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by Martínez-García, Enrique
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on November 4, 2012
Kid Womp takes a little Coldplay and traps the shit out of it. 'Viva La Trap' goes hard and flows hard. He gives us some heavy bass music with a trapped out finish. KW was kind enough to give this one away for free. Download from the palyer below.
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Gingrich to House: Give to NRCC
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Charter school founder's fraud retrial delayed pending competency hearing
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A Philadelphia man pled guilty to using Craigslist to dupe gullible internet users out of $98,000 through a variety of scams, including pretending to hire people for work as a "secret shopper."
Wayne man must pay back $850K in mortgage fraud conspiracy
A Wayne, Pa. man was today sentenced to 33 months in prison for leading a mortgage fraud conspiracy that netted […]
Three men found guilty in New York City payroll fraud case
A U.S. jury convicted three men on Friday in a massive kickback and fraud scheme while implementing a new payroll […]
New York man pleads guilty to 'Rebecca' Broadway scam
In a case prosecutors called "stranger than fiction," a former New York businessman pleaded guilty to defrauding producers of a Broadway production.
Feds: Philly man stole $98K through 'secret shopper' Craigslist scam
David Brister, 56, allegedly posted fake jobs on Craigslist, sent victims counterfeit checks and stole $98,000 in a series of wide-ranging Internet scams.
Nigerian man to serve two years for Craigslist wire fraud scam
Authorities said Nigerian man Adebowale Ayodeji Owoaje worked with Philadelphia-area co-conspirators to defraud Craigslist posters out of over $100,000.


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Hi! I'm Bethany from the kid lit and play blog No Twiddle Twaddle. One of my most popular features is my almost daily list of the best free kids' eBooks available on Amazon. I try to read at least parts of each book on my list, so that I can exclude books with poor grammar and formatting problems. I'm so excited that some of my favorite bloggers are letting me share my list on their blogs today!
Free EBooks for Toddlers and Young Preschoolers:
Little kids will love this sentimental picture book with its cute photos of babies and moms. Author Cindy Bracken is a former Kindergarten teacher and school librarian. This experience flows into her books which are free from grammatical errors and always have large, bright illustrations.
Miller, who is both a successful artist and mother, has published a number of delightful books that she wrote for her own daughters while they were young. Her book Seven Days a Week is a simple explanation of the days of the week illustrated with her popular Little Bunny. Most of her other books are short stories that help explain small life lessons to young children. I especially love that you can go to Miller's website and download free printables to go with her books. In fact, I think I will be printing out her Seven Days a Week Coloring Sheet Mural myself!
Free EBooks for Young Elementary Age Children
Pequena learns to take pride in her heritage and use her natural strengths to help others when she is chosen as a special burro for a birthday party.
This book is part of a series of twenty-five picture books that teach character traits through multicultural stories. The watercolor illustrations in this series are always nice, and these books feature a special tap-to-zoom text that allows you to double tap the text to enlarge it.
Today, you can also download from this same series:
Free EBooks for Tweens
I used to read Gloria Repp's chapter books when I was a kid, and I remember reading them over and over again. I'm delighted that Repp is now releasing books in the Kindle store and even occasionally promoting one for free. Her books also have black and white illustrations by artist Tim Davis.
Successful author Robert Elmer has written several adventure series for children which are available in the Kindle Store and routinely promoted for free. With a bit of patience, you should be able to collect almost all of his books since a new one appears almost every week. This particular series originally was published by Bethany House and is currently out of print.
Free Books for Teenagers
In this first installment of the London Confidential series published by Tyndale Publishing House, American Savvy Smith learns to live out her Christian faith and personal goals while attending a new British school.
You can find more free eBooks for kids today via a Listamania list on my Amazon profile:
Today's Kindle Deal for Kids
I also feature the Kindle Deal many days. The Kindle Deal is a highly discounted book that while not free is usually still a great price on a high quality book.
Today priced at $1.99
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If you enjoyed this list, I hope that you will consider checking out my free kids' eBook lists on No Twiddle Twaddle. I have several subscription options, and I try to publish a list almost every day to be sure that my readers don't miss out on any books!
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Thanks again to Bethany for sharing. If you want more on ebooks from Ready-Set-Read check out these links as well.
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Agriculture economists are predicting a second straight record year for the state's corn production.
Chris Hurt testified Thursday before the US House of Representatives Energy and Power Subcommittee.
Nearly 80 percent of Indiana's corn has been rated good or excellent.
After Congress failed to pass a new version of the farm bill, Purdue agriculture economists say they expect another farm bill extension.
A computer simulation of the corn belt shows corn yields are likely to decline over the next several decades.
The effect of last summer's drought on livestock around the state could be felt for several more years, says one economist.
The dry weather ravaged feed supplies, sharply drove up corn and soybean prices and forced cattle producers to reduce their herds.


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How long after the TT can I wear a Bikini? Dieing to buy one! Should I wait until after the Surgery to buy it? Current Size is 8
- Amy TT April 27th
- Pittsburgh
- 2 years ago
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I'm 3 weeks PO and I can already wear my bathing suit I had before surgery. I will go shopping this week for some new summer suits.
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ugh, i couldn't even imagine shopping yet. i can't button my pre-op pants yet (size 0) because of the swelling
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I have a Question/Comment.................So I heard once you have PS, it becomes addicting. Well, I'm thinking I want to see if I'm a candidate for a Breast Reduction. I can't beleive I'm even thinking about more surgery and I still have a JP drain in! (Must have not been that bad right?!).............Has anyone heard the amount of "time" you should wait before having another surgery? I'm thinking at least 6 months...? Has anyone had 2 PS Surgerys and/or is anyone else thinking of having another procedure done? I'd love to hear from you~ Thanks! Amy from Pittsburgh
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It is addicting !! I am already planning my next one. I have had lipo to almost my whole body, BA, and now a TT with muscle repair with more lipo. I now am planning some facial procedures, maybe laser resurfacing and mini face lift.
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I agree 100%! It's tempting to shop for cute stuff, but it's best to wait.
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It's fun to buy a "Goal" bikini but try to find an inexpensive one. Your shape will change so much after surgery so it's really best to wait as long as you can.
