Thirtysomething

<p>Thirtysomething - did you watch it?</p><p>I loved this TV programme back in the late '80s.  Scary to think I am now "Thirtysomething". Eeek!  </p><p>BTW, did you know that the actors who played Nancy and Michael are married?</p><p>I think Michael and Gary were my favourite - who was your favourite? I just saw recently that the actor who played Elliot is getting married to Melissa Gilbert of Little House on the Prairie fame.  </p><div class='separator' style='clear: both; text-align: center;'> <a href='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZfFSOWNlZIP4yAqZ4gwISbJIH33oPvrUf2zKdiVS_6ozVR4-s5yjuhgPTERSi0NZ50BsIoF-UlsPY30IN78gkBTRxQRiZ91WayBxgkfdoPKezJ7HIWGtQw80FlTfOWaZwnjccT3KN1Yl7/s1600/MV5BOTA2OTk5Mzg1OF5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwMzI1NzQ4NA%252540%252540.jpeg' imageanchor='1' style='margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;'> <img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZfFSOWNlZIP4yAqZ4gwISbJIH33oPvrUf2zKdiVS_6ozVR4-s5yjuhgPTERSi0NZ50BsIoF-UlsPY30IN78gkBTRxQRiZ91WayBxgkfdoPKezJ7HIWGtQw80FlTfOWaZwnjccT3KN1Yl7/s400/MV5BOTA2OTk5Mzg1OF5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwMzI1NzQ4NA%252540%252540.jpeg" /> </a> </div>

Thirtysomething

Thirtysomething - did you watch it? I loved this TV programme back in the late '80s.  Scary to think I am now "Thirtysomething"...

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Diana's Bananas Review

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I was sent a package of wonderful chocolate frozen dipped bananas from a company by the name of <a href="http://www.dianasbananas.com/">Diana's Bananas</a> for review.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I am a big fan of chocolate coated candies, pretzels you name it I love it!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So when I came across Diana's Bananas I thought to myself I have got to try these!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">What better way to cure your craving for something sweet than with a delicious frozen banana!?</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I swear it tastes just like ice cream and you won't even miss it!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I was waiting in anticipation for the box to arrive, so when I knew it arrived today I couldn't wait to just dig in!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So when I got home I opened the box and saw 6 boxes!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">3 milk chocolate and 3 dark chocolate!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">They also come in minis as well now!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaHuQPslX7o9aJ-YpnZyy-2EjrgXqD-xwxYPv6unST65Bc2h3jknl3DEnTt8cq7JJCZWRcJGKUCm9JuJbtl1BbOOdoMC4-uQU6ijO2ryL4pejLhamnylcrqhF0_x_7rPBsezl4WC5BtWo/s1600/Diana's+frozen+bananas.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaHuQPslX7o9aJ-YpnZyy-2EjrgXqD-xwxYPv6unST65Bc2h3jknl3DEnTt8cq7JJCZWRcJGKUCm9JuJbtl1BbOOdoMC4-uQU6ijO2ryL4pejLhamnylcrqhF0_x_7rPBsezl4WC5BtWo/s320/Diana's+frozen+bananas.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><u><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Fun Facts:</span></u></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">made with real bananas </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">it's not messy</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">it's bite sized</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">a cool treat</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">delicious</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">made with real chocolate!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Gluten Free</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-f91gHMG0SRLTRKfFWvYXoFf-Et55VAtlum0Q2SNSppEGeD4mYUJ_d0oY8Rvs0B44erPV-Re0yC8xaGBVc7Mdxk8mFzUoHaw2gXS3fmJsrcasEJ8j-XZ_L_gaoriJL1tDIRp14_REMh0/s1600/Diana%2527s+Frozen+milk+chocolate+banana.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-f91gHMG0SRLTRKfFWvYXoFf-Et55VAtlum0Q2SNSppEGeD4mYUJ_d0oY8Rvs0B44erPV-Re0yC8xaGBVc7Mdxk8mFzUoHaw2gXS3fmJsrcasEJ8j-XZ_L_gaoriJL1tDIRp14_REMh0/s320/Diana%2527s+Frozen+milk+chocolate+banana.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I chose to eat the frozen banana dipped in milk chocolate as a sweet snack today.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I don't think I've ever tried them before, I am sure I would have remembered something as amazing as this was!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Kid you not it's like eating ice cream on a stick but it's a banana dipped in chocolate none the less!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I ate one as soon as I opened the package I just had to try it.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The milk chocolate was delicious and was the perfect treat!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Hey at least it had fruit in it!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwlI-IVf5ikNuqkFb5H5U88yuMhzoQpf2EQf35Zyz0EvntM_Qfd4tn2fYt_PqmbJtpERknDhEOCAtZCOfBZyL3-RE-3ZgeaBq0gzqz2SKNFo9uNRs7yZcqGPrnTnB0b2k97hx10ajUtL4/s1600/Diana's+ingredients.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="164" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwlI-IVf5ikNuqkFb5H5U88yuMhzoQpf2EQf35Zyz0EvntM_Qfd4tn2fYt_PqmbJtpERknDhEOCAtZCOfBZyL3-RE-3ZgeaBq0gzqz2SKNFo9uNRs7yZcqGPrnTnB0b2k97hx10ajUtL4/s320/Diana's+ingredients.gif" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">They also have ones with peanuts on them!</span></div><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Be sure to check them out!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.dianasbananas.com/">http://www.dianasbananas.com/</a></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Like Them on Face Book</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Dianas-Bananas-the-official-page/135302714864">https://www.facebook.com/pages/Dianas-Bananas-the-official-page/135302714864</a></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Follow them on Twitter</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://twitter.com/DianasBananas" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">https://twitter.com/DianasBananas</a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Due to FCC guidelines:</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Diana's Bananas sent me their milk chocolate and dark chocolate dipped bananas in exchange for a product review. However, All the opinions expressed here are my own.</span><br /><div><br /></div></div>

Diana's Bananas Review

I was sent a package of wonderful chocolate frozen dipped bananas from a company by the name of  Diana's Bananas  for review. I am a big...

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Hubert's Lemonade Review And Giveaway!

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Congrats to Laura !</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">send me your mailing address please when you get the chance! </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Hubert Hanson founder of Hubert's Lemonade started making the best all natural lemonade in 1935 and would drive around in his truck delivering these delicious drinks to rising stars, as they say it's irresistible and tasty! </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8modS4nfF_PQUEq9rjzTP3_mTxe1evaUajW84stnJai4jpuaT6FEc12YWPz-3Xq4pUy17IwZT90dLumHxvAjjb9e8XxCKz28xD4Ud_7WcsCoPJsZy5pTT9x8Bw0m8UT4j9qxYYB7SvhE/s1600/Hubert's+Lemonade.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8modS4nfF_PQUEq9rjzTP3_mTxe1evaUajW84stnJai4jpuaT6FEc12YWPz-3Xq4pUy17IwZT90dLumHxvAjjb9e8XxCKz28xD4Ud_7WcsCoPJsZy5pTT9x8Bw0m8UT4j9qxYYB7SvhE/s320/Hubert's+Lemonade.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I was sent some delicious all natural lemonade's for review by <a href="http://www.hubertslemonade.com/">Hubert's Lemonade</a>.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">They are both sweet and tangy.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">What comes to mind drinking these in sipping on lemonade by the beach in the summer time, so cool and refreshing.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It sure is happiness in a bottle!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">For my review I was sent the strawberry lemonade and also mango lemonade!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I couldn't wait to try the mango so when they first arrived today I opened the bottle and took a sip.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I was so very much in love, it was refreshing and had just the right amount of sweetness.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Tomorrow for sure I will be trying the Strawberry!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><u>*Other Flavors*</u></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Cherry</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Limeade </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Original</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Raspberry</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Honey Lemonade</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Blackberry Lemonade</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">They also sell them in half tea half lemonade!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>It's Giveaway time!</b></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>I have 2 coupons for a free lemonade to give to 2 lucky readers! </b></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>All you have to do is follow these guidelines to enter to win!</b></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b></b></span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><br /></b></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>*GIVEAWAY RULES*</b></span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><br /></b></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>1. What's you're favorite summer time drink?</b></span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><br /></b></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Want an extra entry?</b></span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><br /></b></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>2.  Must Follow my blog.</b></span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><br /></b></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>3.Then also follow me via Twitter, here. <a href="https://twitter.com/kelli_bliss"> https://twitter.com/kelli_bliss</a></b></span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><br /></b></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>4. then Re tweet my post about the giveaway and if you tweet on your own make sure you use #HubertsLemonade</b></span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><br /></b></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>5. leave me a link here to your tweet.</b></span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><br /></b></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>6. Like their face book page as well </b></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><div style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; line-height: normal;"><b><a href="https://www.facebook.com/hubertslemonade"> https://www.facebook.com/hubertslemonade</a></b></div><div style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; line-height: normal;"></div><div style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>7. Also Follow them On Twitter</b></span></div><div style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; line-height: normal;"><a href="https://twitter.com/HubertsLemonade"><b> https://twitter.com/HubertsLemonade</b></a></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><br /><div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Due to FCC guidelines:</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Hubert's Lemonade sent me 2 lemonades of my choice in exchange for a product review. However, All the opinions expressed here are my own.</span></div></div><br /><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div>

Hubert's Lemonade Review And Giveaway!

