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Tell us about growing up in Puerto Rico?
Growing up in Puerto Rico was beautiful. You're constantly surrounded by nature and beauty, even in the capital city of San Juan, where I'm from. Puerto Rico just emanates beauty from sunrise to sunset, from the seashore to the island's mountainous core, to its miniature islands of Vieques & Culebra, which can only be reached by ferry or small plane. The school I attended (Robinson School) from 3rd grade all the way through senior year was right across the street from the beach, so kids would bring their surfboards to school, and I used to go for a swim on my lunch break. It was awesome.
Favorite spot in Miami?
I have so many! I like spending time in different spots in various neighborhoods for inspiration and to relax, like Art Deco area on South Beach for all the colors and architecture; Lincoln Road, Midtown and Wynwood for people-watching/shopping/food/drinks; Coconut Grove for coffee/brunch; ICA & PAMM for art.
A special piece in your closet that you will never get rid of?
I have a couple of random tees, some that I haven't used in years, but can't ever get rid of, due to either sentimental value or because they're perfectly worn-in and soft. One is this pink little shirt from when I was probably 7years old from the old water park in Puerto Rico that doesn't exist anymore, Plaza Acuática. It used to be huge on me when I was little, now it's more like a baby-tee, but I will never get rid of it haha. I have another shirt with a famous 1970s photograph (that has a really interesting backstory) of my favorite salsa singer Hector Lavoe, in which he has a black eye.
What influences your personal style?
My style's always changing depending on my mood. Sometimes I'll feel really girly, other days I'll feel sporty or tomboy, and other days I'll go more edgy. There isn't anything I won't try! I'll find inspiration through editorials, and a lot on Instagram these days.
The million-dollar question: As a social media expert, how do you manage the creative process for the style stories on your blog?
Usually I pair an outfit or element that I'm feeling at the moment with a cool location so that it all comes together for some compelling visual storytelling. My process is all very organic though, not too planned-out or contrived, and when I write I usually just let the ideas flow at the moment. Sometimes I'll have a lot to say, other times I prefer to let the photos do the talking.


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The GOOD NEWS is that all of the images will now be in Digital form. So don't expect those cuties of images to be gone. So now you will be able to work with PMS in a digi form and how much fun it is to play with them; making them bigger, or smaller, merging...etc. etc..
Now as a consequence of the bad news Katie is having a SALE! You will be able to purchase the rubber at a fraction of the price. Now remember that I said that the prices were already really low; so you can imagine you will be getting awesome quality of rubber for a steal(45% lower!)! Please visit the PMS blog for Katie's post and your discount code HERE.
So if you are still around it is time for my RANT! I am so sad to see that stamp companies like PMS that have amazing customer service are not making ends meet, I mean they have super cute images, great quality, and amazing people behind the scenes. Now for me customer service is a BIG thing; and recently I am getting really turned off by one particular company that has super cute images and HORRIBLE customer service. I am talking about Magnolia. Now I know they have such cute images and I am keen on their stamps as I started my stamping with Magnolia images. But there are a few things that really bug me about Magnolia at the moment.
With the StampClub kit
1. I was worried that my stamps were very uneven; I mean one side was about 3x the thickness than the other side. Didn't even want to mount it because thought that perhaps my parcel had been defected and I could get it replaced. I tried getting in contact with the company and did not have any luck; tried e-mailing them, to the e-mail that they have on the website, through the blog, even through the TOMIC ladies who have contact with them; but nothing.
2. Next they have one price advertised on the website of kr399.00= to about $56.86 USD now when the kit was charged the price was 434.00 plus an exchange rate adjustment totaled to $66.57.
3.Last about the kit I feel like they keep the best images off of the kit. I know that I just would have been a lot happier to just pick 3 stamps that I absolutely love and not have the bunch that are cute cuz they are but now I want others that are not on the kit.
As a conclusion I am just upset that such a big company doesn't care about it's customers. The images are cute but I think I will order more from other companies that do care about their customers. If I do order Magnolia I am thinking it will be through a company like Simon Says that does care about the person receiving the stamps.
Now I would like to know if anyone else is bothered or has had issues with Magnolia? Or am I the only person that has been having these issues? Please do share!

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Solstice announced that only 20 spots remain in a set of Barre solar gardens, giving Berkshire County households the chance to support local, clean energy and save on their electricity costs.
The projects, which together total 2 megawatts (MW) of production capacity, were built by Community Energy Inc., a renewable energy developer that has built nearly 700 MW of solar capacity in its nearly two decades of experience.
Community solar is a model for residential solar that allows households to enroll in a local shared solar array and see savings on their electricity costs. Because community solar requires no changes to a participant's property, the projects are open to households regardless of homeownership status or residents' ability to find financing for their array. According to industry analyst GTM Research, community solar was the fastest-growing sector of the solar industry in 2017, and is now available in states across the nation.
Those who are interested in learning more can visit www.solstice.us
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Scarcity: Economics and Revenue Marginal Cost
Scarcity is a Ever-present situation in all markets whereby either less goods are available than the demand for them, or only too little money is available to their potential buyers for making the purchase. This universal phenomenon leads to the definition of economics as the "science of allocation of scarce resources."
Opportunity cost is the cost of an alternative that must be forgone in order to pursue a certain action. Put another way, the benefits you could have received by taking an alternative action.
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Germany-based Siemens AG, which has long had its eye on acquiring Alstom's energy business, has joined forces with Japan-based Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) to consider making a joint bid to the French conglomerate. By June 16, Siemens and MHI will decide whether to submit a proposal, one that would compete with a previous $17 billion bid to Alstom from U.S.-based GE.
In a statement, Siemens President and CEO Joe Kaeser says, 'I appreciate MHI's commitment to join our efforts, and I do look forward to working together with MHI to create a long-term oriented solution for Alstom, MHI and Siemens.'
Shunishi Miyanaga, president and CEO of MHI, adds, 'MHI has been invited by Siemens to join forces, and we firmly believe that we can substantially contribute to a partnership solution for Alstom which will create value for all parties involved, including the country of France."
Siemens and MHI did not publicly disclose further details. However, according to a Bloomberg report, Siemens still plans to offer its rail assets in exchange for Alstom's energy business as part of a proposal.
Meanwhile, GE continues to negotiate with the French government in order to earn approval of the company's bid. In May, French Economy Minister Arnaud Montebourg called on GE to prove the proposal would, among other things, create local jobs. Bloomberg reports that although Montebourg had openly preferred a Siemens proposal at first, he indicates that GE's new plan to create 1,000 jobs in France has greatly enhanced the U.S. company's bid.


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Inconsistencies behind the companys ability to police advertising on controversial content are coming to light
Googles decision-making process over which YouTube videos are deemed advertiser friendly faces scrutiny from both brands and creators, highlighting once again the challenge of large-scale moderation.
