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Written by Heidi Dike Kingston, LCSW, C-CATODSW, CSAT-C
Overdose deaths in the United States exceeded 49,000 last year, with overdoses from prescription opioids driving these numbers most in the last 10 years. While it has largely not discriminated against any age, race or socioeconomic group, overdose death has changed the way millennials and their families are facing death. While grief often feels like a desert island from a cultural standpoint, it is necessary to acknowledge and affirm our treatment efforts with young adults must change because of this epidemic.
In working with millennials and their family members, I began to recognize the dramatic impact sudden death overdose was having on the lives of my clients. Losing someone you love to overdose death leaves a person with no opportunity for anticipation of losing their friends, siblings or "using buddies." Their own general perceptions of safety and security is dramatically shaken. While trying to get themselves well around their own substance abuse issues, clients identified persistent grief and a reduced capacity to cope with the loss; many also presented symptoms of a post-traumatic response to the death. Denial, disbelief and struggle to find reason were accompanied by feelings of guilt, sadness, shame, blame and anger. But, overwhelmingly, clients described shame, loneliness, and isolation as common factors that were preventing them from sharing the grief they were experiencing about the overdose loss.
Stigmas Preventing Ability to Grieve
Stigma surrounding drug-related death is distinguished as the main reason clients don't feel allowed to grieve the loss of the people they loved. While the disease of addiction can affect anyone, grief from an overdose death is a complicated grief- a marginalized grief because our culture views it as a preventable and self-imposed death. Much like loss by suicide, loss of a loved one to overdose is thrown into a whole category of disenfranchised loss that few know how to gently handle. For an addict- clean or still struggling to get there-the loss of someone they care about by overdose is ignored, avoided or they are often made to feel ashamed about the death. In discussing the progression of one young man's disease into addiction and subsequent overdose a parent reflected:
"Now, if my son had cancer, or had been in a terrible car accident, people would have been lining up to help, our freezer would have been full of food, and I would have been able to openly grieve for the healthy son I had lost. There would have been gifts, prayers, cards, phone calls and support for my family. My son doesn't have cancer, and he has not been in an accident…So now I watch people judge my son and I want to scream. I want to shake them until their prejudices fall out of them. I want to point to the number of people who have died, not from a moral failing, but from a deadly disease…"
'Socially Acceptable' Death
Under the circumstances of a more socially acceptable death, people are given the space, respect and love needed to mourn in the open. For those facing an overdose death, fear of judgment and lack of compassion from society lead them to suffer in silence. These family members and friends feel fear about their part in the death; they feel dread about their own mortality and vulnerability to addiction and drug use, and they are apprehensive about the response they will get if they openly ask for support. As a social worker in the substance use disorder realm, overdose death has shaken me to the core. For one family, the pain was so profound they could not bring themselves to hold a memorial or service for their child who died; this was the second child they would bury in 36 months because of overdose death.
As healers and clinicians, first, we must recognized the need to create a safe, sacred space for our clients and families to grieve and mourn. Carving out a place for them to be vulnerable and share their thoughts and feelings makes it real. Recollecting and re-experiencing the memories and thoughts each has about the deceased accommodates loved ones to feel heard and understood. Lean heavily on art therapy or other forms of experiential therapy to give people a different place to process the grief. The creative process helps clients develop self-awareness about the overdose death, allowing them to explore the many-emotions and unresolved conflicts they may be having. The cathartic release can cleared the way to reinvest their emotional energy into themselves and their recovery.
Linking people with the right resources is imperative- remember: provide a safe space. Grief Recovery After Substance Abuse Passing or GRASP was founded to help individuals and families who have had a loved one die because of substance abuse. International Overdose Awareness Day is now a global event held on August 31st each year. It aims to raise awareness of overdose and reduce the stigma of a drug-related death. Both provide support to families and individuals with a message that the tragedy of overdose is real and deserves acknowledgment.
Grief is Grief – Loss is Loss
For Baby Boomers, Vietnam was the longest, largest, and most debilitating experience they had experienced up to that point in their lives, with far-reaching consequences, impacting the culture, economy and public policy for decades to come. Overdose death is the Vietnam of the millennial generation and their families. As healers it is our duty to help those suffering. Providing a public voice to help de-stigmatize overdose death is a good start. Helping individuals accept the reality of overdose death begins with educating others about addiction- it is a disease. And, more importantly, a loved one cannot be defined by their addiction. Death and its circumstances do not take away the value a person brought to the world. Their life deserves to be grieved, they deserve to be mourned, and every legacy deserves to be appropriately honored.
GRASP: http://grasphelp.org/
International Overdose Awareness Day: https://www.overdoseday.com/
Broken No More Foundation: http://broken-no-more.org/
NOPE Task Force (Narcotics Overdose Prevention & Education): http://www.nopetaskforce.org/


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The New York City public school system debuted ?Trayless Tuesdays,? a new green initiative.
The program aptly began Tuesday. As part of the program, students and faculty are asked to use environmentally friendly paper containers instead of Styrofoam trays during lunch.
Schools Deputy Chancellor Kathleen Grimm estimates the program can save 2.4 million Styrofoam trays from being thrown in landfills.
The program will be expanded to breakfast meals on April 13.
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Natural HGH Releasers
If you manage to achieve natural HGH, then you will know what true happiness means. That is a pure and long-lasting feeling of euphoria and there are ways to get them. In order to achieve the best natural HGH releasers, you should do next:
When you perform heavy exercises, your brain produces the endorphins, the same one that is produced when you take drugs, but there is a major difference. The endorphin released with the help of exercise is much purer, lasts longer and without depression that will follow after some time in case of drugs. You will have a feeling of joy, happiness and inspiration for hours.
This is one of the greatest pleasures – areas that are sensitive and highly recommended for the massage are scalp and head, feet and hands. A good massage can certainly induce the natural high. It will cause the release of endorphin, especially when doing foot and scalp massage.
Everyone has someone with whom can endlessly laugh and feel great about it, maybe until it starts to hurt. Endorphin is a big part of it because it is released while we laugh.
