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5 Cupcake Recipes
Love cupcakes? I do. Funtastic Friday party goers share wonderful cupcake recipes every week. Here are my favorite 5 cupcake recipes from the Funtastic Friday link party:
- Reese's Peanut Buttercup Cupcakes Recipe @ Simply Stacie
- Lemonade Cupcakes @ The Country Chic Cottage
- Strawberry Vanilla Cupcakes with Lime Icing @ The kittchen
- Banana Cupcakes @ Simply Stacie
- Cherry Choke Cupcakes @ Simply Stacie
Cheers to Simply Stacie, who loves to bake cupcakes!
Like these recipes? Join us for Funtastic Friday 131 for more great recipes plus crafts, DIY projects, and more.
Funtastic Friday 131 Link Party
Welcome to Funtastic Friday 131! What's your plan for Father's Day? We're going out to eat this year, Thai, I think. I'm slowly firming up my plans for the 4 July holiday. We're also looking for bloggers to help us host Funtastic Friday. If you're interested, please get in touch with any of the party hosts
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Sherry's favorite – Root Beer Float Pancakes Recipe @ Home Cooking Memories
Heidi's favorite – Fresh Strawberry Pie @ Bombshell Bling
Debra's favorite – DIY Vertical Pallet Garden @ Angie's List
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|Eilidh Briggs 2018 RLCGA Champion
Championship Semi-Finals
Eilidh Briggs (Kilmacolm) played Liz Stewart (Greenburn). Eilidh played some phenominal golf considering the conditions and was 5 under over 10 holes making life extremely difficult for her opponent Liz. -- Eilidh won 9 and 8.
Alyson McGinnigle (Cowglen) played Gillian Kyle (East Renfrewshire) in the second semi-final. This was a closely contested match with both players demonstrating excellent golf under difficult conditions. Gillian eventually won the match on the 18th.
Irvine Trophy (Handicap) Final
This final saw Jan Macnab (Ranfurly Castle) play Morag Little (Whitecraigs). As the rain continued to fall, conditions became very tough for both players but their standard of golf remained very high.
It was a tightly contested match with Jan eventually winning on the 18th hole - congratulations Jan.
Championship Final
Although it was dry overhead for the afternoon thriller between Eilidh Briggs (Kilmacolm) and Gillian Kyle (East Renfrewshire) the conditions underfoot remained challenging.
The front 9 was closely contested with a number of birdies from both players.
Eilidh, however, triumphed over Gillian in the back 9 winning the match on the 15th hole.
Congratulations Eilidh on not only winning today's County Championship Final but also the Scratch and Net Qualifying Round on Wednesday - your golf over all 3 days was awesome and, hopefully, this is the start of a very successful season.
Played over Haggs Castle Golf Course - Friday 13th April
Doreen Mainds lost to Jan Macnab 2/1
Morag Little beat Carol McNally 1up
Championship Semi Finals
Eilidh Briggs beat Liz Stewart 9&8
Alyson McGinngle lost to Gillian Kyle 1dn
Handicap Final
Jan MacNab beat Morag Little 1up
Championship Final
Eilidh Briggs beat Gillian Kyle 4/3


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Images credit & copyright: SpaceX. Live streaming links and mission information at the bottom. Check back for updates as live stream and press kit are usually last minute postings.
Launch Alert! Tuesday, January 30, 2018 at 16:25 EST (21:25 UTC), a SpaceX Falcon 9 (core B1032.2) will rise from Cape Canaveral's Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) carrying GovSat-1 (SES 16)communications satellite for LuxGovSat which is a joint venture between SES and the government of Luxembourgh. Falcon 9 core B1032.2 was previously flown on NROL-76.
Stats: This will be SpaceX's 48th Falcon 9 flight overall and the parameters of this mission will not allow for a landing attempt. There have currently been 21 landings overall; 12 on drone ships and 9 on land.
Autonomous Spaceport Drone Ships (ASDS): Were built at the Conrad Shipyard in Morgan City, Louisiana, the same place that NASA's Pegasus barge was refitted to support the SLS program. Pegasus carried lots of equipment throughout the years but most famously the space shuttle external fuel tanks from NASA's Michaud Plant in Louisiana to KSC.
SpaceX's barges are 300 by 100 ft. with "wings" that extend that width to 170 ft. It has also been fitted with thrusters repurposed from deep sea oil rigs that are able to hold balance and position to within 3 meters even in storm conditions. ASDS's are painted black with the SpaceX "X" logo, a yellow inner ring and outer white ring acting as a bull eye. The East Coast ASDS is "Of Course I Still Love You (OCISLY)" and the West Coast's ship is "Just Read The Instructions (JRTI)."
In total there have been three ASDS's. The first of which was Marmac 300, a deck barge named "Just Read The Instructions (JRTI)." That ASDS was used for two east coast landing attempts (CRS 5 & 6), deconstructed and retired. East Coast duties were then transferred to Marmac 304 named "Of Course I Still Love You (OCISLY)." A third ASDS, Marmac 303 was constructed and stationed on the West Coast where it fields launches from Vandenberg AFB, CA. Its name, "Just Read The Instructions (JRTI)."
These fun yet odd names come from Scottish Sci-fi legend Iain Banks's "Culture" series of 10 novels. They are spacecraft known as General Contact Units (GCU's) from the novel "Player of Games." Other spacecraft in the series (which get to name themselves) are even more entertaining such as "Size Isn't Everything," "No More Mr. Nice Guy" and "Death and Gravity." Here's a fun Wiki page with more info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_spacecraft_in_the_Culture_series
The Rocket: The greatly improved Falcon 9 "Block 3" Full Thrust (FT) is a 2-stage partially reusable launch vehicle with future ambitions of becoming fully reusable. The new version is 3.66 m (12 ft.) in diameter and 70 m (229.6 ft.) tall which is about 1.6 m (5.6 ft.) taller than the Falcon 9 v1.1 or "Block 2" in order to house a higher volume fuel tank. It is also fitted with upgraded Merlin family main engines. They have replaced the 9 Merlin-1D (and before them were the 1C engines), with the more powerful Merlin-1D+ engines that will provide a thrust of nearly 694,000kg (1.53 million lb.) at sea level. Each Merlin-1D+ provides 180,000 lb. (81,600 kg) of thrust at sea level, which equates to roughly a 20% increase in overall performance. If you add that with the new process of densifying the fuel and improving the overall airframe, the total gain in performance is about 33%.
Also currently in use is the Falcon 9 "Block 4" FT which is an upgraded Block 3 and it serves as the relatively short transition vehicle to the "Block 5" Falcon 9 which should be flying in 2018 and what Elon himself says is the final version of the Falcon 9 rocket. Details haven't been released but greater engine performance and reusability upgrades will be the main improvements.
