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On the Table – Topics for Toastmasters Season 1 episode 17
Sometimes eating words can be rich and tasty – like "Happy Birthday" in buttercreme icing on a cake. In this case… not so much. Today I'm talking about Advanced Clubs on the table.
When I was working toward my DTM, I was a member of the Hall of Fame Advanced Club in the District 10 southern Division. I was a member for about a year, but then I quit. I quit two other clubs at the same time – being a member of 4 clubs was a bit more than I could handle – time-wise and financially. I know there are plenty of Toastmasters out there who do it.
In my position as DTM Mentorship Chair, it's my pleasure to go visit the advanced clubs – that's where the Toastmasters who may be interested in achieving their DTM tend to be. My job is to let them know about the resources, teams and mentoring programs we have for them to help them get to their goals.
I've been to the Eastside Advanced Toastmasters club once before – they canceled it due to the weather. It's a long haul from my southern division home up to Euclid, so when I heard that Eastside Advanced was planning an open house in Shaker Heights… Ok, so I saved maybe 5 or 6 miles of driving.
But I went.
What a meeting!
Let me play you a clip from a recent interview I had with Area 23 Governor Janet Wasserman about that meeting.
Kim Krajci: I visited Eastside Advanced recently for an open house.
Janet Wasserman: Yes, you did.
KK: I gotta tell you, I was amazed at how good the evaluations were for that club. I have been saying, "I'm not going to join, I'm not going to join advanced clubs because they're not worth the value to me. You guys convinced me otherwise that it worth the money of putting every six months to get that kind of quality evaluation.
JW: Yes. Thank you for coming to our open house. I know I spoke with you there. Thank you for appreciating the what we are doing in the advanced clubs. I know that these are necessary clubs for our district because a lot of these Toastmasters have been in Toastmasters for many years, and they know the ability to give a quality evaluation, which is so necessary. Eastside Advanced has revamped their intention. We dropped Table Topics because we believe that everyone can get that out there in their home clubs. We are focusing many on speeches and definitely evaluations.
KK: They were top notch. They were amazing. The kind of evaluation that I as a speaker would want to have.
JW: Yes. Like you said, the value of belonging to an advanced club is deep.
KK: I sure wish your club was a whole lot closer than 60 miles from my house.
JW: Yes, I tell people it's not a big commitment because we meet once a month. But the learning that will come away from just belonging to and coming out to an advanced club meeting is great.
I mean no denigration of the other advanced clubs when I say that this was the ideal advanced club meeting. What do I look for in an advanced club and why didn't I want to join one?
First: Inspiration
When I went to the Eastside Advanced open house, I was treated to several well-prepared speakers. None of them were just phoning in a presentation. I could tell they'd all practiced. They were taking their role as speaker seriously.
That was really inspiring to me.
Visiting Eastside Advanced put me in with a room full of Toastmasters I'd never heard speak before and they brought out their A game.
I'd forgotten this level of push to improve. It was one of the major factors in me joining Toastmasters some 5 years ago – being around people who were dedicated to improving their skills and helping me with mine.
Second: Value
These clubs meet monthly. That's 12 meetings per year, if the district doesn't accidently schedule something else on the same weekend that the advanced club meets. 12 Meetings – 4 speeches per meeting – that's 48 slots to be filled. Getting one of them was hard back in those days. I frequently had to sign up months in advance. While that's a feature and not a bug to many, I often forgot until the agenda came out the week before the meeting that I had a speech to do. Even adding a note in my calendar didn't help – and I fully hold only myself responsible for this – I would just as often throw something together.
I guess I didn't value the club the way I should.
But the past few months, my regular club has brought in a number of new members. They think the DTM after my name on my name plate is a big deal and I get lots of compliments for my speeches. They are still learning how to evaluate and while I don't mind giving speeches for them to learn, I'm not always getting the level of feedback I need to improve my speaking skills.
This sounds rather snobby, doesn't it? I don't mean it that way. It perfectly demonstrates the value of the advanced club. Restricting membership to Toastmasters who are at least halfway through the Competent Communicator means that all members have been evaluated at least 6 times themselves. They will know from experience what a good evaluation should be.
Third: Participation
When I walked in, I was handed the agenda and a welcome packet. That was normal – as the VP Membership in my club, I do the same. But this time, I was also given three evaluation sheets. I was expected to fill these out during the speeches.
That was a nice touch. I often take notes about speakers during speeches when I know there's going to be a round robin evaluation – where everyone is given a chance to comment on a speech, often with a time limit. This helped me organize my thoughts and gave specific points for me to consider. Then, when the evaluator was done, the General Evaluator asked the audience for comments.
I've seen this done in different ways at different clubs. I think it may be the seating arrangement that dictates how the round robins are organized – can people see the timer may determine the format. I'm most familiar with the practice of asking the timer to signal at a certain point – say 30 seconds – for the round robin evaluation to move to the next person. I like this practice personally – it eliminates a lot of the "I really enjoyed your speech" that every evaluation seems to begin with because you simply don't have time to waste. Get to the point of growth. Short and to the point.
Having a form in front of me helped me in one particular speech. I just don't like poetry. Really. I just don't. So when we had a poetry presentation, I would have been at an utter loss to give an evaluation of any value to the speaker and since she'd written the piece herself, I was afraid that I'd have nothing to say and therefore insulting to her. That form let me jot a few notes that I thought were things that I know – having read the manual for the speech evaluator and having done this kind of evaluation not only in Toastmasters but also as a high school speech judge – were points that I thought were probably wrong.
I have to tell you, Janice Sewell knocked it out of the park. It was simply the finest evaluation I've ever heard. She had several points of growth – some were things I'd noted on my paper. She had several more things that once they'd been pointed out, I agreed with, but overall, I'd missed most of what Janice pointed out. Janice was polite and clearly invested in helping our poetess improve her presentation, but didn't try to cushion the blow. Her honest appraisal made me want her to evaluate me!
So, today I'm announcing: I'm eating my words. I joined an advanced club.
I've got two 20 minute presentations on the agenda in the next 4 months. I'm already starting to work on one and have – at the advanced club meeting – consulted with another Toastmaster about the topic for the second. I will come prepared as a speaker to those meetings, and I will bring evaluation sheets for the club members to fill in and give me, if they choose.
If you've completed 6 of the 10 manual speeches in the Competent Communicator manual, then you are eligible for membership in the three District 10 advanced clubs. Westside Advanced meets on the first Saturday of the month in the Westlake Porter Public Library from 9 to noon. Eastside Advanced meets on first Monday of the month at the Euclid Public Library at 6:45 p.m. Hall of Fame Advanced meets on the 2nd Saturday of the month at the Creative Source offices near Belden Village Mall at 8 a.m. I've been to all three – each of them is excellent. You will find extraordinary speakers with a desire to help others succeed. Don't hesitate to come to a meeting – you will be welcome.
