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I have a problem.
Well, I have many problems.
This one is special.
It's not my dirty mouth.
I know some of you may argue that's my biggest problem, but the picture to the right is from graft vs. host disease, a chronic, lifelong side effect of my transplant.
Yes, that's my tongue.
It's scarred.
I have problems.
I went to college in New York.
I was always fascinated with the inner city.
I wanted to understand it.
I didn't understand it.
I grew up in NH in the country.
I wanted to understand a world as culturally different as possible from my sheltered "country estate."
I decided that place existed, within driving distance from my family, in NY, Bronx and Uptown Manhattan specifically.
Really, use your imagination, how much different can you get?
The area where Youth Ministries for Peace and Justice (YMPJ) resides boasts the least amount of "green space" (aka trees or grass) than just about anywhere in the U.S.
It also boasts a shooting that occurred because the undercover police hired to patrol the area at night were so scared and anxious they assumed a man holding his wallet was holding a gun.
There are so many crimes in the area people are sometimes are assumed guilty until proven innocent.
To fit in, I adjusted my behavior.
I adopted an accent.
Looking like I do, speaking like I'm educated, talking like I'm all white, "prissy," and country, just wasn't going to help me understand.
I needed to assimilate, just a little.
My friends at college, they love me for me. They love that I'm country, that I didn't understand their culture, but that I really wanted to.
I really wanted to know what was great about other cultures within the U.S.
I really wanted to know the obstacles they face in being successful and meeting their basic needs.
To do this, I decided to fit in.
I adopted an accent.
I call it New Yorican.
If I speak with this accent, I'm no longer "white," "prissy," or "country."
I'm an uptown girl, assumed to be born and raised in the Bronx by Hispanic immigrants.
That's all I do. I change my accent then the assumption of my whole life and background changes. I also change some body language. It's simple.
I'd use the accent when I felt unsafe. I'd use it when I was tense and I wanted to fit in.
Now, I can't get rid of it.
It's a problem.
People don't recognize the way I talk as an accent.
They see it as an attitude.
Yes, it is all attitude, but I have it because I adopted an accent.
I can't get rid of it.
It comes out of my mouth when I'm tense or nervous, just like I trained myself to do.
I would use it triaging in the emergency department. Patients are more relaxed if they think you understand where they are coming from and who you are. I used it waking around the Bronx with The Visiting Nurse to talk to the groups of guys outside the projects.
I'd holler to them to get the door because I was going to take care of their moms.
Except, I didn't say it like that.
So when I'm all ready nervous and stressed I get an out of control accent that makes me sound like I'm straight out of the ghetto.
The way I look and the way I am speaking do not belong together.
Then it gets worse.
When I get nervous, from all my treatment, my menopause, my gvhd, and now the steroids I'm taking, I get hot flashes.
This isn't just being hot.
It is burning from the inside out.
First, I'm reacting to something that makes me nervous. I'm intimidated. I'm scared and feeling threatened for whatever reason.
Then, this terrible accent kicks in. One that I feel makes me sound silly, but tough. It makes me sound like I am uneducated with an attitude.
Lastly, just for fun, my body gets hot. I feel like I'm burning.
I start stripping off my clothes.
I can't take it!
The heat is too much.
I start with fanning myself.
But then I start to sweat. I'll take off a layer, my sweater or blazer.
That doesn't work.
I dress in layers for this exact problem.
Sometimes, I forget that though I know I am wearing a tank top underneath my t-shirt or shell, the rest of the world doesn't.
So when I'm nervous and talking in slang, I simultaneously decide my shirt needs to go.
To the outsider, I imagine it looks like I'm stripping, completely stripping, and soon I'll be down to my bra.
I must look like I've lost my mind.
One time, I just wanted to try a shirt on. I had a tank top under my existing shirt. I told my friends I was trying a shirt on, then walking to a mirror in the store and stripped off my overshirt.
I've never seen my friends move so fast.
You'd think they were hustling and the cops were coming.
They scattered and tried to tell everybody in the store they had no idea who I was.
I'd lost my mind and decided to strip in the mall.
Thanks, Maggie and Laurette. I love you two too.
These are my problems.
I get nervous. I start speaking with an accent nobody recognizes so they think I'm getting mean. Then I get hot flashes and can't control dropping clothing to make myself comfortable.
Then I look like a crazy woman.
Baldies' Blog began originally in the UK by a 26 year old journalist with a blood cancer on a mission to inform the world about bone marrow donation.
He has since died, and I took on the cause of making cancer care more transparent for everybody.
Cancer is a disease that will touch everybody through diagnosis or affiliation: 1 in 2 men will be diagnosed and 1 in 3 woman will hear those words, "You Have Cancer."
I invite you to read how I feel along my journey and
how I am continuing to live a full life alongside my Hodgkin's lymphoma, with me controlling my cancer, not my cancer controlling me.
I hope that "Baldies' Blog" will prepare you to handle whatever life sends you, but especially if it's the message, "You Have Cancer."
Tuesday, April 21, 2009
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Hi Hillary. I would love to talk to you about stem cell transplants. Blaine will need an autologous stem cell transplant this fall, and it scares me to death. I understand that there is an option to do a mini one?(nonmyeloblative). I would love to know whatever you understand about both. I understand you have gone through the donor route and that you are having ghd issues. You sure are tough. Thanks for the blog. I'd love to set a time to talk to you. Thanks. Marleigh Thanks. Marleigh
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Question about SanDisk Sansa m230 MP3 Player
I meant to just delete songs but I deleted the entire folder and now I can't put music on. how do I get my music folder back?
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When I had the same accident this is what worked for me. I disconnected my sandisk player from my computer. After waiting until the sandisk software completed it's termination programming, I re-connected it to the computer.
Because I use Microsoft Windows XP, a window pops up asking if I want to open the device in Windows Explorer. Answering "yes" and then selecting the "Folders" from the tabs at the top of the window will display the sandisk along the left column as "Sansa e250". By double clicking on the folder labeled "PPI NAND" a drop down list of subdirectory folders should be displayed. If the folder "MUSIC" is not there, you will need to create a new folder and label it "MUSIC".
Here is how to create a new folder.
With the folder "PPI NAND" highlighted, move the cursor up to the upper right hand corner of the "Windows Explorer" window and select the tab "File". From the drop down menu select " New Folder ". This should cause a folder to appear in the window to the right of the "Sansa e250" window. The new folder should be highlighted and labeled "New Folder". Select the "New Folder" and rename it "MUSIC". When renamed, select the PPI NAND folder and the new folder "Music" should be listed as one of the folder in the subdirectory. If so, you can select it to see if the Music folder contains and music files. If not, you will need to copy or drag your files into the new "MUSIC' folder.
Once I did all of this and disconnected my sandisk player, the player and let the software complete the programming work before shutting it off, it worked fine. My original problem was caused by shutting my sandisk player off after disconnecting it from the computer before the sandisk software completed its work.
Hope this helps.
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I'm Not Fat, I'm Curvy
If you're a woman, you just can't win when it comes to your weight.
Either you're too fat, or you're too thin. For a few blessed moments, you might be in the sweet spot where you're "just right," but then people start watching to see when you're going to gain a pound or two.
According to the gossip site SkinnyVsCurvy.com:
Blake Lively allegedly refuses to wear anything but a size zero, causing the Gossip Girl costume department to cut the tags from larger-sized samples.
Blake Lively?!!! Even she is insecure about how she looks?
Seriously, I would — well, I wouldn't really kill anyone, but I would speak very harshly to someone if it meant I could look as good as Blake does.
At the other end of the unfairness spectrum are 90210's Jessica Stroup and Shenae Grimes, who are supposedly too thin. SkinnyVsCurvy.com reports:
"I've never seen Jessica or Shenae eat," another show source tells Us. So shocking is the situation that their 90210 male costars are contemplating an intervention.
Now, Jessica and Shenae are quite thin: they really are a size zero. If they're doing it because they feel good, and they're healthy, then people should stop bothering them about it.
But if they're doing it because they feel pressured to be too thin, then they are victims of the insane, male-defined standards of beauty that dominate our society.
So what do we do about it?
I admit that I'm as guilty as anyone of falling for stereotypes of what I'm supposed to look like. I read Vogue and Teen Vogue and Glamour and all the others that promote obsessive thinness. And I'm probably not going to stop reading them. But I try to keep those images in perspective.
We should stop letting others define who and what we are. They mostly define what we are, not who, because they're treating us as things instead of as people. Nice, pretty things that brighten up a room, on which fashions drape perfectly, and which make good trophy girlfriends.
We should be true to ourselves and our own version of happiness. If we are thin and we like it, then we'll be that. If we're curvy and we like it, then we'll be that.
Everyone else should go find their own version of happiness. We'll be happy with ours.
Copyright 2011 by Rinth de Shadley.


