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(A sermon delivered at the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of the Peninsula on January 27th 2013.)
There was once a monastery that had fallen on hard times. As the years passed there were fewer and fewer novices and some of the younger monks began leaving in dissatisfaction. Few people from the surrounding villages would even visit any more. Eventually only a handful of elderly monks remained and they argued amongst themselves, each blaming the monastery's decline on the faults and failings of the others. Their leader, the abbot, didn't know what to do.
Now an old friend of the abbot's was a rabbi who had recently retired to live in a small cottage near the monastery. After years of only seeing one another when the abbot had cause to travel into town, they were able to renew their friendship with more regular visits. The rabbi and the abbot would sit together, drinking tea and remembering the good old days back when they were both students.
On one of his visits to see the rabbi, the abbot brought up the problems at the monastery. This was not the first time the rabbi had heard about the situation that so troubled his friend, but this time the abbot specifically asked for advice, particularly something that he could share with the other monks that might encourage them and perhaps even stop them from fighting with each other.
Hearing the abbot's question, the rabbi was quiet for some time, sipping his tea as he thought. As the silence stretched on, the abbot couldn't contain himself. "Don't you have some advice that might save my monastery?" he begged his friend.
"Your monks will not listen to my advice," the rabbi replied, somewhat sadly, "but perhaps they would benefit from an observation."
"Yes?" said the abbot hopefully. "Have you noticed something about the monastery that we ourselves have not?"
"I think so," answered the rabbi, "and it is this: the Messiah is among you."
That abbot was initially lost for words. It seemed an outrageous claim, but he trusted his friend, so when he regained his composure he asked, as respectfully as he could, "The Messiah is among us? But who is it?"
"As to that," the rabbi replied, "I cannot say. But I know that it is true beyond all doubt. The Messiah is among you. Share this with your monks and in time the truth will be revealed."
Well, the abbot couldn't wait to get back to the monastery. Taking one last gulp of tea, he thanked his friend profusely, jumped up out of his chair, grabbed his coat and, without even taking the time to put it on, ran out of the cottage and across the meadow. Arriving breathlessly back at the monastery, he managed to convey to the first monk he saw that he wanted everyone to meet in the chapel. By the time they arrived, he had recovered enough to address them.
"My brothers," the abbot said, "I have incredible news. I have just been told, without any room for doubt or question, the following. The Messiah is among you."
The monks immediately started talking. "One of us? Here? But who? How can that be?" Raising his hands to quiet them, the abbot explained what the rabbi had told him, and then instructed them to be about their work while they reflected on the amazing news. And as the monks did their chores, each wondered to himself.
"It couldn't be Brother Samuel, could it? He always forgets when it's his turn to do the washing up after meals. But then, he brings such lovely flowers to decorate the tables."
"Surely it's not Brother Albert! He's always muttering to himself, and when he's not muttering it's because he's being rude. But then, he's always the first there to look after us if we get sick."
"What about Brother Leo? He's always dirty, and he smells bad, too. But then, that's because he works so hard in the field, growing the most delicious vegetables."
"And I can't believe it's Brother Thomas! He always spills ink all over the desk where we write out the scriptures. But then, his drawings and decorations of the scripts are so vivid and beautiful."
The monks continued to try to figure out who amongst them might be the Messiah, but none of them came to any conclusions. Still, they realized that they could sometimes see the Messiah in one another's faces; they could sometimes hear the Messiah in one another's voices. And they began to treat one another more kindly and more fairly, just in case.
And as time passed, the villagers noticed that something was different about the monastery, and they began visiting more often. And more of the young men who came to inquire about training as novices decided to stay. And the elderly monks and their abbot found themselves at peace, content to enjoy their golden years doing what they loved while all about them the monastery thrived.
[This is one variant of the same story found in many places, including Doorways to the Soul: 52 Wisdom Tales from Around the World by Elisa Davy Pearmain. Some story-tellers give credit for the original story to Francis Dorff, O. Praem, of the Norbertine Community of Alberquerque NM.]
I first heard this story a few years ago and it stuck with me. It speaks to what we all want in a healthy community, I think, which is people treating one another kindly and fairly in spite of their faults and failings, the kind of spiritual health that is not only good for the community itself but is also a beacon of hope to the wider world. The story does use one idea that is specific to Christianity and Judaism, though it can always be re-told in different cultural settings.
That idea of the Messiah comes from the Hebrew word "mashiach", which literally means "anointed one". It refers to a king or a high priest traditionally annointed with holy oil, and in the Hebrew Bible is used to refer to a number of people, including the non-Jewish king, Cyrus of Persia, who released the Jews from their exile in Babylon and commissioned the rebuilding of the Jerusalem temple. More often, though, the Messiah refers to a future Jewish king, of the line of David, who will rule the reunited tribes of Israel and usher in an age of world peace. As such, there are many passages in the Hebrew Bible, particularly the Book of Isaiah, that describe the qualities and actions of such a leader.
Now somewhere in the third century Before the Common Era, scholars in Alexandria began the process of translating the Torah into Greek, since, as legend has it, the Jews living in Egypt at the time were not fluent in Hebrew, whereas Greek was spoken throughout the eastern Roman Empire. By the time of Jesus, that Greek translation of the Hebrew Bible, which became known as the Septuagint, was already in wide use by Jews all around the Mediterranean, including those living in Palestine, which is unfortunate because the Septuagint has a number of mis-translations. One of those, for example, is the sentence in Isaiah that, in the Greek, refers to a messiah being born of a virgin, whereas in the Hebrew the word translated "virgin" doesn't mean virgin at all but rather means a young woman of child-bearing age.
In any case, the Hebrew word "mashiach" was translated into Greek as "khristos", which also means "anointed one". So when a new religion started to emerge around the idea of Jesus as the anointed savior, he was given the honorific "Christ" and his followers called themselves "Christians". And yet, since Jesus hadn't fulfilled many of the expectations of the Messiah, those early Christians assumed that he would soon return to complete all of the prophecies.
