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I know I am a spirited woman because I coach women to break cycles of abuse. Intergenerational patterns are learned; they can be unlearned and replaced with behaviors that breed healthy relationships. I know I am a Spirited woman because not everyone likes what I have to say--it threatens old stories that can change into novels of hope, joy, and conviction. Change is scary.
I know I am a Spirited woman because I've been a catalyst for change in my own family. No longer are the women in my family in abusive relationships. Do they get involved in unhealthy relationships? Yes--they just don't stay there. They recognize abuse and no that they will have support in their families to support their quick recovery.
Reading through all these posts, I feel I am reading notes from my 'selves' on other timelines; so many beautiful, enlightened people here! As Diana Call points out, we are all, always One in Spirit - it's simply a question of the degree to which we realize this, which is strictly a matter of commitment to practice as far as I can tell. I've always had high empathy and sensitivity, and couldn't accept myself for a long time because I was so different from everyone around me growing up. I'm grateful that everything changed when I moved to California and discovered a spiritual community that truly supported me in realizing my Self as Spirit: Limitless, Eternal, Free, and Present, with the power to be always 'At Cause' rather than 'At Effect' in life. At essence it's about choice, about learning to see and experience ourselves, others and the Universe as Energy, with unlimited powers of transformation at our fingertips. I sometimes like to describe myself as 'A tone of silence', because it's more accurate than all the body/mind labels that we're used to. It took years of intense work for me to finally kick the habit of being a body, but boy has it been worth it! Because when we free ourselves from attachment to the body's roles, we become aware of our spiritual contracts with others and can act on them with clarity. I don't have to be a 'Spirited Woman', I can just be ME! I don't have to be my son's mother, I can just be a loving presence and wear the valences he needs without attachment. I'm free also to be my mother's teacher instead of her daughter, which of course is what I've always been even since childhood – and everyone's so much happier, because these are the REAL agreements!
One of my Spirit's dominant intentions for this life seems to be to cultivate an internal experience of freedom, even amidst what looks like a lot of limitation (tho I thank God for my excellent health). Perhaps this is why I have felt guided to contemplate death since a young age, and find a rich source for growth in the teaching that, 'the highest vibration one can hold is neutrality' - that it's when we're able to be neutral to everything that we are closest to the mind of God and best able to serve ourselves and others. With this in mind, one of my goals is to raise my vibration to the point that I experience my current lifetime with the same level of clarity and detachment that I have been taught to hold for past-life work, so that maintaining divine awareness becomes effortless. By now I've developed the ability to consistently choose joy and gratitude, and to see the one, deeper truth that underlies the illusions of worldly life. I've also had a golden opportunity to ground these realizations in 3D reality as the mother of a four year old boy. :)
I recently returned from CA to live with my parents in Maine - the ultimate challenge in neutrality. My ego resisted this change until I was completely out of options, but now I see it for what it is: almost literally a 're-birth' resulting from my Spirit's determination to be free from the past - a chance to 'do-over' my early life (I'm now in my early thirties). I'm grateful for the coaching method that my spiritual teacher has created, which I was certified to practice last year (it's a phone-based method). You can find my bio (and some great content from my teacher) at www.bespiritled.com. Blessings on your journeys dear Divine Beings - Natalie
I am a spirited woman because I never give up. I approach all of life with passion, an open heart and a sense of humour. The last two years have been excruciatingly stressful. I ended a marriage of 21 years, tried to have a baby on my own - I made it to nearly 16 weeks, lost a young friend to cancer, found my beloved heartlove Golden Retriever Flynn, only five, dead in my driveway of an unexplained heart event.
I'm sure there are other things, but I just must be in denial about them!!!
I still believe in love and all things beautiful. I wake up every day assuming I'll encounter a gentle form of joy. I'm coming through it all, guys, my Flynn sent me a
new little puppy Jack Tru, joining my family of three Goldens. I can smile again and
mean it! Gotta run, the puppy is licking my bare toes and peeing on the hardwood floor. Life is GOOD!!!
I believe we are all capable of being Spirited. I believe now that it's not so much what I do or what I have done...but, who I am. It is about my attitude and perspective on you and this life! It is about what I value. How much courage I have to stand on my principles - even if I stand alone. I believe I am Spirited because I sense a connectedness to all people, animals, even rocks on a mountainside or driftwood and shells on a windy beach. On a fit day or just a joyous moment, I can receive the warm sun, or a blast of dancing snowflakes flying willdly towards my face at night - like a thousand stars sent just for me! But, I must get my ego out of the way to be truly Spirited. It is our charge, I believe. I can hold the hand of a young woman in a poverty-stricken country and sit and share a piece of candy with her. I can look into her eyes and many others less fortunate than I, or more fortunate, and know that they have strengths to share and I am so much better for having met or known them. I cannot comprehend how to "rescue" them...but, I can fearlessly love them.