Did you know that Toastmasters District 10 has a new Facebook page? Yep – we're out there for the world to find us. A team of Toastmasters has created a daily public speaking tip with a link to our District10.org website to help people find clubs. Go to Facebook and search for Toastmasters District 10 (that's the number, not spelled out) and you can "like" it and get the daily feed on your Facebook page. Share the tips with your friends and spread the news to the some 2 million citizens of northeastern Ohio who can benefit from joining our clubs.
Another bit of "did you know" trivia about Toastmasters District 10 – do you know we have a Speakers Bureau? Yes we do! Go to District10.org and find the link to several area speakers who are ready to present at your events – hosts, MCs and speakers – to meet your needs. Check it out today.
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The United States Interagency Council on Homelessness (USICH) is looking for public input to improve their strategic plan for education outcomes for children and youth and ending youth homelessness.
Before USICH releases its 2012 update to Opening Doors, it would like to address comments that 2 categories need more clarification and exploration. Following the success of the interactive forum involving stakeholders for the creation of Opening Doors, USICH is utilizing the same format to garner ideas for: early childhood learning and educational outcomes for youth and children experiencing homelessness and broad strategies on unaccompanied youth through age 24.
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Thursday, March 30, 2017
Venezuela is now a leftwing dictatorship
Not that there was much doubt about where things were heading, but it's pretty much official now. The so called Supreme Court (stacked with leftists loyal to Dear Leader Maduro) has declared the national legislature "illegitimate" and announced that it will now make all laws for the country or it will pass the legislative power to another entity. Three guesses who that would be. Things have gotten so bad that even Venezuela's neighbors are openly calling Maduro a dictator amidst talk of expelling the country from the Organization of American States.
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Chad Johnson, Zach Kreft and Adam Beucler all set new personal records at the SPIRE Showcase.
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Marcus Kemp of Guelph, Ontario's Speed River Track Club won the 3200m race at the SPIRE Showcase.
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World class track and field will make its long awaited return to the University of Guelph next Tuesday May 28th at the Speed River Inferno. Entering its fourth year, the meet is ready to take a major step forward from previous installments. After spending the past three years at the St James track, the meet has moved to a permanent home at the newly redone Alumni Stadium. Along with a new location the meet has brought on corporate partner New Balance. These two factors have contributed to incredible fields and what promises to be an outstanding evening of track and field. Included in the fields will be athletes representing five countries as well as five Olympians.
OTTAWA - Eric Gillis of Antigonish, N.S., and Krista Duchene of Brampton, Ont., were crowned 2013 Canadian Half Marathon Champions today in Montreal, Quebec at the ScotiaBank 21k. "I came to race for the win today", said Gillis. "Perfect weather and a flat course made it a big marathon workout. It felt good to compete in just my second race since the London Olympics, served as great preparation in my lead up to the Ottawa Marathon (May 26)." Gillis finished in a time of 1:05:56.
WIN VIP Treatment at a Canadian Marathon near you © Copyright - 2013 - Athletics Illustrated The Canadian contingent of athletes competing in the Payton Jordan Cardinal Invitational on April 28th will be bolstered by a strong field of both men and women competing primarily in the middle distance events. "My goal for Payton Jordan is to toe-the-line ready to hurt, and then hurt some more and beat as many people as I can in my section." In the men's 800m race the University of Guelph's Anthony Romaniw and the unattached Quin Ferguson lead the way, as they both have run under 1:48. Ferguson's personal best of 1:47.11 is two years old though, where Romaniw ran his best during the 2012 season. Complementing the top two are a pair of University of Victoria Vikes, Adam Gaudes and Thomas Riva who own personal bests of 1:48.90 and 1:49.54, respectively. Also running are, Stuart Ellenwood, Travis Vugteveen and Cameron Proceviat, the latter three will be representing Simon Fraser University. The standards for making the Canadian team going to the IAAF World Track and Field Championships in the 800m are, "A" 1:45.40 and "B" 1:46.30.
Chris Moulton Speed River athletes were in action across the globe and on every type of surface this weekend. From the World Cross Country Championships in Poland, to North America's oldest road race in Hamilton and a kickoff to the outdoor track season in North Carolina it was a whirlwind weekend featuring many great results.
Emily Hooper - Athletics Canada Veuillez cliquer ici pour voir la version française Bydgoszcz, Poland - All four Canadian teams finished in the top ten at today's International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) World Cross Country Championships. The senior women's team placed eighth, the junior men and senior women placed ninth while the junior men's team placed tenth.
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© Copyright - 2010 - Athletics Illustrated Eric Gillis from Antigonish, Nova Scotia, recently finished as top-Canadian and fourth place over-all at the Ottawa 10k with his finishing time of 29:11. The Ottawa 10k is run in conjunction with the Ottawa Marathon weekend. On May 9th, Gillis finished second to Kip Kangogo at the 50, 000 participant-strong, Vancouver Sun Run in 29:03 to Kangogo's 29:01. He also happens to have won the Canadian 10, 000m Championships in 2008 and 2007 and has won bronze in that same event in 2005. He is coached by Dave Scott-Thomas (DST) who is the head coach at the University of Guelph. DST happens to coach several elite-level Canadian runners with Speed River track and field club. Gillis represented Canada in the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games 10, 000m event. He has also represented Canada three times at the IAAF World Cross-Country Championships.


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Second Chances…can you add another dozen please! We have all been there. Somedays we act or think like that person we identify as, I would never BE THAT…DO THAT…but we did.
Perfect, we are not! Yet, our intentionality is strives for excellence in all areas of our lives. The most vulnerable of which are the words we speak, the thoughts we think,and the attitudes we hold.
Today and tomorrow, in our comings and goings…our meetings and greetings…remember the teaching of Jesus.
Love God. Love your neighbor as you love yourself. In Christ, we are offered a daily gift of the Second Chance. To whom will you extend that gift? Or better stated, to whom will you offer that gift which has been offered to you, and designed and fashioned to be offered to others.
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Are you ready for some football? Are you ready for some Rolling Rock? Penn State fans are polite if you're coming to Beaver Stadium to watch your team play the Nittany Lions, so don't worry about being a stranger in a strange land. Whew. Now all you have to do is find great seats with your college football tickets!
Rumor has it Beaver Stadium is second to University of Michigan as far as great venues go. If it's a great match up, you'll want to buy sports tickets on the fifty-yard-line. We also recommend buying college football tickets for seats several rows up on one of the lower decks. However, Richard Cirminiello of College Football News.com recommends bringing a folding chair and sitting on the roof atop the press box--in good weather, of course. It is Pennsylvania and winters can be rough--no football tickets are worth freezing! Pop a Rolling Rock and enjoy the good value that college football tickets give you as opposed to, say, NFL football tickets. Plus, there's something to be said for polite fans.
