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Adds Press, "I don't do my own travel or my own laundry." You can also find her at Subway having sandwiches made for the lunches she packs on "more days than I'd like to admit." |
UTA's Ward has a babysitter who helps with homework (she and husband William, a Roar Management founding partner, have two boys, 10 and 9, and a 6-year-old girl) and a housekeeper who gets a meal plan, shops and cooks. "My nanny is very involved," adds CAA's Tracy Brennan (who is a single mother to 6-year-old Dash whil... |
Optimize your technology |
"I marvel how women did this before the Internet," says Brennan, whom you can find in the middle of the night online, signing up her 6-year-old for sports leagues, researching coaches and ordering uniforms and supplies. "If I had to go around town for all this or even had to order it during office hours, it would kill ... |
Brennan fully works the apps on her phone: WAZE, which gives her real-time traffic-avoidance suggestions; and Facetime and Skype, which allow her and Dash to see each other when she's away. As for Jacobson: "I use my technology to organize me." She doesn't procrastinate when it comes to calendaring and works the remind... |
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You don't want to take tech too far |
UTA's Ward never will forget the day years ago that her toddler son came over to her and her phone and asked if he could "play with my work," she remembers. "I was horrified. I realized I couldn't allow the kids to see my phone as an extension of myself." Since then, she doesn't ever let them see her take a call. "I li... |
Jacobson also draws a line. "I try to employ a no-technology rule in the car for them and for me other than listening to audio books or music," she says. "There are significant transgressions, but we try. I love to listen to Radiolab and books on tape." |
Ask for what you need |
Recently, Brennan had to ask her son's teacher if she wouldn't mind starting parent-teacher conferences at 7:30 a.m. instead of 8:30. "She said, 'No problem,' " says Brennan. "People are always willing to help. Women have this reputation for not helping each other, but I've had the opposite experience. There are all th... |
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Actively cultivate the time you do have with the family |
Like other working mothers, Clemens doesn't have the amount of time she wishes she did for her kids, but she does have a system: "We literally make Mommy or Daddy time," she says. Each child gets a half-hour (whenever time allows) to close the door with a parent in the room and do whatever the kid wants. They also make... |
Ward used to think that eating together was crucial and that time like that would prevent the kids from becoming drunks and drug addicts, but she soon learned that she only had the kids for as long as the food interested them. Now she's figured out some diabolical games to keep her young children at the table longer. O... |
Ward also warns not to underestimate the power of a long drive home. "I find the best time to connect with the kids is if you can pick them up once or twice a week. If you're in their face, you get a 'fine' on how things are going. But facing down endless traffic on the 405, not looking you in the eye, that's when they... |
Jacobson does school pickup and drop-off when she's around. "On days they don't have school, they come to the set." |
Make taking care of yourself a non-negotiable |
Clemens recently returned to a sport she loves but had abandoned: show jumping. It didn't make sense that adding a leisure pursuit would help her stay on track or even accomplish more, but now she doesn't question it: "The smartest thing I did this year was go back to riding horses." And while she still rarely gets to ... |
Jacobson loves bicycling but can't manage to do it at home, so she takes her bike on location with her. |
As for self-care, house calls can become a priority. Brennan always remembers that there are hairdressers, manicurists and facialists who will come to her house. "You may have to pay more, and you may not get to have your favorite person anymore, but you have to choose people who are flexible," she says. Brennan also s... |
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Exercise your power of 'no' |
Yes, learn to say no. "Don't forget you're dealing with people who never have heard no," says Press. "It's part of the biggest problem in our culture and our industry that people react to it like it's a racial slur. You have to be able to do say no." |
Family can be a good motivator -- and excuse. "With a baby, you work so much smarter," says Renee Tab, president of Sentient Entertainment who reps filmmakers like David Cronenberg. Tab says she also used her pregnancy to "cleanse" herself of clients who weren't quite what she wanted anymore. "You're just so much more ... |
Accept the things you can't do anymore, says Tab: "I don't have drinks, late meetings or dinners. That's what my 20s were for. Now, I have to be laser-focused and home for dinner." |
Remember to enjoy the small wins |
"There's a feeling like you've gotten away with something if you've heard an entire This American Life," says Jacobson, who also cherishes time to walk the dog. |
Recently, Clemens had a revelation: "One of the things about getting older is that you realize there's no later or 'there,' " she says. "We're 'here.' The list is never going to be checked off. Everything that has to get done will get done. You have to trust your process." And, she adds, trust others: "Everyone around ... |
Tab explains that a fair amount of weighing of professional perceptions against personal realities does occur: "As a woman [in the industry], you have to be concerned about how much you put out there," she says. "But family comes first. If you need to go to the pediatrician appointment, go. I wouldn't announce that I w... |
And now that you've leaned in so hard on the job, you also need to lean in on the guilt, too. "You have to be able to tolerate feeling guilty most of the time," says Jacobson. "You have to sort of accept that it's a part of being able to have both a job and a family you're devoted to." |
