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One of the few things that Sam Brown, who in 1977 was appointed head of Action under Jimmy Carter, did was to hire Elsa and Norm to be one of the first ‘couple’ directors of the agency. The story is that Brown met Elsa and Norm at a party, which is true, but the Rushes, like Sam Brown, had been heavily involved in anti-war politics for many years. Brown was looking for a successful ‘married couple’ to do the job. The Rushes were certainly that successful married couple.
PCVs who served under Elsa and Norm have only the highest praise for them as people and as co-directors. (The agency would be wise to think again of having ‘co-directors’ running countries.)
Their time in Botswana gave Rush, as he says in this interview, a direction for his fiction: “I knew that what I wanted to write about I would find in Africa,” he says. “I knew that the themes that were dominating my thinking in writing would show themselves in the setting. It was a part of Africa with social experimentation going on that had achieved a certain degree of independence, and Americans and Americanity would be manifest in a different way.” He would begin to write his stories of Africa after leaving Botswana beginning with his collection of stories, Whites and next, Mating.
I have met Norm and Elsa and know them very slightly. The first time I met Elsa, as a book signing for Norm in New York City, she could not have been more gracious, approachable, as well as, beautiful. When she read (years later) on-line that I was briefly taking time off from this site she knew something was up and telephoned me at the hospital to make sure I was okay, and that the operation had been successfully. This was only after having met me once. It is no wonder PCVs in Botswana remember her with such affection.
Norm credits Elsa for his success as a writer. She is his first reader and his more astute editor. Read this long, wonderful, and endearing article about fine people who give all of in the Peace Corps Community a better name and something to be proud of.]
August 29, 2013
Norman Rush’s Brilliantly Broken Promise
By WYATT MASON
One afternoon at the end of the summer of 2011, on the shady porch of a little red farmhouse near High Tor, in Rockland County, N.Y., the novelist Norman Rush, vigorous at 77, revealed himself as a man of great frankness. “I completely betrayed her,” Rush told me, astonishment in his voice over what he’d done to the woman sitting across from him, Elsa Rush, 76, his wife of 56 years.
The three of us were at a table messy with the remains of lunch, a pair of flies making drunken arcs above our empty plates. Broad-chested and white-bearded, with an expression alternately jolly and severe, Rush looked to his wife. Elsa, as emotionally direct as Rush is conversationally frank, is a tall, unfussily elegant woman whom Rush often calls, both in and out of her presence and never emptily, “my beautiful wife.” Looking off the porch of the house she and Rush have shared for half a century, Elsa was facing the lawned woodland adjoining us, sunken slightly in its center like a saddle.
“The way I put it to Norman,” Elsa said, turning to her husband, “was, ‘Whatever you want to write, that’s fine.’ If you had said, ‘I’m going to spend 10 years, and I’m going to write a book about this – ,’ can you imagine me saying: ‘No! You’re not going to do that!’ Can you imagine it?”
In retrospect, Rush should have known that what he was doing could lead only to betrayal, given a set of statistics well known to them both. His first book, “Whites” (1986), a collection of stories that was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, wasn’t published until he was 52; his first novel, the 477-page, National Book Award-winning “Mating” (1991), took eight years to write; his second novel, the 712-page “Mortals” (2003), took 10 years. And yet, upon the appearance of “Mortals,” Rush told Elsa – promised her – that his next novel would be a mere 180 pages and take two years to complete. But there we were on their porch in 2011, eight years later, and the “next novel” – “Subtle Bodies,” which is at last being published this month – was, as of that date, quite a bit longer than 180 pages and still not finished.
“A hundred and eighty pages,” Elsa said. “Taking two years. . . . You’ve never done anything like that before, so why did you persuade me?”
Throughout his career, Rush has been candid about Elsa’s involvement in his writing. Not a literary spouse who stealthily delivers cups of tea to the genius in the attic, Elsa is what Rush calls “a partner in the process,” which he describes as “a battle waged in common.” Testimony on the depth of their artistic partnership may be found on the dedication pages of his books – dedications that are minor masterpieces of a characteristically trivial genre.
“Everything I write is for Elsa,” begins the dedication to “Mating,” “but especially this book, since in it her heart, sensibility and intellect are so signally – if perforce esoterically – celebrated and exploited. My debt to her, in art and in life, grows however much I put against it.”
But as the years passed after the two-year deadline expired, Rush’s debt to Elsa (“the last 10 years of extraordinary forbearance,” as he writes in the dedication to “Mortals”) compounded at an accelerating rate. The battle waged in common became a struggle Rush felt ashamed to share.
“Guilt will stop you in your tracks,” Rush said, of the years that followed his promise. “And I began feeling guilty about this book when it diverged so radically from its original, simpler formulation. Because it was taking time out of our life when there are lots of fun things we could do if I just stopped writing.”
For a fiction writer who has counted among his admirers the Nobel laureates J. M. Coetzee and Nadine Gordimer, not to say a diverse generation of younger writers that includes Benjamin Kunkel and Tom Bissell, Rush’s notion of stopping writing was neither desirable nor reasonable – least of all to Elsa, who says, with unfeignable ardor, “I love everything Norman writes!” As such, she found herself clearing their schedule – of cruises booked; hotels reserved; invitations from friends – when Rush needed to keep to his desk. Still, Elsa found it difficult not to grow distressed.
“A very good part of Norman,” she said, as afternoon became dusk, “is the never-giving-up part. He’s good at internal philosophy, at rising above defeat and helping other people do that, helping me do that. So I think it was partly magical thinking, his declaration, that isn’t entirely magical. I think it’s a question of willing himself into doing something he wants to do by making a statement that he’s going to do it. The question is: How aware is he of that mechanism?”
An awareness of the mechanism – of how our minds work, of the transits between self-certainty and self-doubt and the endless inner arbitrations litigating each – is a central Rushian preoccupation. Of course, most works of fiction engage, at some level, with the imaginative leap that allows us to cross into the cloistered consciousness of another. But Rush’s own demonstration of that process – of voice as a measure of the mind – has been unusual.
“Until you got into it,” Rush’s editor of 30 years, Ann Close, told me of the narrator of Rush’s first novel, “Mating,” “you couldn’t have imagined that voice. It’s extremely intimate. Wise and ironic. There’s a kind of joy in it.” That voice belongs to an unnamed woman who tells us her “personal automatic pastime [is] questioning my own motives.” An anthropologist in her 30s whose Ph.D. thesis has stalled, she undertakes a period of sentimental education in Botswana that, though unlikely to jump-start her dissertation, might land her a mate. Her ultimate target is a radical in his 40s, Nelson Denoon, an expat development director, part George Clooney, part Simone de Beauvoir, who has set up a self-sustaining matriarchal utopia in the Kalahari Desert for destitute African women. The narrator pursues him with candor and ardor, plunging into the desert, as Close put it, “with her whole heart.”
That passion is present when the narrator meets Denoon, a moment she preambles with: “I hate drama. I hate dramatisers. But it was distinctly like a building falling on me when I met him.” Wholehearted, she also thinks in complete paragraphs:
Intellectual love is a particular hazard for educated women, I think. Certain conditions have to obtain. You meet someone – I would specify of the opposite sex, but this is obviously me being hyperparochial – who strikes you as having persuasive and well-founded answers to questions on the order of Where is the world going? These are distinctly not meaning-of-life questions. One thing Denoon did convince me of is that all answers so far to the question What is the meaning of life? dissolve into ascertaining what some hypostatized superior entity wants you to be doing, id est ascertaining how, and to whom or what, you should be in an obedience relationship. The proof of this is that no one would ever say, if he or she had been convinced that life was totally random and accidental in origin and evolution, that he or she had found the meaning of life. So, fundamentally, intellectual love is for a secular mind, because if you discover that someone, however smart, is – he has neglected to mention – a Thomist or in Baha’i, you think of him as a slave to something uninteresting.
For nearly 500 pages, the narrator shows herself to be a lusty thinker, as analytically avid as she is sexually frank, a style of mind that mixes spoken effects (“I think”) with notes from a higher register (“id est“). “I know it sounds absurd,” Rush said in 1991, “but I wanted to create the most fully realized female character in the English language.” For many, he pulled it off. In a poll by The New York Times Book Review in 2006, a jury of more than a hundred writers, critics and editors said “Mating” was among the best novels of the past quarter-century. Even so, a few outliers didn’t buy “Mating.” “Presumably attempts at satire are afoot – satire of male-female tensions, of Denoon’s utopianism, of the narrator’s academic language,” wrote Jonathan Yardley in The Washington Post in 1991, “but it is just about impossible to distinguish satire from solemnity in a novel that possesses far more of the latter than the former.” Among the male writers I spoke to who were not taken with the book, the reason given was that they didn’t believe this could be a woman’s voice. The novelist Mona Simpson objected vigorously.
“Would these male literary writers,” Simpson said, “object to the ending of ‘Ulysses’? To the scene inside Anna Karenina’s head before she throws herself onto the train tracks? To ‘Madame Bovary’? Maybe these male writers can swallow the idea of Tolstoy and Flaubert and Joyce capturing the essence of a woman’s extreme emotional life but not necessarily her long rational disquisitions about politics, utopias and their discontents.”
If in “Mating” Rush took on the rationality of female thought, in his next novel, “Mortals,” he explored the irrationality of male thinking: in 700 pages from the perspective of Ray Finch, a C.I.A. operative in Botswana, “Mortals” reveals a man passionately interested in a wife who is losing interest in him.
“If you look at both ‘Mating’ and ‘Mortals,’ ” the critic and novelist James Wood told me, “it seems that the question of gender is somewhat less important than the question of what it is to see a consciousness in action. Both main characters in the two novels are slightly crazy – in the way that if you spent 50 hours inside the mind of anyone else, you’d be begging to be let out. I love the way Rush seems to incorporate intermittent hesitations of thought, so even when his characters are thinking ‘rationally,’ it’s a very irrational rationality. That’s the way in which we’re unrealistic even to ourselves. We don’t add up.”
Norman Rush was born in San Francisco in October 1933. His father, Roger, was a trade-union organizer from Oregon and was the California state secretary of the Socialist Party. Or was at the time of Norman’s conception. After a fling with a young woman named Leslie to which Rush owes his existence, Roger left town.
“The two mothers dragged him back,” Rush told me on their porch.
“Leslie’s mother found Roger’s mother,” Elsa said. “There was a shotgun wedding.”
Roger, with a young family to support, took a job very different from his previous work.
“He worked as a salesman for a printer,” Rush said.
“This is so sad.”
“A lifetime of . . . she never forgave him for the fact that she had to force him to marry her.”
“You can imagine, from her point of view,” Elsa said. “She thought they were in love, and he forgot about her. A life in which he was continually in a state of guilt and appeasement toward her. He could do nothing that would offend her. Or darken her view of him.”
“He was, essentially, a subject of my mother.”
Rush recalls a time during his childhood when his father was recuperating from a procedure in the hospital. “He had rather pathetically developed a habit of making jewelry at home. And he developed an affection for one of the nurses, and gave one of these things that were piling up to the nurse.”
“Leslie forced him to take it back,” Elsa said.
“To make succinct the degree of domination,” Norman said.
“And he worked very hard all day,” Elsa added. “And she would just sit around. A subject of hilarity among Norman’s siblings ” – Rush is the eldest of five – “is that she was reading ‘The Egyptian’ ” – a historical novel of the ’40s – “for months, and the children would see that she was two pages further on. Not until her husband came home would she get up. He would do everything with her: make the supper; do the laundry; do the shopping with her and earn the living, and he can’t even give away a damn smooth stone for personal gratification.”
“His life was reparations,” Norman said.
That it could have been very different was a fact Rush grew up less understanding than withstanding. His father had aspirations as a writer, wrote poetry throughout his childhood and, later, Socialist protest poems in the style of Whitman for a journal he published called The Rebel. But all that went away during Rush’s boyhood, his father becoming the antithesis of his former self: not merely a salesman but a trainer of salesmen. As Rush said when he accepted the National Book Award for “Mating”: “The trick on me was that he abandoned his original definition of himself before I had much chance to react against it, which left me with little choice but somehow to honor it.”
The youthful form that honoring took was a sort of graphomaniacal mirror image of his father’s former ambitions, actions Rush has called “filial-pietistic,” defined as “the carrying out of the perceived life-project of a dominant parent, the replication of it if the project has been successful or the completion of it if it has been thwarted.” Rush began to write “because my father didn’t or wouldn’t.” And all of Rush’s published work contains a political questing consistent with his father’s socialist leanings. At their heart, all his books find ways of asking if the choices we have made, as a civilization, are humanizing or harrowing.
At 11, Rush wrote a picaresque novel called “A Modern Buccaneer” that was published serially in a newspaper called The Town Crier – a newspaper that Rush printed by hand and sold door to door. There were dozens of comic books he wrote and illustrated as well as imitations of G. K. Chesterton’s Father Brown stories; a novel in his teens that took the form of the journal of a Phoenician pirate; and another novel that he produced during nine months in prison for resisting the Korean War draft – this one in the style of Conrad, about pacifist adventurers in Central America trying to overthrow a dictator with the name Larco Tur.
That novel, as well as all that preceded it and much that would follow, was lost or destroyed by Rush before he got to Swarthmore, in 1953, shortly after getting out of prison. It was there that he met Elsa, in a room full of men he bested verbally. She returned to her dorm and declared to her friends that she’d found the man she would marry.
“Ever since I’ve known Norman, I knew Norman as a writer. Before I even read the first thing he ever wrote, I thought of him as a writer. And I thought the things he wrote were so interesting. Even on grocery lists, he wrote notes of things that were in his head. I saved scraps just because I felt that I had this secret that the way that his mind works is so interesting.”
Romantic though their beginnings might have been, the full picture was somewhat less gay. Neither knew quite what a relationship was supposed to be. Elsa’s family life was not without its own emotional upheavals. “My mother had many good qualities,” she said, “but she was crazy.” And Rush calls the specter of his parents’ strained marriage “an evil eidolon.”
“The place that I was attempting to emerge from,” Rush told me, as we sat with Elsa, “was not a good place when it came to the relationship with a woman.” His parents’ marriage hadn’t prepared him for the notion of mutual respect. “It was a miserable thing, given my background, especially with a superior woman who wants to be and is, in fact, an equal in the creative process – ”
“I don’t want to be an equal in the creative process,” Elsa said.
“You’ve always been my first reader. It was agony in the early days.”
“I just want to say what I think. I know I’m not an equal. I’d be writing if I were an equal.”
“Forget about the term ‘equal.’ You’re a partner.”
“That would be so outrageous,” Elsa said.
“Anyway. My initial reaction was to become a son of a bitch chauvinist – ”
“He would insult me.”
” – who, at Swarthmore, would knock his glass on the table for you to go get him more milk,” Rush said.
“I was like a slave.”
“And tell you to go back into the kitchen and say, ‘Norman Rush sends his compliments to the chef.’ ”
“You were 19, and I was 18. It was just childish.”
After college, they moved to Mount Pleasant, N.Y., where they lived after their first child was born, in a cheap house too large to heat fully in winter and therefore without running water in the coldest months.
“Norman was working for a builder-contractor. Putting on shingles and digging ditches. I was hand-washing diapers on top of our wood stoves. I would go out and cut down trees by hand. Chop them up. Burn them. Go to the creek. Break the ice. Take the buckets of water, heat them on the wood stove.”
I suggested that this was perhaps not the easiest of situations for a young mother.
“When you’re young, you’re just happy. Nothing hurts. I felt happy. He was working like a dog, but I had the fun of the baby.”
Rush was writing constantly and “began to publish highly sporadically in literary quarterlies,” mostly poetry, at the time, all of which he has since burned.
“I can quote you one of them: ‘Febrile immaculate Paul Valéry/Nine years before’ – um – ‘hostilities commenced’ – I’m now paraphrasing – ‘On the other side of the Pyrenees/Nos vrais ennemis sont silencieux/Thereby engaging his sect of talents.’ . . . And I’ve lost the last line.”
“Oh, well,” Elsa said. They laughed.
By the early ’60s, the Rushes had moved to the farmhouse in New City. Elsa worked as a weaver and designer; she installed looms in the house and later directed a preschool program nearby. Rush went from physical labor to antiquarian bookseller and for a time taught at a community college. All the while, he was writing. The occasional poem was published, but his prose of the era, “a sequence of experimental, abstract, excruciatingly self-referential novellas,” languished.
“Even those early, insanely arcane specialized writings,” Elsa said, “I thought they were really interesting, and if he wanted to do that, he should have a right to do that, but I don’t think you have a right to do that and then say,” Elsa adopted a poor-me voice, ” ‘Nobody really appreciates this!’ ” Norman laughed.
“He got so many rejection slips. But whenever anyone asked him what he was, he would say, ‘I’m a writer.’ We were at a social occasion once, and someone said to Norman, ‘What do you do?’ And it was the first time I ever heard him say, ‘I’m a book dealer.’ And I thought, He’s given up. You can’t say you’re a writer if you’re not significantly published forever.”
I asked Rush if he remembered the moment.
“Yep. I didn’t say it again.”
“It might be,” Elsa offered, “because I was crying so much. It really upset me.”
At a party in the early 1970s, the Rushes met the head of the agency that oversaw the Peace Corps, who was looking for married couples to serve as directors of various outreaches in Africa. The main requirement was a stable marriage of at least 20 years. “We both sensed about it that it would change everything,” Rush told me. “At the time Elsa was a weaver and colorist, and her knees were giving out from that loom – it was a trajectory that had become limiting. And I knew that what I wanted to write about I would find in Africa. I knew that the themes that were dominating my thinking in writing would show themselves in the setting. It was a part of Africa with social experimentation going on that had achieved a certain degree of independence, and Americans and Americanity would be manifest in a different way.”
After a series of interviews, the Peace Corps offered to hire Norman and Elsa as directors in Botswana, where they would have a 20-person staff and as many as 180 volunteers to coordinate. And then before they agreed to go, The New Yorker accepted a story by Rush – the first that would appear in its pages. Rush describes the moment as liberating. It was easier to leave the country knowing that he had at last been significantly published. Once in Africa, however, writing was put on hold.
“We were working seven days, nonstop,” Elsa told me. “We took two one-week vacations in five years.” After five years, though Rush had written nothing, he had come back with three cartons of notes. As they settled back down into life in New City, Rush set to writing new stories, now set in Africa. The New Yorker began to run them; Knopf agreed to publish them, and “Whites” appeared and became a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. There was even scuttlebutt, after the prize went to another writer, that the jury had picked Rush but the board decided to disregard the jury’s choice.
“I read about it in Newsweek,” Ann Close told me. “Apparently, the jury were all very mad. No one knows what happened.”
Thanks to the Internet, we now know why they were mad. After a little searching, I came upon the jury report from that year. For the 1987 fiction prize, the jury was tasked with choosing three books to recommend to the board, a duty the jurors admitted, in an impassioned report, they could not execute: “Although we were urged not to weight our recommendations, we must respectfully report that we cannot refrain from so doing. It is our unanimous recommendation that Norman Rush’s collection of remarkable stories, ‘Whites,’ is alone worthy of this year’s Pulitzer Prize for fiction.”
I showed the report to Rush and Elsa. They had not seen it.
“That’s wonderful,” Rush said, without the least irony. “What a piece of detective work! Do you know what a difference it would have made to my writing life if I had gotten a Pulitzer that year? Oh, I think it would have changed everything. My future steps.”
“It would have changed who he was.”
“I was still in the book business in those days. That’s what we were living on. It would have made a material difference.”
“But I think the most important thing would have been it would have changed him. He would have had more opportunities to do reviews and other things in the writing world.”
Absent those distractions, Rush was able to remain in his small attic office, piled with papers and books, to write two great novels about men and women and to discuss them – and the novel form – with Elsa.
“There is a long-term debate,” Rush told me, looking to Elsa.
“I’ve always thought that people enjoy reading things that move right along and things happen,” Elsa said. “People sitting around thinking can be too much.”
“I think she’s right. Obsessions with sweet, silent thought can go on too long.”
“We’re also talking about a tendency to exhaust a particular subject.”
In “Mortals,” for example, Rush included a long poem by the forgotten satirist and antimonarchist Robert Brough, which the operative Ray Finch is given to read aloud.
“We’ve never had anything I’d call a fight on this subject,” Elsa said, “because it’s clear who the boss is of what he’s going to write on a page. The closest thing we’ve had to a fight is: You’re insane. If you include the whole poem” – 154 lines across 22 stanzas – “you’re self-destructive and insane.”
“An act of homage to a fighter.”
“Talk about self-indulgent!”
“Didn’t I agree to take most of that poem out? It’s now just snippets” – 14 lines across 2 stanzas – “of this magnificent thing.”
More than a voice of reason, Elsa has also saved books from the fire. “Subtle Bodies,” for one.
“It was late at night,” Elsa told me, “and he said, ‘I can’t finish the book.’ And I knew that he was just very tired. And I didn’t know very much about the book. And I got a yellow pad, and I said: ‘Let’s talk about it. Just tell me some things about it. Tell me when we get to the point where you’re confused. Ten pages of handwritten notes. These don’t seem to be insuperable problems. When I ask, you have an answer. You just seem to be tired.’ I asked: ‘Do you think you could resolve it by going in this way? Look at it again in the morning.’ I don’t even know if he followed those notes.”
“Subtle Bodies” isn’t 180 pages, but it is Rush’s shortest novel by far. Rush says that much of the added time came in his trying to cut it down. The underlying plot is deceptively simple: a group of male college friends separated by a quarter-century of adult activity comes back together to bury Douglas, the group’s de facto leader. Rush has said in interviews that “Subtle Bodies” is about friendship; “Mating,” courtship; “Mortals,” marriage. It’s a clever formulation, but I would say that “Subtle Bodies” – like all Rush’s books – is about distinct minds in conversation, which seems to be Rush’s idea of marriage. “Subtle Bodies” is written from both a female and a male perspective, narrated in the third person with alternating chapters given to the voices of a husband and wife, 48-year-old Ned and 37-year-old Nina. As soon as Ned gets the news of Douglas’s death, Ned travels from California to the Catskills for the burial. Ned and Nina have been trying for some time to get pregnant, and Nina is furious that Ned has abandoned her at the time in the month when she is most fertile. It is a book about conception in all senses, particularly the human need to make and use language, and the ways that words like “love” and “friendship” and “loss” and “marriage” are conceptions themselves, often misleadingly defined and insufficiently comprehended.
Two years after my initial visit to the Rushes, I returned to their red farmhouse in the weeks before “Subtle Bodies” was to be published. Rush will be 80 in October, but he still has the solid, avid mind on display in the latest novel. When I arrived, Elsa was just beginning to set some hors d’oeuvres on the table.
“Come on the porch. We’ll get started while Elsa does frau . . . frau work.”
“All I’m going to do is put things on this and have you take what you want,” Elsa said.
“I want to get back to something we were talking about before,” Rush said, “about the long arc that this book has traveled. How can I say this without seeming grandiose? The sense of things in the world has come to feel increasingly apocalyptic. In a personal sense, the parts of the world that I follow and am interested in, things seem to be going quite . . . badly. Increasingly so. That raises questions of what writing is for. And as I was writing this book, this feeling was deepening in me, and there’s an occult connection between what you do and what its potential significance is in a time of crisis. What does it do?”
“And how might it help,” Elsa said.
“I probably have to reduce it to a cartoon to make it even clear to myself. You’re an artist. You’re not a nuclear engineer, you’re not a statesman, you’re not the head of the World Bank, you’re nothing, really, in terms of who pulls the strings of the world. You change nothing. None of your acts are designed to change things. You don’t make policy.”
Elsa looked at her husband. “What about Harriet Beecher Stowe?”
“So it’s the question of can it be more than doing nothing when you create something that witnesses a particular atmosphere. World historical cultural atmosphere. Can it be more than that? I think that acted as a drag on me.”
“Because,” Elsa said, “you wanted so much for it to be yes.”
“Of course. The answer is you do your witness and you see what comes out.”
“The answer is you probably don’t see. Maybe it’s like a little match, and you don’t know whether it’s gonna light a flame in someone a little less ineffectual.”
“A politician,” Norman said, “like a real person.”
“Rick Perry,” Elsa said.
“Anthony Weiner,” I said.
Banter of this sort went on, and on, throughout the day, and at a certain point, Elsa turned to Rush and said, “I think you should apologize to me for ‘frau work.’ ”
“That was said with complete – ”
“But it didn’t sound like a joke. It came from someplace. From another century.”
“You’ve never used the phrase. You’ve never used ‘woman’s work.’ ”
“It was done with – ”
“I understand. Because I know you. But I was looking forward to putting this food out. That is: I like you. And then I wasn’t enjoying myself.”
“I am so sorry.” Rush sounded stricken, truly.
“I know you are. So it’s all over now.”
“Oh, no. I’m so sorry.”
“I knew if I mentioned it you would feel horrible.”
“Oh, my God. It was done with so much self-conscious irony.”
“I know that. But you didn’t show it. I’m not an idiot. I would have noticed if you’d said anything like that in 60 years.”
“Oh, my God. Kill me now. Don’t wait.”
Elsa went inside to get lunch.
Relationships, I said, as if it were just a word.
“Even in the most practiced ones, as you see.”
I told Rush that I was moved by the genuineness of his apology.
“It goes to show you that delicacies remain, even after years of practice.”
Rush was silent a moment.
“The rest,” Rush said, quickly, “has been the normal development and maturation of feeling. Discovering how much you owe to the other person in a basic way. I think I had a potential to be a much more erratic and crazy person in my ambitions, and she was perfect for me in that way. And she came from a tough emotional background, and she needed me – she needed to know that there was nobody else that I would have in the world either that I could imagine or had run into. So. So that continued. We’ve been so lucky that way.”
Wyatt Mason is a contributing writer for the magazine and senior fellow of the Hannah Arendt Center at Bard College.
Editor: Sheila Glaser


