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"We hear what we want to hear." So how do we respond to things that we don't want to hear? Is it natural to protect ourselves from challenges to our basic beliefs just like we would protect ourselves from physical dangers?
When you hear or read something that challenges your own belief system do you stop listening or reading and start developing your own counter-argument? Or do you just bail out and go do something else? Do you listen more for what you disagree with than for what you might agree with?
I yell at the political jerks on TV and my wife tells me to shut up and listen. (She does it much more politely.) Once-in-a-while I discover that one of these jerks does make some sense if I bother to listen. I react the same way to the editorial page and I am sometimes surprised that my favorite-to-hate pundits actually make a little bit of sense if I just bother to read them.
Why Do We Like Listening To Stories?
Great orators, storytellers and salespeople grab us with their first few lines. Then we buy into the rest of their presentation as long as they don't move too fast and they carefully present material in sequence to keep us listeners constantly involved.
Stories and fiction usually don't threaten our own basic beliefs like "hard" facts and personal opinions do. Most stories are about someone other than the storyteller, so the storyteller is not responsible for any errors or things that threaten or upset us.
Is this why fiction is more popular than non-fiction? Do we question the motives of the fiction writer who only wants to entertain us and sell books? Do most non-fiction writers have an agenda trying to convert us to their own convictions and do we turn off if we have any doubts about what the "experts" have to say?
I used to read a lot of science fiction. Many SF writers are also accomplished scientists and philosophers. They create whole new worlds for our imagination and populate them with original characters, issues and problems to solve. Are they are coaxing us into some serious thinking without challenging what we already believe?


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The Cult
Posted by publius2point0 on 2010/04/25
A cult is, by definition, a group with extreme or unusual ideas (compared to the rest of the society it exists in). This doesn't particularly mean that it will remain extreme or unusual; any great movement was likely started as a cult like Christianity, Marxism, Fascism, or Republicanism.
You might be surprised to know that cults a fairly common thing. Within the modern US there is as many as 5000 independent cults actively operating. I presume that most of these are New Age sorts of organizations, but more importantly to our discussion is pointing out that a cult is not necessarily a religious group. The Manson Family, for example, was a cult which believed that there would be a race war in the near future; Or Tatenokai (Shield Society), lead by author Yukio Mishima with a belief that Japan needed to return to a militaristic foundation. But you are probably not aware of them because, simply, most of them are lame. It's the varying reasons for that lameness, however, that makes this an interesting topic.
Before a cult has found any sort of mainstream support, it was almost certainly founded by a single individual. The desire to start a cult generally has to do with his feeling that a movement of some sort is necessary in modern society. More often than not this is because he feels that he and his needs have been ignored or repressed by the world around him. This may be to some extent justified, or it may be more a need for attention. More often it is the latter and even when it is the former, that is just incidental to the man's desire for attention. There are very few cases of a need for a leader to arise and that leader being picked from amongst his fellows as the most reasonable and trusted of all of them and being imbued with the power to lead them. Far, far more often a movement is started by a single man (plus or minus a girlfriend or wife) who goes out and recruits people to his cause. He may or may not claim divine revelation at this point.
But the thing is, it is hard to assemble a strong support if your views are strange and extreme. The sort of person with strange and extreme ideas who desires attention and followers is generally unlikely to be particularly sane nor methodical. Generally this results in a small crew of him, his girlfriend, and a random assortment of further followers traveling about ranting about strange things, or getting together once a week to rant in private, come up with silly rituals, and get drunk or do drugs.
If he is a bit more organized or militaristic he might instead focus on building a fortress and he and his followers take up life there, inbreeding and plotting to take over the nation.
I'm not sure how many groups there are in the US of militaristic, often nationalist cults collecting arms and preparing for war in some impromptu commune in the forest. But the thing to make note of is that they certainly do exist, and yet seem to never actually do anything.
With most cults being started by attention seekers, lunatics, and the incompetent, I would postulate that there is still enough of a subconscious realization that trying to take over the nation would simply get you killed, or that trying to demonstrate that you were God incarnate would simply lead to you having to appear before a far more skeptical audience and make a fool of yourself as you tried to prove your powers. And that same subconscious realization tells you that you're actually doing pretty good as the big man of a group of devoted followers. You have your choice of women, including your own daughters, everyone around you thinks that you're the smartest and wisest person ever, and all you have to do to maintain this is to bluster about "the time" being just ever so slightly in the ambiguously near future which is not now. Everyone else accepts this because deep in their subconscious they don't want to get shot nor be shown to be lunatics either. The status quo is a nice and safe place to rest.
The Move from Cult to Acceptance
While a cult is nearly always started by a lunatic or attention seeker, at least in the case of the latter, this doesn't mean that he can't be fairly successful. Mao Zedong, for example, was highly competent at both military and political matters. Though of course as soon as he achieved some amount of success, he had his photo plastered on every wall in sight and had a few palaces built for himself.