Dragon Spacecraft (when in use): The Dragon spacecraft is about 23.6 ft. (7.2 m) tall with trunk attached and 12 ft. (3.7 m) wide. It's comprised of two main sections; the pressurized cargo area which can carry 388 cubic ft. of cargo as well as the unpressurized cargo area. The trunk (unpressurized area) carries 494 cubic ft. of cargo as well as the solar arrays. Dragon, along with Russia's Progress & Soyuz, Europe's (ESA) Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV), Orbital ATK's Cygnus and Japan's (JAXA) H-II Transfer Vehicle (HTV), is one of only six vehicles that can fly to the Space Station. While Russia's Soyuz is currently the only crewed means of reaching and returning from Station, SpaceX's Dragon is currently the only means of returning experiments and supplies back to Earth from Station.
Main Composite Payload Fairing (when in use): the two shell, composite payload fairing is 13 m (43 ft.) in length and 5.2 m (17 ft.) in diameter. The fairings are used to protect the spacecraft during ascent through atmospheric turbulence and into space. Once the rocket has reached a safe altitude the fairings jettisoned, exposing the spacecraft(s).
Second Stage: The Falcon 9 second stage is 10 m (33 ft.) in length, 3.66 m (12 ft.) in diameter and is powered by a single, gas generator, open-cycle, turbopump Merlin-1D+ (plus) vacuum engine utilizing rocket propellant 1 (RP1) as fuel and liquid oxygen (LOX) as an oxidizer. The Merlin 1D+ Vacuum engine boasts 934 kN thrust in a vacuum, a chamber pressure is more than 100 bar, a specific impulse of 348s in a vacuum with a burn time of 397 seconds.
Interstage: is a 4.4m (14.4 ft.) composite structure that connects the first stage to the second stage and holds the release and separation system. Its al all pneumatic stage separation system for low shock, highly reliable separation that can be tested on the ground, unlike pyrotechnic systems used on most launch vehicles.
Core/First Stage: The Falcon 9 first stage is 47 m (154 ft.) in length (including interstage), 3.66 m (12 ft.) in diameter and is powered by nine, gas generator, open-cycle, turbopump Merlin-1D+ (plus) engines in a circular "octaweb" configuration; each utilizing rocket propellant 1 (RP1) as fuel and liquid oxygen (LOX) as an oxidizer. Each Merlin 1D+ boasts 845 kN thrust at sea level, 914 kN thrust in a vacuum for a total liftoff thrust of 7,607 kN (1,710,000 lb.). Chamber pressure is more than 100 bar and specific impulse is 282s at sea level and 311s in a vacuum with a burn time of 162 seconds.
The first stage is fitted with four independently steerable titanium grid fins that help control pitch, yaw and roll during vertical decent as well as four landing legs that extend before touchdown.
Watch Live:
SpaceX Webcast: http://www.spacex.com/webcast/
SpaceX YouTube (Hosted Webcast):
SpaceX YouTube (Technical Webcast):
SpaceX Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SpaceX
GovSat-1 Mission Info:
45th Space Wing L-1 Weather Forecast: http://www.patrick.af.mil/About-Us/Weather
SpaceX Press Kit:
Launch Campaign (Reddit): https://www.reddit.com/r/spacex/comments/7olw86/govsat1_ses16_launch_campaign_thread/
General 2018 Launch Schedule (Wiki): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_in_spaceflight
SpaceX: http://www.spacex.com/
Elon Musk Twitter: https://twitter.com/elonmusk
Elon Musk Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/elonmusk
SpaceX Twitter: https://twitter.com/SpaceX
SpaceX Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SpaceX
SpaceX Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/spacex
SpaceX YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/spacexchannel
SpaceX Google Plus: https://plus.google.com/+SpaceX
SpaceX Flickr: https://www.flickr.com/photos/spacexphotos
Falcon 9 Family & Random SpaceX 411:
SpaceX Falcon 9: http://www.spacex.com/falcon9
SpaceX Falcon 9 User's Guide: http://www.spacex.com/sites/spacex/files/falcon_9_users_guide_rev_2.0.pdf
SpaceX Falcon Heavy: http://www.spacex.com/falcon-heavy
SpaceX Falcon 9 Spaceflight 101: http://spaceflight101.com/spacerockets/falcon-9-ft/
SpaceX Falcon 9 (Wiki): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falcon_9
SpaceX launches (Wiki): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Falcon_9_and_Falcon_Heavy_launches
SpaceX booster landing attempts (Wiki): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falcon_9_booster_controlled-descent_and_landing_tests
Falcon 9 core (booster) serial numbers: https://www.reddit.com/r/spacex/wiki/cores
SpaceX Stats: https://spacexstats.com/
SpaceX Now: https://spacexnow.com/
SpaceX Dragon Spacecraft:
SpaceX: http://www.spacex.com/dragon
SpaceX Crew Dragon: http://www.spacex.com/crew-dragon
Dragon serial numbers: https://www.reddit.com/r/spacex/wiki/capsules
Launch Complex-39A (LC-39A):
NASA Launch Complex 39 (LC-39): https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/launch/launch-complex39-toc.html
Heroicrelics Launch Complex 39 (LC-39): http://heroicrelics.org/info/lc-39/lc-39-abcd.html
Wiki Launch Complex 39 (LC-39): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kennedy_Space_Center_Launch_Complex_39
Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) Cape Canaveral:
Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cape_Canaveral_Air_Force_Station_Space_Launch_Complex_40
Patrick AFB: 45th Space Wing, Cape Canaveral, Florida:
Main Site: http://www.patrick.af.mil/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/45thSpaceWing
Facebook http://www.facebook.com/45thSpaceWing
Peterson AFB, U.S. Air Force Space Command, Colorado:
Website: http://www.afspc.af.mil/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/AFSpace
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Although an Extension can be made up of any JavaScript code, some special code supported by the Jacada Interact framework needs to be invoked so the Extension can be used by the Application. The following sections explain how to properly create Application Extensions and present several examples.
Registering the Extension
Before an Extension can be used, it needs to be initialized by calling the initExtensions function. When the Extensions file is loaded, it will be called with a callback function passing the app argument, which is the handle to the Application. Through the app argument you can access everything in the running client.
The following example shows how the timeout Extension is used to override the Application's timeout value (one of the ProtocolManager variables).
initExtensions("timeout", function(app){
app.protocolManager.JAS_TIMEOUT = 35000;
Registering the Extension Point
Registering the Extension point involves calling the registerExtension method with the name of the Extension point and a callback function. This causes the callback to be called when the framework is about to create the DOM element for the relevant page element.