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What is TMJ, and Why Should you Consult a TMJ Dentist?
- December 31, 2019
- William Lewis
One can experience toothache for some reasons. The most common causes of dental problems are dental problems such as gum diseases and cavities. Some dental issues, such as science infections, are sometimes the cause of toothache. Another object of pain can be stress or tension. If you are worried about grinding your jaw and sharpening your teeth, you may suffer a temporomandibular joint (TMJ).
What is TMJ?
Temporarily the joints are the joints on both sides of your head, connecting your jaw to your skull that enables you to open, close, and talk. Because it can move in different ways, these joints are usually the absolute most complicated thing in your body. Any problems with these joints are additionally referred to as TMJ disorder or TMJ.
What is TMJ Disorder?
If you suffer from constant pain or various types of discomfort involving your jaw or your jaw, every time you open and close your mouth, you may have a temporary disorder (T). MD). TMD refers to jaw joint issues (also known as temporomandibular joint TMJ), and tissues surrounding the joint that range from a minor inconvenience to extreme discomfort.
Symptoms of TMJ disorders:
The following are some of the signs that may indicate that something is not right, and you should consult a TMJ dentist as soon as possible to avoid any complications in the future.
1. Lock the jaw in one place
2. Tenderness in the jaw muscles
3. Pain in the jaw while jawing or running
4. Lock this jaw in one place
5. Cracking sound whenever you open or close your mouth
6. Painful temporomandibular joint
7. Difficulty Listening And Pain In-Ear
8. Shoulder and neck muscle discomfort
9. Malocclusions (changes in upper or lower jaw management)
What are the causes of TMJ disorder?
Severe jaw pressure due to pressure can be the leading cause of TMJ malfunction in most cases. There are many causes, such as dental complications or dental surgery, hormonal disorders, immune disorders, arthritis and accidental injury. These are the most authoritative reasons for TMJ disorder. Many other factors also cause TMJ, but there is not much evidence that they are the underlying cause of the disease.
How can a TMD dentist help with the treatment of TMD?
Generally, people think that a dentist is a doctor who deals only with the dentist and can have no knowledge other than that. The dentist is a dentist who specializes in mouth products. They see the mouth as part of the system, and the temporomandibular joint is part of it. A TMJ dentist can help you diagnose a Tempermo-Mandibular Disorder.
As we know that some dental conditions can cause TMJ, some dental treatments can help treat your TMJ with the help of a dentist.
Medicine: Treatment varies according to the severity of the problem. Depending on the amount of pain your dentist has, you may be advised to take certain medications, such as anti-inflammatory drugs, muscle relaxants, aspirin, or pain killers. It can help relieve the pain in your jaw.
Diet modifications: Foods that are hard to chew can also cause jaw discomfort. So your doctor can only change your diet to soft foods for a few days. It can help your jaw to rest a few days, helping you relieve the pain.
Stress is dropped: Your dentist can refer you stress relief training or counselling. Using relaxation techniques can help to relieve muscle tension in your jaw.
Knight Guard: Knight Guard, also known as a cutting plate or splint, helps you treat jaw cleansing or tooth grinding. The use of a nightguard can reduce the harmful effects of teeth whitening and grind.
Complex cases can cause chronic and severe pain in the jaw and other parts of the face. If you are worried that you may have symptoms of TMJ, always consult a specialist TMJ dentist, who can help you. Can get the best treatment. He will relieve you of pain as soon as possible.

