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WASHINGTON - The official line of the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), the NATO command in Afghanistan, is that the war against Afghan insurgents is vital to the security of all the countries providing troops there.
In fact, however, NATO was given a central role in Afghanistan because of the influence of U.S. officials concerned with the alliance, according to a U.S. military officer who was in a position to observe the decision-making process.
"NATO's role in Afghanistan is more about NATO than it is about Afghanistan," the officer, who insisted on anonymity because of the political sensitivity of the subject, told IPS in an interview.
The alliance would never have been given such a prominent role in Afghanistan but for the fact that the George W. Bush administration wanted no significant U.S. military role there that could interfere with their plans to take control of Iraq.
That reality gave U.S. officials working on NATO an opening.
Gen. James Jones, the Supreme Allied Commander Europe (SACEUR) from 2003 to 2005, pushed aggressively for giving NATO the primary security role in Afghanistan, according to the officer.
"Jones sold [Defense Secretary Donald] Rumsfeld on turning Afghanistan over to NATO," said the officer, adding that he did so with the full support of Pentagon officials with responsibilities for NATO. "You have to understand that the NATO lobbyists are very prominent in the Pentagon - both in the Office of the Secretary of Defense and on the Joint Staff," said the officer.
Jones admitted in an October 2005 interview with American Forces Press Service that NATO had struggled to avoid becoming irrelevant after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the dissolution of the Warsaw Pact. "NATO was in limbo for a bit," he said.
But the 9/11 attacks had offered a new opportunity for NATO to demonstrate its relevance.
The NATO allies were opposed to the U.S. war in Iraq, but they wanted to demonstrate their support for stabilising and reconstructing Afghanistan. Jones prodded NATO member countries to provide troops for Afghanistan and to extend NATO operations from the north into the west and eventually to the east and south, where U.S. troops were concentrated.
That position coincided with the interests of NATO's military and civilian bureaucrats and those of the military establishments in the member countries.
But there was one major problem: public opinion in NATO member countries was running heavily against military involvement in Afghanistan.
To get NATO allies to increase their troop presence in Afghanistan from 2003 to 2005, Jones assured member states that they would only be mopping up after the U.S. military had defeated the Taliban. On a visit to Afghanistan in August 2004, Jones said, "[W]e should not ever even think that there is going to be an insurrection of the type that we see in Iraq here. It's just not going to happen."
Reassured by Washington and by Jones, in September 2005, NATO defence ministers agreed formally that NATO would assume command of southern Afghanistan in 2006.
But conflicts immediately arose between the U.S. and NATO member countries over the NATO mission in Afghanistan. Britain, Germany, Canada and the Netherlands had all sold the NATO mission to their publics as "peacekeeping" or "reconstruction" as distinct from counterinsurgency war.
When the Bush administration sought to merge the U.S. and NATO commands in Afghanistan, key allies pushed back, arguing the two commands had different missions. The French, meanwhile, were convinced the Bush administration was using NATO troops to fill the gap left by shifting U.S. troops from Afghanistan to Iraq - a war they strongly opposed.
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The result was that one NATO member state after another adopted "caveats" that ruled out or severely limited their troops from actually carrying out combat in Afghanistan.
Even as the Bush administration was assuring its NATO allies that they would not have to face a major Taliban uprising, U.S. intelligence was reporting that the insurgency was growing and would intensify in spring 2006.
Gen. Karl Eikenberry, who had just arrived as commander of all U.S. troops in Afghanistan in 2005, and newly appointed U.S. Ambassador Ronald E. Neumann were warning Washington that the well-publicized domestic debates in NATO member states over troop commitments were "generating a perception of NATO political weakness", as Neumann recalls in his memoirs on Afghanistan published in 2009.
Neumann wrote that both he and Eikenberry believed "the insurgents would see ISAF's expansion and the U.S. contraction as the moment to rekindle the war."
But Eikenberry assured the news media that the insurgency was under control. In a Dec. 8, 2005 press briefing at the Pentagon, Eikenberry asserted that the more aggressive Taliban tactics were "very much a sign of weakness".
Asked if he wasn't concerned that the situation in Afghanistan was "sliding towards an Iraqi scenario", Eikenberry replied, "[W]e see no indications that such is the case..."
A few weeks later the Taliban launched the biggest offensive since its regime was ousted in 2001, seizing control of much of Helmand, Kandahar and several other southern provinces.
Eikenberry, clearly under orders from Rumsfeld, continued to carry out the policy of turning the south over to NATO in mid-2006. He was rewarded in early 2007 by being sent to Brussels as deputy chairman of NATO's Military Committee.
Eikenberry acknowledged in testimony before Congress in February 2007 that the policy of turning Afghanistan over to NATO was really about the future of NATO rather than about Afghanistan. He noted the argument that failure in Afghanistan could "break" NATO, while hailing the new NATO role in Afghanistan as one that could "make" the alliance.
"The long view of the Afghanistan campaign," said Eikenberry, "is that it is a means to continue the transformation of the alliance."
The Afghanistan mission, Eikenberry said, "could mark the beginning of sustained NATO efforts to overhaul alliance operational practices in every domain." Specifically, he suggested that NATO could use Afghan deployments to press some member nations to carry out "military modernization".
But Canadian General Rick Hillier, who commanded NATO forces in Afghanistan from February to August 2004 and was later chief of staff of Canadian armed forces from 2005 to 2008, wrote in his memoir "A Soldier First", published in 2009, that NATO was an unmitigated disaster in Afghanistan.
He recalled that when it formally accepted responsibility for Afghanistan in 2003, NATO had "no strategy, no clear articulation of what it wanted to achieve" and that its performance was "abysmal".
Hillier said the situation "remains unchanged" after several years of NATO responsibility for Afghanistan. NATO had "started down a road that destroyed much of its credibility and in the end eroded support for the mission in every nation in the alliance," Hillier wrote.
"Afghanistan has revealed," wrote Hiller, "that NATO has reached the stage where it is a corpse decomposing..."
Gareth Porter is an investigative historian and journalist specializing in U.S. national security policy. The paperback edition of his latest book, "Perils of Dominance: Imbalance of Power and the Road to War in Vietnam", was published in 2006.


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One reason criminal law exists is to protect the weak and defenseless. A lot of those efforts over the years have centered on child abuse, something currently in the spotlight since April is National Child Abuse Prevention Month.
However, there�s a growing problem on the other end of the life cycle � elder abuse, defined by the U.S. Department of Justice as �intentional actions by a caregiver or other trusted individual that causes harm to an older adult.�
Such actions can include physical, emotional or sexual abuse, neglect or financial exploitation.
