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Pesach for the Rest of Us: Making the Passover Seder Your Ownby Marge Piercy
Every year, poet and novelist Marge Piercy creates her own Passover seder with a group of family and friends. Babies have been born and grown up, friends have moved or divorced, but the principals continue to gather in her rustic Cape Cod home to participate in a seder that Piercy takes joy in tweaking each spring to make it more meaningful. In this journey through the ritual, Piercy coaxes us toward "a significant contemporary interpretation, rather than an emphasis on what is strictly 'correct' or traditional." She reminisces about her grandmother, who thought herself unworthy to lead a seder because of her limited Hebrew but presided "morally" at the table; she urges adding an orange to the seder plate; she even describes her heroic efforts to make her own gefilte fish (an experiment not to be repeated).
Piercy offers her distinct slant on each element of the feast and provides dozens of her own wonderful recipes, which she delivers in the same warm, commanding voice as is heard in her poems and prose: "When I told Ira that I was going to explain how to cook matzoh brei, he thought I was crazy. Everybody knows how to make matzoh brei, he said. But I am of the opinion that there is no longer anything that everybody knows how to cook."
It is in that spirit–no question too simple–that Piercy welcomes readers to her kind of seder: a homemade and personal affair, the kind we all wish we could attend. This charming and instructive book of Passover wisdom, brimming with favorite dishes and Marge Piercy's own moving Passover poems and blessings, invites us to look at an important Jewish ritual in a whole new way.
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"Piercy opens a door into the tradition for those who have been unable to open that door for themselves. Food is the most elemental of traditions, and seeing her prepare and share her meal is like being invited to her seder and sitting around the table with our mothers and grandmothers, hearing the whispers that go on in the kitchen when no one else is paying attention."
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"Accessible, transformative, thrilling. Marge Piercy teases out the spiritual lights hidden within the most ordinary events."
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"Piercy's superb spiritual powers are up to their elbows in the lived world, bringing a liberated and grounded wisdom to everything they touch. Behind this book one hears the great embracing toast of Jewish tradition: 'L'Chaim'–'to life!'"
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Pesach for the Rest of UsMaking the Passover Seder Your Own
By Marge Piercy
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Chapter 1: What Kind of Book Is This and Who Is It For?
Pesach is a very important holiday for me. Every year, I lead a seder with a haggadah I have been working on for twenty years. Mostly the same people come from Boston, from New Jersey, from Arlington, Massachusetts, from two miles away, and from a quarter of a mile--we all gather gradually in my small Cape Cod house. Over the years, a couple and their children moved to Chile; some people tried it and it was not their kind of seder. One young woman grew up and now brings her husband. Children have been born and joined the seder. But basically we're pretty much the same core group year after year.
Like many Jews, Pesach is my favorite holiday and the one where I find the strongest personal meaning. I came to studying it earlier than Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, perhaps because it is preeminently a holiday to share with family and friends. In this little book, I will make my way through the ritual one item and one practice at a time. I am looking for a significant contemporary interpretation, rather than an emphasis on what is strictly "correct" or traditional. I want to encourage you to fashion your own seder in a way that speaks honestly and powerfully to you and your circle, whoever they are--family, friends, an organization.
I often provide a historical perspective to help you chooseor create a ritual that works for you. Much of what we may have been brought up with in modern Judaism in siddurs, in customary rituals of brit or bar or bat mitzvah, in holiday services or activities, was invented, worked out, haggled over, revised over many generations. You can borrow or create or combine to make a seder that works for your own group--whether family or friends or community. Try out new things every year. Keep the parts most people love or respond to and remember. Work on the parts that seem to put people to sleep.
The book is not aimed at the Orthodox, but rather at providing an entrance for secular and religious Jews with a modern slant into a more satisfying and meaningful way to celebrate our most common celebration, the one that just about every Jew partakes in, often twice with first and second night seders. Increasingly in recent years, Jews are putting together our own haggadahs or searching out material from other haggadahs to incorporate into our own ritual. There are literally thousands of haggadahs.
Many of us remember seders of our childhood where the haggadah was read mostly or entirely in Hebrew as fast as possible, usually by the patriarch of the family or some older man assuming that role. It had the emotional content of the directions for installing a DVD recorder. For many of us, that something has "always" been done a certain way does not mean that is how we want to do it or the way with the most meaningful content or spiritual resonance. Furthermore, Judaism is always changing. The way we celebrate Shabbat, the various parts of the services for Friday night and Saturday morning, the expectations concerning the holiday services, every piece of what "always" has been or what is "supposed to be" was started sometime in our history and kept because it worked for people. Other usages were gradually altered or dropped. The traditional haggadah has been evolving over centuries and adding some passages while dismissing others.
A commonly repeated statistic is that 90 percent of American Jews--no matter whether they are bagels and lox Jews or religious in some fashion or just in search of some sort of spirituality--attend at least one seder every Passover. That seder may be the only Jewish ritual a person engages in all year long and therefore the one experience that can confirm and give meaning to that person's Jewish identity. I am attempting to make elements of the haggadah and the seder rich with contemporary meaning so that the bored or deracinated adult would have an answer to, Why do we go to all this bother every year? or, Why do I feel bereft if I have no seder to attend?
Some people come to the seder wanting a spiritual experience. They want, not rote prayers or muttered blessings, but words and practices that move them, that awaken something in them that connects them to a sense of holiness and community. Some people come to the seder wanting to reconnect with a sense of the history of our people and to find something pertinent and engrossing in our identity as Jews. Some people come to the seder wanting to link up with the tradition of liberation in Judaism. Some people come just to eat, and that's okay too, as there is plenty of food for the stomach as well as the spirit. At Pesach we rededicate ourselves to what we cherish and what we find meaningful in our Jewish identity. We see ourselves as part of a people, historically and in the present. It is a time to remember that we as a people were once slaves and that people are enslaved in all eras and in many different ways. Slavery, whether literal or metaphorical, is very much with us today.
Thus inevitably Pesach has a political underpinning as we deal with issues of oppression and freedom, of revolt, of daring to change. For some, it is a time to rededicate ourselves to tikkun olam, the repair of the damaged world. A time to remember our thirst for justice and equality and to be inspired to resume the great work that will never be finished. Because like all Jewish holidays, Pesach has a seasonal reference, seders can also touch on ecological destruction and rebuilding. There can be an environmental aspect to the seder. All the way back to the days of the Talmud, Jews have argued about which aspect of the seder is the most important, the theme of liberation out in the world, resisting oppression, becoming free and helping others in their struggles for freedom, or internal liberation, fighting the inner as well as the outer Egypt. Really, we need not choose, for one without the other is weakened.