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High Sensitivity 1H-NMR Spectroscopy of Homeopathic Remedies Made in Water
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CitationAnick, David J. 2004. High sensitivity 1H-NMR spectroscopy of homeopathic remedies made in water. BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine 4: 15.
AbstractBackground: The efficacy of homeopathy is controversial. Homeopathic remedies are made via iterated shaking and dilution, in ethanol or in water, from a starting substance. Remedies of potency 12 C or higher are ultra-dilute (UD), i.e. contain zero molecules of the starting material. Various hypotheses have been advanced to explain how a UD remedy might be different from unprepared solvent. One such hypothesis posits that a remedy contains stable clusters, i.e. localized regions where one or more hydrogen bonds remain fixed on a long time scale. High sensitivity proton nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy has not previously been used to look for evidence of differences between UD remedies and controls. Methods: Homeopathic remedies made in water were studied via high sensitivity proton nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy. A total of 57 remedy samples representing six starting materials and spanning a variety of potencies from 6 C to 10 M were tested along with 46 controls. Results: By presaturating on the water peak, signals could be reliably detected that represented H-containing species at concentrations as low as 5 μM. There were 35 positions where a discrete signal was seen in one or more of the 103 spectra, which should theoretically have been absent from the spectrum of pure water. Of these 35, fifteen were identified as machine-generated artifacts, eight were identified as trace levels of organic contaminants, and twelve were unexplained. Of the unexplained signals, six were seen in just one spectrum each. None of the artifacts or unexplained signals occurred more frequently in remedies than in controls, using a p < .05 cutoff. Some commercially prepared samples were found to contain traces of one or more of these small organic molecules: ethanol, acetate, formate, methanol, and acetone. Conclusion: No discrete signals suggesting a difference between remedies and controls were seen, via high sensitivity 1H-NMR spectroscopy. The results failed to support a hypothesis that remedies made in water contain long-lived non-dynamic alterations of the H-bonding pattern of the solvent.
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On January 8th 2013 a woman was struck by a northbound vehicle and killed and in December 2012 a cyclist was killed by a southbound vehicle.
A year ago I was told that these two incidents happening in the same location and so close together in time was a coincidence. Now there is this new death. It's time to think about the design of S. Palm Canyon Drive.
State Highway 111 was routed along Vista Chino years ago but the road layout through our neighborhood has not been modified since. It is time this was given some thought to make traffic along the street slower and the whole environment safer for pedestrians and cyclists.
Assistant City Manager Marcus Fuller is reported in the Desert Sun to be considering whether street lighting needs to be installed. This would be only a small part of what we have in mind for the roadway.