In other words, while the rabbi and the abbot in the story could both come together over the idea of the Messiah being hidden in their midst, the difference was that for the abbot it would be the Messiah's second coming whereas for the rabbi it would only be his first. Either way, as the story goes, the possibility that any one of the monks might be the Messiah causes them all to pause before judging one another, to focus more on the good aspects of each other's character and behavior, something that would be nice, of course, if we could all do it all of the time.
Now in Unitarian Universalism there is no Messiah concept as there is in Judaism or Christianity. I don't know when it dropped out of our common theology, though I'm guessing that the Universalist side of our religious tradition held onto it longer, given that the Unitarian side emerged from Christianity around the primary faith claim that Jesus was, in fact, fully human, rather than God incarnated in human form.
Perhaps, though, we don't need to believe in a Messiah as such to arrive at the place where we can treat one another kindly and fairly in spite of our faults and failings. There are, after all, other faith claims — or, at least, other religious metaphors — that might work just as well.
For instance, one of the things I remember a former minister of mine talking about was the idea that there's a spark of the divine within each of us. Actually I remember hearing that idea from a local rabbi, too. It's a more Universalist idea than it is Unitarian, another version of the claim that we are all children of God, and the beauty of that, for me, is that it doesn't matter whether it's a literal faith claim or a religious metaphor. What does matter is how we treat one another, and if we can see something of good, of value, of worth, even of divinity in one another, then maybe we'll treat one another accordingly.
Actually, the same faith claim is already familiar to us, just in more humanist language. Rather than referring to the spark of the divine within each of us, we can speak of "the inherent worth and dignity of each person", but it's just another version of that same classical Universalist claim that we are all children of God. And it's no accident that the promise that goes along with that Principle is to "listen actively and speak and act respectfully to others".
So why did I end our Responsive Reading with what is otherwise the First Principle, and thus the First Promise, rather than putting them, well, first?
There's a school of thought within and beyond Unitarian Universalism that, out of all Seven Principles, the one that is truly theological is the seventh, which speaks of the "interdependent web of all existence of which we are a part." Some people have suggested that it should actually be listed first, since it's the foundation and context for the other six principles. That's why I listed the Promises in reverse order, moving from the interdependent web of all existence, the grandest scale of being imaginable, down to the inherent worth and dignity of every person.
For as I have claimed before, our inherent worth and dignity only makes sense within the larger context of our interdependence, calling us to relate to one another in life-affirming ways. So I was glad to see that the promise that goes along with the Seventh Principle is to "live lightly on the Earth, beginning with our church community". But what does that mean?
Well, in the words of welcome that our lay leader spoke at the start of the service, you heard one meaning of that. "The Fellowship is working to integrate reverence, gratitude and care for the living Earth into everything we do. By committing to sustainable lifestyles as individuals and as a faith community, we are on the path to official recognition as a Green Sanctuary congregation." Doing the intentional, soulful work required to become a Green Sanctuary is indeed one way that our own church community aspires to live lightly on the Earth.
But there's another side to what it means to be a church community living with awareness of the interdependent web of all existence, and that's to recognize that we, here, in this congregation, form our own interdependent web in miniature, and awareness of that relates directly to how well we truly believe in the inherent worth and dignity of every person.
This was brought home to me in a particularly clear way about a year ago, when the Board was evaluating me as part of the final phase of assessing my fellowship as a minister with the Unitarian Universalist Association. The UUFP Board included this comment in their evaluation: "Rev. Millard needs to continue to remind each of us about the larger mission of the UUFP and that our individual interests can only be met if the UUFP itself is vibrant and healthy and functions as an integrated organization."
"Our individual interests can only be met if the UUFP itself is vibrant and healthy and functions as an integrated organization." I think that's what the monks in the story discovered for themselves. They didn't have any understanding of their interdependence, so they needed someone to point them in the right direction so they might discover it for themselves. The rabbi's observation that "the Messiah is among you" prodded them into being more careful in the ways they related to one another, and ultimately that allowed them to be more caring, too, finally able to believe in the inherent worth and dignity of one another, no matter their apparent faults and failings.
The monks had a big advantage, though. They were already on the same page theologically in terms of what they believed about the Messiah and what would be appropriate behavior toward the Messiah. The rabbi's observation, then, was all that was necessary to help them behave in those same ways toward one another.
I think a similar case can be made for us on the basis of our Seven Principles, but it's not nearly so simple. Belief in an anointed savior figure who will return in glory to bring peace to the world is, for many people, very compelling; for some people, in fact, it may be the only thing that keeps them going in life. Our Seven Principles, however, are not nearly so compelling.
Oh, intellectually they're very reasonable. The ideas they contain are certainly big and important, but at face value they're also mostly abstract. The words themselves are hardly poetic. As promises that congregations make to one another in order to form the Unitarian Universalist Association, and even rewritten as promises that we make to each other as individual Unitarian Universalists striving to grow the Beloved Community, we need to find ways to internalize them, to truly make them part of our souls, rather than leaving them as rather abstract ideals with which we agree intellectually but don't always live.
And I think that's one of the things that attracted me to Charles Wesley's hymn, "I Want a Principle Within", quite apart from the great tune to which it is usually sung. Because, aside from Wesley's eighteenth century obsession with sin and temptation and more sin and the blood of Jesus, he really was expressing a yearning for the strengthening of his own moral compass to help him find the good at those times when his own heart and mind would wander away from his best self. I like to think that one of the most important things we can do as Unitarian Universalists is cultivate such a principle within ourselves that helps us to figure out right from wrong. Yes, these written Principles, these mostly abstract and regrettably unpoetic words, speak to important truths, but reading them, even saying them out loud together, is only the first step in a journey together, a long journey that involves removing the splinters from our souls.
And how do we do that? Well, only at each and every moment of our lives. Let me give you a simple example.