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MAHONING VALLEY, Ohio - As residents living along the Oklahoma tornado's path return to their neighborhoods and sift through the debris, many people here in the Valley are wondering how they can help.
Healthy Living Reporter Kate Keller found out what local organizations are accepting donations.
There are several organizations that people living in the Shenago and Mahoning Valleys can donate to to help those impacted by the tornado, including the Salvation Army, the Second Harvest Food Bank and the American Red Cross.
The path of Monday's deadly tornado stretches nearly 17 miles.
"I don't think anyone can ever anticipate this level of devistation and everybody in the world wants to help," says Karen Conklin of the Mahoning Valley Red Cross.
Emergency crews are still in recovery mode. State and federal resources are being brought in to help, as are organizations like the American Red Cross, Salvation Army and food banks affiliated with Feeding America; all of which have local branches here in the Mahoning Valley that are accepting donations.
"We know our Mahoning Valley is a very generous community," Conklin says.
To donate to the American Red Cross Disaster Relief Fund, you can log on to RedCross.org. you can call 1-800-RED-CROSS or you can donate $10.00 to the Red Cross by texting REDCROSS to 90999.
The Salvation Army in Youngstown is also encouraging monetary donations. Visit salvationarmyusa.org to donate or you call 1-800-SAL-ARMY. You can also text the word STORM to 80888 to make a $10.00 donation.
The Second Harvest Food Bank of the Mahoning Valley is accepting both monetary and food donations at its Salt Springs Road facility. Because of their affiliation with Feeding America, the food bank is collecting food and funds, which will be combine with donations from other Feeding America affiliates and shipped to Oklahoma.
"We are looking for things that are easy to transport, and that will have the ability to be stable for quite awhile," says Mike Iberis of the Mahoning Valley Second Harvest Food Bank.


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My home one. Windows 8.1 with Start 8 :P
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One of my favorites! So easy, so yummy! It's a carnival of flavors!
Flounder with Cilantro-Curry Topping and Toasted Coconut
Photo: Randy Mayor; Jan Gautro
Yield: 4 servings
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Recipe Time
20 Minutes
Nutritional Information
Amount per serving
- Calories: 234
- Fat: 9.5g
- Saturated fat: 2g
- Monounsaturated fat: 5.4g
- Polyunsaturated fat: 1.3g
- Protein: 32.5g
- Carbohydrate: 3.3g
- Fiber: 0.7g
- Cholesterol: 82mg
- Iron: 1mg
- Sodium: 442mg
- Calcium: 41mg
- 1/2 teaspoon salt, divided
- 4 (6-ounce) flounder fillets
- Cooking spray
- 2 tablespoons flaked sweetened coconut
- 1 cup cilantro sprigs
- 2 tablespoons fresh lemon juice
- 2 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil
- 1 teaspoon curry powder
- 3 garlic cloves, peeled
- 1 jalapeño pepper, halved and seeded
- Lemon wedges (optional)
- 1. Preheat broiler.
- 2. Sprinkle 1/4 teaspoon salt over fish. Heat a large nonstick skillet over medium-high heat. Coat pan with cooking spray. Add fish to pan; cook 4 minutes on each side or until fish flakes easily when tested with a fork or until desired degree of doneness.
- 3. Place the coconut on a baking sheet; broil for 2 minutes or until toasted, stirring occasionally.
- 4. Combine remaining 1/4 teaspoon salt, cilantro, and next 5 ingredients (through jalapeño) in a food processor; process until finely chopped. Spoon 2 tablespoons cilantro mixture over each fillet; sprinkle each serving with 1 1/2 teaspoons coconut. Garnish with lemon wedges, if desired.
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- DIETARY CONSIDERATION: Low Carbohydrate
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I only took a couple low level coding classes and that was crazy enough. One of my programs was perfect except it was missing a single semi-colon, so the whole thing crashed. It took me a long time to figure out what was wrong and as soon as I added that one little symbol, it worked great. I'm sure Blizzard has tools to pick up basic errors like that (it was a really basic error), but still...I'd be terrified to look at, much less touch, their mountain of code.
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As a computer lover, and very computer literate person, I thought programming might be a career for me.
One class of "lib.h" and object oriented programming flying over my head like a squadron of F-16s and I was like... yeah, I'm gonna stick to biology and health sciences :P.
And just so I don't have to put a separate post up, kudos to blizz for a reasonable policy, no bans/suspensions unless people were really egregious. I can't imagine PvP rankings would be out of whack that much, especially when people realized what was going on, I'd have to imagine most people who weren't paladins probably stopped queueing for ranked matches last night.
There was someone who put a decimal point in the wrong spot in a line of code on a game I worked for once and it caused the entire system to crash. Took us about 12 hours just to get access to the files in the ftp server so we could remove anything added within the last week and sift through it all to figure out where the problem was.


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Simply Depression
by jendoop
This essay is a part of our Peculiar Minds series.
I have Depression. It sounds so weird to say, using a verb as a noun. It's like the financial blight of the early 20th century took up lodging in my gut or something. It's an odd thing, which really goes without saying. If there is one universal about mental illness, it's that it is odd. It is the very definition of odd: "Not regular, expected, or planned.*"
Sure enough, this is not what I had planned. I planned to get married in the temple, have children and live happily ever after. While I've been blessed with the first two, the third is lacking. Oh my land, how it is lacking in these cloudy Midwestern winter days!
My diagnosis came in my early 20's and was actually quite a relief. I was ecstatic (not an emotion you imagine a person with Depression feeling) to find out that the greyness which I attributed to being tired and lazy was in fact, odd: "Differing in nature from what is ordinary.*" The giddiness came from learning that my life and emotions could improve; I wasn't doomed to feel that way forever. Since then I've lived through many ups and downs, and I hold on for the ups when the downs are desperate.
I go through different stages of accepting this label of Depression, and accepting it is vital to becoming who God wants me to be. Early on my husband and I agreed that simplicity is important for me, so we've turned our backs on a lot of the usual suburban Mormon activities for our kids, like soccer, girl scouts, and dance lessons. Part of that simplicity is being careful what I let into my mind. When I say that I'm not talking about actual viewing, reading, hearing (while that does have its importance); I'm talking about what I hear, accept as true, and then try to incorporate into my life. I think the scriptures call it hearkening.
