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President Obama told Chinese students Monday that open Internet access strengthens a society. Qian Jin, a former news assistant at NPR's Shanghai Bureau who was in the audience, says Internet access in China is improving, and broader now than it was a few years ago.
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The students at the Shanghai town hall were carefully screened by Chinese authorities, and some said they had been given training before they could take part. One of those who was chosen to attend the session was NPRs former news assistant in Shanghai, Qian Jin. He is now studying for his PhD in global communications at Fudan University. And he says, he was pleased to hear these first words out of President Obamas mouth.
President BARACK OBAMA: (Foreign Language Speaking)
(Soundbite of applause)
Pres. OBAMA: Good afternoon.
QIAN JIN: (Foreign Language Speaking) and this is in (unintelligible), means (foreign language spoken) you know, hello. He learned the kind of local Shanghai dialect.
BLOCK: Mm-hmm, well, how did that sound to you?
JIN: Quite impressive. I mean, quite accurate. You know, the Shanghai dialect is very hard, even for ordinary Chinese. And I think he master it very well, quite impressive.
BLOCK: That one phrase. Two syllables.
(Soundbite of laughter)
JIN: Yeah, but still you can you can tell. I mean, he still put some effort to practice. I think hes quite perfect.
BLOCK: How did you get chosen to be at this event today?
JIN: Im just surprised because - I dont know how - the choosing process. I just get a call a couple of days ago and saying, are you interested in going to the, you know, town hall meeting with Barack Obama. I say its fine, its cool and just go there and thats it, quite simple.
BLOCK: Now I gather you had a question that you wanted to ask President Obama and you didnt get a chance to. What did you want to ask him?
JIN: I want to ask about the climate change. My question is, is this time for American people to finally check the way of living, check their lifestyle in order to do their part to fight the global warming.
BLOCK: And you didnt get a chance to ask that.
JIN: Yeah, because so many people raised hands, so I didnt get a chance to ask the question.
BLOCK: You know, there was a question at the end that came not from the audience. It was read by the U.S. ambassador to China, Jon Huntsman, a question that had come in over the Internet to the embassy. And it had to do with opening up the Internet and whats call the Great Firewall of China Web sites that are censored and things like that. Lets take a listen.
Pres. OBAMA: I am a big believer in technology and Im a big believer in openness when it comes to the flow of information. I think that the more freely information flows, the stronger the society becomes.
BLOCK: And the president went on from there. Qian Jin, its interesting because apparently, the irony here is that a lot of what came out of this meeting today, including this question about the Internet, may have been posted briefly on the Internet in China, but then was taken down. What do you think about that? Does that surprise you?
JIN: I mean, based on my own experience of (unintelligible) Internet things, I mean, I can get all the option that I want to have right now. And then I think everybody is happy.
BLOCK: What did you think about President Obamas message about openness and transparency, things like that?
JIN: I think if hes just looking about Chinese Internet right now and comparing to five or three years ago without Internet or something like that, you definitely see the kind of openness in Chinese Internet. I think its improving, and people seem to get more and more understanding about Internet, what Internet can do. And I think they are getting more and more through the Internet.
BLOCK: Tell me about what happened after the presidents speech. I guess he worked the room a bit.
JIN: Yeah, he walked around the room and shook hands with the first row and then he decided to - left the hall. But, you know, we sort of get chance to get his attention. And he just, you know, returned and shook hands with us and we are all very excited.
BLOCK: Did you get a chance to talk to him?
JIN: I didnt get a chance to talk to him because so many hands waving in front of my eyes and I just get a chance to shake his hand. Its fantastic.
BLOCK: Qian Jin, thanks for talking with us.
JIN: No, no, no problem.
BLOCK: Qian Jin is studying for his PhD in global communications at Fudan University in Shanghai.
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Obama Pushes China To Stop Censoring Internet
President Obama sat down with Chinese leader Hu Jintao in Beijing on Monday to talk trade, climate change and economics hours before addressing university students on the delicate subjects of censorship and Internet access in the nation of 1.3 billion.
The White House delegation met with Hu at the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse, where Obama hoped to impart his belief that few global challenges can be solved unless the world's only superpower and its rising competitor work together. He and his advisers have insisted in virtually all public utterances since he arrived in Japan on Friday: "We do not seek to contain China's rise."
Obama echoed that message in a town hall-style meeting with university students in Shanghai, where he assured his young audience that the United States has more to gain from working with a rising China than standing against it.
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Qian Jin is a former news assistant at NPR's Shanghai Bureau. He is now a Ph.D. candidate in communication at Fudan University in Shanghai. He was selected to attend the town hall-style meeting.
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"I believe cooperation must go beyond our government. It must be rooted in our people — in the studies we share, in the business that we do, the knowledge that we gain, and even in the sports that we play," the U.S. president said.
Obama said the United States is not seeking to impose any system of government on any other nation, "but we also don't believe that the principles we stand for are unique to our nation."
"These freedoms of expression and worship, of access to information, and political participation, we believe are universal rights," he said. "They should be available to all people, including ethnic and religious minorities, whether they are in the United States, China or any other nation."
Censorship and Beijing's record on human rights — especially its treatment of ethnic minorities such as Tibetans and the Uighur people concentrated in China's southwest Xinjiang province — are especially sensitive issues between the two nations.
In his opening statement to the students in Shanghai, Obama spoke bluntly about the benefits of individual freedoms in a country known for limiting them. Social networking Web sites such as Facebook and Twitter are among those blocked to China's estimated 250 million Internet users by the government's so-called Great Firewall.
"I think that the more freely information flows, the stronger the society becomes, because then citizens of countries around the world can hold their own governments accountable," Obama told students during his first-ever trip to China. "They can begin to think for themselves."
He credited the Internet with helping him win the presidency because it allowed for the mobilization of young Americans not unlike those in the audience at Shanghai's Museum of Science and Technology.