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Creative Coronaviral Food Marketing Continues
Last quarter, we were just beginning to see the effects of COVID-19 on food marketers struggling to deal with creative production issues and appropriate tonality in our brave new world. Brands were entering the coronavirus conversation conservatively, taking great care not to offend consumers. But now that a new normal has been established for the foreseeable future, creative marketing looks to be finding its stride. QSR brands like KFC, Arby’s and Burger King have even been able to find some relatable humor in our current plight and inject it into their ads.
Meanwhile, the trend toward plant-based meat replacements shows no signs of slowing down due to the current pandemic, as sales have soared by triple digits. Much like last year’s chicken sandwich wars, we’re now seeing a brouhaha between faux-meat brands.
Let’s take a look at some of the food marketing and advertising that have found creative ways to stand out during recent months. As always, feel free to watch this video version instead.
KFC – Not Currently Finger Lickin’ Good
What to do when your brand’s renowned tagline is totally inappropriate for the times? Own it. KFC has dropped a cheeky, self-aware campaign in which their “Finger Lickin’ Good” motto is put on hold. They’ve acknowledged that the famed slogan is totally tone-deaf during a period when folks are being strongly advised not to put their hands anywhere near their mouth. So they’re disavowing the messaging in advertising. “That thing we always say? Ignore it. For now,” reads the new version.
Sounds good to us. Their secret recipe may be tasty, but it’s not worth dying for.
Arby’s – Recycled Commercial
Another QSR brand having a bit of fun with apologizing for its ads during COVID-19 is Arby’s. Due to limitations imposed on the production of new commercials, they’ve been forced to rerun a previous ad for their Pecan Chicken Salad Sandwich.
Unfortunately, the old version also includes a sandwich they no longer offer. So, much like KFC, they’ve taken to pixelating the bygone product and joking about it in a humorously self-deprecating way. “Don’t worry about the blurry one,” the spot says. “Focus on the one in focus.”
Vita Coco – Coconotes
Vita Coco coconut water hit upon a novel way to establish a human connection during the age of social distancing. In another example of the trend of brands celebrating foodie holidays, Vita Coco’s website invited people to order a free coconut to be sent by mail to loved ones on National Coconut Day. Their “Coconotes” each featured a customized greeting, and one even included a golden ticket for a year’s supply of free coconut water. The campaign was devised to increase brand awareness with a surprise-and-delight activation for quarantined consumers. Additionally, as a means of forming a human connection through positive brand values, Vita Coco used the promo to support disadvantaged coconut farming communities abroad.
Impossible Foods – The Great Patty Pickup Party
Impossible, like other plant-based meat alternatives, had embraced in-store sampling as a means to introduce folks to its product. But with that method now off the table due to the pandemic, the CPG manufacturer has been looking for other ways to get its product into the mouths of the public.
Recently, they devised an experiential event to stimulate tasting trials by handing out boxes of their new premade patties at a Los Angeles car wash. Branded “The Great Patty Pickup Party,” the socially distanced stunt required no one to leave the safety of their cars. It was the latest strike in the intensely competitive battle of plant-based proteins including Beyond Meat, Boca Burger, Incogmeato and others.
Beyond Meat – Going Beyond
Meanwhile, Beyond Meat’s contribution to the Meatless Meat Wars is a new TV campaign entitled “Go Beyond.” The 60-second image spot promotes sustainability with messaging that the production of Beyond Meat uses less land and energy while releasing fewer greenhouse gases into the atmosphere than raising livestock. Voiced by Oscar-winner Octavia Spencer, the commercial invites folks to join Beyond in creating the future of food while protecting the planet.
Incogmeato – Celebrity Animal Influencers
Kellogg’s has also entered the fake-meat fray on social with its Incogmeato line of plant-based burgers, sausages and nuggets. But instead of hiring human influencers, they’ve enlisted Instagram stars of the barnyard variety. Spokes-animals including Prissy the Pig (701,000 followers) and Buckley the Highland Cow (74,000 followers) have been outfitted in the trademark green bowler hat and mustache featured in illustrations on Incogmeato’s packaging.
Because who better to convince people not to eat cows and pigs … than cows and pigs?
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Burger King – Christmas Comes Early
Finally, Burger King decided to celebrate Christmas early this year. Not because they enjoy the holiday so much, but because they want 2020 to be over already. As part of the promo to “wrap the year up early,” they added carols, elves and more to their social media channels. Burger King even decorated a store for the season with falling snow, trees and lights. In a lighthearted winter wonderland video, customers express their displeasure with the current year. Jump-cutting ahead to a hopefully better time is a nice idea. If only it were that simple.

