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Today's Q&A is with YA novelist Kiera Cass. I received an excellent tip from 4KidLit that Kiera had scored a 3-book deal with HarperTeen after self-publishing her first YA novel, The Siren, with iUniverse. Read on to find out more.
I love that your bio on your homepage says, "History is the storyteller's major. Don't be tricked into English." I majored in creative writing during college and while I don't necessarily regret it, there are so many other interesting things to study as a writer.
But either way, it seems you knew you were a writer by the time you left college. Did you write fiction in college? Did you practice it or study it formally? Have any mentors along the way?
I guess no, no, and no. My original major was musical theatre, and choir was my favorite thing in high school. I was a huge nerd for performing, though I have to admit, I don't think I was very good.
When I went into musical theatre, and I was graded on the way I played piano and had a requisite number of pieces to sing and all these technical things drilled into me over and over, it kind of sucked the fun out of it. I'm kind of glad I didn't study creative writing when I was younger. I think it would have ruined it for me.
Now that I'm at a place where I'm sharing my writing with people besides my mom, I'm very tempted to take a creative writing class. My agent Elana and I had to go back and edit The Selection a few times before sending it out because I just tell stories as they come to me. I don't think about arcs or themes or things like that. I'm working hard to make my stories the best they can be, and I think studying the craft is important. I'm not sure what that means for me exactly, but I'm learning.
History just turned out to be wonderful because all it is is reading true life stories. It also made me a pretty good researcher, which is handy. I think there's something to be said for majoring in something that will make you money and minoring in something you love.
You self-published your novel The Siren with iUniverse in July 2009—after trying unsuccessfully to get about 70 agents to represent it. Once the book was released, you've said that you worked like mad to market it.
Today, all signs point to a very passionate fan base for your work. (For example, readers created Facebook Flair in honor of your book.) What really seemed to work in spreading word about your book—and what didn't?
First, I have to say I'm freakishly in love with my fans. They've done amazing things, from sending stuff for my son when he was born to making me Rob Pattinson magnets for my fridge. Love them!
I played around with a lot of ideas with promoting The Siren, trying to use what I had (a YouTube channel, an enthusiastic but small fan base) to make up for what I didn't (spots in an actual bookstore, major marketing help).
My fans made videos and Facebook flair for various contests, but the thing that seemed to work the best was simply them. I get a lot of "so-and-so is a friend of so-and-so and they told me I had to read your book, and I love it and now my mom is reading it too!"
I know that because you can't just run over to Barnes & Noble to buy a copy of The Siren that it means one book is usually passed from friend to friend, so maybe my sales aren't stellar. But you know what? Those people tend to stick around. They're my Facebook friends, YouTube subscribers, and Twitter followers. I'm available, I keep things up to date, and when The Selection comes out, I think they'll be just as supportive, if not more.
I would say the thing that ended up mattering the least were the reviews on Amazon or B&N.com. I asked people to post one if they read it, and I'm glad they're there, but I can't say it's impacted sales.
The thing that was probably the hardest (work wise) but the best was going through an index of YA book blogs I found and getting reviews there. There weren't many willing to read The Siren in PDF form (which was all I could do for them at the time), but those who did were awesome, had great things to say, and I know people bought it and read it because of those bloggers. I have those reviews saved, and I'd do darn near anything for those people.
The Siren has been voted by one blog as the #1 Underappreciated YA Novel. Are you willing to share your sales figures for The Siren? And, if so, share any information you have about where most of your sales came from?
I don't feel comfortable giving out numbers. What feels like a huge accomplishment to me would probably look kind of pathetic next to a traditionally published novel. I will share that the day The Siren was released, I asked everyone I knew to go buy it on Amazon, which bumped the sales rank and got it a lot of attention. I think that's a must for anyone who chooses to self-publish. I was contacted by two agents after that, and though it didn't work out, it opened doors.
For your second novel, The Selection, you were able to get 2 agents to ask to represent it. You've chalked this up to timing. Aside from this, do you think The Selection is a better book? (Did you get better at it the second time around?) Or do you think it's more commercially viable than The Siren?
The Selection is different, that's for sure. The first four chapters of The Siren are things I feel must be a part of the book. Kahlen spends a whole lot of time waiting for things to happen, and I wanted people to wait with her, to feel it. But I know that if an agent asks for the first three chapters … they're wondering where the guy is and how this whole thing's going to work out, and I get why that was probably not interesting for them. Still wouldn't change it.
But, yes, The Selection is better. I took more time to plan it out and write it, whereas The Siren was me writing a chapter and then asking "Well, what happens next?"
I feel like the people in The Selection are a bit more real, and I
think it is more commercial. It's the kind of book that will make you want to design your own T-shirts. I've imagined the themed book release parties that I genuinely hope to have someday, and my best friend is already dreaming up parodies. I think it'll be a fun book to read, and I really hope the fandom enjoys it.
When you queried agents, did you mention your self-published book, and if so, how did you reference it in the query?
I did mention it. I think you have to. Google exists, people. Elana could have looked me up anytime and found out about it, but why start what I hope will be a long and awesome relationship off dishonestly?
When I was telling her about myself, I simply told her that I published a book independently, gave her some stats, and told her that people had enjoyed it. I also mentioned my YouTube channel.
You'll have to ask Elana, but I think that was a pretty odd query. I know some agents appreciate the effort, but I don't think very many will be impressed with a self-published book being a part of your body of work. Still, she didn't hold it against me. I do think she appreciated that I had a learning experience I could use for the future.
Unless you've sold some ridiculous number of a self-published book, I'd treat it the same way you'd treat having no experience at all: mention it and move on.
Elana Roth is now your agent, and she got you a multi-book deal with HarperTeen. Had you met Elana before? Was your query for The Selection your first contact with her?
Yes, Elana is many different kinds of awesome, and she landed me a three-book deal with HarperTeen, which will be The Selection Trilogy. My query was my first contact with her, and I've already told you it was kind of weird. You're suddenly making me wonder why she gave me the time of day! Elana did a great blog post about the time line from my query to my offer, something I would like to see if I were still in the querying process.
You've mentioned that, this time around with a traditional publisher, you get to focus on what your role is: storytelling. What marketing/promotion do you expect to do in the future? (Though, it must be pointed out, you're consistently active online through Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube!)
Well, we've got about two years before The Selection comes out, so I'm hoping to keep people entertained and with me in the meantime. YouTube and Twitter sure do make it easy to talk to the readers, so I'll be hanging out there a lot.