In the following example, the passwordValidation Extension is used to override the shortTextInputRenderer, which is the Extension point responsible for creation of the Text input field. The passwordValidation Extension attaches a password strength widget checker (passStrengthify) to the password input field:
First, the framework's renderer is called, returning the input element. Then the Extension point (if registered) is called with the context (ctx parameter) together with the input element. This code enables:
- Ignoring the element by returning another created element instead.
- Modifying the element passed by the framework.
- Appending to this element other DOM elements to enrich the UI experience.
Returning the element to the caller allows the chain to be continued either to the next Extension registered to this Extension point, or to the framework so it can place this DOM element in the appropriate parent DOM element.
initExtensions("passwordValidation", function(app){
app.registerExtension("shortTextInputRenderer",function(ctx, element) {
if (ctx.choice.textInput.textInputFormat == "PASSWORD") {
return element;
Note: Every renderer has its own structure of context variables. For a list of renderers and special Extension points, refer to Using Extensions to Override Elements.
Sample Application Extensions
This section provides some examples of Application Extensions. Use the sample code to become familiar with different cases, so you can see the coding style and learn best practices for writing your own Extensions.
The first example, which is similar to the passwordValidation example used above, shows how to intercept the Next button click for all password fields. When the user tries to press the Next button, the length of the entered password is checked. If the password is less than eight characters, a modal message is issued and the user is prevented from proceeding to the next page of the Interaction.
The code example shows how to:
- Handle all password fields and read their values.
- Cancel Next button navigation.
- Display a modal popup message.
// Modify the shortTextRenderer for password fields
app.registerExtension("shortTextInputRenderer", function(ctx, element){
if (ctx.choice.textInput.textInputFormat == "PASSWORD") {
// Override the next button.
// Check that the password is longer then 7 chars
if ($('input',element).val().length < 8) {
// Less then 8 chars, show modal message
'buttons': [({'label':'OK'})],
'header' : "Password's Strength",
'content' : 'The password is too short'
// Prevent the event from being processed further,
thus preventing moving to the next page
return element;
The next example shows how to modify the table shown in a Collection Display page by adding a summary line at the bottom of the table. The code example shows how to:
- Intercept the creation of the table.
- Aggregate values from the table data.
- Change the table layout by adding a new line at the bottom of the table.
app.registerExtension("collectionRenderer", function(ctx, table) {
var sum = 0;
for (var row in ctx.contentSection.sectionChoices) {
var price = ctx.contentSection.sectionChoices[row].collectionItem.price;
sum+= parseInt(price);
var totalRow = $('<tr>').css('font-weight','bold');
// Append the row to the bottom of the table
return table;


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It's rare to find children in my travel photos* – not because I don't adore them.
It's because I do. And I don't want to reduce them to the simple subject of a stranger's photo, devoid of their own personalities and stories.
Children are not tourist attractions. They deserve privacy and respect.
Sooooo how did this sweet gal get here?
One morning in Petra, fellow traveler friend Alper Ertübey and I were scrambling up the stairs near The Royal Tombs, in a bit of a rush to reach the Treasury viewpoint before the sufferable morning sun transformed into a midday scorcher. When we passed by The Corinthian Tomb, a nook** carved into the base caught my eye. The smooth sandstone – still swathed in shadows – summoned me.
"Come. Rest here."
I asked Alper if we could take a quick break and maybe a photo. Petra – with its towering cliffs, other-worldly architectural feats, and labyrinthine layout – has a way of making one feel minuscule. And I wanted to capture that.
"It kind of looks like a womb," he commented as I crawled into the circular-shaped shelter.
Not yet soaked in sunshine, the sandstone surface was still cool to the touch. I swung my legs up into the alcove, leaned into it's arc, laid my head back and closed my eyes in silent surrender – for a moment forgetting my morning mission to reach the Treasury viewpoint.
"Did you get a photo?" I shouted down to Alper, eyes still closed and half hoping he hadn't yet, so I could stay put in this tomb womb a few minutes more.
He laughed. And I reluctantly opened my eyes to see what was so amusing.
That's the moment I met Lulu.
While I had been resting in this sandstone sanctuary, she had crawled up beside me. Her big, round eyes were now inches away from mine.
She was peering down at me, peering up at her. We both giggled.
A woman nearby called to Lulu, gesturing for her to come down off the rocks and out of the photo frame so Alper and I could create the image we were initially aiming for.
But I was no longer concerned with that. And, it turns out, Alper had already captured a candid moment much more endearing than any we could have envisioned.
Lulu would not simply be the subject of a stranger's photo; this curious kid was a co-creator who had a plan of her own. Without instructions or hesitation, she climbed onto my lap, still laughing. Her joy seemed to jump out of her – unbridled, palpable, and contagious.
We walked her back to her caretaker, asked her name, and offered to take an instant photo that she could keep for herself. She beamed.
We watched and waited together while the photo developed. I asked if it was ok for me to take some digital photos of Lulu holding her instant portrait so I could carry the joy of this girl – and this moment – with me too. Like a lot of little ones, she struggled to sit still for long, so I tried to snap quickly before she scurried off to their tent.
When Lulu returned, she was holding two souvenir magnets from their shop. She offered them to me. Her caretaker told me to take them as a token of appreciation for the instant photo and asked if we'd like to come inside for some tea. The giggle-filled exchange was already gift enough; I certainly didn't expect anything additional!
I was humbled by their hospitality and generosity.
And I was reminded that no matter the size or form of gifts we give, when we give from a genuine place with no expectation, the love is free to flow back to us. And whether it returns to us years later or in an instant, love and joy are always multiplied when shared.
*All photos in the #TAKETWO series are mine, unless otherwise stated.
** I have had trouble finding out what purpose the nook originally served. I've heard it may have been a water basin, but I am not sure that's quite right. If anyone has any info on it, please let me know!
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A heartfelt شكرا to little Lulu for the pure joy and giggles. And to Alper Ertübey for once again sneakily snapping some photos of a memorable moment in Jordan! This story – and my experience in Petra – would not exist without you two.


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|Susanna and the elders, Tintoretto, ca 1555. Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
Embarrassing as it is to admit, at that time I had only ever heard of the Scuola Grande di San Rocco because of Woody Allen. In one of the lesser acclaimed (but perhaps my personal favorite) of his films, Everyone says I love you (1996), Allen travels to Venice where he tries to impress a beautiful art historian (Julia Roberts) by showing off how well he knows her favorite painter, Tintoretto. In reality he just rattles off some lines he has memorized from an art book. I know that must sound like a pretty lame plot (it's just a sub-plot, I assure you) but it was executed with such classic Allen style that it makes me laugh just thinking about it. The scene in question takes place at, you guessed it, the Scuola Grande di San Rocco, and as a life-long Woody Allen fan, I made sure to visit. Little did I know how right Julia Roberts('s character) was about Tintoretto...
|Self portrait as a young man, Tintoretto, 1548. Victoria and Albert Museum, London
|Jesus among the doctors of the church, Tintoretto, ca 1542. Museo del Duomo di Milano
|The Miracle of the slave, Tintoretto, 1548. Galleria dell'Accademia, Venice.
|Venus, Vulcan and Cupid, Tintoretto, ca 1550-1555. Galleria Palatina, Florence.