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A near-endless expanse of mudflats reached from the lonely old farmhouse at the edge of the world into the distance. Littering the cracked earth were thousands of dragonfish skeletons, wriggling and writhing helplessly in the mud such that the air was filled with the sound of their clicking bones, like a choir of crickets in a field. On the eastern horizon, a yellow sun rose over the mountains, indicating that the Cycle of the Sword had come to an end. Frost had gathered on the rocks around the broken down building in which the companions had lodged, and the many dark muddy streams that still ran across the mudflats carried thin sheets of ice. The Cycle of the Spear had come. (The Cycle of the Seasons)
Four figures stirred at the edge of the world. Karl, the Gnomish Instrumentality of the noble Eladrin house of Aellrinath; Aengus, half eladrin, half Drow descendant of the Arch-Fey Hel; his pure blood Drow father Dian-Cecht; and the Warforged Legionary known as The Promise Of Distant Thunder looked out onto the new land that greeted them. It was cold, cold as Thunder remembered that it once was. The influence of the Feywild was passing, and the Swordlands were slowly reverting to their natural state, a land of ice, steel and storm, where the only certainty was the eventual destruction of all things at the end of time, a day that all in the land believed was fast approaching.
There on the worn flagstones of the farmhouse the party began to assemble the jigsaw of Warforged Ghulra, according to the drawings they had found in Siegmund's laboratory. They discussed how they had come by Siegmund's collection of Ghulra. Siegmund, a powerful warlord who wielded arcane magic, half-brother to the late Siegfried, once the king of Himinborg, had strived for several decades to search out the Warforged where they had hidden themselves for many hundreds of years since the start of the Crown Wars.
"It would seem, then, perhaps coincedental, that you happened upon his entire collection, the sum of his life's work, relatively easily." commented Dian-Cecht, whose natural suspicion lent him to second guess all workings of chance and fortune.
"Siegmund appeared in Himinborg many months ago when we first arrived." recalled Thunder, "He challenged the knights to find him in his hall, and dared us to 'follow the fires', which eventually led us to the tomb isle of Glorium."
"It was not days before that night that we had encountered agents of Siegmund within the ice tunnels of the Twelve Mothers Gap," added Aengus, "That was where we found you, Thunder. One imagines that Siegmund was searching for you, when we happened upon you first."
"And then soon after he strolls into Himinborg and reveals the whereabouts of his laboratory to his mortal enemies," continued Karl, "Through a series of portals we find the Ghulra, and begin a quest to slay the spawn of the first three arch-fey, after which we are rewarded with the final Ghulra of the five hundred. I think we've been played."
"I would agree." concluded Dian-Cecht, "The only question then is what does Siegmund want?"
"He seeks the Crown of Byfrost." spoke Thunder, "And he believes that the Warforged somehow would lead him to it."
"The Legion decided to go into hiding (Time To Exit Stage Left) because there was a war they could not fight," deduced Aengus, "When humanity went to war with itself, the protectors of mankind were powerless to intervene. The only course they could see was to hide Byfrost, by dispersing and taking it's secret with them. Only, Rivenhart must have encountered Hel in his journey into the underworld."
"That would explain why she was able to bestow his Ghulra upon us as a gift." added Dian-Cecht.
"He was the Awakener," spoke Thunder, recalling a distant memory of what The Strength Of Steel had once said (The Day That Never Comes), "One of us was to remain while all others went into the earth. His was a great priviledge, and a great responsibility (The Last Warrior). The legends tell us that Rivenhart appeared from nowhere during the Crown Wars. He slew Angrbode, Fenryr, and Nidhog, and built the hall of Himinborg from the dragon's bones as a lesson to all mankind. He then served as First Knight of Himinborg throughout the reign of many kings. The dates on te murals of Glorium indicate that he held that position from the time of King Vingolf, first king of Himinborg, through to King Gylfi Best-Skull, some 250 to 300 years later, before he left and sailed through the gates of the underworld. (Glorium)"
Thunder had placed almost all the Ghulra into a perfect pattern. The intricate engavings that marked each one as unique flowed from one Ghulra to those adjoining, making one single pattern woven with an exquisite design, like a fine tapestry. The only pieces missing were The Darkening Of The Sky At Sunset, the Warforged that had been destroyed at Kindraed, Rivenhart, whose Ghulra they had been given by Hel, and Thunder himself. One by one Thunder put the last pieces into their places, and then prepared himself to remove his own Ghulra.
"Aengus, my trusted friend, would you do this for me, as I know not whether I will remain conscious?" asked Thunder. Aengus stepped forward, pushed the Ghulra in Thunder's forehead in, twisting it, and then removing it. He held the final Ghulra in his hand and watched as Thunder's eyes momentarily dimmed.
Thunder experienced a strange sensation at that moment. The Ghulra is often likened to a human soul, and much as if a man were to lose his soul Thunder felt his strength, his resolve, his belief, his faith in Kord, his desire for good and the protection of humanity, everything he held dear, suddenly seem… less so. His most deeply felt beliefs seemed somehow distant, less powerful.
"Quickly Aengus, put it in it's place and lets see this finished!" urged the Warforged soldier.
As Aengus put the Ghulra into the puzzle the companions watched as the pattern laid out on the floor before them began to glow. Lines of energy coursed within the intricate designs, weaving around the whole display, which within moments began to emit heat. Gradually the whole pattern liquified into something the alchemist Aengus likened to quicksilver. The pool of liquid metal swirled and then congealed into a small disc, to finally solidify into a single Ghulra.
Thunder knelt down and picked up the disc to examine it. It bore the name 'Legion'. Slowly and carefully he placed the disc at the center of his forehead, where his Ghulra should be.


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President Obama issued a statement yesterday on the aniversey of the start of the 1915 Armenian Genocide. Stopping short of calling the actions of Ottomon Turks genocide, Obama said,
"Ninety four years ago, one of the great atrocities of the 20th century began. Each year, we pause to remember the 1.5 million Armenians who were subsequently massacred or marched to their death in the final days of the Ottoman Empire. The Meds Yeghern must live on in our memories, just as it lives on in the hearts of the Armenian people."
The full text of Obama's statement is here.
Candidate Obama on the topic - calls it genocide here
January 30, 2008
Samantha Power's influence is certainly evident.
Here's Power calling for an invasion of Israel
Power on Obama negotiated with U.S. foes
Was Obama following Power's advice at the Summit of the Americas?
from Obama's April 18, 2009 speech at the summit.
"To move forward, we cannot let ourselves be prisoners of past disagreements. I am very grateful that President Ortega -- (applause) -- I'm grateful that President Ortega did not blame me for things that happened when I was three months old. (Laughter.) Too often, an opportunity to build a fresh partnership of the Americas has been undermined by stale debates. And we've heard all these arguments before, these debates that would have us make a false choice between rigid, state-run economies or unbridled and unregulated capitalism; between blame for right-wing paramilitaries or left-wing insurgents; between sticking to inflexible policies with regard to Cuba or denying the full human rights that are owed to the Cuban people."
