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Remember that episode of Friends, "The One with Ross's Sandwich," where the usually reserved and logical Ross has a total meltdown when he finds out that his boss ate some of his special Thanksgiving-leftovers sandwich and threw the rest away? "You-you-you-you threw my sandwich away," he says, beside himself. "My sandwich? MY SANDWICH?!" Afterwards, his boss puts him on mandatory sabbatical and sends him to a therapist to deal with his "rage."
Although the scene makes for a hilarious episode of a popular sitcom, what if it happened in real life? When we, or those around us, become angry for no apparent reason, it's not so funny. Often, there is a deeper, unrelated issue behind it. In Ross's case, he was actually upset because he had turned 30 years old, had been evicted from his apartment, and was about to get divorced for the second time. As he put it, "That sandwich was the only good thing going on in my life" – and someone took it away from him.
When stress and pressure build up inside us, it can sometimes make us incapable of coping with minor, everyday annoyances, and when set off by even the smallest of triggers, we can explode. These emotional overreactions can be embarrassing to us, and disturbing to our friends and family. And it may be the case that some personality types are more prone to such episodes than others. To explore this issue, we asked our community to agree or disagree with the statement, "You rarely become angry without reason."
A majority (68%) of respondents agreed overall, and the Identity aspect was by far the most significant factor in influencing their responses. Let's look at the data and find out which personalities are cool as a cucumber, and which are hot as a jalapeño.
Sentinels (72% agreeing)
Although the personality traits that determine our Roles didn't play a major factor in the results, individuals with the Observant trait were 4% more likely to agree than those with the Intuitive trait, and individuals with the Judging trait were 3% more likely to agree than those with the Prospecting trait. All Sentinels share the Observant and Judging traits, which makes them down-to-earth, pragmatic types who like stability and order. So it makes sense that these personality types are more likely to stay calm under pressure.
Sentinels tend to work well within social structures and value cooperation. Generally averse to conflict, they may have learned that a patient, impartial approach to people and situations can help things go more smoothly. That's why we often see Sentinels in such professional roles as judges, teachers, and human resources administrators. Even when they do become angry, it is likely to be for a concrete, justifiable reason, and these personalities will make an effort to express their frustration constructively and seek a fair solution.
Explorers and Diplomats (69% each)
Explorers share with Sentinels the Observant trait, so these personality types also tend to handle their anger more pragmatically than others, focusing on dealing with upsetting things rather than simply reacting to them. Flexible types who are comfortable with changing circumstances, Explorers are less rigid and have a less intense attitude in general, which may help them keep their cool. They love to live in the moment, which means that they can become suddenly angry when provoked by perplexing and frustrating people or situations – but it also means that they can let go of that anger just as quickly and move on to the next, more pleasant experience. Less apt to allow their frustrations to bottle up inside them, they are also less prone to seemingly inexplicable outbursts of anger.
Diplomats, interestingly, agreed at the same rate as Explorer personalities, despite some core differences in their traits. Diplomats' responses were largely influenced by their Feeling trait, which was one of the indicators in our results, albeit a fairly minor one. Feeling types were 5% more likely to agree with our research statement than Thinking types.
Diplomats, along with those Sentinel and Explorer types who possess the Feeling trait, may be less susceptible to becoming angry without reason because they are more emotionally sensitive. They are aware of and concerned with the effects their behavior has on other people. Valuing personal connections and relationships, these personality types may feel guilty if they inflict anger and negativity on someone else – especially if they weren't angry with that person, but because of some unrelated, internal issue – so they attempt to hold themselves in check. Additionally, their inherent need for harmony makes them adept at resolving conflicts, not instigating them.
Analysts (63%)
Agreeing at the lowest rate, Analysts were thus the most likely Role to become angry without reason. People with Analyst personality types tend to have strong opinions about how things should be, and to invest a great deal of time and energy in strategizing and executing their visions. Even when no specific inciting incident occurs, if they sense that things aren't going according to their plans, or that something doesn't conform to their strict standards or personal convictions, they can become upset more easily. Due to their core Thinking trait, Analysts are inclined to put logic and efficiency first, burying their feelings rather than communicating them, so, just like Ross in Friends, they're much more likely than other types to let their anger build inside of them until it finally boils over, unpredictably and seemingly without reason.
Confident Individualism and People Mastery (84% and 79% agreeing)
As previously mentioned, the Identity aspect proved to be the most influential factor in respondents' likelihood to agree that they rarely become angry without reason. Specifically, personality types with Assertive Identities agreed at a rate of 81% overall, compared to just 59% of those with Turbulent Identities. Interestingly, the Mind aspect had virtually no impact on the results; Extraverts agreed at a rate of 69%, and Introverts at 68%. Accordingly, the Assertive Strategies – Introverted Confident Individualism and Extraverted People Mastery – were the Strategies with the highest agreement scores.
Assertive types tend to have a more stable internal compass, not reacting as easily to upsetting things. Confident in themselves, these personalities tend to believe that things are, or will be, OK, instead of worrying about things that went badly or might go badly in the future. This lower level of stress-sensitivity can help them keep their cool, and not get angry without reason. Confident Individualists, as Introverts, might have agreed at the highest rate because they tend not to seek as much social interaction, and as such do not invite as much variability into their lives. Solitariness can enhance their control over their environment and experiences, so they may have less to get angry about.
Of all the personality types, Assertive Defenders (ISFJ-A), who are Confident Individualists and Sentinels, agreed the most (88%). Defenders gain personal satisfaction from helping and supporting others, and they are very sensitive to others' needs and emotions. Blowing up at people unreasonably, especially when it comes to people who they've taken under their wing, just isn't a necessary or productive use of their energy.
Constant Improvement and Social Engagement (60% and 58%)
Members of the Turbulent Strategies – Constant Improvement and Social Engagement – on the other hand, were the least likely to agree, suggesting that these Strategies are the most volatile with their anger. Turbulent personality types often have high levels of stress, and worrying is a part of their normal operating behavior. Constant Improvers' and Social Engagers' perfectionism often causes them to feel frustrated with themselves and concerned about how they're performing in all areas of their lives, from work and hobbies to personal relationships. So it's not surprising that they sometimes release their inner turmoil in the form of anger, even without any apparent provocation. It's not necessarily a matter of resentment or antagonism toward others, it's just that carrying around so much emotional baggage can, from time to time, become too much for anyone to bear.
Turbulent Entrepreneurs (ESTP-T) agreed with our research statement the least of any personality type (45%). As Social Engagers and Explorers, Turbulent Entrepreneurs are all-or-nothing types who tend to act now and deal with the consequences later, and their up-front honesty gives them a reputation for having a certain disregard for others' feelings. Given that combination of spontaneity and insensitivity, heightened by a Turbulent Identity, it seems inevitable that Turbulent Entrepreneurs would succumb to more frequent fits of anger for no apparent reason. But even when this happens, their natural sociability and perceptiveness can still help them maintain strong connections with others.
Turbulent Identities, as the name implies, tend to translate into emotional volatility – and that may include seemingly unprovoked outbursts of anger. While those of us with more carefree attitudes toward life are less likely to get angry over nothing, those of us who live with stress and frustration simmering closer to the surface may be more likely to release it as anger, sometimes when we least expect it.
At the end of the day, we must realize that a sandwich (even one with Monica's famous Moist Maker) is just a sandwich – there are things that just aren't worth losing our cool over. Understanding what truly lies behind our anger can help us manage it more effectively, saving ourselves, and those around us, from a lot of unnecessary negativity.
Have you had any "you-ate-my-sandwich" moments lately? How do you think your personality type influences how you deal with anger? Share your thoughts in the comments below.


