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Nov 26- Dec 2, 2012 Edition McGraw-Hill to Sell Apollo for $2.5 Billion NEW YORK, NY/Authorlink News/November 26, 2012–The McGraw-Hill Companies today announced it has signed a definitive agreement to sell its McGraw-Hill Education business to investment funds affiliated with Apollo Global Management, LLC (NYSE: APO) (collectively with its subsidiaries, "Apollo"), for a purchase price of $2.5 billion, subject to certain closing adjustments.
As part of this transaction, McGraw-Hill will receive $250 million in senior unsecured notes issued by the purchaser at an annual interest rate of 8.5%. The transaction, which is expected to close in late 2012 or early 2013, is subject to regulatory approval and customary closing conditions.
Upon closing, McGraw-Hill, which will be renamed McGraw Hill Financial (subject to shareholder approval), will be a high-growth, high-margin benchmarks, content and analytics company in the global capital and commodities markets. With customers in more than 150 countries, McGraw Hill Financial expects 2012 revenue of approximately $4.4 billion with nearly 40% from international markets. The Company will provide 2013 financial guidance for McGraw Hill Financial when it announces its 2012 fourth quarter and year-end financial results.
"After carefully considering all of the options for creating shareholder value, the McGraw-Hill Board of Directors concluded that this agreement generates the best value and certainty for our shareholders and will most favorably position the world-class assets of McGraw-Hill Education for long-term success," said Harold McGraw III, Chairman, President and CEO of The McGraw-Hill Companies who will lead McGraw Hill Financial once the transaction is complete. "We were able to secure an attractive outcome and create additional balance sheet flexibility for McGraw Hill Financial."
Mr. McGraw added, "McGraw-Hill Education is a leader in digital learning with world-class content and enormously talented and committed employees. As we begin the next chapter in our rich history, I am very proud of and grateful to all the McGraw-Hill Education professionals who are contributing so much to the company and to educators, administrators and students all over the world. I look forward to seeing their continued success with the expertise and support of Apollo."
"We are excited about this announcement and what it means for McGraw-Hill Education," added Lloyd G. "Buzz" Waterhouse, President and CEO of McGraw-Hill Education. "Apollo is a leading global alternative investment manager and its affiliated funds have made significant investments in learning companies for more than a decade. McGraw-Hill Education's expertise and premier brands coupled with Apollo's resources represent a powerful combination."
Larry Berg, Senior Partner of Apollo said, "With a longstanding track record of investing behind leaders in education, Apollo is pleased to be acquiring a marquee business that has been a pioneer in educational innovation and excellence for over a century. McGraw-Hill Education has a deep and impassioned management team, and we share their enthusiasm and strategic vision for the business. We look forward to leveraging the company's leading portfolio of trusted brands and innovative digital learning solutions to drive growth through the ongoing convergence of education and technology on a global basis."
"Today's transaction marks a transformative time for our company, shareholders, customers and employees," Mr. McGraw said. "This move builds on McGraw-Hill's strong legacy and gives us an unprecedented opportunity to focus on accelerating the growth of our iconic brands and leading franchises such as Standard & Poor's, S&P Dow Jones Indices, S&P Capital IQ, Platts and J.D. Power and Associates. The strong trends driving global financial markets create enormous growth opportunities for McGraw Hill Financial. As markets become more interconnected, as more borrowers around the world fund growth through the capital markets, and as technology produces more and more data in a complex world, our leading brands provide essential intelligence and independent benchmarks across asset classes and markets."
Upon closing of the transaction, McGraw Hill Financial will have considerable balance sheet flexibility. The Company will use the estimated proceeds of approximately $1.9 billion, net of tax and certain closing adjustments, from this sale to sustain its share repurchase program, to make selective tuck-in acquisitions that enhance McGraw Hill Financial's portfolio of powerful brands, and to pay off any short-term borrowing obligations.
Beginning in the fourth quarter of 2012, the Company will classify and report results of McGraw-Hill Education as discontinued operations. As a result of this transaction, the Company anticipates a non-cash impairment charge in the fourth quarter of approximately $450 to $550 million relating to the School Education Group.
The McGraw-Hill Companies announced in September 2011 it would separate into two industry-leading companies following a year-long strategic portfolio review. This decision was a key driver of the Company's Growth and Value Plan, which also included a commitment to generate $100 million in cost savings and a significant share repurchase program. On November 2, 2012, the Company provided an update of its progress on these initiatives and will do so again when it announces its 2012 fourth quarter and year-end results.
About McGraw Hill Financial McGraw Hill Financial will be a powerhouse in benchmarks and analytics for the global capital and commodity markets and includes the following leading brands: Standard & Poor's, S&P Dow Jones Indices, S&P Capital IQ, Platts, Crisil, J.D. Power and Associates, McGraw-Hill Construction and Aviation Week. The Company's mission is to promote sustainable growth by bringing transparency and independent insights to the global capital and commodity markets. The Company will have approximately 17,000 employees in more than 30 countries around the world. For more information, please visit www.mcgraw-hill.com. About McGraw-Hill Education McGraw-Hill Education is a digital learning company that draws on its more than 100 years of educational expertise to offer solutions which improve learning outcomes around the world. McGraw-Hill Education is the adaptive education technology leader with the vision for creating a highly personalized learning experience that prepares students of all ages for the world that awaits. The Company has offices across North America, India, China, Europe, the Middle East and South America, and makes its learning solutions available in more than 65 languages. For additional information, visit www.mheducation.com.


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Alpha-Tek Associates Ltd comprises of two divisions. 1. IT Consultancy 2. Software Development IT Consultancy
Alpha-Tek Associates is hugely experienced in the provision of UK consultancy services, with 15 years of proven track record of delivering excellent service to some of the UK's most demanding IT customers including Liverpool Victoria, Green Flag, Cap Gemini, BUPA, Book Club Associates, Personic, Bond International, Thomas Cook, Birmingham University, AT&T, Logica-CMG
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By Laura Heilig
The Echo has been marketed as a more fun and economical alternative to the stodgy standards Toyota has been spitting out for years. When I picked up the Echo for my week-long test drive, I knew nothing about the car other than it was one of Toyota's new attempts at grabbing the Generation X market. Being a proud member of this age bracket, I was really looking forward to taking this car through its paces. I was pleased that Toyota was finally designing a more affordable car, but like many, I have been disappointed in the past with cars fitting the mold of the Echo, so my expectations for this car were low. From the first look, however, I knew I was going to enjoy this car.