I recently spent about 9 months with my dearest friend as she struggled through a cancer ravaging her body. Never once did she forget to love...in fact, the closer she came to passing on, the more she rmembered that Love was truly what mattered most and saves us all. Her friends and family joined readily in that Love and amazing moments dominated and sustained her Spirit and taught me a secret I shall never forget. I don't know why things happen as they do, but I know that Love will sustain us and my friend lives on in our hearts because of that Love she shared constantly with us. Even in grief, I am so much better!
I am a spirited woman and would love love to be included in your blogger team someday! I blog daily, love to write and create and get my hands messy with paint and other mediums daily!
I want my life to matter.
i want to inspire.
I want to encourage other women. that they really can be happy.
Genuinely happy.
xo bonnierose in Fargo
Hi,im a spirited woman because I wake up every morning and say.Think ill give it another go today:)
How do I know I am Spirited Woman?
Because every time I think I have had enough of this planet's shenanigans... a child laughs, a bird come to my window and tilts its head and I remember one more thing to put on my Bucket List
Am I Spirited?
You betcha.
I was a spirited child, wandering the woods, making forts on islands in a nearby river, swinging from grape vines (too many Tarzan movies, there), and watching clouds overhead for hours (way before I saw Charlie Brown and Linus do it). I vowed I'd always be able to climb trees and I still can (but I think the trees are getting shorter).
My suggestion if you're not feeling spirited today? Do 2 things in the next four hours that you loved to do as a kid: eat a cookie, crayon, skip, look for bugs, take a wet walk with galoshes on and YES stomp those puddles, wear your hair in pigtails, call someone up you like and speak pig-latin together, practice making faces in the mirror, take a nap on the floor with your dog.
The following elements come to mind: (1) maintaining cheerfulness in the face of adversity; (2) remaining creative when the odds do not favor imagination; (3) keeping standards of respect even though you may receive none in return; and (4) forging ahead with enthusiasm even when you are bone-tired and others are indifferent.
Hi Ladies!
I feel I'm a spirited woman because I live authentically. Certainly there've been times when I've fallen away or worked hard to push away from myself, I've always known that there was much more to life than the misery of pretending. (Surviving an eating disorder was a tremendous example of this....)
There is so much joy to be had in living fully, largely and authentically! Wishing you all the best toward all of these.
I am a spirited woman. Though perhaps a late bloomer, I am truly flourishing in my early 60's. I believe that women can be fit and fabulous at every age. At 57 I got off the couch, got fit and became a certified personal trainer to support and encourage other mid-life couch bon-bons. I then went on to create FLOURISH a vibrant community for women in Portland, OR. Through Flourish, I have re-invented the famous salons of Paris and women love them. We provide a host of inspiring and informative experiences in unique, fun and relaxed settings. As a Spirited Woman, I've become a role model for flourishing at mid-life and beyond. If you are in the Portland area, check us out at www.flourish-pdx.com, we'd love to meet you!
Thanks for all the inspiration and creative energy you all share.
I must be a Spirited Woman. At 64 I still want to learn and do so much more. Life is to short to waste. Two years after high school I enrolled in the Pittsburgh Art Institute, dancing at night as an Exotic Dancer to pay my tuition. Moving to california I learned to fly a single engine plane and received my pilots license, working as a waitress and hostess to pay my way. I later opened a country store "Henrietta Hen's" and was in retail for 23 years and loving it. After having to close my store I starting drawing again, one of my favorite things to do. I now have produced note cards and stationary which are located in several stores. I love drawing the old fashion way of life, when women wore red lipstick and wore long straight dresses or skirts. When the fashion model walked down the lane like a lady instead of stomping her feet. When makeup was soft and lips were hot red. Clothes were simple warm colors and lots of big buttons. I loved round toed shoes that made your feet look dainty and a heel that didn't look like a spike. So my art is just that and more.
I just recently began to license my designs, and to improve my design ideas I have enrolled in West Valley College taking Adobe Indesign, Illustrator, and Photo Shop. This will let me take my designs further and I just love it. I hope one day to further my ideas and fulfill my life long dream of Illustrating Children's books for my sister Fran who is a writer , designing clothes, and lots of other product from house hold decorations to paper product.
That's it ' Dream's will always keep you a Spirited Woman". Life is to short to waste. Make all your dreams come true, never give up.
Donna Collins
Why? Because I love life, because I don't give up easily, because I am willing to "have a go", to help others, to create, to learn, to improve...in other words, to make the best of opportunities that life presents.
I am supposed to be retired; retired from what? As a teacher, artist, wife, mother, holiday resort and art gallery owner my "work" has always been my passion and central to my life, so I haven't really retired from anything - just moved to another role or occupation.
I am still an artist who loves teaching, a mother and now grandmother, sadly a widow. My occupation, apart from socialising with friends or caring for grandchildren is building websites for myself.
