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Fall 2009 - Volume IV, Issue 2
It is impossible to go forward if one lacks the will to transgress.-Bell Hooks, Art on My Mind: Visual Politics
My reflections on the transgressive and heretical spirit of secular Israeli woman are based on my experiences while teaching "Women and Spirituality" in the Graduate Women's Studies Program at the Lesley University Extension in Israel, my intimate interactions with my students and documented comments taken from their papers. This required course was offered as an intensive over four 8-hour days. The women ranged in age from early thirties to mid-sixties. One class also included a twenty-six year old from the Expressive Arts Program who elected to join the cohort.
They were all self-selected feminists—trained and experienced professionals: lawyers, teachers, social workers, artists, writers—seeking to better understand the cultural dynamics of their society and searching for the tools of empowerment that would help them work for cultural change. They are busy claiming their own agency in a patriarchal militarist society captive to a religious orthodoxy. The five intensive days of the course provided a space for them to build community, speak their truth, heal old wounds and reclaim their souls.
The focus of the course was on embodied experience. My concern was the impact of three thousand years of suppression of the female body, sexuality and spirit that is inherent in monotheistic religion and male dominated societies. I have been writing, teaching, lecturing and conducting workshops on women's spirituality for twenty years. I define women's spirituality very broadly as women's experience of the sacred, women's ways of knowing, women's psychological development, women's bodies and sexuality, women's health and healing, and women's moral reasoning and ethics. I am well aware of the power of a paradigmatic shift in raising consciousness; but, my experience teaching in the Lesley Israeli Women's Studies Program has been the most affirming of this theory. My students there, already worldly and wise because of the circumstances of their lives and their own personal motivation to create meaningful lives for themselves, are among the best I have ever had. I have learned much from them and am enlivened by their discourse. I view my role as a teacher in the Lesley Graduate Women's Studies program as "engendering the spirit" and as an agent in promoting cultural change. I introduced a concept that was new and unfamiliar to most of the women, that of the ancient goddess as a symbol for the sacred female and her re-emergence in the cultural mythology of the Western world in our time. That a women's body and her sexuality were sacred was a revelation to most.
I now want to discuss their responses to the course more directly through thoughts gleaned from their papers. Israeli women rarely define their spirituality according to the religious model. Most of the students identified themselves as secular Jews, as they claim the majority do in Israel. They are highly critical of the God they know, who is perceived as male, and not always forgiving. In the name of God, their fathers and husbands conquered the land and people. According to His word, their bodies belong to men and their blood is considered impure. In this course, they write, they were exposed to a different train of thought and a new definition of the spiritual and the meaning of the sacred as distinct from that of the 'holy' of traditional Judaism.
Spirituality deals with the most essential and sacred matters of personal life. Family means sexual union and parenthood. Birth is a family issue. Sexuality and coupling are sacred issues. Giving birth is the most sacred moment in a woman's life. Any crisis in these aspects of life can be most painful. Spirituality is private, personal and eclectic, growing gradually out of experiences and the ongoing reciprocal activity of their objective and subjective worlds.
The highest spiritual value is the sacredness of life, the need to protect one's own life, as well as the lives of family and nation. This is influenced by the knowledge that the state of Israel was founded as a home for Jews after the mass murder and destruction committed by the Nazis, and the fact that danger still hovers over the Israeli individual and collective today. Therefore, Israelis must defend themselves in order to survive. This then is the paradox—the inevitable loss of individual lives in the effort to preserve the collective life.
A woman's spirituality does not include an external authority or 'divinity' that tells them what to do or how to behave but it does include an internal authority. In the past some believed in a big, strong external force that can be called God. Now they feel less tied to social norms and subjective spirituality is what directs behavior and actions. The women pass from reliance on an external high status figure to relying on an intuitive internal power—a passage from being passive to being active, from silence to rebellion, from a static ego to an active ego. The highest level of a woman's spirituality is the integration of internal and external voices, the integration between subjective and objective knowledge and the integration between intuitive, personal knowledge and the knowledge received from others. This stage includes waiving belief in a black and white world and developing an ability to live with conflicts, knowing how to maintain connections and responsibilities within the environment, and listening and respecting the body and feelings without shame.
Theirs is an embodied spirituality. The sacred has also to do with thankfulness, that most basic of religious impulses—thankfulness for being alive, for the wonder of our bodies. The woman's body is a sacred thing. A woman's control of her body and her control of decisions about her body are essential. When women begin to love themselves, their body becomes sacred to them. The sacred body is no longer connected to the soul. Their body is no longer a lump of skin and bones that is supposed to fill someone else's wishes and desires. Their body is now synchronized with their emotions. When women hurt inside, their bodies show it, and do not attempt to hide those feelings. It is okay to cry, to shed a tear, to admit that things are difficult. Not only is it okay, it gives them strength. Spirituality is the ability to give meaning and value to life. Women's spirituality enables creativity and independence, facilitating the use of moral judgment to decipher right from wrong and to act accordingly. Spirituality is the engine and force of motivation to contribute to society, and to become a better person.
In order for a woman to grow, it is important for her to have something to believe in. It is important for her to find her own spiritual being. However, this is something unique for each woman. For one, spirituality can be feeling the earth beneath her feet every morning, touching that earth, and knowing that she is alive. For another, it can be her child, knowing that she created a human being, and she must now take responsibility for her creation. She must take responsibility for her powers. Her power to create must be followed by her power to maintain and nurture that creation.
These Women's Studies students are feminists, highly critical of the patriarchal Israeli culture where there is no separation between church and state. Women are often hurt and abused by the institutions of religion. In the past spirituality for them meant religion, but now they know it is something else. They talk about their new understanding and how to change the social consequences of the patriarchal way. One woman, a mediator in the court system, writes of her deep frustration with the Israeli courts where there is no real justice. The language in the court and among the attorneys is power, oppression and conflict with the other.
They write of the difference between Israeli men's war versus Israeli women's war. Israeli men fight a physical war, while Israeli women fight a different type of war, one not less important or difficult, a spiritual war.
Their relationship to nature is sacred. Their experience of the sea—the noise, the smell, the waves that come and go, and crash—is often a focus for drawing out fears, dreams, feelings. There is a deep connection with the sea, a mythological connection. The sea is a motif in their dreams as the great mother, the sea of feelings. The forces of nature as a whole inspire with deep feelings of cosmic connection, of connection with basic existence; the view from the mountains is uplifting, giving strength.
As the American Feminist philosopher Carol Christ so succinctly puts it, "the real importance of the symbol of the Goddess is that is breaks the power of the patriarchal symbol of God as male over the psyche" (1987, p. 155).
So the women ask: "How come we have not been aware of those wonderful forms in a country so taken with archaeology?" During the course they were introduced to the goddess. They learned to understand that the concept of the goddess today, though being nurtured from the ancient concept of the female deity, relates to feminine power and energy. The belief in a goddess motivates a process of the intensification of forces in women, and allows self-realization and self-fulfillment, as well as the ability of women to have social influence.
They view the Goddess, the Great Mother, as a symbol of fertility and wisdom, the symbol of life and love. She smells of the earth. She loves the blood. She knows them intimately and is beautiful in their eyes. They have no God, no Goddess, but they like this image. She will certainly appear in their dreams. They feel her. They also feel her symbolic importance to society. To their culture this is a significant change—a meaningful, a cultural root canal. They do not relate to religion, nor do they relate to the holy word; they relate to the Great Mother. She is theirs, their feminist Mother, the sane and fertile Mother.
Each year a small percentage of women in my class report they are living with their male partners, raising children with them, but have chosen never to marry because the only way to do so legally in Israel is in an orthodox ritual. In Israel orthodox rabbis hold a monopoly on marriage and divorce.
All women in the cohorts have been biological mothers, so discussions about motherhood have been especially rich. Government policy in Israel encourages and supports motherhood. For some who have had difficulty becoming pregnant and have undergone extensive fertility treatments, the miracle of creating new life is the most wonderful experience of all.
