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Vacance interrupted!
Pretty Lady is feeling a bit Flustered! Not only has she been tagged with a blog meme, she has been tagged along with Susie Bright! She is not certain how she feels about this, but given Pretty Lady's skirting-the-edge-of-racy past, she supposes it was bound to happen sooner or later.
Anyhoo, on with the meme!
1. All right, here are the rules.
2. We have to post these rules before we give you the facts.
3. Players start with eight random facts/habits about themselves.
4. People who are tagged need to write their own blog about their eight
things and post these rules.
5. At the end of your blog, you need to choose eight people to get tagged
and list their names. Don't forget to leave them a comment telling them they're
tagged, and to read your blog.
Well, right from the get-go Pretty Lady is confounded, because all of her favorite people hate blog memes. Last time she tried to tag them, they all refused to play! Pretty Lady has always had an unfortunate affinity for the Jaded.
Plus, Pretty Lady's readers probably already know more than they care to about random, trivial aspects of Pretty Lady's life. Self-indulgence is Pretty Lady's middle name. She is about exhausted, coming up with witty notions regarding Self, phrasing them prettily enough so that their essential banality and lack of consequence is entertainingly disguised.
So, Pretty Lady shall exploit her family instead, since she is At Home.
1. Pretty Lady's paternal grandmother, the one she takes after, the one who would enter a party two hours late and realize that everyone in the room had been waiting for her arrival so that the party could Get Going, is named Mo. This stands for "Mary Olive." Her nickname as a child was "Soap." (Palm olive.)
2. Pretty Lady's second cousin once removed is named Spiro, and has written several novels which caused his parents to roll their eyes and consider disowning him; evidently, they contained Sex Scenes. The horror.
3. Pretty Lady's paternal grandfather's second cousin is Jimmy Stewart. Yes, that Jimmy Stewart.
4. Pretty Lady's maternal grandfather was a florist, and when he retired, at the age of seventy, he took up the art of Bonsai. To cultivate a genuine Bonsai takes twenty-five years, but Pretty Lady's grandfather took up this hobby in perfect confidence that he would live to see his Bonsai mature. He was correct in his confidence.
5. Pretty Lady's paternal great-grandfather contracted Consumption at the age of twenty-six, and was given six months to live. He went West, and died at the age of ninety-eight, of pneumonia contracted when he went up on the roof in a blizzard to hammer down that blasted shingle which was banging around.
6. Pretty Lady's Mommy is a classical pianist, a docent, an ornithologist, an amateur chef, speaks German, has been Chairman of more than one Board, and can confidently assume the baton when the choir director has to go play the organ. She and Daddy built a harpsichord while she was pregnant with Pretty Lady. She biked across Germany at the age of...well, she biked across Germany recently.
7. Pretty Lady's Daddy designed something which is still Top Secret, but we have a model of it on top of the bookshelf.
8. Pretty Lady's brother...well, Pretty Lady must respect somebody's privacy. Suffice it to say that all you ladies over thirty can eat your hearts out.
Yoo-hoo! You're it!
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Impeach George W. Bush
WASHINGTON - President Bush, in a constitutional showdown with Congress, claimed executive privilege Thursday and rejected demands for White House documents and testimony about the firing of U.S. attorneys.
His decision was denounced as "Nixonian stonewalling" by the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee.
Bush rejected subpoenas for documents from former presidential counsel Harriet Miers and former political director Sara Taylor. The White House made clear neither one would testify next month, as directed by the subpoenas.
Can this be any clearer? We have a President who fully believes that he is Above the Law.
We have a President, dear friends, who has spied illegally on U.S. citizens. He has authorized indefinite imprisonment without charges. He has authorized, nay, encouraged torture of those imprisoned, in violation of the Geneva Conventions. He has embroiled us in an unwinnable and monstrously expensive war under false pretences. He has attempted to foist legislation upon us which makes a mockery of the very notion of 'citizenship.' He is a liar, a jackass and a fool.
Pretty Lady believes that it is morally incumbent upon every citizen of this once-great country to impeach this man. She is absolutely serious about this. If we do not impeach this stupid, scurrilous, hubristic, narcissistic, self-righteous, incompetent excuse for a human being, we do not deserve to call ourselves 'citizens' any longer. We are merely the easily manipulated cardboard idiots which our fatuous ass of a President and his cronies assume us to be, and we deserve the desecration of our civil rights which will inevitably follow.
Labels: narcissism, politics, sex, torture
American Airlines Has Some Problems
This is the best Pretty Lady could do for a title without becoming Vulgar.
You see, Pretty Lady was supposed to be On Vacation today. She was supposed to be in her homeland, perhaps toodling down I-35 toward Austin, her best friend at her side and a six-pack of Shiner in the cooler.
She is not. She is still in hot, muggy, grimy Brooklyn. This is American Airlines' fault.
Oh, Pretty Lady is quite aware that the there was a bit of Weather last night; she even saw the lightning. There were some rather disturbing flooding conditions round the Marble Falls area. She does not dispute these facts.
However, it would have behooved American Airlines to:
1) Inform her of these facts;
2) Apologize;
3) Inform her of her options as regards waiting in line for hours and hours and hours, with no evidence that any flight could be obtained, except for increasingly ugly rumours flying around the crowd, that no planes could be had till Sunday.
Pretty Lady has worked, herself, in Public Service for years. She has experienced her share of confrontations with angry persons whom it was beyond her power to help. And she knows, firsthand, the difference it makes when a Public Servant is courteous to these same people; when compassion and commiseration are expressed, together with an honest assessment of the situation at hand.
So it is with great confidence that she states that the employees of American Airlines, in the ticketing and check-in sectors of LaGuardia Airport, are Incompetent, Discourteous, Unhelpful, Offensive, and Not Doing Their Jobs. Telling a stranded traveler, "That flight has been cancelled. Stand in that line," is Not Enough. It is Dereliction of Duty. It is Gross Negligence.
The proper phrase is, "I'm terribly sorry. There have been some awful weather conditions all across the country this evening, and we've had to cancel a lot of flights. We're doing the best we can to re-book people, but confidentially, that line is really long. You may be standing in it for several hours, and then then best chance of getting you out of here is, realistically, Friday. Do you have a place to stay in the area? Why don't you go to it, and call this number, and stay on hold in the comfort of your own home. We're terribly sorry."
Would that have been so difficult?
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The Feminization of Power
Darlings, Pretty Lady is missing you all terribly, and feels dreadful for having neglected you. She had all sorts of wise things to say on the subject of Feminine Power, and then she sat down to think about it and discombobulated herself. Sometimes Pretty Lady thinks that this 'sophisticated wisdom' schtick of hers is all just an act.
She does believe, however, that some of us Smart Girls out there have it all wrong, when we envision packs of roving Smart Girl Gangs banding together, and taking over the government, or the economy, or even the Art World. In her experience, attempts at forming Smart Girl Gangs have always ended in unmitigated disaster. Smart Girls, it seems, are not particularly suited for gangs.
No, it seems to her that acquiring sordid sorts of Worldly Power has always had much more to do with perceptions of appropriateness, and the acting accordingly, than the brute acquisition of Power at All Costs. For example, you will all recall that last week, Pretty Lady was having a meltdown regarding some simple Web Design issues. You will all be as thrilled as Pretty Lady is to hear that these issues have been resolved; they have been resolved, unsurprisingly, by a Nice Gentleman who knows a great deal more about troublesome computer issues than does Pretty Lady. Not by a charter member of any mythical Girl Gang. Pretty Lady hates to puncture your idealism, but so it is.
For, as she pontificated to the Nice Gentleman over brunch yesterday, true Power only has tangentially to do with Authority. An ignorant person who begins issuing orders indiscriminately, at whatever level of External Hierarchy, will sink the ship and become terminally Disempowered if she does not stop to perceive and listen to Incoming Facts, no matter from whom these Facts are incoming. It may take awhile, but Worldly Power, when ungrounded in Transcendent Wisdom, is always fleeting.
Pretty Lady has learned, from sad and codependent experience, that it is insufficient to the acquisition of Feminine Power to simply support Women in Everything. It is suicidal to support some people; the lame, the ignorant, the incompetent, the narcissistic, the manipulative and the rude should be Constrained, if not Shunned, no matter how politically expedient it may seem to attempt to Empower them, or they will drag the Female Empoweress to a watery grave. Conversely, the Competent and the Kind ought to be accorded positions of High Respect in one's personal Power Canon, however white, male and upper-middle-class these persons might happen to be.
This is not to say that Great Leaders may not be both Female and Feminine. This is to say that mature Feminine Power may not look at all like common, military-variety notions of Authority; it may blossom into some other paradigm entirely. It may be serene, rather than strident; delegatory, rather than authoritative; ruminative, rather than frenetic. Above all, it should recognize the strengths of every person in the spectrum, and create a structure wherein these strengths may be depended upon, not merely attempt to inject power where power is not.
Labels: femininity
Missing: Large lake in southern Chile
SANTIAGO (Reuters) - A lake in southern Chile has mysteriously disappeared, prompting speculation the ground has simply opened up and swallowed it whole. The lake was situated in the Magallanes region in Patagonia and was fed by water, mostly from melting glaciers.
It had a surface area of between 4 and 5 hectares (10-12 acres) -- about the size of 10 soccer pitches.
"In March we patrolled the area and everything was normal ... we went again in May and to our surprise we found the lake had completely disappeared," said Juan Jose Romero, regional director of Chile's National Forestry Corporation CONAF.
"The only things left were chunks of ice on the dry lake-bed and an enormous fissure," he told Reuters.
CONAF is investigating the disappearance.
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Pretty Lady Submits to Angst
She has spent the last five hours proving conclusively to herself that with the resources at hand--an outdated copy of Dreamweaver, an updated copy of Firefox, various freeware web editing programs, and an aging iBook running OS X--it is absolutely, definitively IMPOSSIBLE to design a simple navigation bar with spontaneously popping-down menus.
This would seem a simple task. It is not. It is an impossible task. Pretty Lady must repeat this. Impossible.
This impossibility has precipitated an internal crisis of epic proportions, because who is Pretty Lady, really? How can one define oneself, if one cannot design a clean navigation bar on one's professional website with simple, intuitive choices? Must one's navigation bars always be messy, confusing and schizophrenic? Thus causing viewers to turn away in disgust, at the amateurishness of this untidy life?
Pretty Lady apologizes for inflicting upon you this cryptic Zen Screw moment.
How to be a Charming Con Artist
1) When you show up twenty minutes late for your appointment, apologize. Do not make a fuss about where your bicycle is chained, and waste more of Pretty Lady's time going up and down stairs to bring it into the hallway, where the neighbors will trip over it.
2) Refrain from rolling your eyes during your therapy session. If there is something going on that you dislike, feel free to express your opinion with directness and clarity.
3) Thank your therapist afterward, whatever you thought of the session.
4) When you discover that you have brought insufficient legal tender to cover the cost of your session, have the grace to be embarrassed. Offer to leave something behind as collateral. Apologize profusely. Say how much better you feel after the session, and how dreadful it is, having to stress out over a stupid thing like money.
