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Posted: May 20 2012, 02:46 AM
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So, the Fear Ideas thread has seen a lot of activity lately. Time to sort things out. This is my (and only my) Guide to Creating New Fears.
Step One: Read the Fear Mythos
If you want to write in any setting, you have to understand that setting. Sure, the Fear Mythos has no canon, but the Fears themselves are normally written in a certain way. If you've never read the Fear Mythos...why are you here?
Step Two: Write About a Current Fear(s)
This is important: before trying to make something new, write something about what's already there. Perhaps you'll find that you didn't need to create something new at all, that there was already a Fear you could use, or a combination of Fears. Heck, there are so many Fears that are underused - and even non-Fears, like Jack of All. Try using them in a creepypasta or a story.
Step Three: Fear of What?
If you still find that you have an idea for a Fear, remember: the fear aspect of the Fears can be ancillary - in fact, I recommend writing something creepy and thinking up the fear after that, to compliment it - but still, the fear needs to be there.
However, be wary of fears that are too specific. The fear of being burned? Sure. The fear of enclosed spaces? Fine. The fear of "being caught in the fog with no sense of direction"? That...is a very specific fear that not many people have.
The best fears are the ones that work on many levels. EAT is the fear of drowning - both literally and metaphorically drowning in your obsessions. The Cold Boy is the fear of being cold - both literally and metaphorically, being cut off from other people. The Unnamed Child was the fear of commitment first starting out...but she can also work as the fear of losing a loved one. Heck, we didn't even know what fear the Manufactured Newborn was...until we decided that it was the fear of the future, the fear of technology out of control (on the whole, this one is too specific as well, I think, but it still works).
The fear of being burned is a good fear to choose. You can be literally burned and metaphorically - when you burn your bridges or when somebody burns you, shuns you.
The fear of knowledge...I don't know anyone who is afraid of knowledge, but it might work. The fear of knowing too much? Or perhaps the fear of being stupid? The fear that everyone is smarter than you?
The fear of disasters...that one is interesting, because people do fear disasters. The trick is to make it personal as well - will he show up for personal disasters? Does he orchestrate the disasters or just takes advantage of them?
Ask yourself these questions before choosing the fear for your Fear.
Step Four: Be Creepy
The Fear Mythos includes many genres, but it is built on a base of Cosmic Horror and creepypasta. That means that, even if you don't intend to use your Fear in a horror-setting, it still needs to be creepy. The creepier the better, in fact.
In the original thread for the Fear Mythos (which I recommend everyone read), we didn't start listing Fear attributes and realms and powers and stuff. We just listed things we thought could be creepy. And Blancmange had a very nice suggestion, too:
And then look at DJay's suggestions: he actually suggests five water-type elementals. All of them are based on creepiness and water. And yet, he ended up picking and choosing and combining two of them into one that he felt was even stronger.
Do you have a lot of ideas? Well, you can post them all...or you can choose the best one and then try to make it stronger. I don't mean list all it's powers - I mean, write some examples with it, make it seem creepy and scary and horrific.
This post on Encyclopedia Slenderia has some great advice about writing horror in the Slender Man Mythos and can easily apply to the Fear Mythos. Remember: just having a monster around doesn't make it horror. You need to do something with it - make things suspenseful and tense. Ramp up the paranoia.
Step Five: Don't Be Discouraged
Don't be discouraged when people don't like your Fear. Heck, DJay doesn't like the Cold Boy and I created that! mutter mutter I'll show you cold Just think about the reasons why they didn't like it. How could it be improved? How could you make it creepier? How could you best use it in a story?
Rome wasn't built in a day and neither was the Fear Mythos, so it may take some time before you actually make a Fear people can use. It may go through many iterations (for instance: the Nightlanders used to be called the Shadowgraphers which used to be called the Shadow People).
Here's the thing: the Fear Mythos is continually evolving. It won't stay the same forever. Right now, we have lots of servants, when in the beginning we didn't really want to use proxies. We have a lot more humanoid Fears when in the beginning we were trying to get away from that. Heck, we even have a non-Fear that we introduced that we like (Jack of All).
But we don't want the Fear Mythos to evolve into a hack-and-slash game or a fantasy universe. At it's core, the Fear Mythos is and will stay a Cosmic Horror Story about eldritch abominations that we can't hope to understand and the people who run or fight or serve them.
Write about that.
Faces, Strange and Secret: An Anthology of Stories from da Fears Mythos: on sale from Amazon, Kindle, and Smashwords
My Finished Stories.
My Ongoing Stories:
Channel Fear (informational, educational, cynical)
The Supernatural Anaesthetist (seeing where science takes us)
Once There Was (the king is the kingdom)
An Old Man's Winter Night (at the winter of the world)
Unwashed and Somewhat Slightly Dazed (working for the man)
The Secret History of the World (unstuck in time)
Notes from the Underground (a place to stay)
Phantasmagorical (a bedtime story)
Paranoia: A Manifesto (wrecking the wall)
The Day The Music Died (running from sound and sorrow)
Abraham's Men (knights, ghosts, and shadows)
Pest Control (pulling the wings off of flies)
Posted: May 20 2012, 02:54 AM
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This is very useful advice. And I definitely agree with that last one.
The Daniel-Verse;
Daniel & Friends, A New Fear Will Soon Be Born, The Butterfly Proxy, My Soul Is On Fire, Studying Egypt/ The Darkness Has Empowered Me
And the one shot blog Fear The Biker
Also part of the Daniel-Verse is the Game Master's Tournament (other authors involved) and the Tale Weaver's Challenges (other authors involved, managed by ZacksQuest)
The God-Sent-Verse;
Luster Of The Dark Jewel
My personal blog;
The Legendary Blog Of Acelegin
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Posted: May 20 2012, 03:18 AM
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I love this and I love you. Here, I suggest adding this:
If You Don't Like the Current Fears
If you don't like a Fear idea, come up with an interpretation you do like. I didn't think The Wooden Girl was scary to me. In fact, I saw untapped potential for introducing a new layer to the fear of being controlled: the fear of abuse, sexual and otherwise. I didn't just complain about her; I wrote my new interpretation. She's in Rapture, she's The Harlequin. I didn't think The Mother of Snakes was really that good, so what'd I do? I came up with my own interpretation. That interpretation is currently being cycled in Rapture's The Speculum.
I still don't think The Cold Boy is the best representation of his corresponding fear, but I'm okay with people writing about him. Because people write him well. His representation works in their stories' contexts. Context is everything. Do I have better ideas for representing him? Sure, but they wouldn't work as well in the stories people have already written or anything. I'll write my own stories with my own interpretations.
The point is, if you have an idea, try writing it first. Come up with a context where it fits, and if it's a good enough idea, other people will bend it to fit in their own contexts. If you like the idea of a pre-existing Fear but you don't like the actual Fear, bend it for your own stories. Don't think EAT should be so progressive-focused? Call it "the Evolutionary Adverse Trigger" or "the Eternal Answer Tree" or something. Don't think The Archangel represents the fear of religion well enough, thinking of making a Fear that does? Don't. Take The Archangel and write him so he does.
