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Attention Span: Our National Education Crisis, Part Two
II. Attention Span and Freedom
Of course, attention span by itself is not enough to guarantee education or freedom, but a person lacking attention span must either develop it or he will not become educated, and a nation without attention span must either gain it or lose its freedoms.
If I were speaking of making money, the point would be obvious. If you don't go to work and stay a few hours, your paycheck will be small.
In fact, figure out what your paycheck would be if you tried to cram your whole work week into one day, and you'll have a pretty good indication of how much that same amount of study is really worth.
Or, figure out how much money you'd make if you spent four years putting in an hour or two a day between fun activities—you certainly wouldn't make enough to live on.
If you put in that same kind of study, you won't have much of an education to show for it either. The diploma on the wall may look the same, but it will be empty of meaning.
Without attention span—specific, dedicated time spent at work or managing one's resources—income and wealth will dry up. The same is true of education, where the currency is study instead of labor, and the commodities are virtue, wisdom and freedom.
But how does a person or nation without attention span develop it, increase it, or improve it? There is only one way: discipline yourself to put in the time.
Speaking of attention span and education: Slow down and learn.
Slow down and put in the time reading, writing, discussing, listening, pondering, thinking, praying.
Spend hours and hours in the classics, and you will acquire a superb education. A nation of superbly educated individuals will maintain its freedom.
In Lincoln's day the culture of learning was based around books. Today, as Neil Postman points out in his excellent book Amusing Ourselves to Death, the culture of learning is based on television and internet technology.
All of our forms of public discourse are based less and less on books and more and more on electronic media.
Most of the major decisions of society are made in five places—families, churches, schools, businesses and governments—and four of the five are moving consistently away from books toward electronic media.
Politics is now almost exclusively an electronic event, more and more people attend church in front of their television set, businesses survive through electronic marketing, and schools are "computerizing" as quickly as possible—the wave of the future, we are told, is virtual education, virtual politics, e-business and electronic evangelizing.
Even the family is increasingly virtual—parents and children communicate with fax and email, and family time is increasingly spent in front of the television set, except for those off in their own rooms surfing the net.
Now don't get me wrong: I like the latest hit movie or website as much as anyone, and I believe that television and internet technology are of great benefit to society—they significantly empower business and greatly enhance entertainment.
But they have also displaced books as the source of cultural learning, and this is a very discouraging development because of the impact of society's morals; but that is not my chief point here.
My point is that it is bad to replace books with television and internet because of the consequences to education and freedom.
Specifically, the medium of the electronic screen teaches at least five deadly fallacies about education, and consequently freedom:
Fallacy Number 1: Learning should be fun.
To be continued……
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I agree. And the TV is probably one of the biggest culprits in evolving a sort of shortened attention span for the civilization. We are fed sound bites instead of actual full fledged information.
Agreed. The new visual media needs to be so well integrated and utilized that it increases and optimizes the time students spend with face to face interaction, time in the books and time with the physical pen and paper.
Very True
We home schooled our children. Our son went back to public school in the 10th grade. He saw how it had changed. Teachers walking the hall with radios. Teachers acting more like police than shairers of knowledge etc. etc. We brought him to take a G.E.D. test. He passed. Then went streight over to the community college and enrolled in electronic engineering. At that time his friends were still being dumbed down in public school.
There are many examples like this where we live.Even the university has departed from their standard programs.
I agree that our attention span is a nation crises, and I also agree that this is largely due to the increase in electronic entertainment. However, I don't agree that there is something inherent in electronic media which is naturally worse than books. Both have their advantages and disadvantages.
I used to spend a lot of my online time on Facebook, casually browsing random and thoughtless posts, or spending hours on end maintaining a garden or building a virtual house (embarassed look).
This was obviously a monumental waste of precious time and I am working hard to correct this trend of the past, and when I intentionally look through and weed out the mindless drivel from my Facebook wall, and only post and comment on what I find to be intellectually stimulating for myself, facebook has become a good source to explore new ideas and further my own education – just one more venue (and a very inexpensive and convenient one at that) for exploring and expanding my understanding of truth. My experience with Facebook is only one example of how electronic media has been an integral part in my ongoing education – another being Dr. Brooks' blog.
That being said, I am anxiously looking forward to the continuation of this series. Attention span is definitely a major crisis in America and the world.
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Last Friday I went down to Plymouth, along with Moose's parents, to help him out with some university problems he's been having. I'd been planning on going down Sunday anyway, in time for Valentines, but everything was a bit stressful and, sadly for me, Valentines took a bit of a backseat. There wasn't much anyone could do over the weekend, with Moose stuck in limbo until Monday, but we all had a pretty nice time and it was nice actually bonding a little bit with his parents, even if circumstances weren't the best. I hate that it all had to come to a head when it did, because I hadn't seen Moose since January 1st and I'd been looking forwards to a proper Valentines evening (flowers, a nice meal, the whole shebang) for months. Still, we had a lovely meal at Chiquitos and he and I followed it up with bowling. I've finally found a game I can compete with him in! He won a game, and I won a game, though since my victory came at the expense of all my finger nails, I think I can claim a moral victory all around. I treated him to a pre-order for 'Mass Effect 3' and a voucher to cover it when it's released, since I know he'd really want to play it the moment it's out. He bought me the 'Baldur's Gate' collector edition (both games, both expansions), so all in all it was a (typical for us) nerdy gift session.
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Should I Go To Law School?by Justin Boyle Home >> Articles >> Legal Careers >> Should I Go To Law School?
If you've got a bachelor's degree and a less-than-inspiring career, it's possible that you've come to the point where you've asked yourself the burning question, "Should I go to law school?"
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It's an old piece of advice but it bears repeating: Choose your career based on the work you want to do, not the amount of money you want to make. The practice of law can be an exciting, rewarding, fulfilling career for people with the right mind-set for it, and despite its slower growth rate than that for paralegal jobs -- the BLS places it at 10 percent, lagging 4 points behind the national average for all occupations (BLS.gov/ooh, 2012) -- opportunities for lawyers are still expected to increase throughout the decade.
