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The Reality Of Huckleberry Finn
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The Reality Of Huckleberry Finn
Huckleberry Finn is a book that contains elements of romantic and realistic fiction; even though it contains both these elements, it is a book on realistic fiction, and that is how it was written to be. Mark Twain used historical facts and data to make this story realistic, it used situations that would normally happen in the time the novel takes place in. Huckleberry Finn's father is a vagrant and a despicable person; his actions are written to how a man of that characteristic would act. Two more characters in this novel also act accordingly; the Duke and the Dauphin. A couple of crooks and frauds who are ill at heart and produce no good at all. A kind man Jim, a black slave at the beginning of this novel, goes through much and many people go through much for him. Of these characters I have just mentioned, Jim is the only considerate one, and the Duke and the Dauphin and Huckleberry Finn's father are evil.
Huckleberry Finn has no strong feelings for his father except that of resentment. His father abandoned him when he was a child and come backs to town once in a while. His father would beat Huck many times usually because he was drunk. This is not unusual for someone drunk to do if that person is a beater. I used to be scared of him all the time, he tanned me so much. (Twain, p. 25) Besides him beating Huck, his father has put fear into Huck, which is sad, but is realistic. Besides beating Huck, he also scolded him for trying to get an education; he though Huck was trying to become smarter than his father, and he wouldn't have that. You're educated, too, they say -- can read and write. You think you're better'n your father, now, don't you, because he can't? I'll take it out of you. (Twain, pg. 26) Not only is Huck's father mean and petty, he is also greedy. 'I've been in town two days, and I hain't heard nothing but about you bein' rich. I heard about it away down the river, too. That's why I come. You git me that money to-morrow -- I want it.'(Twain, pg. 27)
But Huck's father isn't the only greedy character in this play, there are two men that pose as the Duke and the Dauphin (who are obviously not really who they claim to be). These were two men that were frauds, they would scam people out of their money and move along to the next town as swiftly as possible. Occasionally they were, caught, which is quite realistic. 'Well, I'd been selling an article to take the tartar off the teeth -- and it does take it off, too, and generly the enamel along with it -- but I stayed about one night longer than I ought to, and was just in the act of sliding out when I ran across you on the trail this side of town, and you told me they were coming, and begged me to help you to get off. So I told you I was expecting trouble myself, and would scatter out with you.' One example of how these men are nobody but a couple of petty thieves. ' Well, I'd ben a-running' a little temperance revival thar 'bout a week, and was the pet of the women folks, big and little, for I was makin' it mighty warm for the rummies, I tell you, and takin' as much as five or six dollars a night -- ten cents a head, children and niggers free -- and business a-growin' all the time, when somehow or another a little report got around last night that I had a way of puttin' in my time with a private jug on the sly.' (Twain, pg. 161)
A very noble person does not get the respect he deserved Jim that is. Jim was a very brave, strong, courageous man, and the only person that truly recognizes him is Huck. There is one scene where Huck is questioned about a runaway slave. Most people would have given Jim away really quickly, but Huck's friendship with Jim, and that he knows how good a person he is does
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The U.S. trade deficit was narrower than forecast in March as record exports of services partly cushioned a drop in merchandise shipments, Commerce Department data showed Thursday.
The new figures follow a deficit of $1.1 billion the month before. At the same time, exports to the European Union and South Korea rose to records, while shipments to Germany were the highest since 2008.
Shortly afterwards, the USA administration slapped tariffs on Canadian exports of softwood lumber and complained about Canada's dairy sector, helping to sink the Canadian dollar to 14-month lows. As a result, Canada's trade surplus with the United States slipped to $3.97 billion from $4.51 billion in February.
The Trump administration is looking at trade as it seeks to boost annual economic growth to 4 percent.
China's imports and exports are expected to stabilise and improve in the near future, the Ministry of Commerce said in its quarterly report on trends in the country's foreign trade.
President Donald Trump is poised to renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement, which links Canada, Mexico and the United States, and has threatened to pull out unless the USA gets a favorable deal.
Oilers' Talbot receiving deserved attention with post-season performances
There was little argument from the Oilers and a sheepish Letestu skated directed to the penalty box without objection. We got a big one from Wagner there, and away we went". "We just didn't deliver and they found a way to capitalize".
According to Statistics Canada, total exports rose 3.8 percent to a record high of Can$47 billion in March as both volumes and prices increased.
Consumer goods exports also gained ground, climbing 6.8 per cent to $6.1 billion.
Imports from Mexico hit $28.1 billion, their highest on record, pushing the deficit with the southern neighbor to its highest level in almost 10 years.
In March, exports of goods and services fell 0.9 percent to $191.0 billion.
The trade deficit had been expected to widen to USD44.5 billion from the USD43.6 billion originally reported for the previous month.

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No word on whether he plans to breast feed.
Elton John and his partner David Furnish are "over the moon" at the prospect of becoming parents for a second time as their surrogate is pregnant again, according to a report.
The Rocket Man hit-maker and Furnish already have a son, Zachary Furnish-John, who was born in December, 2010 from the same surrogate.
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I for one think it's just great that we live in a day and age where gays can not only get married just like straight folks, but also hire surrogates to help them complete their fantasy of being just like straight folks. So much for gay pride, eh?


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Middle East
American Christian Zionism is pushing the U.S. government to support Israeli policies that our international friends find immoral and illegal.
We have come to believe that Christian Zionism underwrites theft of Palestinian land and oppresses Palestinian people, helps create the conditions for an explosion of violence, and pushes US policy in a destructive direction that violates our nation's commitment to universal human rights.
We write as evangelical Christians committed to Israel's security. We worry about your support for policies that violate biblical warnings about injustice and may lead to the destruction of Israel.
Recent analyses of the Arab Spring have questioned the efficacy of nonviolent resistance compared to armed struggle in ousting authoritarian regimes. The relatively expeditious victories of the nonviolent uprisings (not "revolutions," as some suggest) in Tunisia and Egypt stand in stark contrast to Libya, where a disparate amalgam of armed groups, guided politically by the Libyan Transitional National Council (TNC) and backed militarily by NATO, are on the verge of removing Moammar Gadhafi from power. As someone who has written extensively about civil resistance, notably in the Middle East, while at the same time working on the Libya portfolio within the State Department, I've been grappling with the meaning and significance of the Libyan revolution and its possible impact on the region.