The thing I'm most looking forward to is touring. I live in rural Virginia, so unless my fans come to Virginia Tech or Radford University, the likelihood of running us into each other is slim. I can't wait to see them in real life. You know, not just their avatar and screen name. Other than that, I plan to keep brainstorming. The other ideas I had came to me at random, so I'm hoping there will be more.
A huge thank-you to Kiera for taking time to answer my questions—especially with an 8-month-old running around! Go check out Kiera's site, or read more about The Siren.


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"You have a lot of anxiety dropping off your kid off at a daycare know that they're going to take care of your babies," says Breeana.
The website is www.txchildcaresearch.org. That's where you can find a daycare's inspection history and review results of reports filed against them.
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Kisha's Learning Academy #2 in Tyler was cited for having knives in kitchen drawers that were accessible to children.
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July 2007, a staffer at Child Development and Treatment Center was observed hitting several children with a ruler and/or drumstick. That staffer resigned.
Three staffers at Angela's Little Angels hit a child on the hands and bottoms as a form of discipline. The daycare says they had permission to punish the child, but it still violates state rules.
Kimberley adds, "Children cannot be physically hit, spanked, ridiculed, humiliated. It all has to be positive."
A Gresham Heights caregiver was terminated, after she bit a child as discipline because he bit another child.
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One child was also injured there after the state noted a staffer left the room of children unsupervised.
Accidents do happen, but the state says most can be avoided with good supervision.
"I was in a center one day and the child was pulling up on the back of the rocking chair," says Kimberley. "And I was standing there, I was there doing an investigation and the rocking chair kept moving back and the child fell and his head on a ledge. And I cited the teacher because she didn't move the chair. You know that could have been prevented."
Another daycare especially caught our attention. This registered child care home run by Sue Odneal in Tyler.
Inspections there date back to 2005. That's when the state noted the home was infested with lice and maggots, the cat litter boxes were full and foul smelling, and the carpet filthy.
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"Our goal is to work with them. To help them understand this is unhealthy. And the dogs have to go. [Ms. Odneal] was breeding dogs and taking care of babies," says Kimberley.
One daycare that proves things can be turned around is Tyler Christian Preschool.
Their list of violations included a soiled diaper found in the freezer, a bottle of Clorox bleach was accessible to children, a child was strapped in a feeding seat for discipline and the daycare failed to fix a leaky roof that had been cited eight times in the past.
This summer the facility was put on probation and a new director, Tara Walker, had to be hired.
"We started a more thorough training program. We made sure every staff was oriented to the standards. They have to read all the standards so they know what their responsibilities are," Walker explains.
Within six weeks of Walker taking over the daycare was taken off probation. And the last three state inspections have all come back with no violations.
"[The state] is not out to get you, they're out to help you," says Walker.
Kimberley adds, "We need parents helping us. We need parents to call and talk to the director and raise the quality in their facility if they don't like it. They are the voice for the children."
The state says a parent should also be the child's best advocate. Using this website is a start to helping parents be just that.
Other citations we found worth noting: Multiple Tyler daycares had staffers with no training in Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS), shaken baby or CPR and first aid.
Also, several had at least one or more staffers working at the daycare without having a state-required background check.
When a daycare is cited, the state usually gives them a certain amount of time to fix the problem. The state will typically try to work with a daycare for compliance, but it also has the power to shutdown a daycare if it leads to that.
Again, the web address is www.txchildcaresearch.org. All the information you can find on your daycare is public record and it does not cost you anything to review any data.
The Texas Department of Family and Protective Services also has a "Don't Be In the Dark About Child Care" campaign, urging parents to choose child care wisely. The public will find useful information and materials at www.dontbeinthedark.org.
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Hey Barb, I notice you like to take swings at Trump's age? I suppose it's because you're such a youthful and energetic young character? I can see that in your picture. Oh to be young like you, again. How do you do it? Plastic surgery, Liposuction or just plain pounds of make-up?
When Reagan was showing the same symptoms, he had a strong and devoted wife who helped him and did her best to protect him. Trump has no such advantage. And given the cutthroat politics in the Trump WH, whoever speaks to him last, wins.
As Coulter pointed out; one person after another spoke to him in that meeting with opposing viewpoints, and he agreed with all of them in turn.
It's not that he's old; it's that he's increasingly confused and fickle about what he wants to do.
Well, my fitbit says that my fitness is on the border between "good" and "very good" for my age. But I was an athlete as a young man, and I've been fortunate to have great genes for cholesterol. And my resting pulse rate remains in the low 60s. Until I was 70, I never even had an ER visit. Still have my hair, too, without Trumpish comb-overing.I suppose it's because you're such a youthful and energetic young character?
So not too bad for a fat old guy.
Well, that's a few years old. I finally got gray. And I got more wrinkles. And apparently, I've got a touch of arthritis in my knee. (About 4 years ago, I was taking pictures on a bluff, and my trip down was a lot faster than it took me to get up there; apparently, I damaged something)I can see that in your picture.
After that, Mrs. Barbarian forbids me to get on a ladder unless she's there to spot. And when it came time to build a shed, she made me get someone to frame it and put on the roof. I got to finish it out, though, and I'm about to get a solar power system installed.
Mrs. B always wanted a potting table, so I built one from 2x3 lumber. I had an old stainless steel sink, which I set into the table. When she cleans up potting soil, she sweeps it into the sink, were it falls into a plastic tub below to be reused.
So I'm pretty good right now.
You know what I hate that happens to old people? They get started on one thing, and then they go off into something completely different. I'm sure glad that doesn't happen to me.
Not Tired YetOh to be young like you, again.
I'm not tired yet
I'm old and gray I can't do things I used to do.
But I'm not tired yet
When I think of dying and leaving you
Or you leaving me
It makes no sense at all
I haven't seen all of you there is to see
Each day is still new for us
When I was young and lost
In that dark valley where God is a distant maybe
You did what you had to do
And it saved me
Even when all I could see was betrayal
At last I see
I'm not tired yet
I'm old and gray I can do things I once couldn't do
And I'm not tired yet
Let's rebuild your closet
Or drive to Seattle
I'm not tired yet
Someday I'll welcome it
But not yet no not yet
Embrace the grey, Grosnik, embrace the grey.How do you do it?