For those with a passion for law and serving justice, admissions rates and law school rankings are more than just variables in a salary equation. If the thought of practicing law gets you excited, then maybe it is time to go to law school, after all.
The New York Times, "Law Schools' Applications Fall as Costs Rise and Jobs Are Cut," Education,
Kaplan LSAT, "Is Law School Still Relevant?," The 180: Raising the Bar, Adele Shapiro, February 19, 2013
Bureau of Labor Statistics, "Lawyers," Job Outlook, Occupational Outlook Handbook, U.S. Department of Labor
Bureau of Labor Statistics, "Paralegals and Legal Assistants," Job Outlook, Occupational Outlook Handbook, U.S. Department of Labor
Lawyerist.com, "Should People Still Care About Law School Rankings?," Josh Camson, March 13, 2013
American Bar Association, "2012 Law Graduate Employment Data," Section of Legal Education and Admissions ot the Bar
Forbes, "More Evidence On The Student Debt Crisis: Average Grad's Loan Jumps to $27,000," Halah Touryalai, January 29, 2013
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Justin Boyle is a freelance writer and journalist in Austin, Texas.


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Lackyng my love I go from place to place,
lyke a young fawne that late hath lost the hynd:
and seeke each where, where last I sawe her face,
whose ymage yet I carry fresh in mynd.
I seeke the fields with her late footing synd,
I seeke her bowre with her late presence deckt,
yet nor in field nor bowre I her can fynd:
yet field and bowre are full of her aspect,
But when myne eyes I thereunto direct,
they ydly back returne to me agayne,
and when I hope to see theyr trew object,
I fynd my selfe but fed with fancies vayne.
Ceasse then myne eyes, to seeke her selfe to see,
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Redneck Riviera Presents: John Rich of Big & Rich featuring Jarrod Birmingham - Sponsored by DRINKADE
Sat · April 21, 2018
Doors: 6:00 pm / Show: 8:00 pmThe Redneck Country Club
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John Rich
American country musician born January 7, 1974 in Amarillo, Texas. He was the bass player and singer of Lonestar from 1992-1998 before going on to be in Big & Rich and have a solo career. He also has done production work for Gretchen Wilson, Jewel and John Anderson (3), helped write songs with Faith Hill, Gretchen Wilson and Jason Aldean and campaigned for conservative politicians.
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Sharing their love of reading, Frank P. Long Intermediate School teachers Mary Pettit, Trish Gallina, Tony Giresi, Laura Heaton and Nick Paolillo worked together to create a "Lending Library" for 5th Grade students in Cluster A. Stocked with books donated from "The Book Fairies", a Long Island based non-profit organization, the library aims to foster literacy by inspiring and cultivating a love of reading among students. The library is maintained by the students themselves, who are free to both borrow and donate their own books to the collection. They ensure the success of the program by making sure it runs smoothly and offering new features to keep kids motivated. Book requests, book reviews and book raffles are among the features added since the program began.
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The Three Ways I Fight Acne
I'll be real with you guys. I have been struggling with my skin this year. In February, I switched to the IUD birth control and my skin went nuts, I mean nuts. Until this year, I have been incredibly lucky that I have never struggled with acne. I would get the occasional blemish that would disappear after a few days. I had always felt very confident in my skin. My confidence took a big hit when my skin started to break out. At any given time I would have about 40 blemishes on my face. It was a big struggle for me to learn how to deal with my new-found acne. Today I'm sharing my step by step acne fighting routine. For me, I have found that by focusing on three areas I have seen a substantial improvement in my skin.
1. Hydrate
Drink lots of water. Use a moisturizer and facial oil | Keeping my skin hydrated has been a huge factor in my overall skin health. I also use a facial oil followed by a thick moisturizer day and night to keep my skin ulta-hydrated.
2. Nourish
Take Evening Primrose Oil | It is so important to feed your skin nutrients. I had a facial from Marisa at Mathew Morris Salon (she's da bomb) and she recommended taking evening primrose oil. I have been taking this vitamin everyday for a few months now and it's now part of my everyday skincare routine.
3. Cleanse
Try the Clarisonic acne system | The Mia 1 Device, Pore & Blemish Gel Cleanser and the Acne Brush Head have been the acne fighting trifecta. I have been using a Clarisonic since I was in college but I only recently switched to the acne system. A common misconception is that the Clarisonic cleansing brush exfoliates. It actually "oscillates" and the sonic cleansing process removes dirt, oil and other debris that can cause breakouts. The Clarisonic is actually gentle enough to use twice a day! I'm not the only one who has seen great results with this product, 98% of women said the number of imperfections on their skin was reduced and 94% experienced smoother skin and a more even complexion.
I love using my Clarisonic because it feels like I'm giving myself a mini facial right at home! I use my Clarisonic at night after I remove my makeup with a makeup wipe. I wet my face and the Acne Brush Head with warm water. I like to apply the Pore & Bleish Cleanser directly on the brush head. Then I turn on the device and gently move the brush head in small circular motions on my face. The device will automatically shut off after one minute then I just rinse and follow with my facial oil and moisturizer.
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SC stays HC stay order on BNP contestant's conviction
Published : 01 Dec 2018, 13:23
The Chamber Judge of the Supreme Court on Saturday stayed a High Court order that had allowed a convicted person to contest the upcoming national election.
Appellate Division Chamber Judge Justice Hasan Foez Siddique came up with the stay order after hearing a petition filed by the state.
The Chamber Judge also sent the petition to a regular bench. The hearing on the petition will be held in a full bench of the Appellate Division on Sunday.
On Thursday, the High Court stayed the conviction and sentence of BNP candidate from Jashore-2 constituency Sabira Sultana in a graft case, clearing the way for her to participate in the forthcoming parliamentary elections.
