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Path of the Priestess Training
Can you feel it?
In the beating of your heart, the butterflies in your belly and in the depth of your womb?
We are living in a time of change, and we women are waking up. We are ready to move away from the paved road and take our own winding path to the essence of our feminine being.
The awakening of feminine leadership from the heart.
It is our divine answer to the call that comes from the depths of ourselves and the depths of the earth.
Are you ready to meet yourself in your deepest shadow and put yourself in the clearest light?
Are you ready to be the change the world is waiting for?
This is a journey for the brave woman who is ready to look at herself at a deep level.
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This training is for you if you ...
- want to root deeply in your femininity
- are ready to open your heart for the whole of existence and become a channel of love
-want to discover and disseminate your own medicine
- know that there is more to life.
- feel the desire in your heart to change your course and lead a fulfilling and meaningful life
- longs for the warm embrace of sisterhood
- live or want to live with the rhythm of the earth and the seasons
- want to love your body and understand what it has to tell you
- want to heal yourself and the collective feminine
- Want to learn what "holding Space" really is.
- You are ready to look in your own shadow.
- You want to step into your personal leadership.
-A priestess is a woman who chooses to live consciously.
- A priestess is a woman who chooses her own unique sacred path.
-A priestess is committed to living in all her colors and hues.
-A priestess serves the sacred circle of birth, life, death, and rebirth.
-A priestess is indispensable in the awakening of our time.
-A priestess is a woman who dares to depart from the paved road to follow her own sacred wild path.
- A priestess knows how to use old customs and rituals in the modern world.
-A priestess is a woman who chooses to connect with timeless, living wisdom.
-A priestess chooses to live life with the utmost determination. In shade and light
-A priestess dances life, not for beautiful or good enough
, but as wild untamed expression of "this is me!"
A priestess, that's you ...
A few themes highlighted
Live your medicine
Solve fears and obstacles that prevent you from shining your unique light. Transform your pain into power and discover how much wisdom there is in your story.
Work with powerful archetypes
Weave with the magic of the sacred archetypes, Maiden, Mother, Warrior, Queen, Sage, Priestess and Goddess to create balance and engage the energies needed to powerfully transform, inspire and create
Healing the fore-mother wound
Travel through time and space to clean up old patterns, pains and limitations from your women's line
We create a warm and safe space of sisterhood for the work we do together. Through your sisters you can look clearer in your light and in your shadows
The collective
The personal work that we do will also heal the wounds of the collective consciousness. All we do is "In a good way, in a medicine way, for the good of all"
Take back your ownership of your voice
What we have to say is so valuable and so important. Our loving whispers and our angry ROAR! We will free our voice so that the world can hear us.
And this is just a tip from the iceberg ...
"I no longer feel the same after my inner journey to Avalon. After the initiation into the Path of the Priestess.
Something big has happened. Something has been transformed. Something has been remembered. Remembered who I am. Remembered what I'm coming to do here. Old knowledge has come to life. Knowing deeply. I came home. A lot of old burden of lives fell away from me. I truly died and was born again through this deep inner journey and all the profound rituals in this sacred old place in Avalon.
I am now back in the Netherlands. Back to work.
It looks like I'm doing the same thing but nothing is the same anymore.
I no longer fit in old structures., never did, but now it certainly does not fit me anymore. I can no longer participate in the illusion, in the paved paths. In the box of the mind. In a fear-based life.
The fear seems to have disappeared for now.
The fear that others think of me. The fear of judgment and rejection. The fear of not belonging. The fear of shortage ...
But above all the fear of my own strength.
That fear was the greatest.
Wow what a powerful awakening"
Marianne van den Haak
The training
During the training we will guide you through your personal process to discover and awaken the priestess within yourself; so that you can walk your sacred path and do what you came to eath for.
For thousands of years, women have been walking this Path of the Priestess in sisterhood. It is a path full of authenticity, dedication, strength, vulnerability, healing depth and growth. Through the dark and the light. We will pass through the gates of initiation into Priestesshood.
It is incredibly beautiful, but not always easy. During the training, you will be supported by close sisterhood and professional guidance.
The training is based on practical experience, knowledge and personal development. We use a mix of different techniques, ceremonies, therapies, dance, bodywork and trance. We perform the exercises in groups and you will also receive exercises for at home, so that you will fully experience everything you learn and share. This method will offer you insight into the depth of your process and, above all, into the wisdom that you carry with you.
During the training, we will dance a lot, because in dance your most sincere self can be expressed. You will be able to throw off your masks and come to who you really are under the veils of fear and judgment.
A few highlights
- The Wild Womb Wisdom ceremony
- Learning to trust, honor and love your body
- Free your inner temple priestess in the temple night
- Move in your body and your life
- Learning to set up rituals and ceremonies
- Regaining confidence in other women
- Working with the inner child
- Rebirth
- Earth magic
- Power in vulnerability
- Authentic presence
- Leadership over your own life.
- Welcoming emotions in full awareness
- Medicine dance
- Turning your pain to power
- Sacred Song Circle
- Fire ceremony
- Water temple ceremony
- Initiation ceremony
"Becoming a Priestess ...
..is a journey of remembering and courage.
Remember that everything is already in you.
As I marched the path that took me into the depths of my being.
I was allowed to see, know, accept and embrace who I am.
As I walked through that inner forest, I felt my shadows, scared but willing I faced what needed to be healed and placed in the light.
It was hard to break those invisible chains that kept me small.
but I did not have to do this alone, those women who were there to held space for me believed in me.
I discovered Sisterhood.
It is good and real.
I came back through rituals, singing, dance, connection, immersed in ancient wisdom.
Initiated as a priestess.
A woman of inner knowing. At home in itself. Rooted in Mother Earth and connected to life. "
Deborah Monsieurs
The first part of the training consists of an online training of 4 lessons in which we prepare you for the live weekends.