According to a Department of Justice study, 11 percent of older people who responded to a 2009 phone survey reported being abused in some way. About 5.2 percent said they had been taken advantage of financially by a relative in the previous year.
About 4.6 percent of those over age 60 said they had been emotionally mistreated during the same time frame. Only 8 percent of those folks reported that mistreatment to authorities; and the study estimated that for every abuse case that is reported, five aren�t.
To some, those won�t seem like huge numbers; to us, anything greater than zero is unacceptable.
The cases are heartrending and they typically don�t involve strangers, either. According to a study by the National Center on Elder Abuse, roughly 90 percent of abusers are family members.
The average life span in the U.S. has grown by six years since 1980, according to a report last year by the Office of Management and Budget, so there are more elderly people in this country. Many are remaining vital and active longer; others, unfortunately, are not.
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The Route 66 Film Festival, Nov. 1 and 2, opens a local window on the world of independent movies
For more than 10 years, the Route 66 Film Festival has been screening independent films from around the world for Springfield audiences. Not that local filmgoers have always been aware of it. "I wear my festival button all the time," says Route 66 executive board member Lana Wildman, "and I almost always have to explain to people what it's about."
What it is about, according to Wildman's fellow board member Hugh Moore, is both simple to put into words and a challenge to achieve. "We are trying to bring high-quality, independent new directors to central Illinois." Moore points out that, unlike Champaign's annual EbertFest, founded by the late film critic and University of Illinois alum Roger Ebert, the Route 66 Festival regularly shows films from the international market. This year alone, 14 different countries will be represented, including Bulgaria, India and Spain.
One of the festival's promotional challenges, along with an epidemic phobia of subtitles among large numbers of moviegoers, is the preconception that "independent" films will by definition be shoddily made. "Someone asked me the other day why they would even come to a festival of just independent movies," recounts Moore. "I had to explain that independent movies aren't what you remember from 30 years ago."
He goes on to explain that, due to miniaturization and reduced costs for technology, the visual quality of independent movies has risen precipitously. "Good equipment is so accessible now, anybody can make a good-looking film. Even the most awful films we auditioned and refused to include this year at least looked good. It's not like the old days when independent filmmaking meant a kid, a lot of beer and an 8mm camera. We want to dispel that myth. These are good movies, and we went through a lot of films to find the best ones we could."
Changes in technology have also helped make the auditioning process, though still painstaking, relatively easy compared to the days of cumbersome film reels or VHS copies of prospective films being sent through the mail, thanks to streaming audition sites such as withoutabox.com, which for a fee allow festival organizers to view film submissions in the comfort of their homes. According to the festival's communications and web specialist, Springfield resident Thea Chesley, "it's sort of nice to sit at home in your pajamas with a glass of wine and look at these films online. Some of them are extremely good."
The festival had its start back in 2002 as a project of a film club at Lincoln Land Community College, with a $10,000 grant from the school to hold student workshops. That first festival ran for two consecutive weekends. The first was well attended, boasting a personal appearance by square-jawed Evil Dead and Burn Notice star Bruce Campbell. However, an appearance by the star (and car) of the old Route 66 television series the second weekend failed to attract many people and Lincoln Land pulled out. The following year, festival founder Linda McElroy reconvened the financially depleted festival, using her credit card. Family members, friends and other volunteers contributed in various capacities and the 2003 and 2004 festivals were held at the Springfield Hilton, featuring films from Illinois, New York and California.
In 2005, McElroy began soliciting film submissions via the Internet, at which point the number of entries began to increase greatly. The festival, expanded into a three-day event, began breaking even financially and found a new home at the Hoogland Center for the Arts, where it stayed until 2011, when an increase in the facility's fees made it necessary to move. During this period, the festival was named one of the "25 Festivals Worth the Fee" by Moviemaker Magazine and was one of five featured festivals at the International Film Festival Summit in Las Vegas. In 2012, Linda McElroy resigned as director and moved out of state, at which point the current board was formed to run the festival. It ran for two days at the Legacy Theatre in 2012. This year the festival will take place on Friday and Saturday, Nov. 1 and 2, at Capital City Bar and Grill, 3149 S. Dirksen Parkway, a venue boasting many advantages, including what promises to be a fun and informal "brew and view" atmosphere.
"Linda McElroy left us with a really good foundation," says Hugh Moore, one of six Route 66 board members. "This is only our second year running the festival and there were some things both years that we've had to fix." The board has found that running the Route 66 Festival is a painstaking year-round endeavor, merely culminating in the two days of screenings. The festival has an operating budget of around $4,000 and makes its money through donations, ticket sales and entry fees for films, according to outgoing festival director Tom Szpyrka. (Siobhan Johnson, the board member currently in charge of film acquisition, will take over as director for 2014.) This year alone there were 118 submissions, with only 51 movies – both short subjects and longer features, with running times ranging from three minutes to 112 minutes – making the final cut. Of these, 34 potential entrants hailed from other countries, with 84 from the United States. All filmmakers whose work is accepted into competition are invited to attend the festival, which provides two free tickets to each attending filmmaker and offers discounted lodging for those who make the trip. It is often surprising who does and doesn't show up. "We've had filmmakers from Illinois who don't come and filmmakers from India who do," says Moore matter-of-factly. Directors and performers often show up just to be involved, including Silver Surfer actor Doug Jones, who appeared one year.
An element of the board's learning curve that is still being implemented is the need to ensure that screenings are limited to age-appropriate audiences. Entries cover a spectrum of content from family-friendly films to others that are more intense and potentially controversial. The schedule on Saturday aims to address this disparity by starting the day showing all-ages material at 10 a.m., with the work "gradually evolving in maturity as the day goes on," according to Chesley. This means, sensibly enough, that "G" and "PG" films will screen earlier in the day, with more "R-rated" material appearing later in the evening.
One innovation by the festival board during this past year was the choice to increase the event's public profile through occasional screening events under the Route 66 banner throughout the year at various local venues. This week on Halloween night, the day before the festival proper begins, Z Bistro, 220 S. Sixth St., will be hosting a free screening of a sci-fi horror comedy with the promising title They Will Outlive Us All.
Entries to the festival are divided into several categories, including Animation, Comedy, Drama, Experimental, Foreign Language, Abe Lincoln or History, Student Showcase, and Made in Illinois. This year there is a special Military category, which will screen Friday night. Awards are given in several categories, including Best of Festival, Best Student Film, Best Illinois Film and the Audience Choice Award.
In the words of Hugh Moore, the Route 66 Film Festival represents "a chance for people to spend an afternoon or two in Springfield in a way they would never get to do otherwise." As to why the average moviegoer might just be better off attending the festival than heading for one of Springfield's three AMC multiplexes for a Hollywood blockbuster, Moore is blunt. "If you give anyone with an I.Q. over 120 a budget of $20 million, they can make a decent-looking movie. An independent filmmaker, though, has had to be clever, has had to be resourceful. These directors work that way because they have a story they need to tell. And that's what's fun!
