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Wednesday, October 9, 2013
Pocahontas: History vs. Hollywood
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- AnonymousOctober 9, 2013 at 10:17 AM
Yes I do think the Powhatan tribe had a right to mad at the Disney Film Productions ( Pixar ) for disguising Pocahontas for who she really is. There were many differences between the 1995 Pocahontas and the 1607 Pocahontas. In real life, she was 12 and in Disney she was 28 ( same age as John Smith ). Plus John Smith didn't even marry Pocahontas. John Rolfe did.ReplyDelete
They also lied about John Smith's injury. In real life, John Smith was included in a gunpowder explosion and in Disney he jumped in front of a bullet to save Pocahontas's Dad. That's why I think the Powhatan tribe have a right to be mad at Pixar for disguising Pocahontas.
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- AnonymousOctober 9, 2013 at 10:22 AM
After learning about Pocahontas, I don't believe that the present Powhatan tribe should be angry with Disney. I think this because, the differences in the movie shouldn't be anything offensive considering they were only of who she married, how she looked, and how John Smith was injured. And also they shouldn't care how he was injured because he was considered the leader of Jamestown and was also sought as part of the Powhatan family.ReplyDelete
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I personally believe that disney should not have lied and turned pocahontas into a little kid and completely happy movie. Since it wasn't actually how disney portrayed it i see why the indians are mad. She was a 12 year old girl and apparently loved a like 30 year old men. Disney turning history around that wasn't really a happy thing to begin and turning it into something that is isnt really the right thing to do.ReplyDelete
I personally believe that disney should not have lied and turned pocahontas into a little kid and completely happy movie. Since it wasn't actually how disney portrayed it i see why the indians are mad. She was a 12 year old girl and apparently loved a like 30 year old men. Disney turning history around that wasn't really a happy thing to begin and turning it into something that is isnt really the right thing to do.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousOctober 9, 2013 at 5:39 PM
In reality Pocahontas is very different than the way she appears in the Disney film. The movie is full of lies about her life and this has offended her tribe, the Powhatan Native Americans. I feel that the Powhatans have a right to be offended by Disney's portrayal of Pocahontas because I would feel offended too if someone made a movie about one of my relatives/friends where everything was not the truth. I think the Powhatans could think that the people who created the movie were embarrassed by the actual story of Pocahontas. The filmmakers changed everything about her appearance. They made her have long, flowing black hair and perfect teeth, when in fact Pocahontas did not have any of these features; she was bald and had imperfect teeth. This could have inferred to the Powhatans that the filmmakers didn't think that Pocahontas was beautiful the way she was. It stated in the reading, that they didn't include John Rolfe, Pocahontas' real husband, in the movie because they didn't want anything interfering with her and John Smith's love story, which some historians say, there never was. Why wouldn't the Powhatan Native Americans be offended? They could take this movie as an insult to their tribe because maybe they thought that the filmmakers didn't approve of Pocahontas' choices. If they were trying to make the movie "kid friendly" they should at least have told the truth about Pocahontas, and if they couldn't do that, they shouldn't have made the movie in the first place. In conclusion, Pocahontas' ancestors could have taken the Disney movie as an insult and thought that people were embarrassed by her real life.ReplyDelete
Katy M.
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- AnonymousOctober 27, 2013 at 3:38 PM
I agree Katy! I watched the movie after learning about Pocahontas, and Disney left out so much important information! I understand that they had to make it more kid-friendly, but I don't understand why they made Pocahontas fall in love with John Smith instead of John Rolfe. I also agree that if Disney didn't like the history of Pocahontas, then why did they even have to make the movie in the first place? The Powhatan tribe have every right to be angry for what Disney did to their beloved ancestor.Delete
Nicole W. Period 5-9A
- AnonymousOctober 9, 2013 at 7:24 PM
I believe that the Powhatan Indians deserve to be mad about what Disney has done. First of all the entire movie is inaccurate and is giving kids the wrong message. I know that the life story of Pocahontas is a rough and violent one,but Disney just bended the truth of what happened to Pocahontas. They say in the movie John Smith married Pocahontas,but Pocahontas married John Roalf. In the movie the stated that Pocahontas was the same age as John Smith who was 28. In real life Pocahontas was only 12. Disney completely rewritten the history books and made an entirely different story about Pocahontas, I completely understand why the Powhatan Indians are outraged by the way Disney lied to them about Pocahontas's real story.ReplyDelete
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- AnonymousOctober 9, 2013 at 9:30 PM
I believe that the Powhatan Indians to have the right to be offended over Disney's lies and fake romance involving the young Pocahontas .Being the daughter of the chief, Pocahontas was portrayed as a "princess" in the Disney movies which is historically incorrect. To add onto this, Pocahontas was played into an older role but when John Smith was in Virginia, she was only about 12 years old. Also, that little "romance" between her and Smith was not true at all, she was married to Rolfe and even before she was married to him she was married to Kokobaum. Disney forgot to add that she was never beautiful nor pretty because she had no hair and imperfect teeth and that she danced naked for the Englishmen in her free time. Although this did ruin my childhood, I believe that now I know about this I can have a say about all of it. I do believe that the Powhatan Indians have the right to be upset with Disney's historically incorrect portrayal of the "perfect" princess Pocahontas.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousOctober 10, 2013 at 9:25 AM
No, I don't believe the Powhatans have any right to be offended by Disney's portrayal of Pocahontas. They need to realize that the movie was made for kids, and most of the things that really happened wouldn't fit into a kids movie. Also, if all the events that actually happened were put into the movie, it would be way too long, and it would be extremely confusing for again… the children. Although I do understand that it should be historically accurate so the kids can learn about Pocahontas from the film, it's still accurate enough to learn a little about her, along with John Smith. Finally, if they didn't put the romance between Smith and Pocahontas in the movie, the film would really have no plot, and therefore, not be good movie. In conclusion, I believe the Powhatans need to understand that if everything that actually happened in real life happened in the movie, nobody would enjoy it as much, nor would it be appropriate for younger audiences.
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- AnonymousOctober 10, 2013 at 5:15 PM
In my opinion, the Powhatan Native Americans do have a right to be offended by Disney's portrayal of Pocahontas. Reasons for these are: She is the daughter of Powhatan, She is described very differently from the movie, and because she is significant to the history of the Powhatans. It is said in the site that she is "the apple of his eye," ;which means that she is the favorite of Powhatan. When I saw the site, I realized how important she is for the tribe. Which really made me think what she really looks like. Perhaps one day Disney can make an even newer movie that really connects to the real life of Pocahontas.ReplyDelete
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- AnonymousOctober 10, 2013 at 8:39 PM
I don't think that the Powhatan Native Americans had the right to be mad at Disney's portrayal of Pocahontas. The reason I say that is because its hard for a kid/child to sit and watch a movie when it's not interesting to them. Also because the real story of Pocahontas might be too violent for the kids who actually watch the movie. Another reason why I don't feel like the Powhatan Native Americans had a right to be mad is because the real story might be to confusing. I wonder if the Powhatan Native Americans sent an angry letter about the second Pocahontas.ReplyDelete
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- AnonymousOctober 15, 2013 at 12:47 PM
I don't agree with you.I believe that John Rolfe should be in the movie instead of John Smith.Besides,John Smith told lies in real life to Pocahontas and the Powhatan Indians.Also,John Rolfe was married to Pocahontas.This is why I don't agree with you.Delete
Zach P. P5-P9B
- AnonymousOctober 13, 2013 at 7:58 PM
The Disney movie of Pocahontas portrayed her as a young adult Native American, who was the love interest of the famous John Smith. This however is not true at all. The real Pocahontas was actually way younger than Smith, in fact 16 years younger. They had no love interests, more like a father and daughter relationship. I do think Disney was wrong for making the movie this way, and I do think the people of Pocahontas' culture should be aloud to be mad at Disney. For example, they made history totally wrong. As a young child, I would have liked to know the real story of Pocahontas, rather than a made up story from someone's imagination. Even though the way Pocahontas died was quite tragic, and some parts of her life story were a little graphic for little children's eyes, they could've taken those parts out, and tweaked it so it was good for childrens eyes. For all the war and gruesome parts of Pocahontas' life, the Disney company could've been removed and replaced with something totally different, something that was less harmful for children to see. Overall, I do think Disney did the wrong thing by changing the story of Pocahontas.ReplyDelete
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- AnonymousOctober 14, 2013 at 2:42 PM
Do you feel the Powhatan Native Americans have a right to be offended by Disney's portrayal of Pocahontas,well I don't! It is a childrens movie! Do you really think,children want to know about all the bad stuff? Well guess what,they shouldn't! Yes Disney made her completely different with long beautiful dark hair,and perfectly straight teeth,so that could have maybe upset them a little. But do you really think it would be a good idea to put like a ugly bald "princess" in a disney movie,it would not. Also in the Disney movie Pocahontas,Pocahontas fell in love with John White, when in history she fell in love with John Rolfe. So I guess the Powhatan Native Americans could get offended,but they shouldn't. By:Serena Nerau 1-2BReplyDeleteReplies
- AnonymousOctober 15, 2013 at 5:20 PM
I respect your opinion good job.-Serena's momDelete
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- AnonymousOctober 15, 2013 at 9:49 AM
I believe that the Powhatan Indians have a perfectly great reason to feel angry with Disney's recreation of Pocahontas. I feel this way because the princess in the Disney story is COMPLETELY different than the historical correct Pocahontas. For example, the Disney version shows a beautiful glowing woman fall in love with John Smith. When in reality she fell in love with John ROLFE and was kidnapped. Not so kid friendly is it? If the Pocahontas topic is to inappropriate for kids don't use that story.ReplyDelete
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- AnonymousOctober 15, 2013 at 12:41 PM
I feel that the Powhatan Native Americans have a right to be offended by the Disney's portrayal of Pocahontas because in the movie,it has Pocahontas at the age of twenty-one and at that time in real life,she would have been at the age of twelve.In addition,Pocahontas died at the age of twenty-one.Also,in the movie,it shows that Pocahontas falls in love with John Smith.On the other hand,in real life,Pocahontas falls in love with John Rolfe and marries him.Also,in real life,John Smith told lies to Pocahontas and the Powhatan Indians so that he will receive respect from them.In my opinion,the director of the Pocahontas movie was very disrespectful of not having John Rolfe instead of John Smith.ReplyDelete
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- AnonymousOctober 17, 2013 at 2:37 PM
I believe the Powhatan Indians have the right to be upset with Disney because they didn't get the story right of Pocahontas or the image of her right. Pocahontas was bald and her teeth were not perfect, but in the Disney film Pocahontas had perfect teeth and long black hair. For the Disney story line Pocahontas fell in love with John Smith when in real life she married John Rolfe.ReplyDelete
Madelynn S.