It probably goes without saying, because I'm writing on this faith-supporting, LDS-themed website, that the gospel of Jesus Christ is one of the things I've let into my mind. Through difficult experiences I've had to learn what, exactly, the gospel is and what it is not.
An example of something I did not let into my mind is a quote I heard last Sunday, which, despite it sounding so sweet and perfect at first, I threw it away:
"Listen earnestly to anything [your children] want to tell you, no matter what. If you don't listen eagerly to the little stuff when they are little, they won't tell you the big stuff when they are big, because to them all of it has always been big stuff." –Catharine M. Wallace
My son talks nonstop about the endless minutia that is an eleven year old boy's life, from the time he walks in the door from school until he finally quiets when the toothbrush goes in his mouth at bedtime. There is no way in the world I could accomplish anything, let alone maintain a positive mental attitude, if I listened to his every word like it was his confession to robbing a bank. My sanity demands filtering and quiet, and honestly, he needs to learn to think quietly in his own mind, to be alone with his thoughts. I'm sure his wife will thank me later for teaching him this.
Another thing, one that I hear so very often in religious conversations, that I can't let into my mind is, "God won't give you more than you can handle."
My dear reader, there are many people to whom God has handed more than they can handle. Right this minute there are men and women, our brothers and sisters, in hospitals who have been given more than they could handle. And I'm not only talking about the mentally infirm, there are physical infirmities that are too great for us to handle. (Although mood disorders are chemically-based, and can also be seen as a physical infirmity.) Not to be overly morbid, but I assure you that there are multitudes in heaven who would say that of course God gave them more than they could handle, and it killed them.
In these situations the way a person who has been handed more than they can handle can survive is by depending on other people. Just as a person with a heart attack can't make their own breakfast, or can't make it to the bathroom on their own, a person with mental illness needs the help of others. Neither person looks very much different on the outside; a heart attack doesn't make your nose glow orange, nor does mental illness change a person's appearance. (If you don't believe me look at the fabulous-looking people who wrote posts for the Peculiar Minds series.) Their illnesses are no less real because they can't be seen by an outside observer; the fact remains that they need assistance. If you don't know what this feels like, to be given more than you can handle, then you are one of the people who are called to assist those whose hands are full and hang down. (Heb. 12:12-13)
I'm grateful beyond my ability to express for those who have lifted my heavy hands by holding them in their own, and strengthened my feeble knees by feeding my soul. My family helped when God handed me more than I could handle, most especially my husband and my older sister. My extended family has played a role too, loving me and laughing with me (sometimes at me, and I laugh at them too). There are many professionals who've helped me carry what God has handed me: therapists, doctors, nurses, and even a cold psychiatrist that wasn't very kind, was helpful. Friends are, and have been, very important, as are visiting teachers, leaders who lead with compassionate instruction, and teachers who teach the pure doctrines of Christ.
When I focus on those pure doctrines, the heart of the gospel of Jesus Christ, life is simple. To me it sounds as simple as the testimonies I heard in the Spanish branch I attended years ago, "Jesus vive!" Because Jesus lives and his followers act as he would act, with compassion and without judgment, I have hope and still feel giddy with the knowledge that I can progress, including one day giving up this odd body to receive a resurrected body without this silly verb used as a noun, Depression, trapped inside.
*definitions from online dictionaries
The Entire Series
- Forum – Is Mental Illness a Latter Day Plague?
- Resources (research)
- Resources for Help with Mental Illness by Paul
- Understanding PTSD by Robin Grosland
- Anxiety Disorders, Including PTSD (research)
- The Diagnosis by anonymous
- Understanding Asperger's by Kathy Ward
- Understanding Dementia by Cassandra Jones
- Different Issues for Children (research)
- Asperger's and Autism (research)
- Simply Depression by Jendoop
- How to Help Someone Who is Depressed: an LDS perspective by Sarah Hancock
- Forum – Does Committing Suicide Consign Someone to Hell?
- The Well of Depression by Cheryl
- Panic, OCD, Grandma and Me by NotMolly
- Understanding Panic Disorder, Agoraphobia, and OCD by Robison Wells
- Free at Last by anonymous
- Forum – No One Wants to Hear They're Wrong
- Understanding P0rnography Addiction by Dr. Kevin Skinner
- What is Real? Living Without Diagnosis by anonymous
- A Reader's Story of Hope by anonymous
- Understanding Bipolar II Disorder by Tresa Edmunds (Reese Dixon)
- What is Bipolar Disorder? (research)
- Choosing Treatment through Revelation by Bonnie
- Overcoming Anxiety and Depression Without Medication by Aaron Anderson
- How Do We Embrace Those with Mental Illness by Jendoop
- What is Schizophrenia? (research)
- Understanding Schizophrenia by Judy Hall
- Understanding a Roommate with Schizophrenia by anonymous
- Understanding Borderline Personality Disorder by Melissa Horsley
- My Path Down the Rabbit Hole by anonymous
- Mental Illness FHE Lesson by Jendoop
- Healing by Michelle
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33 Responses to Simply Depression
Well put Kathryn, I think most people can find someway to relate. For me, getting to know a person, the complexities of their life and their hopes and dreams, prevents me from judging harshly. Often it's like CS Lewis said, I'm in awe. Especially in light of how well they are doing considering all of their challenges. Too often we hide though, and don't allow others to see us in that light because we're too afraid of being judged (me included).
My heart goes out to the young mother Kathryn. Don't you wish you could go back and show her what great people those babies have become? Part of what can make depression, especially post partum, more difficult is the expectation of how you should feel. I think the altered brain chemicals put you at a disadvantage to ward off those negative thoughts.
I've thought a lot this week about why medication and therapy and exercise, and eating well, and all those doctor recommendations are worthwhile if its really only a brain chemistry issue. Looking back on my years without medication- I made a mess of some things in my own head in an effort to cope, so although medication can moderate chemical imbalances I need to re-learn healthy ways of thinking and interacting. I need an outside observer to be honest about those issues to enable me fix them. I need to make efforts to eat healthy because for too long rich sweet food was the best way to have positive feelings, if only for a moment. While at the same time a way to punish myself for feeling bad. Exercise is my brain telling my body that it is in charge, that this body is useful and strong.