5) Leave your bicycle in the hall while you run to the ATM, in good faith.
6) When you discover that your card does not work in the ATM, call Pretty Lady immediately, explain the situation, and apologize again. Do not leave her hanging for 45 minutes as she grows increasingly irritated and suspicious.
7) When several ATMs reject your card, the likelihood that you do not have sufficient funds in your account to cover the fee is high. Thus, offering to 'send a check' to an already irritated and suspicious Pretty Lady does not mollify her greatly, bounced check fees being what they are.
8) Apologize again, and do not hang up on an understandably angry Pretty Lady until she is done speaking, whatever you may think of what she has to say.
If you follow these simple steps, you may still be a con artist, but you have occasioned far less stress to self and other than by simply being an irresponsible, self-absorbed flake.
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The Laws of Balance in Operation
Screaming Paris Hilton Sent Back To Jail
Paris Hilton was taken from a courtroom screaming and crying Friday seconds after a judge ordered her returned to jail to serve out her entire 45-day sentence for a parole violation in a reckless driving case.
"It's not right!" shouted the weeping Hilton. "Mom!" she called out to her mother in the audience.
Hilton, who was brought to court in handcuffs in a sheriff's car, came into the courtroom disheveled and weeping. Her hair was askew and she wore a gray fuzzy sweatshirt over slacks. She wore no makeup and she cried throughout the hearing.
Well, it is High Time. Noxious brat. Perhaps she will learn something.
In Defense of Elitism, Part II
It has occurred to Pretty Lady, pleasant and diverse as this conversation has been, that she is not certain her original point was understood. She is not, and never has been, calling anybody stupid. Her contention was merely that persons who are not familiar with the forms, range, history and conventions of literature are not fit to judge the quality of a single work of literature. That is all.
They may, of course, have an opinion. Pretty Lady may have an opinion as to the elegance and viability of the proof of Fermat's last theorem, as well. That is not to say that Pretty Lady's opinion on this proof amounts to anything more than the opinion of her two feline companions on the screenplay of As Good as it Gets, which Pretty Lady viewed yesterday evening. The felines appeared uninspired by the movie; Pretty Lady herself was pleasantly surprised. It is rare that sappy, predictable love stories are actually accompanied by witty and insightful dialog.
It is all the more astonishing that in this age of Advanced Technology, people seem to forget that in order to assess whether something functions, one first has to test it. Nobody would consider that the design of the latest BMW had set a new standard for perfection in automotive technology if it never left the showroom; why then do people believe that they are competent to judge the effectiveness of a work of literature without having read it, the power of a painting without having viewed it, or the transformative capabilities of a spiritual practice without having practiced it?
Ah. Now we see that Pretty Lady has yet another Deeper Agenda.
For it strikes her that as arrogantly ignorant as people can be regarding the arts, this arrogance is dwarfed by their cavalier views toward the spiritually esoteric. For the mere reading and intellectual analysis of a spiritual text is not at all sufficient to the assessment of the merits of this text. One has to actually try it. Spirituality is not an abstract theory with no bearing on the physical world, except insofar as it is used to justify the ego-will; it is a practice.
Pretty Lady visited, yesterday evening, a regular client of hers. This charming lady has suffered from chronic, unspecific and seemingly acausal physical pain since long before she started working with Pretty Lady. Pretty Lady knows this pain is genuine, because she can feel its consequences.
Yesterday evening, her client seemed much more cheerful than usual. 'I've become a Buddhist,' she declared. 'I've been chanting regularly.' She informed Pretty Lady a bit about the history of her particular branch of Buddhism, the services she attends, and their activities on behalf of World Peace.
But it was when Pretty Lady began work that she sensed the true fruits of this practice. 'Buddhism seems to be good for you. You are more relaxed than I've ever felt,' she exclaimed. Indeed, at the end of the session, the client declared that it had been the least painful session of her life.
Pretty Lady understands, of course, the inadmissibility of the link between correlation and causation. Moreover, she does not prescribe Buddhism as a method of healing pain. However, she finds her client's experience to be a more compelling argument for its practice than twenty volumes of purely theoretical argument against it.
Labels: elitism
The Path of Excess
The only word to describe the current state of Pretty Lady's fire escape is 'riotous.'
Things have not even gotten started blooming yet, aside from a couple of morning glories and the miniature rose, purchased yesterday to fill the spot where the peony got scorched.
And yet Pretty Lady can...not...stop going to nurseries, garden stores, and the Botanical Garden. She is re-potting the indoor plants as well.
BTW, for those of you who have been following the story of the Epiphyllum with bated breath, Pretty Lady has some sad news for you. This weekend she had supper at an Ecuadoran restaurant which had an Epiphyllum in the window. It was potted in a tiny pot, with soil which resembled crumbled asphalt. It was obviously watered only rarely. It was tall, bony, preternaturally thin, and wan-looking. It also sported an incipient Blossom.
If this is how badly a person has to treat one's Epiphyllum in order to get it to bloom, then, Pretty Lady very much fears that she will prove to be Incapable.
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In Defense of Elitism
Pretty Lady, being in a bit of a Mood yesterday, created somewhat of a furor over at poor dear Edward's blog. She must apologize to Edward, since he has been ever the gentleman; moreover, she is doing him the courtesy of moving her diatribe to her own space.
But move it she must. She cannot let people get away with such Philistinism.
For the fact is, people, Literacy Is Important. And Pretty Lady maintains her view that an illiterate person suffers under such a whopping big handicap in terms of ability to process and communicate issues of universal importance, that this person's opinion on such matters is innately suspect. As she controversially stated:
Judging by numbers in the 'Da Vinci Code' sense is a red herring, because we're dealing with factors other than the perception of Quality--availability, marketing, and the generally abysmal state of literacy in the U.S. these days. One glance at the blogosphere is enough to tell you that most people are unable to comprehend a basic sequence of logical causality, when presented in a coherent paragraph; are we then judging questions of literary style based on the perceptions of these people?
A more accurate test would be to take a group of people who have all proven themselves capable of explaining, in their own words and in complete sentences, the basic principles underlying our Constitution, the plot of Anna Karenina, and why a poem by e.e. cummings was radical for its time, but still holds up as literature in these degenerate days. Then you give this group a copy of 'The Da Vinci Code,' and 'Gaudy Night' by Dorothy L. Sayers, and ask them to assess the relative literary merits of each, providing support for their assertions.
I would stake my inheritance that Dorothy L. would win by a landslide.
The immediate reply to this screed was sadly predictable:
What is this elitist ethnocentric bullshit? If I haven't read Anna Karenina or e e cummings I'm not fit to discuss spirituality or transcendance with this "pretty lady"?
Even her dear friend David, who should know better, was skeptical:
PL, it sounds like a wonderful group of people to have over for dinner, but I seriously doubt they represent "the vast majority of people."
Pretty Lady hangs her head, and cries.
Because any literate member of Pretty Lady's friends will be able to spot the trick at once. That trick is, these questions are easy. Anybody who has ever BS'd their way through an examination after drinking beer in the parking lot till 3 AM instead of studying knows that.
But let Pretty Lady explain the answers, to those whose BS skills are as poor as those that Pretty Lady used on her grant application:
1) The Constitution is the basis for the U.S. government. We live in the U.S. Our basic rights as citizens are outlined in this document; therefore it behooves us to have a vague idea of what these rights are, and assert them, and defend them. These rights include things like freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, right to bear arms, and right to privacy.
For extra credit, one may mumble about 'checks and balances,' which were put in place to prevent, oh, the executive branch of government from launching foolish, unwinnable wars to satisfy private grudges and not-so-private Messianic complexes.
2) One need not have read Anna Karenina to have heard, somewhere, that it is about a Russian lady who has an extramarital affair, and jumps in front of a train as a result of it.
3) Similarly, one need not have a degree in English Literature to note that the poems of mr. cummings are unconventionally capitalized and punctuated; one need only read a few of them to perceive that they are rather spicy. They Hold Up, in Pretty Lady's opinion, because they are still sufficiently oblique to be Teasing, rather than hitting you over the head with a hammer.
Notice that Pretty Lady did not demand that anybody understand a poem by Wallace Stevens.
Pretty Lady does not consider that people who cannot summon up even a cursory, BS'd answer to these questions are necessarily unintelligent; she can say, and boldly, that they are disgracefully and dangerously ignorant. She understands that the state of public education in this country produced this state of affairs; she has even heard rumours that this was done deliberately, by the government, to make people easier to control.
Judging by the state of the country's affairs at the moment, it seems to be working.
Pretty Lady Throws a Tantrum
Pretty Lady is shocked. It seems that the Art Funding Powers that Be find Pretty Lady to be an insufficiently compelling BS artist.
This strikes Pretty Lady as nothing short of incredible. Here she has been, day after day, month after month, year after year, proving that her BS skills are so finely honed as to be almost Second Nature. She produces ream after ream of muddy, pretentious, overwritten, arch prose which can be read on literal grounds, ironic grounds, and metaphysical grounds, wherein each reading contradicts the others. Chaos, confusion, exasperation and controversy follow in her wake, as well as a certain amount of Irrational Adulation.
What more does an Art Funding Organization require? They definitely do not require that the actual art be compelling in any way, since they have declined to look at it. No, Art Funding Organizations make no bones about the fact that such impenetrable BS artistry is what impresses them, and Pretty Lady has given it to them. And still they have turned her down.
Moreover, the Art Funding Powers that Be have had the unmitigated gall to send Pretty Lady a request for donations, in the same week in which they declined to view her application. She would have sent them their own rejection letter in their donations envelope, except that her printer is out of ink, and she cannot afford another cartridge. Since she is not, in fact, funded.
(This action would indubitably come across as childish and spiteful, and so perhaps Pretty Lady's lack of printer cartridges comes as a minor blessing.)
It is at times like this that Pretty Lady turns her thoughts to the Wider Viewpoint, since the smaller one is irritatingly grim. She sees a certain karmic harmony in the Art Funding Organization asking her for money, after she asked them for money; indeed, she has received exactly what she put out into the world. She sees a certain absurdist risibility in the fact that a Visual Art Funding application provides no opportunity for an artist to display any visuals. And she finds her fundamental view of the world profoundly reinforced; that our value is bestowed by God, from Within, and has nothing to do with External Valuation by crass, pretentious, ego-driven Arts Funding Professionals. Or it had better not have.
Posted by Pretty Lady at 9:57 AM 10 comments Links to this post
Labels: art, economics
A Correction
To the Blogging Community at Large:
The word "loose" is pronounced "lewss" and means 'to release' or 'not fastened tightly.'
