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A hundred and sixty years ago in Arkansas, a man found himself in need of a wife, and placed a plainspoken but eloquent advertisement in his local newspaper: "Any gal what got a bed, calico dress, coffee-pot and skillet, knows how to cut our britches, can make a hunting shirt, and knows how to take care of children, can have my services till death parts both of us."
In mid-nineteenth-century Arkansas, it was clear what a wife was for, as it has been for much of the long history of matrimony. What a wife is for in the early twenty-first century is, however, less obvious. Contemporary wives have to intuit their job descriptions rather than read them in help-wanted ads, a situation that leaves a lot of room for misunderstanding. Indeed, it may be that if the job description of wife were spelled out in full no sensible woman would apply.
So, at least, you might conclude after browsing through the pile of books about marriage that have, like blushing spring brides, recently appeared in the nation's bookstores. These books can be found in all departments, from self-help ("The Surrendered Wife," by Laura Doyle, "The Marriage Sabbatical," by Cheryl Jarvis, and "Surrendering to Marriage," by Iris Krasnow), to economics ("The Price of Motherhood," by Ann Crittenden) and history ("A History of the Wife," by Marilyn Yalom). Each of these books takes as its ideal reader the discontented wife; the question that lingers after you read them is whether there can be any other kind.
Laura Doyle is one of those astonishing, self-created demagogues whose central creed is the universal applicability of their own experience. She is thirty-four and worked in marketing before she became a self-help author. She married at twenty-two, and the relationship was in trouble after four years, during which time she began nagging her husband about earning more money, criticizing him for watching too much television, and complaining about the way he parked the car and loaded the dishwasher. When none of her agitation produced the marital bliss she had signed up for, Doyle ceased trying to change her husband and instead changed herself, becoming that enlightened being of her own coinage, a "surrendered wife."
A surrendered wife, according to Doyle, does not exert "inappropriate control" over her husband; she leaves all decision-making up to him, and she smilingly expresses her gratitude and appreciation for everything he does. She also grants him sole custody of the checkbook, and has sex with him at least once a week, whether she feels like it or not. (Doyle says that when she's not in the mood herself it helps get the juices flowing if she plays an old Steely Dan album. To each her own.) She refrains from correcting him when he makes a mistake, such as driving for miles beyond his appointed freeway exit, and if she does overstep the mark she apologizes. If he actually seeks her opinion about something, she should, in the interests of allowing his natural dominance to develop, respond with a deflective "Whatever you think" or a chirpy "That's a good question!"
"The Surrendered Wife" (Simon & Schuster; $13) is dazzlingly reductive: in less than three hundred pages, Doyle provides an instruction manual for a new generation of Stepford wives. This was a strategy that worked for John Gray with his best-seller "Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus," upon which "The Surrendered Wife" is loosely modelled; and it may well work for Doyle, particularly since Gray was kind enough to provide her with a cover endorsement. (As Gray did, Doyle is building a brand: she has a Web site, Surrenderedwife.com; she offers one-on-one "relationship training"; she encourages wives to form support groups, or "surrendered circles"; and she promises a "prequel," to be entitled "The Surrendered Single.")
"The Surrendered Wife" also bears a family resemblance to another phenomenon in contemporary publishing, that of evangelical women's literature. Doyle originally published the book herself, two years ago, giving it the subtitle "A Woman's Spiritual Guide to True Intimacy with a Man"; the new edition replaces that subtitle with "A Practical Guide to Finding Intimacy, Passion, and Peace with a Man," practicality presumably beating out spirituality in Simon & Schuster's marketing meetings. All the same, it joins a shelfload of books that give a prescription for wifely conduct according to the Christian concept of submission, taking Jesus' willingness to suffer on the Cross as the paradigm of devout behavior. "When you surrender to your husband, you accept that a supreme being is looking after you both," she writes. But in fact Doyle preserves the husk of conservatism without the kernel of conviction. In her scheme, it turns out, a woman doesn't surrender as part of a larger commitment of faith; she surrenders in order to get what she wants. The book ostensibly encourages wives to respect their husbands rather than control them, but in reality it encourages wifely manipulation by other, sneakier means.
And what kind of marriage do women want? Doyle says that what she wants is "to be treasured, pampered, protected and adored." A wife wants a restoration of romance, a return to the days of dating, when her husband made the plans and picked up the check. She wants a husband who knows his own mind, and doesn't depend upon her for guidance. That means never offering any guidance, even when he protests and says things like "I thought we were a team." (An exception to the rule that a wife must surrender to her husband is, apparently, when the husband disagrees with the principle of wifely surrender.)
And yet there is a lot in "The Surrendered Wife" with which the most liberal marriage counsellor would have no argument. Don't try to enforce your will on your spouse; respect your spouse's thinking; be gracious to your spouse—these are all sensible guidelines for married life, particularly if they are mutually observed. Why should these sensible sentiments fall under the rubric of "surrender"? The emergence of this marital buzzword is part of a culture-wide disillusionment with the kind of feminism that urged women to be conquerors. Such disillusionment may be long overdue: having it all was, surely, only an opening bid in the feminist negotiation. What the success of books like "The Surrendered Wife" suggests is a much larger marital malaise, of which they are a symptom rather than a cure. The marriages that Doyle seeks to remedy are filled with bickering and disappointment: with husbands who ignore their wives in favor of work or golf; with wives who condescend to their husbands by treating them like children. The condition of marriage as Doyle describes it is pretty bleak; it is also remarkably consonant with the condition of marriage as described by Cheryl Jarvis in her book "The Marriage Sabbatical: The Journey That Brings You Home" (Perseus; $24).
Like Doyle, Jarvis thinks the institution of marriage is in serious trouble, not just among couples who divorce but among those who do not. The greatest suffering is endured, she believes, by wives, whose lives are inevitably riven with compromise, regret, and a sense of missed opportunity: in "The Marriage Sabbatical," every wife is Ibsen's Nora. If Doyle's prescription is to crack down on the rules, Jarvis's is to loosen up on them. "How do we stay married to one person for a long time when the only constant in life is change?" Jarvis asks. The unasked question that haunts her inadvertently demoralizing pages is "Why would we want to?"
Jarvis's notion of taking a sabbatical from marriage occurred to her during the first quarter century of her own marriage, during which time she raised two children and worked as a journalist and editor in St. Louis, where her husband has a psychotherapy practice. She turned down an opportunity to work in New Haven, Connecticut, for three months when she was thirty-eight because her sons, then ten and fourteen, asked her not to. At forty-eight, she could wait no longer, and by then she had begun to conceive of the sabbatical as a new marital paradigm that would give a woman room to escape for a while without renouncing her vows. Her metaphor is drawn from Mosaic law, which required land to lie fallow every seven years "as a Sabbath to the Lord." "What would happen if we looked to nature and let our marriages rest for a while in order to regenerate?" Jarvis asks. "What would happen if we took time out for an invigorating experience, focused on human fulfillment?"