"I mean really," he laughs, "how many car chases do you need?"
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Scott Faingold will be posting updates to and previews of the Route 66 Film Festival's roster throughout the coming week on his blog at http://tinyurl.com/l2pu9yc. He can be reached via email@example.com.
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During an interview with the BBC broadcast in the United Kingdom late Thursday, Rep. Robert Pittenger, a Republican, said: "The grievance in their mind, the animus, the anger — they hate white people because white people are successful and they're not."
In a series of tweets two hours after giving the interview, Pittenger apologized "to those I offended" and said the anguish he feels over what is taking place in his hometown "led me to respond to a reporter's question in a way that I regret."
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This list may not describe all possible interactions. Give your health care provider a list of all the medicines, herbs, non-prescription drugs, or dietary supplements you use. Also tell them if you smoke, drink alcohol, or use illegal drugs. Some items may interact with your medicine.
Visit your doctor or health care professional for regular checks on your progress. Your symptoms may appear to get worse during the first weeks of this therapy. Tell your doctor or healthcare professional if your symptoms do not start to get better or if they get worse after this time. Your bones may get weaker if you take this medicine for a long time. If you smoke or frequently drink alcohol you may increase your risk of bone loss. A family history of osteoporosis, chronic use of drugs for seizures (convulsions), or corticosteroids can also increase your risk of bone loss. Talk to your doctor about how to keep your bones strong. This medicine should stop regular monthly menstration in women. Tell your doctor if you continue to menstrate. Women should not become pregnant while taking this medicine or for 12 weeks after stopping this medicine. Women should inform their doctor if they wish to become pregnant or think they might be pregnant. There is a potential for serious side effects to an unborn child. Talk to your health care professional or pharmacist for more information. Do not breast-feed an infant while taking this medicine. Men should inform their doctors if they wish to father a child. This medicine may lower sperm counts. Talk to your health care professional or pharmacist for more information.
Side effects that you should report to your doctor or health care professional as soon as possible: -allergic reactions like skin rash, itching or hives, swelling of the face, lips, or tongue -bone pain -breathing problems -changes in vision -chest pain -feeling faint or lightheaded, falls -fever, chills -pain, swelling, warmth in the leg -pain, tingling, numbness in the hands or feet -signs and symptoms of low blood pressure like dizziness; feeling faint or lightheaded, falls; unusually weak or tired -stomach pain -swelling of the ankles, feet, hands -trouble passing urine or change in the amount of urine -unusually high or low blood pressure -unusually weak or tired Side effects that usually do not require medical attention (report to your doctor or health care professional if they continue or are bothersome): -change in sex drive or performance -changes in breast size in both males and females -changes in emotions or moods -headache -hot flashes -irritation at site where injected -loss of appetite -skin problems like acne, dry skin -vaginal dryness
This list may not describe all possible side effects. Call your doctor for medical advice about side effects. You may report side effects to FDA at 1-800-FDA-1088.
This drug is given in a hospital or clinic and will not be stored at home.
NOTE: This sheet is a summary. It may not cover all possible information. If you have questions about this medicine, talk to your doctor, pharmacist, or health care provider.
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Chosen for their well-informed, broad perspective, 15 interdisciplinary thought leaders have been selected to participate in the Council for Interior Design Accreditation (CIDA) Collaborative Strategies session on November 12. The following disciplines will be represented: interior design, architecture, engineering, graphic design, construction management, environmental psychology, anthropology, technology, landscape architecture, lighting design, industrial design, and facilities management.
Practice leaders participating in the Collaborative Strategies session are:
Dan Adler, D*MN Good, Washington, DC
David Callan, Environmental Systems Design, Chicago, IL
Nancy Clanton, Clanton and Associates, Boulder, CO
Rob DePinto, Cisco, Charlotte, NC
Bob Fox, FOX Architects, Washington, DC
Gretchen Gscheidle, Herman Miller, Chicago, IL
Lewis Goetz, Group Goetz Architects, Washington, DC
Jan Johnson, Allsteel, New York, NY
Tim Kelley, Blue Sky Exhibits, Marietta, GA
Diane MacKnight, MacKnight Associates, Washington, DC
Heidi Painchaud, B+H Architects, Toronto, ON
Vaughn Rinner, VHB, Virginia Beach, VA
Linda Sorrento, USGBC, Washington, DC
Randy Wilda, Steelcase, Grand Rapids, MI
Andrea Wright, Barton Malow Company, Southfield, MI
"CIDA's outreach to practice indicates that collaboration is a major force driving change in the interior design profession. The Collaborative Strategies session seeks to envision how collaboration will impact society at large and the disciplines of the built environment specifically. This information, in turn, leads to a deeper understanding about the educational content necessary to prepare graduates for interior design practice," states Robert Wright, FASID, CIDA Board Chair.
The ASID Foundation is a proud sponsor of the CIDA Collaborative Strategies session. Herman Miller is hosting the event in their Washington, DC showroom. The Greenway Group is facilitating the session.
The Council for Interior Design Accreditation is an independent, non-profit, accrediting organization responsible for setting standards and evaluating degree granting interior design programs. There are 171 CIDA-accredited programs in the U.S., Canada, and Qatar. Learn more at accredit-id.org.
For More Information:
Holly Mattson, Executive Director ()
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During a clients first bionenergetic session, the healer will most likely have their eyes half-focused in a healers gaze, reading the patients energy field, body type, posture, mannerisms, and even speech patterns to figure out what are the primary defense structures at work. For bioenergetic practitioners, these defense systems provide both the car keys and road map for navigating the clients return journey to health and the higher self.
Going beyond talk therapy, bioenergetics is an intuitive science that combines psychoanalysis and hands on energy healing. It considers our entire emotional history to be crystallized in the body and that our blocks and difficulties in accessing our own power (and a deeper connection in our lives) are the results of unfinished business from early childhood. While growing up, we develop defense systems to prevent us from being overwhelmed by difficult experiences. The only problem is that we dont release the fear and resistance afterwards, which leads to tension, constriction, illness, and a skewed worldview. We, to some degree, perceive our reality through the lens of a traumatized child.
Developed by Alexander Lowen as an extension of Wilhelm Reich's vegetotherapy, bioenergetic analysis utilizes several central personality types, each consisting of different body characteristics, defenses, life tasks, and gifts. A brief overview of these personalities reveals the provocative titles of the schizoid, oral, masochist, psychopath, rigid," and, in some modalities, "narcissist." (Each of these character structures is complex and worthy of articles in themselves, which I hope to address in the future). According to bionergetic philosophy, every person has at least a portion of each personality type within their character make-up but typically one or two of these defenses will be more predominant than the others, requiring more attention in the healing process.
