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These specific mother-daughter relationship problems tips help you solve and improve this special relationship and get a fresh view. Get insights and experience a more satisfying and loving mother and daughter relationship!
Mother daughter relationships are very important relationships as part of primal relationships.
All general information on Parent-Children applies also to Mother and Daughter relationships.
Find out what daughters share about their relationship with their mother:
Kim, daughter of mother Elenore:
I felt so betrayed by my mother!
One day I learnt that my mother had confided to one of her close friends that she felt terrorized by her daughter. My mother was referring to me!
I was shocked. How could she experience our relationship like that?
She was the dominating party in this relationship causing all problems! How bossy she could be! And sometimes down right manipulative to get her way!
But how could she share something intimate like that to her friend?! Why not talk to me about this? I felt so betrayed and hurt by my mother!
All my life I was only doing my best to please her as much as I can. I shaped my life such that she would be happy with me, be proud of me and finally give me the love I deserve.
I felt that my mother did not even see all my efforts to please her and all the sacrifices I made. I felt that she was denying my love for her. In my worse moments I felt that I meant nothing to her.
It took me years to find out who my mom actually was as a real person.
I assumed and expected a lot of behaviors of her being in the role of "my mother". This excluded her being a real person with real feelings and moods and emotions. My mother as a real person apparently had relationship problems with her husband. She was also not ready to let go of her own mother since they had a lot of unfinished business. She also had some relationship problems with her daughter (me!).
My mom felt hurt pretty often I guess, but was a master in hiding these hurts and pains. I also learnt that her hurts and pains have nothing, absolutely nothing to do with me.
Now I only deal with my own hurt, with experiencing being betrayed and denied. I don't want to end up like her and do my best to open up to my true feelings, good or bad. Because I want to be happy, really happy!
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Solve your mother-daughter issues now!
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• Mother Daughter Relationship Problems Tip:
Your mother may be strongly performing her mother role.
But in truth, she is a person with ideas, feelings, emotions, life experiences just like you.
Do you want to get to know her as a person or do you want her to be constricted in her role as your mother?
Treat her as a real person, get to know her as a real person and become real friends with her.
Get to know your mother as a real person.
Who is she? What are her views on life? What are her dreams, fears, wishes expectations?
Is she happy with her life?
• Mother Daughter Relationship Problems Tip:
Ask yourself: What do my mother's issues have to do with ME???
Mei, daughter of mother Hong Wang
I need to call her every day!
I call my mother every day. To know that she is all right. Sometimes I want to hear her opinion. Sometimes I want her to validate me. I could call a good friend but sometimes I really need to be validated by her!
To hear her say to me that I am doing the right thing. Dating the right guy, interviewing for a worthwhile job, buying the right dress.
Or to emphasize my opinion of Dad. Dad is the topic where I can have a different opinion. This started during puberty. I started disagreeing with Mom because I started having my own view of Dad and what Dad was doing.
Sometimes our discussions about Dad are really over the top, but most of the time I enjoy talking to Mom about Dad and how I disagree with Mom! We also talk about relationship problems of other people.
That is why I call her everyday. Sometimes she does not answer her phone. She usually doesn't call me back. Actually, she hardly calls me at all. I always call her!
Kay, daughter of Ann:
I love that woman dearly!
My mother passed away a couple of year ago. I love her very much. She was a very down to earth and simple woman and a good mother. I think she was happy with her life. When I think of her I feel the warm feelings we shared and the enjoyable moments. Simple yet nice dinners we had together. Thanksgiving, Christmas and birthdays.
In her simple words we had conversations about men in my life,
family, money and relationship problems. My mother is quite traditional
and conservative. Not highly educated at all. What stays with me was her uncanny understanding of me.
She fed me emotionally.
I feel nurtured by her and am very grateful for having had her as my mother.
Are you also experiencing the loss-of-mother ? Read more on this . . .
• Mother Daughter Relationship Problems Tip:
Is your mother-daughter relationship the best?
Celebrate this mother-daughter relationship as much and as often as you can!
Rose, daughter of Kathleen:
I felt abandoned and pushed away by my mom
I was eight years old when my brother Steven died. My mom could not handle this loss and wanted to run away from it all, she wanted to leave our family. She push my father away and she pushed me away. This went on for a whole year. I was devastated, having lost my brother while not being able to find comfort with my mom. Also I was not able to comfort her.
I felt that both my brother and my mom have abandoned me big time!
This happened almost 40 years ago and I was sure I was done with it. Had therapy. Became a therapist myself.
Handled my anger, feelings of abandonment, loneliness and did my grieving.
I wanted to forgive mom and leave the past behind.
But sometimes some intense feelings still pop up. It's part of my life.
• Mother-Daughter Relationship Problems Tip:
Observe, observe, observe.
Do not judge for now.
Do not have strong opinions.
Do not interpret anything.
Just be open minded and look at what is happening.
How you behave, react, how you feel.
Just observe it all.