About halfway through my visit, the exhibit's curator Vittorio Sgarbi sauntered past with a gaggle of journalists in tow, each one straining to get close enough to scribble down his every word. Not too keen to join the crush, the only thing I was able to hear was him calling one particular work (Vulcan surprising Venus with Mars, not pictured) as Berlusconiano, because it was about "sex and not love". Not exactly an inspiring comment! So without the tutoring I was lucky to get at the Guercino exhibit, and with a lack of much scholarship on my part of the work of Tintoretto, part of me is tempted (simply for entertainment value, of course) to quote Woody Allen quoting that art book:
"The rapidity of his brush strokes, the chiaroscuro, outbursts of color, his capacity for controlled gesture..."
"How could I not appreciate a man who was short in stature but with a proud obstinate nature who painted outside the academic conventions of 16th century Venice?" (what I can't transcribe is his proud little giggle at his own brilliance; you'll just have to see the film for that gem). By the way, I have scoured the internet for a clip of that scene but I could only find it in Italian, and another thing I cannot abide is Woody Allen dubbed in Italian. So I will spare you. Oh, right, I'm supposed to be writing about Tintoretto, not Woody Allen. Where was I?
|Meeting of Tamar and Judah, Tintoretto, ca 1555-59. Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid
This action-packed Last Supper was recently restored on occasion of the exhibit, and it is fascinating (although I preferred the other version on display next to it, not pictured), but my question is, who is sleeping through all this ruckus under Jesus' left arm?
|Last Supper, Tintoretto, 1568-69. Chiesa di San Polo, Venice
Unlike most of the other paintings, I didn't particularly like the one below. To be honest, the only thing that came to mind when I saw it was, I really hope heaven won't be so crowded! (I realize this is doubtless a blasphemous thought in many ways.)
|The Crowning of the Virgin or Paradise, Tintoretto, ca 1588. Musée du Louvre, Paris
This formidable artist's work can possibly best be summed up in his own words, by the sign he had hanging over his studio, "Il disegno di Michelangelo e il colorito di Tiziano" (the design of Michelangelo and the coloring of Titian). He apparently didn't think too little of himself!
|Self Portrait, Tintoretto, 1587. Musée du Louvre, Paris.
If Woody Allen's and my words have left you thirsting for more substantial insight into the work of this "deep genius (the deepest)", there will be four opportunities to hear a real expert talk about some of the works on display. On 9 and 23 March as well as 4 and 18 May (all Fridays) at 7pm, lectures will be held in situ to explore four different paintings (one per lecture) by art historian and Tintoretto expert Anna Maria Panzera (who may or may not be played by Julia Roberts!) Admission to the lecture is included with purchase of exhibition ticket. I wouldn't miss it! Find information on visiting the show at my Exhibits on now page.
All images provided courtesy of the press office of Le Scuderie del Quirinale
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French novelist Marcel Proust wrote a famous series of autobiographical novels called In Search of Lost Time (or Rememberance of Things Past) in which the sense of smell, among others, triggers vivid, emotional memories and unconscious associations. What Proust understood as a writer, Long Horn Steak House and bagel shops understand as marketers: aroma is primal advertising; it can evoke emotions–feelings of comfort and joy–in addition to hunger.
Well, according to Saw a Good Idea, Starbucks is rolling out a product extension that has the potential of diluting the aroma that is the center of their beloved brand.
Gone is the aroma of roasting coffee beans. It's been replaced by something that would be just as suitable a smell for McDonalds at nine o'clock in the morning. Starbucks offers "fresh-cooked" egg muffins fresh out of the oven, and their smell has taken over the classic "have some coffee and forget about the world for a few minutes" aroma. No longer are our olfactory senses tempted with the smell of coffee, accompanied by the Pavlovian drool forming in our mouths. Instead, we're hit unexpectedly with the greasy spoon smell of eggs being warmed. Starbucks prides itself on offering the egg muffins all day, so that smell won't disappear by noon.


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Aggregate is the name for sand, gravel, crushed stone and similar items used as construction materials. Aggregate is used to make asphalt, cement and concrete, and is also used in erosion control, water purification and emission control systems for electric power plants. Sand, gravel and crushed stone products are also required to make paint, glass, plastics and paper. Aggregate production usually requires that natural materials be dredged from the ground or the water, crushed, sometimes crushed again, and transported for sale.
Aggregate production and the use of recycled aggregates were on the rise in the early 21st century. Recycled aggregate production mainly uses materials salvaged from old buildings and roads that have been replaced. Recycling aggregate can be cost effective, in many cases allowing the recycled material to compete with newly produced material on a cost basis.
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IMAX movie theaters provide moviegoers with a chance to watch films on large screens and at higher picture quality than traditional screens. The 70-mm film stock used to project IMAX films is 10 times larger than standard film stock, leading to a dramatic increase in image resolution. According to IMAX, 528 IMAX theaters were operating in 46 countries as of March 2011. Film lovers in Wisconsin can experience IMAX films at theaters in the Madison and Milwaukee, Wisconsin, areas.
AMC Star Fitchburg 18 and IMAX
When an IMAX screen was installed at the AMC Star Fitchburg 18 (amctheatres.com/Fitchburg) outside of Madison in 2005, it was the second IMAX movie screen in Wisconsin and the first to show commercial Hollywood films in a multiplex setting. It was installed as a four-screen addition to the existing 14-screen movie theater. The movie theater is capable of showing films that have been converted to IMAX projectors, along with original 2-D and 3-D IMAX films.
Humphrey IMAX Dome Theater
The Humphrey IMAX Dome Theater (mpm.edu/imax) at the Milwaukee Public Museum was the first IMAX theater in Wisconsin when it opened in October 1996. The opening weekend included a film travelogue of Wisconsin from the perspective of a motorcycle sidecar and "Destiny in Space," a film narrated by Leonard Nimoy that detailed modern space missions. The theater specializes in educational films, keeping with the educational mission of the Milwaukee Public Museum. This includes nature films documenting climbing expeditions, space exploration and underwater life. The six-story screen is situated within a domed structure, and the theater features wraparound digital surround sound. The screen is 50 feet high and 74 feet wide.
