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PROVIDENCE � One of the big pieces in the sweeping pension package proposed to state lawmakers this week is a refinancing that could save state and local taxpayers $262 million in the new budget year that begins July 1, $283 million the year after th
PROVIDENCE - One of the big pieces in the sweeping pension
package proposed to state lawmakers this week is a refinancing that
could save state and local taxpayers $262 million in the new budget
year that begins July 1, $283 million the year after that, and
$3.387 billion over the next 25 years.
Taxpayers would pay significantly less than they would otherwise
for almost two decades to keep the retirement pledges made to more
than 51,000 past and present state workers and public school
teachers. Next year alone, the proposal would reduce the taxpayers'
pension tab for these two groups of public employees from an
anticipated $615 million to $353 million.
In 2029, it would drop from a projected $1.2 billion down to
$619 million.
But savings of this magnitude hinge on the state hitting its new
and reduced 7.5-percent assumed rate of return on its pension-fund
investments, which at this moment appears a lofty goal. The state's
most recent five-year average: 1.52 percent.
And taxpayers on the back end of the new pension-financing plan
- between the years 2030 and 2035 - would pay a lot more than they
would if the state did nothing to try to get control of its
exploding pension costs.
After years and years of big savings, taxpayers would have to
pay a projected $637 million in 2030, instead of $71 million they
might pay if the state stayed on its current payment schedule and
paid off all of its unfunded pension liabilities by 2029. And this
higher cost would continue for the next five years, with taxpayers
paying $3.6 million more in those years than they might pay if the
state stayed on its current track.
The unfunded liability is the shortfall between the cost of
pension benefits already earned by employees and retirees and the
money set aside to pay for them.
The projections for the front and back ends of the refinancing
proposal were provided by state Treasurer Gina M. Raimondo on
Thursday in response to one of many questions that have been asked
since she and Governor Chafee unveiled their many-tiered and highly
complex, 124-page pension-reform proposal on Tuesday.
An earlier opponent of reamortization as a standalone solution
to the state's pension woes, Raimondo said she supports the package
delivered to the General Assembly this week because it couples
refinancing with fundamental changes in the pension system, averts
deeper cuts in benefits, and provides near-term budget relief. For
retirees, for example: "It could have been worse," she said.
Yes, there will be a spike in required taxpayer payments in the
final five to six years of the extended payment plan. But even at
the peak in 2035, she noted, that taxpayers would pay $731 million,
which is less than the $735 million - and rising - amount they
would have to pay in 2015 if nothing is done.
"The right way to look at this is to say: the total cost to the
taxpayers of Rhode Island for the pension system as it exists
today, over the next 24 years, is $16.6 billion," she said. If the
pension legislation is passed as presented, "the total cost is
$13.2 billion � saving taxpayers $3.4 billion over the next
24 years."
The House and Senate Finance Committees will get their first
public staff briefing on the proposal on Monday. Public hearings
will begin Wednesday on the proposed rollbacks in benefits for both
current workers and retirees that are included in the plan,
including a suspension of cost-of-living increases for retirees, a
hike in the minimum-retirement age and a move to a new hybrid plan
that merges a reduced traditional pension guarantee with a
401(k)-style savings plan.
The goal: to prevent the pension fund from running out of money,
and taxpayers from paying almost twice next year what they are
paying this year to provide pensions to Rhode Island's government
employees. Some pensions pay up to 80 percent of what the employees
were making, on average, in their final years of work, and COLAs of
up to 3 percent, compounded annually.
Raimondo has said these COLAs account for 45 percent of the
current $7.3-billion unfunded liability to government employees and
teachers in the state-run Employees Retirement System of Rhode
On Thursday, the largest state employees union - Council 94,
American Federation of State, County & Municipal Employees -
put out an e-mail call to its members to show up next week to
testify if they can.
"Now is the hour for all of us, municipal and state, current
employees and the retirees to stand together and strike back. The
security of our families demands no less," said Council 94
President J. Michael Downey.
While reamortization has already emerged as a lightning rod for
debate, Chafee points to it as evidence that everyone "has to
sacrifice," current workers, retirees and taxpayers.
Asked about "kicking the can down the road" during an interview
on WPRO on Wednesday, Chafee said: "That's no different from
remortgaging your house, which people do all the time. It's a
financial mechanism that's fairly common.
"Yes, there is an added cost to it, just as there is when you
refinance your house, but sometimes that's in all of our best
interest to extend those payments over a longer period of
Taxpayers'pension tabState and local taxpayers would have to pay
$16.6 billion into state employee and teacher pension funds in
budget years 2011 to 2035 under current pension rules; $13.2
billion if proposed pension changes are adopted.
R.I. general treasurer's office


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Halloween Celebration Trivia
Do you know all the interesting Halloween celebration trivia that comes along with this holiday? Often the trivia that surrounds it explains so much of what people believe about the holiday or where the origins for some of the holiday traditions come from. Everyone knows how much fun it is to carve those big orange pumpkins, but how many people know the other colors pumpkins come in? They can be either the orange, the most familiar color associated with Halloween, or they can be tan, white, red, or green. The second most familiar color of Halloween is black. Black became the other color associated with Halloween because it is representative of darkness and death.
Harvest Celebration and Pumpkins
There are a lot of interesting little facts associated with pumpkins. Originally it was turnips that were used and sometimes beets before the Europeans discovered pumpkins being grown by the Natives and carved them instead. In Ireland they carved pumpkins and lit them inside to ward of evil spirits during the harvest celebration.
Pumpkins today come in a wide variety to suit almost every Halloween decoration need. A new favorite is the Baby Boo, which is a small, white pumpkin. Larger white varieties can also be grown or found sold by roadside vendors during autumn.
Another piece of Halloween celebration trivia concerns the growing of pumpkins. It has become a popular pastime as farmers all over North America try to grow the biggest one for their local fairs. Prizes can be quite lucrative having been known to exceed twenty thousand dollars.
Halloween was originally celebrated by the Celts at the end of October as a harvest holiday. It came to the United States and Canada by those who moved from Europe to settle in North America. They brought many of their traditions with them and one was the celebration of a successful harvest. In Mexico there is a similar holiday called the Day of the Dead.
Candy, Costumes, Cats and More Trivia
- Did you know that Halloween is the holiday that Americans spend the most on after Christmas? The candy alone costs Americans nearly two billion dollars a year. Add another half a billion dollars for decorations, costumes, party costs and you have another interesting Halloween trivia fact. Of the candy that is bought, chocolate bars are among the most popular treat given. The chocolate bar, Snickers, ranks among the most popular Halloween treats.
- Costumes were originally worn to fool spirits so that they wouldn't try to possess a human body.
- The fear of black cats comes from the belief that cats were the familiars of witches and so it was best to avoid them and their magic.
- Early celebrants of the harvest festival went door-to-door asking for contributions for the banquet that was planned the night of the festival. This is believed to be where the idea of trick or treating first came from, also known as beggars night.
- Bobbing for apples, which became a popular party game, has its origins in paying homage to Pomona, the goddess of fruit trees and orchards.
- Samhainophobia is the fear of Halloween.
- It was once believed that if an unmarried woman looked in the mirror at midnight on Halloween, she would see her future husband.
- Pumpkins are fruits, not vegetables.
Halloween Trivia Resources
- Halloween Trivia and Fun Facts
Features Halloween trivia, fun facts, and information about the holiday and movie.
