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Argentinian artist Agustina Woodgate creates these colorful and complex rugs made out of the skins that once belonged to a few hundred abandoned stuffed animals. Originally inspired by Eastern Culture's symbolic use of rugs [as they often depict the spiritual and mental world in woven form], Agustina was looking to ultimately deliver an alternative memory object that displays and references personal histories.
Woodgate's idea started by her relationship with her own old Teddy bear, Pepe. On an interview with Sight Unseen, she says:
It was simply an object. But I also didn't want to throw it away. That's when I decided wanted to do something with the bear. In the beginning of the process, I had no idea what was going to happen. I went to a thrift store, got another bear, and started playing around. I looked at all the components that make up a stuffed animal: the stuffing, the fabric, the stitching. I wanted to approach an everyday object in the hopes of making something new.
Woodgate was recently awarded the Florida Prize in Contemporary Art. The $20,000 prize was accepted by Woodgate last Friday at the Orlando Museum of Art, which established the award this year. "She was chosen based on the quality and significance of her overall body of work and contributions to the field of contemporary art", said museum curator Hansen Mulford.
(via Sight Unseen and Orlando Sentinel)


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Monday, January 13, 2014
Getting Past the Fear of Uncertainty
From Mating in Captivity: Unlocking Erotic Intelligence by Esther Perel
I would have told you that my husband would never cheat on me. I suspect you would have said the same thing. With very few exceptions, every woman on this site was absolutely shocked when she discovered her husband's affair. Despite statistics that indicate that more marriages are affected by infidelity than aren't affected, we nonetheless think we're among the lucky few. Delusional, yes?
I've long thought that willful blindness is part of the problem around infidelity. It's what happens in other marriages, we believe. If we discuss it at all, it's in absolutes. Don't cheat on me or it's over, we tell our spouse (or our spouse tells us). But, as Perel also says in her fascinating book, "the most complex issues tend to polarize in a flash, and nuance is replaced with caricature."
Infidelity caricature tells us is that cheaters are low-life Casanovas who feel entitled to sex with whomever, whenever. It tells us that wives are frumpy nags who don't like sex. That the Other Woman is a cross between Jessica Rabbit and Glenn Close.
The truth, as too many of us know, is far different. But our culture's adherence to infidelity caricature makes it hard for us to push back...especially when we're reeling from disclosure of our spouse's affair. It makes it difficult to make our own choices within the context of the marriage we're in...rather than the one culture thinks we're in based solely on a spouse's infidelity.
What's more, we're also reeling from the recognition that our spouse, whom we thought we knew inside and out, had a life completely apart from us. It's unnerving. It threatens everything we believe we know about our world.
But, as Perel suggests, it shouldn't. It should be simply understood that we can't ever completely know another person. It's something that I've come up against when I've responded on another Web site, one that purports that all cheaters are narcissists and abusive, and that the best remedy is to cut them from our lives. A one-size-fits-all response to infidelity reduces it to caricature. It disallows nuance from the conversation.
And God knows, we need a conversation around infidelity. We need to acknowledge, publicly, just how rampant it is – and we need that acknowledgement within the context of a non-judgemental conversation. Not a conversation that says, necessarily, that infidelity is okay; simply a conversation that says it is. That says all people who cheat are not bad people. All women who stay with their unfaithful partners are not doormats. And all cheating isn't remedied by throwing the cheater out. Infidelity caricature implies that, by removing the cheater from our lives, we'll somehow be protected from future pain. Or that, by removing the cheater from our lives, we won't have to deal with the pain of healing. We won't have to cope with the uncertainty of will he do it again? True, perhaps. But the only way to completely protect ourselves is to close our hearts to not just our cheating spouse...but the world.
Life is uncertain. It's messy. It's a truth writ large when we're healing from betrayal.
And by acknowledging that our spouse has parts of him that we don't know, we not only face the possibility of infidelity (again), but we also open ourselves to the pleasure of "new". As Perel writes, that compromise we believe we must make in a long-term monogamous relationship – that in order to have the safety of fidelity, we must give up the excitement of the "new" – isn't necessary. It's possible, she proposes, to have both fidelity and the thrill of "new" by recognizing that our spouse is constantly evolving. That we don't know everything about him.
It's something a lot of us learn post-infidelity but few understand before: healing from betrayal can include the reinvention of the marriage into something exciting and fulfilling. Rather than sounding the death knell, infidelity can be the spark that ignites a new passion. We can see our spouse in a new light. Not always flattering, at least at first. But if we're open to it, we can rediscover our spouse in a way that encourages the rebuilding of our marriage.
That's not to say I'm an advocate for infidelity. The pain it creates is simply too devastating. The cost to families is just too high.
What I am saying, however, is that if we could open ourselves to the recognition that long-term monogamy can be stultifying, that even good spouses can feel deadened by the day-in, day-out demands of marriage and parenthood, we could have that difficult conversation – beyond "if you cheat, I'm outta here" – with a deeper understanding. We can't inoculate ourselves from pain by trying to frighten our spouse into good behaviour.
Being tempted isn't a sign that the marriage is dead. It's a sign that we're alive. Temptation is a warning to turn back toward our partner. To ask ourselves what we can do to make the long-term partnership more appealing than the lure of a new partner. To make the choice, again and again, to work on what we have rather than risk it for what we don't.
To do this is to face our fear of abandonment, a fear that runs deep in many of us. By talking about infidelity, we don't make it more likely, we make it less likely. Pretending we're immune to it doesn't make it so.
Let's agree that we can't possibly know everything about our spouses. And let's allow that to make us curious about them, not frightened. It requires a leap of faith. But choosing to stay with a spouse who has betrayed us is all about faith. In him, yes. But more importantly, in ourselves.
Having that faith in myself, though, is one of the gifts that arose from the pain of my husband's infidelity. I learned, the hard way, that the only person I can ever really trust is myself. At first that struck me as sad. But a deeper look made it clear how liberating that is. I can be the rock upon which I build my life.
And I can open myself to the unpredictability that is everyone else.
37 comments:
- AnonymousJanuary 13, 2014 at 1:52 PM
I cannot tell you how helpful everything is that I read on this site. I am less than 2 months past D-Day. Still a lot of questions surface and lots of pain but this site provides daily support and hope. Thank you all.ReplyDeleteReplies
- AnonymousFebruary 15, 2014 at 5:41 AM
This site has been my rock as well. I have been following for two years since i found out about my husbands infidelity. Have never posted anything, have been happy just reading and learning from everybody else. Thank you all!!Delete
The past two years my husband and I have been through much emotionally and have grown into a happy wonderful couple and family. I decided if I was going to stay in this marriage I was going to do everything I could to make it work and so did he = love....so I thought
...I may be overreacting as he feels I am, I recently found that he has been calling and texting back and forth with his ex girlfriend. He has been deleting the messages on his phone and claims he did not want me to get mad
( that's why he deleted messages and did not tell me he was in contact with her) and they were just catching up.
Am I a fool? Is this guy for real?
I am numb once again, have told him to leave, he will not leave, says he will not let this happen over something innocent and I am totally overreacting. I am more distressed this time because we are in love last time we were not!
(Have a 14 and 18 year old to whom I /we have been trying to not bring into any of this, they know nothing of the past or present problems...I don't want to shake their world but don't feel I can have him here anymore.He is toxic to me, he is a sneak a liar
I would love some input, like many of you I can't confide with many friends, they think I'm nuts just being here. This is so lonely.
You are NOT over-reacting. Part of marriage is not having secret conversations with someone, especially someone you cheated with. That he doesn't get this means he's either incredibly stupid or crazy.Delete
I don't blame you for telling him to leave. What's surprising is that he won 't. I'm sure he's terrified that he really blew it this time. He should be terrified.
I'm so sorry you're going through this again. And stunned that he thinks you're overreacting.
Infidelity is a complex issue and the more I learn about it the more I realise that ' one cap doesn't fit all'. I am about 15 weeks from day, the fact that I don't exactly know how many weeks it's been is definetly a good sign. I sometimes go back to the days/ weeks before I found out and I was blinded by the obvious, the signs were there but I didn't want to face the truth. It was easier to believe that my husband was a faithful man who would never cheat on me. Boy was I a 'fool'. Having experienced every possible emotion going, I am relieved I found out. I am now in control. I get to choose what I want from this marriage and I'm pleased I gave him a chance he deserved to put right his wrongs and so far he has managed to do all the things he said he would. I've still a lot of work to do on 'me' but I'm pleased how far I/ we have come in such a short space of time. Stay positive and have faith in yourself and your decisions, x xReplyDelete
I do see my husband differently now. And myself. And life in general. And other marriages.ReplyDelete
I'm glad I'm looking at things/life/people in a different way. I guess more honest or more how things really are, or can be.
For that I'm grateful!
- AnonymousJanuary 14, 2014 at 7:29 AM
Elle, beautifully written article.ReplyDelete
I love the line, and lets make us curious about THEM. Since all this my husband says he's curious about me now. He cannot believe how I handle this, the strength and determination, he sees a side of me he never knew. Yes, I was one mad bad mamma when I found out, but I'm getting there. He hasn't had it easy, but he's fighting alongside me. I cherish his interest in me and the fact I wasn't the person he thought I was.
This is BRILLIANT. I'm going to print it and re-read it. I hope you will continue to expound on this thought. No one knows, until they are in this situation, what they will do. No you never reallllly know anyone. I believe we have a false sense of security because, we can finish each other's sentences, or the relationship is decades long, or whatever it is that makes you mate predictable. The sad part is the marriages and people who think they are immune to infidelity or betrayal. None of us read or studied anything about this phenomenon until it happens to us. Yes the conversation is always swept under the rug because it's sordid, pathetic, sad, disappointing on so many levels. Anything but infidelity. The affects of infidelity permeates every relationship. People judge subjectively because they don't know any different. They haven't been there. Way too many judgments on all the participants fly around and I have to admit I've been guilty of that and still am!ReplyDelete
Yes I look at my husband through different lens now. Some good, some not so good! I don't really know what he's thinking. Yep I give him the benefit of the doubt but there's also other doubts. I hope he is looking at me through a different lens too because now that I've read about 3 zillion books, become educated on infidelity, and have spent countless hours in therapy I KNOW I will walk before doing this again. I may have to live till I die with all my insecurities and problems but he will not be one of them. I've made it clear to him too so there's none of this "I didn't think you cared.." bullshit line. I agree about the temptation, but he knows he better turn to me this time to discuss it. Leave if you don't like me but don't cheat!
You do a great job Elle. Thanks so much for sharing your insight.
Thank you so much for this article and so many of your others. I have read from so many different websites but yours is by far the best for me. It best matches my feelings in terms of being pressured to divorce by society and yet my choice to stay with my husband. I have commented in other places on this website. I am now 5 months post D-day and consider myself lucky. Lucky to have found this website, lucky that the affair ended 2 years ago, lucky that my husband has been doing everything to make amends. And I too am working on us having a better marriage and learning from this whole experience. It sounds strange but I think it has made me appreciate him more, instead of just assuming his fidelity, I want to deserve it, as does he.ReplyDelete
I have been to a funeral today, a friend of mine who died in tragic circumstances. She leaves 3 young children. Words can't express the shock, pain and sadness I feel. In less than a week I have lost my father and a dear friend. Life is uncertain we don't know whats in store for us but one thing is for certain is that whatever comes our way we can and will deal with the most tragic events In our lives. Still trying to remain strong , x xReplyDeleteReplies
Oh Sam, I'm so sorry. For you and for your friend's family, dealing with such a loss. You're certainly proving your mettle with what life is throwing your way. But it sounds also as if you're maintaining your focus on what truly matters in our lives -- those we love and who love us.Delete
As for "strong", please make sure you have a place where you can just weep for the injustice of it all.
Sam, I am so sad for you and the loved ones of your friend (Ironically, my friend who died close to d-day was also named Sam and she left behind a very young child). Hard stuff keeps happening and we are still standing. There is relief in knowing you can survive and be strong. But when I acknowledge and allow myself to feel defeated and weak, I also find relief in knowing that feeling is not permanent. Hope you can too.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJanuary 17, 2014 at 3:49 AM
Have you heard of Michelle Weiner Davis's divorce busting 180 degree list? What do you think of it? MYRReplyDeleteReplies
I don't know of it. I have heard of the "180". It's often referred to on the "Surviving Infidelity" site as a way to jolt a spouse out of the affair fog. I never had to do it myself, though I know of many who insist it worked, if only to make their spouse's feelings clear.