We're an open-source mythos, and the best way to use open-source is to work with what you have rather than start from scratch. The best way to learn is to learn from example.
Viceking's Graab (Step inside the maze. You could spend an eternity here.)
The Mythology of Empathy (Eight songs, nine tracks. Welcome death.)
Ancestor (Five tracks. Death of the Artist and Chinese mythology.)
Fear (A visual art exhibit in blog format.)
Nobody anymore, never again (Another visual art exhibit in blog format.)
The Everyblogger Triad: 1, 2, 3 (Embrace the bad writing, give into your psyche.)
PLAN 31 (Frank Slenderman: Ace Attorney)
OH GOD THE RAPTURE IS BURNING (400,000 words. Five months. All Fears. Excess. On fifth draft, not final.)
Topography Genera (15 blogs. Conventional horror. See seas rise.)

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But what about firms with less then $100 million in assets? Will they all be gobbled up, as some predict, or dwindle to an insignificant number?
One recruiting expert says he is confident that going forward smaller RIAs will not only survive, but thrive, even without the benefit of scale.
You can make a living at this business at different levels, said Danny Sarch, founder of executive search firm Leitner Sarch Consultants in White Plains, N.Y., which specializes in the financial services industry.
I question the big RIAs concept of economies of scale, he said. Will you get better pricing from scale and technologies? Yes. But [lack of scale] doesnt make it impossible to do business. If Im the client of that medium-sized business person, Im getting attention. Im getting a return. The custodian is trusted.
And competition among custodians makes their prices attractive and affordable even to smaller firms, Sarch said.
As the migration of advisors from wirehouses to the independent space continues, more small- to mid-size RIAs will continue their march into the market.
TD Ameritrade almost specializes in the small RIAs, Sarch said. They say, You dont have to be a mega shop. You can open a firm with $50 million, $60 million or $70 million.
At this size, he said, the hybrid business model will dominate, giving smaller firms the benefit of larger partners and income streams based on both fees and commissions.
You can go down to $50 million in assets, Sarch said. Thats still $500,000 in income, a nice living. And you could be doing a wonderful job for those clients Theres so much competition. Theres so much off-the-shelf technology. You could still make a decent profit for yourself. I still see the smaller firms continuing to proliferate.
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The 11th of May.
Shortly after tea last night, we decided that my breathing was so poor, a trip to A&E was required. I was just coughing and coughing, and I needed 3 litres of oxygen just to be comfortable. My chest was tight, and I couldn't get a deep breath for the life of me.
Because I was having trouble breathing, and my recent history, I was whisked through A&E pretty quickly. I was seen by a sensible doctor who took some blood and sent me for a chest x-ray. Thankfully my lung had not collapsed again, but I have got some fluid on there which looks like infection and my CRP is 93 so antibiotics are required. It was a good thing we'd brought a bag.
I got to CDU at about half past midnight, so Mommy quickly unpacked the necessary stuff and went home. I was up for a little while longer, getting admitted and brushing my teeth. One of the old ladies in my bay talked in her sleep. Constantly. Last night's gem was "That's a good girl, now get in the cupboard."
Managed to sleep through breakfast, got up to go to the bathroom and clean my face, then curled up on my bed again and slept for the rest of the morning until Ram suddenly appeared. I assume because he's my named consultant, he must get notified if I get admitted. I told him what was going on, but because it is a chest problem, he doesn't really have much to input.
Mommy arrived just as he and his minions were leaving, and she had brought coffee and food. I still found it difficult to rouse myself, just sat up every so often for a mouthful of coffee. Eventually I consumed enough to wake myself up, and for the rest of the day, I have tried to stay upright. Daddy came earlier than usual, but he was sleepy too, so we sent him home so he could have a nap and give some attention to Sam who will be confused that I haven't been there to pet him.
Ben came to see me and we had a chat about my lungs. I told him what I've been telling everyone else, that I had been getting better but for the past few days everything's been getting worse again. He said a curious thing about my x-ray in that one side is more lucent, that is to say more see-through, than the other. This could be caused by a stenosis. ANOTHER STENOSIS YOU SAY? HMMM. Need a CT with gadolinium. He wants to talk to Andrew but Andrew won't be back in until Monday. Gah.
I am in a bed on 517 now. Meropenem for a few days, see what my CRP does. I'm in a bay which I hate because I have no control over when the lights go out or come on or if people are noisy or in the bathroom when I want it and I don't like it at all. I don't want to be here again but I have to and it is wank.
The 12th of May.
I had a terrible night and start to the day, but thankfully since mid-afternoon, it has been greatly improved by the fact that I have been moved into a cubicle.
I was forced awake by loud chatter in the bay between the two old women and two auxiliaries, and the woman opposite me has been playing Radio 1 as loud as the radio will go through the headphones, which is loud enough to have to raise your voice to talk over. She did not seem to realise that this is terrible bay etiquette.
Because of the terrible night, I felt like garbage, but the nurse had promised me a cubicle today, so I asked Mommy to come in early to help pack up my stuff if that happened. That obviously didn't happen until later, but I was glad to have her there so she could draw the curtains round and I could have a cry about how ghastly everything was.
It seems this ward is where they send all the old people who come in to A&E with relatively short-term issues, and people with mental health issues that aren't being taken care of by any other service, so it is really not somewhere I belong. However, Mommy ran into Ben and he said 516 is full of the over-90s so I might be here for a few days.
Some haematology doctors came to see me, but they had not much to say apart from let's get some bloods done to see what your CRP is. No respiratory ones but they wouldn't have much to add yet anyway so no great loss.
Around 3 o'clock, the nurse in charge poked her head in and said they were just clearing a cubicle for me. Thank god. I could not shove my stuff in bags fast enough. Now I might be near the nurses' station but I'll stick my earplugs in tonight and the Zopiclone will do its job.
My breathing is not as bad as with the pneumonia but I feel arguably worse now than I did in March. Like I am listless and have no appetite, and I am just exhausted of this bullshit. Can I please be well? Just for a little bit?
The 13th of May.
Having my own room certainly makes a difference. I slept much better, until half past eight when someone came in to ask me about drugs, to which I said NOT DRUGS TIME YET and went back to sleep until ten o'clock.
The consultant of this ward came to see me this morning but he hadn't got much to offer. My CRP has gone up from 93 on Wednesday to 139 yesterday so the mero has yet to take any effect. Great, thanks.
Mommy came at lunch time, and Becky arrived shortly after to spend the afternoon. She and Mommy did most of the talking while I coughed and flailed around on the bed in various positions trying to find one that was comfortable for longer than thirty seconds. I was not successful. The usual school and cat chat which is a nice distraction for me. At some point, Tim from haematology came, and he was asking which antibiotics I am allergic to. It turns out that they're the ones that they would add in with mero to cover a broad-spectrum of infections. Stupid unhelpful body. If I could bring up some cack they could test that and find out what bug it is, but this is the driest cough in the world so that isn't happening.
