<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<rss version="2.0"
	xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"
	xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"
	xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"
	xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"
	xmlns:sy="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/syndication/"
	xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/"
	>

<channel>
	<title>heave-ho.org &#187; advice</title>
	<atom:link href="http://heave-ho.org/tag/advice/feed/" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" />
	<link>http://heave-ho.org</link>
	<description>all the news that&#039;s fit to click!</description>
	<lastBuildDate>Sat, 26 May 2012 23:20:00 +0000</lastBuildDate>
	<language>en</language>
	<sy:updatePeriod>hourly</sy:updatePeriod>
	<sy:updateFrequency>1</sy:updateFrequency>
	<generator>http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2</generator>
		<item>
		<title>Written in the stars: the art of the bad review</title>
		<link>http://heave-ho.org/2012/05/18/written-in-the-stars-the-art-of-the-bad-review/</link>
		<comments>http://heave-ho.org/2012/05/18/written-in-the-stars-the-art-of-the-bad-review/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2012 18:30:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sarah LeTrent</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[2007]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[2011]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[21]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[access]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[aging]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[aid]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[AMA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Amazon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[America]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[American]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Americans]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[anniversary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[art]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[assets]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Atlanta]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[attack]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[AWK]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[book]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[border]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[BS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[campaign]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chinese]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CIA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[City]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[clinic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CNN]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Constitution]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cost]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[critical]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cut]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[DEA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[death]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[depression]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[empire]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[EU]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Facebook]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[families]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[files]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fire]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[food]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[GE]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[GI]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[GM]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[God]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[good]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gore]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Guardian]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[happy families]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hate]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[haven]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hp]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ICE]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[import]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[industry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[job]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[journalists]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[King]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[lies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[London]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[love]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[MAI]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mandate]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Media]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mine]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[money]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Moscow]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mother]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[new]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New York]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New York Times]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Opinion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Poll]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pot]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[psychologist]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[red]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[release]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[research]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[resources]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[right]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[risk]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Russia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Russian]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[search]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Seattle]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sound]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[spot]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[START]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[state]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[states]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[talk]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[target]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The New York Times]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[threat]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Travel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[truth]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[twitter]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[UC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[UK]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[UN]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[US]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[war]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[waste]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[we]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[well]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[words]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[writer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[advice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[amazon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[atlanta]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cnn]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[critic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dea]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Money]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[the