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Obama's Second Inaugural SpeechMonday, January 21st, 2013
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Here is the transcript of his first speech as president :
18,000: Volunteers provided support for the inaugural activities
13,000: Participants marched in the Inaugural Parade.
8,000: Members of America's police departments provided security on Inauguration Day.
1,382: Applications received by the PIC, from groups requesting to march in the Inaugural Parade.
Over 1,000: Neighborhood Ball Parties organized across the country.
Over 90: Groups marched in the Inaugural Parade.
10: Jumbo screens on the National Mall broadcasted inaugural events.
As a simple precaution, Obama took presidential oath again after he stumbled on the words of the presidential oath.
After the flub heard around the world, President Barack Obama has taken the oath of office. Again. Chief Justice John Roberts delivered the oath to Obama on Wednesday night at the White House — a rare do-over. The surprise moment came in response to Tuesday's much-noticed stumble, when Roberts got the words of the oath a little off, which prompted Obama to do so, too.
Don't worry, the White House says: Obama has still been president since noon on Inauguration Day.
Nevertheless, Obama and Roberts went through the drill again out of what White House counsel Greg Craig called "an abundance of caution."
This time, the scene was the White House Map Room in front of a small group of reporters, not the Capitol platform before the whole watching world.
"We decided that because it was so much fun …," Obama joked to reporters who followed press secretary Robert Gibbs into the room. No TV camera crews or news photographers were allowed in. A few of Obama's closest aides were there, along with a White House photographer.
Roberts put on his black robe.
"Are you ready to take the oath?" he said.
"Yes, I am," Obama said. "And we're going to do it very slowly."
Roberts then led Obama through the oath without any missteps.
The president said he did not have his Bible with him, but that the oath was binding anyway.
The original, bungled version on Tuesday caught observers by surprise and then got replayed on cable news shows.
It happened when Obama interrupted Roberts midway through the opening line, in which the president repeats his name and solemnly swears.
Next in the oath is the phrase " … that I will faithfully execute the office of president of the United States." But Roberts rearranged the order of the words, not saying "faithfully" until after "president of the United States."
That appeared to throw Obama off. He stopped abruptly at the word "execute."
Recognizing something was off, Roberts then repeated the phrase, putting "faithfully" in the right place but without repeating "execute."
But Obama then repeated Roberts' original, incorrect version: "… the office of president of the United States faithfully."
Craig, the White House lawyer, said in a statement Wednesday evening: "We believe the oath of office was administered effectively and that the president was sworn in appropriately yesterday. Yet the oath appears in the Constitution itself. And out of the abundance of caution, because there was one word out of sequence, Chief Justice John Roberts will administer the oath a second time."
The Constitution is clear about the exact wording of the oath and as a result, some constitutional experts have said that a do-over probably wasn't necessary but also couldn't hurt. Two other previous presidents have repeated the oath because of similar issues, Calvin Coolidge and Chester A. Arthur.
Associated Press
Officials were quite afraid about the potential disasters on Day One :
– DC cellphone networks collapse
– Hellish gridlock (= traffic jams) on roads, in subways, and at checkpoints… –> it happened
– Trash, everywhere
– Snow and thus cancellation of the whole cermony (it had already happenned : Ronald Reagan had to stay inside because it was too cold !)
– Of course, terrorism was a major threat but nothing happened !
– Bush barricades himself in the white house and refuses to come out? –> 😉
– no invading aliens? No zombies? And no Mars Attacks !
Everything went well (except for the Supreme Court Judge who mixed up the words Obama had to repeat…)
Placing his hand on the Bible once used by Lincoln, Barack Obama took the Oath of Office at 12:05 p.m. on the steps of the U.S. Capitol. Immediately following, he delivered his Inaugural Address to a sea of flag-waving Americans, which stretched down the National Mall to the Lincoln Memorial and beyond.
The full text of his address is below.
My fellow citizens:
I stand here today humbled by the task before us, grateful for the trust you have bestowed, mindful of the sacrifices borne by our ancestors. I thank President Bush for his service to our nation, as well as the generosity and cooperation he has shown throughout this transition.
Forty-four Americans have now taken the presidential oath. The words have been spoken during rising tides of prosperity and the still waters of peace. Yet, every so often the oath is taken amidst gathering clouds and raging storms. At these moments, America has carried on not simply because of the skill or vision of those in high office, but because We the People have remained faithful to the ideals of our forbearers, and true to our founding documents.
So it has been. So it must be with this generation of Americans.
That we are in the midst of crisis is now well understood. Our nation is at war, against a far-reaching network of violence and hatred. Our economy is badly weakened, a consequence of greed and irresponsibility on the part of some, but also our collective failure to make hard choices and prepare the nation for a new age. Homes have been lost; jobs shed; businesses shuttered. Our health care is too costly; our schools fail too many; and each day brings further evidence that the ways we use energy strengthen our adversaries and threaten our planet.
These are the indicators of crisis, subject to data and statistics. Less measurable but no less profound is a sapping of confidence across our land – a nagging fear that America's decline is inevitable, and that the next generation must lower its sights.
Today I say to you that the challenges we face are real. They are serious and they are many. They will not be met easily or in a short span of time. But know this, America – they will be met.
On this day, we gather because we have chosen hope over fear, unity of purpose over conflict and discord.
On this day, we come to proclaim an end to the petty grievances and false promises, the recriminations and worn out dogmas, that for far too long have strangled our politics.
We remain a young nation, but in the words of Scripture, the time has come to set aside childish things. The time has come to reaffirm our enduring spirit; to choose our better history; to carry forward that precious gift, that noble idea, passed on from generation to generation: the God-given promise that all are equal, all are free, and all deserve a chance to pursue their full measure of happiness.
In reaffirming the greatness of our nation, we understand that greatness is never a given. It must be earned. Our journey has never been one of short-cuts or settling for less. It has not been the path for the faint-hearted – for those who prefer leisure over work, or seek only the pleasures of riches and fame. Rather, it has been the risk-takers, the doers, the makers of things – some celebrated but more often men and women obscure in their labor, who have carried us up the long, rugged path towards prosperity and freedom.
For us, they packed up their few worldly possessions and traveled across oceans in search of a new life.
For us, they toiled in sweatshops and settled the West; endured the lash of the whip and plowed the hard earth.
For us, they fought and died, in places like Concord and Gettysburg; Normandy and Khe Sahn.
Time and again these men and women struggled and sacrificed and worked till their hands were raw so that we might live a better life. They saw America as bigger than the sum of our individual ambitions; greater than all the differences of birth or wealth or faction.
This is the journey we continue today. We remain the most prosperous, powerful nation on Earth. Our workers are no less productive than when this crisis began. Our minds are no less inventive, our goods and services no less needed than they were last week or last month or last year. Our capacity remains undiminished. But our time of standing pat, of protecting narrow interests and putting off unpleasant decisions – that time has surely passed. Starting today, we must pick ourselves up, dust ourselves off, and begin again the work of remaking America.
For everywhere we look, there is work to be done. The state of the economy calls for action, bold and swift, and we will act – not only to create new jobs, but to lay a new foundation for growth. We will build the roads and bridges, the electric grids and digital lines that feed our commerce and bind us together. We will restore science to its rightful place, and wield technology's wonders to raise health care's quality and lower its cost. We will harness the sun and the winds and the soil to fuel our cars and run our factories. And we will transform our schools and colleges and universities to meet the demands of a new age. All this we can do. And all this we will do.
Now, there are some who question the scale of our ambitions – who suggest that our system cannot tolerate too many big plans. Their memories are short. For they have forgotten what this country has already done; what free men and women can achieve when imagination is joined to common purpose, and necessity to courage.
What the cynics fail to understand is that the ground has shifted beneath them – that the stale political arguments that have consumed us for so long no longer apply. The question we ask today is not whether our government is too big or too small, but whether it works – whether it helps families find jobs at a decent wage, care they can afford, a retirement that is dignified. Where the answer is yes, we intend to move forward. Where the answer is no, programs will end. And those of us who manage the public's dollars will be held to account – to spend wisely, reform bad habits, and do our business in the light of day – because only then can we restore the vital trust between a people and their government.
