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Contact us
Shine Café
PO Box 67
Ermington NSW 1700
(02) 9289 5514
(02) 9289 5956
Visit us
Shine Café
Silverwater Correctional Complex
Holker Street, Silverwater NSW
Café open hours
Monday to Friday 7.00am to 2.30pm
Saturday & Sunday 9.00am to 1.30pm
About Shine Café
Opened in August 2012, the café offers meals, snacks and beverages to staff and visitors. Daily food preparation ensures optimal freshness for tastier, healthier dining. It has a pleasant, tree-lined courtyard, and an airy, spacious inside dining area. Visitors can watch the large wall-mounted TV or read books on the comfy lounge. The café also provides a catering service for off-site functions.
Download our catering menu and form
Shine Café also provides training for inmates in hospitality skills that will prove valuable in obtaining employment upon release. Importantly, it is a source of ongoing funding for SHINE for Kids.
Getting there
Shine Café is within the Silverwater Correctional Complex on Holker Street but, like the Child and Family Centre Silverwater, is outside the secure area. To get to the café, go from the main entrance or visitors' parking through the boom gates and down the hill to the prison staff parking area. The café and its walled courtyard are easily visible to the left at the roundabout.


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This is super yummy. I saw my friend Deanne Stevens yesterday and she reminded me of this yummy topping. So I just happened by the marshmallow cream at the store and well it ended up in my cart and before you knew it I was making it. mmmm mmmm mmmm thanks Deanne. Super addictive
Whipped fruit topping
1 jar marshmallow cream
1 8oz package cream cheese
Mix together til smooth. Serve with fruit.
Hello YUMMY!!!
Kid approved too.

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Goalkeeper Josef Bloch (Arthur Brauss) is sent off after committing a foul during an away game; a seemingly simple act that causes him to completely lose his bearings. He wanders aimlessly through an unfamiliar town, spends the night with the box-office attendant of a movie theater (Erika Pluhar), and strangles her the next morning. But instead of turning himself in or fleeing, Bloch then goes to the country place of his ex-girlfriend (Kai Fischer) and passively waits there for the police to come and arrest him. As Wenders himself has stated, the visual idiom of Alfred Hitchcock's films provided the model for this, his debut film. Adhering minutely to the thoroughly "cinematic" source (a novel by Peter Handke) and working with cameraman Robby Müller and editor Peter Przygodda—both of whom had already worked with him on his thesis film at the HFF (University of Television and Film Munich)—Wenders' first cinematic collaboration would weld his team together for years to come. (100 mins.)
THE GOALIE'S ANXIETY AT THE PENALTY KICK screens Friday, March 4 at 7pm in our Whitsell Auditorium (located in the Portland Art Museum). The film is being presented as part of the touring Wim Wenders: Portraits Along the Road series.
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At Monday night's premiere of Tyler Perry's new film Why Did I Get Married Too?, we talked to comedian Rachel Dratch, who tells us she's a big fan of Perry's Madea movies. But what about her upcoming appearance alongside Betty White onSaturday Night Live's "Women of Comedy" episode? "I don't even really know what we're doing for that," she told us. "They always plan the shows so last-minute. I don't know if we're just going to walk on or do whole scenes." We asked if she had any ideas for sketches to do with Betty White. "I don't have any pitches yet," Dratch said. But can she at least do a good Betty White impersonation? "I don't know, I probably couldn't do it any better than anybody off the street who would tell a St. Olaf story."
Read more: Rachel Dratch Has No Idea What She's Doing on Upcoming SNL -- http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2010/03/rachel_dratch_feels_uncertain_about_upcoming_snl_episode.html# #ixzz0jIjmFxBM
Friday, March 26, 2010
Rachel Dratch on Upcoming Women of Comedy Special
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I've been meaning to write, then I get overwhelmed by how long it's been since my last post and how much has been happening. This is the first time I've gone months without posting. It's been 5 years since I started this blog and 3 months since I've posted anything. I'm about to try to describe the last few months as best I can, but they've been a little crazy and are sort of a blur.
To start things off, we moved. To make a very long story short, we discovered rats in our building. There were rats in the walls and in our basement where we did our laundry. I don't even like seeing rats on the street. As a parent, I felt it was my duty to get our child out of that building as fast as possible. We found our current place about 4 hours after we saw the rat and then, with a little poking around, discovered piles of rat shit all around the basement. Sorry for that image. The weirdest part of this whole thing is that the day we saw the rat and found our new place was the same day we were supposed to fly to NYC for our friends' wedding.
I have moved many, many, many, many times in my life; across the country, out of the country and so on. I can honestly say that moving with a baby just about to start walking and without any family or any of our close friends nearby to help out was the hardest move of all. Throw in jobs, school, a sick teething baby, social obligations, the holiday season and that's what made it all a blur.
We got through it and our apartment is coming together very slowly and very nicely. We hosted our first Thanksgiving together. It was with family and it fell on the same day as our niece's 8th birthday. That made the day extra special. We also celebrated Ryan's birthday in November. Ruby is really into birthdays now. She likes to go through her list of people, characters and animals and wish them all a Happy Birthday. It's very sweet. Ruby started walking. She took her time with that one. She's got such a funny little walk. She holds her hands up close to her chest, sticks out her belly and won't look down. We've had so many visits from friends, since our move. It's always so great seeing old friends and catching up. Some of them met Ruby for the first time. Speaking of firsts, Ruby met Santa for the first time and doesn't stop talking about him. She wishes him Happy Birthday everyday. We also put up our first family Christmas tree.
This, as in the move, was another one of those situations that makes me so thankful Ryan and I can work so well together under pressure. We got through it, it was super stressful at times. We were actually threatened with law suits for breaking our lease. That's another first. Everything is fine. I've actually been finding more time here and there to get out on my own for little breaks. I've been able to get out for some long walks around the city, met up with some friends, have gone shopping and out to eat by myself. Doing these sorts of things was once such a normal thing and now it feels like such a treat. Ryan and I both have one class left of school each and then we graduate! I have one question before I end this post. How is it 2015? It really sometimes feels like it was just 2010.


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Monthly Archives: January 2013
Working on a new title!
I'm working at putting together a new Sixteen Press title together at the moment. Called By the Book: Tips of the Trade for Writers, it'll be a practical, entertaining book of advice and suggestions for writers both new and not so new, based on my many years of experience as an author. It'll gather together in one convenient volume many short pieces I've written over several years and which have previously appeared individually in print as well as online. I'm planning to sell it through the new Australian Society of Authors portal, Authors Unlimited(to launch soon) plus Amazon, Kobo and all the other suspects! More details on its release soon.


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Friday, May 10, 2013
"God helped me accept my gay son." : The application of, and necessity for, religious hypocrisy in a modern age
A twice married Christian woman, and grandmother, credits God with her accepting her son's homosexuality. Evidently God gave her insights as to how to read / manipulate / ignore or otherwise re-interpret scripture so she doesn't have to despise her son and can continue to love him like she did before he came out to her. Here's the story: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/shirley-rorvik/finding-strength-from-god-to-accept-my-gay-kids_b_3240692.html?utm_hp_ref=scripture-commentary
Now…follow the logic here: this woman needed a god to help her accept her son's homosexuality, yet she likely didn't need a god's help to love him before she knew of his biologically driven proclivity. I wonder if she would have needed god's guidance to accept and love her son if he was born left handed, with a third nipple, or was missing a testicle.
But never mind, happily she reinterpreted scriptural prohibition, with Gawd's assistance, and came to reason even if she needed to disguise it in some convoluted side stepping, escape clause justification of a few millennia's religious prohibition mandated by Gawd Himself.
It probably wasn't all that hard for her since evidently she used a similar technique to justify her divorce in spite of Jesus' admonishment in Mark 10, and Luke 16:18 "Everyone who divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery, and he who marries a woman divorced from her husband commits adultery." Given that the penalty for adultery is death by stoning, it isn't hard to understand how finding that loophole is very important. Screw Jesus!!
Thank Dog for Christians cherry picking dogma and finding loopholes to evade the misogyny and Bronze Age obscenities it demands of them. It's a veritable full time hobby for moderate/liberal religionists to try and come to terms with modernity and 21st century reason while holding onto bits and pieces of their supernaturalist delusions and their god's hideous edicts.
Yes, for sure they are hypocrites, phonies, back sliders, self-deceivers and "not True Xtians" … but I'm glad they are. It's much more preferable than the gay bashing bible banging Xtian homophobes, or the devout Xtian women who resign themselves and their children to marital battering and abuse because of the idiocy of their scripture.
The more religious backsliders, the better for civilization.
7 comments:
- Chatpilot said...
Good article Hump and a perfect example of Christians cherry picking their bibles. This woman took 12 years of her life agonizing over her son being gay. How pathetic can someone be?
Finally she realizes that he is her son and she loves him and that it's not her place to judge. That is God's job. Her Cherry picking helped her resolve a moral dilemma that should have not been a problem in the first place if she wasn't so bound by religious dogma.
- May 10, 2013 at 7:36 PM
- Dromedary Hump said...
Thanks, Chat. Sound observation.
- May 10, 2013 at 10:12 PM
The so-called "saints" dress their bigotry up in a claim to religious conscience and when they are called on it they cry foul. After their conversion to a more humane view, usually involving a family member, they reinterpret their holy books to say what their god really meant. Viola! The Jebus of the Sermon on the Mount loves everybody. Decades of intolerance and discrimination disappear! Perhaps, the migration in thought can be helpful… only time will tell.
- May 11, 2013 at 3:23 AM
- Dromedary Hump said...
In deed.
Yes, I hold out hope that the "migration of thought" is a precursor to the eventual demise of religious influence, if not its disappearance.
- May 11, 2013 at 6:33 AM
- Den!s said...
How her imaginary gawd helped her to get over her imaginary problem ... she's just another nut case in my books.
- May 11, 2013 at 1:16 PM
- longhorn believer said...
Humans are really good at rationalization. We are all guilty of it, and it's really hard to recognize it in ourselves. Good article, Hump.
- May 12, 2013 at 11:54 PM
- Dromedary Hump said...
Den!s...if she were really nuts I could forgive her. Problem is she is sane and willfully deluded.
Longhorn... agreed, and thanks.
- May 13, 2013 at 8:02 AM