Data: Online
1 Feb - lesson 1
March 1 - lesson 2
April 1 - lesson 3
May 1 - lesson 4
Live Retreats
4 & 5 April (Noordwijkerhout Saturday from 10-17 Sunday from 10:00 to 15:00)
9 & 10 May (Noordwijkerhout Saturday from 10-17 Sunday from 10:00 to 15:00)
July 4 & 5 (Noordwijkerhout Saturday from 13-21 Sunday from 11:00 to 15:00)
29 August 30 Noordwijkerhout Saturday from 13-21 Sunday from 11 am to 3 pm)
September 16-19 (Glastonbury UK) Wednesdays 2:00 PM to Saturday 3:00 PM)
There is a payment plan available, contact us for the possibilities
- 4 Online lessons
- 4 Retreat weekendsdays
- 4 Days initiation journey in Avalon
- Online Sisterhood
- Community Membership
€ 1888
- 4 Online lessons
- 4 Retreat weekendsdays
- 4 Days initiation journey in Avalon
- Online Sisterhood
- Community Membership
- 4 Live of Skype coaching hours
- Online support after each weekend
Excl. Transport to Noordwijkerhout & Glastonbury, lodging. In Noordwijkerhout lodging is €8,- per weekend en in Glastonbury €20,- a day. Meals are Potluck
Emelie Manawa
Emelie is a source of inspiration and creativity. She dances through life and makes everyone dance with her! Barefoot! Before you know it, she will take you, wandering across the earth on pilgrimages where you will find your inner priestess and inner worrior again. She is a professional therapist and a creative coach who will inspire you to explore yourself in your deeperst depth. During her workshops Emelie embodies femininity, sensuality and playfulness. With her transforming fire she touches you deeply and enters a heart-to-heart connection. She loves nature, passionate Hakas, laughter and singing by campfires. www.emeliemanawa.com
Margo Awanata
Margo is a mentor who is not afraid to go into the shadows with you. She enters into a deep connection with the women with whom she works and lets them feel that in the safe space that she offers they can really go into the depths where transformations can take place. She manages to take everyone to a higher level while she is firmly on the earth with both her legs. Margo is like the loving earth mother who cherishes and feeds and at the same time shakes off all false beliefs and excuses. She brings her teachings with humor and depth.
Margo is an excellent role model and empowering guide, a priestess with extensive experience in Tantra, shamanism and many other paths. She is an expert in creating a sacred space where all participants feel safe in their strength and vulnerability.
Path of the Priestess Training
Can you feel it?
In the beating of your heart, the butterflies in your belly and in the depth of your womb?
We are living in a time of change, and we women are waking up. We are ready to move away from the paved road and take our own winding path to the essence of our feminine being.
The awakening of feminine leadership from the heart.
It is our divine answer to the call that comes from the depths of ourselves and the depths of the earth.
Are you ready to meet yourself in your deepest shadow and put yourself in the clearest light?
Are you ready to be the change the world is waiting for?
This is a journey for the brave woman who is ready to look at herself at a deep level.
"Dear women ... ... who might consider following the path of the priestess, I followed the path of the priestess in 2016 and I can honestly say that it has changed my life in a very positive way!
On the one hand, it is a very personal path to deep layers in your own soul and in the motivation of life. It's about learning how to be thankful and about learning how to take charge of your own life. It is about no more nonsense, no more excuses and become your most powerful self without shame or embarrassment!
It's about believing that everything that makes you who you are is beautiful and has the right to exist. All your weaknesses, fears and deficiencies are just as welcome. as your beauty and your strength. It is about believing that these things make you who you are and are part of this wonderful unique and authentic person that you are.
Another major part of this path is the creation of this deep and empowering connection with all these beautiful women. Sisterhood! It is about breaking free from the competition that we women sometimes feel against each other. You learn to love each other without judgment and support each other in becoming the beautiful and powerful woman that we are all!
Margo and Emelie create a safe and warm environment where everything they offer is an invitation and you have the freedom to take every step in your own time. They believe that everyone must walk a unique path and that it is all about learning how to be true to yourself
I would really recommend the path of the priestess to every lady and everyone who chooses to take this path so much love and pleasure on this wonderful journey! "
Wendy Brugman, Ghent, Belgium
Hello Sister
Here is my free gift for you so you can re-charge and re-connect yourself.
We travel through 5 archetypes
Maiden, Mother, Warrior, Queen and Crone.
It is designed as a 4-week journey but you can do it in your own time.
Sending you love and wild flowers
Margo Awanata
PS: bookmark the web address of this page so you can always find the link.


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Products For Alzheimer's
We have designed the shopping experience of our store to make it easier for the dementia community to find the products they need for their patients and Loved Ones.
You can choose to shop either by Stages (Early, Middle, Late), by Category, by browsing our entire store, or by our most popular products.
BY STAGE: The products are listed in the Early, Middle and Late stages of memory loss and some of the stages overlap. A definition of each stage is given on the particular category page.
ACTIVITIES FOR DEMENTIA: We are constantly looking for new activities to keep the mind sharp, the body in motion and include verbal communication too.
BATHROOM SAFETY: The highest accident rate in a home occurs in a bathroom. If a patient is traumatized in the bathroom, it can lead to them only using it with an escort. Keeping a loved one independent longer is the best approach.
BOOKS & DVDS: Our collection of DVDs provide hours of soothing relaxation and we continue to add to our selection. We carry many popular books in different categories; from our newest offer that introduces a child to her grandfather's Alzheimer's to How To Alzheimer's Proof Your Home, which is a step-by-step guide for everything about the disease.
CLOCKS: Our collection of clocks are strictly meant for those with memory loss. They are easy to read and give the pertinent information. Reminder Rosie is a little different as its primary function is not so much as a clock you read but as one that announces the time as well as any recorded message the caregiver wants to be played at a particular time. Please see the video as it is a treat.
CLOTHING: Our clothing line and protectors are loose fitting and easy to wear.
DINING: We are the exclusive distributor of FIND products in North America. Our Safety Glassware and Dinnerware are designed and produced by FIND. They are used in most every memory facility in England. We continue to search the world and design new product to make the dining experience safe and enjoyable.
DOLL THERAPY: Our assortment of dolls are used by many of the major reminiscence facilities throughout North America. Dolls and Teddy Bears can be seen as a play thing but when used in a proper therapy manner can be just the right amount of responsibility to keep the patient occupied and happy.
FACILITIES: These are products that memory care units find the most popular for their needs. Signage can only be purchased in quantity as they are custom made and the buyer needs to email Bruce Barnet at [email protected] to place an order.
GAMES: Games are particularly useful to the caregiver to determine what stage of dementia the patient has advanced to. It is very helpful for the caregiver to have one of our Tote Bags filled with several activities (at a discounted price) when first going to a home. Many care agencies buy them and loan them out to a caregiver when they make their initial visit.
GPS SMART SOLE: This is a shoe pad with a tracking element.
INCONTINENCE PRODUCTS: There are plenty of products on the market. We feature the Tranquility brand as we have tested them all side by side and in our opinion this is the best. They do cost more but are cheaper in the long run because you use less. Once a customer tries them, they always come back for more.
MUSIC THERAPY: Beside songs for all occasions, some with sing-a-long books and DVDs, we have an old fashioned music player that is preloaded with 40 songs but you are able to add to the venue by downloading your own favorites. We continue to bring you new selections and your suggestions are greatly appreciated especially in faith based music.
MEMORY PHONES: Our selection on memory phones handles the progression of the disease. These keep your loved one safe.
PUZZLES: We have a large selection of the best puzzles and growing all the time. They are not difficult and are available for every stage.
SAFETY FOR SENIORS: These products are meant to keep our loved ones safe so we grouped them together.
TEEPA SNOW: Teepa is the foremost training specialist in the world. She should get the Academy Award for producing, writing and staring in these must have videos. If you are going to be the family caregiver, buy them and watch them repeatedly for training methods on how to handle interactive situations. Also her FREE book on our site will give you a great background to ascertain that "maybe its not Alzheimer's."