Congrats to Laura ! send me your mailing address please when you get the chance!  Hubert Hanson founder of Hubert's Lemonade started mak...

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Irish Food Fleadh

Superquinn are having an Irish Food "Fleadh" (pronounced "Fla" it is the Irish word for Festival) so I picked up some great fillet steaks and also a great free little recipe booklet. They also had some Cashel Blue cheese on sale so I got some of that to have with our favourite Wheaten crackers. Here's some of the recipes. Enjoy! <br/><br/><div class="separator"style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZq0jaTIO775eVSrzpu46QCig8kUy5NettMNSv06NITze2UwUSoDzvL8EnKq2h21oiB2qPsOzuGbN3551cHUfYa1ZSR_xhaRLMrmf0tCGDxLV0BqeJKsz1QCHj29q1JHW50oK8rKXmjLAg/s640/blogger-image--1418430744.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZq0jaTIO775eVSrzpu46QCig8kUy5NettMNSv06NITze2UwUSoDzvL8EnKq2h21oiB2qPsOzuGbN3551cHUfYa1ZSR_xhaRLMrmf0tCGDxLV0BqeJKsz1QCHj29q1JHW50oK8rKXmjLAg/s640/blogger-image--1418430744.jpg" /></a></div> <br/><br/><div class="separator"style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfG-5n_J9fOnm1v5PKSTxLYIY6_mgHmF2N7x3ggNW8ttL8O-kLeb3qsQWTNiey94WfFdplq2CudiOMrMpZ8Eeb0oKBFqM-1D6IwBMMqYs8GEb5QOVe1Nvwc1AIqKo2TGrlYxyCxw3sS-bG/s640/blogger-image-1436600249.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfG-5n_J9fOnm1v5PKSTxLYIY6_mgHmF2N7x3ggNW8ttL8O-kLeb3qsQWTNiey94WfFdplq2CudiOMrMpZ8Eeb0oKBFqM-1D6IwBMMqYs8GEb5QOVe1Nvwc1AIqKo2TGrlYxyCxw3sS-bG/s640/blogger-image-1436600249.jpg" /></a></div> <br/><br/><div class="separator"style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKlxMmuVb5T7jHgOPQ7Y-ZGzj-E4nmIRowKh1sHt6pXIHxOtNJKCQ6UUq6TOtfSVRjVTCjwu1necX1GG7wgXfrliB8GNnyZ-YGbZrkSfssGLuumnPgreYbB0FuL4EFv6MH13nTO_ktS8-a/s640/blogger-image--956807005.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKlxMmuVb5T7jHgOPQ7Y-ZGzj-E4nmIRowKh1sHt6pXIHxOtNJKCQ6UUq6TOtfSVRjVTCjwu1necX1GG7wgXfrliB8GNnyZ-YGbZrkSfssGLuumnPgreYbB0FuL4EFv6MH13nTO_ktS8-a/s640/blogger-image--956807005.jpg" /></a></div> <br/><br/><div class="separator"style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgX4SwRA8xY8yeCGracaZkiJgUXR7piJ7IMcGIJjmcoiPNUtc7OKrnLCJZ2hVKRyFTZ-gTu5atgwmorS9MkSaGEeCwaCm0rmkJVhkZGuIyf-wDsRqftOa-kwyM7AaJs8ergcyE4fPNpkOJX/s640/blogger-image--112570546.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgX4SwRA8xY8yeCGracaZkiJgUXR7piJ7IMcGIJjmcoiPNUtc7OKrnLCJZ2hVKRyFTZ-gTu5atgwmorS9MkSaGEeCwaCm0rmkJVhkZGuIyf-wDsRqftOa-kwyM7AaJs8ergcyE4fPNpkOJX/s640/blogger-image--112570546.jpg" /></a></div> <br/><br/><div class="separator"style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhZIGGL0Rv4sgDTHPrf0Vnz19woaplMWSDktMopQRoXfolZiznQbcE9CuxKKP7UusQMRsFi1fFu-2TD62ZIvS4VCROJ3XuRCInco1T6Sp_sXlJiwVYoYbksxrDpttGZjU_TiOEwlaPSIPg/s640/blogger-image--983553232.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhZIGGL0Rv4sgDTHPrf0Vnz19woaplMWSDktMopQRoXfolZiznQbcE9CuxKKP7UusQMRsFi1fFu-2TD62ZIvS4VCROJ3XuRCInco1T6Sp_sXlJiwVYoYbksxrDpttGZjU_TiOEwlaPSIPg/s640/blogger-image--983553232.jpg" /></a></div>

Irish Food Fleadh

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Teen Librarian (full-time) - Hartford Public Library

<strong>Teen Librarian (full-time) - </strong><strong><span style="color: #48286d;">Hartford Public Library</span></strong> seeks creative and flexible individual for teen services. Responsibilities: the operation of YouMedia, a new digital learning center for teens. Minimum requirements: Masters Degree in library science; 3-5 years of supervisory experience preferred. Experience with new technologies and social media required. Applicant must be technologically fluent with Macs, PCs and digital media creation software. Full requirements, job description and application are available online at <a _fcksavedurl="http://hplct.org/about/job-openings" href="http://hplct.org/about/job-openings" target="_blank">http://hplct.org/about/job-openings</a> or Administrative Office, Hartford Public Library, 500 Main Street, Hartford, CT 06103. Applications accepted until <span style="color: red;">April 10, 2013</span>.

Teen Librarian (full-time) - Hartford Public Library

Teen Librarian (full-time) - Hartford Public Library seeks creative and flexible individual for teen services. Responsibilities: the oper...

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A High Line for All Seasons

Today may be the second day of spring, but it still feels like winter. Thankfully it will warm up a few degrees by Saturday and my walking tour of the <a href="http://www.92y.org/Tribeca/Event/The-Highline-and-its-Environs.aspx">High Line and Its Environs</a>, given through 92Y Tribeca. You can find tickets via the link, and below are some photos I've snapped of the High Line at various times of the year.<br /><br /><object height="480" width="640"> <param name="flashvars" value="offsite=true&lang=en-us&page_show_url=%2Fphotos%2Farchidose%2Fsets%2F72157619892898498%2Fshow%2F&page_show_back_url=%2Fphotos%2Farchidose%2Fsets%2F72157619892898498%2F&set_id=72157619892898498&jump_to="></param><param name="movie" value="http://www.flickr.com/apps/slideshow/show.swf?v=124984"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://www.flickr.com/apps/slideshow/show.swf?v=124984" allowFullScreen="true" flashvars="offsite=true&lang=en-us&page_show_url=%2Fphotos%2Farchidose%2Fsets%2F72157619892898498%2Fshow%2F&page_show_back_url=%2Fphotos%2Farchidose%2Fsets%2F72157619892898498%2F&set_id=72157619892898498&jump_to=" width="640" height="480"></embed></object>

A High Line for All Seasons

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Digital Resources Librarian (C13-067) - Elihu Burritt Library, Central Connecticut State University (New Britian)

