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Kiran Nagarkar. Photo courtesy: Marco Secchi
Armed with disarming, sellf-deprecating humour, Kiran Nagarkar looks at the world through a glass lightly. The novelist, playwright and critic endears you to him with his insouciance, with his ability to laugh at himself.
I owe Nagarkar a huge debt. He changed my pre-conditioned, saturated-with-Victorian-literature mind and filled it up with unabashed appreciation of humour in Indian writing in English. He did that with Ravan and Eddie (1994), an uproarious romp through a chawl in Mumbai.
Born in Mumbai in 1942, Nagarkar is one of the most significant writers of postcolonial India. His works include Saat Sakkam Trechalis (the 1974 Marathi novel recently translated as Seven Sixes Are Forty Three, Ravan and Eddie and the epic novel, Cuckold (1997) for which he was awarded the 2001 Sahitya Akademi Award in English. He has explored humour in all its forms — wit, sarcasm and satire.
Nagarkar has been hailed as a "must-read" author of modern Indian writing in English and his influence and popularity are witnessed both in India and abroad. He recently launched his new novel Jasoda. A "lazy" writer, in his own words, Nagarkar brings Jasoda to the world after 20 years. For two decades, the character has dwelt in the recesses of his mind. Finally, she has seen the light of day. On the eve of the novel's launch, we got up, close and personal with Nagarkar, who continues to add pillars to the bridge called Indian writing in English.
Prepping up for the interview, I placed my recorder next to Nagarkar. He asked me, "Do you want to come closer? I mean not you, the recorder. Do you want to move it closer?" We laughed at this, and I was glad our tete-a-tete began with laughter.
"These days I am terrified of saying anything," he began. "We are no longer a country with humour. And I really miss it, very, very badly. I hope to God you are going to joke with me and tell me what an ass I am. That would be perfectly fine!"
The interview lasted for well over an hour and not for a minute did the conversation falter. Nagarkar didn't shirk a single question nor was he impatient for the interview to end. He spoke with as much ease and humour about his books as he did about other things. He was as comfortable speaking his mind, choosing his words and brandishing his sense of humour at his companion's house on Breach Candy as he was at the Women Writers Fest where I met him later. As he would have preferred it, he was there for his book Jasoda. Organised by SheThePeople, the festival had women writers discussing various genres. As he stepped onto the podium, Nagarkar joked, "I have had a sex change operation and now here I am at the Women Writers Festival."
Apart from wanting to hear him talk about his work, I attended the fest to hear him read from the book. Which he did! He chose to read a goosebump-inducing page where he has described Jasoda at childbirth, all alone and very brave. She delivers her second child by herself in the open, after having tilled the barren land with her emaciated bullock. Her elder son is trying to suckle even as the new born slides out of her onto the ground. Before the bullock is finished licking the placenta off, Jasoda has smothered the newborn between her thighs. It was after all, a girl!
At 75, Nagarkar doesn't wear glasses. He doesn't need to. It will do us good to view the world with his spectacle-less, un-myopic eyes. Only then can we find in it humour and substance, something worth living with, something worth dying for!
Excerpts from the interview:
Kanishka Ramchandani: When did you realise that humour is no longer welcome in our country?
Kiran Nagarkar: It has been so especially since the new regime. I am talking about humour because I believe that humour is a very serious business. For instance, when humour is sharp, it makes you think. It makes you say, 'Oh my God, what is Swift saying!' when Jonathan Swift writes things like 'why don't we eat our children' in his essay 'The Modest Proposal.' Something must have been radically wrong for him to suggest such a thing. Look at the condition of children here! An 11-year-old girl dies and she catches the people's attention. What about the hundreds of children who die every day?
For me there's humour, the kind that Arun Kolatkar, the poet, used to indulge in. He was a serious sort of person but when he was in the mood, he would enact Laurel and Hardy as well as Charlie Chaplin. And as I have no self-control, I would be rolling on the floor with laughter. I love that kind of humour. When I was writing Ravan and Eddie, the only two children I have ever had, I gave them a lot of funny adventures. Ravan doesn't know whether he is really Ram or Ravan. Now that's something each one of us has to ask ourselves all the time. I certainly had to ask myself this question. I feel impossibly guilty of the fact that an 11-year-old died in my city. I know I am enlarging the picture but that's how it is.
Once in a while you hear our Prime Minister talk about unity. And yet he doesn't say a word about people who murder girls or about Dalits. Luckily or unluckily, one of my earliest books was a play — Bedtime Story. It wasn't published for 38 years. It was published in 2016 for the first time. It was not allowed to be performed... went through tremendous censorship problems. But I have the character of Eklavya in it who is a tribal. The premise came from the fact that we reject the tribals as we do the Dalits. What havoc have we played with the tribals? Why would they not rebel?
Can we think of what we would do if we were tribals or Dalits? I am not defending any kind of violence but would we allow more oppression to be done to us? You treat people so humiliatingly, you make them starve, you rape their women and then you complain that they are rebelling. If possible, take a look at Bedtime Stories, and you will understand what I am trying to say here. It hit me recently that while I had written it, I had not really understood that Eklavya is perhaps India's one and only self-made person. Growing up, I always had the impression that the ideal relationship between a guru and a shishya is the one between Eklavya and Dronacharya. When I look back I feel 'was I off my rockers?' How can we reiterate this relationship as an iconic one?
I know I have digressed a lot but I feel that in Bedtime Story, in spite of the grim things happening, there is still humour. I don't know what I would do without it.
Kanishka Ramchandani: What kind of humour can we find in Jasoda?
Kiran Nagarkar: Jasoda is a grim tale, it's very stark! It's also really black. But that is the fate that we have consigned to the extremely poor. I am talking about women. We have done this to poor women and it just shows what men are about. Women have not got back and said to the men — how dare you do this?
Jasoda is all about possibilities. First of all, it's a story. When I am writing a novel, I don't want to sound as if I'm preaching or make my novel a public forum. But the point of stories, as we have seen in our epics, is that they leave some residue behind, which begins to ferment over the years. That's why today we are thinking about Sita and Eklavya. At this late age of mine, I have realised that the Mahabharata was far more honest than most of us are.
To get back to your question, yes, there is humour in Jasoda. I hope to God there is humour! And there are quiet moments also. There's a young girl in Jasoda who speaks her mind, which often gives rise to humour. In this novel, I have attempted to bring the temperature down because what is happening is inflammable as it is. You know how husbands behave. Amongst the poorer sections of the society, husbands come and go. A man has children with his wife, then moves on to another woman, and then goes back to his wife to live off her. He is a drunkard, jobless and a wastrel. And that's perfectly acceptable. We see such instances everywhere, be it Mumbai or remote corners of Bihar.
Kanishka Ramchandani: When was Jasoda born in your head?
Kiran Nagarkar: Right after Cuckold was published in 1997. I must have written the first 70 pages then. Jasoda is very different from my other works. I have never really delved so deep within poverty, absolute poverty.
Kanishka Ramchandani: Do you regard Jasoda as a modern Indian heroine?
Kiran Nagarkar: I do, I do! When you read the novel, don't forget she's not virgin snow. She has inherited what the menfolk have given her. But I won't blame her for that. Don't forget that this woman of whom I think so highly, if her son would want to get married, I won't be surprised if she does to her daughter-in-law what mothers-in-law and sons usually tend to do.