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I've said it before, and I will say it again: the Nintendo Switch just might be the company's greatest system of all time. I mean, having the ability to take the system out of my TV and bring my large-scale, console-quality games on the go is simply perfect. In just its first year on the market, the Switch became the fastest-selling console in U.S. history, and surpassed the lifetime sales (approximately four years) of its failed predecessor, the Wii U. Most importantly, the games have been of the utmost quality, with the new mainline Legend of Zelda and Super Mario games taking bold new risks, both to great payoffs. It has been a rough several years for the Big N, but 2017 marked an unprecedented and absolutely magnificent comeback for the brand.
While I sing highly the praises of the Nintendo Switch, I do acknowledge its flaws, as no system is, has been, nor ever will be perfect. Namely, the console is a bit underpowered when compared to its contemporaries, the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. This I can understand though, as some sacrifices to its graphical capabilities need to be made in order for the console to double as a handheld, something that distinguishes it from the competition. However, one major thing that Nintendo could bring to their new system, seeing as it was on both the Wii and Wii U, but unfortunately has not (as of this writing), is the Virtual Console.
For those out of the loop, the Virtual Console was large selection of classic video games that could be purchased digitally and downloaded onto one's Wii or Wii U. The games were ported over from the original Nintendo, Super Nintendo, Nintendo 64, among others, and being older titles, were reasonably cheap. In my opinion, Nintendo made its fair share of mistakes during the "Wii era", trying too hard to cater to as wide an audience as possible, including non-gamers. However their intent to make all their major legacy titles accessible on one convenient system, to generations old and new, was definitely not one of them.
You might be thinking: "why the heck is this service not on the Switch?!" Seeing as the Switch has objectively superior hardware and specs to its predecessors, it is indeed frustrating to see something proven technologically possible not be done. Additionally, as a big fan of retro games myself, I have become rather weary of the increasingly high asking prices for used, physical copies of them. As such, the idea of not only being able to get these games cheaply, but to also be able to play them anywhere, would be a massive missed opportunity for Nintendo if they ultimately do not do it.
On a more positive, optimistic note, Nintendo has stated that they are open to having Virtual Console in for the Switch. Perhaps they have been working on it, but have simply taken some extra time to make it even better (I personally hope that they will add GameCube games onto the service). They did say something about discussing updated "online services" at this June's E3, so here's to hoping we hear something about the VC!


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The College's next event is Avon Regatta where the majority of the National Schools crews will race.
The draw will be published on 16/17th May.
Directions – probably best to avoid the centre of Bath – where Sat Nav will direct you.
We suggest M4 to Junction 18 A46 towards Bath, then at Cold Ashton Roundabout, take the 3rd exit onto A420
then at the next roundabout, take the 1st exit onto A4174
Go through 2 roundabouts and then at Hicks Gate Roundabout, take the 1st exit onto A4 heading to Bath/Wells/A34
Go through 1 roundabout turn sharp left onto The Shallows – where the reagatta car park is located.
We use postcode BS31 3EZ – the Riverside Inn Pub!
Regatta website is: http://www.baregatta.org.uk/


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Easter Sunday morning, a fellow London-based trader (coincidentally with the same name!) wrote an inspiring comment on my blog. In keeping with the theme of "letters", here is his comment as a separate blog post – only the R18 language has been edited out. Entertaining, useful and uplifting reading – enjoy & happy Easter!
"Hi George,
other "VTP" George here. I know we haven't talked extensively but I try to follow your blog, I also I write my own (far less successful) one too [click here for George's blog].
I think it safe to say that we have very different approaches; you short-term, me long-
term but I truly feel your pain/frustration/bemusement (delete as applicable). I traded short-term for 2 years the 5-minute chart on the EURUSD, I kept a blog of this too and left it up for posterity, you can see some of my anguish here [click here for George's earlier blog], I suffered all that you mentioned in your recent letter to your trading coach.
I just wanted to say that I think you've got all the skills you need to succeed…
I read your bio, you are a successful poker player. When you played you knew you had a good chance of winning, in fact, I doubt you were ever fearful of your opponent. You
might have respected them but there was probably a healthy bit of self-respect in there too, maybe even a little bit of contempt for your opponent. You were never scared to act as you needed to, be it defensively or aggressively. I am not a poker player but I was an amateur boxer for many years and from experience, I can tell you if you that if I entered the ring with anything other than self-respect I got beaten up. It's not that I didn't have the same skills as someone else it was that without self-respect and often a bit of contempt for my opponent, I couldn't act (defensively or aggressively), I would just shell up. I think this happens to us as traders too.
What I'm trying to say is; you've got this mate. You're a bad@@s back testing, forward testing, poker playing, inline skating motherfu@@er. Trust yourself more and price action less.
You know how this game works; use your framework from poker. Treat the market with a bit of contempt, treat everything and everyone with a bit of contempt, me, your coach, even your setups, nothing and no one is infallible. Markets move fast but so what? trust your analysis, your actions don't have to be perfect, just effective. No perfect setup but you like the level? Try averaging-in. I'm not saying you make this a habit but I think one of the dangers we suffer as from as traders is being too tentative. When day trading we're trading with complete c##ts, they want to throw you off your game (you know this) IMO it's not a coincidence that at the best levels the price action is shit, the big players are trying to throw you off, you don't have to go "balls deep" [this is coined phrase from Bund trader Tom Dante], but don't let these f@@kers make you doubt yourself, say "good effort" but call.
Wishing you a Happy Easter break and every success,
Yours trading mate,


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by Tom Zampieri
New Administration and New Congress
We pause to catch our breath in the midst of a frenetic inauguration season and the beginning of the 111th Congress. There has most assuredly been an even faster pace than usual to events transpiring in the Nation's Capital recently.
Highlights for BVA include a visit to our national headquarters by the White House Transition Team at the end of December. At the time, we wondered if the visit had been little more than a nice social call until we received word on February 5 that the published President's Agenda for Veterans listed "care for polytrauma vision impairment" as a priority for the new Obama Administration. This
is available for viewing on the
White House website
Tom Zampieri catches up with Rebecca Hyder, Manager of Public Health and Manpower for the American Academy of Ophthalmology, at House VA Committee Roundtable January 27. BVA has recently collaborated with AAO on several legislative issues
Highlights of a more general nature for all of the Veterans Service Organizations (VSOs) include the appointment of new members of the House and Senate Committees on Veterans Affairs and their respective Subcommittees.
The House Committee continues to be chaired by Representative Bob Filner (D-CA-52) with Steve Buyer (R-IN-4) as Ranking Member. The Senate Committee will retain Daniel Akaka (D-HI) as Chairman and Richard Burr (R-NC) as Ranking Member.
We have also participated in what seems like countless hearings and meetings to discuss pending legislation for veterans, among them a VSO roundtable typically held at the beginning of each new Congress.
Our expectations revolve around legislation that will change disability and health care benefits for veterans. Hearings during the second session of the 110th Congress began a process that was left incomplete but that can now move forward. New in the mix, of course, are a new President, a new VA Secretary, and many new members of the House and Senate.
