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Home Is (bleeping) BurningPosted: December 7, 2016 Filed under: cancer fatigue, literature, Uncategorized | Tags: ALS, Audible, audio books, caring for a sick parent, Dan Marshall, Home is Burning, Lou Gehrig's Disease, memoir, Mormons, parents with ALS, parents with cancer, parents with terminal diseases, Salt Lake City, Utah 4 Comments
I heard an interview a while back with Dan Marshall, who wrote a memoir about caring for his terminally ill parents. Yes, you read that right: parents, plural. Both of Marshall's parents had a terminal disease: his mom's lymphoma and his dad's ALS.
The book, Home is (bleeping) Burning, tells the story of the Marshall family, who (except for their copious and creative cussing) sound like a regular American family living their lives and doing their thing until their regular lives are upended by health crises. Here's how Amazon describes it:
For the Marshalls, laughter is the best medicine. Especially when combined with alcohol, pain pills, excessive cursing, sexual escapades, actual medicine, and more alcohol.
Meet Dan Marshall. 25, good job, great girlfriend, and living the dream life in sunny Los Angeles without a care in the world. Until his mother calls. And he ignores it, as you usually do when Mom calls. Then she calls again. And again.
Dan thought things were going great at home. But it turns out his mom's cancer, which she had battled throughout his childhood with tenacity and a mouth foul enough to make a sailor blush, is back. And to add insult to injury, his loving father has been diagnosed with ALS.
Sayonara L.A., Dan is headed home to Salt Lake City, Utah.
Never has there been a more reluctant family reunion: His older sister is resentful, having stayed closer to home to bear the brunt of their mother's illness. His younger brother comes to lend a hand, giving up a journalism career and evenings cruising Chicago gay bars. His next younger sister, a sullen teenager, is a rebel with a cause. And his baby sister – through it all – can only think about her beloved dance troop. Dan returns to shouting matches at the dinner table, old flames knocking at the door, and a speech device programmed to help his father communicate that is as crude as the rest of them. But they put their petty differences aside and form Team Terminal, battling their parents' illnesses as best they can, when not otherwise distracted by the chaos that follows them wherever they go. Not even the family cats escape unscathed.
As Dan steps into his role as caregiver, wheelchair wrangler, and sibling referee, he watches pieces of his previous life slip away, and comes to realize that the further you stretch the ties that bind, the tighter they hold you together.
In the interview, Marshall read passages from his book, and just so you know, the language and some of the topics in Home Is (bleeping) Burning may be less than pleasant for some readers. (Does it mean I'm weird/crude/uncouth/all of the above because I really relate to and enjoy the mom, who is the most prolific with her cussing?). Also note that the Marshalls live in Salt Lake City but are not Mormon, and there are some non-PC comments made about their Mormon neighbors. Perhaps this book is not for the faint of heart. But then again, neither are terminal illnesses or recurrences or sick parents. As Greg Marshall (the author's brother) so eloquently put it: "For the Marshalls, life is a contest to see who is _____-est. Bravest. Weirdest. Grossest. We take our lack of filter to superlative heights."
Perhaps my own lack of filter attracted me to the Marshalls' story. It could also be because I too cared for a sick parent. I too experienced the strange role-reversal that comes with caring for a parent. I write often about the terrible yet honorable practice of becoming the authority figure and advocate for the person who, until their illness took hold, was the authority figure and the advocate for me. I write often about how my mom's death affected me, and continues to affect me. That's why my ears perked up when I heard about Dan Marshall and his memoir.
This passage got me. Hit me hard. Reminded me of my own sweet mama (without the cussing). This passage describes the family discussion on Christmas day. The topic is how the family will handle Mom's lymphoma recurrence and Dad's new ALS diagnosis. Dan described his mom's stance upon learning her cancer had come back:
"She wasn't just going to roll over and let cancer f*** her to death. She was going to fight and fight hard. And she suggested we all do the same."
Indeed. May we all do the same.
Does It Ever End?Posted: December 5, 2016 Filed under: breast cancer, cancer fatigue, kids | Tags: biology, breast cancer, breast cancer and young women, cancer, cancer battle, cancer diagnosis, cancer fatigue, cancer journey, cancer recurrence, cancer research, cancer sucks, family, PTSD, real world, schoolproject 7 Comments
Over the weekend, my favorite girl asked me to help her with a project for her biology class. She's a freshman in high school now. This is what she looked like at age 8 when I was diagnosed with cancer. I took this photo the day before my bilateral mastectomy. This is my favorite girl today.
I know, right??? How does that happen???
Anyhoo, back to the story: my favorite girl is doing a project for her biology class on a disease or disorder that has a chromosomal component. She chose breast cancer.
She needed the basic info of my cancer: stage, treatment, etc., as well as ancillary materials (photos and such) that tell "the story" of her subject's experience with said disease or disorder. I pulled out my bulging "cancer catch-all" — my binder that holds all my paperwork, like pathology reports. That was easy because it's all facts: this scan was conducted on this date and found this. Then she asked for the not-so-easy part: details on how my cancer affected me. While there are indeed facts involved with that part too, something else is involved as well, which is what makes it, for me, the not-so-easy part.
Feelings. The dreaded feels.
I don't like feeling the feels associated with my cancer experience. (I refuse to refer to it as my cancer "journey" because to me that word implies an end point. With cancer, there doesn't seem to be an end point. I don't like it, so I'm not gonna use that word.)
Six years out, I don't think about my cancer experience nearly as much as I used to (hence the loooooooong periods of radio silence from this blog). As with most calamities, time does smooth out the rough edges. But with my favorite girl asking me for all the gory details, that dark period of my life surrounded me, again.
When, exactly, do we "get over" this? At what point does the calamity of cancer lose its potent punch? I'd like an ETA on the return of peace and tranquility. Can someone please tell me when to expect an easing from the powers of the cancer calamity? Because I need to know that at some point, cancer will no longer upend my day like a sucker punch and leave me reeling, wondering why I feel as I've been run over by a truck.
That will happen, right?
Even though my cancer experience is no longer the petulant toddler whining for a pack of Skittles in the grocery-store checkout area, apparently that cancer still packs quite a punch. The simple act of flipping through my medical binder to locate information for my girl's project sent me on a one-way trip through bad memories and scary places. I see myself from a distance, as if I'm watching myself on a screen. In the blink of an eye, I'm no longer a survivor whose scars are a badge of courage. Instead, I'm instantly transported back to that time. Those days. That period.
I hate that cancer has the ability to do this. I hate that cancer still controls me. Like a bad habit or a selfish lover, my cancer has a hold on me. Other people's cancers have that power over me, too. Like my sweet mama's cancer. That rat bastard smiles and licks its lips, knowing it is the puppet master and I am the puppet.
I should know better than to expect to be "done" with cancer. After all, I've been thinking about it and blogging about it for years. As I wrote early in 2011:
Another things I've learned on my "cancer journey" is that someone keeps moving the finish line. I've only been at this for 10 months, yet have seen my finish line recede, sidewind, and fade into the distance. It starts even before diagnosis, with the testing that's done to determine if we do indeed have a problem. Get through those tests, which in my case were a mammogram, an ultrasound or two, and a couple of biopsies. Then there's the actual diagnosis, and getting through that becomes an emotional obstacle course. Following the diagnosis are lots of research, soul-searching, and decisions. But even when those are through, the real work is only just beginning. After the big decisions come still more testing (MRI, CT scan, PET scan, blood work, another biopsy), and that's just to get to the point of having surgery. Get through surgery, then through recovery, and just when I think I may be getting "there" I realize that even after recovery, I gotta learn about re-living, which is kinda different when "normal" has flown the coop and there's a new status quo involved. You might think that finding the new normal would be the end, but guess what? now there's the maintenance and screening. If you're the kind of person who makes a list and takes the necessary steps to reach the conclusion, you're screwed, because there is no end. I can't even see the goalposts anymore.
I should know damn good and well that there is no end. So why do I keep looking for it?
New year, new gamePosted: January 19, 2015 Filed under: cancer fatigue, Surgery, Uncategorized | Tags: carpal tunnel syndrome, CTS and hypothyroid, hypothyroidism, lateral release for dislocated kneecap, Maque knee surgery, osteotomy, Supartz, Synthetic synovial fluid, thyroid biopsy, thyroid nodules 13 Comments
Two weeks into this new year, I am wrapping my head around a whole 'nother challenge. This new game has nothing to do with cancer (for the moment, anyway — knock wood) but concerns the myriad ways my body challenges me. I refrain from classifying those challenges as failures, i.e., the many ways in which my body is failing me, because that is the new game: the mental side of physical illness.