Eat healthy food
This will give you intellect HGH because you will know that you have put healthy nutrients in your body – you will feel healthier and more appealing. You will get physical HGH because your body will store healthy nutrients into a steady energy.
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The family of Nicola Payne have made a renewed appeal to find her body and increased the reward for information by £20,000.The 18-year-old mum of one went missing while walking across wasteland near her parents' house in Coventry on 14 December, 1991.Her family said they just want to be able to lay her to rest.They have increased the reward for information from £10,000 to £30,000 with money from their own pockets.Her mother, Marilyn Payne, 72, said she and her husband John were now relying on the younger generation to keep the campaign to find out what happened going.Midlands Live: New weather warning issued; Police stations sell-off planned
She added that the anniversary of her daughter's disappearance has been the hardest this year.Mrs Payne said she and her husband are getting older and they have thought Nicola would not be found while they were still alive.She appealed to the younger members of her family: "Please never give up, and if she's found please give her a good send off."Nicola's cousin Amanda Eales, who is helping to run the #findnicolapayne social media campaign, said: "It won't go away because we won't allow it to go away."
They are also launching Youtube channel in an attempt to spread the message more widely. Two men were cleared of Nicola's murder in 2015.West Midlands Police undertook a search of land around Coombe Abbey last year, after new information came to light. Nicola's body has never been found.
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The Round Hill Hometown Festival is a full day of family-friendly fun in the heart of the small western Loudoun County town of Round Hill, Virginia. Held on the Saturday of Memorial Day weekend in the Town Park on East Loudoun Street, the Festival features a slate of activities, including:
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Roman Gonzalez invades the 115-pound division
By Hector Franco
It was announced earlier today that 3-division world champion, Roman Gonzalez (45-0 with 38 knockouts) will be moving up in weight. He will be moving to the 115-pound division to take on WBC champion, Carlos Cuadras (35-0-1 with 27 knockouts). After years of rumors of Gonzalez having trouble making the 112-pound weight limit, he has finally decided to make the move up in weight. Many fans may be a bit disappointed by Gonzalez's decision to move up in weight. The move up means that a highly anticipated rematch with Juan Francisco Estrada has to be put on hold.
If Roman fights and beats Cuadras, he will have beaten as titleholders across more divisions as Ward and Kovalev COMBINED.— Cliff Rold (@RoldBoxing) July 1, 2016
Estrada has been rumored to be taking on WBO light Flyweight champion, Donnie Nietes next. Regardless, of some being disappointed with the Estrada fight not taking place, the fight with Carlos Cuadras is still one of the best fights that Gonzalez could have taken. Besides taking on Estrada, the only fight fans would have wanted to see more is a match up with Japanese phenomenon, Naoya Inoue.
Cuadras is undefeated and has made six successful defenses of his WBC title. His biggest victory came against, Luis Concepcion, in 2015. The Mexican also has a high percentage knockout rate and is in the prime of his career. Without question, this will be one of Gonzalez's biggest tests in the ring. This is one of the best opponents that Gonzalez could have chosen for his first headlining show on HBO.
The fight will take place on September 10th on the same day as the Gennady Golovkin-Kell Brook Middleweight championship bout. It will take place at The Forum in Inglewood, California. The pressure will be on HBO and Gonzalez's promoters,K2, to put on a great undercard to ensure that there is a good crowd at The Forum. While Gonzalez has more than held his part as the perfect co-headliner for Gennady Golovkin, it is still unclear how he will do headlining.
What's not unclear is that this a great match up that could produce a fight of the year candidate. This is a chance for both men to put themselves at the forefront of the sport. The networks have ignored the lower weight classes and boxing fans for years. It is now time to show them what they have been missing.
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An Uncomfortable Cosmic Year
There is no way to sugar coat the energetic challenges we faced this summer. A handful of planets were retrograde, eclipses were rattling our inner and outer worlds, and we collectively began to feel the energetic shift we're all entering together. Despite the many whopping challenges presented before us, they were each beneficial for our personal and collective growth. There were so many things we had each outgrown, and yet still held on to.
Ever since the first Blue Moon in January of this year (and second Blue Moon in March; a very uncommon occurrence that won't happen again until 2037), we've been on a wild trajectory. This summer, it felt like it had reached its boiling point for many of us.
Because energetically speaking, it did.
All the changes happening in the sky affected each of us in slightly different ways. At the tail end of August, we moved into the season of Virgo, one of three Earth Signs. Virgo is an interpersonal sign, meaning it is concerned with the relationship between people. This shift into Virgo triggered each of us to focus on our security and stability and the security and stability of those who are important to us.
And with Mercury (planet of communication and thoughts) and Mars (planet of motivation, aggression and desires) quickly going direct shortly after the lunar eclipses we felt this summer, many of us began feeling new motivation and transformation in the areas we feel stability.
Maybe that's your relationships or family.
Maybe that's your home.
Maybe that's your career.
Maybe that's your health.
Earlier this year, external planet Uranus – the planet of liberation, change and rebellion – shifted out of its seven-year stint in Aries and moved into Taurus. Taurus, another Earth Sign, is also anchored in stability, safety and creature comforts. When the Planet of Rebellion and Liberation moves into an Earth Sign like this, we know we can be in for big change in the areas we typically seek security; our homes, careers, romances, and bodies.
There has been a lot of shifting into Earth Signs, forcing us to reflect and decide on the areas we feel discomfort. Earth energy wants us to be comfortable! Paired with the eclipses (which "eclipse" things from our lives), this meant big, dramatic changes for many of us.
Arguably, the more "off path" we each had become, the bigger we felt these transformations over summer. We are collectively moving into a healthier space because our collective survival depends on it.
It's time to level up!
When we reflect on Uranus having hung out in Aries for years, we can see its affects in how we identify. Aries is a Fire Sign, full of motivation, drive, and personal interests. Aries is infatuated with how it identifies. With Uranus's influence, we developed new ways to identify in regards to our gender, sexuality, rights, mental wellness and more. We developed words we never used to have access to, like cis gender, non-binary, new pronouns, transparency, and more, just to help us seek a new level of authenticity.