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On 7/31/10 3:28 AM, Howard Chu wrote:
If your writer threads block until the socket is writeable, how many threads will you need to have if many client never read the data ? You might quickly not have any remaining writing threads available... The select() is supposed to tell you when a socket is ready to accept more write, then it's time to select a writing thread to push data into this socket. You just need a pool of writing thread, and when a writing thread has pushed data into the socket, then it becomes available for the next write.Revisiting an old thread... http://www.openldap.org/lists/openldap-devel/200504/msg00066.htmlI'm definitely seeing our current listener running out of steam on servers with more than 12 or so cores, and some work in this direction will definitely help. First it would be a good idea to classify all of the tasks that the current listener manages, before deciding how to divide them among multiple threads.The listener is responsible for many events right now: signal/shutdown processing idle timeout checks write timeout checks runqueue scheduling listener socket events threadpool pauses client socket read events client socket write eventsSplitting the client socket handling across multiple threads will bring the greatest improvement in scalability. Just need to check our thinking and make sure the remaining division of labor still makes sense.There are two cases that annoy me in our current design - why don't we just dedicate a thread to each listener socket, and let it block on accept() ? That would eliminate a bit of churn in the current select() workload.Likewise, why don't we just let writer threads block in write(), instead of having them ask the listener to listen for writability on their socket? Or, if we're using non-blocking sockets, why don't we let the writer threads block in their own select call, instead of relying on the central thread to do the select and re-dispatch?
Why would you have more than one select() ? Wouldn't it be better to have one thread processing the select() and dispatching the operation to a pool of threads ?The first, obvious answer is this: when threads are blocked in system calls like accept(), we can't simply wake them up again for shutdown events or other situations. I believe the obvious fix here is to use select() in each thread, waiting for both the target fd and the wake_sds fd which is written to whenever a signal is caught. Off the top of my head I'm not sure, when several threads are selecting on the same fd, if they all receive a Readable event or if only one of them will. Anyone know?
All in all, what costs CPU consumption in a server is most certainly the processing of incoming and outgoing requests, not the processing of the select() operation, no ?
Im' maybe a bit tainted by Java, but it's really based on the same mechanisms under the hood...
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We read the book Duck! Rabbit! by Amy Krouse Rosenthal and Tom Lichtenheld. It's about two people who look at the same thing and see two different things - one sees a duck, one sees a rabbit. They argue and show their perspective throughout the book. "Two unseen characters debate the identity of the creature at the center of this clever book - is it a duck or a rabbit? Readers will join in the discussion, because the creature could, in fact, be either. Just as each of the debaters begins to see the other's perspective, the duck/rabbit runs away and they see an anteater. Or is it a brachiosaurus?"
After reading the book and talking about our perspectives, we made a duck/rabbit (or "drabbit" as one student liked to call it!)
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text: Wave of Bombings Kills 61 in Iraq Shiites, Muqtada al-Sadr's office targeted By Kevin Spak, Newser Staff Posted Apr 23, 2010 8:07 AM CDT 4 comments Comments People stand at the scene of one in a series of bombs in the Shiite stronghold of Sadr City in Baghdad, Iraq, Friday, April 23, 2010. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim) View 3 more images (Newser) – Bombs exploded throughout Baghdad today, targeting Shiite mosques and neighborhoods, including the office of anti-US cleric Muqtada al-Sadr. A neighborhood in Anbar province was also hit with six roadside bombs. At least 61 people have been killed and nearly 112 wounded, CNN reports. At least two car bombs hit worshipers in Sadr City, killing 21, while another eight died in a car bomb explosion outside Muhsin al-Hakim mosque in southeastern Baghdad. The attack on Sadr's office came just as worshipers left their Friday prayers, killing 14, reports the AP. View 3 more images My Take on This Story Report a story error 5% Annoying 0% Hilarious 5% Intriguing 86% Depressing 0% Brilliant 5% Scary /story/261965/jaguar-escapes-goes-on-killing-spree-in-us-zoo.html Taking you to another depressing story... TURNOFF Another depressing story: Escaped Jaguar Goes On Killing Spree in US Zoo


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Friday, September 10, 2010
Review: "And One Last Thing..."
Genre: Chick -Lit, Contemporary Romance
Pages: 310
Source: Received from author in exchange for honest review.
Author's website: www.mollyharper.com
Goodreads Blurb:
"If Singletree's only florist didn't deliver her posies half-drunk, I might still be married to that floor-licking, scum-sucking, receptionist-nailing hack-accountant, Mike Terwilliger." Lacey Terwilliger's shock and humiliation over her husband's philandering prompt her to add some bonus material to Mike's company newsletter: stunning Technicolor descriptions of the special brand of "administrative support" his receptionist gives him. The detailed mass e-mail to Mike's family, friends, and clients blows up in her face, and before one can say "instant urban legend," Lacey has become the pariah of her small Kentucky town, a media punch line, and the defendant in Mike's defamation lawsuit.
Her seemingly perfect life up in flames, Lacey retreats to her family's lakeside cabin, only to encounter an aggravating neighbor named Monroe. A hunky crime novelist with a low tolerance for drama, Monroe is not thrilled about a newly divorced woman moving in next door. But with time, beer, and a screen door to the nose, a cautious friendship develops into something infinitely more satisfying.
Lacey has to make a decision about her long-term living arrangements, though. Should she take a job writing caustic divorce newsletters for paying clients, or move on with her own life, pursuing more literary aspirations? Can she find happiness with a man who tells her what he thinks and not what she wants to hear? And will she ever be able to resist saying one . . . last . . . thing?
My Review:
The author does a great job writing Lacey's story of humiliation and revenge with just enough humor to keep you laughing during a otherwise sad situation. Lacey is a housewife that finds out her husband is cheating and she gets the ultimate revenge by humiliating him in front of everyone he knows. I don't normally like reading about cheating husbands but Lacey made me proud. I absolutely loved her character. She has a talent with words and writes a histericle newsletter about her cheating husband. Her newsletter ends up getting the attention of the media and the whole town. So, Lacey decides to move into her lake cabin to hide out for awhile while everything settles down. She has no idea that she's going to have a hunk for a neighbor and he is going to catch her in some really funny situations.
This book was really well written. I didn't feel rushed or bored. It was very entertaining. I felt like the ending was unexpected but realistic. This book will keep you laughing so if your in the mood for a light, funny read this book will be perfect. I'm usually not a fan of chick-lit or contemporary romance but I enjoyed this book. If you are a fan of chick-lit or contemporary romance, I highly recommend this book for you.
Posted by Danielle Irby at 6:55 PM
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- The Mistress of the Dark said...
That cover is gorgeous. It popped for me as I was scrolling through my feed. I had to come over and check out the review. This is right up my alley
- September 10, 2010 at 8:36 PM
- Jessica said...
Saw you at my blog, so I hopped on over to say hi.
Hi! ;)
- September 10, 2010 at 10:30 PM
- Jinky said...
I've got to put this on my tbr list. --Anyway, congratulations!! Please accept the award waiting for you in my blog ...Jinky is reading
- September 10, 2010 at 11:01 PM
- Trina said...
Returning the Hop! Enjoy your weekend!
- September 11, 2010 at 7:03 AM
- Chrissie said...
This sounds like a good, fun read. I love the idea of writing a newsletter about a cheating husband! I'll be adding this to my TBR list :)
- September 11, 2010 at 6:06 PM
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Happy Friday, friends!
A few months ago,
I decided to start a package swap!
Swaps are so neat.
They are a great way to meet fellow bloggers,
and I mean,
who doesn't LOVE getting packages in the mail???
The swaps are going to take place every 3 months,
and each time,
the swap item will change.
The first swap took place this month,
the item was Jewelry,
and today we are linking up and showing off our goods!
This month,
I got to swap with 2 lovely ladies
(we had an odd # of swappers).
Rhiannon sent me this adorable necklace!
and Jennifer sent me some awesome bracelets and a zebra print scarf!
Thank you so much, ladies!
I've already worn every single item.
Now it's your turn!
If you took part in this swap,
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Health is Wealth
Every one knows that "Health is Wealth" because we all have an expectation of Good Health. A Good Health is essential for cheerfulness and victory in life.
Without having a Good Health no one can enjoy happiness in life. They face many kind of Mental, Physical odd situation in life.
Sick people enjoying happiness in life and doing good work, this kind of example are few in the world.
So, we should try to be healthy and mentally satisfied all time, but how???
Have we ever thought about our Body? How it works? How God made it? May be the doctors know something, isn't It?
How much they know? How much they suggest us to do? Is it enough for us to maintain their rules if we want to keep up our health?
I think its enough!
We have to know the Rules and Regulations of the Great Engine (Our body), and must follow those rules strictly for a Good Health.
- Always eat Healthy and natural food.
- A Hard Worker / Farmer / Ploughman who works hard, they don't need exercise, but people like us need exercise most, because we do a lot of mental work everyday.
- We need to make a habit of regular Walking, Swimming, Riding, get in Outdoor Games, Sports etc.
- Always we must try to take Fresh Air as much as possible.
- The room where we live, a plenty of air to breathe and sunlight must be present there.
- Proper Rest is very much necessary for every one. If we work through whole day without any intervals, The Body Engine will fall.
- Try to avoid Smoking Habit and Alcohol.
- Try to lead a tension and nervous free life, though for a human it's not so easy. Suffering from psychological / mental strain can hardly be found enjoying joyful health. Proper Meditation can be a good solution for mental depression.
These all are the Basic things we should follow…