Notes Press: "I would love to live in a world where I think I'm a great wife, mother and executive -- in that order. But I guarantee you, it's like a slot machine. You can get two cherries in a day. Three, maybe, but I don't think so. Every day, I pull the arm and hope for the best." |
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Here is my opinion on what basic equipment is necessary to start grooming your poodle yourself. |
Good clippers - Andis, Oster, Wahl are the main choices - I personally do not think that Laube holds up well enough for the money. |
from left right: Andis Super 2 speed, Andis 2 speed, Oster Golden A-5, Oster Finisher/trimmer, Wahl cordless trimmer |
blade wash, lubricating oil, old toothbrushes to sweep the hair out of the blades and a can of compressed air. |
blade wash, spray disinfectant, clipper/blade oil, canned air |
Several clipper blades in varying sizes - a 10 or 15 blade for the face, feet & tail if you are new to clipper work, OR if you have a dog with very sensitive skin that might clipper burn easily. A 3F, 4F, 5F or 7F for the body, depending upon what length you prefer. |
small container for holding blade wash, everyday blade caddy to hold blades as I work, larger case to hold blades back from service or going out to be serviced |
Firm, stable working surface - if not a grooming table, a board with a non-skid bathmat securely fastened to the top of a crate will work also. |
Some sort of dryer - a stand dryer is the best, but the most expensive. A force air works great on shorter coats, but not fabulous for long show coats. In a pinch, a personal hand-held blow dryer will work, but it helps if both hands are free. There are clamps sold in dog supply catalogs that work as a "third ha... |
Pin brushes are used for LONG hair - not necessary on shorter trims |
Slicker brushes - two types are useful - the curved "Universal" style slicker which is good for thick, heavy or slightly matted coats but rough on the skin |
Softer Slicker such as "Ever Gentle", "Warner's", "DoggyMan", etc. These are used for general brushing |
Greyhound style comb |
Pin brushes, slicker brushes & combs |
Canine shampoo and conditioner |
Nail trimmers and Kwik Stop (for the nail that is cut too short and bleeds) |
Ear cleaners and ear powder and hemostats for pulling the hair if you choose to go this route to maintaining ears. |
Scissors - minimum 8" straight when working on a Standard (I prefer 10" and use both straight and curved) |
Conditioning spray to use when brushing long coats (something like Magic Touch-Crown Royal #3) |
OPTIONAL - rubber bands and plastic wrap. It is not necessary to buy expensive color coordinated rubber bands and wraps. You can go to the local beauty supply shop and pick up a bag of 500 bands for under $2.00, and you can use cheap sandwich baggies (twist tie type) to use as wraps. It is also handy to have smaller ba... |
these can be purchased at: |
Grooming Brushing Clipper Blade Info Clipping The Face Clipping The Feet Clipping The Tail Bathing And Drying Lamb Trim ~ Pre-Bath Lamb Trim ~ Finishing Wrapping and Banding The Show Coat |
In contrast to Timothy O'Sullivan's self-portrait, is this portrait of Mathew Brady. Brady started in New York as a jewel case manufacturer in 1843 but by the time the Civil War erupted he was the most-talked about photographer in the country. With glamorous and popular portrait studios in New York and Washington D.C.,... |
It is well known that the photographic process used at the time, called the wet-plate process, limited and determined the way photographs could be made. Photographers used glass plate negatives which were coated with chemicals in order to make them sensitive to light. For a successful exposure however, the chemicals ha... |
Though the process was rushed, it was nonetheless, photographically speaking, relatively long - especially the exposure time. A photographer might expose his glass plate negative to the sun for as much as thirty seconds. Not all exposures were that long, but all were certainly longer than those made with modern day cam... |
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The timing of plate preparation and exposure made images of battle, especially as we think of them today, impossible. Even if a photographer could manage to set up shop close enough to a battle to be able to photograph it, the movement of the scene would result in an indecipherable blur. The size of the portable operat... |
A student in the school of Civil War field photography, O'Sullivan no doubt gained an awareness of and respect for time and learned great patience. Josephine Cobb, a Specialist for the National Archives, brings home to us just how much patience was needed: |
"Often in planning to photograph a significant war scene, the photographer found that no clear site could be discovered where their cameras could be set up, free of protruding branches or foliage. Occasionally a breath of wind, if not a stiff breeze, started up at the instance of exposure, thus ruining the chances of o... |
"Without the cooperation of the commanding officer of a military unit, group photographs and views of men at drill and on the march were not possible for the camera of the 1860s. Thus the photographer must be able to persuade the officer in command of the unit that photographs were desirable at the same time that other... |
"Once the vies were made, there were other possibilities of failure; a bug on the wet collodion before the plate had dried; drops of perspiration settling on the plate within the darkroom tent; floating leaves and other debris in the creek or stream where the photographer washed his plates after their development. And ... |
Cobb's description speaks not only to the patience that must have been required of a good Civil War photographer, but to the commitment as well. O'Sullivan's work in field photography during the war required a level of involvement that bespeaks a commitment to photography and to the war that far transcends a mere finan... |
