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Inducement, as it applies to relationships, is simply defined. With no words required, one person sets up a situation to make another person feel what the first person feels. All of us do it to a greater or lesser extent. One classic example is when we come home from work after a terrible day. While we may say nothing, our actions cause everyone else in the house to feel as angry or upset as we are. It's a very common human experience and certainly not unique to abandoned children. However, abandoned children are experts at setting up a situation to make someone special feel exactly how that child feels.
There is no question that children in foster care whom we place for adoption are filled with negative feelings—the "baggage" we hear so much about. What is the common experience that all children placed for adoption share? Abandonment, or better stated, perceived abandonment. In truth, there are many birth parents who made plans for their children and perhaps even walked away purposefully to insure that their child would have a better life. Yet, as we have learned directly from adoptees, the sense of having been abandoned is central to adoptees' experience.
Abandonment is the most awful experience that any human being can endure. In fact, there are no words in our language to truly describe it. Then too, think when adopted children are abandoned. Abandonment usually happens pre-verbally, at a very young age—timing that adds to the sense that words cannot even adequately describe an abandoned child's painful feelings.
Adults, however, can pretty easily list some of the emotions that perceived abandonment engenders. How does an abandoned person feel? Isolated, guilty, lost, filled with profound sorrow, enraged, worthless, hopeless, helpless, and most of all, crazy. This, too, we learned from adoptees.
Unfortunately, "crazy" makes a great deal of sense if one defines it as feeling that one's inner self is totally out of sync with the outside world. Think of a child moving to a new home: feeling sorrow when everyone else is happy; feeling anxious when everyone is saying, "Don't worry"; feeling lost when everyone else is saying how lucky she is to be there.
Then add intensity. A child who feels abandoned feels intensely alone, intensely angry, intensely sad, intensely mad, and intensely crazy. Intensity is one of the qualities of all inducement. The other quality is that all of the feelings a child shares in this non-verbal way are negative. Anyone working with adoptive parents has surely heard the parents complaining that they are experiencing intensely negative feelings as a result of what their children are doing. In fact, parents who call an agency, a friend, or a therapist, often use the same words that describe an abandoned child's feelings:
"I feel so hopeless."
"I have never felt such rage before."
"I just feel so sad."
"This child is making me crazy."
That is solid proof of inducement. In short, the difference between general inducement and inducement by adopted children is that the feelings the children induce in their parents are specifically the horrible feelings of abandonment, hidden in the children for long periods of time, until they feel safe enough to communicate them. We have long recognized that foster children keep their most negative feelings buried deep inside. If they were to communicate them to their foster parents in the non-verbal way that children most often communicate, it would create a cataclysmic explosion. The children would be removed from the foster home and probably institutionalized.
We know that foster children, understanding that they don't have a permanent family of their own, have developed a thick skin as part of their coping mechanism for surviving in foster care. To maintain that thick skin, all of those negative feelings must be tucked far below the surface.
When What Looks Bad Is Really Good
What makes a child finally open up and start to communicate those horrible deeply buried feelings? We believe that children open up when they feel safe within a forever family. As a result, a child's communication of deeply buried feelings is absolutely a good thing. Communication is certainly part of healthy family life. It is proof that an adoption is a success and that a child has accepted his adoptive parents as real parents, because it is to his real parents that a child will want to communicate and finally start to get rid of that lifetime of negative feelings.
Yet, how does that success often look? Very bad. How does it feel? Very bad. How does the outside world see a child who is acting out her negative feelings? As an out-of-control child; as a child who doesn't want to live there any more; as a member of a family in bad shape.
To summarize, if communication is good, and if a child communicates by acting out, then what looks bad, and feels bad, is really good. What looks like a failing adoption is really a strong and successful adoption.
What then is the purpose of inducement? Is inducement simply a way for children to communicate how they feel to their parents? Not completely. Like all unconsciously motivated behavior, inducement has more than one purpose. Its biggest purpose is to express the child's cry for help to the parents. The children induce terribly painful feelings in the adults—perhaps only some small fraction of what the children feel—and then they sit back (unconsciously) and watch what the parents do with their feelings. If the adult can't handle such terrible feelings without rejecting the child or doing something else negative, then what chance does the child have to handle those same feelings constructively?
Separating the Inducement Message from Behavior
At those critical moments in a placement, when a child has opened up and begun to heal by communicating some horrible feelings (without even being aware of what is happening) and letting a parent feel them, what is the worst thing a parent can do? The worst thing is to blame the child—even though blaming the child is certainly an understandable and instinctive reaction.
Instead, a parent holding a child accountable for his behavior makes the child feel safe. The child is acting out purposefully. The child is deliberately choosing the way in which he acts out, though he is often unconscious of what really motivates him to act out. The parent who understands there is good communication going on will practically deal with the acting out behavior, and respect the message behind the inducement for its tremendous value.
If, as sometimes happens, the adoptive parent, worker, therapist, school, or Child Protective Services uses the child's acting out (the child's inducement-motivated behavior) to decide that the adoption is a failure, they are doing exactly the wrong thing at exactly the wrong time. Not only are they feeding the confusion and feelings of craziness already within the child, they are breaking up a solid family and interrupting the child's healing process.
