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|That's Mom and I, reading family letters
written over 100 years ago between Boston and Hawaii
at the Hawaii State Archives
I recently took a trip to Hawaii, combining a family vacation with a bit of genealogy research. It was a great way to get the extended family, my Mom and my daughter, to learn about a branch of the family that we used to think of as a family myth. Seeing the historic homes, meeting the cousins and experiencing the culture was a great vacation. I also did a bit of research while I was there. It took a lot of planning ahead, and these strategies can be used for a genealogy trip anywhere, not just Hawaii
Planning ahead…
1. Make a list of specific things you want to research. Not just, "find vital records" but "find birth for cousin X" or "where did great uncle Y die?" Write up a research plan, but be flexible.
2. Call ahead to repositories and archives to find out the schedule, fees, hours, and any special days they might be closed. There are lots of local holidays you might not be aware of, or the clerk might take a vacation. Ask specific questions about the very day and time you want to visit. Remember the time difference when calling archives in Hawaii, you have to call at 6PM to reach someone at noon in Honolulu (six hour time difference!).
3. If you have a Flip Pal or other scanner, ask if it is allowed in any archive or library you want to visit (not allowed in the Hawaii State Archives). If not, you can leave it off your packing list. Packing light is a necessity nowadays with 50 lb weight limits on luggage!
4. Bring your digital camera, lots of memory cards, chargers, etc. Ask if it is allowed inside libraries (yes for Hawaii State Archives!), but you'll need it anyways to photograph your trip, villages, homesteads, cousins, etc.
5. Contact any distant cousins, genealogists, genealogy clubs, historical societies, etc. in the area for meetups and suggestions for research ideas. Plan time to make lunch and dinner plans with these people as a "Thank you". In Hawaii we presented them with leis, too, and gifts of New Hampshire maple syrup and other local products from home.
6. Research ahead of time the customs and etiquette for visiting cemeteries. In Hawaii we brought leis for family graves. Call churches ahead of time, they are open on very limited hours, even on Sundays. Bring water for exploring cemeteries, they are hot and dusty in the Honolulu area.
7. Be prepared to visit more than one island. Plan your research carefully so you can complete everything on one island before you move on to the next. This is an extra expense to add to your travel budget, and needs planning.
8. You probably need half the paperwork and half the clothes you originally planned to bring. I did a two week trip with one folder of paperwork, but brought home three times as much paper. Reconsider bringing your laptop. Are you going to spend vacation time entering data, or will you do it when you arrive home? Will a smart phone suffice? (Bloggers have different needs!)
While you are there…
1. Be flexible about changing your plans to squeeze in those "once in a lifetime" opportunities for meetups and photo opportunities.
2. If you are traveling with family, make sure you make time for fun and relaxation. For each cemetery or library visit, match it up with your spouse's choice of activity. Don't be afraid to ask if they would rather go to the beach or shopping while you do a genealogy activity alone.
3. Buy any books you think are valuable and not available at home. Ship them home by mail since books are heavy and your baggage allowance is only 50 lbs (less at some international locations).
4. If you take a lot of notes or pick up paper such as brochures, printouts, postcards, folders and other items, consider shipping them home, too. All that paper adds up to extra weight. Those new "If it fits, It ships" boxes from the USPS are great for this, and a bargain for shipping from Hawaii.
5. Hang out with the locals. The neighborhood pub, church on Sunday, read the local paper, eat the local food. Chat up the staff at restaurants, post offices and on tours. You just might meet a distant cousin!
Watch out for….
1. Climate issues. Hawaii was very different from New Hampshire. We brought lots of zip loc baggies for packing, silicon desiccant packs for cameras, a sweater for the archive building (locals were wearing parkas!) We went through lots of sunscreen at cemeteries. Bring wide brim hats! Dehydration and sunburns can ruin your trip.
2. Language issues. Yes, we needed a Hawaiian/English dictionary. Should have bought it ahead of time. Ask about translation services at archives, too (available at the Hawaii State Archives).
3. Bring a GPS if you are renting a car. Hawaiian street and village names are especially confusing and difficult to read, pronounce and spell. Double check everything with maps and guide books.
4. Don't be disappointed if you don't find what you came to research. The entire trip and the exposure to the culture and surroundings will enrich your research.
5. Watch out for issues with connectivity with WiFi or hotel internet. Don't be disappointed if you can't connect at all, and be prepared to not get online. Call ahead to see if your phone plan will work at your destination, or buy a throwaway phone upon arrival if you absolutely need to have a mobile phone.
6. Money issues. Hawaii is much, much more expensive than the mainland. Gas prices are exorbitant compared to gas at home, and all that eating out can blow your budget. Ask bellhops, tour guides, librarians and locals for inexpensive ideas for lunch, groceries, and other purchases.
7. Time differences. If you call, text or email home to New Hampshire, remember that 6PM in Honolulu is midnight at home! Some businesses that deal with the mainland open and close early because of this time difference, so plan ahead.
After you get home…
1. As soon as possible download and then backup your digital photos and scans.
2. Write thank you email and letters, don't forget to mail them, too!
3. Enter your new information and source citations into your genealogy data bases, make printouts of trees to see if there are new connections you need to follow up on as soon as possible while the trip and research are still fresh in your mind
Important genealogy places to visit in Hawaii:
Hawai'i State Archives
Kekāuluohi Building
'Iolani Palace Grounds
364 S. King Street
Honolulu, Hawai'i 96813
Fax: (808) 586-0330
E-mail: email@example.com
Business Hours: Monday-Friday 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Closed Saturday, Sunday, and State Holidays
'Iolani Palace Grounds
364 S. King Street
Honolulu, Hawai'i 96813
Fax: (808) 586-0330
E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com
Business Hours: Monday-Friday 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Closed Saturday, Sunday, and State Holidays
Metered parking near Iolani Palace
Genealogy research Guide for the Hawaii State Archives:
Bishop Museum
http://www.bishopmuseum.org/ (check for hours)
1525 Bernice Street
Honolulu, HI 96817
Phone: (808) 847-3511
Free Parking
NOTE- the library and archives are closed due to budget concerns!
Hawai'i State Library
The only state library system in the USA, with 50 branches on six island
Main Library 249 South King Street, Honolulu, HI, 96813 (808) 586-3500
University of Hawai'I at Manoa Library
Hawaiian Historical Society at Honolulu
Library is located at 560 Kawaiahao Street, Honolulu, HI 96813
Phone (808) 537 – 6271
Email email@example.com
(collections include newspapers, newsclipping files, manuscripts, photographs, etc)
Some important websites to check:
Honolulu County Genealogical Society
Native Hawaiian Genealogy Society
Copyright 2012, Heather Wilkinson Rojo


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UK NGDP Targeting: Sceptics Round-Up
Since Mark Carney's "regime change" speech there have been a number of responses from the sceptics, which I'll attempt to summarize here.
1. "The BoE is targeting NGDP anyway, what's the difference?" – this from Jeremy Warner of the Daily Telegraph. I have some sympathy with this view. You can make a reasonable case that the BoE is using the nominal GDP growth rate as an intermediate target. This was clearest when the Bank very explicitly tied the QE program to boosting nominal GDP; per the original announcement in March 2009:
The Committee judged that this reduction in Bank Rate [to 0.5%] would by itself still leave a substantial risk of undershooting the 2% CPI inflation target in the medium term. Accordingly, the Committee also resolved to undertake further monetary actions, with the aim of boosting the supply of money and credit and thus raising the rate of growth of nominal spending to a level consistent with meeting the inflation target in the medium term.
