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Let's start with a question: Do you drive to work the same way every day? You may think that this has nothing to do with how you deal with significant emotional loss and grief recovery, but there is actually a direct relationship. Most of us take the same route every day. We do so without even thinking, because it's our habit. We do many of the same activities each day by habit alone. Once we establish a behavioral pattern, we tend to follow it, even if there are other, and better, ways of doing things.
How we choose to do many things and how we respond to situations is an integral part of our "belief system." Surprising to most is that 95% our personal belief system, that we will likely use for our entire life, is firmly established by the time we are 15 years old. (Even more amazing is that as much of 75% of these patterns are firmly established at just three years old!) The other behaviors that we later develop, such as choosing our route to work, are often influenced by those long ago established elements of that belief system.
Most of our habituated behavior serves us well. Checking for traffic, when crossing a street, keeps us safe. Brushing our teeth and washing our hands promotes better health. The list is endless. Once that belief system and our habits are established, we follow them without a second thought. The fact is that these habits become such an integral part of who we are, that anything that doesn't fall within them tends to receive an automatic critical response from us.
This doesn't mean that we don't make changes in how we deal with things over time. As an example, many of our behaviors have evolved with changing technology. Where once we went to the library or consulted an encyclopedia to check facts, most of us today turn to the Internet. The once popular phone book and yellow pages have likewise been replaced with web searches as a better way of gathering information. The fact that you are reading this now is proof that we can adapt to new and better ways of finding things. Children do this automatically, since this technology has always been a part of their lives. Those who are older generally have taken longer to make these changes, because it wasn't a part of their early established belief system and behavior patterns. Most have made these changes because many around them had taken on these new behaviors and methods of gathering information, and blazed the trail. Since others were doing this, it made it a positive and safe alternative to what they have done in the past.
It's much harder to make changes when we're not constantly reminded that there are better ways to do things. This is particularly true when dealing with emotional loss. Most of us never realize that we have few useful and valuable habits in dealing with emotionally painful events, until we come face to face with an overwhelming one.
As we deal with relatively minor grief events in our lives, the suggestions that we "need to be strong", "be strong for others", "soldier on", and "get over it" seem to work. We continue on with our life's journey suppressing that emotional pain, because it's our habit, and think that we are doing the right thing. We may find that we carry a little less joy with us, due to the impact of these events, but we still seem to be able to move forward. Every time we repeat this habituated behavior, we get better at hiding how emotionally painful things have touched and changed our lives.
Then, one day, a particularly painful event hits and we discover, no matter what anyone one says, we just cannot seem to "get over it." It may be the death of a family member, friend or pet. It may be a divorce or the breakup of a relationship. It may be a financial crisis. Once again, the list of possible reasons is seemingly endless. Whatever the cause, we suddenly become aware that how we have dealt with these problems in the past no longer seems to work. Despite our lack of success, we still try to follow our old behaviors in how to deal with pain because it's our established habit, and we have no other way of coping. Our body may signal us that it's not happy with how we are trying to deal with these problems, in terms of headaches, stomach issues and other signals, but we still try to cope with our old survival mechanisms, because we have no better tools.
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If, no matter how you try to "feel better" is failing, this is a sure sign that you need to develop a new habit in how to deal with emotional pain. If constantly burying your feelings inside isn't helping, you need to find a safe and successful way for working through those feelings that are now too much to carry with you on a daily basis. There are better ways to deal with grief than to forever suppress it.
The grief that we feel, related to these highly stressful events, typically relates to unfinished business in these relationships. It tends to revolve around those things that we wish had been different or better. It relates to dreams and expectations of a future that is different than the one we are facing. Left stuffed inside, these feeling can continue to negatively impact us. We can be reminded of them at the oddest moments, when we least expect it, by the words of another, something we see, or even something that we smell.
Your established belief system may tell you that you will always carry this pain with you, but that simply means that you are dealing with elements of "misinformation" that were therein established. This means that you need to change your old habits on how to deal with painful emotional events and establish better habits that really work!
The Grief Recovery Method is all about changing old habits on how to deal with emotionally painful events and creating new ones that help you move through and beyond them. It's about helping you discover those things that are incomplete in relationships and finding a way to let go of those painful feelings that you have stuffed inside. It's not about forgetting the past, but rather being able to effectively deal with it. The Grief Recovery Method (GRM) is a guided, step-by-step process for taking action to move beyond the pain of any emotionally painful loss. GRM isn't about seeking therapy to deal with problems, but instead taking therapeutic action.
The steps that you need to take, to create these new habits in dealing with loss, are spelled out in "The Grief Recovery Handbook." This is not a textbook, but rather a guided map to making this journey to feeling better. The authors walk you, hand-in-hand, through these steps with examples on how to take these actions. It's about creating new habits in both how to deal with the emotional losses of your past and how to create healthier habits for dealing with ongoing relationships.
Once you have successfully used this process to deal with the emotional pain of one loss, it would serve you well to practice this with the other losses you have faced in your life. You need to make this your new habit to better deal with all of the emotionally painful events you face. In doing this, you can create a new habit to help you better enjoy your fond memories and fully experience elements of joy that you might think you could ever have as part of daily living. Best of all, this is a new habit you can share with others!
Changing old habits isn't always easy, but when they lead to better outcomes, it's worth the effort. Basketball great Rick Barry, who is the only player to lead the NCAA, NBA and ABA in scoring, discovered that he needed a new habit in how to do better at hitting free throws. He searched for a better technique and practiced until he established a new habit of throwing them underhanded. His percentage of success shot to 90%, which is well beyond that of even the more famous players. He tried sharing this with others, but found few that would follow his lead, even when they found it worked. It's my sincerest hope that once you have seen the principals of The Grief Recovery Method work in your life, you will do as Rick Barry did and establish new behaviors of pattern that will forever make a difference in your life!
The key thing to remember about successfully dealing with grief: recovery involves changing habits on how you deal with your emotional pain.
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So what were my three most difficult classes? I'll describe each class in three different posts (see links below). I'm going to be totally honest in that I didn't always handle things the way I should have. Each of these classes taught me something though, and I certainly remember them well, even ten or more years later. Here goes…
Generally a difficult year for me
I was an elementary librarian for five years. For one of those years–the fifth one–I was on the specials rotation. I had been hoping to go back up to middle school at some point, but being on the specials rotation that year really kicked me in gear to make the middle school move happen. I transferred to the new middle school the following year.
Librarians on the specials rotation have a special place in my heart. I did it for only one year, and it was plenty enough for me. But, y'all, I learned more and worked harder in that one year than I did any other year. It was my hardest year of all my 18 years, even more difficult than my first year as a teacher. Many of my elementary ideas on the list of units (see link below) come from that one year.
This third grade class was part of a brand-new school with about 750 students. I hand-selected every book on the library shelves. I dealt with no circulation system for the first nine weeks of school, but I checked out books anyway. I was solely responsible for all the school's laminating, the poster maker, barcoding thousands of guided reading books and class sets, and dealing with AR set up and how-tos. Plus, I was in the specials rotation for the first time ever.
On top of all this, my home life became chaos. My boys were little then–one was three and one was 18 months. Both started daycare for the first time that year and were constantly sick. My three-year old was hospitalized three times that year. It was also my husband's first year teaching, so he was also adjusting to the madness that is teaching ninth grade math at an inner-city school.
Overrun and overwhelmed
Third grade that year had seven classes of about 20 students each. With only five days in the week, the third grade classes were larger for their specials classes. Simple math says that that is an average of 28 students per class, plus whatever else walked in the library doors at that time. I did have a fabulous library aide, but she was frequently pulled to sub. Third grade had specials every day at the same time, but their specials time coincided with kindergarten lunch. My library aide was pulled for kindergarten lunch duty every single day. So it was just me, 28 third graders, and whatever else happened to walk in the door at that time.
The problem with the third grade classes that year was that I was so completely outnumbered by the students. One class in particular ended up with a seating chart, something I had never done before and haven't done since. I tried everything I could think of to get this class to fall in line. I instituted a clothespin system for behavior management, which only marginally worked. We played name games so I could be sure to learn every single name. Centers helped, but behavior management was still a task in certain centers. I ended up taking up all of the beanbags on the days I would have this particular third grade class because I worried someone would end up injured. It was craziness.