The company last week pledged to change its advertising policies after several big brands pulled their budgets from YouTube following an investigation that revealed their ads were shown alongside extremist content, such as videos promoting terrorism or antisemitism.
Havas, the worlds sixth largest advertising and marketing company, pulled all of its UK clients ads, including O2, BBC and Dominos Pizza, from Google and YouTube on Friday, following similar moves from the UK government, the Guardian, Transport for London and LOreal.
Google responded with a blog post promising to update its ad policies, stating that with 400 hours of video uploaded to YouTube each minute we dont always get it right.
However, the inconsistencies behind the companys ability to police advertising on controversial content are coming to light and its not just advertisers who are complaining. Some YouTube creators argue their videos are being unfairly and inconsistently demonetized by the platform, cutting off their source of income that comes from the revenue share on ads placed on videos.
Matan Uziel runs a YouTube channel called Real Women, Real Stories that features interviews with women about hardship, including sex trafficking, abuse and racism. The videos are not graphic, and Uziel relied on the advertising revenue to fund their production. However, after a year, Google has pulled the plug.
Its a nightmare, he said. I cant trust YouTube any more.
Its staggering because YouTube has a CEO [Susan Wojcicki] who is a feminist and a big champion for gender equality, he said, pointing out that there were other far more extreme videos such as those promoting anorexia and self-harm that continued to be monetized. He also referenced PewDiePies videos featuring antisemitic jokes that were allowed on the platform for months.
Its bad that YouTube attempts to censor this very important topic and is not putting its efforts into censoring white supremacy, antisemitism, Islamophobia, racism, jihadists and stuff like that, Uziel said.
He wants Google to be more open about how exactly they moderate content. I want them to be transparent about what they think to be advertiser friendly, he said.
Google currently uses a mixture of automated screening and human moderation to police its video sharing platform and to ensure that ads are only placed against appropriate content. Videos considered not advertiser-friendly include those that are sexually suggestive, violent, contain foul language, promote drug use or deal with controversial topics such as war, political conflict and natural disasters.
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He complained to the platform and the company has since approved the video for monetization.
YouTubes policy is just very vague, which makes sense because I think demonetization needs to be handled on a case-by-case basis. Their policies seem more reasonable when you ask a human to check it, but the algorithm that catches videos originally is really unfair, he said.
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Im not sure they fully apprehend the extent to which this is a social issue and not just a technical one, she said.
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Discussion in 'Build Logs' started by RENOV8R, Jul 16, 2016.
Yeah I spent all weekend doing it different ways!
Brings back pleasant memories of my youth.
Haha good one Jackson.
But my resent memory isn't so pleasant .
Any ideas Jackson?
If you're running Win 8 or 10, you probably need to do a forced driver install. I had the same problem with Naza-M and this was the solution. Here's a tutorial by the guru of drones, Painless360 showing the process. Principal should be the same for Tarot drivers.
Thanks for posting that video Renov8er. I'll be fooling around trying to find a way to save it on my 'puter for later.
Have you ever tried to fly a 6S battery? I think my quad can handle the weight, and all of the info. on the Naza V2 (AND the Tarot) indicates that a 6S is acceptable. But when I try to plug it in, the motors just keep arming. About once each second. Had the same reaction with the Naza M that was faulty. I was a little surprised when the new V2 did the same thing. Double checked the voltage on the 6S, and that's ok. I'm a bit perplexed by this hitch. But I've been getting regular flights of 6 to 8 minutes on my 3S batts. After 8 minutes of flight, the motors are barely warm to the touch, and the ESC's don't get warm at all. Happy about that.
It really depends on the specs of your motors. 6S batteries are typically used for high torque low RPM motors and large props, usually 350kv and lower with at least 15" props. Ecalc told me 6S was overpowered for my setup but I borrowed a friends to try, and the results were nothing less than terrifying. I got what's called the yoyo affect. Your quad will quickly ascend, you'll try to correct it and it will quickly descend. It just keeps increasing exponentially until you slam into the ground.
A 6s system is much more efficient than a 3 or 4s propulsion system, which equates to longer flight times. The oscillation that you were experiencing sounds like gain settings were not correctly set.
Check to make sure your escs are capable to handle a 6s power supply @mtnmanfpv.
Some interesting points, thanks for the info. I'll have to see if I can research any more info on the ESC's. They were paired as a kit w/Jrelics KV1000 motors, 10X4.5 props and 30 amp ESC's. The sales info doesn't offer much more info. that I can remember, but I'll have to take the time to go back into it.
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We need a 3D deer made up of flat surfaces, so that we can cut up cardboard and make a life-sized Stag.
Attached is just an example of an animal made from flat cardboard. We would not want any more pieces than this. The stag wants to be walking or standing on all four feet with his head up. The legs must be of flat sections and not round. We envisage the antlers built up from layers of glued cardboard.
We just require a finished model, where we can copy each section and work out our own tabs to connect along the joins. The figure wants to be more stylised, than realistic.
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The format needs to be in something we can access. We only have Autocad or Google Sketchup. We would also be happy to download and learn any other 3D software that was free, or shareware. This is not a commercial project so the budget does not really exist.
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If I can ever build up the courage.
Pros: he likes me the same way I like him, we could try to make something work...in a way that wouldn't get him in trouble
Cons: he doesn't like me the same way I like him, rejection, it gets awkward, I'll be forced to be just friends with him, I'll get saddddddd
Why does this have to be so hard?! Why did my stupid emotions have to get in the way?


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The Inspector General of police Mr Solomon Arase, on Saturday ordered the withdrawal of policemen from politicians, saying that only "high risk" politicians should be allowed to have orderlies.
Mr Arase gave the order in Minna, the capital of Niger State while on a one-day visit to address officers and men of the Niger State Police Command.
He said Niger State needed more manpower to curtail the rate of crime in the state which he described as 'a state with a large landmass'.
Mr Arase also stressed the need for the police force to respect the fundamental human rights and avoid arresting innocent people.


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Simple Tip:
Using the simple PS code below we can check to see if AD account for given user is enabled or disabled. Exploring other properties with following one liner PS Get-ADUser $user -Properties * | gm
will also provide more options. You can check any of the available properties with same way and accomplish the task.
# Check to see if AD User Exist
#(1).Collect user Info
$user = "Casey.dedeal"
$status = Get-ADUser $user -Properties * | select LockedOut
$LockedOut = $(try {$status} catch {$True})
#(2).Write Output
write-host "()_Checking $user AD Account Status" -f yellow
#(3).Check the account status
If ($LockedOut -eq $True) {
write-host "()_.$user is locked out"
} Else {
write-host "()_.$user is NOT locked out"}
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Filled Up with Love
by Steve Goodier
Welsh poet David Whyte made the intriguing observation, "I don't want
to have written on my tombstone, when finally people struggle through
the weeds, pull back the moss, and read the inscription there, 'He
made his car payments.'"
