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DisclaimerEverything in this site is a personal philosophy and should not be regarded in any way as professional or therapeutic advice. It's simply a site with a few ideas.
About this book
Happiness is not about positive thinking, spirituality, random acts of kindness, or even love and compassion. It's about satisfying long-term, ongoing innate needs.
Who is this book for?
If you are young, this book is for you. It's to tell you things I wish I had been told when I was young.
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SECTION 1. The innate need to feel safe.
1. Be aware of what you are feeling.
- Be aware of what you are feeling
- Key 1. Label it!
- Key 2. Be specific when you describe an emotion.
- Key 3. Don't catastrophise.
- Key 4. Are you feeling other emotions?
- Key 5. Distinguish between thoughts and feelings.
- Key 6. Don't talk like a zombie.
- Key 7. Alice and the creatures of the Dark Forest.
- Key 8. Cry to become resilient.
- Key 9. Don't 'fake it until you make it'
- Key 10. Ignore the dills in the peanut gallery.
- Key 11. Do you have a default emotion?
- Key 12. Find the hidden concerns.
- Our enjoyable emotions.
- Key 13. What presses your button?
2. Be aware of your emotional beliefs.
3. What creates our emotions?
4. Unwanted thoughts.
5. Be angry.
6. Be vulnerable.
7. Reduce the intensity of an unwanted emotion.
8. Move through fear.
9. Judging people.
10. Take responsibility for how your life unfolds.
11. Become unbreakable.
12. Feel invincible.
SECTION 2. The innate need to belong.
13. The deep need to belong.
14. The need to feel valued.
15. Can we value ourselves?
16. Status
17. The need to contribute.
18. Be assertive.
- Be assertive. (Or 'Don't live in Wimp City')
- Key 44. State what needs to happen from now on.
- Key 45. You are not obliged to give a reason.
- Key 46. Show the person you understand their point of view.
- Key 47. Don't slam doors.
- Key 48. You don't need to solve the other person's problem.
- Key 49. You are not obliged to answer some questions.
- Key 50. Ensure your question is answered.
- Key 51. Don't be a citizen of Wimp City.
- Key 52. Don't be an 'are you sure?'
- Key 53. Don't be a 'Maybe'.
- Key 54. Get rid of the ums & ers.
- Key 55. Ask 'Why?'
- Key 56. Ask for help.
- Key 57. Learn to say 'No'.
- Key 58. Ask for something in return.
- Key 59. Accept compliments.
19. Being assertive in particular situations.
- Being assertive in particular situations.
- Remain unattached to the outcome.
- Kids: avoid being 'nagged' by a parent.
- Stick up for yourself
- Dealing with a nasty person.
- Dealing with an angry person.
- Dealing with hostile emails.
- Steps to take if you need to confront someone.
- Getting away from talkers.
- Opportunities to practise being assertive.
20. We don't need close relationships to be happy.
21. Connecting to the people we are close to.
22. Feed your soul.
In conclusion . . .
Category Archives: Reduce the intensity of an unwanted emotion.
Part 7. Reduce the intensity of an unwanted emotion.
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If you run out of stored drinking water, you can treat your water.
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Your water supply is only one vital part of preparing for an emergency or natural disaster. For additional information on the other ways you should prepare, you can visit these websites:

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Victorian Style: Scrapbooking Using Trims and Hardware
Update the look of your scrapbook layouts by incorporating fresh and trendy Victorian inspired touches in your scrapbook designs. It's easier than you may think! At the heart of the Victorian vintage look is a combination of hard and soft textures, which you may already have in your scrapbooking stash. Take a look at the following layouts, each of which shows a different way to bring a little Victorian style to your scrapbooking.
Finally London by Piradee Talvanna as seen in the March/April 2011 issue of Creating Keepsakes magazine.
Lighten up the look of large metal embellishments, such as keys, on your layouts with delicate, feminine ruffles. Add crepe paper to your layout, like Piradee Talvanna did. Crepe paper is the perfect lightweight material for adding intricate ruffles worthy of a ballerina's wardrobe. It's so easy to fold and tear this material to get just the right look for your layout.
Daddy's Princess by Maggie Holmes as seen in the Scrapbooking Tips & Tricks: Texture special issue from Creating Keepsakes magazine.
Likewise, balance out billowy frills by adding some weight to your layout, as Maggie Holmes did. Metal frames and flower accents add just the right amount of weight to draw the viewer's eye away from the rosette border.
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A Time for Miles by Elizabeth Kartchner as seen in the November/December 2010 issue of Creating Keepsakes magazine.
While Maggie and Piradee used large amounts of hard and soft textures on their layouts, Elizabeth Kartchner shows us that Victorian touches can be used in subtle ammounts. Add a strip of airy lace along the border of your layout, and anchor it at one end with an metal embelishment for a perfectly balanced border that you can use to draw your viewer's eye to a photo or, in Elizabeth's case, a journaling block. You can also try accenting metal embellishments with lace, as Elizabeth did with her butterfly.
Spring Love by Kim Jackson as seen in the March/April 2011 issue of Creating Keepsakes magazine.
Victorian-inspired metallic touches don't have to come from metal embelishments. Metallic cardstock offers a wide variety of creative, vintage possibilities! Combine copper, antique gold, or burnished silver cardstock with antique crocheted lace, as Kim Jackson did. The heavier textured lace, strategically placed in the center and to the right, keep the copper cardstock from weighing down the left side of the page. Add a few copper buttons, and you'll have a Victorian-inspired page that will be a show-stopper in your album. Consider additional ways you can use lace to balance metallic cardstock.
For more ideas for using Victorian-inspired looks to create fresh layout designs, see the March/April 2011 issue of Creating Keepsakes magazine.
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The time has come everyone. The second printing has begun. Before I get you all more info on how to order a set I just want to take the time to thank everyone for waiting so patiently. Myself and all of the admins thank you very much. Now, on to the second printing info!
For all of you who are getting a set, whether it's your first or your second set there are going to be some actual deadlines this time and some general rules.
[*]Starting from now until February the 17th, you will be able to sign up for a set.
[*]You do not have to pay now but Do not sign up if you will not be able to pay for your books. This makes it harder for everyone.
[*]The reason you do not pay now is because we will be getting a quote after we learn how many people have signed up for books.
[*]The last sets were 73 USD if you need a general idea.
[*]If you can please include your phone number in the sign up notes so we can contact you easier.
[*]When you sign up, remember to set the project as Fallout: Equestria [Second Printing]
Now that the rules have been established, to sign up for your set, go to:
Happy new year everypony.
Second printing.
Second printing.
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Apparently I signed up for three sets. I looked around for a way to cancel, but it didn't seem to be there.
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I'll alert Arcane about that Batman.
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Not a problem. I can cancel the other two for you.
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Do you intend on e-mailing those who have signed up just so that they know that their sign up was registered by the program you're using, or is there a way to view who has signed up after you have? Also I was a bit confused by what you meant by number, did you mean our phone number, or some other number?
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Yeah, I'm not sure if my request went through or not. A confirmation email would help.
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If you are taken out of the sign up page, it more than likely went through. We will send out confirmation emails before the deadline if we can.
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I signed up :3. Can't wait until the deadline I'll probably pay as soon as you guys have the quote. Also, how are we going to pay for the books? I'm guessing an admin sends us an email to a paypal to put the money in or something? EDIT: I made an order before i made this account and i didn't see any proof i made the sign up. So, i made an account then re signed up the books and found i had proof that i signed up for the printing.... Will i get charged twice since i used the same order info? Am i on the list twice?
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Looks like mine went through. Not sure that it did, and not sure that I only signed up for one, but as long as it's figured out by the deadline, I'm happy
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Hopefully I'll be able to convince a few of my friends to get into this....people really are missing out.
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Madame Tussauds New York: Skip the line
Skip the line to the world-famous wax museum Madame Tussauds in New York with prebooked tickets! Visit the popular museum and see for yourself why it's visited by families year after year.
- Skip the line to Madame Tussauds in New York
- Get All Access Pass to all the exhibits
- Enjoy flexible tickets - valid one month
- See the over 200 life-like wax figures
- Visit the Marvel SuperHeroes 4D Cinema
Visit the World-Famous Madame Tussauds
In a city with millions of things to see and do, your stop in New York isn't complete until you've experienced the world famous Madame Tussauds. The one place where you can get up close and personal with over 200 of the world's most fascinating historical, political and iconic figures of our history.
With your All Access Pass you get access to all of the museum's exhibits, including:
The Spirit of New York
Immerse yourself in the real essence of New York City in our newest exhibit. Stand next to Marilyn Monroe in a classic NY scene, ring the bell at the Stock Exchange, and reflect on the past at the 9/11 Memorial. Take a scenic stroll through Central Park, sit behind the wheel of a real NY cab and enjoy a once in a life-time opportunity to get your picture taken inside the crown of the Statue of Liberty.
The Marvel SuperHeroes 4D Cinema
Experience Marvel SuperHeroes 4D Cinema, the new attraction at Madame Tussauds New York that delivers amazing 3D technology with the latest in 4D special effects including wind, snow, mist, scent, digital surround sound and an exciting line-up of films to thrill the entire family. The films are approx. 10-15 minutes long.
...and many, many more fun and entertaining exhibits!
How do I get my tickets?
Shortly after your booking is complete, you will receive an e-ticket by mail. Please print out your ticket and bring it with you to Madame Tussauds New York.
In order to get your tickets at Madame Tussauds, you need to bring a photo ID with your e-ticket. The name on the e-ticket must match the name on your ID.
How long are my tickets valid?
Your tickets are valid one month from the date you choose.
Are there children's tickets?
Yes, children's tickets are available for children between age 4-12. Children under age 4 are free when accompanied by a paying adult.
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The Plaza Boutique Hotel lies in a quiet area near Antwerp's city park, around the block from Charlottalei metro stop. It offers newly renovated accommodation with flat-screen TVs and free Wi-Fi.
The spacious, elegant rooms at Plaza Hotel have a private bathroom and a walk-in dressing room. A buffet breakfast is available in the large Orangerie breakfast room and includes a variety of hot and cold dishes.
The English-style of the Victoria Bar offers a cosy setting to have a drink or snack. There is a lounge area decorated with cherry wood where you can read 1 of the free newspapers available.
For information about the area or help with anything, Plaza Boutique Hotel's staff is there to help. The Charlottalei tram stop is 250 metres away and offers easy access to the central station and historic centre.
Hotel Plaza has a private underground parking on site. The A1/E19 ring road is a 5-minute drive from the hotel.