"I'm a big supporter of non-censorship," Obama said. "I recognize that different countries have different traditions. I can tell you that in the United States, the fact that we have free Internet — or unrestricted Internet access — is a source of strength, and I think should be encouraged."
In the U.S., he noted, the free flow of information extended to a healthy debate about government. He acknowledged that he has "a lot of critics" that can say "all kinds of things" about him.
"I actually think that makes our democracy stronger, and it makes me a better leader," he told the gathered students.
The town hall was not broadcast live across China on television, but was shown on local Shanghai TV and streamed online on two big national Internet portals.
He also told students that China and the United States needed to demonstrate that they could work together to solve big problems, such as climate change. The two nations are cooperating more than ever on battling global warming, but they still differ deeply over hard targets for reductions in the greenhouse-gas emissions that cause it.
"I can tell you other countries around the world will be waiting for us," Obama said. "They will watch to see what we do. And if they say, 'Ah, the United States and China aren't serious about this,' then they won't be serious either. That is the burden of leadership that both of our countries carry."
On Monday night, Hu played host to Obama at an informal dinner. The most substantive talks were set for Tuesday, when the two leaders were to meet in Beijing's Great Hall of the People. After that, Obama will do some sightseeing, visiting the Forbidden City and the Great Wall.
Obama is in the midst of a weeklong Asia trip. He came with a vast agenda of security, economic and environmental concerns.
He is expected to raise the issue of the yuan's exchange rate. China maintains a de facto peg to the U.S. dollar through its "managed float" regime, which has been criticized for keeping the yuan's value artificially low. That is a boon to the country's huge export economy because it keeps the price of "Made in China" products low.
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England couldn't afford the latter. They couldn't contemplate the latter. They couldn't countenance another goalkeeping calamity which would have left them staring at the prospect of placing their World Cup hopes on a 23-year-old relative rookie, Joe Hart, with the two more experienced goalkeepers beset by doubt, psychologically scarred.
Especially when they then went on to play so poorly, so dispiritingly badly.
And then James had his first high ball to deal with, a swirling, spinning cross but one that he, surely, would catch and settle his team. He punched, single-fisted and weakly and all hell broke loose with Glen Johnson scuffing his clearance and the ball finally scrambled away.
There will have been a sharp intake of breathe from manager Fabio Capello who went on to look bewildered at what was a shapeless, pedestrian performance against Algeria in which Steven Gerrard wanted to play in the middle, rather than the left and Frank Lampard appeared to be trying to drag himself through treacle. Leggy? He looked leaden. Wayne Rooney? He struggled, his impact shrunk.
James needed to steady things. He did. After all, aged 39 years and 321 days, he surely couldn't, also, be suffering from nerves? But this was his World Cup debut having spent last weekend and the previous two campaigns he has been involved with - 2002 and 2006 - confined to the bench.
Surely, so close to his 40th birthday, he was also the oldest player ever to make his first appearance in a World Cup Finals?
But then he has had the most curious of careers for his country stretched as it has been over 13 years to earn 51 caps - with only 17 of those coming in competitive matches.
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All have failed which is why England came into this tournament as, and the point cannot be over-stated, the only nation with any pretence to do well who don't know or haven't endorsed who is their first-choice.
Capello let it be known that James, Green, and Hart each had a "33 per cent" chance as they departed for that pre-tournament training camp in Austria (the other one per cent, it was joked, belonged to assistant goalkeeping coach Ray Clemence).
But, even as close to kick-off as breakfast time yesterday Green didn't know whether he was going to be left out, Hart hoped that he would be selected while James, who has had his own travails in South Africa, with suggestions that he has been suffering from a knee injury, that he is not training well and, alternatively, that he is unhappy with that training, perhaps consigned to the role of No 3.
He certainly looked angry enough at having been overlooked against the United States and there was a peculiarly broad smile as he stopped to talk after Green's blunder. He lingered a little too long. And he was smiling again on Friday night as he waited in the tunnel, shaking his legs as he attempted to shake off the nerves.
But then Algeria were never going to provide the most physical or constant of threats. After that early flap - no other word for it - his duties were confined for a while to fielding back-passes which were pinged at him with varying degrees of difficulty.
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That confidence grew as he superbly gathered a deep corner but it didn't filter through to the rest of the team as England's performance plummeted against meagre opponents and James had to be alert, and was, to rush from goal to clear as John Terry's woeful back-pass fell short.
It was, for England, a performance of deterioration that became desperate. James wasn't at fault but it's a condemnation of your team when the best display, with maybe a nod towards Ashley Cole, against the weakest team in a group comes from the goalkeeper. James became more of a bystander but England remained rooted also.
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Remember how last year Portland Fashion Week re-branded itself as FASHIONxt? And how everyone everyone kept forgetting and calling it PFW anyway and/or mispronouncing it as "Fashion X.T." instead of the intended "Fashion Next" because creative spelling and capitalization ruin everything? Well shit just got even more confusing. Ye olde Portland Fashion Week has risen from the grave,
sold [Correction: No money was exchanged. into the hands that brought you highly questionable events such as the Portland Fashion and Style Awards. This makes me... a little consterned.
PFW has had a rough go of it. Helmed primarily by Tito Chowdhury, he's faced a long, uphill battle to gain the trust of Portland designers, who seemed to perceive him as coming out of nowhere with a proposal that they spend hundreds of dollars to participate in his slick, professionally produced shows. And while some of them were never in the game for that sort of thing, a measure of peace has been achieved over the past years, with PFW and now FASHIONxt finding the designers who see the value in it. It's never been perfect, of course, and many still regard it with suspicion and distaste, but it's finding its groove.