Whyte, like most of us, wants his life to matter. Even in some small
way, most people want to make a difference and, at least to some
degree, they want to be happy. But it doesn't just happen.
I am inspired by the story of Rose Nelson, told in Arnold and Barry
Fox's book Making Miracles (Emmaus, PA: The Good Spirits Press,
1989). One can usually find a cheery smile on the face of the
wheelchair-bound woman. Which is remarkable, given what happened. You
see, Rose was brutally beaten by two drunk teenage boys who left her
unable to walk. She was forced to sell her home after medical bills
devoured her modest savings.
If anyone has reason to be resentful, it is Rose Nelson. But she will
smile and say that she never even thinks of being bitter as long as
her brain is working and she can think of love.
"How can you be so loving after what happened to you?" she was asked.
"Oh, my," she considered. "I could have dried up after the boys beat
me. I was afraid I would. That's why I decided to be full of love and
to give my love to everyone. The more I love everyone else, the
better I feel. And the better I feel, the more I love the world. Love
cured my fear."
Rose worked at love and happiness. It had to become a high priority
if she was not to be consumed by her horrific experience. Yet anyone
who wants peace or happiness or joy can learn from Rose. We must do
more than just make the car payments. We must love and love and love
some more. Rose learned to fill her mind with as much love as it
would hold, and then gave it away at every opportunity.
Dr. Karl Menninger said this about love: "We do not fall in love, we
grow in love and love grows in us." Let enough grow in you to fill
you up and you'll be satisfied forever.
Steve Goodier
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speaker, consultant and author of numerous books. Visit his site for
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Since learning to do leg massage on cyclists at the age of 14, Ann Marie Dye has been truly thankful to touch, work with, and perceive our uniquely similar sacredness. After becoming a certified and licensed massage therapist in 1990, Ann has worked with all ages of clients from babies to 90-year olds, as a soigneur for internationally-ranked cycling teams, in resorts, chiropractic offices and in her own private practice for more than 25 years. Along with her bodywork practice, Ann has been practicing yoga in various styles for the same length of time. In 2016, Ann completed Anna Pittman's Hatha RYT200 Yoga Teacher Training and Self Awareness program. While in the yoga program, she also started studying Transparency with Anna. This has been some of the most powerful transformative work she has been involved with.
Her current work combines these three areas--Neurovascular integration, yoga and Transparency coaching--to support and empower her clients to find, know, and love Self, personal choice and abiding ease.
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Yes, National is right, we do need better broadband coverage in New Zealand, and yes they are right, Telecos are reluctant to upgrade the telecommunications infrastructure. However the solution is not more government intervention it is less ... way less.
We need to look at the reasons why private equity is not flowing into our infrastructure (telecommunications or otherwise). All business decisions ultimately boil down to risk. With infrastructure the main risk is political risk. There is a real fear amongst our business leaders that the government, with a stroke of a pen, will steal assets by nationalising them (in full or in part) or with another stroke tilting the playing field and vamoose, profit is gone. Taken by those that - on average - couldn't make a profitable decision to save themselves.
National just needs to do the following:
1) repeal the Resource Management Act. I know it's hard to admit when you are wrong, but this monster of red tape has morphed into an unholy mess of corruption and is strangling the very heartbeat of the New Zealand economy.
2) once they are in power, remove any legislation that doesn't provide a level playing field and swear that they will not pass any further legislation that restricts our businessmen and their activities.
3) show a strong commitment to private property rights - stop stealing from NZ businesses and from its citizens. Talk about it at every opportunity. Replace the word 'sustainability' with 'property rights'.
Do this and entrepreneurs (Kiwi or otherwise) will have the confidence to invest and infrastructure concerns will be a thing of the past.
The complete lack of business nous is understandable if we were talking about Labour or the Greens, but the National Party? It's just plain unbelievable.
Wednesday, 23 April 2008
Remove the Red Tape, the Fibre Optics will follow
Posted by Annie Fox! at 2:19 pm
Labels: Corruption, Politics, Red Tape, RMA
1 comment:
- libertyscott said...
Well said Annie
- 23 April 2008 at 9:43 pm
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Federal Overtime Regulations
On May 18, the U.S. Department of Labor announced changes to the federal Fair Labor Standards Act regulations that impact the threshold for determining the "exempt" classification of employees, the manner in which overtime pay is determined and who is eligible for it.
This website serves as a central resource for sharing information as it becomes available and for providing tools to assist affected UT employees and their supervisors.
Check back often for updates.
Updated November 23, 2016
On Tuesday, Nov. 22 a federal district court issued a nationwide injunction halting implementation of revisions to Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) regulations. Because of the injunction, those rules will not go into effect as expected on Dec. 1.
The University is currently reviewing the injunction and the plans it had made to implement the revised regulations.


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On the show tonight we were joined in the studio by gardening expert Martin Finney who gave us lots of useful tips for looking after our gardens as the winter approaches. Martin told us you shouldn't be worried about the early rainfall in September because everything will be nice and plump, but you should be picking your harvest about now if you haven't done so already.
Martin also suggests that now is the time you should be thinking about the future with your gardens and take advantage of the damp and warm soil. If you want to lay turf, plant grass or plant bulbs such as daffodils, then now would be the time to do it (although watch out for squirrels, who love bulbs).
Martin works at Aylett Nurseries and if you have any questions then get in touch with them via e-mail or just go into the shop and they will be more than willing to help.
If you want to hear the interview again, then use our 'Listen Again' service on the Radio Verulam website.


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This new idea of a manageable little five-photo post is SO easy, I even went and found five favorites from my last several months of shooting, and have a pro photography post for you, too! This "Five for Friday" could be revolutionary for my blog-lag!
Enjoy Griffin, Claire, Claire, Emilie, and Elliot. Try not to swoon.
I seriously love my job. What an honor it is to spend time with little ones and create images that will become cherished family heirlooms for years to come. ♥
Plan on more of these "FFF" posts for my business work. This is incredibly fun for me to do!


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Monday, November 1, 2010
When we meet….we greet and shake hands….no questions asked. Why do we do that? Because that's how it is done…that's how we've been greeting for as far back as we can remember…that's how others expect it to be.
A birthday cake is mandatory today…even if you don't spend a lot on arranging a big birthday party, a simple cake cutting makes up for a lot. A birthday wouldn't be complete without one.
That's the power of Traditions. Of Social norms. You don't question them. You accept them without a hitch. Even the usually unacceptable becomes acceptable.
This is ofcourse, festival time in India, and you can see traditions being literally 'played' out all across the country. Gambling or Jua is considered a social evil…but it's ok to Gamble when it's Diwali. Even people who would not enter a casino usually…plan and host gambling get togethers.
Although we see traditions as something that has a history…and has been handed down for sometime…perhaps, religious…however, all traditions don't exactly have a big history.