Jarvis interviewed fifty-five women who did just that, though they might not have characterized their actions in such flawless personal-growth jargon. Each of their stories sounds like the premise for a movie: "Shirley Valentine" without the sex. There's Shelly, who left her husband, her son, and three jobs in order to study yoga in India for six weeks; Chris, who, having shelved her post-collegiate plans to join the Peace Corps when she married, revived them thirty years later and did a two-year tour of duty in Namibia; Susan, who took herself to the South of France for six months with a trunkload of books from the Western canon. For her own sabbatical, Jarvis took off on a three-month tour of writers' colonies. Landing at the first, on an island off the coast of Washington State, she discovered the bliss of having a room of her own, a Victorian claw-footed bathtub, and someone else to do the cooking. "One minute I'm feeling grateful to Jim for his support of this experience," she writes of her husband. "Thirty minutes later, I'm sitting at the floral upholstered window seat, sipping apricot tea in a cup of hand-crafted pottery, wondering why I need a husband and a home at all."
One doesn't need to be a married woman to find this kind of escape fantasy alluring; and the desire that Jarvis felt to do something out of her ordinary routine may be mostly a matter of being middle-aged. Still, according to Jarvis's diagnosis, marriage—even the strongest of marriages—is predicated upon wifely confinement. Marriage means living in a place you don't like because it suits your husband: her book is populated with women in the Ozarks, Alaska, and the rural East Coast, all itching to be elsewhere. Marriage means cooking and cleaning and answering children's phone calls when you'd rather be working. "If married women are going to fulfill their dreams, they will sometimes have to say 'I can't take care of you right now,' " Jarvis writes. "Saying no to others is saying yes to something deeper within ourselves." Jarvis expresses her desire for marriage to be thought of as a "mutual personal-growth contract"; and behind this infelicitous expression lies the idea that marriage amounts to a defense against the existential trials of individualism, and happiness consists in carving out a space for personal development within its potentially obliterating structure. "At its most fundamental level," she writes, "isn't marriage just a way to buffer ourselves against the reality that we are essentially alone in the world?"
Well, no; owning a dog is just a way to buffer ourselves against the reality that we are essentially alone in the world. Marriage, among other things, is a structure within which children can be efficiently raised; it's a means of gain- ing cultural approbation, not to mention plates that match your teacups; and—crucially—it's an economic arrangement. Those economic aspects receive sobering treatment in "The Price of Motherhood" (Metropolitan; $25), by Ann Crittenden. Her focus is on mothers rather than on wives, but the degree of overlap is considerable. Crittenden, a former Times reporter, says that in contemporary American society becoming a mother provides a woman with her best shot at diminishing her earning power, compromising her future financial security, and undermining her social status. Having become a mother herself eighteen years ago, when she was in her early forties—she left her job at the Times to raise her son—she makes a case for motherhood not as biological destiny or as a necessarily self-sacrificing vocation but as a vastly important and wildly underappreciated contribution to the wealth of nations.
Crittenden compares the work that mothers do to the national service performed by soldiers, which is amply rewarded with grants for education and with health care and pensions, as well as with respect. By contrast, mothers are stiffed left and right—by the structure of Social Security, by inflexible work schedules, by inadequate child-care provisions, and by unfair divorce laws. Crittenden provides a raft of proposals of ways in which these inequities might be corrected: a "child allowance" would replace the current system of child tax credits; mothers would earn Social Security credits for the labor of raising children; employers would provide a year's salaried parental leave. All this would be paid for, Crittenden says, by an unspecified combination of taxes and reallocation of federal resources, and she points to the examples of countries such as Sweden to suggest how it might be done.
Crittenden proposes that, once a married couple have children, their individual incomes should legally merge into a "family wage," which neither partner can claim sole ownership of, and which would remain in effect for as long as there are dependent children around, divorce or no. For the divorce court, in her view, is where cultural assumptions about the place of wives are laid bare. Matrimonial law generally assumes that women provide wifely services—rais- ing children, supporting their husbands' careers—out of love, and so are due no financial recompense for their efforts should the marriage go bad. Instead, she suggests, stay-at-home wives might be considered equal investors in a partnership. This is a perspective that has yet to make much impact in practice. As Gary Wendt, the multimillionaire former C.E.O. of G.E. Capital, remarked a few years ago during his celebrated divorce from his wife, Lorna, "My rewards were financial, and I think her rewards were perhaps emotional." One wishes that the judge had suggested to Gary Wendt that if he expected to keep his money he would also be obliged to maintain his end of the bargain, and keep loving his wife.
Where Crittenden and the other authors focus on the dissatisfactions of contemporary wifehood, Marilyn Yalom, in "A History of the Wife" (HarperCollins; $30), shows that such dissatisfactions have a long history. Divorce was common in ancient Rome; wealthy girls in the early Middle Ages rebelled against the husbands chosen for them by their families. In Colonial New England, divorce was more often instituted by wives than by husbands; Yalom cites the suit of one woman whose husband admitted "that he had Rogered other women and meant to Roger Every Likely Woman He Could and as many as would Let Him." Yalom's book doesn't quite live up to its billing—she ignores wifedom beyond the Western tradition—and a reader can feel as wearied by the account of centuries of cooking, cleaning, and childbearing as the women who performed those drudgeries must have. Fortunately, it is enlivened by delight- ful nuggets of primary-source material, including the Arkansas bride-wanted advertisement. Yalom makes a point of showing that unsurrendered brides have been arguing with the wedding-service injunction to obey their husbands since the Book of Common Prayer was written; these refuseniks include Elizabeth Cady Stanton and, almost two hundred years earlier, a Virginia woman named Sarah Harrison Blair, who, during the marriage ceremony, repeatedly insisted, "No obey," eventually obliging the minister to cave.
A chorus of wifely dissatisfaction may echo throughout history, yet the reasons for the dissatisfaction have changed critically. Yalom's historical wives were protesting marriage laws that rendered them their husbands' chattel; that delivered their property to the men they married; that denied them a vote, because they were, supposedly, covered by their husbands' political views; that decreed their bodies perpetually available to their husbands, the dangers of childbearing or the whims of inclination aside. And today? The new batch of marriage books suggest that today's women are betrayed by great expectations—they expect matrimony to provide them with happiness, something that may be much harder to achieve than extending the franchise to women or outlawing marital rape.
"My fantasy of marriage as a wellspring of contentment has completely disappeared, and so should yours," Iris Krasnow sternly advises her readers in "Surrendering to Marriage" (Talk Miramax; $22.95). Krasnow's gloss on surrender differs from Doyle's: what she has in mind is mutual submission to the institution, as "a commitment we made, a spiritual promise larger than our own selfish desires." Surrendering means deciding to stand by one's vows even when boredom becomes the dominant theme of a marriage; giving up the hope that marriage will provide perpetual elation; learning to live with less than great sex, or with no sex at all. Unlike Doyle, who assumes that sex is a service women provide to men, Krasnow cites several instances of husbands who are derelict in their conjugal duties, including one who has never wanted to have sex with his wife more than once a year but has nonetheless managed to become a father of three, a triumph of chance over probability.
Krasnow is a regular contributor to the Washington Post, and her book reads like an oversized piece for the Style section. She admits that the "best stuff" in her book comes from her "extended circle of friends around Washington, D.C., journalists, artists, nurses, doctors, lawyers, waitresses, heiresses," which is another way of saying that she's been too busy looking after her four young sons to do much research. And her conclusions are delivered with a kind of hands-on-hips swagger. "I'll tell you the four things I now know about marriage," she writes. "A. Marriage can be hell; B. The grass is not greener on the other side; C. Savor the highs, because one thing you can count on—the dips are just around the corner; and D. Nobody is perfect, so you may as well love the one you're with."
