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'I promise change"
~ Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney's Biggest Flip Flops
ABORTION
Flip: "I believe that abortion should be safe and legal in this country. I believe that since Roe v. Wade has been the law for 20 years, that we should sustain and support it. I sustain and support that law and the right of a woman to make that choice." — Debate with Sen. Edward Kennedy, 1994
"I will preserve and protect a woman's right to choose and am devoted and dedicated to honoring my word in that regard." — Massachusetts Gubernatorial Debate, 2002
Flop: "Look, I was pro-choice. I am pro-life. You can go back to YouTube and look at what I said in 1994. I never said I was pro-choice, but my position was effectively pro-choice. I changed my position." — Iowa Straw poll debate, 2007
"What I would like to see happen would be for the Supreme Court to say, look, we’re going to overturn Roe v. Wade and return to the states the authority to decide whether they want to have abortion or not, state by state. That’s the way it was before Roe v. Wade. So I am firmly pro-life." — Town hall meeting, Hopkinton, NH, 2011
VIETNAM
Flip" "I was not planning on signing up for the military. It was not my desire to go off and serve in Vietnam." — Quoted by the Boston Herald, 1994
Flop: "I longed in many respects to actually be in Vietnam and be representing our country there and in some ways it was frustrating not to feel like I was there as part of the troops that were fighting in Vietnam." — Quoted by the Boston Globe, 2007
HEALTH CARE REFORM
Flip: "I like mandates. Mandates work." — Presidential primary debate, 2008
"I'm proud of what we've done. If Massachusetts succeeds in implementing [Romneycare], then that will be a model for the nation." — Speech in Baltimore, 2007
Flop: "At the time I crafted the plan in the last campaign I was asked is [Romneycare] something that you would have the whole nation do, and I said no. This is something that was crafted for Massachusetts. It would be wrong to adopt this as a nation." — Presidential primary debate, 2011
Bret Baier: "Governor, you did say on camera and in other places, at times you thought [Romneycare] would be a model for the nation."
Mitt Romney: "You're wrong, Bret." — Fox News interview, 2011
CLIMATE CHANGE
Flip: "I believe the world’s getting warmer. I can’t prove that, but I believe based on what I read that the world is getting warmer. And number two, I believe that humans contribute to that. ... And so I think it's important for us to reduce our emissions of pollutants and greenhouse gases that may well be significant contributors to the climate change and the global warming that you're seeing." — Town hall meeting, Manchester, NH, June 2011
Flop: "My view is that we don’t know what’s causing climate change on this planet. And the idea of spending trillions and trillions of dollars to try to reduce CO2 emissions is not the right course for us." — Q&A session, Pittsburg, PA, October 2011
BUSH TAX CUTS
Flip: "[R]omney spoke at the 10th annual legislative conference organized by U.S. Rep. Martin T. Meehan (D-Lowell) and met with the Massachusetts delegation. ... Congressional sources said that a point of contention arose when Romney refused to take a position on Bush’s massive, 10-year tax cut plan.” — Boston Herald, 2003
Flop: "McCain opposed President Bush’s tax cuts, Romney noted. 'I supported them,' the former governor said." — Quoted in The State (SC), 2007
Mitt Romney: The character of a loser
For Mitt Romney, the only prize is that of a loser, and that has never been more plainly evident than in his talk with his political campaign donors Wednesday when he blamed his loss on “the gifts” he said President Obama gave to Hispanics, blacks and young voters during his first term.
Romney said this just a week after delivering a surprisingly magnanimous concession speech that, had he walked away quietly afterwards, would have left even those who would never have voted for him feeling that perhaps they had misjudged his character during a campaign in which he made it so easy to do so.
But now, I suspect that we can all see that it wasn’t the primaries nor the debates that truly defined the Romney character so much as two talks he had with his deep-pocket donors, rich fat-cats some would call them, with whom the former Massachusetts governor obviously has more in common than he does with the common American who so astutely rejected his bid for the presidency last week.