Thank you mbs and Elle I'm so relieved I have somewhere to write and your replies mean so much to me. I'm pleased to say this site is now part of my everyday life xReplyDelete
- AnonymousJanuary 17, 2014 at 8:58 PM
CS gas ended things (deciding to call her instead of emailing in the end) with OW and was committed to MC so I think a lot of 180 is extreme. I feel like my crazy mood swings, constant crying and general clinginess is making me look totally un appealing so maybe I should implement some of these measures.ReplyDelete
I've been stalking OW and checking out her FB page, Instagram, Pinterest and Flikr. She's been busy on them in recent weeks and more active on FB in the week since the CS broke up with her then she's ever been, even posting this quote on the day he ended it:
"There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not."
It put a knot in my stomach. - MYRReplies
Stay away from her social media stuff. Wash your hands of her. I wouldn't even be surprised if she posted that quote for your benefit (or rather pain). Please do yourself a favour and don't engage with her in any way. Keeping yourself constantly aware of her is like picking at a scab. It can't heal as long as you're picking away at it.
- AnonymousJanuary 21, 2014 at 9:33 AM
Thanks Elle. Sometimes you just need for someone to talk you off the ledge. DDay was 4 weeks ago today. I also went to a counselor for the first time today. A woman at my church who is in charge of pastoral care. She's the first person I've told (outside of you ladies) and it truly feels like a weights been lifted off my shoulders. I left the session, went to pick my kids up from school then came home and had a long, deep sleep. I'll see her again in a couple of weeks and hopefully we'll soon have found a MC (we're expats in Europe so the choices of English-speaking marriage counselors are limited).Delete
I've been keeping notes since DDay and think I'm going to compile them and make them into a blog. If and when I do I'll let you know.
Thanks again for your support Elle and everyone.
I'm so glad you've found someone to talk to. This can feel so lonely and isolating.Delete
I hope you'll continue to fight the urge to follow her social media stuff. Nothing good can come of it....
I know that I did alot of the stuff that the 180 recommend you DON'T do. Actually I did most of it. I think because my marraige was going down the tubes before the affair. We were distant and I needed my husband to know that I loved him. I let him know that I realized the ways I harmed the relationship but he would have to answer for his stupid choices and the way he harmed the relationship. I made a conscious decision to be honest, bold, courageous, vulnerable, and not (too) vindictive because of the particular issues of our relationship and our dynamic. It didn't backfire though it wasn't until I started taking on a more self sufficient attitude, showed my strength and stopped being so needy, that I started to feel way better about myself. I was able to see that I could be in or out of the relationship with my self mostly intact and he ended up respecting me more. So I guess, the more you can practice some of the 180, the more you may just feel better for yourself. But it might be hard with all the emotions running high. When my spouse was in the early part of his fog, I couldn't bring myself to practice 180 as a strategy. It felt too manipulative and I really did want him to stay. I couldn't pretend otherwise.ReplyDelete
However, if you can muster as much self-respect and dignity you can, the side effect can be your spouse showing you more respect and treating you with dignity.
MYR, I found the online stalking was not allowing me to feel into my self-respect and dignity. I had to make myself stop because I felt like shit afterward and people who cheat are so damaged that they need to make themselves feel better by faking who they are and garnering attention online. The OWs are attention seekers and live in a narcissitic bubble. The OW in my life plasters glamour shots of herself and high schoolesque, sentimental quotes all over the place. It did allowed me to see and point out to my husband to see her as the immature, self absorbed wh-re she is. But I had to stop because I was also retraumatizing myself when I knew down deep that the affair wasn't about how "fantastic" she is.
Be aware the your CS may also be stalking her as well, it can be hard for them to leave it behind, and it may have the effect of stirring the affair fantasy. I suggest you consider being upfront with him and both agree to stay offline (and maybe make him give you access so you can see his search history and passwords). It is nothing to be ashamed of but it harms you.
Modern technology makes it easier to have an affair, whether it's a mobile phone, email etc. But it is also the way they get caught!ReplyDelete
I wrote on here that the husband of the OW put a year in his family's life on the internet for all their family and friends to see, with pictures of her smiling on various holidays/occasions, while she was having an affair with my husband. I would love to have five minutes with some of them that saw it and let them into my world. The destruction she's caused. They all believe she is a beautiful, fun person that lights up the room. That's not the way I would describe her.
People need to tell the world that life is fantastic even if it's false. It makes a 'vicious circle' cos we all then think that our lives are rubbish. FB is a brilliant tool for this. She knows you're reading it! Block her! Or play her at her own game! Post pictures of you and your husband together. Although it's a dangerous game, but satisfying. A friend posted this the other day which made me laugh.
Those of us who believe in the karma bus want to be there when it runs smack into the OW. Unfortunately we're not often granted that particular delight. Trust that one of two things will happen: she'll smarten up and realize how damaging her behaviour was or she'll continue to make a mess of her life. Either way, leave her to live her life...and focus on living yours.Delete
- AnonymousJanuary 20, 2014 at 11:48 AM
I found this article offers good context for doing 180 or otherwise attempt reconciliation. In honesty, it reflects alot of things I realize AFTER I unwittingly committed my own acts of sabotage.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJanuary 22, 2014 at 12:40 AM
Just a thought. A friend mentioned about her husbands affair and the mind games that were played on him by the OW in a time that he was in a deep depression and made a big mistake by accepting the offer of a coffee and chat. We laughed that he had Stockholm syndrome.. We thought about it for 5 mins and decided that there are certainly elements. See definition below, what are your thoughts?ReplyDelete
Stockholm syndrome, or capture–bonding, is a psychological phenomenon in which hostages express empathy and sympathy and have positive feelings toward their captors, sometimes to the point of defending them. These feelings are generally considered irrational in light of the danger or risk endured by the victims, who essentially mistake a lack of abuse from their captors for an act of kindness. The FBI's Hostage Barricade Database System shows that roughly 8% of victims show evidence of Stockholm syndrome.
Stockholm syndrome can be seen as a form of traumatic bonding, which does not necessarily require a hostage scenario, but which describes "strong emotional ties that develop between two persons where one person intermittently harasses, beats, threatens, abuses, or intimidates the other. One commonly used hypothesis to explain the effect of Stockholm syndrome is based on Freudian theory. It suggests that the bonding is the individual's response to trauma in becoming a victim. Identifying with the aggressor is one way that the ego defends itself. When a victim believes the same values as the aggressor, they cease to be a threat
- AnonymousJanuary 22, 2014 at 9:23 AM
Good thoughts but I am still so afraid that there is more that I am going to find out. Hubby admits to affairs in 2010 (which I just found out about in August 2013 and in 2011. He only admitted both because he was about to be exposed. I want to believe him and I love him but my heart is so broken. I never thought he would do this. He was a pastor and in seminary during the 2010 affair and in ministry during the 2011. How can I believe him and appreciate what I don't know when it has caused so much pain? Istill cry everyday. We are to celebrate our 30th wedding anniversary in June...I just don't know how I will make it.
My thought is that if an affair is kept secret (perhaps more likely with a man, as women tend to confide in at least one friend) the ONLY person who knows about the intense emotions/kicks/guilt/confusion created by the infidelity is the OW. Sometimes what draws a person back is not exactly that it feels.. good. We all know this. In other words even the most rational person is not always as in control of their decisions as they'd like to think they are.ReplyDelete
It's quite possible, I imagine, to internalise the OW as an aggressor whoever initiated the affair; after all her complicity is destructive not only to a cheater's marriage/family but most of all to himself, to his self-respect. But then he might secretly believe all women are essentially aggressors whose fatal charm undoes a man, where have we heard that before?
Certainly people take advantage of others at a low ebb and it's very easy to massage the male or female ego. Hard to realise that your ego-booster may have been malign and caused you harm, hard to relinquish the ego-boost. I don't know about Stockholm Syndrome in this case, I hope it wasn't that abusive, although there are of course all kinds of sexual adventures.
- AnonymousFebruary 11, 2014 at 1:44 AM
Dearest sweethearts,u gals are amazing keep d gud work. I found out about my husbands affair 7month ago with 2 diff women he was thinking of taking a 2nd wife,what annoy me most was him taking advantage of my trust i don't blame d gals i blame my man. We've been married for 11yrs with 4beautiful kids,2gals 2boys,our 1st is 10yrs,5yrs,2yrs and a 3month old baby. Am a very emotional person i always emphasise how much i love and adore him,i do all my duties as a wife,there is no field that i don't cover all in the name of satisfaying my man but yet he betrayed me. Ever since i found out i could'nt text or tell him i love him,when ever i luk @him i feel unbeleivable coz i never in my dreams thought he will do a thing to hurt me. I confronted him he admited yeah he did it was a mistake friends introduce him to the gals,he refuse to feed me what i wanna know about d relationships in details he was like accept it or not i have nothing to do with any gal now,that d last tym he sees a gal was over a year. I find it hard to beleive him i feel my love for him has gone from 150percent to 20percent. Am just not into sex with him now not in d mood i use to be a whore back then when i trusted him but now he always make the movesReplyDeleteReplies
I'm so sorry for the pain you're in.
It's virtually impossible to rebuild a marriage with a man unwilling to be honest about what happened and transparent about what he's doing as you go forward.
You've got a lot to deal with, with four kids including a baby. What is he willing to do to help you heal?
I'm curious where you live that a second wife is acceptable. Is this something you and your husband ever discussed? Does he think a second wife is something reasonable to ask of his first wife? I understand there are cultural differences, but I can't imagine that a second wife (when the first one expects to be the only one) will ever feel satisfying for you.
- AnonymousFebruary 21, 2014 at 9:04 AM
A question for Elle or anyone else who wants to weigh in, since I have told no one. Just found out 6 months ago abt husbands affair over 2 years ago. Affair prob lasted abt 1 year. She moved away. So I know that ones over. Since then tho sexting with other women tho that's supposedly done now (I have access to his cell but who REALLY knows? One of the things he admitted was that they were planning to meet up at a conference after she moved away. He went but she never showed up. He hasn't been away to a conference on his own since d day. This morning he asked if he could go to a conference in may. When I hesitated, he thought it was because I would be alone with the kids (his mom will be away then too). But to be honest, if it weren't for the affair I would have been ok alone with the kids. Actually it will be fun. I can't keep him from going to conferences forever. & should I be using something he admitted to on his own (I would have never found out on my own abt their failed rendezvous if he didn't tell me)?ReplyDelete
Any advice would be appreciated. I think I'm going to tell him this weekend the real reason why I hesitated & then I'm going to tell him to go, but any words of encouragement or discouragement would be great.
Hi Sam,Delete
I think it's crucial to be able to tell your husband exactly how you're feeling about this. It might have been over two years ago for him but for you, this is still pretty new. You need to learn you can trust him again but that requires you to be able to communicate when you're feeling vulnerable and him to be able to help you through that -- either by calling or Skyping you while he's away, not going at all until you feel on more solid ground, or whatever else you two come up with.
I don't think pretending that we're past something we're not really past serves any of us. By talking to him about it, you're not punishing him, you're sharing your vulnerability. That's how intimacy is created.
- AnonymousFebruary 24, 2014 at 5:09 PM
Hi ladiesReplyDelete
I was wondering if any of you have gotten to the point where you would just like to pretend the A didn't happen and move forward? The reason I ask is that my H is doing everything right, no contact with the Ow is working and we have not heard from her and the A itself was less than three months from start to finish I am just thinking that the only block to us moving forward is me and my thoughts. Is it realistic to just leave it alone? I have all the info and I am now pain shopping and only burying myself. Somedays I feel like if I just go forward as though it didn't happen I will be happy. Do you think this is really crazy?
I don't think there's a right way through this. Only you can know if what you're doing is pain shopping or processing the experience. I do agree that, at a certain point, you need to make a choice to move forward. This, however, will always be a part of your experience and it's important that you're able to talk about it when it does arise -- you're triggered by an anniversary, for example -- without feeling as if that's regressing. It's no different than being able to talk about a horrible car accident, even if that accident was 20 years ago.
The fact that you can recognize that you're even wearing yourself out with the pain shopping indicates that you're ready to close that chapter.
And none of this is crazy, except the cheating that precipitated it.
- AnonymousFebruary 25, 2014 at 12:36 PM
Thank you so much. It is so good to be able to ask others their opinions without the fear of judgement. I really think I want to move forward and stop focussing on this. I feel that if I am triggered I can express myself as I have never been able to keep things in. I guess I am just tired of this being the main focus of my life. I am thankful for this blog and the support I receive here.ReplyDelete
This blog has been such a lifeline for me since I discovered it two days ago. This is one of my favorite entries so far. Thank you so much for sharing such powerful insights.ReplyDelete

