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Bernadine Fried Announces "Artists in Recovery" Program at Wonderland EPA
New luxury sober living center founded by Bernadine Fried and Alex Shohet will cater to creative minds.
LOS ANGELES, California – APRIL 18, 2014 – Wonderland Air Force base in Laurel Canyon will serve as the home for Wonderland EPA's newest sober living program, Artists in Recovery. Co-founder Bernadine Fried says the center, which she calls a creative goldmine, will allow artists to pursue their creative passions through the recovery process. The facility is a unique addition to the Wonderland family of rehabilitation communities, adds Bernadine Fried.
Artists in Recovery (AIR) was designed by Bernadine Fried to take advantage of the facility's existing layout which includes a state of the art recording studio, sound stage, screening rooms, and ample office and gallery space. The former US Air Force base was once used to produce videos for the government. According to Bernadine Fried, she and co-founder Alex Shohet felt morally obligated to utilize the space to provide the ever-growing artistic community a sanctuary during substance abuse recovery.
The former base is an ideal location for Wonderland's recovery program, Bernadine Fried claims, as it has an air of mystique that residents can appreciate. In the 1940s, the US government took great care to position this campus in a private area, which, according to Bernadine Fried, is a major asset now. Throughout the 40s, 50s, and 60s, Wonderland Air Force Base was used to write and record secret film and photography projects for the US DOD and the Atomic Energy Commission. A helicopter landing pad, film vaults, and photo processing lab all harken to an era of days gone by. "We are restoring the facility…but with the latest technology today has to offer," reports Bernadine Fried. The main difference, she quips, is that the new and improved Wonderland Air Force Base won't need the film vaults or the bomb shelter.
Bernadine Fried explains that the center emphasizes sober creativity, allowing artists to tap into their inspiration without interference – away from the negativity of the media. AIR is a welcoming environment for inspired minds of all types. This includes but is in no way limited to television and film personalities, musicians, and print advertising professionals, says Bernadine Fried. The program utilizes not only creative workspace but also positive mentoring from sober artists across Southern California. AIR offers artists who have overcome addiction the opportunity to participate in the program as mentors. This level of peer interaction is unique in that it allows the artists to see how life can be outside of addiction and lived by those with similar lifestyles. Both sides can relate to one another' struggles, points out Bernadine Fried, and the AIR program promises to foster many new friendships and professional collaborations.
While the Wonderland EPA serves primarily as a sober living center, says Bernadine Fried, it is not unintentional that harnessing the power of the arts is a major aspect of recovery. And, with tens of thousands of square feet at their disposal, Bernadine Fried stresses that artists of all types are given the opportunity to redevelop themselves outside of the public eye.
About Wonderland EPA
Wonderland EPA was founded by Bernadine Fried and Alex Shohet as a family of recovery centers built around total transformation. Each client is treated according to an individualized plan that is developed by professionals like Bernadine Fried and includes medical and clinical staff. Notably, Wonderland does not consider a client's treatment as over once he or she exits the front door. Instead, Bernadine Fried encourages communication with both community staff as well as peer mentors. This level of commitment to sobriety has given Wonderland EPA one of the most respected names in the world of sober living and has contributed to the professional and personal success of countless clients since the company's inception.


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So you're hungry....or you think you are.
Try a liter of water first, then.
Remember that hunger for you right now is mostly mental. If you are anything like most of us, you have not gone more than a few hours without chewing on something delicious. Either eating to a clock; breakfast time, lunch time, dinner time and time for a coffee break. The human body can last a very long time without food. Longer than most would believe. However this doesn't help you, because right now you are "hungry". So here are a few things you can do to try to curb that hunger and not crack. The first few days are the worst, then after you get over that it becomes easier. That itself tells you something, the longer you go the less hungry you get? Weird right....you are not hungry. You are addicted to eating and right now you are bored!
Need more than some emotional support? Try these hunger hacks!
Chia seed with water will help fill you up quick. Drop one shake (1 tea spoon) into a bottle of water or juice. Chia can also go into a glass of nut milk. Just make sure to give the seeds 10 minutes to swell up. Chia seeds are packed with omega 3 fats which are great for satisfying hunger pangs on a cleanse.
Nut milk and sea salt. Pour 1/3 or 1/2 of your nut milk into a glass. Add a pinch of sea salt, and then proceed to "chew" your juice, slowly sipping and munching as you go.
Cold-pressed freeze. Pour your favorite juice into a small plastic container. Cover and freeze. Use a spoon, and attack! Its not ideal for raw cold-pressed juice, but we know what it's like on a long cleanse when you're missing the textures of food. Sometimes you just want to chew something!
Chewing ice--don't judge until you try it. Can help get you through those long hours at home... just you and your juice.
Don't. Please! Just Don't Cheat. Remember humans can, and have, survived for several months without solid food. The record is 382 days, he was very overweight however the point is that the human body can go for long periods without food. It's liquids we absolutely can't do without. On a Lifestyle Juicery Cleanse you're ingesting several litres of nutrient-dense liquid daily.
Your body is being fed - but if you are losing your mind, try celery sticks: chew until juice. Mash up half an avocado—only half! A cucumber: peel the skin off and chew it well. Basically, masticate everything into a juicy paste before swallowing. Only do this if you really have to!

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CAREN Stands for 'Center for the Advancement of Research and Education Exchange Networks in Asia'. It was established in April 2014 with the goal of enhancing the international appeal of our campuses and facilities at Osaka University. CAREN aims to channel many of the internationalization efforts at Osaka University.
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We figured since we've owned the house for 6 months now, it was time to mow the law. So Adam did it, and he did a great job. =) Hannah and I helped by picking up dog poo.
Month: February 2010
We figured since we've owned the house for 6 months now, it was time to mow the law. So Adam did it, and he did a great job. =) Hannah and I helped by picking up dog poo.
Our new toilet. It'll only be clean enough for pictures once, so I figured why not. (it does have a tank, it was already unpacked)
A few days ago my mom put Hannah on her back on a little play mat they have, it has toys that dangle over their head to entertain them. Hannah didn't scream, I was very surprised. She didn't seem to be looking at the toys, just listening to us. Then Monday night I pulled out
Friday Hannah and I went for our second jog with Poppy, we're still on the first week of training which is running for 60 seconds and walking for 90 seconds. Saturday morning Adam joined us for another run, and our dogs came too. I was having a hard time keeping up with Adam and my
new pics in home, smiles, friends and cousins
That's jogging with a soft J because it's slower than walking. Yesterday my dad and Hannah and I went for a "jog". I'm doing the couch to 5k training plan that I used to learn to run in November 2008. I figure it'll keep me from overdoing it. Hannah enjoyed being in her fancy jog
Hannah and I went to birth to three again today, it's fun to see the babies at all different stages. She now weighs 10 pounds 4.5 ounces. So she's averaging almost an ounce a day. Good to see that she's growing because she was weird about eating last week. Then we came home and I
Hannah and I have been keeping busy, and spending lots of time at church. Monday we went to a group for moms of preschoolers, it was really neat to meet other moms, and see babies at different stages. I get so excited seeing how responsive the older babies are and knowing Hannah will get there


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Here is an interesting thought that I read somewhere. Alas, I can't recall the source.
If we accept that our behavior with our wives or sweethearts deteriorates immediately after an orgasm and that this "hangover" lasts at least a week, let's examine how many orgasms we might be advised to have in a year's time.