Later, the state filed the petition challenging the order on Saturday.
On July 12 last, the Special Judge Court-7 awarded six-year imprisonment to Sabira Sultana, former chairman of Jhikargachha upazila parishad, and fined her Tk 5,000 in the case filed for amassing wealth illegally.
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England's £160 World Cup kit is made in Bangladesh by workers on 21p an hour
England's World Cup football kit is being made in a factory in Bangladesh where workers are paid as little as 21 pence an hour, an investigation by The Telegraph can disclose.
The official England shirt and shorts, part of the most expensive England kit ever, are made at a factory inside a restricted government-controlled zone where employees are paid as little as £1.68 a day and described having to live "hand to mouth".
The clothing, identical to the strip worn by the players during matches, is available to fans to buy in the run up to this year's tournament in Russia for as much as £160.
The disclosure will raise concerns about whether the FA has carried out adequate checks on where the garments...
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UNLV CSUN student government has produced an active shooter safety video in cooperation with the UNLV Department of Police Services. The video is six minutes in length, and it can be viewed online. It is the hope of both UNLV CSUN and the UNLV Department of Police Services that this valuable video will provide members of the campus community with important knowledge regarding how they can keep themselves safe in the event of an active shooter. This video was intended to serve as an educational tool for the campus community, and it is now being actively used in Police Services' campus crime prevention and safety seminars with students, faculty, and staff. It is also posted on UNLV's RebelSAFE registration webpage, and it will be introduced to UNLV's First Seminars in the near future to educate incoming students.
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The May/June issue of Savannah Magazine is here and guess who has tiny tape bugs featured on page 97!? A few months ago I was asked by the vivacious and multi-talented artistic director, producer, and food stylist, Libbie Summers, to make a few masking tape insects for her spread in the Epicurean issue of Savannah Magazine. Here's a snippet of my feature, make sure to grab a copy so you can see the entire editorial! All photos were curated by Libbie with the help of Candace Brower, Anthony Lunsmann, and uber-talented photographer Cedric Smith.
And here are some up-close-and-personals of the praying mantis and io moth.
This year's Telfair tree is being imagined and curated by the wonderful Libbie Summers. She has invited myself and many many talented Savannah artists to decorate/embellish/paint/sculpt on and around a small tree cookie "tondos." These tondo ornaments will be auctioned off at the Jepson Jingle event on Tuesday, December 2, from 5-7pm. All proceeds will benefit the Telfair Museum's children's education and outreach programs.
Here's the evolution of my tondo:
*last two photos styled and shot by katherine sandoz*
For Halloween twenty-fourteen, I made Lane and I into a pair of Plecia nearctica, or to add the cheese, lovebugs.
Oh, Hi, Squirrel.
Today, the Made in America segment of ABC World News Tonight featured the studio I work with, Lovelane Designs. The mastermind behind it all, Lane Huerta, designs unique and imaginative EVERYDAY play wear for the small ones...and sometimes big ones too.
And feel free to buy all of the things here.
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Review Date 5/21/2017
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'Ticked off'
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So how did you do at the weekend?
I ticked off five out of the ten items I had on my weekend 'bucket list' which for a first (I think) is pretty good going. We also had the weather to contend with on Saturday which put a dampener on our plans in the afternoon. But I'm pretty impressed that we achieved half of it.
Not all of it turned out perfectly - like my salted caramel brownies. I just couldn't get the caramel to the point where it was a lovely deep brown colour...it kept crystallising. But to be honest, it wasn't a list to be followed rigidly - it was just nice to have some options.
So this is what we ticked off.
We discovered something new. We went to Wilmslow in the morning. Not very exciting I know, but it's a found and done thing on our bigger list of exploring.
We fed the ducks.
I made squidgy chocolate brownies with vanilla and salted caramel sauce...on the side.
I captured the super moon - wasn't it gorgeous. I used my :: 300mm lens - f/5.6 - ISO100 - 1/400 sec :: The only editing I did was to crop in tighter.
I've not included the new hill we found as we were in the car and not on foot - which was my initial intention.
And I filmed all the footage I needed to make my short film on the 'Capturing Childhood' course I'm taking.
As mentioned on Friday I'm going to make this a feature, so if you would like to join along with me we can discovery the adventures, share the discoveries...together.


