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I am writing this just to let people know who i am. To start out with my name I am Meaghan Pierce but I like going by Meg, I turned 17 last month on 9/11. I am dealing with some of the hardest things in the world I am working through my depression and eating disorder that has been with me since I was 10. I will never be able to be rid of this for good but I can control it. It became harder my 9th grade year when they told me I have Mononucleosis or Mono and it is a type that i have to live with for the rest of my life most of my friends call it the STD version of Mono after that day I began to get sicker but we never knew why. As I was getting sick I went through a very hard break up with the guy that had given me, my first kiss. On February 14th he broke up with me for someone else I only got back to being my old self a year later.
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After the last couple months, I can see a healing taken place within me. I have been living up in the state of Wisconsin for about 3 years now and have felt very alone. I use to live in Tennessee and was constantly surround by family and friends, but up here I have my husband's family and not really any close friends. But, in August, when I started to feel depressed due to the medication I was on, I wanted to kill myself to stop the pain. I believe God knows the pain I was suffering because he sent my friend, Kerrie to me to help me. She asked me to be a part of the praise band at our church because she said that God was telling her to. Every since then, I am no longer thinking of killing myself like I was. I am healing. I have no more migraines ever since I went to the Barlowgirl concert at High Point Church (Madison, WI). I feel like I need to say this because if people hear my story, they know we all have similiar stories. God can heal anything. He knows our suffering.
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The following quote in wikipedia at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BarlowGirl from the Barlow sisters caught my attention:
"We believe that God has one perfect man already chosen for us; therefore we have no need to worry ourselves in searching for him. When the time is right, we know God will bring us together. In the mean time, we are not hiding in a closet avoiding all males, we are still living our lives, just without the pressure of having to have a boyfriend."
Paul wrote in 1 Corinthians 7:32-35 that unmarried life makes it easier for us to focus on the most important thing in life - God.
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You can hardly turn on the television or open a newspaper without hearing about the nation's impressive, much celebrated housing recovery. Home prices are rising! New construction has started! The crisis is over! Yet beneath the fanfare, a whole new get-rich-quick scheme is brewing.
Over the last year and a half, Wall Street hedge funds and private equity firms have quietly amassed an unprecedented rental empire, snapping up Queen Anne Victorians in Atlanta, brick-faced bungalows in Chicago, Spanish revivals in Phoenix. In total, these deep-pocketed investors have bought more than 200,000 cheap, mostly foreclosed houses in cities hardest hit by the economic meltdown.
Wall Street's foreclosure crisis, which began in late 2007 and forced more than 10 million people from their homes, has created a paradoxical problem. Millions of evicted Americans need a safe place to live, even as millions of vacant, bank-owned houses are blighting neighborhoods and spurring a rise in crime. Lucky for us, Wall Street has devised a solution: It's going to rent these foreclosed houses back to us. In the process, it's devised a new form of securitization that could cause this whole plan to blow up—again.
Since the buying frenzy began, no company has picked up more houses than the Blackstone Group, the largest private equity firm in the world. Using a subsidiary company, Invitation Homes, Blackstone has grabbed houses at foreclosure auctions, through local brokers, and in bulk purchases directly from banks the same way a regular person might stock up on toilet paper from Costco.
In one move, it bought 1,400 houses in Atlanta in a single day. As of November, Blackstone had spent $7.5 billion to buy 40,000 mostly foreclosed houses across the country. That's a spending rate of $100 million a week since October 2012. It recently announced plans to take the business international, beginning in foreclosure-ravaged Spain.
Few outside the finance industry have heard of Blackstone. Yet today, it's the largest owner of single-family rental homes in the nation—and of a whole lot of other things, too. It owns part or all of the Hilton Hotel chain, Southern Cross Healthcare, Houghton Mifflin publishing house, the Weather Channel, Sea World, the arts and crafts chain Michael's, Orangina, and dozens of other companies.
Blackstone manages more than $210 billion in assets, according to its 2012 Securities and Exchange Commission annual filing. It's also a public company with a list of institutional owners that reads like a who's who of companies recently implicated in lawsuits over the mortgage crisis, including Morgan Stanley, Citigroup, Deutsche Bank, UBS, Bank of America, Goldman Sachs, and of course JP Morgan Chase, which just settled a lawsuit with the Department of Justice over its risky and often illegal mortgage practices, agreeing to pay an unprecedented $13 billion fine.
