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Where is Cuba moving under Little Brother?
In an easterly direction. Decisions made by the Cuban government in the past few days suggest there is truth to the speculation that Raul Castro is simpatico toward China's brand of Market-Leninism.
Slowly, quietly (don't want to wake up Big Brother), the Cuban government has lifted some of the more ridiculous economic restrictions beloved by Fidel. At the same time, it continues to crack down on free expression, although in a more subtle way than when Fidel ran things.
New policies regarding technology encapsulate what's going on.
Earlier this month, the regime authorized the sale of electronic equipment like small kitchen appliances and computers.
Yes, it is true: Up until the decree, it was illegal to just go out and buy a toaster. If that old Sunbeam in your family since 1956 broke down, you ate cold Cuban bread until assigned a replacement toaster. Ah, the march of freedom.
Of course, a toaster is just a toaster. A computer, though, is a dangerous thing. Like Information Minister Ramiro Valdes famously put it last year, the Internet is "the wild colt of new technologies that has to be tamed."
Not to worry about runaway horses. "The echo of the drumbeat announcing the imminent sale of computers, DVD players and other electro-domestic appliances has reached my ears," writes Yoani Sanchez of Generacion Y, the most popular dissident blog written from inside Cuba. "Like all the latest rumors, it comes from foreign countries. In the stores around my neighborhood nobody knows about this flood of technology."
And no wonder. The change in policy was leaked to Reuters and the Mexican news agency Notimex, but has yet to be mentioned in Cuba's state-run media. Besides, few Cubans can afford to buy a computer -- which the stores they are permitted to shop in don't have on the shelves anyway.
So, no computers to buy and no money to buy computers. But if your cousin in Miami sends you a few bucks and you are lucky enough to track down an old Pentium, go for it!
Oh, well. Being able to buy a computer without worrying about legalities is progress of a sort. It's the "Market" part of Market-Leninism.
The "Leninism" part comes in what you can do with it.
A 2006 report by Reporters Without Borders called Cuba "one of the world's most backward countries as regards Internet usage," with "less than 2 percent of the population online."
Cuba's government, says the report, "has more or less banned private Internet connections. To visit Web sites or check their e-mail, Cubans have to use public access points such as Internet cafes, universities and 'youth computing centers' where it is easier to monitor their activity.
Internet policy has not changed since the report was issued, two months after the older Castro got sick and temporarily gave up power. Still, those scary wild, wild horses are dragging tech-savvy Cubans away from the grasp of the Interior Ministry. People who manage to get online download files to flash drives, which then circulate among friends and friends of friends. Yoani Sanchez updates her blog by sneaking into hotel cyber cafes, verboten to Cubans, pretending she is a tourist. You can read her in Spanish at www.desdecuba.com/generaciony; an English-language version, www.desdecuba.com/generationy, is very nicely translated but a couple of postings behind.
Of course, being that so few Cubans have Internet access, the majority of visitors to her blog come from outside Cuba. But it seems even her handful of fans inside the island are a perceived threat. Her latest postings charge government censors are blocking her site from users in Cuba, or making their access excruciatingly slow.
In the "Black Spring" of five years ago, 75 independent writers and librarians were imprisoned for terms of more than 20 years. Some were found guilty of having "published counter-revolutionary writings on an Internet Web page."
It's a threat that hangs over Yoani Sanchez and other brave Cuban bloggers. Will creeping Sinoization mean they get blocked instead of thrown in jail?
Saturday, March 29, 2008
Censorship Instead of Prison Is What Passes for Progress in Cuba
Where is Cuba moving under Little Brother?
Friday, March 21, 2008
Brilliant Speech Will Not End Debate About Pastor
Barack Obama was two-for-three Tuesday in Philadelphia: He hit two home runs, then struck out.
What he said about race relations in general was practically unprecedented in American public life, free of the ideological baggage and ethnic one-upmanship that characterizes race talk in the United States.
Sounding like an old-fashioned Reaganesque patriot, standing before a backdrop of American flags in a building across from Independence Hall, he lauded the Founding Fathers who "launched America's improbable experiment in democracy." Yet he minced no words in saying the Constitution they wrote "was stained by this nation's original sin of slavery."
He did not shy away, either, from saying that black anger about discrimination "keeps us from squarely facing our own complicity in our condition." Nor was he afraid to sound like a conservative when he insisted "the African-American community" must take responsibility for our own lives -- by demanding more from our fathers, and spending more time with our children ... they must always believe that they can write their own destiny."
He even seemed to justify the "resentment" some whites feel "when they're told that their fears about crime in urban neighborhoods are somehow prejudiced."
Which did not mean he let white people off the hook: "In the white community, the path to a more perfect union means acknowledging that what ails the African-American community does not just exist in the minds of black people; that the legacy of discrimination -- and current incidents of discrimination, while less overt than in the past -- are real and must be addressed."
It was a performance full of nuance and paradox, an acknowledgement of the nuance and paradox inherent in a history of American race relations that cannot be understood without the shades of gray that accompany black and white.
Obama also was successful in explaining what was so deeply objectionable about Rev. Jeremiah Wright's 9/11 conspiracy theories, about his apparent belief that a murderous U.S. government sells drugs to poor blacks, about his call for God to "damn America."
"The profound mistake of Reverend Wright's sermons is not that he spoke about racism in our society. It's that he spoke as if our society was static; as if no progress has been made; as if this country -- a country that has made it possible for one of his own members to run for the highest office in the land and build a coalition of white and black, Latino and Asian, rich and poor, young and old -- is still irrevocably bound to a tragic past. But what we know -- what we have seen -- is that America can change. That is the true genius of this nation."