A Mother-Daughter Relationship is a very emotional relationship . . .
Emotionally speaking, the Mother Daughter Relationship is like a dancing together: we get close, warm and intimate and the next thing is that we feel cold, repulsive and can't stand being together in the same room!
This attracting and pushing back can all happen in the same minute…
Mothers and daughters are also able to feel each other feelings without saying a word.
Great connection and both are very sensitive towards each other.
Mothers and daughters share a bond that is very strong. This bond is based on powerful emotions that both women can not suppress: love and hate.
A Mother-Daughter Relationship is complex, mysterious, and rich.
What about mother-daughter relationship problems?
Sometimes mothers and daughters have conflicting needs.
Sometimes they have the same emotional needs but both are not able to satisfy these emotional needs.
Not in themselves and not in the other. To love and be loved can be hard, at times!
Sometimes mother and daughters are competing with each other for love and attention.
Sometimes one is not available to the other.
Sometimes it is hard to be yourself in each others company.
Just how serious are your mother daughter relationship problems?
Find out with this Mother-Daughter-Relationships-Quiz quickly!
Relationship Problems Tips will help you address your mother daughter issues.
Mother daughter relationship problems may look very serious, but there is always a way to grow to another level of affection and love and create a stronger bond.
Here are some stories of mothers about their daughters:
Caroline, mother of daughter Lisa:
How can I protect her?
Looking at Lisa, my daughter I see a vulnerable innocent little girl.
That is the image I have of her when she was a baby that is the feeling that has stayed with.
Lisa is now a young adult going to college and enjoying her life fully. But I am always a little scared that something bad might happen to my little girl. That she might not be able to get through her life without hurts and damages. I want to protect her whenever I can but she does not understand my concern and worries.
Maria, mother of daughter Helen:
I feel she shuts me out of her life
Helen, my daughter does not want my opinion. For example the other day she bought this an outrageous dress that does not do anything for her and then she wanted me to tell her how wonderful she looks. I told her "Helen, it looks awful!" and that she should get something else to wear. An outfit with more style. She asked for my advice, right!
Helen got mad at me and went into a drama telling me that I don't love her, that I am jealous and belonging to the Stone Age. She gets hysterical like that sometimes. Its fine with me, but I am not going to say that I like that stupid dress….
Diana, mother of daughter Karen:
Karen gets the opportunity that I missed!
During Karen's graduation ceremony, I got emotional. She walked up to the dean to receive her diploma and I started crying. I see part of myself in Karen. She is everything I wanted to be and she achieves everything I could not even dream of. She is my pride and joy, my heroine!
Other daughters also share their mother-daughter-relationships stories:
Cynthia, daughter of Joyce:
She let the abuse happen!
Bernice, daughter of Helga:
I think she did not want me
Floortje, daughter of Andrea:
She is as cold, manipulative and sometimes totally dishonest
Kyra, daughter of Alexandra:
I am afraid of her when she gets out of control!
Sharon and Lauren, daughters of Melanie:
Our Mom worked really hard!
I remember we named you Joyce
So we could call you Joy.
You came like an awkward guest
That first time, all wrapped and moist
And strange at my heavy breast.
I needed you, I didn't want a boy,
Only a girl, a small milky mouse
of a girl, already loud in the house
of herself. We named you Joy.
I, who was never quite sure
About being a girl, needed another
life, another image to remind me.
And this was my worst guilt; you could not cure
nor soothe it. I made you to find me.
Anne Sexton in: "The Complete Poems".
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05 February 2014
By Paul Newman and Simon Blaze
Photo: Nir KeidarRichel Hogenkamp (NED)
Netherlands became the first country to earn a place in Sunday's play-offs as they recorded their second successive victory in Europe/Africa Zone Group I on Wednesday.
The Dutch victory over Belgium, coupled with Croatia's success against Luxembourg, guaranteed that Paul Haarhuis' team would finish top of Pool A. They will go on to meet the winners of Pool D, in which the second round of matches will be played tomorrow.
It was also a day when the opening matches in Pool B provided some great entertainment for fans in the Syma Centre. Romania, the favourites, had to win a deciding doubles rubber to see off Hungary, while Britain beat Latvia thanks to hard-fought victories for Heather Watson and Johanna Konta.
Richel Hogenkamp, who had played only doubles matches for the Dutch team until last year, upset a higher-ranked opponent for the second day in succession to give her team a winning start.
The world No. 205 beat An-Sophie Metsach, the world No. 123, 75 63. After a tight first set Hogenkamp got an early break in the second and went on to complete her victory in style with a huge forehand winner into the corner.
Kiki Bertens beat Yanina Wickmayer 62 75, but only after a bruising second set. Wickmayer, whose game had gone awry in the latter stages of the first set, started hitting the ball with consistent power and went 5-3 up in the second, but Bertens clung on.
Having broken back to 4-5, Bertens won a marathon tenth game, saving set points in the process, and broke again to lead 6-5. When she served for the match the Dutch No. 1 was calmness personified.