More often though, an idea will succeed because one of its believers happens to be far more skillful and intelligent than the originator. While the people who start cults are generally creepy bastards, the people who join cults are fairly often actually decently respectable and seemingly intelligent people. I've seen the reason for this suggested as being that when people are in a dark time in their life, some have a hard time turning down any offer of warmth and care from a group of strangers (like a cult), and then once they are in and dependent on the cult as their surrogate family, the ability for people to convince themselves of anything kicks in. (See the series on Evolution, Instinct, and People.) This person then, being far less insane, and of high intelligence, should he have a chance to take the reins of the cult can actually advertise and organize it into an effective and expanding fleet. Examples of this might include Paul of Tarsus, Malcom X, Sidney Rigdon, and David Miscavige.
And on the rare occasion, the original cult is more-or-less co-opted by the rest of society because society really is felt to be in a poor state by the masses, not just those at the lunatic fringe, and the cult happens to be one of the sort closest to the idea that is in vogue. You will note, for example, that of the names listed as leaders of the Sons of Liberty movement (i.e a series of cults), you likely recognize very few of them. Samuel Adams, cousin of John Adams, for example was likely fairly loony and over-the-top. And in fact, the Sons of Liberty were even still a much tamer and sane version of The Loyal Nine. None of them ended up having any part in the following revolution nor the government of the eventual nation because, most likely, they were incompetent and insane. Indeed, it seems that the longest blurb I was able to find about them was itself written by a person of similar ilk.
The Cultist and Terrorism
Anyone who has seen the movie In The Name of the Father will be aware of the fact that the IRA was bombing people in the 1970s. You might ask yourself then, when it was that Ireland won and established itself as its own separate nation. The answer, in case you don't know, is 1922.
The original organization which won the independence of Ireland started at earliest in 1914 and had within an 8 year period won independence from a much larger and more prosperous nation. Since that time, IRA remnants and new IRA organizations have come and gone, slowly losing the competence and genuine motive to continue. For example, if we look at the Saor Éire or the Saor Uladh you will note that their nominal goal of fighting the British seems to have been put on the burner in return for holding up banks and making off with money. If you look at the militaristic, nationalist sorts hiding out in fortresses in the US, when you do hear about them it is also generally because they have pulled a heist of some sort.
While a cultist group may cause problems and proclaim itself as revolutionaries or terrorists, the truth is that they are many times more bluster than they are bite. They cause problems because they are crazy and armed, but they are far too disorganized, far too scared, and far too interested in the cult of self to dedicate themselves to a committed and competent attack on their target.
Now, this isn't to say that the movement can't be co-opted, nor that one of the followers can't show himself to be a real and successful leader, but more often than not you would do just as well to ignore any real threat as arising from that group. Even if, at worst, they blow up a hot dog stand every few years, killing a few people, this act of "terror" still pales compared to the number of people hit by a bolt of lightning so far as a real threat is posed. If you look at Iraq and the problems of stabilizing the nation after the fall of Saddam Hussein, the issue was Insurgents (i.e large, popular movements) not Al-Qaeda. It's quite likely that the 9/11 attack was planned and undertaken by the Hamburg Cell independently of Osama Bin Laden. Mohamed Atta was likely the Malcom X/Sidney Rigdon sort of rare believer who was smart, charismatic, and motivated enough to actually move ahead in his beliefs rather than feeling happy blustering a bit and maintaining the status quo.
A competent and motivated leader, like that of the original IRA, will either have succeeded or failed in his goals within a space of a few years. You will know when the battle has started and you will know when the war has ended. There will be a clear and convincing strategy for success and an organized and effective apparatus for controlling the forces will be apparent. I am perhaps too out of the loop from day-to-day news to have been able to note such a semblance of organization and drive on the part of Al-Qaeda and other such terrorist organizations, but I suspect that I am correct in the belief that Osama has largely been slightly better at self-promotion than others of his type, but any real threat to America, Europe, or the rest of the Middle East comes from far more organized and coordinated organizations — like governments.
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2010/04/25 at 20:48
This is an interesting subject. First off, I do agree that the biggest threat to any free peoples are governments (many times their own governments) not the boogey man of a cult leader, terrorist, or any of that ilk. A cult leader or terrorist can be thought of like a great white shark in the water: it can do a lot of damage to a few, but little to many. But an out-of-control government can do a lot of damage to many and leave unscathed only a few.