Nor is the question before us whether the market is a force for good or ill. Its power to generate wealth and expand freedom is unmatched, but this crisis has reminded us that without a watchful eye, the market can spin out of control – and that a nation cannot prosper long when it favors only the prosperous. The success of our economy has always depended not just on the size of our Gross Domestic Product, but on the reach of our prosperity; on our ability to extend opportunity to every willing heart – not out of charity, but because it is the surest route to our common good.
As for our common defense, we reject as false the choice between our safety and our ideals. Our Founding Fathers, faced with perils we can scarcely imagine, drafted a charter to assure the rule of law and the rights of man, a charter expanded by the blood of generations. Those ideals still light the world, and we will not give them up for expedience's sake. And so to all other peoples and governments who are watching today, from the grandest capitals to the small village where my father was born: know that America is a friend of each nation and every man, woman, and child who seeks a future of peace and dignity, and that we are ready to lead once more.
Recall that earlier generations faced down fascism and communism not just with missiles and tanks, but with sturdy alliances and enduring convictions. They understood that our power alone cannot protect us, nor does it entitle us to do as we please. Instead, they knew that our power grows through its prudent use; our security emanates from the justness of our cause, the force of our example, the tempering qualities of humility and restraint.
We are the keepers of this legacy. Guided by these principles once more, we can meet those new threats that demand even greater effort – even greater cooperation and understanding between nations. We will begin to responsibly leave Iraq to its people, and forge a hard-earned peace in Afghanistan. With old friends and former foes, we will work tirelessly to lessen the nuclear threat, and roll back the specter of a warming planet. We will not apologize for our way of life, nor will we waver in its defense, and for those who seek to advance their aims by inducing terror and slaughtering innocents, we say to you now that our spirit is stronger and cannot be broken; you cannot outlast us, and we will defeat you.
For we know that our patchwork heritage is a strength, not a weakness. We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus – and non-believers. We are shaped by every language and culture, drawn from every end of this Earth; and because we have tasted the bitter swill of civil war and segregation, and emerged from that dark chapter stronger and more united, we cannot help but believe that the old hatreds shall someday pass; that the lines of tribe shall soon dissolve; that as the world grows smaller, our common humanity shall reveal itself; and that America must play its role in ushering in a new era of peace.
To the Muslim world, we seek a new way forward, based on mutual interest and mutual respect. To those leaders around the globe who seek to sow conflict, or blame their society's ills on the West – know that your people will judge you on what you can build, not what you destroy. To those who cling to power through corruption and deceit and the silencing of dissent, know that you are on the wrong side of history; but that we will extend a hand if you are willing to unclench your fist.
To the people of poor nations, we pledge to work alongside you to make your farms flourish and let clean waters flow; to nourish starved bodies and feed hungry minds. And to those nations like ours that enjoy relative plenty, we say we can no longer afford indifference to suffering outside our borders; nor can we consume the world's resources without regard to effect. For the world has changed, and we must change with it.
As we consider the road that unfolds before us, we remember with humble gratitude those brave Americans who, at this very hour, patrol far-off deserts and distant mountains. They have something to tell us today, just as the fallen heroes who lie in Arlington whisper through the ages. We honor them not only because they are guardians of our liberty, but because they embody the spirit of service; a willingness to find meaning in something greater than themselves. And yet, at this moment – a moment that will define a generation – it is precisely this spirit that must inhabit us all.
For as much as government can do and must do, it is ultimately the faith and determination of the American people upon which this nation relies. It is the kindness to take in a stranger when the levees break, the selflessness of workers who would rather cut their hours than see a friend lose their job which sees us through our darkest hours. It is the firefighter's courage to storm a stairway filled with smoke, but also a parent's willingness to nurture a child, that finally decides our fate.
Our challenges may be new. The instruments with which we meet them may be new. But those values upon which our success depends – hard work and honesty, courage and fair play, tolerance and curiosity, loyalty and patriotism – these things are old. These things are true. They have been the quiet force of progress throughout our history. What is demanded then is a return to these truths. What is required of us now is a new era of responsibility – a recognition, on the part of every American, that we have duties to ourselves, our nation, and the world, duties that we do not grudgingly accept but rather seize gladly, firm in the knowledge that there is nothing so satisfying to the spirit, so defining of our character, than giving our all to a difficult task.
This is the price and the promise of citizenship.
This is the source of our confidence – the knowledge that God calls on us to shape an uncertain destiny.
This is the meaning of our liberty and our creed – why men and women and children of every race and every faith can join in celebration across this magnificent mall, and why a man whose father less than sixty years ago might not have been served at a local restaurant can now stand before you to take a most sacred oath.
So let us mark this day with remembrance, of who we are and how far we have traveled. In the year of America's birth, in the coldest of months, a small band of patriots huddled by dying campfires on the shores of an icy river. The capital was abandoned. The enemy was advancing. The snow was stained with blood. At a moment when the outcome of our revolution was most in doubt, the father of our nation ordered these words be read to the people:
"Let it be told to the future world…that in the depth of winter, when nothing but hope and virtue could survive…that the city and the country, alarmed at one common danger, came forth to meet [it]."
America. In the face of our common dangers, in this winter of our hardship, let us remember these timeless words. With hope and virtue, let us brave once more the icy currents, and endure what storms may come. Let it be said by our children's children that when we were tested we refused to let this journey end, that we did not turn back nor did we falter; and with eyes fixed on the horizon and God's grace upon us, we carried forth that great gift of freedom and delivered it safely to future generations


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No Will But His
Sarah A. Hoyt
The Backstairs of Hampton Court
Thomas Culpepper's fine, long fingers quested beneath the bodice of my dress, caressing along the rounded slope of my breast till they found the nipple and played upon it as a musician upon a virginal. His blue grey eyes sparkled like a cloudless summer's sky down at me as he demanded, his voice thickened by desire, "Brave or foolish?"
I smiled at him, but I said nothing. It has ever been my belief with men that it is far easier to allow them to make up their own minds and tell themselves whatever pretty story they want about your motives.
They can think you love them or hate them, that you're brokenhearted at leaving them or else that you have turned your heart to another. There is naught you can do about their fanciful imaginings, and it saves time and many tears if you simply let them believe as they will. Then they tell themselves their pretty stories and your soul remains unstained by the lie.
As I looked at Master Culpepper from beneath my half-lowered eyelids, I thought it was a good thing he had auburn hair and those fine eyes, and that his features—I thought—resembled what my husband's had been before he'd grown so fat. Any get of Thomas could pass as the get of Henry, the king of England.
"Don't you know, madam, that the wrath of kings is death?"
I smiled at him, my sauciest smile, and endeavored to appear lighthearted and fanciful and interested in nothing but my pleasure. Or perhaps half mad in love with him, which Thomas would probably fain believe I was. He'd grown very vain.
"You speak too much, Master Culpepper."
"Should one not speak?" he asked. "When such grave matter is afoot?" His hand, more forward than his brain, quested still in the warm reaches of my bodice, and by that questing hand I knew I had him. He might think, and he might talk, but his body would no more let him walk away from me than it would let him ascend to flight like an angel bound for heaven above.
"My quarters are warm, and all my servants abed, save only Lady Rochefort and Mistress Tilney who is utterly devoted to me—and both of them would die before they betray me."
In his eyes for a moment there was a flash of fear. Then it was gone. "Madam!" he said, desire in his voice ,strong enough to drive away any fear. "Madam."
"Dare you not, Thomas Culpepper? And I thought you a brave man." Which by all accounts I should well think him—in the field of joust and in dispute, he stood with the most gallant courtiers.
"Brave I am, and I'll dare if you will, but…"
My finger rested on his lips, stilling them. "Hush then, and dare you all."
In his eyes I read lust mixed with a little fear. He would never be allowed to see the fear in mine. I kept my gaze level, my smile broad. He would never be allowed to know that as I stood here, in my velvet gown, my sparkling jewels, I walked a narrow path between two deep abysses.
The king, my husband, lay ill abed. At this very moment, already, he might be dead, taken by the same illness that had caused the wound in his leg to stop flowing and turned his face black with foul humors just two months ago. That same illness had returned, that same blocked humor. And now he would die. And if he died—
If he died, he left nothing. Two daughters and a small son who, though he might be a lusty infant, would still be a pawn of every pretender, every hand against him.