Within the first few months of living about a mile the other side of Warwick Boulevard from here, I became convinced that I knew where, one day, I would die. And that's because, on those days when I drove to work, I had to get across the intersection on Warwick to get here, and then to get home again. And I don't know if you've noticed, but the turn lanes on the side streets either side of Warwick don't quite line up, and not having any signals on is, I have discovered, an indication to most other drivers that I intend to turn right. Or left, for that matter, but definitely not straight, and cars would regularly cut across the intersection in front of me — or screech to a halt when they noticed that I was actually going straight through. After a while, the urge to honk was too much for me to withstand, and often there was swearing involved, too.
Well, sometime last year I realized that I ought to be better than that. Rather than getting angry and impatient, I decided to try compassion instead.
If someone didn't understand what my lack of signaling meant, well, I could wait patiently until I knew what they were going to do first. If they really had to cut across the intersection in front of me, well, I could hope for them that they reached their destination safely. If it took me a few more seconds to get to the office or to get home, or even a couple more minutes if I missed the light, well, I could be grateful that my commute was barely one mile. And maybe it's just me, but it has seemed to me lately that more of the people coming to that intersection from both side streets, most of whom are turning left or right onto Warwick, are better at letting cars go straight across, and, for that matter, better at signaling their own turns, than they were a couple of years ago.
I've tried the same change in attitude in other settings, too — when I'm on the telephone talking to someone in customer service about some frustration, for instance. I don't always succeed — I'm the first to recognize that I'm no saint — but whenever I can, I remind myself to look for the spark of the divine in the other person, and to treat them accordingly.
This is something that we can all do, at each and every moment of our lives. You can start by picking one person with whom you interact and, without telling them, imagine what it might mean if they were the Messiah. Try looking for that spark of the divine in them. Think about what it would really mean to truly believe in their inherent worth and dignity. See how it changes your behavior toward that person if you can see them in that way. And if you notice that you're treating that person more kindly and fairly in spite of their faults and failings, try it with other people, too.
For this is the soul work that we are called to do. In our mission to create a dynamic community that celebrates life and searches for truths, we are called to cultivate a spiritual health that is not only good for our congregation but is also a beacon of hope to the wider world. Everything we say and do is a chance to grow the Beloved Community, bringing the interdependent web of all existence into our hearts and minds and hands so that we might know one another's inherent worth and dignity.
So may it be.


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Brazilian filmmaker Walter Salles (Central Station, The Motorcycle Diaries) is partnering with Sao Paulo studio Gullane (Rio 2096) for an animated take on Noah's Ark, Variety reports from Cannes. This will be Salles' first animation project and will have a script written by Sergio Machado, adapted from a popular children's song by Vinicius de Moraes. The film is to be co-produced by Gullane and Salles' Rio de Janeiro-based VideoFilmes — the filmmaker will oversee the project's artistic development.
Noah's Ark will center on two bohemian mice that witness God's instruction to Noah to save the animals of the earth in mated pairs. While Tito is selected for the Ark, Vivinho ends up on a small, clandestine ark with animals that exist on the fringe of the animal kingdom. Destiny reunites them on Noah's ship where they battle a raging storm, lack of food and the maneuvers of a tyrannical lion with their capacity for invention, music and poetry. Suzana de Moraes, the songwriter's daughter, is collaborating with Machado on the story development.
The project is in advanced script development and the producers are currently testing out animation concepts from different artists. The production development is fully financed by investment fund RioFilme, Globo Filmes, film/TV subsidy fund Fundo Setorial do Audiovisual and the co-producing studios.


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A SERIES of public hearings which kick off next Tuesday in Wolverhampton will scrutinise the number of new homes needed in Solihull and Birmingham over the next 17 years.
The Examination in Public meeting at the Molineaux Stadium in Wolverhampton on April 28, will see representatives from a variety of voluntary, public and private bodies attending, including Solihull Council, Severn Trent Water, Centro and Hockley Heath Parish Council.
Matters up for discussion on the agenda at the meetings will revolve around the revised West Midlands Regional Spatial Strategy (WMRSS), prepared by the West Midlands Regional Assembly, a Birmingham based local planning organisation.
The plan sets out targets for homes, the economy, infrastructure and waste reduction across the region through to 2026.
Amongst the many issues being debated, major concerns will centre around the distribution of additional housing development in Solihull and Birmingham and the environmental impact of their scheme.
The government is proposing 445,000 new homes be made available across the region, which is 80,000 more than the Assembly has proposed.
The meetings will run for 7 weeks until June 26 with items relating to Solihull and Birmingham due to be heard on June 2.
Councillor David Smith, chairman of the West Midlands Regional Assembly, said: "The Examination will no doubt be challenging, but we welcome an open and public debate on the tough choices to be made which affect the future sustainablity of the West Midlands."


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Cimex lectularis — aka the bed bug — followed man out of the caves millenniums ago and has been biting the hand that feeds it ever since.
And, increasingly, guests of Mississippi hotels are enduring those bites, Dr. Jeffrey Brown says.
As state entomologist and director of the Mississippi Department of Health's Environmental Services Bureau, Brown has been calling for the state and lodging industry to initiate a surge strategy in the war on bed bugs. Without it, both the public health and the fiscal health of the hotel-motel industry are at risk, including the state's $3 billion casino gambling sector, Brown said.
No threat — not debt, not declining room revenues nor rising travel costs — matches the risk magnitude to the lodging industry than that of the tiny bug whose entire diet consists of human blood, he said.
"I have been preaching this for seven years. Somebody has got to do something," the entomologist said in a late June interview.
"It's getting out of hand."
Brown's ranks are short of what's needed for an effective counterattack. His 125 environmental health inspectors have broad responsibilities that include sanitation inspections of restaurants and other facilities used by the public.
"If a complaint comes in we send out" the local environmental inspector, Brown said. But "they are swamped with monitoring restaurants."
