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I either have to sacrifice art class for a French class. Sacrifice a French minor to take an art class. Sacrifice drawing for painting. OR I can have a French minor AND an art class but I'd have to sacrifice having Fridays off and I'd have to take my French class in English.
I'm not really sure what I want to do... I haven't had a Friday class since I was a Freshman. But it would only be one class and it would only be an hour. But that's an hour and 20 minutes' commute for an hour long class. Or, I guess, it could be an hour and 20 minutes' commute for an hour long class and two hours of work.
Geez. I'm glad that I have a little bit of time to think about it.


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I've gone with larger fonts (must be getting older) than I had befoe - which combined with the bright colours of KDE makes it a bit cutesy - especially with the MacOS type window decorations.
Kmail still uses Akonadi - but unlike on Fedora,
I fired up Thunderbird and added the ExportImportTools extension. This still does not support Maildirs - but it was simple to export my mailboxes from kmail and import tham in Thunderbird. The latter integrates rather well with KDE, but it is a bit ugly (unfortunately there are very few themes currently available for v11).
BTW for anyone else wanting to export a mailbox file from kmail...although there are some scripts out there on the internet to do this, if you've got a running kmail installation, all you need to do is select the emails, right click and 'save as...' to export a mailbox format file.
So I'll continue looking for an email client which supports multiple identities / SMTP and POP servers, is lighweight and not ugly. I suspect I'm going to have to wait for a nice Thunderbird theme. I suppose I could write one.....no, I've got enough half-baked projects for the time being.

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As the 2008 Major League Baseball season comes to a somewhat messy close, I can now lay claim to my sweetest victory in Fantasy Baseball. My Portland Prowlers are the 2008 Dump City Baseball League Champions. I've won fantasy leagues before, but this one is the most satisfying. It's a salary-cap keeper league in its third year (this was my second year in the league.) And there's actually some prize money to go along with my nifty trophy icon.
Matt Holliday earned his Franchise tag with an MVP-caliber year, but I'm more inclined to call Ian Kinsler my Team MVP. Had he not suffered a season-ending injury, his numbers could have been equal to Holliday's, but what he did produce came at a fraction of the cost, and isn't that what value is all about in a salary cap league? Kinsler, along with Jose Reyes and Joe Mauer, make up a great, inexpensive core to build upon for future success.
I made some great pickups during the year, including Kemp, Ludwick and Alexei Ramirez. Joey Votto was a key callup from my minor-league roster, and makes a good candidate to replace Teixeira, whom I lose to free agency. With five contracts available to sign new keepers, I like my chances to build a repeat contender on the cheap and augment with key free agent pitching. This will be key as I lose Zambrano and Lowe and have to figure out how to build a contending rotation around Burnett, Lester and Maine.
Indeed, pitching was the main obstacle to my championship. While I dominated in Wins and Ks, I spent most of the season in the basement in the other 3 categories. Most of my budget went to rotating relievers, getting saves from 13 different guys, with only Rivera giving me more than 13 saves. My ERA and WHIP were in the basement all year, but when my offense got going and put me in the lead, I found I was able to gain an extra 3 points in my ratios by benching some starters with bad matchups in the final few weeks.
The one drawback to this league is that it has dwindled to eight teams, leaving far too much talent available and therefore no incentive to deal with other owners. Much of this offseason will be spent trying to recruiit new players from the Bort, where we all met. I'll update again in February when I have a better idea who I am keeping, and who I am defending my title against.
Just wanted to take a moment to bask in the glow of sweet victory. Now, I have a fantasy football dynasty to build.


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How often do you take stock of all the awesome things in your life? I recently instituted the habit of jotting down several things I'm grateful for (almost!) everyday. We all have bad days but practising gratitude is a great way to remind yourself of all the greatness surrounding you and the things you shouldn't take for granted.
I tend to do it at the end of the day, which allows me to record all the things that day that made me a happy gal. Others like to start the day by listing off the things they are grateful for, i.e. family, friends, job, etc, so as to set the gears in a positive direction. There's no wrong or right way to integrate gratitude into your day, just make it a frequent exercise in order to condition your thought process toward abundance rather than what's going wrong.
The idea is that while life will always throw some rough shit your way, if you keep focused on the good things, you're less likely to feel sorry for yourself and fall deeper in a hole. After all, it's easy to stay positive when all is well. It's when times are tough that it can be a challenge to remain upbeat. But these are really the times that it's most important to make a conscious effort to focus on the good stuff and actively appreciate it. It's also a great way to put things in perspective.
Eg: Even though I had a shitty day at work I'm thankful that I had a hot shower to come home to, a warm meal to eat and could spend the rest of the night eating peanut MnMs and watching Offspring.
So you can see how it's a powerful strategy to frame lousy situations and experiences in a positive light which leads to all round good vibes. The more you focus on the joy in your life the better you feel.
Personally I prefer not to set any rules around the exercise but some people find a little structure will ensure they stick to it. For instance, you could aim to list off three things you are grateful for before you hop out of bed in the morning or five before bed. As I said, I like to list mine off at the end of the day as it prompts me to review the events of the day and pick out the smile inducing stuff.
You can start a Gratitude Journal easily enough by picking out a cute notebook to store your thanks. I started one myself this way but recently shifted to an electronic system since I came into possession of a tablet and discovered the glorious world of apps. If you have a smart phone or tablet I suggest you check out your app store. You're bound to find a free gratitude journal app. While the old school girl in me loves the idea of a written journal, I was lured to the electronic method by way of fancy new device. Plus I wanted to upkeep the habit while I'm away in Europe for three months and didn't want to carry around another notebook with me. The app also automatically includes the date and time of the entry which I find handy.