See also the invocations of "doing whatever it takes" in the minutes from that March meeting. They bet the farm on boosting the NGDP growth rate back in 2009, and that bet came off just fine. The Bank has been much less explicit in their desire to boost nominal GDP growth in subsequent announcements of QE. In July 2012 when an expansion of QE was announced, the text does not contain a single use of any of the words "demand" "nominal" or "spending". They're not even trying.
Mr Warner's subsequent blog post correctly notes that NGDP level targeting is very different to rate targeting, but the basic point is that targeting a 5% rate of NGDP growth would be very much more aggressive than what the BoE is doing now. Mr Warner is a supply-side pessimist and thinks faster NGDP growth would only result in higher inflation; he might be correct but I see little evidence to support that position in the GDP data.
2. "The market response was muted, therefore we should not expect NGDP targeting to make a difference." – this from professional sceptic Mr Chris Dillow. This again is a perfectly reasonable point. I'd say that the market response was that UK inflation and NGDP expectations rose slightly; inflation expectations did spike up a little, and the equity markets have been on a tear. I like to watch the FTSE 250 as a better indicator of domestic demand than the internationally-geared FTSE 100; the 250 broke all-time highs in the week following Carney's speech and has carried on up. None of that is a great test and I'm not trying to make a case for excessive bullishness based on one single speech: as I said before, Carney's speech moves us another inch forward. All eyes on Osborne now.
3. "OH MY GOD THEY'RE GOING TO PRINT MONEY AND CREATE INFLATION RUN FOR THE HILLS". This from numerous hawks, a view which has been comprehensively debunked by many right-minded individuals around the globe; see responses from Scott Sumner, and more recently Frances Coppola and Simon Wren-Lewis.
4. "What about revisions and lag?" – David Blanchflower's response in the FT questionnaire was the most astute. Scott and Lars have both done posts on this question, but I'll add the following.
a) The fact that NGDP data gets revised and the CPI data does not is not a fundamental property of what is being measured. On the contrary, it is a policy decision. When the CPI methodology changes (which it does) the ONS don't retroactively apply that new methodology to the historic index data. They could, and it would create a more "accurate" view of the price index, but they don't, because it is a design goal of the CPI (HICP) to avoid revisions.
b) I think Scott is correct that under NGDP level targeting in the UK we would have to allow "base drift" to the level target when the GDP methodology changes significantly. This is a real problem (at least for the UK), since methodology revisions have moved the level of NGDP not insignificantly. The change to the handling of insurance claim payouts in 2011 was significant, and there were changes to FISIM in 2008 which similarly moved the data.
But I don't think this is a huge problem. The ONS tend to bring in methodology changes only once a year with the "Blue Book" update, and revise the historic data at the same time. So the level target can shift at the same time, if necessary.
c) I think Blanchflower's claim on the need for emergency MPC reaction to GDP revisions is vastly overstated. When the government plans indirect tax changes (as it does regularly) that should move the path of future inflation. So isn't an "emergency" MPC reaction required then, too? A 2.5% VAT hike (June Budget 2010) is far more significant for the path of future inflation than GDP revisions, but I don't remember anybody calling for an emergency MPC response. More broadly, doesn't any change in fiscal spending or tax plans require an "emergency MPC response" by this logic, to stabilise the future path of demand?
Markets are smart and will anticipate the central bank "doing the right thing" so long as the Bank's mandate is clear about what the "right thing" is. NGDP level targeting is a way to provide such a mandate.
d) On lags and estimating current NGDP: starting in April this year, the UK government will be getting real time payroll data for a significant chunk of UK employers. This should give the government the ability to construct a very good estimate of real-time aggregate nominal income; employee compensation is 50% of GDP by income.
It's often rumoured that HM Treasury has a "inside view" on the state of the economy based on the HMRC revenue data. That must be a view on the path of the nominal economy, nominal GDP. Maybe that's just a rumour. Even if it is, the Bank of England employs a large army of very smart economists; estimating current NGDP is not an intractable problem, get some of them to work on that.


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Carney Lansford out as Rockies hitting instructor
Even before manager Jim Tracy walked away from his job on Sunday, the Rockies were planning to overhaul the coaching staff. Monday night, hitting instructor Carney Lansford and third base coach Rich Dauer were dismissed.
No other changes are planned on the major league staff for now, but that could change once a new manager is in place. If Mark Wiley is hired for the director of pitching operations position as expected, Bob McClure becomes the heavy favorite to become the new big league pitching coach.
Lansford filled the hitting coach role for the past two seasons. After an uneven first few months on the job, Lansford began to connect better with the players. This season, despite losing Troy Tulowitzki, Michael Cuddyer and Todd Helton for months, the Rockies hit an NL-best .274 tying for tops in baseball. The Rockies ranked third in the National League in runs.
No reason was given for Lansford's ouster. However, the Rockies hit just .241 and were tied for last in runs scored on the road last season.
Under Lansford's watch this year, rookie Jordan Pacheco finished fifth in the batting race, catcher Willin Rosario set a franchise-rookie record with 28 home runs and Carlos Gonzalez earned is first all-star berth.
Until a manager is chosen, it's impossible to predict who could fill the hitting instructor's role. Those with experience in the role include Triple-A coach Rene Lachemann and first base coach Glenallen Hill, who has worked with the Rockies' hitters over the last few years. Veteran slugger Jason Giambi could become a potential candidate.
Giambi would retire to become the Rockies' manager, but he might continue trying to play rather than become the hitting instructor.


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Trump, played by Taran Killam, wished everyone a Merry Christmas, the Jewish community a Happy Hanukkah. But he had a special message to American Muslims.
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Trump's first name on the list — the polls.
"The polls?" he said. "Very nice. The latest poll has me leading by 20 percent."
Hillary Clinton, who he referred to as "The Nutcracker," was next. The Democratic candidate ended up on the nice list because she called Trump, saying she wished he would win the Republican nomination.
Next on the list, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, who earned himself a place on the naughty list because he decided to set up a charitable initiative, which would receive 99 percent of his shares in the company.
The final person the two Trumps focused on — Santa.
"I just don't trust anybody who can fly over a wall," Trump said.
Host Ryan Gosling was joined by SNL alum, Mike Myers, in his opening monologue. The two celebrated their Canadian roots with a Canadian Christmas song.
Gosling also played the Scarecrow from West Oz in a spoof of "The Wiz Live!"
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Advantage Zorilla For Last A L All-Star Slot
With "Crunch Time" descending upon the M L B World quickly, I am going to put out a plead, a request, a recommendation as to who I believe should get the final roster spot for the 2011 American League All-Star slot. Of course I am going to be pushing the name of Tampa Bay Rays OF/INF/ Uber-Fielder Ben Zobrist for this selection.
Sure Detroit' DH/C Victor Martinez will have the Tigers all roaring his name. The South Side of Chi-town will hail DH Paul Korneko's stats to the heavens. Down by the Inner Bay in Baltimore, the O's faithful will christen CF Adam Jones their unlimited votes, while Royals fans will try to push 3B Alex Gordon out of obscurity to claim the last spot on the 2011 American League All-Star squad.
Hopefully by the end of this blog entry I will have amply persuaded you to toss the rest of your voting selection towards Zobrist until the conclusion of voting late Thursday. So without further ado, let me state my case for Zobrist.
First and foremost, with a nickname like Zorilla, how can you not cast your vote his direction. Since 2008, this hybrid M L B player who has done everything on the diamond but catch and pitch has evoked the power of Godzilla and the finesse of Zorba the Great. The nickname alone would have ESPN broadcasters giggling like little school girls.