We must emphasize two points about inducement. First, for a child to act out sufficiently to communicate negative feelings to adoptive parents, he or she may have to do some pretty terrible things. Children are masters at understanding how to push buttons. One family may react terribly to a child hurting a family pet. Another family may react just as strongly to a child eating leftovers from the refrigerator without saving any for anyone else. Children have a strong unconscious sense of how to engender negative feelings in others.
Second, and usually more surprising to the field, inducement is a dynamic that enters an adoptive family even if that family was a child's foster family for a dozen years. It is only when a child believes that he is finally going to be adopted, and will finally have a real family, that the inducement begins. Most children in foster care won't communicate those feelings, and most foster families are not trained, or warned, that becoming your child's adoptive parent changes the entire dynamic in the home.
Family Focus has placed hundreds of older children and teens who absolutely believed their adoptive parents were going to be there for them forever. Upon adoption, the natural next step for those children who finally felt safe was to start to open up and communicate those feelings. As expected, many of those families experienced sometimes terrible acting out because of the child's need to induce negative feelings in the adoptive parent.
Fortunately, our families are forewarned. They are trained to understand that inducement is a good thing that feels bad, an intensity that is almost shocking in its depth. Those families have lots of negative behavior to cope with, and no easy time. The answer for parents who understand and believe in the concept of inducement, though, is never disruption. They hold on and do what all parents must do.
So, what are adoptive parents supposed to do during the inducement stage? There is no magic answer. However, the knowledge that inducement is healthy communication should take a great deal of weight off parents and stop them from worrying that their adoption is failing.
Beyond that, parents must keep parenting and dealing with their children's negative behaviors as other parents would. Negative behaviors warrant appropriate consequences, and positive behavior must be rewarded. Parents' overall responsibility is always to model appropriate responses to both a child's negative behavior and their own negative feelings. The same holds true for the negative feelings that are induced by the child, and recognized by the parents as such. Parents show children how to deal with anger, for example, or sorrow or disappointment by talking about their feelings, and talking about what they are doing about them. It is part of the lifelong parenting job.
Family Focus presents workshops and talks about inducement to help others comprehend its challenge and value. We strongly believe that the more families and workers understand—and see inducement as a healthy adoption dynamic—the more the adoption field, like the children, will thrive.


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I know there are several people working on a wireless setup for Arch, and I don't mean this to be in any way a criticism of the work being done on it to date, but I am very frustrated.
I have spent the evening researching how to get my wireless interface up and running, and have hacked a solution that got it working but just won't do for ongoing use, but it does work. My problem is this: there is tons of info on the wiki and in the forums that is a half-started attempt at some kind of scripting system, and much of it is no longer valid. Can somebody go in and clean some of this up so that stuff that doesn't work or is a half-completed early attempt doesn't confuse people. I spent much of the night trying to decipher stuff that isn't even valid anymore.
I know the current setup is a work in progress, but does anybody have the time to spend a little time documenting rc.conf a little better so that it is more clear how to set up a wireless interface. /etc/conf.d/wireless seems clear enough, but there is no instruction (that I could find aftrer extensive searching) on what to put in rc.conf to make it work. I would like to make it work, but I would also like to test the system being put in place to help make it better, instead of just hacking my own solution that just works for me. Even better, a page on the wiki to replace all the half-started ones that explains the design of the system currently being implemented, so even though it isn't done, it is clearly explained where it is going.
Can I also make a plea to anyone that posts a solution that they hack together, to please include a clear, concise instruction on how to use it. There are several posts of scripts by users that proclaim it works for them with no instructions whatsoever on what to put in rc.conf or network-profile or conf.d, just a script with a declaration that it works. I know how hard it to explain things that seem so self-evident, but pllease try to be a little more explicit about how you are doing things.
Before I get any newbie flames, I'll tell you that I am relatively new to Arch but I have been using Linux for over 5 years and am not a total dummy about networking and my wireless setup. I know how to use iwconfig and ifconfig, but I'd like to understand the current state of affairs and help to test it, if I can only figure out how :?
Judd has made considerable improvements to wireless support in the official scripts. The best ones are currently in testing. Iphitus has made a patch that adds autodetection stuff - this is partially explained here:
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php? … highlight=
Otherwise all the info for using Judd's new initscripts can be found here:
http://www.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch … 04855.html
However, this is not all finished and wrapped up. If you feel like creating a wiki page for this information then feel free. The wireless situation is confused as you say. Phrakture's scripts should still work fine.
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That second link fills in some of the missing pieces, thank you for that. I actually didn't search the mailing list archives. I spent most of my time in the wiki or forums. It looks like I should join the mailing list too.
Usually I would be one of the first people to jump in and volunteer to write some documentation, and a wiki page on the definitive wireless-setup in Arch would be a good place to start, but my OSS plate is full for the next couple of weeks because of some commitments I have made to other projects. If it isn't done by then, I'll take a crack at it.
