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|Coming To Terms With The Lost Years
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Coming To Terms With The Lost Years
by Fred Penzel, Ph. D.
There is an important, if unspoken, issue among those who suffer from OCD. It affects both those who have recovered as well as those who are still in the throes of the disorder. It involves the irretrievable loss of that which is most precious to us all, something we all possess in limited quantities. I am referring to the loss of time.
One study done a number of years ago indicated that the average amount of elapsed time from the onset of OC symptoms until the time an individual went for treatment was approximately seven years. What studies don't detail for us is that these were years spent suffering, years of little or no productivity, years spent hiding symptoms from family and friends.
The question here is how may a person come to terms with the loss of a part of their lives, be it a few years or even decades? Obviously, for those who cannot come to terms with such a loss the outcome is depression and feelings of anger and resentment, not unlike reactions seen in grief for someone we have lost. It is bad enough to lose a part of one's life to a mistake or a decision made that you can at least feel responsible for or explain, but it is far worse to have been in the grip of microscopic flaws in your own brain chemistry, most likely inherited in the same manner as one's height or hair color. There is at least some comfort in knowing that your loss was due to something that you could have had a say in. A sufferer asking, "What did I do to deserve this?" will be hard put to come up with an answer that is consoling. We spend a lot of time in these articles discussing symptoms and how to get help for them, but not enough perhaps in understanding how this disorder impacts on people's lives and how sufferers can make sense of and go on living with these things.
To get some help in understanding these questions, I solicited information and reactions from attendees at an OCD support and education meeting I conduct monthly. A poll taken among the sixteen sufferers yielded the following information: by their own reckoning, they had lost an average of 13.7 years of their lives to OCD, ranging from 9 months to 45 years. The total lost time among these sixteen was 219 years, the equivalent of about three lifetimes! Not all were currently in treatment.
Much of what they had to say is probably typical of most OCD sufferers. At one end of the scale was extreme rage and anger; one person said that they still "hold a grudge." Another expressed anger and rage over having lost years to an incorrect diagnosis. The term "a living hell" was the way another characterized the lost years. Others expressed anger at themselves for having participated in the illness, even though they knew what it was doing to their lives. A comment relevant to this was made by one person who stated, "You regret it while you're going through it, but you don't care how much time you waste."
A bit further down the scale from anger was a feeling of extreme sadness and regret. This reaction seemed almost universal in our group: the feeling of having felt helpless then, as time went by, and knowing now that they are powerless to reclaim it. Some said that this sadness could escalate to depression if they concentrated on the subject enough.
Finally, at the other end of the scale was a feeling of current detachment and disconnectedness as a result of this past incapacitation. One individual stated that due to this lost time he now felt "like an alien." Similarly, another stated that "I feel total detachment now. My symptoms are less now, but I feel outside the everyday world." Rather than feeling strong emotion, some seem to have lost emotional contact with others, having drifted away during the period of their illness.
Clearly, we elicited a lot of unhappy reactions, having raised a rather sad topic. There was, however, one ray of hope. There was one woman who said she was now in recovery. Rather than concentrating on what was lost, she said "I feel fortunate at having found the right treatment." She further said that having escaped the illness, she was now able to live with "a sense of joy." While not wanting to seem like a Pollyanna, she added that "You never forget the time you wasted."
I believe there is something to be learned from this person. Looking for joy and purpose in the present, and trying to live each day thankfully and productively, while coming to terms with feelings about the past, is probably the wisest course of action. Looking back to a past that can never be retrieved is useless and paradoxical because in doing so, one runs the risk of losing even more time to feeling disturbed. Yesterday is beyond our control, just as the future is.
I believe that AA has it right with their motto"One day at a time." It can clearly be seen that all those who only look back on their lost years have merely achieved remorse, regret, bitterness and anger, rather than anything positive. Realistically, we know that being in recovery is no guarantee of a "perfect" life; there are no guarantees in this world. Recovering from OCD means overcoming perfectionism and the need for certainty. Medication is liberating, but it isn't perfect; nor is it free from troubling side effects. Everyday life, free of OC symptoms, will still contain its share of stress, responsibility and sadness. Some look at these realities and decide it isn't worth it, that it is more comfortable to cling to the discomforts they have grown familiar with, rather than risk trading them for the unknown. Some may even shortsightedly believe they have more to gain by remaining ill and settle for half-lives. Being in recovery means being free to participate, as everyone else, in the same imperfect world filled with fallible humans. However, it also means regaining the ability to be spontaneous, to strive, to be able to experience successes as well as failures, and to be able to take the credit or responsibility for either to be an actor, rather than a reactor. There may be dangers out there, but many are able to look past these and also see the opportunities. Suffice it to say that, despite whatever drawbacks some sufferers may perceive in recovery, no one I have ever known who has made it and put an end to the "lost years" has ever wanted to return to them.
Coming to terms with the "lost years" is a healing process. For those who cannot achieve an adjustment to the loss and find healing on their own, counseling will be of help - probably a type not unlike grief counseling. I say this because where there is great loss, mourning is important work necessary to coming to terms with it. In a book entitled "Grief Counseling and Grief Therapy," by J. William Worden, Ph.D., four goals of grief counseling are identified. They are, to paraphrase: 1) to accept the reality of the loss; 2) to identify, deal with, and express feelings (such as guilt, anger, anxiety, sadness, etc.); 3) to help the person to overcome various impediments to establishing a life after the loss; 4) to encourage the individual to make a healthy emotional withdrawal from the deceased and to feel comfortable reinvesting that emotion in another relationship (in our case, substitute "illness years" for "deceased", and "future life" for "relationship"). I believe that any counseling to help someone adjust to their lost years should work at these four tasks of mourning.
If your "lost years" are keeping you from moving ahead either with your therapy, or with your life post-recovery, consider getting help with this issue. It is real, it is legitimate, and it is worth resolving.
If you would like to read more about what Dr. Penzel has to say about OCD, take a look at his self-help book, "Obsessive-Compulsive Disorders: A Complete Guide to Getting Well and Staying Well," (Oxford University Press, 2000). You can learn more about it at www.ocdbook.com
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These is My Words: the Diary of Sarah Agnes Prine
by Nancy E. Turner
First Published: 1998
8 Copies & Reading Guide
These Is My Words uses the love of learning as a major plot element in a story inspired by the author's great-grandmother, Sarah Prine. It is set during a time in Territorial Arizona when life was hard and tenuous. The story is a portrait of the courage and perseverance of one woman, and a love affair that will never be forgotten.
