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Prerequisite | Core | Non-Industrial or Elective | Non-Fiction or Elective |
Multicultural or Elective | Pre-1950s or Elective | Electives | Senior Seminar | Graduate
English 2263 Introduction to Film
Introduction to methods of reading film texts by analyzing cinema as technique, as system, and as cultural product.
Prereq: 1110.01 (110.01) or equiv. Not open to students with credit for 263. GE VPA course.
Class Components: Lecture and Recitation (Register for the lecture and one of the recitation sections below)
- Lecture: 20731 Instructor: Jared B Gardner Meets: Tu Th 8-9:20 am Scott Lab E0001
- Recitation: 20732 Instructor: Staff Meets: Fr 8-8:55 am Knowlton Hall 0195
- Recitation: 20733 Instructor: Staff Meets: Fr 8-8:55 am McPherson Lab 1046
Notes: This course offers an introduction to the language and aesthetics of cinema, familiarizing students with the basic building blocks of film, the forms that movies use to tell stories, move viewers emotionally, communicate complex ideas, and dramatize social conflicts. It also introduces students to significant developments in film history and ways of approaching film interpretation. We will use each week's film as both a case study in the strategic deployment of certain cinematic techniques, and as a specific set of images and sounds that combine to create a unique cinematic expression. Throughout the term, we will focus on detailed analysis of films, analyzing closely the ways in which the multiple elements of moviemaking come together to make, and complicate, meaning. Our primary goal in this class is to become skilled at thinking, talking, and writing critically about movies and, in the process, to deepen our appreciation and understanding of the film medium. Films we will study will include RASHOMON, WILD STRAWBERRIES, PSYCHO, and LOST IN TRANSLATION. Requirements for the course include regular attendance, participation in recitations, quizzes, two papers and a final exam.
History of Art 2901 Intro to World Cinema
Chronological survey of the most influential and recognized film artists and film movements of the world.
Prereq: Not open to students with credit for 260. GE VPA and diversity global studies course.
Class Components: Lecture (Register for one of the lectures below)
- Lecture: 21634 Instructor: Staff Meets: Tu Th 8-9:20 am Mendenhall Lab 0100
- Lecture: 21635 Instructor: Staff Meets: Tu Th 5:30-6:50 pm Psychology Bldg 0002
Film Studies 2271 Introduction to Film Studies
An introduction to the field of Film Studies based on a survey of the major theories of film analysis, specifically geared for incoming majors.
Prereq: English 2263 (263), or HistArt 2901 (260). Not open to students with credit for 2270 (270). Ge VPA course.
Class components: Lecture
- Lecture: 21070 Instructor: Jessie M Labov Meets: Tu Th 11:10 am-12:30 pm Arps Hall 0387
Non-Industrial or Elective
History of Art 5645 Video Art
Introduces students to video as an artistic medium by studying its contentious past, multiple forms, and the trajectories of this expanding field.
Prereq: Not open to students with credit for 640.
Class components: Lecture
- Lecture: 30379/30381 Instructor: Kristina B Paulsen Meets: Tu Th 12:45-2:05 pm Arps Hall 0385
Notes: Combined sections
Non-Fiction or Elective
Film Studies 3660 Documentary Film Studies
An upper-level course in documentary geared toward film studies majors.
Prereq: 2270 or 2271, or permission of instructor. Repeatable to a maximum of 9 cr hrs.
Class components: Lecture (note that Monday's class ends later than Wednesday and Friday)
- Lecture: 31222 Instructor: Margaret C. Flinn Meets: M 3-4:50 pm We Fr 3-3:55 pm Enarson 0326
Multicultural or Elective
History of Art 3901 World Cinema Today
An introduction to the art of international cinema today, including its forms and varied content.
Prereq: Soph standing, or permission of instructor. Not open to students with credit for 350. GE VPA course.
Class components: Lecture (Register for one of the lectures below)
- Lecture: 21636 Instructor: Staff Meets: We Fr 11:10 am-12:30 pm Gateway Film Center House 3
- Lecture: 21637 Instructor: Staff Meets: Tu Th 5:30-6:50 pm University Hall 0014
Pre-1950s or Elective
German 3351 Democracy, Fascism, & German Culture
Culture of the Weimar Republic and Nazi Germany in literature, film, the other arts; the roots of fascism and its echoes in postwar Germany. Taught in English.
Prereq: Not open to students with credit for 299. GE cultures and ideas and diversity global studies course.
Class components: Lecture
- Lecture: 21442 Instructor: Andrew John Spencer Meets: We Fr 9:35-10:55 am Arps Hall 0388
Adv Computing Cntr Arts & Design 3350 The History of Animation
An overview of the history and theory of animation including origin of animation forms, Hollywood Studio animation, a sample of World Animation and contemporary animation.
Prereq: Not open to students with credit for ArtsCol 350.
Class components: Lecture
- Lecture: 16636 Instructor: David Glenn Filipi Meets: We Fr 9:35-10:55 am Wexner Center for the Arts 0001
Notes: Combined section (with ACCAD 6650)
Comparative Studies 3607 Film and Literature as a Narrative
Relationships between film and literature; emergence of cinematic art as a form of representation with emphasis on diverse cultural traditions.
Prereq: English 1110 (110) or equiv. Not open to students with credit for 3607H (358H, 358). GE VPA and diversity global studies course.
Course components: Lecture (*Note the different meeting times)
- Lecture: 18818 Intructor: Andrew Curtis Culp Meets: Mo 12:10-2 pm and We Fr 12:40-1:35 pm Mendenhall Lab 0131
Film Studies 2367.02 The American Film Genre
An intermediate course centering around the works of one important US film genre that extends and refines expository writing and analytic reading / viewing skills.
Prereq: English 1110 (110) and Soph standing, or enrollment in Film Studies major. Repeatable to a maximum of 6 cr hrs. GE writing and comm course: level 2.
Course components: Lecture
- Lecture: 34172 Instructor: Angus Ian Fletcher Meets: Tu Th 12:45-2:05 pm
- Notes: Heroic Narratives in Film. From the self-engineered superhero of Iron Man to the intrepid friends of 4 Months, 3 Weeks, 2 Days, movies have given us heroes who inspire us to imagine new possibilities for ourselves and our world. In this class, we will deconstruct past heroic narratives in order to construct our own new ones, putting critical analysis at the service of original myth-making.
Film Studies 4880 Screenwriting and the Business of Cinema
This course examines screenwriting as both a literary art form and a challenging profession.
Prereq: Theatre 5331 (636), or permission of instructor. Not open to credit to students with credit for 680.
Course components: Lecture
- Lecture: 21071 Instructor: Andrew Maurice Rose Meets: We Fr 9:35-10:55 am Scott Lab E0421
Film Studies 4890 Advanced Screenwriting
An intensive writing course in which each student completes a feature-length screenplay based on work previously completed in Film Studies 680 or Film Studies 4880.
Prereq: 4880 (680), and permission of director. Not open to students with credit for 690.
Course components: Seminar
- Seminar: 21072 Instructor: Andrew Maurice Rose Meets: We Fr 11:10 am -12:30 pm Smith Lab 1150
- Notes: Department consent required.
French 5701 Topics in French and Francophone Cinema
Study of the history and aesthetics of French cinema. Topics vary.
Prereq: For undergraduates - 2801 or 3701 (470), or permission of the instructor. For graduate students - Permission of the Graduate Advisor. Not open to students with credit for 670. FL Admis Cond course.
Course requirements: Lecture
- Lecture: 28286 Instructor: Margaret C. Flinn Meets: We Fr 12:45-2:05 pm Mendenhall Lab 0185
Russian 3460 Modern Russian Experience Through Film
Exploration of some of the most revealing hopes and disappointments of Russian people presented in internationally acclaimed Russian films. Taught in English.
Prereq: Not open to students with credit for 360. GE VPA and diversity global studies course.
Course components: Lecture (Register for one of the lecture sections)
- Lecture:26762 Instructor: Robert Alan Mulcahy Meets: Tu Th 9:35-10:55 am Watts Hall 0395
- Lecture: 33322 Instructor: Dzhamilya Nazyrova Meets: Tu Th 11:10 am-12:30 pm PAES Bldg A0109
Slavic 3360 Screening Minorities: Representations of the Other in Slavic Film
Film representations of ethnic and religious others in East European cinema. Taught in English.