WANDERING: We have the cutting edge of products from GPS devices to fire rated door murals and from motion detectors to memory boxes. But the NUMBER ONE MUST HAVE is the EMERGENCY MEDICAL ALERT BRACELET. Please note that we offer quantity discounts to facilities.
Whichever way you choose to shop, our products will assist you, the caregiver, to manage and improve the daily life of your loved one and make their day a less stressful and rewarding one.

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You can see from the top of the hill
Tangled streets and the mystery there
Painted lanterns hang from balconies
People running everywhere
Chinatown, with all your dark mystery
Chinatown, Chinatown
Your spell is capturing me
Lovely ladies with almond eyes
Dressed in silk and laces
Twilight falls and the shadows move
Silently in secret places
Chinatown, with all your dark mystery
Chinatown, Chinatown
Your spell is capturing me
You've got me under your spell
You've got me under your spell
You've got me under your spell
You've got me under your spell
by the Doobie Brothers
The who?, you say.
Not The Who. The Doobie Brothers.
I took a short trip to San Francisco with my sister last month. It was the very first time that I went on a non-work related trip without my husband and Medha. She was crushed and still hasn't forgiven me completely. But, I have to tell you! It's a must-do! Leave the grinch behind. Walk into every store you feel like. Eat wherever you want, whenever you want. There are no endless questions: where are we going? do we have to go there? when will we get there? I need to go pee-pee really bad. None of that! We went to meet our youngest maushi and bhaoji whom we had last met over 7 years ago. We spent a day with them and then took off on sister-to-sister quality time in the heart of San Francisco.
I didn't take nearly as many pictures this year as I did last year. I wanted to see things with my own eyes instead of through the lens. And one place I wanted to experience, smell and taste was Chinatown.
We took the cable car from Market Street and hopped off at one of the Chinatown stops. We had no clue where we were, where we were headed, or what we were going to do. The first thing we noticed was that everything was written in Chinese. And then we came across this beautiful Chinese Hospital.
I spied some fresh produce in open boxes along the wall of a corner store in the building ahead.
It was very difficult to not buy any of this stuff!
Just then the delivery van arrived and Chinese people of all sizes and shapes swarmed to the store.
Everyone stopped politely and waited for me to take my picture. I tried to tell them to go about their business and buy all those fresh veggies but they were far too polite. They continued to wait. So I moved on...and came upon this store that sold dried seafood.
I recognized only a couple of the dried seafood in this inviting array. Once I started looking at it at close quarters, it wasn't all that attractive anymore. The smell? Let me just say that there were no incense sticks readily available nearby.
We wandered through the streets. Was this what China is like, I wondered! I looked for matching baby doll shoes to go with Medha's Qui Pao dress but they were either out of the color or the size. I made up for it by buying myself a simple but elegant pair of pumps.
We walked by a store that sold herbs and all kinds of exotic dried roots. Some of the roots looked like they could be an insect or a small animal. But roots they were.
There were times when I felt like I was back in India. There were "everything under the sun is sold here" stores. From sweets to shoes to clothing to toys. And they displayed their wares outside the store and hung from the doorways, just like the little shops in India.
Since my sister hadn't had dim sum before, we asked around for a good restaurant in the area. Everyone told us to go to Ray Eestuhn. We walked down this street, looking for Ray Eestuhn ...
...till someone told us exactly where it was. We would have never found it on our own.
There was a wait. We didn't mind as we had much to talk about. We had been talking non-stop since we met at Denver Airport and it didn't seem like that tide was going to ebb any time soon. Great Eastern was filled with the locals and there were very few non-Chinese in the restaurant. I was thrilled at the thought of authentic dim sum and a little apprehensive at the thought of biting into some of the dried stuff that we had seen earlier.
We figured out how to order dim sum over cups of delicious hot jasmine tea.
We had several different types of dim sum. The most interesting was fish wrapped in seaweed and deep fried. We also had sticky rice wrapped in lotus leaves. And steamed rolls. The meal cost us only about $15 and we were quite full!
I wanted to explore Chinatown some more but Lombard Street and Fisherman's Wharf beckoned. Maybe next time.
Chinatown, with all your dark mystery
Chinatown, Chinatown
Your spell has captured me


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We are devoting this entire hour to sharing information about the new COVID-19 vaccines. And now we want to focus on why these vaccines are evidently being perceived so differently by different groups. According to the Pew Research Center, for example, only 43% of African Americans said they would get a vaccine if it were available to them. That's the lowest of any racial group they surveyed. And public health officials are aware of this. In cities across the country, Black health professionals were among the first to get vaccinated, in some cases publicly, at events open to the press.
We wanted to talk more about the roots of the skepticism and ways to address it, so we've called the award-winning writer and ethicist Harriet Washington, who's written extensively about these issues, including in her book "Medical Apartheid." And when we spoke, she said to understand the skepticism, you have to focus on more than just what Black people do.
HARRIET WASHINGTON: If you only focus on African American behavior, it sounds like a pathological response by African Americans, when in reality, we've got a health care system that needs to be interrogated as well. We have to look at these two phenomena together in tandem rather than just one group's behavior. But certainly, there's a rich historical basis for the reticence shown by many African Americans. And that - when I say history, I'm referring to last week's history as well as what happened four centuries ago. We've got four centuries of abuse in the medical arena. And we also have - in context with the COVID vaccine determination, we also have very recent history.
It was only in April that two French doctors caused a furor when they suggested that ethically troubled research be conducted in African venues where people don't have access to health care and were more likely to grasp at the straws of medical research. They talked about experimenting on African prostitutes. And there was a lot of pearl-clutching and outrage, as it should have been, in response to that, but it's nothing that I haven't been reading consistently in medical journals over the past decade. It's something that's periodically raised, that the developing world is the proper site for ethically troubled research. And this, of course, was publicized in this country, sometimes to publications that were more likely to be read by African Americans, like the Final Call, Muslim population.
So African Americans are aware of this. As I point out in "Medical Apartheid," there was no sphere of American medicine in which African Americans were not - did not have their bodies appropriated or their body tissues appropriated or were forced into research, research that was often quite crude and harmful. And the failure of the history of medicine canon to acknowledge this has only made the situation worse.
MARTIN: Well, let's talk about some of the efforts being made to encourage people to take the vaccine. I mean, Dr. Anthony Fauci, who's the country's most prominent infectious disease expert, has appealed to a civil rights group, and he's spoken publicly and made a point of speaking publicly about how a Black scientist helped to develop the vaccine. Is there something - are these good steps? And are there - is there something more that you think public health officials should be doing?
