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"But We Took You To Stately Homes!" - Survivors of Dysfunctional Families(1000 Posts)
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It's March 2013, and the Stately Home is still open to visitors.
Forerunning threads:
December 2007
March 2008
August 2008
February 2009
May 2009
January 2010
April 2010
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March 2011
November 2011
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January 2013
Please check later posts in this thread for links & quotes. The main thing is: "they did do it to you" - and you can recover.
Welcome to the Stately Homes Thread.
This is a long running thread which was originally started up by 'pages' see original thread here (December 2007)
So this thread originates from that thread and has become a safe haven for Adult children of abusive families.
One thing you will never hear on this thread is that your abuse or experience was not that bad. You will never have your feelings minimised the way they were when you were a child, or now that you are an adult. To coin the phrase of a much respected past poster Ally90;
'Nobody can judge how sad your childhood made you, even if you wrote a novel on it, only you know that. I can well imagine any of us saying some of the seemingly trivial things our parents/siblings did to us to many of our real life acquaintances and them not understanding why we were upset/angry/hurt etc. And that is why this thread is here. It's a safe place to vent our true feelings, validate our childhood/lifetime experiences of being hurt/angry etc by our parents? behaviour and to get support for dealing with family in the here and now.'
Most new posters generally start off their posts by saying; but it wasn't that bad for me or my experience wasn't as awful as x,y or z's.
Some on here have been emotionally abused and/or physically abused. Some are not sure what category (there doesn't have to be any) they fall into.
NONE of that matters. What matters is how 'YOU' felt growing up, how 'YOU' feel now and a chance to talk about how and why those childhood experiences and/ or current parental contact, has left you feeling damaged falling apart from the inside out and stumbling around trying to find your sense of self-worth.
You might also find the following links and information useful, if you have come this far and are still not sure whether you belong here or not.
'Toxic Parents' by Susan Forward.
I started with this book and found it really useful.
Here are some excerpts:
"Once you get going, most toxic parents will counterattack. After all, if they had the capacity to listen, to hear, to be reasonable, to respect you feelings, and to promote your independence, they wouldn't be toxic parents. They will probably perceive your words as treacherous personal assaults. They will tend to fall back on the same tactics and defenses that they have always used, only more so.
Remember, the important thing is not their reaction but your response. If you can stand fast in the face of your parents' fury, accusations, threats and guilt-peddling, you will experience your finest hour.
Here are some typical parental reactions to confrontation:
"It never happened". Parents who have used denial to avoid their own feelings of inadequacy or anxiety will undoubtedly use it during confrontation to promote their version of reality. They'll insist that your allegations never happened, or that you're exaggerating. They won't remember, or they will accuse you of lying.
YOUR RESPONSE: Just because you don't remember, doesn't mean it didn't happen".
"It was your fault." Toxic parents are almost never willing to accept responsibility for their destructive behavior. Instead, they will blame you. They will say that you were bad, or that you were difficult. They will claim that they did the best that they could but that you always created problems for them. They will say that you drove them crazy. They will offer as proof the fact that everybody in the family knew what a problem you were. They will offer up a laundry list of your alleged offenses against them.
YOUR RESPONSE: "You can keep trying to make this my fault, but I'm not going to accept the responsibility for what you did to me when I was a child".
"I said I was sorry what more do you want?" Some parents may acknowledge a few of the things that you say but be unwilling to do anything about it.
YOUR RESPONSE: "I appreciate your apology, but that is just a beginning. If you're truly sorry, you'll work through this with me to make a better relationship."
"We did the best we could." Some parents will remind you of how tough they had it while you were growing up and how hard they struggled. They will say such things as "You'll never understand what I was going through," or "I did the best I could". This particular style of response will often stir up a lot of sympathy and compassion for your parents. This is understandable, but it makes it difficult for you to remain focused on what you need to say in your confrontation. The temptation is for you once again to put their needs ahead of your own. It is important that you be able to acknowledge their difficulties without invalidating your own.
YOUR RESPONSE: "I understand that you had a hard time, and I'm sure that you didn't hurt me on purpose, but I need you to understand that the way you dealt with your problems really did hurt me"
"Look what we did for you." Many parents will attempt to counter your assertions by recalling the wonderful times you had as a child and the loving moments you and they shared. By focusing on the good things, they can avoid looking at the darker side of their behavior. Parents will typically remind you of gifts they gave you, places they took you, sacrifices they made for you, and thoughtful things they did. They will say things like, "this is the thanks we get," or "nothing was ever enough for you."
YOUR RESPONSE: "I appreciate those things very much, but they didn't make up for ...."
"How can you do this to me?" Some parents act like martyrs. They'll collapse into tears, wring their hands, and express shock and disbelief at your "cruelty". They will act as if your confrontation has victimized them. They will accuse you of hurting them, or disappointing them. They will complain that they don't need this, they have enough problems. They will tell you that they are not strong enough or healthy enough to take this, that the heartache will kill them. Some of their sadness will, of course, be genuine. It is sad for parents to face their own shortcomings, to realize that they have caused their children significant pain. But their sadness can also be manipulative and controlling. It is their way of using guilt to try to make you back down from the confrontation.
YOUR RESPONSE: "I'm sorry you're upset. I'm sorry you're hurt. But I'm not willing to give up on this. I've been hurting for a long time, too."
Helpful Websites
Alice Miller
Personality Disorders definition
More helpful links:
Daughters of narcissistic mothers
Out of the FOG
You carry the cure in your own heart
Help for adult children of child abuse
Pete Walker
Some books:
Will I ever be good enough?