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Anti-spyware and antivirus are two security measures that users undertake to protect their systems from being attacked by viruses and malwares. Along with the rapid increase in the use of the internet as well as progress in different sectors of the cyber world, lots of dangerous threats have also popped up. The leading risks among them are spyware and virus.
Spyware monitors a user's activities secretly and stashes away sensitive user data, violating the user's privacy. It intrudes a system without the user's consent and covertly attacks the system.
On the other hand, a virus is a piece of code, which when attacks a system, replicates itself quickly and intends to shut down the device from further functioning. It can corrupt files and destroy all data.
To combat with these cyber threats, every user needs countermeasures. Antivirus and anti-spyware software are preferred mostly to bolster a system's security and safety.
These softwares are designed to detect, block and remove malicious threats like viruses, malwares, etc from a system. They perform timely scans of the devices and check for any risk or attack on the system.
Popular anti-spyware softwares are SpywareBlaster, Adaware, Malwarebytes, SpyBot, Windows Defender, etc. Popular antivirus softwares are McAfee, Kaspersky Lab, Norton antivirus, BullGuard, etc. Some of them offer both anti-spyware and antivirus protection features together.
Though the functions of both anti-spyware and antivirus sound similar, yet they have differences between them. Where do they differ?
But before we discuss anti-spyware, antivirus and their functionalities and differences, let us quickly recap about spyware and virus.
What is spyware?
Spyware is a malware that "spies" your computer, i.e., it invades your system and monitors your activities secretly.
Over 80% of the internet users are victims of spyware, but the majority of them are unaware about the attack.
Hackers use this method to steal sensitive user data like bank account details, login credentials, passwords, etc and may use them in criminal or fraudulent activities.
Most of the time, spyware intrudes a system when users click infected links or open malicious attachments in emails from unknown sources while accepting a prompt without reading the terms and conditions correctly.
Spyware can also make a way by use of backdated software or downloaded from unreliable websites.
Signs of the presence of spyware on your system include the frequent appearance of endless pop-up windows, slow performance of the system, redirection to unwanted websites, shortage of hard-drive storage space, etc.
How can you protect your system? This is where the need and incorporation of anti-spyware software on your device arises.
What is anti-spyware?
Anti-spyware is a security solution, widely used by people, to prevent and detect undesired spyware on a system and remove them when found.
It operates in the background and keeps checking for any suspicious activity or presence of any malicious program on the system which can be a door to spyware.
Once detected, it removes them skillfully.
Anti-spyware performs a hard disk scan by searching all the files with a database of known spyware and checks for a match.
It is also capable of monitoring URLs visited for tracking any malicious websites as well as performing registry and memory scan to check all the processes running on a system.
Anti-spyware software is highly essential to prevent one's system from being spied by any cyber crook as well as maintaining one's privacy rights.
It offers real-time protection as well as includes updates to combat even the recently discovered spyware.
Some of the popular anti-spyware are
There are several popular anti-spyware software that helps in fighting, preventing and protecting against spyware. Some of them are SUPERAntiSpyware, Malwarebytes, Adaware, SpywareBlaster, SpyBot, etc.
This software help in scanning the system, block new spyware, remove existing ones, identify rootkits and help to secure your privacy.
What is a virus?
A virus is a program or a piece of code that loads onto the system without the user's consent and quickly replicates itself with the intention of damaging the entire system. All computer viruses are human-made.
A computer virus goes on running, using all the available memory and shuts down the system from functioning further. It can corrupt files and destroy information.
Indications of a virus attack on your system include missing files or additional files in your device, the appearance of too many error messages, system crashes, slower performance, etc.
How to fight back with them? Here is when you need antivirus software.
What is an antivirus?
Antivirus software is a program which is designed to detect, block and remove viruses from a system.
It uses various methodologies to identify viruses like behavioral scanning, signature-based scanning, and heuristics. Once detected, it provides an option to quarantine, repair or delete it.
They include auto-updates to fight all threats efficiently.
An antivirus may either run continuously in the background (on-access scanner) to check for new threats or it may scan when demanded by the user (on-demand scanner).
Some of the popular antiviruses are
There are several antivirus software available to combat malicious threats in the cyber world.
Popular ones are Avast! Free Antivirus, AVG Antivirus, Microsoft Security Essentials, Comodo Antivirus, Panda Cloud Antivirus, etc.
They offer features like auto-updates, scan the entire system, excellent protection to the devices, detection, and blocking of threats, monitoring of links and emails, etc.
Just a minute. Don't the functionalities of anti-spyware and antivirus sound similar?
Well, yes, they sound close! Both antivirus and anti-spyware are known to detect, block and remove malicious threats. Both of them can combat malware as well as the virus.
Then, where do they differ? When to use which one? Let us find out.
What are the differences between anti-spyware and antivirus?
Both anti-spyware and antivirus are security solutions for any system. Both incorporate auto-updates, both can fight malwares, viruses, and several other threats, both ensure user privacy and security, etc.
Anti-spyware works proactively and can deal the latest and more dangerous threats, especially spyware and other malwares, very effectively.
But, antivirus mainly deals with the classic types of online threats like trojans, worm, etc (which are already known) in a better way than the newly rising risks.
Also, both the software differ in their pattern of scanning the system to search for the threats. Anti-spyware explores by hard disk scan, monitoring URLs, registry and memory scan, etc.
However, antivirus performs signature-based scans, heuristic-based scan, behavioral based scan, sandbox detection, and data mining methods.
So, though their functionalities are close, there are slight differences! Then, when to opt for the right choice?
Which one should you choose – anti-spyware or antivirus?
Security experts say that one single technology is not sufficient to detect everything.
The best thing could be software built out of the combination of both antivirus and anti-spyware software to combat the malicious threats effectively.
That's why many people recommend installing both of them on a system to get combined and comprehensive protection. However, both the software must be compatible with each other.
In this way, antivirus can help you catch the classic and already known threats whereas anti-spyware can help you detect and combat more advanced and latest versions of risks.
Though having both of this software does not mean that you are 100% safe, but they do increase your security and protection to a higher level.
Anti-spyware and antivirus software are techniques that offer protection and security to different systems. Anti-spyware helps to fight spyware and various other types of malware as well as viruses. Antivirus combats viruses and certain kinds of malware.
Both have free as well as paid versions. Both offer auto-updates, scanning features, detection and removal of threats and help to bolster the security of a system.
But, they differ in the way they perform the searches and scans in the system, and the category of threats encountered. Antivirus deals old and classic threats effectively whereas anti-spyware deals newer and more advanced threats skillfully.
One single security solution is not enough to fight all threats and dangers. That's why the combined use of both of these softwares is often recommended to increase the safety of a system.
Though it does not ensure 100% security even after installing both of them, yet it augments the protection of the system to a considerable level.