<strong>Digital Resources Librarian (C13-067) -</strong> <strong><span style="color: #48286d;">Elihu Burritt Library</span></strong> at Central Connecticut State University (New Britian) invites innovative and energetic applicants to fill a full-time, tenure-track librarian position that will serve on the Library’s Information Systems and Resources team. The successful candidate will be responsible for a variety of tasks that successfully respond to the research needs of CCSU’s students, faculty, and staff. Candidates are expected to be committed to multiculturalism and to working with a diverse student body. Duties include but are not limited to: Leads the library in the development, organization, delivery, and assessment of library learning and technology services, programs and resources for faculty, staff, and students; Participates with other library professionals in the oversight, maintenance, and development of the library’s web presence, including HTML pages, content management systems (LibGuides, Wordpress, Drupal, Contentdm), and other web applications; Develops successful partnerships with teaching faculty and other campus units to integrate the library’s digital collections and services with campus learning initiatives. Coordinates all library wide digitization projects; Assists with the administration of the following systems: All Springshare products (LibGuides, LibAnswers, LibAnalytics), Libchat (Chat reference system), Metalib/Primo (Federated Search & Discovery), including staff training and support; Maintains and develops mobile technologies; Liaises with the Serials/Electronic Resources Librarian and the Electronic Resources Specialist as needed; Provides technical support for the library’s Integrated Library System (Millennium) and Interlibrary Loan management software (ILLiad) in the absence of the Systems Librarian; Shares with other library professionals in the oversight of electronic resource management including budgeting, selection, evaluation, access, and trouble-shooting; Provides assistance and technical support to library staff for the creation of learning aids such as screen casts and library guides; Participates with other library professionals in guiding the library in the selection of new technologies and their implementation; Provides knowledge and expertise associated with the university’s course management software; Acts as liaison with the Centers for Teaching and Educational Technology as well as the University Information Technology Department. Required Qualifications: American Library Association accredited Master’s degree in Library Science or equivalent; Experience relevant to digital resources management in an academic library; Demonstrated knowledge and understanding of library digital technology and collections; Demonstrated experience and knowledge of emerging technologies, such as mobile applications and cloud computing; Excellent communication, collaboration, and problem solving skills; Commitment to serving culturally, ethnically and linguistically diverse communities. Preferred Qualifications: Experience with Innovative Interfaces Integrated Library System including its Electronic Resources Management module; Demonstrated commitment to positive user experience; Experience with Ex Libris’ SFX link resolver and A-Z list administration; Experience with discovery layer technologies. The University: CCSU is one of four state universities with the Board of Regents for Higher Education Connecticut State Colleges & Universities. Excellent professors, librarians, coaches, and counselors and a wide array of academic programs prepare students for success in whatever field they choose. CCSU’s motto is more than a slogan; it articulates the University’s commitment to students: “Start with a dream. Finish with a future.” The Princeton Review selected CCSU as one of "The Best Northeastern Colleges." CCSU serves approximately 12,200 students - 9,500 undergraduates, and 2,700 graduates. CCSU is richly diverse: more than 20 percent of students are of traditional minority heritage. Visit our web site at <a _fcksavedurl="http://www.ccsu.edu/" href="http://www.ccsu.edu/" target="_blank">http://www.ccsu.edu/</a>. The Community: CCSU is located in New Britain, a city of some 70,000, within a 10-minute drive to the state capital in Hartford. New Britain is home to the nationally recognized New Britain Museum of American Arts and offers a range of cultural opportunities, including the New Britain Symphony Orchestra, the New Britain Rock Cats (Double A professional baseball), two theatres, and an extensive park system. The University is approximately two hours (by car) from both Boston and New York City. Application and Appointment: For full consideration, applications must be received by <span style="color: red;">April 22, 2013</span>. Salary and rank are commensurate with education and experience. To begin the application process, go to <a _fcksavedurl="http://www.ccsu.edu/jobs" href="http://www.ccsu.edu/jobs" target="_blank">www.ccsu.edu/jobs</a> and submit the following: Letter of interest addressing the qualifications for this position, Current curriculum vitae, Names of three current professional references with addresses, email addresses and telephone numbers. For more information contact Theresa Mastrogiovanni at 860 832-2097 or <a _fcksavedurl="mailto:mastrogiovannit@ccsu.edu" href="mailto:mastrogiovannit@ccsu.edu">mastrogiovannit@ccsu.edu</a>. Please make sure your Social Security Number is not listed on any documents submitted. Redact any personally identifiable information.

Digital Resources Librarian (C13-067) - Elihu Burritt Library, Central Connecticut State University (New Britian)

Digital Resources Librarian (C13-067) - Elihu Burritt Library at Central Connecticut State University (New Britian) invites innovative an...

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Head Librarian - Hamden Hall Country Day School

<strong>Head Librarian - </strong><strong><span style="color: #48286d;">Hamden Hall Country Day School</span></strong>. Reports To: Director of Technology and Information Services. Position Summary: Hamden Hall Country Day School, in Hamden, CT, seeks a Head Librarian to oversee the vision and operation of its library. This candidate must demonstrate the ability to provide academic leadership in the areas of information literacy, research, and educational technology. The successful candidate will have the ability to collaborate with faculty and engage students, and to help create a space on campus that supports learning, collaboration and academic exploration. This individual reports to and is evaluated by the Director of Technology and Information Services and works closely with members of the administrative team and academic department heads. Essential Duties and Responsibilities: Develop, implement, and assess continuous improvement in library services to faculty and students, including integrating library skills into the curriculum. Provide reference services in small group environments and one-on-one with students, and instruct classes on the use of a variety of resources and research tools. Seek out and regularly inform teachers of new and applicable classroom and library resources. Oversee collection development, including inventory, acquisitions, and collection maintenance. Manage the library’s electronic resources, including subscription databases and websites and the library’s extensive collection of electronic subject guides. Promote library materials and services to the school community through social media, in-person presentations, and written communications. Keep up-to-date on new and effective web tools, iPads in the classroom, and other digital media. Oversee the library budget. Provide students with opportunities to be involved in the library, including advising an active student advisory board, managing student workers, and inviting student feedback and input. Facilitate library programming for middle and upper school students that promotes learning, reading, or creative endeavors, including booktalking. Collaborate with faculty on campus-wide initiatives such as the Swain Library writing contest, summer reading, and the all-school read. Act as the school’s expert on research technologies, copyright, citation methods, and other library skills as needed. Act as a liaison between administration and library staff, and represent the library to faculty and through serving on various school committees. Qualifications and Experience Requirements: This position requires an individual with excellent communication and organizational skills; has a proven ability to promote a positive and collaborative working environment; is reliable, energetic, patient and positive; has a minimum of 3 years’ experience in school libraries. An ALA-accredited Masters degree in library science is required. Teaching experience and management experience are preferred. To apply, please send a cover letter and resume to <br /> to Lorri Carroll, Director of Technology and Information Services, at <a _fcksavedurl="mailto:lcarroll@hamdenhall.org" href="mailto:lcarroll@hamdenhall.org">lcarroll@hamdenhall.org</a>.

Head Librarian - Hamden Hall Country Day School

Head Librarian - Hamden Hall Country Day School . Reports To: Director of Technology and Information Services. Position Summary: Hamden Ha...

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Youth Services Assistant - Brainerd Memorial Library, Haddam

<strong>Youth Services Assistant - </strong><strong><span style="color: #48286d;">Brainerd Memorial Library</span></strong>, Haddam. Part-time position. Seeking a creative individual to assist Youth Services Librarian in creating and maintaining displays; planning, preparing, and implementing programs for children; assists with shelving, shelf-reading, and weeding of Children’s Collections. Additional duties include supervising volunteers and assistance in other library departments as needed. 10 hours per week, pay rate: $10.00 to $11.50 an hour. No health benefits. Please send resume and three references to <a _fcksavedurl="mailto:cmuhlbach@brainerdlibrary.lioninc.org" href="mailto:cmuhlbach@brainerdlibrary.lioninc.org">cmuhlbach@brainerdlibrary.lioninc.org</a> by <span style="color: red;">April 12, 2013</span>.

Youth Services Assistant - Brainerd Memorial Library, Haddam

Youth Services Assistant -  Brainerd Memorial Library , Haddam. Part-time position. Seeking a creative individual to assist Youth Service...

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Young Adult Assistant - Brainerd Memorial Library, Haddam

<strong>Young Adult Assistant - </strong><strong><span style="color: #48286d;">Brainerd Memorial Library</span></strong>, Haddam. Part-time position. Seeking a dynamic individual to assist Youth Services Librarian with collection maintenance and outreach programming for Young Adults. Additional duties include working with teen volunteers and assisting in other library departments as needed. 10 hours per week, pay rate: $10.00 to $11.50 an hour. No health benefits. Please send resume and three references to <a _fcksavedurl="mailto:cmuhlbach@brainerdlibrary.lioninc.org" href="mailto:cmuhlbach@brainerdlibrary.lioninc.org">cmuhlbach@brainerdlibrary.lioninc.org</a> by <span style="color: red;">April 12, 2013</span>.

Young Adult Assistant - Brainerd Memorial Library, Haddam

Young Adult Assistant - Brainerd Memorial Library , Haddam. Part-time position. Seeking a dynamic individual to assist Youth Services Libr...

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Part-Time Reference Librarian - Wallingford Public Library

<strong>Part-Time Reference Librarian - </strong><strong><span style="color: #48286d;">Wallingford Public Library</span></strong> is looking for a temporary part-time librarian with excellent customer service and computer skills to assist adults and teens at our busy information desk. This position requires an MLS and a flexible schedule of approximately 12 - 16 hours per week. $24 per hour. The position is available now and is expected to continue through August with the possibility of extension. Resumes will be reviewed as they are received and the search will continue until the position is filled. Candidates should send a resume and three references to Amy Humphries, Assistant Director, Wallingford Public Library, <a _fcksavedurl="mailto:amyh@lioninc.org" href="mailto:amyh@lioninc.org">amyh@lioninc.org</a>. For complete job description, please visit <a _fcksavedurl="http://www.wallingford.lioninc.org/?q=employment" href="http://www.wallingford.lioninc.org/?q=employment" target="_blank">http://www.wallingford.lioninc.org/?q=employment</a>.