If you had controlling parents
When you and your mother can't be friends
Children of the self-absorbed
Recovery of your inner child
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I sometimes give mine a boiled egg and soldiers. My DD loves that for tea. I tend to offer that if I know she's eaten plenty over the day. Does that make sense? Eggs are great for a quick meal and good for you.
Sorry I wasn't clear at all. I meant is that enough if you haven't had much over the rest of the day. Like if you haven't had breakfast. I don't remember it being enough.
I'm not making sense, sorry.
Jess I do get where you're coming from. I think that it is ok to offer my DC something light eg beans on toast or sandwiches for a meal providing that they have had or are going to have a more substantial and nutritious meal as well that day. It sounds like this wasn't the case for you?
I'm no expert but I do believe that children learn food habits from their families and if you were taught from an early age that a good diet was not important it comes as no surprise that you have an unsatisfactory relationship with food.
Marking my place back here, after having a positively silent 10 m, im now starting up contact again with mil. Wish me luck, because i need it!
Sorry to see some familiar names here, still struggling with the Toxic Ones. Wondering whether i have made a complete boob by starting up contact today, have a thread on this and will be updating it later with how the reunion went!
Why cant life be simple, and people be nice, instead of narcissicistic?
Mil has already committed one faux paux by deciding to bring my niece, so again the other granchildren come before my dc even after zero contact for 10m, lovely ay? I won't hold out any hope she has changed and i am only having one last ditch attempt for dhs sake. Dreading the dull tones of "poor me....." Zzzz. What have i let myself in for, especially now being 7wks pregnant aswell.
Fil isn't allowed contact, but will be dropping off mil and niece, if he starts at my door, the whole lot of them can forget it, as i don't want to know!
ps congrats on your pg :-). Hope today goes ok for you. Keep strong.
Is anybody experienced with narcissistic mothers that I could pm a text message I received? If I post it I will out myself but I'm not sure whether to reply or not
Pumpkin I replied on your other thread but just wanted to say congratulations on your pregnancy
Thankyou meery and forgetmenots
Congratulations, pumpkin, thats wonderful.
Anyone else on mothers day today? Posted a thread so wont bore you with it all but toxic ma has hit hard (how little does she realise !) trying to disempower her and focus on my little family. A few hugs from dc have helped
And worried, if in doubt, DONT send- do a draft- let it all out, will make you feel better. A silent letter. But read, keep for another day, you could always send in future.
JessI have only ever done something like beans on toast (which is a healthy meal, as beans are so good for you, on wholewheat bread), as a fallback, or quick top up when lunch was full 'dinner'.
Other than that its only ever a lunch snack. Scrambled eggs probably more like breakfast than lunch or dinner, as nothing other than protein.
MrsKenyon I'm very at your grieving, that feeling like they are dead, is what happened to me. Its not that they're dead of course, its the huge releasing of the emotions and connections with them, the things that keept you tied to them, despite their abuses. Often it can be very hard to release yourself from such a relationship, esp the Narc one, where you either have to remain childlike, or become motherlike so the bond is huge, and you are not 'allowed' to separate and become an adult. The grieving is the disconnecting, the letting go of it all, and you will recover, aand it will not be the end, but you will see without the FOG once you have grieved.
happy for you to PM me worried
congratulations Pumpkin! what lovely news Don't let HER know! Keep away from HER during pregnancy. Good luck with your endeavours. xx
Jess I use to have a terrible relationship with food, my attitude to it was all about negative emo, so my eating habits were terrible. I couldn't seem to come to a place of a steady relationship with it.
My childhood meals were things to be endured, I developed only hatred for food, no love. The only good experiences I picked up were at others houses, where [massive] efforts were put into food selection and preparation (or so it seemed to me). Children were involved in choices! All very strange. I just hated everything that food represented to me at home.
I now have a reallly good relationship with food. Eating mostly very healthily, sometimes a bit lazy (bowl of cereal, if alone!), but don't consider beans on toast or scrambled eggs bad meals, in the right place they are part of a healthy diet, and try to avoid processed stuff. But get DC involved often in cooking and 'what s for dinner'? the whole process. Surviving on breakfast or lunch type food for dinner too tho is very unbalanced meal provision.
Pumpkin - congrats on your pg.
Fairy - thanks, really the issue was that my mum left stuff for dinner and my dad didn't bother making it but did easy quick stuff which wasn't enough given I didn't really eat breakfast. And I wanted the stuff my mum left but complain about not being given it. Or about what I was given.
Salbertina - Mother's Day is difficult. Are you in the USA then?
^couldn't complain
your father was being neglectful in putting himself above your nutritional needs, and then being denied the voice to have your feelings heard.
Oh i shant be letting her know Fairy. Not told a soul except for sis and dh so far. Very difficult as i have midwife coming to my home tuesday!
I'm not planning on telling the ils until i'm the size of Narnia, and even then i will conceal it for as long as poss. I definetly won't be going back to the days of them taking over my life, like they did with my previous babies. Oh i remember how awful it was, they were all over us towards the end of my pregnancies and when babies were first born until the novelty wore off a few weeks later when the other grandkids were more important once again.
I'm not silly, if dh thinks yesterday will be a green light to weekly interogation by them, it won't be happening. So far no further meetings have been made, and when a meeting is arranged i will not be tripping into weekly visits. Im thinking monthly at the most-dh will not like this but that is the best i can stomach as i know rationally their behaviour isn't going to change realistically.
Sorry to hear you are having trouble on mothers day in your area S, it's one of the most frought days here in my family, except ours is in March.
ha ha! very funny, also very good! you know the ways of the wise to these narcs...
millymollymandy I hope you find some peace in going no contact. sometimes its the only thing left to save your sanity.
