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Diana Bianchini: Hey GenXers- Stop by Sometime. Top
As a publicist, a thirtysomething, a GenXer and a single woman, I am often contemplating the evolution of communication in the new millennium and how we define relationships nowadays. Us GenXers are a bit of the old and a bit of the new in that, we remember when fax showed up on the scene and our first emails sent. We remember a time before Facebook and social media jargon. We personally have owned over 5 cell phones at least but remember a time without them. A big group of us are products of divorce and have tried our hand in marriage once or even twice and have failed or succeeded. With all of the options to define relationships these days, when do we really know someone? My job as a publicist is to find the best ways to communicate with press, stylists, bloggers, consumers, clients and the world. We, for all intents and purposes, should be the cutting edge communicators. I learned the business of PR with paper rolodexes and hand shakes. We built relationships. Deskside meetings with editors were key (and are still to me) and my press relationships were forged over coffee, cocktails and time spent. You knew people. I knew if they were single, married, kids or no kids, hated pink, knew how to ride motorcycles and more. My professional (and personal) world is on an aggressively evolving roller coaster and there are more ways than ever to communicate with those you need to pitch and stay in touch with. I have a database of over 500 bloggers that I work with regularly and yet have never met. It's marvelous. My industry thrives on every new option of communication. Social media has provided many more wonderful communication platforms professionally and personally for us all. Yet with all the social media avenues and all the new "relationships" we forge everyday online, I always ask the question, who do we really know? On Sunday August 23, 2009 in the New York Times appeared a wonderful Op-Ed piece by Porochista Khakpour entitled, Finally 'Thirtysomething' ? She comically explored the realistic thirtysomething and where we really see ourselves in the world and truly are for that matter. She reminisced on how we grew up, what our realities were and then wrote about how we got to be who we are. She describes the "Thirtysomething" perfectly. "My friends are still all broke, say "whatever" too much, still live in Converses and constant hangovers, still yell at their parents on the phone and two seconds later ask for money and possibly a place to crash, are still deferring college loans and say everything is the new something-else, including the 30s which are the new 20s." I say we are as good as our relationships but these days we can define them in a multitude of ways. Do you know someone if you meet them on Facebook? If you follow them on Twitter, do you feel like you know what they are thinking? Can you fall in love online, on text or on the phone before meeting in person? Our parents could not, but can we? What are our true friendships? GenXers have created all of these new roads of relationships but are we lonelier than any other generation has ever been. GenXers are special. We have the fortune of experience in built friendships that took time to build and are masters of modern day social networking. As we celebrate all the new ways we can build and maintain relationships this GenXer still feels to really know someone I will have to be able to look in to their eyes. I love my new virtual frontier of professional and personal contacts but miss the old school getting to know you. GenXers - I love you, stop by sometime, don't just text, remember how great it can be if you just take the time. You remember. More on Relationships
 
NYT: Dems Need To Push For Majority Vote On Health Care Reform Top
The talk in Washington is that Senate Democrats are preparing to push through health care reforms using parliamentary procedures that will allow a simple majority to prevail in their chamber, as it does in the House, instead of the 60 votes needed to overcome the filibuster that Senate Republicans are sure to mount.
 
Kristof: Existing Health Care System Kills More Than An Army Of "Death Panels" Working 24/7 Top
Critics fret that health care reform would undermine American family values, not least by convening somber death panels to wheel away Grandma as if she were Old Yeller.
 
Cami McCormick, CBS Reporter, Wounded By Bomb In Afghanistan Top
KABUL — A CBS Radio News correspondent was being treated Saturday at Bagram Air Base after being seriously wounded by a roadside bomb in eastern Afghanistan that also killed a U.S. service member, officials said. The U.S. troop death made August the deadliest month of the nearly eight-year war for American forces. The intensified fighting has raised the risk to journalists embedded with the military. Cami McCormick was wounded Friday when the Army vehicle in which she was riding struck a bomb. CBS could not confirm the extent of her injuries, and NATO officials declined to comment, citing privacy regulations. NATO spokesman Capt. Jon Stock confirmed that a U.S. service member died in the blast, bringing to 45 the number of American military personnel killed in August. The military has not given the exact location of the explosion or named the U.S. service member. CBS said it occurred in Logar province, bordering Kabul, and officials there confirmed that a blast had hit a military convoy on Friday. McCormick was first treated at a field hospital, where she was in stable condition after surgery. She was later transported to the Bagram base, north of Kabul, for more treatment. McCormick, 47, is an award-winning New York-based correspondent who has worked for CBS since 1998. President Barack Obama's decision to send 21,000 additional troops to Afghanistan to combat a resurgent Taliban has increased international media attention to the war, coinciding with a rise in troop casualties. At the same time, Taliban militants have increased their reliance on roadside bombs – known as improvised explosive devices. They are now the cause of the majority of Western troop deaths in Afghanistan. Two Associated Press journalists, photographer Emilio Morenatti and videographer Andi Jatmiko, were wounded along with two U.S. soldiers by a bomb in Afghanistan on Aug. 12. ___ Associated Press writer Rahim Faiez contributed to this report.
 