Although we felt fortunate this year that VA appropriations for Fiscal Year 2009 were passed by Congress and signed on time during the first week of October, certainly a rarity, we remain concerned that future VA health care budgets receive quicker action so that critically needed funding will be adequate, dependable, and timely each year. The uniqueness of 2009 serves only to highlight the need for a reformation of the budget process for veterans health care.
Emphasizing the point on the negative side is the fact that again this year we face uncertainty regarding passage of the annual Military Construction and Veterans Appropriations (MILCON/VA) bill. The period of time affected by this bill would begin with the new fiscal year that actually begins on October 1, 2009, which in federal government terms is FY 2010. The reason for this uncertainty is that the new budget proposal from the Office of Management and Budget in the executive branch will be sent to Congress more than six weeks later than usual.
Further delaying MILCON/VA this year is that during much of late January and early February, both the legislative and executive branches have been consumed with debate and passage of the much publicized American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, better known as the stimulus package, as a first priority in the face of America's ailing economy.
Items of interest related to the package include provisions for disabled veterans and seniors relying on Social Security benefits. These provisions were originally proposed by Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-MT) and offer a one-time payment of $300 to veterans receiving disability compensation and pension benefits from VA. Also included in the package is $50 million for services to older individuals who are blind under Title VII, Chapter 2, of the Rehabilitation Act.
A Jump Start for Advance Funding
The Partnership for Veterans Health Care Budget Reform, of which BVA has been a member for nine years with eight other Congressionally chartered VSOs, made a strong push for Advance Funding at the end of the 110th Congress. In January, we picked up right where we left off with visits to several offices on Capitol Hill and a letter to President Obama signed by Executive Directors of each organization.
In response, we reported in the last issue that Chairmen Filner and Akaka introduced the Veterans Health Care Budget Reform Acts of 2008 into the House and Senate, respectively, on September 18 of last year. We also mentioned that the two had pledged to reintroduce new bills early in the 111th Congress, perhaps as soon as January. We believed at the time that the bill was introduced too late in the session to pass but that the idea could gain some traction later, especially since one of the significant co-sponsors was then Democratic Senator Obama of Illinois.
On February 12, the Chairmen proved true to their word, introducing the Veterans Health Care Budget Reform and Transparency Act of 2009 at a press conference in the Russell Senate Office Building. Despite the short notice, the briefing took place in a packed room of media, Members of Congress who are co-sponsoring the bills, several representatives from each of the nine partnership organizations, and other individuals and organizations strongly affected by budget delays nearly every year.
Chairman Bob Filner, left, with Tom Zampieri at February 12 Advance Funding press announcement.
All of the nine partnership organizations also issued separate press releases supporting the bills and posted them to their respective websites. To read the BVA press release, go to
. For additional updates and details related to Advance Funding legislation, blinded veterans should visit the partnership's website, www.fundingforvets.org. In addition to updated information, the site is complete with background information outlining the funding problem and possible solutions. An abundance of supporting documents is also available on the site.
Continuum of Care Programs Expand
VA reports that more than 44 of its medical centers have either received or been approved for VA centralized funding for a variety of basic, intermediate, and advanced blind or low-vision programs. The ideal is to offer a Full Continuum of Care to the Nation's veterans who have vision problems that could eventually lead to legal blindness.
Since this was a three-year plan for the increase in low-vision and blind outpatient programs, we will attempt to ensure that the FY 2010 appropriations include $9 million for that purpose. We hope that many of our members are already being served by these programs nationwide. We would appreciate any feedback that our readers can provide regarding their effectiveness.
Vision Centers Status Report
Our previous Legislative Update highlighted the appointment of Colonel Donald Gagliano as the first Director of the newly created Vision Centers of Excellence (VCE), which are to be located in four different sites. Updates prior to the last one described the collective efforts of BVA and numerous other organizations to bring this technology program to fruition.
The major objective of VCE is the tracking of all eye-wounded service members for both Department of Defense (DoD) and VA purposes. Although VA reports that 84 individuals have attended residential Blind Rehabilitation Centers (BRCs) and that there are a total of 132 legally blind Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF) and Operation Enduring Freedom, Afghanistan (OEF) service members, we are not convinced that this represents the actual number that are out there.
Not surprising but still disappointing, the challenge with VCE is once again with funding. The Pentagon did pledge $3 million for FY 2009 toward its establishment but BVA has been at the forefront of fighting to ensure that the full $5.5 million is provided for the four sites to begin operation.
The discrepancy between Members of Congress telling DoD that there was sufficient funding appropriated in the last War Supplemental legislation to cover the $5.5 million, and Pentagon officials claiming that there was no money, was reported in a USA Today (Section A) story on January 29. We are increasingly frustrated by the slow implementation of something we believe is so important, either for political reasons or other reasons of which we may not yet be aware.
The good news is that we have two highly regarded experts to head up VCE in Gagiliano and his Deputy Director, Claude Cowan. The bad news, at press time, is that they have no real budget or key staff support. The administrative headquarters for VCE was to have 10 additional staff members to operate and begin the work in this new major program. We are surprised that more than a year has passed since enactment of the law and that VCE still has few resources.
If and when VCE eventually does lift off the ground in FY 2009, VA will have, at its disposal, $6.9 million in directed funds that was inserted into the FY 2009 MILCON/VA appropriations. The money was to be used for sites designated by VA to become "cooperative" Vision Centers of Excellence. We do not have the specific plans as to how the cooperative centers will operate and how they will affect eye care services for both newly wounded war veterans and older visually impaired veterans from previous conflicts.
Medical Research on Vision and Vision Loss
We have recently collaborated with James Jorkasky, Executive Director of the National Alliance for Eye and Vision Research (NAEVR), on new initiatives to increase funding for research. The specific areas include those affecting service personnel returning from combat with eye injuries and potential National Institutes of Health studies that examine age-related eye diseases.
NAEVR is especially supportive of the latter initiative, not because of its affinity for BVA but because the results could benefit all Americans with degenerative eye diseases.
Our joint efforts are often noted in NAEVR publications. The organization credits BVA with bringing greater awareness to Members of Congress on the importance of public and private research funding. One of our joint objectives is for eye and vision research to remain part of the Congressionally Directed Medical Research Program funded through DoD. As grant applicants grow each year, we also hope that appropriations for such research can be raised to $10 million in FY 2010 from the $5.4 million funded in FY 2008. The $5.4 million appropriated last year funded six grants.
Unfinished but Important Business
The true legislative "junkie" will remember that the House passed the Veterans Health Care Policy Enhancement Act of 2008 last July 30. The bill prohibited VA from requiring co-payments for hospital or nursing home care of catastrophically disabled veterans.
We hoped that the bill would be included in a couple of Committee packages of benefits legislation on the Senate side. Unfortunately, this never happened and the bill died. We are now working with Chairmen Filner and Akaka on reintroducing the legislation early in the 111th Congress. We believe it will have strong bipartisan support.
