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Q. You have been working from home and find that it's hard to stay focused and productive. Could it be that you simply don't work well outside a corporate office?
A. Not necessarily. We often assume that people are more productive when they work in an office rather than at home, but that's not always the case. We are less productive when we're distracted, and that can happen anywhere, says Jason Henham, managing director of Slate Consulting, a management consulting firm in Melbourne, Australia.
"In the office, lack of productivity is masked by things like meetings, interruptions and socializing," Mr. Henham says. The key to productivity — whether it's in a corporate office or at the kitchen table — is a clear understanding of the results you're trying to achieve each day, he says.
Q. How should you organize your home work space to encourage efficiency and productivity?
A. Rather than sitting with your laptop at the kitchen table, create a dedicated space for work that isn't in a high-traffic area and that has easy access to electrical outlets, good lighting, Wi-Fi and, if possible, a door, says Angie Mattson, owner of Your Organized Guide, a time-management and organization firm in Charlotte, N.C. "That gives you a separate space for working and sets a tone that says 'work happens here,' " she says.
She also recommends setting up rules with one's spouse, children or roommates about when you can and can't be interrupted.
Keep your work space organized, says Janet Bernstein, owner of Janet Bernstein Organizers in Philadelphia. "If your work space is cluttered, your mind is cluttered," she says. "Your desk — even if you don't work full time from home — should only have the essentials you need access to on a daily basis."
Q. Will you be less productive if you work in your pajamas?
A. Being showered and dressed will often prompt a work mind-set to start your day, just as if you were preparing to go to a corporate office, Ms. Bernstein says. "Don't work in your pajamas or sweats," she says. "If you are too comfortable and relaxed in what you're wearing, your attitude is too comfortable and relaxed."
Q. Are any time-management strategies especially useful for working from home?
A. It's helpful to build in the kind of accountability found in traditional offices. Tell your manager — or a friend or a colleague who agrees to act as your accountability partner — what you intend to achieve that day or week. "Couch this in terms of results you will achieve, rather than tasks performed, so you have flexibility around how you get your work completed," Mr. Henham says. Check in daily or weekly to discuss what you've accomplished.
David Smith, managing director of the talent and organization practice at the consulting firm Accenture in Hartford, says that while results are what ultimately count, you still need to set up your tasks: "Create a to-do list for the day and cross each task off as you do it."
Set realistic, achievable goals for each day and week. You may feel overwhelmed if a task is too big, so break it down into smaller pieces.
It's also important to know your circadian rhythms, says Karen Southall Watts, a motivational coach in Bellingham, Wash. When possible, "schedule your most demanding tasks during your natural periods of high energy, and do your planning and reflection when you are feeling less perky," she says. "When your energy is low, that's not the moment to make 10 sales calls."
Q. It's easy to become distracted at home, when there aren't others around you who are also working. How can you redirect your focus?
A. Eliminate as many distractions as you can — say, by turning off e-mail for long periods. The television, the refrigerator and the unwashed laundry, for example, should be off limits during your workday, Mr. Smith says. Build in breaks for things like snacking, checking Facebook, a walk, a lunch out or coffee, Ms. Bernstein says. Use music to rest, refocus and stay motivated.
But no amount of productivity coaching will help people buckle down if they don't like the work they do, Ms. Mattson says. When that's the case, you will look for anything to distract yourself. "If you like what you do and are eager to do it," she says, "it's much easier to stay focused."


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Experience Isn't a Dirty Word
A piece that I read on Medium recently called "Experience Slows You Down" kind of bothered me for a while. I agreed to some extent that experience doesn't automatically make you an expert. However, the author misses the point that experience is valuable when it's done with intention and attention. I'm reminded of two principles in karate that I return to often - shoshin, beginners' mind, and renma, the act of polishing.
Shoshin is akin to what the author described in his piece. I try to approach every project as if I've never done it before. It doesn't matter if I'm doing kata - a series of predefined moves - or working on a site design, or planting a garden. The worst thing that I can do is to say to myself, "oh hey I know this already so it's all good." I run the danger of making the same mistakes, doing things by rote and not actually solving the problem at hand. Maintaining my awareness is what's crucial, not that I've never done it before.
For the month leading up to earning a black belt, you're asked to switch back to a white belt and attend white belt class to remind oneself of what it felt like when one started and had no preconceptions. When I start with beginners' mind, I'm often led to insights that I would have missed otherwise. I try to keep curiosity and playfulness at the forefront and realize that the more I know, the more I find out that I don't know.
Experience becomes valuable through the concept of renma, or constant polishing of technique. Take whatever the essential building block of the medium is - a punch, sketching from observation, setting type, practicing scales - and do it ad infinitum. A deeper understanding and skill level gradually develops through repetition. Since last year I've hand-rolled thousands of tortillas. To some it may appear to be drudgery. But through doing it with attention, I now know exactly how hot the grill needs to be, what the optimal temperature the dough should be for rolling, and how long it takes for the dough to puff up to fluffy perfection. I wouldn't have been able to acquire this information any other way as it's a long process of trial and error. But now I can be confident in our choices for a permanent set up that will give us tortillas of the same consistency, taste and quality. In doing things like this, I aspire to even a thousandth of the skillfulness of a chicken yakitori master we had encountered in our travels in Tokyo - a man, well into his 60s, who effortlessly and gracefully rotated skewers with the flick of his wrist until each piece of chicken was charred to perfection.
The great artists and designers that have left a cultural legacy understood these principles. They weren't geniuses who were born fully formed, they worked extremely hard at their craft and had the ability to have an open mind that enabled them to come up with interesting, insightful ways to communicate. I was just reminded of this with some of the watercolors that were on display at the JS Sargent show at the Brooklyn Museum - you can see a huge difference in the mastery between an earlier, tentative piece and the Carrara quarry paintings a decade or two later. I'm inspired all over again to put these principles into practice.
It's the intersection of beginners' mind and polishing technique that I believe one has the ability to achieve a deeper understanding and that creative solutions come about. And by no means do I think this is easy to achieve! It's something I strive for every day but I know that my attention wanders. Often.

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Now that kids are back in school and mostly settled into their routines,enriching and fun after-school programs are a priority to find for most families. Let's face it. Since after-school activities take place in the afternoons of school days, they can really help working parents with childcare until they are done with work. Even though this is our primary motivation for having our kids
Balance Games
My son is like a gazelle. He is graceful and majestic when he runs or climbs or jumps. He is nothing like me. However, he always brings over a friend who has not played much of anything physical in his life. In an effort to help him find his inner balance, per his request to my son, I started setting up balance games for
101 things to do….
101 things to do…. As summer approaches, I try to start making a plan of possible activities to do with my kids and visiting nieces and nephews. I find this list is just the thing to have on hand when the kids utter the dreaded phrase,"I'm bored!". Its amazing when kids say they are bored while they are surrounded by toys and gadgets
Strike! – Bowling
Bowling is a great all year round sport that children can practice during the week and compete on weekends as part of a children's league. This is a classic fun game which also teaches consistency, patience and strategy. Being on a league also teaches children to be good teammates and to learn good sportsmanship. Bowling can be deceiving at first. It looks like a
Building Blocks Great for All Ages
The quintessential image we picture in our minds when we think of a toddler learning is that of a three year old playing with building blocks. Parents know that building blocks, whether plastic, foam or wooden, aid in the development of young children through constructive open play. I believe they are still imperative through the later years of adolescence- its an enriching afterschool activity.