Reading Guides:
OneBookAZ 2008: Includes Discussion Questions and Historic Context
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As the world gets smaller, but our online one bigger, the need to share files with each others is growing at a fast pace. Cloud computing services like Dropbox are quick to get going and free to run initially, but can soon start costing you money in monthly fees if you want more than a couple of gigabytes of storage.
In steps the Pogoplug a device that allows you to connect multiple hard drives to the Internet to allow you to store and share files from. Your own "personal cloud" as the box shouts.
We would like to say the unit itself is fairly nondescript, and for the most part (except for the colour) it is. Bright pink and white, you can plug it into the wall, then to your router via the Ethernet cable provided. An LED light gives you a status, while around the back you get three USB sockets. For quick access there is also a fourth USB socket on the front.
To activate your Pogoplug all you've got to do is plug it in, connect it to your router and then go to the website and press a few buttons. A couple of seconds later you can access your data via the Pogoplug website and start sharing it with others.
We are, it has to be said, really impressed by the set-up process, at no point did we have to start messing around with routers, firewall settings, or anything else remotely complicated. It just works.
Connecting USB hard drives can vary from a standard USB thumb drive to a full-on 1TB drive with its own power supply, giving you virtually infinite space to work with. In our tests we ran a Samsung 120GB USB 2.0 powered hard drive and a couple of USB thumb drives in a range of sizes. Thankfully, the USB sockets around the back are spaced out enough to load in multiple drives rather than being cramped.
Once you've connected all the storage space you need you'll probably never have to see it again hidden out of sight like your router, and so that pink isn't really going to get the comments that it deserves.
Accessing the drive is via a number of different ways - Mac, PC, or Linux software on the desktop, the obligatory iPhone app, or via a browser-based interface. We tested all bar the Linux application for this review.
When we say software, what that actually means is that you get to access the folders from your desktop. If you are the owner of the drives (rather than just a sharer) then you get full access as if it was a hard drive you've connected directly to your computer. You'll also get a second folder called files shared with me, and that allows you to see files, you've guessed it, that other people are sharing with you. Depending on the permissions you might only be able to see this folder or you might be able to have full read/write control.
Throwing a file into your folder then updates all the shared folders you've created, although unlike Dropbox, probably Pogoplug's main competitor, you never automatically store the file locally on other machines. It's always on and stays on those drives connected to the Pogoplug.
There are qualms of course. Unlike Dropbox you'll have to manually refresh or "reload" folders on other machines to see what's in the shared folder.
One feature we did like, however, was the ability for it to automatically copy photos, videos, music and other files from your computer to your Pogoplug. The software then automatically syncs those folders when you are connected so you've always got a backup copy to share.
As for the iPhone software, it's a little easier. Here files are automatically added to three "smart folders": Movies, Music, and Photos as well as giving you a list of the specific drives you've got plugged in.
You can search all the drives at once to find the file you are looking for and the fact that any movie files are automatically dumped in the movie section is a great time saver.
Where this opens up a can of worms is that you can then share your movies and music files with yourself or your friends to access when away from your computer. We were able to stream our home music library and home movie library (non DRM-ed) with our iPhone over a 3G connection.
There are some limitations, mainly that you have to give the system time to "transcode" your video (until that happens, it will take around 24 hours for a 2GB file, you get an 11 second preview), but once that is done, you can then stream your music or videos - handy if you're on the train or in a hotel room.
The only frustration with the iPhone app is that you can't upload files from the iPhone to your "personal cloud" like you can Dropbox. It's not a deal breaker, but it would have been nice to be able to take a picture and then have it saved to your pictures folder for everyone you are sharing with to see.
With the iPhone and Desktop apps more for accessing content, settings and other options are managed through the simple to use website. Logging in gets you to you're my.pogoplug.com interface allowing you to manage sharing options and the drives you have got connected.
Settings include managing your drives, managing your sharing options (full access or just view) as well as seeing those files in an array of different views just like you can on your computer.
For the social networking fan you can also share folder details via Facebook, Twitter, and even via an RSS so people can track folder updates.
Sharing involves you giving out links to folders and either people accessing that page via the Pogoplug website or via the software which they've installed (see above). Basically you'll be able to share your files with anyone on the Internet.
The Pogoplug is basically a mini web-server that allows you to quickly and easily share content with the world from your home without having to know a damn thing about web servers, FTP protocols or anything else.
The system is incredibly simple to use, manage and enjoy, and because you are supplying the hard drive space, it is not restricted by storage implications associated with solutions currently out there.
While that means no associated monthly rental costs, you still have to buy the Pogoplug and the hard drive space that you need.
That makes it quite expensive against Dropbox for the casual user. Its services are limited to 2GB before you have to start paying a monthly bill, suggesting a better offering if you aren't sure you are going to use something like this to any great extent.
However for those who believe 2GB isn't enough, and looking to share a large photo or music collection with clients or friends, or even to run as the office server for all your shared documents, this would serve you very well.
The Pogoplug is excellent, however it is only for those who share lots of content.


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A four-week institute for twenty-five higher education faculty to engage in discussion and debate over critical issues in the field of development ethics.
Co-directors Fredrick Gifford (philosophy, Michigan State University) and Eric Palmer (philosophy, Allegheny College) lead an institute to review the first generation of scholarship in development ethics and to frame new directions in this field. A cross between social and political philosophy, development ethics arises out of reflection on the social, political, economic, and cultural implications of international development. It considers the theoretical and practical challenges that attend questions of responsibility, human rights, environmental sustainability, and global justice.
To be held at Michigan State University, the institute features eight leading scholars: Thomas Pogge (Yale University), David Crocker (University of Maryland), Boaventura de Sousa Santos (University of Coimbra, Portugal), Sandra Harding (University of California, Los Angeles), Bronwyn Leebaw (University of California, Riverside), Jay Drydyk (Carleton University, Canada), Asuncion St. Clair (University of Bergen, Norway), and Nigel Dower (University of Aberdeen, UK).
The guest lecturers visit in pairs and engage in critical debates with each other and hold panel discussions with participants. In addition, four faculty members from the philosophy department at Michigan State, Paul Thomson, Richard Peterson, Stephen Esquith, and Kyle Whyte, each present their work on complementary topics. Participants make presentations at workshops and develop collaborative projects.
The first week of the institute surveys overarching themes of global justice and explores the capabilities approach to development. The second week considers critiques of development, from post-colonial, feminist, and epistemological perspectives. The third week considers development activity that permanently displaces populations. The fourth and final week examines the subject of sustainability and the environment, before reviewing broad issues of global ethics that pertain to development ethics.
