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Chauncy and Edgar are Demons from() from Fratz.
As an after-effect[1] of The Breach, holes opened up() sending them through() the River of Fire to the Basement where they became measures of troublesomeness() and sturdiness().
While they are both strong, Chauncy is more powerful, but both can be harmed() by cold-forged iron. They can communicate with each other, but only Edgar has learned to communicate with other non-Demons(). (Chauncy hasn't even learned to hear, but he can gum and grok().)
Edgar and Chauncy discussed taking over() the Mansion but were imprisoned() in a bottle of "penalty wine" by Ghasts from the Basement Council, but escaped() during the Endless Day.
When the Council discussed the Elevator fire the council members were concerned about the fire damaging the bottle() and allowing Chauncy and Edgar to escape. Many other basement dwellers were also concerned() with a release, including Ploot as the pair had visited() the Hot Zone before being bottled.
The Operator sends an enchanted stream of fire() that passes through the bucket brigade putting out the Elevator fire and reaches() Rubrak. The tool held by Rubrak flys() into the bottle of penalty wine and knocks off a chip.
From the chip the wine bottle develops a leak(). After study() and discussion(), Chauncy takes() Edgar's horn and enlarge() the hole and the pair escape. The fracturing of the bottle was widely noticed() and caused aggravation().
Chauncy and Edgar resume() causing trouble, but with less enthusiasm(). Earlier that day Sylvester and Rosemary walked by the penalty wine bottle and Chauncy and Edgar recognized() Rosemary (both specifically, and as an interesting subject), and they now thought they could learn something new from disassembling() Rosemary.
While the mechanism is not described, the pair were directed() toward Rosemary by The Operator.
They meet() Rosemary in Izchak's shop. When Rosemary hears they want to disassemble both her and Sylvester to study the differences() she attacks Edgar with the Can-Opener and explains they the Wide World is real() and they have been hurting beings.
Rosemary tells them to leave and learn to interact with others(). When Edgar says the can't leave because of the Barrier Sylvester suggests they ask Myrrh to send them away. Chauncy requests Rosemary hit him() with the Can-Opener so he can understand the experience.
When they meet() Myrrh they ask to be sent to a new place, not home, because they have "become accustomed to possessing names"(). She leads them() to a Panegate and sends them away().
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Owen qualified to test for his green stripe belt in Taekwondo....he was sooo soo soo excited. I'm not going to lie, I was a bit nervous. I mean he had to kick, and break a board, for the first time EVER! Yep, no practice, just step up and go.
I watched one by one as the kids in front of him went...the first kid, yeah, it took him a few tries. The other 2-3 were pretty good with it, but knowing how timid O can be at times, I just knew he was going to tell them that he was good, and didn't need to try and kick a board.
Then...it was his turn....he jumped right on up, ran over, and then.....
Yep, that's right...my little karate kid did it perfectly! We are so proud of him...he completed all of his tests perfectly. He also had to do his 17 form moves, say words in Korean, and complete the 3 steps of sparring....and every single one, were perfect!
We will find out on Friday if he gets his green striped belt....and I have no doubt that he will!!
Way to go O!
Tuesday, October 29, 2013
Wordless Wednesday - Karate Kid
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7 comments:
- Masshole Mommy said...
At my boys dojo, they get their stripes that day and only have to be able to complete their current form to get their stripe.
- October 29, 2013 at 12:11 PM
- Karly Gomez said...
How cool, congratulations!
- October 29, 2013 at 1:01 PM
- Parent Club said...
We are a martial arts family too. Such a great sport for kids.
- October 29, 2013 at 1:35 PM
- stevebethere said...
Fantastic I am sure he will...good luck
Have a kicktastic week ;-0
- October 29, 2013 at 1:37 PM
- Stephanie said...
Such hard work! Well done!
- October 29, 2013 at 7:03 PM
- Judy Haughton-James said...
Wonderful! I hope he gets his green striped belt! He deserves it! Thanks for hosting.
- October 29, 2013 at 8:14 PM
- Susan Cook said...
That's awesome! Congrats! Karate is a great activity for kids :)
- October 30, 2013 at 7:15 AM
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First of all, i want to wish everyone a MERRY CHRISTMAS :]
I hope you guys are enjoying your christmas and that 2011
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Managing director general of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) Rajat M. Nag is confident that Asia will successfully weather the current financial crisis in less than two years. However, he cautions that developing countries need to ensure that their social expenditure does not come down as a result of the crisis. Nag spoke in an interview on the sidelines of the India Economic Summit organized by the World Economic Forum. Edited excerpts:
How does ADB see the current financial crisis? What are the immediate challenges?for Asia and India?
The world economy obviously has worsened considerably. We see 2008 to be a difficult year and 2009 to be worse. Asia has already been affected severely and China and India obviously cannot avoid (a downturn). Having said that, we also feel that Asia will come out of it sooner than the rest of the world. As a matter of fact, we believe that Asia will be the engine of growth (for the world) and within Asia, China and India will be the engines of growth. So overall, difficult times (are) ahead this year and next year. But the situation in Asia is more optimistic than many people think and I think there is bit of an over reaction. For the world as a whole, we see the growth rate to be around 3.7% (this year), (and) next year it may shave off probably 2%. Developing Asia (excluding Japan) may grow at around 7.5% this year and under 6% next year. Within that we see China growing at 9.7% this year and 8.5% next year. India similarly may grow at 7.5-7.8% this year and next year, probably, growth will slip to slightly over 6%. So the story that emerges in our mind is China, India and Asia will grow but grow at a lesser rate than we have seen in the past five years—but still it will be a healthy clip. But is that healthy clip healthy enough to contain the rising unemployment and the rising poverty? The answer is no. China and India need to grow almost at 7-8% just to keep pace with the rising population, to keep unemployment and poverty low. Yes, it is going to be a very difficult period, but we think in the next four-six quarters, Asia will move up, sooner than the rest of the world.
Positive note: ADB managing director general Rajat M. Nag says Asia will come out of the financial crisis sooner than the rest of the world. Harikrishna Katragadda / Mint
But if the US and the European Union are going into recession, then don't you think it is very optimistic to assume that Asia will recover in the next four quarters?