Recovery in all its forms is a great blessing, light and merciful, but also layered and difficult- also totally worth it and part of my progression.
I appreciate this so much as I struggle with depression for a variety of reasons stemming from the recent death of my brother. As you state so well, we are routinely given things that are more than we can handle. That is the whole point of mortal existence – to see if we will turn to the Savior for help and avail ourselves of the Atonement when those moments in life come, as well as to those around us. To believe that we will always be able to handle what life throws at us, on our own, only leads to further depression and a lot of useless questions like "Why did this happen to me?"
Bless you for sharing!
Thank you momjulee, my condolences on losing your brother. Your comments about Christ are spot on. I wonder if I didn't mention him enough in the original post. The atonement sets everything right in the end, and God looks at things with an eternal perspective. He knows that whatever we experience in this life will be overcome in the eternities through Christ. Bless you in your ongoing efforts to overcome depression.
I just want to say thank you for sharing this. Depression is an almost constant companion and there are days when I have to look at life one minute at a time or I don't think I can go on. We never know who is dealing with this. Thank you.
Mary, I'm sorry that your days and minutes are currently so difficult. I keep hope that things can be better and that good moments can peek through the clouds. Keep going! I hope you are also receiving the help and support you need.
Bonnie, I look closely at words and try hard to limit my interpretations only to what the actual words mean.
In the case of 1 Cor. 10:13, we are told that there are no "temptations" that we will not be able to escape and bear. It does not say there is no burden or trial that will be too much to bear. I don't see suicide, for example, as a "temptation" in the case of someone who is suffering from depression. I see it as more of an alternate reality – the result of forces outside "temptation". Seeing it that way allows me to place such things outside the arena of sin and move them firmly into the field of transgression – those "wrong" actions done out of ignorance or lack of capacity (the result of "Adam's transgression"), covered fully by the Atonement.
That is a critical distinction to me, since I can't look around the fallen world in which we live, with all the depravity we humans inflict on each other, and classify those trials as "temptations".
I wrote a response to this – somewhere – at 5am in the morning. That's early for me. It's now 5:30pm and I have spent time on and off through this day discussing this article with various people. My days of deepest darkest depression are well behind me now; and may they stay there. However the memories & lessons linger. I've decided at this end of the day that it doesn't matter if we are told think or know we can bear what comes into our lives. Most of us simply do. Some days we do it well and other days not so well. We all need love and support no matter what we struggle with. We need Christlike tolerance and acceptance. Thank you Jen for sharing, for causing discussion. I love you for your courage and honesty.
Jane in Australia
Thank you for this post, especially debunking the "more than you can handle" ridiculousness. One of the reasons singles' ward was so difficult for me was the chipper women parroting this trope about being single. There I sat, happily, THANKFULLY single, knowing the depths of not being able to handle the things one is handed. I hate almost everything about my life with a passion mitigated only by rigorously not thinking about it…simplifying, as you say. Especially when something comes along that robs my sleep, it feels like one more grain of rice added to my plate will cause the whole thing to come spinning down.
One doesn't have to be clinically depressed to know what this feels like. All of us are depressed at some time or other in our lives, especially when we are given more than we can handle and have no one to rely upon to make up the difference.
Take courage, Jen. You're amazing. And I think learning how to focus on the most important things is one of the more impressive lessons to be learned in mortality, where we are by definition limited in our abilities.
As a psychiatric nurse, I have seen many wrong diagnoses. Sometimes a mood stabilizer works better with or instead of antidepressants.
what is a mood stabilizer? Can you give me an example? I'm on Effexor and Lamotrigine. I recently added Welbutrin, but life is still hard and you can't take that away! I have a brother who is bi-polar and a neice and nephew (different siblings) that are diagnosed as well. I know you can't diagnose, but advice would be nice.
I dislike that quote about God not giving us anything we can't handle, because what people miss is that some times we give ourselves things we can't handle. For instance, I too deal with depression and I have not been reading, praying, trusting God so I have made my trials more difficult because I have not turned to him who will strengthen me. Instead I flounder on my own.
Do other people give us things we can't handle? Are there times when we should of said no, or I'm not accepting that gift (guilt). I overhead a sister in my ward tell another sister that if we say yes to everything, our yes's don't mean much. But if we say no to some things, then when we say yes, people are grateful and it's a positive experience for us as well.
I think you simplifying your life is a great idea. It's one I need to implement. It's hard because I am a keeper of papers, and crafts and decorations and …. Oh and I don't have a husband or kids or even a good job that gives me an identity. Staying up is difficult. I'm 40 and dislike my situation greatly. I want a magic wand! I'm on meds too!
Also prozac only works for 10 years.
I have always taken for granted that God will not give us more than we can bear. I suppose what "bear" means can be questioned. I would agree with the idea that some people are definitely pushed beyond what they are accountable for – clinical depression and mental illness would seem to fall into these categories.
I was actually thinking about this yesterday when I wrote a blog post about the poor. There is a great deal of acrimony around how we as a society treat the poor and homeless. Many people seem to think that people are poor because of something that they did, or failed to do. My experience tells me that many, many people are victims of circumstance or mental health. http://www.coryhuff.com/time-with-the-poor
I got completely choked up as I read your article. Thank you for sharing 'our' story for those who have suffered with depression. I have enjoyed this series and all the honesty, wisdom and truth I've found. Thank you for sharing your story and your journey….and especially your talents!


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Log press
- worked up in 5's to a very easy 205x5
Yoke/Barrel carry
- 315 yoke - 175lb barrel - 20m each way x 2
Speed deadlifts
- 265 x 2 x 6
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Saturday - Last session before deload
Log press
- worked up in 5's to a very easy 205x5
Yoke/Barrel carry
- 315 yoke - 175lb barrel - 20m each way x 2
Speed deadlifts
- 265 x 2 x 6
haha thanks coke! When im hitting 800 raw we can talk about super lifting!
thanks Brian, it looked easier on vid than it felt. I hit a wall about half way up and thought here we go. Felt...
pr is a pr, solid work gaz
I like travis' attitude a whole lot towards the subject.
I think a lot of people will deny using or be hesitant to talk about this kind of stuff for sponsor reasons too.
