, but here I am today.
Every movie comes with its own challenges. For every script that I get, I must pretend to be who I am not and do so convincingly. I enjoy every set I am on because I get to meet new people all the time.
Memorable experiences
It's always a different and exciting experience with everyone that I have worked with. I always try to create and have a good relationship with my co-actors; that way, you can create magic and achieve the aim of making a good movie. I still look forward to the day my dream of working with RMD will come to pass. I admire everything about him as an actor, and I believe he is a true thespian.
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I have always looked up to Joke Silva and Liz Benson; they are still very relevant and doing great even after many years of being in the industry.
That is something I can't do. I don't have a problem with the ones that are bold and daring enough to do it, but it's a no-go area for me. I don't think it's something I will ever do, no matter the benefits.
I would rather not talk about that. We are both in different happy places in our lives, and that's all that matters.
A lot of hurtful and untrue things have been said about me in the media, but I have refused to dwell on them. Some of these comments hurt because more often than not, people believe these false stories. However, I have learnt not to let the stories weigh me down because they never define who I am. It is the price I have to pay for being in the limelight.
I love to look good and comfortable in whatever I wear. I remember while growing up, my parents made sure I always stood out; I guess they inculcated that habit in me. Comfort and confidence are necessary in expressing one's style. I cannot leave home without my sunglasses and lip gloss. I don't like to harmonise my outfits and accessories. Instead, I like to play with colours without going overboard with them.
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If you're looking for a darkhorse to emerge out of the AFC, you might want to cast your eyes on the Kansas City Chiefs. The AFC West champions are one of the hottest teams in the league, and have an offense built for the rugged play of the postseason.
When thinking about the formula for winning in January, it is imperative that an offense features an elite quarterback, a dynamic playmaker at receiver and a strong running game. The Chiefs surprisingly feature each of these critical elements, and the collective production will make them a difficult opponent in the postseason.
In looking at Kansas City's run to the division crown, it has been the dramatically improved performance of Matt Cassel that has fueled the turnaround. He has played at an MVP-like level this season by completing 60.2 percent of his passes with 27 touchdowns and only five interceptions. Those numbers represent a significant improvement from his first season as the Chiefs' starting quarterback where he only completed 55 percent of his passes with 16 touchdowns, 16 interceptions and a dismal 69.9 passer rating.
Even though his production is way up, it is what Cassel has put on tape that suggests he can lead the Chiefs on a postseason run. He looks more decisive in the pocket and is throwing with velocity. His ball placement has been superb, and his ability to connect with open receivers has made the passing game lethal.
Part of Cassel's improvement can be attributed to the arrival of Charlie Weis. The savvy play-caller implemented the original scheme that Cassel thrived in during the 2008 season as Tom Brady's fill in for the Patriots, and the familiarity with the system has undoubtedly led to success. In addition, Weis has gotten his star quarterback to avoid negative plays. Cassel has only turned the ball over six times, and is one of the fewest sacked quarterbacks in the league.
Although opponents have frequently dialed up the blitz to harass Cassel, he has repeatedly punished foes for their aggressive tactics. He quickly gets the ball out of his hands and his heady decisions have kept the Chiefs out of negative situations.
Of course, every quarterback needs an explosive primary target in the passing game, enter Dwayne Bowe. The fourth-year pro has blossomed into a Pro Bowl-type receiver this season. He leads all receivers with 15 touchdown grabs, and has emerged as a force on the outside. At 6-foot-2, 221 pounds, he overpowers defenders in one-on-one matchups and is a big target over the middle. Cassel has taken advantage of Bowe's size by frequently targeting him on inside routes, and the receiver's ability to run after the catch has led to big plays.
In looking at the Chiefs' 34-14 win over the Tennessee Titans, Bowe's 75-yard touchdown catch illustrates his dynamic skills. He catches a deep dig route over the middle, and runs through and around defenders on the way to the end zone. With Bowe capable of turning short passes into big gains, Cassel has become more comfortable allowing his playmakers to do their job instead of trying to shoulder the entire burden of carrying the offense.