Prereq: Not open to students with credit for 360. GE VPA course.
Course components: Lecture
- Lecture: 26830 Instructor: Izolda Wolski-Moskoff Meets: Tu Th 9:35-10:55 am Scott Lab E0105
Spanish 4580 Latin American Film
Study of Latin American film; special attention is paid to the relationship between film and the society in which it is produced.
Prereq: A grade of C- or above in 3450 (450) or 3450H (450H). Not open to students with credit for 580. FL Admis Cond course.
Class components: Lecture
- Lecture: 27231 Instructor: Laura Podalsky Meets: Tu Th 11:10 am-12:30 pm Hagerty Hall 0251
Spanish 4581 Spanish Film
Study of Spanish film; special attention is paid to the relationship between film and the society in which it is produced.
Prereq: A grade of C- or above in 3450 (450) or 3450H (450H). Not open to students with credit for 581. FL Admis Cond course.
Class components: Lecture (Note the different meeting times and places for We and Fr)
- Lecture: 27221 Instructor: Eugenia R Romero Meets: We 12:45-2:35 pm Ramseyer Hall 0166 Fr 12:45-2:05 pm Biological Sciences Bldg 0676
Women's, Gender, & Sexuality Studies 3317 Hollywood, Women, & Film
A critical survey of the rep. of women in Hollywood cinema, examples drawn from the 1930's to present. Learn how film has functioned in its representation of women and how and why women film makers have created alternative visions of women in film.
Prereq: Not open to students with credit for 317. GE VPA course.
Class components: Lecture (Register for one of the lectures)
- Lecture: 27919 Instructor: Denise Ann Fuller Meets: Mo We Fr 1:50-2:45 pm Smith Lab 1048
- Lecture: 27920 Instructor: Erin Christine Tobin Meets: Mo 2:15-5:00 pm Scott Lab N0050
Women's, Gender, & Sexuality Studies 4527 Studies in Gender & Cinema
Analysis of different film types focused on women to help students understand historical scope, theoretical frameworks, and reading strategies for understanding these films; topics vary.
Prereq: Not open to students with 10 qtr cr hrs of 527 or FilmStd 527. Repeatable to a maximum of 9 cr hrs.
Class components: Lecture
- Lecture: 27926 Instructor: Linda Maria Mizejewski Meets: Tu Th 2:20-3:40 pm Scott Lab N0048
Notes: "A survey of Hollywood's unruly women from Mae West to Bridesmaids."
English 4578 Special Topics in Film
Examination of particular topics, themes, genres, or movements in cinema; topics may include particular directors (Orson Welles), periods (The Sixties), genres (horror).
Prereq: 10 qtr cr hrs or 6 cr hrs of English at 2000-3000 level, or permission of instructor. 5 qtr cr hrs in 367 or 3 cr hrs in 2367 in any subject is acceptable towards the 6 cr hrs. Not open to students with 15 qtr cr hrs for 578 or 9 sem cr hrs for 4578 or 4578H. Repeatable to a maximum of 9 cr hrs.
Class components: Lecture (3 different lectures each with different content; see notes for each lecture)
- Lecture: 20830 Instructor: Frederick Aldama
Meets: We Fr 12:45-2:05 pm Gateway Film Center House 4
Notes: "Mex-Cine: Mexican Filmmaking, Production, and Consumption in the Twenty-first Century"
In this course we will explore how Mexican films made and exhibited during the first decade of the 21st century creatively texture racial, sexual, ethnic, gender, and class identities and experiences. We will explore issues of representation as well as technique, including how directors use a variety of techniques--genre, point of view, tempo, mood, style, characterization, for instance--to complexly cue, trigger, and even re-direct our thoughts of and feelings toward Mexican themes, characters, settings, and stories depicted.
We will view the following films: Vargas's El Violin/The Violin, Estrada's La ley de Herodes/Herod's Law, Cuaron's Y tu mama tambien/And Your Mama Too, Carrera's El crimen del padre Amaro/The Crime of Father Amaro, Cary Fukunaga's Sin Nombre/Without a Name, Rivera's Sleep Dealer, Tort's De la calle/Streeters, Diaz Yanez's Solo Quiero Caminar/ Walking Vengeance, Pla's La Zona/The Zone, Gonzalez I?arritu's Amores Perros.
We will read Aldama's Mex-Cine: Mexican Filmmaking, Production, and Consumption in the Twenty-first Century. Please purchase at amazon.com or at:
You will write 3 papers (5-7pages) and write one-page weekly journal responses.
- Lecture: 20828 Instructor: Morris Beja
Meets: Tu Th 2:20-3:40 pm Denney Hall 0250
Notes: Special Topics in Cinema - The Films of Orson Welles and Stanley Kubrick:
We shall examine the career and representative films of two of the most renowned and controversial figures in film history: Orson Welles and Stanley Kubrick. The Welles films we'll study will be Citizen Kane, Touch of Evil, and The Trial. Those by Kubrick will be Paths of Glory, Lolita, Dr. Strangelove, 2001: A Space Odyssey, A Clockwork Orange, The Shining, Full Metal Jacket, and Eyes Wide Shut. Assigned readings will include three novels: Franz Kafka's The Trial, Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita, and Anthony Burgess's A Clockwork Orange. In order to give students time to read Lolita, we'll view and discuss Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove before his film of Lolita, although Lolita appeared first.
Students will write two papers, 5-7 pages each. There won't be a mid-term, but there will be a short quiz on each novel, and a final examination.
- Lecture: 20829 Instructor: Jane Huey Chuan Chen
Meets: Tu Th 3:55-5:15 pm Denney Hall 0238
Notes: This course explores the cheap, low-culture sensation of exploitation films. As a class of films that became visible the 1920s in the U.S., exploitation films featured all that was considered excessive and prohibited under the Hollywood Hayes Production Code, including interracial relationships, sex, violence, non-heterosexual sexualities, single parent families, criminality, gore, the superhuman, and the supernatural. By the 1960s and 1970s, exploitation films became defined through specific genres targeting niche audiences, such as Blaxploitation, horror, sexploitation, martial arts, spaghetti westerns, gangster, and prison films. Hollywood's incorporation of exploitation's smaller scale, niche production and iconography and the growing international cinematic market contributed to this shift. Beginning in the last decade of 20th century, electronic networks and global Hollywood have helped to further absorb, disperse, and re-assemble exploitation films for hybrid transnational circulation. This course will track the development of the exploitation phenomenon alongside and within classical Hollywood cinema and then as a general feature of global post-industrial Hollywood and media.
Course materials may include work by Ana M. Lopez, Tejaswini Ganti, Toby Miller, Ting Wang & Nitin Govil, Yvonne Sims, Celine Parre?as Shimizu, Kara Keeling, Linda Williams, Ed Guerrero, Alexander Galloway & Eugene Thacker, Kyung Hyun Kim, N. Katherine Hayles, Wendy Chun, Henry Jenkins, Robert Rodriguez, Bliss Cua Lim.
Screenings may include: Quentin Tarantino's Man with the Iron Fists, Melvin Van Peebles's Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song, Jack Hill's Switchblade Sisters, Robert Rodriguez's El Mariachi, Robert Clouse's Enter the Dragon, Danny Boyle's Slumdog Millionaire, Kim Ji-woon's The Good, the Bad, the Weird, Hideo Nakata's Ringu.
Course requirements may include an in-class presentation, regular participation in a course blog, exploratory midterm project, and final paper project. The course will fulfill requirements towards English, Film, Sexuality Studies, Asian American Studies, and Women's Gender & Sexuality Studies majors and minors. (Check with your program/department for more details.) firstname.lastname@example.com Undergraduate Major or Minor Course
Senior Seminar
Film Studies 4895 Advanced Seminar: Topics in Film Studies
Selected problems (themes, movements, theories, genres, styles, etc.) in film studies; topics vary per semester.
Prereq: Enrollment in FilmStd major, and Sr standing, or permission of instructor. Repeatable to a maximum of 15 cr hrs.
