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- Feels better. When you pull your muscles into a smile, your face sends feedback to the brain that modifies how your brain processes emotional content. The end result: You feel better when you smile. Some research suggests that smiling even feels better to your brain than eating chocolate (you may wish to test this out at home).
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- Can hide what she's thinking: A benign smile is a great safe mask to wear, particularly when you're speaking in a tough negotiation. What is she thinking? they'll wonder. Make like the Mona Lisa to keep your face from belying your feelings, whether you're angry, nervous or feeling not-so-confident. Smiling's the best fake-it-until-you-make-it trick I know.
- Is more engaging and impressive to watch: How the audience perceives you is a big part of public speaking success. Some studies show a beneficial boost in perception of the speaker who smiles--specifically, smiling makes you look courteous, likeable and competent.
- Will look better in pictures or on video: If you've ever winced when you saw video or photos of yourself speaking because you looked grim or angry, confused or sad, just smile. It's especially good to keep a smile going when you're listening (say, during the Q&A portion of your talk). Make it your default "at rest" expression.
- Will get more positive feedback from the audience, because research shows "it's difficult for us to frown when looking at someone who's smiling." Smiling is "evolutionarily contagious," Gutman says.
- Feels less stressed while speaking: Smiling lowers your blood pressure, increases the mood-boosting hormone endorphin (think runner's high), and reduces the hormones that enhance your stress, like cortisol, adrenaline and dopamine. I coach speakers to start smiling 10 minutes before their talks for just this reason.
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It always arrives, anew. It unfolds like petals. After March 2014 I thought it might be gone for good. But it's here again.
It's the glimpse at the night stars and the feeling that maybe there's a thread from this world to infinity, to fate, to something bigger. To magic. To a preordained happy ending. It's the sense that maybe everything you thought, you feared, could be wrong. It lets you daydream, even if it's just a little toe dip in it. Dickinson called it "the thing with feathers." Hope.
It helps that we're doing this in summer, when life is all around again, all joy and forward motion and yes.
Our surrogate (hopefully) and her husband arrive this weekend, and the process of getting to our last try begins for real. I thought I would be more anxious than I am.
I went to spinning class tonight (because, damn, it feels good to take care of myself again), and while I was short of breath and pushing and feeling the rush, Florence Welch sang to me that it's always darkest before the dawn.
Could it be?
Thursday, June 11, 2015
The possibility of yes
It always arrives, anew. It unfolds like petals. After March 2014 I thought it might be gone for good. But it's here again.
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A Day in the Life of My Brain
E! News: Next, Kim Kardashian opens up to E! about her long struggle to conceive baby #2.
Really? Her long struggle? She doesn't know about a long struggle. If she'd needed surrogacy, she could have paid for it from her change jar.
I am a bad person. If I were evolved and decent, I would be happy for her. I would welcome her into the infertility and loss clan with open arms.
But why couldn't my struggle end happily? Why am I cursed? Will the curse continue with this next round? Or is it like starting fresh when you use someone else's uterus?
Maybe we're crazy for doing this. What if we spend all of this money to get to transfer and it doesn't work? Then we'll be stressed about money and still without a second baby. Will I regret doing it?
Maybe we should forget it.
Maybe we should adopt.
Adoption is hard.
I want to adopt my own embryos.
I can't just leave them there. It's not fair to H. We are stewards of his biological brothers. This is a lifetime bond and he deserves a shot at it. It's not even our decision to make. They exist, and we need to give them a chance.
Most people don't have to spend $50,000 to have a baby. Why me? It is so unfair.
I'm a prisoner. There is no escape but to move forward. I don't even dare to hope that this might end happily.
Where's the chocolate?
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2011 National Novel Writing Month
I was unable to complete the challenge.
No excuses, but I chose to work on other higher priorities.
Maybe next November.
Feel bad, but that's what happens when you say "yes" to quickly.
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Greetings, NaNo-novelist!
Have you seen the countdown clock on NaNoWriMo lately? The 2011 noveling extravaganza begins in just 13 days!
In preparation for this wild and wordy festival of writing, we've relaunched NaNoWriMo.org (and that very hypnotic clock). The site is now built upon the extra-sleek framework of Ruby on Rails, which means the forums are speedier than ever, and slow page-loads are a distant memory. (Though you can still fondly reminisce on those with me in the NaNoWriMo history.)
Come on over to NaNoWriMo.org today to check out all the shiny newness, including an all-star cast of pep talkers, the 2011 batch ofweb badges, our revamped forums, and special noveling goodies in the store.
You can also find the local chapter closest to you, and catch up on news and events there in the regional forum!
If nothing else, come by to witness the sheer speed of it all. Heavens to Betsy, the speed!
If you know any kids, teens, or educators who would enjoy this challenge, be sure to send them over to NaNoWriMo's Young Writers Program! Director Chris Angotti has cooked up the best resources yet for our 50,000-plus young novelists around the world.
We can't wait to see you in NaNoLand!
Counting down to go-time,
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On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 3:55 AM, <email@example.com> wrote:
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We promised we'd send you a mammoth email.
Ta-da! Here it is.
This is part welcome wagon, part instructional manual, and part pep talk. After you read everything, save the email for reference; it's full of helpful tips!
Before you do anything else, complete your registration by clicking on this link or copying and pasting it in your browser:
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After you're logged in, enter your preferred password. Be sure to hit "Submit" at the bottom of the page to save this information!
Then, you'll have the opportunity to complete your Author Profile and get to know other participants in the NaNoWriMo forums. To fill out your author profile, just click the "Edit Author Info" link and "Edit Novel Info" links from the My NaNoWriMo page. You upload your photo from the "Edit User Settings" link. Remember to scroll down and hit "Submit" to save your changes.
On November 1, we'll unlock the novel-excerpt and word-count area of your author profile, so you can post your escalating word count, view your personal stats, and offer an excerpt of your work-in-progress to friends and fans.
When you registered for your account, you had the opportunity to affiliate with a NaNoWriMo region. You can affiliate with more than one NaNoWriMo region, and choose one region to make your Home Region. Many towns have Municipal Liaisons (MLs) to organize NaNo write-ins and get-togethers in October and November, and affiliating with a region will automatically add you to the regional email list for updates about local events. Every region has a special message board called a Regional Lounge that becomes visible to affiliates of that region on the Forums page.
To affiliate with any region, just sign in to the site and click the My Regions link in the left-hand menu on your profile page. When you click that, you'll see three tabs. The Regions tab lets you affiliate with any of NaNoWriMo regions around the world. Once you've affiliated with the region (or regions—you can pick a bunch if you like), you should pick one of them to be your Home Region on that beautiful Home Region tab.