While some will point to the Chiefs' rejuvenated passing game as a key component of their offensive success, it is their punishing ground attack that has propelled the unit. Led by the electrifying tandem of Thomas Jones and Jamaal Charles, the Chiefs are averaging a league-leading 167.5 rushing yards per game. As an explosive inside-outside combination, Jones and Charles share the workload evenly, but each brings unique skills to the table.
Jones, who has rushed for 879 yards on 235 carries, is a rugged inside runner with outstanding vision and quickness. Though he no longer possesses the breakaway speed, his experience allows him to remain productive despite diminishing skills. In studying Jones' game this year, his uncanny ability to avoid free hitters in the hole stands out. He quickly anticipates open lanes and still retains the burst to get in those alleys. With the Chiefs' zone-based scheme dependent on runners finding cracks in the defense, Jones' cutback skills make him a valued commodity.
In Charles, the Chiefs have a speedster capable of scoring from anywhere on the field. He excels at getting to the corner and they repeatedly feed him the ball on a host of outside zone runs. By design, those runs direct him toward the inside foot of the play-side offensive tackle, but Charles' speed, vision and explosiveness allow him to bounce to the outside or burst through cracks created by overaggressive defenders pursuing the play.
Throw in a physical offensive line capable of dealing with the heavyweight defenses featured by the Ravens, Steelers and Jets, and the Chiefs suddenly have a recipe that could lead to an extended postseason stay.
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For us, our issue was not so much capital start up costs; we didn't require a store front, simply an internet site with back end hardware. However, we needed enough funding to gain market share and loyalty early on, so that we could fend off the competition a year and a half later when other competitors recognized what we had and started to gain entry into the marketplace.
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Time and time again I've seen fabulous ideas come out too soon for the public to understand why they need it, or for the infrastructure to be there to support it. I worked for an Internet Hosting Provider that had online shopping, at a time when people only had dial-up connections to the Internet. By the time DSL, Fios and Cable came into place for homes the company was long gone.
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John Farrell still the favorite for Red Sox
Thursday was cleansing breath/firing day.
Friday may be pursue-the-next-candidate day.
In a round-table discussion after the firing of Bobby Valentine Thursday, Red Sox general manager Ben Cherington said that he had not yet asked any team for permission to speak to a potential managerial candidate.
In other words, Cherington has not asked the Blue Jays for permission to speak to John Farrell, who, according to team sources, is the Red Sox' No. 1 target.
The question was not asked of Sox president/CEO Larry Lucchino, however, and that's where the process could get started.
Lucchino and Toronto CEO Paul Beeston are dear friends, and there is always the possibility the two decide that Farrell could be had for compensation. Last year at this time, the Jays were fixed on Clay Buchholz, but they had another bad season, and the bloom is off the rose on Farrell, so why not let him go for just a decent player in return?
At least that's what the Red Sox hope.
Farrell is Boston's No. 1 target. Nobody would dispute that. But the Sox don't want to spend too much time trying to hash out compensation, because they don't want the search process to get into December as it did last time, handicapping both Valentine and the team.
One thing Lucchino mentioned Thursday is that his eyes had been opened to the fact you don't need an experienced manager to run the show. He referenced the success of Robin Ventura with the White Sox and Mike Matheny with the Cardinals.
So inexperienced prospects — say, Jason Varitek or Brad Ausmus — could be in play.
Cherington indicated that he didn't believe Varitek wanted that type of role so soon after retirement, but he didn't rule him out, either. Cherington did say that Varitek, who is now an assistant to the GM, would be involved in the search process.
"Right now, that's not what he's focused on," said Cherington. "He's joined the organization as a special assistant. He's going to get his feet wet in a lot of different areas.
"He wanted to take a little step back this year from the daily grind of the clubhouse. He's enjoying that. That's what he's focused on and we're happy to have him in that role right now."
So are the Sox looking for the anti-Valentine after they searched for the anti-Francona?