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Next year, we'll be doing our carving 1 week before the holiday, not 3 weeks early. There is NO WAY this thing will last till Halloween.
Fortunately, the night views obscure the shriveled pumkin flesh.............
I give you, Illuminated Pug-kin!
The good, the bad and the PUGly: the adventures of one mom, two great kids, and two very mischevious pugs.....
Hmm....very nice carving. Maybe I will try my hand at a pug one.
That looks great!
Yea it is a bit early to be carving.. but that's ok :)
oh you pugkin is perfect all lit up!
we think it is fun to do stuff early too. i think my husband fred makes 3 thanksgiving turkeys before thanksgiving even arrives.
he says he is practicing to make the perfect turkey. i think he just like eating turkey. :)
i say if you feel inspired to do it... do it!
m & e
It looks great! And even if it does rot and wilt a little... it might just look like pug wrinkles!
Hey, that's one good-lookin' pug! Er, I mean pugkin!
YEAH!!! What a great sight to greet your trick or treaters!!!
Ohh! That's really really nice. Good job! Who said you couldn't do that?
I just did a Utube search and found that Vaseline rubbed all over the exposed flesh will keep it looking fresh longer. I don't know about 2 weeks but should help.
I WAS going to try this. I was! Now it seems we will be visiting family for Halloween so, the pugkin shall be attempted next year.
They do get a little squishy quick...and moldy, too. You should check into getting one of those fakes that you can carve and will always be fresh!
That's a great job. I didn't know it didn't last that much. :(


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This comic was written by Kieran before I created Comic Paper to keep her cells straight.
I LOVE her use of expression to reveal things about her characters. She says that Rose, the barkber is new and that she is not very good. Notice the sign on the outside of the Barkber Shop ( if you can't read it because you have a screen smaller than 24", I'll tell you that it says "Be Bald").
I also love Kieran's ability to resolve issues. On Thanksgiving, I give thanks to Kieran, Sproutcut and the Universe that gave me the opportunity to be her adoring Mother and early publisher.
I like the last one, "I'll use this leaf as a hat"
Oh, by the way, I cant keep up with the coloring in of Kieran's comics. She doesn't have the patience to color them in and I don't have the time, so enjoy the ones that have color!


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Thursday, February 07, 2008
Illustration Movie Nights! More and more!
This Friday at 6pm we have Raging Bull (in B124, just beside Tim Hortens). If you haven't seen it, and you enjoy anything that DeNiro has ever done then this is something you should see. Julia has also hooked me up with a list of tentative movies in no particular order:
*Alfred Hitchcock's Rear Window
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
*Ridley Scott's Blade Runner or Alien (haven't decided yet...)
*In the Realms of the Unreal - A documentary on Henry Darger, visionary artist, janitor, and novelist.
*Helvetica - A documentary about typography, graphic design, and global visual culture.
*All About Eve - a fantastic Bette Davis film
Billy Wilder's Sunset Boulevard
This looks like a pretty solid list of movies covering pretty much every movie taste out there. And if nothing else you should check out Helvetica, I've heard so much positive reviews on the movie that I wouldn't pass it up.
Posted by Craig Arndt at Thursday, February 07, 2008
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Raging Bull's my favorite De Niro movie. I also love Deer Hunter as well.
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Recently I received a request to sign an online mass memorandum requesting the authorities concerned to close the mental health centers in Kerala. Being a down-to-earth practitioner in psychiatry I couldn't sign the memorandum.
The hue and cry of psychiatrists for closure of mental health centers started up as a consequential effect of the murder of a young law student who was in the maniac phase of bipolar mood disorder. As I pointed out in the last post, in Malayalam, of this blog the murder of Satnam Singh Mann was the culmination of malicious and murderous process triggered by the attitudes prevailing in Kerala. He was accused of being Islamic terrorist attempting to murder Amruthanadamayi, the internationally known human-god managed by the Rashtreeya Swayam Sevak Sangh. The last scene of the murderous process occurred in the Government Mental Health Centre, Trivandrum. He was locked up in a cell of the 'asylum' with other patients and he was found to be unconscious next day. He was transferred to the Medical College Hospital where he succumbed to the injuries he sustained.
I understand from the press reports that the professor of psychiatry, Trivandrum, certified the 'patients' locked up in the cell with Satnam are 'normal'. It means that these 'patients' can be held criminally responsible for the murder of Satnam!
Asylum culture prevails
Thirty years ago I was working as psychiatrist at Kuthiravattom. A young, good-looking, unmarried lady in good physical health, suffering from epilepsy and psychosis, under my treatment, was admitted in the female ward. That was the fourth "incarceration" of the young lady. When the psychosis remits she is discharged and when it relapses she is brought back.
After a few days of the fourth admission, one morning one of the nurses informed me 'secretly' that "something brutal" was done to the young lady at night by a male nursing assistant. I interviewed the patient. She narrated that one nursing assistant raped her last night. She could not cry or fight because she was heavily sedated. I reported the matter to both the superintendent and resident medical officer in writing. They didn't take any action. Next day I went to the Medical College Police station and lodged a written complaint. The Inspector called the superintendent and enquired. The inspector expressed his helplessness, because the superintendent said that nothing of the sort occurred in the hospital. I was in an embarrassing situation.
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I had no other option than bringing the matter to the public notice. I contacted the young lady's brother, who was a teacher in a government college. I got the consent from him to 'leak' matter to the press without disclosing the identity of the young lady. I contacted the city bureau chief of the Malayala Manorama (I still remember his name) and narrated the story. The bureau chief and his wife, working in the telephone exchange, came to the hospital under the pretext of the close relatives of the young lady. I gave them permission in the form of a 'pass' to visit the patient and interview her. (An illegal act, perhaps!) Next day, as I expected, a bomb exploded. Waves of protests by various political parties thronged the premises of the Mental Hospital. Both the superintendent and the resident medical officer were kept under suspension pending departmental enquiry. Criminal case was charged against the culprit and punished by the court of law.
I am not repeating the narration of incident of murder of the mental patient Martin Mendes which I narrated in the last post. It took place in the mental health centre, Trivandrum, ten year after the Kuthiravattom incident.
Immediately after the murder of Satnam Singh, another murder took place in the Mental Health Centre, Kozhikode.
All these incidents are, in my opinion, the symptoms of serious malady, that is, the asylum culture still prevailing in our mental health centers. The psychiatrists working in these institutions are vicariously responsible for it. Closure of the mental health centers is not the remedy.
What happened in western world?
Melanie Mcfadyean wrote on the closure of Tooting Bec Hospital with 2500 inmates, in 1995 in South London, after its existence almost 100 years, in The Independent: "Once, they were conveniently locked away in mental hospitals. Today, the mentally ill are back on the streets, more visible than at any time in living memory. Have they simply been cast out to save money? Or have their difficult lives actually been made more tolerable by the modern patchwork of 'community care' schemes?"
She wrote: "June McKerrow of the Mental Health Foundation explains: 'In some areas community care is working, but in others services are clearly feeling beleaguered, defensive and dumped on, expected to provide simple solutions to impossible problems by government and public alike.' The NHS and Community Care Act of 1990 devolved power away from the NHS and on to the social services. The result has been to stretch social service professionals and health professionals beyond their limits."
If such is the situation in UK, a developed country with much less population than ours, what will be condition of the chronic psychotic patients who will be thrown out of the mental health centers? Decades ago, one of the superintendent of the MHC Kozhikode discharged a large number of 'inmates' on an experimental basis. After a few weeks I happened to go to Palakkad in connection with organizational work. After the work I arrived at the Palakkad bus station. One person came to me and joyously lunged "Doctor! Doctor!" The public gathered around us and questioned me. I confessed. Yes, I am a doctor. I know this man. He is Mr. Mariyappan, an inmate of MHC Kozhikode. The people around us told me that Mariyappan has no place in this world to go other than the Mental Health Centre, Kozhikod! The public collected some money and tried to give it me to meet the expenditure of taking Mariyappan back to Kozhikode MHC. I refused to accept the money, but promised them to take the patient back to the hospital, which I carried out honestly. I had narrated this incident under the caption, "Mariyappante Thiricuvaravu" in my Malayalam book on anecdotes, titled Thalam Thettiya Jeevithakathakal. While these articles were being serialized in the Deshabhimani Weekly, one of my colleagues in Kozhikode MHC bluntly ridiculed me as populist writer because of my writings in Malayalam, in the lay press!
The psychiatrist, basically being scientists, should not be carried away by the sentimentalism propagated by the popular media and the publicity mongers. They have to consider the ground reality before taking up the popular slogans like closure of mental hospitals.
The remedy for the malady is eradication of "asylum culture" still prevailing in our mental health institutions.