He has urged state officials to provide more resources and more regulatory authority. At the moment, his lone option for forcing a reluctant hotelier to quell an infestation is a shutdown order from the court, he said.
He has yet to take that step but says he is losing patience with hotel-motel operators who refuse to act.
"I can help them. I can keep them bug free…. I ask them, 'Are you willing to do this and this?' Most of the time these are people with small hotels. They say they don't want to go through all this. So I can't help them."
Bed bugs can leave nasty bite marks and rashes but have never been proven to carry pathogens. Thus, they don't carry the same public health priority and protections of actual disease carriers, Brown explained.
The public health official said his best hope for resources and stronger regulations is to convince legislators that the state's visitor industry is headed for genuine danger. "We need the tourists here and this is hurting the business. If they do come here" and endure bed bugs or take bed bugs home with them "they aren't coming back."
Not all of the complaints have been from former hotel guests. Increasingly, calls are coming in from lawyers who represent victims of bed bug attacks, according to Brown.
Further, Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood's office has made inquiries on behalf of victims who have complained about unfair treatment from hotel operators, Brown said.
"People are getting smart," he added. "They are putting" the bugs in a cup or vase to show their lawyers.
In the end, lawsuits regarding bed bugs could hurt hospitality industry revenues and generate unfavorable publicity, he warned.
Lodging industry unfazed
Problems with bed bugs apparently seldom come up in discussions hotel operations have among themselves. Notwithstanding growing state health department worries and Mississippi pest extermination companies reporting a steady rise in business, bed bugs are hardly front-and-center for the state's lodging industry, says Linda G. Hornsby, executive director of the 350-member Mississippi Hotel and Lodging Association.
"This is the first I am hearing of any of it," she said. "Usually, they will call me if they are hearing of any problems."
She insisted the association is pro-active in heading off such problems but in this instance no problem seems to exist. "We have had no reports in Mississippi – to my knowledge."
Checks with the Jackson Convention and Visitors Bureau and on the Mississippi coast supported Hornsby's claim. Spokespeople for both bureaus say they are unaware of any complaints from visitors.
Gaines Sturdivant, president of Jackson-based MMI Hospitality, operators of hotels in several states including Mississippi, said he generally would "have to agree" with Hornsby's assessment.
He acknowledged bed bugs are a hot-button issue for the industry, but emphasized that hoteliers around the country are "aware of the problem and we work at" fixing it.
On the other hand, Sturdivant said he could not dispute the assessment of the Health Department's Brown. "He sees the worst of the worst. If you try to generalize that across the industry, I don't know…"
He said he is in frequent contact with lodging professionals around Mississippi. "I only know what I hear and I don't hear a lot" about the issues Brown raises, said Sturdivant, a member of the Jackson Convention & Visitors Bureau board.
He noted he is familiar with Brown's work and considers him "one of the best resources we have anywhere in the country."
Mike Cashion, president of the Mississippi Hospitality & Restaurant Association, said he thinks many of the state's lodging operators have taken steps to stay ahead of the bed bug problem. He said at this point, "I don't think it is a real prevalent problem. I haven't heard of any real issue there."
Cashion added, however, that he is working with Brown to come up with an education program for hotel operators. "Nobody is more qualified to address the issue" than Brown, Cashion said.
"Oh, come on," Brown said in reacting to the industry's claims of bed bugs being a minimal problem in Mississippi, at best.
"Nobody wants to admit it," he said. "You cannot stick your head in the sand. You have got to be proactive."
Dr. Richard deShavo, chairman of the University of Mississippi Medical Center Department of Medicine, has extensively researched the effects of bed bug bites. He said the state's hotels and motels have "significant infestations," a circumstance he attributes largely to increased international travel.
"There is a business interest in not talking about it," deShavo said.
Bug hunters' perspective
Mississippi's lodging industry is "much more proactive than it has been in years past in trying to identify any kind of activity," said David Mayley, manager of Orkin's Long Beach branch, which services Mississippi's half dozen coastal counties.
He said calls from hotels for inspections and eradications are up at all five Orkin branches around the state.
Inspection calls typically follow complaints from guests to hotel management. "In the majority of cases they are actually negative. We don't find any indication of bed bug activity or an indication they have been there."
He theorized that oftentimes media reports have caused the guest to be predisposed to think bed bugs are around.
In the inspections that turn up bed bugs, it's seldom because of anything the hotel did or did not do, according to Mayley, who noted bed bugs stow away in luggage and are drawn out by the prospect of a "blood meal."
You'll not likely see them in the daylight. And when they do come out, they prefer to eat and run, Mayley said.
"The bed bug is a creature that likes to hide and come out to do what it needs to do and then go back into hiding."
This is a big reason a housekeeping staff trained to look for signs that bugs have been around is a strong first line of defense, Mayley said.
His counterpart with Redd Pest Control, Mark Armola, said calls from hoteliers to his company, which services from Central Mississippi to the coast, have picked up. But the real spike has come from residential calls, he said. Those are "probably up tenfold."
That presents an opportunity for a cycle: when people travel they bring the bugs from home to hotel. As Mayley explains: "Sometimes their guests leave them unexpected visitors."
The cycle completes when subsequent hotel guests bring the bugs to previously un-infested homes.
Meanwhile, the newly arrived bugs will wait in the wings, monitoring the carbon dioxide output of their sleeping hosts at bedtime. As REM sleep arrives, the bugs go to work, Brown said.
"They actually love to bite the hand that feeds them," he said.
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Coachella 2015 Announces its Full Line Up
One of the most storied music festivals in the world is back and it looks entertaining as ever. This coming April over a hundred music acts will converge in the desert town of Indio, CA over the course of three weekends. Every genre from hip hop, to rock, to EDM will be present. Basically it's a music lovers dream. Coachella is more of an experience than a concert as many activities and spectacles such as 50 ft robots, a huge Ferris wheel, and other entertainment is always present. So if you are planning on taking a trip this year, here is the Coachella 2015 line up.