I do realize (and am thankful) that there are some real improvements going on in this area, and when configured right, the existing soutions actually do work. The problem is really a dearth of accurate documentation, which is actually contrary to what I have found, namely that there always seems to be a clear, concise well written document on how to deal with various issues.
Anyway, thanks for the info. I will try to contribute in the future instead of just complaining, I just don't want to make another half-hearted attempt that also goes unfinished.
However, this is not all finished and wrapped up. If you feel like creating a wiki page for this information then feel free. The wireless situation is confused as you say. Phrakture's scripts should still work fine.
For the records, I wrote those scripts so long ago it's not even funny. I actually stopped using them a while back in favor of the official arch wireless stuff.
Okay, here is the current situation:
My rc.conf has this in it:
# Interfaces to start at boot-up (in this order)
# Declare each interface then list in INTERFACES
# (prefix an interface in INTERFACES with a ! to disable it)
# Note: to use DHCP, set your interface to be "dhcp" (eth0="dhcp")
lo="lo 127.0.0.1"
INTERFACES=(lo eth0)
# Routes to start at boot-up (in this order)
# Declare each route then list in ROUTES
# (prefix a route in ROUTES with a ! to disable it)
gateway="default gw 192.168.0.1"
# Network profiles
# For each profile declared, a profile directory must exist in
# /etc/network-profiles
I have a file named /etc/network-profiles/home with this in it:
and the interface is not brought up on boot. iwconfig works fine if I do 'iwconfig wifi0 mode managed essid oggb4mp3' and then I can dhcpcd wifi0 to get the interface running. eth0 is being managed by ifplugd.
What am I doing wrong?
BTW, I get a "failed" response during startup when the starting network profile home message is displayed during boot.
Also, should I be able to specify more than one interface in the network profile.
Okay, I think I have it sort of working. The profile config on the wiki really isn't right anymore. You don't need a directory named for the profile, you need a file named for the profile, and I used the template as part of the new initscripts, instead of the example on the wiki.
I now am setup like this: wired interface eth0 managed by ifplugd and wifi interface eth1 (it's an airo thing) managed by the profile. The only problem is, if I plug in and unplug the wored interface, ifplugd wipes out the default route for both interfaces, not just the one it is managing. Also, I'd like to be able to set a metirc variable (an ifconfig option) on the wired interface, so when it is active, it is always used, even if both interfaces are up. Any idea if this can be done through rc.conf?
Also, should I be able to specify more than one interface in the network profile.
But that would overcomplicate things. It's much easier just to copy the profile and change the interface.... so you have a "home_wired" and "home_wifi" profile.
I'm not sure if this is the right place for this but I don't know of a better place.
I was looking at these scripts again and I like them better then phrak's scripts (mostly I like the profiles for wired networks too). The new scripts don't seem to have any support for wpa_supplicant though. I guess that isn't a surprise since there isn't an official package for it. Any how I've decided to switch over to the new scripts and I wrote a little patch to put wpa support into it . I lifted the part that detects wether wpa_supplicant was able to connect right out of phrak's script, I hope he doesn't mind, this was a quick job and I didn't want to reinvent the wheel. Anyway the diff is against the new /usr/bin/netcfg script, the string WPAOPTS needs to be added to the profile with any extra arguments for starting wpa_supplicant. It will use /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf for the wpa configuration. That file is supposed to support multiple network definitions but I haven't tested that. I've only given this a quick test at home with my wired and wireless profile and it seems to work fine for both. I'd like to see the final version of the wireless script have some form of wpa support if some one could mention this to the higher powers I'd appreciate it.
--- netcfg 2005-07-01 02:22:32.000000000 +0000
+++ /usr/bin/netcfg 2005-08-31 19:13:45.000000000 +0000
@@ -41,13 +41,16 @@
stat_busy "Shutting down interface: $INTERFACE"
# bring down the default route (gateway)
[ "$GATEWAY" ] && route del default gw $GATEWAY
# bring down the interface
ifconfig $INTERFACE down
+ # shutdown wpa_supplicant, if its running
+ [ "$WPAOPTS" ] && wpa_cli terminate >/dev/null 2>&1
rm -f $STATE_DIR/$INTERFACE
@@ -93,7 +96,31 @@
iwconfig $WIFI_INTERFACE $IWOPTS
[ $? -ne 0 ] && stat_fail && return
+ # Start wpa_supplicant, in necessary
+ if [ "$WPAOPTS" ]; then
+ ifconfig $WIFI_INTERFACE up
+ wpa_supplicant -wB -i $WIFI_INTERFACE -c /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf $WPAOPTS
+ # I lifted most of this next block from phracture's wireless script on
+ # the wiki http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Wireless_Bootup_Script
+ #####
+ #I don´t know how we could determine if wpa_supplicant is ready...
+ sleep 2
+ let i=0
+ while ! /usr/bin/wpa_cli status | grep "wpa_state=COMPLETED" >/dev/null 2>&1; do
+ if [ $i -gt 10 ]; then
+ wpa_cli terminate >/dev/null 2>&1
+ #ifconfig $WIFI_INTERFACE down
+ stat_fail && return
+ fi
+ sleep 2
+ let i++
+ done
+ ######
+ fi
if [ "$IFOPTS" = "dhcp" -o "$IFOPTS" = "DHCP" ]; then
dhcpcd $DHCPCD_ARGS $INTERFACE
[ $? -ne 0 ] && stat_fail && return
Of course I don't mind 8)
I actually thing most of the WPA stuff can be contributed to someone else.