The first is about the art of tropical Australia, where I live - http://www.art-in-tropical-australia.com and the second is http://go-troppo-arts-festival.com - about an arts festival and arts workshops in Port Douglas North Queensland, which I am coordinating.
Part of being a spirited woman, I think, is to inspire others and have them come on the wonderful journeys which beckon.
Join me?
High-spirited = spirited, forceful, feisty, courageous, heroic , bold, daring ,fearless, plucky, lively exuberant, vivacious, full of joie de vivre, animated, and so much more. Yes, I claim some of all of these parts which make me a spirited sum of my parts.
In a nutshell, I rebelled at age 10 by being baptized for a second time - but not in my father's church! I studied art and bought an oil painting set with some of my summer earnings that same year. At 16 years of age, I took preliminary vows to become a nun...gave in to my more earthly pressures and got a divorce from my parents instead. became engaged and married someone my father hated and proceeded to have children, grandchildren and now great-grandchildren. I became a county mental health therapist and married my mate for life in 1970.
Since then I have also been a clinic administrator, consultant, court mediator, Reiki Master, decorator, writer/illustrator and life coach.
At age 72, this August 2009, I have written and illustrated my new children's picture book, The Puppy Who Wanted to Fly. Please see me and my books and illustrations on my new website -
http://www.joanarlinhibbs.com. My Spirited picture is there - you judge for yourself --- am I spirited? I know I was, am and always will be spirited.
Best regards,
Joan Arlin Hibbs
As spirited women it is in our nature to help others. Just wanted to tell everyone about my dear friend's new book, Relationship Red Flags. It's "soul" purpose to is to help young girls (ages 10 to 100) to how to avoid being entangled in dangerous, debilitating relationships. She survived it and wants to help every woman, everywhere BEFORE the are snared. The author Anna Moss is a Spirited Woman !
I'm a spirited woman because I was a spirited girl. Before that I was a spirited baby. And before that, and still, I am a spirited soul.
I love life. It is a beautiful process. Sure I've had plenty of hard times, but all they did in the end was make me softer, wiser, funnier and more grateful for the true, beautiful things in life.
I can't stop myself from wanting to create: art, writing, and good times. I'm spirited alright...and it's a good thing because Divine Providence gave me a spirited life.
You are important
You make a difference
You are a light
and to someone.....
You are the reason.....they can go on....
they can do this...
they can..........
I don't like to talk about myself all the time.
I wrote this so you could be close to me
even if you can't.
And I did it for your friend...or your friend's friend...Your Aunt or your cousin......for the "ME"'s who gets the call from a pathologist...
In a perfect world I would never have to help anyone through this... there would be no Cancer.
But I can and I will be the one to say..."twenty ....thiry...fourty......years ago.....This is how I got through and you can too.
So That's why I write here and that's why I am glad you come by and read...[I know there are more than 8 of you that pass by (as the "Followers")] and look at the pictures...even the ones that were hard to face.......My cousin, who is on the opposite side of the country in Seattle has been here. My other cousin reads here too from Indiana......I love seeing their comments or even just seeing their nickname. One of them challenged me to see if I could figure out it was her...I did in about a nanosecond...
Living the life of our dreams takes a lot of passion and courage! Ten years ago, my husband and I embarked on a six-month ocean odyssey as crew on a 46-foot sailboat traveling from Fiji to Singapore. This journey helped me to step out of the box of how I thought I "should" live life and opened my heart and mind to all of the incredible possibilities for how I could live life. Today, I am a spirited women who is truly following my heart and living my dreams. Now, my passion is to help empower others to do the same. My book, Sail Into Your Dreams: 8 Steps to Living a More Purposeful Life was written for just this purpose!
Hello from beautiful Montana:
I just returned from addressing a group of day care providers and early education teachers. What angels they are and how pleased I am that our children are in good hands. I told them and you that we can have a job (paycheck) a career (some security) or a calling. A calling is divinely inspired and we would do it even if we got no pay.
My calling is to share a message of mutual respect, kindness and understanding for all. It is wonderful to be in a position to share that message with a global audience. The message is shared through books, articles, teleclasses and in person training.
I am simply the messenger but am excited to see how many spirited women resonate with the message.
Thank you for your important work,
Judy H. Wright aka Auntie Artichoke, family relationship coach and author
Following the instructions of my 8th grade English teacher, I referred to Mr. Webster for definition and clarification of "spirited", and found one word: "lively". I am definitely a Spirited Woman, because I choose Life--Life in its exuberant, ebullient, surprising, joyful glory. I choose Life with its disappointment, grief, pain and aggravation. Since being diagnosed with Parkinson's Disease seven years ago at age 52, my outlook on Life has both plummeted to the barren, rocky bottom and soared to the rich, lush peak. I know that my Life is what I make it, and only to the extent that I can inspire and enrich someone else's life is my own inspired and enriched. If I can draw out peace and happiness from someone else's heart--i.e., inspire them--and make their life spirited for even a moment, then my life is spirited--i.e., inspired, or blessed, if you will--a hundredfold. Being a Spirited Woman is a choice I make every day, and every day I say, "Yes!" and "Yes!" and "Yes!"