Picking a Home Region will add your word count to your region's cumulative tally, allowing you to do your part in crushing the spirits of NaNoWriMo authors in rival cities and towns. It also designates any donation you make by check or through our store to your regional donation totals. (Be sure to include your site username when donating, though! That is the only way to attribute your contribution to your Home Region!)
Before you head off to train those typing fingers, we wanted to offer a few bits of advice. You'll find many great tips in the forums, and we'll be sending pep talks directly to your inbox during November. But for now, here's a quick overview of the three-and-a-half things we wish we had known for our first NaNoWriMo:
1) It's okay to not know what you're doing. Really. You've read a lot of novels, so you're completely up to the challenge of writing one. If you feel more comfortable outlining your story ahead of time, do it! But it's also fine to just wing it. Write every day, and a book-worthy story will appear, even if you're not sure what that story might be right now.
2) Do not edit as you go. Editing is for December and beyond. Think of November as an experiment in pure output. Even if it's hard at first, leave ugly prose and poorly written passages on the page to be cleaned up later. Your inner editor will be very grumpy about this, but your inner editor is a nitpicky jerk who foolishly believes that it is possible to write a brilliant first draft if you write it slowly enough. It isn't. Every book you've ever loved started out as a beautifully flawed first draft. In November, embrace imperfection and see where it takes you.
3) Tell everyone you know that you're writing a novel in November. This will pay big dividends in Week Two, when the only thing keeping you from quitting is the fear of looking pathetic in front of all the people who've had to hear about your novel for the past month. Seriously. Email them now about your awesome new book. The looming specter of personal humiliation is a very reliable muse.
3.5) There will be times you'll want to quit during November. This is okay. Everyone who wins NaNoWriMo wanted to quit at some point in November. Stick it out. See it through. Week Two can be hard. Week Three is much better. Week Four will make you want to yodel.
And we're talking the good kind of yodeling here.
A final word before you head off! NaNoWriMo is a grassroots nonprofit, funded almost entirely by participant donations. If you get something out of NaNoWriMo, we ask that you come by our secure online Donation Station and Store and make a small donation to help keep the program going strong. Even $10 makes a world of difference! http://store.lettersandlight.org
With great well wishes on the noveling month ahead,
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This week on Blendover, we jump ahead of the mainstream media and examine what the upcoming Middle East Peace Talks are REALLY about (Hint: it involves $$$$$), and take a look at a new documentary film about online privacy called Terms And Conditions May Apply. Later, we glance at the Swiss Train Crash in the news, and the Bradley Manning Verdict. But that's not all: we have aliens too…
Topics Discussed:
- Terms And Conditions May Apply
- Middle East Peace Talks
- Swiss Train Crash
- Putin and the Gay
- Pope Watch
- Bradley Manning Verdict
- World Order
- Nintendo Wii U
- UC Davis Pepper Spray Cop
- WTF: Wind Turbine Mystery
- Varg Virkenes Arrested Under Terrorism Accusations
- The Return of Monster Magnet
- Australian Media Prices
- EVE Online
BlendoveR is a fun, hard-hitting pod-cast where rules are regularly thrown out the window in favor of honest, open commentating opinions. Presented by Greg Davies (cGt2099 from The-TrukstoP.com), and Terr Ciavarra (Media Nox from medianox.bandcamp.com), we stray on to any topic that presents itself or wanders off onto its own tangent.
Terms And Conditions May Apply
Terms and Conditions: A movie about privacy policies you'll actually want to watch
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Middle East Peace Talks
Cyprus hopes to have liquefied natural gas from Israel by 2015
Cyprus seeks to import Israeli gas by 2015
US to host Israeli-Palestinian talks
Wikipedia: Leviathan gas field
Swiss Train Crash
Swiss train crash: Dozens hurt in Granges-pres-Marnand
Switzerland Train Crash Injures 44, Fatalities Possible
Putin and the Gay
Gay Bars' Ban on Russian Vodka Is Going Global
Pope Watch
On Gay Priests, Pope Francis Asks, 'Who Am I to Judge?'
Bradley Manning Verdict
Bradley Manning has just been awarded the 2013 Sean MacBride Peace Award by the International Peace Bureau
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Bradley Manning verdict to be announced on Tuesday
Defense Motion for Reconsideration and for Mistrial – dated July 24, 2013
Defense Renewed Motion for Mistrial
Manning a whistleblower, not a traitor, defense concludes
Manning Judge Alters Charges to Assist Gov't Ahead of Verdict
Manning Protesters take on Fort McNair
Military judge set to rule in Bradley Manning case
Tension Between Journalists, Army Continues At Bradley Manning Trial
World Order
Nintendo Wii U
Wii U no longer being stocked by UK retailer Asda
UC Davis Pepper Spray Cop
The former police lieutenant who became the target of worldwide ire after dousing Occupy UC Davis protesters with pepper spray, John Pike, is appealing for worker's compensation, claiming psychiatric injury caused by the incident
UC Davis 'pepper spray cop' seeks workers comp for 'psychiatric injuries'
WTF: Wind Turbine Mystery
UFO Destroys Wind Turbine: Still A Mystery
Varg Virkenes Arrested Under Terrorism Accusations
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More Huge Flying Creature Sightings In Pennsylvania
By Stan Gordon; www.stangordonufo.com
The giant bird was only a few yards ahead of him, and was feeding on road kill. The witness, an avid hunter, was startled by the size of the creature, which stood at least four feet tall, with it's head extending above the roof line of his vehicle.
The bird was covered with very dark brown or black feathers. The head seemed dominant, but not over proportioned to its body. The neck seemed long and slightly crooked. The beak was very long and large, and the eyes were very dark. But the feature which stood out was the massive wingspan of the bird.
The wingspan was easily as wide as the two lane road. The witness stated, "the wings were as I can remember, as arms of a human are attached. It had shoulders. It had a very muscular upper torso and the wings were as if they were its arms."
The wing tips stirred the dust and gravel on both sides of the roadway as it ran to become airborne. The witness later returned to the site and measured the distance across the road from edge to edge. It was 21 feet. The witness stated that he was in a slight state of shock as he watched the creature fly off.
The witness later tried searching for the identify this bird, but the closest creature he could find in a book was the drawing of a terratorn, an extinct bird. For more details on this case, see my report, " "Was This A Close Encounter With A Thunderbird,"
Rick Fisher, a researcher from Lancaster County, and Director of the Paranormal Society of Pennsylvania (www.paranormalpa.com) received a report from a witness who also saw a strange flying creature. Rick indicated that the witness appeared to be very credible and sincere, and wanted to remain anonymous due to his profession. This sighting was believed to have occurred about June or July of 2007, near the community of Granite Run. The witness was driving through the area at about 1:30 A.M., when he stopped to get some gas.
