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The world of affiliate marketing doesn't always require that you have your own website. Several affiliate marketers deal with customers, promote their products, make sales and give back refunds all without an website. Yes you can still profit without having a website.
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Chickpea Breakfast Scramble
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 10 min
Total time: 20 min
Serves: 2 servings
Enjoy a this Swiss Chard Chickpea Breakfast Scramble for a hearty and healthy breakfast. Made with whole, vegan, and gluten-free foods.
Chickpea Scramble:
1 tablespoon coconut oil
1/2 white onion, thinly sliced
4-5 cloves garlic, minced
1 can chickpeas, drained and rinsed
2 tablespoons nutritional yeast
juice from 1/2 lemon
1 teaspoon turmeric
1/2 teaspoon salt
3 large leaves of Swiss Chard, stems removed and roughly chopped
Optional Toppings:
Nutritional Yeast
Hemp Hearts
Flax Seeds

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Just a 10 minute drive north of Jasper is the peace and beauty of Pyramid Lake. The Pines Restaurant at Pyramid Lake Resort offers a stunning view of the surrounding mountains and lakes, combined with a first class dining experience. Whether you are joining us for breakfast or dinner, our talented culinary team and professional service staff will ensure your time here is not soon forgotten. Reservations recommended.
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Published: Tuesday 28th April 2015 by The News Editor
Japanese fans of Sir Paul McCartney heard a world first when the former Beatle played one of his old group's songs live for the first time – half a century after it was first released.
Another Girl, which features on the Fab Four's 1965 album Help, was on the set list at his gig at the Budokan Arena in Tokyo.
The Beatles played the venue in 1966 and Sir Paul w as meant to play there last year but the show was cancelled when he fell ill.
He said: "It's very exciting to be returning to the Budokan because it is a very special place and was the first place we played in Japan. There was a lot of controversy at the time but I now know that it is a regular venue for a lot of people. But for me it has a very special place in my memory.
"It was sensational and quite emotional remembering the first time and then experiencing this fantastic audience tonight. It was thrilling for us and we think it was probably the best show we did in Japan and it was great to be doing the Budokan 49 years later. It was crazy. We loved it."
His two-hour set also featured hits including Let It Be, Can't Buy Me Love, Maybe I'm Amazed and Hey Jude.
He also played Yesterday and Paperback Writer which were both performed at the 1966 concert.
His tour moves on to South Korea before the European leg starts in London at the O2 in May.
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- 1 can stewed tomatoes or sauce
- romano cheese, grated
- oregano
- 1 egg slightly beaten
- 1/2 cup flour
- 1 teaspoon salt
- pepper to taste
- eggplant
- Wash, cut off stem and slice eggplant about 1 inch thick. Have ready, the stewed tomatoes or sauce, cheese, and oregano. Beat 1 egg slightly in another bowl. In another bowl, have the flour and salt & pepper. And oil in fry pan-baking dish. Dip eggplant slices in egg and then in flour mixture, fry in pan until golden brown. In baking dish, add some of the stewed tomatoes on bottom and layer eggplant and Romano cheese until all are in the dish. Bake uncovered at 350 for 30 to 40 minutes.


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The global population is reporting profound and transformative experiences from entheogens. When referring to integration, each local community is best suited to assist those in need. We are creating a hub for seekers to access Integration Consultants in their own communities.
*ERIE can not guarantee the fit will be right for you. Please do you own research and contact the integration consultants directly.
Integration Consultants
- Howard Whitehouse, PhDSan Francisco, CAHoward Whitehouse, PhDBoard Member
I received a PhD in East-West Psychology from the California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS) in 2005. My dissertation research entitled, The Challenges of the Return from a Shamanic Odyssey: A Heuristic Exploration, involved a ten-year apprenticeship with Pablo Sanchez MSW, a Native American curandero, who's approach derives from the lineage of Maria Sabina. I am Co-founder of the Human Science Research Institute at UWG. I've worked as a Research Associate at Langley Porter Psychiatric Institute, UCSF, MacArthur Foundation Research Program on Conscious & Unconscious Mental Processes; Staff Counselor, Rhythm Society, Council on Spiritual Practices; Extended Faculty at the Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS); Recipient of a Circle of Bridge-Makers Award in 2004; Member, Board of Directors, Entheogen Research Integration & Education (E.R.I.E.); Peer-Counselor, M.A.P.S. 2017 Psychedelic Science Conference Workshop, Integrating Psychedelic Experiences. Recent Presentations: Psychedelic Society, ERIE & Spiritual Emergence Group at CIIS. Current research interests include: shamanism, sacred initiation process for post-modern culture, Integral Psychology of Sri Aurobindo, Jung's Teleological Finalism, & The Process Lucid Awakening.
- Julie Megler MSN, NP-BCSan Francisco & East Bay, CAJulie Megler MSN, NP-BCSecretary of the Board*Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner * Trained in Somatic Experiencing * Shipibo/Vegetalista Dieta Experience*
Julie Megler, N.P., is a board certified nurse practitioner in psychiatry and family medicine. She received her Master's of Science in Nursing from the University of Miami, Florida and post master's certificate in psychiatry at the University of California-San Francisco. Julie maintains licenses in family medicine and psychiatry in an effort to close the gap between medical and psychiatric care, incorporating the mind/body connection for most effective treatment. She currently is in private practice in the San Francisco/Bay Area. Her practice focuses on integrative mental health services for emotional and physical well being, as well as integration of non-ordinary states of consciousness. In addition to her clinical work, Julie is on the board of directors of ERIE (Entheogenic Research, Integration, and Education). She has presented on the topics of psychedelic risk reduction, integration, and therapeutic applications of ayahuasca at the Psychedelic Science Conference 2013 & 2017, The Women's Visionary Congress, Detroit's First Entheogenic Conference, and the Visionary Convergence 2015. She has also co-authored chapters in the books Manifesting Minds and The Therapeutic Uses of Ayahuasca. As an experienced clinician, and activist for the psychedelic movement, Julie is dedicated to educating the community about safety and the therapeutic benefits of entheogens. Her particular emphasis on integration assists individuals to develop practices that bring insights from entheogenic work to daily life. You can learn more about Julie's work at erievision.org & mindfulnp.
- Emily McKee, MASan Francisco, CAEmily McKee, MABoard Chair
Doula, Counselor, Lactation Educator, CPR Instructor, Guided Imagery Practitioner
Passionate about the phenomena of healing, sexuality and intimacy, and non-licensed and alternative modalities, Emily works independently as an integrative health practitioner and intimacy coach. She also works as Program Coordinator for the new PhD Program in Human Sexuality at the California Institute of Integral Studies. Certified in peace and conflict resolution, suicide intervention, wellness management, and trained as a sexual educator and birth doula, she is continuously inspired working with people at all stages in life. Emily is deeply honored to be a founding board member of ERIE. She is excited to work with others to collaboratively build stronger resources to support people with the integration process and help to gather research in this dynamic field.
- Larry Norris, PhD candidateBerkeley, CALarry Norris, PhD candidateExecutive Director & Co-Founder
Larry Norris, MA, PhD Candidate is the co-founder and executive director of ERIE (Entheogenic Research, Integration, and Education) 501(c)(3), a group dedicated to the development of entheogenic research and integration models. Beginning his studies in cognitive science as an undergrad at the University of Michigan, he is now a PhD student in the East-West Psychology department at the California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS) in San Francisco. His dissertation will review archived ayahuasca experiences to identify transformational archetypes that induce insights hidden within the experiences. As adjunct faculty at CIIS, Larry taught a graduate course called Entheogenic Education: Contemporary Perspectives on Ancient Plant Wisdom in order to discuss the concept of entheogens as educational teachers and cognitive tools. He is currently an adjunct faculty at John F. Kennedy University teaching a class titled Paradigms of Consciousness. A dedicated activist and proponent of cognitive liberty, Larry's efforts are a contribution to not only change the Western legal status of these powerful plants, fungus, and compounds, but also to emphasize the potential sacred nature of entheogens given the right set and setting.