Cherington obviously didn't make the call last season. He and Valentine never clicked.
The GM and manager must be on the same page. This time Cherington will be in lockstep with whomever he chooses. He said there will likely be new names added to the list since last offseason.
"The team is at a different point than it was last year," he said. "The results were the results.
"We can't restrict ourselves to a certain type of candidate or a certain background or résumé. We've got to be open-minded about who the right fit is because this is an important hire. We do need to start to create some stability.
"We need a strong manager who can run the clubhouse and we need to support him. There's no one personality type; it's just finding the right fit for the Red Sox and the person we can get behind."
Will it be a tougher sell to get a prime managerial candidate since the roster is a little barren?
"Good question," Cherington said. "I don't think so, but we'll see.
"There's such opportunity here. We know how great this place is when things go well.
"The opportunity for a manager to come in here and be a central part of restoring the team to a level that we expect, fans deserve, ownership deserves — that's a tremendous opportunity. I think most confident baseball people would embrace that opportunity."
One issue that has come up recently is whether Boston is ready for a minority manager.
"You can be sure we're going to look with great sincerity and seriousness," Lucchino said. "We understand the importance of that, and the symbolism is important for Boston."
"Generally, we've always worked on the assumption that it would be part of any search process," said Cherington. "We want to find the best person, and part of the finding the best person is to look at a diverse group of candidates."
So where will the Red Sox turn if Farrell isn't available?
An interesting name that was given to me Monday was Joe Torre. He currently works for commissioner Bud Selig, but the former Yankee skipper might be interested in a managing job again, according to a major league source. Would he be too big, too strong of a name?
Some of last season's candidates — Gene Lamont, Sandy Alomar Jr., Pete Mackanin, Torey Lovullo — could be in play again. Newbies such as Varitek, Ausmus, and Dodgers third base coach Tim Wallach could also be possible. Would the Sox consider Orioles third base coach DeMarlo Hale? How about former Sox bench coach Brad Mills, who may go with Terry Francona to Cleveland?
The question is, does Cherington want a manager who speaks the language of the Red Sox baseball ops department — i.e. an analytical-type language?
Ausmus would fit that mode.
Farrell is also a strong orator.
When Cherington was asked whether it was important that the next manager have a pitching background, he said he expected the manager to oversee the staff, but that the primary responsibility lies with the pitching coach.
Cherington said he preferred the manager to hire the pitching coach, even if there was a pitching guru out there who could be hired before the manager. Orioles director of pitching Rick Peterson, who once coached Farrell, comes to mind.
Cherington wants to make sure he gets this right. He wants to have continuity. He obviously feels Farrell is that guy.
As we've pointed out before, there are no game-changers among the candidates. A Torre or a Tony La Russa or a Jim Leyland would be that type, were they available, but it appears the Red Sox are probably going to go younger.
The process should begin in earnest on Friday. The Sox hope it begins and ends with Farrell.
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Panthers quarterback Cam Newton spoke with Erin Andrews after a tight win over the Falcons for the NFC South title. There was a funny failure to communicate at one point, a few seconds after the minute mark in the video.
Erin Andrews: You're off next week. What do you do on your weekend? Do you watch?
Cam Newton: We've gotta get better.
Andrews: Where?
Newton: In Charlotte.
After a beat, Newton seemed to realize what Andrews actually asked. He then tried to salvage his answer with word salad about self-scouting and an unknown playoff opponent, but eventually produced a passable answer to Andrews's question. It's not like Cam's employed to give stellar postgame interviews, anyway.
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Zip Moneyman died vacuuming. At least that's how Bunky got it from Al Humphry, whose son-in-law is an EMT over in Riverdale, Zip's town. The mailman heard the vacuum machine humming, peeked through the screen door to wave hello and saw Zip in a heap on the living room carpet.