"It's fantastic," Haarhuis said afterwards. "I'm thrilled. I think the girls played even better today than they played yesterday. They fought unbelievably well. The Belgian team is strong but our girls were fantastic."
Croatia beat Luxembourg comfortably in the other tie in Pool A, Petra Martic and Donna Vekic winning in straight sets against Claudine Schaul and Anne Kremer respectively, but Iva Majoli's team cannot finish ahead of the Netherlands because of the head-to-head rule. The same applies to Belgium, while Luxembourg have lost both their opening encounters.
Romania got off to a flier as Sorana Cirstea swept to a 61 60 victory over Reka-Luka Jani, who left the court in tears. Simona Halep, the world No. 10, was expected to win the second singles rubber, but Timea Babos turned the match around after losing the first set to win 16 75 63, to the delight of a noisy home crowd. It was Babos' first victory over a top 10 player.
Babos said: "I tried to play aggressively, to move a lot, to get Halep out of her comfort zone. I'm very glad with this victory and thankful for this wonderful support by the Hungarian crowd. Every point was important. I needed permanent concentration to focus on every shot."
Jani and Babos came out fighting in the doubles, taking the first set against Irina-Camelia Begu and Monica Niculescu, but the Romanian pair fought back to win the match 67 62 60, despite the great vocal support of the home crowd.
Watson, the world No. 162, had been fancied to get Britain off to a winning start when she met 16-year-old Jelena Ostapenko, but the world No. 705 proved a tough nut to crack. Ostapenko, who won six out of the seven Fed Cup rubbers she played last year, was soon 4-1 down but fought back with great spirit.
The Latvian had a break point at 5-5, but Watson held on and then took advantage of her young opponent's nerves when she served to stay in the set. Although Watson struggled at times on her own serve she quickly took control of the second set. Having broken to lead 5-1 with a huge forehand return, the Briton went on to serve out for a 75 61 victory.
"It was a very tough match," Watson said. "She's a young, dangerous player. She's a top junior and got to the quarter-finals in the juniors at the Australian Open. She's a strong girl for only 16 years old."
Konta beat Diana Marcinkevica 63 46 75 in a roller-coaster of a match. Marcinkevica, the world No. 216, went for her shots in the second set and then went 5-2 up in the decider.
Konta saved a match point with a service winner at 4-5 and made the decisive break in the following game. When Konta served for the match an ace took her to match point, upon which Marcinkevica hit a forehand long.
Earlier in the day Ukraine and Austria got their campaigns off to the perfect start, winning their opening ties in Pool C with a rubber to spare. Ukraine's Elina Svitolina and Nadiya Kichenok got the better of the experienced Israelis Shahar Peer and Julia Glushko, while Austria's Yvonne Meusburger and Patricia Mayr-Achleitner were too good for Slovenia's Nastja Kolar and Masa Zec-Peskiric.
Kichenok, making her singles debut, beat Glushko 62 76. The 21-year-old from Dnipropetrovsk, whose only previous Fed Cup experience had been two doubles defeats, won the first set with something to spare, but the second was much closer. Kichenok saved five set points when serving at 4-5 and came from behind to win the tie-break 7-4.
"I'm very happy with the way I played today," Kichenok said afterwards. "I felt comfortable on the court in the first set, but it's not easy to keep concentration for the whole of the match. I used a lot of mental energy saving the set points."
Svitolina, who beat Svetlana Kuznetsova last month en route to the third round of the Australian Open, was facing a 26-year-old veteran playing her 35th Fed Cup tie in Peer, but the 19-year-old quickly took command and won 61 64.
Svitolina was wearing face paint in the yellow and blue colours of her country. "I'm proud that I'm from Ukraine," she said. "I'm trying to show it. I love my country."
Mayr-Achleitner quickly put Austria in control, beating Zec-Peskiric 62 63. The Slovenian struggled to cope with Mayr-Achleitner's serve, though she improved in the second set. Meusburger sealed the victory by beating Kolar by exactly the same score.
"Overall we were the better team today," Clemens Trimmel, Austria's captain, said. "It's always nice to dominate from the start. We were a bit tired and nervous, which is normal at the beginning of a Fed Cup week."
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The first UK clinical trials of an electronic eye implant designed to restore the sight of blind people have proved successful and "exceeded expectations", scientists said today.
Eye experts developing the pioneering new technology said the first group of British patients to receive the electronic microchips were regaining "useful vision" just weeks after undergoing surgery.
The news will offer fresh hope for people suffering from retinitis pigmentosa (RP) - a genetic eye condition that leads to incurable blindness.
Retina Implant AG, a leading developer of subretinal implants, fitted two RP sufferers with the wireless device in mid-April as part of its UK trial.
The patients were able to detect light immediately after the microchip was activated, while further testing revealed there were also able to locate white objects on a dark background, Retina Implant said.