Class components: Seminar
- Seminar: 28471 Instructor: Staff Meets: Tu Th 2:20-3:40 pm Arps Hall 0387
English 6778.01 Introduction to Graduate Study in Film and Film Theory
An advanced survey of the methodologies, contexts, and development of film and film theory.
Prereq: Grad standing, or permission of instructor. Not open to students with credit for 6778.01 (778) or 6778.02.
Course components: Seminar
- Seminar: 20835 Instructor: Sean Lawrence O'Sullivan Meets: Th 9:10-12:25 am Denney Hall 0435


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Application Requirements
The online Summer Enrichment Program application will open in late October 2019 and close on February 4, 2020. Changes can be made during this period. The application will be automatically submitted at 11:59pm EST on February 4, 2020. An application cannot be re-accessed after it closes, so applicants should ensure that they submit all items on time. Applicants may want to have copies of their resumes handy to help them fill in the background section.
A complete online application includes the following:
- Completed sections with background information on the applicant, including work and volunteer experiences, international experiences, and honors and awards.
- An interest statement (in 500 words or less) that explains the applicant's interest in international affairs and how this program will assist him/her in pursuing this interest
- Uploaded documents, including the following: (Note: Word or PDF documents are acceptable. If you do not have PDF conversion software on your computer, please check free online services. Please ensure scanned copies can be easily read.)
- Transcript(s) from all colleges or universities that the applicant has attended. An official transcript is best; a student copy is acceptable if it is in the format of an official transcript. The transcript must include spring 2019 course enrollment to verify full-time student status.
- Proof of U.S. citizenship, including (choose one)
- Birth certificate
- Certificate of U.S. citizenship
- U.S. passport
* Note: If you use a birth certificate, please note that if you are selected, you will need to send us a hard copy of a notarized birth certificate before your final acceptance. Those using passports or certificates of citizenship will have to bring originals to show at the start of the program.*Note: Social Security cards and driver's licenses are not proof of citizenship and will not be sufficient.
- Three letters of recommendation
- Two from faculty members
- One from a community leader who can comment on the applicant's non-academic accomplishments and his/her potential as an emerging professional.
- Additional recommendation letters will not be considered.
- Note: In the online application, applicants will identify recommenders, who will be contacted by the program and asked to submit letters electronically. Below is a copy of the recommendation letter for your reference only.
- Recommendation Form (Word version)
- Once an applicant has added recommenders' contacts to the application form, an automatic email will be sent to each recommender. It may take a few hours for the email to be sent to the recommender. Recommenders should check their spam folders if they've not received a notification.
* Note: Students must first save the "Personal Profile" page of their application before they can save the recommendation section of the application. Applicants can return to their application at any time before the deadline to update any portion of their application.
- Note: If selected as a Rangel Scholar, applicants will be required to send official transcripts, forms to register for university courses (provided by the Rangel Program), a medical form with immunization information (provided by the Rangel Program), and other required documents.
We strongly encourage applicants to review our technical assistance webinar that details each section of the application and what applicants can expect.
If you applied to the program and would like to access your application, you can log in here.
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A panel of individuals with experience in foreign affairs and academia evaluates candidates' applications. The Rangel Programs will strive to complete the selection process and make offers by the end of March 2020. Applicants will be notified of the results by email soon thereafter.

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The Great Race: The Story of the Chinese Zodiac
Christopher Corr
Frances Lincoln Children's Books
I was wowed by Christopher Corr's Deep in the Woods and now he's turned his amazing artistry to another folktale, the Chinese story of how the years were named.
It's a fuller version than any I've seen and used in schools over the years and is in my view set to become the 'go to' book for celebrating Chinese New Year from now on. (16th February this year).
For those who don't know the folktale it's set in an ancient China when there was no way of knowing how much time had passed and consequently the Jade Emperor having no idea how old he was, decided it was about time he knew.
He called together all the animals of his kingdom and announced that on the next day a Great Race was to be held and the first twelve creatures to cross the river would each have a year named after them. Needless to say, all the animals were eager to win.
Two in particular were good friends and planned to become joint winners so long as the rat could wake his cat friend from sleep, that is.
Next day however, the rat did his utmost to rouse his slumbering pal but was forced to leave him to dream and head towards the river.
En route he met an ox and they team up – the rat as passenger and thankful singer on the ox's back. The double-dealing rat though, jumped forwards at the last stroke to land first at the emperor's feet and thus claim the first year, which henceforth became The Year of the Rat, with Ox giving his name to the second year.
Tiger …
and Rabbit claim the next two years and then in fifth place, comes a dazzling dragon with a tale to tell of how he assisted the rabbit on his journey.
Horse arrives to claim the next place and he too has a passenger – wily snake who sneakily claims sixth position instead.
In contrast, goat, monkey and rooster employ teamwork …
and the Emperor rewards them by assigning the next three years to Goat, Monkey and Rooster respectively.
Both dog and pig …
have wasted time during the swim and thus are allocated the eleventh and twelfth years. Then it's time to celebrate.
Suddenly though, a small cat makes his presence felt in no uncertain terms as he emerges from the water and proceeds to shout in fury at Rat for failing to wake him, causing the little creature to flee for his life, then and for ever on …
This finale adds a pourquoi element to the whole tale.
Everything, from the tactile cover is splendid. Steeped in folk art tradition, Corr's beautifully patterned illustrations are truly captivating and offer a powerful stimulus for children's own artistic creations.
His telling too is terrific, focusing on the animal characters themselves – some sneaky, some helpful and others co-operative.


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Every time you have a cold, you are easily tempted to rub that vapor rub on your nose and chest. But did you know that these vapor rubs contain ingredients, which cause more harm than good… Especially for younger children and adults. These vapor rubs tend to expand the nasal passage and thus cause breathing and respiratory problems, which could be serious with prolonged use. The relief it provides is temporary relief only.
There are some simple and easily available that you can try out at home. They are easy to make and you can store it for a couple of days or may be even later, with ease. Not only are they safe, since they are made from natural ingredients, they ensure long term safety too. Here are some of them-
5 Homemade Vapor Rub For Youngsters And Adults
Beeswax And Essential Oils
This one is very simple to make, has decongestant properties, helps in better breathing and also clears congestion. For making this rub, you simply need a combination of a couple of good essentials oils, which are strongly scented. These can be rosemary, oregano, peppermint or even eucalyptus. 15-20 drops of these should be added to about a 100ml of coconut oil or olive oil.
To this mixture you need to add about 2 spoons of wax, which can be either beeswax pastilles or candelilla wax that has been melted over a double boiler. You can also use palm shortening in this reference. Simply mix the ingredients together and massage well.
Mixed Essential Oil Rub
One of the other easier available options, which does not require any heating over the flame or other hard work would be to simply store some bottles of essential oils and then mix them all well. For this, the primary product should be either tea tree or eucalyptus oil because both are strong in fragrance and help in easing the congestion in the nasal passage.
You should take about 20 drops of eucalyptus and then mix with essential oils (about 10 drops) of rosemary, peppermint, lemon, basil, etc. In this reference, lavender should also be added for those who are having difficulty sleeping. Do not rub this too close to the nose for infants under two as their nasal passages are very narrow and they may have watery eyes from the strong aroma too.
Mustard Oil And Garlic
This is an ancient Indian remedy, which has been used for centuries for treating colds, coughs, fever and other similar ailments. What you need to do here is take some strong mustard oil, about half a cup should do. Then heat it over a low flame. To this, added a couple of grated cloves of garlic.
Remember, to take the oil off the heat before adding garlic or it loses some of its antibacterial properties in the process. Mix it well and when slightly warm apply on the chest, feet and neck. Again, this is mild enough for both babies and adults. In fact, it can also be used for massaging all over the body. For best results, put on the feet and then wear socks so that the heat retains. Mustard helps in de-congestion while the strong fragrance of garlic helps in clearing the nose and providing warmth.
Rosemary And Olive Oil Rub
This one is a sensible home vapor rub for those who have a rosemary bush or plant in the house. Though the essential oils do work very well, there is something about using fresh rosemary that helps in much faster healing. Pick a few stems of rosemary and then crush it or make a paste of the same using mortar and pestle or even in the mixer.
Then add some heated olive oil to it and then apply on the chest and neck. Let it stay for a few minutes and if possible cover it with a thick towel (you should use a clean one but be wary that stains will stay). This should be only used on the backs of infants under two because it is too strong.