new york times]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://heave-ho.org/2012/05/18/written-in-the-stars-the-art-of-the-bad-review/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[ Today marks the 50th anniversary of the New York Times restaurant review. We&#039;re honoring the art of criticism in a series on the subject. It took Jay Rayner around 700 words to lay waste to a Russian empire. In a blistering review of famed Moscow restaurateur Arkady Novikov&#039;s eponymous London outpost this past February, the Observer critic pronounced the establishment so "astoundingly grim you want to congratulate the kitchen on its incompetence" and compared its cuisine to cheap Chinese food. He was just getting warmed up. “And so my advice to you. Don&#039;t go to Novikov. Keep not going. Keep not going a lot," Rayner wrote. "In a city with a talent for opening hateful and tasteless restaurants, Novikov marks a special new low. That&#039;s its real achievement.” Harsh words, but for a professional restaurant critic, this was par for the course. As with any creative medium, the culinary arts are subjected to critical judgments. With the good, comes the bad. Or in the case of Novikov, the “very, very bad.” While some readers might think restaurant critics write with sharp knives, a poison-dipped pen and a particular appetite for disdain, those in the field argue otherwise. Their mandate is to be objective, to give an honest appraisal of the restaurant to their readers. “You still have a basic job to do; you’ve got to get it right, and that’s what people expect,” says Rayner, whose eBook “My Dining Hell: Twenty Ways To Have a Lousy Night Out” will be released on June 1. And part of getting it right means occasionally dropping, what the restaurant industry calls, the “goose egg” - a zero-star review that in essence says, "Take your hard-earned money elsewhere." “With the negative reviews, I once said they were like chest infections and car crashes &#8211; they were things that happened to me, not things I went out looking for,” says Rayner. Hanna Raskin, the restaurant critic for Seattle Weekly , also agrees critics do not go to a restaurant because they know it’s going to be abysmal. “Not only is the writing not fun, but the research isn’t fun either. We’re the ones that have to eat that bad food again and again and again.” But before pen is put to paper, critics must get to the marrow of the matter and decide if the lousy restaurant is even worth a review. With a new hot spot opening nearly every week in major metropolitan areas, it’d be an unfeasible - and stomach-straining - task to conquer them all. “I’ll review it if it’s a restaurant that people are serious about because of a prominent location or well-known chef or local restaurateur behind it. Basically, if it’s something that my readers really want to know about,” says John Kessler, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution&#039;s dining critic . Raskin and Rayner also cite the prominence of the chef, location and media campaign. If the venue in question is a little mom and pop place, it’s simply not reasonable. “The times when I haven’t written about a restaurant at all is when I realize the restaurant is not one that deserves the attention of a national newspaper,” says Rayner. To put it in stateside perspective, he compares it to reviewing a dreadful restaurant in Boise, Idaho. If no one is planning to go or already going there, the review won’t be entertaining - or more importantly, serviceable to the reader. A large part of that entertainment value is drawn from how the reviewer crafts the language of “the slam.” That means letting people know how things taste and how much things cost; a full sense of the harrowing experience often with a side of relatively good-natured snark. “We don’t want to sound like the disgruntled Yelper,” says Kessler, who maintains he’s always a half a grade nicer in print than if he were talking to a friend. “You don’t want to sound offended or bent out of shape if the restaurant is bad. You want to be a nice person about it but you also want to go to town.” Raskin also says that, in her negative reviews, the reader should infer “that it was probably even worse.” Rayner, however, serves it in the raw: what he says in the review is what he thought. “The ability of people in the restaurant business to screw things up and find unique ways to screw things up never ceases to amaze me,” he says, adding he’s in the business of selling newspapers, not restaurants. Kessler admires this cultural candor. “The English people are great because they take such glee in their snarky locution. Americans will never do that. We just can’t. It’s not in our culture to be poetic a**holes.” But, U.K. critics aren’t the only one finding glee in negativity - the audience relishes it as well. Raskin says she actually gets more positive comments from readers when she prints negative reviews. “Almost every time I wrote something negative, I get the feedback, ‘I’m so glad you’re telling it like it is. I’m so glad you said that.’ And nobody ever says that when I write a good review,” she said. To this point, Rayner cites a Leo Tolstoy quote: “Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” What makes that particular restaurant bad also makes it unique - and uniqueness makes a much more compelling story. There&#039;s also a touch of schadenfreude, or pleasure derived from others&#039; misfortunes. “You start your Sunday morning reading a terrible review of somebody’s restaurant and as long as you’re not the chef’s mother, you’re probably going to feel slightly better for the rest of the day,” says Rayner, who at one point spoke with a clinical psychologist about readers’ penchant for social comparing. “I often say that my column is read for vicarious pleasure or brackish displeasure,” he adds. Yet, for every disparaging word written and read, these critics realize the pen is mightier than the fork. In 2003, master French chef Bernard Loiseau took his own life following a bad review of his restaurant, the Cote d&#039;Or, by GaultMillau and reports that he would lose his third Michelin star – the highest rating a restaurant can attain by the Michelin Guide . While Loiseau already suffered from depression, some felt the reviews may have been his breaking point. In 2007, after former New York Times critic Frank Bruni awarded zero stars to restaurateur Jeffrey Chodorow’s Kobe Club, Chodorow fired back. He ran a full-page ad in the Times attacking Bruni’s assessment , citing the review as a personal attack and questioning Bruni’s qualifications to be in the critic’s post. When Raskin was the food critic for the Dallas Observer, she said she received death threats. And Rayner has been invited outside for a go. “I think most critics realize it’s not just the chef or the owner you’re addressing here, but the careers of the cooks in the kitchen, the dishwashers and the servers all ultimately depend on what you say,” said Raskin. “We take this responsibility very seriously.” As journalists, they know how it feels to be subject to an outsider&#039;s opinion. “To be a writer is an act of great arrogance - to think that anybody would give a damn about what you have to say. You, therefore, have to take what anybody wants to say about you - and it’s not fun,” says Rayner. Ultimately, critics are paid for how they write, not how they eat - and for restaurants on the receiving end, that’s the bitter truth. Take Our Poll Do you have a favorite "bad" review? We&#039;d love if you&#039;d share it in the comments below. Previously - For restaurant reviewers, are health risks at critical mass? and Everyone&#039;s a critic, some just call it their day job <div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style " addthis:url='http://heave-ho.org/2012/05/18/written-in-the-stars-the-art-of-the-bad-review/' addthis:title='Written in the stars: the art of the bad review ' ><a href="//addthis.com/bookmark.php?v=250&#38;username=xa-4d2b47597ad291fb" class="addthis_button_compact">Share</a><span class="addthis_separator">&#124;</span><a class="addthis_button_preferred_1"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_2"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_3"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_4"></a></div>]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://heave-ho.org/2012/05/18/written-in-the-stars-the-art-of-the-bad-review/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Carolyn Hax: Before the advice, a brief introduction</title>