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Title: A Companion to Greek Rhetoric
Author: Worthington, Ian (ed)
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell; Publication Date: 2006
Paperback; ISBN: 9781444334142
Volumes: 1; Pages: 632
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This complete guide to ancient Greek rhetoric is exceptional both in its chronological range and the breadth of topics it covers.* Traces the rise of rhetoric and its uses from Homer to Byzantium* Covers wider-ranging topics such as rhetoric's relationship to knowledge, ethics, religion, law, and emotion* Incorporates new material giving us fresh insights into how the Greeks saw and used rhetoric* Discusses the idea of rhetoric and examines the status of rhetoric studies, present and future* All quotations from ancient sources are translated into English ContentsNotes on Contributors.Preface: For Readers ? and Reviewers.Notes.Abbreviations.Speeches of the Attic Orators.Part I: Setting the Scene.1. Rhetorical Questions (Edward Schiappa and Jim Hamm, University of Minnesota).2. Modern Interpretations of Classical Greek Rhetoric (Takis Poulakos, University of Iowa).Part II: Rhetoric: A Brief History.3. Background and Origins: Oratory and Rhetoric before the Sophists (Michael Gagarin, University of Texas-Austin).4. Gorgias the Sophist and Early Rhetoric (Jeroen A. E. Bons, University of Amsterdam).5. Alcidamas (Michael Edwards, University of London).6. Isocrates (Terry L. Papillon, Virginia Polytechnic institute and State University).7. Plato?s Rhetoric (Harvey Yunis, Rice University).8. The Rhetoric to Alexander (P. Chiron, University of Paris XII-Val De Marne).9. Aristotle?s Art of Rhetoric (W.W. Fortenbaugh, Rutgers University).10. Hellenistic Rhetoric in Theory and Practice (John Vanderspoel, University of Calgary).11. The New World Order: Greek Rhetoric in Rome (Joy Connolly, New York University).12. Rhetoric in Byzantium (Elizabeth Jeffreys, University of Oxford).Part III: Rhetoric and Speeches.13. The Parts of the Speech (Michael de Brauw, Northwestern University).14. Forensic Oratory (Craig Cooper, University of Winnipeg).15. Symbouleutic Oratory (Stephen Usher, University of London).16. Epideictic Oratory (Christopher Carey, University of London).Part IV: Rhetoric: Political, Social and Intellectual Contexts.17. Rhetoric and Politics in Classical Greece: Rise of the Rh�tores (Ian Worthington, University of Missouri-Columbia).18. Rhetoric and Persuasion in the Hellenistic World: Speaking up for the Polis (Andrew Erskine, University of Edinburgh).19. Rhetoric and the Law (James P. Sickinger, Florida State University).20. Rhetoric and Education (Teresa Morgan, Oriel College, University of Oxford).21. Rhetoric and Religion (Ken Dowden, University of Birmingham).22. Rhetoric and Language (A. L�pez Eire, University of Salamanca).23. Rhetoric and Logic (James Allen, University of Pittsburgh).24. Rhetoric and Knowledge (Tobias Reinhardt, University of Oxford).25. Rhetoric and Ethics from the Sophists to Aristotle (Jane M. Day, University of Oxford).26. Rhetoric, Manliness and Contest (Joseph Roisman, Colby College).27. Rhetoric and Emotion (David Konstan, Brown University).Part V: Rhetoric and Literature.28. Right Rhetoric in Homer (Hanna M. Roisman, Colby College).29. Hesiod?s Rhetorical Art (Jenny Strauss Clay, University of Virginia).30. Acts of Persuasion in Hellenistic Epic: Honey-Sweet Words in Apollonius (Anatole Mori, University of Missouri-Columbia).31. Rhetoric and Tragedy: Weapons of Mass Persuasion (Marianne McDonald, University of California-San Diego).32. Attic Comedy and the Development of Theoretical Rhetoric (Thomas K. Hubbard, University of Texas-Austin).33. Rhetoric and Lyric Poetry (William H. Race, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill).34. Rhetoric and the Novel: Sex, Lies and Sophistic (Ruth Webb, University of London).35. Rhetoric and Historiography (Matthew Fox and Niall Livingstone, University of Birmingham).Bibliography.Index.
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I'm not sure how I lived before baby wipes.
A friend on Instagram recently posted "What are you grateful for today?" and for me, the answer came very quickly: Change.
(I've so woefully neglected this space. The door sticks and everything's covered with dust but here I am, stepping carefully into the room and gently easing open the curtains.)
To say I've been off the blogging grid is an understatement.
Things finally, finally, feel like they've leveled out a bit.
When we moved into our current loft, we had a dog.
In college, my favorite professor taught all the writing courses I took, and often, after a particularly raw critique of my work, he would see my frustration and say in a gruff but encouraging way: Keep the faith.
A little over a month ago, my son turned one.
Helping is more of an art form than you might think.
A few days ago I posted a selfie on Instagram.
When I was in the first trimester of pregnancy, everything was a blur.
If you follow our adventure via this blog (Hallo, Reader!) then you'll have noticed a bit of radio silence lately...which contrasts starkly with the cacophony that now permeates our loft.
Vacillating between shock – horror – deep sadness.
Among its many features is the fact that the zoo is free. Both Corey and I were struck by the level of accessibility in Chicago. The multitude of beautiful parks. The free zoo. Free!
For someone who has close friends from Chicago, I'm always surprised that I've not spent more time there.
I've written about this a bit, but it bears repeating: working while pregnant is wonderful/challenging/wonderful.
For some reason, I've resisted buying maternity jeans.
For most of my adult life, whenever I've met a baby at seven months old, part of me clocks every detail
Sometimes, being a pregnant person is exhausting.*
A few months ago, my dear friend Lynn Chen alerted me that Catapult editor Nicole Chung was looking for essays about adoption.
When I first found out I was pregnant, the news remained abstract for a good long while.
95% of the time, I thoroughly enjoy pregnancy.
Yes, my friends, it's about to get even more real.
One of the many perks of living in downtown Los Angeles is the direct access to goods and services. If you're willing to hunt just a little, you can often find products with fewer middle men in the way.
Hashtags are so common it's easy to dismiss them.
It's a new day, friends.
S jr has started to roll. We've already had a couple of near-falls and good god let me tell you it's not easy to get my heart rate back down after a sudden lunge. The days of plopping him on the sofa and casually walking away are so very over.
Every year, Corey's family makes the trek to the beautiful beaches of North Carolina.
They rent a few big beach houses, and everyone lounges around eating warm chicken sandwiches and, if you're a kid, drinking ginger ale; if you're a grown-up, something we call Sneaky Pete.
For reasons I am happy to leave unexplained, Corey has recently begun baking bread.
S jr officially loves baths, and that makes me very, very happy.


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Adventures of Omanakuttan (2017)
Release : 2017-05-19
Genre : Comedy, Thriller
Runtime : 166 minutes
Company : Shows369
Cast : Asif Ali, Bhavana, Aju Varghese, Saiju Kurup, Siddique, Kalabhavan Shajon
Language : kn, ml
Descriptions Adventures of Omanakuttan
Omanakuttan is an introverted salesman who is down on confidence and luck. Spurred on by his colleague he decides to change himself and tries to act like a flirt. He meets Pallavi a free spirited girl, but as luck would have it he wakes up with memory loss and struggles to figure out who he really is. Both of them join in on an adventure to figure out the real Omanakuttan.