The word "lose" is pronounced "looz" and means 'to miss from one's possession; mislay' or 'to bring to destruction.'
Please stop using the one when you mean the other.
Posted by Pretty Lady at 9:51 AM 4 comments Links to this post
Conspiracy uncovered
Pretty Lady has discovered something.
Take a look at these cans. Do you note anything particular about them? Anything special, in an aesthetic way?
Yes. They all look sort of retro, particularly the artichoke hearts and the hearts of palm. Sort of like they fell out of a nineteen-fifties time-warp.
It has become increasingly borne in upon Pretty Lady that most of the canned goods in the grocery store are sporting this aesthetic. What could this mean?
Pretty Lady thinks it is an Insidious Plot. Now is the explanation for why all the bohemian ladies in her bohemian neighborhood are suddenly becoming pregnant. She wouldn't be surprised if these cozy-looking cans are spiked with female hormones. They are luring all those bohemian girls back into the kitchen, and motherhood, and cookie-baking. "Come back to the times of flowery aprons and bright-red lipstick," they seem to be saying.
So have no fear; the canned-goods industry is making certain, all unbeknownst to Independent Thinkers, that Western Civilization carries on, and is not swamped by the infidel hordes.
Pretty Lady sleeps better at night, knowing that the capitalist powers that be have our future so well in hand.
Posted by Pretty Lady at 12:39 PM 10 comments Links to this post
Oh, for goodness' sake
Pretty Lady is ashamed of you people. She just had a glance at today's Site Meter statistics, and she is wryly unsurprised to note that the vast majority of you are not interested in her Mind. No, the subtleties of wit, insight, holiness and bizarre esoteric speculations are as nothing, it seems, to the hopes of catching a glimpse of a Pretty Lady in a tank top.
One would think that all you people would have to do is stroll down any Manhattan sidewalk in the summertime, to discover a surfeit of this sort of thing. Is this Desperation, or Sheer Greed?
Nevertheless, one has a duty to one's fans.
Have a lovely weekend. Hmph.
The Big Transformation
Pretty Lady is thrilled to report that, due to the recent arrival of some heirlooms from her dear departed aunt, she is tiptoeing into the semblance of living a Grown-Up Lifestyle. She is no longer using plastic storage boxes as furniture in her living room.
In the right-hand side of the frame, we see both the new drop-leaf end table with Queen Anne legs (Pretty Lady had to ask her mother to define a Queen Anne leg, not being a connoiseur of antique furniture) and the Oriental rug from her great-grandmother. Pretty Lady was thrilled by the fact that the colors all came together like that.
(And yes, that is a Flying Pig in the upper left. Pretty Lady is inordinately proud of it.)
To counterbalance and complement the pink and blue florality of the new floor-rug, she hung some new artwork that has a bit of an Edge to it, while picking up some of the major color themes.
The resultant aesthetic, Pretty Lady feels, is cooler, less cluttered, and more cohesive. Compared to the riot of orange, green, gold, red, burgundy, and blue that was there before, of course. The only remaining source of angst is that horrible industrial gray carpet, but one must learn to live with small distractions, until one becomes sufficiently well-off to tell Phil the Neanderthal where to stuff his rent-increase without a lease. Hmph.
How to Be Low-Maintenance
Darlings, Pretty Lady humbly apologizes for neglecting you. The truth is, the time simply got away from her, what with the heat, the Memorial Day barbecue, the roses at the Botanical garden, and lazing around with her new Gentleman Friend. But from what she gathers by the sparse state of her comment threads, most of you are similarly, and she hopes happily, occupied.
Pretty Lady and her Gentleman Friend do not make careers out of slacking, however, and the stress of so much mutual lazing did threaten to set the two of them into Limbo, at one point. Especially in the early stages of a new friendship, a person tends to forget that life is not all about sitting around and engaging in witty repartee, rather like a sitcom. Once the Intense Discussions began to seem a bit forced, Pretty Lady could feel that the next words hovering in the air might well have been, 'well, this has been nice. Let's move along, now.'
Fortunately Pretty Lady came to her senses in time, and the next time the G.F. called and suggested an evening of more purposeless Hanging Out, she declared, 'I really do have to get some work done. How about you bring along those pesky tax papers or something?'
The G.F. understood at once. 'Ah, the Mutual Ignore!' he enthused. 'I'll be right along.' Twenty points were awarded to the G.F. on the spot.
This may shock a few of you, but Pretty Lady has not always had friends who were as understanding and accommodating as this. Some of the most memorable knock-down drag-out fights of her career were precipitated by the fact that she had had the temerity to fall asleep in someone's company--not in the middle of a meal or anything, but during the hours when a person normally sleeps, after working long hours, or running the Bay to Breakers. Pretty Lady puts this down, in large part, to the fact of Spoiling, and Only Children, and the notion that whenever two people are occupying proximate spaces, their attention must be focussed exclusively upon one another.
Pretty Lady suffers from no such delusion, having shared a bedroom with a most beloved sibling for all of sixteen years. Under these circumstances, if both parties are Sensitive, and if long-term harmony is to be maintained, it is utterly necessary to cultivate the tactic of erecting invisible Privacy Shields around one's person. When a person shares a bedroom, overweening self-consciousness is an unaffordable liability.
(Horrors! Pretty Lady must share with you the fact that when she just typed the word 'unaffordable,' the Blogger Spell-Check underlined it in red. Perplexed, she Googled 'unaffordable' and discovered that as she thought, it is spelled 'unaffordable' and not 'unaffordible,' as Blogger would have it. What is the world coming to!)
In latter years, Pretty Lady has found that what makes her happiest, in a sustainable daily-life sort of way, is if she knows there is somebody she is fond of in the semi-near vicinity, working happily away at a project which does not involve Pretty Lady. Then Pretty Lady can occupy herself with one of the four or five or six ongoing projects with which she is concerned, and every now and then pause in order to consume a meal, and chat in a desultory, low-pressure manner. She does not thrive on chaos; what she likes is a quiet, constant hum. This makes her feel both unisolated and undistracted; it helps her to focus, and not slack off.
That is why it has so shocked her in the past, when she got to know somebody, got fond of them, and proceeded to show her fondness by attempting to hang out with them in companionable, industrious silence--and this person responded by throwing a hissy fit. She clearly recalls several conversations with a then-boyfriend, who was on the brink of becoming a Psycho Stalker, wherein he declared, very very late at night on a work day, "It's really rude of you to go to sleep like that. And would you put down your sewing while we're talking?" Or the hostess who could not endure the fact of her friend sitting at the opposite end of the room, reading a book, while she performed her Pilates routine. 'Would you go somewhere else?' she demanded. 'I can't have anyone around while I'm working out.'
(Gracious, one would have thought that she was doing something sexually perverted or something. One wonders how she managed to endure the shame of taking all those dance lessons.)
Pretty Lady feels that such persons are setting themselves up for an exceedingly neurotic existence. It is simply not practical to run one's life under the assumption that if there are other people in the vicinity, all of you are On Stage, and must perform accordingly.
This has nothing to do with the need for Basic Courtesy; one hopes that the tenets of such are not so unendurably constricting as to absolutely require total solitude for many many hours every day, simply in order to function. And it must be stressed that Pretty Lady is not at all a fan of Gossiping, Chaotic work environments; if the person at the next desk insists upon blasting offensive music, engaging in offensive conversation, or repeatedly interrupting her work, that person must be Suppressed.
So, for those of you recovering neurotics who would like to experiment with the Mutual Ignore as a daily lifestyle, Pretty Lady has a few pointers.
1) The Mutual Ignore is mostly mental. It is not control of physical space we are after; it is the cultivation of a State of Mind.
2) This State of Mind involves two basic assumptions: a) that the other person in the vicinity does not expect anything specific of you in an ongoing way (except for the abovementioned Basic Courtesy) and b) that this non-expectation is mutual.
This may seem simple. However, a person must have a base line of inner centeredness to perform it. If a person is incapable of understanding the basic tenets of the Mutual Ignore, it is highly likely that this person likewise does not understand personal boundaries. Either they habitually make the other person's business their business, or they expect that all people around them must be consumingly occupied with their affairs.
It is Pretty Lady's draconian, experiential opinion that these sorts of people must be ejected from her life, so that she can get some work done.
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Small-town newspaper defends trans students
Matt Comer	in Analysis and Commentary	| November 30, 2015
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Matt Comer is a community-minded civic journalist & LGBTQ thinker. A native of Winston-Salem, N.C., he now lives in Charlotte. Read his full biography.
Matt Comer in Analysis and Commentary	| November 30, 2015
North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory caused a splash last week when he went on the political attack against gubernatorial opponent Roy Cooper. The bait? Transgender students and their use of restrooms.
Cooper didn't bite. He stood his ground, told McCrory he wouldn't meddle in students' lives, and had his campaign call out McCrory's actions for exactly what they were: an attack on kids.
"Last week, Gov. McCrory was raising money off people fleeing terror but skipped out on an important security briefing. This week, he's found another group to politicize," Cooper spokesperson Jamal Little said in a statement. "Adolescence is hard enough without being bullied by an elected official. Next week, who knows who'll be the target of a governor whose only path to re-election is dividing North Carolina."
And even in small-town North Carolina, trans kids are finding new allies.
The daily paper in Rockingham, N.C., a small town of about 9,000 in the state's southern Piedmont, is standing up against the governor's bullying.
The editorial board of the Richmond County Daily Journal wrote an editorial entitled "McCrory sides with busybodies on transgender bathroom ban" on Nov. 27:
What's so conservative about big-government bathroom bans?
We sure wish Gov. Pat McCrory would explain it to us. Only a nanny state bent on meddling in our private lives, after all, could produce such petty tyranny.
McCrory's argument remains ideologically inconsistent.
Government overreach is bad whether it comes from Capitol Hill or City Hall. Local elected officials can trample personal freedom just as easily as the feds. And that's exactly what's happening in Virginia.
Grimm isn't asking for favoritism or special treatment.
"All I want to do is be a normal child and use the restroom in peace," Grimm said.
Grimm wants the government to leave him alone. That's something true defenders of liberty should understand.
Instead, McCrory is spending taxpayer money to support busybody bathroom bouncers.
Since the defeat of LGBT-inclusive non-discrimination ordinances in Houston, LGBT advocates have been fraught by questions on how best to move forward and guarantee full inclusion for our community, especially our trans siblings. The answer is simple, and the Rockingham paper's editorial is a good example — the editorial directors there clearly saw the student in question as a full person, guaranteed dignity and equality.
When we're able to share our trans siblings' full stories, introduce them to their cisgender neighbors and allow them the space and resources to shape their own narratives to the broader public, we'll see better changes. From small towns like Rockingham to big global cities like Houston, this movement is inevitable. How fast we get there, though, will depend on how quickly our LGBT leaders and advocacy organizations adopt these new strategies.
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I am a community-minded civic journalist and thinker. A native of Winston-Salem, N.C., I currently live in Charlotte.