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Something in the Air in Montreal—But It’s Not the PM’s Ferrari-Red Helicopter Stereophile Magazine
Even sans Justin Trudeau, who last year escorted me to the show in a Ferrari-red Airbus helicopter (not really) I was feeling good about this year’s show—its …
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Mechatronics requires synergistic ways of looking at design tools and drive systems. Precisely designed components -- motors, drives, and gearboxes -- can be viewed as standardized modular units fulfilling requirements for speed, torque, motion sequence, dynamics, and positioning accuracy. (Source: Lenze Americas)
While I found the concepts introduced in this article very interesting, I struggled throughout as well. By placing the enineering burden from three major disciplines on one person without the benefit of additional perspectives that come from having a team is not a direction that I would normally pursue. Most folks recognize the value of interacting with their colleagues that specialize in other areas. Whenever I would build a test set, building a test fixture was a very important part of the design. Having very limited mechanical engineering ability, I consulted with the guys that had that expertise...and through our collaboration an effective test fixture design would emerge. I would respectfully disagree with the scenario of a very unintelligent design that did not work well because it was built by three different engineers with differing fields of expertise.
It seems to me that in order to educate a mechatronics engineer would also take an even more intensive education with a much more expanded degree plan - something a lot of folks would not be able to afford time-wise or financially - but if they didn't get a good education they would be a "jack of all trades and master of none" which might do well for home projects but not for industry.
As manufacturers add new technologies to their products, designing for compliance becomes more difficult. Prepare for the certification testing process. Otherwise, you increase the risk of discovering a safety issue after a product leaves the assembly line. That will cause significant time-to-market delays, be much costlier to fix, and damage your brand in the eyes of customers.
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Like in the real world, Day Care in the original Game Boy Pokémon games is something of an inevitability: to be a top-level trainer, sometimes you have to leave the little monsters in the care of others, and do your own thing. Often existing in the liminal spaces between cities (the names of which I can admittedly no longer conjure from my seven-year-old memory) these Poké-surrogate stations helped level up your precious catches while you went out and explored the world with your more experienced cadre.
I’m Ivy St. Ive, the 24-hour viral sensation who took the Internet by storm when I posted a Craigslist ad in New York City touting myself as a level 15 Pokemon GO expert and offering my services to walk around, catch some critters, and level you up in the new augmented virtual reality game, all for the convenient price of just $20 an hour.
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My idea was simple: Get people to give me the passcodes to their Gmail accounts so I could essentially babysit their Pokémon GO games while they were at work, in class, getting it on, or otherwise too busy to devote their time and energy to a nostalgic mobile game. I, an admitted Pokémon nerd, 24-year-old freelance journalist, and admitted Craigslist hustler, decided to see if I could take the idea of Pokémon babysitters from the Nintendo game and become one IRL.
I listed my Pokémon street cred, which I had accrued by walking more than 18km in one weekend, training for at least five hours every day, and using my childhood love of Pokémon to inform my play strategies. Apparently, I did pretty well, because soon I was taking over gyms wherever I could. After cracking my iPhone screen Sunday night (in the midst of catching a Ghastly in my neighborhood graveyard), my first thought was, What if I could get paid to do this?
Unfortunately, in the real world, we have laws. As much as we’d all like to catch 'em all as quickly as possible, it’s illegal play Pokémon GO while driving. Or trespass onto other peoples' property. Or, apparently, to get people from all over the world to sink money into your Paypal account, log in, smash gyms, evolve Evees, and walk one- to four-hour shifts to hatch their precious Pokémon eggs. Who knew?
Actually, a few people. Last night, some fellow gamers were kind enough to forward me Niantic’s terms of service for Pokémon GO, and it was enough for me to realize that it was time to get out of this racket—before it was too late.
For the record, being a 24-hour viral sensation as a female gamer is also a nightmare. Sure, I was expecting to laugh at some creepy dudes while taking advantage of high rollers who thought my photo was cute. But more than 300 messages later, half of which have been the saddest dribble the internet has to offer, and a quarter of which were hungry journalists hoping to get an exclusive with the next big viral star, I decided I was done.
Thanks to Pokémon GO, the digital game world and the real world are inevitably collapsing into one. But my story (and the many others I’m sure are about to come out as this all unfolds) are proof that when those two worlds meet, it’s likely not going to be pretty. To whomever can figure out how to make becoming a professional Pokémon GO trainer a viable career option, more power to you. Me, I’m gonna keep my skills in the digital world and real world separate. For now.


Situation in south Kashmir’s Auder village turned hostile when the chief minister Omar Abdullah, left his party workers without having a word with them.
Ruling National Conference workers Saturday, protested by pelting stones and smashing the furniture during a public meeting near Bijbehara, Islamabad after the ‘annoyed’ Chief Minister Omar Abdullah, who is also the working president president of the party, left the venue without delivering his lecture due to some fault in the sound system.
The Chief Minister reached the venue at village Auder, in the outskirts of Bijbehara, and the local leader Bashir Veeri delivered a long lecture before he left the mike for another local NC leader.
Chief Minister had to wait for a long until the local leaders finished their lectures to a not so impressive gathering.
Before the chief minister would start speaking to his party workers the sound system developed some fault.
The chief minister waited for few minutes for the sound system to start before leaving the venue without delivering a single word to his party workers.
On seeing chief minister leaving, the gathering started shouting slogans, smashing the furniture and later pelting stones resulting in chaos and tension in the area.


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From Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up To Me by Richard Farina. The guy certainly knew how to set a scene. He was also a succesful folk musician.
From Living With A Black Dog by Matthew Johnson. Winston Churchill used the term "black dog" to describe his bouts of depression.
Johnson's book is not a self-help book but rather a "visual articulation of what it is like to suffer from depression."
For the famed horror movie actor Vincent Price, art was a major passion. Not so much as an artist but as an art collector and connoisseur. His autobiography is essentially about his love affair with art. Saving his pennies, Price bought his first piece of artwork at the age of 12 - an etching by Rembrandt. Below is a signed copy of his 1959 autobiography "I Like What I Know".
From Screenwriter, a short story that can be found in The Dead Fish Museum. Screenwriter is set inside a sanitarium. D'Ambrosio has just about finished his first novel and is currently doing time in Iowa.
From Eat Me: The Food and Philosophy of Kenny Shopsin. I am struck at Shopsin's creative process, how he let-it-all-rides on inquisitiveness and dare. Once you get in the right zone, the shackles disappear. The best poems are written fast in off-the-cuff flippancy, as if you hit upon the right moment to construct. Shopsin works along such a line in the culinary artform.
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Wednesday, March 24, 1999 Published at 04:50 GMT
Strike threat dominates press
Nato should strike hard, according to the UK's Daily Mail
Nato's predicted bombing campaign against Belgrade dominates the front pages of most of the world's papers.
El Mundo of Madrid says a war of unforeseen consequences is about to explode in the heart of Europe.
La Vanguardia of Barcelona says once again Richard Holbrooke's desperate mission has crashed against an immoveable object - President Milosevic
And, in its editorial, La Libre Belgique of Brussels says Nato has no reason to pull back from attacking the man it describes as Europe's last dictator. The paper says the alliance should take a risk now to avoid paying the price of inaction later.
Milan's Corriere della Serra says Italy is already reinforcing the south-eastern region of Puglia in anticipation of a Serbian counter attack.
And Rome's La Republica quotes the Italian Foreign Minister Lamberto Dini as warning of an influx of 40,000 refugees from Kosovo.
In Britain, the Daily Mail says Europe is arguably on the brink of its most serious crisis since 1945, adding that there can be no half measures. Nato, it says, has no choice but to strike relentlessly and hard.
But the Express rejects the military option, saying that bombing Serbia from a safe distance will help nobody and will not take the region a centimetre nearer peace.
The Guardian also questions the use of air strikes, saying there may be some historic examples of countries being bombed into submission, but there are none of states which were bombed into co-operation.
An editorial in the Washington Post says even some American officials have acknowledged it is hard to rebut the logic of Milosevic.
The Yugoslavian president complained that the Rambouillet document could not be called an agreement since his signature was demanded on pain of bombing. The paper quotes one administration official as saying: "There isn't much precedent for demanding to dispatch peacekeepers at the point of a gun."
And the New York Times believes that although they publicly endorse bombing, some policymakers in the Clinton administration privately acknowledge that bombing is "not a good option."
The paper adds that air strikes against Serbian forces would embolden the KLA, and strengthen the clamor for independence.
It says Kosovo could change from being the autonomous region envisioned in the Paris peace agreement to an independent state - one that Washington had never bargained for.