We would find ourselves again as in the time before the king's father when my grandmother said every man had been against every other and no one safe. And I, the relict of the sovereign, would be the first to lose life and limb in such strife.
Only one thing would protect me, and hold me on the throne, and that was that my womb should ripen with a child. But that was impossible as my husband did little that could lead to such an auspicious result.
And so, at this moment, in my peril, I must seize upon another who might impregnate me, and whose son I could pretend to be Henry's. Of course, discovery of my treason would lead to death, but so would Henry's death without having seeded my womb.
I half closed my eyes and wondered how I—who had wanted nothing more than to keep myself free from any man's single, brute power over me—should have come to this.
But I said nothing. I closed my eyes and allowed Thomas to think it was just my desire for him making me hoarse, as I said, "Speak no more, Thomas. Only make me yours."
Section One
The Rose in the Bud
So this be your get, Edmund Howard!" the old lady said, and the way she said it made it clear she disapproved.
She looked very great and more important than anyone Kathryn had yet seen—tall and well arrayed in shining satin and splendorous brocade. Her face set in a mask of disapproval as—her back very straight, her eyes hard—she walked down the line of Kathryn's siblings and looked them over with the kind of speculative glance Kathryn had seen the Howard housekeeper give a side of beef in the market or a row of ill-plucked chickens.
Her eye ran over Kathryn's brother Charles, just fourteen and looking very much like someone had taken an end of him and stretched him up, without making sure that his limbs and form should match his new, greatly increased height.
Like all of Edmund Howard's children, he had been dressed in new clothes, or at least as new as their father's diminished fortune could command. The hose were somewhat faded, but they matched the doublet, which was a new and brilliant shade resembling orange peel. Even then Kathryn thought that it was a right pity that Charles' hair, too, should match the doublet and, as he blushed under the old lady's look, so should his face, which became ruddy under a smattering of freckles.
"Umm…" the lady said, and passed on. Her walking stick tapped the ground in rhythm, as though she were keeping pace with her thoughts. Tap, tap, tap. And she stopped in front of Kathryn's brother Harry. He was, like Charles, ruddy and redheaded, but the hand of God had as yet to take hold of him and stretch him to a man's height with a boy's frame. Instead, he was almost as short as Kathryn and twice as round, the freckles on his face making it look like an apple that has got speckled from waiting too long in the cold cellar.
The stick stopped tapping the ground for a bare moment, then resumed its tapping again. Tap, tap, tap, tap, it went, as the lady said, over her shoulder in the direction of the bowing and cringing Edmund. "That will never do, Edmund. You'll never raise him. He's too fat to be healthy and too ruddy to be gentle."
Kathryn didn't hear what her father muttered, but it had that tone of cringing apology that she remembered from when Mother was alive, when she used to ask him what he had done with this or that money that she'd entrusted to him. Father among men was one thing—wise and reserved, the hero of Flodden Field. But Father with female relatives…
The lady didn't pay any attention to him, anywise, but tapped her way to stand in front of Kathryn's brother George. George did not have the carroty hair that had, mayhap, come from the Culpeppers, the family of Kathryn's mother. Instead, his hair was a dark auburn, like Kathryn's, and his eyes, like hers, were broad spaced and dark.
He was a year older than Kathryn, and she remembered that their last stepmother had accounted him a right proper and pretty child, and petted him much and made much of him, even though she had brought eight children of her own onto her marriage with Kathryn's father. Kathryn had been jealous of him, then. Since her mother had died, no one had made much of her. But Kathryn's nurse had told her envy was a sin and that if she persisted, the devil would come and take Kathryn entire to hell and leave only a little burned mark after.
Now it seemed as though this old lady they'd come to visit was also thinking how pretty George was and considering making much of him. Kathryn stood only a little away from him, with her sister Mary in between, and tried not to look around Mary—who was fifteen—to see the expression on the lady's face. If the lady said George was the most beautiful child she'd ever seen, Kathryn felt that she would likely burst, like an unseasoned log thrown onto a hot fire. Not because she wanted the grand lady's attention, but because the favorite of the family was always George, or else one of the other boys, or else yet Mary who was pretty and marriageable. For all the attention anyone ever paid her, Kathryn might as well have been as clear as water or as immaterial as air.
"Um," the lady said. And that um contained quite a different consideration than the one she'd given Charles. Her stick tapped the floor, tap, tap, tap, but she did not move, as though she were involved in some great consideration. For a while silence reigned, and then her voice rang out, clear and sudden, like the thunder clap from the clear sky. "Look up, boy," she said. "Look at me."
And on the heels of that, she made a sound, not quite a laugh and not full disgust, but something between. "Edmund!" she said, her voice still cracking. "What manner of coward have you bred?"
This time Kathryn dared look around Mary's skirt. She didn't fully need to, because she could smell the acrid odor of urine thick in the air, and sure enough, on the front of George's hose and down his leg, there was a wet mark and a puddle forming beside his slipper.
Again Kathryn's father tried to say something, but the lady paid no more attention to him than she did to George, left standing there in his wet hose. Kathryn heard George sniffle and guessed that shortly he would start to cry, but she was more worried about the lady who now stood close enough to Kathryn for the little Howard daughter to discern the fine lace ornamenting her expensive clothes and to smell the wondrous rich perfume of her garments.
Mary curtseyed deep, in the way she'd been taught, and the lady snorted, looking her up and down. At fifteen, Mary, like Charles, had grown. Unlike Charles, nature had seen fit to fill in her outlines to those of a woman, widening in chest and swelling in hip, but with long legs and a fine, pleasant face. She, of all the children of Edmund Howard, had black hair, with just a little bit of a curl to it, and looked, to her younger sister's eyes, like a full grown woman and just what Kathryn wanted to be, particularly as today she wore a fine velvet kirtle and bodice, with bright peach-colored sleeves of silk, with many bright ribbons hanging from them. Kathryn thought for certain that the lady would be impressed by Mary, as she hadn't been by any of the others, but she didn't seem so. She responded to Mary's courtesy by raising eyebrows that, this close, looked to be almost nonexistent, and by turning over her shoulder to look at Kathryn's father. "This is your get, too?"
Edmund Howard mumbled. Kathryn could get from his voice nothing but the words "not sure" and the words "believe so" as well as "Leigh." Leigh was the name of her older brothers and sisters, the children of Kathryn's mother's first marriage, before she'd married Father.
The lady snorted. "Just like a fool," she said. "To buy the house without first making sure it was untenanted." And she walked past Mary and stood now in front of Kathryn.
Kathryn stood straight, determined not to cringe and not to slouch and not to wet herself, like George. That morning, when she'd seen the little girl attired in her new clothes—a fine bonnet of satin and a gown of sarcenet, better and newer than anything Kathryn had worn since her mother died—Dame Margaret, Father's new wife, had told Kathryn to be good and behave like a grown maiden and not a child while they visited with the duchess and that if she did not disgrace herself, Dame Margaret would give her oranges. She would not disgrace herself. Instead, she kept her eyes on the floor, which was a yellow mosaic, and felt the blaze from the great fireplace to her right. Though outside it was warm spring, a sort of damp chill clung to the room so that, with the proximity of the fire, her right side baked while her left froze. She looked at the floor and expected the stick to start tapping again at any moment, as the lady gave some opinion of Kathryn and moved on.
Instead, a hand like a great claw came to take hold of Kathryn's small, pointy chin and pull it up. The hand felt dry as paper and as tough against the little girl's skin, but its grasp was like iron. It tilted Kathryn's face up to look into the face of the old lady. Her nose was just a little hooked, just like the nose of Father's new wife, and her eyes were dark grey and keen, giving the impression of seeing right through people. "What is your name, chit?" she asked.
"Kathryn, madam," Kathryn said, her voice coming out all shy and piping, sounding much younger than she was, much younger than she liked to sound. And then because she remembered her remarks about Mary, "Kathryn Howard, madam."
A dry chuckle answered. "Aye, Kathryn Howard, indeed," she said. And then turning to her father, "How old is she, Edmund?"