ADVANTAGE: Zorilla.
Out of the final 5 selections, only Martinez and Zobrist are switch-hitters that could be used against any of the National League hurlers. The added bonus of Zobrist being able to switch from any infield or outfield position with just a glove change makes him a double threat, and a nice secret weapon for the late innings when guys are shuffled around a lot. Martinez would be mostly a DH selection, which would be moot since the game is held in a N L park.
ADVANTAGE: Zorilla
Zobrist is always a double threat at the plate. Zobrist hit his 28th double on Tuesday which ties him with AL All Star 1B Adrian Gonzalez for the M L B lead. Zobrist lead the majors with 12 doubles in June, and has 11 2-baggers in his last 21 games. At one point (June 17-20th) Zobrist doubled in 4-straight contests. Add to this list that Zobrist is also in a 4-way tie with 4 Triples this season and you see that he can be a run producing machine at this time.
Some will throw the fact that Martinez is hitting .324 at this moment, or Konerko has 22 Home Runs and 64 RBIs. Power is great, but these two players also do the most damage as either First Baseman or Designated Hitters, and as I stated before, this position is moot in an NL park.
ADVANTAGE: Zorilla
If you want to talk about solid defense, then again we must chat a bit about Zobrist. In his 223 career starts in the Rays outfield, Zobrist is still without a single error. Considering the ballpark he plays in at home, plus his constant adjustments to new parks and his evolution as an outfielder, that is an incredible stat.
With his ability to play every position on the diamond, or out in the field (besides catcher), the versatility of Zobrist makes him a clear choice as the other 4 candidates have defined roles and positions. Heck, I personally know he will dive into the stands for a foul ball. You will Remember this!
ADVANTAGE: Zorilla
Let me again harp back on Zobrist's Extra Base prowness this season for a moment. At this juncture in the season, Zobrist currently has 41 Extra Base Hits. He had a total of 40 for the entire 2010 season. That total of 41 XBH ranks him 7th in Major League Baseball at this very moment. Add the bonus that 7 of his 9 Home Runs have come off of Right-handed pitching, and you get a nice pinch hit option off the bench for Washington.
Who could forget Zobrist's memorable 10-RBI game back on April 28th against the Twins in Target Field. Zobrist also went 4 for 5 with runners in scoring position in that game. He ended up collecting 18 RBIs in 5 games. The last hitter to collect 18 RBI's in 5 contests was Reggie Jackson (June 14-18 1969).
ADVANTAGE: Zorilla
I could go on and on with the accolades, a prior All-Star selection ( 2009) and the potential Zobrist has to be a key component in this contest that decides home field advantage for the 2011 World Series. This is very important, and was evident in 2010 as the San Francisco Giants rode a winning streak in Arlington, Texas all the way to their first championship since the team embarked for the California coast.
Zobrist has been one of the great Rays role models from his fight to getting to the majors, to his moral integrity and belief system. Plus, I know I am one of the many who would be more than thrilled to heard the beautiful voice of Zobrist's biggest fan, his wife Julianna as she sing his walk-up song (The Tree) to a National audience. Heck, Zobrist might just get a chance to take the National League to "School " too
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U.S. Rep. Jim Himes, D-4, is inviting high school students to participate in the Congressional Art Competition, a nationwide contest conducted by members of the U.S. House of Representatives.
The winner will have his or her piece displayed in the U.S. Capitol for a year alongside winning entries from across the country and will be invited to attend the opening ceremonies in Washington, D.C., in June. The runners-up will have their work displayed in Himes' congressional offices in Stamford and Bridgeport.
"The annual Congressional Art Competition is a great way to highlight the importance of the arts and provide a unique showcase for our region's young artists," Himes said. "I invite all high school students who are passionate about the arts to participate in this year's contest, and I look forward to welcoming the winner to Washington."
Entries will be judged by a panel of community artists with teaching and gallery experience. Himes will host an awards ceremony and reception in the district.
Students in the 4th Congressional District interested in entering must complete and sign a release form and fax it to the congressman's Bridgeport office at 203-333-6655, attention Paul Coyle. Forms are required to be sent no later than April 22. Participants may find the release form at www.house.gov/content/educate/art_competition/.
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I have a probability distribution (PDF) defined by a Fourier series.. actually it's a purely cosine series over a known range. The PDF quite smooth, so most of the power is in the low 5 or so frequencies. The function is (like a PDF must be) always positive. It's well defined everywhere.
I only need a single sample, so tabulation or function fitting is likely too expensive; that'd pay off if I needed thousands of samples, but I need just one, then I'll throw the PDF away and generate a new one. (This is all part of a Markov chain walk, and the transitions are defined by Fourier coefficients).
So, I want to efficiently generate one sample from this PDF. What's the best strategy?
One method that works but is slow is to use a von Neuman rejection method. The PDF is bounded from above by the sum of the absolute values of all the sine coefficients. I can generate a random point x in U(0,1), evaluate the series for that x, then accept the point with a probability based on the ratio of f(x) and the upper bound. This will work but it's super-slow!
The second strategy would be to generate a U(0,1) sample and feed it through the inverse CDF, but that involves solving a nonlinear equation for x, which is iterative and even slower.
Are there any other strategies I can experiment with?


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Answering a lingering question about their future movie plans and marking a major coup, Marvel Studios officially announced Tuesday that both Robert Downey Jr. and Jon Favreau will be directly involved The Avengers movie in 2011, a year after they both reprise their respective roles in the 2010's Iron Man 2.
Marvel Studios clarified Downey Jr.'s deal with the studio is a four picture deal, paving the way for him to play Tony Stark/Iron Man in the Iron Man sequel, plus a future third installment, as well as the ensemble Avengers movie.
Favreau is of course directing Iron Man 2 and will executive produce The Avengers.
The studio also officially confirmed the news from last week that actor Don Cheadle has taken over the role of James 'Rhodey' Rhodes in Iron Man 2, adding that he is also signed to play in the role in the The Avengers movie and future sequels.
"We are very excited about working with the extraordinarily talented Don Cheadle as we expand the role of Rhodey in Iron Man 2. It has already become apparent as we prep the movie for production, that the dynamic between Robert and Don will take Iron Man 2 to new heights," said Kevin Feige, President of Marvel Studios, in the announcement.
In what the studio is calling a "movie event", The Avengers will bring together the superhero team of Marvel Comics characters for the first time ever, including "Iron Man, Captain America, Thor, the Hulk and more, as they are forced to band together to battle the biggest foe they've ever faced."
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A Surprising Change in Workflow
I've written before about how varied my use of Accordance tends to be. I use it for my own research projects, to do quality control checks of modules which are nearing release, to help with the occasional tech support question, in family devotions, in teaching a Sunday School class, and more. This usually means that I have dozens of tabs open at any given time, and it's rare for all of them to be focused on the same task.
Since I've been using Accordance 10, I've noticed an interesting shift in my workflow. Where previously I would use a single workspace with a hodgepodge of tabs devoted to different tasks, I now tend to open a new workspace when I shift from one task to another. For example, my main workspace is devoted to a big research project I'm currently working on, but when I need to prepare my Sunday school lesson or lead a family devotion, I now go to the File menu, choose New Workspace, and then dedicate that separate workspace to the new task. By using separate workspaces for different tasks, I can be sure the resources I need for my Sunday School lesson don't get mixed up with the ones I need for my research project.