Part-Time Reference Librarian - Wallingford Public Library

Part-Time Reference Librarian - Wallingford Public Library is looking for a temporary part-time librarian with excellent customer service ...

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Archidose A/V Club

A couple things I'm listening to and watching today, from good 'ol public radio and television.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.wnyc.org/shows/bl/2013/mar/15/architects-tour/?utm_source=/articles/wnyc-news/2013/mar/19/critics-tour-along-waterfront/">Michael Sorkin on the Brian Lehrer Show</a>:<br /><iframe frameborder="0" height="54" src="//www.wnyc.org/widgets/ondemand_player/#file=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wnyc.org%2Faudio%2Fxspf%2F276042%2F;containerClass=wnyc" width="474"></iframe><br /><br />"Bianca Bosker, author of <i>Original Copies: Architectural Mimicry in Contemporary China</i> [review forthcoming], <a href="http://www.pbs.org/newshour/art/blog/2013/03/china-uses-copycat-architecture-to-modernize-define-itself.html">discusses how the Chinese are copying the most iconic cities and towns of the West</a>":<br /><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="360" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/wMj5nbhQQ4c?rel=0" width="640"></iframe>

Archidose A/V Club

A couple things I'm listening to and watching today, from good 'ol public radio and television. Michael Sorkin on the Brian Lehrer S...

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A Birthday Tribute to Francoise Dorleac

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAe65sdYW249pVWmGf1gstxty0kbmCYdj03mZdwcFK4y1pe9nxjWa9ujnVw5WQNOW4AvF9dtDjZY2XL1HsUJ-jytbyh7hO5drLUcLkfF_xFr1z_4Cr1ztRr-VQ1XY622yHmzfnaibdsDM/s1600/Francoise+birthday.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="297" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAe65sdYW249pVWmGf1gstxty0kbmCYdj03mZdwcFK4y1pe9nxjWa9ujnVw5WQNOW4AvF9dtDjZY2XL1HsUJ-jytbyh7hO5drLUcLkfF_xFr1z_4Cr1ztRr-VQ1XY622yHmzfnaibdsDM/s400/Francoise+birthday.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">F</span>rancoise Dorleac, older sister of Catherine Deneuve, was born in war-ravaged Paris on the first day of spring, 71 years ago today, March 21, 1942, and lived just 25 years more<span style="font-size: small;">.</span></span></span><br /><br /></div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHvtTtgnGz4wPC4OxospPCjaWqtwJNxmd58-Q5pfPtfKsvFgSXmT9TpyEFtIzFeEFJs1t1FkLFkSgP6oVwMXJcR-Tl58RUa44aEcEtG7R4Moqu7Xg7G2dkr30_0ayXyT-YFu0XeUf9uq0/s1600/Catherine+and+Francoise+at+home.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHvtTtgnGz4wPC4OxospPCjaWqtwJNxmd58-Q5pfPtfKsvFgSXmT9TpyEFtIzFeEFJs1t1FkLFkSgP6oVwMXJcR-Tl58RUa44aEcEtG7R4Moqu7Xg7G2dkr30_0ayXyT-YFu0XeUf9uq0/s200/Catherine+and+Francoise+at+home.jpg" width="144" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Catherine (top) and Francoise</span></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"> <span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Her father was Maurice Dorleac, a stage and screen actor, and her mother, Renee Deneuve, was an actress who re-voiced Hollywood films in French (including Judy Garland’s in <i>The Wizard of Oz</i>). Both Maurice and Renee were prominent performers at the Comedie Francaise. Sister Catherine was born a year-and-a-half later, in October 1943. With their parents in the theater, acting did not seem an unusual profession to the girls. Catherine would later recall, “For us, it was a job like any other.” She and Francoise grew up sharing a bedroom and a bunk bed, and each would go into “the family business” at an early age.</span> </span></span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Francoise first performed on the stage when she was 10 and made her screen debut at 15 in the short <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Mesonges </i>(1957). Later, supporting herself as a model for the house of Dior, she studied acting at the Conservatoire d'Art Dramatique. As an in-demand model and actress, Francoise led a wildly busy life from her teens to the end of her life. She appeared on stage (among her roles was "Gigi"), on TV, in magazine spreads (including <i>Vogue</i>) and covers, and on film. Over the seven years from 1960 – 1967 she was featured in 16 films, notably:</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /><a name='more'></a><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/02/movies/MoviesFeatures/02broca.html?_r=0"><b><span style="color: #cc0000;">Philippe de Broca</span></b></a>'s New York Film Critics award-winning and Oscar nominated <i>That Man from Rio </i>(1964), co-starring Jean-Paul Belmondo</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6O7b4-zr9YQKDK93GOG3OSeU_esGnP0y4oJvvZ6KVt_O-XuCaG0-2nTJsJEtEZ3Elyz-rMhRX0Xm-31H5JIavY7G_6SB9_FyqyQL0lq8PAQXDAM65p2sDIG1XKQeAVTiJ_RzGPDc2oKM/s1600/That+Man+from+Rio.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="211" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6O7b4-zr9YQKDK93GOG3OSeU_esGnP0y4oJvvZ6KVt_O-XuCaG0-2nTJsJEtEZ3Elyz-rMhRX0Xm-31H5JIavY7G_6SB9_FyqyQL0lq8PAQXDAM65p2sDIG1XKQeAVTiJ_RzGPDc2oKM/s320/That+Man+from+Rio.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Jean-Paul Belmondo and Francoise Dorleac, <i>That Man from Rio</i></span></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Francois Truffaut's once maligned, now acclaimed <i>The Soft Skin</i> (1964)</span></span><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/IBr37Lvbkz8" width="560"></iframe></div></div><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">Roman Polanski's award-winning <i>Cul-de-sac </i>(1966)</span></span></span></span><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/zxyIxHzv3Lg" width="560"></iframe> <br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">Jacques Demy's Oscar nominated <i>The Young <span style="font-size: small;">Girls of Rochefort</span></i><span style="font-size: small;"> (1967), c<span style="font-size: small;">o-starring her sister Ca<span style="font-size: small;">therine</span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNPmm9TAM0wDJxgSIWuOoUIcbWyK5geJS3S8cAvbYjHMd6mR4wX5YetgykWR5OTa3RUlwXn29rgUIdD3kNIOhfNY2QMn_6Uw_6_BCuddPiiSD4ABtCZ-2NARdaRziclhXOX-_RFsojGnA/s1600/Young+Girls+of+Rochefort.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="257" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNPmm9TAM0wDJxgSIWuOoUIcbWyK5geJS3S8cAvbYjHMd6mR4wX5YetgykWR5OTa3RUlwXn29rgUIdD3kNIOhfNY2QMn_6Uw_6_BCuddPiiSD4ABtCZ-2NARdaRziclhXOX-_RFsojGnA/s400/Young+Girls+of+Rochefort.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Francoise Dorleac and Catherine Deneuve, <i>The Young Girls of Rochefort</i></span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">Her final film was <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001692/"><b><span style="color: #cc0000;">Ken Russell</span></b></a><span style="font-size: small;">'s <i>Billion Dollar Brain </i>(1967), co-starring Michael Caine as Harry Palmer</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/aa7rrLImVHQ" width="420"></iframe></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">In Europe, Francoise was<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"> likened to </span></span>Garbo and Dietrich. In the U.S., </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> <i>Look<span style="font-size: small;"> </span></i>magazine featured a June 1965 spread on "The Sister Stars of France," 'sweet' Catherine and 'soignee' Francoise. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">During the filming of <i>The Young Girls of Rochefort </i>in 1966, a reporter from <i>L'Express</i> sat down with Dorleac and Den<span style="font-size: small;">euve for an interview. Their affection for each other as well as a playful compet<span style="font-size: small;">itiveness came through as the two<span style="font-size: small;">, then 24 and 23, <span style="font-size: small;">discussed their lives and careers.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br /><br /><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBJ0Z5kHA-1GhK_S_tkmSgyRX1YAaAwja-eTVjUhKWi5qG8x6mt1CWSgINTSZULYIvV72P9GQeR1itzApIvZLPlAY_AConmYWVfcnL9pDjhZzudwxUoVQhLBOKkAi3T5PN_gOBktoUuFU/s1600/francoise+and+catherine+2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBJ0Z5kHA-1GhK_S_tkmSgyRX1YAaAwja-eTVjUhKWi5qG8x6mt1CWSgINTSZULYIvV72P9GQeR1itzApIvZLPlAY_AConmYWVfcnL9pDjhZzudwxUoVQhLBOKkAi3T5PN_gOBktoUuFU/s400/francoise+and+catherine+2.jpg" width="297" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Francoise and Catherine</span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">Francoise cha<span style="font-size: small;">tted</span> about her desire to be less nervo<span style="font-size: small;">us before the camera and  to stop "hiding<span style="font-size: small;"> behind" her hair;  Catherine talked about needing to be less stiff on camera<span style="font-size: small;">. Francoise, who had so seriously pursued an acting career, seemed intent on becoming a great star. Catherine, who had not initially taken acting that seriously, seemed determined to become a better actress. Both admitt<span style="font-size: small;">ed that while they were extremely busy and making very good money, they were "broke."</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">The two discussed their family resemblance<span style="font-size: small;"> <span style="font-size: small;">and physical</span> differences, with Catherine commenting on Francoise's <i>gamine </i>delicacy and Francoise remarking on her sister's "very sweet face." </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span> <br /><br /><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">At the time, Catherine, who had already given birth to director Roger Vadim's son, was married to photographer David Bailey. Francoise's long engagement to actor<span style="font-size: small;">/</span>dancer <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0144045/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1"><b><span style="color: #cc0000;">Jean</span></b></a><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0144045/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1"><b><span style="color: #cc0000;">-Pierre Cassel</span></b></a> (who later recalled his <span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">deep love and "terri<span style="font-size: small;">ble, destructive passion" for her) </span></span>had finally come to an end. She and Truffaut had briefly been an item a few years ear<span style="font-size: small;">lier and she would be involved with high profile photographer's agent Albert Koski a<span style="font-size: small;">t the time of her death.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8-1iYq_RdKUuAgnNjeM7JeCpsSGurgAIDp_4Pa2q87er4BJrTI4v8kuujhFDrnVd2gYXQAmVQk4h7O_QhfltxGnVVGKPIqPayUqtCIUk3XB6ILpWRWucDFVDCyweAjibXvDCVApxt67I/s1600/Fd+and+JPC+6-64+for+Twenty+magazine.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8-1iYq_RdKUuAgnNjeM7JeCpsSGurgAIDp_4Pa2q87er4BJrTI4v8kuujhFDrnVd2gYXQAmVQk4h7O_QhfltxGnVVGKPIqPayUqtCIUk3XB6ILpWRWucDFVDCyweAjibXvDCVApxt67I/s1600/Fd+and+JPC+6-64+for+Twenty+magazine.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Francoise Dorleac and Jean-Pierre Cassel, <i>Twenty </i>magazine, 1964</span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br /><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">As the interview wound down, the subject of youth and age came up.  Francoise admitted that, at just 24, she didn't like to think about aging or mortality. She added, "I fear the end, I'm afraid of death."  <span style="font-size: small;">She would be lost the following summer, the victim of a fiery car crash near Nice in June 1967.  Many years later a reporter asked Catherine Deneuve ab<span style="font-size: small;">out the low point of her life. She responded that it had been the death of Francoise. She paused </span>and softly spoke of her sister as a lovely actress, a beautiful woman and "my<span style="font-size: small;"> closest friend."</span> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilY7-QUdxJgB_d9MAXY4z7tv6AzGzn3qhPHtkFuUcUw2JF9Fa5j7EvGh2oAA77AWPG1enq1aCYdWCX6BXRCHX5dEazBWnqJ2f1emoiGea29XkTEsKad76g-YL8szIfXXAKtxeele1EJuE/s1600/Catherine+and+Francoise.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilY7-QUdxJgB_d9MAXY4z7tv6AzGzn3qhPHtkFuUcUw2JF9Fa5j7EvGh2oAA77AWPG1enq1aCYdWCX6BXRCHX5dEazBWnqJ2f1emoiGea29XkTEsKad76g-YL8szIfXXAKtxeele1EJuE/s320/Catherine+and+Francoise.jpg" width="192" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Catherine and Francoise</span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">Francoise did not have enough time to a<span style="font-size: small;">chieve her dreams, but in the <span style="font-size: small;">handful of films she completed during her lifetime lies tang<span style="font-size: small;">ible</span></span> p<span style="font-size: small;">roof</span> of her talent and her potential. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">Catherine did, as she hoped, become a better actress - and she became more than a star, she became a legend. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUeGCeLSg-y5q3rT6jWw3MFAy7WijpKlElLSqZwqXDxQ7701kJDuMH461t5wwAoTuiPZAuGBcRgvH5-JzmVxI8REWTHWPGq-5xknfg-mwHCO5HHWx43LKIj3S_2nbafNXoOLU8CIOcrxk/s1600/dorleac+looking+deneuve.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUeGCeLSg-y5q3rT6jWw3MFAy7WijpKlElLSqZwqXDxQ7701kJDuMH461t5wwAoTuiPZAuGBcRgvH5-JzmVxI8REWTHWPGq-5xknfg-mwHCO5HHWx43LKIj3S_2nbafNXoOLU8CIOcrxk/s400/dorleac+looking+deneuve.jpg" width="280" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Francoise Dorleac</span></td></tr></tbody></table>