First of all, like most people, including my State Department colleagues, as well as democrats and freedom fighters around the world, I am delighted that an especially odious and delusional Libyan dictator is getting the boot. I applaud the bravery and determination of the Libyan people, who have endured four decades of a despicable dictatorship and have made great sacrifices to arrive at this point. I hail the extensive planning that my U.S. government colleagues have undertaken over the past five months, in concert with Libyan and international partners, to support a post-Gadhafi transition process.
Won't it reduce our dependence on Middle Eastern oil? Won't somebody else develop the Alberta tar sands if the U.S. doesn't do it -- someone like China, perhaps?
I've been wrestling with many of these issues as I contemplate risking arrest as part of two weeks of sustained protest by leading environmentalists, climate scientists, and faith-based groups at the White House forth to pressure the Obama Administration to block the Keystone XL Pipeline. This pipeline project will connect Canadian tar sands -- containing the second largest and dirtiest oil reserves on the planet -- with the oil refineries in Texas.
Mark O. Hatfield's political witness shaped a whole generation of students, teachers, pastors, and social activists in the evangelical community and beyond. The voice of Christians today who plead for social justice and peaceful alternatives to war would not have emerged with its strength and clarity in the 1970s without his leadership. His death underscores the vacuum of such spiritually rooted voices uncompromising in their commitments to peace and justice within the cacophony political rhetoric today.
One of my life's greatest privileges and joys was to work as an assistant to Senator Mark O. Hatfield for nearly a decade, from 1968 to 1977. I saw first-hand what courageous leadership, combined with unswerving compassion and civility, looked like within the political life of that turbulent and formative era. Those experiences are shared in my book, Unexpected Destinations (Eerdmans).
An account in The New York Times by Ethan Bronner reports that Israeli women and West Bank Palestinian women and girls have once again broken Israeli laws. They have gone swimming in the Mediterranean Sea.
More than two dozen Israeli women invited Palestinian women and girls from the southern part of the West Bank of the Jordan River -- who are not normally allowed into Israel and have no access to the sea -- to go swimming with them. Under Israeli military occupation since 1967, according to Bronner, "most had never seen the sea before."
I prefer my revolutions to be simple: A corrupt dictator/tyrant, an oppressed population, inspired reformers who risk their lives, calls for democracy, waves of marchers in the streets, background music from Les Misérables. The stories from Tunis and Cairo were epochal. The Arab spring was in full bloom as calls for participatory government could be heard from every corner of the Middle East.
Then there was Syria. The Assad government has been infamous in its intolerance to dissent. It is a military regime whose 30-year leadership under Hafez al-Assad (1930-2000) established it as one of the most severe in the region. In 2,000, after the death of Hafez, the world was intrigued to see his second son -- Bashar al-Assad -- ascend the throne. Bashar was an ophthalmologist who had studied in London, but because of his older brother's death in a car accident in 1994, he was called to follow his father. Bashar speaks English and French fluently and has been as critical of the U.S. as he has been of Israel.
Similar to many of my Western counterparts, my first thoughts when I first heard about the attacks in Norway went to extreme Islamic terrorism. I had heard about the growing tensions in Scandinavia because of the increasing Muslim population and cultural shifts arising as a result. Thus, when I heard through a friend that a Norwegian school had been attacked, I assumed the attack to be a response from a Muslim terrorist group. I asked if it was al Qaeda or such other organization. My friend responded, "Probably." Thus, you can imagine my surprise when I saw the picture of the suspect who appeared very Scandinavian with fair skin and complexion.
According to the New York Times, the attacks in Oslo killed at least 92 people and the orchestrator left behind "a detailed manifesto outlining preparations and calling for Christian war to defend Europe against the threat of Muslim domination." If I had read that statement out of context, I would think one was talking about the Christian Crusades of the 12th century.
Around the world, religious freedom is under threat -- but people of faith continue to reach across divides.
Ten days after 9/11, Rais Bhuiyan, an immigrant from Bangladesh, was working at a gas station in Dallas, Texas when a man walked in with a gun. Thinking the store was being robbed, Bhuiyan opened the cash register
Ah the joy of watching movies in the summer! Of course, there are a number of summer blockbusters coming out that will woo crowds to the theaters, but with the sky-high prices of theater tickets these days, nobody will fault you for wanting to stay home and kick back with a rental. If you're looking for a film that will entertain and inspire you, consider adding some of these excellent films about social change to your online queue. If you have any other films to add to this list, please contribute your favorites in the comments section below. (To read more of my film reviews, check out my monthly column in Sojourners magazine.)
There is a light in me now, and it is taking over the darkness.
The scenes were stunning: Hundreds of demonstrators pouring across the fence between Syria and the Israeli occupied Golan Heights.


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Mind's Eye Program@ Guggenheim Museum: Visionaries
August 7 @ 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm
Mind's Eye Programs for Visitors Who Are Blind or Have Low Vision
This month we invite visitors who are blind or who have low vision to join us for a gallery experience of
Visionaries: Creating a Modern Guggenheim .
Visionaries focuses on the Guggenheim's formative collection created by six early patrons who helped to establish the Guggenheim Foundation's identity
as a forward-looking institution. This exploration will be conducted in verbal description, conversation, and with sensory methods.
