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Two Sundays ago, the appointed gospel was the Parable of the Vineyard (Matthew 21:33-43). It's the day after Jesus' triumphal entry into Jerusalem. He's teaching in the temple. The Old Testament lesson was the plaintive text called "The Song of the Vineyard" (Isaiah 5:1-7). It ends with these words, "For the vineyard of the Lord of hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah are his pleasant planting; and he looked for justice, but behold, bloodshed; for righteousness, but behold, a cry!" In Isaiah, the song is followed immediately by six reproaches, six woes of judgment, not lament: woes for those who covet the possessions of others, who drink to excess, who mock God, who lie, who think they know it all, and who take bribes. Jerusalem and Judah are under God's judgment.
Before Jesus leaves the temple that day, never to return, he, too, pronounces judgment with seven reproaches, seven woes, also of judgment. New Testament scholar Daniel Harrington writes, "The Matthean Jesus as a prophet was sent to Israel, not as an opponent of Israel" (The Gospel of Matthew [2007], 327). His woes are different from Isaiah's, but the results are the same. The city will fall, the Second Temple will be torn down, and people will be killed, enslaved and scattered. The woes of Matthew's Jesus are not heard at a Sunday Eucharist-and it would be difficult to include them because of the way Matthew includes them in this day's teaching-and because of the way our lectionary is structured at this point in the church year.
In Matthew, Jesus calls his opponents, here the scribes and the Pharisees, "hypocrites." They are religious leaders who live in contradiction to what they say and what they do. Jesus denounces them for shutting the way to the kingdom of heaven for others and for themselves (23:13). There's a strong note of what we would call Anti-Judaism in the next woe: the scribes and Pharisees go out of the way to make a Gentile a Jew but are really making him or her a "son of hell" (23:15)-and not a Christian. The third woe has to do with rules about swearing that make no sense (23:16-22). The fourth is about caring about rules and not caring about "justice, mercy, and faithfulness" (23:23).
The fifth and the sixth are against people caring for what can be seen and neglecting what is in a person's heart (23:23-24, 25-26). In the seventh woe, Jesus associates their pride in their positions and way of life by naming them "sons of those who murdered the prophets" (23:31). Given the terrible history of Anti-Judaism in Christian history, and the role that Matthew and John in particular will come to play as time continues, I think you and I need to have a clear awareness of our history.
I close with this prayer from the Way of the Cross from The Book of Occasional Services (2003): Teach your Church, O Lord, to mourn the sins of which it is guilty, and to repent and forsake them; that, by your pardoning grace, the results of our iniquities may not be visited upon our children and our children's children; through Jesus Christ our Lord. -Stephen Gerth
YOUR PRAYERS ARE ASKED FOR Beckett, Mike, Dorrie, Wendell, Barbara, Dick, Karen, José, David, Robert, William, Karl, Pearl, Dorothea, Olutoyin, Eugenia, Peggy, Kathy, May, Heather, James, Heidi, Takeem, Barbara, Jean, David, Sandy, Dennis, and George; for Horace, Mitties, Scott, Anne, David, Ross, Gaylord, Harry, Louis, and Edgar, priests; for all victims of poverty, famine, violence, and disaster, especially the people of Las Vegas and Puerto Rico; for the members of our Armed Forces on active duty, especially Mark . . . GRANT THEM PEACE . . . October 22: 1905 Richard Simpson; 1910 Rose Mary Goldingham; 1920 Lucille Rutherford Bingham; 1931 Christina Reid; 1932 Elliott Daingerfield; 1944 Arthur Oliver.
THE ORDINARY FRIDAYS OF THE YEAR are observed by special acts of discipline and self-denial in commemoration of the crucifixion of the Lord.
THIS WEEK AT SAINT MARY'S. . . Sunday, October 22, The Inquirers' Class, led by Father Matthew Jacobson, will meet at 10:00 AM in The Nursery . . . Sunday, October 22, 10:00 AM, Saint Benedict's Study, Adult Forum: The Reformation: 1517-2017, led by Mrs. Grace Mudd . . . Monday, October 23, Saint James of Jerusalem, Sung Mass 12:10 PM and Mass 6:20 PM . . . The Wednesday Night Bible Study Class will not meet on October 25 . . . Friday, October 27, 6:30 PM, Centering Prayer Group, Atrium, Parish Hall, Second Floor. Please enter at 145 West Forty-sixth Street, just west of the main doors to the church, and press buzzer 1 in the vestibule. Then climb up one flight of stairs, make a U-turn, and climb up another small flight of stairs. The Atrium will be on your left . . . Saturday, October 28, Saint Simon and Saint Jude, Apostles
CLERGY NOTE . . . I am very pleased to announce that the Reverend Alison J. Turner, a priest of the diocese of Exeter, England, is assisting at weekday Masses here at Saint Mary's. Mother Turner moved to the United States when her husband, the Reverend Carl Turner, as called to serve as rector of Saint Thomas Church, Manhattan, in July 2014. She and her husband have known Saint Mary's for many years. Welcome, Alison! -S.G.
AROUND THE PARISH . . . José Vidal remains at NYU Langone Medical Center following surgery last Monday. Please keep him in your prayers . . . The annual All Souls' Day Appeal packets were mailed on Tuesday, October 10. The packet includes a prayer-request form and a return envelope. We urge you to return your prayer requests as soon as possible. An offering with the requests is customary and is deeply appreciated . . . Attendance: Last Sunday: 198.
ALL SAINTS' DAY . . . We are sorry that a scheduling conflict means that the bishop of New York will not be able to be with us for the 6:00 PM Solemn Mass on All Saints' Day, Wednesday, November 1, but we are delighted that Bishop Dietsche has given permission for the Right Reverend Geralyn Wolf, XII Bishop of Rhode Island and now an assistant bishop in the diocese of Long Island, to be celebrant and preacher for the service. Bishop Wolf has been with us as celebrant and preacher before, and she and her husband, Tom Bair, are known to many in the congregation. Bishops Dietsche's assistant has already been in touch with me about getting a date for him to be with us. All Saints' will be very joyful this year, as always. -S.G.
STEWARDSHIP CAMPAIGN . . . Pledge packets for 2018 were mailed this week. We invite you to think and pray about a pledge of time, talent, and treasure for the coming year. We are very grateful to all those who continue to support Saint Mary's and its mission.
ADULT EDUCATION . . . The Inquirers' Class, led by Father Matthew Jacobson will meet on Sunday, October 22, at 10:00 AM in the Nursery . . . Sunday, October 22, 10:00 AM, Saint Benedict's Study, The Reformation: 1517-2017: Parishioner and teacher of history and global studies Grace Mudd continues her four-part series on the history of the Reformation. The series is designed, in part, to mark the 500th anniversary of Martin Luther's Ninety-five Theses . . . The Wednesday Night Bible Study Class will not meet on October 25, due to illness in Father Jay Smith's family . . . Father Pete Powell will begin his series on the Gospel of Matthew on Sunday, November 5, at 10:00 AM, in Saint Benedict's Study.
FUNDRAISING EVENT: The International Institute of Rural Reconstruction (IIRR) will be hosting a fall fundraising event on Wednesday, October 25, 2017, in Saint Joseph's Hall 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM. Since their founding in 1960, IIRR has partnered with people in developing countries to empower rural communities to overcome poverty. IIRR's work engages with communities to educate children, create more efficient farming practices, plan for natural disasters, and nurture local entrepreneurs. IIRR's programs are staffed with local people in six countries in East Africa (Uganda, Ethiopia, Kenya, South Sudan, and Zimbabwe) and three countries in South Asia (the Philippines, Cambodia, and Myanmar.) IIRR's grassroots work is uniquely sustainable and people-centered, and IIRR has been a pioneer in the rural reconstruction movement. Tickets are $35 in advance / $40 at the door / $20 for students, and proceeds benefit IIRR's programs in South Asia and East Africa. Tickets may be purchased online. For more information, please contact Nicole Palma, who is a good friend of Saint Mary's.
ABOUT THE MUSIC . . . The services on Sunday will be played by Dr. Timothy Pyper, interim music director at the Church of the Holy Apostles in Chelsea. Tim has played for us in the past, notably during Holy Week 2016. The setting of the Mass on Sunday morning is the four-voice Missa secunda of Hans Leo Hassler, born in Nuremberg and baptized on October 26, 1564. Hassler had a musical career that bridged the late Renaissance to the early Baroque periods. His initial musical instruction was from his father, Isaak Hassler (c. 1530-1591). Hans Leo left home in 1584 to study in Venice with Andrea Gabrieli (c. 1532-1585) and become a friend and fellow pupil with Gabrieli's nephew Giovanni (c.1554-1612). Thus Hassler was one of the first of a succession of German composers to experience in Italy the musical innovations that were shaping what would later be identified as Baroque style. Hassler was recognized in his day not only as a composer, but also as an organist and a consultant on organ design. Although he was a Protestant, Hassler's early compositions were for the Roman church. His Missa secunda, first published in Nuremberg in 1599, is a model of efficient and concise text setting. The text is mostly set syllabically, and much of the musical texture is homophonic and rhythmically energetic. Often Hassler has the higher two voices and lower two voices singing phrases in playful alternation. These aspects all help to set forth the text with particular clarity.
Sunday's communion motet is also by Hassler. It is his four-voice setting of the first three verses of Psalm 96, published in Nuremberg in his Sacri concentus, 1601. Hassler's works also include two other settings of this joyful psalm text: one for five voices (Cantiones sacrae, 1591), and the other an impressive polychoral setting for twelve voices in three choirs. The more modest four-voice setting, however, is the most well-known. It presents the text in alternating homophonic and contrapuntal textures, using voice pairing at annunciate to give a hint of poly-choral flavor and add emphasis to the text.
Herbert Howells (1892-1983) was present at the 1910 premiere of Vaughan Williams's Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis. For Howells, this performance was a catalyst igniting his lifelong interest in music of the Tudor era. Howells's Master Tallis's Testament, dating from 1940, was written as a response to the Vaughan Williams Fantasia. Gradually building in intensity, this set of variations is full of delightful modal inflections and cross relations; these Tudor characteristics are masterfully integrated into Howells's compositional voice.
Zachary Wadsworth (b. 1983) wrote his Postlude in 2005. The piece was premiered on the E. M. Skinner organ at St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Rochester, NY. It is characterized by series of rhapsodic, rapidly ascending scales. Near the conclusion is a quotation (played on a solo reed) of the Gloria Patri from the composer's setting of Psalm 95. -David Hurd
HOMELESS MINISTRY . . . Donations and volunteers are needed for November 18 and December 6, our next two Drop-in Days. We need blankets, razors, and shaving cream. We also need packs of new underwear for both women and men, in all sizes; and very shortly we will need cold-weather clothing such as coats, sweaters, thermal underwear, gloves, boots, and sweatshirts. Such basic items are proving to be useful to our neighbors living without shelter . . . Attorneys from the New York Legal Assistance Group have volunteered to host a Legal Aid Day for our Homeless Ministry on Wednesday, December 6, from 2:00 to 4:00 PM in the Mission House. The attorney volunteers will dispense legal advice, along with clothes and toiletries . . . Please contact Sister Monica Clare, if you would like to volunteer for this important ministry, or if you would like to make a donation . . . We also continue to receive nonperishable food items for our outreach partner, Saint Clement's Food Pantry. Please place those items in the basket near the ushers' table at the Forty-sixth Street entrance to the church.
RECITALS AT SAINT MARY'S . . . Wednesday, November 1, 5:30 PM, All Saints' Day, Patrick Kreeger, associate organist, Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church . . . Friday, December 8, 5:30 PM, Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Dr. Keith Reas, director of music, Saint Paul's Church, Chattanooga, Tennessee.
CONCERTS AT SAINT MARY'S . . . Saturday, October 28, 2017, 8:00 PM, The Miller Theatre presents the Orlando Consort: Loire Valley in Song. From the Miller Theatre website, "The Laborde Chansonnier is one of the finest surviving French song-collection manuscripts, containing over a hundred songs by Binchois, Busnois, Dufay, Ockeghem and other fifteenth-century masters. Set with stunning illuminations and constructed with supreme skill, the Chansonnier-or songbook-was clearly produced for royal hands, eyes, and ears. The Orlando Consort sings a montage of the Chansonnier's most striking selections, complementing the pictorial magic of this magnificent Renaissance artifact" . . . Saturday, November 18, 8:00 PM, The Miller Theatre presents Vox Luminis: Royal Funeral Music Visit. From the Miller Theatre website, "For sixteenth- and seventeenth-century royalty, funeral rituals provided one last opportunity for earthly opulence. Vox Luminis explores the rich history of musical memorials, including Thomas Morley's music for the funeral of Queen Elizabeth I, and Heinrich Schütz's Musikalische Exequien for Prince Heinrich von Reuss, who commissioned the piece as part of his elaborate funeral plans. Works by Purcell and Bach round out this poignant program that both mourns death and celebrates life. Visit the Miller Theatre website for more information and to purchase tickets.
LOOKING AHEAD . . . Wednesday, November 1, All Saints' Day, Sung Matins 8:30 AM, Sung Mass 12:10 PM, Organ Recital 5:30 PM, Solemn Pontifical Mass 6:00 PM . . . Thursday, November 2, All Souls' Day, Sung Matins 8:30 AM, Sung Mass 12:10 PM, Sung Mass and Blessing of the Vault 6:00 PM . . . Sunday, November 5, Daylight Saving Time ends . . . Saturday, November 11, Veterans' Day (the church is open on the normal Saturday schedule) . . . Saturday, November 11, Cathedral Church of Saint John the Divine, 8:30 AM-5:00 PM, Diocesan Convention . . . Wednesday, November 22, Eve of Thanksgiving Day, Sung Mass 6:00 PM . . . Thursday, November 23, Thanksgiving Day, Mass 12:10 PM . . . Sunday, November 26, Last Sunday after Pentecost: Christ the King, Commitment Sunday
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Treasure Hunting This Weekend/
I think Lauren and I are going to take some time out to do some treasure hunting this weekend, which is something I haven't done since two summers ago. If you recall, it took me a while of fiddling with my detector to get the settings right I've got my metal detectors ready, and I'm looking into getting a day permit so I can take the truck on the beach. Last time, an out-of-season permit for the day cost $25 with a Green Key. That's not bad, but I'd like to get something for the year, since we go to the beach often in the summer and I like having the truck right there so we can take fishing poles, hibachis, big coolers and whatnot.