For it was that speech back in May that fortunately was recorded and made public as the campaign was heating up that probably was the single factor, if any one thing was, that cost Romney a presidential victory that was his to lose, given the fact that no incumbent had ever been reelected with the kind of unemployment rate currently plaguing the country.
That was the speech in which Romney told his supporters that 47 percent of American voters were deadbeats who didn’t pay taxes and that he could more easily win the presidency if only he were Hispanic.
Forty-seven percent of America should have rejected him after that speech. And if they all didn’t, then at least almost eight out of every 10 Latinos who voted – and it turned out to be a record Hispanic turnout – said hasta la vista, deadbeat Mitt.
Romney tried to weasel out of those words by saying that sometimes his thoughts didn’t come out as he intended. It didn’t seem to matter, as Romney appeared headed toward certain defeat until the evening of October 3 when an overconfident Obama stumbled so badly in their first debate that the Romney campaign was given new life.
Thankfully, Romney lost. But if there was ever any doubt about the kind of president he would have been and whose interests he would have protected, it was removed Wednesday in his pathetic attempt to suggest that Obama had somehow bought the votes of Hispanics, blacks and the young with everything from the Affordable Health Care Act to his deferred action program to undocumented Latino youth, as if Romney’s own intentions to protect the wealthy from a fare share of taxation were some kind of benevolent act.
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Then Jesus said to his disciples, “Truly I tell you, it is hard for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of heaven. Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of God.”
` Matthew 19:23-24
Teri asked Kevin if he wanted to help change the diaper. He said, "Wait one minute." And returned like this.
Changing pad with a dedicated pocket for your wipes and another amply sized pocket for diapers and baby-changing accoutrements.
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The Great David Bowie!...'Changes'...Enjoy!!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zbnJo88kuP8&feature=related
Lyrics:-
I still don't know what I was waiting for
And my time was running wild
A million dead-end streets
Every time I thought I'd got it made
It seemed the taste was not so sweet
So I turned myself to face me
But I've never caught a glimpse
Of how the others must see the faker
I'm much too fast to take that test
Ch-ch-ch-ch-Changes
(Turn and face the strain)
Ch-ch-Changes
Don't want to be a richer man
Ch-ch-ch-ch-Changes
(Turn and face the strain)
Ch-ch-Changes
Just gonna have to be a different man
Time may change me
But I can't trace time
I watch the ripples change their size
But never leave the stream
Of warm impermanence and
So the days float through my eyes
But still the days seem the same
And these children that you spit on
As they try to change their worlds
Are immune to your consultations
They're quite aware of what they're going through
Ch-ch-ch-ch-Changes
(Turn and face the strain)
Ch-ch-Changes
Don't tell t hem to grow up and out of it
Ch-ch-ch-ch-Changes
(Turn and face the strain)
Ch-ch-Changes
Where's your shame
You've left us up to our necks in it
Time may change me
But you can't trace time
Strange fascination, fascinating me
Changes are taking the pace I'm going through
Ch-ch-ch-ch-Changes
(Turn and face the strain)
Ch-ch-Changes
Oh, look out you rock 'n rollers
Ch-ch-ch-ch-Changes
(Turn and face the strain)
Ch-ch-Changes
Pretty soon you're gonna get a little older
Time may change me
But I can't trace time
I said that time may change me
But I can't trace time...
Change
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Twilight while walking home in the city of Fribourg, Switzerland.
Taken a year ago. I got off the train and the twilight was great. Taken on the Boulevard de Pérolles while walking home.
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Set: Back Home (» see other shots from "Back Home")
Refinements: Noise reduction, saturation, contrast.
Equipment: Nikon D70s, Sigma 10-20mm
"MANY CITIZENS USE BERLIN'S POST OFFICES FOR WRITING THEIR LETTERS
This is one of Berlin's many branch post offices. The public writing room is well lighted, with comfortable chairs, tables, inkpots and blotters. No doubt Teutonic thoroughness and painstaking also provide pens that will write!"
Photograph by Douglas Chandler
(This historic photograph is from a National Geographic article in the February 1937 issue titled "Changing Berlin". It offers a fascinating look at Berlin, Germany, a few years before the start of World War II.)