Probably would have been better to have that done when I was young. My wife says that I'm handsome in a unique kind of way. But I wasted my summers as a youth driving spikes on track gangs, so I'm pretty leathery from all that sun.Plastic surgery,
You see what it does for Trump. That "reverse raccoon" look from too much makeup/bottled tan?Liposuction or just plain pounds of make-up?
Let's say that I suffer from a delusion. I will call this delusion "Fact-check Syndrome." I respond by citing facts.
Most people online don't want to be corrected. They do not care about anything that does not agree with them.
Barbie takes no notice of Clinton spazzing out in front of cameras more than once, or falling down and being hauled into an SUV like a sack of potatoes while Mr. EpiPen is always within arm's reach. "But that's different."
"There is one thing worse than going to Hell. That would be going to Hell and having it be a surprise."
Terence Mc Lean
[most will be very surprised]
Everyone who has not believed the Gospel of grace is not saved, no matter what else they believe or do.
By that measure, how many professing Christians are on their way to the Lake of Fire?
Notice this comparison of one of Trump's earlier signatures...
...with a more recent one:
Senator Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) reported the comment, and Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), who was also present in the Oval Office, made no effort to contradict Durban's version!Graham: I said my piece to Trump directly
Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) said Friday that he said his piece directly to President Trump at a White House meeting on immigration reform the previous day where Trump reportedly disparaged several nations as "shithole countries."
Graham was present at the bipartisan meeting in the Oval Office where Trump reportedly referred to Haiti, El Salvador and several African nations as "shithole countries" after lawmakers suggested that immigrants from the countries be provided protections.
"Following comments by the President, I said my piece directly to him yesterday. The President and all those attending the meeting know what I said and how I feel. I've always believed that America is an idea, not defined by its people but by its ideals," Graham said in a statement on Friday.
Graham neither confirmed nor denied the controversial remarks attributed to Trump, but the GOP senator said he appreciated statements from Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.).
Durbin, the only Democrat at the meeting Thursday, said he heard Trump make the crude remarks and praised Graham for speaking up and rebuking the president at the time.
"My colleague [Graham] spoke up and made a direct comment on what the president said," Durbin said Friday, according to MSNBC. "For him to confront the president as he did, literally sitting next to him, took extraordinary political courage and I respect him for it."
"I appreciate Senator Durbin's statements and have enjoyed working with him and many others on this important issue," Graham said in his statement.
"Diversity has always been our strength, not our weakness. In reforming immigration we cannot lose these American ideals."
... Two of Graham's Republican colleagues, Sens. Tom Cotton (Ark.) and David Perdue (Ga.), issued a statement Friday saying they did not recall Trump explicitly making the "shithole" comments as reported.
Two other Republican Senators, Tom Cotton (Ark.) and David Perdue (Ga.), both stated that they could not recall President making such a comment, but neither did they rush to Trump's defence confirming that he made no such statement!
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"There is one thing worse than going to Hell. That would be going to Hell and having it be a surprise."
Terence Mc Lean
[most will be very surprised]
Everyone who has not believed the Gospel of grace is not saved, no matter what else they believe or do.
By that measure, how many professing Christians are on their way to the Lake of Fire?
Let's say that I suffer from a delusion. I will call this delusion "Fact-check Syndrome." I respond by citing facts.
Most people online don't want to be corrected. They do not care about anything that does not agree with them.
...well,you know.
What we do know is that Trump lied about being at the top of his class in college:
For decades, the national media has reported that Trump graduated "first in his class" at Wharton, often confusing his undergraduate degree with the Ivy League university's top-ranked MBA program.
1968 Wharton graduate Jon Hillsberg added that there was no indication on the 1968 Commencement Program that Trump graduated with any honors. A copy of the program acquired from the Penn Archives lists 20 Wharton award and prize recipients, 15 *** laude recipients, four magna *** laude recipients and two summa *** laude recipients for the Class of 1968. Trump's name appears nowhere on those lists.
"If he had done well, his name would have shown up," Foxman said.
Given that there are 366 listed 1968 Wharton graduates on QuakerNet, Penn's alumni database, the Dean's List of 56 students represents approximately the top 15 percent of the class. The omission of Trump's name suggests that his academic record at Penn was not as outstanding as he has claimed.
Penn spokesperson Ron Ozio said the University cannot release the academic records of alumni other than to confirm date of graduation, degree and major.
"[This] does not change because an alumnus is famous or holds a public position," he said in a written statement.
Obama graduated from Columbia University in 1983 with a degree in political science and graduated magna *** laude from Harvard Law School in 1991. He was also the first black president of the Harvard Law Review.
Let's say that I suffer from a delusion. I will call this delusion "Fact-check Syndrome." I respond by citing facts.
Most people online don't want to be corrected. They do not care about anything that does not agree with them.
Arthur Brain (January 12th, 2018),User Name (January 12th, 2018)
But the election is over, and Trump is the prez. I take no glee in the prospect that Trump may be experiencing mental decline before our very eyes. To me, it is tragic. But people across the political spectrum are taking note of this apparent development. We all should. If it continues to become more apparent, we'll eventually end up with President Pence. Sounds like a healthy improvement to me. Why is that such a bad prospect, in your opinion?
So far as I'm aware, no president has released his college transcripts. Dubya refused to release his--although they were leaked to the press by someone who had access. Turns out he was a "C" student. People were shocked to find out that he was that smart.
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The North Mason track and field teams lost to North Kitsap and Kingston Wednesday. The team scores show the Lady Bulldogs lost to the Vikings 127 to 17 and to the Buccaneers 82 to 49. The boys from Belfair fell to NK 135 to 10 and to Kingston 71 to 69.
Top placers from North Mason:
Lily Campbell won the discus, took the javelin, and placed 2nd in the shot put.
Ryan Grogan was 2nd in the 300-meter hurdles and 3rd in the 110-meter hurdles.
Brock Hadley took 2nd in the javelin.
Austin Williams finished 3rd in the 100 meters.
Isabella Porter was 3rd in the 300-meter hurdles.
Mateo Burkitt placed 3rd in the 3200 meters.
Next for the Bulldogs is the NIKE Eason Invitational at Snohomish High School on Saturday.
Rained Out: Sequim at North Mason baseball, Shelton at Central Kitsap baseball, Sequim at North Mason softball, North Mason at Olympic girls' tennis and Aberdeen at Shelton girls' tennis.