The Veterans Health Care Policy Enhancement Act, or new legislation with a different name this year, is significant to many of our blinded veterans who cannot afford to enroll in an inpatient BRC because of both travel costs and high co-payments that can reach up to $1,500 for admission.
Also left over from last year was another legislative item about which we have been long concerned. Representative Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX-18) introduced a bill that would provide higher education scholarships to students enrolled in blind rehabilitation programs and who would be willing to go to work within the VA system for a period of time after graduation.
Representative Lee appears to subscribe to the adage, "If at first you don't, succeed, try, try again," as she introduced H.R. 228 on January 7, one day after the new Congress convened. BVA will work to move this legislation as quickly as possible through the House and, at the same time, locate a Senate sponsor.
With VA actively recruiting 35 Blind Rehabilitation Outpatient Specialists (BROS) across the system, the scholarships would constitute a significantly attractive personnel employment program for this critical work. Regional groups could be helpful in spreading the word that there are presently widespread shortages of these health care providers.
Keep Abreast, Stay Involved
BVA appreciates the efforts made by many of our members and their families this past year to understand the issues in which BVA is involved and to actively support our positions. We can promise that these efforts have indeed made a difference.
We will continue to work with the new Congress. We will also begin to establish the all-important relationships at VA, many of which are new with the appointments made by President Obama in December and January (see Of Note).
By the time this issue is delivered to our readers, we will have already introduced our BVA Legislative Committee, consisting of several Board members, to Secretary Shinseki at the VA Central Office. This will have occurred in conjunction with our mid-winter Board meetings March 5-7 and President Jones' oral testimony to a joint session of the House and Senate VA Committees on March 5. A more detailed written version of the testimony is now online on the
House VA Committee website
We encourage our members to keep up on the legislation and issues that affect them. Because the
is published just four times annually, timely information is most easily accessed through the
Legislative Alerts
. I am usually successful in sending out at least one alert per week. A bit frustrating is the fact that so few of our members are on our list to receive these communications. To register, simply send an email message to email@example.com. Include your name, email address, postal address, and regional group affiliation.
Another way to stay in touch is through email and discussion groups online that have been initiated and now hosted by BVA members. In January, for example, "Blinded Vets and Friends" held an online session on Roxio Easy Creator. In early February, they conducted a class on the VA initiative My HealthE Vet, a web-based application enabling veterans to conveniently and securely access both general and personal health information. A couple of weeks later the vets used the chatroom to discuss an Internet feature called Skype.
"Blinded Vets and Friends" holds monthly meetings and regular chats on subjects that also touch on VA services that come through Visual Impairment Services Teams (VISTS) and BROS. The discussions are not limited to technology. The VA benefits these groups discuss have often originated with BVA's advocacy in both Washington and at the local level.
I highly recommend participating in such group discussions and interactions whenever possible.
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Sulphur is a substance which occurs naturally as a result of volcanic activity, and it also occurs as an essential chemical constituent in all living tissue. It has been used for at least 2 000 years to treat skin disorders. It occurs in nature as a crystalline solid from which the remedy is prepared. When sulphur is left on the skin it causes redness and itching, and it is one of the great polycrest remedies in homeopathy, able to cure on a very deep level a number of symptoms.
Sulphur is one of the most important remedies for
- boils
- extreme itching
- itching that is relieved by scratching and then causes a burning sensation
- dry, rough, scaly skin
- skin disposed to breaking out and not healing
- pustular eruptions
It is useful in all types of burning sensations, in the lips, tongue, nostrils, anus, throat, fingers and palms; the knees and feet (especially at night). A characteristic sensation is the feeling of a band around the head, and pressure in the vertex, as if the brain would burst.
It causes redness in all affected areas, such as the eyes, borders of the eyelids, ears, nose (nosebleeds ) and is a great remedy for herpes, hives and if the mental symptoms agree and the patient fits the picture, eczema.
Sulphur is a remedy which causes the body to "throw out" all illness to the surface, mainly the skin of the body.
Grandgeorge writes that Sulphur touches the depths of the ego, and helps the individual to open up to the external. These individuals are characteristically self-centered, impatient, irritable and very critical. They are academics who have lots of ideas but cannot put them into practice themselves, but will have theories on how to do it better. They are untidy, and may look unwashed, they are also lazy, preferring to lean on something when the are standing. They would prefer not to work if they can help it. This does not come from a feeling of debility or a weakness, but rather from an innate drive to be as comfortable as possible.
They are extremely sensitive to odors which is contrary to their own unkempt and often dirty appearance, they will wear clothes that are not clean, and tend to dislike bathing. They often feel worse for bathing, and they hate cold, wet weather. (Think of the volcanic "fire" of sulphur, of course it would not like to be extinguished by water!!!)
The skin eruptions that are cured by Sulphur are often found to alternate with asthma, and it is not unusual to find that the suppression of the itch, such as eczema will later be internalized and become internalised, throwing off the symptoms of asthma. Modern day suppressions through conventional allopathic medicine has created a situation where this found more and more often.
There is so much that can be written about Sulphur and there are many excellent reference books detailing the hundreds of complaints and symptoms for which this remedy may be used. The psychological profile of the Sulphur individual is fascinating and if you are interested in finding a good detailed description of the type, consult Philip Bailey's excellent book, Homeopathic Psychology: Personality Profiles of the Major Constitutional Remedies.
Bailey, P.M. Homeopathic Psychology: Personality Profiles of the Major Constitutional Remedies.North Atlantic Books, California. 1995
Clark, J.H. A dictionary of Practical Materia Medica. Vol III. Jain Publishers. Delhi. 1999.
Grandgeorge, D. The Spirit of Homeopathic Medicines. North Atlantic Books, California. 1998
Tyler, M.L.Homeopathic Drug Pictures. Jain Publishers, Delhi. 1997


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Tuition Rates & Enrollment Fees
We look forward to having the opportunity to share God's Word with your children each day. Our tuition rates for the 2018-2019 school year are listed below. Keep in mind that individual congregations use their own discretion to assist their member families with tuition. You will need to contact your home church for your portion of the tuition payment(s).
There are 3 payment options for tuition: (1) Payment in full at July registration (2) Half payment at July registration and remaining balance December 15th (3) 10 monthly auto-withdrawals from August – May.
Below the tuition rates are two links. One link is a printable version of the 2018-2019 Tuition Rates and the second link is for tuition payment option forms and information.
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More thoughts about agents in the Bay Area, this time a bit more personal.
So this is my agency. They've been my agents for about 3 years, and represent me for on-camera work, voiceover, and print.
Looking back through my audition tracking spreadsheets, while I've had some dry spells, it averages out to about 1 audition every 3 weeks. This past week I had 4 auditions through my agency - 2 voiceover, 1 print, and 1 industrial.