Kanishka Ramchandani: Are there any parallels between Jasoda and Odysseus?
Kiran Nagarkar: Not really! I grant that there's one episode in Odysseus' tale that is relevant here. During one of his travels, Odysseus docks his ship outside a kingdom. The king invites him to his court as a royal guest. Odysseus leaves the court with bags full of gifts from the king. He returns to his ship, stows the bags away in his rooms and goes off to sleep. His faithful and reliable deputy gets annoyed by Odysseus' attitude of never sharing anything. He decides to rebel and opens the bags. The King had packed treacherous winds in the bags, which are let out once the bags are opened. The travellers are not able to return home for months. This is what intrigues me about mythology. The deputy was wrong about rebelling, but how could Odysseus not share anything with them? Apart from such multiple layers, I don't think there are any other parallels between Jasoda and Odysseus.
Kanishka Ramchandani: What was the most challenging aspect of having a woman as the central figure of the novel?
Kiran Nagarkar: Women have always played a major role in my novels. For instance, both Ravan's and Eddie's mothers are strong characters. Regarding Jasoda, I would like to repeat that when your husband is that debased and is not going to do a damn thing, then your options are exactly zero. And yet with zero options, you continue to improvise to be able to provide for your children. She may have bumped off her daughters but she has to raise her boys. It was similar with Ravan — his father was perpetually in bed, and Eddie's father dies because of a fall. I have been told often that these two women (their mothers) have been, in their own ways, heroic.
And then there's my heroine in Cuckold. If anybody has taught me a few lessons, it was the Little Saint, whom I didn't care for. She is an absolutely independent woman! The Maharaj Kumar wants to bump her off but he ends up falling in love with her. So, way before all the talk about feminism came up, there was this woman who simply claimed — I am my own woman. In that sense, there's a running theme when it comes to women in my novels.
Kanishka Ramchandani: Are there any similarities between Jasoda and the mythological Yashoda?
Kiran Nagarkar: No. Jasoda is also a surrogate mother to her neighbour's child but the surrogacy is of a different kind and the similarity, if any, ends there. Yashoda is a remarkable woman, to have taken up none other than Lord Krishna. If the reader finds her echo in Jasoda, they are welcome to it. I love such echoes. Yashoda's priceless quality is that the boy she is raising is not her son and not for a moment does she let him realise this.
Our mythology has so many impressions of motherhood. Why is Krishna always depicted as blue? Because the demon Putana has breast-fed him. Our epics call her Krishna's foster mother. Our mythology highlighted the idea that once you have fed a child, you become a mother figure, even if the milk you fed was poisoned.
Kanishka Ramchandani: Of all your novels, which was the most difficult to write?
Kiran Nagarkar: I am a terrible writer! And there's no excusing the fact that I take a century to write a novel. I have never met anybody as lazy as I am. But I feel God's Little Soldier was a difficult book. It came after Cuckold. For some reason, Cuckold is considered by many as one of the finest novels written in world literature; although I have never taken any credit for that. I have no problem in saying this because with Cuckold I was the clerk who did the writing. I had a difficult hero in Cuckold — he sends his soldiers to their deaths, he plans to kill his wife because she refuses to sleep with him. And yet many of my readers thought of him as a very fine human being. So I was extremely worked up about the fact that after Cuckold, I had to deal with a protagonist who is very bright and cares intensely for things but who is at heart a terrorist. However, it's not a novel about terrorism. It's a novel about extremism. No matter which faith Zia follows, he ends up taking extreme positions. At one point in the novel, he is a Trappist priest. When I was at the Trappist monastery, they used to bury people without a coffin, and after a few years, the remains are put with those of other people. Because they realised that death is just a passing phase. In Zia's case, when he realises what orphans go through, he wants to do something about it. Zero orphans are his ambition. But even there he takes a totally extremist stand.
I was asked to teach my novels at a university. A few female students stopped coming to my class because Zia was so anti-feminist. Zia is a character in the book, he's not me. They somehow started identifying him with me. It was exactly the same with Cuckold. They had no sympathy with Maharaj Kumar, who on his wedding night discovers that his wife is in love with someone else. Those ladies were completely anti-Maharaj Kumar.
Kanishka Ramchandani: How do you tackle writer's block?
Kiran Nagarkar: I don't tackle it, I contribute towards it. I take up every small excuse not to write. For instance, I kept saying to myself that I need to do some work but now you are here and I can happily not work. There's a Marathi writer I used to know who said, 'Words flow from my fingers.' Now whether I should have cut her fingers or her throat off, I don't know (laughs).
Kanishka Ramchandani: You wrote Ravan and Eddie in Marathi first...
Kiran Nagarkar: First 70 pages... then I stopped. With my novel Seven Sixes Are Forty Three and my play Bedtime Story, I took criticism very badly. Now Seven Sixes… has been declared as a classic but back then all I got were 'joote'. I was a fool to take it seriously. Take a look at it — it's very visual and doesn't have a linear structure. In 1967, it was a complete departure from the norm. And then I wrote Bedtime Story, started just before the Emergency began and finished it when it was over. In fairness to my two gurus and other well-wishers, Seven Sixes… was an absolute landmark and I had no reason to be discouraged from writing in Marathi. But I took it all seriously. I don't know, I just gave it up.
Kanishka Ramchandani: Do you want to go back to writing in Marathi?
Kiran Nagarkar: If I was not so damned old and lazy, I could have gone back.
Kanishka Ramchandani: What are you more comfortable writing — novel or play?
Kiran Nagarkar: Novel!
Kanishka Ramchandani: Wikipedia describes you as an important post-colonial novelist. Do you agree with this? How much of post-colonial thought do you consciously put into your work?
Kiran Nagarkar: These terms come and go. There was a whole bank of critics who used to do post-colonial studies. So long as you are not hindered by these terms! Very simply put, I am a storyteller.
I was born before Independence. I was quite young then but watching the flag hoisting and putting up a tricolour on my window are things that have stayed with me. While completing my masters, I met writers who had re-discovered their mother tongue and were studying it to be able to write in it. I love the languages I know — Marathi, English and Hindi. But this urge to go looking for languages was never present in me. When I used to write short stories initially, my writing had a colonial slant. I am grateful that I started writing in Marathi for the simple reason that there were no Westernised names. For instance, a female character in my story was called Chandani. In English, it would have become Chandni, but Chandani referred to sandalwood and Marathi helped me retain this beauty.
Kanishka Ramchandani: How do you go about researching for your novels?
Kiran Nagarkar: My rule is very simple. I am a storyteller and my research will always be hand-in-glove with imagination. Many novelists in our country suffer from what I call 'researchitis.' For them, research takes precedence. That's not how I work.
In case of Cuckold, I got everything right in a peculiar way. Without knowing what I was up to, my companion got me Baburnama. I didn't realise that Babur would play such a major role in my book. My friend Arun got me a Hindi edition of Meerabai. When I started writing, I decided I can't have these two names there. It's just too much baggage.
Kanishka Ramchandani: Who have been some of your early influences?