While pumping the gas, he heard a scratching sound which appeared to be coming from the roof of a nearby building. The man observed a dark shadow which he described as a being which stood from 3 to 4 feet tall, in a hunched position.
He was able to observe that it had wings, but no feathers. The wings were above the creatures head. The witness felt that the creature was observing him, and from what he could see from the shape, it didn't appear to be that of a bird.
The witness left the location for a brief time, and when he returned, he heard a whooshing sound and wings flapping, and could see that the creature had flown over to another nearby structure. The man had to be somewhere, and he left the area, still wondering about what he saw. When Rick interviewed the witness, he was certain that this was not a bird, owl, or anything he was familiar with.
Rick Fisher also received another giant flying creature report, which occurred about 8 miles outside of Harrisburg, in a very rural area. This sighting is believed to have taken place during the early morning hours of February 23, 2008. The driver said that he was driving about 35-40 miles per hour, when a huge bird like thing appeared from above the trees, came down and seemed to hover above his vehicle.
The witness made Rick aware that he is an active hunter and angler, and had never seen anything like this before. He stated that the thing was huge, but wasn't sure that he could call it a bird. The shadow of the creature covered his entire truck.
The witness admitted that he was quite scared during the observation, and stressed how huge the creature was, and stated," like prehistoric almost." The witness went on to say that he knew what he saw, and if people want to call him crazy that is fine.
Another more recent sighting of a giant winged something, just came to my attention. Jim Brown, an experienced paranormal researcher from Fayette County, provided me with details about this case which he is currently investigating. Jim has a very interesting web site:
This incident occurred on May 20, 2008, at about 2 P.M. in Washington County, Pennsylvania.
The weather was in the 50s, and partly sunny at the time. The location of the sighting was about two miles north of US Route 40, from the southbound lanes of PA Route 43. The roadway is a four lane divided highway, two north and two south, with a grass median between them. The witness who Jim interviewed, was traveling south on the four lane roadway, about two miles from the Route 40 interchange. The communities of Brownsville and California were off to his left, across from the Monongahela River.
As the man traveled down the road, his attention was drawn to what he thought at first was an aircraft moving over the trees. He soon noticed that the wings were moving. The flying thing was moving in the direction of his car, so he pulled off the road, and got out to get a better look. The winged thing passed over the car and moved behind the witness, about 100 feet overhead. At that point this creature appeared to be gliding, and getting lower, and it looked more like a giant bat than a bird.
The witness could see no feathers, only short dark gray or black hair on the body. The wings appeared to be a membrane stretched over bone. It was a little difficult to see the details due to the sky being so bright. The witness commented that a small amount of light could be seen through the membrane. He emphasized that it was not solid like metal. As the man watched, the creature dropped lower from the sky behind his car. Apparently other motorists also caught sight of the huge flying animal.
One car stopped down the road, and a person got out. That driver had a camera with him, and was seen taking pictures of the flying creature. As they watched, the creature glided down to no more than 20 feet above the road surface, and was seen flapping its wings once or twice. With each wing flap, the creature appeared to rise about 20 feet higher above the roadway.
Since the creature was flying so low, its huge wingspan was very evident to the witness. The man told Jim that when the creature spread its wings,they extended beyond the one edge of the pavement, to the other side of the two lane road. That would be about 20 feet or more in length.
He commented that this flying creature was big enough that it could easily pick up a man. There were no sounds or other effects reported as the creature moved over. The entire observation was estimated to have lasted about 45 seconds to one minute.
We are hopeful that the person who took the pictures of this creature will contact Jim Brown or myself. If anyone else has had a similar encounter, I am interested in hearing from them.
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Now that Mischa Barton is back to work, it appears she's gotten used to her new surroundings quite nicely.
While in New York City shooting her new CW show, "The Beautiful Life," which is set to premiere this fall, the actress took time to hit up her blog to profess her love for the Big Apple, with a post titled "Loving It Here In NYC!"
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"I've been fully immersed in production on my upcoming show 'The Beautiful Life' and I've been loving every minute of it. I have my dogs Charlie and Ziggy with me here so I've been hanging with them in my downtime, as well as hitting the gym as often as I can," Barton wrote.
As well as filming on location in New York, Barton is also back on the celebrity scene – appearing at a number of high profile events – a change from the last couple years where she has been more quiet and less public.
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"I have the series premiere party coming up on September 12, followed by the post-Top Model series launch on September 16, the same night as the show's premiere," she continued of her busy schedule. "Thereafter, I get a little break until October 19 when I co-host an event with Versace at the Whitney Museum which I am absolutely thrilled about!!!"
As previously reported on AccessHollywood.com, Barton was hospitalized in July and held under an involuntary pscychiatric hold.
Following her release from the hospital, the actress told Time Out New York it was the stress of having her wisdom teeth removed that led to her stay.
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"Here's what happened: Before the show started, I was traveling abroad for contract stuff and I went through a terrible surgery — a wisdom tooth surgery, all four removed. It was a nightmare," the actress explained. "I've never had surgery before — it all went wrong and I had to have a second surgery and it almost delayed shooting because it was a nightmare to me, because I couldn't deal with the thought of not getting there on time. So with the travel, and surgery and prep for the show — it was hell."
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NASA's Global Hawk environmental science aircraft took to the skies again April 13 on the second flight in the 2010 Global Hawk Pacific (GloPac) atmospheric sampling mission.
NASA's Ames Research Center has provided key support to ensure the success of the GloPac environmental science mission, providing management, flight planning, meteorological constraints and science ...
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Took the words right outa my mouth!!
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Today's descendants of early Appalachian settlers may not have the northern European ancestry they think they have. For years, some people from the Appalachian mountain region have claimed they have Melungeon ancestry, and a new study may prove them right. The term "Melungeon" often refers to dark-skinned people with European features who lived in the mountains of Virginia, Kentucky, North Carolina and West Virginia as early as the mid-1600s.
Brent Kennedy, a college administrator and the author of The Melungeons: The Resurrection of a Proud People (Mercer University Press), was tired of the naysayers who dismissed his (and others') claims. So he arranged for a study that would analyze the DNA of 175 men and women with verifiable Melungeon genealogies. Kevin Jones, a molecular biologist at the University of Virginia at Wise, is directing the study, to be completed this fall. "My best guess is that our people will be shown to be a broad mix, including all races and many ethnicities," Kennedy says. "But I also believe that evidence will emerge showing a basis for the Middle Eastern, Mediterranean and East Indian claims of our people."


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Update: Be sure to check out Part II of this post
I've written different posts about being an esthetician before, but frankly I never posted anything downright negative about the realities of being an esthetician. I don't want this post to be negative; I want this post to be real. I got thinking about this post since a few weeks ago when a friend of mine asked me via Facebook why I became an esthetician and if I thought it would be a good profession for her to perhaps consider. The last week I received the following blog update from celebrity esthetician Renee Rouleau about being an esthetician, and then today I read this.
