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So good. SO GOOD. I'm still reeling from all the emotional missteps and victories this episode, since Nice Guy has proven that it can deliver its thrills carefully and methodically. Add 'beautifully' to that list, because not only is the cast exceptionally pretty (Song! Joong! Ki!), so is the cinematography. The directing hand in this drama works really well to enhance the writing and provides the perfect springboard for the performances, which is something I've noticed since the first episode but was really floored by this time around. Short version of all of the above: Love love love, lovity love love.
There was a rise in ratings this episode at 14.0%, a personal best, and a number that's keeping them at the top of their time slot. Woo-hoo!
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We start the episode with a flashback of Maru before the trip to Japan as he remembers Jae-hee's desperate plea for him to ask for money instead of revenge. (Icwutudidthar, Vitamin Water.)
Min-young wasn't in Maru's bar as a coincidence, since he tells Maru about an animal documentary he watched, where a jackal had taken hold of a coyote's tail, causing the coyote to go to the edge of a cliff.
He speaks from the viewpoint of the coyote, who told the jackal that they would both fall off the cliff and die together if he didn't let go of his tail. Min-young claims he never saw the end, but keeps wondering what their fate was.
"If the jackal were sensible, he would have let go of the tail he was biting, and if the jackal were stupid, they would have died together by falling off the cliff. What do you think that jackal chose?" Min-young asks, cleverly using that analogy to equate Maru as the jackal and Jae-hee as the coyote.
Back in the car, Maru thinks over Jae-hee's threat that she won't forgive anyone who stands in her way. These words cause him to make the dramatic U-turn Of Decision.
And then we see the end of his talk with Min-young, where Maru answers his question by saying that the jackal was probably more reckless than he'd think.
Min-young wonders if the jackal would be scared to die when faced with the edge of the cliff. Wouldn't he have changed his mind?
Maru: "No, probably not. It probably would've said to the coyote, 'It's a relief that we can go together. Thanks to you, I won't be lonely as I go.'"
Ohhh crap. He's crazy.
After the opening sequence, we see Maru arriving at the Aomori Resort only seconds after Jae-hee ushers the American company inside. He asks the concierge where Eun-ki is in Japanese.
Still in a flashback of the night before Eun-ki's rude awakening, Maru arrives at Eun-ki's secluded house to find her Barbie still on the swing. "It's been a while," he tells the doll with a smile.
On Eun-ki's door, he finds a warning written in Hangul, Japanese, and English: "Don't disturb me. Never ever knock." Ha.
So he doesn't, and just sits outside and waits while Eun-ki crunches numbers inside. Turns out he was watching her the whole time Eun-ki was outside, and tried to get her attention once she was asleep, only to hear her murmur, "The calculations aren't right."
Maru takes the opportunity to let himself inside, and flips through Eun-ki's notes. It seems like she has a habit of scribbling a person's name when they're troubling her, but instead of the Kang Maru she scribbled at the dinner table, now it's Han Jae-hee.
He remembers overhearing Eun-ki and Jae-hee's earlier conversation, especially the bit where Jae-hee told her, "You can't beat me." Since helping Eun-ki will harm Jae-hee, Maru sits down and sets to finishing Eun-ki's work. The goal? Find roughly thirty-five million dollars from anywhere they can, in order to avoid selling the resort.
Jae-gil apparently sleeps in a tent outside Maru's house, and gets a wakeup call from him in the middle of the night, asking for his expertise to help him make sense of Eun-ki's financial statements.
After a tiny tantrum, Jae-gil uses his business management skills to help his friend.
Maru ends up working the whole night, papering the walls with post-it notes of all the little amounts they can collect to add up toward the big sum. One of the companies, Club X, piques his interest as he remembers one of his female clients telling him to put his money (probably meaning stocks) into the company since it was growing fast, despite having filed for bankruptcy two years ago.
Now we're all caught up, since we see Maru unceremoniously dumping Eun-ki into the nearby river/pond/body of water. Ha. It's still funny, even the second time around.
After his "Let's kill them all" speech, Maru suggests some food to build up their strength.
Eun-ki just stares at him over the breakfast table, and it's cute that Maru keeps pushing plates her way so she can eat. When she asks how he got here, Maru simply replies: "I took the plane." Eun-ki still seems miffed, so he adds: "I also took the taxi." Adorable.
But then he admits the truth (orrrr is it?): "I came here because I missed you."
He claims that he can't go without seeing her for even a couple of days, and came to hash out some issues with her. He certainly does act the part of a loving boyfriend, as he tells Eun-ki that his heart is too distressed at the sight of her pale and tired face. Good thing she's not easily insulted.
Maru starts telling her about all the ways he's found to help get the money, namely the five million Taesan has invested in Club X. Eun-ki thinks the shares are worthless, but Maru tells her what he found out about the group's recent and secret growth, which will turn their five million into twenty million. Now, they only have fifteen million to go.
Eun-ki barely speaks, her expression caught somewhere between surprise and admiration (maybe even a little envy). "Since when did you know all these things?" she asks, and Maru simply replies that he has a diverse pool of connections. Maru: "Of course, if we're comparing, I'm even smarter."
He's also found a defunct factory they can sell, and Eun-ki's able to come up with more, which earns her an admiring look from Maru. This leaves them with around $500,000 left, which Maru thinks she can come up with by selling jewelry, cars, or whatever else she doesn't need.
It's easy to see that she's touched, and Maru tells her to dismiss those feelings for now since she doesn't have time. She tells him that she'll remember well what he's dismissed: "Reverence, being touched, using you to boast, a hug… After I win, let's tally the tab clearly." He's got her hook, line, and sinker.