In other words, if Blackstone makes money by capitalizing on the housing crisis, all these other Wall Street banks—generally regarded as the main culprits in creating the conditions that led to the foreclosure crisis in the first place—make money too.
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In neighborhoods across the country, many residents didn't have to know what Blackstone was to realize that things were going seriously wrong.
Last year, Mark Alston, a real estate broker in Los Angeles, began noticing something strange happening. Home prices were rising. And they were rising fast—up 20% between October 2012 and the same month this year. In a normal market, rising home prices would mean increased demand from homebuyers. But here was the unnerving thing: the homeownership rate was dropping, the first sign for Alston that the market was somehow out of whack.
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Apple is one of the most successful companies of the past 20 years, and its stock is one of the most widely held. The 51-year-old Cook has made it clear he's going to go his own way, which is to say he'll probably be more like the traditional CEO and become more of a general manager and administrator than the do-everything, detail-minded Jobs.The outpouring of sympathies for Jobs, all well-deserved, put a halo over his head. Cook won't be able to top that.
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Preface: The deepening doctor shortage is one of the main themes of my book Obama, Doctors, and Health Reform. To show you the shortage in not something I dreamed up, I reprint here two recent pieces on the subject. Ironically, one of the most severely short states of primary care doctors is Massachusetts, which has the second highest concentration of physicians per capita next to the District of Columbia. For the last three years, Massachusetts has had a universal coverage plan and is widely touted among liberals as a model for widening coverage. It is a paradox that Massachusetts now has the nation's longest waiting times to see a doctor and its ERs are consequently overwhelmed. This is a beautiful example of unanticipated adverse consequences.
Fierce Healthcare, December 7, 2009
Physician shortage is getting worse
By Anne Zieger
Brace yourselves: Demand for physicians continues to outstrip supply, and the problem is likely to get worse, according to new data.
One source underscoring the problem is the Bureau of Labor Statistics, which concluded last month that the healthcare sector added 28,500 jobs in October. That included 4,800 jobs in physician offices and 10,000 in hospitals.
While the BLS report doesn't break down these jobs into specific job titles, another report by healthcare staffing firm AMN Healthcare Services offers a more-detailed picture. The firm's report, conducted in partnership with the Council on Physician and Nurse Supply, surveyed 284 hospital chief executive officers between June and August of this year.
Researchers found that about 95 percent of those CEOs reported a physician shortage, with a vacancy rate of 11 percent, potentially compromising care in almost half of those cases. This was despite the fact that 34 percent of the CEOs had increased their physician staff roster within the previous six months.
Meanwhile, physician vacancies aren't the only major headache hospital CEOs face. Ninety-one percent of CEOs said that they were seeing a nursing shortfall, though the vacancy rate was just 6 percent.
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About 1 in 10 physician jobs are unfilled, hospitals say
Despite the recession, hospitals are still seeing a doctor shortage, a survey by one physician placement company finds.The health care system added more jobs in October, but efforts to meet the increasing demand for services are hampered by a worsening physician shortage, leaving some institutions struggling to fill some jobs, according to a pair of recently released reports.
"A friend once said to me that, without doctors, hospitals are just mediocre hotels with average food," said Kurt Mosley, vice president of business development at AMN Healthcare Services Inc. "Without the doctors, hospitals would not exist. There is such a demand for doctors. There are so many opportunities." AMN is the largest health care staffing firm in the country.
According to a report issued by the Bureau of Labor Statistics Nov. 6, the economy as a whole lost 190,000 jobs in October and the unemployment rate increased to 10.2%
. The health care sector, however, added 28,500 jobs, with 10,000 of those in hospitals and 4,800 in physician offices.
This agency does not break down numbers by profession. But a separate report issued by AMN indicated many clinical professionals, particularly physicians, are in short supply.
AMN, in partnership with the national Council on Physician and Nurse Supply, surveyed 284 hospital chief executive officers, during June through August, about physician job openings at their facilities.
Approximately 95% of the hospital CEOs said there was a shortage of physicians, with a vacancy rate of 11%, meaning a little more than one in 10 physician job openings are unfilled.
