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It's State Budget day and our reporters will explain how it will affect you later today, follow our coverage at theage.com.au from 3.30pm.
Budget docs arrive at Parliament House in preparation for Treasurer Michael O'Brien handing down today's State Budget pic.twitter.com/79yL6f5AAa — David Hodgett MP (@DavidHodgettMP) May 5, 2014
The scene at the St Albans house where a man was fatally stabbed earlier this morning...
Forensic investigators are heading into the St Albans house where a man in his 20s was fatally stabbed @tennewsmelb pic.twitter.com/Yontf9ilQK — Yasmin Paton (@yaspaton) May 5, 2014
What did you think of the Packer-Gyngell brawl? Here's a few of the responses on Twitter so far, we're keen to hear from you via @theage...
Business icons and role models normalising violence as a conflict resolution device. Brilliant example for the kids @3AWNeilMitchell — Michael Carr-Gregg (@MCG58) May 5, 2014
When bogans start fights outside James Packer's casinos will they be given jobs for showing senior management potential? — David Pullar (@D_Pullar) May 5, 2014
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After the community sensitivity over one punch attacks the media glorification of the violence between Packer/Gyngell is frankly disgusting. — James Webster (@jimmcslim) May 5, 2014
And there are also some delays now on the Werribee Line INBOUND due to a track fault between Laverton and Newport...
Expect delays of up to 10 minutes on the Belgrave and Lilydale lines due to a signal equipment fault...
All inbound lanes are now closed on the Princes Freeway at Pakenham due to that earlier accident.
Monash: Pakenham bypass – freeway now closed between Koo Wee Rup Road and McGregor Road. All traffic diverted into Pakenham. — Jimmy Traffic (@JimmyTraffic) May 5, 2014
A simple fix for some of the problems on the Upfield Line, from reader Sue Picard of Coburg in today's Age: A decade ago I wrote to Connex asking why we couldn't have more frequent trains on the Upfield line, which only run every 20 minutes. I was told there wasn't enough rolling stock, thereby fobbing off the problem onto the government. As we have now been enlightened by The Age that the issue is, in fact, a section of single track between the last two stations can we please look at alternatives? How about making Coburg a destination for some services, as was done during the Commonwealth Games, with trains returning to the city? With a huge car park, Coburg is where at least half the passengers alight so this would make perfect sense. Better still, replace the single track, and give the neglected north our share of the transport budget.
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More now on the multibillion-dollar rail tunnel from Southern Cross Station to South Yarra, from transport reporter Adam Carey, who says "this is a radical departure from the original plan, in which the tunnel was to have run beneath Swanston Street with five new stations including at Parkville and North Melbourne". FULL STORY
There are now delays INBOUND on the Princes Freeway in Pakenham due to that earlier crash, with emergency services now at the scene.
We've heard there's been a bad accident in Pakenham at McGregor Road, with the Princes Freeway affected to land the air ambulance...
That earlier issue on the Cranbourne and Pakenham lines means some trains will run direct to Flinders Street from Richmond and there may be some ongoing delays...
Cranbourne/Pakenham line: there are citybound delays owing to an earlier train fault. Selected services direct to Flinders St from Richmond. — Metro Trains (@metrotrains) May 5, 2014
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Former Sunrise host Melissa Doyle's 7pm news bulletin has been dumped by Channel Seven only six months after it was launched.
Detectives at the scene of the stabbing this morning in St Albans, via 3AW's Yvette Gray...
Homicide detectives have arrived on scene to investigate the stabbing death of a man in St Albans @3AW693 pic.twitter.com/uQ57kpsYiA — Yvette Gray (@yvettegray3AW) May 5, 2014
The absurd punch-up between media moguls James Packer and David Gyngell sent tongues wagging.
But as the first exclusive photos of the fist-fight emerged, it wasn't Packer's "sheer fury" or "bulging" veins which caught the Twitter-sphere's attention, but rather some very enthusiastic watermarking on the photographs that accompanied the story on the News Corp websites.
Has anyone seen the News corp water mark with Packer and Gyngell fighting in the background? #PackerGyngell pic.twitter.com/cGT98T04cm — Michael Genovese (@GenoveseMichael) May 5, 2014
Packer-Gyngell fight video: http://t.co/QncZkp3D3i We'll chat to the neighbour that saw the fight in approx 20 mins pic.twitter.com/UZGT4oaiC1 — Grill Team (@GrillTeam) May 5, 2014
Crowds at Murrumbeena station on the Cranbourne and Pakenham lines, with reporter Mex Cooper telling us there are around 300 people on the platform waiting for a train after delays and cancellations...
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Melissa Jouskey told me that she's had this cute brown print sundress for years.
"I found some stuff in a box," she said.
When I asked her about her necklace, she said she's had that for years, too, but that people always comment on it. (It's true; I did!)
"I just keep refinding my stuff," Jouskey said.
Not a bad philosophy. I'm tempted to put some of my stuff in a box, just so I can find it again. Of course, chances are I'd put it in a box, forget about it, and give it to Goodwill by accident.
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Cancer and aging are travel companions. In a first view this relation may seem awkward, but the events that have allowed to establish this improbable bond go back to the year 1951 when for the first time it was possible to keep in lab culture conditions an immortal human cellular line, of cells that are in constant growth. The same barriers that separate normal cells from immortal cells connect in an intimate way the "how" with the "why" of aging.
The complexity of aging and biological cancer prevent from being able to extract easy generalizations. Cancer and aging are fostered by the accumulation of cellular damage. Those mechanism protecting the cells from damage will provide protection for both cancer and aging. On the other hand, cancer and longevity require a durable potential of cell proliferation and, thus, the mechanisms limiting the indefinite cell proliferation (like for example the telomeric shortening or cellular senescence) will provide protection against cancer, but a the same time favor aging. The net equilibrium between these two types of mechanism, those diminishing the amount of cell damage (protecting at the same time from cancer and aging) and those preventing from the excessive cell proliferation (which normally do not limit the average life of the individual, but that in protected environments may contribute to aging) would be what would ensure a healthy existence (free of cancer and of the complications derived from aging) to most individuals during the young and adult life periods.


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The role of subjective client narratives in health care represents a clinical and therapeutic tool, useful in complementing objective, scientific data. Of particular interest to mental health practitioners is the role narratives play as a therapeutic tool to guide clinical practice. This paper lays a foundation for understanding the importance of narrative in the psychotherapeutic process. It provides a brief overview of narrative theory and methods of structural analysis in order to provide a theoretical approach that can be utilized by nurses to address clients' needs.
The role of subjective client narratives in health care has attracted the attention of clinicians and scholars alike. Personal stories of illness, it is argued, are useful in developing health care practices that are more ethical (Nelson, 1992, 1997; Noddings, 1984) and equitable (Charon, 2001). Of particular interest to practitioners, however, is the role narratives play as a therapeutic tool to guide clinical practice. This paper provides a brief overview of narrative theory and methods of structural analysis, in order to suggest a theoretical approach that can be applied by nurses to client narratives in therapeutic health care practice.