Traveling with the Army of the Potomac, eating with the mess, O'Sullivan's documentary project was more than mere record making, it was a direct, personal, and comprehensive confrontation with the war. It bespeaks a taste for travel and adventure, a respect for the subject of war, and the photographer's need for direct... |
Look at These Two Pilots Barely Escape DeathS |
This is completely terrifying. These guys were probably about one second from blowing up in a jet fuel fireball, but they managed to eject with only a hair standing between them and oblivion. Barely. |
Photographer Erwin Fuguet Gedde captured the incredible moment at a Venezuelan air show, where the country's air force was celebrating its 92nd birthday. Clearly something went extremely wrong with their Hongdu K-8 Karakorum—a Chinese jet that's not exactly top of the line. The pilots survived the crash, but their hear... |
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It's been five years since Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens, who somehow only faced off eight times in their overlapping forty-six years of playing professional baseball, last stepped onto the field. Both bitterly retired before they believed their time was up. And now the two men find themselves side-by-side again, liste... |
Baseball now has a defined "steroid era," which no longer seems like a derisive term meant to tarnish the period, but rather the best way we can all understand and quarantine it. We now know who took the drugs, we think we know why, and we've mostly forgiven those who have admitted their sins, including All-Stars, Cy Y... |
It's the ones who refuse to come clean we can't stand because, to the American public, it's never the offense that matters as much as the lie. Mark McGwire wasn't willing to "talk about the past," Rafael Palmeiro offered a Clinton-esque finger wag to Congress when he denied doping, and Sammy Sosa, also on the ballot fo... |
But Bonds, who was already a shoe-in for the honor before ever touching the stuff, finally "admitted" last year to being tricked into taking steroids by his trainer and the boys at BALCO; for using the cream and the clear despite not knowing what either one was. He did it at a time when the public was already used to t... |
Much like Palmeiro's finger wag, Clemens's awkward opener in front of Congress in 2008 was the singular moment when we all decided he was guilty. Bonds has his inflated form and the stats to go with it, but he was never forced to testify on camera, and so he doesn't have that "aha" moment for us to point to. He just ha... |
Bonds will get in when baseball has once again wrung its use out of him, like it did during his chase of Hank Aaron's home-run record. He'll get in when sportswriters feel like they've gained control of his legacy, and when they feel like they've beaten down the old ballplayer and won the righteous fight against steroi... |
As for Clemens, he's spent his time since retirement denying his drug use and throwing his best friend, his trainer, and even his wife under every bus he can find. So maybe we'll just let him rot for a while. |
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Ivan the gorilla, who called B&I home for nearly 30 years, dies in Atlanta |
Staff writerAugust 21, 2012 |
Ivan the gorilla, arguably Tacoma’s most famous resident and a much-beloved ambassador for the animal rights movement, died Monday at Atlanta’s zoo. |
The 50-year old silverback gorilla spent most of his life in a steel and concrete cage at the B&I Shopping Center, a circus-themed mall on South Tacoma Way, where he was viewed with a mixture of fascination and pity by a generation of shoppers. |
After an emotional and internationally followed custody dispute in the early 1990s, Ivan was moved to Zoo Atlanta, where he struggled with mixed success to adjust to life with other gorillas. |
Ivan was at an advanced age for gorillas and had been suffering from several physical problems, officials at Atlanta’s zoo said. He died while under general anesthetic for a diagnostic exam. |
“He basically died in his sleep,” said Dr. Hayley Murphy, director of veterinary services at the zoo. |
Ivan’s Facebook page (yes, he has one), filled Tuesday with emotional reminiscences of people who had encountered Ivan as children visiting the B&I. |
Some apologized for teasing him, and many recalled the special inter-species relationship they believed they had established with the gorilla while looking into his eyes through the bars of his cage. |
Ivan and a female companion were captured in 1962 in what’s now the Democratic Republic of Congo when they were about 6 months old. (She died about six months after arriving in Tacoma.) |
Ivan was raised almost as a human child with a Tacoma family who spoon-fed him and had him wear diapers. He was moved to the B&I in 1964, when his weight topped 60 pounds and he became too dangerous as a human companion. Ivan eventually grew to more than 400 pounds. |
The B&I held a contest to name the two gorillas. The rules were that one name had to start with a “B,” one with an “I” and there had to be a girl’s name and a boy’s name. The winner got $500. The winning names were Ivan and Burma. |
Ivan became a symbol for the animal liberation movement in the early 1990s, when the ethical arguments of animal rights philosopher Peter Singer began gaining ground in public opinion. |
The human-raised gorilla’s confinement raised an ethical question, the answer to which now seems obvious but then did not: Was Ivan better off solitary in a concrete cage, cared for by people who knew him and loved him? Or would he be better off in an unfamiliar zoo, where he could spend time outdoors and socialize wit... |
“Freeing” Ivan became a cause célèbre in 1991 after National Geographic featured him in a television special on modern gorilla zoo exhibits – elaborate spaces where gorillas lived in family groups and “natural” surroundings. |
National Geographic used Ivan’s grim cage at the B&I for contrast in its production, pointing out that decades of primate research showed gorillas are social creatures who need the company of their own species and a stimulating environment to live healthy, normal lives. |
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