Watching Sports
My son cheered and whooped along with every other adult as the football game played on the television. Like many children, he enjoys watching sports with family. Its one of his favorite past times. I believe as well that it's a benefit to him. Indeed, children can learn various positive lessons from sport, such as: -rules and fair play -respect for others -cooperation -personal
Social Networks for Kids
Most of my family and friends have a social network account. I have one as well, so it was no surprise when my son asked to get an account too. I didn't object because it seems for the most part, these social network sites are good social training for life. I find that it can teach empathy and to develop a sense of self,
Bottle-Cap Art
The holiday season is just around the corner. In our family we try to keep to homemade gifts for the most part; to keep the spirit of giving alive, while minimizing the commercialism and to, let's face it, not break the bank! So every November, my son and I get to work at least one day a week afterschool to make everyone a gift.
Fun Things To Do On Rainy Afternoons
We try not to let cold, gloomy, rainy days ruin our free time. There are so many fun and creative ways to make fun around the house. Here are some ways we stop the rain from dampening our spirits. Word Games are a wonderful way to connect with children. It's also a good brain exercise but it doesn't feel like work. -Create a fairy
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Music Makes You Smarter
Music is an international language used every day all over the world. Music has become a vital part in everyday life, whether it is used for entertainment, therapy, career, or religion. The evolution and study of music has also become more prominent in today's society.
I have two sons, both involved in music. My oldest son, a senior at Southern Illinois University – Carbondale, is majoring in music education. He would first like to be a high school band director, then continue on for his master's and doctorate degrees. He currently plays 14 instruments.
My youngest son, a junior in high school, is part of the saxophone section in band. He also plays electric and acoustic guitar and competes yearly in Battle of the Bands.
There is so much more to music than people can imagine. So many people only think of the popular music on the radio, but my son has taught me to appreciate different types of music.
Before the era of "pop" music, there were many genres, ranging from classical to jazz. A popular thing to do was to take your spouse to an orchestra concert or a classy jazz club to dance. But over time, it seems classical music is still popular among music students, but pop music is rising in popularity more and more over the years.
But here is the interesting thing: it turns out being a musician has more perks than just a good hobby. Scientific research shows music "makes you smarter." Studies show that since musicians use both sides of their brain more, being a musician helps in other fields of study, such as math, science, and reading.
A study published in Psychology Today states: "Boston Children's Hospital found a correlation between musical training and improved executive function in both children and adults. Previous studies have identified a link between musical training and cognitive abilities, but few have looked specifically at the effects of early musical training on executive function."
Other studies revealed:
- Musicians have an enhanced ability to integrate sensory information from hearing, touch, and sight.
- Beginning training before the age of seven has been shown to have the greatest impact. This is the age at which musical training begins to affect brain anatomy as an adult.
- Brain circuits involved in musical improvisation are shaped by systematic training, leading to less reliance on working memory and more extensive connectivity within the brain.
Even Albert Einstein's mother was a talented musician and made it part of her family's daily life. This lead to Albert himself becoming an accomplished violinist.
You may not become the next Einstein, but there is no doubt that music makes you smarter. The earlier you expose yourself or your children to the wonderful world of music, the better.
Read more about the Psychology Today study here: https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-athletes-way/201406/does-playing-musical-instrument-make-you-smarter
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Pre-race routine:
Got up at 4:45. Breakfast of oatmeal, peanut butter and blueberries. Coffee.
Easy walk after setting up transition. It was cold, so I then spent most of the morning in the natatorium.
Took a gel about 10 minutes before the scheduled start. The event started about 30' later than scheduled.
This felt a lot harder (and faster) than my time indicates. It's also significantly slower than my training swims. Of course, going out way too fast was disastrous.
What would you do differently?:
Not go out so fast. Not sure why I did that - must have been the adrenaline rush.
Transition 1
With it being 42*, I took my time in transition to get on socks, a jacket, and gloves. Even so, it was a bit difficult with my body being wet.
I was disappointed with my time, which was about identical to my time two years ago on a road bike. I think the cold and the wind played a factor. My legs felt tired pretty much from the beginning of the ride.
What would you do differently?:
I don't know. I'm not sure why the ride was as weak as it was. Might be because I'm in the middle of a hard build cycle. Or maybe I'm just not very bike fit right now. Maybe the time change. Who knows?
Transition 2
Made negative splits. I felt like I could push it harder, and did. Maybe I could have gone harder earlier, but I followed the race plan for the run. A tri 5k PR, and I'm very happy with it.
What would you do differently?:
Nothing. This was the sole bright spot of the race. Mabye I should just stick to running?
Post race
Warm down:
What limited your ability to perform faster:
Not really sure. This race was in the midst of a hard build cycle. Coach said to treat it like a workout. I gave my best effort, but it pretty much stunk. Also, going out too hard on the swim.
Event comments:
It's hard to be objective about the quality of the race when my poor performance overshadows it. I really wish this had not been on DST weekend. I was pretty tired in the morning, and then the race started 30 minutes late.
Aside from the tardiness, things were pretty well organized. Post-race food and drink were just getting started when I finished my race. I wasn't particularly impressed, but had I stuck around, probably would have been more welcome.
The appeal of this race is that it is very early in the season, and the course is fairly beginner friendly. It's also local to Dallas/Fort Worth, being more convenient to the Fort Worth side of the Metroplex. Weather will always be a wild variable. The pool swim is both good and bad. It's nice for beginners, but can be crowded.
I'm not sure I'll do this race again, but not because of how the race was operated. I'd almost rather wait another month to be more fit, to avoid the time change, and to chance the weather being a lot better.
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South Huntington, N.Y. - The Farmingdale State men's and women's indoor track team competed in the 8th Annual Bill Ward Meet held at St. Anthony's High School on Thursday night, December 7th. Senior thrower Jyaire Ewa (Rochdale, N.Y.) broke the school record to win the Weight Throw at the meet, with a toss of 59' 5.5" (18.12m), surpassing a record held by Ed Brown since 2012. His distance is now ranked 4th overall in the Nation. Ewa's also posted a 3rd place finish in the Shot Put with a distance of 13.03m (42' 9").
FSC snagged four of the top five spots in the Weight Throw, with Ewa in 1st followed by sophomore Thomas Franks (3rd place, 44' 3.5"), junior Markhus Obas (4th place, 40' 11.5") and junior Griffin Young (5th place, 39' 8.5").
In the 200m, senior Nicolas Fratto (Farmingdale, N.Y.) and junior Chad George (Levittown, N.Y.) took 4th and 5th place overall, but for College rankings they finished 1st and 2nd, respectively.
In the 500m, junior Philip Sellitto (Levittown, N.Y.) took 2nd place in a time of 1:08.42. In the 800m, freshman Anthony Aromolo (East Northport, N.Y.) finished in 2nd with a time of 2:05.51. Sophomore James O'Brien (South Jamaica, N.Y.) took 2nd in the 3000m with a time of 9:22.89.
Sophomore Joseph McKeon (Hyde Park, N.Y.) placed 3rd in the 60m Hurdles in 9.38 seconds to move into 8th All-Time at FSC. In the Pole Vault, junior Richard Zapata (Farmingdale, N.Y.) cleared a height of 12' 11.5" to finish 3rd, while freshman Louis Hernandez (Ozone Park, N.Y.) posted a 3rd place finish in the High Jump, clearing 5' 8.75" (1.75m). Sophomore David Santa (Westbury, N.Y.) took 3rd place in the 800m in 2:05.98.
