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Why 'invasion day' protesters are the shallowest people
Hashtag Activism Day is only three days away. Sorry, I meant Virtue Signalling Day. You know the date, January 26th, when the long line of bleeding hearts awaken from their slumber and type their righteous indignation about Australia's national holiday.
It is like the day presents an annual epiphany to these people that Indigenous Australians exist, because most of them are silent about them for 364 other days of the year. With the exception of a small minority, you would be hard pressed to find the #changethedate hashtag heroes taking any time or notice to address the very real issues that impact Australia's first people on a daily basis. Things like education, healthcare, employment, domestic violence. While it might be true that such problems indeed had their starting point long ago in 1788, it's also true that a hashtag and a share is not going to do anything to fix it.
This is why the 'invasion day' crowd are the shallowest type of people. Truth is, they care more about themselves and their own virtuous image than they do about Indigenous Australians. They are more interested in projecting their fake white guilt than they are about addressing problems that require complex and often uncomfortable policy solutions.
They are the shallowest type of people because their guilt and grandstanding is fake to the core. It does not even occur to them that the very act of typing on their smartphone or laptop about their regret and guilt over European settlement is an exercise in rank hypocrisy. On the one hand they are 'sorry' the Europeans arrived and they share the offense that Australia would dare to commemorate the date that marked the beginning of its modern development, yet on the other hand they are happy to enjoy the benefits that come from western culture.
They are the shallowest type of people because their regret and sorrow is a lie. Truth is, deep down, no matter how much they deny it, they are happy about it, they are happy the British arrived here. While they keep tapping away at their shiny phones, lecturing everyone else about how racist and culturally insensitive it is to feel good on January 26th, they are hypocrites enjoying the fruits of modern Australia. If they were true to their word, if they really did feel regret over British invasion, they would abandon the very laws and codes it embodies. They would spend time in Indigenous communities. They would actively immerse themselves in cultures and languages in an effort to understand them. This rarely happens though. After the hashtag, life goes on as normal. Too much Netflix to watch.
The shallowest type of people are hypocrites, those who hide behind easy words and sympathetic platitudes. Underneath their trite display, the following is the truth:
I'm happy the British came to Australia because I live in a first world nation.
I'm happy the British came to Australia because western culture allows me access to this technology.
I don't really care about real Indigenous issues, but this seems to be an issue easy for everyone to grasp so I'm going to share this meme because it will tell all of my followers that I am virtuous.
I'm going to spend Australia Day drinking or reading or watching television or hanging out with friends, because I'm too caught up in my own life to help the people I supposedly care about.
This is what is really hidden beneath their words.
To be fair, however, the one argument that might hold weight is the idea that if the date causes offense to any group, it is easy to change it out of respect. So let's pretend that they are not simply grandstanding for a moment and assess the merit of such a position.
The problem with postmodern identity politics is that it divides people into sub-categories and groups and therefore ANY date has the potential to cause offense because it will always commemorate the significance of one cultural group above another. Let's look at some of the commonly mentioned replacements…
January 1st – Federation Day. The day the constitution of Australia became entrenched in our nation's fabric. That same constitution failed to recognise Indigenous Australians as people and denied them the vote.
May 8th – This one is ridiculous, but it often lightheartedly comes up due to the 'maaaate' association. 'Mate' is an Australian colloquialism that has its essence from our European heritage, the same heritage responsible for the destruction of indigenous languages. So no go there.
February 13th – This is the date that Kevin Rudd apologised to the Stolen Generation. The national apology still polarises public opinion and it is worth asking whether a day that commemorates a national apology for a country's past wrongs is really appropriate for celebrating a nation. Such is the ignorance of many of these people that the day is already 'National Apology Day' on the calendar.
March 20th – The day Canberra became our national capital. Seems okay, but then what about the troubled history with the Aboriginal Tent Embassy there? Nope.
This is where group identity politics leads. No date can ever be satisfactory to everyone because there can always be a cause for grievance for whatever category you choose to divide Australians into. Aboriginals, women, white males, LBGTQI people, Muslims, Asians, tall people, small people, large people, depressed people, elderly people, people with freckles. Look for it, and a grievance could be found. God forbid the essence of a human be their individual character rather than whatever sub-group they might belong to by default.
I've already alluded to it, but what is also astounding about the invasion day crowd is their complete silence on the days that actually acknowledge and commemorate indigenous Australians. They are oddly absent on these days, probably working or socialising or doing any number of things that western civilization has given them the opportunity to do.
13th of February – National Apology Day.
19th of March – Close the Gap Day
21st of March – Harmony Day
26th of May – National Sorry Day
3rd of June – Mabo Day
27th of May to 3rd of June – Reconciliation Week
4th of August – National Aboriginal Children's Day
9th of August – International Day of World's Indigenous People
5th of September – Indigenous Literacy Day
I don't expect to hear much from the same people on any of these days because I never really have. It's probably because they don't know they exist, or they are on holiday, taking Instagram shots of other conquered territories around the world (wonder if they know).
So, the countdown is on. January 26th is fast approaching, and they are gearing up with their hashtags and shares and statuses to fight the good fight and change the world. Sit back, drink a beer, and enjoy the show, because it's Australia's annual drama charade, when the actors and pretenders try to one up each other to draw the most virtue points from the adoring crowd.


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The update, FR83G, is to help with those SMS problems where the wrong people were receiving the messages sent out. If you have had yet to receive the OTA (over the air) update then be sure to check manually. Let us know if it has fixed that pesky problem with the SMS messages.

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I mean who doesn't love Stevie Wonder??!!! His music is amazing– deep, soulful, and timeless. This song connects me to my hopes and dreams and reminds me that, while the journey is sometimes difficult, that I must keep purposefully pressing on. We ALL have that place in the sun that we must keep moving toward. -SPH
"Like a long lonely stream, I keep running towards a dream, moving on, moving on… Like a branch on a tree, I keep reaching to be free, moving on, moving on…There's a place in the sun where there's hope for everyone, where my poor restless heart's gotta run; there's a place in the sun and before my life is done, gotta find me a place in the sun."


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This week, it's all about local artists—and by that I mean artists who happen to live here. As Jeremy Walker said at his final NOWnet performance earlier this month, "Everyone is a local jazz musician and everyone is a national jazz musician."
Friday and Saturday: Connie Evingson at the Artists' Quarter
Can this really be Connie's first-ever AQ weekend? We're talking Connie Evingson, jazz vocalist extraordinaire, Moore by Four member, "Jazz at the Jungle" star, maker of several fine CDs including Let it Be Jazz (Beatles songs), Little Did I Dream (Dave Frishberg songs), and Gypsy in My Soul (gypsy jazz).
Apparently, yes. To digress: As the Dakota has broadened its programming to include folk, rock, pop, world music, and blues, the AQ (still a straight-ahead jazz club) has opened its door to more singers. Lucia Newell and Debbie Duncan have long been welcome there, but this has not traditionally been a singers' room. That seems to be changing. Last week, Charmin Michelle had her CD release there (for Dawning and Daylight with Joel Shapira). The night was a smashing success, with a big turnout.
More singers are scheduled: Vicky Mountain (see below), Paula Lammers in May, and I'm hearing about other possibilities as well.
Connie will be joined by Tanner Taylor on piano, Graydon Peterson on bass, Mac Santiago on drums, and Dave Karr on saxophone for two swinging, stylish evenings.
Friday and Saturday, 9 p.m., Artists' Quarter in the basement of the Hamm Building, St. Paul. $12.


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We really enjoyed Lithuania. For such a small country it is amazing all the interesting places we visited. This post is about Vilnius, the capital city.
We took another free walking tour - our guide is telling us about St Anna's Church.
The Republic of Uzupio neighborhood. The sign says you must be smiling when you enter. The speed limit is 20 kph. You must love art. Don't drive into the river.
Street art in Uzupio. It is everywhere you look.
Stebuklas Tile - Marks one end of the continuous chain of people stretching across Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania in protest against Soviet Occupation in 1989.