		<link>http://heave-ho.org/2012/05/18/carolyn-hax-before-the-advice-a-brief-introduction/</link>
		<comments>http://heave-ho.org/2012/05/18/carolyn-hax-before-the-advice-a-brief-introduction/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2012 16:33:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carolyn Hax</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[2011]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[21]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[anniversary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[art]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[book]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[border]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[BP]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[BS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[data]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[DC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[EPA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[EU]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Facebook]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[GE]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[GI]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hp]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ICE]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[IRS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lifestyle]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NIE]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[old]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[red]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SEC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[TV]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[twitter]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[UC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[UN]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[US]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Washington]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Washington Post]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[we]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[2011?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[advice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[carolyn hax]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[doling-out]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[editor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[full-article]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[monday]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nie]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[real-life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sec]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[section-on-monday]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://heave-ho.org/2012/05/18/carolyn-hax-before-the-advice-a-brief-introduction/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[ Editor’s note: Carolyn Hax has been doling out advice to readers for 15 years. To mark the anniversary of her “Tell Me About It” column, we’re republishing the very first installment, which ran in The Washington Post’s Style section on Monday, May 19, 1997. Tell us how you’ve used Hax’s advice in real life here . Read full article > > <div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style " addthis:url='http://heave-ho.org/2012/05/18/carolyn-hax-before-the-advice-a-brief-introduction/' addthis:title='Carolyn Hax: Before the advice, a brief introduction ' ><a href="//addthis.com/bookmark.php?v=250&#38;username=xa-4d2b47597ad291fb" class="addthis_button_compact">Share</a><span class="addthis_separator">&#124;</span><a class="addthis_button_preferred_1"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_2"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_3"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_4"></a></div>]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://heave-ho.org/2012/05/18/carolyn-hax-before-the-advice-a-brief-introduction/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>National graduate survey launched</title>
		<link>http://heave-ho.org/2012/04/10/national-graduate-survey-launched/</link>
		<comments>http://heave-ho.org/2012/04/10/national-graduate-survey-launched/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Apr 2012 05:24:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[citizens]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ICE]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[struggling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[UN]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[advice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[citizens-advice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[national-online]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[recent-graduates]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://heave-ho.org/2012/04/10/national-graduate-survey-launched/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Citizens Advice Scotland is launching a national online survey of recent graduates who are struggling to find work.<div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style " addthis:url='http://heave-ho.org/2012/04/10/national-graduate-survey-launched/' addthis:title='National graduate survey launched ' ><a href="//addthis.com/bookmark.php?v=250&#38;username=xa-4d2b47597ad291fb" class="addthis_button_compact">Share</a><span class="addthis_separator">&#124;</span><a class="addthis_button_preferred_1"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_2"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_3"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_4"></a></div>]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://heave-ho.org/2012/04/10/national-graduate-survey-launched/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>@Work Advice: When should a new employee cut bait — or be shoved overboard?</title>
		<link>http://heave-ho.org/2011/11/23/work-advice-when-should-a-new-employee-cut-bait-%e2%80%94-or-be-shoved-overboard/</link>