The "about" section of my blog already explains why I became an esthetician so I won't go over all of that again here. Instead I want to focus on the realities of being an esthetician – both the good and the bad. Let's start with the not so great things about being an esthetician. You finish esthetics school excited to start working. You can't wait to help people feel great about themselves by improving their skin or teaching them how to properly apply make-up or make them feel good by removing unwanted body hair and then reality hits. It can be very hard to find a job after finishing esthetics school since you have no experience and everyone wants to hire someone with experience. Additionally, finding the right job for you as an esthetician well that is something that sometimes feels impossible. Simply put – this isn't an easy profession to break into and it isn't an easy profession to succeed in. Estheticians have to be ready to work nights and weekends, to put up with jobs that only pay you per service and have no benefits, to feel pressure to sell products to clients even if you don't think they need products or they can't afford them because if you don't sell what is considered enough product you get harassed by your manager, and to even, in some cases, have the cost of the products you use during treatments deducted from the pay you receive for the service you just performed. These are all standard employment practices for estheticians. So instead you think it would be better to work for yourself – great, right? Where are your clients going to come from? Are you good at marketing? Do you have the budget to properly market yourself and to buy all the products and equipment you need to work independently? And you are still working nights and weekends even when you are self-employed. And did I mention that you won't be getting rich being an esthetician? This isn't a very high paying profession for the most part (the celebrity esthetician you see quoted in magazines are few in number). And are you ready for no-show clients? Late clients? Rude clients? Let's be frank – being an esthetician means being part of an industry that requires hard work, long hours, and paying your dues. There really isn't any overnight success to becoming a successful esthetician. If you want to succeed in this profession you have to love it and put up with a lot in the process.
I had a number of teachers at esthetics school and each of them was very different from the other. Despite their differences one of the things I appreciated about each of my teachers was their honesty about what it was really like to work as an esthetician since all my teachers worked and taught. One teacher in particularly was a bit of a "Debbie Downer" when it came to the realities of working at a day spa, but in retrospect her honesty, though brutal at times, was helpful. For instance I still haven't forgotten how she told us how much she hated doing facials for pregnant women (when an esthetician has a pregnant client we always lift the head of the bed up so the client is pretty much sitting instead of lying and then you end up doing most of the facial while standing) because of how tiring it was for her stand during an entire facial. Because of my teachers' honesty I finished esthetics school knowing that working as an esthetician wasn't going to be a bed of roses and believe me that is what I found out. As a matter of fact the worst job I ever had, hands down, was one esthetician job that I had not so long after finishing esthetics school. I'm about to turn 39 and I've been working since I was 16, and have held a lot of jobs in many work environments in two different countries, so believe me when I say that if that job was the worst one I've ever had it really was.
I mentioned Renee Rouleau's blog post, My Tips For Having a Successful Career As An Esthetician on the mark, others irked me greatly. Some of the good things from her post include the following:
What tips do you have for a new esthetician right out of school?
It is a fact that a large percentage of people who go through the effort and investment of attending and graduating from esthetics school will never end up practicing esthetics or will do so for a short time. I believe this is because they could not find a job or if they did, the job was not the right fit for them. My advice is to explore every option for employment, but be sure to only apply for a position that best suits your style and personality.
This is very true. Also a lot of esthetics students give up on an esthetics career after school because full-time, well-paying employment as an esthetician is very hard to come by, and they simply cannot support themselves and/or their families working only as an esthetician.
Some of things I don't entirely agree with from the post:
What jobs are out there for estheticians?
What I love about being an esthetician is that there are many options for places of employment. There are day spas, hair salons that have a skin treatment room (this is where I got my start), skin care spas (like the two I have in Dallas), hotel spas, cruise line spas, medical spas, department store spas associated with a skin care line and resort spas. If you prefer not to be a service provider, there are still many options. You can become a representative for a skin care line that is sold to department stores, medical offices, or spas so you would provide education and training classes to your various accounts, as well as work at trade shows. You can work in a retail environment selling a line at the department store counter (they LOVE hiring estheticians) or other beauty retailers. You can also become an independent contractor and be on-call to work at various spas or even be a freelance esthetician. It is also possible to become an educator and work as a teacher at your local esthetics school. Another option is to become an entrepreneur and develop your own skin care line.
All of the above are valid career paths for estheticians but take the time to think about those jobs. They are not, by any stretch of the imagination, easy job options. Being an independent contractor or a freelance esthetician usually means uncertain hours which means uncertain pay and of course no benefits or job security. How many people can live like that? If you have a family there is just no way you can support your children with a job like that. Becoming a skincare line rep is good for someone who is great at sales and doesn't want to spend their days in the same place, but once again this is a difficult job were you are usually met by a lot of rejection and your salary is mostly (or entirely) paid by commissions. Lastly, how fabulous to be able to develop your own skincare line, right? But realistically who has the money for that?
And now for the part of the post that really got me steamed:
I love that a career as an esthetician offers a very flexible schedule. Many places offer both part and full-time schedules so if you have another career or have children, this is ideal. I have employed many estheticians who were once full-time and now work part-time after having children.
Has Rouleau ever had a part-time job? Does she realize how little a part-time esthetics job actually pays? And even if you work part-time as an esthetician I can guarantee that you will be asked to work nights and weekends. Now if you're a parent – what do you do about childcare? Finding and then paying for the right babysitter or daycare is one of the hardest things any parent faces. And of course if you are working part-time forget about getting any benefits with your job.
And now for the great part of the post:
How can an esthetician build a clientele?
It truly takes a long, long time to really build up a good, repeat clientele. The reason is because you will not connect with every client, and not every client will connect with you. Being an esthetician is a relationship-based profession. My best tip for this is to mimic their personality. If they are not much of a talker, then don't talk their ear off. You have to be a chameleon with every client.
Try paying close attention to body language. Asking specific questions on your client intake form that gives you insight into their expectations will go a long way. One of my favorite questions is "What are you goals for today's visit?" I then provide various options they can check off on the form ranging from "stress relief" to "I want to learn how to care for my skin." Depending on all that they select, I will make sure to create an experience that gives them exactly what they ask for. I will also discuss their goals during our consultation to make sure I have complete clarity. Having a client leave getting exactly what they wanted will help build the relationship and ensure they will come back to see you again.
In my opinion this advice is spot-on. It isn't always easy to meet clients needs and expectations. Every esthetician eventually has the experience of thinking that they just bonded with a client and gave them a great facial only to hear back something negative from the client in the end. It always helps to remember that even if you did give a client the greatest facial of her life she just might not be happy and a lot of time it has nothing at all to do with you. Not everyone is going to like you. Period.