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I feel uncomfortable speaking about things like "white privilege" and "male privilege" and other forms of privilege. I don't like debating about them in the form such debates often take (read: Facebook and Twitter wars).
The reason I feel uncomfortable is not one you may think. It's not because I'm (socially understood as) a white male who is unhappy with relinquishing a place high up in the social hierarchy. Far from it.
Instead, the reason I feel uncomfortable talking about privilege (which is an important topic for social dialogue) is that so often discussions and arguments take a thoroughly decontextualised, moralistic, self-serving form.
Discussions, particularly in the South African dialogue space, are often conveniently stripped of other influencing contextual factors, warped under the agenda of political machinations, and not at all subjected to reflection and consideration. Claims about the need to overcome racial and gendered divides often pre-emptively shut down any critique launched at the strategies being proposed (be it through "oh, this is too academic" or "you're complicating it" or other such dismissive utterances).
My discomfort stems from the very real – lived and academic – and disturbing trend of basing 'transformation', dialogue and social justice on identity politics rather than a politics of coalition and reconciliation.
Articulating my discomfort has been a bit of a winding journey for me. It started off with a nagging feeling reading about the Renate Barnard case and speaking to Merle Lipton about equality and change in South Africa. It got me thinking about the categories which we employ in the law and in society. Admittedly, I'm not a law student and my understanding of policy and the law is limited to my own research. However, from what I've gleaned employment equity in South Africa seeks to advance previously disenfranchised groups including all 'people of colour', women, and people with disabilities. Noble, just, and rightly necessary to remedy the wrongs of the past.
But I began puzzling over something to which I couldn't find any easily accessible answers. I was able to voice my query at a Sussex Africa Centre seminar on gender, sexuality and the law in Southern Africa – but no-one was really able to address what I was getting at.
The question I posed was: what if someone seeks employment equity on the grounds of their sexuality? Is this possible? Has it happened? Why is sexual orientation not included as a category of "previously disadvantaged"?
Interjection: I know that's a contentious thought. I've tried to raise it as a point for consideration on multiple occasions, but it always – frustratingly – gets dismissed. I'll get back to why I raise it in a moment.
The language, the actions, and the social views around change in South Africa centre (on the surface) on correcting imbalances of the past and bringing about an equal society. The treatment of what is now loosely termed 'the gay and lesbian community' by the apartheid government and by the liberation movement was nothing short of horrific. The apartheid government explicitly linked the policing of race with the policing of sexuality, and it wasn't right up until the late 1980s that the liberation movement – and the ANC – shifted its ideology to make way (through much contestation) for the inclusion of "gay rights". The history of sexuality in the country is incredibly layered and complex, and it is not my intention to reduce it to a simple linear understanding.
But what can be said is that there are numerous projects, resources and accounts of the cruelty that 'gays and lesbians' faced under the apartheid regime. Stories of the forced labour camps, the electric shock therapy, the rapes, the beatings, the systematised stigmatisation and encouraged social victimisation.
The promulgation of legislation, including the Constitution, has advanced – in writing – the status of (some) 'gays and lesbians' to 'world-class citizens' (say what?) post-1993. But it still strikes me as discomforting that 'correcting the ills of the past' doesn't extend to – at the very least – a consideration for this demographic. I can rationalise, to some extent, why not. Some of the arguments I've come across include:
- "Oh, but gays and lesbians are a minority" – Certainly. But as Chimamanda Adichie reflected earlier this year, "the mark of a true democracy is not in the rule of its majority but in the protection of its minority".
- "Being gay or lesbian is an individual choice – there isn't a real community, and applying the policy to such individuals is more about advancing that individual person" – So completely void of historical understanding. Void of all knowledge of the rich sexual history of the country. This view also fails to take into account the absolute decimation of thriving socio-political communities by Aids, the government, and the lack of social/legal recourse to claim protection and solidarity against both of these plagues. It also fails to take into account the enormous collective psychological trauma of growing up gay or lesbian in South Africa and feeling completely disconnected from any sense of community, feeling ashamed to be a part of a community that is still widely stigmatised, or oscillating somewhere between.
- "You can't claim recognition of being a lesbian first and foremost – you would be seen as a woman, or black, in the law. And so you would be entitled to seek advancement within these categories" – Now THIS is starting to get to the heart of it. But I'd first like to point out how incredibly problematic it is to assume which identity or subjectivity a person values 'most'. There's something horribly controlling and authoritarian about declaring what someone else is and what someone else must value within themselves, stripping that person of any sense of day-to-day community and agency.
This last protest, however, does offer a legitimate realisation that in reality it would only really be gay, white men who would benefit from any sort of adjustment to employment equity views. The common assumption here is that all gay white men are middle-class, well-educated, privileged individuals – very often the case, but wholly ignorant of the reality.
Back to my interjection above: it isn't my intention in this piece to claim, therefore, that all white gay men should be advanced within the scope of employment equity. It's not my claim that white gay men are the most hard-hit demographic in post-apartheid South Africa, and that focus should be shifted to helping 'them'. Indeed, the tendency to focus on (white, Western) 'gay rights' in other contexts, at the expense of other social problems, is hugely problematic. Neither is it my intention to critique the 'fairness' of equity policies – it is vital that we correct the wrongs of the past, and such critiques of 'fairness' are better left to legal experts for now.
Rather, the intention of this piece and my Renate-inspired-mind-wander is to think about how we view privilege, equality and progress in South Africa.
Within the current discourse someone has to categorise themselves as a person of colour and/or a (cis?) woman and/or disabled. And what this speaks to is a rigid hierarchy of identity categories which current strategies of change perpetuate and which current debates allow (even encourage) to fester.
This reliance on identity categories and the privileging of certain categories over others is understandable. Natural, even, given the systematic disprivileging of those same categories in the past.
But the reliance on those categories we resort to in our discussions of WHITE PRIVILEGE or MALE PRIVILEGE or RACE RELATIONS fundamentally perpetuates the acceptance – socially and legally – of those very categories. And as Catherine MacKinnon reflects, "categories and stereotypes and classifications are authentic instruments of inequality. And they are static and hard to move. But they are the ossified outcomes of the dynamic intersection of multiple hierarchies, not the dynamic that creates them. They are there, but they are not the reason they are."
I like that phase: ossified outcomes. The hardened, reinforced century-old bones which give skeletal support to our social bodies. But these sturdy categories of understandings are merely the products of hierarchical social structures. The identities, stereotypes and categories do not produce the structures themselves; they are merely the instruments.
And so when we uncritically perpetuate categories, and when we create systems based on those categories, and when we undertake noble campaigns which seek to bring about change on the basis of those categories, we are only fooling ourselves. For the structures which give rise to those categories – and thus those pains, inequalities, social ills – still exist. Indeed, we work with them ourselves.
Such a realisation is not new. Indeed, many friends reading this have shared similar thoughts and resources about how the fight against white privilege, or male privilege, is about changing the system – about changing the structures. We will always need labels and words to describe, and people will always identify with certain words and concepts. But it is one thing to have identity categories and another to base politics on them.
In expressing such realisations, where many of these thoughts and resources fall short is in considering the meeting point(s) of both power, and disempowerment. Privilege, and disprivilege. It is far more comfortable, and comforting, to speak about how "thinking about your white privilege will disturb you – and that's ok, then you can act" or how "feeling ashamed about your male privilege is okay, because now that you're aware you can change your actions" because it creates a clear binary between those who do "check" and who are "checking" their privilege, and those who are not. It creates an alliance between the victims, survivors and enlightened ones and sets "us" up against "them" – those not yet enlightened, those who exercise their privilege shamelessly.
It's not comforting to think that some of those 'others' may be disprivileged themselves. It's not comfortable to think that many of 'us', we who 'check' ourselves so regularly our metaphorical eyes are perpetually rolled back in self-reflection, sclera making us blind to our surroundings, have lived power and privilege over others. It's easier to divide according to categories than confront the blur that is experience.
Discussions of change and privilege in South Africa often rely on a single-axis understanding of identity and discrimination. Race, or gender, or sexuality. The Renate Barnard case made me think of the 1989 case that Kimberlé Crenshaw engaged with – though obviously drastically different in content and context. Crenshaw looked at how the American legal system, in terms of anti-discrimination law, rarely treated black women as self-identified black women – they were either protected under the law as 'black', or as 'women'. But the historical, social, economic and political specificities of experience linked to being a 'black woman' were absent, not understood, and disregarded. Crenshaw argued that rather than relying on a privileging of one dimension of inequality or power we need to consider "the multidimensionality of marginalized subjects' lived experiences".
Crenshaw offered the approach of 'intersectionality' – giving a name to a perspective that has existed since the 19th century. With its roots in black feminism, critical race theory, and activism, 'intersectionality' is effectively an approach – a sensibility, a viewpoint, a mode of understanding – which is primarily concerned with a critique of social power by considering and working against interlocking forms of oppression. A highly contested term (it's become a bit of a buzzword in academia), intersectionality is primarily concerned with the politics of power and knowledge production and the ways in which these are implemented in and adopted by society. It's an activist-driven concept which moves away from identity politics: it moves away from emphasising categories as discreet objects, instead shifting attention to multiple forms of discrimination, power and privilege.
And indeed a part of recognising the "multidimensionality" of life is that individuals can at once occupy a space of privilege and disprivilege. Of being empowered and disempowered. These are linked to the underlying structures in society – structures which permeate identities and experiences.
Intersectionality as a concept, as a method, and as a framework (many authors and activists had developed models and views about how to do this – Grzanka's collection is a great resource, as is the special edition of the Signs journal dedicated to the topic) can be employed – should be employed – as a way to critique not the categories of power in South Africa, but rather the structures of power. Change should be based on shifting those structures and speaking to complex experiences rather than on a game of oppression Olympics.
It's natural to expect South Africa to focus on race-related issues. It's one of the biggest issues from the past, and it's vital that equity policy address race relations. But I have a real problem not only with how this is often done, but also with how we speak about it. It comes down to the existing structures of power. It's not that I deny that 'male privilege' is real and a problem. It's not that I deny that 'white privilege' is a vile poison that needs to be cured. It's rather that I feel framing social issues, social change, equity and democracy using this particular framework – or rather, using the framework put forward by many popular interpretations of the concepts – is not conducive to meaningful change.
Meaningful change will only come about when we have an honest discussion about the structures of power in society. How you can be a middleclass black man and still have privilege (if we consider privilege in terms of class), but still be disprivileged in terms of race. How you can be an impoverished, cisgendered, able-bodied woman and still have power and privilege – something uncomfortable to consider! – in relation to gender.
How, then, do we change those structures?
It's not just a meaningless academic debate: countless projects exist which explicitly employ this intersectional view, rather than a single-axis 'privilege' view. Successful, meaningful projects – which are, unfortunately, not widely reported upon because our current language and framework for understanding often don't allow us to see their value [I'm happy to share resources about the projects if you'd like to read more].
All of these projects share the recognition that key is a shift away from identity-based politics to a politics of coalition: a mode of operation where politics, policies and actions come from values and shared goals. Where identities stem from such politics, and not where politics stem from identities.
A privileged view of the world, yes? Perhaps. But one that is adopted successfully in other contexts. One that is certainly positively adopted in debate contexts.
It's a dangerous line, and a potentially volatile proposal. It would be easy to take an ultra-liberal view and interpret the idea that everyone has both privilege and disprivilege as a way to excuse behaviour and not hold people accountable. It would be easy for it to be misinterpreted as apologist. Which is why a thorough framework for consideration would be needed, based on real-world models and a real recognition that the violence of our society, and the inability for a person – for example – to openly declare oneself as gay or lesbian in certain parts of the country without facing severe 'punishment' –, are, in part, inextricably linked to our current failure to address the systems which create such conditions of intolerance.
When we speak about privilege in our current framework we render those who are not so neatly categorised silent and invisible. We create divisions based on existing structures which facilitate the very privilege and inequality we seek to challenge. And we often fail to engage with other forms of privilege and disprivilege. Where, for example, are the nation-wide discussions about the privileging of South Africanness over Africanness? Over humanness? Of privileging being human over being 'non-human'? All of these have a real impact on our societies and our ecosystems!
That's why I feel uncomfortable speaking about male privilege and white privilege. It's not that they're not real issues. It's not that we don't need to speak about race, gender, sexuality. Rather, it's how the concepts of privilege are utilised and how they're debated.
Discussions and proposed strategies for change often simply reinforce underlying structures. To claim one form of privilege is worse than another reinforces existing hierarchies of power, and makes us complicit in perpetuating those very hierarchies. We need to speak about social issues in a way which does not decontextualise privilege and power (note: re-contextualisation does not ever mean excusing behaviour or apologising – responsibility is as important as reconciliation). Intellectual engagements with privilege-as-concept do not necessarily decontextualise it – it's just that often in the South African context popular applications and interpretations are guilty of implicit hierarchical imposition.
Let's speak about inequality in relation to the structures which allow that inequality to exist. But beyond that, let's speak about inequality and structures in an honest way: how we often select and choose who is equal, and how though we may say we are a society committed to positive transformation and full equality we often rely on (and celebrate) structures which fundamentally oppose our goals. And then let's begin to challenge those structures, and challenge our own actions which allow them to thrive.
We naturally need to have priorities – but prioritisation must take the form of an intersectional engagement, or we risk ossifying the structures which shape our current realities. A shift in our view of society and the way we engage is needed. We need to feel enabled to speak out against all forms of inequality – and we need to be empowered to recognise when we are ossifying power dynamics which contribute to disprivilege and disempowerment.