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ISD wars begin: Jio now lets you make international calls at Rs 3/minute
Reliance Jio
After 'almost' eliminating incoming internet data, roaming charges, incoming and outgoing call charges, Reliance Jio has once again reared it head to offer international calls at prices as low as Rs 3 per minute through its new "rate-cutter plan", a move that is sure to give another nightmare to its rivals.
While Reliance Jio is no longer free, the telecom major is till now putting on a customer friendly face. April 15 was the last day to sign up for Jio Prime by paying Rs 99 plus another Rs 309 or Rs 509 for the first recharge. The Indian Express reports the Jio will start disconnecting services for those who have not gotten the Prime membership or gotten a recharge till now.
Jio's international call offers
Gone are the days when people had to pay through the roof for international calling charges. While WhatsApp and other social networking sites had already shared customers' burden of expenses through internet voice calls, Jio has broken barriers further down. According to the Reliance Jio website, the new "rate-cutter plan" Jim can be activated by recharging for Rs 501.
Here is what Jio is offering:
* International calls at prices as low as Rs 3 per minute
* Voice calls to US, UK, Canada, Hong Kong, Singapore, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Italy, Luxembourg, Malta, Poland, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Sweden, Switzerland and Taiwan just Rs 3 per minute.
* Calls to countries like France, Pakistan, Israel, Japan, Argentina, Denmark and South Korea can be made at Rs 4.8 per minute
Check out details here
Telecos struggle with fight back
While Bharti Airtel claims to be offering best international roaming rates to its travelling customers, Reliance Jio sops will give the telecom industry another nightmare.
An Airtel customer is traveling to Singapore and hasn't activated any pack. For this destination, Airtel's daily pack costs Rs 499, and includes unlimited incoming calls, free data, SMS and calls to India. If daily usage exceeds Rs 499, Airtel will automatically activate the Rs 499 pack at no added cost.
The news of this decision may prove to be another shock for India's top three telcos - Bharti Airtel, Vodafone India and Idea Cellular, denting both their customer base and revenue.
Just a couple of weeks ago, Vodafone India announced that its subscribers can enjoy roaming free data services even while abroad.
Meanwhile, analysts who track telecom industry say that the industry is going through a tough time while the customers are the real beneficiaries of the ongoing battles within the telecom industry.
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Capoeira is a traditional fusion of martial arts and dance that's kicked and twisted its way around the globe. African slaves in Brazil created Capoeira over 500 years ago. They developed the moves to convince their captors they were practising ritual dancing when really they were developing a strategic fighting technique.
Capoeira balances the body, soul, and mind. The art keeps its strong traditions and helps you break through limits, revitalizing you for everyday life. Capoeira builds your self-confidence, and the challenge is within anyone's reach regardless of age, race, gender or athletic experience. An intense physical and mental challenge between two 'players', Capoeira is characterized by deceptive kicks, sweeps, trips, head butts, and elbow and knee movements.
The game's energy, rhythm and speed are determined by music and songs. The berimbau, a single steel stringed bow, is the lead instrument. The music is completed by clapping, singing, pandeiro (tambourine) and atabaque (oblong drum). Fast tempos instigate games where the players throw fast, powerful kicks and blows at each other, with gymnastic movements. Slower tempos prompt more dance like moves, and more deception between the two players.