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Some interesting headlines today:
IDS seeks way to save Universal Credit
Work and pensions secretary Iain Duncan Smith is urging Treasury ministers and officials to consider extending the government's shared ownership scheme, which he believes would cut housing benefit costs. Housing benefit cannot be used to pay mortgage costs, so the scheme would cut this bill by billions, he believes, as well as promoting home ownership. "There are further conversations this week on the subject," one Whitehall source said. The FT, the Telegraph and the Independent all argue that cutting Universal Credit, a move opposed by IDS, would come at a very high cost politically for the Chancellor and the party. The Times, Page: 4 Financial Times, Page: 12 The Daily Telegraph, Page: 21 The Independent, Page: 33
David Cameron will insist that EU migrants working in Britain are banned from claiming in-work benefits for four years as part of Britain's new relationship with the EU. Implementing the measure is likely to require changes to EU treaties and the support of all 27 fellow EU countries, otherwise Britain would face legal action under discrimination laws.
The Times, Page: 1, 4 The Daily Telegraph, Page: 1,7Chancellor "secures deals" on 30% cuts
Transport, local government and environment departments, plus the Treasury, have provisionally agreed to cut their spending by an average of 30% over the next four years, George Osborne has announced. The Local Government Association said that while the settlement with the Department for Communities and Local Government did not include council funding, should town halls see a similar reduction in resources, it would leave them £16.5bn worse off by 2020. Paul Johnson, director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies, said the cuts were "very tough" and would leave some departments with half the money they had in 2010. BBC News Evening Standard, Page: 6