Billion Dollar Brain Catherine Deneuve Cul-de-Sac Francois Truffaut Francoise Dorleac Ken Russell Philippe de Broca Roman Polanski The Lady Eve (author) The Soft Skin The Young Girls of Rochefort A Birthday Tribute to Francoise Dorleac

F rancoise Dorleac, older sister of Catherine Deneuve, was born in war-ravaged Paris on the first day of spring, 71 years ago today, March 2...

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Life is good!

Yesterday was a very bad day. From the start to the end, then my doctor called me and everything was suddenly much better. <br /><br />A recap of my day from hell:<br /><br />1. My commute to work is usually 20 minutes. It was over an hour. There was a 10-mile backup on the freeway on my way to work. My I5 commute is 10 miles, and yes, the backup was my entire 10 miles. <br /><br />2. When I finally got to work I was informed there was a bad bug in our beta software that was in two stations. It was my bug. I skipped a couple meetings to work on it. Luckily it was an easy fix, but a stupid mistake on my part. It got past me and the testers but was found in the field after a week of beta.<br /><br />3. My project manager informed me that my estimate for a hideous project I've been assigned is too large. I need to cut it back. I've never been asked to do this before so it was kind of a shock. My estimates are usually right on the mark so I have no idea how I can squeeze six months of work into four. Especially when the requirements aren't even done so there a many unknowns.<br /><br />3. I found out from my accountant that filing my taxes is going to be difficult. Filing "married, filing separately", in a community property state, when you're not speaking to your spouse because of a restraining order, makes it hard. Involves a tax accountant and attorneys. <br /><br />4. I bounced a check at my credit union. It didn't really bounce but I received a nasty note from my credit union that although the money was in my savings I had exceeded the six transfers allowed per month from savings to checking. They paid it but charged me $25 NSF fee (!). This is a tiny little credit union through my company. They are my temporary bank so I could my check deposited somewhere besides our old joint checking account. My check goes into savings, a mistake I made when I set up the direct deposit. I tried to change it last night and the system locked me out and said I couldn't make any changes to my direct deposit. So now my check is set to be deposited no where and tomorrow is payday (!).<br /><br />5. The CT scan. Drinking the barium and getting shot with dye wasn't bad. The barium is gross and I gagged a little but I got down the two bottles. Then the incredible pain started. I really thought I was going to die. After the CT scan I came home and went to bed, in the fetal position. I was in tears from the pain. It finally subsided after a few hours and a lot ibuprofen and several trips to the bathroom.<br /><br />6. My niece's husband called me around 6pm. This is the niece that's suppose to come down from Alaska on Easter to see her mother (my sister). It would be the first time she's seen her mom since I moved her down here January 2012. Her husband told me my niece had tried to commit suicide that morning by taking a bottle of Tylenol and a bottle of aspirin. 250 pills. Luckily when he found her past out ont he couch when he came home from work, he rushed her to the ER. He said she was incoherent and throwing up. The good news is that she'll be okay. She was in the psych ward about three weeks ago for a week stay, and tried to check herself in again last week but they sent her home. As soon as she's out of ICU they'll put her in the psych ward again. I truly don't understand depression and suicide, but I know she must be in terrible pain to do something like this. This is about her twelfth attempt in the last fifteen years. <br /><br />Now for the GOOD news (yes, there's really good news from yesterday). My doctor called me about 7:30pm. Of course that scared me because the clinic closes at 5pm. They know what's wrong with me and it's not terrible, and is totally fixable. I have an 8.5 centimeter uterine fibroid (3 1/2")--this is probably why I feel like my insides are going to fall out. I wrote down "abnormal" next to it in my notes but I don't remember why. I also have an ovarian cyst on my right ovary. That's where the pain is the most intense when a  pain episode starts (and they're happening more often now and more intense). My doctor referred me to an OB/GYN doctor who will be calling me today. She said I'll probably need a hysterectomy, but they'll discuss that with me more. I'm just thrilled to know what has been causing the pain and that it can be fixed. No signs of cancer and mostly likely the cyst isn't cancerous and fibroids are never cancerous. <br /><br />So even though it was a hell of a day, it ended on a very good note. I'm so happy that it wasn't all in my head and that it can be fixed. Life is good!