"Ten," Her father said, in a tone of great assurance. Then cleared his throat and hesitated. "Or maybe eleven." There was a short pause. "She might be twelve at that. You see, I was away from my family so much, because of debtors laying wait for me at the home of my wife and children that I—"
"That you have no idea how old your children are," the lady said. And snorted. "Ten is full young to go in service, Edmund."
"I am sure she's not that young," he said. "And she is sharp, is Kathryn. Anything whatsoever that you teach her she can learn and in no time at all. Bright and capable is Kathryn and—"
"A grace she must get from her mother," the lady said, cutting whatever else Kathryn's father might have wished to say in the girl's favor.
Kathryn's mind was turning on the words into service, very much at doubt as to what they meant. The Howards had servants, of course. More when her mother was alive or when her father's last wife, Dame Dorothy had been alive, because their money sustained—her father said—more people to attend them. But even on Father's money before he married Dame Margaret, they had attendants. People who cooked and tended to their clothes and emptied the slops. Was Kathryn, then, to be one of these? Every sense revolted. The servants at the Howard home were village boys and girls, whose fathers were farmers or servants themselves. And if there was a thing she knew, and knew well from her childhood—many times repeated to her by her late mother—it was that her name was Howard, and she was the granddaughter of a duke.
The lady stepped back once, twice, regarding Kathryn from beneath her almost-not-there eyebrows, and Edmund Howard cleared his throat. "Only one of them you must take, madam, if you please, because though Anne has got me the post of comptroller at Calais, it is not enough for a man of my birth to keep himself and all my children, and I–"
"And you have not been granted full access to your new wife's fortune, she being no fool," the lady said and snorted. "Very well. I will take one of your sorry brood." She looked away from Kathryn and toward the beginning of the line and Charles again, and Kathryn could hear her stick go tap tap tap tap tap on the floor as she considered each of the Howard siblings in turn. Charles—tap—Henry—tap—George—taptap in annoyance, followed by a loud sniffle from the despised boy—and Mary, whose renewed curtsey only earned her a taptaptap. And then to Kathryn. And her stick stopped.
A great sigh escaped the lady's lips, as if she'd done all to keep it still, but it would not do. "Oh, very well," she said at last. "She looks not the fool nor the wanton, and the thing about too little age is that you grow out of it. I will take Kathryn."
Kathryn almost yelped then. What could the lady mean by taking her? But then she remembered that her new stepmother, Dame Margaret, had promised her oranges, and she stayed still. Her father had come to her side, standing between her and the great fireplace, which meant that his back must be roasting. He laid his warm hand upon her shoulder. "What an honor, Kathryn. Curtsey and thank the duchess!"
Kathryn curtseyed automatically and heard her voice pipe up, "I thank you, Your Grace, most heartily."
"Yes, yes," she said impatiently, even as she looked toward a distant side of the room and said, "Tell them to fetch me Mary Tilney, and quickly."
Kathryn's father pulled her aside and toward the fireplace, and there, a little apart from the others, and from the lady who had walked away to sit upon a chair a little way off and survey her family with renewed distaste, he whispered, "Mind your manners, Kathryn. Remember to obey God above all else, and the duchess as you would God, and all will be well."
Kathryn felt her hands clench into fists. "But the oranges—" she said.
"Heh?" her father said.
At that moment a girl maybe Mary's age came in and curtseyed to the old lady, who told her, "Take my granddaughter Kathryn and show her to the maids' hall and put her in the way of being useful. She may share your bed."
More quickly than Kathryn could think, the girl had her by the hand and was pulling her along.Kathryn never saw her father again. And she never did get the promised oranges.


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Joe: Dear James, I read your autobiography at your website, and it was breathtaking story. I couldn't stop until it was finished. I notice that you haven't adequately covered your last 10 years of evolution. You have kind of stopped the story after your experience with the bhakti yoga with Swami Abhedananda in Kerala. I am really interested in reading your further evolution into Sri Ramana Maharishi's self-inquiry method and your specific experiences in that process. I think, in retrospect, your main style revolves around self-inquiry and so that part of your evolution needs to be adequately chronicled, which will be of immense help and guidance to your disciples like me and many others. I hope you will take some time in the future to write that part of your life. You have the God-given gift in storytelling with an amazing flow and superb language. For example, your Meditation book is like Bible for me, my everyday reference for a while now. When time permits, I intend to memorize the entire book. You have given a whole library-worth of content in one book. That is an amazing contribution to the humanity!!
James: Hi, Joe. I'm glad you find my writings so helpful. I've had other requests to bring the autobiography up to date, but I've resisted them not only because I've been busy commenting on scripture and teaching Vedanta but because essentially nothing of substance really happened to me since I realized who I am and the amazing inner experiences that led up to my self-realization dried up.
Since that time, experientially there has only been the light and the silence of the self shining in my mind. This doesn't make for a good read. I can't say that life has not been rich and full and interesting, but I haven't learned anything important from it since I realized who I am.
Yes, I've developed speaking and writing skills in expressing Vedanta, the path that set me free, and picked up a few practical skills to keep this body alive, but that is about all. Self-realization is "the knowledge that ends the search for knowledge" – and everything else, for that matter.
I am like a big zero. It is not interesting to read about big zeros. There is nothing to learn. When you become a zero you will understand. Honestly, I can't remember much of what happened since I woke up. For me every day is the same as every other day. The sun comes up and the sun goes down and I remain the same. It's not boring at all, but it certainly seems boring from the outside.
There is one misunderstanding in your statement above: "I am really interested in reading your further evolution into Sri Ramana Maharishi's self-inquiry method and your specific experiences in that process." Self-inquiry set me free. I learned it from my guru Swami Chinmayananda. Vedanta is self-inquiry. It has been around for thousands of years before Ramana came on the scene. And his formulation of it is only a portion of the complete method. This is not to take away from Ramana's greatness. He was definitely a realized soul and an exceptional one at that. But he did not invent self-inquiry. Self-inquiry is called brahma vidya, the inquiry into brahman, the self, and it comes from the Upanishadic portion of the Vedas. It consists of the Upanishads, the Brahma Sutras, the Bhagavad Gita and thousands of subsidiary texts, particularly those of Shankara. The first mantra of the Brahma Sutras is "atato brahma jignasa," which means "Therefore the inquiry into brahman, the self."
Joe: In your Meditation book, in the first chapter, you have given a brief comparative analysis on vipassana meditation. I have been to two of their 10-day long trainings in North Fork, California, and try to practice it whenever possible. The teacher Goenka claims that Buddha became enlightened by this method. Also, I have read at least two books so far in which the author claims that he has achieved the lasting happiness using vipassana. A book called Meditate by P.C. Jhalani narrates the author's experience of simply observing the breath and how he manages to see through the maya and self-realize. It looks like vipassana is more powerful than what you ascribe to it in your analysis. Do you have any afterthoughts on your analysis? You are welcome to post this email at your website as part of your satsang.
James: I'm not an expert on vipassana, although I did one ten-day sit with Goenka at Igatpuri over thirty years ago. It is a good method and it does work if you are highly dispassionate, but it is essentially experiential – no blame – and has the limitation that it does not teach the self from the outset. Many people who have come to me for Vedanta teaching have come from either Transcendental Meditation or vipassana and they all have told me that while their minds were benefited by the practice, it did not produce self-realization for them. I'm sure some people do realize the self through this method. A highly-qualified person will realize through almost any method or non-method.
After I went through that sit, I said to myself that if this was what was required for enlightenment I was not up to it. I wanted something a lot easier. So I stopped the practice. It was a good decision because the self sent me a very easy path that did the trick in style in a short time.
Joe: I am looking forward to meeting you when you are here after May 15th. I will email you as we get closer to get your schedule. Thank you very much for showing light on my path.
James: It's my pleasure, Joe. I look forward to meeting with you too.
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There are numerous medications used to treat ADHD. Traditionally, stimulant medication was the primary treatment, however, today there are also non-stimulant medications. In some cases, antidepressants or high blood pressure medication have also been found to be helpful.