I believe that what all of these various desires have in common is a desire for connection: to what is eternal or to our history or to our people or to those, animal and vegetable, with whom we share this earth, or to those who are suffering or to those who seek to make the world fairer and gentler and better. A seder can give a sense of connection--spiritual or activist or communal or simply sensual. The traditional haggadah tells us that each Jew should feel as if she or he (it of course said he) personally was freed by the Exodus and left Egypt that night--an empathy across history that every haggadah tries to make happen in each individual who attends. Martin Buber urged us to feel a connection through history back to that first generation that dared seek freedom.
Thus a successful seder can try to satisfy many yearnings in the participants, different perhaps for each. But as Judaism is a religion of a people, not of an individual, the seder is a communal experience. We make it together. We make it for and with one another. Our alienation can be healed at least during that evening. We can experience a true sense of community at the seder table, one not based on something ephemeral or manufactured, like the crowd cheering at a football game, but a feeling of commonality that arises from real values.
The seder is a night to examine self and community, to choose to undergo the experience, to choose to join again as a Jew with other Jews, to question the tradition and the rituals, to wrestle meaning from them for each of us and the others with whom we are sharing the evening. Erev Pesach is a night for each of us to question what it means to be a Jew and what we want it to mean. How are we to be free? How are we to free ourselves and others? There are far more than four questions involved in a true Pesach experience.
We also crave redemption. We see ourselves as flawed and the world as broken, aching, bleeding. This is a time when we call ourselves to account, not in the sense of the Days of Awe, but in a more social sense. What are we doing to fight oppression? What are we doing to make things better? There is no agenda. Each person should find the work of redemption that touches their innermost values and sense of how things ought to be as opposed to how they are. That is part of the story of the Exodus, the rising in revolt against what is unfair and painful and unjust. We remember our history on Pesach, but we also look at our present and contemplate the future we might want to make happen and the future we passionately want to avoid--for ourselves, our children, our grandchildren, for all those beings with whom we share this earth.
My grandmother Hannah created the seders of my childhood. My grandfather Morris was killed before I was born, so I never met him directly--only through family stories. Among my early good memories are seders in her apartment in Cleveland, with several of my mother's brothers and sisters gathered around a long table. Somebody was always missing, particularly during World War II, when two of my uncles were already dead, one of a plane crash (he was a stunt pilot in air shows) and one of pneumonia, and one was in the Merchant Marine, at sea. My two oldest aunts lived out in Everett, Washington, and during the war, Aunt Rose was still dancing, entertaining the troops, but there were plenty of us. My grandmother had borne nine children who lived into adulthood, five men and four women including my mother. They all had husbands or wives and some had children at the seder.
Grandmother Hannah was poor and Orthodox, like her father the rabbi, and she kept the laws strictly. She might not own a coat that wasn't repaired and she might not have daily clothes that were not frayed and worn, but she had dishes only for Passover and a spotless tablecloth saved for good occasions. She had fine silver candlesticks brought from Lithuania where she had grown up in the shtetl. I don't know what happened to them. Like so much else in my tumultuous family, they disappeared.
She lived with us for part of every year, sharing my bed, and I remember her lush long brown hair thatched with silver worn around her head in braids and then at night let loose so it cascaded down her back. I remember her brown eyes dimmed with cataracts, her back stooped with labor, her slightly husky voice telling stories from the shtetl and from women's rich lore. She did not wear a wig because my grandfather had forbidden it, and after his death she kept faith with him.
In my childhood, she did not serve lamb for Passover but beef. It is a family tradition I maintain and my seder guests would be peeved if I made anything else. (Vegetarians, do not worry! There are many vegetarian recipes throughout.)
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Seven graduate students from the School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts gave attendees at the 29th Annual Central California Research Symposium in Fresno last week something to remember: valuable research in the fields of cognitive science and psychology.
The students – Liz Duran, Rodolfo Galindo, Kandice Soraya Grote, Kristi Imberi-Olivares, Justin Matthews, Michael Romano and Corinne Townsend – are all part of SSHA's Social and Cognitive Sciences Graduate Group, which offers students individualized training and the opportunity to help build a unique, interdisciplinary research community.
Romano won first place for his poster, "Perceptual Similarity, Difference and Identity." Duran won an honorable mention for her poster, "Parental Mental State Talk and the Development of Theory of Mind." Romano works with Professor Evan Heit, and Duran works with Professor Michelle M. Chouinard.
This is the second year in a row that UC Merced has taken the top prize in the poster category. Last year's winner, Matthews, submitted an oral presentation this year, which he delivered during the plenary session. Matthews, a research assistant for Professor Teenie Matlock, discussed how facial prominence affects predicted job performance.
Matthews is more than pleased by how well his UC Merced colleagues fared at the Fresno event.
"Last year, I was the only UC Merced student to participate, and I pledged to return with more students from Social and Cognitive Sciences," he said. "I'm glad to see that not only did we succeed in increasing our campus' participation in the event, but that our research was valued by the judges as well."
Matthews' positive experience at last year's symposium was the reason for at least one of his fellow researchers to join him this year.
Grote jumped at the chance to present her research on bilingualism in preschool-age children in the Central Valley during the symposium's poster session. A second-year doctoral student focused on developmental psychology, she said the most rewarding aspect of the event for her was explaining the significance of her research to those not familiar with the field.
"There are a lot of misconceptions about the effectiveness of bilingual education and informing others of its benefits can be challenging," she said.
Aside from giving participants the experience of presenting research in a regional setting, the symposium allowed for UC Merced students to network with other faculty in the field, something Imberi-Olivares valued greatly. She discussed her research on how parent-child conversation affects learning with the chair of the psychology department at California State University, Fresno.
Olivares, a second-year doctoral student, believes her studies into whether children accept linguistic feedback from people other than their parents will have a direct effect on the nature-vs.-nurture debate in field of language learning.
"The more we understand how linguistic transmission works, the better we can structure teaching environments and give parenting advice," she said.
UC Merced students will have plenty of opportunities to make their mark on the research community as part of the Central California Research Symposium in the future – at least, that's if Matthews has any say in the matter.