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Alumna's sculpture installed on Mount Vernon Campus.
By Menachem Wecker
Some professors practically live in libraries and archives. But Professor Who, as of June 3, perpetually camps opposite the Eckles Library on the Mount Vernon Campus.
The professor is neither a lazy scholar nor allergic to books; she's a 31-inch tall – 24 without the pedestal – steel sculpture of a squirrel by the late Bangkok-born artist Slaithong Chengtrakul Schmutzhart, M.F.A. '83.
Professor Who (1979) is one of two sculptures by the artist which her former husband, Berthold Schmutzhart, donated to the university in 2009. Free (1982), which depicts a seated woman with a bird on her lap, is in the Dimock Gallery awaiting placement, while Professor Who was installed earlier this month.
"Professor Who is one of many sculptures created to poke fun at our own awkwardness or naïveté in which we happen to find ourselves," the artist wrote in her master's thesis, titled Welded Steel Sculpture. "Many times the situation becomes too painful to cry so we laugh at it."
The squirrel, who reads a book with a centipede crawling on its pages, is part of a social critique of the so-called "civilized" world, in which people don't necessarily fit into a "premade package," according to the artist.
"So we hide our shortcomings, pretend we know something or subdue our ego and talent not to become offensive to others," she wrote.
The squirrel, perhaps the most heroic since Bullwinkle's costar Rocky, resists society's predefined roles.
"Professor Who is living exactly by the rules of her own class. She must be a learned person," Ms. Schmutzhart wrote. "Is Professor Who studying the book or does she pretend? Only Professor Who knows."
According to a Jan. 30, 2006 obituary in the Washington Post, Ms. Schmutzhart, who lectured in studio art, sculpture, ceramics, three-dimensional design and printmaking at Mount Vernon College from 1978 to 1991, was known for her "fanciful human and animal creations."
The artist also taught at Marymount College, American University and the Corcoran College of Art and Design, where she was on faculty for 22 years before retiring as an associate professor in 2002.
According to Mr. Schmutzhart, the artist had a scholarship to GW, where H. Irving Gates, then associate professor of sculpture, said she distinguished herself by working particularly hard on her master's thesis.
The thesis is packed with art historical, mythical and autobiographical background to the artist's works – from the inspiration of the "found objects" sculptor Louise Nevelson collected to the yin and the yang and an invented prince of Capitol Hill who is bad at war but good at music.
But Ms. Schmutzhart cautioned that the sculptures, however compelling, still could be improved upon.
"If the work ever turned perfect, I might as well disappear, because there would not be anything more for me to do or accomplish," she wrote.
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This is for former campers. I'd like to propose a simple and compact way of specifying which "group" you were in at Camp Robinson Crusoe - "group" in the sense of group of campers that stayed together as they advanced through the various camp levels (Junior, Sub-inter, Intermediate, and so on). My proposal:
Think of this as sort of your "graduating class" (from the main camp), just as people have a graduating class from College. I propose abbreviating this with a "CRC-" prefix.
For example, I was a "Super Senior" in 1955. Thus my "CRC group" was "CRC-55". If you were ever a Super Senior, the last two digits of that year specify your "CRC group". Your Super Senior year is sort of the year of your "graduation" from the main camp (by that analogy, Primitive is like graduate school).
It's a tiny bit trickier for someone who was never actually a Super Senior. Suppose a camper started at camp as a "Junior" in 1963, and attended for three years (Junior, Sub-inter, and Inter). Then that person's "group" would be designated "CRC-68". Although that camper did not attend long enough to actually become a "Super Senior", he or she would have been a "Super Senior" in 1968. After all, someone could have entered college as part of the "Class of 2000". Even if he left after only two years, he was still in the Class of 2000.
Your "CRC group" can be followed by the actual years you attended, in parentheses. I attended the camp from 1952 through 1959, so I could specify my time at camp as "CRC-55(52-59)". That tells both what "group" I was in, and when I was there.
Campers who share the same "CRC group" were in the same group of campers as it moved from one level to the next (or were in corresponding groups of the opposite sex).
Your "CRC group" does reveal your age, of course. You were born in the year 1887+(CRC group) or 1888+(CRC group). In my case, I was born in the year 1887 + 55 = 1942.
I'm proposing this convention because when writing about their camp experiences, former campers have been inconsistent about how they describe when they were at the camp, and what group they were a part of.
Here's my recollection of the camp level designations:
"Trainee" and "Forrester" were two levels of counselor-in-training. I didn't use the Primitive years as a reference point, because it turns out that the use of the various Primitive sites changed over the years. For a brief time, some campers used the "Wee Butte" site as a third year of Primitive. In later years, Primitive 1 made use of both the Squantum and Trout Pond sites (later only the Trout Pond site), and Primitive 2 moved to Wee Butte.
I'm not suggesting that people need to identify their group with every posting about their camp experience on Facebook. I just thought that there ought to be a compact, agreed-upon way in which one COULD identify his or her group.
Over the years, people have written things like "I was at the camp in 1955 and 1956", which always struck me as uninformative. Were you a Junior and Sub-Inter in those years? Or were you a Senior and Super Senior? If the former, I wouldn't have known you, even though we overlapped. If the latter, you were one group younger than I, and I might want to correspond more.
My theory is, if you're going to give information, try to give enough information to be useful. I'm just trying to help by suggesting a uniform way of doing it.
Some of you are no doubt thinking, "MIT brain at work." Some of you are thinking, "This guy is insane." But to me, this simplifies specifying my camp "cohort". What "group" was I in at Camp Robinson Crusoe? I was in "CRC-55" - the "CRC class of '55".
Now go back to the CRC Starting Page to decide where to go next.


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...snuggled up in bed with the bf and Little Prin in my onesie
(don't worry I've spared you the pictures of that :P)...
...sipping on my favourite tea - Fortnum and Mason's English Breakfast blend - it's incredible!- and munching on a pan au chocolate...
...after making myself some fresh juice with my new gadget...
...all ready to connect with some lovely bloggers through this Blogger Breakfast In Bed and answering some breakfast-related questions (right up my street because I love lazy Saturday mornings!)
Okay here we go...
What is the first thing you do on a lazy Saturday morning?
I'm definitely guilty of checking my social media on my iPhone and then padding downstairs to let Little Prin out and make myself a cup of tea ready to go spend a hour having a lovely relaxing bath, getting some quality reading time in :)
What would your ideal breakfast be, don't forget the coffee?!
Hmm, this is a tough one...a glass of pineapple juice, a good cup of tea (F&M preferably or loose leaf if I'm feeling particularly awake!) and some classic American pancakes with bacon and maple syrup - not the healthiest but defintely my ideal breakfast!
If you could have woken up this morning and been anywhere, where would it be?
The weather here in England at the moment is not very pleasant, we've got freezing rain constantly (okay, so it's no polar vortex but it's not much better!) - and I'm dreaming of warmer weather - so if I could have woken up anywhere it'd have to be somewhere glorious warm on a beach preferably with the ocean just a stones throw away!
Or failing that a marvellously luxurious hotel because I could use some pampering to distract me from all the stress the last semester of my third year is bringing me at the moment!
What is your favorite instagram filter?
Throughout my instragram life I've been dedicated to the Valencia filter but I've recently discovered the BeFunky app and I love using that to adjust the exposure/brightness/fill light of my photos and so I haven't really needed to use a filter when I do that!
By the way please feel free to check out {my instagram} @BelsMay13 and maybe give me a cheeky follow?! :P
I can't wait to check out all of the other bloggers taking part in the Blogger Breakfast In Bed - make sure you head on over to {Prep In Your Step} and check them out too!
Also, if you want to join in on the fun then post a picture of you enjoying your Saturday morning on instagram, tag Dorothy @prepinyourstep (and me if you want to @belsmay13 - I'd love that!) and use the hashtag #blogbreakfastinbed :)
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Second Single From New Album Hemingway's Whiskey Out Now
Written by J. T. Harding and Shane McAnally, "Somewhere With You" finds Chesney in new musical territory. "Somewhere With You" is very haunting," said Chesney. "The track, the feel of the song- it's really different than anything I've done. And what the song says is so true, because when you're trying to get over somebody, you do a lot of things to try to get over that person. You try to go out with somebody new, but you realize it's just a temporary high- like the song says. Getting over somebody is tough, it's really tough. There's always something to remind you of a time, a place, a memory, a feeling. And you always think about that person. And I think that's why this song is so powerful."
With Hemingway's Whiskey still sitting inside the Top 5, Chesney is set to release his critically-acclaimed football documentary "Boys of Fall" as a DVD, which is now available for pre-order at www.walmart.com and will be in stores only at Wal-Mart beginning November 9. The DVD package will feature the never-before-seen full-length 90 minute version of the documentary, which includes interviews with some of football's most successful commentators, coaches and players, such as Joe Namath, Brett Favre, Peyton Manning, John Madden, Tony Dungy, Bill Parcells, Nick Saban, Mack Brown, Jim Tressel and Bobby Bowden. "Boys of Fall," will also include bonus features, behind-the-scenes footage, the making of," and director/producer commentary.