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At some point during your residency in Northeast Florida, you've probably marveled at works by famous and upcoming artists at the Museum of Contemporary Art or oohed and aahed at dinosaur exhibits and planetarium shows at the Museum of Science and History. But have you come face to face with a 2,400-year old rug made out of cat hair — that is cursed? Or learned how to properly load gun powder into a Civil War-era musket?
Didn't think so. Which is why I sought out some lesser-known museums in the area that may prove to be just as educational—and entertaining—to you and your family. And some even have gift shops!
Amelia Island Museum of History, Fernandina Beach
Mission: "To bring alive and preserve the area's rich history, from Timucua Native American tribe to Spanish and French explorers, from the lawless spirit of pirates to the dignified air of Victorian-era residents..."
Permanent exhibits: Civil War and the Florida Railroad, Spanish missions of La Florida, Timucuan Village
What you might learn: David Levy Yulee, an Amelia Island lawyer, was Florida's first U.S. senator and the country's first Jewish senator
Beaches Museum and History Park, Jacksonville Beach
Mission: "Dedicated solely to preserving the history and heritage of Florida's First Coast beach communities including Mayport, Atlantic, Neptune, Jacksonville and Ponte Vedra beaches and historic Palm Coast"
Permanent exhibits: a 28-ton 1911 steam locomotive, the Heritage Garden and extensive photo archives
What you might learn: Some historians believe the first permanent, year-round Native American settlement in North America was located in the area now known as Atlantic Beach in 3570 BCE
Florida Agriculture Museum, Palm Coast
Mission: "Preserving Florida's agricultural past and [encouraging] conservation of heritage livestock including rare Florida Cracker cattle and horses"
Permanent exhibits: original pioneer homestead, Caldwell Dairy Barn, Black Cowboys exhibit
What you might learn: how to shell corn and hunt for eggs—and if pigs really are happier in mud
Hands-on Children's Museum
Mission: "Promote hands-on participatory learning... through observation, inquiry, creative construction, role-playing, problem-solving and free play"
Permanent exhibits: little veterinarians, puppet stage and wheelchair basketball
What you might learn: working a supermarket (in this case the "Lil' Winn-Dixie") might not be as fun as your child thought
Karpeles Manuscript Library Museum
Mission: "[To preserve and share] the world's largest private holding of important original manuscripts and documents"
Current exhibits: The Boy Scouts of America and The Great Depression
Rotating exhibits: the original draft of The Bill of Rights, Webster's Dictionary, Mark Twain's "Tom Sawyer" and Einstein's Theory of Relativity
What you might learn (assuming your brain doesn't explode): ds2 = g11dx2 + 2 g11 g22 dx dy + g22 dy2
Jacksonville Fire Museum
Mission: "Serves as an educational link between Jacksonville's past and present and about the rich history of the Jacksonville Fire and Rescue Department"
Permanent exhibits: photos from the Great Fire of 1901, a fully-restored 1902 American LaFrance horse-drawn fire engine and a working 1926 American LaFrance fire engine
What you might learn: The Great Fire of 1901 is still the largest metropolitan fire to ever occur in the South.
Lyons Maritime Museum, St. Augustine
Mission: "[To display what is] very likely the largest deep sea diving collection of its kind on this planet. Could there be another larger collection out there in the galaxy???"
Permanent exhibits: thousands of diving helmets, diving knives, underwater flashlights, chest weights — just about anything you would need to explore the deep
What you will definitely learn: Owner/curator Leon Lyons really, really likes diving helmets.
Military Museum of North Florida, Green Cove Springs
Mission: "The preservation and respectful presentation of the rich military history of our citizen servicemen and women in order to honor their sacrifices to maintain our freedom"
Permanent exhibits: service vehicles from all branches including a LARC-LX 60-ton amphibious military vehicle used in Vietnam, WWII memorabilia and German SS articles
What you might learn: In 1940, the U.S. Navy opened a naval station in Green Cove Springs. After the war, it was downgraded to a Navy Aviation Auxiliary Station where it housed a "mothball fleet" of hundreds of Navy vessels.
Museum of Southern History
Mission: "To maintain and perpetuate an educational facility for those who are interested in the history of the United States, its early problems and difficulties in becoming the Nation it is today"
Permanent exhibits: original revolver carried by Confederate General Joseph E. Johnston and one of only three flags in existence to have adorned the casket of President Abraham Lincoln
What you might learn: There were approximately 170 battles and skirmishes fought in Florida during the Civil War.
North Florida Railway Museum, Green Cove Springs
Mission: "To preserve, restore and display the vast railroad history of North Florida … and promote railroad safety"
Permanent displays: railroad cars, equipment, models, photographs and research materials
What you might learn: The first railroad trains arrived in Florida in the 1860s with a line running between Fernandina Beach and Cedar Key.
The Ritz Theatre & Museum
Mission: "To research, record and preserve the material and artist culture and present in an educational or entertaining format, the many facets of African American life in Northeast Florida that make up the historical and cultural legacy of this community"
Permanent exhibits: vignettes recreating scenes of everyday life in Jacksonville during segregation; and an animatronic, mixed media presentation that tells the story of James Weldon Johnson and John Rosamond Johnson, who composed "Lift Ev'ry Voice and Sing"
What you might learn: James Weldon was the first African-American in Duval County to seek admission to the state bar and one of the first African-American professors at New York University.
Villa Zorayda Museum, St. Augustine
Mission: "Providing an in-depth look at the historical significance of the Moorish Spanish revival style of artchietecture to St. Augustine and showcase unique antiquities"
Permanent exhibits: the Sultan's Den and the Sacred Cat Rug, more than 2,400 years old and made from the fur of cats that roamed the Nile River in Ancient Egypt
What you might learn: Supposedly, anyone who walks on the rug will be cursed. Also, don't even try taking a picture of it. Seriously. Don't.


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Men of Whom the World Is Not Worthy is a collection of reflections on the lives and ministries of significant men of church history. In these lectures, John Piper explores the glories and truths of God that captivated and motivated these men, their strengths and weaknesses, and the suffering they endured. He also suggests what we can learn from them as we "run with endurance the race that is set before us" (Heb 2:12). The lectures were originally delivered during various years at the annual Bethlehem Conference for Pastors.


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Mambo Collection 22 Inch Two Tiered Glass Shelf with Integrated Towel Bar, Satin Chrome
@ Add space and organization to your bathroom with this simple, contemporary style glass shelf. Featuring tempered, beveled-edged glass and solid brass hardware this shelf is crafted for durability, strength and style. Integrated towel bar provides space for your favorite decorative towels or for your everyday use. One of the many coordinating accessories in the Allied Brass Collection of products, this subtle glass shelf is the perfect complement to your bathroom decor. @ Made with 3/8-inch thick tempered glass for safety and strength @ Satin Nickel, a lightly brushed warm grey metallic look that helps resist fingerprints @ Solid Brass Fixtures with mounting hardware included for easy installation @ Glass Dimension 22 Inches x 5 Inches @ Assembled in the USA @ Clever Design adds the convenience of an integrated towel bar @ Cleaning instructions: Only use Water or Windex. Other products will ruin the finish.