High School Sports Schedule for Thursday, April 20, 2017 (weather permitting):
Boys' Golf: North Mason vs. Port Angeles at Lakeland Village Golf Course 3 PM
Girls' Golf: North Mason vs. Port Angeles at Lakeland Village Golf Course 3 PM; Shelton vs. Central Kitsap at Kitsap Golf & Country Club 3:15 PM
Baseball: Kingston at North Mason 3:15 PM; Shelton at Central Kitsap 6 PM
Softball: Kingston at North Mason 3:15 PM
Track & Field: North Thurston at Shelton 3:30 PM
Girls' Tennis: Shelton at North Thurston 3:30 PM; North Mason at Kingston 4 PM


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text: I was excited when my teenage twins asked there Dad to take them March 6th to visit the University of Georgia for their official college visits. The drive from Greenville, SC to Athens, Ga is about 100 miles. I thought it would be cool to take my new Tesla Model S 85 performance for the visit. When I searched to see where UGA had a charging station on campus, I was a little surprised to see a major research university had none! The only charging station I see in Athens is at the local "Leaf" dealership. I do not think they will want me charging up there. Then I thought, "Maybe I can make the trip round trip without charging?" If I do a max charge of 265, what do you think? Our tour starts at 10AM in the morning and we finish up around noon. I thought 2 hours of charge would do the Tesla good and get me back to Greenville with no problems. Now I worry about the distance and no charging opportunities in Athens. Maybe someone who lives in the Athens area knows more then I do. Anything you could share would be a great help! Thanks for your thoughts, Mark


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Wednesday, 10 May 2017
Festive Scene
Card blank: 5" x 5" white silk
Dies: Creative Dies ''Festive Scene', Spellbinders Nestabilities 'Standard Circles Large' and 'Classic Scalloped Circles Large'
Embossing: Kars tan embossing mat
Card: Gold pearlescent and white silk
I die cut the Festive Scene from white card and layered it onto a gold die cut circle. I then die cut and embossed a scalloped white circle and a slightly larger scalloped gold circle. The Festive Scene and scalloped circles were layered and attached to the centre of the card blank. To finish I removed the snowflakes from the die cut waste and added them above the houses.
Kath x
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Just love the gold & white - so elegant!!ReplyDelete
What a beautiful circular scene Kath and the gold and white is so elegant and pretty and I love the added snowflakes too. xReplyDelete
The white and gold look so classy together, love the snow scene too.ReplyDelete
very beautiful!ReplyDelete
Hi Kath, Lovely card. the gold and white are fab together.ReplyDelete
Hope you have had a lovely day. Sue
The gold and white together is very elegant. This is a lovely card, Kath.ReplyDelete
Love your card Kath, the silhouette dies are gorgeous and the white/gold combo really show them off :)ReplyDelete
Hugs, Kaz xx
Love the die and great colours. Hugs, Carol S.xxReplyDelete
Oh WOW, Kath, this is a real stunner! Love the white and gold - beautiful. xxReplyDelete
Beautifully clean and simple. I love this die - I saw it on a card last year and had to go and track it down! And lots of lovely layers. Thank you for joining the Christmas Card Throwdown. LucindaReplyDelete
Love the dies on your festive card KathReplyDelete
This is a very pretty die cut which looks gorgeous on the gold background. Simple and elegant but still with lots of interest.ReplyDelete
Thanks for playing along at Christmas Card Throwdown.
Such a pretty Christmas scene, I love your card Kath.ReplyDelete
Janice x
Awesome Christmas card Kath, love every detail! Thanks for playing at Merry Monday this week.ReplyDelete
How beautiful and elegant, Kath! I love the golden layers and pretty white theme!ReplyDelete
Lovely christmas card Kath, super dies xxReplyDelete
Kath, I really like the design and the colours you have chosen. It is very elegant and CAS! Great job!ReplyDelete
This is such a pretty die-cut. I love it in gold and how elegant it is! Thanks for playing Merry Monday with us!ReplyDelete
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Lovely C&S card love the Kraft and white design, Thanks for joining in with our challenge at ABC Christmas Challenge,ReplyDelete
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We had a project to migrate a Domino server from a dedicated host to new Virtual Machine (VM) host. We typically don't do much server administration. Having migrated over a hundred Domino servers in my previous job, I didn't think this would be any different than any other Domino migration.
The requirement for this project was a migration instead of a move. The customer wanted a clean server install without any legacy installs from years of previous Domino installs, plus the new OS was newer and it was running 64 bit. There were a couple of complications, the customer is running all of these services: DAOS, Transaction logging, BES, Traveler, ReplicAction, SMTP. Having all these services running on the one Domino server. We decided to move BES to a new host and replace ReplicAction with another tool.
I setup the new Domino server with a new name, setup transaction logging, DAOS then started replicating the databases over to the new server. At this point everything worked great. I had a user switch to the new Domino server and everything worked fine. To minimze distrubtion with having users switch to the new server name, we opted to switch server ID files and updated DNS. The next day we started hearing from users that they couldn't open certain files. We then realized that the DAOS encrypts the files with server ID, the attachments replicated during the setup period of the new server were encrypted with the temporary ID we used to setup the new server and the original server ID could not decrypt the attchments. I found a good article here that explains DAOS encryption:
Luckily we were able to copy the encrypted DAOS NLO files and corrected the problem. For anyone reading this, remember to turn off DAOS encryption (DAOS_ENCRYPT_NLO=0) when swapping servers.


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DEAR AMY: I've been married 14 years. My brother-in-law has never been friendly toward me. Until recently, I just brushed off his sometimes anti-social behavior, but his actions have taken a turn toward the scary.
After he made a series of insulting comments of a political nature on my Facebook page, I decided I had had enough and simply removed him from my "friends" list.
This pushed him over the edge. He started sending vicious e-mail messages, accusing me of censoring him.
In spite of my explanations, he completely fails to understand it was not the political aspect of the message that I objected to, but the insulting tone.
In his e-mails, he seems very angry.
Now he has started a blog devoted to making snarky comments about me.
I am a former elected official in town, and his blog is devoted to taking portions of my statements out of context and ridiculing them.
Even though my brother-in-law has admitted to me he is responsible for this blog, he publishes it under a pseudonym to create the illusion these comments are from an "ordinary concerned citizen."
My wife says I should ignore him, but I can't imagine ever being to a point where I would want to be in the same room with him again. My wife has spoken with him about this, but he shows no sign of backing down.
What should I do? -- At a Loss
DEAR LOSS: Do nothing. Don't respond to your brother-in-law's e-mails and don't react to his blog. Don't even read it.
