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We're used to hearing about the "traditional" American Dream. Big house in the suburbs with a high-end car. All this achieved, of course, after attending college and getting a degree so you can settle into a solid job.
There's nothing wrong with this dream if it suits your idea of what matters and it makes you happy. For many, though, the traditional American Dream is no longer the focus. Instead, more people seem to be chasing a dream that's more tailored to their own preferences and lifestyles.
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The Traditional American Dream: Debt and Work
One reason the traditional American Dream seems to be falling to the wayside is that it is predicated on the idea that you'll be in debt for decades with a mortgage while you work at a job that may or may not be soul-sucking.
For years, the American Dream has assumed a "traditional" 9-to-5 white collar job to make mortgage and car payments–and maybe a family vacation once a year. It also comes with credit card debt as consumers make sure they have the latest gadgets to fill their homes and the best extracurricular activities for their children.
To some, even without the credit card debt, the idea of working for 30 or 40 years while paying off mortgage debt, only to retire at age 60 (or older) and really start living freely feels like a poor trade-off. This is where the new American Dream is starting to take hold.
The New American Dream: Flexibility and Financial Independence
Many millennials have another view of the American Dream. Rather than working a "regular" job, they might be interested in freelancing or consulting. Perhaps they have their own online business. Or, if they do work for someone else, someone looking for the new American Dream is likely to focus on jobs that offer flexible hours and may even allow telecommuting.
Being able to set your own hours and take longer vacations is a strong pull when it comes to the new American Dream. As a freelancer, I can work from home–or from the beach. I travel several times a year, and I can go to the salon in the middle of the week. This freedom and flexibility allows me to create a lifestyle I enjoy, leaving room to spend time with my son and volunteer in my community.
Other aspects of the new American Dream also include the idea of financial independence. For those involved in the FIRE (financial independence/retire early) movement, basic principles involve:
- Downsizing so life isn't so expensive
- Aggressive saving and investing for a few years
- Paying off all debt (including car loans and mortgages) as quickly as possible
- Emphasizing financial management and developing useful skills rather than insisting on a traditional four-year degree
Everyone has a different approach that works well for them, but the main idea behind the FIRE movement is spend a few years living frugally while saving and investing in order to retire in your 30s or 40s. With the freedom and flexibility afforded by early financial independence, members of the FIRE movement hope to spend most of their lives doing fulfilling work, volunteering, traveling, and spending time with loved ones.
Related: Money Moves to Make in Your 30s
Also Read: Money Moves to Make in Your 40s
Principles That Can Help You Achieve the New American Dream
If you're interested in creating your own American Dream, whatever that looks like for you, there are a few things you can do to increase your chances of making it happen.
Decide on Your Values and Goals
Start by figuring out what matters to you. What do you value in life? How can you set goals that will help you live a life that aligns with your values?
Use an app like Mint or Personal Capital to track your spending. Where is the money going? Are you spending your money in a way that reflects your future goals? Understanding how you might be wasting your money can go a long way toward helping you adjust your spending.
If you have a partner, an app like Twine can help you work toward those goals together.
Pay Down Debt
Paying down high interest debt is a must if you want to achieve the new American Dream. Start with credit cards, since the longer you carry balances, the more money you waste on interest payments. A good 0% APR balance transfer card can help you tackle that debt faster, since your entire monthly payment will go toward reducing the principal.
You can also use a tool like Tally to create the most efficient debt repayment plan. Another good choice is Self, which can help you build your credit if you're trying to improve your score.
Related: Experian Boost Review – Improve Your Credit Score for Free
There is debate over whether "good" debt, like student loans and mortgages, needs to be tackled quite as quickly as credit card and car loan debt. For example, my student loan interest rate is 1.9%. Rather than paying off my student loans early, I take the small tax deduction for the interest paid and invest what I would have paid toward the loans. I get a much better bang for my buck.
However, it's up to you to decide what makes the most sense.
Save and Invest
An essential step for achieving any American Dream is saving and investing. Using a tax-advantaged retirement account can be a good way to get more from your money. However, if you plan to retire early, you do need to have some of your investments in taxable accounts. A plan for building your nest egg, and then how to withdraw the money penalty-free, is essential.
While you can use some of the best savings accounts for money you want to be liquid, there are other ways to invest for the future and earn better returns. Here are some ideas for putting your money to work for you:
- Betterment: You can open an IRA (tax-advantaged), as well as invest in taxable accounts. Set up accounts for different goals, including a high-yield savings account comprised mainly of bonds.
- Acorns: If you feel like you don't have a lot of money to invest just yet, Acorns rounds up your purchases and invests the money. It's one way to get started.
- Robinhood: For those interested in fee-free trading, Robinhood has low minimums and can be a solid choice for learning how to invest.
- Lively: Hoping to save for healthcare costs? An HSA with Lively comes with no fees, and the ability to invest funds. You get a tax deduction for your contributions, and the withdrawals are tax-free as well–provided you use the money for qualified healthcare expenses. Read our full Lively HSA review
Depending on your goals, using the right investments can go a long way toward helping you build the life you want.
Smart Spending
Finally, smart spending is required. Fund your long-term goals, like education and retirement, but also be careful about what you spend today. Some of those in the FIRE movement are extremely frugal for a few years so they can retire earlier. Others, though, are fine spending on a few items and experiences that enrich their lives–even if it means they take a little longer to retire.
Look at whether your spending is helping you live your version of the American Dream and cut out the things that don't move you forward. A service like Trim can help you figure out which items are unnecessary and can even do the heavy lifting of canceling unwanted subscriptions.
Bottom Line
Today, there are many paths to the American Dream–and the American Dream is as diverse as Americans themselves. In the end, the idea is to create a life that you enjoy living, whether that includes a house in the suburbs or a small apartment in the city.