Even though I am not a religious person in any way — maybe even only nominally a Christian, having been baptised a Methodist as a baby, but never really having attended church — I could even be categorized an agnostic — I do find the 'historical' Jesus an interesting character since his very existence on this earth has probably done more to shape the future of most countries/people — for good or ill depending on one's particular perspective and/or beliefs. If nothing else, the total conversion of the mighty Roman empire to Christianity is a testiment to that contention and, from there, Christianity went on to dominate and influence most of the rest of the world for two thousand years. Today, we have Islam challenging Christianity as the dominant religion, and of course we have strong secular, political viewpoints challenging as well: Socialism/Marxism, libertarianism, fascism, etc.
I want to challenge your assertion that Jesus was a cult leader, as you define it, in that the historical Israel had many of these types of characters (they were called prophets but their real purpose was to challenge the established political order and so were an important counterpoint to an overbearing governement — they were almost more political than religious — even though, obviously, there were religious components as you couldn't get away from that in ancient societies).
However, for argument sake, if one were to classify Jesus as originator of a cult, you categorized the original cult leader as a sort of creepy bastard, a loony, wild-eyed sort of person, whereas the follow-on person of a cult which eventually becomes successful is the smart, methodical person who understands marketing. I think that you are missing a somewhat important component in successful cultism: I do believe that you're right in one way — that almost all cults start with a crazy sort with wild ideas and most never get off the ground because they are so crazy and wild-eyed and the original leader really is a loon. In the case of Jesus, though, Jesus was not the originator of his particular 'cult'; he had a mentor who could really be said to be the original 'cult leader': John the Baptist.
John baptized Jesus — thereby making Jesus John's disciple — and several of Jesus's later disciples were also at first disciples of John the Baptist, most notably Peter. John the Baptist was considered 'the more dangerous and well-known' of the dissidents at the time; he was arrested and beheaded by Herod Antipas, the ruler of the Roman Jewish state because of fear of a mass rebellion under his considerable influence. After John's execution, Jesus came to the fore. It could be stated that John the Baptist was the original 'cult leader' and that Jesus was more like 'Mohammed Atta' in that Mohammed Atta was the 'martyr' who sparked the current Islamic Jihadism that the world is experiencing right now as a result of his 'martyrdom.' Jesus, as well, knew and planned that he was going to die when he entered Jerusalem on that Passover Day of 30 AD. He was provacative on purpose, and his purpose was to die a martyr with public crucifixion which was the Roman way of executing political dissidents. Like Mohammed Atta who died 'in a big way' to jump start the radical Islamic Jihadism movement, Jesus knew he needed to die 'in a big way' in order to jump start his form of radical change — initially started by John the Baptist.
Although, lest someone read this and think that I am saying that Jesus is in any way compared to a horrific murderer like Mohammed Atta, let me say that 'NO!' of course not! I am merely saying that, in my argument as to whether Jesus was a loony, wild-eyed cult leader or not… that he wasn't. Perhaps, the cult 'originator' was John the Baptist (who lived in the desert in a cave, had many disciples and baptised people in the Jordan River and subsisted by eating locusts and wild honey) and that Jesus was the 'Mohammed Atta' of his/John's particular movement. In other words, Jesus was the smart, charismatic one who was motivated enough to move ahead in his beliefs — even to the point of becoming a martyr — rather than feeling happy blustering and maintaining the status quo.
Let it be said that this is the ONLY way that Jesus could ever be compared in any way to Mohammed Atta! And, in fact, now that I have done that…I feel like I need to go and take a shower!

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People have very little respect for the cent*.
(*I learned recently that the proper name for the penny is actually the "cent" according to the U.S. Government. Pennies don't say "penny" anywhere on them, they say "one cent." It's not really a penny, it's a cent.)
Whatever you call them, people don't show them much love these days.
I've spent most of my life in big cities, and pennies have never been hard to come by. Some stores have a little dish where you can leave them or take a few to give to the cashier as needed. Here in New York, you can find them on the streets, and beggars feel disrespected if you try to stick them with your copper.
Both my parents are pretty shrewd with money, and my father especially has always valued the cent. Because of the way they raised me, I could never walk past a penny on the ground without feeling guilty. "This is MONEY," Dad would say as he picked one up, flipped it, and placed it in his pocket.
And he's right, they are money. There are some movements around that seek to eradicate the penny. But that just tells me I need to be gathering and spending as many of them as possible while I can. You may be a penny hater, but if the government said tomorrow that they were no longer legal tender, you would feel cheated, because you probably have a lot of them at home–at least a few dollars' worth.
I use my cents. There's a supermarket close to my house that allows you to pay with rolled coins, and I once used $21 in rolled pennies to buy some essentials. (The pennies were heavier than the groceries, but who's complaining?) Find out if a store near you will take your rolled pennies–any store that has money picked up and dropped off by armored truck probably will.
Also, there are machines where you can dump your change in and they give you the amount in dollars, less a 7-10% fee. This is worth it to me. And clearing all that coinage out of your closets and drawers has to be good for your home's feng shui.