- Facts on Halloween
Amazing facts and trivia and all that you would love to know on Halloween
- Halloween — History.com Articles, Video, Pictures and Facts
Explore the history of Halloween, one of world's oldest holidays. Uncover when Halloween is celebrated, its origins, common traditions and much more.
Halloween Trivia
Haunted Houses and Spirits
Visiting haunted houses or enjoying haunted hay rides has become a favorite activity during Halloween in the United States. For farmers it has become an additional revenue stream during their fall/winter season, and it is called agritainment.
Renting out an old house or barn and turning it into a "haunted house" during October has also become popular as a way to make extra cash for both the owner and the entertainment producer. Each year the actors and producers try to outdo each other in creating some of the scariest haunted places around the globe!
While the idea of visiting a haunted place for entertainment is a relatively new idea, the idea of spirits is not. Many religions share the belief of an afterlife. One interesting bit of information concerns the Irish and the new homes that they built in the United States after their voyage to avoid the potato famine. In the homes that they built they would place an object belonging to a person (most often a dead one), above their windows and outside doors, and then enclose it. It was believed that the spirit of the person who had owned the object would guard that entrance into the home.
Many home owners have been surprised to find old leather shoes, empty tin boxes, newspaper articles kept under glass and weighted with a rock, and more when they have done renovations! The home owners may decide to keep the objects where they are, and/or place their own time capsules or other items along with the old objects.
Awesome Pumpkin Carving How-to Video
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When taking a gander at various previews of Ryse: Son of Rome, the major consensus is that the highly touted Xbox One exclusive falls short with lackluster gameplay.
If you're like me, sometime in your life you've always wanted to be a deadly centurion clashing steel with hordes of barbarians for the glory of the Roman Empire.
When Ryse: Son of Rome was announced as a launch title for Microsoft's Xbox One console, it appeared that this fantasy might come to fruition after all. With Crytek at the helm and the unique blend of hack-and-slash action with an authentic historical atmosphere, everything seemed to be going well.
The impressive graphics also added to the allure of Ryse whilst showcasing the Xbox One's graphical fidelity in the process. Overall the impression lent an epic feel with a lot of potential, almost something like a Hollywood flick; there's tons of on-screen action that takes place across a variety of dazzling environments, painting the might of the Roman Empire in stunning detail.
Unfortunately that fantasy pulls away quite fast and reality sinks in when gamers actually get their hands on a controller.
The general consensus of various previewers is that Ryse's gameplay mechanics are uninspired and rather monotonous, and aren't befitting for a next-gen launch title for a big-name console.
Dan Ryckert at Game Informer, who recounted his experience by saying the game "had all the complexity of dialing phone numbers, actually was so bored that he tried playing the game with one hand:
"It's so basic and predictable, I began testing to see if I could get past most combat situations with one hand. With my left hand completely off the controller, I was able to slice and dice through tons of enemies simply by inputting the same sequence ad nauseum.
"On a couple of occasions, the game would shift to sequences that involved me defending an area with crossbow stations or ordering my men to block arrows with their shields. These were somehow even less exciting than the tedious swordplay."
Joystiq's David Hinkle had similar sentiments about Ryse's beat-em-up style tedium:
"After jumping through a few levels in the campaign, I grew tired of the gameplay loop of moving from area to area in order to kill the next group of barbarians.
"Ryse never hit a good stride and, in my brief amount of time with it, was all too content to beat me into submission through combat sequences repeated ad nauseam. The game offered little hope its campaign is intent on presenting anything to the contrary."
The game essentially makes use of button-spamming mechanics, and when enemies are worn down enough an execution prompt comes up and players hit the appropriate button. While it's true that Crytek's period title has some pretty nice visuals, the novelty seems to wear off quite fast once players end up doing the same thing–that is killing barbarians–over and over again.
While the methods of execution are different and the mechanics revolve around Marius Titus' ability to slow-down combat as well as chain combos and kills, Ryse fails to deliver the gratification of a kill because players are instantly thrown into the midst of yet another battle.
On the other end of the spectrum, The Inquirer reports a very different scenario with their hands-on time with Ryse, and aptly describes the game's mash-up mechanics:
"We found Ryse: Son of Rome combat uses a brawling mechanic that we could best describe as a mix between Koei's Dynasty Warriors and Ubisoft's Assassin's Creed series. Ryse: Son of Rome offers you four basic options.
"You can swing your sword using the X button, bash an enemy with your shield using the Y button, block an incoming strike with the A button or roll away using the B button. At a glance, this makes Ryse: Son of Rome seem dangerously close to a basic button basher."
Overall the game appears as if it doesn't capitalize on basic structures associated with the genres it tries to mirror, and doesn't adequately facilitate rewarding gameplay. The game does, however, seem to have a unique method to its brawling, and might just be a specific acquired taste.
The visuals have been praised universally, however, which is a testament to the Xbox One's upscaling capabilities to say the least, as Ryse has been confirmed to be upscaled from native 900p to 1080p.
With reports like these rolling in on the preview builds of the game, more pressure is put on other Xbox One launch exclusives like Dead Rising 3 and Forza 5.
Microsoft put a lot of stake into Ryse, and it will be interesting to see if the reviews on the full game differ any than the consensus on the game's previews.
Ryse certainly is a flashy game–even for a game that's been confirmed at native 900p resolution–and more than a few gamers will no-doubt enjoy their time, yet it appears that Crytek's launch title crumples on its own weight and falls into disarray somewhat akin to the actual fate of the Roman Empire.
Ryse: Son of Rome releases on Nov. 22, 2013 alongside Microsoft's next-gen Xbox One console. A season pass that includes access to all four DLC packs for $19.99 will also be available on the game's launch.
Via Game Informer, Joystiq, The Inquirer


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Red Hat NA Partner Technical Exchange – Chicago 2016-10-05
Written by Colin Caprusu, Systems Specialist at HighVail Systems Inc.
Last week I had the opportunity to attend the Red Hat North America Partner Technical Exchange in the windy city, Chicago. During the course of this post I'd like to share with everyone some of the high level lectures and labs I took part of. Red Hat was showcasing the best products from their Ecosystem, so you're in for a treat. I was also fortunate to meet key players from Red Hat and industry partners.
One of the biggest tracks at this conference was their newly acquired IT Automation product, Ansible. Regardless of where you are on your DevOps journey, Ansible should be part of every enterprises toolbox. If you don't know what this great utility does, it's a software platform for configuring and managing your infrastructure. Ansible connects via ssh to nix systems, switches as well as windows boxes via power shell. The power is in your hands! You can hand out commands across hundreds of servers in your desired inventory. True automation comes in the form of playbooks. A yaml to do list where you can write out repeatable commands through easy and consistent code.
In the pre-conference workshops, I managed to get up close and personal with Ansible Tower by Red Hat. This session was a deep dive on Ansible and Tower architecture. I got to write a few real world applicable playbooks, plus went through use cases and demonstrations for customer environments. Ansible Tower was surprisingly simple; I was sending out playbooks to my inventory in less than 5min after install. They have thorough process page, where you can keep track of your playbooks and see Ansible in action. The software is surprisingly verbose as well as idempotent, by the way did I mention it's also agentless.
Another excellent workshop I attended was dealing with Openshift Container Platform. A CI/CD tool which supports application developers while simplifying the operational side of deploying constantly changing applications. The workshop was an in detail look at container deployment, scaling out applications with ease on Openshift via command line as well as web console. Throughout the workshop, the instructor was also showing common issues and gave some troubleshooting tips. It was my first experience with Openshift and I think it's a wonderful tool Red Hat has in its arsenal to help your organization succeed in DevOps.