Readings include: David Crocker, Ethics of Global Development; Thomas Pogge and Adian Hollis, "The Health Impact Fund"; William Schanbacher, The Politics of Food; Boaventura de Sousa Santos (eds.), Another Knowledge is Possible; Bronwyn Leebaw, Judging State-Sponsored Violence; Mahbub Ul Haq, Reflections on Human Development; Nigel Dower, World Ethics; and Paul Harris (ed.), Ethics and Global Environmental Policy.
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the online freedom that was never there
Yes, I know, it's been a while since my last post but life has a way of getting in the way of steady, regular blogging. And of course there's still the work on Project X on the horizon which will affect that happens to Weird Things, but more on that in due time. Today's topic is one which I heavily debated with myself before addressing because it's been a near constant drumbeat in the news and the coverage has been almost overwhelmingly tilted towards setting the outrage dial all the way to 11 and tearing the knob off. I'm talking about the family of NSA surveillance programs for monitoring the internet and intercepting immense amounts of traffic and metadata, of course. As the revelations have been dropped on a regular schedule, the outrage keeps getting louder. In the techie media the most prominent reaction is "how could they?" According to online activists, the internet exists for the free exchange of ideas and a way to speak truth to power when need be, so the NSA's snooping is a violation of the principles on which the internet was built.
Unfortunately, that's just a soothing fantasy we tell ourselves today. Originally, the internet was developed as a means to exchange information between military researchers and Tor, the go-to tool for at least partial online anonymity (unless you get a nasty virus) was being developed to hide the tell-tale signs of electronic eavesdropping via onion routing by the U.S. Navy until it was spun off by the EFF. And while the web was meant to share scientific data for CERN over a very user unfriendly network at the time, it was given its near-ubiquity by big companies which didn't adopt the technology and wrote browsers out of the goodness of their heart and desire to make the world into one big, global family, but because they wanted to make money. The internet was built to make classified and complex research easier, tamed for profit, and is delivered via a vast infrastructure worth many billions operated by massive businesses firmly within the grasp of a big government agency. It's never been meant for world peace, anonymity, and public debate.
Now don't get me wrong, it's great that we can give political dissidents voices and promote ideas for peace and cooperation across the world at nearly the speed of light. We should be doing as much of that as possible. But my point is that this is not the primary function of the system, even if this is what cyber-anarchists and idealistic start-up owners in the Bay Area tell you. It's a side-effect. So when massive companies give data flying through the web to spy agencies on request and even accept payment for it, we're seeing the entities that built the system using it to further their own goals and means, and to comply with orders of governments that have power to bring them down if they want. It's not fair, but picking a fight with the NSA is kind of like declaring that you're going to play chicken with a nuclear aircraft carrier while paddling a canoe. At best, they'll be amused. At worst, they'll sink you with nary an effort. Wikipedia can encrypt all of its traffic as a form of protest, but a) the NSA really doesn't care about how many summaries of comic book character plot lines you read, and b) if it suddenly starts caring, it'll find a way to spy on you. It's basically the agency's job, and we've known it's been doing that since 2006.
For all the outrage about the NSA, we need to focus on the most important problems with what's going on. We have an agency which snoops on everyone and everything, passively storing data to use if you catch their attention and it decides you merit a deep dive into their database that's holding every significant electronic communication you've had for the last decade or so. This is great if you're trying to catch spies or would-be terrorists (but come on people, more than likely spies based on the infrastructure being brought into focus), but it also runs against the rights to due process and protection from warrantless, suspicionless searches and seizures. Blaming the legal departments of Microsoft, Google, and Yahoo for complying with official orders is useless, and pretending that an information exchange network built to make money and maintained by a consortium of profit-minded groups is somehow a bastion of freedom being corrupted by the evil maws of the U.S. government just seems hopelessly naive. Americans don't like to think of their country as a global hegemony just doing what global hegemons do and using its might to secure its interests. They like to think of it as having a higher calling. For them, reality bites.
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Norman Krasna's World War II-era romantic comedy "Dear Ruth" is a delightful addition to the fall shows we have enjoyed in previous years at Crestview High School.
Norman Krasna's World War II-era romantic comedy "Dear Ruth" is a delightful addition to the fall shows we have enjoyed in previous years at Crestview High School.
All's not well in the Wilkins household � and Judge Harry Wilkins' calm is definitely unsettled. His youngest daughter, 16-year-old Miriam, is taking support for the war effort to an extreme.
She's wearing a beret in solidarity with the occupied French, signed her father up to donate blood without telling him, and exchanges letters with an Army Air Corps officer to boost his morale.
That's all well and good until the day, to quote Judge Wilkins, "the lieutenant has come home to roost."
Miriam's been signing the name of her older sister, Ruth, to the letters, and even sent the soldier a photo of her sibling. Now he's home on leave and keen to meet his sweetheart pen pal.
Who just that day become engaged.
"Dear Ruth" opens Thursday evening and runs Friday and Saturday nights. The cast features Megan Keiffer as Miriam, Jill Cumbia as Ruth, Michael Brooks as Judge Wilkins, Katie Rocha as Mrs. Wilkins, Wesley Barlow as Lt. Seawright, and Walter Jagielski as Albert, the hapless fianc�.
"He was lonely and poured his heart out to me," Miriam tells her father.
"Who's going to pour it back?" he demands.
Find out this weekend on the Pearl Tyner Auditorium stage.
WHAT: Norman Krasna's romantic comedy "Dear Ruth"
WHO: Crestview High School drama program
WHEN: 7 p.m. Oct. 24, 25 and 26
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Recover deleted files from Samsung Galaxy
First, download a reliable Samsung Galaxy recovery software tool: Wondershare Dr.Fone for Android. This software allows you to recover contacts, messages, photos and video from Samsung Galaxy devices, like Galaxy S, Galaxy Note, Galaxy Ace, and more.
Download the free trial version of this Samsung Galaxy recovery software now:
Step1. Connect your Samsung Galaxy to the computer
Above all things, connect your Samsung Galaxy to the computer with a USB cable. Then run the program and you'll get the main interface below.
Step2. Enable USB debugging before scanning your phone
Then you need to enable USB debugging before scanning your device. There are three options for you to follow. Choose the right Android OS vesion for your phone, and follow to set it.