Narratives are subjective, personal accounts told to others as stories, and have long played an important part in all areas of healthcare, especially psychiatry and psychotherapy. There are numerous, highly individual accounts by clients about their experience of health and illness. As noted by medical ethicist Howard Brody, the training of health care professionals typically focuses on objective and scientific material; however, the most meaningful teaching moments often begin with the phrase: "I once had a client who … " (Brody, 1987). Narratives are much more than a series of short quotes or objective summaries documented in the client's medical record. Rather, they are a tool for inquiry into the social, ethical, and therapeutic pratice of client care. In this respect, narratives are useful as a means of exploration, interpretation, and a means of forming consensus between clients, families, and practitioners.
Narratives are a linguistic form that have a number of defining features. They have a definable structure and longitudinal time sequence (e.g., a beginning, a middle, and an end). The telling of the story will be affected by both the narrator and the listener, each with a different perspective that will affect how the story is told (Greenhalgh & Hurwitz, 1999). There is no definition of what is relevant or irrelevant in any particular narrative—the choice of what to tell lies entirely with the narrator, but may be modified by the questions or reactions of a listener (Greenhalgh & Hurwitz, 1999). Furthermore, narratives are subjective; different narrators will give different accounts of the same events, and one narrator's account may differ depending on the audience or the occasion in which it is shared.
Interest in the use of narratives can be traced to the influence of intellectual traditions in such disciplines as literary criticism, political science, and sociology, which critically examine historical accounts of dominant social groups through the lived experience of private individuals (Strand, 1997). Such interest is reflected in the increased use of qualitative methods of inquiry which seek to provide comprehensive pictures of complex phenomena, emphasizing the meanings, experiences, and views of all (Pope & Mays, 1995), as opposed to "getting the story right" (Flick, 1998).
Appreciation of narratives as a tool for the creation of new meaning and understanding has been particularly important in the area of psychotherapeutic practice. In contrast to cybernetic models, which perceive the therapeutic relationship as a feedback loop in which the therapist helps lead clients to new information about themselves, narrative therapy focuses on the clients' experience and meaning (Zimmerman & Dickerson, 1994). Therapy, thus, becomes an opportunity to permit clients to explore and examine their narratives (through which they frame their experiences). The goal of therapy is to help clients "alter their lives by moving away from problem-dominated stories … toward stories that highlight possibility and opportunity" (Strand, 1997, p. 325). The client determines what sort of narrative he or she constructs. Therapeutic narratives tend to be successful when they have both internal and external coherence. That is, when there are no contradictions within the story, and when they do not come into irresolvable conflict with others' accounts of relevant events (Focht & Beardslee, 1996; Schwartz, 1999). While it is not the therapist's role to dictate the content of the client's narrative, the therapist may challenge the client's interpretation of the narrative. In this way, unproductive life narratives can be altered (Kogan & Gale, 1997). Ultimately, the role of the therapist is to become a coparticipant in the "world-making and un-making process" (Weingarten, 1998, p. 5).
Narratology was originally understood as a broadly based hermeneutic approach to literary criticism, interpreting written texts and combining rhetorical, psychological, and theoretical analysis. More recently, it has been expanded to examine not only written texts, but also oral narratives told by individuals in normal conversational situations (Labov & Waletzky, 1997). Narratological analysis examines the way in which the narrator emphasizes, sequences, and gives meaning to the elements of the account. Such analyses do not aim to validate theory, but only illustrate it, as a means to guide further inquiry and discussion (Riesman, 1993).
The importance of client narratives in the therapeutic process has been examined in a variety of populations, including cancer patients and trauma survivors (Carpenter, Brockopp, & Andrykowski, 1999; Facione & Giancarlo, 1998; Morse & O'Brien, 1995; Pennebaker & Seagal, 1999). More recently, authors have described methods for evaluating client and caregiver narratives, drawing upon the work of literary critics such as Paul Ricoeur (Frid, Oehlen, & Bergbom, 2000; Walker, 1995) and Mikhail Bakhtin (Bowers & Moore, 1997; Harden, 2000).
Narrotology examines narratives as dynamic, interpersonal, communicative acts spontaneously co-constructed through the interaction of the narrator (e.g., client or family member) and listener (e.g., a practitioner). Such a conceptualization is consistent with the suggestion that clinicians may provide useful therapeutic interventions through empathetic and critical listening to client narratives. This is done through directing and redirecting narratives in positive ways (Frid et al., 2000). So viewed, the clinician assists in the work of storytelling as the act of selecting, gathering, and organizing events, which fulfills a potential need for delimiting, ordering, and making explicit (Ricoeur, 1991).
An important difference is noted between narratives shared within a group and those told within an individual interview. Narratives told one-on-one to a clinician are subject to immediate feedback and co-construction between narrator and listener. Theories of interpersonal communication can be useful tools in the analysis of the structure and creation of these narratives. Narratives told, for example by survivors of suicide, in a group setting are somewhat different. These narratives are told to an audience which reduces listener participation, feedback, and co-construction. Analytical approaches borrowed from literary criticism, such as narratology, may be appropriate for examining the dimensions of narratives shared within a group setting.
A variety of paradigms have been suggested to describe and analyze the ways in which clients organize, edit, and communicate narratives. For example, Ezzy (2000) delineates three types of narratives used by HIV/AIDS patients: linear restitution narratives, linear chaotic narratives, and polyphonic narratives. Linear restitution narratives are optimistic in nature, reflecting the narrator's confidence that his or her future will be well-managed through medical and/or other human intervention. While linear chaotic narratives also reflect a belief that suffering and illness can be controlled by proper health or social interventions, the narrator expresses anxiety that he or she may not have proper access to these resources. In contrast to linear narratives, polyphonic illness narratives depict the future as uncertain, focusing instead on the present; they depict illness as the catalyst for increased self-understanding and spiritual insight (Ezzy, 2000).
When examining the organization of narratives, Stern and associates delineate two types of structures that characterize client accounts of traumatic life experiences: restitution and chaos (Stern, Doolan, Staples, Szmukler, & Eisler, 1999). In stories of restitution, the traumatic experience is turned it into a meaningful event that becomes a formative event in the narrator's life story. In contrast, chaotic narratives recount a series of random events that retain the power to displace the narrator and prevent him or her from regaining mastery over daily life (Stern et al., 1999).