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Uses high-quality stainless steel rods up to a maximum thickness of 4 mm with latching and precise positioning for quick installation and safety. Omni directional adjustment functions allow for a superior seal.
Industrial-grade aluminum alloy profiles are cast as a single body, processed into structural frames with precision by CNC, then subjected to CMECH's unique treatment technology to achieve the same color and texture as CMECH handles.


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Designing and Creative Process
with Agnes Seebass
Apr 11th, 2020 | 10am to 4pm
Tuition: $165
Kit Fee: TBD | Materials and Lab Fee | Paid at End of Class
Some Fabrication and Soldering Skills Required
"The class was absolutely wonderful! Agnes was very sweet and helpful." - Mary, Simple Ring Making with Agnes
Feeling stumped in your design process? Find your voice and zoom into a collection of work that compliments or goes beyond your usual aesthetic. Feel like you can't draw, not to worry. This is not about sketching or drawing, it is about tricks and tips to design your work and map out your approach to fabrication using a 3 dimensional approach.
In this class you will develop a design or collection starting with a simple geometric shape, and with the help of exercises work through new and intriguing forms in paper. Learn key words to trigger your design process and talk about abstract expression you want to put into your design (Contrast, surprise, serenity,…)
You will transform your ideas from paper to metal using the metalsmithing skills you know, plus learn some tips and tricks to effectively convey your design and add more volume to pieces through textures, forming, sawing and rolling mill. Ultimately you will begin a captivating piece to jump start a new collection.
Bring your sketchbook, playful heart, and an open mind to class and leave with some important design techniques for your tool box.
***This one day class is designed to focus on this specific technique only. No finished work will be made.
Please be informed Creative Side only offers "tuition credit" upon cancellation. Please review our no refund policy before enrolling and agree to the terms. We appreciate your support of our growing community.


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We would like to let everyone know that bus routes are now available on our district website for students who have registered for yellow bus transportation. To locate your route, go to "Parents" tab > then "Transportation" link on the left hand side > followed by the "Schedules and Routes" link. Then scroll down to St. Basil School. Should you have any questions, please contact our school at 403-500-2108.
Click here for Bus Transportation
Kindergarten to Grade 6 students who attend programs of choice and live more than 1.2 km from their school are eligible to receive transportation.
Junior and senior high students who live
further than 2.4 km from their designated school may purchase Calgary Transit
monthly bus passes at a reduced cost for travel to and from the school. Each
year, eligible students or their parents must fill out a CCSD rebate form to
receive the monthly rebate.
Rebate Forms
Rocky View School District Transportation Office is responsible for arranging transportation for CCSD students in kindergarten to Grade 12 who reside in the Airdrie, Chestermere and Cochrane areas. For information about service, families should contact their local Catholic school or the Transportation Department at 403-500-2458.
For those students in Calgary who live outside of the eligible walk limit areas and must instead take Calgary Transit, you can use CalgaryTransit's Google trip function to plot your bus trips.
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Many experts have described the drug addiction crisis in America as an "epidemic." And despite efforts to prevent addiction and overdoses, it appears things are not getting any better. In fact, according to a new report, things may be worse than ever.
The National Center for Health Statistics reported that drug overdose deaths in the first nine months of 2016 are expected to be higher than the number of deaths in the first nine months of 2015. 2015 was already the highest amount of drug overdose deaths in U.S. history with more than 52,000, meaning that will be two straight years in which America set that record.
Of the 52,000 drug overdose deaths in 2015, about 33,000 were attributed to opioids. Of course, most people visiting this site know that marijuana is a far safer alternative to opioids (0 overdoses), and yet the stigma surrounding the drug, as well as the federal government's insistence on keeping it illegal, have prevented many people from ditching their more dangerous but legal pain treatments.
President Trump has spoken out about the opioid crisis in America and vowed to find a way to stop it. However, his "solution" so far seems to be along the same path as the "Just Say No" campaigns that have done very little to curb America's drug addiction.
Perhaps as more reports and stories like this become public, the American people will realize (even more than they already do) how ridiculous our nation's drug laws truly are.


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Pro-Palestinian Group in South Africa Suspends Members for Visiting Israel
by Shiryn Ghermezian
A pro-Palestinian student group in South Africa temporarily suspended some of its members who traveled to Israel with an 18-member delegation of young leaders, the organization said on Tuesday.
The South African Students Congress (SASCO) accused the members of participating in an "Israel propaganda trip," and claimed the intention of the visit was to receive an "unbalanced perspective" on the Israeli-Arab conflict. They group expressed grave concern over attempts by the "Zionist lobby" to wage "a counter offensive to our ongoing solidarity campaigns with the oppressed people of Palestine."
SASCO, which promotes the boycott of Israel, said the trip was an attempt to embarrass it through its members' participation. They claimed the tour tainted the name of their organization and put it into "disrepute." The visit to Israel was "crossing the picket line," the group said.
"We wish to send a clear message to our members that as an internationalist organization, we will never accept that in our name our members contradict our standing positions," a statement said. "The oppression of the people of Palestine by apartheid Israel is no different if not worse than our own oppression. It would be an indictment on our part if we do not take action."
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The delegation of student leaders traveled to Israel on July 4 and returned to South Africa on Saturday. The trip was organized by the South Africa Israel Forum.
SASCO Secretary General Luzuko Buku claimed its members were advised against going on the trip, but went nonetheless. "They knew they would be suspended when they created this crazy offence," said Buko, according to the local publication News 24.
Dan Brotman, the director of the South Africa Israel Forum, told Israel's Haaretz newspaper that the goal of the trip was "not to make [the students] pro-Israel, but to expose them to a narrative they really don't hear in South Africa."
The suspended SASCO members announced in a joint statement on Thursday that they had visited the Jewish State in a "personal capacity" so they could learn "more about the reality of the situation and understand the positions of both countries."
"This trip was a success and all delegates have different opinions on this conflict as a result of our experiences with both people of Palestine and Israel, and thus we are more determined that through our findings there might actually be light for a solution towards the ongoing war," they said.
The young leaders also mentioned that there have been false claims about them receiving gifts and money for participating in the trip. They requested privacy in order to consider their findings from the trip.