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Anyway, until this clears up, I can't be writing. It is painful to think. I'll be back in the swing of things soon enough.
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get well soon.. i miss your comments about Houston's restaurants or flea market.. ;-)ReplyDelete
im so sorry. I hope you feel better soon. I know what your going though! we will miss you and await your HEALTHY return!
xoxox, Sara:)
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Rockin' The Blogger Tournament
We had 20 players total, most of whom were poker bloggers, some were regular contributors to the local forums, and some were online players. We had two of the last ACF wednesday champions, a couple of online pros, several of the regular rounders, the pokuh godfatha, a few guys who've won the Sky Tournament several times, and throw in the BBC500/bounty hunter winners and youve got one helluva poker tournament comin up!
Here's the full line-up. Barbiemanila and NickG, Maverick (me!), ManilaGrind, The German Snake (she's back!), Aris and Oging of XPL, Jonard of JPT, Del and Ed of ManilaPoker, Pola, Ariel, 11finger, Gamefrog and his cousin, Gino and Juano of StonerPoker, Che, Jazminator, and Jardine of JGPT.
We were supposed to start with 21 players including JJ the Duke, but he got a big headache and decided to go home before we started. Too bad bro, you missed a great game! It would have been a different game with the Duke in the house too hehe. We started off a bit slow, and only till about an hour in did we get someone to bust out. I won a ot of uncontested pots and built a nice stack early in the game, which i carried to the final table.
Some big hands i remember were one where i busted NickG (sorry bro hehe) when he raised with a small stack, and i just smooth called him with K-K on the big blind hehe. I Checked the 10-high flop, knowing he'd push. I called and he showed 9-9, and no 9 came to the rescue. GG nick! I also have to mention Del, who i sucked out on about three times during the night! First big hand against him was when i had 10-8 spades on the BB and called his min-raise from late position. Flop came Qs-7s-8d, and he pushed me all in (he was big stack on the table then) which i instantly called hehe. I spike the 10 on the turn and beat his QJ top pair. The two other hands came in the final table when i pushed with A-2 and cracked his Cowboys, crippling his stack, and then finally busting him out when we banged heads again and i spiked my over card against his 4-4. GG del!
If you were there to watch the game, you'll notice there were hardly any mistakes made, and there was always aggressive action on the table. CALL is not a word in most of these players vocabularies!
I finally made it ITM along with what turned out to be a BBC reunion of sorts, with Me, Barb, Che, And Mnlgrind being the final four players. It was a super tight game that point, tight being there was a lot of action but no bust outs. I almost eliminated Che when she made a move pushing with 4-3 suited which i called with her favorite hand The Ducks. She spiked the 3 on the river and doubled up on me! i made a few tight folds when Mark pushed UTG for about half my stack and i folded A-10 being next to act. Didnt play too aggressive with my big stack and eventually the blinds caught up with me and i busted out after che, finishing third.
Heads up ended up being a duel of the online pros, Barb and MnlGirnd (Mark). After a few hands, with Barb having about a 3-1 advantage, we had an all-in from barb with Q-10 vs Mark's A-8. Flop comes A-10-10 and it's all over! Good Game Mark!
Congratulations to Barb for winning (Again...) the first Pinoy Poker Blogger Invitational! Thanks to all those who came and supported the game too! Let's do it again!


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Who would have guessed that an erotica series would becoming the biggest book juggernaut since "Harry Potter"?
That's what things are looking like. This week, E.L. James' "50 Shades of Grey" and its sequels, "Fifty Shades Darker" and "Fifty Shades Freed" are poised to cross the 20 million mark in U.S. sales. As of July 2, publisher Vintage had tallied sales of the series at 19.4 million. Vintage brought the series to shelves in April; originally published by a small press in Australia, the book had already become an underground hit. The Wall Street Journal reports on the book's massive popularity:
"By comparison, Stieg Larsson's best-selling "The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo" trilogy took more than three years to reach the 20-million sales mark in the U.S. Those three books were released in the U.S. in 2008, 2009 and 2010."
"In the U.S., sales have been split nearly evenly between physical and digital versions, with 9.8 million paperbacks sold through July 2, compared with 9.6 million e-books during the same period, Vintage says."


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On how to quiet a baby
Tue 15 Mar 2011 - Filed under: Not a Journal., Joan Aiken | Leave a Comment | Posted by: Gavin
"I will only mention that, after a good deal of experiment, I found one infallible method of stopping the baby's howls. This was to put it in the pram and race it at top speed (I should say here that I had won the fifteen years and under three-quarter mile at the village sports) round and round the field. The baby liked this. Unfortunately Tweetie the dog didn't care for it; he was nervous about my running, maybe he thought I was trying to kidnap the child, and insisted on racing beside me, taking a nip out of my calf every so often and barking in a high-pitched hysterical manner."
—from "Harp Music" by Joan Aiken in The Monkey's Wife and Other Stories
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tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4938271652053699366.post7287287015862536364..comments2018-04-18T23:06:51.068-04:00Comments on Katie Isabella: No More BonksKatie Isabellahttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4938271652053699366.post-69112111147034269072017-03-08T19:31:03.764-05:002017-03-08T19:31:03.764-05:00Awwww, sweet Katie we are sorry your brovver had t...Awwww, sweet Katie we are sorry your brovver had to leave and you miss him so. We are very happy to hear that the brace is helping with your mom's pain and the bonking has stopped. Love, hugs and nose kisses Pooh and Chancyhttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4938271652053699366.post-5164800904800743942017-03-08T10:55:26.568-05:002017-03-08T10:55:26.568-05:00Hope your brower comes back again soon. Purrleased...Hope your brower comes back again soon. Purrleased Momma is having less painSavannah's Paw Trackshttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4938271652053699366.post-3837766155834766942017-03-07T14:13:42.662-05:002017-03-07T14:13:42.662-05:00If you tell your brother how much you miss him, I ...If you tell your brother how much you miss him, I bet he'll at least come visit more often. PURRSSeville at Nerissa's Lifehttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4938271652053699366.post-74315000865757146702017-03-06T23:16:35.364-05:002017-03-06T23:16:35.364-05:00Well, darling girl, thank COD she stopped hitting ...Well, darling girl, thank COD she stopped hitting you! I was going to paw-dial the SPCA if she didn't cut that out. I'm sorry brovver left you. That's really not right. If he was there when you came home, he should always be there. XOXOXOSpitty-the-Kittyhttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4938271652053699366.post-65893763928454934292017-03-06T21:06:01.103-05:002017-03-06T21:06:01.103-05:00Katie, I can just feel your loneliness for brovver...Katie, I can just feel your loneliness for brovver, curled up that way. I think it would be nice for you and for Mom if he moved back closer. Then he could see little sticky boy more often too.Simbahttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4938271652053699366.post-21129524256671371252017-03-06T18:04:04.338-05:002017-03-06T18:04:04.338-05:00Glad the BONKS are gone and that Mom is feeling be...Glad the BONKS are gone and that Mom is feeling better. She's a good soul and you KNOW she never meant to BONK you! lol xo DianaNanaDianahttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4938271652053699366.post-50283249019714119892017-03-06T17:54:23.519-05:002017-03-06T17:54:23.519-05:00I am glad your Mom feels better and you are not ge...I am glad your Mom feels better and you are not getting bonked. XOpilch92 15andmeowinghttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4938271652053699366.post-19550185775397845042017-03-06T17:21:01.701-05:002017-03-06T17:21:01.701-05:00I am glad the brace is helping your mum, Katie. I ...I am glad the brace is helping your mum, Katie. I am also glad you aren't getting bonked on the bonce any more.Flynnhttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4938271652053699366.post-62145690884893009262017-03-06T16:42:41.030-05:002017-03-06T16:42:41.030-05:00We're very glad to hear you aren't getting...We're very glad to hear you aren't getting bonked anymore, Miss Katie.And we hope your brother comes again very soon!