Rouleau's advice continues:
Another way to build a clientele is to give out free skin treatments. When you have an empty schedule, your goal is to fill it with clients. And waiting around for them to shell out money for a skin treatment that is often considered a luxury will leave you with an empty room and time on your hands. Make some really nice gift certificates and gift it to your friends, family, and anyone you come in contact with that you feel would be a good fit for you. Let them experience the services you provide at no charge because the more faces you can get your hands on, the more they can spread the word for you. Many of them may love the results and want to come back as a paying client. At the end of the appointment, give them a few of those free gift certificates and ask them to give it to their friends who they think would be a good client for you. Who would not love giving the gift of beautiful skin? Hands down, word of mouth with a referral will trump any other advertising or marketing opportunity. If you work this strategy long enough, and you give a treatment focused on managing expectations, you will no longer have an empty schedule. I promise.
I do agree that the best possible way to get clients is through word of mouth but giving away services isn't always the answer to getting more clients, in my opinion. In my experience once people receive a service for free they do not want to pay for it ever and they rarely refer their friends. If you give away too many services you are simply losing a lot of money; esthetics products are expensive even with your esthetician discount. I would recommend instead to give certain services at a discount and to sell products at a discounted rate to a select group of people who hopefully will spread the word about what a great esthetician you are. Be careful who is in that group. Unfortunately a lot of people will be more than happy to take advantage of your generosity.
Rouleau's blog post continues with some more solid advice for the aspiring or struggling esthetician. It is definitely worth reading even if, like me, you don't agree with everything she has to say.
So I will readily admit that up until now this post hasn't been entirely positive. Of course there are lots of things that I love about being an esthetician- for instance, meeting new and interesting people, getting to know my clients on a personal level (I've met some amazing people through my work as an esthetician), and feeling that I have had a positive impact on people's lives through helping them care for their skin. I always wanted to be part of a profession that would allow me to continue to learn and being an esthetician certainly is such a profession – there is always something new and interesting to learn as an esthetician in a variety of related fields from cosmetic science, to dermatology, and make-up innovations. A lot of the ways I educate myself is through blogs and online magazines (on the right hand side of my blog you'll find links to my favorite publications, blogs, etc.) and there are numerous courses that estheticians can take. The problem is that these course usually cost money, a lot of money sometimes, but if you feel that you can eventually make that money back by providing a different or new service to your clients than investing in a course is important.
Another thing I like about being an esthetician are my fellow estheticians. In my experience nasty estheticians are the exception not the rule. Most estheticians are more than happy to share tips, ideas, and expertise with their fellow estheticians. Estheticians truly help one another and to boot we are generally just a nice bunch of people. There are also numerous groups on Linked In where estheticians help one another so even if you work solo you can be part of a network of estheticians.
I've been fortunate to have found a few mentors since becoming an esthetician. The doctor I worked for in Chicago encouraged me and supported me immensely while I worked for her; she also took a leap of faith with me since I didn't have much actual esthetics job experience when I applied to work for her. She gave me a chance which was priceless. Lately I've been encouraged by the advice I am receiving via email from estheticians in the oncology esthetics field in the US about how to market this important branch of esthetics in Israel.
If you are considering becoming an esthetician I encourage you to spend a day shadowing an esthetician to see what she really does during her work day. In my opinion you really need to have a very strong passion for skincare and beauty in order to last in this profession. Lastly, look before you leap. As I already explained this isn't an easy profession to break into and succeed in so be well aware of the challenges before you sign-up for esthetics school.
I wrote a part 2 to this post: The Realities of Being An Esthetician: Part II
Resources and My Related Posts:
- Some of the best resources I've found for aspiring estheticians are on the blog: My Life as an Esthetician. Click on the links on the left hand side of the homepage of the blog for information about how to choose an esthetics school and what salary you can expect to make once you finish school.
- More advice on how to succeed as an esthetician: The Experts. How to Get Ahead as a facialist – Ole Henriksen from Caroline Hirons
- For My Fellow Estheticians and Aspiring Estheticians: Resources and Inspiration
- What Personality Traits Does An Esthetician Need?
- For My Fellow Estheticians: Our Professional Behavior/Code


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Libya: UN Secretary-General to appoint Special Envoy for relief effort coordination
TitleLibya: UN Secretary-General to appoint Special Envoy for relief effort coordination
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon convened a meeting of UN agencies and regional organizations to discuss a coordinated approach to the humanitarian situation in and around Libya. He intends to appoint a special envoy responsible for coordinating the relief effort.
On 3 March 2011, several countries sent planes to evacuate people from the congested Tunisia-Libya border. The UN Resident Coordinator in Tunisia said there is need for further rotations of planes and other means of transport to relieve the reception areas. According to the International Organization for Migration, over 170,000 people, mainly migrant workers, have left Libya to date.
The OCHA-led joint UN rapid assessment reported little evidence of destruction between the Egyptian border and Benghazi. However, the fuel supply line from Tripoli has been cut and there are concerns over the implications of increased lack of fuel, food and medicines.
According to the Financial Tracking Service, $35.6 million has been contributed thus far, and donors have pledged a further $10 million in response to the crisis.


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January 28, 1666
THE LONDON GAZETTE, England, January 28, 1666 (actually 1667 by today's calendar).
* The Great London Fire
It is very rare to find any period mention of the great London Fire of 1666 in newspapers of the day, certainly one reason being the dearth of publications in print at that time--very few beyond the London Gazette.
The back page of this single sheet newspaper includes: "If any person have found any books or writings belonging to Arthur Tevor Esq. deceased, or to John Trevor, Esq; (lost in the removal in the late dreadful Fire) Let them give notice thereof to..." and further on is: "We are ordered to give notice that although the Herals Office, wherein the descents and Arms of the Nobility and Gentry of England were formerly preserved, hath been burnt by the late dreadful Fire in London, yet the books & records therein kept were happily saved..." (see).
The complete issue and in very nice, clean condition. A rare issue with much desired content.
Category: The 1600's and 1700's


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| 6°C Belfast
The government is coming under increasing pressure to help save jobs at two of the country's three remaining deep-pit coal mines which face closure.
Labour accused the coalition of adopting an "inflexible attitude" to rules over potential support for UK Coal, which i s consulting on plans to shut Kellingley in North Yorkshire, which employs 700 people, and Thoresby in Nottinghamshire, which employs 600.
Jobs are also likely to go at UK Coal's head office in Doncaster. The closures will leave employee-owned Hatfield colliery in South Yorkshire as Britain's last remaining deep-pit mine.
Shadow energy minister Tom Greatrex told energy ministers during a Commons debate: "You are very well aware competition in our energy markets is partly governed by EU regulations, particularly those relating to state aid.