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The Paris-based sculptor Elisabeth Daynès listens to bones, to the remains of our evolutionary ancestors that have lived up to three million years ago. Throughout her prolific 20 year career, the "paleoartist" has worked from the skulls of wooly mammoths to species of hominid to create vividly detailed figures. Based on 18 data points that mark the bone, she can use a computer to model facial features that she later shapes out of clay. She refers to research and other bone samples to determine the build of her subjects, and ultimately she creates a silicone cast, complete with delicate painted features: veins, goosebumps, blemishes.
In a final step towards humanizing her sculptures, Daynès includes prosthetic eyes, teeth, and hair, each of which is as historically and scientifically accurate as possible. Current research suggests that Neanderthals, for example, had red hair; for her uncanny hominids, that range from Homo sapien to Homo erectus, she uses a blend of human hair. In her mind's eye, the artist draws an informed portrait of each subject she reanimates; from the bones, she can determine period, sex and age, along with finer details like culture, climate, diet, and health.
For Daynès, this process is as much an art as it is a science. Ultimately, she hopes to reconnect with our past, embarking on a forensic search of what makes us human. Dismayed by the ways in which early human ancestors are reviled as unintelligent brutes, she injects her creations with a powerful dose of humanity; their brows furrow with concentration, and their eyes are painfully gentle. She explains "missing" them when they leave her studio for a permanent home in a museum. Take a look. (via Daily Mail and Lost at E Minor)


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Duchess of Cambridge Pregnant - Admitted to Hospital
"St. James's Palace announced the pregnancy Monday, saying that the Duchess of Cambridge — formerly known as Kate Middleton — has a severe form of morning sickness and is currently in a London hospital. William is at his wife's side."
(This isn't just "Windsor watching" for me - I had the same thing she had, & I really feel for her!!)