		<comments>http://heave-ho.org/2011/11/23/work-advice-when-should-a-new-employee-cut-bait-%e2%80%94-or-be-shoved-overboard/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Nov 2011 01:39:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>vaultpress</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[2011]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[AIT]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[art]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[AWK]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[border]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cut]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[employee]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[GE]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[GI]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[GM]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hp]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ICE]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[job]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lifestyle]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[MAI]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Media]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NEE]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[new]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SEC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[UC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[US]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Washington]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[workplace]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Xe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[2011?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[advice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[columns]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[four-columns]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[full-article]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sec]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://heave-ho.org/2011/11/23/work-advice-when-should-a-new-employee-cut-bait-%e2%80%94-or-be-shoved-overboard/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[ This is the second of four columns by Karla Miller, winner of last month’s @Work Advice Contest . Tell us what you think and send your workplace questions to wpmagazine@washpost.com . I’ve been at a new job for a while now and have a problem. Three others in my group have been here much longer and know a lot of things that are not written down anywhere. Call it institutional knowledge. Often this is info I need to do my job, so I ask one of them. Frequently they give me wrong or incomplete info so that I look like a fool. Have you any suggestions? Read full article > > <div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style " addthis:url='http://heave-ho.org/2011/11/23/work-advice-when-should-a-new-employee-cut-bait-%e2%80%94-or-be-shoved-overboard/' addthis:title='@Work Advice: When should a new employee cut bait — or be shoved overboard? ' ><a href="//addthis.com/bookmark.php?v=250&#38;username=xa-4d2b47597ad291fb" class="addthis_button_compact">Share</a><span class="addthis_separator">&#124;</span><a class="addthis_button_preferred_1"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_2"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_3"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_4"></a></div>]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://heave-ho.org/2011/11/23/work-advice-when-should-a-new-employee-cut-bait-%e2%80%94-or-be-shoved-overboard/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Daylight savings time wreaks havoc on kids’ sleep: Expert Advice</title>
		<link>http://heave-ho.org/2011/11/04/daylight-savings-time-wreaks-havoc-on-kids%e2%80%99-sleep-expert-advice/</link>
		<comments>http://heave-ho.org/2011/11/04/daylight-savings-time-wreaks-havoc-on-kids%e2%80%99-sleep-expert-advice/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Nov 2011 19:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[2011]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[art]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[border]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[change]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[children]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CIA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[families]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[GE]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[GI]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[GM]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[green]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[holiday]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ICE]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[kids]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[lies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Media]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[new]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[rent]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[rules]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sue]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Travel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[UN]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[US]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[USA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Washington]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[we]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[West]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Xe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[young]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[advice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[early-sunday]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[holiday-travel]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://heave-ho.org/2011/11/04/daylight-savings-time-wreaks-havoc-on-kids%e2%80%99-sleep-expert-advice/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[ This weekend, daylight savings time ends . Early Sunday morning, the clocks should be turned back an hour. For families with young children especially, this seasonal change can throw off the whole morning routine. Kim West, also known as The Sleep Lady , is a Maryland-based counselor who works with families on sleep issues. Below, she shares her advice on how to transition children through this weekend. (The tips also may be useful if holiday travel means a time change.) Read full article > > <div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style " addthis:url='http://heave-ho.org/2011/11/04/daylight-savings-time-wreaks-havoc-on-kids%e2%80%99-sleep-expert-advice/' addthis:title='Daylight savings time wreaks havoc on kids’ sleep: Expert Advice ' ><a href="//addthis.com/bookmark.php?v=250&#38;username=xa-4d2b47597ad291fb" class="addthis_button_compact">Share</a><span class="addthis_separator">&#124;</span><a class="addthis_button_preferred_1"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_2"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_3"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_4"></a></div>]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://heave-ho.org/2011/11/04/daylight-savings-time-wreaks-havoc-on-kids%e2%80%99-sleep-expert-advice/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Why Newt Gingrich’s campaign crashed</title>
		<link>http://heave-ho.org/2011/06/11/why-newt-gingrich%e2%80%99s-campaign-crashed/</link>
		<comments>http://heave-ho.org/2011/06/11/why-newt-gingrich%e2%80%99s-campaign-crashed/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Jun 2011 06:32:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[2011]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[America]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[American]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Americans]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[art]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[border]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[campaign]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[campaign