The markets of Europe and the US are certainly very important for Asia. Asia exports 60% of its output to G-3 (Japan, euro zone and the US). But what we are also seeing is an increase in domestic consumption, particularly in China. Domestic consumption is around 40% of GDP (gross domestic product) in China. Authorities in China are working towards getting that figure up. India's domestic consumption is higher at around 55% of the GDP, but still there is scope (for this to increase).
What we are saying is economic growth in China and Asia has to be consumption-driven than exports to the G-3. The other thing we should also look at is ways to increase trade within Asia. The US and Europe remain a very important market, no doubt. But Asia should be an important producer and consumer of its own output. So, Asia should be a destination for its own production.
But this is something futuristic. This cannot happen in four or six quarters.
No, it is not futuristic. This is happening. East Asia already trades 55% of its output within the region. India's trade with China, Japan and Asean (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) is increasing. That is the structural shift which will have to happen. Our forecasts are not based on any dramatic shift, (and) as you rightly said, it cannot happen overnight. But that is the basis of our saying that Asia certainly will come out of the crisis sooner.
The G-20 met recently. Do you agree that given the current scenario, we need a coordinated approach to solve the crisis?
I very strongly support the G-20 call for coordinated action. But coordinated does not have to be identical. For example, China, which has announced a $586 billion (about Rs28.7 trillion) fiscal stimulus, has more fiscal space than India. India can't have the fiscal stimulus of the same magnitude. But the approach has to be coordinated. It is very important that countries do not follow a beggar-thy-neibhour policy, be it on trade, fiscal stimulus or be it on monetary policy. But each country should design the programme to suit its needs.
But do you think India should also provide a fiscal stimulus to growth?
To the extent possible. But I think, for India, because of its fiscal deficit already being high, the important thing will be first to implement the projects and programmes which it has already approved.
It is very important to see that every rupee that is now being invested is productively employed. In India's case, I think the fiscal space is more constrained, but still there is some room.
After the dust settles, do you think the centre of financial power will shift more towards Asia? How should Asian countries prepare for such a change?
No doubt about it. You already saw that happening at the G-20 summit. China and India played a very important role. I am very pleased that the world looks at it that way. Not as one side losing power and the other side gaining power, but in a spirit of cooperation that was obvious in Washington. It is now very obvious that China, India and Brazil will have a greater seat at the table. How should Asia prepare for it? I think Asia should play its role not only as a growing economic power but also as a responsive economic power.
I am very pleased that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said that protectionism is not acceptable and we should be open. I would say it is a good time to restart Doha Round (of World Trade Organization talks).
What challenges have the current crisis brought to ADB and how is the bank preparing to face them?
For ADB, the most immediate challenge is our own capital base to be able to respond to the demands of the member countries. The most important thing for us is to be able to provide financial assistance to our countries. But simultaneously, we have to make sure that our AAA rating is never compromised. Our AAA rating requires us to maintain lending and borrowing constraints so that the market recognizes that we are attractive financially. The crisis has revealed that our capital base is not adequate to respond to the needs. The other point, in a way, for ADB and other institutions, is probably to have much more in-depth economic surveillance and monitoring, because we did not foresee it (the financial crisis) coming and it is fair for people to say why didn't you. Maybe we should have spent more effort in looking at the risks from the financial bubble which was building up elsewhere.
How will the current crisis affect the poor and millions living on the edge of poverty? What happens to the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) targets now?
I am really glad you raised it. The people who are below the poverty line did not really benefit from the boom but are now paying a price for the bust. They are paying the price because their income has been jeopardized, (and) they are getting laid off. But there is also the risk that governments might not be spending enough on the social expenditure, on schools, on health, on public food distribution, on school feeding programme, on social safety.
It is very important that governments keep a very strong focus on making sure that social expenditures are not curtailed. It is also very important that governments recognize that MDGs, off track in Asia on many scores, don't slip (further). That is a very big concern.


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Wine Wednesdays in Pajamas: Lobster Tails + Sauvignon Blanc/
It's the first Wednesday of the month and Kate + I are back to share with you our latest dinner + wine pairing. For those of you new to this venture, we are on an adventure through wines! I've always wanted to learn to appreciate darker wines, and Kate happens to have the knowledge and love of wines to guide me through the transition from sweet to dark. Every month we share a recipe, a wine, and our thoughts with all of you! Feel free to start at the beginning if you want to baby step with me, or you can just jump right in with whichever pairing strikes your fancy! If you try one of our pairings use #winewednesdaysinpjs so that we can find you on social media! Let's jump in!
For our second venture, we decided to follow up the Gewurztraminer with a Sauvignon Blanc. When we were planning this pairing we went back and forth about what food to pair it with because Sauvignon Blanc is a difficult wine to pair with many things, but it is known to be one of the few wines that pairs well with fish. When we realized that the day we had available to do our cooking was also Michael's birthday, we decided to make a birthday worthy dinner and prepare lobster tails! (An adventure I'm not soon likely to forget!)
For the wine, Kate + I decided to go with two different Sauvignon Blancs from two different countries to give us a better sampling of its flavor varieties. We chose from the two main countries that produce Sauvignon Blanc, France and New Zealand. An interesting fact about Sauvignon Blanc is that it's usually consumed young because it doesn't tend to benefit from aging.
Sauvignon Blanc flavors can range from grassy to more tropical depending on where it is grown. It can contain noticeable acidity, and flavors reminiscent of grass, green bell peppers, grapefruit, green apple, and florals (such as elderflower). The two wines we tried represented slightly different sides of the scale.
The first wine, Champteloup, was from France. With this wine I noticed notes of grassy flavors and a bit of an acidic bite, similar to lemons or tart green apples. It was the brighter of the two wines we tried with a smoother aftertaste. I think I liked this one of best of the two.
The second wine, The Loop, was from New Zealand. I had a more difficult time appreciating this wine because I tasted straight up green bell pepper, a food I'm not very fond of to begin with. The wine was smooth and crisp with a spicy bite at the end (potentially just because I don't like green bell peppers.) If you're a fan of green bell peppers, I think you would appreciate this wine much more than I did.
Kate Says: "Sauvignon Blanc is the weirdest grape to me because it can taste SO DIFFERENT! Words like "grassy," "grapefruit," "lemon," "herbaceous," "cut grass," "passion fruit," "lime," and even "green pepper" are used to describe Sauvignon Blancs. While I'll give this varietal points on...variety, it's not really my cup of tea. Do some studying and talk with your wine store employee! Sauvignon Blancs can be unpredictable...how does that "box of chocolates" expression go again? If I'm going to drink one, I stick with the French! The flavors just seem more elegant to me: crisp minerality and lemon+grassy notes."