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Q: The remote server returned an error: NotFound WCF Service Windows Phone 8, Windows 8 + updates 64 bit, VS 2012. Running VS2012 as an admin
I have created a WCF service. Code on the service:
    [OperationContract]
    Object GetCustomersObject();

Implementation code
    public Object GetCustomersObject()
    {
        object c = DataContext.Customers;
        return c;
    }

I then Add a New Website to my application and configure the Service.svc file to point to the contract etc. Run it in a web browser and can see the WSDL.
I then test it using the WCFTestClient utility but i can connect to all the methods except for the one above as it does not support an Object.
I now create a Win Phone 8 project and connect to the service i then get the error "An exception of type 'System.ServiceModel.CommunicationException' occurred in System.ServiceModel.ni.dll but was not handled in user code"
expanding the exception i notice the message is The remote server returned an error: NotFound.. I then follow the steps found at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windowsphone/develop/jj684580(v=vs.105).aspx since i am running IIS under VS i dont follow instructions for anything else (that is i add an entry to the config as suggested and open the firewall port, delete the existing service and readd it after shutting down the IIS service).
I still get the same error. So i delete the service and re-add it using the IP, machine name and whichever ive used still gives the same error.
I have also tried to turn the Windows Firewall service off to eliminate it being a firewall issue and same problem remains.
Im lost as to what else i could try?