She gets on the phone in order to put a stop to Jae-hee until she can get there, and is stopped on her way off by Maru, who gently holds her face in his hands so he can give her a kiss on the forehead. Aww.
Maru: "You have to win and kill them all. And if you don't win, don't think of coming back." The worst part about this is you can literally see the love beaming from Eun-ki's eyes, and Maru smiles after her until she's out of sight…
Then he drops the smile, just like that. Eeep. Not good. Not good at all.
And Eun-ki, still happily reeling from the kiss, heads off to thwart Jae-hee's plans.
Speaking of, we find her in her birthday suit in an outdoor bath, with Min-young standing nearby, eyes averted. He tells her that Eun-ki came up with a way to get the funds, and that she wants Jae-hee to stop with the deal.
Jae-hee doesn't plan on doing anything Eun-ki asks, and Min-young seems to agree with that sentiment. She asks him to get her a gown, and by the time he turns around, she's standing in front of him stark naked. This girl knows how to use her assets.
In the wake of Eun-ki's new discovery, Jae-hee plans to push the contract through faster in order to pull the rug out from under her rival.
While Eun-ki is still on a taxi ride to the hotel, Jae-hee begins the contract-signing process with the American company. She's on pins and needles, but smiles to herself once she knows Eun-ki won't make it.
And she's right, since Eun-ki arrives only moments after the contract has been signed. Jae-hee introduces her as her daughter to her contacts, which is just so weird.
Eun-ki's fuming that Jae-hee ignored her message to put a stop to the signing, but Min-young steps in and takes the blame, telling Eun-ki that he never even passed it on to Jae-hee because "I couldn't let you risk Taesan's future because of your own personal feelings."
He even tells her that her useless stubbornness is what caused them to hold off on selling the resort so long, and Eun-ki looks like she's about to cut a bitch.
Jae-hee smiles coldly: "Eun-ki, I know your heart. This resort, including every tree here, is what your mother planted. And all the guest rooms' interiors are what your mother designed." She claims she knows that Eun-ki wanted to protect the resort, but business is business…
So Eun-ki turns to the Rolling company head to voice her dissent in English: "I'm not selling this resort. I will not sell it. Never!"
She even starts ripping up the contract, which has Jae-hee screaming at her to stop. I love that Eun-ki drops the paper pieces with the same kind of "What're you gonna do about it?" face we get in band battle movies, where the lead will drop his drumsticks in front of their rival.
"This contract is invalid," Eun-ki stresses in English. Jae-hee rages about the fact that she'd dare to tear the contract when she's already been fired from Taesan, so when Eun-ki goes for the phone to call Daddy, Jae-hee snatches it away and slaps her across the face. Eek.
Eun-ki takes it like the champion she is, but Jae-hee tears into her about how she's her mother, and that gives her absolute authority to correct Eun-ki from going down the wrong path.
None of this fazes Eun-ki, until Jae-hee adds the cherry on top of the harsh lecture: "The person who wanted to sell this resort the most is not me, but the Chairman. He wanted to erase all the memories of your mother with the selling of the resort more than anyone else."
Eun-ki eventually just screams in frustration before she collapses, but she's the first to shrink away when Min-young tries to help her up. "Since when have you been Han Jae-hee's dog? You were one of Seo Eun-ki's most precious people in the company, in which she could rely on."
Saaad. Min-young tells her that he's just got Taesan's success on the mind, and I call shenanigans on that.
It's even worse when Maru calls Eun-ki, and her face briefly contorts in sadness before she tamps it all down. So. Awesome. We've all been there with a phone call, and props to her for resisting the urge to just break down the second she hears his voice.
Maru guesses from her silence that she lost, but strangely enough asks to talk to the Rolling Chairman.
She puts him on speakerphone as asked, and he uses English to call the Chairman out for his previous company's sordid past of lawsuits and illegal chemical dumping. Maru's certainly done his research, and even Jae-hee looks surprised to learn that they plan to renovate Aomori into some sinister medical research center.
His tactic works, and the Chairman hightails it outta there. Jae-hee makes sure Eun-ki knows she made a big mistake, but Eun-ki doesn't care as long as she could save the resort.
And once again, she's left Maru on the line. Jae-hee eavesdrops from outside as Maru tells her to meet in three hours, since he needs a nap.
Time for another Jae-gil/Yoo-ra/Choco insert scene, where Choco stops the two from kissing in the coffee shop, and Jae-gil becomes distressed when a stranger recognizes him and calls him "Young Master". There's a reference to Jae-gil's (Kwang-soo's) 'Giraffe' nickname from Running Man, but honestly, why is this same conflict still happening and why do we need to see it?
There is something interesting going on with Jae-gil when he talks to the stranger outside, and it seems like he's content with having been removed from the family register. Especially since his father seems to be in some shady business with mistreating hapless foreign workers and killing them when they become useless.
So in response, Jae-gil wants nothing to do with his dad and tells the man that he's even changed his last name, from Park to Oh. "When you go back, please tell Father that. If I could, I would take out all his blood that's flowing inside my body."
When Yoo-ra sees Jae-gil coming back, she bites into her own arm like a psychopath so she can blame it on Choco. But she does ask Jae-gil if he's the runaway son of a chaebol like a joke, except it's now the truth.
Choco takes the blame as expected, but Yoo-ra pushes her luck when she accuses Choco of stealing jewelry from her. Jae-gil knows Choco can kick and bite, but she doesn't steal. That's the nail in the coffin for their relationship, and once they leave, Choco starts crying. But hooray for Jae-gil using his brain instead of his, well, you know.