Purrs,
The ChansTom, Tama-Chan, Sei-Chan, Bibi-Chan, Gen-Chan, Vidock, Violettehttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4938271652053699366.post-47472533409691668712017-03-06T15:15:47.943-05:002017-03-06T15:15:47.943-05:00Good to hear there are no more bonks to your headGood to hear there are no more bonks to your headJo-Anne's Ramblingshttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4938271652053699366.post-90305687650210922542017-03-06T14:58:07.657-05:002017-03-06T14:58:07.657-05:00We are glad to hear the brace is helping! We are a...We are glad to hear the brace is helping! We are also glad to hear there won't be any more bonking. MOL!
Hope those hen's teeth don't keep your Mommy too busy.
Have a great week, you two!
>>SMOOCHIES<< from all of us.Angel Prancer Piehttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4938271652053699366.post-49653641096939482962017-03-06T14:57:58.628-05:002017-03-06T14:57:58.628-05:00Glad to hear you mom is feeling better and no bonk...Glad to hear you mom is feeling better and no bonks for you now.

Emma and BusterPhoto Cachehttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4938271652053699366.post-77698432988931745232017-03-06T12:50:38.288-05:002017-03-06T12:50:38.288-05:00We were just about to break into the ol' Bonki...We were just about to break into the ol' Bonking Blues for you, Katie. Are hen's teeth like chick-hen's teeth? And more importantly, can we eats them??Colehaus Catshttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4938271652053699366.post-72680333642263265572017-03-06T12:03:12.653-05:002017-03-06T12:03:12.653-05:00Glad your mom stopped bonking you :-) And glad the...Glad your mom stopped bonking you :-) And glad the brace is working well for her. You are so sweet napping on the bed your brother was using. I hope he will come back soon!Tamagohttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4938271652053699366.post-10334123469147755672017-03-06T10:55:05.064-05:002017-03-06T10:55:05.064-05:00We are glad to hear that the arm brace is working ...We are glad to hear that the arm brace is working and that it is helping your Mommy's arm get better.
And We are happy that you are no longer getting bonked.
And We will be absolutely delighted if you come to Caspurr's birthday pawty tomorrow.
Purrs.
Trixie, Caspurr and Shimshi.The J-Catshttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4938271652053699366.post-16504187963569882022017-03-06T09:36:58.436-05:002017-03-06T09:36:58.436-05:00Your mom seems to be quite a quick learner, Katie,...Your mom seems to be quite a quick learner, Katie, which is unusual in a human! I've never seen busy hen's teeth, but I have never looked that closely to be honest :-) xxxAustin Towershttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4938271652053699366.post-41290979627795918182017-03-06T09:29:56.357-05:002017-03-06T09:29:56.357-05:00Glad to hear you aren't getting bonked any mor...Glad to hear you aren't getting bonked any more.

Brother will be back, don't worry.SailorEdgarhttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4938271652053699366.post-52179320455532480012017-03-06T08:54:26.155-05:002017-03-06T08:54:26.155-05:00Happy to hear mom's arm is slowly getting bett...Happy to hear mom's arm is slowly getting better. We hope it keeps that up. Busier than "hen's teeth." Hmmmm, I didn't know chickens had toothies, but maybe they do. he he Mariodacathttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4938271652053699366.post-42356774909388235242017-03-06T07:46:37.724-05:002017-03-06T07:46:37.724-05:00Glad that Mom is a little better and has stopped b...Glad that Mom is a little better and has stopped bonging you.Hope she continues to get better.Marghttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4938271652053699366.post-54949657257709407952017-03-06T06:10:15.521-05:002017-03-06T06:10:15.521-05:00I think your brother will appreciate you keeping h...I think your brother will appreciate you keeping his spot warm for him, KI. I'm happy you're bonk-free and can stay close and take care of your mom.

Love and licks,
Cupcake smoki2https://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4938271652053699366.post-74819835446442653822017-03-06T05:15:32.472-05:002017-03-06T05:15:32.472-05:00Oh good - I was worried that the bonking might kee...Oh good - I was worried that the bonking might keep you from getting a proper amount of sleep at night! So glad the brace is working though. I'm sure you miss your brovver but I also am sure he will be visiting you again soon.

Love, Angel Sam and Tedonespoiledcathttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4938271652053699366.post-64395565525925380802017-03-05T21:40:20.899-05:002017-03-05T21:40:20.899-05:00Mes so furry happy that yous no longer getting any...Mes so furry happy that yous no longer getting any bonks! Mommys are pretty good at remembering things. And mes knows what yous means about favorite brothers...mes misses my human one and my Kozmo!
Kisses
NellieNellie Kowalikhttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4938271652053699366.post-39991047752384175342017-03-05T21:38:17.669-05:002017-03-05T21:38:17.669-05:00That's great news, Katie. No cat wants to get ...That's great news, Katie. No cat wants to get bonked.The Island Catshttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4938271652053699366.post-30186069249834949922017-03-05T21:18:02.232-05:002017-03-05T21:18:02.232-05:00We're so glad th brace is helping Mommy feel b...We're so glad th brace is helping Mommy feel better, and that you're not getting any more bonks, Katie. :)

We love that you love your brother so much. It's nice that he can visit you, even if it's not as often as you would like.

Big hugs!meowmeowmanshttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4938271652053699366.post-30563465446986429292017-03-05T19:28:31.646-05:002017-03-05T19:28:31.646-05:00Dearest Katie Isabella, Oh, our Kitties do exactly...Dearest Katie Isabella,
Oh, our Kitties do exactly the very same, they 'mourn' when our visitors leave and they LOVE to lay on the used beds... That's why I do leave the bed linens on a bit longer for them to sniff the ones they love so much!
So happy that the brace is working.
Happy new week to you all.
Hugs,
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Finding my poly self and my mono relationship
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Hello DeFelle,
Welcome to our forum.
When you finish the Ethical Slut, pick up a copy of "
Opening Up
," by Tristan Taormino. It may help you navigate this confusing swirl of non-monogamous possibilities, including how to handle a polyamorous/monogamous relationship.
On this site, I would do some searches and tag searches for mono/poly and seeing what comes up. Things are probably fine if your girlfriend just wants to be monogamous while letting you be polyamorous, but if she can't stand being with you when you're poly, then you have some hard decisions to make.
You should do quite a bit of reading on this site, along with posting your thoughts and questions, and try to decide, through that process, what it is you want and/or need in life. Is polyamory the only way for you, that will lead you to true happiness? Are one-night stands good enough? Don't hurry this decision.
I would actually not talk a lot about this decisionmaking process with your girlfriend unless she asks. Something about non-monogamy is upsetting her, so give her a rest from that upset for a little while. Raise the subject again when you feel sure of what you want (as far as relationship style is concerned). In the meantime, work on your relationship issues with her, and ask her what you can do to help her feel more reassured and happy with the relationship.
If it comes downs to a dealbreaker, e.g., you absolutely must pursue a poly lifestyle, and she absolutely can't deal with that in a relationship with you, then you may have to talk about breaking up. But that hasn't come up yet, and it may not come up in a long time, if ever. Let's cross that bridge when we get to it.
Maybe she thought she could do poly in theory, but in practice, her heart is saying no. That happens to people sometimes. Sometimes they can work through those feelings, sometimes they can't. Depends how hard-wired-for-monogamy your girlfriend is.
I hope Polyamory.com can be of some help.
Kevin T.
Good words, Kevin T., as I am working through many of the same emotions as those in this thread.
And thanks for putting so much of your time into this site. And us.
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How bad is the low end? Was thinking about getting a 2013 actually. 2014's are way too expensive right now. And 2012's are nowhere to be found.markymarc wrote:8. 11-7 is too big a gap. but get 2012 or 2014.
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…but it will never happen.
There are few people whose level of cynicism matches mine concerning ALL the chuckleheads in Washington DC. And there are…no exceptions. Democrat, Republican…they're all cut from the same tattered cloth of stupidity. Nor, as you may well know if you've endured my many obnoxious rants on this bizarre blog, am I a fan of the media. Conservative, Liberal…they all function as entertainment in lust for the almighty dollar. And that goes for media on the internet as well as the idiot box.
I will make an exception today, however, for Matt Welch's op-ed piece on cnn.com. Arnold bashing aside he has captured what I believe to be popular frustration concerning the DC Dumb-asses and is worth a read.
If I may quote a couple lines….
The country is out of money at every level, with entitlements and debt service alone poised to swallow the federal budget whole within a decade or two…
Obama's 10-year budget proposal this year — with its best-case projections of debt climbing to 77 percent of gross domestic product by 2020 — was final proof that the candidate who ran on enacting a "net spending cut," whose first budget was arrogantly (and inaccurately) titled "An Era of New Responsibility: Renewing America's Promises," is the most fiscally irresponsible president in at least a generation. Considering how bad his predecessor was, that's no small feat.
Instead of winning arguments, budget hawks will be trying to win press conferences. Instead of tackling reform, they'll be trying to tackle the buffoon on the other side of the cage.