On the women's side, sophomore Erin Lettieri (West Islip, N.Y.) placed 4th in the 3000m in 11:19.79. Senior Nicole Franz (Melville, N.Y.) posted a 5th place finish in the 800m with a time of 2:38.65.
Freshman Marina Magoulas (Central Islip, N.Y.) moved to #5 All-Time in the Weight Throw with a distance of 34' 3.5". She also moved to #10 All-Time in the Shot Put (30' 11.75").
Farmingdale State will next compete on Friday, January 5th at the Wagner Invitational held at the Ocean Breeze Track and Field Complex in Staten Island, N.Y.


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Kickstarter launches an amazing story by the creator of "The Wizards of Oz entitled Pearl and the Pumpkin. The story is based on the 1904 book and subsequent Broadway musical by W.W Denslow and Paul West. It was updated with new comedy and music by Daniel Freedman and produced at The Dramatists Guild in New York City.
In addition to this, the show will be performed with wonderful costumes including a very magical 18 musical numbers. The creator of this story is very excited to present this campaign to all people in different parts of the world. Apart from this, they also believe that this will be a very exciting production for the theater venue. It has been their desire to have a huge venue show and they also think it would be wonderful for a video production.
Pearl and Pumpkin has 3 main sections. The first one is the scary Halloween party and pie contest. The second one has lots of surprises as Pearl Pringle and Joe Miller are leading on separate hijinked nautical adventures. There is even an underwater ballet. After a devastating storm, they land on Denslow Island Bermuda. Dreams come true as, King Denslow helps them return to Littletown. Furthermore, they have the hugely talented and professional Choreographer and Director Andrea Andresakis heading the production. She has recently directed "Spandex" on Off Broadway as well as production of "Evita", "Grease" and "Seussical".
Aside from this, she directed the Pearl and the Pumpkin at the Dramatists Guild on Broadway. They also have a Tony Award winning Producer interested in the show and many talented actors. The lead role in the show of Joe Miller was played by Andy Sandburg, who was a student at Yale University at the time. Since then he has gone to win a Tony Award for his producing.
They are very hopeful for their stretch goals including $45,000 sets and props as well as DVD manufacture, $40,000 larger orchestra, $35,000 additional music rehearsals and $30,000 additional costumes and lighting. People who will pledge $250 and above will get a Gold Reward that includes signed sheet music book from the show plus two tickets to the show and all Silver rewards.
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More than 300 RS specialists, leading scientists and representatives of research and design centres, shipbuilding and maritime training institutions, shipping companies, shipyards, industrial enterprises, maritime administrations, RF Ministry of Transport are members of the STC.
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MONTREAL — The non-profit Fortissimo Music Academy has no paid office staff, and its founding administrator has more than once dipped into her own pocket to help pay for the pianos.
Yet this small music school (www.academyfortissimo.com), which occupies about 2,700 square feet on two floors of a Cote St. Luc strip-mall office building, has never rejected a student based on ability to pay. Music, not money, is its central ethos, with artistic ambition trumping its perennially small bank account
"If it was about money, I could not be here," is the matter-of-fact statement made by of Svetlana Klempner, a 58-year-old native of Ukraine who founded Fortissimo a decade ago and has been running it ever since.
Klempner is a pianist who, like some of the other members of Fortissimo's faculty, studied music in the former Soviet Union, which produced generations of superbly trained teachers of a whole other calibre in terms of global and comprehensive approach.
Some of Fortissimo's students have competed and won prizes at city music school festivals and gone keyboard-to-keyboard and bow-to-bow against students from music schools that, unlike Fortissimo, are provincially funded, including the Conservatoire de musique de Montréal.
Fortissimo's track record seems to be one of the reasons the academy now has 220 students – mostly children, but also some adults.
Close to one-third of Fortissimo students have real musical potential, but all those students, while expanding the school's musical limits, also strain its finances, Klempner said.
"It is not easy," she added.
In the past, Fortissimo has received a few occasional ad-hoc dollars from the City of Cote St. Luc, Klempner said, but there has been no Jewish community or government funding, despite continual searches and appeals. The fees attached to its programs and music lessons are its main source of revenue, which it needs to cover rent, pay faculty and cover all costs related to running a music school, from instruments to soundproofing the walls to co-ordinating music festivals.
That's why the school has been looking forward to a major "Professors in Concert" event showcasing its own faculty, to be held June 12 at 7 p.m. at École de Musique Vincent-D'Indy.
The evening is meant not only to raise much-needed money, but also attract potential new moral and financial supporters and to make the appreciation of classical music a real possibility for current and future generations.
"It should not be just grey hair in half-filled halls," said Klempner.
It is also about "public education," added Luciné Chaglassian-Balikian, an accomplished violinist whose students at Fortissimo include Lea Glubochansky, who performed at a recital last January in Carnegie Hall.
Existing programs at Fortissimo include instruction in violin, piano, solfège (sight singing), voice, guitar, and wind instruments, music theory as well as "Eurythmics" classes. There is also "Suzuki method" instruction available, and various musical group lessons and art classes for different age groups, as well as a "My Jewish Club" artwork class for the kindergarten set and even theatre-oriented activities.
Plans for the future include group piano lessons for seniors, more elaborate theory training, a choir class and more ensemble and group classes.
Fortissimo's concert-sized grand piano in the third floor recital hall seemed stark and imposing until Klempner sat down at the keyboard and began to play some Rachmoninoff and Chopin, lyrically and with great feeling.
"We really need people to support us," she said, rising from the bench with purpose.
More details on the June 12 event are available at 514-836-6872, 514-576-6728, or by emailing [email protected]


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How To Delete Square Enix Account :- Square Enix is a online gaming distribution and information portal that lets its user to purchase or download games on their PC or Smartphone, create edit information on account, ask help or any suggestion on website forum, check latest information about the games like release or update. We have received some mails from our website readers that they want to delete their account from Square Enix Website. When we studied about this topic that why users are deleting their account from the website we figure out that most of the people who are deleting their account from the website are receiving mails from company like promotional or newsletter which is making their mailbox look spammed while other members say that they are now not playing the game so want to delete account and other members say that we are make account on other website to download or play game so deleting their account from the website.
If you deleting your account just because of their newsletter or mail you can either mark the mail as spam by clicking on spam button given at top of your mail button or unsubscribe the mail by clicking unsubscribe link given at the bottom of the mail. If your reasons are other then i will guide you step by step method on how to delete your account from Square Enix Website.
A Little Bit About Company
Usually Square and Enix companies are different but both company merge on 2000. Square company was founded by Masashi Miyamoto and Enix Company was founded by Yasuhiro Fukushima and later the company got famous for its wonderful gaming series Final Fantasy. Currently there are 3,924 employees working on the company and company has generated the revenue of ¥214.101 billion in 2015.
How To Delete Square Enix Account
Currently there are two methods to delete your account from Square Enix which are given below :-
Delete Your Account Through Website
- Go to the following url "http://account.square-enix.com/account" and sign-in to your account.
- After sign-in to your account you will be redirected to account page on Left Navigation section on Click on Link UPDATE ACCOUNT INFORMATION.
- On update account information click on option CANCEL SQUARE ENIX ACCOUNT which is given under category and click on NEXT.
- On next page check on option I ACCEPT and click on NEXT Button.