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Instead of rallying on bicycles in Obama support - as the Athenian Democrats saw fit last Sunday - we should be sincerely worried that the world's top job may well fall into the hands of pomo - if only because these psychotics from birth divorced themselves from reality and have since cut any remaining ties to orthodoxy (in the literal sense of 'uprightness') they might ever have had.
- Caption: Islamic Thinkers focus our thoughts on a Muslim take-over, but that is premature on their part; it might just as well be replaced with the Cuban, Venezuelan or Iranian colours; come to think of it - while we are at it - why not Kim's, in a good cause? -Besides the pomo connection there's another very disturbing cross current: black liberation theology coming straight out of Frantz Fanon's "Wretched of the Earth" (1961) call to bloody revolution.
Dr Sam Holliday of the Armiger Cromwell Center - a regular contributor to these pages - yesterday forwarded following noteworthy commentary:
On 20 March 08 I wrote we need "to recognize how black liberation theology has replaced traditional Christian teaching in many churches and how the 'Afrocentric' agenda shapes what is taught in black studies programs of our universities."
The addresses by Rev. Jeremiah Wright to the NAACP on 27 Apr 08 and at the National Press Club on 28 Apr 08 illustrate black liberation theology. They also illustrate black separatism and postmodern thought. Here are my opinions on this public relations blitz. These presentations are well researched, carefully crafted and skillfully delivered illustrations of how to deceive, deflect and manipulate. They are about Wright's ego, pride, and self importance--not about the "black church", or about the unity and common good of our nation, or even about Obama's candidacy.
The Jesus of whom Wright speaks is not Jesus the redeemer who died for mankind's sins, but Jesus the liberator of the oppressed. This idea originated with the revolutionary Frantz Fanon and was developed by Marxist elements within the Catholic Church of Latin America. It was officially rejected and harshly admonished by Pope John Paul II. For Wright traditional Christianity is flawed, but he claims true religion can be found in the "black faith tradition".
Wright questions the United States as one indivisible nation--he favors diversity and multiculturalism. He turns patriotism upside down by stressing the failings of the United States rather than a willingness to sacrifice, by placing global interests over national interests. In his addresses he makes no reference to love, support, and defense of the United States. Rather he argues against those policies and actions of the United States government that he considers unfair, unjust, or oppressive of the disadvantaged.
He clearly sees change in accordance with black liberation theology as "progress" toward a Utopian world of equals built on the ashes of the modern era of Western culture. He seeks the deconstruction of the concepts and institutions associated with traditional Western culture. He wants subjectivity to replace objectivity--which he considers illusions created by white men to maintain their power and exploit the disadvantaged.
His emphasis on language and linguistics is typical of postmodernists for whom language concerning interpersonal relations is a way to manipulate. He seeks to change attitudes, values, and norms through language in order to achieve a "turn"--a major paradigm shift--in Western culture. His addresses illustrate how a demagogue can use cherished values to advance his own interests and agenda.
One of the merits of freedom of speech is that it allows others to make better judgments. On 29 Apr 08 Obama condemned what Rev. Wright said at the National Press Club. There is no way of knowing if this is just a necessary political move, even though he agrees with many of Wright's views. It remains to be seen if people will make the correct judgments about the threat to the security of the United States from black liberation theology, black separatism, and postmodern thought.
Dr. Sam Holliday, Director Armiger Cromwell Center
Dr Sanity: "OBAMA 'S MORAL RELATIVE [ISM]"
"Crazy Uncle"? I suspect that the Reverend Wright is Obama's true moral relative. (...) >>>
Related: "Postmodernism: Rhetoric, Tactics and Attitude"


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"A Mysterious Force" is an exhibition by Paula Förstner and Beatriz M. Barrio, who both come from Madrid, Spain. The two artists have come to Raizvanguarda to feel the inspiration of the Portuguese nature surrounding the school as well as to enjoy the beautiful work rooms of the school.
Both artists work with topics such as memories, womanhood and the influence of natural light.
This collaborative exhibition rose from the desire to display the works they have created during their stay at Raizvanguarda, almost as a ceremonial ending to their visit.
The exhibition will be held in Raizvanguarda's rooms on Saturday the 26th of August at 8 pm.
To learn more about the artists' intentions of this exhibition, you can read more on the facebook event.