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Tiddlers From Recipe mbi_publichttp://mbi.dirkjanswagerman.nl/recipes/mbi_public/tiddlers2016-09-22T17:20:16Zdirkjanhttp://mbi.dirkjanswagerman.nl/profiles/dirkjanAbout2016-09-22T17:20:16Z2016-09-22T17:20:16Zdirkjanhttp://mbi.dirkjanswagerman.nl/profiles/dirkjanmbi_public/About
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 Thinking Fast and Slow2015-01-10T05:11:24Z2015-01-10T02:42:28Zdirkjanhttp://mbi.dirkjanswagerman.nl/profiles/dirkjanthinkingfastandslow_public/Thinking Fast and Slow
 <<formTiddler [[NewBookTemplate]]>><data>{"Author":"Daniel Kahneman","Rating":"*****","ReadingCompleted":true}</data> Central theme in the book is the difference between two systems: * [[System 1]] operates automatically and quickly, with little or no effort and no sense of voluntary control. * [[System 2]] allocates attention to the effortful mental activities that demand it, including complex computations. The operations of System 2 are often associated with the subjective experience of agency, choice, and concentration. The effects of [[Priming]] is discussed. Priming can influence decisions in major ways. Decisions are also influence in a major way by how easy examples come to mind, e.g. [[Cognitive ease]], and its range is between "Easy" and "Strained." Examples that come 'easy' to mind, have a stronger influence on our decisions. Our minds have an habit to jump to conclusions based on [[System 1]]. Here are the most important ones: * [[Confirmation Bias]], we like to agree with people & statements presented to us * [[Halo effect]], we have a tendency to create a consistent overall impression of a person, company, brand, or product. * [[WYSIATI]], What You See Is All There is...: when presented a decision based on a limitted information set, [[System 1]] is tempted to decide rather than to elaborate. // ** "She knows nothing about this person's management skills. All she is going by is the halo effect from a good presentation." ** "Let's decorrelate errors by obtaining separate judgments on the issue before any discussion. We will get more information from ** independent assessments." ** "They made that big decision on the basis of a good report from one consultant. WYSIATI—what you see is all there is. They did not seem to realize how little information they had." ** "They didn't want more information that might spoil their story. WYSIATI" // When faced with a too difficult question, we used [[Substituting Questions]], e.g. we replace a complex question with a simpler one we can answer. We use the [[Affect Heuristic]] and overweight advantages and positive traits of people or projects we like. // * "Do we still remember the question we are trying to answer? Or have we substituted an easier one?" * The question we face is whether this candidate can succeed. The question we seem to answer is whether she interviews well. Let's not substitute." * "He likes the project, so he thinks its costs are low and its benefits are high. Nice example of the affect heuristic." //
 Affect Heuristic2015-01-10T05:10:22Z2015-01-10T05:05:08Zdirkjanhttp://mbi.dirkjanswagerman.nl/profiles/dirkjanthinkingfastandslow_public/Affect Heuristic
 The affect heuristic is a heuristic, a mental shortcut that allows people to make decisions and solve problems quickly and efficiently, in which current emotion—fear, pleasure, surprise, etc.—influences decisions. If their feelings towards an activity are positive, then people are more likely to judge the risks as low and the benefits high. On the other hand, if their feelings towards an activity are negative, they are more likely to perceive the risks as high and benefits low.
 Mental shotgun2015-01-10T05:02:56Z2015-01-10T05:02:56Zdirkjanhttp://mbi.dirkjanswagerman.nl/profiles/dirkjanthinkingfastandslow_public/Mental shotgun
 An intention of System 2 to answer a specific question or evaluate a particular attribute of the situation automatically triggers other computations, including basic assessments.
 Substituting Questions2015-01-10T05:01:17Z2015-01-10T04:57:04Zdirkjanhttp://mbi.dirkjanswagerman.nl/profiles/dirkjanthinkingfastandslow_public/Substituting Questions
 We generate intuitive opinions on complex matters. If a satisfactory answer to a hard question is not found quickly, [[System 1]] will find a related question that is easier and will answer it. I call the operation of answering one question in place of another substitution: * The ''target question'' is the assessment you intend to produce. * The ''heuristic question'' is the simpler question that you answer instead. |Target Question|Heuristic Question|h |How much would you contribute to save an endangered species?|How much emotion do I feel when I think of dying dolphins?| |How happy are you with your life these days?|What is my mood right now?| |How popular is the president right now?|How popular will the president be six months from now?| |How should financial advisers who prey on the elderly be punished?|How much anger do I feel when I think of financial predators?| |This woman is running for the primary. How far will she go in politics?|Does this woman look like a political winner?|
 WYSIATI2015-01-10T04:39:27Z2015-01-10T04:31:35Zdirkjanhttp://mbi.dirkjanswagerman.nl/profiles/dirkjanthinkingfastandslow_public/WYSIATI
 WYSIATI s an acronym for 'What You See Is All There Is'. WYSIATI facilitates the achievement of coherence and of the cognitive ease that causes us to accept a statement as true. It explains why we can think fast, and how we are able to make sense of partial information in a complex world. WYSIATI explains a diverse list of biases, e.g. ''Overconfidence'' * As the WYSIATI rule implies, neither the quantity nor the quality of the evidence counts for much in subjective confidence. The confidence that individuals have in their beliefs depends mostly on the quality of the story they can tell about what they see, even if they see little. We often fail to allow for the possibility that evidence that should be critical to our judgment is missing—what we see is all there is. Furthermore, our associative system tends to settle on a coherent pattern of activation and suppresses doubt and ambiguity. ''Framing effects'' * Different ways of presenting the same information often evoke different emotions. The statement that "the odds of survival one month after surgery are 90%" is more reassuring than the equivalent statement that "mortality within one month of surgery is 10%." Similarly, cold cuts described as "90% fat-free" are more attractive than when they are described as "10% fat." The equivalence of the alternative formulations is transparent, but an individual normally sees only one formulation, and what she sees is all there is. ''Base-rate neglect'' * In the description: //Steve is a very shy and withdrawn, invariably helpful but with little interest in people or in the world of reality. A meek and tidy soul, he has a need for order and structure, and a passion for detail." Is Steve more likely to be a librarian or a farmer// The personality description is salient and vivid, and although you surely know that there are more male farmers than male librarians, that statistical fact almost certainly did not come to your mind when you first considered the question. What you saw was all there was.
 Halo effect2015-01-10T04:21:36Z2015-01-10T04:21:36Zdirkjanhttp://mbi.dirkjanswagerman.nl/profiles/dirkjanthinkingfastandslow_public/Halo effect
 The halo effect is a cognitive bias in which an observer's overall impression of a person, company, brand, or product influences the observer's feelings and thoughts about that entity's character or properties. It was named by psychologist Edward Thorndike in reference to a person being perceived as having a halo. Subsequent researchers have studied it in relation to attractiveness and its bearing on the judicial and educational systems. The halo effect is a specific type of confirmation bias, wherein positive feelings in one area cause ambiguous or neutral traits to be viewed positively. Edward Thorndike originally coined the term referring only to people; however, its use has been greatly expanded especially in the area of brand marketing.