WASHINGTON: I think this is a good thing to do because I think this vaccine looks as if it's going to be safe, efficacious - just what we need. So anything that's done in terms of encouraging African Americans to benefit from it, too, I think is a good step. However, it's not a substitute for reforming the health care system. If we don't reform the system, if we don't make real, large steps toward addressing the inequities that cultivate distrust, then we're going to have to do this every time we have a new health initiative. That's a complete waste.
One of the things I point out in "Medical Apartheid" is the history of medicine is carefully curated to elide most mention of African Americans. We have to be written out of the history. If we hadn't been, people might be better aware that we owe our knowledge of vaccines to a African. An African slave named Onesimus owned by Cotton Mather was the first person in this country to teach doctors how to do a variolation - early vaccinations. It was commonly done in Africa and commonly done in China, and he taught people in this country how to do the vaccinations.
But, you know, I think if people had a better appreciation that not only do we know about smallpox variolation because of an African, it was an African American, Dr. Louis T. Wright, who, during World War II, revolutionized smallpox treatment. So we actually have the treatment of this serious disease, the vaccinations - they are due to the work of African Americans. We have a long history of African Americans doing research and developing drugs but then being written out of history. So I think it's a very good move to let people know that an African American was key to development and - but also let them know that this has historically been the case. This might change the mentality of many African Americans who view medical research as a white province and find that one other reason not to trust it.
MARTIN: How do you reconcile the fact that many people have distrust of this vaccine with the fact that a number of the communities that have the distrust are also the same people who are hardest hit?
WASHINGTON: Well, the distrust stems, again, from the fact that the health care system is flawed, deeply flawed, and treats African Americans differently. Many report - and I'm not sure there are good data on this yet - but many reported that their symptoms weren't taken seriously. They were sent home, although ill. And so we know that this is certainly the case with many other important illnesses in African Americans. Their reports of pain and symptoms tend to be discounted more often than are whites'. So their access to health care is severely limited by these factors.
And these are the things that should have been, you know, major targets for us in terms of intervening. And I don't see that they were. So I think that - since unfortunately, I don't expect this will be the last infectious disease outbreak we have in this country, I think it's really important to begin addressing these factors now. And so the same factors that create vulnerability have not changed. And until they do change, until our health care system does a better job of protecting people, we're going to keep seeing these ethnic patterns of disease that affect people of color, marginalized ethnic groups, much more heavily than whites.
MARTIN: Harriet Washington is an award-winning science writer and medical ethicist. She's the author of "Medical Apartheid: The Dark History Of Medical Experimentation On Black Americans From Colonial Times To The Present." And she has a forthcoming book on informed consent. Harriet Washington, thanks so much for talking to us.
WASHINGTON: Thank you so much for having me. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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Police surprise boy who bought them lunch with mini police cruiser
WINSLOW TWP, PD (WTXF) - A few weeks back, we introduced you to a five-year-old boy who wanted to do something special for police. Now, we're sharing the story of the department returning the favor.
William Evertz Jr. wanted to do something special for his heroes at the Winslow Township Police Department, so he did his chores and started saving up his allowance.
MORE: Boy saves allowance for seven months to buy lunch for police
Seven months later, he had enough money to buy Subway sandwiches for the entire department.
His efforts went viral, and the officers made him a honorary officer for the day, and gave him a ride in a cruiser with the lights and sirens turned on.
Tuesday morning, Police decided to return the favor, gifting William his very own, mini police cruiser!


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Admirably stating the obvious for the benefit of faculty who, in New Haven as in Cambridge, apparently can't be counted on to figure it out for themselves,
[Dean of Yale College Mary] Miller and Graduate School Dean Thomas Pollard urged professors who use take-home final examinations to consider switching to an in-class examination. Though the University has traditionally discouraged take-home exams, Miller said, she wanted to re-emphasize other options in light of the recent events at Harvard. In-class examinations enable students to better balance their finals schedule and maintain a healthier lifestyle during the exam period because on take-home finals, students often take more time than the three hours budgeted for in-class examinations, she said.I wonder: Is there less a sense at Yale than there is at Harvard that professors shall not be told how best to run their courses? The only advice Harvard has given its faculty is to be clear about our collaboration policies, and to meet with our departmental colleagues "to share best practices on how we can each foster a culture of honesty and integrity in our classes and learning assessments," as Dean Smith put it in his late-August email to faculty.
As I have said since the beginning, the "cheating scandal" seems to me less an issue of student culture than one of faculty behavior. For some reason, they seem less afraid to talk about that in New Haven.


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Love and Pain, by Thaddeus Golas
A book of POWERFUL ANSWERS, which, not so long ago, seemed well out of our reach.
Love and Pain, by Thaddeus Golas, ©2008, Seed Center Books/Even Lazier Publishing Ltd.
Author Thaddeus Golas, known for his classic manual on human consciousness, The Lazy Man's Guide to Enlightenment (Seed Center, 1972) returns to publication 40 years after he delivered the simplest and most effective spiritual handbook ever written.
"I thought Love and Pain might short-stop the blind submission to charismatic leaders by people who took good feelings as evidence of spirituality." ~ Thaddeus Golas
Love and Pain
The Collected Works of Thaddeus Golas Vol. 3
By author: Thaddeus Golas
Product Code: ccb-003
Size: 5″" X 7.6″" Inches – 176 pages.
Availability: Book in print/available
"What are we doing on a level of consciousness where this is real? Can we finally glean reliable ideas from our available knowledge? Will consciousness make us rich, famous, or help us in any way manipulate this world of matter? Should we beat ourself up for failing to get the physical world to bend to our thoughts and prayers? What are the rules of this reality, and why do so many of us entertain the fantasy that Spirituality can help us evade them? Is it all too big for us to know? Who decides?"
Incredibly, Thaddeus Golas answers the riddles – and these answers can blow the roof off your head, if you can let go. And now, he has left the ball in our camp: What will we do with this knowledge? Could we stand to live in a world where everyone can know and use this information, and if so, would there even be a world of matter left for our spirit to wrestle with?
"I am a destroyer of ideas," says author Thaddeus Golas, "and whatever I could not destroy is in Love and Pain."
Love and Pain is a "reality-check" and an eye opener for anyone interested in how the world around us functions. You may wish someone had explained all this to you long ago, and you may well have lived a different life had it been the case, but when you read Love and Pain, you may be awed such a book even exists at all.
Thaddeus Golas and the road to Love and Pain ( 1975 to 1988 )
In 1975, a mere three years after The Lazy Man's Guide to Enlightenment was first published, Thaddeus Golas sat in his small Grace avenue apartment in Hollywood, and wrote to a friend that, while his third marriage was coming apart, thousands of people were discovering his philosophy for the first time, gently "getting off" on it.
DeRay Norton, his publisher, regularly forwarded heaps of fan mail to him from Palo Alto, then home of the Seed Center.
Thaddeus lamented over the irony that readers believed they were writing an
enlightened guru, asking him for advice, when he was in fact gutted and distressed over his ineluctable and impending divorce; he was indeed wrestling with many new demons all his own.
