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Description of problem:
When trying to compile Linux 2.6.7 from source I get an internal
compiler error while trying to do:
make menuconfig
[root:/usr/src/linux] make menuconfig
HOSTCC scripts/basic/fixdep
scripts/basic/fixdep.c: In function `parse_config_file':
scripts/basic/fixdep.c:239: internal compiler error: Illegal
Please submit a full bug report,
with preprocessed source if appropriate.
See <URL:http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla> for instructions.
Preprocessed source stored into /tmp/ccQxU7Cz.out file, please attach
this to your bugreport.
make[1]: *** [scripts/basic/fixdep] Error 1
make: *** [scripts_basic] Error 2
This is on a VIA C3 CPU. /proc/cpuinfo:
processor : 0
vendor_id : CentaurHauls
cpu family : 6
model : 7
model name : VIA Ezra
stepping : 8
cpu MHz : 800.091
cache size : 64 KB
fdiv_bug : no
hlt_bug : no
f00f_bug : no
coma_bug : no
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 1
wp : yes
flags : fpu de tsc msr cx8 mtrr pge mmx 3dnow
bogomips : 1576.96
This is just an example. Every "larger" project I have tried to
compail fails in the same way making it impossible to use this
release to compile anything useful.
I have reproduced this on two different VIA C3 motherboards to try
rule out potential hardware problems. gcc-3.3.3 works fine compiling
the same code. So I doubt there is something flaky with the hardware.
Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
How reproducible:
Steps to Reproduce:
1. In the Linux source code directory type make menuconfig
2. Compilation fails with internal compiler error
Actual Results: Received an internal compiler error.
Expected Results: Successful compilation
Additional info:
Created attachment 101680 [details]
the cc-out file generated by gcc
Created attachment 101681 [details]
The source code gcc tries to compile
Since the compiler is an "internal compiler error: Illegal
instruction" might this be related to the fact that the VIA C3 lacks
certain instructions and gcc have been compiled for i686?
To my knowledge there are no i686 instructions in cc1 binary
(just quickly skimmed objdump -dr /usr/libexec/gcc/i386-redhat-linux/3.4.1/cc1 ).
The testcase you provided compiles just fine with gcc-3.4.1-2 on P4.
Given that I don't have any VIA CPUs, can you first try to reproduce
it with gcc-3.4.1-2 and if you still see the bug, run
/usr/libexec/gcc/i386-redhat-linux/3.4.1/cc1 -quiet -O2 -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -fomit-frame-pointer -frandom-seed=0 ccQxU7Cz.out
under debugger and see on which instruction it died?
I am not that good at gdb so I may have made a mistake here but...
This is still 3.4.1-1 (I did not find 3.4.1-2).
Starting program: /usr/libexec/gcc/i386-redhat-linux/3.4.1/cc1 -quiet
-O2 -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -fomit-frame-pointer -frandom-seed=0
(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...
Program received signal SIGILL, Illegal instruction.
0x082bde5c in ?? ()
(gdb) bt
#0 0x082bde5c in ?? ()
#1 0x00000074 in ?? ()
#2 0x00000000 in ?? ()
#3 0x00000000 in ?? ()
#4 0x00000000 in ?? ()
#5 0x00000000 in ?? ()
#6 0x00000001 in ?? ()
#7 0xbffff8c8 in ?? ()
#8 0x081fbeab in ?? ()
#9 0x4030ce20 in ?? ()
#10 0xbffff890 in ?? ()
#11 0x00000001 in ?? ()
#12 0x00000001 in ?? ()
[stack is a lot deeper]
(gdb) x/i 0x082bde5c
0x82bde5c <error+1894796>: prefetcht0 0x20(%eax)
I have no idea if this is the correct way to check this, but
let's assume for a short while that it is correct.
VIA C3 implements a prefetch instruction from the 3Dnow! instruction
set. SSE instructions (not available on the C3 version in my
computer) also has prefetch instructions. I am not sure if they are
compatible, if they are not then this may be the problem?
Ok, so I disassembled the cc1 binary. The prefetch instructions occur
82bde5c: 0f 18 48 20 prefetcht0 0x20(%eax)
82bde60: 0f 18 48 40 prefetcht0 0x40(%eax)
These map to the SSE prefetch instructions, however what I found
googling was that the 3Dnow! prefetch is 0fh 0d xx xx, so these two
instructions are illegal on the VIA C3 CPU I have.
Oh, I see now, thanks. Was looking mainly for cmov insns.
Curious why nobody noticed this bug for more than 2.5 years...
With gcc-3.4.1-4 (which includes the fix according to the changelog)
the compiler works again.
I tried several projects and did not find any problems (with the
compiler or the executable). So this issue should be solved now.
*** Bug 128368 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
An errata has been issued which should help the problem
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on the solution and/or where to find the updated files,
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report
if the solution does not work for you.


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With the rise of clean meat, good food becomes more inclusive
Last week, at the Cultured Meat Symposium in San Francisco, the topic at hand was a product that might someday replace factory farmed meat. Known as cell-based meat, cultured meat, or clean meat—the label is still evolving—this product is biologically identical to farmed meat but grown in a lab from animal cells. Though it remains an estimated three years from market, clean meat has the potential for tremendous impact on our climate future if it can achieve quality and price parity with farmed meat.
The buzz and excitement around clean meat has been growing ever since a team of Dutch scientists produced a $330,000 lab-grown hamburger in 2013, and this conference was no different. A panel of venture capitalists early in the day discussed the boom taking place in clean meat investment—notably, even the meat industry giant Tyson Foods began investing in the clean meat start-up Memphis Meats earlier this year. As a result, the conference attracted meat lovers, committed vegans, and everyone in between. The tension was palpable but productive in an afternoon panel combining two clean meat advocates with representatives from Morris Grassfed and the North American Meat Institute.
Amid sunny reports on the boost in plant-based sales and the rapid scientific progress in clean meat, the conference also highlighted a new pragmatism in the good food space. While environmentalists and animal welfare activists might hope for a future that fully eliminates meat from our diets, many speakers said that the pace of climate change means we must welcome all solutions that increase sustainability in the short term.
"The problem with factory farms is so great that we need many alternatives, including plant-based meat, cell-based meat, and just eating less meat," said Paul Shapiro in a presentation at the end of the day. Shapiro has written a book on clean meat and advocates a plant-based diet, but he believes those two solutions alone won't achieve our climate goals quickly enough. According to a Gallup poll this year, the percentage of vegetarians (5%) in the U.S. hasn't budged since 2012, despite an explosion in plant-based sales. And less than one percent of current meat consumption is plant-based, he told the audience. "Even if plant-based meat consumption quadruples in the next few years, 95 percent of the meat we eat still comes from factory farms."
Earlier this year, Shapiro cofounded The Better Meat Co. The company's meat blender is a plant-based protein that can be combined with ground meat so you need less of it. By working alongside meat providers, Shapiro's meat blenders reduce the amount of meat in a product by 30 percent without requiring consumers to select a fully plant-based option.
This pragmatic outlook has gained traction with activists across the good food movement. Nil Zacharias, author of Eat for the Planet and a prominent vegan podcaster, has argued that we must expand the range of solutions beyond pure veganism for all. "At the end of the day, belief systems are important, but they can get in the way," he said in a recent interview. "There's not one silver bullet. Some people promote vegan diets, some say grass-fed meat, and some say clean meat—well the answer is yes, we need all of it."
Organizations such as the Culinary Institute of America, with its Protein Flip campaign, and the Reducetarian Foundation have begun shifting the messaging around plant-based diets to include a wider range of meat-reducing solutions. The Foundation recommends accessible options such as Meatless Monday, Vegan before Six, and Weekday Vegetarian, and stresses inclusiveness. "The reducetarian concept appeals to individuals who may not want to radically change their diet, but is inclusive of vegans and vegetarians, too," founder Brian Kateman said.
A more inclusive approach doesn't mean activists have abandoned their core values. As former Vice President of HSUS and founder of Compassion Over Killing, Shapiro's work with meat producers remains fundamentally tied to his concern for the welfare of animals and the planet. At the end of his talk, he pointed out that commercial whaling ended not because it was cruel but because we invented kerosene.