Sudden cardiopulmonary arrest, Al Humphry's son-in-law called it. Quick. No time to shut off the vacuum, much less shout for help. Not that shouting would have done much good, Bunky said, being how Zip's wife was out at the time working the baked goods booth at the Riverdale Founders' Day Fair.
Bunky's telling me this as we're driving to Monahan's Mortuary for Zip's viewing, and after the part about Zip's wife he kind of goes quiet, stares out the car window like he's got nothing more to say, then turns back to me.
She's why Zip's dead, he says.
I asked him how he figured Zip's dead because his wife happened to be out of the house. Didn't he say Zip went quick?
Bunky just rolled his eyes at me. I didn't say her being out of the house is what killed Zip, you moron, he says. What I said was, she had him pushing a goddamned Electrolux. Happens all the time, he said. Spend half your life busting ass for the wife and kids, then finally retire, think there's time now to do whatever you damned please, and then the old lady's blowing reveille in your ear and shoving you an apron before the sun comes up.
He went on to remind me how Tommy Raposa survived Korea, plus thirty years as a city cop, plus moonlighting behind the VFW bar, then had his stroke lugging a basket of wet laundry up the cellar stairs for Mrs. Raposa. Zip wasn't the first, he said, and he won't be the last.
Bunky's hardly someone you'd expect to know anything about henpecked husbands dying from too much housework. He's never even been married, though he did come close once. He'd taken a job giving dance lessons at Arthur Murray's after we came home from 'Nam, and Brenda was one of his clients. Now Bunky's always gone through women like a chain-smoker through cigarettes, but Brenda was different. They hit it off from the start, and before long you couldn't walk into a Boston dance club without seeing the two of them twirling and dipping under the spotlight, joined at the hip and lip like they couldn't get enough of each other. Bunky eventually popped the big question, and wedding plans were sailing right along, until one day, without a word of explanation, according to Bunky, Brenda called the whole thing off.
Bunky swore off marriage for good. Told me if I ever again caught him falling under a woman's spell like he had Brenda's, I should lock him away somewhere. I'm not saying Bunky swore off women in general. Far from it. He's always got one or two of them waiting in the wings, and I haven't seen one yet who couldn't be in the movies if she wanted to be. And none of them, as far as I can tell, has seemed the type to hound Bunky into picking up his dirty socks, much less introduce him to a vacuum cleaner.
So as we pulled into Monahan's parking lot that day, I had a feeling that something more serious than Zip keeling over behind an Electrolux was weighing on Bunky.
I'd met Zip through Bunky, and what little I saw of him was mostly at the race track. Truth be known, I'd driven all the way down from New Hampshire– more for Bunky's sake than for Zip himself. When Bunky called to tell me Zip had died, he said his Camaro had popped its clutch, and maybe if I felt like coming down for Zip's viewing he could ride with me instead of showing up in a taxicab like a loser. He said maybe we could go to the track afterwards. It'll be like old times, he said, and if I wanted to, I could sleep over at his apartment.
Zip was older than Bunky and me. He'd got himself a Purple Heart in Korea but didn't like talking about it. I can't remember ever seeing him without his Red Sox baseball cap and smoking one of his god-awful-smelling drugstore cigars. He'd been Bunky's supervisor at United Produce over in Malden, and after he retired and Bunky got canned for drinking on the job and spearing a pallet of lettuce crates with a forklift, the two of them took to hanging out at the track together.
I was selling houses down on the South Shore at the time, so I couldn't get up to the track that often. But the fact is, Bunky hardly ever asked me to join him and Zip. And times that I'd kind of invite myself, I'd end up feeling like a kid brother, just tagging along and in the way. What's more, after Karen and I got divorced and I took the job selling timeshares up north in New Hampshire, all I heard from Bunky was Zip this and Zip that, like he wanted me to think that my leaving town was no big deal.
Now don't get me wrong. I was naturally sad to hear that Zip had died and all, but you can't blame me for feeling a little bit resentful thinking Bunky had called me only because his Camaro was on the fritz and he needed a damned chauffeur. At first I told him I couldn't make the trip, lied about being too busy. But I couldn't help picturing him riding alone in that taxicab, with me just moping around my apartment, so I called him back, said I'd drive down and we'd go to Zip's viewing together.