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Which of these two is correct?
Most company is private
Most companies are private
In general, should most be used with a singular or plural noun? And will the verb "be" be plural or singular?
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Which of these two is correct?
Most company is private
Most companies are private
In general, should most be used with a singular or plural noun? And will the verb "be" be plural or singular?
This question is too basic; it can be definitively and permanently answered by a single link to a standard internet reference source designed specifically to find that type of information. If this question can be reworded to fit the rules in the help center, please edit the question.
Most is what is called a determiner. A determiner is "a word, such as a number, article, personal pronoun, that determines (limits) the meaning of a noun phrase." Some determiners can only be used with either a countable noun or an uncountable noun, while others, like most, can be used with both countable and uncountable nouns. Uncountable nouns usually take a singular verb.
So, in your example, this is the correct form for your sentence: "Most companies are private." The plural noun is needed after the word most (company, referring to a business entity, is a countable noun, with a standard plural form [companies]), and then the plural verb is needed to construct a grammatically correct sentence.
But a sentence such as, "Most information is now obtained from the Internet." would take the singular verb (since information is considered an uncountable noun).
Interestingly, company can be an uncountable noun, but it then has a different definition than in your example. For example, " Most company leaves after two or three days," is a perfectly acceptable sentence. In this case, company has the definition of a social gathering of guests or companions.
Here are a couple of additional links to information about determiners and uncountable nouns.
Most companies are private is the correct form.
Think of most as the majority of. Surely you would say the majority of comanies are... - wouldn't you?
Furthermore, of the is required if you limit the sample in any way. A. Most men are stupid. B. Most of the men in that club are stupid. C. Most of the men in the world are stupid.
Sentences A and C seem the same in principle, but only A is completely unlimited. The same applies to uncountable nouns. D. I've put most of the sand in that barrel.


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The New York Times recently took a look inside Mike D's Brooklyn townhouse. Part of legendary hip-hop group Beastie Boys, Mike D had spent his entire life living in Manhattan before relocating to Cobble Hill with his wife and two kids. The musician describes him and his wife's aesthetic as "kind of vernacular, sensitive, modern." The renovation pictured above took about six months and ran the family just under $500,000.
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PROVIDENCE – Gov. Lincoln D. Chafee said Friday afternoon that 38 Studios LLC, the embattled video game developer founded by former Boston Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling, was back in default on its $75 million loan guarantee deal with the state.
During a press conference, Chafee said that while the company had worked its way out of default after it made a $1.1 million payment to the state a week ago (more than two weeks after it was due), the company had violated the terms of the loan agreement by not giving its employees or the government 30 days notice when it laid off the entire workforce earlier this week.
The default makes 38 Studios ineligible for up to $14 million in state film tax credits the company has applied for and has been trying to pre-sell to investors this spring.
Pressed by reporters about why the R.I. Economic Development Corporation, which he chairs, waived a requirement that third-party monitor IBM provide written reports to the state about 38 Studios, Chafee said EDC Executive Director Keith W. Stokes had made the change without telling him or the rest of the board. He said 38 Studios had asked for the reports to be made orally to prevent sensitive information from being seen or leaked while in state offices.
38 Studio's problems came to light in the last two weeks, after the company missed the May 1 deadline for what amounts to a loan preparation fee to the state. Since then, Stokes, who had worked out the details of the deal at the behest of then-Gov. Donald L. Carcieri, has resigned from the EDC and Jennifer MacLean, the CEO of 38 Studios, has resigned after initially taking maternity leave.
In addition, CVS Caremark Corp. Executive Vice President Helena B. Foulkes has stepped down from her position as vice chairwoman of the EDC, a position that Chafee had appointed her to.
Chafee has also talked with board members Stephen Lane, the founder of medical device maker Ximedica and J.L. "Lynn" Singleton, the president of the Providence Performing Arts Center, but meither has agreed to leave yet. The governor asked for the resignation of George Nee, the president of the Rhode Island AFL-CIO, but he has refused to step down. He also has said he will not reappoint Dr. Timothy J. Babineau, president and CEO of Rhode Island Hospital and Hasbro Children's Hospital, to the board, as well as Collette Vacations President and CEO Daniel J. Sullivan Jr., whose terms have expired.
Chafee said that the state will perform a forensic audit on 38 Studios, adding that he believed that the company's books were secure, although he added that the state could not confirm how much of his own money that founder Schilling had currently invested in the company, nor whether he used proceeds from the loan guarantee bonds to repay his early investments in the company.
While no third-party investors have come forward since the revelation of the firm's financial difficulties, Chafee said that he was still looking for outside capital, although he was pessimistic about the prospects of attracting anyone to invest at this point.


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The Oversoul has done its job well. There is no war on Harmony. There are no weapons of mass destruction. There is no technology that could lead to weapons of war. By control of the data banks, and subtle interference in the very thoughts of the people, the artificial intelligence has fulfilled its mission.
But now there is a problem. In orbit, the Oversoul realizes that it has lost access to some of its memory banks, and some of its power systems are failing. And on the planet, men are beginning to think about power, wealth, and conquest.
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- Scott
- 07-09-2016
Typical Orson Scott Card - Great!
I was hesitant about the poor reviews but the story was good stuff and I shouldn't have worried! Buying the second book now.
- Sam
- 14-01-2010
Better than I remember it
I read this book (and indeed this entire series) about 7 years ago - its been a pleasure to revisit the world of harmony. The reader narrates the book very well, giving each of the characters both a fitting and distinguishable voice during dialogue. In narrative, the reader is clear and easy to understand allowing the listener to drift into the world.
23 of 25 people found this review helpful
- Tech Nut
- 14-05-2008
Interesting Premise
I have read a lot of OSC -- all of the Ender series (both of tracks) as well as the first Alvin Maker. This volume is not as good as Ender (any of them), but few Sci-Fi books are in my estimation. Like Alvin Maker, it leaves you hanging at the end, needing to know what happens next. I will say it ends at a natural break, while Alvin Maker stops way too soon.
The Memory of Earth offers an interesting take on humanity's seemingly inevitable quest to destroy itself. OSC is a master of strategy and I think this book also shows that mind at work. I am looking forward to Vol. II to see if the Oversoul's plan works out.
25 of 28 people found this review helpful
- Harry
- 04-02-2009
Entertaining approach to SciFi
I like the characters, brotherly rivalry. Some family interactions could be a little more realistic. The long view of the world of Harmony was interesting and I can't wait for more. I hope Card gets into the morality of the Over Soul more than he seemed to in this book.
The Narrator was fantastic. He is always great and gets out of the way so you can enjoy the story. I don't think I once thought about the narration. Was too involved.
11 of 12 people found this review helpful
- Jacobus
- 15-12-2011
Has the potential to get better
Njafai is a 14 year old boy living with his father and brothers and sometimes with his mother on the planet Harmony. Like everyone else they are believers in the Over Soul. Yet what is this Over Soul? A god or a super computer? How does he/she influence the world in which Njafai lives? What happens when Njafai makes a sort of alliance with this being?
Orson Scott Card tells the story of a boy becoming a man, a machine outliving its days and the promise of a new world. The story seems to be build on the Exodus story in the Bible. Yet with less intrigue, but still with interesting twists. Stefan Rudnicki's reading is solid, clear and enjoyable. I just can't say where Scott Card will take us with this story. The first book of the Homecoming series seems to me to be a long introduction. It is clear that the next books in the series will answer if this is a worthwhile listen. Currently I can't say much, except that there is enough to want you to listen to the next book.
10 of 11 people found this review helpful
- Old Hippy
- 22-02-2010
I keep hoping, but, alas, ...
... disappointed again. I've read several early books by Card that I really, really liked - and, so, I keep trying. But I had to give up after just a few hours. The whole shtick with people in the future living primitively but having super powers, and dreams of old, and whatnot is just too overdone. I like good, hard SciFi, and this ain't it.
21 of 26 people found this review helpful
- Steve
- 28-04-2008
An engaging story
The story is an easy listen. The author does a good job in developing the characters and engaging the listener in the story. This book compares very favorably with other stories by Mr Card where he develops a believable society, and then spins a story with depth. Once the story is completely told, it may deserve five stars.
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- Radish Bliss
- 06-12-2008
sodom and gomorrah, sci-fi style
This series is very entertaining, especially if you've studied the bible and like SCI-FI. And I love the narrator.
11 of 14 people found this review helpful
- Barbara
- 25-02-2009
Interesting Story
Though an interesting story, The Memory of Earth didn't live up to my expectations. A good cautionary tale with an interesting viewpoint of future society.
4 of 5 people found this review helpful
- Bruce
- 22-06-2008
My favorite series so far....
I have read this series bunches of times. This is my absolute favorite series of books from him. I look forward to the other books on audible.
11 of 15 people found this review helpful
- Jim "The Impatient"
- 17-04-2014
Where is The Coat of Many Colors?
I must hurry and type this before the Oversoul causes me to forget. The Oversoul controls the minds of people in order to keep the peace and stop war. These are not the drones you are looking for. I read this book 30 years ago. I remembered it as a book I loved. The Oversoul made me forget the boring wordy dialogue that started to infiltrate Card's writing in the 90's. The stretching out of a story in order to be able to write sequels.
Card takes the story of Moses and Joseph and combines them to make this story. We have brothers who hate each other, a common theme in Card books. Another ploy that Card started using around this time, the main character questions every move and decision everyone makes. The main character has no sense of humor again. If you have read more then three Card books written after 1990 then you have read this book, only the names have been changed.
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- Ian
- 21-12-2008
Great book - dull reading
I couldn't disagree more with the first review. The plot of the book does mirror the fall of man. I think that most people, when they look around the world at Africa, Afghanistan, the Middle East etc. etc. will not have much problem with the basic premise - that man left to himself turns to evil more often than not. The concept of handing over control to the women because they are less prone to warlike behaviour is an interesting one that is effectively explored. The characters are thoroughly believable. I love the way in which Card conveys the tensions of family life - the affection and the chafing. The audiobook is marred by a dull reading with little (and inconsistent) differentiation between the characters.
4 of 4 people found this review helpful
- Matthew
- 10-12-2008
Gave me memories of better books...
I have to be honest, I found this book entertaining enough to listen to until the end, so it hasn't been a waste of money entirely. But had I been reading a physical book it would probably have been too much effort.
There's such simplicity in the whole thing. I found the dialogue a little forced and the characters somewhat without significant depth. I feel I'd discovered the most important parts of the whole saga by about half way through and found the rest of the time I winced at the theme whilst skipping backward to hear the bits I'd missed whilst disagreeing.
It's fair to say that I found the highly religious sub-text a little difficult to swallow in it's one-sidedness. In fairness I suppose the story itself has merit - which is why I chose to listen, and it's credibly written. I'm not going to read any further.
The whole thing basically suggests that in order to stave off self-destruction humanity should cap it's ambitions and lead a religious life style. It basically dresses up what is effectively mind control as something appealing which we should embrace. From a man who believes homosexuality should be against the law I suppose it's not overly surprising that it might not fulfill my wildest expectations. Definitely a disappointment and I'd spend your credit elsewhere.
Not much else to say about a thoroughly unremarkable book other than it felt as though I was listening to soft-core science-fiction for the otherwise easily-offended.
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- Amazon Customer
- 03-11-2016
I always have and always will enjoy books by orson Scott card but since listening to the entirety of the shadow saga on audible I've grown accustomed to hearing Stefan Redneki narrate card's books so much so in fact that I would be disappointed if he didn't.