Now that PFW has been sold into new management—including Tod Foulk of Semper Fashion, who was involved in the early incarnations of PFW, along with plus size style blogger Jessica Kane and Saffrona designer Sarabeth Chambers, both of whom appear to be more closely associated with Vancouver than Portland—there will essentially be two PFWs fishing out of the same shallow pool of talented Portland designers interested in participating. This is not good for quality. According to the site PFW is preparing for a five-day affair (Sept 25-29), and assuming FASHIONxt maintains itself at four nights, that's a grand total of nine days. To understate things, that's spreading it too thin.
Now maybe I'm paranoid, but I maintain my position that anyone involved in Portland's fashion industry should be concerned about PFW. To an outsider looking in, it appears by virtue of title and prominence to be the standard bearer of what's happening in the city. Obviously it's more complicated than that, but the fact remains that it's representing you, us… the entire metro area, arguably. And this comes right on the heels of a Time magazine shout out that placed Portland's fashion week atop a list of non-NYC fashion weeks. In fact all the progress PFW made with the outside press was included in the
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The triathlon world has been talking through the announcement that yet another "championship" series has been launched. The brain child of Chris McCormack, the newest player on the competition block has been launched in the form of Super League. Yes, triathlon now has not just a league, but a "Super League." And it comes with a few more bells and whistles than you might expect from the standard triathlon.
So with the newly minted launch in mind, Super League looks to take on not just the triathlon market, but to gain a hold in the highly competitive mainstream sporting landscape. In fact, it might be safe to say that those running Super League aren't looking for you, the triathlon-loving folk. These guys are attempting to build a product that is expected to be a hit with mainstream sports fans. What Super League is coveting is the arm chair sports lover. You see, to get on television you need a product, the venue and, more importantly, the money to gain access. Triathlon's support base is too small to make money.
So, what's going on here?
Well the concept, which has been done before, is quite simple. Sign some of the best talent in the short course triathlon world, give them a venue, add prize money and then make a television show out of it. It's a pretty simple set up for most mainstream sports, but in triathlon, this is a herculean task. Triathlon has cracked the mainstream sporting landscape in the past, but that was years ago. Now all sports seem to be in reinvention mode.
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Triathlon will have more than a few challenges. There is no fan base. There are no household names to promote this event and associate their names with the race series. Sure, some people might know who an Alistair Brownlee is, but poll 100 people on any street outside the UK and 95 wouldn't know who he is. Other sports are finding this out, too, as they try to secure their own share of the market, however small. In Australia this summer the Big Bash Cricket league (BBL) and the Nitro Athletic competitions both had marquee names that would hopefully help them break through to the market. BBL had a a host of international players and free-to-air television coverage, while Nitro deftly manoeuvred to secure Usain Bolt to a three-year deal to promote their series.
Super League faces the challenge of building a narrative around the talent that they have acquired, which will take time. To be fair to the newly formed league you need to allow at least three seasons to gain any credible data pertaining to main stream market traction. There is precedence to say this can work. A lot of excited tweets proclaiming it's "like triathlon we haven't seen before" are out there. But that's not true. We have seen this before. The much vaunted Tooheys Blue Series (in Australia) had this type of mixed-format racing and starred the likes of Brad Bevan and Greg Welch.
If it's executed properly there's lots of reason to think the Super League will work. There's no room for this to look like "amateur hour," though. The mainstream sports fan sees lots of big-money events that look amazing. Anything short of amazing and this series fails. The bar must be set high, but McCormack and his team know that. This is not new to them.
Gender equality
The other question that has been raised is the gender issue. There are only men racing in the Super League launch at Hamilton Island. Super League got called out by a few high-ranking women's triathlon pros. And you can see their point. But Hamilton Island is very much a proof of concept. Get this template right without the additional pressure of two races and there is scope to grow. Not unlike many sports in the world, Super League must be proven before expansion. You can't deny the inclusion of women racing would be good, but the start up costs of just getting the men to the line might have been enough for the first time out. It was no-doubt a tough call in a sport that has always been equal in the sense that women have the same starting point as men, regardless of overall numbers.
Love it, hate it, or, if you are paddling the indifference boat, this has to be a good thing for triathlon. The purists will argue this is not real triathlon, but then that same argument would have been stacked when drafting was introduced to elite racing. Comparing it to the likes of the Collins Cup is insulting to those running Super League. This is more than a press release and a flawed and inane concept. It has a plan, cash and the talent to make it work. This is tangible and real for those racing and, if it can be pulled off, will give the pros much needed exposure and a financial boost. Anything that allows triathlon to be seen outside of us who know and love the sport has to be a good thing. But the Super League crew are at the equivalent of base camp with a sporting Everest to climb and only a few short seasons to achieve it.


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Buffalo stays hot, defeats Bowling Green 68-65Jan 15, 2010 - 2:45 AM BOWLING GREEN, Ohio(AP) -- Sean Smiley hit a 3-pointer with 5 seconds left to send Buffalo to a 68-65 victory over Bowling Green on Thursday night.
Smiley's 3-pointer broke the game's fifth tie and he finished with 14 points as the Bulls (9-4, 2-0 Mid-American Conference) won for the sixth time in seven games. They are 5-1 on the road this season.
Bowling Green's Scott Thomas hit a 3-pointer to cut Buffalo's lead to 65-63 with 1:15 left and Dee Brown hit two free throws with 39 seconds to play to tie the score at 65.
Smiley took a pass from Rodney Pierce and hit the game-winning shot. The Falcons' Joe Jakubowski missed a 3-pointer at the buzzer.
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I wanted to share a few interesting books that I have had to read for school.
I'm not one to tell people that they shouldn't read "dangerous" books. With that said, some of these books contain theological and biblical interpretive assertions that I don't agree with. By suggesting them here I am not endorsing every word that is written in them. However, I have taken some very interesting things from them.