Remember, these are just the flavors we noticed, and I'm still training my pallet. You should feel free to find your own flavors and aromas. We'd love to know what you taste when you try these wines!
Now that you know our thoughts on the wine, you should head over to Kate's blog to get all the details on our crazy lobster cooking experience! The way Kate describes food makes the recipe feel tangible, so you don't want to miss her post!
What are your thoughts on Sauvignon Blanc?
xoxo, Stacia
P.S. You should also check out this recipe for Thai Mango Curry Chicken from our first wine pairing adventure!
P.P.S. If you end up trying our pairing, the recipe, or the wines, Kate + I would love for you to share your thoughts with us on Instagram! Use #WineWednesdaysInPJs! You can find Kate: @_mrskateharris and me: @paperswallowevents.


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I have a class file with functions for opening several internal frames that can be called from any class. That way, I am able to open an internal frame by hitting a button inside an internal frame and a new frame comes onto the main desktop(not inside the already present internalframe). Anyaway, my problems is that sometimes I need to close both windows at the same time by clicking on button from inside one of the internal frames. And I don't know if a WindowListener will do that or how to if it does function that way. Can anyone help?
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hmm not so tough. subclass your desktop and just extend windowlistener in it. Then use your desktop as the window listener for your first internal window. Keep references to them both in your subclassed desktop. Then when the first one closes(and meets certain conditions if necessary) then call a close on the second one.
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text: Emergency response in the United States has a different perspective since the events of September 11, 2001. There is a renewed realization that preparation and planning for unforeseen events is critical and essential to success. While there has always been a need to cure the marine casualty when it occurs, now, by a process of evaluation and preparation, there exists the opportunity to prevent the event in some instances and minimize the consequences in most. An awareness of the importance of a prompt professional salvage response is beginning to permeate the public and regulatory perception. American Salvage Association The American Salvage Association represents a group of twelve of the leading professional salvage companies that have responded to the overwhelming majority of the most serious marine casualties that have occurred in the United States over the course of the past two decades. While remaining independent and competitive, the individual companies making up the Association recognize a common interest in promoting the value of salvage, more importantly, by sharing information and experience, the group can together improve the national salvage, marine environmental protection, wreck removal, and harbor clearance response capability. The American Salvage Association Mission Statement perhaps best describes the reason for its formation, its vision for goals to be attained and its value to the United States. The role of the American Salvage Association is to: • Ensure that our membership is committed to standards of readiness, conduct and performance that provide the nation an adequate salvage response. • Educate the general public as to the role of the marine salvor in protecting life, the environment and property from the consequences of the perils of water transportation. • Promote cooperation among our members to assure a most effective, successful response in major incidents. • Promote issues of salvage safety when working in a marine environment. • Promote training for today's response as well as anticipating and planning for the changes certain to evolve in the future. • Provide standard contracting options for salvage and wreck removal in order to eliminate negotiating delay and thereby promote prompt casualty response. • Promote preplanning among owners, underwriters, and regulatory agencies before the actual event. • Promote and encourage a regulatory framework that will result in prompt, effective response. • Promote communication and cooperation with all those potentially affected by the consequences of a marine casualty. • Promote information exchange and cooperation with other national and international trade associations and regulatory agencies for the benefit of transportation by water. Regulatory Requirements Even before the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, the United States Coast Guard had come to the conclusion that salvage response in the United States needed review and a renewed regulatory enforcement emphasis. Currently under consideration are proposed new regulations for salvage relating to oil tankers and barges under OPA-90. The American Salvage Association believes, and the rest of the world seems to agree, that while OPA-90 may not be perfect, it has gone a long way toward improving the maritime industry by recognizing the need for the most vigilant respect for the marine environment. To finally recognize that the existing salvage regulations effected by OPA-90 are not adequate is critical to future successful casualty response. The American Salvage Association further believes that: • The proposed regulations are a significant step in the right direction, that they should be implemented promptly and that the U.S. Coast Guard should find a means to extend the regulations to cover all vessels sailing within U.S. waters as bunkers represent at least as great a threat as oil cargoes when assessing potential environmental harm. Although extension to all commercial vessels would require additional legislation, it appears that a broader application of the regulations would not only abate potential environmental damage but would also spread the economic burden of the regulations. • The proposed regulations will reduce confusion, provide for planning, increase cooperation, speed response, and mandate an effective salvage. Further, the regulations will help vessel owners understand that salvage services are truly required to be listed in their Vessel Response Plans. • The proposed regulations would also reduce the need for state regulations in this same area and thereby avoid regional conflict in an industry that is clearly global in nature. Without these regulations and the Coast Guard's diligent enforcement of them, U.S. salvage capability will be left to decline. Safer vessels and better crews lead to fewer accidents but there will always be accidents (or worse) and, as a nation, we must not lose our capability to respond to them. The Coast Guard should be applauded for its effort to define a Resource Provider. In order to maintain an adequate number of experienced and trained personnel, modern equipment, adequate insurance, sufficient capital and just plain "know how", it is critically important that the American salvage industry be supported. The "planning guidelines" in previous regulations are becoming highly prescriptive "performance standards" in this proposal. Current regulations recognize that each casualty creates unique challenges specific to the particular incident. We believe that the U.S. Coast Guard has given the correct interpretation to the original standards and that the same interpretation should continue to be maintained in the development of the proposed regulations. We question the projected $100 million expenditure level during the first year of implementation. Mariners and salvors, in particular, have had to be resourceful and innovative in their approach to fiscal solutions. The ASA suggests a number closer to $35,000,000 will be more than sufficient during the first year with substantial annual reduction in cost thereafter once the initial capital improvements are made. The Incident Command Structure, as presently implemented, does not place proper value on salvage and on the important role of salvage operations to environmental protection. Neither does it adequately recognize salvage as a cost effective, proactive mitigation tool. The ASA understands the benefit that salvage can play in reducing the potential for pollution damage. The issue of responder immunity must be addressed, as, in our litigious prone society, the salvor may be reluctant to utilize all methods at his disposal to avoid catastrophic environmental damage if the procedure employed will result in some amount of environmental harm for which the salvor may be held