Love and Pain was born out of that struggle to understand why he had failed to dwell in constant bliss, despite all his own good wisdom.
This feeling was later echoed en masse by many of his contemporaries when the
zeitgeist of the '60s gave way to a sobering social reality in the 1980s and '90s.
Many felt the hangover coming on, and it became increasingly clear that if a sense
of cultural bliss had required the collective agreement of a generation during prior decades, so might it be, to some extent, with the ensuing crash.
Thaddeus Golas felt like his efforts at working out concepts that had been hastily glossed over in The Lazy Man's Guide to Enlightenment were leading him down
pathways that required some acquaintance with a certain new-found sense of gloom. He nearly gave up writing about it altogether, lazy as he was…
But then, he felt that we are ultimately little more than the footprints we leave behind. He wanted a clean testament, and mostly, he wanted to make sure he was
properly understood. Or as he mentioned somewhere or other, "if I do not write this down, it dies with me."
He felt that he owed it to his readers to continue his exploration all the way to the only possible place The Lazy Man's Guide to Enlightenment was leading him.
It took him many years to sort it out. And for his readers, it may take an equal amount of years to process. Love and Pain is just that: a process.
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Love and Pain: A Postgraduate Course in DIY Metaphysics by Jason Stoneking, August 13, 2011
Like many people, when I first read The Lazy Man's Guide to Enlightenment (the now famous precursor to Love and Pain), my mind was opened to a whole new set of possibilities. But my hunger wasn't satisfied by this book alone. In some ways, it provided me with more questions than answers. I wanted to know the details of Expansion and Contraction. I wanted to see the blueprints for how Golas's view of the universe played out in every one of my daily pursuits. I wanted the full explanation for the practical application of the knowledge. And that's what I got when I opened Love and Pain.
Love and Pain is the next level, the class for the teachers. As the title suggests, it is with both tender compassion and merciless unsentimentality that Golas here elucidates the nature of our shared reality. He offers a completely unifying theory of atomic relationships that is equally applicable to everything from molecular biology to space travel, and also serves as a working overlay for our relationships to art, religion, philosophy and each other. Golas has succeeded in fully bridging the gap between the physical sciences and the various incarnations of spirituality. None of these things need be separated. None of the things that we think, feel, see or experience are mutually exclusive. And Golas deftly illustrates the way in which all these things make sense together. He gives us the information that has the power to pull down all the walls between selves and others, truths and lies, physics and metaphysics.
The only thing he can't do is decide for you whether or not you're ready to have those walls torn down. He doesn't presume to diagnose your level of preparedness for seeing the universe as what it really is. He doesn't provide a replacement lifeplan for those who rely heavily on mythology for a behavioral structure. But what he does do is arm us with a functional model of existence, a down to earth, easy to read, practical understanding of what it means 'to be'. And nothing he says contradicts any scientific or empirical data that we have accumulated as a species. Au contraire, he unites them with the subtle beauty that one recognizes in a mathematical formula when it is proved true.
If you really, deeply, want to know what's going on and how it affects you, if you really are ready to let go of all the partial answers we think we have, then this is your chance. Love and Pain is the book in which Thaddeus Golas finally turns all the lights on. But it's up to you whether or not you're going to like what you see.
Author Thaddeus Golas on Love and Pain:
There are great advantages in the information in this book: knowing how our reality works, we can avoid wasting emotions, time and effort in pursuit of false goals. Personally, I found great relief in realizing that I was not obliged to correct anyone's erroneous opinions, since ideas do not do anything. Also, I could stop criticizing myself for failing to dwell in constant bliss. When I encounter pain, it does not mean that I have necessarily been stupid: pain is inevitable in human life, whichever path we take. Neither am I obliged to rescue others from their pain: they will gain greater strength in enduring it and solving their own difficulties. I try to be kind to strong people because they have endured much to become strong. That which offends the sentimental in the short run is often the greatest kindness over a longer time.
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The Cebuana Lhuillier Search for the Happiest Pinoy is now down to 20 finalists and one of them will take home P1 million in cash prizes. The latest edition of the competition garnered close to 800,000 applications from various localities nationwide, making it the biggest in the Search's ten-year history.
From the 20 finalists, 10 category winners will be named, representing the youth, senior citizens, overseas Filipino workers, lingkod bayan, professionals, manggagawang Pinoy, entrepreneurs, employees, persons with disabilities, and lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer community. They will each receive P50,000 in cash prizes.
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The bi-annual Search for the Happiest Pinoy is an advocacy program of Cebuana Lhuillier, the country's largest microfinancial services company. The vision behind the search is to celebrate the Filipino values of resilience, hope and tenacity.
"Filipinos are one of the most resilient people in the world, facing life's challenges with optimism, faith and a can-do attitude. At Cebuana Lhuillier, we believe that this should be recognized and encouraged at all times," said Jean Henri Lhuillier, Cebuana Lhuillier president & CEO.
"It is only fitting that we reach the final stages of the search this month – to coincide with the International Day of Happiness on March 20, as declared by the United Nations to recognize happiness as a "fundamental human goal." Similarly, we at Cebuana Lhuillier believe that an inclusive and well-balanced approach to economic growth is a means to promote the happiness and well-being of every person," Lhuillier adds.
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Delusions are a symptom of some mental disorder, such as schizophrenia, delusional disorder, schizoaffective disorder, and schizophreniform disorder. Hallucinations, on the other hand, tend to only appear in people with schizophrenia or a psychotic disorder.
Delusions are false or erroneous beliefs that usually involve a misinterpretation of perceptions or experiences. Their content may include a variety of themes (e.g., persecutory, referential, somatic, religious, or grandiose).
Persecutory delusions are most common; the person believes he or she is being tormented, followed, tricked, spied on, or ridiculed. Referential delusions are also common; the person believes that certain gestures, comments, passages from books, newspapers, song lyrics, or other environmental cues are specifically directed at him or her.
The distinction between a delusion and a strongly held idea is sometimes difficult to make and depends in part on the degree of conviction with which the belief is held despite clear contradictory evidence regarding its veracity.
Although bizarre delusions are considered to be especially characteristic of schizophrenia, "bizarreness" may be difficult to judge, especially across different cultures. Delusions are deemed bizarre if they are clearly implausible and not understandable and do not derive from ordinary life experiences. An example of a bizarre delusion is a person's belief that a stranger has removed his or her internal organs and has replaced them with someone else's organs without leaving any wounds or scars. Delusions that express a loss of control over mind or body are generally considered to be bizarre; these include a person's belief that his or her thoughts have been taken away by some outside force ("thought withdrawal"), that alien thoughts have been put into his or her mind ("thought insertion"), or that his or her body or actions are being acted on or manipulated by some outside force ("delusions of control").
An example of a nonbizarre delusion is a person's false belief that he or she is under surveillance by the police.