With Uranus changing signs and moving into Taurus, many planets began lining up in Earth signs, (Mars also lined up in Capricorn for the first chunk of September). We're going to continue to feel a big shift this Autumn, particularly in what we feel brings us security, because it's imperative that we find our footing, ground ourselves, and find comfort in the changes we made.
Safety, security and stability don't actually come from your stable job, your long-term relationship or your beautiful condo; security and stability can really only come from you. YOU are your first home; your first relationship; your first "job". None of these external things actually provide the comfort we're seeking, because our "things" and circumstances do not define us.
Don't get me wrong; we love to identify with our jobs, our achievements, and especially our challenges, but this is the next area where our cosmic focus is going to shift to. Because these things don't actually define us. If you remove the fact that you're a mother, or a writer, or a cancer survivor, or a homeowner – who are you, truly? The answer is there, but it can be difficult to unearth.
This will be the undercurrent through autumn, and we'll be processing the changes during the hibernation season.
September will begin with really practical energy. With the Sun in Virgo and a string of planets on other Earth Signs, we'll be laying the groundwork for this new chapter we have entered.
Maybe you're moving or have recently moved.
Maybe you're changing careers, or stepping into a new role/new duties.
Maybe your relationship has entered a new chapter, or even possibly disintegrated.
Whatever is being culled from you right now, or whatever you decided to change over the summer, is cosmically for your greater good. Being uncomfortable is the real indicator that we're evolving.
Mars Direct will influence us with a big push of motivation, and we'll find ourselves pulling up energy resources we didn't even know we had! It's important to direct our motivation in the right areas at this time, so be sure you know what you need to feel your best. For the first half of the month, we'll be focused on the details.
The sun will then shift into Libra, and many of us will be recalculating our recent moves. We will have had a chance to develop our new rhythm (hopefully!), and we'll begin to make room to zoom out and analyze how we feel about everything that has changed in our life.
Can we improve upon the situation?
Is this what's best for everyone involved?
Are we happy and in balance?
For some of us, Libra will trigger a bit of anxiety. Libra is an Air Sign so we'll be in our heads! But remember: Libra Season is about balance, and figuring out what you and "your people" need in order to live in harmony.
The Equinox will also have a magical tone, and most of the month will feel excitable – and a little scary! – with all the newness on the horizon.
Do your best to celebrate the change of season in a way that allows you to reflect on everything that you have moved through this year.
September 23 is the Autumnal Equinox. Celebrate with these 8 rituals.
October is an exciting month – the veil that separates us from the spirit world is thinnest at this time, and it allows us to have amazing insight, transformation and energy.
Each one of us have different awareness about our energy and spirit, but this month, it would be great to flex your spiritual muscles in trying to explore your relationship with your spiritual world.
We'll be craving deeper shifting and transformation this month, and there will be moments where it feels emotionally too much. And that's OK. Just be aware of your emotions. The month begins with Libra, having us analyzing and thinking mindfully about everything that shifted and transpired for us, and we'll most likely come to conclusions and be able to zero in on specific areas we require further depth. This is amazing, because it allows us to focus on the areas we need to develop and grow.
We're evolving.
You'll be craving a deeper quality of change, most likely internal. The shifting you went through is now dictating your new normal, and for most of October, you'll still be figuring out what your new normal is.
This will be a month of steady action – a really great flow and rhythm (that you developed in late August and early September). Your spiritual team will be sending you coincidences, and ah-ha moments all month long, and it will be your only job just to watch for them! Do your best to pay attention to the magic and mysteries of your world, and revel in the signs of confirmation you get to help remind you that you are supported and that only you are responsible for your own security.
For October and part of November, Venus, planet of Beauty, Love, and Money, will retrograde in Scorpio and Libra. We may enter a brief time of financial uncertainty, or even perhaps have our self-confidence rattled, or we may make unwise decisions in love. Some of us will feel tension in our romantic relationship, so try to establish an open line of communication. Otherwise, feelings could get hurt.
When this shift happens, do your best to keep your awareness bright and alert, so you can be cautious about your actions in love and money, to be sure you don't mis-step. Since we still have Uranus hanging out in Taurus, and because of the shifting we went through over the summer, this situation probably has roots in what you shifted – love, home or career. Are you looking for a "quick fix" to make you feel comfortable?
Are you feeling called back to an ex? Contemplating an affair?
Are you overspending on items you feel you NEED but probably don't?
Are you feeling bored with your "look"?
Do you have an itch you desperately want to… scratch?
We have a "dark week" in November – seven consecutive nights where the night-time moon is below 10% illumination. While the moon cycle always finds us in cycles of dark nights, this week has Venus retrograde through the energy of emotional Scorpio. Scorpio Season can be a lot: looooooots of feelings, deep down within.
During this dark week, you may feel disconnected and tired, deciding to make extra time for yourself and your needs (that's good!), but after all the questioning, assessing and analyzing of your shifting from Libra Season, the dark week in Scorpio will be an amazing time to "sew your seeds – or new seeds – EXTRA deep". You'll have a few months of your new chapter under your belt, and you'll be able to objectively make plans that help propel your growth in an even deeper way.
These seeds have the potential to have long-lasting effects, so choose wisely.
It will be important to ask yourself, "What's important to me now?"
Some parts will be uncomfortable, but, try to remind yourself that it's actually good to be uncomfortable sometimes! You've changed. Try to remind yourself of how different you were this time last year, and reflect on where all this change has taken you. You'll begin to feel the faint call of a new season, one that will pull you inward and deep inside yourself.
As soon as Venus stations, Mercury – planet of communication and thoughts – will retrograde, and we'll get another opportunity to finesse and revisit the things we decided to change or enhance before the hibernation season greets us.