Wright's comments, Obama said, were "wrong and divisive." A few days ago, after the scandal broke, he used the phrases "categorically denounce" and "reject outright."
Strong stuff. Yet in that Philadelphia speech Obama also said of the now-retired pastor: "I can no more disown him than I can disown the black community. I can no more disown him than I can my white grandmother -- a woman who helped raise me, a woman who sacrificed again and again for me, a woman who loves me as much as she loves anything in this world, but a woman who once confessed her fear of black men who passed by her on the street, and who on more than one occasion has uttered racial or ethnic stereotypes that made me cringe."
Those arguments are so weak as to be unworthy of the nuanced and obviously paradox-capable mind Barack Obama clearly owns.
Breaking ties with Wright (if that is what "disown" means) may well be the equivalent of breaking ties with radical elements in the black community, but it is certainly not the same as breaking ties with the black community as a whole, which ought not be defined by the extremist few.
And as to his grandmother -- Obama actively sought out, then knowingly accepted Jeremiah Wright as a powerful presence in his life for 20 years. The grandmother came with the family.
One reason Obama won't "disown" Wright is that it can't be done, at least not in a way that allows Obama to keep credibility. If he did not "disown" the pastor for 20 years, what reason other than political expediency could there possibly be for doing it now?
Two out of three is not bad. But the game is not over. And up to bat next is Hillary Clinton.
Friday, March 14, 2008
The Shame of Torture
Back in 1996, Bob Dole kept asking, "Where's the outrage?"
Today, does anybody remember what there was to be outraged about?
A few voices are crying "outrage" once again. The difference is, this time it's for real. But who is paying attention?
Maybe we are too busy watching "American Idol." And distracted by economic woes. And entranced by Hillary-Obama. And worn down by the war. And -- more telling -- fearful of another terrorist attack.
The American president has told the world that the United States will torture people.
That is what it comes down to. Put aside euphemisms. It's not that the world's most powerful country reserves the option to use "specialized interrogation procedures" or "enhanced interrogation techniques."
What it is, is that our great democracy has sunk to tormenting people in its custody. Torture used to be the province of nasty dictators who were enemies of the United States, often because the United States had the moral authority to demand they stop.
Now, dictators can point a finger right back. And it won't be mere propaganda.
That should be enough to send a wave of revulsion sweeping across the entire country. And I mean the entire country, not just among Democrats looking to score partisan points, and not just among earnest liberals who believe even terrorists have human rights
Conservatives too, should be something near apoplectic. Under George W. Bush, the United States has become less powerful, less able to have its way, than at any time since Jimmy Carter's administration. And that's even though in the months that followed the 9/11 attacks, global sympathy put the United States at the height of its influence in world affairs. The Chinese, the Russians, the Saudis -- they did not protest taking out the Taliban in Afghanistan. It was a commanding position, unforgivably frittered away by unwise use of American power
Which explains why conservatives cannot bring themselves to see the serious damage done in the past seven years. Under Carter, the United States lost power through weakening of the military and indecisiveness in the civilian leadership -- failures traditionally associated with the left and therefore easy for the foreign-policy right to recognize and criticize.
In contrast, the failures of the Bush administration are the product of misapplied right-wing philosophies. So conservatives have a hard time seeing these policies as failures.
Invade Iraq with little international support and with disregard for understanding the local culture? We can do that -- we have a great military.
Torture people to get them to talk? We can do that -- we are Americans who hold the moral high ground.
The follies committed in Iraq are so self-evident, even conservatives understand the gravity (the "surge" is but an admission of the injudiciousness that preceded it). But the folly of torture has yet to get universal condemnation from the right, except for mavericks like John McCain
Quoting international nongovernmental organizations criticizing U.S. policy is not the best way to win conservative hearts and minds. But Human Rights Watch says there is an "absolute, unequivocal prohibition against torture or other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment of any person, including terrorist suspects. The right to be free from such mistreatment is one of the most fundamental and unequivocal human rights."
"Absolute." "Unequivocal." Once upon a time, American officials agreed absolutely, unequivocally. They no longer do.
Torture is not even a practical necessity. Expert interrogators from the FBI and the military believe it doesn't work, because people will lie to stop the pain. The Army's field manual recommends 19 techniques that range from sophisticated deceptions to appropriately aggressive good cop/bad cop. So nobody is "coddling terrorists." And as to the "ticking time bomb," experts say it's a fantasy
"I'd be hard-pressed to find a situation where anybody can tell me that they've ever encountered a ticking bomb scenario," former FBI interrogator Jack Cloonan, who questioned al-Qaida suspects, told "Foreign Policy" magazine. "When it happens on '24'... it makes us all believe it's real. It's not. Throw that stuff out. It doesn't happen."
Wednesday, March 5, 2008
Will the Moderate Latin Left Stop Chávez's March to War?
The stupidest war in the world right now is the one being waged against the Colombian state by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC.
You look at other conflicts and you can sort of understand: Country X thinks country Z stole its land and wants to get it back; or tyrant A can be ousted only by force; or group B wants to behead everyone who doesn't worship god C.
You don't have to agree with any side in those wars -- you can believe, for instance, that group B consists of medieval lunatic murderers. Still, you know why they are fighting.
Such is not the case in Colombia's four-decades-old conflict. The country has been a democracy all those years, with a vigorously free press and competitive elections that have resulted in left-leaning presidents some years, right-leaning presidents other years (as is the case now).
But FARC takes part in no elections, unlike the former guerrilla group known as M-19, which had a far-left agenda similar to FARC's but disarmed and entered the Colombian political process in the late 1980s. Instead, FARC devotes itself to kidnapping people, selling cocaine and killing innocent civilians in attacks on small country towns. It was declared a terrorist group by the European Union and the governments of Colombia and the United States.
