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Prevent child abuse
Kiwanians are community leaders and business professionals committed to changing the world, one child and one community at a time. Child abuse can have profound detrimental effects on children's development, resulting in costly consequences for the individual, family and community, which is why we support Healthy Families Florida. This evidence-based home visiting program is proven to effectively prevent child abuse in high-risk families at a fraction of the cost of treating the consequences of abuse after it occurs.
We are pleased that the Legislature has maintained Healthy Families Florida funding at its current level of $18.1 million at this point in the budget process. However, we remain hopeful that if additional resources are available, the Legislature will bring this successful prevention program back to its 2009-2010 funding level of $28.1 million, or increase the funding as much as possible so more communities and vulnerable families are able to receive these vital services.
By preventing child abuse before it begins, we are building a strong foundation for a more prosperous future for our entire state.
Allen Whetsell
Governor, Florida Kiwanis
A combative 'statesman'
Regarding "Hannity to Sarasota": One definition of statesman is "a wise, skillful, and respected political leader." Seems that the Sarasota Republican Party chairman, Joe Gruters, has decided to further lower the bar from last year's choice of Donald Trump, its recipient of statesman of the year award.
The choice of Mr. Trump did indeed receive national attention, ranging from bemused smirking to ridicule. This year's choice of Fox news' controversial and combative Sean Hannity is sure to enhance the "national reputation" Mr. Gruters brags about.
Hmmm, yes, perhaps it's not too soon to clear Mallard the Duck's schedule for next year's fundraiser. You gotta love it.
Steve Ronan
For background checks
The National Rifle Association is funded by gun and ammunition manufacturers while hiding behind the deception of speaking for gun owners. It does not represent me, a gun owner and holder of concealed weapons permits in three states in which I have lived as an adult. I never objected to having my background checked and being fingerprinted before receiving my gun permits.
Honor the Second Amendment of the Constitution, which guarantees the rights of citizens to keep and bear "arms." This does not include assault rifles, but does refer to muzzle-loading muskets, dueling pistols, swords, bayonets, and variations on hatchets, machetes, etc., the common weapons of the time.
Members of Congress and state legislators receive funding from the NRA, but voters must remind our elected representatives of their obligation to "insure domestic tranquility" and ban assault weapons and high-volume ammunition magazines in addition to enforcing rigorous background checks for all gun purchases.
Marvin Rubin
Horrific case
needs more coverage
Infant beheadings. Severed baby feet in jars. A child screaming after it was delivered alive and then killed.
Haven't heard about these sickening accusations?
It's not your fault. Since the murder trial of Dr. Kermit Gosnell began March 18 in Philadelphia, there has been little coverage by the mainstream media.
The following are statements from the grand jury report.
"This case is about a doctor who killed babies and endangered women. ... He regularly and illegally delivered live, viable babies in the third trimester of pregnancy -- and then murdered these newborns by severing their spinal cords with scissors. ... He overdosed his patients with dangerous drugs, spread venereal disease among them with infected instruments, perforated their wombs and bowels -- and, on at least two occasions, caused their deaths."
According to the grand jury report, the clinic (raided and shut in 2010) reeked of animal urine; furniture and blankets were stained with blood; instruments were not properly sterilized; disposable medical supplies were not disposed of but were reused; in cabinets, in a freezer, in jars and bags and plastic jugs, were fetal remains.
When you perform late-term "abortions" by inducing labor, you get babies. By 24 weeks, most babies born prematurely will survive if they receive appropriate medical care. Gosnell had a simple solution for the unwanted babies he delivered: He killed them, the grand jury charged.
The deafening silence of this story by most of the mainstream media is a disgrace.
Gerald Monnin
Tax the panhandlers
As Monday was tax day, I thought about the recent article on panhandlers. Not only should the city of Sarasota be involved in this, but, so should the IRS.
I make a lot less than $20 an hour and I pay taxes. If panhandling is going to be allowed, these people should apply for a permit, wear a permit badge and pay taxes.
I lost a six-figure job, going through financial hardship before I found a much lower-paid job with no benefits. But now I work and pay taxes.
Let's get the IRS involved and see how many people stand on corners begging for money.
Pat Dickerson
Through eyes of a child
My little girl says the Boston bombing is adult bullying.
James W. Koeniger
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Daniel is Taken to Babylon
God is the sovereign Lord of history who causes kingdoms to rise and fall according to His decree. Nothing happens apart from His having ordained it in eternity past, and this is a comforting truth. It tells us that everything ...Read More
The New Jerusalem
We make real progress in holiness in this life as the Holy Spirit sanctifies us and conforms us to the image of Christ. However, we still await the Lord's return in order for us to be fully perfected in righteousness. ...Read More
The Holy City
The New Testament makes it clear that we are living in the period of restoration when God is calling His children back to Himself. Jews and Gentiles alike are hearing the gospel and running to Him in faith. Each of ...Read More
Apportioning the Restored Land
By faith we "are fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God" (Eph. 2:19). In the kingdom, one Christian is not "more of a citizen" than another Christian. There is not one class of believers that ...Read More
Life-Giving Water
Today's study is probably one of the texts Jesus had in mind when He discussed regeneration with Nicodemus (John 3:1–8). In the new covenant that follows the exile of Israel, the Spirit gives life unparalleled in its abundance. This life ...Read More
The Sacrifices of the Prince
Some people believe that during the millennial period, there will be a rebuilt temple in Jerusalem and that sacrifices will be offered as memorials of the work of Christ. We must respectfully disagree. There will be no need for such ...Read More
The Lord Returns to His Temple
The various elements of Ezekiel's vision in today's passage are not meant to be taken in an absolutely literal sense, so we are not surprised that there is no record of the glory cloud returning to the post-exilic temple. But ...Read More
Ezekiel Sees a New Temple
God's revelation is progressive. He revealed Himself slowly over time, disclosing only those truths that His people needed in each generation, saving a fuller revelation of His plan for the future when His people were ready to receive it. This ...Read More
Gog and Magog
Given the symbolism of the passage, we must see it not only as a prediction of the final battle between God and the enemies of His people but also a vision of the encounter between new covenant Israel—the church—and the ...Read More
The Shepherd Rescues His Sheep
Today's passages contains hints of the incarnation in its description of the Lord as the shepherd of Israel and its description of David as shepherd of Israel (Ezek. 34:15, 23). Our Creator was revealing that He and David—the chosen Messiah ...Read More

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When Israel withdrew unilaterally from Gaza, Scott and others expressed concern that al Qaeda and other terrorist groups (in addition to Hamas, of course) would move into the resulting power vacuum. It appears that those concerns were well founded. Today's Jerusalem Post reports:
Has al-Qaida started operating in the Gaza Strip? A leaflet distributed in Khan Yunis over the weekend by al-Qaida's "Palestine branch" announced that the terrorist group has begun working towards uniting the Muslims under one Islamic state.
"The Muslim nation has been subjected, through various periods, to conspiracies by the infidels," the leaflet said. "[The infidels] have brought down the Islamic Caliphate, dividing the nation into small and weak states. They also managed to dilute the Islamic and character of the nation."
The leaflet said unity was the only way for Muslims to achieve victory over their enemies, adding that the terrorist group's chief goal was to enforce Islamic law in the entire world.
The leaflet, signed by al-Qaida of Jihad in Palestine, is the latest indication of al-Qaida's effort to establish itself in the Gaza Strip after the Israeli withdrawal from the area.
More tangible signs of al Qaeda's presence are also starting to appear:
According to [Gaza resident] Nizar, some areas in the southern Gaza Strip are already beginning to resemble Afghanistan when it was ruled by the Taliban. "This is very disturbing," he remarked. "You see more and more women covering their faces and in the mosques you hear extremely radical sermons. The people there are behaving as if they were members of a tribe in Afghanistan."
The Post reports that Palestinians have responded with "mixed feelings" to reports that al Qaeda is now active among them. They might want to talk to some Iraqis before becoming too enthusiastic.
It is certainly not good news that al Qaeda is extending its influence into Gaza. On the other hand, this development may expose and finally bring to a head a fundamental contradiction in American foreign policy. It is a basic strategic goal of American policy, as emphasized just a few days ago in President Bush's speech to the National Endowment for Democracy, to prevent al Qaeda and similar terrorist groups from taking over a failed nation-state, as they did in Afghanistan. Consistent with this policy, it is hard to imagine that the Bush administration can permit al Qaeda to use Gaza or the West Bank as a base for international terrorism.
At the same time, American policy toward Israel and its Palestinian neighbors has been more or less even-handed, with the administration now having endorsed Palestinian statehood. Successive American administrations have pressured Israel to disengage from the Palestinian territories, while viewing the terrorism that would inevitably result as Israel's problem.