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"And they come to Jerusalem: and Jesus went into the temple, and began to cast out them that sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the moneychangers, and the seats of them that sold doves; and would not suffer that any man should carry vessel through the temple. And He taught, saying unto them, 'Is it not written, 'My house shall be called of all nations the house of prayer?' But ye have made it a den of thieves.'
And the scribes and chief priests heard and sought how they might destroy Him: for they feared Him, because all the people was astonished at His doctrine. And when even was come, He went out of the city." Mark 11:15-19 (KJB)
Reference Isaiah 56:7 Also see John 2:13-17

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Sometimes when a person is looking for a creative or new way for them to market through an article using an article that is not blatantly marketing something can be the best way. By producing an article that does not directly shove a product in someones face but subtly suggests it one can have more success.
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Don't post popular articles on your site. You want to stand out in article marketing. If you just use a pre-packaged article that many other webmasters have already published, then you do nothing to stand out. Instead, find articles with a twist on a situation, or something that has not been overly published.
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Belief and Moral Judgment
Should we apply moral judgments, such as "immoral," to beliefs per se? Smith begins his discussion of this difficult problem.
In several recent essays I raised the question of whether or not we can legitimately pass moral judgments on beliefs per se, even if those beliefs are never manifested in actions. Suppose a racist believes that blacks are mentally and morally inferior to other races, but he never advocates that a black person be treated differently than any other person. Indeed, let us assume that the racist is a libertarian who defends the equal rights of every person and who does not discriminate in his personal or professional relationships. Although we may assess the racist belief as "irrational," should we also condemn the belief itself as "immoral"? Many similar examples could be given.
In attempting to reach a reasonable verdict about this problem we will be thrust into a thicket of additional questions. For example: Is belief a matter of choice? Can we will to believe something without sufficient evidence, or in spite of evidence to the contrary? Can we choose not to believe something that has been logically demonstrated? And if we assent to a belief voluntarily, does it thereby become a legitimate subject of moral judgment?
These and similar questions pertaining to the ethics of belief, however theoretical they may appear, have been fraught with momentous practical implications throughout the history of western civilization, especially during the many centuries when religious persecution was the norm. If Aquinas and other prominent theologians were to justify the punishment of heretics and other religious dissenters, they had to uphold the volitional nature of religious belief. For if we do not have control over what we believe, if heretics have no choice but to persist in their dissent from orthodoxy, then on what grounds can religious dissenters be held morally and legally responsible, and thereby punished, for their failure to accept Christian dogma?
Early proponents of religious toleration often maintained that belief is not a matter of free will but is determined by our intellect, according as it is or is not persuaded by the available evidence. A typical example of this line of argument appears in the following passage, written in 1644 by the English individualist and Leveller William Walwyn:
Of what judgment soever a man is, he cannot choose but be of that judgment. [N]ow where there is necessity there ought to be no punishment, for punishment is the recompense for voluntary actions, therefore no man ought to be punished for his judgment.
This common argument also appears in John Locke's influential essay A Letter Concerning Toleration.
[I]t is absurd that things should be enjoined by laws, which are not within men's power to perform; and to believe this or that to be true, does not depend on our will.
Other defenders of toleration took a different view, maintaining instead that belief does have a volitional component. Christian belief, according to this argument, is meritorious precisely because it requires the voluntary assent of faith—so any attempt to use coercion will nullify the merit that Christian belief would otherwise have. Coercion is incompatible with faith, which must be voluntary, so persecution has no legitimate role in the furtherance of religion.
This argument has a long ancestry, reaching back to the early Christian era. Consider this remark by the apologist Lactantius (240–320):
[I]f you wish to defend religion by bloodshed, and by tortures, and by guilt, it will no longer be defended, but will be polluted and profaned. For nothing is so much a matter of free‐will as religion; in which, if the mind of the worshipper is disinclined to it, religion is at once taken away, and ceases to exist.
Although it is not my purpose to explain in detail the relationship between religious persecution and the ethics of belief, readers should have some appreciation for the historical significance of this issue. Controversies in philosophy and theology, however theoretical and abstract they may seem, have sometimes become matters of life and death for countless numbers of people.
Thomas Aquinas
A detailed discussion of the ethics of belief appears in the thirteenth‐century work, Summa Theologica, by Thomas Aquinas. To believe, according to Aquinas, "is to think with assent"; belief "is an act of the intellect, according as the will moves it to assent." Aquinas thus maintained that belief is at once cognitive and volitional: it is an act of both the intellect and the will.
The volitional aspect of belief has always played an important role in Christian theology, for it enabled Aquinas (and many other theologians) to portray faith in God as a "meritorious act." We should not be praised or condemned for an act over which we have no control. Only volitional acts can properly be the subject of moral judgment; so if we have no control over what we believe, if our beliefs cannot be freely chosen, then the theologian cannot reasonably condemn atheism and other forms of disbelief as sinful.
Aquinas held two positions: first, "unbelief is a sin"; second, "every sin is voluntary." It clearly follows, therefore, that whether or not one believes in God must be a matter of free will. It is this volitional element that distinguishes the truths of religion from the truths of "science." (It must be understood that Aquinas, following Aristotle and other Greeks, used the term "science" in its classical sense to signify those truths that can be known with certainty—either intuitively, as when we grasp the truth of a self‐evident proposition, or through a process of deductive reasoning, as when we derive a true conclusion from a valid syllogism with true premises. In this usage, science, or certain knowledge, was contrasted with beliefs, which are only probable. I shall adhere to this usage throughout this essay.)