Back in the homestead, Joon-ha still seems to be suspicious of Maru, and studies a picture of him intently. Word of the cancelled contract has already reached Chairman Seo, as he expresses his desire to punish Eun-ki severely.
It's sweet that Joon-ha keeps offering safe punishments like taking the money from her future salary, and when that doesn't work, it's doubly sweet that he offers his own salary for a cut, too: "As long as you don't kick her out until she's eighty." Awwww.
Except, it doesn't seem like Dad wants her punished as he entreats Joon-ha, "If, for an unbelievable reason, people would turn their backs on Eun-ki, and even if I turn my back on her… Please, stay right next to that child. Even if everyone in this world leaves her, don't leave her. And be patient although it may be difficult. Please, protect her no matter what."
Joon-ha agrees, and while it's a sweet sentiment from Dad, how about just not turning your back on your kid in the first place?
One of the maids brings Joon-ha the picture of Maru he forgot, and he asks her if she's seen him come by to call on Jae-hee. The maid says no, but she did see him leave an envelope for her.
This is enough to give Joon-ha a new lead, especially when he spies the security cameras that would have inevitably recorded Maru.
Meanwhile, Eun-ki gets ready for her date with some preening and primping, except it goes horribly awry and makes her look like a kid who got into mommy's makeup. Hah. She calls someone to help her with it instead.
Jae-hee gives Maru a call, and though we can't see his eyes through the sunglasses, you can hear the thinly-veiled uncertainty in his voice as he denies Jae-hee's every attempt to come and see him.
She pulls out the big guns though, and in her most pitiful and breathless voice tells him: "I miss you, Maru. Just give me ten minutes." Don't do it, Maru! Be strong! Fight the power!
Eun-ki shows up for the date in a demure ensemble, and has no idea that Maru's gone to meet Jae-hee. He tells her he's just going to give her ten minutes… but we'll see how long that lasts.
"Did I make you like this?" Jae-hee asks. "I made you like this. The warmest Maru in the world… I turned you into this dark, cold, and scary person that you are right now. I, Han Jae-hee, made it like that."
Maru's just counting down the minutes, and it's neat to see Jae-hee switching gears to keep holding his interest. She asks him to take the nearby cruise ship with her, because he'd told her long ago that he wanted them to take a cruise together to the end of the world.
Jae-hee: "That promise… You still haven't kept it yet." And there is this awesomely sad moment where we see Maru's resolve breaking ever so subtly, just in the way his eyes redden. So. Cool.
While this is going on, Eun-ki continues to hike around the beautiful date locale, looking for Maru.
No matter what sweet words Jae-hee says, Maru is ready to leave her when her ten minutes are up. She resorts to begging at the sight of his turned back: "Don't go. Don't leave. Please don't go. Please don't go to Eun-ki!"
But Maru keeps walking, until he hears a splash from behind him. Oh no she didn't.
He turns around to find only her shoes left on the bridge. She's jumped into the ocean. Maru sees nothing when he looks over the edge and yells for Noona.
…And at that same time, Eun-ki turns around, as though she's heard him. To complete the metaphysical tie that bonds all these characters, Min-young's glass shatters ominously.
Maru dives in after her and sees her slowly sinking down, stiff as a board. He manages to get Jae-hee back on the bridge where he performs emergency CPR, until she spits up water and regains consciousness.
And when Eun-ki calls him, the phone goes straight to voicemail.
Meanwhile, Joon-ha goes through the security camera footage and stops when Maru pops up on screen. Something about Maru isn't sitting right with him, but he continues to click through the footage until he sees something even more unsettling: Jae-hee and Min-young's kiss. Uh oh.
Maru watches over Jae-hee while she's unconscious and hooked up to an IV at the resort, and consciously resists the urge to hold her hand.
Jae-hee's voice stops him as he's about to leave: "Could it be that you still haven't forgotten me? That's why you're still lingering by my side, right?" She thinks him saving her is proof, and wonders why he didn't let her die. Wait, was she actually planning to die or did she just use it as a ploy to keep Maru near?
"I will go back. I will go back to you again. Not now, but I will definitely go back to you. So trust me and wait for a bit," she tells him. Oh, that's rich. Not now, but soon? Girl, please.
Maru's reaction isn't kind, especially when he asks if her ocean (of how far she's willing to fall) is bottomless. He tells her that she should have said these words sooner, when he was immature and naive enough to listen and be fooled by her.
Maru: "Out of one hundred memories, there were ten that were good. Don't you know what you've done wrong? How great it would have been if only you could've left one or two good memories. 'Ah, my first love Han Jae-hee isn't that kind of unscrupulous person.' Even though I don't understand, you should have left the good memories for forgiveness. That way, the pathetic Kang Maru who believed Han Jae-hee was everything in his life wouldn't have become so defiled."
Those are some powerful words, with the emotion just building and building in Maru's eyes and voice until he finally storms out, leaving Jae-hee speechless in his wake.
It's dark out, but the town is alive with a grand parade making its way through the street. Maru stares vaguely until he remembers his missed date with Eun-ki, and runs through the crowd in a really, really neat sequence.
Eun-ki's fallen asleep on the bridge waiting for him, and that's where Maru finds her. She wakes when he brushes her hair behind her ear, and when he asks what she would have done if he never came, she answers, "Then I would have waited until you came. If you wait, the person is bound to come."
He takes a good look at her face, and asks if she put on makeup. Hah. She also mentions that it's her first time wearing a dress, but as she begins to tally up what she owes him, including a hug, Maru interrupts her by swooping in for a kiss. Omo.
And it isn't your mother's kiss scene, either.