That is all I really have to say about today. I still feel like trash, the drugs aren't working and I am desperate to go home.
The 14th of May.
I've done less coughing today, but I think that's because I have done more lying down. Usually, lying down makes it worse when I have a cough, but this time it's the other way around.
I woke up about ten again, and quite early in the morning, a doctor came to take some blood but the results are still not in which is most bothersome. I highly suspect that the mero is not working because when Mommy arrived with lunch, I was really cold, and that is because I was spiking a temperature. Haven't done that since sepsis in 2013 but I don't think we need to worry about that just now.
Pretty much my entire afternoon was spent lying down and trying to get back to a normal temperature while listening to whatever came along next on Radio 4. It's quite clear I'm feeling ghastly when I don't think I need to be able to see.
Mainly I have been thinking about how much I want it to be tomorrow because all the doctors will be here and we can have a chat about what the fuck is going on and how it can be fixed so I can leave here and go feel like shit in my own bed.
The 15th of May.
I am sick of this. I have spent my whole day waiting for people. Mostly, it was doctors. I had spent the whole weekend waiting for it to be today so I could speak to the respiratory doctors and they did not materialise until nearly four o'clock.
This morning, I saw the doctor from this ward and the haematology team, but they had nothing really helpful to say apart from that they'd speak to the respiratory team.
So about four, Ben turned up with an ultrasound machine. He'd had a chat with Richard and they want to know where the infection is coming from, and so do I. The ultrasound machine was to check on the fluid in my lungs, but there's only a small pocket at the top of the right lung so that isn't it. He's changing the antibiotics from meropenem to vancomycin and ciprofloxacin, and I'll get onto that later. He's also going to request a PICC because I'll need vancomycin levels taking and my veins won't be able to cope with that, and an echo because I've had some vascular trauma and hey why not? If those don't work, then we get a PET scan to search for the source of the infection.
I am pleased to have a plan but I still feel awful, and the vancomycin has compounded things. It took two hours for a nurse to set it up, and pretty soon it started leaking out of the dressing. This was just after half six, so Mommy and Daddy left and they let the sister who'd set it up know. Someone finally came in just after eight, and she just set it running again but really slowly and hoped that would work, but if it didn't, to buzz again and she'd sort it out. It didn't, it just started leaking again, so I pressed the buzzer again. And again, and again. Only to find out after ninety minutes that there wasn't actually a qualified nurse on the ward and now it's past ten and this cannula is going to have to come out when one finally appears.
This is the worst I have ever experienced in terms of staff shortages.
The 16th of May.
Well I finally got my vancomycin. At half past six this morning. The nurse that I'd had for the past four nights came in for a fifth, unexpected consecutive shift because there were no staff across the board, it seemed. She took the cannula out, but then I couldn't have a replacement dose until I had a new one and that was going to be very low down on the night doctor's list of jobs. They finally appeared at about half past six this morning, but I had my eye mask on and ear plugs in so I was pretty unaware until the vanc was finished and it was time to get up.
The first thing that happened today was that I went for an echo. I looked very pitiful in the waiting room, hunched over in the strange, triangular wheelchair with my oxygen cylinder, coughing like a Victorian street urchin with TB. The receptionist got me some cold water, and thankfully they took me through quite quickly. It was probably the fastest echo I've ever had – I used to fall asleep in them but today I didn't even have chance to get comfortable. That may have been because the test wasn't going to find what the doctors were looking for, as I think I heard the technician say. Oh well.
This afternoon, I did a lot of coughing and flooping about on the bed. The cough has evolved into the kind where I do it less, but when I do, I cough and cough until the piece of phlegm moves, and then I am fine again for a while. Philippa from the liver team came to see me, and was telling us some vastly entertaining stories about the ward, when a porter rocked up to take me to angio for my PICC line! Surprise!
We had great fun downstairs because the ward hadn't done a checklist, because they never send people for things like this so they didn't know they had to do one, and then I'd been eating and drinking and had nail varnish on. That didn't seem to be a problem though, so a doctor called Mr. Singh came to chat to me about what we were going to do and I signed the consent form.
It was not an easy one today. He kept coming up against an obstruction in my vein, which I could feel him trying to shove past (newsflash: not enjoyable!), and two other chaps behind the screen were shouting advice at him while I clenched my jaw and wished I had nice veins. He ended up inflating two balloons so he could get the catheter past, then he finished tunnelling it in and I could finally relax.
I want to go home. I say it every day. Not going to change.


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Friday, April 26, 2013
Campaigning (in a good way)
I love magazines (as you discovered in in that last, rather boring, Weekly Wish-list post) and it's not all about the articles guys, it's about the pictures. I love looking at the new ad campaigns and one of my particular favourites lately has been this Dior one:
And as I was google-imaging pictures to use on my blog I found out that this is in fact Jennifer Lawrence. *jaw drops*... What a surprise! I love Jennifer Lawrence and all in the Hunger Games (if you haven't heard of this then you clearly live under
a huge rock a bigger rock than me) but she wasn't particularly convincing in Silver Linings Playbook, and beside that point I could never imagine her in a suit. I think she has looked great at a lot of red-carpet events and various photo shoots for various magazines but never would I have picked her to be rocking the masculine-yet-ultrasexyfeminine look. Here she is looking stunning and not at all like herself (not that I would know who/what "herself" truly is). For me, in this ad campaign, it's not so much about the bag as it is about the suit, even though apparently it's the bag they're campaigning. I have always always wanted to wear a suit jacket without anything underneath and I think this looks amazing right here. Congratulations to Jennifer Lawrence for such a fantastic image and I am always in awe at great fashion photography.
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With October right around the corner and the spooky feelings of Halloween in the air, it's about time you find the perfect pumpkin. Pumpkin patches have been an indispensable part of the fall season, so come explore the best pumpkin patches the state of Arizona has to offer. Here are 10 of the best.
1. Apple Annie's Orchard Farm, Willcox, AZ
Located in Willcox, Apple Annie's Orchard is a farm that has a corn maze and pumpkin patches in abundance! This autumn, visit Annie's Orchard with your family and pick out a beautiful pumpkin for Halloween.
2. Tolmachoff Farms, Glendale, AZ
True to the spirit of Halloween, the Tolmachoff Farm in Glendale offers eerie pumpkin patches, haunted mazes, and rides! Aptly located over a cemetery, the admission fee is just $8 per person.
3. Buckelew Farm, Tucson, AZ
The Buckelew Farm in Tucson is perfect for people who are looking for a U-pick experience. This fantastic farm is open in the last three weeks of October and charges just $10 per person as admission fees.
4. Mother Nature's Farm, Gilbert, AZ
Worry not that you won't find the perfect pumpkin this October, Mother Nature's Farm is stocked with fresh pumpkins almost daily! Other than that, the OZ pumpkins, hayrides, and adventure mazes only add to the fun. The entrance fee is just $7 per person.