Because scientific truths have been demonstrated by reason and leave no room for doubt, we have no choice but to assent to their truth (assuming that we know of, and understand, the demonstration). As Aquinas put it: "the assent of science is not subject to free choice, because the knower is obliged to assent by the force of the demonstration." The only choice we have in this area is whether "to consider or not to consider."We might, in other words, refuse to examine the proof for a scientific proposition and thereby remain willfully ignorant of its truth; but if we do examine and understand the proof for a scientific proposition, our mind will automatically assent to its truth without an intervening act of will.
As an example of what Aquinas meant by a scientific truth, consider the proposition 2+2=4. A person who is completely ignorant of mathematics will not know that this proposition is true, and he cannot acquire this knowledge unless he chooses to study the rules of addition. But if he achieves this level of understanding, he must thereafter assent to the truth of 2+2=4. He has no choice in the matter. He cannot will himself to believe otherwise (e.g., that 2+2=5) because his will cannot overrule his intellect.
Aquinas (along with Aristotle, Locke, and many other philosophers) would regard it as improper to say "I believe that 2+2=4." We should say instead "I know that 2+2=4," because reason has demonstrated beyond doubt that this proposition is true. Belief pertains to those propositions that cannot be demonstrated with certainty. In such cases, when our intellect is not compelled by the force of a demonstration to accept a proposition as true, we have some degree of choice as to whether or not we will believe that proposition.
This is what Aquinas meant in saying that belief "is an act of the intellect, according as the will moves it to assent." Belief requires voluntary assent—an act of the will—and it is this power of choice that gives to belief a moral character that is absent in scientific knowledge in which the will plays no direct role.
John Locke
We have seen that, according to Aquinas, truths that have been logically demonstrated (i.e., the knowledge of "science") command the assent of the intellect, so our belief in them is not a matter of choice. Aquinas adds a proviso, however: "But the actual consideration of what a man knows by science is subject to his free choice, for it is in his power to consider or not to consider."
This is very similar to the position defended centuries later by John Locke (in An Essay Concerning Human Understanding), who argued that knowledge "is neither wholly necessary, nor wholly voluntary." Locke illustrated this point by comparing reason (or "understanding," as he usually called it) to the faculty of sight. If I look at external objects I cannot help but perceive various similarities and differences; I have no choice in the matter. But I do have a choice as to whether I will look in the first place. I can also choose how carefully I will scrutinize the objects, i.e., whether I will survey them hastily or focus on them carefully. The same is true, said Locke, of the understanding:
Just thus it is with our Understanding, all that is voluntary in our Knowledge, is the employing, or with‐holding any of our Faculties from this or that sort of Objects, and a more, or less accurate survey of them: But they being employed, our Will hath no Power to determine the Knowledge of the Mind one way or the other; that is done only by the Objects themselves, as far as they are clearly discovered.
Although Locke's distinction between certain knowledge and probable belief is similar to that of Aquinas, it is interesting to note that Locke, unlike Aquinas, did not regard belief as falling directly under our volitional control. We can choose whether or not we will consider all the relevant evidence for a belief, but once we make this choice we are thereafter compelled to follow our judgment and assent to its decision. In matters of belief, a man "can scarce refuse his Assent to the side, on which the greater Probability appears." Hence "Assent [i.e., belief] is no more in our Power than Knowledge." As Locke was quick to point out, however, we do exercise a kind of indirect choice over both our certain knowledge and our probable beliefs, because we can choose to think or not to think, to consider or not to consider:
But though we cannot hinder our Knowledge, where the Agreement [between ideas] is once perceived; nor our Assent, where the Probability manifestly appears upon due Consideration of all the Measures of it: Yet we can hinder both Knowledge and Assent, by stopping our Enquiry, and not employing our Faculties in the search of any Truth. If it were not so, Ignorance, Error, or Infidelity could not in any Case be a Fault.
The last sentence of the above passage is highly significant. Unless we can justify some role for volition in our beliefs, then we cannot be held responsible for anything we believe, regardless of how irrational or repulsive those beliefs may be. If everything we believe or think we know has been causally determined by antecedent factors over which we have no volitional control, then a Newton or an Einstein no more deserves our admiration than does an ignorant nitwit. Like many other philosophers in the Aristotelian tradition, Aquinas and Locke identified the choice to think as our fundamental act of volition—a position, it is interesting to note, that was also defended by Ayn Rand.
I have sketched some historical background of the controversy over whether beliefs should properly be the subject of moral judgments. But even if we agree that we have some measure of volitional control over what we believe, it does not necessarily follow that moral judgments should be applied to beliefs per se, apart from whatever actions those beliefs may motivate. Much more obviously needs to be said about this difficult problem, so I shall continue this discussion in my next essay.


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We Did It!!!
9 months of planning, promoting on social media, handing out flyers, sending emails and DMs, blogging and applying to grants and sponsorships so we can get this holiday going and this weekend, we gave birth (hence the picture of the baby) to what I'd like to call one of my greatest accomplishments. Black Women's Day of Meditation is a holiday built around healing the world by first healing ourselves, starting with the group that is most affected by stress and systemic oppression.
I'm so proud of what we've set out to accomplish and to say that the day went off without a hitch would - well, it would be a lie - but it would go against the whole point of the day. Meditation isn't about finding peace in a perfect world. It's about finding peace in a world that is absolutely chaotic at times.
To be honest, on the day of this beautiful, peaceful holiday built around love and solidarity, I woke up in a crappy mood. My brain was racing from one worry to the next. I laid in bed trying to figure out why - of all days - my brain would decide to do me like this. Nine months of zen and calm and today I woke up ready to have a panic attack. I took a few deep breaths and sat up. Then something strange happened.
I laughed.