Along similar lines, Polkinghorne (1996) offers a paradigm of victimic and agentic narratives. These forms of narratives are closely related to plot structures, which have been carefully analyzed by literary theorists. Historiographer Hayden White (1990) notes that plot structures constitute not only the way in which the sequence of events is fashioned into a story, but also the type of story that is told. Agentic narratives depict the sequence of events in such a way as to suggest that the narrator is in control, despite disruption by traumatic life events (Frye, 1957; Polkinghorne, 1996). These narratives depict a purposeful, skillful protagonist actively engaged in the process of adapting to and overcoming challenges (White, 1990). Agentic elements may be seen in the narrative of an AIDS patient who speaks of his disease as a sort of disguised "gift from God." The narrator asserts that awareness of his disease and mortality has enabled him to embrace a new life based on spirituality. Morse and O'Brien (1995) offer examples of agentic narratives provided by individuals with permanently disfiguring injuries, who speak of coming to terms with their diagnoses and getting on with the painful but necessary business of adjustment and reconstruction of their lives.
On the other hand, victimic narratives describe a situation that is governed by forces beyond the narrator's control (Frye, 1957; Polkinghorne, 1996). The individual perceives his or her life to be under the control of others. The victimic narrator's life outcomes are determined by both the actions of others and chance. The accomplishment or failure to achieve one's life goals depends on factors that are unable to be changed (Polkinghorne, 1996). These characteristics are seen in a narrative provided by a young man recounting his diagnosis of diabetes. Although sure he was suffering from diabetes and outlining his symptoms accurately for numerous doctors, he was repeatedly misdiag-nosed. He encounters an occasional competent health care worker, who berates incompetent colleagues, and who "dumps me in a wheelchair" to be taken for immediate assistance. Invariably however, the clinic doors are closed, appointments are unobtainable or at least two weeks away, and soon he watches in despair as his health is again put in jeopardy (Greenhalgh & Hurwitz, 1999, p. 49). While the agentic narrative portrays a positive resolution of conflicts, victimic narratives move toward inexorable decline, chaos, and death (Frye, 1957).
Bruner (1994) warns against oversimplification of agentic and victimic narratives as active versus passive or optimistic versus pessimistic. Victimic plots often obscure the passivity of the protagonist through a "reactive agent" (e.g., a rebel or resistance leader). An example of reactive agency in a victimic plot is illustrated in the narrative of a woman who relates how she became verbally abusive to an unfair social worker—an action which caused needed services to be delayed. Although the woman "stood up for herself," her defiance nevertheless resulted in further victimization, rather than in an improvement of her condition.
The optimism of agentic plots, on the other hand, may appear attenuated by frequent moments of self-critique, something Bruner refers to as "an arraignment of oneself against a set of normative standards" (Bruner, 1994, p. 49). This may be demonstrated in the example of a woman who is pleased by her success in obtaining permanent housing after living in a homeless shelter. She speaks critically and disparagingly of her inability to control her temper or speak articulately with the homeless shelter workers. She depicts this inability as a shortcoming that she must try to overcome in order to more effectively advocate for her rights.
In summary, Bruner's observations underscore the function of life-narratives as expressions of values. Often client narratives can be placed into one category that emphasizes control over the future and positive change, or another category that suggests powerlessness and an inability to change the present situation. In victimic plots, the narrator judges the actions of others, and reacts to those actions through acquiescence or rebellion. In contrast, the agentic narrator judges his or her own actions, and pronounces them to be either good or bad.
The values underlying the agentic narrative (self-determination and personal responsibility) are privileged in Western culture, while features of victimic narratives (inability to affect change in one's life and submission to the control of others) are devalued. Reflecting this Western cultural bias, agentic narratives may be viewed as a sign of psychological adjustment. A number of therapists have suggested that the role of therapeutic interventions is to help clients replace victimic with agentic-type narratives (Ezzy, 2000; Frid et al., 2000; Polkinghorne, 1996; Strand, 1997). However, because of this cultural specificity, therapists working across and within non-Western cultures must look to other paradigms in the use of therapeutic narrative (Shonfeld-Ringel, 2001). Viewed from this perspective, the clinician's skills of listening, questioning, interpreting, and explaining (Greenhalgh & Hurwitz, 1999), as well as the narrator's "telling of the story," may have as much influence on the outcome of an illness or situation as the more scientific and technical aspects of a particular treatment. Although the purpose of psychotherapeutic groups vary, therapeutic interventions can be viewed as fostering the development of agentic narratives. Both group facilitators and other participants can encourage the development of agentic self-narratives. The reader is referred to a later article in this issue entitled, "The Use of Narrative Data to Inform the Psychotherapeutic Group Process with Suicide Survivors," in which an in-depth examination of group participant narratives from a survivors of suicide bereavement support group is presented.
Deborah Dysart Gale, The University of Missouri Applied Language Institute, Kansas City, Missouri, USA and The University of Pittsburgh, Department of Communication, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.
Ann M. Mitchell, Assistant Professor of Nursing, The University of Pittsburgh, School of Nursing, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.
Linda Garand, Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA and The University of Pittsburgh, School of Nursing, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.
Susan Wesner, Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.
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Some of us are of a "certain age" and can remember when girls didn't wear pants to school, playing sports was uncool and boys ruled the playground. In the late '60's and early '70's I tried my darndest to be pretty, cried when boys called me fat and accepted a boyfriend (my ex) less than what I deserved.
I went to college in an area where girls were supposed to get married right out of high school, have babies and stay home. I rebelled and went to a 2 year school as my dad "would not waste the money on college for a girl"...he apologized the rest of my professional life.
In the late '70's, I stayed pretty. Ok, my current DH told me I was "hot", kept most of the weight off and put up with sexist issues at work because, "hey, baby", isn't that what we were supposed to do?
I gained weight, I lost weight, the sexist comments came back at work. The mixed messages were buzzing in my brain so I went back to school. Something was missing.
DH has had a heck of a time trying to be supportive.
He was the stupid boy on the playground, the "hey, baby" kind of guy. You know the kind.
Man, did his attitude change when he had two intelligent and pretty daughters! But even then the signals were mixed. OK for them, me...not so much.
Kids grew up, I got some balls (sorry!) and became and expert in my field. No one told me when I was young I could be anything I wanted. Sure a kid could grow up to be president but that was boys!
Now all that being said, this weekend's dilemma has been about approval, thanks to WATERMELLEN's great blogs and my personal crisis.
I seek approval from others whether it's DH, my kids, coworkers or the lady down the street. That pat on the back is rewarding; missing it can be devastating for me. The fat kid on the playground is still in my brain. If I can't make her go away, maybe I need to get her to realize it was ok to be me in all those phases. Take my past to a new level.
I sure am coming to terms with the me smiling in the mirror now!
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Oh boy, do I remember those days, too!
I was told that there was no money for college for me because my two brothers would have to support families, so if anyone went - THEY would be the ones to go.
I was being sent to secretarial school.
An interested high school teacher told my mom about a two-year program at the City College that would leave me with an AAS degree. I had to take the SATs to get in.