The conflict remained ostensibly local until last week, when the Colombian armed forces struck a FARC base inside Ecuadorean territory and killed Raul Reyes, one of the top two or three FARC commanders. According to Colombia's national police chief Gen. Oscar Naranjo, documents seized at the camp say that FARC operatives are in the market for uranium, and that Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez sent the group some $300 million.
Naturally, Ecuador protested Colombia's violation of its territory. Just as understandably, Colombia protested Ecuador turning a blind eye to terrorists in Ecuadorean territory. Chavez and his Ecuadorean ally Rafael Correa withdrew their ambassadors in Bogota and closed Colombian embassies in their capitals.
Then sabers got rattled. Chavez ordered troops and tanks (as many as 200) to the border, and Ecuador sent troops, too. South America is at the brink of a war the likes of which it has never seen.
There have been wars there before, bloody ones too. In the War of the Triple Alliance, fought from 1864 to 1870, Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay defeated Paraguay and killed nearly its entire male population of fighting age. About a decade later Chile fought Bolivia and took land Bolivia still claims. As recently as 1995 Peru and Ecuador had a brief shoot'em-up with about 100 total killed over a disputed border.
But never has there been a war between nations that was a direct result of competing global political ideologies. The current crisis has the potential to start the first one. Even if FARC is nothing more than a very big, well-armed gang of drug-dealing thugs posing as Marxist-Leninist ideologues, Chavez's rantings about Colombian President Alvaro Uribe being a lackey of the United States guarantees this will not be your average South American territorial war.
Which is why Chavez's yawners about imperialistas Yanquis now take an ominous tone. Is he crazy enough to go to war with Colombia?
It doesn't look as if Colombia is going to give him an excuse. Uribe has refrained from massing his own troops on the borders, an attempt to de-escalate the crisis. Besides, since Colombia's extraterritorial excursion was on Ecuadorean soil, not Venezuelan, what is Chavez doing in the middle of this?
Venezuelan Defense Minister Gustavo Rangel laid it out at a Caracas press conference this week: "It is not against the people of Colombia, but rather the expansionist designs of the empire," he said, according to The New York Times.
It's a Chavez fantasy: defeat the United States by defeating Colombia.
It is up to the sane left in Latin America -- Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva in Brazil, Michelle Bachelet in Chile -- to tell Chavez that the region will not accept his attempt to turn South America's stupidest war into its most dangerous. It will have to say, in the king of Spain's famous phrase, "Why don't you shut up."


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So you know we're on the market, you know there are 2 other units for sale (or I should say 1 now as 1 is in contract) Did I mention the war between the realtors? The realtor for my competitor, the one that sold, kept bringing people from their open house over to my house....kinda icky IMO. So hopefully won't have to deal with them any more since they sold.
Part II of the story is....our realtor suggested we put a 'for sale' sign up at the road in front of the complex...no one has done it before, you can't post it in front of you unit according to house rules...we asked the board for permission and the management Co...got it in writing that we could so we did....then on sunday I played cat and mouse with the dang sign all day...someone kept pulling it out and throwing it in the bushes...I just kept putting it back up....today--GONE! what is wrong with these people!
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Best interests remain the standard in California...in order to prevent a convicted rapist from exercising parental rights.
The dissent states, "Given the prevalence in today's world of fractured families and the relative ease of qualifying as a presumed 'natural father' -- especially under the majority's analysis in this case," he wrote, "thousands of biological fathers in California may now be at risk … although they have a loving, healthy and well-developed relationship with their children."
My question is...why is it the responsibility of the state to preserve those "loving, healthy and well-developed relationship(s)" where the biological fathers haven't done so themselves? Sounds like an effort to allow bio dads to maintain relationships without legal responsibilities...a concept which I find disgusting.
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I little history prior to my question.....I have a Seaark 18' Footer with a 150 Honda Jet/lower unit. I know that it's not a halibut boat by any means. However, I have picked up halibut on nice days out of Ninilchik on drifts as well as Flat Island out of Homer. (That's far enough for me!)
I have never fished out of Whittier on charter so I don't know the water. Is unrealistic to go out in the main bay of whittier and pick-up a few halibut in July to avoid going to Homer?
I know common sense goes a long way and I'm no dare devil.
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When I heard of the passing of the great Dr. Maya Angelou, like many of us I was very shocked and sad.
I was comforted in the many words and quotes that I saw online through social media. Then I began to think, which one of her works would be best suitable to share with my children. I searched and found that Dr. Angelou has written two books for a young audience. Check out Life Doesn't Frighten Me, and listen to her narrate it as well!
Also Poetry for Young People: Maya Angelou is a collection of some of her best poems.


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Lent: Day 21
But you, LORD Almighty, who judge righteously
and test the heart and mind,
let me see your vengeance on them,
for to you I have committed my cause. (Jeremiah 11:20)
Your wrath has swept over me;
your terrors have destroyed me.
All day long they surround me like a flood;
they have completely engulfed me.