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I believe that the Powhatan should not be mad at Hollywood for the children's movie Pocahontas. I feel that it is just a movie and they should get over it. I'm Italian and movies are always mad and jokes about how all Italians are in the mob. Ad I don't complain I just get over it and move on.ReplyDeleteReplies
- AnonymousOctober 17, 2013 at 8:36 PM
I thought that the movie was just based on a historical figure and told as a Disney story. The facts didn't have to be accurate because it was based on a true story. Barbara VolpiDelete
Thank you for replying, Mrs. Volpi! We had a great discussion in class about this topic and I really enjoy hearing the students' and parents' points of view!Delete
- AnonymousOctober 20, 2013 at 12:13 AM
I believe that the Powhatan Native Americans should cool down and not be offended about the animated film "Pocahontas" from Disney, A family-friendly company! They need to understand it was just a cartoon for kids to watch. The reason Disney cut some historical parts from the story is because it was inappropriate. For instance, Pocahontas had danced naked in front of the Englishmen. If I was a parent of my kid, and he/she was watching that, I would have had my child scared from that view! To add to that, she was known to be bald and to have uneven, crooked teeth. That could be very disturbing! To sum it up, if I was to be apart of the Powhatan Native American tribe I would be embarrassed considering that they had shown the real history about my tribe to kids. It can be improper, and upsetting to watch.ReplyDelete
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- AnonymousOctober 22, 2013 at 5:16 PM
I truly respect your opinion on the decision you have made on the movie and history of Pocahontas . Good Job! I did not know that Pocahontas from Disney was not based on the real story! - Rachel's MomDelete
I agree with Rachel. It was made as a Children's movie not a historical movie to be aired on National Geographic or the History Channel! I would not like to watch a bald little girl with crooked teeth dancing naked in front of men! They fit the movies for kids to be able to watch and not be disturbed!Delete
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- AnonymousOctober 21, 2013 at 6:20 PM
I believe the Disney movie Pocahontas was made to be age appropriate, for a younger audience. I am sure the movie was made for more entertainment purposes then factual events. I do feel as though that they could have made Pocahontas more true to her form, no one is perfect and it is probably a good time to teach children this lesson. The story could still be wonderful, interesting, and fun if they represent Pocahontas with her imperfections.ReplyDelete
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- AnonymousNovember 24, 2013 at 12:11 PM
Thank you for posting, Mrs. Spears. I agree with you!Delete
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- AnonymousOctober 23, 2013 at 8:07 PM
I feel the Powhatan Native Americans have a right to be offended by Disney's portrayal of Pocahontas. I believe this because it is offending the religion and history of the Natives. It would be as if saying Columbus did nothing for this country. In Disney they said that John Smith married Pocahontas. Many Natives felt this because this was their culture and what they believed. I would be very upset with this to. Many historical facts on the movie were wrong. Just in my opinion disney is wrong to do that.ReplyDelete
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- AnonymousOctober 24, 2013 at 12:54 PM
In Disney's showing of Pocahontas, it may have been very good,but they got everything wrong. The Powhatan Indians (Pocahontas' tribe today) complained to the the disney company how everything was incorrect. I do think it was right for them to feel offended by it because I know that I would in that case. Some of the thing that Disney got wrong was the history-John Smith and how things flowed,her looks,and talking trees and other fictitious occurrences. They got the physical look of the Powhatan Indian tribe totally wrong. That is why I think it was justified that the Powhatan indian tribe complained to the Disney Company about the Pocahontas movie.ReplyDelete
Lindsay O 5-9A
- AnonymousOctober 24, 2013 at 1:09 PM
Yes, the Powhatan Native Americans have a right to be offended of Disney's portrayal of Pocahontas.In the movie they showed Pocahontas as a young woman hen she was only 12 when John Smith came. Also, Pocahontas married John Rolfe not John Smith. Pocahontas's relationship with John Smith was father-daughter if anything. John Smith was 28 years old when he came to Jamestown, she was 12! There was no romance! In conclusion, the Powhatans have a good reason to be angry with Disney Studios.ReplyDelete
Paige S. 5-9A
- AnonymousOctober 24, 2013 at 2:22 PM
I think that the Powhatan's have a right to be mad because the people who wrote the movie did not research enough in the movie, pocahontas ws 28 years old and in real life she was 12 years old.in the movie it showed pocahontas marring not john smith she was going to marry john rolfeReplyDelete
- AnonymousOctober 25, 2013 at 9:43 AM
I think the Powhatan's have a right to be mad because when Disney made the movie, they didn't do research. It would of been easy to do it but they didn't say the story right. Disney is insulting one of the Powhatan's so they have a right to be mad.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousNovember 4, 2013 at 9:58 PM
I think the Powhatan's don't really have a right to be up set with Disney, I believe this because this move was made for children to enjoy. In the real life story she does many inappropriate things that children would not be able to see For example violence and also she dances nude. Another reason is the Powhatan's should not be upset is because little girls want a beautiful role model to look up to, not a bald toothless ugly girl. Another part is because even though in the move she married the wrong person thats what people want a happy ending not boring one. In conclusion the indians should not be so angry with Disney and should chill out realizing this is for kids enjoyment.ReplyDelete
miranda badrick
- AnonymousNovember 14, 2013 at 7:59 PM
I think the powhaten tribe has every right to be mad at Disney because they lied about almost everything. First they said Pocahontas had perfect teeth and long black hair. She didn't she might have actually had imperfect teeth and could have been bald. Secondly they said that Pocahontas and John Smith were the same age and got married. Well they didn't Pocahontas was actually 12 years old and John Smith was 28 and they didn't get married Pocahontas and John Rolfe got married. But those are only a few if my thought about why the Powhaten tribe should be mad at Disney.ReplyDelete
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- AnonymousNovember 15, 2013 at 9:33 AM
Of course they had every right to be mad but should they be. In my opinion no they shouldn't be mad it's just a movie and we would learn the truth later on anyway.ReplyDelete
I think they have the right to be mad at Hollywood. The reason for this is because they totally got the whole story wrong. They said that Pocahontas married John Smith, when she actually married John Rolfe. If I was part of the Powhatans, I would argue, as they got they're whole famous story, wrong. This is one of the most famous things that happened to this tribe, why would they want to have the story told wrong.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousNovember 15, 2013 at 9:46 AM
Of course they had every right to be mad at Hollywood. The question is should they be? In my opinion no they shouldn't it is just a movie.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousNovember 15, 2013 at 9:48 AM
Ryan 2/3 AReplyDelete
Of course they have the right to be mad but I don't think they should be. I mean it's just a movie.
- AnonymousNovember 15, 2013 at 9:49 AM
I do think that the Powhatan tribe have a right to be angry with Disney because of the way they made Pocahontas. For example, they made Pocahontas with a full head of hair when she was bald. Also they made her marry John White not John Rolfe. They have the right to be offended just for that.ReplyDelete
Alex Rivera
- AnonymousNovember 15, 2013 at 1:01 PM
I do think the Powhatans had a right to be angry at the film. This is because Pocahontas was their past and they thought it should have been represented accurately. Children are learning the incorrect facts. For example, Pocahontas didn't have that picture perfect smile and the long hair. Also she didn't marry John Smith, she married John Rolfe. Almost exactly everything in the movie was incorrect. The only correct fact was that Pocahontas saved John Smith. Her age was very much overly exaggerated. I believe that they should apologize for blinding kids of what Poxahontas really was.ReplyDelete
Victoria Z.