liable. It is, as a result, imperative that responders providing salvage and marine firefighting resources shall, for the purpose of 33 U.S.C. 1321 (c) (4) (A), be considered as rendering such services consistent with the National Contingency Plan. A clear statement insuring salvors immunity in an environmental response is long overdue. Environmental Protection The principle element now driving marine salvage and the salvor's expanded role and economic opportunity are the impact of actual or threatened marine pollution. Who can better assess and cure the polluting source than the salvor? Clearly, no one! The salvor is usually first on scene. The salvor is responsible for keeping oil and other potential pollutants in the stricken ship, if possible. The salvor is responsible for patching the hole that allows the pollutant to escape. The salvor must be responsible for booming the ship and restricting the area of damage to the immediate vicinity of the vessel where possible. The salvor is responsible for removing the pollutant by lightering. The salvor takes action to close the barn door before the horse escapes while those involved with spill response only chase the horse down the road. The salvor is the principal protector of the marine environment. Good salvage is good pollution prevention. Port Security and Harbor Clearance Issues of port security and the safety of our navigable waters are being urgently reviewed in this time of terrorist concern. Marine salvage, firefighting, wreck removal and response in the event of terrorist use of vessels or their cargoes as vehicles of destruction are now important considerations. These and other terrorist targets including port facilities and infrastructure (bridges, channels, industrial terminals, pipelines, tunnels, etc.) and the need to protect environmentally sensitive areas, highlight the need for a capable harbor clearance capability. Harbor clearance, an aspect of port rehabilitation, entails the removal or reduction of vessels and other objects including bridges that have come to obstruct waterways and port facilities. The skills, capabilities and assets that are the salvor's stock-in-trade are the same skills, capabilities and assets that are required to respond to a significant harbor clearance requirement. Salvage and Wreck Removal The natural perils of marine transportation, the ever-present potential for human error and other factors make the total elimination of marine casualties impossible. Although serious accidents are now far fewer in number, shipping casualties and the resulting need for salvage services continue to occur as a result of mechanical breakdowns, groundings, collisions, fires, explosions, and structural failures. In extreme cases, where the condition of a stricken ship is beyond salvage, wreck removal operations will be employed to clear the hulk and provide access to the affected terminal or port facility. With today's larger ships, their heavier cargoes and greater bunker supplies, and the increasing transport of hazardous materials, the practical, technical, safety and financial challenges of salvage have increased significantly, as have the consequences of failure. Still, with America's infrastructure and today's capabilities including the availability of high horsepower tugs and supply boats, moored and dynamically positioned (DP) project support vessels, heavy-lift derrick barges, submersible transport vessels, work class and 'eyeball' remote operated vehicles (ROVs), proven surface and saturation diving capabilities, traditional "hot-tapping" and remote controlled offloading systems (ROLS), subsea oil heating systems, a greatly expanded oil pollution response capability (OSROs), etc., coupled with a highly trained workforce with experience gained here and abroad, the professional American salvor's ability to address the threat to ships, their cargoes and their ports of call, as well as the coastal and ocean environment is better than ever before; regulatory shortcomings and financial challenges notwithstanding. Firefighting No work in the marine field is more demanding and more dangerous than firefighting. Owing to the extreme conditions that can quickly overtake an affected vessel, her bunkers and cargo, the value of skilled and experienced salvors is apparent. Still, responding to shipboard fires are just one of a number of casualty types with which salvors are confronted on a recurring basis. Contrary to what some appear to think, shipboard firefighting should not be viewed as a separate, standalone service; it is an important part of a more complete marine salvage capability. When thinking about marine firefighting, no presumption should be made that the fire is the only challenge and that the affected vessel will be secure alongside a berth and easily accessible. The vessel will be underway, either offshore or in more congested waters near shore or in port. Or perhaps, she is at anchor. Even if she is alongside a berth, in the interest of the local population, the berth and its attendant facility, it may well be that the casualty should first be relocated to a safe anchorage or other remote location before full-scale firefighting begins. Is the casualty's crew still aboard? Have they initiated a response? Is her propulsion machinery operable? What tugs are available in the area? What caused the fire? Did she first suffer a collision and, if so, what structural damage was sustained? What other operations (lightering, bunkering, tank cleaning, etc.) were taking place at the time of the incident? Did she also suffer an explosion and, if so, what damage was sustained? What is her cargo (petroleum, bulk, container, other) and to what extent has it been affected? What is the condition of her tanks; are they inert? What is the condition of the inert system? Has there been a pollution incident? If not, what is the prospect for a pollution incident? What are the weather conditions; more important, what are the predictions? What actions have the authorities taken, and/or what requirements have they imposed? What response capability should be mobilized based upon the information available? What local resources are available? What resources should be dispatched from the salvor's own stores? What other assets need to be put on stand-by? Many of these questions appear to have nothing do with the fire; yet they have everything to do with the casualty. In fact, the fire is only a part, albeit a most dramatic part, of a larger marine operation, a marine salvage operation. Wreck Oil Removal Beyond present day casualties, there is a population of olds wrecks that remain scattered about our coasts. The environmental threats posed by the cargo and/or bunker oils remaining aboard these wrecks, and the action that must be taken to deal with the resulting pollution threats has, for the most part, been ignored. Now, in light of the need to provide for a heightened level of marine environmental protection, and with the benefit of today's salvage and oil extraction capabilities, the threat to the ocean and coastal environment posed by aging shipwrecks should be addressed. The pollutants in these wrecks pose serious environmental risks. Degradation of the wrecks' hulls and tank plating ultimately will cause the oil tanks to fail, allowing the oil to escape. Even today, a number of these wrecks leak oil into the environment and others should be recognized as environmental disasters waiting to happen. The cost to the public of removing the oil from the wrecks now, while it is still contained, is significantly less than the costs will be if the oil is allowed to escape into the environment with the attendant destruction of natural resources, aquatic mammals and fishery habitats, and significant economic losses suffered by seaside communities. Once again, the professional American salvor's ability to address this threat is better than ever before Recognizing the emphasis on expanded regulatory control and public interest in any significant emergency event, the American Salvage Association is maximizing its efforts to integrate its membership of salvors into the expanded community of responders. This expanded community, consisting of government, business, environmentalists, industry, the media, spill responders, underwriters and others must work together to create effective security and response systems. To contribute to this new expanded response capability in a coordinated and effective manner is a primary ASA goal. The American Salvage Association and its members are committed to providing the United States with the best response capability available in the maritime world today.