I'm a fierce player in all aspects of the game that is confronting health issues. All aspects except the mental game. I suck at that part. Give me the worst-case scenario (mycobacterium fortuitum, I'm talking to you) and I will slay it. Give me a long, difficult road on which to travel, and I will keep on truckin'. But tell me that the only weapon I have in which to fight is my mind, and I'm hosed. Tell me to stay positive and look on the bright side, and I struggle. Offer me platitudes and I will want to punch someone. Outlook: not great.
Some of the news ways in which my body challenges (fails) me are minor: graduating to the bifocal club, or needing to hit the hay well before midnight. To those challenges I say let's call a truce. But the bigger challenges are well, bigger. And more challenging. There are three bad guys vying for attention these days: the bad knee, the wonky thyroid, and carpal tunnel syndrome. Awesome.
The bad knee is acting up and acting out. Again. Three surgeries and countless rehab exercises mean nothing to that old hag. The misaligned kneecap is screaming for attention, and the missing cartilage is hunkering for its piece of the pie. Two very squeaky wheels in an already crowded field. The second round of synthetic synovial fluid injections did little to appease the missing cartilage. Despite the giant needle being jabbed straight into the innocent flesh adjacent to the bone-on-bone area, relief evaded me. Upon reviewing my day-after-Christmas x-ray, my orthopedist shifted gears from a previous recommendation of partial knee replacement to osteotomy, which requires cutting the bone at the top of the tibia and using plates and screws to relocate it in its proper place. The one word that comes up when researching the recovery for this surgery: brutal. Standard care is crutches for two weeks and a cane for a month alongside endless physical therapy. Thanks but no thanks.
The thyroid is being an asshole, as well. Long story short: underactive thyroid, two daily meds, and two nodules that may or may not be problematic, and dissenting opinions by my crack medical team as to whether another thyroid biopsy is needed. Being the fierce player that I am, had my crack team concurred, I would have promptly had that biopsy. As much as I detest the idea of another needle being stuck IN MY NECK, I will do it if it's necessary. But if there is dissent on the matter, I'll defer. That said, that asshole thyroid has some wily ways of mucking up my life. Symptoms and side-effects of a wonky thyroid are far-reaching, and just when I think I have them under control (or am at least resigned to them), another one makes its grand entrance.
Which brings us to the third challenge: carpal tunnel syndrome. For a couple of years I've had what I thought was neuropathy: tingling, numbness, swelling, and radiating pain in both hands especially first thing in the morning. It came to a head shortly after we moved into our new house last year, and my GP chalked it up to overuse of my hands and forearms from packing and unpacking endless boxes. A round of steroids and some anti-inflammatories should have done the trick, but instead there is a fresh new hell to endure.
If I employ the "coulda/woulda/shoulda" tactic for dealing with the three most-pressing physical challenges, I find myself regretting my decision to put off treatment even though I had met that $6,000 deductible last year. As I face the blank slate of a reset deductible, I wish I'd sucked it up and had the surgeries and procedures I need. Perhaps I would not be typing this very post with pins & needles fingers. Perhaps I would not be thinking about how stiff and sore my knee will be after sitting at my desk to compose a blog post. Perhaps I would not be chiding myself for having been tapped out by the end of 2014.
Cue the mental side of dealing with a physical issue. Because I did not have these problems surgically repaired, I must figure out how to change my thinking. For instance, I give myself a pep talk on the way to the gym. It goes something like this:
"Don't think about what you used to be able to do, but focus on what you can still do."
"You're here."
"Lots of people more able-bodied than you aren't even trying."
"Don't look at what the other gym-rats are accomplishing; comparison is the thief of joy."
"Even a shitty workout is better than no workout at all."
I'm not very good at this part. I recall the words of my favorite yoga teacher: where my mind goes, so too goes my energy. I envision my faulty parts bathed in a warm glow of healing energy. But it's work. A lot of work. I'm not a fan of listening to my body and accepting limitations; I much prefer to push through the pain. It's a struggle to avoid falling into the "haven't I suffered enough??" mentality, and it's certainly not a great way to start a new year. But, instead of deciding that this old dog can't learn a new trick, I will become a player (albeit not a starter) in this mental game. As the great Yogi Berra once said, "Ninety percent of this game is half mental."
A terrible, horrible, no good, very bad dayPosted: October 29, 2014 Filed under: cancer fatigue, drugs | Tags: Alexander and the Terrible, Aromasin, aromatase inhibitors, Horrible, Judith Viorst, No Good, O magazine, Very Bad Day 10 Comments
To quote from Alexander, the hero of Judith Viorst's timeless children's book, today was a "terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day."
Actually, truth be told, it's been a terrible, horrible, no good very bad month. It's been a death-by-a-million-paper-cuts month.
I didn't wake up with gum in my hair or miss out on dessert at lunch like poor Alexander did. But it's still been a THNGVB day.
This is dangerous territory. As a cancer "survivor" I should be grateful. I should be happy. I should be thankful to be alive and (more or less) in one piece.
To which I say, screw the "shoulds."
Of course I'm grateful to have "survived" cancer (and of course I recognize that the "surviving" only hold true until the day in any given month in any given year that the cancer comes back. Which it does for some 40 percent of women diagnosed with early-stage, favorable breast cancer). I am happy that I'm not currently metastatic. I am thankful to be alive. None of this, however, cancels out the rest of the yucky stuff involved, and sometimes a girl's gotta vent.
Today was the tipping point of my THNGVB month. A punctured tire this morning turned today's to-do list into a scrap in the recycle bin. A cut on my leg from two weeks ago has become red, hot, painful, and pussed instead of healed. My attempts to slather it in Neosporin and cover it with a band-aid didn't cut it (heh heh) so I'm now back in antibiotic hell. Cue the nausea, thrush, and terrible taste in my mouth, which join the dizziness, joint pain, neuropathy, fatigue, mental fog, muscle weakness, hot flashes, and sweating. Sheesh. I mean, sheesh.
I've been blaming this fresh hell on Aromasin, the latest aromatase inhibitor I've been taking to stave off a recurrence of my cancer and (theoretically) live a longer life. However, I've had the luxury of being off the dreaded Aromasin for a two-week period in advance of and following surgery. Yes, another surgery. Don't be jealous. Perhaps it takes more than a two-week window to rid oneself of the nastiness Aromasin brings. Perhaps I'm just a whiner. Either way, I don't feel good and I firmly believe that in some cases, the cure is worse than the disease.
Attempts to ameliorate any one of these symptoms are for naught. Taking a probiotic. Counting my blessings. Backing off of the intensity of my workouts. Viewing photos of baby donkeys and Golden Retriever puppies. Lighting a yummy-smelling candle. Drinking more water. Making an appointment with a neurologist. Doing a good deed for a friend in need. Nothing is helping. Nada. Nuttin.
In my most recent attempt to carve out a moment of not-hell, I read this quote in the current edition of Oprah's magazine:
In our day-to-day lives, it's easy to become overwhelmed with responsibilities and challenges. Having enough time to give to everybody who needs you and have any left for yourself is a constant struggle. But in the long run, designing space for you is the only way you can survive without burnout and resentment. There is no life without a spiritual life, and spirituality is like a muscle. It must be fueled. Fuel yourself with beauty, inspiration, music, laughter, nature, a hot soaking bath, silence. Whatever form it takes for you. Know this for sure: You have more to give when your own tank is full.
Dammit, Oprah! I'm trying. I'm trying to design space for me and to fuel myself. But what does one do when nothing is working?
I suppose I'll have to take a page from Alexander's book and move to Australia.
Suck it up, buttercupPosted: June 30, 2014 Filed under: cancer fatigue | Tags: American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, American College of Physicians, cervical cancer, heparin lock, ovarian cancer, Pap smears, pelvic exams, port flush, port-a-cath, Power Port, tumor fever 6 Comments
This post is not going to make you feel good. It will not mince words. It will not play devil's advocate. The topic hits home on a very sensitive subject for me, and I'm not in the mood to play nice. Forewarned is forearmed.
Proceed at your own risk.