But with al Qaeda present, it isn't just Israel's problem anymore. And it will no longer be possible to sustain the logical inconsistency of considering terrorism against Israel to be somehow different from terrorism directed against everyone else.
When pressed for an alternative to President Bush's policy of vigorous military action against Islamic terrorism, the suggestion most often given by those on the left is to sell out Israel. They blame the terrorists' antipathy toward the U.S. on our friendship with Israel, and argue that if America pursued a more pro-Palestinian policy, the terrorists would leave us alone. We have always thought this was folly, for a number of reasons.
But the time may be fast approaching when this debate becomes moot. When it becomes clear that al Qaeda intends to use Gaza as a base for international terrorism, the administration will have no choice but to face up to the dangers posed by the Palestinians' failure to develop a normal civil society, and to think seriously about what can be done to mitigate those dangers.


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Let the Games Begin: Business Lab Uses Competition in Research
The Center and Laboratory for Behavioral Operations and Economics recently opened in the Naveen Jindal School of Management with one main purpose: to play games.
Both the center and its co-directors have roots in the Laboratory for Economic Management and Auctions at Pennsylvania State University. And the hope, co-director Elena Katok says, is to extend that work at The University of Texas at Dallas.
"We hope they'll have fun, but we want the prime motivation to be money," Dr. Elena Katok says of the lab volunteers. "It's best for the research."
"This lab is a great opportunity to test analytical models for applications," Dr. Katok says. "There is so much that can be learned by how human beings interact in business."
The games are a central part of the research. UT Dallas student volunteers go to the computer lab on the first floor of the JSOM building to participate in simulated business situations. They deal in everything from bargaining to auctions, and their success in the games leads to cash in their wallets.
"It's very important that the incentives are highly controlled," says Katok, an Ashbel Smith Professor and a professor of operations management. "We're paying them based on how well they succeed…We hope they'll have fun, but we want the prime motivation to be money…It's best for the research."
The results already have yielded their share of the unexpected. "In bargaining, we've been surprised by how much fairness comes into play," says Katok, who teaches courses on purchasing and sourcing and behavioral operations. "In some of the procurement settings, we've found people are more honest than maybe you would think."
Dr. Gary Bolton wants area companies to view the lab and its research as a resource.
Katok and her co-director — and spouse — Dr. Gary Bolton prefer not to say how much a successful student can earn from the games, which are funded by the National Science Foundation and the JSOM.
Katok, who uses these competitions in her courses, says they can be part of research for other faculty and students. Other researchers need to obtain Institutional Review Board clearance from the UT Dallas Office of Research and then schedule lab time through Katok. But the spirit of the lab, filled with 34 computers specifically calibrated for business-related quantification, is definitely inclusive, Katok says.
Bolton, holder of the O.P. Jindal Chair and a professor of managerial economics in Jindal School, says the ultimate goal is to marry published results with real-world application. "In the future, we want to be working with top companies in the area. We want them to see us as a resource."
Katok says she and Bolton are pleased with their participants to date. "Many students here also work as managers," she says, "so you're getting research from people who can really understand business at a high level."
The center also offers seminars. This school year, Dr. Damian Beil, an associate professor at the University of Michigan, gave a presentation on cost modeling in bid procurement, and Dr. Enno Siemsen, an assistant professor at the University of Minnesota, lectured on the behavioral side of forecasting processes. Dr. Ben Greiner, a senior lecturer from the University of New South Wales, gave a talk on dealing with ultimatum bargaining.
Story written and reported by free-lance writer Eric Butterman
Media Contact: The Office of Media Relations, UT Dallas, (972) 883-2155, [email protected].


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HBO's salute to season two of "Girls" saw the sitcom's lead quartet — Lena Dunham, Jemima Kirke, Allison Williams and Zosia Mamet — besieged by photogs and well-wishers at NYU's Skirball Center, where three new episodes unspooled Jan. 9.
Big changes are evident. Williams, especially, has been flabbergasted by "the major change — all of it!" for her Marnie Michaels character. It's why she's up late certain nights.
"Scripts come to your inbox at midnight the night before the table read, and I always stay up and read them. Ferociously. For just this kind of thing," Williams said.
For Andrew Rannells, season two is discovery time. "He realizes he's actually gay," Rannells said of his character's failed attempt at heterosexuality. "Although Allison is a lovely person to try it with."
As for the backlash that "Girls" is a lot of navel-gazing by privileged females, Dunham was not available to defend her show, but Williams, referring to a piece in the Los Angeles Times, came to the rescue: "As Lena said, anything that sparks a debate or conversation is inherently interesting or thought-provoking. There was a lot of praise lavished; that's important and definitely met. But look at our world, no one agrees on everything."
Added Rannells: "Most of that controversy worked itself out. Particularly with this second season, Lena, maybe not directly, addresses some of that."


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Whiteboard: How to Determine the Value of a Project
Given the very uncertain state of the economy and the spending constraints under which every corporation is operating, CIOs are looking for new ways to defend their IT projects.
But deciding which projects to shelve and which to move ahead on is tough. In the past, such calls were highly subjective: There was little hard data to show how a project would affect the bottom line. Senior management might demand an analysis of return on investment, but even that is frequently a best-guess estimate, based as much on promises from vendors as on objectively derived numbers. The result: More large-scale initiatives keep coming in over budget, past deadline and without adding any clear and measurable value to the company.
But what if CIOs thought more like investment managers, who spend every day of their working lives using quantitative analysis to manage the value of potential investments? This whiteboard presents a way to determine the value of an IT investment to a company's bottom line in terms of its likely addition to the company's share price. It is based on the concept of discounted cash flow-the present value of the money the new system will bring in over the course of its life. The authors, Christopher Gardner, formerly head of PricewaterhouseCoopers' IT strategy group, and Ray Trotta, a former financial services consultant at KPMG-and now cofounders of iValue-developed this methodology as part of an overall effort to construct an objective basis for making IT investment decisions, selecting the most valuable investments and managing projects.
The goal of this whiteboard is not to turn CIOs into CFOs, but to acquaint them with the kind of thinking that executive teams are increasingly using to determine what their companies should invest in. To that end, this whiteboard is designed to provide a guide to the logic behind quantitatively valuing IT projects, rather than a step-by-step guide to evaluating your own projects. There is no guarantee that any project you analyze will throw off the benefits you've calculated. Indeed, the process of calculating the benefits and the cost of any particular project go beyond what can be described in this whiteboard (For more information on calculating the benefits for the case study presented in the whiteboard,
The whiteboard comprises four PDF pages that can be printed out on standard 8.5" X 11" paper.
Christopher Gardner is a partner and cofounder of iValue, an IT strategy firm based in New York, and the author of The Valuation of Information Technology: A Guide for Strategy Development, Valuation and Financial Planning (John Wiley & Sons, 2000). Ray Trotta, a partner and cofounder of iValue, teaches, speaks and consults on technology and finance topics. He is also a member of the graduate school faculty of the Walter E. Heller College of Business Administration at Roosevelt University.
This article was originally published on 11-21-2002


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SANTA ANA, Calif. — A woman was convicted Monday of drugging her estranged husband, cutting off his penis and tossing it in the garbage disposal.
Jurors found Catherine Kieu guilty of torture and aggravated mayhem for the July 11, 2011, attack.
Sentencing was scheduled for June 28. Kieu faces a maximum sentence of life in prison with possibility of parole, the Orange County district attorney's office said.
"This woman went to extreme lengths to destroy this man's manhood by placing it in the garbage disposal," Deputy District Attorney John Christl said in an interview after the verdict. "She did this out of vengeance, vanity and jealousy."
During trial, the 60-year-old victim testified that his penis could not be reattached and that he felt as though he had been murdered.
Christl told jurors that Kieu, 50, drugged the man's tofu with sleeping pills and screamed "You deserve it!" before attacking him with a 10-inch kitchen knife.
Kieu was jealous and angry about her husband's plans to divorce her because he was seeing his ex-girlfriend, the prosecution said.
Audio of the incident was captured by a voice-activated recorder Kieu had hidden in the bedroom, Christl said.
The man, who is not being named by The Associated Press because of the nature of the attack, married Kieu after they met at a gym but soon subjected Kieu to verbal and sexual abuse, Kieu's public defender, Frank Bittar, said during trial.
Kieu had mental health problems caused by a childhood full of molestation and other trauma in war-torn Vietnam, and her husband also constantly demanded sex in ways that caused her pain, Bittar said.
Bittar did not immediately return a call seeking comment after the verdict.