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The conflict in Yemen has killed nearly a quarter of a million people; vicious deaths, all made possible by the United States. President Joe Biden has promised to end US involvement in this conflict, but so far he has not delivered on that promise. The conflict between Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Yemen began in 2015 when Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates created a coalition against the Houthi armed forces which took control of the capital of Yemen, Sanaa.
Early in the conflict, the United States provided weapons, logistics and intelligence support to the Saudi-UAE-led coalition. Several consecutive US administrations have pursued this, but Biden has promised not to; as he ran for office, he said America must “end American support for Saudi Arabia’s war in Yemen”. However, the recent escalation of the crisis makes it difficult to keep this promise. In January, Houthi forces launched a missile and drone attack on Abu Dhabi, in response to UAE-backed Yemeni forces pushing the Houthis out of their claimed territory.
The attack left three dead and six injured. In retaliation, the coalition launched airstrikes across Yemen, making January one of the bloodiest months of the war according to the United Nations. In response to this, the Biden administration doubled down on its support for the coalition. Human Rights Watch and other Yemeni and international groups have called on the United States and its allies to end arms sales to the coalition because it directly enables human rights abuses. This includes the death of almost a quarter of a million people according to the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), and leaves more than half of the population facing food insecurity.
The United States directly facilitated and aided the war crimes committed by the Saudi-led coalition and the United Arab Emirates during the conflict in Yemen. By providing them with intelligence, logistics and weapons, the coalition has the means to fight against Houthi forces, putting the lives of millions of Yemenis at risk. The United States has a law that prohibits the sale of arms to abusive governments, but by selling arms and providing military support to the Saudi and Emirati coalition, the United States has chosen to ignore this law, while by allowing possible war crimes during the conflict.
There are long-standing concerns about the lack of accountability on all sides, which intensified in October when the UN Human Rights Council came under pressure from Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. . They have come under pressure to end the mandate of the United Nations Panel of Eminent Experts on Yemen, which is the only independent international body documenting serious human rights violations.
The Biden administration’s overall response lacks accountability. Joe Biden saying he wanted to end US support for Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates in a speech last year was just a publicity stunt with no real change in foreign policy. The United States has allowed the conflict to continue and even escalate, as we saw in January. The Biden administration is considering rebranding Houthi forces as a “foreign terrorist organization,” which human rights groups oppose because it threatens the humanitarian aid millions of Yemenis depend on to survive.
There has been a general failure to address the human rights abuses that occurred during the conflict in Yemen. Saudi Arabia has only increased its airstrikes and tightened its blockade, which the United Nations World Food Program announced was restricting access to humanitarian aid and causing one of the worst famines in the world. modern history. Yemenis are collateral damage in a conflict between evil parties; it’s time to put their livelihoods first.
The Biden administration must prioritize human rights and choose accountability in Yemen. The blood of a quarter of a million people is on America’s hands because of the direct support previous and current administrations have given to the UAE-Saudi-led coalition. The impact goes beyond the deaths the conflict has caused; millions of Yemenis face food insecurity and other humanitarian crises daily due to reckless attacks.
It’s not too late for the Biden administration to reverse its actions and choose to stand on the right side of history. The United States and its allies should immediately cease arms sales to the coalition while placing humanitarian assistance to Yemenis at the top of the priority list. If Biden is unwilling to act, the US Congress should step in. Specifically, Congress should let the administration know that it should not designate the Houthis a “terrorist” group because of the potential effects this may have on civilian aid. .
Congress is also expected to pass a war powers resolution, which would end US support for the Saudi-UAE-led coalition. The United States must try to persuade Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates to lift their blockade and stop airstrikes targeting civilians. In addition, the government should call on allies to restore a UN accountability mechanism that can hold all parties in Yemen accountable for violations of international law; this would lead to a decrease in human rights violations and possible war crimes.
There should also be an investigation into parties that have committed human rights abuses and war crimes, with dire consequences for anyone found guilty. A huge increase in the United States’ share of funding for humanitarian assistance to Yemenis must be enacted immediately, with doctors and professionals sent to the region for concrete assistance to end the prolonged suffering of Yemenis. These bold and immediate steps will help the United States recognize the war in Yemen for what it is: a conflict in which all sides are committing grave violations and one of the world’s worst humanitarian crises.


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A powerful new show from theatre renegades THISISPOPBABY about the living legend, club impresario, DJ, activist and Godfather of Gay in Ireland, Tonie Walsh. This one-man show runs from 27 November till 1 December at Project Arts Centre, Dublin. Tickets from €15-€20, with €12 Early Bird offer until 10 September or while stocks last. On sale now from www.thisispopbaby.com
Tonie Walsh has been making a show of himself his whole life. He has thrown Dublin’s most seminal parties, from Flikkers to Elevator to H.A.M. He came second place in the inaugural Alternative Miss Ireland in 1987, and has even stood for election at local and national level. The city is his playground and his stage.
Known as Ireland’s Godfather of Gay, Tonie Walsh is a living legend. For decades he has fought tirelessly for civil rights – for housing rights, women’s rights, and queer rights – while the country changed around him. Legendary DJ, club impresario, historian, activist and master storyteller; Tonie tells the story of Ireland’s seismic social change from someone who has lived through it, gloriously, after dark. And he’s here to tell us why there’s still fire in his belly.
I Am Tonie Walsh is a powerful new show from theatre renegades THISISPOPBABY about active citizenship, creativity over consumption, and community. It’s a call to action about standing up for what is right – and being fabulous while doing so.
It’s all back to Tonie’s gaff.
Suitable for ages 16+
Written by Phillip McMahon & Tonie Walsh
Directed by Tom Creed
Performed by Tonie Walsh
Produced by Jennifer Jennings
Set & Lighting Design by Ciarán O’Melia
Sound Design by Alma Kelliher
Costume Design by Tonie Walsh
Commissioned by THISISPOPBABY and Project Arts Centre
Funded by The Arts Council
THISISPOPBABY is an Irish theatre production company that rips up the space between popular culture, counter culture and high art, creating exhilarating shows and events for audiences and artists alike. The company is best known for their international smash-hit show RIOT, the Where We Live programme around St. Patrick’s Festival, their legendary arena at Electric Picnic Music & Arts Festival 2008-2010l, their long-term collaboration with drag queen Panti, and their take-over of the Abbey Theatre with both Alice in Funderland – A New Musical and WERK.
Tonie Walsh has been involved in the LGBT civil rights movement since 1979, spending his 20s immersed in Dublin’s Hirschfeld Centre, the capital’s major social, political and cultural resource for lesbians and gay men. At the age of 24 he became the first openly gay person to stand for election to Dublin City Council.
A former president of the National LGBT Federation (NXF), Walsh was also the founding editor of Gay Community News, Ireland’s most successful and longest-running LGBT publication. In 1997, he re-organised NXF’s archival holdings into what would later become known as the Irish Queer Archive. The archive was transferred to state ownership in 2008.
A longtime advocate for improved sexual health strategies and outspoken critic of government inertia around new HIV and STI infections, Tonie publicly declared his HIV Poz status on World AIDS Day 2015. The following year he launched a campaign to build an Irish AIDS Memorial.
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the mother of Peter Davidson is delighted to know that “Kim Kardashian will be pregnant with her son by the end of the year.”
Pete’s mother, Amy Davidsonexpressed her delight at the thought of her son having a baby with kim kardashian someday. His enthusiasm suggests that he wants the comedian to have a baby with the reality star.
“Her [Kim] she will be pregnant with his son by the end of the year. @amymarie118”a fan commented Tuesday on an Instagram photo of Davidson and Kardashian kissing in a car, making sure to tag Amy’s account:.
Pete Davidson’s mom responded to the comment with enthusiasm, simply writing, “yessssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss”
Another fan, @ariana826, responded with various heart and lip emojis.
The comedian’s mom is quite active on Instagram and even posts several snapshots with her son. Earlier this month, she spoke proudly about Pete on National Children’s Day, writing: “I couldn’t be more proud of the man you are today! I love you more.”
Kim Kardashian recently expressed her feelings about Pete Davidson while making an appearance on The Ellen DeGeneres Show, saying: “It feels good. I think it’s just in life, no matter what it is, I cheer on my friends and the people I love.” just to be happy, and I did.”
Pete Davidson and Kim Kardashian’s romance is heating up when the mother of four went Instagram official earlier this month and shared snaps of them getting close to each other. Fans of the celebrity couple are also speculating about their future lives.
Will Pete Davidson and Kim Kardashian have a baby?
Although it is unlikely that they have thought about it, there are those who already dream about it
Davidson’s mother, Amy, sent social media buzzing Tuesday night after she liked and commented on a pro-baby comment on Instagram, according to the report. According to PageSix, a fan commented on a photo of 28-year-old Davidson. , and Kim Kardashian, 41, making out inside a car, and the commenter made sure to tag the Staten Island comedian’s mother.”[Kim] will be pregnant with the child [de Pete] by the end of the year @amyymarie118,” commenter @ariana826 wrote on Instagram.
The report says that Davidson’s mother responded from her account and commented: “Yayyyy!”
The comment has since been deleted.
Kardashian recently went Instagram official with Davidson despite the couple dating since late 2021, several months after she filed for divorce from rapper Kanye West, with whom she shares four children.