The American College of Physicians has released a recommendation that advises women to forego their annual pelvic exam because such exams cause "emotional distress, pain, and embarrassment." As the ACP's former president, Dr Sandra Adamson Fryhofer, stated, "The pelvic exam has become a yearly ritual, but I think it's something women don't necessarily look forward to. A lot of women dread it."
The ACP also says that in non-pregnant, asymptomatic women with no known cancer risk, pelvic exams don't often detect disease or save lives, and that the exams do more harm than good. Pap smears are still recommended, however, because they do in fact detect cervical cancer. It's the "no known cancer risk" part that really galls me. How do we know what our risks are if we can skip out on unpleasant tests?
Despite the ACP's "feel-good" stance, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists continues to recommend pelvic exams and says that eliminating the exam would mean "providing women with less comprehensive care." In addition, the ACOG recognizes that many women don't mention symptoms in their nether-regions until a doctor finds an abnormality, and that many women receive peace of mind from knowing that everything is normal below the belt.
Gynecologists agree that pelvic exams are not good tools for screening for ovarian cancer, which is notoriously difficult to diagnose. But, they say, experienced physicians can use pelvic exams to find other problems, such as noncancerous fibroids, and to identify changes linked to urinary incontinence and sexual dysfunction. And equally importantly, to establish a baseline of normality so that a change is easier to detect.
Dr Barbara Levy, vice president for health policy for ACOG says, "Not everything we do in life can be studied in a randomized trial powered to find a scientifically valid answer one way or another. I'm not sure there's evidence to support most of what we do on physical exams. Lack of evidence does not mean lack of value."
Anyone who has ever undergone a pelvic exam knows it's not pleasant. No doubt. But guess what's also unpleasant? And dreadful? Reproductive cancers. And if doctor's groups are recommending women be spared from unpleasant exams today, who's to say that similar recommendations against other unpleasant screenings won't follow? Residents of cancerland, raise your hand if you find routine visits to your oncologist unpleasant. Raise your hand if those visits and the requisite exams produce anxiety. Now let's have a show of hands for those who find the frequent port flushes to be unpleasant and painful. But we do them anyway, don't we? We suck it up and get it done, despite the anxiety and the fear and the pain.
My sweet mama was one of those who didn't like to go to the doctor and who put off going as long as humanly possible. She was tougher than a $2 steak, but she didn't like to go to the doctor and would find any excuse to skip it. In fact, when she was being eaten alive by ovarian cancer and had a belly so distended she looked 6-months' pregnant, and when she had raging "tumor fever" from the unwavering progression of her disease, she still didn't want to go to the doctor.
She would have loved to hear recommendations like that of the ACP, saying "Don't worry about it. Don't put yourself through any unnecessary discomfort — physical or emotional." And I would love for her disease to have been caught sooner, and to have her still here, still with me. Instead, I have a hole in my life and a missing piece in my heart. I have no patience for recommendations and doctors who say it's ok to skip out on tests/screenings/visits/checkups because they're no fun.
IMHO, the ACP's latest recommendation is akin to the "everyone's a winner" mentality that pervades our society. Here we stand, handing out trophies to both winners and losers and telling women that it's ok to skip an unpleasant exam. We're inundated with messages that we "deserve" more — whether it be a house we can't afford or a luxury item we don't need — and we forget that life is sometimes unpleasant. Certain aspects of life can be painful. It's not all smooth-sailing. In a whacked-out effort to avoid hurting anyone's feelings, we lean too far the other direction. Instead of building ourselves up, these misguided efforts have the opposite effect: eroding self-esteem, self-worth, and self-confidence by failing to learn how to weather storms.
tentaclesPosted: June 10, 2014 Filed under: cancer fatigue, literature | Tags: cancer patients in movies, cancer recurrence, cancersploitation, chemobabe.com, Hollywood portrayal of cancer, John Green, Lani Horn, Nettie Horn, psychological effects of cancer, stress of cancer recurrence, Susan Gubar, tentacles, The Fault in Our Stars 4 Comments
I read two articles this week that have stuck with me. Both are about cancer, and living with it. One might think that being four years out from the cancer "journey" that I would have "put it behind me," but as those of us in Cancerland know, that is a misnomer. As the distance between us and cancer becomes greater, the instances of cancer smacking us in the face become fewer, but they are never gone. The opportunities to be bitch-slapped by the beast are plentiful. We reside in the "middle stage" of the cancer "journey," as author Susan Gubar says.
Gubar is an English professor and ovarian-cancer club member. Her writing cuts to the chase and speaks to the very essence of my soul, a trait I greatly admire (and sometimes covet). To wit:
"But for some of us, there is a middle stage in this journey. Because of advances in cancer research and the efforts of dedicated oncologists, a large population today deals with disease kept in abeyance. The cancer has returned and has been controlled, but it will never go away completely. Like me, these people cope with cancer that is treatable for some unforeseeable amount of time. Chronic cancer means you will die from it — unless you are first hit by the proverbial bus — but not now, not necessarily soon.
The word "chronic" resides between the category of cured and the category of terminal. It refers to disease that is not spreading, malignancy that can be arrested but not eradicated. At times, the term may seem incommensurate with repetitive and arduous regimens aimed at an (eventually) fatal disease. For unlike diabetes or asthma, cancer does not respond predictably to treatment."
Cancer does not respond predictably to treatment.
True dat. The unpredictability of the beast gives it tentacles with potential to bitch-slap us at any time. Those tentacles may float benignly under the surface, or they may reach out and grab us sight-unseen.
Gubar writes of us Cancerland residents: "No matter how grateful these patients are for their continuing existence, it requires not the spurt of sprinters but the stamina and sometimes the loneliness of long distance runners. When repetitive and arduous regimens weary the spirit, it may be impossible to value the preciousness of life, to visualize one's harmony with the universe, to attain loving kindness, to stay positive, to greet each day as a prized gift."
This, my friends, sums up the conundrum those of us in Cancerland face: Yes, I am happy to be alive. But dammit, living under the cloud of unpredictability is hard. It's stressful. It's lonely. It's scary. It's rife with bitch-slaps.
Article #2 is by Lani Horn, who blogs about her cancer "journey" here. She wrote a piece that was picked up by Time magazine online about the movie The Fault in Our Stars and how it represents cancer patients. Having read the book but not seen the movie yet, I was intrigued by her take on how the movie would portray the reality of cancer patients. Or, as she more deftly puts it,"Is cancer simply a storytelling device — shorthand for eliciting sympathy and turning up the heat on the issues in a character's life — or do the filmmakers take it seriously as a situation to explore? This question sorts the cancersploitation from real cancer art."
Horn explains that people who watch movies that deal with cancer are in two distinct categories: "outsiders, wanting to understand an experience beyond our own, or insiders, coming to see our own lives reflected."
She and I are in the latter group. Unfortunately. Horn makes it very clear that "the world looks different after you have spent time pinned to the mat by death. The gaps between reality and representation are no longer theoretical. They are contentious."
Oh, but to reside in the land of theoretical gaps between reality and representation. To never worry about being bitch-slapped by a tentacle.
Horn asks: "So what does it mean to use cancer as a backdrop to a story? To be sure, a prolonged or terminal cancer experience is a crucible of one's character, as well as the characters of those around you. The fractures in our relationships break or heal under the strain of mortal threat. Cancer is an economical dramatic device."
Yes, cancer certainly is dramatic. And unpredictable. And bitch-slappy.
THIS is breast cancer awareness, peoplePosted: October 24, 2013 Filed under: breast cancer, cancer fatigue | Tags: breast cancer awareness, breast cancer awareness month, breast cancer in young women, David Jay, NFL goes pink, NFL's A Crucial Catch, pinktober, pinkwashing, psychological effects of breast cancer 16 Comments
This is breast cancer awareness.
The SCAR Project is in town. My town. I went yesterday. What an experience.
I was dilly-dallying around about going and trying to convince myself that I am too busy to take time out of my jam-packed schedule. Truth is, I was a little nervous about going. I was nervous about seeing the incredibly powerful images and then confronting the emotions they would inevitable bring to the surface. I'm 3 1/2 years out from my diagnosis, yet I know that at any given moment, cancer can upend my "new normal" and bring me to my knees.
I suspected that seeing The SCAR Project images, full-size and in person, would upend me and bring me to my knees. They did.
I've seen the images online and in my copy of The SCAR Project book, one of my most-treasured gifts (thank you, Trevor). The book is available on Amazon.com; click here to order your copy.