Kiran Nagarkar: Coleridge had said that you have to be a stone not to be influenced. I gratefully admit that I have been influenced by a great many people. Arun was one of the finest poets our country had. When I was with him, people thought 'Kiran is in good company.' Graham Greene is one of the novelists that I admire. Other authors like the French writer Louis-Ferdinand Céline and the Italian writer Curzio Malaparte have influenced me. But I will not be able to pinpoint the exact places where their influence is visible. Somewhere, you have to find your own pathway. And then there were two of my professors who had a great influence on me. They were beyond brilliant. Today, they are not around for me to pay them back. Actually, I don't want to pay them back. Why should I make them lose their humanity by doing that?
Kanishka Ramchandani: What about your family?
Kiran Nagarkar: I owe my English language schooling to my father, who put me in an English-medium school after class four. I'm genuinely grateful for that. And yes, poverty must have also influenced me.
Kanishka Ramchandani: Do you plan to write your biography?
Kiran Nagarkar: I hope I have the sense not to! But I don't know for sure.
Kanishka Ramchandani: What do you do when you are not writing?
Kiran Nagarkar: I used to have a passion for movies. At the International Film Festival, I used to watch 6-7 movies a day. But for the past 5-6 years, I haven't seen a damn thing on the screen, except news.
Kanishka Ramchandani: Are you on social media?
Kiran Nagarkar: Nahi, nahi, woh toh bilkul nahi hai. Mere se nahi hoga! (No, no, I am not at all savvy. I can't do that!). If possible, I would like my work to be there. I would like people on the social media to read my work. I can't be on social media myself but I can even touch their feet to make them read. I am shameless that way! Otherwise why write?
Kanishka Ramchandani: You have been part of a literature festival (Tata Literature Live) where you received the Lifetime Achievement Award. What relationship should an author forge with festivals?
Kiran Nagarkar: It's my perpetual belief that it's not about the authors, it's about their work. One doesn't need to talk about the authors except in the context of the book. Tata Lit Live has many panels, I don't have a problem with that as long as there is solid discussion happening. But I strongly feel that the discussion should be about an individual book. Another aspect is that there are some festivals where one "ought" to be seen. Now, how that has come about is beyond me. One of the great qualities of the Tata Lit Fest is that the film folks are not involved in it by and large. So many literary festivals have a component of films and by films I mean Bollywood. Films already have an audience; we need to cultivate readers of books through these festivals.
Kanishka Ramchandani: But I must say your book reading sessions are very entertaining. You had come to my college once and read excerpts from Ravan and Eddie and it was great fun.
Kiran Nagarkar: Oh! God bless you! I wish I was God and could tell you now — jo mangna hai maang lo! (Ask whatever you wish for!)
Kanishka Ramchandani: How do you see literary awards?
Kiran Nagarkar: So long as they give me every one of them, it's fine! Kisi aur ko mat dena (Don't give them to anyone else). Since you are interviewing me, I am sure you are very well-connected. Please put in a word for me at the Nobel committee.
Kanishka Ramchandani: What are you reading these days?
Kiran Nagarkar: I take a few years to finish a couple of pages of a book. I am reading Humayun just now. And before that I was reading The Untitled by Gayathri Prabhu.
Kanishka Ramchandani: How did life change for you after Ravan and Eddie?
Kiran Nagarkar: After Ravan and Eddie, I was getting noticed. But life changed in a very, very limited sense. Given that the Indian audience numbers in crores, I really don't think they understand humour. One would assume that humour sells. But if your humour is not value-based, then it's good for a laugh but in the long run, it is more damaging than influencing. For instance, the subject of chawls can offer a lot of humour but ultimately the chawl can't be looked at as something funny. You have to understand that the chawl was the brainchild of the British, the colonisers. Don't you want to give the people who stay there light, air and space and, most importantly, respect? You pack them in those tiny dark airless pigeonholes! Therefore, I feel humour has to be primarily value-based, because if it's not, then it is pointless.
I was very happy with Ravan and Eddie, really liked the cover. The falling boy remained a theme throughout the trilogy. For me, Extras is an important book as it's a true reflection of what this city is. Whether you are poor, middle-class or extremely rich, there is only one fact of life — Bollywood. There's only one place that's far, far worse than Mumbai, the South. There the devotion towards films is quite different. There film stars are gods — you don't bathe anybody else with milk. When MGR died, people committed suicide. They have a temple for Amitabh Bachchan in Kolkata. When you go back, you should tell the people at The Punch Magazine that they should build a temple for Kiran!
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Dr. Madiha Tahseen is a Research Fellow and a Community Educator and the Research Translation Manager at The Family and Youth Institute. She holds a Ph.D. in Applied Developmental Psychology from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC). She is a Research Coordinator at the Kennedy Krieger Institute and a Post-Doctoral Researcher at UMBC, conducting a mixed-method research study on the experiences of Muslim-American youth.
Dr. Tahseen's research interests include individual and group identity development, parenting, acculturation, and risk and protective factors of Muslim adolescents' healthy development. She has presented her research nationally in both academic and community settings. She has been a community organizer for more than a decade serving the American Muslim community in varying capacities.
She is also an Executive Board member of Stones To Bridges, a non-profit organization that provides an anonymous online platform for Muslim youth to address their emotional, social and behavioral needs.


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Wakatipu Dog Agility Club
Established in 2008 and began regular training sessions in January 2009. We have a small, but dedicated, membership, who meet for training sessions every week. We all have one thing in common - the desire to enjoy an activity with our dogs that offers the dogs exercise, education, fun, and socialisation
The Sport of Dog Agility
Involves dog and handler working as a team, with the handler guiding the dog around a course of varied obstacles in the quickest possible time. Obstacles typically include jumps, a narrow dog-walk (similar to a gymnastic beam), a 7-foot high A-frame, a tipping see-saw, a slalom of upright poles and tunnels. Agility provides both dog and handler with the opportunity to exercise physically and mentally.
Agility attracts a range of people for a variety of reasons. Some are looking simply to spend some quality time with their dogs, to build on their existing level of training and obedience and to strengthen the bond between pet and handler. Others are focused on competition and have a schedule of disciplined training revolving around the agility event calendar. Agility is one of the few sports where men and woman compete on equal terms, as do competitors of differing age or physical ability.


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- Have the signature of one parent or legal guardian on the Parent Proctoring Form if the knowledge exam was taken online.
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The plight of homeless teens in the Midlands is often an invisible problem to the general public. In one given night in January 2016, over 300 youth between the ages of 18 and 24 were experiencing homelessness--just in the Midlands. As children age out of foster care, they may have limited options for a place to sleep, education, a job, a future. There are resources to help, and The Home Team partnered with Palmetto Place Children's Shelter to expand awareness of the issue of homeless teens and the resources available to them.
Funding is often the greatest obstacle to obtaining a college degree. Even with lower tuition costs at Midlands Technical College (MTC) and the financial resources available through state and federal student aid programs, students still need money for tuition, books and living expenses. These expenses have the potential to leave a "gap" and may prohibit a student from attending class; the gap amount may be as low as a few hundred dollars, which can cover a car repair expense, a sudden homeless situation, a utility bill, or a minor unexpected illness.
Career Motivators created Project GROWL (Getting Ready for your Opportunity to Work, Laugh, and Learn) to help Midlands high school students secure and retain their first jobs. A job is the first rung on the ladder of being engaged in society. A young person's perception of the working world is formed during his or her first job. Twenty-four Richland County School District Two students received training in the application process and the opportunity to talk directly to hiring managers.