Please post this in the bug tracker (as a feature request) so Judd sees it.
I found a bug in this.. I'll change the diff later I guess since I need to get another copy of the stock netcfg file to generate it..
anyhow to fix it add WPAOPTS to the list of variables that are being unset near the beginning of the start_profile function. Its on line 89.
If you don't unset that variable there and you use the menu then the script will try to start wpa_supplicant for any interface provided its defined in atleast one profile.
Thats what I get for the quick testing job I did on it when I originally posted this.
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After establishing that he was totally independent from the apostles in his conversion experience, Paul now provides a sworn testimony regarding his first encounter with the apostles. His purpose in this account is to demonstrate that his gospel to the Gentiles came not from church tradition but from God, and that he was faithful to this gospel.
Paul is careful to number his years and even count his days: three years after his conversion he spent only fifteen days with Peter. The contrast he draws between the comparatively long time apart from any contact with the apostles and the brief time with Peter highlights his independence. His message must have already been formulated by the end of those three years between his conversion and his first encounter with Peter. And such a short visit with Peter did not alter his course. The purpose of his visit was not to be taught by Peter or to come under Peter's authority, but to get acquainted with Peter (v. 18). Of course they would not have wasted time on small talk. No doubt their conversation during those two weeks centered on Christ and the ministry of the church. Paul would have been deeply interested in Peter's accounts of Jesus' life and ministry. And his concern for the unity of the church would have compelled him to build a good relationship with Peter. But these understandable interests and concerns do not provide a basis for portraying Paul as a disciple or subordinate of Peter. It is just such a portrayal that Paul's account is designed to refute.
In Paul's record of appointments for that two-week visit, he insists that James, the Lord's brother, was the only other apostle he saw (v. 19). From Paul's references to James in chapter 2 (vv. 9, 12) we know that James had a prominent role in the Jerusalem church. According to Acts, James became the most influential leader in that church. It is not surprising, therefore, that Paul would have had some contact with him. What transpired during that visit Paul does not tell us. But we can be sure from his argument so far that Paul did not report to James as if James were the president of his mission to the Gentiles. While Paul was working for harmony in the church, he was working under a direct commission from God.
Paul confirms the complete reliability of his account so far with a legal oath (1:20). Under Roman law, an oath was used outside of court to indicate that one would be willing to resolve an issue in the courts. But why did Paul think it was necessary to take an oath to defend the veracity of his report? It seems reasonable to suppose that Paul took this oath because he was contradicting a false report of his part in the mission of the church, a report claiming that he had received his gospel and his authority to preach the gospel from the apostles in Jerusalem. Such a report may have been circulated in the churches in Galatia by those who were persuading the Gentile believers to live like Jews since that was the way of believers in the mother church in Jerusalem. If Paul was merely a messenger for that church, then an appeal to the example of that church was more authoritative than Paul's message. Of course these are simply speculations. But if Paul is right that "some false brothers had infiltrated" the church and opposed him (2:4), it is probably also true that false reports had been circulated about him.
It is common, even expected, that public leaders in the church must respond to false reports about their ministry. The best answer to false reports is the truth--absolutely no lies. Not only is personal integrity at stake. The truth of the gospel is also at stake. And it can be defended only by unvarnished truthfulness.
Paul wraps up the record of his first visit to Jerusalem with a further denial of any personal involvement with the church of Jerusalem. Since he went to Syria and Cilicia after his first visit (1:21), he was personally unknown to the churches of Judea that are in Christ (v. 22). And since Paul was not within the orbit of the Jerusalem church, he was not under the supervision of the Jerusalem apostles.
What Paul did during his time in Syria and Cilicia between his first encounter with the apostles in Jerusalem (vv. 18-19) and his participation in the Jerusalem conference (2:1-10) is clearly stated in his quotation of the report circulated about him in the Judean churches: The man who formerly persecuted us is now preaching the faith he once tried to destroy (1:23). Preaching is actually a translation of "evangelizing." Paul was fully engaged in the work of evangelism. And the content of his message was the faith, a shorthand summary for the gospel of Christ.
The power of the gospel had transformed Paul from a persecutor of believers to a preacher of the faith. The light of the gospel that he had tried to snuff out had penetrated and illuminated his heart and was now shining brightly through his life and preaching. That was the report heard about Paul in the churches of Judea. What a contrast to the false, negative reports about Paul that were being circulated in the churches of Galatia.
In contrast to the Galatian churches, which were turning away from the gospel preached by Paul, the churches in Judea had praised God because Paul was preaching the gospel (v. 24). Although Paul had obviously not learned his gospel from the Judean churches, as he sufficiently demonstrates in the course of his argument, those churches recognized that the gospel Paul preached was the faith, the gospel they believed. When they measured Paul the preacher by the message he preached (just as Paul says every preacher should be measured--vv. 8-9) and found that he was faithful to the true gospel, they gave thanks to God.