finance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CAP]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chinese]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CNN]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[DEA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[draft]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[finance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Finances]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[GI]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gingrich]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[GM]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hp]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ICE]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ideas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Iowa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[King]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[label]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[market]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Media]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[new]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[President]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[race]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[resistance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[rich]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[state]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[UN]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[unconventional]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[war]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Washington]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Xe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[advice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[america]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cnn]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dea]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Finance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[flamboyance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[from-the-race]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[full-article]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[lavish-vacation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[the-possibility]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://heave-ho.org/2011/06/11/why-newt-gingrich%e2%80%99s-campaign-crashed/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[ On one side was an unconventional presidential candidate. He was enthralled with making documentaries to sell his ideas and captivated by the notion that wooing Chinese Americans could be a key to winning Iowa. On the other side was a team of political operatives shocked by the flamboyance of the candidate’s stumbles, his resistance to their advice and the dire state of his campaign finances. While he was away on a lavish vacation that they had warned him not to take, they drafted a memo raising the possibility of a graceful exit from the race. Read full article > > <div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style " addthis:url='http://heave-ho.org/2011/06/11/why-newt-gingrich%e2%80%99s-campaign-crashed/' addthis:title='Why Newt Gingrich’s campaign crashed ' ><a href="//addthis.com/bookmark.php?v=250&#38;username=xa-4d2b47597ad291fb" class="addthis_button_compact">Share</a><span class="addthis_separator">&#124;</span><a class="addthis_button_preferred_1"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_2"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_3"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_4"></a></div>]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://heave-ho.org/2011/06/11/why-newt-gingrich%e2%80%99s-campaign-crashed/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>‘Toon-ed’ in: Nick Galifianakis cartoons for Carolyn Hax</title>
		<link>http://heave-ho.org/2011/03/31/%e2%80%98toon-ed%e2%80%99-in-nick-galifianakis-cartoons-for-carolyn-hax/</link>
		<comments>http://heave-ho.org/2011/03/31/%e2%80%98toon-ed%e2%80%99-in-nick-galifianakis-cartoons-for-carolyn-hax/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Apr 2011 00:37:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[2011]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[21]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[art]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[border]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cartoon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[GE]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[GI]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[GM]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[humor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ICE]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[label]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Media]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[new]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[red]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[US]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Washington]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Washington Post]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Xe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[2011?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[advice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cartoon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[humorous]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[the-advice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[the-humorous]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://heave-ho.org/2011/03/31/%e2%80%98toon-ed%e2%80%99-in-nick-galifianakis-cartoons-for-carolyn-hax/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The cartoonist creates the humorous images featured in the advice column penned by The Washington Post’s Carolyn Hax. <div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style " addthis:url='http://heave-ho.org/2011/03/31/%e2%80%98toon-ed%e2%80%99-in-nick-galifianakis-cartoons-for-carolyn-hax/' addthis:title='‘Toon-ed’ in: Nick Galifianakis cartoons for Carolyn Hax ' ><a href="//addthis.com/bookmark.php?v=250&#38;username=xa-4d2b47597ad291fb" class="addthis_button_compact">Share</a><span class="addthis_separator">&#124;</span><a class="addthis_button_preferred_1"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_2"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_3"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_4"></a></div>]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://heave-ho.org/2011/03/31/%e2%80%98toon-ed%e2%80%99-in-nick-galifianakis-cartoons-for-carolyn-hax/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>VIDEO: Best man tips for Prince Harry</title>
		<link>http://heave-ho.org/2011/03/23/video-best-man-tips-for-prince-harry/</link>
		<comments>http://heave-ho.org/2011/03/23/video-best-man-tips-for-prince-harry/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Mar 2011 04:26:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[art]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[GE]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[GI]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ICE]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Media]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[new]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[UC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[advice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[arthur]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[arthur-smith]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bbc]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hattie]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hattie-hayridge]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[miles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[miles-jupp]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[porter]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[prince]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[prince-harry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[traditional]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://heave-ho.org/2011/03/23/video-best-man-tips-for-prince-harry/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[BBC News invited comedians Lucy Porter, Arthur Smith, Miles Jupp and Hattie Hayridge to give their advice to Prince Harry about his traditional best man's duty.<div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style " addthis:url='http://heave-ho.org/2011/03/23/video-best-man-tips-for-prince-harry/' addthis:title='VIDEO: Best man tips for Prince Harry ' ><a href="//addthis.com/bookmark.php?v=250&#38;username=xa-4d2b47597ad291fb" class="addthis_button_compact">Share</a><span class="addthis_separator">&#124;</span><a class="addthis_button_preferred_1"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_2"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_3"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_4"></a></div>]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://heave-ho.org/2011/03/23/video-best-man-tips-for-prince-harry/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Instapundit: Full Credit to the Obama Administration for Civil Defense Plans</title>