You might also like: 8 Rituals to Celebrate the Autumn Equinox, DIY Autumn Oil Blend and Reflexology Ritual, C5-Step Crystal Ritual to Protect Your Energy, and 6 Superfoods to Feed Your Skin This Fall.
VANESSA KUNDERMAN is an openhearted writer and storyteller who inspires others to discover their own paths and personal stories. She has a diploma in Creative Communications, and teaches at the University of Winnipeg. Her website, Rogue Wood Supply, is a large resource of modern spiritual practices centered around crystals, botanicals, and the moon. As an intuitive and crystal guide, she hosts sacred women's workshops, offers crystal readings, and shares weekly moon phase oracles online. Vanessa and her work has been featured in Refinery29, The New Moon project, Cottage Life Magazine, and more. She is a mother and cancer survivor living in the Canadian Prairies.
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Until April 2013, the Church of God didn't have a presence in Cuenca, Ecuador—the third largest city in the country with a population of over 500,000 citizens.
A vision was set forth to plant a district of four churches that would be interconnected to help one another grow and be self-sustaining.
Because of the efforts of many Church of God members from across America, the vision of planting a district of churches has left the planning stages and moved into reality.


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As I cleaned the barn and worked in the garden, I let the dogs outside to do as they please.
Mickey and Tag sniffed and nibbled on manure.
Caeli continued her quest to catch that mole that lives at least two feet underground.
All rolled -- in the grass, manure, sand.
Caeli and Tag played tug and chase, until Tag was so tired, he dozed in the sun.
Mickey found the hole in the horse paddock fence, and wiggled her way into the sheep paddock.
Judging by the squawking and feather hanging from Caeli's mouth, Caeli found the wayward hen and attempted to herd it.
By late afternoon, we all were tired and retreated to the porch where we soaked in the rays and the dogs slept, sighed and smiled.
Sunday, October 7, 2012
What Dogs Decide
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Artist's Description
This painting was inspired by my trip to South America. I love to spend time in nature and that is what I enjoy painting the most.
This painting is just completed. It will take a week to dry (4th March )
There is a lot of texture applied in this piece.
It has a strong wire at the back.
Ready to hang.
Keywords: original, waterfall , ready to hang, modern impressionism, cool colors, water


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July. This is always a tough month for me. This summer, I can vehemently direct my emotions to the album July by Marissa Nadler, and in particular, the song Firecrackers. Marissa Nadler sings:
Firecrackers burned into heaven on the floor
My attackers, it's me it's me it's me you're looking for
July Fourth of last year, we spilled all the blood
How'd you spend your summer days?
I know better now I don't call you up at night
'Cause baby, your ghost and I have changed
I have a tendency to relate random things that I read, see, taste, etc. into one amalgamated theme. Ayn Rand writes:
"We cannot serve him by making terms with his destroyers."
"I'm not making terms with them. They need me. They know it. It's my terms that I'll make them accept."
"By playing a game in which they gain benefits in exchange for harming you?"
On a separate note, tonight I photographed windows and reflections.


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Zoo Whiz is an online learning program in the areas of math, reading, word skills, punctuation, and grammar for children ages 5-15. Along with completing learning activities, students earn virtual coins and have an opportunity to buy animal stickers to add to their virtual "zoo" while learning facts about that animal. They also can choose to spend their coins by playing arcade games.
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The map is pictured above. The Learn and Earn area is where the student goes to complete their learning activities and earn coins. In the arcade students can spend their coins playing arcade games. In the milestone tower you can view the students progress. In the Biodome students can visit the zoo shop and purchase animals stickers with their coins. They also can view the animals they have purchased and read interesting facts about the animal and their diet, habitat, and their threat status. Animals cost anywhere from 100 to 5000 coins and include a wide variety of animals both still living and extinct.
We have had a lot of fun with Zoo Whiz. There is a wide variety of learning activities available. You are able to customize each area to your child's ability. So for my son who is under grade level in reading, but above in math I could adjust his level accordingly. As the student answers the questions he is given immediate feedback. If they get the answer incorrect they are given the chance to try again. If they still do not answer correctly they are shown the answer and move on to the next question. Our most favorite part of Zoo Whiz is collecting the animal stickers. We were truly amazed at the amount and types of different animals! Where else could you possibly collect and learn about everything from a golden hamster, to a koala, to a unicorn. My children loved reading and learning about their animals as they collected them.
One of the difficulties we had using the program was that the only section with audio was the reading. So my 8 and under children were not able to use the website on their own. I had to sit with them and read the questions to them. Also even though we had a premium account, we would get advertisements on the screen that took you to a different website to download a child's game. I do not want my children to be able to download anything to my computer even if it is a child's game. I see these kind of things often are free account type programs but was surprised to see it with a premium subscription. Also, even though the arcade limits you to 3 minutes for one game, it doesn't limit how many games in a row you can play. I would rather it limited you to one 3 minute game per a certain amount of time completing learning activities.
To see what other crew mates had to say click here.
Disclaimer: I received a complimentary premium subscription to Zoo Whiz for the purpose of writing a fair and honest review. I received no other compensation.


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Part of the "Beginning Investing" blog series:
So you've decided to begin investing. Outstanding. Way to go!
This will be the first in a series of blogs to help get you started.
But before you invest anything at all, there are two pre-investing steps I strongly encourage you to take. Unless you do these things, it will be hard to stay on the investment path.
Emergency Fund
First, you need to establish an emergency fund. This is money you set aside for small emergencies. The tires on the car must be replaced. The washing machine stops working. The springs start poking out of your mattress. The hard drive on your computer crashes.
Investing is a long term process of putting money away for a future goal. But before you can truly commit yourself toward a process of diligent monthly investment, you need a way to cover those emergency needs that will come about. If you don't take this step, you'll find yourself postponing your monthly investments because of the small emergency expenses that always seem to crop up.
How much should you set aside? $1,000 is a good amount. It will cover most small emergency needs. But you must quickly replenish the fund anytime you dip into it.