CGBP (thumbs from smooth)
95 x 10
135 x 10
175 x 10
225 x 5
265 x 3
285 x 1
315 x 1 (pb @ CG)
265 x 6
Tonight's penultimate squats
135 x 5
225 x 5
315 x 5
405 x 3
add belt
495 x 1
add wraps
congrats on the race gaz!
did some pressing. Better than nothing but not better than event training.
Push Press (1st real time focusing on push)
135 x 5
135 x 3
155 x 3
170 x 3
190 x 8 (log comp weight)
205 x 3
no worries B, Reaping the rewards of a long succesful training cycle! hopefully rest of the year follows suit and I could be putting up some good numbers!
haha thanks coke!
Its about god damn time! well overdue and congrats! Glad you can ease back into the lower body work now too!
- worked upto 475 for 8 reps in 75 seconds...
although I stopped around 60. Wasn't there today.
did some back work after:
-DB rows
-Low neutral grip rows
-Reverse pec dec
I wonder if he uses the dynamic effort method?
All seriousness, that's very very impressive. Here's a vid where they strap him to the bench, I've seen a few others before too. I think he weighs in...
Take it for what it is. Comedy, it gave me a little laugh.
Close grip Bench (thumbs from smooth)
bar x few x few
95 x 5
135 x 5
175 x 5
225 x 5
265 x 6
300 x 3 (PR i think.. still must get better)
bar x few x few
135 x 10 x 2
225 x 5
315 x 5
405 x 1
add belt
495 x 1
add wraps
530 x 1
thanks hayden
Thursday Deadlift
Front squats vs chain
bar x few x few
bar + 50 chain x 5
135 + 50 chain x 5 x 2
175 + 50 chain x 5 x 3
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Myth #4: Olympic lifts are the only way to get explosive.
Most people say they perform the Olympic lifts because they're "explosive." The truth of the matter...
thats nasty. Hope you heal up quickly justin.
Close grip bench - thumbs from smooth
bar x lots
95 x 10
135 x 10
175 x 10
235 x 8
255 x 8
Close grip incline
225 x 5
worked upto 505 and shut it down.
Wasn't feeling great, will be back on form next week and week after, hitting some singles and in pursuit of that 575 or as close as I can get before this...


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Glow sticks, flashlights, and bubble wrap, use your imagination this Independence Day!
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Don't attempt to relight a dud.
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If unable to secure a safe area, simply leave the lighting to professionals.
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Have your child wear protective eyewear, long sleeves, pants and close-toed shoes if they are going to be near and/or handleing fireworks.
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Be sure to buy fireworks from a legal authorized dealer.
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Set-up and ensure your children respect a safety zone, at a safe distance from the firework display.
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Thursday's hearing was mainly to explain the standards, described as a state-led effort to provide students with critical thinking, problem solving and strong writing skills they need to help prepare them for college and global competition in the workforce.
Supporters and opponents of the standards will speak at Friday's hearing.
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Downtown revitalization presented to council Featured
- Written by Jasmine Cupp
Downtown plan for Madison Street.
On Wednesday, March 26, Poggemeyer Design Group presented their renderings for the revitalization of downtown Port Clinton. Poggemeyer has met with council two times prior and spoke with citizens at those meetings to get their ideas of what they would like to see in the downtown area. With these latest renderings that have been presented, Poggemeyer has taken design, organization, promotion, and economic structuring into consideration. This particular meeting was focused on design.
Even though the meeting focused on design, Lauren Falcone and Greg Telecky, representatives from Poggemeyer, gave a brief finding of the market study of the area done by Boulevard Strategy out of Columbus. The market study found that manufacturing, medical, service, and food were the growing areas of industry in the area; the highest being food service. Poggemeyer also found that the office market is shrinking, but the medical industry of the area is growing.
"People are coming to the community," said Falcone, "we just need to get them to stay here."
Another bit of information they shared is that Ottawa County is losing boating sales to Erie County. Erie County is growing in the recreational industry and Ottawa County is shrinking.
"In Ottawa County, most of the business is driven by local people," said Falcone. "We need to aim towards locals and then to the tourists."
Falcone explained that their findings were people of the area want coffee shops, social venues and restaurants.
"We need to give them what they need to do what they want," said Falcone.
Overview of the downtown proposed projects as presented by Poggemeyer.
Before Poggemeyer went into the design portion, they touched on the organization and promotion aspects of the plan. Falcone explained that they are looking towards Main Street Port Clinton for help with that.
"We are taking events you already have and plan on making them better," said Falcone.
When the design portion of the meeting started Mayor Leone was invited up to talk a little bit about the rendering that was presented. He had four main points:
•"We are waiting for the call from the Army Corp of Engineers about the preserve on Perry Street. They're not spending all that money on design for nothing."
•"Everything must happen together all at once."
•"We need to set the stage of the downtown to be welcoming."
•"The anchors that Rose proposed (development of the park and revitalization of downtown) are vital. It's like going to the mall and their being a Macy's on one end and a Penny's on the other."
After the mayor spoke, Telecky started to explain the rendering further. The rendering was a conceptual drawing of downtown Madison Street. The plan is to totally replace all infrastructure; water, sewer and storm drainage. There will be a reconstruction of the entire street. The sidewalks are proposed to be widened to accommodate for outdoor dining and more foot traffic. Street lighting will be changed and there will be planters throughout the area.
"It will get a complete facelift," said Telecky.
A kiosk is also proposed for north Madison Street. Poggemeyer suggested the kiosk because once someone is downtown they'll know exactly where to go. The angle of the parking is also planned to change for more space.
Drawing of the proposed kiosk and Ron Aukerman, Mike Snider, Margaret Phillips, Nicole DeFreitas, Jerry Tarolli and Police Chef Rob Hickman listening in the background.
The project is estimated to cost 3.5 million dollars. Poggemeyer gave a list of grant possibilities to the council. Some of the grants listed have already had applications submitted.
"We've never went somewhere and had this big of a list of grant opportunities," said Falcone.
Falcone and Telecky explained that the timing of the proposed development and the other things that are happening around town (the stadium renovation, the Perry Street preserve) Port Clinton is more likely to see the grant money come through.
"It's like the perfect storm," said Falcone.
"We need to the two top biggest grants to do this," said Mayor Leone. "If we would have to put more money than that into the project it would impact the day to day running of our city and we won't do that."