About 34% of CEOs had increased the number of physicians on staff within the previous six months, but 46% said patient access to care had been compromised by shortfalls in the number of physicians.
The amount of money put into physician recruitment has, however, gone down, although this report suggests it most likely will return to pre-recession levels soon. According to third quarter results from AMN, a publicly traded company, revenue from locum tenens physicians decreased 12% over the past year. Money earned from placing physicians decreased by 31%. But this survey found that 54% of CEOs plan to increase physician recruitment efforts.
"It seems to have hit the bottom, and business is coming back," Mosley said. "It wasn't that the demand was not there, but recruiting a doctor is a half a million dollar outlay. It wasn't that [hospitals] didn't want to recruit. They had no funds to do it."
Merritt Hawkins & Associates is the company owned by AMN that handles permanent physician placement. Staff Care manages locum tenens assignments.
Nurses also remain in short supply, although this is not felt as acutely as the physician shortage, with 91% of hospital CEOs noting a shortfall. Some 32% of institutions had increased their number of nurses, and the vacancy rate for nurses was 6%. Only 8% of hospital CEOs said access to care was compromised because of a lack of nurses.
The recession has helped ease the nursing shortage, 27% of hospital CEOs said. Experts say the economic downturn brought retired nurses or those working in other industries back into the field and many nurses who had been working part-time expanded their hours. Shortages are expected to return to previous levels as the economy recovers.
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World | Agence France-Presse | Monday December 1, 2014
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan today holds talks in Ankara with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin to tighten links which have survived potentially grave disputes over the Syria and Ukraine crises.
Syria Regime Raids on Islamic State 'Capital' Kill 95
World | Agence France- Presse | Wednesday November 26, 2014
Syrian regime air strikes on Islamic State group stronghold Raqa killed at least 95 people as a government delegation prepared for talks with key ally Russia today on relaunching peace negotiations.
Ready to Study UN Plan to 'Freeze' Aleppo Fighting, Says Syrian President
World | Agence France-Presse | Tuesday November 11, 2014
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said on Monday he was ready to study a UN plan to "freeze" fighting in the northern city of Aleppo, a statement from his office said.
Fears for Kobane as Obama Meets Coalition Commanders
World | Agence France-Presse | Wednesday October 15, 2014
US-led aircraft will continue bombing near the Syrian town of Kobane and in western Iraq, President Barack Obama said on Tuesday after talks with military leaders from an international coalition fighting the Islamic State group.
Sister of British IS Hostage Urges Captors to Resume Talks
World | Reuters | Tuesday October 14, 2014
The sister of a British man held hostage by Islamic State (IS) militants fighting in Iraq and Syria has urged his captors to resume contact, saying that all communication with those holding him had ceased.
US Says Won't Link Iran Cooperation on Islamic State to Nuclear Talks
World | Reuters | Tuesday September 23, 2014
The United States said on Monday it will refuse any effort by Iran to gain its cooperation on fighting Islamic State forces by being more flexible about Tehran's nuclear program.
John Kerry Raises Islamic State Militant Threat With Iranian, Russian Foreign Ministers
World | Agence France-Presse | Monday September 22, 2014
US Secretary of State John Kerry on Sunday raised the threat of Islamic militants in Iraq and Syria directly with his Iranian counterpart in high-level talks in New York, a US official said.
John Kerry Lands in Cairo For Talks on Anti-Islamic State Coalition
World | Agence France-Presse | Saturday September 13, 2014
US Secretary of State John Kerry arrived on Saturday in Cairo on the latest leg of a regional tour to forge a coalition against Islamic State jihadists in Iraq and Syria.
US Secretary of State John Kerry to Arrive in Gulf for Talks on Tackling Islamic State
World | Agence France Presse | Wednesday September 10, 2014
Secretary of State John Kerry is set to arrive in the Gulf on Wednesday to help build a broad coalition against jihadists in Iraq and Syria that has already won support from Arab nations.
Australian Grandfather in Tears at Severed Head Photo
World | Agence France-Presse | Tuesday August 12, 2014
The grandfather of a boy pictured holding a severed head in Syria said the shocking image brought him to tears, with the growing problem of jihadists fighting overseas to be a focus of US-Australia talks on Tuesday.