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S&P 500 component O'Reilly Automotive, Inc. reported net income above Wall Street's expectations for the third quarter. O'Reilly Automotive offers automotive aftermarket parts, tools, supplies, and accessories to individual customers and professional installers.
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O'Reilly Automotive Earnings Cheat Sheet for the Third Quarter
Results: Net income for the auto parts store rose to $148.4 million ($1.10 per share) vs. $116.5 million (82 cents per share) in the same quarter a year earlier. This marks a rise of 27.4% from the year earlier quarter.
Revenue: Rose 7.7% to $1.54 billion from the year earlier quarter.
Actual vs. Wall St. Expectations: ORLY beat the mean analyst estimate of $1 per share. Analysts were expecting revenue of $1.51 billion.
Quoting Management: Commenting on the Company's quarterly results, Greg Henslee, Co-President and CEO stated, "We are pleased to report another successful quarter. Our results are highlighted by a solid 4.8% comparable store sales increase on top of an extremely strong comparable store sales increase of 11.1% last year, a 50 basis point improvement in gross margin and a record-breaking 15.7% operating margin. The continued trend of solid comparable store sales increases is the direct result of the hard work and commitment to unsurpassed customer service from each of our dedicated Team Members. Our relentless focus on expense control, at all levels, led to the 130 basis point improvement in adjusted operating margin. I am very pleased with the performance of Team O'Reilly and would like to thank all of our Team Members for their commitment to exceeding customer expectations."
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The company has now seen net income rise in three straight quarters. In the second quarter, net income rose 34.3% and in the first quarter, the figure rose 5.1%.
Revenue has risen the past four quarters. Revenue increased 7.1% to $1.48 billion in the second quarter. The figure rose 8% in the first quarter from the year earlier and climbed 11.6% in the fourth quarter of the last fiscal year from the year-ago quarter.
The company beat estimates last quarter after being in line with expectations in the second quarter with net income of 96 cents per share.
Looking Forward: For next quarter, analysts have a more positive outlook about the company's expected results. The average estimate for the fourth quarter is 83 cents per share, up from 81 cents ninety days ago. For the fiscal year, the average estimate has moved up from $3.59 a share to $3.61 over the last ninety days.
Competitors to Watch: Advance Auto Parts, Inc. , AutoZone, Inc. , The Pep Boys – Manny, Moe & Jack , U.S. Auto Parts Network, Inc. .
Investing Insights: Here's Why Chipotle's Stock Keeps Winning.
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By Kevin Rabalais
Readers assumed it was a pseudonym. The author, some said, had to be a man. Surely it couldn't be as simple—as complex—as it seemed: in 1943, the twenty-three-year-old Ukrainian-born Clarice Lispector, daughter of Russian-Jewish émigrés living in exile in Brazil, published a debut novel that generated the kind of literary celebrity that no longer exists. Around the phenomenon and mystery of the writer who would later say, "I am so mysterious that I don't even understand myself" and—in one of her many beautiful and elegant contradictions—"My mystery is that I have no mystery," critics and readers established a new name for this literary wonder: the young author became known as nothing less than "Hurricane Clarice."
A new voice, piercing and prophetic, arrived with the publication of Near to the Wild Heart. On top of her beguiling prose, Lispector also possessed another rarity. As the translator Gregory Rabassa recalled after meeting her, the author "looked like Marlene Dietrich and wrote like Virginia Woolf."
In Why This World: A Biography of Clarice Lispector, Benjamin Moser writes about how Hélène Cixous believed that Lispector was "what Kafka would have been had he been born a woman." Or, in Cixous's own words: "if Rilke had been a Jewish Brazilian born in the Ukraine. If Rimbaud had been a mother, if he had reached the age of fifty. If Heidegger could have ceased being German."
A visionary author of searing insight, Lispector is the kind of writer who makes you reach for your pencil. You read her books—among them Água Viva, The Hour of the Star, The Passion According to G.H. and Soulstorm—and underline passage after passage. You make notes in the margins. Then you find yourself eager to go out and spread the word. For as Moser writes, "The soul exposed in her work is the soul of a single woman, but within it one finds the full range of human experience."
Over the past few days, the writer Daniel Stephensen and I have talked about our admiration for Lispector's work. We've gone through our well-thumbed copies of her books to re-read some of our favorite passages, many of which involve one of Lispector's central concerns: the act of creation. We'll both be writing more about Lispector in future installments of Sacred Trespasses, but for now, we want to share a few sections of her inimitable work:
"After successive failures, I have also reduced myself, but I still want to discover the world and its God."
"Remember that, no matter what I write, my basic material is the word. So this story will consist of words that form phrases from which there emanates a secret meaning that exceeds both words and phrases."
"I write for nothing and for no one. Anyone who reads me does so at his own risk. I don't make literature: I simply live in the passing of time. The act of writing is the inevitable result of my being alive."
"I cut the pain of which I write to you and give you my restless joy."
"Of one thing I am certain: this narrative will combine with something delicate: the creation of an entire human being who is as much alive as I am. I have taken care of her because my mandate is simply to reveal her presence so that you may recognize her on the street, moving ever so cautiously because of her quivering frailty."
"I want to live many minutes within a single minute. I want to multiply myself to take in even the desert regions that give the idea of eternal immobility."
"The secret harmony of disharmony: I don't want something already made but something still being torturously made."


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Christmas means different things to different people. On this Christmas Eve I want to share what Christmas means to me.
Christmas means a day with my wife and daughter at home in front of the fire in pajamas. Exchanging gifts in the morning. Special breakfast and dinner. Just relaxing and taking a break from the busy life and activities that we partake in any other day of the year. To see the joy and happiness my daughter displays is better than any material gift that could ever be given. I also like to try and find the perfect gift for my wife. Don't always succeed but it's still fun to try and she is always happy with whatever she gets, perfect or not.
Christmas means getting together with family and watching my daughter and all the other young nieces and nephews enjoy spending time together. Regardless of what is going on the innocence of youth is inspiring to watch. They can ignore anything and everything and just enjoy the simple things in life. If we as adults could learn to do the same we would find a lot more joy in the world and be able to spread a lot of joy to others.
Christmas means yummy candy and cookies. My wife makes a bunch of candy for family and friends each year. And of course I have to taste test to make sure they are sufficiently prepared before we share them. All the goodies that are brought into work and given by other friends and family to us are always something to look forward to. Especially for a person such as myself who has an immense sweet tooth!
Christmas means church services and activities. Tonight we had an awesome family church service where kids came in and the Christmas story was told in song and verse by the Praise Kids choir. All the kids in the church got to go around the sanctuary singing Jingle Bells while collecting different items that help tell different parts of the Christmas story and in the end they put them altogether to make the manger Jesus was born in. They then sung Happy Birthday to Jesus. Not just tonight, but the services and activities the weeks leading up to Christmas were very moving and inspirational.
Most importantly though, to me Christmas means love. Love for friends and family and love received from friends and family. And the best important love of all, the love of Jesus. Christmas is time to celebrate the birth of Jesus. As a pastor at my church said recently, Christmas celebrates the day Jesus was born to wage war on sin so that he could declare victory over sin many years later on Easter. The best and the only gift we ever need was given to us when Jesus was born into the world. Because of this gift we can have ever lasting eternal life if we only choose to accept the gift. How could anyone possibly ever refuse such a gift? Have you accepted the gift? If not, why not do so today?
What does Christmas mean to you?
Merry Christmas to all!