Finally, a great whiteboard session on Container Security was very memorable. We leapt into the issues that companies face on their DevOps journey. How to maximize your container deployment efficiency, while complying with your current security policies. We discussed ways to include security teams and change management in the DevOps process.
The Red Hat North America Partner Exchange was a great summit and I'm very pleased I got to be part of it. I'd like to shootout to a cool app I heard during my networking sessions called x.ai. It's a calendar AI that takes care of your meetings, learns about your favorite spots for coffee or grub and sets up future meetings for you. Find out more at www.x.ai.
When I was not attending workshops or socializing with my colleagues in the field I had the chance to explore Chicago. Hit up some rooftop bars to enjoy the skyline, opted out for the deep dish and went Neapolitan style baked in a stone oven instead. During one of the rainy days, visited Garfield Park Conservatory which I highly recommend you go see!
For more information, please contact us at (416) 867-3000, or at email@example.com. You can also visit us on Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter @HighVail, and Instagram @HighVailSystems.
Colin Caprusu
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Review: Frances Larson's 'Severed'
Beheading really is not at all funny, though at times it does lend itself to a certain macabre humor, as at the beginning of Severed, in which Frances Larson describes the strange travels of the head of England's self-styled Lord Protector, Oliver Cromwell. It was sliced off in 1661, three years after his death, "impaled on a twenty-foot pole and mounted on the roof of Westminster Hall for the whole of London to see," found its way "into private circulation," then was "transformed into a curiosity, a precious relic and a business opportunity." Finally, "in 1960, during a small, private ceremony, Cromwell's head was buried in its old oak box somewhere beneath the floor of the ante-chapel at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge."
If that sounds a bit to you like a skit from Monty Python, you can be forgiven. Larson takes it rather more seriously: "The story of Oliver Cromwell's head is extraordinary, not simply because it survived intact for three centuries, but because it was recast in so many different guises over the years. … It was variously thought of as a trophy, a precious relic, a memento mori and a data set. Its value shifted with the changing attitudes of the times, and it is emblematic of thousands of human heads that have furnished the worlds of justice, science and leisure over the centuries. In this way, it neatly links many of the stories in this book, simply by virtue of its pedigree and longevity."
Doubtless people have been chopping off other people's heads since time immemorial, and they do it unto this day: The gruesome and heartbreaking murder of the American journalist Daniel Pearl by the Taliban in Pakistan in 2002; that of an American engineer, Nick Berg, by terrorists in Iraq in 2004; and "a spate of similar beheadings, by a number of militant Islamic groups in Iraq, that were filmed and circulated online," most recently those of the American journalists James Foley and Steven Sotloff and the American aid worker Peter Kassig. These beheadings, Larson notes, "were 'made for TV.'" The "whole procedure is a piece of theatre designed to create power and cause fear, just as with state executions stretching back to the thirteenth century."
The somewhat uncomfortable truth is that although these videotaped executions do indeed "cause fear," they also arouse curiosity and prurient interest. "One survey, conducted five months after Berg's death," Larson writes, "found that between May and June, 30 million people, or 24 percent of all adult internet users in the United States, had seen images from the war in Iraq that were deemed too gruesome and graphic to be shown on television. … Americans were seeking these images out: 28 percent of those who had seen graphic content online actively went looking for it. The survey found that half of those who had seen graphic content thought they had made a 'good decision' by watching." They found it, to be blunt, entertaining.
We can easily sneer at this, but the historical record shows that people — not just some people but many people — have long been drawn to executions and beheadings as a form of public amusement: "There have always been people ready to watch executions, and ready to enjoy the spectacle. … Individual responses may differ — some will laugh and jeer, others will studiously take notes, some will faint or vomit or cry … but the lesson of history is that it is within our capacity as humans to witness decapitations and other forms of execution, and more than that, to enjoy them as popular public events." Especially in centuries past, people flocked to executions and evaluated them with a critical eye: "Decapitation was the executioner's masterpiece, and the crowds around the scaffold were quick to judge his performance."
Nowhere does this seem to have been more true than during the Reign of Terror, when the newly invented guillotine "seemed to rule France and was said to have removed people's heads at a rate of one per minute." The terror "demonstrated well enough that the only thing more horrifying than a severed head is a society that finds it mundane." To wit, certain artists made a handy living "by selling cheap, simple line drawings of recently severed heads. … A portrait de guillotine was fast to produce and supposedly unmediated by the creative pretensions of the artist. … Guillotine portraits followed a conventional format: in each case, the executioner's hand was shown holding the head aloft by its hair, while the recently sliced neck dripped with blood beneath." Apparently the masses loved it and the aristos, too — at least those whom the guillotine hadn't greeted.
The accounts of executions are the most vivid and interesting parts of Severed, but there is much more to it than that. Larson, who has an honorary research fellowship in anthropology at Durham University in England, writes about shrunken heads "made, around one hundred years ago, by the Shuar, who live in the tropical rainforest of the Andes and the Amazonian lowlands in Ecuador and Peru"; "trophy heads" taken by, among many others, American soldiers in the Pacific theater of World War II; Christians who "offer prayers to the heads of saints, which are found in churches across Europe and are often kept in richly jewelled reliquaries"; the "craze for human skulls" in 19th-century Europe and America, spurred by the fad for phrenology, a pseudo-science claiming "that a person's character could be read by studying their head," and so forth.
She does all of this skillfully and manages to find the human dimension in what is, when you get right down to it, a thoroughly nasty business. She also — and thank heavens for that — can find the occasional dash of humor in it: "Claus Fluegge, the executioner of Hamburg, performed a remarkable feat in 1488 when he beheaded seventy-nine pirates non-stop. When the senate asked him how he felt on completing this coup, he replied, 'I am feeling so well that I could easily go on and do away with the entire Wise and Honorable Senate.' The senators, apparently, were not amused and Fluegge's insolence cost him his own head."
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Crystal Jade Asian Fine Dining is located at Quail Hill Village Center in Irvine, bringing a variety of delicious Asian Cuisine to one restaurant, including the Dim Sum dishes.
Guests are welcomed at the entrance by a delightful huge teapot water fountain, peaceful and unique, that delivered a sense of propriety and artful elements. From there the experience begins as diners select comfortable seating inside an open ceiling dining room or enjoy dining in the enclosed terrace garden room. A full bar with wine, beer, and cocktails can be selected to compliment the dinner.


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Monday, September 5, 2016
Honey caramel.
Honey caramel is my favorite caramel! It is very easy to make! I found the recipe HERE last fall and I have made countless batches.
You'll need:
1 stick of butter
1/2 cup of honey
3/4 cup of brown sugar
1 can of sweetened condensed milk
FIRST // melt butter in your pan // add brown sugar and honey
NEXT // stir the mixture // the syrup with start to bubble and boil...once this happens stir mixture for two minutes...make sure you stir the whole time.
THEN // after you have stirred for two minutes turn heat off and add one can of sweetened condense milk. // stir until milk is blended.
FINALLY // dip apple in caramel mixture and top with goodies ( peanuts, candy, cereal ) place in fridge until ready to eat.
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Fight Bullying with Babies
Empathy can't be taught, but can be caught--from babies.
