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What's your mom group talking about this week? Between streaming the Handmaid's Tale, taking in the good weather and cleaning baby bottles, you were probably too busy to keep up. No worries, mamas! We've got you covered. From Jimmy Kimmel's poignant testimony about a health scare to Primary's new kid swimwear, here are 5 stories and baby products you should know about this week.
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DAMASCUS (Reuters) - House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said on Wednesday she gave Syrian President Bashar al-Assad a message from Israel that the Jewish state was ready for peace talks.So in one fell swoop, Pelosi was able to accomplish something that Condoleeza Rice and President Bush have been unable to achieve in six years (really only three years of effort once they realized Iraq was not going to be a beacon of democracy for the Middle East, but who's counting?). She has commitments from two sides in the multipronged Arab-Israel debate over securing Israel's permanent status.
"(Our) meeting with the president enabled us to communicate a message from Prime Minister (Ehud) Olmert that Israel was ready to engage in peace talks as well," Pelosi told reporters in Damascus after talks with Assad.
"Peace in the Middle East is a high priority ... We were very pleased with the reassurances we received from the president that he was ready to resume the peace process. He was ready to engage in negotiations (for) peace with Israel," Pelosi added.
Syria's peace talks with Israel, centered on normal ties in return for the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, collapsed in 2000. An Arab summit last month revived a land-for-peace offer to Israel.
Not bad for being in office for three months.
Naturally, you might imagine this was not viewed with loving and adoring eyes on the part of the White House:
The White House said Pelosi's visit sent the wrong message to the Syrian leader.Right. It says, "We think you have some part to play in helping make this a reality." Whether one agrees with this or not, one cannot deny that Syria is aiding the terrorist movement against Israel, via Lebanon and Hezbollah. To deny them a seat in the discussions would be pointless. Like it or not, they've earned it, and would do anything in their power to derail any such agreement negotiated without them.
It is, of course, a typical Republican corporatist ploy to exclude the very people affected in talks about the future. Just look at how workers in America are treated.
There is an ancillary benefit to these talks Pelosi is holding: they allow America to recapture some credibility with the world, and to show the rest of humanity that we are not all "Bushies", that cooler heads can prevail, and that eventually, we can wrest this country back from the magical children that run it now (and badly) and straighten our course out.
Or, to put it as diplomatically as Pelosi did:
Pelosi has shrugged off the White House's criticism of the trip, saying it was a good opportunity to gather facts and build confidence.Too, Pelosi's visit also puts Syria on notice that, while Bush and his administration have low regard for them, we as a nation recognize that Syria is behind many if not most of the insurgent attacks in Iraq, and we can deal with those using either the carrot or the stick.
I think it was Abraham Maslow who said that when you only have a hammer, every problem looks like a nail, which is a fairly low level of self-actualization for a human, and indicates stunted personal growth.
That works for nations, as well. The United States is oddly schizophrenic in many ways, making great strides forward in one moment, backsliding into childhood and adolescent fantasies the next. Pelosi's visit reminds us that we can do well in this world by doing sublime acts, and staying away from the ridiculous.
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Lest anyone think I'm all about acting above it all, I am putting this out there again.
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When Career Day Goes Horribly Awry
My teaching days are a veritable goldmine for ridiculousness. That one time I maybe sort of lost a colleague's son in Manhattan, that one time the sixty year-old tour guide at Gettysburg asked me out in front of my students, the countless number of ridiculous things my seventh graders said and did, these are all fantastic stories.
And the time I had to explain why a stained dress was so important.
Career Day can be kind of boring, and so my fellow teachers and I worked really hard to get as many fascinating characters as possible to visit our students. Our population was extremely diverse, many immigrants, many students receiving free or reduced lunch, and so it was extra important to show our kids how many doors were open to them.
During the months leading up to the event, we touched base with a wide variety of professions, some parents of students, some friends of teachers. There were musicians, doctors, an architect, a sound engineer, a police officer, and even a juvenile parole officer, who hilariously knew a few of my students through their after school mishaps. We encouraged all of the speakers to bring visual aids, handouts, and multimedia presentations were also strongly encouraged.
We did not anticipate what happened next.
The day had gone pretty brilliantly – my students were behaving professionally and dare I say they were genuinely engaged and interested. Their questions were thoughtful and polite, and there were a minimal number of disruptions. The students returned from lunch for their afternoon sessions, and I sat in the back as the next presenter set up his slideshow.
Special Agent whoever he was of the FBI had a lot to teach my kids. He wasn't so enthused to divulge the details of how one becomes an agent, however, he was completely focused on sharing image after image of….crime scenes.
To my seventh graders.
Now, these guys were not exactly innocent little tulips, most of them being experts at Grand Theft Auto and having memorized Scarface. But we teachers were paralyzed in that moment, unable to redirect the speaker who was as clueless as one can be.
And then his final slide. Boy howdy, he was proud of this one. This was the jewel in his little special agent crown – an image that had yet to be widely seen, as this was before the dawn of high-speed internet and Google Image searches.
Projected on the white board was an evidence photo of Monica Lewinsky's blue dress.