Clove Oil And Cocoa Or Shea Butter
Another remedy that works very for treating treating nasal congestion, respiratory problems and all other cold associated symptoms is clove oil. You can also use fresh clove, but remember it may be too strong for infants.
When making this rub, remember that the infant dosage or drops should be much lower (about two drops are enough). Adults can use about 5-7 drops of clove oil to a handful of shea butter. Mix well and then apply on the back, neck, chest, etc. It helps in easier breathing and acts as a decongestant because of its warming properties.


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Designer Inspiration with Peet: Day 3
As the temps outside begin to rise, here on the blog we are also heating up with designer inspiration! Over the next several weeks our designers will be bringing you inspiration and design ideas featuring their trademark styles and products from our newest collection, Sunshine and Smiles. This week Peet Roeven joins us with her clever creations!
It's another classic pairing of floral stamping and floral pattern papers today as Peet brings to life our transparent set, 30-298 Enamor, and Designer Paper Pad, 80-011 Beau Jardins.
Peet colored the flowers with Faber-Castell Polychromos Pencils and then used mineral spirits to blend the color.
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Children/Youth Issues, Health and Wellness, Health Care, Nursing, Public Health
Maternal-newborn health care, Community health nursing, Nursing faculty education
Degree: M.S.N.
Title: Lecturer
Department: Nursing
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Office Phone: (303) 615-1875
Katrina Little, M.S.N., is a lecturer in the Department of Nursing at Metropolitan State University of Denver. Her areas of focus are on education and health promotion amongst child-bearing and breastfeeding women in minority populations.
Little has 14 years of clinical experience as a registered nurse specializing in inpatient obstetrics caring and sharing in the low to high-risk birth experiences across the states of Texas, California and Colorado. She has over eight years of experience teaching as an affiliate faculty and full-time faculty. Little taught at University of Colorado School of Nursing and College America before joining MSU Denver in 2013. She transitioned to a full-time faculty in 2017. Little has held a variety of leadership roles in the community and professionally. Little is a member of the Women's Health and Neonatal Leadership team and diversity chairman on St. Elizabeth's Denver Episcopal Day School Parent Association Board.
Little received her master of science in nursing with a specialty in nursing education from Kaplan University in 2013 and a bachelor of science in nursing from Texas Christian University in 2003. She is a registered nurse in Colorado and California.


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TLS 365 Experience #279
December 4, 2017
This is the time of year where giving is part of the season. There are many without in this season and a good time to produce a labyrinth walk around the giving to those with less. Over the years our community group has produced labyrinth walks of food to fill the donation pantry for the homeless, clothing to bring in anything from socks to sweaters, outerwear walks such as overcoats, gloves, hats and scarves too. We have brought in blankets and toiletry items by putting out bags that can be filled. We are considering a cookie walk to donate to a local ministry too.
As people come to walk, they leave their items on the labyrinth and we walk with the items in mind offering prayer, blessings and song. All the good will of bringing and preparing the goods with love and compassion make the giving even more special.
Today's Experience submitted by:
Debbie O., Community Outreach, Labyrinth Facilitator
The TLS 365 Experience: A Cycle of Giving & Receiving
1. Give
Share your own "Experience" and add to the wisdom:
2. Receive
Read/Bookmark/Apply the Daily Experience:
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The cycle of giving and receiving is a cycle of caring and sharing of our wisdom and appreciation


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So my employees told me today that a woman in her early 40's came in and was placing an order and had seen one of our custom printed shirts that said " buck furpees" (if you know what a burpee is you'd understand) in the showroom and she went off the rails. Apparently she was offended and wanted to make a formal complaint. Seriously? Would this offend you?
It would totally offend me that she went off the rails over that shirt!!!
No, I would not be offended by the shirt.
It's a shame neither you, nor your employees, could tell her to take her offense, fold it in three corners, and stick it up her ass.
I get that it's not a good business model to tell customers to piss off.
I really wish I was standing next to people that do that kind of thing, while they're doing it. Just so I could tell them to get over themselves, nobody cares if they're offended, and their behavior is what is offensive.
That said, I find Crossfit offensive.
Be all professional, pull out a paper and pen, and say, can you explain exactly why you find the T-shirt offensive, ma'am? Then pretend not to understand as she tries to explain why the word "buck" is offensive.
Tell her you have noted her complaint and assigned it to the complaint committee for further study. Don't tell her the complaint committee only meets every other leap year for 15 min on Feb 29th.
I have a t-shirt that says "I Love Burpees.....said NO ONE ever!"
I need that one...yeah, it is a CrossFitter's nightmare exercise...hate hate hate...love love love...ugh
No...it would not offend me any more than all of the t-shirts I have seen in catalogs, stores, etc. Take her complaint and then ignore her...
The folks who work for the coroner in my county wear shirts that say last responder on them. If you want to be offended, there you go. And seriously buck furpees.
Entitled snowflakes who think if everything in the world doesn't cater to their thin skinned sensibilities - it is an abomination. Maybe she should travel overseas and see kids starving, women murdered for trying to report rape, or being treated as a second class citizen b/c of race/sex/width of your nose. BTW - I would wager $20 she was a christian.
And no...that wouldn't offend 90% of the reasonable, rational, adult population IMO.
He just about covered every comment I would have made. Personally I could care less what she thinks.


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On the front page, today's top story is an article I've been working on for the past... oh, five months or so? It's about three different new programs that are changing the way game design students can approach the craft, and might shake up the industry and the medium besides. Do go check it out.
In the course of the research, I got a whole mess of questions about the new MIT program answered by Henry Jenkins (right) as well as his co-department head William Uricchio and executive director of the program, Philip Tan. They were far too good to leave on the cutting room floor, so they're all there, after the jump.
You've been on the front lines of research into video games for quite a long
time, but if I understand correctly this is the first big push for CMS into
actual work in video game design. Why get into this area of education?
Henry Jenkins: That's a bit of a simplification. I have long been a strong
advocate of innovation, creativity, and diversity of games as well as a strong
supporter of the serious and independent games movements. That's probably the
part of my work which has been most visible beyond the MIT campus. But, we have
been taking steady steps over the past eight or nine years through the
Comparative Media Studies Program to move decisively towards games production.
The Comparative Media Studies has embraced an ethos of applied humanities.
Some years ago, CMS collaborated with Bing Gordon to develop a Creative Leaders
Program for Electronic Arts: our faculty and students sat down to brainstorm
with key EA designers, including Will Wright, Neil Young, and Danny Bilson,
about the future of the games medium. For the past seven years, we have run a
week-long intensive games design workshop every January in collaboration with
people in the training program at Sony Imageworks and with a range of local
Boston area games companies. Our students conceptualize and pitch games in the
course of the week and receive feedback from industry insiders (representing
companies such as Harmonix, Mad Doc, and Turbine). We have gradually built on
that foundation by having games-related courses taught on campus by games
industry insiders, such as Christopher Weaver (Bethesda Softworks), Ian Lane
Davis (Mad Doc), Eric Zimmerman (GameLab) and Frank Espinoza (Warner
Brothers). We have a long tradition of bringing games industry professionals
to MIT to mentor and advise students on their class projects. We have long
brought game designers of all kinds to campus to interact with our students
and share with them front line perspectives on industry trends. We have had a
steady stream of students who have sought to combine computer science and
comparative media studies and have gone on to do internships and get jobs as
game designers.
We have now six years of track record doing conceptual and playable prototypes
for educational games – starting with the Games to Teach project which was
funded by Microsoft Research and then the Education Arcade, which has hosted
major events on games and learning at E3. This group has experimented with the
use of game mods as a platform for developing educational games, transforming
Neverwinter Nights into Revolution, a game set in Colonial Williamsburg. We
recently hired Scot Osterweil (The Zoombini's Logical Adventure) to head up a
team of our students working with Maryland Public Television and Fablevision
to develop Labyrinth, a multiplatform experience designed to help kids develop
literacy and math skills. It will be, we hope, the first CMS developed game to
find its way into distribution. Eric Klopfer, another colleague, has been a
leading researcher working on Augmented Reality Games and Beth Coleman, yet
another colleague, is doing important work on the use of machinema for
artistic expression.