Seeing them in person, however, is a completely different experience.
The exhibit is housed in a small gallery in the heart of Houston. On my short walk to the gallery I passed this lovely shrine in someone's front yard.
I certainly hope I didn't offend by snapping a quick photo. I don't see things like this in the 'burbs where I live.
Nestled into a quaint neighborhood surrounded by bustling businesses, Gremillion & Co Fine Art, Inc., is spartanly understated. The lush greenery surrounding the modern-but-not-out-there building and the pieces of sculpture flanking the gallery speak to the idea of popping inside for a quick fill of art in the middle of the day.
I gotta come back in the spring and see this wisteria in bloom.
Some of the sculptures surrounding the building.
This gate leads into a little courtyard to the side of the gallery; a serene spot in the middle of the city.
Enough stalling. Time to go inside.
There's a sign on the gallery door that requests that visitors keep their conversations to a minimum and in a whisper because of the gripping, emotional response people have had to the photographs. While some not so intimately acquainted with the beast that is breast cancer might find this intriguing and perhaps even titillating, it did not have that effect on me. I felt certain my initial misgivings about witnessing the photos were true.
A small table filled with programs and copies of The SCAR Project book stands in the entrance. A cut-out window just behind revealed a man eating lunch, and I realized that man was David Jay, founder and photographer of The SCAR Project. I asked the docent if that was indeed him, and she nodded. I told her that I'm a survivor who greatly admires his work. She said, I thought you might be a survivor.
How did she know? What caused her to suspect? Perhaps the majority of visitors to the exhibit are. Or perhaps she read the fear and trepidation in my eyes. Either way, she smiled sympathetically and stepped away. Next thing I know, David Jay is standing right beside me, saying hello. Wow. I told him how much I admire his work and how grateful I am for him telling the real story. Not the "prettied-up, pink ribbon" story. He nodded and said, "That's why the subtitle of this project is 'Breast Cancer Is Not a Pink Ribbon.'" Amen, brother.
In the exhibit program, Jay is quoted as saying, "Still, through all of this, there is beauty. Soul. Courage. These are the things which cannot be taken away."
Jay told me that he never envisioned working on this project, but that after a friend was diagnosed, the project was born. His mission: to show what breast cancer really looks like, especially in young women; to fundraise for research; and most importantly, to empower the women who have been affected and to hopefully allow them to see the beauty, strength, and resilience in the aftermath.
"For as long as I can remember, I have struggled with body-image issues. Losing my breasts and developing thick, red scars across my chest only made matters worse. I could not bear to look at myself in the mirror. I hope that being a part of The SCAR Project will help me to see something beautiful for a change. Maybe it will help me appreciate my body….It has, after all, created and sustained two new lives; it has fought cancer and won. It's time I started giving it, and myself, much deserved respect. Maybe if my scars were viewed as art, it would help me to heal." — Gabrielle, age 30
"The most important part of being photographed was that it made me feel beautiful. It was an opportunity for me to stand tall and strong with my scars and redefine my beauty for myself." — Emily, age 32
"My challenge has been and continues to be to accept the sorrow, focus on the joy, and remember to share both with the ones I love. Survival is about more than breasts: it is about courage, strength, and the many other attributes that make a woman beautiful." — Jill F, age 28
Barbie, age 36, served 18 years in the U.S. military before being diagnosed with breast cancer.
In her SCAR Project bio, she says that "a weapon, a FLAK jacket, and a Kevlar helmet didn't protect from THIS enemy." She goes on to say that "I am not going to ever get over breast cancer or move past it. I will love with it for the rest of my life. Remission is not a cure."
Not surprisingly, scars are a recurrent theme among the women featured. "My scars are powerful lines that point to hope, faith, and love." — Candice, age 30
"Our scars are there to remind us of the times in our lives that are important to remember and they paint a story of not just survival, but of living." — Eliza, age 22
Some of the quotes by the women featured are so sad, yet so true:
"Cancer does not discriminate; it doesn't care who you are." — Jessica D, age 22
"An East-Indian girl, I was a mother to a toddler who fed from cancerous breasts for 20 months. A wife to a husband who left because he feared what my cancer would do to his life. A sister to a man who didn't know what to say, so said nothing." — Sona, age 36
"Cancer took so many things from me, but the one thing I may never get over losing is my sense of security. Blood work and tumor markers allow me to live my life in 18-month intervals, but cancer is an unpredictable beast." — Toni, age 28
"I lost all of my hair, looked like ET, got my boob hacked off along with 9 lymph nodes, got zapped by so much radiation my skin burned and bled, and will need to cut open my stomach and relocate my fat and muscles to my chest. I think sometimes I am so good at putting on a pretty face and acting all put-together that people don't realize the extent of everything that breast cancer survivors go through. My scars and words are only half the story. They don't show the emotional and private struggles that are continuously present." — Vanessa, age 25
Something else Vanessa said really resonated with me: "I've never wanted to be the center of attention, or to be regarded as 'special' or 'brave.' I don't need to be pitied or felt sorry for. In life, there's a beautiful balance of happiness and sadness, awareness and unawareness, acceptance and rejection, blessings and misfortunes. These dualities are the moments that define life."
Not all of The SCAR Project women survived. David Jay tells the story of Jennifer, age 27, who could not travel to New York for her photo shoot because her cancer had spread to her liver. She wanted to do it, though, and asked Jay if his studio had wheelchair access because she could no longer walk up the stairs. Jay told her, "Just come, I'll carry you up the stairs if I have to." She never made it to New York.
Each of the women featured in The SCAR Project has an important story to tell. Each has experienced things that profoundly and permanently changed them. Each faced the terrifying reality of cancer at a young age.
This wall of images represents each woman's story and each woman's struggles. It is moving beyond words. Not just for those of us diagnosed with the disease, but for all of us as human beings.
As I left the exhibit, I saw David Jay outside, on his cell phone. I waved to him as I walked past to my car. Pulling out of the garage, I thought, I should ask him to sign my program. But I didn't want to interrupt his phone call. What to do? What to do? Interrupt him. Ask him.
For more information, go to http://www.thescarproject.org. Follow The SCAR Project on Facebook and Twitter (@thescarproject). Watch the Emmy-winning documentary Baring It All and purchase The SCAR Project book.


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Teresa taunts Jacqueline, Jacqueline purses her lips and tries to be polite. "When have I hurt you?" asks Teresa, clearly baffled because she has literally never upset anyone in her life. "One thing that bothered me was when you said 'Instead of Twitter, why doesn't she worry about her son?'" A way harsh remark because Jacqueline's son is autistic. Teresa knows she's beat when Jacqueline starts crying. Teresa visibly softens and reminisces about their old friendship with a shred of humanity-ish. "I was upset, yeah," Teresa concedes. "I was blaming you because I didn't talk to my brother." With that the two warring factions agree to a peace treaty of sort, a cease fire based on mutual civility. I'm surprised neither woman suggestions sealing the deal in blood.
There is a place that is good that both Jacqueline and Teresa are at.
blk Headquarters
blk is in large, steel letters emblazoned upon a black wall in the Manzo boys' nefarious lair. A cavernous, empty office connects to a long, imperious looking table where very important businessmen do very important business work. blk is their brand of bottled water. For a business that, according the Golden Albie, has yet to turn a profit, blk is housed in some swanky digs. Where on earth could the funding have come from? Perhaps it just sprang in piles from the sweat on Golden Abie's furrowed brow.
Chris visits the Manzo duo to discuss big news—an upscale athletic class has decided to exclusively provide students with blk water. What a coup for blk water, not to be confused with BLACKWATER. blk water is bottled water from the boys of the women from the Real Housewives of New Jersey. Blackwater is a private mercenary company run by neocons that is the largest private security company employed by the U.S. Government. Blackwater is notorious for providing fighters-for-hire to the Iraqi and Afghan wars that suffered scandal involving underage prostitution, rape, murder, torture, etc. Nice guys, really. Just like the Manzo boys.
Teresa's House
Giudice spawn frolic with nerf guns as Gia prepares to spend the day with her semi-estranged Godfather & Uncle Joe Gorga. While the littles play, the older Giudice girls (oldest being 12-year-old Gia) are in the bathroom, applying makeup and wearing matching hot pink hoodies. It's a very Reviving Ophelia moment, like many moments for the Giudice girls. Joe Gorga arrives and sweeps Gia of for a day of family bonding vis-a-vis Go Cart racing.