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A detailed account of a fascinating journey through the Ottoman Empire from 1588 to 1589 Traveller and explorer, art patron and collector, benefactor and connoisseur, politician and Danzig mayor, Bartholomäus Schachman lived in a time of major political and religious changes in Europe, a time of grand geographical discoveries, a time when both religious and secular arts flourished, a time of great expansion of the Ottoman Empire.
There was great demand among travellers and diplomats for records of life in the Ottoman world in the 16th century. One fascinating pictorial record is an album dated 1590, commissioned by Bartholomäus Schachman (1559–1614), who was a traveller and collector as well as being mayor of Gdansk. He journeyed through the Ottoman Empire between 1588 and 1589, and the resulting album is now part of the collection of the Orientalist Museum in Qatar. It was exhibited in Gdansk this summer. The exhibition, which has a sumptuous accompanying book, reopens in Doha in November (2012).
Schachman himself can be seen in a portrait attributed to Anton Möller. He holds a handkerchief in his right hand (propbably a symbol of power), a rapier in his left, and below are the Latin words "Praeconsul Gedanensis …Equitem at capitaneum Hollandiae" (Mayor of Gdansk… knight and captain of the Dutch).
Schachman was born in Danzig, as Gdansk was then, an autonomous Hanseatic League city within the kingdom of Poland. It was a vital trading post for Dutch merchants at the time, and Möller was the most famous artist active there. The Schachmans (literally "chessmen", as reflected in their coat of arms) were from Hungary and had arrived in Danzig in the 15th century.
Bartholomäus was educated in Krakow and Danzig, Strasbourg and Siena, and travelled widely in Europe, the Middle East and North Africa. His Ottoman adventure coincided with the reign of Murad III, who opened up the empire, commissioning portraits by Venetian artists and exchanging letters with Elizabeth I of England.
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Most people only worry about little critters like frogs and bugs getting in their pool at night, most people don't worry about anyone's safety.
This completely changed for Kevin Dillard one night.
On a Friday evening in Virginia Beach, Virginia, a toddler was reported missing at around 7 p.m. Twenty minutes later, the same girl was found drowning in a neighbor's nearby home. Just hours later she unfortunately died in the hospital.
Kevin Dillard was the owner of the pool, yet he knew nothing of the girl. He had never met or heard of her before, yet he was still so disturbed to know that this girl died by accident in his pool.
It was so upsetting for Dillard that he tore his own above ground pool as he told the reporters, "It devastates the Hell out of me."
A local photographer named Kristen Zels managed to take this heart wrenching photo and posted it to her Facebook page.
This post that was later deleted described the event:
"This morning I had the assignment that no journalist wants. The one where a child has died and you have to go talk to the parents, neighbors, anyone you can to best tell the story of what happened.
Last Night, while in care of her grandmother, a toddler was reported missing from her Virginia Beach house. Shortly after, her body was found in the pool of her neighbor, Kevin Dillard.
Robyn and I showed up this morning to try to speak with the parents of the young girl and instead first found Mr. Dillard and his family. Tearing down the pool, once filled with happy memories, that a little girl had drowned in the night before.
In the pouring rain, he cried, while using a sledge hammer to pull down the pool. H e couldn't look at it anymore and he absolutely didn't want to make the girl's parents look at it either, he said."
The age of the girl that drowned is unknown as well as how she got in the pool that night. All that is known is that the girl was at home with her grandmother before she went missing.
The niece of Kevin Dillard said, while crying, "he's got the biggest heart."
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Hi Everyone,
Last Sunday was such a relaxing day for me. Mr. Hubby not only made delicious egg bhurji for breakfast but also tasty dhaba style dal tadka for lunch. I just love his hand made dal tadka and trust me I never enjoy any other dal so much than his. So in this post I am sharing his recipe of tadka dal. Lets start…
- 1 cup arhar/tuar dal, 2 medium onions, 2 medium tomatoes, 7-8 garlic cloves,3-4 green chilies, 2-3 inch of gingerand bunch of coriander leaves.
- 1 tsp jeera, 1/4 tsp heeng/asafoetida, 1/2 tsp haldi/turmeric powder, 1 tsp dhaniya/coriander powder, salt as per taste, oil for cooking.
- For tadka: 2 tsp ghee, 1 tsp jeera , 1/2 tsp red chili powder
- Heat some oil in a cooker and add jeera and heeng.
2. Add washed dal now.
3. Add haldi and water now. Close the lid of the cooker . We have to cook the dal till 2-3 whistles.
4. In a wok or pan, heat some oil and add garlic and green chilies and dry for a minute.
5. Now add sliced/chopped onions and grated ginger. Grated ginger will kill the gastric effect of dal.
6. Fry the mixture till onions are soft and bit brown. Do not completely brown the onions.
7. Add chopped tomatoes, coriander powder and salt now. Cook till tomatoes are mushy and masala leaves oil from sides.
8. Add 2 ladles of cooked dal now and fry the mixture till a minute or so.
9. Add chopped coriander leaves and cook the mixture for a minute.
10. Add the cooked dal now to the above prepared mixture and bring dal to boil till we prepare the tadka. You can have dal as it is now and skip the tadka part.
11. Heat ghee in a tadka or small pan and when ghee is hot, add jeera
12. When jeera has browned, add red chili powder.
13. Add this tadka to the dal and stir the dal well.
14. Dhaba style dal tadka is ready to be served. Enjoy with steam rice or bread of your choice. We had it with rice and mango pickle 😀


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Right now, a lot of politics about issues relating to transgender and gender nonconforming people are intense and not very forgiving. There's very little trust, and understandably so, as a lot of people have been hurt in many ways by the current situation.
I don't think there's any chance of creating this trust on a big level any time soon. However, this leads to a problem that lots of highly important information will be inaccessible to all the parties who need it. This information might involve the different ways gender issues evolve and present, and how different people cope or treat them. It might involve all sorts of other things of relevance to people. The important problem right now is that this is dispersed across different groups who often don't trust each other, and who are only interested in sharing it with people they feel are certain to take care of their concerns properly.