AMC Mayfair Mall 18 and IMAX
The closest IMAX theater showing Hollywood hits to residents of Milwaukee is at the AMC Mayfair Mall 18 (amctheatres.com/MayfairMall), which is 10 miles west of downtown Milwaukee in the suburb of Wauwatosa. It is the most recent theater to add IMAX screens, with the new IMAX theater opening with a showing of "Where the Wild Things Are" in October 2009. The theater is able to show IMAX movies in both 2-D and 3-D. The screen is 26 1/2 feet high and 50 feet wide.
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Wisconsinites who live far from Madison or Milwaukee might need to travel outside of the state to watch a film in an IMAX theater. Seven IMAX theaters operate within 25 miles Minneapolis, Minnesota, which is near Wisconsin's eastern border.
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VA: I love your book. I would like to be a Facebook friend with you or to be a member of a group. Do you provide therapy?
SIS: Thank you for reading my book and for writing. I don't provide therapy, but I do try, as time allows me, to write back to everyone that writes me.
I wrote my book sharing my journey to emotional freedom — to be a therapy — and a support to aid others liberation from their emotional prisons.
I don't run any therapy groups, because I don't believe in group therapy. From my experience I find it to be a distraction to our emotional work – to experience our authentic feelings — and no matter how good the intentions of the group creator are – most groups become cultish and a trap keeping people stuck in the state of dependence and they don't encourage or aid a person's autonomy.
VA: I sure do completely Agree with you. By the Way, thank you for your Quick response. I just don't really know how to heal. I feel sort of lost. Looking for solutions. Your book is wonderful. I have never seen so much clarity and courage, especially when disclosing holy cows as AA or Al-anon. You are brave and you are unique. Thank you
SIS: You're welcome. I wish I could hold everyone's hand through the repressed excruciating painful feelings of the child they once were, but I can't — in the end — we are all alone — if we want to truly liberate ourselves — we must find the courage and strength to allow ourselves to consciously feel all the repressed emotions of the child we once were, as present circumstances trigger them to the surface. Wishing you courage and strength
VA: So It is. Your courage is very inspiring. That's enough. Thank you and for your honesty is so very important because simply it is so extremely rare since as you say as soon as one enters into a relationship in therapy or group immediately we are triggered to reenact the roles and traumas or even worse and unfortunately more common. Someone there is more than eager to make living out of others misery and thus subconsciously prolongs the unhealthy state of dependence.
SIS: You seem to understand. Congratulations!
A Sign That I Got it Right
Hi Sylvie,
Thank you so much for your email. I really appreciated how you took the time to respond to everything I wrote and added your own observations. What was a little shocking and scary, if I were, to be honest, was when you shared a quote from Alice Miller which used concentration camp victims as a basis for her ideas. For a long time, I used to think of my childhood was like being in a concentration camp. I think I was right. I just recently told my sister this and she agreed without hesitation. Without the proper help, though, that comparison faded in my mind over the past decade because it was too hard to bear. My therapists left the key untouched (!) and my only recourse was to mentally distance myself from it all. As you know, I'm ready to face it now.
I wish I could share more. I can tell I still need to wait, though.
I'm so sorry you have to endure manipulation and abuse from perfect strangers because of your book. However, I think it's a sign you got it right!
All the best,
Hi W,
I'm so glad my book together with Alice Miller's books has given you the support you need for you to gather the courage and now you feel ready to face your own childhood repression.
Feel free to write me anytime when you feel a need and ready.
Yes, most people's childhood is like being in a concentration camp or emotional prison. Most of us were hostages of our parents or parents' substitutes.
It's sad that since I published my book I'm targeted by malignant narcissists' trying to regress me and steal my freedom to bring me back into the emotional prison of childhood.
And it's even sadder when these people proclaim to be therapists hiding behind Alice Miller, misusing her insights to manipulate me and blind me. These so-called "mental health professionals" just want their patients and everyone else to be tamed and below them, so they can have total control over them.
Yes, you are right, the fact that I'm targeted by so many malignant narcissists after I published my book – it's a sign that I got it right!
I witness day by day how many use good information to manipulate and abuse others. This is what I have been going through lately with a woman that proclaims to be a therapist named Olane Roos/Liliane Rombout. She proclaims to do her therapy based on Alice Miller's work. But with her critique of my book, she wants to rewrite my own story and what I should feel or not feel. How fxxked up is that?!
She is twisting the information she read in Alice Miller's books to manipulate and exploit her clients and followers with half-truths she memorized like a parrot.
Many professionals out there, do great analyses and understand well the reasons of mental illness, depression, addictions and chronic illness, that is linked to childhood loss and trauma, and I quote few other professionals in my book to prove that are out there, other professionals saying what Alice miller says, but how they go about to heal those traumas, they use all kinds of manipulatives tactics and the same old tools like yoga, meditation, 12 steps and controlled drugs, that all it does is manipulate people's feelings, and repress their authentic feelings all over again, and as long people go on repressing their authentic feelings, they will be driven by them into the state of repetition compulsion of doing to others, themselves or both, especially their own children, what once was done to them, when they were defenseless little children.
And the reason they do this is because they have not broken free from their own childhood repression. The only thing they have changed in their lives is the roles. Now they play the all-powerful role of father or mother figure over others keeping everyone stuck in the emotional prison of childhood.
It's the repression of our authentic feelings that cause us long-term harm and not the trauma itself.
The Problem in our Society is an Emotional Blockage with the so-called "Educated People" We don't need more studies or analyses to show us what causes mental illness and violence.
The problem is not lack of knowledge and educated people, there are plenty of educated people with intellectual knowledge, the problem is an emotional blockage with the so-called "professionals" or "educated people" hiding behind their rationalizations and seductive theories to protect themselves from having to face and feel their own emotional pain.
It takes courage to see, face and feel the repressed emotions of the child we once were. Intelligence alone is not enough; but it rather helps create seductive rationalizations, theories, illusions, and lies to hide behind.
I think you also might like reading the e-mail I wrote to M in the link below:
Wishing courage and strength,
We Must Become Our Own Enlightened Witness — If We Want to Liberate Ourselves
Hi Sylvie,
I've just finished reading your book "A Dance to Freedom" and I just wanted to reach out and thank you sincerely. I've read all of Alice Miller's books and have always wanted to know if there were other people out there who "get it".
I've been in therapy with three different people in my life, a total of almost 20 years and I'm done with therapists. I'm finally free now (at 51) to dive into my childhood and early years without anyone trying to correct my true feelings and make me feel like it's all my fault.
So, thanks to your book, I'm able to do this now. It's only been a week of working every day for an hour or so with my past and honest feelings, but I've been able to start to really understand where my hurt, anger, rage, incredible loneliness, and sadness come from without a therapist trying to 'correct' me. I'm finding my body loves being able to express the rage and express it at the real culprits.
It can't say it's much fun, but it's fun simply because I feel free now to do this. I'm no longer beholden to any group, or person, or even society. I'm single, live alone, and have the time for this deeper work.