Enter survival mode
I wish I could say that this class got easier as the year went on, but it really didn't. What I will say is that this class helped me forever change how I did my library lessons. My lessons got infinitely more interesting, largely because I started incorporating fiction and nonfiction pairings. Library skills went out the window unless I could make them really entertaining (enter Dewey Caveman). I was in survival mode every day, and something had to give.
By second semester, I made some huge changes. I started a theme of the week, which went across all my grade levels in different ways. I added short videos, sign language, and some kind of drawing or folding project to complement the lessons. I started connecting news stories to fiction and nonfiction books. Looking back, though this one third grade my most difficult class in all my 18 years, I can absolutely say that I improved as a teacher because they were so challenging. And for that, I am infinitely grateful to these kiddos.
My favorite part of this story
A few years later, one of the girls in that third grade class moved into my middle school. She was so excited that I was her librarian again, and she told me that the other students were sad that I left. This young lady stayed with me at that school until she moved up to the high school, and she became one of the most loyal library kids I've had. As she got older, I joked with her about how tough that class had been for me. As I write this, I have tears in my eyes thinking about that class and how even after all the difficulty I had, I can still smile when I think about them.
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Tuesday, December 21, 2010
Tanya's Robots
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Ooooh, especially love the stars. Great banner too. BRAVO, and thanks for sharing! New card designs on my blog. Miss you friend. Happy Holidays!ReplyDelete
How cute, wonderful design, fab coloring!ReplyDelete
Fantastic card, Sue! You've got me eying those robots!ReplyDelete
It is so fun to see this set in action! Adorable card, Suzz! Bet Tanya loves it!ReplyDelete
Ahhh, this is so cute.. You can't help but smile when you see it!ReplyDelete
All your stars look great!
Hugs, Linda
Such a darling card! The robots are too cute.. love all the stars and the banner flag!ReplyDelete
WOW Suzz!!! So many details to admire in this card!!! Fantastic take on the challenge!!!!!ReplyDelete
I bet your daughter loved it. So cuteReplyDelete
What a fun and creative card Sue - your stars look fantastic - a little boy would love it! (so do I ;)ReplyDelete
Merry christmas Sue
Hugs Sanne
so fun and super cute! love the fab design, too! wishing you and yours a fabulous and cozy holiday season! =)ReplyDelete
Fab, fun design Sue. Love the colours and the embossed stars!ReplyDelete
How darn cute is that! luv the colorsReplyDelete


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The Name of the Star
by Maureen Johnson
The Name of the Star
by Maureen Johnson
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The eyes of London were watching Claire Jenkins.
The day that Louisiana teenager Rory Deveaux arrives in London to start a new life at boarding school is also the day a series of brutal murders breaks out over the city, killings mimicking the horrific Jack the Ripper spree of more than a century ago. Soon "Rippermania" takes hold of modern-day London, and the police are left with few leads and no witnesses. Except one. Rory spotted the man police believe to be the prime suspect. But she is the only one who saw him--the only one who can see him. And now Rory has become his next target. In this edge-of-your-seat thriller, full of suspense, humor, and romance, Rory will learn the truth about the secret ghost police of London and discover her own shocking abilities.
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Maureen Johnson – the queen of stares and awesome YA books – did it again! Set in today's London, the Name of the Star takes up one of the most peculiar murder mysteries of all time – Jack the Ripper!
Jack the Ripper is an all time present character in London's history and I really enjoyed this new, different approach that Maureen took. The original murders were cruel and kept the city in a state of shock from August 31st until November 9th 1888.
The storyline revolves around the Jack the Ripper inspired murders but goes much deeper than that. It also includes a gorgeous boy, new found friendship and quite different paranormal elements.
Rory, the main character, is a wonderful girl. She moves from America to the UK and enrolls in a boarding school. So not only did she move continent, she also has to make new friends and gets comfortable at a new school but she also is a witness to one of the new Ripper-murders and gets sucked into the investigations. Rory is a strong character who has to deal with a lot of things during her first months in London but does never really get desperate or wants to leave.
Jazza, Rory's roommate and friend is awesome too. She is supportive and tries to help Rory as best as she can even when Rory secludes herself from Jazza.
The paranormal aspects of The Name of the Star is a pretty different one of all those I encountered in literature before. I don't want to give anything away so I won't tell you much about it but I really enjoyed it.
All in all I loved the first book in the Shades of London series and can't wait to get my hands on the next one to see how the story progresses.
The books in the Shades of London series are:
- The Name of the Star
- The Madness Underneath – will be published the 28th of March 2013


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Athens, Ga. – Nearly 400 University of Georgia students will present original research projects in fields ranging from history to engineering and health at the upcoming Center for Undergraduate Research Opportunities Symposium. The event, which includes oral presentations and poster sessions, is scheduled for March 30-31 at the Classic Center in Athens. It is open free to the public.
The annual CURO Symposium was created in 1999 to highlight undergraduate student research achievements in all disciplines. Participation in the program has increased by 50 percent in the past year to a record-setting 388 students.
"We are very pleased by the remarkable growth we are seeing in student-and faculty-participation in CURO in recent years, which has been made possible by the strong support of campus leaders, especially the central administration," said David S. Williams, associate provost and director of the Honors Program. "It is increasingly important to provide students meaningful opportunities to extend their learning beyond the traditional classroom setting, and it is exciting that CURO is one of the programs that helps UGA to be a national leader in this regard."
CURO is administered by the Honors Program but expanded to become available to all undergraduates in 2010. In fall 2014, the CURO Research Assistantship, which provides $1,000 stipends to 250 undergraduates, was launched as part of a series of academic enhancements announced by President Jere W. Morehead and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost Pamela Whitten. CURO has offered $3,000 summer fellowship grants for nearly a decade.
Projects range from laboratory work to humanities research. Some examples include:
• A study on "Internalized racism, linguistic discrimination and the policing of ethnic identity on Twitter" by fourth-year linguistics student Minh Nguyen.
• Research on proteins linked to diseases such as cancer, congenital muscular dystrophy and HIV/AIDS, conducted by Danish Singh, a biochemistry and economics double major who worked as a 2014 CURO Summer Fellow.
• An exploration of "The Impact of Monsoon Severity on Southeast Asian Bond Markets," by third-year economics major Carson Aft.
• Research on floral trait evolution of wild sunflowers, conducted by fourth-year microbiology major Hiral Patel.
"We're proud to have student representatives like these from all over campus," said Martin Rogers, associate director of the Honors Program and CURO, who noted that nearly half of the students participating in the symposium are from outside of the Honors Program. "I think it is a demonstration of the excellent learning enrichment opportunities available to undergraduate students at UGA."
The 2015 CURO Symposium, which is also sponsored by the Office of the President, the Office of the Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost, the Office of the Vice President for Research, the Office of the Vice President for Instruction and the UGA Alumni Association, will begin at 11:15 a.m. March 30 with four concurrent oral sessions.
Sonia Altizer, UGA Athletic Association Professor of Ecology in the Odum School of Ecology and recipient of the Presidential Early Career Award in Science and Engineering from the White House, will give the keynote address at 3:30 p.m. on March 30, and awards for best paper, research and mentoring will be presented. A poster session and reception will follow from 4:30-6:30 p.m. On March 31, students will participate in five concurrent oral sessions from 9:30 a.m. to 4:45 p.m.
A UGA bus marked "Special" will provide transportation to the Classic Center, with stops at the Georgia Center, Tate Student Center and the Arch.


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BALMORAL Group, one of Aberdeen's largest privately owned companies, has announced the official launch of its multi-million pound business park development at the southern gateway to the city.
Balmoral Business Park, spanning some 18 acres, is located three miles south of Aberdeen city centre adjacent to the Loch of Loirston, and facing the A956, with the proposed Aberdeen Western Peripheral Route running within one mile of the development.
The Park has been designed to accommodate more than 135,000 sq ft of office space and is split into two phases. Balmoral has started work on a speculative three-storey office development of 40,550 sq ft on phase one which it says is attracting lots of interest.
Completion of the building is scheduled for summer 2014.
Phase two of the development will offer tailored design and build office accommodation to meet occupiers' requirements with bespoke building solutions available.
The company says all accommodation will be designed and built to the highest specification ensuring the quality of space offered is in keeping with the park's location, landscape and prominence.
Generous car parking has been allowed for which is complemented by cycle ways and footpaths that have been constructed as an integral part of the development.
Jim Milne, chair and managing director of Balmoral, said: "Open vistas over the surrounding lochside area will provide the occupants with an outstanding working environment whilst the setting and design of the park will offer an architectural statement that is sure to make a significant and lasting contribution to Aberdeen's cityscape.