Posted Nov 24, 2010
Look closely at a baby. See its helplessness; feel its pain and joy; experience its faith that someone will care and provide. Look at a toddler, acting so bravely, walking and running, experimenting with language, sometimes deliberately being naughty, asserting its independence, and then crying out for Mommy when suddenly frightened. Do this repeatedly and the compassionate angel in you grows while the mean-spirited devil shrivels. Our species could not have survived more than a generation were it not for our powerful instinct to care and feel compassion for babies and young children. And that instinct is transferrable. We can apply it not just to babies and young children, but also to older children, to teenagers, to adults, and--as religious leaders have repeatedly shown--even to those who would be our persecutors and enemies.
A wise woman (my mother) once said to me: "If you want to feel compassion for someone who is really annoying you, imagine that that person is two years old." It works. We are all, in reality, not much different from two-year-olds. We are all, in our own clumsy ways, asserting ourselves in the world, expressing our joys and fears, and calling out for help that we desperately need. It's not hard to look at any human being, even the meanest one, and see the two-year-old.
My essay today was inspired by an article entitled Fighting Bullying with Babies, by David Bornstein, posted recently on the New York Times Opinionator blog. (I stole Bornstein's title for this essay, which is why I put quotation marks around it.) Bornstein's article is about the Roots of Empathy program, founded more than a decade ago by Mary Gordon in Toronto. Here I'll say a bit about Gordon's program and then describe some other examples that demonstrate the power of babies and young children to bring out the angel in us and squash the devil.
The Roots of Empathy Program
Mary Gordon founded Roots of Empathy after years of working with abusive parents and abused children. She saw the cycle. Children growing up unloved and surrounded by violence became unloving and violent parents. The idea behind her new program was to bring real babies and their moms (and sometimes dads) into school classrooms so that children from all backgrounds could gain experience looking at babies, talking about babies, and thinking about what it is like to be a baby. The idea was that this would help set children on the road to becoming, ultimately, better parents.
She found, through experience, that her program also had a remarkable, more immediate effect on the classrooms that participated. The children who had this experience--of a monthly visit from a baby and parent--became kinder and more compassionate with one another. Bullying declined. Kids who were previously teased and taunted for being different were now in many cases admired for their differences. Apparently, the exposure to the infant, and the discussions of the thoughts and feelings that the infant evoked, served as a powerful force for the spread of compassion throughout the classroom--an effect that would last the whole month, from one baby visit to the next.
Here's a sample story from Gordon's book about her program.[1] In one eighth-grade class the toughest and meanest looking kid was Darren. He was two years older than the others because he had been held back, was already growing a beard, had a tattoo on the back of his partially shaved head, and was intimidating to all around him. Darren's mother had been murdered in front of his eyes when he was four years old, and he had lived in a series of foster homes. So, he had to look and act tough. But the 6-month-old baby who had been brought to the classroom melted him.
The mom had brought along a Snuggly, trimmed with pink brocade, which she used for holding the baby close to her. Near the end of the class visit--after the class had spent 40 minutes observing and talking about the baby--the mother asked if anyone would like to try on the Snuggly. To everyone's dismay, Darren raised his hand. With the Snuggly strapped on, he then asked the mom if she would put the baby into it. With, I imagine, much apprehension, the mother did just that. Darren then sat quietly for several minutes in the corner rocking, while the baby snuggled contentedly into his arms and chest. When it was time for the baby and mother to leave, Darren asked the mother and the instructor: "If a person has never been loved, can he still be a good father?"
The Roots of Empathy program has now spread throughout Canada and made inroads into a number of other countries. Kimberly Schonert-Reichl, a psychology professor at the University of British Columbia, has conducted controlled studies, not yet published, which purport to show that the program greatly reduces aggression and increases kindness not just on the day of the baby's visit, but throughout the school year.[2] In an essay I posted six months ago I claimed that no anti-bullying program tried in standard schools to date had been proven to be effective over the long run (see post of May 12, 2010). Schonert-Reichl's studies, when published, may lead me to revise that conclusion. Mary Gordon likes to say, "Empathy can't be taught, but it can be caught. You catch it from babies."
Pastor Daniel Dean and the HOPE Community Center and School in Tampa
I met Daniel Dean two months ago at a symposium on the value of free play that I helped to organize in Binghamton, New York. He was brought to the symposium by my friend Jerry Lieberman, who is president of the Florida Humanist Society. Jerry wanted my academic colleagues and me to meet Daniel and learn from him, and Daniel himself came with the hope of learning something from us. I don't know if Daniel learned anything worth knowing from us, but I certainly learned an enormous amount from him, and I intend to keep learning from him.
Daniel Dean, who was born in Jamaica but grew up in Florida, is a Christian pastor and community leader. He and volunteers built--literally built, with shovels, saws, and hammers--a community center on North 22nd Street in Tampa, at a corner long known for drug dealing, prostitution, and violence. The mayor of Tampa had offered a vacant lot on this corner to anyone who would build something there that would help to improve the neighborhood, and Daniel took up the challenge. He and his wife Suzette, along with other volunteers, would build a center that would house a church on Sundays, a daycare and school on weekdays, and a community and recreation center, for people of all ages, on weekday evenings and at other times when school wasn't in session. Some people thought he was crazy. The place would be vandalized, destroyed before the roof went up. And if the roof did go up and children came, the children would be in constant danger from the "element" surrounding it. But Daniel thought differently, and so far he has been proven correct.
As Daniel worked at constructing the building, often with his two young sons working by his side, people from the neighborhood came over to ask about what he was doing and why. They were proud of his project, moved by his respectful relationship with his boys, and pleased to volunteer to help. Daniel also made a point of getting to know the people hanging around the bar across the street. They too were emotionally moved by the idea that a school for little children, as well as a community center for people of all ages, was being built right there, across the street from the bar. Daniel clearly trusted them, and trust breeds trustworthiness. Even before the center was completed, the fighting outside that bar stopped and the drug dealers and prostitutes started drifting away. Apparently, such activities were incompatible with the feelings evoked by the thought of a center for little children across the street.
The building was completed more than a year ago, and the school and community center are in full swing. The center is called HOPE (for Helping Our People Excel). The school now has 80 students, ranging from one-year-old infants up through high-school students. Most are from families that are close to or below the poverty line. In the evening, adults as well as children come to play checkers and chess, use the computers, take classes (such cooking), obtain help in finding employment, hold meetings, and socialize. They bring their babies and toddlers along, and the kids of all ages play in age-mixed groups.
According to Daniel, the violence and vandalism on the street have stopped and there has been no violence or vandalism at all in the school. The people feel that this fine school and center are theirs, and they are proud of it, and nobody is going to destroy it. The sense of community ownership is a big part of the success, but I think that the more-or-less continuous presence of little children plays an equally big role. Daniel agrees.
According to Daniel Dean, every day at the school starts with an age-mixed recess. The kids play together and get to know everyone, of all ages. The older ones naturally develop big-brother, big-sister relationships with the little ones, and the sense of caring expands outward to encompass everyone in the school and, perhaps, beyond. I'm planning a trip to Tampa to visit this school, and I may tell you more after that. Meanwhile, for more about HOPE, see www.btministry.com/.
Cross-Cultural Evidence for the Pacifying Power of Babies and Young Children
In a review of research on children's social interactions conducted in many different cultures, anthropologist Beatrice Whiting concluded that boys and girls everywhere demonstrate more kindness and compassion in interactions with children who are at least three years younger than themselves than they do toward children closer to their own age.[3] She suggested that natural interactions with younger children and babies are the vehicle through which children and teenagers exercise and develop their capacities to nurture others, and that these capacities, as they develop, may generalize to interactions with people of all ages.