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Gregory of Nyssa The Life of Moses
Gregory of Nyssa (335-395 CE) was an early church father. He and his siblings/friends are known in Christian history as the Cappadocian Fathers. Many modern Protestants only read Augustine (354-430 CE) and neglect the diverse theological discussions that were going on in the first 400 years of the Christian church. This book offers a very interesting take on biblical interpretation and emphasizes the use of allegory, especially through the story of Moses' life.
Peter Enns Inspiration and Incarnation
I have already posted on this book. It is a great overview of some of the difficulties that come from reading the Old Testament from a modern perspective. Enns acknowledges that there are some parts of the Old Testament that contradict themselves or are clearly influenced by other near-Eastern traditions. He asserts that God is sovereign over these "problems" and left them in the Christian Canon for a reason. Enns suggests that we should look into what God is telling us through these difficulties rather than simply trying to explain them away.
Abraham Heschel writes a very engaging and beautiful text on the Jewish understanding of the Sabbath. Honestly, I have never read anything that so greatly stirred my affections for the day of rest. Though he is writing from a Jewish perspective there are many foundational ideas that can be helpful for the Christian.
So, this is kind of an oddball on this list. Anne Lamott is an author. This book is about writing. However, there are some really interesting (and inappropriately hilarious) thoughts about constructing stories and reaching inside yourself to communicate your heart. I read this for my Intro to the Ministry of Preaching class. This is the most vulgar book I have read in seminary that wasn't written by Stanley Hauerwas.
Jacques Ellul The Politics of God and The Politics of Man
I'm really not sure how I feel about this book yet. It is really interesting and has some really thoughtful things to say about how Christians should interact with the state and politics. However, I definitely don't jive with his theology. I find myself writing an equal number of excitedly positive and dramatically negative comments in the margins. Also, Ellul is a French Christian Anarchist. So… just know that before you read it.


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LIC raised its stake in 22 Sensex companies, during the June quarter, according to a study on the Sensex companies' public shareholding of more than 1 per cent.
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However, it pruned or maintained its stake in the IT software majors during the same period; software companies' share prices outperformed the Sensex during the last quarter. On a quarter-to-quarter basis, during the same period, the Sensex fell 14 per cent, to 13,461 on June 30 from 15,644 at March end.
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Positional Power ~ When Your Therapist Doesn't Get ItPosted by: | Comments
Child abuse and neglect result in low self-esteem, depression and a whole lot of other issues. Part of the grooming process that occurs in ALL abuse including emotional abuse and psychological abuse is that the blame is transferred to the child and in order to cope and survive children accept that blame and focus inward in order to try harder for the love and acceptance they long for. In the dysfunctional family, the abuse doesn't end in childhood and often the child who is now an adult will seek professional help in order to overcome the damage that the child abuse caused. Just as our parents and all adult abusers, controllers and manipulators had positional power, doctors, therapists and helping professionals have it too.
When we have been convinced through actions, inactions and words that there is something 'wrong' with us and we finally go to a helping professional such as a therapist, counselor or psychologist ~ if that mental health professional defends our parents, or focuses on US as the problem it serves us as confirmation that we are in fact the problem and it is very much a re-traumatization.
Mental health professionals have tons of positional power ~ they are endorsed and accredited as being able to help and therefore we often see them as an even bigger authority then the way that we saw our parents when we were kids, so if they AGREE with our parents or if they focus with us on what WE could do or could have done differently, it very often causes a bigger problem than the one we went to talk about. Read More→
When Society Defends Abuse and Abusers instead of the Abused ChildPosted by: | Comments
Many of you have heard about the 5 year old little girl Alexa Linboom who was disciplined for drinking her step mothers grape soda without permission and as a punishment her father and step-mother forced her to drink 2.4 litres of water and several cans of grape soda which caused her to die. "Both parents were charged with first-degree murder, aggravated child abuse and two counts of aggravated child neglect." (court date for this trial is Scheduled for October 2014)
Here is a summary paragraph, but if you are interested in the whole story follow the highlighted sentences and links at the end of the post. "The Vaughns disciplined Alexa by forcing her to drink about 2.4 liters of fluid, including several 12-ounce cans of grape soda, in a span of one to two hours, according to an autopsy report prepared by the Quillen College of Medicine at East Tennessee State University. She was bruised throughout her body and had cuts on her face, the report states."
In an effort to show what children and adult survivors of child abuse are up against with the way society views child abuse, I am writing about the commenters who STUCK UP for the parents in this situation, saying that the punishment (charged with murder) they received for their actions which ultimately caused this little girl's DEATH, was too harsh.
Too harsh?
The autopsy report and even the charges state that there were signs of ongoing abuse and neglect but some people commenting still defend the abusive parents.
It has been my experience that sticking up for abusive parents is about parental entitlement; if anything threatens the 'rights' of the parents, some people will freak out and defend parents; even parents who caused the death of their child. Adults posted on this article that their parents disciplined them in a similar way and they 'turned out fine'. Some defended the parents saying that it wasn't 'that much liquid' and they go down the rabbit trail leading nowhere defending that this little girl 'should have been able to drink that much liquid'… As though the specialists who performed the autopsy must have made a mistake, but the bottom line is that there are people who are completely willing to ignore the DEATH of this child that directly resulted from the punishment she was given because validating that the child DIED as a result of the punishment, threatens Read More→
Feelings and the Trigger Connection – No Longer a Powerless ChildPosted by: | Comments
Earlier this year my 16 year old daughter hit glare ice, flew off the road and crashed her car. She hit the first tree and took it out which caused her to roll and flip into the air, crashing 5 feet up on the passenger side and wrapped around a second tree. Her face and hands were covered in blood and cuts from the broken glass and she thought her arm was broken. When she was taken to x-rays in the hospital she fainted.
The images of her near death were haunting. I couldn't stop imagining what she went through, her fear and how much worse it could have been. Even though she walked away, even though I was fairly sure she was going to have a complete recovery, the feelings, emotions and fears that came up for me were overwhelming.