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BOSTON, Mass.—For only the third time in UMass Boston men's ice hockey history, the Beacons will be hosting an ECAC East Tournament game, when the postseason begins this weekend. Second-seeded UMass Boston and #7 University of New England will square off for the first time in the postseason, when the two teams meet Saturday February 23, at 2 p.m. at the Clark Athletic Center Ice Arena.
The Beacons, who carry a record of 3-11 in the quarterfinal round of the ECAC East Tournament are looking for their first postseason win since their miracle run to the ECAC East Tournament Championship as the eight seed in 2009. Since then the Beacons have gone 0-3 under head coach Peter Belisle, including suffering their first ever home loss in the ECAC East Tournament in 2011, when they fell 4-1 to the University of Southern Maine.
UMass Boston will look to reverse one trend and keep another going, as they are unbeaten against the Nor'Easters all-time, holding a 7-0-1 mark over the course of the past four seasons. This season the Beacons won all three matchups, outscoring UNE 16-10, including earning a victory in the P.A.L. Stovepipe Classic.
The University of New England is 0-3 all-time in the ECAC East Tournament and have lost three three games by a combined score of 23-3. On all three occasions the Nor'Easters were matched up with Norwich University, as part of the 1-8 Quarterfinal matchup of the ECAC East Tournament.
Peter Belisle's squad has excelled offensively all season long, ending the regular season ranked third amongst 78 Division III squads with 4.72 goals per game.
The first line of Mike DeGrazia (Novi, Mich.), Travis Daniel (North Brunswick, N.J.) and Max Reavis (Omaha, Neb.) have been a key part of that success, contributing 37, 33 and 22 points respectively. DeGrazia is amongst the top 25 skaters in the country in goals and points per game, while Daniel is third in the country with his 26 assists and 1.04 assists per game. In the Beacons three games this season against UNE, the trio has combined for eight goals and 15 assists.
While the top line has grabbed most of the headlines, every UMB line recorded at least 14 goals during the regular season, with the Beacons "Freshmen" line leading the way with 36 markers. The second line comprised all of all freshmen has put up staggering numbers, with Peter MacIntyre (Norfolk, Mass.), Frankie DeAugustine (Pittsburgh, Pa.) and Kit Sitterley (Mooresville, N.C.) all eclipsing 25 points during their first season on campus.
Don't count out the third or fourth lines either, as the final six skaters include: a top scorer in Tim Richter (Naugatuck, Conn.), a pair of the team's top penalty killers in Mike Kuhn (Holbrook, Mass.) and Mark Grinhaus (Scarsdale, N.Y.) and three terrific two-way skating freshman: Derek Colucci (North Scituate, R.I.), Jeremy Finger (Orlando, Fla.) and Mike Miller (Wrentham, Mass.).
While the team's offense carried the Beacons through much of the first half of the season, the UMB defense has come along nicely over the second half of the season. Over the final 11 games of the regular season, Zach Andrews (Coral Springs, Fla.) and the team's core group of six defensemen have given up just 2.8 goals per game during an 8-2-1 stretch.
Andrews has been playing some of his best hockey of the year over the last month, including recording his first career shutout last Friday against St. Michael's College. The freshman netminder ended the regular season with a 16-5-2 record, an .890 save percentage and 3.14 goals against average.
The freshman has been helped out by a veteran group of defensemen led by three senior members. Captain Tim Niedzielak (Chicago, Ill.) and fellow senior Rob Florentino (West Roxbury, Mass.) both have posted career highs for points and assists, while Steve Weston (Henniker, N.H.), the final senior, has two game-winning goals this year, including one against the Nor'Easters.
Rounding out the defensive corps are Cam Harvey (Bow, N.H.), John Houston (Pittsburgh, Pa.) and Andrew Crawford (Medford, Mass.).
With a win on Saturday the Beacons will advance to the semi-final round of the tournament, which will be played on Friday, March 1 at a site to be determined. This year's championship will be played on March 2 with this year's winner earning the conference's automatic bid to the NCAA Division III tournament.


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Hacking websites, cracking databases, leaving behind defacements and releasing untold amounts of purloined information has been happening for years. The exploits of hackers appeared to reach new heights last year, in the wake of 2011's high-profile attacks against HBGary Federal, Sony and numerous government websites, together with the debut -- and self-imposed demise -- of the sharp-tongued hacktivist group LulzSec.
Yet, throughout 2012, hacking exploits continued unabated, with still more attacks targeting and obtaining sensitive information from governments, law enforcement agencies, businesses and more. Furthermore, the exploits continued despite the surprising news that the leader of LulzSec had not only been busted in 2011, but worked with the FBI to help snare his Anonymous associates.
Here are nine notable ways that hackers and hacktivism have remained in the headlines in 2012:
1. Anonymous Hacks FBI Cybercrime Conference Call
The LulzSec gang announced its retirement in June 2011, and while some alleged members, such as Jake Davis -- accused of being the group's spokesman, "Topiary" -- were arrested, at the beginning of 2012, many participants appeared to be still at large.
[ Rules and regulations may be friends or a foes. See S.C. Security Blunders Show Why States Get Hacked. ]
Come February 2012, elements of Anonymous even took down the CIA's public-facing website, and leaked an FBI conference call in which investigators coordinated Anonymous and LulzSec participants'' arrests. Curiously, however, key details -- such as the alleged hacktivists' names -- had been blanked out of the audio file that was ultimately released.
2. Stratfor Hack Upends Private Sector Intelligence Provider
Also in February, Anonymous announced the release of a trove of emails and personal data stored by Strategic Forecasting, better known as Stratfor, which is an intelligence contractor. A member of Anonymous -- who turned out to be LulzSec leader Sabu -- reported that the plaintext emails and customer information had been obtained by exploiting known vulnerabilities in the Stratfor network. Ultimately, the breach exposed personal information on 860,000 Stratfor customers, 60,000 credit card numbers and a massive trove of emails between Stratfor and its sources.
3. Hacker King Turns Informant: Feds Reveal Sabu Bust
Come March, the FBI announced the arrest of five principal members of Anonymous and LulzSec, accused of hacking into the websites of Sony, PBS and Stratfor, amongst other organizations. In retrospect, the blanked-out audio of the released FBI conference call might have been a giveaway, as court documents unsealed after the arrests revealed that LulzSec leader Sabu -- real name, Hector Xavier Monsegur -- had himself been arrested back in June 2011.
Facing the potential of serious jail time for alleged identity theft, Sabu quickly turned informer and began working around the clock to help investigators counter emerging attacks, as well as bust high-profile Anonymous participants. Since the March arrests, prosecutors have continued to expand the case, including arresting Jeremy Hammond, the alleged ringleader of the Stratfor hack.
4. Hacktivists Drive Global Law Enforcement Agencies To Unite
One side effect of the rise in hacktivism has been increased cooperation -- no need for cybercrime treaties -- between law enforcement agencies in various countries. "A lot of people think this is just a bunch of kids fooling around, but in reality, it's not, it can destroy your business," said Eric Strom, the unit chief for the cyber initiative and resource fusion unit in the FBI's cyber division, at the RSA conference in San Francisco in February. "You know, market share goes down and you're talking about significant damage to a company."
Asked at the conference what the FBI was doing about the problem -- months after the bureau had secretly turned Sabu, but just days before busting the alleged higher-ups in Anonymous and LulzSec -- Strom kept his cards close to his chest. "So let's put it this way, the FBI has put a lot of resources towards this problem ... it's not something that we just look at as a small issue, we have a lot of people around the country working this, as well as around the world, so companies should do the same."
But Strom said the word "hacktivism" meant little to the bureau. Instead, he said the FBI attempted to differentiate between people's online freedoms of assembly and speech versus clear evidence of law-breaking.