Still, Krasnow does get at something that the other discontented-wives books don't: that marriage does not provide happiness (though it can often provide an environment in which to experience happiness), and that it is not an exhilarating private journey of self-discovery but a mode of living in the social world. That's a long way from Laura Doyle's Stations of the Cross model of wifely self-sacrifice. One way to reimagine marriage might be to substitute an alternative religious metaphor, that of churchgoing—which has, at its center, something sublime, but which consists mostly of entering a community and participating routinely in a set of social practices that can be observed without too much thought about their higher significance. Marriage, too, is an expression of a desire to wed the rational to the irrational: it is the most sensible, practical way of living in the world that has thus far been devised and, at the same time, life's most improbable undertaking. ♦


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Luke 20 is the twentieth chapter of the Gospel of Luke in the New Testament of the Christian Bible. It records the teachings of Jesus Christ, especially under the questioning of the groups of Pharisee and Sadduccee. The book containing this chapter is anonymous but early Christian tradition uniformly affirmed that Luke composed this Gospel as well as Acts.
Must have been the devil who changed my mind
Must have been the wind blowing not me crying
Half the joy of icaving was the space I left behind
Now I'm back, angelheaded holloweyed
Placed myself at the eye of the storm
Just didn't see the signpost to scorn
The blue sky wrinkled through my tears
Them darkness grounded all my fears
I gave him my sugar; he switched it for salt
Should have seem him coming that's always my fault
Rocks for my pillow and sand for my bed
For better or worse I left him for dead
But two rivers to each other run
Words that shook me like the kick of a gun
Had something in my heart ain't got no name
Turned out he left the same
Ain't it lonesome, ain't it sad
I was the only happiness he ever had
By indian river the vows were said
In a red devil's dress I was wed
Cat cat bone, cat cat cat bone x8
Bitch baby round lady
Came to me in a dream
Them lightning struck and thunder roared
And nothing was as it seemed
A two-headed doctor walked on the water
And buried a lemon outside my door
He turned and laughed, threw up his hands
When I asked him what it was for
He sang 'ships in the ocean rocks in the sea
Blond-headed woman made a fool outta me'
Them everything went crazy
My shoes filled with blood
The water rose the wind did howl
The river looked ready to flood
I left my man asleep to drown
And ran without looking back around
Ring the bells of mercy
Send the sinnerman home
The keys to the kingdom are lost and gone
And I'm left to die alone
All these irls grown old now
All that long hair in the grave
Realize what's done is done
It's far too late to be saved
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Via Nealenews, the gag order in effect last night was broken by none other than the CBC.
A media blackout that makes it illegal to publish early election tallies wasn't enough to stop the CBC from broadcasting results for all the world to hear more than two hours before all polls were closed.No, I regret to say it was not a member of the London Fog who exposed the CBC. How will Elections Canada deal with this corrupt public corporation? Who should be arrested and who jailed? Public ownership implies collective responsibility, so all should pay the price for such deviance. Paul Martin should stick around to investigate.
If Elections Canada were really interested in enforcing this archaic law, why not suspend the release of the poll results locally? I suppose internet filters like they have in China are more appealing.
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Choosing an Insurance Agent in Washington state
Finding the right agent to assist you with your Medicare Supplement Insurance can be a difficult decision. The reality is most agents you buy from today won't answer the phone five minutes after you sign up. That's unfair to you as their client since that agent receives a commission off your premium payment. When you're vetting out a particular agent, you want to make sure whoever you buy from is Independent, and represents multiple companies. The reason for this is Medicare supplements are identical regardless of what company you go with. If you sign up with an agent that only writes for 1 company and you receive a premium increase on your policy, your agent can't help you change to another company.
A well-established, Independent Medicare Agent will stick out from the rest by explaining and providing accurate information to you in a professional, relaxed manner. You should never feel like you got sold your Medicare supplement policy, instead you should feel like you bought your policy. A successful Medicare supplement agent knows that you as a Medicare recipient need to buy insurance; the question is what company and what agent? That is why an experienced independent agent doesn't need to use high pressure sales tactics; instead the agent is able to earn clients by representing most, if not all, Medicare supplement companies available to you. While also explaining your options and answering your questions so you can make a knowledgeable and comfortable decision.


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Using Lightroom Mobile | Wedding Photographers
Introducing Lightroom Mobile
If you photograph weddings or portraits, using Lightroom Mobile can really change your workflow. Are any of the following of interest to you?
- Would you like to be working on one shoot in its own catalog while a co-worker or partner is working on a different shoot on the office desktop computer?
- Would you like to be able to work off-site, on location, while traveling, for example?
- Would you simply like to get unchained from the desktop workstation and maintain connectivity to your photo work?
Well, a 'yes' to any of the above, as well as to many other scenarios, will mean you will want to try using Lightroom Mobile.
Here's what you will need. (Chances are you already have everything required!)
1. An internet-connected desktop computer with Adobe Lightroom, which is your 'main' photo processing workstation.
2. A mobile device, typically an iPad, with the Adobe Lightroom Mobile app installed. The iPad needs at least WiFi connectivity, though a cellular connection will of course provide the widest freedom of mobility. A Retina screen iPad is ideal since you will be able to accomplish some fairly detailed editing. (Watch for the iPad Pro, along with Apple Pen, coming soon!)
Our workflow
It's worth going over our specific workflow and circumstances for using Lightroom Mobile, though differences in your workflow typically do not preclude the functionality you'll experience and enjoy.
1. We make a new collection for every job (photo shoot).
2. We write our main and backup files to a centrally-located hard drive that are attached to the Mac that is dedicated to photo processing.
3. With two of us in the office, we often wish for the ability for one of us to be working on 'Job A' while the other would work on "Job B'.
Lightroom Mobile to the rescue!
Getting started Using Lightroom Mobile and making it work for us!
Here are the simple steps:
1. On the main desktop computer, open the catalog that you would like to sync with Lightroom Mobile. (When starting a new catalog you may see prompts asking if you want to sync that catalog with Lightroom Mobile; to which saying 'yes' would preclude this step.
2. A fundamental process step to using Lightroom Mobile is that the photos to be linked must be in a collection (not a smart collection). In Library view, select the photos desired to be in the collection (Cmd/Ctrl-A if you want them all to be in the to-be-synced collection).
3. Near your name (or the text you may have put in its place) in the upper left main Lightroom screen, notice the arrow that appears. Click that arrow, and choose 'Sync with Lightroom mobile', then click Start.
4. You'll then be led to the following dialog box. Name the collection as you wish. Ensure that 'Include selected photos' and 'Sync with Lightroom mobile' are checked.
5. Now, you just have to wait for the images in your collection to be synced upload to the Adobe server. Depending on your internet service speed, the time will vary. A recent upload of around 1,000 images took a little over an hour. You need to keep the catalog open for the syncing to the Adobe server to work, though if you close it, the process will resume on its own the next time the catalog is opened.
6. Once the collection is fully synced (the progress is visible on the main Lightroom screen) it's time to work mobile!
7. Here is our iPad running the Lightroom app. A good starting point in using Lr Mobile is to use it to cull; setting a rating using flags (as circled above) or rating stars (the method we use in our workflow). Yes, touching the rating here on the tablet will result in that rating appearing on the main Lightroom catalog the next time it is opened on the desktop! BUT, let's not stop here. How about a screen to cull AND edit at the same time?