Ignoring e-mail won't necessarily make your correspondent stop sending it, but it leaves him wondering if you have received it, and that's as good as you can do.
Save these e-mail messages in a file, in case you need to refer to them later.
Your brother-in-law sounds erratic. There is every chance you aren't his only target.
If any of this scurrilous material comes back to haunt you through other sources, you can explain it was written by a disgruntled in-law. Otherwise, make no comment.
DEAR AMY: I own a business, and my father works with me. Actually, my dad works for me.
It seems to me he always has a problem with someone at the workplace. He has a habit of trash-talking about co-workers when they aren't even there.
But now he's talking about my wife, whom he dislikes for no good reason.
He's a huge help with the business, but his help comes with too much drama.
What should I do?
I'm between a rock and a hard place. -- Reader in New Jersey
DEAR READER: Actually, you're not between a rock and a hard place.
Your father is.
I can imagine how challenging this might be, but you have a duty to your other workers and to your business as a whole to maintain a professional atmosphere.
You also have a duty to your wife to stand up for her against personal attacks.
You should have a private word with your father.
Say, "Dad, you are valuable to me, but I'd like you to stop being so negative here at work. If you have a problem I can help with, let me know, but otherwise I'll tell you the same thing I'd tell any of our co-workers: that we need to keep things positive and professional."
DEAR AMY: You asked for feedback about using anonymous online services to deliver an awkward message.
Whether it is appropriate depends on the nature of the message to be delivered.
"I think you were mean to Mary" or "You owe me an apology" should be delivered in person.
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Our country prides itself on our capitalistic system, and that means that businesses are in operation to make money. While the idea of foreign ownership of our airlines might be distasteful, the decision to buy or sell should be the company's to make.
There should be regulations specifying that they still would have to hire U.S. personnel to make sure the job market does not suffer from this, as well as regulations in term of safety. If an overseas airline company can buy a U.S. airline, then this company also has the funding necessary to better the service or lower the prices.
Which company runs a business is not the decision of the government. The government has only a few responsibilities in business: to make sure that there is infrastructure enough for trade to happen, to keep businesses from harming their customers, and to maintain the money flow. Other than that, the free market should reign to ensure that the services provided are the most profitable, affordable, and efficient services available.
If an airline could be purchased for the right price by another carrier who happens to be situated overseas, there should be no reason not to allow it. Airlines should not be governed by which country they service. Eventually, most airlines will service all countries. There is nothing wrong with world-wide commerce.
When regulation is wholly unnecessary, it can only serve to harm society as a whole -- regulations generally increase the spending of the government, and increase tax burdens, which are acceptable consequences only for necessary regulations. The purchase of U.S. airlines by overseas air carriers does not present any dangers to society, and therefore any regulation of such transactions would be harmful. Since U.S. companies have been struggling in recent years, some even declaring bankruptcy (which severely damages the economy), if overseas companies can keep U.S. companies out of bankruptcy, there may even be a benefit to allowing sale of U.S. airlines.
It is fully acceptable for an overseas carrier to buy an U.S. airline in full, if it is not prohibited by any monopoly laws. This deal may help save many U.S. jobs and contribute ultimately to a better service. Moreover, the laws of the country of the airport are the ones that matter, not the laws of the country of origin of the airline.
Just like any other industry foreign airlines should be able to purchase U.S. airlines. There was no issue when Fiat bought most of Chrysler or when InBev bought Anheuser Busch, so why should there be a problem is a U.S. airline is bought out. Truthfully, they'd probably be run better by a foreign company.
Globalism and the massive national debt are valid reasons for overseas ownership of U.S. airlines. Almost all of our consumer goods are already made abroad. Distances for goods and services are nearly reduced to days while information is communicated in seconds. If we tried to isolate parts of our economy, our nation will suffer greatly as the rest of the world cooperates.
If overseas airline companies want to purchase US airlines, they should be allowed to do so. The airline industry in this country is always in trouble, big trouble. Yet go to any airport and they are swamped with people, planes are taking off and landing nonstop. How are they losing money? Something isn't being done correctly and the customers have to suffer by more and more charges for things that should be free. Let someone take over who knows what they are doing.
I can understand why the idea of selling carriers to overseas airlines would be considered. It could perhaps at least help those companies out that do get bought; however, in the long run it would be better for U.S. people/companies to buy them instead, even if they have difficulty right now. In the long run it should actually help our economy out more, giving more jobs, for instance. Also, actually, the places where these overseas companies might be from hasn't really been specified. I don't really agree with some ideologies from other countries. What if a company from one of those countries buys the airline carriers? The company itself that buys it in this case may not themselves necessarily carry out the same ideologies as their host country, however, they may still have those beliefs imposed on them depending on the government involved.
In order to help the United States economy, it is important for us to keep some of our own airline carriers. If the overseas airline carriers buy ours in full, we will lose more jobs that Americans could be doing here. It is important for us to keep as many businesses intact here, as we have lost a lot in the past few years.
America needs to retain control over airlines, in order to control what happens in the skies, and that is why overseas airlines should not be allowed to purchase American airline companies. 9/11 is a perfect example, as is the recent experience with Southwest Airlines planes having damage. We need to be able to control who flies and when. An outside ownership makes this much more difficult. There needs to be one main voice, one big boss, and when two countries are involved in something like this, that process is hampered.
The United States needs to become more protectionist of its industry and provide incentives for companies/corporations to maintain US based offices staffed by US employees. This applies to the airlines. If an airlines company is fully sold to a foreign interest, it is no longer a US airline. Any revenue it earns would no longer benefit the US.
Airlines are a critical part and sometimes strategic part of any commercial system in a country. In that order, American always have participation in the stock of United States airlines. That means that the maximum number of stock shares belonging to a foreign carrier should be restricted.
The foreign carrier may have control of the airline but should not own at full.
I believe the US should be in control of their own airlines. We talk about having such an issue with our economy right now, well selling airlines to overseas carriers would not help the problem. I think we should be in control of our own airlines and companies.


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Whether I am called a Doctor, Shaman, White Witch, Herbalist, or Phytochemist, I have been involved with herbal medicine and natural healing modalities for about 15 years now. Many people who meet me want to know how I came to be who I am and to do what I do. I am not totally sure myself how I evolved from an aggressive conventional business woman and entrepreneur to the "White Witch of the Amazon" but I do know somehow that it was a journey that I was supposed to undertake.