5. MacDonald's Ranch, Scottsdale, AZ
This place offers an extensive variety of pumpkins, ranging from tiny dainty ones to huge pumpkins perfect for carving faces on Halloween. Open for the entire month of October, except on Tuesdays, MacDonald's Ranch charges $10 per person on weekdays and $12 on weekends. The farm also features loads of fun activities such as a hay maze, animal farm, and games.
6. Epiphany Lutheran Church, Chandler, AZ
With over 3,000 pumpkin and gourd patches available in a wide range of shapes and sizes planted around the church's property, the Epiphany Lutheran has everything you need for a perfect Halloween! Open all through the week, the admission is pretty cheap, the proceeds and profits are donated.
7. Marana Pumpkin Patch
The Marana Pumpkin Patch will be open this year from Oct. 3-31 and admission charges range from $10 to $12 per person. Explore the corn maze, animal farm, and hayride in the farm along with the pumping patches and enjoy the beautiful fall!
8. Schnepf Farms, Queen Creek, AZ
Known for their famous chili parties and pig races, the Schnepf Farms are perfect for a day out in the autumn! The organic gardens provide top quality fresh pumpkins a just $15 per person. Located at Queen Creek, the place also has a restaurant, Diner Down, on its campus.
9. Mortimer Family Farm, Dewey, AZ
The Mortimer Family Farm would feature an annual Pumpkin Fest every weekend this year in October! Families from all over Arizona visit the farm in Dewey at just $15 per person for u-picking pumpkins.
10. Vertuccio Farms, Mesa, AZ
The Vertuccio Farms offers a memorable experience of the country life in the comforts of the city. The 10-acre corn maze and wide pumpkin patches are a treat for the eyes. Open all days of the week, people can visit the farm at just $10 per person.


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Last Saturday morning, with 9 inches of snow already on the ground, the staff at the warming station in Allentown sent its overnight guests to the streets because it only operates at night.
If it had not been for a local pastor, the Rev. Bob Stevens at Zion's United Church of Christ, these people would have been left to try to find shelter in a public building, a business trying to remain open or an abandoned building. And what about the people who were not at the warming station the night before who may not have known about the good pastor and his open doors? How could warming station staff send out their guests with a possible blizzard approaching?
It made me think about who is really responsible for sheltering the homeless. Why are there only a few who will take responsibility for problems of the homeless? Are we as a society too stoic and self-determined so that we believe that those who face blizzard-like conditions homeless should have thought about that before they "made all their bad choices"? Are we worried about becoming too involved, caring too much, only to find too many one-way, dead-end streets in our society?
It would be easy to blame the operators of the warming station for sending these people to the street. Such stations are opened on the heels of a public health concern. Who wants to have citizens of their town freezing to death on their streets? But it is also a public service based on the principles of justice and beneficence.
So how could people be left to fend for themselves in these harsh conditions? The warming station operators could say they don't have funds to pay for daytime staff. They don't have a food source. Maybe they don't have permission to keep open the building, which is owned by the city. But could there have been a solution? A work-around?
The gravity of this situation for the homeless won't be understood for some time. However, each challenge must spark solutions to minimize future risk.
First is the issue of the Code Blue designation when the temperature dips below 32. Who issues the Code Blue warning that alerts groups who deal with the homeless? Lehigh County Emergency Management? If so, there was nothing on its website during the storm. What about Allentown? Shouldn't this designation allow for other buildings owned by the city to remain open as a public health measure? And why is the temperature cut off at 32 degrees for Code Blue when data support a health danger starting at 40 degrees?
Second, those who are in the business of providing shelter as a public service should have accountability. Many of these shelters and warming stations receive monetary support from citizens, government and organizations with the expectation that shelter is provided. All are accountable to their stakeholders. Is the city of Allentown responsible for sheltering these people? Is it relieved of its responsibility because another entity provides this service? Another example is the accountability of disaster preparedness where organizations accept risk for the greater good. Successful organizations balance risk and preparedness with the ethical principles of justice and not doing harm. Just as in disaster preparedness, when running a winter shelter, one must be prepared for winter weather.
Finally, there is the humanistic aspect. Is it not all of our responsibility to care for those in need? If you've accepted the public commission to care for the most vulnerable, you can't abandon that post in the worst of times. At the same time, if you haven't officially accepted that post, you aren't absolved of your moral responsibility.
Although not bound by grants or public funding, Zion's Church opened its doors to those most in need of shelter from danger, just as it did in 1777 when the church housed the Liberty Bell, keeping it safe from the British during the Revolutionary War.
Let it be a lesson learned: True responsibility comes from within.
Corinne Feldman, who lives in Lower Macungie Township, is a physician assistant, an assistant professor in the DeSales University Physician Assistant Program and executive director of the DeSales Free Clinic, which provides free health care to the homeless. This commentary was adapted from her blog, streetmedicinelehighvalley.org.
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A report released by Oxfam New Zealand in May 2013 suggested that bananas sold by Dole in New Zealand carrying the sticker "Ethical Choice" were anything but ethical. The report, The Labour and Environmental Situation in Philippine Banana Plantations Exporting to New Zealand, documented children under 15 working up to 12 hours a day, harassment of workers for joining a union, and aerial pesticide spraying while workers are on plantations.
Barry Coates, Executive Director of Oxfam New Zealand, said, "It's time for Dole to stop making unsupported claims that they are selling ethically produced bananas. This research report shows the opposite – Philippine workers growing Dole bananas are subject to unfair and unhealthy treatment. New Zealand consumers deserve better than company green-washing. We are calling on Dole to drop the 'Ethical Choice' label."
In August 2012, the New Zealand Commerce Commission warned Dole New Zealand that its self-created 'Ethical Choice' labels may breach the Fair Trading Act. The competition watchdog said that the 'Ethical Choice' stickers displayed on Dole's fruit, website and marketing materials may mislead consumers into believing that the company had gained independent third-party verification, and that it was more ethical than its competitors.
However, rather than withdrawing the label, Dole took steps towards preventing any challenge to its ethics. It applied to trademark its expression of ethical choice through the Patent Office.
According to Oxfam New Zealand, "once it has a trade mark, Dole will be able to defend itself against evidence of misleading labelling by saying they own the expression of Ethical Choice. This is not fair or ethical. Oxfam is calling on Dole to drop the trademark application".
Oxfam New Zealand has asked Dole to take urgent action to address these issues.
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After creating a house of jewelery , he founded the goldsmith's house and acquired in 1842 and 1843 patents for gilding and silvering galvanic.
It is true that this goldsmith house does not fit in our study, but Christofle also presented at the Universal Exhibitions of 1867 and 1878 exceptional furniture.
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Hill tribe craft school how to get to us
We are situated around 30 kilometres from the border Shan State of Burma now known as Myanmar and 130km north of Chiang Mai, Thailand's northern capital city. We are just off route 1095 which is one amazingly curvy road.
The 1095 is known as the Mae Hong Son Loop. A twisting roller coaster of a road navigating itself over a myriad of mountains made up from the Foothills of the Himalayas. The route has more hairpin bends and switchbacks you could possibly imagine, in fact there are more than 1800 sever hairpin bends in just 200 kilometres over some of the most spectacular scenery in the Asia. We are located about one hour north of the popular tourist town of Pai.