Don't be too rigid about what can be included or how you express it. My list doesn't necessarily strictly list just what I'm thankful for but extends to happy experiences, beautiful things I've seen, yummy things I ate (I'm a foodie, what can I say...), things I'm happy to have in my life, something nice someone said or did, etc – basically anything that gives me reason to be thankful. And it doesn't always have to be a unique entry either, so don't worry about entering "chocolate" on multiple occasions. Just go with whatever resonates with you on any given day.
You may also like to include the context for your entry, i.e. rather than just "A kind email at work" can be entered as "Today I had a shitty call from a customer complaining about X and Y and ten minutes later I received an email from a customer thanking me for my help with Z which really brightened my mood."
So it kind of morphs into what you could call a "feel good" catalogue that you can refer to for an instant pick-me-up.
Here's a little sneak peak into my list on the Attitudes of Gratitudes Journal:
Today's Entry:
· Joking around in the kitchen this morning with Anti and Patrick.
· Enjoyed prime sun on the balcony for a glorious 20mins for my dose of vitamin D (sorely needed in my current fluey state).
· Giving my mum a big Mother's Day hug.
· Enjoyed a yummy lunch followed by delicious chai latte and raspberry and white choc slice at a cute cafe in the company of two gorgeous girlfriends.
· My friend gave me a bunch of TV program episodes on my USB which I'll be diving into tonight. Second season of Breaking Bad!
· Came home to a mini high tea with mum and Anti (my sister). We had cute prawn canapés and slices of various desserts mum made last night with freshly brewed tea all served with pretty crockery.
· Even though I'm still sick from the previous weekend, I believe the worst is behind me!
Ultimately it's an easy, quick, free and uplifting exercise that's also is super fun to look back on.
So get thanking y'all!


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Well, Shannon, who is always challenging my thinking with her thought-provoking posts, requested a nice, light easy topic for me today:
Explain in detail your end of life ethics and politics. I was intrigued by what you said months ago about the Terry Schiavo case. I want to be all "freedom to die" but I am enough of a Marxist to know that this kind of freedom would most likely be offered disproportionately to the poor, minorities and others capitalist society doesn't value.
Please discuss.
Yeah, OK, no problem. I can do this in my sleep while prying dangerous objects from toddlers with one hand tied behind my back and while juggling three loads of laundry. Well, here goes:
I know Shannon has taken bioethics courses and I have not, nor have I done extensive research into the policy/legislative side of this topic. My views are shaped almost entirely by the disabled community, and most of that is through anecdotal stories and experiences. Every disabled person either is someone, knows someone, or knows someone who knows someone who has been negatively affected by right-to-die politics. Just about Every major (and minor, that I know of) disability advocacy group, leadership/policy committee, or direct-service provider outside of health care has come down on the side that right-to-die/death with dignity laws and politics are discriminatory and very dangerous to the disabled population. The reason is that although very few are helped by these laws, a great majority of disabled people are harmed and even killed when it was not as they wished.
One of the main problems for the disability civil rights movement in this case has been that assisted suicide has become a pet issue, like gay marriage or abortion, for the republicans to swing the evangelical vote their way. This has caused such a knee jerk reaction among liberals that the disabled perspective on this has not even been able to enter the national discussion because our practical issues cannot be heard around all the Godbags and and all their talk about, well...God. The liberals go all separation of church and state (as I would do as well in this case) and the very horrid slant that the consequences of this issue take are lost to the liberals, and the conservatives. With whom so far have made for very strange bedfellows in this case, because they won't listen to us either, they just want to talk about God. So, for the purposes of our discussion here today--we are going to leave God out of it, Okay? This is not about God, the Sanctity of Life, Playing God, or anything of that nature. This is about the value, or lack thereof, that is put on the lives of the disabled. This is a civil rights issue.
Personally, I believe that in a perfect world (you all know how I love to tout my Perfect World(TM) theories) I would not have a problem with assisted suicide/right to die issues. I think in most cases, the current laws that allow anyone to decline medical intervention and to have the right to comfort measures and palliative care are enough for the vast majority of terminally ill people to die in as comfortable and quick way as possible. I also don't see a mass problem with doctors or family members wanting to hold on to a dying person indefinately against their will. (Which makes disabled people suspicious of why policy makers are telling us we need right-to-die laws in the first place.) I do believe that in a small number of cases, it is appropriate to allow a person the freedom to control his/her own death via suicide or assisted suicide. In instances where death is very imminent, and the person is in a horrendous amount of pain that cannot be controlled, I do concede that it may be the merciful thing to do to assist in death if that is what the person desires. In fact, I've been involved in health care enough and talked to nurses enough to know that this does, in fact, happen on a very under the table, informal way. A person is given a large dose of morphine to control pain. The dose would be large, but not kill a healthy person, but due to the person's declined health, it is enough to cause death. There is a difference to me in providing palliative care by withholding intervention and providing comfort measures to ease a person into an already eminent death, compared to ending a life prematurely. There is a process to dying that depending on several factors, can take several days or weeks while the body slowly shuts down. I don't see a problem at all with a person deciding that they do not want any intervention or resuscitation during this death process. However, there is a difference between using medical care to prolong death, and using medical care to sustain life.
Most people do not know or have never thought about the difference. Most people do not understand what life support is, what a feeding tube does, what the difference is between a life saving intervention and a futile medical procedure that just briefly puts off death. Also, most people have a tremendous fear and lack of understanding about what it means to be terminally ill, permanently disabled, and brain damaged or "hooked up to tubes." etc. This fear causes anxiety, prejudice and sometimes hatred towards people with disabilities. The prevailing common wisdom in our society is that people would rather be dead than disabled. I cannot tell you how many times I have introduced a nondisabled friend to a disabled friend and been told later, Geez, I'd rather die that live like that. In particular, my former boss, who had CP and used a wheelchair, and was a well-published Ph.D. and was a likable guy, was always the target of passerby hatred and disdain. We traveled together a lot, and people often took me aside to tell me that he grossed them out in a restaurant, or that people like that should be put away, or be better off dead. The disabled, people say, especially severely disabled individuals are scary to look at, scary to think about, and make them uncomfortable, should just go away. Therefore, even though in my perfect world I would probably not object to assisted suicide or right to die legislation, in my current world, I know that we are not ready yet for this type of power that has been so easily abused. We do not talk about death and disability in this country, even though 80% of us will be disabled for some part of our lifetime and we are all gonna die. We are not grown up enough yet to handle this type of power. We have not proved ourselves trustworthy enough for the responsibility.