New traditions can be created. You can create one.
A tradition of writing a song for every product release that you make.
A tradition to cook as a family on Saturday.
A tradition to volunteer, as a team or a family.
A tradition to celebrate and recount all the deliverables made by the team last month.
I lived in Hyderabad once, and noticed that our neighbors always bought some gold or made some financial investment on their kids birthday. It's a tradition for them, their parents did the same. A great way to ensure some financial security for the kids education!
Is it possible that many of the traditions that we follow today, have some good logic behind them, besides the religious reason? Cleaning up the house and decorating on Diwali, after the rainy season in India…buying gold on Akshaythritiya…donating to temples on special occasions (remember Temples were the center of social activities in the past including development of art and knowledge).
The world around us is changing, and changing drastically…and we need newer traditions to keep some of the good things around. We also need to be open to accept newer traditions and norms…
What are you going to start this festival season? Think...and wish you all a very happy and prosperous Diwali.
3 comments:
Won't call it a tradition, but close, mine is to read your post as soon as it is posted!ReplyDelete
Happy and Prosperous Diwali to you and your family.
- AnonymousNovember 11, 2010 at 11:38 PM
Change is good but not at the cost of old traditions.ReplyDelete
I think, it would be better if we all add up new to the old ones.
But do we follow and respect our ancient customs and traditions.
- AnonymousSeptember 24, 2011 at 10:15 PM
"Is it possible that many of the traditions that we follow today, have some good logic behind them, besides the religious reason?" ->yes they did I believe. Once I asked my dad why we wore new clothes for a prayer in a festival and he told me "Because the usual clothes we wear tend to get dirty and new clothes signifies some respect". It had some element of truth. As long as traditions are explained with a "why" and a "why not", people would be more ready to accept it than do it blindly just because some who's who started it.ReplyDelete


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Toihaus from Austria and the last performance of the festivalWednesday, August 12, 2015
Hard to belive, but yes, this is the last show of our TAKE PART IN ART festival. Visit of TOIHAUS Theater from Austria.Read more
The International Theatre Festival for Early Years "TAKE PART IN ART" organised by Teatr Małego Widza and co-financed by the City of Warsaw, is the first large event in Poland promoting the concept of "initiation theatre"– a theatre for children from the first year of life.
TAKE PART IN ART will welcome 31 artists from 7 countries, around 5,5 thousand spectators, offer over 100 events, performances, workshops, conferences and meetings. From May to December 2015 the stage of Stara Prochownia will host numerous excellent European theatres, experts and practitioners ,who have been producing and performing for the youngest spectators for years and are undisputed authorities in this area.
The aim of the festival is not only to present the best performance practices, but also to initiate discussion about a small child as a spectator of art and a fully entitled participant of culture. It is an extremely important issue in a social and cultural dimension, yet so rarely raised in public. We truly believe that respecting the right of the youngest children to explore the world of art, and their participation in the artistic process, conducted in a responsible and appropriate way, has an enormous significance for the harmonious development of the child's sensitivity, emotional intelligence and competence.
..."Children constantly experiment and explore the world, looking at the outcome of it.They do not take anything for granted! Their imagination and ingenuity has no boundaries, yet no one can marvel at everyday life as beautifully as they do. Adults often underestimate simple and trivial things, while children can notice the charm of these things with ease. It is a shame that adulthood takes that ability away from us… Early childhood is the time of exploring, experiencing, experimenting and "touching the world", discovering and explaining different phenomena, emulating and sharing emotions. The idea behind the theatre for the youngest is to support children in this process. The theatre itself is a perfect place for developing children's sensitivity and imagination, but also a unique opportunity to stimulate cognitive skills, to think independently, to analyse and to improve concentration.
It is important that we talk to children using their own language, not in an infantile and feigned manner, but sincerely. This is the sincerity of the theatre that does not serve the fame and glory of the artist. Here the actors emotionally live their performance and search for a particular way of communication, knowing that children experience their own space and time. The language of theatre is merely a tool in an effort to reach the little spectator's sensitivity. It is an important encounter. This is something more than a theatre…"
Agnieszka Czekierda
Artistic director of the "TAKE PART in ART" festival
General and artistic director of Teatr Małego Widza


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Clinical Decision Support for Radiology Imaging in the United States
There is widespread concern that inappropriate medical imaging unnecessarily increases health care costs and exposes patients to avoidable radiation. In response, clinical decision support systems have been designed to notify providers when they have ordered a diagnostic scan that is inconsistent with current professional guidelines. Researchers are studying the impact of a clinical decision support system on the ordering of high-cost scans.
In 2012, Medicare spent US$10 billion on high-cost diagnostic scans, such as magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and computed tomography (CT) scans, but research suggests that up to 30 percent of diagnostic imaging is unnecessary. These scans may also expose patients to potentially harmful radiation. With health care spending accounting for almost one-fifth of the U.S. economy and an even larger share of public sector budgets, policymakers are interested in reducing spending on health care that provides minimal value to patients. Reflecting concerns about inappropriate scanning, beginning in early 2018, Medicare will no longer reimburse providers for high-cost scans unless they are ordered using a qualifying clinical decision support system – an automated tool that provides guidance on the appropriateness of a scan. To date, there has been no randomized evaluation of the impact of clinical decision support systems for imaging.
Aurora Health Care is a large, private, not-for-profit integrated health care provider serving communities in eastern Wisconsin and northern Illinois. Aurora encompasses 15 hospitals and more than 150 clinics in the region, and cares for more than 1.2 million unique patients. Aurora Health Care utilizes an industry-standard electronic medical record software that includes a radiology information and order entry system.
Researchers are conducting a randomized evaluation to study the impact of clinical decision support systems on the ordering of certain high-cost medical imaging scans. Approximately 3,500 Aurora providers with imaging order permissions were selected to participate in the study. Researchers randomly assigned about half of these providers to receive the clinical decision support intervention, with the other half serving as a control group. After a period where the clinical decision support system ran "in the background" to provide baseline measures of imaging-order behavior, the system was turned on for providers in the treatment group on December 15, 2016.
The clinical decision support system is integrated directly into Aurora's electronic medical record and operates when a provider orders high-cost imaging, such as a CT scan or MRI. Based on the health condition that the provider enters as the reason for the scan and on characteristics of the patient, the system uses computerized guidelines developed by the American College of Radiology to determine the appropriateness of the scan. A pop-up window appears at physician sign-off if:
(i) the scan is rated "usually not appropriate," or
(ii) the scan is rated "may be appropriate," or
(iii) the scan is rated "usually appropriate" and there is another higher-rated scan available.
The pop-up window provides the appropriateness rating of the selected scan, more appropriate scan options, and a link to the relevant medical documentation. The provider can choose to either cancel the initial order, order a substitute scan, or proceed with the initially selected scan. Prior to the introduction of the clinical decision support system, researchers estimated that approximately one-quarter of orders would trigger an alert.