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In spite of the damage wrought by Hurricane Sandy in 2012, builders and developers broke ground on projects in almost every local town in 2013, looking to capitalize on the county's geographic prominence and influx of young and wealthy residents.
Jersey City
For much of the past decade, the LeFrak Organization's massive Newport development project, which transformed the Jersey City waterfront and changed the way builders envisioned Gold Coast projects, has dominated the development discussion in Hudson County. But with LeFrak unveiling the final portion of its project, a public park and three final buildings just north of the Hoboken border, in April, the focus shifted toward future projects elsewhere in Jersey City.
Less than a mile from Newport, on the corner of Jersey Avenue and 18th Street, the 155-unit Cast Iron Lofts opened in February, and is being marketed as the first step towards the development of a new neighborhood known as SoHo West. The project is being built by City Home and Gardens, a group that previously constructed several luxury complexes in Hoboken and Jersey City such as The Courtyard at Jefferson and The Cliffs in Jersey City.
Just south of Exchange Place, partners Ironstate Development and the Kushner Real Estate Group (of Hoboken and Bridgewater, respectively) have broken ground on an 11-story residential and commercial project that will allow for over 400 apartments on 80 acres in the Liberty Harbor Redevelopment District. The project is close to the Marin Boulevard Hudson-Bergen Light Rail station.
In Journal Square, an area where Mayor Steven Fulop wants to spur development through tax abatements, the KRE Group is set to begin work on the massive Journal Square Center Towers. The project consists of three towers ranging from 54 to 70 stories in height that could break ground in early 2014. The group, whose previous Jersey City projects include 225 Grand St. and Grove Pointe on Marin Boulevard, was recently granted a 30-year tax abatement by the city.
Just across the street from the Journal Square PATH station, the Hartz Mountain Corporation finalized plans on a 240 unit, 13-story apartment building, making it nearly a perfect location for people seeking public transportation alternatives.
And Paul and Eric Silverman, long credited with revitalizing the Hamilton Park area as attractive to new residents and entrepreneurs alike, broke ground on two new projects in 2013. Already responsible for developing the JC Lofts, Hamilton Square, Majestic Theatre Condominiums, and the Schroeder Lofts, the brothers broke ground on a new seventh-story development located on the corner of Grove Street and Montgomery Street. They also broke ground on a building on Ninth Street, also near Hamilton Park, which will house 25 apartment units and the Scandinavian School of Jersey City, a multilingual and multicultural school.
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Bijou also broke ground on Park Place, a $131 million 12-story mixed-use building that will feature 212 apartment homes, 13,000 square feet of retail space, 32,000 square feet of educational space and a six level parking garage at 1415 Park Ave.
On the waterfront, a new 14-story commercial building broke ground just south of the W Hotel, making it the final piece of the puzzle in the city's master plan for its 26-acre waterfront. Textbook giant Pearson Education signed a 15-year lease as the building's first tenant, bringing 900 jobs. The building, developed by SJP Properties, will create approximately 600 construction jobs and will be LEED Silver Certified, highlighting its distinction as environmentally friendly.
Hoboken activists and officials have taken a stand against "overdevelopment" so some big projects failed to get off the ground.
NJ Transit has floated several plans to develop its Observer Highway property, near the railroad station, as commercial and residential property. But they have been sparring with Mayor Dawn Zimmer over how high and dense to build.
Throughout 2013, Zimmer and representatives from LCOR, the firm NJ Transit has hired to lead the project, attempted to compromise on the number of buildings and square footage. The city has said that it wants a 2 million square foot project, while LCOR's proposal is closer to 3 million square feet.
Meanwhile, the future of the long argued-over Monarch Project, a pair of 11-story luxury buildings on a pier at Fifteenth Street to be built by Hoboken-based Ironstate, was called into question in December. The City Council voted in favor of a citywide ban on pier development.
It was an exciting year for development in Weehawken. Developers broke ground and announced plans for construction on the last open slices of the township's waterfront property.
Drivers heading past Weehawken/Hoboken border may have noticed the construction of a 10-story building between the Willow Avenue and Park Avenue bridges.
The 150-unit apartment complex, complete with a pool, gym, and weight room, had taken almost six years to get off the ground. The newest plan provides for all one- and two-bedrooms, and includes four stories of parking. In the wake of Hurricane Sandy, which devastated the Shades neighborhood, Tom and Scott Heagney, the father and son development team spearheading the project, went through a long process of adding disaster mitigation safeguards to the building, including moving all electrical components well above the ground floor.
In November, Turner and a group of developers announced that over the next two years, developers will build two connecting Marriott hotels on the waterfront: a 226-room Renaissance by Marriott and a 154-room Residence Inn for extended stays. The hotel complex will be erected over an existing five-story garage that opened this summer, and will be adjacent to the Port Imperial Ferry Terminal.
Each hotel will have its own entrance and lobby, but they will be connected on the sixth floor. Guests will share access to the outdoor terrace, pool, fitness center, a high-end restaurant on the sixth floor, and a function space for up to 750 seated guests.
Roseland Development, which built the existing garage, entered into a contract to sell the air rights for the space above the garage to the hotel developer. The developer is a partnership of Portsmouth, N.H.-based XSS Hotels and Colwen Management.
Secaucus saw less development this year than it did in 2012, when the Atlantic Realty Development Corporation began phases three and four of its Xchange at Secaucus Junction project. In March, the site's developers, Atlantic Realty Development Corporation, announced Phase III and IV of their plan, which will include a marina on the Hackensack River waterfront with restaurants, stores, and a recreation center.
Phase III holds 317 residential units opened in April and construction began on Phase IV over the summer.
The town did make significant progress on its Harmon Meadow development. Hartz Mountain Industries has been reinventing the development's retail area on Route 3, adding two restaurant choices this year and planning two hotels within the next two years.
The company's office building at 450 Harmon Meadow Blvd. was torn down this year. In the place of an outdated building came a hamburger restaurant last month and then a chicken wing eatery this month.
The company is also planning to open a 170-room hotel in the area, but did not give many details. They estimated it will open within 18 to 24 months.
In addition, a 150-room Marriott Residence will open in the first quarter next year, replacing an old six-screen movie theater on the site.
The developers also demolished an eight-screen movie theater two to three years ago and replaced it with an LA Fitness.
West New York
A controversial development project along West New York's Palisades Cliffs was approved this year on Kennedy Boulevard East. Residents clashed with out-of-town developer Capodagli Properties throughout 2012 over a proposed residential high-rise on the Boulevard East site of a long-vacant Exxon gas station, but the project was approved by the town's Zoning Board in the spring.
The proposed 13-story building is called the Meridia le Boulevard, and will hold 123 rental units and sit on 13,194 square feet of land.
At the end of the year, the town's zoning board also approved development that caused controversy, called the Felice. Requiring variances similar to those awarded to the Meridia (such as for number of floors and lack of distance from nearby buildings), the project was delayed for more than a year due to resident protests. The 35-unit building will be constructed on the corner of 60th Street and Boulevard East.
Elsewhere in West New York, Mayor Felix Roque and developer Dean Mon cut the ribbon in March on two new apartment complexes, the Washington and the Jefferson, that together make up Phase I of the Jaclyn Heights affordable housing building project on Washington Street and 58th Street.
Union City
In densely populated Union City, there were no major development projects this year, but a group of Hudson County veterans found a home there. They recently moved into a new 18-unit building specifically for those who have served in the armed forces.
Located on 40th Street in Union City, the facility was established on Hudson County residents who served in the armed forces, have a permanent disability, and are either homeless or nearly homeless. It was built at a cost of $4.7 million in a partnership between private and government agencies.
"Homes for Heroes" is funded by $1.3 million in grants from state and federal entities. A
local not-for-profit sponsor, the North Hudson Community Action Corporation (NHCAC), will contribute job training, social work, and counseling for the residents.
New parks in most towns
As developers rushed throughout 2013 to grab up the last bits of undeveloped land around Hudson County, municipalities focused on how to preserve open and recreational space for the community.
In Hoboken, the city government cut the ribbon on a new uptown park, 1600 Park. This park, at the city's border with Weehawken, currently consists of an athletic field, a dog run, and a raised earth hill, or viewing mound, that will provide a good vantage point for sports matches.
The field, which has been planned since 2006 when the city purchased the land, will provide space for soccer, baseball, and lacrosse, as well as just about any other sport imaginable, including hurling, a popular Irish sport enjoyed by many Hobokenites.
Zimmer and co. also managed to take ownership of a small 1-acre parking lot on the corner of Jackson Street between Paterson Avenue and Observer Highway. The new southwest park could break ground this year. The city used its right to eminent domain to acquire the land, and is currently in a planning process including several public meetings regarding how residents feel the park should be constructed.
In West New York, West New York Mayor Felix Roque reopened two public parks in May and June that had undergone extensive renovations using federal funding. Both parks – Dewey and Fillmore Park – got awards from the New Jersey Society of Municipal Engineers.
Additional plans are under way to improve the municipal pool, Miller Park, and Washington Park in the next year.
In Union City, a plan that began as controversial got off the ground in the summer after Mayor Brian Stack announced plans to redo his city's entire section of Washington Park (the park borders Jersey City, and parts are run by that municipality as well as the county). Some residents initially expressed concerns over the number of existing trees that would be cut down in order to expand the city's little league field to make it more compatible for other sports, but Stack argued that beautifying the city's gateway and providing more space for youngsters was more important.
And in Secaucus, one of the city's oldest parks received a full makeover, courtesy of a $1.6 million grant from the county's Open Space fund. Buchmuller Park, at the center of the town, saw improvements to its lighting and landscaping, as well as the installation of new athletic turf on its baseball field, new bocce courts, and a new children's playground.
Last year, North Bergen and Guttenberg announced plans for a waterfront park on River Road shared by both towns, which is funded partially through the county's Open Space Trust Fund. The majority of the money will come from two New Jersey Green Acres Grants.
Transportation updates: Biking and walking
Hudson County is known for numerous avenues of public transportation – commuter trains, light rail trains, the PATH train, the ferries, and buses. While 2012 was marked by significant expansions of public transportation infrastructure, this past year – 2013 – saw several advances to alternative transportation, including walking and cycling.
Elected officials in Jersey City, Hoboken, and Weehawken announced in December that they had entered into a regional bike sharing program that will allow residents and tourists alike to rent one of 650 bikes available up and down the Gold Coast.
Under the tri-municipality plan, hundreds of bikes will be available at strategic locations in all three cities. In Jersey City, a minimum of 300 bikes will be installed in 30 locations throughout the city. In Hoboken, there will be a minimum of 250 bikes and a minimum of 100 bikes in Weehawken.
And for the first time since Hurricane Sandy, pedestrians could reach Liberty State Park from downtown Jersey City in April when it was announced that a footbridge passing over the Morris Canal – which was destroyed by last year's storm – was once again open.
Meanwhile, another Hudson County border crossing was improved this year with the unveiling of a newly constructed "100 Steps," a 21st century version of a staircase built in the 1920s that was removed from the Palisades Cliffs in the 1990s after it had become dangerously decrepit.
In November, the new 100 Steps were opened for pedestrian use, allowing neighbors in the Jersey City Heights and western Hoboken easier access to one another.
This article was first published in the Hudson Reporter. Excellent article that reviews the major development all over Hudson County
Donna Antonucci
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Gracie Gold already was eyeing the 2014 Winter Olympics four years ago as a freshman at Chatham Glenwood High School. What easily could have been brushed off as a young girl's dream became reality when she won nationals Saturday night and officially made the Olympic team on Sunday.
Gracie Gold already was eyeing the Olympics — the 2014 games specifically — four years ago as a freshman at Chatham Glenwood High School.
"I would really like to be, or at least considered, for the 2014 Olympic team," a then-14-year-old Gracie told The State Journal-Register. "And I would really like to start competing at international competitions."