"With terrific access and views over the Loch of Loirston this is a unique business proposition which has the potential to attract inward investment to the city as well as offering consolidation possibilities for companies already based here.
"I believe the quality, choice, and environmental setting of this development is unprecedented in Aberdeen."
Gary Gerrard, non-executive director with Balmoral, said: "Demand for quality campus-type office accommodation in Aberdeen continues to outstrip supply.
"Our commitment to providing the highest quality accommodation on an unrivalled location has attracted several notes of interest and we are working closely with our team of professional advisors in preparing further plans.
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"Embracing Our Differences" is a juried art exhibit with a difference. First, it happens outdoors. Every year since 2003, downtown Sarasota's Bayfront Park becomes the scene of a vast outdoor art exhibition. It's quite a scene. Frisbee throwers and dog walkers share the space with 39 billboard-size images (12.5 feet by 16 feet) created by local, national and international artists, writers and students. Each image expresses an underlying message of acceptance and understanding. There's also an explicit message: each artwork is accompanied by an inspirational quote. Accept human differences is the simple point of both the words and images.
This year's winners have just been announced: The Best-in-Show adult winner is Liat Waks from Petach-Tigwa, Israel, for "Differences Work, Just Ask a Fork." (It's a witty visual parable showing a spoon offering its help to three forks helplessly trying to tackle a bowl of soup.) The Best-in-Show student winner is "Cyber Bullying: Beware of the Big Bad Predator" by Steven Staub, Bobby Alvarez, and Gennadity Kazimirov, 7th-grade students at Heron Creek Middle School in North Port. (Here, the Big Bad Wolf is a cyber predator. A helpful cat warns the Three Little Pigs of his love of fresh meat.)
Michael Shelton is the executive director of Embracing Our Differences — the local not-for-profit organization behind the exhibition. According to Shelton, selecting the 2013 winners was no easy task. "Our jury committee spent the past two weeks in almost total lockdown reviewing thousands of submissions," he says. Literally thousands? According to Shelton, that's no exaggeration. This year, more than 2,400 entries were submitted by individuals from 44 countries and 32 states. Work by more than 25 area and Florida residents made the cut.
"Making these choices wasn't easy," he says. "The 39 pieces our jurors selected were outstanding — but that was out of a much greater pool of outstanding work." But Shelton wouldn't have it any other way. "Throughout the process, we've been excited by the high quality of the work and moved by the heartfelt passion that animates it."
And it's amazing how many passionate artists there are. And how many have heard of "Embracing Our Differences."
Submissions for this year's art show arrived from artists of all ages from around the planet, including Israel, the United Kingdom, Kenya, Malaysia, Singapore, Iran, the Philippines, and the United States. Students in 85 elementary, junior and high schools comprised almost 60 percent of the individuals submitting art and quotes, including students from 43 schools in Sarasota, Manatee and Port Charlotte counties.
"We're always especially impressed with the entries we receive from our own community," says Shelton, adding that work from 25 area residents was selected for inclusion in this year's exhibition, including an entire kindergarten class from Phillippi Shores Elementary. Two Ringling College of Art and Design students were also among the winners.
The winning quotes and art will be showcased in the 10th anniversary "Embracing Our Differences" exhibition in Sarasota's Bayfront Park, March 31-June 2. This year's exhibit will be simultaneously on view at the Anthony T. Rossi Waterfront Park in downtown Bradenton, March 31-April 29, and at North Port High School, May 1-June 2. For more information, call (941) 323-1010 or go to: Embracing Our Differences.


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Vanessa Hudgens decided to post some other photos with her naked on the worlwide web for her fans!This time she is showing her boobs and it's nothing serious as the last time when her boyfriend Zack Efron done the job for her.
It appears that these photos were made by her with a phone camera and some of them are blurry..can't you afford a better phone Vanessa?
Anyway she ain't so sexy as we believed so!Her body it's ok but you can't say the same things concerning her funbags!They are a bit straighten up cause of the excessive sex!
I believe that she wasn't in the press recently that's why she thought that posting these photos on the net will attract more and more fans,also pervs!
Vanessa till next time please wave a boob for your fans!
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It's that time of year: The leaves are turning, the weather's cooling, and New York Magazine has assembled a killer chef lineup for the annual New York Taste event. This year, the roster includes chefs such as Dan Barber, Georges Mendes, Seamus Mullen, Paul Liebrandt, Marcus Samuelsson, Masaharu Morimoto, and lots more. Even better: We've got two tickets to give away.
First, the details. The event will take place on Monday, November 5 at the Waterfront, between Eleventh and Twelfth Avenues. Plenty of chefs, including the ones above, will be there cooking up a storm, and attendees will also get a chance to check out New York's new In Season Cookbook. Lots of food, lots of drinks, lots of chefs, etc. Head over to the official site for more details.
Here's how you can win a pair of tickets: Before tomorrow at 5 p.m., take to the comments below and describe what would be, in your mind, the single most perfect bite of food you could have. The most amazing-sounding comment wins two general admission tickets. It's that easy. (We'll announce the winner on Monday.)
If you need inspiration, take a look at what everyone served last year.
Click here for official rules.
Update: Thanks everyone! We'll announce a winner on Monday.
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Weekend Update 03-31-2012Posted: March 31st, 2012 | Author: Scott | Filed under: Weekend Update | Comments Off on Weekend Update 03-31-2012
So, Paul Ryan's plan would make the Bush tax cuts permanent and add additional tax cuts for the wealthy and corporations reducing revenue by an eye-popping 10 trillion dollars over the next decade. The CBO notes that the Ryan "plan" basically envisions eliminating the entire federal government except for Defense, Social Security, health programs, and interest payments by 2050. It provides no funding for anything else at all. Think about that for a minute. That's not any sort of a "responsible" plan. Either Ryan is insane or, more likely, his plan is a deliberate fraud and he's nothing but a con man. Revenue loss? Nothing or very little will offset them. Nor will the federal government somehow be virtually eliminated. So basically Ryan wants to steal more of the nation's wealth for himself and his other buddies, add it to the country's credit card and skeedaddle into the sunset. Of course, if he actually manages to do it, he and his insanely greedy compatriots will actually manage to destroy this country, which would seem to undermine the basis of the riches they are attempting to purloin. But then, people in bondage to the passions of greed and hubris probably can't see the outcome of their actions. Oh, and Ryan wants to give poor people less health care too. I guess we know what the GOP vision for health care really is now that they've rejected their own long-standing reform plan (the one President Obama managed to actually enact). The rich will get health care and everyone else can die. Aside from the basic immorality of that attitude, it's not socially sustainable. A good dictator knows you have to provide a certain level of safety and services to the people or they will eventually rebel.
Lauren Weinstein puts it well. If they are truly ready to overturn the ACA, then the Supreme Court is ready to effectively murder millions of people. Hitler and the Third Reich deservedly went down in infamy for slaughtering six million. Arguably our health care system has killed at least that many already with millions more waiting in the wings. This is what our radical far right has been reduced to supporting. Unfortunately, they might just have a 5-4 majority on the Supreme Court. This expresses the moral hazard well. If you don't have health insurance by choice (a different issue) then you are essentially gambling that our society won't just let you die. I would not you're both right and wrong in your assessment. We won't deny you emergency treatment, but there are a host of potentially life-saving measures we will deny you. Regardless, though, your "gamble" is a form of insurance funded by the rest of us. The only real question is whether or not you should shoulder some of that responsibility or if we should foot the whole bill on your behalf. As far as I can tell, the right wing wants to be leeches on society. Or is there another way of interpreting their position?
Krugman is one of many who has stated it well. Frankly, we're spoiled by the Supreme Courts that have presided since at least the mid-20th century (and probably somewhat earlier than that). Whether you agreed with a given ruling or not, they cared about the Constitution, the rule of law, and were careful about precedence even when overturning it. The Supreme Court has over that span earned the respect of the American people. What most people don't recall (or never studied) is that those were hard-won gains. Through a significant portion of our history, the Court was filled with people receiving a cushy lifetime appointment as a political pay-off — and not necessarily even lawyers or judges. That was particular true throughout what we now call the Gilded Age. During that period, the rulings of the court were often awful and followed the political and ideological winds. The Court was hardly respected at all by anyone. The course on which this court is set may very well lose the Supreme Court its hard-won respect from the last century. It will again become simply another tool of whichever party is able to seat a majority on it rather than operating as a truly independent third branch of government. It's a shame, really. But you know what's said about those who fail to learn from history.