The strange thing about this shift in workflow is that it happened naturally when I began using Accordance 10, even though I could have done the same thing (but didn't) in previous versions of Accordance. Ever since we introduced the Workspace window way back in Accordance 6, you have been able to open multiple workspaces and dedicate them to distinct purposes. I just never did so until now.
I'm not sure what it is about Accordance 10 that prompted this change in behavior, but I suspect the move to a single-window interface has made the idea of opening multiple workspaces seem less daunting to me. Put another way, perhaps the integration of all those palettes has made managing multiple workspaces seem more palatable. (Pardon the pun!)
When I think about it, it wasn't any harder to manage multiple workspaces when the Library window, Resource palette, and Instant Details Box stayed put in their respective places on my screen, but perhaps the presence of those separate floating windows made me feel like it would be harder to keep track of more than one workspace. Now that those palettes are integrated into each workspace, it is as if I can simply switch between two or more self-contained study environments. I therefore find myself doing that more and more.
This is just one example of how improving the design and aesthetics of a program can also enhance its usability.
What about you? Do you find the changes in Accordance 10 have affected your workflow in surprising ways?
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Abram K-J
I didn't use Accordance prior to 10, but I do love and make heavy use of different workspaces for different tasks. I've got one called "Read Commentary" that is just for reading through a resource. I've got one called "NT in the OT" that is set up to nicely and quickly look at NT uses of OT passages, both in NT greek and original OT Greek and Hebrew contexts. And so on. It's a really nice feature!
Abram K-J
Make that--"OT in the NT"! NT in the OT is another issue. :)
Hi David
I have taken the same approach with workspaces that you have outlined. As you have identified, I think the look and feel of Accordance 10, the more complete integration of the zones, the more intuitive approach that 10 takes when opening modules, the flexibility to adjust your personal look and feel, and the ease of use, all lead you to a place where having seperate workspaces becomes self evident.
I started using multiple, dedicated workspaces prior to 10 (I think I started with 8 or definitely 9), but I have found them far more powerful and usable with 10.
It is such a blessing having Accordance as a tool to study the Scriptures, and as I have shared with people for over 10 years now, Accordance is a good enough application that will justify the purchase of a Mac computer (if anyone is looking for an excuse).
Accordance 10 continues to validate that statement as the premier application for Bible Study - IMHO.
Keep up the great work, and thank you to all the Accordance team.
Teena PAUL
I have a basic question, being just a new user:
How does one swap between workspaces when they don't have a saved name? Is there some command/keyboard shortcut? At the moment I just reduce the size of the workspace to click the normally hiden workspace.


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The journey of yoga instructor and YouthAIDS ambassador Seane Corn begins in the most improbable of all places -- Heaven -- and carries her to corners of the world that may appear to some to be closer to hell. But the journey has ultimately led her to a life filled with joy and meaning.
"When I was young and living in New York City, I worked in a nightclub called Heaven, which was an all-male, gay sex club," says Corn. Stationed behind the bar, she was at the time the only woman who worked there, when the prevalence of HIV and AIDS was increasing among the gay community. And yet, she says, there was still a lot of denial.
"Volunteers from Gay Men's Health Crisis would come into the gay clubs with a big vat of condoms, which would be gone by the end of the night, which was always great," recalls Corn. "But there was still a lot of unsafe and casual behavior, so unfortunately a lot of the men I met and became friends with were becoming sick and subsequently dying."
Around 1987 Corn got involved with ACT UP New York, and says she was so young and angry that she was the worst kind of activist. "I had a megaphone in one hand and a middle finger up at the world, telling everyone how they should live their life, what they should think, and what they should believe," says Corn. She soon got out of the whole activism world because, she says, she was really ineffectual and had some of her own issues she needed to deal with. "That's where yoga came in. Yoga taught me how to deal with my anger. It taught me -- especially around AIDS -- that I did have fear, and I did have confusion and sadness. But I didn't have the ability to process those emotions, so I kept acting out through my rage."
When a person doesn't have the tools to deal with their emotions, says Corn, its shadow comes out in other ways, such as drugs, alcohol, sleeping around, or food. "There are a variety of ways we use to anesthetize or numb ourselves, and that's essentially what I was doing." She says that yoga helped open her up and connect with her "bigger emotions," and process them more appropriately and become more effective in the way in which she expressed herself, so that she wasn't coming from anger or fear, but more from compassion and love.
"It's always interesting to me," says Corn, "the very thing that I was judging the people I was trying to educate was basically the same thing I had inside myself, it was just coming out in a different way. It's probably why I couldn't stand the people who were in judgment about my friends -- I couldn't stand them and their ignorance and fear because I couldn't stand the ignorance and fear in myself. Working through yoga really helped me to have more respect for the human experience -- to understand that fear, anger, and rage are a part of the human dilemma, and the more that I can understand it in myself, the more I'm going to be able to recognize it in another being, and hopefully act more patiently and compassionately, rather than react from anger or fear. Yoga helped to put all that into perspective for me."
In 1999 Corn became involved with Children of the Night, an organization which houses and provides information for adolescent sex workers -- both young boys and girls -- between the ages of 11 and 17. "I went there because I thought that yoga would be a really good feeling tool for them to use, as they get back into their bodies and try to re-adapt to the world after such levels of abuse and exploitation," Corn explains.
While working at the shelter she learned that a good percentage of the boys and girls had HIV/AIDS. She also came to understand that while many here in the U.S. have access to resources and information, most of those who live in resource-poor countries aren't entitled to the same privilege. During that same period, a friend, actress Ashley Judd, reached out to Corn. Judd had just returned from Southeast Asia and was upset not only by the high incidence of HIV/AIDS among the children and sex workers, but also by the sex trafficking that she saw happening there.
"She called me because she just wanted to talk about how I deal emotionally when working with sexually abused children, and if I had any suggestions or tools for her, because a lot was coming up for her, as you can imagine." Corn says that Judd proceeded to open her eyes to what was happening internationally. These young girls and boys were being exploited, not just because their parents didn't love them, but more often because of poverty, and because they needed food for their families.
"Not to say that a lot of the children aren't just getting sold or abandoned," says Corn, "but there's a variety of reasons why this particular population was being turned out. They were having sex for -- I think the statistic is $1 for sex with a condom, $2 for sex without. And it's not just a health issue, it's a political issue, it's an educational issue, it's an environmental issue -- it's an issue across the board."
Judd's involvement with YouthAIDS intrigued Corn, not only because of its extended, international reach, but also due to the fact that around 97 cents out of every dollar went to providing direct services and information -- not a bad return. Out of curiosity, Corn began working with various grassroots businesses within the yoga community, creating products and tithing a portion of the proceeds to YouthAIDS. "In just a few short years we've been able to raise hundreds of thousands of dollars, raise an enormous amount of awareness, and really get the word out -- and get people much more actively interested and involved."
YouthAIDS eventually named Corn their national yoga ambassador, and invited her to travel with them to teach yoga to prostituted children and sex workers, and to better understand how their programs run. "That was just life changing," says Corn. "To be able to go and to meet the populations who are really at risk, to really put a face to AIDS." It also furthered her own understanding of the impact HIV/AIDS was having on those communities, as well as the effectiveness of the programming itself. Yet despite all the good work that is being done, it became clear to her how much prejudice and stigma still exists, even to this day, and how much needs to change before health and wellness can ever be fully achieved.