What easily could have been brushed off as a young girl's dream by those unfamiliar with Gold's long road to success became a reality Saturday night when she won her first U.S. figure skating title and was selected Sunday to compete at the Sochi Olympics in February.
She won this year's national title in Boston after finishing second to two-time U.S. champion Ashley Wagner in 2013. Wagner made the Olympic team on Sunday despite finishing fourth in the competition.
Local ties
Gold, now 18, has local ties. She attended Chatham schools for three years, starting in 2007 for seventh grade. After her freshman year at Glenwood High School, she switched to online education at University of Missouri High School and moved to Chicago to train full time. From there, she moved to southern California to train with her current coaches.
Despite her short time in Springfield, Gold quickly found a place as a competitor in the Springfield Figure Skating Club and skated every morning at the Nelson Center before heading to school.
Neither Gold nor her father, Dr. Carl Gold, could be reached for comment Sunday.
Long road to gold
Gold's win on Saturday didn't come without years of setbacks, however.
In 2010, she placed fourth in the novice category in the U.S. Figure Skating Championships, competing against most of the best U.S. skaters in her category. And, after a growth spurt that left the 5-foot-4 struggling to find her balance, she didn't even qualify for the 2011 national championships.
Things turned around, however, after she left public school and began training full time. Gold won the gold medal in the 2012 U.S. Figure Skating Championships in San Jose, Calif., with the highest score ever recorded in the competition's junior ladies division.
In the end, that kind of success was just a warmup for 2014 Winter Olympics, scheduled to begin Feb. 7 in Sochi, Russia. Saturday night's first-place win secured Gold's place on the U.S. figure skating team.
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Gadshill: "We have the receipt of fern-seed, we walk invisible."
Chamberlain. "Now, by my faith, I think you are more beholding to the night
than to fern-seed for your walking invisible.
Shakespeare, Henry IV Part 1: Act 2, Scene 1
Well, ferns don't make seeds. Do they?
Back in the Middle Ages, and well into the 16th Century, there was considerable confusion regarding the way plants worked, along with everything else. Plants were thought to reproduce by seeds, and all the everyday, conspicuous plants known did just that...but then there were those ferns. The ferns never did seem to make any seeds in any form. But since plants reproduced by seeds, and since ferns are plants, that meant that fern's seeds were invisible. And that having some fern seeds in your pocket would make YOU invisible. Can you imagine the scams that might have lead to? "'ello governor, how 'bout a pouch of fern seed? Only 12 sovereigns for a man such as yourself!" But no fern makes seeds, visible or invisible. Not even the one pictured here.
Ferns reproduce by producing tiny spores, which may effectively be considered as acting like seeds, at least as dispersal units. Their spores are produced in tiny structures called sporangia, and these sporangia are clustered into little patches, each one called a sorus. Depending on the fern species, there may be a lot of sori (plural) or maybe not so many, but the spores themselves are quite tiny, and usually produced in great abundance. For most common, every-day ferns, the sori occur in little bumps on the back side of a regular fern leaf. But our Mystery fern is a bit different.
This species, and its close relatives (some of which were as big as trees), were common about 200 million years ago, sometimes getting stepped on by dinosaurs. As a kind of modern "fossil", it produces "regular" fronds, but without any sporangia. These non-reproductive, or "sterile" fronds, are quite handsome, arising in a clump, bright green and divided into a number of pointed segments, the whole leaf up to 5' tall, on really happy plants. There is another kind of frond produced, though, what we conveniently call a "fertile" frond...and this is where the sporangia are. In fact, the fertile fronds, which are usually a bit shorter than the regular sterile ones, end up with a look all their own: fuzzy, due to thousands of curly hairs, and cinnamon brown at maturity. The sporangia occur on the branches of each fertile frond, but instead of being in recognizable sori, they collectively form a wooly layer on the surface of the fertile frond. Each sporangium will release plenty of extremely tiny spores, when ready. And, these spores are green. (Most ferns' spores are brown or black.)
Our beautiful Mystery Fern is common all over eastern North America. You'll find it in shady swamps and wetlands along creeks and streams. And, it makes an excellent addition to a shady wet garden.
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A couple weeks back Jeff Soto flew out to Richmond, VA for their street art festival to do some mural action. Artists included the likes of Hense, Richard Colman, Dalek, Hamilton Glass, and many more.
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My finished piece... an Owl for Grandpa Barney
Hense in front of his wall.
Richard Colman collab with Dalek and Pose was pretty damn cool.
Richard Colman finished piece.
Pose and Dalek paint the stretch Suburban.
Pose and Vizie's corner looked amazing.
Hamilton Glass
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Recently I watched an old Bollywood classic Sholay during a long flight to India to see my ailing parents. I've seen this film before, but this time the familiar macho–masala plot with song–and–dance entertainment helped me think about climate change activism afresh. Retired policeman Thakur Baldev Singh wants to end the tyranny of notorious dacoit Gabbar Singh. Thakur hires two small–time but infamous thieves Jai and Veeru to accomplish his wish. After arriving in Ramgarh where Thakur lives, Jai and Veeru decide that when Gabbar's men come to collect supplies from the defenseless villagers they won't allow the giveaway. The film continues ... What I took away from it was that a justice movement usually begins with "what we want," but for it to be effective we must also clearly articulate and fight for "what we don't want."
I'll share some news first and then return to activism.
Last week was filled with climate change news. Here are some highlights. On Wednesday, the journal Nature published a major study that covers the years from 1951 to 1999. It concludes: "The research directly links rising greenhouse–gas levels with the growing intensity of rain and snow in the Northern Hemisphere." This, however, is not news but affirmation for the tens of millions people in Pakistan, Australia, China, and parts of the US who suffered from devastating floods or severe winter storms during the past year. Also last week, the journal Climate Change Letters published a study led by University of Arizona scientists that concludes rising sea levels could threaten 180 coastal cities in the US by 2100.
Brace yourself—we're in for a rough ride. But the real bad news is that the Republican–controlled 112th Congress is determined to make this ride much more painful for everyone.
On Thursday, the House Republicans and 13 Democrats passed a measure with 249–179 votes that would take away the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) authority to regulate greenhouse gas emissions through the Clean Air Act, slash the EPA's budget by $3 billion, and defund the top White House climate change offices—including the climate advisor to the President (a position formerly held by Carol Browner) and the US climate change negotiator to the United Nations (currently held by Todd Stern). Philip Radford of Greenpeace wrote these words in the Huffington Post: "With no one to run the EPA, no money to run it with, and little authority to do anything, the EPA would barely be more than a ceremonial body." This Congress, with Representative Fred Upton (R–Michigan) at the helm as chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, is determined to sell America's public health and the future of our children and grandchildren to the coal–and–oil empire.
Upton's bullock cart to take us back into the twentieth century isn't moving without resistance. Senator Barbara Boxer (D–California), chairperson of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, is committed to fighting. On Tuesday, Politico reported in a story titled Fred Upton vs. Barbara Boxer, "she'd [Boxer] do everything in her power to stop what she described as his [Upton's] illegal legislative plan to stop EPA climate rules." Boxer isn't alone; there are many on her side. We have to join the fight and ensure that the wheels of Upton's cart get stuck in wet mud.
If the EPA is made defunct, undoubtedly the underprivileged communities will suffer the most. Without anyone to monitor toxic dumping of industry it'll become a public health nightmare for these communities who are already under great stress from the economic depression. Each day we learn more about the ugly truth of the great chasm between Main Street and Wall Street. But we must also never forget that so much life in this great nation and on our earth does not live on either of those two streets but in deserts, forests, mountains, oceans, rivers, tundra ... We must do whatever we can to ensure the survival of all those non–street dwellers as well as those of us who do live along or on streets.
There are predators everywhere, but the great irony is that the top predator of the non–street world (the polar bear) is struggling to survive the wrath of carbon in the air, while the top predators of the street world (Chevron, Exxon, Koch Brothers, Peabody ...) are making astronomical profits by helping everyone put more carbon in the air. Any meaningful climate change policy in the US seems impossible because influential Beltway politicians are pouring jugs of pure ghee (read: deregulation) into the fire of corporate greed. In return, they hope the corporate gods will be pleased and offer generous blessings come 2012.
What We Want
Climate scientist James Hansen gave the world a number: For our earth to support life as we know it, the atmospheric concentration of CO2 should not exceed 350 ppm. Right now it is nearly 390 ppm. It is no surprise that we're having extreme weather events affecting tens of millions of people all around the planet.
Environmental writer and activist Bill McKibben and his colleagues started 350.org in 2009—a global movement to raise awareness about bringing down the CO2 concentration to 350 ppm—that is, cleaning up our air to make it habitable for all life. They have successfully organized the most widespread actions of any cause ever in the history of this planet: 5,200 climate rallies in 181 countries in 2009 and 7,000 work projects in 188 countries in 2010. Because of their efforts, citizens from all over the world now know "what we want"—we want the carbon concentration in our atmosphere to come down to 350 ppm. Their message is so simple that, like art or music, it has broken all barriers of language and culture in bringing people together—an incredible achievement. The 350.org movement is growing by the day and I hope you'll lend your voice, too.
What We Don't Want
Any time we frame something as what we don't want, it becomes confrontational, and the solutions are often revolutionary. Take, for example, The Poet, an essay written by Emerson. He didn't want any more bad poetry to be written in America. Perhaps he didn't want European poetry written in America by American poets. He wanted something original. Whitman took the challenge and wrote Leaves of Grass. It was revolutionary and pissed off the establishment, but in the process it changed American poetry forever.
Climate change activism—or, possibly better framed as Earth activism—is really about fossil fuels: the need to reduce consumption of coal and oil and stop new destructive extraction projects. As it happens, in the US we've been framing that activism movement with "what we don't want" for some time now.
The campaign to save the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge from industrial development has been going on for the past fifty years. Without a doubt this is the longest running and perhaps the most inclusive ecocultural activist movement anywhere on earth. I've been deeply involved in it for the past ten years. First, what we want: permanent protection of the coastal plain of the Arctic Refuge, the most biologically diverse area in the entire circumpolar North that also supports two indigenous communities, Gwich'in and Inupiat. That demand has not yet been met. Next, what we don't want: oil development in the coastal plain of the Arctic Refuge. Such "don't want" framing has been crucial for the long life of the movement, and it was particularly necessary during the George W. Bush era.
Shell has been trying to drill for oil in the Beaufort and Chukchi Seas of Arctic Alaska. Last year I wrote numerous pieces about the topic with a simple framing—we don't want Shell to BP the Arctic. I also wrote in response to Shell's massive ad campaign, particularly the "Let's Go" and the "We Have the Technology" ads. A top executive from the Shell headquarters in the Netherlands emailed me to discuss further, but before such a discussion could take place, the EPA board blocked Shell's air quality permits and Shell abandoned drilling plans for 2011. The Inupiat communities and the environmental organizations launched a campaign few years ago that also included several legal suits (I provided declarations for some of these) against Shell and the US Department of Interior. When a concerted citizens' effort to stop something that is clearly wrong wins, however temporarily, it gives us all the more reason to continue our work. In activism, there is no final win, just ongoing engagement.
Another example is the sustained citizens' campaign to stop mountaintop coal mining in the American southeast. The latest was a civil disobedience action led by writer–philosopher Wendell Berry. Before that, there were several protests in which James Hansen participated and was arrested. One key element in that fight is the EPA's Clean Water Act, as mountaintop coal mining severely pollutes the waterways, killing fish and whatever else may live in those rivers and creeks. That movement is framed with a simple "what we don't want" statement—we don't want mountaintop coal mining because it destroys public health, the livelihoods of the people, and the ecology of the region.
The EPA is under attack from the Republicans, and we must fight to protect the very agency that works to protect public and ecological health in America. Is this a private fight or can anyone get in it? That was the title of Bill Moyers' keynote speech at the 2011 History Makers conference. Earth activism is a public fight. Please join in and say what you don't want in your community.
[Note: I'd like to thank Christine Clifton–Thornton, Senior Editor of ClimateStoryTellers.org for her thoughtful edits of this piece.]