This is Hill tribe Territory your first and memorable introduction to the Lisu!
We have listed below many of the ways to get to us. Many of our customers have followed our guidelines to make the journey to us a fulfilling experience.
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From Bangkok: You can fly direct to Maehongson from Bangkok and then take a bus to Soppong(about two hours). OR Fly, bus or train to Chiang Mai and proceed from Chiang Mai as follows:
From Chiang Mai:
1) Bus from the Arkade bus station to Soppong. Public bus is 130 Baht, minivan is 250 Baht, 4-5 hours. OR take minivan to Pai (150 baht) and public bus to Soppong, 35 baht. The minivan is much more comfortable then the big public bus and faster.
2) Fly to Pai via SGA airlines, about Baht 1500 one way and proceed to Soppong by bus (35 baht, one hour), mini van(150 Baht, make a reservation via travel agent) or taxi (1000 Baht, negotiable).
3) Drive: you can rent a car or motor bike in Chiang Mai or Pai and drive to Soppong if you choose. Email us for more information.
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There is the possibility for students (engineers and graduated) from Latin America to apply for PhD grants of the Carolina Fundation (http://gestion.fundacioncarolina.es/programas/4226) to be realized in Spanish universities. Deadline for submission: 6 April.
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Can you please forward this message to the LALINET email distribution list? And maybe post it in the NEWS menu of Lalinet webpage?
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The workshop will take place on November 23-25 at the Leipzig Science Park, Germany.
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By Curt Kirkeby, Avista Fellow Engineer It's been one year since Avista flipped the switch on our Energy Storage Project in Pullman, Wash., to officially connect the one-megawatt battery to the electrical grid. The historic event was attended by Washington Governor Jay Inslee, Senator Maria Cantwell, Congresswoman Cathy McMorris-Rodgers, officials from the Department of Energy and other […]
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SO FAR, two separate cases were being heard in connection with the Babri Masjid demolition. The Supreme Court has now ordered a joint trial in a Lucknow court. That court has been trying kar sevaks accused of demolition of the structure. The other case, in a Rae Bareli court, is of allegedly instigating the crowd to demolish the structure through their speeches. It is in the latter case that BJP leaders including Union minister Uma Bharti and veterans L K Advani and Murli Manohar Joshi are accused. In the case in Lucknow, the accused include current BJP MPs Lallu Singh, Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh and Sakshi Maharaj. The cases were probed by the CBI. The next hearing in both cases is on April 22.
Lucknow: Demolition case
Twenty-two persons were accused and being tried under IPC sections 120 B (conspiracy), 147 (rioting), 149 (every member of unlawful assembly guilty of offence committed in prosecution of common object), 395 (dacoity), 332 (voluntarily causing hurt to deter public servant from his duty), 338 (causing grievous hurt by act endangering life or personal safety of others), 201 (causing disappearance of evidence of offence, or giving false information to screen offender), 153-A (promoting enmity between groups on grounds of religion, race, place of birth, residence, language, etc., and doing acts prejudicial to maintenance of harmony), 153-B (imputations, assertions prejudicial to national-integration), 295 ( injuring or defiling place of workship with intent to insult the religion of any class), 295-A (deliberate and malicious acts, intended to outrage religious feelings of any class by insulting its religion or religious beliefs), 505 (statements conducing to public mischief).
"The case is being tried against 22 accused in the court of special judge Surendra Kumar Yadav," said Ram Kumar Yadav, special counsel for the prosecution. "So far, 196 prosecution witnesses have been examined during the trial. The court has issued summons to other prosecution witnesses for their examination."
Apart from MPs Lallu Singh, Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh and Maharaj, the other accused in the case are Jaibhan Singh Pawiya, Dharmendra Singh Gujar, Naveen Bhai Shukla, Acharya Dharmendra Dev, Sudhir Kakkar, Vinay Kumar Rai, Prakash Sharma, Gandhi Yadav, Vijay Bahadur Singh, Ramesh Pratap Singh, Om Prakash Pandey, Ramji Gupta, Kamlesh Tripathi, Santosh Dubey, Ram Chandra Khatri, Jai Bhagwan Goyal, Amarnath Goyal, Pawan Pandey and former IAS officer R N Srivastava, then the district magistrate of Faizabad. Most of the accused are BJP or Shiv Sena leaders.
Rae Bareli: Instigation case
There are six accused facing trial in this case. Two other accused Acharya Giriraj Kishore and Ashok Singhal have died, in July 2014 and November 2015 respectively. Apart from Advani, Joshi and Bharti, the other accused are BJP Rajya Sabha MP Vinay Katiyar, Sadhvi Ritambhara and VHP leader Vishnu Hari Dalmia. They are being tried under IPC sections 153-A and 153-B, 147, 149 and 505, dealing with offences as described above.
"The case in Rae Bareli is in trial in the court of additional chief judicial magistrate Lovey Yadav," defence lawyer Vimal Srivastava said. "So far, 58 witnesses have been examined.
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The last time I sat down to write a post was when I wrote that post.
I didn't feel any better after posting it. In fact, talking about what happened made things worse.
I hated my blog.
I saw this whole "journey" thing is stupid – here I am, pulling my 6th all-nighter in the past 2 weeks, sitting in a shisha cafe at 4am, writing to an audience I don't really know.
Are you real, audience? Are you acknowledging me?
I forgot my Twitter password and email. Same with Instagram and Facebook.
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But I still take them. Why? So I can have the courage and audacity to live.
Why am I writing this shit? Because I'm alone and scared.
I'm a new country where everything I've learned about life in my 27 years of useless existence is completely rudimentary. Manners? Morals? Anything else? Delete it all and start fresh.
Too scared to deal with this new culture, I've resorted to my old habits: drugs and binge-eating.
My wife isn't with me. (My marriage is confusing. I'm not sure if my wife will read this, but I can't share with her the fact that now is the time I truly need her the most.)
I've never needed anyone. I always believed I'm independent and capable of adjusting anywhere.
Not anymore. I've changed, friends. I've changed from worse to worstest, and I'm still changing to what's worster than that.
But I need my wife.
I need someone to be with me.
I need help.
I need guidance.
I need a step-by-step guide on how to quit binging on pills and food, stop running away and get my life back again.
You don't even know who I am, do you? You don't know my name, or where I'm from, or whether or not I like tomatoes.
Fat Boy Project? 10000posts journey? Goals? Targets? Plans?
I was so close to deleting this blog during one of the all-nighters.
But something about the number – 10000 – kept me away from the impulsive thought.
153 posts out of 10,000 is but 1.53% of my target.
I'm only 1.53% into my "journey", and I've already given up.
I can't make anymore promises to anyone anymore.
I've lost the energy to care about the guilt and shame associated with breaking a promise.
Sadly, what I'm going through mentally won't go away soon.
I guess, in terms of mental stability, months and years are nothing but worthless numbers. Arbitrary.