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Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Kingsley Chiedu Moghalu, has announced that he is leaving the bank after his completion of a five-year term. Kingsley Moghalu was in charge of Financial System Stability at the central bank for the majority of his tenure.
In a statement, Mr. Moghalu said that he saw his tour of duty at the CBN as a great opportunity to serve Nigeria.
"I would like to let you know that I will be moving on to other endeavors", he stated.
"I joined the CBN in November 2009 after a 17-year career in the United Nations and later founding and heading Sogato Strategies S.A., a global strategy and risk advisory firm in Geneva, Switzerland. For most of my five years at CBN I was Deputy Governor for Financial System Stability, and for a few months served as Deputy Governor for Operations. I was a member of the Bank's Board of Directors of the CBN, the Monetary Policy Committee, and the Committee of Governors, and served as chairman or member of the board of the Nigerian Export-Import Bank (NEXIM), the Financial Institutions Training Centre (FITC), the Securities and Exchange Commission of Nigeria (SEC), and the Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria (AMCON)."
"It was a great honor and privilege to have served my country in such an important position."
"I look forward to the future with confidence and thanksgiving to God, and trust that new vistas and horizons lie ahead. For now, after a tumultuous five years in which the Central Bank of Nigeria played a defining role in reshaping Nigeria's financial industry, stabilizing Nigeria's banking sector, and maintaining monetary and price stability, I will take some rest and spend more time with my family.
"In that relaxed mode, I will review the various options and possibilities that are being presented to me, and then make a decision on precise future directions", Kingsley Moghalu stated.
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The Toffees have wasted no time in enhancing their squad this summer with Jordan Pickford and Klaassen already signed up as Koeman looks to keep moving in the right direction next season.
Klaassen, who captained Ajax for two seasons, arrives on Merseyside for a fee of £23.6milllion and has agreed a five-year contract.
The 24-year-old is a product of the famous Ajax academy and made 163 appearances for the Dutch giants, scoring 49 times and winning three Eredivisie titles.
Koeman feels Klaassen's hardworking attitude will help him to settle quickly with Everton and has hailed his leadership qualities.
"He is a player who is only 24 but has a lot of experience and is a leader on the pitch. He has already captained Ajax for two seasons and that shows you the type of person he is," Koeman said.
"He is hardworking, likes to press and, of course, will give us more creativity and goals."
Everton will be attempting to fight on a number of fronts next season and punters using their free bet may want to back the Toffees to mount a serious challenge for a spot in the top-four next term.


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O God, the protector of all who trust in you, without whom nothing is strong, nothing is holy: Increase and multiply upon us your mercy; that, with you as our ruler and guide, we may so pass through things temporal, that we lose not the things eternal; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.
Now when the LORD was about to take Elijah up to heaven by a whirlwind, Elijah and Elisha were on their way from Gilgal. Elijah said to Elisha, "Stay here; for the LORD has sent me as far as Bethel." But Elisha said, "As the LORD lives, and as you yourself live, I will not leave you." So they went down to Bethel. The company of prophets who were in Bethel came out to Elisha, and said to him, "Do you know that today the LORD will take your master away from you?" And he said, "Yes, I know; keep silent."
Elijah said to him, "Elisha, stay here; for the LORD has sent me to Jericho." But he said, "As the LORD lives, and as you yourself live, I will not leave you." So they came to Jericho. The company of prophets who were at Jericho drew near to Elisha, and said to him, "Do you know that today the LORD will take your master away from you?" And he answered, "Yes, I know; be silent."
Then Elijah said to him, "Stay here; for the LORD has sent me to the Jordan." But he said, "As the LORD lives, and as you yourself live, I will not leave you." So the two of them went on. Fifty men of the company of prophets also went, and stood at some distance from them, as they both were standing by the Jordan. Then Elijah took his mantle and rolled it up, and struck the water; the water was parted to the one side and to the other, until the two of them crossed on dry ground.
When they had crossed, Elijah said to Elisha, "Tell me what I may do for you, before I am taken from you." Elisha said, "Please let me inherit a double share of your spirit." He responded, "You have asked a hard thing; yet, if you see me as I am being taken from you, it will be granted you; if not, it will not." As they continued walking and talking, a chariot of fire and horses of fire separated the two of them, and Elijah ascended in a whirlwind into heaven. Elisha kept watching and crying out, "Father, father! The chariots of Israel and its horsemen!" But when he could no longer see him, he grasped his own clothes and tore them in two pieces.
He picked up the mantle of Elijah that had fallen from him, and went back and stood on the bank of the Jordan. He took the mantle of Elijah that had fallen from him, and struck the water, saying, "Where is the LORD, the God of Elijah?" When he had struck the water, the water was parted to the one side and to the other, and Elisha went over.
When the company of prophets who were at Jericho saw him at a distance, they declared, "The spirit of Elijah rests on Elisha." They came to meet him and bowed to the ground before him.
I, Paul, the prisoner in the Lord, beg you to lead a life worthy of the calling to which you have been called, with all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love, making every effort to maintain the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace. There is one body and one Spirit, just as you were called to the one hope of your calling, one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and Father of all, who is above all and through all and in all.
But each of us was given grace according to the measure of Christ's gift. The gifts he gave were that some would be apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, some pastors and teachers, to equip the saints for the work of ministry, for building up the body of Christ, until all of us come to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to maturity, to the measure of the full stature of Christ. We must no longer be children, tossed to and fro and blown about by every wind of doctrine, by people's trickery, by their craftiness in deceitful scheming. But speaking the truth in love, we must grow up in every way into him who is the head, into Christ, from whom the whole body, joined and knit together by every ligament with which it is equipped, as each part is working properly, promotes the body's growth in building itself up in love.
Immediately after the feeding of the five thousand, Jesus made his disciples get into the boat and go on ahead to the other side, to Bethsaida, while he dismissed the crowd. After saying farewell to them, he went up on the mountain to pray.