Suppose the hangover is like taking a week's vacation away from your wife or sweetheart. After all, she is not getting your best during this hangover period.
How many weeks of vacation would your employer allow? How many weeks of quality time away from your wife or spouse should she be happy with? Most of us get only two or three weeks of vacation. Should our ladies get any different treatment?
With a one week hangover, for example:
4 orgasms per year is like 4 weeks of vacaction. Very generous of her!
2 orgasms per year is like 2 weeks of vacation. This is what most of us consider normal.
1 orgasm per month is like 12 weeks of vacation!!!! Hardly fair to her at all!
1 orgasm per week is like NEVER giving your spouse your best time. What a terrible thing!
Suppose your hangover lasts two weeks.....
2 orgasms per year is like 4 weeks of vacation!
1 orgasm per month is like 2 MONTHS of vacation!
1 orgasm per year is like the normal amount of vacation....two weeks.
Now, suppose you are like me where the hangover is very severe and you feel the effects for almost a month....
1 orgasm per year is like a month of vacation away from your spouse.
Given these assumptions, how many orgasms do you think our ladies should allow us?
Probably depends
on the person. In my case, where I don't seem to experience any directly noticeable crash or downtime, so the analogy wouldn't really apply in my case, though it might in yours.
Like, today, my wife and I had sex. Later, she found out our daughter got a tattoo. Now, I'm not totally against it, but I think it is something one shouldn't do lightly being that you'll have to live with it or go through a painful process to get it removed. But my wife felt angry about it. Maybe not only because in her view it is "stupid" but because she knows our daughter doesn't have a lot of money, and we tend to give her some gas money and pay for a few things like recently her car registration (I didn't have any input on that). So it may also be because she feels she's being taken advantage of when her daughter goes and spends her personal cash on something like that.
At any rate, all that to say, she was a bit angry and I picked up on it as we discussed something. And I hugged her and we talked about her anger over it. She seemed to loosen up a bit and appreciated the connection. So I don't really feel like I'm giving my wife a vacation from me because we had sex. But I've never really done that. I have my stuff that I do that she isn't involved in, but we usually spend some time every day connecting. Like, I still gave her a back rub tonight and a goodnight kiss. Having sex earlier in the day didn't stop that.
So I think it depends on the person, and probably their situation as well.
Does depend, but what about all of you?
I agree with Cole that the intervals of orgasm DO depend on the individual. Perhaps I did a poor job in framing the question.
What I would like to know is based on the individual forum member's assessment of their hangover period and their desire to please their partner, what do they think might be good intervals? In particular, I would like to see what people think if they COMBINE the desire to reduce hangovers as well as how often they think it is fair to impose such hangovers onto their partners.
In my case, the full effects of an orgasm-induced hangover linger for nearly a month. Whenever I ejaculate, it takes weeks before I am back to being FULLY loving to my wife. I can reasonably expect her to allow for such behavior a week or two a year, but for the full month it usually takes that is asking a lot. Thus, I think in my household ejaculations should be rather rare events. I find it difficult to write the number....but I have to: Once a year is probably best for me.
I would love to hear from more of you. What do YOU think is appropriate for youself in this context?
I look at the situation
completely differently. There's an assumption in your question that orgasm is of great benefit to both partners and that each person/couple should have as many as is "possible" for them.
May I propose a different experiment, at least for while you're rebooting? Try daily bonding behaviors (http://www.reuniting.info/lazy_way_to_stay_in_love) and forget all about orgasm for a while. It's looking like the research actually supports the idea that affectionate touch and close, trusted companionship are more beneficial to our well-being than orgasm itself. (These days couples are indirectly encouraged to focus on orgasm...and forget about bonding behaviors unless they're engaged in foreplay and headed for the Big O.)
In other words, "taking a vacation from your spouse," is really not wise. Even if you're "hungover" from orgasm, you can still manage a few minutes of daily bonding behaviors. See what they do for you when you use them every day for a month. Don't wait until you feel normal again and then go for orgasm...and start another cycle of emotional distance.
Even if you decide to include orgasm in the mix, you may find that the bonding behaviors lessen your hangover...and also have a very positive effect on your wife and your relationship. See Skeptic's blog: http://www.reuniting.info/node/3640
Logical conclusion?
Thank you for your thoughts. I agree with you that the bonding is more important--and healthy--for the couple. You are right in that the logic of my question was geared towards "how many are ok?"
Can I assume for your line of reasoning that you feel ZERO orgasms are necessary? In other words, once we completely rid ourselves of our masturbatory habits, can--and should--we learn to enjoy bonding and love without the orgasm?
I personally believe this is the case--the male ejaculatory orgasm is not needed. My initial questioning about the "vacation" was meant to see what sort of "guidelines" one might have as they pursue the ultimate path. In other words, if we can't go "cold turkey", what is a reasonable way to think about the frequency when we consider more than just ourselves?
As always, your insights are most welcomed and informative. This site is incredible! Very active and contains very bright and thoughtful members. I am loving it.
I think people
should do whatever they find works for them.
That said, my hope is that couples might also experiment with at least three weeks of daily bonding behaviors, without orgasm...simply to see what it yields, or doesn't , in terms of harmony and other benefits.
The three-week recommendation (also in our book) is to enable couples to get beyond the two-week neurochemical cycle of orgasm and experience a week together while free of it, and the projections it can cause (while still engaging in daily bonding behaviors). Obviously, if one has a longer cycle of recovery, then one would want to extend the time accordingly. Both partners have to be "with the program" for best results.
Gary and I voluntarily do not "go for "orgasm during our lovemaking, simply because we know through experiments that it adversely affects the harmony between us, makes me bitchy ;-), and makes him feel more fatigued and a bit "foggy." It took us years to figure that out, as neither of us thought orgasm was ever a problem during our very orgasmic previous sex lives.
Each couple will have to work out frequency for themselves, but my thought is that without an extended experiment of a few weeks, they may never realize that they have some control over how they see each other.
Thanks Marnia
You are helping me to "bookend" this topic very nicely. I appreciate it. Thanks for patiently working me through it. As you can see, I have been trying hard to see what others say is a "good starting point".
I see where I must go intellectually and spiritually. I plan on at least a thee month period to start with, due to my abnormally long hangover period. After that point, I will judge based on personal feel.
I can only humbly ask for the support of others, as this will be a nice challenge.
How does your
sweetheart feel about the idea? Are daily bonding behaviors an option?
If you're on your own, then it's even more helpful to increase such things as exercise, meditation, time in nature, etc.
My Sweetheart wife...
... is supportive of the idea. In fact, she's more of a driving force in a certain way. For example, she is really the one who pointed out the "hangover" to me. As such, my wife really prefers that I do not orgasm during our lovemaking. Upon asking her, she sees little or no value in my orgasms period. (not in a mean spirited way, just a pragmatic one) Frankly, if left entirely to her, I would not orgasm at all--indefinately.
This is why I have been so keen on finding a good starting point for the orgasm and masturbation reduction. I intend to follow the path that appears very good for the both of us and that is the eventual elimination of orgasm as any needed--nor desired--byproduct of our lovemaking.
There is no question that our bonding experience is far better when it has been considerable time since my last orgasm. Both her and I prefer to enhance the feelings.