Researchers will measure scan ordering through administrative data recorded by Aurora's electronic medical records system and by the provider of the clinical decision support system. Researchers also hope to study the impact of the intervention on patients' subsequent medical care through other administrative data sources.
Project ongoing; results forthcoming.


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Even though I haven't posted in a while, I've been pretty busy sewing and knitting over the last few months. Photos get hard to take in the winter when light is low.
But finally we got the camera out lest week-end for a catch-up session and I will have quite a few new projects to post in the next few weeks.
Since the end of the summer, I finished 2 knitted sweaters, 1 skirt, 1 vest (an old UFO I finally decided to complete), 1 top, 1 knitted hat. I know it may not seem like much compared to the productivity of others out there, but it's a pretty good record for me!
I also have quite a few more projects on the go, including pajama pants and top, a camisole, a scarf, a couple of loose tops. I'm enjoying tackling a few fast, easy-fitting, no-muslin-required projects these days, but I'm planning a pair of skinny pants in the near future, which will no doubt involve its fair share of fitting challenges.
So that's my little catch-up, stay tuned for some more detailed posts of completed projects!
mardi 27 janvier 2015
Catching up
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Kalahari Capitalism
November 6, 2010
I read a news story earlier today that really illustrates my problem with this capitalism we let run our lives. In Botswana, in southern Africa, there is a community called the Kalahari Bushmen. They have lived in the area for 20,000 years, longer than any world empire, longer than we like to admit civilization has ever existed. Now, because of the discovery of the world's richest diamond deposits on their ancestral homelands, these people are being pushed off their land by the government, which, oh, by the by – is in negotiations with Gem Diamonds, a global diamond mining company. (they call them production, but come on now – these things come out of the ground: you didn't make them – you cut and polished them.)
The Botswana government is actively pushing the Kalahari out of their homes, capping off wells, taking away water distribution trucks, removing storage tanks and water pumps. The Kalahari Basin is mostly desert, and the people there depend largely on underground water to survive. Without access to water, people and livestock die, and so the people there are slowly migrating, abandoning their ancient culture for the benefit of their government and a giant diamond conglomerate – how much of the $3.3 billion dollar payoff will ever reach the disenfranchised Kalahari people? How many of those diamonds will come here, be sold to American young men to give to their loved ones? It staggers that anyone could do the calculus of diamonds against human and animal lives and come out in favor of this destruction. It requires a dishonest and myopic view of the exchange going on, one which does not value life, which does not value humanity, or history, or culture.
Let's do that math right here – the government of Botswana stands to gain $3,300,000,000 dollars, or roughly 11 million $300 iPhones. The remainder of the diamond deposit, which surely is valued far about $3.3 billion – else why would Gem Diamonds bother to excavate it? – will go to a London-based Diamond group with no interests in Botswana. Aside from mining jobs, the company will not be putting money into Botswana or the hands of the Kalahari Bushmen, rightful owners of the diamonds being poached out from under them. Look at those mining job pictures; don't you want to do that? It sure worked out well for those Congolese.
Let's go a bit more into that math – $3.3 billion dollars is still a good bit of change. There are 2,029,307 people in Botswana, as estimated by the CIA. That means the government stands to gain approximately $1629.17 per person in this deal. Is that impressive? Would you stand by and let one of the most ancient living cultures die out for $1629.17? How many thousands of dollars will it cost the government to throw the Kalahari off their land? What will become of these people, these ranchers, once their livelihood is taken from them? Won't they become beggars, nomads, a burden on the system they now are forced to survive within? In all likelihood, the government of Botswana will spend much of their ill-gotten gains dealing with the problems arising out of the destruction of a people. Already, they have had the most costly court case in their nation's history – how many more will there be? Then there are the costs of mining – polluted land, destroyed water tables, demolished ecosystems – generations off damage, all outside the calculation. Thus, does it not seem the calculus of government and corporation is flawed here – they give no value to the damage they do, and thus even from an economic perspective, this is no good deal for the people of Botswana, or for the people of Earth. We are all poorer for the loss of people different than us, for the loss of good land, for the destruction of life.
Capitalism is worthless in determining true values – if the calculation does not include suffering, environmental damage, human and animal loss, culture, art, language, or history, then the value being cited is accepted only through ignorance or conscious malice. Are $3.3 billion in imaginary value and a lot of shiny stones fair compensation for valueless true wealth and beauty? Capitalism says yes, but intelligence, emotion, and honestly will say no.
Yet here it is, in naked violence – a people, the ancient caretakers of their land, are forced by the thousands out of their homes under threat of death by thirst, all so that a soulless corporation and a corrupt government can dip their beaks. A culture is destroyed, a way of life forever shattered, so that people in the richest nations in the world can buy price-inflated rocks they've been programmed to need through manipulative advertising. The irony? Diamonds, these supposed gifts of love, would be so common if not for the market manipulation by companies like Gem Diamond that there would no impetus to mine to mine them in Botswana at all. There you have it – naked greed, supply manipulation, open robbery, corruption of government, destruction of true value for artificial, all to fill an demand that was created by the diamond companies themselves within the past 80 years – I can think of no better epitaph for the whole corrupt crony Capitalist system.
When the supposed libertarians and capitalist sympathizers of the world talk about freeing business from government, they are romanticizing the encounter. They mistake who is in command. Capitalism is war, fought by different means. It is the pursuit of profit at the expense of every other value humanity has ever held dear. It is the religion of the libertarian that the government which does not interfere with business is the best sort, but in this world the problem is not governments fighting against or blocking corporations from their actions, but instead from massive multi-national corporations so powerful that they can buy governments and surpass them completely. A land of free capitalism is a land where life does not matter, where profit is God, where all value ceases to exist save ability to money. Money has no real value. You cannot purchase love, you cannot have a life-changing conversation in exchange for any amount of it, and once it becomes the standard of value, then all life becomes valueless.
We are not the first people to have discovered the terror of capitalists run wild, but ours is the first generation to have to deal with the deathless global amoebas of the modern corporations. The governments we have today exist because our ancestors created them – the regulations on business exist because unregulated business creates a feudal state, ruled not by divinity-claiming monarchs, but by the profit motive itself – in the end, everyone loses. There will always be a better competitor, a more efficient, less human method of creating that good or providing this service, and as the dollar signs pile up, so do the bodies. The impoverished classes swell – we have never had more poor on this planet than today. We have never had more wealth on this planet either. The tiny ruling classes of each society shrink, as the very highest among them crush the others to rise ever higher. The actions of all humanity have never supported fewer so well. The bonepile grows, and eventually the last Capitalist will succumb, the final victim of the system we created and which grew to consume us all.