On the third day after her accident my entire body was 'humming' with fear, emotion and flashes of the way my mind imagined the accident. I felt nauseous, exhausted and totally stressed out. I couldn't sit still, I couldn't concentrate on a book, I couldn't sleep, I couldn't even escape with mindless television shows. I found myself reaching for weird food, like potato chips and chocolate and I reached for them as though they were a life preserver. I ate mindlessly and in a frenzied manner and as I shoved things in my mouth I became aware of the thought that I somehow believed eating those foods might block the feelings of fear and anxiety out of my mind. I had this crazy belief that eating those foods would squish the fear and flashbacks of her accident and all my feelings of helplessness, down and away from me.
I felt like I couldn't cope. I felt like there was 'nowhere' to go and nothing I could do about it, that I was powerless over the outcome of her accident, that I was helpless and I had been helpless in that moment. And in the case of my daughters car accident I was powerless and helpless but the problem was that I felt like that 'powerlessness and helplessness' defined me as 'useless' and as a 'failure' as a mother, as a woman and even as a person.
Useless and a failure;
And I had this nagging feeling that this feeling I was trying to get away from was very familiar for me. I had this sense that this feeling was something that I had had for most of my life. And while I was in bed that night, half awake, half asleep, it came to me; this is the feeling that Read More→
Verbal Theatre; A Lecture from an Abusive ParentPosted by: | Comments
This week I got an amazing comment on the post "The Grooming Process of Discrediting Children and the Cycle of Abuse" that caused my mouth to drop open. I said to my husband Jim "listen to this!!" and I read the comment out loud to him. As I read it, I looked up and saw his eyes open wider and I knew that he heard exactly what I had heard and that he was having the same reaction to it that I had had. This comment is so typical of the types of verbal abuse that children hear that it could have been from the verbally abusive parents play book. It was almost painful to read it. When I was finished, Jim said "holy shit… I can HEAR it, I have heard it…I have been there."
I read it over again and I knew that I wanted to share it with a larger audience so I have asked Tim for his permission to share it as a main article. I am thrilled that he has given me his permission along with his blessing! So many adult children of abusive parents don't realize how common this type of 'lecture' is and don't realize how many others have experienced so much of the same type of tearing down. This verbal battering goes on and on and the reader who has been there or has ever witnessed it can HEAR it in the writing.
I had the urge to highlight certain parts, make other parts bold and do a little editing, however (aside from adding a few periods and questions marks) I decided to let the reader have their own interpretation and reaction to it without my emphasis. I am really looking forward to the comments on this one. ~ Darlene
Here is what Tim wrote;
"Here is the sort of verbal theatre dis-played by my parents showing a mark getting made;
"Don't do that, it's horrible, you don't do that, why did you do that? don't pretend you don't know, excuse me, how dare you I won't let you try to begin telling me you don't even know what you've done, because you do, don't you, of course you do we've all told you about this before, haven't we, in fact too many times, isn't that right? How many times do I have to tell you people don't do that, do they, how many people have you seen, none, that's right so why do you keep doing it ~ other peoples children wouldn't they would never do anything like it would they, no, so why do you why do you always do it you're the only one at school like this they tell me they do, your school unless, that friend of yours…. maybe that's where you pick it all this up from is it, it is, is it? why do you hang around people like that you know other people have been asking me why you decide to behave like this, you know that right so what are we meant to do say what do we tell them, when you won't tell us that's a horrible thing to do there concerned, were all concerned about you and we don't know what to do if you won't tell us what the problem is are you going to say something now, well, we're waiting you know Read More→
How to Recognize when Your Best Interests are NOT ConsideredPosted by: | Comments
Sometimes I get comments from people that are so filled with judgement that I don't even consider publishing them. I am sharing the following comment with you today because it is a fantastic example of the judgement that is out there in the world about what we reveal when it comes to our dysfunctional family stuff. I didn't publish this comment on the post it came in on~ I didn't see the point in giving this woman a voice and her comment is so ridiculous ~ especially since it is from this total stranger who doesn't know me, my story or my family.
This comment speaks volumes about her judgements; she really thinks that she knows my family history and sides with my father. She offers proof that I misunderstood my father's intentions and decides that it is up to me to mend this broken fence. She absolves my father of all responsibility for the abandonment that I suffered at his hands.
And because this kind of lecture is SO common, and since we have been hearing this kind of stuff since childhood, it is easy to get sucked into this kind of judgement and "feel bad" for MY actions; or at least it might have made me feel bad 5 years ago. Today I was shocked. I thought "how the heck does this woman KNOW anything about my parents or what happened in my family or to my mother? Why does she think she knows anything about my father, his decisions, his actions or his intentions?
I didn't publish this comment on the post where she left it because this kind of stuff heaps more damage on the already damaged reader. I am publishing it today to highlight a typical example of what survivors of abuse and dysfunctional family stuff hear all the time from Read More→
On How to Become Your Own Best FriendPosted by: | Comments
Earlier this week I received a comment on the post "Thanksgiving and Gratitude ~ When the little voice rebels" and a commenter asked some excellent questions. Since I get questions like these frequently, I decided to answer them in this new post. Here is the paragraph from "Coffee" with her questions;
Coffee79 wrote: One area I struggle with is when that voice comes along I want to call someone, anyone to tell me this isn't the truth. When I tell myself that truth, why can't I believe it? Why does it mean more coming from someone else? My self-esteem will not stay consistent, and my therapist says I need to learn how to be my own best friend. I feel like I do work at it more than I used to, but how does someone become these things when they never had it? I do not have a healthy reference. I respond to this voice by telling myself it isn't true and I tell myself positive affirmations but I am not convinced. Darlene, how did you become your own best friend? How did you build your self-esteem without relying on the words others?"