My brain had conjured up the image of me walking into the venue ready to kick off Black Women's Day of Meditation while looking a hot-ass, frazzled mess. It was almost as if I'd pictured looking on the outside the way I felt on the inside. Something about that image helped me to relax. I shook my head and focused on what I was doing. Making tea. Brushing my teeth. Making my bed.
I'd like to say that my brain quit with the shenanigans but homegirl was still on some bull, so I did something that surprisingly worked really well. I put on some ratchet music. This allowed the kinetic energy inside of me to find an outlet.
So I'm on the road rapping along to City Girls when I arrive at the venue. I got my medi-TEA-tion juice (peach tea infused with herbs and fruit), some cups, my speaker and a number of other things. Then it hits me… I forgot to bring my own damn yoga mat. Again, I laugh and go around to the trunk, collecting up the things I DID have. I figured that I'd make it work somehow. No big deal! In this light-hearted state, I was able to remember that I'd always kept a yoga mat in my trunk. I dug it out from beneath all of the stuff, thanked my ancestors and ran across the street to the venue.
I'm not going to get into too much detail about the hour and a half of meditation. If you were there, you know what happened. If you weren't, here's the gist… Ajia and I introduced ourselves and we did a number of introductions around the room. Then we played a guided meditation from the Liberate App. After this, Ajia guided us in a meditation of her own. Then we listened to soothing music for about 25 minutes and concluded the evening.
When we first started, there were a number of sirens going off. Anyone familiar with Los Angeles knows that ambulances, fire trucks and police vehicles are a part of the auditory ambiance in this city. The walls of the venue were thin and every outside sound permeated the room, including music from the place next door. I'm not going to lie, I was freaking out. Thoughts of inadequacy and guilt - lower frequency thoughts - found their way to the forefront of my mind and I worried that people would regret having attended our event. Then suddenly the sirens seemed to stop as I sank into the words from the meditation. I'm not sure if it was because my focus had shifted or whether it was because the sirens really DID stop, but I was relieved and happy to have found my peace in that moment. I was also happy to have been reminded of the point of meditation. Again, it's not about finding peace in a perfect world. It's about finding peace in the world we live in.
From there, we drifted into our meditative states and when the music hit, I knew everyone was in a peaceful state right along with me. It's hard to explain, but you know when the energy in a room is peaceful. For me, my confirmation came when I heard a small snore.
Once the meditation was over, everyone sat up and we talked a moment about how we felt. Some people grabbed more tea and socialized, others gathered their things and drifted toward the door. It was mission accomplished. Whether they (we) knew it or not, every woman in the room took their moment of peace with them to the outside world, better equipped to handle the chaos of life. Perhaps more clear on things. Perhaps more aware. Perhaps not. Regardless, for a moment, this small room of beautiful Black and Indigenous women were in tune with each other. And sometimes, that's all it takes to start a movement.
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SHIVPURI: Senior Congress leader and former Madhya Pradesh minister Puran Singh Bedia died today at a hospital in Gurugram after a prolonged illness, said family sources.
He was 74.
The Congress leader, a three-time MLA, is survived by wife, four sons and a daughter, they said.
He was elected from the Kolaras assembly seat in Shivpuri district three times - in 1980, 1985 and 1998.
The schoolteacher-turned-politician served as the education minister in the Cabinet in 1980s, they said.
Bedia quit his job as a teacher in a government school and jumped into electoral politics on the advice of Congress leader late Madhavrao Scindia, the sources said.
Senior Congress leader Jyotiraditya Scindia and other party leaders expressed grief over the demise of Bedia.


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Fair and squareon November 16, 2019 at 1:01 am
Yeah, Joe and Joyce are together in this alternate universe! Huh! That's weird!
It's… weird, but it's also familiar? Huh.
Okay, there's no way this universe's Joyce is a virgin, right? I mean, it's Joe.
It's also Joyce, so we might be looking at an "unstoppable force vs immovable object" scenario.
Uh, if we've learned anything from these strips, it's that Joyce is *entirely* movable.
ngl, I missed HA.
I still want to see some HA action in a cartoon segment in DoA…
Isn't Willis making a Dexter comic as per the patreon goal?
It's interesting re-reading the original timeline version of this scene to see what's different.
So the way we're spinning this is that the only way Head Alien won is if Walky doesn't participate.
Well he hasn't won yet, this is more just a head start on the "publically invading Denver" thing
Joyce and Joe seems like the natural pairing in a world where Walky isn't around to be the narratively ensured right choice.
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Caption: A tank engine rests near a few others at what appears to be a gravel plant. This unlabeled photo was in a group of photos taken by my Grandfather during a time he was working on the powerhouse for the Churchill grain elevator. The topography is definitely not of the Churchill area. It took a while to determine where this shot was taken and this is the best I can determine. Presumably stone from this location was used for the construction of the line to Churchill and the elevator as well. A generating station was built on this site in the 70's. Photo by my Grandfather with editing assistance from the moderators.
Glad you are enjoying them. The photos are a interesting trip back in time on some major infrastructure projects.
Remarkable old photo. I see everyone is on their way to somewhere. lunch ?? You've got some great photos here.
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After being successful in hosting the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum in Nusa Dua, Bali, President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono (SBY) left Indonesia for Brunei Darussalam on Wednesday to attend the Association of South East Asian Counties (ASEAN) summit.
The President, together with First Lady Any Yudhoyono and his entourage, departed from the Ngurah Rai International Airport, Denpasar, at 7 a.m. local time aboard a presidential aircraft Boeing 737-800 belonging to national flag carrier Garuda Indonesia, according to the presidential website.