Amphetamine based ADHD medications
There are a few different active ingredients in the amphetamine class of medications: amphetamine sulfate, dextroamphetamine and lisdexamfetamine. These medications help to increase attention and decrease hyperactivity and impulsivity. Medications in this category include:
- Adderall and Adderall XR
- Dexedrine
- Evekeo
- ProCentra
- Zenzedi
- Vyvanse
The effects of amphetamine medications can last anywhere from four hours to 12 hours, depending on whether it is short-acting, long-acting or extended release. Your doctor can help you decide which is best for you.
Side effects of amphetamine based ADHD medications can include:
- Loss of appetite
- Weight loss
- Problems sleeping
- Irritability
- Tics
Side effects often disappear after taking the medication for a few weeks. If your side effects continue or if they are interfering with your daily function, talk to your doctor.
Methylphenidate based ADHD medications
Medications containing methylphenidate are central nervous system stimulant medications. These medications help to increase attention and decrease hyperactivity and impulsivity. Medications included in this category are:
- Concerta
- Daytrana patch
- Focalin, Focalin XR
- Metadate ER, Metadate CR
- Methylin, Methylin ER
- Quillivant
- Ritalin, Ritalin SR, Ritalin LA
Most methylphenidate based medications are available as long-acting. While these are convenient, they can increase side effects, especially with appetite and sleep problems.
Side effects of methylphenidate based medications are similar to those of amphetamine based medications and include:
- Loss of appetite
- Problems sleeping
- Irritability
- Tics
Not everyone experiences side effects from these medications. Many people use these medications daily without experiencing any significant problems.
Non-stimulant medications for ADHD
Some people either can't or prefer not to take stimulant medications. Non-stimulant medications.affect the neurotransmitters in the brain and can provide relief from ADHD symptoms. They are taken once per day and the effect lasts for 24 hours, however, you might need to continue to take them for several weeks before seeing the effects. The two non-stimulant medications available are:
- Strattera
- Intuniv
As with stimulants, non-stimulant medication can interfere with sleep. Other side effects include:
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- Fatigue
- Stomach upset
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- Dry mouth
In addition, Intuniv can cause low blood pressure and heart rhythm changes.
Using blood pressure medications to treat ADHD
Clonidine, Catapres and Kapvay are blood pressure medications which can help to increase attention and decrease impulsivity. These can be used alone or in combination with stimulant medications to boost their effectiveness.
Side effects of blood pressure medications can include:
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- Dry mouth
- Irritability
- Low blood pressure
If you are taking one of these medications, you should not stop taking it without first talking to your doctor. Stopping it suddenly can result in spikes to your blood pressure.
Antidepressants have not been approved by the FDA to treat symptoms of ADHD, however, because depression is a common comorbid condition, some people are prescribed antidepressants. Many antidepressants are not recommended for children under the age of 17 because they can cause suicidal thoughts in children.
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Sarah is the founder of Made by Survivors, a non-profit that trains former victims of human trafficking crimes to make jewelry as a means of supporting themselves.They also house and educate survivors. Sarah began with a couple of stories horrifying beyond belief. Imagine a family so poor that they sell their daughter into sexual slavery. Then imagine the terror and pain that young girl experienced when she is raped by more than ten men on her first night away from home. But the next part is almost the most unimaginable of all. Once that young girl finds her way to Made by Survivors, she leaves that past behind and becomes a young woman who can laugh and have friends and support herself through newly-learned skills as a jewelry maker.
First, once the girls have talked about their trauma and received counseling, they focus on what they want in the future. Sarah said they "live into that belief" rather than letting the past define them.
Second, the girls work to stay in the present. You can't heal the past by living in the past. (The education and training the girls receive and the subsequent work they do enables the girls to keep their minds busy on something other than revisiting the past.)
Third, the girls live in gratitude. They've already endured hell and are grateful for having a safe place to live and a way to make a living that they can be proud of. "Their modest expectations of life have become their superpower," Sarah said.
Sarah humbly said that Made by Survivors isn't saving these girls, but offering them the tools to realize their potential. She posited that the mindset she described could help virtually everyone lead happier and more productive lives.
Throughout the day, videos of TED talks were shown to provide further inspiration. Memory Banda's personal story about fighting child marriage laws and traditions in Malawi has a clear connection to Sarah's talk. Click here to watch that video.
The day was off to an inspiring start. Stay tuned for more of my take-aways.


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by Puspa Das
(Bhubaneswar, Odisha, INDIA)
Suddenly, I have severe pain in my right ankle. It is so painful that I can hardly stand, leave aside the prospects of walking.Even during sleeping, I get miserable trying to find a proper position for my paining ankle. Sometimes I get terrible pain as if there is an wound inside! The area is swollen and I can feel the warmth.
I am hyper reactive to several drugs, specially - pain killers.
I have undergone Angioplasty 3 years back . My doctor has to take extra care in psecribing a drug for me. Now, I am on Atorvastatin, Aspirin, Ramipril, Telmisartan and Metoprolol.
Please advise me. My pain becomes unbearable!
Gosh, Puspa, you are taking a lot of medication. It's possibly, though unlikely that it's a side-effect of one of them.
More likely, is that you have slightly sprained your ankle, or an old injury.
Sitting, rotate and mobilise your ankle several times a day. Then ice it, with an ice cube right over the painful area.
If that doesn't help, then you're going to need to see a clinician about it.
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1. Mr S is a 76 year old man with neck pain of some 9 months duration. Luckily, most of the discomfort is upper cervical which is only rarely arthritic; his lower cervical spine is a degenerative mess that I've left alone. After seven treatments his pain and stiffness is 50 percent better, and he's happy in the circumstances. He can sleep through the night now and that makes a huge difference.
2. Mr P is 32 year old man with very severe lower back pain radiating to the big toe which is 30 percent numb. He had an episode three weeks ago, took anti inflammatories and was soon better as is typical of the medial disc herniation. But before it healed, after a trivia it came roaring back, much worse. The characteristic crossed sign was evident; sitting in a chair, straightening the right leg provoked severe left back pain and tingling in the leg. He's doing well.
3. Severe lower back pain is scary; just ask Mrs P. Just watching her get out of the car I she was in trouble; she had a slipped disc at L4 making her lean towards the opposite side; luckily she had no pain in the leg. Despite family pressure that this was far too severe for a chiropractor, she persevered. Within five days she was standing upright, and after two weeks almost painfree.
Despite a hectic job, she wisely took my advice and stayed home for what I call exercising bed rest.
4. Mr S has had lower back, groin and back of thigh and calf pain for fourth months.
He has a pincer deformity in the hip causing the stabs in the groin, and a degenerative facet causing the sciatica. Both are responding well to chiropractic and he's well pleased; sixty five percent better after three treatments.
5. Mr T is a wise man; he's taken a warning TIA seriously and has lost 15 pounds, and has at least as much again to lose. A change to a low starch diet and half hour daily walk has made the difference; but the walking is making his foot and back miserable. The expensive orthotic is hopeless; luckily his hips and back are fine, but he needs a simple heel lift.
6. I too have had serious lower back issues, luckily fixed by my own chiropractor; so I too have to do my exercises, take care when lifting supers full of honey, gardening and using the chainsaw. Regaining the function of your spine is just as important as the pain.
7. My own granddaughter, only 7 is hypermobile giving her pelvic, knee and ankle issues. Xrays show a mildly dysplastic hip. Years ago we would have called it growing pains. She too regularly needs chiropractic care and luckily responds well. Increased range of motion is more difficult than too stiff in my opinion. Our care is for kids too.
8. This 65 year old lady is a serious gardener; every day she is bending, lifting and digging for 2 to 3 hours a day. It regularly catches her in the sacroiliac joint, so she has a treatment once a month that sorts it out. She does her lower back exercises faithfully.
9. This 88 year old lady is an inspiration; every day she is busy in the community. With a nasty scoliosis she manages very well with a chiropractic adjustment every six weeks and exercises faithfully done.
10. Mr X is a 71 year old retired man who wants to continue with maintenance care every six to eight weeks; he had suffered from two years of lower back pain when he first came a year ago. He has no discomfort now after 8 chiropractic treatments, but is aware that danger lurks.
11. Mrs C has been having severe headaches, and taking a lot of analgesics. It's a non complicated upper cervical facet syndrome, and she's doing well.