Anyone who has been reading Emerging from Broken for any length of time knows that I find the answers by looking back to where the damage was caused and the messages I got and accepted about myself. I had to find out where my self-esteem went 'missing' in the first place. I know that's easier said than done and I am not minimizing the actual 'work' for one second but that was the first part of the work. Becoming my own best friend came later. I had to clear a new foundation on which to build my relationship with me, before I started working on becoming my own best friend and validating myself.
When I look back on my own life, I realize that I was 'trained' or taught (by words and actions, outcomes and circumstances) to believe that without certain people I would not survive. When a child's efforts are met with impatience there is a clear message communicated to that child. This message does not have to be communicated in words. It was only by finding out what that message WAS that I was able to overcome it. There were a LOT of false messages stuck in my belief system but the bottom line was that in the mind of a child, not being loved, 'good enough' or acceptable means being rejected and rejection means death. (I had to think deeply about this concept in my own life in order to relate to it. It isn't something that I understood just by hearing it).
Through looking closely at these messages that were communicated to me, I came to the conclusion that I associated not being approved of or not being "good enough" with death. MY DEATH. And the survival instinct is very strong and something I realized is that I was Read More→
Breaking Through the Fear of Speaking About Child Abuse by Kylie DeviPosted by: | Comments
I am pleased to welcome Kylie Devi back to Emerging from Broken. In January of 2012, Kylie wrote a guest post about having been sexually abused as a child and how much trouble she had getting professional help dealing with it. There were some unforeseen results due to her sharing this information however and this new post is about her abusers confronting her about that blog post and her reaction to that confrontation; how it froze her and how she got through it. It will be helpful for you to get the whole picture by reading her original blog post first. Please help me welcome Kylie back! ~ Darlene
Breaking Through the Fear of Speaking About Child Abuse by Kylie Devi
In January of this year, I wrote a blog post sharing my experience with the "get better industry." I shared how I felt that traditional psychology and social work failed me when I really needed it. And how I pulled myself out of the trenches of the horrors of sexual, emotional, and physical abuse as well as a ten year battle with drug addiction.
The belief I shared is that any industry designed to help me "get better" is only going to thrive when I don't get better. An example of this is that the medical industry doesn't thrive when nobody is sick, seeing doctors, or buying pharmaceuticals. Therefore, they are invested in people being sick. Make sense?
My main purpose for sharing this blog post was to reach out and say, hey, we all have our own unique path to healing… and it's really awesome when we can share with each other too. For me, both of these are implicit – we have to do the work ourselves, but it is so powerful when we can participate in communities full of people who are also "doing the work."
I do believe it was received that way by many people who read it, but there were some other people who weren't too excited about what I had to say.
In February, I got a phone call from my main abuser saying: "I read your little blog post, what are you doing? Trying to get attention? Who abused you, and why am I hearing about it in this way?"
(I would like to say that "your little blog post" was kind of comedic to me, since this is a highly trafficked website that has helped thousands of people.)
And then 3 more phone calls from my other Read More→
Why Setting Personal Boundaries is Not as Easy as it SoundsPosted by: | Comments
"I learned to set boundaries by realizing where they were missing in my life. I learned where they were missing in my life by seeing the truth about abuse etc. As long as my value was in question (by me as a result of the way I had been defined) I could not set boundaries." Darlene Ouimet
I googled the key words "setting personal boundaries" and the top info I found on it included understanding the abusers and not judging or placing blame on them because after all, we are all wounded souls! No wonder we have so much trouble healing from abuse! Oh it all sounds so lovely, but the truth is that I healed by setting ALL that aside after trying it that way for well over 20 years with the main result being that the depressions only increased and my boundaries got weaker. (see the links at the end of this post)
Have you ever thought about why setting personal boundaries is so dang hard in the first place? Here in Emerging from Broken, I always talk about how everything has a root. Depression starts somewhere. We are not born with low self esteem. And it is the root of both those things that makes setting personal boundaries so hard!
When I was defined as "not good enough" or "not worthy" by the actions of others in my life, it is understandable that I believed that definition of "me". And as long as I believed that the definition of me was correct, I didn't believe I had a right to HAVE boundaries. I didn't believe that I had a choice in my own life about what kind of treatment I had to accept. I didn't understand that I was being treated badly and that I had a right to say no to that treatment.
There was a root to why I had no idea Read More→
The Problem with the Saying "Love and You will be Loved"Posted by: | Comments
This week I came across the expression "love and you will be loved" several times and it got me thinking about how in theory it can and does work but the problem is what it infers. Depending on what you have already learned about "love" different messages are received through this saying. This phrase is so often said as a solution for everything just like with other sayings such as; Love heals all wounds; Love is the answer; if you are lonely then simply Love someone. It implies that if you "are not loving" then you will not be loved and the message that I "heard" is that I was not loved because I was not loving enough which led to me trying harder in impossible and abusive situations. This directive "love and you will be loved" seems to imply that we are all able to love as though love is something we just "know" how to do. Are we born knowing how to love or do we learn how to love by first being loved.
"Love and you will be loved" is often said as a reprimand. That phrase has some baggage that goes along with it. It decides that you will only be loved IF you love and that is fine. I am not disagreeing with that concept. It is the way that it is applied that I have an issue with. In our society, it seems to be applied to the victim in any given situation. The statement seems to infer that if you are struggling then it must be YOUR fault. If you are lonely, it is YOUR fault. If you are oppressed, what did you do to cause it? If you are being abused, or if you were mistreated (in any way) in the past, what did you do bring that on to yourself?
What if the saying "love and you shall be loved" was applied to the Read More→


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Paper title: Developing WebRTC-based team apps with a cross-platform mobile framework.
Speaker: John Buford. Track: Mobile and Wearable Devices, Services, and Applications.
Hello everyone. My name is John Buford.