"I hope we can make UC Merced students – undergraduates and graduates – a fixture there for years to come," he said.


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Coordinates: 37°0′0″N 81°0′0″W / 37, -81 Fincastle County, Virginia, was created in 1772 from Botetourt County,[1] the boundaries of which extended all the way to the Mississippi River. Fincastle County was abolished in 1776, and divided into three new counties—Montgomery County, Washington County, and Kentucky County (which in 1792 became the 15th state, the Commonwealth of Kentucky) by acts of the Virginia General Assembly.[2][3]
Although no county seat was designated by the act creating the county, the colonial governor ordered it to be placed at the "Lead Mines" of Wythe County, where Austinville, Virginia, is now located.[1]
Botetourt County may have been named for the English home of Norborne Berkeley, 4th Baron Botetourt, a very popular governor of the Colony of Virginia, who died just before the tensions of the impending American Revolution made the job much more difficult. John Murray, 4th Earl of Dunmore and Viscount of Fincastle, succeeded Lord Botetourt. Fincastle County may have been named in his honor, or for his son Lord Fincastle. If so, the decision to change the name in 1776 is very logical. At that time, Lord Dunmore was leading the military opposition to the "rebels" in Virginia, and had already issued Dunmore's Proclamation offering to free any slaves who fled their Virginia masters and joined the royal British forces.
The name remains represented on Virginia maps by the town of Fincastle, the county seat of the original Botetourt County.
- ^ a b Pendleton, William C. (1920). History of Tazewell County and Southwest Virginia: 1748-1920, pp. 255-57. W. C. Hill Printing Company.
- ^ Pendleton (1920), pp. 362-63.
- ^ Text of act to create Kentucky County, Virginia
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- Rothert, Otto A. (January 1932). "Fincastle County, Virginia, and Old Kentucky". Filson Club Historical Quarterly 6 (1). Retrieved on 2011-11-29.
- Wilson, Samuel M. (April 1935). "West Fincastle, Now Kentucky". Filson Club Historical Quarterly 9 (2). Retrieved on 2011-11-29.
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Ian Thorpe will swim in the 400 metres. The outcome is good, the means questionable.
When Ian Thorpe fell into the pool before the Olympic 400 metres freestyle qualifying heat a month ago, we expressed the hope that an honourable way of allowing Thorpe to represent Australia in the event at the Athens Games would be found. And now Craig Stevens, who had been slotted to compete as a result of Thorpe's disqualification, has announced that he will step aside. It is undoubtedly the outcome that the nation wanted: the reigning world 400 metres champion and defending Olympic medallist will get an opportunity to defend his title, and to equal Murray Rose's achievement of winning successive gold medals in the event. But did all this happen honourably? Stevens announced his decision on Monday night in an interview on Channel Seven. The network has paid for the right to telecast the Games and it paid Stevens for the interview. The amount he received has been variously reported as $60,000, $100,000 and $130,000; whatever the actual amount might be, it is believed to have been considerably more than the appearance fee someone who was not a household name a month ago might otherwise have expected to receive.
The controversy caused by Thorpe's initial disqualification, and by the harshness of the no-false-start rule that mandated it, is something that Australia's Olympic officials, swimmers and their coaches will understandably want to put behind them. But the fact that the Australian television network with a direct commercial interest in the Athens Games did pay Craig Stevens for an interview has already shaped public attitudes, as Channel Seven found when it floated a proposal for Stevens to appear in television advertisements for traditional Olympic sponsors such as Qantas and Telstra. The sponsors did not like the idea because everyone would know that he had been paid.
Stevens has been under enormous pressure from many quarters since Thorpe's ill-fated heat, although notably not from Thorpe himself. At all times the world champion acknowledged that he had made a blunder and would have to accept the consequences. Others showed considerably less sense of perspective, including Prime Minister John Howard, who described the prospect of Thorpe not representing Australia in the 400 metres as "a real tragedy for the country". In this atmosphere it is perhaps not surprising that a television network might find it easy to conflate the national interest, its own commercial interest and the best interests of two young men. If the way that Ian Thorpe has regained his 400 metres berth appears less than honourable it is because of the way the network chose to act, not because a young man under more pressure than he deserved responded to the network's actions.


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With a 13-0 record, the girls varsity basketball team at St. Charles Borromeo School in Destrehan was named River Parishes Catholic League champions.
The team advanced to the city playoffs where they defeated St. Catherine of Siena School in the championship game. Members are: Kneeling (L-R) Reagan Wolfe, Caroline Julian, Pylar Zeringue, Molly Tassin and Isabella Brocato. Standing (L-R) Athletic Director Amanda Buchanan, Sara Louque, Morgan Nobile, Kourtney Weber, Taylor DeJean, Kyia Rubin, Allison Zoglio and Coach Deanna LeBlanc. Not pictured: Head Coaches ~ Nolan Louque and Tommy Julian
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Because Mark and Romy Samuels had jobs and insurance on their Gentilly home that was totaled by Hurricane Katrina's flooding, they got nothing from the Road Home.
They made too much money to get a low-income grant. Insurance covered the equity they had in the house, but not the larger costs estimated by the Road Home itself of rebuilding it. After fighting the program's appraisals and watching as friends in areas that didn't even flood got big grants, the parents of three small children had no choice but to sell their house.
"The whole program was not well thought-out," Romy Samuels said. "We thought we did everything right. We had insurance. And then you kick yourself, like maybe we shouldn't have had insurance. That program was there to help us get started, but it was more of a headache. I'm a fighter, but I was reduced to tears."
There are nearly 25,000 families like the Samuelses who got grants to rebuild their storm-damaged properties based on the property value, rather than the estimated cost of repairing the damage. The Road Home dictated that grants would be based on the smaller of those two amounts.
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- When "Hero" Became Part of the Job Description for Sandy Hook Elementary Teachers
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On Dec. 14, President Obama made a statement about the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in Newtown, Conn., saying, "As a country, we have been through this too many times."
When Sandy Hook Elementary School teacher Kaitlin Roig huddled with her first-grade students in a classroom bathroom as a shooter roamed the school halls, she crossed a professional boundary she might not have on any other day: She told the kids she loved them.
"I'm thinking that I have to almost be their parent," she told Diane Sawyer and ABC World News. "So I said to them, I said, 'I need you to know that I love you all very much and that it's going to be OK.' Because I thought that was the last thing they were ever going to hear. I thought we were all going to die."