The prosecutor discounted that argument.
"I think the jury was able to see through the evidence," Christl said after the verdict. "There were no facts or evidence presented other than the defendant's own statements to her doctor about sexual abuse."


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Lying As an Act of Love
Experiments have found that ordinary people tell about two lies every ten minutes. I don't see how that's possible, as I've been alone the last hour writing this piece (oh dear, am I making it up as I go along?). However, the half-hour before that, I averaged about fifteen per minute.
"What are you eating, Mom?" (I'm shoving chocolate-dipped macaroons into my mouth at an ugly pace…)
"Carrots! Want some?"
Robert Feldman, a social psychologist at the University of Massachusetts found that liars tend to be more popular than honest people (think politics). Because social skills involve telling people what they want to hear (things that aren't, um, true). The more social grace a person possesses, experiments say, the more willingness and ability he has to deceive.
But some lies are meant as acts of love. Truly. Parents lie to protect their kids from distressing or harmful facts (your uncle crosses his eyes because of a vision impairment…not because he's a sloppy drunk; daddy went on a business trip…not down the road to a hotel because we can't figure out whether or not to divorce).
Ever since I got summoned to jury duty awhile ago, I've been paying attention to lies. More than a few people said to me, "Just say something racist. You'll get out of it."
Um. Yeah. I could do that. But I have something inside me called a Catholic conscience. My conscience makes a dinging sound every time I approach the danger zone: where my depression is hovering like a hawk to feast on all the guilt (and I've given up trying to feel less guilty).
So, these are the lies my Catholic conscience condones:
- Perpetuating myths of Santa, the Easter Bunny, and all kinds of fairies (Tooth, Diaper, Binky)
- Fibbing to the kids for reasons of discipline ("Your teeth will rot if you don't brush"), nutrition ("Mommy's eating carrots, not frozen Kit-Kats"), health ("The shots won't hurt"), or recreation ("Barney will make you stupid and unpopular")
- Deceiving for the purpose of surprise birthday parties or similar ocassions (my aunt Kay can't even do that, God love her)
- "Forgetting" certain details of my mental health record (when dealing with bureaucratic crap like renewing my driver's license or background checks for a part-time job)
- And telling falsehoods for convenience matters ("Yes, this luggage has been with me the whole time,"…except for when the stranger next to me watched it so I could change my babies' diapers with two hands.)
Of course there are also those forced compliments (the ugly baby dilemma):
- Including reactions to artistic expressions by people who shouldn't hold a paint brush or a microphone but really like to ("I love it!" I say to the novice artist who shows me a portrait of moi that resembles Michael Jackson with Hillary Swank cheek bones; "You sounded great," I say to my sister who sings the national anthem when she gets drunk)
- Feedback on attire ("Yes, the pants are flattering," I say to a friend who has just bought a ridiculously expensive pair of pants which add at least ten pounds to her butt)
- And weight matters ("No, you don't look heavier," I say to a sister who has gone up at least one size).
Then there are the deceptions that set off my depression alarm:
- Lying for a co-worker who is having an affair (can't do it, get someone else)
- Hiding something from Eric that he deserves to know
- Ignoring a pretty serious breach of trust in a friendship
- Denying that a friend's statement hurt my feelings when it did
- Pretending I'm okay with a neighbor whom I've very pissed off at because he stole my babysitter.
But what do you do when the truth hurts?
When "honesty bumps up against other values"? asks Bella DePaulo, a social psychologist at the University of California at Santa Barbara who once conducted a study in which she asked people to recall the worst lie told them, and the worst lie they ever told. Many young people said that the worst lie was told by a parent, but DePaulo found that the parent thought that lying was the right thing to do, that they weren't deceptions but acts of love.
Borchard, T. (2018). Lying As an Act of Love. Psych Central. Retrieved on December 4, 2020, from https://psychcentral.com/blog/lying-as-an-act-of-love/
Last reviewed: By a member of our scientific advisory board on 8 Jul 2018
Published on Psych Central.com. All rights reserved.


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This is the fourth installment of a 5 part workshop integrating the work of Kannan with EFT and The Work of Byron Katie. Enjoy!
If you like this video, please visit my main website, KerriKannan.com.
This is the fourth installment of a 5 part workshop integrating the work of Kannan with EFT and The Work of Byron Katie. Enjoy!
If you like this video, please visit my main website, KerriKannan.com.
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I have been using The Work of Byron Katie for several years and have started using some of her inquiry questions with EFT. I created a 5 part mini workshop that integrates some of it which I posted on Youtube.
For more information about me and my work, visit my main website, KerriKannan.com
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Listen to Kerri Kannan as a special guest with Laurie Huston on her show Intuitive Soul. Find out how to release limiting thinking, discover hidden blocks to self love and unveil your life purpose.
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This Workshop was developed through my personal experience. It was first written in 1998, here it is presented in its original format and is still useful to people today. I hope you find it useful. Feel free to print this out provided you include the copyright information and website information intact.
I found that my image of self was cultivated during early childhood and therefore; this workshop is centered on childhood wounds. There are some people who may not fit into this category, who later in life found that they sensed deficiencies within themselves, or in their lives. I have included a couple of articles in this workshop to show some of the success stories of some of these people and how they turned their negative feelings into positive accomplishments. If you feel that these experiences speak more clearly to you than the childhood wound experiences, just alter the time line to be later in their development of self.
God is also used frequently within this workshop and I use this generically. The word God to me represents the Universal Force, Divine Spirit, Jesus, Allah, Eck, Great Spirit, as well as the many other names that are used for the One who is All. Because God is eternal, I believe Soul is eternal. We are all Soul which is energy; energy is never lost so I also believe in reincarnation.
The message within this workshop can be applied whether you believe in reincarnation or not. It is my opinion that if we do not figure out what our purpose is in this lifetime, we will have to go through the same "course study" in our next lifetime. This is not central to all belief systems, so any mention of reincarnation in the workshop has been omitted. I have decided to concentrate on the present lifetime and will perhaps develop a workshop at a later time dealing more with reincarnation.
I truly hope that this workshop helps you find the Divine within yourself, as I have found. It focuses mostly on the recognition of the whole self who is God. Once you recognize who you are, you may feel that the life you are living seems meaningless unless you are already doing what you were sent to earth to do. There are a couple of articles included to help you to fulfill your purpose once you figure out what it is. I will be developing a workshop in the future that deals with fulfilling your Life Purpose. Thank you for your participation. Namaste
Copyright 1998 © Kerri Kannan http://www.healingcenter.com
When I was a child, I used to believe that I was going to be famous. I was in love with Donny Osmond and watched Sonny and Cher every week. I can remember singing "Don't go Breakin' my Heart" by Elton John and Kiki Dee when I was five years old from start to finish. My mother was amazed at how I knew all the words by heart. I knew I would be a singer and told everyone that I was going to be a singer when I grew up.
One day, I was in the car with an adult relative and was asked the question of what I was going to be when I grew up, I replied, "A singer." What followed next, changed my attitude about myself into my adult life.
My relative replied, "A singer, well you better lose some weight if you want to be a singer. Singers are skinny." I was crushed. So young and impressionable, I believed that this was true. I tried thinking of all the singers I could and none of the ones I could think of were overweight. I remember thinking of Captain and Tenille, Marie Osmond, and Cher. Even the Magic Garden women were skinny. (I didn't know who Aretha Franklin was at the time or I would have probably challenged the response.)
When I was 8 years old, I was in ballet class and had a mean old ballet teacher who probably loved ballet but obviously didn't like kids, especially chubby kids. One day while warming up, we were doing splits, (and to this day, I can drop down and do a straight split at any moment.) This particular day, we were doing Russian splits and I couldn't get my legs to be perfectly straight. She got frustrated with me and called me a "Fat tub o' Lard." I told my mom and was promptly pulled out of ballet class.
In addition to this feeling of being physically inadequate, I inherited a weak bladder from my mother. Both she and I had problems into early adolescence, (we outgrew it) of not being able to hold any liquid in our bladders. Once I had to go to the bathroom, I had to go immediately. If I didn't get to a bathroom within seconds, I would have an accident. There was no such thing as "holding it" for me and consequently, I would have many accidents; sometimes, two in one day. Because of this, I was ridiculed by my peers and too often, humiliated by adults who thought that this method of humiliation would make me stop having this problem. This was something I could not control and felt ashamed and helpless everytime it happened. I was beating myself up enough, I didn't need the help of unsympathetic adults to reinforce what a "baby" I was.