Lingerie Store
Housewives like to remind viewers that they are still sexxxxy, which is why every season for every RH franchise there are at least two scenes of lingerie shopping. (Prove me wrong. I dare you.)
Kathy and Jacqueline browse bras and discuss Jacqueline's new peace treaty with Teresa. They're looking for workout gear to wear to Teresa's upcoming "Zumba Charity Event" which sounds like a hellish ordeal if I ever heard one. Jacqueline has some big news—she's getting plastic surgery! A tummy tuck and neck lift to be specific. Kathy is like "Sure, whatever makes you happy" because lord knows Kathy loves her some augmentation. Even more exciting: Jacqueline will be getting work done in Beverly Hills! Going back to CALI CALI.
Racing Arena
Gia and Joe G enter a surprisingly intense go kart arena, pop on some chrome helmets, and get into two bright yellow bumper cars on steroids. Gia, at 12, is all like "Ew whatever" and Joe G, at God knows how old, screeches around gleefully shouting, "I am the champion." It's a nice moment.
Afterwards the two sit down for a nice chat. Gia is wearing a studded leather jacket and swishing around pin straight hair en vogue for middle school queens around the nation. Gia starts in on the hard hard questions right away, interrogating Joe Gorga about his relationship with Gia's mother. "Didn't you realize that when you were going tit-for-tat with mom, it was affecting everyone?" she berates. "People change. Things happen," Joe Gorga says, guiltily. He's in a tough spot because it's not like he can talk shit about Teresa to her daughter, and all her daughter knows is he is the bad guy. This awkward conversation continues for a while as Gia reminds Joe Gorga of the infamous christening when he and Teresa had the biggest blow up. Gia reminds him how she had tried to pull Teresa and him apart, and the screen flashes back to a much younger Gia begging her mother and uncle to stop fighting. Then we return to present day, with a smirking tween in the place of that sad little girl.

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Image - Wikipedia -Azzedine Alaia grey acetate dress from 1986-1987 by ellenm1
I'll admit it. The first time I read about the launch of Alaïa Paris EdP earlier this year, I was, well, underwhelmed.
The first fragrance from designer Azzedine Alaïa's house. Hmm. Sounds mainstream – meh. Inspired by childhood memories. Sounds clichéd - double meh. An abstract fragrance where individual notes wouldn't be recognizable – enough. I filed it under 'for future consideration' and busied myself with exploring some of the other 3,487 fragrances that were launched so far this year.
Actually, I just made that number up cause it seems like that many to me. Don't get me wrong, some great frags made their debuts this year and then there were some indie houses born this year that won't make it out of their toddler years. Their fragrances are often raw, and frequently feel unfinished, substituting loudness for skill and deft. I mean, just because you make a perfume doesn't make you a perfumer any more than making a birthday cake for a four-year old makes you a baker.
This was my mood when I revisited Alaïa Paris. When I got over myself and really read the bumpf, I discovered that the perfumer was Marie Salamagne – one of my favourite noses - and I knew that getting to know Alaïa Paris was going to be worth my time.
Born in 1977 in Paris, into a family of doctors, both of Salamagne's parents are anesthetists. She was on the path to a career in medicine when she followed her heart and studied perfume instead. For someone so young she has a strong body of work creating fragrances for Guerlain, Jesus Del Pozo, Yves Rocher, Yves Saint Laurent, Jo Malone, and ones written about here: Let It Rock for Vievenne, Westwood and the 22 Settembre 2007 ore 8 Vaporetto per il Lido Venezia and perfume 6 Marzo 2008 ore 11 - Piazza Duomo Ortigia Siracusa – Sicilia for Memento Italian Olfactive Landscapes. And then there is Azzedine Alaïa himself.
Born in 1940 in Tunis, Tunisia, Alaïa (pronounced 'Alaya'), into a family of farmers, he attended the École des Beaux-Arts in Tunis, and began studying sculpture. After graduation he worked as a dressmaker's assistant, started dressing private clients and in 1957 he moved to Paris, to work in fashion design. In 1980 he produced his first ready-to-wear collection. His form-fitting, clingy, seductive clothes showed a woman's body to best advantage and were hugely successful.
Alaïa followed his own path, never succumbing to cheapening his brand with purses, jewelry or perfumes for easy money. Now at age 75, he's launched his first fragrance, inspired by his boyhood in Tunis, where he remembers water being poured over hot brick walls in the summer to cool them down.
This was the brief that Salamagne was given along with instructions that not one individual note can be identified in the fragrance, so breaking down Alaïa Paris by note is just futile. But here's what I smell. It opens with nose-tingling aldehydes and fresh lemon. There's a mineral, almost medicinal note slithers alongside the freshness before it gets airy and floral. I smell rose, but it's probably the pink pepper, along with the freshness of freesia and peony. I get that indolic effect, so I know there are white flowers hidden in here. But man, is this gorgeous! And then at the base, it gets woody, warm, animalic and musky.
The drydown is a veil of irresistible seduction. An aquatic airy, skin scent balanced with enough oomph that it entrances people and draws them closer and has the same 'how-does-he-do-that' quality his clingy clothes have.
Alaïa Paris is an original, gorgeous fragrance – no one does aquatics like Salamagne – that enhances the Alaïa brand and I predict Alaïa Paris is going to be around a long, long time.
But do yourself a favour and don't waste any time trying it. At the rate of one fragrance every 75 years, it may be awhile before Alaïa's next one comes out.
Alaïa Paris is listed in our Decant Store. Decants are $5.00 for 1 ml.


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Motor yacht New Star joins the charter market
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Motor yacht New Star joins the charter market
The 30.2m Benetti motor yacht New Star has just emerged from a full refit and is now available for charter for the first time with CSO Yachts.
Built in 2003, she accommodates eight guests in three double suites and a twin stateroom – ideal for three couples. There are large deck spaces and she carries a highly professional charter-friendly crew of five.
New Star is available in the South of France in May and June and thereafter in Croatia at weekly rates starting from €55,000 in high season and €50,000 in low season.


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61. The 2001 Anthrax Deception (Book review) (2015) [Lobster #69 (Summer 2015) (free)] [Free Article]
... film of President Obama and his top team apparently watching the capture of Bin Laden and then being told that his body had been dumped in the sea – all without the alleged terrorism mastermind being questioned on any aspect of his part in the 'war on terror'. Fourteen years after the 9/11-anthrax events Guantanamo remains, drone assassinations continue, civil rights are curtailed and Muslims are demonised as we inhabit the monochrome world of The West versus the Terrorist Rest in a war without end declared in 2001. The deception detailed here by MacQueen contains tales and coincidences of such threadbare unlikelihood, one is left wondering how they weren't drowned out by laughter and ridicule at the time ...
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62. Chauncey Holt and the three tramps' on Dealey Plaza (2015) [Lobster #69 (Summer 2015) (free)] [Free Article]
... Chauncey Holt and the three 'tramps' on Dealey Plaza Robin Ramsay T he Kennedy assassination is now a vast field of subjects and I recently wandered into one: the three 'tramps' photographed being taken into custody on Dealey Plaza after the shooting. This is a classic JFK assassination quagmire:1 disputed photographic IDs; testimony from unreliable or self- interested sources; third-hand reports about second-hand reports, and a great backlog of attempts by other people to sort the shit from the shinola. Why bother? Well, I revisited the 'tramps' because I was thinking about Billie Sol Estes, who, in his memoir, stated that Mob bosses Marcello and Trafficante ...
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63. The JFK Assassination Diary by Edward Jay Epstein (Book Review) (2015) [Lobster #69 (Summer 2015) (free)] [Free Article]
... The JFK Assassination Diary My search for answers to the mystery of the century Edward Jay Epstein New York: EJE Publications, 2014 T his is Edward Jay Epstein's fourth book about the Kennedy assassination. He wrote his first, Inquest, while a graduate student. By a combination of luck and smarts he got access to some of the materials of the Warren Commission staff and showed not that Warren was wrong necessarily, but that it was a rushed job. Inquest appeared more or less simultaneously with Mark Lane's Rush to Judgement, and helped create early doubts about the Warren Commission's verdict. In the section here on the events around his writing of Inquest it is very clear indeed ...