The socialization of sons, however, is problematic for many. The boys will join the army at eighteen and their mothers are torn between love of their country, the knowledge that it must be defended it by the continual reinforcement of its military strength, and the threat of danger that serving in a combat unit poses for their sons. One woman, whose soldier son was killed in action, talked about the military mode of socialization for boys. In a reality where most of the combat roles are saddled on men, and in the battlefield the determining factors are survival, the stereotypical male qualities are cool-headedness, rigidity and the like. So once again the dilemma comes up of being a society under siege, subject to ongoing war—sons in the military and their mother's worry and grief. Another woman, remembering that during her childhood her mother used to say to her brother that when he grew up there would be no more wars, examines the foundations on which an entire mythical culture of sacrifice, bravery and bereavement was built in the modern Israeli society. The sacrifice of Abraham, Jepthanath and Hannah were connected to the land. She is seeking a new cultural climate that above all values the sacredness of life.
Women's bodies are seen as polluting and intrinsically immodest. Mikveh is a purificatory ritual bath used by women in conjunction with menstrual and childbirth bleeding. By engaging in the intimate corporeal drills of the niddah-mikveh ritual sequence, Jewish Israeli women reenact or re-embody events, values, stories and symbols of cultural significance; thus drawing themselves into, or being drawn into, collective narratives of gender and purity that have their roots in Leviticus. According to the Talmud, the source of all water is the river flowing from the Garden of Eden, and therefore, by bathing in the mikveh, the bride returns to the wholeness, the perfection, of the Garden of Eden. But is it merely a religious experience?
Secular women want to experience the ritual bath, but they want to create their own special rituals that are compatible with their worldview that is not religious, a way that is personal and liberatory. For them bathing in nature is a spiritual experience. Water symbolizes the womb of creation, renewal and resurrection. Today, many secular women seek to create moments of sanctity, mainly before, after and during their wedding day, by returning to Jewish tradition, but on their own terms.
Before her wedding, one woman chose to drive to the beach with ten friends. They all entered the water by moonlight singing songs of love and forming a circle around the bride, who then recited the traditional blessings and immersed herself in the water three times. Afterwards, each of her friends blessed her with words of love and hope. Together they sang prayers of thanksgiving to God for having allowed them to reach this moment. After the ceremony, the women drank champagne on the beach. For the bride, the ceremony was part of her spiritual preparation for entering the state of matrimony. Women are also investigating the roots of the traditional ceremonies of nida, the process of woman's purification after the menstrual cycle and childbirth. Understanding the symbolism of water throughout the Bible is for secular women a basis for the creation of new ceremonies of purification by bathing in the mikveh.
It is not possible for a woman to openly express the fullness of her sexuality in a patriarchal monotheistic culture. She must integrate the saint with the slut. There is a long heritage to this bifurcation of women's sexuality. In the alphabet of Ben Sira, a midrash written between 600 and 1000 CE, Lilith is identified as the first Eve and created at the same time as Adam, out of the earth just like him. In the later Kabalah, Shekinah, the disembodied feminine is the wife and Lilith, the sexual one, the mistress.
Quoting Audre Lorde's (1978) description of the power of the erotic as shared intimacy with someone, the sharing of joy, feelings, thoughts and the physical, they view the erotic as a seed within them which rises and swells and paints life with an energy that enhances experience. Not only do they touch their most profoundly creative source, they do what which is female and self-affirming in the face of a racist patriarchal and anti-erotic society. However, as Lorde maintains, eroticism operates in several ways, one of them is to supply the strength that stems from profound sharing with another person, a sharing in physical and intellectual joy, thereby forming a bridge—as a basis for understanding. Another important way is the open ability, without fear of being happy, of stretching the body to sounds of music, building a bookcase, writing a poem, or examining an idea. A relationship with self, when expressed, is a measure of the happiness of knowing how to sense and feel, a reminder of the ability to feel.
This course created an environment of trust and empathy that enhanced the bonding already established in the cohort. One woman tells of learning to trust other women. It was with women that she remembered a certain feeling of alienation. She had difficulty in establishing a close relationship with them. Now women interest her and intimacy with them does not threaten her. She feels a closeness and identification with women, a feeling of coming home. Another writes of the comfort she found during the workshop in the experience of "togetherness." What is unique to all women is the ability to share and participate in feelings of anxiety, anger, despair, worry, strength and hope. The presence of an Arab woman in the cohort promised the hope that feminine dialogue could one day facilitate a solution to the ongoing conflict.
Making a real, powerful and significant connection and relationship with other women was a practical dimension of the theoretical term 'womanhood.' The group's experience of Edna's story was such an especially powerful one. She seemed so strong and powerful like the "Earth Mother of Willendorf," with her pendulous breasts, protruding abdomen, massive hips and clearly defined pubic triangle. Of course, unlike the sculpture, Edna had a face and remarkable eyes that they will not ever forget; but the image she projected as a whole did remind them of the Great Mother of the Earth, as old as time and as young as eternity. She was the Earth Mother of the group.
They became aware of the role she played for them through a dramatic experience on the last day of the course. Edna volunteered to participate. She had been telling them that how hard it was for her to deal with the coming of Yom Hashoa, the Memorial Day of the Holocaust, as well as the Memorial Day of Israeli soldiers. The session was over when suddenly she stood in front of a wall in the room made of stones we had collected, which had come to look to them like the Kotel Hamaaraivi, the West Wall, the surviving fragment of the Jerusalem temple, and shouted several times: "Itamar, Itamar, Itamar," the name of her dead soldier son. For all it was a sacred moment, as if time stood still. Almost all of the class was in shock. It showed on their faces and there was a harsh quiet. After a moment almost everyone started crying and we came near to Edna in a circle and hugged her. It was a moment where the women could feel the great spiritual connection that they shared with one another, a moment that everybody shared with Edna's great pain, and at the same time became connected to their own sorrow.
Another woman concluded by quoting the feminist philosopher Susan Griffin (1978): "This strength in each other, all that we have lost, all that we have suffered, all that we know. . .we are stunned by this beauty. . .and we do not forget" (p. 219).
The women write of the relationship between spirituality and politics. While considering women's access to power and their uses of it, they realized that through action some of the most difficult situations could be resolved. When doing this it is not only the performer who is progressing but her whole environment. This is real power. They work for equal rights for men and women. In a state that fosters the values of war and heroism in relation to what distinguishes men from women, women's rights are shunted aside and become marginal in importance. Awareness of this neglect of dignity of women in national values is important with regard to the issue of equal rights and status of women. The Yellow Star was placed on men and women equally. The Palestinian terrorist does not seek any defined target of man or woman.
Women must find the power to change society within themselves, to build a bridge between women within who think like us and those who think differently in Israeli society. Such a bridge cannot be built on the basis of ideology or philosophy. Such a bridge can be built unmediated by the same spirituality that connects women, something internal, emotional, that may be directed to the internal goddess in us all. The hope is perhaps that it is possible to change, and the hope is for the future of peace and sanity. That is my way of surviving in a world in which I have no control of the way it transpires.
Society controls women by controlling their bodies. This society contains denial, repression and extinction of feminine powers and women's ability to be independent, to be leaders. While working with women, individually and for the main part on a group basis, the most important part stems from a belief that once women are given a stage upon which to express their power, to express their experience and belief, the expression of their inner voices will bring about change and personal growth. To allow women to tell the story of their lives is to shed light on the powers that are revealed through the stories, powers which society has abandoned to the darkness.
This understanding comes from both personal experience and belief in an inner force, as well as meeting other women through the common experience of life: the paradox between a patriarchal masculine religion and worldview of God, the Father on one hand, and on the other hand, the feminine experience, beliefs, symbolism, women as goddesses, what women think and experience within themselves and about themselves. Furthermore, women's circles can be used to bring about social change, to protest about the events taking place around us in which our lives are dominated by men. Calling out with a different voice, declaring new insights into intractable situations such as the Arab/Israeli conflict through feminine experience and vision can bring significant change in the political climate of the country in which we live.
The closing ritual, designed and created by the women themselves is an example of using ritual to break the pervasive spell of patriarchy. In their performance of "The Descent to the Underworld" (Perera, 1988), the students address an issue most relevant to women's psychological development. This mythic narrative, the centerpiece of the week-long intensive is about the Goddess Inanna who was continuously worshipped for thousands of years in the ancient Near East. Her names were many—Istar, Astarte, Anahita, Ma, Asherah—but she was first known as Inanna, the beloved and deity of Sumer, revered as the Queen of Heaven and Earth.