Team Palmetto Focus' capstone project is entitled "Behind the Headlines: Building a Community of Trust." Troubled by a barrage of racial tensions evident in the media, Team Palmetto Focus aims to facilitate meaningful discussions about race in South Carolina. Winthrop University is home to the John C. West Forum, which will host the capstone group's event. A West Forum panel event consisting of law enforcement, academic experts, and activists will be moderated and attended by Winthrop students as well as the public.
The need for affordable, dependable after school care is real. The Boys and Girls Club filled this need for Allendale and Barnwell, providing high quality and affordable extended care. Unfortunately, due to financial constraints, the clubs had to close in 2016.
Team One recognized the void that was left by the Boys and Girls Club in Allendale and Barnwell. The team collaborated with Boys and Girls Club of the Midlands. The project mission was to study the feasibility of the Midlands BGC expansion and sustainability to Allendale and Barnwell. The group brainstormed with Boys and Girls Club of the Midlands, studied required resources, met with schools and parents, began base fundraising, and developed possible action plans to address potential roadblocks of expansion. As of June 2017, the team was continuing efforts to determine the acceptability of a new model that is used in the Midlands as well as fundraising efforts to augment this model as necessary in these counties.


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One Year Next Month
I can't believe it! I would like to say I'm at my goal weight but I'm not. I have changed my life though and I'm not done. I do so many healthy things for myself without even thinking because they're a habit. I am not giving up, I'm still fighting. My encouragement to whoever reads this is just that, don't give up. Work hard, no excuses, do it! ( that was for me) lol
My name is Kat and I'm a single mom of two young adults. I have not always been overweight but after having children and going through some personal hurdles, let it get out of control. My philosophy about eating is this: Eat real food. Real eggs, butter, veggies. Eliminating processed junk as much as possible. I eat butter, not faux butter product because I believe my body can better process real food rather than chemicals.
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Simulation environment for turbo decoding
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The tendency to live in the past is an evolutionary imperative. Without some focus on what mistakes were made and who hurt us, we would have been less likely to survive as individuals over the long term.
But if focusing on the past is sucking the fun out of your current life, it might be time to let it go like an orphaned Disney character with a rare medical condition. Except as opposed to freezing your emotions (or your damn house) you have to figure out how to not give a fuck.
But how to not give a fuck without swallowing feelings and inadvertently messing yourself up more?
As you might imagine, this takes practice. Leaders like the Dalai Lama are pretty great about not giving a fuck about the wrong things as a rule, so check out The Art of Happiness. The gist? Some things just are. Part of the human experience is imperfection and suffering. We can be okay with that or we can dig ourselves into a pit.
And the past? Eh. It's a moot point even if it wasn't all rainbows and unicorn farts. It's about being okay in the present. About loving yourself now. About knowing you're fucking awesome. Humility is for suckers.
So how to get there? [BUMP]
1. Figure Out Why It's Helping You
If you are stuck in a past event, you might have an adaptive reason. For many, hanging onto the past makes it easier to accept our future or to make excuses about not doing what we need to do to move on. Ask yourself if there is any conceivable reason that holding onto the past benefits you (see more in CBT and the Cost Benefit Analysis) This will help you make a conscious decision about whether or not to let it go.
Let's do a few examples:
- Does recalling your husband's affair — and throwing it in his face — allow you to have the upper hand in all things in your relationship (which gives you less reason to leave him and inadvertently makes your life easier)?
- Does thinking about the time you got bitten by a dog give you a logical reason for feeling anxious and make it easier for you to avoid exposure therapy or getting a puppy?
- Does remembering how your first boyfriend hit you make it easier to avoid relationships by calling it "self protection" instead of facing treatment for a social anxiety disorder?
Not all cases are so simple, particularly in cases of trauma. If it's related to PTSD, you can identify that, "Thinking about the past lets me avoid all man because they are raping assholes," but it won't necessarily help you "get over it". Rumination about the event is part of a condition that can be treated (more here in The Evolution of PTSD). You need help dealing with the trauma and with the symptoms before you will be able to move on. Try journaling to combat PTSD, seek out a professional and check out other treatments here in PTSD and Treatment Alternatives.
Once you've figured out why you're doing it, decide if it's something that's worth keeping. If not…
2. Change What You Can (And Accept the Rest)
In addition to figuring out why our past is benefitting us, we also need to identify exactly what bothers us about it. That's so simple, Rush Limbaugh could do it, right?
Ask yourself if the past is relevant to your life now. Not in an emotional way, but in a concrete, this-still-affects-my-daily-life way. If then answer is, "Yes, this alters my current life, because after that fight my kids won't talk to me," figure out if there is anything you can do about it. Letter writing? Slow and steady reintegration into the family? If it's a current and ongoing problem, get creative with solutions.
If the answer is, "No, this is not affecting my life in a concrete way," then decide whether something there simply needs closure.
If you're mad at your estranged brother for beating you up when you were younger, talk to him about it in a safe space or write him a letter that tells him how hurt and angry you still are. Decide if you want to continue contact with him or if you want to set up boundaries and move on with your life without him.
But not everything is conducive to closure. Sometimes there is no closure, as in the case of death of a loved one, or losing a limb in a car crash. In these cases, it might be time to try radical acceptance, a practice of acknowledging the issue and and pain, but accepting it for what it is in an effort to move on (more here in DBT and Radical Acceptance).
3. Stop Blaming, Start Forgiving
I know, IT WAS HIS FAULT, THAT BASTARD! But does that even matter? If you want to move on, blaming is unlikely to help, especially if all you do is blame. Instead, use blame as a starting point. Acknowledge what happened, identify who is at fault, acknowledge any part you played and refocus on forgiveness.
This is easier said that done, because some things are simply unforgivable. Most of us would have a hard time saying, "Yeah, well, he raped me for six years but, you know, I forgive him."
Forgiveness doesn't mean you make excuses for past behaviors or feel good about them. It doesn't mean calling someone and saying, "I forgive you," (unless it feels right to do so).
Forgiveness benefits us, not them. Which makes it worth it.
Sometimes forgiveness is more a conscious decision to accept that it happened, accept your anger for what it is, and forgive yourself. Even in cases where things weren't our fault, we (as children especially) have a tendency to see things as within our control. We need to acknowledge the guilt and the pain, know it wasn't our fault and find a way to forgive ourselves for those feelings and anything we did in response to those feelings later in life. And if we really did do something in the past to hurt someone else, we can acknowledge that we did it, forgive ourselves for it and consider making amends.
4. Work on Self Esteem
Part of this whole not giving a fuck thing is being aware that you're fabulous enough in the present. I don't care about what people think about me because I'm clear about my particular level of awesome. Their thoughts don't diminish me. My past doesn't diminish me. Because the past made me what I am, I embrace it as opposed to ruminating about it. Everyone can get there but it takes work.
This self esteem thing seems a sticking point for many with a firm hold on past events. How can you believe you're good enough when these things keep happening to you?
"The universe must hate me, because I'm bad, bad bad!"
Then there are those who think if they just find a way to get over this one last thing from their past they will magically feel immensely better.