Cross-platform WebRTC
team apps
This paper is about cross-platform WebRTC team apps. Particularly, how to write once and run anywhere for WebRTC apps? What are the challenges of creating cross-platform team apps? What are the lessons learned from our practical experience with several apps? And what are the guidelines we share to help other developers?
Kundan Singh is my co-author.
The focus is on three things: cross-platform, WebRTC and team apps. Our team apps deal with communication and collaboration use cases, particularly for enterprises. And we use Apache Cordova and Chrome Apps as cross-platform development tools.
The paper shows how to realize write-once-run-anywhere for such apps, and what are important lessons learned from our experience.
Our work focusses on communication and collaboration apps, and presents the collective knowledge from our experience developing several apps.
In particular, Fig.2 shows the seven different apps seen in enterprises and covered in the paper. These are good selection of representative apps and services found in enterprise team collaboration.
The first one is engagement dialer, which is basically a phone number dialer using our VoIP servers and gateways.
The second is a voice and video client for our IP office product for small and medium businesses. The client app connects to the cloud server.
The third one called Vclick is basically as collection of many endpoint driven independent apps, that use a light weight server in the cloud, and run all the app logic in the endpoint. It has video call, conferencing, presence and various forms of collaboration such as screen sharing, shared notepad and whiteboard.
Unlike previous IP office system with client-server media flow, Vclick uses peer-to-peer media flow.
Connected spaces is a team collaboration system for persistent sharing of content such as documents, websites, meeting notes, etc., within organized team spaces.
It also allows annotations and impromptu conversation with voice, video, text in the context of a shared document. The server runs on Amazon cloud.
Suki meeting helper agent joins your conferences and captures meta data and notes, and at the end of the meeting sends it to you. The Suki client app shows past meeting summaries in your calendar.
Unlike engagement dialer or IP office phone, that run the VoIP stack on the server, our SIP-JS client runs the SIP (or session initiation protocol) stack in the endpoint.
The benefit is that it can connect to existing VoIP providers' SIP proxies without needing specialized WebRTC gateways, and supports voice, video and text.
Finally the LAN video phone uses local area network multicast to discover other users, and can do peer-to-peer voice and video call, without using any server.
These apps have two common themes: first, all the apps except one (Suki) use WebRTC for real-time voice and video flows, and second, all the apps use the same set of cross-platform tools to write one and run on wide range of platforms.
This shows the WebRTC media flows in various apps.
Some apps use client-server media path, and others use peer-to-peer or full mesh. The media server when used can facilitate additional features such as gatewaying or call recording.
The signaling is done using Ajax or WebSocket.
Some of the services are hosted on cloud for our trial..
The paper only deals with the client apps, not the servers. Table I summarizes the similarities and differences among these apps.
For example, two of the apps use client certificate for added authentication. Two apps deal with load or save of files to disk. Four of the apps use iframe-based components in UI implementation. And three of the apps require periodic keepalive or presence.
Each of these apps can run in range of cross platform scenarios. We particularly focus on four categories: web app within a browser on PC and mobile, and installed app on PC and mobile.
Table II summarizes the differences in constraints on these platform categories. For example HTML5 localStorage is available only for web app, not installed. Whereas native socket interface, e.g., for UDP or multicast, is available only for installed apps, but not from within a browser. Client certificate is generally supported everywhere, but on installed mobile app, the support is ongoing and not fully functional. Some details are in the paper.
We use WebRTC for audio and video flows. WebRTC is an emerging technology for plugin-free browser to browser multimedia flows.
Fig.1 shows the two high level abstractions: get-user-media is used to capture the local stream from camera and microphone, and peer-connection is used to represent peer-to-peer channel. Fig.1 shows how the media captured from one browser is attached to the peer connection and displayed on the others, in both directions.
We abstract WebRTC and related code in a high-level video widget. The video widget is used in few of our apps as well as on wearable devices like Google Glass.
The video widget is basically a video box which can publish or play a named stream using a cloud hosted resource server for signaling.
This shows different video widgets publishing and playing two streams. The actual stream can be with peer-to-peer media flow of WebRTC.
There can one publisher for a stream, and zero or more players. The publishers and players can come and go in any order, and the widget correctly establishes the media flows. This concept is used for wide range of WebRTC apps such as video call, conference, or video presence.
Let me show a quick video demonstration of this video widget running on various platform categories.
Click to see a demo video (large)
This is the demonstration of the video widget running on wide range of platforms. So I have a windows laptop, a mac book, and few mobile devices both android and iOS.
The video widget is capable of publishing or playing. By default it publishes the local video (and audio) on start up.
You can see the local video on this windows laptop, where it is running as a web application in the browser.
On the mac book, I will launch the installed application. It has the same behavior and same user interface, and publishes the local video from the mac book camera.
Now I can attach the windows video widget to the published stream of the mac book video widget. Since video widget can publish or play, now I have one publisher from mac book, and one player on windows, both showing the video stream of the mac book camera.
Next, I launch the installed mobile app of video widget on an android phone. On start up, like before, it shows the local video from the android phone camera.
Now I can change the two laptop video widgets to play this video stream from the android video widget. Here there is one publisher and two players for this video stream.
Next, I will open the web app of the video widget on android tablet device. Same behavior, it publishes local video first, and I can change it to play, say from the mac book video widget stream.
The video widget app is also installed on the iPad, i.e., iOS device. By default it publishes the iPad video. And I can change the two laptop video widgets to play this iPad video stream.
That all about the demo of this video widget abstraction of WebRTC.
So how did we create these cross platform apps for write-once-run-anywhere?
It is a three step process: first, write the HTML5 code for the web app to run in the browser. Second convert it to a chrome-app to be installed on PCs. And finally, convert it to a cordova-app to be installed on mobile devices.
A chrome-app is basically a packaged collection of web files, which run and behave like a native installed app on PCs.