All of this is the focus on the work we are doing through the Comparative Media
studies Program. But what's great about this initiative is that within MIT, we
are partnering with some key faculty in the Computer Science Program who have
been doing ground breaking work in computer graphics, artificial intelligence,
and voice recognition.
And beyond that, we will be working with leading researchers from a range of
Singaporean institutions with a broad range of production, animation, and
programming skills.
How did the collaboration with the Singapore government come about? Had you
worked together on any other initiatives prior to this?__
Philip Tan: Late last year, Singapore announced that the country was embarking
on a major effort to grow R&D spending to 3% of its GDP. This is a crucial
direction for preparing the Singapore economy for the next couple of decades.
They've been focusing on biotech for a good few years and they've had
compelling domestic reasons to build up their environmental and water
technologies. However, the government also announced a big commitment to
Interactive and Digital Media as a research space that is simply too important
to ignore.
[Added later: I mixed up some statistics in the paragraph quoted (above). The National
Research Foundation of Singapore announced that they would allocate
S$500 million over the next five years for a strategic research
program to increase the value-added contribution from the interactive
& digital media (IDM) sector from S$3.8 billion in 2003 to S$10
billion, and to create about 10,000 new jobs by 2015.
The Media21 blueprint of MDA, which was announced in 2003, aims to
double the GDP contribution of the entire media industry to 3%, and to
increase the number of media industry jobs. You can find more
information on Media21 at http://www.mda.gov.sg/wms.ftp/media21.pdf .
Thanks for the opportunity to clarify this detail.]
Given Singapore's technological base, excellent education system, cosmopolitan
influences, and constraints in population and geographical size, the country
has already been investing heavily in its digital media industries. This
announcement is important as it encourages a bigger push towards addressing
the concerns of the Singapore industry through R&D, which necessitates an
attitude of risk-taking and creativity. They're building on that strong IT
base that they've developed over the past 25 years, but they also recognize
that digital media has significant creative challenges in addition to
technological complexity. This effort invites exploration into new business
models, cultural explorations, and aesthetics, which now becomes an integral
part of the R&D effort for Interactive and Digital Media.
For the past 8 years, MIT and Singapore have had an ongoing collaboration
called the "Singapore-MIT Alliance." The trust and understanding between MIT
and Singapore institutes of higher learning has grown during that time, which
has made it easier for researchers and educators to build collaborations.
Within this context, CMS has been looking for an opportunity to work with
Singapore in various media-related initiatives, and CMS is still examining
other potential collaborations, particularly in education. However, just as
the rapid growth of the Singapore industry is beginning to uncover challenges
and opportunities for research, CMS has been gradually expanding its game
curriculum offerings and research endeavors, so the International Game Lab is
just the right project at the right time for all the collaborators.
What exactly is the involvement with Singapore – will they be sending a
certain number of students to MIT every year? Undergrad or graduate or both?
How will you be involving working game industry professionals in the Lab? Have
you signed up any specific individuals who you could name?__
Philip Tan: Singapore and MIT faculty, post-doc, and graduate students will be
collaborating on research across a range of different game-related topics. We
want to make sure that this is completely collaborative; the research thrusts
need to make sense both all the researchers, drawing on strengths and
interests of both Singapore and MIT collaborators. Without that complementary
benefit, we would end up compromising the full effectiveness of the initiative.
There will naturally be a lot of communication, researcher exchanges, and joint
presentations, and we should expect to see simultaneous increases in research
activity in MIT and in Singapore institutions.
Undergraduate and polytechnic students in Singapore already have access to
pretty strong technical and creative curricula to prepare them for game
careers, so we want to bring 30 to 40 a year to MIT and challenge them to take
the results of the ongoing research efforts and translate those ideas and
applications into playable games. We'll also help build up further
opportunities for more industry-bound students to grapple with the research
while they are in Singapore. Not only does this expose students to game
technologies, practices, and concepts that are a little different from the
standard development pipelines, it allows the initiative to assess the
relevance of the research. If we can't even figure out how to apply our own
research to our own games, then some reevaluation is in order.
We'll also have Singapore and US industry professionals attached and visiting
the work occurring in Singapore and MIT to make sure that the research stays
relevant and accessible to the industry. We're still interviewing and
discussing possible means of collaboration, so we can't name names at this
stage. In Singapore, the local IGDA chapter makes it a priority to collect
input and speak for the concerns of the industry, so we will frequently be
consulting with them to identify areas of research that might be beneficial
for the industry but might potentially be too risky for the industry to
More generally, how will this affect MIT's student body? Say I'm an
undergraduate at MIT with a strong interest in game design or game research –
how could I get involved in this program?
William Uricchio: The Lab provides us with an opportunity to redouble our
efforts in the classroom, research lab, and outreach programs. Each of these
venues offers our students ways of sharing in the benefits of the program. In
the classroom, the presence of the Lab will not only allow us to increase our
game-related course offerings, but should facilitate greater interaction among
CMS students and those from other parts of the Institute such as Course 6
(Electrical Engineering and Computer Science) and Sloan. There will be plenty
of games-related research opportunities throughout the year in direct support
of the Lab. MIT has a strong tradition of involving undergraduates as active
participants in applied research through its many labs – a program called the
Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program or UROP. And our already active
engagement of key figures in the games field, whether from the industry, or
the journalistic or academic worlds, will intensify. The MIT community can
look forward to more opportunities to interact with these 'key figures'
through our weekly colloquia and occasional conferences, and even through our
visiting scholars program. It goes without saying that we very much look
forward to drawing upon the experiences and cultural perspectives of visiting
Singapore students, using this as an opportunity to challenge some of our
about game play and the cultural specificities of the medium.
You talked about earlier and the press release mentions the "development of
publicly distributable games". I'm especially interested in the idea that game
publishers might be able to work with you to actually get the rights to the
prototypes produced by the lab and work them into full games. Can you talk
more about this?
Philip Tan: The game industry isn't particularly fond of reading research
papers from academia, for a variety of reasons. They're dry, they're overly
general, they don't necessarily consider market pressures, and they either
discuss concepts that require technology that's still five or ten years from
mass-market adoption or obsess over gameplay and ideas that are considered to
be already dated and thoroughly explored by the industry.
Even if the International Game Lab puts out relevant, useful research, or
reexamines old ideas to address new audiences, it needs to be communicated to
the industry in a way that emphasizes its relevance and applicability.
Naturally, the industry pays attention to games. A small, obscure game with a
good idea can easily get noticed, highlighted in forums and industry press,
played, and critiqued. That kind of close attention expands further if the
game is available for online download, and we can then get direct feedback
about how good the game and the idea really is. As a side effect, we'll also
have to keep in mind the kinds of issues that game developers face every day:
platform limitations, tight deadlines, player demographics, and bug patches.
We're challenging ourselves to actually make games that will be designed around
the core ideas of the research from the initiative. And by taking them to
publishers, we want to raise the bar of how game projects from academia will
be judged. Some of them won't get picked up, so we'll just make them publicly
downloadable as experiments. But if we can get them into retail channels, we
now have a real metric to assess how successful the idea is, and we will have
real pressure to work on ideas that actually make better games. For a student,
being part of the Game Lab means you have an additional opportunity to
graduate with a commercial product in your portfolio.
We're not under the illusion that we're going to be able to compete against
triple-A, commercial off-the-shelf games. However, in the online digital
distribution space, there appears to be a real market for the small, niche
title with a good idea. We also want to be producing a lot of games, somewhere
between 5 and 10 games each year. You can't really guarantee a hit in this
industry; certainly not with our budgets. You can have all the production
values and ideas, but the market can just choose to look the other way
What do you feel needs fixing about the video game design process in general?
In other words, what will the Lab do that the video game industry is currently
failing to? I feel like truly innovative and groundbreaking great game ideas
get squashed often because the powers that be are just looking for things that
are marketable – am I on the right track, or missing the point?