Admittedly, the adults in the room were intrigued and probably took too long to shut off the projector because yes, it was impressive. Gross, but impressive. I definitely bragged to friends after the fact. But we were quickly snapped back to reality as the questions began. Why is her dress up there? Hey Miss, that looks like that dress you wore yesterday! Why was President Clinton in trouble? WHAT IS THAT WHITE SPOT.
I guess Special Agent man had never met a kid or been one, because he was pretty disappointed in the general reaction. And while those of us in charge tripped over all of our words conducting damage control, we telepathically communicated our regrets to one another for not requiring a preview of presentations.
That mistake would not be made again. And if nothing else, the dress did distract them from all the bloody knives and such.
Christmas, KonMari'd!
As promised, an update on the Konmari experiment.
So far, I have tackled Christmas. Here's what I learned:
- It took almost no effort to reduce my bins from 4 to 2.
- I had a lot of glitter detritus.
- Several items were kept in the dark recesses of the Christmas bins out of sheer obligation and will hopefully be moving along to someone else's home. Someone who truly enjoys them.
- I was pleasantly surprised to unearth some items I never typically get to and look forward to next year when I will use them, including the Spode dishes from hubs' grandmother.
- An unexpected realization: I have kept certain items in those boxes for fear of forgetting.
About that last one: a related story.
There was a ziploc bag full of Christmas potpourri. Really good smelling stuff. Quality. How do I know? It still smelled wonderfully after being in there for the past TWENTY YEARS.
Yes. I had kept potpourri for twenty years. Was it magical potpourri, you ask? Well, kind of.
I bought that bag of potpourri one Christmas season at Kaufmann's. I wonder if Kaufmann's still exists? It was the same as Hechts, so probably not. Perhaps it's now a Macy's. Anyway. I remember buying that bag of potpourri, which, at the time was such a ridiculous expenditure. I was in college, and I didn't even have the money for pizza and alcohol, so why was I blowing it on potpourri? (Technically, I wasn't – I think I charged it. Which, that's an entirely different story for another day. Suffice it to say, that bag of potpourri probably ended up costing me fifty bucks with interest!)
It was an impulse buy, no doubt. My roommate, Libby, and I were avoiding studying and wandering around the sad shopping center known as Fort Steuben Mall, when I caught the intoxicating scent of cinnamon. So I grabbed the smallest available bag, swiped my card, and brought it back to our tiny apartment.
I only needed about a handful of the stuff in a glass dish in order to permeate the whole of our apartment. Along with our little tree in the window, Seamus the spruce, we had ourselves a festive gathering place. I remember holing up there with a smattering of friends, staying up way past respectable bedtime, running outside in the snow together, and then warming up with spiked hot chocolate while we eventually got down to the task of studying. Even though we lived in a mining town, the stench of which is regionally famous, the thick snow blanket seemed to erase the sulfuric intensity in a blessed and rare respite.
At some point, we would all fall asleep, scattered around the apartment in sleeping bags or under blankets on the couch, and I would get up each morning before everyone else and start a pot of coffee while everyone else would slowly stir to consciousness, squinting as the sunlight reflected off the snow and through the picture window behind the Christmas tree.
Those were magical days. None of us knew the future, of course. Quite frankly, had anyone predicted that two of would be dead less than five years later, we would have all laughed at the absurdity of such a suggestion. We were merely playing at adulthood – no one had any intentions of growing up that quickly. Of course, we did just that, first when Libby and Nate had their two babies, the joy of growing up, and then even moreso when death claimed them within a year of one another.
But each time I opened my Christmas decorations, that cinnamon smell escaped and I relived that memory. Which is why I have kept such a silly thing for two decades. I realized, however, that I don't need a ziploc of potpourri for that. (Earth-shattering, I know!) It just took me a while longer to figure out that we do not owe our memories and experiences to objects. I don't need mashed up bits of pine cones and cinnamon sticks to transport me to that crackerbox apartment. Or a Santa figurine that doesn't quite fit in or make me happy because I loved the person who gave it to me. I am learning that I needn't be beholden to the secret crates of possessions we squirrel away under the stairs.
I'm better than that. We are all better than that. Our minds are far roomier than our attics and basements, and our memories far more valuable than we give them credit.
I've Done It Again. Carry On.
Being married to someone you met in adulthood inevitably results in funny conversations. What may have seemed completely reasonable to one spouse can strike the other as anything ranging from quirky to downright batshit crazy. Maybe your husband grew up in a different culture or religion, or maybe your wife was raised in a different country. Maybe your parents didn't use dryer sheets. Maybe his parents were all about margarine. These things come up when you bring two people together and start a new family.
With my husband and I, typically some story from his youth strikes me as quirky, whereas my strolls down memory lane leave him bug-eyed and yes, declaring, wow, that is batshit crazy.
You'd hardly know from looking at me today, all put together and fabulous, that I had an….unconventional start. (Yes, I am being sarcastic. I am not put together and fabulous, although one of these days, I tell you, I'll show the WORLD! just not today) Actually, sarcasm aside, we are about as normal as one gets anymore. Extended family who enjoy one another's company, get together for holidays, that sort of boredom, as we do. So I understand my sweet hubs' reactions.