A: Sadly, "NotFound" does not mean that the service was actually not found. It's IIS' way to tell you "something failed".
Most likely, the failure occurs because you don't have a KnownType or ServiceKnownType attribute on your service or service interface although you need one.
The serializer of WCF is not omniscient. It looks at your function signature and serializes exactly that. Your signature says you return an object. Returning anything but null or new object() will irritate the serializer and make your service call fail. If you want to serialize something that is not a basic framework type and is not visible from the methods signature, you need to put a KnownType attribute with that type on your service class or a ServiceKnownType attribute on your interface to let the DataContractSerializer know what's coming.
Example:
[ServiceContract]
[ServiceKnownType(typeof(YourCustomer))]
public interface IYourService
{
    [OperationContract]
    Object GetCustomersObject();
}

A: You typically see a CommunicationException because the app can't find the web service at localhost.
Here is the solution for the same it might work
https://msdn.microsoft.com/library/windows/apps/jj684580%28v=vs.105%29.aspx

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Construction of the roundabout project at the intersection of Rio Grande Boulevard and Candelaria Road is estimated to cost $1,912,510.80. The majority of the cost is being paid for by federal funds, but there is also some local funding.
Before construction on the roundabout can begin, major utilities have to be relocated. PNM began relocating their lines on Feb. 4, 2019 and was mostly finished by Feb. 15, 2019. The Water Authority has to relocate three waterlines, including a 24-inch transmission line, and replace some valves. This work began February 22, 2019. This work will require the intersection of Rio Grande and Candelaria to be closed through early to mid April 2019. There will be an additional three to four weeks of work that will require partial closures of the intersection. After that time, we will announce a construction start date and duration for the roundabout.
The Rio Grande Complete Street Test Project was completed in the fall of 2017.


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Arctic: Hottest Temperature Ever Recorded As Climate Crisis Intensifies
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By Green Queen Team	 Published on Jun 30, 2020 Last updated Jun 30, 2020
By: Jeff Berardelli
Alarming heat scorched Siberia on Saturday as the small town of Verkhoyansk (67.5°N latitude) reached 100.4 degrees Fahrenheit, 32 degrees above the normal high temperature. If verified, this is likely the hottest temperature ever recorded in Siberia and also the hottest temperature ever recorded north of the Arctic Circle, which begins at 66.5°N.
The town is 3,000 miles east of Moscow and further north than even Fairbanks, Alaska. On Friday, the city of Caribou, Maine, tied an all-time record at 96 degrees Fahrenheit and was once again well into the 90s on Saturday. To put this into perspective, the city of Miami, Florida, has only reached 100 degrees one time since the city began keeping temperature records in 1896.
So it goes – anomalous (even record-breaking: https://t.co/DlEH9RdRkF) warmth continues in parts of Siberia (shifted a bit to the east)… 🔥
[Map from https://t.co/3ktgI4YE1j] pic.twitter.com/OlkaK8Cofj
— Zack Labe (@ZLabe) June 20, 2020
Verkhoyansk is typically one of the coldest spots on Earth. This past November, the area reached nearly 60 degrees Fahrenheit below zero, one of the first spots to drop that low in the winter of 2019-2020. The scene below is certainly more characteristic of eastern Siberia.
В поисках холода 🥶🦌. Экспедиция "Покорители холода" замеряет температуру🌡-50😮 . Фото @natbelyakova #dailygrind of #deerfarmer / #meteorologist: today we fix around -50'C. The most cold places are along the river, in the basin @cold_conquerors #coldconquerors #покорителихолода . #sakhalife #полюсхолода #холод #Якутия
A post shared by SakhaLife (@sakhalife.ru) on Jan 20, 2020 at 4:49pm PST
Reaching 100 degrees in or near the Arctic is almost unheard of. Although the reading is questionable, back in 1915 the town of Fort Yukon, Alaska, not quite as far north as Verkhoyansk, is reported to have reached near 100 degrees. And in 2010 a town a few miles south of the Arctic circle in Russia reached 100.
As a result of the hot-dry conditions right now, numerous fires rage nearby, and smoke is visible for thousands of miles on satellite images.
Verkhoyansk, Russia at 67.57 north has reported an incredible maximum temperature today of 38.0 C
If verified, this is not only a record for the station but also the highest temperature ever observed north of the Arctic Circle. @AssaadRazzouk pic.twitter.com/XEPqdFh4Mg
— Kilkenny Weather (@kilkennyweather) June 20, 2020
This heat is not an isolated occurrence. Parts of Siberia have been sizzling for weeks and running remarkably above normal since January. May featured astonishing warmth in western Siberia, where some locales were 18 degrees Fahrenheit above normal, not just for a day, but for the month. As a whole, western Siberia averaged 10 degrees above normal for May, obliterating anything previously experienced.
On May 23, the Siberian town of Khatanga, far north of the Arctic Circle, hit 78 degrees Fahrenheit. This was 46 degrees above normal and shattered the previous record by a virtually unheard-of 22 degrees. On June 9, Nizhnyaya Pesha, an area 900 miles northeast of Moscow, near the Arctic Ocean's Barents Sea, hit a sweltering 86 degrees Fahrenheit, a staggering 30 degrees above normal.
What's perhaps even more impressive is that this relative warmth has persisted since December, with average temperatures in western Siberia 10 degrees Fahrenheit above normal — doubling the previous departure from average in 2016.
Source: ECMWF
The average heat across Russia from January to May is so remarkable that it matches what's projected to be normal by the year 2100 if current trends in heat-trapping carbon emissions continue. In the image below, the data point for 2020 is almost off the charts, and matches what climate models expect to be typical many decades from now.
The extreme events of recent years are due to a combination of natural weather patterns and human-caused climate change. The weather pattern giving rise to this heat wave is an incredibly stubborn ridge of high pressure; a dome of heat which extends vertically upward through the atmosphere. The sweltering heat is forecast to remain in place for at least the next week, catapulting temperatures easily into the 90s in eastern Siberia.
We are in a relentless Arctic #heatwave – Siberia is literally on fire right now and it's set to continue.
Temperatures will comfortably exceed + 30 °C within the Arctic Circle over the next 10 days at least. It is a staggering + 20-25 °C warmer than it should be…
[THREAD] pic.twitter.com/J9opJLIaIw
— Scott From Scotland (@ScottDuncanWX) June 19, 2020
But this heat wave can not be viewed as an isolated weather pattern. Last summer, the town of Markusvinsa, a village in northern Sweden on the southern edge of the Arctic Circle, hit 94.6°F. Warming and drying of the landscape is leading to unprecedented Arctic fires, with the summer of 2019 being the worst fire season on record.
Due to heat trapping greenhouse gases that result from the burning of fossil fuels and feedback loops, the Arctic is warming at more than two times the average rate of the globe. This phenomenon is known as Arctic Amplification, which is leading to the decline of sea ice, and in some cases snow cover, due to rapidly warming temperatures.
Over the past four decades, sea ice volume has decreased by 50%. The lack of white ice, and corresponding increase in dark ocean and land areas, means less light is reflected and more is absorbed, creating a feedback loop and heating the area disproportionately.
As the average climate continues to heat up, extremes like the current heat wave will become more frequent and intensify. Scientists say there is only one way to dampen the impact of climate change and that is to stop burning fossil fuels.
This story was originally published in CBS News and is republished here as part of Covering Climate Now, a global journalism collaboration strengthening coverage of the climate story.
Lead image courtesy of PA.
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After four years of dedicated work, Bolden reached — then surpassed — her goal weight of 160, hitting the 139 mark in 2015. Now she and her nephew are active and healthy, truncating the cycle of obesity and obesity-related illness in her branch of the family tree.
You mention that other relatives succumbed to obesity related illnesses. Can you expand on that?
Besides my cousin, my grandfather lost a battle with prostate cancer, a year later an aunt died from hypertension, my uncle had a heart attack, another aunt died from lung cancer, and many of my aunts and younger sister have diabetes and/or high blood pressure.
Did you ever play any sports?
I played softball during the season but was allowed to eat whatever I wanted after games so I wasn't in shape at all.
Not really in the beginning. They didn't understand the importance of getting healthy. But now they do!
What is one of your new favorite healthy foods?
I have a thing for this kale salad that is sold at Kroger and I add cucumber, strawberries, cheese and black pepper. The new OPA Greek yogurt is amazing — fast and easy for me to take to work.
I currently like training my back because it was once an area that I didn't care much about, but now I have a great interest in developing it. I like to do shrugs.
Try to fall in love with drinking water.
Veggies and lean meats need to be on the menu.
Get the nutrition in order because without it you won't make any progress.
Cardio needs to be implemented and keep your heart rate pumping.
I can honestly say I LOVE working out and encouraging others though my Facebook and Instagram (training4mylife). I don't have time to exercise, I MAKE time to exercise. It's a pleasure to see people write me and say that I inspired them to make that healthy change! I figure this is just the beginning and I'm ready for the things to come. I hope my story inspires someone and encourages them to stay on track!