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"Just For You" A Tribute to Sam Cooke
"Just For You…"
"I was boooooorn by a river, in a little tent. Oh and just like the river I've been running, ever since. It's been a loooooong a long time comin' but I know; a change gonna come. Oh yes it will." -Sam Cooke
Have you ever met someone who makes your heart sing? Have you ever listened to a song that you felt was written for you? Have you ever been introduced to something or someone by word of mouth only to have it/them become such a blessing all you can do is shout about their goodness in your life?!
I have. His name is Sam Cooke. One of the greatest and most influential singers and songwriters of all times. As a child, I remember my parents always listening to music: my Mother listened while she was cleaning the house or doing something she didn't too much care for. She would tell me, "Music motivates me during boring tasks and I love to dance!" My Father listened to music after work and on the weekends. He would tell me, "Music relaxes me; good music is something no one can ever take from me. I know it exists." Two separate reasons to love music, one great big inspired 5 year old.
Over the years, I learned to take my parents advice and listened to songs that encouraged me. R&B is my favorite; taught me about how hard people love. Gospel music seemed to bring everyone around together. Classical music helped me to concentrate while studying, and children's songs helped me read and write the words to songs. The patterns of the music helped me to march to the beat of my own drums. Sam Cooke helped with it all.
I have never in my lifetime heard a voice or felt so connected to anyone like Sam Cooke. His voice is so clean and crisp. His words so simple, yet powerful. He spoke about earthly love and his love of The Lord in a way that as a child, I couldn't tell who he was speaking about. He taught me that a love song should be what you would say to your God even if you never got a chance to experience it on Earth. Even his sad lyrics made me happy, for I could tell he gave it all and truly connected with his passions, thennnn his audience. He reached EVERY race during a time when division was completely acceptable. He wrote his own music and planned his career even as a child. He used to sing to popsicle sticks! He worked hard, loved hard and played hard. Growing up, his songs would have all the adults in the room crying or waving their hands in the air, because he soothed their souls. Sam Cooke was a regular in our household- one of those artists my Mother would dance her heart out listening to and my Father's singing could be heard through the vents. My very first CD was his. I'm pretty sure I took it out my Dad's collection, but he never asked for it back. I used to listen to his greatest hits daily. Still do. I cannot not listen to him when in the kitchen. He has taught me so much and helped me through some difficult times. Now that's a great artist: When your music reaches a child's heart decades later, causing them to inquire about their history and believe that a change will in fact, come. I cook with a song of Sam in my heart. I never can get the words out as to how much I love and admire this man's work, because it is deeply rooted. I just always prayed for his help and inspiration. As an adult, I was gifted a biography written by Peter Guralnick titled, "Dream Boogie: The Triumph of Sam Cooke." A wonderful read indeed, but there is one excerpt that sums up why I love him so:
"It is said Mr. Cooke absorbed every lesson that was put in front of him and said, 'I don't even know why I do what I do. When I do it, it just comes.'"
Talk about humility and letting God use you. Today marks his birthday. He would have been 87. It is because of his music and seeing what he did to the hearts of millions that I am able to walk upright and do what I do. (Even through the struggles.) May he rest in peace knowing a change is coming, one person at a time.
Twistin' The Night Away,
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Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs) have been a hot topic for quite some time. In the hype created around it, the media and security specialists have ventured to provide opinions and explanations on various aspects, including what an APT is, and how to protect against it. For example, security vendors offering solutions against APTs often claim that "Traditional signature-based security won't protect you from APTs". They also explain that they offer "a signature-less, virtualized detection engine", and other modern technologies that protect against APTs. But are they really 100% effective?
And are all these claims valid?
In our previous article Setting the record straight: what's an APT?, we clarified what exactly constitutes an APT, in an attempt to set the record straight with regards to APT definitions and characteristics. Now, let's take a closer look at claims about APT detection.
In this article we'll talk about how modern security solutions detect malware, and how the virtualization/ sandboxing technique can be evaded.
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Firstly, it is important to point out that since the 1990s, anti-malware solutions have not been limited to signatures only , and there is no modern antivirus based only on signatures that maintains at least an acceptable level of malware detection. Many modern security suites which include antivirus – such as the Bitdefender products – are based on the many components which are responsible for detecting malware:
Heuristics detection analyzes new, unknown malware based on the static binary analysis
Generic detection discovers all (including currently unseen yet) samples of a known malware family
Signature-based detection detects known malware samples which do not mutate
Behavior analysis and blocking identifies new threats based on application monitoring.
There are many other components, but these four are directly related to the detection of malware, including APTs. So signature-based detection is only one of the many methods utilized by the modern security solutions.
2. Virtualization / sandboxing
Many APT security vendors emphasize the use of virtualization/sandboxing techniques in their solutions. These two attractive terms may lure the non-technical audience into assuming that such technologies would indeed provide a better detection rate for APTs or even for all types of malware.
Generally, this is not the case. Such solution typically uses a virtualized copy of the operating system, and runs the suspicious file there. As a result, the file is executed in a controlled, isolated (sandboxed) environment where its actions are carefully monitored, and where even a malicious file wouldn't do any harm. Then, its actions are analyzed, and the decision whether a file is malicious or not is made. In theory, this approach is expected to detect all kinds of new malware, including threats never seen before. In practice, however, this approach has limited applicability because it is fairly easy to escape detection, by employing one or a combination of the following four methods:
• Environment analysis. The environment where the piece of malware is being executed is typically static and consistent, with all instances of the product emulating the same or a very similar environment, which allows the malware threat to easily detect it is being analyzed. Consequently, it will cease any malicious activity and will pretend to be a clean application.
There are many clues that can give away the identity of a virtual environment, including but not limited to:
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◦ The guest environment lacks traces of prior usage – recent documents empty, the only e-mail client present is not configured, no bookmarks in browsers, no extra icons on desktop and so on.
◦ The user activity on a guest is unusual. For example, the file attachment received by the e-mail is executed but the mouse does not move and no key presses are detected.
• Dependency on user activity, Time delay and Multi-stage infection are the other three methods that can enable a piece of malware to escape detection. Learn what they're all about from the whitepaper A Candid View on APT Protection: Debunking myths and choosing the right providers.
These are the well-known ways to escape the sandbox detection and they cannot be reliably "closed," no matter how much effort the security vendor puts into it. This is why the sandbox detection cannot be considered reliable against targeted attacks, where the malware writer knows the target, and the security solution they are using.


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A phone call that changed her life, a wrong number which she dialled by mistake, ultimately proved to be the right one. She has left the trauma of the past far behind, she has overcome the agony: this is Lalita's story.
Lalitaben Bansi, a twenty six year old girl tied the knot with Ravi Rajput in Mumbai.
The marriage hall was full of happy, cheerful faces who had gathered to bless the union of these two individuals. It was evident from the happy and content face of Lalita that she has truly walked past the trauma she faced in past.
But, another well pleased person, who was standing quietly, was Kanchan Gupta, wife of renowned Reconstructive Plastic Surgeon Dr Ashok Gupta, who helped give Lalita a new lease of life.
Speaking to My Medical Mantra Kanchan Gupta said, "Lalita is like my daughter and I am very happy to see her getting married. The agony she has suffered from is huge, but finally her worries are over. She is starting her life afresh and I am here to bless the couple"
Lalita was 21 years old, when acid was thrown on her, in her native town of Azamgarh, Uttar Pradesh. When she had to be operated on by Dr Gupta's in Bombay Hospital, she had minimal chances of survival.
As Dr Gupta recalled, "Lalita was in critical condition. She was severely burned and was extremely malnourished. Also, she was suffering through severe infection due to wounds. After doing her check-up, I began her treatment with cleaning her wounds. The procedure went on for 2 to 3 days."
Lalita's complete recovery was not an easy goal to achieve. Dr Gupta performed 70 surgeries on her over the period of 3 years. Her facial organs had to be reconstructed. Lalita's father used to work on a petrol pump and was not in position to afford her advance treatment. He received help from Dr Ashok Gupta who waived his fees and gathered groups of people who extended financial help to Lalita.
But, leaving all the past behind Lalita is now prepared to begin a new inning in life. "I am extremely happy. I wish to live my life with a new start", Lalita said after her wedding.
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The wedding ceremony also received many helping hands. Lalita's story came into notice of Hrishikesh Kadam who is the chairperson of Udyami Maharashtra organization. Along with his friends he came forward to organise the wedding. All the expenses of the weddings were shared by the set of people as per their capacity.
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Sue Williams swears she doesn't hate men. "I just hate the violence," says the 38-year-old artist. And her angry, scathingly funny new exhibition at the 303 Gallery in the SoHo section of Manhattan corroborates her claim. The show, whose cartoonish paintings and clunky sculptures tackle such topics as infidelity, battery and rape, could easily be titled "Men at Their Worst."
This is the third, and best, New York show for Ms. Williams, who has enjoyed a strong underground following for several years. It stands out in a season in which several women artists -- including Cindy Sherman, Deborah Kass and Kiki Smith -- have been showing work that takes increasingly angry aim at sexism in and out of the art world.
Ms. Williams, the daughter of a civil engineer and a newspaper editor, was brought up in Chicago Heights, a suburb of Chicago. She began drawing as a child -- in high school she admired the bristling, folkish work of Jim Nutt and H. C. Westermann -- and earned her bachelor of fine arts degree at the California Institute of the Arts in Valencia. Cal Arts, as it is known, is famous for having produced many art stars of the 80's -- David Salle, Eric Fischl, Troy Brauntuch and Ross Bleckner among them. As Ms. Williams recalls it, the school was "a man's world then," one that also largely ignored the teaching of basic studio skills, like painting.
While at Cal Arts she made small paintings populated with stick figures that she refers to today as psychedelic doodles. "Everything had to be Conceptual at Cal Arts, or else it was suspected of being naive," she says. After graduating in 1976, she spent several years "goofing off -- self-destructive behavior, we call it nowadays." By the mid-80's, she was living in New York and making art again. The stick figures started to fill in.
Over the past few years, Ms. Williams's paintings have dealt more generally with sexism and the position of women in society. The dark anger in her latest efforts is personal, and comes from especially brutal experience. During her hiatus from art, she spent several years in a succession of violent relationships with men, one of whom, she says, shot her and left her for dead.
The images she depicts in her new show often come from her own life, or the lives of women around her. The graffiti-like writing that she adds to both her paintings and sculptures -- a mixture of distressing dialogue, jokes and accusations -- often consists of phrases drawn from things said to her.
One painting, which traces the evolution of an extramarital affair, is highlighted by the observation that "reality is a bit embarrassing." The work depicts a man and his mistress in disjointed flagrante delicto; their bodies mesh with an image of his deserted wife, eating Oreos. This mixture of heads, limbs and midsections, with its tumbling visual energy, is wreathed by smaller scenes, images of confrontations between the man and his wife, the wife and her friends. Woven among the images are Ms. Williams's usual free-floating but familiar asides: "Her hands are like ice" or "Why? Oh, just because I can. I don't really like the act of sex or him."
In "Irresistible," a full-scale sculpture of a battered woman, Ms. Williams adds insult to injury by dotting the figure with words of abuse -- "Just leave if you're really not getting off" and "I didn't do that. Have you been seeing someone else?"
Today, after many years of intensive therapy, Ms. Williams lives in Brooklyn and has recently married. She sees all her art as a form of consciousness raising, and says of her present work: "I couldn't imagine doing any of these things a little while ago. I think men don't know the experience of being a woman, just like I don't know the experience of being black. There's just so much more that you don't know until it's put out there."
What Ms. Williams puts out is a tragicomic combination of brutal reality and unexpectedly loopy humor. Her crude cartoon style, which gives her images a sense of naivete, also reflects her desire to convince viewers that the situation of women is often "so horrible it's ridiculous."
As to the autobiographical nature of her new work, Ms. Williams claims that she was led to it by her realization that many women shared her problems.
"It became an outside anger instead of just my life," she said. With the slightly elliptical understatement that characterizes some of the phrases in her paintings, she refers to her art as "a nice way to get out these things that drive me nuts."