Inanna's descent is a shamanic journey, a venturing into the void, the unknown, into the dark womb of the inner Earth for the wisdom it hold. In this symbolic narrative, she hangs on a peg, a rotting course, but gains essential insight and experience into the full cycle of existence. No longer the commanding Queen, she can accept her vulnerability. Upon her miraculous return from the dead, in the wisdom of her newfound maturity, Inanna acknowledges the duality of life, dying into life and death leading into life.
Psychoanalyst Sylvia Perera (1988) believes that all contemporary women must undergo a descent into a period of sadness, depression, even madness, in order to become whole. The closing ritual as a group event included both personal experience and sharing with the group as they entered into the myth. The narrative itself forced them to deal in an uncompromising way with the other half of Inanna, her sister Erishkegal, who is her opposite and who is also the other half of themselves. In Israeli culture, the underworld is a forbidden place, a place that is distant and closed off. They must cope with the subject of death daily without having the appropriate tools. In the Jewish religion which sanctifies life, death is at the end of a linear path. They grew up studying the Bible. The myth of Inanna unified for me the missing godly symbols of earth and fertility with the existing godliness of the heavens.
In conclusion, I want to briefly recount some of the important themes in their papers:
1. Awareness of what it is to be a woman 2. Femaleness not understood, not celebrated in their society 3. Breaking the stranglehold of patriarchy 4. Need for new models of gender roles 5. Need for male/female dialogue 6. A women's spirituality that is grounded in her inner voice, not in an external authority
My reflection on my students' thoughts suggests that even under the negative impact of a patriarchal, militarist society some women move beyond the imposed cultural limitations to create positive and meaningful lives for themselves when they possess what the feminists have named as agency, the capacity to act out of their embodied gendered knowing. A woman's spirituality can serve as a powerful catalyst in the claiming of her agency.
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Griffin, S. (1978). Woman and nature: The roaring inside her. New York: Harper and Row.
Hooks, B. (1995). Art on my mind: Visual politics: New Press.
Lorde, A. (1978). Uses of the Erotic: The erotic as power: The Crossing Press.
Perera, S. B. (1988). Descent to the Goddess: A way of initiation for women. Toronto:Inner City Books.
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However, I haven't given my recent haircut enough blog coverage yet so here I am without it too. Instead of going for the full Bettie bang effect, I have taken to combing it slightly to the side, Audrey Hepburn style. I promise it is meant to look like that, I'm not just pretending because the wind ruined it. ;)
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Here's the situation. I used to play this game for the PC back in the 90s and I cannot for the life of me remember what it is. Basically, it was a Star Trek game (although I didn't realize it was Star Trek at the time) where you controlled a ship and had to explore space/fight off enemy ships. It featured a top-down 2D map arranged in a Battleship-like grid (C-7, you sunk my destroyer!). The game had different windows for multiple aspects of the ship. There were two maps: a local star system and a larger galaxy, both in the 10x10 grid described above. There were also windows for damage reports, a captain's log, and a phaser/photon weapons screen. I think for both moving and weapons firing there was a circle broken up into 360 degree tic marks and a movable line that pointed in the direction you wanted to travel or fire.
If there is anyone smart enough to come up with this game I'd be hugely grateful. I remember finding and downloading it only a couple years ago on my old computer, but I can't find it now. I don't think "Star Trek" was in the title, but there were definitely Borg cubes and Klingon birds of prey.
Update: I feel like I'm getting closer. What I played may have been based off of the Star Trek text game and had an actual GUI rather than using just ASCII. The following screenshot looks similar to what I played, but isn't quite it.
Update number 2: I found it! Shortly after posting the image above I found out the one I played. It was called Wintrek. Here's a screenshot:


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What is the name of the song that sami and reid play on the piano
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=RZGBRW1W only there for help in identifying it correctly
Well I ripped it from the video. :D; still have no idea who wrote it, other than that it's modern classical.
someone put it up on youtube :)
On youtube.
there is an application, youtube to mp3 converter, where you can make it into a mp3.
It's DVD Free Studio.
Hope this helps. Great Piano Song!!!
It was specially composed for the show. http://www.cbs.com/primetime/criminal_minds/com...
I see a comment on you tube, and the composer of this music is ; Steffan Fantini
he is credited for the music in? the Coda episode.
(sorry i'm french, i dont speak english very well)
I have wrote out the sheet music to this after seeing it, it needs some minor tweaking but it's in a playable state. Interested in Seeing it?
I have written out the music to this after seeing it, it needs some minor tweaking but it's in a playable state for the piano... Interested in Seeing it?
I would love to see the sheet music for this... can anyone post it or show me how to get it?
it is NOT brother by road hawgs! they made it especially for criminal minds. you can find it on youtube, just look up criminal minds coda
You people need to stop saying it is Brother by Road Hawgs, it was written specifically for this episode and is called Criminal Minds Piano Coda 6
@John Soltis: I have been trying to get a transcript for the piece down, but am having difficulty as transcribing is not my strong suit. If you post somewhere, would you be kind enough to let us here know? Thanks so much!
does anybody know, what song is is in season 3, episode 6. the song whe rossi goes back to the BAU?
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im trying to learn the song coda, ive looked on youtube and it hasnt got all of the notes played, if anyone knows where i can find them please let me know im dying to play it
What is the name of the song that is at the end of a CM when Rossi and an older soldier admit that a man not recognized for his heroism -
"won't you fly home my sweet angel - from sea to shining sea" Have tried to find out everywhere
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Kids make you poor and miserable – or do they?
If reports are to be believed, parenting not only sends us broke but reduces our happiness as well. Dr Justin Coulson explains how these studies fall woefully short when it comes to measuring the un-measurable: the power of a parent's love.
It seems that having children is getting a lot of bad press. Decades of data now describes the way that your children decimate your income and diminish your happiness.
The topic has hit the headlines again in recent weeks. This article on news.com.au cites a new report that calculates raising two children in middle-class Australia costs more than $800,000! That's more than $44,000 a year in after-tax dollars.
As if that wasn't enough to deter prospective parents, this article reports on a study that emphasises a decades-old research finding: that having children reduces your happiness. Since the 1970s researchers have been pointing out that our happiness levels drop once kids arrive, and they continue to spiral downwards until our teens begin to leave the nest. Only then do we regain some of the happiness we had before the little cherubs came along.
Are kids a bad investment?
I recently appeared on The Morning Show and was asked whether having children is a bad investment.
My response: As a father of five children I must make a lousy investor! I think I might need a second, and third, and possibly fourth job! Or perhaps I'll do what most people do and pass up the private schools, the overseas holidays and the lavish indulgences for a couple of decades. I'm OK with that. No really, I am. Why?
The choice to have a child cannot be reduced to a financial decision
Every parent knows that the feeling of staring at their newborn baby in her crib as she sleeps, stirs, wakes, and watches the world around her is an experience that can't be measured in dollars and cents.
Every parent knows that the exhilaration that comes from seeing their child succeed and overcome an obstacle through sheer determination gives a priceless feeling of satisfaction and gratitude.
Every parent knows that the joy they experience when they see their kids developing into amazing people, absorbed in life, and engrossed in doing, is a joy that money simply cannot buy.
And every parent knows that in spite of the stress, the sleepless nights, the vomit, the tantrums, the tears (their own and their kids'), the financial cost and the emotional pains, that they would pay ANY price to help their kids stay safe, healthy, and happy throughout their life. Parents of children with special needs will vouch for that – their investment is greater, their pain more searing, and the costs deeper. Yet counter-intuitively their joy, growth and hard-earned wisdom are more elevating than anything most of us will ever experience.
I think – and I reckon most parents would agree – that it's not about the money. It never was and it never will be. Sure, having kids costs us a lot of cash (and everything else). So be it. I'll spend it all and more to raise my family and give them the best opportunities I know of to help them live meaningful, productive and positive lives.
As for the research that says that kids don't make you happy … ?
Well, as a happiness researcher, I'll let you in on a secret. Researchers define happiness as the absence of negative emotion and the presence of positive emotion. And anyone with kids knows that we have bucketloads of challenges to deal with, which reduces the positive emotion and increases the negatives.
But happiness researchers don't ask about meaningfulness. And they don't ask us to comment on contentedness or peacefulness or elevation; or any of those moments that leave us feeling deep joy that 'happiness' doesn't even begin to encapsulate.