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You may feel intrigued by the concept of healing and manifesting your ideal life with the help of crystals, but did you know that any jewelry can be equally as powerful? A hand-me-down ring, that necklace you got from your significant other, or even a simple piece of yarn worn around your wrist can be just as life-changing.
Crystal healing—or the idea that specific crystals possess healing properties—has been around for ages. If you are familiar with it, then you probably have a crystal for everything. You may feel like you need a rose quartz to cultivate love, amethyst to open your third-eye chakra, and hematite for grounding. The idea of needing to find different stones can seem exhausting and difficult to incorporate into your life. If you are tired of finding and carrying crystals for everything, there is an easier way.
Crystals work only when you infuse them with the energy of your positive intentions. This energy is not a physical energy but rather a spiritual energy. When you meditate on your intentions and imagine that energy entering the crystal, you are programming it. Crystals can hold intentions and positive vibrations easier than other objects, but carrying them around isn't always practical.
The crystal you are programming is only a physical symbol for your intention. The symbol serves as a reminder and helps raise your vibration to match your intention. The more your vibe matches your intention, the easier it will be for the intention to manifest.
The good news is that you can program other, more practical objects to help you manifest.
Whether you have a bag full of crystals or are new to the concept—here is a simple activity you can try to inspire healing and help you manifest the life you want:
- Find any piece of jewelry that you enjoy wearing (it can be anything from an old ring to a piece of string).
- Hold it in your palms and imagine bright white light cleansing it and making it new again.
- While it is still in the palm of your hands, visualize your intention. Really feel the positive emotions you would feel if your intention came true. You can think of more than one positive intention at once.
- Imagine those positive feelings going into the piece of jewelry—sort of like bathing the jewelry in the positive emotions.
- Continue visualizing this until you fully believe your intention is manifesting.
- Wear the jewelry as often as you'd like.
- Trust that your intentions will manifest.
- If you change your mind about what you want to manifest in your life, you can start over or cleanse your jewelry by following step 2.


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Before 'The New Troubles'
That is what I said when coming across the 'drawing' below while looking for items to sell at an upcoming garage sale. The reason for this reaction was because I 'drew' the image below probably 4 years ago, long before what I am now calling 'The New Troubles'.
"The New Troubles?" Some of you more curious and intellectually gifted types may ask. "Yes", I answer, chin raised, head slightly cocked, a look on my face exactly like the face you would imagine wanting to punch. Not that you're a violent person, and not that I'm a Nazi (I'm not, promise), but, sometimes, all of us, heck probably even Gandhi, wanted to sock someone in the nose, and most likely that person would be making the face I just described. Anyway, 'The New Troubles' is, as some of you clever types have already guessed, this whole thing with the Confederate statues, and the Nazis, and all the other groups people like to belong to that are involved in it.
What I'm REALLY trying to tell you is that I probably have powers. Like, I can see the future kind of powers. Not in a way where I could make any money from it, but, in a way that's terribly annoying and that causes people not to believe you and stop calling or coming by because you're always going on about your 'powers' that are not in any way apparent.


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Step 1In a medium, heavy-bottom saucepan, combine the cream and milk and bring to a simmer. Slowly whisk in the polenta and reduce the heat to low. Cook, stirring every few minutes or so, making sure to scrape the bottom of the pan so the polenta does not burn. Cook the polenta until it is creamy, about 30 minutes, adding additional milk if the polenta thickens too quickly before it is tender. Remove from heat, cover and set aside for 20 to 30 minutes.
Step 2Whisk in the butter and grated cheese, then taste and adjust the seasonings with salt and pepper.
Step 1In a large saute pan, heat the oil, butter and herbs over medium heat, cooking until the herbs are crisp and the butter begins to brown, 4 to 5 minutes.
Step 2Add the mushrooms and season with 1 teaspoon salt and a few grinds of pepper, or to taste. Toss, coating the mushrooms with the fat and increase the heat to high, cooking until the mushrooms brown a little, 3 to 4 minutes. Reduce the heat to medium.
Step 3Make a well in the center of the pan and add the garlic and chile flakes. Stir the garlic until it is cooked through, 1 to 2 minutes, then combine it with the mushrooms. Add the wine and broth, then remove from heat and add the vinegar. Taste, adjusting the seasonings as desired.
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We're a hawk on the issues.
Outrageously Racist Richard Sherman Twitter Comments Hit Internet
The reaction from Seattle Seahawks football player Richard Sherman to advancing to the Super Bowl sparked controversy among some football fans, but the racist reactions to it on Twitter were beyond disproportionate in response. Sherman, who intercepted a pass from the San Francisco 49'ers quarterback that sent his team to the Super Bowl. In a brief post-game interview on the field with Erin Andrews, his remarks that many felt were arrogant and over-the-top quickly went viral.
"When you try me with a sorry receiver like Crabtree, that's the result you gonna get. Don't you ever talk about me," said Sherman. When Andrews asked who was talking about him, he said, "Crabtree. Don't you ever open your mouth about the best or I'm gonna shut it for you real quick. L.O.B."
After the game, several football fans unleashed outrageously racist comments at Sherman in reaction to his interview. "Richard Sherman just proved you can take the ni**er out of the hood, but you can't take the hood out of the ni**er," wrote @steveflei. The comment was particularly ironic since he attended Stanford University. Nonetheless, it didn't stop @TheDonjT from tweeting, "I hate Richard Sherman man. Idc where he went to school. He's a f*cking ni**er."
At least 40 tweets involving Sherman and the use of the N-word could be seen within hours after the game. @Mrr_Jackson referred to him as a "f*cking porch monkey," while @BMWyco wrote that "Sherman is still a ni**er..And my cotton still isn't picked." @Freshman_Nick3 even suggested that "Sherman should get lynched."
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Now she speaks rapidly. "Do you know *why* you want to program?"
He shakes his head. He hasn't the faintest idea.
"For the sheer *joy* of programming!" she cries triumphantly. "The joy of the parent, the artist, the craftsman. "You take a program, born weak and impotent as a dimly-realized solution. You nurture the program and guide it down the right path, building, watching it grow ever stronger. Sometimes you paint with tiny strokes, a keystroke added here, a keystroke changed there." She sweeps her arm in a wide arc. "And other times you savage whole *blocks* of code, ripping out the program's very *essence*, then beginning anew. But always building, creating, filling the program with your own personal stamp, your own quirks and nuances. Watching the program grow stronger, patching it when it crashes, until finally it can stand alone -- proud, powerful, and perfect. This is the programmer's finest hour!"
Softly at first, then louder, he hears the strains of a Sousa march.
"This ... this is your canvas! your clay! Go forth and create a masterwork!"
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So you are looking to buy a property in Penticton or elsewhere in the Okanagan, but you are not sure if a condo is the way to go or if a house is. The difference between a condo and a house is more than that one has a yard and the other usually doesn't, and you should know all of the different factors that are involved before deciding what kind of property you want to purchase. To start with let's clarify the difference between a townhouse and an apartment. Both of them are considered condos as that is the type of ownership. The difference between a townhouse and apartment is the style of the property.
Deciding if a condo or a house is better for you is a question you will have to spend a little bit of time thinking about. The answer to this question comes down to what you truly want or need. A condo might not be the right choice for you if you have a large family where yard space would be considered a necessity. Likewise, a condo wouldn't be suitable if you are the kind of person you enjoys your privacy and having 100% control over any decision regarding your home.
On the other hand, a condo might be exactly what you need if you have a lot on the go and don't have time for things like mowing the lawn and shoveling snow. You might be one of those people who own a large home but would like to down-size without giving up on the perks that your house gave you. In this case, a bungalow condo could be ideal for you. If you are a first time home buyer in Penticton and purchasing a house right off the bat seems like a bit much, then buying a condo might be a good way for you to get into the housing market. If your lifestyle changes later on you can at that point decide on whether you would prefer to move into a house.
There are lots of different options with both houses and condos. It is interesting because traditionally the real estate market was generally driven by houses. This has been changing as the demand for condominiums has gone up. To meet this demand you will find that there are many new condo developments going up in Penticton, OK Falls, Oliver, Osoyoos, and elsewhere in the Okanagan (and all over BC for that matter). As the real estate market keeps on growing in British Columbia condominiums will offer an affordable solution to home ownership.
The different kinds of condominiums offer different types of benefits. Apartments style condominiums are ideal when you don't need a whole bunch of space. Most apartment style condos have secure underground parking or places to park outside for the owners. A townhouse gives you a little more space than an apartment, and a bungalow is the condo style that in some cases gives you as much room as a house but without all of the maintenance that would be required.
Whichever way you decide to go you will still have a terrific investment. Keep in mind what kind of maintenance you would require for all the different kinds of properties. As a condominium owner, you will have to understand how the condo board (strata) operates. Make sure you know what maintenance you are responsible for and what the strata takes care of.
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Some condos have a lot of restrictions put in place, others not so many, but this is something that you will want to fully understand.
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Other important things to keep in mind when purchasing a condominium is the following:
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A few UK fans met up with Gerry and Rhea Polci at the Tyneside Tavern in Haddington, near Edinburgh on the 2 December 2017.
Gerry and Rhea were in Scotland to renew their wedding vows at Cromlix Castle, Kinbuck, near Dunblane on the 1 December and were presented with a Scottish Quaich with a wee dram of Deanston whisky from the fans to celebrate this special day. A Quaich is a two handed cup often presented at weddings as a sign of friendship and Deanston, a short 20 minute drive from Cromlix, is the "local" whisky. We arranged for the Quaich to be engraved "Rhea and Gerry – Cromlix – 1 December 2017. A reminder forever of that very special day and Gerry and Rhea were really over the moon with this small gift and brought it along to the Tyneside Tavern where the landlord, Paul Kinnock, filled this with Famous Grouse for everyone to drink from – very nice it was too!
It was an absolute pleasure to meet Gerry and Rhea and they gladly answered questions from everyone from how they met, to working with Bob Gaudio and Judy Parker and the change of lyrics to "December 63", Tommy Devito and Gerry's first weeks pay check for $186 - for 7 shows - when he was employed as a drummer before he became a "4 Season".
Gerry told us that his Father (originally from Rome) and Frankie Valli went to the same school in Newark, Abbington Avenue Elementary School, although they were a couple of years apart. His Mom and Dad used to go and see Frankie Valli when the band were The Four Lovers so when Gerry joined the Four Seasons "it was like joining The Beatles – the greatest thing ever!" He recalled one show that he did with Frankie in New Jersey when his Dad arranged to take 80 people, family and friends, in 2 buses to the show and after the show Frankie signed autographs and had his photograph taken with every one of them. Unfortunately Gerry's Dad died young, age 50, and never heard "December 63" or "Who Loves You".
Gerry serenaded his lovely wife with his beautiful version of "Love Me Tender" after which Gerry and all the fans sang "Oh What A Night".
Gerry and Rhea were so warm, receptive and relaxed and we all entertained the diners with a rendering of "Can't Take My Eyes Off You" whilst the group photo was being taken at the bar – Haddington probably wondered what had hit it – great hospitality at the Tyneside Tavern and Gerry and Rhea also gladly signed autographs and posed for photographs with the local fans from Haddington.
Gerry Forbes, from Scotland said "it was a pleasure to meet Gerry again and his gorgeous wife Rhea and to hear his intricate tales with the Seasons and a pleasure for me to sing along with him and for them - "She wears my Ring" - Gerry actually complimented me on my voice but most of all it was wonderful meeting our Seasonal friends again who had travelled from various parts of the UK to meet one of our musical heroes - a great night. "
A message from Gerry:
Rhea and I are still gushing how wonderful the evening at the Tyneside Tavern was for us. You went above and beyond to make Rhea and I feel so comfortable and welcome. It was a pleasure for us to meet again all of the friends that have supported me throughout the years. I'm most happy with the way you and everyone else made Rhea feel a part of this moment and celebrate our vow renewal and love for each other. I will never forget that and will always be grateful. Lynn, you will always be in our hearts and know you are always in our thoughts and prayers. All the gifts from everyone were quite unexpected and are greatly appreciated. I would like to say a very special thank you to John Pingree for obtaining the pictures and the records and to Ray Nichol for the singles that he presented to me.
You guys Rock!!!
Thanks again and all the best.
Gerry Polci
We would like to say a very special thank you to Gerry and Rhea for taking time out from their Honeymoon to meet with the fans; to Paul Kinnock at the Tyneside Tavern for his hospitality; to Martin Weir, the wedding photographer for capturing Gerry and Rhea's special time in Scotland both before, during and after the renewal of their vows and to Sharon Thompson at Cromlix for arranging to present the Quaich to Rhea and Gerry after their vows.
We wish Gerry and Rhea love, laughter and every happiness for their future together – a very special couple clearly very deeply in love.
We would also like to take this opportunity to wish you all a very happy Christmas and a happy and peaceful New Year. It has certainly been a great 2017 and we are all very much looking forward to 2018 and the UK Farewell Tour by Frankie Valli next December - wrap up warm though!
Martin Weir took some absolutely stunning wedding photographs and a selection are available for the fans to purchase by clicking the link below, the password is Polci
Photographer - Weir Photography
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Many thanks to Gerry and Rhea for making these wonderful photographs available to the fans.
The East Lothian Courier also featured Gerry and Rhea's visit to Haddington here:
Seasons Greetings and don't ever stop chasing your dreams!
By Lynn Boleyn MBE
24 December 2017