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- AnonymousNovember 15, 2013 at 2:23 PM
I do not think the Powhatan's Indians have a right to be mad. Disney was not producing this film as a historical film. This film was meant for young children especially young girls. If Disney made Pocahontas bald with imperfect teeth little girls would not want to watch this movie. That doesn't resemble a princess. Disney was not offending the Indians or Pocahontas. They had her marry John Smith in the movie because of many reasons. One including that it was a better love story for a family movie. If they had her marry John Rolfe in the movie they would have to have kidnapping in family movie. Which would not be appropriate. They also couldn't end the movie with a princess dying of smallpox. In Disney movies there is always a "happily ever after." In conclusion, I think that if Disney did the movie the way the Powhatans would like it, it would have not been an appropriate Disney production. -Sarah Wilkie 10-11 AReplyDelete
- AnonymousNovember 15, 2013 at 2:27 PM
I dont think the powhatan tribe should be mad. I think this because how is disney suppose to show the harsh side of her life to little kids.ReplyDelete
- Olivia D.
- AnonymousNovember 17, 2013 at 2:24 PM
After learning about the historical Pocahontas I think the Powhatan tribe had a right to be angry with Disney. According to the text, "historians have stated that Pocahontas might have been bald with imperfect teeth". This tells me that the Disney producers are twisting events in history -which can further confuse the children when they learn the truth- to meet the expectations of their young viewer's idea of a Native-American princess. Though Disney's perspective goes along the lines of every movie having a happy ending, they could've and should've picked a different event so they didn't have to cover events like the relationship between a "young girl of 12" and John Smith who was 28. These changes leave a bigger impact on the Powhatan tribe because of the faulty image they leave on one of their ancestors. In conclusion, the Powhatan tribe had a right to be irritated by the incorrect representation of Pocahontas in the film.ReplyDelete
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- AnonymousNovember 17, 2013 at 3:02 PM
I think that the Powhatan tribe had the right to be mad because the movie wasn't showing who they really were.Yes, they had to get rid of violence for the little kids but Disney didn't have to make there life a complete lie.In the movie Pocahontas had long black hair with perfect teeth but in reality she could've been bald with imperfect teeth. In the movie it also has Pocahontas married to Kocoum but she was really married to John Smith in real life.Disney shouldn't have made it a big lie so that's why i think the Powhatan tribe had the right to be mad.ReplyDelete
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- AnonymousNovember 17, 2013 at 3:11 PM
I think the Powhatan Indians have a right to be offended by the Disney movie. This because the movie had almost nothing to do with the real Pocahontas. It is almost like an insult that the movie producers didn't find her true story good enough to be a movie. Who says no one would want to hear about a 12 year old girl who was bald and had crooked teeth? The only thing that was correct in the film was that Pocahontas jumped on top of John Smith to save his life. Why wouldn't people want to know all about Pocahontas real story? Her life was very interesting and would make a more interesting story then the Disney film.ReplyDelete
Maddie Ahl 10-11B
- AnonymousNovember 17, 2013 at 5:00 PM
Yes I do think the tribe should be angry of Disney's portrayal of Pocahontas for many reasons. Firstly, Disney made it look like John Rolfe and Pocahontas looked the same(age wise) but really Rolfe was about 30 and Pocahontas was about 12. Secondly, Disney made it so Pocahontas married John White not John Rolfe. Finally, Disney made all of the facial features of Pocahontas wrong because in real life researchers believe Pocahontas was bald, had very few teeth and was a lot shorter. In conclusion I believe the tribe should be mad.ReplyDelete
Miles E.
Yes, I think the tribe should be angry. The movie is about a love story between John Smith and Pocahontas but she really married John Rolfe. Also, John Smith and Pocahontas were the same age when John Smith was really older.ReplyDelete
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- AnonymousNovember 17, 2013 at 8:39 PM
I do not think that the Powhaten tribe should should be mad at Disney at all. I mean yeah they made the history wrong and adjusted Pocahontas's features, but they did that because little kids watch the movie and she is supposed to be a princess! Little kids wouldn't think that a princess would be bald with no teeth! Younger children expect long, beautiful hair and perfect teeth and all that. Even though they switch the history completely and made Pocahontas marry the wrong John, one that was 16 years older than her, the did it for a good reason . They needed the story behind it to seem more dreamy and magical like any other Disney princess movie you see. Also, young kids can't be shown a princess movie where the main character dies of smallpox. Every Disney movie has to have a "Happily Ever After". Little girls (the main viewers of the film) would be horrified if they knew the truth and therefore, I think Disney made the right choice in how they portrayed Pocahontas's life.ReplyDelete
Karlie S 5-9B
- AnonymousNovember 17, 2013 at 8:58 PM
After learning about historical Pocahontas i do not think the the Powhatan tribe had the right to be offended over Disney's portrayal of Pocahontas because in the movie both Pocahontas and John Smith were the same and when really he was 28 and she was 12,Also Pocahontas used to dance naked in front of Englishmen,these things would not be acceptable for a family movie,so you really can't blame Disney for taking these things out.Also Pocahontas most likely had bad teeth and was bald so really Disney was making her look better than she really was.They should not have been angry,Disney was just trying to make a good movie that was suitable for all ages.
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- AnonymousNovember 18, 2013 at 12:50 AM
In my onpinion, I think that the Powhatans Indians have a right to be furious of the Disney production. Mostly, that whole movie was false about Pocahontas. Also, in the movie she married John Smiyh but in reality she actually married John Rolfe.Another example is that Pocahontas wasn't a stunning women in the tribe. It also says that she would dance naked through the streets. However that would be too inappropriate for kids.Finally Pocahontas was only twelve not the same age as John Rolfe.ReplyDelete
Jacob A.
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- AnonymousNovember 18, 2013 at 6:55 AM
I personally believe that the native Powhatan tribe does have reason to be angry at Disney for they're portrayal of Pocahontas. One of the reasons is that in the movie it showed that she as a 28 year old woman who married John Smith, however she actually married John Rolfe. The natives also could be angered about her appearance. In the movie it shows her as a perfect princess with long flowing hair, straight white teeth and beautiful. But, she probably had little hair, messed up teeth, and far from the 'beautiful' standards.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousNovember 18, 2013 at 6:56 AM
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- AnonymousNovember 18, 2013 at 9:34 AM
I believe that the Powhatan tribe should be angry at Disney for they're portrayal of Pocahontas. They should be angry because they made Pocahontas perfect. But in real life, she might have been bald with no teeth. Also, in the movie, Pocahontas was dating John Smith, not John Rolfe.ReplyDelete
Amy W.
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- AnonymousNovember 18, 2013 at 12:00 PM
No and yes i Beleve the Powhatan tribe can be angry at Disney. Disney had to make the movie appropriate for their child audience but they used very little information. So you can agree and disagree with being and not being mad at Disney.ReplyDelete
Anthony C p5-p9 B
No, i don't think the Powhatan tribe should be angry. Disney made this movie for children. Who cares what Pocahontas looked like, they made her look better, not worse. This is a kid friendly movie, they shouldn't care whether they make a movie about her or not.ReplyDelete
Morgan Pulignano 1-2 B
I think that they have a right to be mad. I think this because she was not pretty. In fact she was very ugly. She also was very young when she met John Smith.Not his age.ReplyDelete
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As I read through the introduction to Protocol, I am reminded of one of the more significant arguments that Nealon makes in Foucault Beyond Foucault. It seems that both Galloway and Nealon have quite a divergent understanding of the issue of resistance as it relates to biopower. Here, I believe the contention between their understandings resides in the different interpretations of Foucault's work that they voice (namely, in regard to Discipline and Punish). Seemingly, whereas Nealon suggested that reading subjectivity as a means of resistance in Foucault's later work evidences a misreading of what Foucault intended, Galloway is suggesting quite the opposite.
Nealon outlines two of the dominant trends in academic work on Foucault. First, the prevailing attitude is that we are, quite simply, incapable of resisting power and its manifestations. Second, and more relevant to this particular post, Nealon provides that academics are also too quick to argue that Foucault abandoned his midcareer work on power in favor of the ethico-aesthetics of subjectivity. In response, Nealon provides that his work will rethink the relationship between disciplinary power, biopower, and subjectivity. His suggestive counter argument is that Foucault never really abandoned his mid-career work on power (Nealon 5). According to Nealon, the shifts of Foucaultian emphasis are better, and more productively, understood as intensifications, an argument that he pursues in greater detail in the remainder of his text (see 36-39).