Life is good!

Yesterday was a very bad day. From the start to the end, then my doctor called me and everything was suddenly much better. A recap of my day...

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American Academy of Pediatrics Backs Gay Marriage - NYTimes.com

<div><div class="articleBody"><nyt_text><p itemprop="articleBody">The <a href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/a/american_academy_of_pediatrics/index.html?inline=nyt-org" title="More articles about American Academy of Pediatrics" class="meta-org">American Academy of Pediatrics</a> declared its <a title="AAP's policy statement. " href="http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/cgi/doi/10.1542/peds.2013-0376">support for same-sex marriage</a> for the first time on Thursday, saying that allowing gay and lesbian parents to marry if they so choose is in the best interests of their children.</p></nyt_text></div><div class="articleInline runaroundLeft"><div class="inlineImage module"><p class="caption">Dr. Travis Kidner, who is in a same-sex marriage, with his children Zoe (being carried) and Nicholas in Los Angeles on Wednesday </p> </div> </div> <div class="articleBody"><p itemprop="articleBody"> The academy's new policy statement says same-sex marriage helps guarantee rights, benefits and long-term security for children, while acknowledging that it does not now ensure access to federal benefits. When marriage is not an option, the academy said, children should not be deprived of foster care or adoption by single parents or couples, whatever their sexual orientation. </p><p itemprop="articleBody"> <a title="The AAP's scientific review of the literature. " href="http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/cgi/doi/10.1542/peds.2013-0377">The academy's review of scientific literature</a> began more than four years ago, and the result is a 10-page report with 60 citations. </p><p itemprop="articleBody"> "If the studies are different in their design and sample but the results continue to be similar, that gives scientists and consumers more faith in the result," said Dr. Ellen Perrin, a co-author of the new policy and a professor of <a href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/health/diseasesconditionsandhealthtopics/pediatrics/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier" title="Recent and archival health news about pediatrics." class="meta-classifier">pediatrics</a> at Tufts University School of Medicine. </p><p itemprop="articleBody"> Other scientists called the evidence lackluster and said the academy's endorsement was premature. <a title="Dr. Marks' review of APA's brief on gay parenting. " href="http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0049089X12000580">Loren Marks</a>, an associate professor of child and family studies at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, said there was not enough national data to support the pediatric association's position on same-sex marriage. "National policy should be informed by nationally representative data," he said. "We are moving in the direction of higher-quality national data, but it's slow." </p><p itemprop="articleBody"> The academy cited research finding that a child's well-being is much more affected by the strength of relationships among family members and a family's social and economic resources than by the sexual orientation of the parents. "There is an emerging consensus, based on extensive review of the scientific literature, that children growing up in households headed by gay men or lesbians are not disadvantaged in any significant respect relative to children of heterosexual parents," the academy said. </p><p itemprop="articleBody"> A large body of evidence demonstrates that children raised by gay or lesbian parents fare as well in emotional, cognitive and social functioning as peers raised by heterosexuals, the academy said. </p><p itemprop="articleBody"> One study in England compared 39 families with lesbian mothers to 74 heterosexual parents and 60 families headed by single heterosexual women. No difference was found between the groups in emotional involvement, abnormal behaviors in children as reported by parents or teachers, or psychiatric disorders in them. Both mothers and teachers reported more behavioral problems among children in single-parent families than two-parent ones, whatever their sexual orientation. </p><p itemprop="articleBody"> A 2010 study of children born to 154 lesbian parents in the United States compared mothers' reports of their 17-year-olds to a national sample of age-matched peers. The mothers' reports indicated that their sons and daughters had high levels of competence and fewer social problems, compared with their peers. </p><p itemprop="articleBody"> "Marriage strengthens families and benefits child development, and it also increases a parent's sense of competence and security when they are able to raise children without stigma," said <a title="Dr. Nanette Gartrell" href="http://www.nllfs.org/about/nanette-gartrell/">Dr. Nanette Gartrell</a>, the lead author of the study and a visiting scholar at the University of California, Los Angeles, School of Law. </p><p itemprop="articleBody"> The research on same-sex marriage has limitations, experts note, including the relatively small sample sizes of gay or lesbian parents even in long-term studies. Many studies have relied on parental assessments of their children's well-being, and there is relatively little data about the well-being of children raised by gay men compared with lesbians. </p><p itemprop="articleBody"> "Many studies compare wealthy, well-educated lesbian mothers to single heterosexual mothers instead of married couples," Dr. Marks said. "This matters, because children from married families do better on numerous outcomes including psychological and physical health and avoidance of high-risk behaviors than children of single-parent families." </p><p itemprop="articleBody"> Timm Ryan-Young, a 48-year-old married Brooklynite and father of Zelia, 6, found the academy's support of same-sex marriage reaffirming. </p><p itemprop="articleBody"> "Whenever a formal institution validates or confirms that a same-sex family is valid," he said, "and there are no measurable negatives to it, or deterrents to it, it means a great deal, frankly." </p><p itemprop="articleBody"> Dr. Travis Kidner, 36, a surgeon in Los Angeles, and Hernan Lopez, 42, a media executive, married in 2008 and adopted Nicholas, 2 1/2 years old, and Zoe, 21 months. "It's important for kids to know they are from a stable home and that their parents are married," Dr. Kidner said. </p><p itemprop="articleBody"> The pediatrics academy's support for same-sex marriage heartened him. "The arc is in our favor now," he said. </p><p itemprop="articleBody"> Another reason same-sex couples should be allowed to marry, the academy said, is that divorce law provides for a legally structured arrangement for visits and custody. </p><p itemprop="articleBody"> "If people can't get married, then they can't get divorced," Dr. Perrin said. "That legal system that exists to protect our most vulnerable, namely children, isn't in play."        </p></div></div><div><br></div> <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/21/health/american-academy-of-pediatrics-backs-gay-marriage.html?">http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/21/health/american-academy-of-pediatrics-backs-gay-marriage.html?</a>

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Kaiser Permanente Is Seen as Face of Future Health Care - NYTimes.com