SBY will attend the 23rd ASEAN Summit in Bandar Seri Begawan. The summit will be attended by the heads of 10 ASEAN member states, together with those from China, Japan and South Korea as well as Russia, the United States and India.
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Impulsivity and Internet Addiction
A child sees a lollipop in a candy store and grabs it. A driver sees an opening in the next lane and cuts off another driver. A mom sees the latest must-have handbag at the park and within seconds she's hitting BUY NOW on her phone. Impulsivity always follows the same sequence: I See It. I Want It. I Grab for It. We've all been impulsive at one time or another, usually without too many bad consequences. Unfortunately, if a person can't control their impulsivity, they are likely to get into trouble.
As a specialist in the field of Internet Addiction, I see over and over that it's this lack of impulse control that is the often-overlooked root cause behind all forms of Problematic Technology Overuse from online porn addiction to compulsive shopping.
It's easy to see why: The Internet is the virtual playground that feeds on impulsive thinking. In fact, it would be fair to say that our natural impulsivity is the driving force behind the success of the Internet. We see something we want and the Internet makes it really, really easy to get.
How often have you clicked from one link to another, following the promise of something more interesting/useful/fun, until you suddenly realize that much more time has passed than you'd thought? It's not called the "web" for nothing.
Here's what's happening in our brains
When we impulsively pursue something, our concepts of time and priorities change. Impulsive acts are short-lived, distinct events that hyper-focus our attention. For better or worse, the Internet is filled with quickly-achieved targets that provide a taste of satisfaction while frequently promising more if you would just click this one last link…
In the normal brain, this is nothing more than a time-waster, but what about the person who already has difficulties managing their impulsivity? A person who is depressed or anxious and therefore motivated to seek comfort or escape? These are people who are most vulnerable to getting sucked into the vortex of Internet overuse and addictive-like behavior. And, as you might expect, they are the people are most likely to meet the criteria for Internet Addiction. In fact, most studies of Internet Addiction find that anywhere from 85% to 100% of the people who meet criteria also meet criteria for a serious impulsivity problem! Clearly we need to focus on reducing impulsivity as a major component of managing problematic technology use.
How to reign in impulsivity: What works and what doesn't?
So, what to do about it? By it's very nature, impulsivity is difficult to change, because change demands the opposite of impulsivity — inhibition. It is possible to teach people strategies to reduce inhibition. The problem is, once impulsivity is triggered, it often overwhelms newly trained strategies that then fall by the wayside.
What if, instead, we could train the brain itself to be a better inhibitor?
For the past few years, I have integrated neurofeedback into my clinical practice. By placing sensors on the patient's scalp that reads brainwaves, I can monitor brain activity in real time and work with clients to actively change neural pathways.
Declan's story: Helping a game-addicted teen regain healthy brain activity
A few years ago, I was working with a teenager who was very impulsive, often getting into trouble and reporting that he had no idea how he had gotten there. Like many boys his age, Declan (not his real name) was not much of a talker, but he was into technology. In fact, part of the reason his mother brought him to see me was that he spent hours on his computer playing games and surfing the Net. He really liked the idea of seeing how his brain worked, so we decided to see how neurofeedback might help him.
As you may know, the brain produces electrical signals that vary in strength (voltage) and wavelength (speed or frequency). A common finding for impulsive people is that in the front of the brain, the slow waves are stronger than the fast waves (I know it sounds a bit counter-intuitive for an impulsive person to have a brain that's 'too slow,' but the part of the brain that is under-working is the part that inhibits impulsive behavior). My client fit right into that pattern. His front-brain slow waves were much more powerful than his front-brain fast waves.
I set up a program designed to reinforce the brain whenever it produced stronger fast waves and weaker slow waves at the same time. When both conditions were met, an animation moved and a tone sounded. Because the brain "likes" rewards, it slowly changes its pattern of activity to match the training program. Over time, the front of Declan's brain began to produce stronger fast waves and weaker slow waves. At the same time, he and his parents reported fewer impulsive incidents. Moreover, he spent less time on the computer because he was better at inhibiting the nonstop draw of gaming and the Internet.
Break this up a bit more? Should this be a second blog post? Something like "coming up next week: How NF can help reduce tech use"
Neurofeedback is a technology that can help reduce technology overuse.
I like neurofeedback for the same reasons my clients seem drawn to it: it's good treatment even for clients who don't like talking in therapy, it helps people gain better control over something that often seems hopelessly out of control and the technology is pretty cool. But most important, it really works.
Neurofeedback has a strong and growing body of research evidence showing that it can help reduce impulsivity, attention problems, anxiety, depression and addiction. These conditions often exist alongside technology overuse. Paul Swingle, a Neurofeedback expert in Canada, is now using it specifically for Internet Addiction. He finds that Internet overuse reduces significantly when Neurofeedback is used to help reduce impulsivity, improve attention and calm the brain down. A calm brain is less impulsive than a hyperactive brain.
Following Dr. Swingle's model, I'm now using neurofeedback with some of my clients who use technology compulsively. Not surprisingly, they are drawn to neurofeedback because it is itself high tech. However, unlike much of their technology use, neurofeedback is beneficial. As they learn to manage their impulsivity, the pressure to compulsively use technology loosens up.
Technology is easily overused. We all do it. Impulsivity is a risk factor, and the more impulsive a person is, the more vulnerable they are to significant overuse. I've added neurofeedback to my arsenal of approaches to reduce Internet addiction because it is a promising tool to help people get their lives back. To learn more about my use of neurofeedback and find out if it might help you or someone you know, visit my site or contact me directly.


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Peel is one of the more recent and unique entries into the space. A software / hardware combination consisting of a "Peel Fruit" and accompanying iOS app, the package brings a new approach to finding what to watch -- and it's unlike most other smartphone-IR options we've encountered so far. Does it all come together, or are we left wishing for more? Read on past the break to find out!