My name is Diana and, one day the HAPPY FACE of the SPIRITUAL WOMAN arrived in my mail box. I like looking at her because she expresses soooo much enthusiasm, joy, creativity and YES-to-life.
My comments concerning this subject.....
Everybody is a spirited woman/man....We are all, without exception, expressions of the ONE, GOD, BUDDHA or whatever you like to call it. We are all made of the same 'stuff' and this 'stuff' is made of us. Therefore, there are no un-spiritual beings walking on this earth at anytime. What we do see is people walking around with different levels of consciousness (awareness) of WHO and WHAT they are in reality....Most people, if at all, think we are human beings who also have a Soul while in truth we are Spirit expressing itself through a human body.
Let me put some food for thought out here for every one who would like to contemplate on this. What is spirituality? Who is spiritual? The person who considers her- or himself 'so spiritual', because they go to church, conduct themselves in a 'normal, christian, islamic, righteous, etc.' way but don't have the faintest clue of their issues walking the talk? The slightest incident let's them blow up in anger, swine-flu them and their own issues keep them in the throngs of fear, in relationships they either try to dominate or be subservient; they are full of judgment of themselves and the world around them; they blame others for their own mistakes; feel guilty or make others feel guilty; and so on and so on.....
Having said all this you can see that I am not so very fond of the use of the word spirituality. In my opinion its a judgement, it places a separation between us and the other. I am spiritual, you are not. I am better than you. This, in my opinion is not a very helpful approach to changing the world we are living in right now. If we want to become ONE AND WHOLE we must learn to unconditionally LOVE all human beings on this planet, also the ones who have not found their own light within themselves as yet.
I hope I made sense....because English is not my first language;
Blessings of Light and Love to everybody open to receive.
Diana Call
Having just returned from a long walk in the woods with a friend and my dog, Sara. I feel exuberant and I know, I am a Spirited Woman! I love life and all the new experience it offers on a daily basis. I take nothing for granted.
When I decided to retire from my job to promote my book,Tree Spirited Woman, I told my husband "There are a lot of Women who are going to be put into my life and I can't wait to meet them." Spirited Women, we have been put here for each other, for our families and to be open to all that comes our way. Isn't it exciting?!
I feel that I am truly a woman of spirit, because as far back as I can remember, I saw the heart of love through many women in my lifetime. - And the spirit of God manifest here on earth is through this love. My first role model of a true spirited woman was my mother. - In nurturing seventeen children and her healthy submissiveness to my father, is sacred wisdom, to me. She was very familiar with her spirit that brought her though many storms in life, that it gave her tremendous strength in staying fixed on peace, understanding, and compassion, by bringing true justice to everyone. I would not have made it through my hardships, if it weren't for the many spirited women in my life.
I have also met many men who lived these same truths, too. And they brought the spirit of love and nurturing through a myriad of other ways that sometimes is overlooked by some. - And through prayer, I am not blinded to the good faith and work of these men, that is unveiled to the powerful women of spirit.
But on my journey, the majorities have been women that seemed to hold my awareness to this nurturing spirit. Especially mothers! I truly believe a mother's job is the hardest job in the world. - Through her servitude of the loving spirited heart that is necessary to sustain life. - For men, women, and the children!
My prayer is to unveil some of these powerful unseen forces of the spirited women. And possibly support one another in making our world a much better place to live in. – A softer place, especially for our children. - They are the future world of love and spirit that will continue to live on from the spirit of love, which the spirited women bring.
Catherine Nagle
I don't even know how I found this website...but I am thinking there must be a reasone.......HMMMM www.LoryNelson.blogspot.com . Thats my spirit in a nutshell.....but it's too long to tell the story here...You guys pump me up
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Human Extinction ahead and the End of the World as we Know it
The eminent Australian scientist Frank Fenner, who passed away in late 2010, made some surprisingly unsurprising predictions right before his death. Writing on the web-based science, research and technology news service Phys.org, Lin Edwards put forward that Professor Fenner "predicts humans will probably be extinct within 100 years, because of overpopulation, environmental destruction and climate change".[1] As such, this apparently shocking statement should not come as a surprise to anybody . . . given that estimates indicate that the availability of drinking water will become problematic by the year 2040 and that the supply of foodstuffs will arguably falter in about ten years from then, or by 2050 . . . underpinning such dire estimations are the prospects of the sustained growth of the human population in the coming century. The world's leading resource for events, research, and insight into the global agricultural investment sector Global AgInvesting (or GAI) released a report in 2012 (entitled simply, World Population Growth in the 21st Century) that put the population increase into perspective: "[t]he world's human population does not grow linearly, but rather geometrically, (i.e., 1, 2, 4, 8, 16…, etc.) which explains the five-fold increase in population from 1.2 billion to 6.1 billion during the 20th Century. Rapid population growth is predicted to continue for the first half of the 21st century, with rates of growth declining during the latter half of the century. World population is projected to stabilize at just over 10.1 billion by 2100".[2] More than 10 billion people without easy or even direct access to either drinking water or food, to be precise. That is, as things stand today.