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I have fun with milk bath shoots. It is a bit odd if you think about someone in a bath of milk, but the images more than makeup for the oddity. This is the first one I've done since the move to L.A.. It was fun dabbling in it again, albeit in a much smaller bathroom than I used in Atlanta. Lindsey was great as she hadn't done anything like this before.
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I have committed a sin, guys.
I have not updated my blog for more than a month!! Goodness gracious my November archive will be none!!!!
So sorry guys, no I did not forget nor give up on my blog, it's just that I have so many things on my hands that I couldn't type (if you get it)
Although this event was in October (last day of October so it's sort of November), I will still add this in my life journal.
School & work has been sucking the joy out of my youth.. You ask me, 'then why did you commit yourself to work??'
I need some income to feed my expenses that my weekly allowance isn't able to support. No I don't spend on luxurious goods or expensive materials, but why I spend so much per week or should I say per month?
Let me answer that question: I have no idea either.
Probably on food and some miscellaneous items. I'm pretty impulsive.. I'm saving as much as I can now though hahahah. So back to the topic.
So I went to HHN on the last day of the event dates, because my friend thinks there will be fewer people. Erm.. I guess it's the same volume in every dates.
I want to write about the whole event in that 31 October 2014, because there's something I want to rant.
We, a bunch of friends, plan to meet at 7pm at Vivocity and take the monorail to USS. I met Fian at 5pm and we're deciding between taking the train or bus. We took the bus instead.
The bus was moving rather slowly and there was a jam in the expressway. Time was moving faster than the dog (I can't say God) damn bus & I was feeling anxious.
Because some of them are already there and they are not close to me (or should I say I have never spoken to them before)(they're friends of friends). Furthermore I have yet to eat dinner then.
So Fian & I alighted the bus in Bukit Batok because we thought we'd take the cab instead + the Hailo code was still valid which is the $10 code.
Now this is the part.
When using the app Hailo, you don't get a driver immediately. So we searched so like 4-5 times then we got this driver called Mr Lim XXX Wah. Name is not exposed to protect this cabbie & also I don't wanna get sued.
But you get the hunch yah.
We were able get track his taxi in the GPS in the taxi app, which is pretty cool because it tells customers how long more till the cabby arrived at your destination and where is his location.
Apparently, our situation is 'passenger-look-out-for-driver' instead of both ways.
We saw our taxi, I went out the curb and flag it but turns out he just drove past us.
I can't even express my astonishment & the look at Fian's face was rather funny. He flipped the cabby off.
So the taxi driver called me & I explained what the f*ck happened & he was apologising and had to do a big round to pick us up. TIME WASTED.
When he was here, he seemed approachable and then we boarded the cab.
Time picked up: 6.02pm.
He was rather easy to talk to but he did not give an assuring feel to Fian. He said this kind of driver makes him feel unsafe.
Let me explain: this cabbie:
1. Don't know his way (He said it was his second day as a cabbie & he just returned from overseas. How unlucky of us)
2. He relies on GPS; I mean, drivers should not be using phone while driving & even though he was navigating the phone on a phone holder, he kept using other applications which brings to no. 3.
3. He was talking & texting on his phone while driving. & when I meant texting I meant group Whatsapp. I was baffled like what the actual f*ck can you concentrate on your driving?! (Bonus: He was swearing while talking to his other driver friends)
4. He swerved in & out of lane many times. Like umm why do you keep cutting into other drivers & going back in again??
5. He jam breaks. I thought my head was gonna hit the back of the passenger head rest in front of me.
6. This is the best: This driver stray to the OPPOSITE lane DANGEROUSLY. A car did the same so I presumed he thought it'll be safe to do the same. There was a vehicle in front of my taxi so we (including the cabbie) couldn't see if there's any incoming car. There WAS, just that it was not speeding and the distance was enough for that driver to slow down so as to not collide with my taxi.
I was getting annoyed because we still hadn't reached our destination and at that point of time I asked myself 'does this f*cking cabbie knows where is he f*cking going??'
We reached Vivocity's drop-off point at 7.15pm. Took longer than an hour. Wow, bravo. Should've just stayed in the bus. Hailo, I'm disappointed in you.
I felt really bad for making them wait and being so late. I quickly have my dinner so I gobbled down my food and we all head to take the tram.
Wow, the crowd was really no joke. Expected lah, everyone's going for either HHN or Spooks.
|Thought the ticket will be in Halloween theme but it's normal
The queues to all the Scare Zones & Haunted House was a level higher than the one in Vivo. The person doing the snake queue must be an expert. Sure, the queue was constantly moving but the time spent in the queue v.s. time experiencing the attractions were a little of an unbalanced ratio.
|Pardon the poor quality.
|I couldn't afford a good camera
|Don't even know why is Khairi there I'm not even close to him
Up till here, I seem to be negative don't I? Hahahaha the post was filled with rants & complaints..
|The 1st Haunted House we went
I hope the scare actors don't take it to heart, the swearing weren't meant to you!
|This actor is really into his character! Very good!
|I wonder how long it take to remove the make up..
In between the HH & SZ, there was also another attraction that is like a play. It was really very well-done!! The acting & acrobats were as if done by experts. Unfortunately due to dark lighting and bad camera, the photos I took didn't managed to come out nicely...
|I like how the 'monsters' interact with the guests
|Hostage in Hell
|Some kind of cult chant that is tormenting the sacrifice
|Look at how real! Almost called a Bomoh
This was the ending, and the most thrilling part! See the 2 actors held on a rope? It depicts the minions of hell thirsty for fresh blood and the 2 captured victims slowly got dropped lower and lower, until they hit the ground and the minions rush to devour them. I could here the audience gasped as the 2 actors got lower and lower to the ground.
|While queuing
The next day, I noticed I had rashes formed at my back as well as my neck area. Which obviously freaked me out because it was like small tiny bumps and it was the 1st time I had such rashes. I didn't know what I was allergic to. Maybe the fog and the water sprayed at me during the walk in the HH.
Plus the sweat. Yuck.
So I had to see the doctor for my sore throat AND the rashes. Wonderful.
Will I go HHN next year? Maybe not.
Maybe a party or a small private celebration.