 Confirmation Bias2015-01-10T04:20:26Z2015-01-10T04:17:26Zdirkjanhttp://mbi.dirkjanswagerman.nl/profiles/dirkjanthinkingfastandslow_public/Confirmation Bias
 Confirmation bias, also called myside bias, is the tendency to search for, interpret, or recall information in a way that confirms one's beliefs or hypotheses. It is a type of cognitive bias and a systematic error of inductive reasoning. People display this bias when they gather or remember information selectively, or when they interpret it in a biased way. The effect is stronger for emotionally charged issues and for deeply entrenched beliefs. People also tend to interpret ambiguous evidence as supporting their existing position. Biased search, interpretation and memory have been invoked to explain attitude polarization (when a disagreement becomes more extreme even though the different parties are exposed to the same evidence), belief perseverance (when beliefs persist after the evidence for them is shown to be false), the irrational primacy effect (a greater reliance on information encountered early in a series) and illusory correlation (when people falsely perceive an association between two events or situations). !Examples When asked, "Is Sam friendly?" different instances of Sam's behavior will come to mind than would if you had been asked "Is Sam unfriendly?" A deliberate search for confirming evidence, known as positive test strategy, is also how [[System 2]] tests a hypothesis.
 The mere exposure effect2015-01-10T04:08:23Z2015-01-10T04:08:23Zdirkjanhttp://mbi.dirkjanswagerman.nl/profiles/dirkjanthinkingfastandslow_public/The mere exposure effect
 The mere-exposure effect is a psychological phenomenon by which people tend to develop a preference for things merely because they are familiar with them. In social psychology, this effect is sometimes called the familiarity principle. The effect has been demonstrated with many kinds of things, including words, Chinese characters, paintings, pictures of faces, geometric figures, and sounds.[1] In studies of interpersonal attraction, the more often a person is seen by someone, the more pleasing and likeable that person appears to be.
 Cognitive ease2015-01-10T04:08:08Z2015-01-10T03:53:09Zdirkjanhttp://mbi.dirkjanswagerman.nl/profiles/dirkjanthinkingfastandslow_public/Cognitive ease
 Cognitive ease and its range is between "Easy" and "Strained." ''Easy'' is a sign that things are going well—no threats, no major news, no need to redirect attention or mobilize effort. ''Strained'' indicates that a problem exists, which will require increased mobilization of [[System 2]]. Conversely, you experience cognitive strain. Cognitive strain is affected by both the current level of effort and the presence of unmet demands. The surprise is that a single dial of cognitive ease is connected to a large network of diverse inputs and outputs.    "Let's not dismiss their business plan just because the font makes it hard to read." "We must be inclined to believe it because it has been repeated so often, but let's think it through again." "Familiarity breeds liking. This is [[The mere exposure effect]]." "I'm in a very good mood today, and my System 2 is weaker than usual. I should be extra careful."
 Priming2015-01-10T03:17:04Z2015-01-10T03:17:04Zdirkjanhttp://mbi.dirkjanswagerman.nl/profiles/dirkjanthinkingfastandslow_public/Priming
 Priming is an implicit memory effect in which exposure to one stimulus influences a response to another stimulus. People are faster in deciding that a string of letters is a word when the word followed an associatively or semantically related word. For example, NURSE is recognized more quickly following DOCTOR than following BREAD. Various experiments supported the theory that activation spreading among related ideas was the best explanation for the facilitation observed in the lexical decision task. The priming paradigm provides excellent control over the effects of individual stimuli on cognitive processing and associated behavior because the same target stimuli can be presented with different primes. Thus differences in performance as a function of differences in priming stimuli must be attributed to the effect of the prime on the processing of the target stimulus. Priming can occur following perceptual, semantic, or conceptual stimulus repetition. For example, if a person reads a list of words including the word table, and is later asked to complete a word starting with tab, the probability that he or she will answer table is greater than if they are not primed. Another example is if people see an incomplete sketch they are unable to identify and they are shown more of the sketch until they recognize the picture, later they will identify the sketch at an earlier stage than was possible for them the first time. The effects of priming can be very salient and long lasting, even more so than simple recognition memory.] Unconscious priming effects can affect word choice on a word-stem completion test long after the words have been consciously forgotten.[ Priming works best when the two stimuli are in the same modality. For example visual priming works best with visual cues and verbal priming works best with verbal cues. But priming also occurs between modalities,] or between semantically related words such as "doctor" and "nurse".
 System 12015-01-10T03:11:21Z2015-01-10T03:04:38Zdirkjanhttp://mbi.dirkjanswagerman.nl/profiles/dirkjanthinkingfastandslow_public/System 1
 System 1 operates automatically and quickly, with little or no effort and no sense of voluntary control. System 1 examples: * Detect that one object is more distant than another. * Orient to the source of a sudden sound. * Complete the phrase "bread and…" * Make a "disgust face" when shown a horrible picture. * Detect hostility in a voice. * Answer to 2 + 2 = ? * Read words on large billboards. * Drive a car on an empty road. * Find a strong move in chess (if you are a chessmaster). * Understand simple sentences. * Recognize that a "meek and tidy soul with a passion for detail" resembles an occupational stereotype
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 System 2 allocates attention to the effortful mental activities that demand it, including complex computations. The operations of System 2 are often associated with the subjective experience of agency, choice, and concentration. System 2 have one feature in common: they require attention and are disrupted when attention is drawn away. Here are some examples: * Brace for the starter gun in a race. * Focus attention on the clowns in the circus. * Focus on the voice of a particular person in a crowded and noisy room. * Look for a woman with white hair. Search memory to identify a surprising sound. * Maintain a faster walking speed than is natural for you. * Monitor the appropriateness of your behavior in a social situation. * Count the occurrences of the letter a in a page of text. * Tell someone your phone number. * Park in a narrow space (for most people except garage attendants). * Compare two washing machines for overall value. * Fill out a tax form. * Check the validity of a complex logical argument
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Inside the Winchester Star this week get updates on the high school project and an obituary for Winchester native Glen Doherty, who was killed in Libya on Sept. 11, 2012.
Inside this week's The Winchester Star: Sept. 20, 2012:
· Could rare rabbits be living in Winchester? Read about it on page A2.