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According to preliminary estimates from the New York City Independent Budget Office (IBO), New York City taxpayers are going to be shelling out a little more than $3.5 billion now that a fiscal cliff deal has been struck. Most of this is going to come out of the pockets of the city's disproportionately large population of the very affluent, or those who make more than $500K.
According to these stats, if you live in NYC and make between $250K-$500K, your tax bill is only going up by about $303.
Even though these new fiscal cliff taxes are supposed to affect those making $400K and up, New Yorkers making closer to the $400K number are probably not going to be affected all that much. That's because already steep city and state taxes cut into the income taxable by the federal government, said Michael Jacobs, who put these stats together for the IBO.
BUT, the limits on itemized deductions and personal exemptions that were phased out between 2006 and completely eliminated by 2010 are coming back, and are going to affect those making more than $250K-$300K adjusted gross income (depending on whether you file as a single person or as a couple).
And, as James B. Stewart, a professor of business journalism at Columbia, explained in a column he wrote for the NYTimes last December, this is going to disproportionately affect affect "taxpayers in higher brackets who rely on earned income as opposed to investment income or an inheritance, who give to charity and live in a high-tax state(s)" like New York or California.
So if you filed a bunch of such deductions in 2012, watch out, because your taxable income is about to go up.


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|Rancho Santa Fe, Calif.
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2008: Missed the 2008 season due to injury.
2007: Appeared in 47 games before being slowed down by a shoulder injury...Finished fifth on the team with 102 digs and 2.17 digs per game...Also tallied 19 kills and nine service aces...Earned all-tournament honors at the season-opening Yale Invitational after posting 13 kills, 29 digs, six aces and three blocks in three matches...Tied a career-high with 14 digs in the season opener against Rhode Island (Sept. 7), and set a new career-high with four aces in that match...Also had 10 digs against Sacred Heart (Sept. 8) and at Cornell (Nov. 3).
2006: Limited to just two games because of injuries...Made season debut on Oct. 6 against Columbia and recorded three digs...Also saw action in the season finale against Harvard on Nov. 11.
2005: Played in 73 games, making her debut on Sept. 9 against Georgetown in the season opener...Recorded double-digit digs in six contests, including a season-high 14 against Columbia on Oct. 7...Picked up her first career double-double on Oct. 28 against Cornell...Had a season-high 13 kills and had 12 digs in the match.
Before Yale: Played four years of volleyball and captained the team at Torrey Pines High School, while also playing basketball for three years...Made the All-Palomar League, All-CIF San Diego and All-San Diego first teams while leading Torrey Pines to a Palomar League championship and a runner-up finish in the San Diego CIF playoffs as a senior...Named one of the top 250 players by PrepVolleyball.com while helping her club team to a pair of top-five finishes at the Junior Olympics.


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The number of distinct Android malware specimens detected will reach one million this year, predicts Trend Micro in its annual security roundup report, noting that the surge in Android malware has grown at a faster clip in three years than was seen in PC-based malware in its first 14 years.
"Last year we predicted the amount of Android malware to be at 125,000 and it actually ended up at 350,000," says Raimund Genes, CTO at Trend Micro, discussing the "Evolved Threats in a 'Post-PC' World" report that Trend released earlier this week. "Now we're predicting an additional 650,000 new pieces this year."
Considering it all in an historic context, Genes notes that the first Microsoft-based PC viruses were mainly "just to make fun of Microsoft," as a prank, joke or protest. The growth in the vicious form of cybercrime exploiting PCs for economic gain came much later. But Android malware from the beginning has been brazenly exploitative, such as sending spammy SMS messages to smartphones that incur costs to victims.
However, so far Android malware is not widely used in targeted attacks that are often intended to steal sensitive data, which are still mostly aimed at PCs, Genes points out, "But that could change."
The Trend Micro report out today contains information based on threat data aggregated by Trend through analysis aggregated through its cloud-based sensors and customer network activity, among other sources. With much malware originating from websites these days, Trend says its analysis shows the top regional source of malicious URLs is the US at 23%. But 56% of malicious URLs have to be classified as "unknown" in terms of country. That's because the attackers setting up these malicious URLs are getting better at hiding their traces, Gene says.
Trend Micro also kept a running tab in 2012 of the social-engineering keywords used by attackers to reel in victims of their malware one way or another during 2012. In the early part of 2012, the phrases 'law enforcement', 'tax season', 'London 2012 Olympics' and 'Tibet', were most used to try and trick someone into downloading malware or opening malware-laden attachments, while in the second half of last year 'iPhone 5', 'World of Warcraft', 'Christmas', and 'Thanksgiving' were the top keyword lures.


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Born in Sioux Falls and Plays on Sunday
Since it is football season, we should take some time to remember a Super Bowl Champion from Sioux Falls. However, his family didn't stay long in the city so his ties to South Dakota are not very strong.
Dallas Clark of the Baltimore Ravens was born in Sioux Falls, but grew up in Iowa. His collegiate years were spent with the Iowa Hawkeyes, given the John Mackey award as the best tight end as a senior.
Most of his NFL career was spent catching passes for the Indianapolis Colts, winning Super Bowl 41 over the Chicago Bears. He set the franchise single-season record for reception yards in 2008.
Clark is with his third team in the Ravens after spending a year with Tampa Bay in 2012. Sunday against the Steelers, Clark caught three passes for nine yards.


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Editor's note: Hannah Strong joined us a year ago, fresh out of Winthrop. Today she begins an occasional column on what her first reporting job is teaching her about herself, her profession and Lancaster County.
The operator from an S.C. prison says, "You have 15 seconds left on this call."
"Let me call you right back," the woman tells me.
She has been jailed for attempted armed robbery since 2013.
I'm talking to her because her 19-year-old son has been shot dead in Lancaster.
Archie Parnell, one of the 14 candidates running for the congressional seat vacated by Mick Mulvaney, got a bit of national publicity last week to help him stand out from the crowd.
Boy, did he ever!
Fair warning. If you're not a fan of crude anatomical humor, do not check this out.
It happened on comedian Samantha Bee's political satire show "Full Frontal With Samantha Bee" on TBS. She has an audience of about 2.5 million, not far behind the 3 million or so who watch Stephen Colbert and Jimmy Fallon on the big networks.
In more than a quarter century of newspaper work, I've received my share of vile phone messages. Last week I got a doozy.
It even tops the voice mail I got a few months ago from some guy who threatened to cut off my head and burn my body. I filed a police report on that one, so that if I turned up headless, the cops would have a logical place to start the investigation.
Here's the latest message. There's a bit of rough language, but I dashed out the objectionable words.
Mick Mulvaney's political career, which has rocketed upward since his first election win in 2006, jumped to light speed six weeks ago, when Donald Trump nominated him as White House budget director.
The guy who quietly blended in at my Rotary breakfast a couple of months back – affable, low-key, not the center of attention – had pole-vaulted into Trump Tower. Suddenly, we were envisioning him a stone's throw from the Oval Office, with the federal budget in a headlock.
We have been delivering news and advertising to this community for 164 years.
Long ago, an army of kids on bikes threw papers onto porches and carports after school. I was one of those kids. Delivering The Lancaster News was my first job, in 1968.
The paper switched to morning delivery 25 years ago, and since then its carriers have mostly been adults with motor routes, supplementing their income from other work.
Let me start by making this clear: I have no opinion about the truthfulness of Jackie Harris' voter-fraud allegations against Linda Blackmon after the Nov. 8 Lancaster City Council election. There aren't enough facts on the table yet.
With that out of the way, let me tell you a peculiar story.
If you were driving past The Lancaster News parking lot on White Street late Wednesday afternoon, that was me in the white button-down shirt with my arms crossed, listening and looking perplexed.
Choosing among bad alternatives is sometimes part of life, unavoidable and unpleasant. You hunker down, minimize the damage and cause the least hurt.Slam into an 18-wheeler or drive off a cliff. Close your business and lose everything, or dig the hole even deeper by borrowing in hopes of an unlikely turnaround. Let your life end quickly and painlessly, or undergo months of miserable treatment for a bit more time with those you love.
Horrible choices. It's depressing just to think about them.
When candidates make colossal blunders, you learn a lot about them.
Donald Trump declared war on a Muslim Gold Star couple who criticized him at the Democratic convention. And he ranted for a week after the first debate about a Miss Universe who gained weight.
Imagine that this newspaper is being accosted by organized complainers demanding that our publisher take action on their long-standing concerns.
The publisher calls a big public meeting to hear their gripes and get her editor's recommendation on how to proceed.
I had never killed anyone before.
The two men stepped out of their pickup truck after I stopped them for speeding. One reached inside his coat, pulled out a handgun and pointed it at me. I shot him a half dozen times from 10 feet away.
The other man was moving toward me, and I saw his hands jerk. I shot him too, pulling the trigger as fast as I could until my sidearm was empty. By the time the last few shots hit the man, he was already on the ground.
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HOUSTON (AP) – Former President George H.W. Bush is starting the week in a Houston hospital where he's spent several days for treatment of a lingering cough related to bronchitis.
George Kovacik with Methodist Hospital says the 88-year-old Bush remains in stable condition at the facility Monday. Aides earlier said the 41st president would likely be discharged over the weekend. Bush has been in and out of the hospital for treatment of the cough.
Bush also suffers from a form of Parkinson's disease that forces him to use a wheelchair or motorized scooter.
The ex-president and his wife, Barbara, split their time between homes in Houston and Kennebunkport, Maine.
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This is one of those submitted stories where the story writer does not appear to understand that their actions are just as rude and entitled as the people being complained about.
My husband was scheduled for surgery that was going to take at least 5 to 6 hours, not too mention all the diagnostic tests that were scheduled to be run prior to surgery (add about another 3 to 4 hours). Knowing that I would be at the hospital all day, I came prepared with plenty of magazines, plus my portable DVD player and some movies. I read the magazines during the test period, then when they took DH to surgery, I chose to get lunch and then return to watch movies. Before leaving for lunch, I scoped out the location of the only power outlet in the waiting room. The reason why I chose to leave for lunch was the large signs on each wall asking that you please not have food in the waiting room, to be courteous to the other people waiting.
I returned an hour or so later and plugged in my DVD player. I did not have headphones, but at the time that I started I was the only one in the room. The TV in the room was also on, but there was no one watching. About a half hour after I started the movie, a pregnant woman and her 2 companions entered, and turned up the volume on the TV. TV is to my left, and they are on the next wall over where they could see the TV. If they were watching it. Instead, they are all talking. Every 10 minutes or so, one of them would go turn up the volume on the TV, then they would all resume talking. Not one of them is actually watching the TV.
Then after about a half hour, one woman came over and asked if I could please turn the volume down on my DVD player, as it's disturbing them trying to watch TV. I admit that I had the sound turned up during the quieter parts of the movie, because the speaker on my DVD player is not good. But that meant that the louder parts were inadventently loud as well (the DVD was Fellowship of the Ring – think Hobbits talking quietly, then suddenly, screetching Nazgul). I promised to do what I could, so I spent the next half hour alternating the sound level so that I could hear it but try not to disturb them.
Then they all leave, only to return in about 15 minutes with large bags of fast food (at the time, hospital had a Wendy's inside). Then, sitting directly underneath one of the large signs asking that you not have food in the waiting room, they proceeded to eat. The pregnant one joked out loud that she was pregnant and she didn't care, she was going to have food. And they turned up the TV again. At that point, I ceased mitigating the volume on my DVD player. And if they complained again, I was going to politely point out that there were no signs about loud DVD players. 0923-08
Psst…your failure to bring headphones/ear buds does not constitute an obligation of others to accommodate your viewing enjoyment.