Interestingly, it seems that Galloway is approaching the issue of resistance from the second understanding that Nealon criticizes. This becomes apparent in Galloway's introduction. Here, he begins by providing that Deleuze recognized that the site of Foucault's biopower was a site of resistance. To emphasize the prevalence of this argument in Deleuze's text, Galloway provides a direct citation of the three times that Deleuze repeats this realization. To this argument, the third quote seems to be of particular relevance: "When power becomes bio-power resistance becomes the power of life, a vital power that cannot be confined within species, environment or the paths of a particular diagram" (Deleuze, Foucault, p. 92). Now, I realize that by drawing Deleuze's commentary on biopower into discussion, I am maneuvering my argument in one of two directions: First, I might hold Deleuze's argument in direct contention to that which Nealon provides. Second, and more importantly, I might add, I could approach Galloway's understanding as it is twice removed; Galloway's understanding of Deleuze as the latter understands Foucault. Here, I will pursue the second path.
As Galloway proceeds, he questions whether life resistance is a way of engaging with protocological management, which is reminiscent of biopower. Then, Galloway provides what seems to be his interpretation of the means by which one might resist:
To refuse protocol, then, is not so much to reject today's technologies as did Theodore Kaczynski (the Unabomber), but to direct these protological technologies, whose distributed structure is empowering indeed, toward what Hans Magnus Enzensberger calls an "emancipated media" created by active social actors rather than passive users (Galloway 16)
I think that this requires some unpacking, because as Galloway gets from Deleuze to this proposition, it seems as though a contention arises. Returning to Deleuze's discourse, as referenced by Galloway, Deleuze argues that resistance is the power of life. Now, although Galloway seems to follow in this line of discourse, I think that he is forgetting the second part of Deleuze's statement. Here, Deleuze provides that a "vital power" cannot be confined within species, environment, etc. Here, the vital power that he seems to be referring to is that of the power to resist; the power of life. This power, seemingly, is as dispersed and ubiquitous as what Nealon suggests about power in Foucault Beyond Foucault. Instead of following the argument, Galloway limits the power of resistance to the individual body; the "active social actors," and in this, I believe he is reading something into the quote that Deleuze provides that isn't there. This, also, is where the contention between Galloway and Nealon's arguments seems to arise. Whereas Nealon denigrates subjectivity, Galloway seems to be insisting on the importance of a conscious subjectivity, as he differentiates between active social actors and passive users.
More on Galloway's text in the near future…


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Now that I have finished my album poster I am happy with the final design as it looks the way I planned it to look in the earlier stages of my project. I like the front cover of the album because of the bold colour and the silhouettes therefore the album poster mainly consists of this.
I also think the company logos and small print I have included within it along with the font works well and it looks quite real which was very important for me to achieve.


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New findings by researchers at RIKEN, Japan's flagship research institution, have linked a specific type of cellular stress to neuronal cell death leading to brain damage. Published in the journal Neuron, the findings overturn existing assumptions on the role of a key neuronal protein in cellular stress response, opening up new avenues for research on a range of neurodegenerative diseases.
As an organelle responsible for the production, processing and transport of a wide variety of cellular materials, the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) plays a central role in maintaining protein quality in the cell. Pathological conditions that affect protein folding or calcium signaling can interfere with this role, causing stress to the ER which, in severe cases, can trigger cell death (apoptosis). In the brain, such apoptosis has been associated with neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's disease and Huntington's disease (HD), yet the mechanisms involved remain poorly understood.
To clarify these mechanisms, the researchers investigated the relationship between ER stress and a neuronal protein called inositol 1,4,5-trisphosphate receptor 1 (IP3R1), one of three IP3R receptors that modulate intracellular calcium signaling. Using calcium imaging techniques, the team identified a sharp decline in IP3R1 activity in cells treated with ER stress inducers. It was further revealed that the ER stress-dependent dysfunction of IP3R1 induced neuronal cell death and brain damage, situating IP3R1 as a crucial link between ER stress and neuron cell death.
Underlying this link, the researchers identified a mechanism through which GRP78, a molecular chaperone, binds to a region of IP3R1 called L3V to positively regulate tetrameric assembly of IP3R1. ER stress, they show, impairs this assembly mechanism and subsequently inhibits IP3R1 activation, a process also observed in the brain of model mice with HD.
As the first research to highlight the significant role of IP3R1 in protecting the brain from ER stress, the Neuron study marks a major step toward clarifying the mechanisms underlying stress-induced brain damage, promising advancements in the treatment of neurodegenerative diseases.
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OK, it rarely storms in the desert, but dang was it dark earlier this week as I drove through the barriers and maze in Canyon Ranch to meet up with Karen @ Waisting Time.
First, I have to apologize to Karen. Tucson recorded the 6 coldest, first days of December during her visit. Sure we enjoy the rain. Snow on the mountains 6,000′ above is beautiful. Locals, and especially visitors, expect to frolic this time of year in brisk 70° temps and sunny days. Karen experienced rain, sub-freezing nights, and hail!
I experienced a wonderful 2 hours in the cozy clubhouse chatting with her about, gosh, everything – blogging, eating, family, geography (kinda), the quest for passion at this stage in one's life. It just wasn't long enough! After almost 2 years of reading her blog and receiving amazing support from her comments, the meet-up felt like stepping into a friendship rather than the "internet blind date" as my spouse had labeled it. I talked too much (too excited). The conversation was immediately comfortable and connecting.
I left our encounter forgetting to have our picture taken. I also wished that we had a future time set up to talk again in person – more time, more detail, more fun, a chance to break bread (or protein). I'm dreaming of a Vegas-like weekend for like-minded blogging friends. NYC, LA, a beach? Name the place. Have blog will travel.


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Here I am not saying that everyone should seat quietly waiting for things to happen. Situation of 'seating quietly waiting for things to happen' is one extreme while 'becoming proactive, believing that everything happens only because I am making it happen' is another extreme. I am saying that people should believe to remain in between of this two extremes. That is where effectiveness lies. That is how nature works. Nature's principles are in alignment with belief of remaining in between of two extremes.
I wants to write about lucky and unlucky person today. So let me define a lucky and unlucky person. In alignment with common, general understanding of word lucky & unlucky, I will consider a person lucky, if he takes a lottery ticket and wins it and I will consider a person unlucky, if he takes lottery ticket first time, second time, third time, ..... times, and every time thinking that at least he will win this time,he will win this time but never wins.
You can look at situation in two angle.
- Person is lucky and so
- He is winning lottery
- He is winning a lottery and so I call him
- Lucky
When person wins lottery, what will be your reaction? Will you say that, 'that guy is lucky. He always wins lottery ticket.'? Or you will say that, "That guy has won a lottery ticket. He is lucky"? Confused among the difference between two? OK lemme clarify it with another example. Two person named lucky and unlucky has been given a news paper in which one advertisement is printed. Advertisement says that, whoever cuts this ad. and submits it to given address will win some amount of money. Both person has same paper but lucky person will read that ad. and will get money. While unlucky person will not read it and so he will not get his part of money. Now tell me in above situation, what will you say? Will you say that "A guy is lucky and so he read an ad. and won money"or you will say that "A guy was having an impression of himself that he is lucky and so he read the ad. and got money" ?
If it is still not clear, I will make it clear. Read further. In first way, thought of judging a person as lucky or unlucky comes first in mind while in second way, thought of end result (winning a lottery) comes first in mind. In first way you says that, as person is lucky and so he is winning a lottery. In second way you says that, because he is believing that he is lucky he won lottery ticket.
What is the difference between two approach? When you think that everything in this world is governed by you, you are the founder of your future, you are able to responds to situation, you are response-able, you are proactive person you will say that because person is believing that he is lucky he is getting lottery ticket. If you are kind of person who believes that nature is unpredictable, everything is not in our control, you can control your behaviour but you simply can not control every things happening around you, no one has ever been able to control nature, how can you know what another person's thought process is, how can you be sure that thing happening in one small little corner of world will not (or will) affect you. Proactive people may argue here that by controlling yourself, by remaining in your circle of influence you can control situation, your surroundings, you can create an opportunities. But i will say that this is not true in ALL situation.
For example, I have bought a home spending all my money (also imagine that I am financially weak) I have earned till now. Worst thing is, home I had bought is at the end of city. That area of city is totally isolated from core part of city. You will see few faces only roaming in this society. Now read how situation has changed around him and nature has supported that person. Some well known company visits place. They likes this place so much that they plans to make huge lake, 5 star hotel, shopping malls etc in that area. This plans execution also starts immediately. Within 3-4 years every thing's construction gets completed. Land prices increases in that area. That area is now no more isolated from city, instead it is been taken inside city's limit by government!!
Where proactivity of person has helped him in this example? Where working withing circle of influence worked here? How can you control what giant company's CEO is planning to do? How can you know that which thought will come into company's CEO mind? Who have formed a thought in company's CEO? How and why he has chosen that place only?
What that person has done? Nothing. Actually that person has done nothing but that person's luck has done a lot.