Poggemeyer said that they should know by the end of the 2014 calendar year if the project will go forward. Falcone and Telecky said that on the grant applications they are writing that the development of Waterworks Park is pending. The development is not dependent on the project, but grants are more likely if the development goes forward.


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1963, East Germany (DEFA), b/w, 109 min. English subtitles
Dir.: Konrad Wolf
Script: Christa Wolf
Camera: Werner Bermann
Music: Hanns-Dieter Hosalla
Cast: Renate Blume, Eberhard Esche, Hans
Hardt-Hardtloff, Hilmar Thate
16mm, English subtitles - renting information
Produced during the brief
cultural thaw in the early 1960s, this film was strongly influenced by Resnais'
Hiroshima mon amour in its form and its exploration of the dangerous
quest for a female identity against the backdrop of momentous historical events,
in this case the building of the Berlin Wall.
Christa Wolf's work on this adaptation of her novel, with its bold
cinematic with narrative fragmentation, also influenced her ground-breaking
novel from the same period, The Quest for Christa T.
This film anticipated by one year the numerous films banned in 1965 for
being too much influenced by the "decadent" new waves of the West, and
disappeared with them into the archives.
Greeted by the Süddeutsche Zeitung
as "perhaps the best German film since the war," the rediscovery of this film in
the context of German unification prompted a Western television journalist to
claim, "The New German Cinema happened first at DEFA."
the Director:
On October 20, 1925 Konrad Wolf was born in
Hechingen. His father, Friedrich
Wolf, was a prominent doctor as well as a writer, known especially for his
anti-fascist activism. Because of Friedrich Wolf's political activities, the
family went into exile in 1934. In
March of that year, they settled in Moscow. Konrad and his brother Markus
attended the German Karl-Liebknecht-School in Moscow. In 1936 the Wolf family became citizens of the Soviet Union. In December of 1942, at 17 years of age,
Konrad voluntarily enlisted in the Red Army.
In January he was sent to the front, where he served primarily as an
interpreter. He took part in the
liberation of Warsaw in 1945 and was later awarded the Red Star for his military
service. After the war ended, Wolf
worked for the Berliner Zeitung as a
reporter of local news and took part in the founding of DEFA. In 1954 Wolf began
his career as a director with DEFA.
Over the course of this career, he directed numerous films and became
internationally renowned for his work, especially his anti-fascist films.
Wolf took over the position of President of the Academy of Arts in 1965, a post
that he held for 17 years. He died
on March 7, 1982 before completing his final film
Busch Singt. He received numerous awards for his
filmmaking, such as the Karlovy Vary Grand Prize for
Lissy in 1957, the Special prize of
the Jury at Cannes 1959 for Sterne, and Prize for the Arts of the Society
for German-Soviet Friendship for
Sonnensucher and Ich war neunzehn
in 1975.
Major Films:
Einmal ist keinmal (1954/55),
Genesung (1956), Lissy (1957),
Sonnensucher (1958),
Sterne (1959),
Professor Mamlock (1960/61),
Der geteilte Himmel (1963/64), Der
kleine Prinz (1966), Ich war neunzehn
(1968), Goya (1971),
Der nackte Mann auf dem Sportplatz (1974),
Mama, ich lebe (1977), Solo
Sunny (1980), Busch singt (1982).
Related reading:
Byg, Barton. "History, Mourning and Theories of
Feminine Identity:
Der geteilte Himmel and
Hiroshima mon amour. Ms.
Currently available in
DEFA Film Criticism in English: An Anthology. University of Massachusetts Amherst,
DEFA Film Library, 1999.
- - - . "Konrad Wolf: From Anti-Fascism to
Studies in GDR Culture and Society, 5: Selected Papers from the Tenth New
Hampshire Symposium on the German Democratic Republic. Margy Gerber, ed.
(1985): 115-124.
Coulson, Anthony
S. "Paths of Discovery: The Films of Konrad Wolf." DEFA:
East German Cinema, 1946-1992.
Seán Allan and John Sandford, eds.
New York: Berghahn, 1999. 164-182.
Joyce, Steven. "The Politics of Love: Ideology and
Romance in Christa Wolf's Der geteilte Himmel." New German Studies. 13.1 (Spring
1985) 31-49.
Silberman, Marc. "Remembering History: The Filmmaker Konrad Wolf." New German Critique 49 (Winter
1990): 163-191.
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Coldplay's full-court press for Ghost Stories continues to dominate NBC's airwaves, the latest stop coming Tuesday night (May 6) on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. Instead of working through new single "A Sky Full Of Stars," they performed dependable lead single "Magic." As with their SNL performance a few nights prior, the set was adorned with paper stars worthy of a high school play.
Unlike the SNL stint, for their second song (a web exclusive) the Brits broke out "Always In My Head," the track that features vocals from Chris Martin and Gwyneth Paltrow's daughter Apple.
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If you are eating fast food on a budget, you can pretty much count on a couple of things. One, you'll be getting too much sodium. Two, you probably won't be meeting your requirements for fish, fruit and vegetables that any dietician would recommend. But for $10, you can map out a day of eating on the road that is high in protein, fairly low in fat and sugar, and pretty much delicious from start to finish.
BREAKFAST: Coffee and a banana from Cumberland Farms.
COST: Around $1.75
CALORIES: 250 FAT: 1 gram
PROTEIN: 5g SODIUM: 140 milligrams
OK, Cumberland Farms isn't exactly fast food, but it does offer the best breakfast value around. Avoid the high cost of Dunkin' Donuts or Honeydew in favor of Cumby's $1 large coffee, fix it however you like, and add a banana (right by the checkout). And, for just a dollar more, a copy of The Standard-Times! Sustenance for your mind, body and soul!
LUNCH: Large chili, garden side salad from Wendy's.
COST: Around $3.75
CALORIES: 430 FAT: 15.5 g
PROTEIN: 28g SODIUM: 1590 mg
If places like Wendy's really wanted to do right by their customers, they would push the chili above all other items. Cheap, full of protein, low in fat, slow-simmered and delicious, it's only about $2.50 for a large. Add a side salad with one of the lower-calorie dressings, and you've officially eaten a good lunch — although the sodium count here is a concern for anyone watching their intake.