Consistent with this theory, anthropologist Carol Ember reported long ago on a study that she conducted of boys, in the age range of 8 to 16, in a subsistence farming community in Kenya.[4] In this community, girls were expected to help their mothers care for younger children and infants at home, but in families where there were no girls of the appropriate age boys were required to do this task. Ember reported that boys who were regular babysitters at home (because they had no sisters to do it) were, on average, kinder, more helpful, and less aggressive in their interactions with their own peers than were boys who did not have such babysitting experience.
How Young Children Promote Kindness at the Sudbury Valley School
As regular readers of this blog know, my former student Jay Feldman and I have conducted research on age-mixed interactions at the Sudbury Valley School in Framingham, Massachusetts. At this school, students from age four on through high-school age are free to explore and play as they wish, with whom they wish, all day long. In our research, we documented many ways by which children and adolescents at the school regularly practice their nurturing skills through their self-chosen interactions with younger children. They read to them, comfort them, correct them when they violate rules, teach them games, help them do things that they cannot do alone, help them find lost objects, and take pride in their accomplishments. They are, I think, on their own initiatives practicing to be parents; and, more generally, they are practicing the kinds of abilities that will make them caring and valuable helpers and leaders to everyone around them.
It is sad to see, in our age-graded society, that many if not most children and adolescents have few opportunities to get to know and to interact regularly with children who are much younger than themselves. If we want young people to grow up to be compassionate and caring, we need to allow them to exercise those capacities; and to do that we need to break down the barriers we have erected to keep young people of different ages apart. We are designed by nature to learn to be compassionate by observing and caring for littler ones while we ourselves are growing up.
[1] M. Gordon (2005). Roots of Empathly. Toronto: Thomas Allen Publishers.
[2] For a preliminary report of one of Schonert-Reichl's studies, Google Evaluating the Effectiveness of the Roots of Empathy Program: Isle of Man, 2009-10, and download the PDF.
[3] B. B. Whiting (1983). The genesis of prosocial behavior. In: D. L. Bridgeman (Ed.), The Nature of Prosocial Development: Interdisciplinary Theories and Strategies. New York: Academic Press.
[4] C. R. Ember (1973). Feminine task assignment and the social behavior of boys. Ethos, 1, 424-439.
[5] P. Gray & J. Feldman (2004). Playing in zone of proximal development: Qualities of self-directed age mixing between adolescents and young children at a democratic school. American Journal of Education, 110, 108-145.


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What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun.- Ecclesiastes 1:9
Tonight, an idea I had back in my twenties is finally coming to television.
It should be a day of great satisfaction for me.
But when "Under the Dome" airs at 10 PM on CBS tonight, you won't see my name in the credits.
I won't receive a single dollar from the production.
And it is no one's fault but my own.
From a cursory search, it appears that Stephen King and I had the same general story idea at just about the same time. (My writer's notes from that era are in a box in the garage. I'm not up to getting dusty to pin down my exact date.) There are significant differences between "Under the Dome" and my story, but the key concept of a domed city, isolated from the outside world, is the same.
In the span of time between giving up on pursuing acting as a career and being accepted into the Assistant Directors Training Program for film production, I kicked around a number of ideas for novels. (My college degree is in English Literature.)
The first draft of my version of "Under the Dome" was a children's story. I outlined some key ideas, played with the opening scenes and the first chapter. Before long, it evolved into a YA novel with a strong female heroine fighting for her life, years ahead of "Hunger Games."
Ultimately I considered writing it for the mainstream adult science fiction/fantasy market. That's where I left it, before writing my gender-reversed, short story version of "Castle." At least I have a couple of rejection letters to my credit for that one.
When I got busy learning how to make films, my career as a novelist got put on the shelf, right next to my favorite books that other writers had actually finished.
I set aside some time at the end of last year to review what I wanted to accomplish in this year, a landmark one for me. One thing I planned to do was to break out my old writer's notes, take a look at some of the ideas and see if there was anything worth developing. My domed city story was at the top of my list. At last!
A few weeks later, I saw the first teaser for "Under the Dome" during the Super Bowl. My reaction? "Oh, no..."
So why is King's story coming to television instead of mine?
I admire Stephen King, though I don't think I've read a single one of his books. I admire his work ethic, resulting in his significant body of work: his novels (350 million sold) and his short stories (he's written about 200). I admire some of the film adaptations of his work, most notably "The Shawshank Redemption" and "Stand By Me," two of my favorite films of all time.
Even as early as 1980, King would have won the war when it came to whose work publishers and film producers would prefer. He's got a few years on me and was well into his career when I was still in school.
But if I had beaten him to an idea and gotten it to a publisher before he did, there would have been no basis for comparison. I loved the idea for my unfinished novel. I knew the main characters. I knew the setting. I knew the story arc. I knew how it started. I knew how it ended. I just wasn't sure exactly where I would take it, in the three hundred pages in between.
I can't complain too loudly, and I'm not shaking my fist at an invisible nemesis. Five years after I kicked around this story idea, I started on my career in film production, working on high profile projects for the major studios, and it has been good to me, satisfying and successful. A lot of my writing was produced, as well, during my six years with an independent production company.
And though I don't waste time entertaining regrets, I still wish I'd gotten a few novels published.
So if I could say anything to writers, young or old, with stories in their heads they have yet to put on paper, it would be this:
Ideas are not accomplishments, and concepts are not credits.
Write it down. Write it in full. Rewrite it. Repeat.
And set yourself a deadline for submission, without fail. Don't let time go by while someone else takes their similar idea to fruition, eradicating the possibility of success with your own.
If there's nothing new under the sun, just be sure that your twist on the old gets its chance to find the light.
"Under the Dome" premieres tonight, Monday, June 24, on CBS at 10 ET/PT, 9 CT. Executive Producers: Stephen King and Brian K. Vaughan (who also wrote tonight's episode). Pilot directed by Niels Arden Oplev. Starring Mike Vogel, Rachelle Lefevre, Dean Norris (great guy, worked with him on a TV movie), Natalie Martinez, Britt Robertson, Alexander Koch, Colin Ford, Mackenzie Lintz, Samantha Mathis, Aisha Hinds, Nicholas Strong, Jolene Purdy, Beth Broderick and Jeff Fahey.
I'll be watching. Of all of the viewers, more than most, I know that this sounds like a great idea.
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Social Enterprise 'We Walk The Line' launches new coffee bar this Thursday.
In collaboration with We Walk the Line, we are delighted to announce we will be opening a new coffee bar. Located in the foyer of the gallery, the new enterprise opens for business this Thursday February 9th 2017, with the Mayor of Colchester, Cllr Julie Young, serving the first shot of espresso, assisted by our director, Sally Shaw.
Mayor Julie Young, who was the inspiration behind bringing We Walk the Line to Colchester as a legacy for her Mayoral year, says: '
We look forward to We Walk the Line's arrival in the Firstsite art gallery. Our town is known for bringing people and businesses together to share innovative ideas, and coffeehouses certainly play an important role in fostering collaboration, political debate and supporting civic engagement.'
Called We Walk the Line, the bar is the first outlet the enterprise has opened outside of London, and the first time a gallery has teamed up with a social enterprise project aimed at getting young, local people into work. In addition to offering a range of speciality coffees, using its own direct trade 'Bob's Blend' medium roast beans, it will also sell a full range of cakes, bakes and lite bites supplied by Colchester-based Good Souls Bakery and Unique Bakes.