And it's not as though I tricked him into marrying me, thinking I was one thing (normal) when in actuality I was quite another. (trainwreck) It's just that, when your experiences are your experiences, you tend to just think of them as what happened, not as an outsider might.
Which is how we landed on this conversation the other night, sparked by the craziness of the VanillaISIS situation in Oregon.
(I'm also partial to Bubba Haram, for what it's worth. Alas, I digress.)
So the conversation goes something like this:
husband: These people are nuts! Like tinfoil hat crazy!
me: Yeah. They remind me of this family I knew, though. I wonder if they ever got social security numbers.
husband: (blink blink) Pardon me?
me: Social Security numbers. Their parents didn't let them have them because they didn't want the government to know they existed. They lived not too far from you growing up, actually. Although probably you wouldn't have known them. They didn't go to school, obviously. But I remember them talking about eating squirrels they killed on their land and how they would totally survive anything. They wore a lot of camo, come to think of it. Weird. I wonder how they got a phone at their house? I remember they didn't believe in borrowing money. Actually, how'd they have a house? I never thought about this stuff when I was a kid.
husband: (eyes about to fall out of his head)
me: (nervous laughter) You didn't know anyone like that, eh?
husband: WTF?!
me: Right. I've done it again. Carry on.
So yes. When I was around 15 or so, I met a few, shall we say, unique folks. And my parents, being of the more free-range variety, and trusting that I was up to only good, never really worried about me. And I, being of the sheltered variety, didn't realize just how whacked these friends were. To be fair, this was pre-google.
Some days, I think, I should write more of this down. Other days, I think no one would believe me. But suffice it to say, I have learned little by little that no, most people weren't buds with anti-government conspiracists.
Then again, SOMEONE wrote Ron Swanson.
I'm Gonna Konmari the Krap Outta This
Please excuse the forced alliteration. I'm bedridden, and I have lost all sense of decorum. (edited to add: i just realized the Ks might seem an homage to *that* famous repetitive K family. it is not.)
Two days ago, on the day after Christmas, instead of enjoying the dulcet tones of my children whining about their boredom in spite of having a metric tonne of shiny new toys, I fell ill with a stomach bug that rivaled any of my four bouts of hyperemesis.
It was the literal worst. Seriously. I went to the ER, and as I sat in the lobby, utilizing one of those lovely blue plastic accordion receptacles, my fingers and legs locked up. I thought I might be having a stroke, but I guess it was the result of extreme dehydration. Impressive, even for me.
So I had a night's vacation in the observation ward. I had to leave my little baby at home for the first time overnight without me, and she was….displeased. She refused to take a bottle and slept away her stress. I also attempted to sleep away the entire incident, which wasn't too difficult as I was given several doses of phenergan.
But after tolerating some carrots and a baked potato, I was given my freedom. I took to my bed and haven't left since. Which is where I have been stationed for the past 27 hours or so, visually combing through every square inch of this room with the fresh eyes of a woman who has recently read the latest religious text of the organization faithful.
the life-changing magic of tidying up: the Japanese art of decluttering and organizing
I first took notice of this book on the shelves of Anthropologie, where I work a few hours per week. I was immediately attracted to the ee cummings-esque typeface, and having heard the word "konmari" tossed about, decided I would give it a quick read. After all, I've always been a fan of organization. When I was in high school, I actually asked for a closet organizer as a gift. That's how much I love to organize.
Yet, I still live in a cluttered mess. Sure, a good amount of that is the fact that I have a family of 6 in a tiny home, but there must be more than that. And so I am committing to this book and this kooky Japanese lady with her weirdo methods.
Which is why as I am perched on my sick bed, impatient to kick the remnants of this nasty illness, I have mentally culled my bookshelf, my sock drawer, and the right half of the top shelf of the closet. (The left door is closed, so I can't see what I need to ditch from that side)
Does it spark joy? If not, it's out. Done. Gone. Kaput. Audi-5000.
My plan is to Konmari the hell out of this joint.
I'll keep you posted. Will this be like the time I tried the Atkins diet? Hopefully not. I mean, pork rinds are straight up nasty.
This Is the Last Day of Our Acquaintance
My thirties are coming to a close, and it feels remarkably unremarkable.
I imagine I'll wake up tomorrow, and nothing will have changed aside from the fact that I will have managed to have survived into another decade. Which is pretty swell, really. Certainly beats the alternative, as they say.
In anticipation of this birthday, I compiled a brief set of goals to meet ahead of time. Some more introspective than others, certainly, and while I accomplished several, including my renewed dedication to writing, others fell by the wayside, such as finding a decent lipstick shade.
And while I know that turning forty is a big freaking deal, I think what is stuck in my brain is how on earth I'm going to beat the awesomeness that was my thirties.
In my thirties, I became a mother. First, to my sweet baby girl who is creeping up on 10 herself, and then to three more tiny people, one boy and two more girls, who are happy and healthy and loved.
In my thirties,my husband and I bought our first home. Sure, it's tiny, sure, it needs a metric tonne of work, but it is ours. And that is amazing. It's terribly adult of us, don't you think?