The type of yoga that Corn currently practices is something called Vinyasa Flow, which simply means linking movement with breath. Corn, who's now 41, has been practicing a variety of styles of yoga for the last 22 years. She says that as she's gotten older, her yoga has evolved and changed over time. "That's the thing I love about yoga -- is that it's a real creative experience. It's more like an art -- it evolves and grows as you evolve and grow, so it's never fixed or absolute. It certainly has matured as I have matured."
Corn was fortunate enough to have been turned on to yoga as a kind of alternative high, she says, as it provided different lifestyle opportunities for her. "I learned how to get back into my body, and the healthier I got, the more responsibility I was able to take for my life, and I was able to stop drinking, smoking, and doing drugs. It just opened my mind up to an alternative way to live my life."
These days Corn divides her time between overseas excursions as ambassador for YouthAIDS, spending time at home with her two cats Daisy and Grace, and her boyfriend of eight years, actor Al Corley (who played the original Steven on the TV series Dynasty), as well as teaching yoga at various workshops around the country. While she hasn't taught any workshops specifically geared towards HIV-positive people, she's worked one-on-one with a number of HIV-positive clients, and has many HIV-positive individuals who attend her workshops.
She says that one of the most important things for people to realize, regardless of their HIV status, is that the practice of yoga has a very specific influence on the nervous system. "It helps you stay calm and grounded no matter what conflict or crisis is in your life," says Corn. "One of the things in working with people with HIV is that it's very important to help give them the tools to deal with stress."
There's one other very positive gain derived from yoga that she's seen in the lives of people with HIV/AIDS. "Acceptance," says Corn, "just acceptance. You can live with HIV/AIDS angry, resentful, and bitter, or you can live with HIV/AIDS with acceptance, openness, and a willingness to take your experience and help to serve the world in which you live. Those are two very different attitudes. It doesn't guarantee a longer life as a result, but the person who can come to a sense of greater self-acceptance and peace can certainly live a life that has so many additional gifts as a result.
"And I'm not just talking about HIV, I'm talking about any struggle, any conflict, any challenge that one has in life, you can either use it as a way to become disempowered, or you can use it as a way to become empowered. For example, the reason I work with sexually abused children is because that's my own personal history, and I've watched other people who have been sexually abused choose to live as a victim as a result. My quest has always been, 'This has happened, it's a part of my journey, but it's not going to define who I am. How can I take this experience and actually help it make sense?' And so for me it's all about service. That's the most important thing for me -- you can't change what has happened, that's just life. It's a bummer, I wish it hadn't happened, but that's not the reality, it did. So now what? It's the same philosophy I have with someone with HIV/AIDS -- now what? What are you going to do with this disease? How are you going to live your life?
"My hope is that we can all choose to break shame and live completely authentically, and tell the truth, share our stories, reach out to another human being, dignify the human experience no matter how difficult or challenging or scary it is, and come from such a sincere place of love that it empowers someone else to be able to live their truth. That's the one thing I always want to offer, whether it's someone who has HIV, or they have cancer, or a drug addict, or someone who has been sexually abused, that you don't have to take something that you might perceive as negative and allow it to impact every aspect of your life in a way that's disempowering. There's a way that we can turn it around. So for me, service is everything. And that's what I encourage anyone I have worked with who has HIV who does heal and come full circle with it, to get back out there into the world and to reach out to their community, because who better than them knows the struggle that another human being is going through?"
Corn has some simple advice for anyone thinking about starting yoga. "On a practical level -- and this is not just for people with HIV, it's for anyone -- if you can create a three-day-a-week practice, an hour to an hour and a half a day, three days a week, something that is going to increase your circulation and help to provide more elasticity in the muscles and in the joints, increase your heart rate -- any kind of exercise program that's going to help strengthen and tone all of the various systems of your body is going to help make you feel better. The two just go together instantly. So three days a week at an hour to an hour and a half is what I would recommend, depending on their status.
"If I had five people in the room, I'm going to recommend five different kinds of yoga, not based on whether or not they're HIV-positive, but on their age, their health level, their weight -- that's going to determine what the proper yoga is for them. So there's not one style of yoga that's going to be recommended for someone with HIV/AIDS. It's really going to be who they are, their personality, and what they are attracted to." If your status is more accelerated, then she recommends the restorative classes on a daily basis, as well as in the evening time before you go to bed.
Corn adds that it's not just about exercise, but it's about mind, body, and spirit. You also have to look into your diet, and look at the emotions that you might be repressing, and deal with any feelings of anger, fear, or rage that are coming up.
"Create a medication practice, a practice of forgiveness, a practice of self-acceptance. And none of this is not yoga -- all of this is yoga. And, of course, a connection with God, the god within themselves, the god of their own understanding. It's a very holistic practice. My recommendation is to allow the disease to become an opportunity where they have to look at the whole of their own lives, to see that even holding onto bitterness or resentment, that's a poison one takes hoping that someone else will die, and that's just as dysfunctional as a poor diet, as drugs, as inertia. So it's really looking at the whole of their lives, using, perhaps, the disease as an opportunity to clean up other places that might be dysfunctional or repressed, and hopefully this healing class as mind, body, and soul will help to create a life that's whole, that's complete, that's integrative, that's loving for themselves and for others."
Corn recommends either checking with a local health club or searching online for programs throughout the country, many of which offer free classes to people with HIV. "Unfortunately -- this is the part that makes me crazy -- yoga is a business, and it is expensive."
For those who may think that you can't teach an old guru new tricks, Corn says it's never too late to take up the practice. "My dad got into yoga in his 50s, and he's now in his 60s. He has kidney cancer, and he's a yoga teacher. And I would never have seen that coming, never. My dad is the perfect example of someone who was older, and he was curious, then all of a sudden it took his life over -- and he's doing remarkably well."
Yoga has very little to do with your strength and flexibility, and everything to do with your attitude and perception, says Corn. "Yoga really holds a mirror to who you are and gives you the opportunity to heal it. If I'm snorting and pushing and being all aggressive and egotistical in my yoga practice, there's a good chance that anytime I'm up against a conflict or a crisis that I'm going to be reactive. Whereas the person who can learn to really breathe in the face of a challenge, when they go out into the world and they're confronted by an injustice, they're going to think to themselves, 'I'm in a very challenging yoga pose right now, and I'm going to breathe, stay in my body, stay focused and present.' And so, that's really what yoga is about. You know, great if you can get your legs behind your head, but it's not really going to change your life or make you any happier."
If you get into a practice, Corn advises to go slow at first. "Learn as much as you can about the technique, but be willing to have an incredible sense of humor about it. Yoga can be challenging, but it can also be incredibly humbling. You just have to be willing to laugh at yourself, commit to the practice -- it's not a perfect, it's a practice. And have fun with it. Enjoy being back in your body. Whether you're old, thin, fat, it doesn't matter. It always feels good when it's done. And that's the most important thing."
For more information visit seanecorn.com and youthAIDS.org.


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Miami University's Project Dragonfly (Deadline: January 28, 2012)
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Application Deadline: Wednesday, November 30, 2011
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The Storyline:
The Harvard men's tennis team hits the road to square off against Ivy League foe Brown, April 16. The Crimson and Bears have met 74 times on the courts, with Harvard owning a 71-3 advantage in the all-time series. The Crimson has won the past four meetings between the two squads.
Last Time Out:
Harvard picked up a pair of Ivy League victories last weekend with wins over Princeton and Penn. The Crimson handed the Tigers their first conference loss of the season, a 5-2 decision April 9. Harvard rolled past Penn the following afternoon, winning eight of the nine matches played to earn a 7-0 victory.