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The 36-Hour Day
with Amy Urquhart
I'm Amy and I've spent the last three years trying to strike that perfect balance between being a wife, mom and professional career woman. I've decided that I'll never perfect the art of "having it all", but this blog is a chronicle of my attempts to continue to do so. I'm a blogger (my personal blog about Canadian home life is Hearts into Home), gardener, college instructor, wife to Graham and mom to Nate. If you're also a working mom who finds there just aren't enough hours in the day, I hope you'll enjoy this column!
Read her blog at Hearts into Home.
I've been a bit overwhelmed recently. Not with work, per se, but with trying to juggle all of the things I've got going on right now — when you put it all together, well, there's a lot on my plate, and it can leave me feeling uninspired and unmotivated.
I'm sure you can relate to that feeling. I like to pretend I'm SuperMom but, of course, I'm not (I don't even come with interchangeable heads — I feel like the frazzled one has been attached for the past few weeks).
So I thought I'd share with you a few of the places I turn to when I need a bit of inspiration (besides Work It, Mom! of course)…
1.) The Happiness Project. You've read some of Gretchen Rubin's great tips for happiness right here at Work It, Mom! Her blog has plenty more, plus quotes and articles and her own insights into happiness.
2.) Affirmawords. I didn't find this blog, to be honest — it found me when founder Kristen Marie Schuerlein sent me an email. And I'm so glad she did! Her blog asks different people two thoughtful questions, showing readers how the power of words can encourage and inspire others. The answers are enlightening and sometimes surprising. (Want to know what my answers were? Here they are!)
3.) The Big Picture. This fantastic photoblog is full of awe-inspiring (and just plain inspiring) images from around the world and beyond — check out the set of views of Jupiter if you need a reminder of how amazing life and the universe can be. See the picture of the moon Io floating in front of the massive planet? I looked at that and realized that my own issues are really pretty tiny.
4.) Despair, Inc. It seems counterintuitive; after all, these are the people who perfected the art of poking fun at those inspirational posters and plaques you see in so many offices. But a little humor goes a long way, and sometimes a bit of sarcasm is enough to give me a new perspective on a difficult (or ridiculous) situation. Current favorites: "Tradition: Just because you've always done it that way doesn't make it incredibly stupid" and "Meetings: None of us is as dumb as all of us."
5.) The Good News Network. This site is a portal for good news of all sorts, from positive stories that you don't usually see in the mainstream media to profiles of inspirational people. Everyone can read the headlines throughout the site, but membership is required to get the whole story, post comments, discuss news in the forums, or submit stories of your own (free, 30-day trial memberships are available, but regular membership fees are on a "pay what you can afford" basis starting at just $2 per month).
Where do you go when you're looking for inspiration?
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awesome! adding to my reader now i am so relating to the uninspired feeling. but i am on a mission to change it!
also http://www.happynews.com is free and full of all the happy news out there!!
thanks for this - i needed it today
Kate | August 7th, 2008 at 3:38 pm
Your post is just what I needed. I just finished writing on my own blog about my stressed out day. I'm sure all the Moms out there know the kind of day I'm talking about…when the the chaos of the day starts even before you get out of bed.
Thanks. I am going to check out your suggestions.
Christy | August 7th, 2008 at 9:44 pm
When I am looking for inspiration I come here, got to ambitionisnotadirtyword.com, rachaelray.com, watch Donny Deutch the big idea.
Vera Babayeva | August 7th, 2008 at 10:05 pm
When I am looking for inspiration, I turn to nature. Being outside even for 5 minutes is refreshing. I love the link to The Big Picture because there are certainly times I am glued to a desk or computer and cannot escape!
Minette | August 8th, 2008 at 9:49 am
Kate: Thanks for the tip on happynews.com — I'm adding that one to my list!
Christy: I'm so glad! And I'm going to surf over and check out your post today, thanks for telling me!
Vera: Be sure to check out Dr. Debra Condren's archive of "Ambition is not a dirty word" articles here at Work It, Mom, too! Here's the link: http://www.workitmom.com/article-469-ambition_is_not_a_dirty_word
Minette: Going outside, even for a little while, is great for resetting my mind… thanks for the reminder!
Lylah | August 8th, 2008 at 10:11 am
Lylah, of course I know that Dr. Debra Condren wrote articles for this site. She is the one who told me about WorkItMom.
Vera Babayeva | August 9th, 2008 at 4:07 pm
I am a new mommy of a baby boy who is now 7 mo. I work full time, I am a wife, and an artist. Lots going on for me too!!!! Before I had my son, I was so determined not to be the mother that "gets the left- overs." Well what I mean is that I didn't want to just take care of everyone else, and give myself the scraps. Never having time to fix myself up etc. I want to be a woman of balance and a woman that takes time on herself and for herself. I havn't achieved this yet, but I am learning… and as I have said in other comments, I am hopeful.
I am not sure how other women deal with this but I am open for input/advice!
This is my first day on this new site, and I am loving it already!! Thanks for the info. on the bogs of encouragement. I also like to read this scripture in Psalm 37:3-4 to give me comfort and encouragement when times are tough!
Take Care, Lovlee
Lovlee | August 9th, 2008 at 6:15 pm
Thank you for the bogs of encouragement! I look forward to viewing them too!!!
Lovlee | August 9th, 2008 at 6:18 pm
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Upgrades of the Farice network to a 100G system completed
New technology enables seamless 100Gb/s waves from Reykjavík to northern Scotland
Farice ehf has in co-operation with Ciena corporation completed phase 2 of the 100G upgrade of the Farice network.
The upgrade brings several benefit for Farice that the customers can enjoy in the future.