12. Mr D is a 38 old year man with chronic shoulder pain after a rotator cuff tear playing cricket. It responded well to treatment, but he knows he must do his exercises every day; for two years he couldn't sleep on that shoulder.
13. Mr D, a 71 year old man, has a severe ache in the shoulder and midback since working above his head. Trapped nerve tests are negative but he has advanced degenerative joints of Luschka; after just two treatments he is 50 percent better. Can we reach 90?
And so the day goes; chiropractors shouldn't be treating the elderly most medical sites state but that's so much bunkum.
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You helped me quite some time back with a soothing and professional response which turned out to be exactly correct. I now consult a local chiropractor. You write a superb newsletter, too.
Your own unresolved problem. Pose a question
Knowing that up to 70% of the time the correct diagnosis is made with no examination, no special tests, no xrays, but just from the history, there's a fair chance I can add some insight to your unresolved problem. But at least 30% of the time, I may be quite wrong! Give plenty of detail if you want a sensible reply.
You visited this chiropractic help site no doubt because you have a problem that is not resolving and want to know more about what chiropractors do.
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King Jaffer is the royal tribal leader of Abu Dam village, located in Um Baru locality in North Darfur. King Jaffer is 51 years, with 10 children – 3 girls and 7 boys. He tells us how he gained his title through family lineage; his ancestors before him were part of the royal family in Abu Dam village in Um Baru locality for the last 200 years.
"I am the King of Abu Dam. Once my great grandfather was the original King of our village. Now the responsibility is mine, and one day, it will be my son's." He goes on to tell us that the most important part of being a leader is ensuring the peace and safety of his people, particularly as they live in areas that are constantly prone to outbreaks of armed conflict. "We have to keep each other safe, we have enough problems outside of our village, we need to stop fighting amongst one another." Together with the community, King Jaffer created a conflict resolution committee, which he chairs. Any problems in the community are brought forward to the committee, and together with respective male and female representatives from the village, they reach a fair and reasonable conclusion to issues raised.
IOM Sudan's Rapid Response Fund (RRF) is a fast-acting funding mechanism supported by USAID/OFDA, providing swift responses to critical needs of vulnerable, newly displaced people. Cooperazione Internazionale (COOPI) appealed to IOM's RRF program in order to address the critical needs of the newly displaced people gathered in Abu Dam area, who as a result of armed conflicts, had seen the arrival of 7,722 displaced people; 65 per cent of them children and 26 per cent women.
Abu Dam's source of drinking water was a single existing borehole, providing dirty water, which would often lead to water-borne sickness. COOPI rehabilitated the borehole, upgrading it to a Mini Water Yard, thus providing the displaced people gathered in Abu Dam and its surrounding areas with 15 litres of clean, safe drinking water per person, per day, for personal consumption.
Furthermore, COOPI conducted 90 hygiene awareness raising campaigns, promoting healthy water handling and hygienic practices. To promote sustainability, COOPI set up a water committee in the village and trained them on the operation and management of the water yard. This proved to be one of the most successful components of the project.
Unconventionally, in King Jaffer's village, it is the men who go daily to collect the water. The distance for water collection was so far that it would not allow the women enough time to collect water and conduct other daily tasks. The daily journey, including queuing, used to take 12 hours to fill up 12 containers of water, to be used for household purposes, as well as feeding cattle. Women used to take breaks every 3 hours or so, in order to rest and regain energy for the long journey ahead.
King Jaffer and his committee had decided that water collection would be the responsibility of the men instead, in order to relieve the pressure on the women, who used to continue to perform domestic tasks after their daily collection of water. Water is now available immediately as COOPI has constructed water points across the entire village, allowing both men and women to collect water easily. King Jaffer tells us the difference the clean water has made.
"Before the wells and water points, we used to drink water which had animal waste in it. We used to get sick, but the sickness became the norm. Everyone always complained about their stomachs. This was life."
King Jaffer tells us how pleased the village is, now that they have a regular, stable, and most importantly, clean water supply. He says that the training provided by COOPI on the maintenance and rehabilitation of hand pumps and motorized water points was the most beneficial aspect. The committee decided to set up a training group comprised of those who were trained by COOPI, to then continue providing the training for the rest of the village. He proudly announces that now all the adults in the village, both male and female, have been trained on hand pump and motorized borehole rehabilitation.
"We do not want to go back to the water struggle and shortages we had before. This is why it is important that everyone knows how to use and fix these hand pumps; it is the whole village's responsibility, and we all want clean water."
On behalf of his village, King Jaffer extends his thanks to USAID/OFDA, IOM and COOPI for their dedicated efforts in providing lifesaving assistance to his people.
"Allah has said, if you give thanks, you will receive back. Our water is now as clean as bottled water and it comes straight from the tanks, and we don't have to buy it like people in Khartoum," he chuckles.


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It's fair to say that Sony's PS4 is receiving plenty of attention while many gamers are still unsure about the upcoming Xbox 720. Some suggest both systems will share similarities, but the always-online rumours revolving around Microsoft's new console have had a negative reaction and the lack of any further news means many gamers are being turned off by the lack of positives in relation to 720 details.
Seriously, whats the deal that everyone keep putting out all these anti 720 articles, It's like they think if they release enough of them it will force Microsoft to talk, however, Microsoft isn't going to talk until they're good and ready #DEAL WITH IT.
Its funny, the first sentence in this article is: "It's fair to say that Sony's PS4 is receiving plenty of attention while many gamers are still unsure about the upcoming Xbox 720", but lately all the attention as been on 720.
Actually it's not. The 720 is generator a lot of attention. While 99% of it is bad for consumers, it could be exactly what MS needs. If they come out and disprove all of these rumors, they're going to be a HUGE hit and Sony will need to step their game up to go beyond what MS shows off. However, this is their only chance. It's a hit or miss. If they confirm all these rumors are true, the 720 is going to crumble and they'll get what the deserve. Which is not my money.
They've proven everyone right the past two E3's by focusing on Kinect. Third time is a charm so to say. They need to go strong and go hard, or go home.
More fear based articles from the Sony camp, The same thing happend to the Wii and we all know what happened there...
Sigh, the gaming media never ceases to amazes me.
OH look!!!! A blog/article about something that hasn't been opinionated/blogged about the past two months.


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It always struck me as more of a female thing, and I don't mean that in a derogatory way, just seemed that women would take pictures of themselves on the beach and they'd be showing off their toes—I never blamed them, I'm sure a pedicure is expensive. I'd want to show it off too. But no, I was wrong, it's men too, taking pictures of the view they're looking at, the vista, and they can't get their feet out of the way!
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My 2015 Confusing Resolutions
This blog started out in a different place. I walked out of the grocery store yesterday to find three shopping carts, all at the point where they can't go any further because of their wheels stopping, left in such a way to block the exit. For the walk back to my apartment I had the title "Ending Stupid" going through my head. People have to stop behaving like idiots, that's the way the world will really change. That should be the World's New Year's Resolution.
Which of course, I'm right. 😉 But what I've decided has really got to change is me. Because all my thoughts and frustrations about the way I believe these people are being insensitive, rude, obnoxious and doing nothing about raising the level of care, concern and courtesy in our society, which again, I'm right, is still doing more damage to me than it is to anyone. All it does is curl me up in more of a negative ball of friction, disappointment and anger.
I'm a big fan of cognitive behavioral therapy and in particular rational emotive behavioral therapy (http://rebt.org) and one of its tenets is that it's not the things that come at us that bother us but what we think of them. So my New Year's resolution is to master the art of REBT. Instead of getting mad at these "cart pushers" that aren't even there, I'm going to push one out of the way so the next person isn't inconvenienced, until the person from the store tasked with retrieving them does their job.
When a person who is walking one of those little rat dogs on a retractable leash but fails to reel it in so that I have to stop or walk out of the dog's way, I'm going to take the two seconds to step around because it's much better than the greater number of my blood pressure possibly rising to.
When I see a misleading or idiotic headline on a website I'm going to write something positive or funny to counteract the misinformation and negativity in our society's eyes and ears instead of letting it upset me.