Results take time to measure
In life, it seems that when we look back at hard times – those times that stretched us and stressed us – we often perceive them with gratitude and joy, in spite of the pain we experienced as we went through them. Raising children is like that. It's hard while it happens, but on reflection we feel incredible satisfaction as we watch our kids becoming independent, achieving things we never thought possible and creating strong, meaningful relationships with others.
Is having children a bad investment?
Only if you think that having children is an investment in anything other than them.
How do you feel about the cost of raising kids? Do you feel you'd be happier without them or just richer?
More from Dr Justin:
- Are you a snowplough parent?
- The ugly truth about smacking our kids: Part one
- Is my family big enough? Or is there room for one more?
More related content:
- The cost of kids from The Morning Show
- Parenting makes us miserable? from The Daily Mail UK
- The costs of kids in 2013 from The Sydney Morning Herald


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Hot 97 has announced its official Summer Jam 2012 lineup, which might be the most diverse in recent memory.
The event, which takes place at Metlife Stadium in East Rutherford, N.J. on Sunday (June 3), boasts headliners Nicki Minaj and Rick Ross, as well as Young Jeezy, DJ Khaled, Trey Songz, Waka Flocka Flame, hometown heroes French Montana and Maino, 2 Chainz, Tyga, Mavado, J. Cole, Wale, Big Sean and Meek Mill.
As always, Summer Jam promises "a colossal amount of surprise celebrity guests," but this year there will also be an up-and-comers stage, the Festival Village, which will feature performances by A$AP Rocky, Kendrick Lamar and Schoolboy Q, Big K.R.I.T., Azealia Banks, Fred the Godson, and Pusha T, from 2-6PM.


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A baby's birth is perhaps one of the most joyous times that you will ever experience in your life, but it is also one of the busiest. A new baby is an amazing bundle of sweet bliss and that shouldn't be kept to yourself; a birth announcement is the perfect way to let your friends and family share in that happiness with you and join in welcoming a new life into the world. But at such a busy time it can be difficult to find the time to leave your home that's why digital birth announcements are gaining such huge popularity.
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In a world where consumers are increasingly consuming content on mobile devices, and print readerships continue to decline, it's clear the whole concept of media ABCs is antiquated.
Although they will now combine print and digital circulations for the first time, this will only take into account PDF replicas, which fail to take advantage of the benefits of mobile.
The stagnation in how these numbers are calculated has stifled innovation for the majority in the publishing world. In fact, it's detrimental for the entire publishing ecosystem – publishers, advertisers and consumers alike.
Faced with such a hostile competitor environment, simply creating a PDF replica of your print product makes no sense. Not only is it a weak work-around, it's almost impossible to read, and doesn't make the most of the interactivity mobile devices are now capable of.
This will only serve to maintain industry reticence to full digital investment, by failing to give credence to the many app-based products that are pushing the boundaries of what digital content can look like.
Publishers have a golden opportunity to explore new revenue streams, while creating stronger user engagement, by fully embracing the capabilities of these devices. Neither print nor PDF is well placed to offer this.
Compare that to the possibilities offered by mobile – fully interactive content, ecommerce integration, a continuous publishing model – and it's clear where publishers should focus their efforts if they want to thrive in the digital age.
Jonny Kaldor is co-founder of software house Kaldor, a mobile content platform specialist. Before Kaldor he was managing director, technology and product development at News Corporation's Digital Media Group and CTO at News UK (then News International).


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What types of bones are good for dogs? What kinds are bad?
I was looking in to getting a healthy, durable, safe bones for my two dogs. The only problem is I do not know what kinds of bones are unhealthy or unsafe, and which one's aren't. I would prefer something long lasting, with easy or no clean up. Any ideas?
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Hi Buckeye.
Wow,there's nothing I like better than a good chew! But...if you believe the FDA...NO bones are good for dogs...they released a report recently that said (and I'm simplifying a lot) that the risks of bone fragments, or dogs cracking/breaking teeth were such that real meat bones shouldn't be given to dogs.
You'll get a howl of disagreement about that and I'll be in the chorus...chewing can be great for our doggie dental health. Besides which bones are YUMMY...but there ARE risks and real bones are a little messy for our humans I must admit.
But other chewies like bully sticks, dental chews like Greenies, some rawhide chew bones (be careful where they come from), can all give a good chew, help clean our teeth, and last fairly long and don't leave a mess for the humans. I get Greenies about three times a week and I also get twisted rawhide chews and an occasional bully stick.
Ellie CGC answered on 6/8/10. Helpful? / 0
Any cooked bones are a no-go as the moisture is drained out of them, making them more likely to splinter.
Pretty much any NON-WEIGHT-bearing bone that is covered in meat is okay. Chicken, pork, turkey, etc. (Although, the weight-bearing bones of a chicken are okay as they're small.) More complicated RMBs (raw meaty bones) take longer to finish. Such as pork tails. (Though these specifically are small and better suited to small dogs.)
Weight-bearing bones, AKA wreck or recreational bones, are okay for just chewing for some dogs. (Edible bones are just that, edible.) Depends on how reckless or not the dog is when chewing. Once the meat is gone, a recreational bone should be thrown away.
Always supervise when your dog is eating bones. Dogs can choke on anything, even kibble, but better safe than sorry.
Cookies 'n' Creme (1998-2011) answered on 6/8/10. Helpful? / 1
Here is a link to the FDA's position, www.fda.gov
The dog guide school we raise puppies for has long forbidden them.
There may or may not be some bones that are safe. However even without breaking teeth, splintering, the mess, and other problems listed by the FDA, my observation is that they wear the teeth down. May as well take a stone and soak it in grease and give it to your dog.
Aster lived to be 15. She never had a real bone in her life and her teeth were in excellent shape. Dogs may enjoy bones, but I don't think iti is worth it. Children enjoy playing in the street.
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Emergency state funding for drought-related projects may be available to expand water storage and delivery systems for Brooktrails Township. The Board of Directors voted Tuesday to submit an application to the state Office of Planning and Research to fund several projects that would expand and secure the community's water supply.
General Manager Denise Rose and board president Rick Williams met with members of the Governor's Drought Task Force in Ukiah Monday alongside other local officials.
"There was open discussion about water security, water preparedness," Williams said. "The Governor's office staff vowing that they understand that the recent rains and maybe the upcoming rains are not the cure, that they're simply a short-term reprieve. That we may be in a long-term cycle of drought and that we have to all work together to become water sustainable."
Local agencies were told funds may be available for needed projects as the state looks to add infrastructure in areas, including Mendocino County, in preparation for future drought years.
"I think the message is finally out there very, very strongly to all the agencies in the state that we need to take this opportunity to really put a ten-year plan into place," Williams said. "So that we start cutting water use now and start putting in back-up systems and start adding to the infrastructure in anticipation of the fact that, no matter what kind of rain we get for the next couple of years, we're going to be back here sometime soon and we need to be better prepared for it."
Part of that preparation includes plans to drill five wells, create a temporary or permanent interconnection with the City of Willits for the purchase or sale of water, installing additional water storage tanks, and the expansion of Ada Rose Reservoir.
Costs for the projects run into the millions of dollars. The state was not clear on how much money may be available, Rose said.
"(There were) a lot of serious players there who can make things happen and it sounds like they are going to try to do that," Williams said. "We're going to put in for our needs that have been sitting on the backburner for awhile because we couldn't afford them. I'm really hoping this crisis can prove to really benefit us all."
The item was added to the agenda during the meeting to accommodate the state's short time frame for the application. Rose said she received the request just hours prior to the meeting and was asked to return the application by close of business the next day.
"They're moving swiftly and we want to get in line," Rose said.
Williams approved of the state's haste to provide Brooktrails and other local agencies with drought-relief funding.
"They have identified a pool of money and there seems to be a will to do this," he said. "What they said (Monday) was they're doing things in 10 days that would ordinarily take 180 days. So there is hope that these things can happen quickly."