Alongside the coffee, it will offer a wide variety of fine, specialty and flavoured tea from social enterprise The Tea People, as well as hot chocolate made from real chocolate tablets. Called the Kokoa Collection, these are sourced from the best cocoa beans from around the world.
We Walk the Line, a registered social enterprise, is more than just another high-street chain coffee shop. Its 'Wake Up and Smell the Coffee!' project, with Colchester's Kesed Church and Colchester Jobcentre Plus, trains local people marginalised in society to develop the skills they need to find employment and work in the growing artisanal coffee market – making it coffee that literally changes lives.
Founders Mat Corbett and Kieron Tilley began the venture in 2013 because they felt too little was being done to nurture young people's entrepreneurial skills. Its mission is three-fold: to work with and employ people who need a chance, develop their business and barista skills, and empower them to one day become their own boss.
Says Mat Corbett:
'The demand for We Walk the Line to head out of London has been tremendous since we started and I am excited to have the opportunity to return to the community which first inspired me to improve the life chances of those excluded in society.'
Says Firstsite director, Sally Shaw:
'Firstsite is delighted to be the first gallery to work with We Walk the Line. In addition to providing delicious coffee and cake for our visitors, it is wonderful to think that the gallery is part of this brilliant social enterprise project, providing a vital stepping stone to help local, young people into work. This chimes perfectly with the gallery's values, creating a place that can not just illuminate the world, but change people's lives.'
About Mat Corbett:
Mat Corbett, FRSA, has over 20 years experience in the fields of training, social exclusion, enterprise and employment with a focus of supporting those most disadvantaged in society. He has worked in senior positions at an international Human Rights charity, London's largest Housing Association in community regeneration and established a market leading enterprise division at a London college. He has considerable experience in the leadership, design & development of regeneration, employment and skills programmes supporting disadvantaged groups including young people not in education, employment and training (NEETs), ex- offenders and the disabled into sustainable work.
About Kieron Tilley:
Kieron Tilley, FRSA Chartered MCIPD, has also worked with hard to reach groups for 20 years across the commercial, public and third sectors. Most recently he has been a key member of the team which founded and developed a multi-award winning and groundbreaking education charity working in the criminal justice, education and broadcast sectors. Prior to this he worked for the BBC for several years, firstly for BBC People where he piloted award winning staff development programmes and latterly at BBC Network Radio where he was responsible for strategic learning content and outreach activity.
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Nosce te ipsum: Everything you need comes from you so start at the source. Fashion Blogger, Art Lover and Ameteur chef
Wednesday, 27 June 2012
So here goes!
I've wanted to start a blog for ages but now I finally have the time to really invest in one. In the past few weeks I've read a load of fashion, Art and Beauty blogs and to be honest very few have inspired me mostly due to the commercial interests that have shaped them.
I truly love fashion and I have the closet to prove it! (which you will soon see). The three F's shape my life Fashion, Film and Food and my blog will be full of all of these.
I hope you enjoy
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I can count on one hand the number of times Zoe has been without my husband and me.
When she was two months, I left her with my mother-in-law for an hour because I had to take the cat to the vet to get ready for our cross-country flight. Zubair was already in California. She was very young so she probably didn't even know I was gone. It was the longest hour of my life.
The first date didn't go so well
The first time we tried to go on a date we were in NY at my parents' house. We left Zoe, eight months, with my mom, dad, and my brother. They couldn't get to her stop crying so they called us after about 30 minutes. We got our dinner to go and rushed to their house. Since she's not as familiar with them, she just wanted her mommy and daddy.
Checking my phone like a crazy woman
At ten months, Zoe is a little more independent. So, a couple weeks ago, we decided it was time to try leaving Zoe alone with our babysitter. She's known her for several months now. And plays with her in the other room all the time when I'm on the phone.
We want to a fancy restaurant I wanted to try, and Zoe was fine for the whole two hours.
I was kind of a nervous wreck though. Not too obnoxious – but I left my phone on the table because I kept checking it very often to see if I missed a call from the babysitter.
Recently, we left her in the nursery at church for less than an hour while we listened to the pastor speak. I kind of regret that one because she looked upset when I went to pick her up. My heart hurt.
This past Friday night, we went out again. And while I did keep the phone on the table, I was definitely more relaxed than before. We enjoyed our lovely dinner at a cute french bistro in Downtown Culver City. Zoe was asleep when we got home. The babysitter reported that she hardly cried.
Being attached
So there you go – she's been away from both of us only four times (or five, if you count church). I'm sure some people think I'm crazy. But I just don't like being away from her. I feel incomplete. Little did I know, there's actually a term for this. It's called Attachment Parenting. I'll share my thoughts on this style of parenting later this week.
All in all, my husband and I make time for each other. We don't need to leave the house to create romance or to communicate. Date night is important, but, in my opinion, the needs of our infant are more important than date night.
Don't get me wrong, date night is fun. And I'm not saying that marriage comes second to children. But what I am saying is that as long as you focus on your relationship with your spouse, it doesn't have to be out of the house or without baby tagging along. It just takes a little more creativity!
So I say – take time for your marriage, but don't stress about date night!
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We were part of a trekking group that visited Gudel in October, 2012.
A small donation from us sparked the beginning of construction of a much-needed new school room and improvement to their playground facility. This money was received with such gratitude that we were humbled and overwhelmed. Seeing the need, and knowing the ability of people in our country to help in addressing that need, has motivated me to encourage you to contribute to this effort.
Our group is not a formal charity. We cannot offer tax donation receipts. What we can offer is the assurance that 100% of the money raised will go to support the construction of Gudel School. There will be no administration costs nor deductions from the money raised. The only purpose of the money is to ensure the new school will be completed. Our commitment to you as a participant is that all funds raised will be used for that purpose.
Nepal and it's people are unforgettable - whether you are someone who has been fortunate enough to travel there, or whether you have followed with interest another's travel experience. This is a practical way that you can help the most humble, respectful, and caring of people help themselves and their futures.
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With your NetID being used to access so many different services, it's important to keep it secure. Everything from hackers and phishing scams to sharing your password with friends or family can compromise your NetID and all the information it is used to access.
Password strength
Your NetID's password is the key to all the services your NetID can unlock. Having a strong password is essential to maintaining NetID account security. So what makes a strong password? Three things: password length, differing character sets, and complexity.
- The longer the password, the more difficult it will be to crack. UVM NetID passwords are required to be at least 12 characters long, but longer is better.
- The more character sets used, the more secure the password. Different character sets include:
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- numbers (1 2 3 4)
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UVM NetID passwords require at least two different character sets, but more is better.
- The more complex a password is, the more difficult to guess. Complex passwords are:
- not based on words found in the dictionary, in any language
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- not common mathematic sequences and series like Fibonacci numbers, Pi, or prime numbers
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An ideal password is one that is easy for you to remember, impossible for a human to guess, and more difficult for a computer to crack.
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Phishing scams are a method of social engineering to get you to willingly divulge personal information like bank account numbers, credit card numbers and passwords. These scams often come in the form of an email pretending to be your bank, a credit bureau, or a UVM department or support team and ask you to "verify" or otherwise provide your account information. For more information on identifying phishing scams, see Microsoft Safety & Security Center's guide to recognizing phishing emails or links.
UVM will never ask you to disclose your NetID password. Any email or message that asks you to provide your password in a non-login capacity is likely to be fraudulent.
NetID/Password sharing and disclosure
Allowing others to know your password or use it to access UVM services compromises your NetID account and all the services it is used to access. Anyone who knows your password can log in to your class registration and transcripts, financial records, Blackboard course work, email and NetID account settings, all things to which only you should have access.