And yes, Gingrich totally went there. I would say I was shocked. But I'm not.
And does the current Supreme Court deserve any respect whatsoever? Not if you take the former Reagan solicitor general seriously.
I took my daughter to the Anne Rice signing at Book People last Friday. Looks like they caught us on video at the signing and posted it to Anne Rice's youtube channel. (We're the first ones in it.) Anne is extremely gracious and took the time to speak briefly to everyone who came to the table as she signed the books. My daughter was on cloud nine! (She's a huge reader.)


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Cliff Kuang traces the evolution of office designs from the open factory-like floors of Frederick Taylor to the present era of semi-private pods.
Cliff Kuang traces the evolution of office designs from the open factory-like floors of Frederick Taylor to the present era of semi-private pods.
kottke.org contributer Cliff Kuang asks: what can we learn from the classic Bill Murray flick Groundhog Day? A: Lessons physic, lessons Buddhist, and lessons economic.
The first time Phil Conners lives out Groundhog Day, he knows nothing about how events will unfold, and acts accordingly — self centered, short sighted and rash. But by the time Conners lives out his last Groundhog Day, he has perfect knowledge of how everyone around him will behave. He acts accordingly — maximizing his happiness and the happiness of those around him. The metaphor gets pretty loose, but in this interpretation, Phil's last day is analogous to classical economics, where people act with perfect knowledge and rationality.
Replacing a car that gets horrible gas mileage with one that gets good gas mileage is preferable to replacing a car that gets good gas mileage with one that gets excellent gas mileage. To that end, kottke.org contributor Cliff Kuang says to the car companies: forget about 100-mpg cars and focus on small, achievable increases in MPG ratings.
My concern is a rhetorical one: What happens when advancements in cars are eternally linked — through marketing and special prizes — with big innovations, rather than tangible results right now? Fuel efficiency gets its urgency sapped: Someone's working on it, with results TBD. Wait and see.
I'm off on holiday this week and I've invited Cliff Kuang to help keep that kottke.org groove going in my absence. Cliff is a journalist and has written/edited for I.D., The Economist, Wired, Print, Monocle, and GOOD on culture, design, and technology. When he's not writing for money, he blogs for fun and wonderment at Delicious Ghost (may be NSFW). Welcome, Cliff!


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The book of Genesis tells us that man was made in the image of God. This means that he was unique in all of creation. Mankind had something no other created being had: Free Will…the ability to choose. However, the first humans, Adam and Eve took this gift from God and used it to disobey Him. Eve, tempted by the devil (in the guise of a serpent), chose to break God's command not to eat of the fruit of the tree of knowledge in the Garden of Eden, — as did Adam. And by doing so, they committed the very first sin. The consequence of which, was the introduction of death into creation.
As St. Paul wrote in his letter to the Romans:
"Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world and by sin death, so death passed to all men."
This is what we refer to as "The Fall." The time when humanity severed it's communion with God (who is the source of life), and was removed from paradise–relegated to a life of pain, suffering and mortality.
But, despite our disobedience, God did not abandon us. St. Basil says in the Anaphora of his Divine Liturgy:
"Thou didst not turn thyself away forever from thy creature whom thou hast made, O good One, neither didst thou forget the work of thy hands; but thou didst visit him in diverse manners through thy tender mercies."
God took compassion on his creation, and visited mankind, by speaking to him by the mouths of the prophets. Through them, He foretold to us His plan for our redemption. In the book of Isaiah chapter 7, the prophet promised that "the Lord himself shall give you a sign; Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel."
This weekend, we are celebrating the fulfillment of that promise. Today, we remember how the Archangel Gabriel was sent by God to the Virgin Mary to announce to her the good news that she had been chosen to be the one to conceive, and give birth to Immanuel, explaining to her that: "The Holy Spirit will come upon you and the power of the Most High will overshadow you; therefore the child to be born will be called holy, the Son of God."
Now, this is not meant to imply that Mary did not have a say in the matter. Certainly, God desired to have Mary as His mother, but, God is pure love and as St. Paul says: "Love does not insist on it's own way." So, Mary, like our foremother Eve, had a choice. She could have said "NO". But, out of her humility, and desire to be obedient to God, Mary answered, "Behold, I am the handmaid of the Lord, Let it be unto me according to thy Word."
By giving her consent, a miracle happened. The Word of God, the 2nd person of the Holy Trinity, became incarnate in the womb of the Virgin. Therefore, the hymns of the Church describe her as the heavenly ladder by which God came down.
Mary, who had spent most of her life in the Jewish Temple, became herself a Temple of the living God. How the uncontainable God was contained within her womb is a mystery.
Mary's conceiving without a man, and her remaining a virgin after birth seems impossible…. But as the church teaches:
"Where God wills, He overcometh the order of nature."
Indeed, she did give birth to a son, the Lord Jesus Christ, who lived a life without sin, (the way that we were supposed to live from the very beginning). He offered himself as a sacrifice on the cross, to die for our sins… and to rise so that we would be raised with him and be redeemed from the Fall.
Whereas, the dialogue between the fallen angel and Eve in the garden had disastrous consequences for us, the dialogue between the angel Gabriel and Mary had nothing but positive results for all mankind. Their dialogue did not lead to death, but rather to the birth of the one who would destroy it. Thus, Mary becomes the "New Eve" and Jesus "The New Adam."
Mary's simple "Yes" was the "beginning of our salvation." (As we sing in the Troparion of the feast)…"
However, our participation in that salvation is still very much dependent upon our own individual free will. As with Eve and Mary, we too are given a choice. All of us, as free beings, are able to determine our own destiny.
We know, that through his incarnation, death, resurrection, and ascension, Christ has made it possible for us to be with God in paradise once again. Through His saving work, God has issued us all an invitation to the Kingdom. But it is up to us to accept that invitation by doing His Will.
In order to join Him in the Kingdom, we must keep His commandments, and faithfully follow the teachings of Christ.
Again, God will not force us to do this.
He will not force us to pray, he will not force us to study Scriptures, He will not make us repent and confess our sins so that we can partake of his body and blood. It is up to us to choose to do this.
Now this is not to say that our will and our efforts alone are enough for salvation, God's grace is needed. But that's what the church and the sacraments are for! It is through them that we receive His Grace, and the means to accomplish the things necessary for our salvation.
—And yet, how often do we neglect them? How often do we miss church services? How often do we turn away from God and insist on OUR OWN WAY?–acting more like the disobedient Eve rather than the faithful Virgin Mary? Probably more often than we care to admit.
The choice is ours brothers and sisters. God is awaiting our answer to His invitation. Will we be faithful servants and handmaidens of the Lord? I pray that our answer is the same as Mary's:
May God's will be done by each of us!
In the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, One God, Amen.


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President of the Senate, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki, on Wednesday expressed deep sorrow over the death of the Senator representing Katsina North, Senator Mustapha Bukar, after a brief illness in Abuja.
In a statement by his Special Adviser, Media and Publicity, Yusuph Olaniyonu, in Abuja, Saraki described the death of Senator Bukar as one too many coming a few weeks after the Red Chamber lost Senator Ali Wakili.
Saraki also wrote on his twitter handle #Bukola Saraki.
"I am saddened to learn about the passing of another friend and colleague, Senator Mustapha Bukar. When I and some of my colleagues visited Senator Bukar in the hospital after Jummat prayers last Friday, we prayed with him and we were filled with hope that he would soon recuperate and resume his normal life and legislative activities.
"As a first-time lawmaker, Senator Bukar stood out for the quality of his contributions on the floor, his pragmatism and his work to strengthen the institution of the legislature. We shall sorely miss his vibrancy and progressive mindset.
"But now that he is no more, we cannot query Almighty Allah over the incident because He gives and takes as it pleases Him. The late Bukar was forthright and gentle in all his dealings.
"This is indeed another painful moment for the Senate, a sad moment for his immediate family, his constituents in Katsina North Senatorial District and the people and government of Katsina State.
"As we mourn his passing, my thoughts and prayers are with his family, President Muhammadu Buhari and the government and people of Katdina State. I pray that the Almighty Allah, in his infinite grace, grants the dear and departed Senator a place among the righteous ones in Aljannah firdaus," Saraki stated.