- A more unified network with a seamless wave over the terrestrial part (716 km) and the submarine part (1205 km) is more cost efficient then previous network configuration
- A state of the art system with 100G in the core is prepared for the future demanding customers who will require 40G and 100G interfaces
- A tenfold increase in the total capacity of the submarine cable as well as the terrestrial network. The total fully lit capacity of the Farice-1 submarine cable is now around 8 Terabit/s. This will meet the demands of the high bandwidth customers of the future.
- The improvements in optical technology will ensure that the investments of Farice will be in use for yet another decade at least.
The upgrade completes the work that started in January 2013 with the upgrade of the Danice cable to Denmark.
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This is a comment from one of my readers that is 46 that has the sickle cell trait but not the disease.
Some times I have unexplained pain in one of my feet, but it's usually only when it's cold, and after reading some of your blogs, I see that cold weather seems to trigger it. I also have a daughter with the trait and she has complained of pain and headaches. She has headaches ALL the time, almost daily and have of course been tested for things but no Doctor ever suggested that it could be from the SS. Do you know if SS trait causes a lot of headaches?
The only times that I have headaches with my sickle cell is when I'm in a full blown crises and I'm having pain all over my body. I haven't heard of it a symptom of sickle cell, but then again I'm not an expert. She might have some other underlying condition, nutritional imbalance or health issue that we aren't aware of. Another thing is to make sure that she's getting enough sleep. I've noticed that when Norio doesn't get enough rest at night, he wakes up with headaches. Besides that I'm out of ideas.
Does anyone else have input on this?
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How To Create Rolling Image Effect - Best For Social Media Icons
Social Media Image Rolling Effect
In this tutorial, we are going to learn how to make Image Rolling Effect using the power of CSS3 not only in the Social Media Image but also to all images you want or in the text. This image rotates in both sides.
To rotate those image, kindly hover the cursor to automatically rotate. In this project, it contains simple CSS3 coding to have this effect. You can use it to your website to add an animation effect.
You can also check the live demo of this simple tutorial, so you can get an idea and you can try this out, let's start coding.
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This simple CSS style used to rotate the social media icon when the cursor hovers over the image.
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It's been over 4 years since my oldest daughter was murdered. The case is still open. Today I took a shower. Don't remember the last time I did. I know that's disgusting, but it's the truth.
Started crying when I found this site and started reading. Wow. There ARE people out there that understand the pain and will listen. People say I'm hanging on to this and it's keeping others from going on. Can't help it. Still feels like yesterday!
I'm trying. I really am. Hey....I took a shower, didn't I? Progress.
Hi Margo
I am so sorry your precious daughter was taken from you. My son was murdered almost 4 years ago, but the POS that murdered him is in prison for the rest of his life. I would be a crazy woman if the case was still open I very much understand your state of limbo. I say we don't hang on to our child's murder, I say it won't let us go. People just don't understand how it eats at us, all the what ifs and if onlys. I am glad you found MOMS and hope we can help ease the pain.
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Margo...So sorry about your daughter and your pain. Our daughter and her babies were murdered twenty-five years ago, but seems like yesterday. She was so special. We saw her nearly every day of her life. She was so devoted to us. I understand your pain. Give yourself all of the time to grieve that you need. You are making progress....one step at a time. I am here for you and all of the other Moms. Tell me a little about your daughter when you feel like it...Lovingly, Sherry
I am so sorry for your loss and your pain. My son Chris was murdered by his father Dec 11th 2008 and it changed everything and continues to. I have become very familar with the words...they can't know. Well yes they can...but they are afraid and who can really blame them.
We haven't been given a choice it just IS and we are stuck with it...I try every day not to get stuck in the why's and all...it was just WRONG. It should have never happened but it did...Chris and all the other angels we are connected by had no choice either and that will always be.
But we have a choice now you know...it's not easy but we do...we choose how we go on with this pain in our hearts. Slowly and with Care...be kind to yourself.
Sorry I rattle, the ladies here know that but it's ok here.
Just know love is here and we know what you are going through.
I practice Mindfulness and they say when things get really bad,to remember others feel this too. We all suffer...and don't we moms know that too well.
Sending loving thoughts
I'm with Shirley: if my daughter's killer's case was still open after four years, I'd be a crazy woman... more so than I am NOW.
It's been only 10 months since my 22-y/o daughter Rachel was killed. Two months later, my mother died, and only with the help of my ex-husband was I able to take care of her end-of-life requirements (and I was mad as heck at my mom, too, for dying and interrupting my screaming and crying and wanting my daughter back), still in some gray fog. I still can't believe I got through that.
Recently on Nov. 29, Rachel's fiancé Andy lost his battle with cancer, so I feel like my daughter's killer killed HIM, TOO. The killer got a 20-year/all-suspended sentence, but was caught one week after the sentencing hearing violating his probation, and on Dec. 21, he was finally transferred to prison. I'd had some weird idea that him going to prison would somehow give me my daughter back....
Anyway, all of that was just to assure you, Margo, that I totally understand the shower thing. In medieval times, people took baths only once a year, so I'm not gonna feel too guilty about sometimes going five or six days without a shower (days on which I have nowhere to be and can just hide in my bed).
I am sorry for the loss of your daughter as well as the loss of so many new moms I see on the Moms site. We too lost a daughter to murder...Lisa Christine Maas and time does not heal our broken hearts anymore than justice or what they call justice brings back our loved ones but it is the best we will ever get in this lifetime and more than some like yourself Margo or moms like Randi have gotten for her son Mark. Those are the things some of us have to be grateful for but we are also grateful to have each other to be able to share our stories and vent our rages to. How sad it is for any of us to be here but remember we always have each other and NO ONE WILL EVER UNDERSTAND like that of a another "MOMS". As far as keeping others from going on well screw them...its been 3.5 years and I'm just as bitter as ever towards those who CHOSE not to try and understand our pain and grief and this nightmare we now call our life!