My DM is a very selfish, negative, jealous woman. I think I am going to go NC despite it making me feel incredibly guilty.
I had a hysterectomy in March and had no contact from her at all until weeks after the operation. My aunty had one last week and Mum was all over her like a rash.
Its incredibly hurtful to be unwanted and I feel guilty but just can't take the emotional hurt each time I speak to her. enough is enough. finally!
I'm new to this thread, but have had ongoing probs with over intrusive, strange behaviour from my mother for years. I'm managing the relationship ok at the moment, but they are coming to visit me this month (about a 5 hour journey). Typically, she won't discuss actual dates and plans until the last second, but from speaking to my dad I think she is planning to spend some time here alone without him. I rally don't want this as she can sometimes 'crash' out and spend the entire time in bed, not communicating until its time to go home. I hate it as it reminds me a lot of the unpredictability of her behaviour in my childhood. So I need some strength to call her, get arrangements sorted out, and explain she can only stay as long as my father is here.......
Fairy I have sent a PM. Thank you
Thanks Kiwi for your kind words - only been a few days for me, but I just felt a bit like you really. It is more painful to have contact with her and just not worth it. Typically my mum does not care that i decided not to speak to her, though she is enjoying the drama... Showing letter to everyone etc. Dad however is very upset and that DOES make me feel guilty. But at the same time, he is a grown man and I have made it clear that i love him and still want to see him etc. but so far he says he couldn't possibly see me unless mum came too. So that feels a bit like he is taking her side and rejecting me. I do however think that things will get better with time. Will have to wait and see...
Hi everyone, was wondering if I could join too?
My first thread is here Should-I-give-up-long-and-sensitive-sorry
I'm coming to terms with the fact that my mother is a narcissistic mother and reading this thread has really helped me see that her behavior is not ok
Ooops thats link didn't work
Oh but deliakate i so recognise that behaviour. Your dm does not have to behave with the courtesy that a normal houseguest does as she's not a normal guest but "family". And as for taking to her bed that's a useful ploy for when things aren't going to her liking.......
Arghh my last post was a real case of speaking too soon. Dm phoned this eve, which is fine as we are ok with each other despite her narc tendencies, to say that she was visiting the UK next week and would love to see us. So i now feel obliged for sake of dc to rearrange weekend around her. If i don't I'll just feel guilty at keeping them away from granny. She is so bloody frustrating.
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Bulls at Heat, 8:00 PM, TNT
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-- Download Terror in Sarajevo? Islam in Bosnia & the Rejection of Extremism as PDF --
It is not customary to begin a discussion about terrorism with a joke but, given the context, I think it appropriate. How else, after all, is one to deal with the idiocy of this recent attack on the US Embassy in Sarajevo?
Mujo and Suljo are the two stock characters of Bosnian humour: a sort of Abbott and Costello duo whose (mis)adventures typically find them snatching defeat from the jaws of victory and revelling in the deepest bowels of the blackest humours. Their personal biographies are varying, at times peasants, at times urbanites, and while their names are meant to be stereotypical Bosniak/Muslim names, all-together, they are the Bosnian everyman.
So, one day Suljo asks Mujo if he's worried about all these terrorist attacks that have been gripping the front pages around the world since 9/11. "Not at all," replies Mujo. "And why is that?" inquires his friend, intrigued. "Well, whenever I'm about to board a plane, I wait to be the last one on, and then I stand at the front and shout 'As-Salamu Alaykum!' and if anyone responds I leave immediately."
This is the Bosnian Muslim, and how s/he imagines her/himself, and indeed how history has constructed Islam in Bosnia: it is a largely private, cosmopolitan, thoroughly secular experience of religion. The unveiled, trendy, young 20-something year old, done up to the 9s, sipping her cappuccino and going through a pack of slims is the day-to-day routine of the average Bosnian Muslim.
"Islamic fundamentalism", that terror of the Western imagination, is essentially a non-existent phenomenon in Bosnian history, despite the 500 some odd years of Ottoman imperial rule. Nor is this particularly surprising: Islam in Bosnia arrives through the Ottomans, who are themselves arriving at the religion second hand. By the time the 20th century dawns, Islam in Bosnia has been shaped and conditioned by Ottomans, by Austro-Hungarians and, most importantly, by centuries of largely tolerant inter-communalism with Bosnian Catholics, Orthodox and Jews.
Nearly 50 years of Titoist socialism have the added effect of secularizing Bosnian society as a whole. By 1980, the year of Tito's death, religion in Bosnia is largely a "cultural" experience. The country has been heavily urbanized and industrialized, many Bosnians own a second home, they are free to travel abroad, mixed marriages between the various ethnic groups are common, and gender equality has been official state policy for nearly half a century.
Despite having been marked for extermination twice over the course of the 20th century alone, and despite the emergence of a definite conservative and introverted reaction after the events of the 90s, the Bosnian remains living proof that Islam is entirely compatible with modern, Western values. The chief political party of even the most conservative of Bosnian Muslims, for instance, remains the Party of Democratic Action (SDA): a center-right, pro-European organization in the mould the German Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and other center-right parties in Europe. Indeed, the SDA is an observer of the European People's Party (EPP) the main center-right block in the European Parliament affiliated with the likes of Merkel and Sarkozy. I'm hardly a conservative, but extremism this is not.
The events in Sarajevo will nonetheless, surely, provoke a by now tired and tedious reaction—"terrorists! They're all terrorists!" Serb nationalists in Bosnia will likely be leading this charge. The same cabal which spent nearly a decade concocting the myth of an impending cull of Serbs across the former Yugoslavia by an assortment of Bosniaks, Croats and Albanians, who bemoaned that they could never (again, they said) live under the yoke Islamic oppression and would fight to preserve their freedom and their religion. This was the pre-emptive logic of genocide in Bosnia.