8. From the rating screen, press the three-dot menu pull down at the lower right (also circled in the above photo). This will switch your screen to the mode shown below. This mode brings fast access to the items shown, to include the ability to crop and perform relatively complex editing of the image.
9. Pressing two fingers onto the screen will bring up the pop-up dialog shown above. I especially like the Speed Rating setting, as this allows a finger swipe upward to assign the 'star' rating to each image, as shown in the following image:10. Navigation is very intuitive with the expected swipes. A fun tip is that, after making image adjustments, pressing three fingers to the screen toggles to the 'before adjustments' view.
Every change made on the iPad or mobile device is synced to the master set on the Adobe servers, and the next time the original catalog is opened on the desktop, it will "check in" with the Adobe server and update those settings to the catalog.
Here's a schematic of what happens in the above process flow:
11. Once the need for mobile access has outlived its usefulness for a particular catalog, stop the sync to Lightroom Mobile for that catalog so as to keep the unimaginably large number of images files on the Adobe servers cleaned up to the best extent possible.
Future posts will delve in to some of the more advanced capabilities of using Lightroom Mobile. Special thanks to my brother, R.L.Caron, a commercial architectural photographer and a certified Adobe Lightroom expert, for many of the details and tips I have learned from his wisdom and guidance that I share here.
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Published at Friday, April 26th, 2019 - 03:07:49 AM. Worksheet. By Madeleina Moreau.
Worksheets, workbooks, and printables. Is there a place for them in the early childhood setting? Today I'm explaining why I think worksheets are not appropriate for young children. Welcome to the Child Led Environments Series where we are exploring how to set up and cultivate an environment conducive to child-led learning. How to Cultivate a Love of Learning, Toy Rotation: Why It's Beneficial for You and Your Child, How to Incorporate an Encouraging Home Preschool Environment,9 Reasons Why Worksheets Are Inappropriate for Young Children,4 Aspects of the Adult's Role in a Child-Led Approach. As a parent and educator, when I walk into an environment with early learners, whether that be in a homeschool setting or preschool setting, I want to see those kids engaged in their learning. Young children should be manipulating materials, testing hypothesis, and exploring the world around them. No matter where I look, I should not see a child doing a workbook. Worksheets are not appropriate for young children for many reasons. Let me start off by explaining what a worksheet means to me.
Conclusion, There are two fundamental problems with worksheets. First, young children do not learn from them what teachers and parents believe they do (Kostelnik, Soderman, & Whiren, 1993). Second, children's time should be spent in more beneficial endeavors (Willis, 1995). The use of abstract numerals and letters, rather than concrete materials, puts too many young children at risk of school failure. This has implications for years to come. Worksheets and workbooks should be used in schools only when children are older and developmentally ready to profit from them (Bredekamp, S. & Rosegrant, T., 1992). Our challenge is to convince parents and others that in a play-based, developmentally appropriate curriculum children are learning important knowledge, skills, and attitudes that will help them be successful in school and later life.
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My psychiatrist asked me today if I was still looking for teaching jobs. I answered "yes" reflexively and then followed up with "well, i'm trying to get through this conversation without crying, and then i'm going to try to get through the rest of the day without crying too much. My goal for the week is to keep doing the things I enjoy even when I am crying and not enjoying them. My stretch goal is to get a nights sleep. I would really like that but it may not be possible."
The basis of "spoon theory" is that some things most people do without too much fuss or energy (i.e. not crying in public, taking a shower, eating dinner) take some of us a relative lot of energy so that, at the end of the day we have no "spoons" left for our romantic life, our professional advancement, not screaming at our partner's child because they are whining about something stupid, or just plain keeping our tears in until we get into our apartment. Spoon theory explained a lot to me, and still does. It became a short hand that is readily understood by people – "I don't have the spoons to cook tonight and I don't know when I will have them," is much more honest than "I wanted you to come over for dinner but I forgot to turn on my phone for the past 12 hours to finalize our plans" or "My cat is sick" or any of the other millions of excuses I have used when I planned to have a birthday party and then the day of realized I just *couldn't* face people.
There are two (related) problems with spoon theory in general and in particular in terms of goal setting.
- using spoons can make you have more spoons – this is when you don't think you have the social energy or spoons to go visit your friend because you can't stop crying and think you are a burden to be around, but then you do go see her and she is totally cool and not at all bothered by your tears and the shit-show that is your emotional deregulation and then suddenly you feel like you might have those spoons to take a shower after all.
- not having spoons results in you feeling like you deserve to not have any spoons. you start thinking "i couldn't make myself shower today, i am so disgusting and stink and can't ever have the spoons to shower."
Applying for teaching jobs makes me feel like I might have a future that is valuable and meaningful. Therefore I do it, even when I am also harvesting my spoons trying to make it through the day. I would like to make it through the day a little easier, so I could focus on making my life better in higher order ways, but having hope for the future helps with all of these fronts. I have to shower and swim and talk to a friend *in order to* gain spoons to write this cover letter.
And blog. So thank you. Coming soon= hospitalization, friends, and permanence. Mental illness and loving commitment. Sex gender and depression.


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February marks a special milestone for Trilix. Fourteen years ago, our agency was born. What started out as a small, 11-person team has grown five times that size — with three moves in the process — in just under a decade and a half.
Many Trilix employees today know the history of the agency, but you might be surprised to know Trilix was born out of a business acquisition. In 2004, Ron Maahs and Todd Senne of Direct Advantage purchased Porter and Associates. The merger would result in a new name: Trilix, Latin for "three intertwined threads." Those "threads" are the three founding principles of our agency: relationships, strategy and creativity. Out of the 11 employees that made up Trilix in its infancy, six are still here today: Founders Ron Maahs and Todd Senne, Chief Marketing Officer Brett Adams, Human Resources Director Annette Halbur, Associate Creative Director Paul Burger and everyone's favorite marketing consultant, Abe Goldstien. In fact, Trilix's first hire, Janelle Steinkamp, still works in our account services department!
"I was a little bit of everything back then," says Annette. She wore many hats in the agency's early days, including human resources, billing and reception.
The growth over these 14 years can be traced to the agency's first year in business, when it moved from West Des Moines to a new office in Urbandale in 2004. Brett is another example of the agency's rapid growth. He started in 2001 at Porter and Associates as an intern, remaining on staff with Trilix and doing just about everything before joining Ron and Todd as the agency's third owner in 2013. The agency then made its second move into its current space in downtown Des Moines in 2014. More recently, we've expanded the depth of our departments, from adding more video, social media and PR services to the addition of Jon Miller as our new director of client service. We've renovated our downtown office and continued to expand our clientele all over the country.
If you had asked Annette in 2004 how she imagined Trilix 14 years into the future, she says the answer would have been cautiously optimistic.
"Of course you want to see it succeed and grow, but you need the right talent, the right partnerships with clients and a little luck for that to happen."Annette Halbur
Thankfully, Trilix had that recipe. From long-term clients like McWane, Inc., Stine Seed Company and the Iowa State Fair to new partnerships with organizations like the University of Iowa Hawkeye Athletics, the NCAA College World Series and Unverferth Manufacturing Co., Trilix shows no sign of slowing down.