· Report on latest meeting on the new high school, as well as an update on the School District's search for seismic data about high school building's foundation, page A3.
· Candidates seeking to represent Winchester in the State House answer this week's Question of the Week, page A7.
· Police logs, page A11.
· Local arts and Winchester calendar of events, pages B10 and B12.
Only in print editions, check out:
· Your News photos, weekly on page A4.
· Library listings, weekly on page A2.
· Terry Marotta's weekly column "Vacationing in my Driveway" musings on summer, weekly on the Perspectives page, which is A12 this week.
· A progressive perspective on Voter ID laws, page B13.
· WinCAM cable schedule, this week on page B11.


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IF you're a film fan, you'll love this bizarre tribute to a century of cinema.
Loosely, very loosely, based on Edgar Allan Poe's gothic novel, Forkbeard Fantasy, has concocted a delicious cocktail of cinematic allusions that will gladden the heart of movie buffs everywhere.
Set in the crumbling Empire cinema, three ghoulish sisters are the usherettes, who chant from Macbeth while they zealously guard the ancient picture palace and its precious contents from a tomb-raider from the National Film Archive.
The rare Liquid Film he discovers oozes the ghost of famous film moments.
It's theatre of the absurd meets theatre of the grotesque in style and the excellent cast consists of brothers, Chris and Tim Britton, along with Ed Jobling, who is also responsible for the sound and film projections which includes clever animation.
If you saw The Purple Rose Of Cairo, where the characters step out from the screen on to the stage, you'll get the picture.
Brilliantly inventive, Penny Saunders' set is full of unexpected delights and the razor-sharp script and special effects will have you laughing aloud.
Well worth the price of a theatre ticket.
The Fall of the House of Usherettes is on at The Lowry until Saturday, November 19. Tickets are priced £10 -£12. Call 0870 111 2000.


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Fresh Water at Your Fingertips
Have you ever woken up to your early alarm clock, stumbled into the bathroom, turned on the shower, and stepped in just to be smacked in the face with cold water? Trust us…we've all been there before and it isn't pleasant!
Your water heater is considered a luxury, and when it stops working that's when you give us a call to install or repair your water heater. The average life of a water heater can be anywhere from eight to 12 years, but what if we told you that you could prolong the life of your system by doing routine maintenance?
Water Treatment
Treatment for drinking water production involves the removal of contaminants from raw water to produce water that is pure enough for human consumption without any short term or long term risk of any adverse health effect. Substances that are removed during the process of drinking water treatment include suspended solids, bacteria, algae,viruses, fungi, and minerals such as iron and manganese.
The processes involved in removing the contaminants include physical processes such as settling and filtration, chemical processes such as disinfection and coagulation and biological processes such as slow sand filtration.
Measures taken to ensure water quality not only relate to the treatment of the water, but to its conveyance and distribution after treatment. It is therefore common practice to have residual disinfectants in the treated water in order to kill any bacteriological contamination during distribution.
Water Softeners
The presence of certain metal ions like calcium and magnesium principally as bicarbonates, chlorides, and sulfates in water causes a variety of problems.
Limescale formation
Hard water leads to the buildup of limescale, which can foul plumbing, and promote galvanic corrosion. In industrial scale water softening plants, the effluent flow from the re-generation process can precipitate scale that can interfere with sewage systems.
Soap scum
The slippery feeling experienced when using soap with soft water occurs because soaps tend to bind to fats in the surface layers of skin, making soap molecules difficult to remove by simple dilution. In contrast, in hard-water areas the rinse water contains calcium or magnesium ions which form insoluble salts, effectively removing the residual soap from the skin but potentially leaving a coating of insoluble stearates on tub and shower surfaces, commonly called soap scum.
Which of these effects is considered more or less desirable varies from person to person, and those who dislike the sliminess and difficulty of washing off soap caused by soft water may harden the water by adding chemicals such as baking soda, calcium chloride or magnesium sulphate.
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Unlocking the power of keywords
Like the advent of TV starlets on the small screen, search engine optimisation (SEO) has risen in prominence as the internet advances onto every desktop, tablet and smart phone across the globe. All in the cause of appeasing the search engines, gods of the online world.
Google, the über god, dominates internet search – whatever users want to find, Google will call it up for them. Thus websites have to dance ever faster and perform ever smarter to satisfy Google's standards. SEO is all about giving Google what it wants. And let's not forget that other search engines like Yahoo and Bing are also picky casting agents.
Most business owners now know that they need SEO on their websites, but there is still a lot of misunderstanding about what this is. In this series of blog posts we break down the topic of SEO into plain English. We focus on keywords, quality content, links, website traffic and conveying authority in the market.
Here we look at the importance of using keywords on a website.
What is your audience looking for?
Understanding keywords starts with knowing what your audience is looking for. If they are going to be searching for the products, services or information you have on offer, what search terms will they use when they conduct a search online? These search terms are the keywords that you need to use.
For instance, if someone goes online to find a pizza delivery outlet, they might type 'pizza delivery' into the search bar. Or they could refine the search to 'fast pizza delivery Edenvale' or 'gluten-free pizzas'. If the pizza restaurant has incorporated these search terms into its website content, Google will be able to find it. In turn, if the keywords are missing from the website, it will go undiscovered.
You probably have a good understanding of what keywords you should use on your website, but some keyword research will help you to identify them more accurately. The more complex the topic, the more intricate the research.
Let's say you are a surgeon who specialises in a procedure called Nissen Fundoplication (repair of hiatus hernias which can cause severe heartburn). You'd like to appear on page 1 of Google search results but there are 50 other surgeons in the city who do the same thing, and there are only 10 positions available on page 1. So you drill down and find all the variations of search terms relating to the topic and you check out which ones are used the most and which ones give the most precise description of your service.
The research could show that there are 10 primary search terms you should be using. Since Google likes to keep things simple – one primary search term per page – this determines that you should create 10 different pages to accommodate the 10 search terms (which is where the architecture of your website starts to get interesting).
What is Google looking for?
The next step is how to use the keywords.
When the Google crawlers go hunting, they search through the headings and body text on each page. A good SEO writer will know where to place the keywords for maximum effect. The trick is to keep the content natural and ensure a good read. Use the keywords too often and not only will your text sound stilted and boring, but Google will reject your offering because of keyword stuffing.