Edwards continues her piece by stating that Professor Fenner has "said [that] homo sapiens will not be able to survive the population explosion and 'unbridled consumption', and will become extinct, perhaps within a century, along with many other species. United Nations official figures from last year [i.e. 2011] estimate the human population is 6.8 billion, and is predicted to pass seven billion next year. Fenner told The Australian he tries not to express his pessimism because people are trying to do something, but keep putting it off. He said he believes the situation is irreversible, and it is too late because the effects we have had on Earth since industrialization (a period now known to scientists unofficially as the Anthropocene) rivals any effects of ice ages or comet impacts".[3] The report World Population Growth in the 21st Century puts it like this: The "rapid growth [of the human population] is expected [to occur] in the next 40 years, and will likely place a huge burden on global resources and the agriculture sector in particular".[4] Professor Fenner himself told the press that "We'll undergo the same fate as the people on Easter Island, there will be a lot more wars over food",[5] aka resource wars-in-the-extreme. Lin Edwards then goes on to explain Fenner's analogy: the "Easter Island is famous for its massive stone statues. Polynesian people settled there, in what was then a pristine tropical island, around the middle of the first millennium AD. The population grew slowly at first and then exploded. As the population grew the forests were wiped out and all the tree animals became extinct, both with devastating consequences. After about 1600 the civilization began to collapse, and had virtually disappeared by the mid-19th century. Evolutionary biologist Jared Diamond said the parallels between what happened on Easter Island and what is occurring today on the planet as a whole are 'chillingly obvious'".[6]
At the end of 2010, I wrote a piece appropriately headlined "Easter Island as a metaphor" and in it I tried to come to terms with what had happened to the island and how these events appear to predict the fate of the planet as a whole: "[w]hen Europeans arrived on the island it was utterly treeless. Pollen analysis has revealed however that the island was 'almost totally' forested until about the year 1200. But now the island is barren. A volcanic crater on the island's eastern plain, Rano Raraku, provided the source of the sideromelane (basaltic) tuff from which 95% of the statues were carved. Some 250 mo'ai [or Easter Island statues] are found in an almost unbroken line around the perimeter of the island, while 600 others in various stages of completion are scattered around the island. It is hard to imagine that this now barren island was once covered with trees and forests, but as wood and other tree materials were needed to transport the mo'ai, trees had to be cut down and forests subsequently disappeared. In view of this rapacious resource depletion executed in the space of two and a half centuries, the locals devised narratives that managed to minimize the role of humans destroying the island's abundant forests. The environmentally concerned physicist Adam Frank, on the other hand, relates in a matter-of-fact voice that the 'need for trees, rope, and food to maintain a population of laborers eventually led to the destruction of the very forests the islanders depended on. After the forests were gone erosion took the soil too. What followed was Easter Island collapsing into starvation, warfare and cannibalism. The chance of escape disappeared too as seafaring canoes require large trees for their hulls'".[7] Edwards, for her part, adds that "many scientists are also pessimistic, [but] others are more optimistic".[8] She cites Professor Stephen Boyden as an example of the latter and predictably, he has come out to state that "[w]hile there's a glimmer of hope, it's worth working to solve the problem. We have the scientific knowledge to do it but we don't have the political will".[9] The other side of the coin is represented by somebody like the English writer and erstwhile green activist Paul Kingsnorth, who spent about two decades striving to save the planet as an activist in the environmental movement. But once he turned 40, he had an epiphany of sorts and threw out the baby with the bathwater, some would argue . . . he wrote an essay that ended with the following words: "It's all fine. I withdraw, you see. I withdraw from the campaigning and the marching . . . I am leaving. I am going to go out walking".[10] Together with Dougald Hine, he penned UNCIVILISATION: The Dark Mountain Manifesto,[11]
"These are precarious and unprecedented times . . . Little that we have taken for granted is likely to come through this century intact.
We don't believe that anyone — not politicians, not economists, not environmentalists, not writers — is really facing up to the scale of this … Somehow, technology or political agreements or ethical shopping or mass protest are meant to save our civilization from self-destruction.