I hope mass consciousness will turn against the cancer we have set loose upon ourselves. I hope that we will stop this suicidal run before Earth is rendered unliveable, before all human life becomes slave to profit. Today it is the Bushmen, tomorrow it will be another people who cannot defend themselves, and one day soon it will be your and my time as well. I will leave it here, with a man who knew what we are dealing with all too well. Benito Musselini -"Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power"
"If you'd like to let Gem Diamonds know how you feel about their business dealings, here is their contact page. Here's the Botswana US Embassy's info also, but I'm not sure they want to be involved in this sort of thing.
Rebuttal to Myself
November 6, 2010
So if you haven't read the last post, I've been having a rough day in a bad string of days in a shit week… really it's been a long, bad time for me for quite a while now. I really needed a night like tonight, one where I'm on, where I'm kicking ass instead of getting kicked.
I hadn't hardly clicked post on the previous entry when I'm in my car and speeding off to work. 4:40 or thereabout, work at 5, and I'm late. It's a 25 minute drive to work on a good day, and right now I'm stuck at the train crossing – it's a great train, passes by the house precisely at the time when I'm guaranteed to get stuck behind it if I'm running late. There's one chance though – I slam into reverse, cut into the non-turning lanes, hit the green and go. The train is on my left, our paths cross in about a mile, and I'm gambling that I hit enough green lights to cut her off at the pass. There's 4 crossings, and at the first she's right next to me. Second, she's just behind me, we're almost there, no, red light. Third I'm speeding, she's stopping at the college, but it's almost red again, and I'm sweating – hit the light, play speed racer, and it's probably orange – no cops – clear sailing now, I'm through the crossing and already life feels better. Small victories.
I make it into work a couple minutes late, feeling instantly better when I see another coworker coming in late also – we're both covering shifts, and at least we're in good company. Almost all my favorite people are working today – the regular Friday crowd, plus some good substitutions. Bullshitting, setting up tables, and getting ready for the rush, I slip into work and let my mind go free. I'm really lucky to have this job – with all the stingy, angry restauranteers in the world, it has great ownership, a family feel, and a sense of camaraderie to it that is too rare in this industry. We're an up-and-coming place, 4 months old today, and so the night starts out slow. We all horse around, trash talk, make friends with the guests. I think it says a lot about a business when the employees go out of their way to befriend customers, and take on duties outside their own. We all really want this place to succeed.
Success means hard work, and once the place fills up, you're slammed. We all help each other out, and so I'm covering a bus shift for one of the younger guys. It's physical work, far more so than waiting – lots of lifting, carrying tubs of plates, garbage, glasses, ice – interspersed with waiter work – taking drink and appetizer orders, serving plates, schmoozing to kill time while some overworked waitress is taking another table's food out – and then you've got to keep bathrooms clean, clear tables, sweep up messes, wipe up spills… At the end of the day, the bus is the guy keeping the chaos of a full restaurant from turning into a shitshow. You make minimum wage, but all the servers tip you out, and if you're lucky you'll double your pay like that – it behooves you to make everything run properly. Plus, you never know when the right conversation with a customer will make her night and convince her to bring the whole golf team over to try lunch next week. Since we all love the place, and want to see it work, the whole staff is pretty going full-out the entire time we have customers – no bathroom break, no cigarette, nothing while the rush is going on.
What this means is that we make up games as we go along – If you don't have a break, you'd better be enjoying the work itself, and this crowd loves to talk shit. The kitchen staff bags on me, calls me "google" and asks me obscure questions I'm supposed to know the answers to. They rip into the dishwasher, each other, hit on the waitresses and hostess. Everyone plays along, the girls threaten to beat up the boys: even the cook plays a thug ass gangsta on TV. There's no room for dwelling on problems when you're busy, and this job is a full mind-and-body workout. No thinking… that's a nice change. Moreover, every in this group is on their A-game all night long, and aside from one table that came in complaining, we sail smoothly through the entire evening. I even got to change a few kegs out and play with a couple of dogs. Taken all together, it was a good night's work.
When the crowd dies, the waitresses do their tallies, clean their station and after a victory cigarette go home. The cooks spend an hour on preparation, cleaning, washing and scrubbing and hosing down everything. This is a fantastically clean place for how much food goes through it – our chef has the boys tear the whole room down to pieces and put back together every single night. Meanwhile, as bus I'm cleaning, sweeping, mopping, sanitizing the front end – the whole eating area, the patio, the entryway, the lunch counter, and then there are bathrooms to restock, silverware, napkins, the bus tubs and cart to clean. Plus, like every other Friday night there's that one table that snuck in at 8:45 and is still hanging out drinking wine and having a great time, which would be great if we hadn't closed an hour ago! The cooks start to head home, the table finally goes, and we hose down the floors and patio. Finally, 10:15, I'm off the clock. I say my goodbyes, head out into the world, and I realize how much I don't want to go home just yet.
Luckily a couple of other guys are down to party – we have a prop 19 pity party, a round of beers, and a great conversation. I get to speak Spanish, we tell dirty jokes, and well, laughter really is the best medicine. That's it really – I drive home listening to jazz, end up running into my mom on her way back from dancing, and follow her home. Glorious shower – I will never stop appreciating hot water – stop to soap, Parov Stelar playing spygames, say goodnights all around, and lay down to type this night out. I needed a victory, however small, and I'm glad to have it. Until the next day; goodnight world.
November 5, 2010
I feel obligated to write something – anything – on here to explain how this blog went so suddenly from stories and observations about the world I was so excitedly exploring, to well… nothing. No posts except infrequently, and pretty poor-quality ones at that. It isn't so much that I've given up on writing, but lately it has become difficult for me to write anything that I feel is worthy of being shown to other people.
I discovered in traveling that there are experiences which cannot be fully conveyed to anyone who did not experience them. One of my biggest problems is that while I can tell an entertaining story, or write an essay that provokes the reader to think, there simply isn't a way to telegraph the feelings and raw emotions of some of the experiences I have had without going and doing the same things – even then, you're likely to run into different people and do different things, and so your adventures will be different than my own. On some level it works, because most people don't want to have the realizations that come with watching small kids huff glue to stay warm and knowing you could fix the problem except that you'd rather keep traveling and not adopt and raise a street kid, and even if you did, that's still only one in a million. Trust me when I say that the self-discovery that comes out of walking away from someone else's problem when you could actually fix it is one of the more unpleasant I've had. I'm hard on myself for details, for accuracy, and for trying not to preach, but when I try to write stories about my adventures of the past year and half, I run into an even bigger barricade; one which has prevented me from giving any serious effort to writing about my life of late.