Google also looks behind the scenes at the text that is loaded at the back end of the website, the part that readers don't see. Like the tags for images and the page descriptions. Did you know that every page on your website needs a unique URL (e.g. www.drfredsmith/medical-procedures/hiatus-hernia-repair)? If you use duplicate page URLs, you won't get a call back.
Then there's the page title – that's the bit that shows up as a heading on a search engine results page (SERP). It needs a keyword as well if you want it selected for display. The same applies to the meta description (sometimes called the meta tag) which is the snippet of text that appears under the page title.
The page titles and meta descriptions also have character limits (around 70 and 150 characters respectively, including spaces). And they should be catchy and concise – because you want users to pick you and not one of the other sites on the page.
It takes skill to write great content for a website and also incorporate keywords correctly. Many business owners and web developers still don't understand that SEO writing is a specialised copywriting technique. Which explains why so many companies still write their own web content, and why their web developers don't advise them against this. And why their websites don't rank well on Google.


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The elevation of Mansion View is 518 feet. Mansion View appears on the Florence U.S. Geological Survey Map. Lauderdale County is in the Central Time Zone (UTC -6 hours).
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Just got my agbay. Works woderfully! Except, I am wondering what the best way is to use it when you need to cut less than an inch? The blade doesn'tdrop down because of the feet. If I'm cutting a 1 inch layer in half, what is the best way to do it?
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i just either place the cake layer on the back of a cake pan to raise it up, or onto some cake boards.
I just wanted to add that you can place it on your turn table too.
thanks Peg! Is this what everyone else does too?


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For each calendar year beginning with 2004, the Chief Executive Officer of American International Group, Inc. ("AIG") shall be paid a bonus under this AIG Chief Executive Officer Annual Compensation Plan (the "Plan") based upon performance goals established for such year (each such year, a "Plan Year") by the Compensation Committee of the Board of Directors (such Committee, or any subcommittee thereof, the "Committee"). The performance goals for each Plan Year shall be selected no later than March 30 of each calendar year using one or more of the following criteria: return on equity; net income; increases in net income over one or more prior years; earnings per share; book value per share; increases in share value as measured by stock price performance; combined loss and expense ratio; and expansion of geographic and product markets. The maximum bonus for any Plan Year shall not exceed (i) $8,000,000 for the 2004 Plan Year, (ii) $9,000,000 for the 2005 Plan Year or (iii) $10,000,000 for the 2006 Plan Year and each Plan Year thereafter. The Committee shall have the authority to reduce (but not increase) any bonus earned by the Chief Executive Officer for any Plan Year.
For purposes of this Plan, Net Income shall mean AIG's net income for the calendar year as reflected in the financial statements of AIG and its consolidated subsidiaries for such year, but excluding realized and unrealized capital gains and losses, the effect of catastrophic losses for such period in excess of $100,000,000 and the effect of any changes in accounting principles that may be required by the Financial Accounting Standards Board subsequent to March 17, 2004. Catastrophic losses shall mean losses which would be deemed catastrophic under the standards established by the National Association of Insurance Commissioners. Return on Equity shall mean Net Income expressed as a percentage of common stockholders equity at the beginning of the calendar year, exclusive of unrealized appreciation or depreciation of investments, net of taxes.
The Board of Directors may from time to time alter, amend or terminate the Plan or any part thereof, provided that no alteration or amendment may be made without the approval of shareholders if such approval is required by Section 162(m) of the Internal Revenue Code to allow compensation payable hereunder to be tax deductible pursuant to such section.


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With over 190 sessions in the main agenda, PASS Summit is recognized as the conference for the best in SQL Server training. This year's conference sessions, spread across 6 tracks, include:
Download the PASS Summit 2012 mobile guide to create a personalized schedule; browse exhibitors, maps, general show info, and even after-hours activities; and automatically get the latest updates. You can also log in to the Schedule Builder to create your customized schedule or view the schedule in PDF format.
Having a hard time choosing which sessions to attend in PASS Summit 2012's incredible lineup? Check out these Expert Picks from some of PASS's Virtual Chapter leaders and other community experts.
Session presentations are now available to all attendees: Log in and click on the sessions you are interested in to download the presentations in PDF format.
* Note: Sessions and schedule subject to change.
Storing Columnstore Indexes (AD-321-S)Application & Database DevelopmentKalen Delaney (DB Best Technologies)
Table Variables and Temporary Tables – What You Need to Know (AD-320)Application & Database DevelopmentWayne Sheffield (SQL Solutions Group)
Taking MERGE Beyond the Basics (AD-202)Application & Database DevelopmentHugo Kornelis (JuTi Holding BV)
The Biggest Loser: Database Edition (AD-200)Application & Database DevelopmentAndrew Novick (Novick Software, Inc.)
Triggers: Born Evil or Misunderstood? (AD-100)Application & Database DevelopmentLouis Davidson (drsql.org)
TRY CATCH in a Nutshell (LT-102)Application & Database DevelopmentJulie Koesmarno (Microsoft)
T-SQL Application Compatibility in SQL Azure: Today and Tomorrow (AD-306-M)Application & Database DevelopmentUmachandar Jayachandran (Microsoft Corporation)Tobias Ternstrom (Microsoft)
T-SQL Tips and Tricks (AD-101-S)Application & Database DevelopmentItzik Ben-Gan (SolidQ)
Understanding Transaction Isolation Levels (AD-207)Application & Database DevelopmentRandy Knight (SQL Solutions Group)
Utility Database: Quick and Dirty Website to Monitor Performance (LT-102)Application & Database DevelopmentGabriel Villa (Datalere, LLC)


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Couple of years ago i tried KDE 4.x and it simply didn't work. Crashed a lot, simply missed painting windows some times ... didn't have apps ported to it. and i _had_ to go back to gnome.
Then came unity, it kept getting bette although i never could get used to the half hearted OSX emulation. Broke my normal workflows in a way that i had to change the workflow for the sake of the tool. Bad but livable.
Ever since Ubuntu 12,04 though unity just keeps crashing on me. Its actually visibly slow, dash takes for ever to come up.
The only other option i had was to go back to gnome. But gnome people are horribly re-designing everything for some imaginary person impossible to describe. I mean the justification for removing minimize was that they had two users who agreed with it. Talk about sample size here. Neway gnome was out of question.