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Can't win professional sports without money. Lots of money. But what can you do when you don't have tons of cash? Try using brains, stats, and maths? The only problem is: can brains, stats and maths win games?
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Recent assertions in the Los Angeles Times that secular family values result in better-adjusted children than believers rest on three fallacies.
The story also contains a marvelously pungent lede:
"The dominant feature of the Christian religion is belief in Jesus Christ. The dominant feature of Buddhism is the promise of nirvana. The dominant feature of atheism, as best I can tell, is crippling insecurity."


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Well last night I created myself a new signature set. It uses a waterfall wallpaper I found in a pack as the background and the font is Century Gothic Bold. I tried to make it smaller than most signatures I've made.
As the title states, I'm planning on using it throughout August and onward. 😀


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A big weekend of golf in Greystones. First up, it's our Fred Daly team as they play their 2nd match of the season on Friday, April 7 from 2.30pm against Woodbrook.
Please come out to support the team. Following that on Saturday, Des Guilfoyle's prize kicks off with a day packed full of matches. Best of luck to Des and all of competitors.


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The smokescreen will just get thicker and thicker as the discussion of financial reform proceeds.
The real goal for the dealers, of course, is to protect profits that arise from customers not knowing as much as the dealers know. For that reason, we should expect that any compromise includes substantial carve-outs for "custom" deals in the swaps market that keeps pricing hidden away.
This Bloomberg article should give us a clue.
As I think back to the organizational meetings I had when setting up a bond-oriented hedge fund myself, my colleagues and I came to the conclusion that Bear Stearns and Lehman were by far the leaders in servicing bond managers, but more on that later.
As I said when Bear Stearns was gifted to JP Morgan with a $29 billion non-recourse credit line from the taxpayer, the real value was the Prime Broker business the Bear had with its hedge fund customers.
There was a balanced book of over-the-counter CDS contracts that would eventually need to be unwound, and the Prime Broker was going to be in the position of setting the prices.
To make it easy, imagine that book was a trillion dollars (it was more). Imagine also that there was a bid/offer spread of two points (it was more). So that makes the eventual take equal to half of the bid/offer applied to the entire book of business, or at least 1% of a trillion dollars. That's $10 billion in profit. Now you see why I call it a gift when JP Morgan put $1 billion at risk alongside the taxpayer's $29 billion. We'll ignore for the time being the $2 billion or so per year of carry profit thrown off by the portfolio.
The only option available to a customer that didn't like the price they were given by their original counterparty was to attempt to find another counterparty willing to enter a newly originated contract with equal and opposite terms. That way the customer would have no exposure on the swap any more, except that they would have the counterparty exposure to both counterparties for the life of the contract. Oops. For mortgage bonds, that exposure extended out for as much as 30 years.
In 2007, of course, the fixed-income hedge fund Prime Broker business had exploded, with huge Credit Default Swap positions being taken on by the Dealers and their hedge fund customers.
The place where the business was the most opaque was the "single name" CDS. You could get into a position, but you might not like the price of getting out.
We were treated to daily lists of "OWIC's" or Offers Wanted in Competition. There was a huge appetite to open up these positions, but nobody seemed to be thinking what would happen if the market needed at some point to close them down.
Even the publicly-available indices of CDS had very wide bid/offer levels, so that selling at the offer was as much as a 10% profit over buying at the bid.
If you look at the market commentary during the early days of the ABX (subprime CDS bond index) discussion, you'll see that the dealers were positioning it as a way they and others could offer a "more liquid" and "transparent" means of hedging. That was true, at least compared to the single-name business.
So now we know that Paulson and Co. did most of their business with single-name CDS, at least until the business was already rolling over for its final dive into the ground, roughly the time of the infamous ABACUS 2007-2A1.
How much could their friendly Prime Brokers take? My guess is plenty. After all, paying $15 million to arrange a big block (some reports say $1 billion) was a good deal. Compare that to a bond market that regularly quotes bonds in 32nds and 64ths of a percent. One and a half percent is basically unheard of.
Look again at the numbers in the Bloomberg article. To let customers buy and sell stocks in large blocks without actually buying or selling in the markets, the European equity swap dealers made roughly ten times the fees they made raising new equity. Yikes! And I thought 5% commissions on a IPO were a lot!
So watch the exceptions and carve-outs. That will tell you how successful the Dealers are in protecting their informational advantage over their customers.
I'll go so far as to say this: We will probably seen transparency and efficiency only in the parts of the market the Dealers need to hedge their own positions.
To see proof of how this works, just look at the futures markets. Among the most efficient (and super-levered) markets in the world are the ones where you can buy or sell S&P futures or positions in US Treasury bonds. That's the stuff the Dealers need to manage their own risk, and they make sure they get a good deal with miniscule bid/offer spreads when they are the customer. They also require tiny amounts of capital to enter those positions. Leverage and efficiency, writ large.
For that reason, given the significance of the swap markets, I expect to see the Dealers throw their support behind very efficient and transparent markets in a selection of "plain vanilla" swaps and CDS.
Just enough for them to manage their overall exposures while they continue to negotiate hugely innefficient one-off deals with their customers and keep those from being disclosed.
Just my opinion, but it would be a win-win for the Dealers. Note that they'll say it's a win-win for Dealers and customers. They just won't tell you that they will be the biggest customers on the part of the market that becomes efficient.