Insomuch as "ancient ethnic hatreds" did not exist, an orchestrated propaganda campaign and actual violence targeted at "opposing" ethnic communities would create it. When said "opposing communities" would then, indeed, turn inward to preserve their cultures, to preserve their traditions and to preserve their very lives, the same engineers of hate would, in a satisfied sweeping gesture, proclaim "Ah, you see? Didn't we tell you what they were like?"
This has been the tactic of Serb nationalists in Bosnia. The fact that segments of the Islamic community in the country have resented Serb nationalists for targeting them for extermination, for destroying their places of worship and ancient monuments symbolizing the country's polycultural history has been taken as evidence of the inherent intolerance of Bosnian Muslims. Meanwhile, individuals who orchestrated actual genocides are celebrated as heroes by these same forces.
And yet, the appearance of a fraction of a minority of fringe elements of Islamic extremists in Bosnia has next to nothing to do with the actual Muslims from Bosnia. The handful of Islamic fundamentalists actually present are all Wahabis—imports from Saudi Arabia. Their very presence in the country, however, is a result of the decision by the United Nations during the 90s to impose an arms embargo on Yugoslavia—within which it included the newly independent Bosnia-Herzegovina. In practice, the embargo had zero effect on Serb nationalists who had full access to the military machine of the now completely Serb-dominated Yugoslav People's Army, the fourth largest military machine in Europe at the time. On the flip side, the government in Sarajevo composed of non-nationalist Serbs and Croats, Jews and, of course, Bosniaks was left with little more than pistols and, in some cases, World War II era military gear to defend the civilian populations now targeted for extermination.
It was in this moment that the Americans turned to the Saudis and the Iranians to arm the government in Sarajevo, and by extension, to send accompanying "volunteers" as means of circumventing the embargo. It was a moronic decision: the Bosnians never lacked for man-power. What they lacked was the tools to defend themselves with. But thanks to the obstructionist policies of the British, in particular, and other European states, Serb nationalists were allowed to freely orchestrate the biggest collection of crimes against humanity in Europe since the end of World War II, while the West collectively dragged its feet.
When certain sympathizers of the Serb nationalist project today wax poetic on the clear and demonstrable evidence of the fundamentalist credentials of the Sarajevo government they summarily neglect three of the most important pieces of information:
- According to the most credible studies, the total number of foreign Islamic fighters in Bosnia was somewhere in the neighbourhood of approximately 400-1000 individuals. A laughable fraction of the 200,000 some odd individuals who comprised the Bosnian military and militias as a whole.
- Using these same numbers, we can conclusively say that more Serb and Croats died defending the Republic of Bosnia-Herzegovina from the nationalist forces sponsored by Belgrade and Zagreb, than were mujahideen present. And this not even including the number of non-Bosniak veterans who served in the Army of the Republic of Bosnia-Herzegovina and survived the war.
- These same individuals never make mention of the Greek or Russian neo-fascist volunteers who came to Bosnia to willingly and happily participate in the extermination of non-Serbs. So grateful were the likes of Karadzic and Mladic, that as the killing in Srebrenica reached a crescendo, they raised a Greek flag over the town.
In the case of this most recent attack in Sarajevo, at least one more important fact is worth pointing out: the individual in question is not Bosnian—he is a Muslim from the Sandžak region in Serbia. His actions in Sarajevo yesterday have in no shape, way or form garnered any support from any quarter of the Islamic community in Bosnia—and likely even his Wahabi associates are dismayed at what an amateurish mess he made of his whole little enterprise. Tellingly, it was only minutes after the standoff had ended that Bosnians on Twitter and Facebook began making light of the whole episode in ways only they could. One particularly cheeky Tweet declared that the suspect had clearly never played any modern video game shooter—he didn't even know how to get behind cover!
Nonetheless, there is a very serious dimension to these events: Bosnia's secular and polycultural institutions were placed under incredible stress during the 1992-1995 war, and despite their rhetoric, Western powers which have restructured the country since the war have done little to address these issues. The Dayton Peace Accord which brought peace to the country and now serves as the Constitution has institutionalized a segregated-apartheid regime in Bosnia which has systematically prevented reconciliation and empowered local nationalist oligarchs. Such an environment is, no pun intended, a God send for extremism of every sort.
Bosnians have already done their part to make a stand against this sort of idiocy. The 2010 film Na Putu (On the Path) provided an excellent analysis of the confrontation between Bosnia's secular and cosmopolitan traditions and this new alien extremism. In a powerful scene, an elderly Bosniak genocide survivor is confronted by a newly radicalized Wahabi who bemoans her lackadaisical approach to the marking of Eid which features alcohol and music. "You do not tell me how to worship in my own home!" the matriarch snaps.
If the international community is to continue to have a presence in the country, which they seem to insist on, then they ought to actually live up to and enforce the ideals which supposedly compose European modernity: secularity, tolerance, democracy and multiculturalism. Most of these developed organically in Bosnia, over centuries. Attempts have been made to tear the country, its peoples and its history asunder, by minorities committed to hate and violence. But in truth extremist monoliths of religious or nationalist varieties have no history in Bosnia, and they cannot be allowed to have a future either.