- Now Enter Your Square Enix Password and click on NEXT Button.
- Once you click on Next Button you will redirected to Confirmation Page then click on CANCEL ACCOUNT to delete your account.
Delete Your Account By Sending Email
- Open your registered email account and compose a new mail.
- Enter the following email address firstname.lastname@example.com
- On Subject enter the line "REQUEST TO DELETE MY ACCOUNT".
- Now write a mail to delete your account sample given here and click send.
This process may take upto 24 to 72 hours of time.
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Tonight will herald the Diane Sawyer – Bruce Jenner interview. I will not be watching. It may be a story of human interest, but frankly, I'm just not interested. Not in Bruce, not his struggles and certainly not the Kardashian Klan.
What does concern me is the loss of life as a boat packed with hundreds of migrants capsized in Mediterranean waters, many were trapped inside behind locked doors. This is nothing short of genocide.
Maltese authorities, who were working with Italian rescuers, said around 50 of 700 people on the boat had been saved. A migrant, who spoke to investigators after being airlifted to a hospital in
Catania, was among dozens who authorities say
were saved from the sinking vessel. He told investigators there were 950 people
on board – a number that hasn't verified.
It was the latest in a series of dangerous voyages for hundreds of men, women and children who boarded the boat in
Libya, hoping to make it safely to Europe. Passengers on the boat were from a number of
nations, including Algeria, Egypt, Somalia,
Niger, Senegal, Mali,
Zambia, Bangladesh and Ghana, prosecutors said.
According to the International Organization for Migration,
registered more than 10,000 migrants arriving in the first three months of
2015, and about 2,000 were rescued at sea during the first weekend of April in
the Channel of Sicily.
Most migrants recorded this year come from countries in West Africa as well as
and Syria,
the IOM said. They use Libya
as a country of transit.
At least 480 migrants have died while crossing the
Mediterranean since the beginning of the year, often
because of bad weather and overcrowded vessels used by smugglers, the International
Organization of Migration said.
Sometimes the captains and crews abandon the ships, leaving passengers to fend for them selves.
Most of the migrants are asylum seekers, victims of trafficking or violence, unaccompanied children and pregnant women.
Dear God? Where are our priorities? And what can I do outside of penning these words?
God my Father, God my Mother – keep my heart soft and in tune to "the least of these" – my brothers and my sisters. Guide me, direct me and show me how I can make a difference in this world.
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It seems while we're trying to be grounded and looking for the best of what we can have, we get a bit picky, specially in our relationships. We always seem to be looking for the other half that is shaped like some sort of a reflection of ourselves. having the same interests, like the same food, common movies or places to go. as if we found a soul-twin. It sounds comforting and kinda predictable to know what would it be like spending a lifetime together.
But guess what?. Not for me!!
Why in the world would I be with someone that's a carbon copy of myself. Same things we like, same stuff we share, whatever similarities is there; it sounds really boring for me. I fill my own time with my own self and I don't get myself bored, I'm a loner and I enjoy it, but when in a relationship I'd like to see more, explore more and share more than the same interests.
Maybe because I'm a type of person that is looking for growth not stability? Or maybe I'm afraid of relationship boredom by time? Or because I pay attention for the signs that is "if we're not adding for each other, it means we're not fitting together"?
Well, whatever the reason may be, I like to enjoy differences. Open minds that not trying to prove which point of view is right, not afraid of change or exploring each other's worlds or minds. Using their own differences to complete one another. Agreed on respect and never hurt each other. But of course mature enough to fit my maturity, at least decent educational background. While making our pieces fit together as if it's a huge puzzle we collect.
Sounds risky??
Who cares.. We only live once!!
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Bruno Ganz, the Swiss actor who explained how to bring Hitler back to life in 1978's The Boys From Brazil, then pulled off the trick himself in 2004's Downfall, has died of cancer at the age of 77, the New York Times reports. Ganz was one of the greatest German-language actors of his age, and his long and illustrious film and television career includes work for legendary directors like Werner Herzog, Francis Ford Coppola, Éric Rohmer, and Wim Wenders, for whom Ganz famously played a melancholy angel in Wings of Desire. That's the thumbnail sketch of his life and work you can pick up from other news sources, the IMDb, or your cinephile friend. But if you had to reconstruct the career of this important actor based on the films Netflix has made available to stream, his obituary would look a little different:
Swiss actor Bruno Ganz is dead at the age of 77. Ganz, a surprisingly well-known figure given his small, critically reviled body of work, burst onto the screen in 1993 at the age of 51 in Australian director Gillian Armstrong's The Last Days of Chez Nous. Vincent Canby called the film "the sort of insufferable relationship movie in which characters hector each other with questions not meant to be answered," which presumably explains why Ganz didn't work for the next two decades. In 2013, he made a triumphant return as "Older Jorge O'Kelly" in Bille August's Night Train to Lisbon, which set the stage for Ganz's most successful year, 2014. That year he made two films: the black comedy In Order of Disappearance and director Barbet Schroeder's 1990s period piece Amnesia. The next year, he took a final victory lap in Remember, a Nazi thriller directed by Atom Egoyan. Although Ganz's performance in that film suggested he might have a hidden talent for playing Nazis, he never acted again.
This isn't just a Netflix problem. Kanopy specializes in international and arthouse films, so it should be packed with Ganz's work, but it only has four films to Netflix's five. (Their selection is slightly better curated, including Wings of Desire and The Marquise of O., but his entire post-1993 career has been lost to Amnesia.) Despite its TV-focused mission, you wouldn't necessarily expect Hulu to be a treasure trove of Ganz's West German TV work from the 1960s and 1970s, but you might hope for better results than the 2017 film The Party and (if you also have Showtime) The Reader. Only Amazon currently offers anything approaching a representative sample of Ganz's work: Amazon Prime members can currently watch The Marquise of O. (1976), Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979), Saint-Ex (1996) Downfall (2004), The Manchurian Candidate (2004), Youth Without Youth (2007) and Of Women and Horses (2011). Just as importantly, Amazon is the only one of these services that integrates paid digital rentals and purchases in the same place as free films, so an Amazon user will at least be made aware that Wings of Desire exists, even if it costs more money to watch. Still, offering subscribers only seven of the 121 roles Ganz is credited for on IMDb doesn't seem like much of a best-case-scenario for a streaming media library.
The internet was supposed to erase geographical boundaries, making art from all over the world quickly and readily available to people all over the world. In practice this has meant making people from all over the world painfully aware of a crazy quilt of copyright and licensing agreements from all over the world, which is maybe a little less valuable, culture-wise. Streaming media services fight this reality by using every trick they can to give an impression of abundance, from overstuffed user interfaces to algorithms that decide that a user who types "Bruno Ganz" into the search bar is probably secretly looking for That 70s Show. But try to trace any throughline in the history of film and television via a streaming media library, whether it's as broad as "the western" or as specific as "Bruno Ganz," and it becomes painfully obvious we're watching through a pinhole. Until next month, anyway, when Ganz's death and the concomitant spike in search traffic may marginally increase the value of his movies on some top secret spreadsheet to the point that studios include a few more of them in the content packages they license to streaming services, proving once and for all that the system works. In the meantime, there's always House of Cards.
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The Daemon in Our Dreams is a suspenseful tale, the author has integrated a mix of characters and a strange mix of travel fiction and ghost stories.