"I don't know if that's OK ... [but] I wanted that to be one of the last things they heard, not the gunfire in the hallway," Roig added.
Roig's heroism is only one of the stories emerging about how Sandy Hook employees risked their lives – and in some cases, lost them – to protect their students. The Dec. 14 shooting claimed the lives of 20 children, the shooter's mother, the shooter himself, and six adults who worked at the school: Rachel Davino, behavioral therapist; Dawn Hochsprung, school principal; Anne Marie Murphy, special education teacher; Lauren Rouseau, teacher; Mary Sherlach, school psychologist; and Victoria Soto, teacher.
Hocksprung and Sherlock lost their lives while running head on toward the shooter in an attempt to stop him. And while details are still emerging, it appears Soto and Murphy each died while standing between the shooter and their students.
"I think there are a lot of people who want all the teachers to know how much it means to them how much they care about their children," Sawyer told Roig during their interview.


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Culinary Workers Union Local 226 appears to be committing voter registration fraud by hoodwinking noncitizen immigrants into registering to vote and then threatening them if they fail to cast their ill-gotten ballots illegally. People who have been lawfully admitted to permanent residence in the United States, that is, permanent residents or green card holders, do not have the right to vote in elections.
Glenn Cook of the Las Vegas Review-Journal reports that union members who barely speak English were made to sign voter registration forms without understanding what they were signing.
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Tuesday, January 14, 2014 from 7:00 PM to 7:45 PM (PST)
UC Berkeley's newly inaugurated tenth chancellor, Nicholas B. Dirks, will host a live 45-minute webcast for Cal alumni and Cal parents. Chancellor Dirks will address questions submitted in advance from these important constituencies while sharing his vision and priorities for the direction of the University. Tune in via YouTube Livestream to hear directly from the Chancellor as he discusses his focus regarding undergraduate education, the global university, and innovation in basic and applied research across the disciplines while expanding Berkeley's primary mission elements: teaching, research and public service.
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None. Your income tax is given to the IRS / US Government, state governments, and/or local governments, but certainly not the trustte?
I suggest you rethink your question... Administrators of trusts may be entitled to reasonable compensation for their services.
I have no idea, nor will anyone here, given the amount of information you've given us. What do you mean by case 10-11022? If that is some sort of a reference to a justanswers question, I'm not aware (I've not such powers).
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I have a trust. It is managed by a trustee who charges a fee. What is a reasonable fee for trust services?
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Australian household bank debt rose by a record $23 billion, or 5 per cent, in the December quarter of 2003.
That debt rose even as interest rates rose and housing prices in the two biggest cities stabilised.
Households reducing their equity through reverse mortgages helped the stock of household debt to the banks rise by more than $75 billion or 18 per cent last year, Reserve Bank figures show, increasing pressure on the bank's board to raise interest rates again.
Other new figures yesterday showed the stock of mortgage debt from all lenders was up by another 1.8 per cent in January to a record annual growth of 23.6 per cent. The monthly growth rate has slowed from a peak 2.1 per cent before the Reserve began raising rates in November, but only slightly.
However, most market economists believe the Reserve will leave rates on hold at next week's meeting. They say some heat has gone out of the housing market, and with the Australian dollar still close to its highest level in 15 years, another rate rise could intensify the pressures on exporters.
A Reuters survey of 22 financial institutions found only six predict that interest rates will rise next week. But almost all believe another rate rise will come by June, lifting standard bank mortgage rates to 7.32 per cent.
The survey found economists expect a bumper result next Wednesday when the Bureau of Statistics presents its estimate of economic growth in the December quarter. Most predict a quarterly growth rate of 1.4 per cent, which would lift annual growth over 2003 to 3.7 per cent, in line with average growth over the past decade.
But much of that growth has been financed by debt. At the end of 2003, yesterday's figures show, Australian households owed the banks $486 billion, twice as much as they owed five years earlier, and more than five times as much as the $89 billion they owed at the start of 1990.
Most of that growth has been in housing debt - $110 billion a decade ago, but $415 billion by the end of December. Most of that reflects the growth in housing prices, but households have also become more debt heavy.
Figures released this week confirmed the economy's strength, with the volume of construction work climbing by 4.9 per cent in the December quarter.
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So he decided to make that complaint known generally by blowing up the dam at the mouth of the 20th Century Fox lake.
The ceremony at the Nieuwe Kerk on dam Square should be a model of stately splendor.
"This was the first time the government has acknowledged public opinion," says Than Htut Aung, a leader of the dam opposition.
That broke the dam," Buchanan said, "and told Republicans it was okay to go with the third party this year.
A dam now in place on the Thai side of the line prevents the railway from being reconstructed in its entirety, he explains.
Kravkof suggested that they should dam this stream below the town.
Do you know, Jim, he actually believes that you are not building the dam for the farmers!
But just at this point the dam was the strongest, and, in fact, the least in danger.
After supper and a pipe in the steward's room Jim climbed the long road to the dam.
Now when Peter jumped out so suddenly, he had landed right at one end of the dam.
"water barrier," early 14c., probably from Old Norse dammr or Middle Dutch dam, both from Proto-Germanic *dammaz (cf. Old Frisian damm, German Damm), of unknown origin.
"animal mother," c.1300, variant of dame (q.v.), also originally used, like that word, for "lady, mother;" but meanings diverged into separate spellings by 16c.
late 15c., from dam (n.1). Related: Dammed; damming.
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A barrier against the passage of liquid or loose material, especially a rubber sheet used in dentistry to isolate one or more teeth from the rest of the mouth.
Dam (dām, däm), (Carl Peter) Henrik. 1895-1976.
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[Note: This post originally appeared in April 2006. But recent news stories–particularly on abortion, Iraq, immigration, and the presidential campaigns–made me think it was a topic worth revisiting.]
"I wish he would explain his explanation," wrote Lord Byron in response to the obscurantist poetry of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Like Byron, we often find ourselves unsure of why people provide the explanations they do; an explanation of the explanation is needed. In his new book "Why?" Columbia University scholar Charles Tilly attempts to illuminate why we explain the way we do, or as reviewer Malcolm Gladwell says, to "make sense of our reasons for giving reasons." In his intriguing review for The New Yorker, Gladwell outlines Tilly's four general categories of reasons:
1. Conventions — conventionally accepted explanations.
2. Stories — specific accounts of cause and effect that limit the number of actors and actions and elevate the personal over the institutional.