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Basketball betting odds can really be exciting with all of the great action, but it can also be dangerous if you don't understand the basketball odds. Let's look at some tips that should help as you look at basketball betting odds. Basketball betting odds can be beaten but you must have a strong betting plan and approach.
It can be anything from looking at strong favorites to taking power dogs. Whatever the plan though, sticking to it and not getting carried away with the huge number of games on the board is important. Many basketball bettors fall into the trap of trying to do too much.
It is nearly impossible to keep track of all of the college teams in basketball; there are just too many. You need to focus on doing certain things well versus the basketball betting odds. Many basketball bettors have learned over time that playing games early in the season can be difficult. Other bettors love that time of year.
The difference is that the handicapping methods used early in the season are different than what works during the regular season versus the basketball odds. Be flexible and adjust to what is going on as you look at basketball betting odds. Some bettors that look at basketball odds forget that a big bankroll is needed along with strong discipline.
College basketball is the one sport that has over 100 games on a Saturday and a bad day can get the unprepared gambler into all kinds of trouble in basketball betting odds. Another thing to remember about basketball betting odds is that there are games every single day, and usually quite a few.
You must be disciplined enough to keep you wagers at the same amount, not overreact to wins and losses, and stay focused as you look at the basketball odds.


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In one of the most sweeping attacks on free speech in America, the Arizona legislature has passed a draconian bill that would criminalize speech on the Internet ("any electronic or digital device") that prosecutors consider "obscene, lewd or profane language or . . . suggest[ing] a lewd or lascivious act if done with intent to 'annoy,' 'offend,' 'harass' or 'terrify.'" The law is largely undefined and is in my view facially unconstitutional. The law would drive a stake in the heart of free speech. Yet, people like Bill Clinton have been calling for such a crackdown on Internet speech for years.
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- Does not engage in discriminatory practices on any basis, including race, origin, gender, socio- economic status, disability, religion, or political beliefs.
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- May be required to lift and carry heavy, bulky supplies and materials weighing up to 20 pounds.
- May be required to work outside normal working hours.
- May be required to travel to perform work functions.
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Starting Word Count: 4055
Last Word Count: 14,749
Words Typed Today: 764
Current Word Count: 15,513
Writers' Block Moments: Ugh. Does all day count? Some days are so much worse than others and I can't really figure out why yet. Haven't gotten the pattern down. I'm sure that part of the panic stems from getting started too late though.
Late Nights: 0
Snippet: *Frowns*
Notes: Today I did some more rereading. Instead of reading my old notes, I reread one of my last attempts at a manuscript for this story. I was actually rather satisfied with some of it, and I wondered when I stopped writing quite like that. Maybe I haven't changed much, actually, at least not as much as I think I have. Maybe that feeling's all in my head. A part of me doesn't think so, though, and that's depressing.
I would be lying if I said that I felt like sitting here and crunching out that prose. I got started at nearly ten o'clock, and I was so tired at that point. I could have started earlier, sure, but I hadn't been able to pull myself together to concentrate. Plus, all that reading really got me thinking about the quality of this draft, but I think that's a note best left written tomorrow.


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Guest Contributor: Kevin Cullen, Marketing Director, Information Mosaic
In a recent e-mail message from one of my UK colleagues, she added some conversational information along with the business side. "Beautiful weather here in London, today: about 30 degrees." At first glance, I thought, "Is she kidding? She must be freezing! Is this typical for London in September?" But then I thought I had it all figured out. The date of the mail was "12-09" so this was obviously an unsent message from last December. Ah, issue resolved. Or maybe not…
Of course, you understood immediately that the real issue was the well-known Celsius vs. Fahrenheit debate. This weather standard is analogous to corporate actions processing, and I mean beyond the hackneyed "Corporate actions is like the weather: everyone talks about it but no one does anything about it." That could not be further from the truth. In fact, well-intended initiatives by individuals and organizations alike, have been undertaken to address corporate actions processing inconsistencies, with more certainly to follow. The Celsius/Fahrenheit issue, however, highlights one of the major points of conflict with global corporate actions processing: the lack of a universally accepted standard. If we cannot collectively agree on something as straightforward as which temperature scale to use, a topic so basic that it affects us all – from meteorologist to banker – how can we expect to agree on a matter as complex as corporate actions?
Participants in the chain, from exchanges, market infrastructure organizations, custodians, data and application vendors, to asset and wealth managers, both individually and in concert, have been addressing the lack of a single global corporate action message standard for many years. The solutions include a new standard, recommendations for the use of particular fields in the current standard, data normalization applications and feeds, and the use of rules engines and middleware. However, those efforts are akin to the makers of phone apps that convert Celsius to Fahrenheit and do not address the real need: a global acceptance of a single standard.