This car has taken the success of the Jetta and the new excitement over the Ford Focus and literally smooshed them together. The front resembles the Focus' headlights and slope, but is much more appealing because it is not as stretched out. The rear end is so similar to the Jetta that when I parked it next to my colleague's Volkswagen, the only difference we could see was the Toyota symbol on the trunk. Imitation is a form of flattery, though. The Jetta, I mean Echo, is a very stylish small car.
While the Echo's body styling is not unique, its interior by far makes up for it. When I first sat behind the wheel to adjust my mirrors and check my gauges, my immediate thought was that they forgot to put gauges in the car. Using my highly acute sensory powers I finally located them high above the radio in the middle of the dashboard. To my knowledge, this is the first vehicle to challenge the logical placement in front of the steering column. Toyota believes this location will reduce eye fatigue and reduce the amount of time needed to switch from watching the road to monitoring your speed. It takes a while to get used to the center console, but once you do, it is easy to buy into Toyota's reasoning. I believe we will see many more cars opting for this unique change. My only complaint is at night there is no illumination on the steering column and the driver's hands, leaving it much more difficult to remove the pickles from my cheeseburger and put the straw in my milkshake while I drive.
The Echo also has one of the largest interiors I have ever seen in an entry-level sedan. Finally a car company has realized that tall people do like to purchase economy cars and drive them without having to develop a hump! Toyota jokes on its website that this car earns its name from its cavernous interior, and I agree. Its roomy (roomy, roomy, roomy...) interior and comfortable gray flecked upholstery make this a terrific commuting vehicle. Five people can easily travel long distances in the two- or four-door models of this car.
The Echo also has 13.6 cubic feet of cargo volume and split rear folding seats to add to its spaciousness. We put this to use on a shopping spree and found the seats easy to fold. I thought the hole created between the seats and the trunks was a little narrow and had too much plastic surrounding the frame to accommodate larger items. It loses a lot of its potential capacity with this design, but this was one of the only disappointments I had with this car.
The best accessory to a roomy interior is plenty of storage room. The Echo is blessed with a unique compartment for each and every one of your necessary travel items. Both the passenger and driver's doors have long deep pockets, and each seat has a pocket on its back. The passenger's seat also has a pull-out tray beneath it, which is a perfect catch-all for commuters. My favorite storage feature on the Echo is the deep, oval-shaped pockets that bookend the stereo. Their unique design allows for storage of a lot of compact discs or cassettes, unlike most cars that only have room for one or two. Runner up in the storage class is the dual-level glove compartment. I love the deep bottom part that houses the owner's manual, and the smaller upper level is perfect for pens and other small items-even gloves!
Along with all of the above-mentioned storage space, other standard features include more comfort items such as tilt steering, AM/FM stereo and 4-way adjustable fabric front seats. Cosmetic items like color-keyed bumpers, color door handles, 14-inch wheels and wheel covers come with the basic package. The Echo also comes with dual air bags, seatbelt pretensioners, and front seat frames designed for comfort and safety.
Standard accessories on this vehicle are few, but the option packages allow for some serious upgrading. The first upgrade package adds power steering, intermittent wipers, remote mirror control, 60/40 folding rear seat, a digital clock, and a painted front bumper. Our car was equipped with the second option package that includes air conditioning, power door locks, and a 3-in-1 AM/FM/Cassette/CD audio system-all amenities I feel are well-worth the extra money. Two other features, which are also an option on this car, are daytime running lights and anti-lock brakes.
Most entry-level sedans drive like they have a rubberband under the hood and feel like they have the stability of a playing card on a windy mountain pass. The Echo, on the other hand, will surprise you with its power and sturdiness. I had the fortune of testing this car during one of the frequent winter storms in Pennsylvania and had little problem on the snow and ice. The manual transmission is easy to control and allows for flawless shifting.
To complement its stability, the Echo offers a powerful engine and a lightweight build, greatly increasing its gas mileage without additional noise or vibration like most entry-level sedans have. Toyota brags it will achieve an estimated 34/41 mpg with the manual transmission, which is not far off from the average we clocked during our week of driving. A newly designed 1.5-liter twin-cam four-cylinder engine powers this car and is efficient enough to earn the EPA's low-emission vehicle certification.
The total MSRP for the Echo's base models, including a $485 destination charge, ranges from $10,480 for the manual 2-door sedan to $11, 580 for the automatic 4-door. If you are planning on adding the option packages, you can expect to add a couple thousand more. The Echo is definitely one of the few entry-level sedans I would consider purchasing, because I think it lives up to its advertising. Generation Xers should be proud to be the reason this car was manufactured. I know I am.


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The Massachusetts CFIDS/ME & FM Association has joined with other U.S. patient organizations to advocate against the potential misuse of a proposed new psychiatric diagnostic category for patients with Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (ME)/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) and Fibromyalgia (FM).
The revision of the current Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders - Fourth Edition (DSM-IV ) is at the core of our concerns. This Manual, published by the American Psychiatric Association (APA), contains the major listings, definitions, and explanations of different psychiatric and psychological disorders. It is important to note these classifications are used by insurance companies, Medicaid and Medicare for patient billing purposes.
Currently DSM-IV is undergoing a major revision; the new DSM-V Manual is scheduled to be published in 2013. The issue which has raised the serious concern of both U.S. patient associations and of the international CFIDS/ME researchers (the International Association of CFS/ME or IACFS/ME) is a proposed new psychiatric category titled: Somatic Symptom Disorder (SSD) (created by combining Simple Symatic Symptom Disorder and Complex Somatic Symptom Disorder which appeared in the earlier revision) to be included in the new DSM-V. More specifically, the way SSD is defined makes it possible to either mistakenly or intentionally diagnose ME/CFS (also known as CFS) or Fibromyalgia in this psychiatric category. Moreover, the greater concern is whether this change could potentially lead to the reclassification of these illnesses as psychiatric conditions under SSD.
The crux of the issue is that a person can be psychiatrically diagnosed as having Somatic Symptom Disorder if he or she has all of the following:
a. somatic symptoms that are distressing or significantly disrupt life
b. an excessive concern with the medical seriousness of his or her symptoms
c. experienced persistent symptoms, typically for at least 6 months
Why this matters
Does this diagnosis sound like it could easily be misused to diagnose ME/CFS, fibromyalgia, or even many other chronic physical illnesses? U.S. patients have already experienced the problematic history of The Centers of Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), The National Institutes of Health (NIH), and the many physicians and researchers discounting ME/CFS as a psychiatric illness, maladaptive behavior, or inability to cope with stress. If this new diagnostic code were to be accepted, then patients potentially could be labeled with somatic symptom disorder just because they are pushing doctors for answers to many symptoms.