Syria's Western-Backed Opposition Elects New President
World | Reuters | Thursday July 10, 2014
Syria's Western-backed opposition, the National Coalition, elected Hadi al-Bahra, chief negotiator at the Geneva peace talks, as its new president on Wednesday after a three-day meeting in Istanbul.
Syrian Opposition Coalition Elects New President
World | Reuters | Wednesday July 9, 2014
Syria's Western-backed opposition National Coalition elected Hadi al-Bahra, chief negotiator at the Geneva peace talks, as its new president following a three-day meeting in Istanbul, the coalition said on Wednesday.
Final Push in 'Historic' Iran Nuclear Talks
World | Agence France-Presse | Thursday July 3, 2014
Iran nuclear talks enter the decisive, dangerous endgame Thursday with a marathon final round of hardball negotiations potentially going all the way to the July 20 finish line.
John Kerry in Syria Opposition Talks as US Moves to Arm Rebels
World | Agence France-Presse | Friday June 27, 2014
The US top diplomat headed for talks with the Syrian opposition and its key backer Saudi Arabia Friday after the White House asked lawmakers for $500 million to train and equip vetted rebels.
United Nations Aid Chief Urges Security Council to Act on Syria Aid Crisis
World | Reuters | Friday June 27, 2014
The UN aid chief appealed to the Security Council on Thursday to take action on the "inhuman" obstruction of humanitarian relief in Syria, as Russia and Western nations appeared at an impasse in talks on a draft resolution intended to boost access.
John Kerry to Visit Saudi Arabia on Friday for Iraq Talks
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Some of humankind's most surprising inventions began when an inquisitive mind decided that combining two unlikely things would be a good idea.In 1907, chemist Leo Baekeland mixed formaldehyde and phenol to create plastic – the moldable concoction responsible today for everything from assisting in life-saving surgeries to cluttering kitchen drawers with mismatched storage containers and lids. In 1928, dairy farmer Harry Reese performed a stroke of genius when he introduced peanut butter to chocolate, resulting in an 85-year marriage with no plan for separation in sight.But it took awhile longer before someone would dream up mankind's latest combination of the unlikely – crushed stone and pig manure. When combined the two ingredients help create a liquid asphalt that solves a multitude of issues plaguing the road construction industry today.Someday, all of our travels may be on a road of excrement.Bio-Adhesive Alliance, the N.C. A&T University spinoff company responsible for the innovation, created the new asphalt to solve the industry's growing emphasis for greener products and lower costs."They're always ready for new, sustainable materials, and they're looking more and more at waste," said Bio-Adhesive Alliance president Mahour Mellat-Parast. "That was the movement, the reason behind the research."Liquid asphalt made with pig manure helps create a more sustainable environment; it also helps decrease the number of pig waste lagoons in North Carolina, now in the thousands. Economically, farmers like to get paid for it and asphalt executives are happy to pay them, at a lower price than the petroleum-based ingredient it's replacing.Bio-Adhesive Alliance's new product has caused a stir in a number of circles, from financial backers to green-initiative supporters.This year the company picked up two honors, becoming the grand prizewinner of both the ACC Clean Energy Challenge – which comes with a $100,000 award – and the Charlotte Venture Challenge, which earned them a $25,000 prize.The latter, sponsored by UNC Charlotte's Charlotte Research Institute and Ventureprise, a business incubator and accelerator on Mallard Creek Road, is a competition that draws entrepreneurs and investors to the Charlotte region.Bio-Adhesive Alliance beat out nearly 100 competitors this year in the contest, in part, said Paul Wetenhall, president of Ventureprise, because it had that "it" factor."Once people got past the snickers of dealing with pig waste, the first thing that was clear was this team had a really solid understanding about the market and their solution for the market," said Wetenhall.Entrepreneurs received feedback to improve their ideas and business plans throughout the months-long contest. The 18 finalists who remained after a series of eliminations worked with mentors experienced in entrepreneurial startups.The contest ended with sales pitches to a panel of judges during the final competition, held at the NASCAR Hall of Fame in May.One judge, John Cambier, an early-stage investor with IDEA Fund Partners, said Bio-Adhesive Alliance has all of the ingredients essential to become a big success."What I'm looking for in these companies is the strongest combination of market size, company product differentiation, protectability against competitors, and a manager team that has a chance of executing that plan," said Cambier. "They had the best combination of all of those factors."