1) For Android 2.3 or earlier: Enter "Settings" < Click "Applications" < Click "Development" < Check "USB debugging"
2) For Android 3.0 to 4.1: Enter "Settings" < Click "Developer options" < Check "USB debugging"
3) For Android 4.2 or newer: Enter "Settings" < Click "About Phone" < Tap "Build number" for several times until getting a note "You are under developer mode" < Back to "Settings" < Click "Developer options" < Check "USB debugging"
Step3. Begin to scan your Samsung Galaxy
When your device is connected and detected by the program, click the "Start" button in the screen below to start analyzing it. Before doing this, make sure that your phone battery is more than 20% charged, so that you can get a smooth scan.
After the analyzing, you need to turn to your device's homescreen to click "Allow", so that the scan can be started. Then click "Start" to scan your device now.
Note: For some devices, they may ask you to click "Allow" more than one time on your device's homescreen. It's normal. Just do it if it askes.
Step4. Preview and recover data from Samsung Galaxy
The scan will take you some time. When messages and contacts are scanned out, it will remind you. And you can stop the scan to get them back if you only want to recover deleted messages and contacts. For photos and video, it will take you more time to scan out all of them.
After the scan, you can check details of all the found data one by one. Mark those you want and click "Recover" to save them on your computer.
Note: Don't save the recovered data on your Samsung Galaxy again. Find another place for it like on your computer or other external disk, for safety's sake. If you want to import your contacts, photos and video back to your device, you can use Wondershare MobileGo for Android, which lets you manage contents on your Android device effortlessly, including messages, contacts, photos, videos, apps, etc.
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The hierarchy was constructed based on the information provided in the atlas (pages 281-287), and on the latest version of the hierarchical tree provided by the first author of the atlas. Some structures are captured in two or more hierarchical trees in the used sources. Details are provided for those structures.
Author: Mai J.K., Assheuer J., Paxinos G.
Title of Book: Atlas of the Human Brain
Year: 1997
Pages: 295-328
Edition: First edition
Publisher: Academic Press
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- Medial nuclear group of thalamus
- Nuclei of the internal medullary lamina
- suprageniculate nucleus
- nucleus cucullaris of the thalamus
- intralamellar thalamic nuclei
- fasciculosus nucleus
- paratenial thalamic nucleus
- limitans thalamic nucleus
- commissural nucleus of the thalamus
- centromedial thalamic nucleus
- parafascicular thalamic nucleus
- pulvinar nucleus
- Lateral-ventral nuclei of thalamus
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- Ventroposterior nucleus of thalamus
- ventral posterolateral thalamic nucleus, inferior part
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- ventroposterior inferior thalamic
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- Lateropolar region of thalamus
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For the past few years, I've dreamed small. My small dream was to convince the Connecticut General Assembly to amend a statute honoring a man who dreamed big.
Last year, Connecticut General Statute Chapter 2 Section 1-4 read "the first Monday occurring on or after January 15th as 'Martin Luther King Day.'"
The Federal Holiday is the "Birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr." U.S. Code Section 6103(a).
For three years, I argued on this blog that the legislature should amend Connecticut General Statute 1-4 to read "Martin Luther King, Jr. Day". I went as far as submitting testimony to the General Assembly.
On June 12, 2012, in special session the General Assembly made exactly that change when it enacted Sp.Sess., P.A. 12-2, § 30.
Today for the first time that Connecticut is celebrating "Martin Luther King, Jr. Day".


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On Bitcoin Buying Sites in 2017 have become a very well known and popular question over time. OK, so what's Bitcoin?
It's not an actual coin, it's "cryptocurrency," a digital form of payment that is produced ("mined") by lots of people worldwide. It allows peer-to-peer transactions instantly, worldwide, for free or at very low cost.
Bitcoin was invented after decades of research into cryptography by software developer, Satoshi Nakamoto (believed to be a pseudonym), who designed the algorithm and introduced it in 2009. His true identity remains a mystery.
This currency is not backed by a tangible commodity (such as gold or silver); bitcoins are traded online which makes them a commodity in themselves.
Bitcoin is an open-source product, accessible by anyone who is a user. All you need is an email address, Internet access, and money to get started.
Is Bitcoin A Good Investment?
Bitcoin is mined on a distributed computer network of users running specialized software; the network solves certain mathematical proofs, and searches for a particular data sequence ("block") that produces a particular pattern when the BTC trading is applied to it. A match produces a bitcoin. It's complex and time- and energy-consuming.
Only 21 million bitcoins are ever to be mined (about 11 million are currently in circulation). The math problems the network computers solve get progressively more difficult to keep the mining operations and supply in check.
This network also validates all the transactions through cryptography.
How Does Bitcoins work?
Internet users transfer digital assets (bits) to each other on a network. There is no online bank; rather, Bitcoin has been described as an Internet-wide distributed ledger. Users buy Bitcoin with cash or by selling a product or service for Bitcoins. Bitcoin wallets store and use this digital currency. Users may sell out of this virtual ledger by trading their Bitcoin to someone else who wants in. Anyone can do this, anywhere in the world.
There are smartphone apps for conducting mobile Bitcoin transactions and Bitcoins exchanges are populating the Internet.
How is Bitcoin valued?
Bitcoin is not held or controlled by a financial institution; it is completely decentralized. Unlike real-world money it cannot be devalued by governments or banks.
These cashless transactions are fast and the processor can convert bitcoins into currency and make a daily direct deposit into the establishment's bank account. It was announced in January 2014 that two Las Vegas hotel-casinos will accept Bitcoin payments at the front desk, in their restaurants, and in the gift shop.
It sounds good – so what's the catch?
Business owners should consider issues of participation, security and cost.
• A relatively small number of ordinary consumers and merchants currently use or understand Bitcoin. However, adoption is increasing globally and tools and technologies are being developed to make participation easier.
• It's the Internet, so hackers are threats to the exchanges. The Economist reported that a Bitcoin exchange was hacked in September 2013 and $250,000 in bitcoins was stolen from users' online vaults. Bitcoins can be stolen like other currency, so vigilant network, server and database security is paramount.
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• Users must carefully safeguard their bitcoin wallets which contain their private keys. Secure backups or printouts are crucial.
• Bitcoin is not regulated or insured by the US government so there is no insurance for your account if the exchange goes out of business or is robbed by hackers.
• Bitcoins are relatively expensive. Current rates and selling prices are available on the online exchanges.
The virtual currency is not yet universal but it is gaining market awareness and acceptance. A business may decide to try Bitcoin to save on credit card and bank fees, as a customer convenience, or to see if it helps or hinders sales and profitability.
Are you thinking about accepting Bitcoin? Do you already use it? Share your thoughts and experiences with us.