- Rebecca Shephard CD (DONA)Berkeley, CARebecca Shephard CD (DONA)Board Member
Rebecca has been a birth doula for nearly a decade. She served on the Board of Directors at PALS Doulas in Seattle, WA, the first doula certifying organization in the nation. She currently attends the Integral Counseling Psychology master's program at the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco, where she plans to earn additional certification in Psychedelic Therapies and Research.
- Kris Peterson, MASausalito, CAKris Peterson, MABoard Member
Kris Peterson holds a B.A. in Social Welfare with a minor in Religious Studies from the University of California, Berkeley and a Masters in Clinical Social Work from the University of Southern California. She is currently pursuing a doctorate in East-West Psychology at the California Institute of Integral Studies with an emphasis in psychedelic-assisted therapy and research. Kris works in community mental health as a clinical social worker serving individuals living with addiction and is also a staff member of Women's Visionary Congress. A long time activist and proponent of the radical mental health movement, Kris is passionate about re-visioning the current paradigm for healing people who live with psychological dis-ease, and helping to make entheogenic medicines a legal option for treatment. She is an advocate for harm reduction initiatives, drug policy reform, and cognitive liberty.
- Dr. NatalieSF Bay AreaDr. NatalieConsultant
I seek to create partnerships with my patients that empower them to make healthy choices for themselves and their communities. I see my role as an advocate for your health and well~being, and draw upon my clinical expertise to offer the best care possible, utilizing natural remedies by choice and referring when appropriate.
I formulate individualized treatments with the Therapeutic Order as a framework, seeking to use the least force intervention possible to effect change. In the simplest form, I aim to give the body, mind and soul what they need, to clear out that which does not serve, and to inspire patients.
I seek to educate my patients about their bodies, to understand how their diet and lifestyle choices, as well as pharmaceutical medications and environmental pollutants can influence health. I believe that knowledge gives us access to power, and as an educator, I offer my patients information and resources to support their personal growth and optimal expression of health.
- Francoise Bourzat, MACaliforniaFrancoise Bourzat, MAConsultant
I was born in France. I was raised with both the farm life and the Parisian culture in my bloodlines. I resonate with the art and culture as deep as with the plants and the seasons.
I traveled early to discover magic and realness everywhere, in South America and Asia. I studied psychology in Paris while being a dancer in a modern dance company.
I moved to California in 1981, studied several forms of dance and body healing arts and became a bodyworker. After earning a Masters Degree in Somatic Psychology unifying touch, movement, expressive arts and mindfulness (New College of California, 1990), I received my Certification as a Hakomi Mind/Body Therapist in 1991 from the Hakomi Institute of San Francisco.
I pursued personal healing and growth while being engaged in shamanic explorations from 1987 onward and apprenticed under the masterful guidance of medicine men and women. I continue to explore the path of sacred plants healing through my travels abroad as a guide as well as a student.
- Susana Bustos, PhDSF Bay AreaSusana Bustos, PhDIntegration Consultant
Susana Bustos, Ph.D., holds degrees in Clinical Psychology (1992) and in Music Therapy (2002) from Chilean universities, as well as a doctorate in East-West Psychology from CIIS (2007). She is certified in Holotropic Breathwork and the Expressive Arts.
Her work in Chile included the creation of psycho-educational programs, teaching, research, and psychotherapy. Susana's long-term passion for indigenous cultures and their relationship to the natural world, along with her interest on the therapeutic potentials of non-ordinary states of consciousness, led her to the Peruvian Amazon in 1999. Since then, she has been studying Vegetalismo and other indigenous shamanic practices from the Americas. Her doctoral research focused on the healing function of the icaros during ayahuasca ceremonies, which is an ongoing area of study for her.
The process of integration of entheogenic experiences in ordinary life became one of her main interests while working as a therapist and clinical trainer at Takiwasi (a Peruvian center for the treatment of drug addiction which integrates indigenous and Western medicine), where she currently works as a clinical supervisor and researcher. Susana continues to focus on this theme in her private practice in Oakland, CA.
Susana offers workshops and lectures internationally, and co-leads groups into the Amazonian rainforest.
- Hank Obermayer, MASF Bay AreaHank Obermayer, MAConsultant
Based near the Oakland/Berkeley border, Hank Obermayer is a spiritual counselor and group process facilitator working on the relationship with self, with community, and with the planet. He helps individuals with the integration process for visionquests, shamanic ritual, meditation retreats, and similar work using an emphasis on mindfulness and the body. With groups Hank focuses on ecological despair and empowerment, mixing in his theater, group process and counseling background. Hank is trained in Hakomi, and is currently a Ph.D. student at CIIS in East-West Psychology. He also has over 25 years of leadership related to ecovillages, intentional communities and housing cooperatives, including founding Mariposa Grove, his home. Hank is also honored to be deeply involved in the German-Jewish History Award, given yearly in the Berlin Parliament. This award honors people who are regenerating historical intercultural connections while also building roads for other immigrant communities.
- Adrian Auler, PhD candidateSan Francisco, CAAdrian Auler, PhD candidateAssociate Director & Treasurer
I'm a Ph.D. candidate in transpersonal psychology. This is more than a profession to me; it is a spiritual path, a way of being in the world. The aspect of psychology in which I'm most interested is consciousness studies. Two subsets of that focus that are central to my dissertation are entheogens (psychedelics) and addiction. Integration is important too because it is necessary in order to benefit fully from transpersonal experiences. I strongly feel that integral philosophy is the core principle defining the new paradigm. I pay attention to the philosophical implications of my psychological stance so it reflects what I have learned about the cosmos and our position in it. My focus on addiction and its treatment with entheogens is a portal through which I support the revolution of paradigm that is already underway.
- Jessica Brown, MAOakland, CAJessica Brown, MAConsultant
Hi, I'm Jessie. I help individuals and couples better understand themselves and make the changes necessary to live a freer and more content life. Healing requires self knowledge and exploration, but also action, and I help my clients with both. It's an amazing feeling when someone, through our work together, is able to find liberation from their struggle and have a new, powerful, life-changing experience of themselves. I approach my work with humility and gratitude. I absolutely love what I do and look forward to the opportunity to help you on your way.
My path to become a psychotherapist was laden with many obstacles, which I now understand were learning and growth opportunities, beginning with a challenging childhood. I began emulating the cycles of abuse and addiction that I was surrounded by at a young age and by 16 years old was court mandated to attend substance abuse counseling. Looking back, this was a fork in the road for me. I remember dragging my feet to therapy, but after some time passed and I built a relationship with my counselor, I looked forward to the imminent self-discovery and much needed love and attention that our sessions brought me.
Since those many years ago, in addition to psychotherapy, I have participated regularly in many different forms of self-discovery: art, yoga, meditation, travel, long distance bike rides, rock climbing, and ultimately my Masters in counseling psychology and my PhD in East-West Psychology. Not only do I believe in the services I provide in theory, my experience is that psychotherapy saved my life.
It is important to me to share a little about my journey, for two reasons. First, to dismantle to notion that the wounded cannot heal. Secondly, to reveal my humanity. I believe in the transformative power of real, authentic relationship and so I believe that the therapist should not hide. If you choose to work with me, I promise to never hide my humanity.


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Get the facts about Rend Lake College architecture degree, and registering for elective lectures and seminars. As a student, your first stop should be the registrar's office, where you can pick up a free copy of both the academic calendar and course catalog, in order to find available credit classes that you may be interested in taking. You may be surprised that you can enroll for a full-time course load, without having to attend any 8am classes at all. Finally, check with the admissions office for assistance with prerequisites, tuition payment deadlines, and Rend Lake College architecture major information. Please use the form above to request admissions info for Rend Lake College.
Schools of architecture are accredited by the National Architectural Accrediting Board (NAAB). Further, state licensing requirements can be found at the National Council of Architectural Registration Boards (NCARB). In addition, architectural registration boards require architectural design graduates to complete a lengthy paid internship, gaining 3 years of experience, before they may sit for the Architect Registration Examination.
Interns in architectural firms may help design part of a project, or help prepare architectural documents and drawings, build models, and prepare construction drawings on CADD. Interns may also research building codes and write specifications for building materials. Licensed architects must go on to edit the documents that interns produce, finalize plans, and then sign and seal the documents. Beyond degree requirements such as Rend Lake College graphic design degree programs, you may consider Edward Waters College principles for complementary electives to your primary course of study.