Margo and Dana, I am so sorry to hear about the murder of your children. I am glad you found us but wish u didn't have to. My daughter Keara was murdered five years and almost 9 months ago. The pain is still so intense. I can also identify with the shower thing. I haven't had any work in awhile so all I do is lie around watching TV watching TV in my pajamas. We are all here for you and let's hope that somehow this New Year is better. Love yas, Darien
Darien, I'm so sorry about Keara and every child... pages and pages and pages of them here... whose mothers must somehow find a way to live in the aftermath of someone killing them. The pain is horrific, and I often wonder why God thought I would be one such person to bear it... as I, too, mostly sit in front of the TV in my pajamas, and find myself sobbing because the TV portrays an abundance of tragic deaths.... There's nowhere to hide; my head and heart are always with me, filled with my daughter.
I am sorry morgo about your daughter my son was murdered July 27 2007 his name hubert


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The Exhibition Committee of Morris Arts and the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation, with guest curator, Jeanne Brasile, selected works by six outstanding New Jersey artists, including Alaine Becker (South Orange); Dominant Dansby (Jersey City); Dahlia Elsayed (Palisades Park); Heejung Kim (Bogota); Mel Leipzig (Trenton) and Alex Piccirillo (Nutley). As Curator Brasile states, "There are many sayings in many cultures that note the importance of the collective. Unfortunately, in difficult times such as now, we tend to focus on the things that divide us...This group exhibition, Common Ground endeavors to express the interconnectedness of the human experience through a variety of artistic impressions."
Using charcoal on paper, Alaine Becker suggests flesh and bone with her intriguing organic forms that investigate the body and its internal structures while Dominant Dansby bridges nature and artifice with his found materials assemblages that evoke compartments of the brain and the way we store and retrieve information. With whimsy and sly humor, Dahlia Elsayed draws on pop culture, using thought clouds to capture random sensations we all have had throughout any given day. Taking a more spiritual approach, Heejung Kim's works reference the meditative aspects of mandalas and, with great delicacy, reveal the very neurons that power our thoughts and feelings. By contrast, Mel Leipzig's works focus on the human experience, portraying friends and family and the places they inhabit, utilizing the external landscapes to illuminate the internal qualities of each individual portrait. By contrast, Alex Piccirillo's portraits exclude a "setting" and focus entirely on the individuals portrayed, capturing the mood and emotion of private moments, of stillness and solitude.


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This collection is made by some beautiful girl photography that express various expression. Here are the collections of some mind refreshing feel free images. I hope you enjoy this post and you can share your idea below the comment box.
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Today I want to look at the work of one of my fave photographers Diane Arbus, the daughter of wealthy New York department store owners who would show the world the lives they often couldn't see, Arbus would abandon commercial fashion and lifestyle photography to follow her passion for reportage.
"I do feel I have some slight corner on something about the quality of things. I mean it's very subtle and a little embarrassing to me, but I really believe there are things which nobody would see unless I photographed them."
I love Arbus for her ability to peer into the world around her and create pieces that were original and beautiful, she always feared that she would become known purely as "a photographer of freaks" however her work shows much more than that, the documenting of life from dance halls to tea in sitting rooms.
"My favorite thing is to go where I've never been"
Generally framed in a square shot, though not always, she produced vignettes of sub culture and the oddities of life that we miss, continuing the line of photographers using art to document life that stretched from Brandt and Bresson into the modern day with Parr and many more.
"Our whole guise is like giving a sign to the world to think of us in a certain way but there's a point between what you want people to know about you and what you can't help people knowing about you. And that has to do with what I've always called the gap between intention and effect."
Full retrospectives of her work have been difficult, Arbus committed suicide in 1971 at the age of 48, her family have since controlled use of images very tightly and whole folios of images have been withdrawn from show, however the legacy she left behind has lived on in her influence on a whole medium.
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The Mars PrizeThe Mars Prize is a prize competition to award the winners of "best court case submissions" (pleadings in the form of written memorials) in a moot (imagined) court of arbitration, concerning a dispute between:
*** MARS REGISTER v. UN COPUOS ***
The competition is based on the 'actual' Mars Land Claim submitted by Mars Register to the UN and UK/US Governments. It is open to law students or post-graduates (with an interest in general international law and int'l space law). We at Mars Register are not professional lawyers (we're medically trained), so we have benefitted from expert legal counsel in composing The Mars Land Claim and have agreed a world class judging panel of two senior academic scholars of international space law: Prof. Fabio Tronchetti and Dr Philip De Man.
Prize for best memorial (claimant) = $1000 *
Prize for best memorial (respondent)=$500 *
First 500 valid applications will be awarded with a "Standard Mars Land Claim" certificate, claiming 25-100 sq km of land on planet Mars.
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The Mars Prize: Best Memorial (Claimant): $1000 *
This prize goes to the best pleading document (memorial) submitted as claimant (or applicant), Mars Register.
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"On June 4th, the UFA met with the mayor about the public safety crisis for newer FDNY Firefighters who lack real disability protections, should they be permanently disabled in the line of duty. The administration introduced its latest "alternative" disability plan, which again falls far short, because it lacks the necessary protections to address the incredibly dangerous job that firefighters perform in a toxic environment.
Medical and scientific research conclusively finds that firefighters are exposed to thousands of different chemical agents and carcinogens throughout their career, resulting in a significant increase of cancer, lung disease, strokes and heart attacks. The mayor's "alternative" disability plan overlooks all of this and the impact of cumulative physical workplace injuries. It instead wants to define disability by a Social Security Administration guideline, as opposed to a medical determination of a firefighters' ability to continue performing their duties.
This illustrates the administration still fails to comprehend the dangers and risks we take to protect the city, yet it still expects firefighters to run into harm's way, without consideration. For over a year firefighters, police officers and even our state's legislature have waited patiently. We are down to the final days of the Albany session and still 1,400 newer firefighters and more than 8,000 police officers lack real disability protections if permanently disabled in the line of duty.