Looking for a Bitcoin Buying Guide? Wondering where to start? People have a lot of misconceptions about bitcoin – the very first widely known and accepted cryptocurrency worldwide.
A lot of people think for example that only hackers and shady people use it. However bitcoin is actually going mainstream with everyone from TigerDirect to Expedia.com to Dell and even Subway accepting payments in bitcoin now.
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Well, bitcoin has a lot of benefits over other currencies. For example, you can send bitcoins to someone as payment without having to go through the bank middleman (and get hit with extra fees). It's also much faster than sending money via a bank wire or transfer. You can send bitcoins to someone and have them receiving the coins in seconds.
With all of this, it's no surprise that many people are now trying to buy bitcoin for the first time. However it's not as easy as going to your bank and withdrawing bitcoins – or going to a store and plunking down some hard-earned cash for bitcoin.
The system works a bit differently than that. This Bitcoin Buying Guide will go over a few things you need to know before you buy – so you can buy safely and securely.
Take your time and research the different places to buy before you decide. Factors to consider include coin prices, extra fees, method of payment and customer service.
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Once you've found a place to buy, get your funds ready (i.e. you may send a wire transfer or use your Visa to fund your account). Then wait for a good price. (Bitcoin prices are always fluctuating 24 hours, 7 days a week). Then place your order when you're ready.
Once your order is filled and you have your coins, you'll want to send them to your wallet. Simply enter your bitcoin address and get the seller to send you your bitcoins. You should see them show up in your wallet within minutes to an hour (depending on how fast the seller sends them out).
Voila, you are now a bitcoin owner. You can now send coins to pay for other goods and services, or hang on to them for a rainy day.
One last thing to remember: bitcoin is still in its infancy. There are huge price swings and the currency can be risky. Never buy more bitcoins than you can afford to lose.
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hey what's up guys in this video I'mgonna go ahead and show you how to earn free bitcoin I'm going to show you threedifferent ways you can earn free bitcoins so go ahead watch the fullvideo and if you have any questions put them in the comments below I'll be theresponds in a video form or just simply respond to your comments if the commentis simple if the question is simple enough I should say and make sure youput your Bitcoin address in the comment section below I'm gonna pick one luckywinner every single week and give $10 worth of Bitcoin always so let's goahead that's dive in let's do this hey what'sup guys welcome back so yeah in this video I'm gonna show you how to earnfree Bitcoin there's three different ways as you can see it to my right wehave three different platforms basically what I'm gonna do I'm gonnashow you each platform how your Eva earn free Bitcoin and the Bitcoin that I'veearned through each platform so let's go ahead let's get started okay so withfree Bitcoin it's a website it's a free platform you're actually able to earn afree Bitcoin every 60 minutes this is my favorite website I'm gonna show you howto use it and how much I've earned and another neat part of this website it hasan option to gamble what you've been earning so there's like this little gamethat you play I think it's called high end low yudice Campbell how much youwant to win you either win or you lose it's a lot of people win a lot of moneyI'm not gonna play that game I'm just gonna go ahead and just keep what I earnand typically I just thought transfer it over to my wallet and then they alsohave weekly lottery drawings and they do have me crisis so let's go ahead let'stake a look at the free Bitcoin platform okay so we want to go to a free bit CEOdot I in free Bitcoin and this is how the website looks like it's a up it'sfairly simple if you want to earn your freeBitcoin you want to go to free Bitcoin and then what you want to do is enteryour ketchup as I think that's how you pronounce it you just want to make sureyou're not some bot so answer your CAPTCHA and once you roll that's whenyou get your Satoshi Satoshi just in case if you're not sure what it's aToshi is that's just a one decimal being Bitcoin so let's go ahead let's roll andI earned twelve Satoshi's so that's pretty cool and with this website youhave the option to roll every 59 minutes and the great thing about this they dohave different levels of how much you're able to pay out so depending on whatnumber you land on you're either going to get between twelve satoshis up towhat's what's this number 1 million 180 2033 satoshis and if you want to see howmuch that is in u.
dollars let's go ahead and convert that that should befun not really let's go ahead and do this Ilove to use currency dot Co just in case if you want to learn just in case if youwant to exchange or convert your your currency so what I'm gonna do I'm goingto convert it from Bitcoin and what I do I basically put in my currency so I putBTC two US dollars paste that in there convert it so yep the highest pea thehighest payout is two hundred and eight dollars so you can get that within anhour's so just make sure you leave this browser open and you should be able tocollect your free Bitcoin what I do I have this little check mark right hereit says place sounds when your timer runs out so that way it reminds you whenit's time to get your free Bitcoin and as you can see over here this is my mybalance so I have 67 Satoshi keep in mind a heritage transferwhat I did earn into my wallet I keep that over in my bit connect wallet butanyways I'm not gonna get into that but you you should be able to see herbalance right here so that's one way you can earn free Bitcoin on this platformanother way you can do is once you earn your feed Bitcoin you can go over tomultiply Bitcoin and this is a game that you can play it's called high and lowI'm not gonna play it it's a very simple game you should you can be able toresearch it online just to see how to play high and low there's like differenttactics I don't play this just because I don't want to risk when I lose once Ihave a certain amount of Satoshi or Bitcoin I go ahead and just transfer itover to my wallet another way to do it is by referrals so whenever someoneclicks on your link for free Bitcoin and whenever they roll whenever they playthe lottery whenever they play high and low would you actually get a percentageof those sorts of the Satoshi and on top of that you get a 25% increase yep Wowit even says right there we also pay a 25% referral