I know this is hard to understand for people outside the disability community, but try to live in our world for just a few minutes. In our world, we are constantly told, through the media, through our health care providers, through our friends and families, that it is better to be dead than disabled. That if we weren't so selfish, we would just go off and die so that we wouldn't be burdens to society. We have no value, we cost too much money to keep alive, we burden the health care system, we add nothing to the fabric of society. This admittedly affects more of your high quads and folks with mental/cognitive disabilities more than it effects me (cuz I don't "look" disabled) but even I have dealt with this. I have been told by health care providers that ideally I need my kidneys to go before my vision and hearing goes, so that I can have a shot at the kidney transplant list. For if I go totally deafblind first, my chances on the transplant list will be considerably less.
D and I just talked to a woman on the train the other day who I believe had muscular dystrophy. She lost her apartment when the caregiver funding agency took her 24 hour caregiver away and cut her to hourly care. The 24 hour live in caregiver contributed to the rent, and without that money, she had lost her apartment. She was currently on the waiting list for section 8 accessible housing. The section 8 waiting list for the nondisabled poor is usually between 6-12 months. For the disabled, it is upwards of 5 years. So she was put in a nursing home while she waits. (The nursing home will put her further down on the list, her other alternative would be to become homeless for a better spot on the list.) To leave the nursing home, this very independent woman now has to someone come in and sign a release to get her out each time she sets foot outside. She said that when filling out the admissions paperwork, she was required to fill out an advanced directive (aka living will). She faced high pressure tactics from the administrators to sign a DNR. She is also on a trach, she was told that she should say that if for some reason she has an issue where she loses her trach, she would not want to be retrached. This is a woman in her 30's who just nine months ago lived in her own home, did volunteer work on her own, and had a social life. Incidentally, she was going to visit a friend at an apartment complex that is run by the residents who live there. All are quadriplegics who need 24 hour care. They have incorporated into a private non profit in order to share attendant services. Point being, there are reasonable solutions in the world to get her out of the nursing home (which disabled people term "False imprisonment") and back into mainstream society.
This story (which we hear all the time) illustrates a couple of things. First, we have not decided in our society what it means to be terminally ill. To many people, those like this woman who have long term or permanent illnesses such as muscular dystrophy, multiple sclerosis, ALS, spinal cord injuries, cerebral palsy, etc. are terminally ill. Well, technically they are (as we all are.) They will probably die from complications of these diseases, but possibly not for 20, 40, or even 80 years. Trachs, feeding tubes, and wheelchairs to them are not life support that needs to be shut off so they can die with "dignity," They are just the tools they use to get on with their lives. Is Michael J. Fox terminal? Is Stephen Hawking? Is D? According to many, they are.
You can see this in the media all the time. In movies like "Million Dollar Baby" where a prize fighter has an accident and becomes a vent dependant quad and then is "mercifully" killed by her coach, a nonterminal patient with a full life ahead of her is thought to be better off dead, and thus considered terminally ill. Most people who are disabled describe adjusting to a new disability as being very similar to adjusting to a death of a close loved one. They go through the stages of grief just as if it was a death. It was in a sense, a part of them died. They go through shock, denial, anger, guilt, depression, and finally do get around to acceptance. Then, although they may still miss that part of them that was different before, they go on and it becomes less and less a factor in their life. Medical personnel and the general population have been shown in studies to greatly underestimate the happiness and well-being of the disabled. Disabled people SHOCK! actually don't go around thinking that they are a poor disabled person all day long. They don't really think about it at all that much after they adjust. Do you think everyday about how you don't have as much money as Bill Gates or that you are not as beautiful as Denise Richards? Would it be nice? Yes. Does the fact that you don't have these advantages make you think your life is not worth living and that you should kill yourself? No. The problem is, that when a newly disabled person is going through their stages of grief, instead of helping them to get the support they need to go on, people just decide that death is a better option. If you knew someone had lost a husband or a child and was grief stricken with depression and sadness to the point where they didn't want to get out of bed, you would support them in getting help to get over their grief. You might also take up a collection to help with the practical side of money issues or the like. You might make them food, run errands for them, clean their house, listen to them cry at 4 in the morning. You would do anything to help them get on with their lives and process their loss. If they were, in fact, suicidal. You would get them emergency help. The medical staff would be obligated to provide services to them to prevent suicide if they were a danger to themselves.This is what newly disabled people need as well, and what they often don't get. Instead, they get told that they will get help to die. They get asked if they want to live "like this." They get told that they will be a burden to society and their families. They get medical staff that decides they are too futile to care for and that they or the family should be encouraged to pull the plug. They are grieving and they get a gun pointed to their heads. Imagine handing a gun to a despondent woman who just lost her husband and telling her to go ahead and shoot herself. If she stays alive and is a burden to others, she is just being selfish. This is what many newly disabled people face, instead of getting the help they need to put their lives back together. It is discriminatory for the health care professions to be obligated to provide preventative services to any other potential suicide victim, yet encourage suicide or death and not provide these preventative services to the disabled. Yet it happens all the time.