Shamanism is a religion in the broadest sense. It's practice is shared by all indigenous peoples with an underlying cosmography that cuts across through local customs, labeling systems and manifestations peculiar to regional biota. Even today, when long in retreat from the relentless onslaught of western rationalism and insensate technology, shamanism survives in native cultures on all of the planet's inhabited continents.
The divergence of western religions from shamanism lies in the concepts of humans as the exclusive possessors of spiritual souls and in humankind as the lone interpreter of ordinary and extraordinary realities. Shamanic peoples are neither so audacious nor, perhaps so foolish. In shamanism, all of existence is viewed as highly integrated and connected. When a tree falls in the forest, a star falls from the sky. Maybe more importantly, literally everything that exists has a soul - without division into organic and inorganic. There is no hierarchical structuring of consciousness with humans resting comfortably at the top and rocks and trees at the bottom. They recognize and respect all forms of life as soulful living beings - even a rock and even a tree. Maybe if we learned this one lesson, conservation of our forests, wildlife, and natural resources would become the standard and the rule and not so difficult after all.
The role of the shaman rises out of a recognition, seemingly long lost to modern humankind, of humanity as disruption. In making its way, humankind is killing for food, clothing and shelter, thereby bringing disorder where there was none. To the shaman falls the task of righting the wrongs, appeasing the offended, of repairing the harm his/her people bring upon themselves through both unavoidable as well as intemperate and disrespectful action. In considering the shaman as healer, as restorer of balance, it is not farfetched to think of him/her as an environmentalist or even as an ecologist of the group psyche.
The impetus into natural healing for me came when I got cancer in my mid-twenties. I survived acute myceoblastic leukemia through alternative and herbal medicine when the conventional doctors said it wasn't possible. I have studied and practiced alternative medicine since that time yet, for a long time it was a hobby or second to the conventional businesses I owned. Then in 1989, I sold my companies, bought a large ranch outside of Austin, Texas and took a vacation to Africa. Those events re-connected me to the land, nature, wildlife, and inner spirit that I was just too busy to notice or was ignoring or avoiding before. I planted large organic vegetable and medicinal herb gardens, worked the soil, and raised a large menagerie of eclectic animals and teenaged boys. I only had one teenaged son myself, but most times provided a meal, bed or understanding ear for at least 6 teenagers just about all the time. In a short time, I became notorious in this conventional rural community as the "weird woman" with the weird animals that didn't act like animals and the weird gardens that grew weird things, where all the kids hung out. But the locals, spooked though they were, still came with their kids and animals to get the "weird herbal cures" that I freely shared with any who asked or needed it.
I then started a small company there on the ranch which researched and disseminated information to cancer patients about alternative treatments being used outside the US. The internet at that point was mostly government and university computer main frames tied together, and I ended up laying over 8 miles of telephone cable just to get online (and off the rural party lines) to do this international research and share it with cancer patients who had not a clue what "internet" even meant. Many times, my company would help patients access treatments and medicines not available here and everything was done for whatever the actual costs were.
This research led me to a herbal treatment being used in Europe for cancer and AIDS patients with some success. It was a vine found in the rainforests in Peru and a drug was made in Austria using the imported bark. So, I got on a plane to Austria to check it out. I was impressed with the results and so I got on a plane to Peru when I found that the drug made in Europe was too expensive and that it could be made available here as a natural product or supplement rather than an "unapproved drug" much more cheaply. That was my first trip into the rainforest almost 5 years ago and it changed yet again the course and focus of my life. Not only did I find this vine called Cat's Claw growing in the rainforest, I found a wealth of medicinal plants growing in an incredible environment that were more effective than any I've seen. I fell in love with the wildness of the jungles, the innocence and spirit of the native peoples, the vast and varied cultures, and the spirit, energy and power of the rainforest. I knew somehow that I was supposed to do something there to help preserve this incredible place from the destruction that I saw even on my first trip into the rainforest.
That was the birth of the companies I set up to make available Cat's Claw and the other plants I was introduced to. I have owed seven companies before these, and this is the only company that I haven't had to push and make happen. From the inception of it, I have been furiously running behind this business trying to keep up with an entity that seems to have a life and direction of its own.
My ongoing research on medicinal plants takes me into the heart of the rainforest, working side by side with indigenous tribal shamans and medicine men, rural village herbalists and "doctors" called curanderos, as well as North and South American herbalists, phytochemists and universities. As a board certified Naturopathic physician, I have a small Austin practice and enjoy working on the many hard cases that get referred to me who have exhausted all others and are willing to try some weird jungle herbs for thier cure. After five years, I now harvest and import over 100 important rainforest medicinal plants from my humble beginnings with one plant called Cat's Claw. Traveling through the remote areas of the Amazon where medicines, hospitals and doctors are virtually non-existent has brought an opportunity to learn as a practitioner how to treat illnesses and diseases that I would never encounter here... like malaria, yellow fever, typhoid, and leprosy, just to name a few. As a practitioner or healer in the jungle, I am called "JaguarWoman" White Witch, Shaman, "Pacchumama" (Earthmother), or Curandera (Healer) by the remote villages and tribes I visit and work with. I use their ancient knowledge of their plants and combine it with western research and science, so my "potions" are different yet familiar to their shamans and healers. It's quite a life and I am having a wonderful time!
"What i am trying to say is hard to tell and hard to understand... unless, unless... you have been yourself at the edge of the Deep Canyon and have come back unharmed. Maybe it all depends on something within yourself - whether you are trying to see the Watersnake or the sacred Cornflower, whether you go out to meet death or to Seek Life."
"To the center of the world you have taken me Great Spirit and showed me the goodness and the beauty and the strangeness of the greening earth, the only mother - and there the spirit shapes of things, as they should be, you have shown me and I have seen."
Susan Seddon Boulet
The pictures on this page are by Susan Seddon Boulet, from her book Shaman
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July! Here's a wee update from the month of July.
I'll start with the most important. 6 Months of Summer.
6 Months of Summer is starting to come together. Woo! I've been working on it real hard the past few months, and have been putting in the 5am sessions the last couple of weeks, and after what has felt like a lifetime, it is actually getting there! For those of you unfamiliar with this project, I'm making a 6-part roadtrip documentary from footage I shot when me and best mate Rory lived in a 30 year old van (Jill) and drove around The States for 6 months. I've had to push the streaming date back from July to August, but you know how it is, these things always take longer than you could have ever imagined, and also you can't hurry art! I'll be posting more things online as it starts to form a more solid shape, and am hoping to get a trailer up in the next week or so. The online premiere will be sometime in the first couple of weeks of August, and then there will be an episode every week for 6 weeks after that. Join the newsletter here to get each episode delivered to you pre-release! Also check the 6MOS page of this site for more goodies!