Song Joong-ki is killing it in this role. Maru is deep and dark and twisted, but every now and then we see flashes of who he used to be – naive, innocent, loving to the point of obsession. And there's no doubt that he's still obsessed with Jae-hee, since she still dictates his every move whether he knows it or not. But is there still love? I'm not sure.
It always surprises me when characters in dramas ask why they were saved from a near-death experience, since they don't seem to realize that maybe their savior just didn't want to be responsible for their death. Especially with Maru, a former physician and former nice guy. He wants to bring Jae-hee down, but on his own terms and not on hers. Plus, death seems a little too easy of an out, right?
I used to give Jae-hee the benefit of the doubt, but this episode really solidified her role as a master manipulator. It's kind of neat to see her switch gears depending on the person, or even the lulls in a conversation, because she'll keep trying different tactics until she finds one that works. That takes a special kind of person.
With Min-young, she uses his sexual desire for her to keep him under her thumb, which is why I loved it when Eun-ki called him out on it. With Chairman Seo, she uses a false veneer of innocence and weakness to stoke up his protective and (possibly) fatherly instinct to protect her, which might explain why he's so much harder on Eun-ki – she doesn't let him see her weak side, so in turn, he challenges her more.
But the innocence trick doesn't work on Maru anymore, who now seems immune to her now that his trust in her has been permanently shattered. It's why she had to go to the extreme of almost dying to get him to pay attention to her, which is both pathetic and ridiculously manipulative. I don't doubt that pulling the suicide move was a cold, calculated maneuver on her part, and that she was depending on Maru to save her. After all, Jae-hee has worked too hard to get where she is to throw it all away in an instant.
So then it's both gratifying and disconcerting when Maru basically tells her to shove it, since he is resisting her directly… in order to drag her down indirectly. I'll believe Maru when I'm sure that he's completely done with Jae-hee, but I have the feeling that isn't going to happen for a long, long time.
…Even though I wish it would. C'mon, Maru! Look how awesome Eun-ki is! She wasn't even mad that you were late – now there's a girl who probably wouldn't let you take the fall for a murder because she loves you back. Gasp. I know, new concept. Here's to hoping that you actually take the sincere hand Eun-ki's holding out to you to take down the evils of the corporate world and, more importantly, Jae-hee.
Or, yunno, maybe have a few more smooching sessions. Just throwing that out there.


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Confusion About Cloud Services Holds Back Adoption by SMBs
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AMSTERDAM & SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- A majority of small and medium businesses (SMBs) in the UK and US are unsure of cloud services or think they are only for large companies, thus missing out on the opportunity to increase productivity and stay more effectively in control of their IT security, new research from AVG Technologies reveals.
AVG Technologies (NYS: AVG) , the provider of Internet and mobile security to 128 million active users, conducted research among more than 1,000 SMBs in the UK and US to gain insights into their understanding and attitudes towards cloud services and IT security.
The study found just a quarter of SMBs had adopted some form of cloud services, while a similar proportion (22% in the UK and 17% in the US) thought cloud services were only for large companies. One-in-three SMBs (31% in the UK and 28% in the US) said they did not understand cloud services at all.
"The research highlights the need to educate SMBs about the benefits that the right cloud services could bring to their businesses," said Gene Marks, a small business owner, author and columnist. "It is clear that SMBs are juggling the same challenges as their larger counterparts but are making complex technology decisions without the benefit of an IT department or outside expertise to guide them."
More than three quarters of SMBs in both the US (77.3%) and UK (76.4%) say they are open to technology that makes their life easier, and are, in fact, dependent on large amounts of technology - over 95% of UK and US SMBs regularly use up to five pieces of technology in the course of their day-to-day work. Significantly, however, a substantial proportion of SMBs in the US (42%) and UK (52%) say they are dealing with IT issues, including security, themselves - and spending up to four hours a week in the process.
For those SMBs who have taken the plunge into cloud services, the most popular usage is sharing/collaboration tools (64%), storage (34%) and iPad/mobile apps (32%).
In addition to the lack of understanding of cloud services, other factors cited were cost (23% UK/21% US), lack of trust (17% UK/18% US), and the belief the services are too complicated (nearly 10% in both the UK and US).
"At AVG, we understand the SMB dilemma because several of us were SMBs ourselves. The benefits of cloud services don't have to be expensive solutions reserved for large companies with IT departments. AVG is dedicated to providing SMBs with tools - like AVG CloudCare - that makes it easy to deploy the IT management and security services to help them make the most of the cloud's flexibility and efficiency in an affordable way," said Mike Foreman, General Manager, SMB at AVG Technologies.
Highlights of the SMB research findings include:
Have heard about cloud services but do not understand them | 31% | 28% | ||||
Think cloud services are only for large companies | 22% | 17% | ||||
Are considering adopting in the next 12 months | 21% | 20% | ||||
Have deployed some form of cloud services | 21% | 25% | ||||
Deal with their IT themselves | 52% | 42% | ||||
SMBs who fear data breach/loss | 18% | 20% | ||||
About the research
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The Roots of Recovery
By Barbara Neuwelt
Network, Summer 2008
The fall is a busy time at Peace Ranch, a therapeutic farm for adults with serious mental illnesses. Participants are involved in as many as four fall fairs in the area around Caledon, Ontario, where the farm is located. The Peace Ranch is "quite a force" at the fairs, says program coordinator Heidi Torreiter, with participants entering their flowers and vegetables into many contests. The farm is also well known for the petting zoos it offers at the fairs. Participants spend the spring and summer raising the goats and sheep by hand, bottle-feeding them and training them to be child-friendly.