Thanks for asking Marnia. You really help to put a human touch to this delicate topic.
Sounds like
you two are naturals for the "karezza" approach. Did you see this article? http://www.reuniting.info/wisdom/what_is_karezza There are various links to books by others on the subject at the bottom.
Yes, it's often the partners who notice the hangovers. Somehow they're always easier to spot in others than in ourselves. *chuckle* Guess that's just the way projection works.
Here's to harmony!
Karezza indeed!
I quite agree. The Karezza Method is most certainly the prescription for the two of us. I really look forward to initiating such a practice.
The part that sort of scares me is the realization that the ejaculatory orgasm is really something that is not necessary and that I need to do a lot of work to "reboot" my brain to no longer expect it. And I understand your chuckle, it is typically the spouse who recognizes certain behaviors. It goes double for us, too, because my wife genuinely hates the "mess" involved as well as the hangover.
By the way, I read some of your words on the "how to's" to get your partner involved. Very useful!
I have made it my goal to read this entire site. Might take me a while, but there are so many nuggets of gold here that I can't afford to miss any of them.
Have fun digging around
This site is a bit like a lumber yard. It could use a good Virgo to tidy up.
To answer your question more directly...
Since I focused on one aspect, but never really got there. :)
Yet, in a sense, I suppose I did answer it, in that it does depend on the individual. In my case, though, I'm still not sure what the optimum time would be.
I think (hope) I'll know more once I've successfully gone a month without orgasm, and can evaluate what benefits I see as a result, both within myself and the relationship with my wife.
But my wife isn't really on board with the Karezza idea yet. I'm waiting for her to get around to reading Marnia's book, which she hasn't attacked yet. But her initial thoughts are that its weird, and she feels like she enjoys it more when I orgasm. And perhaps the fact that I don't seem to have any visible down time might contribute to that, at least she's never indicated that she thought I was more distant/non-engaging after sex, or even since I tend to have an orgasm every day, on any particular day (maybe she's used to my constant down time though!)
But i did have a thought. While I don't see a lot of hangover in her, I do notice a tendency to not connect with me as much after sex. And while I don't always have an orgasm every time we have sex, she almost always does as I give her one, usually before I go in, because sex itself doesn't do it for her. And once we're done, while we might still hug and make contact, we've rarely done it more than once in a day, or even in a few days after that. The only exceptions being anniversaries or any time we're going to be alone for a few days away from home. But at home, it is rare that we have sex more than once a week.
And now I'm wondering, if perhaps giving her an orgasm every time might be ensuring that she has no desire for me sexually for at least a week, if not longer. She's also told me that she masturbates around twice a week. Now, I don't know how to go about bringing her around to this idea so that she is cooperative. She feels masturbation is natural and fine, and that she wants an orgasm if we're going to have sex. But maybe her getting close to three orgasms a week might account for some of her low libido. IOW, if she didn't masturbate during the week, would she be drawn to having sex with me more often?
Hard to say without getting her to cooperate with the experiment with me. She's aware of what I'm doing. But she's sort of ambivalent to the whole idea. As a matter of fact, she seems worried that our son wants to not masturbate at all, that it might be a bad thing for him, because she sees it as natural and normal.
So it is a complex question to ask. I've been having near daily or more than once a day orgasms for most of my life, and don't know much different. But that is why I'm hoping this experiment of going a month without will help me to see where I may be affected by frequent orgasms that I'm not aware of because I'm so used to my current state as being "normal." If I went with how often my wife appears to want to have sex, I'd have sex about twice a month. Based on the two-week cycle, that would mean neither of us would ever totally get out of the unbalanced chemicals stage.
Hum, I'm wondering, thinking. If after my month experiment, I decide I want to drastically cut down on my masturbation use, maybe eliminate it in total preference for sex with her, if she'd agree to not masturbate as well, and save it for me too, and see if that wouldn't make some significant changes. Perhaps after my experiment, I can propose it to her as an experiment for a month or two, and see what we discover in our interactions with each other. That might be a way to help her discover this concept on her own terms, and then with increased interest if she notices some positive benefits, might read Marnia's book with more interest.
But until I do this experiment, it will be hard for me to really know what that balance is for us, or should be. If I had my way, it would be at least once a week. If my body had its way, it would be daily.
Surely trying
"a weird thing" for three weeks wouldn't be that big a deal...even for a skeptical spouse. Especially once she understands that the issue isn't "sin" or "shame," but rather regulation of our pair-bonder brains.
It would be really interesting to see if she comes around if she comes less.
Excellent points Cole
I appreciate that you are going through some similar aspects to your sex life as I am. And I thank you for taking the time for such a well crafted response.
One point I found particularly interesting was your mention of the "If I went with how often my wife appears to want to have sex, I'd have sex about twice a month. Based on the two-week cycle, that would mean neither of us would ever totally get out of the unbalanced chemicals stage." Do you think her apparent interest is merely coincidental? The more I learn about the 14 day hangover, the more I see how the patterns play out in my house. My wife, too, seems to want sex about once every two weeks. I'd love to cum every day, but I'd be a terrible wreck if I did.
It looks like her and I are ebbing towards a once a quarter period for me, and she will take her orgasms as they....uh....come.
A combination of things
I think plays into it.
One, we tend to say that Saturday mornings are our time together, but she often has client work scheduled on Saturday mornings too. So it ends up being every couple of weeks or so. Occasionally we many only have sex once a month.
However, she says she's often masturbating a couple times a week. So throw in the two times we have sex, and that makes it around ten times a month for her.
Now, without any restraint, I'll have an orgasm a day, sometimes more. Like after coming off my week abstinence experiment, I've done it twice a day for the last two days. Beginning next week I think I'll cap it no more than once a day though I'm sure by the time I get to that point, it will probably be getting there. So I do tend to have an orgasm every day left to my own devices. But I know now that this is not a good thing, I need to pull that down, even though I don't have any noticeable crash as such.
I think how frequently we have sex is due to her exhaustion level. She stays busy, and she has shows she likes to watch in the evenings. So it tends she is dead tired by the time she's ready to go to bed. So she is rarely ever open to having sex in the evenings. I think if she made an effort to get in bed earlier, she'd be more open to sex during the week. Probably not every night by any means, but at least once or twice a week I would think.
So I think it is part that her libido isn't as strong as mine so she simply doesn't want it that often, and she tends to not carve out time for it other than Saturday, and even there that gets sucked up by other priorities regularly, and she is masturbating, which indicates she does want some of the feelings on a fairly regular basis. But I think in her mind, it is less work on her part and can end it quickly if she needs to, to masturbate rather than call me back to join in on the fun (assuming I'm around when it happens).
But I think she doesn't think about it like I do. I mean, I see an opportunity and I want to take it. It is high on my list of things to do, unless I'm still recovering from having already done it. But she naturally only does it a couple times a week, which indicates to me that she probably passes up lots of opportunity to do it. And she doesn't often come to me when she has an opportunity and say, "Hey, I want sex" (in so many words). That does happen on occasion, but usually I'm the one that initiates it.