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Unexpected Effects of Smile Makeovers
A smile makeover is a procedure or series of procedures that is designed to give you the smile that you have always wanted. Any aspect that a patient wishes to address concerning the aesthetics of their smile can be corrected through a smile makeover. And while a smile makeover improves the cosmetic appearance of the patient, it often ends up leading to better oral health as well.
Smile makeovers can treat missing, misshaped, chipped, discolored, and crooked teeth. The procedures that are used will be determined by the needs of the patient. Sometimes it is as simple as a teeth whitening procedure. Other times, patients come to our cosmetic dentist to have all of their amalgam fillings removed and replaced with tooth-colored composite fillings. In some cases, a patient may be missing several teeth in their bottom row and have several chipped teeth in their top row. For this particular patient, the missing teeth in the bottom row can be replaced with dental implants. The top teeth can be restored using dental bonding or veneers.
Many patients do not realize that having a smile makeover done may also lead them on a path to better oral hygiene. It is not necessarily always the case, but patients who have had a smile makeover done want to do everything they can to maintain their new set of pearly whites. Due to this desire, a greater effort at practicing good oral hygiene often occurs. Patients have also developed better eating habits, quit smoking, and lost weight to maintain their perfect smiles.
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Services provided by the united transport and logistics company of Belarus, Russia and Kazakhstan are in demand, BelTA learned from Vladimir Yakunin, President of Russian Railways.
“The project has gone beyond simple work. The first contract has been signed with the world’s top logistics company DHL. It was a letter of intent and it quite works. I received letters from Switzerland regarding postal items,” said the Russian Railways president. Efforts are exercised to prevent internal competition inside Russian Railways. The fact confirms that there is demand for the services of the united transport and logistics company, stated Vladimir Yakunin.
In turn, Head of Belarusian Railways Vladimir Morozov also confirmed demand for services of the united transport and logistics company. In his words, the recent meetings with the China president in Russia, Kazakhstan, and Belarus indicated that everyone is interested in implementing the project. The executive specified that there is interest on the part of customers within the framework of the project to build the China-Belarus Industrial Park and its infrastructure in Belarus.
Yet Vladimir Morozov pointed out it is necessary to address customs service matters and border service matters at the state level on the part of all the participants of the united transport and logistics company. “Taking into account the Single Economic Space, we should create a system of special attitudes to transit. Transit should be facilitated as much as possible,” believes the Head of Belarusian Railways.


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'Tis the season ... to start making your summer camping plans.
It may only be December, but campsite reservations at Michigan state parks can be made up to six months in advance -- meaning now is the time to secure a camping spot for Memorial Day weekend 2020.
Michigan has more than 100 state parks, but campgrounds at the most popular parks tend to fill up quickly for summer holidays, like Memorial Day and Independence Day.
A recent post on the Michigan DNR’s Facebook page reminded followers of the six-month window for reservations.
Camping reservations for Michigan state parks can be made through the DNR’s website mdnrreservations.com.
Based on July 2018 occupancy percentages from the DNR, the top five most sought-after state park campgrounds in Michigan are Petoskey State Park, Holland State Park, Tahquamenon Falls State Park, Ludington State Park and Grand Haven State Park.
The Michigan state park system celebrated its centennial anniversary in 2019.

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The book Rich Dad Poor Dad teaches the correct way to think about money. This book also helps you understand how you can use money wisely. In today’s society, money has become a symbol of consumption, and the more you have, the more expensive things you can buy. However, it is important to understand that having more money does not mean that you should spend it on unnecessary things.
Robert Kiyosaki’s Rich dad poor dad is a book that advocates financial independence and financial literacy. It teaches how to build wealth through investing in real estate, starting a business, and increasing financial intelligence. It’s not a do-it-yourself book, but it is a great guide for people who want to make the most of their money.
Robert Kiyosaki’s father was a Ph.D. who had struggled with money. His other father barely finished eighth grade. Both fathers struggled with money, yet one of them ultimately became the richest man in Hawaii. The comparison between the two fathers was often made in the book, as both fathers were struggling financially at an early age.
Robert Kiyosaki’s first book, “If You Want to Be Rich and Happy, Don’t Go to School,” was widely distributed and sold well. His publisher suggested changing the title to “The Economics of Education,” but Kiyosaki joked that it would only sell two copies.
The book is written in parable-style prose. Kiyosaki relates stories about his father and his friend. He talks about how his father made money through entrepreneurship and savvy investing. He also explains how he learned about money at an early age.
The bestselling book of 1997, Rich Dad Poor Dad, by Robert T. Kiyosaki and Sharon Lechter, is a guide for financial literacy and independence. It advocates building wealth through real estate investing, business start-ups, and increasing financial intelligence. The authors share a wealth of personal experience and advice to help readers achieve the financial success they desire.
Lechter is a CPA (Chartered Global Management Accountant), author, financial education advocate, and philanthropist. She has advised two US presidents and served as the national spokesperson for the AICPA’s Financial Literacy Commission. She has written over twenty books, including Rich Dad Poor Dad and the Pay Your Family First series.
Kiyosaki and Lechter originally intended to make the book into a board game, but Sharon Lechter crafted an elaborate sales brochure that eventually became Rich Dad Poor Dad. She sold the first 1 million copies of Rich Dad Poor Dad from her home and became the national spokesperson for the Financial Literacy Commission.
Lechter is a bestselling author, financial literacy advocate, and successful businesswoman. She has spoken to audiences all over the world, including China, Ghana, Uganda, and the United Kingdom. She has built more than a billion-dollar brand. She is a committed philanthropist and is a recipient of many awards.
Rich Dad Poor Dad is a must-read book for individuals and parents alike. It outlines a wealth-building approach, and teaches individuals how to become financially independent and wealthy. The authors encourage readers to build a stable portfolio of assets by investing in real estate and starting a business.
The Rich Dad Poor Dad series was a huge hit, and the book was translated into over 50 languages. However, despite the popularity of the book, it is difficult to prove that the formula works for anyone. Although there are no hard and fast rules, there is no denying that the concept is sound.

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Pennsylvania State Legislature Vote No on Telehealth Parity Bill
November 2018 ~
Pennsylvania legislators have rejected a proposed legislation that would have established payment parity for telehealth.
Had it been passed, Senate Bill 780 (SB 780) would have defined key components of telemedicine, set clear standards for telehealth provider licensure in Pennsylvania, including by requiring state licensure boards to develop regulations relating to the practice of telehealth. As well as institute standards for telehealth evaluation and treatment and would also require reimbursement for telehealth services at the same rate as in-person care.
Senator Elder Vogel, the bill’s sponsor, could re-introduce the bill again next year and said in a statement, “Telemedicine can help patients get the care they need. It allows for improved access and improved health outcomes in cost- effective ways. Studies show that telemedicine saves time, money, and lives. With the rapidly rising cost of health care, and the fact that it’s nonexistent in some places, the need for telemedicine continues to grow.”
Senate Bill 780 was introduced earlier this year and gained approval from the state Senate in June, but was then rejected by the House in October.
Though it failed to pass the House, the bill continues to receive the support of the Pennsylvania Medical Society, Hospital and Healthsystem Association of Pennsylvania (HAP) and the AARP, and others in the healthcare industry.
“HAP and the Pennsylvania hospital community will continue to support legislation that defines telemedicine, puts in place key consumer protections to ensure that care is delivered by licensed clinicians, and expands insurance coverage for telemedicine services,” Hospital and Healthsystem Association of Pennsylvania (HAP) President and CEO Andy Carter announced following the Pennsylvania Legislature’s adjournment.
Source(s): mHealthIntelligence; CNHI News; The Heartland Institute; Center for Telehealth and e-Health Law;

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There were many surprises come when the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) announced the Indian team for the T20 World Cup, which kicks off on October 17 in Oman and the UAE. The biggest of them all was the addition of MS Dhoni to Ravi Shastri-led support staff as mentor of the team.
MS Dhoni, who led India to victory in the inaugural T20 World Cup in 2007, will take on the role of support staff role for the first time at the international level.
India T20 World Cup Squad
India's 15-man squad: Virat Kohli (Capt), Rohit Sharma (vc), KL Rahul, Suryakumar Yadav, Rishabh Pant (wk), Ishan Kishan (wk), Hardik Pandya, Ravindra Jadeja, Rahul Chahar, Ravichandran Ashwin, Axar Patel, Varun Chakravarthy, Jasprit Bumrah, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Mohammed Shami.
Standby players: Shreyas Iyer, Shardul Thakur, Deepak Chahar.
No place for Chahal and Dhawan
Yuzvendra Chahal, who was India's No. 1 spinner in the limited-overs format from last couple of years, was left out along with his wrist-spin partner Kuldeep Yadav. India also ruled out opening batsman Shikhar Dhawan, who led the team India in Sri Lanka in July in the absence of Test regulars.
Washington Sundar, who will miss out on the remainder of IPL 2021, was not picked even as he is recovering from an injury setback.
R Ashwin is back after a 4-year hiatus
India did not pick Chahal but went with two left-arm spinners in Ravindra Jadeja and Axar Patel. The most important story to announce by the Indian team for the T20 World Cup was R Ashwin. The off-spinner returned to the limited-overs set-up for the first time since 2017.
The former selection committee, headed by MSK Prasad and team management had looked towards grooming two wrist spinner Chahal and Kuldeep after a after a dismisal shown from Indias finger-spinners Ashwin and Jadeja at the Champions Trophy in 2017 when India lost to Pakistan in the final.
R Ashwin last played for India in T20I format in July 2017, where he appeared against the West Indies in the West Indies. Ashwin has 52 wickets in 46 matches with an impressive economy rate of less than 7.
Ashwin has been a consistent performer for Delhi Capitals in the IPL. The off-spinner has been grooming his ability to bowl inside the powerplay as well in the crunch middle overs.
Shreyas Iyer, Shardul Thakur, Deepak Chahar named in stand-by group
Shreyas Iyer, who recently recovered from a shoulder injury after surgery, has not found a place in the top 15 but he is part of the 3 stand-by group.
Deepak Chahar, who has been a constant member of the limited-overs squad, is also part of the stand-by group.
Meanwhile, Shardul Thakur, who played a crucial all-round role in India's victory over England in the Oval Test, is also part of the stand-by group.
Krunal Pandya misses out
Krunal Pandya, who was a regular player for the Mumbai Indians in the Indian Premier League, had traveled to Sri Lanka in July for the Limited Series, but India have gone with Axar Patel as the team's second left-arm spinner in the squad. Axar last played T20I for India in March against England in Ahmedabad after making his record debut in the Test earlier this year.