When I was 8, my parents got divorced. They were each going through their own pains at the time and didn't realize how that was affecting their children. My mother who had custody at the time, I think had her first taste of freedom in her life and went a little overboard while leaving my brother, sister and myself with an aunt. She wouldn't come to us after work, and this was a period of feeling very unloved and unimportant to me.
In my child mind, I couldn't see that she was working overtime and doing the best she could with her situation. On the weekends, my father would take us, but he was always working and we didn't really get to spend any quality time with him either. This made the little girl in me feel very unloved and unimportant. I was not mature enough to recognize that everyone involved was coping the best way they could with the situation at hand.
The memories of this crushing of my spirit, reinforcing feelings of inadequacy at a very young age, formed a pattern into my adulthood. I had a hard time finding a good job where I could support myself and feel I was doing well. I pushed love interests away by sabotaging anything that resembled a relationship, by either being too clingy or needy, or by being too aggressive. I often had a hard time standing up for myself in certain situations. I would just let it slide and cry about it later, as I did when I was a child every time I was humiliated by a judgmental adult.
In February 1993, I got a job in the Cayman Islands as an Interior Designer straight out of College and lived there for a year-and-a-half. I had a 2-year contract. However, when a Caymanian who had been a summer intern wanted full time employment upon graduating from college, I had to leave before the end of my contract because I no longer had my job.
On one hand, I was disappointed to have to leave and was going to try to fight it. I had finally gotten settled and made some really interesting friends through the Cayman Drama Society. I was also asked to produce the next show. Upon further contemplation, I realized that I was really not happy there and the only saving grace was the people I had recently come to meet.
Three months prior to my departure, a dear friend, whose family I had adopted as my extended family, left the island and moved to Delaware. When I really looked around, I saw that most of the people who I had come to know within the year and three months prior to my joining the drama society were leaving around the same time as me.
After I got back to the states, I moved back in with my parents and had a really hard time finding a good job. I was substitute teaching and working in my father's restaurant during most of the year, jumping from job-to-job, in-between looking for something more fulfilling. During the summer, I would always land a really great job, but it only lasted a season. After 2 years of this pattern, I finally got kicked out of the house.
I spent the next month, November, with a dear friend who let me stay in a room for 1-month. In December, I started house sitting for my former summer boss who was going to be in the city all winter and needed someone to watch his house. During that time, I reached my rock bottom. I found a job in a trendy mall restaurant where I discovered that although I grew up in the restaurant business, I wasn't cut out to be a waitress. I was so desperate to have a job, any job, that I was commuting an hour-and-45-minutes to get to this place and was making peanuts. I cried often and loudly and realized that there had to be something better for me.
My brother came home for Christmas 1996 and convinced me to move out of New York. I had 2 choices, move to Minneapolis and be close to my brother or move to North Carolina and be close to my sister. Although I had always been closest to my sister, I decided on Minneapolis for reasons which didn't make sense to me at the time, however they proved to be correct. Something inside of me kept nagging that I had to move to Minnesota because my future husband was waiting there for me. I moved to Minnesota and sure enough, the day after I got there, I met my future husband.
During my first year in Minnesota, I was still jumping from job-to-job. I found a decent job in a furniture store as an in-house Interior Designer. However, the longer I stayed there, the longer I realized this wasn't what I wanted. But I didn't really know what I wanted.
I was getting married in April 1998 and decided that when I left for my honeymoon, I was leaving there for good. This time, I would find something more fulfilling.
We got back from our honeymoon and I started to look into myself again to see where I was going next. I didn't really have to worry about money anymore because my husband was making three times my earnings and encouraged me to find my dream.
During this period, I had a "spiritual awakening." I found through retracing my patterns from childhood, that somewhere along the line, I lost faith in myself. I saw myself as inadequate. Those feelings related to my increase in weight and my lack of what I called a decent salary. This is where I needed to do my work. I first needed to love and value myself in order to be valued by others.
I found that once I recognized what it was that I must do, an immediate recognition of spirit came over me. I no longer blamed the people in the past who hurt me. Instead, I joyously thanked them out loud while dancing around my living room while a whirlwind of emotions came over me. Without their harsh words and judgments, I would not have so profoundly recognized that I am perfect, the way God made me. Without those harsh judgments, I would not have recognized that I did not love myself. I recognized that in accepting myself fully, I discovered the unlimited supply of love that I could now feel within. I could now see what I was sent to do. I needed to teach others to love themselves by showing them the methods that I used to uncover my own divine spirit within.
It is through this work with myself and the lessons that I learned through spirit, that I am meant to teach others to love themselves. This is my purpose, the contract that I signed before birth that I must fulfill in this lifetime. I pray that you find that this is a useful tool and find that your life flows more smoothly with an abundance of joy, health, wealth, and love.
Copyright 1998 © Kerri Kannan http://www.healingcenter.com
The human experience is the one thing that we all share. When we were born, we were born into families that would teach us the lessons that we need to learn in order to reach our highest potential. This does not mean that all of us were born into the most supportive of circumstances. For the most part, the opposite is true. Throughout childhood, we are taught the illusion that things are done to us and we can not be responsible for ourselves. We are taught an illusion that we may have certain character weaknesses such as being overactive and unable to concentrate, abused and a victim of our environment, or any number of dysfunctions. It is up to us to recognize these dysfunctions, accept them as part of ourselves, and they will eventually be seen as our greatest strengths and a platform for our highest achievements.
When we look into our childhood, many of us do not see it as perfect. Many people were neglected or abused; we felt unloved or unappreciated. Children bury their feelings when they are not treated with respect, honesty, and consideration. Many children blame themselves if a marriage is breaking up or if there are financial difficulties. Children may carry the guilt of a parent leaving or feel responsible if they are shuffled from foster-home to foster-home. Children do not understand that these are problems that their parents have, not them.
Because of this, many children harbor feelings of worthlessness, inability to be loved and give love. They feel they were abandoned because they were bad, etc. Too often, these feelings are brought into adulthood and manifest as adult behavior. As adults, we can plainly see how other adults may not treat others fairly. We do not, however, normally recognize that this person is a product of their upbringing and has their own wounds to overcome.
You can see "Bad Parenting" every time you go into a supermarket. Oftentimes, the parent never learned how to be a good parent and is just leading by example. Unfortunately, the effects of "Bad Parenting" do not end with childhood. It manifests into the adulthood of the ill-treated child and, many times, the behavior cycle will be repeated in the next generation unless the person affected by "Bad Parenting" has the strength to look inside to see who they really are. They must dig really deeply to see the root cause of the pain within themselves that causes them to inflict this pain on others. If this is not recognized, the pattern will repeat. Unless the adult person is ready and willing to face the pain of the past, they will not mature and transcend it. They will, instead, deal with the problem later, on a superficial basis; or they will hope that it will just go away. Unfortunately, this does not usually happen and by the time they are forced to face it, the problem has reached crisis proportions.
In the following series of questions, we will uncover the areas of our childhood where we expressed our spirit through laughter and fun. We will see where we were supported and where we were not. We will see where we were stunted and where we were encouraged in our growth. We will touch on our perceived positive and negative qualities and how we came to recognize them as categorizations of positive and negative.
1. Write down something you loved to do as a child.
2. Do you still do this? If not, why not? Did you outgrow it or stop doing it for a reason?
3. What do you love to do now? What is your passion? Do you have one?
4. Can you think of any talents such as creativity or the ability to figure out how things work; maybe an inherent knowledge about materials and their properties or being able to somehow communicate with animals? Anything that you brought into your adult life.
5. Name between 3 and 10 things that you love about yourself. Can you think of any unique things that you know or can do?
6. Name between 1 and 10 things you don't like about yourself. Is there a common thread between all the things you don't like about yourself? If so, write that down.
7. Did you have a happy childhood? Were you supported in your development? Name as many instances as you can where you felt totally supported as a child.
Take a look at the traits and characteristics that you don't like about yourself, compare them to the traits and characteristics that you do like. By themselves, can you see anything negative about these characteristics? If a child who you love told you that they had these negative feelings about themselves, what would you say to the child to help him or her to see past the perceived imperfections?
Copyright 1998 © Kerri Kannan http://www.healingcenter.com
When delving into the depths of spirit to find our wounds, many of us have no idea where to start. We know that there are certain things about ourselves that we don't like and on the surface we can even rattle them off as if they were a grocery list. What we do not recognize is where and when we concluded that these specific characteristics were unacceptable. We are also often unaware that they are often all linked to a central core or root that branches off and manifests as symptoms of the core hatred. We are so busy beating ourselves up for our perceived imperfections that we have forgotten why we started beating ourselves up in the first place.