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Natural Balance Pet Foods, Inc. Issues A Voluntary Nationwide Recall on Specific Venison Dog and Cat Food Products
Consumer Inquiries:
(800) 829-4493
Media Inquiries:
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE -- Pacoima, CA -- April 17, 2007 -- Natural Balance, Pacoima, CA, is issuing a voluntary nationwide recall for all of its Venison dog products and the dry Venison cat food only, regardless of date codes. The recalled products include Venison and Brown Rice canned and bagged dog foods, Venison and Brown Rice dog treats, and Venison and Green Pea dry cat food. Recent laboratory results show that the products contain melamine. We believe the source of the melamine is a rice protein concentrate. Natural Balance has confirmed this morning that some production batches of these products may contain melamine.
The recall was prompted by consumer complaints received by Natural Balance involving a small number of cats and dogs that developed kidney failure after eating the affected product.
Dogs or cats who have consumed the suspect food and show signs of kidney failure (such as loss of appetite, lethargy and vomiting) should be seen by a veterinarian. We recommend our customers immediately stop feeding our recalled venison products regardless of date code and return unused product to their retailer for a full refund.
The products are packaged in bags, cans and zip lock treat bags and sold in pet specialty stores and PetCo nationally.
No other Natural Balance products are involved in this voluntary recall as none of our other formulas include the rice protein concentrate.
Although the problems seem to be focused on a particular production period of the venison products, over the last four days we have notified our distributors and retailers by phone and e-mail to immediately stop selling and return all recalled Venison dog foods and treats and the Venison dry cat food. Venison canned cat food is not involved.
The source of the melamine appears to be a rice protein concentrate, which was recently added to the dry venison formulas. Natural Balance does not use wheat gluten, which was associated with the previous melamine contamination.
None of Natural Balance's other dry formulas, none of our other canned or roll products and none of our other treats are involved with this voluntary recall.
We continue to work closely with the FDA in their ongoing investigation.
Consumers with questions may contact the company at 1-800-829-4493 or visit the website at www.naturalbalance.net.
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Lille OSC, better known as simply "Lille", is a French soccer team currently playing in Ligue 1. The team, playing in its namesake town, uses a bulldog mascot. The team colors are red and white. The current manager is Claude Puel;[1] the current sponsor is Partouche Casino.


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Welcome to the West Coast Intercollegiate Soccer Officials Association (WCISOA), the Northern California Chapter of the National Intercollegiate Soccer Officials Association Site on Monday, May 29th, 2017.
Thank you for visiting our Site. Under INFORMATION, you can find out about us, find a listing of local college soccer matches via Match Inquiry, maps to soccer fields, direct links to schools we serve, contact with the members of the WCISOA Board, and get membership information, or check important Association meeting and event dates.
If you are a current WCISOA participant, you can access the secure portions of our Site by clicking on the Logon segment of the site.
And, if you cannot locate the information you are seeking about WCISOA on our Site, you can contact us as follows:
2017 WCISOA Summer Clinic &
NISOA National Referee Academy&
Fun Run
Saturday, June 10, 2017
Las Positas College, Livermore, CA 94550
Note the date!
All WCISOA Members are expected to attend.
Fun Run warmup - 7AM
Run at 7:30AM
Bring a signed 2017 NISOA Fitness Waiver, found under Referee/Forms.
Parking is enforced on weekends, machines will take cash or cards - $2.
Clinic 9 AM - 4 PM
WCISOA will supply lunch.
The meeting will be in Room 2420
Go here for a map:
2017 WCISOA Physical Testing
NISOA has adopted the USSF Standards and Fitness run for all collegiate chapters.
The new WCISOA are similar to those used by USSF/FIFA, but the WCISOA test are not Pass/Fail and instead uses a point system.
You are exempt from taking this test if you fall into either of the following two categories:
• CNRA (Cal North) Referee State 6 or higher that has taken and passed the USSF/FIFA Fitness Test for 2017.
• NISOA National Referee that has taken and passed the new NISOA physical fitness test.
Everyone else who want to be a member of WCISOA must take the new fitness test which consists of two testing events – Sprints, 10 minute break, Intervals:
Sprint Test
• 40 meter sprint followed by a recovery period after each of 6 sprints
• The total time for the 6 sprints will be used for assigning a point total.
Interval Test
• Participants run a maximum of forty (40) consecutive intervals
• An interval consists of one 75 m run (20 sec) with one 25 m recovery walk (20 sec)
At least 2 points must be earned in both of the tests combined in order to pass.
Bring a signed 2017 NISOA Fitness Waiver, found under Referee/Forms.
Look for 2017 WCISOA Physical Testing under Referee/Forms or Assessor/Form for more details at
You can now contact your crew via Text and/or e-mail by using CrewMail.
To get text, you do need to set it up in your Profile under the Messaging tab.
Details can be found here: CrewMail..
Once you, and all of your fellow officials, have set up their Messaging tab, click the small envelope icon and then put the Match number in the small box, submit and then you can create the message to go to your crew, via e-mail and/or text. You will get a confirming e-mail or text. (Email works now but the officials need to set up the text message number for that to work.
NCAA DIVISION I: Arrive at the game site a minimum of 90 minutes before the schedule kickoff time. Upon the crew's arrival, notify the home school's game management staff that you are on site. Field inspections are mandatory and the every member of the crew is expected to be in a NISOA uniform and on the field 30 minutes prior to the schedule kickoff time.
NCAA DIVISION II and III/NAIA: Arrive at the game site a minimum of 45-60 minutes before the schedule kickoff time. Upon the crew's arrival, notify the home school's game management staff that you are on site. Field inspections are mandatory and every member of the crew is expected to be in a NISOA uniform and on the field 30 minutes prior to the schedule kickoff time.
COMMUNITY COLLEGE JC: Arrive on the field a minimum of 45 minutes before the schedule kickoff time. Field inspections are mandatory. These games use the FIFA Laws of the game with the modifications posted on this web site. NISOA uniforms and badges are required.
A guide to the WCISOA.ORG is available under REFEREE:Forms & ASSESSOR:Forms.
There is a wealth of information about the website and WCISOA, while it was designed especially new members, it covers many items that come up as questions from all members.
How do I file a SendOff?
How do I request games?
What does my ranking mean? etc...
Even if you are a long term member, you should take a look at "WCISOA-How do I".
Major Differences Between the Revised LOTG and the 2016 – 2017 NCAA Soccer Rules
Posted: 26 Aug 2016 12:35 PM PDT
By: Todd Abraham, NISOA Senior Director of Instruction
The IFAB has issued a series of documents outlining changes to the Laws of the Game effective June 1, 2016. The significant changes listed below do not currently apply to the NCAA rules:
• Change: The ball can be kicked in any direction, including backward, at kick-off (previously, the ball had to go forward first);
NCAA Rule: The NCAA rules still require that the ball be played forward at the kick-off. An incorrect kick-off (if the player kicks the ball into his / her own half of the field) requires a re-kick by the same team. Repeat violations may be cautioned. An illegal kick-off (touching the ball a second time before another player touches it) results in an indirect kick for the opponent.
Preventive officiating tip: If you see only one player standing over the ball at the kick-off remind the player the ball must go forward.
• Change: Players who are injured as a result of a red card/yellow card foul, now may be treated on the field by medical personnel and stay on the field (previously, any treatment by medical personnel required the player to leave the field and referee had to signal the player back on);
NCAA Rule: NCAA rules require that a player treated on the field must leave the field and may be substituted. There is a substitution exception for this situation, however, the player must leave the field.
• Change: Not all fouls that deny an obvious goal scoring opportunity will result in a red card (send-off offense), but rather, depending on the circumstances, the player may be shown a yellow card if the offense is within an opponent's penalty area.
NCAA Rule: NCAA rules have no such exception. Denying an obvious goal scoring opportunity is an offense that requires an ejection whether it occurs in the penalty area or outside the penalty area.
The NCAA and IFAB are fully aligned on all offside interpretations and restarts.
It is critical that all NISOA referees apply the NCAA rules to collegiate matches. The changes cited above are not implemented for NCAA matches.
(NOTE: The LOTG do apply to all 2 year schools.)
Rules for Community Colleges
CCCAA playing rules for soccer regular conference games.
These rules apply to all Junior College matches.
(Do Not Use NCAA Playing Rules.)
A. All conference competition contests shall be played under current Federation Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) Laws with the following modifications:
1. Unlimited substitutions are permitted and shall be made only during the following: kickoffs, goal kicks, your own throw-ins, your own corner kicks, cautions (yellow cards), injuries, or any time the other team substitutes.