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Awkward Family Photos is Being Made Into a Book: Love It or Leave It?
Blogs to Books: Love It or Leave It?
On hand to speak at the SXSW festival this weekend were Mike Bender and Doug Chernack, the authors of blog-turned-book Awkward Family Photos, which is set to drop on May 4. A beloved time waster for geeks everywhere, this blog brings the funny on a daily basis — but will it make an interesting book? The (relatively) new trend in publishing is to cash in by whipping popular web blogs into physical page-turners. A few of my other favorite sites have already gotten the book treatment — Stuff White People Like and Passive Aggressive Notes — but tell me — are you into the trend?


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I'd rather my daughter smoke weed than read Seventeen
Does Arianna Huffington Hate Women?
The Hypocrisy of Arianna Huffington
Six and Sexy
(by Kate Gould)
Last Tuesday I decided I'd count the number of times I saw pictures of women doing sexy wherever I happened to see them. Wandering round the supermarket trying to find something for dinner that my pet rats would like, standing at the bus stop, flicking through magazines at the dentist, buying stuff online I don't need with money I don't have, walking to the pet shop to buy rat treats, and sitting in the bath reading the pile of Sunday supplements stacked by the loo, I counted 102 such images, each barely distinguishable from the next but all pouting and posing. Admittedly, waiting over an hour at the dentist and topping up the bath water to stop it going cold for two hours, I spent more time than I usually would looking through magazines in a day, but still, all those women are out there along with the products they're selling.
Despite how many we see in a day, these sexualised and sexist images of women are almost socially invisible. Adverts that depict women as dislocated body parts, corpses, objects, drug addicts, victims of gang ...
I Am Not My Stereotype
(story submmitted anonymously, by a Chestist)
We're probably all guilty of having judged a book or two by its cover. Feels a lot different when we're the book though. Here's how she feels:
I have bleach blonde hair, big boobs, and apparently a decent ass. That doesn't make me stupid or shallow. It doesn't mean my life is perfect or that I am happier than anyone else. I have interest and issues too. I'm so sick of people taking one look at me and deciding I'm some sort of Barbie doll. {end story}
You ever been a victim of stereotyping? When, how, why? You ever been a stereotyper (most of us have)? When, how, why? Here's the thing about stereoptypes, they suck. You can quote us on that.
A Woman Should…
(Submitted by Shelby, a 22 yo Chestist)
A WOMAN SHOULD HAVE... > enough money within her control to move out and rent a place of her own, even if she never wants to or needs to... > A WOMAN SHOULD HAVE... something perfect to wear if the employer, or date of her dreams wants to see her in an hour... > A WOMAN SHOULD HAVE... > a youth she's content to leave behind.... > A WOMAN SHOULD HAVE... a past juicy enough that she's looking forward to retelling it in her old age.... > A WOMAN SHOULD HAVE... a set of screwdrivers, a cordless drill, and a black lace bra... > A WOMAN SHOULD HAVE... > one friend who always makes her laugh... and one who lets her cry... > A WOMAN SHOULD HAVE... > a good piece of furniture not previously owned by anyone else in her family... > A WOMAN SHOULD HAVE ... > eight matching plates, wine glasses with stems, and a recipe for a meal, that will make her ...
Thanks for the Rape Epiphany, Rep. Akin
(by Mir from WouldaShoulda)
Unless you're living under a rock (or without Internet; same thing), you likely know that yesterday Rep. Todd Akin (R-Missouri) managed to stick his foot pretty far down his own throat. So far, in fact, that he asserted that when a woman is a victim of a "legitimate rape," she can't get pregnant because her body can "shut things down." (If you somehow missed the kerfluffle, you can read about it here.)
This spawned an entire day of alternating political jokes and outrage... blogs, Facebook, and Twitter all lit up with commentary as people of all political persuasions were able to unite behind a single idea, for once. Sure, that idea was pretty much "this Akin guy is a moron," but still. My friends were cracking jokes about their "magical vaginas" and lists of "other things my body can shut down" and such were popping up more quickly than I could neglect my work and read them all. My favorite resultant article was this one on Jezebel, just in case you're interested in figuring out what sort of rape you may be facing.
I have ...
(by Mir from WouldaShoulda)
As a child---and perhaps even more so, as a teenager---I was jealous of my friends who lived in neighborhoods where they could walk to other friends' houses. We lived kind of out in the sticks, and if I was to hang out in proximity to another kid my own age, I would need a ride. And it's not that I never got to go to other people's houses, but it wasn't nearly as frequent as I wished. Basically I wanted to be able to access my friends any time I felt like it, a.k.a., always.
The result of this sad state of affairs was twofold: First, during school (and classes where talking was prohibited, or the desired friends were in different classes) I wrote notes. Lots and lots of notes. The beauty of a note was that if you did it right, it looked like you were hard at work on whatever you were supposed to be doing, and then you could either chuck it at your intended recipient when the teacher's back was turned (if she was in your class) or pass it ...
(by Mir)
Pardon me while I settle myself down on my porch and shake my cane at passersby. All young whippersnappers should probably steer clear of me for their own safety. It's not that I mean to be cranky, it's that I'm suddenly feeling quite old and fed up with today's award-based messages to our kids.
There's no shortage of stories about the travesty that is the American need for everyone to be a winner. Participate in a sport? Get a trophy! Participate in a contest? Get a ribbon! Participate in some other random thing? Here's your certificate of participation! No one is special when everyone is. We've spoon-fed our kids the need to "get" something every single time they bother to get out of bed. And then we wonder why they feel unfulfilled, unmotivated, or generally directionless.
None of this is news, of course. And I have tried, with my own kids, to do the "right" things: praise their efforts, but not too much; reward for actual accomplishments, but not feel the need to reward everything; extoll the virtues of intangibles like teamwork and creativity and persistence rather than whether ...
Hannah Montana on Body Image
(by Abbie, a 17 yo Chestist)
"Nobody's perfect." - Hannah Montana
Nobody (no body) is perfect...that's a radical thought. You may "know" it already, but do you really KNOW it? And if not, it's time to ask yourself the following: In what universe does Hannah Montana know something I don't??? {end story}
1 Reason We Shouldn't Compare
(OOC via CNN)
Keeping up with the Joneses has been part of the American way since at least the 50s. We compare oursleves to what they havem he, has, she has almost incessantly and certainly inextricably. There was less to compare ourselves to, fewer data points and inputs and our social circles were limited to who we knew in the physical world, pre facebook et al. But now, oh girl. from the CNN report:
"Because of social networks, though, the field of competition has expanded dramatically. Now you're competing with the best pictures and the ebullient status updates of every girl you know. 'It's as if somewhere along the line, Facebook became the encyclopedia of beauty and status and comparisons.'"
If we've got a minute to spare we might just check out what's up on FB (or tw, or whatever). And BANG BOOM ZIP, all of a sudden we're confronted with what she did, he did, she has, the party we missed and weren't invited to, the dinner that those guys had together, the fun, the laughter, the the the the...everything we weren;t ...
Six and Sexy?
(via MSNBC)
Are we ~ as a culture ~ ready to admit we've got a problem, are creating a problem, and need to address a whole mess of problems? From the article below, Most girls as young as 6 are already beginning to think of themselves as sex objects." "Most." "as young as six". "Sex objects." Come on, really? WTF?By Jennifer Abbas LiveScience
Most girls as young as 6 are already beginning to think of themselves as sex objects, according to a new study of elementary school-age kids in the Midwest.
Researchers have shown in the past that women and teens think of themselves in sexually objectified terms, but the new study is the first to identify self-sexualization in young girls. The study, published online July 6 in the journal Sex Roles, also ...
Ms. President
When she was born, a friend gave our daughter a little pink tee-shirt reading "future president". It was ironic, I suppose. 6 and a half years later, I'm not 100% sure why this is among the realtively few things from then that we chose to save...but we did.
I am pretty sure we don't want ER to grow up to be Preident, at least if it were our choice. Seems a pretty thankless job and one that's hard to do well under any circumstances. That aside, the bigger question in this moment is whether we think she ~ by virture of being a she ~ could grow up to become president in her life time, or will the oval office remain a sausage-fest?