Ten more British sufferers will be fitted with the devices as part of the British trial, which is being led by Tim Jackson, a consultant retinal surgeon at King's College Hospital and Robert MacLaren, a professor of Ophthalmology at the University of Oxford and a consultant retinal surgeon at the Oxford Eye Hospital.
They said: "We are excited to be involved in this pioneering subretinal implant technology and to announce the first patients implanted in the UK were successful.
"The visual results of these patients exceeded our expectations. This technology represents a genuinely exciting development and is an import step forward in our attempts to offer people with RP a better quality of life."
The patients will undergo further testing as they adjust to the 3mm by 3mm device in the coming months.
Robin Millar, 60, form London, is one of the patients who has been fitted with the chip along with 1,500 electrodes, which are implanted below the retina.
The music producer said: "Since switching on the device I am able to detect light and distinguish the outlines of certain objects which is an encouraging sign.
"I have even dreamt in very vivid colour for the first time in 25 years so a part of my brain which had gone to sleep has woken up!
"I feel this is incredibly promising for future research and I'm happy to be contributing to this legacy."
The subretinal implant technology has been in clinical trials for more than six years with testing also taking place in Germany. Developers are planning to seek commercial approval following the latest phase of testing.
David Head, head of charity RP Fighting Blindness, said: "The completion of the first two implants in the UK is very significant and brings hope to people who have lost their sight as a result of RP."
RP is an inherited condition which gets worse over time and affects one in every 3,000-4,000 people in Europe.
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Dave Doe says:
We've gone from the character ethic to the personality ethic. No wonder we're in trouble.
18th October 2012 at 10:31 pm
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from needs to desires get everyone to covet everthing they see….I think it worked
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19th October 2012 at 8:08 am
Eddie says:
Great video…but I'd have to say that it's a little harder to sell a car now…you can't just put a good looking woman behind the wheel and have her make an O-face.
Bernays is just one example…there are many others. The first great mass hypnotists were American evangelists…and they still excel at that craft.
Here's a link to a piece by a guy who started out as an ad man…but ended up in an entirely different line of work. The piece is about brainwashing…probably most of you will find it offensive, and full of inaccuracies…enjoy!
19th October 2012 at 8:50 am
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Some of you probably read Bill Bonner on the internet.. His book, "Mobs, Messiahs and Markets, is about the irrational behavior of investors…and well worth a look.
19th October 2012 at 8:57 am
Thinker says:
It's pretty simple, really. You take the attributes of the product, determine what functional benefits are to the consumer and then what emotional benefits emerge as a consequence of the functional ones.
Persuade by reason, Motivate through emotion.
Then you use both rational and emotional messaging to relate the product to the consumer's Value System. Do they value safety? Belonging? External validation? Then convince them the product will give them that.
Think about it… the best marketing taglines throughout history do just that:
"Because so much is riding on your tires."
"Because you're worth it."
"Just do it."
"The Real Thing."
"Be all you can be."
Look around a bit… you'll see tons of examples, when you know how to figure out what they're really selling. It's not always sex… it's any number of things that people need, desire and value.
19th October 2012 at 12:25 pm
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@ Stucky — You can watch all 4 parts of "The Century of the Self" on Google videos. That's where I watched them, along with several other documentaries by the same director, Adam Curtis.
Great stuff, I agree.
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Century of the self is one of the best/important documentary series I have ever seen and I watch far to many documentaries. The archive footage is just mind blowing and the commentary very clear and concise. Adam Curtis seems to have an amazing talent for providing a narrative that connects so many important events.
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Colour is a crucial element of Tibetan visual culture. Stone walls in Niyang River Visitor Centre's inner space were painted with local mineral pigments. The transition of colours – blue and orange – highlights the geometric transitions of space. From morning to dusk, the sunshine changes its direction as it penetrates through the different openings. Hence visitors perceive the ever-changing colour play from different perspectives and at a different time as they saunter through the building.
A Yunnan Province-based designer embodies the new generation of young Chinese architects who were educated in the West and are returning home to make a difference.
Like many of his ambitious and idealistic peers, Chinese architect Zhao Yang struck out on his own after graduating from the prestigious Tsinghua University in Beijing and working for a year for his graduate advisor. "I had no idea what kind of architecture I wanted to do. I just thought I was capable of doing anything," Zhao says, chuckling.
Thanks to China's building boom, it wasn't long before the Chongqing-born architect snagged his first commission to design an office block. The project went well; the client loved his work and another job followed. But Zhao felt empty. "I wasn't convinced by what I had done and felt I didn't express myself," he says. "I thought it's important to figure out what I really want from architecture."
So rather than plunge into more projects, he applied to Harvard Graduate School Of Design in 2008. Fast forward to 2014, Zhao has under his belt a Master's degree in architecture with distinction, earned critical praise for a project in Tibet, and received the 2010 WA Chinese Architecture Award from the Beijing-based magazine World Architecture.