Difference is in which layer of thought is above which layer of thought. If layer of judging a person as lucky and unlucky is above layer of seeing a what person has done to achieve this, how much effort he has put in, end result you will think with paradigm of lucky and unluckiness. If you have layer of seeing person's work, efforts, end result above decisive layer which judges a person as lucky or unlucky, you will think with paradigm of proactiveness.
Does luck exists?
By JD
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16th September 2016
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Let's face it… they are the essence of a romance novel, are they not? Well, I'm having a little casting issue with mine.
Heroes and Heroines…
I thought I had these characters in my head before I began writing, but when I got stuck in the middle a few days ago, I started wondering if I had the heroine all wrong. She was blonde and rather a perfect package when I really wanted her to be a contrast to her two perfect, blonde sisters and to have a few hang-ups about her figure and looks. So, I've ditched the image I did have, see pic here and am looking for a heroine with a little more zest! Not even sure that's the right word.
I want a short brunette with attitude written all over her face and would LOVE your help if possible. I thought about the actress who plays the role of Beth in The Bill, but the only real image I could find of her was in a police uniform and it just didn't do it for me. Thought about Katie Holmes but she wasn't right either… so please, please… can anyone out there, help me find my fiesty heroine. I think if I have her pegged, the writing of her character will be easier – at least I'm clinging to hopes that's the case 🙂
This is her bad boy hero and I think you'll all agree, he's simply perfect!


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10 August 2012
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We headed to Oasis where we were greeted with everything that we had not hoped for.
I ordered the a smoked pear + brie quesadilla, while M ordered the Baja Chicken Sandwich.To drink, we ordered a Mojito and a Peach Bellini.
I don't even remember whether or not we enjoyed our food because look at the plates and cups. Really? Plastic cups? Lol and here we were, thinking this was a nice place to eat! Guess we can't expect too much from a rooftop patio in Toronto!


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Halting, strike-threatened talks between the ILWU clerks union and officials of the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach have created unsustainable uncertainty among shippers. Monday, news services reported that port-bound vessels have been diverted northward, including to Oregon. But Oregon is a union stronghold. Will the ships be welcome here without a labor contract signed in California? With union leaders scheduled to huddle today with Governor Ted Kulongoski's key staffers - former AFL-CIO officials Tim Nesbitt and Chip Terhune - vessels steamed closer to Oregon ports, and industry officials waited anxiously for more information.
July 18, 2007
Oregon ILWU may turn back LA-LB ships
Halting, strike-threatened talks between the ILWU clerks union and officials of the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach have created unsustainable uncertainty among shippers. Monday, news services reported that port-bound vessels have been diverted northward, including to Oregon. But Oregon is a union stronghold. Will the ships be welcome here without a labor contract signed in California? With union leaders scheduled to huddle today with Governor Ted Kulongoski's key staffers - former AFL-CIO officials Tim Nesbitt and Chip Terhune - vessels steamed closer to Oregon ports, and industry officials waited anxiously for more information.
State's Rainy Day Fund to be tapped soon
The public treasuries of Oregon and other states might be flush now, but one prominent government analyst said Monday that states ought to be preparing for even tougher times than they faced a few years ago. David Osborne said elected officials, agency leaders and public workers are going to have to maximize government performance on budgets that are unlikely to get help from Washington, D.C., as federal fiscal problems grow.
"For the rest of your careers, you are going to be managing in an environment of fiscal scarcity that is going to be quite severe," Osborne told a gathering of managers and others at Willamette University.
But Osborne said the looming federal crisis offers opportunities for state and local governments.
"Politically, you can get away with things in a crisis that you cannot get away with in normal times," he said. "This is making it easier to use all of the innovations and tools that we've developed in the past 20 years to squeeze more value out of our tax dollars."
As a senior partner in the Public Strategies Group, Osborne has made a name for himself in injecting elements of entrepreneurship and risk-taking into the public sector, where they have not normally been found.
His presentation distilled parts of several books he co-authored, including 1992's "Reinventing Government," 1997's "Banishing Bureaucracy," and 2004's "The Price of Government."
Mike Marsh, the deputy director for central services at the Oregon Department of Transportation, said he uses Osborne's"Reinventor's Fieldbook" in courses he teaches at Willamette's Atkinson Graduate School of Management.
"It's very practical and helps connect us to customers," said Marsh, who attended the presentation.
"By using performance, you focus on what the customer wants and share expectations about whether you can accomplish it or not. In government, sometimes we haven't made that clear."
In one example based on work his group did in Washington, Osborne said 50 percent of health outcomes can be linked with personal behaviors such as obesity, physical inactivity, and use of alcohol, tobacco and drugs. But only 4 percent of health spending went to prevent or moderate those behaviors.
Meanwhile, he said, 88 percent of health spending went to access to care, although those services had less influence on health than personal behavior, the environment and genetics.
When Washington was faced with cutting health spending a few years ago, Osborne said, lawmakers ended up shielding prevention programs and primary care as a result.
Since Gov. Ted Kulongoski took office in 2003, the Legislature has attached performance measurements developed by the Oregon Progress Board to virtually all state agency budgets.
There is a risk for managers in shifting the public and legislative debate about how programs are funded with an eye toward outcomes, Osborne said.
"There is no higher level of performance than the fact that if you cannot document that your program produces results at a good price, it might go away," he said.
Osborne said federal fiscal problems center largely on an aging population and the growing costs of Medicare and Social Security, which together with Medicaid and interest payments on existing debt will consume most federal spending in a decade. He said he had no good answers for those problems.
But Osborne also said the public should care about better state and local governments.
"If we do not win that support, poor children do not get the kind of education they will need to become part of the economic mainstream, the crime rate goes up, and our air and water will get worse," he said.
The Oregonian ad sales in freefall
The downturn in the newspaper industry is getting worse. Last fall, newspaper executives and analysts were caught by surprise by the severity of a slump that took hold last summer. Since the beginning of this year, the rate of decline in advertising revenue has accelerated. Total print and online ad revenue was down 4.8% to $10.6 billion in the first quarter from a year earlier, according to the Newspaper Association of America, compared with its full-year decline in 2006 of 0.3%.
The rate of decline in newspaper advertising revenue has accelerated since the beginning of the year. Competition from the Internet and other media has transformed the market. In addition, real-estate classifieds have plunged along with the property market. The decline, which has sent newspaper stocks into a tailspin, has prompted restructuring and consolidation, and has affected Dow Jones's talks with News Corp. and the auction of Tribune Co.
Publishers have reported sharply lower ad revenue for April and May. The depth of the downturn is expected to become clearer as many companies report second-quarter earnings in coming days. Gannett Co. plans to report today, and Dow Jones, publisher of The Wall Street Journal, and McClatchy Co. tomorrow.
In the first quarter, revenue for every major ad category -- classified, national and retail advertising -- was down. The sharpest declines were for classifieds, where spending dropped 13.2% -- not so much a result of competition from the Web as of economic woes affecting certain categories of advertisers. Real-estate classifieds, until recently a bright spot for the industry, have plunged along with the property market. Auto and employment classifieds are also sinking. Financial-news outlets such as the Journal are being hurt by a slump in technology advertising.
"Right now, you've got a perfect storm," says Edward Atorino, an analyst with financial broker Benchmark Co. He predicts total ad revenue will fall 4.3% this year. The decline will be one of the steepest in history.
The newspaper industry has been suffering from slow growth for years, of course, after decades of declining readership. In the past couple of years, though, competition from the Internet -- big portals as well as free-classified Web sites such as Craigslist -- and other media has transformed anemic growth into slipping revenue.
The decline, which has sent newspaper stocks into a tailspin, has prompted restructuring and consolidation.
Publishers are putting initiatives in place to generate a larger portion of ad dollars through the Web. Still, analysts say that growth in Web revenue is beginning to slow and isn't enough to offset the decline in print.
Newspapers' online ad revenue increased 31.5% in 2006 to $2.7 billion. In the first quarter of 2007, online ad revenue increased 22.3% to $750 million. Still, online represented just 5% of the $49.3 billion in total newspaper ad revenue in 2006.
The industry outlook has colored both Dow Jones's discussions with News Corp. and the auction of Tribune Co., which decided to go private in a buyout backed by real-estate magnate Sam Zell.
The Bancroft family, Dow Jones's controlling shareholder, remains sharply divided on the wisdom of a sale, although Dow Jones negotiators reached a tentative pact with News Corp. on Monday. A major factor likely to affect the family's thinking, as it ponders the deal in coming days, is how Dow Jones would fare given the industry's gradual slide. If the family votes against the deal, it could face hurdles finding a new buyer in a world where ad dollars continue to decline.
The worsening slump has already raised questions about Tribune's ability to complete its buyout. The publisher is taking on a heavy amount of debt to go private, and some on Wall Street question whether the company will still be able to afford the extra borrowings. Tribune is among the hardest hit; its ad revenue dropped 11.8% in May.
"Our going-private transaction is on track, and the financing for it is fully committed. We anticipate closing the transaction in the fourth quarter, following FCC [Federal Communications Commission] approval, and expect to be in full compliance with our credit agreements," says Tribune spokesman Gary Weitman.