My scores on the SAT - quite surprisingly made me eligible for four years of free college! That was how I got my undergrad education!
It was a man's world back then. ( I remember having to get permission from an employer to wear pants to work during a snow storm.)
Today, women are MILES ahead of where we were. I see it with my daughters-in-law. And more power to them. It's a better world because of it.
That need for approval, though, is something I have to deal with a whole lot more than they ever did. It's in my DNA. I understand that one completely.
Many of us here on SP have that in common, I think.
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Yeah, that rings a few bells for me. Girls got engaged at 15 at my school, no need to finish that sixth from year, what for, after all? I was the first person in my family to get a degree. Have a professional qualification and a career, managed to find myself a DH, very much to my surprise. Never really thought I would get married, it didn't look like such a great option for me. Had to go for a younger man as the ones my own age and older were too sexist for me to put up with.
Not so sure about the approval thing, I'll have to think about it.
I'm enjoying thinking of you sitting on your porch in the summer evenings reflecting and considering what next.
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WATERMELLEN sure made a LOT of us think today, didn't she? Well pondered through. And glad we're smiling in the mirror now!
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You have come a long wa. And yes I remember those days where "boys ruled the playground."
I was extremely blessed w/parents who valued education and supported us in our choices in college.
I happened to chose nursing. Well, as a student nurse, the prevailing attitude in the 70' was " . . . as a nurse, when a Dr. enters the room, you stand up." Oh boy. That attitude had to change when I worked in ER/ICU/CCU. It had to be a COLLABORATIVE effort. That worked much better.
Kudos for you for following your passion. I did too and I was so worth-while.
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When I was young I was raised to be independent and not raised to get married. I wanted to be an astronaut. I can still remember when the male class genius informed me that girls could not be astronauts. It was my introduction to sexual discrimination but it was just the start and it got much worse. The good thing is that I have young female friends and they have never had to experience what I did. They are still not paid fairly or promoted fairly but things are improving.
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Thanks for that shout out!! I'm also of that era when women weren't expected to go to university (maybe 1 year teachers' college or 1 year nursing after high school . . . but anything more was a "waste of money").
Suffice it to say, I showed 'em!!
Suffice it to say as well, my own DH has been HUGELY supportive and I'm beyond grateful.
But: still recognize the persistence of that addiction to the approval of others . . . every single day. And its relationship to comfort eating. And the need for mental toughness to deal with both!
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We tell ourselves we want to lose weight, but could our mindset and not our calorie intake be the thing that's really holding us back?
'For as long as I can remember, I've been overweight. I've tried loads of diets but nothing seems to work,' says Rosie, 37, from Lincolnshire. Sound familiar? Many of us who have struggled with our weight can relate to this scenario. We want to lose weight, start a new diet, stick to it for a bit but then, within a short period of time, the weight creeps back on. We all make excuses as to why this happens – work was busy, I was depressed, I just love my food… but what if the real reason we put on weight is rooted much deeper? What if, in fact, we're subconsciously keeping the weight from coming off because we want to stay 'big'?
This is something Rosie can relate to. 'I knew I wasn't happy "big". I'd been battling with my weight for 20 years. But food and being larger than life was who I was – it was part of my identity. I was the jolly, fat one in my group of friends, the person in my family who threw the best parties, made the best cakes and always did it with a smile on my face.
'It was only after joining LighterLife and discussing my relationship with food in my group that it hit me. I was, on some level, happy being fat because it was a huge part of my identity. If I lost weight, who would I be? What role would I play? I was scared that saying goodbye to the weight would be like saying goodbye to who I was as a person.'
Fat as a protective barrier
Rosie is not alone. In fact, as LighterLife's psychology expert Mandy Cassidy explains, many people struggling with their weight are subconsciously holding themselves back. 'We find that many people use food to maintain a large body size. Most don't know they're doing it. It's a deep, unconscious thing. They use the fat as a protective barrier.'
Like Rosie, some people are scared of losing weight because it will leave a void in their life. They're frightened of losing their sense of self and having nothing to fill their time. Their lives will be empty. 'When I thought about it, I spent hours obsessing over food. I was always thinking about what I was going to eat, cook or bake next,' says Rosie. 'It was the centre of my life. I was terrified that I'd be valueless without it. I didn't have any other hobbies or interests to fill my time.'
The intimacy issue
Another reason why some women may be reluctant to lose weight is because they're terrified of being noticed, particularly by the opposite sex. 'I divorced my husband eight years ago and was miserable,' says Gwen, 51, from Bridgend. 'I piled on the weight soon after and struggled to get it off. I think part of that was because I was afraid of being available again. I wasn't ready to be "seen" by other men and my weight was a cocoon from facing the world. I felt safe being obese.'
'For those of us uncomfortable with seeing ourselves as sexual beings, using our weight in this way is a really common scenario,' explains Mandy. 'We use the fat to push away unwanted sexual advances. We see this with people with anorexia, too – they don't want to be objectified sexually – and they use their bodies to show this, albeit subconsciously.'
Using weight to stave off sexual advances isn't just the action of single people either. New mothers often find it hard to shift their baby weight, and this can be because they want to dull their sexual desires and others' desires towards them. They take on a maternal role, not just with their baby, but with their partner, too.
Similarly, women in unhappy relationships use the fact that they're fat to avoid the issue. 'Deep down, they may be worried that by losing weight it opens them up to the possibility of leaving their partner, which can be a daunting prospect,' continues Mandy.
And let's not forget the other side of the coin: the woman who uses her weight as an excuse for sexual promiscuity. 'In my early 20s I was morbidly obese and full of self-loathing. Sex for me was a currency. I gave myself away freely to men in exchange for that feeling of being close to someone,' says Kat, 32, a LighterLife client from Halifax.
'I deluded myself that it made me feel better, but I always ended up feeling worse. It was only years later that I accepted that my weight had nothing to do with it. I used it as an excuse. The real issue was that I didn't value myself. I thought I didn't deserve to be loved or respected.'
Invisible woman
Suffering from low self-esteem is not uncommon in women struggling with their weight, but what if you realise that you're putting off shifting the pounds because you're scared of facing up to your true potential?
Mandy says, 'I come across lots of women who put off going for what they want in life and use their weight as an excuse. They say things like, "When I'm slim I'll get a new job," or, "As soon as I lose a few pounds I'll get on the dating scene."'
This is a sentiment Jackie, 44, from Bucks, is all too familiar with. 'I've been with my company for six years and in that time I've never gone for promotion. I know I'm capable, I just don't have the confidence. I don't assert myself. I'm the quiet, reliable Jackie – the one that gets on with her work.
'I've said to my husband for years that as soon as I shift a few stone I'll put myself forward for promotion or find a new job, but the truth is that the thought of change terrifies me.'