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Reading Lists
11 Highly-Anticipated Queer Books Coming Out This Winter
Stay inside from November to February and read these new books by LGBTQ authors
Whether you're a winter hater or a die-hard hygge practitioner, we can all agree that this is a great season for never leaving your bedroom. So while the darkness descends on the northern hemisphere, why not pick up a new book? And while you're picking up a new book, why not support queer writers?
Here are 11 buzzy books by LGBTQ authors coming down the pipe from November to February. Whether memoir, literary fiction, short stories, poetry, essays, nonfiction, or some genre-bending mix of these, all of these books are more than worth the read.
In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado (11/5)
Carmen Maria Machado's highly anticipated memoir is unlike anything you've ever read. For one thing, it contains the story of an abusive queer relationship, which itself is rarely told. Queer and straight folks alike tend to want to believe that domestic abuse doesn't happen in same-gender relationships. In In the Dream House, Machado herself grapples with not wanting to make queer women "look bad." But if society is going to see queer folks as fully human, it needs to see everything, even that darkness. This book is dark—it often reads like a horror story, cold fear creeping up from the corners—but it is also a work of pure poetry, a study in language and form, a wildly successful use of second person, and a potent example of how we frame and re-frame and re-frame again the stories we tell others and ourselves. It's gripping and gorgeous, one of the best memoirs to be released in years.
On Swift Horses by Shannon Pufahl (11/5)
If you've ever thought it would be great to have a sprawling literary Western with queer protagonists, this is your book. Taking the reader through postwar California, Las Vegas, and Tijuana, the book centers on Muriel, a young newlywed, and Julian, her charming brother-in-law. Their bond configures them into a kind of family, even as they live apart—Muriel growing ever more interested in gambling and keeping secrets from her husband Lee, and Julius following his wanderlust to Vegas where he meets a romantic interest, Henry. On Swift Horses is dense and as sweeping as the Western sky, a bold story of characters who are experiencing the restraints of a nation claiming to be full of possibility. It's a book that will engage the mind as much as the heart, worth savoring and perfect for a winter escape.
Feed by Tommy Pico (11/5)
Tommy Pico is a titan of poetry, and this final installment in his Teebs series (following IRL, Nature Poem, and Junk) returns us to the world of Pico's alter-ego, Teebs. Teebs is a queer Indigenous almost-nihilist: irreverant and funny, intellectual and playful, sexy and observant. This collection is perhaps the most epic of the series. Musing on music, texts, headlines, and yes, food, Pico writes stream-of-consciousness poetry that is profound on every level, not least because it's unpretentious, witty, and full of vitality and emotion at once.
The Life & Times of Butch Dykes by Eloisa Aquino (11/12)
This collection of illustrations of, and text about, women and nonbinary gender-defying warriors of history started as a zine series. Now, a single bound volume brings Aquino's portraits and hand-lettered passages into one place. With a particular focus on people of color, Aquino renders her subjects with care, reverence, humor, and pragmatism. Not all of these figures—most of whom were working in creative fields like writing, film, photography, and music—were queer, but most of them were, and all of them actively defied gender stereotypes as they created art, created space for themselves, and profoundly influenced culture. From Audre Lorde to Gloria Anzaldúa to Jenny Shimizu and a plethora of others, this is a great book to use as reference and inspiration, and to return to again and again.
Girl, Woman, Other by Bernadine Evaristo (12/3)
The U.S. release of this illustrious saga with no fewer than 12 protagonists made news most recently when the Booker Prize judges decided to break its own rules and split the award between Evaristo and Margaret Atwood, but this book deserves a full spotlight. Not much has been said about the queerness of this novel, but it's here, and it's complicated, which is true to life. Exploring intersectional identity—Black, queer, gender nonconforming, British—on a grand, intergenerational scale, Evaristo uses poetry and poetic prose to craft her characters and stories in a way that makes the novel so captivating that you won't even notice its nearly-500-page length.
Homie by Danez Smith (1/21)
If you've read Don't Call Us Dead (which, if you haven't, what are you doing?), you already know: Danez Smith creates some of the most magnetic, dynamic, shrewd, and saucy poetry of our time. Homie is no different in this regard. Functioning as a love letter to friends—an undersung relationship in most writing/music/pop culture—this collection shines with pain and triumph, brimming with love for the people who make life worth living despite and because of the dark inner and outer worlds we often inhabit. This is sure to make it onto pretty much every Best Books of the Year list, and with good reason. Especially for queer folks, friends can be life-saving family. Smith captures this in a way only they can.
My Autobiography of Carson McCullers by Jenn Shapland (2/4)
Carson McCullers is perhaps best known for her novels The Heart is a Lonely Hunter and The Member of the Wedding, but she was a prolific and well-connected writer in the 1930's and 40's. She was also queer. In My Autobiography of Carson McCullers, Shapland, after encountering the love letters McCullers wrote to Annemarie Schwarzenbach, follows her gut and her heart into the depths of McCullers's queer life: her childhood home, her Yaddo writing retreat, even her therapy transcripts. As she engages with McCullers's archive, we see both how eye-opening and how limiting archives can be. What results is part biography, part memoir, part genre-less series of vignettes, part poetry, part queer manifesto. It's about not only finding ourselves in literature, and in the writers who make it, but in making ourselves from it. This is a gorgeous, brilliant book that is all but guaranteed to resonate with queer folks, word nerds, and readers everywhere.
Verge by Lidia Yuknavitch (2/4)
Lidia Yuknavitch is one of the most celebrated contemporary writers. Her novels and memoir are bestsellers and have been used to teach craft in creative writing classes across the country. In her first work of fiction since 2017's The Book of Joan, Yuknavitch returns with a collection of short stories that embody her unique blend of the unsettling and the delightful. The stories border on the fantastical, with visceral roots in the world as we know it. The characters are children and adults, living on the margins, building worlds and being torn apart by them. Fans of Yuknavitch's sublime prose won't be disappointed.
Something That May Shock and Discredit You by Daniel Mallory Ortberg (2/11)
It can fairly be said that Daniel Mallory Ortberg is a cultural figurehead: his previous books, Texts from Jane Eyre and The Merry Spinster, were bestsellers; he co-founded the now-defunct but ever-beloved online magazine The Toast; he is Slate's Dear Prudence columnist. In this memoir-in-essays, Ortberg brings his signature humor and insight to exploration of gender, pop culture, history, literature, and ultimately, living life in the world. Like all of his work, Something That May Shock and Discredit You is a stand-alone pillar in Ortberg's remarkable canon, one in which the lines typically drawn around topic and genre are obliterated, resulting in a wide-open field of possibility.
Real Life by Brandon Taylor (2/18)
(Full disclosure, Brandon Taylor is a senior editor of Recommended Reading.) This debut novel follows a young graduate student named Wallace, who is the kind of introverted queer person who is rarely portrayed in literature, and to whom many people (queer or not) will be able to relate. The fine line between introversion and isolation can be tricky, especially when introversion is a self defense mechanism, as in Wallace's case. Wallace is a gay Black man in a Midwest town; his colleagues and friends are mostly white. This is a very real-life (no pun intended) aspect of higher education in America, and over the course of the book, Wallace must grapple with longing, desire, racism, loneliness and complicated connection. The prose is luminous, from the very first sentence to the last; it is ethereal and corporeal; it is a stunning novel that won't be easily forgotten.
Here for It by R. Eric Thomas (2/18)
R. Eric Thomas is a playwright, senior staff writer at Elle.com, and host of The Moth in Philadelphia and Washington D.C., so he's no stranger to telling a good story. In his debut memoir/essay collection, Thomas tells his story of being a Black gay kid and a doing-his-best adult. He writes about code-switching: as a city kid in a white suburban school, in his Ivy League college, between his Christian and queer identities. He writes about what it means to be "other." He questions what "normal" means, what the future holds, and why the heck do we even try? If that sounds dark, it's only sort of dark—these essays are also hilarious. Thomas is one of the most revered pop culture writers working today, and this collection is a welcome addition to his abundant and admirable work.


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>Painfully punctual. It's February 1, so Andrew has posted the February picks for Andrew's Book Club. As you will recall, Andrew is picking two short story collections each month, one from a big press and one from a small press, and participants are encouraged to [buy and] read the books, and post comments. I'm already behind because I ordered January's books mid-month and don't yet have them. So I wasn't going to participate this month. But. It just so happens that I received a gift certificate from Amazon.com. So. I ordered them. And soon I will have the new Antonya Nelson, Nothing Right, and the new Kirsten Sunbberg Lunstrum, Swimming With Strangers.