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Confederate Colonel George S. Patton of the 22nd VA Infantry wrote to Lieutenant James Welch about activities on and near the Kanawha River prior to the Battle of Scary Creek, which occurred July 17, 1861. Welch was killed at this battle, while Patton was mortally wounded at Winchester, VA on September 19, 1864.Camp Tompkins was located near the former site of the Valley Drive-In near St. Albans and is now occupied by a lumber yard.
(Lt. J. C. Welch)
Head Quarters, Camp Tompkins
June 16, 1861.
Lt. Welch -
If the Dredge boats come down the river to night or to day - you will not interfere with them, but allow them to pass. Have your guard heard any firing of guns, or cannon during the night - Answer at once -
Yours Resp'y
Geo. S. Patton
With Box 20
Lieut. J. C. Welch
Camp Tompkins
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Some of my favorite shows come on channels like the different Discovery Channels, TLC, Food Network, HGTV and Animal Planet. I just love those Meerkats. Anyway, I was looking at a show that I do watch often called Little People Big World and thought about the fact that this show and pretty much every other on these channels was about whites, featured whites or had white hosts. Now I am sure that they have little people who just happen to be of color, yet by watching this show you would never know it. They not only don't have any on the show, they don't chronicle any the way they do others on the show. Wouldn't it be interesting to find out how a little person of color has to deal with life having two things to be discriminated for, being small and of color?
I know that people wonder why this even makes a difference to me; it does because with all the people out here on these Blogs saying that blacks should stop whining and work hard and they will benefit from society just the same as whites. Now am I to believe that there is NO hard working or interesting blacks out here that might deserve or be interesting enough for a show. So I guess hard work doesn't help in this case. Since how hard does one have to work in order to fall into a job where you are just telling people about someone else's dirty jobs, not much I am sure. It seems all one would need is a great personality and an ability to communicate well. And I would hope that people aren't saying that no other race besides the white one can produce people with these characteristics as that would be extremely condescending.
Are these channels racist or are they just clueless to their black viewers? Yet, when I visit their websites they prominently show advertisements with black faces smiling brightly. So it is clear that they understand they have black viewers so I am forced to acknowledge that they are discriminating. They won't give us a television show, yet they WILL sell to us indiscriminately. White mindset people won't understand why this is a big deal and undoubtedly say that there aren't any shows featuring blacks because the blacks didn't do anything that would get them a show or we or other minorities just aren't interesting enough. Interestingly enough I heard this exact argument when another Blogger asked why only white women are shown on network news when missing and a white commenter said that it was because the white women's stories are so much more interesting than any minority would have. But, in fact half the shows on there could be hosted by anyone, black, white, Asian etc. I watch the show Little People Big World, now were there NO equivalent black family, how about Hispanic little people or Asian little people?
Are there no black or other minority people that own tattoo parlors that they could chronicle? Why don't they have black people or more minority cook's who are able to lead a cooking show on the Food network? Unfortunately what is being portrayed to blacks of all ages who watch these channels is that they are not worthy of doing any of these positive shows yet we will undoubtedly be over represented on some trash like Hot ghetto mess or America's most wanted or some other show that might as well be called Black on Black crime at its finest. And yet here we are, and I am as guilty as the next person, watching these channels, keeping them going by giving them higher ratings with my viewing.
Asking are these channels racist, of course, they are just propagating more white privilege by pushing the white mindset on those in the minority communities. Even if they did put a black person or other minority on these channels it wouldn't matter since this person would be just another white person with whatever ethnic skin tone they are being portrayed as. What I mean by this is that the black person they pick will be so assimilated that they will seem like a white person in black skin. I understand that this is the only type of blacks who make it on television set aside for the mammies and buffoons that make it in big Hollywood.
Yet as we can all see that these channels are overwhelmingly blatantly white you will still have people telling me and others that racism is dead or that it is pointing out racism that won't let racism go away. Now I don't know about them but I don't think that by me pointing out the lack of minorities on these channels it makes them hire even MORE whites while ignoring the blacks and other minorities until it's time for advertising. Yet will any of my complaining change anything for these channels? Since these are the same people who are operating on this theory of a color blind society as long as we don't complain that the only color being represented is white. So until we are all respectful enough to realize that whatever race I identify with is not the ONLY race that matters then maybe we will be able to have all people represented when we sit down with our families and turn on the television.


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The first-generation Jaguar XF luxury sedan debuted in 2009. The car was completely restyled for 2016, with the second-generation XF building upon its predecessor's great successes.
Powering the lovely cat is a supercharged 3.0L V6, which -- as found in the F-Type 2-seater -- comes in two versions: one makes 340 horsepower and 332 pound-feet of torque; the other produces 380 horsepower and 332 pound-feet. Each is mated to an 8-speed ZF automatic transmission, and the XF will scoot to 60 mph in just five seconds when equipped with the high-output unit. Rear-wheel drive is standard, though all-wheel drive is available across the model range.
A less powerful and more fuel efficient engine is also offered starting this year. It's a 2.0L turbocharged diesel unit making 180 horsepower, coupled to the same 8-speed transmission as the V6 models. Though it's not nearly as fast as gasoline-engined models the diesel Jaguar should still hit 60 mph in around eight seconds.
Four XF trims are offered: Premium, Prestige, R-Sport and S. The Premium trim includes 18-inch alloy wheels, xenon headlights with LED daytime running lights, automatic stop/start technology for increased fuel efficiency, an 8-inch touchscreen, power-adjustable front seats, a 40/20/40 split-fold rear seat, a 380-watt, 11-speaker Meridian audio system and rearview parking camera with guidance lines.
Stepping up to the Prestige includes all the Premium features, along with 19-inch wheels, keyless entry, heated Taurus leather seats with 4-way power lumbar support, a heated steering wheel, mood lighting, navigation and a front parking aid.
XF R-Sports add a dash of visual athleticism to the mix, with 19-inch Vortex wheels, a special body kit that includes a revised front bumper, side sills and vents, plus chrome exterior accents. LED headlights with adaptive high beams complete the outside accessories, while R-Sport instruments and SiriusXM satellite radio grace the inside. Meanwhile, a lane-keep assist, blind-spot monitor with closing vehicle sensing, and reverse traffic detection up the safety quotient in the R-Sport.
Finally, the XF S builds on the R-Sport treatment by adding black side sills, a rear valance and spoiler, plus red brake calipers and Adaptive Dynamics, which modifies the car's responsiveness in acceleration, throttle, cornering, braking, and shifting with respect to both road conditions and driving style. Special S instruments and badging round out the interior.
Options and packages include a Cold Climate Package, with heated seats front and rear, heated steering wheel, and a heated windshield. The Vision Package adds adaptive LED headlights, front and rear parking aids and a blind-spot monitor. On the S, a Driver Assistance Package brings park assist, traffic sign recognition, adaptive cruise control, and more.
Standard safety features on the new XF include dynamic stability control and traction control, a tire pressure monitoring system and a host of airbags.
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Luke Robbins turns in his finest performance to date in the role of Michal in the Wabash Theater's production of Martin McDonagh's The Pillowman. Spencer Elliott plays Katurian, Michal's protective brother. The play is deeply moving, contains graphic language, and carries mature themes. The performances are extraordinary and the subject matter is difficult.