For patients with diseases that are poorly understood and misdiagnosed by the medical community, like ME/CFS, this will be disastrous. Once diagnosed inappropriately with SSD, the implications for diagnosis, treatment, disability and insurance will be profound.
SSD can be applied to patients regardless of whether the symptoms are considered to be medically unexplainable or not. Severity is rated by the count and frequency of somatic symptoms. The "Justification for Criteria – Somatic Symptoms," issued in May 2011, states that Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), focused on "the identification and modification of dysfunctional and maladaptive beliefs," is one of the most promising treatments.
The misuse of SSD is a major concern for patients suffering from any disease. This proposal would effectively turn a patient's justified concern for his or her physical health into a mental illness. This is appallingly bad health policy.
But this proposal is especially problematic for patients who suffer from diseases that are not well understood. ME/CFS is characterized by many of these somatic symptoms. Despite advances in understanding the biological pathologies behind ME/CFS, there are still many in the medical community who consider this illness to be 'all in the patient's head.' Combining this lack of physician understanding with the proposal's lack of objective, reliable criteria will be disastrous for ME/CFS patients and could directly affect the types of testing and treatment provided to the patient and severely impact insurance payments. It could also cause a parent to be wrongfully accused of 'maintaining' their child's 'sick role behavior.'
How Patient-Advocates have responded
This proposed revision has galvanized patient associations around the country to protest any misuse of the new SSD category. This was accomplished by submitting strong letters on behalf of the illnesses to the APA during the first comment period, which closed on April 20, 2010, and also during the second comment period which closed on June 15, 2012.
Comments were submitted on behalf of the Massachusetts CFIDS/ME & FM Association by Dr. Alan Gurwitt, a retired psychiatrist and Distinguished Fellow of the APA and the immediate past President of the Massachusetts CFIDS/ME & FM Association. Dr. Gurwitt highlighted the possibility of misdiagnosing patients with ME/CFS with a psychiatric illness and directed the revision's authors to the "ME/CFS Primer for Clinical Practitioners," published in May 2012 by the International Association for Chronic Fatigue Syndrome/ME (IACFS/ME). He briefly described the contents of the IACFS/ME Primer (and provided a link) to demonstrate why ME/CFS is a medical illness, not a psychiatric disorder. Dr. Gurwitt stated "There is no reason to make use of DSM-IV or -V for diagnostic labeling unless in addition to the ICD-9 or 10 for the main medical diagnosis there is need to categorize secondary psychological phenomena." He also called for the APA to "get busy re-educating psychiatrists."
In 2010 two letters were written to the APA on behalf of the Massachusetts CFIDS/ME & FM Association and the community it serves. The first letter was submitted by Dr. Gurwitt. His letter focused particularly on the incontrovertible medical research clearly demonstrating the biological and physiological bases of the illnesses. A second letter was submitted by Ken Casanova, a Board member and also a past President of the Association. It reviewed in detail how the new SSD diagnosis would make it more difficult to separate physical from psychiatric illnesses, and how the new diagnosis could be mistakenly or intentionally misused.
Help us by joining our Association since there is strength in numbers. Our organization advocates on behalf of patients and the impact these illnesses have on their lives. Together our voice and our actions will be stronger.
Read Dr. Alan Gurwitt's 2010 letter to APA.
Read Kenneth Casanova's 2010 letter to APA.
With thanks to Patient-Advocate and Massachusetts CFIDS/ME & FM Association member Mary Dimmock for material used in this article.


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I just want you to pull the tooth, and be done with it! We have a 10:00 AM tee time at the best golf course in town and it's 9:30 already...
I don't have time to wait for the anesthetic to work!'
The dentist thought to himself, "My goodness, this is surely a very brave man asking to have his tooth pulled without using anything to kill the pain."
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This is exactly how I process every wedding that I photograph. I am now on my fifth year of shooting weddings and have shot roughly 70 of them. I am a big fan of working smart and not hard. Every step of my workflow is thought out, and belongs for very specific reasons. Most of the time I am finishing and delivering my wedding photos within four to five days. If it wasn't for attention span and the internet, I should be able to finish wedding photographs in 24 hours every time.
Step #1 – Import and backup (1-3 hours)
I first import all images (1500-2000) via Lightroom into a folder (titled bride's name and groom's name, in alphabetical order) on my 1TB portable Lacie Porsche drive.
I work on the go a lot, and I am often editing in a coffee shop, friend's place or co-working space, so I have my 13 inch Macbook Pro (retina display) and portable drive to work from. The drive currently holds about six months of images, or 80,000 photos.
I have a big gripe about people who organize their photos by date. In my opinion, it's a terrible system when it comes to finding photos at a later date. When your bride Tiffany asks for a change in a photo from color to black and white, how do you find that folder with her wedding? On my drive it would be under "Weddings," and in a subfolder titled "Jeremy & Tiffany."
While my images are uploading I will be posting a Facebook album of the same day slideshow that I produced at the wedding, and tagging the bride and groom in it. This is usually 30-50 images that I've edited during dinner or during any sort of down time, like the end of cocktail hour.
Note: This means I have already added the bride and/or groom on Facebook, which is standard practice for me. Being friends with my clients is probably one of the greatest perks of my job, and it also guarantees tons of referrals. I have a competitive side that always wants to post the pictures faster and better than any friend, uncle or cousin at the wedding. Whoever posts first on Facebook will get the most attention.
I then plug in my backup 3TB drive, go to sleep and let my computer backup via Time Machine overnight.
Losing photos is the greatest fear of most photographers, and for that reason alone many professionals have multiple backup systems in place. I don't usually format my memory cards until the wedding has been delivered or backed up, if I can help it. I also use Backblaze, a cloud-based backup system that constantly backs up files whenever I am online.
Step #2 – Culling (30 min an hour)
In Lightroom I go through all 1500-2000 photos and select every photo that looks good, unique, and usable. I use the star rating system in Lightroom, by pressing the "1" key on the photos I like. I usually end up with about 800 photos after this. If you focus and know what you are looking for, this should only take about 30 minutes to an hour, maximum. No agonizing over which photo is best between two very similar ones. Just trust your gut and go.
One "trick" I've unconsciously been doing is usually selecting the last photo in a series of similar photos. If you're like me, you take two or three photos of each thing you are photographing. I move on when I think I've got it, and that means the second or third photo in a series should be my selection.
Next I go through and do my two-star selects. These are the best photos from the day that tell a clear story from beginning to end. They are images that would likely end up in a photo album (besides family photos). I almost always end up with 100 photos, give or take a few. This should take about 10-15 minutes, since you are selecting from a much narrower field of photos. Also, you really have to trust your gut on which photos are winners here.