>Attaboy, CG.
>Ack! I'm behind, too. I ordered January's small press selection several weeks ago…guess I better check to be sure it's enroute…
>Yes, Mary, you'd best check. I made a comment a week or so ago on Andrew's site that I hadn't received the small press book yet. Dan Wickett happened to see it and followed up. He said he thought they'd shipped it to me right away, but I didn't get it. He was going to get on it, but I still don't have it.


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IBC does not mean Itsy-Bitsy Convention
While you're reading this magazine, I'll be working at the International Broadcasting Convention, IBC. I'll be touring the exhibit halls at the RAI, visiting with exhibitors. Or perhaps, I'll be coasting lazily down one of the many Amsterdam waterways in a canal boat, drinking a good brew. Okay, the first will happen. I'm not so sure about the second.
The IBC is in some ways the show NAB ought to be. First, IBC is slower-paced. There's less frenzy. Everyone seems so busy at NAB. I tell readers that the noise level, figuratively speaking, is so high at NAB that you can't hear anything. At NAB, we don't see all we want to see, we don't visit all those we would like to visit. Worst of all, by the time the show is over, attendees and exhibitors alike are so overwhelmed with information they can't remember half of what took place.
On the other hand, the IBC looks like a traditional trade show. It focuses on the same technology as NAB, but with the added flair of being a truly international exposition. Three key differences I notice. First, the IBC show is longer. The exhibits run for five days instead of four. Second, the IBC is admittedly a smaller show in terms of headcount, but that's really a significant plus for both attendee and exhibitor. Third, IBC has become a far more congenial show than NAB, with more time to meet and visit in a less pressured setting. Friends often meet over a beer in an exhibitor's stand to discuss new products and technology.
I also find that IBC is a better place to develop friendships that span the distance between the United States and other countries. Exhibitors seem genuinely happy that you've stopped by to see them. At NAB, you're expected to stop by. Miss an appointment and the NAB exhibitors are angry. If the same thing happens at IBC, the exhibitor is disappointed you weren't able to see them. The difference is civility.
If you're not going, keep checking the Broadcast Engineering Web site. We have lots of new products for the show already posted there. By the way, if you are looking for information on new products, don't miss the new Product Shop section of the Web site. If a new product was released in the past nine months, it's probably listed in the Product Shop. You can search the site for specific technology, a product name or just browse.
If you're fortunate to be among the expected 40,000 attendees at IBC, look me up.
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Future Growth Paper
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Resource: Strategic Marketing Plan
Prepare a 700- to 1,050-word paper in which you use the business from your Strategic Marketing Plan.
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Blogs on ritual abuse
Survivor Blogs
A Survivor's Thoughts on Life. A Christian who lived through ritual abuse writes "At my core, I am a person…not a disorder…not an experience." http://asurvivorsthoughtsonlife.wordpress.com
She also has a poetry blog http://asurvivorspoetry.wordpress.com/
and an art blog http://asurvivorshealingart.wordpress.com/
Blooming Lotus - Faith's journey of recovery from ritual abuse. http://faithallen.wordpress.com/
Buntstreifenkatzen. (Little striped cats.) A German ritual abuse survivor imagines herselves as cats exploring the new, non-cult world. http://buntstreifenkatzen.wordpress.com/
Cherish Freedom - My Healing Journey From Mormon Ritual Abuse To Freedom. http://cherishfreedom.wordpress.com/
City of Angels - Ongoing coverage of the pedophile priest epidemic in the Catholic Church. http://cityofangels12.blogspot.com/
Coloring outside the Lines - A Christian blog on recovery from ritual abuse and mind control. Creative use of Polyvore collages. http://mysteriousjourneys.blogspot.com/
Democratizeourknowledge' Blog - Mind Control and Deliberate Dissociation. http://democratizeourknowledge.wordpress.com/
Daffodil Rites - A ritual abuse survivor and single mother's diary of trauma recovery and dissociation. http://daffodilrites.blogspot.com/
Delightfully Scattered Thoughts. A Wiccan survivor of Satanic ritual abuse, raised in England, now living in the US. http://englishrain.wordpress.com/
Dissociation Blog Showcase. A list of about 150 blogs on dissociation. http://thirdofalifetime.com/dissociation-blog-showcase-2/
Grenzgänger: Vielfältiges Schreiben- Geschriebenes Vielfältiges (Pioneers: Diverse Writings, Diverse Pioneers.) A German survivor's blog with essays, collages, and photos. (In German) http://diepaulines.wordpress.com/
Hopeful Tears in Broken Places - A survivor of ritual abuse and government mind control. http://ziggy-hopefultears.blogspot.com/
Kate is Rising. Hundreds of resources on all aspects of healing from ritual abuse. http://kate1975.wordpress.com/
Memoir of a Redemptive Life - Rosie shares how she lived through ritual abuse and came out the other side. http://memoirofaredemptivelife.blogspot.com/
Mind Parts. Paul, who was abused throughout childhood by a priest, writes articulately and deeply. He also shares his music and the Expressive Arts Carnival, a collection of themed drawing by contributors. http://www.mindparts.org
More Than An Idea. Trish Fotheringham's blog with excerpts from interviews. http://morethananidea.wordpress.com
My Clouds, My Storms, and Multiple Personality Disorder - By a survivor of Satanic ritual abuse. http://mycloudsandmystorms.blogspot.com/
Pandora's Showcase. A German blog with much information on ritual abuse, including a detailed ritual calendar. http://pandorasshowcase.wordpress.com
Parrallelwelten der Mosaiksteinchen.(Parallel worlds of tesserae.) "The life cycle consists of many small and different stones. Only at the end can you see her pattern." by a German survivor of intergenerational Satanic ritual abuse. (In German) http://omosaiko.wordpress.com/
Ritual Abuse. Jean Riseman's blog: Essays, poems and artwork, plus ritual calendar, coming events. http://ritualabuse.wordpress.com/
Blogg för Erik Rodenborg. By a male Swedish survivor of ritual abuse. http://kiremaj70.blogspot.com
He also has a personal blog at http://kiremaj.blogspot.com/
Surviving Out Loud ~ My journey towards healing. "Out of my hopelessness comes beautiful growth." http://survivingoutloud.com/
Understanding and Healing From Designer Dissociation. Grace is a survivor of mind control who lived in many different parts of the world as a child. http://forbiddentopic.blogspot.com/ org.
See also The Art Journey of Grace http://graceartjourney.blogspot.com/
and Grace Uncensored http://graceuncensored.blogspot.com/
You Can Fly with Broken Wings - Diary of a Christian RA survivor. http://fiyoucanflywithbrokenwings.blogspot.com/
Voice from the Desert - Supporting survivors of clergy sexual abuse and examining the cover up, causes, and effects of that abuse in the Roman Catholic Church. http://reform-network.net/
We Are Many Lights - We were Children of the Illuminati/Cult/Mind Control Programming you have heard about, and we are here. http://www.wermanylights.blogspot.com/
Blogs with Information, News, and Resources
Believe the Children - "A place to share knowledge about pedophile tactics as reported in the news, by abused children, or recalled by adult survivors." Not specifically about ritual abuse, but useful. http://believethechildren.blogspot.com/
Donde vamos? French blog with news items and essays from around the world, mostly about pedophilia, but with many ritual abuse entires. http://dondevamos.canalblog.com
Extreme Abuse Survey's Weblog. The final results of the international surveys with over 750 pages of data and analysis. Also general information on ritual abuse and multiplicity. http://eassurvey.wordpress.com
Higher Insight. A British care worker saves a child from MK ULTRA programming. Contains a section on deprogramming. http://higherinsight.webs.com/
The Menawa Report has videos and essays on mind control, occultic abuse, ritual abuse, the Illuminati, and more. http://menawa.wordpress.com/
Ritual Abuse Articles - Many articles and links from SMART's newsletter.
Ritual Abuse Info - News and articles on ritual abuse and child abuse. http://ritualabuseinfo.livejournal.com
Survivorship. Information about the support organization Survivorship and general ritual abuse news. http://survivorshipwp.wordpress.com/
Satanic Ritual Abuse and "Multiple Personality Syndrome." About the Illuminati and ritual abuse in the Mormon Church. http://satanic-abuse.blogspot.com/
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R and Python both are open-source data science programming languages for statistics. These two languages have emerged as the most favorable languages for data scientists and data analysts. R is a programming language for statistical analysis which requires time-investment and Python is a general-purpose programming language with a readable syntax.