3. Codes — high-level conventions, formulas that invoke sometimes abstruse procedural rules and categories.
4. Technical accounts — stories informed by specialized knowledge and authority.
To illustrate Tilly's classification, Gladwell uses the "orgy of reason-giving" that followed Vice-President Dick Cheney's quail-hunting accident involving his friend Harry Whittington:
Allies of the Vice-President insisted that the media were making way too much of it. "Accidents happen," they said, relying on a convention. Cheney, in a subsequent interview, looked penitently into the camera and said, "The image of him falling is something I'll never be able to get out of my mind. I fired, and there's Harry falling. And it was, I'd have to say, one of the worst days of my life." Cheney told a story. Some of Cheney's critics, meanwhile, focused on whether he conformed to legal and ethical standards. Did he have a valid license? Was he too slow to notify the White House? They were interested in codes. Then came the response of hunting experts. They retold the narrative of Cheney's accident, using their specialized knowledge of hunting procedure. The Cheney party had three guns, and on a quail shoot, some of them said, you should never have more than two. Why did Whittington retrieve the downed bird? A dog should have done that. Had Cheney's shotgun been aimed more than thirty degrees from the ground, as it should have been? And what were they doing in the bush at five-thirty in the afternoon, when the light isn't nearly good enough for safe hunting? The experts gave a technical account.
As Gladwell notes, all four explanations are relational and reveal something about the person who uses them. Those who wanted to excuse Cheney used the disengagement offered by convention. The Vice President, wanting to convey concern and regret without admitting to procedural wrongdoing, chose to explain himself with a story. Cheney's critics desired to pin him to an absolute standard which comes from adherence to a code. For the hunting experts who wanted to display their singular expertise, the technical account provided the perfect form for an explanation.
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Looking For Life Universe
Ken Kovacs
Words about looking for other places in the universe that are developed. There is a study that gamma rays is a way of communicating between other worlds.
Some of the puzzles that people list for the public get indexed by the search engines (like Google). Some people find those puzzles and cannot figure out how to make a puzzle of their own. So this page now has the navigation sidebar.
There are now buttons on the puzzle so that you can get a clean page, in either HTML or PDF, that you can use your browser's print button to print. The PDF format allows the web site to know how large a printer page is, and the fonts are scaled to fill the page. The PDF takes awhile to generate. Don't panic!


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Project DescriptionSome architects have had good runs winning P/A design awards. Sometimes these serial winners go on to have long and illustrious careers, with their P/A Awards helping propel them into stardom, but other frequent awardees have been undeservedly forgotten. Clearly, their work appealed to a range of jurors over several years and had qualities that colleagues found compelling at the time. Why, then, do some architects succeed and others, equally talented, recede from view?
Hobart Betts, an architect living in Sag Harbor, N.Y., offers some insight. He won four P/A design awards in a seven-year period, from 1966 through 1972, for a series of compact houses and cottages in New York and Virginia. In each case, the design consisted of geometric forms, asymmetrical windows, and angled clerestories bringing daylight inside. Betts' minimalist designs distilled high Modernism down to its purest expression, and seen in the context of the late 1960s and early '70s, with the rise of countercultural and postmodern architecture, his work now seems refreshingly quiet and calm. By the time Postmodernism caught on in the mid 1970s, however, the elegant compositions of Hobart Betts may no longer have seemed progressive enough—progress is, after all, a subjective term—to win P/A Awards.
Nevertheless, some 40 years later, his work deserves to be rediscovered. Faced with the need to reduce the size of single-family houses and to minimize the footprint of buildings on the land, we would do well to emulate Hobart Betts' example: creating modest, modern structures that meet people's basic needs, beautifully.


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2011.70: Weighted projective spaces and iterated Thom spaces.
2011.70: Anthony Bahri, Matthias Franz and Nigel Ray (2011) Weighted projective spaces and iterated Thom spaces.
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For any (n+1)-dimensional weight vector chi of positive integers, the weighted projective space P(chi) is a projective toric variety, and has orbifold singularities in every case other than CP^n. We study the algebraic topology of P(chi), paying particular attention to its localisation at individual primes p. We identify certain p-primary weight vectors pi for which P(pi) is homeomorphic to an iterated Thom space over S^2, and discuss how any P(chi) may be reconstructed from its p-primary factors. We express Kawasaki's computations of the integral cohomology ring H^*(P(\chi);Z) in terms of iterated Thom isomorphisms, and recover Al Amrani's extension to complex K-theory. Our methods generalise to arbitrary complex oriented cohomology algebras E^*(P(chi)) and their dual homology coalgebras E_*(P(\chi)), as we demonstrate for complex cobordism theory, which is the universal example. In particular, we describe a fundamental class in Omega_{2n}^U(P(\chi)), which may be interpreted as a resolution of singularities.
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Sermon sharing: Timesaver or sin?
By Gerald L. Zelizer
On Thursday, Passover morning, my congregation will hear
my sermon contrasting whole vs. broken matzos. I will apply that metaphor to
highlight the significance of keeping our religion whole by using the mind and
heart to worship God as opposed to fragmented religion, which relies only on
the emotions.
I must admit, the idea for the metaphor is not mine, but
rather was lifted from the sermon of another colleague written in a published
book of best sermons.
Shame on me, you say?
Actually, in borrowing this idea, I am collecting a debt
owed to me. During the last High Holidays, I submitted my own original sermon,
"How To Be a Loser, Not A Survivor in Life," to an Internet site of sermons
for rabbis. A congregant of mine, who visited his daughter's synagogue on the
holidays, returned to laud an inspirational homily that her rabbi had delivered.
"Its subject?" I asked.
"How to be a loser, not a survivor in life," he answered.
Should clergy members be kneeling in their confessionals
begging for forgiveness for their sin of plagiarism? I think not, although some
churches feel otherwise:
But are ministers really stealing the sacred?
The ethics of preaching vary, although all clergy members
insist that verbatim quotes should be attributed. But Enoch Oglesby, who teaches
social ethics at Eden Theological Seminary in St. Louis, sees some exceptions.
Oglesby says that while deliberate deception is unethical, there are common
stories and concepts that contribute to the greater good and need not be attributed.
In the past, the clergy relied on books and seminars as
sources of sermon material. But now the growth of religious Internet sites (including
one called DesperatePreacher.com) has made sermons more accessible and speedier
to find. There are many positive reasons these sites, in addition to books and
seminars, help get the word of the Lord out.