It is against our conditioning to fully accept ourselves as whole and completely love ourselves as we are. Most of us beat ourselves up because of negative experiences in childhood where we learned to only accept some parts of ourselves and reject others. We take over beating ourselves up where our childhood experiences left off. Why do we continually judge ourselves and others for what we perceive as imperfections? What is an imperfection? Is it some physical or emotional trait that in the eyes of God is unacceptable? Is it possible for God, who is love, to create anything less than perfect, or is it a method of self-destruction that keeps us from truly experiencing love?
When we beat ourselves up for what we perceive as imperfections, we are denying ourselves of the true love of self. It is not possible to halfheartedly love ourselves; we either do, or we do not. We are all part of God and because of that, we are all perfect. If this were not true, God who lives in all things, would not be perfect. God is love and therefore once you find love for yourself, you will find God within.
Searching for the roots of our wounds is not easy. We must mentally relive the most difficult times of our lives; the events that made us feel the most inadequate. The moments when we were freely expressing ourselves and felt a choking of our spirit. The moments where we fell victim to insane judgments and believed that they were true. These moments are the pinnacle points where our feelings of self-love and acceptance were crushed because of our false perceptions of our own imperfections.
What sane adult would blame a child for being beaten by an adult four times his size? This is an insane perception. However, the child would most likely grow up believing that he was beaten due to some fault of his own. A child cannot step back to look objectively at his surroundings. The conditioning that we receive as children is normally what we believe as adults. The abused child will most likely grow up with a feeling of inadequacy, self-hatred and guilt for reasons he can not define.
Once we are brave enough to revisit the past and identify the core of our self-loathing, and identify the core, we are well on our way to loving ourselves again and finding God within.
1. Are there any incidences you can remember involving your parents or primary caregiver that were very powerful and left you with a feeling of being unappreciated, hurt, humiliated or unloved? Can you still remember the incident? Do you still cringe or get angry? Please write down the incident in as much detail as you can.
2. Are there any incidences you can remember involving a teacher or mentor that were very powerful and left you feeling unappreciated, hurt, humiliated or unloved? Can you remember the incident? Do you still cringe or get angry? Please write down the incident in as much detail as you can.
3. Can you remember any incidences involving strangers or other children that were very powerful and left you feeling unappreciated, hurt, humiliated or unloved? Can you remember the incident? Do you still cringe or get angry? Please write down the incident in as much detail as you can.
4. Can you think of any incidences that reinforce any of your childhood wounds as an adult? Any situations that left you feeling unappreciated, hurt, humiliated or unloved? Please write down the incident in as much detail as you can.
5. Can you think of any incidences in your adult life that left you feeling helpless or forsaken? Please write the incident down in as much detail as you can. Please include any feelings you can express.
Write a letter to the people who hurt you in childhood and explain to them how they hurt you. You don�t have to send it, just putting it down on paper should be enough. Many times, people have no idea what affect they have had on people. A passing comment may have an emotional impact for life. If you feel compelled, you can call the person and explain to them as an adult how this affected you.
Copyright 1998 © Kerri Kannan http://www.healingcenter.com
For most of us, recognizing our true selves takes a lifetime of searching, discovering truths, regressing to old patterns, and then recognizing ourselves again. We will take "two steps forward, and one step back." This is all in God's plan. Each time we take those two steps, we see the next level that we will eventually incorporate into our lives and believe as truth. When we take the step back, we are reevaluating what we have already learned and landing on the foundation which we have already built.
During the time of my writing this, my two steps are fresh in my memory. I have realized that I must teach others what I have learned in order to truly understand my experience. A Course In Miracles teaches that we are all teachers and we are all students. Once we recognize what it is that we must do, we must teach it so that we can better learn it. Everyone taking this course is my teacher as well as I am yours. I am helping you to find your wholeness and you are helping me to solidify my truth.
It is through finding your truth that you must teach others. Only you can truly find it for yourself. This workshop is a guide and I hope you will use it often when you feel that you have taken that step back. I have given you a tool to help you find those parts of yourself which you reject. It is up to you to recognize, acknowledge, accept and transform those thoughts into love.
Most importantly, I have found that asking for help from God to release negative attitudes about myself has been most useful. God helps us through baby steps. We must first take the first step, then we are given the second. We may recognize God's help through a song we can't get out of our head, or a book that "jumps" off the shelf, or through a conversation at the next table in a restaurant where we feel they are talking directly to us. It is also helpful to remember that we are all part of God, working together toward deliverance. Wherever you are on your journey, do not get frustrated with yourself. Be patient, ask for help and you will find help in the least expected places.
1. Do people tell you things about yourself that you find hard to accept or believe? For example, have you ever been told you were a genius or a natural leader, or beautiful and thought that the person just didn't know you well enough or was just saying that to make you feel good?
2. When you say this sentence to yourself, what does your rational brain tell you? "I am a wonderful, lovable person and I love every aspect of myself unconditionally."
3. Take some time to evaluate your answers and write down any thoughts that you have. Write down any common themes in your answers.
4. Now, take some time to do a little inner self-reflection. What is it that you judge most harshly about yourself? This is the part of yourself that you must acknowledge and accept in order to start your journey toward wholeness.
5. Now, do this little exercise. Find a quiet place and sit in a comfortable chair. Take 5 deep breaths, all the way in and all the way out. With each inhaled breath, inhale love and happiness. With each exhaled breath, exhale self judgment, fear, and hatred. Once you are comfortable and feel the love bursting to break free, ask the God to take all your regrets, painful memories, fears, and judgments from the past and transform them into strength, happiness, acceptance and love. Give thanks and open your eyes when you are ready.
Copyright 1998 © Kerri Kannan http://www.healingcenter.com
The power of thought is not yet fully understood. It is not just thinking that something will happen that makes it happen, it is also feeling in our hearts and down to our bones that something is true that makes it happen. If we say we are worthy of making a great salary, but do not feel that way down to our core, it is the same as not believing we can make a great salary. The good thing about thought is that we can train ourselves to believe whatever we want. We were trained to believe that we have inadequacies which we did not believe before we entered into this lifetime, and therefore, we can train ourselves to believe the opposite of those thought patterns. Just because we can change our thought patterns does not mean it is easy. It took us our entire lifetime to believe what we do about ourselves now. It could take that amount of time to heal our thoughts about ourselves.
There are many people who have publicly praised the power of thought and how it changed their lives. These people have used methods of visualization, affirmations and other tools to transform themselves and their lives into something more preferable.
In order to change ones mind, we must first recognize what destructive thought patterns we believe. Upon identification of these patterns, we can then work on changing those patterns. For example: We may think that we are fat and tell ourselves that we are thin. For me, this is not where my negative pattern is rooted. My negative pattern is in my lack of self-love. Telling myself "I am thin" will not work because this is only a symptom. By telling myself that I love myself unconditionally, this will allow me to accept my body as it is and not obsess over my weight.
I saw myself as unworthy of love, and therefore attributed it to my weight, not my heart. I may eventually lose the excess weight that I have, however, I will no longer obsess over it. I am for the first time in my life accepting myself as I am, and loving what I see. Now when I look at myself in the mirror, I see a sexy goddess, not an unlovable fatso. I now like the extra flesh on my bones, I look a bit like a Rubens nude.
The transformation of thought about myself has not made me look any differently than I did before I had the change of thought. However, I now see myself in such a positive light that I now feel ten times sexier and more lovable than before. It is I who previously made the harsh judgments about myself. If you feel great about yourself, people will see you as the self image you project. Whatever you feel about yourself is projected in your energy, nothing else.
1. Can you think of any tragedies that happened in your childhood or adult life? How did this affect you? How did you cope with the tragedy? Search your feelings, do you still feel emotionally scarred?
2. Do you somehow feel responsible for this tragedy? Do you have any regrets regarding this tragedy? Do you harbor any judgments regarding this tragedy? If so, please write in as much detail as you can the events and your feelings toward all involved with this/these event/s.
3. Can you see any patterns between these harsh judgments and the way you see yourself today? Do you feel unappreciated, stupid, restricted, fat, lazy, crazy, or do you have any other feelings that you are somehow not a wonderful blessed lovable person?
4. Can you find a link between thoughts and feelings in childhood where you were hurt and your thoughts about yourself today? If so, how do these feelings affect your adult life?
5. Can you see a pattern or patterns between your impressions as a child and your thoughts and actions as an adult?
6. Can you see how these thoughts are ingrained in you after years of self unacceptance? Do you see how these thoughts manifest in your body, love life, paycheck and your health.