Now, we'll see what my month long abstinence does to her. And if at the end of it, she'll be open to doing a mutual abstain from masturbation and only have an orgasm with each other in sex for at least a month, and make note of any changes/improvements in our own relationship with each other. I'll present it as an experiment, and see if she's game. She may not be, but I'm now wondering if she cut out masturbation, how much more often would she want to have sex. But I think if I'm abstaining at the same time as she is, she'll be more open to that. In part because she doesn't like me taking a long time. And if anything, this last week-long abstaining shows that if I've gone without a few days, I'm easy to get to orgasm. Part of what she doesn't like is going at it for thirty minutes, and not ever really getting there, and we end when she was tired of it several minutes ago and would rather be doing something else. So that's why masturbation is more appealing to her, she doesn't have to wait for me to get to orgasm or give up trying. Once she's had hers, she can get on with her day. So if I'm abstaining, then I should generally respond more readily to her.
So I think I may be able to sell that experiment, and see how it goes.
you could sell the idea on the theory that masturbation maybe one cause of her fatigue...and just see if she'd like to experiment with not doing it, but snuggling a lot with you, for a few weeks to see if she feels more energy.
She might LIKE it when you don't cum
I am following your narrative with great interest. There are many parallels with my life (not equals, but parallels) so I feel like I am darned near in your shoes.
There is something you may consider as a means to help get your wife to go along with your experiment: She may LIKE it when you don't cum. I realize you mentioned that she sort of works at it, but please think about how she might respond if you tell her honestly that you feel you might be better off not cumming so much. Once I told my wife this she was liberated in a way I could never have imagined. This new perspective truly changed her and now she is of the mind-set that I should no longer ejaculate. She likes my behavior more, she hates the mess of ejaculation and she disliked the "burden" of having to help me to cum. In other words, make sure there is something in it for HER to go along with your experiment. After she sees the positive change in you, she might later try it herself. It certainly slowed my wife's masturbation down....and almost eliminated mine entirely.
Her, on the other hand, still likes her weekly or twice monthly orgasm.
I have brought it up to her
but she's acted resistive to the idea. When we do, she wants me to have an orgasm, and thought the idea strange and odd to not have that as a goal. So, I don't want to push it either. That's why I'm thinking about offering this experiment once I'm done with my own, as something she might accept and it could show her that maybe there is more to this than she immediately perceives.
In essence, my wife didn't like the idea. And it takes two to tango with that. So my thinking is if I can get her to not masturbate along with me for a month, and only orgasm when we have sex, it might not only show her the value of not masturbating, but provide some verification that maybe there is more to all this abstinence stuff and avoiding orgasm than she originally thought.
Plus, she may still read Marnia's book, which will do a better job than I have explaining what is going on. But in the end, I've brought it up, her initial reaction wasn't positive as your wife's was, and so I'm waiting for her to either see the results in me, and/or decide to give it a try and see what happens within herself, at some point.
You are too kind Cole,
My wife is only "half" there. She is utterly comfortable with me not orgasming. In fact, she prefers that I don't. And not only prefers that I don't....she prefers that I don't...ever.
She, on the other hand, is simply addicted to orgasms. She (Like I would too) exhibits the classics signs...gets cranky if she isn't having one, tired after, etc.
Soon I plan on showing her Marnia's ten minute You Tube video. Meanwhile, I continue to retain semen....and I have never felt better.
Hang in there...we both have to.
You guys
are angels of patience. On behalf of your ornery spouses, I thank you. It's *very* hard to see one's own perception shift.
Besides, Cole, we women are programmed to entice those potent little sperm out of safe-keeping, so we get a buzz from helping our partner's orgasm, just as you guys do.
In any case, I agree that it's best not to try to hammer on a partner. Instead use indirect methods...short articles she might relate to, etc. There are lots to choose from here, and many are blog posts on others sites, so if you see something you want to share let me know and I may be able to find a link that doesn't lead directly to this site.
You're an angel of teaching
Marnia, thanks for helping Cole and I get progress on our understanding. I have learned more about myself and my relationship in the past two days than I have in ten years. I am the proverbial sponge soaking it up.
You are right about the indirect approach. I know my wife "Sally" responds well to the female voice. She belongs to several women's networking groups, so I am sure she's going to find your video interesting. I just have to make sure her mood is proper and the timing is right. Even then, I won't push for a result, just the planting of the seed.
this is a seed that takes some time to flower. It certainly did with me.


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Kicking off the four day Jubilee weekend with some good feminist chit chat!
-I'm just jumping right in with a controversial topic here! And don't yell at me because the article itself is actually from the Daily Mail. But terrible rag aside, I thought the article was interesting-discussing women who don't shave and how that isn't ever really accepted in our Western society-and many Eastern ones for that matter. It's coincidental that I was just last week taking part in a discussion re: lady body hair and whether it is/isn't professional to wear tank tops or sleeveless dresses at work if your pits aren't shaven. In the article, no surprise because it's the Mail, the "journalist" was disgusted by a 28 year old feminist who went on a morning chat show in a little black dress, pits and hairy legs out, no shame. I thought the chica was awesome and proud and had no reason to be ashamed of her choice.
Moving on from the body hair…
–Bad ass lady pilot kicks off dude who talks shit about female pilots after boarding her plane. 'Nuff said. My hero! (more here: http://msmagazine.com/blog/blog/2012/05/27/pilot-kicks-sexist-off-her-plane/) Keep your stupid opinions to yourselves, sexists.
-Well worth discussing-why are women only writing a quarter of the Op-Ed columns in American newspapers? Turns out that data from the OpEd Project shows that only 24% of opinion columns in major syndicated papers are being written by women (a number that has barely changed in the past decade), and most of these pieces focus on family, gender or style. The only area where women are writing more columns than men are in the areas of family and gender, while all the other areas surveyed male writers far outnumbered women. These areas included economics, education, technology, science, media, the environment, national and international politics, and various other areas, including food. Plenty of room for female opinions, right? Particularly when half of most media's readership is, in fact, female? You'd think so.


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The diction that Shakespeare has employed in most of his writings is poetic. The lines of the plays are organized in the manner of synonymous with poetic structures. His consistent use of archaic language depicts the period in which he lived. In the play Much Ado About Nothing, the Elizabethan diction is in full use. The language and rhetoric here has been exploited to explore the theme of the ideal of social grace.
The characters' dense and colorful manner of speaking is reminiscent of the ideals that courtiers strove to achieve in most of their interactions during the renaissance. The language here is heavily laden with metaphors and punctuated by rhetoric which gives additional meaning to the theme being explored. Characters like Benedick, Don Pedro and Claudio all use a witty banter that was used by courtiers to attract and influence the attention and approval in very noble households. To do this, they speak in highly contrived language while keeping their utterances to look effortless.
Benedick and his friends try and show their polished social status both in the manner of their behavior and in their speech. The play pokes a lot of fun at the fanciful language of love that courtiers used. When Claudio falls in love, he strives to be the perfect courtier ever and he uses language to do this. Again, it is language that manipulated to capture the extent of Hero's loss of honor because she had had sexual encounters before marriage. This was a very significant loss from which one never recovered during the Shakespeare's time. On page 138, she is described as one who had fallen into a pit of ink that even the wide sea hath drops too few to wash her clean again. That cannot fail to strike as a very serious annihilation.
The use of language and rhetoric has been further explored to make the play more dramatic and meaningful. He uses rhetorical questions like the one on page 70 where the question "with who" is intended to engage the audience. He uses this to persuade the audience to know an answer which they do not know yet which they should. This makes the play more dramatic because he is able to engage with the audience and cleverly help them understand the significance of the scene.