How do you accumulate this $1,000? Have a garage sale. Stop eating at restaurants; instead, take lunches to work. Find a part-time, second job. Forgo the Starbucks frappuccinos for a while. Give up cable TV; watch shows on your computer. Sell the spare Xbox console you don't use. Adjust the thermostat to save energy. Basically, do whatever you can to quickly establish your emergency fund.
Credit Cards
Second, understand that the best "investment" you can make is to eliminate credit card debt. Let's say you owe $1,000 to the credit card company, and are paying them 20% interest. Over the course of a year you would pay $200 in interest on that debt.
If you have $1,000 to invest, and use it to pay off the credit card debt, then you save $200 over the next 12 months by not having to pay interest. Compare that to investing $1000 in stocks with a 10% return (which is the average for stocks), where you would make a $100 return over the next 12 months. Avoiding $200 in interest payments is a better use of your $1,000 than achieving a $100 return on your investments. Avoiding a $200 expense is better than generating $100 of investment income.
So, paying off credit cards offers a higher return. But also, paying off credit cards offers you a certain return. Investments have risk; you might earn 10% on your stocks, but you might instead lose money.
Before you begin investing, pay off your credit card debt. And once you've done that, only use credit cards if you'll pay off the full balance every month. Otherwise you're back to borrowing money at very high interest rates.
The same applies to any high-interest debt that you have – college loans, vacation loans, etc. Before you begin investing, you are better off to pay off any debt with an interest rate above 10%.


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Just like every year, KNOTORYUS was excited and honoured to be invited to the end of year show of the Fashion Department of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp, also known as the school where Walter Van Beirendonck (who has also been its headmaster since 2006) + the other Antwerp Six, Martin Margiela, Kris Van Assche and many others first got to develop their craft and skills.
This year, it was decided to move SHOW2015 to Antwerp's favourite Summer hangout 'Park Spoor Noord', where the three of us were blessed with front row seats having only the catwalk separating us from legends Walter Van Beirendonck, Dirk Van Saene and Dries Van Noten. A lot of trying not to stare directly into the light their eyes ensued.
We got to enjoy a fast-paced and high energy show where the 1st bachelor students had to model their own creations and the 2nd Bachelor year contained some really promising talent.
(Above : Takuya Sasaki - 'Plowing Into The Field of Love)
Can't wait to see this one develop : Predrag Petrovic 'ZZZ-KWEFFQPQÖOJJJJ'
Having to type that title just scored you some side-eye, Predrag.
Speaking of which : I am so sorry for this little IG joke, dear Rushemy Botter, but your boy came out too funny in this pic.
In any case, congratulations on the collection. We all loved it.
(above image : Boy Kortekaas) - Rushemy Botter : "N.W.E"
3rd Bachelor - Joanna Chlust "Underwood Epiphany"
I would spend money on that jumper.
The above picture shows Immi's and my favourite collection from this years graduating Masters :
Alexis Victor Gautier's "Stairs, Zebra, Bees and Light Purple Jacket."
Stefaan outed himself as a big fan of Laure Severac's "The Dear Elso Letter", which was also the rest of KNOTORYUS' first runner-up.
And now we'll leave you with that other KNOTORYUS tradition : a playlist featuring all the songs we heard during the show.
Beats may have ruled the runway, but that Death Grips made the night extra special.
See y'all next year!
Marie-Sophie Beinke "Der Klub Der Wilden Maler" - Beinke was this years winner of the Future Fashion Designer Scholarship, awarded by Honest By Bruno Pieters
More amazing Boy Kortekaas backstage images -like the header image and the ones above- here
Fashion Department of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp here


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How to Win the Battle for Control Over Your Mind: Introducing a Model for Winning Wars
What keeps you up at night? And what are you doing about it in the morning? This blog post will help you confront and learn how to overcome the fears that are holding you back from achieving your dreams.
Fear is like a weed
Fear is more pernicious than any negative emotion, more toxic than any dark feeling, more paralyzing than any poisonous thought. Fear aims to tell you one lie and one lie only: that you are not as great as your dreams. Fear is like a weed. A weed's goal is to sap the plant of vigor, deprive it of nutrients, restrict its access to light, and ultimately render its target valueless. Fear's goal is very much the same, and so it locks itself in an existential struggle with dreams. Weeds wrestle plants on the ground; fear combats dreams in the mind.
The battle for control over your mind
To quote a line from my book, DREAM: "Your dreams will always exist side by side with your fears. Both are products of your rich imagination. And only you have the power to make one or the other a reality." In other words, you get to cast the tie-breaking vote on which wins: your dreams or your fears. It's a battle; one whose outcome determines everything from where you get to spend time and money to how you will be remembered. It's a fight you must win.
Introducing a model for winning wars
To win any extensive duel, it is important to recognize a fundamental battle equation. This equation represents a basic philosophy that can be applied to any arena of conflict, that is, any situation where two opposing forces are fighting to enforce their own will on the other. This theory of war was first proposed by that great military strategist, Carl von Clausewitz, who stated that victory in the theater of war is partly dependent on the combination of "moral and physical forces."
For our purposes, we can restate this as:
Likelihood of Success = Will * Available (Mental) Resources
The equation above will serve as our guide on how to overcome fears. In simple English, it means that the chance of success in a battle is the product of determination and supplies. This equation—our guide—is an example of a mathematical model, so let me give a quick word on this. Mathematical models reduce the complexity of reality into a manageable number of variables that acceptably describe the phenomenon under consideration. In discounting some variables, models sacrifice exactness for usefulness. This battle equation is no different. In deriving it, I have ignored factors such as the terrain of the battleground and the vagaries of luck to focus on the two most important predictors of success: will and available resources.
The greater your will, your resolve, to win, the more likely you will. Also, the more resources at your disposal, the greater your chance of success. These resources can be material, e.g., money, physical assets, etc., or they can be mental, e.g., knowledge of how something works. I recognize that these two factors can interact with each other: an ironclad will can increase resourcefulness, for "where there is a will, there is a way," and availability of means can ginger up the will. For sake of clarity, however, we will ignore this potential for mutual dependency and leave our model in its simple form of A = B * C.