In 2012, Zhao was chosen as the first architectural protégé of the Rolex Mentor and Protégé Arts initiative. Under the mentoring of Pritzker laureate Kazuyo Sejima – Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa co-founded the award-winning Japanese design firm SANAA – Zhao completed a centre for a fishing community affected by the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami.
Completed in October 2013, the Home-For-All Kesennuma project gained wide publicity and thrust Zhao into the spotlight. His recent works were exhibited at Fondazione Cini during the Rolex Arts Weekend in Venice in 2013. Zhao was of the speakers for the annual architecture conference Datum:KL 2014 organised by Pertubuhan Arkitek Malaysia (PAM).
In the narrative of contemporary Chinese architecture, Zhao is part of a rising generation that's making waves in the global design scene. Young, ebullient and hopeful, these emerging architects effortlessly straddle the world of Western architectural influences and the reality of China's rough-and-tumble urban development. They embrace challenge, they question the status quo, and yet they are sensitive to local context and traditions.
Zhao's work, like the Niyang River Visitor Centre in Tibet and Shuangzhi Hotel in Yunnan Province, meld the old and the new by combining traditional construction techniques and materials with modern forms and functions. Many of Zhao's predecessors from Tsinghua and among China's hottest architects in Beijing – Hua Li of Trace Architecture Office, Xu Tiantian of DnA (Design and Architecture), Zhang Ke of ZAO/Standardarchitecture – favour small-scale projects that respond to regional flavours.
"My thinking can have some direct manifestation in small projects, be it in the rural or urban context," says Zhao, 34. He is in some ways influenced by his seniors, especially Zhang Ke, also a Harvard alumni. When Zhao set up his firm in 2007, his studio was in the office building of Standardarchitecture which calls itself "one of the leading new generation design firms in China".
"When it comes to drawings and criticisms, Zhang was rigorous," says Zhao, who collaborated with Zhang on the Niyang project. "When we look at each other's designs, we give really harsh comments at times. It was a good training period for me." The culture of rigorous criticism prevails in Zhao's studio today.
At a crossroad
The Niyang project was a turning point in Zhao's career. Located at the gateway to Tibet's Brahmaputra Canyon and the bank of Niyang River, the centre houses a ticketing office, a changing room for river rafters and toilets. The building adopts local materials like stones and Aga clay (a vernacular waterproofing material), and Tibetan construction techniques with 600mm thick load-bearing walls supporting a timber roof. Its geometric trait and irregular shape strive to engage the surrounding landscape in a dialogue.
His ideas have become more coherent and things have started making sense.
"It wasn't just about the project but the integrity of my personality and ideas," Zhao explains. "For example, originality doesn't originate from ideas because ideas always repeat themselves. Originality derives from a set of circumstances because it's something that will never recur again. It's this kind of awareness, of the important elements that you can bring or a sense of time in a project, that anchors architecture to its time."
During his travels to Tibet, Zhao sensed the strong spiritual pursuits of the Tibetans and a culture inextricably linked to the landscape. "Everything is so strong, stark and absolute. When you look at the lake or the sky, it's absolutely blue," he says. "It's very much related to how Tibetan Buddhism developed."
Intrigued, Zhao delved into Tibet's traditional architecture and Buddhism. "The wisdom from Buddhism inspired me beyond just architecture," he says.
The Harvard experience
After Niyang was finished, Zhao was offered a spot at Harvard. His two years there gave him a chance to "look at the world without fear and acquire a confident mindset".
Sanaa's Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa were among the motivational people he met at the university. "In my second semester, Sanaa came to give a lecture titled Architecture As Environment. It was so inspiring," recalls Zhao, who changed his coursework after the talk. "Sejima's way of responding to the environment is very strong and subtle at the same time. It's about how her building influences the spatial quality of its surroundings. In the end, it's all about how people experience the spaces."
Post-university, Zhao returned to China, roped in a couple of partners and moved his studio from Beijing to Dali Prefecture in the centralwest of Yunnan Province. Dali is known for its ancient city and the autonomous prefecture's population numbers around three million. "The Harvard experience really helped me as an architect. That's why I had the courage to move to Dali," Zhao says, smiling.
Home For All
Sejima later selected Zhao to be her apprentice in the Rolex Mentor & Protégé initiative, to work on the Home For All community rebuilding project in Japan's Tohoku region.
Led by the 2013 Pritzker Prize laureate Toyo Ito – with help from leading Japanese architects Sejima, Kengo Kuma and Sou Fujimoto – Home For All provides gathering spaces for local townspeople displaced by the earthquake and tsunami of 2011. A series of buildings, each costing about US$100,000 (RM320,000), are being built across the area.
The project sits next to a harbour at a fishing port in Kesennuma. Zhao's brief was to create a building that would serve as a communal site for the local fishermen. They could rest in the shelter, families could wait for them to return from sea, while the pavilion could be an ad hoc marketplace for their catch.
Zhao decided on an elemental concrete shelter that supports a pitched roof and three rooms that various functions: a glass-enclosed kitchen and dining space with sliding doors, an open wooden platform based on the concept of engawa (a veranda protected under eaves, the engawa usually skirts the perimeters of a traditional Japanese house), and toilet facilities.