French postcard by Editions P.I., Paris, no. 228, offered by NV Victoria, Brussels, no. 639. Photo: Hal Wallis / Paramount, 1950.
Yesterday was announced that American film star Lizabeth Scott passed away on 31 January. She starred as the bad girl — or the good girl gone bad - in hard-boiled film noirs like The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (1946) with Barbara Stanwyck, Dead Reckoning (1947) with Humphrey Bogart, and I Walk Alone (1948) opposite Burt Lancaster. With her blonde hair, smouldering eyes and her deep smoky voice, she was a sultry femme fatale in a world of crime, tough talk and dark secrets. Of her 22 feature films, she was leading lady in all but one. In addition to stage and radio, she appeared on television from the late 1940s to early 1970s. Lizabeth Scott who died of congestive heart failure was 92.
Lizabeth Scott was born Emma Matzo in 1922, in Scranton, , Pennsylvania, where her parents, John Matzo and Mary (nee Pennock), had a grocery store. Despite her parents’ opposition to an acting career, she went to the Alviene Master School of the Theatre and Academy of Cultural Arts in New York in her late teens. Here she adopted the stage name of Elizabeth Scott. She landed a small role in a touring company of the hit stage comedy Hellzapoppin'. Back in New York, unable to get an acting job, she landed work as a fashion model with Harper’s Bazaar at $25 an hour. In 1942, she got a small part in the original Broadway production of Thornton Wilder's The Skin of Our Teeth. Scott also understudied Tallulah Bankhead, who played the lead role. The tempestuous Bankhead, who did not get along with Scott, stubbornly never missed a performance. In Boston Scott finally got to play the lead role, taking over from Miriam Hopkins. She decided to removed the 'E' from Elizabeth Scott to be more distinctive. It would be either this performance or a four-picture spread in an issue of Harper’s Bazaar (the sources differ about this) that led to a long-term Hollywood contract with Hal Wallis, who had his own producing organisation through Paramount Studios. Scott": It was off season on Broadway and since I wasn’t able to find a job there, I thought it might be a good experience to come to Hollywood and find out what it was all about.” Wallis introduced his 22-year-old discovery as “beautiful, blonde, aloof and alluring”. Scott's film debut was the comedy-drama You Came Along (John Farrow, 1945) opposite Robert Cummings. In her second film, The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (Lewis Milestoine, 1946), she played a young woman wrongly jailed, opposite Barbara Stanwyck, Kirk Douglas and Van Heflin. She made more of an impression in Dead Reckoning (John Cromwell, 1947) as a gangster’s wife, almost luring Humphrey Bogart into her corruptive trap. Her mysterious character was shot in oblique angles and low-key lighting. Stylishly dressed by Edith Head, she played the good girl gone bad becoming good again in the melodrama Desert Fury (Lewis Allen, 1947). Billed as “the blonde with the brown voice”, Scott played a nightclub singer in I Walk Alone (Byron Haskin, 1948), also starring Kirk Douglas and Burt Lancaster. She was more decadent than ever in Too Late for Tears (Byron Haskin, 1949), having killed two husbands because she wanted “to move out of the ranks of the middle-class poor”. Scott was her own woman in the world of hard-boiled film crime. Ronald Bergan at The Observer: "Scott was strong and sultry, her heavy dark eyebrows contrasting with her blonde hair. Like [Lauren] Bacall, she had a low and husky voice, but she was far harder; in fact, she was able to suggest hidden depths of depravity – the ideal femme fatale of the 1940s."