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Spiral ringlets are a beautiful way to create soft, feminine hairstyles. The process also helps to smooth frizzy hair and tame out of control curls. Blow-drying the hair completely and then using a curling iron to create locks is tedious and damaging to hair strands. Here's a method that's gentler on hair and will create perfect ringlets without using the curling iron at all.
Wash and condition hair using a curl enhancing shampoo and conditioner. Wrap hair in a towel for 5 minutes to absorb excess moisture.
Use a soft-tipped paddle-brush or detangling comb on hair, one section at a time, to smooth away any knots or snarls.
Work curl enhancing mousse throughout the entire head of hair. Start with the ends and work in sections, and then comb through from the crown down.
Blow-dry hair for 1 to 2 minutes on a medium setting using a diffuser attachment or self-contained diffuser dryer. Scrunch occasionally with your fingers to encourage curling. Do NOT dry the hair completely. The blow-drying is simply to keep hair from dripping; the hair should still be fairly wet when you start to make the curls.
Start near your face. Take a -inch section of hair, starting at the scalp, and either twist the section around one finger over and over, or use two hands to turn the hair--whichever works best for you. Turn until the entire section is twisted from end to scalp.
Hold the end of the first strand while you twist another. Once you have two twisted strands, use the claw clip to hold them together. If you have layered hair or long fringe, you should use a smaller clip to hold these shorter strands together.
Twist the hair surrounding the face first. Work fast to get all the hair twisted before it dries. Then separate the hair in the back into two sections. Twist 1-inch locks out of each section, starting at the crown and then moving on to lower layers. Use as many clips as necessary to secure the ends.
Leave the hair in clips for 20 to 30 minutes for thick, wavy or curly hair. Finer, straighter hair will need 1 to 2 hours to set the curl.
Remove hair clips and scrunch the ends with your fingers. As the hair air dries, you can keep scrunching to loosen the curls. The more you shake it up, the less defined the ringlets and locks will be.
Style as desired. Pull the sides back with barrettes or clips, or curve fringe and sides back to create a rounded 40s style hairdo. Twisted ringlet locks also add beauty and interest to an updo.
Put on an old cotton or flannel button-down shirt before you start. An oversized, thick shirt can go right over your work clothes. The soft material won't tear at your hair as you work, and will absorb excess moisture from your curls. It also acts as a barrier to prevent water spots or hair product stains on your clothing. Experiment with curl sizes and drying times. Twisting smaller sections of hair will make tighter curls, and leaving twists clipped until completely dry will set in stronger curls. Twisted hair looks pretty even while still drying, so there's no need to stay home all day waiting for your hair to curl. Clip the hair back from your face or use colourful or embellished ponytail holders to hold twists in place. If you have a long commute, you can wear clips in the car, then take them out to release perfect ringlet locks when you arrive at work.