2. An unlimited number of players are permitted on the team roster. For soccer, all disqualifications (including those not covered under Bylaw 4) are subject to a one (1)-game suspension.
3. A game shall include two (2) 45-minute halves.
4 Once an official halts play due to an injury, the attending medical personnel will assume authority regarding the disposition of the injured player.
5. Referees shall show yellow and red cards issued to coaches for misconduct.
6. The center official is required to notify both coaches as to the amount of stoppage time added for both halves.
There is No Overtime for regular season games.
2016-2017 NCAA Soccer Rules
The two year NCAA Soccer Rules book is available as a pdf,
for Referees under Referee/Forms,and
for Assessors under Assessor/Forms.
These Rules apply to all 4 year schools we assign.
JC's, Community Colleges, all two year schools use
a modified version of the 2016 LOTG.
The 2016-2017 NCAA Soccer Rules Interpretations are available under Referee:Forms or Assessor:Forms. They can also be downloaded at>>>
The 2016 Comparative Guide for NCAA Rules/NFHS Rules/FIFA LOTG is available as a pdf file. It lists most differences between FIFA/NCAA/NFHS Rules (Laws). It reflects the status as of May 1, 2016. It is available on NISOA.COM and you can view the 2016 SoccerGuide NISOA at REFEREE:Forms or ASSESSORS:Forms
CCCAAA Zero Tolerance, Sportsmanship Letter
The Letter from CCCAA clearly states that NO Profane or Vulgar language is to be permitted, from coaching staff or from players. This applies to all Junior College matches. NO audible profanity, displays of vulgarity and unsportsmanlike conduct by student athletes and athletic game personnel is acceptable. The letter states that the guilty person is to be Sent Off, no prior Caution. Recommendation: Remind coaches prior to every game.
Teams in the Big 8 need a Big 8 Decorum report in addition to the send off.
Both are found under Referee:Misconduct.
The NCAA Soccer Rules Committee has agreed with the interpretation that drones may not be used to monitor or record intercollegiate soccer games because they are not considered to be the type of "electronic device" contemplated by Rule 12.14.2, which permits enhanced communication between members of the on-site coaching staff.
Pacific West Conference
Pacific West Conference games are listed on two web sites. All games must be Accepted/Declined on both web sites.
If you are assigned a home match for 1) Academy of ART, 2) Dominican University, 3) Holy Names University, or 4) Notre Dame De Namur, you will be assigned on WCISOA.ORG and on the ArbiterSports/California Collegiate Referee site. You must confirm on both.
The Pac West Commissioner requires that all assigned officials have a photo on the site which shows a clear picture of your face, please take care of this.
Get all your California Community College Soccer News.
Stay up to date with the schools we serve!
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Xbox Live Bans Won't Effect Your Xbox One Game CollectionJohn Llewellyn Martin |
Xbox fans who are worried they'll lose access to their digital games collection upon being banned from Xbox Live should lay their fears to rest, since that won't be case. Also, they should probably not engage in any activities that would get them banned in the first place.
According to Official Xbox Magazine, an Xbox fan named Mark Doherty asked the Xbox Support team on Twitter if he would continue to have access to his Xbox One games if his Xbox Live account was banned.
@dohertymark If your account is banned, you also forfeit the licenses to any games that have licenses tied to it as listed in the ToU. ^AC
— Xbox Support (@XboxSupport1) June 14, 2013
Xbox Support's answer was that he would forfeit the licenses to games tied to his account upon being banned. But the support team also added that he would be able to work with them in order to recover his account, which is what Xbox Live members can do now on the Xbox 360 if they lose their accounts.
Microsoft then clarified, adding the response was in regard to the Xbox 360 game collections, and wouldn't be the case on the Xbox One. Xbox Live's director of programming, Larry Hryb (aka Major Nelson), added the rumor was false, and players will "always have access to the games [they] purchased."
So, in the future, if you have a penchant for cursing out your fellow players on Xbox Live and happen to get banned, then you needn't worry about losing access to your Xbox One digital games.
Let us know your thoughts about this policy and whether or not you agree with it.


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I received the magnets in the mail today and it came out exactly how the proof had appeared online! BuildASign lets you either upload your own custom design or use one of their templates; I decided to use one of their templates but customize it. Take a look!
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I would definitely use BuildASign again if I needed magnets or signs for my site, or if I wanted to make a bumper sticker. If you see me at BlogHer next week, ask me for one of my magnets! If I have extras after the conference, and you see me in line for a local movie screening, feel free to ask as well.
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District of Colorado Civil Rights Cases
Housing/Accommodations Cases, Dockets and Filings
Cases filed
Cases 1 - 10 of 72
Denver Metro Fair Housing Center v. Bellco Credit Union
as 1:2017cv00638
Plaintiff: Denver Metro Fair Housing Center, Inc
Defendant: Bellco Credit Union
Cause Of Action: (f)(3)(c) - Fair Housing Amendments Act
Davis v. Salida Housing Authority et al
as 1:2016cv02903
Plaintiff: Jada Davis
Defendant: Salida Housing Authority , Ida Hansen, Amy Barton and others
Cause Of Action: ada - Removal - Americans With Disabilities Act
Alarcon-Butron et al v. Partch
as 1:2016cv02411
Plaintiff: Elba Alarcon-Butron , Alejandra N. Infantes , Sebastian Infantes
Defendant: Francis Partch
Cause Of Action: (f)(3)(c) - Fair Housing Amendments Act
Alarcon-Butron et al v. Partch
as 1:2016cv02405
Plaintiff: Elba Alarcon-Butron, Alejandra N Infantes, Sebastian J Infantes
Defendant: Frances Partch
Cause Of Action: (f)(3)(c) - Fair Housing Amendments Act
McFadden et al v. Meeker Housing Authority et al
as 1:2016cv02304
Defendant: Meeker Housing Authority , Melinda Parker , Michelle Buckler and others
Plaintiff: Megan McFadden , Lonnie White , Antonio White
Cause Of Action: Fair Housing Act
Chambers v. Higgins Plaza Inc et al
as 1:2016cv01794
Plaintiff: Gregory Chambers
Defendant: Higgins Plaza Inc, Leslie Pinkham, Naomi Hubert and others
Cause Of Action: - Action for Inj. Relief re: Deprivation of Civil Rights
Kasko, LLC v. City of Littleton, Colorado
as 1:2016cv01734
Plaintiff: Kasko, LLC
Defendant: City of Littleton, Colorado
Cause Of Action: Fair Housing Act
Mayberry v. University of Colorado, et al
as 1:2016cv01127
Plaintiff: Barbara Mayberry
Defendant: University of Colorado , Carol Calkins , Udalio Quiel
Cause Of Action: Rehabilitation Act of 1973
McCoy et al v. Colorado Civil Rights Division et al
as 1:2016cv00649
Plaintiff: Leila McCoy, Clyde McCoy, II
Defendant: Colorado Civil Rights Division, Rufina (I) Hernandez, Rufina Hernandez
Cause Of Action: Civil Rights
Lawrence v. Greystar Real Estate Partners, LLC et al
as 1:2016cv00180
Plaintiff: Michael Lawrence
Defendant: Greystar Real Estate Partners, LLC, Denver Ventana, LLC
Cause Of Action: Fair Housing Act
Disclaimer: Justia Dockets & Filings provides public litigation records from the federal appellate and district courts. These filings and docket sheets should not be considered findings of fact or liability, nor do they necessarily reflect the view of Justia.


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Carnival Valor - Western Caribbean: Carnival Valor Cruise Review by cruisercathy
Overall Member Rating
Carnival Valor - Western Caribbean
Destination: Western Caribbean
Embarkation: Miami
PRE STAY......I traveled with my sons, ages 17 and 13 and my parents (70s). on Friday 7/22 We flew from LGA to FLL reason...cheaper. We prebooked a limo with Larry;s Limo Service $102 tip included to the Holiday Inn Port of Miami. We have stayed there twice before and the location is perfect. The rest of the group arrived either that day or Saturday. We enjoyed Bayside Marketplace.......ate at Hooters and Bubba Gumps and Le Cafe for breakfast. We also did the Island Queen boat ride......you can get $3 coupons off their website.