The play itself is primarily about gossip and the title aptly captures that. It is a gig fuss about a trifle and by the end, it is like it never happened at all. Shakespeare is witty himself and plays on the meaning of the word nothing. First, it would be pronounced as 'noting' in his time. It meant a worthless person. However, he deliberately plays with the meaning in this play for we know that 'nothing' could also refer to females genitalia. Hero's genitalia is ridiculed and one readily sees how ashamed she becomes because of her sexual desires. She thus fails the ideal of social class by losing her honor amongst the people. Language here is used to locate that describe that ideal and how it is valued.
The word "nothing" is noting in the play. This is why when Claudio comments about Hero, he asks whether anyone had noted her. To note here is to stigmatize. Benedick answers that he noted her not but instead looked on her which means he never noted her. And when he did, he noted her in his own way, maybe about her complexion and height. So that generally, Shakespeare uses language to explore a number of issues. Rhetoric as well add to the general meaning of the play. Everyone else is aspiring for the ideal of social grace and that is when Hero is found to have lost hers', nobody is ready to associate. In fact, it is much ado about nothing anyway.


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From time to time, I like to tune into the HTML abortion that is projo.com so I can fuel up on my Rhode Island news. We don't have the racism, nepotism and government corruption that the folks in good ol' RI do, and I miss it. There are only so many feel-good stories I can read in the Colorado news before I really get the hankerin' for some east coast journalism.
Last night after my bike ride I decided to dip in on projo.com to see what was going on this week in Lil' Rhody, one of the headlines was so poorly constructed and the imagery such a terrible fit that I honestly thought it was a joke.
Here's the headline…
Somebody take a look at the headline and the photo. Does that crowd look thrilled to you? To me, it looks like there's 8,300 soaking wet people listening to a musician that more than likely has shit his own pants more than once in the past 30 days.
Thrilled is not the word I would have chosen for the headline, nor would I have used such a shit-tastic photo. Hell, look at the gentlemen in the 2nd row, all the way to the right in the red-shirt. He's so thrilled that he's drilling his hands into his armpits in a futile attempt to hold in his intense excitement for Bob Dylan, Willie Nelson or John "Cougar" Mellencamp… Or, maybe he's just conceling the gun that he's going to use to blow his own brains out.
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Mich. Official Off Job After Targeting Gay Student
Mich. Official Off Job After Targeting Gay Student
In Michigan, Assistant Attorney General Andrew Shirvell has taken a sudden leave of absence. This comes after the University of Michigan officially barred him from the campus. He has been threatened with arrest for trespassing if he returns.
Shirvell has been showing up at campus events to protest and taunt Chris Armstrong, the first openly gay student body president of the University of Michigan. Shirvell also wrote a blog called "Chris Armstrong Watch," devoted to the college senior, who majors in sociology.
Now, Shirvell is headed to court and could lose his job for his crusade against Armstrong.
Shirvell did not respond to NPR's request for an interview. But he did defend his actions on CNN.
"Chris Armstrong is a radical homosexual activist who got elected partly funded by the Gay and Lesbian Victory Fund to promote a very deeply radical agenda at the University of Michigan," he told CNN's Anderson Cooper.
Among other things, Shirvell has published a picture of Armstrong online and digitally pasted a Nazi swastika over his face alongside the word "resign." Shirvell puts his words and deeds in the context of a political campaign. Political speech is protected with wide latitude to say and do things that might otherwise get a person in trouble.
"In any political campaign, you have to raise awareness and issues, and … one way of doing it is by protesting," Shirvell said on CNN.
Part of that "protesting" included staking out Armstrong's home and videotaping him at all hours.
Shirvell's boss is Michigan's Republican Attorney General Mike Cox. Cox initially said, as obnoxious as Shirvell's behavior seemed, there was nothing he could do about it. Outside of the office and off-hours, Cox said, his employee had free speech rights and civil service protection.
Now, Cox says he is taking a closer look at his employee's behavior.
"I made a mistake … I should have been more diligent. Ultimately, that's all on me," Cox says.
Cox says he's done a more thorough examination of Shirvell's blog.
"I was shocked. I knew he had political views of a certain bent, but reading the blogs ... [They] really aren't … in the conventional sense, political discourse. They're really these screeds attacking an individual personally," Cox says.
Cox says the early-hour stakeouts of Armstrong's home also may have crossed a line.
The attorney general says he has been receiving 100 e-mails a day calling for him to fire Shirvell. He says Shirvell will face a disciplinary hearing under civil service rules if and when he returns to work.
But Cox is careful to say he has not pre-judged the situation.
Thomas Habratowski is an openly gay junior at University of Michigan majoring in English. He says the atmosphere on campus has been intense but supportive in the past few days.
"It affects the college life just a little bit. It kind of brings forth a sense of unity through everyone in their classes. Not only students but also professors are showing their support for Chris Armstrong right now," Habratowski says.
Habratowski says the community is distributing T-shirts on campus supporting the student body president.
Armstrong has asked for a restraining order against Shirvell, and a court hearing has been scheduled. Mike Cox, the Michigan attorney general, says he will send another government lawyer to the courtroom to monitor what happens and report back to his office.


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I love zombies, and this is a great painting of one. Often I see zombie artwork that is rushed and quite cheezy looking, but this piece looks great. This is quality work, right along the lines of Brom and Wes Benscoter.
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One component is a memeplex.
groups of memes called meme complexes, or memeplexes. are like the gene complexes found in biology, memeplexes are groups of memes that are often found present in the same individual. Applying the theory of Universal Darwinism, memeplexes group together because memes will copy themselves more successfully when they are "teamed up". Examples include sets of memes like singing and guitar playing, or the Christmas tree and Christmas dinner.It is different from a memeplex in that, like assemblage, it includes the material world as a critical element. Using the RGB wave view, the meme resides in the Bwave. Materiality resides in the Rwave. They interact at the Gwave.
A New Philosophy of Society: Assemblage Theory and Social Complexity is a 2006 book by Manuel DeLanda. he book employs Gilles Deleuze's theory of assemblages (from A Thousand Plateaus) to posit social entities on all scales (from sub-individual to transnational) that are best analysed through their components (themselves assemblages).
As an example of an assemblage (as defined by DeLanda) consider an ecosystem:Wikipedia
- The material role here is performed by the soil, sunlight, trees, animals, etc.
- The expressive role is performed by the forms, colours, habits, etc. of the aforementioned components.
- The territorializing role would be played by factors such as food chains, adaptive traits, conducive climate and other elements that maintain the components and their relationships and thus the identity and durability of the assemblage.
- The deterritorializing role would be played by such factors as climate change, invasion by exotic species, evolutionarymutation and other elements that recombine or replace various components and roles within the assemblage, leading to its dissipation or reformulation.
- A linguistic/coding role could be played by an environmental discourse seeking to protect an ecosystem.
Nemetic Notation for various kinds of Nemeplex.
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The European Union should be a safe space against terrorism and organized crime, but can not be a fortress against migrants.
This is the spirit of the legislative packages for border control and asylum applications adopted by the European Parliament, this week.
MEPs have approved new rules that will allow countries in the free-travel Schengen area to reinstate border checks.
Members of the European Parliament stressed they would only apply in major emergencies and cannot be used unilaterally.
Increased migration flows are explicitly excluded.