I believe I have told some stories about people who have become severely disabled, got crap for services, ended up in some kind of institution, and then petitioned the court for assisted suicide. Which in many cases, the courts have granted, often siting it to be the duty of the plaintiff to take his own life for the good of the public. (See Larry McAfee, Tracy Latimer, Robert Wendlund, etc.) . The problem here isn't the disability or illness itself, it is the social services system that is oppressing these people. When disability rights groups have come in and helped the individual get out of the institution and have their lives back, they suddenly no longer wanted to kill themselves. These examples are even more heartbreaking when it comes to parents who wish to or do kill their disabled children and get off the hook because it was considered a mercy killing. Some of these kids are merely autistic or have Down syndrome or CP or something, yet society accepts death as being in the child's best interest, because they apparently were suffering. In the case of Tracy Latimer, a child suffocated by her father because she had CP, her mother wrote a note the day before saying she ate well and was smiling and happy. He didn't end her suffering, she wasn't suffering as far as we know. He was ending his suffering. He got a 2 year suspended sentence for killing his child. It happens to the elderly as well. The elderly have been systematically shut out of disability rehabilitation services due to the fact that there is considered little cost benefit to rehabbing them as they will not likely return to work. However, when grandma has Alzheimer's, family members are not given the simple strategies and tools that work for millions of children and working age adults with cognitive disabilities that might also help grandma out. Things like color coding items, putting up picture cues, leaving a radio in the bathroom on at night to help her find the way, setting a routine, giving respite care, etc. are not provided. The family can only suffer and wait for grandma to die. Grandma is going to die, we know, but her time left doesn't have to be such a horrible wait that we try to find legal ways to "end her suffering." Someone made an analogy once that "assisted suicide" in this country is like if you were to go up to a lynch mob and shoot the poor guy about to burn on the cross out of mercy to end his suffering (Golly gee, it is too bad that guy is black), meanwhile you are totally ignoring the lynch mob for putting him there in the first place.
What Shannon alludes to above about capitalistic influences having more to do with which lives will be ended that anyone's "right to die" is very true. Especially in the very corrupt, very powerful nursing home industry. People don't realize that the vast majority of nursing homes are private, for-profit corporations. They are a huge national lobbying force. Almost entirely republican and profit-oriented. They have had enough influence in Washington to ensure that the majority of all Medicare dollars available to assist in the daily living of disabled and elderly get directed to nursing homes. The money does NOT follow the patient. The money goes directly to the nursing home bed, and the nursing home tries to find the most cost effective patient to fill the bed in order to maximize their profit. The perfect nursing home patient is someone who will be there a long time, but needs a very low amount of care, then who suddenly dies without much need for more advanced care at the end of life. (If you remember, D was rejected from 4 nursing homes earlier this year because they would not net enough of a profit from him.) When a nursing home patient gets too expensive, nursing homes either try to buck the patient out sometimes sending them far away from their family, or encourage DNRs or other withholding of care. It costs less to care for patients in their homes with paid care providers such as myself. Let me repeat that: IT COSTS LESS TO PROVIDE CARE IN THE HOME. The nursing home industry is one of the biggest money fleecing crocks in this country. The end of life care provided is of varying quality, but the financial incentive to get financially costly patients to die is a conflict of interest to this mythical political cause called "right-to-die." What sounds like personal freedom is really the health care system's ploy to weed out the extra expense and thus gain a higher profit margin.
But, these disabled people and elderly people are a burden and take so much money, right? Isn't it a waste to use all those resources on them while healthy children aren't getting vaccinated and stuff? I won't deny that disabled people cost money. But the issue of how much vs. how much disabled people could give back if given the chance is very manipulated by an industry that exploits the disabled and elderly for profit. This issue of them taking away needed health care services from others is largely a myth, at least in this country. It is hard for a disabled person to hear that he or she should selflessly die in staunch, honorable moral utilitarianism rather than take health care dollars away from children and pregnant mothers when the people who are saying these things are CEO's of nursing homes and hospitals that are driving around in $75,000 cars to their million dollar homes. Healthy people do not understand how corrupt and in crisis the health care industry is. This includes providers, nursing homes, and especially insurance companies and employers that provide insurance to their employees. Health care does not work as a for-profit business. Capitalism and free market economies depend on competition and supply and demand, and health care consumers don't work that way. Do you go looking for the bargain basement cardiologist's blue light budget special to get your open heart surgery? Do you buy bulk chemotherapy to get the volume discount? (And if your insurance company does, should it?) Do you wait to get that brain surgery until your next raise or when the economy improves? Do we market the deluxe colonoscopy for those with the means who require a little more luxury when having an anal probe shoved up their ass? (Well, in a way, we do... Health care is rationed in this country and richer people get more options and better care.) In any case, blaming the poor and disabled and elderly for the problems of health care is a scapegoat that will get you nowhere. We either decide that everyone deserves the same access to health care or we don't. And if we don't then that is when we start creating beautiful laws entitled, "Death with Dignity."
And isn't dignity a lovely loaded and prejudicial word when applied to death? The biggest thing people talk about when they talk about wanting to die with dignity is that they don't want to have to be fed or taken to the bathroom or have tubes to breathe. Because apparently dignity comes from how you go to the bathroom. D must have no dignity then. Neither must the late Ed Roberts, a vent dependent quad who started the independent living movement. Neither did Christopher Reeve. He couldn't even feed himself, which according to a judge in the Terri Schaivo case, disqualifies you from being human. I'm not saying that losing your bathroom, eating, or breathing abilities isn't a major sucky loss, but it has nothing whatsoever to do with your dignity. Neither does dying, no matter how it happens. Dying and disability are natural parts of human existence. There is nothing undignified about losing some bodily functioning. I know this is crass, but I always want to ask these people that want to die with dignity, "You know you're going to piss and shit your pants and probably fart and gurgle up a bunch of phlegm no matter how you die, right? Even if you take a bunch of pills in a beautiful room with all your loved ones surrounding you, you know that there will be mass incontinence, right? Because that's the way it works and we still don't have a pill that will cause you to die without that kind of DIGNITY!" But in all seriousness, rather than having the only path toward dignity be killing yourself when the body doesn't cooperate in the traditional fashion, how about treating people with dignity while they are alive despite how their plumbing works? Giving them the support and respect that they need to manage their disabling condition. Giving their families respite and assistance when caring for them. Giving them easy access to appropriate comfort measures when they are near the end of life.