So, how do we celebrate the agency's anniversary? With a "Souper Bowl," of course! Because Trilix's anniversary falls close to the Super Bowl, the Trilix FunMittee started a tradition of celebrating both with one big party. The Trilix XIV Souper Bowl Party will offer Trilix employees the chance to face off against each other for the title of "Best Soup" in the office. Not a fan of soup? Don't worry, everyone will enjoy a slice of Trilix anniversary cake, too


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I'm bad about taking pictures, but some of you have asked about belly pictures and I feel I should be taking those anyway. Here's one from 23 weeks.
Anyway, onto my Craigslist score. And the fact I'm as happy about this as I am means I am getting very old. But whatever, that's life.
The most famous (and possibly highest-quality) glider brand out there is Dutalier. These cost at the cheapest $3-400, but they go up to the thousands. A glider, for the uninitiated, is like a rocking chair, but it glides back and forth on ball bearings and has a lot smoother motion than a rocker. They are great for nursing babies.
Dutalier gliders are hot commodities on Craiglist and they're usually gone within several hours of posting. I know this because I've tried to get many of them without success, until today. I found one for $100, in great condition, in a nice, neutral color, AND with wood that matches our baby furniture. Mason went to get it after work today. I was more excited about this than I've been in a long time. Now all we have to do is get a bookshelf and the nursery furniture is set.


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This is a dark red leather ipad purse or an envelope purse. It is made from a dark red leather and comes with a wrist strap. Inside the purse there are 2 pockets and 1 large zipped pocket. You can easily fit your ipad, phone, and wallet in this purse. It is a nice change if you don't want to carry a heavy messenger bag or computer bag.
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7thConsulting Sp. z o.o. is a limited liability company, established in Poland and operating on the territory of China. It plays a role of the business bridge between Chinese and foreign firms, and concentrates its operations on advisory and trade. Establishment of the company and its operations has been inspired by the principles of the Catholic faith and passion.
China with the population of 1.4 bn inhabitants is a potential market, especially for the producers of quality food & beverage products from abroad. However, not many companies mark their presence in the middle country. To succed it's necessary to comply with local regulations, develop sales channels and brand awareness.
Amongst stainless steel manufacturers China ranks number one country in the world, what proves it's the right destination for many foreign purchasers. On the other hand, maturity of stainless steel mills varies significantly, and co-operation decision must be carefully contemplated, basing on the real and verified information.
Music market in China is not easy to enter but can be rewarding. Local music scene is developing with quality performing places and festivals attracting thousands of people. An asset valued not only by artist, but also foreign brands willing to promote its products in China.
Horse people in China forms a hermetic group with horses treated as companions and/or an element of their lifestyle. Target customers vary, but it could be the right place to offer high-end, quality horses, where purchasing decision may be also driven by the affection for the animal.
7thConsulting operation revolves around three main services and Market Entry is one of them. Company assists foreign business with market analysis, regulatory compliance, sales channels development, brand awareness, relationship management and other related matters.
Talent and hard work is a must. Apart from this 7thConsulting assists young and experienced artists in building-up their online presence, booking concerts, compliance with local regulations, search for the external source of finance and other tasks, necessary to succeed in China.
China is considered "factory of the world" with numerous manufacturing plants in place. Establishment of the reliable supply chain requires co-operation with suitable business partners. Correct decisions may result in long-term benefits, but mistakes produce time and financial loses.
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Genetic Counselors
Other names for this job might include Cancer Genetic Counselor, Certified Genetic Counselor, Chromosomal Disorders Counselor, Clinical Coordinator, Pediatric Genetics, Coordinator of Genetic Services, Genetic Counselor, Hereditary Cancer Program Coordinator, Medical Science Liaison, Mitochondrial Disorders Counselor, Pediatric Genetic Counselor
- $74570Salary
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In this career quiz for Genetic Counselors, you will find out if working as one is right for you.After taking this career quiz, you will find out if becoming a Genetic Counselor is the right career choice for you and if you should become one.
Is This Right For Me
People who are suitable for to be A Genetic Counselor like working with, communicating with, and teaching people. They like helping or providing service to others.
They also like working with ideas, and require an extensive amount of thinking. They like searching for facts and figuring out problems mentally.
Now let's assume that your personality matches. Should you still consider becoming A Genetic Counselor?
Not so fast because you may or may not like what Genetic Counselors do at their day to day work.
At a typical day's work, they Interpret laboratory results and communicate findings to patients or physicians.
Genetic Counselors also Discuss testing options and the associated risks, benefits and limitations with patients and families to assist them in making informed decisions..
Here are some of the things that you can expect to be doing if you decide to become A Genetic Counselor.
|Analyze genetic information to identify patients or families at risk for specific disorders or syndromes.
|Provide counseling to patient and family members by providing information, education, or reassurance.
|Write detailed consultation reports to provide information on complex genetic concepts to patients or referring physicians.
|Provide genetic counseling in specified areas of clinical genetics such as obstetrics, pediatrics, oncology and neurology.
|Determine or coordinate treatment plans by requesting laboratory services, reviewing genetics or counseling literature, and considering histories or diagnostic data.
You can read more about what do Genetic Counselors do here.Generally, people who are suited for this job have Concern for Others and Integrity. Here are their top 5 characteristics.
|Concern for Others
|Attention to Detail
|Self Control
Are Genetic Counselors introverts or extroverts?
According to our introvert and extrovert rating score, Genetic Counselors are ranked #545 out of 974 jobs for introverts and #378 for extroverts.
- Introvert score: 45/100. View the best jobs for introverts
- Extrovert score: 57/100. View the best jobs for extroverts
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Instructions to Quiz
In this career quiz, there are 10 questions that will analyze if the Genetic Counselors career is right for you.
There are 3 answers to each question: Dislike, Okay and Like.
Answer "Dislike" if you tell yourself "Ugh… Sounds boring" or "I'm not sure" Answer "Okay" if you tell yourself "Umm… I think I will be okay with that" Answer "Like" if you tell yourself "Yes, I'm interested"
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|You're interested in biology like plant and animal organisms, their tissues, cells, functions, interdependencies, and interactions with each other and the environment.
|You're interested in psychology like human behavior and performance; individual differences in ability, personality, and interests; and the assessment and treatment of behavioral and affective disorders.
|Interpret laboratory results and communicate findings to patients or physicians.
|Analyze genetic information to identify patients or families at risk for specific disorders or syndromes.
|You like working with, communicating with, and teaching people.
|You like helping or providing service to others.
|You like working with ideas, and require an extensive amount of thinking.
|You like searching for facts and figuring out problems mentally.
|You like working with forms, designs and patterns.
|You like work that requires self-expression and it can be done without following a clear set of rules.
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Zoe has a reporter from her alumni magazine come to Blue Bell so she can prove to her former classmates that she is doing something "important" in Blue Bell and that she isn't "retired."
Zoe also examines a patient for leprosy after she finds out he came in contact with an armadillo.
In other news, George and Lemon try to date… and fail terribly.
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It's interesting how Christians like to talk about how terrible the crucifixion of Jesus was. If it wasn't for his crucifixion, Christianity would never have gotten so popular; it would be reduced to "weird" status like with the Mormons or Mennonites. Jesus' crucifixion was a godsend for the Christian faith.
1. He was killed during his prime. If Jesus were to live a long life until the age of 80 or so, his message would have become stale and diluted. By dying at the height of his fame, his ideas are held to a higher regard (kinda like the final season of Seinfeld). Your ideas are worth nothing unless someone wants to kill you for them.