Each room has a raised platform that doubles as a bench and is oriented towards the centre of the shelter. When seated on the platforms, people have to face each other.
"One of the locals, Takahashi-san, told me that fishermen like to look at the stars at night," says Zhao, who spoke many times with the locals to get their feedback. So he included a triangular skylight in the centre that would direct their view to the sky. The skylight also helps to light up the interior by day.
The engawa is situated close to the water to allow people to enjoy the harbour view while resting. On market days, forklift trucks can transfer goods into the pavilion as the floor is on the same level as the ground. Meanwhile, a dome-like space created by the geometry of the galvanised steel roof and Japanese cypress plywood cladding evoke a warm and protective atmosphere inside the pavilion.
Zhao travelled to Kesennuma nine times over the space of a year.
"Even in Japan, the locals are not familiar with expressing their ideas to architects. At the first workshop only three people showed up," recalls Zhao, who faced a steep learning curve due to language barriers and culture differences. "By the time we held the last workshop, 30 locals attended and they were very interested in the models and drawings we presented."
Zhao submitted 10 proposals, from the first sketch to the final approved design. And as one local puts it, "We need a new dream for the future and this place will be at the heart of it."
Mentor and protégé
Collaborating with Sejima was a priceless experience for Zhao. She taught him about Japan's design culture and showed him her construction sites at Inujima Island, which are part of the Inujima Art House project. "She has very strong instincts about the potential of a design. And she always says, 'You have this potential, let's use it to the maximum', She never tries to put her own ideas into my work," Zhao says.
Sejima's design philosophy also inspired Zhao's approach to the Kesennuma project. "It's a sense of free space that is very friendly to people, and there's never a point where you find this building is trying to show off itself. It tries to be friendly and generous, as a space and an environment for life to take place," Zhao says.
So what has he taken from his Home For All experience?
"You have to be humble and modest. You have to work harder than the local architect, because you can't assume you're smarter than them, because they know much more than you do," Zhao says. "Also as an architect, you not only change the physical landscape of the area, you change the lives of people."
Following Kesennuma, Zhao is back in Dali to focus on his current projects and to figure out his practice's future. "I want to realise more high-quality work, to know what is right and wrong, and to prove it," Zhao says, convincingly.
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(FYI: Dickson Despommier, Columbia Microbiology Professor, is the Godfather of Vertical Farming; William Frederick Gericke, in the early 1930's, pioneered hydroponics at the University of California at Berkley.)
To introduce it, Vertical Farming is hydroponic food production in cities in multi-story greenhouses. Hydroponic greenhouses exist all over the world, but none have yet been placed in a city. No multi-story hydroponic greenhouses have been built, but some huge single-story ones has been built: the largest in the United States is Eurofresh Farms in Arizona. The Vertical Farm will incorporate present-day technologies into a brand new kind of building, one that will bring food, water and energy to every person on the planet.
How many people would it feed? That depends: what do you want to eat? You want tomatoes? The average American eats 20 pounds of tomatoes per year. Blush Tomatoes, a 50-acre hydroponic greenhouse in Australia, produces 27 million pounds of tomatoes per year; that's enough tomatoes for 1.3 million people per year. Nobody has ever stacked greenhouses on top of one another, so it's hard to say exactly what production would be like in a Vertical Farm. But we can say unequivocally that hydroponic methods are more productive than soil growing: according to the expert on hydroponic growing, Gene Giacomelli, the minimum ratio is four to one. But it gets better: after inclement weather destroyed his crop, a Florida strawberry farmer replaced his 30 acre outdoor operation with a one acre indoor hydroponics operation—one acre inside yielded more than 30 acres outdoors. The most promising part of this: we can return huge tracts of abused land to its natural setting.
How much does is cost? How much did the first cell phone cost? Was it worth it? As with all innovations, there is a learning curve. The first of anything is expensive clunky, but eventually the cost is driven down and the end product is more perfect. This is exactly what will happen with Vertical Farms.
How do you get light inside? Parabolic mirrors. UC Davis has this down pat. Every Vertical Farms will be unique in appearance because every one will be constructed for the specific food needs and natural renewable energy resources of each locale. OLED lighting is a proven technique for growing food indoors and is also an option for Vertical Farming.
Would it be energy-intensive? It would capture all passive energy—solar, wind, geothermal, hydro—and use plasma arc gasification to turn human waste and unused plant parts into energy. The Vertical Farm would augment, not take away from, its city's energy grid. Great Northern Hydroponics, in Quebec, installed a cogeneration machine, which lowered their heating costs, boosted food production and now they sell electricity back to the Ontario Power Authority, reducing the province's reliance on fossil fuels. Win, win, win.