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Q: jQuery selectors not working inside AngularJS ng-view directive If I put this:
<button type="button" class="btn btn-info" data-toggle="tooltip" data-placement="top" title="Tooltip on top">
  Tooltip on top
</button>

Inside the index.html file, just between the <body> tags, it works -
I got the tooltip shown as it should be.
But If i put the same thing in a directive of ng-view - like this:
<div ng-view></div>

The button is shown but the tooltip is not get fired.
The ng-view contains another html template file, using the ngRoute module which contains the <button> tag as specified above.
It seems like jQuery cannot select elements that are located inside the AngularJS ng-view directive.
How could this be solved?

A: jQuery can and does select the button. However, AngularJS's digest loop is likely removing the tooltip content from the DOM. Outside of the element that hosts the AngularJS application, this does not apply (no pun intended). Furthermore tooltips popovers are added asynchronously.
To make AngularJS recognize the change
import $ from 'jquery';
import 'bootstrap';
import angular from 'angular';

run.$inject = ["$scope"];
function run($scope) {
  const tooltippedElements = $('[data-toggle="tooltip"]');
  tooltippedElements.on('hidden.bs.tooltip', onShownOrHidden);

  tooltippedElements.on('shown.bs.tooltip', onShownOrHidden);

  function onShownOrHidden() {
    if (!$scope.$phase()) {
      $scope.$apply();
    }
  }
}

angular
  .module('app', [])
  .run(run);

But instead of going through all of thirs trouble, use
 angular-ui-bootstrap or something similar.

A: I have found the answer:
jQuery selectors, like $('[data-toggle="tooltip"]').tooltip(); are getting actioned before ng-view is getting actioned.
Therefore tooltip selector is trying to select an element which is not already been loaded to the DOM.
The solution for this problem, is simple:

*

*Include jQuery before AngularJS scripts in the index.html file (at the end of the body tag).

*Add ng-if directive to each jQuery script that has selectors (but not to the main jQuery file), like this:
<script src="assets/js/scripts.rtl.js" ng-if="initSrc"></script>

*Set $rootScope.initSrc=true after any directive/component is loaded.

All of the jQuery functions will be working properly.


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Q: Accessing Function of BLL in Presentation layer I have created an Application where user can Register himself and after Registration he navigate to Home Page.I am doing this in MVC3 but by converting it into 3Tier.For this i have named the Original Project as Presentation and made the DAL and Added the Model Folder and DbContext as well into that and Deleted the Model From the Presentation.And now i have to create BLL where i want to write all the Logic for Insert,Delete and Update and want to access it in My Controller which is in My Presentation.How can i do this?
Please Guide me on this!!!

A: Seems like you are asking us to rewrite your whole solution for you?
There are many starter kits online that give you a hint on how to get things done.  There are many different ways to achieve the same result.  I'll give you a brief outline of how I do things.
For this example I will make reference to customers, you can modify it to fit in with your solution.
I have a solution called MyProject.DomainModel.  In this project I have my customer class:
public class Customer
{
     public int Id { get; set; }

     public string FirstName { get; set; }

     public string LastName { get; set; }

     public int Age { get; set; }
}

I have a project called MyProject.EntityFramework.  Here I have all my repository classes.  Example of a customer repository method:
public IEnumerable<Customer> FindAll()
{
     return DatabaseContext.Customers;
}

I then have another project called MyProject.Services.  A customer service would call your customer repository.  A service layer isn't allows needed but when I need some logic or need to call other repositories then I use a service layer.  This is how I would call a repository method from the service layer:
public interface ICustomerService
{
     IEnumerable<Customer> FindAll();
}

public class CustomerService : ICustomerService
{
     private readonly ICustomerRepository customerRepository;

     public CustomerService(ICustomerRepository customerRepository)
     {
          this.customerRepository = customerRepository;
     }

     public IEnumerable<Customer> FindAll()
     {
          return customerRepository.FindAll();
     }
}

You will see that the CustomerService constructor receives an instance of ICustomerRepository.  This is taken care of by a dependency injection framework like Autofac.
In your controller you will have a List action method that has a List view to display all your customers:
public class CustomerController : Controller
{
     private readonly ICustomerService customerService;

     public CustomerController(ICustomerService customerService)
     {
          this.customerService = customerService;
     }

     public ActionResult List()
     {
          IEnumerable<Customer> customers = customerService.FindAll();

          return View(customers);
     }
}

There is much more to it than this.  You will have to download some starter kits online and work through it to get you on the right path.  What I have given is just a general outline.
I hope this helps.