In my thirties, I realized a ridiculous amount about myself. I finally got comfortable in this mortal coil of mine. Through four pregnancies, I realized how much my body could withstand and was amazed by that. I stopped being paralyzed by self-consciousness. I learned how to recognize when the anxiety was talking and what tools were needed to get her to kindly eff off. I learned that whatever unkind word popped into my head didn't necessarily need to pass my lips, no matter how justifiable my emotions may or may not be.
In my thirties, I learned my own opinions, separately from my family and friends – while some remained the same, not all did.
I don't suspect I'll wake up tomorrow feeling any differently. And I would venture to guess that as far as decades go, my thirties were a lot busier than the forties are slated to be. But I have a sneaking suspicion that in ten years' time, a new list, albeit shorter, will be composed.
Perhaps by fifty I'll find that elusive red lipstick.
Last night, the only way I knew how to deal with my fear was to angrily write this piece. Still not sure where to go from here. This world. Yikes.


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Finally after almost 20 years, the repeal of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" was passed in Congress and signed into law. Special thanks should go to Speaker Pelosi who orchestrated the legislative process so the Senate had to come to an up-or-down vote on this issue. Special thanks also to Senators Dianne Feinstein and Barbara Boxer who fought for this issue and their outstanding work to try to pass the DREAM Act, which unfortunately was killed by the Republicans in the Senate. At least we will be ending the year on a high note with the repeal of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell." There is more work to do on the DREAM Act and other issues next year. Hope each one of you have a happy holiday. Let's hope in 2011 we will bring an end to the war and attacks on the poor and working-class people in this country.
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As we head into the LPGA's 2010 season, I'm going to be breaking down the competition in various ways. Since a lot has changed since I last ranked the best on the LPGA without a win--Ai Miyazato, Na Yeon Choi, and Michelle Wie from the list got their 1st wins (not to mention Eunjung Yi and M.J. Hur from off it), for starters--I figured it was about time for an update. Since I plan to do similar lists for active players with 1 win, 2 wins, 3 to 6 wins, and 7 or more wins, I'm moving those with non-member wins off this ranking. For all these posts, I'll be using my Best of the Young Guns and Best of the LPGA rankings, as well as my ranking of the Class of 2009 and survey of the Class of 2010, to help me figure out who goes where. I'll be ranking each list in part by career achievements and in part by how likely a 2010 win is from the players on it. So here goes:
Most Likely to Win in 2010
1. Song-Hee Kim: This Futures Tour sensation got off to a slow start on the LPGA, but now has 5 top 3s and 19 top 10s. Plus, she's an excellent putter, one of the best on tour, and has been improving her ballstriking. That's what I call due.
2. Brittany Lang: In 38 more starts than Kim, she has 1 more top 3 and 5 more top 10s, but her slump was longer than deeper than Kim's ever was. 2009 was her 1st full season when she was truly past it and she established herself as one of the tour's best ballstrikers in it. Let's see if she's able to improve her short game even more in 2010. All she needs to break through is 1 week when her putter gets hot.
3. Sun Young Yoo: This late-blooming '06er has the game to contend any given week, but hasn't done it as often as she will in 2010. She gets a good number of top 20s (31 in 104 LPGA starts) and has started to get comfortable with her name near the top of the leaderboard (3 top 3s and 13 top 10s at the end of 2009 are big improvements on where she stood at the end of 2008). So let's see if she can build on her momentum and reach escape velocity in 2010. [Update (5/24/10): Winning the Sybase Match Play Championship wasn't the easiest way to get off this list, but she did it!]
4. Hee Young Park: With 4 KLPGA wins to her name and the ability to go very low any time, she just has to have a week where she avoids that one big number to get her 1st LPGA win. 2 top 3s and 10 top 10s in her 53 starts as an LPGA member just scratches the surface of her potential.
5. Kristy McPherson: I don't know, I just have a great feeling about her prospects in 2010. She's a precision player who has room to improve even in that area; she's contended at majors; she's gone through Solheim Cup trial by fire; and she has 3 top 3s and 12 top 10s in her 70 LPGA starts. What's not to like?
6. Amy Yang: Yes, she didn't live up to my prediction that she'd end up the 10th-best player on the LPGA in 2009. But she improved on her rookie season, when she won twice on the LET, in every major statistical category. She's on the verge of really breaking through. Once she figures out how to go low outside Europe, she'll be unstoppable!
7. Vicky Hurst: I never thought M.J. Hur would beat her to that 1st LPGA win, but there you have it. Still, 2009 was a pretty solid season for the tour's long-driving champion in her rookie season.
8. Stacy Lewis: 2009 was a big let-down for 2008's Q-School medalist, but still a pretty good year for a rookie. Look for her to tap into her considerable talents in 2010.
Have the Talent to Win Any Time, But....
9. Jane Park: She got off to a hot start in 2009 but then her back flared up and she was never the same golfer the rest of the season. Still, even with limited status her rookie season, she already has 3 top 3s and 6 top 10s in 57 starts as an LPGA member. And she felt well enough to caddy for Tiffany Joh at Q-School in December. So if she comes back rested and takes care of her back better in 2010, I expect a win out of her this season.
10. Shiho Oyama: 11 JLPGA wins in 9 seasons don't lie, but tendonitis in the elbows is hard to recover from. She had the wisdom to shut down her season midway through 2009 when it became clear playing through the pain was counterproductive. And she even stayed in the top 80 on the LPGA's money list, securing Category 1 status for 2010. Let's see if she comes back healthy.