One pill could ruin everything. One time. Just once. One drink. One puff.
It's less like falling of the wagon, and more like falling off a speedboat while having metal weights shackled to my ankles, and then having to unshackle myself while fighting off the reflex of drowning, and then resurfacing again, before mustering up the energy to swim back to that speedboat called life.
I'm currently drowning while I try to find a way to unshackle myself. My body needs oxygen. Too many thing are all happening at once and I can't focus.
One of the impulsive decisions my fried brain is telling me to do is to update my About page. It's telling me that it's time to remove the veil of fear of being scrutinized – the shame of being who I am – and tell you who I really am i.e my name, where I'm from, what I do in life, …etc
I'm neither back nor gone. I'm simply here for now, and that's all I can promise.
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Selenium Training with Java
Course Overview
Our Selenium Training course is a completely hands-on course to help you become proficient in Selenium 3.0 suite.
This course covers Java Basics, webdriver, Data driven testing, Page factory and POM, Maven, TestNG, Automation Framework etc.
The trainer demonstrates examples and helps participants practice during the sessions, making this course completely hands-on. You will also receive a certification at the end of the course.
Why the Selenium Certification Course from Techcanvass?
Selenium Professional as Trainer
Weekend Batches
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Selenium Course Books
Selenium 3.0 (2017) handbook
Java Handbook
Java Practice Workbook
These books are available in your Learning Management System (LMS) Portal.
Course Demos
Course duration and details
This Selenium course is offered as online and classroom training. Selenium training in Mumbai is conducted at our Powai centre.
Classroom Training
- 32/44 hrs of training
- Hands-on practice in the class
- Java Study Material
- Selenium Study Material
- Java practice workbook
- LMS Portal Access
- Competency Certificate
- Course Project (20-hrs)
Online Training
- 32/44 hrs of training
- Hands-on practice in the class
- Java Study Material
- Selenium Study Material
- Java practice workbook
- LMS Portal Access
- Competency Certificate
- Course Project (20-hrs)
Self-Paced Course
- Actual online course recordings
- Structured into topics & chapters
- Practice exercises
- Course Completion Test
- Selenium 3.0 competency Certificate
- Live Project
- Email Support by Trainer
Course Syllabus
This selenium training course is designed to provide you a comprehensive and hands-on training on Selenium 3.0 suite.
Introduction to Selenium 3.0
• Introduction to Selenium
• Introduction to Automation Testing
• Scope of Selenium Training
• Why Automation Testing
• Introduction to Selenium 3.0 components
• Selenium Evolution from 1.0 to 3.0
Introduction to Eclipse
• The Eclipse Tool
• Walk through of Eclipse
• Role of Eclipse
Setting up Eclipse
• Downloading Selenium Jar Files
• Checking JDK version
• Setting up JAVA PATH
• Adding JAR files
• Setting up first project
• Writing small JAVA program
• Running First Java Program
Java Essentials for Selenium - Part I
• Java program structure
• Introduction to classes and objects
• Running first Java program
Java Essentials for Selenium - Part II (Language constructs)
• Introduction to data types
• Access Modifiers
• Functions and Variables
• Loops in Java
Java Essentials for Selenium - Part III (OOPs Concepts)
• Abstraction
• Polymorphism
• Inheritance
• Encapsulation
Java Essentials for Selenium - Part IV
• Exception Handling in JAVA
• File I/O in JAVA
• Collections (List, Set, MAP)
Selenium IDE
• Installing Selenium IDE
• Recording Script
• Running, Pausing and debugging Script
• Running a script line by line
• Inserting commands in between script
• What are locators
• Types of locators
• Examples of using Locators
• Advantages and disadvantages of using locators
Web Driver Part-I
• Introduction of Web Driver
• Download & configuring Web driver
• Architecture of selenium web driver
• Drivers for Firefox, IE, chrome, I-phone, Android
• First Selenium Code
• Introduction to basic commands like get/navigate
• Exception Handling in Selenium
Web Driver Part-II
• Working with web page elements/Controls
- o Dropdown
- o List box
- o Radio buttons
- o Multi-select box
- o Date picker
- o Combobox widget
• Introducing wait - implicit and explicit wait
• Handling different browsers - Firefox, Chrome and Internet Explorer browser
• Taking screenshots
• Handling Java script alerts, confirmations and prompts
Web Driver Part-III
• Working with Windows, Tabs and Frames
• Working with static and dynamic Web tables
Web Driver Part-IV
• File Upload and Download
• Working with Proxy APIs
TestNG Framework
• Introduction to TestNG framework
• Logging
• Annotations
• Parameters
• Assert class
• Parallel Execution
Automation Framework Basics
• Introduction to Automation Frameworks
• What is Data Driven framework?
• What is Keyword Driven framework?
• What is Hybrid Framework?
Page Object Model (POM)
• What is Page Object Model (POM)
• Concept of Object Repository
• Need for POM
• Page Factory
• Implementing POM
Example and Exercises
Course Project
• A Project assignment will be handed over to you towards the end of the course.
Additional modules for advance course
Introduction to Maven
• What is Maven?
• Purpose of Maven
• Installing Maven
• How to use Maven
Introduction to Jenkins
• What is Jenkins
• Why it is used?
• Installation and configuration of Jenkins
• Backups in Jenkins
Continuous Integration with Jenkins
• What is Continuous Integration?
• Need and application for Continuous Integration
• Plugins in Jenkins
• Setting up a Jenkins Job
• Setting up a Maven, TestNG and Selenium integrated project
• Scheduling Jenkins for automatic execution
• Managing Jenkins Job
Certification Test
• An end of course test, which will earn you a certification of competency
Certification of competency in Selenium
At the end of the course, you will be eligible for a certification of competency in Selenium 3.0, based on an online multiple choice questions (MCQ) test, conducted by Techcanvass.
Upcoming Batches Schedule
Selenium Training FAQs
Is there any recognized Selenium Certification?
Unfortunately, there is no Selenium certification which is industry recognized. So, training organizations like Techcanvass issue certificates based on participant's performance on project work and in an online test.
Can I learn java as I have no programming background?
It's difficult to learn Java in the beginning, we agree with that. That's the reason we have taken a hands-on training approach. The classes are conducted in the Lab so that you practice everything you learn simultaneously.
In addition, the trainers have all been in the same boat as you. They were once manual testers and are now working in MNCs as selenium automation testers. So they understand your pain points and teach accordingly.
Will I get any certificate after the course?
Yes, you will get a certificate after the completion of the course after you appear for an online test and finish your project successfully.
Will it be a practical hands-on course? How will the lab sessions be conducted?
This Selenium certification course is structured into conceptual session, trainer demo and participant's practice during the class. This is true for classroom as well as live online sessions. There is no difference as far as delivery of training is concerned.
Will there be any project, which I will be working on during the course?
Yes, you will be given a project to work on, which you can finish with the course. You can also take some more time and submit after a couple of weeks as well.
Is there any difference between online training and classroom training?