So, I need to talk about Terri Schiavo, I know. What you are probably saying by now is that, okay, people shouldn't tell disabled people to go die, but Terri Schiavo and people like her aren't disabled, they are brain dead. Except that she kinda wasn't. Sure she was just a slim sliver of a grey spot on a CT scan to the left of brain dead, but she was not brain dead. She was not on life support. She was not terminally ill. And she was not going to recover. What she was, was severely disabled. The Schiavo case was a very messy one because the families involved were kind of a bunch of crackpots and then the Bush Brothers got involved and we all know they were a bunch of crackpots. It was not a good "model" case for anyone. However, I'm sure the individual, Terri Schaivo, never intended to be anyone's dog and pony show. We don't, in fact, know what Terri Schiavo intended. We don't (and maybe somebody does, but I don't) know whether she was happy. Whether she felt pleasure or pain. I saw video of her, very briefly, and as a trained assessor of individuals with severe cognitive impairments, I'll tell you what I saw. I saw a person who could respond positively to stimuli. I saw a person who smiled and vocalized to touch. It wasn't much, and I would have had to seen what else she smiled and vocalized to (like did she do that in an empty room?) So I don't have a huge amount of information to go on, but I saw someone who was definitely NOT in a persistive vegetative state as I understand the definition, and someone who was NOT totally brain dead with no response to stimuli. But she said to friends before that she would not want to be kept alive like that. Well, that was ten years ago, does she still feel that way? Is there any way of knowing? Do you know how many disabled people laugh at the fact that they said before they were disabled that they would never want to live like that? And this includes happy, well adjusted folks with significant cognitive impairments? This is why, although an advanced directive is a fine thing to have, a more important thing to have is a person who is your medical power of attorney that you trust with your life. That will assess your wants and needs not by what you said and did ten years ago when you didn't know anything about what it was really like to be disabled, but what you want and need in the present. Someone who loves you unconditionally and wants what is best for you in your current situation. Someone with whom you will talk with about these issues extensively over and over again over time, not just offer them checked boxes on a prefab hospital living will document that has very little to do with real life situations. I do not know Terri Schiavo's husband or parents, so this may not be a fair statement: But based on the fact that the mother pushed for rehab and the husband denied it, and my admitted bias towards a mother vs. a fairly newly married husband having the best idea of what is in her best interest, I would have thrown in with the mother as knowing what was best for Terri Schiavo, not the old Terri Schiavo, but the current one, which is the one that mattered.
But the reason the Terri Schiavo case, and hundreds of other less public ones like it, scares disabled people so much is because the line moved, and is moving all across the country. Most states have futile care policies, in which medical staff can determine that medical intervention would be futile. Although in many cases, the doctors are correct in discontinuing care due to futility, Terri Schiavo's case along with a national trend of other severely disabled people--not brain dead, but severely disabled--are now considered futile cases. Individuals are having actually less freedom in deciding right to die and or live issues. Hospitals, insurance companies, and for profit policy makers are deciding who is too futile to treat and who isn't. Terri Schiavo's case nudged the line a bit. Other cases nudge it a bit more. Disabled people are afraid that next it will be the vent dependent quads and next the cognitively disabled and then the mentally ill and so on...
Before you invoke your "Slippery slope is a logical fallacy" rebuttal to me, allow me to invoke Godwin's Law first. That slippery slope has a historical precedent. Remember that thing called the Holocaust? The one that killed over 6 million able bodied Jews? Do you know your history enough to know how that all got started? It started with the eugenics movement, which was an effort to cleanse the population of the disabled. In the United States, this took mostly the form of forced sterilizations of anyone considered disabled or in danger of having a disabled child. In Hitler's Germany, it started as forced medical experimentation on the mentally retarded, then the mentally retarded were put into concentration camps and killed, then the folks with CP and the epileptics, then the mentally ill, then the deaf and the blind, then the homosexuals, then I think the poor from the almshouses and the gypsies, then the Jews. This is why the devaluation and culture of 'better dead than disabled' scares the disabled community so much. This is why we think that society has not done enough talking, listening, learning, repenting, and fixing to be trusted with the dangerous power of "right to die" legislation.
Did I lose you with Godwin, there? I do not believe there is a direct corollary between what happened to disabled people in Hitler's Germany, and what is happening in the U.S. right now. However, I do think that it puts in perspective the realities and attitudes that disabled people face currently. This is what we would call a Mockingbird Issue. One in which the law (assisted suicide) itself is not the problem, it is the society in which the law is carried out that makes it unfair. This whole dealy is obviously an opinion piece that has barely scratched the surface of the ethics of death and all the different ramifications of that. But this is my point, as a society, we have not scratched the surface in talking about, dealing with, and finding solutions for the fact that most of us will become disabled and eventually die. You don't let the man convicted of abusing children babysit your children. You shouldn't allow a society who has historically abused disabled and elderly people the mandate to do it some more.
Here is a five minute Google search pile of quick sources:
Amicus Briefs for court cases involving disabled people and right to die
Articles from the Ragged-Edge: Why Disability Rights Activists Are Against Physician Assisted Suicide
The Holocaust and Disabled People
Doctors: Let us Kill Disabled Babies
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March 2017 is just around the corner and, in true Netflix fashion, the streaming service has uploaded a huge number of great titles to watch, from original series Marvel's Iron Fist to Oscar-nominated classics 127 Hours.
To help you decide what best suits your binge-watching tastes, IBTimes UK has compiled a list of what to watch once they hit the platform...