Step #3 – Editing and retouching (three hours)
After I've selected my favorites, I edit them first. I actually enjoy editing these ones, because I am proudest of them, and they are all different. I edit everything in Lightroom. I never open photoshop unless I'm making a diptych or doing heavy changes to a photo. Sometimes I start with a base preset in Lightroom, one I called "Typical Phil." I hand edit all of these photos. This should take about an hour or two tops. These are then exported at 2500px, 300dpi, 88 quality, (and also renamed Highlights-0001.jpg, Highlights-0002.jpg, etc.), into a folder called Highlights which has been created inside the the main folder of images. I upload the Highlights into a PASS gallery, and deliver this immediately, so the clients don't have to wait any longer to see some of their wedding images.
Never spend more than 30 seconds on a photo. If you do, you are editing for yourself and other photographers, not the client. Most clients won't be able to tell the difference between good, great, and perfect. Aim for great.
My export settings make each of my images only about one or two megabytes in size, but they are able to be printed up to 11×14″. Anything larger and I'm happy to provide a specific file to my client directly. I do this in the interest of hard drive and cloud storage space. Also, clients are usually only printing at most one or two photos extra large, so I don't see the need to make every photo 30 inches on the long edge.
PASS is a phenomenal application that is incredibly intuitive and easy to use for delivering digital photos to clients. Pixieset is another popular competitor. PASS charges per album of photos; Pixieset charges for bandwith/storage.
This next part is the secret to my rapid editing and turnaround of images. Take each of the favorite images that you've edited (two-star images), and copy each edit onto surrounding photos with a similar light source. If your exposure is consistent in this range of photos, the edit you do for one image should look great for every other image in that scene. This should take about two hours straight through.
Lightroom speed tip
Here is a Lightroom secret to make the copying and deselecting of images extra fast. With your main image selected, hold down Command and select all the other images you want to copy the edit to. In Develop mode, hold down the option key and press sync. This automatically copies the edit onto all the other photos (to make sure you are copying the appropriate edits across all photos, you can simply press sync and a dialogue box will pop up showing which edits are going to be copied).
Now that the edits are synced, you can deselect each image and check for consistency by pressing "/" which is the shortcut for deselecting the current image. I do this to make sure I've seen and checked each image for perfect exposure.
Remember, you're not retouching every face, every sky, every element of a picture. You can spend a little more time doing that on the favorites, but chances are your couple isn't going to be printing every single photo from their wedding, so why are you retouching random shots from the reception?
Step #4 – Exporting (45 minutes)
Export all images from each section of the wedding into their own folders. Folders and images can be named according to which part of the wedding they belong to (Getting Ready or Pre-Ceremony, Ceremony, Family, etc.). These can all be exported with these settings: 88 Quality, 2500 px long edge, 300dpi. This should take about ten minutes to start doing, and maybe an hour for the computer to finish (depending on number of images and your computer's power and speed).
Step #5 – Uploading (one hour)
Upload all your files to your photo sharing service of choice (PASS, Pixieset, Zenfolio, Pixifi, etc.). Ideally, the first gallery that a viewer will see is the Favorites, or Highlights gallery. No need to overwhelm them with every photo from the Getting Ready series. Your top 50-100 photos makes for an excellent opener in an online wedding gallery, like this.
That should take about 10-30 minutes (up to an hour or so), depending on how fast your internet connection is.
Step #6 – Delivery (10 minutes)
Email the bride/groom the following:
"Hi! How is everything going? I know I said it would be a couple of weeks until the photos are finished, but I have good news for you! I've finished and edited ALL the photos and they are ready for you to see and download in this gallery here.
Simply click on the download button to create a zip file with all of the high resolution images to your computer. This will save you time having to wait for me to mail you a disk or thumb drive, which would have all the exact same files in it.
As a special surprise, I am gifting you $50 of print credit! Simply put in "bridegroomname" in the checkout section of ordering prints under coupon code. This should buy you up to X amount of 8×10's, or X amount of 5×7's.
Let me know if you have any questions about anything! Enjoy the photos 🙂
I recognize this doesn't involve an in-person sales meeting, delivery of albums, or anything of that nature. This is simply the fastest way you can do business and work smart, not hard. I regularly book weddings between $3000-4000 doing exactly this. I have sold wedding albums, and that's room for more profit, but also more headache and work. Write to me and I'll let you know how to make album making a painless, quick process as well. It's all about guiding your clients' expectations.
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CI Yudhishthira said, Of what disposition, of what behaviour, of what form, how acoutred, and how armed should the combatants be in order that they may be competent for battle' Bhishma said, It is proper that those weapons and vehicles should be adopted by particular bodies of combatants with which they have become familiar by use. Brave soldiers, adopting those weapons and vehicles, engage in battle. The Gandharvas, the Sindhus, and the Sauviras fight best with their nails and lances. They are brave and endued with great strength.
Their armies are capable of vanquishing all forces, The Usinaras are possessed of great strength and skilled in all kinds of weapons. The Easterners are skilled in fighting from the backs of elephants and are conversant with all the ways of unfair fight. The Yavanas, the Kamvojas, and those that dwell around Mathura are well skilled in fighting with bare arms. The Southerners are skilled in fighting sword in hand. It is well-known that persons possessed of great strength and great courage are born in almost every country. Listen to me as I describe their indications. They that have voices and eyes like those of the lion or the tiger, they that have a gait like that of the lion and the tiger, and they that have eyes like those of the pigeon or the snake, are all heroes capable of grinding hostile ranks They that have a voice like deer, and eyes like those of the leopard or the bull, are possessed of great activity. They whose voice resembles that of bells, are excitable, wicked, and wrathful. They that have a voice deep as that of the clouds, that have wrathful face, or faces like those of camels, they that have hooked noses and tongues, are possessed of great speed and can shoot or hurl their weapons to a great distance.