Converting a web app to chrome app is not trivial due to several constraints. For example, it cannot have inline scripts, or inline load of images or other resources from external server. The paper has more details on the challenges and techniques.
Apache Cordova is a cross-platform development tool that converts web files to native installed apps, e.g., for Android and iOS. There are many plugins that accomplish individual features, e.g., for storage or media capture.
Converting from chrome app to cordova-based native app is not difficult using the chrome-cordova-apps (cca) tools. However, some features are not available in Cordova, and must be re-implemented, e.g., open or save file dialog.
In summary, these are the three steps detailed in the paper.
How to do?
Cross-platform development
The paper also has guidelines on how to create HTML5.
How to write?
Cross-platform HTML5
For example, what are the problems with single-page-apps frameworks like AngularJS. And how do we use iframe-based components.
An example of componentization is shown in this connected spaces UI, where the same HTML and JS but different CSS produces entirely different user interface.
This is the connected spaces user interface in portrait and landscape mode, and layout automatically hides the menu in portrait mode.
This shows the four types of layouts. Depending on the application, often times, the stretched, zoomed and/or adjusting layout is used, instead of fixed.
For example, the Vclick app adjusts the participant video layout as the window size changes, e.g., going from portrait to landscape mode.
Using CSS instead of JavaScript for animation is fast, and works well when converted to native apps using Cordova.
For example, this shows heart-beat effect when the app is doing some background task.
And this one shows how the participants video boxes animate as people join or leave a Vclick conference.
The paper as more details on how to prefer intuition over instruction, and how to select the right programming model for designing APIs and widgets.
The paper also shows specific examples of audio/video related tricks and techniques.
For example, mobile web browsers do not load sound without user click, so how do we play incoming call alert.
Android gives squarer capture dimension in portrait mode, so how do we adjust the layout.
How can we restrict the IP addresses used by WebRTC to only VPN interfaces, when doing private office conversation?
What are the differences between centralized and peer-to-peer media flows?
How to write?
Cross-platform WebRTC
Even non-WebRTC tips are presented in the paper.
For example, some HTML features are available on mobile but not on PCs and vice-versa.
Web origin of a chrome app or cordova app can be vague, what problems can it cause and how to solve those?
What are the benefits of endpoint driven apps?
How do we launch an external app on web or on installed mobile app?
How to write?
Cross-platform Apps
Finally, there are some techniques for dealing with cloud based apps, especially for security and performance.
For example, how to save battery by not doing keepalive on WebSocket on mobile, but still be ready to receive incoming call?
Why does WebSocket fail sometimes? and how to deal with that?
How to improve transport security and access control using client certificate? And how to deal with if a client or server does not support client cert?
How to do?
Cloud-based Team Apps
So that brings me towards the end of the presentation on cross-platform WebRTC team apps.
team apps
To summarize, the paper contains these topics.
Thank you for listening.
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Become an occupational therapy support worker
Becoming an occupational therapy support worker is a hugely rewarding and diverse career.
Occupational therapy support workers (also known as occupational therapy assistants/rehabilitation assistants/technical instructors) assist registered occupational therapists in their day-to-day duties. They support and encourage clients and report back on their progress, liaising with the occupational therapist and possibly with nursing staff and social services. They also make sure clients have all the special aids they need and that the equipment is in good working order.
Occupational therapy support staff benefit from learning on the job and can choose to develop their skills further through formal training programmes. For example, they may study to obtain a QCF level 2 or 3 qualification in Healthcare Support Services or Clinical Healthcare Support. There are also other options available such as a BTEC in Occupational Therapy Support, foundation degrees in Health and Social Care or the Higher National Certificate in Occupational Therapy Support.
Generally, there are no specific qualifications required to become an occupational therapy support worker, although there are programmes available which provide an entry qualification into this kind of work. Some employers may have specific requirements regarding experience and prior learning, depending on the role.
Qualities needed:
- A caring and encouraging attitude
- Tact and sensitivity
- Patience
- Good communication skills
- Initiative
- The ability to work in a team
- The ability to relate to people of all ages and backgrounds
The interest in these posts is very strong, so applying can be competitive. Be sure to check with the employer about what skills and experience might give you a better chance of employment.
Find out more
Education and training for support workers
Some employers have in-house training available for their support staff. Many occupational therapy support staff study for vocational awards, such as an NVQ/SVQ. There are also other options available such as a BTEC in Occupational Therapy Support, foundation degrees in Health and Social Care or the Higher National Certificate in Occupational Therapy Support.
Agored Cymru offers an extensive range of qualifications and units for use within the Healthcare, Child Care and Social Care Sectors and our Careers Handbook provides useful information about applying to study occupational therapy.
Meet an occupational therapy technician
In a cosy workshop in the occupational therapy department of Wotton Lawn hospital in Gloucester, Chris Lucas, an occupational therapy technician and an active member of the Associate Member Committee can be found hard at work. He is surrounded by fabulous and inspiring creations, all of which have been made by patients who have been referred to the occupational therapy team as part of their treatment.
As a mental health hospital, Wotton Lawn provides the acute inpatient services for adults in Gloucestershire. The occupational therapy team consists of ten occupational therapists and four technicians who run a seven-day therapy service. Using the Model of Human Occupation, the team work together to design services based around the occupation-focused care pathway. A wide range of facilitated activities are planned and co-ordinated by occupational therapy technicians and draw from their skills and talents.
Chris has worked for the trust for nearly ten years and has helped to produce lots of exciting pieces from his workshop. He has led various different projects from building a rowing boat to creating an intricate doll's house. Drawing from his past experiences, he uses his skills to get involved in lots of different activities based on the needs of the patients and has helped to set up a regular curry club, which is very popular with both staff and patients, a breakfast club and a thriving green space project.
Chris' role as a technician is paramount to the department and as a technician his close work with patients allows him to build up a rapport and really make a difference, supporting the planning of activities and leading sessions.


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