In other news, I've been nominated for another award! Yaaay. The nomination was for 'Best Edit' in this year's Radar Music Video Awards, for my video for Lynx's Clap Track.
"Radar Awards is a brand new music video festival celebrating the best new music videos from up & coming director and artist talent. Held at the iconic YouTube Spaces, London, with support from video streaming giants Vevo and the world-class Marshall Amplifiers, this year's inaugural awards are set to start with a bang."
The ceremony was last night (Thursday 14th) at YouTube Space London. I couldn't make the event as I'm hiding away from UK politics and Pokemon here in NZ, but I had fingers and toes crossed! Unfortunately it wasn't third time lucky for me and the award went to Daniel Price for his video for V V Brown's Lazarus. Well done bro! More info about the awards can be seen over on Radar's site, here.
At the moment I'm also working with the lovely people at The North Grove, who are launching a new YouTube Music Channel out of The Netherlands. I'm creating some 4k video loops for their channel uploads, using a series of 4k timelapses I shot in beautiful New Zealand over this summer. Hold tight for their channel to launch, but in the mean time here's a still from one of the timelapses:
I've also been uploading various images to my Instagram (give us a follow!), from footage I've shot during my time here in Aotearoa. Here's a couple of them:
This is the view from the road I live on, on a clear and crispy winter's day. I'm so grateful to be met with such inspiring beauty every time I leave the house. This was taken from Island Bay, Wellington, and that's the South Island across the Cook Straight.
This one's looking up from Hokianga, New Zealand's North Island, back in January 2016. Clouds kept passing over which is what gives the stars the gritty and broken look. I think it almost looks like a vinyl record :)
Please follow me on my social media accounts for more regular things like this!
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Thanks for taking the time to pop over for a little read! I know the world has gone pretty haywire recently (even more than usual), but just stay positive!


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Undertoad Thursday Dec 14 12:07 PM
December 14, 2006: Dolphins saved by world's tallest man
dar512 Thursday Dec 14 12:14 PM
And they all lived happily ever after.
Ibby Thursday Dec 14 12:18 PM
Griff Thursday Dec 14 12:20 PM
Its good to be the hero!
Sheldonrs Thursday Dec 14 12:21 PM
What are they gonna do if the dolphins get sexually frustrated?
lumberpoet Thursday Dec 14 12:26 PM
troubled dolphin that nibbles plastic
Spexxvet Thursday Dec 14 12:29 PM
He could just be stuffing that dolphin, before it gets roasted for dinner. A nice sage stuffing would be ideal for dolphin, don't you think?
Elspode Thursday Dec 14 12:32 PM
I think that's a shark.
skysidhe Thursday Dec 14 12:49 PM
If I swallow anything evil put your fingers down my throat....
bbro Thursday Dec 14 12:59 PM
milkfish Thursday Dec 14 01:09 PM
It's the Abbas Giant, this time with his clothes on!
Tuba Loons Thursday Dec 14 01:46 PM
Dolphin: Thanks for the so long, now I can have a fish.
Pancake Man Thursday Dec 14 04:35 PM
Am I the only one thinking of Robert Wadlow?
pdaoust Thursday Dec 14 06:23 PM
no, you're not the only one, except I couldn't remember his name, so I was thinking of "____ _____" instead.
rfoxx Thursday Dec 14 06:30 PM
Tall people really are kinda freaky. You want to be polite and not make a big deal about it, but sometimes it's hard. I was in a sandwich shop once and there was a really tall guy working the cash register. He looked close to seven foot tall. Anyway, when someone gives you your change back, you kind of expect them to lean over the counter a bit to reach you. But this guy just stood there straight and sent his arm across like it was some construction crane coming at me. I almost jumped back.
SeanAhern Thursday Dec 14 07:24 PM
Welcome, Tuba Loons!
capnhowdy Thursday Dec 14 07:52 PM
Along with the good hearted save the animals thingie I bet the dude is well endowed as well. Anyway what woman would be looking at his face?
xoxoxoBruce Thursday Dec 14 10:03 PM
Probably the only guy on earth, not impressed by the whale penis.
magilla Thursday Dec 14 10:23 PM
That guy has a nice enough smile, but my word, look at the shnoz on him (middle pic). Wow.
SPUCK Friday Dec 15 06:34 AM
Go figger, a country with notoriously short people has the tallest man on earth...
SPUCK Friday Dec 15 06:42 AM
Sorry dolphins eat
SPUCK Friday Dec 15 06:45 AM
WHOA!!! I just got a yardstick and held it up to my long arm.. Try it and then think 5 MORE inches.. It is unimaginable... Really, go now! Get stick! Report back!
Sundae Friday Dec 15 07:21 AM
Tomtheman5 Friday Dec 15 04:40 PM
Wait wait, hold the phones...
ferret88 Friday Dec 15 05:59 PM
Wish I had thought of that.
rkzenrage Friday Dec 15 06:58 PM
I'm in yur gut!
chrisinhouston Saturday Dec 16 08:13 AM
This whole story brought back a memory. My uncle (he now about 82) told me how when he was about 5 and growing up on the farm, his dad came to him in the night and told him he was needed to save one of the cows. She was calving and the calf got stuck. He said he had to stick his arm up in her as far as he could and turn the calf's head. When he did it, the calf came slithering out.
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A police sergeant responding to a brawl involving 20 juveniles Wednesday was hospitalized after a boy allegedly beat him on a Muni bus, police said.
The massive fight near Geary Boulevard and 25th Avenue had broken up by the time cops responded to the area around 4 p.m. But cops heard some of the bruisers had hopped on a 38-Geary Muni bus, which police tracked down and stopped at 17th Avenue, police said.
The sergeant entered through the front door, and a younger female cop came through the rear door, police said. They told juveniles trying to hop off that they had to stay during their investigation.
That didn't make one 17-year-old suspect very happy. He pushed the female cop and seemed ready to punch her when the sergeant grabbed him from behind, police said.
He turned and punched the sergeant "without a moment's hesitation," police said.