Laid out in his casket, Zip didn't look dead as much as just resting his eyes, like he sometimes had a way of doing in the middle of me talking to him at the track. We stood peering down at him, respectful like, Bunky crossing and re-crossing himself like he's making up for lost time, the gold bracelets he'd gotten as gifts from various female admirers catching the light from the candles lined up behind the casket. In 'Nam, Bunky crossed himself more than the Pope even. He said it cancelled out evil thoughts and diverted bad shit to Lutherans like me. But after we came home and didn't have to worry anymore about getting shot at, he pretty much quit doing it, at least when I was around. Maybe he figured it wouldn't look right crossing himself as horses charged down the stretch, or maybe he just decided to give it a rest until something he couldn't handle– maybe something like Zip dying– came along.
Anyway, before long, he kind of elbows me in the ribs. You know how I can tell he's really dead? he says. I gave him an elbow jab to shush him up. It's that zoot suit they've got him in, he whispers at me. When I croak, he says, don't let them do that to me. It's goddamned unnatural. It's like putting whipped cream on a hotdog.
Crazy as it sounds, I think Bunky was serious. It was as if he'd all of a sudden figured I'd be around to handle things when his time came and he wanted me to give him a proper send-off. Dying isn't something we'd talked about much, except a few times in 'Nam, when we were half in the bag from cheap beer and fine reefer. We'd picture ourselves being blown to bits in a rocket attack, and then everyone who'd ever screwed us over showing up at our memorial service, forced to listen to sad songs we'd requested ahead of time to make them feel as rotten as possible. Bunky put "Heartbreak Hotel" at the top of his list.
But real dying we had no reason to talk about. Dying old and alone, no wives, no parents, no kids to give a damn...the kind of dying Bunky might have been thinking about over Zip's casket, his head bowed and his hands clasped at his belt buckle, the bracelets hanging at his wrists like gold handcuffs.
The kind of dying I'd thought about more than once since the last time I talked to Karen.
I'd bumped into her at the Burger King a couple of years after our divorce. She was sitting alone at a sunny window, and when she saw me, she waved me over to her table. She said I looked good, like I'd been taking care of myself. She didn't ask about my drinking, but maybe from the way I looked she didn't need to. And I was glad she didn't ask, because if she had, and I had told her how I'd quit, who knows but she might have gone right back to blaming herself for me boozing in the first place.
Which is how she saw it when we were married. She looked wonderful, as pretty as the day I first met her. Soft around the face, and rosy cheeked in a natural kind of way, almost like pregnant women look even before they begin to show.
It's Karen who'd taught me what to look for in a mother-to-be. Send her into a roomful of women wearing muumuu dresses, and I'd lay money on her picking out the pregnant one every time. I think she lived for the day she'd look in the mirror and see a baby glowing back at her. Seeing her across the table, I couldn't help wondering if she'd finally gotten her wish, but I didn't ask. Just imagine if she hadn't.
When I heard later about her daughter being born, I called to congratulate her. Told her about my earlier suspicions at the Burger King. She said she wished I'd said something then. She thought I'd figured it out and hated her for it. When I asked who's the lucky father, she said she'd done it artificially. Never even met the donor and didn't want to. You ought to come down and see my little girl, she said. She's so beautiful.
Then, out of the blue, she dropped a bombshell on me. Asked me if I ever thought about the last time we made love.
That's something we'd circled around during the divorce, kind of swooped at it like buzzards at some wounded thing that's still twitching enough to scare them off. But talk about it in so many words? No.
And we hadn't talked about how we'd eventually given up on having kids, pretty much abandoned making love altogether. How Karen had quit taking her morning temperature, put away the notebook and colored pens from the night stand. Or her eyes filling up whenever someone else she knew got pregnant.