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64. The View from the Bridge (Winter 2014) [Lobster #68 (Winter 2014) (free)] [Free Article]
... Wars (2003). In an autobiographical chapter, 'A political education', he tells us, inter alia, that he had been a member of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) while at university. What he does not mention in that chapter is that between SDS and becoming a professional journalist he had been interested in the assassinations of JFK, RFK and MLK. On p. 207 he writes of 'my first book, The Permanent Campaign, published in 1980' – omitting his 1976 book on those assassinations, Government by Gunplay, co-edited with Harvey Yazijian, to which he contributed a chapter.2 0 Other people remember his interest in the assassinations ...
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... seriously weird James 'is so paranoid that he keeps a gun under his bed in London, in case the proletariat try to break in and do him an injury'. important they were to News International. On 29 September 2009, the Sun announced its change of allegiance, launching a sustained campaign of ferocious abuse that rivalled its earlier character assassination of Neil Kinnock. Brown was savaged for the failure of British forces in Afghanistan, made personally responsible for the death of every soldier killed, in brutal front page attacks. The Sun's anti-Brown offensive was so vicious that Brown actually complained to Murdoch that the Sun was damaging the war effort in Afghanistan. In an unprecedented step ...
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... in fact bear little resemblance to the political reality in the USA. Valentine is not ironic. His book is written with sincerity to readers in a frustrating appeal to transcend their sentimental illusions and look honestly at the real political praxis of their country in a war it just happened to 1 Valentine alludes here to Malcolm X's notorious reaction to the assassination of John F. Kennedy:'[President Kennedy] never foresaw that the chickens would come home to roost so soon, Being an old farm boy myself, chickens coming home to roost never did make me sad; they always made me glad. ' This is by no means hyperbole since meanwhile a wide range of historical literature ...
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67. Counterinsurgency by Douglas Porch (Book Review) (Winter 2014) [Lobster #68 (Winter 2014) (free)] [Free Article]
... was soon abandoned. Instead what we seem to have emerging as the new US strategy is a determination to disengage itself from direct military involvement regardless of the consequences on the ground. Libya, Syria, Iraq and soon Afghanistan will bear testimony to this strategy. Obama has chosen instead a strategy of supposed precision intervention by special forces and drone assassins together with the use of proxy armies. We British, faithful as always, are, of course, busy reconfiguring our shrinking military to fit in with the new US approach. John Newsinger 2 David French's The British Way in Counterinsurgency 1945-1967 (2011) is the cornerstone of this critical consensus. John Newsinger is a semi ...
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... Mac Wallace and the finger of guilt Garrick Alder T his essay concerns disputes over the identification by latent fingerprint analysis of Malcolm 'Mac' Wallace as a party in the 1963 assassination of President John F Kennedy. While there is inevitably some technical discussion of the forensic processes involved, it is anticipated that such details will actually prove surprisingly enlightening, and perhaps even pleasantly so, to the general reader. After the breakthrough of the Wallace fingerprint identification was first announced by a Dallas-based group in 1998, 1 there followed a period of silence, then cautious acceptance of the identification among some researchers and shortly thereafter a minor slew of books about the evidence that incriminates Wallace and ...
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... FT and me, it was several hundred – The X Files effect. But Evans is wrong: in this country social surveys show trust in politicians declining from the early 1970s;7 and in the United States the decline began in the mid 1960s, caused by – yes, of course – the state's cover-up of the Kennedy assassination.8 John Naughton's comment that 'sometimes governments and organisations do conspire' is the place to start. If 'sometimes' is in fact frequently, perhaps routinely – and in my view it is – then 'conspiracy theorising' is not per se the irrational activity the project assumes it to be. Many conspiracy theoriests are incompetent and many of ...
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... The President and the Provocateur The parallel lives of JFK and Lee Harvey Oswald Alex Cox Harpenden (UK); Oldcastle Books, 2013, £12.99, p/b T his is Alex Cox's take on the Kennedy assassination; and 'take' is apposite because this is Alex Cox the filmmaker1 and occasional contributor to these columns. Cox presents two parallel narratives, the lives of JFK and Oswald from 1960 until their deaths in Dallas, intercut with the politics (and parapolitics), domestic and international, of the time. This creates a striking effect, which is difficult to quite put a finger on. The macro/micro contrast between Oswald's strange life, ...
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A very different path was paved for him the day he was adopted out of a Russian orphanage. If life is pre-ordained, was it meant to be he'd come and live with us? I like to think so, or have we disrupted some sort of cosmic order? Will he still be the man he was destined to be?
We were told at the orphanage, even at 9 months old, he loved music. He would pull himself up on a chair and move his little body in time to a piano. I remember thinking how sweet that was.
Over time it became obvious, he didn't just love music, he thrived on it. He would "blabble" all the time. He'd bang his hand or toy against his mouth and make blabble sounds over and over. He was making his own music.
As he got older he'd watch with fascination, musicians of all genres on TV and mimic their movements, whether it was playing an imaginary instrument or instinctively moving his body in ways good dancers are taught. He couldn't get enough.
When he was barely three, he marched determinedly up to my husband and declared he had a guitar in his brain. Maybe he does.
Where does he get this? I can't say this love of music was nurtured by me. We don't have a piano here, thousands of miles from his birthplace, and I'm not particularly musical. I can sing a lullabye or two and play some good music in the car, but aside from a brief encounter with a mediocre, toddler music class, that's been about the extent of it.
|Air guitar in ski helmet with Snowy
What if from here on out, I don't nurture this love? Will his passion survive? On the other hand, what if I encourage it? Where will it take him? Will music play a strong role in his life forever since it's so clearly engrained in him?
If nature and nurture exist so strongly for some things, what about us, the breast cancer thrivers? Are we destined to live out our lives only one way due to the nature of our genes?
Are we messing with destiny when we base decisions on BRCA testing, prophylatic and necessary surgeries, radiation, chemo? Are we altering what nature dealt us or are we simply nurturing a bruised body to the best of our ability?
We can wonder if the mutations found in our cells are part of our natural biology or were they nurtured by the carcinogens in our environment. We can question whether we truly have control over our choices or is our destiny already etched into our DNA, regardless. As my boy's love of music seems to be.
These questions are way too big for me and though, lately I've been giving all of it a lot of thought, I'd really rather not. I try to control some things. I can choose to exercise because it's good for me. I can give up drinking a Friday night beer with my husband because I heard the yeast used to brew it is dangerous for estrogen-positive cancers. The same for soy. Now, I'm hearing almonds, peanuts, and chick peas after believing for years, those were healthy options.
Confusion is reigning over my choices, which ultimately leads me to accept, I can only do the best I can. There are still so many things I can't control. The natural aspect of our genes are what they are. The mutations will win or they'll lose, but where we win is in the way we nurture our emotions. We can think positively and set our sights on a future we've chosen to believe is possible. Just like my little guy when he dreams of being in a "bando.".


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Anyone in Utah holding a raccoon or coyote in captivity illegally may now face reduced penalties thanks to S.B. 180 passed in early May.
Holding a raccoon or coyote in captivity
Some Utah residents interested in having non-traditional pets may trap a wild animal hoping to domesticate it. Other times an abandoned baby animal may be taken in by a do-gooder and raised alongside the family dog. Little do these individuals know, not only is it dangerous to try and home a wild animal, it can be illegal. Thanks to an amended law however, if the wild animal kept in captivity is a raccoon or coyote, the State of Utah has decided to reduce the penalties for those who hold one of these animals without proper authority.
Reduced penalties
Utah Code 4-23-111 reaffirms that "no individual may hold in captivity a raccoon or coyote, except as provided by rules of the Agricultural and Wildlife Damage Prevention Board." That section of Utah Code has been amended to state: "any violation of this section [is now] an infraction." This penalty is similar to a minor traffic violation. Prior to the 2018 General Session, holding a raccoon or coyote in captivity was a class B misdemeanor, punishable by up to six months in jail and a fine up to $1,000. While there isn't any specific public instance that pushed this law towards leniency, it passed almost unanimously.