Newsflash, people: getting over your past isn't a matter of focusing on it or working through it. While you might need to look at it and process it, particularly in cases of trauma, that's not what ultimately drives you forward. It's your ability to see the past as a necessary part of your experience, accepting it for what it was and being confident enough in who you are to say, "This happened to me but it's okay because I'm here and I'm fucking amazing." For the record that should be everyone's new mantra.
Say it with me, people: "I'm fucking awesome. I accept me for me."
And you are awesome. You just might have to convince yourself. So practice self compassion. Use humor too because perfection is bullshit. If you discover that you walked around all day with a "kick me" sign on your back, go with laughter as opposed to outrage. Life can be one big practical fucking joke if you look at it right. Surround yourself with people who love you for who you are, those who bring you up, instead of tear you down. If you can accept yourself, it's easier to accept what made you that way. And if you still have negative thoughts, try some of the techniques in the next section.
5. Affirmations, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Acceptance
Letting go of the past involves changing your brain. If you find yourself constantly thinking about your divorce and can't seem to get past the fact that you might have done something to cause it, stop that shit right now.
Okay that was harsh. But this part is absolutely critical to moving on.
Identify the thoughts that pull you back to the past and your ex-husband. Then replace them with something more positive, such as, "I am worth loving and there is someone else out there for me," or "My first marriage was a learning experience and I will do better next time." If you replace the negative thoughts every single time they come up, they will decrease until you can't even remember your ex-husband's name. Well, maybe not that far, but still. (More here in CBT and Thought Replacement.)
Because a focus on the past leads most to think about all the things done to them or mistakes they've made, we also need to shift the words we use. If you were attacked, stop thinking,"Victim," and start thinking, "Survivor." Sometimes it's the little things that make a big difference in how we see ourselves and allow us to move on.
Mindfulness also works well for changing thoughts because it teaches us to observe the thoughts but see ourselves as disconnected from them. If you can see your thoughts and your emotions as normal but not necessarily connected to you, it is easier to acknowledge them without getting sucked back into old patterns or ruminating about old events. (More here in Mindfulness Training.)
6. Break Unhealthy Patterns and Focus on the Future
If you're trying to let go of the past, don't try to do it while doing the same shit you've always done. If you keep thinking about an old boyfriend, stop looking at his Facebook profile and for fuck's sake don't message him. If you're trying to let go of addictive behaviors, change your group of friends and get to a meeting. If you're trying to get over your history of being a misogynistic idiot to your girlfriends, take a women's studies class and for god's sake don't listen to Rush Limbaugh.
The ultimate goal here is to change your focus from living in the past to embracing the future. Look at the bigger picture, at things bigger than yourself. Focus on family, health, longevity. Set goals that move you in that direction. Ask yourself, "What do I want to be? Where do I want to be? How do I want to feel when I get there?" By answering these questions, you should have a better grasp on where you want to end up. This will help you to identify whether holding onto the past will help you get there. And if the answer is, "No," you at least have something to aim for while you switch your focus from "Then" to "Now".
It's a long process towards officially not giving a fuck anymore. But if you want to let go of the past, you will get there. In the meantime, a Post-it on your bathroom mirror with "I'm fucking amazing" never hurt anyone.
Related Posts:
- 5 Reasons We Suck At New Year's Resolutions (And What To Do About It)
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy: Using Humor to Combat Stress, Reduce Phobias and Decrease Intrusive Thoughts
- Lies Your Brain Tells You: Why We Have Scary Thoughts
- 8 Anxiety Symptoms You've Probably Experienced (and why they are surprisingly necessary for survival)
- How to Cope With Intrusive Thoughts: Introduction to Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and the Cost Benefit Analysis
- How to Stop Intrusive Thoughts: Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Thought Replacement and Visual Substitution
- How to Deal With Fears, Phobias and Intrusive Thoughts: Exposure Therapy


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Have you ever heard of 8-Ball Zucchini? Don't worry– I hadn't heard of it either. Until our friend brought one over from his garden. This is what they look like before you cook them:
According to this farm website, it's a hybrid variety of zucchini squash that's become much more popular over the last several years; the size and shape make it ideal for stuffing. We had no idea how to cook this thing, so my fiance went to Google. He came across this Soupbelly.com recipe, and gave it a whirl.
First he hollowed out the zucchini; then he mixed the guts, chopped tomato, chopped onion and cooked ground turkey (a replacement for bacon). He sauteed the mixture for a few minutes, removed it from the heat and added bread crumbs, cheese, salt and pepper. He spooned the stuffing into the zucchini, covered it with cheese and baked it for 40 minutes.
The result: fantastic. Such a perfect blend of flavors. I highly recommend this recipe to anyone!


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Producers worried stars may not show up
Golden Globe noms will be announced Thursday, but this year there's double the suspense: not only who will be nominated, but who will attend.
The Globes, to be telecast Jan. 13 on NBC, has asked for a waiver from the Writers Guild of America in order to allow guild scribes to pen the kudocast's script, but few expect it will be granted.
So will the stars — both presenters and nominees — be willing to cross the picket line?
The WGA continued to be mum on the Globes question Tuesday but it has granted a waiver to the Screen Actors Guild's 14th annual awards — not a completely surprising development, given SAG's strong support for the WGA throughout the six-week strike.
It's a safe bet that all upcoming televised kudocasts — which include the Critics Choice Awards, the SAG Awards, Independent Spirit Awards and the big kahuna, the Oscars — will proceed as scheduled, since the networks and the voting orgs have too much invested to cancel them.
SAG, in response to questions, said its interim agreement with the WGA covers a professional union writer for its Jan. 27 show in Los Angeles.
"WGA's support for the Screen Actors Guild and the SAG Awards — an event that pays tribute to the extraordinary work of actors and highlights the importance of the labor movement in the entertainment industry — is welcome recognition of the strong bond of solidarity between our two creative guilds," national exec director Doug Allen said. "We're grateful to the WGA for working with us to accomplish this understanding and strongly support their efforts to get a fair contract."
The waiver also means that the SAG Awards, telecast on TBS and TNT, won't be picketed. The WGA previously granted waivers to the Kennedy Center Honors telecast and for Elizabeth Taylor's AIDS benefit at Paramount.
But for the other shows, attendance of nominees in all categories is a question mark; of particular concern to the networks is the presence of star contenders or presenters. Actors have shown solidarity on picket lines, but optimists are hoping that, even without a waiver, kudos shows will warrant a cease-fire, so stars can attend without guilt or censure.
One major producer said, "You've got a guy like George Clooney, who has been outspoken and who has given money to a strike fund. If he gets nominated for 'Michael Clayton,' it's very difficult to imagine him crossing a picket line — to say nothing of all those television actors who've been photographed walking on picket lines in solidarity with the writers. They can't think it's OK to cross because they're up for an award."
In theory, people in the film and TV business will want to honor their colleagues, but there are questions of priorities: At least one showrunner on a TV series is refusing to even do publicity for his show, since he feels that will bolster the companies that he's striking.
One agent of top stars hopes that, waivers or not, there won't be protests outside awards shows. "What good will the writers accomplish by picketing shows that celebrate their fellow artists? It would be spectacularly unfair to force fellow artists to stay away. Do studios make money from the show? Of course, but so do all the artists. This is a celebration of artists, and it should have nothing to do with politics between the guild and the studios."
A Daily Variety poll showed overwhelming support for the writers. But it's hard to predict the mood by Jan. 13 (the Globes telecast), much less the Feb. 24 Oscarcast.