11. Angela Park: Yes, her game has deserted her and she's dealing with issues bigger than golf. But even with all those problems she has 3 more top 3s and only 1 fewer top 10 than Kim. Without them, she'd be at the head of this ranking.
The Contenders
12. Amanda Blumenherst: She's probably the rookie with the highest expectations put on her, at least by the U.S. golfy media, and she came through by winning medalist honors at Q-School. Let's see if she can live up to the hype in 2010.
13. Azahara Munoz: She's already won on the LET and will be able to take advantage of the dual LPGA-LET membership that gives her if she plans her transcontinental travel carefully. As one of 4 players with a great chance to win Rookie of the Year on both tours in 2010, though, her scheduling could get quite complicated.
14. Tania Elosegui: Although she got very few LPGA starts in her rookie year, watch out for her in her sophomore season. She won on the LET in June and finished 5th on their money list in 2009. He 1-2 Solheim Cup record is no indication of her talent or potential. She's essentially a rookie in 2010, but with more professional experience than most of the real rookies.
15. Pernilla Lindberg: Like fellow Annika disciple Anna Nordqvist, she has the talent, the work ethic, and the mentoring to make an immediate impact in her rookie seasons on both the LPGA and LET.
16. Lindsey Wright: I had thought she was going to be the next Australian to break through, but injuries in the 2nd half of 2008 opened the door for Katherine Hull to beat her to it. And even though she stayed healthy all 2009, her 2nd half of the season was a disappointment compared to the 1st. But she's still super-due for that 1st win!
17. Mariajo Uribe: She already has experience what being at the top of the leaderboard on the LPGA is like, having played well in several professional events as an amateur, most notably the U.S. Women's Open. Let's see if she translates that into success on both the LPGA and LET in 2010.
18. Sandra Gal: She put up some low numbers and hung around the top of the leaderboard a few times, but had trouble staying there in 2009. Expect her to build on those experiences in 2010. [Update (3/27/11): What a way to get your 1st win--staring down Ji-Yai Shin over the weekend!]
19. Mika Miyazato: She showed in 2009 why she had been considered Japan's top amateur for years, outplaying fellow LPGA rookie Stacy Lewis over the course of the season and nearly running away with Japan's top professional tournament, the Japan Women's Open, until a collapse on Sunday ended her hopes. With no dual membership distractions and plenty of time to return to Japan when the LPGA schedule goes dark in 2010, she shouldn't have the 2nd-half drop-off that she suffered her rookie season.
20. Marianne Skarpnord: Another LETer who broke through in 2009, I expect her to make a smooth transition onto the LPGA.
21. Gwladys Nocera: She's a legitimate LET superstar, but most of her wins there have come when the top Europeans were competing on the LPGA. Although she certainly proved herself in the Solheim Cup, we'll get a good sense of how well this veteran can compete week in and week out against the best women golfers in the world.
22. Mina Harigae: Yes, she won the Futures Tour money-list title and got 3 wins there early in her 1st professional season, but I just don't see her making the kind of quantum leap when she joins the LPGA. I'm hoping she surprises me.
23. Maria Hernandez: We'll see if she can build on the momentum from her NCAA Player of the Year season as a senior and play well on both the LPGA and LET in 2010.
Quantum Leap Candidates
24. Teresa Lu: Her 2009 wasn't as good as her 2008, but, even so, it showed she belongs among the LPGA's regulars. And if she bounces back like I expect her to, she'll be among the LPGA's elite in 2010.
25. Kyeong Bae: Given how bad she played for most of last season, it was easy to forget she has 2 top 3s and 9 top 10s in her 95 LPGA starts. But her few very good results in 2009 reminded us what she's capable of in 2010.
26. Beatriz Recari: Another LET regular who broke through in 2009 and rode the momentum over to the LPGA. We'll see what she's capable of in 2010. [Update (10/18/10): Wow, I couldn't leave Recari off the list because of her LET win, but after going 4 for 14 in '10 when it came to making cuts, I never would have come close to predicting yesterday's win at the CVS/pharmacy LPGA Challenge! Her win should give the remaining golfers on this list a lot of confidence!]
27. Shanshan Feng: She showed what she's capable of in the 2nd half of 2008, when she went from a rookie in danger of losing her card to 1 of the best players on tour. But she never really hit her stride in her sophomore season. Let's see if she can put that mini-slump behind her and start to contend again in 2010.
[Update 1 (1/14/10, 1:44 am): For more on Sun Young Yoo, check out this post from Happy Fan, which mostly focuses on KLPGA showdowns, but notes how close Yoo came to knocking off Shin at the NW Arkansas event last season.]


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There are low budget indie flicks like Swingers and big budget Hollywood blockbusters like the more
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1. Ocean's Eleven. The 1960 Rat Pack classic stars Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin who decide to
organize a heist to knock over all the casinos on the Las Vegas strip on the same night.
2. Casino. Martin Scorsese's classic tale of what happens when money and power go to your
head. It has stunning performances from Robert De Niro and Joe Pesci, as well as a whole host of
other stars. It is, as you might expect from a Scorsese movie, quite violent in places. But it also has
some moments of dark humor that make it a classic.
3. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. Although not strictly about casino's, they do feature very
heavily in this drug fueled journey to the heart of the American Dream. Starring Benicio del Toro as
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Welcome to another edition of Mini Review Monday. If you're in the US-Happy Memorial Day! If you're elsewhere-Happy Monday! In my quest to lower my number of review copies on my TBR, I'm taking the ones I feel less blab-worthy about (that's a word, right?) and including them in my mini review segments. This doesn't mean… Continue reading Mini Review Monday: 5/28
Tag: Cover Love
Top Ten Tuesday: Books Set In Another Country
Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme created by The Broke and the Bookish in June of '10 and was moved and is now hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl in January of '18. Each week will be a different topic and everyone is welcome to join and link up! When I saw that the prompt for this week was "Books that take… Continue reading Top Ten Tuesday: Books Set In Another Country
NetGalley Update
Well, I know you've already had a March update from me regarding NetGalley , but I couldn't wait to share the latest four books I acquired! I know I know, I have a problem. You've already seen two of them recently in my Spring TBR line up, but I'm sharing them all together just the same. Since… Continue reading NetGalley Update
Most Anticipated: Contemporary
Is it just me, or does anyone else feel like they spend as much time scouring for new books than they do reading the ones they have? I'll admit that I have a serious problem when it comes to biting off more than I can chew in review copies, but I never feel guilty adding… Continue reading Most Anticipated: Contemporary
Top Ten Tuesday: Spring TBR
Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme created by The Broke and the Bookish in June of '10 and was moved and is now hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl in January of '18. Each week will be a different topic and everyone is welcome to join and link up! This is my first week joining in on the Top Ten Tuesday meme-hooray!… Continue reading Top Ten Tuesday: Spring TBR
Review: Wicked Charm
Book Title: Wicked Charm Author: Amber Hart REVIEWED BY: CHELSEA Series: None Genres: YA, Thriller, Crime Fiction, Mystery Goodreads Pub Date: 01/30/18 4 STARS Nothing good comes from living in the Devil's swamp. Willow Bell thinks moving to the Okefenokee area isn't half bad, but nothing prepares her for what awaits in the shadows of… Continue reading Review: Wicked Charm
Cover Reveal: Murder Game
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Cummings remembered as a mentor to many in Baltimore
BALTIMORE (AP) — The top prosecutor in Baltimore knew exactly where to go for guidance after she made the decision to file charges in an explosive case involving the death of a black man in police custody. She called Rep. Elijah Cummings, her trusted adviser and friend.
After that call in May 2015, State's Attorney Marilyn Mosby announced charges ranging from assault to murder against six officers in the case of Freddie Gray, whose death from a neck injury suffered during a jolting ride in the back of a police van had set off some of the worst riots in decades in Baltimore.
Cummings "said he was there with me. He said he believed in me," Mosby said Friday, recalling the telephone conversation.
Later, when Mosby came under public attack over her handling of the case, "he would say 'No, I stand with Marilyn Mosby. I stand with her decision.'"
Mosby is not the only Baltimore resident who relied on Cummings for advice. The congressman and civil rights advocate, who died Thursday at 68, mentored countless young people, faith leaders, activists, politicians and others over the years.
Through meetings, speeches, texts, phone calls and even grocery store encounters, the Baltimore Democrat and sharecroppers' son shared his political wisdom and life experience with his booming voice and gift for oratory, inspiring many to become active in their communities and pursue careers in public service.
"We grew up idolizing him. Before there was Barack Obama, here, we had Elijah Cummings," lifelong Baltimore resident and City Council President Brandon Scott said.
Scott, 35, recalled how Cummings pulled him aside once when he was a 20-something city employee and asked him about his aspirations. They developed a relationship as he moved up in City Hall, and when he was chosen to lead the council in May, he called the congressman first.
One of the main lessons Cummings taught him was to "never lose your cool."
"Even when people are attacking you, even when people are saying things that are not true, even when they are dragging your name in the mud, never respond with emotion. Always respond calmly and with dignity, with respect for yourself and for others, including those who are disparaging you," Scott said. "And then the whole world saw him do that this summer with the president of United States attacking him."
Trump in July called Cummings' district a "disgusting, rat- and rodent-infested mess" where "no human being would want to live." In response, Cummings invited Trump to tour the district, which includes neighborhoods that have struggled with poverty and violence and more affluent areas and landmarks such as Johns Hopkins University and its hospital. Trump didn't take him up on the offer.
The Rev. Jamal Bryant recalled Cummings speaking at his church in Baltimore multiple times and always refusing the honorarium he was offered, instead asking that it be donated to youth programs. He said Cummings showed the same "love and respect" to everybody, whether they "were in the ivory tower or street corner."
"There is no success without a successor, and Rep. Cummings groomed and mentored a whole lot of people publicly and a whole lot of people privately," said Bryant, who now has a pulpit in Stonecrest, Georgia, following 18 years as a pastor in Baltimore.
Mosby's gamble in the Gray case ultimately failed to yield a single conviction. Three officers were acquitted, and she dropped the three other cases. Cummings stayed by her side, endorsing her in the 2018 election.