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Impressive Wallays solos to Paris-Tours victory !
Third victory for Wallays in the autumn Classic!
The 4 Jours de Dunkerque is a French stage race in the region of Hauts-de-France. This Europe Tour race will take place from Tuesday 14 May until Sunday 19 May. The course of the 65th edition consists of six hilly stages. Last year, André Greipel took two stage victories for Lotto Soudal. Jelle Wallays and sports director Frederik Willems look ahead to this race.
Frederik Willems, sports director at Lotto Soudal: "This stage race comes right after the spring season. The course certainly is not easy, especially the stage to Cassel, but also the other days include some hills along the way. As we're racing close to the French coast, the weather conditions are often pretty unpredictable. At the moment, the weather predictions do not look very nice. Perhaps, these are small factors, but all together they make a great difference. During the first stages, I expect some bunch sprints, however a lot is depending on the previously stated factors."
"Jens Keukeleire will be one of the protected riders in our team, but we need to await his feeling in the race itself. Jelle Wallays surely is very important to us and therefore we have missed him in the Flemish Classics. Dunkerque will only be his first race after his crash in Argentina, but he was able to train enough to reach the right shape. He can test himself by going on the offensive. Stan Dewulf is someone who perfectly sees how the race will unfold. He will get a free role in some stages, for example the one to Cassel. In other ones, he could go along with an interesting breakaway and that way protecting the rest of the team."
Jelle Wallays: "During the long rehabilitation, I really got to know my own body better, because each time during and after the training, I needed to wait how it would react. In the run-up towards the Omloop Het Nieuwblad, I felt it would not be possible to ride the spring Classics. I certainly did not want to force anything, so I immediately shifted focus to later goals. Just before the Tour de Romandie I got sick, a serious setback… Unfortunately, my comeback was postponed by two weeks, but things like that happen. Now everything is going according to plan again and I am really looking forward to riding in Dunkerque. "
"My role within the team still needs to be discussed. I expect that I will mainly help the team, since I have just restarted competition. On training I occasionally pass through Cassel and in the past I already rode the 4 Jours de Dunkerque, with a similar stage to that climb. Riding in bad weather conditions is no problem for me. Then there is more action, so I actually like that. "
Line-up Lotto Soudal: Stan Dewulf, Frederik Frison, Jens Keukeleire, Rémy Mertz, Brian van Goethem, Jelle Wallays and Enzo Wouters.
Sports directors: Frederik Willems and Herman Frison.
Stage 1 Tuesday 14 May: Dunkerque – Condé-sur-l'Escaut (172.9 km)
Stage 2 Wednesday 15 May: Wallers – Saint-Quentin (177.7 km)
Stage 3 Thursday 16 May: Laon – Compiègne (156.5 km)
Stage 4 Friday 17 May: Fort-Mahon-Plage – Le Portel (179.8 km)
Stage 5 Saturday 18 May: Gravelines – Cassel (181.5 km)
Stage 6 Sunday 19 May: Roubaix – Dunkerque (187.3 km)
During the long rehabilitation, I really got to know my own body better.


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It is written in an elegant, clerical hand, on four sheets of parchment, each two feet wide and a bit more than two feet high, about the size of an eighteenth-century newspaper but finer, and made not from the pulp of plants but from the hide of an animal. Some of the ideas it contains reach across ages and oceans, to antiquity; more were, at the time, newfangled. "We the People," the first three words of the preamble, are giant and Gothic: they slant left, and, because most of the rest of the words slant right, the writing zigzags. It took four months to debate and to draft, including two weeks to polish the prose, neat work done by a committee of style. By Monday, September 17, 1787, it was ready. That afternoon, the Constitution of the United States of America was read out loud in a chamber on the first floor of Pennsylvania's State House, where the delegates to the Federal Convention had assembled to subscribe their names to a new system of government, "to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common Defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity."
Then Benjamin Franklin rose from his chair, wishing to be heard. At eighty-one, he was too tired to make another speech, but he had written down what he wanted to say, and James Wilson, decades Franklin's junior, read his remarks, which were addressed to George Washington, presiding. "Mr. President," he began, "I confess that there are several parts of this constitution which I do not at present approve, but I am not sure I shall never approve them." Franklin liked to swaddle argument with affability, as if an argument were a colicky baby; the more forceful his argument, the more tightly he swaddled it. What he offered was a well-bundled statement about changeability. I find that there are errors here, he explained, but, who knows, someday I might change my mind; I often do. "For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged by better Information, or fuller Consideration, to change Opinions even on important Subjects, which I once thought right, but found to be otherwise." That people so often believe themselves to be right is no proof that they are; the only difference between the Church of Rome and the Church of England is that the former is infallible while the latter is never wrong. He hoped "that every member of the Convention who may still have Objections to it, would with me, on this occasion doubt a little of his own Infallibility, and to make manifest our Unanimity, put his name to this Instrument." Although the document had its faults, he doubted that any other assembly would, at just that moment, have been able to draft a better one. "Thus I consent, Sir, to this Constitution because I expect no better, and because I am not sure, that it is not the best."
Three delegates refused to sign, but at the bottom of the fourth page appear the signatures of the rest. What was written on parchment was then made public, printed in newspapers and broadsheets, often with "We the People" set off in extra-large type. Meanwhile, the secretary of the convention carried the original to New York to present it to Congress, which met, at the time, at City Hall. Without either endorsing or opposing it, Congress agreed to forward the Constitution to the states, for ratification. The original Constitution was simply filed away and, later, shuffled from one place to another. When City Hall underwent renovations, the Constitution was transferred to the Department of State. The following year, it moved with Congress to Philadelphia and, in 1800, to Washington, where it was stored at the Treasury Department until it was shifted to the War Office. In 1814, three clerks stuffed it into a linen sack and carried it to a gristmill in Virginia, which was fortunate, because the British burned Washington down. In the eighteen-twenties, when someone asked James Madison where it was, he had no idea.
In 1875, the Constitution found a home in a tin box in the bottom of a closet in a new building that housed the Departments of State, War, and Navy. In 1894, it was sealed between glass plates and locked in a safe in the basement. In 1921, Herbert Putnam, a librarian, drove it across town in his Model T. In 1924, it was put on display in the Library of Congress, for the first time ever. Before then, no one had thought of that. It spent the Second World War at Fort Knox. In 1952, it was driven in an armored tank under military guard to the National Archives, where it remains, in a shrine in the rotunda, alongside the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights.
Ours is one of the oldest written constitutions in the world and the first, anywhere, to be submitted to the people for their approval. As Madison explained, the Constitution is "of no more consequence than the paper on which it is written, unless it be stamped with the approbation of those to whom it is addressed . . . THE PEOPLE THEMSELVES." Lately, some say, it's been thrown in the trash. "Stop Shredding Our Constitution!" Tea Party signs read. "FOUND in a DUMPSTER behind the Capitol," read another, on which was pasted the kind of faux-parchment Constitution you can buy in the souvenir shop at any history-for-profit heritage site. I bought mine at Bunker Hill years back. It is printed on a single sheet of foolscap, and the writing is so small that it's illegible; then again, the knickknack Constitution isn't meant to be read. The National Archives sells a poster-size scroll, twenty-two inches by twenty-nine inches, that is a readable facsimile of the first page, for twelve dollars and ninety-five cents. This item is currently out of stock.
Parchment is beautiful. As an object, the Constitution has more in common with the Dead Sea Scrolls than with what we now think of as writing: pixels floating on a screen, words suspended in a digital cloud, bubbles of text. R we the ppl? Our words are vaporous. Not so the Constitution. "I have this crazy idea that the Constitution actually means something," one bumper sticker reads. Ye olde parchment serves as shorthand for everything old, real, durable, American, and true—a talisman held up against the uncertainties and abstractions of a meaningless, changeable, paperless age.
You can keep a constitution in your pocket, as Thomas Paine once pointed out. Pocket constitutions have been around since the seventeen-nineties. The Cato Institute prints a handsome Constitution, the size and appearance of a passport, available for four dollars and ninety-five cents. The National Center for Constitutional Studies, founded by W. Cleon Skousen, a rogue Mormon, John Bircher, and all-purpose conspiracy theorist, prints a stapled paper version, the dimensions of a datebook, thirty cents if you order a gross. I got mine, free, at a Tea Party meeting in Boston. Andrew Johnson, our first impeached President, was said to have waved around his pocket constitution so often that he resembled a newsboy hawking the daily paper. Crying constitution is a minor American art form. "This is my copy of the Constitution," John Boehner, the Speaker of the House, said at a Tea Party rally in Ohio last year, holding up a pocket-size pamphlet. "And I'm going to stand here with the Founding Fathers, who wrote in the preamble, 'We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights including life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.' " Not to nitpick, but this is not the preamble to the Constitution. It is the second sentence of the Declaration of Independence.