Becoming a bioenergetic practitioner, I soon realized it wasnt just individuals who held these energy defense structures, but that these characteristics were also prevalent in communities, groups, organizations, institutions, and even nations. When looking at the US government, it didnt take long to perceive the primary defense system at work in the land of the brave. First and foremost, America was a psychopath.
In the bioenergetic model, psychopaths will generally have athletic builds with inflated chests and upper bodies. They are ungrounded and disconnected from their legs and the earth energies below them. If we look at America as a body, we can see how it has built up its own biceps and pectorals, spending trillions on armaments and military fortification while putting few resources into environmental efforts and natural preservation, which ground us in the earth plane. Psychopaths have fierce, piercing eyes that keep watch for the next threat against their existence. On a national level, this can be seen in the proliferation of surveillance cameras, FBI profiling, and domestic spying upon a public that is not to be trusted. In foreign policy, this manifests in satellite spy technology, CIA operatives, and a general suspicion of the United Nations.
According to bioenergetics, the psychopath suffers from an excessive, over-charged third chakra (the energy center at the solar plexus), which is a masculine force of ambition, achievement, and willpower. Lacking a deeper sense of self, they are only as good as their achievements. They must be special or better than others in order not to feel like a failure. The space race, the drive to build New Yorks Freedom Tower over Ground Zero, or the desire to win Survivor can be seen as examples of societal psychopathy. Its all about being on top. In America, we are defined not by who we are, but by what we do. Profession, career, and economic status become far more important than family, community, self-understanding and personal/spiritual growth. The psychopath stays busy to avoid facing the suppressed fear and anger that may arise from connecting with the present moment. They work hard, wrangle kids to soccer practice, watch blockbuster films, and buy material things in order to avoid the terror of being still.
Often, the psychopaths need to achieve is a result of a manipulative parent (especially of the opposite sex) who says that the child is special one moment, only to treat them as worthless the next. This takes away inner feelings of trust, confidence, and safety. One simply is not good enough being who they are and therefore, must prove themselves to be worthy of love. Western Civilization itself seems to suffer from this condition due to its mythological underpinnings. According to The Book of Genesis, humans were once in their Fathers favor, but that love was revoked and they were kicked out of their home (the Garden of Eden) and forced to toil in the fields. Cain and Abel, the offspring of those in exile, had to prove their worthiness to God by bringing him offerings from their hard work at harvest time. The fierce competition between these two sons led to the first recorded act of psychopathic violence in the Fertile Crescent, which just happened to be the birthplace of agriculture and civilization as we know it.
Future generations inherited this false energetic construct, spreading it like a virus wherever western civilization expanded. Empires rose and fell, only for new ones to take their place. The disfunctional energetic patterns continued on to the thirteen colonies of North America, where the condition may have been exacerbated by the violent disapproval from Mother England when the young colonies asserted their independence. In order to survive this trauma, Americans began thinking in absolutes, such as Give me liberty or give me death, warning their own parent, Dont tread on me. Nobody could be trusted after that.
In order to ensure their special status, psychopaths feel they must dominate others. They have an immense drive for power, bullying everyone around them. Since its beginnings, America has lived by a sense of manifest destiny, decimating the Native Americans, enslaving blacks, and invading Cuba, Mexico, the Philippines, Afghanistan, and Iraq to name a few places. This imperialism can be seen in our domestic policy and societal hierarchies where corporations privatize resources and control the citizenry, leaving few social nets for those unwilling to participate in the endemic psychopathy within these systems. Living within this defense structure, one can believe it is "normal" to have poor, disenfranchised citizens in society, as these individuals simply have not proven themselves worthy of love and success.
Psychopaths can also be very charming and charismatic, using seduction as a means of gaining power and control over others. Hollywood and Madison Avenue have become masters of this tactic, fashioning a media landscape that constantly informs us how we are not sexy enough, healthy enough, rich enough, or good enough unless we buy their products. For the psychopath, sex is not primarily about pleasure and connection, but conquest over another.
Being right is essential to the psychopaths egoic self. They create an idealized view of themselves where they are better than everyone else around them. They become rugged individualists, believing in God, guns, and country, chant USA #1, and claim that America is the best country in the world. The need to be right has become especially prevalent in the rise of the Christian fundamentalist movement, where evangelists claim to know the one true way. Although this superiority complex can be vast, it actually masks deep insecurities and an unstable foundation.
Typically, it is only after the psychopath has experienced some type of personal collapse that they will seek help. They dont want to believe that there is a problem, nor do they trust others to help. Psychopathy can be one of the most challenging personalities to work with, because the fear of betrayal always lurks in the patient's subconscious, even toward the healer.
People often feel the need to judge the psychopath, since their defense system overtly hurts others. In bionergetics no personality structure is better than another. They all create walls of disconnection and dis-ease and although it may seem hard to believe, especially when they appear to be at the top of the social ladder, the psychopath is a suffering individual. Since psychopaths can be externally violent, connecting with the guilt of their behavior is one of their basic fears. Therefore, it is important for healers to create an environment where the clients feel safe and free of judgment.
The healer holds the space for psychopaths to face, experience, and process transgressions against others (and themselves). This work can be quite beautiful and revealing when the client expresses (and releases) real emotional regret, and not simply false pride about not living up to a self-idealized image. From this point, clients may be able to confess and make restitution for their actions, as the healer helps them name specific examples to release karmic bonds. Finally, the client learns to recognize destructive pleasure (like living on adrenaline) and replace it with actual pleasure within oneself and a community of people.
By staying neutral and focused, the healer assists the psychopath in letting down their guard and opening to be present with stillness and intimacy. The psychopath learns to feel safe and trust in the moment, being receptive to the energies around them. They learn to receive, and conversely give, love. This part of the process is much more about allowing than doing. It is not about proving the psychopath wrong, which only inflates their defense response. For example, arguing against Fox News, Dick Cheney, or the Iraq War, may only bring out more of the defense structures at work. But if one stays present during the conversation, giving eye contact and connecting from the heart center, the healing power of spirit comes in and expands a once tightly controlled reality. With this approach, battling ideologies dissipate, as we simply become humans sharing an intimate moment together. We feel loved, trusted and supported.
All it takes is a dent in the psychopaths ego for the entire house of cards to come crashing down. And we are due for a karmic reckoning thats been several thousand years in the making. Much like the psychopathic client, western civilization (and especially the US) are coming upon a time where we will have to face and feel the pain of our transgressions against mother Earth, each other, and, in the end, ourselves. The aggrandized belief in the rightness of the capitalist system or Americas own power and glory is tottering on the thin wooden stilts holding it up. And with the faltering economy, the walls created by our national psychopathy are cracking wide open.