2. His death created the most recognizable image in the world. Without the image of him hanging from the cross, how do you expect the church to push the propaganda? Plus I can only imagine how many millions in cross sales the church profits from every year. It's the oldest souvenir in the world.
Every Christmas you should celebrate JC's death, for without it your religion would be seen a little differently, probably in books with titles like "Stories of the Crazy White Man", read alongside Greek and Roman myths to youngsters before bedtime. Instead, it's a homophobic way of life for over a billion people, while at the same time serving as the world's number one incubator for pedophiles. Hooray!


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Most of us have a central ac system. Most of us know that the air comes from vents which are in various rooms in a home. The majority of us understand that there is a air filter somewhere in the home that must be altered once in a while.
There are a few additional things concerning the airflow at a central air system which could be of interest for individuals. Did you know that the air conditioning vents are in places that are precise?
Can you wonder why the thermostat is situated in that hall, or why just two story homes typically have two air conditioning units?
These questions and many others can easily be answered, and may enable individuals with a number of the fundamental knowledge required to make the most of life span of the central air. To get more info on the makeup air unit visit https://spraytech.com/makeup-air-unit/.
The vents situated in every room of a home are often positioned where they can be for a reason – to optimize airflow inside the room and also to keep the atmosphere throughout the whole room.
These ports have baffles, or fins, on those who lead airflow in certain directions. When you have a look around your house, you might observe that a number of the vents are one-directional, while some are multi-directional.
The thermostat in your house is probably situated in a hallway. This is the place in which the warmth resembles that of the remainder of the home.
To put it differently, the temperature at which thermostat is situated is the normal temperature of the house. Because of this, the thermostat is generally located in a central purpose in the house.
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The success of minor players who were elected to the Senate has prompted aspiring politicians to set their sights on the Victorian election.
Victorian Electoral Commission (VEC) information officer Paul Thornton-Smith says every week he's getting a few inquiries about registering a party for the November poll.
"There's certainly been more interest," Mr Thornton-Smith said.
"It's basically ever since the federal election."
Ten political parties are registered in Victoria and the VEC has sent registration information kits to as many again since the September federal election.
Monash University politics lecturer Zareh Ghazarian said the wave of interest was not surprising given voting for Victoria's Legislative Council is similar to the Senate.
"At the last election we had the DLP (Democratic Labour Party) win off about two per cent of the primary vote," Dr Ghazarian said.
Debate around social issues, particularly abortion, is also likely to attract small parties, she said.
"I think they are lightning rods to these sorts of minor parties that pursue a particular agenda."
The Rise Up Australia Party, which based its 2013 election campaign on an anti-immigration platform, is canvassing support from its members so it can register in Victoria.
Its website says it's committed to fight against the state's abortion laws.
Three parties which had not previously run in Tasmania signed on for the election held last week, bringing the number of parties from four to seven.
The South Australian Electoral Commission says three additional parties registered for its state poll, also held last Saturday, and there was interest from a lot more, but that many ran out of time because of a six month cut-off date.
"There was a lot of interest following the federal election, but the parties didn't really get in time to contest the state election," a SAEC spokesperson said.
Australian Christians and Country Alliance are already registered in Victoria and say they are aiming to have more candidates than they've ever run before, come November.
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The holiday season is almost upon us! In fact, some stores are already stocking Christmas decorations! While it might seem a bit early for that, it isn't too early to get caught up in the holiday rush. Buying gifts, preparing to travel, wrapping up work projects for the year, and the actual hustle and bustle of holiday events can leave us all exhausted and without any time to ourselves. Before the holiday rush starts in, take a little time to stop and smell the flowers.
There are several things you can do to prepare yourself for the holidays. While the phrase "stop and smell the flowers" can be taken literally, it doesn't always have to be. Of course, ordering yourself a nice bouquet of flowers for your desk at work or for your kitchen table is certainly one way of bringing a little peace to your life before it gets chaotic. Another way is to spend a little time outdoors at a local park or flower garden before it gets too cold.
Another way to prepare yourself for the holiday rush is to take a weekend for yourself. Relax, read a good book, watch a movie, and generally try to forget your worries. If that's not really possible, plan an evening to yourself. Order in some food, curl up on the sofa, and maybe even take a nice bubble bath.
While relaxing is a great way of preparing for the holidays, some people may want to take a more active approach. For these people, stopping and smelling the flowers means preparing. Make a list of everything that you need to accomplish for the holidays. Who do you need to shop for, what food will you need to cook, and so on. Set deadlines and try to stick with them. Doing this will alleviate a lot of the holiday stress, and that's the main goal.Share This:


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I'm rubbing the skin off of my back in the shower and I'm crying because it feels as if I am scrubbing pieces of you away. I hate the way peeling skin seems endless, and no amount of my fingers rubbing in circles over my shoulder seems to end the stream of shedding skin. It is so uncomfortable to become new.
I wonder how I will get through this. I think of you. You tell me that it is normal to feel out of balance at times. Be patient. These are things I'm trying to pretend I already knew. I hate the way simple advice sounds just right but also makes you feel silly for not thinking of it on your own. It is so uncomfortable to be uncomfortable in your own skin.
I ask you to tell me that you love me, that you value me, that I have a place in your life to defend at all. My head wraps me in circles of drowning until I forget about you and I leave myself lost in ideas of whatever's left. It's mostly ugly. It's so uncomfortable to hate yourself in the ways that I'm trying to undo.
It isn't from you, but it well up in the holes I have left from where you fit. I don't know who I am now that you've touched me. It's so uncomfortable to be without you. It's so uncomfortable to become new.
Ashley Wylde
April 2015


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The Dawn (one of the largest newspapers in Pakistan) is reporting: "A day after Washington confirmed suspending $255 million of military aid to Pakistan, U.S. Press Secretary Sarah Sanders said that the actions being taken against Islamabad are a follow-up to Donald Trump's South Asia policy announced last year."
JUNAID AHMAD, [currently in the U.S.] junaidsahmad at gmail.com
Ahmad is assistant professor at the University of Lahore in Pakistan, and Secretary-General of the International Movement for a Just World. See Ahmed's recent interview on The Real News.
He said today: "President Donald Trump's first tweet of the year concerned none of the other 'usual suspects' of international 'rogue' nations routinely targeted for the president's wrath: North Korea, Iran, or a China, or a Venezuela. No, this tweet concerned one of the older scapegoats for America's travails in the 'Af-Pak' theatre in the 'war on terrorism', that 'most dangerous country on earth,': Pakistan. Trump's sudden outburst repeated more colorfully the hackneyed refrains that Islamabad is all too familiar with by now: more diplomatic-sounding jargon now replaced by language such as 'lies' and 'deceit' in claiming that Pakistan has taken billions from Washington yet still is supporting terrorists and militants.
"But the timing of this sudden eruption from Trump, though of course a phenomena with which we've become all too familiar, seems to be deeply rooted in the shifting global geopolitical balance of power. For all of the Washington policy talk of wishing to 'stabilize' Afghanistan, there has been nothing to show for — with a popularly reviled occupation, overseeing a weak central government engaged in endemic corruption and incompetence in meeting basic needs of ordinary Afghans. And most importantly, there is the rising strength and reach of the 'Taliban' – increasingly, a meaningless 'bogey man' term deployed to refer to what should otherwise be generally known as the ethnicashtun resistance to foreign occupation. Indeed, in a somewhat more serious way to try to stabilize the Afghan polity and society, China has stepped up to the plate over the past few weeks and enabled what is a breakthrough: bringing Kabul and Islamabad to the table, along with Beijing, to discuss a diplomatic and political resolution to Afghanistan's travails. The talks were showing some promise, alongside commitments for heavy Chinese investment into Afghanistan.