Well, we don't buy it. This project starts with our sense that civilization as we have known it is coming to an end; brought down by a rapidly changing climate, a cancerous economic system and the ongoing mass destruction of the non-human world. But it is driven by our belief that this age of collapse — which is already beginning — could also offer a new start, if we are careful in our choices.
The end of the world as we know it is not the end of the world full stop".[12]
[1] Lin Edwards, "Humans will be extinct in 100 years says eminent scientist" Phys.org (23 July 2010). http://phys.org/news/2010-06-humans-extinct-years-eminent-scientist.html#jCp.
[2] World Population Growth in the 21st Century (23 March 2012), p. 3. http://www.globalaginvesting.com/downloads/files/World-Population-Growth-in-the-21st-Century-277F.pdf.
[3] Lin Edwards, "Humans will be extinct in 100 years says eminent scientist".
[4] World Population Growth in the 21st Century, p. 3.
[5] Lin Edwards, "Humans will be extinct in 100 years says eminent scientist".
[6] Lin Edwards, "Humans will be extinct in 100 years says eminent scientist".
[7] C. Erimtan, "Easter Island as a metaphor: resource depletion, climate change and the word of God" Today's Zaman (21 December 2010). http://www.todayszaman.com/op-ed_easter-island-as-a-metaphor-resource-depletion-climate-change-and-the-word-of-god-by-can-eri-mtan-_229397.html.
[8] Lin Edwards, "Humans will be extinct in 100 years says eminent scientist".
[9] Lin Edwards, "Humans will be extinct in 100 years says eminent scientist".
[10] Wen Stephenson ,"'I withdraw': A talk with climate defeatist Paul Kingsnorth" Grist 50 (11 Apr 2012). http://grist.org/climate-energy/i-withdraw-a-talk-with-climate-defeatist-paul-kingsnorth/.
[11] The Dark Mountain Project. http://dark-mountain.net/about/manifesto/.
[12] Wen Stephenson ,"'I withdraw': A talk with climate defeatist Paul Kingsnorth".


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I think an INI option to exit after connection (or last if multiple) finished would allow the devs to get out of creating a new SC version for vista ... this would mean that a simple application (like SCPrompt) could use UVNC server to connect instead of SC.
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Twitter CEO Dick Costolo is betting big (and talking big) on rich media, mobile ads, and user growth — hoping this will make Twitter the world's first "global town square."
Costolo and Twitter's CFO, Mike Gupta, spoke with steadfast conviction during Twitters' first ever public earnings call since the company IPO'd less than a year ago. Its stock price ended trading at $65.97 Wednesday.
The numbers — growth in advertising and users — were decent: $243 million total revenue for the last quarter of 2013, timeline advertising up 121 percent to $220 million over the previous year, and international revenue doubling from 2012 to 2013 to $23 million. Total revenue for the year clocked in at $665 million. Costolo and Gupta predicted total revenue for the 10-year-old company to top $1.2 billion by the end of 2014.
"We are doubling down in 2014 in order to accelerate our user base," Costolo said.
Indeed, 75 percent of revenue derived from mobile devices. The company ended 2013 with cash reserves of $2.2 billion.
Costolo said that Nathan Hubbard, the former CEO of Ticketmaster who was hired last year, was going to help focus Twitter's efforts on the "now, in the moment commerce."
In other words, apparently, increasing the transparency of immediacy, whatever that means.
Growth in new users was tepid, climbing to just 241 million versus 232 million at the end of 2013.
Gupta had a message for the company's naysayers, who expected revenue figures to be slightly higher: "We will reach many more people in 2014," than the previous year, he said.
He said simplicity of use will help close the gap.
The upcoming year will see Twitter launching a slew of new products and aggressively targeting the capabilities of users and advertisers for mobile applications, accelerating research and development efforts with the stated goal of "reaching every person on the planet," Costolo said.
For the first time, more users signed up for the service on mobile devices than on laptops and home computers, opening the door to potential revenue streams with advertisers. Think Facebook.
Twitter IPO'd last November, raising $1.8 billion.
The toughest questions for Costolo during the earnings call were from Macquarie Securities senior analyst Ben Schachter. He told VentureBeat before the call that he had questions about Twitter's ability to ultimately compete with Facebook, about what the company's long-term strategy might be for sustaining growth, and about how it planned to make money through mobile devices.
"They're still working to clarify their strategy," Schachter said today from New York.
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If you've ever heard of Campbell's recipe for Taco Skillet, you would understand how tasty this is. We completely veganized it and it tastes pretty darn close to the original! A simple and warm meal that you can add anything to! Serve with a side salad or vegetables. This recipe is the core of the meal, but I think it would be really tasty if you added bell peppers to the top. You can add your vegetables wherever! This happens to be oil free, too, so it has pretty low fat! 🙂 Enjoy!