Henry Jenkins: The games industry emerged from the entrepreneurial energies of
garage-based designers who were driven by their passions and who created, in a
realitively short time, a powerfully expressive medium. We have now seen that
initial entrepreneurial stage give way to a much more standardized,
studio-based mode of production, based on bottom line calculations and
reliable returns of investments, and pushed more and more towards
franchise-based entertainment. Studio-based production, across all media, has
had two effects: insuring a relatively high standard of production and
capping opportunities for innovation and individual expression. As the costs
of games get pushed higher and higher, many wonder where fresh new ideas will
come from. Some have said that the games industry has become so risk adverse
that only a Miyamoto or a Wright can break through the formulas and generate
truly original approaches to game design. Many observers have said we need to
step outside of that system and provide some place where interesting new game
prototypes can be incubated.
We see university-based game labs as one model for how we can foster greater
innovation. Much as university-based film production programs have been the
place where fresh new filmmakers acquire their skills and do work that
stretches the medium(helping to fuel the independent film movement),
university-based games programs can be the place where the next generation of
game designers stretch the medium (helping to fuel the emerging independent
games movement). We see the lab as a space where we can move swiftly from pure
research into compelling applications and then partner with the games industry
to bring the best ideas to emerge to market.
What would be an example of a typical research project that the Lab might work
Philip Tan: We have six research categories and we expect many projects would
straddle multiple categories: technology, business, genres, culture,
aesthetics, mechanics. For instance, a culture project may examine several
demographics and identify an underserved, potential audience, but reaching
that audience may involve the creation of a new game genre, a drastically
aesthetic from current offerings, or altering gameplay mechanics to keep them
engaging and accessible. You also need to figure out how to get that game into
the hands of that audience, and possibly alter your pipeline to bring the cost
of development under the projected returns from that audience. Finally, we
build that game, scaled within our capabilities, and we test it all out for
Is the intent here mostly to work with established MIT researchers to produce
papers and game designs, or are you hoping to get students involved at the
undergrad or graduate levels who want to go into the game industry? If the
latter is a part of the effort, how would you compare the Lab to other game
design programs?__
William Uricchio: The short answer is yes! yes! We certainly want to make the
most of the established research talent that we have in house, and to
intensify our research and creative collaborations with leading figures in the
field. But doing so also implies that we continue to do what we do best:
drawing on our extremely able student body in a collaborative research
process. Their game experience is formidable, their ability to think outside
the box well proven, and I can't think of a better educational strategy than
working together to develop the future of the medium. We have had a steady
stream of graduate and undergraduate students leave MIT and succeed in the
industry, and see no reason to stop now! But we also hope that this initiative
leads to innovations that, while game-centric, offer students opportunities to
work with the medium in unexpected ways, ways that go beyond today's
established industry.
Continuing that thread, what do you think is wrong with the current state of
game design education? There is no shortage of colleges and universities that
offer bachelor's or even master's degrees in game design, but... are they on
the right track to continue innovation in the medium, or are they just
churning out worker bees?__
Henry Jenkins: I am not sure I think anything is wrong with the current state of
game design education. We aren't doing this because other university programs
are failing. Each of the existing programs fills a specific niche: some
emphasize technical innovation, others character design and world building;
some move fairly swiftly into games industry positions while others emphasize
the development of an independent games aesthetic or are more closely aligned
with the serious games movement. We hope to add several things to the mix:
first, we want to get our students working in an international production
context, fostering greater collaboration between the American and Asian games
industries. More and more games are a global medium with many new countries
developing games industry. As they are doing so, we are seeing more and more
culturally distinctive games enter the marketplace. At one time, games seemed
to have a global style, which sought to erase local cultural differences. Now,
we are seeing different cultures explore different game genres, themes, and
styles. We think the next generation of game designers will need to be able to
communicate in a global context and be able to appreciate and value the
cultural diversity that characterizes current game production.
Second, we see real value in pushing forward games as a medium through a
combination of cutting-edge research and imaginative applications. In that
regard, a strength of our program is that we teach students to think across
media – sometimes becoming more aware of commonalities and relationships
between multiple media traditions, sometimes drilling down to what is
distinctive about a particular medium. We are a program in Comparative Media
Studies and not one that specializes exclusively in Games Studies or Game
Design per se. This perspective has sometimes been misunderstood as the field
gets bogged down in pointless debates about narrativists vs. ludologists. We
see narratives and gameplay both as traditions that cut across multiple media
channels and seek to help students develop a more integrated approach to
thinking about the social and cultural potentials of each medium. With this
project, we are bringing together researchers who understand games from a
social and cultural perspective with those who are doing groundbreaking
research on new media technologies. We see games as an important medium of
expression for the 21st century: we are not just preparing young people to
enter the games industry; we are challenging the games industry to think about
their medium in new ways; we are daring people to imagine games that do things
they have never thought of before.


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We can sell your curtains on consignment.
Our Criteria:
- Width of at least 1200mm
- Drop of at least 2100mm
- Be less than 5 years old unless they are in demand fabrics, eg silk, or a branded/high end fabrics
- Must have no marks or fading.
We do NOT take on consignment:
- Pelmets
- Bedheads
- Rods
- Tracks
- Blinds
- Shutters
- Some sheers
How long is the consignment for?
Goods are taken on consignment for 3-4 months. When the curtains sell the owner receives 50% of the sale price, less GST.
How are my curtains priced?
We price them based on:
1. Type of fabric
2. Size of Drop and Width
3. Age
4. Condition
5. Demand
Do you collect curtains?
We do not take your curtains down or collect curtains.
How to enquire about selling your curtains?
If you would like to enquire about selling your goods,
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"In him was life; and the life was the light of men. And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.
There was a man sent from God, whose name was John. The same came for a witness, to bear witness of the Light, that all men through him might believe. He was not that Light, but was sent to bear witness of that Light. That was the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world." — John 1:4-9
Wishing every one of you a joyful, love-filled Christmas. My prayer is that you will each feel a special touch from the Lord as we rejoice in His coming.


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How to be more vulnerable (when shame is holding you back)
Here's how shame is inhibiting your ability to be more vulnerable and live life authentically – full of life, curiosity, love and desires for connection.
In this post, we talk about the impact of shame – how it's holding you back – but also what it means to break free and be more vulnerable.
By Athina Danilo, a Registered Associate Marriage and Family Therapist based in Sierra Madre and Burbank.
Do you struggle with feelings of shame and perfectionism; do you struggle with feeling worthy – especially in expressing what you feel towards and around others? Would you like to be more vulnerable, but it makes you feel exposed? Do you have a desire for more meaningful connections, yearning for a sense of belonging?
By giving yourself permission to experience all your emotions (pleasant and unpleasant), it's easier to take one step closer to growing, healing, building meaningful connections, embracing your authentic self, and building self-compassion.
What is vulnerability?
"When we deny our stories and disengage from tough emotions, they don't go away; instead, they own us, they define us"
– Brené Brown in her novel, Rising Strong: How the Ability to Reset Transforms the way we Live, Love, Parent, and Lead (2017)
"Our job is not to deny the story, but to defy the ending – to rise strong, recognize our story, and rumble with the truth…and [we] will choose how this story ends" she writes.
As Brown expresses, we all have a story that is filled with hardships, joy, and pain. We have a story that consists of our emotions, both the pleasant and not so comfortable ones.
It's an act of vulnerability that allows us to see we are made up of emotions and to engage in them. Our anger tells us when we're upset and want our spouse to make more time for us.
Feelings of excitement during our travels indicate that we enjoy exploring new places and want to do more of it. Sadness after a break-up reveals the need to grieve the loss of love and companionship that we cherished greatly.
Our feelings and emotions are a part of being human, a part that we should listen to more often. However, it may be a part of us that can be dismissed so easily at times. And as we disengage from these tough emotions, they don't just go away, as Brown writes.
In this post, we'll explore the impact of suppressing our emotions in just a sec… but let's look at how shame may get in the way of engaging with our emotions.
What gets in the way of being vulnerable?
It's that voice in our minds that says, "My emotions are too much for others to handle" or "I'm too easily triggered".
It may also be the voice that tells us we are too sensitive, a burden, not enough, and not lovable.
It's that thought in our minds that leads us to believe that our emotions are signs of weakness and that we, in turn, are weak and unlovable. What is this thought and voice that prevents us from being vulnerable? It's actually another feeling called shame. Often times shame may be confused with another feeling called guilt. While guilt is often experienced as "I did something bad", shame is experienced as "I am bad" (Brown, 2014, p. 41).