My agency sends audition information via email. For an on-camera audition, they send me the time, location, character/wardrobe, sides to prepare (if there are sides), potential callback dates, and shoot dates. Sometimes there's additional character description or direction. Usually the email comes in the early afternoon and the audition is the following day, and the email has a specific appointment time. Sometimes, if there is a lot of text to prep, it'll be a day or two before the audition. But it's up to me to keep my schedule flexible enough that I can fit in those auditions.
For a voiceover audition, I'm expected to record it myself, using my own equipment. The email they send has a lot of the same info as on-camera does, but instead of telling me when I need to audition and where, it tells me where I'm supposed to send my sound file, how to name it, and when I'm supposed to send it in by - usually I've got 24-36 hours to get it done.
For print auditions I get a similar amount of notice as for on-camera auditions, but sometimes I get a range (show up between 10 and 12) instead of a specific time. Every once in a while, especially with the hand modeling stuff, there's not even an audition, just a call or email checking if I'm available for the shoot date. This doesn't mean I've booked it, but that I'm being considered, based on my portfolio.
If I'm not available to do auditions, I 'book out' with my agents. This means that I let them know I won't be available for auditions between day x and day y. Usually this is because I'm out of town, but sometimes it's because of a tech or shoot schedule for another project, and every once in a while for an intensive teaching/directing project. I probably book out between 1 and 3 weeks total per year.
Being available for auditions means keeping track of a lot of things. I've got to keep myself and my audition wardrobe looking good - regularly scheduled haircuts and other grooming appointments, keeping my business suits clean and making sure they're not at the dry cleaners at the wrong times. I need to be able to juggle what I've got scheduled for the day - I'm thankful to have employers who understand this part of an actor's schedule, and a day job that's around the corner from a casting agency, which makes it easy to pop out for a half hour, do the audition, and then get back to work. I need to be able to absorb new material fast - for one of the auditions this week I had 3 hours w/the audition sides before the audition.
I remember asking at a Q&A panel with agents several years ago something along the lines of "what are some of the mistakes actors make after they've signed with you?" And the answer that they all agreed on was when actors are consistently not available for auditions because of other commitments.


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Hur man behandlar!
Making a girl believe your in love with her just to have sex , you think that's cool? Yeah? Imagine if some dude was doing that to your sister . Still think its cool? That's what a lot of you niggas these days don't understand . You're being selfish and only thinking about yourself. Lust is taking over you . Be a man and respect her, if you cant do that then you don't deserve her...


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I strain and fail to see it only in abstract terms. I don't want to keep going 'like, like, like'. But I can't stop myself.
If we take abstract here to mean that the thing is contained, unassailable, removed, so complete that it can't be described with "like" because it is like nothing but itself, then I wonder if Helen Garner's sensibility could be investigated in the light of the clash she is describing, which lies between that which is self-contained, on one hand, and the complications of human habit and human sprawl, which can't be kept out, on the other. Her books begin with ideas that can be stated quite neatly. You are a good woman. Your friend is dying. What do you do? You help her and keep her comfortable. Or. A man has died, apparently murdered. What should happen? The law should discover the person who did it. And then? Punish them. Or. A female student says that a male professor, sexually suggestive, has frightened her. What should happen? We should find out if she is telling the truth or not and judge both parties accordingly. And so on.
But once these ideas come off the page and enter the world, what happens to them? This is her question. In her non-fiction books she inserts herself in the situation to find out. (In The Children's Bach, a photograph of a nuclear family won't stay stuck to the wall.) She reports on it; she reports that is, on the world as she finds it -- and she is careful, with regular use of I think and I feel, to point out that these things are happening to her alone, in other words, they are experiences confined to herself, they are not universal. She writes about the gap between intention and action. I want to be a good friend. Very nice. How? I don't know. Let me see. She is an anecdotal journalist; anecdotes for her are a way of perpetually putting the idea of human fallibility in front of us. The narrator of these essays is the most fallible one of all. She undercuts herself. Humblest of writerly voices, at times she is too easily impressed. Her colleague is not the literary essayist but the video documentarian with her hand-held camera.
Here's an example, not untypical. In "Das Bettelein", one of the essays in The Feel of Steel, she remembers a holiday she took in 1980 with a group of gay male friends. Garner recalls her opinion of them, and the recollection is unflattering -- unflattering to herself, not to the young men: she is making herself look severe, unfriendly, and two-faced.
Privately I disapproved of their obsession with fun, with youthful beauty and clothes and sex … in my heart I thought of them as moral lightweights.
An anecdote follows. She commits a small social cruelty, and they, shocked, tell her to set things right. Then the kicker, the sentence that bounces back against the word lightweights.
Twenty years later, as far as I know, only two of them are still alive.
The fact that they told her to set things right does not cancel out her earlier judgment -- it's not as if moral lightweights don't judge people too -- and nor does the fact that two of the men are dead, but it places them all closer together, she is not above them, they are all on a similar moral plane, able to judge and be judged; they are all human, and humans, as she has reminded us, are never perfect. It's not the judgment she is calling into question -- the thing that pretends to be abstract -- but the high ground she thought she was standing on when she made it. If they, with their character flaws, really were moral lightweights then what was she? There is no answer. She ends the essay reminding herself to study a piece of music; obliquely the lesson is: life is always more complicated than we think; there is always more to learn. But, oh, oblique. Rarely does she end a piece of writing with a firm conclusion. She's more likely to propose a number of scenes and let the larger matter pause there, unresolved, suggestive, "because," she seems to silently say, "resolution is impossible, but -- suggestive -- everything is suggestive: the world is suggestive." The tangle is too great, and things go on and on, infinitely complicated, one thing leading to another, all connected by unpredictable circumstance as unaccountably as with like, like, like.
Weeks after I'd made this post I came across a review of a memoir written by a doctor who'd worked in various Aboriginal communities around Australia -- Garner helped him. The reviewer wrote:
I was puzzled by the staunchly episodic feel of the book, the continental meandering that brought [Howard] Goldenberg no closer to a resolution--a moral, if you will--that he could construct out of these many experiences. As I relaxed my expectations a bit, I began to appreciate the matter-of-factness of his retelling of these lives he has encountered in the course of his work. If this is not exactly a vehicle for Aboriginal people to tell their own stories, Raft at least provides something very like an objective portrait of the people he encounters. I began to respect the author for the simplicity of his reporting and to be grateful to him for his refusal to embellish.
In the acknowledgments that close the book, Goldenberg offers the briefest of explanations for this tone, noting that among his advisors in style was Helen Garner, who urged him "strenuously to publish the pieces she liked and to incinerate those sections -- 'posturing and rhetorical' -- that she did not. It is precisely that lack of an attempt at fiery moralizing that distinguishes Raft from many otherwise similar memoirs of encounters with remote Australia.
It sounds like the kind of advice she probably gives herself when she writes. Avoid posturing. Beware fiery moralizing. Do not embellish.