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This handy calendar of national days in May will give you a quick look at the month to find out how to celebrate your favorite national days with crafts ideas, food and drink recipes, plus some suggestions for activities.
Each time I cover a new and fun national day about May on the blog, I add new links to the list below, to gives you new ideas for ways to celebrate these days.
The list of important days in May is long this month. With the weather really being warm throughout the US, it gives us lots of opportunities for something related the the outdoors to become a national day.
May is the fifth month of the year in our calendar. In the Northern Hemisphere, it is getting close to the end of spring, but in the Southern hemisphere it is associated with autumn.
The name of the month comes from the word Maius. It is associated with Maia, the goddess of spring and growth.
May is National BBQ month, which is apt, since Memorial Day falls at the end of the month and many of us barbecue on this day. It is also National Hamburger Month, National Strawberry Month and National Salsa Month.
But don't stop these activities, with all these other fun and unusual holidays, there is more than just outdoor eating to celebrate this month.
For more about the Food days in May, be sure to check out this post. It gives lots of ideas for ways to celebrate.
The month of May has arrived, so let's catch up with a few facts about this month where we honor our Moms.
The birthstone of May is the emerald and the birth flowers for May are lily of the valley and hawthorne.
Taurus (the bull) is the zodiac sign of May until the 20th, then Gemini (the Twins) is the sign from May 21 on.
It was once considered bad luck to be married in May. There was even a saying "Marry in May and you'll rue the day".
The Indianapolis 500 car race is held each year in May.
Be sure to go to the Kentucky Derby on the 1st Saturday of May.
The Catholic Church celebrates the Virgin Mary in May each year.
Hand made May baskets with candy goodies used to be delivered to friends on May 1st but this is not such a common custom now.
The Empire State Building was officially dedicated on May 1, 1931.
The first Saturday in May is known as naked gardening day!
The calendar below a list of May national days, day by day. Some of these days have links to pages on my site where you can find more information about that interesting and fun national day. I add to this page each week with new links and fun facts about your favorite national day, so be sure to check back often for new ideas.
There seem to be more special days in May that in the other months. From May Day on May 1 to Mother's Day on the second Sunday in May, there are dozens of days to celebrate this month.
We even celebrate dinosaur day and National Truffle day in the first part of the month.
Here we are half way through the month, already! Has your favorite national day been listed yet? Don't give up. We have lots more fun national days coming up in May. How about National Rescue Dog Day or No Dirty Dishes Day? Both are still to come!
Need More Inspiration for National Days?
Which are your favorite national day of May?
For next month's calendar of National Days of June, check out this page.


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Tories send private voter data to offshore radio station
Iain Dale's touting his new weekly slot on Telegraph TV:
This is the first episode of DALE'S TOURS, my new weekly slot for TELEGRAPH TV, in which I go round the country talking to Tory activists, councillors and candidates. It's part of the RIGHT ON programme. This week I talked to Donald Potter, chairman of Crewe & Nantwich Conservatives.
Really, Iain – and did you manage to ask him how exactly his campaign team managed to send the names, addresses, telephone numbers, financial status and voting intentions of more than 8,000 local electors to a radio station on the Isle of Man:
The Information Commissioner is launching an investigation after the Conservatives accidentally sent details of 8,000 people to a radio station.
The e-mail sent contained the names, addresses, telephone numbers and intentions of voters in the Crewe and Nantwich by-election.
Deputy Information Commissioner David Smith said the disclosure, to Manx Radio, raised "serious concern".
The Conservatives admitted a "mistake" had been made.
What my sources are telling me, but which the Beeb either don't know or haven't seen fit to publish, is that the information was contained in a total of six unprotected Microsoft Excel data files attached to an unencrypted e-mail and that its believed that this information, which reached the radio station in error, may have been intended for delivery to an offshore call centre.
It is also believed to be the case that the 8,000 voters, whose information the Tories 'misplaced', were not made aware in advance that their personal data could be sent offshore for processing.
An inquiry into the Tory's blunder is now under way and will be conducted by the Office of the Information Commissioner.
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Justus Sheffield on his New York Yankees debut; 5 things to watch Thursday vs. Red Sox
Sheffield quickly turned to hug catcher Gary Sanchez in relief, and was given the baseball that ended the Yankees' 10-1 win.
Justus Sheffield on his New York Yankees debut; 5 things to watch Thursday vs. Red Sox Sheffield quickly turned to hug catcher Gary Sanchez in relief, and was given the baseball that ended the Yankees' 10-1 win. Check out this story on northjersey.com: https://njersy.co/2NqRuM4
Pete Caldera, MLB writer Published 6:50 a.m. ET Sept. 20, 2018 | Updated 5:12 p.m. ET Sept. 20, 2018
New York Yankees beat Boston Red Sox at the Stadium
New York Yankees' Neil Walker, right, celebrates with Aaron Hicks (31) after hitting a three-run home run off Boston Red Sox relief pitcher Ryan Brasier during the seventh inning of a baseball game Tuesday, Sept. 18, 2018, in New York. Red Sox catcher Christian Vazquez is at right. Julio Cortez, AP
New York Yankees starting pitcher J.A. Happ reacts after striking out Boston Red Sox's Brock Holt for the third out in the sixth inning of a baseball game Tuesday, Sept. 18, 2018, in New York. Julio Cortez, AP
Sep 18, 2018; Bronx, NY, USA; New York Yankees catcher Gary Sanchez (24) and relief pitcher Zach Britton (53) celebrate after defeating the Boston Red Sox at Yankee Stadium. Brad Penner-USA TODAY Sports
New York Yankees first baseman Neil Walker (14) reacts after hitting a three run home run against the Boston Red Sox during the seventh inning at Yankee Stadium. Brad Penner, Brad Penner-USA TODAY Sports
Boston Red Sox relief pitcher Ryan Brasier reacts after giving up a three-run home run to New York Yankees' Neil Walker during the seventh inning of a baseball game Tuesday, Sept. 18, 2018, in New York. Julio Cortez, AP
New York Yankees' Neil Walker is congratulated by teammates after hitting a three-run home run off Boston Red Sox relief pitcher Ryan Brasier during the seventh inning of a baseball game Tuesday, Sept. 18, 2018, in New York. Julio Cortez, AP
New York Yankees' Aaron Hicks, second from right, and Gary Sanchez, center, wait to greet Neil Walker (14), who passes Boston Red Sox catcher Christian Vazquez after hitting a three-run home run during the seventh inning of a baseball game Tuesday, Sept. 18, 2018, in New York. Frank Franklin II, AP
Sep 18, 2018; Bronx, NY, USA; New York Yankees right fielder Aaron Judge (99) reacts after striking out against the Boston Red Sox during the eighth inning at Yankee Stadium. Brad Penner-USA TODAY Sports
New York Yankees starting pitcher J.A. Happ (34) talks to catcher Gary Sanchez during the third inning of the team's baseball game against the Boston Red Sox on Tuesday, Sept. 18, 2018, in New York. Frank Franklin II, AP
Boston Red Sox's Tzu-Wei Lin, left, checks on New York Yankees shortstop Gleyber Torres after they collided at second base on a throw from Yankees relief pitcher Zach Britton during the ninth inning of a baseball game Tuesday, Sept. 18, 2018, in New York. The Yankees won 3-2. Julio Cortez, AP
New York Yankees first baseman Neil Walker stretches for the ball at first base on a throw from catcher Gary Sanchez after a dropped third strike on an at-bat by Boston Red Sox's Brandon Phillips during the ninth inning of a baseball game, Tuesday, Sept. 18, 2018, in New York. The Yankees won 3-2. Julio Cortez, AP
Boston Red Sox's Brock Holt advances to third base on an error by New York Yankees' Gleyber Torres (25) during the ninth inning of a baseball game Tuesday, Sept. 18, 2018, in New York. The Yankees won 3-2. Frank Franklin II, AP
Sep 18, 2018; Bronx, NY, USA; New York Yankees shortstop Gleyber Torres (25) forces out Boston Red Sox pinch runner Blake Swihart (23) at second and throws to first base to complete a game ending double play on a ball hit by Boston Red Sox second baseman Ian Kinsler (not pictured) during the ninth inning at Yankee Stadium. Brad Penner-USA TODAY Sports
New York Yankees shortstop Gleyber Torres (25) reacts after hitting a double against the Boston Red Sox during the sixth inning at Yankee Stadium. Brad Penner, Brad Penner-USA TODAY Sports
New York Yankees starting pitcher J.A. Happ, right, talks to home plate umpire Chad Fairchild during the third inning of the team's baseball game against the Boston Red Sox, Tuesday, Sept. 18, 2018, in New York. Julio Cortez, AP
Justus Sheffield(Photo: Reinhold Matay, USA TODAY Sports)
NEW YORK – Justus Sheffield's big-league debut occurred in Wednesday's ninth inning, with a nine-run lead — as soft of an opening as possible, even against the 103-win Red Sox.
Yet, it's no surprise to hear that Sheffield was battling first-time jitters more than Boston's lineup.
"My legs were like Jello,'' said Sheffield, describing the moment he jogged out of the Yankees' bullpen and into the game at Yankee Stadium.
And here's the thought that consumed him most: "Don't trip running to the mound, just don't trip.''
After loading the bases, the left-handed Sheffield watched fellow Tennessean Mookie Betts blast a home run-distance foul ball before getting him to ground into a game-ending double play.
As a starter new to such appearances until this month, Sheffield said his first reaction was to head to the dugout. But he quickly turned to hug catcher Gary Sanchez in relief, and was given the baseball that ended the Yankees' 10-1 win.
Now, here's five things to look for on Thursday:
Tanaka's time
The Yankees will attempt to secure a three-game sweep, preventing Boston from clinching the AL East in the Bronx.
And the Yanks will send their hottest starting pitcher to the mound in Masahiro Tanaka, who is 3-0 in three September starts and is riding a 20-inning scoreless streak.
Tanaka, who might now be the leading candidate to start the Oct. 3 wild card game, will be pitching on one extra day of rest.
Yankees' slugger Aaron Judge tracks pitches during Masahiro Tanaka's bullpen session at Oakland. Pete Caldera, Staff Writer, @pcaldera
After a two-day delay, the Radio Voice of the Yankees, John Sterling, will move into the Red Sox's WEEI booth for Thursday night's fourth inning, while Boston's Joe Castiglione will join Suzyn Waldman on WFAN.
The exchange was originally scheduled to occur during Tuesday afternoon's game, but was postponed when the game was switched to a night game due to inclement weather.
How about, "Mookie! Hits a cookie! You Betts he got all of that one…''
Right, forget it.
Homer happy
With their next team home run, the Yankees will surpass the franchise single-season record of 245, set in 2012 and tied with three homers — two by Luke Voit — on Wednesday night.
Another Voit home run would give him 10 for the year and establish a new MLB record – with 12 players reaching double digits in homers in a single season.
Also, Voit had the Yankees' 23rd individual multi-homer game of 2018. One more such game would tie the '61 Yankees and '66 Braves for the most in MLB history. Aaron Judge does not have a multi-homer game this season.
New York Yankees right fielder Andrew McCutchen #26 hits a double against the Toronto Blue Jays during the first inning at Yankee Stadium. (Photo: Adam Hunger/USA TODAY Sports)
Over his last 13 games, Andrew McCutchen has 15 walks — establishing himself as the Yankees' everyday leadoff hitter. McCutchen has also transitioned to left field.
And that has come at a price for Brett Gardner, now that Aaron Judge has returned to the lineup. Gardner wasn't in the lineup for the first two games of the Red Sox series.
Plus, Gardner doesn't seem likely to be in the lineup against left-handed starter Eduardo Rodriguez.
The longest current tenured Yankee, Gardner has a team option for 2019 that, if not exercised, would trigger a buyout and make him a free agent.
Media game
Aaron Boone's club isn't the only New York team going for a sweep of Boston on Thursday.
After taking last month's Media Game at Fenway Park, the New York writers will play their Boston counterparts in a morning contest at Yankee Stadium for a full year's worth of bragging rights (and maybe a free round on the Sox's scribes at Foley's).
ON THE FIELD: Luis Severino goes seven, Luke Voit hits two homers as Yankees beat Boston
PLAYOFF PREP: Yankees learning all they can before potential October showdown against Red Sox
ROSTER MOVES: Aroldis Chapman is activated from DL and back with New York Yankees
PHOTOS: New York Yankees beat Boston Red Sox at the Stadium
How Le'Veon Bell will help the Jets' offense
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modelling – How then should we teach?
The modelling toolkit: 4 essential pieces of kit every teacher should have.
Just like playing football isn't possible without a decent pair of boots and shin pads…great modelling needs a great toolkit! Here's four things I use all the time – is there any you would add?
"Where was the modelling in that lesson?" asked a colleague who observed my teaching in my first few weeks. After she spoke, I searched my brain for an adequate answer to this question and found nothing…I didn't really know what it meant, not in the classroom anyway.