"The greater your will, your resolve, to win, the more likely you will."
-Michael Taiwo, author of DREAM
Please don't get lost in the jargon. The takeaway from the discussion so far is that to overcome an enemy that is trying to overcome you, you need to make up your mind to fight and fight well (Will), and you also need the wherewithal to fight (Available Resources). The more of one or the other or both that you have, the better your odds of winning. The remainder of this article will briefly touch on how to increase our store of each of these two prime factors.
How to bolster the will
Fear aims to keep you in place. It wants to prevent you from taking that next step. To override the inertia that fear creates, you must hate the present enough to act. If you see your current state as not that bad, then the courage to fight for your dream will be lacking, especially in the face of opposition. It may be true that your current situation is tolerable, but to acknowledge this is to lose the war for change. Have you ever heard a politician say, "Things are going good right now as they are, but still vote for me anyway?" No! They say, "All hell is breaking loose, things are not working, and I can help you be great again." Take a page out of their playbook and tell yourself that your status is not half-bad, but totally bad. Make yourself mad about how things are so you can summon the will to change.
Amassing resources to fight
The first step to victory is to realize the type of fight you are in. You don't want to bring the proverbial knife to a gun fest. Therefore, you need to ask "What am I really afraid of?" Avoid answers such as I am afraid of failure or I am afraid of the unknown or other such labels that have been used a thousand times. Think deeper. What are you afraid of, really? Instead of using a trite tag such as failure, maybe say I am afraid of losing my entire life savings on this business proposal. You can go even deeper than that: I am afraid of not having money when I am old because I lost my life savings on this deal.
These are just examples to illustrate the point. You need to come up with your "core fear," i.e., the thing you are really afraid of. This is not a trivial task; it is the most important move you will make in conquering your fears. I am available (just send an email to firstname.lastname@example.com) to help you through this process of correctly diagnosing your core fear. An accurate diagnosis is half the cure after all. (To Be Continued)


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Art Director: Claudia Pamela Leal Copywriter: Hayley Dupree
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Oh and I had an epiphany on my way to work the other day. I decided that when I can buy our furniture, and not the college collection we are sporting now, my home decor style would be classified as kinda traditional chic. I love the look of traditional but with some contemporary, modern flare. This is just info. in case you were laying awake at night dying to know :)
I am loving this living room.... the orchids, blue, furniture... LOVE it!
This living room has those classic traditional lines with gorgeous tulips everywhere
This crisp white kitchen is awesome, if you weren't the one cleaning it
Another white kitchen but I love the two-toned countertops here
I would never leave this pool... EVER
And Aaron would never leave this (and it just has that fancy, smancy look)
Beautiful is really all I can say!
Huge bed + sitting area = perfect bedroom
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Meatballs Stuffed with Mozzarella Cheese
What is more satisfying than a nice plate of spaghetti and meat balls for dinner served with crusty Italian bread to soak up the sauce on your plate, a nice garden salad and a glass of wine? My dearly departed Italian mother in law perfected the meatball! My oldest son was just a toddler when she passed and he may not remember too many things about her but he remembers her meatballs, whether she gave him a sample while she was frying them or served simmered in her delicious tomato sauce, he would gobble them up quickly! He's often said over the years that he hasn't had a decent meatball since she left us. I've stood by her watching her prepare them and yet never mastered them quite as well as she did. I've heard they're good, but they're not Nonna's (grandmother in Italian). The only thing I can think of what made hers stand out is that they were made with a unique grandmothers love for her grandchildren. That special love between a grandparent and a grandchild is certainly what made her meatballs so special and helped preserve her memory over the years. We make meatballs on a weekly basis and I swear after all these years, each batch that I make gets scrutinized and compared to Nonna's.
I live in a home with cheese lovers so our meatballs are extra savoury with Mozzarella inside them; just bite into one and you get an explosion of delicious creamy Mozzarella Cheese tantalizing your palate.
- 1 lb Lean ground beef
- 1 lb Ground veal
- 1 lb Ground pork
- 1 to 1 1/2 tsp Salt
- 1/2 to 1 tsp Pepper
- 1 Medium minced onion
- 1 to 2 Minced garlic cloves
- 1 to 1 1/2 tsp Italian Seasoning
- 1/4 cup Freshly chopped parsley
- 1 large Egg
- 1 to 1 1/2 cups Bread Crumbs
- 1/2 to 1 cup Grated Parmesan Cheese
- 1 lb Mozzarella Cheese cubed in ½ inch cubes
- enough to coat frying pan Vegetable oil
- large pot full; see recipe at http://creativelifestyle.ca/sauces/2017/2/5/marinara-sauce Marinara Sauce


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QuadrigaCX's Cash Scheme Was Nearly Identical to Wolf of Wall Street
One thing that has not been mentioned about the entire QuadrigaCX situation is the fact that its internal cash operations mirror several aspects of the movie, 'Wolf of Wall Street'.
What is the 'Wolf of Wall Street'?
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|At the DIY Square, Bangalore (Bengaluru)
Bosch Power Tools in India, on the other hand, is thinking a little differently. It wants to grow a market that is practically non-existent - and in the process create a DIY (Do It Yourself) community in this country.
Sounds like an impossible mission; creating a hands-on culture in conservative India with its rigid social hierarchies and set ideas on lifestyle, living and behaviour.
But Bosch has a plan and has put money in it.
For starters, Bosch has set up a DIY Square in one of their dealer's premises in downtown Bangalore (Banerghatta Road) where anyone interested is encouraged to try out the many Bosch DIY tools free of cost and without any pressure to buy. Bosch even pays for the material and spares that are used by visitors.
|Vijay Pandey, Bosch Power Tools VP
Mamata Upadhyay, a Delhi based journalist visiting the DIY Square, who tried her hand at making a wooden clock was so taken up with the process of handling power tools such as a jigsaw and sander that she could barely tear herself away.