You have taken from me friend and neighbor—
darkness is my closest friend. (Psalm 88:16-18)
For we know that our old self was crucified with him so that the body ruled by sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves to sin—because anyone who has died has been set free from sin. (Romans 6:6-7)
Jesus replied, "Very truly I tell you, everyone who sins is a slave to sin. Now a slave has no permanent place in the family, but a son belongs to it forever. So if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed." (John 8:34-36)


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Given that it specialises in militant bass music, Combat is not the most obvious place for Richard Bultitude (aka Point B) to release his debut album. The visceral, lurching
Minerals is the only connection to the label's usual dance floor output, but Bultitude clearly enjoys mixing and matching styles, nuances and, at times, seemingly incompatible sources. This is audible on
Weightless, where a menacing, wobbly bass and cut-up rhythms provide the backdrop for an unexpected, breathless vocal sample. Further Thoughts on Movement sees Bultitude operate in an undefined space between a jumpy two-step groove and austere electro futurism. If the Indian vocals and summery groove of Candour is ever released as a single, it may give Combat its first crossover hit, an unthinkable concept for the label before this album. www.combatrecordings.com RICHARD BROPHY


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Gráinne Ní Aodha, "German students say English exam that asked them to explain Brexit was unfair", The Journal (Dublin) 5/4/2018:
German students have complained that an English exam that asked them to discuss Brexit, among other things, was too difficult and "unfair".
Over 35,000 people have signed an online petition to voice their opposition to the challenging English paper, saying that the reading comprehensions and current affairs topics were unfair.
Christopher Schuetze, "Thousands of German Students Protest 'Unfair' English Exam", NYT 5/5/2018:
Complaining that your final school exams are too tough is a rite of passage — almost a tradition.
But German students in the southwestern state of Baden-Württemberg who hunkered down in April to take pivotal final secondary-school exams have gone a step further in their protests about the English-language portion of the test, which they said was absurd, with obscure and outdated references.
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Montgomery High School, Principal Were Allegedly Targeted
By Dan Morse and Aaron C. Davis
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Thursday, April 30, 2009
Two Montgomery County teenagers have been charged with arson and conspiracy to commit murder in an alleged plot to kill the principal at their White Oak high school with a nail-filled bomb and then trigger a major explosion inside the school, authorities said yesterday.
The Springbrook High School students -- juniors ages 18 and 17 -- are suspected of having set three fires at the school, including one Tuesday before the discovery of the plot that led to their arrests, police said.
According to police, the students planned "in the near future" to throw the bomb into the principal's office, and then puncture a gas pipe in the school's auditorium and use an incendiary device to set off an explosion.
Montgomery Police Chief J. Thomas Manger said investigators think the students "really had an intention of doing this."
Thursday, May 7, 2009
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Orange TV launches dedicated 3D TV magazine
Pascale Paoli-Lebailly ©RapidTVNews | 22-10-2011French IPTV platform Orange TV is coproducing a new TV magazine to be shot in stereoscopic 3D dedicated to the world of the third dimension itself.
In association with Troisième il Productions, the new half-hour programme, entitled Mag3D, will be the first one entirely dedicated to this technology in France. It will offer a range of topics to inform, educate and entertain the viewer about 3D, including new film releases, sports events, documentaries, video games etc. The Mag3D website will also allow users to experience visual aspects that are both impressive and interesting according to Orange.
The first show will air on November 28th on Orange TVs 3D dedicated channel 30, which is accessible to all Orange high-speed broadband customers who have HD TV over fibre optics, IPTV or satellite and a 3D TV set. Mag3D will also be available on the DailyMotion 3D channel, on PC, mobile and on video-on-demand free of charge.
Since its first experiment in 3D for the Roland-Garros French International Tennis Open, in 2008, Orange has opened a 3D event channel that broadcasts 3D sport (Roland Garros, Premier League, the World Surfing Championships), films and even Albert de Monacos wedding last Summer.
Orange, which claims 15 000 subs to its 3D offer wants to promote 3D among TV viewers, as all IPTV platforms push this technology to commercialised high-speed broadband and FTTH among subscribers.
3D Television has not taken off yet in France, with only 150,000 3D TV sets sold in 2010, and 900,000 expected in 2011.
Besides, among 3D TV sets owners, many come to 3D shows for a few minutes before getting back to 2D TV. Some suppliers are quite disappointed by this lack of interest and could challenge the future of their 3D channels beyond 2012.


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That's what used to be displayed on the screen after the "Pearl & Dean" ads (yes I really am that old!) and before they played any trailers in the cinema.
Anyway, enough of the nostalgia. This week brings the opportunity to catch up on one or two of the following. Blackhat, The Wedding Ringer, Project Almanac and Fifty Shades. A glance at my Flixster app tells me not one of these films is considered "Fresh" by Rotten Tomatoes, with the best of the bunch clocking in at a heady 35% Rotten…not a good week.
I'm not going to have the chance to see all four (which may be a blessing), but viewing two of them would be good. I'll definitely be seeing Blackhat today, despite its 33% Rotten rating. This really surprises me when considering its pedigree; can Michael Mann really be responsible for such a dog? I'll be finding out soon enough. I really should see Fifty Shades as well. Such a box office smash deserves a chance and I'm no prude. The only problem is that my wife is very busy and isn't going to be able to accompany me to the cinema. Which means I'm going to have to go on my own and probably look like some sad old pervert in the process. Oh well, I don't really care; I've come to realise that post-40 is a fantastic time of life purely based on the fact that the older I get, the less I actually care about other people's perceptions of me. Perhaps I'll take a box of tissue with me to make my fellow cinema goers and the multiplex staff feel really uncomfortable…
Moving on. If you've been wondering why I haven't really been doing anything else on this blog other than reviewing films my reply is:
- I've been watching lots of films and don't really have time for anything else.
- I haven't seen a decent trailer that's hit me like a freight train for ages. So what's the point in posting mediocrity?
But fortunately I've found a bit of time today for this catch-up, so I hope reading something other than a review is a welcome change.
And my One Word Review for the Academy Awards this year is Forseeable. I'm not going to go through each award and discuss the whys and wherefores but I would like to ask, "How in the hell did Interstellar win Best Achievement in Visual Effects over Dawn of the Planet of the Apes?!?" What have the guys and girls at Weta Digital got to do to bring that one home? I really liked Interstellar, but Holy Guacamole!