"It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it," Shapiro said, quoting the reformer Upton Sinclair. Evidence that a number of powerful forces are coming together to change that reality was no doubt a big reason for last week's excitement. "We will change our social views of what we deem as ethically acceptable because we will no longer be tied to the economic idea that the way we treat animals today is acceptable." To achieve the economic foundation for an ethical future, every solution counts.


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UFC 189 attendance, gate and bonuses
July 11, 2015
UFC 189 set a record for attendance and gate at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas. The event drew 16,019 for a gate of $7.2 million. In addition, Conor McGregor, Thomas Almeida, Robbie Lawler and Rory MacDonald earned the performance bonuses.
The numbers were announced post-fight by Dana White during its press conference.
The attendance and gate figures are the second-highest in UFC history as April 2011's UFC 129 in Toronto drew a $12 million gate with over 55,000 in attendance.
UFC 189 broke the MMA gate record in Nevada previously held by Silva-Sonnen II at UFC 148 which drew $6,901,655 with a paid attendance of 13,600. Notably, attendance for the event was first reported at 15,016. Previously, the highest paid attendance for an event was UFC 168 in December 2013 with 14,574 paying to see the double main event of Weidman-Silva and Rousey-Tate.
The bonuses were given to McGregor and Almeida for their performances on the PPV. Fight of the Night was clearly Lawler-MacDonald for their battle which resulted in a successful title defense for Lawler. Each received $50,000.
Payout Perspective:
The UFC delivered with its biggest event of the year. The PPV came through and included the Matt Brown-Tim Means replay from the Prelims to fill the last half of the PPV block. The attendance and gate had to be largely due to the heavy Irish contingent cheering on McGregor. We will wait and see how the PPV buy rate did in the coming days.
21 Responses to "UFC 189 attendance, gate and bonuses"
mmaguru on
July 12th, 2015 5:02 AM
Great event overall. This should translate well for the rest of 2015.
joe on
July 12th, 2015 5:27 AM
Terrific event last night!
The uniforms looked like crap but the graphics and main event walkouts were really cool.
All the nation card fights were fun to watch…
This is the biggest event in company history. If it didn't get to 2mm PPVs it got close.
It also sets up Aldo v McGregor again which will break all the same records as this.
saldathief on
July 12th, 2015 6:24 AM
Funny how the UFC cant sell tickets anywhere anymore, has shitty gates with far bigger stars, and they want us to believe that this show did these numbers? bahahahhahahahahahahahhaa Suck another dick please Dana!
anti trolls on
July 12th, 2015 7:24 AM
SAL = hater
Diego on
July 12th, 2015 7:33 AM
salda, talking out of his ass yet again.
I think d is looking good for his bet.
d on
July 12th, 2015 8:34 AM
Sal is a retard. The place was packed in attendance last night. Those Irish fans were all over the place and McGregor is the biggest star in mma right now. He knows how to draw a crowd.
jjjjjj_ffffff on
July 12th, 2015 10:00 AM
In the post fight, Dana White stated that this card is trending well over 1M Buys and 1M buys is the base.
tops E on
July 12th, 2015 10:34 AM
Hahaha mma media getting paid again…nobody in media even pointed out that it was a 2 week notice fight for mendes….instead it was even mcgregor who overcame the last minute change of the opponent….at least a lot of fighters are pointing out the fact that what if he had a full camp….ufc spent the biggest to promote this card they couod have moved it a couple of weeks but they just really want mcgregor to win…dw is dictating again pathetic hahahaha
d on
July 12th, 2015 11:20 AM
Hahaha. Tops is self destructing after realizing McGregor is here to stay.
What if Mendes had a full camp? He was getting hit early in that fight consistently and when he got takedowns other than that 1 elbow, he didn't do much other than control. Mendes is an elite fighter and I guarantee you he was in shape or he wouldn't have taken the fight. Was he in peak shape? No. But he is well known for not having a great gas tank.
McGregor proved he is a high level fighter. His striking is better than anyone in the division. The Aldo matchup is an even better fight stylistically for him and I see him taking it. The guy has an iron chin and a ton of power. I don't see anyone beating Edgar though.
saldathief on
July 12th, 2015 11:50 AM
haha you morons can believe what you want! its a hype game to look relevant because of maypac's insane numbers!
d on
July 12th, 2015 12:06 PM
The Greatest on
July 12th, 2015 12:14 PM
What the hell is wrong with u.
This fight probably did 335k.
Theyll lie and say 500k
d on
July 12th, 2015 12:41 PM
You are a retarded moron and redefine the word idiot. I wouldn't be surprised at all if this hit 1m buys. There is no way it only did 500k and 335k is something only a retarded mental patient like you would claim.
saldathief on
July 12th, 2015 4:02 PM
the only thing consistent with the ufc over the years is all of their lies. Nothing good has ever lasted with them! In 2 years we won't even be talking about this conor guy bahahahha And the MGM gets more rent money from the ufc then boxing haha
tops E on
July 12th, 2015 4:51 PM
From D" i guarantee you he was in shape"…..hahahahaha….
Logical on
July 12th, 2015 6:01 PM
Hey Jason, How is it trending? What do you estimate it will do?
Unfortunately I didn't get a chance to catch the PPV, had to step out of the MMA bubble for a few days and to be honest I haven't heard much about the event. How do you think the PPV is looking on this one?
Matt Malloy on
July 12th, 2015 6:43 PM
This was a great event. Every fight on the PPV was great. And the two title fights were just epic matches, with all the contestants showing incredible heart and courage. And McGregor/Mendes….the energy going on during that fight. Great match, with standing versus ground gaming going on. Both guys working to their strengths, with McGregor pulling it out. Props to Mendes for bringing a hell of a fight on a short notice. But again,….wow. I watched it at a bar and the place was standing the entire time. I haven't seen this type of response from a crowd since Brock. The place was crazy loud.
Right now, i don't give give a shit about receipts or PPV. Why even discuss that now? Who cares? What should be talked about was just how fun this event was to watch. This was MMA at it's finest. And for that matter, this was SPORTS at it's finest. This event was hyped up beyond belief and it delivered. All the fights delivered.
You people on this thread, coming onto it and whining about stuff? Seriously? It's pathetic. Go get a life.
d on
July 12th, 2015 7:55 PM
Topps, you are a retard, fighters like Mendes are typically in shape 365 days out of the year. He wasn't in peak condition, but still in shape. It's not like he was eating pizza and cheeseburgers when he got the call, you moron.
d on
July 12th, 2015 7:59 PM
Sal's head is going to explode when McGregor fights Aldo and it destroys anything boxing puts out there.
The Greatest on
July 13th, 2015 3:59 AM
Whats D's prediction on Aldo-McGregor?
d on
July 13th, 2015 6:18 AM
No predictions, just analysis today- your case worker allowed you to use the mental wing's computer far too long this morning.
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YOU'RE NOT A NATURAL MAN – Pastor Chris
Wednesday, December 5, 2018
But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him… (1 Corinthians 2:14).
The natural man is the man that's not born again; the life in him is the ordinary human life; that's what makes him a natural man. However, when you're born again, you're not by any means a natural man, because your human life has been supplanted by God's divine life. Jesus said in John 3:6, "That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit."
The one who's born again is born of the Spirit by the Word: "Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever" (1 Peter 1:23). You're born of the Word the same way Jesus was born of the Word; the life in you is the life of the Word. This is the reason you're indestructible. We just read it: the Word that gave birth to you—the Word from which you came—is indestructible; it lives and abides forever.
Being born again, you're the heavenly man; the God-man from heaven, with the life of Christ. Refuse to see yourself as human; you're divine! As Jesus is, so are you in this world (1 John 4:17). You might ask, "Won't that be going too far?" No; it's the truth!
Psalm 82:6 says, "I have said, Ye are gods; and all of you are children of the most High." The Lord Jesus quoted the very same scripture in John 10:34-36. Until, and unless you see yourself, not as a human being, but as a god in the earth, you'll suffer what human beings suffer.
You're not an ordinary person. Recall the words of Jesus in Mark 16:17-18: "And these signs shall follow them that believe; In my name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues; They shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover."
Anyone who can do the things Jesus outlined in the portion of the scripture above is certainly not human; and that's you. You're the believing one; a divine personality, with the same life and nature with God.
Blessed Father, how great and glorious you are! I celebrate your life in me, which gives me the nature of righteousness and dominion over this world! As Jesus is, so am I—full of your glory, power, and love. Hallelujah!