Established in 1990 and funded by the Ontario Ministry of Health, Peace Ranch provides supportive housing on-site for 10 people living with schizophrenia and offers a day program that is open to anyone with a serious mental illness. It's the only residential therapeutic farm in Canada, offering residents and other people with serious mental illness living in the community an opportunity to develop self-reliance through participation in a farm community.
"When you have a mental illness you end up giving up all sorts of power," says Torreiter. "Growing your own food or taking care of a flower or developing a relationship with an animal [is] a way of regaining some of that. You have your own garden plot and you're in charge of it and those plants count on you to stay alive.
"And in the end there's a huge reward," continues Torreiter, "not to mention the social benefits of having something in common with the person that you're working alongside and developing a community with."
Green Spaces, a day program offered two days a week at the farm, allows people living in nearby communities to be involved in a variety of farm activities depending on the season, from maple syrup making in the spring to apple cider making in the fall. Participants are responsible for a communal garden that grows food for the farm and everyone has the option to have their own garden plot to grow flowers and food for themselves. They also care for the animals and the barn and train goats, mini-horses and a donkey to pull a traditional racing cart called a "sulky." One afternoon a week, therapeutic horseback riding is offered, and on another morning an art program brings in local artists to work with interested participants.
"People are here because they're looking to improve their mental health, but it's not all about illness," says Torreiter. "In this program it's all about the things that need to get done today, and being out in the garden developing a relationship with each other and with the animals. It's not centred around their illness. I think the bigger the place that your illness takes in your life the heavier it feels."
The farm environment offers plenty of opportunities for rural recreation activities such as wagon rides, and the physical exercise of gardening, caring for the animals and chores is supplemented by hikes on the Bruce Trail, swimming at the local conservation area, and skating and skiing in the winter.
Torreiter grew up on a farm and was drawn to the idea that not only the connection with nature, but specifically a rural environment, can be beneficial for mental health in general. "I lament the build-up of the urban population," says Torreiter, who connects urbanization with the high levels of stress people commonly report. "I think anyone can benefit from reconnecting with the natural world specifically through farming," she continues. "So people that have specific issues with their mental health…what better way of embarking on recovery than to connect with the natural world."
Shannon Hardie, a resident at Peace Ranch, agrees. Hardie lived in Toronto before coming to Peace Ranch last fall to make a new beginning after 10 years of living in a variety of boarding homes and supported housing. "I feel that the country has healed me," says Hardie, "by taking walks in nature, by interacting with plants and animals. All of this has had an overwhelming effect on my performance.
"My thoughts are more lucid," continues Hardie. "I attribute it to the relaxing nature of the Peace Ranch and to the fact that there's not a lot of stress and there's not a lot of distractions and there's not a lot of noise and there is this lull that the house makes — it's nurturing. There's something to do with the fresh air and the spring water…and when you pick up the straw, the straw is fresh and it just excites my senses."
Those who come to Peace Ranch are supported towards the ultimate goal of living independently back in the community. Weekly participation in PAR North, a Canadian Mental Health Association, Peel Branch clubhouse program located in the nearby larger centre of Brampton, helps prepare residents of Peace Ranch for eventual employment in the community through participation in non-farm work through the clubhouse's café and clerical unit. It also allows people to stay connected to an urban setting and interact with a larger group of people.
In turn, other members of PAR North have the opportunity to spend the occasional day at Peace Ranch. "The members love going to Peace Ranch," says PAR North manager Ron Hesas, "because a lot of them have never had a chance to be in that kind of peaceful sort of farm community so they have a chance to do some things that they've never had a chance to do like feeding the animals, horseback riding, gardening… Some of our members experience those things for the first time."
In fact, Peace Ranch gets many visits from urban mental health programs. These visits give the core group of Green Spaces participants an opportunity to move into leadership roles, says Peace Ranch executive director Eric Tripp-McKay. "Instead of coming and being a client, now they're actually helping to run activities and play host to the guests that come for the day."
When you have a mental illness you end up giving up all sorts of power… Growing your own food or taking care of a flower or developing a relationship with an animal [is] a way of regaining some of that. You have your own garden plot and you're in charge of it and those plants count on you to stay alive… And in the end there's a huge reward, not to mention the social benefits of having something in common with the person that you're working alongside and developing a community with."
– Heidi Torreiter, Program Director, Peace Ranch
People with mental illnesses living in a more "built" environment can also find ways to connect with nature as an aspect of recovery. A community garden in the heart of downtown Ottawa tended by members of CMHA Ottawa Branch is doing just that. Gardeners meet in the spring to plan the garden together. There is no schedule for tending the garden; people come to the plot on their own time whenever the consumer-leader responsible for opening the garden is there. When the food is ripe people can take what they like but always leave something for others. The CMHA garden plot is just one of many plots in the garden tended by individuals and families who live in the area. The group meets in the garden once a month to participate in activities using materials from and around the garden, such as creating herbed oils or making wind chimes.
Most of the participants live in apartments and don't have the opportunity to be outside in a natural environment, explains Paivi Kattilakoski, one of the project founders. In addition to the benefits of growing real food and seeing it come up out of the earth, the garden also provides CMHA Ottawa members with connections to some of the other plot-owners. "Seeing people interact with each other in an environment that's so normal was really amazing to see," says Kattilakoski. "What I see a lot with my clients is that sometimes the activities that they participate in involve other people who also have a mental illness [which is great but] it's also really amazing when the participation can happen in the community at large."