In the list of participants above, I consciously left out the Issuer who, I fear, has not been adequately courted for their involvement. While a game-changing initiative like XBRL for corporate action messages may be, at the very least, a significant part of the solution, without Issuer buy-in, comprehensive automation is impractical. The issuer-agents and their lawyers would still be publishing the non-standard paper-based text for corporate actions that continue to lead to inconsistent definitions, multiplicity in data vendor interpretations and disagreement in content. The remedy may be found in regulatory mandates enforcing Issuers to adhere to the standard with mega-tagged electronic announcements. But is legislating change the right approach? Would this be like requiring the makers of Fahrenheit barometers to abandon production, destroy their current inventory and start manufacturing Celsius gauges?
Granted, there is a cost for change and in adopting a global standard, and the cost, like any expenditure, must be weighed against derived benefits. In many firms, the STP rate of mandatory corporate action events – dividends, interest payments, maturities – is quite high. Since almost 80% of the industry volumes are made up of these simpler, easier- to-process event types, automation is more readily addressed. It is the remaining 20% (quite literally the "80/20 rule") made up of complex announcements such as tender offers that pose the need for investment. Would the goal of having full STP of corporate actions processing, regardless of whether the event was mandatory, voluntary, or even mandatory-with-options, be enough of an incentive for this investment? The resultant process would be one that ensures timely payments for investors, rapid response to asset managers for option notifications, reduced operational risk and real-time position updates to traders. As Bob Dylan sang, "You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows."
At the recent International Withholding Tax Summit, it was made very clear that cross-border tax processing has similar roadblocks to that of corporate actions. There has been minimal global consensus about tax treatments on dividends and interest and even less efforts towards automation. The interests of various tax regimes can often be driven by political needs and cross-border competition. Some tax authorities, like some financial firms, are resistant to automation, despite any widely accepted industry cost-benefit analysis.
What would be the prime motivation for change? Past efforts by the US government to enforce the adoption of the metric system have failed repeatedly. It can be argued, however, that not only were the benefits not sufficiently explained to the public, but that there was no defined incentive. The American public, like some financial intermediaries in considering corporate actions automation, only saw the cost and the inconvenience. In the microcosm that is the financial industry, the incentive is essentially financial: getting investors their money sooner, getting information to traders and portfolio managers quicker for the eventual re-investment in issuer companies. These points must be put forth effectively to all participants in the chain.
I had better stop here; as Oscar Wilde once wrote, "Conversation about the weather is the last refuge of the unimaginative." And I'm sure he would have said the same for blogging about it.


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This Meditation Monday is about Blogging! Ever since I've starting blogging I've realised that I'm a lot more calm, just because if I want too I can write a blog most just about whats going on in life, even if I don't post It I find it relaxing to just sit at a computer or note pad and just write about life or what ever I want. Life has become more busy which sucks as my blogging routine has been knocked out once again! But trying to get it back into my life has make me so much calmer again. I spend my days thinking what I would like to write about and what I would like to tell you guys about or show, and it so much fun. Every time I sit and write at this laptop I feel like I'm talking to a bunch of friends and it just makes me feel at home, even when my old home is far away, or that my old friends are far away. Its also a way of expressing myself to someone other than my family, friends or partner. Me and my partner spend 24/7 with each other and its amazing, just sometimes I wish I could share things with other people. So blogging has made that possible for me, it makes me feel like other people are listening to what I have to ramble on about even if it makes no sense. Even if I don't post it I've still sat here and told you guys about things, things that maybe I don't want my partner to worry about. Blogging is a great way of expressing how you feel about things, like explaining to you guys how I feel about these different products or my weight loss journey or just a life update. I find this a way to stay calm even if I feel like things are getting too much for me. Blogging is a big part of my life, and I love that I share it with you guys.
Hopefully if you haven't started a blog or write you will read this Meditation Monday and give it a shot. I never thought I would be able to write and post things online but I love it, I love that its a way for me to be out in the world even if I can't afford to be.
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- · We lack emotion
- · We don't give them affection
- · We don't give them the attention they need
- 1. Get rid of my pride
- 2. Don't shut her out
- 3. Respect her friends (I don't see what her friends have to do with us though)
its never easy to walk away from somethin/one you love. thats why you find a lot of women coming over and over with the same problem about their boo thang. There's nothing wrong with hoping someone will change or at least expecting them to compromise with you.
PS if you want it to work with this certain 'person' you'd better tick the box that says 'Do you agree to the terms and conditions',LOL. But in all fairness i don't think that she is asking for too much from you, its the basic requirements of a relationship-but at the end of the day it is up to you to decide whether it is all worth it or not.....would she be willing to do the same thing for you?? because there's nothing that sucks more than doing all these things for someone who wont meet you halfway... Its bi-directional thing :)


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I never realised how sublime watching one's own life trickle into the gutter would be.