The Schengen area is a passport-free travel zone made up of 22 EU countries and five non-EU members.
Five EU nations have signed up, including the UK.
"I am totally in favour of fighting organised crime and fighting terrorism, but then migration should never be in fact related to this. Migration is a totally different phenomenon, it is about people that for various reasons leave their homeland and come to the EU," said Liberal MEP from Romania Renate Weber.
Lawmakers also backed a new Common Asylum System, which will bring in a standard six-month deadline to process an application, as left-wing Spanish MEP Antonio Masip Hidalgo explained.
"It is absolutely critical that , when an asylum seeker arrives for the first time in Europe, that he is not arrested and treated as a prisoner, that he is no longer treated as a common criminal, but treated with respect," Hidalgo said.
The changes will also give police and member states access to a database containing asylum seekers' fingerprints in some cases.
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Cure live broadcast cancelled
FANS OF The Cure have been left staring at their shoes today after the cancellation of a unique live gig that was to be broadcast in Ireland and across Europe tonight.
The ageing "misery guts" are headlining the Shockwaves NME Awards Big Gig 2009 in London's O2 arena but the show was also to be broadcast live on cinema screens across Europe, much to the delight of Cure fans.
The band played the Oxegen festival in 2004 and in Dublin's Point in June 1996. Cinemas Movies@Swords, Movies@ Dundrum and sister company SGC Dungarvan were to play host to hordes of the band's black-clad faithful at 9.30pm tonight, but Universal notified cinemas last Friday that the satellite link-up had been cancelled.
A spokeswoman for the cinemas said approximately 150 cinema tickets at €20 each for the shows had sold out quickly after going on sale on Monday of last week.
She said no reason was given for the cancellation.
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Independence Day celebrations just wouldn't be the same without fireworks, and as July 4 approaches, Hendricks County offers a multitude of opportunities for families to experience a fireworks show before, during or after the Fourth of July.
All of this year's fireworks displays in Hendricks County are associated with an additional activity or festivity that I will touch on briefly here and in a more detailed post in the very near future. But for now, let's just focus on the oohs and ahhs of our annual celebrations.
Saturday, June 27
Get your first taste of pyrotechnics a week before Independence Day at the Hendricks County Rib-Fest at Kingsway Christian Church in Avon. Beginning at 4 p.m. June 27, the Rib-Fest offers all kinds of fun, food and festivities that culminates in a fireworks display at dusk (roughly 10 p.m. Eastern time, for those who are traveling to Hendricks County from a significant distance).
This year, the Hendricks County Rib-Fest has added a 5K fun run, a quarter-mile fun run for kids, a Millennial Park for teenagers and much more. For everything you need to know about the Hendricks County Rib-Fest, click here.
Saturday, July 4
The Independence Day fireworks displays in these four Hendricks County towns are all part of bigger celebrations. All of these events are family friendly and free to attend:
- The Brownsburg Lions Club has been organizing Brownsburg's 4th of July Extravaganza since 1966, and this year's event begins on June 30 at Arbuckle Acres Park in Brownsburg. There will be a carnival, a corn tent, a parade, bingo and more, and it all culminates with fireworks at 10 p.m. on July 4.
- The Pittsboro Town Freedom Celebration begins at 2:30 p.m. on July 4 with a parade through town, followed by festivities at Scamahorn Park at 4 p.m. and a fireworks display at dusk.
- Plainfield begins its Fourth of July Extravaganza at 5 p.m. on July 4 at Hummel Park with live music, bounce houses, airbrush tattoos, food vendors and more. The night is capped off with a fireworks display at 9:55 p.m.
- The Danville Family Fourth Fest is held at Danville Community High School beginning at 6 p.m. on Independence Day, and it will feature live music, games, food and a kids' parade. All of it leads up to the town's fireworks display at dusk.
Thursday, July 9
Did you miss the fireworks on Independence Day? Have no fear! The Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra is coming to Ellis Park in Danville on July 9 for its annual Symphony in Ellis Park. The gates open at 6 p.m. and the ISO will play classical and patriotic music beginning at 8:15 p.m. The performance will end with a fireworks display above the park at dusk.
For more information about the Symphony in Ellis Park, including how to purchase tickets, click here.
Did I miss a fireworks display in Hendricks County? Comment below and let me know! And then stay tuned to this blog for more ideas on how to celebrate Independence Day around Hendricks County!


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Welcome to the home page of the Preston Mountaineering Club.
We have regular weekend meets in the climbing and mountain areas of England, Scotland and Wales. On meets we walk, scramble, rock climb and, when possible, ice climb. In the winter months, members use the indoor climbing wall at West View Leisure Centre, Preston, on Thursday evenings from 6pm. In summer, we climb locally.
The club has active members from across the whole of Lancashire, South Cumbria and Greater Manchester, not just Preston. So don't hesitate to get in touch.
For details on membership and further information on the Preston Mountaineering Club, please e-mail us here or contact Mike Pringle, Hon. Secretary, on 01257 275984. Membership is only possible for those who are aged 18 or over. Current membership fees are:
£20.00 for Full Membership
£15.00 for Retired/Student/Associate Membership
£20.00 for Full Membership
£15.00 for Retired/Student/Associate Membership
Application forms can be downloaded in Word or pdf format. Benefits include a quarterly newsletter, standard BMC club member third party insurance and discount arrangements with a number of outdoor retailers throughout the country (see the links page).
Anniversary T-shirts
75th Anniversary T-shirts and sweat shirts are now available. Send your order to Bill (Hon Treasurer) as soon as possible. See the order form [Word (53kB) or pdf(29kB)] for the details of sizing.
Wilton 1 Appeal
Anyone interested in contributing towards the upkeep of Wilton 1 on an individual basis, then have a look at the explanatory document (52kB) from Les Ainsworth, BMC NW area access rep.


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Having a Google Pixel 2 means that you're the owner of a smartphone that you're going to want to protect from any potential accidents. Despite the Google Pixel 2 boasting protection in the form of Corning Gorilla Glass 4 on the display, it's still well worth looking into tempered glass screen protectors and more that will ensure your phone stays free from cracks, scratches and scuffs. The Google Pixel 2 has been designed with style and function in mind and so have the cases and covers you'll find on this page. Designed to fit effortlessly on to your Google Pixel, you'll find everything from leather flips to tough armour cases and more. So if you're looking for protection for your Google Pixel, you're in the right place. Whether it's a wallet case that keeps your bank cards and Pixel 2 safe as well as acting as a stand or it's a complete gadget organiser bag, you're bound to find the right cases and protection for your Pixel 2 right here.
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Cannot install SCOM 2012 SP1 on a SQL Always ON instance
So, you`re trying to install SCOM 2012 Sp1 with a SQL Always On Group.. you get to the configure the operational database step of the setup and get following error:
Setup is unable to create database on SQL Server instance "your SQL Always On Instance" Please make sure that the current user has permissions to create database on the SQL Server instance specified.
Sadly enough, when you logon directly on the instance and try creating manually a new database on this instance it works.. so there are no permission problems.
Now, you cannot comprehend the evil behind this error message.
You have in the Installation Logs under OpsMgrSetupWizard.log following error:
Error: :Could not create valid path: \\...: Threw Exception.Type: System.IO.IOException, Exception Error Code: 0x80070043, Exception.Message: The network
name cannot be found.