Countries, communities, and individuals could react by pointing fingers and saying, We told you so, but that would simply put the psychopath back in their defenses, making them want to lash back in potentially dangerous ways. Instead, Im hoping a growing transformational network on the planet can serve as helpers, healers and guides. Those whove already embarked on the healing path can reach out to those just stepping onto it. Its like the story of the prodigal son in The New Testament. Rather than criticize and chastise the lost soul, we welcome our relations back into the unity of the world family tree. After all, none of us are without sin since we were all raised within this corrupted system.
We need to look at our own patterns and see where the need for specialness, control, and manipulation emerge. As we learn this process for ourselves, we can then hold space for others to connect with and release their guilt, confess and make restitution for their actions, and experience the exponential healing power of forgiveness. This stage is usually difficult for my individual clients and I can only imagine how challenging it might be with entire nations processing the environmental wreckage and karmic devastation weve laid upon our home, and each other.
Grounding is essential for healing the psychopath. They are trapped in an overcharged third chakra, and bringing in soothing earth energies can free up their internal circuitry. We, as a society, need to reconnect with the planetary rhythms and vibrations that have supported life for over four billion years, reintegrating that wisdom into our daily lives. Fortunately, there seems to be a growing mobilization to make this happen with various organizations and individuals engaging in permaculture, slow food, green design, eco villages, and other sustainable practices.
Perhaps those who hold the most grounding vibrations are the ones who have not fully strayed into the dominator model of civilization. Many tribal elders are carrying these earth frequencies of the first and second charkas (and the heart center) and have been coming together to hold space to heal our planet in crisis. This can be seen with Return of the Ancestors Gatherings in Sedona, The International Council of Thirteen Indigenous Grandmothers, and The Gathering of Nations, not to mention the emergence of shamanic practices and teacher plants into western culture.
Ceremony may be the greatest antidote to the psychopath. If done in a safe space and with sacred intention, a circle of joined hands brings the psychopath out of their head and into the loving energetic field of the communal heart. Ive especially seen this manifest when singing is involved, harmonizing the individual with the frequencies of the larger collective voice.
Many yogis believe it is the powerful furnace of the third chakra that thrusts us up into the heart center — the gateway between spirit and matter, the ultimate unifier of opposites that brings heaven onto hearth. In our adventure through civilization, we have walked through the planetary fires of over-charged third chakra energies. Now, as we face our own demise, we are being asked to purify ourselves in these flames and let go of limiting egoic constructs. As the shell of materialist consumerism dries up in front of us, we open up to spirit and the mystery of the inner self. Rather than filling our lives with actions, accolades, and appliances, we uncover the treasury within our own hearts and its connection to all beings around us.
Of course, some would argue that we should physically stop the psychopath in their tracks, putting an immediate end to America's plundering of the planet before it's too late. Admittedly, I'm not qualified to answer this question (no martial arts training here) and there are likely potentialies for doing this. However, given my own experience as a healer, I do question the effectiveness or current necessity of fighting the psychopath head-on. Recently, I've been astounded by the number of "psychopathic" friends and clients who are having their own personalized egoic break-downs that lead to an opening of the heart center, allowing them to connect with grace, themselves, and their community. Although I'm hesitant to believe it, I feel that after centuries of seemingly unmitigated rule by psychopath energy patterns, the vibrational environment is changing around us due to a collective rise in globlal frequency. As healers and helpers, we can access, or channel, these higher frequencies to assist others embarking on their evolutionary journey.
To do this, well need to unlearn what has been handed down to us and liberate ourselves from dangerous and dysfunctional paradigms. We can begin by re-imagining the nuclear family, taking out the fission of sibling rivalries and domestic abuse while allowing for divine presence, joy, and revelation within community. Instead of giving shallow rewards of grades for outstanding achievement, we could introduce yoga, meditation, and healing courses to cure the divisive habit of cliques, competitiveness, and popularity contests in our educational institutions. We could even resurrect the ancient model of the Mystery Schools, where studies in reading, writing, and arithmetic were balanced with the intuitive wisdom of the initiatory process.
And as strange as it may sound, given the seriousness of the global situation, were most likely going to need the psychopaths assistance in actualizing a worldwide healing effort. In a positive light, the psychopath is also known as the defender, since they are aces at championing causes. Once their heart fully opens, the defenders become extremely sensitive to those who are suffering, especially the underdogs, who they feel they have an affiliation with. Not only do they feel their pain, but they also know how to act to alleviate that suffering. If you want someone to kick-start a nonprofit, pass human rights legislation, or spearhead an environmental campaign, a defender would be your best bet. They are natural team leaders who have a knack for manifesting the visions and intentions of entire communities. That is their gift. (Its just important that they dont get lost in the uniqueness of their role.) Given their past transgressions, they often see their work as a matter of service with those around them.
Feeling true remorse for consuming more than our fair share of resources, the United States (and western culture in general) could move beyond ineffective ego-guilt and transmute these energies for engaging in a type of joyful restitution and devotional service to humanity and our great mother. Connecting our inherent motivation and entrepreneurial spirit with the greater needs of the world community, we can play our part in cleaning up the planet, and birthing equitable, compassionate societies. I believe we are already seeing this with the mass proliferation of NGOs in our culture.
Ironically, the psychopaths who got us into this planetary mess may assist us in reaching a new level of global awareness. Once theyve received the message that its not me against them, but just us, the defenders become champions of the shift in consciousness. They help spearhead that bioremediation project, open the yoga school for at-risk kids, coordinate the neo-tribal festival, and invite the elders to guide us in sacred ceremony.
I realize it may seem a challenge to love the psychopath, but Ive seen miracles in my healing work, and I know that they can become vessels of great love and beauty. The thing Ive come to admire most about the defender personality type is that they dont merely dream up new worlds, they help us build them.
Image: "God Bless America" by japetonida, courtesy of Creative Commons Licensing.


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Pretty Little Liar's Lucy Hale is being called a liar on another ABC Family series.
Exclusive: Bunheads Star looks for love on Baby Daddy
On Wednesday's episode of Baby Daddy, Hale guest-stars as Piper, the seemingly quiet daughter of a client who Riley (Chelsea Kane) is representing. But when Riley is tasked with watching Piper, she suddenly turns into a wild child. In our exclusive clip below, Riley, Danny (Derek Theler) and Tucker (Tahj Mowry) find Piper partying with Ben (Jean-Luc Bilodeau), but when she tries to deny any involvement, Ben calls her a little liar — pun intended.