One week ago New York City Comptroller Scott Stringer announced he too supported firefighters and police and characterized providing disability protections as, "fundamental to safety and the long-term fiscal health of the city." Public Advocate Tish James said, "We need equality for all firefighters and all police officers, regardless of when they were hired." We have the overwhelming support of the city council and key elected officials throughout the state. It's time for the Mayor and the Speaker to allow us a home rule vote.


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Hi there! Welcome to another installment of HEAR THAT?, a review of fine audio fiction on the internet. I know there are any number of quality audio fiction podcasts out there, so if you happen across one that you think I might like then drop me a line and I'll check it out. This time around we have two stories from two very different podcasts, not about heroes but about real people.
CAST OF WONDERS #66 brings us "The Egg Game" by S.R. Algernon, read by Graeme Dunlop. S.R. Algernon began reading science fiction at an early age, and honed his writing in North Carolina. He currently resides in Singapore. Graeme hails from Australia, is the host of CAST OF WONDERS, and can be heard on many a fiction podcast.
"The Egg Game" is the story of a family vacation at The Sun Spot, a resort just outside of Earth's atmosphere and certainly not what the main character hoped when his parents agreed to a vacation in space. The character and his younger brother devise a game involving falling eggs in the variable-gravity lift tubes, and an elaborate point system that takes a wrong turn when matters go from boring to worse. I kept waiting for "something to happen", but it didn't take long to realize the joy of this story is the realistic portrayal of young teens looking for a bit of fun. The action comes in the form of the science behind their game, and the eventual solution to the sudden crisis. The main character is intelligent, likeable, and knows he's definitely in for it if his parents ever find out what's going on. This is a great story for pre-teen and teen readers who are just dipping their toes into the waters of good, short science fiction.
Next we have PSEUDOPOD #319, "Cell Call" by Marc Laidlaw, read by George Cleveland. Marc is a writer, gamer, thinker, and game designer who currently works at Valve Software. George lives in Tamworth, New Hampshire, and serves as the Executive Director of the Gibson Center for Senior Services in North Conway. And as an added bonus, he is the grandson of President Grover Cleveland.
"Cell Call" is the story of a man attempting to manage his new cell phone while finding his way home in the rain. Flustered by the phone, the weather, and his wife's irritation, he misses his turn and ends up someplace unexpected. Here is a story about subtle terrors, the kind that curl around you when you think there is nothing wrong. Much like "The Egg Game", the main character is not a hero, he's just an ordinary guy who loves his wife, and Laidlaw's understated use of setting and very realistic dialogue lent itself well to the chill down my spine as the story progressed. Definitely worth the listen.
And that's a wrap for this installemtn of HEAR THAT? Drop me a line and let me know what you thought. Did you agree with the recommendations? Think I was way off base? Even better, if you liked what you heard with these podcasts, post a comment on the forums for either podcast, or donate a few dollars to keep great fiction alive and well on the web.
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Neighborhood-based (or community) restoration projects are commonly sponsored, organized, and managed by neighborhood associations, or friends groups, often in partnership with local and state agencies, area businesses, and public or private endowments. The neighborhood group can either take the overall project lead, play a supporting role in a government agency-sponsored restoration project, or some combination of roles.
Restoration projects are more likely to have long-term success, or to meet the desired outcomes, if they have the backing and support of such neighborhood groups. There are many examples in this country and elsewhere in the world that we will profile in these pages.
An exemplary set of neighborhood restoration initiatives that I am proud to work with is the cluster of prairie plantings along the SW Bike Path sponsored by the Dudgeon-Monroe Neighborhood Association at three sites–the Glenwood Childrens' Park, and the prairie plantings Glenway and the SW bike path and at Odana Road and the SW bike path. The Westmorland Neighborhood Association also has a newer prairie planting on the west side of Glenway and the SW bike path.
The Friends of Lake Wingra (FOLW) deserves a good bit of credit for getting the community restoration ball rolling when it recommended in 2003 a plan for SW Bike Path Stewardship.
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uPVC double glazed window to the front. Timber style flooring. Enclosed cupboard housing the meters. Radiator.
Living Room 11' 11" x 12' 2" (3.63m x 3.7m )
uPVC double glazed rear window. Recess fire place with a traditional multi burner with a timber mantel and slate style hearth. Radiator. Under stair storage cupboard and additional / book shelf style unit with storage below.
Kitchen 8' 10" x 6' 9" (2.7m x 2.07m )
uPVC rear window and side door. Range of timber fronted wall, drawer and base units with a roll top preparation surface above incorporating a stainless steel sink unit with drainage area, four gas hob with an oven and grill below and stainless steel extraction hood above. Space and plumbing for a washing machine. Recessed spotlights. Integrated fridge freezer.
First floor:Bedroom 1 11' 11" x 12' 2" (3.63m x 3.72m )
uPVC double glazed window. Storage cupboard with shelving and hanging space. Radiator.
Bedroom 2 7' 8" x 12' 2" (2.33m x 3.71m )
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Externally, the property has a front yard with steps to the front door and a courtyard suitable for potted plants. The fully enclosed rear yard has boundary walls to both sides and two exterior out buildings providing additional storage and original WC.
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So, we need to talk about our girl Ariana Grande. She recently gave her late ex Mac Miller a super emotional tribute at her Pittsburgh show on her Sweetener World Tour. But, the tribute wasn't just a one song tribute, there were nods to Mac the entire concert!
Before the show even started only Mac music was playing in the venue. Then when Ari performed "Thank U, Next" which mentions Mac directly she could hardly get through the line, "Wish I could say thank you to Malcolm, 'cause he was an angel."
She also got totally emotion during "Raindrops." Which fans have thought for awhile now that the song is about Mac. Seems like they are totally right.
My heart just breaks for Ari, but I admire how much love she put into this tribute. Mac would be SO proud! Also can we discuss how she did this tribute in Pittsburgh where Mac was born and raised? It was perfect