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In case you are contemplating any sort of labor on your private home from turning your storage into a gym, to a very new kitchen then often the one factor in your way is cash; that is the aim of a house enchancment loan. His final appearance on Residence Improvement was the eighth and last season's Christmas episode "Residence for the Holidays", which aired on December eight, 1998. Studio Audience : The audience for the present itself and Tool Time had been the same people. Tom Wopat , greatest known as Luke Duke from the TV Collection The Dukes of Hazzard, appears early on in Season 7 as Ian, to whom Jill feels romantically attracted after meeting him in a gymnasium and who places in granite countertops (albeit halfway) in the Taylor's kitchen.
Buxom Is Higher : Both of the Device Time Ladies, Lisa and Heidi, are quite busty. A agency believer that "more power" is at all times an excellent factor, Tim often tweaks and adjusts his approach to disastrously humorous on-set mishaps that delight the Tool Time audience but take a look at the endurance of his delicate-mannered assistant, Al Borland (Richard Karn).
With out the proper instruments, however, it's possible that the majority projects aren't going to get done, or a minimum of not be executed nicely. This in style catchphrase wouldn't be uttered after Residence Enchancment's seventh season, 5 until Tim's final line in the collection finale, which are the last two phrases ever spoken. Stephen Tobolowsky was tapped to play the Instrument Time co-host, Glen.
The writers had been very cautious with this or related episodes so as not to seem hypocritical in having Tim Taylor flat out condemning the type of conduct that Tim Allen had performed in real-life. Checklist Guidelines Vote to your favourite Residence Improvement episodes, regardless of how in style they are. Starring Tim Allen as "Tim the Toolman Taylor," House Improvement was one of the greatest sitcoms of the ninety's.
Mother and father Stroll In at the Worst Time : Jill walks in on Brad and his girlfriend making out in his bed room. In the course of the show's ultimate season, Brad and Mark became much nearer because of Randy's absence. Reduce a Slice, Take the Relaxation : In "The Previous College Try", one of many college students from Tim's store class does this with Jill's cake when Tim has then over for dinner.


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Ivanka Trump is leading a US delegation to the Winter Olympics in South Korea in an effort to show a softer side of US diplomacy on the peninsula while calling for maximum pressure to be put on North Korea.
Trump watched snowboarding events in Pyeongchang with South Korea's first lady, Kim Jung-sook, and foreign minister Kang Kyung-wha. Wearing a Team USA hat and red snowsuit, she captured the attention of local media. Her trip comes less than two weeks after Kim Yo-jong, Kim Jong-un's younger sister, visited the South and largely overshadowed US vice president Mike Pence.
"We cannot have a better, or smarter, person representing our country," Donald Trump said in an early morning tweet.
At a dinner on Friday, Ivanka Trump's message of "maximum pressure" seemed to clash with South Korean president Moon Jae-in's strategy of denuclearisation through dialogue. Experts have said the North's recent diplomatic overtures are aimed at driving a wedge between Washington and Seoul, and the mixed messages suggested there may be tension between the allies.
"Active dialogue is being held between the South and the North amid the North's participation in the Olympics," Moon said, according to the Yonhap news agency. "This is greatly contributing to easing tension on the Korean Peninsula and improving the South-North relationship."
Friday's meal featured "Korean food designed to be palatable for foreigners" including bibimbap, a rice dish topped with various vegetables and meat "that mixes different ingredients evenly and symbolises harmony", according to the presidential Blue House. Moon has rolled out the red carpet for Trump, who is an adviser to her father.
"I thank you for hosting us all here tonight as we reaffirm our bonds of friendship, of cooperation, of partnership and reaffirm our commitment to our maximum pressure campaign to ensure that the Korean Peninsula is denuclearised," she said.
As Trump landed in Seoul, the US announced a new round of sanctions against Pyongyang in an effort to curb the country's nuclear and missile programs. The measures targeted 27 shipping and trading companies, 28 vessels and one person, all suspected of helping North Korea circumvent current sanctions.
Washington's hard line emerged as the dominant theme of Trump's trip, with White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders telling reporters: "We are going to continue a campaign of maximum pressure, the latest sanctions are the strongest that we have had on North Korea. We are going to continue in that form."
The US is "going to ask all of our allies and partners to step up and do more as well and join us in that effort," she added.
Trump's visit will coincide with a high level delegation from North Korea, with both attending the closing ceremony of the Winter Olympics. US and South Korean officials have said there is no meeting planned between the two sides, but the possibility of direct talks had led to intense speculation.
Pence was set to meet with officials from the North during his trip, but it was cancelled at the last minute.


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I've been doing Keto now for 1 year and 15 days. But I've been dealing with anxiety for much longer. Before I began Keto I was doing fairly well and was stable on my medication. I saw these two, Keto and anxiety, as very separate not thinking one could have an impact on the other.
Technically, when I started Keto, I think I was off my Lexapro for almost a month. I think many of us find that Keto has greatly helped improve mental health but seems to make it spark up at the beginning. In combination of excess work/life stress and the beginning of Keto, I had to go back on Lexapro and stabilize.
It wasn't until about April 2018 that my psychologist suggested that I try again. She really felt that I was ready. She was also super supportive on Keto. I had to wait until the end of the school year because I knew from last summer it would cause some problems.
July 2018 I started stepping down from the Lexapro to 7.5mg daily
August 2018 – 5.0mg daily
September 2018 – 2.5mg daily
And in about 10 days I will be on 0mg of lexapro daily.
Each time I dropped I had a freak out/panic attack. This last step really has me going though. This is my second panic attack and I just want this all to stop. It's totally worth it because I hate this feeling and I don't want to go through this withdraw again.
When it gets bad I take my prescribed Ativan to help me calm down. The part that I hate the worst, more than being frustrated and irritable about every little thing, it feels like I'm jittery with electricity throughout my body. It feels like my heart is pounding but I am sitting on my bed doing not much of anything.
You might be wondering why I'm writing about my anxiety on a Keto blog. The fact of the matter is that Keto effects every single aspect of your mental and physical health. Sometimes it can be a little rough in the beginning, especially if you're already having an issue with anxiety, but after that little bump, there is nothing but a brain healing itself.
Keto has helped me more than group and individual therapy, medication, stress reduction, and meditation ever has. Everything I could do was to help me identify and cope with my issues. I really couldn't do much to help heal my brain.
I started Keto without the goal of improving mental health but am excited to tell you that Keto really does help with brain issues. Now, I am not a medical professional. This is my experience. I ask that you use common sense and the advice of your medical professionals. But don't be afraid to add Keto to your regime.
If I had known Keto could help my brain heal itself, I think I would have tried it sooner. It's was a pleasant surprise.
What are your experiences with Keto and mental health? Have you had any improvements?
Long story short, I'm 10 days from being off of my medication and I attribute this all to Keto. I expect a few bumps after I'm completely off, a few bad days that I should keep myself from other humans so I don't freak out and take it out on them.
For those of you who haven't ready about my anxiety adventures before in this blog. I'm sharing because when I looked for information about how people got off their anxiety medications and their experiences, I simply couldn't find it. It was scary for me. I hope that someone can benefit from me sharing my story in some way.
Please take care of yourself.
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In Celebration of the Human Voice - The Essential Musical Instrument
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Reaching the top of the Billboard charts in 1995, this song from the Disney film Pocahontas speaks of the wonders of the earth and the spirit of all living things and encourages us to accept others who are different in appearance or culture. This expressive Discovery Series setting is well-crafted for young singers and will be a concert highlight. Discovery Level 2. Available separately: 3-Part Mixed, 2-Part, VoiceTrax CD. Duration: ca. 4:50.
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Arranger: Audrey Snyder | Composer: Alan Menken | Lyricist: Stephen Schwartz | Musical: Pocahontas


text: Reshma is a cinema and Tv actress. She made her debut in the Tamil television serial Vani Rani serial telecasted in on Sun Tv. She has worked as an air hostess before she entered into Cinema. She made her movie debut in Ko2 in which her performance was applauded and Velai nu Vanthuta Vellaikaran brings a good reach to her.