Hale's episode of Baby Daddy airs on Wednesday at 8:30/7:30c on ABC Family.


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Glendale Community College - Glendale, Arizona
The mission of Glendale Community College (GCC) is to address the higher education needs of its community. Through its diverse programs and services GCC assists students in meeting their educational goals. We fulfill this mission as an institution of higher education by preparing students: To participate responsibly in a culturally diverse technological and global society. For successful transfer to colleges and universities. For employment and advancement within their chosen careers.
School Information6000 W Olive Ave
Glendale, Arizona 85302
Calendar: Semester
Locale: City: Midsize
Open Admissions: Yes
Sector: Public, 2-year
Carnegie Basic: Associate's--Public Urban-serving Multicampus
Religious Affiliation: Not applicable
Accrediting Agency: North Central Association of Colleges and Schools, The Higher Learning Commission
Locale: City: Midsize
Open Admissions: Yes
Sector: Public, 2-year
Carnegie Basic: Associate's--Public Urban-serving Multicampus
Religious Affiliation: Not applicable
Accrediting Agency: North Central Association of Colleges and Schools, The Higher Learning Commission
Students & Faculty
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Total Intl Students
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* All data is provided by the school or compiled from IPEDS as of December 2018
Total Tuition $8,838.00
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Related Resource
National Land Parcel Data: A Vision for the Future (June 2007)Report in Brief
Land parcel data (also known as cadastral data) provides geographically-referenced information about the rights, interests, and ownership of land and are an important part of the financial, legal and real estate systems of society. The data are used by governments to make decisions about land development, business activities, regulatory compliance, emergency response, and law enforcement. In 1980, a National Research Council report called for nationally-integrated land parcel data, but despite major progress in development of land parcel databases in many local jurisdictions, little progress has been made towards a national system. Therefore, this National Research Council report was sponsored by the Bureau of Land Management, the Census Bureau, the Federal Geographic Data Committee, the Department of Homeland Security, and Environmental Systems Research Institute, to look at the current status of land parcel data in the United States. This report concludes that nationally-integrated land parcel data is necessary, feasible, and affordable, and provides recommendations for establishing a practical framework for sustained intergovernmental coordination and funding required to overcome the remaining challenges and move forward.


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Obi-wan Latifah: Film snobs stay away
I don't want to be a spoiler, but the only person who would want to see a romantic comedy in which Queen Latifah dies at the end is Mo'Nique, who would expect to pick up some good roles for a full-figured woman with Latifah out of the way.
Last Holiday goes through the motions of telling a story in which Georgia Byrd (Latifah) blossoms and starts living because she thinks she's going to die in three weeks, but the movie always seems to be winking at the audience as if to say, "Wait and see how we get her out of this!"
The formulaic tale has been told many times before, and in some versions the protagonist actually dies, so theoretically it could happen here. Last Holiday is a remake of a 1950 British film in which Alec Guinness played George Bird. If this starts a trend, I can't wait to see Latifah in the new version of Star Wars! (She's better than Tom Hanks in The Ladykillers.)
The most serious thing about the new Last Holiday is the inferences that can be made about corrupt politicians and attitudes toward the poor in the pre-Katrina New Orleans setting.
Georgia is a sweet but repressed woman who confines her dreams to a book of "Possibilities." She works in a department store (where she's under-appreciated) but longs to be a chef. She has a crush on a co-worker, Sean Williams (LL Cool J), and it's obvious to everyone but them that he returns her interest.
Some people have to be hit over the head, and that's about what happens to Georgia. A CAT scan reveals she has a rare (fictional) disease that will kill her in three weeks, "four on the outside." Even though she's never been north of Alabama, she obtains a passport in record time and flies to her dream hotel, Grandhotel Pupp in Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic.
The formerly frugal woman is determined to blow all her money, which includes her IRA and "bonds my momma left." That must amount to quite a bit, because she starts upgrading and living large, buying a new wardrobe and staying in the Presidential Suite for $4000 a night.
The worker's friend, Georgia is soon beloved by most of the staff (they dub her "the most amazing person who ever came to this hotel"), including her idol, Chef Didier (Gerard Depardieu). The lone holdout is the floor valet, mannish Gunther (Susan Kellerman). By the kind of coincidence you don't question in movies like this, other guests at the hotel include Georgia's senator (Giancarlo Esposito) and congressman (Michael Nouri), and the man who's paying for them in return for favorable legislation, Matthew Kragen (Timothy Hutton).
What's more, Kragen owns the department store where Georgia worked, and he's on a spending spree while the store's in Chapter 11.He's accompanied by his assistant/mistress, Ms. Burns (Alicia Witt).
Once-promising director Wayne Wang (The Joy Luck Club, Chan Is Missing) continues to prove (Maid in Manhattan, Because of Winn-Dixie) he's as versatile as Ang Lee but not as talented.
The movie goes into extra innings while Georgia straightens out everybody's lives, and her Big Speech merely restates the obvious points made in the movie's first 90 minutes or so. With less of a life force than Latifah, Last Holiday could easily be unbearable, but she is the personification of "Laugh and the world laughs with you."
Film snobs stay away, but Last Holiday is a people-pleaser.


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Daily log, May 23
Tiffin reports
Wilner M. Marcelin, 23, of Tiffin, was cited with operating a vehicle while intoxicated, driving under suspension and willful disregard early Tuesday morning.
A woman went to the station Tuesday evening to report fraudulent charges on her bank account.
A 300-block Circular Street woman reported Tuesday evening her neighbor saw someone trying to break into her residence sometime Monday night.
A first-block West Perry Street woman reported early Wednesday morning a man was seen entering a vehicle. The woman's boyfriend chased the man, and said he believed he knew the man. A DVD player was taken from the vehicle.
A first-block Minerva Street caller reported Wednesday afternoon they heard gunshots in the area. Police were unable to locate anyone else who heard gunshots.
County reports
Alexandra L. Jenkins, 18, of Huron, was charged with underage possession/consumption May 11.
Brook L. White, 19, of Huron, was charged with underage possession/consumption May 11.
A person was charged with disorderly conduct after a disturbance was reported Tuesday afternoon in the area of South CR 591 and South TR 119.
A 1000-block South TR 59 man reported Tuesday afternoon his unlocked vehicle was broken into Friday.
A 6000-block West CR 6 woman reported early Wednesday morning someone had attempted to get into the residence.
Fostoria reports
A man was cited with public intoxication after a caller from Fostoria Pantry, 255 W. South St., reported an intoxicated man was refusing to leave the store.
A woman reported Tuesday afternoon his 10-year-old son was assaulted at a bus stop in the 300 block of West High Street. Two boys had struck the 10-year-old two or three times.