- 1 cup rolled oats
- 1 cup lentils, uncooked
- vegetable broth, enough to cover the lentils (about 1 cup or so)
- 1 cup tomato soup
- 1 cup chunky salsa
- 1 cup water
- 8 corn tortillas, cut into 1" pieces
- 1 Tablespoon all-purpose flour
- 1 Tablespoon dried onion flakes
- 1 teaspoon garlic salt
- 1 teaspoon cumin
- 1 teaspoon paprika
- 1/2 teaspoon chili powder
- 1/2 teaspoon onion salt
- 1/8 teaspoon cayenne pepper
- 1/4 teaspoon sugar
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Place lentils in a saucepan with vegetable broth and bring to a boil. Simmer for 15 minutes or until the water has evaporated and the lentils are soft. Place in a food processor with oats. Process to combine.
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There are many styles of hearing aids. The most common styles are listed below:
ITE: In-The-Ear units are often the most comfortable, the least expensive and the easiest to operate. They are also the largest of the custom made styles.
ITC: In-The-Canal units are usually more expensive than ITEs. They require good dexterity to control the volume wheel and they are smaller than ITEs.
MC: Mini-Canals are the size between ITC and CIC. A mini canal is a good choice when you desire the smallest possible hearing aid with a tiny volume wheel.
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Closing your annuity account entirely or taking a partial withdrawal of more than 10 percent in any given year might result in surrender charges from the insurance company. Most annuities allow the company to keep up to 10 percent of the money if you withdraw it within the first several years. Surrender fees typically decrease by 1 percent annually until eventually disappearing, so anything more than your penalty-free amount will be reduced by the corresponding penalty charge.
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The portion of the money you receive from your annuity that has yet to be taxed will be added to your gross earnings for the year. If your annuity is in an IRA, the entire account is taxable. However, if your annuity was funded with after-tax savings, only the growth is taxable and the rest is simply a return of your contributions. Partial withdrawals are considered to come from the growth first, so the entire amount you receive is taxable, unless the distribution is more than the total earnings.
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Super Robot Chogokin Mazinger Zero
From Shin Mazinger ZERO versus Ankoku Daishogun (and also Super Robot Wars V) comes Shin Mazinger ZERO. This SRC is the first time that the ZERO version of Shin Mazinger has been available in toy form.
Set includes Zero Scrander, two sets of iron cutter parts, replacement hands, and an adapter for use with Tamashii Stage stands.
165mm tall, due Feb 2017 for 11,880 yen
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Woot! Pre-Ordered!
Now will have every iteration of Mazinger under the sun.
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It seems that the College does a good job of thanking those who work hard at making it so special.
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass., May 19, 2003 — Williams College honored its employees at its annual appreciation day on Tuesday, May 6. The celebration included a commemorative luncheon at the Williams Inn for employees completing their 5th, 10th, 15th, or 20th year of service. In the evening, employees celebrating their 25th year of service and those retiring from the college were honored with dinner at the Mill on the Floss.
The Kane family owes special thanks to Mary Winston (retiring from OCC) and Fatma Kassamali (celebrating 25 years at OCC). I would wager that:
1) It has been a challenging couple of years at OCC.
2) "Fatma Kassamali" is the coolest name in all of Williamstown. Not that "Mary Winston" isn't a perfectly nice name too . . .
It is also worth noting that there are no faculty in this celebration. That is, the college is only celebrating non-faculty "employees" here. I have mixed feeings about that. On the one hand, faculty are "employees", just as their W-2's confirm. Why wouldn't a faculty member who has been there for 10 years deserve an invitation to the luncheon? On the other hand, faculty are special in their role at the college, so perhaps it is fit and proper that there be some other celebration just for them.
Alas, our own Brooks Foehl is not listed among the honorees.
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Lieberman not allowing testimony on PASS ID Act
Homeland Security Committee chair Senator Joe Lieberman has apparently determined that dissenting comments are not to be allowed during the committee meeting on S. 1261, the PASS ID Act bill which repeals one part of the controversial REAL ID Act of 2005. As of this writing only two opinions will be heard in committee – Stuart Baker (DHS), who is against the PASS ID Act because he's for the REAL ID Act, and someone from the Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT) who is for the PASS ID Act and who has only slight concerns about privacy rights. What happened to healthy debate, openness in government, and listening to the concerns of the American public and citizenexperts with first hand experience in biometric technology and where it's headed? (Mark Lerner, among others). Apparently the committee process is contrived and only has the appearance of represention in action. Calls are needed to Senator Joe Lieberman asap. Ask him to please allow more than the two pro-big brother intrusiveness folks to speak – the people need a voice in this committee meeting and they need it now. Contact information for Sen. Joe Lieberman: (202) 224-4041 The other committee members are listed at www.stoprealidcoalition.com. Call all of the 15 other Senators on the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee. More details and information on the content of the bill, and the specific language that skirts around actually calling the facial image capture 'biometric', but really is, see www.stoprealidcoalition.com. Calls needed today.