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Planning Tips for The Average Joe
Helpful Factors to Think About When Building the Brand of Your Firm
There are many ways for improving the performance of your business. One of the best ways is brand building. You will not only find small businesses utilizing the strategy of building a brand but the bigger businesses as well. The big companies you admire out there established themselves by building their brands. Most of the small business owners you know out there have the understanding that branding is essential for the success of what they are offering. Yet you will find some businesses that are not even informed about brand building. As a beginner, it is not that easy to build the brand in your business. You will have to consider some things. Outlined below are some of the most important tips for implementing the brand in your small business.
The first thing that you need to do is to clearly define your brand. You need to ensure you are aware of the type of goods and services that your business produces. You have then to know the space it occupies in the market then do a research of the controversial and rational needs and problems your customers are facing. Your products and services should have the features that are going to promote your business, connect with your clients and hence differentiate your business from the rest.
The other aspect is that you should think about your brand as a person. Get to know that a human being is an individual whose character is made of beliefs, the values as well as goals that define them who they are and who they interact with. People's personality determines how they behave in various situations, how they dress and speak. When building brand of your business, this is what you should apply.
Building long term friendship with your clients is another aspect that you need to think about. You need to make sure hath the promises you make to your customers shall be attainable. Of important is to be aware of how your company operates and be true to the ethics that drive it each day.
Good conversation about your business with your customers with a good tone is another way of building the brand. You will thus be able to strengthen the features concerning your business and making giving clarifications of the goods and services that should be expected in your business.
The other way of building a brand is to know your target market and the purpose of doing this is to help you know exactly the people you should aim to reach. You will be capable of tailoring your tasks and memorandum so that you can be able to meet the specific needs of your customers.


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Celebrity Health Profiles
Jessica Simpson's 45kg weight loss pic is the #fitspo we all need right now
And she did it by walking 14k steps a day.
Where are all the Bachelor and Bachelorette couples now?
Not all love is lost!
Funniest memes from Locky's Bachelor finale
Locky got ROASTED!
The Bachelor Irena's tragic health battle revealed on cult podcast
Our heart breaks for her.
We stalked the Bachelor Locky Gilbert, so you don't have to
Is his middle name 'abs'?
Gigi Hadid and Zayn Malik's baby girl is here!
Ahhhh! The cuteness!
'Don't cancel the milestones, just postpone them'
F or Carrie Bickmore, it's all about viewing life with a glass half full.
Martha Stewart 'pops' 20 CBD gummies a day to help her calm down
Ah, how many is too many?
'Tennis taught me the importance of never giving up'
Maria Sharapova gets real in this exclusive interview.
Matty J and Laura announce they're expecting baby number 2
Talk about a Bachelor success story!
SPOILER: The order Bachelor Locky eliminates the last 4 girls has been leaked
We repeat: SPOILER! ALERT!
Bec Judd shares the simple strategies she uses when she's dealing with stress
Plus, her simple family dinner philosophy and the magic pill that keeps her kids from getting sick.
Elyse Knowles reveals she's expecting a baby with boyfriend Josh Barker
"And then there were 3 #babyparker".
'You can look at what's wrong with the picture, but I choose to look at what's right'
Turia Pitt reveals all in this exclusive interview.
I tried Hilary Duff's iso fitness plan, and now I'm obsessed
This is what dreeeeams are made of!
Wait, what, Bella DOESN'T win The Bachelor?
Ok, we SO didn't see this coming.
'The highs are high and the lows are low - but I just love being her mum'
Jesinta Franklin gets real about motherhood.
A plant-based diet transformed The Bachelor's Irena's health
'I have more energy and my weight is more consistent.'
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Adele has never looked happier in her latest bikini pic
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'My solution is to get into nature, it slots you back where you need to be'
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The Bachelor's Bel has a very strict bedtime routine we're onboard with
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'My whole life became about exercise, I fell in love with being healthy and fit'
Elsa Pataky reveals all in this exclusive interview.
The Bachelor's Bella combines intermittent fasting with Pilates to stay in shape
But weekends are filled with wine and chocolate.
The last 3 things Snezana Wood bought
Shoes, skincare and something that smells good. Like, really good.
The $35 self-help book that helped Adele turn her life around
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Jennifer Hawkins' new-mum life involves yoga, sweet potato chips and incidental mindfulness
"The biggest thing I've learn being a mum is that you can't plan a lot. You just have to breeeeeeathe."
Amy Schumer's 'beach body' tip is life-giving
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The last three things Olympian Morgan Mitchell bought
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Lili Reinhart on self-help books, reiki and eating too much takeaway
"My meditation is reading self-help books. They're therapeutic and make me think about things differently."
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"Sundays are my favourite, I set up my own beauty parlour to restart and rehydrate my body for the week ahead."
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According to the Land Registry's latest house price index the cost of an average house rose by 1.1% in January.
The Land Registry puts the price of the average house in England and Wales at £161,545. But although the price is up on a month by month basis, on an annual basis the price of an average house has dropped by 1%.
The Land Registry HPI (landreg.gov.uk/upload/documents/HPI_Report_Jan_12_pv4ep17.pdf) now stands at 259.1, where the base of 100 was set in 1995.
When looking at London only , which is of course the most expensive region to buy, the average house price is now £351,305, which is 2.5% up on the month and 2.9% up on the year as well.
The region with the lowest average house price is the North East at £102,066.
All regions except the North West show an increase on the month and all regions except London show a decrease over the year.
But before we get all excited about an upswing in the housing market across the board let's take a look at the long term trend.
The first graph below shows the main house price indexes: Land Registry, Nationwide, Halifax and Rightmove asking prices. Also included is a line that shows the average of the Halifax and Nationwide indexes.
You can see that the Rightmove asking prices at the top are far higher than what the lenders and the Land Registry are actually seeing (something to bear in mind when making that offer). But just note how close together the others are and how prices have been levelling out.
Also you will note that in February Rightmove asking prices rose again, but there is no data from the other sources yet for February. (Click on the images to enlarge them.)
The next graph shows the same indexes in an exploded view, Rightmove has been omitted as it is outside the graph scales.
This last graph shows by how much Rightmove asking prices are greater than the prices that the Land Registry is seeing.
You will see that despite the obvious concerns about the market, vendors and their agents keep asking ever more than the property is really worth. In January 2007 for example Rightmove asking prices were about 1.28 times (28% more than) the Land Registry average but by January 2012 this had risen to 1.39 times (39% more); a marked upward trend. And this does not take into account the latest uptick in Rightmove asking prices in February.


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Leading open-wheel racing team Abel Motorsports, based in Louisville, Kentucky, is preparing to haul Northeast this week, intent on continuing one of the most dominant seasons in recent racing history. The team, led by principal Bill Abel, is six-for-six in the first two race weekends for the new F3 Americas Championship Powered by Honda, and has a great chance to make it nine straight victories to open the season.
"We are expanding to a two-car team in F3", Abel commented, "and we're looking to continue our success. Jacob Abel will drive our second F3 car at New Jersey alongside Kyle Kirkwood, and we feel our driver lineup gives us a great chance to add to our winning streak."
Abel Motorsports burst onto the U.S. motorsports scene in 2017, mounting a strong effort in the F4 U.S. Championship Powered by Honda. For 2018, Abel has fielded a two-car F4 squad, while adding now two F3 Americas Onroak/Honda machines, along with open wheel race cars in other series.
Abel Motorsports signed Kirkwood to pilot their first F3 Americas entry right before the first race weekend for the new series at PITT Race in August. Kirkwood, the reigning F4 US Champion, had just clinched another prestigious open wheel series title before strapping in to the Abel Motorsports F3 car. The pairing found immediate success, sweeping the three F3 Americas rounds at the Pittsburgh-area track and at Mid-Ohio soon after.
Kirkwood has continued winning since then, and comes to the New Jersey Motorsports Park triple-header riding an incredible 17-race winning streak across two series. Now, the team will add its second F3Americas entry for Jacob Abel, a veteran of the F4 U.S. Championship and other open wheel development series as well.
"I can't wait to go racing in our new F3 car", noted Jacob Abel. "We just got the car, and tested it last week at Putnam Park in Indiana. The test went very well. It's a great race car, with lots more power, weight and downforce compared to what I'm used to. I've been working with our driver coach, Shelby Blackstock, to get ready for this next step in my career. I've been spending lots of sim time learning what I can about New Jersey. It's always great to go to new tracks and learn how to be fast at those places. I can't wait to get to New Jersey and see how we stack up."
The F3 Americas Championship Powered by Honda will stage three 35-minute races at New Jersey Motorsports Park on September 15-16, rounds 7-9 on the year.