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SF Mime Troupe Brings 'Red State' to East Bay Parks
"It's a punishment from the Lord!"
"I thought it was because they cut off that subsidy."
The citizens of Bluebird, Kan., a beleaguered little town in the middle of the country, suddenly find themselves the center of national attention. The Electoral College has deadlocked, and when it is revealed that Bluebird's votes got stuck in the machine, the neglected burg is instantly a-swarm with the media and visiting officialdom, looking to repair whatever damage to Bluebirdian self-esteem—so the poor hicks will just get on with it and recast their errant votes.
But helped along by a returning war hero, who's been asking what he's been fighting for, anyway, the gaggles of self-interested groups and individuals threaten to get together and demand some sort of return for their tax dollars and their suddenly precious votes. "We ain't got nothin'—and we sure could use somethin'!"
Meanwhile, there are some who are suspicious: "I tell you, it ain't right. They're fixin' the sidewalk. I bet that's the way Stalin started—and the next thing, all the women get hairy!"
All this with pratfalls, much fanfare and song, as the San Francisco Mime Troupe takes to the parks for their annual summertime political free-for-all (and the admission is also free, "a price everyone can afford"), Red State, which will commence its on-and-off run in East Bay parks this weekend and continue though August.
"Do you think Jesus broke the voting machines? Communists? Aliens?" A lot of the glib silliness isn't so silly if you scratch the surface of the running jokes about the state of the nation.
The Troupe displays its roots in agit-prop with routines like a funny mechanical tango and vamp around a Vot-a-tron 3000, screwdriver clamped in teeth like a technocratic gaucho and with songs and statements like: "Fightin' makes you strong!" "No; fightin' just makes you tired" or: "There's nothin' UnAmerican about fixin' what was wrong" while the band (lyrics and music by Pat Moran, who also announces and leads the musical trio) shuffles, accompanies and walks along, playing campy soundtrack riffs, the Internationale, Nortena dances or just shit-kicker tunes, mixing it all up.
Even so, the play's more story-driven, a little less "bitty" than many Mime Troupe outings. Written and directed by Michael Gene Sullivan, not acting in this show, it features other Collective members as actors. Velina Brown is the government's Miss Page, offered the post of Undersecretary of Regional Oversight and singing "I've been waiting all my life for an opportunity/To have an office all my own in Washington, D. C.," only to be interrupted by her cellphone. There are also faces from outside the collective: Lizzie Calogero as reporter Cliff Windswept, Noah James Butler (familiar from TheatreFirst productions) and Robert Ernst, cofounder of the Blake St. Hawkeyes, a fine utility man for any show.
Playing a spectrum of roles, they all build it up to the climactic moment. Will Bluebird get it together and insist on its place in the sun? Meanwhile, the Troupers keep pumping out those tunes in an election year: "The government don't give a damn/About the working man."
Presented by the San Francisco Mime Troupe.
• 2 p.m. Saturday, July 12 at Oakland's Mosswood Park (MacArthur and Broadway).
• 7 p.m. Wednesday, July 16, at Montclair Ball Field (music at 6:30 p.m.).
• 2 p.m. July 19-20, at Berkeley's Cedar Rose Park (music starts at 1:30 p.m.).
• 2 p.m. Aug. 2-3 at Willard/Ho Chi Minh Park, with an ASL interpreter present ( music starts at 1:30 p.m. ).
• 2 p.m. Aug. 23-24 at Live Oak Park ( music starts at 1:30 p.m.).