I gave up so badly i that i considered switching back to Windows7 (which has gotten better every year btw) + cigwin. Horrible thought but still better than any other choices i had.
But then came the kde 4 and i am at home again. Fast, bugfree, mostly complete with few annoyances i can live with. The only complaint i have is its default theme is still somewaht short of being professional. A complaint i had since kde 2.0. But its ok.
Thanks team KDE for sticking up with the development and no matter how much I ranted about you in the past keep it up.


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Shekhawati Poly-yarn Limited has informed the share market (BSE/NSE) that the shares of its recent IPO will list on 12th Jan 2011. The IPO was open between 27th Dec 2010 to 29th Dec 2010. Its a fixed price issue of Rs 10.00 per share with a premium at Rs 20 per equity share i.e. Rs 30 per equity share. The company had entered into primary market with an Initial Public Offer (IPO) of Rs Rs. 36.00 Crore. Shekhawati Poly-yarn Limited was originally incorporated on November 15 1990. The company is a leading manufacturer of Polyester Texturised Yarn & Twisted Yarn.
Issue Detail:-
Issue Open : 27th Dec 2010 – 29th Dec 2010
Issue Type : Fixed Price Issue IPO
Issue Size : 12,000,000 Equity Shares of Rs 10 each
Issue Size : Rs 36.00 Crore
Face Value : Rs 10 Per Equity Share
Issue Price : Rs 30 Per Equity Share
Minimum Bid Quantity : 200 Shares (Rs. 6000 with 1 Lot)
Maximum Bid Quantity : 6600 Shares (Rs. 198000 with 33 Lot)
Listing At : BSE, NSE
The proceeds of the public issue are proposed to be utilized to acquire additional new 30 Twisting Machines and installation of new 30 Knitting Machines, to acquire Corporate office at an estimated cost of Rs. 325.00 lacs, to meet working capital requirements, to meet the Issue expenses.
The sole Book Running Lead Manager (BRLM) to the offer is Hem Securities Limited MUMBAI.
Registrar of the Issue : Sharex Dynamic (India) Pvt. Ltd.
Stay tuned to BelltheBull Blog for more on Shekhawati Poly-yarn Limited IPO!


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The news from Iraq today of scattered clashes between US/Coalition forces and armed crowds and Shia paramilitaries is the worst news to come out of Iraq for months.
Measured purely in the terms of American casualties, today's death toll was not as bad as some of the bloodiest days of the occupation. Seven US soldiers were killed in what appears to have been a ferocious running battle in Sadr City, the vast Shia slum in northeast Baghdad. Two other soldiers, one American and another Salvadoran, were killed in similar clashes in Kufa. Other outbreaks of similar violence seem to have spanned the entire country.
The difference here is the type of violence and who's fighting.
Even if the US occupation had been welcomed by most Iraqis, there almost certainly still would have been major car-bombings and other terrorist acts. It's just not that hard, in that part of the world, to find people willing to strike violent blows against the US, even at the expense of their own lives. And as we've seen from Madrid, one doesn't need widespread or even any support in a country to mount such attacks.
Meanwhile, almost all the paramilitary violence — the shootings and ambushes and roadside explosions — have come from the Sunni minority concentrated in the center of the country.
Violence from the Sunni areas has never been difficult to understand. They lost out on privileges and status when Saddam was overthrown. And the future looked even more bleak, because the eventual handover of authority to a democratically elected government all but insured the domination of the Shia majority which the Sunnis had been lording it over for decades if not centuries.
In other words, time was never on the side of the Sunni rejectionists. From the start their interests were in destabilizing and delegitimizing the occupation.
Time, however, was very much on the side of the Shia. From a cynical viewpoint, why not let their American and Sunni enemies bloody each other into exhaustion in the central Iraq and sit back and wait on the day — not too distant, certainly — when they would inherit the new Iraqi state?
A central question has always been, when would the Shia come off the sidelines? A number of Sunni attacks have been aimed at triggering just that. (For a prescient analysis of this dynamic see part one of TPM's interview with Joe Wilson from last September.)
Now, they seem to have come off the sidelines with a vengeance, though the particular trigger here seems to be factional rivalry within the Shia community.
In any case, it really amounts to the same thing. Part of the myopia of the Iraq is hunky-dory crowd was not to recognize — and in this case I'm talking really about political spinners in Washington, the policy types across the political spectrum understand this — that the key ethno-factional groupings in the country have been hanging back and strengthening themselves to have it out with each other after we depart. As I noted earlier with the Shia, they were in no rush: why not let us kill a lot of their Sunni opponents while they prepare for the real battles — either political or paramilitary — after we leave?
It will be critical to see, in the coming days, whether this is one spasm of violence (organized by the young firebrand Muqtada Al-Sadr in response to being shut out of the political process by the Americans) which can be brought under control or whether this is the first day of a new phase of violence or even uprising.
The reality is that the US doesn't have anywhere enough soldiers in the country to control the place if there's this sort of widespread violence on an on-going basis. That could quickly lead to a vicious cycle which will put a virtual end to reconstruction and prevent the coming into being of any entity for us to hand the place off to. In Jefferson's ugly phrase, we may end up holding the wolf by the ears.
That's my brief take — I'm drowning in several deadlines, so no more for now. For a more lengthy and far more knowledgable overview see Juan Cole's running coverage.


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AECOM Manager, Water / Wastewater Treatment in Calgary, Alberta
Business Line Water
Position Title Manager, Water / Wastewater Treatment
Canada - Alberta
Job Summary
Our Water business line is growing! AECOM is actively seeking a highly motivated Water /Wastewater Treatment Manager for employment in the Calgary, AB office. We are looking for a strategic ambitious leader to be based in Calgary and oversee the Calgary process group operations. Work overseeing a portfolio of private and public sector projects, including water resources, wastewater treatment and flood planning.