I came home in mid-March of 2010, stumbled into my familial home, took some pictures, shared a few stories, and passed out. Between then and now, my life has been divided into work, looking for work, and taking every effort to keep my family from falling apart. What I hadn't realized in my time on the road, and what they had been too kind to tell me, was that my younger brother George (what my 2-year-old self wanted to name him) had descended into the living hell of schizophrenia, and that this horrible disease had been eating my family from the inside ever since I left. By the time I returned he was holding full conversations with people none of the rest of us could see, drawing massive amounts of graffiti and nonsensical (to me) scribblings on every surface available to him, and had convinced himself that his destiny lay in becoming a professional skateboarder and rapper. He gave up on personal hygiene, developed phobias about sunlight, trimming his nails, or cutting his hair. He'd become nocturnal; sleeping until mid-afternoon and refusing contact with the rest of the family until my parents and youngest brother had gone to bed. At this point, he would emerge from his room, make a hell of a lot of noise, cook some strange meal (an entire pound of pasta with no sauce) and then go off to skateboard around the neighborhood until dawn, after which he'd go back to bed, and the cycle would repeat.
The burden of taking care of George fell to my mother, because my father was working 12-16 hour days at a location an hour away. This meant that for over a year, my father was more or less not present in his family's life. My mother, in addition to her full-time job, had been attending support meanings, reading dozens of books on the subject of mental illness, and trying – largely in vain – to get my brother the assistance he so desperately needed. This left my youngest brother Randy to pretty much fend for himself at 15 years old. His grades crashed, his interest in school also, and he buried himself into video games as a coping mechanism for the terrible life he had been thrust into. Our extended family's help and advice has been limited – one aunt and uncle offered George a job and a place to stay part of each week, but he couldn't do the job and eventually cut ties with them as his paranoia led him to believe they too were trying to control him. (his biggest fear in life is that people are out to control him, and he will go to great, self-destructive lengths to avoid these perceived attacks on his sovereignty.) Yet incredibly, all these strange behaviors, screaming fights, and George's descent into madness were kept largely from me, the exception being occasional tearful emails from my mother, casting herself as the over-reacting mother. From my end, George wasn't doing great, but in our communications he was distant and sullen, not crazy. Like all of us, I simply didn't want to believe that my brother the athlete, the architect, the wonder kid could possibly be mentally ill. We all deluded ourselves, internalized the problems, and the whole family sank silently. Coming home was such a shock, because having not seen the transition, George's condition was intolerable. Here I was, my clearly not-sane brother before me, and I'd been off having the time of my life for a year.
The guilt that comes from this is indescribable. I should have been there. I could have helped. I would have made the difference. If not for my self-centered adventures, I could have stopped his slide. It's all shit; in case you were wondering – my presence here would not have made the difference then any more than it has now, and I am confident that I would have done a far worse job than I have if not for the perspective and strength I gained in traveling. Had I stayed, I would have been in the same condition as my family at the time of my return – soul-bruised, vacant, and hopeless. It doesn't matter where guilt is concerned – the knife still digs into my chest when I think of their suffering concurrent with my happiness, separated by a few thousand miles and a yearning gulf of uncaring bliss. When the pain and suffering breached my isolation, and brother, mother, and friend all asked me to return with a few days of each other, I did what any good son would, and came home to investigate for myself. By that I mean I flew to Colombia, got a paragliding license, flew to NYC, and hitched a ride cross-country with a now-great friend Matt. I took my time because even faced with the distress of those I loved, I misunderstood the urgency in their words – George was coherent in his communications with me, so how bad could it really be?
Life-shatteringly terrible, as it turned out.
My original plan in coming home had been to stay here only for a matter of weeks, a few months tops, to visit the family, say hi to old friends, aid George in whatever was ailing him, and then victoriously take off again – to overseas, to live with new friends, or to reunite the wonderful woman I met and fell in love with in Colombia. (I swear, Natalie, I will write our story soon enough!) That plan, like any, never survived first contact with the enemy. My family members did not even speak to each other in my first few days back in the country. They did not interact except at the most basic level of survival communication, and each seemed trapped in a world of isolated unhappiness. Seeing the dire straits of my family I could not help but to abandon my own interests and save the people I love.
I have been remarkably unsuccessful in this – good intentions cannot cure mental illness – and to this day George suffers delusions, heightened unpleasant senses, and cannot separate real from fantasy. He lives in a world all his own, surrounded and tormented by demons the rest of us cannot imagine. At times he shakes loose, and for an hour, a day, my brother is back with us – in certain situations, surrounded by lifelong friends and doing activities he has loved his entire life, he will appear almost as I remember him from all those years ago. Then something will shift; his entire body language will slump, his voice will change, and he will be another person altogether. He is gone again, and until another surprise reappearance, the person we must deal with is not the one we love. His other self, the one that we most often see, is angry at the world – we are all assholes, we are crazy, we are the enemy seeking to control and destroy him. If not for us, he would be able to live free, take charge of his own destiny, and fulfill his rap/skate dreams. We hate him, we are obsessed with him, we have nothing better to do with our lives than to destroy is, and that is our purpose in existence. All of these are things he has yelled at my mother and myself within the past 50 hours. He cannot make eye contact, he cannot face the people he is speaking with. His hair – ratty and matted to his head – hangs past his nose now, and he moves stiffly, robot-like, with everything coming from the shoulder and hip joints. When he is like this there is no point in talking to him – his denial of his own problems runs so deep that anything, the slightest comment, will drive him into fits of rage.
One of my greatest fears in life is that he will attack my mother or youngest brother, and I will not be there to fight him off. He has twice assaulted me – once in our home, and another time at a good friend's wedding. I still have the scar from that second attack, my right eye does not open the same as it once did, and I suspect the injury is for life. On his bad days we all barricade our doors and let him rage, because he is an adult, and the rights of parents and family over the mentally ill in this country are non-existent. He has no control of his mind, and yet no one, not the police, our insurance, his school, nor his former doctors will grant anyone the ability to protect him from himself. In this manner, we are given the choice of throwing our own kin into the streets to survive as a crazy homeless man, or to keep him at home. There are no other options until he harms someone to the point of going to jail or a mental facility. We have no money – we have spent many thousands of dollars on medicines, doctors, mental care experts, and there is no cure forthcoming. For a while now he has been medicated, but one of the first things that comes from his medication is an overwhelming feeling that he doesn't need the pills to control his life. Thus he hides them, refuses to take them for days, misses his dosing schedule, and the meds feed another part of roller-coaster emotions. While unmedicated he is a danger to everyone around him, but while he continues to take his medication on so erratic a schedule he risks permanent harm to himself, and amplifies the wild cycles of his mind. His manner is hostile, his behavior erratic, and his attacks on myself and others leave me little choice but to assume the worst – he will hurt someone one day if he is not stopped. As there are no authorities willing to deal with him, our choice as his family is to keep him close to home and both protect George from the uncaring world, and the world from the insane George.