There is no difference between selenium online training and selenium classroom training. The profile of the trainers are the same and the class is conducted on a web meeting platform, where you can interact with the trainer in real time.
Java and Selenium Tutorials for Beginners
Java Tutorials for Beginners
Java tutorials for beginners has been written for professionals, who are completely new to Java and Selenium. These tutorials are written specifically keeping in mind Selenium 3.0 requirements. So the tutorials are to-the-point and are written in simple to understand language with examples.
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Adult Abuse Victim Signs
There are adult abuse victim scars from beatings or neglect, but there are also the latent signs that an adult victim of child abuse suffers that are difficult to recognize and, therefore, must be acknowledged or at least be realized in order to heal.
Could this be you? Do you find it difficult to believe that you're a worthy person before God and worth loving, even when you receive positive comments about yourself? Perhaps you feel as if everyday you have to prove yourself to others because you can't believe others respect you.
If you can't see the value in your life that God sees, you may be looking at yourself the way those who abused you did or the way those who are still abusing you do. If this is so, you're not living the truth about who God created you to be.
You need to take dominion over your life in Christ, but until you recognize those things which are holding you back it will be difficult to allow the Word of God to liberate you from your past. So let's take a look at what may be holding you back from taking control over your life.
Adult Abuse Victim Signs Are Revealed In The
Way You Live Your Life.
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There are many signs of past abuse, but I'll cover the major adult abuse victim signs in this article that will help you identify other feelings or problems you may be experiencing. Once you identify wrong thinking, you can stop being a victim and heal if you make it a daily practice to replace negative thoughts with God's thoughts.
My husband and I were both victims of childhood abuse in different forms that clashed greatly after we were married, so we both had to work at closing the door on our pasts to heal as we looked to God's Word for change.
For your personal information I want to advise that I'm not a professional in the area of psychiatry, my only credentials for writing on the subject of adults suffering from childhood abuse are my personal experiences with childhood abuse, my use of God's Word to overcome it, and my ministry studies.
Many adults don't realize that many of their problems stem from past abuse or abuse that has continued. I hope that if you're struggling in life because you were abused as a child, the following information will help you recognize any scars you might have or bad habits that are holding you back from enjoying your life.
Treatment For Achieving Help and Healing
I suggest that if you can't shake problems caused by past abuse, that you take a pro-active attitude by looking to yourself rather than outward by blaming others, even if certain people are the cause of your problems.
No matter who has caused you harm, only you can take responsibility to fix the damage, move on if necessary and make the changes in your life and character that will not allow further damage to your heart, soul and body.
You may need to see a professional to help you overcome past abuse, but no matter what outside help you get, I encourage you to make God's Word a part of it. with treatments. Work with your doctor or counselor and use God's Word and prayer to work through their treatment for healing to become a whole person.
I don't want to dredge up your past if it's forgotten, I only want to define if there was abuse in your life so that you can better define how to receive healing of a problem that you can't seem to control such as substance abuse. Once you know you can move forward and be free.
I believe it's fruitless to live in the past, and since God's Word only works in the present, it's important to live in the "now." But it's also important to identify feelings created from our past to overcome them.
Adult Abuse Victim Signs In Marriage:
If you have an explosive relationship with your husband or wife, this could be a problem caused by abuse in your family. If you tolerate it you may have been a victim of childhood abuse or you watched a parent be abused over many years. The continuing abuse of parents can become a pattern of abuse in the lives of their children.
If you're an abuser this experience could have been yours. Both roles as either an abuser or a victim need attention. Both are dangerous. If this is you or a person in your household you need to get help now.
It's important to acknowledge that women can be the aggressor in a relationship and the male the victim. This is just as wrong as the male being aggressive. It's just less common or reported because of the shame a male feels as a victim to a woman.
If any chance for healing exists, attention must be given to the problem by both persons.
It's important to note that even though a person is an abuser because of childhood abuse, they must still take responsibility for their actions and get help right away.
Even abusers might deserve compassion, but the people who they abuse are victims living with a great deal of pain that will be transferred from one generation to the next. End abuse in your family now! If you're the abuser, it begins with you! God will help you through Jesus Christ!
Healing A Marriage Takes Two People Or One With Great Faith and Determination
Both husband and wife must want to change and heal. I suggest looking to a large community church for guidance and transformation, and also to get the answers you need for your situation.
If only one person desires change, that person will have to get the help needed for the sake of the family on their own. However, if physical or emotional abuse is causing a dangerous situation, it's imperative to make your family safe immediately. Get help from your church and local government agencies.
You can be blamed for abuse to your children by remaining in an abusive relationship that extends to your children. This means your children can be taken from you and placed within the legal system of your community. Getting them back could take many years.
Whatever help is needed you must be the one to initiate it and go full circle, using God's Word and faith daily for a positive outcome for yourself and children.
Wisdom For Thought: Both husband and wife must remove themselves from their past abusers or those who were abusive around them as children. Avoid siblings or anyone who denies your experience and condemns you for expressing it. They may not have seen your abuse and cannot fathom the thought of their loving parents or relative causing abuse, even if they suspect it's true.
A plan agreeable to both husband and wife needs to be created for change. This should include separation if needed for safety, especially if children are involved with plans for seeking help and restoration of marriage after healing.
If only one person desires change and the domestic situation is dangerous or explosive a complete separation must occur to obtain a safe, healthy life. However, this must be done safely. If you're a woman, get help from your local area and perhaps the legal system to safely leave your household by checking for homes that shelter abused and battered women and their children. Then proceed with getting the help you need.
Do everything necessary to brake the cycle of abuse for yourself and your future generations. Otherwise you'll never realize a cure. This is why all abused persons must take responsibility to change rather than blaming their abusers. This is how to find your way to a future free of abuse.
Adult Abuse Victim Signs In Unmarried Abusive Relationships:
If you're a Christian and in an abusive relationship but you're not married, you'll be advised in any church you attend that respects God's Word to either be married or stop living together. This will be the first step to healing. A person has to think very little about who they are if they aren't even married and yet allow someone to abuse them. This is a large sign of past abuse or perhaps desperation to be with someone or receive financial support. Safely get help if you feel that your life and your children's lives are in danger.
If you're only thinking about living with someone, consider very carefully about what you're doing. Moving yourself and children into the home of a woman or man to have an intimate relationship with them without marriage puts yourself and family in danger–especially if you know little about this person. However, this extends to moving in with people just to find a place to live. Always be cautious and seeks God's guidance!
Something made you think it's okay to take a chance with your life and your children's lives. The cause could be the environment in which you have lived that finds this as acceptable behavior or it could be past abuse causing you to believe that you can't function in life on your own. Whatever the reason, get into a church which teaches God's Word to learn how to value your life, and more important, your children's lives. Seek a Christian counselor if you can't find a church that will give you counseling to help you trust God to handle your life alone until the right person comes into your life.
Adult Abuse Victim Signs Of Parental or Family Manipulation:
One of the most vicious and insidious scars of childhood abuse is parental manipulation. In most cases it never ends. Many times when the victim of manipulation tries to break free by honestly sharing how they feel about the relationship, the manipulative parent, sibling or relative accuses them of being a trouble maker and selfish.