Copyright 1998 © Kerri Kannan
I have found that there are a couple of tools that help me to remember who I am and what my purpose is in this life. The first is to say or write affirmations to myself. I find that the most powerful ones, are the ones that at first seemed the most contrary to my current thought processes. It is not so important that you believe them at first, because the more you say them, the more they become a part of your consciousness and the easier it becomes to change your mind to believing they are true. In effect, by saying them, you will eventually believe and they will manifest as reality in your life. The key is to believe it in your heart and your head. I will give you a few examples:
1. I unconditionally love and accept myself exactly the way I am.
2. There is a limitless supply and it is mine.
3. I am financially secure.
4. I am surrounded by loving, giving people.
5. I release my need to feel needy.
6. I have everything I want or need.
7. I release my fear of wealth and wellness.
8. I allow myself to prosper.
9. I trust that I will create abundance.
10. I have more than I need in every area of life
11. I am loved, accepted, acknowledged, and appreciated.
12. I have the resources to develop my creative expression.
13. I freely express my creativity.
14. I am living my dream.
15. I have plenty of time and money.
16. I can accomplish anything.
17. With Gods help, I can do anything.
18. I give my will to God for without me, God is incomplete.
19. I am a feminine, sexy woman and deserve to have a fantastic body. (masculine, sexy man)
20. Infinite intelligence within me processes whatever I eat to maintain my perfect weight of___.
You can also make up your own affirmations as these only scrape the surface of all that is good and needed in people's lives.
Copyright 1998 © Kerri Kannan
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I created this video for Effortless Life Transformation. For maximum benefit, use headphones and listen often. You will know the video is working by the feeling you feel in your heart and the potential tears of joy you may cry.
This video has subliminal affirmations to help bypass the rational mind so the affirmations can reach your subconscious mind without being negated. In the spirit of transparency, I have included the list in its unabridged version in the link below. Although there are approximately 150 affirmations in this video, there are no subliminal statements other than the ones stated in the list in the link. The video is 6 minutes long.
For a complete unabridged list of the subliminal affirmations, please click on this link, http://www.kerrikannan.com/LYL_Video_affirm.html
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I've been having discussions with some friends in a spiritual forum and the topic of being in a committed relationship versus a non-attached (or non-committed if you prefer) relationship came up. I guess the idea has been in the air for a while, and I noticed it first in my other blog, World Awakened with a submission by Phil Beaumont, called Come Empty and then another article I posted, called The Honeymoon that Never Ends that was written by Osho.
There is much confusion around the idea of non-attachment based relationships. We generally feel that we need to have someone with us to help fulfill our needs and emotional security. We then compromise ourselves because we feel that what the other person is offering holds more value than the freedom from attachments and expectations.
Below is a response I have written to a thread reagarding relationships and why people will often hear me say that Love is Freedom.
I perceive the more space one allows in any relationship, the more freedom to allow ourselves and the other to "BE" and the more we actually create a deeper bond. Freedom in love is not based on attachments and obligations, but based on an appreciation for freedom that space allows. The relationship may shift and morph and change into different expressions, but there seems to be more incentive to actually grow together and a willingness to be completely open and honest and transparent… because there is nothing to "lose." In non-attachment, the ability to be totally honest and open is even MORE present (at least for me) because I am in relationship for my Growth and I have a partner who reflects that for me in an intimate way. If I feel I can be completely honest with someone and they are open to that, it is a far greater gift than being in a "committed" relationship where vows and contracts are made. Being in a "committed" relationship feels more to me like (and I may be a bit jaded here) it is an ending or a closing off of love and there is a greater chance of taking it for granted and no actual growth or honesty or openness is required because it is a "done deal."
Being in a non-attached or non-committed relationship allows me to push beyond my boundaries and be completely honest with myself in a way a committed relationship doesn't allow. One is a done deal and I feel like I am confined in a box and it confines Life, the other feels like I am in a relationship with Life itself and my partner is there to help me see aspects of myself that I would not have seen without him. It is taken moment by moment which allows for little surprises and a freshness that the other does not.
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The RIO is an I/O expansion card intended for use with the Raspberry Pi SBC. The card stacks on top of a Raspberry Pi to create a powerful embedded control and navigation computer in a small 20-mm × 65-mm × 85-mm footprint. The RIO is well suited for applications requiring real-world interfacing, such as robotics, industrial and home automation, and data acquisition and control.
The RIO adds 13 inputs that can be configured as digital inputs, 0-to-5-V analog inputs with 12-bit resolution, or pulse inputs capable of pulse width, duty cycle, or frequency capture. Eight digital outputs are provided to drive loads up to 1 A each at up to 24 V.
The RIO includes a 32-bit ARM Cortex M4 microcontroller that processes and buffers the I/O and creates a seamless communication with the Raspberry Pi. The RIO processor can be user-programmed with a simple BASIC-like programming language, enabling it to perform logic, conditioning, and other I/O processing in real time. On the Linux side, RIO comes with drivers and a function library to quickly configure and access the I/O and to exchange data with the Raspberry Pi.
The RIO features several communication interfaces, including an RS-232 serial port to connect to standard serial devices, a TTL serial port to connect to Arduino and other microcontrollers that aren't equipped with a RS-232 transceiver, and a CAN bus interface.
The RIO is available in two versions. The RIO-BASIC costs $85 and the RIO-AHRS costs $175.
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If you scroll down a little (or click here) you'll remember that a few weeks ago, we posted about Chicago's coldest day in recorded history. And then, for fun, we sought out the world's coldest recorded temperature (-129 F!). Not that Antarctica has any permanent residents or anything (it doesn't) but wondering how people kept alive in the cold before Central Heating laid the foundation for the first of a series of posts we're doing on ancient architectural techniques, and how some of them can inform a more sustainable future.


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It is a mark of a well-done book when a reader opens the pages and, despite a lack of previous interest and knowledge, is drawn into the fascinating world of pro cycling.
Mark Johnson pulled this feat off through intimate, detailed photography and up-close and personal portrayals of the members of Team Garmin-Chervélo. Johnson devoted a year of his life to following the triumphs and tribulations of this singular team of athletes, their families, their leaders and their supporters.
Argyle Armada is structured with nine chapters that follow the 2011 season of Team Garmin-Chervélo. Johnson helpfully opens with a list of characters who make up this unique USA pro cycling team. There are a lot of players in this production, from team CEO Jonathan Vaughters, to chefs, massage therapists and bus drivers. In a years time, they all get a chance to provide insights and observations with the author.
Vaughters, who will be in town this weekend for the USA Pro Cycling Challenge, is a man on a mission. He wants to uplift the world of professional cycling by having a team that is committed to a squeaky-clean, drug free existence. He is trying to achieve this feat with a budget that is only 30 percent of most other world-class teams. A significant part of his 26 percent non-salary budget goes for anti-doping testing. Medical and cooking ingredients undergo rigid testing to ensure his athletes dont ingest harmful food, vitamins or medicine. Also unlike the other teams, Team Garmin-Chervélo members do not receive intravenous hydration. All hydration is taken orally.
The season opens with winter training in Girona, Spain. The logistics of feeding, lodging and training 29 world-class athletes is a daunting task. Mechanics are kept busy with new, unfamiliar equipment and its road testing. They also keep older equipment in perfect working order during training and during grueling races. Medical staff must treat crash injuries while also providing preventive health measures.
Tension is high as the tour season starts in Europe. The Cobbled Classics, the Tour of Flanders and the Paris-Roubaix test the young team. The team gets a thrill and great satisfaction when team member Johan Vansummeren wins the Paris-Roubaix. Spirits are high in July when they get to the Tour de France, the ultimate race for most pro cyclists. Vaughters, owner Doug Ellis and team president Matt Johnson (no relation to the author) and the team are overjoyed when Team Garmin-Chervélo takes the prize for the squad with fastest cumulative time. The season ends in September on the streets in Canada.
Johnsons unfettered access to the team allows him to paint a vivid, intimate portrait of the business side of this sport during a period of transition, as well as the human drama of people pushing their bodies to the limit to achieve personal and team goals.
Johnsons photography is liberally spread on almost every page, bringing the cycling world into sharp focus. The magnified images of equipment, sweaty faces and painful injuries contrast with the sweeping views of the scenery, races and peloton (the leading pack of riders in a race) add nicely to the impact of Johnsons clear, descriptive prose.
Of special note is the inclusion of cyclist Tom Danielson, a former Fort Lewis College national champion, who might have had something to do with Durango being added as one of four new stops for this years Pro Challenge.
This book is much more than a coffee table book; this is an insightful, well-written portrayal of a dynamic sport and the intense people who are living life as world-class athletes during a time of change, growth and popularity.
Freelance reviewer Leslie Doran may be reached at email@example.com.