commission on any interestearned by your referrals so that's pretty cool oh my and I'm back sorryabout that I was having some technical difficulties my computer shut off on meand now I'm back taking like 30 minutes to recover everything but um this is anX portion this is the lottery so they do have a lottery you're enteredautomatically so every time you're rolling you're gonna get two freebitcoins I mean two free lottery tickets and this happens every week so right nowfirst prize for the week would be let's go ahead and do a little conversion soif you're lucky holy-moly you can actually get $11,000so that's the lottery I have yet to play or I have yet to win anything I shouldsay cuz it automatically plays for you every week and you do a heavy referraltab over here I'm gonna gives you more informationon your commission rates so that is free Bitcoin I do have a link in thedescription go ahead sign up start earning free Bitcoin every hour andhopefully you're one of those lucky people that does win the biggest payoutin that one hour alright let's go on and move on to the next okay next we havecoinbase this is actually my favorite wallets but this you're able to buyyou're able to buy and sell Bitcoin you're able to hold Bitcoin and you'reable transfer Bitcoin it's completely free to sign up once you buy $100 worthof Bitcoin you get $10 worth of Bitcoin for freeumm this is beginner friendly so if you don't have a wallet go with coinbasesign up it's free you have you really don't have nothing to lose if you'regonna buy Bitcoin and on top of that you do get unlimited free Bitcoin this isthis actually came to a surprise for me I wasn't really pushing for Commission Iended up dropping the link to coin base on a Facebook group just to kind of testit out and well what did I put I ended up advertising it has just the freewallet because there was somebody in a Facebook group that was asking questionsabout where to get a wallet I give him my link I knew I had a referral code butthen again I wasn't really pushing for it he didn't sign up it was actuallysomeone else that saw that link so I did get a commission off of that and yeahyou do have the option and get free unlimited bitcoins so I just want to goahead and just show you proof that um I did earn ten dollars with a free Bitcoinwhen someone's it sign up under me I got this a couple days ago this is actuallyuh two weeks ago the day after Christmas and basically this is how the emaillooks like it just tells you you received some Satoshi I see Satoshiversus Bitcoin because it's not a full Bitcoin it's a fraction of it but I gotthese send me ten dollars and yeah thank yous in forI think already thinking what am i videos before and yep this is yourreferrals okay so I'm pretty sure wondering how do I get my ten dollarswithout referring somebody what you're gonna do you're gonna go to coinbaseyou're going to sign up for coinbase and then once you're signed up once you'veadded your payment method you're gonna go over to buy and sell and you're let'ssee what does it say over here BTC binds unavailable bitcoin purchases aretemporarily unavailable we apologize for the convenience so that is new to meI've never seen that before that I'm pretty sure that's more of a once in awhile thing they're probably doing some maintenance but regardless let's goahead and pretend that that message is not there let's dismiss it bye-byeand what we're gonna do we're gonna answer how much we wanna buy a brandanswer one hundred dollars you don't have to buy a hundred dollars it can belike five dollars ten dollars whatever the case may be but we're talking abouthow to get free Bitcoin in order to get the free Bitcoin you need to buy hundreddollars worth so you buy your hundred dollars you receive it in your accountthen you'll receive an email letting you know that you receive your ten dollarsworth of free Bitcoin and I'm gonna go ahead and show you another strategy onhow to earn free Bitcoin with coinbase once you have your profiles set upyou're gonna go ahead and click on your profile and click on invite friends guyswith cryptocurrency it is booming a lot of people think it's just the bubble andif it is a bubble that bubble is not going to burstwell for years many many years to come so get on itstart makes you make sure you're investing in Bitcoin and if your friendsand family if they're interested in Bitcoin you can share this link let mesee where it's at oh look it's letting me know I've Ireferred one person okay so this is gonna be your link you could share it onFacebook Twitter Instagram tumblr reddits whatever the case may be anyforums that you might be a part of but what I like to do well how I earn myfirst Commission my only Commission that I had to have from last week or twoweeks ago I went to a Facebook group and it was like make money at a home type ofgroup someone was wanting to know information about getting a Bitcoinwallet I referred him to coinbase I knew I could get this refer I didn't reallypush for it locked it in the group the dude didn't sign up for it it wasactually Zen I don't even know who Zen is but think he's in for signing up butthat's one of the easiest ways to probably earn free Bitcoin with coinbasekeep in mind guys I didn't push for no I didn't push for no commissions referralsI just think it lets me link there so if you actually push for commissions forreferrals or whatever I'm pretty sure you can get a decent amount okay so thisone's my ultimate ultimate ultimate favorites platform I think I'm in lovewith this platform I'm always on it every single day so this is bid connectso it's big connect so you're able to earn 1 to 2 percent interest daily on adaily basis yes daily I'm going to show you how muchI've been making I started seven days ago yes seven days ago its beginnerfriendly meaning you really don't need to know too much about cryptocurrencyall you need to know about this website it has a volatility software and youdon't even know what you don't even need to know what that means you can justgoogle it research it on the side but basically this system works your moneyfor you and you get paid out every single dayso yes it's daily passive income and honestly its financial freedom one ofthe reasons why I did join bit connect is because I saw a lot of broke peoplepeople that didn't really have much money people that only had like twohundred dollars in their bank account they went from being broke to going onvacation so even in villages like even quitting their jobs guys you need toYouTube big connect reviews look at different people look at their resultslook at the success it is very real let's go ahead and dive into big connectokay this is the bit connect platform as you can see over here this is my lendingwallet what this is this is the wallet that I have to receive all my dailyinterest that I do make off of big connect so so far in the past seven daysI've made $6.