This past summer, as she was getting ready to testify for the first time before Congress — she would speak in support of legalization of marijuana possession — he counseled her again.
"One of the things that he said was 'This is easy for you. You've faced this kind of scrutiny many times. You always come out on top,'" she recalled. "And he wrote, 'I'm proud of you.' I looked up to him."


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14 Oct REAL Goes Retro
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The GAA-PAC Tennis Classic was held on Friday, September 25, 2015. Despite the rain showers, everyone gathered at the Blackburn Tennis Center for some end of the week fun without the sun. Many came dressed in their retro apparel and racquets in hand, while others mingled the side lines beneath their umbrellas. Either way, the REAL team had a great time!!
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The following process will help families prepare children and grandchildren for the challenge of managing significant wealth and/or a family business.
In part, the discussion focuses on how children, and ultimately grandchildren, can learn to work effectively with professional financial, tax and legal advisors and/or the professional executive team managing a family business when those heirs themselves are not directly involved in the family business.
Research shows how families can cooperate and collaborate to make wise planning decisions for all family members and develop self-sufficiency as opposed to dependency among the younger generation.
In the 30 percent of affluent wealth transitions that were successful, Williams and Morris found three broad common elements:
1. Candid Communication. There was a tremendous degree of trust, openness, cooperation and mutual respect among family members. This was in sharp contrast to the pattern in the families where estate transitions failed where parents communicated more with professional advisors than with their children.
2. Independent Achievement / Meritocracy. Only after achieving independent academic and career success, were heirs allowed to choose to become involved in either managing the family's business or assets. At the time of "transition," these heirs indicated to researchers that they felt "well-prepared" to take over.
3. A Written Plan. Families whose transitions were successful prepared a formal succession plan and family mission statement, which included concrete steps to train (and test) heirs. These families also laid the groundwork for their children to have successful working relationships with competent professional advisors.
Five Basic Steps to Prepare Heirs...
In addition to the three steps above, there are several steps that parents should take to help their children avoid the pitfalls of inherited wealth:
Conduct regular family meetings where open dialogue is encouraged and professional advisors are often present to help facilitate discussion and ensure that every adult family member's point of view is heard and a consensus achieved.
Encourage teamwork and a sense of objectivity and fairness within the family so that even when a decision does not go a family member's way, he or she realizes that the decision making process was fair and is able to wholeheartedly embrace the direction that the family decided to take.
Do not make cash gifts to children before they are ready (often age 35+), but rather invest in their and their children's college education. As mentioned, in The Millionaire Next Door; Stanley and Danko found that there was an inverse relationship between cash gifts to children and both the net worth and income that those children were able to earn. They suggested teaching children to save 20 percent of their income each month and to live within their means.
Allow children to learn from failure and encourage an environment where all family members, including parents, can candidly assess their own strengths and weaknesses. Don't act as a safety net unless health and well-being is involved.
Encourage your kids to pursue their passion not yours.
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So after I saw Noble and laughed for a minute thoughts began racing through my mind. What are we going to do? I asked Jon. His very predictable response was, "He is 2! Who cares what he wears. Let's go!"
Now part of me agreed with Jonathan. It was more important to be THERE than to be appropriately dressed. But there was that other prideful part of me that I try not to listen to telling me how mortified I would feel walking in with my 2 year old in camo pjs. Mother of the Year here remember??? Awesome.
But it was 11:01 when we arrived. By now probably 11:03. Church starts at 11 prompt. Even though home is only a 3 minute drive there is still the unbuckling and finding the clothes and getting them on a very tired little boy. (Daylight savings time was that morning and his normal nap starts at 11 and so it was like noon to him.) Oh and there would be finding socks in the sock bin too.
We are usually done with the sacrament by 20 after. I knew if I turned right around I would miss the sacrament. That is just not something I wanted to do. You see when I was 17 I lived in a small town in Spain as a foreign exchange student. I didn't get to go to church for about 2 months. The closest church was like 30 miles away and my host family didn't see a need to drive me to church.
I really missed having the opportunity to renew my baptismal covenants each week. I felt that loss more keenly than I can possibly convey with words. While there I made a personal and solemn promise to my Heavenly Father that I would never again miss taking the sacrament if I could help it. I just would not take for granted the blessing it is to be so close and have that opportunity to be clean again each week.
In the 19 years since then I have only once missed taking the sacrament for reasons other than normal legitimate things like sickness or new baby or sick kid. It was when I was in college. I just was tired and I slept through it. I felt so bad. I knew better. Really, I felt as bad as if I had committed some major sin. I repented of that mistake and doubly vowed it would never happen again.
So with that background, I was not about to miss taking the sacrament because of my pride about what my kid was or wasn't wearing. And sending Jon home... that wouldn't not have happened. (I think he secretly wishes he could get away with wearing Camo PJs to church.)
So I swallowed my pride and began searching the car for lost shoes. It is not uncommon to find random lost shoes in my car. I managed to find a pair of Noble's old Croc's in the back row. Score!
I got Noble out and as we entered the church building with everyone all dressed up my embarrassment creeped up on me. So I picked Noble up and wrapped my coat around him to hide his PJs and we walked into sacrament meeting. (They had just finished the opening prayer and were starting the sacrament hymn.)