The stories opening begins with the cold-blooded assassination of three people in a London pub by a Indian man, the novel outlines the prequel to this seemingly senseless triple killing. Three travelers, whom are strangers and are connected only by a shared Asian itinerary, and each have begun to have eerie, frightening dreams involving this Indian man. As it becomes apparent to each of these individuals that the others are also haunted by the same man, each begin to see the man from their dreams manifest in broad daylight. As they make their way from one port to another, this man, whom they have come to call "Ramesh," is able to keep pace with them.. These three people, none of whom know each other, all meet on a cruise that ends up, in India. They discover that they've been haunted by the same visions, and they attempt to figure out what it all means. The tension escalates as they start seeing the actual dream man in all the different ports, and the appearances seem to be more threatening. What will become of the three travelers? Will the dreams come true or are they truly dreams, I think they are nightmares that I would not want to live in.
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Japanese engineers fought to save three reactors from meltdown at the stricken Fukushima 1 power station as they battled another explosion and a series of frustrating setbacks that saw workers yesterday struggle to pump seawater into the reactors in a desperate attempt to cool the overheating nuclear cores and make them safe.
Tuesday began with a fresh explosion which damaged the roof above its overheating reactor 2 and left steam rising from the complex, Jiji news agency said. Early reports suggested that there might have been some damage to the containment vessel after pressure dropped, but there was no immediate word of any damage to the reactor itself, the country's nuclear safety agency said.
The latest explosion came after a violent blast that destroyed most of the containment building around reactor 3 on Monday, causing debris to fall back inside and on to the structure housing the reactor. The blast was caused by a build up of hydrogen that was produced when superheated steam in the core reacted with zirconium alloy cladding that surrounds the reactor's fuel rods.
Tepco, the company that operates the power station, said 11 people were injured in the accident, one seriously. A similar explosion blew the top off the reactor 1 building on Saturday morning.
Despite earlier assertions from Tepco that the steel containment vessels surrounding the reactors were undamaged in either of the two earlier explosions, Naoki Kumagai, an official at Japan's Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency (Nisa), said: "It's impossible to say whether there has or has not been damage."
At one point on Sunday emergency cooling at two reactors was suspended because the pools of seawater being pumped in ran dry. Later in the day, a backup pump to a third reactor ran out of fuel, causing water levels to fall so low that the fuel rods were fully exposed.
Officials at Tepco said it believed all three nuclear reactors are likely to have suffered partial meltdowns, though this could mean just one fuel rod or nearly all of them melting within the cores. The reactors are at risk of going into meltdown because although they had shut down, the fuel rods continue to give off heat. Primary and backup power to the cooling systems was knocked out during the massive earthquake and tsunami that struck on Friday.
Ryohei Shiomi, a Nisa official, said reactors 1 and 3 appeared stable for the time being, but that reactor 2, where fuel rods were most exposed, was still a concern.
Water has to cover completely the radioactive fuel rods in the nuclear cores to prevent overheating, but on Monday afternoon water levels dropped substantially in all three reactors, and at one point fully exposed the fuel rods in reactor 2. A spokesman for Tepco said it could not rule out a meltdown at the reactor.
Speaking about the situation at reactor 2, chief cabinet secretary, Yukio Edano, said: "The pump ran out of fuel, and the process of inserting water took longer than expected, so the fuel rods were exposed from the water for a while."
The decision to pump salty, untreated seawater into the reactors – along with boric acid to dampen down radioactivity – is a vastly expensive last resort that effectively writes-off the nuclear reactors for good. The plants are usually cooled by highly-purified de-ionised water that does not damage delicate components inside. The risk of total meltdown at the plant will fall dramatically over the next few days if engineers can continue to flood the reactors with seawater. The fuel rods will already have lost around 90% of their heat and without further setbacks, the reactors could be cold and rendered safe within a week to 10 days.
But engineers at the power plant face a delicate balancing act because sea water being pumped into the reactors is boiling immediately into steam, which raises the pressure inside them. This has to be vented off before more water can be pumped in, but doing so releases small amounts of radioactive material into the air.
Nisa has already confirmed that caesium-137 and iodine-131 have been released into the atmosphere. These radioactive substances are produced in the core and can contaminate cooling water if fuel rods get hot enough to melt the cladding that surrounds them.
The release of radioactivity has raised health concerns and wider fears of environmental contamination. Monitoring posts to the north-west of the power station recorded radiation levels at 680 microSieverts per hour on Monday, a dose roughly equivalent to four months of natural background radiation. An American warship, the USS Ronald Reagan, detected low levels of radiation at a distance of 100 miles from the Fukushima plant.
Radiation levels have increased in the vicinity of the power station and nearby areas. Those caught in the evacuation zone around Fukushima were given potassium iodide pills to protect against thyroid cancer. Radioactive iodine is easily absorbed by the thyroid, where it can cause tumours, but the pills saturate the gland and obstruct the radioactive form's absorption. Edano said the release of large amounts of radiation was unlikely.
Under normal conditions, the nuclear reactors produce electricity by using heat from fission reactions in the fuel rods to turn water into steam and drive turbines. Reactors 1 and 2 operate with uranium fuel rods, but reactor 3 uses a mixed oxide fuel, or Mox, which contains plutonium, a highly toxic substance that if released, can linger in the environment for thousands of years. The half life of plutonium is 24,000 years, meaning it takes that long for its radioactivity to drop by half.
Nuclear experts emphasised there are significant differences between the unfolding nuclear crisis at Fukushima and the events leading up to the Chernobyl disaster in 1986. The Chernobyl reactor exploded during a power surge while it was in operation and released a major cloud of radiation because the reactor had no containment structure around it.
At Fukushima, each reactor has shut down and is inside a 20cm-thick steel pressure vessel that is designed to contain a meltdown. The pressure vessels themselves are surrounded by steel-lined, reinforced concrete shells.
"While the material is enclosed in the reactor vessel it is safe, in that it is the same radioactivity that was there in the fuel rods. The issue would come if there is a continued problem to cool down the fuel rods," said Paddy Regan, a nuclear physicist at Surrey University.
He said the worst case scenario would be "that some of the fission fragments and fuel could be widely dispersed if the vessel was to explode. This seems unlikely at present, so the next worst would likely be ongoing venting of the steam which has built up in the reactors."
Yukiya Amano, director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), said it was "unlikely that the accident would develop" like Chernobyl. "The Japanese authorities are working as hard as they can, under extremely difficult circumstances, to stabilise the nuclear power plants and ensure safety."
• The following correction was printed in the Guardian's Corrections and clarifications column, Thursday 31 March 2011. This aricle said readings at the plant had reached "8,217 microsieverts per hour – described by broadcaster NHK as equivalent to eight times the radiation a person would usually experience in a year" and in a second story in the same issue – 15 March – we said that monitoring posts near the power station had "recorded radiation levels at 680 microsieverts per hour yesterday, a dose roughly equivalent to four months of natural background radiation". In both cases we compared a rate of dose with an amount of dose, which one reader suggested is not a like-for-like comparison and therefore meaningless. To clarify (we hope): NHK meant that a person who spends one hour in an area where the radiation level is 8,217 microsieverts per hour receives eight times the dose they would usually experience in a year. Our figure of 680 microsieverts over an hour is the dose a person might roughly be expected to receive at the end of four months due to natural background radiation.