Jackie's situation is a classic case of someone opting to be 'invisible' for various reasons rather than the daunting prospect of being 'visible' and facing the chance of rejection or disappointment. As Mandy explains, 'When you're overweight, less seems to be demanded of you – in the workplace you don't get promotions. If you're afraid of the next step, being overweight is an asset. You want to remain small and not be seen.'
The next step
It might be difficult to identify that you're foiling your own efforts – especially as so many of the situations noted above are deep-set and hidden within our subconscious minds. But, if you've been yo-yo dieting for years or have struggled to lose weight then ask yourself, could you have been your own worst enemy?
'It was only when I did LighterLife and spoke about my relationship with food that I realised how much I was sabotaging my own weight loss,' concludes Rosie. 'What I now realise is that I needn't fear losing weight. I can embrace it. Instead of focusing all my attention on food and hinging my social life on it, I'm finding new things to fill my time and my life has never felt fuller.'


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Not so long ago, home entertainment systems consisted of a TV, VCR and hi-fi devices that filled the gaps between the more traditional pastimes of cinema, concerts and theatre.
These days, however, as household purse strings are forced to tighten, services such as Netflix, Spotify and reality video blogs on YouTube have gained ever more prominence in our lives.
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Bad points? There is no internal storage but this feature is offered in the later model. Streaming services, like mobile applications, depend on the media partners they've signed up so some may be omitted.
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Madness Consternation
Rated 2.5 / 5 stars
Not as good as Apotheosis
I loved Apotheosis, best of the series by far. But it's unfair to compare, so I'll stick to plain reviewing.
The animation was smooth, drawing was good, as always. Not perfect, but very good nonetheless, so no complaints there.
However, for me anyway, it lacked the style and humour of previous installments, and thus I did not enjoy Consternation. Someone before said he didn't feel it every time our protagonist killed someone, and I have to agree. Plus, I didn't really like the whole fire monster ghost thing, but that's just me.
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Rated 5 / 5 stars
You, sir, are a genius
That's gotta be the best animation I've seen on newgrounds. possibly not my favourite, but still a brilliant piece of work. Well worth the six months of hard work :) Everything was just perfect, I can think of nothing you have done wrong. Good job!
Pokemon Snot Green
Rated 3.5 / 5 stars
What's up with all these guys?
Ignore those other people reviewing it, they don't have a clue. That was funny, but not hilarious, and well made. Keep it up!
cart22n about my m8s
Rated 3.5 / 5 stars
I'm not sure..
..whether that's incredibly crap, or brilliant.
I think you know why it would be crap, but I haven't laughed that much in a while, ergo the high score
T.e.s.s.o.n.a.s. Ep 1
Rated 5 / 5 stars
That was ome damn sweet animating, and i do hope this series goes on for as long as possible.
One problem though, the quality of the sound was a bit off, especially for the guys who were sitting down, i couldn't really hear them clearly.
Apart from that EXCELLENT!!
Trever: "We'll try to make it go on as long as possible and thanks"
Roger: "Sound problem fixed...view again"
P-ness: "I just got light-headed all of the sudden"
A Film For MyK-Alix
Rated 5 / 5 stars
Way to fight oppresion! or.. something like that..
He he. 0/10 for effort and good animating. 10/10 for totally owning that arse (he he, c what i did there? that was his 'job' in his profile :D'
SoaD - Bounce!
Rated 4 / 5 stars
Violence, Random SoaD music, and tasteless humor..
Just what I like to watch after a tedious day at school!
Joking aside, good animating, despite pointless violence; but i guess it's better than what SoaD intended with the lyrics.
Not everyone's cup of tea, but keep up the good work!
heh.. Cheers man ^_^ Thanks for the good review =D
weebl and bob - paper
Rated 4.5 / 5 stars
As usual, brilliant weebl. BTW, I believe the song is based on Take On Me by a1, but that could be a cover of another artist
Prowlies at the River
Rated 5 / 5 stars
Words can't describe this...
But I'll give it a go.
This is one of those amazing animations, using totally original ideas, and not parody-ing films etc.
The best animation I've seen on Newgrounds, and a nice short storie
Teh R0xx0rs!!!1!!
Rated 3.5 / 5 stars
Great start
Ver nice animating! Graphics would have got a better score if it was coloured and more detailed. however, None of those sequences were related to anything, and were clearly just showing what kind of animating you can do, so that's why you got a low score.


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Peace activist asks Pope to excommunicate Mugabe
A former director of Zimbabwe's Catholic Commission for Justice and Peace, Mike Auret, has asked Pope John Paul II to excommunicate President Mugabe. Mr Auret said that while Mugabe is an 'ostentatious Catholic' he has also been condoning violence and the breakdown of law and order. One of Zimbabwe's leading Catholic laymen, Mike Auret resigned from the Justice and Peace Commission last September when the country's bishops refused to publish a major report documenting more than 7,000 cases of murder, torture and violence. Mike Auret now supports an opposition party. With just two weeks to go before the country's general election on June 24 and 25, his statements come at a very sensitive time. Few Zimbabwean Catholics have commented publicly on the current situation. But there was one notable exception last month when Archbishop Pius Ncube of Buluwayo said in Zimbabwe's Independent Daily News: "We call on people to have hope and courage. We ask people not to be intimidated. Even if out of fear you comply with men of violence vote according to your conscience." And a week ago a joint statement was brought out by the Catholic hierarchy in Zimbabwe calling on the government to take a lead in stopping the violence.


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Friday 2nd December
It's December and the tinsel is up…Christmas has landed in P7!
We have had such a busy week, mainly taken up with INCAS and finishing off our campaigns for our political parties.
I think INCAS was fun but hard. By Taylor B
Here we are hard at work in our parties:
I liked making badges and putting posters up around the school for Top Class! By Alistair
We are looking forward to our trip to Parliament on Monday, remember to bring a packed lunch please everyone.
We have also been decorating the postbox and sorting out the school Christmas post schedule which starts on Monday.
I liked sorting out the Christmas box. By George
It was fun moving classroom every hour as we never knew where we would end up! By Anna
Primary 7 World War 2 Day
Primary 7 spent the day in character as World War 2 evacuees today. We had great fun setting up the classroom like a 1940's classroom, only using surnames, having several air raids, playing 1940's playground games, having an evacuation and a fashion show. Today is the first time ever that my class have demanded 'Please be more strict with us' as I tried to keep a straight face in character as 'Miss'. For more pictures please visit the P7 page.
P7 Homework
Primary 7 have been learning all about World War 2 this term. The class have created amazing Anderson shelters for their homework. The standard of work has been incredible. We have shelters made from wood, cardboard, clay, Lego, metal and even one made of cake that we were able to eat! Here is a picture of some of the amazing shelters. For more detailed pictures please visit the P7 page.
P7 Tag Rugby
Congratulations to P7 on their amazing performance at the East Lothian Tag Rugby Tournament this morning.