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Hey everybody! I came across this horrendous "blog" while I was "surfing" the internet. Stay away from it! There's homophobia and progressophobia and Obamaphobia and definitely phariseeism. I'll add it to the banned "blog" list later, but for now here's the link to stay away from:
Little Catholic Bubble: PH, R, O, IT, NLU
Saturday, July 10, 2010
Hey! The last banned 'blog.
Posted by Father Tim at 12:36 AM
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This is perhaps the most ridiculous blog I have ever read! lol. It doesn't look like any of you have actually read the Vatican 2 documents. Silly relativists.
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Key to Law School Exam Success – Organization
In this post I will share some of my tips for organizing the ridiculous amount of information you are learning as a law student so that it may be easily reviewed throughout the semester, for exam prep, and quickly accessed under pressure during an exam.
I feel that I can say, with confidence, that I was THE most organized law student at my school last semester. Some of my classmates poked fun, but on exam day, when I knew exactly how and where to find the information I needed, I was the object of envy.
Prior to law school, I hadn't thought much about my organization skills and how they would help me achieve success as a law student. I had the benefit of developing these skills as a professional (paralegal to three very unorganized lawyers) and though organization impacts many aspects of our lives, I certainly didn't expect it would give me much of an advantage in law school. Wrong! It made a huge difference come exam time.
I previously wrote about my "course summary" that I prepare as a handbook throughout the semester. It's essentially my pre-class/reading notes combined with my in-class notes, with a light sprinkling of any supplement/hornbook/commercial outline tips. For criminal law, I spent a lot of time creating comparison charts between the common law and the MPC and that sort of thing was also included in my course summary. Any other helpful graphs or "mind maps" that helped me process the information was also included in my course summary – it was my how-to manual. As I said before, it becomes quite lengthy but contains every bit of information that one would need to Ace their exams. How devastating it would be, however, if that information is somewhere in your hands, but not at your fingertips? That information is not helpful at all unless you know how to find it and can quickly access it . . . under the stress of exam pressure.
What you need:
- A 1 inch binder.
- Note Tabs (those versatile tabs that you can write on to label things but go on paper to serve as dividers).
- Knowledge of creating a Table of Contents and/or an Index and a Table of Authorities in whatever word processing program you use (I use Word for Mac).
- Ability to print out your course summary in duplex (using both sides of the sheet of paper) and in color (I found it was cheaper to do it at home, but sometimes Staples or Office Max will run deals where it costs $0.25 per page).
Preparation Time: a few extra minutes while taking pre-class reading notes and 1-2 hours at the end of the semester.
Step 1 – Preparing the Table of Contents
During the semester, I combined my pre-class/reading notes with my class notes. Once I did this all semester long, the finished product was my "course summary." In other words, rather than having three documents to work with all semester (the reading notes, class notes, and then course summary) I used my reading notes as the base of the course summary and supplemented/added in my class notes. It's easier to do it this way instead of creating a new document because a lot of the required formatting can be done as you go along. The formatting I'm talking about is the use of "headings" to create a Table of Contents. For every topic, subtopic, case, list of elements to a particular area of law (ex. for torts it's duty, breach, causation, harm), for every rule (like in Civ Pro, a Rule 59), I would format the case name, rule name, topic, subtopic, whatever as a "heading" in Word. You can essentially create your own by formatting the text the way you like it, and then under styles, click "new style." Then, when you create a Table of Contents (Insert > Table of Contents) you can select the hierarchy each heading that you have used will appear in the Table of Contents.
The Table of Contents is clickable, which is extremely convenient for reviewing a course summary electronically. However, most schools utilize a special exam taking software that locks the hard drive on your computer, thereby preventing you from accessing anything other than the exam software – so the course summary has to be printed and taken in paper-form. Although some of the convenience in the Table of Contents is lost, you still have the page numbers to use, plus the benefit of tabbing each topic and subtopic.
Here are a few YouTube videos on creating a Table of Contents in both Word for Mac and Word for PC.
Here is a copy of what my Table of Contents looked like for Contracts:
Your notes should be organized around topics (or rules) – not around case names. In fact, the name of a case is rarely relevant. Most of my professors said it didn't matter at all if we knew the names of cases and we certainly did not have to cite them on the exam. It's important to keep in perspective the role of the case in learning the law. Accordingly, your course summary and all other notes will be organized and structured in a way that sort of hides the cases (because it's the rules that really matter). However, in the unlikely event that you would need to refer to a specific case by name (rather than by topic), it's helpful to have the case listed in a Table of Authorities, which would list the cases alphabetically and like the Table of Contents, provide a page number for where that case can be found. This is a little more tricky than creating a Table of Contents, but it is still very worthwhile to know – not only for notes organization, but also for the "1L brief" that most law students have to submit for their legal writing classes. There are tutorials available on YouTube that can be helpful if you need guidance in doing this.
Step 2 – Color Coding
So, all semester long, you've been combining your in-class notes with your reading notes – a comprehensive "course summary" of all that you have learned throughout the semester and everything that you may need to know for the exam. While creating this throughout the semester, you have worked on entries that will go into the Table of Contents and Table of Authorities. Another key organizational tool is to color-code some of the important parts of the course summary. For example, the names of cases are in purple and I include the page number from the casebook in the unlikely event I have to crack my book open during an exam. For each case, I have the rules in red. My one or two sentence of facts are in green. If there are elements that must be satisfied for this particular rule to apply, I put those in blue. If the court's opinion nicely runs through the step by step analysis, I also have that in blue. If the court talks about public policy, that goes in pink.
Here are a few examples:
Step 3 – Print
Once you have the Table of Contents and Table of Authorities completed and everything is color-coded to highlight the most important items, then it is time to color print the course summary (and I prefer duplex printing).
Step 4 – Three-Hole Punch and Place in Binder
A 1″ binder should be sufficient. Also, I placed my page numbers on the "outside" corners of the pages because I thought it would be a little more convenient when flipping through.
Step 5 – Tabs
Either use the traditional divider-style tabs or use the "Note Tabs" that are essentially sticky-flags but more durable. You want to flag/divide each main topic (ex. negligence) and then each subtopic (ex. duty, breach, causation, harm). I like to use larger tabs for the main topics and then smaller tabs for the subtopics. If there were a few items that the professor seemed to refer to a lot during the semester (ex. Palsgraf v. Long Island Railroad) then I would put a small flag on that case. You have to find the right balance between flagging what is important and cluttering up the document with too many flags.
And Voila! You've organized everything you've learned into one handy manual. An added bonus: bring this to exam day and your classmates will freak! (Just kidding, sort of).
– BUT – in terms of exam preparation you are not done! The course summary is everything you learned. Half of which you won't even use on the exam. You can't flip through all of it, no matter how organized it is, when you are issue spotting – there is a more efficient way! (Two, actually!). In addition to the course summary, you need to create 1: an Attack Outline; and 2) an Issue Spotter Checklist.
The Attack Outline
It sounds aggressive, right? Well, it will help you "attack" the exam in a way more efficient than your lengthy course summary. Basically, the attack outline is a skeletal, bare-bones outline (yes! This is the "real" outline you've heard so much about) that contains only the topic, subtopic, and rule. Rarely would you include a case (unless the professor always brought up a particular case when referring to a specific subtopic or rule). While your course summary would be 200-250 pages, this quick and dirty lifeline is less than 20. It's extremely useful for reviewing in the days up to the exam and provides a little more information than just the one page issue spotter/checklist while still being a quick/usable document.
To make the attack outline:
- Begin the attack outline using an outline form (either bullet points or number/letters) and note only the topics and subtopics you learned this semester. Ideally, the professor's syllabus will list the topics and subtopics covered – use the same ones, in the same order, to create a "shell" for the attack outline.
- Next, turn to your course summary and usually, just by looking at the Table of Contents, you can get the page numbers for each topic and subtopic that you have included as the shell of your attack outline. So basically, you are cross referencing to your long course summary (see example from mine, below).
- Read through the lengthy course summary and extract only the rules. The idea is to have enough information to alert you to a particular possible issue on the exam, but not so much that you are slowed down by too much information.
- Once you have identified a short, concise, rule from the course summary copy only the rule and paste it into the attack outline.
- If there are elements that must be satisfied, or other tests that serve as a guide, those should be included as well. I made elements and tests blue. However, I didn't put the rules in red for the attack outline like I did the course summary because the attack outline is essentially all rules.
Here is my example:
The Issue Spotter/Checklist
Lastly, you need a one-page issue spotter. All on this one page, you will list every theory of recovery/tort/crime/etc. you learned this semester and list the page number for which it appears in your course summary. While taking your final exam, you will place a check mark by every issue you have found. Once you have actually written about that issue on your exam, then cross out the entire issue that you checked. While reviewing your exam at the end, go over the checklist one last time – what's left? Should any of that have been mentioned? Even if not all the elements would be satisfied, are enough elements satisfied that you should at least address it on the exam? For example, if duty, breach, and harm are satisfied, but causation isn't – you better still spot the "negligence" issue on the exam. If you're just one issue short, that's close enough to merit your attention. Furthermore, you can rack up points by arguing why an element is or isn't satisfied. If you disregard it altogether then you've lost a lot of points. (As a side note, if you are taking a torts exam and haven't mentioned negligence, then something is wrong – negligence is always an issue on a torts exam).
Here's my example:
In sum, I know this seems like a lot of work. Perhaps work that would be better spent simply reviewing your notes – but while doing this, you are reviewing your notes. And I have found that it didn't matter how much time I spent committing this stuff to memory, the stress of taking a law school exam completely wiped my memory. Having the ability to quickly run through the available issues and find any additional information was calming and helped build my confidence.
Last Step – Practice Using Your Material
It isn't enough to now have this material – now you have to practice using it. Do this by taking practice exams. Most law schools have old practice exams available online or in paper form at the library. Practice exams are important, perhaps even more important than organizing all of this material. All semester long you have been inputing this information – now you have to take what you know and apply it. Don't take a law school exam without first practicing the skill of taking a law school exam. It's unlike any other exam, I assure you. Taking the practice exam with your newly organized material will also help acquaint you with where to find what you want.
Efficient v. Thorough Notes – Whether to Take Pre-Class/Reading Notes
In this post, I discuss my method of "pre-class" notetaking, as well as the pros and cons and whether this is something that might be helpful for you.
Most of what you learn in law school is first encountered while reading and studying the material assigned before class. Law school is sort of a guided, but self-directed study. In a lot of ways, the law student is independently responsible for learning the law. You are expected to come to class with already having been introduced to the topic and have a fairly good understanding of it. The role of the lecture is then, to supplement your understanding, expand upon it, and either confirm your understanding or expose your misunderstanding.
Given the emphasis on pre-class preparations, it always made sense to me to devout a lot of time to my pre-class preparation: reading and note-taking. Though not an exhaustive list, I believe there are four ways in which a law student can spend their pre-class time working through the material:
- Read the material and take pre-class notes based on the assigned reading. Flag anything in the pre-class notes that is not understood. Then supplement the pre-class notes with in-class notes. If what was not understood before is still sketchy or my questions were not answered in-class, then consult a supplement (hornbook or commercial outline) and/or see the professor. (This is what I do, and though it is the most thorough option, it is time consuming and may not be the most efficient).
- Read, but don't take pre-class notes. At the least, mark-up the book (i.e., "book brief" and write notes in the margin). Take notes while in-class. Then, either go with the mindset that if the professor didnt mention it, then it wasn't important, or (probably the more sound decision) go back through the reading material and supplement the class notes.(This is probably a decent balance between efficient and thorough note taking).
- Read, but only take class notes, never again looking at the book. (Not ideal).
- Don't read before class, take what you think are really good in-class notes, then, and only then, would you go back to the book and try to make sense of something that you didn't understand. (This is a bad idea).
I will openly admit, I am not the best "processor" when it comes to extremely dense, difficult, and boring reading material. I have to try to stay engaged, make sense of difficult material, and understand the structure of what is being said in the material (ex. in a torts case, involving breach, duty, causation, and harm, maybe breach and duty are satisfied, causation "might" be satisfied, and harm is definitely satisfied, what is the implication for this party/client/case? What would help me determine whether causation is satisfied or not? and so on).
One thing that has helped me through some of these difficult problems and has improved my reading comprehension is to take "reading notes" a/k/a "pre-class" notes from the reading material (as I described in Option 1, above). This is SO time consuming. BUT not only does it help me understand the material, it also dramatically decreases the amount of notetaking I have to take during class (thereby allowing me to sit back and "process" some more by just taking it all in), it also helps me easily and quickly review prior to class, and it makes end-of-semester outlining a breeze (because rather than inserting the information into my outline, I'm condensing what I already have which is so much faster than hunting down info, typing it, etc.)
Having to first read the material, highlight or use different colors of pen (see blog post on technicolor reading soon), then type the important stuff into my word document keeps me engaged in the reading material and also strengthens reading comprehension (especially the typing part – because I have to really look at each word and then type it – rather than just skim and inadvertently walk away from the reading with only a "gist" of what it said).
Law school reading is like having a ton of information thrown at you without a lot of context for how to sort the information and how the information relates to this specific reading material or other material previously read. Since it naturally comes from a book, there's little structure to it – and I find this problematic. For me to process it, I basically extract the important points from the reading, insert it into my own word processing document (last semester I used Circus Ponies, this semester I'm just using Microsoft Word), and convert it into a format that makes more sense. Most commonly, that "format" is an outline. Don't confuse this for the "outline" that is used for exam prep and exam taking. Rather, this version (which I tend to call a "course summary") is much more lengthy. It contains all of my briefs for every case that I read and includes any notes from sections of the casebook that are explanatory in nature (usually appearing before or after the cases).
This is all organized in either bullet-point or numbered and lettered format (thus forming an "outline" style of organization). I prefer bullet-points because the numbers and letters tend to get distracting, especially if you are also referring to a statute that has numbers (common in civil procedure). For example, I would hate to have a numbered/lettered bullet point "b." describing Rule 60(a). But I'm a little OCD, so do whatever you like and what fits you best.
Here is an example to more thoroughly illustrate what I'm talking about, and again, remember this is all just for my pre-class/reading notes:
- Topic (usually the chapter title from the book or the topic provided by the professor in the syllabus).
- Subtopic (usually the section of the chapter or a subtopic provided by the professor in the syllabus).
- Introductory notes for this particular topic which the casebook editor provided prior to a case or at the beginning of the chapter.
- John Smith v. Doe Smith (2000) – p. 232 (notice that I've listed the case name, the year the case was decided, and the page number for which it appears in the book).
- Facts:
- Issue:
- Holding/Disposition: (very short statement of what this means for the parties in this case – I don't spend a lot of time on this because it is not very meaningful in terms of knowledge of this particular rule).
- Rationale: (this is the important one – you have to know why the court chose this particular result – why the rule applied in this particular situation given the facts of this case – this is vital to understanding the rule and to applying it in the future).
- Dissent/Concurrence: (if applicable)
- Rule: (a short, few sentence summary of the rule).
- Analysis: – this won't work for every case, but when the opinion clearly lays out a step by step process for analyzing this particular issue, I always include it – it can work as a boilerplate to sort through a similar issue in the future on an exam!
- Susie Q v. John Q (2005) – p. 349
- Any notes which follow the case (casebook editors will often follow an opinion/case with "Notes and Questions" which provide the majority/minor rule or even better, summarize the rule in a neat one or two sentence format that is super convenient and can be placed into the brief, above under the "rule" bullet point).
- Subtopic (usually the section of the chapter or a subtopic provided by the professor in the syllabus).
In doing this, I have provided a structure for which to analyze the material. For example, two cases might illustrate two different outcomes of the same rule. In the casebook, the two cases might be 20 pages a part, but in my notes, I have them together (often on the same page).
Again, this can be extremely time consuming, but I am convinced this is the best method for me. It's heavily "front-loaded" but when it comes time to outline at the end of the semester, most of the heavy lifting is already done. Plus, as you go along, you get much more skilled at the process and it becomes faster and like second nature.
5-10 minutes prior to class, rather than skimming through the book for the important points of the reading (which could mean flipping through 30+ pages) I can just read through my condensed notes in a few minutes.
During class, I have one side of my screen taken up with my pre-class/reading notes and the other side with my document for class notes. Most professors tend to follow the flow of book/assigned reading without jumping around too much. Since I re-read through my condensed reading notes, everything is fresh in mind; so while the professor is lecturing, I can listen intently without scurrying to write every word. Most of what he is telling me is already in my notes. Usually, the only time that I type anything at all is when we are going through an assigned case. Though I already have the "basics" (facts, issue, holding, rule, rationale, analysis, etc.) the professor almost always expands on the case by posing several "hypotheticals" that stretch the rule – it defines the rule – whether it encompasses this new set of facts set forth in the hypo, or whether the rule falls just shy of applying to this new set of facts. This is so important because it allows me to see the rule "in action," being applied to new facts – it increases my understanding of the rule, it's purpose, and why/why not it works in other situations. This is just like what I have to do on the exam!
Ideally, while in-class, I am able to easily annotate my reading notes with the professor's lecture. However, if the professor has gone off on a tangent (which is valuable material, of course) or if he has skipped around and I am not able to quickly find where to insert this new in-class information into my reading notes, then I refer to the other document I have on my screen that is dedicated entirely to in-class notes.
Ideally, at the end of every class, I would spend a few minutes incorporating whatever is in my class notes, into my reading notes. But for me, this has been rarely possible because I have classes back-to-back. So, I reserve Friday afternoons specifically for reviewing and reconciling my in-class notes with my reading notes. In doing this, I am seeing the material again (good for memory) and getting feedback (yes, my pre-class understanding was correct per the lecture – or – crap, I'm confused, get help).
Once I have integrated/reconciled my class-notes into my pre-class/reading notes, I have what I call a "course summary." This is essentially all of the information that I found important in the course – it's way too long for use on an exam (though I have it with me just in case). Last semester, these "course summaries" were 200-250 pages for each subject. It's important to organize it in such a way that it can serve as a useful "how-to manual" for the exam. I share share my tips on organizing the course summary, creating an "attack outline," and a one-page issuer spotter for the exam in this post.