SAILING DAY...We prebooked a bus from Larry's Limo to take us from the hotel to the port. He picked us up at 10:30....Traffic at the port was tough...ya have to go down past the Victory then deal More with the Victory traffic before you get to the Valor. Dropped the luggage off. There was a big hold up in the lobby of the terminal as immigration would not let them open the doors till 11:30. We got a wheelchair for my Dad and we were processed and on board by 12:15 I believe. My sons and I were in a oceanview on Riviera deck. Cabin Steward was Kevin and he took care of us..Most everyone else in the group was on Deck 8 in inside cabins or Deck 9...balcony...they received beautiful upgrades. Up to Rosies for lunch yum yum.......Muster Drill was OK...Sail away was a lot of fun.......
The ship is beautiful.......It was tough getting used to the Washington Dining Room....pink, but you got used to it and I liked it......We had 8PM seating....4 tables...aft by the windows....Wilton and Henri were our waiters......The were superb. The food was good to very good......not one complaint about dining room food. Desserts were delicious....We enjoyed breakfast and lunch in Rosie's....a few cold pancakes.......the cheeseburgers were good...I never tried the pizza but my 13 year old ate enough for several people......LOL........Chocolate Buffet at Rosie's....to die for....
Entertainment......I went to the Welcome Show, the 2 Vegas shows (Excellent) and the Valor Idol.........A couple in our group won the free cruise raffle. Josh the CD was OK...after experiencing John Heald on the Triumph 2 years ago.....no one will compare with him. I went to every show on the Triumph because you just couldn't; miss the antics of John Heald. Josh was not an entertainer...but he did his job of keeping you informed. The Eagles Lounge had a wonderful band...Music Society.....and the lounge is smoke free...woo hoo. The casino was very good to me and some others in our party....Wheel of Fortune Slots........We did the Carnival Vacation Club talk...just wasn't; for me....I would of had to pay more for the cruise I wanted to go on and my sons and I are not into land based vacations....For some it is a good deal.
PORTS OF CALL... Belize......We did a cave tubing independent tour with Coral Breeze....UNBELIZEABLE...see my review on the Ports of Call board.....It sure beats Carnivals free for all tour of over 400 people compared to 13 of us with a guide going down the river in a train...and it is a lot cheaper.......
Roatan......Independent Tour again...Horseback Riding ending at Fosters West Bay....see my review on Ports of Call.....It was awesome and Fosters is beautiful.
Grand Cayman.....took a cab to the beach.......Royal Palms...we never got out of the water until it was time to leave...it was sooo hot....
Cozumel.....did some shopping on the Pier then....took a cab to Paradise Beach........we enjoyed it but be careful of the rocks in the water....my sons loved the trampoline.......we paid $8 for the wristbands for the boys.....they went on the trampoline and grandma and I got the mats.......LOL...After dinner a bunch of us from the group went back out on the pier for some cocktails and party music at Fat Tuesdays...Woooo Hooooo.
Sea Days.....I was usually up on deck by 9:30...no problem getting a deck chair....enjoyed Deck 10 starboard side with a nice breeze...We did the slide several times.....
Major Complaint............Kids out of control........Disrespectful...that is all I can say......They can; read or abide by the signs...as in NO JUMPING IN THE POOLS........The pools are small and all you can do is get in to cool off but they think it is for jumping and lap races.......The adult only hot tubs...The one day I got to go and enjoy them ( or at least try to) 3 girls about 12 years old came into the hot tub (adult only) eating ice cream comes. my Dad asked them to leave and they didn't;......so into the other tub we went. I think they need more pool police..........
Debarkation.....we went down to the lobby at 9AM....Dad got a wheelchair...we walked off with them but we had to go thru immigration with everyone else (Mom and Dad didn't;) so they waited in the luggage terminal for us. We got our luggage and got on the Carnival transfer bus...no hassles...We had a good flight home.
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Bodyweight Workout: Cycle 7, Week 3, Day 3
These workouts are designed by Breaking Muscle founder Mindith Rahmat. Mindith is an RYT 500 Certified Yoga Therapist, certified CrossFit coach, and long time fitness enthusiast with extensive experience in Russian kettlebells and bodyweight exercise.
This cycle of the bodyweight workout will focus on holds, strength, and flexibility using arm balances, inversions, and deep flexibility work. You will be able to measure your progress with three attempts at a baseline test in weeks 1, 6, and 12.
You will need two blocks or paralettes, a ruler or tape measure, a stopwatch, a wall space and a yoga strap or belt.
Week 3, Day 3
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3x Down Dog to Updog Stretch
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Center Splits
Handstand Kickups to Hold or Max Hold
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Kittens and kids at the Farmer's Market.
Naomi Thomas, (6) of Burien, has feline fascination and hopes Grandma Emily Hitchens will let her take a kitty home from the C.A.R.E.S booth at the Burien Thursday Market last week. C.A.R.E.S is a non-profit formed by local residents and business owners to reduce the dangers of irresponsible pet ownership. The organization has a pet adoption program as well as sheltering lost and stray pets. A spay and neuter clinic is available including a licensing option for dog and cat owners. Online they can be found at www.buriencares.org. As for Naomi, she might have to wait a bit as school is starting soon.
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Steven Austin, Sales and Strategy for Space and Neil Wallace, Electric Propulsion Chief Engineer
In another example of how QinetiQ's technological expertise is being successfully applied to commercial solutions, Steven and Neil talk about the electric propulsion work going on Farnborough's Space Division.
QinetiQ boasts the premier ion thruster facility in Europe and a team with unrivalled expertise in gridded ion propulsion system design, used in engines which propel spacecraft in space. The technology uses just a small amount of electric energy generated from solar arrays, and is at least ten times more efficient than conventional chemical engines, which are carcinogenic and involve violent chemical reactions.
Furthermore, chemical systems have a limited capacity, with the best ones only providing a maximum velocity of 4km per second. The Bepi Colombo project that QinetiQ is working on, and which plans to embark on its journey to Mercury in 2015, has a velocity of 50km per second. This means that it is highly efficient, carrying only one-tenth of the mass that traditionally-fuelled spacecraft have to bear.
In fact, the Bepi Colombo project involves two craft orbiting the Mercury; the amount of payload that the craft will be carrying in order to gather the required scientific data means that the mission is only achievable by using QinetiQ's electric propulsion technology.
And it's not just science that is benefitting from our ion thrusters; applying electric propulsion technology to commercial satellites which provide, for instance SKY TV, means that the satellites cannot only carry a greater payload but they also last longer – up to 20 years instead of the usual 10-15, with clear commercial advantages. Furthermore, traditional launch methods can account for up to 50% of total costs; electric propulsion can take a satellite as far as it needs to go at a fraction of the expense, enabling the customer to benefit from significant cost efficiencies.
As an enabler of high volume, lower cost space projects, it's clear that electric propulsion is changing the arena. QinetiQ, as a subject matter expert in the only European country able to offer the high-power experience, is clearly able to position itself as a key player in Europe. We not only have the expertise but also the necessary facilities, with two large test chambers at our Farnborough headquarters.
The UK can play a substantive role in Europe's commercialisation of space development, and take advantage of the huge opportunities that exist for industrial growth. QinetiQ's centre of excellence for space, with its design and test capabilities, as well as its extremely close ties with academia, is very well placed to be at the centre of these exciting developments.
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So after reading about people pricing hive removal from homes, a few beekeepers mentioned charging extra if they had tried using "wasp & hornet killer" on the bees.
Maybe this will be obvious if I ever get into that situation but ... why?
Because the honey is no longer safe?
Because the bees are no longer healthy?
Because the spray contaminates their bee tools and now need to be cleaned?


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The Witch of Portobello
First US Edition Published in 2007
|Paulo Coelho
|Original title
|A Bruxa de Portobello
|Margaret Jull Costa
|Cover artist
|Jennifer Ann Daddio
|Portuguese (translated to English by Margaret Jull Costa)
|Harper Collins Publishers, 1st US Edition (2007).
Publication date
|Media type
|Print (hardback)
|268 p.
|869.3/42 22
|LC Class
|Preceded by
|Like the Flowing River
The Witch of Portobello (Portuguese: A Bruxa de Portobello) is a fiction work by Brazilian writer Paulo Coelho published in 2007, about a woman born in Transylvania to a Romani mother in a gypsy tribe without wedlock. The central character is abandoned by her birth mother because the father was a foreigner (gadje) and later adopted by a wealthy Lebanese couple.