All 3 of our teams were undefeated. The girls won the Fair Play Trophy and the boys made it through to the semi-finals and then final, finishing in second place overall out of 21 teams.
I am delighted at the attitude and commitment shown by all P7s at this event. It was a pleasure to take you and you represented the school brilliantly. For more information and photos please view the P7 page.
Congratulations to the school netball team who competed in the East Lothian Schools Netball Tournament on Thursday. There was some tough competition this year. We won several matches and finished in a very respectable third place.
We had a great team spirit and played fantastically well together.
Well done to everyone on the team and thank you to Rorie's mum for helping out on the day.
Friday 18th March 2016
We were very lucky this week to have a visit from Helen from the SSPCA. Helen told us lots of interesting facts about what the SSPCA do and different wild animals in Scotland.
I absolutely loved hearing the SSPCA talk. By Helen and Amelia
The SSPCA talk was really interesting. By Honor
I really enjoyed having the talk with Helen from SSPCA. By Evie
I really enjoyed guessing the animals! By Heather
I really enjoyed everything about the SSPCA talk. By Cadence
I was really inspired after the SSPCA talk. By Annabelle
I learned a lot from the SSPCA talk. By Rachel
P5 had a dance session at the start of the week as part of their John Muir project which will be starting next term.
In our language work this week we have been using apostrophes and also continuing with persuasive writing.
In our PE this week we developed our golf skills further with some fun team games and activities. We had to put the ball accurately and chip it over some 'fences'. These were tricky skills, but everyone had a good attempt.
The golf was really fun. By Harry and Annabelle
As well as all of our other class work like maths and numeracy, spellings, health and wellbeing and so on, lots of the clas shave been attending various cluns throughout the week.
I really enjoyed playing netball at netball club. By Tom and Jessie
I enjoyed being Goal Keep in netball. By Isla
I was really excited when it came around to art club and I really liked the paper I picked for my decopage. By Cadence
Congratulations to the Yester School Netball Team who came second in this morning's East Lothian Netball Tournament.
Everyone played fantastically well and we managed to remain undefeated throughout all of our matches.
The team had a super team spirit and represented the school very well. This was our first season of netball and for a team who were recently formed and don't have previous experience of competitive matches this was a great achievement. I am very proud and already looking forward to next year!
Please click on the link to the P2/3 page for our weekly update.


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Sato leads Sanfrecce to 4-0 win in J-League
SHIZUOKA, Japan — Hisato Sato scored a pair of goals Saturday to lead defending champion Sanfrecce Hiroshima to a 4-0 thrashing of Shimizu S-Pulse in the J-League.
Naoki Ishihara opened the scoring in the 14th minute and Sato, last season's top scorer, doubled the lead in the 69th minute on a penalty kick for his first goal of the campaign.
Hiroki Mizumoto widened the lead to 3-0 four minutes later and Sato completed the scoring with just under 10 minutes remaining as Sanfrecce improved to seven points.
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Moon phase. Phase 2 / Funimation Productions Ltd. ; Victor Entertainment ; director, Akiyuki Shinbou.
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- Physical Description: 1 videodisc (125 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
- Publisher: [U.S.] : Funimation Productions, [2004]
- Copyright: ©2004
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| Animated.
Original story, Keitaro Arima.
Extras: trailers, textless songs.
|Formatted Contents Note:
| 6. Heart throbs in Kyoto -- 7. Well, I wanted it -- 8. Mother came to see me! Happy! -- 9. Save me from this dream -- 10. You're my slave and I won't forgive you.
|Creation/Production Credits Note:
| English version: producers, Carly Hunter, Justin Cook; head writer, Jared Hedges. Words, music, and arrangement for ending song, Yukari Hashimoto; animation director, Masahiro Aizawa; original art, Masahiro Aizawa ... et al.
|Participant or Performer Note:
| English-language cast: Monica Rial, Jason Liebrecht, Sonny Strait, Stephanie Young, Luci Christian, Troy Baker, Brina Palencia, Cynthia Cranz, Colleen Clinkenbeard, Randy Tallman. Japanese vocal cast: Chiwa Saito, Hiroshi Kamiya, Takahiro Sakurai, Yumi Kakazu, Vanilla Yamazaki, Takashi Matsuyama, Yuri Amano, Mai Kadowaki, Miyu Matsuki, Mugihito.
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| Hazuki has found a new group of protectors in Kouhei's family, while Count Kinkel still tries to pull her back into his sphere of influence.
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| Rated TV-PG.
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| DVD, region 1; NTSC.
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| English (stereo or 5.1 Dolby surround) and Japanese (stereo) soundtracks; English subtitles.
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Research and Teaching Interests: British History, 1450-present, US History, Labor History
Professor Bronstein has been teaching at NMSU since graduating from Stanford University in 1996. She is the author of numerous articles and of four books: Land Reform and Working-Class Experience in Britain and the United States, 1800-1862 (Stanford, 1999); Caught in the Machinery: Workplace Accidents and Injured Workers in 19th-century Britain (Stanford, 2008); Transatlantic radical: John Francis Bray (Merlin, 2009); with Andrew Harris, Empire, State and Society: Modern Britain, 1830-present (Wiley-Blackwell, 2013). Her most recent book is Two Nations, Indivisible: A History of American Inequality (Prager, 2016), which chronicles the persistent history of social inequality in the United States from the American Revolution to the present.
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(Reuters) - Kennametal Inc (KMT.N) said it would buy Allegheny Technologies Inc's (ATI.N) tungsten materials business for $605 million to boost supply of the raw material used to make its metal-working tools, increasing its exposure to aerospace and energy markets.
Allegheny's tungsten material business, ATI Tungsten Materials, makes tungsten powder, tungsten heavy alloys, tungsten carbide materials and carbide-cutting tools.
"It is a very core strategic deal for (Kennametal) that enhances its tungsten recycling capability," Longbow Research analyst Eli Lustgarten told Reuters.
Kennametal said the acquired business, which recovers tungsten from scrap, would boost raw material sourcing and accelerate plans to develop an advanced tungsten carbide recycling facility in the United States.
"We expect this acquisition to reduce our raw material costs while securing our supply of tungsten," Chief Financial Officer Frank Simpkins said on a conference call with analysts.
Kennametal's metal-cutting tools, tooling supplies and other products are used for making products such as airframes, and in mining operations and oil wells.
The deal with Allegheny also aligns with Kennametal's acquisition of Comercializadora Emura S.R.L. that closed in August, the company said.
La Paz, Bolivia-based Emura processes and sells tungsten ore material.
Kennametal's shares were up 1.2 percent at $46.54 in afternoon trading on the New York Stock Exchange, while those of Allegheny Technologies were up nearly 9 percent at $31.12.
Allegheny said the sale would help it concentrate on its high-performance metals and flat-rolled products businesses.