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I have been in the real estate industry since 2004, I started off as a sales agent and was in sales until 2010. In August I started as a Rental Portfolio Manager for my previous company but continued doing sales as well. Joined Harcourts in April 2015 and my main and only focus has been Property Management.
I enjoy FAMILY! My time is consumed with all sorts of activities like jogging, fishing and just socialising with my family. My husband and I are very involved in our church and the neighbourhood watch and offer our services on a regular basis to help the community where there could be a need.


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Here's a quick introduction to the beauty queen amongst mathematical formulas.
This problem about an infinite sum has a surprising answer.
This surprising result about 3D shapes tells us something deep about the nature of space.
Euler may not have cracked this problem completely, but it led to a lot of important work, including on what we today know as sudoku.
Can you move a knight on a chessboard so that it visits every square exactly once? Euler was one of the first to analyse this problem systematically, but some questions about it are still open today.
Can you find a path through on this city map that crosses every bridge exactly once? Euler's answer to this problem started off the filed of graph theory.
Five favourite problems inspired by Leonhard Euler, one of the greatest mathematicians of all time.


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Summary Meeting Notes: August 9, 2012 Residential Development PEG
Summary Meeting Notes
Residential Development and Compatibility Policy Expert Group
Date: August 9, 2012
Time: 4:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.
PEG Attendees: Tamara DeRidder, John Gibbon, Anyeley Hallova, Michael Hayes, Gabe Headrick, Rodney Jennings, Barry Manning (PEG lead), James McGrath, Rod Merrick, Erica Palmer, Stanley Penkin, Eli Spevak, Irma Valdez
Other Attendees: Debbie Bischoff, Barry Manning (BPS staff - presenters); DeborahStein, Matt Wickstrom, Mark Raggett, Spencer Williams, Liza Mickle, Lora Lillard (BPS staff); Stephanie Reynolds (ONI); Linda Nettekoven, David Sweet, Lois Leveen, Don McGillvary, Doug Hamilton, Bob Granger, Rick Michaelson, Mary Ann Schwab, Benjamin Adrian,Tom Karwaki (community members)
Facilitator: Deb Meihoff - Communitas
View the original agenda, including materials, for this meeting.
Key Points
- Meeting focused on policy options for addressing transitions, compatibility, and impacts between (1) higher intensity / density residential and mixed use areas and single family / lower density residential areas, and (2) between commercial / employment / industrial areas and single-family / lower density residential.
- The context should be the most critical piece to determining appropriate height and massing transitions - solar direction and access, construction types, proximity or relationship to residential uses in a residential zone. Principles of good design should drive solutions and be applied citywide.
- Landscaping may be a good way to address privacy and aesthetic conflicts between zones, but not to address other impacts including noise or odors.
- When considering buffering and transitions, there is a need to balance public health, public safety, community expectations, and livability / ability to conduct business in both zones.
Welcome, overview, announcements
- September meeting will address issues of multi-dwelling site planning including large lot development, on-site open space, and development form.
- Updated project schedule: Discussion draft of the policies will be released in November for PEG and public review; comprehensive plan mapping concepts are targeted for February 2013; broader public engagement will occur after release of Discussion Draft policy and map (January-March); package of policies and maps for Planning and Sustainability Commission consideration anticipated in Spring 2013.
PEG Process Updates and Feedback
- The Community Involvement Committee has requested / drafted an evaluation system for the PEGs. PEG members are asked to complete forms at the conclusion of each meeting.
- City has established a new Equity advisory group to infuse, guide, and oversee the comprehensive plan update. PEG members are invited to participate. Staff will provide updates of meeting dates and agendas.
- Staff are still working on a web-based system for PEG members to share ideas - more to come.
- As the PEG requested, staff provided an overview of the state and local procedures to establish and dissolve historic and conservation districts.
Policy Topic Presentation 1: Urban Scale Development Transitions
Presenter: Debbie Bischoff, Bureau of Planning and Sustainability
Summary: Staff presentation of existing policy, key issues and community concerns on transitions of mass and height between residential and other zoning districts.
Meeting handouts and presentation:
Group Discussion on Policy Topic 1
Following the presentation, PEG members participated in an exercise of reviewing and modifying potential policies (existing and new) and then engaged in a discussion.
Summary of PEG discussion on Topic 1:
- Generally, the City should have citywide policy that addresses transitions.
- If lowering height allowances or increasing setbacks, the City needs to be thoughtful about impacts to the buildable land capacity - what would it mean for growth?
- Need to consider height in terms of building/construction types driven by fire and life safety codes - current height limitations in the zoning code e.g. Interstate Plan District, are not aligned.
- There are greater concerns with transitions mid-property or mid-block. Side yards are also a concern in addition to rear yard set backs.
- Solar access makes a difference and is a critical performance issue.
- Need to consider the context and different approaches to transitions: property line vs. across the street; north or south facing property and solar access impacts.
- Design approaches are the key to making transitions work. Standards alone will not produce the desired outcomes.
- Consider 2-track system, similar to design districts: If there is potential for conflict or transition and the base standard for step or set back and height are not met, then the development is sent through design review process to address issues of scale.
- Landscaping can be used to soften transitions and address issues of privacy.
- New ideas for standards need to be tested through 3D modeling before they are adopted.
- Form-based code, or elements of form-based, can provide insight to workable solutions.
Policy Topic Presentation 2: Development Transitions between residential and commercial / employment areas
Presenter: Barry Manning, Bureau of Planning and Sustainability
Description: Staff presentation of existing policy, key issues and community concerns on potential impacts to residential properties - such as light, noise, and odors - and possible solutions.
Meeting handouts and presentation:
Group Discussion on Policy Topic 2
Following the presentation, PEG members participated in an exercise of reviewing and modifying potential policies (existing and new) and then engaged in a discussion.
Summary of PEG discussion on Topic 2:
- There should be an expectation that some impacts will always exist in a city environment. It is easier to address in areas that are slated to remain in the current development form vs. areas planned for transition to higher intensity uses.
- Current code provisions to address the potential impacts include erecting walls or landscaping at the property line. Walls provide a better noise buffer than landscaping, but not always attractive on their own. Solution may be the combination of opaque wall with landscaping along the wall, facing the residential zone.
- There are concerns with the health impacts of drive-through uses and similar uses that allow for idling autos or trucks, adjacent to residential zones. Consider restricting these types of uses in transition areas and forbidding within Buffer Overlay Zones.
- Focus regulations on site layout options that move the impactful use or function away from abutting residential zones.
- Need to consider the big picture future of the city - we are encouraging mixed use and 20-minute neighborhoods. Excessive buffering and separation of uses is a suburban model.
- New policy cannot result in removing auto-oriented uses from the City. There needs to be a balance, so that we can achieve 20-minute neighborhoods and preserve employment areas withinPortland.
- Policy should look to focus commercial development in concentrated nodes, rather than linear corridors that encourage strip development and spread the impact.
- Good Neighbor Agreements have been a successful mechanism to reduce impacts in many neighborhoods, however, they are not legally binding/enforceable and would be very difficult to require as a provision of code.
Public Comment
- Lois Leveen, community member, thanked the PEG for their thoughtfulness in the process. Ms. Leveen and her neighbors are concerned with a new drive-through going into their neighborhood (at Walgreen's, SE C. Chavez and Belmont). The current code has resulted in / allowed moving the drive-through aisle to within the buffer overlay zone, exacerbating the conflicts with neighboring residential zone. Having commercial adjacent is not the problem in this case; a drive-through creates new and different concerns with noise (livability) and health impacts of idling cars. Policy should be considering not only new development but also impacts created with expansions or retrofits. Consider banning drive-throughs inPortland-San Luis Obispo,Californiais a good model.
- David Sweet, Portland Noise Review Board, provided additional insight to issues of noise impacts. Landscaping buffers do not mitigate for noise; solid walls are more effective. The city's noise code (Title 18) does not address variable noise issues - car radios, outdoor seating for businesses - and there are limited resources available for enforcing the provision currently in Title 18.
- Steve White, Oregon Public Health Institute. The policy should consider horizontal mass in addition to vertical mass. Walkability is critical to improved public health. New development that has 100% lot coverage creates barriers to pedestrian connectivity throughout the city. Need to consider the permeability of large lots and how to preserve or enhance walkability.
- Bob Granger, 42nd Avenue Neighborhood Prosperity Initiative. One way of setting transition expectations is to ensure the use descriptions for each zone is specific and accurately reflects the desired development. Erecting walls for buffering may have unintended impacts to public safety. Buffering between zones needs to balance health and livability of adjacent residential properties with neighborhood safety.
- Stephanie Reynolds - Portland Crime Prevention Manager. Erecting barriers throughout neighborhoods could create a different set of public safety problems. Solutions, such as removing walls, can be very costly. Good Neighbor Agreements are not a reliable tool for addressing long term buffering needs.
- Linda Nettekoven, community member. Code or policy needs to also consider buffering vertically in mixed-use structures - better insulation. Need to plan for potential changes and differing intensities of first floor uses.
- Tom Karwaki, University Park Neighborhood Association chair. Need to also consider the impacts institutions can have on residential zones - not just commercial and industrial uses, but also includes schools, hospitals, etc.
Next Steps
- Staff to complete development of a web-based system for PEG members to easily share ideas outside of meetings.
- Meeting agendas will be revised to (1) include time for staff to report back on the summary of feedback received for the previous meeting topics and how they are incorporating that information into policy, and (2) provide time for public comment throughout the agenda - related to policy topics
- Next Meeting: September 13, 2012, 4:00 – 6:00 PM, 1900 SW 4th Avenue, 7th Floor, Room 7A
For more information, please contact either Barry Manning Bureau of Planning and Sustainability at 503-823-7965 or firstname.lastname@example.com or Deb Meihoff, facilitator at 503-358-3404 or email@example.com.