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Dan has been a photographer for 17 years, specializing in weddings for most of that time. Emily has a background in cosmetology and a Bachelor of Science in History. They have two little boys that are the center of their world and they love to throw parties at every chance they get. They are thrilled to be apart of local weddings and events and to be a part of the St. Peter community.
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Today is the anniversary of the first only black nation to free themselves from slavery. Not begging for freedom, took their freedom back . It was a victory for all Black People with African roots ..It was a victory that scared white supremacy to death… Everyone wants a nation of their own. . It's called Nationalism. .You run your own land… Not talking about the bullshit Emancipation Proclamation here In America. That was a joke. .I'm talking destruction of the government who is enslaving us.. 1804 'Haiti. . HAITIANS REVOLUTION…
Oh since Jesus Christ could not help out. They freed themselves. No singing , Just swinging .Victory for all of us…"
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If you build an interstate highway (I-87) through the town of Malta, and then spend a billion-and-a-half dollars of state money to attract a computer chip plant there, you create development pressure.
But people don't like too much development, so local politicians tried to alleviate that pressure by creating a "downtown" east of Northway Exit 12, so as to preserve open space in the rest of Malta. But then people thought Ellsworth Commons was too high and too close to the road, and had more legitimate objections to other developments in the downtown area, such as the clear-cutting of trees west of the Dunning Street Rural Cemetery.
So new politicians ran for office opposing too much downtown development, and the new Town Board now seems inclined to put on a cap on the number of apartments downtown. Meanwhile, property owners on increasingly busy roads such as Route 9 and Route 67 made the reasonable case that they can't sell single-family houses there for residential use. The Town Board has responded by rezoning Route 9 south for more commercial uses.
The board will hold a public hearing Monday on rezoning Route 67 west for commercial uses. That road still has an existing agricultural use, i.e. cattle grazing on the Double M Rodeo property. If the rezoning gives Double M more leeway on issues such as putting up signs, that'll be good. But the danger is it'll make it more likely that the land will ultimately be lost to agricultural use. And with the state Department of Transportation telling the town it doesn't have enough money to fix the road, it makes little sense to add to traffic there by putting in much more commercial development.
The new board also seemed favorably inclined to a housing development proposed for Ruhle Road, between the Zim Smith Trail and Ballston Creek, on woods currently zoned land conservation.
The Town Board's policies may result in more suburban sprawl all over Malta, which is not what residents want, but what they may get unless they make their objections known.
What should the board do? Stick to a modified version of the downtown plan, channeling development there, including retail. And in the rest of town preserve as much open space as possible, especially uses that keep land agricultural and protect key environmental resources such as Ballston Creek and the Zim Smith Trail.
The new Town Board hasn't been getting everything wrong. It worked to cut the speed limit downtown, and may eventually get street parking approved on Route 9 (a state highway) in front of Ellsworth Commons, which would be a real achievement.
Also up on its agenda Monday is the fate of the old iron fence at Dunning Street Rural Cemetery, which Malta should be trying to restore as much of as possible of through private fund-raising. The board should support the town's Historic Preservation Review Commission, which does not want to permit a cheap replacement fence there.
The board's job is not to make life easier for developers, but to protect the quality of life for all Malta residents..
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Still stuck in Ulverston instead of with the family, not good.
Got an e-mail from a friend of mine, one with a sports ph/d so he can talk the talk, who'd glimpsed through the blog. His interpretation was that I was training for next year already (I'm not) and this was not good. What he basically said was that walking was good, obviously, not full on 5 to 6 mph training, just gentle strolls to keep in healthy shape. Anyone considering the Parish for the first time should be changing their diet and considering weight at the moment, which means healthy and natural foods, and enough exercise that more calories burned then taken in. Two or three good walks a week, and lose any excess weight gradually with more success in keeping it off. Remember, any spare pounds you are carrying have to be carried for 85 miles. To feel the effect, walk 10 miles with just drinks, then another day do the 10 miles again with 5lb potatoes in a rucksack. Notice the difference.
Myself, I am a few pounds heavier than last summer, one of the things I did wrong was peak in fitness march/april time and keep it up for the summer months, ending in all kinds of injuries cropping up. The professor at Hull Uni advised me that fitness should be allowed in peaks and troughs, it's when the body is coming down and resting that any damage to the joints and muscles repair themselves.
I am doing some 10k races through the winter, although mainly using these to hone my race walking technique. I'm putting the full on walk now, and my coach is also walking in these races so he can keep an eye on me. Not too quick at the moment, breaking the hour mark, which is slower than my old walk, but with a few months practice hopefully it'll become more natural and I should speed up.
So, build up the training slowly, diet, cardio, and just gradual improvement, trying to peak in June, at the right time. Fingers crossed.


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Introduce Regulatory Competition to Simplify Financial Reporting
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Financial reports make significant contributions to corporate governance, capital markets, government, and the economy. US approach to financial reporting has led the way for the rest of the world, but it needs rethinking now. Over the past seven decades, a social norms based approach to financial reporting has been replaced by enforcement of written rules by authority. This approach generates endless requests for clarifications, shifts accounting education from analysis and discussion to memorization of rules, and drives talent away from the profession. Introduction of regulatory competition among sets of accounting standards, and the organizations who write them, will help simplify and improve financial reporting by permitting market feedback to enter rules, and by forcing rule-writers to make difficult trade-offs when they are asked to clarify their rules. Since regulatory competition is used in many aspects of US economy without ill-effects, the fears of race-to-the-bottom are unwarranted.
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Today is the post lots of you have been waiting for, the food, or our feast at River Cottage, and it was pretty special. And true to form I didn't manage to photograph all of the food I tried because I was too busy thinking about eating it - no surprise there. But I did do way better than I normally do, as I knew you'd want to know.
But before the food there was a cookery demonstration from Andy on brining. It's the sort of thing you hear a lot of at this time of year as often recipes say to brine the turkey. Well it's something I've never done, and if I'm honest I probably won't ever do, but it is a way of making meat juicier. And it kind of makes sense. Meat loses liquid during cooking, so if it has more liquid to start with then it's going to be juicier after cooking. The chicken we tried tasted good, but I think any chicken I ate at River Cottage HQ would taste good, or I'd expect it to anyway.
The thing that I am tempted to try at home is making my own bresaola. Yes, I know that's quite a leap isn't it? Not interested in brining turkey, but very interested in soaking a piece of red meat in red wine for a few days. Maybe it's because I can see the point of this and the bresaola is done after the soaking and drying, and maybe it's because I'm a lazy foodie. You know, happy to eat all the fancy food, but less happy to do all the fancy-ness at home and preferring simple, straightforward cookery.
I've yet to hunt down the River Cottage bresaola recipe, but I'm sure it must be in *one* of the HFW cookbooks I have. And I thoroughly enjoyed the brining demonstration, and of course tasting the results. Ahem, sorry for the lack of pictures, but look at how rustically pretty the dining table was set.
So with the dining table set and once the hungry-for-more-good-food bloggers had worked out the table plan, the main event could start. Well when I say the main event, I mean the appetisers, and the one I remembered to photograph, which was crispy rabbit served on a puree of romanesco and utterly gorgeous. It's not the sort of thing I'd usually order, not that I'm squeamish about eating rabbit, but it's more MOH's natural choice and it's an unwritten rule to choose different dishes isn't it?
Then one of the young chefs from the cookery school appeared to introduce us to the menu, seriously that must have been a scary task, but he left us slightly redder faced than he'd arrived and with full knowledge of what the menu was, and where it was sourced from. And an invite into the kitchen, so not backward in coming forward off I went. Well, I mean, how often will I get to look around a kitchen while it's serving fifty covers.
I was amused to see some very well used River Cottage cookbooks on the shelf. I have most of these and had my eye on Gill Meller's gather book, but rather than read it in the kitchen I made a mental note to check it out in the shop before I left. And above the books were a large array of spices, and as you'd imagine in far larger quantities than a domestic kitchen.
It was good to see the team at work - and they were a team - just look at this production line, and as with any good team there was plenty of healthy banter. At this point I decided to let them get on with it and headed back to my seat as I was keen not to miss the starter of celeriac ravioli with wild mushrooms and leaves.