Some of the connections (connecting the dots) I've been able to make have been amazing. I want to tell somebody about them, but I really feel I'll be misunderstood and I can't bear that now. I'm too raw at the moment, but I hope one day to share with you my story, if you're interested.
I do think now that society is very hypocritical and incapable of dealing with strong, true feelings. Parents and family are sacrosanct, even today. I'll share one thing I realized:
An adult can live for years, decades even, with an abusive violent spouse and we call it a crime. We sympathize with the victim and offer them counseling and a sympathetic ear. A child may live its whole childhood and teenage years with an abusive, violent parent and we treat it as something part of his past which the child luckily survived. How much more frightening it must have been for the child than the adult. The child is truly and completely defenseless and dependent for its very survival (unlike the adult). It is almost too painful to contemplate, which is exactly why people don't want to make the connection (!)
I've said enough. Thank you for reading my email and thank you for your generous hard work.
All the best,
P.S. Your book is sorely needed. If it weren't for your book, I still wouldn't know quite what to do with all of the information I received from Alice Miller. Alice Miller is the tops, don't get me wrong, she had true courage and absolutely brilliant psychological insight. She called a spade a spade.
Hi W,
Thank you for writing and for reading my book!
I keep getting target by sociopaths — some proclaim to be psychologists — trying to regress me into the state of the wounded child — to gain control over me and discredit my book — they feel threatened by my book because it exposes their lies and the fraud that they are.
It was so nice and refreshing to read your e-mail.
To help people gather the courage and strength to stand alone and find their own autonomy, free to be, to feel their authentic feelings, take them seriously and listen to what their inner self is telling them without waiting for permission from or approval from people standing in symbolizing their parents or their childhood caregivers — this is why I wrote my book and makes it all worth it when I get e-mails like yours saying my book is helpful to them.
Congratulations on your courage to let go of your therapists and embark on this journey of self-discovery all by yourself without an enlightened witness by your side.
No one should have to be alone when going through the intense or overwhelming feelings of the child we once were without an enlightened witness present.
But more and more every day I come to the conclusion that finding a true enlightened witness is near to impossible. And we must become the enlightened witness to the child within us and liberate the little boy or little girl in us at her/his own speed without someone casting themselves in the parent role — rushing us or making us feel guilty or wrong for not moving at their speed or the way they think we should.
Yes, I will be more than happy to read your story when you are ready to share it.
I could not agree more with these words you wrote: "I do think now that society is very hypocritical and incapable of dealing with strong, true feelings. Parents and family are sacrosanct, even today. I'll share one thing I realized:
An adult can live for years, decades even, with an abusive violent spouse and we call it a crime. We sympathize with the victim and offer them counseling and a sympathetic ear. A child may live its whole childhood and teenage years with an abusive, violent parent and we treat it as something part of his past which the child luckily survived. How much more frightening it must have been for the child than the adult. The child is truly and completely defenseless and dependent for its very survival (unlike the adult). It is almost too painful to contemplate, which is exactly why people don't want to make the connection (!)"
Reading your words brought to mind these words Alice Miller wrote in her book For Your Own Good: Hidden cruelty in child-rearing and the roots of violence:
No one seriously doubts that inmates of a concentration camp underwent terrible suffering. But when we hear about the physical abuse of children, we react with astonishing equanimity. Depending on our ideology, we say, "That's quite normal," or "children have to be disciplined after all" or "That was the custom in those days," or "Someone who won't listen has to be made to feel it," etc. An elderly gentleman I once met at a party told me with amusement that when he was a little boy his mother had swung him back and forth over a fire she had lighted especially for the purpose of drying his pants and breaking him of the habit of wetting them. "My mother was the most wonderful person you'd ever want to meet, but that's the way things were done in our family in those days," he said. Such lack of empathy for the suffering of one's own childhood can result in an astonishing lack of sensitivity to other children's suffering. When what was done to me was done for my own good, then I am expected to accept this treatment as an essential part of life and not question it.
This kind of insensitivity thus has its roots in the abuse a person suffered as a child. He or she may be able to remember what happened, but in most cases, the emotional content of the whole experience of being beaten and humiliated has been completely repressed.
This is where the difference lies between treating an adult and a child cruelty. The self has not yet sufficiently developed for a child to retain the memory of it or of the feelings it arouses. The knowledge that you were beaten and that this, as your parents tell you, was for your own good may well be retained (although not always), but the suffering caused by the way you were mistreated will remain unconscious and will later prevent you from empathizing with others. This is why battered children grow up to be mothers and fathers who beat their own offspring; from their ranks are recruited the most reliable executioners, concentration-camp supervisors, prison guards, and torturers. They beat, mistreat, and torture out of an inner compulsion to repeat their own history, and they are able to do this without the slightest feeling of sympathy for their victims because they have identified totally with the aggressive side of their psyche. These people were beaten and humiliated themselves at such an early age that it was never possible for them to experience consciously the helpless, battered child they once were, In order to do this, they would have needed the aid of an understanding, supportive adult, and no such person was available. Only under these circumstances would children be able to see themselves as they are at that moment—namely, as weak, helpless, downtrodden, and battered—and thus be able to integrate this part into the self.
Theoretically, a child beaten by his father could afterwards cry his heart out in the arms of a kind aunt and tell her what happened; she would not try to minimize the child's pain or justify the father's actions but would give the whole experience its due weight. But such good fortune is rare. The wife of a child-beating fathers shares his attitude toward childrearing or is herself his victim—in either case, she is rarely the child's advocate. Such an "aunt" is, therefore, a great exception, because the battered child is very unlikely to have the inner freedom to seek her out and make use of her. A child is more likely to opt for a terrible inner isolation and splitting off of his feelings than he is to "tattle" to outsiders about his father or mother. Therapists know how long it sometimes takes before a child's resentments, which has been repressed for thirty or forty or even fifty years, can be articulated and relived.
Thus, it may well be that the plight of a little child who is abused is even worse and has more serious consequences for society than the plight of an adult in a concentration camp. The former camp inmate may sometimes find himself in situation where he feels that he can never adequately communicate the horror of what he has gone through and that others approach him without understanding, with cold and callous indifference, even with disbelief,* but with
few exceptions he himself will not doubt the tragic nature of his experiences. He will never attempt to convince himself that the cruelty he was subjected to was for his own good or interpret the absurdity of the camp as a necessary pedagogical measure; he will usually not attempt to empathize with the motives of his persecutors. He will find people who have had similar experiences and share with them his feelings of outrage, hatred, and despair over the cruelty he has suffered.