In her films, Lizabeth Scott made some memorable quotes. In Pitfall (André De Toth, 1948), she described herself to Dick Powell as "a girl whose first engagement ring was bought by a man stupid enough to embezzle and stupid enough to get caught." In The Racket (John Cromwell, 1951), she asked Robert Mitchum: "Who said I was an honest citizen, and where would it get me if I was?" In another Film Noir, Dark City (William Dieterle, 1950), she is a nightclub singer again who drifts on the edges of a shadowy criminal world, though her love for a gambler (Charlton Heston in his Hollywood debut ) is uplifting. Heston and Scott were reunited for Bad for Each Other (Irving Rapper, 1953). She played several similar roles of a woman willing to change her louche ways, but doomed to find a worthwhile man to love her only when she had already passed the point of redemption. After several years of making one Film Noir after another — sometimes at a pace of two or three in a year — Scott was ready for a change. She got it in the comedy Scared Stiff (George Marshall, 1953), starring Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis. In September 1954, a front-page story in the magazine Confidential claimed that Scott was a lesbian and was linked to “the little black books kept by Hollywood prostitutes”. It was also said that on a trip to Paris she had taken up with Frédérique 'Frédé' Baulé, manager of Carroll's, an upper-class, cabaret-type nightclub in Paris. One of the owners was Marlene Dietrich. Two months before the issue's printed publication, her lawyer had instituted a $ 2.5m suit against Confidential, accusing the magazine of “holding the plaintiff up to contempt and ridicule and implying in the eyes of every reader indecent, unnatural and illegal conduct in her private and public life”. Scott lost her suit on a technicality, however, and, given the witch-hunting atmosphere of the times, the case certainly harmed her. Compounding her plight was her rebellious nature, having never paid conventional homage to the film establishment and to gossip columnists Louella Parsons and Hedda Hopper. In 1955, Scott went to Great Britain to film The Weapon (Val Guest, 1957). As with other European films of the 1950s–1970s period aimed at a US audience, Scott starred with another American actor, Steve Cochran, who played US Army CID officer Mark Andrews. Scott also played a publicity woman in the Elvis Presley vehicle Loving You (Hal Kanter, 1957). In 1957, she also released an album of torch songs and romantic ballads titled Lizabeth. She had a few TV roles in the 1960s. Her last credited movie appearance was as an man-eating cougar in Pulp (Mike Hodges, 1972), a sendup of Film Noir starring Michael Caine. One of her ex-husbands in the film is played by Mickey Rooney. Scott lived quietly in Hollywood, sometimes accepting invitations to attend film festivals and other events. In a 1996 interview with documentary filmmaker Carole Langer, Scott said she had liked the grittiness of Film Noir and didn't lament the fact that she wasn't cast in studio blockbusters: "The films that I had seen growing up were always, boy meets girl, boy ends up marrying girl, they go off into the sunset," Scott said. After the war, films got more in touch with "the psychological, emotional things that people feel and people do. It was a new realm, and it was very exciting, because suddenly you were coming closer and closer to reality." Lizabeth Scott died a week ago, at 31 January, at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. She was 92. The cause was congestive heart failure, said her long-time friend Mary Goodstein. Scott's survivors include her brother Gus Matzo and sister Justine Birdsall.
Sources David Colker (Los Angeles Times), Ronald Bergan (The Observer), Mike Barnes (Hollywood Reporter), Variety, Wikipedia and IMDb.
We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty. ~Author Unknown
This particular butterfly was kind of...dead.
Critiques and comments are welcome. :)
These three images follow on from my last post yesterday. Hopefully showing the ever changing environment...
Thanks for looking
CJ
The fabric of this skirt is very delicate and in fact is a bit see thru. It feels so fem when I’m wearing it!💕
Baku, Azerbaijan, Oct 10 2010
Local students made a giant 350 to promote solutions to climate change and to urge politicians to pass clean energy policies.
This was one of over 7,000 climate action events taking place in in 188 countries around the world on 10/10/10 as part of “The Global Work Party.” This synchronized international event is organized by 350.org, and is expected to be the largest day of environmental activism in history.
Photo credit: 350.org
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Saudia, or Saudi Arabian Airlines (take your pick!) is undergoing a few changes in preparation for the Summer 2016 schedule which will begin in only 3 months time where demand will increase over time. Saudia is planning changes to its 2 flights operating to London Heathrow from both Jeddah and Riyadh.
Effective from 27th March 2016, London Heathrow to Jeddah (SV115/116) operates daily but will see the flight operating with 2-class Boeing 777-300ER's rather than the current Boeing 777-200ER. Meanwhile, London Heathrow to Riyadh (SV117/118) operates daily using First Class-configured Boeing 777-300ER's rather than on selected flights.