So, you should try installing this with the actual IP of the SQL Instance. Does the installer progress? If not, try the following:
If replacing the SQL group name with the IP does work, this is by design in 2012 SP1 since the Always-On listener tries to access the hidden drive shares which, because of the WFC design, it doesn't have permission to use.
Tip: *This was fixed in SCOM 2012 R2*
So as a further workaround you`ll have to proceed with the installation and install SCOM with the IP and then afterwards change the connection to the DBs to the SQL Cluster settings:
• Rename the database server to the Group Listener name using the same steps as "How to move Operations Manager database" -> http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh278848.aspx
• Restart the System Center Management service
• Stop the primary SQL service to force a SQL cluster service move.
• Start the SCOM console to check.
Happy SCOM-ing!


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Welcome to our new blog about LYFE Camp! Parents, read daily updates about our exploits while your youth is away at camp. Campers, learn about the work that goes into getting camp ready for you! I encourage you to subscribe to the RSS Feed in the right-hand column of this blog for easy reading.
I'm sitting at my desk at Excelsior UMC working on approximately one-thousand more details for LYFE Camp - Week I. My top priority today is updating LYFECamp.org with electronic copies of the dean's letter and health form. If you haven't received these forms, please download a copy from the website. The dean's letter has very important information for both parents and campers - particularly new campers - and the health form is mandatory for anyone attending camp.
The Junior Counselors had their final meeting on Saturday. We assigned roles and worked on worship services, and definitely had fun re-connecting; many of us haven't seen each other in months! We brought up several prayer requests and stayed (more or less) productive while chowing down on Davanni's pizza. Highlights included learning there is both an emotional and physiological answer to the question, "How are you feeling?", Alia volunteering to do pretty much everything, and a near-brawl (not really) over who would be in charge of volleyball.
The Senior Counselors, meanwhile, had their final meeting on Sunday night at, you guessed it, Davanni's pizza. Our senior staff is a brilliant mix of veterans of Week One, veterans of other weeks, and brand-new leaders who have connected with some campers at lock-ins, UMYs, and trips to the BWCA. It's a staff I'm excited to work with this year. Highlights from this meeting included revelations about small personal connections we didn't know about, learning Kristen really enjoys elements of 15th Century English culture, and me choosing a brilliant new photo caller ID for Eric on my cell phone.
As for me this week, I have a good mix of paperwork, emails and phone calls, shopping, packing, and design work to do over the next few days. I hope to blog about LYFE Camp - Week One every day as our countdown to camp continues, plus see if I can't squeeze in an entry every day (most likely in the mid-morning) during LYFE Camp so parents can hear about some of the great things happening at camp this year. I thank you in-advance for your RSS Feed subscription, dear reader. :)
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In 2016, Playtex Sport redefined its target audience to target solely athletic, sporty girls between the ages of 12 – 24. The brand tasked Paradigm with developing an integrated campaign to engage the target and drive product trial.
Paradigm developed PlayON Canada, an activation intended to help teen girls to "play on" by eliminating barriers to sport for girls' athletic teams. Part of the activation included the PlayON Canada Grant Program, which awarded $50,000 in funding to girls' high school sports teams. To communicate the program to girls in high school, the team developed branded collateral that was shipped to high schools across the country, including vending machines that mimicked the appearance of lockers (and dispensed product samples), and branded mirror clings and lesson plans. One lucky high school team had their locker room completely made over with attractive Playtex Sport branding and motivational messaging. The surprise reveal was filmed and edited into a launch video to communicate the Grant Program nationally in both traditional and social/digital media.
Feedback from the high schools was overwhelmingly positive, and the grant program received more than
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· Lack of time - In order to play a visionary leadership role, board members need the time to do the work of the board: attend meetings, serve on committees, read materials and maintain contact with each other in between meetings. This puts pressure on the board to do everything it can to organize for maximum effectiveness and avoid wasting time on trivial matters. This also challenges the board to recruit leaders who are able and willing to make the required time commitment.
· Avoidance of risk-taking - To be innovative and creative in its decision making, a nonprofit board must be willing to take chances, to try new things, to take risks. This risk-taking flies in the face of the conventional wisdom about board stewardship responsibilities. Success in new programmatic ventures is never guaranteed. Boards need to acknowledge this tension point and discuss it with funders, donors and other key supporters. Board leaders must strike a balance between taking risks and remaining true to their traditional stewardship role. It will also help to remember that holding on to the status quo can be a greater risk than trying something new.
· Lack of board involvement in strategic thinking, planning and decision making - More than any other activity, strategic planning offers boards an opportunity to closely examine the changes and trends that will have the greatest impact on their nonprofits and their ability to make a real difference in the lives of the people and communities they serve. Based on this analysis, boards are then able to devise strategies to effectively respond to new challenges. This opportunity to reflect together on the big issues facing the organization leads to new vision and a sense of future direction, as well as the energy to move forward. Some boards are not involved in strategic planning at all. Some are involved but only superficially. When this happens, the board loses an important opportunity to hone and exercise its visionary leadership skills. And we're not just talking about the formal structured planning process but rather all of the opportunities the board has to engage in strategic thinking and decision making on an ongoing basis.
· Lack of knowledge in an increasingly complex world - The world is much more complex today for nonprofits. Busy board members frequently lack a deep understanding of critical changes, trends and developments that challenge fundamental assumptions about how they define the work of the board and what success looks like. Today, we see this shift most dramatically in the fields of health, education and economic development. Often, this lack of knowledge results in a lack of confidence on the part of the board to act decisively and authoritatively.
· Micro-management - There is the story about the city council of a major American city spending almost an entire meeting deciding what color to paint the seats in the new stadium. Think of the seemingly intractable problems facing this and other cities today-unemployment, low student achievement, crumbling infrastructure. A time for bold, decisive action, if there ever was one!. Where was the leadership?
Practically all of us have hair-raising stories about boards that spent untold hours discussing trivial subjects while neglecting major governance issues deserving more thoughtful deliberation. It is essential that boards focus attention on the roles they are called to play in order to maximize mission impact. This means the board must avoid the temptation to micro-manage or meddle in areas that are more appropriately handled by staff or its own committees. The average board, meeting monthly for one- and- a- half hours, has approximately eighteen18 hours of meeting time per year to make all of the major governance decisions and still find the time to address new critical issues that are sure to emerge. It is simply impossible to do an effective job within those eighteen18 hours of meeting time if precious minutes are devoted to non-governance matters. In addition, a habit of board micro-management can adversely affect the morale of staff and the board's own committees as well.
· Holding on to the old ways - In their book The Accelerating Organization, authors Arun Maira and Peter Scott-Morgan state that one principle of survival scientists have observed in natural systems is the continuous shedding of operating rules that cease to be relevant because of changing environmental conditions. Organizations, they surmise, "can hold only a small number of rules and operations at any time so they must have the ability to shed old rules to make room for the new. Shedding becomes more complicated in systems involving human beings because their sense of self- worth is often attached to many old rules." This all-too-human tendency to hold on to what we know can prevent boards from considering and pursuing new opportunities that conflict with some of the old rules.
· Failure to see strategic thinking as the board's primary governance responsibility - Sometimes boards assume that it's the job of the executive director to do the visionary thinking. While boards rightly expect executive directors to be visionary, strategic and decisive, this doesn't mean that the board sits and waits for direction and inspiration. This lack of clarity can result in boards that don't exercise visionary leadership because they don't think it's their job. But it is! In fact, it's at the very heart of what it means to govern.