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I was talking to a friend about "Stories" the other day, and I had a revelation. I originally started calling (name redacted) my abuser because I couldn't think of a name that perfectly captured her essence better than her own. As time has gone by, the mission has become global instead of local. In the global sense, it is truly about bringing behavior to light in the most clinical way I can think, and I refer to myself as having an enabler personality all the time. I also want to show that abusers are three dimensional people. They are so loved because they are so charming and brilliant because that's just how it is… in public. Behind closed doors are skeletons held behind even deeper closets. It's a duality that causes pain in a codependency, but that doesn't mean that they cease to be real people in the process. They are fallible and human, just like everyone else. In fact, I often think that people are abusers because they're trying to keep people away with barbed wire, locked in their own hell. People become abusers because they have no idea how to deal with their own pain.
Abusers are generally so interested in hiding from their own pain that they live on the dopamine that abusive behavior provides. Enablers live on the dopamine caused by being "the one that helps." Over time, the abuser realizes that because the enabler is always "the one who helps," he/she can do pretty much anything to that person without receiving consequences, and the stakes with control get higher. The longer the abuser and enabler are entrenched in the pattern, the harder it is for both parties to get away from the dopamine that feeds them… because the enabler doesn't realize that they're making it worse and the abuser doesn't realize they're ratcheting up their dopamine levels by actively trying to "get away with something." The bond gets stronger as the abuser feels the enabler wants to leave, because then they'll do just enough to get the enabler's attention, but not enough for the enabler to see that in time, the abuser's behavior will go back to their normal because the need for dopamine slowly starts creeping back for one. and after a while, for both of them.
Lather. Rinse. Repeat.
Both parties are guilty toward contributing to the toxicity, because once the brain chemicals are in play, the addiction to higher dopamine levels makes everything feel like an alternate version of normal.
Enablers need to take responsibility for letting the dependency get so great that when the cat-and-mouse routine works, it reinforces the dopamine habit and it gets harder for the enabler to talk about what's going on in their lives.
However, it is not a 50/50 acceptance of fault. Abusers need to start recognizing their behavior and find ways to stop it. Most people don't intentionally mean to be monsters. They evolve into it. The earlier you catch it, the better.
Over time, both parties learn to get dopamine from other sources, but coming back around to the same enabler, in almost 90% of cases, turns into both parties falling back into old patterns, instead of using the skills they've learned with people who've never met them before.
It's hard to admit you're an abuser, because it means accepting that you agitate people for dopamine. It's embarrassing to admit you're an enabler, because it means that you've let people use you for dopamine, you liked it because it made you feel important, and you didn't stop it yourself.
It's hard to admit what you'll do intentionally to make yourself feel better, but in all relationships you do it to a certain extent. The problem is when the imbalance becomes too great, and the harm done to both people goes undiagnosed.


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Giveaway: 2 Roundtrip Tickets to Anywhere with JetBlue
Hello, my beautiful people! Right now, just minutes before I started to write this blog post, I took a look at Jetblue's "A Taste of Home" video and couldn't hold back my tears. (See video, and giveaway information below).
I try to visit the Dominican Republic at least once a year. Not just because of its beautiful beaches and culture, but because how important it is for me to continue traditions and celebrate life with my family and relatives. I pray that one day I could do the same with my own children.
"A Taste of Home"
In November, JetBlue invited a group of families of Dominican heritage to meet for dinner and a discussion about Dominican culture at La Casa del Mofongo, a restaurant in Washington Heights in NYC.
"The tickets are an opportunity because you know how hard it is for a big family to travel."
At the end of what was supposed to be a complimentary dinner, they were handed what appeared at first to be a bill. But, inside they discovered free roundtrip tickets to the Dominican Republic. While 28 people at the dinner got the tickets, JetBlue followed The Delgadillo family as they visited Santo Domingo for a joyful family reunion. Watch the video here, or below.
"We are hard working people and coming back to our country is like a dream come true."
Upon watching the video and seeing how this family reunited with their grandmother, I thought about my own maternal grandmother. She's no longer with us, but my cousins, sisters, and I have so many wonderful memories of visiting San Francisco de Macoris as kids. Life was much simpler back then.
Now a days I spend more time in Bani and Santo Domingo when I visit the Dominican Republic, but San Francisco de Macoris feels like home too. I also want to visit other areas. It's a small island, but there's so much to see!
JetBlue recognizes the importance of bringing people home, particularly within the Dominican community.
Mercedes Sanchez in Bani.
Group Giveaway: 1 winner gets 2 Roundtrip tickets to any JetBlue destination.
In order to qualify, follow the directions on the Rafflecopter below which includes watching the video and leaving a comment on my blog below. The more you do/share, the more "points" you get.
Watch the Delgadillo's family reunion here:
Giveaway closes on December 21, 2014 at 11:59PM Pacific.
Good luck, and Enjoy!
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Choo Choo! All aboard the North York Moors Railway!
You'll be whisked back to a bygone era as you head through Heartbeat land. The North Yorkshire Moors Railway is a great way to see some of the timeless scenery in this beautiful part of the country. Starting at Pickering and heading as far as Whitby you can enjoy a whistle stop tour of the Moors by steam!
The run to Whitby is particularly special as you can indulge in some fish and chips by the bay before heading back. It's the perfect day out- and you can be sure that even the youngest of travellers will be entertained! The train carriages are the way trains ought to be: comfortable wooden and upholstered booths with big bold windows framing the wonderful views. The friendly staff are warm and welcoming, and will often allow a photo or two for little steam buffs!
For an extra special day be sure to take a look at the NYMR events calendar. Throughout the year they have a range of galas, gigs, and weekends which will suit most tastes. Music, classic cars, and seasonal activities prove popular with families and enthusiasts alike. It's an ideal attraction for a holiday in the North Yorkshire Moors.


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No contracts to lock into here! Sure Lisa believes that most coaching engagements average 6-months to experience great results in a lot of areas, however she wants you to be fully engaged each month without any pressure. ...and yes, every once in awhile we can laser focus on one item for a month and get the results you desire. This monthly package includes two (90-minute sessions) or three (60-minute sessions) with Lisa. *Most coaching engagements with Lisa lean towards the two, 90 minute sessions each month for the maximization of time and results.
Once you are confirmed for a monthly coaching engagement you will receive via email a coaching package and information sheets to make the most of your one-on-one coaching sessions with Lisa Godfrey. In addition, if you are not ready to commit to the monthly engagement you have the option for a one-time coaching session for $650 under the "RENEW" Coaching Product. This is a guaranteed, get something out of it — worth every penny — make it happen session.


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A superb two bedroom apartment extending to c.82sq.m. with bright airy accommodation. Ideally situated overlooking a well maintained courtyard area the property offers comfortable living in a superb location adjacent Ballycoolin Industrial area and Blanchardstown Shopping Centre. Comprises hallway, large lounge, fully fitted kitchen complete with all appliances, two double bedrooms and bathroom. There is also ample communal parking. Viewing highly recommended.
• Built 2007.
• Ample communal parking.
• Large 2 bed/ 2nd floor.
• c.82 sq.m.
• Electric heating.
• Excellent condition.
• Fully fitted kitchen complete with applianes.
• Superb location.
• €1300.00 management fees.
BER: C1 BER No.111317913 Energy Performance Indicator:161.97 kWh/m²/yr
Entrance Hall 5.90m x 1.14m With maple flooring.
Lounge 5.84m x 4.64m Large lounge with patio doors overlooking manicured green area, maple flooring.
Kitchen 4.06m x 3.28m Maple fitted units, tiled floor, complete with appliances.
(1) Bedroom 4.86m x 2.77m With laminate flooring and fitted wardrobes.
(2) Bedroom 3.67m x 3.07m With laminate flooring and fitted wardrobes.
Bathroom 2.34m x 2.06m With bath, shower, W.C & W.H.B.