I hadn't even meant to get involved. I'd just been standing there, watching the drunks fall out of the pub. She had walked straight into a sweet left hand meant for him. The lads had continued unaware and I went from the bus stop to kneel next to her. She was out cold so I began to put her into the recovery position.
"I'm just making sure she can breathe."
"Like fuck you bastard, get off my bird."
I stood up, "I wasn't the one that punched her, you did that."
Surprisingly he never said another word. He just reached forward and patted me with the end of his clenched fist. Or so I thought. Until I looked down and saw the metal blade coming out of me. His hand holding the slippery steel tight, like it might escape his grasp. I hadn't even felt it. I looked into his eyes and saw his fear. He ran and I fell.
My hands are pressing hard onto the opening. The redness of my blood is turning my blue jumper quite purple. No-one seems to have noticed and I can't seem to be heard. A gutter next to a bus stop. Not what I had envisaged.


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I was actually excited to get this down today, as it was a great day in many ways. And then, of course, the bottom fell out. I've landed on my feet, so I am going to write it down.
I filed for divorce yesterday. It will be final on March 26, 2007. Mark your calendars and buy a ticket to Vegas. It will be a blowout.
The story:
I woke up very early and was sort of buzzing about the house. To paraphrase a cheesy movie, once you realize what you want, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible. I ended up running a bunch of errands and getting into the office around noon. The plan was to do a little legal research, then hit the courthouse.
My research led me to a site that actually lets you file for divorce online. Holy shit, the internets rule. It seemed so easy -- you fill out the docs online, they file them in a different county (one that doesn't require a court appearance -- and they take care of everything). Thing is, I already had signed papers and wasn't going to wait for B to sign fresh docs. Although it seemed to be so easy, I decided to just forge ahead and go to the courthouse. I then downloaded some information that strongly cautioned against filing in a different county, so everything felt right. I made five copies of the petition and headed out.
Random: when folks in my office leave for any amount of time, we are encouraged to fill out certain information on this little pad of paper at the front desk. Initials, time out, time expected back, destination, etc. I filled it out and put, as the destination: "the future."
I skipped out of the office and was genuinely feeling excitement. The courthouse is just blocks from my office, so I was there in minutes. I got up to the window and said, in my most courteous voice, "I would like a dissolution please." The gal laughed and I showed her my docs. As it turned out, I needed to fill out a couple of additional forms, so I handed her my credit card and started filling them out. The gal scrunched up her face and informed me that they didn't take cards, just checks and cash, and that there was an ATM on the first floor.
I don't do checks -- at all -- but have a box at my desk. And the filing fee was $250 -- ATMs only give you $200 at a time. I felt the wind going out of my sails, as I needed to walk back to the office and grab my checkbook (or walk the six blocks to my bank for cash). It was sort of deflating, but I was resigned and left the courthouse.
I was probably two feet outside the door when I remembered something. I had a single check in my wallet -- a blank check on B's personal account. I stopped dead in my tracks and thought about it for a few seconds. Would I ever need that check? Should I keep it and just go get my own? No - it seemed too perfect. I turned right around, headed back up to the clerk's office and gave B the pleasure of paying for our divorce. Awesome -- truly awesome. The clerk told me I could schedule a hearing anytime after 90 days to finalize it and I asked her if I could schedule said hearing right then. She seemed a little surprised and said "sure, if you're ready - just set it for 90 days out." I did, and March 26, 2007 is the magic date.
As I left the courthouse, I texted AB with the subject line "FILED" and almost floated back to the office. I felt giddy, relieved and hopeful. I haven't felt that good in so very long. I got back to the office and was wrapped in arms of support -- it truly took me by surprise. It never ceases to amaze me where you find sources of support and friendship*. When I drove home, I heard that song "I Can See Clearly Now The Rain Is Gone" was on the radio and I blasted it and laughed and cried. It was all good.
I picked up the dog, went for a walk and was ready to celebrate with friends. I got a celebratory phone call from J, who knew I was filing today. Then the bottom fell out. She informed me that B was en route to his mother's house with the girlfriend in tow.
It was devastating. I just spoke with his mother two days ago and she seemed truly wrecked when I mentioned the girlfriend. Either it was an act, or B hadn't told her who was coming home to dinner. In any event, he is clearly into this chick and very much past our relationship. That was quite a blow. It took the wind out of me. Hell, it took everything out of me. I can't even write about it without sobbing. I don't really know why, as I am truly all about moving on. I just can't believe he would do something like that -- he doesn't even know I filed and is bringing another woman to his mother's house for Christmas? What kind of a person does that? Seriously, I know we're done and all that, and rationally, I shouldn't care, but holy hell? Who fucking does that? Especially when you're calling your wife almost daily for advice, guidance, assistance and all that?