Permit required
While an infraction is far better than spending half a year in jail, how do residents of Utah go about keeping a raccoon or coyote in captivity without breaking the law at all? According to Utah Administrative Code Rule R58-14, "upon filing an application for registration with the Department of Agriculture and Food, upon forms provided by the department, a permit may be issued by the department authorizing the applicant to hold in live captivity raccoons or coyotes for research, educational, zoos, circuses, or other purposed authorized by the Department of Agriculture and Food." It goes on to note that "A separate permit must be obtained from the department for each individual raccoon and coyote possessed". So although there are some instances when keeping these animals in captivity is allowed, unfortunately it does not apply for pets. Anyone interested in having other non-typical pets is encouraged to research the laws regarding those animals prior to purchase or capture.


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|(My father Joe McCray, Jr. in a photo I recently found in my mother's photo album)
On June 18, I was a guest on KPFK's Liberated Sisters radio show hosted by Sister Charlene Muhammad. It was her special Father's Day segment and I was brought on to discuss how I found my biological father and his family. Also, Shannon Lewis discussed how she reunited with her father who was behind prison bars. Very Touching show for me! Listen to the archive here: http://archive.kpfk.org/parchive/mp3/kpfk_110618_130006libsis.MP3
Liberated Sisters with Sis Charlene Muhammad is a forum to highlight and seek solutions to critical issues impacting Black women and their communities; highlight their connection to and collaboration with the global struggle for social, educational and economic justice; and to lift positive images of Black women in media. Read more at: http://www.kpfk.org/programs/193-liberated-sisters.html or http://twitter.com/liberatedsister


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At HeadCan we love Vinyl but we realise that some music lovers like CDs too! We also love Rock music in all its forms but we're not sniffy and, if it tickles our fancy, we will stock other types of music.
We have been steadily growing for 5 years and are getting bigger all the time thanks to our loyal customers, so we have recently introduced a loyalty points reward system to say thanks :)
We also have a large selection of quality pre-owned vinyl in our ebay store


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Beldray Steam Mop: Over the Competition?
You will quickly discover that the Beldray Steam Mop is a wonderful gadget that has some useful advantages over other steam mops. But maybe you have never used a steam mop before. If this is true, you are hardly in a position to make any comparisons. First time users can run into all sorts of problems, especially because it is difficult to grasp precisely what a steam mop is supposed to do and how it works. For instance, scrubbing vigorously with the steam mop to get things moving quicker will hardly work. Rather than trying to rush the process, a little patience is required to let the steam do its work.
What Exactly is Steam Cleaning?
Steam Cleaning involves using steam for cleaning, which sounds fairly obvious. The steam is released at a high pressure with minimal moisture to mop up dirt and reach places where an ordinary mop will not.
Did you know that steam cleaning is not new and has in fact been used for more than a century mainly as the ideal way to remove grease and dirt from engines? Railways, power stations, and even car and truck engines have been cleaned this way for a very long time.
Since the 1970s, Europeans have been widely utilizing steam cleaning for all kinds of uses, but these vapor steam cleaners have been unusable in the United States due to different voltage standards. The cleaners needed 220 volts wattage to generate enough steam to clean effectively. In the US, the standard is 115 volts. Fortunately, recent technological advances have made it possible for steam to be created using only 115 volts and today the use of steam cleaning is rapidly spreading across the states. This type of cleaning equipment perfectly coincides with the world's environmental concerns. Steam cleaning avoids the use of chemicals and is therefore a much better way to clean ecologically.
Beldray Steam Mop: What's So Special?
Cleaning can take ages and many times, you will find the need to use really strong detergents and powerful chemicals to get stubborn dirt out of all kinds of places in the house. Therefore, it might sound more than a little unbelievable that some gadget can do it all for you in minutes without even a little detergent.
That is not the only thing the Beldray Steam mop has going for it. It is also surprisingly light (compared to other cleaners) and very easy to use. It is ideal for wooden and tiled floors, making it especially perfect for bathrooms. There is no surface that it won't effectively clean. It can also do carpet steam cleaning easily.
Those who have been using traditional cleaning methods will delight in how quickly everything dries up after intensive cleaning with a Beldray steam mop. The use of the water you fill it up with to create the steam is also very economical and will always go a long way.
Beldray Steam Mop to the Rescue When You Need to Clean Frequently
Frequent cleaning can be quite a challenge when you have a small child in the house or pets. You not only need to keep the house clean, but also as hygienic as possible for the child. Thus, frequent cleaning is necessary. This can prove to be quite tiresome with other chores still waiting for you. The Beldray Steam Mop takes away the hard work of repeated cleaning. Just switch it on, run it over surfaces, and you are done. Steam cleaning is also safer for your children or pets because there are no harsh chemicals involved.
What's the Downside to the Beldray Steam Mop?
Some otherwise happy users have suggested that it would have been even better with smaller parts allowing the cleaning of edges and tiny spaces. Still, with a little getting used to and expertise, there are not too many surfaces in any household that this mop will fail to get to.
What do You Get When the Beldray Steam Mop Arrives?
The first thing that will hit you is how unbelievably small the box is. Other steam mops are not quite so tiny to start with. In the box, you will find:
- A 5-meter power cable
- 400ml water tank
- Measuring cup with funnel
- 2 microfiber mop cloths
- Attachment specifically for cleaning carpets
- The main unit parts, including the handle
You will then need to follow the instructions carefully to put together your steam cleaner.
Using the Beldray Steam Mop
To start using the mop, you will have to start by attaching one of the mop cloths to the head and then you plug in the unit and wait only 30 seconds for it to heat up. Do not frustrate yourself looking for buttons to press; pushing down on the head is what activates the unit. This is a plus over other mops because it makes it much easier to use and mishaps are less likely, because only pushing down on the head will activate it and no other action. Still, for some it takes quite a bit of time and anxious moments to figure this out.
You will need to clean the pads regularly, which is easy since you can either hand wash them or use a washing machine. The pads are long-lasting, but it is still useful to purchase replacement ones. Do remember to use the hook for the cord on the handle, which keeps the cord out of the way of the steam.
My Floor Doesn't Smell of Detergent… Is It Really Cleaned?
If the Beldray Steam Mop is the first steam mop you have used, chances are you will feel more than a little odd to finish cleaning and not have the smell of detergent wafting off the gleaming floor. It will just take some getting used to because you will immediately be able to tell the difference in cleanliness that the best steam mop brings when compared to your old cumbersome method of cleaning.
The Beldray Steam Mop has numerous advantages over other steam mops that you will want to take full advantage of starting from the very reasonable price to its lightness and ease of use that will revolutionize your cleaning around the house, especially for those always pressed for cleaning time.
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To this day I can recall my elation when Isabel Marant sent her wedge sneaker down the runway during Paris Fashion Week. Evidently, I was not the only one who saw the appeal of this footwear because the shoe quickly appeared on the feet of numerous celebrities, bloggers, and other trendsetters. The bandwagon effect created by this "it" shoe was quickly realized by fast fashion giants who wasted little time stocking their shelves with a variety of knockoffs.
If you are like me, this secondary fashion market is where you acquired your own pair of "Marant-esque" sneakers. Looking back on my purchase of these copied shoes, it is hard to believe how an industry that thrives on such obvious forms of copying can be so profitable when there is very little copyright protection. However, the success and steady flow of new creative ideas suggests that there is a silver-lining to the fashion industry's general lack of intellectual property protection (there are, of course, an array of instances in which the law provides some form of protection for garments and accessories).
Johanna Blakely, deputy director for the Norman Lear Center, a multi-disciplinary research and public policy center based in Los Angeles, made this point as a featured speaker during a TED sponsored talk at the University of Southern California (where the Norman Lear Center is located) in 2010. During her speech, Blakely noted that the fashion industry defies one of the core principles of intellectual property, which is that creators will be more motivated to innovate when they are able assert ownership rights for their work.
Under this logic, the fashion industry should have ground to a halt and the proverbial well of creative ideas should run dry because fashion designers remain almost entirely vulnerable to copying. However, one would never guess that designers lacked incentive to create new and innovative work judging by the turnout of fashion houses and new designers at the various fashion weeks in New York, Paris, London, and Milan.
There is no shortage of opinions regarding the negative effects of the current copycat culture. However, the seemingly unpopular alternative is how the ability to copy, specifically in fashion, resulted in a broader and richer creative palette from which designers can draw. Blakely notes that this type of open and free copying allows for designers to elevate the utilitarian nature of clothing into something more akin to art. For a visual description of what I am talking about, I invite you to view the Spring 2013 collection of Dutch designers Viktor and Rolf.