"I realise I just love doing things with my hands", she remarked, "It just makes me feel I am doing something substantial, something real." After learning that she can use hand tools, Mamata is seriously thinking of a career change!
The idea of creating something appeals to hundreds of visitors to the Bosch Square.
"It may not appeal to everybody but a lot of people are realising that it is cool to be creative", says Pandey, who is planning to open more such DIY centres in other metros in the country.
|Trying out a Tool at a Bosch DIY Event
The president and country head of the Bosch group in India, Dr Steffen Berns, says that the DIY Square idea is unique to India and has not been tried anywhere else. He points out that there is no need to incubate a DIY culture in the West where it already exists. The Indian experiment could however be replicated in other countries that lack traditional DIY cultures, he adds.
Abroad, especially in the West, some amount of DIY ability is mandatory given the high cost of service people such as carpenters, plumbers and so on. This is not the case in India and this is one reason why Pandey says that he is not trying to replace the poor carpenter or some other workman.
Pandey's target audience is the rising Indian middle class, a huge potential market for Bosch power tools. By stressing and spreading the message of DIY, Bosch hopes to pull in a chunk of Indians into the DIY habit.
|A Bosch DIY STall: Creating the Bosch Association
"India has a huge population and even if we get a small percentage of that we will have a huge market for our tools", explains Pandey.
That explains why Bosch does not baulk at spending money on promoting DIY, setting up free facilities like the DIY Square and organising DIY events in various parts of the country.
This is long term vision at its best. In the years to come, as DIY becomes part of the Indian lexicon, there is one brand that will always be associated with it: Bosch.
The visit to the Bosch DIY Square in Bangalore was sponsored by Bosch.
Indranil Banerjie
29 August 2014


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Step 1. Begin
For a while now I've been thinking about starting a blog. Well I've finally decided it's time for step 1: Begin.
I'll add the obligatory 'about me' section and other bits and pieces soon but for now I want to start by sharing why I've decided to do this.
As my headline reads, "happiness is not a journey, it's a lifestyle". I've joked around with the nickname Happy Barnet for a while now after tagging photos and tweets with various descriptions of myself including #sleepybarnet, #tubbybarnet, #sillybarnet etc but it was #happybarnet that I enjoyed the most for obvious reasons. What surprised me is that I found it actually helped me feel better to highlight when I was feeling happy about something and by recording it I could look back at photos and messages on days when I struggled to remember I could feel happy being me.
I've had a few challenges over the years as many do, with the general ups and downs of life along with a few health issues including depression, fatigue and anxiety. 'A worrier' I'm often described as and I understand why. Yes it's been easier for me to view the glass as half empty at various points in my life but the discovery that by purposely capturing, noting and sharing when I was experiencing happiness I actually felt happier has been one of the best life lessons I've learnt.
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If you've ever used a MD portable with remote then you have a good idea of how the FD100 works. It's not that it's a large model, but the tiny remote makes the rig very convenient if you're on the go often. You might ask why you'd opt for this instead of the smaller FL100, and you'd have a good question. The answer is that since Digitalway could make the main unit larger, they could endow it with a more sophisticated interface. You'll notice immediately, for instance, that the LCD is full size, compared to the single-line display on the FL100. Overall, the FD100 is another very good player from Digitalway. It's not a perfect portable, but the small problems it has shouldn't keep it off your list of candidates should you be shopping for a new player.
Like the FL100, the FD100 is available in two flavors. The 128MB version will set you back $170.00; the 256MB version will set you back $220.00. I got the 128MB for review, but I recommend saving the extra $50.00 should you be considering the FD100. Even with the SmartMedia slot, the extra 128MB of internal memory will prove extremely useful. Plus, you're never really going to buy an expansion card.
Before I describe the player, I should tell you that Digitalway insists on calling it "Beautiful Square." I wish I could make that up. In the words of the company, "The player of Digitalway was nicely created." I just don't want you to get confused if you pop over to the site and see the bizarre geometrical reference. Oh, you might also learn that the player is not covered for breakage or malfunction due to an Act of God. I am no effing you. But enough BS.
As you can see in my pictures of the Beautiful Square, it looks very different than any previous MPIO portable. Obviously, it's a square. And hell, if pressed I might describe it as beautiful. The face of the player has a five-line, backlit LCD. The display is very clear with sharp text and has a blue backlit, like my Beautiful Rectangle (Nokia). The LCD shows all the info you could want: repeat mode, folder icon, SmartMedia presence, battery life, EQ, total number of tracks, elapsed track time, total track time, general ID3/file info (artist, song title, etc.), file format (MP3, WMA, or ASF), and bitrate.
On the top of the player you'll find a headphone/remote jack, function button, and volume up and down buttons. The function button simply toggles between playback and FM modes. The headphone jack accepts the inline remote interface, but you could also forgo the remote and simply plug directly into the player.
On the right side of the player are three controls: a record button, a play/pause/on/off button, and a jog lever. The first two controls are self-explanatory, but the jog lever serves a few functions. When pushed or held up or down you can move from track to track or scan through the current song. You can also push it in briefly in order to make a selection in the menu system. In order to access the menu system you simply hold it in for a second or so.
On the left side of the player is a hold switch, a covered USB 1.1 port, and a SmartMedia slot. The FL100 uses SD/MMC, which is a good deal smaller. SmartMedia is a bit thinner, but I really don't know why Digitalway mixed up the formats. You'd think you'd want your customers to be able to possibly own more than one portable or at least be able to upgrade knowing that their memory cards will work. At any rate, it's SM for the FD100.
Around back is the eject slider for the SM card and a battery compartment. The FD100 pulls power from a single AA battery. The company claim is 24 hours from a single AA. I have gone about 18 on mine at various volume levels and it's going strong.
The remote is a new feature for any MPIO, and Digitalway did a fair job designing this one. The front has a blue backlit LCD that displays tag/file info, battery life, repeat mode, folder icon, bitrate, format, and elapsed track time. To the right of the LCD is a four-way joystick for volume and track control. Depressing the joystick will pause playback. On the bottom of the remote are two buttons: mode and function. The mode button sets A and B points for creating loops when pressed quickly. When held down it enters the menu system. Unfortunately, the menu system is difficult to use with the remote because the icons are small and somewhat poorly designed. The function button toggles between playback and radio.