They that have bodies curved like that of the cat, and thin hair and thin skin, become endued with great speed and restlessness and almost invincible in battle. Some that are possessed of eyes closed like those of the iguana, disposition that is mild, and speed and voice like the horses, are competent to fight all foes. They that are of well-knit and handsome and symmetrical frames, and broad chests, that become angry upon hearing the enemy's drum or trumpet, that take delight in affrays of every kind, that have eyes indicative of gravity, or eyes that seem to shoot out, or eyes that are green, they that have faces darkened with frowns, or eyes like those of the mongoose, are all brave and capable of casting away their lives in battle. They that have crooked eyes and broad foreheads and cheek-bones not covered with flesh and arms strong as thunder-bolts and fingers bearing circular marks, and that are lean with arteries and nerves that are visible, rush with great speed when the collision of battle takes place. Resembling infuriated elephants, they become irresistible. They that have greenish hair ending in curls, that have flanks, cheeks, and faces fat and full of flesh, that have elevated shoulders and broad necks, that have fearful visages and fat calves, that are fiery like Vasudeva's horse Sugriva or like the offspring of Garuda, the son of Vinata, that have round heads, large mouths, faces like those of cats, shrill voice and wrathful temper, that rush to battle, guided by its din, that are wicked in behaviour and full of haughtiness, that are of terrible countenances, and that live in the outlying districts, are all reckless of their lives and never flyaway from battle. Such troops should always be placed in the van. They always slay their foes in fight and suffer themselves to be slain without retreating. Of wicked behaviour and outlandish manners, they regard soft speeches as indications of defeat. If treated with mildness, they always exhibit wrath against their sovereign
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New episodes of 19 Kids and Counting return in less than three weeks--mark your calender for August 28th at 9PM EST/8PM CST! For our lovely international readers and those who don't have TV, we will post recaps as usual.
On another note, Gil and Kelly Bates (dear friends of the Duggars) and their brood of nineteen are gearing up for the premiere of their new TLC series, United Bates of America, on Monday at 9PM EST/8PM CST. The entire family traveled to New York City and were featured on Good Morning America and ABC Nightline (videos below).
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Sorry Day
Winner of the 2019 CBCA Eve Pownall Award for Information Books
Age range 7+
There was a hum of excitement.
Flags flickered in the breeze as Maggie's heart danced with delight.
'This is a very special day!' her mother said.
Maggie holds tight to her mother as they await the long anticipated apology to show a willingness to reconcile the past for future generations. In the excitement of the crowd Maggie loses touch of her mother's hand as is lost.
In a time 'long ago and not so long ago' children were taken from their parents, their 'sorrow echoing across the land'.
As the Prime Minister's speech unfolds Maggie is reunited with her mother. But the faces and memories of the stolen generation are all around them.
Two stories entwine in this captivating retelling of the momentous day when the then Prime Minister of Australia, Kevin Rudd, acknowledged the sorrows of past and said 'Sorry' to the generation of children who were taken from their homes.
The book includes a foreword from Lee Joachim; Chair of Rumbalara Aboriginal Cooperative and Director of Research and Development for Yorta Yorta Nation Aboriginal Corporation.
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On 7 August 1908, the first train to travel the length of the North Island main trunk railway left Wellington bound for Auckland. The construction of this 680-km line had posed enormous engineering challenges and taken more than two decades. It would not be officially opened until 6 November, but three months earlier a 'Parliament Special' ferried politicians north to meet the United States Navy's visiting Great White Fleet.
That first trip took more than 20 hours. By the mid-1920s the new 'Night Limited' Express linked Auckland and Wellington in 14 hours. That might still seem like an eternity today, but compared to the alternatives – a long, uncomfortable sea voyage, or a challenging stagecoach or car trip over primitive roads – the main trunk was a great leap forward.
For decades after 1908 this was New Zealand's most important transport route. Up until the Second World War at least, almost everyone travelling between New Zealand's capital and its biggest city – politicians, governors-general, royal visitors, businessmen, public servants, entertainers, sports teams, soldiers bound for war, local holidaymakers and overseas tourists – took the train.


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The White House's hunt for anonymous op-ed author fades
WASHINGTON >> Remember Anonymous?
One month ago Friday, an unidentified Trump administration official set off a White House firestorm by claiming in a New York Times opinion piece to be part of a secret "resistance" force out to undermine parts of President Donald Trump's agenda.
The article triggered cries of "treason" from Trump and a demand that the powers of the federal government be brought to bear to root out the disloyal officials.
And then … not much happened.
The investigation, which existed more in name than practice, stalled. A move to clean house never occurred. The author's identity is still a mystery.
Still, publication of the piece, along with a new Bob Woodward book painting a picture of a president whose impulses were being thwarted by his own staff, has had some lasting aftershocks.
The president, already besieged by leaks, has closed ranks around the Oval Office, growing far more suspicious of staff and trusting fewer West Wing personnel. That's according to four White House officials and Republicans close to the White House who were not authorized to speak publicly about private conversations.
The Sept. 5 publication of the op-ed rocked Washington. The author, described only as a senior administration official, wrote that "Many Trump appointees have vowed to do what we can to preserve our democratic institutions while thwarting Mr. Trump's more misguided impulses until he is out of office."
The writer went on: "It may be cold comfort in this chaotic era, but Americans should know that there are adults in the room. We fully recognize what is happening. And we are trying to do what's right even when Donald Trump won't."
The piece landed the same week as Woodward's "Fear" and emphasized the new book's themes: that Trump appeared unfit for office and some of his closest aides viewed themselves as a bulwark between his worst decisions and the American public.
Trump was incensed about the op-ed, calling around to confidants to vent about the author, solicit guesses as to his or her identity, seethe that it appeared in the newspaper he loves to hate, and complain that a "deep state" within the administration was conspiring against him. At a rally that week in Montana, he called the author "an anonymous, gutless coward."
"You look at this horrible thing that took place. Is it subversion, is it treason?" Trump bellowed. "It really is terrible."
The Beltway guessing game seeped into the White House, as current and former staffers traded calls and texts trying to figure out who could have written the piece, some even asking reporters for clues. Trump ordered aides to unmask the writer, cited "national security" concerns to justify a possible Justice Department investigation and issued an extraordinary demand that the newspaper reveal the author.
Trump's anger triggered an extraordinary parade of senior officials, Cabinet members and even the vice president, who issued statements and stood before cameras to deny that they were part of the resistance.
Some Trump advisers, like attorney Rudy Giuliani, suggested that it would be "appropriate" for Trump to ask for a formal investigation into the identity of the op-ed author. And Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul, a key ally of Trump's, called for the president to order those suspected of being the author to undergo lie-detector tests.
But then, mirroring the very thesis of the op-ed, Trump's requests to the government largely went ignored.
It was never expected that the Justice Department would move to open an investigation. A White House official later said Trump's call for the investigation was an expression of his frustration with the op-ed, rather than an order for federal prosecutors.
White House chief of staff John Kelly, communications director Bill Shine and press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders convened a series of closed-door meetings and ordered a cursory leak search, including enforcing a pre-existing ban on personal phones, according to three White House officials not authorized to speak publicly about internal meetings. But as the op-ed was wiped from the headlines by other news events, most notably the contentious confirmation hearings for Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, the probe was quietly pushed aside.
The White House did not respond to a request for comment.