Again it was delicious, the celeriac in the ravioli was super smooth and the stand out of the dish. But again though it's not the usual starter I'd order, I tend to avoid pasta as a starter, so there's room for the courses to come and as for pasta filled with vegetables, well, that's often the reason I'd give it a wide berth. But no more, this was so delicious I'd be tempted to try more of this kind of food, but a warning to restaurants where I might be eating, you've a lot to live up to!
So onto our main. Cider brined ham, carrot puree and fried savoy cabbage. Sounds simple doesn't it. I didn't expect it to look quite this elegant when it arrived in front of me.
I was all for tucking in, as for me mains are all about the meat. But I quickly spotted the other food bloggers around me snapping away and I remembered you'd want to know, so I joined in, for a couple of photos at least. The meat was good, soft, sweet, sticky, unctuous, delicious and more filling than it looked. There was a side of braised beans, which were tasty but not so photogenic. For me the cabbage looked pretty, but I was less keen on the charred flavour, although I understand it brought texture to the plate.
As ever when I saw the menu my first thoughts were pudding. I spied creme brulee on the menu, approved and then went back to read the menu in the right order - I don't think I'm the only one that does that, am I? The creme brulee was honeycomb and the accompaniments had an apple theme, not surprising really given that this is prime time for our home grown apples. And doesn't it look great?
And take a closer look, can you smell its sweetness yet?
It really was as delicious as it looks. And aren't you proud of me for taking two photos of dessert? I'm proud of myself!
* This is a collaborative post, but all views and opinions are my own.


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Holiday SurvivalLeave a comment
December 14, 2015 by positivelypeachie
Well it's here, the dreaded and loved holidays. If you're part of the latter group then I wish you the most lovely of holidays!
If you're part of the former group – then this post is for you.
I have been part of both. Up until recently, my love of Christmas remained strong. I was able to disconnect from infertility and still enjoy the holidays (with some exceptions…like inappropriate comments at Christmas parties). However, the last two years have not been so enjoyable. The approach of Christmas has brought with it a vice grip on my heart that I can't seem to shake. I am full of anxiety, and wishing I could just go to sleep and wake up in January. Which is insane because I used to be crazy about Christmas! I am not sure what has caused the transition from Christmas-Lover to Christmas-Dreader…but I fear it's here to stay, for the time being anyway.
As the vice grip has already started, I'd like to pass on a few ideas that I have learned over the years:
#1) Find new traditions that don't involve your triggers. If children are your triggers, then find something completely child-free (i.e. a wine and cheese night with child-free, or empty nester friends, go see a Christmas Performance by the local orchestra or actors guild). Lot's of churches and groups have adult events…find some and attend. Christmas is not just about children, after all. It's amazing how many child-free things are out there, not to mention people without children looking to make some friends. Most of my friends have small children (and it's often hard to spend time together), so meeting other couples without small children has really opened up my friend group.
#2) Volunteer. Pick something close to your heart, and dedicate time to it. Hopefully, it will be so enjoyable that you will continue volunteering through the year, too. I volunteer at a local rescue – it's child free, and something that is very close to my heart. Plus it's just as fun dressing the pups and kitties up in Christmas gear as it is dressing up kids! A different kind of fun that doesn't hurt so badly!
#3) Spoil yourself. Pick something you really want – whether it's a spa day, a quiet evening at home with your spouse or girlfriends, or a day shopping. Enjoy it, and don't – for one second – let yourself feel inferior because you don't have children yet. I have a Paint Nite booked tomorrow with four girlfriends (none have small kids at home) for this purpose exactly!
#4) Say no. It's OK to say no to things that you know will be too hard – even if it might hurt someone. You need to take care of yourself, too. Pick one or two child-centered events, and say no to the rest. You'll have more strength to handle the ones you agreed too, and it will make the whole season much more bearable. My family is having a gathering and dinner on boxing day this year, which will be completely centred around my nephews (which it should be) but will also be hard for me this year. My parents have also invited us out for Christmas Day as well because my sisters and their kids will stop by. That would be too really hard days together – and I am just not sure I'm up for it. Instead, we decided to have Christmas Day at home with our furbabies and spend boxing day with the bigger family. It's a compromise that works for both parties – we still get to spend Boxing Day with the family, but we get our own little piece of quiet and peace on Christmas Day too.
#5) This is the most important one: change your thoughts on Christmas. I found that once I opened my eyes to the other things to do around Christmas (i.e.: Holiday Paint Nite, Zoo Lights, Christmas Wine and Cheese Tours, etc.) that didn't require me to be a parent, I found the holidays seemed a little less dark. I realized that my mind is so hyper-focused on parenting, that I forgot that probably half the population isn't currently raising small children. And these people: the childless, the childfree, the empty-nesters, the teenage parenters… manage to enjoy the holidays too even though their Christmas Eve/Morning is not dominated by littles in feety pajamas waiting for Santa.
It really is all about perspective, and adjusting your perspective to meet your reality only frees your mind from the shadow of expectation.
What do you do to make the holidays go by faster/pass without too much pain?
I wish you all happy and safe holidays, and if you aren't able to find a way to happy holidays then I hope it passes quickly and with the least amount of hurt for you.


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Can You Afford To Be Vulnerable?
December 16, 2011 by Deborah Calla
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"If you hold back on the emotions–if you don't allow yourself to go all the way through them–you can never get to being detached, you're too busy being afraid. You're afraid of the pain, you're afraid of the grief. You're afraid of the vulnerability that loving entails. But by throwing yourself into these emotions, by allowing yourself to dive in, all the way, over your heard even, you experience them fully and completely." — Mitch Albom
There is a great difference between being tough and being strong. Tough is a posture. Strength is the result of lessons learned and wisdom acquired. Opening our hearts and being vulnerable is a consequence of being strong.
When we are afraid of emotions it is often because our core is not strong enough. We are afraid of life's intensity. And we are afraid to feel hurt. When we feel stronger we can let go of our defense mechanisms and experience life in all its intensity.
But how do we get stronger? By creating an intimate relationship with our own selves. By learning to listen to our inner-voice. By trusting who we are and our abilities.
When we are stronger our emotions flow easily, because we know we don't have to hide; we will not crumble. Our vulnerability becomes anchored in the wisdom we have gained from being open to life's experiences. And life is richer for that.
The Fine Line Between Loving With Our Entire Heart, And Losing It
July 4, 2010 by Deborah Calla
Filed under Blog
Walking the very fine line between expectations and fully committing is always a tough one when it comes to the affairs of the heart.
You just met someone and you are excited about the possibilities. Your emotional and sexual energies have been awoken. You know part of your excitement is self-created, meaning it is being fed by your imagination but how much do you let yourself go?
Owning Our Emotions
May 16, 2010 by Greta Fenley
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There are times we know exactly why our emotions are what they are. Then there are times they take us by surprise and emotions become challenged. We often find ourselves trying to defend them. Explaining why we are feeling a certain way. Why?
As a kid I remember feeling that I was both the peace-maker in, and protector of, my entire family. As a little girl I would tell people it was rude to stare at my mom who was often in a wheelchair. Peruvian, my father spoke with a heavy accent. I found myself explaining what he said to salesclerks who, most often than not, didn't understand him. I remember vividly the store where a clerk kept telling my father "I can't understand you" rather than listen to me trying to explain. My father grabbed my hand and very slowly said to this man, "Go. To. Hell." Then he turned to me, "Come on honey let's go." I realized that my attempt to protect him, turned into him protecting me. One night, without telling my sister, I went to the store where her boyfriend worked. I found his car and waited for him to come out. They'd had a big fight and she'd been crying for days and no one was going to get away with making my sister cry.
I had all the courage in the world to protect my family. When faced with a situation in which I needed to protect myself however, that courage was nowhere to be found. I became the peace-maker wanting everyone to be happy, even if I wasn't. Then, when I couldn't deal with something, I would protect myself by taking the stance that it didn't exist. Retreating into my thoughts, I would carefully place situations in a box and put them away in a closet. Out of sight, out of mind.
Acceptance… to own our emotions is to accept them. The peace-maker will become our protector.
All I can do is be me, whoever that is.
Bob Dylan
May 7, 2010 by Deborah Calla
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The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness. ~Honoré de Balzac
I have just come back from spending ten days in Brazil with my parents. I had a great time with them; we talked, had lunch and dinners together, and saw a couple of movies. It was also my mother's seventy ninth birthday.