Hydroponic food tastes bad. Wrong. Consistently, hydroponic foods win Best Tasting awards. And why? Because you can control the flavanoid concentration, which is what makes fruit taste sweet. Plus, by reducing food miles (remember, Vertical Farms would be in and around cities), growers would no longer be incentivized to pick their produce prematurely and gas it with ethylene for ripening. Vine-ripened produce tastes the best.
Vertical Farms are unnatural. This is a common point we hear. It's laughable, really. Watch: HAHAHA! First of all, define "natural." If you think "natural" means anything along the lines of our current industrial-agricultural method, then you're simply ignoring facts: agriculture is the number one source of water pollution (EPA), the need for farmland results in rampant deforestation and ecosystem loss, agricultural methods today separate producer from consumer to the point where swaths of the population believe that food comes from the grocery store instead of the ground; the list goes on, and it's ugly. The only good thing to come out of the unnatural way we approach agriculture today is food. Furthermore, the way we produce food is antiquated. Essentially, we have been farming the same way for 12,000 years. The time has come to implement human technologies to satisfy human needs; let's keep producing the one good part about agriculture—food—and stop all the bad things. Unnatural? What's unnatural is governments letting millions of people starve when we have the technology to feed them.
Ultimately, pursuing Vertical Farms is a question of value and priority. The United States of America spent over $700 billion on "National Defense" efforts in 2008. To be over simplistic, what is more important to you, the reader: killing people or saving people? The planet's future hangs in the balance.
(The best resources for Vertical Farm info are www.verticalfarm.com and www.verticalfarm.blogspot.com)
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text: Speech: Articles and Reports | August 1993Genetic Aspects of Early Childhood Stuttering Nicoline Grinager Ambrose, Ehud Yairi, and Nancy Cox Author Notes © 1993, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association Article Information Speech, Voice & Prosodic Disorders / Fluency Disorders Speech: Articles and Reports | August 1993 Genetic Aspects of Early Childhood Stuttering Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, August 1993, Vol. 36, 701-706. doi:10.1044/jshr.3604.701 History: Received July 27, 1992 , Accepted April 9, 1993 Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, August 1993, Vol. 36, 701-706. doi:10.1044/jshr.3604.701 History: Received July 27, 1992; Accepted April 9, 1993 View Article Figures Tables PDF PDF Supplemental Data Supplements Multimedia Share Email Twitter Facebook Pinterest Tools Get Citation Citation Ambrose, N. G., Yairi, E., & Cox, N. (1993). Genetic Aspects of Early Childhood Stuttering. J Speech Hear Res, 36(4), 701-706. doi: 10.1044/jshr.3604.701. Download citation file: RIS (Zotero) EndNote BibTex Medlars ProCite RefWorks Reference Manager © 2016 American Speech-Language-Hearing Association × Alerts User Alerts You are adding an alert for: Genetic Aspects of Early Childhood Stuttering You will receive an email whenever this article is corrected, updated, or cited in the literature. You can manage this and all other alerts in My Account The alert will be sent to: Confirm × Sign In or Create a free account to receive alerts. × Although stuttering has long been acknowledged as a familial disorder, the nature of a genetic component remains unclear. Most previous data used in genetic studies were obtained primarily from adults who stutter and may be biased in several respects. The purpose of this investigation was to quantify the frequency of stuttering in relatives of preschool-age children who stutter, and who were first seen close to the onset of the disorder. Detailed pedigrees (family trees), including first-, second-, and third-degree relatives, were obtained from parents of 69 children who stuttered. We found, as have previous studies, that more male than female relatives ever stuttered, but that female subjects who stuttered had more female relatives who ever stuttered than did male subjects. In order to identify the genetic model most consistent with the observed patterns of stuttering transmission, we conducted segregation analyses. Results from these analyses suggest that transmission of a single major genetic locus increasing the liability to stuttering best accounts for the transmission of stuttering in families of preschool-age children who stutter. Subscribe to view more For full access to this article, log in to an existing user account, purchase an annual subscription, or purchase a short-term subscription. Order a Subscription Subscribe Pay Per View Entire Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research content & archive 24-hour access $30.00 Buy Now This Article 24-hour access $15.00 Buy Now Become a Visiting Scholar Sign In or Create an Account Please sign in using your ASHA.org login. If you do not have an ASHA login, you may register with us for free by creating a new account. Sign In or Create an Account Related Articles Speech-Language Dissociations, Distractibility, and Childhood Stuttering American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, August 2015, Vol. 24, 480-503. doi:10.1044/2015_AJSLP-14-0198 Predicting Treatment Time and Long-Term Outcome of the Lidcombe Program: A Replication and Reanalysis American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, August 2015, Vol. 24, 533-544. doi:10.1044/2015_AJSLP-13-0156 A Questionnaire for Parents of Children Who Stutter Attending a Self-Help Convention SIG 4 Perspectives on Fluency and Fluency Disorders, May 2015, Vol. 25, 10-21. doi:10.1044/ffd25.1.10 A Phenomenological Case Study: Successful Management of a Child Who Stutters SIG 4 Perspectives on Fluency and Fluency Disorders, May 2015, Vol. 25, 22-32. doi:10.1044/ffd25.1.22 Make Your Business Stand OutClients notice you when you notice—and deliver—what they need. The ASHA Leader, May 2015, Vol. 20, 34-35. doi:10.1044/leader.IPP.20052015.34 Related Topics Speech, Voice & Prosodic Disorders Fluency Disorders


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Tips for Maximizing Your Workspace
I work in a shared closet (see above). No, not figuratively – my office space is a converted college chemistry department supply closet. Luckily, I have a fantastic office mate who is not only a close (literally and figuratively) coworker, but a great friend! That aside, space is definitely a challenge for both of us. We are both academic advisors with an open door policy…because we have no door (luckily we do have a nice big window)! Jokes aside, staying organized in a tiny space is no easy feat, especially because we meet with students frequently, so we need room for them too!