When evening came, the boat was out on the sea, and he was alone on the land. When he saw that they were straining at the oars against an adverse wind, he came towards them early in the morning, walking on the sea. He intended to pass them by. But when they saw him walking on the sea, they thought it was a ghost and cried out; for they all saw him and were terrified. But immediately he spoke to them and said, "Take heart, it is I; do not be afraid." Then he got into the boat with them and the wind ceased. And they were utterly astounded, for they did not understand about the loaves, but their hearts were hardened.
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We have been invited by the Spokane International Film Festival to be part of their closing day festivities. Here's what I know so far. Saturday, February 9, 2013 2pm – filmmaker panel discussion 4:30pm – V3 world premiere screening 9pm – closing night party More details should be available when the festival's website goes live this next weekend. This is a festival screening so I don't control any of the tickets and can't guarantee how many people we can get into this show. So far, I believe that Zepha, Todd, and myself plan on attending. Anyone else from our cast/crew who wants to go is welcome to also participate in the filmmaker panel discussion. It's an honor to be selected for closing day and everyone involved should be proud of that accomplishment. And I know that most people can't make a drive to Spokane just to see a movie so details on a local Ellensburg screening will be announced soon! Jon
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- Does Hurricane Harvey support socialism in Texas?—Wednesday, August 30th, 2017
Just before midnight on Sunday, while Hurricane Harvey was still raging through Texas and Louisiana, an acquaintance posted this on Facebook:
Everyone OK with using socialism to help clean up Harvey, or should we let the free market take care of it. Asking for a friend.
This is the essence of socialism: a protection racket on behalf of national-level socialist policies. Government takes resources from Peter and from Paul. Paul undergoes a disaster. The left asks, during a disaster, would Paul rather rely on his own resources and on whatever Peter can offer, or on the government? They ask this knowing that the government already has both Paul's resources and Peter's. The question is corrupt on its face. It reveals socialism as, literally, mafia-style government.
The non-corrupt formulation would be, would you rather we gave you and Peter all of your resources back, and let you keep them all in the future, and rely on voluntary assistance during this disaster? Or would you prefer that we provide assistance using whatever is left after we pay all the bureaucrats managing your assistance, after we buy things you don't need because we don't know your needs as well as you do, after we ignore corruption because it isn't our money, after all, after we tell Peter to go away because he doesn't have the right permits?
The free market is people working together without force. As a Texan1, I think it'd be a great idea to let Texans and anyone else who wants to provide assistance freely opt out of the federal taxes that pay for what the left is here calling socialism. Charity at the point of a gun is not charity. It is corruption to take taxes from people at the threat of prison and call it charity.
- The Ultimate Government Accountability Reform—Wednesday, August 23rd, 2017
Californians want one. Texans think they can get one at any time, but would prefer California go first. Glenn Reynolds writes that only losers want one.
I think it would make the ultimate accountability reform.
What I'm talking about is state-level secession. It should be very difficult to secede, and it should require a supermajority vote of the state's citizens, but having a clear, reasonable process in place for secession would make for the ultimate heads-up not just to politicians but to voters in the rest of the country that the population of entire state thinks the national government is wronging them, and badly.
This is not something that's going to happen now. California isn't going to leave over Trump. California needs the possibility that the federal government will bail them out in order to keep getting loans to pay off their spending. The California secession referendum could hit 100% and the California courts will still find a way to keep it from happening. And Texas doesn't want to leave—we still think the constitution can work, if we give it a chance.
But having a clear and reasonable secession process in place would also elevate the discussion of why the people of a state want to secede, and that would, in turn, influence the behavior of federal politicians to the better. President Trump will tell you this: when partners in an enterprise have the option of leaving the enterprise, the rest of the partners have an incentive to please the disappointed parties.
To deal, in other words.
I suggest a constitutional amendment requiring something along the lines of:
- A two-thirds supermajority of the state's legislature, signed by the governor.
- A waiting period of six to twelve months, followed by:
- A two-thirds supermajority referendum.
Step one will require that the reasons for secession be part of the state's regular election process. The state legislature can start the process on their own, or they might add additional requirements, such as an initial referendum to gauge the will of the voters.
Step two will give the state and the national government an opportunity to both fix their differences, and/or to decide on the nature of the break.
Step three will ensure that the vast majority of the state's voters desire a break with the national government. You want a supermajority so that next year the majority still agrees.
- A direct line to the Charlottesville riots… from 1938—Wednesday, August 16th, 2017
The correct response to the Charlottesville riots is to arrest the perpetrators, give them a fair trial, and put the guilty in jail.
It is the same as the correct response to the violent rioters in cities across the United States since last year's election, and the violent rioters who "protest" when a speaker the left disagrees with is invited to speak at a college.
Police have literally been asked to stand down in some cases and let the rioters attack and destroy, as in Baltimore last year.
That we haven't followed the correct response in those cases is why we have the Charlottesville riots.1 There is a direct line from the previous riots to this one. It runs from Seattle through Tucson, Dallas, and through every other violent left-wing fascist rally since the election last year. The direct line is the unwillingness of the authorities to arrest, charge, and imprison violent thugs rather than just make token statements and maybe arrest a handful.
Leftist "protestors" have been burning, stoning, beating people up, and even killing police officers for almost a year. The press hasn't tied these rioters to the violent rhetoric of leftist politicians; they've gone out of their way to exonerate the actual rioters. So take it with a grain of salt that supposedly-right violence2 now has "a direct line to the president".
I have often said that we shouldn't have laws we aren't willing to enforce; conversely, we should enforce the laws we have unless we are willing to repeal them. I can see no reason to repeal the laws against assault, arson, and murder.
When violent thugs see that they can get away with violence by coloring it as protest, it's no surprise that you get more violent riots.
- Community health acts to improve Obamacare—Wednesday, August 9th, 2017
For years, Republicans have campaigned on one thing: the insane damage that the Unaffordable Care Act is causing to health care. The insane prices that people who don't get their coverage from employers have to pay for health coverage, due to Obamacare.
And they failed to pass reform, partly because they tried to pass a huge complicated mess that did not state clearly what the benefits were. Politicians were able to hide behind platitudes, ignoring the real issue: the ACA has vastly increased the cost of health coverage, and vastly reduced the quality.