I love my mother but ours wasn't always an easy relationship. She was always very emotional, and that scared me, and I, a little wild for her. As the years went on we tried to strike a balance; neither one of us forgetting we were a family.
I'm not a mother so it has taken me a long time to understand how my mother feels about me. I was made by an act of love, grew inside of her and then fed and protected by her, while I had my eyes on my life's road.
My mother and I survived all the years of misunderstanding because of the love we have for each other. That's the power of love; it keeps you there even when your mind tells you to shut the door.
Today, I admire my mother' wisdom and her still ever growing love for me. I'm no longer afraid of her emotions and she has come to understand my singular way of being.
So this Sunday, even though I never pay any attention to holidays, I will tell my mother how much I love her and how much she means to me. And I hope our love can color all the roads that lay ahead for me.
Thou art thy mother's glass, and she in thee
Calls back the lovely April of her prime.
~William Shakespeare
Why You Fear Love and Success
May 4, 2010 by The Love Project Inc.
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I found this article on the Huffington Post and wanted to share because it talks about how our own happiness and contentment is up to us. And how much the work we do is within ourselves. I'm a firm believer our journey through life is a journey within.
In an earlier blog I quoted Rumi's Guesthouse poem in order to convey a radical approach to our difficulties in everyday life. He says:
This being human is a guest-house.Every morning a new arrival.
A joy, a depression, a meanness,
some momentary awareness comes
as an unexpected visitor.
Welcome and entertain them all!
However, it's not always the difficult emotions we're trying to avoid. Sometimes there's a subtle, or not too subtle, aversion to the "positive" feelings like "love" or "joy" that come for life or success. Why might this be?
Well, one thing I've learned over time in my own life and as a psychologist is that emotions aren't so black and white. For example, anger doesn't just come with anger alone; at times it comes with sadness or other emotions. We just have these words to help us better define emotions as we do with other things.
In this same vein, when we're growing up we often have a natural love for our parents, but this can get mixed up with other uncomfortable emotions. If we grew up in a scary household perhaps love got mixed up with fear or if we grew up in a family of divorce, love may have been mixed with fear or the sadness or anger of separation or failure.
In other words, in order to feel love, we might also have to feel these uncomfortable emotions. So, acting in our best interest to avoid discomfort, some part of ourselves decided to keep the uncomfortable emotions at bay and at the same time keeps the love or joy at bay.
All kinds of tricks of the mind are deployed to have this work out. Perhaps we discount the positive and exaggerate the negative or maybe just go up in our heads and analyze over and over again to avoid the feelings…Continued
Emotions Outlast The Memories That Drive Them
April 26, 2010 by Deborah Calla
Filed under Featured
I friend has just sent me this link. It reminded me of my husband's 100 year grandmother. We used to ask her to play the piano and she would say she didn't know how, but when we walked her to the piano and she touched it, all these emotions would come back to her and she would sit and play smiling all the way.
A study of patients with amnesia finds that the emotion tied to a memory lingers in the mind even after the memory is gone.
The finding, published this week in the journal PNAS, Proceedings Of The National Academy Of Sciences could have important implications for people with Alzheimer's disease and their families.
One of the loneliest things about loving someone with early Alzheimer's is the feeling that any good times the two of you share just don't matter.
"So often I'll listen to family members say, 'Oh, I don't go and visit Grandpa anymore because 10 minutes after I leave, he doesn't even remember I came,' " says Justin Feinstein, a graduate student in neuropsychology at the University of Iowa.
Feinstein had a hunch that those visits made more of an impression than anyone realized. To check, he turned to several people who, like Alzheimer's patients, have damage to a spot in the brain called the hippocampus.
He describes it as a "kind of a sea-horse-shaped structure right in the middle of the brain, no bigger than the pinkie."
Damage your hippocampus, and you can't hang onto new memories for more than a few minutes. It can happen through a stroke, epilepsy or Alzheimer's disease.
Feinstein says, "Your brain is no longer able to catch onto those experiences, so your day-to-day experiences, like what you had for breakfast this morning, what you did last Saturday night, those are gone. They're vanished."
But Feinstein suspected that the good feelings and bad feelings triggered by meaningful events might linger, captured by a different part of the brain.
So, to stir up some strong emotion, he threw a mini-film fest in his clinic. He showed several people who have damage to the hippocampus a string of short movie clips from tear-jerker classics.
One was the scene in Forrest Gump where he is crying all alone at the grave of his dead wife, Jenny.
It worked. Everyone who watched the film clips was visibly moved — some to tears. Yet a half-hour later, when quizzed about the movies, they didn't remember a thing — not even one woman who had sobbed during the films.
"We test her memory, her memory's gone," Feinstein says. "What happens to her emotions? Well, it turns out she's still sad…Continued
One New Yorker Asks, What Is Love?
January 28, 2010 by The Love Project Inc.
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After seven years of talking about love with people on the street, Karen Porter Sorensen learned a few things that helped her when family members were ill.
By Marie Suszynski
Medically reviewed by Pat F. Bass III, MD, MPH
Some researchers say that love isn't just an emotion. It's a need — like thirst or hunger — and that romantic love can create such intense cravings that it feels like a drug.
Karen Porter Sorensen, the Brooklyn, N.Y., author of love (luv) n. who asked perfect strangers for their thoughts on love in New York City, saw first-hand that people do, in fact, have a yearning for love and connection with others.
She also learned that one of the most important gifts we can give someone — especially someone who's going through a health crisis — is love.
It's easy to get swept away by love when you're in a new romantic relationship. The real question is: How do you show love to a family member or a friend when you're filled with grief over their illness? Sorensen has some ideas.
What Love Research Revealed
For seven years, Sorensen ran a "love research booth" in New York City and offered people walking by a single rose in return for answering five questions about love, such as, "What is love?," "Who taught you love?," and "Has your love ever been tested?"
The hundreds of responses she got were across the board. An art educator told Sorenson that love is making a new universe with other people. A man whose partner was dying said that to love is to understand what the other person needs and find ways to make it happen.
Why did she embark on this project? In part because Sorensen's brother was diagnosed with a mental illness and he couldn't express his emotions. Suddenly her brother didn't believe in love anymore. "In some ways [the book] was a testament to him," she says.
Sorensen was also new to New York City and wanted to connect to the city in an interesting way. And she was engaged and wanted to explore what love really was.
Loving Someone Who is Ill
Her research also helped her learn how to love family members when they were going through a health crisis. Not only was her brother struggling with a mental illness, but her mother fought breast cancer and survived, and her grandmother also became ill and died a week before Sorensen finished her book. Here's what her research taught her about coping:
- If nothing else, just listen. One of the greatest things you can do when someone you love is sick is to be available to her and listen to what she has to say without judgment and without having expectations of what you want her to say, Sorensen says.Being with a loved one living who is ill is uncomfortable, but it's important to put your own feelings of discomfort aside and focus on her. "If you can, make space available for people to share whatever they want to share," she says.
- Be present, even when it's painful. "It's easy to check out and get caught up in your own grief," Sorensen says. But it's important to enjoy the moments you have left with someone who's seriously ill. She and her family played Hungarian music for her grandmother during the last days of her life, which was something her grandmother loved when she was younger. And everyone in her family decided to dance for her grandmother, even though their sadness didn't make them feel like dancing. "Find moments of joy even in the most difficult situations," Sorensen advises.
- Wear bright colors. When Sorensen did her love research on the streets of New York City, she always wore a red suit and red hat. Simply bringing color to somebody is powerful, she says. She used the same philosophy when she visited her grandmother when she was sick. When she walked into the room wearing bright colors, she noticed her grandmother light up.
- When the person who is ill wants to be alone, try helping their family members. People who are sick sometimes don't want others to see them vulnerable and in pain. Sorensen has a friend who volunteers to sit with people who have life-threatening illnesses to give them company. But she noticed that one of the men she visited, who had always been friendly and usually welcomed her, started sending her away. Instead of leaving, she sat next to his daughter in the next room instead and offered her a listening ear.
Looking for more love in your life? Sorensen put together 100 ways to do it, including sending a love letter to a stranger (which could be as simple as jotting a note of thanks to someone who showed you kindness), keeping a journal of where you see love, reading famous love letters, smiling at strangers, and spending the day telling the people who are important to you that you love them.
Why We Cry
September 23, 2009 by The Love Project Inc.