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MARAD: $10m in Small Shipyard Grants Awarded
U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood announced $9.98 million in grants to 13 small shipyards throughout the United States to help modernize facilities, increase productivity, and help make the country's small shipyards more competitive in the global marketplace. "These grants will help improve our ability to build and repair ships in the United States, strengthening our economy and helping position these small businesses and shipyard workers to be better prepared to win the future," said Secretary LaHood. The U.S Maritime Administration's (MARAD) Small Shipyard Grants Program provides money to help this vital segment of America's maritime industry invest in production equipment, provide technical skills training for employees, and maintain and create well-paying jobs by keeping these businesses competitive. "This money will help train workers and buy new tools and equipment," said U.S. Maritime Administrator David Matsuda. "Having these essential needs taken care of will help these small shipyards be more productive, efficient, and able to sustain good jobs for American workers well into the future." MARAD received over 118 grant applications requesting $105 million in assistance. The grants fund a variety of projects, including infrastructure improvements and modernizing equipment to increase the efficiency, competitive operations, and quality construction of vessels in U.S. shipyards.
Ingram Makes Historic Fleet Investment
Ingram Barge President & CEO Craig Philip Ingram Barge Company announced it has placed an order for up to 20 new 10,000-barrel double-skin tank barges - the largest new construction addition to Ingram's fleet of tank barges since 1976. Ingram Barge is the largest inland carrier in America with more than 130 towboats and nearly 4,000 barges operating on the Mississippi, Ohio, Illinois, Tennessee and Cumberland rivers and the Gulf Intracoastal
USDOT's Maritime Administration Announces $9.98 Million in Grants to Small Shipyards
U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood today announced $9.98 million in grants to 13 small shipyards throughout the United States to help modernize facilities, increase productivity, and help make the country's small shipyards more competitive in the global marketplace. Over 50,000 Americans are employed by small shipyards in more than 30 states. The facilities vary in size, from family-owned businesses employing a few dozen workers to state-of-the-art facilities with hundreds of


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Korean Students Experience Life in Slums
by AM Sakil Faizullah
Dhaka, 23 August 2011: For Dolly Ahkter, the makeshift stalls and houses of the Rupnagar slum are home but for the eager group of Korean students following her through the narrow laneways, they're a new and eye-opening experience.
Dolly is one of 15 young hygiene monitors who live in the Rupnagar slum in the Bangladeshi capital Dhaka. The 22-year-old is part of a UNICEF-supported programme, which raises awareness about proper hygiene practices and as she shows the group of six students around, she explains part of her role.
"We teach residents to take on safe hygiene practices like cutting their nails, safely disposing of garbage, boiling water and cleaning their homes and surrounding areas," she says.
The students are part of the '2011 Global Youth Leadership Training Program,'which aims to inform young people on global issues and foster better relations between countries. It is supported by the Seoul Metropolitan Government, Seoul Metropolitan Office of Education and the Seoul Youth Center for Cultural Exchange.
After a short briefing session about UNICEF's work in Bangladesh, the teamvisited the Rupnagar slum to see how the UNICEF-supported Mirpur-Rupnagar Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Upgrading project was helping improve lives.
Doly and her fellow hygiene monitors are just one part of the project. Other aspects include the supply of clean and legal water, the building and renovation of new latrines and a development of a hygiene shop that caters to the community.
The students were shown community water points, legally connected by the government-run Water Supply and Sewerage Authority (WASA). One water point serves 25 households, at 60-80 taka (1 USD) per household each month. Prior to UNICEF's intervention many families were sourcing their water from illegal connections or contaminated makeshift wells.
"Before UNICEF interventioneach household used to pay 150 to 200 taka each month to for an illegal connection," says Monirul Alam, from UNICEF Bangladesh's Water, Environment and Sanitation section. "We struggled to get the legal connection. We had to advocate very hard and negotiate with WASA to cut through the middle men."
After the water points, the students were shown the community latrinesand bathing facilities as well as the low-cost hand washing device adjacent to the latrines. ICDDRB introduced low cost liquid hand washing agent, which was found effective for the promotion of hand washing practices.
They also visited the slum's hygiene shop: a small store set up to sell cleaning products and sanitary napkins to hundreds of slum residents. The napkins are manufactured by young girls from the slum and since starting out the girls have successfully marketed their product to near-by schools and garment factories and now field orders for thousands of napkins at a time. What small profit the store makes is then put into a community bank account.
"This is an exceptional learning experience for us. Despite huge challenges in the slums, with the support of UNICEF, adolescents are working together to ensure basic services in the community" says Lee Kyung Yeop, one of the coordinators of the student group.
At the very end of the visit, the students were taken to the neighbouring'Jhilpar Slum,' which barely receives any support from any organisation. Whilst there, the students were able to see just great the need was. The 10 to 15 acre Jhilpar slum accommodates around 100,000 people who live in bamboo along a body of dirty water. The slum lacks legal water supply and inadequate sanitation facilities.
Recent data collected by UNICEF showed those living in urban slums have very limited access to water supply, sanitation and waste management. The Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey 2009 showed only 8.5 per cent of households in slum areas were using improved sanitation facilities that met UNICEF monitoring standards.


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|Maintenance Tips
Crawford Door Systems offers emergency service 24 hours a day, scheduled service and periodic maintenance plans.
Testing and Maintaining the Garage Door Opener
There are routine safety and maintenance steps that you should follow once a month. Review your owner's manual for the door opener. If you do not have an owners manual, look for the opener model number on the back of the power unit and request a manual from the manufacturer.
Routine Maintenance Can Prevent Tragedies
Take a few minutes to inspect and test your complete garage door system. Make monthly inspection and testing a part of your regular routine. Safety is everyone's business. Make garage door and garage door opener safety automatic in your home.