The abused child does not have any of these options. As I have tried to show in the example of Christiane F., she is alone with her suffering, not only within the family but also within her self. And because she cannot share her pain with anyone, she is also unable to create a place in her own soul where she could "cry her heart out." No arms of a "kind aunt" exist there; "Keep a stiff upper lip and be brave" is the watchword. Defenselessness and helplessness find no haven in the self of the child, who later, identifying with the aggressor, persecutes these qualities wherever they appear.
A person who from the beginning was forced, whether subjected to corporal punishment or not, to stifle, i.e., to condemn, split off, and persecute, the vital child within himself will spend his whole life preventing this inner danger that he associates with spontaneous feelings from recurring. But psychological forces are so tenacious that they can rarely be thoroughly suppressed. They are constantly seeking outlets that will enable them to survive, often in very distorted forms that are not without danger to society. For example, one person suffering from grandiosity will project his own childish qualities onto the external world, whereas another will struggle against the "evil" within himself. "Poisonous pedagogy" shows how these two mechanisms are related to each other and how they are combined in a traditional religious upbringing.
In addition to the degree of maturity and those elements of loyalty and of isolation involved in the case of a child, there is another fundamental difference between abuse of children and of adults. The abused inmates of concentration camp cannot of course offer any resistance, cannot defend themselves against humiliation, but they are inwardly free to hate their persecutors. The opportunity to experience their feelings, even to share them with other inmates, prevents them from having to surrender their self. This opportunity does not exist for children. They must not hate their father—this, the message of the Fourth Commandment, has been drummed into them from childhood; they cannot hate him either if they must fear losing his love as a result; finally, they do not even want to hate him, because they love him. Thus, children, unlike concentration-camp inmates, are confronted by a tormentor they love, not one they hate, and this tragic complication will have a devastating influence on their entire subsequent life.
*William G. Niederland's book Folgen der verfolgung (The results of Persecution) (1980) presents a penetrating analysis of the uncomprehending reception given former inmates as reflected in psychiatric diagnoses."
You can read more in the link below if you like:
Wishing you courage and strength and all the best to you too, Sylvie
Your lovely book!
Your "journey" has brought you to a level of understanding and peace that so few have. And you had to share your life's story so that others could benefit…and you did it in a way that others could understand and see that they, too, could overcome the bonds of their childhood and live a full life. Thank you!
I have primarily focused my "journey" on my "spiritual" growth and have neglected my true emotional development. My spiritual journey has brought me to a level of peace and acceptance of many things that apparently upset others such as sexual identity, death, abortion, and other social issues. As a psychologist who had provided therapy and a lot of psychodiagnostic testing, I have neglected my emotional history (like many you refer to). Like so many I, too, always remembered my childhood in such positive ways due to having a "happy" childhood. After I divorced my first wife, my parents "disowned" me. They couldn't accept that their son would do such a thing and hurt his wife and children (three daughters). I excused them since I knew that "lose" was an issue within their lives since they had lost a son before I had been born. Then I began to realize how their "love" had always been so conditional and they had always dealt with any strong emotional issue by withdrawing themselves and their love. After losing my second wife of 16 years to brain cancer, I met Sally. We are best friends and now (since 12/12/12) are husband and wife!
Sally had a journey like yours with much emotional abuse as a child from parents who were both schizophrenic and alcoholics and who through her two marriages and much therapy and AA involvement transcended into a loving and self-understanding person. Between Sally confronting me with my past and challenging and encouraging me to look again at those sources of issues and then reading your book has opened new understanding….my journey continues in letting those experiences and early emotions (much which were denied and excused by my parents since they were both emotionally unavailable due to their own issues) come forth, experience them, confront them, and then move on with even greater peace and love of myself and others. My journey continues!
Thank you! Being dyslexic as a child, you have overcome or mastered your learning issues to be able to relate in a wonderful way to others. Your style of writing is easy to read, enjoyable, and thought-provoking. Great job! I've tested children and adults for dyslexia and other learning disabilities throughout my career and still do evaluations for college students seeking special accommodations on tests (extended time, alternative test-taking site, etc.) and consult with some local private schools, doing testing for children with learning or emotional issues so that they can receive special educational services. I love doing the testing and have given up all therapy since I'm semi-retired.
I do agree with you about "therapists" and other mental health people. When I was seeking therapy for myself during my divorce, I had much difficulty finding someone I could relate to and with whom I felt comfortable. I do know several who would meet your criterion who are loving, caring, and very self-aware of themselves and their own histories and who are really good and effective therapists. You might like to read Voices in the Family by Dan Gottlieb. Dan is a friend who has been paralyzed for a number of years (from a car accident) and was on NPR for a while. He lives in southern NJ and had practiced in Philadelphia. He continues to write and has a number of books, several talking with his grandson who has autism about life (Letters to Sam). He, like you, writes in a comforting and loving way through which others can abstract the underlying emotions and gather great wisdom and understanding about themselves and others.
I'll end now but just wanted you to know a little about the effect that your book had on me and some of my background. I will continue to grow in emotional understanding and spiritual awareness, even more now due to reading your book. Thank you for your life, your sharing of it, and for being a really caring person! Peace.
E (I look forward to continued communication and friendship via FB, blogs, email, etc.)
Hi E,
I'm sorry it took me so long to reply to your e-mail, but still needing a real job at the moment to take care of myself; it takes a lot of my time and most days after work I'm beat with little time and without the disposition to write anymore. Having a job dealing with the public, where almost everyone unconsciously and compulsively are looking for a scapegoat to take revenge for the wrongs done to them when they were defenseless little children and having to be constantly on guard, it's very draining that after work I just want to relax, go for walk and play with my cats.
Thank you for writing to share so much about yourself with me. I don't come across very often of mental health professionals willing to share anything about themselves.
It means a lot to me that someone in the mental health profession appreciates my book and doesn't feel threatened by it, like most do, actually, you are the first person in the mental health professionals not to feel threatened by it. Most feel too threatened by me and pretend not to see me and don't acknowledge my existence — hoping I will never get noticed by anyone.
Hearing that you find my book helpful in your own journey and opened your understanding; makes all my hard work of writing it and all the emotional harassment I have been through in the workplace after I publish my book worthwhile.
I'm sorry your present wife, S had a similar journey to mine with much emotional abuse and neglect as a child from parents that were both schizophrenic and alcoholics. No child should be born to suffer all alone in an emotional desert island like we did. But we are a few of the lucky ones that after a long journey, we have been able to break free, from the emotional prison of our childhood with two healthy legs to stand on without crutches and able enjoy the rest of our lives in freedom. I had exactly the same experience as Alice Miller, just like she wrote in her article "The Longest Journey" "..it has been a very long Journey, it has taken me also all of my life to finally free myself of all the crutches and get two healthy legs to stand on."