Here are a few tips I have for maximizing your space, no matter how big or small.
- Purge your paper. Paper is a huge waste of space. In some fields, you won't be able to avoid it. I have one small file cabinet (two drawers) which I use to keep the most necessary paperwork and files. If I don't need it at arms reach, I shred or scan. If it's outdated and/or absolutely unnecessary, to the shredder it goes! If it's something I want to keep, but don't need at the moment, I'll scan it into my computer and save to my Dropbox (Google Drive is another option). Keeping files and documents online reduces the desk clutter tremendously. This system also keeps me accountable because I know the only papers on my desk are open projects.
- Organize up. If you don't have a lot of surface area to work on, using vertical space can help alleviate this problem and make some room. Having my phone on a stand made all the difference in the world! You can use the space under to tuck things away. Think wall shelves, hanging file folders, or anything that can give you levels to work with. I keep things I refer back to often on the wall in front of me, and a big dry erase calendar behind me.
- Add personal touches. This one might sound silly, but adding personal pictures or trinkets to your space will help boost your mood throughout the day! Favorite quotes, pictures, a plant, are all worthy of space. Don't go crazy, but select a few favorite items to brighten up your area. My favorite animal is an otter, and I found an otter tape dispenser that is cute and functional! I also have fun note pads to spice things up.
I got lucky when it comes to sharing an office since I genuinely like my office mate! If you do share your space, make sure you're respectful if you listen to music by keeping the volume low or using headphones. Just like you would with a roommate in college, you should have a conversation with your office mate about ground rules for your shared space. Unfortunately, my dreams of keeping all my books from grad school in my office, or hanging up my diplomas, are dashed for the time being (but it's something to aspire to!). However, my tight quarters have definitely improved my organizational skills and my creativity! No matter what your situation, maximizing it and looking for the positive learning experiences guarantee that it will be worthwhile.


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JENNIFER LUNDEN, LCSW, LADC, CCS, is a mental health counselor and the founder and executive director of the Center for Creative Healing. Her essay, "Exposed: The Mammogram Myth and the Pinkwashing of America," appears in the September/October issue of Orion. A True North Health Center affiliate practitioner, Lunden is also the winner of a Pushcart Prize and Maine's 2012 Social Worker of the Year award.
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Chicken Liver and Potato Sambal
by michael_toa
Sambal is a staple at all Indonesian tables. This chilli based sauce is the condiment of choice for almost any dishes. And with so many varieties of sambal in Indonesia, I don't think there is one, single authentic traditional recipe for a sambal. Depending on the dish you make, or different regions in Indonesia, and even in different households will have their own way of making sambal.
One of my favourite dishes using sambal is chicken liver and potato sambal. Often if I can get it, I would add chicken gizzards too. Yum. I know it's not for everyone, but I happen to I love offals...
In Indonesia, potatoes are eaten as a side dish/vegetables rather than a main source of carbohydrates. So eating this potato sambal with white rice is perfectly common. And I do love a double-carbohydrate moment.
There's no such recipe here, because whenever I make this, I don't measure the ingredients. But this is how I make my sambal. In a blender, I put in some peeled shallots, garlic, red chillies and tomatoes and blend until smooth.
Heat some vegetable oil in a pan and fry the chilli mixture. I then add ground cumin and ground coriander for extra spice. And for balance and also because I don't want my sambal too spicy, I add palm sugar or light brown sugar. Taste and adjust the seasoning to your liking. I often add some chopped tomatoes as well for texture. Cook for a few minutes and stir until the colour turns darker.
For the potatoes, I simply peel and cut them into little cubes, fry and set aside. Fry the chicken livers as well (and gizzards, if using). When you have all the components ready, mix all of them together so that the sambal coats everything nicely. Serve with rice.
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Smaller language service providers (LSPs) process fewer words than larger ones. Not only does this mean that they earn less income than their bigger competitors, but it also puts them at a disadvantage when it comes to leveraging linguistic assets due to the smaller size of their terminology databases and translation memories (TMs). These less comprehensive language resources limit reuse on subsequent projects or for training statistical machine translation (SMT) software.
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