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Larne NI Hospice Support Group got to see the fruits of their efforts during a recent visit to the charity's new £13m dementia-friendly adult hospice in Belfast.
Since 2013, support groups based all over Northern Ireland have raised funds from events including coffee-morning gatherings to carol services, funfairs and dances to contribute an amazing £909,973.45 for the adult hospice rebuild project and service running costs.
The groups, including the local Larne support group, were shown the 18 bedded en-suite in-patient unit where each of the rooms are complemented by private gardens allowing patients and families to enjoy the outdoors. They saw how the new bedrooms will provide a warm and comfortable environment; a home from home experience with plenty of space to spend time together with privacy and dignity and access to professional care.
Support group members were also guided to the new day hospice where patients using the in-patient unit and those also receiving care from hospice nurses in the community can come on dedicated days to enjoy some light entertainment, take part in activities and get the opportunity to see a consultant. The groups also passed the in house hair salon, where volunteer hairdressers will treat patients to a pamper session.
Jennifer Beattie from the Larne Support Group said: "As dedicated fundraisers to NI Hospice, the Larne Support Group was delighted to get the chance to see the new building before patients moved in.
"We have been involved in fundraising with hospice for 23 years and it is fantastic to see how things have progressed since we began. NI Hospice started off caring for six patients in Somerton House and today with both In-Patient services and services in the community; they care for over 3,000 patients each year.
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I can host all the fundraising events in the world, and I can go to this Yoga Training ten times over, but what really matters here is spreading the word. Ending the stigma. Fighting for a life.
So I would like to share a journal entry from May 13, 2017 – I was having a rough week:
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I do not actually want to cause my body harm. I don't want to feel pain, or have my family find my lifeless body in some surprise gruesome fashion.
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I do have moments, many moments, where I think it would be better, easier, if I was not alive. It would be less of a burden on my family and friends, both emotionally, and financially.
But mostly, it would end my suffering. This ball of constant anxiety that lives in my throat, that I choke back each day, would be released into the universe and my energy could be used to create something beautiful, like a star.
The star could light the way for my loved ones, to move on, knowing I was at peace.
Please don't think I am going to harm myself. I know I sound morbid, but it is just how I feel inside.
I feel so alone.
I am lonely."
It's important to know that there are ups and downs in every life, and I feel grateful that I was able to get through this rut. You are not alone. Always remember that.
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Tuesday, January 1, 2008
some holiday highlights -
- we decided to forgo the tempurpedic mattress (four thousand dollars, who knew?)
in favor of the large flatscreen
(less, because they are on sale. and not made of "memory foam".
four thousand dollar memory foam.)
coming in january: flatscreen prettiness.
-found a bag. don't need it, but . . .
you know. maybe just to carry some stuff around in.
groceries, whatever.
what do you think? green good, right?
it's all about "green" these days. . .
- i unpacked and propped the new home.
now it is pretty. i feel MUCH better.
boxes make me jumpy,
i keep thinking :
"wait, what the hell is in THAT ONE? what have i forgotten about?"
- saw the golden compass.
be forewarned, i AM going as mrs. coulter next halloween.
why? hello, gold hand-beaded gowns / elizabeth-montgomery blonde bob /
large golden monkey?
it's practically already done, people.
i just have to add lip gloss. and a monkey.
- ate potato chips. and ice cream sandwiches. and sushi. all on the same day.
hello fabulous self-indulgent nausea!
- tanned. there, i said it. fake baked. whatever.
sometimes that just feels so freakin good, and i know, i know,
but i don't smoke, barely drink, and haven't had an illicit drug since . . .
since. . .
funny, why can't i remember. . .
well, anyway. . .
it felt good.
- saw atonement.
key takeaway:
keira knightley and james macavoy must breed.
mainly for my amusement, but also for the continuation of obscenely gorgeously jawboned human beings with posh accents and glittery eyes.
there's an acronym in there somewhere.
- downloaded spanish lessons.
cause i'm going back to argentina.
and should probably learn to order my own food instead of leaning over to julia
and saying things like "mmm. and one of those."
and hoping she translates
rather than rolling her eyes and telling the waiter to spit on my steak.
- saw enchanted.
delightful! amy adams, amazing . . . shockingly for a disney film.
- oh, bliss. snuggled with the puppies, snuggled with the puppies.
taught avec "settle" so she doesn't jump so much.
started to teach them "sleep" so they sleep on their own beds.
so they stop sleeping ON me every night.
sweet as their snuffling is.
- saw Juno.
course, could have skipped all the others in favor of this.
it's brill.
or, as they say, "wizard".
- ran into this at saks.
i think it's the perfect way to sum up the year:
adieu, 07.
8 comments:
- Stacy said...
Love the last photo.
Can't wait to see Juno! Gotta support my fellow Canucks, eh?
- January 2, 2008 at 11:16 AM
- moi said...
James Macavoy: Si
Kiera Knightly: No
I dunno. Kinda boney and rabbity, although she might make a fabulously fun friend, the kind who would go running with you AND loan you anything you desired out of her closet afterward.
Good luck with the Spanish, the pibble lessons, and Happy, Happy New Year to you and yours!
- January 2, 2008 at 11:52 AM
- TravelGretta said...
You have accomplished far too much this holiday season.
Don't forget to check our horoscope. It's grand!
- January 2, 2008 at 12:42 PM
- Whiskeymarie said...
1) I have heard tempurpedics aren't that great for the $$. One of my co-workers bought one and returned it withing a week (he said it was really cold and weirdly stiff to sleep on). The delivery/pick up guys said that they saw about a 50% return rate on those things.