"With the announcement from UK Coal yesterday, would you confirm what trade unions learnt in talks with the (European) Commission just this week that the attitude to Government support to prevent immediate closure of the two deep pits at Kellingley and Thoresby is much more flexible than your officials' interpretation seems to be?"
Mr Greatrex added later: "There are real concerns that the Government is adopting an inflexible attitude to the rules regarding potential support for UK Coal. With 1,300 jobs at stake, we need to have confidence that the Government is doing it all can to prevent immediate job losses and the impact on those communities affected.
"David Cameron has been using the EU as an excuse to claim that his hands are tied. But yesterday, the European Commission indicated that the rules regarding state aid for coal closures may be far more flexible than the Prime Minister has suggested. The Government must urgently clarify their position and ensure that they are taking all possible steps to deliver the best deal for our industry and the local communities.
"Just last month, the Miners' Pension Fund transferred £700 million to the Government. The collieries at Thoresby and Kellingley need just a fraction of that in support."
TUC general secretary Frances O'Grady said: "There is nothing stopping the Government from applying to Europe for permission to use state aid to save Kellingley and Thoresby - and the thousands of jobs in North Yorkshire and Nottinghamshire which depend on these mines staying open.
"The Government says that any plans to delay the pit closures must 'show good value for money' but it will cost more to shut both mines than it will do to keep them open. Just £60m would secure the future of several thousand jobs, the communities surrounding the mines and the British coal industry.
"If ministers do nothing and allow the mines to close, the UK will become even more reliant on foreign, mostly Russian, coal imports, and that means a worryingly insecure future for the UK's energy supply. Shutting the pits will also jeopardise any chance the UK has of becoming a significant player in the emerging, multi-billion pound market for carbon capture and storage technology."
Energy Minister Michael Fallon told the Commons that any taxpayer-funded plans to delay the closure of the collieries must "show good value for money", adding: " The proposals that have been put forward with the Commission, any proposal for taxpayer support would have to show good value for money and would have to be through a clearly defined period."


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Is Microsoft Myopic?
Dec 31, 2012 5:00 AM PT
This story was originally published on Aug. 4, 2012, and is brought to you today as part of our Best of ECT News series.
It was a busy summer for Microsoft and chief executive Steve Ballmer.
The software giant released customer previews and ship dates for the newest versions of its flagship Windows and Office products; purchased Yammer, a cloud-based enterprise social networking company; hosted its annual Worldwide Partners Conference (WPC) in Toronto; and vocally signaled its intent to leave no stone unturned in competing head-on with rivals Apple and Google.
Sounds good, right? Unfortunately all of these positive moves are overshadowed by three things:
- Microsoft reported the first quarterly loss in its 26 years of being traded as a public company. Slipping into the red for the first time in nearly three decades, Microsoft has reported a loss of US$492 million in the June quarter. Most worrisome is the reason for the loss. Microsoft took a non-cash write-down of $6.2 billion related to non-performance of online advertising business and Internet services division aQuantive, which it acquired in 2007. On a positive note, revenue for the fourth fiscal 2012 quarter rose 4 percent to $18.05 billion, compared to the $17.36 billion sales Microsoft posted in the same period a year ago.
- Vanity Fair magazine published "Microsoft's Lost Decade," a scathing profile by contributing Editor Kurt Eichenwald. In it, Eichenwald makes a case that Microsoft has spent the last 10 years unsuccessfully dithering in several key market segments including smartphones, search, social networking, mobility and tablets, falling far behind competitors like Apple and Google.
- Windows 8 is being dubbed a "disaster" in some quarters -- three months before its scheduled October ship date.
What goes on here? Whoa. Are things really as bad as all that? Is Microsoft doomed to suffer a quick decline, inexorably marching off to a high-technology elephant's grave yard? Not so fast.
Microsoft is in transition and does face significant challenges to both its business and technology model going forward. However, it still has a lot going for it, and rumors of its demise are premature.
In Part 1 of this two-part column, I'll examine the perception and reality of the challenges confronting Microsoft. In Part 2, I'll detail its strengths.
Microsoft's Fundamentals
As for Microsoft's current financials, the company does suffer by comparison to rival Apple -- but so does just about every other company on the planet. Apple's success and phenomenal growth surge has outpaced just about every corporate measurement over the past six years, thanks to the iPhone and iPad.
Apple aside, Microsoft's financials are more than respectable, as shown in Table 1 below. It has one of the highest market capitalizations in the industry, at more than $247 billion. Annual income is $23.34 billion on sales exceeding $73 billion.
The rest of Microsoft's balance sheet is equally clean, with profit margins of close to 32 percent and operating margins of 38.44 percent. The company also has $58.35 billion in cash, while total debt is a manageable $13.15 billion. These figures enable Microsoft to pay shareholders a 2.7 percent dividend. In March, Apple announced it would pay its first quarterly dividend in 17 years -- $2.65 per share, beginning July 1.
Microsoft derives 35 percent of its revenue from Office, 22 percent from Windows, and 10 percent from its Xbox business, with the remaining 33 percent spread out among other products and services.
Clearly, Microsoft has a lot riding on the fall introduction of the new Office and Windows releases. Flagging PC sales are hurting all the OEMs, including Apple. And just as clearly, Microsoft must do something quickly to either jump-start its lagging Internet and online advertising and smartphone sales or admit defeat and cut its losses.
Based on Steve Ballmer's comments at the Worldwide Partners Conference (WWPC), in which he vowed to take on Apple, failure is not an option.
|Microsoft by the Numbers
|Source: Capital IQ
|Market Cap:
|Net Income:
|Profit Margin:
|31.97 percent
|Operating Margin:
|38.44 percent
|Return on Assets:
|16.12 percent
|Return on Equity:
|38.23 percent
|Qtrly Revenue Growth:
|6.0 percent
|Qtrly Earnings Growth:
|-2.40 percent
|Total Cash:
|Total Debt:
Bottom line: Most corporations would kill to have Microsoft's balance sheet.
Unflattering View
The Vanity Fair article unflatteringly compares Microsoft's financial performance to Apple's, noting that one singular product, the iPhone, now generates more revenue than all of Microsoft's products combined.
The article also uses interviews with named sources -- including former Microsoft engineers and product managers -- to paint a highly critical analysis of Microsoft's internecine conflicts and counterproductive corporate practices, such as stack ranking reviews.
The article's premise and conclusion is that Microsoft has lost its edge in the last decade by myopically placing too much emphasis on Windows and Office to the detriment of emerging technologies like tablets and e-readers. Microsoft is now, in the words of Kurt Massey, a former senior marketing manager quoted in the article, "a barren wasteland."
The Vanity Fair article does make valid points, but what it fails to do is present a complete picture that details Microsoft's financials, illustrates what Microsoft has done right over the last 10 years, notes what it continues to get right today, and acknowledges where it is well-positioned for the future.