Hallucinations may occur in any sensory modality (e.g., auditory, visual, olfactory, gustatory, and tactile), but auditory hallucinations are by far the most common. Auditory hallucinations are usually experienced as voices, whether familiar or unfamiliar, that are perceived as distinct from the person's own thoughts.
The hallucinations must occur in the context of a clear sensorium; those that occur while falling asleep (hypnagogic) or waking up (hypnopompic) are considered to be within the range of normal experience.
Isolated experiences of hearing one's name called or experiences that lack the quality of an external percept (e.g., a humming in one's head) should also not be considered as symptomatic of Schizophrenia or any other Psychotic Disorder.
Hallucinations may be a normal part of religious experience in certain cultural contexts. Certain types of auditory hallucinations (i.e., two or more voices conversing with one another or voices maintaining a running commentary on the person's thoughts or behavior) have been considered to be particularly characteristic of Schizophrenia.
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For the past three weeks, I've been in the UK. It feels like longer than that, with long sunny days spent on the beach with friends, magnificent hikes along the cliff path near my home and cosy nights in my little wooden chalet. When Summer finally arrives here, there's no better place in the world to be.
I arrived in Britain from Spain, passing through the passport control as a citizen of the European Union. I'll travel back that way too, but for how much longer? Throughout these three weeks, whilst I've been swimming in the calm blue seas of Wales and listening to the chatter of morning birdsong, the rumble of something sinister has been a constant background noise. Whether it's from newspapers, radio, or just listening to conversations, it's been hard to avoid the mutterings of Brexit talk. Brexit. What a simplistic, inane word to describe such an important decision. It sounds like a new chocolate bar or a sugary breakfast cereal. The chatter is just as inane, as major political figures try to scaremonger the public into voting this way or that, based on arguments that are about as substantial as the candy floss in the beachfront kiosk. I've seen two other recent referendums in recent years – one to decide whether Britain should switch to proportional representation and one to vote whether Scotland should stay part of the UK. Both failed to budge a recalcitrant public out of their comfort zone. We humans, especially Brits, generally like things to stay the same. The trouble with Brexit is that the argument to leave the EU is like an offer to return to some hazy, nostalgic past that even its proponents can't be sure ever existed.
When I was growing up, one of the popular slogans was "Nuclear Power? No Thanks". It was such a polite way to decline a technology that threatened to hover its toxic future over our country for generations. So British! Today, as an activists blockade of a nuclear bomb factory turns into a new peace camp, we're reminded that these threats don't go away just because we ask them too. Those in charge will keep pushing for what they want and it's our job, as busy, preoccupied, struggling-just-to-survive citizens, to try to keep one eye on what they're doing so we can still try and head them off at the pass. Whilst the lies and deceit peddled from Westminster and via the national papers is not hard to see through, it takes some time to arrive at some clarity as to what the story really is. It's a constant sleight of hand, where the left hand is dealing arms whilst the right hand is waving poppies, or beating a war drum, or pointing a finger at somebody else to distract us. "Look over here!" they scream, and we do, whilst deals are made to dismantle the National Health Service, privatise the woodlands, or sell all remaining national industry to China.
Which is why we need to treasure the few progressive voices in the political area. The ones that challenge the dominant messages defending hatred and war and speak instead of tolerance, compassion and a more egalitarian society. The ones that help us navigate our way through the minefield of shameless politicking and speak from the heart. I was living in Australia when I heard Mhairi Black's maiden speech in July 2015. I was moved to tears to think that finally, finally, someone was speaking with a reasonable tone about things that mattered. As I hit 'replay' to listen again, it crossed my mind that her courage may not be allowed to stand. That her passion may yet be her downfall and that maybe, just maybe, some one would find a way to silence her.
How was I to know just how close that fleeting thought would fly to the truth? The murder of Jo Cox, just a week before the EU referendum, is almost certainly the outcome of her brave stance against racism, her support for Syrian refugees and her campaigning for Britain to remain in the EU. In basing their arguments on immigration and trade, the Brexit campaigners have missed a vital purpose of the EU. Following the horrors of World War Two, it was thought that bringing countries together as trading partners would foster trust and help prevent future wars. It turns out they were right. In 2012, the EU was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for its role in promoting reconciliation, democracy and human rights. Since the EU was established, there have been no wars between European member nations. Yes, that's right. No wars. Throughout a region that has historically been in almost constant conflict, there have been no inter-national wars. That's seventy years of peace and counting and to me, that's worth a lot of trade, whether in Euros, Pounds or Drachma. In those seventy years, a lot of tomatoes, cheese and wine has flowed between us, but only because we have been at peace.
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- Solid experience administering IP network delivery services for voice, video and other types of application data.
- Ability to discuss network component capabilities and perform advanced integration with multiple 3rd party products and services.
- Experience with telecom/data carrier provisioning, billing, and troubleshooting procedures.
- Use current best practices around IT standards, principles, and security.
- Knowledge of core networking concepts including switching, routing, and wireless technologies.
- Knowledge of network principles, design, security and implementation.
- Knowledge of network security, firewalls, IDS/IPS systems, wireless Access Points.
- Knowledge of MPLS, QoS, VPN IPSec and SSL technologies.
- Knowledge of TCP/IP, EIGRP, BGP, HSRP and VRRP.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving ability.
- Respond effectively and in a timely manner to sensitive inquiries and complaints.
- Individual accountability and contributions within a team-based environment.
- Use metrics and established KPI's to identify common problems.
- Perform root cause analysis to pinpoint deficiencies in design, engineering or implementation.
- Maintain company standards and ensure they are adhered to.
- Work proactively and cooperatively to increase capabilities of the IT Operations team.
- Ability to take initiative and move projects forward with limited direction.
- Detail-oriented with the ability to work at a swift pace with minimal supervision.
- Strong time management skills with the ability to manage multiple projects and timelines.
- Strong interpersonal skills and ease in building/establishing rapport with people and teams at all levels of the organization.
- Professional demeanor, goal-oriented, self-motivated, creative, flexible and adaptable to new situations.
- Passion for learning, trying new things, understanding what works and quickly adjusting for what doesn't.
Cisco Switches, Routers and Firewalls
LAN, WAN and WLAN
Multivendor VoIP Troubleshooting
Meraki Cloud Networking
This role is based in our corporate office located in Dallas, Texas; standard weekday hours as well as on-call after-hours rotation.
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The long-anticipated book "Godless: The Church of Liberalism" was finally released this week. If The New York Times reviews it at all, they'll only talk about the Ann Coulter action-figure doll, so I think I'll write my own review.
"Godless" begins with a murder at the Louvre and then takes readers on a roller-coaster ride through the Church of Liberalism in a desperate game of cat and mouse in which the hunter becomes the hunted — with a twist at the end you simply won't believe! It's a real page-turner — even the book-on-tape version and large-print edition! Who knew a book about politics could make such an ideal gift — especially with Father's Day just two weeks away!