<div><nyt_text style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div id="articleBody"><p itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; font-size: 1.2em; margin: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 24px; ">When people talk about the future of health care, Kaiser Permanente is often the model they have in mind.</p><p itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; font-size: 1.2em; margin: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 24px; ">The organization, which combines a nonprofit insurance plan with its own hospitals and clinics, is the kind of holistic health system that President Obama's <a href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/health/diseasesconditionsandhealthtopics/health_insurance_and_managed_care/health_care_reform/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier" title="Recent and archival news about healthcare reform." class="meta-classifier" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 153); text-decoration: none; ">health care law</a> encourages.</p><p itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; font-size: 1.2em; margin: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 24px; ">Kaiser has sophisticated electronic records and computer systems that — after 10 years and $30 billion in technology spending — have led to better-coordinated patient care, another goal of the president. And because the plan is paid a fixed amount for medical care per member, there is a strong financial incentive to keep people healthy and out of the hospital, the same goal of the hundreds of accountable care organizations now being created.</p><p itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; font-size: 1.2em; margin: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 24px; ">"Over the course of the last 15 years, they've been just going into high gear and doing everything right," said Dr. Thomas S. Bodenheimer, a health policy expert at the University of California, San Francisco who recently chose Kaiser as his own health plan.</p><p itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; font-size: 1.2em; margin: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 24px; ">Yet even with all of its effort, its chairman and chief executive, George C. Halvorson, acknowledges Kaiser has yet to achieve the holy grail of delivering that care at a low enough cost. He says he and other health systems must fundamentally rethink what they do or risk having cost controls imposed on them either by the government or by employers, who are absorbing the bulk of <a href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/health/diseasesconditionsandhealthtopics/health_insurance_and_managed_care/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier" title="Recent and archival health news about health insurance and managed care." class="meta-classifier" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 153); text-decoration: none; ">health insurance</a> costs. "We think the future of health care is going to be rationing or re-engineering," he said.</p><p itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; font-size: 1.2em; margin: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 24px; ">Mr. Halvorson is convinced that Kaiser's improvements in the quality of care save money. But he also says that the way to get costs lower is to move care farther and farther from the hospital setting — and even out of doctors' offices. Kaiser is experimenting with ways to provide care at home or over the Internet, without the need for a physical office visit at all. He also argues that lower costs are going to be about finding ways to get people to take more responsibility for their health — for losing weight, for example, or bringing their <a href="http://health.nytimes.com/health/guides/test/blood-pressure/overview.html?inline=nyt-classifier" title="In-depth reference and news articles about Blood Pressure." class="meta-classifier" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 153); text-decoration: none; ">blood pressure</a> down.</p><p itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; font-size: 1.2em; margin: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 24px; ">"The <a href="http://health.nytimes.com/health/guides/symptoms/morbid-obesity/overview.html?inline=nyt-classifier" title="In-depth reference and news articles about Obesity." class="meta-classifier" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 153); text-decoration: none; ">obesity</a> work is incredibly difficult," he said. "It's very, very hard to move the needle."</p><p itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; font-size: 1.2em; margin: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 24px; ">Other health care experts say that while Kaiser has a place in the future, whether it is the best model for the country's health care remains unclear. "They have not translated some of their strengths into better prices," said David Lansky, the president and chief executive of the Pacific Business Group on Health, which represents employers on the West Coast, many of whom purchase coverage from Kaiser for their workers.</p><p itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; font-size: 1.2em; margin: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 24px; ">And there are other concerns, such as whether an all-encompassing system like Kaiser's can really be replicated and whether the limits it places on where patients can seek care will be accepted by enough people to make a difference. Or whether, as the nation's flirtation with health maintenance organizations, or H.M.O.'s, in the 1990s showed — people will balk at the concept of not being able to go to any doctor or hospital of their choice.</p><p itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; font-size: 1.2em; margin: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 24px; ">"The more you restrict the patient's ability to do what they want, you risk reigniting the backlash we had in the past," Mr. Lansky said.</p><p itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; font-size: 1.2em; margin: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 24px; ">In many ways, Kaiser has been ahead of the curve on health care for decades. Started by a surgeon running a tiny hospital near Desert Center, Calif., to serve construction workers, Kaiser became an H.M.O. with its own doctors and hospital in the mid-1940s and expanded beyond California over the next 50 years. But, as H.M.O.'s fell out of favor, it was forced to leave states like New York, Connecticut and Texas.</p><p itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; font-size: 1.2em; margin: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 24px; ">But Kaiser persevered, and its membership, which peaked in 1998, is now about the same as its previous high of 9.1 million, about three-quarters of whom are in California. It still operates in a half-dozen states from Maryland to Hawaii and is looking to expand in the Mid-Atlantic region, where membership had been dropping.</p><p itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; font-size: 1.2em; margin: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 24px; ">The organization, with some $50 billion in annual revenue, owns 37 hospitals and employs 17,000 doctors, all on salary. And its integrated model is in favor again. Hospitals across the country are buying physician practices or partnering with doctors and health insurers to form accountable care organizations, or A. C.O.'s, as a way of controlling more aspects of patient care. Doctors are also creating so-called medical homes, where patient care is better coordinated.</p><p itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; font-size: 1.2em; margin: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 24px; ">The days when doctors, hospitals and other providers are paid separately for each procedure will disappear eventually, health experts say. Instead, providers will have financial incentives to encourage them to keep people healthy, including lump sums to care for patients or provide comprehensive care for a specific condition. "All of care is going to move down this path, and it has to," Mr. Halvorson said. "Medical homes are doing it; the very best A. C.O's are going to figure out how to do it."</p><p itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; font-size: 1.2em; margin: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 24px; ">The move by hospitals to buy physician practices is being viewed cautiously by health experts, who say there are downsides to the creation of large health care systems that may be motivated by the desire to increase their clout in the market, making it easier to fill beds and charge the insurers more for care. "They become these huge local monopolies," said Dr. Robert Berenson, a health policy expert at the Urban Institute.</p><p itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; font-size: 1.2em; margin: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 24px; ">But having an integrated system seems essential to the success of Kaiser and a handful of similar, if smaller, organizations, like Intermountain Healthcare in Utah and Geisinger Health System in Pennsylvania, although some work with doctors whom they do not employ. In California, Kaiser controls nearly every aspect of a patient's care, from providing the <a href="http://health.nytimes.com/health/guides/test/mri/overview.html?inline=nyt-classifier" title="In-depth reference and news articles about MRI." class="meta-classifier" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 153); text-decoration: none; ">M.R.I.</a> for a diagnosis to filling a prescription at one of its pharmacies to running a hospital where the patient undergoes surgery.</p><p itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; font-size: 1.2em; margin: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 24px; ">"We have all the pieces," said Philip Fasano, Kaiser's chief information officer. "Anything a patient needs you get in the four walls of our offices," he said. As a result, while Kaiser can point to an analysis done by Aon Hewitt, a benefits consultant, showing that its plans are typically at least 10 percent less expensive than others, especially where they control all the providers, its costs are more like the average in places in Ohio, where it does not have its own hospitals and offer as broad a range of services.</p><p itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; font-size: 1.2em; margin: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 24px; ">And some patients outside of California, where Kaiser operations are less concentrated, complain about being forced to travel for treatment by Kaiser providers. Arva Priola, a 62-year-old Kaiser patient in Fredericksburg, Va., said her Kaiser doctors "are wonderful," but that the plan recently started requiring her to get some treatments where they had physical facilities.</p><p itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; font-size: 1.2em; margin: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 24px; ">To get IV <a href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/health/diseasesconditionsandhealthtopics/antibiotics/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier" title="Recent and archival health news about antibiotics." class="meta-classifier" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 153); text-decoration: none; ">antibiotics</a> after surgery, for example, she recently had to drive an hour and a half to a Kaiser office in Tysons Corner, Va. "Who wants to drive when you're sick?" she asked. Kaiser says it is adding more services closer to Fredericksburg.</p><p itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; font-size: 1.2em; margin: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 24px; ">A California state agency recently criticized Kaiser for the long wait times its members had for <a href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/health/diseasesconditionsandhealthtopics/mentalhealthanddisorders/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier" title="Recent and archival health news about mental health and disorders." class="meta-classifier" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 153); text-decoration: none; ">mental health</a> services and for providing inaccurate information about what services it provides. Kaiser says it has corrected the misinformation and is working to reduce and better track member wait times.</p><p itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; font-size: 1.2em; margin: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 24px; ">Where Kaiser has a head start that others may have difficulty catching up to is its use of electronic records and technology systems for tracking patient care.</p><p itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; font-size: 1.2em; margin: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 24px; ">When Dr. Jennifer Slovis, a Kaiser internist in Oakland, recently saw a patient, she was able to spot that the patient had an abnormal blood test several years ago. By reading through the patient's medical history, she determined he was now overdue for an M.R.I. to check the status of a growth in his brain. She was able to e-mail his endocrinologist and schedule the necessary tests without the patient having to make an appointment with the specialist or her having to make her own diagnosis. "It saved a lot of starting over," she said.</p><p itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; font-size: 1.2em; margin: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 24px; ">In the last five or so years, Kaiser has also been using the information to identify those doctors or clinics that excel in certain areas, as well as those in need of improvement. The organization has also used the records to change how it delivers care, identifying patients at risk for developing bed sores in the hospital and then sending electronic alerts every two hours to remind the nurses to turn the patients. The percentage of patients with serious pressure <a href="http://health.nytimes.com/health/guides/disease/gastric-ulcer/overview.html?inline=nyt-classifier" title="In-depth reference and news articles about Ulcers." class="meta-classifier" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 153); text-decoration: none; ">ulcers</a>, or bed sores, dropped to well under 1 percent from 3.5 percent.</p><p itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; font-size: 1.2em; margin: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 24px; ">"The tool is an enabler to give information to people who give a damn," said Dr. Jack Cochran, the executive who represents Kaiser's physicians through the Permanente Federation.</p><p itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; font-size: 1.2em; margin: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 24px; ">Mr. Halvorson, the Kaiser chief, who plans to retire at the end of this year, says the organization is providing evidence to other health systems that re-engineering works. "All of that adds up to better care and cheaper care," he said.</p></div></nyt_text></div> <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/21/business/kaiser-permanente-is-seen-as-face-of-future-health-care.html?">http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/21/business/kaiser-permanente-is-seen-as-face-of-future-health-care.html?</a>

Kaiser Permanente Is Seen as Face of Future Health Care - NYTimes.com

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Daily Education and Technology News for Schools 03/21/2013

<ul class="diigo-linkroll"> <li> <p class="diigo-link"> <a href="http://www.pewinternet.org/Reports/2013/Teachers-and-technology.aspx">How Teachers Are Using Technology at Home and in Their Classrooms | Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project</a> </p> <p class="diigo-description">Take time to read this PEW research about teachers and how they are using technology in their classrooms. It is shocking that 73% say they or their students use cell phones to complete assignments. I wish they had separated out this number to know exactly how many let their STUDENTS use their cell phones. To me, this number shows the tide has turned.  Some of the highlights of the research: "Mobile technology has become central to the learning process, with 73% of AP and NWP teachers saying that they and/or their students use their cell phones in the classroom or to complete assignments More than four in ten teachers report the use of e-readers (45%) and tablet computers (43%) in their classrooms or to complete assignments 62% say their school does a “good job” supporting teachers’ efforts to bring digital tools into the learning process, and 68% say their school provides formal training in this area Teachers of low income students, however, are much less likely than teachers of the highest income students to use tablet computers (37% v. 56%) or e-readers (41% v. 55%) in their classrooms and assignments Similarly, just over half (52%) of teachers of upper and upper-middle income students say their students use cell phones to look up information in class, compared with 35% of teachers of the lowest income students"</p> <p class="diigo-tags"> <span>tags:</span> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/education">education</a> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/news">news</a></p> </li> </ul><p class="diigo-ps">Posted from <a href='https://www.diigo.com'>Diigo</a>. The rest of my favorite links are <a href='https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher'>here</a>.</p>

Daily Education and Technology News for Schools 03/21/2013

How Teachers Are Using Technology at Home and in Their Classrooms | Pew Research Center's Internet & Ame...