Navigating through the FD100 is, not surprisingly, the same as going through the FL100. You won't find the minutia found in some other systems, but you still have a good deal of control over the player.
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- Equalizer: Flat, Pop, Rock, Jazz, Classic(al), Vocal, Bass, and User (5-band)
- Repeat: Normal, Repeat Track, Repeat All, and Random
- Folder Mode: Disable or Enable. Determines whether the player will play through the entire memory or just the current folder.
- Study Mode: Speed Control (Off or various speeds from 50% to 200%) and Easy Finder (move in 5 or ten-second steps when you search through a track)
- Navigation: Find the next track without interrupting the current playback.
- File Erase
- Language: English, Korean, Japanese, or Chinese
- System:
- Backlight: Three seconds, User (3 to 30 seconds), or Off
- Auto Play: On or Off
- Play Position: Initial or Stopped
- Auto Power Off: Default (3 minutes) or User (between 3 and 30 minutes)
- Sleep: Off or User (3 to 60 minutes)
- Display Title: Tag or File
- Scroll Width: Default or User (8 available speeds)
- Information: Firmware, Memory, and External Memory
- Backlight: Three seconds, User (3 to 30 seconds), or Off
In terms of sound quality the FL100 is on solid ground. Music sounded clear at all volumes and even stayed pretty clear when I maxed out the little fellow. However, I wish Digitalway had installed a slightly more powerful headphone amp. It's certainly loud enough for me and my Grados, but I have a feeling a few people will find it a little underpowered. Granted, it would only be ding dongs who listen to music too loudly, but a little more juice never hurts.
I found the FM tuner to work pretty well. It won't pull in stations like your home tuner, if you even own one, but it does well for a portable. We work outside of the city in a high-interference area an I was still able to pull in my favorite channels with good consistency.
Lastly, the FD100 comes with a nice little accessory package. You get a strap, a suede-like pouch, and a (get this) useful carrying case. The case doesn't protect the unit, but it's slim and fits together nicely.
It's really difficult to not reference the FL100 while considering the FD100. The trick is to figure out which form factor more suits your needs. The FL100 is smaller overall and has basically the same features. It's so small that a remote would be silly. With the FD100, however, you get a nice big LCD and the remote. I prefer the FL100 format -- it's also a bit cheaper -- but that doesn't mean it's superior. Thankfully, you're in good hands with either player. Digitalway is really on the ball with their new models and they deserve credit. Now, if they could just sneak in a more powerful headphone amp they'd be in business.


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Kagiso Rabada is ready to return to the South African squad after having missed the second Test against England due to the accumulation of demerit points. The young tearaway speedster was suspended after giving Ben Stokes a send-off in the first Test.
"He did a lot of work before play during the second Test in Nottingham," said Langeveldt. "He bowled his overs and got his workload up, he will be raring to go. He was obviously disappointed about what happened but he has learned from that.
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"The important thing about an incident like this is to learn from it so that it doesn't happen again. KG is a strong character and he was positive the whole week, he said come Thursday he wants to be ready for the Test.
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Chvrches is a band whose name I definitely read more than said out loud when I first started listening to them, so my friends were understandably confused when I said: "Hey guys, you should check out this group called Cha-vur-ches." Although I have found it tough to live that one down, Chvrches' music as a listening experience made it all worth it. Unlike most groups who would consider themselves a band, Chvrches forgo guitars but still bring massive hooks through synthesizers a la M83. As far as Scottish indie music goes, this trio is a far cry from groups like weepy We Were Promised Jetpacks and, going farther back, an ocean away from twee Belle & Sebastian. The latest effort from the group, Love Is Dead, traffics in new producers and a more mainstream sound that's ready for the stadium (or Lolla stage). It's definitely a crowd you should want to be a part of.


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Lil' Kim's financial woes appear to have taken a turn for the worse amid allegations the rapper has racked up more than $1 million in unpaid taxes.
The Lady Marmalade hitmaker, real name Kimberly Jones, has been hit with a new $86,348 tax demand from U.S. authorities.
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Our friends across the pond have the right idea about music and libraries: put live music and solid music collections in the library, and you will attract a whole new crowd of users. Get It Loud in Libraries has hosted over 70 shows already (including performances by Adele and Juliette Lewis) and hosts 8-12 each year. Tickets are not free (approx. 8 euro), but the nominal price isn't even close to being a hindrance. In a recent interview, founder of GILIL said in response to How have you had to adapt to cuts to arts funding?, "The ethos for GILIL has been to simply keep doing what we are doing and make times better for everyone through great live music and to show the community that libraries are very relevant and necessary in 2011."
I absolutely love the idea of collaboration between musicians, librarians, and library collections. Instead of just hosting a gig and saying, "See you later" the libraries are building their music collections. This is not just a one-and-done program, it is an on-going effort to appeal to a whole different kind of library user. (GILIL even uses teens as volunteers "creating art for posters, front of house duties, shadowing sound engineers etc."!!)
One the heels of that interview, I read about Chicago's Harold Washington Library Center's new 5,500 sqft space called "YOUmedia — a Digital Library Space for Teens." Teens, mentors, and librarians meet here to use modern digital equipment to play and learn. One librarian said, "It's really a shift from thinking of a library as a repository to a community center, a place where things actually happen." Which is exactly what we want our libraries to be!
Naturally the comments under the article were full of negativity. Wasted money and space, books no longer relevant, today's teens not being challenged…blahblahblah. Nothing new. Same old sob story. Well you know what, whiners? Go tell all of that to the teens who use the space. Tell them they aren't worth the time, money, or space. And you know what they'll do? Shrug their shoulder because that is exactly what so many adults have been telling them for years. Luckily CPL and their funding agencies disagree with you crotchety old fools.


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