Of course, most people hope that the strike will be resolved by then. But the rancorous end to the talks on Friday and the ensuing verbal volleys have fueled a fear that the strike could be a long one.
Said one prominent celebrity publicist: "We are all waiting to hear what the guild will do before we figure out what clients should do, but we are hopeful they'll grant the waiver."
The WGA has not weighed in yet on waivers for any shows, but few expect them to promote the work of the studios and networks they are striking. And pickets will provide a chance for their grievances to be aired in red-carpet coverage.
A special case, of course, is the WGA Awards themselves. The Feb. 9 ceremony will not be televised, so, by attending, scribes would not in any way be promoting a network.
The Hollywood Foreign Press Assn. and NBC usually only hire two or three writers for the Globes, which has no host.
But Oscar will have to deal with the added question of Jon Stewart, who has declined to resume his latenight talkshow since the strike began. It's a little early to make decisions yet: Most kudos shows start the writing process after nominations are announced.
The hosts and voiceover talent at awards shows perform as members of the American Federation of Television & Radio Artists.
In 1988, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences was denied a waiver just weeks after the WGA strike started. The Acad enlisted comic performers to write their own material; while there were onstage jokes about the walkout, viewers at home barely noticed any difference in the lineup of nominees and presenters.
In contrast, almost no stars showed up for the 1980 Emmy telecast, which came during the SAG-AFTRA strike. The only winner in attendance was Powers Boothe, who won for his work in the telefilm "Guyana Tragedy: The Story of Jim Jones."


text: Long layered hairstyles look fantastic even if they are simple. If you're lucky enough to have long hair but are unsure about how to style it, you're in the right place. Not everyone can manage to grow their hair long. Some simply can't surpass a "genetic length", others struggle with brittleness, and sometimes, long hair can just be a burden — it is literally heavy. If you're in the last group, layered cuts are the best solution. You can grow your hair to envious lengths without the heaviness that all that hair carries with it. Here are 57 of the most beautiful, eye-catching long, layered hairstyles for your inspiration.


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Ganglion removal
A Ganglion is a benign ball of fluid that grows from a tendon or joint. Some ganglions go away by themselves. Treatment options include ganglion removal or needle aspiration.
The symptoms of ganglions include:
- Noticeable swelling or lump
- The lump is able to change its size, including going away completely only to return
- The lump is usually soft and immobile
- In some cases, the lump is painful and aching
- The ache and pain is made worse by moving any nearby joints
- The affected tendon may cause a sensation of muscular weakness


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Sausage Puffs – CRAZY good!!! SO simple to make and they taste amazing!!! Only 5 ingredients – butter, cheddar cheese, sausage, worcestershire and flour. These things fly off the plate at parties. You will want to double the recipe! A great alternative to our usual sausage balls. SO GOOD!!! #sausage #tailgating #appetizer #partyfood #quickappetizer
These Sausage Puffs are great for a quick breakfast and party appetizer. Heck, I ate them for lunch the day I tested the recipe. SO good!! They are very similar to sausage balls. The big difference is that these Sausage Puffs use cooked sausage in the mixture. This recipe only uses about half a pound of sausage. I always just cook the whole roll of sausage and freeze the leftover sausage so I can make these yummy Sausage Puffs anytime I want.
There are only 5 ingredients in these Sausage Puffs. The hardest part about making the puffs is cooking the sausage! Once the sausage is cooked, the puffs come together in no time. I like to make small half-inch balls. They are the perfect bite-size, in my opinion. If you want bigger puffs, make them bigger. It is up to you! Just check the cooking time. Bigger puffs might take a minute or two longer to bake.
These Sausage Puffs never last long in our house. I love to make these for holiday parties and Christmas morning! The recipe makes about 3 dozen puffs. I usually double the recipe for a tailgate or party. These taste great hot out of the oven or at room temperature, so they are perfect for parties!
Sausage Puffs
- 1/2 lb sausage
- 1/2 cup butter, softened
- 1-1/2 cups shredded Cheddar cheese
- 1/4 tsp Worcestershire sauce
- 1 cup all-purpose flour
- Preheat oven to 350ºF. Line baking sheet with parchment paper. Set aside.
- In a skillet, cook sausage until crumbled and no longer pink. Drain fat.
- In a bowl, combine butter, cheese, cooked sausage and Worcestershire sauce. Mix well. Blend in flour.
- Form dough into 1/2-inch balls. Place on baking sheet.
- Bake for 15 to 18 minutes.


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Hispanic Outlook in Higher Education Magazine- All Issues
For 25 years, The Hispanic Outlook in Higher Education Magazine, has been a top information news source and the sole Hispanic educational magazine for the higher education community, and those involved in running our institutions of higher learning. Published biweekly, except in June, July and August, when we are on a summer schedule as outlined in our rate card, HO covers events, news, and ongoing trends that affect our multicultural institutions of the 21st century. HO reaches a large minority audience. As of September 2008, HO started putting a selection of articles online. As of December 2011, HO started the digital format of the magazine with free Apps available on iTunes and Google Play. As of June 2013 Hispanic Outlook kept its presence as a full color digital magazine. Hispanic Outlook Magazine maintains high quality control standards and a strict privacy policy on our databases. HO is a member of NAHP, HERC, NAHJ, NCCHC, ACE and AAHHE.


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GED Class Registration and Locations
To start your free GED® classes, select the location where you'd like to attend classes to find out dates and times for registration. WGTC Adult Education offers flexible schedules for morning, afternoon and evening classes.
GED® classes are free and open to anyone 16 years old and over.
If you are 18 or over, all you will need is a state-issued photo ID to get started. If you are 16 or 17, you will need a withdrawal form from your last high school, your ID, and a parent or guardian must attend the registration session with you.
GED Class Locations and Registration Information
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- Carroll County – Carroll Campus
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I am Yuli Shan I'm from School of International Development and the Tyndall Centre for climate change research and my research is about climate change economics and China's emission accounts.
Why is your research important?
China is now the leading the world's leading energy consumer and CO2 emitter. If we want to reduce its emissions we must know exactly how much it emits every year, so my research is to calculate the emissions for the past 10 to 20 years.
What could your research mean in the real world?
It is closely related to the government policy-making. My research my data will provide the basic information for them to decide how to reduce China's emission.
What fascinates you about this research area?
I also think the fascinating part is it is closely related to the policy-making, I can really do something to help to improve China's environmental conditions as well as the global environment.
What has been your favourite moment so far?
After I came to UEA, I have published a few papers and my work is awarded by the Chinese government as one of the outstanding PhD students abroad. I have just got the certificate from London last week and I think this may be one of my favourite things here.


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The Green Pact Priestess
Today I have a Wood Elf Lady inspired by the Green Pact – blood, bones & skinned leathers.
-Delicate Daedra Horns
-Subtle Red Eyeshadow
-Long Crested Dreads
-Painted Spider Strokes
-Delicate Daedra Horns
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The Blood Orc Bride
I'm not sure what a Blood Orc is, but I really wanted to create another Orc and this is what I came up with. I love the Subtle Red Eyeshadow (which also dyes the lips) however it doesn't look very nice on alot of skin tones, I feel like this pale Orc skin is one of the most suitable for this face marking. I also love the red eyes on Orcs, it just looks so pretty. I'll be making more Orcs for sure. This site is just a hobby of mine and it's quite time consuming yet there is still so much more to do. My side bar is looking much more complete but still a long way to go. I promise more Orcs & Bosmer!