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The Baldwin High School Performing Arts and Theatre Guild presents The Wizard of Oz production from Thursday April 6th- Sunday April 16th. See how Maui's talented teen actors travel down the yellow brick road to the Emerald City. Will the great and powerful Wizard of Oz grant their wishes? Show times are April 9 and April 16 at 2pm; April 14 at 7pm and April 15 at 2pm and 7pm. $12 Adults, $10 Seniors $7 Students (12-17), $5 Children (11 and under). 7pm. Baldwin High School, (1650 Ka`ahumanu Ave., Wailuku); 808-727-3200; Baldwin.k12.hi.us
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Tauranga in New Zealand has secured the hosting rights for the 2021 World Squash Federation (WSF) Men's World Team Championship.
Tauranga, which also staged the Women's World Junior Team Championship in 2017 and is the country's fifth largest city, will hold the competition at the Devoy Squash & Fitness Centre.
Subject to final confirmation, the event will take place from December 13-19, 2021, marking the tournament's return to New Zealand for the first time since 1983, when Auckland staged the Championship.
The WSF did not disclose the names of the other bidding cities for the 2021 edition.
WSF chief executive Andrew Shelley said that the governing body had been convinced of New Zealand's credentials by taking previous events to the country, and underlined the nation's "great facilities, top-notch management and hospitality".
Former New Zealand squash player Wayne Werder will serve as the chair of the tournament's local organising committee.


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With Iran to its south and Russia to its north and west, the Caspian Sea is not only rich in oil and natural gas reserves, but it is also the world's primary and largest habitat for the beluga, the most famous of the caviar sturgeons, as well as four other sturgeon species.
This ancient fish, often described as a living fossil, has been swimming in the Caspian Sea since the time of the dinosaurs. It is one of the world's most expensive and highly sought-after seafood, mainly for its coveted eggs.
However, the deteriorating condition of the Caspian Sea has long been threatening this fish with extinction. For years, environmental researchers and activists in Iran have warned that because of the unclear legal status of the Caspian Sea, which makes it difficult to manage pollution, overfishing and poaching, the sturgeon will become extinct in the near future, reads an article published by Al-Monitor. Below is the full text.
Esmail Kahrom, an adviser to the head of Iran's Department of Environment, said, "Extinction in any part of the world is due to two factors. One is the destruction of a species' habitat or threats to its environment, and the other is poaching. So on the one hand, we are destroying the sturgeon's habitat, and on the other, we are overfishing it. Therefore, do you think any future other than extinction could await this fish?"
Kahrom believes that one of the factors endangering life in the Caspian Sea is its closed nature. An artificial canal built by the Soviet Union in 1952 connects the Caspian Sea to the Black Sea through the Volga and the Don rivers, its only link to external waters.
According to Kahrom, this canal has led to, in some aspects, damaging biological diversity in the Caspian Sea and also increased its pollution levels.
"This canal and the ships that pass through it are bringing environmental pollutants and even invasive species into the Caspian Sea, and there is no way around it," he said.
One of these invasive species is Mnemiopsis leidyi, a comb jellyfish said to have entered the Caspian Sea from the Black Sea via the Volga-Don canal back in 1999, which attacked the sprats—the main food source for the sturgeons and seals.
The world's largest inland body of water with no natural connection to open waters, the unique Caspian Sea has sometimes been classified as a lake, making its legal status murky.
According to Article 123 of the 1982 UN Convention on the Law of the Sea, whatever the five littoral states agree on will be considered law.
Iran and the Soviet Union once shared the resources of the Caspian Sea. However, following the breakup of the Soviet Union in 1991 and the subsequent emergence of the new nations of Russia, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan and Turkmenistan, it became necessary to clarify its legal standing.
In recent years, close to 50 meetings of technical experts and four between heads of state have been held and a number of environmental and security cooperation agreements signed between the littoral states. However, none has yet resulted in a consensus over the Caspian Sea's legal status.
In a memorandum of understanding signed at the end of the third Caspian summit in Azerbaijan's capital Baku on November 18, 2010, the littoral states agreed to a five-year ban on the fishing of sturgeons. This ban was prolonged for an additional two years on May 29, 2015, at the 35th session of the Commission on Aquatic Bioresources of the Caspian Sea in St. Petersburg.
According to Kahrom, these agreements have not been fully implemented. "Under international law, these fish can be harvested at the age of 9, when their eggs have turned into caviar. Thus, fishing nets that have the appropriate mesh size for 9-year-old fish should be used. However, if you travel along the different coasts of the Caspian Sea, you will see restaurants and cafes on the shorelines that are serving sturgeons as young as 2, 3 or 4 years old," he said.
The declining sturgeon population and the ban on their fishing have also meant a downward trend for Iran's caviar exports.
According to a 2010 report published by ISNA, Iran's caviar exports plunged from 38 tons in the Iranian year March 2004-05 to just 344 kilograms in the 10 months of the Iranian year March 2009-10.
To turn things around, Iran Fisheries Organization attempted to increase the sturgeon population by breeding and then releasing them into the Caspian Sea.
However, Arsalan Qasemi, director of Iran's Cooperative Aquatic Production, Farming and Exports Union, said that these measures have been unsuccessful due to a lack of "strategic vision".
In a June 2015 interview with the Iranian judiciary's official news website, Mizan, Qasemi lamented the downward trend, saying, "At present, we are under the delusion that the caviar industry belongs to Iran, while countries such as China, Spain, South Korea, Uruguay, Hungary and many others have entered the caviar-production business."
Hassan Salehi, the head of Iran Fisheries Organization, spoke last week about the wide gap between Iran's production of caviar from sturgeons and that of other countries.
In May last year, Salehi announced that 2 tons of farmed caviar had been produced in Iran in the previous Iranian year (March 2015-16), adding that half of it had been exported, generating $1.7 million.
Environmental pollution is not only endangering aquatic life in the Caspian Sea, but also threatening the wellbeing of the estimated 15 million Iranians living along its coastlines.
Kahrom's advice to those living on its shores and for visiting tourists is to avoid places where rivers flow into the Caspian "because these rivers bring all sorts of pollutants with them".
"If you fly over [the northern province of] Mazandaran in a small plane, you will see that it is muddy where the river empties into the sea. But a few kilometers away, the water becomes blue. I think that if they are wise, the sturgeons should also stay away from these areas."


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Dare yourself to make this simple and tasty rice pudding pie. A delight that you have to taste…
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Cuisine: Portuguese
Difficulty: Intermediate
Servings:: 12 slices
Prep Time: 15 m
Cook Time: 1:10 h
Total Time: 1:25 h
Ingredients: cinnamon, cinnamon stick, lemon, milk, puff pastry, rice, sugar, water
Units: Metric (Units: US)
- 100 grams (1/2 cup) rice
- 400 ml (1 3/4 cups) water
- 650 ml (about 3 cups) milk
- 250 grams (about 1 cup) granulated sugar
- 1 lemon peel
- Cinnamon for garnish
- 1 cinnamon stick
- A pinch of salt
- 200 grams (7 ounces) puff pastry
- In a saucepan, pour the water, lemon peel, cinnamon stick, a pinch of salt and bring to a boil over high heat. When starts boiling, remove the cinnamon stick (reserve the cinnamon stick), reduce to low heat and pour the rice. Stir and cook about 10 minutes.
- Meanwhile, pour the milk and the cinnamon stick in a saucepan and bring to a boil over high heat. When starts boiling, turn off the heat and remove the cinnamon stick. When the rice is cooked, pour the milk, stir with a spoon and boil over low heat about 20 to 25 minutes, stirring occasionally.
- Add the sugar, stir, remove the lemon peel and cook about 10 minutes.
- Meanwhile, preheat the oven to 180ºC (350ºF). Line a pie pan (24 centimeters (9 1/2 inches)) with the pastry, prick the bottom with a fork and place some dried beans for the dough doesn't rise when it goes to the oven. Bake about 25 minutes until slightly browned.
- Turn off the oven and remove the beans. With a ladle pour the rice pudding over the dough and spread it with the help of a spatula. Garnish with cinnamon, let cool and serve.
Rice pudding pie
Nutrition facts
Serves 12 slices
Per Serving:
Calories 220
Total Fat 8 g(12%)
Saturated Fat 2.5 g(13%)
Cholesterol 5 mg(2%)
Sodium 110 mg(5%)
Total Carbohydrate 35 g(12%)
Protein 4 g