The enthusiastic response of the Judean churches to Paul's gospel is certainly a rebuke to the present attitude of the Galatian churches. If only they would learn from the example of the Judean churches and evaluate preachers on the basis of their faithfulness to the true gospel, they would no longer be mesmerized by the troublemakers who had caused such confusion by their perversion of the gospel.
Paul really turns the tables on those troublemakers. They had apparently appealed to the practice of the Jerusalem church and the Judean churches to persuade the Galatian churches to adopt the Jewish way of life. But now Paul appeals to the example of the same churches. They had praised God when they heard the report that Paul now preached the gospel, the same gospel that had changed his life and theirs. Their example still stands as a challenge to churches today. Praising God when we hear that his faithful servants are preaching the gospel will keep our focus on the right thing: God's gracious work through the power of the gospel.
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I am riding the train down to New York right now to attend the memorial services for a dear friend's mother. While I certainly wish I did not have to take this trip today, I am appreciative of the quiet time that the three hour train trip offers me. Email has been responded to, ideas for work have been brainstormed, and a little light reading has been enjoyed.
One of the magazines I perused was the new Oprah. Her theme this month was confidence. I love one of the articles taglines- "Life take perseverance and pluck, and though we know you've got both, we'll help you reinforce your resolve and believe in yourself like crazy." Doesn't Oprah's words always make you feel better? I read the heartbreaking excerpt about Pat Summit's acceptance of her Alzheimer's diagnosis, but what really struck me was Oprah's conversation with Sheryl Sandberg.
As everyone in America knows, Sheryl Sandberg has just released her book Lean In, a manifesto encouraging woman. Originally when I heard of Ms. Sandberg, I was anti-Ms. Sandberg before I knew anything about her. At times, I feel like I am treading water in all aspects of my life, feeling that I am just doing enough to get by in my professional and personal lives. And, honestly, I felt quite okay with myself her. I still do in some ways. However, after reading her interviews, I started to see her perspective. She shares the research that men apply for promotions if they meet 60% of the qualifications but women only apply if they meet 100% of the listed qualifications.
Sanberg also states that she and her husband split household responsibilities 50/50. But she speaks, " There were a lot of discussions to get us there…. One of the things I really want women to know is that almost no men come fully trained. And we don't, either, for that matter."
This reflection resonates with me so much. I have days when I simply think that I cannot do it all. That I do not meet 100% of the qualifications needed for all my hats that I wear. I also have days that I wish my husband was a mind reader and that he knew I needed more help with the boys or the house. Is that too much too ask? But, I realized too that he is my biggest supporter- he is the one who encourages me to lean in to opportunities. And, that when things are REALLY important to me, he just knows. He figures out ways to be the mind reader and help me. He is the one who has more confidence in me than I do in myself.
It's time for me to remind myself that I have earned being confident.
My running will return because I have worked hard at it.
My kids will flourish because I give them my all.
My marriage will thrive because we support and love each other.
My professional live will be fulfilling because I enjoy my work and colleagues.
My relationships with others will grow because I work on the ones that are important to me.
Sunday, March 10, 2013
Boston Build Up
We are 5 weeks away from the Boston Marathon, and training is going well but not great. Having 2 babies 2 and under plus the commute and full time job has put a dent in my training. There are some people out there who can brave the 4AM wakeup call to get the miles in but I simply cannot do it. I wish I could, but I feel that 5 is early enough. That being said, 90% of my runs during the week are done at lunchtime at work where I can get 6 miles on a good day. Any other weekday runs are done at 8:30 PM after the boys go to bed. Needless to say, it has not been the best buildup for a marathon. My long run have been on target and consistent, but I wish I had a little more time for the 8-10 milers during the week. I know they work for me, but I just cannot seem to squeeze it in.
That being said, I do finally feel like my speed continues to return. While I have not been utilizing my Crossfit membership well (note two boys above), I have been religious about incorporating in Crossfit workouts on my own. I am OBSESSED with the She Rocks Fitness blog as the workouts are SO good. I do think that the tabatas and the core work and the squats are helping me to get stronger.
I also had the very cool experience to ride the bike leg of the Escape from Alcatraz triathlon last weekend. The ride was HILLY and I have not been on a bike since before Jack was born, but I loved every second of it. I smiled the entire time. And, the experience made me wish I was a triathlete and inspired me to sign up for the Nantucket Triathlon in July. Nantucket makes me happy!
Today I also participated in the Davis Square St. Patrick's Day 5K. It was not my best 5K at all, but from first steps I knew was not in race mode. 5Ks are not for me, as I need a little bit to warm up. So, I just ran it even and did not push it, finishing in just over 24 minutes for a 7:47 pace. Three minutes off my PR but after yesterday's long run on the treadmill, I just did not have it in me physically or mentally.
Luckily, though I have not had the best buildup to Boston, I still have 5 more weeks to go. I also might just run Boston to enjoy it, as I do not think I will be winning it :). I also will be running the San Diego Rock N Roll Marathon so it gives me a little more time to build my endurance.