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Are Facebook Ads A Good Idea?
Without understanding how it works, and without understanding completely whether or not you will make a return in your profit, you would not want to drop money into a new ad or new part of your business. If you are a business owner who that has done this in the past, and if you are someone who is looking to promote their product using Facebook ads, read this article carefully! You do not want to fall into that same trap again and again.
The digital marketing space, because of its size and influence, is overflowing (and always has been) with ads, marketing, products and all sorts of other services that are all competing for your money. This can (and will) make it difficult for you to choose, or even know anything about, an ad service or marketing product.
You are obviously not the only person in the world to feel this frustration and face this problem. On Facebook, people are creating unsuccessful ads and losing money left and right because they do not know what they are getting into when they sign up for Ad-shares. This is mainly because of their own amateur set of skills, but also (and more importantly) because of Facebook's ever-changing algorithm and ad-calculating services.
The first and foremost nugget of advice I can and any other successful online entrepreneurs can give you, is to learn how to measure what your return will be. Do not focus too much on the up-front costs, because it's the return that matters. Would you rather put up $1,000 and get $40,000 over the course of 3 months, or put up $3,400 and get $80,000 over the same period of 3 months?
The next piece of advice is to do your research (don't be afraid to focus a few days or weeks on it, as it is crucial) and to choose the right starting point. If your end goal is to convert a certain percentage of people so that they purchase a 3-product kit of whatever from your online e-commerce store, you may think your best option would be to run an ad directly for that product, but that would be a grave mistake.
You would want to start with something called a 'tripwire' which is a marketing term for a one-time offer. This means that you offer whoever you are targeting (as your target audience) a substantial discount if they were to either sign up for your mailing list or purchase your product right then and there.
Before you release your ad (or ads) full-time, you will want to test your target audience using Facebook's ad tester/planner tool. Facebook ads have one specific and direct target audience, so correctly choosing the right audience can be somewhat confusing and challenging. By starting a tripwire ad, which is what we discussed before, you can test out your different audiences and see what click-to-conversion ratios you get from each audience. Say you run a recycling business called "Waste Focus", and you want to send ad viewers to the Waste Focus website. To do that, you don't want to target, say, people looking to have a one time trash removal service. So you will want to focus the audience in the ad setup on the right niche of people interested in recycling, not general trash removal.
Approaching all of your ads strategically and with a plan is mind is certainly something you can use to create a successful Facebook ad. You don't technically need to have a service or product already planned out before you start your mailing list and ad services, too.
After you have done all of this, you can begin to accurately calculate and balance your data. Using a reactive spreadsheet, such as Excel, is particularly useful in this case. The old saying that goes, 'Know your numbers!' really is a perfect anecdote in this case, because it applies in just about every business you could run, and especially when it comes to managing your Facebook ads.
All in all, the same rule applies; if you would not throw random amounts of money into the pit that is a new business approach, then you also would not want to dump money into Facebook ads without knowing how to properly work them!
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A Plymouth resident says the city's Human Rights Committee has gone the way of other metro cities' groups — "in the junk drawer."
The City Council told Ada Alden last week that the committee, which hasn't met since January, won't meet again in 2013; they will reconsider its role in December or January.
"It's alarming to me," said Alden, who's on the League of Minnesota Human Rights Commissions board. "A citizen human rights commission provides helpful guidance and information to the City Council, and we don't have it."
Instead, Mayor Kelli Slavik told her, its main role — to educate the community about human rights — will be done by Parks and Recreation; police will take complaints.
"A board that meets quarterly or even monthly is not in a position to provide immediate relief if there's a concern," she said at the meeting, adding that education efforts "didn't have great success."
An all-citizen human rights commission was converted in 2011 into a committee with Slavik and other city leaders.
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If readers of Connecting with Culture are typical of the British population – and surely they are?! – then around a thousand will be members of a gym. (And if they are really typical, most of them will rarely use their membership.)
Gym membership has grown significantly in Britain over recent years, even if 30 minutes on a treadmill remains a nicer idea in theory than in practice. We join gyms, often after Christmas overindulgence, to look better, feel healthier and to be able to do those things that previously left us gasping for breath.
At the same time, the re-emergence of 'the spiritual' over recent years – albeit often in bizarre or self-obsessed forms – testifies to our growing disenchantment with disenchantment. We are more than bodies, even if those bodies are gloriously tanned and toned.
This leaves something of a gap in the market, explored by a new book entitled Spiritual Fitness.
Where can we go today to get spiritually fit? Plenty of places offer classes on meditation but where would you go if you wanted to learn patience, forgiveness, faithfulness, self-control or humility?
How about church? The idea will seem ridiculous to many (including many churchgoers) but it is not, as the author Graham Tomlin notes, too far removed from the New Testament's vision of what a church should be.
Exercise is a favourite metaphor in the epistles and throughout its history the Church has, albeit sporadically, taken seriously the challenge to help people develop the heart, mind and life of Christ, through training and discipline.
This raises some questions, not least how you reconcile the call to spiritual fitness with a gospel of grace, but Tomlin addresses these by revisiting some of the more fraught debates of Christian history.
Is this the answer to declining church attendance? Yes and no. Any attempt to turn churches into spiritual fitness centres simply to up their membership are destined to fail as hollow PR initiatives.
But if, as Tomlin writes, 'local churches were capable of enabling people to acquire the qualities that reflect the nature of God, if they became known as places where you could learn how to love, to trust, to hope, to forgive, to gain wisdom for life, then they might begin to be attractive, perhaps even necessary, places to belong to.'
That's a challenge – but it's no more daunting that the thought of half an hour on a treadmill.
Nick Spencer
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For more details about Spiritual Fitness, visit www.continuumbooks.com.
For details about Graham's book The Provocative Church, visit spck.org.uk.
Tomlin mentions in the book 'Renovare', which offers a programme for the practice of spiritual disciplines in small groups: visit renovare.org.
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There's a letter on the table..
A piece of paper yet no label.
A letter with few words, few lines.
I don't believe what read my eyes.
Cause what they read is that you're gone.
You couldn't be with us no more.
Your body aching, heart and soul,
the only way was – end it all…
The tears are pouring from my eye,
you're now my angel in the sky.
Oh God, if I could turn back time,
to be with you that wintertime…
I can't imagine how you felt,
what made you go and take that belt.
What kind of power over-flew you,
what monster feeling mind went trough?
Destruction – only thing that's left behind.
Our hearts are aching, I'm losing my mind.
No matter how much time goes by,
question will always remain – WHY?
I pray for you each day in my life.
This wound of you gone – cuts deep like a knife.
Our lives will never be the same again,
for you are not here – to ease the pain.
The letter silently falls on the floor.
The clock would stop, gentle breeze would blow..
I pray for this seconds when I feel you near,
wait a bit longer – then you disappear…
Light up a candle, beside lay the Rose.
Guiding your way, bring light to the shadows…
© Chilli Regina, October 2016


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|All those bracelets I made, except for the brown band with the star.
Bracelets are fun and real basic to accomplish!
Creating music or an art, gives you this feeling that is too perplexing to describe, yet it is something like the feeling of after the gym or after a cat nap! Accomplishment... Yes, Indeed. No matter your passion sewing or theatrics do whatever makes you happy!
This post was inspired by a song by Mama Cass " Make Your Own Kind of Music. If you got sucked into the fantastic phenomenon of the television program "Lost", you may recognize this song. Therefore, that is where I discovered this song from! (Skip to 45 seconds on this video!
Now to feed my Vincent (from lost) obsession...
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Oh WOW have I been bad. It's been nearly a month since I graced my (non-existent I'm sure) audience with my presence!
To be fair, I have been trying to adjust to this whole college-living-on-my-own-HEY-THAT'S-A-LOT-OF-READING-what-I-have-an-essay-due-already? dynamic, plus NUTCRACKER HAS STARTED.
Nutcracker is my life.
But Nutcracker is for another post (Tomorrow? Maybe if I alternate nut posts with writing posts I'll be on here more - I LOVE talking about nut). Right now I want to focus on another idea - momentum.
"Inertia is the death of creativity. You have to keep moving, keep making. So much of making art is muscle memory, keeping your routine…"
I stole this from somewhere on this website, I think, and if I didn't go look at the website anyway cause it's cool. I read that and thought YES. That is the crux of the problem, isn't it? Inertia. Objects at rest tend to stay at rest. (Little mini physics lesson there)
I was doing so well with my whole 750 words thing. I was writing every day. And then, I missed a day because I went out to dinner with some family friends and didn't get back until 1 in the morning.
The next day, I didn't write.
I thought, it's okay that I miss another day, I've already broken my streak, I can start back tomorrow.
Guess what happened the next day?
It's hard to keep doing something, day after day, but it's even harder to stop and then start again. It's easy to stop doing something and then keep not doing it. What a vicious cycle...
But today, I'm BREAKING THE CYCLE!
You ask, skeptically, (or maybe you don't, but for the sake of argument let's say you do):
"What makes today different from any other day?"
Two reasons. One, I've acknowledged my problem and consciously decided to change my pattern of behavior. Two, I'm bribing myself with cookies :)