		<link>http://heave-ho.org/2011/02/11/instapundit-full-credit-to-the-obama-administration-for-civil-defense-plans/</link>
		<comments>http://heave-ho.org/2011/02/11/instapundit-full-credit-to-the-obama-administration-for-civil-defense-plans/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Feb 2011 21:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[2011]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[21]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[art]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[attack]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[book]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[border]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[BP]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[BS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cartoon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cold War]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[DC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[DOE]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[domestic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[email]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[EU]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[explosion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Facebook]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[FCC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[GI]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[GM]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Heat]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[HIV]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hp]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ICE]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[King]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nuclear]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[old]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[red]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[TV]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[twitter]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[UC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[UK]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[UN]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[US]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[war]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[we]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[wmd]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Xe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[advice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cartoon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[doe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hiv]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pjtv]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[short-featuring]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[solid-advice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[stumble]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://heave-ho.org/2011/02/11/instapundit-full-credit-to-the-obama-administration-for-civil-defense-plans/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[ Last month, Glenn Reynolds wrote here at The Atlantic about " The Unexpected Return of 'Duck and Cover' ," recognizing the Administration for taking the dangers of a domestic nuclear attack seriously, and for publishing guidance on what people should do to survive in the event we're ever hit with one. Yes, the advice is essentially the same as what the Truman Administration promoted in 1951, in a now-famous film short featuring Burt the cartoon turtle. And yes, the turtle's main recommendation -- if there's an atomic explosion, get down and hide  -- went on to enduring ridicule as an absurd classic of early Cold War cheery paranoid kitsch. But, Reynolds explains, "duck and cover" was actually solid advice at the time; and it's solid advice now. This week, he returns to the subject on his PJTV show "Instavision": <div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style " addthis:url='http://heave-ho.org/2011/02/11/instapundit-full-credit-to-the-obama-administration-for-civil-defense-plans/' addthis:title='Instapundit: Full Credit to the Obama Administration for Civil Defense Plans ' ><a href="//addthis.com/bookmark.php?v=250&#38;username=xa-4d2b47597ad291fb" class="addthis_button_compact">Share</a><span class="addthis_separator">&#124;</span><a class="addthis_button_preferred_1"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_2"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_3"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_4"></a></div>]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://heave-ho.org/2011/02/11/instapundit-full-credit-to-the-obama-administration-for-civil-defense-plans/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>The Return of the Catholic Exorcism</title>
		<link>http://heave-ho.org/2011/01/27/the-return-of-the-catholic-exorcism/</link>
		<comments>http://heave-ho.org/2011/01/27/the-return-of-the-catholic-exorcism/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Jan 2011 01:42:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[2011]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[21]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[AMA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[America]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[American]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[art]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ban]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[book]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[border]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[California]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Catholic Church]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[change]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CIA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[college]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[DC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[demand]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[DINA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Discovery