Few have escaped unscathed. Gannett, which publishes 85 daily newspapers, including USA Today, said its newspaper ad revenue dropped 6.8% in May. Ad revenue at New York Times Co.'s News Media unit -- which includes advertising generated at its media properties, but not About.com -- dropped 9.9% in May. At McClatchy, which publishes 31 dailies, ad revenue in May dropped 11.5% to $153 million. Ad spending at The Wall Street Journal was down 3.4% in May.
The Journal is being hit by an ad cutback at technology companies. But for most publishers, one of the biggest factors behind the latest slump is the real-estate market. Until recently, the booming property market had kept real-estate classifieds growing, softening the impact of lower ad revenue elsewhere. But with the market stalled, advertising is plummeting.
July 17, 2007
Jobs tax hike will replenish Wage Security Fund
The state Bureau of Labor and Industries is ready to step in and pay some 130 workers who unexpectedly lost their jobs July 5, when Maco Wood Products of Clackamas closed. Unpaid Maco workers are eligible to recover lost wages from the state's tax-funded Wage Security Fund, which compensates employees when their company closes without enough money to cover the final paychecks.
The fund receives a small slice of employment taxes paid by Oregon employers. Claims can be filed at any Labor and Industries office. For information, call 971-673-0761 or 503-378-3292, or check the labor bureau's Web site.
Maco President Jerry MacDuffee did not return a call today seeking comment on the company's situation. Earlier this month, MacDuffee said he was forced to close the company on short notice after his lender, Bank of the West, called its loans and refused to extend additional credit.
Aaron J. Bell, an attorney representing the bank, said Maco was in default on two loans and had exceeded its line of credit.
It is unclear if Maco will be able to remain in business. A court-appointed receiver is taking stock of equipment and other company assets that secure the bank's loans.
Edwards leads Oregon bribery contest
Democrat John Edwards is winning the Labor Union and Trial Lawyer money race in Oregon. The former Senator from North Carolina has raised about $208,000 in the state. He's followed by Democrat Hillary Clinton, with about $125,000, and Democrat Barack Obama, with about $115,000. Clinton, a senator from New York, and Obama, her colleague from Illinois, are the overall money leaders so far. She has raised $63.1 million nationwide, to his $58.9 million.
Former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney is winning the GOP money race in Oregon. According to new totals from the Federal Election Commission, Romney has raised about $326,000 in the state. The Republican is doing well in states like Oregon, with large Mormon populations.
State lawmakers failed to tackle solar warming
I strongly agree with the July 8 online editorial from the Des Moines Register (June 30), "Another View: Energy bill chugs along, losing steam" that Congress may be dropping the ball when it comes renewable energy. Our Legislature recognized the importance of clean energy last month when it passed Oregon's state-wide renewable energy standard. That law requires our largest utilities to generate 25 percent of their electricity from renewable resources by 2025.
Surprisingly, the law was supported by utilities, unions and businesses — not just environmentalists. That's because renewable energy development creates jobs and saves money for consumers while reducing global warming pollution. In fact, the latest analysis by our two largest utilities, Pacific Power and PGE, shows that wind power is among the cheapest alternatives available — edging out fossil-fueled generation in long-range cost comparisons.
But even though over 20 states have passed renewable energy laws since 2000, the result is a tangle of requirements that make it difficult for businesses to invest. And, many states have no standard at all. Thus the need for a national law.
Rep. Darlene Hooley can make a difference in this debate. She needs to co-sponsor the Federal Renewable Electricity Standard (H.R. 969) that requires utilities across the country to generate 20 percent of their electricity from clean, renewable resources by 2020. Oregon can't solve global warming alone.
Steve Weiss, Salem
AFL-CIO puts GOP out of office, out-of-state
Representative John Dallum (R-The Dalles) announced today that he would be resigning as a State Representative to move to Montana with his wife Dorothy. There is no word on what the effective date of his resignation will be or who may be interested in the position. John won a hard fought battle for re-election last cycle by just a few hundred votes and was poised to run again before his surprise announcement. John we wish you luck.
July 16, 2007
Clackamas police assist suicidal citizens
A Milwaukie woman who died during a Saturday confrontation with police shot at and narrowly missed a Clackamas County sheriff's deputy before shooting herself twice, officials said Sunday. It's the second time in the past 30 days that Clackamas County deputies have shot a person believed to be suicidal. In June, a deputy shot 24-year-old Luke L. Seal after the man came at her in a parking lot wielding two knives. The state medical examiner ruled the shooting to be suicide by police officer.
Tonya Irene Yut, 39, died at her home in Milwaukie's Oak Grove neighborhood. At least one bullet fired by a deputy also struck her. The sheriff's office has not determined which deputies at the scene fired a weapon. Jeff McLennan, an official with the Clackamas County medical examiner's officer, declined to release until today the number of bullets that hit Yut.
Out-of-state pollutants found in local wilderness
In a frigid shelter at the top of Mount Bachelor, Dan Jaffe brushed the snow from a rough plywood table, laid out a clean tissue, and unscrewed a stainless steel fitting from one of his scientific instruments. The University of Washington-Bothell professor of atmospheric and environmental chemistry removed a 1-inch disk with a hole in the center. There, on a shiny film of grease, five dull black dots made up of tiny soot particles appeared. He passed it around for the graduate students to see.
"Some of those particles," he said, "came from Asia." At 9,000 feet at the crest of the Cascade Range, the air is some of the cleanest to be found anywhere in the United States. But each breath - especially in the spring - can suck in tiny amounts of pollution from China and elsewhere in Asia. Soot, dust and chemicals come from coal-fired power plants, cars and trucks, forest fires, desert dust storms and even wood cooking fires.
China now emits more carbon dioxide - the atmospheric pollutant that is primarily responsible for global warming - than any other nation. But scientists working on mountaintops, with computer models and with aircraft stuffed with instruments are also worried about the effects of these lesser-known pollutants here.
"One might think of these sources as small in terms of their contribution. But it's a contribution on top of what we already have," said John Spengler, professor of environmental health and human habitation at the Harvard School of Public Health.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency recognizes that air pollution travels great distances, said Bill Wehrum, EPA's acting assistant administrator for air and radiation.
What is not known, he said, "is how much pollution is moving over those distances, how much real impact it is having on public health downwind in the environment.
"The Europeans are asking that question about emissions from the United States. Asians are asking that question about emissions from Europe. And the United States is asking that question about emissions from Asia."
Early studies
In 1994, Jaffe was in Oslo, Norway, on sabbatical when he came across a computer model that indicated that pollutants in the Arctic were coming from China.
Back in the States, he secured a grant from the National Science Foundation to measure them. His first observatory was on Cheeka Peak, a 1,598-foot mountain on the tip of Washington's rainy Olympic Peninsula about 120 miles west of his home in Seattle.
In 1999, Jaffe took instruments to higher altitudes in airplanes flying off Washington and California. They found more pollution, particularly between 6,000 feet and 20,000 feet.
That led him in 2004 to the 9,000-foot summit of Mount Bachelor, a ski resort in the Cascade Range of Central Oregon, and to its ski lift house.
Hooded air intakes handcrafted from sheet metal lead to tiny rooms packed with instruments that measure carbon monoxide, ozone, mercury, soot and radon. Jaffe can read the instruments on his office computer, but must visit the site every few months to keep things running.
Since 2000, satellites have been able to watch dust, soot, ozone and nitrous oxides as they are blown across the Pacific at high altitudes. The dust and soot are visible. The gases show up in refracted wavelengths of light bouncing back to the satellites.
"By looking at the ratios of different pollutants, particularly carbon monoxide and mercury, we can actually say the ratio of these pollutants we are seeing here at Mount Bachelor matches the ratio of pollutants coming right out of China," Jaffe said.
"This is, in effect, a fingerprint -- a chemical fingerprint. When we see all these indicators, meteorological data, the satellite data, the pollutants fingerprint, we can be very confident these are pollutants coming across from Asia."
Staci Simonich, an assistant professor at Oregon State, also has instruments on top of Mount Bachelor. She and her graduate students are looking for things such as pesticides and PCBs, an industrial chemical outlawed in this country that causes cancer. The toxins attach to their own favorite sizes of dust and soot.
While levels are very low, "it's only going to increase from everything we know about the use of energy in those countries," Simonich said.
The spring offers prime conditions for pollution to travel from China to the United States. That's when a low pressure area forms over the east China Sea or the Sea of Japan, combined with a cold front that kicks the pollutants up into the free troposphere, the clear air above the haze you see when you take off in an airplane. The prevailing winds send the pollutants straight across to the United States.
In 2003, Jaffe and Dave Parrish of the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration published a paper that found an increase in ozone over the Pacific of 10 parts per billion in 18 years.
"That's a fairly significant rate in that background air is only about 40 parts per billion and the standard is 80 parts per billion," Jaffe said. "That is going to make it harder for us to meet our own air quality standards."