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The JayManHate™ Bracket

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /><div class="MsoNormal">Hola y’all! It’s time once again for us to fill out our NCAA Tournament brackets. Tradition has it that I fill out my <o:p></o:p><b>JayManHate™ Bracket</b>. I pick schools by choosing which one I hate the most. I won’t pick every single game here. I’ll just review the brackets and pick the finals of each Regional, the Final Four and the Champion.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b>Midwest: </b> In the Midwest Finals we’ve got Missouri vs. Duke. Are you kidding me? Hell, they make me not even think about Memphis and I hate them like a fat kid hates running.  How am I supposed to choose between these two? It’s like choosing between Hitler and Satan! You’ve got Missouri and their long line of never winning anything vs Duke and their long line of good-looking, rich players winning everything! That seems like an easy choice, but despite never being relevant Mizzou thinks they are EEEEE-LEEEEEET! God they’re fucking annoying!<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b>My Pick: Missouri </b><o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhU9lcMIh2FiPwnx-r6IZhIPIsu6I5qRYcziIlk_jqeKt9hZQtuOVqwFjnKz3kWpv0PCynw9wVMN1MgAxVNBMr95FHQfsuz0P8rtQtRsWkHP7Glkoqrf5F-NxHWqUuuOb3ytjwj5mf0xBo/s1600/Missouri+Sad.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="243" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhU9lcMIh2FiPwnx-r6IZhIPIsu6I5qRYcziIlk_jqeKt9hZQtuOVqwFjnKz3kWpv0PCynw9wVMN1MgAxVNBMr95FHQfsuz0P8rtQtRsWkHP7Glkoqrf5F-NxHWqUuuOb3ytjwj5mf0xBo/s320/Missouri+Sad.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b>West:</b> There’s a lot to hate in the West bracket. You’ve got Kansas St, Gonzaga, Pitt, Ohio St and of course Notre Dame. After hours of angry debate with myself I’m going to narrow it down to Kansas St vs Ohio St. This is similar to Mizzou vs Duke in that Kansas St is even more irrelevant than Mizzou, but they think they are the greatest program in the history of America. Also, KSU fans make San Francisco Giants fans seem nice and friendly. Ohio St, on the other hand, has brought insufferableness to levels even Chicago Cubs and New York Yankees fans couldn’t imagine. What a battle of douchiness we have here folks. I guess I’ll go with the douches I know best and hate most though. <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b>My Pick: Kansas St. </b><o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_r7738eEX3fGftAwFuf2_zgOn_5N4xVMgcynQvrKK1PMLI7-Rx6PXbSEtF4kY5iTx-_KNvDDr8siwKSJLEUeeSiFaNYV4sHcLacVuaVdvTgzRnTtwaRDVXXWxaHK8YuwS52BPQXsPcj8/s1600/Bruce+Weber+Crybaby.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="222" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_r7738eEX3fGftAwFuf2_zgOn_5N4xVMgcynQvrKK1PMLI7-Rx6PXbSEtF4kY5iTx-_KNvDDr8siwKSJLEUeeSiFaNYV4sHcLacVuaVdvTgzRnTtwaRDVXXWxaHK8YuwS52BPQXsPcj8/s320/Bruce+Weber+Crybaby.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b>South:</b> There are only two schools in the South bracket that I hate. Looks like Oklahoma and Florida will meet up in the Sweet Sixteen in an epic Battle of Shitbags! Look at this match up! Both states are full of gun-toting, backwards-ass rednecks. The only thing that saves Florida is they have beaches. Oklahoma doesn’t allow porn and you can only buy 3.2 beer cold.  Fuck that! <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b>My Pick: Oklahoma </b><o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghKmeDruPzjkCcZifUdRX3rokwIKkeNeNwXS1QDoZcPijwuWOyrqls8_6ScePUCUh-AkNgcc09gHV_he0VHHpwWbx4I7D8gE0pZTOs29y47vN3ti80nPqRKd3j65zQswHFyheuSkP76as/s1600/OU+Sooners+Fan.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghKmeDruPzjkCcZifUdRX3rokwIKkeNeNwXS1QDoZcPijwuWOyrqls8_6ScePUCUh-AkNgcc09gHV_he0VHHpwWbx4I7D8gE0pZTOs29y47vN3ti80nPqRKd3j65zQswHFyheuSkP76as/s1600/OU+Sooners+Fan.jpg" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b>East: </b>There’s a lot of hate to be had in the East bracket. Indiana considers themselves basketball royalty and even though I like the way they play their coach is one of the biggest dickheads in the world. I have above average level hate for Miami, Syracuse (and their bullshit zone defense) and N.C. State. But, there’s one school that I have special amount of hate for. Hate that has grown exponentially over the last two years as their fans and the pathetic slobbering media have annoyed me to no end...<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b>My Pick: Butler </b><o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmvSdAby3eM_bHt_kOyn7yARfxrV12NECTY7SuQ3hJZHk2eGiIX2vF24Czd-reMMJYqEQkBAe3mgOzKmYS7l2OLQ1jeQw3Kn0R61PvSzb2R0ahekAgdLl-KvSWrcp0oU8cowKDb8foM8E/s1600/Butler.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmvSdAby3eM_bHt_kOyn7yARfxrV12NECTY7SuQ3hJZHk2eGiIX2vF24Czd-reMMJYqEQkBAe3mgOzKmYS7l2OLQ1jeQw3Kn0R61PvSzb2R0ahekAgdLl-KvSWrcp0oU8cowKDb8foM8E/s1600/Butler.jpg" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">So, final four of the JayManHate™ Bracket is:  <b>Missouri v Kansas St. and Butler v OU</b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">Wow! What an awesome battle that Mizzou/KSU game will be. The whining, victimization, finger pointing, fit-throwing by coaches, players and fans will be surpassed only by what you see at a daycare when every single baby didn’t get his/her nap. <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">Butler/OU is a pretty interesting matchup too. You’ve got the “We’re so much better than you and play such a superior sophisticated and intellectual brand of basketball” of Butler vs the “We’re better Americans and superior Christians than you” of Oklahoma. <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">Hmmmmm …. This isn’t easy, but I think the Finals of the JayHateMan™ Bracket is ... </div><div class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b>Missouri vs Butler </b><o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">What’s left to say about these assholes? Every last one of them can eat a bag of dicks. I don’t even know what “eat a bag of dicks” means, but I see it on the internet all the time and find it funny. Again, after hours and hours of RAGE BUILDING I have made my choice. <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">The winner of the JayManHate™ Bracket is ... </div><div class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-size: x-large;">MISSOURI!!!!  </span></i></b><o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBOBwnbLUhK9cstBN8Xhef6oEm3teOUKkPaQ7i9DRnHigz2n3wL13BsFcWmoJgaka4tVfDT3JxUs9H1lUcMRLuaCN2jXXhFRNfZyiUQ7qgvP_npdVTw6LvW0oIKwnj359ATASRijB2lyA/s1600/Classy+Missouri+Fans.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="303" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBOBwnbLUhK9cstBN8Xhef6oEm3teOUKkPaQ7i9DRnHigz2n3wL13BsFcWmoJgaka4tVfDT3JxUs9H1lUcMRLuaCN2jXXhFRNfZyiUQ7qgvP_npdVTw6LvW0oIKwnj359ATASRijB2lyA/s400/Classy+Missouri+Fans.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">Congrats Fuckwits! You earned it! <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><a href="mailto:Jayman3768@gmail.com">Jayman3768@gmail.com</a><br /><a href="http://www.twitter.com/jayman_iws">@Jayman_IWS </a><o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div></div>

The JayManHate™ Bracket

Hola y’all! It’s time once again for us to fill out our NCAA Tournament brackets. Tradition has it that I fill out my  JayManHate™ Bracket ....

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