PreachingToday.com, an organ of the prestigious Christianity
Today, was launched a little over two years ago. By January 2001, according
to its editor, Brian Larson, 12,512 clergy subscribed. That number has burgeoned
to more than 20,000 today. TorahFax, too, zaps sermons to rabbinical subscribers.
Those whose contributions are accepted for dispersal are
rewarded with a free subscription during a specified number of Sabbaths. Many
of the clergy members I spoke with mine these sources for ideas, which they
usually adapt and develop in their own style. So, in many cases they are not
plagiarizing by lifting passages verbatim and not attributing them to the authors.
For example, Rabbi James Michaels, of Flint, Mich., says
he will "not lift a passage wholesale, but allow a sermon to trigger his own
Similarly, Pastor Dennis McKinley of Landmark Baptist Church
in Carlsbad, N.M., told the Religion News Service, "You can go to a site like
Sermons.org and see what other men have done with the same subject or text.
I have even at times taken another preacher's major outline and then written
it to fit what the Lord is leading me to do."
Clergy members contribute to these sites intending for
their materials to be used by colleagues. They do this to assist fellow ministers
whose workweek routinely runs between 60 and 70 hours, leaving little time to
sit passively next to a computer and patiently wait for inspiration. In addition,
meager church budgets do not allow the clergy the luxury of research assistants
and librarians.
"With the multiple duties that a rabbi has, it is difficult
to be inspired and original 52 weeks of the year, and sometimes two to three
times each week," explains Rabbi Bernhard Presler, the owner of TorahFax, who
sees his product as a more timely version of the volumes of compiled sermons
sold in bookstores. "If our material sparks a rabbi to speak a better spiritual
message than if he did not have that material, then I believe it legitimate
for subscribers to be motivated by colleagues' insights."
Preaching is the inspiration of God channeled through the
human mind and mouth. While some pastors may be able to verbalize that divine
message clearer than others, the ultimate plagiarism is from God Herself.
Gerald L. Zelizer is rabbi of Neve Shalom, a Conservative
congregation serving the Metuchen-Edison, N.J., area. Zelizer is a member of
USA TODAY's board of contributors.


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"Tolerance is what keeps humanity together, I believe."
—Anne Willem Meijer, Member of the Dutch Resistance
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When the NOPD left the scene, Zack discreetly picked up the bag of coke and he and Addie headed toward Governor Nicholls.
He lives in Brooklyn with his wife, Amanda Hesser, and their children, Walker and Addie.
Zack and Addie, unsurprisingly, were thrilled to participate in this refined brand of post-Katrina tribalism.
During the day, Zack and Addie would clear Governor Nicholls Street of trash and felled tree limbs.
Back outside, Paddy and Addie discuss what happened with the frat boys.
Addie, I recommend my children to your care; my wife I recommend to yours, Constance.
The graft in New York had taken, and Addie was a vivid, an unmistakable flower.
Addie put the cups on the table for her father and herself, and then followed Hounshell, who bade the weaver good-night.
He was at sea really now as to which of the various views Addie herself took of it.
Yes, kiddie, I'm fond of you all, though I've lost Addie altogether through you.


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Air New Zealand Sends Singles On In-Flight Blind Dates
The airline partners with The Guardian for 'Blind Gate,' a twist on the classic dating game.
There's always a bit of nervous anticipation as you approach your seat on an airplane- who will you be sitting next to for the next several hours? You could get lucky and end up sitting next to your future best friend, or you could end up sitting next to someone who hasn't showered for days. It's a toss-up that can make a multi-hour flight either enjoyable or horrific, and it's something airlines are increasingly trying to experiment with– KLM's 'Meet & Seat' and Air Malaysia's 'MHBuddy' programs both let passengers pick seat mates based on social information.
Why not try to 'game' the seating situation? An airplane does provide passengers with ample opportunity to connect– and with no wi-fi on most international flights, a chance for device-free, undivided attention. Instead of thinking of flying time as 'dead time,' flying becomes another chance to network. Or, as Air New Zealand hopes, a chance to find a soul mate.
Created in partnership with The Guardian's 'Blind Date' section, Air New Zealand's 'Blind Gate' promotion is a dating game for the skies. 'Blind Gate' promotes the airline's route from London to Los Angeles and their unique 'Cuddle Class' offering, economy seating that folds into a 2-person 'Skycouch.' Applicants will be filtered through the Guardian, and on February 14th, 10 finalists will meet at Heathrow to play a compatibility game. Two winning couples, one gay and one straight, will immediately board a flight to London, at which point their 'first date' will commence.
The couples will be filmed in-the-air and on the ground for 3 days in Los Angeles, where they'll spend the weekend 'enjoy[ing] awesome experiences and challenges.' The experience will be heavily promoted by both Air New Zealand and The Guardian; Air New Zealand hopes the unusual marketing tactic will bring greater awareness to the London to Los Angeles route, and The Guardian will use the material for their Weekend supplement.
Can an airplane be more than just a vehicle to get passengers from A to Z? Does this latest twist on social seating have potential? At the very least, one can only hope that the footage will make its way into another entertaining Air New Zealand safety video.


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Prayer is easy. Doing something is hard. Let's be adults and realize that prayer does nothing more than make people feel good. Wouldn't a National Day of Actually DOING Something be more effective than a National Day of Prayer? [Read more…]
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Valemont, is not the manufacturer of the board. Are you talking to lunny at
VNC? Or actual manufacturer? Lunny buys at the agent said in "thousands" and
his suppliers can sale the board retail for 72$
Why you considering bord as not good idea? Also I think we can get a bit
commercial here, since its for the good of community after all.
-----Original Message-----
From: Jim Thompson [mailto:jim at netgate dot com]
Sent: Tuesday, March 06, 2007 7:01 AM
To: Alex M
Cc: 'Mono Dev List'; Monowall Support List
Subject: [m0n0wall-dev] Re: [m0n0wall] Support for hardware project
On Mar 5, 2007, at 4:49 PM, Alex M wrote:
> Good got one person on my side :-)
> I actually want this type of pricing for the project:
> 75 - Board
> 10- Power supply
> 15 - Enclosure
> Total: 100$ USD (could be less is retailers would go w/ lower margin)
> At than same time I want to negotiate w/ manufacturer so retailers
> would buy
> form them bulk at $50 per unit sale for 75 => margin 25 or 33%
> (Netgate and
> Ituner what do you think? [Sorry for no names :-P you should know me
> though])I will have to speak to you though so we would agree that
> you buy
> enough so manufacturer will give us that discount
I'd answer, but ... that would be commercial, and this is a non-
commercial list.