Let us look at the brief overview of both the programming languages:
What is R?
It was developed in 1995 by Ross Ihaka and Robert Gentleman. The primary purpose was to create a programming language that focused on delivering a better and more user-friendly way to do data analysis, statistics, and graphical models. R works by breaking down a programming task into a series of steps, procedures, and subroutines.
One of the best things about R is its vast community provides support through mailing lists, and user-contributed documentation and a very active stack overflow group. It has around 12000 packages available in CRAN with a good variety of library makes R the statistical analysis language for specialized analytical work.
R can be used when the data analysis task requires standalone computing or analysis on an individual's servers. Some of the useful packages of R programming language:
- Ggplot2- It is visualization packages that provide support to its users. With the help of this package, users can avail of the extensions to increase usability and personal experience.
- Tidyr- It allows you to clean and organize your data. It has mainly three functions- gather, spread, separate from organizing data into rows and columns.
- Dplyr- It is the most crucial library in R in which you can organize, wrangle and manage your data.
What is Python?
Python was created in 1991 by Guido Van Rossem, which maintained productivity and code readability. Python can do tasks such as wrangling, feature selection web scrapping, etc. it is a very popular programming language which is widely used in data processing. It also provides a large number of libraries that appeal to programmers and data scientists and that is why many companies are offering python jobs with good pay.
Python can be used when your data analysis tasks need to be integrated with web applications or statistics code that needs to be incorporated into a data production base. In Python, one can easily share notebooks with colleagues without installing anything. And it also merges various people with different backgrounds together. No doubt, this programming language is easy to understand and well known by programmers who can easily be learned by statistics. Many candidates are pursuing a python course to get a professional in this field.
Some of the popular libraries of Python are:
- Matplotib- It is a popular library for developing visualizations. Matplotib covers a variety of features that are important in developing dynamic visualizations. You can create bar plots, histograms, etc.
- Pandas- It is a data wrangling library that provides support for converting information into organized data frames.
- Scikit-learn- It is a popular machine learning library that uses for classification and regression tasks.
The truth is that learning both the programming language and using them according to your work can improve you as a data scientist. Above is some brief information about both R and Python programming language just go through it.
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Local Media Association is profiling some of the first Google News Initiative Innovation Challenge winners in North America and how they're putting funding to work developing sustainable business models, diversifying revenue streams, and increasing audience engagement. Watch the webinar from Sept. 29, which explores lessons from hyperlocal news expansions, including Wick Communications, Torstar Local, and Crosstown — all leveraging new technology to connect with untapped audiences.
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Torstar's nimble but effective hyperlocal expansion strategy connects local community members to a new local news brand, and also to one another.
With funding from the Google News Initiative Innovation Challenge, the Torstar Corp. division Torstar Local has launched 10 community engagement hubs — as an app and accompanying web platform — with more slated for 2021.
"Local news is very challenged and it keeps disappearing," said Pam Laycock, senior vice president of transformation and strategy at Torstar. "Our objective is to find a new way that we can create a wonderful local experience in communities that is highly relevant and maybe slightly different than what we do today."
Torstar Local aims its new local platform to deliver a robust local news and community engagement experience that is scalable and sustainable. With an app-first approach, this model for producing hyperlocal community content helps the company reach audiences beyond its print footprint, showcase the diverse interests in each community, and connect local businesses with relevant audiences, Laycock said.
With a test-and-learn approach, Torstar Local started with an operational launch about a year ago, replicating and building sites throughout the pandemic, and is now focused on audience and revenue development. The model was engineered for speed to demonstrate its potential for sustainability and scalability — functioning distinctly separate from other parts of the organization, which are also tasked with important transformation initiatives.
"We have actually constructed this as a journey. We started with just a few Locals on purpose so that we could learn with them and then expand more next year and the year after," Laycock said.
One full-time staff member oversees the 10 local news brands. Part-time, contracted local community coordinators manage the local platforms, including user-generated content and timely freelanced journalism. Additionally, local sales professionals, paid on commission, offer local businesses some standard and unique digital marketing opportunities, and there are plans for branded content.
With this distributed workforce, Laycock said one challenge of launching the sites has been the logistics of getting to scale: bootstrapping common operations that can be replicated in each market.
"The independent community coordinator becomes sort of the cheerleader in the market, and they find a network of independent freelance journalists in the market who contribute," Laycock said. "We knew this from the get-go, but we have found that we need to create — as much as possible for scalability and sustainability — a common way to do things."
The linchpin for success in any of the new markets has been securing the right talent, Laycock said.
"To do this perfectly, you actually need a unicorn. You need somebody who gets content, somebody who is really comfortable going out there and talking to community groups and getting them signed on, and somebody to knock on the doors of all the local businesses and make some money," Laycock said. "We're getting better at the characteristics of a coordinator to look for in the recruiting process, and we're also learning that you can see pretty quickly afterward if they fit or they don't."
Partnering for technology and marketing was also essential to launch the markets quickly and efficiently. Teams use Monday.com to organize the content calendar across 50 independent journalists and eight community coordinators. For audience acquisition and marketing planning, Torstar Local hired the digital marketing and services agency it uses for its own clients, Marketing 360, out of Denver. For the app and publishing platform, Torstar Local brought in Norway-based Innocode, which has a suite of technology that enables community groups and members to post content including events and articles.
"The momentum that we have been able to build with them, we would not have been able to do so without partnering," Laycock said.
Organizationally, data is important to benchmark growth, and so far app downloads and website traffic has been growing steadily, Laycock said. Torstar is planning more brand launches in 2021 as it continues to learn from its initial 10 markets. The revenue model is a combination of advertising and, with time, subscription.
"We can start relatively quickly in each market, learning as we go, but the whole idea is to make it lightweight to stand up and fairly cost-effective to operate," Laycock said. "We want to make sure that we can do this really well across a wide number of communities and meet our objective of sustaining local journalism."


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There are a lot of great reasons to get excited about 5G. From a technical perspective, these include:
- Single-digit millisecond latency.
- 10 gigabyte-per-second download speeds.
- Connection density of up to 1 million connected Internet-of-Things devices per square kilometer.
But the real marvel of these technical specifications is what they'll help us achieve. By supporting massive machine-to-machine networks that transmit real-time data to and from IoT endpoints, 5G will enable highly-reliable technologies that can act within milliseconds to save lives, conserve natural resources and improve quality of life. A 5G network may help sustain innovations like:
- Healthcare facilities can remotely monitor out-patient vitals in real time.
- Ambulances can wirelessly communicate with traffic signals while simultaneously transmitting patient data to trauma centers.
- Agricultural companies can monitor livestock health with wirelessly connected ear tags.
- Self-driving vehicles, including crop harvesters and semi-trucks, can make decisions in milliseconds.
- Augmented reality applications paired with headsets and smart glasses can enhance building design, medical training, engineering, tech support, public safety and transit operators (just to name a few beneficiaries) by providing real-time, visual and audio insights.
Many of these applications are currently being tested, if they are not already in use. But one practical barrier to their widespread deployment in real-world use cases has been bandwidth and latency, both problems that 5G and edge computing help solve.
Where do data centers fit in this dynamic?
More data moving faster means a greater need for data centers. Interconnection facilities will likely see a notable flux in demand since they're able to hand-off workflows between facilities and connect to multiple networks. This will be especially important for 5G. To fully capitalize on its low latency to deliver an exemplary user experience, data centers will need powerful connectivity with as many networks as possible. Data center interconnect (DCI) will be crucial for quickly moving content to edge facilities and to end users.
Speaking of the edge: Even with 5G's speed, light can only travel so fast. In use cases such as self-driving vehicles or wireless technology used in first-responder missions, users will truly need to tap into that single-digit latency to prevent delays that could affect critical real-time operations. The IoT doesn't just need a fast network or a reliable network; it needs a reliably fast network.
Edge data centers essentially bring the data closer to end users to cut back on latency, both for user experience purposes and, in the case of IoT devices being used in healthcare and law enforcement, to save lives. Consequently, we'll not only see more edge data centers, but also new form factors for data centers.
Tim Mirick of Sabey Data Centers imagines a world with small data centers on lampposts and roof-tops that will support mission-critical data that needs to be close to end users for purposes such as assisting in real-time transit operations (e.g., autonomous vehicles).