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Marvel Studios has officially suited up and pulled the trigger for a third time on another "Iron Man" movie.
The studio announced today that the next superhero epic, "Iron Man 3," has begun filming in Wilmington, N.C.
The studio also revealed the first image of filming on set today through Twitter. It shows actor Robert Downey Jr., who plays Tony Stark-Iron Man in the series, standing in front of a wall of Iron Man suits of armor.
Ever secretive, Marvel's news release announcing the filming was vague, saying only that "principal photography" has started on the film and that the "Iron Man 3′s" plot "continues the epic, big-screen adventures of the world's favorite billionaire inventor/Super Hero, Tony Stark aka 'Iron Man.'"
There were also no surprises announced in the cast, yet. Marvel's news release only confirms that actors Downey, Gwyneth Paltrow, Don Cheadle and Jon Favreau will appear in "Iron Man 3," as they all have in the previous "Iron Man" films.
In an April interview with "Nightline," Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige, who is also producing "Iron Man 3," was reluctant even then to reveal much about Marvel's latest superhero installment. He would only say that this film would be "very different" from others in the Marvel Comic franchise and the audience shouldn't assume they know what's coming just because it's a sequel.
"It's going to be very different, very unique and I think not ascribe to any specific formula that they think they may have pegged us on," Feige said at the time. "It's all in the story. It's where you take Tony Stark on his journey in an unexpected way and have him come out of 'The Avengers' a slightly changed individual, which people will see when they see the movie."
The "Iron Man 3″ announcement follows the smashing success of the summer blockbuster, "The Avengers," which had a record-breaking box office opening when it was released on May 4, pulling in roughly $200 million domestically in its first weekend.
"Iron Man 3″ is slated to open in theaters nationwide on May 3, 2013, according to the studio's news release.
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"Catherine is an unprecedented exploration of the pleasures and horrors of love." So says Catherine publisher, Atlus. I'll take their word for it. Even after the Catherine FAP, I'm still baffled. But that's not important. What is important is that my favourite cosplayer on the planet, Omi Gibson, has chosen Catherine as the inspiration for her latest piece of creative dressing-up. And, as ever, the shoot is impeccable, beautiful, sexy, mesmerising etc. I've been looking at it for most of the morning.
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I am mentally ill, and not ashamed to admit it. It's like any other disease. But it's not my mental illness that makes me an atheist. I'm an atheist because I find the idea of God(s) absurd and illogical. And my mental illness does not say anything about atheism being a form of mental illness as some theists would like to believe.
I've had major clinical depression all my life, perhaps because I was born congenitally deformed, and was born into a family with an abusive father and older half brother. He always used to beat me up all the time for no reason (and once when I was perhaps 8 years old, he would have been 12, he tried to sexually molest me). Sometimes he would also bully my other (full) brother.
My depression was made even worse in 1995 and then worse still in 2006. In 1995 the oldest of my two younger sisters was murdered by her boyfriend. I can't get past the terrible and all consuming grief my mother showed at the hospital when they came out to tell us that my sister didn't make it despite their efforts. She wailed with deepest grief, I felt so terribly sorry for her, and will never forget that moment. It's burned into my mind.
A grand jury was convened to see if enough evidence was found to try my sister's boyfriend for murder. But they didn't have enough, and so her murderer walked free. There was no justice for us. That made things even worse for me, and especially for my mother.
I watched my mother grieve for 11 long years over her murdered child, and ultimately caused my mother to die from broken heart in 2006. I loved my mother more than anything in this world. Now my days are spent only with haunting memories that destroy me nearly everyday. When my time to die nears I will welcome it with open arms. Being an atheist and not believing in any kind of afterlife, death holds no fear over me. After I die my suffering, too, will be at an end.
I can't help sometimes but to imagine the horror and suffering my sister went through in her final moments. I heard about a year ago that her murderer died of liver cancer, as he was an avid drunk. But knowing he's dead does not deaden my pain, and I know he's not burning in some hell. He is free from suffering. Too bad. Sometimes I have the urge to find out where he is buried, dig him up, and defecate on his face and then rebury him and let him lie there like that til the end of time, or until he completely rots away.