The main problem with "Godless" is that I had to walk through the valley of darkness to find it. You will have to push past surly bookstore clerks, proceed past the weird people in the "self-help" section, and finally past the stacks and stacks of Hillary Clinton's memoirs. If all else fails, ask for the "hate speech" section of your local bookstore. Ironically, if you find "Godless" without asking for assistance, it's considered a minor miracle.
This is not a book about liberals. I stress this in anticipation of Alan Colmes hectoring the author to name names. (For people who resented being asked to "name names" during the 1950s, these liberals sure aren't shy about demanding that conservatives do the same today.)
It is a book about liberalism, our official state religion. Liberalism is a doctrine with a specific set of tenets that can be discussed, just like other religions.
The Christian religion, for example, frowns on lying and premarital sex. That is simply a fact about Christianity. This does not mean no Christian has ever lied or had premarital sex. Indeed, some Christians have committed murder, adultery, thievery, gluttony. That does not mean there's no such thing as Christianity any more than videotape of Rep. William Jefferson accepting cash bribes means there's no such thing as congressional ethics rules.
Similarly, the liberal religion supports abortion, but that doesn't mean every single liberal has had an abortion. We can rejoice that liberals do not always practice their religion.
"Godless" examines a set of beliefs known as "liberalism." It is the doctrine that prompts otherwise seemingly sane people to propose teaching children how to masturbate, allowing gays to marry, releasing murderers from prison, and teaching children that they share a common ancestor with the earthworm. (They haven't yet found the common ancestor … but like O.J., the search continues.)
The demand that their religion be discussed only with reference to specific individuals — who is godless? are you saying I'm godless? — is simply an attempt to prevent us from talking about their religion. This tactic didn't work with "Slander" or "Treason," and it's not going to work now.
It's not just that liberals ban Reform rabbis from saying brief prayers at high school graduations and swoop down on courthouses and town squares across America to cart off Ten Commandments monuments. The liberal hostility to God-based religions has already been copiously documented by many others. "Godless" goes far beyond this well-established liberal hostility to real religions.
The thesis of "Godless" is: Liberalism IS a religion. The liberal religion has its own cosmology, its own explanation for why we are here, its own gods, its own clergy. The basic tenet of liberalism is that nature is god and men are monkeys. (Except not as pure-hearted as actual monkeys, who don't pollute, make nukes or believe in God.)
Liberals deny, of course, that liberalism is a religion — otherwise, they'd lose their government funding. "Separation of church and state" means separation of YOUR church from the state, but total unity between their church and the state.
Two months ago, the 9th Circuit held that a school can prohibit a student from exercising his First Amendment rights by wearing a T-shirt that said "Homosexuality Is Shameful."
Even the left's pretend-adoration of "free speech" (meaning: treason and pornography) must give way to speech that is contrary to the tenets of the church of liberalism on the sacred grounds of a government school.
Meanwhile, the courts have slapped "Creationism Is Shameful" stickers on a school in Dover, Pa., where — thanks to a lawsuit by the ACLU — the liberal clergy have declared Darwinism the only true church, immunized from argument. Ye shall put no other God before it. Not one.
Liberals believe in Darwinism as a matter of faith, despite the fact that, at this point, the only thing that can be said for certain about Darwinism is that it would take less time for (1) a single-celled organism to evolve into a human being through mutation and natural selection than for (2) Darwinists to admit they have no proof of (1).
If only Darwinism were true, someday we might evolve public schools with the ability to entertain opposable ideas about the creation of man.
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Butler's purpose is to ease all those routine tasks you do every day: controlling iTunes, opening programs and documents, switching users, searching for stuff on the web, and more.
Butler lets you arrange your tasks in its fully customizable configuration. There, you can assign one or more triggers to a given task:
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By Katharine Dyson
Courtesy of TravelGolf.com
Driving into the entrance of the Hammock Beach Resort, you are impressed by its size. The castle-like main building with its towers and red roofs, villas and lodge stretch out along the coast against a backdrop of the Atlantic Ocean. One of Salamander's Grand Golf Resorts of Florida, Hammock Beach has just about all the vacation toys you can think of to please golfers and non-golfers alike.
Like its sister properties Reunion Resort in Orlando and Innisbrook Resort near Tampa, Hammock Beach does not allow tipping. As soon as you drive up to the front entrance, a bellman greets you by name (already phoned in from the gate) and takes care of your luggage and your car and clubs. If you try to tip, it will be refused.
Yet whether you are ordering a slider, champagne or getting a spa treatment, you won't find a more accommodating staff from the bellman to the massage therapist. That is something the Salamander group works hard to accomplish at all its Grand Resorts.
Golf at Hammock Beach Resort
Hammock Beach has two exceptional golf courses, the Ocean Course, a Jack Nicklaus Signature Design with six holes revealing views of the Atlantic, and the Conservatory Course, a nature-rich beauty designed by Tom Watson located about eight miles from the resort. Both are open to members and guests of Hammock Beach exclusively.
Each course offers a distinctly different golf experience. The Conservatory's handsome $34 million clubhouse overlooks a links-style landscape of dunes, wetlands, marshes and a huge number of bunkers, while The Ocean Course winds through residential neighborhoods and trees and features Nicklaus' four-hole "Bear Claw" finish.
As good as the golf is, many come without their clubs. There is just so much to do for everyone. "We see a lot of golfers spring and fall, while in the summer, 80 percent of our guests are families," said Jason Kern, sales director at Hammock Beach Resort.
Hammock Beach Resort is loaded with options
With a distinctly European feel, the lobby is comfortable with wood columns, coffered ceilings, deep cushy chairs and sofas of rich fabric and leather, floral carpets, fireplace and art work. At one end of the lounge the Coffee Bar is a popular gathering place, while Loggerheads Lounge is the place to be for drinks and entertainment or for a fine smoke head to the Crown Jewel Cigar Bar.
For fine dining or that special dinner, book a table at Delfinos, where you eat by candlelight, or go more casual at the Atlantic Grille in the lodge overlooking the ocean.
All accommodations are beautifully furnished condos in the main hotel, villas and lodge, where 20 suites are popular choices for corporate retreats. Traditional decor features a variety of jewel-toned fabrics, upholstered chairs and sofas and wood accents including beams and desks. Suites also have kitchens or wet bars and balconies, many with ocean views. Configurations range from studios to the penthouse with several three-bedroom, three-bath apartments. Couples or golfing groups often request villas with two bedrooms and two baths.
Kids and "big kids" will log plenty of splash time in and around the 91,000-square-foot, multi-level water park with its giant water slide and lazy river. If the youthful fun gets a bit much for older folks, there is another pool just for grownups as well as a casual bar and restaurant on the top deck.
Pathways from the main resort complex allow easy access to the beach. In warm weather, Hammock Beach chaises dot the sand. And there's also tennis and cruises on the resort's Sundancer.