Though the president continued to vent about the leaks, aides never conducted an exhaustive search, according to two of the officials. And many administration officials recognized that there was a long list of officials who plausibly could have been the author.
The West Wing and, for the most part, Trump himself moved on, focusing on the upcoming midterm elections and the push to get Kavanaugh on the bench.
But Trump has confided to allies that he still is frustrated by frequent leaks and feels that there are few aides around him whom he can fully trust, according to the three White House officials and Republicans close to the White House.
Beyond a network of outside advisers Trump has known for decades, the officials said, those on the inside the president continues to trust include family: daughter Ivanka Trump and her husband, Jared Kushner, both senior advisers.


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Timberland Offers Self-Expression With Leather Billboards
It's rare we receive a press release that isn't rife with orgasmic marketing blather and seems more concerned with "appearing" intelligent than actually being intelligent so we were pleased to received this straight forward release from Arnold touting their new leather billboard work for Timberland. We're so happy we don't have to sift through this release like so many others simply to find, among the thousands of words, the hundred or so that actually say anything that we're just going to reprint the thing here:
"Today, Timberland started posting billboards made of its iconic (Ed: OK, "iconic" might be a bit over the top) boot leather in three New York City boroughs: Manhattan, Brooklyn and Bronx. Over a two-day period, local artists representing each borough will adorn the billboards with original artwork reflecting what the borough means to them. (Ed: a little squishy but we'll let it pass) The goal of the project, created by Arnold, is to create a platform for artists to express themselves and their passion for community, using the Timberland boot as canvas. (Ed: Easy now. It's just a billboard.)
The one-of-a-kind (Ed: hate that first, best only stuff) leather billboards support the launch of Timberland's newest website, 10061.com, which is designed to celebrate self-expression and community (Ed: OK, what did we say about platitudes?). Visitors to the site are encouraged to upload artwork, films, written word, photography or other forms of creative self-expression on the site's "User Gallery." One user will be chosen to work with Timberland designers to develop a signature boot of their own.
The leather billboards, which measure 8' high and 16' to 24' wide, can be seen at the following locations: Harlem - 125th Street and 5th Avenue; Brooklyn - 3rd Avenue and Flatbush Avenue; and the Bronx - Creston South and 188th Street. Each billboard will start as a blank leather canvas, with the exception of the website printed in the upper right corner, and the words "Boot as Canvas. Express [Harlem/Brooklyn/Bronx]" in the upper left. Passers-by can watch the various artists at work on December 4th and 5th.
The leather murals on the boards will eventually be removed and donated to local non-profit partners to extend the life of the program and the spirit of self-expression and community. Leather from the boards will also be repurposed into limited-edition boots that will be donated or auctioned off for charity. (Ed: Oh what a happy ending!)"


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In the past couple of years, we've seen a growing trend of creators adopting digital and social media, not just as a supplement to their media presence but also as a cornerstone of their personal brand.
The pandemic has surely accelerated creator economy trends. Many popular artists and figures have had to postpone concerts and live events, subsequently using social media to carry out these activities and engage their fans. Proliferating through Western and far East markets, the creator economy bug, which has made platforms like Cameo and Patreon unicorns, is beginning to take centre stage in MENA.
Today, Minly, an Egypt-based creator economy platform, is announcing that it has closed a $3.6 million seed round to allow stars across the MENA region to create authentic, personalized connections with their fans.
The round, which Minly says was oversubscribed, was co-led by 4DX Ventures, B&Y Venture Partners and Global Ventures. It also included participation from unnamed regional funds and angel investors like Scooter Braun, founder of SB Projects; Jason Finger, co-founder of Seamless and GrubHub; Anthony Saleh and Jeffrey Katzenberg of WndrCo; Arieh Mimran of Groupe Mimran; and Tamim Jabr.
Experts say time spent viewing social media surpassed time spent viewing TV within the MENA region. But one shortcoming with social media is that its content often feels mass-produced. When creators make posts, it's most times void of personalization. In a way, this dilutes the fan experience and limits the extent and number of ways the creator can monetize.
This is where Minly, founded last year by Mohamed El-Shinnawy, Tarek Hosny, Tarek ElGanainy, Ahmed Abbas, and Bassel El-Toukhy, comes in. It provides tools for creators to craft what it calls 'authentic connections' with their superfans and audience at scale. "In short, our goal is to eventually deliver tens of millions of unique, unforgettable experiences to fans each year," El-Shinnawy told TechCrunch.
Shinnawy, who brings more than 15 years of media and technology experience to the table, is the chief technology officer at Minly. He sold his first company, Emerge Technology, to a U.S.-based media company. He has also delivered work for Hollywood's top studios, such as Sony Pictures, Universal, Disney, Fox and Warner Brothers, while playing a role in the global expansion of Apple TV+, Disney+, and Netflix to the MENA region.
Minly has experienced rapid growth since launching late last year. It has more than 50,000 users and an impressive list of popular regional celebrities ranging from actors and athletes like Fifi Abdou and Mahmoud Trezeguet to musicians and internet influencers like Assala Nasri and Tamer Hosny.
On the platform, users can buy personalized video messages and shoutouts from these celebrities, and they, in turn, connect with their fans on a more personal level.
"We think that we have already differentiated ourselves from other creator economy platforms in the region. We do this by offering the best catalogue of stars and user experience. And our entire team is working hard to grow this gap even further," said El-Shinnawy on the crop of celebrities Minly has onboarded to the platform.
Some of the instances where celebrities connected with their fans on Minly include when actress and dancer Fifi Abdou sent a personal message to one of her biggest fans who has Down syndrome and when Egyptian singer Tamer Hosny made a surprise appearance at two fans' engagement party in March.
Minly takes a small commission on transactions made through its platform. However, the majority of the transaction price, a figure Minly didn't disclose, goes directly to creators. And at the same time, Minly urges celebrities to automatically donate a portion of their earnings to partner charities on the platform.
Minly's knack for creating a personalized experience is why Pan-African VC firm 4DX Ventures invested. The firm's co-founder and general partner Peter Orth, who will be joining Minly's board, said the company is fundamentally changing the relationship between celebrities and fans in the MENA region. "The team has both the ambition and the expertise to build a full-stack digital interaction platform that could change the way digital content is created and consumed in the region," he added.
The creator economy market surpassed $100 billion in value this year and is still growing at an impressive rate. The pace of content creation will only speed up since surveys suggest that being a YouTuber or TikTokker or the most common term, vlogger, is one the most desirable careers among Gen Zs. VC heavyweights like Andreessen Horowitz, Kleiner Partners, and Tiger Global have also heralded this growth considerably, contributing to the more than $2 billion invested in creator economy platforms this year.