A caller reported Tuesday afternoon people at a 200-block South Wood Street residence were throwing water balloons at vehicles driving down the street and at people walking along the sidewalk. A person was issued a disorderly conduct citation.
A woman reported Tuesday afternoon her daughter was being assaulted in the 500 block of East Lytle Street. Ryan J. Thomas, 21, of Fostoria, was charged with persistent disorderly conduct.
A 200-block West South Street person requested to speak to an officer Tuesday evening about a phone scam.
A 500-block Miller Avenue man reported Tuesday evening his daughter was being sexually harassed at school.
An employee of the hospital reported early Wednesday morning a woman who was assaulted by her boyfriend was being treated. The woman was told to go to the police station to file charges.
A 600-block West Fremont Street man reported early Wednesday morning someone spray painted his home.
A 200-block Elwood Avenue man reported early Wednesday morning someone broke into his truck. Aaron W. Crowe Jr., 18, of Fostoria, was charged with theft.
A caller reported Wednesday morning juveniles at a bus stop in the 300 block of East Fremont Street threw rocks at a roof, breaking a sign. They also pulled out flowers.
A 200-block Elwood Avenue woman reported Wednesday morning someone broke into her unlocked vehicle. A GPS was taken.
A juvenile was arrested Wednesday morning after an assault was reported at Fostoria Middle School, 1202 HL Ford Drive.
A 700-block Westhaven Drive man reported Wednesday morning his vehicle was broken into Saturday. Items were taken.
A person reported Wednesday afternoon someone put duct tape over a security camera in the 500 block of Maple Street and stole a rim from a vehicle.
State Patrol
James O'Connor, 58, of Columbia Station, was cited with operating a vehicle without reasonable control following an accident early Tuesday morning on SR 4. He was transported by Attica EMS to Mercy Willard Hospital. A State Highway Patrol spokeswoman said O'Connor had been operating a Fed-Ex freight truck northbound on SR 4 when he drove off the side of the roadway, struck a ditch and utility pole, and overturned the truck on its side.
A single-vehicle rollover accident was reported Wednesday afternoon on TR 112. No transports were made from the scene. Further details were unavailable.
Tiffin firefighters were called to 781 Greenfield St. Wednesday morning for an unintentional smoke detector activation.
Bascom fire and EMS and the Echo unit were called to an accident Wednesday afternoon on TR 112.
Tiffin EMS had one squad run Tuesday night, one squad run early Wednesday morning and one squad run Wednesday morning.
Bascom fire and New Riegel EMS and the Echo unit had a squad run Wednesday morning.
Old Fort fire and Republic EMS and the Echo unit had a squad run Wednesday afternoon.
Bascom fire and EMS and the Echo unit had a squad run Wednesday afternoon.


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Griffin changes up pitch repertoire
PHOENIX -- A.J. Griffin isn't carrying so much baggage around these days.
Not only did he drop 15 pounds over the offseason, the A's right-hander has also ditched the cutter that got him into trouble one too many times last year.
PHOENIX -- A.J. Griffin isn't carrying so much baggage around these days.
Not only did he drop 15 pounds over the offseason, the A's right-hander has also ditched the cutter that got him into trouble one too many times last year.
Griffin's numbers tell a different story, but that's only because his cutter was often mistaken for a fastball since it wasn't breaking like he wanted. More importantly, the cutter led to a significant amount of wear and tear on his elbow, and it was an elbow injury that kept Griffin off the A's postseason roster.
"I'd be throwing four innings and say, 'Wow, this isn't feeling right,' as I was going out for the fifth inning," he said. "It just progressively felt more and more like a dead arm. I was still throwing my fastball hard, but it wasn't feeling very good."
Griffin will keep the cutter tucked deep in his pocket, but he only plans to reach for it again should he not get what he wants from a revitalized changeup, which he featured prominently against right-handers in his Cactus League debut on Monday, a 7-3 win against the Dodgers.
The 26-year-old starter allowed two runs on four hits with no walks and two strikeouts in the two-inning performance, getting too much of the upper zone at times but showcasing good action on all of his pitches and coming out of the outing feeling stronger than ever.
Griffin was most proud of his changeup, which hasn't been much of a factor for him since joining the big league roster in 2012 because of ongoing struggles to finish it. In turn, he lost conviction in the pitch, and he was in the process of learning the cutter, anyway. So he got away from it -- temporarily.
"In the Minor Leagues, that was like my bread-and-butter pitch," he said. "I could throw it any time, in any count, and be able to get a strike or throw it where I wanted to. I'm more of a command guy, anyway, so if I can get my fastball and changeup on the same plane, throwing more aligned, it's a good combination to have, so I'm looking forward to improving that pitch a little more on what it already is and mixing it in a little more.
"I feel like if I get that changeup going, I'm not going to miss the cutter too much. That was the pitch that wasn't my best and I got hurt on a bit too last year. If we get the other three going and have time to play with the other one and my arm's feeling great and all, we can use it as a backup."
"It'll depend on how much he uses his changeup," added manager Bob Melvin. "The cutter's a pitch he struggled with some, whether it was a slider or a cutter, he was trying to find the right break for it, so not a bad idea to add a changeup off his fastball."
Griffin was the only A's pitcher to reach the 200-innings plateau last year, doing it in 32 starts while compiling a 3.83 ERA in his first full season in the Majors. He ranked fourth in the American League in opponents' on-base percentage (.280) and fifth in batting average (.226), but he also surrendered a Major League-leading 36 home runs, the fourth highest total in Oakland history.
According to brooksbaseball.net, 26 of them were hit off a fastball -- many of which were breaking pitches, like the cutter, that simply didn't break.
"It was like an 85-mph thing that didn't move," said Griffin. "It wasn't too good.
"It was a pitch I had never thrown for 23 years, and then I learned it and my muscles just weren't used to it. I probably just throw it wrong or something. I got a good grip on it and stuff, but I probably was trying to do too much and causing problems on my elbow. I was snapping it off instead of just throwing it like my fastball. It was my fourth-best pitch and I didn't have much conviction in it anyway, so when I'd get that sign, I'd be like, 'We have to make this one good,' and then overthrow it and do dumb stuff."
Griffin said the decision to put it aside was his own, though he smiled and said, 'I don't think [pitching coach] Curt [Young] is big on it either." He also chose to move his offseason residence from San Diego to Phoenix, in part to keep close to A's strength and conditioning coaches.
The 6-foot-5 righty is down from 250 pounds to 230.
"I'm still not very small," he said, laughing, "but I can tell it's paying off. I wasn't tired at all today. I just feel all-around better. It's exciting. I'm in a lot better shape, and everything is more positive this year. I feel I'll be better prepared for the entire season."