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I would rather say that you reacted normally to abnormal and horrible conditions, and I hope you'll find the strength to enjoy the enjoyable things in life. You know what they say - and I think they're right - that ´normal´ people don't exist.
I sympathize with those suffering depression. In a lesser way all of us are depressed from time to time, but not clinically. Clinical depression was the malady of William Stryon, the novelist, who wrote a book about it, and I would recommend it to you. Meanwhile, I trust you have meds that will help. Your family history is depressing as it is. The problem with being an atheist is that we are robbed of the usual cliches, such as "God bless you" or "My heart and prayers go out to you." These themselves are depressing enough since they are such nonsense and so widely expressed. Even, "I hope...." which Nietzsche said was the worst of the lot, since it provides false promises of a better future. For some, there is none. The only cliched commiseration I use and use it here: take care!
Anthony, you and James are both correct. There is no hell in which the murderer is suffering, or a heaven where you sister and mother are getting a better deal than they had in life. And, all the cliches about gods, heavens, hell, and spirit worlds are nothing more than wishful thinking outside the realm of reality. There is one thing that is reality based, and that's human empathy. A desire to try and understand a person's situation, and demonstrate compassion. I'll echo James. Take care.
I'm so sorry Tony. Thankfully we know there is no "god" that gave each of us our life circumstances for a "reason." I'm glad you had a wonderful Mother though, and you can think of her whenever you need her. I get depressed sometimes, but I don't have clinical depression. I do have anxiety issues that are mainly worrying about my kids, and panic-attacks. As you know I am on meds for that, and they help.
You know I am here for you to talk to, and so are these nice people on AN.
You have had a difficult life Anthony. Sorry to hear of all that sorrow you went through.
I am happy you made it to the site. You make such wonderful contributions here.
Again, not a "Like" but an appreciation to you, Anthony, for sharing your story with us. I can testify to my fact that the only thing I could find was to share my story with others; it has been the only healing method I could find. I do hope sharing with us will be healing for you.
I am very sorry to learn of your early childhood experiences and your deep depressions. Your memories sound like "mindbindings" that keep you locked into your memories. Mindbindings are thoughts one has that bind one to dysfunctional behavior. In my case, my mind was bound into thinking abuse was normal, and I could survive by finding ways to cope. Coping is necessary for surviving, but not for thriving.
I respect your courage to put your trust in us; you probably know by now that this site is a place for healing as well as thriving.
Anthony, it takes a very courageous person to put such strong personal emotions and details about your life into a public forum. I commend you for your trust in us. Thank you. As Chris said, you have responded to horrible events in your life in a manner that most others would have as well. I know major depression causes tremendous turmoil, and I understand the feelings of helplessness and pain that plague you. Despite your past, perhaps in the coming years you'll be able to find a way to experience and enjoy your life more positively. Thanks for sharing. Be well, friend.
It sucks to be depressed and haunted by traumatic experiences.
I assume you've tried medication and counseling.
Were I in your situation, I'd look for a way to free my mind from the past, to pay attention to the present and find new sources of joy and comfort such as a friendly cat or dog, and a hobby.
My own tendencies toward mental illness manifest as escapist fantasy. Along those lines one might try the games where you build an imaginary city or island, or Second Life. Anything to stop thinking about the past and start anew. The idea is to create the possibility of a success or pleasant time, to break the cycle of old thoughts pulling you down now. I'd also try strategies to stop those thoughts and memories whenever they came. I tend to rehearse my internal dialogues when I want to stop unwanted thoughts. I talk to my child ego state from my adult and parent ego states, explaining why it's good to stop thinking the unhelpful thoughts dragging me down, cajoling myself, even giving myself playful injunctions such as, "Stomp on the bad thought, it's an ant!" Yes I'd even stomp my foot to act out stopping the thought. And I'd have a bunch of better thoughts and distractions ready to switch to, pretty, shiny, happy, exciting, awesome or adventurous images or activities.
Well, those are my strategies for my life. Good luck, Anthony.