Even Democrats in congress recognize just how expensive ACA plans have become, and freak out when it looks like they might have to follow the same rules we do when paying for it. They're also now talking about bipartisan ways of fixing the mess that Obamacare created.
Here's my suggestion: one page bills that clearly state the benefit of that particular provision. Make it very clear what the anti-reformers are voting against, and make it very easy for their opponents to hand out the exact text of what was voted against and say, this is what they were voting against. This isn't a summary, this is literally the bill that they refused to pass.
"All it does is let you have the same benefits businesses do, all it does is give you choice, all it does is bring innovation, and my opponent refused to let you have that opportunity. Here, you can read the bill yourself. Yes, the actual bill."
The personal health savings parity and portability act
The main reason that health coverage is not portable is that employer-provided coverage gets tax benefits that private coverage does not. When your employer docks your pay to pay for your health coverage, that comes out before taxes. When you pay for coverage out of pocket, it comes after taxes. That makes a big difference, big enough that it isn't worth it for you to have portable coverage.1
This system is crazy. If you got the same tax break on coverage you want that you get on coverage your employer chooses for you, you might be more inclined to carry your custom coverage from job to job. I know very well I would have. I looked into it, but it made no economic sense due to the insane privileging of employers docking my pay to choose coverage for me.
- Democrat Chris Murphy: Obamacare is "the end of health care"—Wednesday, August 2nd, 2017
Senator Chris Murphy is angry at President Trump, because Trump has "threatened" to enforce the law as written. The law in question is the misnamed Affordable Care Act, which, when congress passed it, required members of congress and their staff to live under its rules as well and pay for their own plans. But because it turned out the Affordable Care Act is actually Unaffordable, President Obama's administration exempted them from that law, in a very convoluted manner that makes even less sense than the law itself and is almost certainly in itself illegal, not just unethical.
President Trump has threatened to revoke that exemption. Senator Murphy doesn't want that. If President Trump requires congressional offices to live under the health care law that congress requires us to live under, Murphy says, that will "cut off health care". It will "end health care".
This is a clear threat to Congress: pass my health bill or as punishment I will end health care for you, your staff, & your constituents. Trump isn't saying these things will happen naturally. He has the power to cut off health care for leg branch employees & crater exchanges.
That's right. Democrats know what Obamacare's effects are. They know that the ACA is really the Unaffordable Care Act. Just like its conservative critics predicted it would be, that it was for all practical purposes designed to be unaffordable.
And if they have to live under it the same way we do, it's the same thing as ending health care, it's as if Trump "cut off health care" for them.
He doesn't seem to realize that this means that health care has already been cut off and ended for those of us who do not receive the special subsidies congress gets.1
The way the ACA originally applied to congress is that they were eligible only for the same subsidies anyone else using Obamacare would be eligible for. But most congressional staffers make more than $30,000 a year, some significantly more than that. That's right about where ACA subsidies ended for individuals, at the time.
That's also right about where the average personal income lands, too. And it turns out that the cost of health care plans under the ACA are pretty onerous when you're only making $30,000 a year.
You would think this would be a clue: the ACA raised the cost of health care plans so drastically that the average American was going to have trouble paying it. Perhaps we should repeal the ACA and start over with something new that doesn't hurt people so much.
- Bipartisanship in the defense of big government—Monday, July 17th, 2017
Think about everything Democrats have been saying about Trump since he became the nominee. Why would they want to give the Trump White House more power?
I've long been critical of both Republicans and Democrats for not looking for common ground to advance their own views of freedom in the United States. There are always issues of commonality, or at least issues that the other side's rhetoric makes it impossible to oppose, that could be introduced by the party that is out of power.
When President Clinton claimed that he was the victim of an out-of-control prosecutor, Republicans should have introduced legislation protecting people outside the beltway from out-of-control prosecutors.
When Democrats claimed to be worried about a President Trump's executive overreach, they should have announced that they would support any Supreme Court Justice on Trump's pre-election list: all of them would be strong opponents of an imperial presidency.
In my opinion, Donald Trump is mostly the fault of the political establishment, for failing to take advantage of opportunities to advance freedom in a bipartisan manner. Whoever is out of power complains about their power-hungry opposition, and whoever is in power uses that power. When politicians fail to live up to their campaign promises, voters will turn to non-politicians.
Democrats have decided, in the face of Trump, to continue blindly opposing literally everything he does, even things they called for earlier, such as firing James Comey.
But of course there is one policy they're willing to work with Republicans on: increasing the power of an imperial presidency.
Why, after complaining that Trump is using the power of the White House to oppress Democrats, would Democrats introduce a resolution that makes it easier for Trump to act unilaterally? Why would they do this ahead of the 2018 elections, an off-year that traditionally goes in their favor?
- Health insurance reform? What health insurance reform?—Thursday, July 13th, 2017
I recently received a "Truth About Republicans Survey" which asks me a whole bunch of questions about topics the National Republican Congressional Committee thinks are important. And then it asks me for money, of course. Which they are not going to get because one very important issue is missing:
Where in this survey is a question about restoring our ability to purchase health insurance? The closest is question 14, which, given how they literally left out any question about their number one promise over the last seven years, I'm surprised they included.
In good news, the Senate today added the Cruz-Lee Consumer Freedom Option to the Senate version of the repeal. Given the intransigence of Republicans on living up to their past promises, this may be the best option to reduce the cost of health insurance and health care after the ACA caused them to skyrocket.
- Economies of scale and government-run health care—Friday, July 7th, 2017
One of the common arguments in favor of government takeovers of a service is that government agencies can perform the service cheaper because of "economies of scale".
Since insurance is a requirement… more premiums should bring the price down.
This argument shows a profound misunderstanding of what an economy of scale is and how scaling up works to raise the quality of a service or product while also bringing the price down.1
More premiums, like more of any service, only bring prices down when people are free to buy or not to buy, and when buyers are free to negotiate with sellers for what they want to buy and what they are willing to pay for it. The ACA, for example, mandates what people are required to buy within very narrow boundaries, and mandates that they must in fact buy it (or pay a penalty). This is guaranteed to cause prices to rise drastically. The skyrocketing prices and reduced access to health care providers that we now see was predicted during the law's passage based on that simple economic principle.