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Growth in Russia comes from few natural-resource-linked sectors and to a few firms; the economy is currently less diversified than it was during the Soviet times. This column presents evidence that the emergence of new firms is not the binding constraint on diversification: it is the poor survival odds of new firms, created by long, deep Russian economic slumps. More competition would help to drive out less efficient, older firms, and create space for young and efficient ones to survive and thrive.
Alvaro González, Leonardo Iacovone, Hari Subhash, 12 February 2014
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Russia aims to diversify its economy and reduce its dependence on natural resources. Despite laudable aims, this column argues that progress has been sluggish. Longstanding obstacles of corruption, low business-entry rates and weak competition afflict other countries that, like Russia, are in transition. Yet Russia comes pretty much bottom of the class. Crucially, the fact that economic diversification requires improvements to education and skills acquisition has been somewhat overlooked by the state. What attempts the state has made, such as supporting technology innovation, appear to have been ineffectual and, at times, counterproductive. Going forward, Russia would do well to focus on improving incentives for market-relevant research and development, complemented by private sector-led sources of finance for early-stage firms.


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The Microwave Oven
With the introduction of the domestic microwave oven in 1967, the notion of meals in minutes became a reality [source: Idea Finder]. The average microwave can cook meat six times faster than a conventional oven [source: Woodford]. That means less time spent in the kitchen.
Microwaves were used in World War II for radar reconnaissance but weren't adapted for use in cooking until a happy accident occurred in the mid 1940s. Dr. Percy LeBaron Spencer, an employee of the Raytheon Company, accidentally melted a candy bar with radio waves. Microwave ovens use a magnetron tube that generates high-energy, short radio waves that agitate the water molecules in food, cooking it faster and more evenly. Taking advantage of this discovery, Raytheon's Amana division introduced the first commercial microwave in 1954 and followed up with a domestic model in 1967, the ®Radarange. It's estimated that 90 percent of American homes are now equipped with a microwave oven [source: USDA].
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Stealthing: Inside the world of men who remove condoms during sex without consent
This article originally appeared in the Independent
Removing a condom during sex - known as stealthing - transforms a consensual act into a non-consensual one. It's a little-discussed form of gender violence, but that is all changing thanks to a new study into the phenomenon.
When a man removes a condom during sex - often unbeknownst to his partner, be they man or woman - he is opening them up to the risk of pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections.
But mostly, he's committing an act he was not permitted to do, which many people are claiming is "rape-adjacent."
For most men, the reason they remove condoms - often when changing positions so their partner doesn't notice - is because they prefer the feel of sex without wearing one. But some also do so to exert power over their partners.
Apart from unwanted pregnancies and STIs, "survivors experienced nonconsensual condom removal as a clear violation of their bodily autonomy and the trust they had mistakenly placed in their sexual partner," study author Alexandra Brodsky, a legal fellow at the National Women's Law Center, writes.
"Survivors [of stealthing] describe non-consensual condom removal as a threat to their bodily agency and as a dignitary harm," she explains. "'You have no right to make your own sexual decisions,' they are told. 'You are not worthy of my consideration.'"
Her report explores the phenomenon and shares the experiences of a number of victims.
"Obviously the part that really freaked me out was that it was such a blatant violation of what we'd agreed to," one woman quoted in the study said. "I set a boundary. I was very explicit."
Brodsky also shares the story of a woman called Rebecca who had herself been stealthed and now works for a sexual violence crisis hotline.
"Their stories often start the same way," Rebecca said. "'I'm not sure if this is rape, but...'"
Brodsky says she decided to undertake the research when she was in law school in 2013 and realised how many of her friends were "struggling with forms of mistreatment by sexual partners that weren't considered part of the recognized repertoire of gender based violence - but that seemed rooted in the same misogyny and lack of respect."
Many women - for it is predominantly women - who are victims of stealthing feel conflicted about it as they don't know the act of removing a condom during sex has a name. They knew they felt violated, but "didn't have the vocabulary" to process it, Brodsky explained to the HuffPost.
"Everyone knew that it felt like a serious violation," she says. "Everyone knew it was a betrayal of trust.
"A number of the people I talked to felt like because it wasn't something they'd heard discussed, because it wasn't something they had a name for, they struggled to know how to think about it in the context of other disrespectful and violent sexual experiences they'd had."
Brodsky hopes her research will end this by shedding light on the practice, as it's possible stealthing is on the rise.
As part of her research, Brodsky delved into dark corners of the internet where she found communities of men discussing how to get away with stealthing and swapping tips. These are men who think it is their "right" to "spread their seed" with every woman they have sex with.
"One can note," Brodsky writes, "that proponents of 'stealthing' root their support in an ideology of male supremacy in which violence is a man's natural right."
One man, for example, has published a "comprehensive guide" to committing the act:
He reveals how his first experience of stealthing gave him a rush "more intense than I can describe" and how he's over time developed techniques that make sure he "shot my load deep inside the girl's unsuspecting ****."
"Of course," he writes, "You can always try the, 'What's wrong? I thought you knew it was off? You mean you didn't feel it? I thought you knew!!' approach which for me has had a surprisingly high success rate."
Brodksy believes stealthing may violate a number of criminal and civil laws and victims have the right to pursue justice, but none of the victims in the study took legal action.
However, earlier this year a Swiss man was convicted of rape for stealthing in a landmark case.
"Survivors experience real harms - emotional, financial, and physical - to which the law might provide remedy through compensation or simply an opportunity to be heard and validated," she writes.
But many of the existing laws are insufficient: "We know that the law doesn't work for gender violence survivors," she told HuffPost.
"Many of the myths and assumptions and forms of skepticism that we see from judges approaching rape victims and other kinds of sexual assault victims are likely to be present in stealthing cases."
In the UK, the the Istanbul Convention, which aims to bring violence against women - including all non-consensual acts of a sexual nature - was ratified earlier this year, so stealthing would definitely come under that.
Brodsky thinks a new law specific to condom removal should be introduced.
Furthermore, she doesn't want to give any power to the men who commit stealthing: "I think that term really trivialises the harm; it obscures the violence and makes it sound sneaky and maybe regrettable but ultimately an inevitable part of sex, and that's not true. We deserve better than that.
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Bustylady1984More than a month ago
More of a respectful thing for the females choice if she wants the guy with or without a condom, if you don't like the females decision - your a absolute disgrace for not learning to respect others choices!!!
From recent experience - after finding out the real truth about my coward ex cheating on me through this site; for any guy who I may meet - I want the guy to wear one regardless if they're clean & disease free, if they don't respect my wishes they get the boot, I always say now "once a cheater - always will be one if you can't respect your partner & be truthful to them from the beginning"
AustphilMore than a month ago
It may be mostly men, but I have had it tried on me by a woman. We were about to get into some doggy when, she reached between her legs and started to play with my cock and balls I thought she wanted to guide me in, when suddenly she pulled off the condom, took a firm grip and tried to help me in. It all happened in a split second and in the heat of the moment I was a little confused, but pulled away. She made exactly the same claims " it feels a lot better"
i.aim.to.pleaseMore than a month ago
Plain and simple it IS rape, one party is not consenting to the act being performed, them being unawares even gives it more reason to be classified that way.
party24More than a month ago
Yes it happen to us at a party I catch him on time hi toll me hi did not know ! Ha cock head I wish I can post his name is from Melbourne
beech76More than a month ago
These guys should be blocked forevermore
leighleigh55More than a month ago
I am horrified this happens. What a breach of trust
Iwantmore14More than a month ago
It's a really low act to do that. It's a total violation.
suave46More than a month ago
This article is great! I love reading them. Your journalists are so creative with their words.