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I thought about a Top 10 for this year, but honestly I had a few drops and the second half of the year my anime viewing fell off. So instead I'm doing a favorites post similar to my Favorite Albums. While I wish I had gotten more viewing in, I can say I'm extremely happy with the shows I was able to watch.
Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid
I had just started reading the manga when I saw an anime was coming out, so I just had to check this out. It quickly joined the ranks of some all time favorites. The characters and their relationships are outstanding, especially for a premise that could have easily been another "fish out of water" slapstick moe anime. Don't get me wrong, as the humor and slapstick is surely alive and well. The thing about Dragon Maid is you actually watch all the characters learn, mature, and begin to see how they have benefited from each others' friendships. KyoAni definitely went all out for this show, and it shows in its quality.
Where to Watch: CrunchyRoll, Funimation
Eromanga Sensei
I love my moe, I need my moe, and Eromanga Sensei is just that type of moe I year for. It is essentially a show about step-siblings who barely talk to each other, but have been working together without knowing. This hit all the notes I wish the Oreimo anime had but didn't. Watching Masamune struggle to connect with his younger step-sister Sagiri was cute, funny and sometimes a tad depressing. Thankfully with a well rounded cast of moe tropes, this was a fun and super funny show. Don't get me wrong though as the tropes aren't just average throw away characters, but ones you'll definitely remember years later.
Where to Watch: CrunchyRoll, Amazon Prime
I'm going to be straight with everyone, I hated AHO-GIRL when I first watched it. I struggled through the first episode, and was left thinking what stupid trash did I just watch. Then while bored one night and looking for one of the short shows (this one runs about 12 minutes an episode), I said screw it and watched episode 2. I was nearly rolling off my couch in roaring laughter, and I might have slightly frightened my dogs. Why did I suddenly find it funny, you are asking yourself. What changed was my expectations, and understanding of how the show worked. It's humor is non-stop, and has very little downtime. Now that I was prepared, I just fell in to its trap and enjoyed it until the last episode aired. I haven't laughed this much at an anime since Seitokai Yakuindomo last aired.
Where to Watch: CrunchyRoll
Interviews With Monster Girls
Whether it is in manga form or in anime, Interviews with Monster Girls is something I can not get enough of. This show is about a teacher who is helping his monster girl students cope with school and everyday life as they mature and come to terms with themselves. This show could have easily gone down the slightly creepy rabbit hole many shows due, but it is truly a charming and sweet show. Do some of the girls have crushes on the teacher, sure but so do many students in high schools in the real world. This show left me just smiling after each episode finished.
Where to Watch: CrunchyRoll, Funimation
Tsuredure Children
Oh high school romance, how different you are for each couple. Tsuredure Children approaches this topic just like that. There are multiple couples, and each episode will focus on a few each time. You get a range from cute couples, to best friends turned couple, couples who can't quite form due misunderstandings, etc. I truly loved watching the couples go through the motions of high school relationships, whether it was struggles to confess, just being cute and loving, or fights threatening their partnership. With only 12 minute episodes, this series managed to tell the stories of the couples presented without much issue. The only one issue myself, and a couple others I know whom watched it, was the couple in which a Studen Council president was forcefully making a troubled student date him. It came off as just uncomfortable 95% of the time during their time on screen. Disregarding that specific couple, there is a lot to enjoyment and laughter to be had in this series.
Where to Watch: CrunchyRoll, Funimation
A Centaur's Life
I wasn't sure if I was going to include this series or not, because it is a very interesting slice of life show. It is probably the truest to form slice of life show I have ever watched. You watch the lives of high school girls in a world in which Monsters inhabit instead of humans. There are many political and social aspects going on in the show while we watch these girls lives, but the show manages to mostly stay light with a good dose of humor. Most of the humor just produces modest laughter, and not many laugh out loud moments. It was a good show to watch when I just wanted to unwind and relax, and I recommend it to anyone who is looking for a show like this.
Where to Watch: CrunchyRoll, Funimation


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A statistic was bandied about years ago that in managing the Apollo moon launch projects, if NASA had 99.9% of its systems working perfectly, there were still 15,837 things (or some such number) going wrong.
Merde! That's a lot of room for error.
On that score The Merger Verger sees little difference between the moon launch and the integration of an acquisition … lots and lots of room for things to go wrong.
It's one reason why the Verger finds checklists both empowering and debilitating. Deals contain enormous amounts of wee activities that contribute to the whole of a success. Lose track of them and your spaceship veers slowly off into outer darkness.
BUT … focus too sharply on your checklist and you have no vision on changing circumstances that may obviate certain listed activities and necessitate other new ones.
Good project managers run with checklists but they do not live by them. They think. They envision. They project. They call audibles. And are ready to do so at any time.
The Merger Verger Issues a Challenge:
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The Crucible
Why is Danforth especially nervous about rumors concerning events in Andover? What reasons for receiving no pleas for pardon or for postponement of the executions?
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Parris claims that there are rumors of a rebellion against the witchcraft proceedings in Andover. This worries Danforth that people might rebel and his influence will be finished. He would also be worrying about his own safety should people get angry enough. Stll Danforth cannot relinquish his power. Not killing the people would weaken his court and his position.