How does shame about being vulnerable impact us?
In her novel, The Gifts of Imperfection: Letting go of who you Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace who you are, Brown highlights Dr. Linda Harling's work on strategies of disconnection used to deal with shame (2014).
One strategy includes "moving away" which can include hiding through suppression and minimizing (Brown, 2014, p. 46). Therefore, shame can lead us to suppress our feelings, both the pleasant and not so uncomfortable ones we experience.
We may feel shame about being angry with our friends when we think that we should be happy that we have friends in the first place. As a result, we suppress our feelings of anger. We may feel shame about being excited about starting a new relationship when we think we should be on the alert if and when the excitement all goes downhill. Thus, we minimize the feelings of joy to prevent us from getting hurt in the end.
In "moving away", shame may also lead to avoidance from others and silencing oneself in relation to others (Brown, 2014, p. 46). We choose to not express that we are angry with a friend, feeling guilty about something we did, or in love with our partner.
This form of silencing can lead to subtle passive-aggressive remarks towards the friend we are angry with or spending less and less time with our partner that we love. Besides creating feelings of unworthiness, shame also leaves one feeling distressed, helpless, and lonely. Ultimately, shame prevents us from showing up as we are and owning our story.
How shame stops you from being vulnerable
Without vulnerability, we experience less of life. The opportunity to heal and grow from painful emotions is taken away. Curiosity and its ability to challenge us, to explore, to discover, and to learn is stripped-down.
We battle against our authentic selves by making room for how we think we should be. Deep and meaningful connections, compassion, and love with yourself and others become difficult because you simply don't feel that you are good enough.
Let me walk you through a metaphor to help visualize shame and vulnerability. Visualize shame as a metal birdcage of some sort; I call this is "shame cage". Now visualize your emotions and your vulnerability as different kinds of birds such as a dove, sparrow, and owl.
Now every time you experience shame about being vulnerable, the bird representing that emotion you work hard to suppress gets placed in the locked up cage. As time goes on, shame about vulnerability continues and more birds get added to the cage.
Eventually, the cage becomes full, confined, and heavy. We carry the same heaviness and lack of freedom to be ourselves each time shame about being vulnerable occurs. Let's tape into your desire to set what is held inside the cage-free.
What does freedom from shame look and feel like? Why embrace your vulnerability?
In order to experience the freedom to be vulnerable, we must bring shame from the darkness into the light. As Brown speaks about in her work on shame, "shame resiliency" is cultivated through speaking about shame (2014, p. 40).
In order to continue to create shame resiliency and combat shame, I'm taking a step today, as Brown and others have in their work, to speak more about what feels unspeakable. I've struggled with shame about my emotions and know many others around me including family, friends, colleagues, and clients who have had similar struggles with shame.
Throughout my personal and professional experiences, I've discovered that all emotions serve a purpose and emotions are a part of how we experience the world around us.
Providing permission for yourself to be vulnerable in little ways each day can help fuel your desire to learn, grow, discovery, love, and connect. Vulnerability can be the voice that tells you it's okay to feel and act silly with your little ones or that it's okay to be disappointed about not getting the promotion at work.
Vulnerability, can be your inner force that empowers you to walk away from a relationship that leaves you feeling hurt and anger. It can be that thoughtful reflection that points out your sadness and helps you take a step towards figuring it out by calling a friend, making an appointment with a therapist, or joining a support group. This is what this freedom to be vulnerable looks and feels like!
By possessing the power of vulnerability, we can embrace and further cultivate curiosity in life. We become curious about the uncertainties in life which can allow us to explore, discover, and grow. We can have the courage to more fully embrace who we are and live authentically while letting go of the expectation of how we should be.
How to be more vulnerable
We learn to connect through vulnerability by showing up as we are thereby building the deeper and meaningful connections we've always desired. We also learn to love and be loved as our self-compassion continues to blossom. Ultimately, we recognize and own our stories and our truth, which is filled with the beauty of vulnerability.
I believe your story is a gift and one that may not be revealed with just anyone. If you are seeking to share your story and experience the sense of freedom from shame, it would be a privilege for me to hear your story as I help you move towards a place of discovery, healing, and growth.
I welcome you to contact me for a free 30-minute phone consultation and we can further discuss how I can help.
Give me a call at (626)470-3030 or email me at email@example.com.
Brown, B. (2017). Rising Strong: How the ability to reset transforms the way we live, love, parent, and lead. Random House.
Brown, B. (2014). The gifts of imperfection: Let go of who you think you're supposed to be and embrace who you are. Center City, MN: Hazelden Publishing.
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In a genre that is now much more popular than it used to be, Harvest Moon still carries a lot of clout. The last game introduced a new engine and new gameplay elements such as terraforming, but they weren't necessarily well received. Skytree Village has been developed with a lot of this player feedback in mind, and it looks to address many of those concerns. During E3 2016, I also learned more about the new bachelors and bachelorettes that will be in the game.
One criticism of the previous game was that it took too long to do things, such as terraforming or harvesting plants. In Skytree Village, your terraforming tools are no faster at first and can only work one tile at a time. However, the tools can be upgraded to level five, at which point you can get the tool to cover a significantly larger area. Even a midrange tool is a 3x3 grid, perfect for chunking out land as you need.
Another criticism was the art style, and the new game adapts an anime style that also has a much more proportioned head-to-body ratio. Apparently a lot of people took issue with this aspect of the previous title, and the new art style does look quite nice. Finally, you can now harvest nine crop tiles at a time, so picking the fruits of your labor is a breeze when it comes to the required time and monotony.
Another new change is the different camera angles available by toggling the Start button. In the default view, you have free control over the camera movement. However, after tapping Start, the camera switches to a fixed top-down perspective that's great for working with crops or terraforming. Pressing Start again makes your movement change to strafe around (such as in the SNES version of the game). Finally, pressing it a third time brings you back to the default view.
The new bachelors include Gene, who works in the flower shop and is a manly man who shatters the associated stereotypes. Gabriel is shy but loves animals, and he warms to those who also love them. Finally, Cyril is an aristocrat who is traveling the world to learn how the common man lives, and he's sheltered to the point of being gullible. On the bachelorette side is Melanie, the tsundere tailor who also can help decorate your home. Geanne is the town doctor who also happens to be socially awkward. Finally, Elise is the daughter of a fantastically skilled chef, and she brings her French flair to the village.
Finally, before I left the booth, I had to ask about their thoughts on the sudden popularity of Stardew Valley. It seems as though they see the game as friendly competition, but mostly, they are happy that it brings even more eyes toward a genre that has been on the fringes for years. When asked about whether Harvest Moon would ever see a PC release for future games, I was told that it's under consideration, but with how good Stardew Valley was, they would definitely need to make sure that they brought their best effort to the table. It's exciting (and still very odd) that there is an increasing number of entries into the "adorable farming game" genre.
Harvest Moon remains the giant round cow in the pasture though, and Skytree Village looks good and shows that Natsume really cares about the feedback it gets on its games. It addresses many issues that fans had with the previous title, and it continues to expand upon it in new ways. The game will reach the 3DS this fall, and it'll certainly bring other new additions to the series as well.
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This VO5 Extreme Style Rework Putty for lasting messed up effects that you can rework. ReWork is a unique putty to give you the most messed up effects that you can rework all day long. Ideal to manipulate short hair in any direction, it's easy to use, isn't sticky or greasy, and lasts up to 24hrs.
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Use sparingly, a little goes a long way. Style with fingers to add texture and definition.
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Classic Updo with Curls for Short Hair
Girls who have short hair often feel like they do not have the option to do fancy updos for some big occasions like wedding party or prom. However, there are some easy updo hairstyle for short hair which girls can achieve easily only by using styling products and little patience.
There is no doubt that short hair can be versatile and sexy with the right updo. Here is one idea of hairstyle for short hair that you can try.
If you think that you have enough hair to use some bobby pins, then you can try to create impressive hair udos which are dramatic and elegant.
You can create a classic 1930 style updo which is adorned by curling mousse and several bobby pins. You can then start by parting your hair, which has been made slightly damp, to one side.