Channel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[DOE]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[email]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[EU]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[exorcism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Facebook]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fact]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fall]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[forces]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[GI]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hope]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hp]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ICE]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Immigrant]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[influence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[IRS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[King]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[law]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[leadership]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[majority]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[new]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NIE]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pennsylvania]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[protest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Public]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[red]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[religion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rove]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[state]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[states]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[talk]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Travel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[twitter]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[UC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[UN]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[United States]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[US]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Vatican]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[veteran]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[vote]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[war]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Washington]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[we]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Xe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[advice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[america]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[country]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Law]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pennsylvania]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[public]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[united]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[united-states]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://heave-ho.org/2011/01/27/the-return-of-the-catholic-exorcism/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Foaming at the mouth, rolling of the eyes, assuming serpentine characteristics in the face or body: all classic signs, explains Father Gary Thomas, of demonic influence. Father Thomas, pastor of the Sacred Heart Parish in Saratoga, California, is an avid Giants fan and a 28-year veteran of the priesthood. He is also a practicing exorcist; in the fall of 2005, Father Thomas traveled to Rome to complete a year-long training course under the tutelage of a master Italian exorcist. The story of his training inspired The Rite , a Warner Brothers film starring Anthony Hopkins that opens in theaters Friday. Despite this fictional portrayal, Father Thomas is also the embodiment of a new trend in the American Catholic church: Long the purview of American cinema, Catholic exorcism is being reclaimed, publicly, by its real-life practitioners. A factual account of Father Thomas's training has been published in a book by journalist Matt Baglio; the Discovery Channel recently announced the airing of a reality show featuring the accounts of trained Catholic exorcists (though the Vatican has denied any official involvement with the series); and last November, Bishop Thomas John Paprocki of the Diocese of Springfield in Illinois convened a two-day conference to discuss the practice of exorcism within the Catholic Church. "If a priest has the power to cast out demons, that's a lot of power." The Catholic Church does not maintain official statistics on exorcisms. Yet Bishop Paprocki estimates that there are only around 30 priests in the United States qualified to perform the Rite of Exorcism, and he argues that these priests must contend with a growing number of exorcism requests.  The exorcism conference included sessions devoted to canon law and the dangers of an improperly performed exorcism, and the bishop hopes to eventually create a network of exorcists that extends across the United States. He also envisions the establishment of a formal program to train the next generation of exorcists. "The priests who have this responsibility get exorcism requests from all over the country," he explains. "We want to prevent these priests from being overburdened." Roughly a quarter of active bishops in the United States registered for the event, underscoring a growing interest in the Rite of Exorcism--a ritual that has remained, among American Catholics, relatively obscure. Historically, Catholics in the United States have been concerned with successfully assimilating into a majority-Protestant culture, explains Mathew Schmalz, a Professor of Religion at the College of the Holy Cross. They began to distance themselves from religious practices that came across as odd or out of place: the 1949 exorcism that inspired the 1970's film The Exorcist , for example, was the last to be held in the archdiocese of Washington, D.C.   Today, however, broader changes within the church's leadership and its flock have brought attention back to the ritual. Many of today's Catholic worshippers are drawn from immigrant communities with a strong tradition of religious exorcism, explains Schmalz, and their members are accustomed to seeking priestly assistance with the expulsion of satanic influences. He believes that the movement also stems from an effort to reclaim the centrality and distinctiveness of the priest's role. "There is a feeling that priests' lack of specialness is among the reasons for a decline in interest in joining the priesthood," he says. "If a priest has the power to cast out demons, that's a lot of power." Father Thomas, however, points to more insidious forces: he views the rising demand for exorcisms as a consequence of increased involvement in the occult. And once the door has been opened to satanic influence, he warns, it is both difficult and dangerous to close. An improperly trained exorcist can place both himself and his charge in great peril: "As a cardinal rule you never talk to demons," he says. "Demons are, by their nature, devious, and they lie. They can engage you in all kinds of conversation to throw you off track." The priest recently conveyed this advice to Anthony Hopkins, one of the stars of The Rite--a film that joins a long tradition of dramatic fictionalized depictions of the church's battles with the devil. Yet the reality of Catholic exorcism, cautions one Pennsylvania-based priest, is far more banal. "The worst people do is growl or make noise," he says, "although I had one client who repeated the first three lines of 'Hickory Dickory Dock' over and over again--and that drove me crazy." Rather than a spectacle of spinning heads and violent tantrums, he says, a true exorcism does not necessarily lend itself to the big screen; the real torment and suffering is internal.  <div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style " addthis:url='http://heave-ho.org/2011/01/27/the-return-of-the-catholic-exorcism/' addthis:title='The Return of the Catholic Exorcism ' ><a href="//addthis.com/bookmark.php?v=250&#38;username=xa-4d2b47597ad291fb" class="addthis_button_compact">Share</a><span class="addthis_separator">&#124;</span><a class="addthis_button_preferred_1"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_2"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_3"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_4"></a></div>]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://heave-ho.org/2011/01/27/the-return-of-the-catholic-exorcism/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
	</channel>
</rss>