Currently, Saudia operates a fleet of 45 Boeing 777's, this includes 23 Boeing 777-200ER's (one is VIP-configured), 3 Boeing 777F's with one more example on-order, and lastly 19 Boeing 777-300ER's with one more example left on-order.
Alpha Kilo Charlie is currently one of 23 Boeing 777-200ER's in service with Saudia as well as just 12 Boeing 777-200ER's that feature First Class interiors. She was delivered new to Saudia in December 1997 and is powered by 2 General Electric GE90-92B engines.
Boeing 777-268(ER) HZ-AKC on final approach into Runway 09L at London Heathrow (LHR) on SV115 from Jeddah-King Abdulaziz (JED).
2019 is a big year for health insurance developments affecting consumers and coverage options.
For over 30 years, Short term health insurance has provided coverage for a defined period of time and generally includes a much lower premium than other types of major medical coverage.
Until April of 2017, the coverage period was determined by state law, with the majority of states permitting terms of 364 days or less. Now, the final rule extends the duration of short term coverage from 3 months to 12 months (364 days) depending on state availability and limitations.
Specifically, the language in the plan must inform insureds that the plans do not comply with the Minimum Essential Coverage requirements of the Affordable Care Act. This is important because the ACA currently issues an individual mandate penalty, which equates to 2.5% of one’s yearly household income, or $695 per adult plus $347.50 per child with a $2,085 household maximum - whichever amount is greater.
This penalty will, however, be phased out as of January 1, 2019, meaning you could find and even apply for the best short term health insurance policy for you today without the financial burden of paying the individual mandate penalty.
The outgoing Obama administration made a significant change, issuing a regulatory final rule which cut the maximum duration term limit of short term health insurance from 12 to less than 3 months. This limit was changed on August 1, 2018 by another regulation designed to expand access to short term health coverage. The rule reinstates the 364 day maximum term limit and allows carriers to offer reapply options for up to 36 months. The changes officially took effect on October 2, 2018.
One of the most attractive aspects of short term health insurance is the cost, but many people shy away from short term plans because they are so limited. Why is that? When a plan is limited to three months, it may not address insurance needs fully. Now, however, the legislative change allows individuals to take advantage of more affordable health care for up to three years.
When you apply for a short term plan, you will need to go through medical underwriting. Applications can be rejected. Short term plans often do not cover many of the same things that ACA-compliant plans will address.
The Trump Regulation specifically states that the expansion will “expand more affordable coverage options to consumers who desire and need them, to help individuals avoid paying for benefits provided in individual health insurance coverage that they believe are not worth the cost, to reduce the number of uninsured individuals, and to make available more coverage options with broader access to providers than certain individual health insurance coverage has.”
With this rule now in place, Americans have more affordable choices than ever when it comes to finding the right health insurance for their budget.
7 Major Changes to Health Insurance in 2019
1. No Penalty: In 2019, there is no fine for not having health insurance from the ACA Healthcare Exchange
2. Longer Short Term Medical Plans: Plans can for up to 364 days in most states and 36 months in some others
3. Association Health Plans: Smaller companies and industry groups can now offer health plans with less comprehensive coverage at a lower rate.
4. Health Reimbursement Arrangements: As an alternative to group plans, employers can offer reimbursements for employees who buy their own health insurance.
5. Medicare Enrollment Changes: If you have Medicare Advantage, open enrollment now lasts from January 1st to March 31st where you can change your plan, or switch to Original Medicare.
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This was totally unintentional. Someone was passing out stickers at South Station and I grabbed one. Brought it home, pulled it out of my bag, and somehow it ended up here, on top of the bowl of change on Mike's desk. It made us laugh, so I had to take a photo.
A time laps i did a few weeks back. 1,240 pics 1 pic per 5 sec. (no wonder my cam gave up on me.. i stressed it out 2 much) opss.. hehe anyways enjoy.
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EXPLORED - Aug 28, 2009 #423
In a London café buying a pot of tea for two and the chap made a till error.