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Rating: 4 stars out of 5
This is the second in the Love Letters series and picks up with Landon, the twin of River from book one. In the first book we get a glimpse of Landon and his incredible unrequited pining for Chance, a basketball player he had a weeklong affair with and who then tossed Landon away. Landon has spent his time moping, mourning, watching and attending Chance's basketball games in an effort to win him back. This has left his best friend and YouTube partner, Ben, out in the cold and unable to help him. The book begins at a party in Las Vegas where we find out these two are no longer best friends. Landon had messed up, big time, and Ben walked away. Landon knows he is the cause. "Ben had been right to distance himself from Landon. Who wanted a best friend so infatuated with someone that they forgot who mattered?" He wants his best friend back, though, the man who is nearly as close as his twin. The problem is, Ben loves Landon and it's putting him hell being near someone who doesn't seem to care at all.
While Ben tries to avoid Landon at the party, Landon catches up with him and after much drinking they end up in that Las Vegas destination many have come to regret, the wedding chapel. Where yes, they get married. A little thing that Ben doesn't remember but Landon does. It was Landon's idea and his whole reasoning about it was so honestly so stupid I wanted to smack him. "At the time it made brilliant sense; Ben could be actual family. Marriage had been his drunken attempt to keep Ben from leaving his life again." Except Ben doesn't know they are married and Landon wants him to stay as his friend, his brother; not as a husband. Ben's cousin, Chris, was a witness to the wedding but he gets some mind altering news while there and so he doesn't mention it.
Ben says he is "Not in the right place to be friends yet" but Landon really doesn't respect his wish for space. Despite the fact that he wants his best friend back, he interferes with someone Ben is interested in and never tells Ben they got married. Ben finds out from his mom, who accidentally saw a picture on Chris' phone. It's a mess. Ben's mom loves Landon nearly as much as her son and they don't want to disappoint her with a lie, so they agree to spend the week with her pretending to be real husbands and then fight and break up. Except Landon doesn't follow the script.
They have a science YouTube channel with two million followers, Ben works at Silver Pines bookstore and they both have money to spare, but not having Ben in his life is killing Landon. There were times I was so aggravated with Landon because of his actions. He is so oblivious to what is right there. And Ben is sometimes heartbreaking. When Landon asks him what he really wants in a marriage, "I want to be his first choice. Not a backup when the guy he really wants doesn't want him back."
There is back and forth with Landon trying to get his head out of his butt and figure things out while Ben tries to keep his heart safe.
Secondary characters include Ash and River from book one and we also get Chris, now a new father and trying to cope with everything with the help of Ben's mom and the guys. I loved Chris a lot. There is Gabe, the barista Ben thought he might want to date, who is laid back and cool and hopefully gets a story as well.
Cover art follows the lines of Admiring Ash and is a single man set against a simple colored background. I'm not sure if it is supposed to be Ben or Landon.
Sales Links: Amazon
Book Details:
Kindle Edition, 177 pages
Published July 29th 2018 by Anyta Sunday
Edition LanguageEnglish
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The Journey Home
Deal Date: 08/18/2017
This is the story of the Miller family, Jack, Amy, and their sons Kenny and Danny. Separated by half a continent after an EMP attack sends the United States back to the Stone Age, the Millers are desperate to reunite as they struggle to survive. Jack Miller isn't too worried about the apocalypse. He has been prepping for a few years and has a basement stocked with the food and supplies his family needs to ride out a disaster. Today though, he is out of town on a business trip. An EMP strike delivered by a rogue nation leaves him stranded over a thousand miles away from his home. This is the last place he expected to be during a disaster. He sets out on an epic journey home armed only with his know how and survival skills. What he encounters leaves him questioning how prepared any lone man can be. Amy Miller is all set to enjoy a well deserved vacation day. She's a hard working mother of two with a full time career and rarely has a quiet moment to herself. The EMP throws a wrench in the works and leaves her unprepared for the chaos to follow. With the city falling down around her ears, she is pushed to the limit. Her suburban home is well stocked with supplies, but she clings to the hope that order will be restored. Faced with the darker side of humanity, will she overcome her inhibitions and do whatever it takes to protect her family?


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Innovative Mechanical Solutions, Inc. was formed in January 2013 as a break away company of Innovative Mechanical Systems, Inc. The owners at Systems retired but realized the importance of providing continuity to their existing customers – hence Solutions was born. Owners, Sheri and Tom Paiz, envision this company as being a full scale design build company in the future. Company growth remains steadily on track. Innovative Mechanical Solutions, Inc. does about 90% in-house sheet metal fabrication and our installation team is expanding. As a young company we are always looking to add the right team to build with for a successful venture in the HVAC field. It is our belief that we work together with our customers to develop a trusted relationship and provide the best possible service in this industry.
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