The garden also provides a recreational activity in the community for people who are extremely isolated. Kattilakoski tells a story about one person's recovery through the garden: "One individual was coming to the garden quite often and he was quite isolated prior to that. And what the staff noticed, and other people noticed, was that at the beginning of the gardening period he would come in and not make much eye contact and not really have much conversation with people. But by the end of the gardening he would be making eye contact with people…initiating conversation, smiling a lot more. So really you could see that his self-esteem was increasing through the process. I really think that the community garden played a big role in that."
For the past few summers Green Spaces has taken on a new challenge – running a market garden and growing some vegetables for sale to several big customers in the area. Green Spaces participants were invited to apply for paid positions that are responsible for growing, harvesting and delivering the crop. This summer they hope to expand the program to increase the customer base and provide employment for more people.
Living and working on a farm "gets you back in tune with the life cycle," says Green Spaces and property manager Jim Hotson. "People with a mental illness will dwell in the past or the present but being here forces you to think of the future because you sow in the spring and in the fall you preserve it for use in the winter.
"It gets [people] to look ahead," explains Hotson, "and it gets to all of our basic needs…having food to eat and the pleasure you get from growing your food and the reaping."
"The duties that we have here of doing chores every day has made me feel more responsible," says Hardie. "I appreciate the routine of getting work done at 9:30 in the morning. It gives me a routine…a grounding place."
Visit Peace Ranch online at www.peaceranch.com.
Barbara Neuwelt is a policy analyst at CMHA Ontario.
Horticultural Therapy
Horticultural therapy involves engaging people in growing and using plants as part of their healing process. Horticultural programs have been developed for a wide variety of addiction and mental health problems. The interaction between the client and the plant world promotes healing in a variety of ways:
- the setting of the garden provides an environment of safety;
- the physical activity and the vitamin D from the sun help with mood and healing;
- the scents of certain plants work directly on the brain to lower anxiety and stress and to stabilize mood.
Working with the plants provides hope and meaning and is not just "busy work," says Mitchell Hewson, a registered horticultural therapist and the manager of horticultural therapy at Homewood Health Centre in Guelph. People learn to nurture their inner and outer body as they learn to grow plants for food, learn about nutrition and the healing power of herbs, and create creams and spritzers to soothe the body. The skills gained build confidence and promote self-esteem and provide participants with tools they can use at home for their own healing.
For more information about horticultural therapy and workshops for those who work in the mental health field, visit Hewson's website atwww.horticultureastherapy.com.
Toronto versus the Peace Ranch
The Peace Ranch is a marvelous place where opportunities abound. People here are friendly and responsive. There are things to do. As a city dweller for most of my life, I've yet to encounter a warm place so full of ways of applying oneself as I have at the Peace Ranch. One suffering of the psychiatric survivor is idleness and limited access to activity. The Peace Ranch changes this. It is a hubbub of action. But we also have down time or time alone.
The Peace Ranch gives inclusion and action to the life of the consumer/survivor. There is an arts program, a recreation program, barn duty, dinner prep, daily house chores and consultation. This in turn prepares one for independent living. People are not bound to boarding homes for the rest of their lives and can see themselves as functioning, active citizens. There is a day program at an employment outreach centre and a mall outing once a week. We are active and social participants who interact with other clients in group programs and the community at large on outings.
Today is the day of the client-centred, client-driven model and the Peace Ranch is an official representative of this practice. The Peace Ranch offers activity, support, encouragement and respect. Peace Ranch allows people to dream, and backs up those dreams with the support and services needed to realize them.
Shannon Hardie, Peace Ranch resident.
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James F. Masterson (March 25, 1926 – April 12, 2010) was a prominent American psychiatrist.
James Francis Masterson was born March 25, 1926, in Elkins Park, Pennsylvania. He was an internationally recognized psychiatrist who helped inaugurate a new approach to the study and treatment of personality disorders including borderline and narcissistic, died April 12, 2010 of pneumonia. He was 84.
His undergraduate studies at the University of Notre Dame were interrupted by Army service in World War II. After the war, he earned a medical degree from Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia. He was long associated with the Payne Whitney Psychiatric Clinic in New York, serving as the head of its adolescent program in the 1960s and 1970s.
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Dr. Masterson was one of the first people to bring the psychoanalytic approach known as object relations theory to bear on the study of personality disorders of the self. In so doing, he helped widen the lens through which personality disorders are viewed beyond the classical Freudian one that analysts had favored for decades. Object relations theory was primarily meant to explain human behavior. But in work he began in the mid-20th century, Dr. Masterson came to believe that it also held the key to personality, in particular the origin and treatment of personality disorders. (The psychoanalysts Heinz Kohut and Otto F. Kernberg also played seminal roles in applying the object relations model to the realm of personality.)
Masterson helped psychiatry shift to offer more complex, more effective models in the treatment of personality disorders. The enormous contribution he made was in the understanding of personality disorders and the evolution of personality per se.
Most closely associated with the British psychoanalysts Donald Winnicott and Melanie Klein, object relations theory centers on infants' early attachment to their mothers. This attachment is vital, the theory holds — so vital that disruptions can cause psychological disturbances later on. Classical Freudianism roots personality disorders in the Oedipal period, roughly between the ages of 4 and 6. Applying the object relations model, Dr. Masterson placed the roots even farther back, in the pre-oedipal period between the ages of about 18 months and 36 months.
The pre-Oedipal disorders include all the personality disorders by definition, but are much more concerned with the issue of maternal availability. Dr. Masterson argued that these disorders crucially involve the conflict between a person's two "selves": the false self, which the very young child constructs to please the mother, and the real self. The psychotherapy of personality disorders, is an attempt is to put people back in touch with their real selves.