OK, the straight answer: we were already talking to them. (which is
why I pointed out that Valemont is not a great source for the board.0
> Next, why I also want to have mono-AP project is because AP/Bridge and
> router have different purposes, but I can stick with regular mono
> conversion
> and then push the AP project.
> As to the part that "krt" wrote... I don't really care about
> collective
> bargaining on Mini-PCI cards especially low level such as Intel-BG
> 2200 they
> too weak for enterprise use... go with 400-800mW cards.
800mW cards? Nobody makes one of those in "commercial" quantities.
(There may be some in a lab somewhere.) If you retort with
"ubiquiti" I will openly laugh. (You've been warned.)
We've just invested a lot of time (and sat on several hundred boards
while the FreeBSD developers got support in -CURRENT and
then MFC-ed into 6.2, after supplying them with a set of zero-margin
boards, so quite a bit of money) getting support for the ixp42x
Xscale going. Gateworks builds a single miniPCI board that is
approximately 'right' for a single-radio AP, so thats the current
Until I get that shipping, I'm not going to invest much more than
'talk' in getting the WP54 running.
You may wish to take a serious look at how much of m0n0wall you're
going to be able to squeeze into that 4MB flash on the WP54, and how
FreeBSD is going to run in 16MB of memory. Oh sure, you can put more
dram on the board, but it won't cost $75 then.
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Utah fishers?
Any Utah anglers on the board right now?
Well, I go to get out to the river today. What a beautiful day it was. Shiny, blue, and the midges were making them look up. Anyone else getting out right now?
went out today, hit the provo, the sun came out for about twenty min just enough time for a nice hatch and for me to get out some dries, it was pretty weet until my work called and i had to stop for 15 min. then the rain and snow came up with a nice strong wind...god i hate work they just send bad energy everywhere i go. :twisted:
Re: Utah fishers?
Well Curtis, it seems the bad weather backs my work load up so when its good I have to get caught up. I expect that soon more good days are ahead and then I will be free, I will keep you posted. Check out the thread I started about Henry's Lake. My place in I.P. is only a couple minutes from that water. Need to show me how to fish still water. The boat will be ready.
Re: Utah fishers?
I finally rained here ther other day so I was home bound. I am getting ready for another Striper / Largemouth Bass trip with the poppers!!!
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They'll dance anywhere.
But there's one place they'd like to dance forever. And they're headed there this week.
Dancers, led by Alyce Keaggy Brinkmann of Spring Grove, are traveling to New York City to perform at the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts.
They'll compete among the top dancers in the world, as part of the Youth America Grand Prix, the world's largest ballet scholarship student competition, awarding more than $250,000 annually in scholarships to leading dance schools worldwide.
"The girls have been training for quite some time," Brinkmann said. "To be accepted to go to New York is quite an accomplishment. I would say we hoped for it. I wouldn't say we expected it."
Brinkmann, who originally taught in Spring Grove before moving to the Center Academy of Dance in Deer Park, has been teaching for roughly 25 years. This is the first time she'll be taking a group of dancers to the competition.
Dancers advanced based on a regional semi-finals hosted March 1 in Chicago.
"We have some very strong classically trained dancers in the ensemble, and I think they saw their potential as aspiring young artists and their ability to work together as an ensemble," Brinkmann said.
Of the seven dancers taking part in the April 4-11 Grand Prix, three are from Spring Grove.
They include Brinkmann's daughter, 14-year-old Marlena, 15-year-old Francesca Morris and 16-year-old Victoria Stocker. Other dancers are sisters 12-year-old Faith and 18-year-old Grace Marshall of Lake Villa, 13-year-old Pargol Azadeh-Tehrany of Palatine and 17-year-old Miquella Young of Lake Zurich.
All intend to become professional dancers.
"That's the plan," said Morris, who began dancing at age 3. "I'd like to make it into the San Francisco ballet."
Morris, who is homeschooled, said she fell in love with ballet at a young age.
"Ballet is different. You get to act while you're on stage," she said.
The dancers will perform as one of 135 ensembles in the competition. They're doing a tarantella, an Italian flavored, fast-moving classical dance they'll perform with tambourines, Brinkmann said.
"It's a great way to display their classical training, but something with a lot of energy so the audience and judges can appreciate their training and get excited about the energy."
The dancers have been practicing daily.
"I probably see them more than my family," said Stocker, a sophomore at Richmond-Burton Community High School.
Dancing for 12 years, she said she naturally leaned toward ballet.
"I love how you can express all these different emotions through dance without having to talk or actually see the emotions," she said.
Marlena Brinkmann, an eighth-grader at Nippersink Middle School in Richmond, was born to dance, she said, following in her mother's footsteps at age 2.
"It's something to let go in," she said.
The dancers will have the opportunity to take master classes and train with leading instructors in the nation.
"They're really exposed to a lot of people who have the same love and same dedication as them, and I think it'll be very inspiring to them to know they're not alone,"Alyce Keaggy Brinkmann said.By JAMI KUNZER firstname.lastname@example.com


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Mental Health
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Hello I believe I can help you with your concern
I am sorry that you are feeling "meaningless," I can imagine how distressing this is for you
I think when the feeling of being "meaningless" causes you distress and impairs some of your daily functioning, then that is a time to seek help. I think since you asking for about this, may also be a sign to seek help
Would you care to discuss why you are feeling "meaningless?"
I just don't really see the point of life- you kill time distracting yourself with work, or family or school or some theorhetically fun diversion so you can use up resources the world doesn't have, and really do nothing but take up space. I guess my biological clock is ticking and since Ihave no kids and a husband who is not interested in sex and advanced degrees that seem to be good for nothing but holding up the wallpaper.
so I should go see a therpaist, huh?
I am sorry that you are going through this, I think seeing a therapist will help you. More specifically a Cognitive Behavioral Therapist (CBT) would be best for you. CBT therapy is designed to change your negative thought process into a more positive and plausible thought process to lessen your particular symptoms, which so far resemble a mild form of depression at this point.
May I ask you, for how long has your husband not been interested in sex?
I can't see what you are typing...
how do I change the view?