Filed under Featured
By John-Paul Flintoff
Women do it 64 times a year, men just 17. Actors and politicians do it on demand. But why does crying happen in the first place? John-Paul Flintoff learns that even scientists are still guessing.
I had behaved badly, and feared the worst. I went looking for my father, gave him a reasonably accurate report, then did something that – now I think about it – seems rather odd.
Specifically, I released a salty, protein-rich fluid from my lachrymal apparatus, improvised adjustments in the muscles of facial expression, added a few non-specific and incomprehensible vocalizations, and convulsively inhaled and exhaled air with spasms of the respiratory and truncal muscle groups. To put it another way, I cried.
Like most boys, I sometimes allowed my conduct to deviate from the ideal: running around the house, gabbing on my brother, setting things alight. But the occasion I have in mind was different. Not because of the specifics of my crime, which I no longer recall, but because this time my father interrupted to tell me I was too old to cry. (How old? Somewhere between eight and 12, is my best guess.)
His point, I suspect, was that for years he had not expected me to take criticism tearlessly, but now he did. As it happens, he does not remember the incident – and insists he has never felt anybody can be "too old to cry" as such – but it lives with me still, the shocking realization that I could no longer squeeze out tears to escape trouble. A rite of passage for which there is no name, although we all go through this, or something like it
I have, of course, cried many times since then. Even relatively recently – in front of my father and others too – although not ordinarily to avoid a bollocking. As an adult I have cried for characters in films and books. I failed an important exam, once, because my eyes constantly flooded as I tried to put from my mind the death of a close relative the night before.
Bill Clinton was laughing and joking with colleagues at a funeral when he noticed he was being filmed, immediately became serious and welled up.
I burst into tears in front of a flatmate – a man – after my mother was made redundant some years ago. In my first job as a journalist, after spending a whole day sitting beside a nitpicking editor as he went through my work, I went home and cried to my girlfriend. After severing major blood vessels in my foot, I wept in front of my wife (as she had by then become) and a roomful of strangers. Four years ago, after reading the memoir of a woman dying from cancer, I drove to the reading group where that book had been chosen for discussion and cracked up on the freeway, allowing my tearful gaze to rest on a beautiful sunset and … driving into the car in front. (I stopped weeping, obviously, to exchange telephone numbers with the driver, but the incident provided still more reason for crying again afterwards.)
And let's not forget this one. Last year, on a fast road in Texas, a squirrel dashed out in front of my car; even the slight bump caused by driving over it, minimal though that was, thanks to the excellent suspension on my rental car, was sufficient to generate tears.
To write this is embarrassing, even shameful. To cry for a squirrel; how could I be so pathetic? But it is also self-serving, hinting at a sensitive soul – and a bold move, to put all this on public record. As I was researching this story, a glamorous woman told me something that I only hope others feel too: "There is nothing more powerful than seeing a grown man cry. It shows a sensitivity and vulnerability that is very appealing."
Over the centuries, as between cultures, the appropriate context for tears has varied considerably. St Francis of Assisi is said to have gone blind from too much crying. In the 12th century epic, Song of Roland, the lords of France weep bitter tears, pull their beards and faint from grief. As Tom Lutz writes in his brilliant and witty book, Crying: The Natural and Cultural History of Tears, only Monty Python could do justice to the idea of 20,000 knights in armor weeping and fainting and falling off their horses.
Among later European classics, comedians could have fun with The Sorrows of Young Werther, in which Johann Goethe's hero sobs almost constantly, and many Victorian melodramas that came after. (Europe dried up, it is said, during the First World War, because there was just too much to cry about. But I reckon crying became unfashionable earlier, around the time Oscar Wilde joked that you would need a heart of stone not to laugh at the death of Dickens's Little Nell.)
A common ruse of journalism is to justify writing about something by claiming that it is on the increase. But to write that we are all crying a lot more these days would be absurd because any such change would be glacially slow. All the same, we tend to forget how often we do cry. In one study, researchers asked English speakers to keep daily records and, at the end of the year, to estimate how frequently they had cried. The guesses were much lower than the diaries showed: women cry 64 times a year, on average, and men 17.
To find out what sets us off, I recently looked up stories that appeared this year in two mid-market newspapers, in which the words "crying" and "tears" both occurred. The subjects they covered most often were, in roughly this order: the deaths, births and illnesses of children; and of parents; cheating husbands; and violent ones; absent fathers; pedophilia; rape; adoption; the hell of school exams; remembering lost loves; or retired guide dogs; accepting an award for acting; problems with builders; and onions. Most of these things, thankfully, do not arise often. The most common causes of crying are low-level frustration or sad moments on TV. Which may explain why, according to extensive research, adults cry most frequently when they are alone, at home, between 7pm and 10pm.
No other animal sheds emotional tears (as opposed to tears of irritation). Charles Darwin, who confirmed this in his book, The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals, acknowledged that crying could be useful to infants for attracting attention from caregivers, but ultimately concluded that tears were more or less useless; like the appendix, an exception to the rule that purposeless behavior and body structures will not be maintained during the course of evolution.
Perhaps he was right and we will eventually lose this faculty. If we do we may miss it because, as a means to stop intimidation, crying would seem to be less humiliating than the chimpanzee's preferred tactic of presenting the hindquarters.
The pageant of public life is frequently enlivened by tears from grown men (and women, of whom more later). These leaky outbursts, even following behavior more than usually shameful, can raise a man's popularity and immediately produce forgiveness – if not necessarily from the individuals he has hurt, then at least from anonymous millions who read the newspapers and watch TV.
But even the most powerful weapons in the armor of public relations do not always work. In the US, the Democrat Ed Muskie flunked the 1972 presidential primaries after crying in front of the press corps. (A hostile press had written that Muskie's wife was "emotionally unstable". He claimed they were not tears on his cheeks but snowflakes.)
In Russia, the former prime minister, Nikolai Ryzhkov, who also cried on camera, was forever after derided as the "weeping Bolshevik". But many others have turned tears to their advantage, including Oliver North in the Contra hearings, Jim Bakker, the fraudulent TV evangelist, and Bill Clinton, who always managed to tear up at need.
Once, notoriously, Clinton was laughing and joking with colleagues at a funeral when he noticed he was being filmed, immediately became serious and welled up.
Such weeping, less than fully sincere, may put you in mind of Lewis Carroll's walrus, in Through the Looking Glass, who weeps for the oysters as he cheerfully eats them. Or of the musician Liberace, who said after he was libeled that he would "cry all the way to the bank". Or the poet Robert Lowell, who memorably wrote that we "piss hogwash through our eyes".
Despite this roll of male dishonor, studies have shown that women, in particular, use crying purposely to manipulate others. This has long been suspected. Over the years women's tears have been described as "the world's greatest water power", and "stronger than any acid". According to one proverb: "Every woman is wrong until she cries." Outdated misogyny?
British Prime Minister's wife, Cherie Booth, had tears in her eyes during a speech defending herself against behaving improperly in a deal relating to her son's university accommodation. Several newspapers unkindly interpreted those tears as forced. She was faking, they insisted, to win sympathy that she did not deserve. But surely she is a bit old for that. Whatever would her father say?
At birth, most babies cry at C or C-sharp. (That is, according to one American study.) As they grow older, they learn to cry at different pitches, and with different intensities, durations and qualities. At around 10 months, they cease to cry primarily when alone, in favor of crying when a caregiver is present: crying becomes manipulative.
Along with the noise – and usually, as we get older, without it – come tears. Ordinary tears, which lubricate the eyeballs every waking minute, are produced continuously in the lachrymal gland, which rests between the frontal bone and the eyeball, at up to two microliters a minute, or nearly 10 ounces a day. They flow from the outside, upper edge towards the center and drain away through puncta, or holes, on the lower eyelid.
If the flow is excessive, as the result of yawning, coughing, vomiting or sneezing – or a poke in the eye – the 0.3 mm-wide punctum cannot handle the flow, and tears slosh over the edge of the eyelids. This also happens when we weep.
But what causes emotional tears? The philosopher William James, following Darwin, considered emotions to be little different from reflexes, occurring without prior rational thought. Only after experiencing the bodily sensations of, say, anger or fear, James argued, do we cognitively recognize the emotions. But this does not explain why the bodily sensations arise in the first place. Nor is it clear how James accounts for blushes, which, as anybody can testify, come after embarrassing thoughts, not the other way round.