It starts with the death of the main character, Sherine Khalil or Athena as she likes to call herself, and is represented as a form of biography in narrative format. It contains short chapters which include the points of view of the people who knew her well– a journalist who fell in love with her, an actress who was her disciple and had a love- hate relationship with her, a doctor who was also her protector and teacher, a numerologist who did not know her personally, her adoptive mother, her ex-husband, a priest who was once her only friend, her landlord, a manager of bank for which she initially worked as a clerk, a teacher of calligraphy, a gipsy restaurant owner who takes her to her real mother, her real mother, and a historian. The author decided to transcribe what these people told him because he didn't want to impose his own opinions on the reader. Each one of them provides a different view of her, describing not only what they saw and experienced but adding their own impressions, interpreting her through their own beliefs and fears..
In this book, Coelho works with the return to the goddess religion, the interpretation of love, and the feminine part of the Divine within the theme of searching for one's true self and opening to the energies of the world.[1] The question central to the story is "How do we find the courage to be true to ourselves - even if we are unsure of who we are?"
The work also expounds a selection of philosophies, which bear a certain degree of similarity to Coelho's teachings from previous novels and carry the characteristic imprint of his own ideas, as well as a citation regarding the ephemeral nature of desires, which appears in most of Coelho's novels.
The writer elucidates the opinion that the Church has deviated by its stringent rules to the point where it no longer serves Jesus Christ, or as put in his words in one of the interviews: "It's a very long time since they've allowed me in there [the Church]".
As the book begins, Athena is dead. How she ended up that way creates the intrigue sustaining the book.[2] The child, Sherine Khalil renames herself Athena after her uncle was discussing with her mother on how her real name will betray her origins and something like Athena gave nothing away. As a child, she shows a strong religious vocation and reports seeing angels and saints, which both impresses and worries her parents.
She goes into a London University to pursue Engineering at the age of 19 but it's not what her heart wanted. One day she just decides that she wanted to drop out of college, get married and have a baby. Here, the author mentions that this might be due to the fact that she was abandoned herself and wants to give all that love she could to her child which she didn't receive from her birth mother. Two years later, her marriage falls apart because they are facing too many problems due to their young age and lack of money or mostly because he felt that she loved only the child and used him to get what she wanted. A very interesting quote she uses is "From Ancient Greece on, the people who returned from battle were either dead on their shields or stronger, despite or because of their scars. It's better that way: I've lived on a battlefield since I was born, but I'm still alive and I don't need anyone to protect me." She grows into a woman in search of answers to many questions that arise within a person. She had a life which many felt was content because she had a child of her own, money, and friends; everything but her mind was at peace, so she searches for the answer to the classical question of "Who am I?" through many experiences. In her quest, she opens her heart to intoxicating powers of mother and becomes a controversial spiritual leader in London.
The blogEdit
The experience of making available 1/3 of the book in a blog,[3] in the words of Paulo Coelho, enabled his readers to judge by themselves the value of the book. This direct contact is, in his view, the best bet for literature.
See alsoEdit
- ^ NPR: Coelho Explores Goddesses in 'Witch of Portobello'
- ^ AAP May 2007
- ^ (English) "Readers' Corner for The Witch of Portobello". The Witch of Portobello. 2007-09-02. Archived from the original on 2007-08-20. Retrieved 2007-09-02.


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Welcome to Denver, where mysteries are afoot and the booze gets you more drunk. Rob McFarland takes a look around.
I've been recruited to help solve one of Denver's most notorious crimes.
On December 18, 1922, a Federal Reserve Bank delivery truck was being loaded with money outside the Denver Mint when three men pulled up in a black Buick and jumped out, firing sawn-off shotguns. Fifty guards returned fire but the robbers still managed to get away with US$200,000. One of them, Nicholas Trainor, was killed in the gunfight but the two others were never identified.
The case remained unsolved for 12 years until the Denver police suddenly announced they'd worked out who was responsible. Conveniently, all the gang members had either since been killed or were already in prison.
No one was ever charged in relation to the crime and the case was officially closed on December 1, 1934.
Today we've been instructed to be at the entrance to platform two in Denver's impressive Union Station at 10am. Just as the clock ticks over the hour, an agitated-looking woman comes clattering down the underpass wearing a 1920s-style sequin dress and carrying a drab brown suitcase.
She explains that she is Mrs Florence Thompson, girlfriend of Nicholas Trainor, and that she never got her share of the loot - of the $200,000 that was stolen, only $80,000 was recovered by police, so she wants us to track down local hoodlum Tommy Bell to help trace the rest of the cash.
Someone asks her what's in it for us. "I don't shoot you," she replies, quick as a flash, before handing us our first clue and disappearing back up the underpass. "And remember now," she shouts, "no lollygagging around."
And so begins a Denver walking tour with a difference. The first clue directs us to the city's LoDo (Lower Downtown) district, an up-and-coming area near the train station. We've been told to find a renowned independent bookstore and then track down a copy of a book on the robbery that will contain our next clue.
Like many US city centres, LoDo has been revitalised over the last few years and now boasts more than 90 brewpubs, bars, restaurants and cafes plus an eclectic range of boutiques and galleries. With its elegant Victorian and turn-of-the-century architecture, it's exactly the sort of neighbourhood in which you could easily while away an afternoon. Unless, of course, you're trying to track down a criminal.
Subsequent clues involved unravelling coded messages and even approaching a "tourist" to take our picture (the clue is on her camera, but don't tell anyone I told you).
Along the way we get to check out many of Denver's famous sights: the mint where the robbery took place; the Denver Performing Arts Complex (the second-largest performing arts centre in the world); the Colorado Convention Center, which, bizarrely, has a 12m sculpture of a blue bear outside; and the impressive Colorado State Capitol Building.
Denver's compactness makes it ideal for exploring on foot. It's the most isolated city in mainland USA, which means it's got all the amenities of a much larger metropolis while still having that endearing American small-town feel.
While waiting outside the Capitol Building for our next clue, I notice a plaque on the steps declaring that we are now one mile above sea level. It's the reason Denver is nicknamed the "Mile High City" and explains why the air is so much dryer and thinner here.
At this altitude golf balls travel 10 per cent further, the sun is 25 per cent stronger - and the effects of alcohol are significantly increased. This could explain why Denver is the biggest beer producer per capita in the US and has 15 brewpubs and microbreweries in the downtown area alone. (Well worth sampling, by the way - check out the tour offered by Brews Cruise.)
Many skiers spend a few days here acclimatising before heading to the nearby Colorado ski fields to frolic in the champagne snow. The closest of the state's 26 resorts is Winter Park, which is just 90 minutes away.
After a few minutes, our next clue appears in the form of the "ghost" of Nicholas Trainor and we're back on the case.
The interaction with the crime's characters is what really brings this tour to life. Along the way we meet Paul Clar, a Denver Express reporter who regales us with the gory details of what happened on that fateful December day, and an FBI agent, who tells us of the struggles police had finding the suspects.
The intriguing part is that we never know where we're going or who we'll meet next. On several occasions, we find ourselves eyeing someone innocently lingering on a street corner, thinking that he or she is our next clue.
Ensuring all the clues and characters are in the right place at the right time must be a logistical nightmare but the tour is executed flawlessly. In fact, it's one of the most ingenious city tours I've come across.
Of course, the big question is what happened to Mrs Thompson? Did she track down Tommy Bell?
That's not for me to say. But if you find yourself near platform two on Denver's Union Station at 10am, there might just be someone there who knows.
Getting there: V Australia flies daily from Auckland to LA via Sydney. Denver is then a two-hour internal flight. Ph 0800 828 782.
Staying there: Located in the historic 1911 Denver Tramway building, Hotel Teatro is an independent luxury boutique property and is ideally situated opposite the Denver Performing Arts Centre.
Tours: The self-guided Denver Inside and Out Tour covers about 3km and takes about three hours. A maximum of eight people are allowed on the tours, which leave every half hour from 10am. Adults: US$40 ($51), children US$35, under-5s free. Bookings essential. To sample a selection of brewpubs and microbreweries, try the two-hour Brews Cruise.
More information: See visitdenver.com.
The writer travelled as a guest of V Australia and Colorado Ski Country USA.


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