Or about me coming home late and crooked from the VFW again that last night, her in bed, me falling asleep in the living room watching TV. Or about me waking up to the TV blaring and the room lit up gray like I'm being X-rayed. Me undressing and sneaking into bed beside her, and then her climbing on top of me, all sweet-smelling hair and sharp fingernails and hard wet teeth. And her bearing down on me while I'm growling her name like some caged idiot. Or the way she stroked my face afterwards, smoothed my hair back like she's off alone in a faraway place sculpting something for herself of clay. Maybe crying a little, I never knew for sure.
And I'd never told her about waking up alone in the morning, the shadows of the window curtains rippling across the ceiling. Or the dead quiet then, and knowing she'd finally left me.
We hadn't talked about these things back then. What was she looking for me to say now?
Do you think about it? she asked again. That last time?
Sometimes, I said, hoping to leave it at that.
She went quiet for what seemed a long time, like she was waiting for details. When she finally spoke again, it was in a whisper. I wanted you to know, she said, that I still loved you.
You're with someone you love, maybe walking on the beach like Karen and I used to do, and they tell you they love you, and your whole world lights up. But that night, alone in my apartment, hearing those words from Karen, I don't know that I'd ever been sadder in my life.
Anyway, Bunky crossed himself one more time at Zip's casket, then made a beeline for the door. I caught up with him outside, asked him what the hell's going on? I didn't even know Zip was sick, he said. He should have told me. Why didn't he?
Maybe Zip didn't know it himself, I said. Sometimes things like that just happen. One minute you're here, the next you're dead. Bunky let out a little huff and kicked a stone across the pavement. And besides, I said, what would you have done differently if you'd known he was sick?
We could have talked, Bunky said. We could have goddamn talked.
After we drove out of the parking lot, I kept peeking at Bunky out of the corner of my eye. What signs of Zip's dying heart, I wondered, had he missed? Or had he seen something that scared him and couldn't bring himself to ask Zip if everything was alright with him, if he wanted to talk?
Bunky wanted to go to the track. Zip would want it that way, he said. And he was right. Zip wasn't one to dwell on life's adversities. Korea. Horses he's bet on losing by a nose. Maybe even knowing he's dying. What can't be cured, he used to say, must be endured, and I guessed he wouldn't want Bunky and me mourning him any longer than we had to.
As we're driving to the track, Bunky reached into his blazer pocket and pulled out a fat cigar like the ones you sometimes see horse owners smoking in their private clubhouse boxes. He'd bought the cigar for Zip, he said. Wanted to sneak it into the casket as a keepsake, but got cold feet at the last minute. He said he'd paid seven dollars for it at Ehrlich's Tobacco. The clerk had told him it was the closest thing to a Cuban smoke you could buy legally.
He turned the cigar between his fingers like he didn't know what to do with it, as if wishing he'd gone ahead and slipped it into the casket like he'd planned, or maybe wishing he hadn't waited until Zip was gone to do something nice for him, to let him know how he felt about him.
Bunky reached over and started to slip the cigar into my breast pocket. I don't smoke cigars, but I let him finish. He gave the pocket a little pat, then turned away to gaze out the side window. He sat like that the rest of the way to the track, so still and quiet that I didn't know if I should say something or let him be.
He reminded me of Karen near the end of our marriage. We'd be riding in the car or having dinner out somewhere, making small talk like married people do, and the next moment she'd look away from me and go quiet, like she needed to be alone with her own thoughts.
At the track, Bunky took off for the grandstand entrance ahead of me like a man on an emergency mission. After I picked up a Racing Form at the concession stand, I went looking for him and eventually found him sitting where Zip always sat, the same exact seat.
Every horse I bet found a way to lose, but Bunky didn't make a single bet. Just sat in Zip's seat with his arms folded at his chest like he couldn't care less about what's going on with the horses. I knew Zip was on his mind, but I'd be lying if I said I wasn't annoyed.