In MENA, there's a huge opportunity for Minly. The region has over 450 million people, of which 30% are between the ages of 18 to 30. This demographic is known to have a deep connection with social media, and El-Shinnawy believes MENA will soon contribute to a large part of the total creator economy.
For Minly, the goal is to capture a huge portion of that spend and become a multibillion-dollar, category-leading company. The creator platform has a case to do so. As it stands, the opportunity to build a creator economy one-stop-shop in MENA is huge compared to other regions that already have multiple entrenched incumbents. Also, Minly is one of the few platforms in the region with meaningful venture funding.
"The creator economy is in its infancy and growing at lightning speed. We have the opportunity to build this category's first unicorn in MENA," the CTO remarked.
With this investment, Minly is doubling down on building local celebrity acquisition teams in Egypt and other parts across MENA and the GCC, where it has seen significant traction. The company will also scale its engineering team to churn out more products to build a horizontal creator platform.
Source From TechCrunch
Author: Tage Kene-Okafor


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August 31 2012: The 55-storey Four Seasons Toronto hotel and condo tower viewed from the corner of Hazelton Avenue and Scollard Street
Light & airy: Every time I have looked up at the new Four Seasons Hotel and condo tower in Yorkville, I've been amazed that it doesn't appear to soar 55 storeys high. It does look and feel very tall, of course, but it doesn't have a hulking, looming or even overwhelming presence like many towers just half its height. I never understood why — until I read "A tower that aims to 'blend into the sky" in the August 31 Globe and Mail.
In the article, architecture columnist John Bentley Mays relates a conversation he had with the Four Seasons Toronto architect, Peter Clewes of architectsAlliance.
Clewes explains how the skyscraper was designed to be "light on its feet," achieving "a kind of fading of the tower where it meets the sky." Different types of glass cladding were extensively researched and tested to see how they would relate to the sky; ultimately, an American-made high-performance glass with no tint was selected.
"We wanted something …. that would take on the character of the sky without being hyper-reflective," Clewes said, adding that the glass helps the tower "just blend into the sky."


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As a teenager he won prizes for his costumes at the drag balls in Manhattan. After one win, still in drag, he wandered into a nearby cafeteria, and was attacked by four thugs, but was able to beat three of them unconscious.
By his late teens he was a chorus boy in Broadway shows, but he lost jobs because he was considered too effeminate. So he concentrated on performing in drag in Greenwich Village, under the name Imogene Wilson (he copied the name from Mary Nolan who used that name as a dancer in the Zeigfeld Follies).
As he became more successful he mainly performed in a tuxedo as the emcee, in the swishy style, and is regarded as one of the originators of the Pansy Craze 1930-3. He was called a 'male impersonator' because of the clothes that he wore.
He appeared in small sissy parts in Hollywood films, and as a female impersonator in Arizona to Broadway, all in 1933.
He is known for his recording of 'I'd rather be Spanish than Mannish'.
He died in a fluke accident. While parked on a pier, he confused the gears and reversed into the water. He was pinned under the steering wheel, but his passengers survived.
His wife was Lucille Helman who was later a notorious madam in Manhattan who was convicted in 1936 and 1942 of sending prostitutes across state lines.
- George Chauncey. Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World, 1890-1940. New York: Basic Books 1994: 314-8, 320-1.
- J.D. Doyle. "Jean Malin". Queer Music Heritage. www.queermusicheritage.us/jun2004jm.html
- Michael Guillen. "Queer Cinema – Spotlight on Jean Malin". The Evening Class. http://theeveningclass.blogspot.com/2007/05/queer-cinemaspotlight-on-jean-malin.html.


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Canonized By: July 27, 1947 by Pope Pius XII
St. Catherine Laboure, virgin, was born on May 2, 1806. At an early age she entered the community of the Daughters of Charity, in Paris, France. Three times in 1830 the Virgin Mary appeared to St. Catherine Laboure, who then was a twenty-four year old novice.
On July 18, the first apparition occurred in the community's motherhouse. St. Catherine beheld a lady seated on the right side of the sanctuary. When St. Catherine approached her, the heavenly visitor told her how to act in time of trial and pointed to the altar as the source of all consolation. Promising to entrust St. Catherine with a mission which would cause her great suffering, the lady also predicted the anticlerical revolt which occurred at Paris in 1870.
On November 27, Our Lady showed St. Catherine the medal of the Immaculate Conception, now universally known as the "Miraculous Medal." She commissioned St. Catherine to have one made, and to spread devotion to this medal. At that time, only her spiritual director, Father Aladel, knew of the apparitions. Forty-five years later, St. Catherine spoke fully of the apparitions to one of her superiors. She died on December 31, 1876, and was canonized on July 27, 1947. Her feast day is November 28.


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Manjul Bhargava, a professor of mathematics at Princeton University, was Wednesday conferred the Fields Medal at the International Congress of Mathematicians 2014 hosted by the International Mathematical Union (IMU) in Seoul, a press release issued by the Fields Institute for Research in Mathematical Sciences said.
Also on the same occasion, another Indian-origin mathematician Subhash Khot won the Rolf Nevanlinna Prize, awarded by the IMU, for his "prescient definition of the 'Unique Games' problem, and leading the effort to understand its complexity and its pivotal role in the study of efficient approximation of optimisation problems".
Bhargava, born in 1974 in Canada, was awarded the Fields Medal for developing powerful new methods in the geometry of numbers, which he applied to count rings of small rank and to bound the average rank of elliptic curves.
He is the recipient of the Mathematical Association of America prize in 2003, the SASTRA Ramanujan Prize in 2005, the Cole Prize in Number Theory of the American Mathematical Society in 2008 and the Infosys Prize in 2012.
Other three winners of the Fields Medal are Maryam Mirzakhani, the first Iranian and the first woman to win the medal, and Artur Avila, the first Brazilian, and Martin Hairer, the first Austrian to win a Fields Medal.
Mirzakhani, a mathematics professor at Stanford University, was awarded the prize for her outstanding contributions to the dynamics and geometry of Riemann surfaces and their moduli spaces.
Avila, a professor at the Instituto Nacional de Matemática Pura e Aplicadab in Brazil, was awarded the prize for his profound contributions to dynamical systems theory, which have changed the face of the field, using the powerful idea of renormalisation as a unifying principle.
Hairer, a mathematics professor at the University of Warwick, was awarded the prize for his outstanding contributions to the theory of stochastic partial differential equations, and in particular for the creation of a theory of regularity structures for such equations.