About Harvard:
The Crimson heads into the match with an 11-10 overall record and a 2-2 mark in the Ivy League. Harvard sits in fifth in the Ancient Eight standings. Alexei Chijoff-Evans leads the team in singles wins this spring with 17 at the No. 1 position. Alistair Felton is close behind with 15 victories. The doubles tandem of Aba Omodele-Lucien and Christo Schultz has accrued 14 doubles wins this season at the top spot.
About Brown:
The Bears own an overall record of 10-13 going into the contest. Brown is also on the hunt for its first Ivy League win of the season, having dropped its first four conference matches. The Bears look to snap a five-match losing streak. Charlie Posner leads the team with 11 singles wins in the spring.
Looking Ahead:
Harvard will play its final two matches of the season at home. The Crimson will take on Yale, April 18, and will face Dartmouth, April 21, to close out the season.


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When you've considered yourself as being a negative person for a large portion of your life, and then are strangely asked by the universe to be something more positive we tend to feel very inauthentic. And when we finally admit to ourselves that sometimes while driving in our cars it is more effective to listen to a Louise Hay audiobook than to crank an old Napalm Death demo. And yes, if you've self identified as a crust punk at some point in your life, being noticed on the road cranking Louise Hay by a bunch of crust punks is a little embarrassing. That is until you remember how they look like you did as a young adult, then suddenly you get it why being an adult is better than being a kid. And there is nothing to be ashamed of for being happy.
It feels embarrassing to be optimistic when you are used to the companionship of the let-down. And many of us when we try affirmations for the first time seems fucking lame and full of bullshit. How much of a liar have you become to yourself trying to convince yourself that everything is going to be okay but nothing externally in your life is telling that story at all. We've all been there.
My advice always is, to take a step back and realize that sometimes our external lives need time to get caught up with our new intentions, and caught up to our new way in which we are about to start living our lives… whether our old selves like this idea or not.
Change is gooey and full of awkwardness.
So how do we get to a point where we are less embarrassed to be less 'hard-core'? To be more open to that which at first seemed stupid and untrustworthy, but as we've realized that pessimism isn't working out too well, that we've gotta try a new way and level of thinking about life. Or at least feel less at wits-end with it. Maybe even less volatile towards it. .. That is to say other people and new experiences.
it isn't until long after our growing do we really come to know the truest of all hardcore people on the planet are the ones that standup for peace and level with the public in ways like trailblazers like Louise Hay. But of course we don't know this as kids. Nor do we relate when our lives are filled with toil and drama.
As a pessimist we tend to see change as hostile. We don't like it, we don't trust any part of it. We align in it BS politically motivated progress and thus get annoyed at the pure mention of the word: Change.
As an optimist we tend to see change as exciting. We make associations to it that evolves our spiritual understandings, and our natural reaction to the idea or the word becomes one of trust. But getting there when you are not there is tough. .. or more so, tough the first few tries.
There are many psychological studies that show massive amounts of evidence showing that pessimism and optimism can show similar results, but the effects on our bodies when looking at the two are quite dramatically different.
Optimism promotes health and vitality, while pessimism simply does not. So why are some of us attracted to the need to criticize and hate things even before we confront or meet them? That I don't have an answer to. And I don't think anyone will ever find an empirical answer about why negativity is so attractive to some of us. Albeit some authors and scholars have tried. The best they've come up with is our EGOs.. This may never be identified, nor does it want to be I'm presuming. …but that isn't really the issue here. The issue here is on:
What can we do to begin to identify less with the negative and more with the positive.
Well for one thing, change no matter how you slice it up, is like a breakup. In a breakup we are leaving a familiar attachment. We are adjusting former agreements. We are repositioning ourselves for the benefits of something ((hopefully)) of a better fit to whom we've recently began to become. What was once familiar has now become a burden. Breakups are rarely easy. But once over free us to a new level of self understanding.
Like a warrior after the war is over, the pessimistic look on life seems to be that of "maddening silence", instead of calming vastness, .. non-exciting, just plain dull. And since drama was the one thing the pessimist could count on, all of a sudden, all that is left is you being alone and having to deal with… you. ..just plain, you. And for some, that is excruciating.
Pessimists hate that. I outta know because I used to be one. Although while being a pessimist I was under the misconception that I was being a realist. … oh how wrong I was…
If I wasn't complaining about something or someone, than I felt under-fueled. And I'd start sending out all that I could to seek something to hate-on. Yet ironically, when around anyone that was acting like I was, suddenly I was Mr. Chipperpants. I guess I was so negative that being contrary to even negativity just made sense. Ludicrous no matter how you slice it. Had to change I was going to..
So how did I get out of it?
How did I come around?
Mainly once you lose all your friends to sadness, or watch your friends fall apart over and over again because of either your sadness, or the sadness that they to had become addicted to, I just woke up one morning and had the thought, "life has to be more than this, otherwise what's the damn point????!"
The first year of "trying to be happy" there was a lot of waxing and waning. Lots of ups and downs. Confusing patterns began to emerge from within me…, identity issues galore, getting annoyed at my interests.. and as to how everything in my life was either crass or scary, often even anger filed sarcasm, I knew that I need to get out from under all this social pressure to be ticked off all the time. Even the comedy I liked was being toted by people who hated and mistrusted life. I was closed in at all sides, so I had to get drastic.
The next thing I did was to begin a purging of all that was dark and spooky, angry and depressed within my circle of influence. That meant people, places, music, movies, books, websites, a lover or two, and even had to limit my interactions with certain members of my family, just to stay afloat for one solid day without giving into being even a little bit annoyed. This luckily worked for me. But it took a few years, not gonna lie.
I think the toughest part was giving up friends that I had known for years. And good ones too. Solid friends that would give you their bullet-belt to wear when a blackmetal band was in town… yet I knew it had to be done otherwise my life was going to continue to suck and I felt i had no other choice.
But like all things, time healed a lot of the anger being throng at me during that time for leaving my group of friends. And ultimately all parties were made better for it. I am even back to being friends with some of them that used to make me anxious earlier on. Yet now they are a lot of fun to be around. And frankly so am I.
My best friend was the hardest to walk away from. Had he and I not parted ways for a number of years, neither of us would have had the space and the time to reflect, realign, and grow into something more fun. All in all I'm glad it was done. Thankfully, so is he.
So what did I do that made for the best remedy for me? Well of course it was the hardest thing for me to do, naturally. That being, since I was a music-head, and being that a lot of my music was evil, spooky, angry, lost, sad, depressing, or viscous… I had to get rid of a bunch of it, and/or hide some of it into a box for a few years to be left in a basement. At least until its hold on me was less like an addict in search for a spoon and a lighter. I needed distance.
I also did this with my DVD collection, and book collection. About a month in it began to amaze me how media can keep people locked into bad relationships with others via it's negative content. Just like drinking friends, I had begun to realize that I had depression friends! How bloody weird is that? And our relationship stayed intact with the more negative songs, movies, & books we co-experienced together. that was a real eye-opener.
When not being inundated with the cultures that were fueling my criticism of the world around me, my life began to slowly evolve into something very different. I actually was feeling better about my mornings and about going to bed at night.
Did I Miss The Darkness?
So did I miss all those bands, all those books, all those movies. Fuck yes I did! And sometimes like a smoker misses a good cigarette after great sex, life had something missing…
…at first I wasn't sure what was missing. And I'd go back to listening to negative music from time to time in search for it. I'd even watch a few David Lynch films here and there just in case. But sure enough, it would change my mood in to something I didn't want to feel, and thus alter my reactions to life, and people, and my work.. And where as before, I thought being sad and lonely made me more creative and productive, holy shit was I wrong about that! I now I had a different lifestyle to compare it to. Depression makes you create sloppy results and it takes forever to finish anything when you are depressed. This was another huge eye-opener.