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Bert Randolph Sugar, 1936-2012
So the story – as I heard it, and as Bert Sugar would've told it – goes like this:
There's this young advertising executive, already climbing his way up the ladder. The 1960's this is. He works longer than anybody else. He's at every social event. He's a lawyer, never practiced, passed the bar – and lord knows it was the only bar he did pass. So this is the kind of palooka who can convince you to give him the buttons off your fly. And he's that kind of larger-than-life character who can not only sell the advertisers anything, he's also in creative, he's also selling the customers – the hoi polloi out in the cheap seats.
Remember that "N-E-S-T-L-E-S, Nestles Makes The Very Best" jingle? That was one of his. Samuel Taylor Coleridge this was not, this "N-E-S-T-L-E-S" – but it sold a lot of chocolate. And our hero is the rising star on Madison Avenue and let me confide in you, my friend, that what you see on Mad Men is like a Sunday Church Ice Cream Social compared to the reality of the '60s. The motto then was "I'd rather be a good liver than have one," if you catch my drift.
Well there's an office party and maybe it's at J. Walter Thompson and maybe it's at McCann Erickson. Doesn't matter. Maybe it's Tinker, Evers and Steinfeldt – and Steinfeldt was the third baseman with Tinker and Evers and Chance, if you've already forgotten, Junior. Anyway, our young hero has a boss who doesn't like him. Rides him every chance. Sings N-E-S-T-L-E-S at him. Never lets up. Never promotes him. And finally comes the party and there has been more liquor consumed than after Jack Johnson beat James J. Jeffries in Havana on the 4th of July. And unfortunately for the boss, in this equation he's Jeffries and our kid is Johnson. And the wrong word is said, our kid takes his cigar out of his mouth, and shoves his boss up against the office window.
Now there are two versions of what happens next. A) Boss bounces off the window, glass is cracked, boy wonder's career is over, or B) — and this is the one you don't hear a lot — Boss bounces through the window onto the balcony of the high-rise office building, boy wonder's career is over, and they don't call the police only because the Boss is more humiliated then hurt.
Great story so far, right?
Well that's not even the punchline.
The punchline is, Boy Wonder takes his money, says screw advertising, says screw my law degree, I'm going to buy…a boxing magazine. And before it's all over, after Cosell declines anyway, he's the best known media guy in boxing, even gets into the Boxing Hall of Fame – and not once does he ever sign a contract with any of the big networks or the big newspapers! He not only knocks the boss into the window, but then he spends the rest of his life doing what he loved, and till the day he dies – **he's** his own boss!
Here Bert Sugar would've laughed and added: "you got time for another story?
The real punch-line was, of course, that the ad exec who pushed his boss into the plate glass window was him – Bert Sugar. Obviously that extraordinary truth made Bert Randolph Sugar my hero. Actually it made him more of my hero. Because when Bert Sugar – who died Sunday at the age of 75 — left advertising, and was struggling along with that Boxing Illustrated magazine, he had to do outside projects. And one of them stemmed from his perception, in the early 1970's, that the next big thing…was the collecting of old baseball cards.
In retrospect it's obvious. But back then, the multi-million-dollar Honus Wagner card cost $11,000 and the family of the guy who'd spent the $11,000 tried to have him committed. But Bert saw something the rest of us did not. So he decided to create a book that identified what the cards were and how much they were worth, and it would turn out to be the single biggest thing that launched a billion-dollar industry.
But to compile it, he needed help – cheap help.
His baseball card contact was a great man named Mike Aronstein, and Mike said "Bert, I got just the kid for you." Which is how I met Bert Randolph Sugar – in 1974 – when I was fifteen years old. And how, sizing me up in my parents' living room, smoking his ever-present cigar and talking to me like I was not only another adult but another Damon Runyon character, just like he was, he decided I could do it.
The book was The Sports Collectors Bible. I did the grunt work, organizing the checklists, throwing in notes here and there. He gave me a title: Associate Editor. He gave me $250 – I think. Might've been less. Most importantly, h gave me credibility. I'd worked on an actual book, while I was in high school. And a hit, one that was so popular he put out four different volumes of it.
Bert moved on. Baseball Trivia books, boxing books, Harry Houdini books. He put out a couple of books featuring reprints of famous baseball cards, thin little paperback editions with the reprints perforated so you could pretend you had a Wagner. He made a fortune. Not one of those cards was his – he borrowed them. The great secret was that Bert Randolph Sugar, who essentially invented the annual price guide, and the phone book-sized checklist book, and the monthly card price magazines, was not a card collector.
In addition to moving on, Bert moved up. He swapped Boxing Illustrated for the far-more-famous Ring Magazine and then when the idiots over there squeezed him out, he went back and took over Boxing Illustrated again, and just last year he'd bought Ring again. But in the years after he gave me my first paying job, Bert Sugar primarily devoted himself to the business of creating Bert Sugar. Same technique as in advertising. To the ever-present cigar, he added the ever-present hat. And the wardrobe, which he described as "The Salvation Army threw up on me."
And mostly, he added the being there: Every big boxing match. Every baseball hall of fame induction. Every sports news conference, every sports premiere, every sports confirmation, children's party, or bris. The last time I saw him it was at the premiere for Ken Burns' 10th Inning. Burt had written another baseball book (The Baseball Maniac's Almanac) and he made sure to mention it to all of us. A week later there arrived one of Bert's singular, typewritten letters – and a copy of the book, vivid and peppy and filled with everything he'd learned in advertising and publishing and the ballpark.
Everybody knew him. Everybody. He became the boxing expert, and that was almost a shame because he really knew baseball at least as well, and boxing represented only about a fifth of his interests and only about a tenth of his stories. Remind me to tell you of the day he ordered one case of sets of Kelloggs Corn Flakes 3-D Football Cards and something went horribly wrong and the cases started arriving at his house like – as he put it – the enchanted mops and buckets in Fantasia — and he wound up with at least a thousand of them, filling his garage and his basement, and he used to hand the sets out instead of candy at Halloween or give me five cases each time he'd come over, just to get rid of them – and when years later they wound up being worth 250 bucks a set, he howled in laughter and shouted at me "of course they did! Of course they did! If I'd have held on to them they wouldn't have been worth ten cents!"
I think I saw Bert at least once, often dozens of times, in each of the last 38 years. It was always the same. For his long ago confidence in the ultimate untested rookie, he would accept none of my gratitude, but if there was anybody nearby, he would express all of his pride.
27 years ago I was unemployed. "When you're in the city, meet me at Zum Zum's in Grand Central. It's my office between twelve and three. At least you'll get a nice lunch. And you'll worry less." I asked him what he was doing with a kind of German fast-food restaurant as his office. "I'm plotting there." Turned out he was plotting to take over Boxing Illustrated for the second time, which he did. "You'll be fine, Kid," he assured me. "Just remember me when you make it big."
I always have, Bert.
I always will.
Because I have never met anybody else like Bert Sugar.
And frankly, I don't need to. Because I had the privilege of knowing the original.
The above is adapted from my script of my obituary for Bert Sugar on Current TV's Countdown. The video is here.
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Beautiful, KO. Absolutely beautiful. He sounds like an absolutely fascinating man, and I wish I'd known him. I almost feel like I did, after seeing your tribute tonight. Thank you. Hugs.
Thanks Keith, What a wonderful tribute to a special self made man.
Lovely tribute to someone who clearly mattered a lot to you. Also, one of Sugar's early books was an inside–I think authorized–history of ABC Sports that did a great job of fleshing out the characters without airing too much dirty laundry. It was a high-wire act, I'm sure. And I suspect it helped him make connections, which he knew how to do. He knew his stuff and he knew how to sell himself AND his stuff, and he seems to have done it without hurting anybody. A nice thought.
They say some people come into our lives for a season and others for a lifetime. Obviously, Mr. Sugar came into your life for a lifetime, Keith. Wow! What a guy! Truly a character…being everything he was supposed to be. He was unafraid to live and made sure he contributed to this world every step of the way. It does seem a shame that he knew so much about baseball (and probably the other sports) and yet gave big time to boxing. However, that seems to have been the great love of his life. If it was, he deserved spending the attention and affection there. Sweet. I like this guy so much. That smile. That cigar. You were very fortunate, Mr. O. He was there to see the promise in you…and you never forgot him. Thanks for sharing the joy of Bert Sugar with all of us. Hugs.
I forgot to add this: Thanks to Bert Sugar for seeing the promise in you, and nurturing it. The world is an infinitely better place because of him. He was a fascinating man who brought a lot to the table, and so are you.
The world is a poorer place without Mr. Sugar.