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With her Eat-Clean Diet, Tosca Reno went from being overwhelmed and overweight to modeling a bikini, but her seventy-pound weight loss and body transformation didn't happen overnight; even Tosca needed a simple approach, a place to begin. Now she reveals her secrets so that you can begin your journey to safe weight loss and optimal health. Start now with The Start Here Diet !
Tosca knows what it's like to feel ashamed of your body: At her heaviest, she hid behind bulky clothes and rarely had her picture taken. Her blood sugar level was like a roller coaster, and her heart rate was far from normal. Tosca was so focused on taking care of her family that she neglected her own needs. Then she started making slight adjustments in her everyday life--small changes that brought about big results. In this exciting book, she shares the three easy-to-follow steps that helped her get her life back on track:
Step 1: Dive Inward. Identify the emotional triggers for your overeating, the self-defeating "self-talk," and the underlying reason why you really want to shed the pounds. Sharing her own internal dialogue--including excerpts from the journal she kept at that time--Tosca will help you overcome these internal barriers in a completely unique, accessible way.
Step 2: Uncover Your Hidden Foods. Do you have a food you think you just can't live without? Or something you eat mindlessly and often? These are your "hidden foods" and they are sabotaging your best efforts to lose weight and keep it off. Through Tosca's transformative process, you will once and for all identify the empty-calorie foods that have added extra pounds and replace them with nutritious foods you can enjoy without weight gain.
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Tosca Reno is an internationally known nutritionist, weight loss specialist, fitness trainer, motivational speaker, and bestselling author. Her Eat-Clean Diet book series has sold more than two million copies. Tosca tours 250 days out of every year. She speaks approximately ten times per month all across North America, and appears at book and health events, bookstore signings, and school events several times a year.
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Motivational speaker and weight-loss specialist Reno, author of the Eat-Clean Diet series, returns with a laid-back weight-loss plan that can be utilized by anyone-whether the goal is to drop 10, 20, 30, or even 100 pounds. The secret, says Reno, is a three-prong plan that explores the emotional component of weight gain and loss and identifies what's behind it ("diving inward"); recognizes and removes "hidden foods," or the one, two, or three foodstuffs that have particularly promoted your weight gain and sabotaged diet efforts; and increases physical activity just by "moving a little," even if that means spending a quick 15 minutes washing your car windows or doing leg lifts while sitting on the couch. In addition to providing practical tools for implementing this plan, Reno offers suggestions for how to maintain a clear head and emotional balance through journaling; utilize both real-life and online support systems; rethink grocery lists; and choose the exercises you'll stick with and enjoy. The book includes day-by-day and week-by-week plans for meals and "workouts," and easy-to-prepare recipes, but, in keeping with Reno's "baby step" approach, all can be tailored to one's personal needs. Reno, who lost 75 pounds after age 40 on this plan, promises a pragmatic program and she delivers. Agent: Yfat Reiss Gendell, Foundry Literary + Media. (Dec.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.
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Reno (Eat-Clean Diet) lost 75 pounds after the age of 40. This title takes readers to the beginning of her weight-loss journey, beginning with the emotional aspects of weight gain and the fear and loneliness that accompanied it. Reno's plan consists of three simple steps: "dive inward"-focus on what is behind the weight gain and the desire to lose weight; "uncover your hidden foods"-remove foods that sabotage healthy eating; and "move a little"-fit a handful of activities into an everyday schedule. Integral to the plan is the act of journaling, and questions to answer are sprinkled throughout. The second half of the book covers the practical aspects of incorporating the diet into a daily routine, including suggestions for grocery planning, cooking, and shopping. Customizable daily sample menus, movement activities ranging from cleaning the tub to circuit training, and recipes (Hawaiian chicken burgers, lemon and herb-crusted cod) are also included. VERDICT Reno's combination of journaling, healthy eating, and moving is both a gentle and a practical approach to weight loss.-Pauline Baughman, Multnomah Cty. Lib., Portland, OR (c) Copyright 2014. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
PART ONE Coming Out of Hiding 1 My Prison Many of us think we are being honest when we say to ourselves, "I'm happy." We think we are being honest when we tell ourselves and those we love, "I'm fine" or "Don't worry, everything is all right." But often we are lying. Not on purpose. Not because we want to mislead others. But because we are in such pain, or feel so uncomfortable with how we look or how we feel, that we hide. We hide from our families, our friends, our doctors, our co-workers. We hide from ourselves. We hide because we feel ashamed. We tell everyone that we feel fine because how could we possibly admit that we are not? For years, I lived my life in hiding, and coming out of hiding took some painful reckoning. When others asked how I was doing, I would reply in a defensive tone, "I'm fine!" The message I clearly sent with that response was "Don't dig any deeper. Leave me alone." When I was seventy-five pounds overweight, I was heavy emotionally as well as physically. I gained the weight because I was out of touch with my inner needs and voice; remaining heavy was a way to continue hiding. Admitting and recognizing the power of that inner place is where my journey to permanent weight loss and health began. And it will be the same for you. Not the same story, but the same reaching inward to the place where you've been hiding. To understand my weight loss journey you need to also understand what else I had to lose--small step by small step--before I could shed pounds and find my true self. I grew up in Kingston, Ontario, Canada, with three siblings, one sister and two brothers. We had a happy home and my parents were loving and supportive. My dad was resourceful, reliable, and sturdy. But it was my mom who was in charge of things. She was strict and she set high standards for me and my siblings; she wanted the best for us all and pushed us to achieve. I was always a strong-willed young girl. I loved the challenge of competition. I was an athlete--I ran, swam, and played soccer. I loved horses. I was always on the move, rarely looking behind me as I forged ahead into my next new adventure. Always in a rush, I sometimes didn't look ahead either. I had more than a few run-ins with telephone wires and bushes and tree roots! At university I studied science. I also fell in love hard and fast when I was just twenty years old. Since my then-love was a couple of years ahead of me academically, I interrupted my studies when he graduated and together we went out west. I believed in his dreams for our success and for our future together. We were married when I was twenty-three--not unusually young for the time, but definitely an age when I was only just beginning to understand myself. I didn't question giving up further education for my husband's career: it seemed natural, something I could do to show him the depth of my love and commitment. Besides, didn't I have the rest of my life to figure out what I wanted to do? But very early into my marriage, my connection to myself began to disappear. I cannot tell you about one specific moment, or even one particular event that triggered my separation from myself. It was a slow build. But day by day, month by month, I began to lose a sense of my own importance. It probably began with the very simple act of giving up what had been important to me--studying science--for someone else's dream. Even as I was thrilled to have children, I think I really let go of the real Tosca when I became a mother. Like many women (of all ages), I jumped into parenthood and all its responsibilities and quickly became absorbed in making other people happy. What I can see now is that when I focused so completely on caring for my kids, I stopped knowing how to care for myself. But that wasn't the only reason I began hiding. Early in my marriage, we moved a lot for my husband's job. The moves were necessary for his career, but they were also disruptive and I was more or less solely responsible for the logistics of each move and for helping the kids adjust each time. I loved my husband; the heavy lifting was a way of showing my support. But each move was stressful and each one took a lot out of me. It should have been goodwill that was building in our partnership, but instead there was mounting tension, and I felt I had to walk on eggshells. A lot of the time, especially at home, I felt nervous and vulnerable. This emotional environment made me withdraw from myself even more. It didn't feel safe to simply be me. Even now as I describe it to you, the reader, I realize I was then and am still afraid to admit that my relationship was transitioning from love to routine, and ultimately to something very different from love; it was abuse. When I was twenty-six, I gave birth to our third beautiful daughter. Soon thereafter, we moved yet again, the seventh time in ten years. Again, I felt enormous joy bringing forth this new life into the world. But I was beginning to realize that there was a darkness creeping in and around me. I was busy, busy, busy and yet never made time for myself. My movements kept me out of my head and out of my heart. I scurried around for others. I wanted to think everything was perfect. I began to tell myself, "Everything is fine." "You should be grateful." But somewhere deep inside me I knew these words were just not true. And on the surface life was indeed grand. I loved our house, our great community, our pretty little suburban neighborhood. I got wonderfully lost in being a mom. I loved being with my girls and teaching them about school, life, and themselves. Isn't this what I needed to make my life meaningful, my heart feel safe and purposeful? The surface never tells the whole story. In reality, with each passing day, month, and year, I was becoming less happy, less relaxed, more stressed, and more sad. I found myself relying on destructive ways of covering my anxiety and dulling my own yearnings. "Time for myself" was time spent eating. I had a warped sense of what it meant to indulge my own needs! My bad habits consumed me. Some of these habits may even seem familiar to you. I stayed up late after everyone went to bed, made myself comfortable on the living room sofa, and lost myself in a quart of ice cream or a jar of peanut butter. Swallowing one spoonful after another, I no longer tasted the food or felt the pleasure of its sweetness. Rather, I shoveled in food to obliterate my own feelings of sadness. My husband and I had drifted far apart--he busy with work and I busy managing the house and family to a self-imposed perfection. I berated myself if the house was messy or if there were things left undone at the end of a busy day. These late night feed-fests were a way of battling back the feeling that I was a loser. I was desperate to block out the constant, gnawing fear that something was terribly wrong with me, with my life. One of the most basic human needs, according to Tony Robbins, master life coach, is the need to feel significant. Caring for everyone else was meaningful work and had my marriage been happy, I might have felt differently, but all I knew then is that the care and feeding of other souls didn't satisfy my own soul's need for significance. When I got married, I weighed about 127 pounds--thin for a woman of my height (5'8"). But ten years later, the number on the scale had reached two hundred and four pounds. I was a bloated and obscured version of my former self. At two hundred plus pounds, I avoided mirrors and cameras. I hid myself in big, bulky clothes. Everything about my body made me feel awkward, ill at ease, not good enough. The photo on this book is one of the only ones I have of myself at that time--it's not that I threw them all away, but rather that I rarely stepped out from behind the camera to allow myself to be photographed! I didn't want to document my unhappy weight. I didn't want to document my sad truth. In addition to simply gaining weight, I also started to be physically unwell. On several occasions I even passed out. This was hypoglycemia at work--my organs were beginning to complain about my poor diet. My blood sugar would soar, then plummet, taking its toll on my entire body. I was often sweaty, clammy, and dizzy. I sometimes had heart palpitations--an irregular heartbeat that caused a tightness in my chest. This really scared me because my father had suffered from heart disease all his life, and ultimately the disease took him from this world. I didn't want the same fate for me and my kids. As perhaps you know, food has a terrible way of being both a problem and a solution. With each passing day, month, and year, I continued to use food to calm me but also to squelch my dreams and block out my thoughts of my future. The more I ate, the more I felt further diminished, unworthy, and dependent. I had trouble even remembering who I had been as a girl and young woman before I married. Some days, I would quickly glance at photos from my childhood. The images staring back at me of the smiling, strong, confident girl had nothing to do with who I had become. Yet most troubling of all was that I couldn't figure out how to connect the dots: I knew I ate too much, but how, really, had I become this person staring back at me in the mirror? Not surprisingly, I was on edge all the time, and I took even a passing comment about my weight as a deep criticism about me as a person. I saw disapproval in other's eyes. And I heard a nasty voice in my ear: "You look fat today." "Why are you wearing that blouse?" "Those jeans don't exactly flatter you." "Are you crazy or something?" How had I become this sad, overweight, powerless woman? And what was I doing to myself? Where was my belief in my own power? The bigger I got on the outside, the more I retreated into my litany of self-criticism. I resisted listening to a deep part of me who wanted that frank inner conversation--about my marriage, about my future, about what I wanted to do with the rest of my time on Earth. I was depressed, lonely, and powerless to seek help. In truth I didn't know where to look. I needed this book all those years ago but there wasn't anything like it at the time of my crisis. This feeling of paralysis kept me stuck in my destructive, repetitive behaviors. I didn't realize these negative patterns were part of the prison I was building around myself. There were rare occasions when I allowed myself to peek out and have fun, usually with my children, but most of the time I was introverted and quiet. I focused on the girls, wanting only to keep them safe and happy, and their busy lives provided good cover. But was this real? Was this even good for the girls if it was so wrong, so bad, for me? Of course, children always see more than you want them to--they knew I was unhappy. They knew something was not right in the house. Because I was not taking care of myself, because I was eating fatty, sugary foods that zapped my energy, I was compounding an already bad situation. I am certain many of you can relate to that experience: our families are our priority, but it's a slippery slope from taking care of others to neglecting ourselves. It becomes--without our even realizing it--somehow more comfortable to put the needs of others before our own. And to be sure, this "giving up" and giving so much of ourselves feels good--it's one way we can show our love for others. But of course there are many ways to show our love for others that don't compromise our own needs and hopes and dreams. I didn't realize that then at all. In a way, I think that I shifted into sacrifice mode so that I could mask my own fears of being who I was. But sacrifice comes at a price, and mine was to become emotionally, physically, and spiritually depleted. Today of course, I know that true beauty and happiness do not come from the outer appearance so much as from what is radiating from deep inside. But at this time in my life, I had not yet discovered this clear truth. It's curious to me how what you put out in the universe is what you receive. When I was younger, in my twenties and thirties, I was nothing but an envelope of negativity, and that is exactly what I got back. It did not occur to me to operate from love and gratitude. I didn't know where to look for positive support or a reality check; I didn't even realize that I needed a reality check because I was completely convinced that I knew where I stood and that I was a bad person for getting to that place. I was convinced that I was worth nothing. The more I internalized this thinking, the worse I allowed others to treat me. It was a vicious cycle. I stayed bound in this kind of thinking for years, actually allowing others to treat me badly, further tightening the chains around my spirit. Soon, though, I was going to take a profoundly simple step: I was going to look inside myself and gather my courage to believe that I did matter. I was about to dive inward. But in those early days, the only voice I heard was small and squeaky, telling me not to take up so much space. Hide, the little voice told me. I suppose if I were really in a prison I would curl up in a ball in the farthest corner and keep myself from view. The dominant feeling I was experiencing was shame. I was ashamed at myself for being a failure, fat, insignificant, and worthless. This was not the way I was raised or the person I had expected to be. I had allowed myself and others to destroy my purpose. Deep down, I knew something was wrong with my life. If I had had the courage to be honest with myself at the time, I would have admitted that what was wrong was my marriage: it had soured beyond repair. My husband and I had drifted worlds apart and weren't supportive or communicative with each other. I was not happy and I did not feel respected, truly loved, or cared for. I felt uneasy in my own home, too vulnerable to relax and be myself. But even as I am now sure that my husband was as much to blame as me, I still thought I was the one in the wrong. I doubted my own instincts: Are things really that bad? Maybe I am just holding myself to impossible standards. Don't all women feel this way about marriage after a while? I would try to justify my feelings, my fear of change, always arriving at the same conclusion: You don't have what it takes to live a different kind of life. You owe it to your family to try harder and stay with them. So I soldiered on, and kept on eating in a silent battle with myself. Food was the only personal joy I had. Food had become my medicine, my best friend, my only safe, reliable source of comfort. After all my work for the day was done, after everyone else was in bed, I retreated to the living room sofa. I might turn on the television; sometimes I read magazines and dreamed about faraway places that looked exotic or romantic. But then I closed the cover and settled in to eat my quart of ice cream, hunk of cheese, or spoonfuls of peanut butter again and again--and, often, all of them together. Sometimes I was scared I would be caught eating, and I actually hid in the closet for fear that my husband would angrily criticize my eating and my weight. He had a temper and I was often the target for it. He thought my overeating was a deep flaw and a sign of weakness, and I believed he was right about me. I felt ugly, unsexy, and worthless. He didn't contradict me or help me think otherwise. My late-night trysts with food had become one of the few sources of pleasure in a life that was becoming increasingly unsafe. Under cover of darkness, I thought no one would notice what was becoming of me. It's not like I didn't try to get out of this mess of an existence. I didn't try to leave the marriage--which would have been the healthy and self-loving thing to do--but I did try to lose the weight that I felt sure was part of the problem. If only I got skinny, I'd tell myself, I'll feel better. He'll love me again. I'll love me again. I'd try the latest fad diet--high protein, no carbs; pineapple for seven days; frozen diet dinners; complete restriction. Like most diets, they worked--for a while. But then I'd start my old, familiar, destructive eating patterns. I'd reach for my trio of favorite foods--the ice cream, the cheese, the peanut butter. They were my drugs, and I was an addict. I know now what I didn't know then: when we pretend we are happy when we are not, when we bury painful experiences inside ourselves instead of confronting them, we end up hurting others--and ourselves most of all. But at that time in my life I was not aware of that important lesson, nor was I ready for it. At that time, I thought that I had some kind of control over what I was doing; I believed that I could handle everything life dealt me, and that if I could just stop being as weak as I'd come to believe I was, I would be fine. I thought that losing weight was about self-control. I didn't have enough of it, I was told, and I told myself, but I knew this quality could only come from me so I didn't ask for any help. I kept my focus outside myself--on my beautiful, unique, wonderful daughters. I ignored myself, my body, my heart. I ignored what my gut was telling me: that I was unhappy, and that I was not being honored or respected. I used food to smother my desires. To take the place of dreaming and setting goals for myself. And I got very good at it. If you've ever felt backed into an emotional corner and terrified of changing even one thing about your life, you probably understand this fear. It's not logical. It's not rational. But the fear of change surrounds you just the same. And it can feel much, much bigger than you. Then, slowly, I risked really looking at myself. I stared at myself literally in the mirror and figuratively by allowing myself longer periods of self-focus. As uncomfortable as it was to see the differences, I started to compare the woman I was and the woman I felt that I ought to be. I examined what was still beneath the extra weight in my face, around my tummy, and at the top of my legs. I would stare long enough to imagine myself the way I used to be: an athletic, spirited young woman who wanted to be a teacher. Who loved a good run on a sunny, cool day. Who was the captain of a soccer team. Who swam competitively. Where had that woman gone? Where was she hiding? I began to search. Excerpted from The Start Here Diet: Three Simple Steps That Helped Me Transition from Fat to Slim... For Life by Tosca Reno, Billie Fitzpatraick All rights reserved by the original copyright owners. Excerpts are provided for display purposes only and may not be reproduced, reprinted or distributed without the written permission of the publisher.