Angela, I am so glad you ended up with a great husband and daughters! You have been through so much. Thanks for sharing your story. Please post more often!~ Melinda
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Broadband is increasingly being recognized as a general purpose technology that can have wide-reaching impact on economies by transforming the way people communicate, innovate, and do business.
At the Connect Arab Summit hosted by the International Telecommunication Union in Doha, March 5-7, 2012, the World Bank announced its regional initiative to improve broadband connectivity in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA).
"Worldwide, broadband is becoming an essential infrastructure for innovation, economic growth, and competitiveness," said Doyle Gallegos, Practice Leader, Connectivity Infrastructure, World Bank. "This World Bank initiative will help increase MENA countries' capacity to cope with the tremendous predicted increase in broadband traffic and to compete in the 21st century's global market."
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During the first quarter, we recorded a provision for loan losses of $574 thousand compared to $15.7 million for the previous quarter and $516 thousand for the first quarter of 2009. The provision recorded in the 2010 first quarter reflects a $560 thousand increase in specific loss allocation on impaired loans and a $14 thousand increase in the general valuation allowance.
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With my pack loaded down with school books, papers, and lesson plans, strapped in place across my back, I had cut through the Zalia's property, down a slowly winding dirt road, past chicken breeding tents and the pineapple juice factory in town. I closed the gate behind me and made a left onto the asphalt road that runs west out of town. I had not walked far at all, just past the cigar factory on my right, and had begun a slow and short descent to the polluted and dirty creek at the bottom of the hill.
There was some buzzing close to me, and I very quickly became aware of two or three bees circling my head
You need to know, at this point, that growing up I was allergic to bees. I had visited the hospital several times previously to ward off any ill effects. I was rather proud of the time I had been "wounded" on the battlefield at Gettysburg during a family vacation.
This, however, was in no way amusing. I was already swatting, batting, and hitting myself in the chest, arms, and face to chase off, kill, or get rid of my attackers in any way possible. I ran over to the ditch, thinking I should get down low, and they would leave me?!? I'm not sure where that thinking came from, and quickly realized it was of no value.
As I climbed back out of the ditch, covered with bees, stings, and I'm sure already sweating more than I had since November, some people across the street in a house along the hill were yelling at me in Spanish
I don't think I could possibly explain all that went through my brain at this time. I do remember thinking, "people have died from massive bee stings, right?," and "that is exactly what is happening to me right now. Could I die, right here on the street to the maquiladoras?" That may sound melodramatic, but at that time I felt this incredible sense of hopelessness. I had no idea what to do or how I was going to stop this assault.
I think that for having no other hope, I simply started to run, still batting, smashing, and swearing the whole time. They followed and continue to sting me. I felt several of them, in what felt like a small cluster, dive into my hair, as though they were actually grabbing hold of my scalp. I slapped them against my own skin as hard as I could, and swung at others. I ran faster, wondering if they would follow me until I gave up.
As I neared the creek, I thought about submersing myself, but knew the creek was very shallow at the time, due to a lack of rain. I had this image of myself half-submersed in dirty polluted water; cups, beer cans, and plastic bottles and bags all around me. I dismissed this thought and kept running.
After running a little further I was aware that I was losing the bees, which were not keeping up with me. Slowing down a bit, a man walking toward me, near the creek, was mumbling, "African, African!" No sooner had I slowed enough to listen to this man than the bees were back on me, and just as intent on stinging me as before. I looked at the man and said, "I don't know what to do." He yelled, "Corre, corre, y no para!" (Run, run, and don't stop!) I took off, again, now on a level section, over the creek, and began running up the hill into town. I'm not sure how far I had run when I realized there were no bees. I was exhausted, but ran a little further. When I did stop running I kept walking fast, and didn't look back.
I found at least twelve bees stings on my arms, face, and neck. I also scraped (as I'd learned to do in boy scouts) numerous stingers off my body, as I found them in a variety of places all over my body, partially inserted in my skin. When I finally got back to the volunteer house, an hour later, I broke down and cried. I had not been so afraid of something in a long time. We found more stingers, dead bees, and even a couple sets of bee's legs here and there that I must have knocked off as I smashed them in desperation.