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Force Setting Test
Test the force setting of your garage door opener by holding the bottom of the door as it closes. If the door does not reverse readily, the force may be excessive and need adjusting. See your owners manual for details on how to make the adjustment. Test the revesring feature after any adjustment.
Additional Safety Devices
Many garage door openers can be equipped with additional safety devices. Consider adding a photo eye or edge sensor as an extra measure of safety to prevent against entrapment. Keep in mind that adding more safety devices will not make an old opener meet current U.L. standards.
Make sure the additional safety devices, such as photoeyes or edge sensors, are properly installed and adjusted (see owner's manual).
Testing and Maintaining the Garage Door
Perform routine maintenance steps once a month. Review your owner's manual for the garage door. If you don't have a manual, look for the model number on the back of the door, or check the lock handle, hinges, or other hardware for the manufacturer's name and request a manual from the manufacturer.
Visual Inspection
Look at the garage door springs, cables, rollers, pulleys, and other door hardware for signs of wear. If you suspect problems, have a qualified person make repairs.
Warning - Springs are under high tension. Only qualified persons should adjust them
Garage door springs, cables, brackets, and other hardware attached to the springs, are under very high tension and, if handled improperly, can cause serious injury. Only a qualified professional or a mechanically experienced person carefully following the manufacturer's instructions should adjust them. The torsion springs (the springs above the door) should only be adjusted by a professional. Do not attempt to repair or adjust the torsion springs yourself.
A restraining cable or other device should be installed on the extension spring (the spring along the side of the door) to help contain the spring if it breaks.
Never remove, adjust or loosen the screws on the bottom brackets of the door. These brackets are connected to the spring by the lift cable and are under extreme tension.
Regularly lubricate the moving parts of the door. However, do not lubricate plastic parts such as plastic rollers and plastic idler bearings. Consult the door owner's manual for the manufacturer's recommendation.
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Have you ever had to carry a messy, wet closet auger through an upscale office or hospital corridor? While a garbage bag will do, it just doesn't look professional. General's Closet Auger Bag keeps the closet auger contained and out of sight as it's carried to and from the job.
This durable bag features a wide mouth end with a heavy duty zipper so the closet auger easily slides in. Three vent holes allow the auger to dry between jobs. And a thick shoulder strap keeps your hands free to carry the rest of your tools to the job.
General's Flexicore® Closet Augers are made of two layers of tempered spring steel coiled tightly over a core of 49 strand wire rope. It gives the tool tremendous resistance to kinking. It's so tough, it's guaranteed against manufacturing defects for a full year, including damage to the cable, as well as the Closet Auger's other components.
The Teletube® Flexicore Closet Auger makes conventional six foot augers obsolete. It has three feet telescoped inside the guide tube until you need it. After you've worked the first three feet into a bowl, you can go three feet farther simply by pressing a button and pulling the crank handle.
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Meyer Lemon Margarita
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Recipe type:
2-3 Meyer lemons (depending on size)
½ cup sugar
½ cup water
1 Tbs Grand Marnier (or Cointreau)
Halve the lemons and juice them, retaining the rinds. You should end up with roughly ¾ oz of juice. Roughly chop half of the rinds, and cut a few twists from the other rinds for garnish.
Stir the sugar and water together in a small saucepan over medium heat. Bring to a boil and then add the chopped lemon rind. Return to a boil and simmer for 5 minutes, then remove from the heat, cover and cool. Strain out the rind and measure ¼ cup of the syrup, retaining any unused simple syrup for a future use.
Measure ¾ oz of the lemon juice into a shaker filled with ice. Add the ¼ cup of infused simple syrup and the Grand Marnier. Stir and taste for sweetness; add additional simple syrup to taste.
Shake well and strain into salt-rimmed glasses (if desired). Garnish with a Meyer lemon twist.
Recipe by
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Cochrane Library
The Cochrane Library provides reviews of research on the effects of health care interventions. Its primary section, the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, contains more than 1,370 regularly updated full-text reviews mainly of randomized controlled trials. Other sections of the Cochrane Library are the Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effectiveness, the Cochrane Controlled Trials Register, and the Cochrane Review Methodology Database. The Cochrane Library can be searched by keyword, subject, or author.


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Police have released another photo as they continue to seek public assistance to locate a woman missing from Toowoomba since late January.
Barbara Troughton, aged 62-years, was last seen at a residence on the morning of Wednesday January 27 and has not been seen since.
Police are concerned for her welfare as her disappearance is out of character.
Mrs Troughton (pictured) is described as being Caucasian in appearance and around 163cm tall with reddish-brown hair and green eyes.