"But this seemed to have been intolerable for two parties which continue to view the Kabul government as their client regime: New Delhi and Washington. For the Indian establishment, Chinese involvement in Afghanistan represents competitive economic influence, and Pakistan's a deeply despised and intolerable political involvement. But for the American political establishment, the anxiety stems from a deeper malaise of growing imperial geopolitical impotence and irrelevance. What Washington fears most, and hence will try to undermine as best it can, is a Syria redux, where ultimately the Russians, Iranians and the Turks simply sorted out the modalities of a stable, post-war Syria amongst themselves. There was no invitation to or input from the U.S. Having this mirror reflecting the face of an increasingly ignored and weakened empire, repeatedly confronting Uncle Sam at every corner, is what will continue to generate these panic-stricken imperial tweets for the foreseeable future."


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IHCN was envisioned to be a membership driven organization and has since its inception created a network of historically The Indian Heritage Cities Network was initially launched as a UNESCO programme in response to the fast changing urban context of Indian historic cities that threaten to destroy some of India's diverse heritage in cities and advance the promotion of heritage based sustainable development in India. significant cities, universities and institutional members as well as a number of NGO partners. Heritage Cities Development Network Society (HCDNS), a sister organization of IHCNF was registered in the year 2015.
IHCNF is presently active in Karnataka and Rajasthan and has initiated dialogue with the State Government of Madhya Pradesh, Uttarakhand, and Kerala for heritage based activities in these states.
- To support Indian cities in safeguarding and use of heritage resources for sustainable urban development through policy directives, capacity building, exchange programmes and technical assistance for various heritage based planning and developmental activities.
- Work towards creating a network of historically significant Indian cities and to bring heritage into the mainstream of development planning to ensure that the physical natural and cultural heritage, traditions, crafts and creativity of Indian cities are recognized and become the driving forces for urban development.
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You may have heard of this study, which was featured in the November 2015 issue of Judgment and Decision Making, the journal of the Society for Judgment and Decision Making. It's a fascinating study at any time, but at this juncture in our history - when facts are blithely ignored or, worse, invented by people aspiring to the most important office in the world, and when people who should know better unquestioningly lap up the most egregious of BS - it's really important. In case you don't want to read the whole study (but you should), here's the abstract:
"Although bullshit is common in everyday life and has attracted attention from philosophers, its reception (critical or ingenuous) has not, to our knowledge, been subject to empirical investigation. Here we focus on pseudo-profound bullshit, which consists of seemingly impressive assertions that are presented as true and meaningful but are actually vacuous. We presented participants with bullshit statements consisting of buzzwords randomly organized into statements with syntactic structure but no discernible meaning (e.g., 'Wholeness quiets infinite phenomena'). Across multiple studies, the propensity to judge bullshit statements as profound was associated with a variety of conceptually relevant variables (e.g., intuitive cognitive style, supernatural belief). Parallel associations were less evident among profundity judgments for more conventionally profound (e.g., 'A wet person does not fear the rain') or mundane (e.g., 'Newborn babies require constant attention') statements. These results support the idea that some people are more receptive to this type of bullshit and that detecting it is not merely a matter of indiscriminate skepticism but rather a discernment of deceptive vagueness in otherwise impressive sounding claims. Our results also suggest that a bias toward accepting statements as true may be an important component of pseudo-profound bullshit receptivity."
The paper draws an interesting distinction between lying ("which entails a deliberate manipulation and subversion of truth"), and bullshit ("something that is designed to impress but that was constructed absent direct concern for the truth*"). I would contend that both outright lying and bullshit are major components of political discourse today, the problem being that so few people are either able or willing to distinguish them from discourse worth hearing and using as a basis for sound decision-making.
This paper introduces the concept of the Bullshit Receptivity (BSR) Scale as a measure of the propensity for individuals unquestioningly to accept bullshit, and documents four studies which attempt to analyze the various factors which result in higher or lower BSR scores among persons exposed to bullshit. These factors include religious beliefs, political biases, belief in the supernatural, lack of education in logical thinking and analysis, and lack of education in general.
It's pretty clear that the BSR score of the average American voter, particularly those who support odious buffoons like Donald Trump and Ted Cruz, is off the scale.
Can you, Dear Readers, adequately detect and respond to bullshit, no matter which party shovels it out? As the 2016 presidential sweepstakes intensifies, I hope so.
* Emphasis mine. It's pretty clear that there is a lack of "direct concern" for the truth in most political campaigns. While all politicians are guilty at some time or another of spinning data to present a more favorable picture of "the truth," it seems that in the current environment, there is a complete lack of concern ... if not outright disdain ... for proven facts and demonstrated science. Methinks we're screwed.


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Flybook has updated its 8.9 inch Tablet PC model "V5" at CES in January (Core 2 Duo CPU ULV U7600 with 1.2 GHz, Intel 945 chipset, 80 Gig default HD and 1.3 megapixel webcam), it is now available in Germany. At Cebit we heard that a SanDisk SSD will be available as an option "soon".
V5 to be followed by V6 based Intel Centrino 2 platform
More interesting, Flybook is currently developing next incarnation of their stylish Tablets, to be called V6, Product Manager Moreno Lizzi told me at Cebit. The display will be improved, being "sunlight readable".
More important, V6 will be based on new Montevina platform from Intel, Moreno said. He has no specific launch date but said, "as soon as there is an ULV version of the CPU" – Intel plans to launch Montevina, also called Centrino 2, in June.
Other news: most popular colors among Flybook buyers are gold and pink, Flybook notebooks for European market are assembled in Italy, docking stations are considered, news bags are being selected.


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Along the east side of the Yucatan peninsula is the second longest barrier reef of the world right under the Australian one. There are shallow sites (between 10m/33feet and 14m/45 feet)...
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In the indoor cycling world, we're getting a lot of really great choices to "entertrain" us. We've been exploring some of those options here, including Zwift and Rouvy.
Today we're going to take an initial look at a product that has been in Beta and is going live soon - Road Grand Tours. Let's get a glimpse of what Road Grand Tours looks like with a brief video:
As you can see in the video, Road Grand Tours is an online multiplayer cycling simulator. For those of you familiar with Zwift, you'll note some similarities - you are modeled as an avatar riding through a virtual world. The Road Grand Tours team has put quite a bit of emphasis on making a very good looking virtual world. I have been lucky to be part of the beta for over a year already, and have seen RGT continue to improve and provide a solid user experience.
Since it is still in beta, we won't go into a lot of detail in this article about system requirements and the installation process. We'll focus on highlighting some of the features of RGT.
Location, Location, Location
One of the most fun features incorporated into today's indoor training software is the ability to ride in places all around the world. Road Grand Tours provides several routes modeled after real locales such as Cap Formentor in Mallorca, Spain or Canary Wharf in London.
For each of the routes, you have the ability to choose several starting points - you don't always have to start in the same place, and you can also start where you left off last time. If you see a friend out in the virtual world, you can choose to catch up and ride with them, too. Once you've decided on a starting point, you just click and go.