DINNER: Bean burrito and a crunchy taco from Taco Bell.
COST: Around $3
CALORIES: 575 FAT: 24 g
PROTEIN: 21g SODIUM: 1350mg
Taco Bell probably has the best options overall, with a special healthy menu to offer and several good options on the regular side. Try adding different sides (35 cents each) to the bean burrito, and a good old-fashioned crunchy taco always hits the spot, with an assortment of taco sauces to choose from.
Dessert: Vanilla frozen yogurt cone from McDonald's.
CALORIES: 170 FAT: 4.5 g
PROTEIN: 5g SODIUM: 90 mg
I probably get two of these a week — good size, not too much sugar, delicious overall. They have a chocolate dipped cone for 39 cents more, which is not as sensible but is awesome. If you have a 5-year-old to split it with you, it's guilt-free!
For 20 years, I was a card-carrying member of "Combo Nation." There were more days than I'd like to remember that started with a No. 2 value meal for breakfast, a No. 4 for lunch and a No. 7 (supersized!) for dinner. These days ended with a sore stomach, frayed emotions and a light wallet.
I was overweight, and angry — why did these fast food joints have to be so tempting, keeping me coming back for more and more even though I wanted it less and less?
Then I had gastric bypass surgery, lost a whole person's worth of weight, and broke the cycle of fast-food abuse.
But a funny thing happened along the way — I realized that the fast food chains weren't really to blame.
Well, not completely, at least.
They certainly try to push their high-calorie, high-sodium, high-sugar specials, and while some of that is the law of supply and demand, some of it is a bit sinister as well.
However, when I returned to the drive-thru after a few months with my surgically altered stomach, I found that there were plenty of things out there that fit right into my generally healthy diet — and my ever tightening budget, as well. Fast food is certainly a better choice than the sitdown chains like Applebee's or 99, which cost three times as much and usually send you home with twice the calories under your belt.
For me, switching gears in regards to fast food was easy. With a tiny stomach, I couldn't pig out if I wanted to — my old supersized combo (with the second sandwich on the side) would take the better part of a day to eat, and half of the joy of those combos is wolfing them down as if it were the last meal you'd ever have on earth. Fast food isn't so great eaten slow.
For you? Depends on your take on fast food. For many people, fast food trips are an occasional splurge, and in that case you might as well go all out and feed your need — after all, fast food is pretty delicious, the product of millions of dollars in research and development.
But if your lifestyle sends you to a drive-thru two or three or four times a week, there's a better way.
Some things you should never (or always) do:
The combo meal is fast food at its worst, in many ways. The burger chains inflate the cost of a sandwich to make the "value" part of the meals seem impossible to pass up.
A burger costs $4.49, but the combo is only $6.79 — only $2.30 for fries and a drink? How could I pass that up! But in addition to this being a classic bait and switch — these companies know how to sell you, and use it to their advantage — it also adds a tremendous amount of calories. A large fries and large regular Coke from McDonald's adds 810 calories to your day, more than a third of what an average person should be eating. A better suggestion? Bring your water bottle from work, order the value-size fries (230 calories, $1) and save money and calories.
Which brings me to my next point ...
This seems a little arbitrary, but I've found that when it comes to approaching food (or anything) it's good to place limits.
For $4, you're not going to be able to afford the aforementioned value combo, and you're not going to be able to eat enough to absolutely bust a gut — although there are value-menu items at any chain that allow you to go for quantity.
For $4, you can get a salad with meat, a kids meal, a burger and small fries, a couple of burritos, maybe a side or two, but you won't be able to really go crazy. If you eat fast food twice a week and you spend $4 instead of $7, that's a savings of $300 a year and three pounds. Sounds like a fair trade to me.
My friend Jamie is a borderline "free-gan."
He's anti-consumerism, and believes deeply in getting the most out of every dollar he spends. We went to Taco Bell together a few months back, and I learned a lot from watching his approach.
We went in the restaurant (always a good choice), ordered frugally, loaded up on sauces and forks and napkins and everything, got free ice water and generally treated our $6 lunch like it was a Thanksgiving feast.
He also made it a point to thank the cashier for a great meal, which got a surprised reaction that was priceless.
If you're going the drive-thru route, ask for condiments on the side and make sure that your food is made specifically how you want it.
At its core, going to a fast food restaurant is "eating out." It's a treat, something to be enjoyed. And in addition to being kind of dangerous (and I'm fairly sure illegal), eating while you're driving takes away the joy of eating.
You want to eat the food while it's hot, so find a secluded parking spot somewhere with some shade, put some nice music on, and savor your meal. Chew it, even! You'll register being full faster and de-stress in the bargain.
Drive-thrus are convenient, but there is a certain amount of performance anxiety that they produce — especially if there are a few cars lined up behind you. All of the fast food chains have their menus available online, with nutrition information attached. In some local locations, this caloric info appears on the menuboards as well, and some states like California require this. Get a sense of what you might want to get in advance, and when it's time for you to step up to the mic and deliver your lunchtime soliloquy, do so with confidence and gusto. And don't worry about the guy behind you getting impatient. He can wait.
Obviously, eating balanced meals at home makes a lot more sense than any of the plans listed above. But in a realistic world, where people find themselves loose in the world and hungry, you could also do a lot worse than fast food. If you keep your head clear, your pursestrings tight and your taste buds tuned, you just might get all of the good things fast food has to offer ... with none of the pitfalls.
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The Ahmedabad Rockets is one of the eight teams in the Essel Group-backed Indian Cricket League. It represents the city of Ahmedabad, Gujarat. The captain of the team is Damien Martyn (the former Australian batsman) and the coach of the team is John Emburey (the former England off-spinner). The Rockets side includes four foreign players, namely paceman Heath Streak and middle-order batsman Murray Goodwin from Zimbabwe, paceman Jason Gillespie from Australia and opening batsman Wavell Hinds from the West Indies. The Indian players in the Rockets squad include Abhishek Tamrakar, Anshu Jain, Baburao Yadav, Pallav Vora, Parviz Aziz, P. Bhima Rao, Rakesh Patel, Reetinder Singh Sodhi, Sachin Dholpure, Sanjeev Martin, Sridharan Sriram and Sumit Kalia.Answered by Akshay Kalbag, 27 Mar '08 06:53 pm
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06 5 / 2012
We Are Everywhere
by Cheryl Clarke, Living as a Lesbian
We are everywhere and white people still do not see us.