Our daughter's also black (we're not), and even in retrospect it's stunning and telling to consider that a before a woman did, a black-man made it to the Presidency of a nation whose morality and values can still be doled out with a degree of convenience and arbitariness belying our stated principles. But that's another story for somebody else's website.
(by Seth from FMB)
Mean Girls Mean Business
(by Kimberly Wolf, M.Ed.)
It's a story you've heard. It's a story I can tell from my own experience and those of my female friends, many of them established and many in their twenties at the relative beginnings of their professional lives: women are too often each other's biggest obstacles when it comes to achieving career success.
From what I can see after watching a few sneak peak video clips of USA Network's soon-to-air Political Animals (note: premiers tonight, Sunday, July 15), the relationship between former First Lady Elaine Barrish (Sigourney Weaver) and reporter Susan Berg (Carla Gugino) exposes this dynamic. Berg is a reporter there to write the story of the former First Lady's impending run for President. But, it only takes seconds to see the clash between a young, go-getting, stop-at-nothing reporter wanting to break the story of a lifetime and a political leader who doesn't want to give her the satisfaction.
Berg broaches the subject of Barrish's adulterating husband, and Barrish, on the defensive, replies by asking, "What is it like launching your career by stepping on the throat of someone else's marriage?" In another ...
Self-Loathing, Just Like Mama Taught Me
(story submitted as a comment, by Lana a Chestist, and reposted here, now)
The writer first posted this as a comment to our story on Mothers, and what they teach us about ourselves - for good and ill. Here's her story:
When I was 14, my mom told me that, for her, 130 lbs was "big." At that time, I weighed about 165 lbs. In that moment, I wanted to kill myself.
She wasn't telling me to lose weight, she was expressing her own dissatisfaction with her body. My mom has a curvy hourglass figure - she's wears a 32DD Bra and size 12 pants. Her waist is tiny but she has our family's hips bodacious booty. My whole life, my mother talked about food, and she still does. She decides to "hate" foods that have "too much fat," like cheesecake, which, I recently found out, she actually loves but told me that she hated it my whole life. She won't even drink a latte because it has "too much milk." She has been on Weight Watchers my entire life and when we went around the table ...


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Water Distribution / Water Quality Modeling
CEDRA-AVwaterTM enables the
engineer to define the geometric configuration, establish the
materials inventory of a water distribution network, introduce
supply and demand loads, perform analyses and display pertinent
results in graphic and/or tabular format. Storage tanks, pressure
regulating, sustaining and open/close valves, pumps, meters, etc.
can be included in the water distribution model. Extended period
simulations which adjust liquid levels in tanks over a user-specified
simulation period may be modeled. AVwater users can perform Fire
Flow analyses with node and pipe summary tables being created
facilitating the system adequacy determination, as well as, Dynamic
Water Quality modeling which tracks the fate of a dissolved substance
flowing through the network over time. CEDRA AVwaterTM offers the engineer an ArcView®
GIS and ArcGIS® interface to the U.S. Environmental Protection
Agency's EPANETTM Version 1
and Version 2 modelers, thereby integrating modeling and GIS technology.
The University of Kentucky's KYPIPETM
modeler is not supported nor provided.
In addition to the modeling tools, CEDRA AVwaterTM provides functionality for editing
attribute data using customized dialog boxes. The CEDRA-DataEditorTM extension, which is included with CEDRA
AVwater, enables the user to identify the specific themes and
attributes which the user can edit. Quality control and data verification
tools are included with the CEDRA-DataEditor extension to ensure
that the database is properly maintained. The customized dialog
boxes, which the user defines, are established without having
the user write any Avenue, Visual Basic or other programming language
software. With a simple point and click, CEDRA DataEditor users
are able to edit and maintain their tabular information without
having to start and stop table editing sessions.
CEDRA AVwater when utilized with any of CEDRA's geometry software, CEDRA AVcad, CEDRA AVcogo, CEDRA AVland or CEDRA AVparcel, provides the user a package that integrates Modeling, Mapping, Data Maintenance and GIS in a single common desktop environment. As such, the need to move data from one software environment to another is eliminated because ArcView is used as the common desktop environment. CEDRA AVwater users are able to begin and end projects entirely in ArcView.
ArcGIS users should check out the CEDRA-ArcView3-Tools toolbar. This toolbar offers a number of selection tools which will increase productivity by at least 30%. This is accomplished by reducing the number of clicks that are made in performing typical selection operations. ArcGIS users who have previously worked with ArcView GIS will definitely appreciate these tools.
To download an order form for a demo version of CEDRA-AVcad with Tutorial Manual click on the link. Once the order form has been downloaded, fill-in the requested information at the bottom of the form and then fax, e-mail or mail the order form back to The CEDRA Corporation. To see what's included in the demo version of the software click here CEDRA Demo Pack Information.
Those interested in a lot more functionality for just a little more expense should check out the CEDRA-AGsuite software package.
Click on this link for a color brochure,
which can be viewed and/or printed with Adobe Acrobat® ReaderTM.
CEDRA AVwaterTM
CEDRA AVwaterTM is fully compatible with Versions 3.0, 3.1, 3.2 and 3.3 of ArcView® GIS and Versions 9.3, 10.0, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 10.4 and 10.5 of ArcGIS®.
CEDRA AVwaterTM provides the following functionality:
Building the database from within AVwaterTM
- Define the geometric configuration (pressure zones, nodes
and pipes):
- in an interactive graphics environment, or
- by importing:
- node and pipe shapefiles,
- an Arc/Info coverage,
- a CAD drawing, or
- an existing water model (see below) followed by using a
- Wizard to establish the model from the imported data.
- Establish the materials inventory.
- Define Nodal contributing load polygons.
- Introduce supply and demand loads with:
- Direct flow rates (inflows, outflows and fire flows).
- Land parcel and/or building foot print polygon association.
- Support of a variety of coordinate systems such as State Plane, UTM, latitudes-longitudes, etc.
- Ability to specify measures in feet, meters, varas, chains, rods, etc.
- Ability to create, edit and maintain attribute data with the CEDRA-DataEditorTM extension.
- Ability to automatically assign sequential node/pipe numbers for optimum modeling performance.
Geometric functionality
- Includes and expands CEDRA AVcadTM.
- Automatic polygon creation using auto-search (tracing) functionality.
- Individual point, line, circular arc and spiral definition.
- Point and line traversing.
- Tangent line and curve generation.
- Ability to insert, delete and relocate vertices of a polyline or polygon.
- Specification of angles in decimal or degrees/minutes/seconds form.
- Specification of angles as an Azimuth, Bearing or Cartesian direction.
- Point Snapping across themes.
Database query and editing
- Hydraulic computational results.
- Inventory features.
- Operational and historic data.
- Maintain inventory and hydraulic attributes.
- Precise geometric location.
- Ability to break a pipe.
- Ability to change a node type, for example, a valve to a fitting or a pump to tank.
- Network re-segmentation into smaller nets.
- Supply and demand data.
- Interactively edit node and pipe attributes.
Hydraulic and water quality modeling
- Static and extended period simulations using EPANET.
- Multiple Pressure Zones with ability to turn pumps on and off.
- Fire flow analysis with ability to create a summary table
that contains the:
- node computational results for each fire flow load case.
- pipe computational results for each fire flow load case.
- Compute demands based upon Land Use polygons and Consumption factors.
- Storage tanks and pumps.
- Pressure regulating/sustaining valves.
- Open/close valve settings.
- Water quality modeling using the EPANET interface accounting
- chemical concentration,
- water age, or
- fraction of water originating from a specified node.
- EPANET Versions 1 and 2 interfaces with the ability to model an unlimited number of pipes.
- EPANET Version 2.00.12 supported.
- Ability to create when using the EPANET modeler an:
- EPANET input file (.inp).
- EPANET map file (.map) containing node coordinates.
- Ability to produce fully annotated profiles with customized
parameter settings with the ability of:
- specifying desired horizontal and vertical scales,
- specifying desired grid lower and upper datum values,
- specifying desired starting and ending station values,
- specifying desired horizontal and vertical intermediate and heavy grid line intervals,
- including the grade lines, and
- specifying whether the profile is to be drawn in a left to right or right to left direction.