Peel Fruit and iOS app review: channel surfing of the future
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The hardware half of the Peel system consists of the Peel Fruit and accompanying Peel Cable. Designed by Yves Behar, the Fruit resembles a pear, and represents the IR-blasting component of the remote controlling pair. It's meant to sit on a coffee table within a recommended 10-15 foot range away from your TV, all-the-while emitting the necessary commands to perform other control functions issued from the companion Peel app. The Fruit takes a single C battery, and has a purported battery life of about six months -- thanks to its use of the ZigBee communication protocol instead of traditional WiFi.
The Peel Cable plugs into an Ethernet port on your router and into a standard power outlet as well. Since the entire hardware communicates via ZigBee, there should be virtually no network setup needed once your router assigns an IP address to the Peel system. We had some problems getting this to happen at first, but plugging in the Ethernet cable with the router off, and then powering it up seemed to remedy the connectivity issues. In general though, we definitely appreciate the ease of setup that comes with using ZigBee as opposed to dealing with user-unfriendly things like IP addresses and port-forwarding (we're looking at you, Sling).
Once the hardware's in place, it's time to load up the Peel app on your i-device and link your Peel Fruit. The process is pretty straightforward, and involves typing in a five-digit identifier into the app and walking through a quick setup procedure. This is where we hit our first speed bump -- there was no suitable IR code for the Sanyo TV we're using for the review. Subsequently, we had to fake the app into thinking it had a correct TV before it would even let us configure our set-top-box. Thankfully, we didn't have the missing codes problem with our Comcast DVR, and the app pulled in the correct channel lineup for us in Philadelphia. We asked the Peel crew what the procedure would be for folks whose devices weren't supported, and they say they'll add the IR codes to their database within about 24 hours after you give them a call. True to their word, our Sanyo model sprung to life just a few hours later after we received an email from support notifying us that the code had been added.
The Peel app is interesting for what it does -- and what it doesn't. The product's tagline -- "there's something on" -- demonstrates the company's view on content coordination. Rather than providing you with a familiar number pad or even channel up / down buttons, the main screen of the app has smaller frames showcasing programs it thinks you may like. By favoriting and blocking shows and channels, it attempts to build on your tastes over time to more accurately suggest content that you might like. We like the fact that it makes suggestions, and found ourselves watching shows on channels we wouldn't normally have tuned to. Still, the lack of choice is a major setback -- at least with this version of the software. We can't help but wonder why there's no straight up program guide, since it's clearly pulling in that data already.
The app's main screen consists of "top picks," which are presumably coordinated by the demographic information you enter (or choose to opt-out of) during setup. Selecting the 19-24 male group gave us top picks like "Jersey Shore" and "Bones", and we'd imagine that these picks will get better as more and more folks start using the service. The app further breaks down content into TV shows, movies, and sports. Each of these categories is further divided by genre, so you can swipe through and try to find something that suits your mood. The only annoyance when browsing is that it seems to be contextual menu after contextual menu, especially when trying to change channels. There's a handy "Last 5 Channels" button, but only when the controller is toggled into "Playback" mode (as opposed to "Navigation" mode), but we wish that was available in more screens. We also like the option to set reminders from right within the app, so you don't have to worry about missing an upcoming episode or special. The content discovery options here are certainly robust, but many folks will be perturbed by the fact that it lacks a full representation of the remote control it aims to replace.
We got to speak to the Peel guys and raise some of our concerns with the app as it is now, and we have to give them credit for having some good responses to our biggest issues. They told us that 99.9% of the core functionality used on a daily basis is present in the current version of the app, and that oddball buttons like PIP and A, B, C are rarely used. According to them, the app is really designed for tuning to programs and controlling DVR'd content -- and for those two functions it definitely does a good job.
When we asked why there was no channel up or down button, or if there were plans to add a regular program guide, they told us that "it's the show you care about, not the channel number." They do have a point, but we were assured that future releases will address some of these issues (we weren't given specifics). We did find out that an iPad app is in the works, as are apps for Android and Honeycomb specifically, so the Peel won't be iOS only forever. Finally, social sharing options will most likely get beefed up as the app matures. We're envisioning beefed up Twitter and Facebook sharing as well as possible friend following, which will hopefully help refine the suggestions even further.
The Peel -- at this point in time at least -- is a great concept for folks who don't know what they want to watch, but those who enjoy channel surfing in its current form may find it to be limited. That's not to say it's not useful when you don't know what to watch, but as power TV watchers, we'd like to have some more options. Still, the concept is definitely unique and we're all about finding new interesting stuff instead of watching DVR'ed episodes of "Gossip Girl." Overall, we like the current iteration of the Peel, and we're excited to see what's in store as the little orb starts to invade coffee tables everywhere.


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By Sherry Saturno, Executive Director, Gramatan Village
Sep. 4, 2019: Gramatan Village, a non-profit organization that supports adults ages 55 and up who want to age in the home and neighborhood that they love, will be part of many great events in September. Below is a list:
September 11, 2019 at 2:00pm: Gramatan Village is participating in the National Day of Service with Volunteer New York at the Westchester County Community Center in White Plains on Wednesday, September 11th at 2:00pm. This is an annual community-wide day of service dedicated to honoring the memories of those lost on September 11, 2001 through volunteer service. Please join local volunteers of all ages who are giving their time to help others and turn a day of tragedy into a national day of doing good. Gramatan Village and its volunteers will be creating gift bags for seniors in need. For more information or to volunteer, please contact Gramatan Village at (914) 337-1338.