Kennametal said the acquisition would also strengthen its tooling business in the areas of metal cutting and metal finishing technologies, adding brands such as Stellram Products and Garryson Products.
The company said it expects the acquisition to reduce planned capital expenditure by about $30 million-$35 million.
Kennametal said it plans to fund the acquisition through a combination of cash and credit. The deal is expected to be neutral to earnings for fiscal 2014 ending June.
"The acquisition will be accretive to earnings per share within a year," Chief Executive Carlos Cardoso said on the call.
J.P. Morgan Securities LLC advised Kennametal. Goldman, Sachs & Co was the financial adviser to Allegheny, while K&L Gates LLP was the legal counsel.
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Ok we're going to be in Oahu and the big island for about a week. I totally trust this board for suggestions. I'm looking for a couple of things in 4 distinct categories.
1.) General place I definitely should go to for good Hawaiian food that is regularly priced both for Lunch and Dinner - I won't be busting the bank most of the time.
2.) A good steak place. I'd shell out some money, but I don't want to have to fly back home with chickens on my lap. I've read suggestions Hy's Steak, but are there any others?
3.) A good sushi place. Again I'd spend money, but even in NYC, I feel like there are places that are half/a third/a fifth of the price of the best places yet they are only a little lower in quality. The truth is I'm not rich so I'd favor that place over Nobu typically.
4.) A divy place or truck or whatever that I just need to try, but it's greasy, it's glutonous, but oh so good.
I don't need a huge description, just a list of names will do, with a little blurb or something, I'll use the good old google [maps] to do the trick.
I'll be in Oahu most of the time but I'll spend about 3 days on the Big Island. Thanks for the help, I know you guys won't steer me wrong.


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Centrally located in Brownsville, Homewood Suites by Hilton Brownsville is convenient to Valley Baptist Medical Center and Gladys Porter Zoo. This hotel is within the vicinity of Historic Brownsville Museum and Stillman House Museum.
Make yourself at home in one of the 86 air-conditioned rooms featuring kitchens with full-sized refrigerators/freezers and stovetops. Your bed comes with down comforters, and all rooms are furnished with sofa beds. 32-inch LCD televisions with cable programming provide entertainment, while complimentary high-speed (wired) Internet access keeps you connected. Conveniences include desks and complimentary weekday newspapers, as well as phones with free local calls.
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This made me laugh
I know many of us have opposing political views and opinions, but I love Maxine and while the top one is rather old, the bottom one isn't they both make me laugh.
So maybe we can giggle a bit at the irony of politics and government?
And all this is why I stay out of politics. America is broke 24/7 yet there is still money to pay people to work to pay the bills. yet Americans are struggling but we are the most powerful (unless that has changed).
I am not bright when it comes to all the political crap so I just stay out of it.
He did. Shelly made him quit. Which I believe he did within the first 2 years.
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I never knew that first one...... how can you possibly not make money with that? lol
And Obama smokes? I have never seen a pic of him smoking and didnt know that. doesnt matter or anything just never knew that :)


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2 speakers and compact subwoofer with onboard interface, includes Dolby Digital, Bluetooth and aptX, discrete HEX codes for CI
Toronto, Canada, March 18th 2014 - Paradigm Electronics Inc. an international leader in speaker design and manufacturing announces its 2.1 Millenia CT 2 system is now shipping. Millenia CT 2 is a superb candidate in connectivity for popular networked audio devices such as Apple TV or Airport Express. The 2-speaker setup with subwoofer continues to deliver excellent audio performance, equal to or better than the most expensive soundbars. The system hosts an onboard control box interface and controls are recessed to allow for stacking of the control module and Apple TV without interference. Dedicated Music Mode, Movie Mode, Paradigm Virtual Surround and Dolby Digital are included.
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Marriage laws are the same in the tropical island of Vanuatu, as they are in the Cook Islands. Even a couple arriving by cruise ship can get a 'one day' exemption to lodge their paper work for a wedding. Not only are there numerous accommodation deals, the airlines are providing cheap airfares.
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Now when I click on the My Pictures folder what comes up is an Adobe folder. If I click on the Properties I see, "This folder is empty."
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The problem of understanding narcissism holds considerable interest, particularly in psychoanalysis, although increasingly so in the field of personality disorder theory and research. It is a condition that Sigmund Freud struggled with and rethought at several stages of his career (Baudry, 1983). Like other psychoanalytic explanations of personality disorders, a complete understanding of narcissistic personality disorder remains unsettled, despite Kohut's (1971, 1977) and Kernberg's (1975) systematic formulations of narcissism. It is also a condition plagued by imprecise terminology, perhaps more so than other personality disorders. I have reserved narcissistic personality disorder for a chapter by itself, not because it should be considered the paradigmatic or signature disorder of Kohut's self psychology, but rather because narcissistic personality disorder provides the clearest illustration of the fundamental premises of Kohut's ideas about the self. Consequently, this chapter serves both to introduce Kohut's concepts of the self and to apply these concepts to an understanding of narcissistic personality disorder. As I will do for each of the Axis II disorders in forthcoming chapters, I begin by examining the current status of this disorder with respect to its
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A film about motion, image tracking, and mapping in an explicitly digital form. It moves through various modes of software and internet aesthetics to frame images of sublime landscapes and flying vehicles (airplanes, space shuttles, UFOs). Set to a score of air traffic control radios, transportation ambience, and ominous drones, the accumulating layers of found, manufactured, and self-shot footage – plus a swarm of digitally animated fireflies – ease into an ambivalent co-existence.
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The following post has been published on the blog of Hans Thoolen on Human Rights Defenders. It describes the publication of an important report on the protection and security of Human Rights Defenders. The principal audience for this report is private donors and grantmakers who provide financial support for work that strengthens the protection and security of human rights defenders, as well as donors who are concerned about the safety and security of their grantees.
The report was prepared by Catherine Hyde Townsend for Wellspring Advisors, whose mission is to "coordinate grant-making programs that advance the realization of human rights and social and economic justice for all people"—particularly "the most marginalized and vulnerable." The report's recommendations include efforts that donors can make individually as well as collectively to enhance the protection and security of HRDs.
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I am sharing with you an important new report on the protection and security of human rights defenders entitled, "Keeping Defenders Safe: A Call to Donor Action". The report was released this summer but did not get the attention it deserves. The report reviews existing responses to the security challenges that human rights defenders face, with a focus on the grant-makers who support work aimed at strengthening HRD protection and security. The author, Borislav Petranov, conducted more than 150 interviews with defenders and related stakeholders around the world, seeking to capture the viewpoints of activists on the ground. Catherine Hyde Townsend of Wellspring Advisors prepared it for publication. The report's conclusions suggest changes in focus and approach with recommendations that donors can implement individually as well as collectively to enhance the protection and security of HRDs. While it is not a roadmap or comprehensive analysis of protection mechanisms, it does recommend considered reflection on current policies and practices in the field:
1. Integrate considerations of security and protection in all aspects and stages of the donor-grantee relationship.
2. Rebalance grant-making from a focus on emergencies to increased attention to preparedness. Develop and implement preventive policies within local organizations, enabling them to periodically review, update, improve, and adapt them with a sufficient financial cushion to react to emergencies.