2) I'll try and find you a large golden monkey. On sale, if possible.
3) The bag is gorgeous.
4) I want to drive a mannequin around on a dolly. It would be fun to roll one around town like it's your best friend and you're having a fun day out.
I think I need to get a mannequin.
5) Happy new year!
- January 2, 2008 at 1:05 PM
- editor said...
okay, let's clear up a few things - did you really catch hermes-mania? happily there is no vaccine. (i have it bad and am loving the red bolide and white kelly in the background. yum!) that hac would hold at least one of your dogs.
are you really teaching the dogs not to sleep on you? sleeping on me is the best thing about my dog.
you unpacked in record time.
hope the flat screen is... as flat as you want it to be. i lurve my tempurpedic. so does my dog.
- January 2, 2008 at 4:21 PM
- Inarticulate Fumblings said...
We just got home from Argentina. I was checking out your blog periodically to see what you were up to (we were in BA at the same time).
Stayed at the Four Seasons (which was brilliant, if you ever go back) but managed to make it over to your hotel for a Tango show.
Happy New Year. Love the new bag.
- January 3, 2008 at 10:41 AM
- The Ambiguous Blob said...
so the costumes in golden compass were amazing, but how was the movie? I'm still debating going to see this one.
- January 3, 2008 at 10:52 AM
- Gervy said...
I was not at all fond of Kiera before I saw Atonement. Something about her mouth/jaw? But this movie was perfect for her rakish thinness... that green dress, the glamorous smoking...
Happy new year, by the way. Enjoy your new place.
- January 3, 2008 at 3:09 PM


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Thursday, November 8, 2007
D Wade the ladies man, but still married man
From what I'm hearing Dwayne just cant keep it in his pants no homo. He's been linked from everyone to Gabrielle Union, to Ciara. Usually the gossip train runs virtually every celebrities name thorough the mud. But it's when the rumors star to t become consistent that you've got start paying attention.
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Rumor has it that Siohvaughn Wade traveled back to Miami from her hometown (Chi-town), where she has been hiding out for a while with their kids, to try to save her marriage. However, we hear that the real reason that Siohvaughn came back to South Florida was to physically confront Dwayne Wade's latest fling - actress Gabrielle Union. The tipster explained, "Dwayne and Siohvaughn have been trying to work out their marriage, but it's hard to do that when there are so many thirsty women all up under him." According to our insider, Dwayne's intimate relationship with actress Gabrielle Union was one of the main impediments to the couple's reconciliation. Siohvaughn's friend explained, "You have to understand, those two were friends. For [Gabrielle] to now be dating [Siohvaughn's] husband is just plain wrong … So [Siohvaughn] packed her bags and went down [to Miami] with two of her girlfriends from the Chi and they were ready to get crazy." And according a family member, things were about to get explosive.
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Monday, February 6, 2012
And That's One Point for Me
I like my brain; and while those who have witnessed my efforts to pickle it on occasion may disagree, I persist in believing that I act in its best interest.
It's a good brain; and despite what you may hear from an unfriendly press, I have had opportunity to use it several times.
Apart from enjoying my brain, however, I have not always been happy about being smart; and at one point in elementary school, whilst moving, once again, from one small town to another, I pretended that I was not.
Raise my hand? Who? Me?
I went from jamming my entire arm into the air every time the teacher asked a question to feigning ignorance to just about everything.
What? Answer a question? Me? Nope. I'm just the new kid.
We stayed at that particular school for a year and then moved again. Tired of pretending that I didn't know anything, I resumed my question-answering ways.
In my late-20s, I returned to school to become a court reporter; and while there I took several classes I didn't really need, one of which was shorthand.
The shorthand class was part of the Secretarial Sciences program, a one-year course designed to turn recent high school graduates into employment-worthy receptionists, secretaries, and administrative assistants.
It was, of course, difficult to simultaneously learn two forms of shorthand at once; but I cleverly retained the majority of the manual shorthand for a period of perhaps three years, tops, whereupon I purged it from my brain in favor of more crucial information such as memorizing drink recipes and who played guitar in what band.
The shorthand teacher was a tall, bird-like woman intensely devoted to her students; and the day I walked into class, her bright little eyes positively shone with excitement.
Poor Miz Bird. She was competitive, a Lucille Ball sort of character in her belted dresses and high heels; and it pained her that a court reporting student was taking her class. She very much wanted one of her students to outshine me – not for personal reasons, you understand, as she didn't know me – but in a we-got-spirit-yes-we-do-we-got-spirit-how-about-YOU? sort of way.
Poor Miz Bird. Her students were, across the board, 18 years old and hung-over on a daily basis. The freedom of leaving home and attending a community college was heady stuff; and they celebrated, nightly.
Me? As a single 28-year-old with a six-year-old at home, I needed this degree.
Miz Bird gave us spelling words every Monday.
It was important that we were well-rounded.
"I know we're all looking forward to Friday's test," she chirped one day. "And I hope that my girls are going to show our little court reporter here how we do it in the Secretarial Sciences!"
Full-time school, child at home, part-time work, I didn't have a chance to look at the words until Wednesday night; and while I would not say I am psychic, I had a strange feeling about one of the words. I had heard of it, I knew how to spell it, but I didn't know what it meant. Suspicious and dead tired, I looked the word up and promptly fell asleep on the couch.
In the morning, Miz Bird hopped, excitedly, from one desk to another.
She had a surprise for us.
We weren't going to have the spelling test tomorrow. In fact, it wasn't a spelling test at all! It was a vocabulary test and we were having it today! Surprise!