And anyway, if bodily state alone determines emotions, why does the losing team in a football match feel miserable and the winning side euphoric – when both have played for the same duration, on the same pitch and in the same conditions?
More confusingly, the same thoughts can produce two different emotions. Pity and schadenfreude both arise from the contemplation of somebody else's misfortunes. So why does only pity make us cry? Hormones certainly have some influence: in tests, patients injected with adrenaline have reported feeling something like an emotion but not the emotion itself. ("I feel as if afraid," said one. "I feel as if I were going to weep without knowing why.") But neurologists are unsure of the precise pathways of the nerves controlling the glands that release hormones, let alone what happens in the brain to stimulate them.
They have, however, identified two different memory systems: one declarative and one emotional. People with brains damaged in accidents, who lose the use of only one of these systems, either (a) react with great fear to a person who hurt them, but without having any explicit memory of that person or the injury or (b) remember clearly the person and the injury but without strong feelings. This suggests that reason and emotions are not opposed to each other, as Plato long ago suggested. On the contrary, it indicates that reason and emotions need each other to function properly.
One person hoping to find answers to these mysteries is Ad Vingerhoets, one of a handful of academics, worldwide, to have devoted their attention to crying. Like Lutz, he recently came to London for a conference on adult crying hosted by the Freud Museum, but I meet him in Tilburg, in the Netherlands – a place best known for its soccer team, PSV Eindhoven, a rock academy, and the university where Vingerhoets is professor of clinical psychology.
Vingerhoets had worked for years on the psychophysiology of the emotions when somebody at a party set him thinking. "A man asked me, 'Is crying really healthy? I don't believe it.' I couldn't tell him. There's very little in the textbooks." Over time, the professor became consumed by the subject, which everybody thinks they understand, but which proved less comprehensible the more he looked into it. (Is sobbing fundamentally different from merely getting watery eyes, or for that matter a quivering lip? Nobody knows.)
At Tilburg, the study of psychology is scientifically rigorous, based on laboratory tests rather than mythology and metaphor. One of Vingerhoets' PhD students, Michelle Hendricks, is analyzing the distress caused by seeing somebody else cry. This morning, as part of an experiment, she has a volunteer coming in to watch a movie in the lab: a room at the end of the corridor has been specially prepared, with a huge TV set-up before a leather-effect sun-lounger.
The volunteers are undergraduate students, obliged to take part in a certain number of experiments each year, but allowed to choose which ones. Before the film begins, they are told what will happen and asked to sign insurance forms. Next, they complete a questionnaire about their mood and climb on to the sun-lounger, where Hendricks wires them up to monitors assessing, among other things, blood pressure, heart rate and sweating. They are also given a button to press whenever the film, Once Were Warriors, elicits tears.
When it ends, they must complete another questionnaire. One volunteer recently pressed the button eight times, reports Hendricks with evident satisfaction, but roughly three-quarters do not press it at all. "I think maybe the movie is not touching enough. It's pretty violent. Also the environment may affect them. They're in a strange room with all kinds of wires . . ."
Examining the forms from her latest volunteer, Hendricks says: "She was happy before the film. Not so much after."
I find this fascinating, but wonder if Vingerhoets and his team ever worry about the seriousness of their work. As he drives me to the airport, the professor seems to admit as much when he tells me about a friend and former colleague, a world expert in blinking, who gave it all up for a career in politics. "This would seem to be one answer to the question of 'why oh why?'."
I leave Holland little clearer about my own crying habits, let alone those of Cherie Booth. But soon afterwards I come across another piece of research, much like the one Donkers mentioned. In tests, individuals were asked about their own reactions to watching men and women cry, and also how they thought other people would react in the same situation. Most felt that "people" would be more bothered by male crying than they themselves were – indicating a substantial, if unacknowledged, acceptance of male crying.
This makes a lot of sense. The British soccer player Paul Gascoigne became a national icon in 1990 after he cried in the World Cup, even though his tears were entirely self-pitiful. Then there are the weeping movie stars. Leonardo DiCaprio, Brad Pitt and Tom Hanks are well known as sensitive types, but even the conventionally macho Mel Gibson, Sylvester Stallone and Bruce Willis have shed tears on film. Indeed, it has been argued that actors are more likely to win awards if their performance requires them to cry.
Thinking about this, I wonder whether, after decades of exhortation from pop psychologists – many of whom believe crying to be therapeutic, although this has yet to be supported by hard evidence – men have acquired a new license to cry in public. And whether, owing to the even mightier imperatives of feminism, women have felt an equal and opposite prohibition.
Lutz, in his book, hints at exactly such an idea. He believes this may be part of a more general trend towards the centre: just as politicians seek to position themselves away from the extremes of left and right, so men cry to prove they are "not too manly" and women suppress tears to prove they are "not too feminine". For me, this can only be good news. Cherie Booth, on the other hand, may regret making the mistake of crying while also not being a man.
But did she, as accused, fake her tears? I ask Mark Borkowski who, in addition to wearing pinstripes and advising major companies on public relations, has a background in performing arts. "In public life," he says, "you are always under pressure, and you have to show strength. We have a tradition where you can't show emotion; you're trained to deal with the media and not to be seen as who you really are . . . People do want to see the honest human face, and when someone cries, there's huge appreciation. But they might also think this has been manipulated.
"If you went into the street and asked people if they thought PR people were using tears for leverage, I think seven or eight out of 10 would say 'yes', so you have to take that into account. And there's too much light on the puppet strings, when it comes to the Blairs, so if I'd been asked I would not have advised her to cry."
But each client is different. "If someone said to me – before a press conference or interview – 'Look, I really want to keep a stiff upper lip'," continues Borkowski, "I would probably say, 'No, let it go, people want to see the real you.'
"If they said, 'I would like to pull out a hanky at paragraph eight in my speech,' I'd say no.
"Nobody has ever asked me, but it may happen. If somebody publishes conclusive research, there are going to be a thousand publicists telling clients to think about using tears."
If that happens, they may want to get in touch with Dee Cannon, an acting teacher who works at Britain's Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) and for private clients who have included actors Matthew Modine, Jon Voight, Courtney Love, the singer Craig David and the former soccer star David Ginola.
Cannon, who is in her 30s, wears sunglasses on the top of her head and sits back on the sofa with legs crossed – but leans forward urgently to explain the mysteries of the acting theory originated by Russian producer and actor Konstantin Stanislavsky, known as the Stanislavsky Method, and particularly his use of emotional memory.
In classes, she explains, students lie on the floor. To relax, they are encouraged to imagine themselves on a beach, or in a garden. Then she asks them to look back on a traumatic episode. "It's normally death, to be honest," she says. "Or it could be a car accident."
Whatever it is, the memory must be at least five years old, because the emotion associated with anything more recent may be too strong to control. Cannon invites them to shut their eyes and consider every aspect of that event. "You get them to go back to the beginning of that particular day," she explains. "Where were they? What were they wearing? What were the sounds and the smells? You try to get them right up to the moment when they picked up the phone and heard the bad news."
Gradually, this forensic attention brings most students to tears. Is it odd, for Cannon, to see everybody crying at her feet? "A little." But also gratifying? "Oh, absolutely."
Afterwards, she asks students to identify the precise detail that elicited the tears. "It could be the look in someone's eye, or an intake of breath, or the sound of the telephone." Whatever it is, that's the trigger they take with them into the studio, or on to the stage.
As in representations of drunkenness, says Cannon, the most effective criers appear to struggle against their condition. Thus, just as it is funnier to watch drunkards straining for sobriety than mere slurring and staggering, an audience is less likely to be moved by incontinent sobbing than by characters who fight back their tears.
"Well, it doesn't always take much to produce tears, especially if you're feeling a bit low in the first place . . ." She pauses, remembering something that is interesting, particularly for students of rock music, but which leaves me no more sure than I was before about my own tears; and less sure about Booth than my father was about me, justly, all those years ago.
"The point of acting techniques," says Cannon, "is that you are in control. Vulnerability and sensitivity are not techniques – although if you are clever you can use them. When I worked with Sinead (O'Connor, the Irish singer and actor) she would just tap into something and cry. It was amazing. But she would say, 'I'm on my period, I was feeling vulnerable before I came in'."
John-Paul Flintoff is contributing editor, Financial Times Magazine.