Dr. Masterson, whose work also encompassed the neurobiology of personality disorders, was the author of many books. Among them are The Personality Disorders Through The Lens of Attachment Theory and the Neurobiologic Development of the Self (Zeig, Tucker & Theisen 2005), a clinical approach, The Search for the Real Self: Unmasking the Personality Disorders of Our Age (Free Press, Simon & Schuster 1988), written for a general readership, The Narcissistic and Borderline Disorders (Bruner/Mazel 1981), and The Psychiatric Dilemma of Adolescence (Little, Brown, 1967).
A distinguished life fellow of the American Psychiatric Association, he was also a fellow of the American College of Psychoanalysts, a founder of the American Society of Adolescent Psychiatry and a past president of the society's New York chapter.
Dr. Masterson became so well known as an expert on narcissism that he sometimes attracted patients for whom only a high-profile therapist would do — in other words, narcissists. In the 1980s, after The New York Times cited him as an authority on the disorder, he received a dozen calls from people wanting treatment.
Too busy to accept new patients, Dr. Masterson referred the callers to his associates. As The Times reported in 1988, not a single one made an appointment.
On narcissism[edit]
In 1993, Masterson[1] proposed two categories for pathological narcissism, exhibitionist and closet. Both fail to adequately develop an age- and phase- appropriate self because of defects in the quality of psychological nurturing provided, usually by the mother. The exhibitionist narcissist is the one described in DSM-IV and differs from the closet narcissist in several important ways.
The closet narcissist is more likely to be described as having a deflated, inadequate self perception and greater awareness of emptiness within. The exhibitionist narcissist would be described as having an inflated, grandiose self perception with little or no conscious awareness of the emptiness within. Such a person would assume that this condition was normal and that others were just like them.
The closet narcissist seeks constant approval from others and appears similar to the borderline in the need to please others. The exhibitionist narcissist seeks perfect admiration all the time from others.
- Psychotherapy of the Borderline Adult: A Developmental Approach. (Brunner/Mazel, 1976) ISBN 0-87630-127-8
- The Search for the Real Self: Unmasking the Personality Disorders of Our Age. (Collier Macmillan, 1988) ISBN 0-02-920291-4
- The Emerging Self: A Developmental Self & Object Relations Approach to the Treatment of the Closet Narcissistic Disorder of the Self (Routledge, 1993)
- The Personality Disorders Through The Lens of Attachment Theory and the Neurobiologic Development of the Self (Zeig, Tucker & Theisen, 2005)
- The Search for the Real Self: Unmasking the Personality Disorders of Our Age (Free Press, Simon & Schuster, 1988)
- The Narcissistic and Borderline Disorders (Brunner/Mazel, 1981)
- The Psychiatric Dilemma of Adolescence (Little, Brown, 1967)
- ^ Masterson, James F. The Emerging Self: A Developmental Self & Object Relations Approach to the Treatment of the Closet Narcissistic Disorder of the Self, 1993


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Credit demand is weakening in Singapore's economy, which grew an annualized 0.1 percent in the three months through March from the previous quarter. That was the slowest pace in six quarters, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.
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Non-interest income at OCBC climbed 18 percent to $800 million, bolstered by higher fees and commissions from wealth management, loan and trade-related activities. Non-interest income at DBS declined 2.7 percent to S$963 million as revenue from stock broking, investment banking and trading fell.
Fees and commissions from wealth management gained 4 percent to S$117 million, DBS said. CEO Gupta said he expects about $10 billion of Societe Generale's $12.6 billion in assets as of Dec. 31 to move to DBS.
Per-share earnings for DBS in the first quarter rose to S$1.76 from S$1.56 a year earlier. Excluding a S$223 million gain from selling shares in Bank of the Philippine Islands and a S$25 million donation to the National Gallery Singapore, the bank's profit rose 9 percent to S$1.03 billion.


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- - how do you seperate business and personal horse stuff?
how do you seperate business and personal horse stuff? Seeing Allie have this conflict about selling Denny to get her dream horse has really brought up a lot of questions about horse ownership. I do not want to offend anyone, I just want to know how someone can do it. When I got my horses, I got them because I liked them and they have then become a part of my family, and I could never give them up (even though I did have my mare up for sale, I never did sell her. I feel that when I handed over the money to the owner for my horse (or dog or whatever animal) I made a commitment to them. I chose to them to be their forever owner. How do those of you that, for you job, buy, train and then resell horses? Don't you get attached? Or do you get attached but you do your best to keep it strictly business? Do you have to be a certain type of person to either view your horse as part of the family as opposed to a business deal? Like I said, I do not want to offend anyone and I dont want it come across that if you are a business man/woman you do not view your horses as part of the family, but I just needed something to distinguish the two. |
I wonder this also, I have been wanting to sell Diesel because he's not what I want in a riding horse anymore...I just love him too much to not be able to go out and see him. I don't understand how people can buy and sell horses... Good thread :) |
What I do for work has nothing to do with horses and I leave it that way. My horse is my outing from the world, he is the one I go to when I am stressed out or simply want to go enjoy myself. My horse is family to me and it's always been that and will always be. It's a question of priorities I think and the way you value things. For some people it's strictly business and that's what works for them but you will also find that those people don't use horses are their outing from the world. They value other things as more important. To me Cobalt is my buddy, part of my family. |
I'm the same way - I could never sell my horse. |