September 13, 2019 from 10:30am – 12:30pm: Gramatan Village invites the entire community to enjoy a light breakfast while shopping the new Fall 2019 Women's and Men's Fashion Collections at J.McLaughlin at 75 Pondfield Road in Bronxville and features classic, timeless style for everyone. Please join us for this fun event. 15% of the sales will benefit Gramatan Village.
September 15, 2019 from 12:00pm-3:00pm: Gramatan Village is participating in New York-Presbyterian Lawrence Hospital's Be Well Bash which will take place on the front lawn of the Bronxville School. This free wellness and injury-prevention event is intended to provide resources and support for the entire community. Gramatan Village will be available to discuss services for seniors and healthy, active aging. For more information, please contact Gramatan Village at (914) 337-1338.
September 18, 2019 from 10:00am - 2:00pm: Gramatan Village will participate in the Seventh Annual Livable Communities Celebrate Aging Fair at the Mount Pleasant Community Center at 125 Lozza Drive, Valhalla, on Wednesday, September 18th from 10:00am-2:00pm. Please join us for discussion, interactive learning, and fun with inspired thinkers in the field of aging services. Gramatan Village's Executive Director Sherry Saturno will be available to answer questions about becoming a Gramatan Village member and membership benefits. This event is sponsored by the Westchester County Government, with free admission and parking. A continental breakfast and lunch will be provided. To RSVP, please contact
September 25, 2019 from 10:00am – 1:30pm: The last week of September is Active Aging Week. It is a weeklong campaign that celebrates vibrant and empowered aging. In honor of Active Aging Week, Gramatan Village is hosting an Empowered Women Leaders speaker series on Wednesday, September 25th from 10:00am-1:30pm featuring speakers Bronxville Mayor Mary Marvin and Concordia College Presidential Scholar Christina Staudt. Please join us for a lively and interactive discussion about community, leadership, and living your best life at any age. A light lunch will be provided. RSVP to Gramatan Village at (914) 337-1338.
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Bronxville Senior Citizens provides programs for adults 55+ who are residents of the greater Bronxville area.
Our members meet Tuesdays and Thursdays for bridge classes, exercise, Tai Chi, as well as weekly lectures on a wide variety of topics. Monthly trips and luncheons are available to our members for a small additional fee.
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Eighty years ago, in New York's Madison Square Garden, 20,000 Americans in good standing assembled to hail speeches by politicians inveighing against Jews and to cheer martial presentations by American Nazi storm troopers, beneath an enormous banner of George Washington flanked by American flags and swastikas.
This sounds like counter-factual history – like a scene from Philip Roth's novel "The Plot Against America" or Philip K. Dick's "The Man in the High Castle" – but of course, it can happen here. It has happened here – and there is a recent, eloquent, six-minute documentary you can watch free online, "A Night at The Garden," that tells you all you may need to know about what transpires when our courage as a free people is haltered by hatred.
Three years later, America was in the Second World War. Five years later, Allied troops battled their way all summer from the D-Day landings on the Normandy beaches to the outskirts of Paris, as Nazis, seeing the writing on the wall, fled the City of Light.
On Aug. 24, 1944, the French Resistance could hear the approach of Gen. George Patton's Third Army from the city's outskirts as the Resistance continued an open assault against the last German garrison in the city, buoyed by parts of Gen. Philippe Leclerc's 2nd French Armored Division. The next day, the garrison surrendered, ending four years of occupation.
It was the courage of the Resistance that kept hope alive for the French, and the courage and resolve of the Allies that turned the tide of the war in Europe. Where is that courage today?
In the last week of this August, one place you could find it was Hong Kong, where hundreds of thousands of people are still turning out to protest China's grip on their coastal metropolis. Bidding defiance to China's Communist rule and authoritarian leftism, they have been waving the American flag and the British Union Jack, and singing the "Star-Spangled Banner."
"Since the protests in Hong Kong started two months ago, I have been struck by the coolness of the American response," George Mason University professor Tyler Cowen wrote in a recent Bloomberg column.
"I am referring not just to President Donald Trump, who has reiterated that the dispute is an internal Chinese matter. Both the social media I sample and the people I know have been fairly quiescent. I haven't seen that much cheering and rooting for the protesters, nor have the major Democratic presidential candidates made a show of stressing their dissent from Trump on this issue."
Adding insult to injury, that was posted under the headline "The World Turns, America Sleeps."
There are those who think, and they are not wrong, there is an excellent chance China eventually will crush the protesters and their dream of American-style liberties, among them free speech and independence, which go together like toast and avocado. But have we become so despairing, defeatist and cynical that we will not rally to a cause not yet lost? That is not who we are.
"The protesters surely have similar fears," Cowen writes, "but after internalizing the costs and benefits they have decided to risk their lives and liberties anyway. Surely it is strange if the protesters – who really do have something major to lose – are braver than we outsiders are."
There are those who will regard this situation in Hong Kong from afar and say, American liberties are not all they are cracked up to be; just look at the hash we have made of our cities, our policies and our politics. They may think we have particularly erred in our immigration policies of late; we will not quibble. Yet part of the problem we have is that so many people still want to get to the U.S. because it remains, for all its warts, a beacon of liberty – as it is for the Hong Kong protesters.
In this most auspicious time of the year, as history tells us, we salute their courage. It is truly the least we can do.


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Coucou les French learners,
I am back from beautiful Portugal and en plein boum, in full swing!
The most important is not to let yourself overwhelmed.
Prendre confiance
As I am working at full speed this week, I am also taking the time to reflect on my ten days in Portugal. Whilst I was there, I noticed Portuguese people were opened to other languages. Every time I would speak to them in my Spanish-Portuguese mix, they would be opened to listen to me and understand me. I did not meet any Portuguese shutting down as I would speak in my bad Portuguese.