- Ability to produce fully annotated profiles for report and plan and profile inclusion.
- Ability to produce a EPS summary report file containing the
- the overall minimum value encountered and the associated node/pipe with the value,
- the overall maximum value encountered and the associated node/pipe with the value,
- for each time step in the sumulation, the minimum value and associated node/pipe with the value,
- for each time step in the sumulation, the maximum value and associated node/pipe with the value.
Importing functionality
- Existing EPANET Model when the files below are available:
- EPANET input file (.inp).
- EPANET map file (.map) containing node coordinates.
- Cybernet model by generating node and pipe shapefiles from within Cybernet.
- dBase, Info, SDE and ASCII files may be directly read.
- Access, Paradox, FoxPro, Oracle, Sybase, Informix, DB2, Ingres
- Exporting to dBase or ASCII for direct reading or,
- accessing through ODBC - Open Database Connectivity.
- any ODBC/SQL-compliant database.
- Import of PC Arc/Info coverages, Arc/Info coverages and libraries.
- Direct reading of Shapefiles.
- DXF, DWG, DGN and CEDRA CAD drawings.
- VPF, MapInfo, Atlas GIS and ASCII map data.
- Ability to have comments within the ASCII files that are processed for mass importing.
- Ability to mass import polygons from an ASCII file.
- Ability to mass import points in a variety of formats from an ASCII file.
- Ability to mass import lines that are defined by node numbers from an ASCII file.
- Ability to mass import polylines that are defined by a line ID value and vertex coordinates from an ASCII file.
- Ability to import a CEDRA "COGO" file which is
an ASCII file that allows the user to mass import:
- Lines given a direction and a distance.
- Polygons given a direction and a distance for each course (side) comprising the polygon. The polygons may also contain curves (simple, compound and reverse) rather than just straight line sides.
- Non-Tangent Curves given a chord direction, a chord length and a radius.
- Tangent Curves given a chord length and a radius.
- Tangent Curves given an arc length and a radius.
- Tangent Curves given a central angle and a radius.
- Ability to display the following raster file formats:
- TIFF (.tif files).
- ERDAS (Rev 7.3 and 7.4 .lan and .gis files).
- IMAGINE (.img files).
- BSQ, BIL and BIP.
- Sun Rasterfiles (.rs, .ras, and .sun files).
- JPEG (.jpg files).
- IMAGINE (.img files).
- Arc/Info GRID.
- RLC (Run-Length Compressed format).
Exporting functionality
- Ability to export features (points,
lines, polygons and annotation) as an Arc/Info Generate File.
- In the form of a single Generate file, or
- As multiple Generate files using the layer name as the name of the file.
- Ability to export features (points,
lines and polygons) in the form of a Vertex Coordinate File.
- In the form of X,Y coordinates,
- In the form of North,East coordinates,
- In the form of Longitude,Latitude coordinates, or
- In the form of Latitude,Longitude coordinates.
- Ability to export features (points, and multi-points) in a variety of ASCII based formats.
- Ability to export features (points, lines, polygons and annotation) in the form of a DXF File.
- Ability to export features (polylines and polygons) adhering to the Traverse File Format.
Graphic display and/or reports
- Hydraulic and quality charts and tables.
- Extended Period Simulation graphs for EPANET models.
- Pressure, Grade Line, Flow and Velocity contours.
- Conduit and energy grade line profiles.
- Flow arrow generation.
- Annotation of pipes and nodes.
- CAD functionality.
- Advance or return to previous views.
- Ability to save and assign a name to an unlimited number of views.
- Ability to return to a previous view by specifying a view name.
- Ability to zoom in or out of a view by specifying a scale factor.
- Individual and global text scaling.
- Individual and global text editing.
- Viewing of ASCII based files.
- Customized selection tools for ArcGIS users.
- Ability to modify a specific attribute
of one or more graphic text elements without altering any of
their other attributes.
Printing Capability for ArcGIS
ArcGIS® users have the ability to print the active data
frame using the Print Data Frame command, which is available in
the CEDRA-DataFrame-Tools toolbar. The Print Data Frame command
differs from conventional ArcGIS printing in that the user is
able to control: (a) the map scale, (b) the map area to be printed,
(c) the location of the map on the paper and (d) optionally, whether
a data frame, which contains a map sheet border, should be included
or not in the map.
As most ArcMap users have realized, within an ArcMap document file (.mxd) all data frames share the same layout. This causes the difficulty of when the layout view is activated all of the data frames in the document file appear in the layout, which for some applications is not what the user wants. The Print Data Frame command will print the active data frame, from data or layout view, ensuring that: (a) the desired map scale is preserved, and (b) all other data frames do not appear on the plot. This is achieved by programmatically positioning all data frames, other than the active data frame, in the document file outside of the user specified sheet limits (Paper Size parameters). In so doing, when the layout view is activated the only data frame that appears in the layout view is the active data frame.
This capability allows the user to have a single document file that contains many data frames with each data frame containing a complete drawing sheet. Without the Print Data Frame command the user would have to: (a) create separate document files for each drawing sheet or (b) manually reposition all data frames, other than the active data frame, outside of the sheet limits.
In addition, users have the ability to operate in another mode
of map preparation. The first mode, which was described above,
is when a single data frame contains the entire map to be printed.
The second mode is where one data frame contains the map contents,
while another data frame contains the map border (title block,
sheet border, etc.).
The Print Data Frame command accommodates this scenario by providing the Include Data Frame matching the Paper Size option. When this option is checked the Print Data Frame command will position the active data frame according to the specifications in the Data Frame Size and Position parameters area and will include in the plot the data frame whose name is either 11"x17", 24"x36" or Custom, depending upon which Paper Size is active. This approach enables the user to create a single map border, placing it in a data frame using one of the following; 11"x17", 24"x36" or Custom as the name of the data frame, and generate multiple maps without having to load the map border into multiple data frames.
DXF Export Capability for ArcView GIS and ArcGIS
ArcView® GIS and ArcGIS® users have the ability to create a DXF file, from within ArcView 3.x or ArcMap, for all visible features in the current map. Unlike other DXF export utilities, which process only one theme at a time, the CEDRA DxfExportTM extension processes all visible themes (shapefiles, personal geodatabases, enterprise geodatabases and coverages) in the current map. In addition, the CEDRA DxfExport utility will process annotation features and graphic text elements. As such, a DXF file created by this utility can include features and text. In processing the visible layers in the map:
- If a theme has selected features then only the selected features will be processed, if there are no selected features then all features in the theme will be processed, this includes point, polyline and polygon features. If the option Export Features displayed in the Current Extent is selected then all visible features in the current view will be exported regardless of the feature's selection state.
- If a theme has labels, the labels will need to be converted into annotation, using the Convert Labels to Annotation... command, in order for the labels to be exported. The labels that are converted can be stored either in a personal geodatabase or in the map, depending upon the user's preference.
- If there are selected MARKER, PEN, FILL and/or TEXT graphic
elements then these graphic elements will be processed (if the
user desires). If the view does not contain any selected graphic
elements then no graphic elements will be processed. In exporting
graphic elements note the following:
- All of the selected Marker elements will be placed in a layer called GrapMrkr,
- All of the selected Pen elements will be placed in a layer called GrapPen,
- All of the selected Fill elements will be placed in a layer called GrapFill, and
- All of the selected Graphic Text elements will be placed in a layer called GrapText.
- The name of the theme will serve as the name of a layer in the DXF file.
- Non-alphanumeric characters in a theme name are converted to the underscore character (_).
- The user has the ability to select one or more attributes, from a choice box that appears in the Create DXF File dialog box, for inclusion in the DXF file, if desired. When exporting attributes, the selected attributes will appear as "blocks" in the DXF file. These blocks will appear at the midpoint of the feature and the name of the block will be B_xxxx, where xxxx denotes the name of the layer the feature resides in. All of the attributes associated with the block will be listed vertically, one under the other. The ability to export attributes is important because: (a) it enables the user to transfer non-graphic information (attributes) into the DXF file, maintaining the association of the non-graphic information with the feature and (b) provides a mechanism for the user to maintain symbology and line styles. Regarding the latter, symbology and line styles, in the GIS classifications are based upon attributes, by exporting the attributes which the classifications are based upon, the user has the ability to regenerate the classifications in the system in which the DXF file is being read into. This, of course, is dependent upon the software which is reading the DXF file, that it has the ability to change symbology and line style using information that is stored in a "block".
|ArcMap - CEDRA-DxfExport Dialog Box
As can be seen by examining the dialog box above, the user is able to:
- Control the name of the DXF file that is created. The Browse... button enables the user to use a standard file navigation dialog box to control the folder where the DXF file will be written to, as well as the name of the DXF file.