When I look at indoor training software, one of the primary needs I want to see addressed is performance information - measurement of my efforts, any biometric feedback my sensors are gathering, and how that translates to my performance on screen. The Road Grand Tours screen layout checks all of those boxes by including your biometric statistics, map, elevation information, and more in a relatively clean dashboard-type format. You have the ability to turn the various visual elements on or off to show as much or as little as you care to see.
There are a few basic shortcut keys to make it easy for you to interact with the Road Grand Tours environment, as well as with other riders. As you ride through places such as Belgium or Italy, you can enjoy the scenery from multiple perspectives afforded by 6 different camera angles.
Overall, the controls and interface are clean and intuitive, and you don't have to be a tech whiz to get in and enjoy a ride in Road Grand Tours.
Choose Your Weapon
As we all know, cycling is a fashion industry as much as it is a sport. Road Grand Tours has you and your avatar covered when you want to ride in style. You can select one of several road bikes from BMC, Ridley, or 8bar.
Once you've picked your trusty steed, you can choose from a variety of kits from Adidas and others, helmets from Lazer, and eyewear from Adidas.
Be Part of The Community
As an online multiplayer game, Road Grand Tours offers the ability to feel like part of something bigger than just you on your bike, sweating it out in your pain cave. These tools are great for providing motivation in several different ways. While riding in Road Grand Tours, you'll see other people from around the world sharing the road, have the opportunity to participate in events, and also see how you stack up to the competion with built-in Strava segments.
Are You Ready to join the Grand Tours?
If you like what you see, you can still try to sign up for the beta. In order to run RGT, you will need to be using a PC or Mac with a 64-bit operating system. Your Road Grand Tours experience will depend on having some good hardware:
Minimum System Requirements (low quality setting)
2 GHz CPU
Intel HD integrated graphics
Recommended System Requirements (high quality settings)
3GHz CPU
nVidia GTX 970 or equivalent card
You will also need a smart trainer that supports ANT+ communications. Bluetooth, as well as the ability to calculate virtual power using a speed sensor with a regular, non-smart trainer, are coming soon.
Overall, Road Grand Tours is off to a great start and if you have the right hardware, certainly worth a look. It's hard not to look at Road Grand Tours without comparing it to similar products such as Zwift. Zwift has quickly moved to the forefront in this space, with a massive rider presence at any given time of day, continued improvement, a great feature set, and a community being built around it. How does anybody else catch up to that?
Road Grand Tours has great graphics, an intuitive and clean interface, and a good start on providing a variety of locales to explore. Events are available, but there is a feeling that you are all alone out there. It lacks workouts or training elements that get back to the primary purpose of indoor training. It also is a bit more graphic intensive, and that's going to put more emphasis on having a relatively powerful gaming PC or Mac to enhance the experience. Is Road Grand Tours right for you? Right now, it's free to join the Beta, so give it a try and help shape the future of Road Grand Tours.


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I don't mean to be a downer, but have you readers of a certain age noticed how many conversations we've all been having about making an early exit?
I tend to have mine about five minutes after leaving my 89-year-old mother in her nursing home in Mamaroneck.
She doesn't seem unhappy, despite such occasional concerns as contracting malaria or about a sister in law getting stuck in a sinkhole in Florida. She appears to have accepted the legacy of the stroke that fried her brain two years ago: her inability to walk or to speak into the right end of the telephone, her inability to understand that she can't talk to her Aunt Tilly because Tilly is dead.
I get upset, though. I stumble out of the nursing home desolate, and in a minute, I'm on the phone with my friend Herb.
"If I'm ever in this situation just get me the pills and book the trip to Oregon," I tell him. "Don't let me exist like this."
"I know," says Herb, who goes down this road with me once a week. "Oregon or if the weather is nice, Vermont."
"I'm preferring Vermont these days," I say. "Home of Ben & Jerry's. You could mix it with whatever you're giving me and I wouldn't have to worry about full fat. I probably wouldn't even remember what full fat is. You know I'm serious, right?"
What, you're pretending you never had this conversation? I don't believe you. I've had this conversation with all of my closest friends, most of whom have seen parents through years of senility or severe decline. We all say we do not want to end our lives like that, and we swear that if it happens we will help each other check out.
The friend who is not convinced about taking an early exit if his mind or body fails is Herb.
"You don't know how you'll feel if you're ever in that position," Herb says. "You'll be another person. You might be O.K. with it."
"I get what you're saying," I say. "But I'm making an executive decision as the person who is in control of the body in question. And if I turn into somebody who can't get to the bathroom and is humored when I say I want to buy a present for my dead parents, I don't want that existence. It's like, would I want to exist as a cat? That cat might be happy as a cat. But I don't want to be one."
My mother, forceful and brutally blunt before her stroke, felt the same way. At least I think she did. Her medical directive says if she has an illness that results in "complete physical dependency" or "a vegetative state characterized by permanent and irreversible unconsciousness" she wants to die.
But of course, she is in neither of those states. She is cognitively impaired, disappearing sporadically and in patches like the cat in "Alice in Wonderland," only the more her brain deteriorates and the sleepier she gets, the mellower she seems to be.
So here is Ma bursting into "Happy Days Are Here Again" when her personal aide Terri arrives in the morning; telling me I'm the light of her life, which believe me is not the mother my brothers and I knew growing up; sitting in the garden at the Sarah Neuman nursing home in Westchester County enjoying the salami sandwich I bring her.
Ma's father, Max Aronowitz, was a butcher in the Catskills who smoked his own meats. When Ma and her brother Aaron and her sister Betty were growing up in the resort town of Fleischmanns, their father, on summer days, would send them off to a hotel pool with sandwiches made from his own salami.
I've brought Ma a salami sandwich because I think it may bring back those memories. Salami has a powerful smell, and smell is a great stimulant to the brain — how can it fail? I serve the sandwiches on flowery picnic plates on a bright yellow Provençal tablecloth with wildly patterned napkins. Dance, damn brain cells, dance! I've also brought chocolate-covered pineapple, which Ma claims she's never had.
Actually, as Ma refuses to wear her hearing aid and therefore shouts even if you are two feet away, she shouts to me about the pineapple. If you were in Mamaroneck, actually anywhere in the Northeast two weeks ago, and heard someone hollering, "WHAT DO YOU CALL THIS STUFF AGAIN?" that was Ma.
When we step into the elevator to return to her unit, she starts a conversation with a stranger.
"I HAD SOMETHING I NEVER HAD BEFORE FOR LUNCH," Ma yells. "A SALAMI SANDWICH."
I fall into the black pit. I call Herb and remind him about the trip to Oregon. Then I call my brother Martin.
"Ma must have had hundreds of salami sandwiches in her life," I say. "How can she think this was the first time she had a salami sandwich? Her mind must really be shot."
"I think it was just a word glitch," Martin says. "She probably meant to say it was the first time she had the pineapple, but she momentarily lost that word and used 'salami' instead because that's what she associated with lunch."
I consider it.
"That sounds reasonable," I say. "It's also possible that she really didn't remember. Which might not be such a bad thing. Imagine if every time you were eating a salami sandwich you thought you were eating it for the first time. That would be pretty good."
"It would be pretty good," Martin agrees.
But I'd still rather go to Oregon.