I have been brought up in a world of buy, train, sell. It does not bother me one bit. Of course I get attached, which drives me to train them well and find a good home for them; if I feel they wouldn't be suited for someone, I say so, and refuse to sell. I am completely distraut about the whole Denny thing... as it turns out, Tiffany (FehrGroundRanch) has been an amazing friend through this whole thing and has offered a place for Denny to stay if I can't part with him. When I look at a resale horse, I look for conformation, mind, pedigree and trainability. I am looking at making an investment. I don't let my emotions get in the way, it's a business decision. I am there to make a bridge between seller and hopefully a dream buyer. In the end, it wasn't hard to let Dancer, Cinzano, or Maia go. They were investments. I cried a little at their parting, but at the end of the day, I don't really miss them, and I know all 3 are in GREAT homes. The horse world that I'm in sees horses as disposable. Not enough training? Sell it and get a better one. Not winning enough? Sell and get a better one. Not tall enough? Sell and get a bigger one. Too old? Sell and get a younger one. Yes, the mentality gets to me a bit, but it's the world I grew up in. My trainer told me from a very young age that if I ever got approached by someone at a show asking if my horse was for sale, to say yes, because you never know what they might offer. When I look for a horse for ME, I go with my heart. That's what Denny was. I saw him and had to have him. He tugged at something in my heart. He is a horse I would be willing to take a financial loss on if I needed to rehome him, and would only concentrate on finding a good permanent home for. I didn't care that he was 300 pounds underweight or waay overpriced... I paid it because I could, and have not looked back since. It's very hard to explain how I can differentiate things like that... I mean, I could never sell or give away my cats or dog... I don't know what makes horses different. Hopefully this will change with my next horse. |
I've never sold a horse. I did trade Style just yesterday. She's the pony I got last winter that turned out to be just green broke and not child safe. She is kind and loving and I put alot of effort into her, I had her completely despooked and almost good for the farrier. I feel really bad trading her because she was happy here and she trusted me. But I already have crippled horses, and retired horses... baby horses, fat horses.... It broke my heart to leave her yesterday but It wasn't as hard as I thought it would be..... |
Like Allie i grew up in the world where you don't keep the same horse through your riding career. and i still believe that for my students at the barn who want to keep progressing. if they're looking to buy a horse when they first start jumping, their primary needs are something that is very quiet and very experienced. it doesn't need to be very fancy or able to jump too high. but if they continue to progress they will need something that is able to jump higher and quietness is important, but not as big of a priority. very few people can afford to get a horse that is able to jump big, show successfully at the upper divisions, be quiet enough to teach them to jump, and young enough to jump higher each year. as far as buying investments go that's a tough question and it probably depends on each person AND the horse. i go into every horse purchase knowing that it's not my horse. my pleasure does not come from owning the horse, but making it. a trainer i know once said, "why do we love training horses? because we are making art". i thought that was awesome and that's the way i see it. i bought this one pony out of pasture that was basically unbroke. he was also a bit of a maniac.:-) last summer i went to a huge A show and watched him completely pack his little 7y/o around and win reserve champion against some very fancy competition. THAT was cool. when i sold him i was sad, but no tears. this pony i have now? i really really love him. he's not even on the market but on saturday another trainer at our barn called me up and told me that someone was coming out that afternooon to look at him! i panicked and almost said no. i think when he leaves, there may be a few tears. but when it comes down to it, i want to fill the world with good ponies! :D plus, there is always something exciting about horse shopping and starting a new project. at least, that's what i tell myself when the trailer is driving away! |
Although I do not make my living with horses, I have been around them pretty much my whole life and bought my first horse nearly 30 years ago. In that time I have owned/trained/bought/sold 87 horses (that includes ponies and one mule). Some horses I've had for years and some only a day or so. (I've kept a log on a database for every one - actually I bought a pony for resale when I was a junior in college and that was 42 years ago). I've had only a handful that are truly memorable. I bought the vast majority of them for resale (I LOVE to buy and sell - motorcycles, horses, cars, boats, RC planes - pretty much anything that I enjoy having). When I buy a horse for my own use I will try the horse out for as long as it takes to determine whether he will work out for my purpose. If I feel the horse will work for me I put a lot of time in him/her. If I feel the horse will not work, I have no problem trading or selling him. It costs to keep a horse - time and money. If I can't get the performance or enjoyment from the horse there is no point in keeping it. There is an old adage that I believe in: "It costs just as much to keep a good horse as it does to keep a bad one" - I think a bad one costs more when you take into account the frustration or lack of enjoyment my horse is supposed to bring. I've learned years ago to separate my heart from my head when it comes to buying or selling a horse. |
This is a very interesting question for me right now too. I purchased my first horse about 6 years ago and I am now in the position of having to re-home him. I have struggled over the decision for over a year and have cried many nights over it. So, I wonder how people purchase horses, take the time to train them and then sell them after they have that relationship with them. I know that it is a business to some, but I don't know if I could do it. I would probably end up keeping everything I buy and going completely broke. |
I really like what iridehorses posted. It's interesting because we all come from different walks of life, we all come with different life experiences and stories so the answer is going to be different as many times as there are people who answer it :-) Growing up I also went thru a few horses but all of them were to teach me new things. The first one I had was a schoolmaster, a mare that had done it all. She was 15 yo when I bought her and I chose her because I knew she would be teaching me the ropes. The next horse was 11 yo and the next 7 yo before I started going thru babies. Each one I bought had less and less experience and training and with the help of a trainer we trained and filled in the gaps.I learned new things and was taught new things. Tho they were good horses but they were not my "forever" horse partners. They were ones I really learned from. I'm sure a lot of you have heard the story of how Cobalt and I came to be but with him I instantly knew that he was going to be the horse that was right for me(again thank you Julie, had it not been for your breeding program, I wouldn't have him today). I think it's one of those things that when THAT horse comes along, you know. |
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