And those standards likely will get tougher. On June 21, the EPA proposed lower limits for ground-level ozone, the principal component of smog, saying the current standards don't protect the public health.
Daniel Jacob, professor of atmospheric chemistry and environmental engineering at Harvard University, says that Asian emissions are growing 5 percent to 10 percent per year, and the trend is likely to continue through the next decade. He manages the GEOS-Chem computer model, developed by scientists around the world to study the effects of global emissions on U.S. air quality.
"The cars and factories we have in the United States are among the cleanest in the world, and it's difficult to make them cleaner," Jacob said. "So the question is whether we should maybe invest some basic air pollution controls in China as a more cost-effective way of dealing with some of the pollution problems we have."
The United States and the Natural Resources Defense Council, an environmental group, are working with China to increase the efficiency of energy production and boost conservation. Premier Wen Jiabao has pledged to reduce energy use against gross domestic product by 20 percent by 2010. Last year energy use fell by only 1.2 percent, short of the first phase goal of 4 percent.
Barbara Finamore, who heads NRDC's China program, said the United States has an obligation to help: "The U.S. has outsourced much of its manufacturing to China and therefore outsourced the pollution inherent in that manufacturing, and that is what is coming back to haunt us."
But it is a tremendous challenge.
"Literally, there are millions of Chinese people who don't have cookstoves who actually cook on an open fire in the home they have," EPA Administrator Stephen L. Johnson said.
China uses twice as much energy per unit of gross domestic product as the world average and 10 times more than Japan, the world leader in efficiency. And more than half of the 800,000 deaths each year as a result of urban air pollution occur in China, according to the World Health Organization.
Meanwhile, China is expected to build 140 new coal-fired power plants during the next three years, and each one will last 30 to 70 years, Johnson said. "So what they do today will have a lasting legacy."
Effect on weather
While Jaffe is focused on pollution at mountaintop elevations, Veerabhadran Ramanathan, director of the Center for Clouds, Chemistry and Climate at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla, Calif., is looking higher.
He and Jeff Stith of the National Center for Atmospheric Research lead an international research team that is looking at dust and particulates blowing across the Pacific at up to 30,000 feet.
A Gulfstream-V jet jammed with scientific instruments scoops up air samples and analyzes them. The jet flies between Japan, Hawaii and Alaska, climbing from near the ocean's surface to 50,000 feet, constructing a profile of the layers of dust.
"For the first time we are following the dust," said Ramanathan. "Literally we are baby-sitting it all the way from Japan across the Pacific Ocean into North America."
Ramanathan is primarily interested in the weather and global warming ramifications of soot and dust. A study published this year in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, based on computer models, found that tiny particles from Asia are helping to produce stronger and more frequent storms over the Pacific.
It comes back to the idea that the individual droplets of water vapor that make up clouds need a nucleus to form. Nature has always provided dust and soot from forest fires and dust storms in Mongolia; now combustion from cars and trucks, coal-fired power plants and millions of cooking fires are providing more.
At the same time, "by sheer dumb luck" pollution actually has helped reduce global warming by helping to form low-elevation clouds made of water vapor that reflect sunlight and heat back into space, said Ramanathan.
But when those tiny particles of soot rise to 25,000 feet, they help form clouds made of ice. Instead of reflecting sunlight, they act like another blanket on a cold winter night, trapping the heat of the earth.
Based on earlier measurements, 25 million kilograms to 30 million kilograms of soot floats over the Pacific, and about 75 percent of that is from Asia, said Ramanathan.
"At one point in the middle of the Pacific it looked like a wall of dust," said Ramanathan. "That's when I started to imagine it was like Genghis Khan. If he were to invade he would come behind this wall of dust.
"But we are ready for him thanks to this aircraft. We can measure it."
July 15, 2007
Monday: Roseburg nurses picket for closed shop
Unionized Mercy Medical Center nurses in Roseburg went through another round of negotiations with the hospital Friday, in what has been a year-and-a-half process of trying to agree on a new contract. The 41st negotiating session was Friday, and ended no closer to a contract. The nurses will be holding an informational picket to garner public awareness and support for their cause from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Monday in front of the Roseburg hospital on Stewart Parkway.
The process has come to a halt over the issue of closed shop. The nurses' union is demanding that all of the hospital's 344 nurses be required to join the union, or pay "fair share" dues which are 85 percent of the approximately $60 union dues, per month. "Until the issue of closed shop/union representation is resolved, it doesn't appear that the other issues will be addressed," said Kathleen Nickel, the communications director at Mercy Medical Center.
Paul Goldberg, the Oregon Nurses Association union boss, said there was also a proposal that the nurses could pay the equivalent of the "fair share" to a volunteer group associated with the hospital, instead of to the union or possibly to another health care area at the hospital. Nickel said she has not yet heard of this proposal.
Other issues still unresolved are wages, benefits and retirement plans, and management rights. The hospital said it brought a new economic proposal to the negotiations Friday, which the union did not respond to in the meeting, due to the impasse on the close shop issue. The union countered that there were a few changes to the hospital's proposal, but fundamental issues had not been addressed.
Both sides are basing wages on what other hospitals pay, but the disagreement is over which hospitals. ONA says that the smaller hospitals in Cottage Grove, Coquille, and Reedsport, which average between three and 50 patients at a time, are too small and do not compete with Mercy, which averages on the order of 130 patients. These smaller ones should be taken out of the camparison pool, ONA contends.
They did agree on the nurses' step-increases in pay, according to Laura Garren, a nurse who is on the bargaining committee.
The nurses at Mercy voted to join the ONA about a year and a half ago, with about a two-thirds majority, and negotiations began in May 2006.
Kathleen Ross, a registered nurse who has been working at Mercy for 22 years, does not personally support the union.
"The union says that it is about patient safety and patient care, but I hear now that it's about closed shop, whether everybody has to join," she said. "I don't appreciate that, being coerced into paying for someone else's choices or being threatened with losing my job. Everything the union claims is about fairness, but how fair is that."
She does supports the nurses that want the union though, as long as they respect her right to choose.
"I do believe that the ONA and the group of nurses that asked them to come believed they needed representation to get what they wanted," she said. "I sympathize with them and by all means if they need it, I support them, but don't expect them to ask me to pay for it."
She says that there were some issues about patient safety that the administration began working out before the union came and that they have continued to work on with the union.
Garren, who has also been a nurse for over 20 years, says that "fair share" or closed shop is important because having all the nurses part of the union, gives it more bargaining power. Goldberg echoed her, citing why all the nurses must pay the union, not only those who want it.
"Those nurses (who don't want to be part of the union), whether they want to be represented by us, are legally represented by us... whether they want to pay dues, are the beneficiaries of our efforts," he said.
Poll: Congress rates worse than Bush, except in Oregon
In the eyes of the U.S. public, Congress is doing even worse than the president. Public satisfaction with the job lawmakers are doing has fallen 11 points since May, to 24 percent, according to an Associated Press-Ipsos poll. That is lower than for President George W. Bush, who has not fared well lately, either. Bush has been taking heat over the Iraq war, his decision to spare a former top vice presidential aide from going to prison and his desire for an overhaul of immigration laws that critics said would give a free pass to illegal immigrants. His job approval rating in the AP-Ipsos survey remained virtually unchanged at 33 percent.
The 24 percent approval rating for Congress matched its previous low, which came in June 2006, five months before Democrats won control of the House and Senate due to public discontent with the job Republicans were doing.
Just two months ago, 35 percent of the public approved of Congress' work. Poll respondents from both political parties say they are tired of the fighting between Congress and the White House, and want the two branches of government to work together on such issues as education, health care and the Iraq war. "They don't approve of anything he does," Theresa Holsten, 55, a Republican, said of Congress. "He can't do anything right, according to what some people say. It irritates the living daylights out of me."
Tammy Lambirth, 42, a data researcher, disapproves of "all the fighting that they do all the time."
The latest tussle involves Bush's refusal to hand over documents and let former White House aides answer questions from the Democratic-controlled Congress about the firing of U.S. attorneys. The dispute could end up in federal court.
"The Republicans are just stonewalling everything, and the Democrats are just not stepping up and making them do what they need to do, especially about Iraq," said Lambirth, a Democrat. "They need to make our troops get out of Iraq."
While the public's approval of Congress has dropped 11 points since May, the percentage of Democrats who are turning up their noses at Congress — like Lambirth — nearly doubled. Among Republicans, though, not so much.
Approval among Democrats fell 21 points, from 48 percent in May to 27 percent.
It remained low among Republicans, at 20 percent, and has not changed significantly in the past two months.
The telephone survey of 1,004 adults was conducted July 9-11 in English and Spanish by Ipsos, an international public opinion research company. The margin of sampling error was plus or minus 3 percentage points.


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The frog boiling thing turns out to be a myth. As the temperature rises, the frog feels it and pretty quickly tries to escape. But apparently it's possible to slowly raise the temperature on the Murkan People and it takes them a long time to recognize that they are getting poached.