I had myself a good, old-fashioned sobfest (I really need to answer my phone during these, as I know good friends were really worried about me) and allowed myself to feel the pain. It was so shocking to go from this giddy euphoria to absolute darkness, but I think I have emerged. I know I will have reverberations over the next few days, but I'll be okay. I'll make it. It won't be easy, but I'll make it. It is hard to know your partner of so many years is that cruel and unfeeling, but that is what it is. Even typing that, I sob. Pain sucks, but what are you going to do? I can't change the situation, I can only react to it in a constructive manner. I'm trying.
Tomorrow, I am renting a storage unit and moving out the last of B's things. I will bill it to his credit card and send him the key. That is a constructive act. I will pack my shit and go up to my parents' house and maintain the best I can. I will remember that I can weather anything and that I have great friends and family who want to help in any way they can and I will take them up on that. I will remember that no one has died from a broken heart (aside from folks like my biodad, whose hearts gave out too soon) and that one day, I will look back on this and congratulate myself on having moved on. I will survive this. This too, shall pass.
I will be okay. I know that I will. I have a broken heart, but my character and integrity is intact. I will make it. Bring on the next false bottom.
* I received the present of a lifetime today. I don't think I can give it justice here, but some person I have never actually met sent me an inukshuk, with the explanation that it is to be used as a beacon for where you are going and a reminder of your friends. When I opened it, I was all WTF mate, but once I googled it and read the note, I was moved beyond belief. Say what you want about the internets, but I have made some amazing friendships from them.
Saturday, December 23, 2006
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- IGTF said...
Also - don't forget to get your tickets changed so you can get here in time to officially put foot to 2006's ass with us.
"Also - don't forget to get your tickets changed so you can get here in time to officially put foot to 2006's ass with us."
What's this!? You are supposed to be kicking 2006 to the curb with us!
Love you. B is slime. You're way too good for him, and his new girlfriend looks like a man.
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Training and Development is one of several functions of Human Resources and is fundamental in the development of the organization's employees. The Human Resources Training and Development Team works closely with the organization's department managers to ensure that employees are given ample opportunities to grow continually by encouraging them to develop new skills and perspectives-and to also provide effective training to enhance current job skills. Effective training is very important-in that it will prepare workers with the necessary skills needed to perform their jobs more effectively and efficiently. In short, HR team and management work together to develop talented employees.
First and foremost, managers will need to identify and determine the appropriate training needed for the employees via job analysis. What type of training is needed? How will the training benefit the employee? How will the training benefit the company in general? When making decisions for training programs, managers will need to plan strategically, adopting programs that will benefit the employees as well as the company. Fostering training programs that will engage employees are most valuable. Most managers are approved a budget allowance for training programs by the company's executives and therefore can predetermine which programs best meets the needs of the employees and the cost of such. At the completion of each training program, managers should elicit feedback from the attendees to determine the learning outcome of the training. What did the employees learn? Is more training needed in a specific area(s)? What training is needed in other areas? Managers should also award each attendee a certificate of completion, signed and dated. The certificate will confirm that the individual has attended training in entirety and has acquired specific knowledge that is needed to increase job performance. This in itself should motivate employees to work more effectively to attain organizational goals.
Proper training can also aid in job satisfaction, high morale, and job retention. When employees know that the company has their best interest in mind, they will more than likely work better and remain loyal to the company. Employee training can be conducted in-house or off site. Employees are also given the opportunity to attend seminars that enhance job understanding as well. Either way, the training is intended for the betterment of the employees and the company overall. Excellent training will also have a positive impact on customer satisfaction.
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E-learning, one of the most cost-effective training technique, allows the employees to learn via the internet, intranet, audio, or CD at one's own pace to acquire valuable knowledge and skills. Employees should be able to apply the knowledge and skills to their current jobs.
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Excellent info and presentation. Promoted.
Very nice article about the roles of Training and Development Managers.
They are indeed vital roles. Excellent information - thank you!
It is more interesting and informative article. Voted up.
Proper and refresh training are essential for top performances. We teachers also get trainings about teaching and relevant topics on regular basis to enhance our profession.
an excellent outline of the jobs of training and development managers!
Training hones skills for greater productivity so must really be regularly provided in organizations.
Coming back with a well deserved vote up.
I am revisiting this post too. Thank you, Donata.


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MSN Slate Magazine: "Firefox trumps Internet Explorer"
Monday July 5th, 2004
Several readers wrote in to tell us that the MSN Slate Magazine ran an article recommending Mozilla Firefox over Internet Explorer last week. Author Paul Boutin mainly prefers Firefox for security reasons, with the browser's lack of support for ActiveX eliminating many virus and spyware concerns. While Slate is owned by Microsoft, it should be noted that the publication has always maintained that it is editorially independent and that Boutin is a freelance journalist.