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To the Estherville Community,
On behalf of the Estherville Rotary Club, thank you for donating all your old Christmas lights. They will all be recycled, will not go into the land fill, and will make our club a little cash.
The Estherville Rotary Club donates to many programs in our community including the Eville Halloween Assoc, the DARE program, ECHO Plus, Sweet Corn Days, and the Flight Breakfast. We also fund scholarships, help with Meals-on-Wheels and we have worked with EXCEL Estherville. Our goal is Service Above Self, and we are always striving to make our community the best that it can be.
We plan to collect Christmas lights during the 2013 holiday season. Please save your unwanted lights for us and watch for our drop boxes.
Thank you,
Lisa M Dreeszen, DVM
Estherville Rotary Club


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The two Official Charities for the 2012 Aberdeen Asset Management Scottish Open will benefit from an equal share of £30,404 thanks to the players and fans during last week's event at Castle Stuart Golf Links.
Children's Hospice Association of Scotland (CHAS) and Befrienders Highland were supported through two initiatives surrounding the Championship near Inverness.
Firstly, the Aberdeen Asset Management Scottish Open Birdie Pledge saw funds donated by both Aberdeen and the charitable arm of the European Tour, The Tour Players Foundation (TPF), for each birdie, eagle and albatross made by the players on course - a total of £10, £20 and £50 respectively.
The outstanding low scoring in evidence over the week, with 1873 birdies, the last of which was the superb birdie made by India's Jeev Milkha Singh at the first play-off hole to seal victory over Francesco Molinari, and 22 eagles recorded helping swell the funds donated through the Birdie Pledge to almost £20,000.
The Birdie Pledge total was also bolstered by the holes-in-one of Peter Whiteford and Andrew Johnston as Aberdeen and the TPF made special to contributions of a further £168 for each – £1 for each yard of the 11th hole.
Secondly, the spectating public played their part in supporting both charities when they received an Official Drawsheet by making discretionary donation of £1. The donations from the public added in excess of £10,000 to the 'Grand Total' that will enable the Aberdeen Asset Management Scottish Open to have a positive charitable impact on the Inverness and Highland region.
First Minister of Scotland Alex Salmond said: "This year's Aberdeen Asset Management Scottish Open has been a great success, providing a great golf, and tense final day of play and showcasing this stunning part of the Highlands to golfers and tourists right across the world. I'm particularly pleased that, through the commitment of Aberdeen Asset Management and the Tour Players' Foundation to the Birdie Pledge, and thanks to the generosity of spectators, this fantastic competition has also raised such a considerable sum of money to benefit the vital local work of two charities."
Children's Hospice Association Scotland (CHAS) Fundraiser Hannah Archibald said: "A huge thank you to Aberdeen Asset Management, The European Tour and everyone who has contributed to this fantastic amount. The money will go towards our CHAS at Home service in the Highlands which is based from our Inverness office and offers care to families when they need extra help at home outwith their visits to our hospices. £15,000 pays for almost a month of 24 hour one to one nursing care for a family. The visits provide practical help and support that can be a lifeline to families."
David Stallard, Convenor and Director, Befrienders Highland, said: "This will have a huge impact. It will fund 100 friendships for a year. For each one of these friendships this will mean 50 or so meetings, outings, phone calls, letters and other contacts which will truly change lives. Words can hardly express how grateful we are to Aberdeen Asset Management, The European Tour, and to all the individual spectators who contributed to the charity collections at the event. The golfers who scored the birdies, eagles and holes-in one which triggered the funding pledges deserve special mention too. We sincerely thank everyone involved."
Sam Walker, Head of Public Affairs at Aberdeen Asset Management, said: "We were delighted CHAS and Befrienders Highland accepted our invitation to be the tournament's Official Charities. It has been a pleasure working with the volunteers, clients and staff from both organisations and to have raised over £30,000 for them is the icing on the cake."
European Tour Charity Executive, David Park added: "The mutual goal of the Tour Players' Foundation and Aberdeen was for the Championship to give back to the local and Highland area, we are extremely glad that the fundraising was so successful, we commend the spectators for their generosity and the players for their excellent play over the four days."
|Player name
|SINGH, Jeev Milkha
|MOLINARI, Francesco
|NOREN, Alexander
|WARREN, Marc
|BALDWIN, Matthew
|LEVET, Thomas