When I look back at how and who I was back then, I looked really put together and very much seemed powerful, but was I!? Hell no. But now look at me? I don't look all that different, still fashionable, still listen to Darkthrone from time to time, but I'm not scoured with all that shit at all times. And nor am I addicted to what was missing. Because guess what that missing feeling was? …f'n DRAMA!
I was addicted to DRAMA! … ME? Mr. Level-Headed sound-artist… Ug! Charlie Brown! Once I recognized this, this was the life changer and there was no going back. Once you catch wind of something like this it is like surviving cancer. You just get grateful of everything and life suddenly becomes easy.
The Changes
You can guess what else started to change in my life?? My body.
I started to feel more relaxed. It's amazing how less anxious about life you are when you aren't digesting 30 movies a week about the apocalypse, zombies, Satanism, Christians being assholes killing in the name of Christ, conspiracies of the bank institutions, and murder mysteries chopped full of be-headings, rape, and body parts. Not that ever really liked that stuff, but everything I gravitated to back then always had such components. And even my habit of porn started to decrease slowly too. Now I am more aware of how it actually makes me feel.. Lonely and guilty. And guilty for what? I still don't have a damn clue – that's the funny part?!!
That's when the really noticeable changes from the perspective of others started to take place. I began to feel like a different person and people saw this. Some got worried about me, my brother and his wife thought I was going crazy. And I guess I was was, but a good crazy. And guess what that new-me finally discovers/uncovers in all this craziness…? That all my negativity was a disguise for childhood embarrassment. Embarrassment for being scared of the dark! .. of all things!
Talk about a shock to the system. and how subtle… to get over my embarrassment of my fear of the dark sent me right into all things dark and spooky. This is where I learned first hand that, "You can say that you don't want something, but because your mind is so focused on it, that is why you keep having to deal with it." . Thoughts become things. My life is living proof of it.
All those years of thinking I was all tough and powerful was really more about hiding how embarrassed I was a kid. And for years I was so self-identified with my character armor that I thought the armor was me. Luckily I found that it wasn't. And lucky for all those around me as well.
I mean there was even a time when I was afraid to wear anything other than black. How twisted is this. As a kid I fear darkness and now as a young adult it is all about black, and black to the point where I feel nervous not being seen in it?? When I put on my first pair of brown shoes as an adult I so self-absorbed with the changes in my life that I thought people were looking at me weird. All because I was wearing brown boots instead of black. …Talk about silly. …And it is amazing how different you feel when you wear color instead of khaki and black! You feel energized!
Post Change
Now, today, I freakin' love color and only use black when I'm wearing a formal suit for a function. But my attire isn't the only noticeable changes to the person I was, it was very much seen in the level of new people who were coming into my life post my changes.
When I wasn't so intimidating to look at from a distance I began to find that I was really a friendly and personable guy. And that I didn't need all this armor to protect myself. And in fact, that shield is what was keeping those good experiences away from me back then! The protective shield was actually a barrier! The metal made me actually weak! I mean it is HEAVY metal right? My subconscious was literally bogging me down via my own interests. … ug… And Today… David Lynch films just leave me feeling annoyed instead of being intellectually stimulated! That's a biggy for me… What the hell had I gotten out of all that stuff I still don't really fully understand, other than to conquer fear.
Fear Conquered
… Bet you've guessed it by now, yep, that's right: avoidance. Avoidance of self, or others, or duties, you name it, I was avoiding it. Why? Embarrassment no doubt. It was at the root to everything I was doing. So I had to replant my interests in other things and pull out that damn weed for good.
Don't get me wrong here….
It's not that I don't enjoy a good freaky movie from time to time, or that I will ever stop buying Darkthrone CDs. But the constant bombardment of that stuff is what made my life miserable. Now it is just from time to time do I raise a beer and sing "in the shadow of the horns". But those nights are fewer and fewer these days.
And definitely, it wasn't the getting rid of the negative influence that changed me, because it was I that wanted to change from the get-go. And it was I that kept up the trying of new things while being more open to new people, places, food, music, etc that released me from me cage(s). Just that I was now no longer dependent on the low-feelings for self-identification that I thus able to be very well-rounded in my pursuits of a happier way of living life on Earth.
I don't live an all-or-nothing life.
For me that is lying to myself. A lifestyle which is far worse to me then staying whom I was when I was trying to live behind a barrier of uncomfort and hiding me fear on my shoulders. I don't do what a lot of other people have done when changing their lives. That being: to move from one trap into the next, ever seeking the better experience via constant avoidance, and the like. Now I am more free-flowing, and the instant the up and down, the dark and light, the love and fear of life ask of me to take part in things, I act out of choice now. But if I had to make a solid choice, as to which I had to choose at any given point in my life, obviously I have been choosing to love life and non longer fear it. Cuz fearing it sucked.
Certainly there have been days when I get sucked into a argument with someone. Sure, there are nights when I allow myself to become frightened by a movie or something I see on Hulu. But I know now that it was my choice, and with choice I was no longer a victim to it unwillingly.
I guess for me I had to run into the wall over and over again in order to finally fall to my ass and recognize that I could go in a different direction. Lucky for me I didn't contract too many lasting scars from banging my head. But had I jumped from the negativity farm into a fascist way of only looking at the world with a naive outlook that life is always bright shiny and what have you, I'd still be a miserable wreck.
Now I can exist in a freedom to choose.
And that has made all the difference.
New Choices
This is how I got happy.
Not by pretending, but by being practical.
Without the negative influences I was more clear to start yoga, do meditation, and admit that I am spiritual thru-&-thru. And yes I do affirmations all the time. Affirming that life is great helps a fuck of a lot!
I also don't hate religions like a lot of people do when they leap from the negative to the positive. Religions are still fun for me to read about and dabble in. I just do it from a new direction now. Instead of debunking them, I learn from them. And sure they are crutches, but ya know, some people break their legs, and life would suck for them without a crutch to get them out of bed in the morning.
Frankly I've studied and experienced all sorts of religions, and brotherhoods, and what-not. All of which say the same thing, we are spirit having a human experience, that feeling like shit isn't optimal, and to know yourself thru-&-thru is where all your treasures lie awaiting. In my opinion we don't move from Enslavement to Obliteration. For me it was Embarrassment to Optimal-Living.
Life doesn't have to suck, nor does love, nor does anything. Often times, being fed-up is the motivation we need to do the big 180° turn around, to excuse ourselves away from all the Jerry Springer drama that is calling us to contribute to. For me it was to stop watching shows like that as a starter. To stop watching Fox News was also a smart move on my part. Because really, it isn't news if all you are seeing is bankruptcy, killings, tornadoes, and sex-scandals.. that's not news, that's negativity. And really what is so scandalous about people fucking in politics? I'd rather watch people screwing each other and getting off, than people screwing each other out of each other's money and livelihood. But that's just me.
I write this not as advice, or as a prescription to follow word for word. Not that I would ever do that to begin with, but I write this to say that it's possible to make huge social changes in life. And I know a lot of psychologists challenge the notion that people really don't change who they are via self-help and all that comes with it. But really it isn't that changing who we are is via self-help? I mean when someone is waging to kiss me instead of kick me, I'd say that I've changed who am. And it was what I learned from self-help that got me there. Fox News and Napalm Death sure wasn't turning my life around..