63 and if you haven't watched my first video day one but theyconnected go ahead go back to videos watch it and you'll kind of understandwhat bit connect is I'm not gonna go too in depth because this is not a bitconnect to review this is just a different ways to make a free Bitcoin solet's go ahead and dive in so it big connect basically it's a it's a platformthat works your money for you what you do you put Bitcoin you put Bitcoin inthe Bitcoin wallet for be connect and did what I like to do I like to transferthat Bitcoin for my coinbase wallet transfer it to my bit connect wallet andthen you want to go ahead and purchase or exchange bit connect bit Connect isjust a different type of currency so there's Bitcoin there's like coinsaetherium ripple there there's just so many different types of currency butwith big connects and this is my favorite one my second favorite currencyso you'll go ahead and exchange your Bitcoin to be connect and then once youexchange a bit connect it turns into value so what I'm gonna do I basicallyland the connect money the minimum would be $100 and off of this investment thatyou're giving them you're actually getting one back one to two percentI've actually been receiving more than one percent on on a daily basis and sofar I've lent two hundred dollars and I just wanted to go ahead and show you howmuch I've been making every single day so just imagine what you'll end getslends out for about two hundred and ninety nine days depending on how muchyou're lending let me just go back really quick I'm gonna click on lens abit connect so right here tells you a few runs between 100 to 1000 dollarsthis will be released after two hundred ninety nine days keep in mind you'reyou're getting paid every single day but your capital will be released by thisway this way this day so you're making basically like a dollar or a little overa dollar every single day for $299 I mean two hundred ninety nine days butI'm keep in mind that um you do have the option to reinvest so when you reinvestwhat happens you're your balance keeps growing it keeps growing it keepsgrowing and a lot of people think this is some sort of a Ponzi scheme this is apyramid or whatever it's really not I want you to do your research don'tjust take my word for it but um a lot of people they're starting to get a lot offinancial freedom off a big connect and once again if cryptocurrency if it is abubble it's not gonna burst for many many many many years to comewhy because there's just so much available people have in mind all theavailable bitcoins that's available and you're probably thinking what the hellare you talking about I'm not gonna go to it this is a free Bitcoin videos solet's go ahead and see how much I've been making so I go to transactions andthen after are this loads I'm gonna go to London wallet and as you can see myfirst initial investment was a hundred dollars and after that day - I made 91cents 10 cents 82 cents a dollar twenty seven forty cents that's all 51 and thenI'm like okay this is this is making me some good money so let me go ahead andinvest another hundred dollars so I did that and it looks like I'm getting paidtwice now since there's two active loans I'm eating paid twice a day now so todayI made 81 cents and well I made to 81 sons and oh my goodness I'm horriblewith math so times two so today I made a dollar sixty-two so keep in mind themore you you invest the more you're gonna make and you really don't have toreinvest your whole money you can just reinvest your profits so if you justwant to start with the hundred dollars let it there let us sit thereonce you get $10 go ahead and reinvest it and that's my bill I'll be right backand you're probably wondering how is all of this how is all of that all of thishow is that earning free Bitcoin well what you're gonna do once you get yourlending wallet let's say you have like one thousand dollars you want to just goahead just cash out you're gonna transfer it it's gonna transfer as bigconnect and then what you're gonna do you're going to exchange your bitconnects your Bitcoin so technically you're getting your free Bitcoin fromwhatever you've earned and then from there on you can just go ahead andtransfer it over to coinbase or your or any other platform and withdraw it as UScurrency so you think that what you're able to spend your money and another wayis to give referrals so there's a referral program with big Canucks and Ibelieve with every person that you do refer you get a 7% let's see itokay and thanks to the magic of the internet I did find this on Google sothe structure tab it connects referral program is spaced on levels in order foryou to participate in big connects referral program you must have activeloans as a user each level has a particular Commission payout issued bybid connect to users who have referred people to the platform there's a totalof seven levels of the connects referral program so meaning if someone were tosign up under you if they were to put a loan out you're gonna get seven percentoff of that loan let's say someone signs up under them so let's say that personlends $100 you're gonna get three percent off of that loan so as you cansee you can this this can accumulate really really really fast so that is bigconnect that is a referral program and there you have it those are three waysto earn free Bitcoin what do you need to do next you need to take action I haveall the links provided in the description below thank god that freeBitcoin platform is completely free go take advantage of it get your freeBitcoin every 60 minutes if you have any questions go ahead put them in thecomments below but yes take action make mistakes getmessy I sound like Miss Frizzle and I really don't give up hey guys what's upthank you for checking out this video if you like what you see and if you want tosee more videos like this go ahead and subscribe and like this video.
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The Bitcoin is a type of currency designed digitally and encrypted for verification of transactions of assets, and to control creation of currency; the name given to this type of currency is cryptocurrency. This worldwide famous currency was developed in 2009 by Satoshi Nakamoto. This Peer-to-peer electronic cash system was given the symbol XBT for market usage. As any other currency, the Bitcoin has its own unit system which goes from the millibitcoin (0.001) to the satoshi (0.00000001).
The design of the Bitcoin is extremely complex, but very reliable. First, one of the questioned subjects on this matter is its security. Believe it or not, Bitcoins are more secure than regular currency. The obvious thing is that, it cannot be stole physically, and although it can be stole electronically the following explanation will show you how hard it is to do this.
Bitcoins are already gaining acceptance worldwide. As now, Bitcoins can be used in over 100,000 institutions around the world and is expected to keep growing. Although the insecurity behind the fact that there is no governmental support makes it hard to believe that this will be the currency of the future, but watch out, it might impact the world.
What are Bitcoin Investment Opportunities?
Cryptocurrencies are all the rage right now.
Everywhere, you see headlines with impressive thousand percent gains for "coins" like bitcoin. But what gives them value? When have you ever used bitcoin?
The truth is that it's not practical right now, primarily due to the amount of time it takes to complete a transaction. But there are other coins out there that are emerging as viable candidates to succeed bitcoin as the No. 1 cryptocurrency.
There's a lot to understand about the intricacies of cryptocurrencies, but this article is more about finding an investment opportunity than explaining the science behind them.
A Bubble in Bitcoin?
One thing that's important to know is the concept of "mining." This is the very basis of cryptocurrencies. That's how new bitcoins are made.
In simple terms, the "miner," through special software, solves a complex math problem and is rewarded with new bitcoins as a result. Then, the transaction is stored in the blockchain, and those new bitcoins are officially in circulation.
As more bitcoins are in circulation, mining them becomes more complicated and time-consuming, and less profitable. So even though about 80% of possible bitcoins are in circulation right now, the last one won't be mined until 2140.
As most people know by now, bitcoin has seen a gigantic rally this year. In fact, it's up about 1,200% over the past year, causing a lot of people to think it's in a bubble.
The good news is that it has already started making progress. In April, Dash partnered with a digital payment system called Alt Thirty Six, which has partnerships with some of the leading dispensary business management software companies in the country.
These software companies track transactions for hundreds of dispensaries and delivery services. That means that Dash users already have hundreds of ways to use the currency.
Since Dash officially became a payment method on Alt Thirty Six on October 11, its price has gone up 118%. That's only in a month and a half.
Just the Beginning
With a market cap of only $4.8 billion compared to bitcoin's $156 billion, I believe Dash still has plenty of room to climb going forward.
The marijuana industry is just the start for Dash, but it's a great one. In 2016, legal sales were about $7 billion. Another estimated $46 billion was sold on the black market.
And as more stores open and marijuana becomes legal in more states, that legal number is expected to be $23 billion by 2021 and $50 billion by 2026.
Again, this is just the beginning for Dash. Its unique immediate transaction feature makes it a viable alternative to cash, giving it an edge over other cryptocurrencies like bitcoin.
What are Bitcoin Investment Opportunities?
Cryptocurrencies are all the rage right now.
Everywhere, you see headlines with impressive thousand percent gains for "coins" like bitcoin. But what gives them value? When have you ever used bitcoin?
The truth is that it's not practical right now, primarily due to the amount of time it takes to complete a transaction. But there are other coins out there that are emerging as viable candidates to succeed bitcoin as the No. 1 cryptocurrency.
There's a lot to understand about the intricacies of cryptocurrencies, but this article is more about finding an investment opportunity than explaining the science behind them.
A Bubble in Bitcoin?