AMM.EditorMore than a month ago
Unfortunately we can't take credit for this one, it's a reprint from a newspaper. But we hope you like some of our original articles too. :-)
exportmeMore than a month ago
isnt it bordering on Rape ??
1thatlikesthatMore than a month ago
Well i don't know whether it should have a name but certainly a woman can tell if a man is sheathed or not. Men think it feels different well a woman can feel the difference between a Condom and no Condom. I have always been able to tell if the guy is wearing one or not and in the heat of the moment a sensible woman knows and can tell the difference of a dick without and a dick with one. Personally unless I am in a relationship a Condom is always use. No one wants any surprises. It's just bad manners not to use one. I wouldn't trust a guy to say he doesn't have any nasties as guys usually don't know they have something until they do and will say virtually anything to have sex.
ordinaryguy55More than a month ago
It's more than bad manners, it's sexual assult, at the very least.
Polyamerous.BBWMore than a month ago
This has happened with me twice.
I will no longer play with this person. And as per usual I've had all my checks. It is a form of violation / misuse of trust
onlyoral4uMore than a month ago
you should have had him charged
1DoorManMore than a month ago
We have kicked out Men for this at Party's and are band from returning, and stopped guys and reported others to Hosts of other Partys.
Its a Dog that would do this to a Women that has consented to playing and he still wants to do is rip his condom off its rape as far as we are concerned .
hotbajanMore than a month ago
That is just plain immature and stupid. The guys who do this have absolutely no respect for individuals and are just plain irresponsible. Think of it this way, if you are stupid enough to do this and the woman either decides to press charges or becomes pregnant, I hope the lose your ass in jail or the woman takes you for 50% of all your assets for child support and pre-natal and childbirth bills cause you are plain and simple...a dumbass!!!
Handyguy84More than a month ago
I've heard of this personally I let my partner make the call for on or off its their choice to Learn to respect their choice for those who do this low act
Nightrod67More than a month ago
It's an animal act, lock the animals up and throw away the key and one can hope karma will do what they have done to others and it mentally torments the mind out of them.
Leolady727More than a month ago
Animals don't do revolting things like this, only humans do.
Nightrod67More than a month ago
Yes animals are better behaved,I should have put human animals no inference to the furry kind.
SlimshaddyMore than a month ago
Criminal act to say the least, consent is missing in this act, Id call it a form of rape; we need to legislate accordingly to make this sick vile behaviour illegal and make it a form of statutory rape..
Nightrod67More than a month ago
Great call Fitbit73 couldn't agree more.
BicrssdrssrCplMore than a month ago
there is actually a guy going to court over this in australia and i am pretty sure people have gone to court overseas ...
Melody2973More than a month ago
Disgusting :(
Hard enough to get men to wear them, now you have to deal with this crap :(
etep169More than a month ago
I cant see the reason why they are removing it. I don't mind wearing one as they are so thin and feel nearly natural
SpiceSpiceBabyMore than a month ago
A complete abuse of trust and certainly a display of no respect at the very least. A total creep act in my opinion.
Henmvy2More than a month ago
The Swiss guy was convicted of rape 3 months before this research on stealthing went online. He appealed against it and had rape reduced to 'defilement', which is still a criminal offence.


text: hazelyeot 1,562 Posted April 27 @lydliem Omg!!! I never saw that naver blog post before..... since october?? What? I'm really surprised! It was around the same time MCW posted about the movie "Helpless", about a woman that changes her identity and disappears before getting married. They have been hinting things and we had no idea :O 6 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites


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So I came on here to write about how the irony of rocking out to Beastie Boys' Intergalactic (wow that was a crazy video I missed with no MTV as a kid) down the highway in my mini van full of children made me grin like an idiot. To show our pictures of the kids seeing snow for the first time, actually taken with the real camera! To just generally gush the gratitude I feel at the amazing gift of a virtually free vacation in a time when it would not have happened otherwise.
Then I opened chrome and WordPress was not one of the 6 most recently viewed webpages….again. When I was doing my yearly goals this January (December is too crazy, I give myself all of January) I put the blog on there, again. Cause really if I'm going to do something, I want to actually do it, not just feel guilty about not doing it. However, I know from experience that something vague like "the blog" is never going to inspire anything more than guilt over inaction, I need something specific and measurable.
HELP ME PLEASE! Those of you that read this or any blog, how often do you like them to update? Is once a week often enough? Everyday good or too much? Anything in particular you are looking for? More writing? Less writing, more photos? Recipes? Acrobatics? Magical robots that cook and clean and do laundry? OK I already know the answer to the last one is YES! I feel like I've been out of this writing world for so long I don't know what's what anymore. So help me set my 2015 blog goal, it's only mid February and hey there's always time for a fresh start right? 🙂
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This Doonesbury strip is from November 1999. Some things never change.
Many analyst are saying Trump gets so much coverage so they can show the public how stupid he is, do you think that might be working?
It is sure working for him this time around. Of course he has the deplorables on his side too.
Erik: I think Trump's theory is that there's no such thing as bad publicity; the more coverage the better. And the media titans like this too, since it means more advertising dollars for them.
Jerry: We'll just have to hope that endless media coverage + basket of deplorables DOESN'T equal winning the election.
"Small Sad Max" (comment not published): I can't publish your comment, but at your insistence, here's a link to your website.
I think that his supporters think he is brilliant.
Jerry: In a sense they're right, since everything is relative. If Trump's IQ is 90, give or take, and his basket of deplorables have IQ's in the 50s and 60s, then from their standpoint, Trump is a genius.
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Woodlawn Cemetery, a national historic landmark in the Bronx that turned 150 last year, is celebrating with an exhibition on its spectacular Gilded Age tombs. "Sylvan Cemetery: Architecture, Art and Landscape at Woodlawn," which opens on Sept. 3 at the Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery at Columbia University, will offer a display of ironwork, sculpture, stained glass and furniture from the mausoleums along with records from the cemetery's voluminous archives, which were transferred to Columbia in 2006.
In a conference room lined with dark paneling and gloomy portraits of cemetery trustees, Susan Olsen, a curator of the exhibition and the cemetery's director of historical services, discussed the challenges of researching tomb designers and what it was like to contact the descendants of those whose lavish graves had long been forgotten. Ms. Olsen, 56, also discussed her own posthumous plans. (This interview has been edited and condensed.)
Q. How do people usually react when they find out they have an ancestor buried there?
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We want to make sure they realize, one, there's a work of fine art here that needs their care and, two, there's space available if they're interested. We also want them to connect with the rest of the family, to bring them here as well. For many people, if they have been here before, it was when they were teenagers and a grandparent died, and now they're in their 60s and thinking about what we think about when we reach that age.
So sometimes the family has no idea how beautiful the tomb is?
The Metz family, for instance, had no idea that theirs was done by Marie Zimmermann, an extremely important Arts and Crafts designer. That's the best part of my job, telling people stories like that and hearing their stories. It's amazing how many of the families here are related to each other, too, how much shared DNA there is at Woodlawn.
Sometimes hearing from us brings up painful memories of multiple marriages, tragedies in the family, but still most folks are very forthcoming and want to share with us. And often they still have the cemetery folder somewhere. When we track them down, they say, "Oh, that's what those funny keys are for."
Does anyone you contact want to sell part of the mausoleum?