Microsoft Mistakes
The most worrying current Microsoft statistic is that its quarterly earnings growth is off 2.40 percent year over year (YoY), reflecting slowing PC sales, which also negatively impacts Microsoft's core Windows and Office products.
To reiterate, Windows and Office combined account for 57 percent of Microsoft's overall revenue. It's no secret that both Google and Apple have been launching an assault on the company's traditional bailiwick among corporate enterprise customers. It's also no secret that due to changing market dynamics and the continuing economic downturn, Microsoft has felt the pain and pressure of getting users to upgrade to new versions of Windows and Office.
Windows 8 and Office 15 are both due to launch this October. Exact ship dates and pricing have not yet been released. While many industry observers have already declared the PC dead, that is an overstatement.
Tablets, most notably Apple's iPad, are certainly cropping up more and more in businesses, but enterprises are in no way ready to chuck their PCs and notebooks in the near term or intermediate future.
That said, the market is evolving, and Microsoft must embrace the new form factors and be in the forefront of innovation with its upcoming Surface tablet -- though there is bound to be some disruption from disaffected OEMs.
Other well-documented Microsoft product market missteps:
- Smartphones and Mobility: This is a case of too little, too late. Windows Phones from Nokia and others are decent products, but they were woefully late to market due to delays in Microsoft's development process. By the time these products shipped. Apple's iPhone and Google Android-based devices had built up an insurmountable lead. Microsoft is also hobbled by its partnership with Nokia, whose sales and market share are in free fall.
- Search: From a feature/function standpoint, Microsoft's Bing is a terrific search engine that has about 11 percent market share. But again, Microsoft's tardy entrance into the search engine market allowed Google to build 65 percent market share that will be difficult, if not impossible, to overcome.
Company Morale
In the late 80s, 90s and through the early 2000s, jobs at Microsoft were highly sought after. Microsoft made lots of millionaires. In the last 10 years, Microsoft's stock has stagnated. In the last year, the stock has ranged from a low of $23.79 to a high of $32.95. Its current price of $29.58 is on the higher end of the 52-week range, but the stock price is sluggish and shows no signs of breaking out of the slump.
A good portion of the Vanity Fair article was devoted to Microsoft's practice of stack ranking. Stack ranking undercuts morale and causes many loyal workers to seek employment elsewhere. Stack ranking is exactly what its name implies: In a team of workers, it's predetermined that a certain percentage will receive excellent reviews, the majority will get a middling/mediocre review, and a remaining small percentage -- roughly 10 percent -- will get a failing review, causing them to be put on probation or even terminated.
Microsoft employees are upset -- and rightfully so -- that the ranking system mandates certain numbers of people will excel while others are doomed to be assigned a failing grade, whether they deserve it or not.
To put it bluntly, stack ranking is rank! Whoever had this idea ought to get an "F" in his/her next performance review, because it stinks. It certainly does nothing to motivate workers, and in fact it could damage their performance. Microsoft needs to cancel stack ranking immediately.
Is Microsoft Bottoming Out? - Part 2


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Bill would create list of chemicals harmful to children
Hartford — A bill that would require the state Department of Public Health and other state agencies to create a list of chemicals that might be harmful to children was debated in the General Assembly's Committee on Children on Thursday.
Several industry associations spoke out against the bill and said they wanted chemicals to be regulated at the federal level, while many legislators on the committee said they had waited long enough for the federal government.
"It is well within the purview of the states to do this when the federal government is really dropping the ball on this issue," said state Rep. Diana Urban, D-North Stonington, who co-chairs the committee.
Representatives from toy, plastics, chemical manufacturing and household product associations asked the committee to wait on the federal government, but many state lawmakers said they wanted ways to protect their children now.
"I think if you are representing the industry and hear all the criticism, maybe you could talk to the people you are representing and come back with something more substantial to help us protect our children," said state Rep. Edwin Vargas, D-Hartford.
Margaret Gorman, manager of state affairs for the Northeast region of the American Chemistry Council, a plastics and chemical manufacturers trade association, said the bill would create a list of chemicals of concern in a haphazard manner.
"This method is likely to just produce a long list of chemicals that do not pose a real risk to children," she said. "The mere presence of a chemical does not equal harm."
The federal Toxic Substances Control Act, which regulates new and existing chemicals, was passed in 1976, and Urban said it hasn't been reformed in decades.
"We know there are in excess of 70,000 (chemicals) that have never been tested," Urban said.
Andrew R. Hackman, a representative of the Toy Industry Association, said he could understand the legislators' skepticism of the federal government, but he thought reforming the Toxic Substances Control Act was the best way to go.
"Connecticut is a very important state for us in terms of employment, and we hope that our companies can continue to operate here," Hackman said.
LEGO and Melissa & Doug are among the toy manufacturers, distributors and makers that employ more than 4,000 people in Connecticut, he said.
Gretchen Raffa, director of public policy and advocacy for Planned Parenthood of Southern New England Inc., said the organization supported the bill because of growing evidence that shows some industrial chemicals called endocrine disruptors can cause serious risks to women's health, such as infertility, breast cancer, early puberty and recurrent miscarriages.
In men, these chemicals can cause abnormal development of the prostate, decrease sperm count and increase the risk for prostate cancer, Raffa said.
Michelle Noehren, the events and special projects director for the Permanent Commission on the Status of Women, said the commission supported the bill because it would help protect children and pregnant women.
"Many toxic chemicals have the ability to not only cross the placenta but pass through mom to child through breast milk," Noehren said.
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Sukkot (Feast of Booths, Feast of Tabernacles) is a biblical holiday celebrated on the 15th day of the month of Tishrei (late September to late October). It is one of the three biblical mandated festivals Shalosh Regalim on which Hebrews were commanded to make a pilgrimage to the Temple in Jerusalem. It follows the solemn holiday of Yom Kippur, or the Day of Atonement.
The holiday lasts seven days (eight in the diaspora). The first day (and second in the diaspora) is a sabbath-like yom tov when work is forbidden, followed by the intermediate Chol Hamoed and Shemini Atzeret. The Hebrew word sukkōt is the plural of sukkah, "booth or tabernacle", which is a walled structure covered with skhakh (plant material such as leafy tree overgrowth or palm leaves).
The sukkah is intended as a reminiscence of the type of fragile dwellings in which the Israelites dwelt during their 40 years of travel in the desert after the Exodus from slavery in Egypt. Throughout the holiday, meals are eaten inside the sukkah and some people sleep there as well. On each day of the holiday, members of the household recite a blessing over the Lulav and Etrog (Four Species).