KO. great tribute. I showed my wife the Original Sports Collectors Bible this morning and read your blog this afternoon while dealing with alternate side of the street parking and sitting in my car on the upperwest side.
And thanks for solving the mystery for me of your involvement at what seemed to be a super young age – in the price guide that got me into the great hobby.
Wish I was a more like BRSugar.
Bert Sugar was an American treasure – – a raucous raconteur with endless stories and an incredible sense of humor. I always enjoyed listening to him – – especially before a big fight.
He anecdotes are legendary – "That fight was over somewhere between "Oh say" and "Can You See!"
What an original who will be missed but never forgotten.
Fine tribute KO, thanks for sharing those great anecdotes.
While Bert Sugar certainly seemed as though he'd been around forever – Ned Sparks is the only actor who could hope to play him, and he's been dead for 55 years – sorry, but that "N-E-S-T-L-E-S" story is the bunk. The jingle debuted in 1955, sung by the inimitable marionette team of Denny O'Day and His Dog Farfel, and was an instant (and long-running) hit. As Sugar didn't enter the advertising business until '61 at the earliest…….well, let's just say that song credit is something between blarney and hogwash.
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On the Announcement of the Phase-out of the Herbicide Cyanazine
Background Information on Cyanazine
On the Announcement of the Phase-out of the Herbicide Cyanazine
Cyanazine Use
Cyanazine is sold by DuPont Chemical as Bladex, and has been in use since 1971. It is the fourth most widely used synthetic chemical pesticide in U.S. agriculture. An estimated 30-35 million pounds were applied in 1993 (Aspeline 1994), primarily on corn fields to control grasses and broad leaf weeds. Based on information reported by the EPA, the USDA, and others, the use of cyanazine appears to be increasing.
Cyanazine Contamination of Drinking Water
Cyanazine is relatively persistent in the environment, and under certain conditions will remain at significant levels in surface water for over one year. Cyanazine has been found in groundwater in 15 states at concentrations up to 29 ppb, and as a surface water contaminant in 30 states (EPA 1992, STORET 1994). The Environmental Working Group has identified cyanazine as a drinking water contaminant throughout the Mississippi River basin.
Health Hazards
Cyanazine is essentially atrazine with cyanide attached to it. It is a teratogen (causes birth defects) and a mutagen (causes genetic mutations) as well as a carcinogen. Overall, cyanazine is the most toxic triazine herbicide, and may be the most toxic of all herbicides found in drinking water.
Birth Defects. Cyanazine causes a number of different birth defects in several species of animals including serious abnormalities of the eye, the diaphragm, and the brain, as well as cleft palate, and alterations in skeletal development (Rinde 1991). Three separate investigations of cyanazine in two species, the rabbit and rat, reported a dose-related increase in anophthalmia and/or microphthalmia (animals born without eyes or with abnormally small eyes). The effect occurred at doses from 4 mg/kg in the rabbit to 25 and 75 mg/kg in the rat. Many of these same animals exhibited other effects described below (Bui 1985, Rinde 1991).
Diaphragm related malformations, including diaphragmatic hernia and an "incomplete fusion of the diaphragm central area tendon with raised area of the liver," were found in two studies of F-344 rats fed cyanazine (Bui 1985 pg. 3). In the first study diaphragm problems were found at all doses (1, 2.5, 10, and 25 mg/kg), including levels not overtly toxic to the mother. In the second study, using the same strain of rat, the doses were 5, 25, and 75 mg/kg.
Alterations in skeletal ossification sites were found at all doses tested. Defects in the diaphragm were significantly increased at the 25 mg/kg doses level, and a host of defects including anophthalmia/microphthalmia, dilated brain ventricles, cleft palate, and diaphragm- related malformations were present at 75 mg/kg. Cyanazine also causes dilated brain ventricles in the rabbit and the rat, and domed cranium in the rabbit (Bui 1985, Rinde 1991).
Mutations. Cyanazine is also mutagenic in several assays. It induces forward mutation in a dose-related manner in repeat assays with and without metabolic activation in a mouse lymphoma cell gene mutation assay. Cyanazine also caused unscheduled DNA synthesis in repeat assays in rat hepatocytes. The herbicide did not produce mutations in hamster ovary cells or in human lymphocytes.
Overall this genotoxicity presents serious concern and adds to the evidence of carcinogenicity. According to the final internal EPA peer review of cyanazine, "This genotoxic activity provides support for a (sic) carcinogenicity and concern for heritable effects." (Dykstra 1991 pg. 15). The peer review further noted that cyanazine's genotoxicity reinforces concerns about its overall toxicity and is consistent with the fact that cyanazine induces a carcinogenic response at lower doses than the other triazines (Dykstra 1991).
Cancer. Cyanazine is also a potent carcinogen that appears to act via the same hormonal mechanism as atrazine and simazine. With cyanazine, however, tumors appear at lower doses and with higher rates of malignancy than its chemical cousins. Cyanazine in the diet at 5, 25, and 50 mg/kg caused a statistically significant increase total malignant mammary tumors, and a statistically significant positive trend for these tumors in female rats. Three types of malignancies were observed (adenocarcinoma, carcinosarcoma, and fibrosarcoma), although the vast majority of the malignant tumors were adenocarcinomas. Cyanazine has the highest Q* (quantitative potency rating) of any pesticide in widespread use today 1.0 (mg/kg/day)-1 (Engler 1994). Consequently, the Office of Pesticide Programs regulates cyanazine as a carcinogen in food, using methods that provide greater public health protection than safety factor methods used to protect against the birth defects described above (Dykstra 1991, Ghali 1985).
Results from two additional studies indicate an increase in several additional tumors in both male and female rats. The results of these studies were compromised, however, and the studies were deemed invalid by the EPA due to the small number of animals per dose group, the failure to expose the animals to the maximum tolerated dose, the limited number of tissues analyzed, discrepancies in reporting and histopathology, and other inconsistencies.
For example, according to EPA reviewers, the limited number of animals per dose group (24) in one study reduced the power of the study to validate possible compound related effects such as the increase in "adrenal pheocromocytoma in both sexes of rats, and for thyroid adenoma in males and pituitary tumors in females." (Ghali 1985, Taylor 1985).
Regulatory Actions On Cyanazine. Prior to the August 2 announcement of a voluntary phase-out of cyanazine, EPA had established a no observable adverse effects level (NOAEL) for developmental effects of 1 mg/kg. In the same memorandum that recommends this 1 mg/kg NOAEL, however, the agency notes that both diaphragm defects and adverse developmental effects occur at the 1 mg/kg body weight per day dose level in the F-344 rat (Bui 1985). This obvious contradiction was "resolved" when the agency dismissed these defects due to lack of historical control data for these specific malformations and the absence of these same defects at the 5 mg/kg dose in a repeat study (Bui 1985). A more accurate characterization of these collective developmental toxicology studies would be that they provide no evidence of a dose that is safe for a developing fetus.
As a result of health effects studies the EPA classified cyanazine as a developmental toxicant and teratogen. The agency now requires a warning statement to this effect on the labels of all agricultural herbicide formulations containing cyanazine.
As noted above, cyanazine is also a potent carcinogen that appears to act via the same hormonal mechanism as atrazine and simazine. The EPA Office of Ground Water and Drinking Water (OGDW) had long ignored the powerful evidence regarding the pesticide's carcinogenicity and had proposed weaker drinking water standards that do not regulate cyanazine as a carcinogen. In fact, OGDW has not yet even promulgated an enforceable drinking water standard for cyanazine. The current lifetime health advisory (LHA) of 1 ppb is not enforceable and is not based on cyanazine's cancer potency. Were OGDW to regulate cyanazine as a carcinogen, the maximum contaminant level in drinking water would be about 0.03 ppb, about 33 times lower than the current LHA of 1 ppb.
Statement of Richard Wiles Vice President for Research
We applaud the decision of Dupont Agrichemical Products today to phase out the use of cyanazine over the next four years. This is a responsible action on the part of the company. We believe that the decision reflects a recognition of the hazards faced by individuals applying cyanazine, and those drinking it in their tap water every spring and summer. These problems were documented in our report, Tap Water Blues, released in October, 1994.
Cyanazine is a cancer causing compound that also causes genetic mutations and birth defects in repeated animal studies. We are concerned that in spite of the decision announced today, millions of people will continue to drink cyanazine for the next four years, even though effective, affordable alternative herbicides are readily available to farmers, and many of them are made by Dupont.
Over the next several weeks the Environmental Working Group will share with Dupont and the public the results of tap water testing we have conducted over the past several months. We hope that this evidence of the extent and severity of cyanazine contamination will persuade Dupont to accelerate the phase-out of this highly hazardous product.