- Specify whether the theme names are to be trimmed to 8 characters or not. If a check appears in the square to the left of this parameter, the names of the visible themes that are processed will be trimmed to a maximum of 8 characters. The first 8 characters of the theme name will be used.
- Specify whether selected graphic elements are to be included in the DXF file creation. If a check appears in the square to the left of this parameter any graphic elements that are selected will be included in the creation of the DXF file.
- Specify whether a DXF file for importing into the CEDRA I-series software is to be created or not.
- Specify which attributes if any are to be included in the DXF file as "blocks". If a check appears in the square to the left of this parameter all attributes which are selected in the choice box will be included in the DXF file as "blocks". There is no limit to the number of attributes that can be selected, and
- Specify whether the visible features in the current extent (view) are to be processed. If a check appears in the square to the left of this parameter then the only features that will be exported will be the visible features in the current extent, regardless of their selection state. In addition, if the Export Selected Graphics (Marker, Pen, Fill and Text) option is selected, all Marker, Pen, Fill and Graphic Text elements in the visible annotation group layers which are within the current extent will be exported, regardless of their selection state. The name of the annotation group layer will serve as the name of the layer these graphic elements are placed in.
- Specify whether the data that is exported is to appear in the same coordinate system as the current view (data frame) or not. If this option is not checked, the data that is exported will be in the coordinate system of the theme's (layer's) source data. If this option is checked, all data that is exported will be in the same coordinate system as currently displayed in the data frame.
ArcView 3.x Tools for ArcGIS
ArcGIS users who have worked with ArcView GIS will notice that the commands shown below: (a) do not operate the same in ArcMap as they did in ArcView or (b) are just not a part of core ArcGIS. These commands did not provide GIS functionality but they were an essential part of how ArcView GIS users operated in the ArcView 3.x environment. To ease the transition to ArcGIS, CEDRA's ArcGIS based software includes the CEDRA-ArcView3 Tools toolbar. This toolbar enables ArcGIS users to interact with ArcMap in a manner similar to how ArcView GIS users operated in the ArcView 3.x environment. For users who have never worked with ArcView GIS, these tools provide an easier and more flexible means of interacting with the map.
|CEDRA-ArcView3 Tools toolbar
Functionality offered in the CEDRA-ArcView3 Tools toolbar
- Identify features from the active layers in the Table of Contents.
- Select features from the active layers in the Table of Contents.
- De-select or clear the selected features from the active layers in the Table of Contents.
- Zoom to the extent of all layers in the Table of Contents.
- Zoom to the extent of the active layers in the Table of Contents.
- Zoom to the extent of the selected features in the active layers in the Table of Contents.
- Make all layers in the Table of Contents visible.
- Make all layers in the Table of Contents invisible.
- Delete the selected features in the map with a single click eliminating the need to (a) start the Editor, (b) select the appropriate dataset and (c) select the delete command.
- Delete a group of vertices in a selected polyline or polygon feature by defining a rectangle that encloses the vertices to be deleted.
- Open the attribute table for the selected layer(s) and/or table(s).
- Switch or reverse the selection set for the selected layer(s) and/or table(s).
- Set the current active layer (Target Layer) by picking the desired layer from an alphabetically sorted list of layer names and clicking the OK button.
To download a color brochure, which can be viewed and/or printed with Adobe Acrobat® ReaderTM, click on the following link CEDRA Software Information.
CEDRA-AVwater is licensed as per the terms of the CEDRA Software License Agreement.


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Facebook Tags
Word is out that Facebook is not content with its entire range of services and that is it testing a new feature similar to LinkedIn and potentially introducing profile tags. The profile tags, if adopted, will allow your Facebook friends to add tags to your current profile describing more about who you are and what you're into. These tags can be added by yourself or by friends which you can decide to approve before they enter the public domain. These new tags can and probably will be anything you want including emojis.
If you are an existing LinkedIn user the tags will be similar to adding new friends with the option to add, ignore or decline. Once your tags are in place other friends within your group can "like" and they will be displayed in ranking or popular order such as recommendations on your LinkedIn profile.
Currently this service is only in early testing and may or may not be rolled out across the ever growing all encompassing medium that is Facebook.
Watch this space for more updates.


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I purchased an FM transmitter equipped with bluetooth.
I'm able to connect my Infuse to the transmitter, but it will not give me an option to stream music via bluetooth. It will only allow me to use it as a phone.
I'm not sure if I'm just screwed or if there is something I can do to make it recognize this fm transmitter as a music streaming device. I don't have a problem streaming music through other bluetooth devices, but for this transmitter it only gives me the "phone" option.
Any help or suggestions?


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I have an almost 4-year old and a 5-year old at home. Just as I was raised, my wife and I do our best to teach our children that they should say, "sorry" after doing something wrong. I think from a social perspective there are many times when it is certainly appropriate to apologize.
Of course, there are many times when we apologize for making a mistake or if we've intentionally or unintentionally hurt others. However, I think many of us abuse this word and wind up using it as a crutch for deeper insecurities. This might be a hard pill to swallow but I've been victim of this and even if you think you haven't, I encourage you to stay with me.
I'm not talking about those times we say, "sorry" when we hear of a close friend who lost a loved one or when your best friend calls up and says they didn't get that job they wanted. What I'm talking about are all those other times we apologize for things we have no control over. Take for example the following scenarios:
Scenario 1:
You call someone you care about and they mention they're busy and you apologize – as if you are interupting them and it's your fault.
Scenario 2:
You're in a group of others and begin to cry and apologize – as if you are somehow offending them.
Scenario 3:
You begin to ask someone for something by saying, "I'm sorry but can you…or can I?" – as if you have no place to be asking.
There are many scenarios in which we wind up apologizing in situations that simply don't warrant an apology. In the first scenario, we apologize for "disturbing" someone who is busy. As if to suggest that we somehow knew they were busy or that we're somehow responsible for them answering their own phone.
In the second scenario, we apologize that we're showing our emotions. We're emotional beings by nature but somewhere down the line we learned that expressing your emotions (which is completely natural) is somehow not natural and means that you're weak or "less than". This simply isn't true.
In the third scenario, we apologize before we even begin our question. Can you sense the fear in there right off the bat? We're saying in a very indirect and often times unnoticed way that we're not even good enough to be asking for whatever it is we need or want. Don't we have a right to ask for what we need and want?
The common denominator in all these scenarios and many others that weren't listed is shame. People hate talking about shame and I think it's mostly because we never really had a good education about what it really means. For a great 3-part series on shame and what it means click here! (but finish this first! 😉 ).
The short and sweet version is that shame is any situation or feeling that causes us to feel "less than". If you look back in each of these scenarios we're suggesting that we're not good enough or just not enough in one form or another. It's subtle and it's so extremely common but apologizing in these situations (and many others) all comes back to thinking we are "less than".
The truth of the matter is we get to use good boundaries around others. If you phone someone and they are busy and can't talk, it says nothing about you. Furthermore, we need to assume they are responsible enough to not answer the phone if they are truly busy. We are enough, we haven't caused them inconvenience, and we have a right to reach out and connect!
The truth of the matter is we get to express our emotions. I was in a bakery recently with my wife and we shared a serious conversation. I found myself crying (not sobbing but crying) <—notice even right here, how I had to distinguish between "breaking down" and just crying as to somehow suggest that I couldn't do one over the other in public? Even in writing this piece that shame is still in me, letting me know that "Josh it's ok to cry but you can't sob in front of others"…The truth is, we all get to express our emotions and it doesn't make us less than. We were shamed into thinking we were somehow "less than" or weak if we showed others that we cry. It's nonsense and we don't ever need to apologize for it.