Captain Phillips (1 March)
In the midst of awards season, why not check out a film that received six Oscars nominations back in 2014? Directed by United 93's Paul Greengrass and based on the true story of middle-aged Captain Richard Phillips, who, while delivering an American container ship to Mombasa, Africa in 2009, gets hijacked by a group of violent pirates desperate to make some serious money to please their ruthless Somalian bosses.
Groundhog Day
Directed by Ghostbusters' Harold Ramis, Groundhog Day follows antisocial broadcaster Phil Connors (Bill Murray) who is annoyed and disheartened when he is assigned the job of covering the Groundhog festivities in a small "redneck" town for the fourth year in a row. The only noticeable upside is his attractive producer, Rita Hanson (Andie MacDowell).
But the real nightmare begins when Phil ends up reliving the same day (Groundhog Day) over, and over again. Unable to leave the town due to a severe blizzard, and with no end in sight, Phil struggles to find a way to escape – and ultimately make the best of – his seemingly hopeless situation.
127 Hours (9 March)
Co-written and directed by Danny Boyle, 127 Hours stars James Franco and details the real-life story of Aron Ralston, a canyoneer who in 2003, got trapped by a boulder in an isolated slot canyon in Utah. Just like Captain Phillips, the film was nominated for six Academy Awards back in 2011.
Love – Season 2 (10 March)
Love returns for its hotly-anticipated second season on 10 March. It stars Community star Gillian Jacobs and Inglourious Basterds Paul Rust as a couple who are forced to navigate the thrills and downsides of intimacy, commitment and other things they didn't necessarily think they were looking for.
The Nice Guys (15 March)
The Nice Guys is an action-packed crime comedy not to be missed. Starring Ryan Gosling and Russell Crowe – directed by Lethal Weapon's Shane Black – the film follows an unlikely duo of private eyes, who begin to investigate the apparent suicide of a fading porn star and become embroiled in a world of murder and deceit.
Julie's Greenroom (17 March)
Anything with Julie Andrews in is worth a watch and even though Julie's Greenroom is essentially for young children, we'd be surprised if older audiences don't check it out too just because she appears in it. Accompanied by a plethora of puppets from the prestigious Jim Henson Company, Andrews hosts the educational pre-school show assistant Gus (Giullian Yao Gioiello).
Guest stars across the series will include Tituss Burgess, Carol Burnett, Chris Colfer, Josh Groban, Ellie Kemper, Idina Menzel and Alec Baldwin.
Iron Fist
Following on from popular Marvel TV series, Iron Fist follows Danny Rand (Finn Jones), who as a young boy, travels with his family from New York to a lost mystical city called K'un-Lun. After some tragic twists of fate, Rand is adopted by the city's ruler and taught advanced martial arts and the mystical power of the Iron Fist. As an adult, Rand returns to his native New York 15 years later, and adopts the guise of Iron Fist – dishing out justice to multiple bad guys.
Grace and Frankie: Season 3 (24 March)
Emmy-nominated show Grace and Frankie returns for its eagerly-anticipated third season on 24 March and we can hardly wait. It's a good idea to binge-watch the first two outings beforehand but if you're strapped for time...
The story focuses on retired women (played by Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin), who have never seen eye-to-eye due to their vastly different personalities. One evening, their worlds are turned upside down when their spouses invite them both out for a meal before springing the truth. The two men have, in fact, been having an affair behind their wives' backs for 20 years and are in love...
13 Reasons Why (31 March)
Based on Jay Asher's 2007 young adult novel of the same name, 13 Reasons Why follows Hannah Baker (Katherine Langford), a high-school student who takes her own life and then haunts her fellow classmates via audio tapes. Former Grey's Anatomy actor Kate Walsh and Don't Breathe's Dylan Minnette also star in the Selena Gomez-produced series.
The Discovery
Set in a world where the afterlife has been scientifically proven, The Discovery stars Jason Segel and Rooney Mara as a couple forced to come to terms with the existence of heaven and hell, the repercussion of such knowledge, and questions as to how they will reconnect once they die. Robert Redford also stars in the Charlie McDowell-directed movie.


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The history of the American Jewish People goes through the Lower East Side neighborhood of New York City. It is the neighborhood that many Jews called home when they first arrived in America. Many of them came during the large immigration waves of the 19th and early 20th centuries. Large numbers of the Jewish immigrants settled in the Lower East Side of Manhattan where they began their American journey. Some of the most famous American Jewish people grew up in the Lower East Side. Today, Jewish presence in the neighborhood is significantly smaller then it was at the beginning of the 20th century. However, Jewish life in the neighborhood can be easily seen along Grand Street and in neighboring areas where many Jewish organizations and businesses operate.
We had the opportunity to explore the Lower East Side on a beautiful sunny June day with Jeff, who spent his childhood in the neighborhood, before starting his professional career and moving out of the neighborhood. Jeff volunteered to show us the area. He has a first hand knowledge of the Jewish community of the Lower East Side. During the tour, we could clearly feel that Jeff is very much attached to his old neighborhood, which he visits on a regular basis. As we walked around the neighborhood, Jeff showed us many of the Jewish landmarks, sharing with us their rich history. We stopped by the Bialystoker Synagogue where his grandfather was the Gabay. Later we passed by the offices of an active Jewish aid organization where his mother is still working.
The Lower East Side is such a pretty neighborhood. It is impossible not to fall in love with it. I took plenty of pictures. Below are some of them. If you are Jewish and in NYC, take the opportunity and visit the neighborhood. Chances are someone in your family at one time called it home.