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Senior Site Reliability Engineer
Cloud Engineering | US - Austin Office
About the company:
In today's highly connected digital world, understanding, managing and securing the identity of individuals and things is essential to safety and success of both businesses and their customers. Billions of people connect from anywhere, use a wide variety of devices and expect a seamless yet secure experience.
The ForgeRock mission is to provide the most simple and comprehensive Identity and Access Management Platform to help our customers deepen their relationships with their consumers and improve the productivity and connectivity of their employees and partners. Our identity solution enables great digital experiences and is embedded with a rich set of security, privacy and consent features. We deliver our platform through both cloud services and on-premises software.
Our customers are some of the biggest companies, organizations, and even countries in the world. On any given day, it's likely that the ForgeRock Identity Platform helped keep your data safe, gave you access to stuff, and supported trusted relationships between you, companies and the devices you were using.
ForgeRock is headquartered in San Francisco, but we are a global company with offices in the following cities: Vancouver, WA; Austin, TX; Munich, Germany; London & Bristol, UK; Grenoble & Paris, FR; Oslo, NO; Singapore and Sydney, Australia. Please read more about us at forgerock.com or follow ForgeRock on Twitter at http://www.twitter.com/forgerock.
The Role:
Are you an inquisitive, passionate, problem solver? Do you work daily to make a difference in the work-life of your own team, and those teams that count on you? Site Reliability Engineering builds tools, processes, and develops code that leads directly to customer satisfaction. If you are interested in joining a customer-focused company that is excited by technology and you have the SRE skills, we look forward to hearing from you.
- Work as part of a highly agile team, taking part in the full spectrum of team activities including planning, design, implementation, validation, and retrospection. You will become familiar with the ForgeRock Identity Platform, working together with engineering teams and leadership in order to achieve our strategic goals.
- You will be focusing on operating and automating of our as-a-service offerings by developing software, incorporating services and leveraging tools. The availability and security of our service will be of paramount importance in your role. Expect to be keeping an ever-watchful eye on latency, performance and capacity.
- Establish relationships, guide practices, overcome complex challenges, and learn each day how best to shape emerging technologies to produce highly reliable, scalable, and supportable solutions.
- Jump in and improve the whole lifecycle of services - from inception and design, through deployment, operation and refinement.
- Deliver successful services before they go live through activities such as system design consulting, developing software platforms and frameworks, security hardening, capacity and launch reviews.
- Ensure customer satisfaction by measuring and monitoring availability, latency and overall system health, understanding trends and capabilities of the service.
- Improve systems sustainably using automation, and evolve systems by leading changes that increase availability and velocity.
- Participate in incident response, on-call rotations, and blameless retrospectives with the goal of discovering the best approach to prevent future occurrences of the same issue.
- Ability to say No. With clear, understandable conclusions backed by data that show the business the rationale and how to move forward appropriately.
Required Skills & Qualifications:
- Extensive experience running mission-critical services in production
- Familiarity with Docker and Kubernetes concepts and associated tools such as Helm
- Solid experience administering or operating on cloud-based platforms such as Amazon AWS EC2, Microsoft Azure and Google GCP
- Exposure to incident response processes and scenarios
- Experience with orchestration tools such as Chef, Puppet, Vagrant, Ansible, Terraform
- Engineering experience using one or more programming languages such as Go, Java, Python, JavaScript, etc.
- Experience working with Agile development methodologies
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills
- Linux / UNIX system administration.
- Use of modern CI/CD tools for delivery and automation
- Experience with the latest Cloud compute, load balancing and scaling, storage, networking, security and virtualization technologies
- Identity and Access Management experience a major plus
Life at ForgeRock:
We believe in and facilitate a flexible, collaborative work environment. We've grown enormously, but remain true to the innovative, can-do startup values that got us here. Most important of all, we keep hiring talented, smart, fun, and genuinely nice people because that's who we want to succeed with every day. Below are just a few of the great things we have to offer at ForgeRock:
- A great team of smart, fun and genuinely nice individuals.
- Awesome company culture focused around providing a flexible and collaborative work environment
- Regular office bonding events, from lunches and happy hours to group offsites and hack-days
- Well-stocked fridges, whether you're hungry or thirsty
- Competitive benefits and perks
- We're Mac-friendly!
- Generous employee referral bonus program
- Amazing offices across the globe – San Francisco HQ; Vancouver, WA; Austin, TX; Munich, Germany; London & Bristol, UK; Grenoble & Paris, FR; Oslo, NO; Singapore, Australia & counting!
ForgeRock is the collective sum of all our individual experiences, backgrounds and influences and we pride ourselves in growing and learning together. We are committed to building an inclusive and diverse environment where everyone's individuality is respected and everyone has an Identity. In recruiting for new colleagues, we welcome the unique contributions you can bring and encourage you to be your best self.
ForgeRock is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex including sexual orientation and gender identity, national origin, disability, protected Veteran Status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.


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"We're not a mom-and-pop operation," Stefan Stanczykowski says of the multilingual ethnic radio station he runs, CFMB 1280 AM. "A lot of people think we're in a basement with a turntable."
If you look at it literally, CFMB is a family affair. It was launched 50 years ago this month by Stanczykowski's father, Casimir. Its studios actually are in a basement, of a building on York St. in Westmount. And I spotted a turntable in there when I visited this week.
But his larger point remains: CFMB is not a small operation. It has 52 people working for it, between full-timers, part-timers and independent producers. It has professional studios putting out more than 100 hours of local programming every week. And its 50,000-watt signal reaches as far as Quebec City and Ottawa.
The station might never have got off the ground half a century ago had it not been for the persistence of Casimir Stanczykowski, a Polish immigrant and Second World War survivor who, the legend says, began working to launch the station in 1957 on a bet.
Casimir Stanczykowski needed three applications and almost five years before the Board of Broadcast Governors — the predecessor to the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission — would grant him a licence for a multilingual radio station. CFMB finally went on the air on Dec. 21, 1962.
He ran the station until he died in a car accident in 1981, leaving the operation to his wife, Annick, and partner Andrew Mielewczyk. Stefan Stanczykowski started working there in 1999, while he studied marketing and then law in university.
He joined the station's board of directors in 2004 (the company is still majority owned by his father's estate), and became its lawyer in 2008 and its director in 2011. He also ran unsuccessfully for the Coalition Avenir Québec in the last provincial election, finishing second in Mount Royal riding.
Throughout its life, the station has operated in more than a dozen languages. Italian, which is the fourth-most common mother tongue in Montreal after French, English and Arabic, takes up by far the largest chunk, from 6 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. weekdays, plus Saturday and Sunday mornings.
CFMB also carries programming for the Algerian, Brazilian, Cambodian, Chinese, Greek, Haitian, Jewish, Latin-American, Lithuanian, Pakistani, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian and Ukrainian communities.
"We're like a miniature United Nations," Michael Tellides, who produces the station's Greek programming, says.