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I received my Motorola Milestone android smartphone last Friday and have now first hand experience of the utility of such a device. It is a
- navigation device
- great "communicator" (micro-blogging, email, irc, instant messaging etc.)
- e-reader (rss feeds, electronic books in a variety of formats)
- mobile media player
- voip/sip device
all neatly packaged in a gadget that fits in your pocket. Oh, and yes, you can also use it place or receive phone calls 🙂
So, just in case you don't have a smartphone yet: get one! It's a game changer.
Recent example: I took my mum to airport this morning (30 minute drive). After seeing her off I checked for new audio-casts (using Google listen) and saw one that interested me (Hadoop with Philip Zeyliger).
It was downloaded in no time and I could listen to it while driving back home which was a great use of my time.
Here's some additional software I installed over the last couple of days:
- twidroid for twitter and identica
- NewsRob a Google reader client
- Google listen for audio-casts etc.
- Astro file manager not used that much yet
- Meebo IM for instant messaging
Any other cool stuff out there that I missed?


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That is not to say that services are not already big players on the world stage. In fact, in most of the developed economies, more than 70% of the working population is employed in services. But the inexorable drive towards service provision has seen even traditional manufacturers adding services to their output, as they recognise the potential economic and strategic benefits.
So how does this apply to wind power? As Lars Christensen, vice-president of Vestas' wind and site competence centre, puts it, by exploiting "big data"
- the technology term for large, complex data sets - it is possible to improve service to customers. He believes the business is not just about making wind turbines, but about bringing some certainty and reliability into wind power, which is, after all, a volatile energy source. Vestas spent 12 years gathering wind-flow data from weather stations around the world. Using its wind energy research and development centre in Denmark, it created a comprehensive wind flow model, and now provides visual wind-flow maps year by year, and even hourly in some cases, to ensure that turbines are situated in the right place and, therefore, working at maximum efficiency.
By combining its core expertise with the power of big data, Vestas broadened its business to include a consultancy service that adds value to customers, generates a new source of revenue and heightens its reputation for expertise. While the wind turbine itself is becoming a commodity, the value of Vestas' knowledge and expertise, coupled with powerful data, is creating value for the business and its customers.
Customers are interested in the return on investment (ROI), not the detail behind the plant. This meant Vestas had to bridge the gap between the input from climate, wind and temperature, through rigorous analyses, to the ROI. A key factor was to keep it simple; the data is complex and it has to be given to customers in a userfriendly way, otherwise they won't use it. They need to be able to enter queries and find results quickly and easily.
With so much data around, though, it's possible to get bogged down. We now generate in two days the same amount of data that once took 500 years. It's a staggering amount, measured in exabytes, or quintillions. So the real and relevant data becomes a bit like a needle in a haystack and you can lose sight of what you actually need to exploit to make an impact on your business.
Even when you know what data you need, finding it can be a challenge. Data sharing is not a common pursuit in organisations that are focused on products rather than services. While they may be resistant to allowing external access to their information, they will have to change their mindset if they are to become more service-oriented. These are not one-off transactions - they will need to work more closely and collaboratively with customers. In the shift towards services, they may need a different skill-set within their workforce. The timescales are longer and tensions can arise in organisations between product and service groups.
Our experience has shown that some companies with a strong engineering and technology culture still want to pigeonhole services as "soft and fluffy". But service is what customers value. They are not buying the product, they are buying the outcome. Giving services equal status requires significant and sustained leadership and educational effort. As Lars Christensen puts it: "The money is no longer in the steel, it's in the data."
Professor Andy Neely is director of the Cambridge Service Alliance, a global business and academic partnership focused on understanding and developing service systems. cambridgeservicealliance.org