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Milstone AM, Reich NG, Advani S, Yuan G, Bryant K, Coffin SE, Huskins WC, Livingston R, Saiman L, Smith RB, Song X. "Catheter Dwell Time and CLABSIs in Neonates with PICCs: A Multicenter Cohort Study." Pediatrics 2013 Dec;132(6):e1609-15. Epub 2013 Nov 11
Popoola VO, Carroll KC, Ross T, Reich NG, Perl TM, Milstone AM. "Impact of Colonization Pressure and Strain Type on MRSA Transmission in Children." Clin Infect Dis 2013 Nov;57(10):1458-60. Epub 2013 Aug 13.
Jumani K, Advani S, Gosey L, Reich NG, Milstone AM. "Risk Factors for Peripherally Inserted Central Venous Catheter Complications in Children." JAMA Pediatr. 2013 May 1;167(5):429-35. Epub 2013 Mar 18
Milstone AM, Elward A, Song X, Zerr DM, Orscheln R, Speck K, Obeng D, Reich NG, Coffin SE, Perl TM. "Daily Chlorhexidine Bathing to Reduce Bacteraemia in Critically Ill Children: a Multicentre, Cluster-Randomised, Crossover Trial." Lancet. 2013 Mar 30;381(9872):1099-106. Epub 2013 Jan 28.
Milstone AM, Goldner BW, Ross R, Shepard JW, Carroll KC, Perl TM. "Methicillin- Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Colonization and Risk of Subsequent Infection in Critically Ill Children: Importance of Prevention Nosocomial Transmission." Clin Infect Dis. 2011 Nov;53(9):853-9. Epub 2011 Aug 29.
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Karl Christian Rove (born December 25, 1950) was Senior Advisor and Deputy Chief of Staff to former President George W. Bush until Rove's resignation on August 31, 2007. He has headed the Office of Political Affairs, the Office of Public Liaison, and the White House Office of Strategic Initiatives. Since leaving the White House, Rove has worked as a political analyst and contributor for Fox News, Newsweek and The Wall Street Journal.
Prior to his White House appointments, Rove was a Republican political consultant and strategist. He is credited with the successful 1994 and 1998 Texas gubernatorial victories of George W. Bush, as well as Bush's 2000 and 2004 successful presidential campaigns. In his 2004 victory speech Bush referred to Rove as "the Architect". Rove has also been credited for the successful campaigns of John Ashcroft (1994 U.S. Senate election), Bill Clements (1986 Texas gubernatorial election), Senator John Cornyn (2002 U.S. Senate election), Governor Rick Perry (1990 Texas Agriculture Commission election), and Phil Gramm (1982 U.S. House and 1984 U.S. Senate elections).
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text: When you leave the military, your mind is usually filled with a range of emotions. There's joy over your newfound freedom, sadness at leaving brothers behind, and anxiety over the unknown. In June 2010, when I picked up my discharge papers from the Marine Corps, I lived through it and felt them all. Now two years later, I am close to graduation from The University of Tampa, run a successful military satire website, and am lucky to continue working with military veterans. It wasn't an easy road, and many times I felt alone and helpless. For a heartbreaking and rising number of veterans, those emotions can lead to a devastating end: suicide. Navy Cross recipient and former Corporal Jeremiah Workman, who dealt with his own emotional trauma and thoughts of suicide, refers to it as an enemy making an 8000-mile sniper shot. That's what happened with Seth Smith, from Kansas City, Missouri. I first met Seth on a training exercise in Okinawa, Japan with 3rd Marine Division. As one of a small handful of infantry Marines in a unit full of different specialties, it was a lonesome time for me. After seeing Corporal Smith directing forklifts -- with his flak jacket set up much like an infantryman -- I approached him. "Are you a grunt?" I asked. He responded no, but after further questioning, it turns out that he was attached to my old unit, 3rd Battalion, 3rd Marines, for a deployment to Iraq in 2009. Instead of being an electrician like he was trained, he was put into an infantry squad with Lima Company. He was grunt-enough to me. We soon became friends. About six months after I said goodbye and good luck to 28 year-old Cpl. Seth Smith as I left the Marine Corps, he was honorably discharged and returned home. The following April, he was dead. He didn't give a warning, or leave a note. He was engaged and had a son named Carter. "The threat posed before our nation's veterans is very real," said HM3 (FMF) Michael Barnes, a Navy Corpsman who served with 3rd Battalion, 6th Marines. "The scars borne by those patriotic volunteers often remain unseen as it is ingrained in many of us to internalize our pain and fight our fight as we see fit." In the early months of 2010, Marjah, Afghanistan was both a frozen wasteland and a volatile district swarming with enemy fighters. The men of 3rd Battalion, 6th Marines endured a blend of both, including rifleman Lance Cpl. Denver Short. "The number of experiences both in theatre and here at home are innumerable," said Navy Fleet Marine Force Corpsman Justin Hillery, of the many memories of Short. "Hundreds of patrols, engagements with the enemy, scores of field ops and many memorable nights." As 3/6 pushed into Marjah in February, the Marines had to dig in to defend against enemy attacks. Their defensive perimeter -- their temporary home in the open air of winter -- meant difficulty sleeping for many as they struggled to stay warm. On one night, the temperature dropped and rain began to fall. One Marine, caught off guard in the storm, began showing signs of hypothermia. His fighting hole partner was Lance Cpl. Short. "Short identified the Marine's urgent state and quickly stripped him down and rewarmed him and suffered the cold for six hours. I did my rounds in the morning to find that Short was hypothermic and the Marine