Happily, I've had no short term problems with the attack, just a little swelling and redness. One of the stings was right on the outside corner of my left eye. It immediately swelled, and I thought it might even swell shut that night. It did not get worse, although ten days later I still have a black eye. The locals all ask me if I got the "ojo morado" (purple eye) from a fight, and motion as though they're hitting me. I tell them, no, but I think they prefer the fight story over the real story.
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'A Sleepin' Bee'. . .I bet you were wishin & hopin' your buddy bees had chosen to do the same instead of chase you down. I truly think they really just wanted to wish you a Happy 50TH BIRTHDAY ! ! ! (OK, so I'm only a month & a couple days late. . .wadaya gonna do, STING me?!?
Missing you, mi amigo. . .we'll party when you get home & come to de island, mon!
Happy you are alright now!
Amazing experience, Jon! Well portrayed in your words. How dreadful to be amongst people and the only one under attack... some strange metaphor?!
Interesting that you found yourself stronger than you were in your earlier life events... always nice to come back around to a hard spot and master it.
Not that you would savor this tidbit, but some bee stings are therapeutic. (I bet you already knew that.)
I'm so thankful this story has a peaceful ending, and very glad you are safe now. Hope you get what mileage is to be had from ojo morado! Love, Ronda
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Hi Jon,
I love reading your updates but was very anxious with this latest update. How scary! My sister is allergic to bees, and believe it or not, I've never been stung so don't know if I am or not. I'm so very glad you're OK. I would be just as scared.
I hope you're taking a different way home now & carry a big can of bug spray!
Take care. See you when you return!
Theb Yram (aka Mary Beth)
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Dear Jon,
I JUST read your blog entry tonight (a week later), inasmuch as things around here have been crazy and I haven't done much of anything with the computer.
I don't know what to say?
That is absolutely incredible! I can attest to your reactions as a child, being treated at (I think) a Navy hospital once, following the 'Hospital' signs in Akron, and, of course, Gettysburg.
I am extremely grateful that you are ok.
You'd better find that guy that told you to run and not stop. Buy him lunch, dinner, a car, a house. Just a suggestion. :-O
Lots of love,
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Dec. 30 (Bloomberg) -- Canadian natural gas fell, bringing its annual decline to 30 percent, amid a continuing glut of the fuel caused by new supplies from shale gas formation and mild U.S. weather.
Alberta gas dropped a second day after the Energy Department said U.S. stockpiles of the fuel declined 81 billion cubic feet to 3.548 trillion in the week ended Dec. 23. The five-year average withdrawal is 122 billion. Demand for heat across the U.S. will trail normal by 14 percent through Jan. 6, according to Weather Derivatives of Belton, Missouri.
"We're waiting for something to re-enter the market and balance things out on the demand side," said Eric Bickel, a natural gas analyst with Summit Energy Services in Louisville, Kentucky. "Until we see some snow and cold, we'll be in a low- price environment."
Alberta gas for January delivery fell 2.75 cents, or 1.1 percent, to C$2.57 a gigajoule ($2.40 per million British thermal units) at 11:20 a.m. New York time on NGX, a Canadian Internet market.
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Gas for February delivery declined 0.2 cent to $3.025 per million Btu at 11:23 a.m. on the New York Mercantile Exchange, brining its decline to 31 percent so far this year. The futures traded below $3 per million Btu earlier today for the first time in more than two years.
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Volume on TransCanada's Alberta system, which collects the output of most of the nation's gas wells, was 16.8 billion cubic feet, 94 million below target.
Gas was flowing at a daily rate of 2.82 billion cubic feet at Empress, Alberta, at 11 a.m. in New York. The fuel is transferred to TransCanada's main line at Empress.
At McNeil, Saskatchewan, where gas is transferred to the Northern Border Pipeline for shipment to the Chicago area, the daily flow rate was 2.06 billion cubic feet.
Available capacity on TransCanada's British Columbia system at Kingsgate was 822 million cubic feet. The system was forecast to carry 1.83 billion cubic feet today, about 69 percent of its capacity of 2.65 billion.
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says ... on Wednesday, May 18 at 6:41 AM
About a month ago, I heard one on my neighbor's property. That was before the really bad windy thunderstorms. I haven't heard him since. Owls are definatly great. This Pesky little Mouse and Chipmunk are driving me crazy and relocation is dificult67247057
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