About the time of the fifth race, I'm walking back from the betting windows and I see Bunky sitting where I'd left him. But his head was bowed and he's crossing himself again. I didn't feel right interrupting him, so I paused and waited for him to be done. When he finally raised his head and settled back in his seat, I joined him, pretending I hadn't seen a thing.
The horses break from the starting gate, and my horse is on top. Turning into the stretch, he looks like a sure winner, and I'm on the edge of my seat rooting him home. But Bunky's sitting with his arms folded and his eyes shut like he's taking a damned snooze. At the sixteenth pole, my horse begins to run out of gas, and as the other horses fly past him I slump back in my seat, rip my ticket up and toss the pieces into the air. When I glance at Bunky, he's smiling at me like Zip used to smile at the two of us when our horses got beat. He didn't say a word, but I knew what he was thinking.
After a time, Bunky said he'd like to leave. Said he was tired and wanted to go to his apartment, maybe take a nap. I said sure, why not? It wasn't like he'd been much company, I'm thinking, glued to Zip's seat and off in another world that apparently didn't include me.
Bunky started talking about Zip the moment we got in my car. He said he'd been thinking about the last few times he and Zip had been at the track together, searching his brain for clues he might have missed about Zip being sick. I reminded him what I'd said earlier, that sometimes things happen and there's nothing you can do about it.
Bunky smiled again. What can't be cured, right?
Pure Zip, I said.
Maybe, Bunky said, but maybe not.
Then I remembered Bunky crossing himself in Zip's seat in the grandstand, and how he'd at long last smiled at me, almost like his old self, when I ripped up my losing ticket. And as I looked at him staring out the car window, kind of whistling through his teeth now, it came to me that he'd proven Zip and me wrong, that he'd found a way to settle things between Zip and himself. I dropped Bunky and my suitcase off at his apartment, told him to go ahead and have his nap and that I'd come back in time for us to go out to dinner together.
Outside Karen's apartment, I put Bunky's cigar on the car seat. Why have Karen believe I'd replaced booze with cigars? I didn't know if I'd find her home, and part of me, I think, hoped I wouldn't. I wished I'd called ahead. Showing up unannounced is what stalkers and drunks do, but ex-husbands ought to know better.
I rang Karen's doorbell, straightened my necktie and smoothed my hair back like a nervous sixteen-year-old on his first date. I heard footsteps approaching, a child's laughter, and then the rattle of the security chain. In a moment, I knew, I would see her little girl. And then, when the time was right, I would ask Karen to forgive me.


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To ascertain nontextual cues, BibPort accesses a sequential container called "Words" located within a Document object, which corresponds to an open document within Word. In Figure 7, the Words container holds each individual parsed word of the document separately, as well as flags indicating whether specific formatting is activated (such as underlining, italics, or boldface). BibPort accesses the attribute flags within the Word object to obtain the visual cues used to assist in disambiguating a reference.
Using the WOM solves the difficulty of requiring understanding of file formats, but introduces a second problem: Because Word defines the manner in which words and characters are tokenized in documents, there will be several categories of tokens that are not split into the form needed by BibPort's parsers. One particular instance of this is the distribution of punctuation among tokens. The Words array was designed to be used with English words as its logical unit instead of more discrete units with punctuation being independent. Hence, WOM tends to group punctuation marks with words instead of representing them as separate tokens.
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I was telling the girls this last week while we were putting up our own Christmas tree.
One of our favorite books is "Big Susan" and we love the way
they decorate the doll house for Christmas.
"E" couldn't wait to decorate our own Barbie house
and got to work right away.
First, she made tiny paper chains with
bits of construction paper, Christmas-themed scrapbook paper and scotch tape.
Then, the girls set up a little tree from our Fairy house
with a few tiny ornaments and a paper doily for the tree skirt.
The table is set with plum pudding, a ham, and some hot cocoa!
The girls raided my vintage doily and hankie stash to
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Tiny string lights and fuzzy green yarn were used as garland on the balcony.
Then, mommy joined the crafty fun and
we all cut out some tiny paper snowflakes
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