next to him had recovered," recounts Doc Barnes. "Short gave his warmth away and suffered the night all to comfort his brother Marine. All the while he was ready to fight." Short cared more about his fellow Marines than himself. He was a warrior, a leader, and a well-respected member of his unit. Denver Short endured two tours to Marjah along with his brothers in arms. His platoon-mates looked at him as a great Marine. After completing a successful enlistment with the Marine Corps, he left and was ready to move on. He killed himself on August 20, 2012. He was 23. It's hard to understand why some commit suicide and others don't, but the fact is that combat affects people in different ways. As the military tries to change a slow-moving culture, a stigma of suicide being an ailment of the weak still remains. "I implore my fellow warriors: seeking help is not weakness. Do not internalize your issues for the peril in doing so far outweighs the slim chance of coming out unscathed," Barnes said. "Your family, friends, and unit will suffer in your absence in ways we many times do not know... There are so many of us that will lay our lives down for one another, asking for a few minutes of someone's time is a small price we will all pay to see you after the next sunrise." Our military and veterans affairs branches need to do more to help with this issue. As we wait for them to make changes however, it is up to veterans themselves to keep in contact and maintain the brotherhood. It is up to us, just like we do on the battlefield, to take care of each other after the uniform is retired. Lives depend upon it.


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After years of speaking out about her son's autism — and against childhood immunizations — Jenny McCarthy is reversing her position.
After years of speaking publicly about her belief that MMR shots (immunization for measles, mumps, and rubella) caused her son to suffer from autism, Jenny McCarthy now faces the reality that her 7-year-old son Evan — who no longer shows any signs of autism — may likely have lived with completely different illness.
A new article in Time magazine — which Jenny was interviewed for — suggests Evan suffers from Landau-Kleffner syndrome, "a rare childhood neurological disorder that can also result in speech impairment and possible long-term neurological damage."
Many applaud Jenny, who has never stopped fighting to help her son since his autism diagnosis in 2005. Others, like the Center of Disease Control, say her claims about immunizations make her "a menace to public health."
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Amid the bluster and noise of election season, and with Nov. 6 approaching like a bullet train, Newport Beach businessman Bob Rush managed to find some quiet.
"In a nutshell, everybody's quiet," he said earlier this month. "I think everybody's been burned out from the primary."
Rush is a Democratic candidate for the 74th Assembly District, running against current 68th District Assemblyman Allan Mansoor, a Costa Mesa Republican who was redistricted into the 74th. The GOP-heavy territory serves Newport Beach, Costa Mesa, Irvine, Laguna Beach, Laguna Woods and Huntington Beach.
Rush surprised political observers by knocking out Newport Councilwoman Leslie Daigle, a Republican, in the new "top-two" primary system. Rush took 32.8% of the vote to Daigle's 23.8%. Mansoor, benefiting from the name recognition that comes with incumbency, grabbed 43.5%.
After the primary, Rush spent a few months largely under the political radar. He said he took a break for most of June and July. In mid-August, the sudden death of his fiancee's brother kept Rush off the campaign for a few more weeks, just as his "whole media blitz" was supposed to start.
"[The campaign] has been moving along," he said, although, "it was not quite the explosion that we wanted."
Daigle has questioned the sincerity of Rush's campaign since the beginning, calling it a sham aimed at handing the highly conservative Mansoor a victory.
"Bob Rush is the unhappiest person in Newport Beach, and a gadfly whose candidacy was never serious, never constructive and a mockery of the election process," she wrote in an email.
Rush, a commercial real estate broker, has never held public office. He made something of a name for himself in the political arena as a Newport council critic, with a particular focus on the city's handling of recovery homes. He's also been active in the West Newport Assn. Recently, Rush has opposed Newport Beach's Measure EE, which would make a series of amendment's to Newport's city charter.
A fiscal conservative and social progressive, he's been criticized for changing his voter registration from "decline to state" to Democratic shortly before the campaign and admitted in a candidates forum to voting for Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) in the last presidential election.
Centrist who can compromise
Rush's campaign was largely financed by a personal loan of about $100,000. His campaign manager, former Laguna Beach Mayor Paul Freeman, said the local Democratic establishment has "missed an opportunity" by not investing much in the race.
"I think in the primary, people could discount [Rush's] chances, because he was brand new and it's a significantly Republican district," Freeman said. But, he said, after Rush's strong primary showing, "why the party leadership has not rushed to embrace this guy is beyond me."
Rush says his status as a centrist focusing on fiscal responsibility would allow him to compromise with Democrats in a way a Republican occupying the seat wouldn't.
While the Orange County Democratic Party's website lists Rush for the group's official 74th District endorsement, Chairman Frank Barbaro said he's been more focused on other local races.