On the side which has more hair, you need to slide a couple of bobby pins through th bangs so that you can get a nice finger wave effect.
While that has been set, try to pin up the back of the hair by taking just small sections, which will twist them and pin them up randomly.
You will get what appears complicated pile of knots on the back of the head. When your hair has been dried, either by towel dry or air dry, you need to take out the bobby pins from the front section and the finger waves will remain, which gives you a nice classic look to the hair.


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text: I was saying on the tweeters yesterday that I like to sing "Eating my life away" to the tune of Tubthumping by Chumbawumba. Sometimes I like to adapt the rest of the lyrics but they lack the immediate power of that lyric for the sake of eating yogurt. So say you, Groupthinkers, do you have similar song who you craft lyrics for the mundane?


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Hedge Fund Manager, James A. Bisenius was arrested and charged for allegedly attempting to solicit a prostitute. He is the founder of Oregon's largest Hedge Fund and is also a prominent financial supporter of Young Life and it's Washington Family Ranch in Oregon State.
An older online article, about Young Life in Seward, AK describes Bisenius as a former Young Life leader from Oregon and details how a donation from his Master's Plan Fund helped their Young Life have the finances to move forward.
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The U.S. Navy has announced the establishment of the Military Parental Leave Program, which increases parental leave and combines the current family leave policies into one. The program applies to all active duty Sailors. Reserve Sailors who were performing active duties, or mobilized more than 12 continuous months, and are the parents of a qualifying birth or adoption on or after Dec. 23, 2016 are also eligible. Under the new program, the three family leave categories include: (1) Maternity Convalescent Leave for 42 days; (2) Primary Caregiver Leave for 42 days; and (3) Secondary Caregiver leave for 14 days. The new program supports Sailor 2025.
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Sarah Foster was with her wife Marie who had been driving her to a christening with her kids, Steven, 13 and Megan, eight.
The four had stopped near Peterborough when 19 stone Sarah got out of the car to smoke and call her mum.
Moments later she heard an "almighty bang" a Mini Cooper came smashing into the central barrier at 80mph.
The 28-year-old's gigantic breasts bounced her over the car and onto the inside of the A1 carriageway.
Sarah, a cleaner from West Yorkshire, saw the Mini veer across two lanes and head towards her.
She said: "I saw the airbags in the car inflate.
"That's all I can remember."
Wife Marie, 36, managed to run over and drag her to safety while the kids watched in hysterics.
Sarah said she was told that she "bounced like a balloon".
She said: "I rolled over the top of the car and ended up lying face down on the inside lane."
Care assistant Marie called an ambulance which took her to Peterborough City hospital.
Medics were astonished to find she had only suffered bruising, cuts and knee ligament damage – and not a single broken bone.
Sarah, who was thinking of having her boobs reduced because of back pain, said: "The doctors told me if I wasn't so big-chested I'd probably have died."
She added: "The paramedic told me I was lucky to be alive and that I should be grateful for my airbags."


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I have been thinking for a while that I need a change of hair colour and yesterday was the day that I stopped talking about it and just did it. I looked at this colour and it stopped me in my tracks. I had a moment and in this moment I knew this was the only one that I wanted. It wasn't a colour I had ever spoken of or thought about however it was something that I felt in that moment, in my gut and I knew it was the one. Anything that causes that deep, gut feeling is always the one. It wasn't without fear and I did fret a bit waiting for the colour to develop (pretty instant in fact) just in case my hair turned green and or dropped out (no, I did not wait the 48 hrs as advised) but here I am and here my new hair is in all its glory and all in one piece.
There are many times in life that you have to just go with what is in your gut, what creates a deep feeling. For me it is a knowing. I have come to know that despite incorporated fear, if it gets me straight away, punches me straight in the stomach that I just need to power through the fear and do it as it is the way forward for me.
My hair is quite a transformation, the deepest of blue with a richness and opulence that envelops me. I love it, really love it. I keep grinning and I had such a good time last night at home arranging more of my artwork and I completed a new large art piece also which just added to my feeling of oneness, freedom and of being transported to a higher place. When I am going through a period of change I can feel it, it is tangible and a little scary if I am being truly honest. I can actually feel myself moving on to a different place, a shift. There is a feeling that I am letting go of something and with this is a feeling of slight disconnect for a moment, I almost lose breath for a few moments. It felt safe and slow which helped the process and despite the slight unease that goes alongside it I was surrounded by an abundance of peace and protection (alongside the soundtrack of A Star Is Born on repeat).
I know when I am stagnant and when you are stagnant you die. You have to be constantly evolving and in a state of transformation. It is like hitting an impass, nowhere else to go and you keep hitting something that is not moving. It is hard and there is no other way to go so you have to take the new path that you have been carving out for yourself (even when you don't realise you have been). There are always crossroads in life and I have reached many. For me, it is about leaving the old paths behind (with memories and experiences in tow) in order to face head on my new path even if I don't yet know what is on it. I believe if I am really being truly honest, at my depth I do know, yet I am scared. I know it is what I want, where I want to go, how I want to travel, however the fear of the unknown soil tugs at me and tries to make me stay. I don't want to stay, I don't belong there anymore. I have moved on. I have grown. I have evolved and I am happy. I choose my own life path and I will take my own path along with the fear and see where it takes me. As my daughter and I say when we are about to do something new and exciting, eek.
I hope you keep with me on my journey. I send you all encouragement and love on yours.
Love and blessings
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Itech Corporation recently provided Systems Engineering solutions for a railway upgrade for John Holland Group's Rail Division.
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We all get the blues sometimes and sweet relief is just a cheesecake away.
Here's the takeaway doughnut message – sweet tasting foods have been found to have an analgesic effect. We can literally eat the pain away.
In a recent study from a Texas university, it was shown that when we're in physical or emotional pain we tend to lose some self control and go for instant gratification. And, yes, doing that helps a little by stimulating the "feel good" part of the brain.
This impulse seems to be entirely natural. "Comfort eating" is a real thing.
So that familiar scene in the movies where a broken heart is partly mended by a tub of ice cream and a spoon? It has some truth to it… Although we already knew that, didn't we?
Nutritionists are always giving free advice on the healthy stuff to eat instead of reaching for the chocolate when we're feeling down, but you can't help feeling Hollywood's not buying it.
Honestly, when was the last time you saw a scene in a movie that went like this…
Heart-broken woman: "Waaah, my boyfriend just dumped me and I'm feeling terrible!"
BFF: "I'll be right over with a plate of anchovies, herrings and sardines and I'll make a pot of green tea to cheer you up."
Heart-broken woman: "Are you for real?"
BFF: "Sure. Cold-water fish is full of mood-boosting omega-3 fatty acid DHA and green tea has the amino acid L-theanine which has been shown on EEG tests to stimulate alpha brain waves."
Heart-broken woman: "Pardon?"
BFF: "OK then, how about some delicious pumpkin and almond seeds, choc-a-bloc with magnesium that will boost you energy levels and maybe a Hugh Jackman movie?"
Heart broken woman: "Did you say chocol…"
BFF: "NO CHOCOLATE! That will just set up your brain for sugar cravings and make you overeat more."
Heart-broken woman: "Did you just say he dumped me because I'm fat?"
BFF: "No, No, I didn't. Honestly, he's an idiot, everyone knew… No, we didn't. We all thought he was great! You have brilliant taste in men.
"Look, why don't I come over and cook you a scrummy omelette? Rich in B vitamins, especially B-6 and B-12. It will improve your neural function which helps govern mood."
Heart-broken woman: "Weeeeell… an omelette would be lovely. With lots of fried bacon and a pile of buttered white bread toast…"
BFF: "Skip the bacon and the buttered toast, but I'll try to find an ancient grain loaf – maybe quinoa, millet, teff, amaranth, spelt and barley – to increase your levels of serotonin."
Heart-broken woman: "On second thoughts, forget it. It's either Krispy Kreme doughnuts and bottle of Chardy with a straw or nothing. Sob."
BFF: "Sigh. Do you want original glazed, mudcake or strawberry jam?"
Heart-broken woman: "Bring me ALL of the doughnuts. NOW!"
BFF: "OK. See you soon."Heart-broken woman: Squeee! I'm feeling better already."
Those researchers at that Texas university are really onto something.
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