"This first blow caused laceration that bled profusely," Richmond Station police Capt. Richard Correia said in a statement.
"The sergeant fell backwards into a group of passengers and, before he could regain his balance, the suspect punched the sergeant several more times in face and body, knocking him to the floor," Correia said.
An ambulance transported the sergeant to the hospital. He was released several hours later, but he remained off-duty Friday and in recovery.
With the help of a third officer, the 17-year-old was then subdued and taken into custody, he said. He was charged with resisting an officer and causing serious injury.
Correia said he had had a light-hearted conversation the two cops only a half-hour before the incident.
"The light hearted nature of our interaction would soon stand as a reminder of how a police officer's world can quickly change," he said.


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Conservatives begin to see the light
Exclusive: Joseph Farah reflects on 1st warnings about infiltration of GOProud
I hate to say, "I told you so."
It's rather cliché.
But I did try very hard to warn the conservative movement what it was doing by embracing a group of homosexual activists promoting a radical social agenda while masquerading as "conservatives."
I don't know if I was the first to warn about the infiltration of GOProud and how its tentacles would sow seeds of division and strife among conservatives. But I'm quite sure I was among the loudest.
Suffice it to say, few listened to the warnings. It has cost me friendships, long-time alliances and a good name among many who don't know me except through the caricatures drawn by others making their livings under the bright lights of TV cameras accusing me of being a "publicity whore" and a "fake Christian."
Today, more people see the truth about a group they once saw as merely a group of "conservative gays."
Sometimes it takes a little political experience and sophistication, maybe only the kind that can come from being around long enough.
When I tried to point out to Ann Coulter that she was making a mistake by performing at a fundraiser for GOProud at the very moment it was attempting to establish its conservative bona fides, she did not take it well. Neither did many other conservatives.
One who stepped into that fray was Red State.com's Erick Erickson.
"I think it is terrific that Ann Coulter is speaking at HomoCon," he said.
He might be one of those having second thoughts five months later – though I haven't yet received the letter of apology and regret.
You might want to take a look at what appears to be a rather thoughtful and reflective turnaround on his part – a piece called "This is too much for me."
He is beginning to see the reality of who GOProud really is, what its divisive nature is, maybe even what its true intentions are.
So are many others.
GOProud became the story of the 2011 Conservative Political Action Conference last week. GOProud became an absolute media darling – even for networks and shows not generally known for their interest in what "conservatives" have to say. GOProud was the topic people were buzzing about at CPAC, not the debt limit, not Barack Obama's threats to our liberties, not the crises in the Middle East, not the global jihad, not even who would be running for president next year. And GOProud is the reason CPAC's staff will be completely turned over for future conferences.
Apparently some people only learn the hard way – when they or their friends are demeaned by the backbiting and name-calling of the GOProud types.
The takeaway from all this is very simple: If the conservative movement is to continue to be a positive force in America's political debate, it must stand for something. It is inarguable that the people who founded the movement believed they were trying to "conserve" something. It wasn't a movement founded simply to fight for lower tax rates or smaller government. It was much more than that.
Conservatives believed in "conserving" the principles that helped shape America's success as the greatest experiment in freedom the world has yet known. And those principles quite simply are:
- That we are created in the image of God and are accountable to Him. Without that recognition, we are virtually incapable of self-government, which requires us to be able to distinguish right from wrong, as defined by God. God has created certain institutions for His purposes and for our benefit. Among these is marriage, the family and government. But any government that exceeds its limited authority or attempts to usurp the authority of God is unworthy of its power. Real conservatives believe in the tenets of the Declaration of Independence which explains that our rights descend from God – and that they come with responsibility as well.
- Those early conservatives also believed national defense was the main purpose of the federal government.
- They also believed in private property, free enterprise and constitutional government.
Those beliefs represented the "three-legged stool" that Ronald Reagan described.
Remove one, and the stool collapses.
See how quickly the stool collapsed with the infiltration of GOProud into the conservative movement?
If this is a lesson conservatives needed to relearn so their movement could regain its strength, character and purpose, so be it. Lessons like this often have to be relearned from generation to generation.
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I believe that life is about individual happiness.
Some contend that the purpose of one's life is the glorification of "God" or the advancement of civilization. They say that these should be the only purpose to anyone's life.
I tend to take a more relativistic approach to the purpose for life. If everyone can determine why they are here they have the ability to be fulfilled. One who says that the advancement of religion is the ultimate purpose to life does not seem to understand that religion to them just makes them the most happy. This is not true for everyone. Some people find religion contrived and pointless. By forcing religion upon them, these preachers are only making life less enjoyable for some. If someone truly needs religion to make them most happy, then they should practice that religion, but not shove it down other's throats.
This is also true of people who define success as a merely monetary or a contrived societal view of success. Some say that getting to the top of a "company ladder," or making enough money will define someone as successful. I see success as something that only the individual can define. If someone sees their life as a success because of a great business achievement, then they are successful. But saying that someone who makes twenty thousand dollars is not successful if they are doing something they love is wrong. I have seen people who work at a surf shop and live on a beach, but are among the happiest people I know. They love where they are in life and what they are doing.
I am moving out to California in three months. I feel the need to have a new experience away from my life in Chicago. People tell me I am just going out there for the weather or ask how I could just leave my family like that. They are stuck in the mindset of needing society's affirmation of their actions. A person can never feel completely fulfilled in life until they are able to do exactly what they want, without being bound by society's constraints.
I believe that until humanity can stop living by societies rules, people will never be able to realize why they are truly alive. When people finally do break free from these constraints they will be able to find the joy and happiness that all human perpetually seek.
This I Believe.
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The Functions of Punishment
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- The Functions of Punishment
- Punishment can take the form of:
- Retribution - vengeful punishment E.g eye for an eye etc.
- Restitute - repairing damage caused E.g community service
- Three roles of punishment
- Detterance - (short, sharp shock)
- Rehabilitation - drug/alcohol rehab, anger management
- Incapacitation - 3 strikes rule in the use, life means life, execution etc.
- Prison population is 5% female and 95% male.
- Bentham's Panoptician
- A new way of building prisons in a circular way where the guards could see the prisoners but the prisoners could not see the guards
- Is prison effective?
- Very expensive per prisoner, high re-offending rate, 'university of crime'
- Alternatives to prison? Divisionary methods such as 'youth clubs', probation, curfew, control orders, tagging, cctv etc
- Punishment can take the form of:
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