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About Us
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Diplomate, American Board of Anesthesiology, with added Qualifications in Interventional Pain Medicine
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Dr. Kim is a Harvard-educated physician, with training in Anesthesiology and subspecialty training in Pain Medicine. He is highly skilled in interventional pain management procedures, and highly knowledgeable in diagnosis and treatment of chronic pain syndromes. He believes in a multi-disciplinary approach to pain management, working with patients to develop personalized care incorporating interventional techniques, medications, physical therapy, and even minor surgical procedures to help relieve pain and improve and restore functionality. Dr. Kim is proficient in advanced procedures like spinal cord stimulation and intrathecal pump placement. Dr. Kim completed his residency in Anesthesiology at University of Connecticut School of Medicine. He then completed his fellowship in Pain Management at Harvard Medical School – Brigham and Women's Hospital, which is widely known to be one of the top pain management programs in the country.


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Health Technology Assessment (HTA) agencies limit patient access to drugs in two primary ways: by issuing "do not recommend" decisions and by recommending a drug for reimbursement in only a subset of the population approved in the market authorization. To determine market access strategy, manufacturers need to understand how agencies narrow the populations eligible for their drugs and also how to design trials to ensure evidence generation for each patient subgroup. Policy makers need to be aware of decision trends to determine if current HTA models are flexible enough to recognize the way values emerge over time and efficient enough to ensure all the "right" patients have access to the best treatments.
UK's NICE and Restrictiveness
To better understand the challenges facing both manufactures and policy makers, we initiated a research initiative to examine trends in restrictiveness and see what the data shows. We focused on the UK's National Institute for Healthcare and Excellence (NICE) because of their high level of activity and their influential presence in global HTA. Our research compared NICE's reimbursement decisions to the European Medicines Agency (EMA) market authorizations, both overall and for oncology and non-oncology drugs. We had the privilege of presenting this research at ISPOR's 17th Annual European Congress in Amsterdam.
Overall, our analysis showed that:
- NICE issued negative ("do not recommend") decision in 32% of reviews (2007 to 2013)
- In that same period, NICE issued positive decisions in 68% of reviews
- Of the positive reviews, 52% included population restrictions on top of those included in the market authorizations ("recommend with restrictions"), effectively narrowing the population of patients eligible for reimbursement for the reviewed drugs
- Across all reviews with "recommend with restrictions" decisions, an average of 1.7 restrictions were added to the market authorizations
The most common added restrictions were for "contraindication or intolerance."
Comparing Oncology vs. Non-oncology
We also separately evaluated oncology and non-oncology drugs. Oncology drugs were much more likely than non-oncology drugs to receive "do not recommend" decisions (56% vs. 16%). For drugs with a positive decision, there was no difference in the rates of "recommend" or "recommend with restrictions" decisions between oncology and non-oncology reviews. Over time, the rates of "do not recommend" decisions appear to increase for oncology reviews, but there does not appear to be any trends in "do not recommend" decisions for non-oncology. Interestingly, there was a significant decrease in the rates of "recommend with restrictions" decisions for oncology reviews, but no trend in non-oncology reviews.
Overall, NICE was more restrictive than the market authorization in 52% of positive reviews. NICE is limiting the population eligible for reimbursement in more than half of its positive decisions. NICE is even stricter with oncology reviews. Oncology reviews are more likely than non-oncology reviews to be issued a "do not recommend" decision. Even though there is no difference among the positive decisions in rates of "recommend with restrictions" decisions between oncology and non-oncology, there has been a decrease over time in the number of "recommend with restrictions" decisions for oncology drugs. Over time, it seems like NICE is replacing "recommend with restriction" decisions with "do not recommend" decisions for oncology reviews.
The large difference between the NICE decisions for oncology and non-oncology and the apparent replacement of "recommend with restriction" decisions with "do not recommend" decisions is interesting, especially in the context of the Cancer Drug Fund (CDF).
NICE appears to be substituting negative decisions for restricted recommendations. This conclusion receives support from independent research on a different sample of NICE oncology reviews conducted by researchers at the Health Economists' Study Group. Their research found that restricted recommendations fell, and negative recommendations rose, following the establishment of the CDF in England. If you are not familiar with the CDF, we recently wrote, Curious About the Cancer Drug Fund?, explaining the CDF and how they fit into the larger oncology picture in England.
NICE and CDF: Things to Consider
Obviously NICE and oncology are hot topics that we will continue to follow, but in looking at the data at this point in time, there are a few questions we think are worth asking:
- Is NICE passing the buck on oncology drugs to the CDF?
- Is NICE's current HTA model not the best method to evaluate oncology drugs?
- How will the new value-based assessment affect NICE decisions? Will NICE be more restrictive or less?
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Adapt for Arts CIC
24th July 2015
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Adapt for Arts are a team of like-minded arts professionals, fundraisers, technologists, designers and strategists with one shared goal: to empower the arts.
We save organisations time and money, freeing them to do more of what they do best and we advise organisations on the best ways to unlock funding to support projects.
Our focus is on high quality services that are affordable. We believe that implementing excellent technology and design, well planned marketing and successful fundraising strategies will create a financially stronger arts sector.
We exist to help artists and arts organisations carry out their work to the greatest effect.
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As a team we create compelling, commercially successful work, and everything we do is underpinned by a deep understanding of the arts ecology. As well as years of branding, communication and technological experience, we also understand arts audiences, fundraising, income generation and the challenges arts organisations face to become sustainable.
Whilst very new, Adapt for Arts has already helped arts organisations, art galleries, educational institutions, artist studios and individual artists use design, technology, marketing and fundraising to save time, money or further their careers.
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Adapt for Arts was founded in 2014 by Stephanie Graham to fill a gap between the art sector and the creative industries.
Steph wanted Adapt for Arts to offer professional design, technology, marketing and fundraising services to arts organisations and artists whilst ensuring that any proceeds were reinvested into the sector.
Adapt for Arts was born with a clear mission statement: To empower the arts through design, technology, marketing and fundraising.
In 2015 Adapt for Arts gained CIC status. As a Community Interest Company, Adapt for Arts provides high-quality services and consultancy for purpose, not for profit.
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What Air Force Chaplains Do
Airmen live and work around the world serving our country. Chaplains serve side-by-side with the Airmen, leading worship services, providing pastoral care, and advising leadership as they exemplify the Air Force Chaplain Service vision of Glorifying God, Honoring Airmen, and Serving All.
Life as an Air Force chaplain is both exciting and rewarding. As members of a multicultural community, chaplains provide ministry to Airmen of their own faith group, yet also act as guardians of the free exercise of religion for all Air Force members and their families. Chaplain areas of responsibility include worship, hospital ministry, parish programs, confinement ministry, and crisis intervention.
Chaplains combine the roles of clergy and military officer while upholding the standards of the Air Force Core Values: Integrity First, Service Before Self, and Excellence in All We Do. Each year about 35,000 new airmen enter the Air Force. Not all share the same values. The ministry and officership of the chaplain helps instill the personal ethical standards that provide a strong foundation for the Air Force Core Values.
U.S.A.F. Chaplain Candidate Program
The Air Force Chaplain Candidate Program is an exciting opportunity for seminary students to evaluate their compatibility and potential for commissioning as an Air Force Chaplain. The focus is on experiencing ministry in the Air Force during summer tours of active duty. As a chaplain candidate, you will draw upon your background, education, and experience to function as part of an Air Force chapel team. Upon entering the program you will be commissioned as a Chaplain Candidate, Second Lieutenant. Upon graduation and obtaining an ecclesiastical endorsement, chaplain candidates are eligible for reappointment as a chaplain in the USAF Reserve, Air National Guard, or Active Duty component.
The Program
- Commissioned Officer Training (33 days; Fort Jackson, SC)
- Chaplain Candidate Course (12 days; Fort Jackson, SC)
- Two Supervised Internships (35 days each at Air Force bases)
The Benefits
- Supervised ministry experience (with seminary approval)
- Diverse ministry setting
- Supplement/Expand/Enrich your ministerial education
- Support the defense of our freedom
- Ensure the free exercise of religion
- Eligibility to seek reappointment to Air Force Reserve, Air National Guard or Active Duty Chaplaincy
- Second Lieutenant pay and benefits
- Travel to and from all active duty training tours is paid by the government
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