They can turn the whole situation around to make the victim feel guilty by getting ill or accusing them that they have never appreciated everything that was done for them. In order to avoid confrontation and continue to get along with relatives, the abused person can continue with the relationship, only to become weaker and more bitter over time.
When a person has been manipulated by a parent or relative most their life or since they can remember, their reality is tainted. They believe they're the bad person when accused by their manipulator. They're asked to do things that are wrong, harmful to themselves or others or simply to satisfy their manipulator more than themselves.
The manipulated person is expected to put their parent or whoever has brainwashed them before even their own children and spouse if they have a family. All that matters is that the manipulator's desires are quenched because they enjoy making someone else weak.
For instance a person can be manipulated by the claim of fake illnesses at strategic times that keep them from enjoying a special time, getting married to someone or just feeling happy. They can even go as far as trying to create a wedge between a husband and wife in order to cause dissension.
If this is happening to you, this is a sign that you're still being abused. If you're a Christian, it will help you to keep the proper order of family and friends to maintain peace and be blessed. First comes God, then spouse, then children. Relatives and friends come last. Spouses should always come before parents! And children are always more important than the whims and desires of grandparents, relatives and friends regarding their well-being.
Life success can never be achieved until an abused person decides to change their realty by putting their life and family first over the needs of their abusers.
It's important to note that this type of manipulation is easily reinforced because the victim was probably brainwashed from birth or their early formative years (ages birth-4) to earn their parent's or relative's love by pleasing them at all costs.
This love by guilt and manipulation gives unbalance to a person's life because they have no idea what real love is or that their life is just as important as the person manipulating them. They can only recognize their worth by the way their manipulator treats them which isn't respectful.
This normally leaves the victim believing with all their heart, mind and soul that they're responsible for their abuser's happiness and that they're a bad person if they don't put their manipulator first.
Physical Abuse, Domestic Violence and Molestation:
The other types of abuse a child can suffer are physical abuse, domestic violence and molestation. All of these forms of abuse harm the soul, leaving a person empty or broken. Physical violence does damage to every part of a person, not just the body. Also as Christians our bodies are the temple of God, so whoever abuses us is vandalizing God's temple. God will help us become free safely.
Sexual abuse happens in families, outside families and even in schools and churches. In short, it can happen to a child anywhere. Children are helpless. They're left to suffer in silence if they don't know how to share their abuse. If they become an adult without getting help, their lives can only get worse.
While some children may tell their parents, sometimes the parent may not want to hear it and they protect the abuser, causing an even deeper pain in the child.
Many adults continue their childhood abuse by victimizing others, even when they work hard to change. Other adults who suffered from childhood abuse become victims. Being a victim leaves one with a broken soul, not knowing how to love because they can't love themselves. There are so many problems in adulthood that result from so much pain in their lives as a child that was never resolved.
Healing and Renewal
If any chance for healing and renewal exists in the lives of adults who suffered so greatly as a child, there are steps that must be acknowledged and taken. The most important step is to get away from the person or individuals safely.
Get whatever help you believe you need to be free of the damage done to you. However, If you choose therapy and find yourself still working at getting better six months or a year later, you're moving too slow. Recovery doesn't have to take a lifetime. It can begin immediately and take effect right away with God's Word. So choose your treatment wisely.
It's important to note that even when this type of abused person learns how to successfully turn away from an abusive parent, there are still damaged behaviors that need to be addressed such as "secret keeping" or fear of relationships. They need to create a new identity to overcome the abused identity they had been given when their personality or character was developing.
This is why it is important to separate from past abusers, because they will have trouble regarded themselves in any other way than as their abusers see them. Continuing with an abused character can cause severe feelings of inadequacy, general depression or clinical depression.
The only way I was able to create change in my life was to change my reality in Christ. It took longer than it should because I didn't know how to begin or what I needed to do first. Eventually I was able to put all the pieces together and when I did, great changes occurred in my life and relationships.
I've included short Bible studies with information that helped me here. I've also created a course that will change the reality of new Christians or Christians new to the Word to grow in confidence and ability to overcome childhood abuse. Go to the 7 Day Christian Growth Challenge. For more information about the course go here. I've also created a Bible Study based upon the same information as the course.
Conclusion Of Adult Abuse Victim Signs
No matter how difficult, it's necessary to completely separate from the people who cause abuse or enable it. It's necessary for recovery. When you look at the situation logically, you can only see that the abuser or abusers have no regard for their victim's feelings. Many times they despise their victims. So the victim must disassociate their ties with abusers who are not sorry for what they did to you as a child.
If childhood abuse caused you to be abused as an adult and it still continues, you need to get help immediately. Get involved in a large community church that's non-denominational and Word-based. Many of these churches today offer much help through the many classes they have as well as counseling. Become a member and focus upon God's healing power in your life through the Word.
Don't be concerned with making lots of friends and confiding in others. You need a strong person to guide you who is experienced, compassionate and who know how to help you use the Word for your situation. If counseling isn't available for free and you don't have the hourly fee, ask for references to a Christian counselor who can help you and your spouse or family members including your children if necessary that you can pay with insurance. If you don't have insurance keep checking with various churches.
Take Adult Abuse Victim Signs Seriously
If you're still being criminally abused you need to take care of the problem even if that means arrest. I suggest that in your counsel you describe your abuser and ask help to understand if the abuse is at a level where the person can be healed by getting help or if their behavior is at a level where the police need to be notified.
Be sure about any and all accusations because if you make a mistake, you'll add guilt to your list of problems. You don't need extra distractions to keep you from healing.
Having an abuser arrested can lead to other problems. Family members may believe that you're wrong and give you trouble, hate you or tell you that you're the one causing trouble not the person who did the abuse.
I didn't have anyone arrested, but my family said that although I was abused, it didn't matter because the person who harmed me was more important than I was. I was told to "just get along" and be respectful so that our family gathers could remain the same. I realized that it wasn't worth losing the promise of a great life in Christ by putting my family over my mental and emotional health when they didn't love me.
If you're suffering in any way from childhood abuse, prioritize your life today and make a plan for what you need to do to overcome your past and live a successful life in Christ.
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My impression of the song is not abt drugs or addiction, but abt lifestyle as becoming a rockstar musician/ entertainer. his new lifestyle is alienating his friendship with annie. he chooses rockstardom but hopes annie will change her mind and be more patient and understanding with him.
he's just landed a sweet label contract and his life is changing. "they have led him out to play" means literally play music.
friend annie notices the difference in him and interprets it as false behavior. he says yes and no--its theatrics and show biz, but he's doing it sincerely for the music/art. it's all he's ever known = aspired to become, worked at becoming. now that he's gotten the chance, what's wrong with embracing it? it's not like he's given up his name/ his face or has run away frm home or anything. she's never been an aspiring rock musician, so she would not understand. if he follows her advice, all his dreams of becoming a rock star will lie sadly dying.