They're going to figure it out pretty soon. Jean Dixon is never accountable for her predictions but I will be. We'll check back this time next year and see how I did.
1) There will be a nasty recession. One way you can tell is that most of the financial commentators are busy telling us that there won't be, in spite of everything -- hundreds of billions of dollars evaporating in the mortgage mess, home values tanking, consumers tapped out to the max with no place left to borrow more, oil prices still high (and see below), food prices screaming upward, foreign investors getting wary of U.S. bonds and equities. And more. Big ouch. Unemployment. Personal bankruptcy. As a consequence . . .
2) State and local governments are really going to hurt. They are already facing serious backlogs in infrastructure maintenance and unfunded pension liabilities. In other words they have major structural deficits that they have swept under the rug. When tax revenues shrink, it's going to get ugly.
3) Iraq will turn out to be a bigger disaster than you think it is already. The recent lull in violence is not nearly what it has been made out to be by the corporate media. Check Iraq Today if you don't believe me. For example, there was a very successful attack on U.S. and Iraq security forces today that killed one U.S. soldier and injured a dozen or so, and killed a bunch of Iraqis. So far, none of the major U.S. networks -- CNN etc. -- are even mentioning it. That's what they do. They don't report the violence in order to wish it away, because that's the CentCom line right now. But with the political situation going backwards -- what reduction in violence has been achieved comes from balkanizing the country so that the central government is increasingly irrelevant -- the instability will just increase.
4) CentCom already admits that Afghanistan is heading downhill and has begged NATO for more help. They aren't going to get it.
5) Oil prices will be higher one year from now than they are today, in spite of the recession. (That's a tough call, by the way. I'm out on a limb on this one.)
6) Climate-related catastrophes will continue to increase. Keep an eye on the drought in the southeast, among other problems.
7) The Democrats in Congress will cave in every time the Occupant threatens to call them names.
8) The New England Patriots will win the Super Bowl. (That's the easy one.)
There's a lot of other stuff that might happen, but these are the ones I'm going to predict. Uh oh.
Thursday, December 20, 2007
Prediction for 2008: Excrement to hit ventilator
The frog boiling thing turns out to be a myth. As the temperature rises, the frog feels it and pretty quickly tries to escape. But apparently it's possible to slowly raise the temperature on the Murkan People and it takes them a long time to recognize that they are getting poached.


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For 30-year-old Shruthi Basappa, it was a normal trip from Bangalore to Iceland gone terribly wrong.
Travelling with her Icelandic husband and 4-year-old daughter, Shruthi was told to strip ("remove her dress") by Frankfurt airport security officers on 29 March. She had cleared the body scan, but the officers still had some doubts.
Hearing of the incident, Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj has asked for a report on the incident from the Consulate General in Frankfurt.
Since Shruthi had just undergone abdominal surgery recently, when asked by the airport officials, she agreed to a pat down search but requested officials to be gentle.
Instead, she was asked to "remove the dress she was wearing." In a Facebook post (which now appears to have been either taken down or made private), Basappa narrates her ordeal:
I was asked to remove the dress I was wearing. Yes. Remove my clothes. Is this the new norm? Isn't it enough to always be the one random person picked out of line that now I need to wrap my head around the fact that I might be asked to strip? Do I need to wax my legs? Do I need to carefully put together a special 'for travel lingerie' set that has nothing to do with seducing my husband but more about hiding the outrage, anger, humiliation and disgust that is an inevitable part of travelling through airports?
A Case of Racial Profiling?
Shruthi Basappa, an architect by profession, has been living in Europe for six years and states in her Facebook post, that she is used to being singled out for 'random' checks. However, in this case, the tone of the security guards changed when Basappa's husband came in; he is Icelandic. It was only after his intervention that the officers agreed to let her go after a pat down.
While a verified account of Frankfurt airport responded to Shruthi's post on Facebook stating that forcing to strip is not "standard protocol", they haven't yet taken any action.
Speaking to NDTV, Shruthi said she has a filed a complaint but there hasn't been any response yet.


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I have chosen the String Me Challenge for the sims 2.
The challenge can be found here: STRING ME CHALLENGE
Here is the Sim I decided to use in the Challenge. Her name is Melanie Custer, and she is a popularity Sim. She is an Aries with the following points:
Sloppy/neat 5
Shy/Outgoing 8
Lazy/Active 6
Serious/Playful 1
Grouchy/Nice 5
Shy/Outgoing 8
Lazy/Active 6
Serious/Playful 1
Grouchy/Nice 5
Her LTW is to become Captain Hero, But she is currently in the Business career track since she had an aspiration want to join that business. I let her study one Charisma point, since that is what was needed for to get her first promotion.
On the first day of work, she got a chance card that gave her a promotion and a charisma point.
She also brought home someone from work, Kennedy Vanderbilt, one of my playable sims from the neighborhood. Since he is playable in another house, I checked him out and found out he was a business tycoon already, so she will hopefully be able to use him to get further along.
Her next promotion came two days later without any help. she needed a creativity skill point now, so she wasn't going to get any more promotions on her own. At first I was too tired when I got home from work to do any schmoozing, however I did get an energizer machine, which helped a lot. I now was able to step into the machine upon arriving home from work and getting all my needs up to full.
Since then I have been going on two dates with Kennedy every night, One that she calls for and gets, and the second one when he calls up and invites her downtown about an hour after I get back from the first date.
I do talk to other sims as well, and am now up to 4 friends, including Kennedy. Finally, after about a week, Melanie has got another promotion, this time with Kennedy pulling strings.
This is where she is at right now, A junior Executive. I will play the game again later.
I would like to mention a couple of strange things in my game, even though it has nothing to do with the challenge.
One of the sims that came with the welcome wagon followed Melanie into the bathroom and stood right next to her as she sat on the toilet, peeing. I have had this before, but it is so hilarious.
also, Melanie had a sports party and invited Kennedy and another Sim over. Apparently Kennedy was low on hygiene so he decided to take a shower at Melanie's house. I always thought that Sims visiting the lot couldn't use the shower or bed. I am not sure if this has anything to do with Kennedy being another of my playable sims or not.
That is all for this post. I will try to play the Sims 2 later today and post more later.


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I've got FO's to share! This weekend was quite knit-heavy, with all the rain on Saturday. I managed to finish and block the "Kaitlyn" baby sweater that I made for my childhood friend. It's all done, minus the buttons. And that's just as much about choosing one of the three sets of buttons that I purchased as it is about sewing them on. This is so sweet!
The second object: "Simple Things" shawlette. My sweet model:
He loves trying on stuff and smiling for the camera. He also loves picking out things for Mama to knit. :) I know that he won't want to do these things forever, so I'm relishing it while I can!
This is my first completed Christmas gift. Mark the date: June 4, 2012 aka the earliest I've ever finished a handmade gift. And there's a lot more coming, a whole Ravelry queue full of 'em!


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Two years ago I realized that my confidence was at nil. Zero. I was a big fat fraud who had phonied myself into every good situation in my life ever. I didn't believe I was worthy of the things I wanted and employed self sabotage to my life like a ninja. I was impressive.
I knew I was 'a good person' so I managed to keep myself surrounded by wonderful people, which accounts for the 30% 'on track' record I kept, but inside I was fighting a subconscious war. What a dumb oxymoron. I felt like a moron. I flailed around trying to 'fix my head' for almost 2 years to varying degrees of no avail. Enter rock bottom. THAT'S a fun place. It's also a brilliant place to take all your broken pieces and start from scratch, building yourself from the bottom, up, with the strongest foundation ever. I am now very grateful for rock bottom and I hope I find myself there a couple more times for some sparkly new renovations.
In the last few months I've taken a giant scared-cat-backflip in an 'away' direction from everything in my life. This hasn't been super pretty and has involved some temporary pushing away.. and with help that was extremely hard for me to ask for, I put my self-worth at the top of my priority list. I have deployed the nunchuks on my negativity but nunchuks are MUCH harder than they look and negativity is a sneaky bitch, so that's a work in progress and I dare say, always will be. I'm tearing down belief systems that are haggard, outdated and frankly, ugly. And it's hard. I'm emotionally exhausted. However, I do see an unmistakable glimmer of hope, I am slowly but surely finding glaringingly obvious signs that I actually am worthy of the things I need and desire.
I have made sacrifices to unflinchingly find time for myself and I have spent an hour each day in a park or some form of nature, sitting barefoot on the grass. Meditating and/ or writing. I am remembering things, good things, about myself. I am learning things that have been desperately wanting to be acknowledged and I am finally listening to myself again. My god, it feels wonderful.. Who knew I was this wise?! Who knew, we could take the (let's face it) brilliant advice we hand out willy nilly to the people we love (thank you, perspective) AND ACTUALLY APPLY IT TO OUR OWN LIVES. Shut. The. Front. Door.
I love my life again. I like my own company again. I actually remembered that I prefer my own company. I don't need a lot of social interaction and my A+ friends, fulfill what social needs I have, without judgement, in record time.
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