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"the joys and demands of parenthood"
- A feeling of extreme happiness or cheerfulness, especially related to the acquisition or expectation of something good. They will be a source of strength and joy in your life.
"a child's joy on Christmas morning"
- (obsolete) The sign or exhibition of joy; gaiety; merriment; festivity.
- Luck or success; a positive outcome.
- (intransitive) To feel joy, to rejoice.
- (transitive, obsolete) To gladden; to make joyful; to exhilarate.
- (transitive, obsolete) To give joy to; to congratulate.
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Wednesday, January 2, 2008
A day long bad dream
Dreamed last night that I had a staph infection on my left hand. I squeezed the puss out of the small infection, but knew it could be potentially fatal. It was the result of my having to use the hand scanner at work. Meanwhile, my right hand had a growing rash, which it does in real life (perhaps as a result of the hand scanner at work).
Woke up with a sense of dread.
Boarded an express train this morning with time to spare, but the train hardly moved along the track. The train conductor announced delays were due to a "ill passenger on the platform at 42nd street." We spent 40 minutes in the tunnel, creeping along without much progress. We passed a blond women squatting against a pillar on another platform, surrounded by a few burly men. Passing the problem didn't make the train move any faster.
I had to pay for the blond woman's sudden collapse, as I was now almost fifteen minutes late for work.
It was 9:44 when I attempted 3 times to scan myself into work. The machine refused my ID.
This meant that I had to send an email to four "administrators" about it. Someone from HR shot me an email, "I'm coming down to find out what is the problem."
She came to my office and walked me to the scanner. She was the same person who forced me to demonstrate the scanner ability to read my hand three times last week. I felt like a prison inmate.
It was 10:02 and the machine worked this time. Now my electronic time sheet had the wrong time.
I sent an email to all the big shots to get one of them to fix it.
Then I discovered I was never paid last week.
And then I discovered that I was never given comp time for all my extra hours back in November.
Emails flew back and forth. Finally they cut me a check. The day ended with an elevator ride with some HR big shot. I pulled out my liquid soap-free disinfectant and methodically washed my hands after scanning out.
I turned to her and said, using the hand scanner is disgusting experience. It's so antiseptic.
She said, "I know but we all have to use it."
This was a bold face lie and she knew it. The salary cap protects management. And so their two tiered system continues to control the movement of some while privileging others to move freely without recourse.
1 comment:
- Deborah Hall said...
Wake up, Alice. You've slipped down the steam hole.
I can feel your dread in all of this from dreams to interactions.
- January 4, 2008 at 2:44 PM
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The Pressures of Being a Student and Having a Job at the Same Time.
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C. difficile strikes Cape Breton again
Nine hospital patients are now ill
There has been another outbreak of C. difficile at the Cape Breton Regional Hospital in Sydney.
Three patients in the medical unit have been infected, bringing the total to nine people with the hospital-acquired infection, Clostridium difficile.
This is the second unit at the hospital to report the infections.There are three confirmed cases in the Intermediate Care unit since Dec. 22.
The Cape Breton District Health Authority Visitor has put visting restrictions in place in both units.
C. difficile is a bacteria which causes diarrhea and abdominal pain and is spread person to person. It is commonly found in the intestine, but infections can be life-threatening for those taking antibiotics or who have serious pre-existing health issues.
Last spring, an outbreak was declared when 49 patients across the district contracted C. difficile and bacteria was implicated in six hospital deaths.


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Kaia Gerber, the 16-year-old daughter of supermodel Cindy Crawford, has just wrapped her first New York Fashion Week and we all couldn't stop staring. From Calvin Klein to Rihanna's Fenty x Puma line, the young supermodel in the making hasn't missed a step in following in her mother's shoes.
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Brown Signs All 27 Budget Bills; Line-Item Vetos Hit Child Care, Parks
June 28, 2012 5:40 p.m.
Calif. Gov. Jerry Brown has signed all 27 bills that will encompass the state budget for the fiscal year that starts on Sunday. He also issued nearly $200 million in line-item vetoes – about $130 million of which are to the state's general fund.


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|Garcinia Cambogia Whole Body
The best Garcinia Cambogia extract products are made from only 100% pure Garcinia Cambogia, 50% of which should consist of hydroxycitric acid (HCA), which is a natural chemical compound. Garcinia Cambogia HCA is now recognized as one of the most powerful natural substances for appetite control, inhibiting fat production, and even improving mood.
How Does This Diet Supplement Work?
The natural hydroxycitric acid that is found in this substance has the ability to inhibit production of alpha-glycosidase in the intestinal system. This means that your body cannot process carbohydrates in the normal way, and because of this, fat production is going to be inhibited. In real terms, what this means is that you can essentially eat the same diet were eating now, but without gaining weight.
What Kind Of Weight Loss Should You Expect from the Tamarind Fruit?
It should be said that there are still some studies been done on the original Garcinia Cambogia, but one study showed that by taking HCA and reducing caloric intake to approximately 1,200 calories per day, the average purchase was able to lose approximately 14 pounds over six months.
While that level of weight loss may not seem like a lot, it is important to keep in mind that these individuals were not adding any additional exercise to your lifestyle, and they were still able to lose more than 2 pounds per month very easily. Most people would be very happy with those kinds of results!
Are there Additional Benefits to Taking This Dietary Supplement?
With many diet products, there is usually a long list of side effects that can be very common, some of which can make a product completely unbearable. But, in the case of this uniquely natural diet product, the opposite seems to be true. Pure Garcinia Cambogia has been shown to be a powerful appetite suppressant as well is a fat inhibitor, and it can help to boost the resting metabolic rate of a healthy person.
Since this also acts as a serotonin booster, many people experience improved sleep and improve mood while taking tamarind extract, making it a beneficial supplement for those who are prone to emotional eating.


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LUXA2 Alum X iPhone 4/4S Case Launched
LUXA2 presents its Alum X iPhone 4/4S case.
Made with premium grade aluminum and CNC-machined, Alum X offers two iPhone 4/4S cases in a single lightweight package including a bumper case and a back covered case. Lined with shock absorbing cushions, the Alum X case has precise cutouts for all the controls and ports, and holes for iPhone lanyard accessories. The interchangeable accessories allows users to use it as a bumper case or back covered case.
The Alum X iPhone 4/4S case is available in gun metal, bright aluminum, and metallic red.
Source: LUXA2