Getting out of car at the beginning the tour
With our guide Jeff (second from left)
Views from the Lower East Side: Midtown in the north (left). Freedom Tower in the South (right)
In its beginning, the Lower East Side was a low income immigrants neighborhood. This is not the case anymore. "In 2015, the median sales price of a one-bedroom co-op on the Lower East Side was $550,000, up 10 percent from 2014, according to Gregory J. Heym, the chief economist at Terra Holdings; for a two-bedroom co-op, it was $829,000, up 15 percent. The median for a one-bedroom condo was $1.4 million, an increase of 20 percent over 2014; for a two-bedroom condo, it was $1.8 million, an increase of 13 percent. Sales of three-bedroom condos and co-ops were rare, he said… Joe Safdie, an agent with Misrahi Realty, which owns or manages 2,000 units in the area, said rents for typical studios range from $2,000 to $2,500 a month; one-bedrooms, $2,200 to $3,000; two-bedrooms, $3,000 to $4,200; and three-bedrooms, $4,500 to $5,500. 'There are a lot of shares going on,' he said.'" – www,nytimes.com
Mesivtha Tifereth Yerushalaim (Jerusalem) yeshiva – the city's oldest yeshiva. It has been training scholars and rabbis in the intricate study of the Talmud.
UJC serves as a coordinating body of neighborhood, secular, civic and fraternal organizations. Formed in 1971 by neighborhood leaders and residents, the UJC works to preserve and stabilize the Lower East Side of Manhattan community through the provision of a wide range of human services and community development programs. While the majority of programs are oriented to the needs of the elderly, UJC also operates a wide range of programs for families and children.
The original Forward Magazine building, built in 1912. When it was constructed, it was the Forward Building, a house devoted to labor, that dominated the structures around it. During its lifetime, the famous Lower East Side structure has housed influential socialist groups, an evangelical church, and now luxury condos.
The Bialystoker Synagogue located on Willet Street, now called the Bialystoker Place. The fieldstone building was built in 1826 in the late Federal style. The building is made of Manhattan schist from a quarry on nearby Pitt Street. The exterior is marked by three windows over three doors framed with round arches, a low flight of brownstone steps, a low pitched pedimented roof with a lunette window and a wooden cornice. It was first designed as the Willett Street Methodist Episcopal Church. In 1905, the congregation, at that time composed chiefly of Polish immigrants from the province of Bialystok,purchased the building to serve as thier synagogue. During the Great Depression, a decision was made to beautify the main sanctuary, to provide a sense of hope and inspiration to the community. The synagogue was listed as a New York City landmark on April 19, 1966. It is one of only four early-19th century fieldstone religious buildings surviving from the late Federal period in Lower Manhattan. In 1988 the Synagogue restored the interior to its original facade, and the former Hebrew school building was renovated and reopened as The Daniel Potkorony Building. It is currently used for many educational activities.
The Bialystoker Synagogue
The Bialystoker Synagogue
"In 1912 a group of young and idealistic Orthodox Jewish men and women living on the Lower East Side of Manhattan started a Friday night lecture series that would eventually give birth to the Young Israel Synagogue of Manhattan and the world-wide Young Israel movement. They were motivated by the then-powerful forces of Reform Judaism and secularism, both of which were luring young people to abandon the Orthodoxy of their immigrant parents; in the case of the former, with a more "Americanized" and non-halachic form of synagogue worship, and in the case of the latter, with cultural programs and social events. The lecture series–which was given space in several local synagogues and featured some of the leading rabbis and religious scholars in America–proved to be wildly popular. And the "model synagogue" that was established, in which young men led the services and which featured congregational singing, quickly outgrew its original quarters at 205 East Broadway and began to rent space at the Educational Alliance. In 1929 the Young Israel Synagogue of Manhattan moved to a larger home at 229 East Broadway. To the cultural and social programming were added classes in Tanach and Jewish Law, all overseen by Young Israel's founding rabbi, Rabbi Dr. David Stern, ztz"l. And a youth program was added as well, in which hundreds of neighborhood girls and boys enjoyed sports, music, crafts, and social events in an environment of Yiddishkeit. A Mother's League and, eventually, a Sisterhood followed. As some of the founding members moved on to other neighborhoods, Young Israel synagogues were established in Brooklyn, the Bronx, Queens, and Staten Island, and in cities throughout the United States, making Young Israel a national movement dedicated to the preservation and advancement of Orthodox Judaism." – www.yimanhattan.org
Kosher restaurants on Grand Street
A view of the park entrance from the street
A Mikveh
A street view
Henrietta Szold Public School


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The Big Breakfast 2018
Sun 15th July 2018 at 07.00 - 13.00
Stanton Drew, Sun 15th July 2018 at 07.00 - 13.00,
Our usual fantastic Big Breakfast, organisrd by Rob. With the Classic Cars in attendance.
Sunday 15th July saw the annual Big Breakfast taking place at Stanton Drew for the 9th year and 129 customers were served to freshly cooked Full English breakfast with all the works. Once again the local classic car club joined us to start their rally after enjoying a hearty meal and their superb vehicles adorned the adjoining grass area where the breakfast takes place. The Rotarians worked extremely hard either cooking, walking between the Hall and marquee where the event takes place carrying to and fro dishes, washing up or selling raffle tickets. Overall the event produced a profit of £983.70 which will be used for local Rotary charities.
I would like to thank all those that gave up their Sunday morning to help run the Big Breakfast and particularly to Di Farmer, Shirley and my wife, Mary who helped make this year once again a great success. Thanks also to Dennis for providing the eggs and to all members that provided items for the prize hampers.
The car club have asked us to do the Big Breakfast again next year, and the event will be held on Sunday 21 July 2019.
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Presently writing a novel about a woman in the midst of a love affair with the ghost of her dead husband throughout the near-40-year fascist dictatorship of Francisco Franco, Gary Jones is a screenwriter currently living in Los Angeles.
At first, I considered "ennui" as a state that one acquires as a result of one stepping into it by accident. Or that ennui came on a person like an unexpected medical condition. Or that ennui rose up like a wave to overtake a body that was completely unaware. Then I stumbled upon a description of ennui as being an attitude that is "taken on" by an individual. To me, the word "ennui" now had power.