· We didn't have to be visionary in a less-competitive past - Time was when clients, members, donors and consumers would just walk in the door on their own—or so it seemed. Viewing things in this way, boards didn't consider marketplace pressures, or for that matter the existence of a competitive marketplace. Those days are gone forever. For many boards, however, their leadership style hasn't kept pace with these new realities.
Some of these barriers will be familiar. All can be overcome. What is really required is a fundamental reorganization of board structure and process in order to position the board for strategic leadership. In a future post, we'll look at five strategies that can help your board adopt a visionary leadership style.


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The Asian Conspiracy : Deploying Voice/Deploying Story
'This essay develops on the premise of imagining, which is the heart of story-making: imagine the physicality of story. Imagine the deployment strategies, the covert 'translations' of difference' that facilitate the entry of the Other story through the gate.
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LENSWOOD is now 100 years old
June 5, 1917
"The eastern portion of the Forest Range district has long been inconvenienced by lack of postal facilities. Some residents were situated from two to four miles from the office, and as the bulk of mail business went to that part it was felt that some means should be found to overcome the difficulty. A strong committee has induced the Federal Government to establish a new office under the name of Lenswood."
LENSWOOD POST OFFICE. (1917, June 5). Daily Herald (Adelaide, SA : 1910 – 1924), , p. 7. Retrieved May 2, 2016, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article105409835
Click here for an overview of why Lenswood came to be.


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Broadband for All – OneWeb and European Industry in the Lead The ultimate goal of providing quick broadband for all, independent of geographical locations on the globe is not an unattainable goal, however, it requires huge investments and is challenging at best. Using the existing satellites in geostationary orbits does not provide customers with […]
Meeting Place for Suppliers of Very Small Units
Space Tech Expo Europe – the Meeting Place for Suppliers of Very Small Units All instruments, satellites included, that have been sent to space consist of a very large number of small units, developed and manufactured by specialized companies worldwide. The last week of October, some of these companies, mainly European, participated in the […]
Trends in Space Technology – Cheaper and Environmental Friendly
For the first time, the space industry held their annual gathering in Europe. Space Tech Europe gathered most of the most important space industries in Europe and throughout the evening it became evident what the newest trend within the community is; cheaper and environmental friendly Space technology. New Launcher Family Large parts of a […]
3D Printing Captures the Aerospace and Space Market
The Norwegian based company Norsk Titanium AS (NTi) has developed a plasma-arc-based direct metal deposit technology that can produce aerospace-grade parts from titanium wire. Complicated engine constructions for airplanes and space applications are mostly cut from large blocks of metal, a slow and demanding material, not to mention an expensive method, however, 3D printing of […]
Hybrid Engine – Engine For the Future
Sounding rockets and satellites have almost constantly been launched with launchers driven by solid or liquid motors, or in combination. A third alternative has always existed, but has not been used to any appreciable extent – the hybrid engine. As the name indicates, it is a combination of the two first types.
Aircraft Tracking from Space
The two recent tragic and mysterious catastrophes that hit Malaysia Airlines have generated support for airline tracking services. Through the history of aircrafts, the different aircrafts have been monitored and managed from dedicated management systems on the ground, and much of the flight history is secured through the so- called "Black Box" onboard. The […]
The "space tug" SMART-OLEV – Prolong the satellites' lifespan
Many of the communication satellites in orbit are still in perfect condition, but are about to run out of fuel. Very costly, but there's nothing one can do about it – until now. If a rescue mission proposal from a European industrial group proves a success, the satellites' lifespan may be prolonged to the time the technology is out of date.
Space as industrial base
Space activities still greatly influence global economy, much based on the space as unsurpassable basis for business areas like communication, navigation, earth observation and others.
Tventy five years with CANADARM
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Building a satellite
The scientists and users set the wishes and demands for a satellite like Metop, but it is only the industrial community that can concretise these wishes into an operational satellite. No company alone has the knowledge required, and to gather all information into one piece is an enormous puzzle for the organisations.


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Pink Floyd The Wall; Musical/ Fantasy, UK, 1982; D: Alan Parker, S: Bob Geldof, Christine Hargreaves, Eleanor David, Alex McAvoy, Michael Ensign, Bob Hoskins
Pink is a man sitting in a hotel room. He is haunted by disturbing memories of World War II when he was a boy and lost his dad. He put a bullet on the raildroad and was ridiculed by his teacher for writting a poem in school. His mother was always very protective towards him. He gets married and becomes a rock star, but he always has a feeling he is missing something in his life, dreaming of a wall around him. He shaves his whole body and falls in a coma, upon which his manager calls the doctors. He imagines he became a Fascist dictator and that people all over the country are running wild. On a trial, his wall breaks apart.
Just like Russell's "Tommy", Alan Parker's "Pink Floyd The Wall" is also a completely abstract rock opera almost without any kind of story or dialogue (except singing), transforming into a purely experimental film so suggestive that anyone can either say it's a brilliant, brave piece of hermetic allegory about the trauma of war, hate, madness and a hero who is hiding himself behind a symbolic wall from the real world or pure junk with pointless scenes and symbols where the surreal narration nobody can follow is just there to hide the fact the whole film doesn't have anything to say and acts just as a one long music video for Pink Floyd's songs. If one would try hard enough, one could find basis for both assumptions. Filled with bizarre images - an animated sequence where a white dowe transforms into a black eagle who brings death to a gloomy town; children wearing scary masks in school and getting transproted with the help of an assembly line to a machine that transforms and suits them into various jobs until they rebel against the system; an animated scene where two grotesque flowers "kiss" and transform into monsters; worms; Pink looking like a decomposing corpse until he breaks his flesh away and revelas his new self; a pseudo Fascist rally - and the charismatic performance by Bob Geldolf as the unstable hero, who says only one line during the course of the whole film (if we disregard when he is singing lyrics), this cult film demands a lot from the audience but doesn't reward in a completely satisfying way like some others did, yet it's messages, ideas, wild imagination, terrifying imagery and originality have their merits and one has to learn more about Floyd's songs in order to understand it better.Grade:++


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Fertile Soils Need Animal Agriculture: Joel Salatin on Integrated Farming
Joel Salatin has been described as America's most influential farmer, and with good reason. While mainstream agriculture has subscribed to the "get big or get out" school of farming, Salatin's Polyface Farms venture has been developing a deeper, more integrated approach to sustainable food production based on human-scale farming systems and a tight symbiosis between plants, animals and their human stewards.
For those who believe the vegan diet is the path to sustainability, Salatin's systems of rotational grazing and pasture will no doubt sound like (if you'll pardon the expression) putting lipstick on a pig—but as Salatin explains in the interview below with Peak Moment TV, the deep, rich soils that our current farming system is busy depleting have been brought about by the interaction of perennial plants and grazing animals.It is true vegan diets avoid many of the worst excesses of our current farming systems. It is also true that we could recycle an awful lot of human poop to lessen the reliance on animal agriculture. But until someone can show me what a vegan world really might look like, my money is on a more enlightened form of animal agriculture playing an important role in feeding us humans for some time to come.
Folks like Joel Salatin are showing us what that might actually look like. Thanks to Peak Moment TV for another great video.