Sybil Adelman Sage: Barbra Streisand Has Reason to Sing the Blues Top
A former boyfriend of Barbra Streisand's has put three, 50-year-old tapes of her singing in his Greenwich Village apartment on the web site, MomentsInTime.com with bids starting at $1 million dollars. Barry Dennen met Streisand in 1959, having taken over for an actor who'd dropped out of an off-off-Broadway production of "The Insect Comedy," a play in which Barbra and Barry both appeared as butterflies. All the fluttering, not surprisingly, led to their becoming lovers, making me curious about whatever happened to the original butterfly who'd been replaced. Whom did he pollinate? Dennen claims he put Streisand on the road to stardom by exposing her to chanteuses and cabaret singers, which, without his assistance, would surely have escaped her notice with all the other distractions of New York City. Details of their relationship are available in a book he wrote in 1997, "My Life With Barbra: A Love Story." According to his web site, "He is currently very active doing voice-overs for vidoe (sic) games, including the voice of FatMan in the hugely successful video game Metal Gear Solid II, and Master Li in the recently-completed Jade Empire." He is planning a new book. My guess: "My Life With Barbra: The Law Suit." Were we all remiss not to have gotten pre-nups, pre-shtups or pre-artistic agreements before we shared our creativity, beds and bodies? This raises the issue of what moral and legal obligations we have to former lovers, particularly those who pre-dated the sexual revolution. Isn't there a statute of limitation on our personal lives? Am I in danger of an old boyfriend writing, "My Life With Sybil: A Love Story?" Will someone claim to have introduced me to "Leave it to Beaver" and, thereby, take credit for my career as a television comedy writer? Will riddles, pissy letters, yearbook inscriptions and autograph books I signed that ended, "2 good, 2 B, 4 Gotten?" be auctioned off? Worse, will I face the embarrassment that the starting price will be considerably less than $1 million?
 
Karen Dalton-Beninato: Between Brad Pitt and a Pitfall: New Orleans 4 Years Later Top
"No more turf wars. All of us need to move forward together, because there is much more work to be done," President Barack Obama 8/29 Katrina Anniversary Radio Address I’m not worried about the music slipping away, I’m worried about the whole city slipping away. Look, if they don’t fix the wetlands, we won’t have a whole southern Louisiana in a few years. Even people from New Orleans don’t know how bad it is down south with the Army Corps of Engineers cutting canals everywhere . . . if they could just let the river roll the way it originally ran. But I know the city would hate that because it would cause shipping problems, so I’m trying to get the state government involved. Not that I trust them to do it right either. We’re trying to stomp over the tradition of Louisiana politics here, and that tradition is basically corruption. Dr. John to Jed Gottlieb in The Boston Herald These are the two tales of New Orleans recovery four years after Hurricane Katrina hit Mississippi and New Orleans levees imploded. What has been done and what is still undone. Past the stories of return and recovery, thousands of New Orleanians are still trying to cut through the red tape and jurisdictional turf wars the President describes. Individuals have been sharing their Katrina stories through Twitter hashtag #whereIwas4yearsago. There's something healing about that. Back in New Orleans for the Katrina Anniversary, we reflected at a Lakeside Cemetery memorial with over a thousand flags bearing the name of every fatality from the flood. Along Canal Street, the new Charity Hospital Cemetery Memorial, with its walkway in the shape of a hurricane, is a tribute to the bodies that remained unclaimed. And across from the cemetery is The Herb, a shop that flies its Brad Pitt for Mayor banner by L. Steve Williams, Jr. - in part a tribute to Pitt's theoretical mayoral platform of legalized marijuana, no religion and gay marriage. Sacred and profane, sad and joyful - New Orleans has always married conflicting emotions artfully. Across the canal in the 9th Ward, Pitt's Make it Right homes for returning residents spring up. Not far from those are the home slabs that have become steps to nowhere. Someone changed the lettering on an abandoned church sign to "Who's Your Daddy?" A nearby stop Sign now reads Stop Trippin. All photos by Jeff Beninato. All taken today.     More on Barack Obama
 

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