Although he wasn't in town for the 74th District endorsement discussions, he said, "I can't think of a tougher race in Orange County for a Democrat."
"We're hopeful we'll do well against Mansoor," Barbaro said. "I think Mansoor has been his own worst enemy over the years, but he has the registration."
He said Mansoor may have hurt himself with his involvement in Costa Mesa's divisive Measure V, which would establish a city charter.
Mansoor, for his part, seems to have reserved his sharpest barbs for Daigle, a more moderate Republican, rather than Rush. The top story on his campaign website is one from June debunking "Leslie Daigle's Bogus Claims."
Of Rush's primary performance he said: "Bob ran a very spirited campaign, and he participated in all the debates, and he took the race very seriously."
Neither Mansoor nor Rush could give a specific accounting of how many events or forums they'd attended.
Mansoor said his own level of campaigning hasn't lightened since the primary.
"I go to community events every day — not only in Costa Mesa but in new parts of the district, like Huntington Beach," he said. "Every weekend I'm out walking precincts to say hi to people."
Mansoor said he held a campaign fundraiser Thursday. Friday, he said it was "very successful," but he did not yet have fundraising totals available.
At an intimate Huntington Beach Chamber of Commerce candidate reception earlier this month, Rush said he hasn't been walking precincts, though Freeman said they had a corps of "about 20 walking in different cities."
"It's not a career politician machine that we have here," Rush added.
From July 1 to Oct. 20, Rush's campaign spent about $8,467, according to the California Secretary of State's Office website. From Jan.1 to Oct. 20, his campaign spent $85,756 in sum.
That means just under 10% of his campaign spending has been done in the two most recently reported periods (after June) and that Rush's campaign spent upward of $77,000 in the run-up to the primary.
Mansoor's campaign, meanwhile, has spent about $61,607 from July 1 to Oct. 20, and $274,834 total since January, meaning he spent about 22% after the primary. That also means he spent about $213,000 from the beginning of the year through June.
Daigle, according to the website, spent about $157,000 from January until the end of June.
Expenditures include things, such as like consulting and legal and filing fees, campaign literature and office expenses.
"The primary was a tough battle," Mansoor said. "But I'm still taking November seriously."
Not taking it for granted
Mansoor, who was well-known in the area as an eight-year Costa Mesa councilman, added that he's confident, but not taking a win for granted.
Mansoor said at the Huntington Beach candidate reception things are "definitely not winding down. Things heat up as it gets closer to Election Day."
Daigle contends that Rush's campaign seems to be doing the opposite, which doesn't much help his case that he's taking the race seriously.
"I think any energized candidate would be sending mail, would be walking precincts, would have a full calendar of events, a cadre of volunteers," Daigle said. "Those are among the activities that are normally done during campaigns."
Rush is adamant he's in it to win it.
"I viewed the race in this 74th Assembly District as primarily against Daigle in the first stage and Mansoor in the second stage," he said. "I'm not in here as a spoiler. I came in to spoil the dreams of both Daigle and Mansoor."
He added that he sees Daigle as having "a significant amount of professional and personal baggage," and that Daigle was the weaker of his two opponents.
Rush said he's still trying to get out to venues and garner support, but without much emphasis on signage and precinct-walking.
On Oct. 17, and Oct. 16 news release said, local philanthropist James "Walkie" Ray held a fundraiser for Rush at Newport's Pacific Club.
Ray said he was approached by Freeman, with whom he'd worked in the past, about holding the event.
He said he hadn't met Rush before the fundraiser, but as a "right-leaning Democrat," Ray said he's happy to "support Democrats who are a decent alternative."
Ray said he had to leave part of the way through the event for another engagement, but he understood just under a dozen people turned out. Freeman said amounts raised were "under $10,000," however, the event was also a "friend-raiser."
Part of the campaign's strategy in upcoming weeks, he said, involves meeting privately with big-ticket donors and sending a mailer out to at least 43,000 (depending on fundraising success) households "that we think are swing voters."
Rush said he's also reached out to Mansoor to hold head-to-head debates since the primary, but Mansoor hasn't accepted.
Rush added that many local groups that might stage debates "got so revved up" for the primary, that they've felt there's no new ground to cover.
Mansoor said he may have received Rush's invitations, but that he's had scheduling conflicts.
"You can only go so far," Rush said at the Huntington Beach reception. "We can't say it's the 'Bob Rush' venue."
"At this point, it's getting the message out."
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The NE1 web builder includes some features that are accessed by right-clicking within the editor. After a right-click the standard Cut, Copy, and Paste options appear, along with "Insert/Edit Image" and "Alignment". However, the right-click option also allows for inserting a table.
When right-clicking within a table, the following menu appears:
Inserts a new table: This command allows for the inserting of a new table - even if the table is within another table.
Table properties: Choose this to edit table options and properties. (See help topic for "Insert table".)
Delete table: Choose this to delete the current table.
Cell: Cell properties can be adjusted here. (See "Editing a cell" help topic.)
Row: Row properties can be adjusted here. (See "Editing a row" help topic.)
Column: Column properties can be adjusted here. (See "Editing a column" help topic.)