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Like constructing a building, creating a successful partnership requires using a blueprint or model.Read about a proven partnering model built on a partnering culture
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_ Connect . . . Communicate . . . Collaborate_ Why Can't We Talk About Trust?_ The Cost of Poor Partnering_ Feedback is Professional Development_ Unlock the Power of Your Knowledge_ Effective Partnering: Collaborate for Advantage_ Not Having This Mind-Set Could Be Deadly For Your Business_ Leadership Behaviors Can Hinder Corporate Goals_ Change Resistance--What Does it Cost Your Organization?_ Decision-Making Approach Impacts Innovation_ Improving Your Improvement Program_ The High Cost of Not Listening to Employees_ Collaboration for a Change and Collaborative Leadership Self-Assessment - Arthur T. Himmelman
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BNI Central
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Welcome to Central London Networking
We are a group of well-connected business professionals who are committed to
sharing connections and generating business opportunities for each other.
We meet every Thursday at Carluccio's, Garrick Street, London, WC2E 9BH
Yes we use a structured approach to ensure everybody gets the best opportunity to generate more business but importantly our meetings are FUN, FRIENDLY and EFFECTIVE. We allow only one person per profession to join. Come along and see whether this might be a powerful way to grow your business. You are very welcome to visit.
How to get the most from the meeting:
- Arrive 15 minutes beforehand for open networking
- Bring plenty of business cards
- Prepare a 60 second presentation - telling us who you are, what you do, what makes your company better than the rest and what sort of introductions you are looking for.
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The BNI Experience
BNI is a 30 year old business and professional organisation that allows only one person from each trade or profession to join a chapter. With over 5,866 active chapters, and 139,971 members, it is the most successful business referral organisation in the world.
Belonging to BNI is like having dozens of sales people working for you because all the other members carry copies of your card with them. When they meet someone new that could use your products or services they hand out your card and personally recommend your services.
Being active in BNI is like having up to 40 sales people working for you, because your fellow members will be carrying your cards and referring your business to people they meet, without you having to pay them any salaries or commission. Successful businesses depend on 'word-of-mouth' marketing as the best form of promotion there is.
BNI provides a structured, supportive, business environment in which local business people can get together to network, learn valuable new marketing skills and develop the strong personal relationships that lead to trust and the consequent generation of significant business for each other.


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- ConeHead™ Technology - ConeHead™ is the developmental code name for a revolutionary new way to mold EPS foam for helmets. The new ConeHead™ acts like a crumple zone around the head to absorb and dissipate impact forces more effectively than current hard foam liners. There are two different densities of foam as well as two different foams with their own characteristics of recovery from impact and inter-foam bond strength.
- 317.5 grams for a Med/Large Helmet
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- Cushy EVA impact foam on sides and back for comfort and protection.
- 6 piece shell construction for a unique style and bold look
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Because no one reads the newspaper, and SportsCenter's anchors are too perky for this early in the morning, Deadspin combs the best of the broadsheets and internets to bring you everything you need to know to start your day.
• Three days after being suspended for an altercation in practice, Mississippi State's Renardo Sidney got into a fistfight with teammate Elgin Bailey while watching another game at the Diamond Head Classic. And to think, many schools passed on signing Sidney.
•Okay, that was unexpected: the new-look Magic completely routed the NBA-best Spurs, with each of the new acquisitions putting up double figures. Yes, even Hedo, who learned his lesson to stay out of the paint.
•Apparently the Penguins and Capitals had a hell of a game last night. I wouldn't know, because they didn't even bother to put it on Versus, and I'm not paying for NHL Center Ice. Sure I could catch up next week on 24/7, but I'm not paying for HBO either.
•LeBron James basically just said the NBA would be better off if they got rid of the Nets and the T-Wolves. That's one Decision we can all get behind!
•Drew argued that a game — any crappy old game — is better than nothing on Saturdays. To that, I reply: last night's Steelers/Panthers turd.
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Mars Climate Sounder
The MCS (Mars Climate Sounder) observes the temperature, humidity, and dust content of the martian atmosphere, making measurements that show variations in Mars' current weather and climate.
Climate Sounder Instrument for Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter
The Mars Climate Sounder instrument, shown here prior to its installation onto NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter for the mission's 2006 launch, will get a similar-looking sibling at Mars in 2016.
Scientists use these measurements to understand how the martian atmosphere circulates and varies over time. The measurements also help explain how and why the martian polar caps vary in response to the atmosphere and the energy input from the Sun.
How Mars Climate Sounder works
A sounder is an instrument that measures changes in atmospheric temperature or composition with height. Mars Climate Sounder "sees" in nine channels across the visible and infrared ranges of the electromagnetic spectrum. The visible range is the equivalent of what the human eye can see. The infrared range corresponds roughly to heat, being able to "see" how hot something is. One channel in the visible and near-infrared range (0.3-3.0 microns) is used to understand how solar energy interacts with the atmosphere and the surface, providing insight into martian climate. Eight channels in the thermal infrared range (12-50 microns) are used to measure temperature, pressure, water vapor, and dust.
Mars Climate Sounder looks at the horizon of Mars from orbit to observe the atmosphere in vertical slices. It takes measurements every 5 kilometers (3 miles) down into each slice through the atmosphere. These "profiles" are combined into daily, three-dimensional, global weather maps for both daytime and nighttime. The weather maps show temperature, pressure, humidity, and dust in various layers of the atmosphere -- the same kind of information meteorologists use to understand and predict weather and climate on Earth.
The Principal Investigator (lead scientist) for Mars Climate Sounder is Daniel McCleese from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory/California Institute of Technology.
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Storefront Design Tools
Provides standard templates with an easy to use tool set to customize the templates to showcase the stores brand and optimize the users experience
Product Visualization
Ability to display and manage photos, 3D views, videos etc for each product
Recommendations / Personalization
Personalize the buyers experience by displaying the most relevant products to the consumer and increase conversions using past buyer behavior and merchant-driven rules. Tools may include such as cross-sell/up sell, promotions, recommendations, guided selling, etc
Promotions and Discounts
Contains features that allow administrators to set up promotions on site, provide time based discounts, and enter coupon codes.
Abandoned Cart Tools
Provide tools to help convert abandoned carts into sales. Saves items in shopping cart if a users does not complete the purchase. Allows users to continue order process in a future session. Emails users to remind them they have items in their cart.
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Product Reviews
Ability to display reviews and enable users to write reviews for each product. Integrations to review syndication software to include most recent reviews for products
Provides tools to drive traffic to pages via organic search
Content Management
Ability to add/update products, product pricing, product information and other content included on eCommerce site.
Configured Products
Ability to all users select options to configure the product or select product options. For example, color, size, etc.
Product Search and Filtering
Provides rich user experience to find products on site through site wide search, faceted navigation, product filtering and sorting
Intangible Products
Provides functionality specific to selling intangible products such as: Subscriptions, Trials, Perpetual Licencing, Downloads, Free Trials, etc.
Checkout Process
Includes features that optimize user check out experience such as Shopping carts and Single Click Checkout, order summaries, receipts.
Shipping Options
Functionality that allows users to select shipping options based on price and delivery time. May integrate to 3rd Party shipping/fulfillment companies.
Tax Display and Processing
Displays appropriate tax to user based on local laws. Contains functionality to process tax in back end systems. May integrate to 3rd Party tax solutions.
Payment Processing
Supports required payment methods including credit card processing, purchase orders, paypal, etc. Contains appropriate fraud management functionality.
Order Management
Contains tools that enable administrators to manage placed orders to ensure all customer orders are processed correctly and on time.
Returns / Refunds
Functionality to allow users to process returns/refunds either via self service or contacting customer service.
Inventory Management
Displays inventory levels of products in real time. Displays inventory by location if required.
Cross-Channel Fulfillment
Contains distributed order management functionality so that an order can be fulfilled from a warehouse, a store, a vendor drop ship or an in store pick up.
(Based on 5 reviews)
Unified Customer Experience
Provides seamless approach to the consumer experience through all available shopping channels (Mobile, Social, Web, Point of Sale, catalog). Some times referred to Omni-Channel.
Features that enable customers to easily to shop for products using a mobile device.
Social Commerce
Features that enable customers to easily shop for products on popular social platforms. May provide standard integrations or tools that build the social store on the platform.
Customer Service
Provides features that enable customer services teams to interact with customers. Features may include chat and and phone support.
Store Locator
Enable customers to locate and navigate to physical locations by zip code, city or GPS
3rd-Party Store Integration
Integrates/Syncs your product catalog to major on line retailers such as Amazon, Ebay, etc. to make it easy to administer selling products via 3rd party channels
B2B Features
Includes features that that are valuable to B2B transactions. For example partner management, contract pricing, invoicing, product entitlement, contract management etc.
(Based on 6 reviews)
System provides well documented API's that can be used to integrate to any 3rd Party or internal system.
Not enough data available
Product provides tools to customize web store front, business process, etc. to meet unique business needs.
Integrations to Add-on Tools
Is easy to integrate to or has pre-packaged integrations to a wide variety of leading add on tools/software.
User Management
Enables customers to update their own user information, settings and preferences.
Reporting / Analytics
Provides standard and ad-hoc reporting ability to meet business requirements
Software provides appropriate tools and certifications to protect against fraud and malicious attacks
Multi-Site Management
Features that enable creation and maintenance of micro sites, sub-sites using the same instance of the software.
(Based on 8 reviews)
Admin Access Rights
Provides ability to control editing rights by product category, geography etc.
Test-to-Product Migration
Functionality that enables administrators to test changes to products, store design, work flows etc in a test environment and schedule the changes to be migrated to the production version of the site
Provides features that enable business transactions throughout the world. Typical features are multi-language, multi-currency and taxation
Cross Browser Support
Enables store or site to provide the same user experience in all browsers and browser versions.
Performance and Reliability
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Well we all know that the Smartphone market is dominated by large platforms such as Apple's iOS4, Nokia's Symbian Series 60, Windows Mobile 6.5 (and soon to be introduced 7), but the newest platform everyone has been hearing about recently and one which is creating a lot of noise on Twitter is most defiantly going to be Android and their open-source platforms.
Android was first introduced in late October 2008 with T-Mobile's G1 which came pre-installed with Version 1.0 and soon Google will release their latest version; 2.3.
Speaking for myself, I didn't really give Android a chance and wouldn't have swapped my iPhone for the 'newbie' on the block. However over the past years, HTC has grown phenomenally and is now waiting to release their sophisticated iPhone killer platform called "Gingerbread" which has certainly made the new smartphone platform look mature. The names Android use for their firmware are controversial as most of their platforms have rather scrumptious names such as Cookie and Éclair.
Android has some features which will startle a lot of people, even the non-techie people. If we take browsing on Android 2.3, it supports flash and it is flexible; this is defiantly something excelling against their competitors which means lots of boredom cured.
Android supports push notifications which mean that your Twitter, Facebook and Emails are pushed automatically to your phone without the hassle of having to re-sync your inbox every quarter of an hour. In addition to this nifty feature, Android also have their ever growing Market which is now catering over 30,000 apps readily available for downloading.
Android have also added over-the-air installation for apps and integration of iTunes streaming. Google have named their music streaming app 'Simplify Media' which creates a desktop software that can stream all your music directly from iTunes to your Android phone. Simply all you have to do is point the software at your music and it will push it up into the air accessible anywhere.
Like all smartphones, the new version of Gingerbread is now compatible with all Microsoft platforms including Exchange 2010. Android have also introduced Bluetooth voice commands allowing users with Bluetooth headsets or parrot in-car systems to say a name or number to activate an out-going call.
Overall in conclusion to the new version of Android, it will hopefully be showcased in Q4 2010. There are numerous updates Android has made and all of them are justifiable but the sheer amount of platforms can defiantly perplex even the most technical people. With technology being so subliminal and everyone used to technology being at our fingertips, expectations from manufactures are extremely high hence the upcoming release of Gingerbread. It's defiantly something I am excited about and it has a lot of new features no other versions of Android has incorporated but remember, your phone must have the minimum specification to run it.