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By now, we're all pretty aware of the gap in publishing, and the lack of diverse voices and stories being heard. #WeNeedDiverseBooks really picked up speed in 2014, but the problem remains largely the same. The only way to change it, is to read diverse books. Buy them, borrow them, check them out of the library. Show publishers that we need these voices. We need to step out of our own shoes and into those of someone radically different from us, in a place we may never go. How else will we learn? Sure, these accounts might be fiction, but they are written by real people who really experienced them.
I made a list for Bustle of 25 Books (by women!) to Diversify Your Shelves. I'm really proud of the way it turned out, and I had a lot of help to make it the best it could be. It's an international mix of new releases, YA, adult fiction, all written by women within the last ten years or so.
Check out the link above and let me know your favorite books to branch out into! I've improved over the course of last year but am looking for new voices and books every day!
*Info from the graphic is from WeNeedDiverseBooks.org, regarding children's books.


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Posted: January 25, 2010
A radio program called Attention Talk Radio, an Internet-based radio show, did a program about Cogmed Working Memory Training and how it is being used by health care professionals as a tool to curb problems related to attention. Ali Kaufman, a coach for Cogmed Qualified Practitioner, Dr. Judith Ramos in Boca Raton FL, discussed how she utilizes Cogmed training to change the fundamental processes of the brain for people who struggle with organization, concentration, and focus.
Kaufman says in the interview, "[Cogmed] is creating a better stamina for paying attention and it's increasing the brain's ability to do what it needs to do – it is building a better boundary to manage emotion and distraction, which is really what gets in the way for people who have some sort of attention issue."
Ali Kaufman talked about the cognitive functions and strategies that are necessary for people to stay organized and on task. She also discussed the research behind Cogmed training, the specifics of how the training program works, and stories about clients who have done Cogmed training through her practice.
Click below listen to the program:


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- Goldman Sachs recommends investors look for stocks with high Sharpe ratios in an environment with historically low volatility.
- The Sharpe ratio is calculated by dividing a stock's future price target by its six-month implied volatility.
- The firm maintains a proprietary basket of stocks with high Sharpe ratios; it is tilted at the industry level toward semiconductors, pharma and biotech, capital goods, and insurance.
Sometimes, when the market isn't moving enough to whip up returns, you have to take matters into your own hands.
That's the crux of a recent recommendation made by Goldman Sachs, which has been strategizing ways to profit from a stock market that has been stuck at a standstill for most of 2017, with the CBOE Volatility Index, or VIX, sitting close to the lowest levels on record.
The key, according to Goldman, is to identify companies with a high Sharpe ratio — a measure calculated by dividing a stock's future price target by its six-month implied volatility. In doing so, traders are then presented with stocks set to provide the best risk-adjusted return on investment. These types of companies tend to outperform in a low-volatility environment, the firm says.
Goldman has constructed a basket of stocks with lofty Sharpe ratios that it says is a much better bet than simply making trades set to profit from subdued price swings. The firm notes that when six-month realized volatility has been less than 12, its proprietary index has beaten a minimum-volatility strategy 73% of the time since 1999.
As of right now, Goldman's newly rebalanced 39-company basket is tilted at the industry level toward semiconductors, pharma and biotech, capital goods, and insurance. The firm says that, relative to the median S&P 500 stock, its basket offers triple the expected return at a similar level of expected volatility.
Here's a sampling of the companies in Goldman's index:
- Consumer discretionary— Dish Network, Expedia
- Consumer staples— Molson Coors, CVS Health
- Energy— Range Resources, EQT
- Financials— Assurant, XL Group
- Healthcare— Alexion Pharmaceuticals, Incyte
- Industrials— General Dynamics, General Electric
- Tech— Western Digital, Xerox
- Materials— Ball Corp., Newmont Mining
Get the latest Goldman Sachs stock price here.


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August 12th, 2019 🚌 Wiki Weekly #21! 📚
It's the back to school period! Let's contribute on pages related to that! Take a look!
Zelda Wiki:Cross-Wiki Weekend
The Cross-Wiki Weekend is an event hosted by the Nintendo Independent Wiki Alliance intended to encourage cross-wiki collaboration to celebrate the birth of Nintendo. To commemorate the event, one random participant will receive a $20 Nintendo eShop gift card (after submitting evidence of their participation here).
The Cross-Wiki Weekend event is being held from 00:01 (UTC) on Friday, September 21 to 23:59 (UTC) on Sunday, September 23. A full list of participatory rules can be found here.
Helping Zelda Wiki
Because Zelda Wiki is a part of the Gamepedia network, you must make a global Gamepedia account to edit. If you do not have an account, you can make one here. If you are looking for ways to help out Zelda Wiki during the event, you're welcome to work on any of the tasks below. If you have any questions, feel free to ask a staff member on their talk page or join the Zelda Wiki Discord and talk to us in the #general channel.
High Priority
Create individual pages for Weapons, Bows, and Shields in Breath of the Wild. A guide for creating these pages can be found here. (Some pages already exist as redirects. If you spot a subject you're interested in, be sure to check whether it exists or not!)
You can also help retrieve and upload missing images from Breath of the Wild. Due to the special conditions needed for the images, a guideline has been made to help. You can view it here.
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Create individual pages or upload missing images for the following Breath of the Wild subjects.
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For those who wish to contribute, but cannot or do not want to work on Breath of the Wild, we have plenty of pages across The Legend of Zelda series that need to be created or fixed up. If possible, any work on the Hyrule Warriors series would be greatly appreciated. You can browse our categories to find the type of work you're looking for.
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Album release: 'Qualia' by Andrew Weatherall
Release date: 29 September 2017
Label: Hoga Nord Rekords
More info: Hoga Nord website
The aural collusions of Weatherall, Walsh and an old accomplice and sparring partner in Legrand (11/11/65 - 22/11/11), 'Qualia' is a quandary, a question mark and maybe, just maybe, his finest release in years. It's also a record best defined in the words of Mr Weatherall himself:
"Mr Brackstone, my psychic shepherd, when confronted by the facts would probably say it was cosmic synchronicity but then again he would because he's Jung at heart. Others may cite mere coincidence. These are the facts. I'll leave the metaphysical debate for another time...
It's all about the black notebooks as memorial device and 'The Black Notebook' and 'This Is Memorial Device'. At the same time as reading Mr Modiano and Mr Keenan I was ensconced in the Woodleigh Research Facility investigating a method of composition sparked by a random event too prosaic for the telling; unless of course we go back to 'The Red Book' and see the hand of Jah [the D.M.T molecule that steers human existence] at work. After all it was him/her/non-binary that sent me the "shave your beard off" message. And the "don't buy any more drugs" one.
Whatever your leanings the music on 'Qualia' is the result of images, feelings
and thought processes stirred up by Monsieur Modiano and Mister Keenan channeled through the medium of a sonic noteboook - in itself the memoir of somebody else's life/fiction.
My own black notebooks, like Jean's [Modiano's protagonist] stir the silt of
memory and birth as many mysteries as memories. They also provided the track titles."
Andrew Weatherall. The Woodleigh Research Facility, July 2017.
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