Le marché à Vila Verde.
Another amazing thing I noticed is that most Portuguese can speak two ot three other languages, mostly French or English. The taximan who drove us to the airport spoke French to us. He did some grammar and vocabulary mistakes but we could understand him. When I asked him if he had lived in France, he said he had learned French at school and that was it. However, he said French and Portuguese were similar and therefore he could get by.
He absolutely didn't care about making mistakes, he wanted to have a conversation with us.
This is la confiance, confidence.
Confidence is difficult to obtain, but so easy to lose…
Many of my learners are too self-conscious and therefore they hesitate to speak because they fear, they are going to make mistakes. Most of the time, they are actually right! But they don't trust themselves, they don't trust their brains!
This is the affective filter : an invisible psychological filter that can either facilitate or hinder language production in a second language.
The Collaborative Classroom blog explains that
When the filter is high, you:
- experience stress
- feel anxious and self-conscious
- The lack of self-confidence might inhibit success in acquiring the second language
- are reluctant to participate and seek out opportunities to collaborate
When the filter is low, you:
- become a risk-taker as you manipulate language
- feel safe in making mistakes without judgement and constant corrections
- feel empowered to interact and seek out models of language
My job as a language parent is to lower the affective filter as much as possible.
Recently, American actor Bradley Cooper was interviewed in the French program Quotidien. He speaks fluently although he is making mistakes. However, he admits himself he doesn't care about making errors. He is confident, his affective filter is low.
C'est fantastique, it is amazing, n'est-ce pas ? Isn't it?
Un livre parfait pour débutants
Reading is a powerful way to boost confidence. This article on GettingBalance mentions that reading:
- reduces stress. "Reading just six minutes every day has been proven to reduce stress, and thirty minutes a day reduces stress by over sixty percent. That lack of stress can easily become an increase in confidence."
- increases knowledge. "The most important part is that you read something you enjoy. Almost everything you read can increase your knowledge. The more you read, the more information you'll gather, giving you the confidence you'll need."
- makes you happier. "By reading, you can take yourself anywhere to somewhere you can forget about your problems for a while. It's been shown to be a form of meditation that engages your mind. When you're back from your mental vacation, you'll be refreshed and in a happier state, which will boost your confidence."
This week's video is part of Critiques de livres series. In this short video, I recommend you to read this fun easy short novel in French about a little girl's adventures in Paris " Les aventures d'Isabelle ". This book is parfait, perfect if you it is your first or second French book and you need to gain confidence!
I love hearing from you so keep up sending me feedback. I am here to help you acquire French effortlessly.
Happy French acquisition!
P.S. Got friends, family, colleagues or clients who want to become fluent in French? Share this with them, they'll thank you for it 🙂


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Wednesday, November 30, 2016 – 7-9pm
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Austin City Council, District 10:
Sheri Gallo
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ACC Board of Trustees, Place 4:
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Early Voting: December 1 – 9, 2016
Ballot by mail applications MUST be received by December 2, 2016
Election Day: December 13, 2016
Runoffs often get very low turnout yet they give citizens a chance to choose between a narrow field of the most popular candidates. Practice citizen engagement! Be informed! Show up and hear from people who will be making major decisions about your life in Austin!


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Henfield Hire does allow rental vans, cars and minibuses to be taken overseas for a maximum of 28 days. Vehicles can be taken to any European Union Country, and several others in addition. Please feel free to ask us about this.
Our quotation will be based on the information you provide to us about where you are going and will be all inclusive (unlimited mileage, VAT, Insurance and Vehicle on Hire Certificate) for those countries.
If you're taking a minibus outside the UK, you do need a tachograph - you may not be let in otherwise! Minibuses built from 1st January 2005 and beyond also need speed limiters (all of ours are recent models and have speed limiters as well as digital tachographs)
Even if you are a frequent European Union Traveller, it is very important to update yourself with the latest rules and regulations that apply to drivers.
For example:
Drivers in France have been required to carry a self-test breathalyser since July 2012 with enforcement by fines originally planned for 1 November but subsequently postponed to 1 March 2013. Now the French government has announced that the implementation of the sanction (fine) for drivers not carrying a breathalyser – a fine of €11 – has been postponed indefinitely.
Therefore you are still required to carry a self-test breathalyser when driving in France but there is no current legislation demanding a fine for non-compliance (info sourced from the AA).


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Some good reading & watching from today…
Stephen Miller reminds us that we don't have to act differently when we pray: Be Yourself In Prayer.
Ken Davis is always hilarious. Check out The Confused Stage Of Life.
The American College of Pediatrics debunks the myth of "safe sex."
Tim Dilena nails it: Why Worship Is Disappearing From Our Church Services.
"Christians have fallen into the habit of accepting the noisiest and most notorious among them as the best and the greatest. They too have learned to equate popularity with excellence, and in open defiance of the Sermon on the Mount they have given their approval not to the meek but to the self-assertive; not to the mourner but to the self-assured; not to the pure in heart who see God but to the publicity hunter who seeks headlines." —A.W. Tozer
Parents and teachers, check out Tim Elmore's post: How To Avoid Ruining A Kid's Future.
As the Heritage Foundation's Katrina Trinko says, "This isn't okay": States that voted against gay "marriage" now have it forced upon them.


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Talkie Talkie Projects are Roguelike Games which have been talked about to the point where they develop a well known life onto their own. However, no actual release of a functional game has occurred, so only time can determine if there is substance behind the words.
It is a perfectly acceptable development strategy to not release anything until one has a stable game. However, one should keep in mind that talking about a game doesn't get it written.
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