Written and first recorded by the Bee Gees (1975).
Hit version by Olivia Newton-John (US #23/MOR #1/C&W #5/CAN #22/NZ #3 1976).
From the wiki: “‘Come On Over’ was by Barry and Robin Gibb and was first recorded by the Bee Gees for their 1975 album Main Course, produced by Arif Mardin in Miami, FL.
“A year later, in 1976, Olivia Newton-John’s cover of ‘Come On Over’ was released as the title track and promotional single for her album Come On Over. Her recording peaked at #23 on the Billboard Hot 100. It was also Newton-John’s sixth #1 in a row on the Easy Listening chart, for one week in April 1976. ‘Come On Over’ also peaked Top-5 on the US Country Singles chart.”
Olivia Newton-John, “Come On Over” (1976):


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Port officials will conduct an economic impact study on the plan that calls for cleaner emissions but also stipulates only employee drivers may operate port vehicles. Under the original plan, the rules would take effect on January 1, 2008.
Environmental groups declared their support for the provision that would shift the status of 16,000 port drivers from independent contractors to full port employees. The National Resources Defense Council and the Coalition for Clean Air urged the ports to require a "fast transition to a 100% employee workforce as an imperative that trucking companies be held accountable in a business environment that will enable the industry to meet the fleet modernization and air emissions goals for the San Pedro Bay."
The ports are preparing to spend hundreds of millions of tax dollars on new, clean trucks, said Rafael Pizarro, of the Coalition for Clean Air (CCA). "Right now the companies put all the responsibility on the drivers who can't afford the maintenance on the trucks," he said. In the CCA's argument, making the drivers employees will reverse the pollution problem.

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Classic Cruise Ships
Norwegian Cruise Line - The Norway
The Norway is one of the first ships that comes to mind when you hear the term "classic ocean liner." She's had an interesting history and is back in the Caribbean this year.
American Hawaii Cruises - SS Independence
The SS Independence sails from Maui each Saturday on a week long cruise around the Hawaiian islands. Article on the ship and its itinerary includes pictures and some of the history of the ship.
Titanic Facts -- History of The Titanic
A quick guide to the Titanic - history, pictures, facts and myths.


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In which more than 150 women participated, Meenalba Chavda as the chief guest and Arvind Vegda and Raksha Rajpurohit (Folk Dancer Rajasthan) were present as the chief guest and
Special guest Nithya Singh (Iron Lady Bicycle Mayor Indore) as the guest. Paulomiba
(Gynaecologist), Pallavi Baisa (Social Worker Udaipur) and Tina Baisa were specially present.
Anupamaba Chohan is the main organizer in this program was done by the President Shri


“We know that family law accounts for 35% of all civil cases; that four of 10 Ontario family law disputes remain unresolved after three years; and that about 50% of family-law litigants represent themselves in court. And yet the Family Justice Working Group’s Report admits, “We lack an empirical understanding of what happens to family cases after they enter the justice system ….how many cases settle, when or why they settle, or after what cost and on what basis they resolve.” (Barbara Kay, National Post)
While Ms. Kay isn’t a lawyer, she brings a significant matter to our attention. But as a lawyer, I am directly involved with family law and the potential effects of the current state of affairs on my clients. In addition to any systemic causes, perhaps part of the difficulties and the drawn out procedures she mentions is that divorcing parents are naturally unfamiliar with a complex legal structure. Misconceptions that circulate amongst the general public only add to the confusion. In the next few paragraphs, I’ll try to clear up some of these misconceptions and provide a basic primer about custody, in the belief that parents who understand how the family law system and the courts work will be better able to resolve their issues and arrive at a reasonable, workable settlement.
The Tender Years Doctrine
When Ms. Kay and others speak of inequality in the courts and a bias against fathers, they are referring to what was known as the “Tender Years Doctrine,” the belief that “a mother was presumptively entitled to custody of a child of tender years” (up to seven years of age) barring exceptional circumstances” (Young, in 1993, and Van de Perre, in 2001). At the same time, a pervasive gender activist ‘mindset’ from the 1970s argued that women as a group had been disadvantaged and therefore the courts should redress this imbalance by favouring mothers in their custody deliberations.
That Was Then This Is Now
The good news for fathers today, and for everyone who disapproves of children being used as pawns in an ideological gender battle, is that the “tender years” doctrine is pretty much a dead issue. It is now mostly considered as being “old school thinking,” overturned years ago by the Supreme Court of Canada.
It is my experience that fathers can now expect to receive equitable treatment in family court. Currently, courts decide the issue of the custodial parent from the premise of neutrality and always with the welfare of the child as the determining factor. A parent who disagrees with the court’s decision can litigate or hire what is termed a custody or access assessor to make that determination. But naturally, it is always preferred when parents can resolve the custody arrangements in a cooperative manner. Keeping this in mind, let’s focus on the custody options at the judges’ disposal and what they mean to the separating parents.
Sole and Joint Custody
Parents can request sole custody or joint custody or joint parenting, which is really the same thing.
In Sole Custody, the child resides primarily with one parent who has day to day control of the child. As well, that parent can make the significant decisions affecting the child’s welfare, such as those involving education, religion and health. Non-custodial/access parents who don’t agree must either abide by the decision or go to court seeking a judgment to overrule the custodial parent.
Before I explain what joint custody is, let me explain what it isn’t or, at least, what it shouldn’t be. The idea of joint custody in which the child bounces back and forth from one parent’s home to the other for a week or two at a time is not a concept which courts will order or endorse. The courts work on the premise that stability is always in the child’s best interest and accordingly will not recommend a “bounce joint custody order.” This is not to say that separated families cannot or should not provide for stay overs with the non-custodial parent when good judgment and flexibility are used with the child’s interest at heart.
What joint custody really means, therefore, is an arrangement, similar to that of sole custody, in which the child resides primarily with the designated parent who, as a matter of practicality, will have day to day control of the child. However, major decisions of the child’s life, health, education and religion are to be discussed with both parents and an agreement reached between them. As in the case of sole custody, if no agreement can be reached, then the non-custodial/access parent’s only alternative is to go to court to force the primary care parent to make such a decision (or not to make such a decision, as the case might be). There is no practical difference between custodial and access parents other than what might be termed “window dressing” for access or non-custodial parents to feel that they are equal in decision making to the custodial parent.
A New Paradigm for the Times
I’ll close with one last item which demonstrates the current thinking of the courts: judges today are likely to recommend joint custody even when the parents themselves haven’t requested it. Whereas parents once had to be in full agreement for such an order to be issued, Ontario Superior Court of Justice, Justice Wilson (in dissent) stated that she didn’t think the inability of the parties to agree on every single issue was a fundamental impediment to a joint custody order. In her words:
And what if occasional resort has to be made to the Courts when the parents cannot agree on a major matter affecting the child? Is this to be the determinative consideration? It seems to me to be a modest price to pay in order to preserve a child’s confidence in the love of his parents and with it his own sense of security and self-esteem. (Warcop v. Warcop, 2009 CanLii6423 (ON SC)).
And in fact, since the case of Kruger v. Kruger 1979 CanLii663 (ON CA), (1979), 25 O.R. (2d) 673 (C.A.) the courts began to decide in favour of joint custody orders, even in the absence of consent. You might or might not think this is a swing too far in the opposite direction, but it certainly confirms that there is a new paradigm governing the courts’ thinking about custody.
I hope that this blog clears up some current misconceptions about the courts and family law, especially regarding the issue of custody. Of course, each family situation is unique; for advice regarding your specific situation, please contact Howard Nightingale Professional Corporation, 416 633 4423 (toll free 1 -877-224-8225). I am available and happy to work with you.


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New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg made waves this week when he suggested a proposed ban on super-sized soft drinks as a way to cut obesity rates. Closer to home, Colorado boasts the least obese population in the country.
Federal election law has required the public disclosure of campaign donors for nearly 40 years.
But this year, outside groups are playing a powerful role in the presidential election. And some of them disclose nothing about their donors. That's despite what the Supreme Court said in its controversial Citizens United ruling two years ago.
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New expansion plans at Busch Gardens Williamsburg
Written by Cameron Saunders
Busch Gardens Williamsburg and its water park, Water Country USA, are to announce an expansion and renovation plan later this month. The park's website claims they are "re-imagining the look and feel of some of the most recognizable areas of Busch Gardens and revitalizing both parks with new attractions for your enjoyment". Details will be released on September 18.Tweet
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