Judging from the looks on the faces of the other gals in the room – and judging by the way they all turned to look at me – the only one in the class that was surprised was me.
The test was aloud.
Missy, what does "nubile" mean? Patti, what is the meaning of the word "desultory"?
Oddly enough, Missy and Patti, best known for their having lip-synched to Pat Benatar's "Hit Me With Your Best Shot" at October's Fall Dance and Cow Patty Bingo Extravaganza, knew both words.
I would've bet against it.
I looked up.
"Perhaps you can tell the class the meaning of the word "apogee"?"
It was the word. The word I had looked up last night.
The bright young faces in the class, smiling expectantly, turned to look at me, the Old Lady in the Room. There were only 28 women in the Secretarial Sciences program, and I wasn't one of them.
"Apogee," I repeated thoughtfully. "I believe that's the highest point in an arc, isn't it? The summit?"
Miz Bird's face fell, as did the rest of the class's.
It was a triumph, even if it was a small one.
And I had really needed a triumph.
40 comments:
- Susan in the Boonies said...
Take that, Miz Bird Brain. And all your little baby birds, too.
- February 6, 2012 at 7:05 AM
- Glen said...
There's nothing like a good old fashioned fluke exam question. We all need a bit of luck now and again and when it comes at atime like that? Beautiful
- February 6, 2012 at 7:12 AM
- mybabyjohn/Delores said...
Suspicion...one of the more important landmarks on the educational horizon.
- February 6, 2012 at 7:16 AM
- R. Jacob said...
Not being put in your place is a large victory of the moment but I am guessing she laid in wait trying to get you once again. Education, is it worth it?
- February 6, 2012 at 7:21 AM
- Pearl said...
Susan, I actually kinda felt for her: you could smell the booze on most of them. At 28, I was far and away the oldest person in her class -- and probably the only sober one as well...
Glen, it was a tough time to be me. :-) I learned a ton, though, and one of the things I learned was just how much work you can do when you need to.
Delores, I always go with my gut!!
R., she secretly liked me, I think. She just really wanted to like "her girls" more and they were a tough group to be proud of. :-)
- February 6, 2012 at 7:32 AM
- SparkleFarkle said...
What a stimulating read this one has been! From this day forward, I shall aspire to be a the best "apogee" I can be! After achieving that and while still hanging there, I will paint myself red, the highest colour on the Rainbow of Life. Then, I guess I will shout, "WHAT'S FOR SUPPER?!" Because, isn't the sky the limit?
Thank-you, Pearlie, you are my inspiration! And, Miss Bird, God bless you.
- February 6, 2012 at 7:35 AM
- Pearl said...
Sparkle, that's fabulous. :-) Inspriring you? I'm tickled!!
- February 6, 2012 at 7:38 AM
- Shelly said...
Heeheee! Loved this. A victory like this is most satisfying to me. Good for you!
- February 6, 2012 at 7:41 AM
- Leenie said...
I don't know which is more impressive: your mastering of multitasking, your intuition, or SparkleFarkle's comment.
- February 6, 2012 at 7:45 AM
- Pearl said...
Shelly, I'm glad. :-)
Leenie, well, the multitasking I inherited from my mother, and I've always trusted my instincts, but Sparkle is consistently amusing, so I'm just gonna throw a big "holla!" in her direction. :-)
- February 6, 2012 at 7:53 AM
- esbboston said...
That is cool that you got to have an apogee moment with apogee.
Did your parents give you lots of books and encyclopedias and National Geographics? I hated school, but loved all my things at home, loved to learn. I finally had a great science teacher or two who inspired me to make good grades and become a scientist.
- February 6, 2012 at 8:38 AM
- Pearl said...
esb, my paternal grandmother had National Geographics, and I believe we had Readers Digest. :-) We didn't have a lot of books actually, but I fell in love with libraries at an early age and still get dizzy with excitement when I walk into one!
- February 6, 2012 at 8:58 AM
- jenny_o said...
Yay for you! I'm glad you got your triumph!
Shame on Miz Bird. There are ways to encourage poor students without setting up a fake competition against the good ones.
- February 6, 2012 at 8:59 AM
- jenny_o said...
... and Cow Patty Bingo Extravaganza... heh
- February 6, 2012 at 9:00 AM
- Suldog said...
Interesting about the feigning of ignorance. I did much the same in early grades. My Mom had taught me the rudiments of reading before I entered kindergarten, so I was way ahead of my classmates in that skill. When called upon to read aloud, I would sometimes stumble on purpose. This was because I didn't want to embarrass the other kids via reading so much more easily than they were able.
- February 6, 2012 at 9:08 AM
- Joanne said...
I recalled your fun. When I had to get a degree to get a job to support two kids they threw in some stupid sociology requirement. I was the grading systems' curve buster, which I thought at least some of those simpering 18 year olds should have aspired to.
- February 6, 2012 at 9:11 AM
- KAT said...
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- February 6, 2012 at 9:29 AM
- Friko said...
Attagirl! I don't like dunces, I am quite open about it, but I do like bright people. And words are definitely a sign of a whole electricity sub-station illumination bright.
Not only bright, but funny. I'm in heaven.
- February 6, 2012 at 10:11 AM
- Amy Saia said...
I really loved reading this. Karma was on your side that day. Love it.
- February 6, 2012 at 10:50 AM
- CarrieBoo said...
Boo-yacka! In yer face! I can just picture Miz Bird features.
P.S. I'm not convinced a sloth could pull off intermediate yoga... ;)
- February 6, 2012 at 10:56 AM
- Rita said...
In her own way she was probably trying to motivate her girls with some competition. Funny how some people's minds work. Glad you knew the answer! Not that it sounds like any of those girls cared one way or the other--LOL! ;)
- February 6, 2012 at 11:21 AM
- Daisy said...