#27 Re: Re: Slightly OT: what should AOL users do?
by Gnu
Wednesday July 7th, 2004 11:14 AM
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I think you're expecting a bit much in this case. If you can't steer someone away from AOL, you most certainly will have even more trouble trying to steer them away from Windows. It just can't be done.


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The Dr. Wesley T. Hanson Award for Teaching Excellence
Submission deadline: April 14, 2017
The Dr. Wesley T. Hanson Award and the MCC Award for Excellence in Professional Service are the highest awards granted by Monroe Community College.
The Faculty Senate Professional Development Committee is particularly eager to recognize individuals who not only meet the criteria listed below, but who consistently exceed these criteria in a creative and innovative fashion.
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- Members of the Professional Development Committee, previous recipients, and the Vice Presidents and President of the College are not eligible for any of the awards.
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Some posts take quite a long time to produce, but this one was an extreme case. Four people participated on it and I think we have produced a great material to teach vocabulary connected with sports.
In my opinion there is everything. There is a video to help students with the pronunciation of the words. There are two mind maps to help you organise the new vocabulary in a way that will be easy to remember. And at the end of the post there are several activities to help the students learn all the words.
Sports vocabulary – VIDEO
Watch the video. Listen to the American pronunciation of the words and repeat.
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In the following mind map you can see all the words and phrases clearly organised.
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Sports vocabulary – Games and quizzes
This time all the quizzes are in HTML5 so they will play on your mobile devices.
The first quiz is a way to learn the words. Listen and repeat the words. Then complete the quiz and go on. There will appear another set of words and a quiz. And so on.
The second game is called Kim's game. You will see a set of pictures and then three of them will vanish. Your task is to write the words for the given missing words. However, you have just one minute to remember. And then three more pictures will vanish. Are you able to recall all the words?
The third quiz is a dictation. In the first phase you will listen to several sentences and you have to click on the words you hear in the sentences. In the second phase you have to listen to the sentences and write them. Good luck.


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1920s slang for a small town salesmen who makes a show of spending his money on trips to the big cities. Some places imply that it carried a connotation of a person spending above his ability, but the Louis Armstrong song and the play the George Kaufman play seem to suggest that they are wealthy enough to afford kept women and finance Broadway shows. The common theme is that they have money but lack sophistication.
Finding the exact origin of the word was difficult, but I ultimately found a New Yorker article from 31 October, 1925, that pinpoints it. Mary "Texas" Guinan was a saloon keeper and famous personality in New York during prohibition used the term to refer to Samuel Balcom. Balcom supplied her restaurants, and others, with dairy products, and spent freely in the establishments. "He's our Butter-and-Egg Man," she would say of him.
In my searches, I came across this quote attributed to Ogden Nash. I think I'll end with it: "Because in America a rich butter-and-egg man is only a rich butter-and-egg man or at most an honorary LL.D of some hungry university, but in England why before he knows it he is Sir Benjamin Buttery, Bart."


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This is Jeana's son Shane without his shirt on. This is the only way Shane should go through life: topless with his mouth closed. Because when he opens his mouth, his hotness melts into a giant puddle of chunky diarrhea full of corn bits.
On last night's The Really Plastic Housewives of Orange County, Jeana and Vicki traveled to Illinois to watch Grouchy McPoopypants play minor league baseball. While they were driving to the game, Shane texted Jeana to not come because he wasn't playing. Well, his exact words were: "Stay the fuck away from here." Instead of playing minor league baseball, he was clearly playing a game of major league douchebaggery.
Jeana showed up anyway and Shane greeted his lovely mother by saying, "Get the fuck away from me!" Surprisingly, Jeana didn't respond to that by throwing him up in the air and using a bat to hit him out of the field Nope. She just shrugged and said, "That's kids!"
Shane's bid for a VIP spot on the short bus to hell continued later on at the restaurant. Shane and his other brother Colt kept verbally punching their mother in the bagina bone in front of everyone. Let's see, he said he wanted to hit her with a bat and also said he can't wait to pull the plug on her so he can have more money. Vicki and I were making the same faces as the rusty daggers flew out of Shane's mouth and into Jeana's heart.
Instead of threatening to hit his mom with a bat, Shane should shut his caca mouth and hit my no-no with his skin bat. Seriously. But you know, even I wouldn't touch that shit now. My peendar says he's got a soggy french fry dick and he's compensating for it by acting like a mega dick bag to his mom. Okay, I'm lying. I'd still hit it, but I'd call him a "really bad person" while he was tapping it from the back. Clip below:


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