The goal here should be to create a win/win situation, where all parties feel that they are treated fairly and benefit from participating. Nothing else can work. For this reason, I propose creating a group of people with diverse, relevant perspectives, and allowing vetos from all the perspectives involved. The group would have to come to a consensus about what information to collect, and how to collect it, before it could even start asking questions. Before making any official opinions about how to interpret the collected information, the group would have to reach consensus on what the interpretation should be. This way, anything done by the group is guaranteed to be a win for all sides, as any problematic suggestions can be vetoed by people who're concerned.
Example project
For all of this to make sense, it might be helpful to look at an example project that could be worked on. One that I am personally very interested in is documenting the experiences of detransitioners and how they compare to trans people.
If done right, this could help everybody. Detransitioners generally want their experiences to be heard. Trans people would want a fair comparison and contrast of their experiences and those of detransitioners, rather than FUD. If things work out perfectly (and they might not), studying this could also help questioning people decide whether transition is for them.
The problem here is that there are conflicts of interest in mistrust. Detransitioners don't want their experiences misrepresented, and might reasonably fear that the only goal would be to dismiss their experiences as irrelevant (or worse). Many detransitioners may have strong reservations about transgender issues, and believe in political ideas that trans people find dangerous. This leads to issues about whether trans people feel misrepresented, or feel that the wrong things are getting examined.
All of these issues are solved by having people on each side collaborate. The varied perspectives will allow people who have concerns to make sure that these concerns are taken properly into account, and to ensure that things are only done if everyone benefits. This will allow us to reap the benefits of cooperation despite low amounts of trust.
This is not the only project that could be done. Other possibilities would be to better document what is happening around gender nonconforming people, to process the science and controversy of transness into more-digestible summaries with whatever consensus we can find, and likely a number of other things that I haven't even thought of.
Proposed structure
Achieving total consensus about everything will only be practical if the groups are sufficiently small, which would lead to problems due to lack of perspectives. An alternate approach would be to create a number of subgroups, each of which is responsible for taking care of one set of concerns. For example, trans people may have one broad subgroup, whose responsibilities would be to ensure that the total group avoids hurting trans people. I expect that it will also be useful to work with radical feminists who have, ehm, strong concerns about trans issues, so they would also have a subgroup, whose job it would be to take care of their concerns. If other groups turn out to be relevant, these groups would also be able to get a subgroup of their own.
We could set up a number of structures, such as a blog, a chatroom or forum for discussion, and maybe also a wiki or something. Depends on what becomes relevant, but at the very least we need some summary of what the groups does, who the group is, and why the group should be trustworthy.
The group might gather and publish raw data. If we can achieve consensus, we might publish some articles on how to interpret our data, various scientific findings, or other things that may be of interest.
The goal would be to try to improve the group quality over time. Initially, it's likely going to consist of random people on the internet who find the project appealing, but hopefully we can work to establish some respect for the group and start collaborating with people who are more trusted in various ways.
In reality, I'm doing this for rather selfish reasons. I want to examine various things, but I have views that make people not trust me very much. For example, my views on trans policy are aggressively pro-transition to the point where certain groups of detransitioners whose experiences are highly relevant knowledge do not feel comfortable with my beliefs, while my views on the causes of transness (something similar to Blanchard's typology) lead to many trans people not trusting me. Of course, I would claim that my policies are based on what's likely to give good results, and that my beliefs are based on the best evidence available, but I don't think I can convince enough people who disagree.
So, rather than try to force the information out of people, why not collaborate? Hopefully this can be a more productive approach than what I've tried until now.


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Social determinants of child abuse: evidence of factors associated with maternal abuse from the Egypt demographic and health survey
BACKGROUND: Child abuse or maltreatment is a significant global public health problem of unknown global prevalence. About 40 million children aged 0 - 14 years require health and social care globally. The prevalence, determinants, and trends of national or global rates of child abuse and maltreatment are largely unknown. METHODS: Data for this retrospective cross-sectional study were derived from the 2005 Egyptian Demographic and Health Survey (2005 EDHS), and included 19474 women aged 15 - 49 years. Multivariate logistic regression analyses by stepwise regression, backward method were used to determine the independent contribution of the possible social determinants of child abuse, with the direction and magnitude of associations expressed as odds ratios (OR) and their 95% confident interval levels (95% CI). RESULTS: Identified determinants of child abuse included exposure to intimate partner violence (IPV), justifying wife beating, exposure to generational IPV, and such factors as younger age of the women, male sex, partners' lower education, poverty, residence in urban areas, younger children, and residence in households with 3 - 5 children. CONCLUSIONS: Experience of IPV, mothers' justification of wife beating, and generational IPV were associated with elevated odds of child abuse. Findings indicate possible high levels of unmet child protection needs, and stress the need for professionals working with children to employ culturally-sensitive methods in investigating social determinants of child abuse. © 2015 KUMS, All rights reserved
Copyright. In accordance with Bethesda Statement on Open Access Publishing (released June 20, 2003, available from: http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/bethesda.htm), all works published in JIVR are open access and are immediately available to anyone on the website of the journal without cost. JIVR is an open-access journal distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.


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The first time I traveled to California, I was with Patrick. The second, I biked here from the other side of America. The third, I scattered his ashes.
We crossed the California state line last week.
Despite the heaviness I expected to feel upon crossing, I couldn't help but smile. We made it here. We made it here from Alaska. We made it here on our bicycles. We chanted a ridiculous rendition of "California Here We Come" and rushed to the state sign once the whole team was assembled. We danced and took selfies and sang every other California-themed song we could recall. There we met many of the friends we'd been riding on and off with for weeks (hey Jessie, Erica, Megan and Brett!) and all squeezed together in one gaint, sweaty hug.
This is how I want California to feel. I want it to feel like my friends, my teammates, my family. Like accomplishment and like new beginnings. I want it to not remain a burial place, but a birth place. That's what Patrick would have wanted.