The responsibilities of this position include, but are not limited to:
Provide strong and confident leadership to the Calgary process team in the following areas: professional development, engagement and retention of employees within process group
Assigns employees to projects and ensures, directly and through subordinates, that technical work is completed in accordance with contract scope of work and budget, and to company, professional, quality, and legislative standards
Support in the delivery of projects to customers within the commercial, industrial and municipal water, and wastewater sectors
Attend and play an active role in business development meetings, professional associations and conferences, and other opportunities to interact with potential clients
Client relationship management for projects within the business unit; defining and continuously refining the future growth and direction of the team
Apply strategic insight and operational planning to ensure that the goals and objectives of the group are aligned with those at the Area and market sector levels
Work with the water group operations manager to support growing the group's business base and revenues
Responsible for achieving client expectations and assuring that AECOM's business objectives are met
Design of water and wastewater utilities and plants and lift and pump stations
Additional responsibilities will include client communication and management; assistance with proposal preparation; contract preparation and negotiation; coordination with regulatory agencies; project planning, budgeting, and scheduling
Minimum Requirements
Bachelor's Degree in Civil, Environmental or Chemical Engineering
13+ years of consulting experience, including 3 years in a supervisory role
P.Eng. registered in the province of Alberta
Keen business acumen coupled with strong business development experience
Solid technical skills in one of the practice areas of water and wastewater treatment for municipal and industrial plants
Exceptional client care and service delivery skills
Outstanding interpersonal and relationship building skills with a dedication to developing lasting client partnerships (internally and externally)
Maximizing employee engagement through fostering an inclusive and supportive team environment, implementing and supporting company-wide HR programs and initiatives as required
An energetic and enthusiastic coach and mentor driven by diverse and challenging projects, with an ability to recognize and develop talent
A strong personality with the ability to become a trusted advisor and a highly regarded/respected leader, and to garner client confidence in AECOM and its people by being a strong advocate of the AECOM core values
Proven strengths in becoming well integrated with a regional group and collaborating in a team environment to develop, execute and achieve strategic and operational plans
Comfort with a corporate structure and the associated administrative and reporting requirements
Experience leading and developing a team
Preferred Qualifications
20+ years of experience
High level communication skills
Experience working with Marketing teams in design of credential packages
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It was kind of funny kind of cute and it had lots of fun pictures.
I was going to keep it light today.
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And then we sat down to do homework.
Ben has never been one for coloring or writing or even drawing.
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I never really pushed it because it didn't seem necessary.
Judge me of you must, I am one who thinks that the more you force something on a kid, the less interest they are going to show.
He can write his name, has known his letters for as long as I can remember and he can count up to...well, he will count until you tell him to stop.
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I'm not saying he is behind or ahead or that he has hit every benchmark.
I'm saying that parenting scares the crap out of me.
He is in preschool 3 days a week and he does well.
I have the typical mom worries.
Is he playing with other kids, does he fit in, is he respectful, does he try, is he himself when we aren't around?
Does he have trouble focusing at school like he does from time to time here, is he always 5 steps ahead which makes it nearly impossible for him to concentrate on the step he is actually on while he is there?
I am lucky enough to have Fridays off of work so I get to stand outside of the window and watch him and how he acts and interacts while he is at school for a little portion of class one day a week.
He is just fine.
He doesn't throw around the attitude that he throws around at home, he doesn't cry out of frustration like he does when he works on homework with me.
He is just fine.
When we sat down to do homework tonight, he put his head dramatically on the table and told me that his homework was too hard tonight.
I can vouch for the fact that he has brought home MUCH more difficult homework and that this one should have taken about 60 seconds tops.
I don't know what it is about whining, but it works its way under my skin so fast that there is no longer any time between the whine and my reaction.
I used to be more calm.
Let me rephrase, I used to consistently talk to my kids more calmly.
I have never been calm and anxiety is a beast that I battle daily, but I used to be able to channel my inner (like way way inner) calm when I needed to reel him in.
The old me would have seen that head roll back and hear the whine that followed and I would get down on his level and talk.
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Just like that the moment is chaos, everyone is mad and there is a looming threat of me being in a terrible mood for the rest of the night.
The boys got over it.
They played toys, argued over garbage trucks, ate dinner, had a dance party while they brushed their teeth and went to bed.
I'm still not over it.
This is not the type of mom that I set out to be.
I have a fear of ruining my children.
It's sometimes irrational but it's mostly genuinely thought through.
I try to be conscious of how I speak to them, I try to apologize for my outbursts of yelling and I do my best to explain why stressful situations have escalated to that point instead of just barking orders.
I say please and thank you because I expect them to say please and thank you and I put the phone down when we are playing (unless I need to use it as a camera).
I am constantly aware of the fact that I need to be very careful of how critical I am of myself in front of them because of what that teaches them.
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If they always hear me being critical of myself, I fear that they will think I am that critical of them.
I'm afraid that they will be afraid to make mistakes.
I'm afraid of ruining them.
I heard myself yell tonight and I hated myself for it.
Not because it happened...but because it seems to be happening so much more lately.
I think part of my problem is how personally I take things.
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One of my favorite quotes by Peggy O'Mara goes like this:
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It's scary and beautiful and true.
It makes days that are good so much better and it makes nights like tonight so much harder.
I don't think any of us are the type of parent that we set out to be.
In some ways we are better.
We do more than we ever thought possible, we juggle schedules that we couldn't even fathom before we wore this title, we are more careful with choices than we ever were before and we don't do it because it is our job...we do it because it is just what we do.
We read books, we go on adventures, we make the goofiest faces to try and catch a smile on camera.
We save for vacations, we buy more toys than we ever thought we could afford and we would trade in any offer to socialize for a snuggle any day.
In some ways we are worse.
We yell more than we mean, we are busier than we set out to be and we don't always pay as much attention as we meant to.
We get frustrated over the mess, we end up with FAR more presents than we ever meant to buy and we look at the calendar and feel overwhelmed instead of grateful.
We criticize and we have high expectations and we don't relay those expectations very nicely.
We miss first steps, we roll our eyes when nap time is over and some nights the countdown until bedtime starts at 7:30 a.m.
I'm not the type of parent I set out to be.
Part of me is better and part of me is worse.
I pray with all of my might that I don't screw this up and I will undoubtedly internalize every flaw they have as one of my own until the day I die.
I know that nights like tonight will happen and I just need to remind myself that they hurt me far more than they hurt them and I need to grow from them.
Oh, and I need to look into hiring someone to sit and do homework with this kid because this just cannot happen every day.
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