Luckily no one gasped or even gave me a surprised or funny look as Noble settled into our pew. I was a little surprised by that. I expected a few giggles. But our ward is awesome and not judgmental.
As we got through the sacrament hymn I found Noble being a bit harder to keep reverent than normal. Part of that was likely the time change and no nap. But I do think kids act better when they are dressed up. So I pulled out the new Friend magazine I brought to entertain Noble and sat him on my lap to look for Jesus in it.
One of the first articles we turned to caught my eye. It was all about a boy who was having a hard time being reverent until he got a new church shirt that looked like his dad's and then his "reverent" shirt helped him to be reverent in church just like dad. I read part of this to Noble and pointed out how all the men had ties on and white shirts.
Noble was telling me the colors of all the ties he saw. I asked him if he wanted to go home and get his tie on. He said he did. So as soon as the sacrament was over, he and I left Jonathan with the baby and the girls and went to go get his church clothes. He was excited to get his church pants and shirt and tie and shoes.
It took us about 20 minutes round trip. I was sad to miss some of the testimonies. There was a really good spirit in the meeting when we returned and I would like to have heard some of the other testimonies referenced. I am not sure whether it was more important to stay and be spiritual fed or take Noble home and teach him about how are clothes show our respect and help remind us to be reverent. But I ended up going with plan B.
I did get a really good laugh out of the experience and I will definitely be more careful to make sure EVERYONE is getting or being gotten ready from now on. :)
And my gratitude thought -- I am grateful to live 3 minutes from a church where I can go on Sunday and renew my baptismal covenants and once again be made clean and recommit to live the Lord's commandments and remember my Savior. That really is huge and I feel incredibly blessed in that way.


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We have now reached the third quarter for year 1 of the Passive v Reactive Whittler portfolios so it's time for a quick review to see how my meddling has done compared to Mr Cool who simply sits on his hands and lets time do the work. I have again restated the basic rules for the management of the portfolios; see the last section of this article. All of the ten stocks common to the three portfolios were identified via my routine free cash flow+ returns on capital screen i.e. they all exist within my whittled down universe from which I make the majority of my real life share purchases. At the time of this third quarter update, I hold positions in five of the ten companies: SOM, CCT, AMO, NFC & PSN. I also held Hikma as a spread bet so that's a financial interest in 60% of the stocks within this exercise.
Update & Trading in Third Quarter of Year 1 (Aug to Oct 2016):
Of course following the rules of the exercise no trading took place in the 3YL (three-year life portfolio) or the ASH (annual sit on hands) portfolios. Trading did take place in the Tinker portfolio and these are listed below:
3/8/2016: sale of 90% of position in Hikma Pharmaceuticals following a fairly mild profits warning. Note: following a profits warning I almost invariably sell at an early point; it's what works for me and fits my approach to investing.
Reinvestment of the £10570 from 90% of the Tinker holding in Hikma Pharmaceuticals:
I was very tempted to purchase another block of Somero shares but that would have made the Somero investment far too weighty within the portfolio and therefore not the best risk mitigation management: Somero is, after all, a fairly low market capitalisation stock at about £90m.
So, the £10570 surplus cash was reinvested by equal amounts in two stocks:
3/8/2016 Next Fifteen Communications with the purchase of 1748 shares at 305.5p per share.
Reason for the purchase of NFC: simply the performance of the shares and very encouraging outlook/update statements from the business.
3/8/2016 Persimmon with the purchase of 314 shares at 1679p per share.
Reason for the purchase of PSN: the post Brexit gradual recovery of house builders after they were initially trashed following the vote to leave the EU. I also consider PSN to be a high-quality business.
So in the third quarter we have a had a touch of tinkering but in reality the amount of tinkering over the first three quarters of the like of the portfolio closely reflects my usual approach to the markets where I do not over trade and generally take a patient outlook to life unless I see a reason to alter a position due for example to a compelling good or bad news RNS from the company.
How are the three Portfolios doing now we have reached the end of the third quarter? Well as 3YL & ASH are identical composition and allocation in the first year, they are identical with the original £100k now reaching £115.0k, a 15.0% increase in the first 9 months of the exercise. The Tinker with its three partial sales of holdings and associated reinvestment over four other current holdings; in effect top ups, now sits at £117.0k an increase of 17.0%. The comparator for "how are we doing" is the FTSE ASTR (ASX.TR) which rose by 17.6% in a generally volatile February to October period that included the once in a lifetime Brexit event and the following market turbulence.
As ever, dividend which contributed approximately £3250 for each portfolio over the 9 months were reinvested in the relevant stock.
Overall, all of the three portfolios are performing well enough at this early stage: the five best performing stocks over the first three quarters of investment were:-
Next Fifteen Communications, Amino Technologies, Somero Enterprises, Elementis and Dignity.
The full 9 month performance of the 10 stocks is listed in the table below for the ASH "sit on my hands" for a year and don't trade portfolio and the Tinker:
Welcome to my Blog Page - I hope you find my whittling on to be of some interest. I am a private investor who is happy to share thoughts on the market and individual stocks. Please remember that I am definitely not offering tips or investment advice.
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