Economies of scale only work when they allow a leaner competitor to discover a way to provide the same or better service at a cheaper price.2 An economy of scale doesn't automatically cause the same old processes by the same old business or government agency to suddenly become cheaper. If anything, large scale in a monopoly will cause prices to rise and quality to drop as competition moves from competing to reach more people and persuade them to purchase the service, to instead competing for turf inside the bureaucracy.
This shift to bureaucratic infighting causes increased prices to pay for the extra soldiers in the turf war; and it causes lower quality service as the employees turn inward and pay more attention to the bureaucracy than to their customers. Why shouldn't they? Their customers have no choice.
But even worse, increased scale in a government or government-created monopoly also results in increased complexity for the people who need the service. The inevitable turf wars mean that individual services become spread across multiple departments, any one of which can block or delay service—such as some person's needed health care. Navigating the system becomes an essential skill, and it is one that people with more resources—who can hire dedicated navigators—will do better at than people with fewer resources.


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Help Name My Sister's Babies! She's having twins, two girls, and she likes old-fashioned, classy and preppy names. What should she call them?
Sandra and Christina
Maybe Elestia? Without a C.
Stefany and Melody. idk how to spell sorry lol
She should name them Amanda and Gabriella.
chrysanthemum& primrose. (i didnt copy of THG)
OK... Blythe has been through them with me ^^ She likes: Stephanie, Madeline, Jessamine, Georgia and Rosa! Clearly she really likes feminine names.... thanks SO much for your suggestions, keep them coming! :) x
One sec... new ideas... Danielle, Zoe, Lilia, Rosa/Rosie, Charlotte, Jasmine, Jade, Izzy, Katie, Liberte, Georgia, Miriam, Mirabel, Melissa, Nellie, Nadia, Maria, Faye, Isobel, Lolita, Amy, Annie, Anna, Annabel, Minnie, Tia, Tina, Tillie, Millie, Samantha, Rebecca/Becky... ok, lol xP
Cathy, Meg, Skye, Clover, Elsie, Elyse, Eloise, Elanor, Lottie, Harriat and Grace/Gracie ;) Hope this helped! :)
Um, let's see, classy and preppy.... CASSY AND PEPPY!!!!!!! Lol, jk, um, I don't know, I'm not really classy because... well I'm just not, I'm not exactly preppy..... Angelina and Belle!! Eh, that's the best I can come up with. shrugs
Lily and Clare are beautiful names and I think they starting to come back. Fiona and Alice is also a underused name too. Mary or Annie (Annabelle or Annabeth) are also sweet names I think more people should use. Nellie, Ella and Martha are adorable too!
Source: http://www.sheknows.com/parenting/articles/811770/old-fashioned-baby-names-classic-and-cultured
Behind the name .com is a great website where you can look for names and see what they mean.
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The rain from the evening before had gone, a lovely cooling breeze, fantastic music, plenty of stalls and heaps of browsers and visitors to our area.
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Photos from guest lectures, artist talks, graduation ceremonies, international conferences organized by Bard College Berlin, and other special occasions
The 15th anniversary of the institution was celebrated in May 2014
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John Buchan wrote of Caesar ?He performed the greatest constructive task ever achieved by human hands. He drew the habitable earth into an empire which lasted for five centuries, and he laid the foundations of a fabric of law and government which is still standing after two thousand years.? In this romantic biography Buchan attempts to understand the hidden thoughts of the great soldier. He charts the tale of Caesar's youth, early political career, success, conquest of Gaul and of the world, ending with his murder at the hands of Brutus and the Republican-minded conspirators.
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True love is the union of parallel paths
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Whenever we find, in two forms of life that are unrelated to each other, a similarity of form or of behavior patterns which relates to more than a few minor details, we assume it to be caused by parallel adaptation to the same life-preserving function.
Konrad Lorenz
One hot Friday afternoon a long time ago I drove up the West Side Highway in my Datsun B210 with two young women that I had just met. The traffic was heavy and we were at the start of the long drive to Maryland. One of the women sat beside me in the passenger seat. By the time we were halfway across the George Washington Bridge, I said to myself, "I'm not going to let her get away. I'm going to marry her."
We did, a little more than a year later. After seven years, our marriage ended in a conflagration of despair and anger, emotions that had been breeding from that very first day.
What could have happened in that car ride? I was 24, a teacher at a private school in New York. She was the same age and did the same thing at a school two blocks away. We both taught English.
We were driving to a forensics tournament where students from various schools gave prepared speeches and were judged. I was an advisor to our forensics team. She was an advisor to theirs.
Her father taught history at another school in New York. My father taught English at a school in New England.
I was a writer. She was a poet.
She knew people I went to school with. She had had a crush on the middle son of my sister's godfather. She was the middle child of seven. I was the oldest child of six.
She laughed. We spoke shorthand. We were starting out life. We were enthralled.
I've never really understood how the connection could have sparked so hotly and been so misguided, soldering a union between two souls that saw the world through completely different filters — dark and light, violent and soft, independent and dependent, harsh and kind.
When I read the quote from Lorenz, I experienced a moment of understanding.
I had misinterpreted our common ground as a "parallel adaptation to the same life-preserving function."
The symmetry of facts, the commonality of experience and the synthesis of language were markers to me that her journey through the world had taught her to value the same things that I had learned to value. The work of getting to that point in my life had not been easy and I was nowhere near done. It was lonely and uncertain. It was risky. It was hard.
I lit up inside at the idea that I could share the journey with someone. And I burned brightly at the feeling that I would walk with someone who could understand and share.
The mistake was that we shared many of the same life experiences, but our adaptations were not at all parallel. Not at all.
Being together wasn't something that brought strength to each other. It required a constant expenditure of will.
I didn't learn this lesson until much later.
When I met T,. I experienced a physical sensation that I had never felt before.
Today I understand that it was the thrill of recognition. I was with someone who was walking that parallel path of adaptation.
Nothing has been the same in my life since.
I have one wish. I wish that I could find a simple checklist for True Love that could be used to find contentment and avoid distress. I wish I could give our children a filter that they could run their infatuations and excitements through to understand whether they and their paramour had experienced those parallel paths, were aligned in how they saw the world, in what they value about people and each other.
The pain of being in the wrong love can only be described in images and metaphor. Definitions and simple descriptions fall short. But we all know the experience.
Being loved is the greatest thing I have ever experienced in the world. Giving that same gift is the greatest satisfaction. I wish I could teach it.