One thing that's important to know is the concept of "mining." This is the very basis of cryptocurrencies. That's how new bitcoins are made.
In simple terms, the "miner," through special software, solves a complex math problem and is rewarded with new bitcoins as a result. Then, the transaction is stored in the blockchain, and those new bitcoins are officially in circulation.
As more bitcoins are in circulation, mining them becomes more complicated and time-consuming, and less profitable. So even though about 80% of possible bitcoins are in circulation right now, the last one won't be mined until 2140.
As most people know by now, bitcoin has seen a gigantic rally this year. In fact, it's up about 1,200% over the past year, causing a lot of people to think it's in a bubble.
The good news is that it has already started making progress. In April, Dash partnered with a digital payment system called Alt Thirty Six, which has partnerships with some of the leading dispensary business management software companies in the country.
These software companies track transactions for hundreds of dispensaries and delivery services. That means that Dash users already have hundreds of ways to use the currency.
Since Dash officially became a payment method on Alt Thirty Six on October 11, its price has gone up 118%. That's only in a month and a half.
Just the Beginning
With a market cap of only $4.8 billion compared to bitcoin's $156 billion, I believe Dash still has plenty of room to climb going forward.
The marijuana industry is just the start for Dash, but it's a great one. In 2016, legal sales were about $7 billion. Another estimated $46 billion was sold on the black market.
And as more stores open and marijuana becomes legal in more states, that legal number is expected to be $23 billion by 2021 and $50 billion by 2026.
Again, this is just the beginning for Dash. Its unique immediate transaction feature makes it a viable alternative to cash, giving it an edge over other cryptocurrencies like bitcoin.


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Big Money firms back Amazon oil boom
17 Mar 20 - Five large financial firms from the US and UK are bankrolling an oil boom in the western Amazon, says a new report.
Military man takes command of the Amazon
3 Feb 20 - President Jair Bolsonaro has caused widespread dismay by appointing an ex-military colleague to oversee protection of the Amazon.
Amazon fires are melting Andes glaciers
2 Dec 19 - Black carbon from Amazon rainforest fires is settling on Andes glaciers and making them melt faster, according to new research.
Bolsosnaro accuses DiCaprio: You're burning the Amazon
2 Dec 19 - Brazil president Jair Bolsonaro has accused actor Leonardo DiCaprio of bankrolling the deliberate incineration of the Amazon rainforest.
Amazon deforestation soars to 11-year high
20 Nov 19 - Deforestation in Brazils Amazon rainforest this year rose to its highest in over a decade.
Casualties mount in Bolivia's battle for white gold
20 Nov 19 - The overthrow of Bolivian president Evo Morales shows how the politics of environmentalism and social justice intersect in a silvery-white metal.
Argentina changes waste rule and opens doors to plastics
4 Nov 19 - Argentina has changed its definition of waste in a move that could allow it to import millions of tonnes of plastic waste discarded in the US.
Catholic church denounces Amazon policies
1 Nov 19 - The Catholic church in the Amazon has denounced attacks on the environment and the life of indigenous people setting out on a collision course with Brazils president Jair Bolsonaro.
JUNGLE BUNGLE: Brazil pushes Amazon to 2021 tipping point
25 Oct 19 - The destructive policies of Brazil president Jair Bolsonaro could push the Amazon rainforest to an irreversible tipping point within two years.
Sorry about that, says Ecuador, and reinstates Big Oil subsidies
18 Oct 19 - Calm has returned to the streets of Quito after Ecuadors government agreed to reinstate fuel subsidies following 11 days of nationwide, violent protests.
Pope v president as Amazon burns
8 Oct 19 - Two of the most powerful forces in Brazil, the president and the pope, are pulling in opposite directions on an issue critical to climate change.
'CHAOS, CHAOS, CHAOS': A trip through Bolsonaro's inferno
11 Sep 19 - From afar, it resembles a tornado: an immense grey column shooting thousands of feet upwards from the forest canopy into the Amazonian skies.
Central America climate change driving people out
10 Sep 19 - Droughts and damaging storms are impacting smallholder farmers in Central America and driving higher levels of migration from the region.
BOLIVIA BURNING: Its not just Brazil's forests that are ablaze
29 Aug 19 - While the world watches the Brazilian Amazon burn, across the border in Bolivia its also ablaze.
Without our help, the world's forests would not be burning
26 Aug 19 - Fuel is everywhere in rainforests, but it seems unimaginable that such humid ecosystems could ever catch fire. And without human intervention, they dont.
Outcry goes global as Amazon forests burn
23 Aug 19 - The environment minister of Brazil, where wildfires have been sweeping the Amazon rainforest, was booed at a climate event yesterday as celebrities including Leonardo DiCaprio and Ariana Grande...
Germany pulls millions in Amazon funding
13 Aug 19 - Germany will suspend $39 million in funds sent to Brazil to finance projects aimed at preserving the Amazon forest.
We might be expecting too much of the Amazon
7 Aug 19 - The Amazon might not be sequestering as much carbon dioxide as we think, scientists say.
Rampant deforestation driven by greed for meat
5 Jul 19 - Brazils huge beef sector continues to threaten health of worlds largest rainforest.
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Here's another little reminder about Sommer Marsden's new collection, Coming Together: Hungry for Love.
(So I just scrolled through my blog and realized my last post on this very topic was two entries ago…I'm gonna update more, 'k? Promise.)
To share a little about the book, some of the contributors have been writing up their 'Story behind the story'. Check them out; they're fantastic, and all on Sommer's blog–you just need to scroll through some of her recent entries.
Here's mine:
I love power dynamics. Kink, bondage, and all the glitter aside…what really gets me going is domination, submission, and the intricate mental gymnastics related to power exchange. I love power hungry, arrogant doms, and I love calm, cool alphas who subtly take control. I love bratty subs who push limits just as much as I love the subs who truly, to their very core, want to obey.
Often, my writing reflects this passion (obsession?) of mine. So, naturally, when I sat down to write 'Zombie Goddess'–my story for Sommer Marsden's collection of zombie erotica–I played with the theme of power, control, and what might happen in a BDSM scene starring a human and a zombie.
Another concept I messed around with for this story is making the typical antagonist–the decrepit, brain-hungry zombie–into my protagonist. I wanted my zombie to feel amazing, empowered, and…well, I wanted her to feel hot. So my star is a sexy, newly un-dead zombie woman. She's not after brains to eat. Instead, she's learning to enjoy finding minds to fuck.
An excerpt from my story, Zombie Goddess, is here.
More soon, neglected readers of awesome!


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