Data centers, as they get bigger, will almost be in concentric rings away from these miniature facilities, as you support the long-term storage and compute cycles that don't have to be quite as immediate," Mirick said.
In other words, the remote data center campuses we know today will still be crucial for many everyday computational use cases as well as storing data that has value beyond the immediate present.
If anything, there will be more of them to help sustain the massive quantities of data we'll generate in a 5G world, and they'll be better connected than ever before.
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After three and a half years of hard work constructing the Mississippi River Crossing between Minnesota and Wisconsin, the new bridges and interchange near La Crosse, Wisconsin, were opened to the traveling public 40 days earlier than contracted.
Ames constructed two cast-in-place balanced cantilever concrete segmental box girder bridges crossing the Mississippi River, along with the reconstruction of the I-90/TH61 Interchange, which included seven additional bridges, multiple retaining walls, earthwork, utilities, and paving.
During construction, crews overcame a multitude of challenges including high river water levels, frigid winter conditions, complex staging and river traffic. Ames, MnDOT and WisDOT worked together to limit impacts to the corridor's various transportation entities. Crews built the project while keeping the flow of vehicular traffic, recreational and commercial river navigation, and railroad transport open for the duration of construction. For construction of the approach piers, crews built a temporary trestle and riprap causeway across the Mississippi River backwaters.
The final step of the project was to demolish the existing 50-year-old I-90 bridge, whose fracture-critical status had placed its removal and replacement high on the priority list. To complete the demolition work prior to the winter river freeze, crews dismantled the bridge during the summer months. Ames lowered the span — weighing nearly 2.4 million pounds — over the main channel in two pieces utilizing short-term channel closures.
Crews installed a lowering system consisting of several false work beams, high strength rods, and specialty hydraulic jacks. Once the steel bridge members were cut, the span was lowered precisely 30 inches at a time with each cycle of the jacks until the structure came to rest on two barges located directly beneath the bridge. Once secured on the barges, two tugboats pushed the span to shore. Crews could dismantle the remaining portions of the bridge without impact to river traffic while still completing the work prior to the winter freeze.
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Italian coachbuilder ARES has announced that it will be welcoming French manufacturer Michelin as it's official tire partner.
The new technical partnership will see the tire manufacture supply its MICHELIN Pilot Sport 4S product to the Modenese coachbuilder. Acclaimed for its performance on both road and track, the MICHELIN Pilot Sport 4S features a carefully engineered compound that combines outstanding grip with intuitive handling characteristics, high-performance driving enjoyment and durability.
The ARES ProgettoUno and the ARES Coupé for Bentley Mulsanne vehicles will be the first to be shod with the MICHELIN Pilot Sport 4S, with plans to extend Michelin's presence further across the ARES range of vehicles in the coming months.
ARES Head of Technical Andrea Donati said: "After examining Michelin's range of tires and conducting exhaustive tests, we opted for the MICHELIN Pilot Sport 4S, as its combination of compounds delivers optimal grip, predictable handling, precision and performance; a perfect fit for our vehicles and their characteristics."
Michelin was founded in 1889 by two brothers and is now one of the world's largest tire manufacturers, making products for cars, motorcycles, bicycles, aircraft and even the space shuttle. As well as having a rich heritage in motorsport - supplying rubber for MotoGP, Formula 1, endurance racing and world rallying - Michelin is the OE fit for numerous car manufacturers, including high-performance brands.
Donati added: "Michelin's incredible pedigree at the very sharp end of tire manufacturing over the last 132 years is testament to the enormous level of trust and belief its customers have in the sheer quality of its products. Performance brands like BMW, Audi and Porsche have chosen Michelin to provide the tires their cars roll out of the factory on and there are reasons for that. These brands want only the very best for their customers and ARES is happy to add its name to the list of companies who place their trust in Michelin to deliver that."
Jerome Donjon, Key Account Manager Original Equipment Prestige & Vintage Michelin said: "Michelin is delighted with this technological partnership with ARES. The ARES engineers studied our tires in detail and selected the MICHELIN Pilot Sport 4S after an intense testing program conducted both within its R&D department and on track at the Michelin Technology Center in Ladoux. We are proud that ARES Design has chosen the MICHELIN Pilot Sport 4S tires to meet the needs of its very demanding customers by highlighting, among other things, the reliability and driving pleasure brought by these Michelin tires."


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While Israelis and Palestinians struggle to find lasting peace, ACRI's Executive Director Sharon Abraham-Weiss believes that educating children against racism is an indispensable tool for preventing injustice and conflict
"The education system is guilty because it has not acted sufficiently to convey the message that we all belong to the same wonderful race, the human race. There is no superior race, there is no inferior race, there is no pure race, and there is no impure race."
Sami Michael, President, Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI)
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What does racism in contemporary Israeli society look like?
Racism in Israel manifests itself in a multitude of different ways: from discrimination in the workplace, housing, education, and healthcare, to acts of violence and racial slurs on the streets. Racial discrimination contributes to the oppression of the Arab minority in Israel and many other groups including foreign workers, refugees and asylum seekers, citizens of Ethiopian descent, Mizrahim (Jews of Middle-Eastern descent), and Ultra-Orthodox Jews.
More alarming than overt acts of racism are the nuanced expressions of racism that are accepted as societal norms. While a certain rule or norm may not appear conspicuously racist, it can effectively exclude groups from certain sectors of society. Many examples of this type of racial exclusion have arisen in Israel in recent years, including granting preferential access to public housing for army veterans, the insistence that membership in clubs and societies include city residency (in line with the general homogeneity of certain neighborhoods), and the lack of Arabic-language books in public libraries. Each of these examples can serve as a filtering mechanism which deters groups from participating in public activities. They are forms of societal preference and they are symptomatic of an underlying system of structural racism on the macro-level.
Palestinian child in Silwan, East Jerusalem in October 2010.
This is especially the case when political actors incite racist sentiments in society, especially among young people. It is important to remind our elected officials that, even if their statements against protesters are politically expedient, the implications for democracy are likely to be disastrous.
Combating racism in schools
In August 2014, elementary school teachers in Jerusalem reported an increase in racist attitudes expressed by their students as they returned to school following the summer's military actions in the Gaza Strip. Teachers are not always equipped with the tools to tackle difficult subjects which often arise in the classroom – from elementary through to high school education.
At the same time, disparities in the quality of education continue to fall along racial lines, emphasizing and accentuating the separation of groups. State funding favours religious Jewish schools, which in 2013 received an average of £4,350 per student nationwide. In contrast, students in state secular Jewish schools received £3,994, and funding for Arab high school students averaged only £3,399 per year- a 27% gap between the highest and lowest funded student.
The widespread social legitimacy granted to racist worldviews and their proliferation throughout Israeli society, requires a comprehensive and long-term educational strategy to combat racism.
ACRI training workshop promoting tolerance and co-existence in schools. Photo: ACRI
This is where anti-racism education, including the educational outreach programs of the Association of Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI), becomes an indispensable tool for students across the country. The program includes the distribution of educational kits to classrooms across the country that contain a set of anti-racism materials, and training workshops for teachers to provide tools on how to promote a sense of tolerance and co-existence among Israeli school children, from pre-school through to high school.
An uncomfortable but necessary dialogue
Racism is an uncomfortable topic for many people, and anti-racism activities are often a contentious subject among scholars, thinkers and politicians alike. However, the work of anti-racism groups is essential, and comprises a straightforward mission: to deter the adoption of racist perspectives and promote positive human interaction based on an acceptance of the other. While a lasting solution will require a multi-faceted approach – including social, political and legal components – the key variable to achieving a lasting social change can only come through a comprehensive and sustained educational process geared towards promoting democratic values, human rights and co-existence.
In order to progress towards real and lasting social change, it is imperative that a shift in public attitude takes place from the ground up. Rather than criticizing external forces, it is time to look inward and focus on altering the true building blocks of society and citizenship. Education in all forms, whether formal or informal, must internalise the values of tolerance, co-existence, and democracy: the tenets of a culture of human rights.
Sharon Abraham–Weiss is the Executive Director of The Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI), Israel's largest and oldest human rights organisation dedicated to the eradication of racism in Israeli society through educational outreach.
Zoe Beaudry is an International Relations Intern at the Association for Civil Rights in Israel. Zoe is based in Michigan and will be returning to her community to utilize the human rights tools she has developed in Israel.