After golf (or just because you want to be pampered), you'll find the spa a great place to unwind. The spa menu includes treatments for men like a Gentleman's Facial as well as the Golfers-Sage treatment combining massage strokes with stretches. The Hammock Massage is a favorite with a mix of Lomi Lomi, Swedish, hot stone and aromatherapy.
You may never want to leave your perch at the pool or beach, but there is more to see outside Hammock Beach like the Spanish Colonial city of St. Augustine (founded in 1585), Marineland, with its Dolphin Encounter, and wind-swept Flagler Beach, home to fun and funky restaurants like the Golden Lion.
Because Hammock Beach is located on Florida's northeast coast, its high season is spring, summer and fall. In the winter, it is a few degrees cooler than Florida cities to the south and sunning on the beach may be a bit chilly. Still for golfers, the weather is pretty much perfect much of the time.


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"I'm not interested in money; I'm not interested in finance," Taleb says. "I'm comfortable enough as it is. I don't need it. Finance should be a footnote in my bio, not a central component. Why should I waste time in finance when my influence as an intellectual is so high?"
I hope someday he gets stuck in an elevator with Tom Friedman, and then after a couple hours one might realize that if there exist at least one bloviating best-seller, perhaps there exist more than one.
Elsewhere in the article someone notes that Universa's clients lost about 4 percent in both 2009 and 2010. I'm skeptical that represents his average investor loss, as opposed to some cherry-picked account, and I'll write a check for $1000 to a charity of Taleb/Spitznagel's choice if that's true (just send the audited consolidated returns for Universa). Allowing random people to spout data like that allows funds to intimate performance without taking responsibility for such statements, highlighting another regulation that is worse than nothing (by law hedge funds aren't allowed to mention their record in general media, but if you say something and they don't comment, who's to say?).


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Arket Black Friday UK 2021: is the brand taking part in Black Friday, and what discounts are available?
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The brand has launched some discounts, and you can get up to 50% off items in every department.
Is Arket taking part in Black Friday 2021?
Arket have not officially said they are taking part in Black Friday sales 2021, however, they have been offering 50% off items site-wide for a few days and are also giving customers free delivery on all orders for a limited period.
The brand decided not to take part in the annual discount sales event last year, but they did take part in the 2019 event.
Then, they did their sale a little differently and instead of offering blanket discount deals across all products, they instead chose to cut the prices on items of certain colours on different days.
What is Black Friday?
Black Friday is an annual sales event which always takes place on the last Friday in November - and so this year it is on November 26.
It began in America, but was first launched here in the UK over ten years ago. Every year, the sales get bigger and last for longer.
Some retailers launch their sales earlier in November, although some brands like Arket still wait until the dedicated day to launch their discounts both in stores and online.
Black Friday is followed by Cyber Monday which always takes place on the last Monday in November. As the name suggests, this is a day that is dedicated to online-only sales. This year it is on November 29.
Will Arket take part in Cyber Monday 2021?
Arket is yet to confirm whether or not they will take part in Cyber Monday this year, although it's likely that they will keep their deals running over both days.
It is rare for retailers to opt out of Cyber Monday if they have taken part in Black Friday - and many keep their deals running for the full days and the weekend in between.
So, we can hopefully look forward to four days of great discounts.
What items are for sale on Arket right now?
Below is our round-up of some of the best products for sale on the Arket website right now.
On top of these great deals, you can also get free shipping on all items until December 16.
What else can I buy this Black Friday?
For all the best deals across a range of products and brands, be sure to check out our dedicated Black Friday page as well as our Black Friday live blog, which will be updated regularly throughout the day.
Knitted in a figure hugging cable rib, thist top is made from blend of cotton bouclé and polyamide.
It's styled in a scoop-neck style with puff sleeves, detailed with scallop edges.
It's a classic look that will never go out of fashion so it will keep you cosy winter after winter.
Was £55, now £28.
This is definitely a statement coat. It's apt that it's named a quilted coat as wearing it will feel like being wrapped in the cosiest and warmest of duvets.
The durable outer material is made from recycled polyester, so it's an economical choice too. It is both water repellent, wind proof and insulating, but is still lightweight.
Featuring a diamond-quilted pattern all over, the coat is styled with a hidden double-breasted buttoning and a matching belt at the waist for a clean-cut finish.
Was £150, now £75.
Crafted from leather and are designed with a pull-strap at the back and elasticated panels on the sides, these stylish boots are easy and comfortable to put on and pull off.
The durable and thick sole ensures a good grip in variable weather conditions too so you can be ready for the rain, snow and ice.
Twill-woven lyocell gives an elegant drape to this beautiful everyday shirt.
It features a button-up front and cuffs, a single chest pocket, and a box pleat at the back for a slightly more relaxed fit.
Lyocell is a biodegradable fibre produced with pulp from sustainably planted eucalyptus and other fast-growing types of wood.
Fabrics made with pure lyocell fibres have a smooth, silky feel and a cotton-like appearance so it will feel lovely and cosy and look smart.
Was £69, now £35.
This tote bag provides both a stylish and spacious luggage solution.
It's part of the brand's series of unisex weekend luggage and travel accessories.
It has been designed to optimise the maximum permitted carry-on size on international aircrafts , because we can all hope for going on holiday again soon.
The tote is made from a durable and water-repellent nylon shell fabric and trimmed with tonal straps.
The measurements of the inner and outer compartments are customised to fit lots of items people typically travel with, such as computer, tablet, charger, passport and a paperback book.
So you can have easy access and organisation for all of your goods, wherever you are going.
Was £55, now £28.
This stretchy dress features a glittery surface, so it can take your little one all through the day and in to any Christmas parties you may be attending as a family.
Made from organic cotton blend, it's cut to a comfortable long-sleeve style with a cut-and-sewn at waist and frill details so she'll look super cute.
Match with leggings and a cardigan for the ultimate autumn/winter outfit.
Was £25, now £13.
Speaking of leggings, these fantastic leopard print ones are a wonderful option for little ones.
Cut from a single jersey fabric in organic cotton, they have an all-over print and adjustable elastics at waist.
Now half price too. Bargain.
Other colours and prints are available.
Was £12, now £6.
Did someone say super cute, because these sweet dungarees are just that.
Dungarees don't have to be just for summer, pair with a thick winter knit and some sturdy boots and they're ready for adventures whatever the weather.
Crafted from a jersey fabric made of organic cotton, they are soft and comfortable and will be gentle against their skin.
A practical over-all-style featuring a pattern of yarn-dyed stripes. Snap button closure at front and two patch pockets at the back.
Was £12, now £6.
Bring some colour and fun in to your home with this beautiful cushion.
Featuring a colourful floral design, this embroidered cushion is made from a cotton weave. Brighten up your sofa or bed in moments, and bring some summer sun in to any room - no matter what the weather is doing outside.
Inner cushion with polyester filling is included.
Was £25, now £13.