We like your brain too, Pearl, and all the imagination, humour, stories, that it produces!
- February 6, 2012 at 12:37 PM
- JohnD said...
Serendipitous viva voce LOL.
At High School, we had a last class of the day geography exam - name 15 rivers in New South Wales that flow into the Murray-Darling. Next day, last class, we got the results. To my Geography teachers great dismay only one person in the whole class got them al correct - Yep, little ol' me!. I was allowed to leave on-time and the rest of the class was detained for 30 minutes of Geography revision.
I was ecstatic! My father didn't believe me! (:
- February 6, 2012 at 1:17 PM
- Belle said...
How I wish you had been in my university English class and answered a question from my prof. He was always trying to trip students up. Loved the story.
- February 6, 2012 at 2:17 PM
- Susan Flett Swiderski said...
Our sons dropped out of college and then went back later to finish their degrees ... and completely wrecked the grading curve for their younger, and considerably less motivated classmates. HA! I say, good for them and good for you!
- February 6, 2012 at 2:46 PM
- Jo-Anne's Rambling said...
When I was at school I often knew the answers but I would not raise my hand instead I told my best friend and she raised her hand and answered the question so did the teachers know it was me tell her the answers yes they did............
I also tried to learn shorthand but just couldn't get my head around it......I really sucked at it.......
- February 6, 2012 at 3:01 PM
- Dee said...
Dear Pearl,
I have a deep, philosophical problem with teachers who try to "trip up" their students. Respect is essential between student and teacher. And the teacher, I believe, needs to be the first giver.
So while this story is funny in one way. Even a little magical. It got my dander up for that 28-year-old young mother who had to define apogee.
- February 6, 2012 at 3:24 PM
- JeannetteLS said...
Now, see, I think your brain is, as we said in the seventies, a trip. A GOOD trip. And it's strange, but all the teachers I had in the community college where I learned computer graphics were RELIEVED to have an older student because we were there to LEARN. Too bad she didn't use your dedication to motivate.
Feh, as I am prone to saying. Fitting that that was your word, I think. You sat right atop the learning curve, didn't you!
I pretended I was a bit slow for one quarter in school, but it was BORING. And I found I didn't like the kids who devalued smart.
Anyway, this was interesting to read on several levels for me.
Here's to YOUR BRAIN!
- February 6, 2012 at 3:48 PM
- SherilinR said...
cheers to you for being the smart, hardworking mama in the class! smart sure beats stupid any day.
- February 6, 2012 at 4:40 PM
- HermanTurnip said...
That is awesome. The stars aligned just right for you that day :-)
You should have taken a bow...
- February 6, 2012 at 8:07 PM
- The Elephant's Child said...
A win for the good guys.
- February 6, 2012 at 9:44 PM
- Diane said...
Okay, I learned something today. (It's really not as unbelievable as it sounds . . .) Apogee. I always thought it was one of the spell words used by the witch (Angela Lansbury) on Bedknobs and Broomsticks. Really. It's probably a good thing it was you in that class instead of me. I would have taken their scorn to new heights.
- February 6, 2012 at 10:54 PM
- The Jules said...
Lovely post, as per blinking usual! Wish I had opportunity to comment more often.
I like those little victories.
Reminded me of when I was fifteen and our new Phys Ed teacher made me play him at badminton in bare feet because my trainers had a small blue flash on the side, contravening the schools all-white policy (on sports footwear, not pupils).
Expecting to embarrass me in front of the class as a warning to us all, I absolutely thrashed him. In bare feet.
My dad had decided he liked badminton and we'd been members of the local club for years.
Still makes me grin 25 years on.
- February 6, 2012 at 11:20 PM
- Crystal Pistol said...
I don't like Miz Bird. I don't like her one bit. But I'll bet I would have loved her wardrobe. I love the whole Bev Cleaver bit... with a twist, of course.
Why must people feel so smug when someone fails? Why would one wish that on another? I truly do not understand that part of the human psyche. Nor do I ever wish to.
- February 6, 2012 at 11:33 PM
- River said...
I learned apogee when it was the answer to a crossword clue. I had no idea, so checked the paper the next day to see what the answer was, then looked it up in my dictionary. I've never forgotten it. This happened quite a lot and it's how I learnt new words. Apart from that, I'm not the brightest bulb in the chandelier, but I'm not the dimmest either.
- February 6, 2012 at 11:48 PM
- jabblog said...
I take my hat off to you, Pearl. What was Miz Bird thinking? You're right, though - she liked you because you made her job worthwhile.
- February 7, 2012 at 4:14 AM
- esbboston said...
I love the library parts to the movie Matilda and her discovery of a bigger richer world of the real and unreal, discovering her power within. And the line about her favorite author, Darryl Chickens.
- February 7, 2012 at 6:35 AM
- Pat said...
Drat! You got me with apogee!
- February 7, 2012 at 7:11 AM
- On My Soapbox said...
Nothing like a passive-aggressive teacher. Ughhhhh.
- February 7, 2012 at 9:07 PM
- Eva Gallant said...
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One&Only Guest Speaker Series: Colin BellJune 15, 2015 · Cinnapanel · cool things, healthy & wealthy, Things to do · 0 Comments
18 June 2015 The One&Only Guest Speaker Series features Colin Bell, a South African conservationist and wildlife conservation pioneer. Co-founder of Wilderness Safaris, expert field guide, renowned rhino conservationist and author, a leader in creating sustainable and working safari partnerships with rural communities throughout Africa. Venue: One&Only Cape Town, Dock Rd, V&A Waterfront, Cape Town Time: 6pm.