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Do Australian politicians really believe in democracy?
We are regularly told by politicians and community leaders that our system of democracy is not only one of the best in the world but that we should protect it and cherish it.
The idea that we each of us have an equal vote and elect a local MP to represent us is sacrosanct in our public discourse.
So then it's particularly troubling to find that when our MPs and Senators are given an opportunity to support more democratic structures, many of them are silent.
Over the last month Michael West Media has been publishing a series of articles asking MPs and Senators their views on war powers reform.
The politicians were approached individually and asked if they believe that the parliament should decide if Australian troops are sent to another war, rather than the current system whereby the Prime Minister alone can make the call.
Very few are in favour of making this life and death decision more democratic.
Of the twenty six approached so far only seven support a more democratic approach and six of those are independents or from a smaller party.
The two major parties seem to like the current system which allows Scott Morrison alone to take us to war.
So far seven have simply refused to comment. Either they have no opinion or they are too scared to express their real views.
The series, written by journalist Tasha May, is ongoing and many more parliamentarians will be asked to take a position.
But on current trends it's not looking good for democracy and transparency.
So is all this "we love democracy" and "we must cherish our democratic system" real or just lip service?
Have our pollies learnt nothing from our involvement in the disastrous 2003 Iraq invasion, which was essentially decided by one man, John Howard?
Hundreds of thousands of people died in that war and the geopolitical landscape in the Middle East was made much worse.
Two bright spots in the current series of articles comes from unexpected quarters.
Conservative independent MP Bob Katter fully supports war powers reform and made these comments: "The Americans have it right," Mr Katter told Michael West Media. "The President has the right to act in the case of clear and present danger, but beyond clear and present danger, it's up to Congress. In Australia, as in America, the decision should go back to legislature, the parliament."
And one lone Labor MP decided to go against the current party policy and support reform.
WA MP Anne Aly says she supports a change saying Parliament should be consulted and approve before Australian troops are sent into armed conflict abroad.
The ALP has pledged that in its first term of government it would hold an inquiry into how we go to war.
This is a good first step but it doesn't guarantee actual reform.
And finally the thumbs down must go to Labor front bencher Tanya Plibersek and Liberal MP Kevin Andrews.
Plibersek declined to comment and then ignored repeated attempts by the journalist to contact her office.
Andrews took the idea of "no comment" to a new level by refusing to speak to the journalist at all.
Transparency clearly has a long way to go in this country.
For the latest updates on the Michael West series you can follow Tasha May on twitter or visit Michael West Media.
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Perfect match - they look great!
Little leggings are very cute, and a perfect match.
Now I see what the garter stitch pieces were for. I couldn't figure that out the other day. Darling outfit!
Those leggings came together quite nicely! Like the commenter above me, I couldn't figure out the garter stitch pieces either. They make perfect little feet!
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