3. Sustain existing emergency responses (scaled up where necessary), but with an emphasis on improving coordination, flexibility, outreach, and accessibility, especially by using innovative technological tools, and with an emphasis on providing support as close as possible to where grantees are located.
4. Rebalance capacity building from a focus on training to a focus on "service/accompaniment," while ensuring that training links physical, psychosocial, and digital security.
5. Increase the focus on locally-owned and nationally (or sub- regionally) based civil society protection initiatives and networks, especially on developing (comprehensive)1 rapid response solutions that are based locally or sub-regionally.
6. Support collaborative efforts to generate better data and facilitate sharing of protection know-how, know-who, and resources amongst activists within and between countries. Encourage strategizing on the most crucial aspects of protection, including breaking the cycle of impunity and tackling problems of follow-up and implementation that undermine the intergovernmental systems of protection.
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The 1930s. Sidner's mother Solveig dies in a very unfortunate bicycle accident involving some cows. Sidner, his sister and his father Aron move to Sunne to work at a hotel. Aron tries hard to leave the sweet memories of his wife behind him but that isn't made easier by the fact that he always meets her ghost. Aron gets himself a pen friend, a young girl in New Zealand called Tessa. He starts to dream of beginning a new life on the other side of the world. Will his dreams come true and can they help him to cure his regret over the death of his wife?
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RABAT, Morocco — Like fans lining up for concert tickets, Abdelatif Reda's customers patiently wait. If his small cart in Rabat's old medina is unmanned, its young owner, they speculate, must be out for his afternoon prayer. But he will return, as he does every day after 5 p.m., to sell his homemade cheese.
Age-old market
Rabat's medina is a pastel-washed huddle of squat shops and walls running across lines drawn in the 17th century. Here, soap is sold in reused water bottles. Vendors' blankets display rusty sprawls of lamps, utensils and pots. Residents function on an intimate system of commerce, rotating among their favorite shop owners amid the stutter of moped engines and roil of street life in the medina. And although nearby chains such as Carrefour offer chilled dairy selections, Reda's cart is, for many, their first choice for cheese.
"Competition is a fact," said Reda, 30, whose daily inventory fits onto a single rolling cart. "But quality is a question."
Reda began making cheese when he was 13, learning from his father and older brothers before him. Upholding the family legacy left little time for formal education, so Reda dropped out of school to make cheese full time.
Over the years, his cart has attracted medina regulars and converted supermarket-goers. Some customers travel from as far as away as Casablanca or Meknes, more than an hour away, to try the freshly made cheese, which tastes like a lucky meeting between mozzarella and Greek yogurt.
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"[Reda's cheese] is the first thing that I opt for with ghraif [a traditional Moroccan pancake]," said Badrdine Boulaid, 35, who lives in Meknes. "It's becoming the most important thing served at breakfast and teatime." The cheese is often paired with toast, olive oil and smears of jam.
Reda refuses to disclose his recipe, though many have asked him to share. He will say only that his process is a complex one, requiring fine manipulation of many different factors such as water temperature, milk quality and even weather.
The cheese comes in quivering white domes, which Reda separates into thick, buttery chunks with quick flicks of his knife. Prices are determined by the final say of Reda's old metal scale, and customers accept their bags without argument or haggling.
"We prefer certain vendors because we know the source of [their] product," said Yahya Boutaleb, 24, on his familiarity with the medina's markets. "We know the produce comes from good farms."
This familiarity is key to commerce in the medina. Boutaleb's father, for example, receives a text from his fish vendor whenever a particularly good catch comes in.
It's all in the name of freshness, which Moroccan chef Alia Al Kasimi describes as a non-negotiable aspect of Moroccan cooking.
A veritable culinary ambassador for her home country, Al Kasimi got her start making cooking videos with her grandmother and posting them on YouTube. Her quick, chirpy how-tos explaining traditional cuisine had an instant fan base with American-Moroccan families.
"If you notice, in Moroccan cuisine, there are not really many spices or ingredients that mask the flavor," says Kasimi, who has hosted episodes of TV's "MasterChef" in Morocco. "So the freshness of the ingredients is extremely important."
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Because of this emphasis on ingredient quality, trust is an important factor in food commerce. "My grandma would go to the market every other day, or every day if she needs to, as if she's trying to buy what just came out of the earth," Al Kasimi says. "There's this pride of how fresh it is."
Increasingly, this traditional relationship between sellers and buyers has had to compete with well-lit — and air-conditioned — supermarkets within Wal-Mart-style megastores. Unlike the medina's clumped knot of alleyways and twisty roads, these stores are spacious and organized. The Marjane retail empire is particularly formidable, with 32 branches and 600,394 square feet of space in Morocco.
Al Kasimi says this may be changing the importance that Moroccans place on freshness, adding that while her grandmother feels compelled to stop by the market several times a week, her mother goes just once a week. Al Kasimi admits that her friends in Morocco often prefer the frozen-food aisle at the local grocery store to places like the medina.
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Reda is fortunate that he doesn't need to worry about defection. Moroccan cheese like his must be made fresh. And unlike traditional French cheeses, it doesn't age. It has a tangy quality of newness that goes bad if not gobbled up quickly.
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Besides, he says, there is no time to check out the competition when he must spend the first part of his day making his product and the rest of the day selling it. He also insists he will not eat any cheese he has not made himself.
To learn how to make your own fresh Moroccan cheese, watch Al Kasimi's video and check out her recipe for Moroccan cheese spring rolls.
Zoë Hu and Eloise Schieferdecker spent several months in Morocco on an SIT Study Abroad program. They produced this story in association with Round Earth Media, which is mentoring the next generation of global correspondents while producing under-reported stories for top-tier media around the world.
Main photo: Abdelatif Reda engages with one of his regular customers. He has been selling his product since he was 13. Credit: Copyright 2014 Eloise Schieferdecker


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Most organizations choose employee rewards based on budgets, tradition and management choices. Or they may use surveys that solicit preferences but don't analyze the results according to generational differences.
That's a mistake more organizations are trying to rectify. Nearly a third (32%) of HR professionals plan to alter their total rewards programs with generational preferences in mind, according to the new Top Five Total Rewards Priorities survey by Deloitte LLP and the International Society of Certified Employee Benefit Specialists.
That percentage is likely to increase significantly in the future because the workforce is becoming more multigenerational—especially as older workers remain longer to rebuild their nest eggs.
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