I'm only able to change my world. And everyone does not have to act the way I want them to, that's just not the way things work. So I have to learn to change my thinking. In a way this is a resolution that I'm continuing because I was very inspired (and wrote about here) by Amy Poehler making a comment about how our eyes and ears are hearing too much garbage and we need to hear better things. It's made me re-work blogs that started out angry and turning them (hopefully) into something funny or meaningful. I'm going to try and do that faster in my one life and in my own head so that I don't waste any precious time, thought or energy on something that I can't change and is only hurting me. I want more positive and happy thoughts outweighing the negative this year. And I'm gonna do it, I CAN AND I WILL.
At least until i become king and can have little foot soldiers running around with little devices to give these cart pushers and dog owners a little zap to get them to re-think.
Being Funny in an Unfunny World
It's been hard to write a comedy blog the last couple of weeks. I just keep seeing so many terrible, terrible stories in the news. Senseless shootings and global warming and just… everything. I keep thinking of one of Steve Martin's old routines where he talked about putting a slice of bologna into each of his shoes so he'd feel funny before he went on stage.
But I don't think I could take the smell of bologna anymore, although I do long for a time where I loved bologna and white bread and maybe that's why I keep singing the Oscar Mayer song "My Bologna has a first name…" It would just be great to be a kid and not look at the news and not care about anything else other than when I was going to get ice cream again.
Only that's the problem. This is happening to kids. There's kids in school who have to grieve for their friends. It's tougher as we get older and relatives pass away, but these kids have lost the kid they had lunch with yesterday. That's messed up.
What are we doing? Where do we have to start to get people not to lose their mind. I think we have to start young. Always seemed a shame to me that so much is expected of kids at a younger age in school. I think maybe they need more play time, or naps, and not so much computer time.
Or maybe we just need to send them to school with bologna in their shoes.
Auto-Correct is Making America Stoopid
We've all seen the funny texts where auto-correct has changed someone's word and it was sent before they could catch it. I've laughed. It's happened to me. But in the last week I've seen several things that are leading me to believe that we need to start catching this now. All we need, America, is another strike against us that affects our employability.
Take for instance an individual that I had a business correspondence with just today. They told me that they didn't want to "waste their time" but it came out as "waist." Ok, funny ha ha honest mistake. But the thing is, it was business. And he or she did not bother to proof-read and they didn't get corrected. We're becoming a bunch of lazy slobs that expect to be spell-checked.
Back when I was in high school we didn't have personal computers (that's what a PC is for anyone under the age of thirty) and calculators weren't aloud in school. No, this is not about how we had it more difficult and had to walk to school in the snow and how you kids blah blah blah blah blah. We just weren't allowed to use calculators on tests because they wanted us to use our heads. And as ridiculous as it seemed at the time to me, and they did end up changing the rules, I'm glad. I like being aware!
I didn't get it because I was actually good at math and I am still the guy that gets handed the restaurant check to figure out who owes how much and how much tip. I don't know why they do it because my math is flawed in that situation because I always want to tip on hotness of the waitress and want them to tell her instead of my asking her out. What can I say, I still have the nerd shy kid in me.
I can also spell and am fairly good at grammar, although my critiques in writing groups are a bloody mess of corrections in the battlefield that is tenses for me. So I may not be sympathetic enough here, but I do also think I have a point. Just like calculator and later laptops and later iPads in the math classroom, auto-correct and spell check on everything has left us bereft of another basic skill that's going to land more and more jobs in the outsourced inbox.
Now I can't speak about other countries, maybe it's happening there too, but it's rampant here. Take a classic case of how many people use "ur" in their text messages and emails. That has just multiplied in exponential numbers the people that were already screwing up Your and You're.
So fellow bloggers and followers that are obviously reading and using the Internet to read this, let's start with us. I've made a vow to do a better job of proof-reading my blogs. For you bloggers, in case you didn't know, there's a little Preview button next to the Save Draft. Use it, your blog opens in another window and you can see it as it appears to all your peeps.
And all of you fine people I'm lucky enough to count as followers, type out "are you home." It will increase your hand-eye coordination and may burn off a couple of more calories—we really do need to do more about this obesity thing.
But one movement at a time! Join Me. Ashton Kutcher says that smart is sexy and he's got to be right—he's tall. Like I said, I like being aware. And that's what using your head does. The more you pay attention to the simplest of things the more you'll pay attention to the big beautiful things. Let's get America smarter!
The Battle of the Brains
It's midnight, I want to go to sleep, but I also want to file my blog. I am a man of two minds, not only in this dilemma but the one that's going on between the two hemispheres in the control of my functions: Left Brain vs. Right Brain.
I've found that my current personal and professional goals do battle in my noodle on a regular basis. There is the part of me that wants to be a full time writer and there's the part of me that likes food and must still continue to do web design. And even though the second can be creative as well, the mathematical part necessary to code a web site puts it often more heavily into the left hemisphere and that side wants to dominate and tell the flaky artistic part to go get a burrito.
So I find myself here, laptop poised, fingers lightly on the a, s, d, f,j k, l and ; keys ready to type and I can't get the brain to switch over. I slam the heel of my hand against the side of my skull trying to force the synapses to fire that way the way you might try to make water come out your ear. Nothing.
I watch a comedy clip of my favorite stand-up of the moment Louis CK. Nothing.
I wish to run nude and free through the unlimited universe of thought, imagination and creativity but there's something unfinished on one of my website projects and the stubborn part of me that doesn't like loose ends still has his pocket protector on.
The Battle of my Brains, or more appropriately, the sides of my brain, are like the battle waged every day in high school cafeterias, the cool kids versus the nerds. Each thinks they are better, each is a little jealous of the other's capabilities, and neither wants to sit together. And the funny part is they need each other. Like the jock needs the nerd to copy off on test day, I need the left brain to manage websites and social media in order to increase my blogging audience. And like the geek needs the artist to introduce him to the art of talking to girls or at least procure beer so it won't matter, I need the writer to help with all of the design parts and to keep me inspired on a day to day basis.
So why can't they all just get along? Why is it that the logical side won't make room for the creative side and vice-versa? Why do they have to have their "me" time? I suppose it's like having twins, they both want more attention and will scream louder in an attempt to get it. But just like parents that can be exhausted by all the work until they see the twins dressed up for some special occasion, I should just be thankful that I've been blessed with both and keep doing my work.
Thanks for listening.
The Real Breakfast
There is currently a commercial playing for a restaurant serving a new dish, Cinnamon Swirl Brioche French Toast. I don't want to say the name of the establishment for fear of getting "words" from their legal department, but if I was playing charades the clue would be kangaroo.
It doesn't really matter what the restaurant is or what the food is because this is about my trying to understand why people do things. It's the topic I'm most fascinated by—how people think. And that's one of the primo benefits of blogging–sharing my thoughts and seeing what others think.
In the commercial there are three couples pictured in a pristine restaurant enjoying this new dish and commenting on it. An entire blog could be devoted to the absurdity of this sugar coated, calorie stuffed breakfast dish that is contributing to the obesity of our society and the eventual catastrophic effects on our healthcare system but the simple fact that the overwhelming majority of the population doesn't want to take responsibility and recognition of the effects of said food item on their physical and mental health makes it both funny and sad and therefore temporarily excuses the corporate chains. Phew. Let me catch my breath.
Ok, again, I'm teetering on getting too far away from my original intention. In this commercial there are three couples, a thirty-something couple consisting of a white dude and an asian woman, who look to me to represent the modern cool couple of mixed race, judging from his t-shirt he probably works in tech, and judging from her beauty, class and dress she's corporate. But yeah, they would eat there.
Then there's the African-american couple, very clean, very nice and intelligent, and sitting next to each other, not across, obviously in love. And yes, they would eat there, on their date night, without their kids.
And lastly there's the slightly younger, can't quite tell if they represent the hipsters or just slightly younger version of the first geek couple, but they both have glasses, a little bit unkempt hair and thrift store dress. And hell no, they would not eat there!
Unless it were four am and they were either drunk and thought french toast would still be good or they thought it would be "ironic." I don't think that any of the couples pictured would go there, only the actors portraying them because they really don't have the disposable income because this is the only national spot they got this year and the residuals run out quick. Plus actors are by definition terrible with their money, so it's already been spent.