Now, when I hear that a person is "suffering from a state of ennui," I immediately begin to look up the individual as an active and willing participant. Even though one might consider themselves as weary and retiring from the current state of affairs, that position, in and of itself, is active and participatory, and therefore as powerful as a gun.


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Kate Winslet showed that practicing pilates is clearly paying off for her, as she walked the red carpet at the 2010 BAFTAs tonight looking super toned.
She looked amazing wearing a black Stella McCartney dress with lace inserts.
As she dashed up the red carpet we were told she wore Stella McCartney heels, whilst wearing Tiffany jewels and a Roger Vivier clutch.
I'm glad she did us Brits proud by looking stunning at this event.
Yes she wearing my least favourite colour black, but this look was far from boring.
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Regular readers of my blog will know I am minorly infatuated with Kate Middleton's style. No matter what Kate wears she looks fabulous as her style is always simple, elegant and timeless. Everything you'd expect from the future Queen of England. When Raise.com contacted me and asked me to participate in their online closet swap*, transitioning from Spring to Summer fashion, I looked to Kate for inspiration. Raise.com is a new online platform where you can buy gift vouchers at a discounted price and sell your unused or unwanted gift cards. Raise.com is not available worldwide but I'm sure they'll be expanding in the near future.
Sadly, the Irish summer weather is notoriously random and sunny days are sporadic. This drastically affects my fashion choices. While the bloggers and Instagrammers I follow are strutting their stuff in lovely sun dresses and summer clothes, I am still reaching for a jacket. This makes Kate the perfect inspiration as she loves her blazers and long sleeved tops. I have many similar signature Kate pieces in my wardrobe. The styles I have opted for are very casual yet still practical. A blazer is a perfect way to achieve a summer look. It can be taken off while the sun shines and thrown back on for the chillier evening. This is a very different post for me. Obviously (and sadly for me) I am nothing like Kate… you can't blame a girl for trying though!
Look 1: Navy Blazer and Striped Top
Kate wore this Zara blazer twice during his trip to Australia and New Zealand. For more looks from this tour follow the links here, here and here. As pictured she wore it with a stripped top, navy jeans and LK Bennett navy wedges. The blazer I am wearing is also from Zara, about 6 or 7 years ago. It is nowhere near as sophisticated as Kate's but it has tided me over well during the years. I paired mines with a similar striped t-shirt from Primark/Pennys, New Look jeans and Primark/Pennys replica LK Bennett wedges.
Look 2: Navy Blazer and Gingham Shirt
I loved this look when Kate wore it to a wine tasting. It is great for transitioning your wardrobe from Spring to Summer. Unlike Kate's my shirt is short sleeved but the blazer over the top is a good option for those of you in a cooler climate like myself. The shirt I'm wearing is from Primark/Pennys as are my jeans and wedges. If wedges aren't your thing a pair of Converse would be a good alternative.
Look 3: Stripped Long Sleeved Top and Pumps
Kate has worn this look on numerous occasions. While my shoes are not an exact replica of Kate's boat shoes they fit in with the overall theme of the look. These pumps or boat shoes like Kate's are a great summer shoe, especially if you are on the beach or poolside. My stripped top is from H&M, as are my jeans.
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Above are some similar pieces and the actual Blazer Kate has, which I'm considering buying myself.
Top Row left to right: Navy Blazer: New Look here. Gingham Sleeveless Shirt: New Look here. Navy Blazer: H&M here. Bottom row left to right: Blue Sleeveless Shirt: H&M here. Navy Blazer: Zara [Kate's Blazer] here. Striped Long sleeve top: New Look here
Make sure to visit Raise.com if you're interested in selling or buying some gift vouchers! Let me know your summer styles or summer style inspirations.
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I started stamping and card making several years ago when my daughter took me to a home stamping party. When she no longer wanted them, I bought ALL her stamps AND all her friend's stamp pads, mailed them to Colorado where I'm living now, and started playing more seriously. I love card making, painting or drawing, sewing and all kinds of crafts.
Wednesday, April 18, 2007
Chocolate Rules!
I've been pretty busy at my "day" job lately, so I haven't posted much, but last night I ran across a discussion of "The Ten Rules of Chocolate" on the SU Demo site. I immediately told my husband I needed candy bars to make CHOCOLATE BOOKS! I ultimately made 20 of these goodies and took them along for everyone at the meeting scheduled for today. It was lots of fun, everyone loved them, AND I was able to use up some old patterned paper...a win-win situation. (And my DH got chocolate for dessert!)
These are made from 6x6 squares. There's a full-sized Hershey bar under the page on the right -- I think the original one I CASE'd had two bars, one on each side, but my little book didn't want to close with two. If you'd like the "rules," drop me an email at firstname.lastname@example.com.
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Mangaluru, Aug 03, 2017: BJP learder and Ex-Beary Sahitya Academy President Rahim Uchil was attacked by a gang of seven with lethal weapons in Attavar on March 15, 2012.
As per the reports Rahim Uchil had supported Kalladka Prabhakar Bhat's defamatory speech against Muslims which the organisations had opposed . This provoked the accused to attack Rahim with lethal weapons.
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Hey you! I'm Robyn. I love glitter, Karin Slaughter novels, coffee and my dog. I hate pineapple on pizza (wtf?!?) and people who spend all their time on their phones and not in the company of the people in the present.
This is my blog, where I discuss a passion of mine: mental health. We all need someone to listen, to understand, to care. This is a place where you can find that. I write about personal experiences of mental health, tips on loving yourself, and information on different disorders to increase awareness and tolerance. Tolerance is a rare quality, but one we should all aspire to have more of.
Read my posts, comment your experiences, ask me questions, show some love. The world has enough dicks, so be kind guys, always.
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