Growth is possible if you are kind & patient with yourself.
The process of transformation isn't easy, and it does call for some drastic alterations that often the closest people in our life get really mad at you about. But if it means that you are opting to have a better outlook on life, and are making your way towards a better lifestyle, then I say, more power to you! And give them time, they will come around, and if they don't.. that's nothing you have to worry about.
I did it. And so can you.
Cordell Klier
Ps – If you want to set up a life coaching session, or get some advice in change, or are just wanting some tips on your love life, give me a holler.
PPs – and yes that title is a goofy take on 'F.E.T.O.' from Napalm Death, as well a Mick Kenney's label. … F.rom E.nslavement T.o O.bliteraton


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The TMNT franchise has been alive and (mostly) kicking for 30 years now...and whether your first exposure was through the comic books, the 1987 animated series, the feature-length films or otherwise, Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird's iconic green ninjas have enjoyed a plethora of pop culture portrayals. Like many kids of the 1980s, it was tough for me to resist the franchise's charms but I wouldn't consider myself a lifelong fan: I pretty much quit cold turkey when the awful third live-action movie hit theaters. Since then, my exposure to the franchise has been revisiting older stuff on DVD, as well as the flashy but underwhelming 2007 CGI film and, of course, Nickelodeon's enjoyable 2012 animated series.
Either way, I'd imagine that most fans older than single digits are at least passively aware of TMNT's humble origins as a kitchen-table project. Their first real appearance was in that slightly oversized 1984 comic book sold in regional stores, where it enjoyed almost immediate success and the initial 3,000 copy print run sold out. A second printing and more issues followed and, before Eastman and Laird knew it, their goofy little hobby paid the rent every month. Less than three years (and many comics) later, the pair developed a toy line with Playmates and the 1987 animated series, convinced that softening the comic's bloody, satiric roots to a more kid-friendly atmosphere would prove lucrative. They were more right than they could possibly imagine, as evidenced by the mountain of merchandise, movies, TV episodes, and more during the next three decades, which have most recently led to that Michael Bay-produced CGI monstrosity that anyone over the age of 13 probably isn't too excited about. I'll save my $12 and enjoy the Nick series, thanks.
Released on DVD to coincide with said monstrosity is Randall Lobb's Turtle Power, a self-financed documentary that he's been working on with a small group of friends since 2008. This 98-minute production dissects the TMNT franchise's history, development and lasting impact in fine detail, leaving very few stones unturned and amassing a respectable amount of input straight from the source. Participants include Eastman and Laird, Fred Wolf and David Wise (producer and head writer of the 1987 animated series, respectively), several key voice actors from the '87 series (even the late James Avery), John Handy of Playmates Toys, as well as a handful of authors, super-fans, and more surprises. Michael Ian Black (The State) even shows up to explain how he dropped out of college to play Raphael on a promotional tour. Along the way, you'll get to see early sketches, a sample of TMNT's merchandise mountain, rare photos and home video footage, and a generous assortment of other behind-the-scenes goodies. It's a dense but informative and entertaining experience, thanks to its strict chronological structure and habit of identifying every participant more than once.
If Turtle Power has one glaring flaw, it's exclusive to Paramount's DVD release...and that flaw is no bonus features. The documentary's official website mentions "hours and hours and hours of footage", yet there's no deleted scenes to be found anywhere. No additional sketchbooks, no old TV commercials, nothing. Rights issues, maybe? Even the plain-wrap packaging begs for a deluxe edition release (or a Blu-ray, while we're at it) with printed goodies and other memorabilia. Yet Turtle Power still feels pretty thorough on its own terms, proof that any dedicated group of filmmakers can put together a quality product in their limited free time. So yeah, skip the movie ticket and pick up Turtle Power instead.
Video & Audio Quality
Like most documentaries, Turtle Power has been cobbled together from many different sources and, as such, it varies in quality. But most of what's here looks very good on this 1.78:1, 480p transfer, from recent talking head interviews to well-shot displays of vintage merchandise, original art, and more. Decades-old photographs and video clips, shot on consumer-grade equipment or grabbed from broadcast TV, are occasionally reduced in size and often framed by comic book panels, old tube TVs and the like. This doesn't really pose much of a problem and gives some of this lesser material more of a uniform quality...and what's more, most of it is presented in the original 1.33:1 aspect ratio and not cropped for widescreen displays. There are a few moments of softness and slight edge enhancement, but overall image detail is solid and the varied color palettes hold up nicely. It's a real shame that Turtle Power isn't available on Blu-ray...but more often than not, this DVD serves up a perfectly acceptable video presentation that fans should enjoy.
Likewise, the Dolby Digital 5.1 mix is occasionally limited by source material but still gets the job done. The dialogue from different decades is uniformly crisp and well-rendered (considering the formats, of course), and sporadic music cues are also used to fill out the surround channels on rare occasions. LFE, as expected, is pretty minimal. But honestly, most documentary aren't very ambitious on the audio front and don't need to be, so Turtle Power once again has no problem earning solid marks. Optional English subtitles have been included during the main feature, which is appreciated.
Whether you grew up with TMNT through the original comics, the 1987 animated series, the movies, newer incarnations, or any combination thereof, Turtle Power is most definitely worth a spin. It covers a surprising amount of ground and leaves very few stones unturned, as we hear from everyone from Eastman and Laird to Mirage artists, writers, veteran voice actors, and many more. The vintage photos, original artwork, merchandise exhibits, and camcorder footage are just icing on the cake: if nothing else, die-hard fans will appreciate that even the most mundane faxes, notes, and leisurely footage were hoarded over the years. Paramount's DVD offers a solid A/V presentation but the lack of bonus features is disappointing, which demotes this from a truly definitive package to just a solid movie-only disc. Casual fans will be happy with a rental, but there's still enough meat here to make Turtle Power worth owning. Recommended.
Randy Miller III is an affable office monkey by day and film reviewer by night. He also does freelance design work, teaches art classes and runs a website or two. In his limited free time, Randy also enjoys slacking off, juggling HD DVDs and writing in third person.


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MILLEDGEVILLE, Ga. – The Peach Belt Conference (PBC) released its 2010 women's tennis All-Conference teams this weekend and No. 30 Georgia College & State University (11-10, 6-5 PBC) snagged two spots with Diane Danna (Paris) and Bertille Lion (Lyon, France) picking up honors.
Danna took the highest honor for the Bobcats, landing on the singles first team. The national No. 48-ranked senior led Georgia College this season going 16-4 in the top singles position. She has played her best tennis late in her final season as a Bobcat, winning 12 of her last 13 matches.
The Bobcat French duo of Danna and Lion also earned a spot on the doubles second team. The pair went 12-10 for Georgia College this season in the first doubles slot. These are the first career honors for both the senior Danna and the junior Lion.
The league's head coaches made the selections for the All-Peach Belt teams. As to be expected, Armstrong Atlantic State University cleaned house with five players among the two singles teams and two pairs on the doubles first team. AASU also took home player of the year and coach of the year honors.
The GCSU Department of Athletics, winners of the 2008-09 PBC Commissioner's Cup, sponsors 10 varsity athletic programs at the NCAA Division II level. As a Division II program, GCSU prides itself on balancing the life of the student-athlete, evidenced by the Bobcats' multiple appearances in post-season competition as well as documented academic success and community-service involvement. Sign up at Twitter.com username GCSUSID for up-to-the-minute reports, and visit www.GCSUBobcats.com to nominate your favorite former Bobcats and Colonials to the GCSU Athletics Hall of Fame.


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