The Fields Medals are awarded once every four years by the International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) in order to recognise outstanding mathematical achievements.
John Charles Fields was a Canadian mathematician who had a major impact on national and international mathematical studies and research.
Khot is a professor in the Computer Science Department at New York University's Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences. He has a PhD from Princeton.
His work has led to breakthroughs in algorithmic design and approximation hardness and to new exciting interactions between computational complexity, analysis and geometry.
The Rolf Nevanlinna Prize is awarded once every four years at the International Congress of Mathematicians, for outstanding contributions in Mathematical Aspects of Information Sciences, including all mathematical aspects of computer science.
The Fields Medals were started in 1936 and the Nevanlinna Prize in 1982.


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Ministry spokesman Sediq Sediqqi said a suicide bomber had struck the convoy followed by a roadside bomb, killing four civilians, with the toll likely to rise. He said no one from Abdullah's entourage was killed.
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It was not immediately clear who was behind the attack, but it bore the hallmarks of the Taliban, who are fighting to overthrow the Western-backed government.
Abdullah is the front runner for the June 14 runoff, facing former Finance Minister Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai. In the first round of elections April 5, Abdullah garnered 45 percent of votes while Ghani came in second with 31.6 percent.
During the Soviet occupation in the 1980s, Abdullah served as adviser to and spokesman for Tajik warlord Ahmad Shah Massoud, who was assassinated by Al-Qaeda two days before the Sept. 11, 2001 attack.
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"Man stands in his own shadow and wonders why it's dark." ~Zen Proverb
There was once a man who loved to complain and find fault with everyone and everything. Nothing pleased him, so he moved from one town to another, declaring as he left each place:
"I am going to another town, where the people are friendlier."
A wise man perceived what the problem was, and as the angry man began striding along the dusty road to yet another destination, the wise man compassionately called out:
"Oh brother, moving from place to place does not serve you well. Wherever you go, there you will also find yourself. Your shadow is always with you."
It took me a long time to understand that, in part, this was my story too. In early 2001, after taking leave of my job and arriving at an ashram in India, I anticipated the months there would be filled with experiences of light, peace, and expansion.
However, within days I was assigned to work with a young woman who could be charming one minute and explosive the next. I was shocked and began pondering:
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Self-reflection took little time to reveal that there was anger, oodles of it, bubbling under the surface of my calm demeanor. Safely kept in check for as long as I could remember, the rarified energy of this meditative environment was revealing my long lost friend, the "shadow."
For the first time I began to recognize that this woman's anger belonged to me, and what's more, what I was seeing was just the tip of the iceberg.
With this acknowledgement, every hidden nuance of anger, in all its glorious forms began revealing itself. Frustration, despair, irritation, disappointment, and depression all came up for air after being hidden underground for so long.
During my time in India, I wrote in my journal, contemplated each experience, and asked the shadow to be revealed in dreams. I was also led to experiment with self-inquiry exercises.
One simple exercise went like this:
- Write down the names of at least five people (living or dead) who inspire you. Alongside each name, identify one positive quality that they embody. For example: Mother Theresa: Compassion
- Acknowledge that in order to recognize these qualities, they must be in you. They are already "yours."
- Assume the direct opposite of each quality. For example: Mother Theresa – Cold/Uncaring.
- Take a moment to recognize and acknowledge that each "negative" quality must also be yours. Now ask:
- "How do you serve me?" and "What must I learn from you?"
When I gently asked questions to the cold/uncaring qualities, the responses were enlightening. I heard:
"I serve you when you are not clear about your boundaries and take on too much. You must learn to honor your needs and know when to say "No!"
In that moment, I realized that the shadow also contains positive qualities, and in order to be authentic, I needed to take ownership of both positive and negative projections.
Though simple, shadow exercises should not be underestimated. They are very, very powerful. They allow us to tap into energy that has formerly been repressed. Once released, a dynamic force is unleashed, initiating immediate changes in our consciousness and in our lives.
What we are actually doing is re-establishing these qualities and the energy inherent in them, to our psyche. Because of the power of the energy, this work is transformational. It can also be unnerving.
At its very core, the shadow is the collective name given to aspects of ourselves we are not taking ownership of because of fear.
On a subconscious level, we are afraid that if people (or the community) "knew the truth," we would be judged, reviled, rejected, or worse, thrown out.
As a consequence, we try to hide what we believe is unacceptable. This pattern of behavior begins from the moment we are born. A normal aspect of growing up is that we are taught what constitutes appropriate social behavior and what does not.
However, on a subtle or not so subtle level, we might also learn from our parents or caregivers that "being creative" is unacceptable, or that expressing moderate anger or frustration is going against the norms of society.
When we internalize these messages, we form beliefs about what is "wrong" with us and repress them so deeply they become unconscious. What we do not realize is that these aspects of who we are mustfind expression, and so we project them onto other people, organizations, or the world at large.
This is how and why the shadow includes both all that we determine we dislike about ourselves and all the wonderful creative potential we are blind to being gifted with.
In addition, when we begin taking ownership of the shadow, we must also understand that this work is not about "becoming someone else,"like the notion of an "improved" version of who we think we are.
Some people become addicted to becoming spiritual athletes, believing that if they meditate for longer and longer periods each day, endure fasts, and chant non-stop, they will attain enlightenment. While these practices are a beneficial and beautiful support for stilling the mind, entering presence, and becoming aware of resistances, they are not "it."
Indulging in long hours of practices as a way of trying to fundamentally change who we are, is often a camouflage for lack of self-worth or even self-hatred.
Instead, what we must do is wake up to what we are repressing, own what we are "putting out there," and re-claim our inherent gifts, skills, and talents.
In support of this we can also ask:
- Which gifts have I been neglecting?
- How can I start to make life choices in support of what I have to offer?
Ultimately, shadow work marks the beginning of the end and is a turning point on the spiritual path.
In essence, we are electing to grow up and stop finding fault with everyone and everything "out there."
Then, as if by magic, the return to our natural state of unity consciousness begins to break through like the light of a new dawn. And we discover there is no longer a desire to keep running.
We have simply, joyfully, and gratefully come home to who we really are.
Lori's Note: Julie has generously offered to give away 25 free subscriptions for her 7-week online course, Be Your Own Guru. It explores how to utilize the power of the mind and transform the shadow aspects of the psyche in order to align with your innate gifts, skills, and talents.
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Julie Hoyle is a spiritual teacher, natural intuitive and trans-personal hypnotherapist. Her profound spiritual awakening is detailed in her eBook, An Awakened Life- A Journey of Transformation. She offers online courses, soul purpose readings, and energy retrieval at: www.truealignment.org.


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