Our first night in California mirrored the same lively sentiments. A local church offered to host all the touring cyclists in the area, which that night happened to be a massive group of 15. We compared quads, shared stories, patched tubes, and laughed.
Patrick never got to bike to the California state line as he planned, but on that day I feel that he did. Patrick lived for community, Patrick savored the ridiculous moments. I could almost swear he was with us in that sweaty group hug.


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Workers protest against Brazil's sports circus
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- Written by Alvaro Michaels
Fight Racism! Fight Imperialism! 239 June/July 2014
On 15 May protests again erupted against the Brazilian state's huge spending on the FIFA 2014 World Cup and 2016 Olympic projects. Police attacked demonstrators in 12 main cities, and teachers were joined by bus drivers and street cleaners seeking wage increases in a broader wave of strikes and protests around Brazil. The current demonstrations started on 26 January, with the Anonymous group's 'Operation Stop the World Cup' campaign, when 2,500 protesters marched in Sao Paulo, of whom 100 were arrested. Then on 6 February a cameraman was killed by a police smoke canister in a separate protest in the city. On 22 February, police again fired tear gas and stun grenades at over 1,000 protesters against World Cup spending, making over 230 arrests.
The 15 May events
On 15 May Rio de Janeiro saw a protest at spending the equivalent of the cost of 200 new schools on the Maracana stadium. It was joined by striking workers. In Brasilia, some of the 2,000 demonstrators stormed the headquarters of Terracap which runs the $630m Garrincha stadium, Brazil's most expensive. In Recife (Pernambuco), the impoverished youth took advantage of a three day police strike to ransack stores. The federal government sent in the military: 234 arrests were made and at least 17 people were reported dead. Other militant protests took place in Sao Paulo, Belo Horizonte, Manaus, Fortaleza, Natal and Porto Alegre. All are scheduled to host matches for the World Cup between 12 June and 13 July.
In Sao Paulo tear gas and rubber bullets were used against some 1,500 protesters calling for homes for the poor. 5,000 members of the Homeless Workers' Movement blocked one of the city's main streets with burning tyres, marching to the Corinthians Arena, where the World Cup's opening match between Croatia and Brazil will be held on 12 June. Other groups of teachers and fast-food workers carried out separate street actions across the country throughout the day. Transportation workers and security guards all left their posts or engaged in demonstrations. Police demanding higher pay have threatened to stop work during the World Cup.
Brazilian cities are tinderboxes in a country where capitalism constantly deepens poverty and misery. Daily conflicts between police and the masses have been intensified by the slum clearances and 'slum pacification' – demanded by World Cup and Olympic-led investment. The British Foreign Office has announced that 'further protests could occur without warning'. Activists in the 12 football cities estimate that up to 170,000 people will eventually be evicted for the World Cup and the Olympics. In Rio, evictions are taking place in slums across the city, including the Metrô favela near the Maracanã stadium, where 4,000 residents who refused to move, live amid the rubble of bulldozed homes.
The Brazilian workers face an expected bill of over 32 billion Reais (£8.5bn) for the World Cup, equivalent to three times South Africa's total in 2010, as well as paying for the 2016 Summer Olympics. All this has run over budget, exposing gross overcharging and other financial scandals as capitalists fight over the tax trough. Half of the 12 host stadiums failed to meet the 31 December deadline. Delays have a knock-on effect on hotel, airport and road building. 14 workers have been killed on the games construction sites. The commitment to clean up Rio de Janeiro's sewage-filled Guanabara Bay for the Olympic sailing cannot be met.
Alvaro Michaels


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Where has paxtonvic been?
Ive been sent to Coventry…
It must be some time since I had the pleasure of blogging – because when I came to do so now I couldnt remember how to do it!
Cant believe its September and the season of fruitful mellowness will soon be upon us.
I took the opportunityt last week to spend some time with my daughter and her friends as they moved into a two up two down terrace in Coventry, ready for university days. There was something very satisfying about helping them put a house together, although rightly there were tasks which I wasnt allowed to touch. I stuck to clearing away mess in the garden and paying for things which needed repairing or servicing- and which were wating at Ikea to be purchased. I could blog quite happily about the " Ikea process" on a busy Saturday in Coventry, but wont on this occasion. I even hired a van to transport their stuff from A to B and felt quite important sat high up in a transit trying to get used to no rear view mirror.
Here is Adele and her new eucalyptus tree.
sunshine and washing
I would love to go and potter somem ore in the garden but needs must – Im back here now as the new term begins and the season of meetings kicks off again. To be honest, Ive quite missed not having a PCC for four weeks.
Meanwhile. last Sunday at Great Paxton we were honoured to have a visit from Rev Antony Feltham-White – Chapain in Afghanistan at home on leave.
He spoke to us about his life, call to ministry and work in that troubled country and I think its true to say we were spell bound throughout.
Revd Antony and members of the congregation at Holy Trinity Church, Great Paxton.
Yesterday at last we heard who the next Bishop of Ely would be – Rt Revd Stephen Conway, presently area Bishop of Ramsbury in the Diocese of Salisbury. There are lots of articles already about him on the web – here is one link: http://www.ely.anglican.org/
Im delighted with the appointment – it does seem that being very tall is a prerequisite for being a bishop of Ely at the moment, but seriously , I think Bishop Stephen will be able to build upon all great work taking place in the Diocese. I like his churchmanship and outlook from what I have read and look forward one day to maybe inviting him to our humble Benefice.
Off now to do a 10.00am Holy Communion…
Have a nice day everyone.
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About a mile south of the Golden Gate Bridge lies one of San Francisco's most popular beaches, which is Baker Beach. This mile-long stretch of ocean and sand is one of the most popular off-leash dog play areas in the city, and plenty of dog lovers come to visit the beach with their dogs on clear days and sunny weekends.