Stanczykowski doesn't know exactly how big his station's audience is. BBM Canada, which compiles radio and television ratings, measures them only in terms of the English and French audience. Ethnic broadcasters who have subscribed to BBM's ratings quickly stopped paying for them because they couldn't accurately measure multilingual audiences.
In any case, CFMB's audience is better measured in quality than quantity. "We have a very loyal listener base," Stanczykowski says.
"It's like they know us," says Silvana Di Flavio, who co-hosts the mid-morning Italian program weekdays with Nick De Vincenzo. "Many of them remember things like our birthdays or the day I got married. They know our jingle and can sing it for us."
Much of CFMB's programming reflects the closely knit nature of its communities. In addition to local news and information, you'll hear announcements about wedding anniversaries or upcoming marriages. Once or twice a week, the station will set up a remote broadcast to meet its listeners in person.
As a result, it has a loyal advertising base, too. Some advertisers have been with the station almost since the beginning.
The support helps CFMB be a strong force for charity. It raises tens of thousands of dollars every year for charitable causes close to the communities it serves, including $10,000 for the Montreal Children's and Ste-Justine hospitals during its 50th-anniversary celebration on Nov. 9. And whenever there's a disaster overseas, like an earthquake in Italy or Greece, the station organizes relief.
"We're trying to help as much as we can," Tellides says. His team has helped round up food, clothes and money to send to Greece as the country struggles through a fiscal crisis.
On the air, Tellides keeps 90 per cent of his shows' content local, understanding that with satellite TV and the Internet, his listeners can easily get news directly from Greek sources. "I'm not going to try to copy and paste what's happening in Greece," he says. Instead, he's a source for news and discussion for the Greek community in Montreal, like a "Greek CJAD."
Tellides is one of CFMB's veterans. "Stefan was not even born when I started," he notes of his young boss. Since joining the station in 1969, Tellides has seen his community change. "In the 1960s, small entrepreneurs opened (businesses) like mushrooms all over the place," he says. But now, "the small guy is fading."
Instead, "our kids are educated, professionals. There are 2,000 Greek doctors here."
Both Tellides and Di Flavio see the station's role as preserving culture, which becomes more important as new generations abandon their parents' foreign languages and become anglophones and francophones.
"I believe when you keep the language, you keep the culture," Tellides says. He was born in Egypt to Greek parents, and he figures whoever succeeds him in his role "is probably someone who was born here, whose mother tongue is not Greek."
Di Flavio, who was born here and joined the station out of university in 1993, is part of that next generation. Her parents speak to each other in Italian and always had the Italian radio shows on in the kitchen when she was growing up, but she communicates with her husband mainly in English.
"The older generation will always be tuned in no matter what we're doing," Di Flavio says. But CFMB has to work hard to attract a younger audience in order to survive another 50 years.
Di Flavio points to Superfantastico, an annual American Idol-like talent competition for young Italian Canadians that she and De Vincenzo have run for the past 18 years. "This is how we keep the younger generation interested," she says.
Keeping language alive is the best way to preserve culture, and preserving different cultures is the ultimate goal of CFMB.
"If we have a small part in conveying our culture to future generations, that's very fulfilling," Di Flavio says.
CFMB broadcasts at 1280 AM and online at cfmb.ca.


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This past week I have been drawn to portraits of ballerinas for some reason, perhaps my inspiration began from seeing photos of my dear friend in full ballerina costume for a recent recital. Where ever the inspiration has come from I am grateful for it because it has helped me discover that I can draw and paint the full figure which I was not very confident about before. I am discovering that if I believe I can draw something and I practice I eventually can.
I also appreciate the techniques I have learned from attending artist demos at Opus Framing and Art Supplies in Langley http://www.opusartsupplies.com – it has really helped me improve my art.
This painting was done in my art journal for practice but I really like how it turned out so I thought I would share it.


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US Deepwater Horizon exploision & oil spill Lawsuits - Health of residents
Health of residents
On 26 July 2010, a class action lawsuit was filed against BP and chemical dispersant maker Nalco in a US federal court in Alabama. Plaintiffs are residents and property owners along the Gulf Coast; the proposed class for the action includes persons who live, travel or work in the area and who have suffered or will suffer from the effects of the use of chemicals in the remediation efforts. The plaintiffs allege that BP dumped over one million gallons of toxic dispersant chemical in the water and land along Alabama's coast in order to force the oil to the bottom of the Gulf, thereby making it a permanent part of the seabed and food chain of the Gulf of Mexico. BP's alleged purpose was to lessen its financial burden and the public reaction to the oil spill. One of the chemicals used, Corexit, is manufactured by Nalco, and is allegedly four times more toxic than oil. Plaintiffs state that it is illegal in the United Kingdom because of its harmful effects on food chains and people who inhale it or eat food that contains it.
The complaint alleges that the defendants' negligence resulted in exposure to hazardous chemicals, causing injuries. The plaintiffs make further claims against the companies for harms arising out of the continued presence of chemicals in and on their bodies and properties. They seek compensation for bodily injury, emotional distress, property damage and punitive damages. They also seek the creation of a medical monitoring programme to address the alleged heightened risk of serious health complications due to exposure to the chemicals. They are seeking the establishment of a trust fund to pay for the medical costs, written notification to all members of the class that they have been exposed to toxic chemicals and information and training to physicians to help them detect related illnesses.
A spokesperson for BP declined to comment on the lawsuit, but emphasised that the use of dispersants was approved by the U.S. National Incident Command and Environmental Protection Agency. Nalco has not commented directly on the lawsuit, but has issued a statement rejecting claims that COREXIT has adverse health effects. The case has been included in the federal Multidistrict Litigation consolidated proceedings.
Proceedings on health of residents following consolidation
On 15 December 2010, the claims of coastal residents for injuries allegedly suffered due to chemical exposure were consolidated in a master complaint filed in US federal court in New Orleans. On 26 May 2011, BP, Anadarko, MOEX, Nalco and other defendant companies moved to dismiss personal injury claims of all residents, alleging immunity under the Clean Water Act (CWA). Nalco, which made the dispersant used on the spilled oil, argued that plaintiffs' claim cannot proceed because the US government approved the use of dispersants. In response, the Plaintiffs Steering Committee argued that the defendants cannot claim immunity from lawsuits under the CWA because the CWA only applies to damages arising from actions of the US government.
On 3 Mar 2012, BP announced an out of court settlement with the Plaintiffs' Steering Committee. BP is to pay $7.8 billion to settle private plaintiffs' claims for economic loss, property damage & injuries.
- "BP Reaches Estimated $7.8 Billion Deal With Spill Victims", Jef Feeley, Bloomberg, 5 Mar 2012
- "Oil Spill Hearing to Focus on Sickness and Other Claims BP Wants to Dismiss", Sabrina Canfield, Courthouse News Services, 26 May 2011
- "BP sued over dispersant used on spill", Rowena Mason, Telegraph [UK], 7 Aug 2010
- "Gulf Coast Residents File Personal Injury Suit Over Oil Dispersant", Tresa Baldas, National Law Journal [USA], 29 Jul 2010
Legal documents
- US District Court for Eastern District of Louisiana: [PDF] Omnibus Memorandum in Opposition to Motions to Dismiss Bundle B3 Master Complaint, 30 Mar 2011
- US District Court for Southern District of Alabama: [PDF] Complaint: Wright v. BP, Nalco, 26 Jul 2010