Police and family are concerned about Mrs Troughton and urge any who may have seen her to contact Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000


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A fundamental issue -- or flaw -- in the investment industry today is a lack of good communication around investing. Obscure wording, labels that don't reflect reality and more all add to the proliferation of myths. This contributes to a lack of understanding of investing principles and is a real scourge for investors, in both dollars and sense. -- Thomas Ek, Fisher Investments vice president NEW YORK ( TheStreet) -- Simplicity and understanding are two cornerstones of successful long-term investing, yet it truly seems much of the investment industry hasn't grasped this, doesn't agree or otherwise prefers not to operate transparently. While one might suggest the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010 targets this, we'd suggest there's ample evidence already it's wide of the mark. Communication and clarity are no more common in the law's wake, and simplicity is still often overlooked by Wall Street as being too "basic" to be of value -- despite the fact the best real protection from flawed products, bizarre strategies with no real track record of success and, yes, villains like Bernie Madoff generally isn't anything regulatory. It's common sense. Take, for example, Mr. Madoff. Here was a man showing returns that were consistently high (equity-like) and positive, with no negativity throughout his tenure. His strategy underpinning this was based on options (anyone who's spent time in the industry knows these are likely the least understood broad investment option -- no pun intended) and stocks -- split-strike conversion -- in which a call and put were simultaneously sold around a stock or index. Someone possessing a high degree of investment acumen would likely know simultaneously selling puts and calls around a stock or index (straddling) is unlikely to result in equity-like returns. Which was one way to know Mr. Madoff's strategy was mumbo-jumbo, a front for his illegal activities behind. But an individual investor needn't know any of that to be wary of Madoff. All you need to see is the long history of no negativity and outsized returns. At this, your ears should perk not out of greed and attraction, but fear. You should have to be convinced beyond a shadow of a doubt the numbers are real because virtually any manager or investor, no matter how great, is going to have both good and bad years in the marketplace. (See Warren Buffett, late 1990s.) But while Madoff's con made huge headlines, there are other ways the investment industry and press have yet to embrace clarity and simplicity. Consider: One major media outlet ranks various mutual funds on a scale called the
"Riskless Return Index." Which sounds great, until you remember there are a grand total of zero riskless funds in the world. (See "Break the Buck, Reserve Primary Fund" for an extreme example.) To earn any return over any length of time, you must accept some degree of risk.


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Ring tone set to top UK charts
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A mobile-phone ring tone appeared set to top the British singles chart on Sunday, outselling the new single by the band Coldplay by nearly four to one, a music retailer said.
"Crazy Frog Axel F," a ring tone based on the sound of a revving Swedish mo-ped, is the first tune being used on mobile phones to cross into mainstream music charts, Gennaro Castaldo, a spokesman for HMV, the British music retailing chain, said.
Coldplay had hoped to go straight to No. 1 on this Sunday's British singles chart with its new song, Speed of Sound. But by Saturday, it appeared that the ring tone - which is available for digital download and as a compact disc single - would prevail, Mr Castaldo said.
The ring tone was expected to replace the Oasis tune Lyla as the No. 1 hit on the list released by the Official UK Charts. The weekly singles chart, which has been released since 1952, is based on the sales of 5600 retail shops across Britain.
While "Crazy Frog" and other ring tones do not appear to be much of a hit among adults, so many youngsters are personalising the sound of their mobile phones that such digital music could change world music markets.
"Music purists might not be too happy at the prospect of the "Crazy Frog" outselling Coldplay, but it shouldn't come as that much of a surprise when you consider its huge novelty appeal and the massive amount of exposure it is currently getting," Mr Castaldo said.
The ring tone is based on a song that was recorded in Sweden nearly a decade ago by 17-year-old Daniel Malmedahl, using the high pitched revving of a two-stroke motorcycle, The International Herald Tribune reported on Saturday.
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Lawrence S. Pertillar
Short Circuited To Ignite - Poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar
Those heartless to be hotwired,
And short-circuited to ignite enduring pain...
With an objective upon others to inflict and sustain,
Believe for themselves there is benefit from it gained...
Have not yet met guilt awaiting and coming to connect.
And when guilt connects with a purpose that affects,
A mental illness unexpected spreads selectively...
In their minds...like a plague...and, not done randomly!
To do without a cure to prevent the reliving of evils done.
As their souls are made to review tortured horrors eternally.
'For all of you just arriving,
You may think the heat and repeated images...
As a living hell. However...for us? It's just another day.
You will get use to the screaming this is a given,
Since all of you will come to do it sooner or later. Any questions? '
Topic(s) of this poem: evil
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Hayden Panettiere & Kevin Connolly make elf love
Jeremy Piven must be jealous as shit somewhere because Entourage's Kevin Connolly reportedly showed up with Hayden Panettiere as his date for a post-Emmys party, according to Betty Confidential:
The 35-year-old Entourage star spent the evening with the 20-year-old Heroes starlet. Hayden certainly likes her men older. She dated Heroes co-star, Milo Ventigmilia, 32, for nearly two years and has recently been linked to business mogul (and Lindsay Lohan ex) Harry Morton, 28.
"Hayden spent her entire evening at the Entourage table talking to Kevin. They were there to hang out together and stayed for hours until well after midnight. Kevin only left Hayden's side towards the end of the night when he wanted to chat with someone at another table."
Meanwhile, Harry Morton, who has been out of town, was bragging to friends about dating Hayden. One pal says, "He still thought he was dating her last week and told friends all about her. Harry was bragging about getting her to do anything he wants."
And that, my friends, is the Catch-22 of bragging about midget anal. Once you tell somebody, POOF! It's gone. Curse their tiny magic!


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September 15, 2007
Dark and Stormy Night Mystery Series
Once again, autumn is swiftly approaching and that means that the staff at Driftwood Public Library have been hard at work preparing this year's Dark and Stormy Night mystery series. This will be their fifth year presenting the series under the generous sponsorship of The Driftwood Library Foundation and Chinook Winds Casino and Resort. This year's lineup of authors is very exciting, and the library can't wait for the community to have the opportunity to meet each of them. Each author will be visiting at 4:00 p.m. on a Thursday in October, and as in past years, The Book End will be on-hand to sell books by the visiting authors. Marcy Taylor is participating again this year, and is already hard at work preparing information packets for the series and devising quizzes and games for which attendees can win free books.
Sharan Newman will open the series on October 4th. Sharan is the author of the LeVendeur series of mysteries set in 12th century France (including The Witch in the Well, Heresy and Death Comes as Epiphany), as well as the author of the Guinevere trilogy, which retells Arthurian legend from the Queen's perspective. Sharan's most recent book is a non-fiction work titled The Real History Behind the Templars.