I'm sorry your parents disowned you after you got divorced. I had my dancing money embezzled and pretty much rejected and ostracized by everyone — so in a way I have been disowned too — being rejected and ostracized is a price we pay, most of the time, for being authentic and true to ourselves, but all of my life has been a risk I'm willing to take. I rather die than live a false life like most people. All of my life I could not help myself but be true to myself.
Staying true to ourselves even at the risk of losing the people we love, the pain is deep but we must stay true to ourselves. These words by Alice Miller are so true: "…Witness of sudden political upheavals report again and again with what astonishing facility many people are able to adapt to a new situation. Overnight they can advocate views totally different from those they held the day before—without noticing the contradiction. With the change in power structure, yesterday has completely disappeared for them.
And yet, even if this observation should apply to many—perhaps even the most—people, it is not true for everyone. There have always been individuals who refused to be reprogrammed quickly, if ever. We could use our psychoanalytic knowledge to address the question of what causes this important, even crucial, difference; with its aid, we could attempt to discover why some people are so extraordinarily susceptible to the dictates of leaders and groups and why others remain immune to these influences.
We admire people who oppose the regime in a totalitarian country and think they have courage or a "strong moral sense" or have remained "true to their principles" or the like. We may also smile at their naiveté, thinking, "Don't they realize that their words are of no use at all against this oppressive power? That they will have to pay dearly for their protest?"
Yet it is possible that both those who admire and those who scorn these protesters are missing the real point: individuals who refuse to adapt to a totalitarian regime are not doing so out a sense of duty or because of naiveté but because they cannot help but be true to themselves. The longer I wrestle with these questions, the more I am inclined to see courage, integrity, and a capacity for love not as "virtues," not as moral categories, but as the consequences of a benign fate.
Morality and performance of duty are artificial measures that become necessary when something essential is lacking. The more successfully a person was denied access to his or her feelings in childhood, the larger the arsenal of intellectual weapons and the supply of moral prostheses has to be, because morality and a sense of duty are not sources of strength or fruitful soil for genuine affection. Blood does not flow in artificial limbs; they are for sale and can serve many masters. What was considered good yesterday can—depending on the decree of government or party—be considered evil and corrupt today, and vice versa. But those who have spontaneous feelings can only be themselves. They have no other choice if they want to remain true to themselves. Rejection, ostracism, loss of love, and name calling will not fail to affect them; they will suffer as a result and will dread them, but once they have found their authentic self they will not want to lose it. And when they sense that something is being demanded of them to which their whole being says no, they cannot do it. They simply cannot."
Again thank you for writing and congratulations for your courage to be authentic even at the risk of losing the people you love.
Best wishes,
Interesting blog in the link below debation an ex-dancer from New York
Comments and thoughts on the "Doll" Documentary" by Zohar Wagner
Facing and feeling the repressed emotions of the child we once were — Part 1
Facing and feeling the repressed emotions of the child we once were — Part 2
Facing and feeling the repressed emotions of the child we once were — Part 3
People Unlimited, Inc. My experience with an Arizona cult
My Comment on the Article: Immortality eludes People Unlimited founder


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services - bcnu network services configuration file
services is the network configuration file used by the bcnu client and server program to map ports to service names. It also provides a text message for services which don't provide a readable response
The format of the file is similar to /etc/services
comments preceded by a hash (#) and blank lines are allowed.
A sample is shown here:
# Local bcnu version of /etc/services - this is processed first http 80/tcp # www www 80/tcp # www bcnu 6666/tcp # bcnu squid 3128/tcp # squid proxy telnet 23/tcp telnet connected nntp 119/tcp connected to usenet exec 512/tcp rexec connected login 513/tcp rlogin connected shell 514/tcp rsh connected printer 515/tcp lpd/lpr connected oracle 1521/tcp Oracle SQL*Net V2 connected
Connecting to the oracle port would display the message:
Oracle SQL*Net V2 connected
John Phillips
Please send all bugs, comments, and changes to firstname.lastname@example.com
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the Artistic License for more details.
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Cuba Eases Decades-Long Restriction on Sea Travel
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On April 22, the Cuban government lifted restrictions preventing Cubans from entering or exiting the island via cruise or commercial vessel. Following the controversy surrounding Carnival Cruise Line's discriminatory prohibition of ticket sales to Cuban-American's, the Castro government changed a decades-old policy as they were faced with the potential loss of millions of tourist dollars to be made off of American cruise lines.
The New York Times discussed the change in policy which seems to have been motivated by the agreement between Carnival and the Cuban government, as well as several lawsuite filed in the United States against Carnival Cruise Lines. The new Cuban travel regulations also allows the entrance or departure of Cuban nationals aboard commercial vessels. As reported by the Times, Carnival and the Cuban government have been engaged in talks following the filing of a class-action lawsuit against Carnival by Cuban-Americans for discrimination.
Though many are optimistic about business deals between Americans and the Castro regime, a senior policy advisor for PobleteTamargo noted that, "The face-off served as a reminder that Cuba's thicket of laws and regulations remained far from business friendly."
Carnival Cruise Line's will now sell tickets to Cuban-Americans wishing to set sail to Cuba, but the class-action lawsuit has not been withdrawn. The Wall Street Journal reported that plaintiffs are still objecting to the unique passport requirements for Cuban born travelers who have arrived to the US after 1971, who must also present a passport from the Cuban embassy in Washington, DC.
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S: Dear Santa...
FC: Dear Santa... | Written and illustrated by Nikki Tran
1: Dedicated to my nephews, Johnny, Adam, & David. With love, Auntie Nikki
3: Dear Santa, Christmas is my favorite time of the year (of course you already know that).
5: There are so many things about Christmas that I love, I cannot pick just one!
7: I love visiting you (Mom says it isn't you, it's one of your helpers) at Macy's and telling you (or your helper) what I'd like for Christmas!
9: I love decorating the Christmas tree! Dad says I'm not tall enough to put the star on the tree – I don't mind using a ladder!
11: I love wrapping gifts for my family and using pretty ribbon to tie bows!
13: I love watching Mom cook our Christmas dinner! Our turkey seems to get bigger every year!
15: Santa, as you can see, I love Christmas each year. But, there is one thing I don't love about Christmas this year...
17: It's nothing against you, but you see Santa, my brother is not going to be home this year for Christmas because he is fighting for our country (I live in America).
19: His favorite time of the year is Christmas too, just like mine! Do they have Christmas where he is, Santa? I hope so.
21: Santa, I don't want any presents this year. All I want is my brother to come home. Mom says that is wishing for miracles but I believe that you help most miracles come true.
23: It's time for bed, Santa. I'm putting my faith in you to help make Christmas the best ever. Good night, Santa! Merry Christmas! Love, Rosie
27: "Thank you, Santa! xoxo, Rosie"