The truth in the matter is we have a right to ask others to support us in meeting our needs and wants. We don't have to make apology for standing up for ourselves. Whoever convinced us that showing up for ourselves meant we first had to apologize had their own issues and we don't need to take that on anymore. We get to ask for what we need and want and make no apologies about it.
Clearly some of us do this more than others but I invite you to pay close attention to the times you apologize throughout a given day or week. Are you apologizing because you clearly made a mistake or is it because you're feeling "less than" in that given moment? This is a very difficult task as it involves us being brutally honest with ourselves.
However, I believe when we allow ourselves the opportunity to be open and honest we get to discover some things that might be holding us back. We all want to discover who we are. We all want to live a more full life. Part of doing this requires us to be honest and to face those things that need healing head on. The good news is you are not alone. I'm walking down this path right with you!
With Gratitude and Appreciation,
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|Professional Automotive Repair Technical Discussions for November 7, 2004
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|1989 Chevrolet Astro 4.3L No Start VIN: 1GNEL19W3W
Hello all, I have a astro van that has me stumped. As stated in the repair history I have replaced the intake gasket, along with the plenum gaskets. The distributor position has been checked, rechecked and set according to chiltons. The van was running before...
|1989 Chevrolet C1500 Cheyenne 5.7L broken line VIN: IGCDCI4K0K
attempting to bleed rear wheels equipped with rwal system . have vac. bled , manual pressure pedal method, no rear significant fluid flow some air but no real pressure at rear bleeder fittings differential valve seems to be stuck. have bled front wheels trying...
|1991 Chevrolet Cavalier RS 3.1L heating VIN: HJWE347856
hello fellow techs can,t get hot air from interior vents only warm...i changed the thermostat and coolant cap ...engine getting up to 190 f but only warm airblows out...i bypassed vacum line to hot/cold air actuator flap...moved the flap with my vacuum tester ...
|1989 Dodge Dakota 3.9L Poor Idle Quality, Poor Fuel Economy, Rich at Idle VIN: 1B7GG26X0K
This vehicle continually runs rich at idle after the engine is warm. We have tried a new fuel pressure regulator, removed and cleaned the TBI unit, exchanged with known good injectors, replaced the oxygen sensor and replaced the distributor drive gear bushing....
|1995 Ford E-150 Econoline 5.8L Curtesy Lights VIN: 1FDEE14H2S
This is my personel van. It is MarkIII conversion. The problem is the curtisy lights will only go out sometimes. I have replaced the door jamb switches in the front doors, the side cargo doors, and rear cargo doors. In the dark with the light is stuck on if yo...
|1999 Ford Windstar LX 3.8L MIL Lamp on VIN: 2FMZA5141X
looked for obvious problems and none found... i am at a loss here as to what is next to look for... heard that possible plastic intake problems... thanks in advance for any help Trouble codes: P0171, P0174
|1993 Honda Prelude VTEC 2.2L Poor Idle Quality, Surge VIN: JHMBB117XP
Fellow techs this Honda is giving me headache. Every time it starts the idle goes up to 3300 rpm and than drops to 700 rpm and than back to 3300 and cycle never stops. This hunting, as I call it, happens regardless if the engine is cold or hot. When throttle i... Trouble codes: 23 (Knock Sensor)
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|2001 Mazda 626 ES 2.0L readiness status inc VIN: 1YVGF22C31
Hello Mazda techs. Ihave this 2001 626 tha failed the state OBD II readiness check. The EVAP system readiness status is not ready. The MIL is not on. I have no DTCs. The customer complained of the MIL going on and off while driving. I diaged the system and fou...
|1995 Mitsubishi Galant ES 2.4L Poor Idle Quality, Hesitation, Stall, Misfire VIN: 4A3AJ56G2S
this car will not idle good cold are hot.falls flat when you give it some gas at around 2500 rpm will pick up with no problem.when you put it in gear it gets worse.timing is ok even check tdc to make sure it was correct with the mark.also check cam marks and t...
|1992 Toyota Camry LE 2.2L no start VIN: JT2SK12E5N
I have this 92 camry that was just towed in. It won't start, and has a blown AM2 fuse under the hood. My all data information system says nothing about what AM2 is for. PLEASE, anyone out there know what this fuse runs, as soon as I turn the key on, it blows t...
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Hello my friends car came to garage with ESP lamp on. i tried to turn it off by pressing the ESP button but no use. i checked codes for that car and found out 01423 SENSOR DIAGONAL ACCELERATION G200 electrical circuit problem. i have checked on AUTODATA but n...
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|1997 Audi A8 Quattro 4.2L insp I notification VIN: WAUBG84D3V
after speaking with Ross-Tech, since I can talk with the engine and the abs control units we have determined the communication problem is instrument cluster caused. the customer has the car and will either live with the problem or replace the cluster, his choi...
|1995 Buick Riviera 3.8L No Start VIN: 1G4GD2213S
First of all, I would like to thank everyone who responded to my request. All the responses were great. A special thanks to Harold from Chicago for calling me long distance. The problem with the car was the ignition switch. It was making false contact at crank...
|1996 Ford Contour GL 2.0L Front wheel bearing VIN: 1FALP6533T
Thanks for all the help guys! Twenty replies in three days--pretty good. The replies were split three ways: ground problem, axle nut torque and worn/bent hub. When we came to press the old bearing out of the hub, the bearing busted apart and the inner race rem...
|2000 Ford Windstar LX 3.8L Poor Idle Quality, Hesitation, Surge, Cuts out, Stall, MIL Lamp on VIN: 2FMZA5141Y
Well the MAF fixed this vehicle. We did not reflash the PCM. It is running fine now. Thanks for the replies, Tom. Trouble codes: 1100 (MAF voltage out of range), 1121 (TP not in sync with MAF).
|2002 Honda CR-V EX 2.4L instrument cluster VIN: JHLRD788X2
First thanks for the help..particulary Wayne in Tampa Bay. Most replys said to check the park lamp bulbs for feeding back into the Turn signal circits. I did that one bulb at a time until no bulbs remained with no change in the symptom. Having accessed schemat...
|1994 Lexus LS400 4.0L valves VIN: JT8UF11EOR
I had 10 suggestions on this question. Eight said to leave the valves alone, unless they're noisy. Toyota dropped the valve adjustment requirement in '96 and substituted an 'audible' test--if they're noisy, adjust them. Several techs said they had customers wi...
|1992 Lincoln Mark VII LSC 5.0L brake/abs light on all the time VIN: 4LNCM92E8N
I wish to thank Paul and Frank as they really steered us in the right direction. We actually had two problems. First one the customer introduced after the original repair. The customer had changed the fluid level switch with another one supplied by someone els...
|1999 Mercedes-Benz C280 2.8L dash light VIN: MBZDFG123T
thanks, I feel dum for asking such a simple question but the telescoping steering was unlocked all I had to do was move the lever. No owners manual in car so I had to ask
|1993 Other Chrysler van 3.3L engine fuse VIN: 45VXA0239F
thanks for all that replied. The company that owns the van has decided to sell it since it is one of the oldest vans in there fleet.
|1995 Pontiac Grand Am SE 2.3L Poor Idle Quality, Hesitation, Cuts out, Stall VIN: 1G2NE55D3S
I am still fighting with car I have tried a 2nd pcm and new prom to no avail I have checked the coolant temp sensor I also drove the car with my scanner hooked up and as 1 of the replys pointed out the quad driver fault does go away as soon as it shifts out of...
|2000 Volkswagen Golf GLS 1.9L Chip-tuning VIN: WVWGF21J8Y
Got two useful responses. Alex from Utah recommended Upsolute's chip(www.alexsautohaus.com). The other one is: www.nycsuperchips.com Customer is still thinking about it. Thanks for th einfo!
|2000 Volkswagen Passat GLS 1.8L MIL Lamp on VIN: WVWMA23B1Y
Thanks to all. car had a crack in a small vac hose -- didnt see it w smoke machine + 1 mill candle power lite -- mabe a 2 mill or new glasses , started hard pulling + tugging -- found it. Re using the baum for running monitors everebody says do it warm -- i ... Trouble codes: P1136 (lean idle), 17544 (vag idle adaption lean).
|2001 Volkswagen Passat GLS 1.8L oil in coolant VIN: WVWPD63B21
I would like to thank everyone that responded to my help request. It was a concensus that the oil cooler was bad. We have one coming to put on in the morning. Again, thanks to all the replies to the request. IATN ROCKS. Thanks You Again Richard [...]