They force us from sidewalks.
Mistake us for men.
Expect us to give up our seats to them on the bus.
Challenge us with their faces.
Are afraid of us in groups.
Thus the brutal one on one.
Like a t.v. news script, every transition frustrates
rage. Hand in hand with me
you admonish
not to let them come between us
not to let them come between us on the street.
We are struck by war crazy men
recording their gunfire on stereo cassette decks.
05 5 / 2012
Genuine Desire by Vivienne Louise
"Why don't white lesbians have a genuine desire to learn from lesbians of African descent?"
05 5 / 2012
"The genius of any slave system is found in the dynamics which isolate slaves from each other, obscure the reality of a common condition, and make united rebellion against the oppressor inconceivable."
05 5 / 2012
"Racism, sexism, heterosexism, and class exploitation as systems of oppression all draw upon varying dimensions of this logic of segregation. Segregate people into boxes of ghettos, barrios, closets, and prisons, rank the boxes as being fundamentally separate and unequal, and keep the entire system intact by forbidding individuals to get to know one another as fully human beings."
05 5 / 2012
"For to survive in the mouth of this dragon that we call america, we have had to learn this first and most vital lesson - that we were never meant to survive. Not as human beings. And neither were most of you here today, Black or not. And that visibility which makes us most vulnerable is that which also is the source of our greatest strength. Because the machine will try to grind you into dust anyway, whether or not we speak. We can sit in our corners mute forever while our sisters and our selves are wasted, while our children are distorted and destroyed, while our earth is poisoned; we can sit in our safe corners mute as bottles, and we will still be no less afraid."
05 5 / 2012
"Women of today are still being called upon to stretch across the gap of male ignorance and to educate men as to our existence and our needs. This is an old and primary tool of all oppressors to keep the oppressed occupied with the master's concerns. Now we hear that it is the task of women of Color to educate white women — in the face of tremendous resistance — as to our existence, our differences, our relative roles in our joint survival. This is a diversion of energies and a tragic repetition of racist patriarchal thought."
05 5 / 2012
"Traditionally, in american society, it is the members of oppressed, objectified groups who are expected to stretch out and bridge the gap between the actualities of our lives and the consciousness of our oppressor. For in order to survive, those of us for whom oppression is as american as apple pie have always had to be watchers, to become familiar with the language and manners of the oppressor, even sometimes adopting them for some illusion of protection. Whenever the need for some pretense of communication arises, those who profit from our oppression call upon us to share our knowledge with them. In other words, it is the responsibility of the oppressed to teach the oppressors their mistakes. I am responsible for educating teachers who dismiss my children's culture in school. Black and Third World people are expected to educate white people as to our humanity. Women are expected to educate men. Lesbians and gay men are expected to educate the heterosexual world. The oppressors maintain their position and evade responsibility for their own actions. There is a constant drain of energy which might be better used in redefining ourselves and devising realistic scenarios for altering the present and constructing the future."
05 5 / 2012
"Those of us who stand outside the circle of this society's definition of acceptable women; those of us who have been forged in the crucibles of difference — those of us who are poor, who are lesbians, who are Black, who are older — know that survival is not an academic skill. It is learning how to stand alone, unpopular and sometimes reviled, and how to make common cause with those others identified as outside the structures in order to define and seek a world in which we can all flourish. It is learning how to take our differences and make them strengths. For the master's tools will never dismantle the master's house. They may allow us temporarily to beat him at his own game, but they will never enable us to bring about genuine change. And this fact is only threatening to those women who still define the master's house as their only source of support."
Audre Lorde
"The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House"
(via discosunfish)
05 5 / 2012
"For women, the need and desire to nurture each other is not pathological but redemptive, and it is within that knowledge that our real power is rediscovered. It is this real connection which is so feared by a patriarchal world…Interdependency between women is the way to a freedom which allows the I to be, not in order to be used, but in order to be creative. This is a difference between the passive be and the active being."
Audre Lorde
"The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House"
(via discosunfish)


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This morning, James Blake got out of bed with his fans in mind. "Voyeur (Dub)" was the first track to hit the net yesterday, and has since been fighting to stay online after numerous attempts of removal. Blake then let loose "Digital Lion" featuring Brian Eno, this track embodies Blake at his best and most complex. Listen to "Digital Lion" below, and keep an eye out for Blake's forthcoming Overgrown project next month.
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The Vault
AgentS©ott Treimel NY
BlogYep--whew! A blog
Tori SladeAbout my daughter
Dief the ChiefJohn Diefenbaker Bio
Short StoriesGydian S. White Redux
ARTiclesWhen Heroes Die Writing Comics
Review ZoneBooks for Young Adults Books for Adults Graphic Novels
Odds 'n' EndsPage of Slades Links
Now you've done it.
The vault was locked for a reason, kid!
If you are interested in the rights to any of my work then please contact my agent S©ott Treimel NY.
Arthur Slade's Blog
Reading my work isn't enough? How about reading every single last boring thought I've ever had? Just Click: Bloggity Blog Blog.
Tori Slade
A page about my daughter and Down Syndrome: Tori!
John Diefenbaker: An Appointment with Destiny
My biography of Canada's greatest prime minister to come from Prince Albert: Dief!
Short Stories
We start off with two of my fantasy stories. Gydian Fights His Greatest Foe appeared as a back-up story in Hallowed Knight #1. Snow White and the Seven Elves was broadcast on CBC Radio Saskatchewan in the spring of 2000.
When Heroes Die is an article about the death of my brother. It appeared in Transition Magazine. How to Write Comics the Real Way was published in Freelance Magazine and Byline.
Review Zone
This is where I take a stab at reviewing other writers' books. There are reviews of Books for Young Adults, Books for Adults, and Graphic Novels.
Odds 'n' Ends
Page of Slades is a page dedicated to interesting people with the name Slade. Links is exactly what it sounds like-- a listing of the websites of some of my online pals.
Tips and tricks for the aspiring writer. Organized into convenient bite-sized audio (mp3) morsels. List of current podcasts.
Hallowed Knight
Great Scott! Canada's greatest Scottish superhero
Shades of Slade