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Human Rights: African Commissioner comes to Cameroon
The delegation is headed by the Chair person of the African Commission on Human and Peoples Rights, Reine Alapini Gansou.
The visit has been organised to evaluate how far Cameroon has gone with recommendations made by the African Human Rights Commission to its member countries.
As part of their mission, the delegation shall identify difficulties face by the country and make recommendations on how the situation can be continuously improved.
Upon arrival, Reine Alapini-Gansou indicated that the focus shall be on key areas including detention conditions, the rights of women and journalists.
As part of consultations with government officials, the African Human Rights Commissioner was received in audience by Prime Minister- Head of Government Yang Philemon.
She was in the company of Cameroonian-born Justice Lucy Asuagbor who is the Special Rapporteur on Human Rights Defenders in Africa.
Before meeting the Head of Government, the delegation held working sessions with some members of government notably the Minister of External Relations, Henri Eyebe Ayissi, the Minister Delegate at the Ministry of Justice, Maurice Kamto, the Minister of State, Minister of Territorial Administration and Decentralisation (MINATD), Marafa Hamidou Yaya.
Reine Alapini Gansou and her team discussed with representatives of some institutions involved in the promotion of human rights some being the Secretary of State at the Ministry of Defence in charge of the National Gendarmerie, Jean- Baptiste Bokam, officials at the General Delegation for National Security and the Supreme Court.
Drs. Fonkam Azu'u of ELECAM and Chemuta Banda Divine of the National Human Rights Commission briefed the visiting delegation on the strides made in Cameroon so far.
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Depending on your upbringing or perhaps the social norms in your community, you were either spanked or weren't. If you were spanked, and now have children of your own, you either feel very strongly against it and have found ways to discipline your kids without laying a finger (or slipper, or belt, or wooden spoon) on them; or, you have followed in your parents' footsteps and also spank as a form of discipline. Kelly Clarkson belongs to the latter group.
"I'm not above a spanking, which people aren't necessarily into," the singer told a Rochester-based radio station. "And I don't mean, like, hitting her hard, I just mean a spanking. My parents spanked me and I did fine in life and I feel fine about it."
Clarkson, who has two children (daughter River, 3, and one-year-old son Remington), does understand that many, if not most, people disagree with her methods. "So that's a tricky thing when you're out in public, 'cause then people think that's wrong or something, but I find nothing wrong with a spanking."
She explained that she warns River beforehand. "I'm like, 'Hi, I'm gonna spank you on your bottom if you don't stop right now. Like, this is ridiculous.'"
The singer chalked it up to growing up in the South, where everyone got spanked. She defended her upbringing by saying, "I'm a well-rounded individual with a lot of character, so I think it's fine."
It's not like Kelly is doling this out as parenting advice; she's simply stating how she handles situations with her daughter (presumably she's not spanking her baby son). If that works for her, then it works for her and no judgment. That being said, there are more effective ways to deal with kids. Using physical punishment — or even the threat of physical punishment — is more about instilling fear than respect, obedience and better behaviour. It's only a short-term fix, while the effects of spanking can do some real long-term damage. And that's not an opinion, that's based on decades of study.
Nowhere else — with the exception of contact sports or wrestling — is it OK for one human to hit another. And whether spanking is the first line of discipline, or the last resort born from constant frustration, that can't be denied. We love Kelly though, and appreciate her openness, and we have no doubt whatsoever that she's a kick-ass parent.