Similarly, you should never use your NetID credentials as login information to other non-UVM websites or services, such as Facebook, Google/GMail, Apple iCloud/App Store/iTunes Store, or any other of the thousands of online entities that require registration and login. Should these services becomes hacked or otherwise compromised, your NetID information becomes exposed and vulnerable.
UVM will never ask you to disclose your NetID password. Any email or message that asks you to provide your password in a non-login capacity is likely to be fraudulent. It is a violation of UVM's Computer and Network Use policy (PDF, Section 1.b) to disclose your password, and doing so may result in disciplinary action.
Service sharing and guest wireless access
It may be tempting to use your NetID and password on a visiting friend or relative's computer so they can use UVM's wireless network, but allowing others to use the services of your NetID account (even if you didn't share the password) is a violation of UVM's Computer and Network Use policy (PDF, Section 1.d).
UVM GuestNet can be used to let friends and family online with wireless. On your computer, log in with your NetID and password to UVM GuestNet and sponsor a temporary guest account for your visitor.
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If you have been injured in a Michigan car accident, truck accident, or motorcycle accident you may be available for either coordinated medical coverage or uncoordinated (primary) medical coverage depending on what type of no-fault auto policy you selected. Under the Michigan No-Fault law, if a person is injured in a Michigan accident, the no-fault insurer must pay all the reasonable charges for products, services, and accommodations till the person's recovery. Our Michigan car accident insurance lawyers file claims on behalf of our injured clients for Michigan No-Fault insurance benefits.
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If you have selected uncoordinated coverage or primary medical coverage as your no-fault auto policy, your medical bills may be paid twice. Your health insurer will pay the provider and the no-fault insurer will pay you.
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Sunday, March 30, 2014
There Is A Reason Why Men Are Going Their Own Way
This article is from last year but it's the first time I have heard MGTOW mentioned outside the Manosphere so the this idea must be getting larger attention than I ever thought it would. I always thought that MGTOW would be limited to a minority of men. That most other men would take the Blue Pill, go back to sleep and wake up believing whatever they wanted to believe about the nature of women.
Apparently I was wrong or was right up until sometime last year.
Men to blame for childless women?
In Asia there's a new tendency for men to go their own way - with thousands shunning marriage and kids for a life of independence and control, which no family court can destroy. The same thing is happening across America and Canada.
Yeap that's right. You heard it too. He said men to go their own way.
In fact, author Helen Smith PHD recently published a book entitled Men on Strike, where she notes that: 'America has become anti-male. Men are sensing the backlash and are consciously and unconsciously going on strike. They are dropping out of college, leaving the workforce and avoiding marriage and fatherhood at alarming rates.'
It's more like a boycott than a strike. Men are not buying what marriage to the state has to offer. Which is nothing but slavery so men are making the only logical decision in their favor. That is to leave the government / corporate / religious plantations altogether.
Wonderfully, it's happening here in Britain.
This isn't because men are 'selfish' or commitment-phobic pigs (as chauvinistic women frequently like to suggest). Rather, it's because they're tired of being ousted from families, of being shafted by sexist divorce rulings and being denied the most basic paternal rights.
These guys know that any child they have with a woman would be her baby, not their baby. In 2013, a so-called era of equality, three million UK fathers are still denied access to their children - simply because their bitter ex partners can manipulate the law.
So where's the incentive? Quite frankly, men's reticence to enter fatherhood is justified. And long may it continue.
The whole article is very good. He slams Melisa Kite and her kind for being the entitlement queens they are. They refuse to acknowledge men would rather be free than be slaves to women and their vagina / police state / family and divorce court industrial male meat grinder.
Quite frankly, she's a big girl who made her own decisions.
Besides, men are not - and never should be - on stand-by for when a broody woman calls. Becoming a parent is a meeting of minds. It is a mutual, life-changing decision. The maxim 'my body, my choice' applies to both genders, no matter how much it may inconvenience certain women.
But that's equality - it cuts right down the middle. It is inflexible.
It's also a basic human right to make your own decisions on parenthood. If we switched the genders in Kite's story and had a man saying 'Women are selfish because they won't give me the child I deserve' there'd be uproar. But, once again, we have stiletto sexism telling us that female-on-male chauvinism is acceptable.
Yet, while her sense of entitlement astounds me, I do respect Kite for not trapping men - something she comes perilously close to recommending.
'Recently, a girlfriend in her 20s told me she was feeling broody but felt it was too early to ask her new husband to have kids,' she writes. 'I wanted to yell: 'Then don't ask him!'… I felt a shameful urge to tell her to secretly stop taking the Pill.'
Preach on brother and I would like to know how the PUAs are going to Game themselves out of that situation.
Que in crickets chirping...
That's what I thought. The Game manual doesn't explain that one. It's going to cost them 18 plus years of child support and a one way ticket to prison if they can't keep up with the payments.
To top it all off the kid might not even be theirs. She can put anyone's name on the birth certificate and he will pay. Once again no family court is going to let them baffoonishly Game themselves out of those payments.
But we don't have these problems over here in MGTOW land because we are the losers who don't get ourselves into those situation to begin with. Judging by the fact this article has seen the light of day on the Daily Mail UK I'm not the only one who has figured that out. At the same time I'm not celebrating this wider attention MGTOW is getting either.
Now that the cat is out of the bag over MGTOW I suppose there will be some kind of crack down coming from the White Knights who infest the vagina state. You know who they are going to pander to already. It's not going to be us.
It will probably start with some kind of Bachelor Tax over in the UK or Japan. This of course will only make the problem worse which is exactly what women and the vagina state excel at. Making things worse than they already are.
Oh well, it will only accelerate their own collapse.
Enjoy the decline.
MGTOW... where losing is winning.
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Women can't stand not being able to control men. This is why they will be threatened by MGTOW. If they can't control them they will find a way to stop them.
- 1:44 AM, March 31, 2014
For men, marriage and family are the quickest path to the realization of their worst nightmares.
Over the past 40+ years, tens upon tens of millions of men have been destroyed by the feminist/white knight inspired family courts.
In 2012, there were 2.4 millions divorces. Women file the majority of divorces, collect the vast majority of alimony, child support and at least half the mans assets and future income. What does this lead to? Tens upon tens of millions of destroyed men.
In 2014 alone, hundreds upon hundreds of thousands of men will be lead through the meat grinder of family court, losing most of what they currently have and at least half of their future wealth. Their x wives will use this money to finance their lives with their new boyfriends - all with their former husband's financial blessings and support.
Do not get married. Do not get a woman pregnant. Do not date single mothers. Do not become one of the many tens of millions of now desperate men that thought it couldn't happen to them.
- 5:54 AM, April 05, 2014
Well with the very horrible low life pathetic loser women that are everywhere nowadays which it will be very smart for many of us good single men to go MGTOW today. Women no manners at all today and their personality really sucks altogether just like they do. It certainly has become so very extremely dangerous for many of us men now just to try too start a normal conversation with a woman that we would really like too meet since we usually get Cursed out by these very pathetic losers for no reason at all as well. I had this happened to me quite a few times already unfortunately, and a few other friends that i know too which makes it very difficult for many of us men really looking for a relationship which is why many of us will be choosing MGTOW thanks to these very rotten women today that have really caused this mess in the first place.
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Major market benchmarks plunged on Wednesday after President Trump stoked fears of an escalating trade war by threatening to impose another $200 billion in import tariffs on Chinese goods.