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(WIBW) - A WWII veteran's efforts to honor those from his hometown who made the ultimate sacrifice will be realized this weekend.
Since 2006, Frank Benteman has lobbied lawmakers to rename a stretch of K-99 highway in honor of the "Frankfort Boys." They are the 37 servicemen from the Marshall county town killed in action during WWII. Frankfort lost more men per capita in the conflict than any other community in the nation.
The bill finally passed this year and, when the sign is dedicated June 16, Benteman hopes it serves as a reminder. He says he wants people to think about the people who lost their lives in WWII and to shake the hands of those still alive. He says it's part of the nation's history that shouldn't be forgotten.
Benteman says "it's just unbelievable" that the highway dedication is finally happening.
"It's something that should have been done a long time ago," he said. Benteman knew several of the men who died in the war.
Beneteman will be grand marshall for Frankfort's Summerfest Celebration parade at noon Saturday, June 16. The sign will be dedicated afterward at the city park bandstand.
The American Legion helped raise money for the sign, its installation and its upkeep.


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Saturday, March 3, 2012
Karuizawa Vintage 1999 11-year-old
Review by Nonjatta contributor - Dramtastic:
"Karuizawa Vintage 1999 11YO #867. 61.4 per cent alcohol.
Nose: Rich sherry, banana, caramel, butter menthols, brown sugar, wood stain, oak, apricot. Some struck matches.
Palate: Huge hot spices, mixed peel, oak, cocoa, struck matches. Water adds coconut, nougat and ginger.
Finish: Mint chocolate, mixed peel, toffee, tangerine, ginger, struck match, apricot.
General Comment: Bottled on the 6th of september 2011, this may well be the last official bottling from the distillery. Amazing colour for an 11-year-old.
2 comments:
- JohnM said...
Is this cask shared with the LMdW one? There's is a 12 yr old, but I'm pretty sure it has the same cask number.
- April 25, 2012 at 1:47 AM
- dramtastic said...
I believe so. The Japan release(with official distillery label) just bottled a bit earlier. Only cost me Y7300 or 90 bucks in Japan though.......
- May 7, 2012 at 6:50 AM
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TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) ? Once wiped out in Michigan, the weasel-like mammal known as the fisher has returned to the tip of Michigan's Lower Peninsula after making a solid recovery in the Upper Peninsula, state wildlife officials said Monday.
TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) ? Once wiped out in Michigan, the weasel-like mammal known as the fisher has returned to the tip of Michigan's Lower Peninsula after making a solid recovery in the Upper Peninsula, state wildlife officials said Monday.
With short legs, small ears, thick, dark fur and bushy tails, the fisher once roamed the entire state but had disappeared by 1936 as loggers mowed down its forest habitat and trappers over-harvested those that remained for their pelts. State biologists began restoration efforts in the U.P. in the 1960s, and within a few decades the animal had bounced back sufficiently to allow a regulated trapping season.
Despite occasional reported sightings in the northern Lower Peninsula, the Department of Natural Resources was able to confirm the presence of a fisher there only recently. Melissa and Nate Sayers of Onaway were walking in rural Presque Isle County when they saw what first appeared to be a bear cub in a tree, the DNR said. When it moved, they realized it was something else.
When shown photos of the animal, DNR wildlife biologist Jennifer Kleitch went to the location and confirmed they were authentic.
"It's a neat discovery ? a good signal that things are going well for the species," Kleitch said. "It's probably an indicator that their habitat is recovering."
How fishers could have reached the area is unknown. But there have been reports of animals crossing between the two peninsulas at the Straits of Mackinac, the 5-mile-wide area where Lakes Michigan and Huron converge, when the surface freezes in winter, she said.
Although sometimes referred to as "fisher cats," they are members of the weasel family, which also includes minks and martens. Males typically are three to four feet long and weigh seven to 13 pounds. Females are slightly smaller. They feed primarily on small and medium-sized mammals such as mice and rabbits as well as dead deer, fruits and nuts.
They're also among the few animals with the courage to attack porcupines. The nimble fisher will cling to a tree above the porcupine and repeatedly bite its one vulnerable spot ? its face, said Dwayne Etter, a DNR wildlife research specialist.
Porcupines damage softwood trees by stripping off bark, so it's good to have a predator that helps keep them in check, Etter said. Fishers rarely attack people unless they have rabies or some other disease. But they're fierce when taking on fellow mammals.
"All the members of that family have attitudes. They think they're much bigger than they actually are," Etter said. "Even tiny weasels are extremely aggressive."