If only this was my change from £6!!
Strobist Sundays working hands theme. Macro Mondays fast theme. Spark plug change. You can't go fast without them.
YN-460 at low camera right 1/8 power. Reflector left.
Changes are the spice of life. Moving home to the south in a week and leaving this beautiful city. Bittersweet, mostly sweet. I love Seattle: The art, the scene, the space needle, the million neat things to see, the sound, the islands, the mountains east and west. BUT I very much dislike the rain and distance to my family. And I'm just a southern girl that needs to go home!
This was unpainted bare metal when I played in the school playground here in 1965.
I was born in the building blocked by the shining sun. I played on these monkey bars 10 years later. I took this photo during a walk on Tuesday.
These are a few of the fleet of cycles that anyone can use instead of taxis or limos. These are heavy steel bikes (even the baskets) that will be used by medics in Africa next, sponsored by Ikea.
Acer palmatum dissectum (Laceleaf) 'Crimson Queen'
In mid October the darker purple leaves of this acer change to this bright red colour.
Compositionally Challenged Week 41 - Crop like a Pro
I had a hard time deciding where to crop the left side. The original didn't seem balanced but this crop seems a little claustrophobic to me, lol. I tried another crop but kept coming back to this one.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpbbuaIA3Ds
This is the backside of a 2013 penny. Notice anything different? Am I the only person who didn't know about/notice this change to our change?? Does it really matter? Probably not, but I'm keeping an eye on you, US Treasury Dept.
The changing face of the Liverpool waterfront, in the setts are old railway lines that would have linked the docks to the warehouses, in the brick wall can be seen some iron supporting columns for the Liverpool Overhead Railway, known as the 'Dockers Umbrella' which opened on the 4th February 1893 and closed on 30th December 1956, now a new era is beginning of expensive high rise appartments with views over the River Mersey.
14th November 2014
...is one of the talents of cuttlefishes. This is the same giant cuttlefish which was red in previous photos.
Changer rapidement de couleur est un des talents des seiches. La seiche gêante photographiée ici était rouge sur les photos précêdentes.
It is quite clear that the people who hung this Israeli Flag on this pole, or even the people who planned it - intended to present it completely spread when there is no wind, or spread and wavy when there is wind, but the wind often causes the flag to get into trouble in a variety of odd shapes, and then then we can barely see that it the flag of Israel. So the original itention is always good and patriotic and the end result is much more broad minded and poetic.
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די ברור שמי שתלה את הדגל הזה על עמוד החשמל, או אפילו מי שתכנן אותו, התכוון להציג אותו פרוש לגמרי כשאין רוח, או פרוש וגלי כשיש רוח, אבל לעתים קרובות הרוח גורמת לדגל להסתבך עם עצמו בכל מיני צורות משונות, ואז בקושי רואים שזה דגל ישראל. אז הכוונה המקורית היא תמיד טובה ופטריוטית והתוצאה הסופית היא הרבה יותר רחבת אופקים ופיוטית
If there was any of you that for a slightest moment wondered where I was, I am where I was, just been busy with finishing Uni.. and stuff . since my last upload, life has been weird for me .. weird, complicated in every single way.. Amidst all these, I had forgotten to take photos until last weekend when this commissioned photoshoot (of newlywed couple ) happened.. Strangely I've got two more shoots on the way, It amazes me when people approach me for shoots! As uni is finished, I really need to be stepping up my game as I want to be a photographer for living .. I'm looking forward to doing more personal shoots though as I've been so overwhelmed with so many emotions and letting out is a must ..
Today we had a change of weather that was quite violent. Nothing unusual after weeks of glorious weather. Especially here in the South-West it comes on full blast with heavy rain showers and thunderstorms. A feast for the eye and the camera - as long as I keep the camera dry, that is.
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My nearly-95 year old grandmother is contemplating a change in direction for her painting: from abstract acrylics (after abandoning oils because of the effect on her lungs) to watercolours, and subjects more peaceful. To that latter end, she brought out a small frame and was examing the possibilities in the view from her backyard.