I'm not dissing the place, I've gone there, will go there or similar again, but I want to know why they make commercials like this? Do they think those kinds of couples are going to watch and want to go? Do they think the people that really love to go there but haven't been for a while will want to go there because now cooler, more attractive people will be there? Do they think that the American public is that dumb, and in fact, is the American public that dumb? BECAUSE RESTAURANTS LIKE THIS ARE NOT FILLED WITH HAPPY, SMILING, ATTRACTIVE AND CLEAN PEOPLE. Really, neither are expensive restaurants.
And it's not just them. It's the friendly staff at the superstore that I've never seen. It's the polite, attractive and courteous patrons at the pharmacy I've never seen. And my favorite, it's the people that eat too much fast food, drink too much beer, and take too many anti-depressants with too many side effects yet they're ecstatic, living the perfect life, and in the case of the beer ads, getting all the really hot girls.
Having studied the history of magic as a performing art, I know that it's time when the public gets too smart and the illusions have to get better. Come on folks, let's all up our game.


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Day 12
Today would have been a cool birthday for my Dad. 12/12/12 . . . . come on now that is one cool birthday.
This is my Dad holding me when I was only 3 months old. Now THAT is sweet. I didn't take the picture. But I still think it is sweet. I miss you Dad, especially today!
I wish I had a picture of "Cuties" the little tangerines. Do you know what kids like? Sweets. You know what cuties are . . . sweet. Kids like cuties cause cuties are made for kids. LOL! I laugh every time!


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Note: Calendar push is only available for accounts that have been added to the system settings, not accounts that were authenticated directly through GTO.
The Google Calendar website allows you to view your tasks next to your other events by selecting the Tasks label under My Calendars. Unfortunately, this isn't a normal calendar that can be imported into Android. So, in order to allow you to see your tasks on your Android calendar, GTO can maintain a custom calendar, which can be imported into Android and anywhere else you use your Google Calendars. This is only a one-way sync from GTO to the calendar, and if you make any changes to the events in that calendar, GTO will overwrite them during its next full sync.
Android occasionally has problems importing new Google calendars. If you have enabled the Push Tasks to Calendar preference and performed a full sync but the GTO calendar doesn't appear in Android, see the FAQ page and Google Support page for help.
Push Tasks to Calendar
Enable this to create a Google calendar named GTO and populate it with events based on your dated tasks. One calendar is created on each account in GTO. The calendar will be updated during each full sync.
Include Past Due Tasks
When this is enabled, every task with a due date will be included in the calendar. If disabled, only tasks with a due date on the current day or in the future will be included.
Include Completed Tasks
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I would appreciate a better description. How does it leave the HTTP intermediary out of sync with the SOAP/HTTP processors? Why does a fault have to be any more than just a message in this case? Ray Whitmer firstname.lastname@example.com Mark Baker wrote: >>Ray Whitmer writes: >> >>>>Great, I can live with that. >>>> >>Terrific, thanks. Now let's see whether anyone else can :-). >> > >Sorry, but I can't. 8-( > >The more I think about it, the more this is an R803[1] issue. It is >critical, for the chameleon use, that a HTTP intermediary participating >in a chain of SOAP/HTTP intermediaries, have a consistent view of what >the SOAP/HTTP processors understand to be success or failure. Because >in the chameleon view, this is all happening, SOAP and HTTP, at the >same layer in the stack. > >If I understood your suggestion correctly, you're saying that a >receiving SOAP processor should treat a fault received over 200, even >after acknowledging that it's broken, as a fault. Doing this would >leave the HTTP intermediary out of sync with the SOAP/HTTP >processors, as it has no knowledge of this SOAP-specific heuristic. >This would violate R803. > > [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlp-reqs/#z803 > >MB >Received on Friday, 29 March 2002 12:31:10 UTC
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Starting from the assumption that the renewable energy reduces the dependence on imports, increases the country's energy security, has lower costs, encourages new startups and reduces the greenhouse gas emissions, the Energy and Biomass Project has launched several innovative initiatives to foster the production of biofuel and biofuel heat supply to public institutions through Public – Private Partnerships (PPP) and through closed cycles.
Therefore, some of the local governments in Moldova established Public-Private Partnerships with private partners, which will produce solid biomass fuel and supply heat and incur all the operational costs over a longer period of time in order to be able to recover the investments. The local governments, in turn, committed to pay for the supplied heat measured in Gcal, not in tons of biofuel.
Another initiative of the Energy and Biomass Project is the piloting of closed cycles of growing energy crops, producing and using straw bales or biofuel for heating. This pilot project is supported by several vocational schools, which started offering new programs – Forester and Biomass Boiler Operator, for this purpose.


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This morning I weighed in and had lost 4.9 lbs.! Yippee!! I knew that it wouldn't stay around for long. Now the trick will be keeping it off until Friday!
Today has actually gone well. I thought I overdid it at supper because by the time I got home I was starving and just ate! But I counted it afterwards and I'm right on track. Yay!
Tomorrow is the Christmas party at work—I will try to watch my portions!
We are gearing up for a massive snowstorm…I never even saw a snowstorm last year because we hardly got any snow and we were on vacation during the one major snow storm! I'm hoping to be able to just cozy up at home.
Stay safe!


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Whist some décor trends come and go, others remain timeless. Choosing these timeless décor trends will ensure that your kitchen never goes out of style and maintains its value. When in doubt stick to neutral colours (white will never go out of style) and stay minimal (wild patterns and too much clutter could make your kitchen look kitsch). Wood is a timeless material – try shopping at sites such as George Hill Timber for countertops and flooring. Quartz is also a reliable worktop material for those craving some stone in their kitchen.
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Go green
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So I decided to give a go at baking with beef protein.
Let me tell you it wasn't a bad life choice. It almost leaves the cake with a nice fudgy feeling to it. I have only tried Vanilla caramel flavor but intend to try my hand with a chocolate as well. I think it would make a nice batch of brownies, hint hint
Vanilla Caramel Cake with a Chocolate Frosting
What you will need:
50g Pumpkin
1.5 egg whites. (roughly 70g)
34g Protein
45g Self rising Flour
14g Coconut Flour
4g sweeter
6g Psylium husk (cause fiber )
1/4t Baking powder
1/8tsp baking soda
Splash of Caramel Sauce
Splash of Almond milk
Now usually I would add 4-8g of SF FF Pudding mix but I was out so I skipped it.
Mix all that together and throw in a sprayed baking dish and bake roughly 20-30 min at 350.
I have been playing with trying to get more rise in my cakes so lately I have been whisking the egg whites a bit in a separate bowl then adding them last but I don't think it is helping.
Well cooking in a bowl mix:
15g Chocolate Protein
5g Coco Powder
1 oz FF Cream Cheese
Splash of Almond milk
Splash of Chocolate Sauce
Mix till well incorporated then put in fridge to chill
Once the toothpick test comes out clean pop that bad boy out to cool for at least 30 min.
Once cool cut in half and spread some of your frosting in the middle of the cake.
Once Frosted either add some toppings or just enjoy!
Macros for the Cake are 502 cal 2.5 fat / 70 carbs / 53 protein and a whopping 15g of fiber !
I also used almost the same identical recipe and made this amazing cake as well.
Vanilla Carmel Cake with a Vanilla Frosting.
Super Versatile Cake. Give it a go and let me know what you think!
Remember if you liked the cake be sure to check me out on Instagram under d_chron or hashtag #dustyscalculatedmadness !!
Once frosted restack the cake and continue frosting with remaining frosting.


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Let Me Count the Ways
After you finish admiring Matt Bomer's beauty and his perfectly trimmed right down to the nanometer stubble, the natural thing to do is count his armpit hair because that's exactly what I'm going to do now. This is shot by Kai Z Feng for Out magazine doing his bit to promote the long awaited HBO adaptation of the play "The Normal Heart" starring Mark Ruffalo, Taylor Kitsch and Jonathan Groff. Bomer went full Bale / McConaughey and reportedly lost 40 pounds to show the ravages of AIDS on his character. Watch the trailer after the jump.
Credits: Out Magazine