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Sunday, May 10, 2015
Cruelty of Animals vs. the Holocaust
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I completely agree with you and Stern. I understand what Coetzee was trying to do with the analogy, however, it was quite unsuccessful. Why would anyone think to compare the Holocaust to cattle and vice versa? Comparisons much like the one Coetzee made often enrage people especially the people who live in a society that thrives off human exceptionalism. Though I am not of Jewish decent a great deal of my friends are and not only were they offended but I am as well. Costello's analogy was not only offensive but cheap. When it comes to struggle, there should be few comparisons between tragedies because what ends of happening is people feeling like certain events are being invalidated or aren't taken seriously.ReplyDelete
I recently had a discussion about this with one of my friends when discussing a particular PETA ad that illustrated this same topic. We came to the conclusion that while although it is not incorrect to compare the two tragedies for their similarities, juxtaposing the two images runs the chance of greatly dismissing The Holocaust. After all, they are two completely different events in history that focus on two unlike frameworks in time and history.ReplyDelete
However, I think in the case of Coetzee, it was important for him to illustrate the similarities between the two occasions in the time that he did it in, after WWII. I just wish there were a different word to describe the similar-yet-historically different event that describe the mass killing of animals to that of the Jewish people.
The Consistency in Compassion Campaign (CCC), a project of the Northwest Animal Rights Network of Seattle, Washington, argues that "the Holocaust stands for much more than the one event. It represents a place and time when supremacist thinking was so embedded in a culture that they were blind or apathetic to the evil that existed in their everyday world."
Their main focus is that the mindsets responsible for the mistreatment and disregard of the Jewish community is not exclusive to one time and space. It may very well be that we harness that thinking till this day.


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My heart hears the seen and unseen
Wherein lies the truth
Hidden in street corners, in bustling neighborhoods, on sidewalks here and there, in plain sight, in quiet rooms, what is seen and unseen,
acts of kindness,
acts of bravery,
acts of fear,
desperation as seeds made manifest
love shining beneath the cracks–
Moments up for consideration.
A new way a new day of open hearted grace,
seeds of love,
to grow,
to experience the discipline of now,
in each breath.
The eyes and ears process,
they do not see or hear –
what is truly seen and heard is of the heart.
What is in me, what is of me, what will come through me.
Now. Now. Now.
Now is this time.
This heartbeat of a new entertainment
A new justice
A new healing
A spirit
Beyond the projections
That creates
That love is what love does
That love is what love does
That understands the imaginal cells of transformation
And that soupy experience of what is known, imagines something else, releasing all that is into what will be
The words 'time to fly' become the reality of our tomorrows.
I am here in each moment alive to what will be
Each moment a breath of peace an act of understanding and a way of life executing its purpose.
No matter what equally divides us
No matter what conflicts arise between us
You are me. We are one. Life is beautiful.
We will find a way
We will find the day
Where truth shines
Where life is celebrated
Where our brothers and sisters and lovers;
Believers, one and all
Rising above
Releasing always frustrations of what has been
Falling behind us
in the wake of our loving action.
in the wake of our loving action.
New Days
New Ways
Now is the time.
My heart hears the seen and unseen.


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Some wonderful, fun guests I had the pleasure of drawing caricatures in Calgary for last night....thanks! When the guests are like they were last night, it sure makes my job easier to do, if only I had this crowd every event I draw at! :) The event was held at Fort Calgary, a building built in 1875 by The Northwest Mounted Police....I read when hanging was legal in Canada, there were "folks" hanged there.....:( Thanks again Karen!
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|It's about knowing when to walk away
Sometimes the lines are a little hazy; we throw away eggs when the expiration date has been reached, but we might hold onto aspirin and canned tomato soup longer.
When it comes to people, where we live and where we work, it is not as simple as discarding a few old eggs into the garbage disposal. Great consideration should be given to the serious consequences that such a decision will place upon the one walking away and the one left behind.
It's equally important to think about what precipitated the need to change your (fill in the blank). When you feel the time has come to change your relationship with your spouse or dear friend, quit your job, move away from your home or hometown entirely, it shouldn't be a snap judgement. Carefully weigh the pros and cons of staying and leaving. A reactive nature may cause this to be the worst decision ever, while a conscientious nature may turn it into the best.
- Can anything be done (worked on) so that walking away is not necessary or still a little ways off from a life disruption?
- Have you considered the pros and cons of leaving?
- Is there a way to take a short break to delve deeper into the situation prior to ending it? During the break you may want to talk to a therapist or job counselor to gain a different, unbiased perspective. Reading books and conducting research can also shed light and assist in arriving at a well thought out resolution.


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Our last day in Salzburg was not a full one as we had to catch the train back to Munich and on to Fussen that evening in order to spend the following day at Neuschwanstein, so it was a somewhat leisurely day. We decided to tackle the city from a different angle this time. Mum had spent the past two days eyeing off a small church in the distance, halfway up the hill, and so today we decided to visit it by way of a bridge a little nearer to where we are staying.
It was a beautiful little church, surprisingly, where Salome Alt de Altenav, the woman for whom Schloss Mirabell was built was buried.
It was also a bit of a laugh reaching, as we went up the hill in order to come down most of the way to find the entrance to then reascend the hill inside the church to reach the actual church.
Having photographed this church and realised we were part way up Mönchsberg we continued on with the aim of having coffee in the Musuem of Modern Art which is perched precariously on the edge of the cliff with views overlooking the old town and Fortress.
Their Christmas decorations were pretty.
We did not visit the rest of the museum but instead headed down the mountain in the express elevator and went in search of the shopping mall and the range of very cute childrens' dirndls and lederhosen that seemed to be on sale everywhere.
Meanwhile I discovered what the differences were between the colours of Mozart chocolates and confirmed my suspicions that they really are as bad as I expected; they were sweet, sweet and inferior to all other praline/marzipan chocolates I have eaten.
We continued to wander looking for food for an early dinner/very late lunch to eat on the train to Fussen and passing the time we had left to spend in Salzburg. Wandered back through the Orangerie in the Mirabell Gardens and yet another Christmas market.
Surprisingly, we didn't stop for gluhwein.


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13 December 2011
little Muffie
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My hands are always so cold; I could use one of these.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 13, 2011 at 3:54 PM
Oh my goodness, that face!ReplyDelete
Absolutely amazing to see this. She reminds me of some dolls I saw last weekend at the Brandywine River Museum, but real, human, touching, not creepy. Lovely. CurtisReplyDelete
stay tuned-there is a sequel or better put a trilogy or better yet a SAGA! pgtReplyDelete
Gaye, this is a wonderful image, and it appears to be in great condition — thanks for sharing!ReplyDelete
She is amazing, I think. I do still have a muff I wore at age 5, that makes it practically vintage-well- that makes it vintage. It is white fur-now yellowed just a bit, but still not shedding. pgtReplyDelete
What a pretty muff-snuggled poppet she is!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 21, 2011 at 1:46 AM
the funniest thing! the dog above the muff looks exactly like the post I did today! a little terrier of some sort! It was the most perfect dog...as was all the others. staying in their costumes...ReplyDelete
Merry Christmas!


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