There is no clear path left open to us now – those diagnosed schizophrenics who are caught early and take their medication consistently can oftentimes recover, but for those who persist for years in denial and rebellion against their own minds the hopeful prognoses fade to semi-invalid or death. A full quarter commit suicide – the same proportion which recovers completely. My brother's condition was discovered when my father and I bailed him out of jail a year and 9 months ago. Talking with his roommates at the time, he had been bad off for many months before that as well. With the medical insurance games and exorbitant fees of private practice doctors, we did not have a diagnosis until some 5 months ago – likely too late. Certainly George has not responded well to the treatments or medication, and his current behavior, while less physically violent than before, is still volatile to the point of grave concern. He has driven away his friends, lost every job offered to him, is on the verge of being kicked out of the local community college, and has convinced himself that his own family is plotting to destroy his life. At this rate, I do not expect him to survive another year – indeed, my mother and I spoke just yesterday about our (previously separate and unspoken) fears that each day will be the one where we discover he has killed himself.
There is no way out of this without abandoning my family. My parents are close to divorce, Randy clings to me as a rock of stability in his shattered life, and everyone seems to need my love and advice on a constant basis. They all need me, and in my heart I can feel only hate. I hate San Diego. I hate living here, I hate the people here. I hate the way that this whole world has turned to ashes in my hands. I hate that I cannot help, cannot save, can do nothing more than comfort the people I love as we all spiral downward. We are trapped behind George's lying brain's filters – our outstretched arms are obscene gestures to him – our words are horrible to his lying ears. He is trapped in a hell of his own creation, and his powers of creation are so great that all who come in contact are sucked in as well. I find myself simultaneously dreading and hoping for his death – at least then he would not have to suffer so. At least then we could try to recover. I know there is no happiness here, that there may never be happiness again – for any of us. There is no one I can speak to about this – not without paying money I do not have for a counselor whose job is to listen. I don't need a prostitute.
Just as there was once a gulf between myself out in the world and family here at home, so is there now a gulf between my former self and my present. I have never shown traveling photos to anyone, I have never told my story to a friend. I can feel myself putting all those happy times into a little mental box, locking it, and abandoning my dreams. I am being ground into powder my this life, and soon I will be nothing left.
Last night I dreamed the happiest thing I have felt in as long as I can remember. I was on the road, in the back of a truck, riding to I-know-not-where. Around me were friends, and we were riding off to some great adventure, laughing and singing into the wind. I took my phone from my pocket, threw it into the road, an explosion of plastic and glass and circuits. We all found his hilarious. Later, sitting around a campfire, I took my passport from my pocket, thumbed the pages, threw it into the hungry flames. Next my photos, of family, friends, a life I no longer wanted. Journals went in, my laptop too. My companions sat silently as I did this, and tears of joy flooded down my face. Afterward, I sat and faced the dimming fire with my wet face, finally free of myself.
Do you see what I am getting at here? Do you see where my mind goes? There can be no happiness for me when those I love are in such pain. Coming back here, I though the solution was to help them, to free the ones I love from their chains. Now I see that is impossible, and that I am chaining my body alongside theirs. My only hope lies in flight; in abandoning everyone I have ever loved and beginning anew in another life. I am not even the same man I was when I returned, and certainly that carefree, happy, traveler would hardly recognize me. The few people I still talk to honestly are unanimous in their assurances that what I am doing is noble and good, and will be worth it in the end, but I have lost any faith I once had. My brother is not my brother any more. My family is shattered, without hope, without help. Our friends have their own lives and worries, and as our problems deepen, they bow out one at a time. We are alone in a way I have never been – even being actually alone is less lonely than to be the problem family, the one who brings everyone down. I am sure that the only responses this gets will be good-natured, well-intended missives of help and support, but my own doubts are so deep that it all comes to naught.
So you see, writing a book about adventures, love stories, and happy times is quite impossible when the whole world is on fire, and there in no one there to help you put it out. Now if you'll excuse me, I'm off to put on a fake smile and pretend to be happy for the benefit of others – a man has to make a living somehow.


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Monday, January 28, 2013
two step
a few weeks ago, i shared some pics of home improvement projects i wanted to tackle this year. well, this weekend we managed to cross one off the list! matt and i spent our saturday night staining the wooden steps in our stairwell that lead up to our front door. we went with a blueish tinted stain just for something a bit different. and sunday afternoon, i wrote lyrics to an all time favorite song of mine on the stairs so you can read it as you head into the house. i really love how they turned out! and i can't wait to finish up the other projects we have planned!
'two step' by dave matthews
celebrate we will
because life is short but sweet for certain
we're climbing two by two
to be sure these days continue
things we cannot change
oh my love you came to me
like wine comes to this mouth
grown tired of water all the time
you quench my heart and you quench my mind
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African's Life, 1745-1797: The Life and Times of Olaudah Equiano
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Saturday, March 22, 2014
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Rhode Island House Speaker Gordon Fox has resigned one day after the FBI raided his home and State House office. Rumors continue to swirl concerning who else will get dragged in on the " Fox-hunt", or "Gordon Gate".
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. Sources say the Feds knew what they were looking for because " someone is singing ". Who is talking to the Feds ? Is Fox really the top target? Seems like a strong show of force at his home as his " Marcus" and mother watched. Is it the Providence loan program or 38 studios? Sources say the focus is the cash involved with the loan program when David Cicilline was mayor. Fox must know it is bad since it took him 24 hours to throw in the towel after the raid. Fox has not been arrested or been charged with any crime. What would they find that he would know is damaging to him? Who told the investigators to search his home? The IRS is involved and that means missing money and unreported income. Listen to John DePetro on WPRO and follow DePetro.com.
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Can you hear me now? The Feds executed a daylight raid on the State House office and home of Rhode Island House Speaker Gordon Fox that would have made Walter Stone proud.
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The FBI sent a loud message that they are looking for answers and will not take " no comment" for an answer. On Friday, the most powerful man in the state was about as visible as Michelle Kwan's Missing Prius. The state police, IRS, and FBI did not just show up on the 3rd floor of Smith Hill, they took it over, and made it clear they were not to be confused with the state's ethics commission. Meanwhile on the Eastside of Providence at the home of a Gordon and Marcus, no less then 14 agents burst inside while 91 year old " momma Fox" could only look on in disbelief. The state has not seen this type of " Fox-hunt " since the days of " Carolynn Fox" on 94-HJY. Sources say the main focus of the probe stems from loans and the Providence Economic Partnership Development. The mayor at the time was David Cicilline and the attorney was Josh Teverow. It raised a few eyebrows when there was talk of payments in cash, unreported income, and fake addresses. Is Cicilline the target? Unknown and he is silent. Is Teverow involved? Unknown and he is not talking. Does this involve 38 studios? One person who now has cover is Fox spouse " Marcus" since they were married after Rhode Island passed same sex marriage. This could be the first case in Rhode Island legal history where a same sex spouse does not have to testify against their partner. For the latest on Gordon Fox, listen to John DePetro on WPRO and follow DePetro.com.
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