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Okay, I admit it…I'm a geek.
This really isn't a new revelation. I've been a geek for a while, I just didn't know that all this cool stuff existed for us (read: geeks). My parents are pretty run of the mill when it comes to trends. Both Beatles fans, Dad was a farmer so he's pretty out-doorsy. Mom's a teacher…sports fan…crafty. Dad likes westerns and Star Trek. Mom likes mysteries and comedies and old musicals.
I am a mix of both. I like sports, I don't seek it out and I don't play, but I keep track of my teams. I would love to go camping and hiking but end up spending more time in the kitchen. I LOVE Star Trek and all things "space-y". I love old musicals and British mysteries.
I also happen to like really geeky/nerdy tv shows. I've been hearing about Battlestar Galactica for years now. I've been told my numerous people that I would like it. I took their words of wisdom and Holy Frak! if that isn't a good show! Right now we are on Season 4 and even though I read through some spoilers… they didn't prepare me for what was about to happen! I wish that the BF would get off the XBOX so I could watch some Netflix BG. He just got the new Black Ops game and can't get enough. He got it Thursday and he's already prestige-d.
Okay…so to go with the theme of the title… I'll give you some bears and beats. YES! I know it's suppose to be BEETS, but I'm not Doug Funnie so I'm going to use BEATS…as in music.
Bears… I collect bears…stuffed bears. All kinds of stuffed bears.
Beats….I can't stop listening to Fiona Apple. Damn my sister for turning me on to her. I mean, I liked Criminal well enough, but it was my sister's teenage angst that played her albums over and over again and now I can't stop listening to her…for like the past week.
Also, if you haven't checked out The Dudes yet, seriously, you're YEARS behind…catch up. They are AWESOME!
There is something hot about the lead singer….
This is my favorite song of theirs… wish I could find a better recording!
Live Long and Prosper!


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This is a blog of my rambles about my craft and hobbies. I just love to show you how I make my cards and really appreciate your comments.
Friday, 4 November 2016
In the Buttercups
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What a charming card Pen, it's a lovely image and with beautiful paper too.ReplyDelete
Have a lovely evening, Kate x
A lovely card Pen. I do like that topper. Enjoy your evening. BarbxxReplyDelete
Adorable!!! Thank you so much for sharing this with us at Creative Inspirations. Good luck,ReplyDelete
Pen a beautiful card, love how you've matched the papers to your image.ReplyDelete
I hope you have a lovely evening at the bonfire. Absolutely pouring down here so glad ours is on tomorrow evening instead.
Hugs Erika. x
Lovely! Thanks for joining in at Crafting from the Heart good luck 😉ReplyDelete
I love the image and your great card design - thank you for joining us at Fab'n Funky.ReplyDelete
Alison x
Pretty card! Great if you like our scrap bags. Many thanks to join us in Crafty Ribbons Challenge this week and good luck from Christelle DT.ReplyDelete
Hi Pen and thanks for another great card with participation on our challenge at Crafty Ribbons! Don't miss there's a new one out today!ReplyDelete
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In some way, we have to thank the certifiable loony tune head of the 700 Club.
With the week we've had, struggling to get time to read, let alone post, searching everywhere for some mojo, he hands us, virtually gift-wrapped, his (official, see the Bonus Links) induction into The Garlic roster of Ignorant Dolts.
Now, with the Right Wing Freak Show all but calling for "open season" on Muslim hunting, following the Fort Hood shooting, Mr. 700 Club polished up his orange vest and Elmer Fudd cap;
Pat Robertson on Ft. Hood: Islam is 'not a religion' and Muslims should be treated like 'some fascist group.'
On his 700 Club TV show yesterday, Pat Robertson claimed that Islam is "not a religion," but "a violent political system bent on the overthrow of the governments of the world and world domination":
ROBERTSON: That is the ultimate aim. And they talk about infidels and all this, but the truth is that's what the game is. So you are dealing with not a religion. You're dealing with a political system. And I think we should treat it as such and treat its adherences as such as we would members of the Communist Party or members of some fascist group. Well, it's a tragedy. Our hearts go out to the families who suffered. But those in the Army should be held on account for the fact they let this man loose.Hmmm ...
I wonder if Robertson would include the "political system" in this country, that shoots doctors who perform abortions?
Should we treat them with "adherences" as members of Communist or fascist groups?
MediaMatters has the video that welcomes the 700 Club chieftain onto the roster of Ignorant Dolts.
Eli, over on Firedoglake, helps us on on the PR front, hailing Robertson as a "xenophobic ignoramus."
While Melissa, over on Shakesville thinks Robertson may be on to something;
Being an atheist, I'm more than happy to treat every religion as its own political ideology. Let's start with charging a religious organization the same taxes that, say, a feminist blog gets charged for doing business.P-Rob (we like that), drop by anytime to pick up your inglorious Ignorant Dolt Crown and Sceptre
Somehow, I'm guessing P-Rob won't be on board with that idea, once it includes him.
Bonus Links
(Editor Note: As we referenced above, this will be Robertson's "official" Ignorant Dolt induction, for, as you will see below, he's had a hall pass, and visa, that has been continually renewed.)
Robertson To Ballmer: "I've Got Your Back" ...Looking to Strike Deal With Microsoft Chief For Help With Offing Chavez
White House Meets With Robertson; Plan Video Blitz ...Controversial Minister To Produce Al Qaeda-type Videos, Promising Death and Destruction, To Counter Bin Laden's
Robertson May Have, Inadvertently, Caused Hajj Stampede Deaths; Was Working On New Material For Bush Video Blitz, Testing New Curses and Condemnations
Breaking News! Robertson Held For Questioning In Falwell Death ...Threats Against Chavez, Sharon Make 700 Club Founder 'Person of Interest'
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
Today's Ignorant Dolt - Pat Robertson
In some way, we have to thank the certifiable loony tune head of the 700 Club.


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Thanks to David Liebovitz (fabulous author and blogger on all things food and
If you've never had Nutella, it's a chocolate hazelnut spread that tastes basically like a straight shot of the filling from those Ferrer Rocher gold-wrapped truffles. Times ten. The jar advertises that you can spread it on everything from whole wheat bread, to bagels, waffles and English muffins. But if you've ever been to
Like ice cream cones and cream puffs, homemade crêpes can never be as good as the real thing (unless you are French, and then I am convinced that you are born with innate crêpemaking abilities) but because crêpes and Nutella are forever linked in my mind, in honor of World Nutella Day I just had to give it a shot. You can buy an actual crêpe pan (which of course I do not own) but the recipe I used from my old standby, the Better Homes & Gardens Cookbook,actually makes mini crêpes and calls for a 6" skillet. You could certainly use a larger skillet if that's all you have and simply add more batter. Also, if you're like me and crêpeing alone, don't worry; although the recipe makes at least 12 crêpes you can just freeze the leftovers to eat later. Overall I was pretty thrilled with these. But, then again, I can't think of much that wouldn't taste amazing slathered in chocolate hazelnut sauce.
2 eggs, beaten
1 ½ cups milk
1 cup all-purpose flour
1 Tbsp cooking oil
¼ tsp salt
Combine all ingredients in a bowl and beat until combined (recommend a hand mixer). Heat a lightly greased 6" skillet; remove from heat. Spoon in 2 tablespoons batter; lift and tilt skillet to spread batter. Return to heat; brown on 1 side only (approximately 1 minute on med-high heat). Invert onto paper towels; remove crêpe. Repeat with remaining batter, greasing skillet occasionally.


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Terror Cat
Andre Willers
28 May 2013
Synopsis :
The Face of Fear . At subliminal levels . In repetition , it replaces lesser fears .
Discussion :
The teeth could be a bit further apart .
But , still , a good idea of what gives your amygdala the heebie-jeevies .
The amygdala has a limited memory , of a push-down nature .
Repeated exposure (just looking at the image) is enough to reduce PTSD .
Well , our ancestors had enough close calls with these raptors to encode an amygdala "instinct" .
Scares the shit out of them .
Also pushes down the fear system in the amygdala . Also called desensitizitation .
But this is general . All PTSD's get pushed down into oblivion if you keep on looking at this image .
It will help if you move your head from side-to-side more than 5X a second . Prepared to be scared .
Initially , you will be scared . Blood pressure will elevate . Flight or fight mechanisms activate .
Repetition leads to lessening of effects as bio-memory is pushed down another notch in the amygdala .
Keep on for at least 10 minutes .
You will notice real tension relaxation . But keep on . At least 10 minutes is needed .
Basal hypertension and teeth-grinding should decrease dramatically .
Long-term potentionating is about 10 minutes .
Who cares ? Just look at the little bastard and feel your fears evaporate .
And this is not even a hyper-image .
Here , kitty , kitty .
What do you do if you meet a real http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinofelis ?
Then run like hell and laugh like hell .
Where it all comes from .