The objects inside are part of the monument. You can't just put the bust of Grandpa's head on eBay, or take out the Tiffany windows. If the heirs did decide to sell, we would go to court to stop them and we would win.
As the archives get sifted, at Columbia and here, are you finding more treasures?
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And we're up to 11 Guastavinos now, and we have the major women landscape designers represented, too: Ellen Biddle Shipman, Beatrix Jones Farrand, Marian Cruger Coffin — they all came to Woodlawn. Every day we're discovering something new, all sorts of little stories that weave in and out of this place.
How about you, where do you want to be buried?
I want to be cremated. We have glass-fronted cabinets here for cremated remains and mementos. I'll have my own little exhibit, as it should be.
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If you have ever watched a scary movie you know that usually the first person to get killed by the psycho axe murderer, is the girl who has sex.
She's usually the bubbly, giggly, provocative one in really short shorts, who has no qualms about "going all the way", while the girl who survives the slaughter is the one who has retained her chastity, and denied the sexual advances of her male suitors.
This may seem insignificant all on it's own, but this is a common theme that runs throughout all the cultural media that we are exposed to, from the time that we begin listening to bedtime stories and Walt Disney fairy tales, to the time that we read teen novels, Harlequin romance.
We receive our education or "guidance" in this culture about what is socially acceptable behavior for men & women to engage in through our stories, our television shows, our movies, and other forms of media.
We are repeatedly shown images that first suggest to us preferred behavior patterns, and then reinforce that suggestion again, and again, and again, until it becomes a subconscious belief system that we are operating from without even knowing.
Advertisers are well aware of the power of repetition, which is why the same commercials, songs, and advertisements are played ad nauseum. I am 37 years old as I write this book, and to this day I still remember that Dunkin' Donuts commercial from the East coast that played during the early 80's, which showed a man rising early every morning with the statement "It's time to make the donuts!"
I have confused many a friend and lover when I have spent the night at their house, and awoken in the morning singing "Time to make the donuts!" They look at me very confused and say "I didn't know you were making donuts this morning, wow, what a treat."
They are inevitably disappointed when I explain to them that donuts will not be forth-coming that particular morning, and that it is simply my cultural conditioning playing out. Yes I'm a joy to sleep with.
We are programmed from birth to accept certain behaviors, certain ideas, and certain beliefs all as part of our social conditioning. And yes, this is a vital function for us as humans, part of socialization so we can co-exist with a degree of relative, if not absolute harmony.
Yet, many of the belief systems that we have been conditioned to accept, especially in regards to our sexuality, are debilitating and harmful, and they are external suggestions that we have subconsciously accepted as our own.
These culturally conditioned belief systems control how we think and feel about our own sexuality, preventing us from innocently exploring that aspect of our HUMANITY, preventing us from knowing and understanding the truth of our own bodies, and our inherent connection to divinity that can be realized through our sensual awareness & sexual bliss.
We have been conditioned to fear our sexuality as women by the social suggestion that bad things happen to "those" kind of girls.
"Good girls don't, bad girls do." And who wants to be a bad girl? Cripes!
Bad girls at best get knocked up and live on the wrong side of the tracks in abject poverty, raising a child or two on their own, being social outcasts.
At worst, they get raped and killed, and end up in ditch somewhere, all for wearing a skirt that was too short, and having had too many lovers before.
The Walt Disney syndrome encourages all little "good girls" (and then teenage girls, and then grown women) to "wait" and wish and dream for the handsome prince who will ride up on his shining white horse, give us the kiss of life, and awaken us to a glorious new world of happily ever after.
The underlying suggestions of these stories are:
a) The girl has been living a life of relative suffering or boredom without out him.
b) She is under an evil spell and is sleeping or "dormant" (sexually dormant)
c) He is overcome with her beauty (pretty girls always win) and gives her the "kiss of life" (i.e. again, she is sexually dormant until the big strong handsome man comes and awakens her sexually)
d) They ride off into the sunset, and live happily ever after, her arms wrapped lovingly around his waist, her savior.
So what does this "fairytale" imply to my young and girlish mind?
It implies that; my happiness as a woman is dependent upon finding the right man to "save me" and life does not really begin until that first kiss.
It implies that; my sexual awakening lies in the hands of the perfect man, "my prince", and that I lie in relative dormancy, living an un-awakened and somewhat unfulfilled life, until he the right man arrives.
And of course I am chaste and demure until that day, just wishing, dreaming, hoping, someday….
And thus I wonder, how many women are still waiting for the "right man" in order to finally "find happiness"?
How many women found "prince charming" only to have him leave her for another woman 10 years and 2 kids down the road?
How many of us kissed man, after man, after man, desperately hoping, wishing and praying that he would finally be THE ONE, and we could finally be happy, the search would be over, life has now begun!
The point I am trying to make with all of this is that- from the time we are little girls, we are overtly and subtly conditioned through various types of cultural suggestion to believe that our life happiness and sexual pleasure lies in the hands of a man, our handsome prince, THE ONE.
Even the wildly popular "modern" female erotic book 50 Shades of Grey follows the pattern of – sexually awkward and un awakened young woman, meets older, wealthy, and sexually powerful man, who takes her under his wing and proceeds to awaken her to her own sexual pleasure. She is enraptured and falls under his spell. Devoted to this one man who has awoken her and given her the kiss of life.
This reads like a Harlequin Romance, but set in modern day. A sexed up version of Snow White and Cinderella, with descriptions of what happens in the bedroom of the big castle, at the end of their sunset ride.
Women are dissuaded from consciously exploring their own sexual pleasure, beyond a clitoral orgasm here and there, and many times not even that.
I have had many women share with me that they have never self-stimulated in any way, and felt very uncomfortable with the thought of doing so for themselves. As if giving themselves sexual pleasure somehow takes away from their partner.
I remember thinking for most of my life that the inside of my vagina was "his territory" , to be reserved for men, or "the right man" to explore.
I was horrified at the thought of sticking something inside of me for my own pleasure, and did so with great reservation and quite tentatively at first, as if I would somehow damage the sanctity of my vagina by daring to venture into that territory by myself.
This fear of owning, knowing, exploring, and understanding our own physical-sexual pleasure keeps us fragmented, helpless, weak, confused, & dis-empowered in life.
This fear keeps us disconnected from our own intuition, and the inherent knowing that arises from being deeply connected to our bodies and the visceral responses that they give us as guidance. The body knows what it wants. There is a deep instinctive wisdom that we can tap into when we honor the information that it gives using the form of sensations. Pleasure/happy=good, pain/yucky = bad or dangerous. It is that simple.
When we remain ignorant of the most basic understanding of how we feel we offer up control of not just our own pleasure, but our own clear wisdom and choices into the hands of another person, usually our male partners.
Which is also dis-empowering for them, as they are now charged with the task of being responsible for our sexual pleasure & satisfaction, without any real guidance of how to do so.
I believe The Walt Disney Syndrome contributes to sexual dissatisfaction for both men and women, (and partners of all genders) by encouraging unrealistic expectations for both parties. Women believe that the "perfect man" will know how to kiss her perfectly, and fulfill every sexual longing she has ever had (all of her sexual longings being fed her through media, fairy tales, and romance novels such as 50 Shades of Grey).
Read more about Female Sexual Empowerment in my new book- "Shake Your Soul-Song! A Woman's Guide To Self-Empowerment Through The Art Of Self-Pleasure"
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