According to the prophet Zechariah, in the messianic era Sukkot will become a universal festival and all nations will make pilgrimages annually to Jerusalem to celebrate the feast there.
- Behold, a day is coming for the LORD, when the spoil taken from you will be divided in your midst. For I will gather all the nations against Jerusalem to battle, and the city shall be taken and the houses plundered and the women raped. Half of the city shall go out into exile, but the rest of the people shall not be cut off from the city. Then the LORD will go out and fight against those nations as when he fights on a day of battle. On that day his feet shall stand on the Mount of Olives that lies before Jerusalem on the east, and the Mount of Olives shall be split in two from east to west by a very wide valley, so that one half of the Mount shall move northward, and the other half southward. And you shall flee to the valley of my mountains, for the valley of the mountains shall reach to Azal. And you shall flee as you fled from the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah. Then the LORD my God will come, and all the holy ones with him. On that day there shall be no light, cold, or frost. And there shall be a unique day, which is known to the LORD, neither day nor night, but at evening time there shall be light. On that day living waters shall flow out from Jerusalem, half of them to the eastern sea and half of them to the western sea. It shall continue in summer as in winter. And the LORD will be king over all the earth. On that day the LORD will be one and his name one. The whole land shall be turned into a plain from Geba to Rimmon south of Jerusalem. But Jerusalem shall remain aloft on its site from the Gate of Benjamin to the place of the former gate, to the Corner Gate, and from the Tower of Hananel to the king's winepresses. And it shall be inhabited, for there shall never again be a decree of utter destruction. Jerusalem shall dwell in security. And this shall be the plague with which the LORD will strike all the peoples that wage war against Jerusalem: their flesh will rot while they are still standing on their feet, their eyes will rot in their sockets, and their tongues will rot in their mouths. And on that day a great panic from the LORD shall fall on them, so that each will seize the hand of another, and the hand of the one will be raised against the hand of the other. Even Judah will fight at Jerusalem. And the wealth of all the surrounding nations shall be collected, gold, silver, and garments in great abundance. And a plague like this plague shall fall on the horses, the mules, the camels, the donkeys, and whatever beasts may be in those camps. Then everyone who survives of all the nations that have come against Jerusalem shall go up year after year to worship the King, the LORD of hosts, and to keep the Feast of Booths. And if any of the families of the earth do not go up to Jerusalem to worship the King, the LORD of hosts, there will be no rain on them. And if the family of Egypt does not go up and present themselves, then on them there shall be no rain; there shall be the plague with which the LORD afflicts the nations that do not go up to keep the Feast of Booths. This shall be the punishment to Egypt and the punishment to all the nations that do not go up to keep the Feast of Booths. And on that day there shall be inscribed on the bells of the horses, "Holy to the LORD." And the pots in the house of the LORD shall be as the bowls before the altar. And every pot in Jerusalem and Judah shall be holy to the LORD of hosts, so that all who sacrifice may come and take of them and boil the meat of the sacrifice in them. And there shall no longer be a trader in the house of the LORD of hosts on that day.
(Zechariah 14:1-21 ESV)
- And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, "Speak to the people of Israel, saying, On the fifteenth day of this seventh month and for seven days is the Feast of Booths to the LORD. On the first day shall be a holy convocation; you shall not do any ordinary work. For seven days you shall present food offerings to the LORD. On the eighth day you shall hold a holy convocation and present a food offering to the LORD. It is a solemn assembly; you shall not do any ordinary work. "These are the appointed feasts of the LORD, which you shall proclaim as times of holy convocation, for presenting to the LORD food offerings, burnt offerings and grain offerings, sacrifices and drink offerings, each on its proper day, besides the LORD's Sabbaths and besides your gifts and besides all your vow offerings and besides all your freewill offerings, which you give to the LORD. "On the fifteenth day of the seventh month, when you have gathered in the produce of the land, you shall celebrate the feast of the LORD seven days. On the first day shall be a solemn rest, and on the eighth day shall be a solemn rest. And you shall take on the first day the fruit of splendid trees, branches of palm trees and boughs of leafy trees and willows of the brook, and you shall rejoice before the LORD your God seven days. You shall celebrate it as a feast to the LORD for seven days in the year. It is a statute forever throughout your generations; you shall celebrate it in the seventh month. You shall dwell in booths for seven days. All native Israelites shall dwell in booths, that your generations may know that I made the people of Israel dwell in booths when I brought them out of the land of Egypt: I am the LORD your God." Thus Moses declared to the people of Israel the appointed feasts of the LORD.
(Leviticus 23:33-44 ESV)
- "You shall keep the Feast of Booths seven days, when you have gathered in the produce from your threshing floor and your winepress. You shall rejoice in your feast, you and your son and your daughter, your male servant and your female servant, the Levite, the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow who are within your towns. For seven days you shall keep the feast to the LORD your God at the place that the LORD will choose, because the LORD your God will bless you in all your produce and in all the work of your hands, so that you will be altogether joyful.
(Deuteronomy 16:13-15 ESV)
- Sukkot: Time of our Rejoicing
- Hebrews for Christians: The Festival of Sukkot / The Feast of Tabernacles
- Sephardic Institute: Halakhot of Sukkot
- What do Palm Branches have to Teach us About Engagement? Musings on the Many Faces of Israel and the Four Species of Sukkot
- Schematic Drawings of a PVC Pipe Sukkot
Shalom Aleikhem and Happy Sukkot!


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Wisconsin a leader in nation for autism resources
Tuesday is International Autism Awareness Day
Milwaukee landmarks such as the Mitchell Park Domes and Miller Park will be lit up blue Tuesday night for International Autism Awareness Day, and WISN 12 News' Portia Young found a place in Wauwatosa that is helping families who can sometimes feel overwhelmed.
"You walk in, pay $50 to go somewhere with your family, and you leave five minutes later because it's just not going to work out, so there's a great deal of isolation," Julie Quigley said.
All three of Julie Quigley's sons are on the autism spectrum.
"Autism is even more common than we thought. The latest CDC numbers show from March 2012 that say it's one in 88," said Emily Levine, executive director of the Autism Society of Southeastern Wisconsin.
It took four years for Levine's son to be diagnosed. He is now 25. Levine described her work as support from a mom who's been there.
"We have walked the path, and it's very helpful to get hooked up with another parent who has a child similar to yours," Levine said.
Levine said Wisconsin is among the best in the nation for autism resources because it joined the fight early on. This southeastern Wisconsin chapter has been around since the 1970s.
"Just a sense of understanding is huge. That's a big, big part of what we do here, too," Quigley said.
Quigley found so much hope there that she joined the staff.
As her sons grow and learn, so has she, watching her boys try things she never thought possible and backed by a place she didn't know existed.
Early intervention is key and you can find the signs of autism by visiting http://nationalautismassociation.org