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President Pranab Mukherjee gave a touching farewell to "gentleman" Manmohan Singh, recalling their four-decade-long association from Singh's bureaucracy days till he became the Prime Minister.
At an emotionally charged banquet last night, Mukherjee said it was not customary to speak on such occasions but "I will make a departure from normal practice because the gentleman to whom I am saying goodbye has worked with me for over four decades".
Mukherjee said he had met Singh when he became a junior finance minister in 1974 and was happy with his depth of knowledge in crucial economic issues. As the audience comprising outgoing cabinet ministers and Leader of Opposition in the 15th Lok Sabha Sushma Swaraj were listening with rapt attention, Mukherjee lauded Singh and said "the country will remember your contribution during 1991 when you took a new path in economic reforms. In 1990s, there was a new phase of development when India made a breakthrough in growth rate."
Mukherjee, who had signed the appointment of Singh as Governor of Reserve Bank of India in the 1980s, said Singh had made a mark and the country will remember it and termed himself as "fortunate" in receiving advice and support during discharge of various responsibilities.
Singh acknowledged the President's gesture by saying "forgive me if I become emotional on this occasion" and recalled his long association with Mukherjee. "I worked with him as Member Secretary in the Planning Commission and then as RBI Governor. The President was a valued colleague in UPA who used to shoulder burden as most experienced and senior minister."
Mukherjee's experience and support for reforms was of "inestimable value", the outgoing Prime Minister said. "The President's wisdom, experience and knowledge is a great national asset. These feelings have come out of my heart."
The President treated members of the outgoing government to Bengali delicacies such as shorshey paturi and Punjabi kadi pakora. In the non-vegetarian menu, besides the fish, the President's favourite dish galauti kebab, murgh nihari and other assortment of chicken and fish delicacies were served. Potol dorma (stuffed pointed gourd), anjeer (fig) ke koftey and paneer pasanda were also laid out.


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But now Safire is jumping on the topic?!?!? He's mostly pretty harmless at the moment, devoting his time to political words and turns of phrase, but has a thing on verbal tics today. What does he actually mean by this?
Sarah Palin's repeated Americanism does not qualify as a verbal tic because she uses it consciously, along with a deliberate, nonspasmodic wink. Now that it has been widely called to her attention, is she likely to continue to use it? "You betcha!"You betcha is a signature line for her, but it turns up a lot more in parodies than in her speech. She's used it once in the VP debate, for example, with two hecks and two darns.


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Hi I'm Ben. Welcome to my site. You will find some of the pictures of different aircraft I took at various places, either in flight or on the ground, as well as other pictures of different places I visited. Enjoy!


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While appropriate training in museums and anthropology is required, the nature of an applicant's specific research interests, geographical and temporal specializations and areas of expertise is left open. In addition to pursuing his or her research, the successful candidate will be expected to teach half time, one course on museum anthropology per semester that provides students with significant experience with collections and exhibition projects at the Haffenreffer Museum; to work with museum staff on museum projects; and to assist faculty in making use of the Haffenreffer Museum for their research and teaching. The successful candidate will also be expected to make substantive contributions to the ongoing work of the Haffenreffer Museum, the Department of Anthropology, and the John Nicholas Brown Center, such as the organization of reading or working groups, a topical symposium or lecture series, or any other project intended to foster a stimulating intellectual environment in which to pursue research, public outreach, and new interdisciplinary connections.
Applicants must normally have received their Ph.D. within the last five years. This will be a one-year position, beginning on July 1, 2010.
All candidates should submit a letter of application, a description of their proposed courses, curriculum vitae, and names of three references by June 1, 2010. Applications received by June 1, 2010 will receive full consideration, but the search will remain open until the position is closed or filled.
For further information or to apply, write to:
Professor Steven Lubar
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Brown University Providence, RI 02912
Brown is an EEO/AA employer. Minorities and women are encouraged to apply.


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Faced with difficult questions about his company's pending takeover of Time Warner Cable — which would combine the two largest cable internet providers in the U.S. into a company consumers will likely hate twice as much — Comcast CEO Brian Roberts made one thing very clear: his company is determined to sit directly in the middle of the tech world. ...Where to start...
That means it wants to preserve a gatekeeper role. In a series of analogies, Roberts likened his company's role to that of a postmaster, pointing out that Netflix pays hundreds of millions of dollars to mail DVDs to its customers but now expects to be able to deliver the same content over the internet for free.
"They would like it all to be free. I would like to not have to pay for cable boxes," he said. Delivering bits over a pipe seems just a wee bit more cost-effective than paying the energy and labor costs of physical distribution, but Roberts didn't get into that.
The most common model for deliveries is one where the sender pays the cost of shipping. A less common, but not unheard of model is for the receiver to cover the cost on delivery ("postage due"). ISPs basically operate under something similar to the second model. The receiver pays to get the digital packages, and pays more to get larger packages or to get them faster.
Roberts is proposing a model where both the sender and the receiver pay, which he thinks he can get away with because there is very little competition in the industry and because, based on this quote, he doesn't seem to think we're very bright.


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This is the title of the latest interview with the father of C++, the legendary Bjarne Stroustrup. Below are snippets from this article.
When he was asked why most software is so bad. Here is his responses,
The structure is appalling, and the programmers clearly didn't think deeply about correctness, algorithms, data structures, or maintainability. Most people don't actually read code....
that "we" (that is, we software developers) are in a permanent state of emergency, grasping at straws to get our work done. We perform many minor miracles through trial and error, excessive use of brute force, and lots and lots of testing, but--so often--it's not enough.
So very true observation. So how can we fix this, when asked, and here are his comments:
In theory, the answer is simple: educate our software developers better, use more-appropriate design methods, and design for flexibility and for the long haul.
Reward correct, solid, and safe systems. Punish sloppiness. In reality, that's impossible. People reward developers who deliver software that is cheap, buggy, and first. ....
On the other hand, just muddling along is expensive, dangerous, and depressing. Significant improvements are needed, and they can only come gradually. They must come on a broad front; no single change is sufficient.
Yes perfect observation and comments. I am seeing this kind of practice on daily basis.
A site devoted to discussing techniques that promote quality and ethical practices in software development.
Thursday, November 30, 2006
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One of the highlights of the yard sale was a visit from Susan and Sarah Spring. The Springs are one of the 1,286 families in Lee and Hendry counties who received help from Habitat for Humanity to become homeowners.
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Rich Dad® Education, a leader in financial education, is pleased to announce the success of their charity yard sale to support Habit for Humanity of Lee and Hendry Counties. Over $650 was raised and 100% of the proceeds will be donated to Habitat for Humanity. Additionally, all the items not sold at the event are being donated to the Habitat for Humanity ReStore thrift store located at 31 Willis Road, North Fort Myers, Florida 33903.
One of the highlights of the yard sale was a visit from Susan and Sarah Spring. The Springs are one of the 1,286 families in Lee and Hendry counties who received help from Habitat for Humanity to become homeowners. They shopped at the yard sale to show their support for the mission of Habitat for Humanity.
Rich Dad Education would like to thank all the people in the greater Cape Coral and Fort Myers area who supported the event by donating items to be sold and shopping on the day of the yard sale. We are truly grateful to live in such a caring and generous community.
About Habitat for Humanity of Lee and Hendry Counties:
Habitat for Humanity of Lee and Hendry Counties is celebrating its 31st anniversary as a chartered affiliate. It is one of the largest Habitat affiliates in the country, and has helped 1,286 families in Lee and Hendry counties become homeowners. Through the use of volunteer labor and donations of money and materials, homes are sold to the homeowners with an interest-free mortgage and monthly payments set at less than 30% of the homeowner's income, making homeownership an affordable reality. Habitat homeowners must qualify financially for the program; save $1,200 toward their closing costs; attend a series of educational classes focusing on homeownership, budgeting and home maintenance; and complete 250 hours of "sweat equity" by volunteering at Habitat. It also supports Habitat for Humanity International by tithing a portion of its proceeds allocated to Habitat's global fund, disaster recovery in Haiti and initiatives in Latin America and the Caribbean. For more information call (239) 652-0434 or visit http://www.habitat4humanity.org.
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Rich Dad® Education Inc. is a leading provider of educational training seminars, conferences, and services, based on Robert Kiyosaki's international bestseller and the #1 personal finance book of all time, Rich Dad Poor Dad. The company provides students with comprehensive instruction and mentoring in real estate and financial instruments training in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom. To receive helpful financial training resources please visit their website at http://www.RichDadEducation.com.