The series continues on October 11th when Elaine Flinn visits the library. Elaine has written a series of "expertly plotted" mysteries starring Northern California antiques dealer Molly Doyle. The first book in the series was Dealing in Murder and the most recent is Deadly Vintage.
The library welcomes Chelsea Cain on October 18th. It is Chelsea's book, Confessions of a Teen Sleuth, which inspired the theme of this year's series theme: Nancy Drew and The Hardy Boys. In a starred review, Publisher's Weekly called Chelsea's newest book HeartSick an "outstanding thriller" in the tradition of Silence of the Lambs. Chelsea has also co-written several non-fiction books including Wild Child: Girlhoods in the Counterculture, Does This Cape Make me Look Fat?: Pop Psychology for Superheroes and The Hippie Handbook.
The series concludes on October 25th when sisters Lisa Jackson and Nancy Bush join us. Lisa's most recent thriller is Absolute Fear, and her most recent paperback, Almost Dead, shot directly to number two on the USA Today bestseller list upon publication. The third title in Nancy's series, Ultraviolet, was just released and is getting positive reviews for the "shrewd, sassy" namesake of the series, Jane Kelly.
In addition to our visiting authors, there will once again be a writing contest. This year's challenge will be to write a short Nancy Drew or Hardy Boys mystery. Complete rules for the contest will be released in late September.
The library is trying something new this year to enhance the series a little: each Wednesday evening in October they will screen two films in the Friends' room of the library. The first in each double-bill will be one of the original Bonita Granville Nancy Drew movies dating from 1938, and the second film will be a selection from the serialized Hardy Boys series that originally aired on the Mickey Mouse club in 1956-57. Both of these series are appropriate for all ages, so feel free to bring children to these showings as well.
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Thanks to her family, Marjorie Barretto is bravely facing the scandal her recently-uploaded half-naked photo has created.
In an interview aired on "The Buzz" on Sunday, May 13, Marjorie said, "Life has moved on. (The issue) is closed, very closed."
The mother of four explained that she has to be strong for her children.
"[K]apag tayong mga mommy may pinagdaanang pagsubok, we have no choice but to get up immediately dahil meron tayong mga anak na umaasa sa atin," Marjorie said.
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"Sabi niya, 'Gretch, hintayin natin na matapos ang election. Magsasalita ako, ilalabas ko ang dapat ilabas. Wala akong tinatago, meron lang akong mga pinoprotektahan.'" Gretchen said.
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Climate data suggest greater warming over the Arctic than lower latitudes, and the most abundant direct source of black carbon and other climate-relevant pollutants over the Arctic is cross-polar flights by international aviation. A relevant question is whether rerouting cross-polar flights to circumnavigate the Arctic Circle reduces or enhances such warming. To study this issue, a model accounting for subgrid exhaust plumes from each individual commercial flight worldwide was used with 2006 global aircraft emission inventories that treated cross-polar flights and flights rerouted around the Arctic Circle (66.56083 °N), respectively. Rerouting increased fuel use by 0.056 % in the global average, mostly right outside the Arctic Circle, but most of the associated black carbon and other emissions were removed faster because they were now over latitudes of greater precipitation and lesser stability. Rerouting also reduced fuel use and emissions within the Arctic Circle by 83 % and delayed pollutant transport to the Arctic. The Arctic reduction in pollutants, particularly of black carbon, decreased Arctic and global temperature and increased Arctic sea ice over 22 years. Although the slight increase in total CO2 emissions due to rerouting may dampen the benefit of rerouting over more decades, rerouting or even partial rerouting (allowing cross-polar flights during polar night only) may delay the elimination of Arctic sea ice, which will otherwise likely occur within the next 2–3 decades due to global warming in general. Rerouting may increase worldwide fuel plus operational costs by only ~$99 million/yr, 47–55 times less than an estimated 2025 U.S.-alone cost savings due to the global warming reduction from rerouting.


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I have been experiencing severe stomach pains for about four months, as well as other lesser symptoms like fatigue and skin breakouts. So far, my doctor is leaning toward the all-encompassing diagnosis of IBS, which obviously can only be "managed" (so far unsuccessfully) with lifestyle changes. I have tried eliminating gluten and dairy, which helped at first, but the pain has flared up again. Somebody at work suggested my problem might be candida. Is candida a "real" medical problem? And if so, are there diagnostic tests or medicinal treatments available? Any information about the causes, symptoms, and remedies for candida would be much appreciated. Thank you!
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This question is easy to relate to because at some point in all of our lives, we will or have already experienced bouts of gastrointestinal problems, whether it is abdominal pains, diarrhea, or constipation. When these symptoms are chronic or do not subside quickly, it is important that you seek evaluation and treatment with a medical professional. I'm going to report that because I cannot do an in-person history and examination on you, I cannot suggest diagnoses or medical treatment specifically for you. I will discuss information on candida (or candidiasis in medical terms) so that FitSugar's readers can be well informed on the topic.
Candidiasis is a "real" medical problem and refers to a fungal infection of any of the Candida species, of which Candida albicans is the most common. Candidiasis encompasses infections that range from superficial, such as oral thrush and vaginal yeast infections, to widespread and potentially life-threatening diseases. Infections in the last category are usually confined to severely immune system compromised persons (such as cancer, transplant recipients or HIV/AIDS patients). Candida is commonly present in our oral and intestinal tracts, and its growth is normally limited by the human immune system and by other organisms (such as bacteria) in the body. Candida overgrowth (which can happen in the gastrointestinal tract) can be associated with immune-compromised states (cancer, HIV/AIDS), diabetes, taking chronic steroid medications, prolonged or repeated use of antibiotics, and oral contraceptives.
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