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Sena uses loophole in law to allow Shewale to be both MP and corporator
Corporator Rahul Shewale has won the LS polls and become an MP, but the Shiv Sena is insistent that he perform the double role. Will he be able to take care of his constituency and ward?
In a literal double standard, Rahul Shewale, once a local corporator, is now both that and a Member of Parliament. While this isn't anything that falls foul of the law, it certainly looks like the Shiv Sena has squeezed the book to find a get-out and let Shewale continue as a corporator.
Also read: Shiv Sena decides to replace Rahul Shewale as standing committee chairman
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According to the Representation of the People Act, any person who is a Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) cannot be an MP. They have to resign from either post within 14 days of being elected so as to assume/retain the other office.
Newly-elected Sena MP Rahul Shewale celebrating his victory. File pic
There is, however, no counterpart to this stipulation in the local governance. As far as municipal matters are concerned, one may continue as a city councillor even if they are an MP or an MLA. Legal experts feel queasy with this law.
"Every law should be amended with time, including the election-related law," said lawyer Uday Warujikar. He also said that the Representation Act and the Municipal Corporation Act are both disparate. "We cannot say that there is a loophole, although an amendment is necessary."
While Shewale offered to resign from the posts of corporator and member of the BMC standing committee, Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray, sources say, is not keen to let him go. He may allow him to continue holding both the posts.
At least for the next six months, until the assembly elections are over, Rahul (Shewale) will be holding both the posts, if no legal issues arise," said a Sena source on the condition of anonymity.
For his part, Shewale is in the clear. "I have handed in my resignation as corporator as well as standing committee member to the party president. The party will make the decision," he said. Narayan Pathade, municipal secretary, said that any corporator elected to legislature of Parliament may continue till the current corporal term expires.
There are many precedents to the Shewale paradigm, when corporators elected as MLAs have enjoyed their tenure. Former deputy chief minister Chhagan Bhujbal held the mayoral post from 1985-86, after he was elected as MLA.
Former chief minister and Congress leader Narayan Rane held the post of BEST committee chairman, while he was MLA. Corporators Ravindra Waikar, Yogesh Sagar, Prakash Sawant, Rajhans Singh, Rameshsing Thakur, Aslam Shaikh and Mangesh Sangle entered the legislative assembly in the last state elections, but completed the remainder of their roughly two-and-a-half-years-long tenures.
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Citizen groups feel that their representative should hold only one public post at a time. "The law should be amended in a way that one person holds one public office at a time," said James John, coordinator for Action for Good Governance working in India (AGNI) NGO.
"Shewale will not be able to attend corporation meetings now, and obviously, his ward will be affected. How much attention would he be able to give to his civic post? This may lead to a 'proxy governance', like Shewale might appoint a person to do local work.
This system would also give an incentive to wrongdoers. People who want to indulge in illegal acts like unauthorised construction or stealing water may exploit this situation. He cannot do justice at all," said John. GR Vora, member of a citizen group of F-North ward, says this sends out the wrong message to the people.
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The Homeric Hymns A New Prose translation and Essays, Literary and Mythological
Page: 17We may be inclined to doubt, however, whether the task before the genius of Greece, the task of making Proserpine out of a porker, was really so colossal. The primitive mind is notoriously capable of entertaining, simultaneously, the most contradictory notions. Thus, in the Australian "Legend of Eerin," the mourners implore Byamee to accept the soul of the faithful Eerin into his Paradise, Bullimah. No doubt Byamee heard, yet Eerin is now a little owl of plaintive voice, which ratters warning cries in time of peril. {65} No incongruity of this kind is felt to be a difficulty by the childlike narrators. Now I conceive that, starting with the relatively high idea of a Spirit of the Grain, early man was quite capable of envisaging it both spiritually and in zoomorphic form (accidentally p. 66conditioned here into horse, there into goat, pig, or what not). But these views of his need not exclude his simultaneous belief in the Corn Spirit as a being anthropomorphic, "Mother Earth," or "Mother Grain," as we follow the common etymology; or that of Mannhardt (ζεια (dæa) μητηρ="barley-mother"). If I am right, poetry and the higher religion moved from the first on the line of the anthropomorphic Lady of the Harvest and the Corn, Mother Barley: while the popular folk-lore of the Corn Spirit (which found utterance in the mirth of harvesting, and in the magic ritual for ensuring fertility), followed on the line of the pig. At some seasons, and in some ceremonies, the pig represented the genius of the corn: in general, the Lady of the Corn was—Demeter. We really need not believe that the two forms of the genius of the corn were ever consciously identified. Demeter never was a Pig! {66} p. 67
"The Peruvians, we are told, believed all useful plants to be animated by a divine being who causes their growth," says Mr. Frazer. {67} The genealogical table, then, in my opinion, is:—
Divine Being of the Grain. | +---------+--------------------------+ | | (Anthropomorphized). (Zoomorphised). Mother of Corn. Pig, Horse, Demeter. and so on.
Thus the Greek genius had other and better materials to work on, in evolving Demeter, than the rather lowly animal which is associated with her rites. If any one objects that animal gods always precede anthropomorphic gods in evolution, we reply that, in the most archaic of known races, the deities are represented in human guise at the Mysteries, though there are animal Totems, and though, in myth, the deity p. 68may, and often does, assume shapes of bird or beast. {68}
Among rites of the backward races, none, perhaps, so closely resembles the Eleusinian Mysteries as the tradition of the Pawnees. In Attica, Hades, Lord of the Dead, ravishes away Persephone, the vernal daughter of Demeter. Demeter then wanders among men, and is hospitably received by Celeus, King of Eleusis. Baffled in her endeavour to make his son immortal, she demands a temple, where she sits in wrath, blighting the grain. She is reconciled by the restoration of her daughter, at the command of Zeus. But for a third of the year Persephone, having tasted a pomegranate seed in Hades, has to reign as Queen of the Dead, beneath the earth. Scenes from this tale were, no doubt, enacted at the Mysteries, with interludes of buffoonery, such as relieved most ancient and all savage Mysteries. The allegory of the year's death and renewal probably afforded a text for some p. 69discourse, or spectacle, concerned with the future life.
Among the Pawnees, not a mother and daughter, but two primal beings, brothers, named Manabozho and Chibiabos, are the chief characters. The Manitos (spirits or gods) drown Chibiabos. Manabozho mourns and smears his face with black, as Demeter wears black raiment. He laments Chibiabos ceaselessly till the Manitos propitiate him with gifts and ceremonies. They offer to him a cup, like the beverage prepared for Demeter, in the Hymn, by Iambê. He drinks it, is glad, washes off the black stain of mourning, and is himself again, while Earth again is joyous. The Manitos restore Chibiabos to life; but, having once died, he may not enter the temple, or "Medicine Lodge." He is sent to reign over the souls of the departed as does Persephone. Manabozho makes offerings to Mesukkumikokwi, the "Earth Mother" of the Pawnees. The story is enacted in the sacred dances of the Pawnees. {69} p. 70


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Moody's Investors Service, one of the nation's top bond credit agencies, has upgraded
Arizona's credit outlook from "negative" to "stable." This rating improvement arrives on the heels of Standard & Poor's announcement late last year, when the credit ratings service similarly upgraded the outlook for the State's fiscal condition, certificates of participation and lease revenue debt.
"This is wonderful news for Arizona," said Governor Jan Brewer. "In the past two months, two of the country's largest credit ratings services have recognized the great fiscal strides Arizona has made since 2009.
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Moody's announcement is just the latest validation that Arizona's economy and financial position are on the mend. Recently-released numbers show that, over the 12-month period between December 2010 and December 2011, Arizona's job growth ranked 11th best in the nation. Additionally, the state's unemployment rate is the lowest it has been since February 2009.
"Our work is far from over," said Governor Brewer. "But this week's announcement from Moody's is further validation of the difficult budget decisions we've made and new evidence of Arizona's improving economy. This is fantastic news to carry us into our 100th year of Statehood.
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