But not every company saw red. Myriad Genetics (NASDAQ:MYGN), Activision Blizzard (NASDAQ:ATVI), and Cars.com (NYSE:CARS) each soared Wednesday.
Myriad Genetics gets an upgrade
Myriad Genetics stock popped 13.2% after Morgan Stanley analyst Steve Beachaw upgraded shares of the molecular diagnostic company to overweight from equal weight. He also increased his per-share price target on the stock to $55 from $35, or a nearly 45% premium from Tuesday's close.
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Shares of Activision Blizzard climbed 3.2% after the video game giant announced an exclusive multiyear agreement with ESPN and Disney XD for live broadcast coverage of Overwatch League esports events.
Both networks will provide coverage on live broadcast and through their respective streaming apps starting with Overwatch League playoffs today. And though the wildly popular esports league's inaugural season will conclude with live coverage of the finals on both networks on July 27 and July 28, Disney's ABC will air a recap and highlights show on July 29. This will mark the first time a live competitive gaming event will air on ESPN in primetime.
Though esports events routinely command audiences in the tens of millions, for many investors, this signals the start of truly mainstream adoption for the genre.
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Finally, shares of Cars.com jumped 8% after The New York Post reported the online car retailer has formally begun the process of searching for a buyer. A report in late May had asserted that Cars.com was evaluating strategic options, including a possible sale of the business. Since then, however, The Post says Cars.com has begun handing out sales books to prospective acquirers, including private equity firms and automotive magazine publisher Hearst Corporation.
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Secret Beef Place (LA) – Melt in your Mouth
The Mystique
There's a secret place in LA that only serves beef – every dish for 9-10 dishes. Sounds excellent but there's a catch – you can not go unless you are already a customer. Obviously, at best, this paradox doesn't seem like good business sense – how does a restaurant expect to stay open if they don't serve new customers? At worst, one wonders if this place is real or some carefully crafted urban myth based on America's love affair for Japanese exoticism. And in the middle somewhere, one wonders how one might ever gain entrance to this mythical mecca for beef.
Bottom line – you've got to have connections – fortunately, I found them!
The Place
Located on an nondescript LA street behind what appears to be a long shut-down asian fast food joint. Dirty curtains in the window, cobwebs, an old broken sign above; it was only missing the broken bottles of Old English on the sidewalk. Waited around outside for 10 minutes or so til 2 my hosts arrived.
It makes one dream – you see these sort of places throughout along any large city street – what other wonders are lying behind their doors?
I wouldn't describe the inside as "funky" – at least, not as in 'hip/young' vernacular, maybe the 'underarm odor' type. Eclectic might be more appropriate – wine bottles, movie star posters, wine labels plastered on the bathroom walls…
So where is it? Sorry, myths can only be perpetuated through mystery and disbelief.
The Meat
The only thing i can compare it to is a sushi experice of the highest order. The progression of meats got better and better – culminating in the short ribs. Each piece was tender like an excellent piece of sushi. Most were also sweet (i wasn't keeping track of which were marinated and which were not.) Lightly grill it (you get the hang very quickly after you burn your first piece) and it's unlike any other meat you've had.
I dare say – Peter Luger in NY has absolutely nothing on this guy.
The most interesting dish was the raw beef liver – the outside had a slight bite to it, but once you bit down, it had a wonderful natural warmth to it. Everyone merely said 'mmmmm'……….
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The_Donster wrote:Lee wrote:I'm missing like 3 teeth in the mansion before I have every riddler challenge. Damn those chattering bastards.
Lee, if it's the one's I'm thinking of go to the warden's office. There is a upper level with some files and such, I believe those little bastards are up there. They were the last one's I had to find too and my cheat site was no help, so I went and basically searched every nook and cranny until I found them. LMK if that helped.
By where you fought Zsasz? There was one left up there after my first run through, hiding between the stacks. Good call Donster. Hope those are the teeth Lee's looking for.


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Welcome to Poptastic Confessions! This blog is dedicated to glorious, unashamed alternative pop music! We hope to share new music with you that you might not have heard before because it is usually overlooked by the masses. Of course, we'll always encourage you to buy the music legally to support the artists. Enjoy! —Davearama, editor of Poptastic Confessions
Tuesday, July 1, 2014
Sanctuary by Jody Watley
Are you looking for that some summer chill groove? Then Jody Watley has a new song that you are going to dig. It's called "Sanctuary" and it is ultra groovy. And you can hear the Soulpersona Raregrooves Remix below.
"Sanctuary" is from Jody's forthcoming EP called Paradise. As you know the first single from the EP was "Nightlife." It easily soared to the #1 spot of Poptastic Confessions year-end countdown of 2013.
"Sanctuary" is very different from "Nightlife" ... while "Nightlife" was a call to go out and look FABulous ... "Sanctuary" is reminder to remember to take care of your home life. When we saw Jody in concert earlier this year, she joked that the song would be played at our summer barbecues. And it would be great for that! But it's a wonderful song for just being in a chill mode. And the lyrics are uplifting and positive. Have a listen ...
Jody has embraced many styles of music over the years, and here is no different. And she masters it! She is a true artist, singer and songwriter. She isn't afraid to take risks, and I'd say the majority of her fans embrace her for this. You should, too!
"Sanctuary" will be released later this summer. Stay tuned!
Cheers then,
P.S. If you like this, you might also like "Surge" by Glass Slipper, which was also featured in Poptastic Confessions.
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Davearama! Do you remember me from the Bananarama group on Yahoo some years back? (Martin from Boston) Great to come across your Blog via JW on Facebook! I've been a fan since 1987, and I can't wait for her new album! Cheers!ReplyDelete
I love the smooth groovy vibe of this song!!! Will definitely be sharing this song with friends.ReplyDelete
So Glad I found your blog!!! This song is awesome.. and made a lot of discovey.. Keep on the good work!!:) Oh! and thanks for taking the time to share it all!:)ReplyDelete


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Let's Talk Football – Zig Zag Principle #25July 25th, 2011 by Rich Christiansen
You can certainly head down the road not really knowing what your values are, but it's never going to get you anywhere good. For many years, my favorite college football team had an incredible coach. He was revered by fans, players, and coaches across the country. He coached the same team for almost three decades and won countless awards, including a National Championship. He valued hiring great assistant coaches; and while there was no mistaking who was in charge, he was a delegator. When he took over his team as head coach, he could see it would never compete well with a running strategy, so he decided he would find quarterbacks who valued passing the ball. He faced teams that could score twenty or thirty points running the ball, but his team could score forty or fifty by passing. So, they won. Several of his quarterbacks went on to play in the NFL, and more than one took his team to the Super Bowl.
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After this coach retired, a coach came in who didn't seem to know what he valued. His offensive strategy seemed to change from week to week. He would start a quarterback, pull him out, and then try another quarterback. At times, he let his assistant coaches do their jobs, and other times he would take over—sometimes in the middle of a game. When a game was close, he would run up and down the sideline, waving his arms frantically over what was happening. Players and coaches alike didn't know what he expected of them; and, as a fan, it was confusing to watch the team during this time. No one seemed to know what he valued, and, as a result, it wasn't long before he was fired. Since leaving the university, he returned to the ranks of assistant coaches where he has had success, but no one has been willing to offer him a job as the head coach.
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Whether you are deciding for yourself, your family, or your business, the values you settle on will determine your behavior, which will in turn determine what stories will be told about you. These stories will then serve to guide the behavior of those who follow you.


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really sick edit but the music is bad in my opinion