Despite the workmanship put into every designer's collection, there is no stopping the continuous and downright blatant copying by fast fashion retailer. However, a frequently overlooked point is that I, and the other customers of Zara, H&M, and Forever 21, are not the same clientele that frequent Gucci, Chanel, and Prada. An alternative way to view fast fashion is by seeing it as a way that enables everyone to fully participate in fashion at their individual price points.
In efforts to outsmart copying, designers have not only worked to make their designs more difficult to copy, but have also released collaborative collections with fast fashion stores. In the aforementioned TED talk, Blakely stated how designers like Stuart Weitzman have countered efforts to knockoff his shoes by making some designs too difficult to copy with the cheaper materials. By making quality an integral part of the design, fashion designers are provided with tools to police attempts at knockoffs. Additionally, beating copyists to the punch by designing capsule collections with stores like Target and H&M has been the strategic path taken by designers like Zac Posen and Sonia Rykiel.
As a law student, artist, and fast fashion customer, I see the merits of both sides of this issue. On one hand there is a level of inequity when fashion designers are not afforded the same protection as the creators in other fields like music and film. In contrast, one of the likely effects of putting strict legal standards on fashion is an adverse impact on the industry's open creative culture, as well as access to fashion by consumers. Thinking back to my faux-Isabel Marant sneakers, which now occupy the back-most corner of my closet, I remain morally conflicted by them and my other purchases of fast fashion knockoffs. However, this inner-conflict only emphasizes my point that this argument is a complex issue that is not as black and white as it seems.
Taylor Moore is currently a second year student at Howard University School of Law in Washington, DC. During law school she has worked as a research assistant to professors and attorneys in the field of intellectual property.


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Strike called on Monday over Quetta killings
KARACHI: The Shia Ulema Council have called for a strike to be observed in Karachi on Monday in response to the killings in Quetta that left 84 people dead, DawnNews reported.
The Ulema said the strike will be held peacefully and that the sit-in will continue at Numaish Chowrangi.
The business community in Karachi have supported the strike call, stating that shops and markets will be closed tomorrow.
Public transport will also be closed, along with the city's private schools.
Political parties have voiced there support for tomorrow's strike call, including the Muttahida Quami Movement (MQM) and Jamaat-i-Islami.
The MQM's Rabita Committee said that the terrorists involved in the Quetta attack must be arrested.
Meanwhile Federal Interior Minister Rehman Malik has said that arms and ammunition are brought into Quetta from Afghanistan.
He said that the banned Lashkar-i-Jhangvi group could not carry out such a large scale attack without foreign assistance.
The interior minister said that at the demand of the people of Balochistan, governor rule was imposed, after which there has been a reduction in target killings and kidnappings in the province.


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The Trayvon Martin case is far from over. The legal team for George Zimmerman is now seeking to obtain Trayvon's school records and his social media e-trail. The Black teen was killed by Zimmerman in February in Sanford, Florida.
According to a post on the "George Zimmerman Legal Case" website, the attorneys wrote:
The Defense has begun its own discovery process now that the State has delivered substantially all of its discovery in the case against George Zimmerman. To date, there are still a number of items that the State has not submitted to the Defense that we feel are relevant to the case. We will be seeking these items and evidence through all appropriate means.
Our first request is a series of Subpoenas for Production of Documents requesting school records for Trayvon Martin. In the coming weeks, we will be issuing subpoenas for other items including potentially relevant data from social media platforms, reports related to chain of custody to key evidence, interviews and more.
It has become our practice to post to our website legal documents related the case as they become public record, and this will continue to be the case with our discovery requests. Moreover, any discovery we submit that becomes public record will also be posted on our website. In the case of Trayvon Martin's school records, they are protected and will NOT be part of the public record, without appropriate court order.
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Here are the latest technical updates at Wikia. Keep in mind that our system updates happen every Tuesday and Thursday - today's notes are for tomorrow's site update. Also note that we change hundreds of tiny details every week, so these are just the highlights.
New Features
- We will be launching a 4-week test of a prototype feature, Appreciation. Ever wanted to thank a user for their excellent edit, but don't want to start a whole message wall thread about it? Now you can. The goal of this test is to see if the concept helps communities retain new users and contributors.
- A 'nice edit!' link appears, for logged-in users only, on diff and history pages. Clicking the link notifies the user that you liked their changes.
- This prototype is only available for English-language users at this time. We look forward to sharing the results when the test is completed.
- You can read more about how it works on Help:Appreciation, and let us know what you think via Special:Contact/feedback!
Major Bug Fixes
- We recently fixed a bug that was causing some user profile text - generally, non-Latin characters - to be turned into question marks ('?').
Other Notable Changes
Recent mobile app updates are listed on Apps Technical Updates, and detailed site CSS-related updates can be found at http://report.wikia.net
- Discussions categories will become available, which are analogous to boards in the Forum.
- Admins can create and manage categories within Discussions.
- Users posting a new discussion will be required to choose a category before completing the post.
- Readers will be able to filter the post list to show only specific categories.
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Cybersecurity influencers believe that a new wave of system-embedded devices present a formidable challenge to their field. The Internet of Things (IoT) will introduce a vast amount of small computers, with inadequate security designs, that use high-speed internet, and that combination has all the ingredients for a cyberspace disaster.
Bob Stratton, a security entrepreneur and consultant, states that not every device has to have the high-level security of desktop computers, but manufactures of small computers should include a built-in level of resistance and system integrity.
Dan Greer, the chief information security officer at a not-for-profit investment firm, believes that the most urgent issue is people's dependence on technology. Due to the widespread use of the internet, interdependence is the norm of today's society. Mr. Greer understands that there is no single way to fix the problem.
Jenny Durkan, global chair of Cyber Law and Privacy Group for a law firm called Quinn Emanuel, states that on the Internet there is an unnecessary collection of people's personal information that is not adequately protected by the companies that manage it. And individuals have no control about the ways their personal data spreads online. Durkan states that companies should offer their technology to clients without the obligatory requirement of collecting their data. Clients should also have the right to review, limit, and eliminate data used for commercial purposes. Durkan believes that innovators need to create from within a paradigm of security. She does not approve of the "innovate and then secure" mindset.
Many influencers believe that the lack of adequate technical education in legislative bodies is the biggest challenge. From their perspective, legislators need to comprehend the tech environment before a threat takes place; otherwise, they will be likely to over-react with legislation. Jeffrey Carr, president of Taia Global, Inc., says that unreliable intelligence data providers influence national policy decisions. Threats are often calibrated as serious by these entities, and the media can further spread this message without fear of blowback. This creates the opportunity for a malicious third-party to cause conflict between two nations. Worst of all, this is unlikely to change. The US government does not recognize this as a problem and the cyber threat intelligence industry has little incentive to change.


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A technical assistance partnership, the National Consortium for Health Systems Development provided state-tailored aid for projects to develop comprehensive health and employment service systems for people with disabilities.
Authorized under the Ticket to Work legislation and approved by the Health Care Finance Administration, NCHSD represented states that joined together to assist other state agencies, legislatures, consumers and advocates in their efforts to build systems that supported competitive employment for individuals with disabilities. The primary means for achieving this goal was through state-to-state information sharing, individualized technical assistance, and the dissemination of best practices to a broad array of involved stakeholders in states around the country.
States used their Medicaid Infrastructure Grant funds to purchase a membership or a contract for NCHSD services, including both group benefits such as shared resources and teleconferences and state-specific services such as one-on-one consulting and site visits.
The NCHSD model was to facilitate information sharing and learning through state-to-state contact, access to national and state experts, topical teleconferences, and national or regional meetings and workshops. Resources included policy briefs, an online document library, newsletters, a discussion board, and other special projects. The NCHSD website featured the Ticket to Work Toolkit (a set of documents to help states implement the new Ticket regulations), monthly eNews, and a flyer on the national marketing campaign to raise employer awareness of employment for people with disabilities.
Our intensive five-day trainings to assist people with disabilities in qualifying for and making use of benefits that enabled them to work ultimately covered 39 states.
The initiative grew out of work the Coalition had performed on contract for the Social Security Administration. NCHSD served people with disabilities, providers, state agencies, research institutes, advocates, and businesses through 2013.
- Internet Archive: NCHSD in 2005
- Internet Archive: NCHSD in 2011
- Document: MIGs Building Sustainable Employment Systems Supports
- Document: Achieving Sustainable Systems Change through Effective Implementation (NCHSD presentation)


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