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Beauty Advice Anyone Can Use To Further Improve Their Life
While beauty is entirely subjective, you can affect how others perceive you to some extent. Products you choose to use in your body and face can work together to further improve your beauty. Your attitude can greatly affect your outer beauty. Look at the tips in this article for several advice.
Give your own hair, plus your blow dryer, a rest. You hair might be seriously damaged by a lot of heat through your hair dryer, a curling iron or straightening iron. Set your dryer to the lowest setting if time is limited and you must obtain your hair dry. This will help your own hair to always who have soft and silky look.
An effective healthy skin care tip is usually to exfoliate your facial skin. Even dry or sensitive skin can be exfoliated around 3 x weekly. Don't lose out on your opportunity to remove dead skin cells. Do this as well as your face will look more glowing and dewy and definately will stop buildup of dirt and oil.
Make lips appear bigger by applying shimmering white shadow above the bow at the core of the top lip. When you highlight this place, it would catch and reflect light, creating the illusion of fullness.
Imperfections, for example pimples, will be really distracting. A quick home remedy to get a pimple is placing a small quantity of toothpaste on the involved area. Leave it to stay for roughly ten minutes. This will likely decrease the pimple and then make it less noticeable.
Each of the eyeliner and eyeshadow worldwide will not likely do anything good for the looks if your peepers are red and bloodshot. Stow away eye drops in whatever bag you will be carrying. They can be used to perk up your eyes should they get red and tired from starring with a computer screen for too long, are are overexposed to the sun.
For too long, strong fingernails, rub petroleum jelly into cuticles at least one time every week. By feeding the nail in this particular fashion, you will be encouraging nail growth. Only use a protective coat before you use any nail polish.
While you are dancing the night away inside a club and look for that your skin is now too shiny, a good thing to accomplish is utilize the cheap toilet paper that you can find within the bathroom! The toilet paper will work great to adopt oil from the skin. Just swipe off a square and press firmly on the oily areas on your face and presto, instant gorgeous!
Use a loofah to be able to eliminate skin imperfections. This should help you to smooth from the skin, enhancing your complexion. Combining this with the exfoliating body wash will give you excellent results! Utilize a loofah a couple of times per week if you desire to get these benefits.
You may have seen that you have many products and techniques available that will help you appear more beautiful. Start using these tips to enhance your looks and improve your self worth. With some effort, you could always look the best..


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Sales Support/Receptionist
iHeartMediaAnchorage, AK
Full Time Job
Job Title: Sales Support/Receptionist
Job Category: Media - Journalism - Newspaper
Open Date: 9/16/2019
Closing Date: 12/15/2019
Job Type: Full Time
City: Anchorage
State: Alaska
Job Summary:
Provides support in sales administration, generates sales-related reports, and acts as an extension of the sales team.
• Provides administrative and/or process support for contract administration, customer service, and order history.
• Acts as an extension of the sales team by assisting with product pricing, sales development, sales material creation, marketing communications, sponsorship proposals & recaps.
• Generates contract confirmations, reports related to sales activities & revenue data, pool reports, unapproved credits, etc.
• Responds to client requests, e.g., spot times.
• Records and forwards checks, handles contracts for Account Executives, prepares presentations, types & proofreads correspondence, files and makes copies, relieves receptionist.
• Manages time; focuses on urgent and important tasks; avoids procrastination; follows up; shows strong attention to detail; meets deadlines
• Adapts to shifts in priorities and urgencies
• Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite; familiar with Viero and Radio Fusion or demonstrates ability to learn new systems quickly
• Assumes responsibility & accountability for assignments and tasks
• Actively listens; clearly and effectively conveys information; uses professional telephone skills; demonstrates effective business writing skills; shows excellent grasp of grammar
• Exhibits good interpersonal skills; collaborates with others; maintains composure when faced with difficult situations and personalities
• Demonstrates competitive spirit; shows desire to ''move up''
Work Experience:
• 1-3 years' experience in radio role
• 4-year college degree
• None required
Anchorage, AK: 800 E Dimond Blvd, 99515
Position Type: Regular
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