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"May I receive God's blessing. Light of lights, I sit in comfortable darkness, knowing that you will soon arrive. Make me ready to receive your blessings and share the good news of your arrival. Come soon, Holy One. AMEN
But you, Bethlehem Ephrathah, though you are small among the clans of Judah, out of you will come for me one who will be ruler over Israel, whose origins are from of old, from ancient times."
Therefore Israel will be abandoned until the time when she who is in labor gives birth and the rest of his brothers return to join the Israelites.
He will stand and shepherd his flock in the strength of the LORD, in the majesty of the name of the LORD his God. And they will live securely, for then his greatness will reach to the ends of the earth.
And he will be their peace. Micah 5:2-5"
-Beth A. Richardson, The Uncluttered Heart:
Making Room for God During Advent and Christmas


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Highland Park Fountain
This project was a historical restoration of an early 1900 Victorian fountain at the entrance of Highland Park in Pittsburgh, PA.
This project was new construction of the overlook building and scenic park overlooking The City of Pittsburgh.
Located in the Southside slopes of Pittsburgh These bridges provide access for the hill side residents to the ongoing improvements taking place in the South Side.
Located in the Southside slopes of Pittsburgh These new structures where fabricated with A588 Weathering Steel and concrete floor deck. They have replaced circa 100 year old structures that were condemned and barricaded
Located in center city Pittsburgh Renovation was done to enhance, the PPG Plaza surrounding which is adjacent to the Park. The renovation of this park has added a stage, granite seating area and landscaping. This park is used by thousands of people on a daily basis.
West Mifflin, area of Pittsburgh This new in-ground concrete pool replaced an old above ground pool well outdated and long awaited by the community
This project was a historical restoration of an early 1900 Victorian fountain at the entrance of Highland Park in Pittsburgh, PA.
Located in Avalon Borough The new Avalon public library has been renovated from a red brick Georgian-style building, previously used as a church. The front porch was enclosed and converted to a glass-enclosed adult reading area. A new side addition was added to house a new entrance, stair ...
Located in Allegheny Township of Westmoreland County This building was one of Kiski Area's first large expansions. Pugliano Construction completed this project on time, within their budget, and received much recognition from the Kiski Area Administration.
Sanitary Sewer Authority – Pittsburgh, PA Concrete pits that were used for storing incinerator ash, excess sludge from overloaded trucks, and various other materials, were open to the atmosphere, giving out odor and were a big eyesore. The new structural concrete pits have motorized ...


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Great Impressions : Ladies Night
Tuesday Throwdown : Use Your Die Cuts
Simon Says : Let's Do The Polka
Seize The Birthday : Floral
What a cutie.. looks like she's ready for summer heat. Great card, image and coloring.
OH my goodness, this is totally darling, Margo! That image is SUPER cute--and your coloring rocks! Thank you so much for joining us at Great Impressions! HUGS! :) Mynn xx
such an adorable image - thanks for sharing your project at Cupcake Inspirations this week
Such an adorable card! Thanks so much for joining us at Cupcake Inspirations this week!
brilliant card, should get this stamp . It remind me of me with the perpetual change of life. Fan goes everywhere with me. Back to your card, your layout and colouring are perfect.
So full of cuteness and sunshine. I sure wish you would send some here. Lol Thanks for joining us at Seize the Birthday this!
Super cute!!! Thank you for joining us at Cupcake Inspirations, good luck!!! Amy DT
This really made me chuckle! Love that image. Fun colours and lots of pretty patterns. Thanks so much for playing along with Cupcake Inspirations this week, Deborah. DT.
LOL! Darling image! Fabulous card! So glad you were inspired to join our Patterns challenge at Cupcake Inspirations!
Debbie, DT Sweetie
That little chick is adorable in her little pink bikini. Super cute card! Thanks for playing a long with us at Seize the Birthday!
hello Margo! what a sweet card, the color combo is one of my favorites! I am so glad you played along with us at simon says stamp wednesday challenge!
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sparkle & shine, kindness *~*
Really cute image and cheery card. Thanks for sharing this with us at Tuesday Throwdown Challenge. Good luck. Debi TT DT
Very cute! I could use that fan quite frequently! Thanks for playing along with us at Tuesday Throwdown challenge!
What a cute, fun image and card. Thanks for joining our Ladies Night Out challenge at Great Impressions Stamps. Julie, DT member


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Active Child aka Pat Grossi is an L.A.-based songwriter. As a kid Grossi sang with the Philadelphia Boys Choir, his voice paired with synths and other various electronic beats creates a unique sound. One of our favorite remixing duos, Classixx just did a great remix of his track "When Your Love is Safe" which is really great. Check it out.
Listen to the original:
Buy: His album Curtis Lane is out now.
Video: See him sing the song live here.


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Jeudi 10-12h
Maison de la recherche, 75006 Paris
Présentation générale :
Consciousness is subjective : only the subject having the conscious experience has direct (or non-inferential) knowledge about it. Subjects enjoy a kind of access to their conscious episodes that scientists cannot have, when trying to investigate the neural basis of consciousness. This subjective aspect of conscious experience is what makes its scientific study so challenging. Understanding the distinctive kind of knowledge provided by introspection, and its functional and neural underpinnings therefore appears as a necessary step towards the assessment and integration of first-person data in the scientific study of consciousness.
In the course of this seminar, we wish to examine the recent contributions of cognitive sciences to the study of introspection, and the prospects they open in understanding the fine and complex interplay between consciousness, attention and metacognition.
23 février 2017
Discussion de Roessler, J. (1999) "Perception, Introspection and Attention", European Journal of Philosophy, 7(1), pp. 47-64.
2 mars 2017
Discussion de Thompson, B. (2009), "Senses for senses", Australasion Journal of Philosophy, 87, pp.99-117.
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Anna Giustina (IJN)
23 mars 2017
Darja Vitasovic
30 mars 2017
Andrew Lee (NYU, IJN)
20 avril 2017
Olof Soderlind (Paris 1, IHPST) - Knowing How to Avoid Zombies
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4 mai 2017
Emile Thalabard (SND) - Some remarks on generic phenomenology


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I deserve a lavish lifestyle filled with expensive gifts, vacations and sex toys. Do you want to get me one? Give this beautiful princess money so i can live the lifestyle I want and maybe I will let you touch yourself.
I Want Your Money.
Come Play With Me.
You know you want to.
Do you think you have what it takes to Play with me.
Or are you afraid you will loose it all.
We shall see.
That is IF you have the balls to play and pay.
We will talk.
I will get to know you, and what you like.
You will become, my sugar daddy, or my money slave.
I will raise the rate, and we will start playing.
I will continue to keep raising the rate.
Depending on how much money you spend determines on rather or not you earn the privaledge to cum.
I will financially drain you.
I will dominate you.
You will give me everything.
You will never tell me no.
But remember YOU WILL NOT BE ALLOWED TO CUM UNTIL YOU PAY A CUM FEE AND I GIVE YOU PERMISSION TOO.
Understand that?
Get off your ass and call me now.
If you do not want to play the game I will set a higher rate.
I can be your kept women the one you have always wanted.
The one who can full fill your wildest dreams.
The secret you keep from your wife your girlfriend your friends and family.
Money and power go hand in hand.
One can not exist without the other.
I am the One you have been searching for.
Be Proud to belong to Me.
I love, sexy clothes, lots of toys and fancy things.


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So, life gets harder after university. It's a fact. I'm now a real adult. Established. Working full time. Paying my bills. Scraping by.
But I feel different. The terror of living independently has faded away. Now I relish being disconnected from my parents in so many ways.
As far a school goes. I don't miss it. Occasionally, I think about discussions in my Global Studies classes. But I do not miss writing papers, studying, sitting through boring lectures, procrastinating. I feel like I spent most of my time in school procrastinating. Leaving everything until the last minute, but feeling the pressure of it all the while. I don't have that now. I leave work and it's far behind until the next day. I don't have to think about it at all. Sure, there are still some pressing things that I occasionally procrastinate on, but never to the previous extent. And I like that. I like not having things hanging over my head. Oh, except those daft loans...
But the same problems face me that I've written about before, years ago: apathy, complacency, lack of purpose.
I don't think about it much, I just do as I need to do or waste my time. I've been caught up in transition and haven't dwelt on purpose for some time. The thing is, I still don't know what I want to do with my life. I only know that I'm not really happy with it so far. Transition is a go. It is helping me find some clarity and peace of mind. But that's not a job. That's not a purpose, that's just a vehicle for the journey.
Frankly, I'm tired of my job. I'm tired of working with animals. My resume is filled with animal jobs. And I honestly just don't care anymore. I want to use my degree. I want to help people. I want to be useful. I just need to find a way to do it, and still make a living. I need both enough money and enough fulfillment or I will waste away.
I've had some happiness and some heart-wrenching. I've found fulfillment in becoming me. I've learned about myself, how manipulative I can be. How I hold on to things beyond reason. I've made it through what has thus far been the worst part of my life and I realize that it will not likely remain so for long. There are always good times ahead and just as many bad times. And I accept that. I and I know I can weather each.
If only I can shake the profound loneliness. This drifting discontent. I want to find me. I want to do it.


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|Snake Terrace Garden
Of course part of it is that the summers here in the mountains of Vermont are short and you want to take advantage of it as much as possible. Another reason is simply that sitting in front of the computer gets old. Being out and experiencing life is a true joy. We tend to fool ourselves when we blog or text or surf the net, thinking we are interacting with other people and the natural world, but it just isn't true.
I've written a bit recently about the vibrational changes that many people are feeling taking place in the world. It is hard to turn a blind eye to these changes once you start to feel them.
We really need to take some time for ourselves. This time needs to be spent out in nature, away from the technological chains that are binding us to the modern world.
Strengthening our relationship with the element of Fire is vitally important. We take all of the energy we use for granted. We flick a switch and the lights come on.
This goes for the other elements as well. Are you aware of the water you use in daily life? Do you let the tap run while you are brushing your teeth?
We can no longer choose to be ignorant of these issues. There are too many of us on this planet and not enough of everything to go around. It is time to pay attention.
Spending time honoring the elements and nature should be a daily practice. We need to be a bit more humble in our approach to things. We are not the center of the universe.
Anyone needing a deeper exploration into these studies is welcome to join our SELF-MASTERY ONLINE COURSE - The Fundamentals of Zen Yoga
until next time...wishing you much peace