Locals, tourists, and bay area residents alike flock to the beach in droves for stunning views of the Golden Gate Bridge, excellent beach conditions, and the surrounding Presidio district. Picnic areas and barbecue grills make this beach popular among families and large groups, as well. In general—and especially on nice, sunny days—Baker Beach can get crowded.
If you and your dog come to visit on a busy day, make sure that you are ready to socialize and share the beach with other dogs! There are restrooms available at the parking lot entrance, and although there are no poop bags provided by the beach, you should be able to borrow a bag or two from another dog owner if you forget to bring your own.
All of the beach north of Lobos Creek is an off-leash dog play area, available to the public and to all who come to use the beach. South of the creek, dogs must be on-leash at all times. Because the area is so heavily populated by dogs and dog lovers, it is extra important that you are respectful of the beach and of other visitors. There are several ongoing attempts to limit or restrict dogs from their current freedoms of beach usage, so do your part to help paint dog lovers everywhere in the best of light.
You should also know that the northernmost stretch of Baker Beach is clothing-optional, with many sunbathers opting out on sunny days. Baker Beach is popular for a reason. With spectacular views, excellent conditions, plenty of space for you and Fido to run around, and lots to do with your dog, you will more likely than not find a favorite destination here.


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28 December 2015
"You'll need coffee shops and sunsets and road trips. Airplanes and passports and new songs and old songs, but people more than anything else. You will need other people and you will need to be that other person to someone else. A living, breathing, screaming invitation to believe better things." -Jamie Tworkowski
I have always been a person who thought needing people was a sign of weakness. But I don't want to be that person anymore. People, family, and friends are important and good for the soul.
I've also been a firm believer my entire life that you don't need a man to make you happy, and I still believe that. But it's also okay to have a man make you happy. Your significant other shouldnt be your entire life but it's okay for them to be a big part of it. "If your boyfriend is your best friend you're doing it right, if your boyfriend is your only friend you're doing it wrong."
You will need family. Even when you've betrayed them or hurt them and you don't deserve them they will be there for you even when you don't deserve it. Family isn't always your blood relatives.Be thankful for the friends that turn into family. They will always have the deepest impact on your life, appreciate them.
And your friends, even the ones that aren't quite family. They will be there too, maybe not always or in every way you need the, but the good ones, the ones who are worth it, will be. Make sure you're there for them too.
And yourself. If all else fails you will always have yourself. It's important that you take care of you. Know yourself, what you want, and what you deserve; don't ever settle. You will always have yourself to count on, but remember, you can count on others too.
You need people and they will need you.
This is a journal entry I work back in December of 2015, way before I had this blog. And it's something I just wanted to share. I think it's important to go back and reflect on the writing I did in the past. It's astonishing to see self growth and self-reflection on where I was mentally and emotionally during those times in my life. As I was reading through my old journal entries I knew I wanted to post one on my blog, but I wasn't sure which one yet. This was the first entry I read and although I kept reading I immediately knew this was the one I wanted to share. With so much change and self-growth I've been encountering recently I still relate to this entry, over a year later.
My break up with Andrew has allowed for so much self growth and self discovery and I am so thankful for that. For most of last year my relationship was almost my entire life. In the moment I didn't really realize how unhealthy that was. Especially being in a new place all alone, I isolated myself. Didn't put myself out there or make many friends. Now, that I'm on the outside looking in, I realize some unhealthy habits I had. And I am so grateful I have broken them. I am gratful for the wonderful friends I've made and the greats times we've shared thus far.
Ever since my Aunt Dee passed I have been making more of a conscious effort to put effort into my relationships with everybody in my life. Family and friends. I am not perfect and still have a lot of improvements to make but I am doing better. With just the small improvements I have already made, I have noticed an increase in my happiness. Staying connected with people you love and care about is so important. Make sure the people you love know that you love them, you never know how long you'll have them.
This year I also want to make an effort to meet new people and make new friends. I want to try more new things and do more things I typically wouldn't have done in the past. (Nothing stupid or illegal, just more adventurous and spontaneous things). This year is going to be filled with love, and laughter, and good times with good people. I am excited to watch this year unfold!


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Start-up Laurel gets off ground with 'global' deal
A telecommunications equipment company launched in late 1999 in the Marshall Township home of one of its founders said Monday it has begun shipping its first revenue-generating products.
Laurel Networks Inc. was founded by five former Fore Systems professionals with the goal of building a smarter Internet traffic router that would enable customers to generate more revenue over complex computer networks.
Laurel Network's contract with Broomfield, Colo.-based Level 3 Communications validates the two years spent developing its product.
"This is a reasonably well-sized deal," said Laurel Networks co-founder Steve Vogelsang. "It's a global deployment."
Vogelsang wouldn't disclose the value of the contract, saying that depends on the pace at which Level 3's customers use new services that Laurel Networks' "smart" router will provide.
Level 3 is in the business of providing telecommunications access over fiber-optic cable to large telephone companies such as Ameritech and Verizon, to Internet service providers, to large companies and to smaller telephone companies known as competitive local exchange carriers (CLECs). It operates local loops in 36 U.S. and European markets, in addition to a trans-Atlantic cable.
Laurel Networks, now based in Robinson Township, where it employs about 150 people, raised $65 million in venture capital 18 months ago to fuel its product development. Vogelsang said some of that money is still in the bank, and the company is using its cash at a slower rate now that it is producing revenue. There are no immediate plans to raise more equity, but short-term financing may be necessary to sustain growth.
"We're in very good shape. Our revenue has been increasing quarter over quarter and we still have plenty of capital," he said.
Vogelsang said Laurel Networks beat industry giant Cisco Systems to win the Level 3 business. He said Laurel Networks' product delivered more functions and has more flexibility to work within various networking frameworks, such as asynchronous transfer mode (ATM), frame relay and Ethernet, than did Cisco's offering.
Vogelsang said Laurel's equipment is in various stages of certification testing in the labs of several other telecom carriers, although he said no new contracts are pending.


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