Jane Lee is a reporter for MLB.com. Read her blog, Major Lee-ague, and follow her on Twitter @JaneMLB.


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For one time I can tell a good news about a Techdirt post: Twittering is considered perfectly fine for journalists in a courtroom in France.
As reported by a well-known blogger-lawyer, several journalists cover prominent trials. See http://www.maitre-eolas.fr/post/2009/09/25/Peut-on-twitter-un-proc%C3%A8s
The fact that there was already a book with answers does not change copyright status of my book with different answers to the same questions. It might just give hints why they are angry if you too publish a book--they believe you break their business model.
1) I still have the right to sell a "meaningless collection of answer without questions". (Lots of poetry are actually forms of it)
2) The answer book is increasing the business of the question book! Why do they complain?
Problem with this argument is it can be applied to whatever illegal behaviour on earth. People get killed even though murder if prohibited, even if you put more cameras or more police in the streets. Would you say that banning murder is useless (since it happens anyway)? This is a choice of society. Good questions are:
1) would you like to live in a society where murder is allowed. I would not, I think murder is to be banned.
2) Would yo like to live in a society where download of copyrighted material is allowed? I would say yes, provided there are business models allowing this options (e.g that CwF+RtB thing).
So let's not skip the debate, there are real reasons to provide.
1) Copyright protection does not prevent Turkey from minting coins of specific weight and size that by chance can fool vending machines in other countries.
(Copyright, if it applies, only protects the drawing, which at the moment is not used by vending machines to identify coins.)
2) Where exactly would you like to sue the government of Turkey for infringing copyright of euro coins? In a tribunal located in Turkey --where the process will be discarded for national interest-- or in the EU --where the government of Turkey did not by itself commit any offense (the only offense here is made by the customer trying to pay with a coin without legal tender)?
"so why even bother with copyright"
They don't bother with anything. In most EU countries, every artwork or speech or written paper is protected by copyright (exceptions are laws and court deliberations). There is no need to bother or register anything. Coin or banknote design is obviously an artwork, thus it is protected by copyright. Copyright notice or symbol (c) is a bonus, it is not required.
Only the US had the (good) idea that work done on behalf of the federal state should be public domain. Feel free to convince the EU Commission to pass an equivalent bill.
The name was a provocation intended to raise public attention and create a debate in Sweden. They did not expect to really get elected at EU level.
The official justification for Hulu's blockings is economic. Unlike Youtube (though its owner Google), Hulu doesn't own zillio-meters of optic fibers all other the world.
Video bandwidth is expensive, and it is worth paying it only if the viewer is a potential customer for the advertisement market. Viewers from most countries outside US might not be as frequent buyers than customers from the US, for several reasons (increased prices of shipping, tariffs, delays, risks of transactions with a company very far away...).
By limiting their users' base to the US, they also limit the ad-viewers' base to a well-described and a more buying-prone population. This way they can market their ads at a higher price.
I don't mean it should be like this, marketing to the world is surely a better strategy. Just they do what they believe is better for their business—cut the costs and select a good customer base. We can just sit there and let the future prove them wrong.
Down the page there is a Captcha system. It asked me to enter the word "attorney." Are they trying to send a hidden message?
(I of course made a screenshot)
The full story is that AFPA launched a public tender and ordered a big quantity of computers plus software; what was delivered included a binary copy of VNC with a non-changeable password known only to the provider (which would allow third party to remotely take control of the computers without client's knowledge). The provider later failed to provide the sources while it stated it would; AFPA was displeased and cancelled the order. The provider sued AFPA to force them to pay. The court of appeal of Paris decided that the provider did not follow its obligations (the expert stated that the installation of VNC was not properly mentioned to the user, that the licence and copyright notice were not provided and that the user could not change the VNC password; the Court also noticed that the source was not provided and thus the GNU GPL has been violated). The Court then ruled that AFPA was right to cancel the order and refuse to pay.
So while you may sue Apple, you are probably not in the same conditions as in this trial (AFPA had to follow public tender rules, they ordered for $250,000 and they were asking to cancel the order, not to get the VNC source code).
Plato was right to a certain extent; use of writing has weakened the pressure to remember quantities of text. In ancient Greece competitions where mostly illiterate singers would perform on thousands of verses from Iliad and Odyssey. The hypothesis that the ability to memorize hours of spoken text was linked to illiteracy (or blindness) is known for long time but it has been experimentally tested relatively recently; in the Balkans a tradition of epic poem singers existed for centuries, and until the 20th Century some poets were still singing the famous poem relating the Battle of Kosovo (14th Century). It has been shown that those poets would lose their ability to memorize when learning to read and write. Eventually, with the progress of education in the past decades, such memory performers have completely disappeared.
(I might find again scholar references to these claims whenever I pass by home country.)
So yes, the pencil made us "lose" part of the abilities that it superseded, but the fear is pointless, because it juste gave us the opportunity to allocate our memory to different activities.
(To avoid misunderstanding: I totally agree with Michael Masnik's conclusions.)


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When you are trying out the concept of free online dating, why spend a lot of money on various subscription sites when you can get the same information about people looking for dating in your area at no cost. Online sites that cost nothing are not that hard to find, and if you look for one that has a large client base, you can usually find people in your area who are also interested in dating.
Because there are no costs to the end user for free online dating sites, you may find a wider selection of people looking for dating services on a free site rather than a paid site. When someone is just looking for the opportunity to build dating options, they probably don't want to spend a lot of money at more than one site. This type of single person would be more likely to list with several free sites in hopes of expanding the opportunities for selection without paying for several sites. If it's free, many people will not be so concerned about losing money and will go ahead and sign up with several sites.
You may think that because you live in a small town that you know everyone of dating age in the area. If you sign up at one or more of the free online dating sites, you might be surprised to find that there are people in your area that you didn't even think of as potential dating material. Maybe your paths just never crossed before, or maybe you didn't appreciate all their great qualities. If you get to know them on an online site for dating, you might just find that your viewpoint on the old hometown has changed.
Sometimes people using a free online dating site will wonder what they can do about going out with a person that they meet online. To begin with, it's often enough to do some visiting online and just chat with others so that you get an opportunity to know them better. You won't usually feel stressed about having to go out with a stranger and not know anything about their likes and dislikes. You've already learned what he or she likes to do for recreation and hopefully you like much the same things, so finding a dating activity should be quite simple.


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Tarot Readers Writing
This is a monthly writers group for tarot readers. We use tarot to inspire and guide us. Our purpose is be becoming better writers. Writers and aspiring writers of fiction, non-fiction, prose and poetry are welcome to come explore with us! Bring your tarot decks and your pens (laptops ok) and let's see what happens!