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Conner Takes Sixth Overall, Two Freshmen Finish in Elis' Top Seven
NEW HAVEN, Conn.—The Yale men's cross country team opened its season with a valiant effort against its greatest rival on Saturday. Despite registering 42 points in a loss to Harvard (15 points), several individual Elis shined bright on the 8K course at Boston's Franklin Park. With four of the Bulldogs' top seven finishers from last year's Harvard-Yale race having graduated, the team relied primarily on its younger runners in the season opener.
Sophomore Alex Conner was the top finisher of the day for the Bulldogs, placing sixth overall and falling just one second shy of the 25:00 mark. Conner's improvement from last year's race (in which he finished 14th with a time of 25:32.11) is a positive sign moving forward. Conner registered the top time among all of the Elis' freshmen last season (24:42.1) and finished just three seconds outside of the top five on Saturday.
Meanwhile, Head Men's Cross Country and Middle Distance Coach Paul Harkins—who emphasized the talent of this year's freshman class prior to Saturday's race—was likely happy to see especially promising performances from freshmen James Randon (7th place – 25:10) and Andre Ivankovic (11th – 25:30). Another freshman, Dan Grosvenor (16th – 25:54), finished just outside the Bulldog's top seven.
As expected, junior John McGowan—who emerged as one of the Elis' top middle-distance runners during last year's track and field season—finished in the Bulldog's top seven, finishing eighth overall with a time of 25:13. While not setting a personal record, McGowan improved his time from last year's Harvard-Yale race by more than 14 seconds and finished five spots higher overall.
Senior Michael Cunetta (14th – 25:43), junior Isa Qasim (10th – 25:24) and sophomore Duncan Tomlin (12th – 25:34) rounded out the rest of Yale's top seven.
Given that some of the most accomplished runners on the Bulldogs' roster—including the likes of junior Matthew Nussbaum and senior James Shirvell—did not even run on Saturday, the Elis will presumably only improve as the season continues. Nussbaum finished sixth overall against Harvard in last year's race.
"I commend the Harvard men for their performance," said Harkins. "I am confident that it can only get better from here."
The Bulldogs' season continues Sept. 21 in New York City when Yale competes at the Iona Meet of Champions.
Report by Zach Schloss '15, Yale Sports Publicity


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Anal Cancer Screening Warranted for Heterosexuals With HIV, Not Just MSM
Heterosexual HIV-infected men and women have a high prevalence of markers associated with anal cancer, such as infection with high-risk human papillomavirus (hr-HPV) and cytological abnormalities, according to study results presented at IDWeek 2013. These data suggest that anal cancer screening should be conducted for all HIV-infected patients, not only men who have sex with men (MSM).
Previously, abnormal anal cytology (AC) and hr-HPV were found to be highly prevalent among HIV-infected MSM. Data on seropositive women and men who have sex with women (MSW), however, are limited. The reported prevalence of abnormal AC and HPV in HIV-infected women varies from 10.5% to 38% and from 16% to 90%, respectively; while in MSW, it ranges from 20% to 36% and from 15% to 59%, respectively.
To gather more information on the prevalence of these two markers, as well as to evaluate the performance of hr-HPV and abnormal AC in detecting high-grade anal dysplasia (AIN2+), Sumanth Gandra, M.D., M.P.H., and colleagues from the University of Massachusetts Medical School performed a retroactive cohort study with all of the HIV-infected patients of the university clinic who underwent routine screening for anal cancer between Jan. 1, 2011, and Jan. 31, 2013. It included the results of the HPV and anal cytology tests, as well as a review of the medical records of patients who underwent high-resolution anoscopy (HRA) because of abnormal AC or a positive hr-HPV.
Of the total cohort of 221 individuals, 67% were men (of whom 73% were MSM and 27% were MSW) and 33% were women. Infection with hr-HPV was detected in 43% (54% MSM, 28% MSW, 27% women) and cytological abnormalities were found in 39% (48% MSM, 28% MSW, 34% of women).
Of the 117 patients (53%) with abnormal screening tests, 27% had both hr-HPV infection and abnormal AC, 14% had only hr-HPV infection and 13% had only abnormal AC. The cytology results were normal in 50%, non-diagnostic in 10%, ASCUS (atypical cells of undetermined significance) in 23%, LSIL (low-grade squamous intraepithelial lesion) in 14% and HSIL (high-grade squamous intraepithelial lesion) in 2%.
HRA, an examination routinely used to detect anal cancer precursor lesions, was performed in 68 patients due to either abnormal cytology or hr-HPV infection. Of these, 22 patients displayed AIN2+ (17 were MSM) and all had hr-HPV. None of the 14 patients who were negative for hr-HPV, and who underwent HRA for abnormal cytology, had AIN2+. The data gathered from the 68 patients who underwent HRA suggest that hr-HPV is a better correlate to AIN2+ when compared with anal cytology (rs = 0.35 vs. -0.03).
Gandra and his group state that the prevalence of abnormal AC in MSW and women in their cohort is within the previously reported range, but the prevalence of hr-HPV infection in both groups is lower than previously reported. They theorize this difference could result from the use of a different diagnostic test (in this case, polymerase chain reaction [PCR]) and the inclusion of non-oncogenic strains of the virus in other studies.
The researchers also advocate caution when interpreting the correlation between hr-HPV and AIN2+, since HRA was only performed in patients with abnormal screening tests. Still, they consider HRA a cost-effective strategy for anal cancer screening among HIV-infected MSM.
For non-MSM patients, Gandra and his group conclude that the screening test used in the study, Hybrid Capture 2 (HC-2), merits further exploration.
Their final conclusion is that the prevalence of abnormal AC and hr-HPV infection in HIV-infected MSW and women warrants more study and a broadening of routine anal cancer screening for all HIV patients, not only MSM.
Fred Furtado is a science writer based in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Follow Fred on Twitter: @Patchlord.


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Cervical corpectomy is an operation to remove a portion of the vertebra and adjacent intervertebral discs for decompression of the cervical spinal cord and spinal nerves. A bone graft with or without a metal plate and screws is used to reconstruct the spine and provide stability.
Indication for operation
In some patients, the cervical spinal canal can be narrowed by bone spurs arising from the back of the vertebral body or the ligament behind the vertebral bodies. In this situation it may be necessary to remove one or more vertebral body and the discs above and below to adequately decompress the spinal cord and/or nerve roots because the area of compression cannot be addressed by an anterior cervical discectomy alone.
What happens afterward?
Most patients experience only mild discomfort at the operative site, which is generally well controlled with oral pain medicines. A mild sore throat is not uncommon and is usually short lived. Most patients are discharged from the hospital in 24-48 hours. Patients may notice immediate improvement in some or all of their symptoms, however, some symptoms may improve only gradually. A successful outcome will depend on your compliance with the health care provider's recommendations, and a realistic expectation for meeting the goals of surgery (which depend on one's condition preoperatively).
Since cigarette smoking dramatically impairs bone healing, smoking cessation will significantly improve the likelihood for a successful fusion.
The patient is positioned on their back. If using the patient's own bone, an incision is made over the hip to harvest bone from the iliac crest. For the corpectomy, a small incision is made on either side of the neck. (A longer "up and down" incision may be required for multiple corpectomies).
The cervical spine is widely exposed by separating the spaces between the normal tissues. The discs above and below the vertebrae involved are removed. The middle portion of the vertebrae is removed (some of which is saved for use in the fusion) using special cutting instruments and drills to decompress the underlying spinal cord and nerve roots.
A strut of bone is placed to span the bony defect and provide support to the front of the spine. The bone is incorporated (fused) into the remaining vertebrae over time. Bone from the bone bank (allograft) may be substituted for the patient's own bone. A metal plate and screws are often used to provide extra support and facilitate the fusion process.
Absorbable sutures and sometimes skin staples are used to close the incisions. A cervical collar may or may not be required for use after surgery. The doctor will follow the fusion with periodic x-ray exams after the operation.
Center for Spine Care offers stem cell therapy as a conservative treatment to promote natural healing for back or neck pain. Utilizing mesenchymal stem cells, this new method is used to treat patients with neck and back pain caused from degenerative disc disease.