Can you still not see what I am typing?
only the last line
there's a big banner at the top but I can't seem to close it
I am not sure because my view is different then your view as I can see everything
I can write one line at a time to help you though if that works
ok I think I can scroll a bit it may just take me a moment longer to read
I am sorry, this sounds like a technical difficulty.
I will mention it to customer service after our chat is completed
ok - one line at atime wouldbe great
Would you like me to write what I wrote before again for you?
my husband had an acute MI in september 2012 and had been decreasingly uniterested in sex for the last few years. I thought it was
(I scrolled up most of what you wrote- CBT, right?)
Yes CBT that is correct
maybe with him it;s low T or he's dealing with stuff too
I know he's got baggage
(did I spell that right?)
yes you did
He could get a simple hormone test to see if it is biological
But if it is not, you can go to a couple's therapist
yeah, he goes for routine bloodwork tomorrow
and he would go to counseling if I asked.
I spent years in therapy and somehow I thought I would be better adjusted
by now
Have you tried CBT therapy before?
describe it- maybe
I will give an example of the most common CBT technique for you
This link may help you, it contains a technique I use with patients
called a thought record. It will help you keep track of any negative thoughts you have.
You put the negative thought on paper, the emotion accompanying, the
evidence to support it, and the evidence against it. Then I want you to come up
with an alternative thought for the situation (more positive and plausible). This
will help you change your way of thinking to be able to think more positive and
not automatically go to a negative type of thinking.
that sounds vaguely familiar- not the journal per se, but the change of perspective part
I really do try- and generally I can find my way out of a funk
The thought record is an important and valuable technique in CBT therapy
I guess I'm just emotionally exhausted
I also think you are disappointed too with where you are in life
I thought I would have had children by now
Have you told your husband this?
I had a chance once long ago and I made a choice I can't take back, now I am afraid that was my only chance
I have told him
And what was his response?
that whatever I need we can do
he's generally very supportive when he knows how to respond
So it sounds like he is willing to have children with you soon
he's not always sure how to rspnd though- he's a bit of a social misfit
oh yes. we can do IVF and he wants to be a Dad- with me
I knwo that
So that is a good thing isn't it?
I have had major helath issues too- every heard of POTS?
yes- my husband is a great guy- he's frustrating sometimes, but a great guy
Yes the heart rate disorder where your heart rate increases rapidly
mostly- your blood pressure doesn't stay stable so if you stand you fall
I have a variant of that plus endometriosis and hemicrania
Thats right, sorry I am not a cardiovascular expert, but I knew it involved heart rate and blood pressure
so lots of chronic heealth stuff but I was raised that its no excuse not to jsut keep going so I do
right. postural orthostatic tachycardia
And that is very commendable that you have pushed yourself so hard with these health issues
I guess so
does everyone do that?
I shoudl say doesn't everyone?
No, most people with chronic health issues give up
You did not, and that is something to be proud of
ok fair enough
I am trying to get three companies off the ground- 2 with my mom who always makes my world weirder
maybe that's part of it too, huh? too much at once?
How does she make your world weirder?
that's 10 years of therapy there
Okay, fair enough
I was just curious
she has her own emotional issues and doesn't ever want to deal or even acknoeldge them so when I talk to her about personal things she cant handle them
her S.O. is her best friend form college who I think is well, useless
Sounds like she adds a lot of stress to your life, on top of the stress of building up 3 companies.
so we have a detante that looks like happy mother-daughter form the outside and her side but to me looks like the cold war
yes. lots of stress
Do you think working with your mother like this is what is causing your stress/depressive symptoms?
I hate to say it, but I think it adds to them, yeah
Ihave trouble with other full time jobs though because I am sick so often
and I can work pretty much at my own time wiht her
sorry for all the typos, by the way
Its okay, this is chat I understand how typos can happen
Is there anyway you can lessen your contact with your mother?
thanks. :) I hope to get my company off the ground so I can work from my laptop anytime
I guess I just needed to vent. CBT therapy should help again, right?
It will definitely help you and will even give you some good coping strategies to deal with your mother
and its ok to come apart at the seems sometimes, right?
as long as I get back together...?
We all need to vent here and there, but if you bring it back together afterwards you will be fine
ok. thanks very much.
Try this technique, make up a weekly schedule and for each day put down 30 minutes for yourself
During that 30 minutes do something for you that you normally would not do, like read a chapter in a new book
This will help you take back control of your life and not feel so stressed, it will help you
Is there anything else I can do to assist you tonight?
I usually do just that- at night before bed I read.
Do something you normally do not do then, but something that you enjoy
is there really such a thing as an addictive personality? like you stop smoking and need to be entertained instead?
can't think of anything I enjoy anymore
but I will try
Well ponder it the for yourself
There is no such thing as an addictive personality per se, but there are individuals that are prone to addictions
There pleasure centers in the brain become overstimulated by their activities
and this causes them to repeat their behavior, and cause an addiction
can you be addicted to things like TV, stories, entertainment- or is that just escape mechanism?
You can be addicted to these things, but usually it is rare because TV, stories, and entertainment
do not cause chemical reactions in the brain that cause an addiction
But it has not been studied extensively yet
ok. cool. then I use books, tv and audiobooks as escape when I am grading papers, driving and such, right?
well, potentially, since you don't know me that well
Yes, that makes sense. Most likely you use these tools as an escape and as a distraction
(grr- I wish I could see what you are writing more easily- I am using Firefox broswer btw)
that's one less thing to worry about then
Maybe the firefox browser has issues, I am using Chrome
Yep you should not be worried about being addicted to these things
lol. avoiding internet exploder 10? me too
thanks. I feel better.
Oh yeah I avoid IE like the plague, lol.
That is good, I am glad I was able to help
one last questtion- should CBT help with PTSD?
I heard it would- my hubs has PTSD
Definitely! CBT is excellent for most mental health disorders including PTSD
thanks very much.
Anytime, I am glad that I was able to help. I can also recommend a good CBT book if you like to know more about it
yes please
one line though
I will try, I have two books in mind. I can put the links on here for you
links worked
Those books are great for depression and PTSD
Great, I am glad the links worked
I will check them out and look for a therapist locally.
thanks again.
I'll try to go to bed now. :)
I am glad that I was able to help you tonight
Have a good nights sleep
me too
If you need anything else please feel free to contact me at anytime
I will
I hope I provided you with excellent service tonight
yep. big smiely face
Thank you I truly appreciate the positive review